The herald., 1897-10-23
INFORMATION WANTED
SANTA FE OFFICIALS CAN'T SUP
PLY THE DEMAND
The california Limited" Will Arrive
This Evening With Several
Angelenos Aboard


the Santa Fe system it at work prepar-
ing descriptive matter pertaining TO
Southern California and Arizona, which
will soon be in the hands of the printer.
General Passenger Agent Jno j. ByrIe of
the Southern California R'y, in speaking
of this subject yesterday afternoon.
said "DTing the past few weeks the
Santa Fe officials have had a large
amount of high class printed matter dis
distributed throughout the eastern Cit
les. Most of 1t was in book form, illus
trative and descriptive of Southern Cal
ifornia, but the demard has far exceeded
the supply and additional orders to the
printers have been sent in. You ha le
no iG'sa how anxious hundreds Of people
residing throughout the eastern states
are to receive some kind of Information
concerning California III general and
Southern California in particular. The
prosperous times east of the Rockies has
caused many people, both in the city and
farming communities, to turn their eyes
toward California, and l tell you if n
million or more up-to-date pamphlets
giving detailed information concerning
our resources, climate, cost of living and
a few other valuable pointers, were sent
east this state would in short time
prosper as it has never before
TRAVELLING IN LUXURY
The California limited on the Santa Fe
system will arrive here this evening al
$50 from Chicago. Among the Califor-
mans aboard are Mr.. and Mrs. John Bry-
SON. Mrs. J. M. Smith Messrs. Gardner,
Ansen an6 Kellogg, Thomas Knapp anu
wife, e. M. Lyon and daughter and w.
H. Avery. Other passengers include +.
E. Jones and wife of Chicago, Mrs. j. r.
Custer and daughter, Chicago; Mrs. &.
McKinsei, Glasgow, Scotland; Miss War
ren Minneapolis; William Bigeow, Mil
waukee; Miss Mary Appleyard, Provi-
6erce, Rhode Island; Mrs L. H. House,
H. H. Wood, Bessie Samson and Mary
Samson, Burlington, N. j.. j. j. Law
rercA and wife, Pittsburg; c. e. Calm,
New York city; Mrs. Avery, Detroit; f.
B. Hayes Lockhaven, CT; Charles f.
Clue,tt and sister. Troy, N. Y. Mrs. T.
L. Smith, Cambridge, Mass; Mrs. L. 5.
Bass, Miss Bass and Miss Packard New
tonville. Mass; Mrs. A. A. Blanchard,
| Louisville, Ky; Mrs. Hess and Miss
Hess of Scranton, Pa.
EXCURSION TO MOUNT LOWE
At least 800 Odd Fellows. who are here
atten ding the annual session Of the grand
encampment, took advantage of the re-
duced rates yesterday offered by the
Mount Lowe and Pasadena and Pacific
railways and visited Rubio Canyon,
Echo Mountain and Ye Alpine tavern.
Hio
ence A. Warner accompanied the party
on their pleasure trip. and all seemed
to have had a most enjoyable time. To-
day a special train will leave the Arcade
depot at 10 o'clock a. M, and visit will
| be made to the Soldiers home and Port
Los Angeles
CULLINGS FROM THE RAIL
A large excursion party under the
MANAGEMENT of the Burlington road will
arrive here on Monday via Ogden ana
Salt Lake.
| A new depot has just been completed
| at Monrovia for the Southern California
Railway company.
The Southern California Railway
company yesterday announced that
commencing on next Monday the work
ing hours in the machine shops at San
Bernardino would be reduced from ten
to nine each day. This is customary
during the winter months.
The Santa Fe railroad is now running
three extra tourist sleepers out of Kan
sas City on all Pacific westbound trains,
owing to the rapidly increasing passen-
ge- business.
It is expected that work on the eXten-
| sive improvements for the Southern
California railway at the depot in Pas
adena will be commenced early next
| week.
Three thousand feet of additional track
is being built for the Southern Pacific
company at Riverside.
Many new electric warning bells are
being placed a different street crossing gs
at number of towns by the Southern
Pacific company.
The Sunset limited arrived from Chi
cago yesterday evening with a good lsst
of passengers aboard.
c. r. Whitehead, railroad contractor
of Ell Paso, Texas, is here for a few
days. He helped build the Mexican
Central railroad.