The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-03
CROKER WAS COURTEOUS
Received the Ashbury Heights
Committee With Smiles
and Promises.
The Colonel VIII Visit the Car
Deserted District and Inquire
Into Its Needs.

The Ashbury Heights and Stanyan-
street Improvement Club went into per-
manent organization at its meeting last
evening at the resid ence at T. W. n. Lang.
40 Carl street, adopted a constitution and
elected board of officers. George w.
Hansborough presided, and R. F. Hard
ing, on behalf of the committee appointed
at recent meeting to remind the Market
street Railroad people that their Carl
street franchise called for fifteen minute
service, submitted a verbal report He
said that the committee had seen Colonel
Croker, who promised to visit the district
personally and inquire into its needs and
rights in the matter of street railway SER
vice. Colonel Croker had promised moth
ing, but the committee had been favorably
impressed, and believed that he would
eventually grant he desired service.
The secretary read the following resolu-
tons, the adoption Of which was deferred
until after Colonel Crocker's promised
visit, Oh plea from Mr. Harding which
stated in substance that it would be I'M
diplomatic to stir up the powers in the
cornstalk building pending their promise to
conform to the franchise under which the
road was constructed:
Resolved, That it is the sense OF the residents
OF South Side, in mass-meeting assembled
that the Market-street Railway Company has
shamefully ignored our requests, preferred
sion, August 81, 1895, relative to the re-estab-
lishment of car service for the accommodation
of the people of this section.
We condemn the company for the withdrawal
of our car facilities, and feel that its sole mo-
tive was not because of its failure to pay ex-
penses, but because of some other Interior pur-
pose.
1t is our opinion that such purpose was to de-
feat the selection OF the SutrO site for the
Affiliated Colleges If this in truth were the
motive OF the company's withdrawal then we
denounce its action as direct assault upon
our property values, against our personal com
forts and against the best interests OF San
Francisco.
RESOLVED, Seeing that we are to be made vic
tins OF a soulless greed, and our rights over
ridden by corporation whose officers seem de-
void of conscience, that this meeting should at
once appoint committee of five for the pur-
pose OF 1nstituting proceedings before the
Board of Supervisors and before the courts to
declare absolutely forfeited the franchise of
the company for its disregard of the law and
for its abandonment of the privileges extended
to it by the generosity of this municipality
ResoIUed, That the organization recently
resentative Of the property of this section.
The election of officers resulted as fol-
lows: President, George A. Rankin;
vice-president, F. ]. Roster; secretary, A.
]. Fritz; treasurer, F. w. N. Lang. Ex-
ecutive committee-George w. Hansbor-
ough, r. T. Harding, Eugene Fritz, D. l..
Westover and William Richardson.
A number of petitions to the University
Regents asking that the Sutro site be
chosen for the Affiliated Colleges were
given to the members by George T. Gaden
for circulation and signatures among their
friends and acquaintances in the Ashbury
Heights district.