The San Francisco call., 1906-11-03
Board
Hears Several
Witnesses.

E.P e. Troy. secretary of the Munich
pal League, associated with Albert M.
Johnson in the carmens arbitration
proceedings. and for years the most
militant agitator against public service
corporations in the city, is entitled to
whatever distinction is attached to be-
ing the only man in the city whom the
United Railroads excludes from its
power houses and stations. That dis
tinction was publicly conferred on
Troy by Stanley Moore, associate at
torney for the street car company, at
yesterday afternoons session of the ar
bitration board.
The announcement was the result of
former differences of opinion between
the company and Troy, during the cam
spring of 1905 to equip the California
and Cliff House line with wooden poles
instead of iron supports for the trolley
wires. Johnson was chagrined at the
distinction and insisted that he was
as inimical to the road as was his coll
league.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion Johnson. representing the unions
in the controversy, stated that Troy
desired permission of the company to
make another inspection of the power
plants. Then it was that Stanley Moore
addressed the arbitrators:
STRAINED RELATIONS EXIST.
'The relations existing between Mr..
Troy and the company are strained"
said he. Mr.. Johnson may take any
other man In the city to the companys
plants, but we will not have Mr.. Troy,
We do not wish to be offensive, but the
reasons which actuated him in entering
this controversy are not agreeable to
the company. When it was first men
toned that Mr.. Johnson was to have an
assistant we did not know that 1t was
to be Mr. Troy. There is a feeling of
resentment against Mr.. Troy on ac-
count of quotations he has made of the
words of representatives of the com
pany. At the time of the meeting of
the Sutter Street Improvement Club
with the Supervisors there was trou
BILE"
'I didn't call Abbott a liar before the
Supervisors" expostulated Troy, speak
ing for the first time before the board.
He referred to William NJ. Abbott, an
attorney for the road.
Johnson, who had been listening to
Moore's remarks, th-n broke suddenly
into thousand words II do not like
a controversy of this kind" he said. II
needed assistance, owing to the mag
nitude of this case. and / asked Mr..
Troy to assist me, knowing his famil-
with affairs OF the company. MT
Troy has to some extent been antag
onistic to public service corporations.
But I am antagonistic to them and am
as inimical to them as is Mr.. Troy.
Why in the world shouldn't every one
be antagonistic to them? 1 believe they
are the agents of the State, and the
Supreme Court of the State should
limit the power of their aggressions
on the people It is constitutional for
the State to put limit on the income
of water companies and the same pow
ers should apply in regulating street
railway companies. And because 1 be-
lieve these things should 1 be excluded
from the stations of this company, and
should this gentleman be also precluded
because he believes these things?"
TROY HAS BEEN BITTER.
eve have no objection to you," re-
piled Moore. when Johnson paused.
Notwithstanding your sentiments. but
this man." indicating Troy, sin season
and out of season has made bitter and
vindictive charges against the company
and its officials We think he has an
Interior motive in entering this con-
troversy."
Johnson declared that the distinction
was invidious, and that the task before
him was too much for a "frail, feeble,
attenuated, debilitated, emaciated" per-
-
insisted that Troy had not any Interior
motive.
Troy has been antagonistic." he said.
.but every good man ought also to be
agonistic to the extortions of the
company Every good man who loves
his country. every man who raises a
family should aid to check monopolies
of this kind
Johnson appealed to Justice Beatty
and the Justice conferred with Father
Yorke and Major Mclaughlin on the
matter, but said that the board could
not coerce the United Railroads into
allowing Troy to inspect the plants. He
advised Moore to take the matter be-
fore the officials of the company and
endeavor to have them relent. Moore
said there was little hope of that.
The session of the arbitration board
proceeded expeditiously.
AssIMILATED 2250 VOLTS.
w. N. Couey, lineman formerly in
the employ of the United Railroads,
who was put on the stand Wednesday
afternoon, concluded his testimony.
During the examination Couey modest
ly admitted that while working for the
road he has assimilated 1850 volts of
electricity and had not been fatally
'stung"
Geuey, on direct examination, de-
clared that the wires of the United
Railroads in the south of Market street
district were put in poor condition by
the fire, the heat having taken the
temper out of the copper wire, render
ing 1t pliable and unsafe as a support
The poles in the burned district were
rllsted and "out of temper" and MANY