The San Francisco call., 1913-08-21
FROM CAPITAL To
! /. SAN FRANCISCO IN
/ Z HOURS IN 1915
Promise of Air Line Held
Out in Reorganization of
Northern Electric
Railway
FAST STEAMERS
TO CROSS BAY
Run Between Sacramento
and Vallejo Will Be Ap-
proximately SO Miles

From San Francisco to Sacramento
by air line route in two hours is the
promise held out for 1915 in the re-
organization of the Northern Electric
railway.
Fast steamers to cross the bay and
electric interurban express trains fol-
lowing a line as the crow flies from
calculated upon to beat the time of
the Overland limited by an hour or
better.
The run between Sacramento and
Vallejo will be approximately 80 miles
straightaway and with scarcely a
proximately 90 miles. The route will
bring Sacramento about Is miles nearer
San Francisco than the shortest exist
Ing line. AT the least. it will cut
down the best existing time between
the two cities by three-fourths of an
hour to an hour.
REASON FOR REFINANCING
This is the program that has in
spired the reorganization and refinanc-
ing of the Northern Electric railway,
capitalized at $4,000, 600. and now in
operation between Sacramento and
Hamilton in Glenn county, a distance
OF 140 miles
E. R. LilienthaI is president of the
road and Louis Sloss & Co. are largely
interested in it's operation.
Following Mr.. Lilienthars visit to
New York, whence he returned last
week with the news that negotia tions
for the permanent financing of the
Nnrfh0rr vi
sentatives of eastern capitalists have
arrived here to inspect the property.
That inspection was concluded yes
terday and is said to have been more
than Sa satisfactory to the agents of cap
ital. The feature that is understood
to have appealed most strongly to the
latter were the provisions made for
extending the line to Vallejo and the
possibilities of great traffic with the
interior to and from that port.
RIGHTS OF WAY OBTAINED
Rights of way had been obtained.
surveys made and, in, some cases, even
grading had been begun. Not only
had this important extension been ar
ranged for. but surveys had been made
for further extensions from Vallejo
to Suisun, yacaviIe, Winters and
Woodland, connecting there with the
existing line and opening a rich terri
tory not now served by any railroad
This projected extension will give an
alternative. though much longer, route
to Sacramento.
For the Vallejo extension some of
the material is on the ground and more
Is on the way. 1t is asserted that as
soon as the eastern capitalists are in
control, an order will be placed for two
steamers-not of the ferry tyDe-tfat
will be faster than anything on the
bay They will ply between San Fran
cisco and Vallejo in connection with
the Northern Electric trains.
CAPITAL FROM EAST
Though details are guarded with
great secrecy, 1t is said that a majority
fnterest-if not almost al1-.will be
bought by an eastern syndicate and
that the reorganization and recon
struction will be financed by capital
from New York. Boston and London
Several millions of dollars are to be
expended almost Immediately and the
air line route will be in operation be-
fore the opening of the Panama-Pacific
exhibition.
The reconstruction will be even more
far reaching than appears here for ne
gotiations are now in progress for a
traf1c agreement with the Santa Fe
and a further extension from Sacra-
mento to Stockton to meet the Santa
Fe Is among the possibilities That
extension for the time being may take
the form OF a working agreement with
the Central California Traction COM
pany. The Call is informed, however,
most emphatically both by the reor-
ganizers of the Northern Electric and
by officials of the Santa Fe that the
latter road is not financially concerned
in the development program of the
Northern Electric system