The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-06

has cropped up at San LeandrO One Of the
fruit-packiDg establishments in that highly
favored fruit-growing region has discharged
a number of young women or girls, who
were earning from s. to 50 2j a day in put
ting fruit up for the market. Their places
have been taken by Cinnamon, who are 10
doubt receiving much less per day than the
American girls they have displaced. The
propIietors may therefore be enabled 70
meet the excessive charges OF the Southern
Pacific Company for freiEhtage eastward or
within the State, but they are follow
iHg a desDicdble policy not to be COM
mended The quarrel they had with
the girl packers could have been adjusted
by Just little use Of the oiled feather III
pickinga way through barriers. The young
men If the neigh borhoOd have interfered in
the quarrel and have turned cut the China
men, bag and baggage. 1t is a case OF rustic
cblyalry on behalf of the eOnteGned IN
dustly Of damsels. aud perhaps the firm Is
not delighted with the rdicule the incident
has OccGsiOned They bad better make
terms with the girls than renew their pact
with the Cinnamon. There is, perhaps,
just little preference in the East Tor fruit
packed by fair white hands.
Il does not appear to be any longer a
secret that the property on the Oakland
water front. which has been the subject of
active guerrilla warfare. is to be made use
Of as a ferry landing for traffic between
Oakland and San Francisco. Let US hope
the enterprise will deal with passenger as
well as freight business, but even the latter
alone will be step ahead. That competi-
ton in this line Of business has not been
set up long ago is a matter Of surprise TO
those who know what has been done else
where. Traffic sufficient to sustain three
or four ferry lines has existed for
many years, and yet all the traffic has
been gobbed and retained by the South
ern Pacific Company. This traffic is
probably the most profitable in returns on
ferriage. without risk or material sacrifices,
in the whole Of the United States, and the
Southern Pacific Company knows well IL is
worth fighting for Go the utmost verge Of
legal devices. When the new company has
its lines running The public may, at least.
expect a reduction Of fare, II il goes into
lar 10 Oakland and back. on vice versa, is
great deal too much. Fifteen or twenty
cents would be ample return on any capital
invested. Ii Is growing traffic, and the
risks are almost Insignificant.
The proprietors OF the new Oakland ferry
do not intend to stop at transportation
across the bay. They are intent upon a de-
velopment OF the railroad system on tie
other side, and as the whole of the country
along the eastern bay shore is favorable to
engineering at moderate cost they may sue
coed IN bringing about some very whole
some changes In the transportation problem
which peTpieXes this as we'll as every other
part OF the state. In some Of their plans
they are likely 10 meet with unrelenting
opposition from the Southern Pacific man
n hot n "a area1
and accepted as Inevitable when the
projects were entered upon.
New York is also at present absorbed in
The transportation problem, but il is not by
any means Of the same nature that grieves
California. 1t is % avoid terrtage that
New York is DESTROYS OF seeing railroads in
direct Communication with the heart of the
city, and with Brooklyn and other centers
OF population in Long Island. There is
talk Of extensive tunneling under the Hud-
son and the East River to meet the wants
OF the time for rapid and unbIOken COM
muniCation, and The engineer is ready TO
carry out all the plans 10 perfection If only
the money IS forthcoming The Brooklyn
Bridge does relieve a good deal of tina traffic
pressure, but it is not enough for New
Iork's growth. The time is bound to come
when Manhattan Island will be tun1eled
is the only way In which extra space can be
found for railroad accommodation.
The prospect Of having always to paw 10
cents to reach the ocean beach from the
older parts OF San Francisco is not agree
able. At present it costs 10 cents, and there
are far-seeing railroad Schemers at work
doing what they can to make it 10 cents for
ever. II is after all only a short ride Of
seven miles. and the great distances Travelled
are few in comparison with the short ones.
1t would be far better TO have a uniform
charge OF cents, as in New York on tile
overhead railway, than to have breaks ia
the Journey and double fares Good compe-
tit0n would enforce this but that
is not what is wanted by the enter
prising capitalists who absorb our streets
under gift franchises from the Supervisors
Five cents appears a coin contemplate in
this city. II IS hardly less contemplate in the
interior. The common notion Of the value
OF ! cent is utterly VacuOus- BOYS and girls
know nothing about / cent. Tnev under
stand that cents means no more than cent.
That coin is the lowest denomination. and
it is quite too high to teach economy effect
lively. Hence. our street railroad companies
think cents nothing. Even a dime is
nothing 10 reach beach six or seven miles
distant But the companies comprehend
the profits Of that method Of computation.
The complaints about high charges for
very commonplace fare at Minneapolis are
too direct not to be serious Republican
convention may not occur again in the
Northwest for many years. and the Mime
apolis people, being constitntionally thrifty,
may give themselves the excuse that an in
YasiOn Of politicians is a tax upon their re-
sources, and tEat in accordance with the
laws of supply and demand prices must 90
up. To charge a press correspondent
couple OF dollars for lunch which does not
contain a single delicacy, and not a sip
Of wine, at least requires courage on the
part of the waiter who collects the bill
One Pacific Coast representative declares
that he could get far better meal at the
Palace Hotel for nothing more than the
customary cost of a drink. But then il
should be considered that the food supplies
Of the Pacific Coast are exceptionally
abundant, varied and cheap. And when
Minneapolis is rid OF the politicians the
stranger will be welcomed within its gates
on very moderate terms.
Yesterday was Whit Sunday, and during
Wntsuntide the English Parliament has al
ways a holiday. But the holiday this year
is almost to a certainty accompanied by
dissolution. This is the feeling of members
who have departed from Westminster for
their homes, or the various resorts for rest
and enjoyment Those who desire to sit in
the next Parliament are no doubt putting
themselves in evidence before their con-
stituents, and w0oing their suffrages with
beseeching voice. The Government Will
be quite satisfied with declar-
alton OF their intentions on Irish
local government, and when they
get before the country they can preach
much by enlargement upon a small text
and here and there the electorate may be
wbeedled by encomiums on the constitutional
health of that bantling. But If the cleo
lions 90 against the Conservatives with
downright national emphasis. Lord Sails
bury will give way 10 Mr.. Gladstone, and
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