The morning call., 1894-11-13
More Promises Made About the
Five Cent Fare.
SATURDAY NOW THE DAY SET.
The Southern Pacific Will Extend
the Coast Division Twenty-Five
Miles at Once.

feet the new rate of cents TO the Cliff
House. it will make no difference in the
plans which have been perfected for Mr..
Sutro's line.
William c. Little, agent for Adolph
Sutro, was nteDtly scanning long list of
names yesterday afternoon, which proved
TO be the weekly payroll of the men now
at work on the new line.
THAT don't look much like we had given
up work, does it?" said be. There are
$50 graders and ieamsters now in our
employ, and we expect to keep more than
that number at work until the last lie is
laid. We have received a good piece of
news this afternoon, to the effect that the
Injunction secured against us by the
Bush-street people has been dissolved, and
we can now proceed without further delay
to complete the road.
Here is another indication of our good
faith in the matter. | have just sent to
Mr.. SutTo, for his examination and ap-
pIoval, a contract for grading the outer
end of the road and / expect il will be ap-
proved tomorrow.
81 can't understand why sensible people
should be incredulOus as TO the building
of the road in view Of all these facts. And
then. too, look at the unjust criticisms that
have been heaped upon us. Take the mat
ter of the rails, for instance. The law re-
quires that in the construction of a road
of this character, all the material used
therein which can be procured of Califor-
n ia manufacture shall be bought from
that source. and that where this provision
is violated the franchise becomes void.
After fully looking over The ground we
found that only 40-pound rails could be
secured here. and we were anxious 10 put
in not less than a 56-pound rail, and, if
possible, 75-pound article, but we finally
bought the 60-pouDd rail-and all steel at
that. OF this quality we purchased 900
tons, or enough !or the whole road, and we
have, as you know, also bought SO, 600 ties,
200 kegs of spikes, in fact all the material
has Their been bought or contracted for
which Wa will use in the construction of
the road"
The stock of the Market-street Railway
took strong downward turn yesterday
morning when it fell from $40 80 to $50 a
share. Just what caused this slump many
people were unable TO understand, as the
stock mentioned has generally held its
own pretty well. The opinion was eX-
pressed in some quarters that it was
the logical result of the now settled con-
struction of the competing liae of Adoph
SutrO which caused it, as the new road
will very likely cause material reduction
in the receipts of the Market-street system.
II. L. Huntington said yesterday that
he thought all the necessary arrangements
would be made by Saturday for placing
the scent fare to the Cliff House into eff
fpPt Ihere wa a hpr NJ IN
be completed. he said, which had neces-
sarily delayed the introduction of the pre-
posed decrease, but he thought everything
would be arranged by the date mentioned.
If by any chance the new rate should
not go into effect before next Sunday,
when the Press Club will give its MAN.
moth concert at the Sutro Baths, the rate
will only De cents each way. This NAV
be depended upon whatever delays may be
experienced in the introduction of the
lower rate permanently.
The officials of the Southern Pacific an
nounced yesterday that the construction of
twenty-five miles more of road on the
coast division would be begun at once and
pushed to a completion as rapidly as pos
sible. This work will extend the line
from it's present terminus at San Luis
Obispo to Guadalupe, on the Santa Maria
River.
When the road was completed last
spring from Santa Margarita to San Luis
Obispo it was announced that nothing
further would be done in the way of con-
struction for an indefinite len 9Th Of time.
Since then, however. work has never en-
tirely ceased, although the efforts 10 this
line have been confined to grading by a
small force of men in the territory over
which rails are now to be laid. Mr..
Huntington says that he expects to have
the line completed through TO the river by
the middle of February.
The coast division will ultimately prove
TO be The main through line to Los An
geles. and the railroad officials appreciate
the many advantages offered by 1t and are
consequently anxious that The line be built
through as soon as possible. When COM
rleed there will not be a mile of the road
diSagreeable 10 travel over, the dusty.
weari'0m features of a trip by the present
route to Los Angeles being thus overcome.
When the necessary extensions have
been made it is said still another effort
will be made to populariZe aud increase
the suburban traffic over this route by the
Inauguration of a system of rapid transit
out into the country a distance of some
forty or fifty miles-pTobably to San Jose.
1t is expected that rate of speed approx
mating mile minute will be secured by
some of these trains, it being the object OF
the management of the road to secure
more extensive settlement in number of
the suburban towns lying adjacent to the
city.
Many people who now reside in Oak
land, Alameda and at other points across
the bay it is claimed could be induced
easily 90 move to this side il they could
secure homes within a moderate distance
OF the city and thus avoid the tedious ride
by boat. 1t is claimed that by the fast and
frequent service proposed that passengers
will be landed fifteen, twenty aud twenty
five miles in the country in oue-half the
time now consumed in the trip By boat
over the bay.