The San Francisco call., 1907-02-01
GRAND JURY GOING.
AF TER CHAPMAN
Must Show How Far Car
Company Has Kept Prom
ises as to Better Service
OMAN MUST EXPLAIN

told by the Grand Jury today whether
or not he has fulfilled: his promises to
improve the service of the United Rail-
roads. Chief of Police Dinan is also
to be on the carpet, and will be asked
whether not he has kept n sufficient
number of mounted and unmounted
policemen. along Market and Mission
streets TO prevent feamsters from
blocking the ears and hamperinK traf-
fic.
The committee on streetcar traffic of
the Grand Jury has been making a
very careful survey of the United Rail-
roads service, and Chairman F. G..
Sanborn is said to be ready to report
that while the service has been much
improved it is still in q somewhat un-
satisfactory condition. 1t is reported
that the Grand Jury is of the opinion
that the street repair work that the
car company has undertaken has not
been kept up to the standard, and that
there has been inclination to put the
work off as long as possible.
The paving between many miles of
car tracks is: in a worse condition than
that part of the streets over which the
Supervisors and Board of Public
Works are supposed to have jurisdic-
tion. Ia the case of the city there is
alleged to be shortage of funds In
accounting for delay in repairs. The
United Railroads, however; has never
been accused of being short of funds.
1t has plenty of ready money with
which Ito pay for track repairs and
new pavings, and the Grand Jury
thinks that the work ought to be done
Immediately.
WANTS POLICE TO ACT
The Grand Jury is anxious that the
Chief of Police cooperate with the car
company inspectors to keep the tracks
clear. The police are said to have
given very little help in the breaking
of blockades. The jurymen desire that
strong force of mounted men be kept
on duty in Market street during the
busy morning and afternoon hours that
the trunk line may be kept clear
Several minor accidents occurred
yesterday The McAllister-s street line
was blocked by mail car which
jumped the track at Buchanan street.
The car was No. 107 and was west
bound, when a defective rail threw 1t
from the track and sent it shooting
into the curbstone. A repair car, with
the assistance of car No. 743,. hauled
the derailed car ON the track again,
the road being tied up for an hour and
a half
The North Beach line 1ella snort. OF
accommodations for passengers during
the afternoon. 1t was explained that
this section of the city was being rap
idly repopulated and that the demand
for cars on the Kearny and Broadway
routes was increasing daily. It was
pointed out that the Sacramento and
Clay street cable lines, which will soon
be in operation, would probably re-
1feve the congestion, and that the Pow
ell street road was doing its share OF
business with a large daily increase,
and that when people became accus-
toned to the reha bilitated route they
would patronize it in preference to the
crowded Kearny street lines.
REPAIRS FOR MARKET STREET
Lower Market street being torn up,
there was some difficulty during the
day with stalled teams. The system
was tied up during the forenoon on
several occasions, but the delays were
not so proVokingly long as on former
days. President Duffey of the Board
of Public Works said that he was pre-.
pared to go ahead with the sewer work
in Market street from Second to East,
and that laborers would be put to work
this morning pumping out the trenches
and making ready for a big gang of
men who will begin actual construc-
full authority to go ahead with the
sewer work.
The United Railroads promises that
1t will rush work in lower Market
street as soon as the city finishes the