The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-16
WEST END PEOPLE | ANGRY
Will Demand Restoration of
Car Service on Clayton. s.
Street Line.
Effort to Hurt Sutro's Gift to the
Affiliated Colleges Promises q
-: Failure. -: -. - ~.

If the state of mind of the residents OF
that section of the City traversed by the
Clayton-street electric line is a safe: basis
upon which to form an estimate as to the
outcome, there is proba bic failure ahead OF
the. attempt of the :: Southern Pacific,
through its most reliable adjunct, the
Market-street Cable Com pany, to prejudice
the committee that is to make a selection
of site from among the various tracts
offered for the Affiliated Colleges. :. .':+
AS has been previously stated, the Mar
ket- street Cable Company has abandoned
the car service on the Clayton-street end OF
the old Metropolitan line, in the hope that
the committee will reject Mayor Sutro's
proffer of site as being inaccessible, there
being no car service. This at. least is the
belief of most persons interested in the
Affiliated Colleges site, and it is the unan-
imous opinion of those citizens who live
along the abandoned line, who depended
upon it for getting in and out of the City,
and who are therefore in reality the chief
sufferers.
These are very bitter over what they
term "being whipped over the: shoulders
of one of the company's enemies" The
various neighborhoods of Stanyan street,
Clarendon Heights, etc, have been can
vassed and meeting called, which will be
held on the oath inst, to formulate plans
for making the company restore the serv-
ice, or, in the failure of that, to have the
Board of Supervisors declare the franchise
forfeited.
Thomas U. Sweeney, residing at the cor
ner of Seventh avenue and j street, one OF
those Disseminated against by the new or
der of things, said yesterday:
There are fully 800 or 400 people shut off
from streetcar connections with the City by
the withdrawal OF the cars from the Clayton
street line. OF course, we can take the steam
cars and transfer at, the park, but they only
run once in three-quarters of an hour. and
there is no train from the City after 80 P. NJ.
This is practically as good as no service at all
We were entirely satisfied with the service OF
the electric line, and as most OF the residences
in this section were built with the expec tation
that the line would continue to be operated
so that we would have at least as good SER
vice as had thus far been given us, if not i'm
proved upon, we feel we may be Justly indig-
nant at being deprived of the service entirely.
There is apparently no other reason for
taking off the cars than simply to spite Mr..
Sutro, whom they have always fought on every
proposition, and we do not propose TO be made
TO suffer for matter in which we have no IN
terest We shall try to make the Market-street
Company put back the cars or we shall demand
that the franchise be forfeited.
George Lane, another resident of Seventh
avenue, reiterated the statement of Mr..
Sweeney that it was the malice of the
Southern Pacific Company toward Mayor
Sutro that prompted the abandoning of
the service. He said:
It certainly can be for no other reason, for
the road paid dividend when under the man.
agement of the Metropolitan Company, and as
there are more people living along the line
now than then, it cannot be said that the cars
were taken off because they didn't pay. We
do not propose to stand such boys play, and
we will have that service restored or see that
the franchise is forfeited and room made for
Joost or some one else who wants to build
through to the ocean. don't know what plan
we will adopt yet, but we will decide upon a
course at the meeting on the oath.
Other residents of the locality talked in
a similar strain, showing the community
is not in a mood to tolerate the discrimin-
alton any longer than it is obliged.
From opinions expressed by a number of
the colleges committee yesterday it is
hardly believed that the discontinuance OF
the car service will carry much weight in
the selection of the site. They appear to
have no fears but there will be plenty OF
car service by the time the building is COM
pIeted.