The morning call., 1892-12-18
ALL NIGHT CARS.
The Metropolitan Electric
Road on Top.
SAN rIATEO A GOOD SECOND.
1.-The Calls" Agitation for Owl Cars
Is Bearing Fruit - HorSecars
i'm the Mission.
SAN rlATEO A GOOD SECOND
The night cars are coming.

The night cars are coming.
Two electric roads have been won.
Horsecars on Howard and Valencia streets
may be expected in the very near future.
%The Metropolitan electric road will run
all-night cars in very few weeks
In the very early spring the San Mateo
electric cars will run all night.
The presidents OF both roads have given
their word for it,
President Wendell Easton says be knows
the residents of the Western Addition will
appreciate sn owl-car service and that
sooner or later the venture will prove profit
able.
President Behrend Joost says the market
and fruit men of the Mission and the night
workers of his district need service be-
tween midnight and morning. and that as
soon as the roads are in good condition they
shall have it.
So TIE CALL and the people are winning.
Before this time next year the chances
are very likely that San Francisco will have
outgrown her provineialism In the matter
of night transportation altogether.
Already the Metropolitan road has COM
meDced the night-car system. as this inter-
view with the president OF that road will
show
Monday night we will commence to run
our cars every fifteen minutes up to A NJ.
and the last car coming east will leave the
corner OF Page and Steiner streets at :35
A. NJ" said Wendell Easton.
Then he went on to explain that the put
ting on of late cars was only preparatory to
establishing an all-night service.
~ on see." said he. I'VE are very much
OF the opinion that the Western Addition
and the outlying districts need an all-n ght
service. and are very much In favor of the
sentiments expressed by The CALL in that
respect.
There is no line OF cars in this city
which can supply that kind of a service
easier than our system. because as soon as
we get our new equipment, which will be
here in ninety days. we can run cars all
night without much additional expense"
Mr.. EastOn thinks that the cable COM
panles will find it necessary to run horse
ears all night. just as soon as the electric
road makes the first move IN that direction
1T may not pay at first" he SAID, "but /
am sure that many empty houses in the out
skirts will soon be rented when people find
they can reach them at any hour.
There is large number Of people who
consider Il absolutely impossible to reach
their homes at late hour unless they live in
the center of the city,
An all-night service will alter all that
and night workers viii be enabled 10 rent
cheap houses in healtbful localities without
the lear OF having to spend moro money for
cab hire than their monthly rental amounts
TO-"
Mr.. Easton said further that the success
ful operations of al-night cars in Denver
had first attracted his attention TO the fact
that similar service in this city is neces-
slty. and that the recent agitation of THE
CALL had confirmed this idea.
ne nave the advantage of the cable-cars
In this matter" he said, "but they cannot
afford to let US have a monopoly of the all
night trade, and as MISTER of course will
be forced to run horsecaIs while their ma
chinery is resting"