The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-06

Many Thousands oil
People Left San
Francisco.

Between 6 a. M, Wednesday. April
18th, and Sunday night, says the
/. Chrenicle of April 25. the Southern Pa
cific ran 129 trains. with over 900 cars,
to the main line and local and Eastern
points, carrying free refugees from San
Francisco. During the same time 610
suburban trains were run from Oak
trains with 57S3 cars. During the same
period about fifty trains. with 500 cars.
were run from points between Third
and Townsend streets and Ocean View
to the south.
The number of people carried from
+, San Francisco exceeded 225. 900. The
value of the transportation issued free
by the Southern Pacific at San Fran
cisco, Oakland, San Jose, Santa Rosa,
Sacramento and Vallejo to people has.
at a rough estimate, to date exceeded
$400.000 The free freight transporta-
ton cannot be estimated at the pres
ent time
The eight information bureaus es-
tablished in different sections of San
Francisco by the Southern Pacific are
now being supplied by automobile ser
vice every two hours with the latest
information concerning transportation.
Two agents are in charge at each
place. Destitute people desiring free
transportation or reduced-rate trans
portation should endeavor to arrange
credentials there to be used at the
Southern Pacific offices, ground floor,
Union Ferry building; second floor,
Oakland pier; San Pablo avenue, near
Broadway, Oakland, and Sixteenth
street, Oakland. There is no change
in the present instructions as to is
suing free transportation, but able
bodied single men should not expect
to leave town unless their friends or
families are at some other point and
they feel it necessary to reach them.
Train service on the Coast division
was resumed yesterday. Coast line
trains q and %, which have been OPP
Grating between Third and Townsend
streets, San Francisco, and Los An
geles via San Jose, will be resumed.
but the northern terminal will be at
Oakland pier instead of Third and
Townsend streets, running via Niles
and San Jose Service will also be re-
sumed between San Jose and Santa
Cruz, Monterey, Salinas, San Luis
Obispo etc. Schedules will be an
nounced later. Trains are operating
every two hours between San Jose
and San Francisco via Palo Alto.
Creek route ferry service will be es-
tablished tomorrow with boats leaving
from the foot Of Broadway, Oakland,
and from San Francisco, every hour.
The Southern Pacific and the Califor-
MIA Northwestern have established fer
ry service between Sausalito, Tiburon
and Oakland pier. A boat Will leave
Sausalito in the morning, touch Thu
ron and go direct to Oakland pier. 1t
will leave Oakland pier for return trip
late in the afternoon. Schedule will
be announced later.
Service between Alameda mole and
Wright's station on the narrow gauge,
via San Jose and Los Gatos, will be re-
established, probably today. with
broad-gauge trains, narrow gauge
trains being discontinued permanently.
The narrow-gauge line between
Wright's station and FELTON, will not
be opened for some considerable time
Service to Boulder Greek will be via
jacksonville and Santa Cruz.
Military train arrived Wednesday
from Philadelphia with three tourist
sIeepers, having 100 men with officers.
Medical special is due tonight from
Chicago with seventy-five nurses and
doctors for the relief camps.
The Eastern lines will today estab-
fish offices in the Union Ferry build
ing, each having been granted 100 feet
of space.