The San Francisco call., 1897-01-27
WILL FORCE THE
! USE OF TRANSFERS
W. R. Davis Speaks of the
New Electric Road
Across Town.
Prominent Capitalists Assert
That They Are Acting
in Good Faith.
Broadway Will No Longer Be the
Deadline Street of PaSsen-
ger Travel
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,
Q0S Broadway, Jan. 26.

GARLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,l
908 Broadway, Jan. 26.
s franchise has been asked of the City
Council for a new electric road to run
across town, and there is much specuia-
tinn concerning it's promoters and the ul-
innate object of desiring the franchise.
The route proposed is as follows: Com
mencing at Fallon and Sixth streets,
along Sixth to Oak, along Oak to Ninth,
thence along Ninth to Market, along
Market to'Tenth, thence 10 Center, then
Ln 10 Twelfth, along Twelfth to Peralta,
' thence to Lincoln and out westerly to the
city boundary.
Ex-Mayor W. r. Davie, who seems to
know more about the franchise than any
body else, said to-day that the franchise
has been asked for in good faith.
whether it pay or not, he said, sis Of
little consequence to the public, if mon
eyed men are willing 10 take the chances.
II has been suggested that the roate is
being sought for the purpose OF steam
road to connect with some railroad but
this is nonsense because the law pro-
vides that a Council may grant fran
chise to an electric road, but that two
thirds of the property-owners along the
street must give their consent for right
OF way for a steam line. Those who be-
lieve that the promoters are not in earnest
will find their error in due time"
The franchise was sought by J. ].
LampinE, and il IS learned that he repre-
sents Frederick Delger and other cap
itaists.
For a long time much complaint has
been made that Broadway has been a dead
line 10 travel from either East or West
Oakland. a year ago passengers coming
in from either end Of the city could trans
fer across Broadway and be taken to the
other end of the city. But at the time
stated a compact was entered into by
which no transfers were granted across
Broadway, except those that went out to
Piedmont. This system has worked a
great hardship on residents OF either end
OF the city who wish TO cross Broaow way
and for long time they have sought
a means to break up the existing agree
ment 1t is true that q trip from Fruit
vale to West Oakland could be made on
the Seventh-street local for one nickel, but
very small percentage of the population
lives in the neghborhood of the Seventh
street local. and as a street passenger SER
vice it has never been patronized beyond
a very limited extent.
The route of the proposed road will
4 break up the agreement not to transfer
across Broadway, because the existing law
d prohibits any company from charging
more than one fare for cars going in any
one general direction, and as Sixth and
Fallon streets is the westerly shore OF
Lake Merritt, and Lincoln street rms close
to the bay, the new road will certainly
find large share of traffic awaiting it.
Should the new road be run in connec-
tion with the Vandercook system on
Eighth street it would, with the various
branches, be as large a consolidation as
that of F. NJ. Smiths syndicate. 1t is not
at all unlikely that the application for the
franchise, however, may be largely in the
nature of a powerful threat to force the
existing roads to give transfers across
the CitV