The herald., 1898-05-03
LOCAL RAILWAY NEWS
OUTBREAK AGAIN OF STANFORD
HUNTINGTON FEUD
Immense Work Of Making the s. P.
Dust Proof-Prizes Awarded for
Excellent Road Bed

Pacific with gravel goes on apace. Up
wards of lao carloads of gravel day are
taken out Of the big pit near Mammoth
Tank on the desert. This work will be
greatly increased the first of the week.
when 100 of Rogers patent ballast cars will
arrive from the east and be at once put
into service. The magnitude of this work
is not well understood by the outside
world. A little calculation will show what
1t means and give an idea Of the cost. For
an extent of 120 miles on the desert the
gravel Is to be deposited to the depth OF
from six to ten inches over a space of about
twenty feet wide. This involves the dig
ging out Of the ballast the loading of 1t
onto the cars, the transportation of 1t to
the place where 1t is to be used and the I'M
loading Of 1t at the destination.
When this work Is completed the South
ern Pacific will have the anomaly possible
to its passengers of taking them through
a region of nothing but sand and at the
same time not having a particle of dust
rise to the car windows, for the gravel is
SO heavy that 1t cannot be blown out of
place and its surface is so polished that 1t
does not afford much, if any of catching
place for sand and dirt. The cost of the
Improvement will be up in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Huntington VS.. Mrs. Stanford
There has been sensational develop
ment in San Francisco in Central Pacific
affairs. At the meeting of the directory
held last week on Thursday, Mr.. Irving
NJ. Scott was, without previous consulta-
ton with him, elected a director of the
company to fill the place made vacant by
the death Of Judge Spencer, who had been
on the board as the personal representative
of Mrs. Sanford. That lady was most as
tonished and aggrieved when she heard Of
this action of the board, not because she
had any feeling against Mr.. Scott, who is
one of the trustees of the Stanford univer-
sity, but because she was given no voice
in the matter while she is the largest III
dividual stockholdef in the road.
Mrs Stanford expressed herself very
forcibly in the newspapers on the subject,
and Mr.. Scott came back in Statement
that he never went where he was not asked
and never staid where he was not wanted.
Mrs. Stanford considers the appointing of
anyone to the position without consulting
her wishes, was an affront and the affair
has served to reopen with increased viru-
lence the old Stanford-Huntington feud.
1t is thought that Mr.. Scott will hold the
place until after a consultation is had by
him with Mrs. Stanford. when he will
probably follow her wishes as to the re-
tanning of the place. If she maintains her
present point of view she will give the am
bilious foundryman short time to resign.
though he firmly reiterates his devotion
to Mrs. Stapford's interests. and claims
that he supposed he was selected for the
place on account of his being trustee Of
Stanford university, and because he was
a friend of Judge Spencer. The fight IS Il
pretty one and will eliminate probably
this week while Mr.. Huntington is going
through the ordeal Of his testifying before
the state railway commission about the
expenditures Of his line for the purposes
of influencing legislation and business in
favor of the Sunset.
The Randsburg Railway
The annual meeting Of the Randsburg
railway stockholders will be held on the
18th of this month at the office of the COM
pany in this city. A new board of directors
will be chosen and the question of the traf-
fic arrangement with the Santa Fe Pacific.
perhaps, will come up for discussion as
those of the company who are not enthu-
siastic followers of President Daugherty
do not particularly fancy all Of his policies.
The controversy between Mr.. Daugherty
and Mr.. James Campbell has not vet been
determined by the courts and this may
come up in some form at themeeting.
Southern Pacific Prizes
Roadmaster NJ. Summers of the South
ern Pacific, on the Paso Robes division.
has been awarded the gold medal by the
board Of examiners of the company for
having the best kept division on the entire
system. The company Is having signs
placed in a good position in both Salinas
and San Luis Obispo stating this fact to
the public Section Boss Dan Smith, who
has charge Of the roadbed from Castro
Vile to Salinas, was given the first medal
for perfect section. 1t looks as if the
awarders of the prizes has not given the
attention to things on the Yuma division
that they should have done, for 1t is dollars
to doughnuts that there Is no division on
section on the entire system that can
equal the one presided over by Superin-
tendent Muir.
Notes and Personals
Bridge Builder Thomas Humphrey and
Inspector F. S. Edinger Of the Southern
Pacific company are at Santa Barbara on
the work of estimating and planning for
the bridges to be put in on the coast line
from Elwood to Surf.
All of the more important railways in the
country have now or are about to announce
to their employees that they can have their
positions back If they resign to enter the
service Of Uncle Sam during his difficulty
with Spain.
General Passenger Agent J. ]. Byrne of
the Santa Fe Pacific has returned from q
visit to San Francisco.
Mr.. George Stein Of the Santa Fe Pacific
is credited with having come all the way
!, from Chicago to hear Melba sing.
Edwin Hays the Southern Pacific agent
at CLAIMS. on the Colorado desert, has
| been taken Ill and was relieved yesterday
| by II. R. Trux.