The San Francisco call., 1896-03-27
More Frequent Boats to Be Put
On When the New Depot
Is Ready.
ONE EVERY TWENTY MINUTES.
The Southern Pacific Will Not Run
Its Principal Trains Into Town.
send Street.

Within comparatively short time the
people of San Francisco and those residing
across the bay will be able to make the
trip to and fro on the broadgauge ferry at
intervals of twenty minutes instead of
thirty. as at present, as it is the avowed
purpose OF the Southern Pacific, when the
new ferry depot is completed, to put on
boats and connecting trains to run every
twenty minutes on the broadgauge lines.
1t was current report that the Southern
Pacific Company would not require as
much room in the new depot as it is now
utilizing at the foot of Market street. 1t
was stated that by that time its coast line
would be completed from Los Angeles via
Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, and
that the principal trains would be brought
in at the Third and Townsend street depot.
Manager j. A. Fillmore. when asked as
to the truth of this report, said:
'Why, that is the veriest nonsense. By
the time this new depot will be ready, the
increase in traffic on the suburban trains
will be such that to my mind it will be
necessary for us to put in q service that
will give boat every twenty minutes on
the broadgauge line, and this may even
become necessary before that depot is
ready.
"When these twenty minute ferry boats
are put on, they will at first run during the
early hours of the morning and the
evening hours, when the traffic is heaviest
with the completion of the coast line,
only one train will be taken away from
the main line that now enters Oakland,
and that will be the overland train on the
Sunset line. This will be run in at Town
send street, but it will not decrease the
number of trains now entering Oakland,
because we will have to put on a local from
Los Angeles to San Francisco to take the
place of the throAgh train. In fact. we
expect to see our trains increased by ten or
dozen by the time this depot is COM
pleted."
Among other rumors in this connection
was one to the effect that the Oakland re-
pair shops were to be removed to Mission
Bay. where the company contemplated
phatically denied by Manager Fillmore,
who said:
II can't conceive how any one can i'm
agine such a thing as that the Oakland
shops are to be removed. They will all re-
main where they are, and will be needed
in order to keep the locomotives and steam
ers that run into Oakland i'll repair. They
only change to be made in the location of
shops will be in connection with those
now at Sixteenth street. When the coast
route is completed these shops will be
transferred so as to be alongside of the
main line.''
Considerable work in the shape of i'm
provements in the roadbed of the Southern
Pacific are being made at the present
time.
In San Gorgonio Pass ten miles of road
is being replaced with the new pattern To-
pound steel rails, supported on redwood
ties, with steel tie plates between the tie
and rail. This particular ten miles is also
being ballasted with gravel from the
Whitewater River. Five miles of this bal
lasting has already been completed.
A piece of heavy ballasting has also just
been completed between Bakersfield and
Pampa, distance of thirteen miles, and
in connection with that ballasting the
company has also applied the new tie
plates.
These plates prevent the rail sinking
into the tie, and thus not only preserve the
latter, but aid to maintain the smoothness
of the road.