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HORSE CAR WAR
IS INTENDED TO
END MONOPOLY
Legal Proceedings to Forfeit
Charter Proposed by Public
Ownership Association
Service Like That From Sutter
Street to Ferry Already
Condemned by Court
The attempt of the United Railroads
'.o prevent the construction of the
Geary street road is to he met today
by a counter effort to drive the com
pany's horse car from lower Market
The challenge to war from the trac
tion monopoly has been accepted with
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an alacrity that has amazed the cor
poration officials. They counted upon
a passive community, silently observ
ing their efforts to strangle the Geary
line in its cradle. Instead they have
but pulled the triggers of the enemy's
rifles.
Before the public utilities commit
tee today the United Railroads will
plead for the right to operate its Sut
ler street cars to the ferry. It will
«sk this privilege at the same time
that, its attorneys are preparing the
legal papers intended to keep the city
from building the Geary street line.
IVAVF IHAXCHISE FORFEITED
Representatives of the Public Owner
ship association will be in attendance
at the meeting and they will request
that instead of allowing the Sutter
street cars to run to the ferry, the
supervisors institute proceedings for
the forfeiture of the horse car fran
chise in lower Market street.
The request to the supervisors will
he based on the case of the old Bush
street line which maintained a single
car for the purpose of holding a fran
chise. The case was taken to the
eupreme court and in an opinion writ
ten by Justice Temple it was held that
the franchise was forfeit for nonuser.
The *ourt ruled that a single car did
not constitute a service as intended in
the terms of the permit.
COIRT ACAI.VST A SHAM
The language used in that decision
follows:
"The circumstances show conclu
sively that the franchise was held not
to convenience the public and to facili
tate travel, but to prevent the facilities
Jor travel, and thus force patronage
Vpon the Sutter street 4ine."
Discussing this feature of the case,
Justice Temple said further:
"The board of supervisors has the
cower to grant such franchises in the
Interest of the public and to facilitate
travel. The pretense of running was
clearly a sham. It was not intended
thereby to accommodate the public, and
it would have no effect in that direc
tion."
It is contended that the Sutter fran
chise in Market street presents an ex
act parallel. Only two horse cars have
been maintained; part of the time but
one. It is argued that the object is not
to give service, but to force passengers
to transfer to the electric cars in Mar
ket street.
CITY'S RIGHTS UPHELD
in the Bush «treet case the court
laid down the principle that a munici
pality cannot waive its right to bring
proceedings to quash a franchise.
Nothing the United Railroads might at
tempt at this time, therefore, would
affect the cJty's right to attack the
franchise.
W'Uh the Sutter street permit com
pletely eliminated the way would be
cleared for the Gearj- road beyond the
possibility of argument.
The suit against the Geary street
road will be begun in a few days by
Attorney W. I. Brobeck. He stated
yesterday that there was already suf-
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"C ALL" WANT ADS
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The classified columns of
The Call grow more popular
every day. They . bring sure
results to those who intelli-
gently advertise in them. For
room*, apartments, fiat* and
hounea'to let, and for olty or
country property for Male,
they place the advertiser in
touch with a nubntantlal. re-
liable clana of people possible
through no other medium;
Dancing Clubs Celebrate
Victory in Baseball Game
Two girls who were guests at the banquet given to the Seminole cotillon |
Club. ;'iS-'il*£\ : 3\ I
ficient basis for the commencement of
the action.
"A basis has already been laid," said
Brobeck, "for the filing of a suit. The
supervisors have taken the preliminary
steps looking to the sale of the bonds,
and that is all that is necessary for
the pu/poses of a suit. I have not had
sufficient time to draw up the papers,
but I will get at it as soon as possible.
TK!*T FOR 3II.VICIPAI/ I-I.VE
"The test will be chiefly along the
lines previously indicated. It will in
volve the right of a municipality to
enter v into the street car business and
will bring into consideration other
franchises in Geary street. We will
bring the action on the broader issues
and will not rely on petty technicali
ties."
The meeting of the public utilities
committee this afternoon will be
fraught with special significance. The
issue will be Xhe lower Market street
permit, but the Geary street road will
be the subject of chief consideration.
When the terms of the lower Market
street franchise come up for discussion
the Public ownership association will
offer special clauses designed to pro
tect the rights of • the Geary street
road.
LIMITATION* FOR PERMIT
Here are two of the sections that
the association will ask to have in
serted in any grant that may be made
for lower Market street:
1. The granting of this permit
.and privilege Is on the express
condition that neither said permit
and privilege or the use thereof
by said Sutter street railway com
pany or any lessee or agent or suc
cessor of said Sutter street railway
company shall In any way inter
fere with the use of said Market
street, and any and all railway
tracks in said Market street or in
any part of said city and county
by the city and county of San
Francisco, or by any lessee or agent
of said city and county of San
Francisco in the operation of any
street railway or railways. v.N;
2. This permit and privilege is
granted and received on the ex
press condition that any and all
tracks of said Sutter street rail
way company in said Market street
may be used at any and all times
by said city and county or any
lessee or agent of said city and
county of San Francisco in the
operation of an.^ street railway or
railways in said city and county
of San Rranclsco.
OTHER FRANCHISES ATTACKED
The attack will not be confined to
the Sutter street extension, but will
include also oth*>r franchises which are
declared to have been forfeited by non
use. A petition presented to the board
of supervisors by the Public ownership
association requests that the attorney
general be called upon to institute the
necessary proceedings. The streets
specifically named in this regard are
Market and Hayes.
The Gough street franchise has also
developed an acute issue through the
failure of the United Railroads to bid
for It in Its own name. It has sought
the permit in the name of A. J. Pon.
The former board of supervisors de
clined to grant the crosstown fran
chise which was applied for in the
name of W. B. Willcutt. It is stated
that many members of the present
board are averse to granting fran
chises to any but the actual users.
WILL URGE CONGRESS
TO BUILD SUBTREASURY
Commercial Organizations of
City Prepare Memorial
To urge upon congress the necessity
of passing the bills introduced by Con
gressman Julius Kahn . and Senator
Perkins providing appropriation to
subtreasury here, . six of San "Fran
cisco's- most prominent organizations
have prepared a memorial that will be
sent to every representative and sena
tor. It presents the need of a sub
treasury here in forceful manner.
The' chamber -of commerce, Mer
chants' association, Merchants' ex
change. North Central improvement
association and San Francisco board of
trade Join in presenting the memorial.
One of the. arguments advanced- by
the associations is that in ; November
and December of 1908 the government
paid' $272,500 for shipping away coin
for which room could not be found In
the present inadequate .subtreasury
shack. : . . .
MARQUIS FOLLOWS THE
EXAMPLE OF HIS FATHER
Parent Toured Palestine and
Had Heart Sent There
The marquis of Bute, who is about
to travel with' the marchioness through
Italy, and the holy land, is thereby fol
lowing the example* of his. late father,
who, soon after his majority '.and sub 7
sequent - reception into the Roman
Catholic church, proceeded to Rome and
thence to Palestine,- says the "Westmin
ster Gazette. By his special; -wish his
heart was Inclosed in a casket and con
veyed to the holy land, after his: death,
by the dowager marchioness.' The late
peer likewise purchased extensive es
tates in Palestine, in the development
of which an active interest' 1* mani
fested by his. heirs.
MORE ACRES IN YORKSHIRE
THAN LETTERS INEDIBLE
It has sometimes, been stated that
there are more, acres . in Yorkshire :than
there "are letters, in- the bible. r'A per
son hearing the statement; for the first
time is Inclined '{to ".doubt it, but, as
various correspondents ' of : Notes and
Queries show, It is \u25a0, true all the same.'
Authorities differ,; as to the; exact' acre
age, of the county, one, ffivingit : as
3.882,848 and another; as 3.771.843. But
the number of letters; in the /bible
is said to' br 3.566,480," so . the .acres
brat the letters', with something to
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.' WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1910.
FIGHT RAGES OVER
GRASS ON GRAVES
San Rafael Divided Over Pro=
posal to Exclude Flowers
From Cemetery
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Will the plats in the Mount Tamal
pais cemetery in San Rafael be laid out
in methodical order and planted in
lawn so as to give a symmetrical effect
to the scenic setting of the whole, or
will the graves continue to be ar
' ranged with flowers or foliage or
monuments and lawn to suit the fancy
of the individual owners? f'vh
These questions are among those
that are rendering asunder the ties
that bind those of the social elect who
make San Rafael their home. The Dv
Bois family and their friends, head the
one faction, while the Boyds, Fosters,
Pages, Tollivers and others lead the
opposition forces.
TIME INTENSIFIES FIGHT
The fight began some months ago
and instead of cooling with the lapse
of time has increased in fury until now
the whole of San Rafael seems likely
to become involved. The cemetery was
the property of fhe late Dr. Henry
Dv Bois. Since his death it has been
under the control of his son, Ernest
Dv Bois.
Young Dv Bois has an artist's ' eye
and the lack of symmetry in the ceme
tery has offended his taste. He argues
that flowers of every hue and the
irregularity of their arrangement spoils
the landscape and desecrates the bury
ing ground.
These opinions he expressed some
time ago to the owners of the differ
ent plats, with the suggestion that
tl.ey should permit the restoration of
the oemetery under his personal super
vision. His idea is that grass alone
should cover the last, resting, places of
the dead of Marin county.
PI.AT OWNERS SATISFIED
The owners of the various plats de
murred. They were content with their
owr arrangements. All the Protestants
of San Rafael have a personal interest
in the cemetery. Nearly every family
has a plat or vault there with one or
more of their relations at rest. It 1b
the cemetery identified with the early
history of San Rafael and many well
known names are on the tombstones.
Dv Bois wants to stand his ground
and regulate the cemetery according
to his own ideas. The plat owners con
tinue to object, and one of the gravest
subjects that has stirred up San Rafael
and its prominent social lights for a
long while is. Who shall control the
cemetery?
SPOT WHERE KIT CARSON
DIED TO BE PRESERVED
Colorado D. A. ; R. Secure Site
for Museum,
Work of restoring the ancient, tum
bledown building at old Fort- Lyons,
now the United States naval sana
torium, where Kit Carson, greatest of
western scouts, died, has been com
menced,, and .within the- next two or
three months it will \be turned over
to the Daughters of the A'merlcan
Revolution of Colorado for a museum,
says, the Denver News.
The restoration wil 1 bring It- back to
its original condition in practically
every detail and give to the, state one
of the most historic landmarks which
it possesses. \u25a0 • -. '
It is an old stone house, warped and
weather beaten, but in such condition
that it can easily be restored. It stands
almost in the center of the big group of
buildings at the naval sanatorium, and
tho men In. charge of that institution
are taking deep Interest in the work, jj
i -It is quite. likely.. that when the res
toration/is completed it will /be dedi
cated with appropriate ceremony by the
Daughters. Already. an effort is on foot
to collect, relics of- Carson's day, par
ticularly artfcles helonging to him per
sonally, and a pistol and inkstand have
been secured as a nucleus.
Originally the little old «tone,building
whs the v niedical "headejuarters of tlie
fort, and Carson; had been taken there
from 1 his, home Vat' Boggsvijle. some
miles from; Lyons; 1 , a"' very \u25a0 sick man.
The onlyVpersons with him when he
died were Doctor. '.Tiltbn,' medical officer
of the post: First Sergeant' Luke" Cahill
aril a hospital- steward' whose "name Is
now forgotten,' and of. this trio the only
one -living. is Luke CahiH, a resident of
Los Anlmas. . . r
IlniiriMflmeftt Bat hs lv the World
.rhe-Lurllne Baths, Bush and Larkin
streets,- in the heart of the* city; cost
nearly $200,000. -" Ocean «, salt : water, fil
tered in sanitary 'filtration plant, in tub
baths and swimming pools. • Open even
ings. -.Visitors, are* welcome.
SARDINES ABE' SEIZED— Boston. Feb. 22— A
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BANQUET GIVEN TO
SEMINOLE COTILLON
L'Allegrq Dancing Club Enter*
tains Victors in Annual
Football Game
Rival Organizations Share Re=
past With Equal Number
of Girl Friends
In celebration of their victory in~ the
annual baseball game, the members of
the Seminole cotillon club were enter
tained.at dinner last evening by the
losing rival 'l'Allegro dancing club, at
the St. Francis. The "victors -had the
privilege of inviting an equal number
of young women, which privilege was
also shared by the losers. The banquet,
in the red room, presented a scene of
color and animation in ; consequence.
After th eelaborate menu was served
a number responded to toasts. . • '
AVIATION HOTEL IS
LATEST CHICAGO WRINKLE
Chicago will have the first hotel avi
ation station in the world. It will be
drome No. 1 on top of a new hotel.
Air travelers will be cared . for just
as automobilists are. Droming. the
hotel owners believe, is the sport of the
present with the man up to'the minute.
And drome No. 1 will provide all the
comforts of air and earth up. with the
birds, 20 stories above Michigan avenue,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean. *
When dromers come" in from a trans
continental trip at the rate of a couple
of hundred miles an hour and pick out
a good place to land, they will see
"drome No. 1" glare at them from the
top of the hotel, and naturally that is
where they will go.
When their dromes glide up to the
top of the hotel they will be met by a
flunky, who will direct the dromer to
the proper landing stage, where' the
traveler may dismount, have his ma
chine run into a compartment of the
storage room, where It will be fur
bished and the motor ppwer,.replenlshed
while the drome clerk takes charge of
the 'guest and does the same honors at
the upper end of the hostelry as the
chief clerk pulls off down at -the earth
end of the structure. •
There will be provision for 50 per
sons in this sky parlor, arid if the air
business should*be good it will be en
larged to care for several hundred.
It is built not only for the present,
but with a view of caring for the drom
ing guests of the near future. Tha air
sport will be as popular, although per
haps more exclusive, than automobil
ing.
• There probably will be drome parties
and dromers calling on' guests and par
ties droming over to dine in the sky
cafe and- droming home again.
Of course there will be anchorage
points for the dirigibles and swinging
bridges and ladders to ' take off the
passengers. There will be gas machines
to blow them up and a windlass to pull
them down. As business grows and the
air traffic gets heavy drome No. 1 will
be developed and new fixtures and ap
pliances will be Installed to keep pace
with the times. '
PAY WHEN YOU HAVE TO
VS. PAY AS YOU ENTER
One of the old fashioned- pay when
you have to cars was creeping up Third
avenue in the Bronx the other day. when
a stout, prosperous looking old man,
whose coat had been ripped up the back
in his attempts to transfer from the
subway to the Third avenue elevated at
One* Hundred and Forty-ninth .street,
got into the car and satdown. He was
a genial looking old man, but in his
eye was a wild longing for revenge,
says the New York World.
The' conductor came along and col
lected a 5 cent fare. Pretty, soon a
crowd of people got in and the con
ductor collected from them and then
went to the old man again and held out
his hand. \\
\u25a0 ."\ paid my fare," said the old man.
""No, you didn't, : r know your kind.
That sort of thing doesn't go on this
car. You pay your fare or get off." .
The old man argued that he had, held
his temper and nursed" the discussion
along to a point when the conductor
stopped the car and said, "Pay or get
off," and, looked at. the motorman for
help. ' •
The car was quiet, and every one was
listening tothe dispuie. Suddenly the
old man dived into nis pocket, pulled
out a quarter and handed it to the con
ductor, who offered 20 cents change.
."No. no! Yojj keep that. It will make
it unnecessary for you to come around
four, times more to me!" said the pas
senger good naturedly. The conductor
turned red, Insisted that the old man
take the money, but the passenger hid
his head in a newspaper and paid-no
more attention to him. The conductor
retired to : the back platform" looking
very uncomfortable. : \u25a0\u25a0
' "I wish they'd get one. o" them pay as
you enter cars on this line," muttered
the old man. - . . < .
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THE Mill Valley and Mount Tamal
pals railroad is not in the market
for" an aeroplane. Such is the ul
timatum of C. F. Runyon, president of
the road,' who recently offered a prize
of $1,000 to the French aviators if they
would fly from San Francisco and
land on the summit of the mountain.
Runyon received a proposal from a
wouldbe aviator in Napa asking that
the railroad purchase a machine and
offering to make all the flights in the
interest of the road. His proposal in
cluded a trip to Paris to purchase a
machine and a $15,000 life insurance
policy, of 'which the company was to
be. made the beneficiary.
Although Runyon's offer was bona
fide, he declares that he is not in the
market for a machine. He says that
he is running a railroad and that the
thought. of competition from flying ma
chines lias never entered his mind.
• * •
J Jay "VW Adams, Pacific coast passen
ger agent of the Xick*J Plate, is in the
southern part of the state.
• • •
Unquestionably the automobile indus
try has given to "railroads in the traffic
created a big and profitable business.
Concerning this some statements maDe
by J. S. Marvin, general traffic man
ager of the three manufacturing or
ganizations, presents some /acts quite
as. interesting to those engaged in han
dling the transportation end as to the
general public, particularly those who
e»joy the pleasure of automobiling.
Marvin :says:
The carriers have profited largely
by the development of the automo
bile industry in thiscountry. They
naturally profit by the success and
' \u25a0 extensive shipment of any indus
1 try, but this one is exceptionally
. productive of revenue for the rail
' roads. ' \u25a0
An automobile , factory will pay
the carriers for ;from five to ten
times as many freight cars, and at
much higher rates than a factory,
producing an equal number of horse
drawn vehicles. It is expected that
something like 100,000 carloads will
leave, the factories this season.
These shipments, of course, origi
nate'over a scattered territory and-
move to all parts of the country:
but if New York to Chicago could .
ft be considered the average distance
hauled »it would indicate - that the
carriers would earn about $5,000,000
on -them. Taking -Detroit to Chi
cago as the average distance, the
carriers -would earn about $6,000.-
000. The factories that produce In
, large quantities give the carriers
each day for a considerable part of
the year enough loaded cars to
make up a good sized freight train.
In "-".addition to the machines
shipped direct from the factories,
the \u25a0 railroads carry thousands of
shipments to and from races and
exhibitions, second hand machines
\u25a0 Salt Water Bnths
Are Invigorating, keep* the system in
good trim. The Lurllne Baths, Bush
and* Larkin \u25a0 streets. . Salt' water direct
from the ocean. Tub". baths, swimming
pool. Turkish and electric baths and
massage. Open evenings. -\
sold and shipments made by owners
and tourists.
Thousands of tons of coal, mate
rial and supplies are hauled monthly
to the factories by railroads, and
hundreds of other factories en
gaged in the manufacture of parts
and sundries are supported, all pro
ducers for the carriers. The ex
press companies have done an im
mense business with the automo
bile factories, amounting to about
*j $1,000,000 a year, a large part . of
which is in factory supplies and
.sundries. Hundreds of thousands
of travelers use the passenger serv- •
ice annualjy through their interest
in exhibitions, races, etc., occa
sioned by this industry.
The total amount of money in
vested and kept In circulation is
enormous and has created business
for the carriers in every depart
ment of their service. "Statistics
. show that about half of those who
entered the manufacturing field"
have left !t. To those who have
persevere*! and remained the rail
roads are indebted for an immense
addition to their high class busi
ness within the last 10 years.
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C. W. Colby, general agent of the
Erie, returned yesterday from the
north, where he has been for the last
-.-L.cc Kicholtz, city passenger agent of
the Illinois Central, who has been ill
at his home with scarlet fever, is re
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N Price 25 centaat-alldrusitsts. SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE
ported to have passed the critical stag?
although it will be several weeks be
fore he will be able to return to his
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The management of the St. Paul has
decided to enter still more largely into
the business of building its tars and
locomotives. The experiment which the
company has made in this line has in
terested both the railway and the
financial worlds. Last ypar the com
pany built 5.655 cars in "itn Milwaukee
shops and 90 locomotives. On an aver
age. 5.612 persons were engaged in the>
shops and the annual' payroll reached
over $3,300,000.
The Great Northern railway will
spend $2,500,000 this year In improvins
its system In the state of Washington,
and especially the line through the
Cascade mountains. The most important
piece of work will be clearing the land *
for a distance of 500 feet on either side
of the right of way between Scenic Hot
Springs and the Cascade tunnel. A
great deal of difficulty has been caused
by obstructions rolling on the track
from the mountain sides, and the road
intends to do away with this danger by
clearing everything off the land ad
joining road in the dangerous
places. A large amount also will be
spent In building new sidings, addi
tional double tracks and new passenger
stations.
