Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-09

ten pounds below the scale. and call the
longer of these races the Baldwin cup.
Lucky has always been an earnest
votary of long races and won a dozen
events at this very distance with Lucky
b, Los Angeles and Volante, in the
years that have passed beyond recall
More than that, while long races do
not particularly please the trainers nor
the bookmakers. they can always be re-
lied upon to draw a big crowd.
Car System Inadequate
The only Objectionable feature of the
whole days sport was the utter inabil-
ity of the Pacific Electric railway system
to handle the crowd. With twenty eight
coaches punched in front of the gates at
once the progress was sure but slow
After the first three cars had pulled out
for town, every car occupied from twen-
ty-five to thirty minutes in getting from
the track gates to the main line that
runs to Morr ovia.
The writer boarded a car at 4:27 and
reached the corner of Los Angeles and
Commercial streets at Cos. There was
a blockade of at least a dozen big red
cars that could not get out of one an
others way. So he alighted at CONNER
cial. took a Tain street car south to
Second and transferred there to the
Washington street line.
The cars all went out in good shape
and reached the track on an average OF
forty minutes, but, after the first three
had left there, on the return. scarcely
a car made the trip in less than an hour
and half to the corner of First and Los
Angeles streets.
The ease and promptness with which
the Southern Pacific dispatched what 1t
had undertaken was in marked contrast
to the delays above mentioned. They
ran out only two trains. one at 1890 and
one at 1850, each containing eight
coaches and making the trip in thirty
minutes.
They run past the race track to
switch from which they back into the
spur leading up to the rear of the grand
stand, and when the train is once
emptied it is ready to start back to
town. If so desired.
would rot advise the Southern Pa
cific people to change their present
schedule during the week. as the attend
ance will rot be as large as it was on
the opening day, to certainty, but on
Saturday next, and on every Saturday
during the meeting, for that matter, 1
would suggest they run out four trains
of seven coaches each, at Ills. Has,
1880 and 1856, which would give much
better satisfaction.
The extra ten cents to and from the
Arcade depot is trife compared with
the annoyances to which the trolley pas
sengers are subjected. I believe the
Huntington employees did all in their
power to serve the public. but the turn
from Los -.ngeles street into First and
from First into Main is very serious
handicap to the big red cars; and one
which those suburban lines will never be
able to overcome until some new way is
found for reaching the Pacific Electric
building.
I am aware that the Pacific Electric
charge only the fare usually paid to and
from Pasadena for carrying people to
Arcadia, twice the Pasadena distance,
so they are entitled to some considera-
tion on that account; and l am the last
man in Los Angeles to write unkindly of
any persons managing great public util-
tiles. If l can see, on their part, the
slightest endeavor to give the travelling
public such accommodation as their
money demands