The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-12-03
HARTMAN AND
GOULD CONE To
AN AGREE MENT
Western Pacific Will Use
Soutl1ern's Tracks in
Oakland
DROP OTHER PLANS
Third Street Franchise May
Be Given Up by It's
Holders
BENEFITS SHIPPERS
~ T
SET AT S45,OoO BENEFITS
Belt Lines Fight Results
in Granting of Terrli-
nal Rates


and Gould have reached a final agree
ment as to the Western Pacific rail-
ways entrance into Oakland, under
which the original plans of the new
transcontinental system for an inde-
pendent route through the city have
! been abandoned.
The Western Pacific will use the
First street main line tracks of the
Southern Pacific company from Nine
teenth avenue westward, and will pay
for that privilege sum approx
mating $1,ooo,000.
| With the utmost secrecy the rail-
road officials of both companies have
guarded this trackage agreement. 1t
means that the entire business of the
Western Pacific will be handled, not
as was at first contemplated, through
Third street, but on the First street
lines. The new station which is being
erected in First street, east of Broad
way, is to be a union passenger station
for the Southern Pacific and the West
ern Pacific. The entire First street line
addition of new tracks, which will be
made possible hy tbs widening of First
street.
FULL Use OF TRACKS
AS the agreement stands. the West
ern Pacific will have the full and free
use of the Southern Pacific's tracks
both for its passenger and freight
service. The roads have come to an
understanding with the big rnanufac-
turers of East Oakland under which
of terminal rates there, move result
ing directly from the fight of the Union
Belt line railway, headed by W. J.
Casey of the Union gas engine works.
General Long of the Pacific steel and
wire company, the Atlas gas engine
company, the Whitelaws. George D.
Gray and other shippers whose business
has been established in the East Oak
land district.
Disclosures concerning these big rail-
road moves have been of keen interest
to the shippers OF this city, as well as
to railroadmen. This means, accord
! ing to the well informed, that by this
compact the enormous problems of
track crossings. the tremendous cost
of coming into the city involved in
overhead crossings. the trestling at
the north arm of the estuary between
noIr
construction of much underground
work at the west end Of the Western
Pacific line into its Oakland harbor
| terminal at the foot of Union and
Kirkham streets, is obviated
MAY ABANDON FRANCHISE
Whether the Western Pacific will
file formal abandonment of Its fran
chise through Third street is not de-
| cided.
Under the agreement the Western
Pacific will run its own tracks as far
west as Nineteenth avenue and there
connect with the Southern Pacific
main line, Thence westward the Gould
trains will operate over Southern Pa
cific tracks until the Western Pacific
line turns out at Its Oakland harbor
| terminal from Union and Adeline
streets, south OF Third which the
First street tracks cut directly through
along easy level approaches, both south
and north.
This agreement is a supplemental one
to that by which the Western Pacific
| will extend it's tracks across the
\ Peralta street yards of the Southern
Pacific company to run out to the
Western Pacific mole along the north
ern training wall. That is to be the
outer terminal of the Gould road, where
it's connections will be made with its
passenger and freight transbay ferry
service
First intimations that the Western
Pacific had decided to make the move
were given through the activity of
some railway agents in the sale of
/ property in Third street, so per cent of
the frontage being held by the Gould
people.
FORTUNE FOR SAN DIEGO GIRL