The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-12-20
THE OWL CARS.
There's Victory Now in
the Air.
WHAT BARRON SAYS.
Small Number of Patrons
Required.
HORSECARS FOR VALENCIA.
Only 24o Patrons Needed to Insure
Them, and Nearly 1000 Are
Pledged.
HORSECARS FOR VALENCIA

conclusion.
Every day it looks more favorable for
night cars on Valencia street.
Perhaps not cable-cars-not right away,
at any rate-but horsecars, at least.
Charles +. Croker. vice. president of the
Market-street system. says he does not
think all-night cars will pay, but he says he
is willing to be convinced.
Well, the people of the Mission are busy
rolling up the most convincing evidence
possible that there is a paying demand for
all-night cars on Valencia street.
That evidence is contained in the hum
dreds OF pledges that are being signed by
Mission residents.
A ready 951 people have signed THE
CALLS owl-car pledge for all-night cars on
Valencia street.
There will be 1000 before tonight.
They are coming in by the score.
Fifty six Valencia street blanks were
signed and banded in yesterday.
A thousand signatures argues that thou
sand citizens would patronizs the owl cars if
they were run.
More, il proves it.
The list is bona file and open to the in
speetion ofduy one interested.
These thousand names are of men who
would ride after midnight if they could.
And all Of the people who would ride on
the Nalencia-sireet OWL cars have not yet
signed.
a thousand patrons are enough to make
il pay to run the cable all night.
0aly forty passengers for each horsecar
are needed 10 make the horsecars pay.
The authority for this statement Is A. W.
Barron. SUPERINTENDENT of the Market-street
cabie-road.
owe would need not less than forty pas
sengers for each round trip in order TO paw
the expenses of putting on hOrsecars after
the cable has stopped" said he.
How many horsecars would be run?"
asked THE CALL man.
Three would be sufficient, 1 believe"
said Mr.. Barron. THAT would give car
every half hour. 1t takes an hour and
thirty-fye minutes for horses 10 make the
r0und-trip on Valencia street. Three cars
would just about make it,"
III an average of forty passengers for
each round trip could be guaranteed. would
your company put on the horsecars ?" asked
The CALL man.
Mr.. Barron could not answer that ex-
actly. BE could not, he said, predict the
action Of the company. but he thought il
very likely that night bOrseears would be
put on wherever the grades made them
practicable as soon as ii was demonstrated
that they would pay running expenses.
1T IS cut Of the question at present.
think" said he, "to think of running the
ca6le-cars ali night.
They are run now as many hours as is
possible"
Horsecars. be thought. were another mat
ter. 1t vas question which ii would be
timely TO discuss just now
Dir. Barron SAYS only forty passengers
for each round trip are needed
There would be six round trips all told,
making total OF 240 passengers needed to
pay the expenses of the owl-car venture
But nearly 1000 persons are pledged TO
patroniZe the Kaleneis-stIeet night cars.
From what Mr.. Barron says aud from the
way THE CALLS owl-ear pledges are being
signed, II seems a safe prediction to say
that all-night hoTsecars will soon be run
ming on Valencia street
Remember. you who have not yet signed
that your names are needed now or never
Do you want TO help the movement for
owl cars on Valencia street?
Then get in and sign the blanks and get
your neighbOrs TO sign, also.
Remember. too, that neither you nor
your neighbor is TO sign these pledges
unless you can conseentiously promise TO
patroniZs the owl cars.
Let's make a strong fight and a fight all
together now for that VaIencia-street owl
line.
Let's concentrate our strength there for
little while.
Let's win Valencia street and then take
up the fight for some other street.
Remember, we've been victorious already
in two instances.
Soon the Metropolitan electric cars will
run all night.
And soon the San Mateo cars will do like
wise.
Now, all together for Valencia street.
The great stack of owi-car pledges-4S32
OF them ia all-will be handed to the direc
tors Of the different streetear lines in few
days.
They are bound to have their fleet.
How can the companies withstand the
pressure of this great clamor of the public
for all-night cars?