The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-08

KNOW, appeared ana bolu the HIen W ulSIe-
gard the orders of the Street Superin-
tendent, and the gangs of men resumed
their labors.
go to the Office of the Chief of Police
and get as many officers as you may re-
ouire," said Superintendent Ashworth to
his deputy. ''Take three, and if that is not
enough get more. Stop the work at once.
The company has no franchise there. If
the men refuse to obey you have them ar
rested. want you to stop that work"
In speaking of the matter yesterday aft
ernoon Mr.. Eagan said:
II don't know anything at all about the
abandonment of the franchise, but l sup
pose the railroad company had good rea-
sons for rushing the work through. put
six hundred men to work here at o'clock
this morning. If there had been room for
more men to work would have engaged
them. l shall keep a gang of men ct work
all night, and the work of tracklaying and
grading will continue until all is finished
as specified in my orders. will have a
hearing in the Police Court tomorrow, but
that will not cause any delay to the work
in hand"
From early morning until sunset gangs
of men were at work tearing up the street,
laying ties and placing tracks. The crew
consisted of 500 picked railroad builders
and lbs teams accustomed to such work.
Thomas Egan was in charge of the work
and kept a steady motion all along the
line. By o'clock three-quarters of mile
of track was in position. From Sixteenth
street to Ridley the work went on. Poles
TO carry the wires were placed on either
side of the street as fast as the electrical
men could accomplish their work.
Just about the time the men were be-
ginning to get hungry Sergeant Hanna,
accompanied by two officers, appeared on
the scene and placed Foreman Egan and
his assistant, John Hall, under arrest on a
charge of mIsdemeanor, preferred by
Deputy Superintendent of Streets Donovan.
Hanna started for the Southern police
station with his prisoners but on the way
downtown met II. H. Lynch, the superin-
tendent of the work, who Immediately put
up $50 bail for each man. He promised to
discontinue the work at o'clock and both
prisoners were at once released. They
went back to their duties, and at o'clock
ceased. But when the workmen had Sc
cured bite to eat the prohibited construc-
ton went on. All night long headlight
lanterns flashed along the newly laid
track while screws were tightened and ties
tamped by the weary laborers.
The company proposes to hold the line
now that. portion OF the track has been
laid, and from the remarks of Foreman
Doyle instructions were issued to go ahead
with the work at all hazards. He said:
What can a handful of police do with
this crowd? Suppose they send out ten
men to stop the work. They could only
take twenty men from here at the best, and
that would not cripple us. We are going
to lay this track even if the entire police
force of San Francisco is sent out here.
The roadbed will not be entirely com
pleted, but it will be a railroad lust the
same.'
Shortly after II o'clock last night one of
the bobtail cars which have been freely adj
vertised for sale by the company was
taken out Market street and placed on the
west side of the newly laid track The
precaution of having a passenger on board
the first car on the line was not overlooked
by the railroad managers. A man was
placed inside the car with a number of Off
Gals, and with all due solemnity deposited
a nickel in the slot
The car was run down the track by hand,
with all its lights burning, and left at the
Sixteenth-street end in charge of one of
the hampers. 1t will remain there until
this morning, when it will again be pushed
along the line in order to substantiate the
technical grounds OF the line being in op-
Grafton.
Captain Lees was asked what action the
Police Department would take in the mat
ter. He said: "When the Superintendent
of Streets calls upon the Police Depart
ment' for assistance in the carrying out of
the law, the department will promptly re-
spond. [ do not intend to jeopardize the
bondsmen of the Chief by taking any ac-
ton not warranted by law. We cannot
stop the work upon any of these roads I'M
less called upon to do SO by the Superin-
tendent of Streets, as we know nothing
about it officially. Mr.. Ashworth has not
asked US to take any steps in the matter
as yet"
''Would you stop the work if requested
by the chief deputy Of the Superinten-
dent?"
mo, sir. We can only recognize the
Superintendent himself in such case.
We have squad of men ready to go out if
Mr. Ashworth calls for them, but he has
not done so tonight
By daylight this morning the work will
practically be completed, and the Southern
Pacific will be in possession of Church
street.
In regard to the Church-street grab of
the railroad company, Mayor Sutro said
last night that he had ordered the Super
intendent of Streets and the Chief of Police
to see to it that the work was stopped.
When spoken to about the matter last
night, Superintendent of Streets Ashworth
said that he was told by Clerk Russell of
the Board of Supervisors that the Market
street Company had no franchise on Church
street.
He said he would do nothing about Cali
fornia street, as he did not know whether
the company had franchise for that
thoroughfare or not.
1t is very likely that iniunctions wi3l be
sued out the first thing this morning to
prevent the railroad company from going
on with their work.
Superintendent of Streets Ashworth did
not know that any work was being done
on Church street until o'clock this morn
ing, when he was informed by his chief