The morning call., 1892-12-31
BUSY TIMES AHEAD.
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Great Extension of Street.
Car Lines.
CHANGES IN OLD ROUTES.
One System to Build Thirty Miles
Additional Two New Crosstown
RoadS-Electricity and Cables.
CHANGES IN OLD ROUTES.

The coming year of our Lord 1898 prom
ises TO be one of greater development and
progress ia the building and extension OF
streetcar lines than has ever been recorded
in any previous year in the history OF tile
city. Old lines will be torn up and electricity
or cable propulsion will be substituted. ex-
tensions will be made of present lines.
while new ones will be built bringing new
and at present inaccessible portions of the
city within easy reach of central points or
of existing routes to which passengers may
be transferred.
The whole Western Addition is to be COW
cred with new cables, and every portion of
the southern part of the city and embracing
the now comparatively sparsely settled sec
tion located between the county line on the
south aud the bay and ocean on the west
aud east is 10 be gridironed with street
roads, which will make residence in
this vast section quite as desirable as in
those portions where the high prices Of real
estate prevent the building of small homes
and compel the masses to crowd ia the tene-
ments of the central districts.
This expansion OF the lines, which is now
an assured fact. promises the most satisfac-
tory results TO the industrial community as
we'll as TO the holders of real estate who
have been waiting for the problem of trans
pOrtatiOn TO be solved before their p,oper-
ties were available for the marKet. Ii also
assures prosperity 10 the architects. and
builders of the community and is the be-
ginning OF an era which promises to bear
the city onward TO the commanding posi-
tion which by its natural advantages it
ought to occupy.
The lines and extensions considered were
only those of the Market-street system and
IhR figures cFa1 hV lnsanh i,
Wlllcutt, its manager and secretary of the
corporation.
Mr.. Wiilcutt states that all of the new
lines and extensions are to be begun as
sou as the routes are graded and prepared
for the subStructure. On Mission street.
near Ihirtieth, $4,000 yards OF grading has
to be done, and as soon as those ln-
rested complete this Work the Mission
road Will be extended to the county line and
to other aud adjacent districts.
beginning OF the proposed improve
ments and extensions has been made on
Kentucky street. from King street to the
carhouses at the PoirerO. double track
Is beng laid with heavy rails, and Will be
completed to the carhuuSe within two weeks.
The old tracks will then be torn up and the
street where they are now laid improved.
The line will ultimately be extended wesr
to Fifteenth avenue, South San francisco,
just It's soon as the roadway is In proper
condition 20 lay the tracks.
will continue to use horses as the motive
power, but at an early day this antique sys-
TEN Will be discarded and electricity,
either by the trolley OF storage methods vii
be substituted. For three weeks past
about 500 men have been employed on this
line. and but for the late storm it would
have been ID operation to-day. Suisse
Quently the company promises 10 extend
the line 10 Market street. via Fifth. The
total length of this branch is three and d
half miles.
The next work to be done will be the
changing Of the Mission street from horse
TO electric power and the only thing til at is
delaying the work is the delay in the grad
ing at Thiitieth street.
The road will be entirely a new one. All
OF the present rolling-stock of the present
line IS to be discarded and Bewones bought.
Ii is TO be extended to the county line and
to have several lateral branches, and will
make transfers wherever its line crosses the
tracks OF the same system. 4 branch is to
start from Cortland avenue and run to But
Ter street through California and Richland
avenues 10 a junction with Mission, thus
accommodating the residents of the Holly
Park district. The length of the Mission
street line and its branches viii slightly ex-
eeed ter miles The plans insure the CON-
petlOn inside of six months.
From Ihirtteth street the Church and
Fillmore street cable-liue TO North Beach
viii run. Work will be begun as soon as
material arrives and the whole road is TO
be built just as substantially as the Geary
street. The rails are to weigh seventy one
pounds per yard and the length of the line
will be four and a half miles.
To be built with the Mission is q branch
to be driven with electricity, which VIII
connect at Mission aud Twenty-ninth
streets and run to Noe, distance OF half a
mile.
AT the corner OF Mission and Potter
streets Will be the terminus OF new cable
system to be built on t+e sanre substantial
plan as the rest and on the same general
plan. This branch will run along Potter TO
Market street, across Page street, thence to
Masonic avenue and Frederick street, where
II runs west to Golden Gate avenue and
terminates at Golden Gate Park. Length,
two and half miles. This line will be
driven from the cable-house at the corner
OF Valencia and Market streets.
Starting at Seventeenth and Castro streets,
anew cable bfapch will be run across to
Devisadero street, to Lombard, thus making
the second erosstown line connected with
the Market-street system. and making four
altogether, exclusive OF the one projected by
Senator Fair. The Devfsadero branch will
be two and a half miles long. %:
Connecting at Kentucky and SOlano
streets an electric lneiS TO run along the
latter thoroughfare to Santa Clara street;
thence up Sixteenth and Seventeen til
streets to Carl and Frederick; streets to
First avenue and the park. Part of this
branch Will be run as a cable line. At So
lano street this branch connects withsa line
10 Market street up Sixth orSeventh streets
and al POtrero avenue.
Another connection will be m AIDE with a
line extending south to TWenty-second
street. thence to Chattanooga, to- Ewehty-
fourth. to Hoffman avenue total length of
this line and branches, eight and three
quarter miles.
Another cal BILE line will intersect at Fill
more and Turk streets, 10 run along Turk TO
First avenue aud ID street and thence TO the
park; length, Two and half miles,:
The total of the new lines which the
directory of the company saws will be in
operation by year from this.date is thirty
four miles. and at low estimate means an
expenditure of over S3,000.000. !;
The company. MIR. .W1flcutt stated, is
studying with great minuteness the develop
ment of electricity as mode of propulsion
practical as the trolley has yet DEMON
strated its ability 10 fulfill the necessary
requirements,
1t is hoped that some new storage battery
system will se. devised so that ah expert
ment as to It's merits may be made on the
kentucky-street. branch, and the company
is prepared to- adopt any plan the pro-
motors OF which may prove its :practica:
bility. For the present trolley system
will be used.
As to the probability OF electricity being
substituted for cable methods Mr., Willcutt
expresses confidence in the future. The
company will adopt any DEVICE that proves
itself Superior to present methods.
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