Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-29
RAILROAD NEWS

T. A. Graham, assistant general
freight and passenger agent OF the
Southern Pacific, is in receipt of teie-
gram from The passenger traffic manag-
er which reads as follows: :"Effective
November %, second class rate to New
York will be $500: same to Oswego. Bfng-
hampton, Elmira and Ithaca, N. T.,
Allentown, and Wilkesbarre, "a,
over the Erie line from Chicago.
This also applies via Wabash from chi
cago or St. Louis, to Suspension bridge
or Buffalo, thence Lehigh Valley or Erie,
also via the st. Louis Glover Leaf to
Ohio City, thence Erie; also via New
Orleans, Cincinnati, thence Erie or via
New Orleans-S Southern Pacific Steamship
company" This reduction is believed to
be based on the $40 rate from Chicago to
New York,
M. j. Fox, excursion conductor OF the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, between
Chicago and Los Angeles, arrived yester-
day with two coaches of tourists. Mr..
Fox reports sleety weather all through
the eastern states, but believes the Sc
we're winter season will be considerably
later than for many years past Ihe
Burlington lines" says Mr.. Fox, brought
more passengers to the Pacific coast
when the colonist rates were in effect,
than any other two lines running west
of Chicago. Western travel at the pres
ent time is exceptionally good, the dis
continuing of the rates having no notice
able effect on the travel to Southern Cal
ifornia."
Sam A. Hutchinson, manager of the
personally conducted excursion depart
ment of the Northwestern Union-Pacific,
and J. H. Pearman, assistant manager or
the tourist department of the Chicago q
Northwestern, left for Coronado Beach
yesterday While in the southern city the
men will arrange for hotel accommoda-
tions for the tourist travel over their
lines this winter.
t. F. Fitzgerald, district passenger
agent of the Gould lines, will conduct a
party to Laurel canyon today. When
asked what arrangements had been made
for the accommodation of the party, one
of Mr.. Fitzgerald's friends said: you
see he is not accustomed to foreign trav-.
Il, and is at a loss to know just how to
manage it, but leave it to him to bring
his party out with flying colors."
T. s. Brown. local city passenger agent
of the Rock Island lines. left yesterday
for San Diego. AS Mr.. Brown formerly
lived in that city and has wide circle
of friends there some of his friends give
a sly wink when they wonder just who
he will eat Thanksgiving dinner with.
Allen Waldbauer, general agent of the
Salt Lake, with headquarters at Pitts
burg, is in Los Angeles on business con-
nected with his company.
On account of the growth of Los An
geles. and the increase in travel over the
Los Angeles railway, that company has
ordered five more of the most modern
cars, which are expected to be put in
service in the near future.
A trip of inspection will be made over
the extension of the Pacific Electric
from Monrovia to Azusa Saturday after
noon, by General Manager ]. Mcmillan.
TRANSPORTATION Manager T. McCaffery,
superintendent of the northern division.
James b. Bouray. and e. T. Albert of
the traffic department of that line. 1t is
expected the extension will be opened
for service December S.
The various lines under the control of
Edward H. Hartman have bought this
year. says the Houston Daily Post, a.,
173 freight cars at a cost of nearly $780,,
OOO 000 and 271 new locomotives to take
the place of wornout equipment and to
move increasing tonnage, according to
figures Just compiled by the comptroller
of the Southern Pacific company which
were received here yesterday. Texas re-
ceived 500 new box cars 400 flat cars and
100 steel ballast cars of the finest pat
tern. Switch engines were the only new
equipment of this kind not received in
this state.
From $352S199 in 1902 the cost of loco
motive repairs on the Southern Pacific
increased to $5777,667 in 1907. The average
for the six years of Hartman manage
ment is $4.s75.2S Against cost for re-
pairs of $2666 upper locomotive in 1902,
there is cost of $s3S1 in 1907. In the six
years the average annual charge for To-
comotives sent to the scrap heap was
$2s1, ,Sl2. From 1902 to 1907 repairs of pas
senger cars average nearly $l500.00O. and