Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-30
CABLE CAR CHANGES,
A New Time Card to Go
Into Effect.
A LATE CAR FROM TOWN.
A Better Service All Around Prom
ised-New Checking
System.
A LATE CAR FROM TOWN.

/ A Dlg change will take place on the 1sl
OF January in the operations of the cable
car system in this city. On the LIST q
December there arrived in town a gentle
man named Mr.. ]. G. Robinson. who
armed with authority from the Chicago
syndicate proceeded to place himself in
the position of Superintendent Of the
lines here. He established an Office At
the car stables, on the corner
OF Twelfth and Olive streets, and
at once set to work mapping out
improvements both as to the internal
workings of the lines and their accommo-
dations to the public. As one outcome
OF his labors, on New Years morning a
new time schedule will be placed in
operation all over the system. In Mr..
Robinson's opinion the three trunk lines.
that is, the Olive street and Downey
avenue, the Washington street and Tenn
pie block and the Ninth street and
Downey avenue (better known as the
Sixth-street line) were not running cars
late enough to meet the requirements of
pleasure-seekers and arrivals on late
trains, so in future cars over those roads
will run as follows:
On the Washington street and Temple
Block line-Leaving the Washington
street depot at 5 800 A. NJ. and running
until 10 40 P. M. Leaving the Temble
Block at 80 A. NJ. and running until
IL :20P. N.
On the Olive street and Downey ave-
nue. hne-Leaving the Olive-street
stables at 5:32 A. M. and running until
IL :22 P. M. Leaving the Downey-ave-
nue. bridge at 6:l5 A. M. and running
until IL :05 Am.
On the Ninth street and Downey ave-
nue. line (the mule line e)-Leaving Ninth
street at $50 A. M. and running until
9: 40 p. NJ. Leaving the Pritchard street
East Los Angeles terminus at 6 A. M. and
running until 10 :1OP.M.
On the Boyle Heights and Arcadia
street line-Leaving the Boyle Heights
depot at 6 A. M. and running until 1OP.
M. Leaving Arcadia street at 6 80 A. n.
and running until 10 :3OP.M
On the Kuhrts street and Plaza line .
car will leave the Plaza at 6 rs A. NJ, and
a twenty-five minute service will run
until 8 20 P. M. On this line passengers
will be transferred south.
Under this new arrangement the cars
are timed 30 as to make the Temple
block the central point of the system
with all the lines radiating therefrom, and
three cars each way will leave that
point every ten minutes during
the business part of lAs day.
The advantages of having q ca leaving
the Temple block for the Olive street
stables at 1925 midnight, is boon that
those who live along the route will
greatly appreciate. At the present time
the company has fifty cars in use in this
city and those apportioned to each Sec
ton will be painted in distinguishing
colors. From now on it is proposed to
give the public service that can be
relied on for regularity and punctuality
and only competent drivers and courte-
GUS conductors will be permitted in the
company's ploy. Time cards showing
the changes will be made placed in
every car, and will be in effect until the
cables commence running. Mr.. Robin
son says that unless the weather proves
too great blockade, the cable cars will
be in operation in three or four months,
as the company is determined to leave
no stone unturned until this important
piece of work is completed. Some more
big. changes will take place when the
cables start Mr.. Robinson contemplates
putting number of double-deck cars
on the road, that is with seats
on top, and those who have
ever travelled in this manner can readily
surmise what treat is in store. The
Buena Vista Street Line, the section on
DAILY street and those thoroughfares not
marked by the cable, but along which
horse cars are now running, will have as
good service as at the present time, for
the horses will be kept and the cars
carried up to the cable cars and then
attached to them. There is no doubt
that the cable company anticipates ulti-
mately gaining possession of all the
street-car lines in the city, but they
will do nothing in the matter of
securing them until they have
disposed of the work already on hand.
Mr.. G. B. Holmes, who engineered the
deal which transferred the cars to the
Chicago syndicate, and who is General
manager Of all the lines controlled from
the Lake City, will be in Los Angeles
next month and will personally look into
the present status of the situation. He
has sent an able representative ahead,
however, III Mr. hOpln6On, VINO mas Deen
identified with streetcars since 1859,
and who made himself famous in the
scientific world as the man who success
fully engineered and placed in operation
the cable railway on Highgate Hill,
London, the pioneer cable line in Great
Britain. He has also built car lines ia
Edinburgh and a number of other Euro
pean cities, and is gentleman of world
wide experience and thoroughly prac-
tical in everything. Another new
feature that he will introduce on the
lines here is system of checking the
conductors. A blank form will be
placed in prominent position in each
car, and on it the conductor will have to
register the fares as he takes them. This
system is Mr.. Robison's invention, and
has been introduced on twenty-five
roads with perfect satisfaction in every
instance. It is considered far better
check than the bell-punch, as it permits
of no concealment from any one in the
car.
G0mea Rm m ming.