Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-07
MORE RAILWAY TROUBLES.

far wars for line of railway to the City
Cemetery. At last the City Railway Com
many resolved to build line to that place.
It began by running from K along Tenth, to
N. to Eleventh, to 0, when it was properly
refused permission to cross over the R-street
railroad grade and track, and had to take up
its line on n to Eleventh and Eleventh to o
street, and forfeit bonus considerations guar.
anteed to it by residents in that vicinity. II
then built on out Tenth street to o, and soon
after began and laid track from the City
Cemetery gate to the R-street grade on
Tenth street, where it had leave to cut the
embankment and pass under the railroad
track. This left only track-laying to be
done from y to K on Tenth street, and the
cutting OF the 25-foot tunnel. Last week
the company put on its plows and prepared
the road for the track from o to r street,
and the citizens began to congratulate them
selves over a line of railway to the city of
the dead at last. 1t appears, however, that
Tenth street, from o to r, it not yet raised
up to the official grade The company
put down its timbers ON the pres
ent or actual grade. Citizens on last
Monday appeared before the Board OF
| Trustees and asked the Board to order the
company to elevate the track to the line OF
the grade between K and o street, on Tenth,
and the Board at once made the order. The
company now has a disgust on, and swears
that obstacles have been placed in its path at
every step to accomplish what all the people
\ asked for that an arbitrary order was made
on Monday, and without postponement, as is
usual, for consideration, or full hearing of
| both sides; that its revenues have been ex-
! hausted, and other means largely invested in
new tracks and in practically rebuilding the
cars of the road, and in putting the whole line
into first-class ORDER and that now, as the last
straw, it is ordered that it practically, and at
| its own cost, grade Tenth street from o to r
| for the city. To run on the grade demanded,
says the company, will force it to build an
/ embankment in the middle of the street all
the way from two feet to three feet high and
some twenty feet broad, and to make fills at
street crossings, and to get good footing the
slopes will have to be broad at the base and
very gentle as well as solid, or else the track
will settle as teams drive on the edge of the
bank and wear it down. This will, therefore,
compel the company to almost grade and fill
in the street, and to this it objects and de-
clares it will throw up the right to build first
and take up the track already down and lose
all it has done there for the past two months
Indefense of this positionit is understood tosay
that if the street was already up to grade
and filed in. any railway company with the
right of way could lay upon that grade, and
no one would dream of asking it to pay for
the street filling beneath, and that the pres
ent demand is equivalent to forcing the COM
pany into exactly that position. When the
city orders the street up, the road then icing
in the street, it is understood it will willingly
come up to the grade and do its share of
keeping the street in order, and fulfill every
proper obligation, but it claims that to force
it to the high grade now is to compel it to
build and raise up street to an extent that
the law does not require of it. The case of
the citizens who presented the petition
will probably be now made more public.
At any rate, it looks as if the people
are about to be deprived of long desired
railway line, and many citizens openly ex-
press themselves as upholding the company,
and declaring that it was never the intention
of the law to make the City Railway, even
for few blocks, an elevated street railroad
but that while the street remains ungraded
the company ought to be permitted to run on
the same level as that on which teams are
driven through the street.
HOSPITAL REPoRT.-J. r. Lame, Superin-
tendent of the County Hospital, reports for
the month of April as follows: Number of
patients on April LIST, 1873; admitted, Al
discharged, "a died, 4 present. April Both,
| 12l. Meals furnished destitute applicants
and tramps, 800. The names, ages, nativ-
tiles and causes of death of the deceased are
John Fernando. 80, Chile. pneumonia John
Walter, 81, Switzerland, pneumonia and per-
icarditis; Thomas Hoadley, "A, New York,
paralysis and enlargement of the heart J.
g. Newman, 43, England, consumption.
| Current expense Salaries of Superintendent
and employees, $3.50; subsistence, 1851 II
incidental expenses, $40 As; total, 81, 69l IL.
Police CoURT.-In the Police Court yes
terday the charges of battery against Thomas
Kenney, Michael Thomas and Charles Lud-
wick and the charge of disturbing the peace
against D. F. Cummings were dismissed
Pat. Brannon's case of vagrancy was con-
tinued to this morning. John Miller was
sent to jail for twenty days for sleeping in a
freight car, and John Ramsey, Mike Haley
Thomas Decker, James Foley and George
Hagan, charged with the same offense, were
discharged. @. Welsh was fined 81 30 for
being drunk. James Johns, vagrant,
was sent to Jail for thirty days, and Dick
Reeves, charged with a misdemeanor, was
granted continuance to to-day.
PERSONAL. = Senator Davis came down
from Marysville yesterday, and departed
with his family for visit to New York. He
will also attend the Republican National
Convention, to which he is delegate E.
II. Miller, Jr, Secretary of the Central Pa
ciic Railroad Company, went East with his
daughter on the overland train yesterday. for
visit of few months. Ex-United States
Senator w. NJ. Gwin and his son, w. NJ
Gwin, Jr., are in the city, and the latter will
depart to-day for visit to the East. Dr. w.
| H. Hardness left yesterday for the East.
Henry c. Kirk and w. A. Dewey have gone
to the Sandwich Islands.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs P1cN1c.-To-morrow
the Sacramento Lodges of the benevolent o.
der of Knights of Pythias hold their annua
picnic at Tammany Grove, Davisville. Cars
leave the new depot at $50 A. ". Elsewhere
will be noticed announcement is made of the
hours and places for calls of express wagon:
for packages, and the latest hour given for &
call is 7:55 The knights have always had
good picnics, and this year the outlook is fol
a successful excursion. Prizes are to be
awarded for games on the grounds.
Excursion AND Picnic. = The twelfth
annual picnic and excursion of Sacramento
Stamm, U. o. r. NJ, will be held Sunday
This Tribe of the Order of Red Men vii
escort its friends to Natoma Grove Sunday
the 9th. There will be games, prizes, shoot
ing matches, etc. The train leaves the new
depot at 9 A. NJ, stopping at Front and [
streets and all way stations. Sacramento
Stamm has held many successful excursions
and this one promises to come up to the
standard.
FLOWER SALE-Sherburn & Smith will sell
at auction at 1890 A. NJ to-day, at old num-
Der lis street, between Fourth and Fifth
q large and varied collection of rare ant
beautiful plants from the celebrated nurserie!
of Jas Hutchinson, Oakland, comprising, in
part calceolarius, Cape jasmines, japanese
lilies, fuchsias in bloom, geraniums, magno
has, heliotropes, roses, coleus, bridal wreaths
lantanus, double petunias hanging baskets
and large variety of new and rare plants.
SALE OF REALTY AT AUcr1oS.-D. j
Simmons & Co. will sell to-day at the usua
hour, on the premises, two lots, and s. be
tween n and o, Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets, situated on the corner of Nineteenth
and o streets, on a line with the street rail
way, having three houses, with vacan
building lot on the corner. Also at the sam,
place, the household furniture of the family
CRY PROPERTY AT AUcTIoN.-Tuesda,
next at IL A. NJ, on the premises, d. J. Sim
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