Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-09
VIEWS OBTAINED FROM ALL
WALKS OF LIFE
Owl Service Deemed a Necessity for
Large City and From
Businessi Stand
point

Many prominent citizens have been
interviewed regarding late cars, and
all say that they have long felt the
need of them but that necessity for
them today is greater than 1t has ever
been, and that they do not believe
that officials of the city lines can any
longer deny the demands of the citi-
zenS.
Besides feeling that owl cars have
become a necessity, the people feel that
1t Is also q matter of pride. The peo-
pie of Los Angeles and surrounding
towns are proud to point to their own
progressiveness and take pleasure in
pointing out one of the largest street
railway depots in the world, but are
ashamed to acknowledge that they are
not UP to date in the matter of late
cars.
The general opinion is that now is
the time that these cars should be es-
tablished, and the public is ready to
demand the rights for which they pay.
The managers of the theaters realize
the necessity of late cars perhaps as
much as any other class of citizens,
and they are unanimously in favor of
them.
At random The Herald selects these
From a Pastor
Dr.. Robert Mcintyre, pastor of the
First Methodist church, strongly advo-
Gates the owl cars.
eff there are men who want to go
home by all means take them there"
said the doctor last evening. 'T think
that the men who work at night should
have the same privileges and con-
veniences as those who work in the
day. By all means fix it so that they
can get to their homes"
Cafe Proprietor
AL Levy, proprietor of Levy's cafe,
Is strongly in favor of the owl car SER
vice. He said:
by all means give us the owl car
service. 1t is the one thing that Los
Angeles lacks in being q thoroughly
metropolitan city. This being pleas
ure loving city, there is no reason why
the street railway companies should
prevent the citizens from making it
entirely so by cutting down the car
service at 1890 o'clock.
"It has long been demonstrated that
Los Angeles is and probably always
will be q playground for the pleasure
loving classes of the world. 1t is not
natural for the class of people who go
in mostly for pleasure to cease at
midnight. In many instances social
gatherings do not get started until
very late in the evening and mid
night is too soon upon them to get
any pleasure out of 1t.
mot long ago @ banquet was given
by a number of prominent business
men and important affairs came up for
discussion. Several of the guests were
under the impression that special cars
were to be run for the occasion, but
were obliged to hire carriages to con-
vey them to their homes after the
meeting had closed. At that time the
street railway companies were scored
by nearly everyone present and the
question of owl cars was warmly dis
cussed.
ITO outsiders who come here 1t is
not only a surprise but a disappoint-
ment to find that owl cars are not run.
This certainly has great deal to do
with the impressions that visitors get
of Los Angeles. There is but one con-
clusion they can have-that Los An
geles Is not so metropolitan as 1t is
said to be.
"Owl cars should be instituted at
once and any efforts toward that end
should be encouraged and are deserv-
ing of much praise"
City Veal
Assistant City Attorney Leslie r.
Hewitt favors an all-night car system.
81 seldom have use for cars after
midnight myself" said Mr.. Hewitt,
''but there are others who do and this
city has reached a point where cars
should be run much later than is now
the case. Los Angeles is a metropoli-
tan city and should have the advan-
tages of other cities of it's class.
"a few years ago all-night cars
would have been almost useless; now
they are necessity. That is one of
the many ways in which Los Angeles
has grown"
Hotel President
John S. Mitchell, president Of the
Hollenbeck Hotel company, said:
st am in favor of anything that has
to do with the Advancement of Los
Angeles. For the reason that nearly
all of the metropolitan cities of the
United States have the owl car ser
vice 1 believe that Los Angeles should
been added to the city Los Angeles
cannot hope to be on a par with the
large eastern cities.
Tourists who come here often re-
mark on the absence of the owl car
service"
Realty Agent
J. e. Marsh of the real estate firm
of Robert Marsh Ss Co. remarked:
"I am personally not interested in
the owl car proposition, but the rail-
way companies should give satisfactory
service. Late cars would be of great
convenience to a large number of peo-
pie. We have large city and we
should keep pace with the progress of
the times"
Detective
Detective w. r. Ingram said that he
believed that owl cars would prove to
be very popular.
81 am not speaking alone for police
men wishing to go to their BEATS" he
said with smile.
"People who retire early have no
idea of the number of men who have
to be out after midnight. think that
cars should be run every hour at least
through the night. 1t would save a
lot of carriage hire and prove a CRATE
full innovation to hundreds of men
who now depend on bicycles.
at am certain that every member on
the force would be glad to see night
cars"
Must Have Believed Him
"I see young Scadds has married old
O. u. Grouch's daughter"
0GaaI How did he come to do that ."