Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-29
BANKERS COMING
IN ELEVEN TRAINS
Eastern Delegates to Conven-
tion Make Elaborate Plan
for Trip to Coast
INTEND REMARKABLE JAUNT
Value of Cars Used in TTanSpor-
tation of FinanCiers Will
Reach a Million
INTEND REMARKABLE JAUNT


gates to the thirty-sixth annual con-
vention of the American Bankers as
ISOLATION, which will be held in Los
Angeles October to z, will arrive over
the Santa Fe, Salt Lake and Southern
Pacific routes Besides, there will be
many special cars bearing bankers at
tached to the regularly scheduled trains
of these roads.
Seven of the special trains will ar
rive over the Santa Fe route, four of
them being New York Central trains
of the luxurious Twentieth Century
Limited class. These trains will be
occupied by New York and New Eng
land bankers. who will be Joined en-
route by many bankers from the south
ern states. The schedule of arrival in
Los Angeles is as follows:
Train No. / will arrive tomorrow at
6:16 a. M; No. 2, Sunday, october 2, at
6:15 .. M; No 3, Sunday, October 2,
at 6:45 p. M; No. 4, Sunday, October
2, at p. m.
The routing of these trains was
planned by the New York State associ-
alton, through its president, Ledyard
Cogswell of Albany, and Charles Elliot
Warren of New York. chairman of the
committee on transportation and ar
rangements. The tour planned covers
1896 miles, arriving by the Santa F'e
route and returning by q northern
route. The special train equipment will
be retained throughout the entire jour
ney, lasting twenty-six days.
PROMINENT BANKERS COMING
Lewis E. Pierson of New York, presi-
dent of the American Bankers associ-
alton; Lee McClung, treasurer Of the
United States, one-time Yale's most
celebrated football player, and Law
renee o. Murray, comptroller of the
United States currency, will head the
party. These four trains left the Grand
Central station in New York Monday.
The New York Central has assigned
George w. Higgins as its personal rep
resentative who, with three assistants,
will have direction of the trains from
start to finish, under the auspices, how
ever, of the New York State Bankers
association.
This notable party Of fnanciers will
have at its disposal for almost one
month four baggage cars, four buffet
or gentleman's club cars, eight dining
cars, and twenty-six compartment and
drawing room sleeping cars, four of
which will be observation cars and
known as ladies' club cars. In all
there will be forty-two cars made up
in two trains Of ten cars each and TWO
trains of eleven cars each.
If these four trains were combined
1t would make one solid train more than
half a mile in length. The weight
would be 1888 tons, and represent
value of one million dollars.
To complete the circuit OF 1896 miles,
it will require Just 232 powerful loco
motives to move these trains over the
route as scheduled, not counting the
many double-headers to be used in
going over the mountains. To man
these engines a crew of 464 men will be
required. But the big force of railroad
employees comes when new train crew
s,aR4. ~ rtu4
In other words, every time engines are
changed each train will take on SUI
perintendent or assistant, a conductor
and two trainmen. For the 2S2 dtVls-
ions, therefore, no fewer than 1886 men
will respond.
Besides all these, there will be four
representatives Of the New York Cen
trail lines, four Pullman conductors,
eight dining car stewards, 112 cooks and
walters, eight skilled electricians, four
baggagemen, four BARRIERS and Wallets,
four ladies' maids, four stenographers,
thirty porters and twenty-eight repre-
sentatiVes of the seven roads over
which the trains will be carried. Alto
sether, 1929 railway employees will di-
rectly contribute their service to the
comfort and safety of the bankers
while they are en- route.
RED, WHITE, BLUE TRAINS
ing or lettering the trains, or hand
ling them under the old method by
s'sections," l.. E. Vosberg, general
passenger agent OF the New York
Central, has devised an idea for
designation by which his guests Will
be assigned to the white train" the
''blue train" and the "red train," or
the green train"
The trip is routed through eighteen
states and the most picturesque part
of the Canadian rockies. On the way
out the party will stop at the Grand
canyon of the Colorado, In Arizona
where many banker will for the
first time find himself short of super
latives in trying to describe this yawn-
ing freak of western nature.
Redlands, Riverside, Southern Cal
ifornia orange orchards, Catalina ISL
and, Santa Barbara, Del Monte, Santa
Cruz and the big tree forests, the
only living things today which survive
the flood, will all prove interesting
to the eastern bankers.
Returning the party will be the
guests of the chamber of commerce
at San Francisco, and after paying
their respects to Mount Shasta, which
rises 14440 feet above the level OF
wall street, they will go on to Port
land and Seattle to explore the Won
ders OF the northwest, and then to
Vancouver. .,
IT has been planned to take several
days in going down through the Cam
adian rockies, stopping at Banff and
other points In the Alberta and Sas-
Iratchewan country, dropping down In
10 North Dakota october 18 en- route TO
ST paul and Minneapolis, where stop
will be made at the latter point for
a trolley trip to Hotel Radisson ana
a luncheon.
The trip through Wisconsin, for the
most part, will be made in the day
time.
RAILROAD OFFICIALS BUSY
Another special train out of New
work. CITY will be delivered to the San
"a re bV the Pennsylvania lines, which
will arrive in this city Sunday evening
at a.30 O'Clock. The other two special
trains coming over this road are from
PbiladeIphia and Chicago. The Phila-
delnhia train will arrive Sunday at
9 IA n M. while the Chicago train ar
yives at o. m. on the same day; Ac,
,ordine TO estimates by local railroad
o6iciais. each of the specials VIII car
U.,iS. s..- On an average of 100 passengers.
IT w. Moses. city ticket agent tor
the santa Fe, left last nlght Ior a.
~, oueroue. New Mexico, where ne
.,s1i meet the first Of the special Trains
1rbe fourteen-car Union Pacinc spec
lai out Of Chicago, which VIII come III