The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-05
RAILROADS PRESSING.
ALL CARS INTO USE
Both Southern Pacific and the
Santa Fe Prepare for
Enormous Crowds

1T is simply matter of equipment,
said J. J. Byrne assistant passenger
traffic manager of the Santa Fe, yester-
day "All depends on the number OF
cars we can press into service to han
die the enormous crowds of people that
will pour into the city on Wednesday,.
We Intended to put our ferry boat
Ocean Wave into the excursion busi-
ness but 1 have put it back into the
regular run and it. with the San Pablo,
I hope, will be able to take care of the
traffic
I'VE shall have five specials into the
city from the San Joaquin valley May
E. astfollows: Fresno two; Bakersfield.
one; OakdaIe, one and Stockton, one.
This in addition TO four regular trains,
which will be running heavy.
The five specials practically mean
10 trains. for from the number of
tickets sold we shall have to run them
in two sections. We have been gath
erlng coaches from all over our lines
and are preparing to handle from 5000
to 5000 people on the morning the fleet
arrives.
LARGER CROWD COMING
"A large number of people came to-
day and a still larger crowd is ex-
pected tomorrow. This present move
ment is principally from Arizona, New
Mexico and Colorado, and even so far
away as Kansas City, Wichita. Newton
and Hutchinson, in Kansas. ]. 3. Duffy,
who arrived from the east yesterday,
said that while he was at our Office in
Colorado Springs he sold % round trip
tickets to San Francisco inside Of an
hour.
All the talk in the east is about San
Francisco and the fleet There has
never been any excitement in the west
cf- nd E-rnr7 ri will
have the greatest crowd in her his
tory. 1t is as the debut of the new
city.
ON my way up from Los Angeles
stopped OF at all important points In
the valley and the sale of tickets has
been larger than was expected. 1 do
not think there will be an automobile
left in the san Joaquin valley by to-
day. The start was made last night.
as many are afraid to trust to chance
IN getting in on train
MOVING CARS INTO VALLEY
At midnight Sunday the Southern Pa
had been used on the coast line to
carry passengers to Monterey and
Santa Cruz into the San Joaquin val
ley to take care of that traffic. Urgent
appeals from the various station mas
tiers have come into the general Offices
of the company begging for more cars.
There is no waiting till the last mo-
ment TO buy tickets, but transporta-
ton has been secured as a guarantee
for transportation.
Fresno wired for more cars for the
owl last night and tonight, and Reno
says that it must have more cars. Salt
Lake by Sunday midnight had sold $50
tickets and more than 1000 will be sold
by this morning. 1t wants more cars.
The movement from the surrounding
district had not set in, wires the agent,
but he thinks that at least $500 people
will leave from the City of Latter Day
Saints and vicinity.
From the northern part Of the state
comes request for more cars. c. r.
Robinson of the passenger department
Of the Southern Pacific, who has been
handling this business. says that 1885,,
600 people will come into the city to-
morrow, exclusive of the transbay
travel
HUGE SUNDAY TRAVEL
An example of what the travel was
on Sunday can be judged from the fact
that san Jose sold 1900 tickets to
Santa Cruz and Monterey, Salinas 1000
and jacksonville 1900. There were $50
automobiles on the road between San
Francisco and Monterey Sunday.
Stockton makes the boast that it will
send down more people to see the fleet
enter the harbor than any other two
places in the state. Extra cars have
been ordered by the Southern Pacific
and the Santa Fe to that point. and the
Sierra railway is practically swamped
by demands for tickets. Everything
that can float will leave Stockton to-
night for San Francisco. Sacramento
is doing the same thing.
"