The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-07
FROM ACROSS THE BAY.
Oakland Soon TO Be GridirOned
With Electric Roads.
New Line to Compete With the Davis
Company's Road-Ths slicer Will
Contest to Be Settled.

competition has already developed to the
new ferry scheme of John L. Dayie and
associates. The Dayie Company applied
for franchise to the Board Of Supervisors
yesterday to con struct that part of their
road to be located outside the city limits.
Immediately afteTward another petition
was read. This was from Wells Whit
more, an Oakland attorney. and Edwin h.
Alsip, Sacramento banker, asking for an
electric road franchise from Second and
Harrison streets nd along nearly the same
route applied for by the Davie petitioners
Both applications were referred to the
judiciary Committee.
Whltmore said yesterday that his project
has been in contemplation for some time.
1t has no connection, he said, with the
Southern Pacific.
THE PROPOSED ROUTE.
AT about the same time an application
was filed with the City Clerk by the same
parties, the route being designated as fol
lows: FROM Sixteenth street station to
Twelfth street, TO Center. to Tenth, to JET
ferson, to Fifth, TO Broadway, to Second, to
Harrison, TO Fourteenth. 10 Webster. TO
Broadway and along Broadway to the city
limits 1t Is intended that the track shall
be double, and that il possible, wherever
the route traverses streets already operated
whereby both companies can use the same
tracks.
The name of v D. Moody was also to
have been signed to the application, but he
was not at hand in time 10 af1ix his name
before filing it.
THE DAVE WHARF.
A schooner of lumber arrived last night
and John l.. Davie will begin the planklng
OF his wharf Immediately.
T.. IayiOr. who recently leased a portion
Of lard from the Water Front Company
between Harrison ana Grove streets, is en-
gagged III driving number OF piles at high
tide during the night in order to locate the
boundaries Of his lease. Dayie says that all
talk of an intention on his part TO dispute
Taylor's possession is all nonsense, as he is
only defending his own lease.
THE sLICER WILL CONTEST
1t is understood that the contestng
parties In the Hugh Slicer viii contest have
agreed upon a compromise. The proponents
yesterday asked for continuance and the
attorneys Will hold a meeting this week 10
bring ab0ut an agreement The contestants
have offered TO dismiss their suit provided
the estate, amounting to $4,000, is divided
into four equal parts among Mrs. Carpen-
ter, Charles SliceT the Wilson children
and the Walter children.
No keeper has yet been appointed for the
tidal canal bridge completed but few
months ago. The necessity for a man to
care for the structure is becoming more
apparent, as ii is being damaged in num-
Der OF ways. The Supervisors have not yet
accepted the bridge. but upon doing so some
one VIII be appointed to look out for it.
THE SAN LEANDBO RIOT.
There was no further disturbance at the
San LeandrO cherry packing house yester-
day. a number Of the Portuguese girls
went back to work at their old wages. Two
OF the rioters arrested have disappeared.
Some of the others have given bonds for
their appearance. The Chinaman who was
hurts still in a serious condition, but Will
probably recover.
Rev. G. E. Walker has succeeded Rev.
Rogers Peters. resigned, as rector Of st.
Andrews Episcopal Church. The new
rector halls from Middleton, KY. lie was
regularly installed sunday.
Yesterday q document was placed on
record by which Antoine Borel OF San
Francisco releases a $4,000 mortgage on
property OF William j. Dingee aud adi0in-
ing tracts In Hayes Canyon.
Seymour Cunningham Of Washington, ID.
c., and Miss Stephania Whitney, daughter
OF ex-senator Whitney, were married in this
city yesterday.
A Christian convention. for the formation
of spiritual life and foreign missions. is in
progress at the First Congregational
Church. 1t will close this evening at 30
o'clock. The convention is in charge OF
Kew. A. ID. simpson OF New Ofk CltY.
The school ensus shows a gain over that
Of last year Of 500. The largest increase is
in the Seg0 nd Ward
COUNCIL MEETING.
At the meeting Of the City Council last
evening two bids were received for a street
railroad franchise on Washington street,
from Twelfth to First. The Berkeley eiec-
trio road offered % per cent of the gross re-
ceiptS on and after five years.
The Piedmont road offered TO pay 100 per
cent OF the gross receipts on and after five
years. On motion of Nelson the whole
matter was laid over for one week to look
for the 'jnkeT."
resolution was unanimously passed in.
strueting the Street Superintendent to
remove all distractions along streets parallel
with Broadway from Fourteenth street TO
the harbOr line. This is identical to order
ing the opening Of the streets to the water.
The amendment on the ordinance re-
duciDg the bond election printing bill of tile
Times from SIS, 7S6 to S9766 was read and
the ordinance passed to print
A similar amendment was PASSED reducing
the bill Of the Oakland Journal from 1921
to $751;.