Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-01-27
Among the
Railways

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The track on Indiana street has been
| leveled to great extent since the last
rains, when some trouble was expert
enced there.
| G. f. Herr, local district passenger
| agent for the Union Pacific railroad.
! left yesterday afternoon for a trip to
! San Francisco.
r. G. Scott, tranic manager for tho
! colorado Manufacturing association. re-
! turned 10 Denver last night after
! spending several days i'm Los Angeles
| calling upon local railroad officials
The Chicago, Rock Island e. Pacific
! viii equip during the coming year about
! 100 miles " additional track with new
automatic block signals. The road is
planning to extend these signals about
! leo miles each year and to replace
! manual and other systems now in use.
Tho Mexican Hallway Journal is re
! sponsihc for the statement that the
pcrusll of the pamphlet issued by the
! Santa l'c regarding "Scottys" race
across the continent with Father
! Time" has caused tho hair to start on
! the bald heads OF some men in Mexico
Gcrrt Fort, assistant general passcn-
! ger agent for the Union Pacific rail
! road with headquarters at omaha, left
yesterday afternoon for San francisco
after a visit since last Sunday in Los
| Angeles. From there he VIII go to
! Omaha. Mir. Forts family will spend
| the remainder OF the winter in Pasa-
! dCna.
Work has been begun by the Los
| Angeles Railway company ON the OK
! tension Of the road from Indiana street
ON First street fen blocks east. When
| this extension is completed it will open
| lnt, lot
ago but has increased i'm value very
! little on account Of there being no street
car line in the vicinity.
Vice President p u. Schwerin of the
! Pacific Mail Steamship line denies that
! the Japanese government has offered to
! buy the trans-Pa CifiC lines of this COM
| pany, but says that the Japanese
Steamship company, Togo I[isen
kaisha, has made an offer to Mr. Harri-
man to buy the line. The steamers
are the Korea, Siberia, Manchuria and
Mongolia, the cost of which is said to
he $lO,OO0,OO0.
Van Horn Goes to Pennsy
Official announcement was made by
| u. a. Ford passenger traffic manager
of the Pennsylvania lines, that NJ. f..
! Van Horn on February / will succeed
Frank Widmey. who has resigned his
position as local district passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania system.
Mr.. Van Horn is at present city pas
| senger agent for the Union Pacific rail
road. He has been in the employ OF the
Union Pacific ever since he started his
railroad career as a telegraph operator
eighteen years ago and the promotion
! that he has received is a merited one.
Mr. Ford also announced that S. 2.
| Blanc, who has been acting as assistant
| passenger agent for the Pennsylvania.
will be appointed as city passenger
agent on February 1.
viii Place Gables Underground
AS far as can be learned all of the
railroad companies intend to comply
with the ordinance regarding the re-
moval Of poles within a specified terri
! tory within the city of Los Angeles.
The Salt Lake road has already taken
steps toward placing its telegraph wires
under ground and has ordered cables
made in the east. The sections of the
wires under question run from Second
to Sixth street on Los Angeles street
The wires are stretched on poles be-
| longing to the Sunset Telephone &
Telegraph company.
| The large cable that is stretched from
Los Angeles street to the fifth story OF
the Huntington building will be re-
moved.
The architect who planned the Hunt
ington building provided for just such
all emergency as this. Conduits are
placed in the walls for telegraph, cleo
trio and telephone wires. The ceilings
of all of the halls are double and q
space is left in them which is now used
for the telephone wires and electric
light wires and will be utilized for the
telegraph cables.
Builder of Motor Car Is Here
w. r. McKeen, jr, superintendent OF
motor power of the Union Pacific rail
road with headquarters at Omaha, is
in Los Angeles to be present at the
trial of the gasoline motor car by the
Southern Pacific railroad officials to-
day. Mr. McKeen was the first mar
who conceived the idea of building G
motor car for practical use, and it was
he who drew the plans under which tht
motor cars have been constructed by
the Union Pacific.
Mr.. McKeen does not believe that the
engine In this car is perfect or that il
is entirely adapted to the use to which
II will be put, but he does think thai
he has made a huge stride toward solv-
ing the question of power for suburban
railroads.
Local officials say that the only objec
ton they can see to the motor car IL
the shops here is the engine They are
of the opinion that the engine is rather
small for the great power which it de
velops and that care must be takeI
that it does not wear itself out by thu
high speed at which it runs.
Rushing Los Vesas-BuIlfrog Work
r. M. Sloan, assistant general freigh
agent for the Salt Lake road, has re
turned from Los Vegas, where he wen
with other officials of an inspection
trip.
Mr.. Sloan says that the Clark road
which is being constructed from I4o
Vegas to Bullfrog, is being built at thu
rate of two and a half miles a day
He grew so interested in watching thu
men lay the track that he followed
them along for some time and whel
he went to return found that he haC
wandered a long distance from tin
place where he started.
Mr.. Sloan says that the grading Il
thirty miles in advance of the tract
laying and that the road will be com
pieted to Indian Springs by the frs
of March and that the entire road vii
be completed by the first of May.
When the road is completed to IndiaI
Springs 1t will mean that S. a ton vii
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