The morning call., 1892-07-09
0aklandS COunciIInen Are Not
Happy.
4 kass-Neeting to Be Held Tonight in
Oakland-Uprising AGAINST
Railroad Rule.

OaElapd's tin gods are Deglnnlng 10 snaKe
They look about for comfort but they do
not fad any.
What sad plight 1t Is to see eight City
Councilmen so condemned by the people
who put them In office.
Everybody in Oakland except the railroad
hirelings is against them.
Politically, they are without hope.
The peoples wrath is great.
They want the city TO regain the water
front, and they class everybody as an
enemy TO them who dares to stand IN their
way.
The Calls advocacy of the peoples
cause In the Oakland waterfront contest is
making much talk across the bay.
1t has stirred tie people up.
1.-THE CALL is the only San Francisco
paper that has dealt with the waterfront
subject in a thoroughly intelligent and in
dependent manner" said member of the
Oakland City Council yesterday. II am an
Independent man myself, and l will allow
no corporation to put collar on me. In its
attack on the City Council THE CALL las
spoken truly. The Council, as body, de-
serves all the excoriatiOn that 1t has re-
ceIved. You cannot hit il too strongly"
Davies new wharf is approaching COM
pleton j. NJ. Bassett, who is interested
in the improvements at the foot of Webster
street, says that just as soon as the suit to
be tried next month as to the title of the
property shall have been settled faYorably
for the defendants, as he has every reason
to believe that it will be, the new CON-
peting ferry line will be established.
sit will be coed thing for the people OF
Oakland" said Mr.. Bassett ''and will
break into the Southern Pacific monopoly.
There is no reason In the world why the
enterprise should not prove TO be paying
one"
"Y0u have talked good deal with A. W.
BurriIl, the only surviving member of the
old Board of Trustees that gave the lease to
Carpenter, have you not?" was asked OF
Mr.. BaSsett
well. l have had some conversation
with him, but he does not say much about
what most interests the people. GU see.
the Carpenter transaction was good
many years ago and a man forgets. Be-
sides. Mr.. Burrill does not want to arouse
antagOnsms. Being the only surviving
member Of the first board he feels that to
say much against his dead colleagues would
seem lacking in respect
IBID he tell you anything about the ma
ture of the transactipnP
"Yes; he declared that 1t was merely a
lease to Carpenter, and be insisted upon 1t
that it was only for q years The figures
were afterTard altered TO 81. This may
have been done by Carpenter himself OF
some interested parties. IL that is fact
the city of Oakland ought to have been in
possession Of that water front for the past
Is years, or ever since 1879"
W. L. Baggett, the San Francisco attOr-
ney. is making an endeavOT to get the city
of Oakland to let him begin a suit for it for
the recovery of the water front.
Other reputable attorneys would doubt
less interest themselves in the matter.
Such suit should be begun.
No time should be lost.
Every advantage should be taken of the
ground already gained
Every day consumed in waiting win be q
loss TO the people.
Now is the time.
II there is any element In Oakland strong
enough to force the City Council to do its
duty il should come forward.
Citizens Of Oakland who do business In
San Francisco are prone 10 look upon the
matter with indifference.
They should study the waterfront matter
with some show Of interest.
They should make themselves see wherein
they are interested in it In a financial way.
Let them stop ana think.
If q competing railroad company Is ia
come TO San Francisco, how will it naturally
RetheEe?
Through Oakland.
But Oakland is walled I'D.
The railroad people have fortified them
selves against competitors.
Is il not then, to the interest Of every
San Franciscan that the wall should bt
broken down?
Because man sleeps Ia Oakland and has
business in San Francisco there is no reason
why he should feel no interest in Oakland
welfare.
In this case, what is Oakland's welfare /,
San Francisco's welfare.
What benefits Oakland In this instance
will benefit San Francisco tenfold.
Does San Francisco need another raj.
road?
See what R. G. Dun & Co.'s latest repor
says:
The condition OF retail trade in this city Is
reasonably satisfactory, but there is much com.
plaint from the 1obbers OF lessened profit,
through Eastern competition, OF curtailment Of
territory to supply through the making of rail-
road terminals at interior points. aud OF high
railroad freights from this city to the Interior
which renders IL difficult TO distribute goods ad-
vantaReousy. Speaking generally, the profit
results TO San Francisco iobbers last year appear
10 have been unsatisfactory, and not much hope
Is EXPRESSED Of any material Improvement In the
Immediate future, or until there is a competing
railroad system to the East and throughout the
r. G. Dun & Co. are not sensationalists
They did not publish the above TO brighten
people. 1t Is true. San Francisco need:
another railroad Every effort ought to be
strained to get one There are many thing,
that can be done TO encourage the coming oil
competing line.
The tearing down Of the Southern Pacific
wall around Oakland Is one Of them
The mass-meeting of citizens in Oakland
tonight promises to be ronsing one.
The people feel highly gratifed at thu
successful termination of the Forth suit
They want chance to throw up their hat.
and shout over the victory, and they viii
make the meeting an occasion for showing
their satisfaction over the advantage gain ed
But the City Councilmen, who wear the
railroad eollar-how small .they must feel
when they hear the people about.
They will feel smaller yet before the PEG
pie get thiOegh with them.
The day of squaring accounts Is fast ap
preaching.