Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-13
THEY WILL WALK
The People Along the Sec
Ond-Street Cable Line.
1T SHUTS DOWN INDEFINITELY.
Hard Times the Cause Assigned by
the Management-A History
of the Road.

The people living out on Second stree
in the direction of the hills, who wish tc
attend church this morning, will have
the pleasure Of walking, a. the street cal
line will be found to be imperative. The
citizens of this locality have been unfa.
vorably disposed toward the Second.
street line for some time. At intervals
they make pilgrimages to the newspaper
offices and beg that ito managers be
chided for their many shortcomings.
Now that the road has SHUT down, its
popularity is in no wise likely to in
crease.
No one can cay how long the tie.up
will last, because no one can say when
the causes of it can be removed. What
are these causes? The management de.
clare that it is. because the road has been
operated for some time at dead loss.
The public generally believes it is be-
cause the road wishes to force the Coun-
Gil to more satisfactory and epeediar &C.
ton in the matter of the franchise de-
msnded by the road.
Mr.. S@aine, the General Manager of
the road, was seen last evening by a rep.
resentative of this paper. After express
ing, in rather vigorous terms, his dis
content at the treatment which the com
pany had received from several of the
newspapers in this city, and the HERALD
in particular, he said: "The cars will
stop running Sunday morning, and |
cannot state when they will start up
again. Our sole reason for this action is
that the road is not paying. 1t runs at a
dead loss with business which con-
stantly grows worse instead of better.
These last few weeks it has fallen
off to trihing figure. None
of the roads of the city are doing
well, and we have suffered with the
rest"
1t was suggested that the city was fill
ing up with people pretty rapidly, and
all other lines of business on the mend,
and that the new cable lines were doing
excellent business.
"Well," said he, "I will Lot under
take to speak for the rest, but the fact
remains that we are doing very unsat-
isfactory business. We do not consider.
moreover, that we have been fairly dealt
with. The Injunction from the court
has stopped our Cahuenga line and cut
off our traffic in that direction. The
franchise which We applied for out Dia.
mond street was at first fought by the
people in that locality, and when we
presented the petition with signatures
covering the required amount of frontage
nothing was done about it by the Coun-
Gil. From the attitude they have taken
it looks as though they were not inclined
to give us what we need. These things
have combined to cripple the business of
the road, and unless it grows better we
shall not continue to run cars"
The Second-street cable line is owned
by James Mclaughlin. 1t was built
several years ago by the Los Angeles
improvement Company assisted by
general subscription of the property
owners of the southern hill section. It
was currently reported that Mr.. Hollen-
beck, for example, subscribed $40, 900 to
the fund. The building of the road did
great deal to develop property in the
locality through which it passed. About
two years ago it came into the possession
OF Mr.. Mclaughlin. A street car fran.
chise was obtained from Diamond and
Belmont avenue (formsrly Texas street,
where the road terminated, along Bel
mont avenue to Temple street, and out
Temple to Burtz, back to Diamond
and out Of the city limits by the latter
street into the Cahuenga valley. A
dummy line was run over all of the road,
contrary to the statutes of the State,
which forbid steam dummy lines
from running inside of the limits of any
city. The dummy line was tolerated until
recently and then ipjunctions were
served. The road appealed from the de-
cision of Judge Clarke to the Supreme
Court and asked for stay of proceed
ings in the meantime. This motion
came up last Friday and the application
was denied. This effectually stopped
the operation of the Cahuenga line. Mr..
Swaine says that there was an under
standing that no further injunctions were
to be served while this road was not run
ming last week, and that contrary to the
agreement, they were served and the
road put to unnecessary expense and
trouble.
The road some time ago asked the
Council for franchise for q street.car
line out Diamond, from Belmont avenue
to Burtz, and also asked for a franchise
for steam railroad over the present
| Cahuenga valley road as far as it's inter-
section with Temple street, agreeing in
exchange to give up its present franchise
over Belmont avenue and Temple street.
The road fulfilled it's part of the agree-
ment and gave up it's franchise, but did
not receive the other in return, owing to
the veto of the Mayor. This is one of
the reasons why the road does not con-
slider that it has been fairly dealt with.
The people on the hill complain that
the road has not given them the accom-
modations to which they are entitled and
they base their opposition to its extern
sion on the ground that it involves the
continuance of the dummy nuisance.
They declare that they would be willing
to have the cable line extended, but that
they do not wish to have any part of the
steam line inside the city limits. In this
position they appear to be sustained by
the courts.
There will undoubtedly be great in
dignation among the residents OF this
portion of the city over the stoppage oi
the line. 1t would naturally be sup.
posed that the discontinuance of the
running OF the cars would cause the for
feiturs of the franchise, but this will moi
be the case--not, at least, until consid
erable time has elapsed.
Deputy Constable Arrested,
About s O'Clock last night Officer
Shannon arrested Deputy Constable A
Patterson on Also street and took hin
| to the Police Station, where he Wal