The herald., 1898-03-31
MAJORS VISIT SAN PEDRO AND
REDOND0
a BABY BORN ON A TRAIN
Rabid San Diegans and the Santa Fe.
Huntington's Whereabouts I'm
known-Notes-Per

went to the future harbor ana It's annex.
President Ripley and General Manager
Nevin of the Santa Fe, with Judge Sterry
of the same line, Gov. Lou stephens OF
Missouri, Mr.. Soper and Mr. Richardson
and Mr. Driver were in the Santa fe S car
while Mr.. Kerens of the Terminal was ac-
companied by vive President 7. E. Gipoon
of the same road, General Manager 1ynes'
II. s. McKie and number of others. Inc
harbor works were inspected thoroughly
and the outer port studied from seVerai
points Of view. 1t is considered py MI.
Kerens and the others lnteres'eo
in the project that there is no
more room for doubt about the happy
outcome of the San Pedro project as as
surances have lately been received from
washington that the fight is over, ana the
award of the contract will soon be MADE.
1t is thought that the visit was in part,
at least, preparatory to certain hesotia-
lions which the Santa F'e will make LOOK
ing to securing an outlet to the harpor
either over it's own tracks or those OF the
Terminal. The two lines now have a traHlc
agreement by which the Terminal hauls
the Santa Fe cars when so desired, but this
will probably give way to something more
satisfactory and permanent.
RABID SAN DIEGANS
The San Diego Union while occasionally
scoring something like a point against the
Santa Fe, makes itself close to ridiculous
occasionally, when it jumps haphazard on
everything that bears the name OF SANTA
Fe without investigating. The latest OF
these stories which reflect on the passen-
ger department of the road is OF the same
nature as those which have often, on SO
often, been exploded. A man goes TO some
eastern local agent of an eastern road, ana
wishes to buy a through ticket to San
Diego, and because the local agent does not
have any of that kind, the demand being
probably for one in every fifty years, at
once a cry goes up of discrimination
against the Griefery. In every case where
complaint has been made to General Pas-
senger Agent Byrne about tourists having
to pay extra from this city to San Diego
the matter has always been satisfactorily
arranged. Whatever good points the
Griefery has in its fight against the Santa
Fe are lost in the diffuse and femininely
uncertain and hysterical conduct of the
campaign by the hostile newspapers.
BORN ON THE TRAIN
On Monday evening as the Southern Pa
cific westbound overland was approaching
Ell Casco on the Colorado desert a "a sc
man came up to Conductor j. B. Harrison
and whispered something into his ear,
whereat the conductor seemed to be sorely
troubled and perplexed.
.Dr, King of Banning is on board ad-
ded the brakeman, and the conductor
looked relieved and ordered the doctor to
be dug up at once. Garry her into
tta
are you a married MANI
The brakeman said he was, and was glad
of it. "All right" added Harrison. ''see
that she is made as comfortable as pos
sible."
Twill she have to buy another ticket?'
queried the brakeman with grin. but be-
fore the conductor could reply to this puz-
cling question, he had gone on his errand
of digging UP the DOCTOR
A short time later, while the cars were
rumbling along the dismal stretches of the
desert there was a. little wall, and there
was another passenger on the train and
another soul in the world, in the person of
a little daughter just born to Mrs George
Seminal, who. with her husband, was on her
way from Germany to new home at
Fresno. Neither father, mother nor
hearts of the train men and the aid of one
or two of the women passengers brought
about a very happy ending of the unusual
incident. that of a baby born on train
the first instance on record on the Southern
Pacific.
HUNTINGTON WHEREABOUTS
President C. P. Huntington is still puz-
cling both newspaper and railway men by
the way in which he has isolated himself
somewhere between New Orleans and Ell
Paso. He left the former place on his way
to the coast some four days ago, and Vice
President H. E. Huntington and General
Manager Kruttschnitt went out to meet
him. Since then nothing has been heard
definitely about the party's movements. 1t
was thought this morning that the nabobs
were somewhere between San Antonio and
Ell Paso. They will have to come along
very quickly now, as the usual meeting of
the road is called for the 9th of April in San
Francisco.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
On the 10Th of April the Pecos Valley rail-
way will be sold by order of United States
Judge Hamilton at Eddy, New Mexico Ii
will probably be bought in by the bond
holders, and the present receiver, Z. o.
Faulkner, will probably be made general
manager. The line extends 1S5 miles from
Pecos City, Texas, to Roswell, New Mex
leo.
The Monterey and Gulf railway is left
without single American employe, all of
them, from superintendent down to clerks
having struck and left their positions. The
trouble grew out of what is said to have
been a cruel attack on a Mexican telegraph
operator by the Americans
The Southern Pacific has spent sixty
thousand dollars in ballasting five miles of
track on the desert between Indio and
Mammoth Tank. This will make the road
absolutely dust proof in that region, the
busiest there is in the world Inside of
sixty days is is thought that the entire line
from San Francisco to Yuma will be so
heavily graveled that dust will no longer
be feature of the trip.
d. G. Fisher, who has for some time past
been in the Santa Fe's general offices, has
been appointed assistant ticket agent in
the office in the Wilcox block
B. r. Coone, the Southern Pacific agent
at Covina, has gone to Sacramento, called
there by the illness of his mother.
The Southern Pacific is rapidly changing
all of its engines from coal to oil burners.
Six more were added to the smokeless va
riety yesterday.
Hereafter Southern Pacific engineers will
no longer have their own machines. but
the "chain gang" service will be used, by
which the first engineer to be ordered out
takes the first engine. This will keep the
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