Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
PREPARE TO RUSH
TOURISTS TO LA.
Washington Sunset Will Run Five
First Class Through
Trains a Week
WILL RECONSTRUCT OFFICES
General Agent PhikK. Gordon Is
Optimistic Over Prospects
of Coming Season

Beginning October the Washington
Sunset route VIII introduce an in
novation in railroad methods of hand
ling the tourist travel to Southern
California. This will be the running of
five trains a week, first class through
out, directly from Boston, New York
city, Washington, Atlanta, Ga, and
New Orleans to Los Angeles without
change of cars. The trains will be
made up at the different. stations men
toned and personally conducted to this
city, without the passengers going
through the customary car changing
process that is usually necessary.
The Washington Sunset route is also
planning to reconstruct it's local Of
fees to accommodate the increase Of
business which the new trains will
bring AS yet no site has been selected,
but within few days q selection will
be made and the offices opened.
The new trains will be personally
conducted the entire distance across the
continent, the roads officials having
set aside a special amount for the pur-
pose of keeping this feature of the
service up to the highest standard.
The trains themselves will consist
of first-class cars throughout, and it
is intended that they shall rival any
of the limited trains now running into
Los Angeles in point of equipment and
comfort.
Special Sunset route cars will be
operated out OF Boston, New York and
washington five days a week over the
lines affiliated with the Sunset to At
lanta. Here the entire train will be
made up and sent on across the con-
tinent via New Orleans and the South
ern Pacifc's southern route to Los
Angeles, the trains final destination.
GORDON OPTIMISTIC
Phil X. Gordon the recently ap-
pointed general agent for the Pacific
coast for. the Sunset route, was in Los
Angeles yesterday, making arrange
ments for the new offices to be estab-
lished here. When seen last evening at
the Alexandria Mr. Gordon expressed a
very optimistic view of the prospects
for a large tourist season during the
coming winter.
"The tourists will come into Los An
geles and Southern California this sea-
son as they have never come before"
said Mr.. Gordon at the Alexandria
last evening. have just returned from
a trip to New York and Chicago, and
actually it surprised me how many
people are planning a trip to California.
1t rather looks as If the east is about
to move west-for the time being at
least. And q lot of the tourists stay.
was speaking to a well-known at
torney in Chicago a few days ago, and
he complained to me of the fact That
so many people were leaving the middle
west for California.
why, we cannot build up the bar
rem places in some of our states he
said, because of California. The people
won't live in these places 1 speak of.
They must go west instead. I hope
California soon gets so crowded that
they have to come back and settle in
the middle west
"And that is the way it goes" con-
tinued Mr.. Gordon. Everyone is notic-
ing the movement toward this part
of the country and marveling at it.
1 see a great addition is being built to
this hotel. Well, it will be needed, and
possibly several more like it, with all
the people coming out here this year"
With the new service inaugurated,
Mr.. Gordon will return to San Fran
cisco, where he will make his head
quarters. He has appointed Grove Ket-
chum, former travelling passenger agent
for the Sunset route. to the office of
general passenger agent in Los Angeles,
and the latter will assume his new
duties at once