The morning call., 1892-07-06
A RAILROAD OUTRAGE.
Southern Pacific Passengers Are
Treated Like Cattle.
Excnrsionists Made to Spend Whole Night
On the Oakland Mole in
Day Coaches.

About the most cold-blooded outrage the
Southern Pacific officials have perpetrated
on The travelling public for some time oc-
CURED Monday night.
The Ogden train was due at 9:45 p. NJ. As
usual it was late. 1t arrived at the Oakland
mole as minutes past midnight and 10 min
utes after the steamer Newark had landed
its last load OF passengers from san Fran
cisco at the mole.
Ordinarily this boat does not return TO
the city till 6o'clock the following morning.
The rule was not broken Monday night,
and, in consequence, 600 passengers, many
of whom were women and children, had to
put in the night On the mole.
To many this was a distressing hardship.
Almost within sight of their destination.
after a long railroad journey, these 600
men, women and children were forced 10
stay in their crowded cars another night.
A special trip back to San Francisco
might have been made by the steamer with
the greatest facility. The engineer and
crew had not turned in for the night yet
and the pilot was still on the boat.
Several Of tie passengers made bold to
suggest to the officials at the mole that a
special trip be made for their accommoda-
tion.
FRowNED UPON.
IA
and told to make the best of the matter as IL
was.
"Can't we sleep On The boat, then, instead
of in the crowded ears?" pleaded the women
with little children.
''No." The answer came with a snap and
was accompanied by look that said plain
ly. "You ought 10 be glad you're alive"
Then scme bold, gorgeous soul had the
temerity to ask the officials IL they might
not be permitted 10 stretch their limbs on
tIa Lon hGt.n in fiprr
stairs. Even the floor would have been a
rest TO the wearied occupants OF the day
coaches.
"No; 'gainst company's rules"
AT this Juneture the officials guaranteed
the information that unless the passengers
wished to walk around the big shed all night
they had better get back in their cars.
There were Is cars In the train, and some
thing over 600 passengers. The larger part
OF the train was composed OF excursion day
coaches. Induced by unusually low rates,
and the promise Of daylight passage. a lot
of excursioDists had gone on Saturday TO
the Grand Army gathering at Carson. New.
In this party were the Veteran Guards
and the commander of the California De-
partment with his staff. The excursionists
were most shabbily treated by the company
on the way to Carson, ana on their return
were repeatedly subjected 20 unnecessary
delays. A more dsgusted lot of people
could not have been found this side of the
tfbfidotlbs pitt
TIRED-oUT MOTHERS.
Among the overland passengers the situa-
tion was even worse. Poor tired-out moth
ers, who bad come all the way from Ogden
in the attle-cars provided by the Southern
Pacific for those who do not ride in Pull
mans spent another night of misery with
their infants in their arms. Had their sex
| permitted them TO biaspheme the railroad
! company audibly their overweight nerves
would have been relieved and soothed a
little perhaps. But even this poor solace
was denied them and reserved only for the
| men.
However, those poor, tired, jaded women
did heap-of hard linking during the next
| six hours.
Meanwhile the men swore. or if any oil
| them did not swear, they listened with great
| satisfaction to those who did.
Yesterday the latest outrage Of the rail-
| road was the one topic of conversation on
the water front. 1t was conceded on al
hands that special trip of the NSwark
! could have been made without any extra
trouble and al a trifine expense for coal.
| w hat added 10 the Indignation of the pas.
seDgers Of the belated train Was that a