Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-01-26
Among the
Railways

=. y. COOnS, commercial agent lot
the Frisco and Rock Island systems.
is detained at his home ON account Of
Illness.
S. A. Bishop, claim adiuster for the
southern Pacific railroad with head
quarters at San Francisco, is at the
Westminter hotel.
The price Of the stock Of the Union
Pacific railroad is continuing to adj
vance and some Wall street financiers
declare that II Will reach S17j.
j. T.. Langford, general manager Of
the salt Lake g. Los Angeles road Is
spending u few days In Los Angeles
ell route on a western pleasure trip.
The ticket windows at the Santa Fe
La Grande station have been torn out
and replaced with beautiful grill work
decorated with monographs of the Santa
Fe road.
The Los Angeles & Redondo Electric
Railway company Is building in it's
shops in Los Angeles ten fiat cars of
$4,000 pounds capacity and ten electric
passenger cars.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railroad company has contracted with
the Baldwin Locomotive works for 80
locomotives and with the American Lo-
connective company for II.
The Union Pacific railroad lost by
fire last week one OF its ice houses at
North Platte. Neb. THIS was the larg-
est ice house in the country. being 81
by liz feet by 20 feet in height.
III. r.. Greene, chief clerk in the pas
senger department Of the Salt Lake
road, returned from Chicago yesterday,
where he attended the Transconti-
mental Passenger association meeting.
Fred e. Whttemore, assistant ticket
agent at the Union depot at st. Paul,
Mimi, is staying in Los Angeles for a
few days. Mr.. Whittemore is making
ali extensive tour Of the western states
on a pleasure trip.
Santa Fe railroad surgeons stated
yesterday that none of the passengers
in the wreck Tuesday night was seri-
ously injured and that all but two or
three have recovered entirely from the
bruises that they sustained
John j. Byrne, assistant general pas
senger traffic manager of the Santa
Fe road, will arrive in Los Angeles
tomorrow. Mr.. Byrne has been in Chi
cago attending meeting of the mem
berS of the Transcontinental Passen-
ger association.
The work of double tracking the Los
Angeles & Redondo Electric railway is
being ushed forward Eight-foot ties,
such as are used on broad gauge rail-
ways, are being laid. The officials
say that the road may be made broad
gauge when an advisable time arrives,
but will not state whether the present
is thought to be the avisable time or
not.
Is Proud Papa
John c. Graves, cashier in the Salt
Lake ticket offices on South Spring
street, has been kept busy passing out
cigars to his friends the past two days.
The occasion is the arrival of an eight
pound baby girl at his home, 1043 Lin
coin street. last Monday night.
Mexican Central Men Here
j. C. Mcdonald, II. C. Archer and
H. Lawton called on local railroad Of
ficials yesterday. Mr.. Mcdonald was
general pacific coast agent at San
Francisco for the Mexican Central
railroad until his recent appointment
as assistant general passenger agent
for the same road with headquarters
at the City of Mexico. He will leave
in a few days to assume his new duties.
Mr.. Mcdonald will be succeeded by
Mr.. Archer. Mr.. Lawton is freight
traffic manager of the Mexican Central
with headquarters in the City of
Mexico.
Disagree About New Power
A number of the older railroad Off
Gals have taken out their "hammers"
since the arrival of the gasoline motor
car over the Salt Lake on Tuesday
night and have done great deal of
Knocking" They have had a laugh
about the car going off the derail track
at Riverside, but have not taken into
consideration the fact that most any.
car might run off the derail if it We're
the track and who did not know that he
was on the derail track.
The younger railroad officials are en-
thuSiastic over the car and say that
the opinions of the older men are due
to false conservatism that has always
dominated the actions of old steam
railroad men.
1.-THE older men have always fought
the new improvements" said a young
man who occupies prominent posi-
ton with one of the roads which runs
through Los Angeles yesterday, "be-
cause they seemed to be afraid they
would lose their jobs. They pooh
poohed' the idea of electric railroads,
but they came to stay just the same.
L can see no reason why these motor
cars should not supplant steam on the
suburban roads.
'"Their cost of construction is less
anu Lile cosl VI operating IS certainly
a great deal less than the steam engine
and coaches They will do away with
two of the train crew and the cost of
cleaning, repairing and building will
be greatly lessened.
"That they are practicable was
shown by the fact that the one now in
the Southern Pacific shops made the
trip from Omaha, using only its own
power, and passed through snow u
foot deep in places.
"Of course these cars are still i'm
perfect, but l would say they have
surely come to stay and will make a
great deal of difference in the oper-
ating of suburban trains in the next
two years."