The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-07
GATES, BUT NO FARES,
City Trustee Hammond Inter
views ]. A Fillmore on
the Proposition.
City Attorney Taylor Loses His Wife
by Blood Poisoning-Laundry
Farm Picnic.

ALAMEDA, CAL, June 6.-The ques-
ton of gates on the local trains and fares
being charged can now be taken as being
definitely settled.
City Trustee William Hammond, chair
man of the Street Committee, determined
that some authoritative settlement of the
question should be made before the gates
went on, if they were TO go. With this
purpose in view he went to San Francisco
this morning to interview General Man
ager Kruttsehnitt. On his return Mr..
Hammond said:
II could not see Mr.. Kruttschnitt as he
was out of town, but l saw J. A. Fillmore.
l told him what l had come over about,
and explained the situation to him, and
how the people were worked up over the
matter"
Mr.. Fillmore said there was no need for
fear on the part of the Alameda people.
Gates were going to be put on as con-
venience to the public and as a means of
preventing accidents. He assured Mr..
Hammond that the company had no in
tention of charging fares for riding within
the city limits on either the broad or mar
row gauge trains.
81 asked him. said Mr.. Hammond,
what about the future?'
"Let me assure you once again, said
Mr.. Fillmore, sit is not the company's in
tention now, or at any future time, to
charge fares for city-limit travelling. Your
residents can rest easy on that point"
AS to the gates Mr.. Hammond does not
think any serious objection will be made
by the citizens. They can be allowed to
be tried. If public safety is increased and
no inconvenience experienced they will be
allowed to remain as long as no fares are
charged"
Death of Mrs. e. K. Taylor.
ALAMEDA, CAL, June 6.-The COM
munity received shock this morning
when it became known that the wife of
E. K. Taylor, City Attorney, was dead.
She had been i'll since last Saturday and
was to have undergone an operation, but
was too weak to stand the ordeal. Her
death was caused by blood poisoning.
Mrs. Taylor was native OF Suisun, Cal,
and was 33 years of age. Her father, Rev.
w. r. Gober was for many years pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, San
Jose, and it was while there that his de-
ceased daughter graduated at the Unlver-
sity of the Pacific ten years ago.
The funeral services Will be held on Mon
day morning at IL o'clock at the family
residence 1875 Regent street, when
the Rev. Mr.. bennett, an old classmate of
the deceased, Will OlHClHVe. Inc inter-
ment will be at Mountain View Cemetery.
Out of respect for the bereaved husband
the Alameda Republican Club has post
poned its meeting this evening. On Mon
day all the city offices will be closed.
New Electric Locomotive.
ALAMEDA, Call, June 6.-The Cali
fornia Railway Company opened its line
from the Parks street bridge to-day by a
monster picnic for the children attending
the public schools, their teachers and
parents, in the company's grounds at
Laundry Farm. The grounds cover AGO
acres and are extremely picturesque and
diversified, forming an ideal spot for rec
reation, within easy access of Alameda
and Oakland. By noon over 1000 persons
were on the grounds.
The electric locomotive is the first one
of its kind i'll the State and was built in
Oakland. 1t is an exact duplicate, on
smaller scale, of that used on the Belti-
more and Ohio Railroad and weighs thirty
tons. The electric locomotive runs very
well for first attempt, but the engineer
saws that few minor alterations have to
be made, which will increase its power up
the steep grades.
Encina1 Yacht Club.
ALAMEDA, CAL, June 6.-The season