The San Francisco call., 1904-07-15
TO BUILD NEW
ELECTRIC ROAD
Incorporation in San Fran
cisco of the Webster
Street and Park Railway
WILL OPEN IN AUTUMN
Line to Use Existing Tracks
and Run From Heart of
Oakland to the Cemeteries
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

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1915 Broadway, July a.
Articles of incorporation were filed
yesterday with the County Clerk OF
San Francisco by the Webster-street
and Park Railway Company Of Oak
land. The capital stock is stated at $780,
600. News of the Incorporation OF this
line, which has for its object the COM
pletion of an electric railroad through
the heart of Oakland and extending
from the water front to the cemeteries,
occasioned no little interest here. The
franchise for this road was granted by
the City Council and the Board of Su-
pervisors almost year ago. 1t re-
quires the work to be done by October
IS. and it is expected that the roads
will be completed by that date.
The system is commonly called the
"corkscrew" line. BY taking advan-
tage of the provision of the law which
enables one company TO use the lines Of
another for five blocks the new corpOr-
alton can get from the water front
through the heart of the city without
being obliged to lay other than con-
Meeting tracks with those Of the Oak
land Transit Consolidated.
The directors are ]. II. Macdonald of
the real estate firm of j. II. Macdonald
& Co.; John Charles Adams, capitalist;
Thomas Prather. president OF the
Union National Bank; Charles f. VIII
son. the attorney of San Francisco,
and T. A. Perkins.
The route TO be traversed by the new
company's lines begins at the foot of
Broadway, near First street. The cars
will run up Broadway, from First to
Fifth street, along Fifth 10 Washing
ton, up Washington TO Tenth, along
Tenth back to Brodway, up Broadway
to Fourteenth, along Fourteenth 70
Webster, along Webster TO the BouIe-
ward, thence across Adams Point to
Pleasant Valley and out TO the ceme-
teries.
The Adams people. it is thought, are
the most interested in the new concern.
and il is believed they are pushing the
completion of the road in order 10 give
them an outlet for their large holdings
near Adams Point. They have much
property along the proposed line be
yond the heart of the city. and it is
presumed that the main object OF pro-
jecting line in this direction is TO tap
their land.
1t has been current street talk that
the Southern Pacific Company also had
interests in the road in connection with
projects to convert their steam local
train service in this city on Seventh
and Webster streets into electric lines.
In an interview this evening Di-
rector Macdonald said: The corpora
.tion has been formed for the purpose
of completing this road The papers
were filed in San Francisco for the
reason that the principal place of bust
ness is to be there The time for the
franchise runs out on October Is and
we purpose having the road in run
ming order by that time. So, you see,
we have not much time to lose. We
will begin work Immediately The Oak
land Transit has nothing to do with
this road, which will be operated by
our company. We do not need a power
house at the present time, as we can
buy all the power we want. We will
look out for that later on"