Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-03
RAILROAD NEWS

Tonopah & Tidewater, returned yester-
day from a trip to Goldfeld and neigh
boring towns. While in Goldfeld Mr..
Alberger attended banquet given In
honor of ]. l.. Heeden, general manager
of the Tonopah G. Godfeld. Mr.. AL
berger left last night for San Francisco.
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Henry r Dorgeloh, Pacific coast man.
ager of the Hamburg american line, with
headquarters in San Francisco, Is In Los
Angeles on business connected win his
company. Mr.. Dorgeloh says, "The new
steamer President Grant. besides Secre-
tary Taft. will bring to the United States
64S0 passengers"
A. B. Lippincott, formerly of the Chi
cago & Northwestern, has succeeded Roy
c. Lippincott as city ticket agent of the
Great Northern. Mr.. Bryant has been
transferred to San Francisco as city pas
senger agent of the same lines
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The Beekman Tourist company of Bos-
ton opened a foreign department No
vember 20 and is now in position to fur
nish tickets and preferred accommoda-
lions via all transatlantic steamship
lines and foreign railroads.
S. A. Hutchison, manager of the tourist
department of the Chicago & Northwest
ern, with headquarters at Chicago left
Sunday night for his home city. While in
California Mr.. Hutchison has been Wis
idng the various hotels with a view of
securing accommodations for the tourists
the lines he represents will hiring TO lhls
coast this winter
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c. A. Thurston, general agent of the
Chicago & Northwestern, and ]. III. Pear
man assistant manager of the tourist
department of the same lines, left yes
terday for Goldfield and other mining
towns in Nevada The men expect to
be gone a week.
Messrs. James Murrin and E. N. John
son, tourist agents of the Chicago &
Northwestern. arrived in Los Angeles
yesterday with large parties of tourists
s. 7. Butler, formerly travelling freigh.
agent of the Grand Trunk lines, assumed
the position of city freight and passen-
ger agent of the Tonopah & Tidewater
yesterday. His headquarters will be in
Los Angeles.
Florence Roberts and party of twenty
five will arrive in Los Angeles tonight
over the Salt Lake. The party comes
from Salt Lake City.
1t is understood that q realignment of
great railroad interests is in the course
of formation as a result of the Hartmann
Fish controversy over control OF the
Illinois Central, says the New York
Herald. This is neither more nor ess
than an alliance between the Gould ra..-
way systems and the Illinois Central,
an offensive and defensive agreement in
the event that Stuyvesant Fish and his
n in a xyint IT,..z
Pacific interests ir the struggle for con-
troll of the Illinois central
In st. Louis, the Gould stronghold.
Missouri Pacific and Wabash security
holders are using their influence to in
duce Illinois Central stockholders who
have kept aloof from the contest to sup
port Mr.. Fish, on the argument that the
result would be a .4iendly connec. on
with the Illinois Central on the part of
the Gould lines, which would be bene-
fit to both systems.
In railroad circles in this c.. . the pro-
posed alliance is creating a great deal
of discussion, but opinions vary as to
the advantages that would be derived
therefrom. The Gould railway systems
for several years have been in a state
of isolation, owing to the antagonism of
the Standard Oil-Union Pacific Pennsyl-
vania railway combination. This oppo-
sition has cost the Gould lines vast sums
of money, more especially in the con-
struction of the Wabash-Pittsburg ter
minal enterprise and in the building of
the Western Pacific.
1t is also realized by Mr.. Fish and his
associates that if they can regain control
of the Illinois Central by preventing The
voting of the Union Pacific holdings at
the annual meeting that system will also
meet with antagorism on the part of the
Union Pacific combination.
1t has been stated that the Illinois
Central system receives from the Union
and Southern Pacific systems twice as
much business as it returns to them.
Much of this business would probably
be routed otherwise should the Union
Pacific lose its control of the other line
In that event an alliance between the
Gould lines and the Illinois Central might
prove an element of safety. The Illinois
Central would have the advantage of a
friendly connection with transcontinen'
tai road to the Pacific-namely, the west
ern Pacific, which is nearing completion,
In that event the most advantageous
points of exchange between the two sys-
TENS would be st. Louis and perhaps
Omaha and Chicago. On the other hand,
however. it is pointed out that the Illinois
Central and Missouri Pacific systems are
parallel lines between their most inn
portant points, Chicago. st. Louis, Omaha
and New Orleans. Furthermore, the
Missouri Pacific is also one of the chief
supports of the Wabash
When Mr.. Fish last March entered, the
Missouri Pacific board it was understood
that he had the idea of just such an
aIliance in view. He has since been made
a member of the executive committee Of
the Missouri Pacific and his relations
with the Gould interests are of the clos
est and friendliest.
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