Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-12
MOVEMENT FOR SERVICE is
GROWING
Mayor, CounclImen and Many Promi-
nent Business and Professional
Men Are In Favor of
Later Electrics


H. E. Huntington has done much for
Los Angeles and in turn has received a
great deal from the people. He Is we'll
aware that his future greatness as
head of the finest street railway system
in the world lies as much if not more
with the good will of the people as
with his own ability as a manager and
financier.
Heretofore he has not granted owl
cars to the people but their demands
were half hearted because the need
was not as pressing as it is today.
The people are now seeking the much
needed improvement in service and will
have the cooperation of the various
municipal bodies of the city, the cham
ber of commerce. the city council to a
man and of Mayor Owen McAleer.
Only One objector
During the past two weeks men in all
walks of life have been interviewed
and only one man has been found who
opposed having owl cars. In brief he
said
People have no business to be out
late at night. If hey are not in bed
by II O'Clock they ought to sleep in the
county Jail or have a guardian ap-
pointed for them"
1t Is a we'll known fact that this same
man anxiously scans every morning
paper printed early each day for realty
news in which he is at present in
terested.
If men did not work after IL o'clock
could the morning papers be printed?
If men did not work after II o'clock
could he receive important messages
from the east early in the morning over
the telegraph wires?
If men did not work after 12 o'clock
at night could his bank account be
balanced on the first of each month?
In making the statements that he did
it is possible that he did not take these
'ifs" into consideration and a hundred
more Ifs" that might be mentioned.
Realty Men Favor Late Car
Since April 1 nearly forty interviews
have been printed in The Herald that
were CLEANED from the mayor, city
councilmen, ministers, physicians, tele-
graphers, real estate men. newspaper
men, hotel proprietors, theater man
ayers, merchants, detectives and others.
Can the owners of the railways any
longer resist a reasonable demand from
the united public?
A. A. Weber of the Penn Realty COM
pary spoke as follows regarding owl
car service yesterday.
by all means let us have owl cars
and let us have them right away. Los
Angeles by giant strides has stepped
forth from her place on the map as a
town to a place as =. metropolitan city.
every other city has these cars and
why shouldn't we have Them. We ac-
commodate the eastern people with fine
hotels and resorts, now why shouldn't
we give them the finest night service in
the world as we'll as the best service in
the daytime?
II think that the railways owe some
thing to the people of Los Angeles and
might grant this request which would
in the long one be a paying PROPOSE
tion."
Dr.. Weber Wants Better Service
DR.. L. Weber of Huntington Park
would greatly appreciate late car SER
vice. Regarding it he said yesterday:
ut would be a great accommodation
to the people living here. Mr.. Hunt
ington has done a great deal for us and
[ believe that he will give us later
service If the people will just raise
up their voices and show him that they
need owl cars and mean to have them.
"There are a great many people in
Huntington park who would come to
Los Angeles to attend the theater If
is they stay at home.
when people are seeking pleasure
they do not like to be hurried and the
street car companies are now losing
money by not putting these late cars
in service.
1.-THE beach towns would be greatly
benefited by owl cars. Many people
would move out of the city if they
could only get home at night"
Tells of San Francisco System
Angeles have been interviewed and
have unanimously agreed that owl cars
would be a great benefit to them.
Theo Rothchild of the Novelty theater
said: 1.-The experiment of owl cars
has proved tremendous success in
San Francisco When they first tried
the experiment, one car every two
hours on one line was run. This soon
became popular and the late cars were
extended to the other lines, then they
ran on an hourly schedule and finally
they adopted half hourly system. Now
the owl cars are the most popular
thing in the street car line in San
Francisco.
1T is a great success and I can see
no reason why it could not be dupli-
Gated in Los Angeles. 1t is easy to
see how the late service will be of ad-
vantage to almost everybody. Often it
is necessary to have doctor late at
night.
"Many times it is a poor family Ii.
which the sickness occurs. They can
not afford to pay the doctors cab
hire and yet they need a physician. In
such cases the lack of car service works
an actual hardship. Los Angeles should
undoubtedly have owl car service"
Would Be Success
o. w. Letter of Fishcher's said:
Local owl cars would be good
and Pasadena owl cars would be excel
lent. Owl cars have been successful
in other cities, there is no reason why
they should not be in Los Angeles. I
am heartily in favor Of late cars"
William F. Banks of the Empire
theater said:
'It would be good for the theaters in
Los Angeles to have owl cars. 1t would
be better for the theatergoers also.
Many people leave before the close of
performance because they have to get
a car. With an owl car service that
would be unnecessary"
r. L. Tally of the New Broadway