The San Francisco call., 1913-07-17
Mary Sullivan and Kate Cap
pier of Oceanside Club
Stick Four Hours in
Seats and Garry Point
CONVINCE COMPANY
OCEAN rs "OCEAN"
Threats Fail to Move Twain
Who Hold Out Until
Railroad Gives In

That familiar local institution
taught extraordinary lessons in SPELL
ing. direction and street railroad man
agement on Tuesday night by two
members of the famously persistent
Oceanside Womens club, Mrs. Mary
Sullivan of 1547 Forty-eighth avenue,
and Mrs. Kate Cappler of 1918 Forty
eighth avenue. respectively president
and treasurer of the organiza ton.
These two redoubtable women taught
the United Railroads that passengers
on cars labeled Beach. can not be
thrown off at Nineteenth avenue and
Lincoln way
To make the lesson saiutary and eff
fective Mrs. Sullivan and Mrs. Cappler
refused to be put off a car which the
conductor decided to turn back half
way to its destination. suffered them
selves to be taken back from Nine
teenth avenue and Lincoln way TO the
carbarns at Oak and Brodericl1 streets.
stayed by the car in spite of the threat
liceman take them off. and finally. after
four hours OF resistance by the United
Railroads, carried their point and
forced the street railroad corporation
to trot the car out of the barn and
make a special trip tos the ocean beach
simply TO fulfill the implied contract
made with these two women passen-
gers that when they boarded car
marked Beach" they would be deliv-
cred at che beach without transfer.
DESTINATION MARK IGNORED
Frern the earliest days of the United
Rafffoads ii has~ ienorsd the aestina-
tfon mark on the car and has turned
OF passengers wherever It's whfm has
dictated Its special place for throwing
of it's patrons has been at the corner
of Nineteenth avenue and Lincoln way.
Mrs Cappler and Mrs. Sullivan. as
members OF the persistent Oceanside
Womens club. thought that the prac-
tiee had continued long enough and on
Tuesday night they gave the United
Railroads It's lesson. even though 1t
took four hours for the railroad COM
pany to master the text.
The company has either thought that
REACH spelled Nineteenth avenue
and Lincoln way" or believed that the
destipatipn signs on the front of it's
cars merely were there to fill up an
otherwise blank space or. to furnish
reading matter for pedestrians.
LESSON PROBABLY LEARNED
Now. it is believed, that the company
knows that. BEACH spells Beach"
and that destination signs have a plain
and not an esoteric meaning.
The company was taught by the same
club that started the Judge Weller re-
call movement.
Tuesday afternoon before o'clock
Mrs. Sullivan and Mrs. Cappler boarded
a beach car at OFarrell and Larkin
streets after they had let number Of
other OFarreIl street cars marked
"Nineteenth avenue" pass.
At Nineteenth avenue and Lincoln
way the conductor passed through the
car and informed the IS or more pas
sengers who were bound for streets
beyond Nineteenth avenue that they
must change cars.
The generous conductor, No. 1907, Of
fered transfers to all who would
change.
TWO STAY IN SEATS
Mrs Cappler and Mrs. Sullivan did
dutifully got off.
"This car goes back to the car barns" !"
announced the conductor: you must
get off here
The sign says that this car goes
to the beach. and we intend to say
on said Mrs. cappler.
You must get off, said the con-
ductor
1--WE will stay on said Mrs. sullivan
The conductor busted himself with
switching the car back on the east
bound track.
The women stayed on
.If you stay on you'H have to pay
another fare" said the thrifty con-
ductor
REFUSAL DEFIANT
dent and secretary OF the Oceanside
women's club.
The car went back. and was shunted
into the car barns.
Now. here are your transfers: get off
and take a beach car insisted the
conductor.
I'VE got on this car to go TO the
beach and we are going to the beach
on this car. explained the women in
words Of one syllable SO that the Unit
ed Railroads would understand
The conductor brought out the barn
boss He tried to snow the women
that they were only in the way on the
car The women would not bulge