The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-24
FREEZE=OUT GAME.
The Monopoly Is Trying to
Play 1t.
CORNERING FERRY BOATS.
The Herald Would Be Run to Peta-
luna if the Steamer Gold
Aided Competition.
CORNERING FERRY BOATS

The Southern Pacific Company has a
corner on bay steamers and hopes by its
superior power and capital to keep 1t until
competition grows weary and ceases.
The steamer Gold of the Petaluma run,
owned and controlled by George P. Nc
Near, much to the discomfort of the
monopoly. is idle on Sunday. and the
Whitney Company wanted to charter her
to help the Silva out on that day.
Everything was agreeable las far as the
owners of the Gold were concerned, but
everything proved disasreeable as soon as
the Southern Pacific heard of an amicable
treaty being negotiated between the Colds
managers and the managers of the opposi-
ton ferry company.
The original arrangement was that the
Geld would be chartered to the Whitney
Company on Sunday. Wise heads of
Fourth and Townsend streets saw in this
pending negotiation the promise of lively
decrease IN their Sunday travel across the
bay and a subsequent increase in the
Whitney Company's patronage.
Much to the ishment Of the people of
Petaluma, who observe Sunday as all
good int rior folks do, the benevolent rail-
road company Informed them that out of
respect for the increasing trade of the
Humans TO take a jaunt 10 the city on
| Sundays the steamer Herald would run to
Petaluma on that day, and II traffic in
creased, or. in other words, if the Gold
persisted in aiding and abetting compet'-
! ton said steamer Herald would be place d
permanently on The Petaluma route.
! The contract between the owners of the
| Cod and the Whitney Company was forth
| with declared off.
For two weeks the Whitney Company
| has been trying to charter suitable vessel
and in every instance where an applica-
ton was made to charter a boat it was
found that the railroad had been there and
either bulldOZed owners into refusing a
| charter or else secured some sort of hold
| on the boat
Far from being discouraged by the CON-
pany's corner in ferry-bOatS the opposition
line has fully determined TO put on an
| other steamer and will lose no time in
| having one built.
The latest fling at its competitors made
| by the railroad is the statement origI-
mating in the Southern Pacific sanction
that the Silva gets the "ritf-raff of the Oak
land traffic" People who work hard for
a living and do not like TO give the railroad
% cents for what can be obtained else
where for 10 cents are called the "riff-ratf'
by that aristoclatie institution. Working
men residing across the bay should bear
this expression in mind when regular
boats are running in opposition TO the
| South ern Pacific Company.
An investigation of the class of pas
sengers carried by the Silva proves that
some of the incest people in Oakland
patroniZe the opposition. Workingmen
and their families cross on the steamer
daily and a more respectful, quiet lot oil
people could not be found anywhere.
| What has the Southern Pacific to say of
| the crowd OF toughs and rOwdies it solicits
the patronage of for its Sunday excur-
sions to Santa Cruz? No man, woman or
! child is exempt from insult when this
robber is turned loose on n Southern
Pacific ferry after days debauch. made
possible by the only reduction In rates the
! railroad is ever known to make.
The managers of the steamer Resale, on
the Vallejo run, and the Silva complain of
| spoilers hired by the monopoly. Several
of these railroad detective have been max
| ing their headquarters at Washington
wharf; they report all proceedings TO
| headquarters.
The opposition ferry fight is becoming
bitter to The Southern Pacific, but sweet
to the travelling public