The San Francisco call., 1904-10-27
PLAN TO REACH
HAPPY MEDIUM
Supervisors Favor Faster
Runs for Electric Cars
in the Outlying Districts
TO MODIFY ORDINANCE
Law to Prevent Delivery
of Immoral Literature
Receives Consideration

The Supervisors Street Committee
yesterday decided to recommend an
ordinance limiting the rate of speed
of street cars to eight miles an hour
in some districts and to fifteen miles
in others to be determined later.
Representatives of the Richmond
and Point Lobos Improvement clubs
appeared in opposition to a proposed
ordinance limiting the speed of street
cars in the city limits to eight miles
an hour, as they desired higher rate
of speed in the outlying districts E.
Troy suggested that cars provided
with electric or air brakes be limited
to fifteen miles an hour and those
with hand brakes to ten miles on level
ground and eight miles on hills.
Tirey l.. Ford, attorney for the
United Railroads. said it would be un-
wise to limit the speed of the cars, as
it would prevent the development of
the suburbs and either increase the
population in the center of the city
or drive it across the bay. Ford de-
MED Troy's assertion that the service
had been crippled and said it is abso-
lutely impossible to prevent the over
crowding of cars. Ford thought an
ordinance was needless, as the cars
move very slowly in the downtown
district and the company had no de-
sire to run cars at dangerous speed.
Braunhart suggested that the ordi
nance be framed to limit the speed
to eight miles in some districts and
fifteen miles in others and the COM
mittee agreed to prepare such an or
dinance.
ACCIDENTS ARE FREQUENT.
Troy produced figures supposed to
show that more people are killed or
injured by street car accidents in this
izens testified to the good car service
in the Richmond District, where
greater speed is desirable.
Captain A. H. Payson appeared be-
fore the committee and urged the
passage of an ordinance granting the
Santa Fe Railroad Company a fran
chise for right of way and the right
to operate a railroad on Indiana,
Mariposa, Seventh and Sixteenth
streets. The committee postponed ac-
ton until next Wednesday at p. m.
to give protestants against a right of
way on Mariposa and Sixteenth streets
an opportunity to be heard.
DISCUSS HANDBILLS.
The committee considered the pro-
posed ordinance prohibiting the dis
tribution of handbills and printed
matter in doorways. Protestants from
labor unions and other organizations
agreed that an ordinance should be
passed to stop the delivery of immoral
literature, but they argued that the
proposed law would prohibit the de-
livery of every kind of legitimate lit.
erature. The interested parties were
requested to frame an ordinance to
meet the emergency and the commit
tee agreed to recommend it's passa ge
The petition of Orinda Parlor, N.
D. G. W., to plant a memorial tree to
pioneer mothers in Golden Gate Park
was referred to the Park Commission.
L. H. Whitley was granted a permit
to explode blasts along the bay shore
right of way of the Southern Pacific
Company and also to lay temporary
tracks along Twenty avenue
South to H street South, thence to
Twenty-flfth avenue South.
The Associated Oil Company was
granted permit to drive tunnel un-
der Mariposaf street for an oil pipe
line.