The San Francisco call., 1896-02-08
WILL BUILD A NEW LINE.
The Hayes.Street Road to Be Ex.
tended From the Park to
the Ocean.
RICHMOND DISTRICT EVENTS.
The Cemetery Question Causes Dissen.
Sion-Sutro'S Electric Road is
Censured.
RICHMOND DISTRICT EVENTS.

The actual completion and operation of
the Sutro road has enlivened real estate
matters in the Richmond district to no
small extent. There is a strong demand
for property now made accessible, and in
consequence the real estate men are happy.
''The real estate sales in 1895 were fully
30 per cent greater than the preceding
year." said 7. G. Parker yesterday. 'The
current year has commenced most fiatter-
ingly, the sales so far showing an increase
of so per cent over the same period of 1895.
This is due in great degree to the COM
pletion of the new electric line to the
ocean. People are not only buying more
property, but they are improving it, which
fact is of course to our greater advantage" 4"
While the real estate interests of Rich
mond are advanc ing, the Market-street
Railway is tigura lively doing the same
thing, though its efforts are directed in
another channel. Sutro's road has cut q
big hole in the daily receipts, and when
the new bandstand d in Golden Gate Park
is completed they will find many more
nickels slipping from their grasp. The
people's road has branch running from
Eighth avenue to the park, and within a
short distance OF the bandstand, SO that
they will naturally control big part of
the park traffic.
In order to overcome this as much as
possible, the Market-street Company has
determined to extend the Hayes-street
cable system from Stanyan street to the
ocean. Electricity will be the power en-
ployed over the entire line. The route to
the beach is as follows
From the present terminus on Stanyan
street down and out Fulton to Seventh
avenue, along that thoroughfare to Point
Lobos, and then a straight shoot to the
ocean. 1t is understood in Richmond that
work on the new line will begin in few
days and be pushed rapidly to completion.
When this is done there will be four direct
lines to the ocean, three of which pass
through the district. The present road on
Seventh avenue, used only on Sundays,
will be widened to tue electric gauge.
The action of the Board of Supervisors
in stopping the sale of b,lrial lots in the
three cemeteries which lie between Rich
mond district proper and the City has
aroused considerable feeling among the
residents of the former. There are many
who are anxious to abolish the cemeteries
altogether, and they regard the prohibit
t1on OF sales as great victory. The par
tisans OF the cemeteries, however, look at
the matter in totally different light.
They claim that the ordinance as passed
by the Supervisors is unconstitutional,
and they propose to test it in the courts.
The Odd Fellows Cemetery is probably
the least affected of any by the new order
They had previously sold most of their old
lots, though it is understood that at the
very time of the Supervisors unexpected
action they were negotiating for addi-
tional territory.
In spite of the fact that the Richmond
people welcome Sutros road and look on
it as kind of deliverance, they are un-
qualifiedly opposed to the high rate of
speed at which the cars are run. This is
particularly noticeable on Eighth avenue,
where the cars attain an average speed of
eighteen miles an hour. This is never
slackened when crossing is reached. The
Point Lobos Club has appointed COM
mittee to wait on the officials, and re-
quest that the cars be run at rate con-
sistent with the safety of pedestrians and
vehicles.