The herald., 1895-02-23
THEY MAY NOT PASS inside
The Ranch Gates Closed Against
TalIy-hO Parties
RAYMOND TOURISTS BARRED
lucky Baldwin's Agent Proclaims "No
ThorOughfare"
RAYMOND TOURISTS BARRED
Coupons Cause the Santa Anita Millionaire
to Garry the War Into
Africa

For some years past the Raymond &
Whitcomb excursion concern has been
selling excursion tickets to the Pacific
Coast for the convenience of intending
winter tourists, and these tickets are a
series of coupons like all modern tickets
have been for years. One of these coupons
entities the holder to so many days board
and lodging at the Palace Hotel in San
Francisco, while still another coupon is
good for tally-ho drive from the big
hotel on the hill down to the Santa Anita
ranch, where are to be seen the horses
past and present, of the American turf
On a fine day there will be three or four
Raymond coaches there. and it takes time
to lead out the Emperor of Norfolk,
Amigo, Verona and the other half-dozen
sires that are domiciled at the stables.
a day or two ago an order was made by
Mr.. Baldwin general manager, closing
the west gate at Santa Anita station, and
obligng all tally no teams to go into the
ranch through the Arcadia gate two
miles east. AT thatpoint is stationed a
porter who sees that, while the grounds
are free to all other visitors, no tally-ho
parties from the RAYMOND are permitted
to enter. OF course, the Eastern purchas-
ers OF coupon tickets who have purchased
permits to visit the world-famous Rancho
de Santa Anita, as part and parcel of their
trip to the Coast, naturally teel indignant
at the exclusion from the premises, and
think they have been treated harshly.
But there are two sides to every story
and this case is no exception. Meeting
II. A. Unruh, Mr.. Baldwin's mana ger,
yesterday afternoon, reporter inquired
the cause of the embargo
Its Just like this, " said the manager,
''the Raymond and Whitcomb Excursion
Company is worth nothing to us but the
Santa Anita ranch is worth a good deal to
them, and has formed part of their
itinerary for eight years past. We have
good hotel at Arcadia, and serve just as
good meals as they do at the Raymond,
but never tally stops at the Oakwood
for lunch. They drive all through the
ranch and our employees up at the barn
have TO stop their work TO show them the
horses. After that is over they drive
back to the Raymond for lunch. We
never get dollar out of them from one
years end to another"
So that's all on one side, like the
handle of a Jug" said the reporter.
But he wo st part OF it is ye; to
people get up to San Francisco they are
not left free TO select hotels to suit them
selves, but are bundled into the Palace
which, OF course, pays Raymond e. Whit
comb a liberal commissio for sending
them there. II the Baldwin Hotel was put
upon tn same footing as the Palace, or i
no hotel coupons were sold and excursion
lists we lett free to patronize any hotel
they might see fit to visit it would be all
right enough. All Mr.. Baldwin asks in a
matter of this sort, is the adoption of the
old rule of live and let live but that
seems foreign to the business principles of
the Raymond outfit. They have seen fit
to boycott Mr.. Baldwin s hotels here and
in San Francisco, and they cannot wonder
at nything he may do in retaliation It's
just as | told you in the first place, they
are worth nothing to the Santa Anita
ranch but it is worth a good deal to them
in the course of year.
How will it end up" aske the re-
porter.
Just as it has begun, - said Mr.. Unruh.
The t lly-hos from the Raymond will be
excluded and all others welcome. 1t cost
good deal of money in the course of a
year for the wages of men to show the
horses to visitors, but Mr.. Baldwin would
never mind that or any other items of ex-
pense if he was only treated half way
fairly in return"