The San Francisco call., 1910-07-22
GEARY Street
RAILWAY BONDS
QUICKLY SOLD
New Issue Is Practically SUBJ
scribed Before Being Placed
on the Market
Why the Overhead System Will
Be Used Instead of the
Conduit

Be Used Instead OF the
Conduit
With the date of the sale of the sec
ond allotment of Geary street bonds 10
days away, the, new issue has been
practically subscribed. 1t win total
s2zO.0O0. The excess bids at the last
Offering. amounting to sI25.O00, have
been submitted for the second batch
In addition tenders amounting to $780,
600 We're received yesterday one sin
gle bid called for $4,000. Two invest
ors, whose names have not been dis
closed, called upon Clerk Hagerty yes
terday and announced that they would
seek $4,000 worth each. 1t is apparent
that the issue viii be popular with the
public
Among the bidders for the new paper
viii be the teamsters' union to the
amount Of $4,000. the molders' union
in the sum of $4,000 and other local
trades bodies.
Mayor Mccarthy and Clerk Hagerty
were busily occupied yesterday in af-
fixing their signatures to the bonds al
ready awarded. They will be ready for
delivery either today or tomorrow. This
viii bring into the treasury s260,O00.
With the second sale. August ?, the
sum Of 100000 viii be available for
immediate work on the Geary street
line
OVERHEAD TROLLEY
While there are many elements still
TO be decided in connection with the
road. it has been tentatively agreed
that il shall be an overhead trolley
system. on this point Mayor Mccarthy
said yesterday:
The consensus of opinion appears to
favor the overhead trolley type for the
Geary street road. There are many rea-
sons that have entered into this de-
cision. In the first place, it is felt to be
good policy TO standardize the line
along with those already in existence.
Many Of the franchises Will lapse be-
fore many years. Many of the lines
thus affected use the overhead trolley.
AS these roads fall into the hands OF
the city they can be connected up with
out great expense with the line that
the city viii have in Geary street
Again. the conduit system is far
more expensive than the overhead troll
ley system. I am told by Supervisor
Walsh, who has studied the question,
that in some OF the German cities the
conduit system has been tried and is be-
ing discontinued. Then, it must be re-
membered that recent inventions give
promise of a method of propulsion that
viii require neither overhead nor un-
derground wires. If we go to the great
expense Of conduit system we may
find il necessary to abandon it before
long for a car that carries its own mo-
tive power. With the overhead trolley
system we will not be put TO nearly so
heavy an expense and viii be in a po
sition to abandon il for an improved
type without great loss
1T is a matter of best conserving
the peoples money. We have thought
that this can best be done by the use
Of the same system of propulsion as
is now employed generally throughout
the city"
THE BEACH TERMINUS
The city officials are inclined at pres
ent TO make c street the beach termi-
nus Of the line. The matter is still to
be considered further, but the opinion
OF those vested with authority leans
Eaat way.
The suggestion has been made in
some quarters that all difficulty with
existing lines might be avoided by the
use Of a sort Of omnibus car that could
run without wires. In this way the
cars, like ordinary vehicles, would have
the use of the tracks wherever it was
seen fit to run them.
The Richmond Central Improvement
stub filed resolutions yesterday with
the board OF supervisors requesting
that they adhere 10 the original route
GIomg Point Lobos avenue and thence
over Cliff avenue to the ocean. In
part. the resolutions read:
Whereas. the streets along the
route are all improved; and
Whereas. the streets along the
rfoposed route are unimproved for
distance of - blocks, and will
require extensive and costly grad
Whereas. the proposed route will
contain sharp curves and several
steep grades; and
Whereas, the grade on B street
from Forty seventh avenue to
Forty-eighth avenue is a 121a per
cent grade and the grade on 3
street. between Forty-eighth and
Forty-ninth avenues, is a Is II per
cent grade; and
whereas the operation of electric
cars over such steep grades is
fraught with danger to passengers
and consequent expense TO the city
will follow in the shape Of damage
suits for personal injuries in case
cars run away on such grades,
which is likely; and
Whereas. the official grade book
compiled by the city engineer. fixes
the grade at Cliff avenue and
Thirty eighth avenue. thereby
showing that Cliff avenue starts at
Thirty-eighth avenue and Point
Lobos avenue, and making il pos
sible for the municipal line to be
operated on but five blocks of
Clement street, cars now running
on Point Lobos avenue from
Thirty-third avenue to Forty
eighth avenue; and
Whereas. the franchise granted
for the operation of the Clement
street line specifically states that
rights and privileges granted there
under shall be held upon such
terms and conditions as may be i'm
posed by the laws of the state of
California. or by the orders of the
supervisors; and
Whereas, the city charter pro-
Vides that two or more lines may
operate over the same tracks for a
distance Of 10 blocks; and
Whereas, the proposed change, if
carried out, may inValidate the
whole proceedings heretofore hads
in connection with the Geary street
railroad; therefore be IL
Resolved. that II is the sense. of
this club that the route voted upon
by the people is the most feasible
logical and direct route. and there
fore the most eXpedient for the mu-
nicipal railroad to follow; and be it
further
Resolved. that this club respect
fully SpRQeSfS TO the honorable