The San Francisco call., 1896-04-29

| as follows:
! Outgoing cars (bound west and north) will
| receive transfers issued by transfer agent in
eAcnange Tor checks received from westbound
Market-street cars at corner of Eddy and Mar
ket streets; will issue transfers for north and
soutnDound Fillmore-street cars from corner
OF Eddy and Fillmore streets; will receive
transfers from eastbound Ellis and O'Farrell
street cars at corner of Ellis and Devisadero
streets; Will issue transfers for westbound
oacramento-street cars from corner OF Sacra-
mento and DevIsadero streets.
FOR passengers entering the car at any point
on Devisadero street, or travelling upon trans
Iers received from eastbound Page and Ellis
streets cars, and for such passengers only,
transfers will be issued to eastbound Jackson
street cars at corner of Jackson and Devisadero
streets.
incoming cars (bound south and east will
receive transfers from west bound Jackson
street cars at corner of Jackson and Devisadero
Streets and from east bound Sacramento-street
cars at corner of Sacramento and Devisadero
streets; will issue transfers for west bound
Ellls and O'Farrell street cars from corner of
Devisadero and O'Farrell streets: will receive
transfers from north and south bound Fillmore
street cars at corner of Turk and Fillmore
streets; will issue transfers for east bound
Market-street cars from corner OF Turk and
Market Streets
commencing may L, lcJO, Ine line OF cars
formerly running from the corner OF Devisa-
dero and Jackson streets to the corner of Fill
more and Page streets will be withdrawn.
On week days, on and after that date car
Will leave the corner of Page and Devsadero
streets at 6 A. NJ, and at intervals of twelve
minutes there after, up to midnight, running
via Page street to Fillmore street and return
ing Via Oak street. At Fillmore street trans
fers will be issued to south bound Fillmore
fn he rJ11a Of hat
line, will be received from north bound Fill
more-street cars. AT Devisadero street trans
iers will be issued to the cars of the Ellis and
O'Farrell street line, bound in either direc-
tion, and, subject to the rules of that line will
be received from said cars.
The plan of giving checks to passengers
who desire to be transferred to another
line, which checks are to be exchanged by
the transfer agent for transfer, is de-
signed to put stop to what the company
considers an illegitlmate traffic in their
transfers. The transfers now given out
give margin of twenty minutes to
passengers who make a change from one
car to another. The new system is ex-
pected to result in compelling the passen-
ger to make a continuous trip, and to
afford no chance whatever to the newsboys
to profit from gifts of the rectangular
pasteboards.
The details of the scheme show that
they engaged considerable mental travail
In their perfection. The check given the
passenger will be very much like the pres
ent transfer. Instead, however, of having
the hours and minutes indicated on it, the
figures displayed permit of the punching
of the particular run and trip OF the con-
2npfOr iScninu ~ rboco ho
complete mystery to the public, but to the
transfer agent who will give transfer in
exchange for it it will tell the exact minute
when the passenger received it, as the
agent will have memorandum of the
time every car passes his station during
the entire day.
He will thus be enabled to tell at once
whether check, according to the rule es-
tablished by the company, is good or void.
If the latter, he of course will decline to
make the exchange. There being nothing
on the check to inform the ordinary indi-
vidual whether it is serviceable or not, it
is calculated that he will be cha-y of using
checks, except those regularly issued to
him.
A change will also be made in the trans
fers. They will allow of the time being
punched on them, so as TO show fve-min-
ute intervals, instead of twenty minutes,
as now, and to further prevent any posi-
bility of the transfer being manipulated
for the benefit of any one except the per-
son to whom it is issued, it will not be
given out until the car it is TO be service
able for is approaching the transfer agent
The present agent at Third and Market
streets will continue to handle all the busi-
ness at that point, but at Powell and Mar
ket streets two agents will be stationed.