Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19
Extra eaaaaae Cars

right, but toward the end OF the week
we will be swamped sure"
Extra Baggage Cars
"The Santa Fe has put into requisi-
tion all Of its surplus baggage cars
and a lot Of empties have been sent
east to be filed at Chicago and Kansas
city this week. People arriving in the
city and falling to find trunks here
need not worry It may be several
days before the heavy baggage is de-
livered.
Not only regular cars, but freight
cars, fruit cars and box cars will be
used to carry the surplus baggage. II
VIII pile up at the Santa Fe station
until one will walk out of the train
through mountains Of trunks before the
street Is reached"
At the Salt Lake station the big rush
has not landed yet. 1t will be felt
today and the baggage will begin to
pile up along the side of the station
with special guards TO see that enter
prising thieves do not cart off any
thing.
Delay Near caIiente
The Los Angeles limited, due Satur-
day night, did not arrive Until yester-
day, and the limited due yesterday aft
ernoon will not come i'm until this
morning. The delay is due to a bad
track near Caiente
All the trains will have extra bag
gage cars and special baggage trains
Will be run during the week. This
Will also be done on the other lines to
expedite the transportation of baggage
1--WE will feel the rush today" said
the Salt Lake baggage master. Sun
day was busy, but we could handle II
all right. There Is not much room here
and the trunks will be piled up out
side and covered up. We hope that
the transfer men will help us get rid
of the surplus as fast as possible"
The Southern Pacific has yet to feel
the tremendous tourist rush With its
many feeders at New Orleans. ogden,
Portland, San Francisco and other
points the Southern Pacific company
is preparing to do the biggest spring
business since the road was built.
None of its officials will hazard q
guess as TO the number of thousands
who will come over the line, but 100000
Is within the range of probability
At the Arcade station yesterday there
was q decided increase in traffic, but
the burden of the tourist travel will
not begin before tomorrow.
Yesterday was a light day compared
with what is to come, but nearly 500
pieces of heavy baggage were handled
without trouble. Later in the week
trunks will fill the big storage room
and overflow onto the platform and
rear end of the building.
A lot of passengers arrived Sunday
from Eel Paso on the Southern Pacific
and on the Golden State limited of the
Rock Island system.
The business from the north was
light. That begins Tuesday.
a baggage master who has grown
gray in the service of the road said
to the Herald representative:
Banner Year
Mark my words, this spring will be
the banner year for California travel.
] can feel it coming. We have not the
accommodation at present for such an
enormous business, but our system is
so perfected that we can handle tre-
mendous amount of business without
much effort. Extra men have been en-
gagged and watchmen will be on hand
to guard all baggage that we cannot
house. This was done last year IN a
satisfactory manner. Before another
season we expect to be in a new build
ing with vastly Increased facilities for
handling business
Some Figures
Taking all the baggage that will
come into Los Angeles each day be-
ginning this morning a conservative
estimate is 5000 pieces a day. This
means at least $4,000 pieces during the
week, and each day will see an in
crease.
Thousands Of passengers can be
handled with more ease than few
hundred pieces of baggage. 1t requires
a lot of handling to get the trunks
from Chicago to Los Angeles and dis
tribute them about the city. Two hun
dred pieces of baggage to car is
fair estimate. If 5000 pieces come in
each day that will mean twenty-five
cars of baggage day.
The baggage cars attached to the
regular trains cannot begin to handle
all the stuff. Solid trains of baggage
cars will be run, beginning the last of
the week, in order to catch up with
the hordes of tourists that will arrive
on every train.
Many of the coming tourists will re-
main in Southern California. Others
who return home will make plans to
return and become permanent resi-
dents.
Many Come to Stay
Those who come on the special rates
represent the well-to-do middle class,
anxious to purchase homes for them
selves and enter into business in Los
Angeles or to buy ranch property in
the rural districts contiguous to this
city.
AT a most conservative estimate
$5, 100000 of eastern money will be put
into circulation in paying hotel bills,
expenses of sightseeing, purchases of
real estate and necessary articles of
wearing apparel.
The railroads will not be the only
ones to profit by the influx of cast
erners. Every merchant ought to have
increased business and the hotel keep
ers and proprietors of rooming houses
will reap golden harvest