The morning call., 1893-07-19
FERRY TERMINI.
Car Lines Seem Unable to
Agree.
SEVERAL PLANS PRESENTED
The Market-Street System More
Voracious Than Ever-A Delay
of Two Weeks.

After the routine business had been dis
posed of at meeting of the State Harbor
Commission yesterday afternoon they took
up the matter of providing facilities for
each Of the several streetcar lines which
terminate at the foot of Market street.
There were present j. L.. Willcutt. sec
retary and general manager. and A. W.
Barron, superintendent, Of the Market
street system; NJ. d. Stein and E. LIE Roy,
directors, and A. L. Anderson, superin-
tendent, of the Omnibus Company; job D.
son Reynolds. superintendent Of the Sut-
ter-street Railway; John Reed, superln-
tendent of the North Beach and Mission !;
j. F. Clark, superin ntendent Of the Centra!
and City Railroad; Walter Newhall, presl-
dent of the Union-street road; ID. ii.
Lynch, superintendent OF the Ferries ana
Cliff House Company, and Howard Z.
Holmes. chief engineer OF the commission.
Mr.. Willcutt spread out upon the treStle-
board some blue-prints of plan when ne
had devised, and instantly the assem- bage
gathered around the ia BILE. MIR. Nlllcutts 5
plan differs from present arraDgements
only in so far as he puts the outside.
roads to the north OF the Market-street
lines terminus, and cramps them worse
than they are now erampeo. IL met Win
cutt, whom it pleased immensely. partlcu-
larly as he provides Tor two turn-table for
the Market-StreeL system, and allows that
corporation about twice as much space as
is allotted to all the rest OF the lines COM
bined.
Mr.. Anderson then presented tracings
of three separate plans and explained
them in detail. In the nrst plan the Mar
ket-street system terminus is left very
much as it now is For the horsecars he
provides loop with single track to the
southwark, which. when about twO-thlrds
of the way around, spreads out into TOUR
tracks-one each for the Omnibus, Cen
tral. Sutter and North Beach aud Mission
lines in the order named; the Omnibus
having the inner or southern track and the
North Beach and Mission the outside.
The Ferries and Cliff House line Is north
of all the Others and runs to separate
and distinct turn-table.
Mr.. Andersou's plan, No. 2, provides for
separate double-track terminals tor each
of the horsecar lines to the north OF the
Market-stree terminal, the end OF the
tracks being thirty-hve feet distant from
the front of the new ferry building and at
right angles with it. This plan provides
passage-way seven and a half feet wide
between the tracks-that is 20 say, wden
two cars happen to stand side by side there
will be a space seven and alf feet be-
the NUN Der of switches which 1t entails.
In order to reach its terminal the outside
car, j. q. the fartheSt north. would have t.
pass seven switches.
Plan No. 3 is much the same as No 2. ex-
cept that the two tracks of each horse AT
line are close together. and the space be-
tween each cOmpany'S terminus is fourteen
feet wide. Hyn
1t is the opinion of he officers Of all the
roads, except the Market-street system.
that no plan can be devised which will be
satisfactory to the public except the "loup"
plan offered when the matter was first
brought up. and which the Markel-street
monopoly rejected. The trouble is that
any other plan Will be a constant menace
to the safety of pedestrians. The horse
cars would have to go TO the north side OF
Market street, where about 90 per cent OF
the pedestrian travel passes.
Mr.. Willcutt. with bland smile, sug-
gested that peopls going afoot would take
The bridge; but when a chorus, "When
will the bridge be bullt?" greeted this re-
mark. he reapsed into silence.
Another difficulty which should be over
come, if possible, is the curve OF the Fer
ries and Cliff House cable at Sacramento
and East streets-the most dangerous
curve in the city.
Mr.. Anderson inquired from President
BasSett whether the commission was in
| clined to grant further time. The engin-
eers and superintendent of the several
companies would get together, he said, and
devise some plan which must satisfy all
| reasonable demands from the public and
the ompanes interested.
After further informal discussion the
commission granted the railroads two
weeks further time to report.
And there was more than one sotto-voce
| remark: And we will be just as far
apart then as we are to-day"