The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-11-12
WAS 1T A BLUFF?
No Five-Cent Fares to the
Ocean Yet.
VARIOUS CABLES STOPPED.
Travel Blocked All Over the
City Yesterday.
INCONVENIENCE TO THE PUBLIC.
The Southern Pacific Company Comes
Back Hard at the Citizens of
San Francisco.
INCONVENIENCE TO THE PUBLIC.

There was no five-csnt fare to the Cliff
House yesterday.
The people have been fooled and
laughed at by the Southern Pacific Com
pany once again-just once again.
The csble-cars on Clay, Sacramento and
Powell streets, stopped yesterday just at
the time when the long suffering public
wants the use of the transit lines the most.
But this fact did not seem to worry the
managers at Fourth and Townsend streets.
1t is cheaper 20 run cars with old and rot
ten cables that are raveled at the edges
and ripped at the seams, than to put in
new cables that would insure something
like regular traffic.
All the thoroughfares north of Market
street were practically blocked 50 far as
continuous travel and transfers were con-
cerneG.
1t wasn't much better south of Market
street in the western direction. Adolph
Sutro, Mayor-elect. had invited the public
to call at the Cliff House ana Sutro
Heights during the recreation hours of
the Sabbath day. Thousands of citizens
with their wives and daughters and sons
had planned TO accept Mr. Sutro'S invita-
ton. Thousands did not go because the
Southern Pacific Company refused to carry
them for pay.
1t was impossible to find riding accom-
modations Oh the Valencia, Mission aud
Haight street lines. There were not cars
enough to go around. Men who had de-
termined TO give their families an airing
at anv cost were forced TO hire hacks or
any other conveyance that could be found
or give up the trip.
The Southern Pacific Company holds
the streets and the tracks. If a few
thousands OF men should become as indig-
nant as did several hundred yesterday the
company would not hold the streets for
long. The opinion was freely expressed
that the blockading of travel was pur-
posely done TO spite the voters.
But that is not the worst of it. The
Southern Pacific Company agreed to fix a
fve-cent fare 10 the Cliff House and the
beach and so announced TO the public.
This arrangement should have gone into
effect not later than last Tuesday.
But il hasn't come as yet. There still
continues To be no such thing as a Seen t
fare TO the ocean, and the employees of
the road have received no notice to that
effect.
The many thousands who bad prepared
TO 60 to the Cliff House on a fiye-cent fare
yesterday. ddu't go at all, because they
could not even get standing room. Again,
because of the lack of transfer facilities as
demanded by law. many were compelled
to pay TWO, and even three, fares where
they should have paid only one. A few of
these victims have expressed themselves
as intending to sue for damages. Dr.. Rob-
insOn OF Alameda will not be alone in the
field.
Conductors Yesterday we're kept busy
answering the questions of passengers as
20 the promised reduction. One passen-
GER remembering that the promise had
been made few DAYS before election
naively asked: WAS it an election bluff ?'
but, ike his fellows, received no satisfac-
ton. 1t was generally considered that the
corporation is simply DESTROYS of backing
out of it's bargain for as long period as
possible.