Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-05

7 OS ANGELES will have a union
railway station If the chamber of
IL commerce committee which has
the subject in charge is able to carry
out its determination to bring the rail-
way chiefs to a realization that the
city needs such depot, and needs 1t
now.
Members of the committee conferred
for an hour with Judge Robert S. Low
ett president of the Southern Pacific,
last evening at his apartments IN the
Alexandria hotel, and departed con-
vinced that Mr. Lovett will act soon,
and that what is uppermost in his
mind now is what Is most available
| for a new station-union or otherwise.
Those in the party who conferred
with President Lovett were F.. w.
Blanchard. chairman of the union sta
tion committee OF the chamber of COM
merce; Arthur Let's and Robert Marsh
of the committee, and John w Mitchell,
representing the Municipal Art COM
mission.
MAY BUILD ON ARCADE SITE
Officials close to Mr.. Lovett yester-
day declared that the Hartman chief
had decided against abandoning the
Fifth street site, and would proceed
with the erection of a depot adequate
to the needs of the railway and the city
on the present location of the anti
quated Arcade structure. Whether the
Santa Fe and Salt Lake can make ar
rangements by which they will COM
bine with the Southern Pacific in the
use of the new station, or whether rep
resentatives of the city's great civic
and commercial bodies can persuade all
the roads to unite on the Fifth street
site, probably will not be known until
after Mr.. Lovett's conference with
President Ripley of the Santa Fe,
which viii be held in San Francisco
the latter part of this week.
In impetus to the union station move
ment was given last night by Former
Senator w. A. Clark, president of the
San Pedro. Los Angeles & Salt Lake
railway, who in a statement to a Her
aid reporter said he believed a union
depot, provided satisfactory arrange
ments could be made by the railroads,
would be advisable, and also expressed
the belief that common depot would
be the more economical. President
Clark further stated that in case the
Santa Fe railway does not join in the
union station project he would favor
station to be used by the Southern Pa
cific and the Salt Lake lines
COMMITTEE Is ENCOURAGED
F. w. Blanchard. chairman of the
committee which conferred with Presi-
dent Lovett, was optimistic last night.
president Lovett undoubtedly re-
allies that Los Angeles needs better
railway station" said Mr.. Blanchard,
"and he virtually admitted that the
great traffic of the Southern Pacific
would warrant a depot to cost between
100000 and 100000 We feel very
much encouraged and while Mr.. Lovett
did not commit himself regarding the
union station project, and probably will
not do so until after his conference
with President Ripley of the Santa Fe,
we know that he is considering the
subject, and today he passed large
part of the day investigating the propo-
sition. The committee intends TO do
everything in it's power to bring the
union station dream of many years to
a sseedy realization. If union station
is to be built in Los Angeles, now is
the time-before one road builds an In
dependent depot"
Former Senator Clark, president of
the Salt Lake railroad, in an interview
last night at the home of his brother,
7 Ross Clark, 10 West Adams street,
said he favored a union depot for Los
Angeles, providing satisfactory ar
rangements could be made between the
three railroad ompanies-Southern Pa
cific. Santa Fe and Salt Lake. "It
would not only be beneficial to the
CITY" said the senator, "but it would be
cheaper for the railroads. 1t is a
weighty subject to decide on hastily,
because of the varied interests of the
railroads involved, and the result of
nv conference with Judge Lovett this
week remains to be seen. / would
favor, however, at least two of the
roads consolidating in union depot
if the other held out. The Santa Fe
already has good quarters and is well
equipped in it's present location to
handle it's business"
CLARK SAYS DEPOT NEEDED
"Los Angeles. said Mr.. Clark, sis
going to be a tremendous metropolitan
center. This city is at the door of the
orient and it's proximity to the Panama
canal and South American markets is
going to balance the oriental trade
evenly for Los Angeles against her
northern competitors. Not the least to