The herald., 1898-10-08
NEWS OF The RAIL WAYS
TWO EXTENSIONS OF THE LOS
ANGELES SYSTEM
Plenty Of Refrigerator cars-The New
Minimum to Be Dropped-Notes
and Personals

| ator car agents. held on Wednesday last at
the Office Of General Freight Agent Cham
bers of the Santa Fe, has resulted in an
agreement to furnish 1000 of such cars for
the orange traffic beginning early next
| month that is about two thousand cars for
| each road the Southern Pacific and the
Santa Fe. This. of course, is besides the
cars the lines have themselves and those
| which drift to them from other lines with
west-bound freight occasionally. There Is
every reason. therefore, to believe that
there will be plenty of transportation facil-
| tiles this season.
| Both Mr. Chambers Of the Santa Fe and
Mr.. Luce Of the Southern Pacific say there
| have been no developments about the Ques-
| ton of a new minimum for orange car lot
shipments this year. 1t is evident from
| what is said and the attitude Of the rail-
way people, that they do not, think the
| matter will be pushed to an Affirmative
| settlement as the agitation in the press
and the decided opposition of the growers
and shippers has caused lukewarmness
about the matter In official circles. There
| is, however. one thing that is settled be-
yond any doubt, and that is that there will
be no reduction Of orange rates this or
any other season If the railways can pre-
vent The general offices take the
ground that the present rate was put into
| force at time when It did not pay the
roads, as means to develop the growing
of oranges. This has been done, they
| claim. and now that they have worked up
the business by means of low rate un-
til 1t has reached large proportions, they
think they should get the benefit. The
shippers do not take this view and will
probably keep up the agitation for lower
rate.
Two New Lines
H. E. Huntington. with his friends Mr.
Borel and Mr.. De Guigne left for the north
yesterday afternoon. after having made n
thorough inspection Of their property. the
Los Angeles street railways. and decided on
at least two extensions, which will be
commenced at once The first of these will
he line to Brooklyn Heights. This will
| follow largely the same route as the old
Boyle Heights road via Also street to the
| river. the route on the east side Of the river
| depending somewhat on the result Of the
surveys now being made by the company's
corps of surveyors. The line will be of
the very best quality. equal to any in the
city. and as soon as the route to be fol-
lowed is determined absolutely, the con-
structon gang will be put to work This
will provide transit facilities to a large
section of the city heretofore unprovided.
Probably today work will commence on
the extension of the Ninth street line and
the reconstruction of the track of that
branch. The company has O franchise
for line from Main and Ninth east to Ma
teo street, and this will be at once built
though 1t may not be completed to the
proposed terminus at once. At any rate
1t was asserted by General Manager Wood
yesterday that it would be built above, so
as to form considerable addition to the
system
Mr.. Wood was asked If there had been
any developments as to the talked Of pur-
chase by the Huntington syndicate of the
Santa Monica and Pasadena trolley lines
| Iol Il ,;1l G
| and Mr.. Clark. He declined to speak al
all for the company. but said that in his
opinion Huntington had acquired all the
work he wanted now in the purchase Of the
| city lines. It being evident from what he
| said that he does not believe that there is
anything to the story.
1t was learned, however. that Hunting
| ton has purchased Abbot Kinney's Mateo
street line, though at what figure could not
| be exactly ascertained, but as Mr.. Kinney
| Is said to be perfectly satisfied with the
bargain, 1t is supposable that both prin-
| cipals are happy. The line begins at the
Santa Fe station and runs south on Santa
Fe avenue on private holdings and on Ma
| teo street to Ninth, thence east to Santa
| Fe avenue to the city limits.
The syndicate also purchased yesterday
| the franchise held by ]. c. Kays and asso-
ciates. the route of which is from the corner
| of La Grande and Mateo streets south to
|
thence westerly on Ninth to Spring. thence
| north on Spring to Seventh.
Wreck on the Southern Pacific
| On Tuesday last the west bound Southern
! Pacific express train was wrecked at Red
| Rock station on the line thirty-four miles
west of Tucson. 1t was one of those
| lucky accidents which happen without any
very disastrous results. though no one can
| tell how 1t escaped being a tragedy except
| by pure chance. 1t was all caused in the
first place by a blunder for freight train
had gone on the siding for the purpose of
letting the passenger train pass. but the
| switch was stupidly set so to throw the
express train from the main line onto the
very switch where the freight train was
waiting. The engineer had no time to
think or to act before the smash came
1t resulted In the complete destruction Of
the two engines and two freight cars as
the passenger train, was hurt, as we'll as
his fireman, and the mail agent had sever
al bad bruises to show as a souvenir.
Notes and Personals
W. Fl. Brewer Of the general superintend-
ent's office Of the Santa Fe, has returned
from a vacation trip to Topeka and Denver,
the first he has enjoyed for some years.
Advance Manager R!caby of the What
Happened to Jones" company has ar
ranged for a tour of the kite-shaped track
for his troop and a season in San Diego.
General Passenger and Freight Agent
Peck of the Terminal railway is confined
to his home by illness.
The Traction company thinks 1t will
have It's Boyle Heights line in working
Of