The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-19
IN DAYS TO COME.
A Clairvoyant Peers Into
the Future.
THE PACIFIC MAIL RUINS.
The American Navigation Company
Already Proving the Vision-The
Salt Lake Road Is Not Dead.

A member of the Traffic Association
visited cairvoyant yesterday and had
him cast his CLASSY eye down vista opened
to him along the future of the transporta-
ton question in California.
He paid his fee and afterward said that
he had never spent any money in all his life
which brought him more satisfaction In
return.
This is what the Interpreter of the mystic
signs which tell of future events prophe-
sied
Il see lonely decayed pile of Jagged
piles and rotten timber which look as if
they once had been a pier, for they stretch
out into the bay.
"a moldy. teredo-eaten board sticks out
from the debris, and on it l can decpher
some nearly washed out letters which read,
Pacific Mail Company's Wharf
There is no sign of activity around this
pile OF wreckage. and it seems to be deserted
by ali-Quietiy left to decay.
And here see another scene which is
also located along the water front but 1t is
an entirely different one.
big steamers are impatiently tugglng at
the ropes which hold them last to the docks
where they are loading and discharglng
freight.
'Bustle and activity prevail all around.
and II Looks as if all the commerce of San
Francisco was centered on these wharyes
"Biue and white are the colors Of the
flags displayed from these vessels, nd the
long streamers flying from their masts bear
the Inscription. North American Navga-
tlon Company"
Look along the railroad tracks and tell
| me what you can see there" said the mer-
chant.
Il see network of rails covered with
! moving trains which travel in every direc-
ton.
The cars have various designations
some oil them are marked Great Salt Lake
and San Francisco Railroad, others bear
the legends 'Atchisou. Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad, the Great Northern and
very lew OF them seem TO belong to an old
road because they look superannuated and
shabby. The letters on these are 5. 7. X. r.,
but evidently they are not doing any buSi-
ness, because all Of them are empty.
Every one of these trains is heading
Tor san francisco or leaving its great union
depot which Is thronged with people"
That is enough" said the merchant
you have well earned your fee" and he
left the place with satisfied look On his
cOuntenance.
There is every prospect that the clairvoy-
ants reelection Will come true, for the rush
OF freight for the announced departure of
the second steamer of the new navigation
company's line 10 Panama, New York and
Europe IS immense.
to carry all the freight offered, and, what is
more, full return cargo is awaiting her ar
rival at Panama.
The Great Salt Lake Railroad, which Mr.
Huntington and his organs have been try
ing So lndustrlOusly to represent as being
dead, promises now to become a reality very
soon.
New men have taken the matter in hand.
and they will soon be heard from in
manner which will surprise the syc0phanis
OF the Fourth and Townsend street coterie
THE CALL is in possession OF many facts
which if published would convince the
public that competing railroad line is far
nearer to becoming a fact than it IS gen.
orally supposed, but owing to the esp onage
and undermining process Carried on by
Huntington'S slaves whenever any plans
calculated TO interfere with tie Southern
Pacific monopoly are made public the men
who are about TO put stumbling blocks in
the way OF Mr.. Huntington are anxious not
to let him know too much until lie can no
longer Interfere with them.