The San Francisco call., 1910-06-27
CITY WILL SELL
GEARY Street
RAILWAY BONDS
Decision of Supreme Court Gives
Supervisors Right to Pro-
Ceed With Work
Bids Will Be Opened Today
and Mayor Promises to
Expedite Project

Given clear right of way by the de-
cision Of the supreme court, the super
visors viii take the first step toward
The construction of the Geary street
railroad today when they meet to open
the bids on the first batch of bonds,
amounting to s260,00o.
With this sum on hand the city will
be in a position TO draw its plans for
the municipal road which IS to be. Lit
tie fear is felt of further interruption
en the part of Horace G. Piatt. presi-
dent OF the Geary street road, the
opinion OF City Attorney Long being
that in making the fight on the injunc-
tion restraining the city from the sale
of the bonds he exhausted his legal
ammunition and henceforward will have
TO remain silent. or. at the best, break
out with but minor skirmishes of no
great Importance while the work of
building an adequate but modern street
car system in Geary street goes on.
MAYOR ANXIOUS TO PROCEED
on the part Of Mayor P. H Mccarthy
there is an eagerness to 90 on with the
building Of the road This proposition
was one of his main election promises,
and now. being given an opportunity of
fulfilling that promise, he comes out
unequivocally 40 hasten the work to
conclusion.
When the board Of supervisors meets
Monday night he said. lit will open
the bids on the bonds. This will be the
first direct step. and from that time on
the work of building the Geary street
road viii be pushed with all possible
dispatch.
i stated when running for mayor
that I would use every effort in nv
power TO have a municipality owned
street railroad in Geary street, and it
is my intention TO keep that promise
The work viii be pushed as ra pidly as
possible. There is nothing in the way
10 hinder US now"
FIRST STEP To SELL BONDS
The mayor refused to discuss the
details Of the road TO be built. saving
that il would be time enough to meet
the subsequent problems as they came
up.
Our first step" he said, is to sell
the bonds for the Geary street road.
and until that is done and the money
in the hands of the city it will be
waste Of time TO make plans as TO the
actual construction of the road. There
is a vast amount of work to be done,
but we viii have to move with care
and take one thing at a time"
That the matter OF the Sutter street
franchise is yet in the courts await
ing settlement does not make any diff
ference 10 the building OF the Geary
stret road, either in the opinion of
City Attorney Long or in that of the
mayor.
SUFFER- LINE BEOFRE COURT
The decision OF the supreme court"
said Long. settles the Geary street
road question. / can not see how the
case can be reopened and there is
nothing TO prevent the work of selling
the bonds and the construction begin
ming at once.
The matter Of the Sutter street
franchise is a distinct issue. That is
now in the courts. If the city wins its
points there it viii have a streetcar
system running from the beach TO the
ferry; but whether ii does or not will
not hamper it from going TO work on
the Geary street proposition and build
ing a road from Third and Kearny
streets TO the beach.
While the common hope seems to
be that this road will form q nucleus
for complete municipality owned
streetcar system, what the future steps
IN regard 10 TINS lalter proposition VIII
be I have not the least idea.
QUESTION OF EXTENSION
so far we must content ourselves
with building the Geary street road,
and when that is completed we will be
in a position to extend to other sys-
TENS.
While this is a matter for the board
of supervisors to settle, my opinion is
that San Francisco would do well in
engaging the services of B. J. Arnold,
the man who was mainly instrumental
in settling the street railroad tangle in
Chicago. He is a municipal engineer of
prominence and has made particular
study of just such problems"
Mayor Mccarthy did not take kindly
to the proposition of the city engaging
Arnold, saying that there We're enough
good men in San Francisco to settle a
San Francisco problem.
Tt Is not necessary to go outside the
city he said. and 1 am not in the
least inclined TO do so.'