The morning call., 1894-05-25

agree TO deed SutrO Heights to a board of
trustees in trust forever TO be kept open per
petually free 10 the public provided cable
road which runs ears at the usual interval of
i've minutes 90 be run from A, NJ. until mid
Dfght) IS built 10 the Cliff House"
Does MT. Croker reply to my proposition?
lie does not; be Ignores the cableroad prOpO-
sitOn and says: THE Marketstreet Railway
Company viii give transfer tickets at connect
Ing terminal points"
Where are these points? They resolve them
selves down to the cOwshed near Seventh ave
nue., where passengers are transferred from the
Sacrament O-stTeet cable-caTs on Sixth avenue
10 dummy between Seventh and Eighth ave-
nues. Passengers have TO travel block and a
hall, and at night there Is not even lantern In
the cowshed nor outside of IL, while people
have TO walt there in the dark sometimes for
half an hour.
Now, as to the proposition to have me select
hVe out OF ten gentlemen he names 10 manage
my affairs, although the men named are highly
respectable in character consider this simply
a piece of impudeDce, insolence and insnIt sup
posing was TO go to the annual meeting of the
Southern Pacific of kentucky and ask them to
select five Of their trustees out OF a list of ten
which present they very Tightfully would show
me ;he door.
L eau select my own trustees and make nv
own trust deeds without the advice or lnterfef-
ence OF the Southern Pacific of Kentucky; and
il there be anything Objectionable In the per
sonnet Of the trustees or The clauses of the
deed II Will be time enough TO make objections.
Mr.. CrockeTs eaEerness to secure advantages
Ior the people IN acquiring SutrO Heights comes
III III grace. LOT never before knew the mag
mates OF the Southern Pacific Company to be
anxious for the public welfare.
All these offers TO make single fare from the
bay 10 the ocean are a mere subterfuge sur
rounded as they are with conditions which thew
know iull well can never be carried out.
This proposition, therefore. to have a single
fare from bay 10 ocean IS simply dishonest de-
vice 10 make the public believe that they have
yielded this point 10 order TO make great sac
rifce to the dear people.
l hope no one will be misled by these asser-
tiOns. If they were honest in their professions
they would Squarely meet my propositions and
state that they would either build or not build
a cable road.
This matter has been talked over a dozen
times or more between myself Mr.. Croker
Mr. Huntington, Mr. Hood, their chief en-
gineer, and others, and they know full W, II
that the great object had in view was TO get a
cable road and a depot Immediately at the
baths, so that visitors would not have to face
the cold winds of the ocean after leaving the
baths
They talk In a patroniZing manner about
what they propose TO do in the interest of the
people. They talk II it was through a sacrI-
fee on their part that the public would secure
The use of Sutro Heights. They ignore me alto
gether, and forget that Sutro Heights has been
open TO the public, free as air, for the last ten
years, while they were busily engaged in gath
ering IN all the 5-eent pieces they could.
Again thanking you. l am, with the highest
regards, very truly yours, ADOLPH SUTRO.
San francisco, May "a. 1894.