The San Francisco call., 1907-02-11
CARS ARE COMING
VERY SLOWLY

Sections of the long promised new
cars which the United Railroads or
dered from St. Louis several months
ago are reported to be on the way.
The bodies of four cars are now here,
but the trucks which they are to be
mounted have gone astray somewhere
between here and Los Angeles. Tracers
have been sent out in a search for the
trucks and when they arrive an attempt
will be made to assemble the parts and
put these new, commodious and some
what sumptuous four new cars in sci
vice to relieve the congestion. They
Will be distributed on the different
lfnes-each line to have one new car
as long as they last Ten more are
is impossible to say in just which States
of the Union their several parts are
today.
While Calhoun has succeeded in Sc
curing pieces of four new cars-new
and commodious. but not complete as
yet-in ten months time, the Los An
geles people have been receiving cars
by the trainload from the same shops
in st. Louis from which Calhoun's four
pieces came.
The Los Angeles cars are not deliv-
cred in pieces. The novel method was
adopted of putting an electric car,
wheels and all, on the tracks of the
steam railroad, making up a train of
the same, attaching the train to an
engine and sending the whole caravan
across the Sierras as a unit. BY this
plan the Los Angeles people receive
their cars by the dozens, without the
danger of the pieces becoming lost on
the way. Three trains of them have
already arrived in the southern city,
against Calhouns four pieces-new,
commodious and somewhat sumptuous,
ii is true-but only fractions of cars.
with their other excellent attributes
qualified by their unfortunate fraction
ality. Bulletins are issued daily to the
press of the expected arrival of more
pieces, but it was admitted at Manager
Chapman's Office yesterday that no one
knew just where they were. They
hoped they were on the way Original
bulletins stated that the new and COM
modious cars would begin to arrive on
January 1st and continue to arrive
thereafter at the rate of ten a week.
W. Davidson, motorman on a Suffer-
street car, was assaulted by Vincent
Scansemini a fisherman. yesterday af-
ternoon at Sutter and Devisadero
streets, and but for the timely arrival
of Sergeant A D. Layne of the Mission
station Davidson might have suffered
serious injury. The fisherman and two
friends were standing on the steps of
VI VI.
blocking the passageway. They were
told to move by Motorman Davidson
and responded with abuse Davidson
showed the men out of the way, and as
he turned to the controller was struck
a vicious blow by Scansemini that
closed his eye. Sergeant Layne was
passing on downtown car and jumped
to the motorman's rescue. Patrolman.
]. W Kenney of the O'Farrell-street
station aided Layne in overpowering
the belligerent fisherman, who was
then taken to the O'Farrell- street sta
tion.
Cars on Market street were tied up
for nearly an hour shortly after 9
o'clock last night, and before they
were started moving again a string
extending from Montgomery street to
Fourth had collected. The trouble
was caused by eastbound car 1910 of
the Eddy-street line, which jumped the
rails between Sansome and Montgomery
streets. A repair car was summoned
from the Valencia street barn, but by
the time it arrived the car had been
put in place by the car crews and the
long string of cars resumed their trips
Pleasure-seekers returning from the
Cliff House and beach and others en-
route to the Chutes were left stranded
In the Richmond district for almost an
hour between and S o'clock last even
ing. The power became so weak that
the crowded cars moved at a snails
pace. After a few minutes of this the
power failed entirely and the cars re-
mained in darkness. Most of the pas
sengers forsook the stalled cars and
walked home