The herald., 1898-03-23
LOCAL RAILWAY NfWS|
PRESIDENT RIPLEY EXPECTED
TO ARRIVE TODAY
ACCIDENT At Whitewater
Brakeman Eisler Meets His Death
and Conductor Best Injured-Gos-
sip About the Cuyamaca

President Ripley Of the Santa Fe system
will arrive in the city today from the east,
accompanied by General Manager Nevin
and General Superintendent Wells Of the
Santa Fe-Pacinc. Mr.. Ripley will find con-
siderable change In the attitude Of the pub
lio toward his road and his gen.
eral manager. Mr.. Nevin. When
he was last here the road was
liked and Mr.. Nevin was not well known;
now the line has more cordial hatred than,
probably, the Southern Pacific ever had.
Whose fault this all is due to, or whether
the feeling toward the line and the man
ager is Just or not, are questions which
can be answered from different stand
points, but there is no doubt about the sit
uation's being as described.
What Mr.. Ripley will say or do about
the matter IL, of course, an unknown guam
tity, but is of only less interest to many
people hereabouts than the report Of the
Maine commission. The Santa Fe officials
hold that Mr.. Nevin will be sustained. even
II the business of the road had suffered
more than It has from the change Of pub
lie sentiment toward his line. 1t is insisted
that Mr.. Ripley has warm affection for
him and high regard for his abilities. and
would retain him In office at any cost to
the company, no matter how much he
hight be disliked. The feeling Of hostility
is held to be but a passing whim of the
public and not based on any good ground.
"If there is a pool, as you newspaper
fellows say is the case, with the Southern
Pacific, 1t Is not Nevln, though he may
have suggested 1t, but Ripley who is re-
sponsible for it, and though admit that
Nevin has very Unhappy way with people
he meets in the way Of business, he is one
of the best railroad men in the country.
and has only done his duty and carried
out the policy of his superiors. Nevin Is
not to blame. 1t is all bosh, anyway; I
was unpopular as one that people were pat
ting on the back, so to speak, all the time.
People can hate the Santa. Fe all they
ness" That is the view taken of the mat
ter by one of the company's officials.
ACCIDENT AT WHITEWATER
A sad accident occurred at Whitewater
station on the Southern Pacific road in the
Colorado desert, yesterday forenoon to a
freight train, the first one resulting
in a fatality that has occurred on this d.
vision in seven years past.
The train had just reached whitewater
when a wheel broke on one Of the cars, de-
railing 1t and six others. Conductor Best
and Brakeman L. A. Eisler of this city
were on the cars that left the track. and
went with them when they rolled over. On
investigating, the brakeman was found
crushed to death and the conductor was
seriously injured internally. The accident
was one that could not be we'll avoided as
all possible precautions against just what
happened are regularly taken. All of the
wheels of the cars are tested thoroughly
before they are allowed to leave the yards,
and the defect that caused this one to
break must have developed while the train
was in motion. The track was speedily
cleared and no delay to traffic resulted.
THAT CUYAMACA LINE
President Dougherty Of the Randsburg
road, who went east same few weeks ago
to consult with c. p. Huntington about
the plan Of extending the Cuyamaca rail-
way from San Diego to Yuma, has been
very discreet since his return and has not
given out anything about his plans or as
to the likelihood of Mr.. Huntington's TAX
ing the matter up seriously. 1t Is expected
that the uncle of his nephew will be here
in few days, and that the project will be
definitely settled one way or the other
then.
One of the members Of the Citizens COM
mittee of San Diego, which has the fight
against the Santa Fe and Mr.. Nevin in
hand. is quoted in a San Diego paper. as
saying that there is nothing sure about
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that such will be the case"
A feature in the case has been the re-
markable fact that recently in San Diego
there has developed a market for Cuya-
maca stock and that man named ]. d.
Wood, real estate agent, has been buy
ing up the stock as fast as he finds sellers
He is certainly acting for some one who
desires to get control Of the road, whether
1t be Huntington or others.
KERENS EN- ROUTE
"Dick" Kerens. as the millionaire main
owner in the Terminal road Is called, is on
his way to this city, where he ought to ar
rive today or tomorrow. He may turn
back and go to Washington when he hears
of the new fight that is being made on his
favorite enterprise of the San Pedro har-
Dor. He intended when he started to stay
some time here and take a comprehensive
view OF the many projects Of extension
proposed by the Terminal.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
Col. Scipio Craig, who directs the Citro-
graph of Redlands, said recently, apropos
Of the ''pool' between the Santa Fe and
the Southern Pacific: president Ripley
of the Santa Fe is beginning to find out
that there were railroad men who knew
what they were talking about when they
warned him not to pool issues with Presi-
dent Huntington of the Southern Pacific.
In other words. President Ripley has been
neatly taken in and done up''
The Southern Pacific company IL doing an
unparalleled business. Last month It had
to add 100 men to its force at Tucson alone,
and the same proportion has been fol-
lowed at almost every point on the line.
On many of the freight trains the crews
have had to use box cars for cabooses, az
the supply of the latter is not equal to the
increased traffic.
Travelling Agent Springer of the South
ern Pacific and Mr.. Pattee. who holds the
same position for the Santa Fe, are pool
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