The herald., 1897-08-31
General Passenger Agent
Byrne Has Returned
CALIFORNIA LIMITED RESUMED
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC AGAIN
USING OIL
Texas and Pacific to Put On a Fast
Limited for California Mt.
Lowe Business

Byrne of the Southern California rail-
way and General Freight Agent Cham
bers of the same road returned yestsr-
day from two weeks business trip to
Chicago. Mr.. Byrne says the outlook for
a good tourist travel to California this
fall and winter was never better; that
| the people throughout the east were
almost unanimously speaking of better
times; and the wheat crop is tremen-
| dous. Continuing he said: Our entire
track is being completely improved and
| the roadbed of the Chicago division is
the best l ever saw in my life. The Cal
| ifornia limited will commence maxim Z
| bi-weekly trips on October Is until Jan
| uary l, when three trips each week will
| be made. Tie running time between
Chicago and Los Angeles will be seven
ty-two hours. 1 never saw better pros
poets for business than at present. Not
only is the railroad business improving,
but all enterprises are looking up. Why,
the Chicago wholesale merchants are
continually rushed filing orders for tins
trade ard many of them told ME that the
fall trade had already been far beyond
their expectations"
OIL BURNERS
Master Mechanic Sheedy of the South
ern Pacific machine shops in this city,
has a large force of men at work over
hauling several locomotives prepara-
tory to burning oil instead of coal. AL
ready eight engines have been changed
and seven more are to follow The offic-
ials state that they will use oil continu
ally if the price is kept down at rates
which will meet the price of coal, and TO
that end they are in the market for ali
they can get at the present price, hav-
ing during the past week purchased
40 900 gallons from local producers. They
have tanks at River station with q ca
pacity of 0O00 gallons, and their plant
for pumping oil into The engine tank is
one of the most complete in the state,
the process being the same as taking on
water, only compressed air is used ami
the 1000 gallons is pumped into the tank
in ten minutes Large shipments of oil
are also expected to arrive from the
Summerland district this week for this
company, and it is reported that several
large deals are on foot with local pro-
ducers.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
G. B. Ochiltree, commercial agent for
the Southern Pacific at Riverside, was
caller at headquarters yesterday. He
rays the indications are already good
for a larger crop of oranges next season
than ever before known in Riverside
county.
Traffic and Excursion Agent c. A.
Warner of the Mount Lowe Railway
company states that since July 1st up to
the present time over 5000 people have
visited Mount Lowe. Last Sunday IT'S
tickets were sold for that popular resort.
The company will run a special eXcur-
sion to Mount Lowe and Alpine tavern
September 8th and 9th. Mr.. Warner also
says business over that line has been far
better this summer than any previous
season.
General Superintendent Wells of the
Santa Fe Pacific, with his corps of ten
office men, will arrive from Albuquerque,
n. NJ, this morning. Offices for their use
have been arranged on the fifth floor of
the Bradbury block.
Captain Charles T, Hinde, general
manager of Spreckels Bros. Commercial
company at San Diego, will arrive in Los
Angeles today.
The British ship Sardomene, Captain
Browning, will sail from San Diego to-
morrow for London, England with 5000
sacks of wheat.
H. r. Bingham, ticket agent at the
Arcade depot, and Robert Brain, clerk
in Superintendent Muir's office, returned
to their desks yesterday after three
weeks outing in the mountains of Kern
county.
The Southern California Railway COM
pany is laying out a new park around
its depot at North Pomona. The COM
pany is making similar improvements at
all stations along the road.
Fred c. Koester of the traffic depart
ment of the Texas and Pacific railway at
New Orleans, arrived here yesterday for
a two months sojourn. He reports that
his company is going to put on fast
through train between ST. Louis and Ell
Paso to compete with the Santa Fe CAL
ifornia limited and the Southern Pacific
Sunset limited. Both of these fast trains
did a good business last season and as
the Texas and Pacific are in the field for
California business, they are waking up
to the fact that they must either have
superior service or not expect much of
the tourist travel
Vice-Presidert H. E. Huntington, who
is here on a tour of inspection, went to
Santa Ana yesterday ACCOMPANIED bv
Division Superintendent J. A. Muir. He
will leave for the north on Thursday.
The citizens of San Pedro are arrang
ing for watermelon day on September
5th at which time tons of watermelons
will be furnished to all, besides there will
be an eating contest between several
'culled gemmen." The Southern Pa
cific announces a special excursion for
the occasion.