The record-union., 1891-07-02
THE PROPOSED RAILWAY.
Views Of the Museum Directors on
the Subject.
They Prepare Memorial to the City
Trustees and the Company
It's Chief Points.

The Board of Directors of the California
Museum Association has adopted me-
mortal to the Trustees and forwarded a
copy to the Central Street Railway Com
pany upon the subject Of street railway
transportation. The points made by the
directory are, in brief, as follows:
That conformity with the city the board
administers the affairs of the Art Gallery
in the interest of the public. That the
| property Is worth vast sum of money
and that 1t is a source of pride and of
| great credit to the city
That the Central Street Railway Com
pany is to be applauded for offering to
construct line Of railway into the south
portion of the city.
That there is need for such a line, and
that, if built, will conserve public con-
venience and good, and will tend to en-
| hance values.
That the Trustees should use all proper
and honorable means to prevail upon
and aid such company to make its cross
connection with its proposed east and
west line by occupancy of Third street, in
order to reach its J-Street line, or if not
possible, then to occupy Second street for
| g like purpose.
That the memorial is addressed by copy
to the President and directory of said
railway company also, with a view of
Siio"lHS Sucn directory That such COn-
struction is to its advantage.
That the board does not wish to be con-
sidered as antagoniZing or objecting to
the right OF any other body of citizens to
| secure other routes Of construction, and it
| exercises only the same right that it con-
cedes belongs to others.
That line Of street railway crossing at
Tenth street, accommodates the larger
BODY OF people between Sixth street and
the whole region east, in reaching the
business section, but that a line along
Third street will accommodate not ONLY
all the people between Sixth street and
Third, but vast body of people below
Third street and south to the city limits.
That in the ward and section in which
is located the city's Art Gallery, there are
five thousand residents-that it is the
most thlckly settled area of the CITY.
mat 1t has now no railway connection
whatever with any other part of the city.
and that the whole north, northeast, and
east sections. are cut off from it by lack
OF cheap transportation.
That line of road to that section on
the southwest will treble or uuadrupIe
the attendance upon the Art Gallery.
Whlch, even without transportation, runs
from 700 to 800 month. That such in
crease means ut least $4,000 year, and
Tor passage both ways represents 5000
fares from that institution alone. exclud-
ing in lieu of those who would walk. the
regular attendance upon the School of
Design, and the extra fares for attend
ance upon lectures and entertainments at
the Art Gallery. That to these figures
should be added the regular fares of the
large population resident in the south
west section.
That the great bulk of business is done
upon J and X streets, between Second
and Ninth, and that, therefore. roads
| crossing at Tenth and at Third, will best
accommodate the mass Of the people 90
ing TO those streets upon business, and
VIII conserve the interests of the road
| better than crossing further east, which
means the exclusion of the entire traffic
of the southwest section for all time to
the great injury of values in that section.
That III going out to the southeast sec
ton road along Third street will accom-
| modate larger body Of all the people
than one further east, and that al the
people on the proposed new east and
west line will be as well accommodated
by reaching the trunk line at Third and
j streets.
That the plea set up that people do not
wish to be landed from the southeast
section as far down as Third and J
streets, IS faIlaclous and not established
by proofs.
That final location of line further
east than Third street will injure greatly
the city property referred to, and deprive
the proposed road of very large assured
patronage.
That a road crossing as far west as
Third street will enhance values in the
southwest, quicken enterprise there, still
more develop the region, encourage
building and the establishment of indus
trial concerns, and give to such road a
valuable franchise of increasing value
with each year for a long period. That
such line will accommodate the largest
body of the whole people of the city, be-
| cause of the well-known law Of transpor-
tation that the line pays best that runs
between the greatest number of populous
| sections, and that by its sweep takes in
the greatest populous area.
That the First, Third and Fourth
Wards of the city are closely related by
cheap transportation lines, but that the
entire Second Ward is without transpor-
tation facilities of that order with either
| of the other wards, and hence a line
down into it, and crossing it at Third
street, will practically complete a belt
system by connection with the trunk
line at j street, and unite the whole city
| by that very strong bond, easy and cheap
means of communication, and hence
would be profitable to the company that
accomplishes it.