The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-23
But These Will Be Horses, Which
Cost Less.
WEST BOUND RATE CUTTING.
Tramps Again Becoming Trouble
some and Running Things
With High Hand.

DO bofC OOCA oluidltHS
upon the advent of an electric street rail-
way in their midst will be disappointed
when they learn that the electric road will.
for an indefinite time. be an electric road
only in name. as vulgar. everyday horses
will supply the motive power.
Those who have watched the construc-
tion of the new line have noticed the alb
sence of preparation for the erection Of
the necessary poles upon which to string
the supports for the trolley wires, and have
been unable to satisfactorily explain the
omission. But the officials Of the street
railway say the employment of horses will
be necessary for some time because of in
adequate means for supplying the neces-
sary electric power. In fact it will be
necessary to erect a new pow er-house be-
fore the wires can be utilized, if that
should be the plan decided upon in the
future.
But there is another feature in the case
worth mentioning. The officials of the
street railway have been for long time
past collecting all available statistical in
formation possible with reference to the
use and adaptabllity or storage batteries
on the cars of the lines which will ulti-
mately he run by electric power
The experiments in this direction in the
East have been exhaustive, and have met
with varied degrees of success. Many
different methods have been tried, but in
most cases they have been found lacking
in some essential particular. In some in
stances the power generated in the motors
was not sufficient TO carry car up an in
cline such will be encountered in this
city. while in others the apparatus to be
affixed TO the cars has been found too cum
bersome. But it is claimed that motor
has been on trial 10 Detroit for some weeks
which practically fills all requirements.
and il is TO this particular invention that
the attention of the street railway mag
mates of this city has been directed.
One of the officials stated in converse
ton yesterday that the Market-stTeet
Railway Company will not adopt the stor-
age battery system until 1t had been per-
fected beyond its present shadowy devel-
opment. But when a motor had been Sc
cured which would do the work the COM
pany would be only too glad to adopt it.
The spectacle of Jaded pair Of horses
YEARLY Juggling at car up the hills on
Broadway. when compared with the rapid
transit which the residents along that line
have proudly pictured in their imagination,
Is not calculated to awaken any marked
degree of enthusiasm among the prospec-
tive patrons. There has been much said
and printed about the abolition of the
horsecar lines on Third, Fourth, Fifth and
other streets, and the adoption of M olive
power which is abreast Of the times, but
1t now seems that the horses are merely to
be transferred to another portion of the
551ty TO provoke the wrath of the righteous
and ungodly alike.
The Presidio and Ferries Company now
controls hOrse-car line on jackson and
Washington streets, running from Mont
g0mery to the ferries. The lire Is Oper-
ated from Sansome street down by both
The Central and the first-named line. 1t is
said that the owners have determined to
make the line a cable road and that work
will soon be begun.
The City Passenger Association found
its second victim yesterday when the
agent of the Rio Grande Western was
fined 500 for violating the agreement.
The first conviction was that of an Oak
land subscriber to the articles.
The English financial publication
known as Fairplay, In its weekly issue of
Friday. November g. has the following:
1t is stated that an American ombination,
including L. L. Corthel who won fame as an
engineer in the Improvement OF navigation on
the Mississippi, {. P Huntington and others of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, are ac-
lively engaged on the scheme for he compile
ton OF the railway across the Isthmus OF
Tebauntepec, in connection with the Hon.
Chandos Stanhope, who, accompanied by MIR.
Guttman, engineer, has been sent out by the
Dresdner Bank OF Berlin 10 Investigate the
matter with view to that bank taking share
in the enterprise.
1t is understood at present that IL is merely a
question of terms between the banks and the
Government whether the scheme Is made "a
go' or not. In case the Americans named
undertake it, il is thought that 1t may offse I
public opinion In the Unied States against the
Nicaragua Canal scheme. concerning which
Congress has not yet moved.
The Wisconsin. Minnesota and Pacific
Railroad was disposed of in Minneapolis,
MINI, last week, under decree of mort
gage foreclosure, the Rock Island being the
purchaser. An agent bid the road in for
~,
York as trustee under the hrst mortgage,
collateral and extension, dated July 4,
1884 for the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railway Company for SIS, 204 S12.
he made cash payment OF over 1000 70
comply with the decree of the court. The
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific takes
Immediate possession, and q o change In the
conduct of the road will occur.
Traffic Manager Grag of the Southern
Pacific is again able to attend to his official
duties. General Passenger Agent Good
man is still confined to his bed.
A former employe of one of the railroad
ticket Offices in this city who got into
trouble about his accounts and was relieved
of his position, subsequently, going East.
may yet be brought back to answer for his
action. The forbearance of his superior
was all that saved him from prosecution
before, and so many things have come to
the surface against him since his depar.
ture that his unwilling return is not at all
improbable.
a dispatch from Chicago states that the
representatives of Western roads in that
city are considerably stirred up over the
discovery that two men, Independent oil
any railroad line, were offering through
tickets to San Francisco at a rate of S27
The dispatch goes on to say that it was dis
covered that two men, named Howard and
McGorray. have opened an Office in the
Hotel Carnot and advertised to sell tickets
to San Francisco for S27. At the office il
was ascertained tina an excursion will
leave Friday night from the Grand CeDtra
depot over the Chicago and Great Western
for st. Paul. From there the route is oveI
the Canadian Pacific to Victoria, and
thence by vessel TO San Francisco.
The agents mentioned demand payment
of Sal, but as soon as the money is paid
and the receipt issued S14 is returned and
the holder OF the receipt is directed to the
desk of the hotel. where he receives q
regular ticket in exchange for the re.
ceipt.
Continuing, the dispatch says that the
lowest published tariff rate over the same
routes from Chicago to San Francisco il
S37. Previous to November 10 the rate
was S31. Various Western lines have taken
this matter UP. and it is expected some ex
plantations may be demanded In few