Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-24
Among the
Railways

IT. r. Gentry travelling passenger
| agent for the Salt Lake, left last might
Tor Prescott, Arizona.
| T. G. Peck, assistant general pas.
senger and ticket agent for the Salt
| Lake road, was called to San Pedro
yesterday to attend to some business.
e. A. Ford. passenger traffic manager
\ of the Pennsylvania lines. left yester-
| day for his home in Pittsburg after
| spending several weeks in Los Ange-
les and Pasadena.
J. d. Winters and party passed
through Los Angeles yesterday on the
Southern Pacific in the private car Ala
magordo en- route from Pasadena to
their homes in El Paso.
E. Buckingham, general superinten-
dent of the oregon Short line, with
headquarters at Salt Lake city, will
leave in his private car over the
Southern Pacific today for Santa Bar
bara.
L. c. Vonderheidt, secretary for G..
A. Cairns, general passenger and ticket
agent for the Northwestern railroad at
Chicago, left Los Angeles last night
after weeks stay for San Francisco.
After one day spent there he will re-
turn to Chicago.
Two as pretty pictures as can be
seen in any of the railroad Offices now
adorn the walls of r. c. Peck's office
i'm the Huntington building. The pic
lures are of two Indian women with
their young babies. colored true to
nature. In one picture is shown the
Indians hut and the little papoose has
just been let down from his mothers
back.
Nj. De Brabant, general agent for
the Salt Lake road, with headuuar-
ters in New York city, arrived In Los
Angeles last night on the Los Angeles
Limited. In company with him were
his sister and E. w. Gilett, general
passenger and ticket agent for the
Salt Lake. Mr.. Gilett has been in the
east for the past six weeks. Mr.. De
Brabant and sister are guests at the
Alexandria hotel
Southern Pacific Increases Service
The Short Line limited over the
Southern Pacific will go into commits
sion on March 1. This will be one of
the finest trains in the west. Only
those holding cash fare tickets will be
allowed to ride upon the train. The
train service on the Southern Pacific
has been materially increased between
San Francisco and Los Angeles and
after the first of the month there will
be six trains daily each way.
New Line Is incorporated
The Redding & Red Bluff Railway
company has been incorporated with
a capital stock of $500, 900, of which
$50,0OO has been subscribed. The COM
pany proposes to construct a railroad
from Red Bluff to Redding, an esti-
mated distance of thirty-thr miles.
May Adopt New Telephone
I. T. Dyer, superintendent of tele-
graph of the Salt Lake road, is now
considering the advisa bility of adopt
ing an instrument which will enable
the trainmen to telephone from any
part of the line, using the telegraph |
wires and yet not interfering with the
telegraphing. The apparatus has been
tested and has been found to work
very satisfactorily. 1t is called the |
composite elephone-telegraph.
To Test Freight Ordinance
City Prosecutor Beebe has made |
known his intentions to- find out |
whether the ordinance prohibiting the
street railway companies from haul |
ing freight through the streets is valid |
or not In consequence H E. Hunt
ington and his associates will again
be brought into court.
A similar suit was brought against
them last summer, but Judge Rose de-
cided that the ordinance was invalid.
Mr.. Beebe says he is going to test the
matter thoroughly even if he has to
carry the case up into the higher
courts.
Parkyns Will Arrive Today
Close friends of G. A. Parkyns. as
sistant general freight and passenger
agent for the Southern Pacific rail-
road, say that he will return to Los
Angeles today to resume the duties
which he laid down six months ago to
take a trip to the orient to recover his
health.
Mr. Parkyns returned to America
several weeks ago and has been resting
at a private sanitarium. While he is
not entirely recovered, he is feeling
much better than when he left several
months ago.
There has been much speculation as
to whether he would return to assume
his old duties or whether he would be
given another position, but it was Of
ticially announced yesterday that he
will resume his old duties, as was
stated exclusively in The Herald sew
eral weeks ago.