New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-17
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE

| San Francisco. Nov. l6.-The long fight
between the city and the United Rail-
| roads over the use OF the Market street
tracks b. the Suffer and Geary street
| lines was eLded this week by a com
/ promise. This settlement permitted the
new Geary Street Municipal Road to use
| the outer tracks on Market street and to
enjoy transfer privileges. The Suffer
street cars, which for years have been
| stopped at the end of the lower street
Will now run directly 10 the ferry. This
again will be great boon to the travel
| ling public which has been inconvenience
| by the feud between the city authorities
and the United Railroads, largely due to
| the streetcar strike. The company won
| the strike single handed against the whole
| force of the allied labor unions. and the
| laEor agitators, who have made up so.
large a part OF the city government, have
never forgiven It.
II looks row as though the plans for a
great Southern Pacific depot terminal at
the foot of Market street have fallen
! through. II is said that the railroad com
pany could not secure enough land with
out paying what is regarded as an eXor-
| birant price. Hence ii has been decided
10 improve The present terminal ~ 30
and Townsend streets. This will prove
serious blow to the public, which hoped
To escape the annoyance Of slow and
uncertain transportation TO the south Of
Market Street depot The combination
OF the two depots at the terminus Of
Market street, where all ferry passen-
81 81,
place for a terminal.
Alfred Mosely, the English philan-
thropist, Is here on a visit. The climate
OF California appeals TO him so much, he
declares that he will spend his winters
here instead of in the South OF France.
The City Of San Jose has secured the
right to a strip Of land TO deep water on
san Francisco Bay, which viii give IT port
! facilities similar To those recently gained
by Los Angeles at San Pedro The pro-
posed channel will be three hundred feet
vide and eighteen feet deep. and will cost
only 800. COO. Along the canal an auto
mobile boulevard will be buili.
Dr. Harry Lane. newly elected United
states Senator from oregon, has certified
thst he spent only So IN the campaign.
Travelling expenses. which are not IN
cludcd in the required account were $50.
Cleveland ii. Baker, Attorney General
Of Nevada, is at last free from the pro
ceedings begun by his defeated compen-
tor for the office, George SprinGmeyer
Because Baker only had e. majority
Sprlngmeyer began a contest which mas
dragged along for months and has cost
! s. 800 After 1900 votes had been count
cd giving Baker an additional lDo major
ity. Springmeyer abandoned the contest.
San Diego is trying to get rid Of its red
light district The police this week drove
out all the women who could be reached
after giving them chance TO reform an
opportunity that was accepted Only Oy
two-one half-witted and the other ne
gro. The experiment will be watched
with interest, as San Diego Is seaport
town. where the suppression Of vice Is
more than ordinarily difficult.
Sacramento police and Southern Pdcihc
detectives are puzzled over the case oil
Young George Maine, who walked INTO
| the police station at the capital city ana
announced that lie was one OF three men
who held up and robbed train on the
Shasta division last week one bandit
was shot dead by a brakeman. but the
other two escaped. Maine said lie was
| tired OF being Swallowed by police. al
though the officers had never heard OF
him. Doctors pronounced him mentally
sound. Train robbery in this state means
a life term in prison.
Chinese and Japanese growers OF pota-
toes beans and onions I'm the Sacramento
Valley have united so that they may con-
troll the market in the West for these
products These Orientals lease the rich
delta lands OF the Sacramento Valley and
nv employing their own countrymen at
low wages are able to undersell all COM
netitors Now that they have the market
I'm their own hands they propose to reap
the benefit Of their monopoly. One Japa-
! nese grower OF potatoes has become a
millionaire I'm the last fifteen years from
profits of this industry.
Half a million dollars will be required
10 supply all public school children In
California with free textbooks under the
| constitutional amendment just adopted.
IA the textbooks now in use are valued
st a large sum, II is thought the law Will
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