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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NWS. 3 NEW MUNICIPAL-OWNED CAR LINES PROVIDED FOR BY SAN FRANCISCO Bird’s eye view of Sail Francisco with black lines howing the street railway additions, for the’ building and operation of .which by the city a $11,500,000 bond issue ha* been voted. The dotted lines represent the roads already owned by the city. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.—Com mitting itself to the policy of the public ownership ofifeubltc utilities, San Francisco voted a £,500,000 bond issue to build its own railrqads to the great Panama-Pacific Exposition that will be held in 1915. In voting for these bonds the city won a fight that was begun seventeen years ago by William Randolph Hearst and his newspapers in the in terest of municipal ownership, and the victory is the most distinctive of its kind ever achieved in the United States. It means that San Francisco will not only operate its own cars to the fair grounds, but that in the days to come it will he a city where public ownership of public utilities will be a vital factor in its civic life. The bonds voted for authorize an elaborate extension of the munifipal- ly-owned Geary Street Railroad, which has been operating through one of the city’s principal arteries of traf fic since last December. Will Ride in Own Cars. San Franciscans now ride on their own street cars from the ferry sta tion, where passengers land from the Eaarf to Ocean Beach, a stretch of tracks that traverse the city from end to end. The extensions to the railroad sys tem authorized by the bond issue voted yesterday will provide the peo ple with their own cars in every por tion of the city. Competing against these cars will be the cars of the United Railroads, a corporation that has been so em barrassed by litigation that it is using every source of its vast organization to accommodate the people who were formerly subjected to the most wretched railway accomodations in the country. Patrick Calhoun, who was president of the United Railroads has been de posed from office and his place has been taken by Jesse W. Liliqnthal a San Francisco attorney. The corporation saw the handwrit ing on the wall at the eleventh hour, and the announcement of the change was made in the hope of having the people vote against the bonds. But the announcement came too late, and the dverwhelming vote for the bonds served the notice on the barons of big business in San Fran cisco that the people had grown tired of wretched street car service and were going to run their own cars. Lilienthal will, of course, improve the service of the United Railroads, and with this private corporation competing with the municipally- owned lines San Francisco should have one of the best railway systems in the country. The moral of the election is a fav orable one, and it shows that public ownership of public utilities is a live. . practical issue that will have to be ' met by the public-spirited nten and women of every city in the country. Entire Nation Aroused. The seventeen-year fight conducted for this principle by William Ran dolph Hearst and his newspapers is * not only felt here in San Francisco. In his mail to-day Mayor Rolph of $rVsan Francisco had messages from men V throughout the nation, and nearly all - of them referred to the fact that "jfwhat San Francisco authorized In s!the election yesterday would in time ’ be authorized by the people every where in the United States. *f” These details of the c^sts and routes show how San Francisco will spend the proceeds of the new bond issue in extending its municipally- owned railway system: Van N°ss Avenue Line—Cost $478.- 000; double track road from Market * street to Fort Mason, 2.07 miles; will earn’ most of the traffic from south of Market street, the main business thoroughfare, to the site of the Pana- rpa-Pacific Exposition and the trans fer traffic from the Geary street mu nicipal pailway and from the Union street line. Potrero Avenue Line—Cost $348,000; from Potrero and Twenty-fifth street; ovei* Mariposa, Florida and Twelfth .streets to Market street, thence one block to connect with the Van Ness avenue line; distance, 2.2 miles. Union Street Line—Estimated cost, rails and equipment after franchise reverts to city, $779,400; distance. 3.78 miles. History of Fight. North Point Line—Cost $235,600; out Columbus avenue, from Union street and Columbus to North Point street* thence to the foot of Van Ness avenue; diMtance* 1.05 miles. Steiner Street Line—Cost $119,700; extension of Union street line from Union to Greenwich* thence to Scott and Chestnut streetSi Stockton Street Line—Cost $229,- 200■; through the tunnel from Market street, one mile, to junction with Union street line at Columbus ave nue. forming the shortest possible way to the exposition grounds. Chestnut Street Line—Cost $225*- fttfb: Van Ness a venue to Devidesero avenue, one mile, forming loop with Steiner and Union streets. Church Street Line—Cost $500,000; out Market street froth Twtlfth to Church, thence te Thirteenth street, 2.45 miles; will give transportation * to pooulcus Noe Valley district. Califi?rnia Street Line—Cost $500,- 000; connections with the Geary street line will be built on some street near Arguello boulevard and at Thirty- ninth avenue, as the franchise for the present line has expired between First and Thirty-third avenue. With these lines in operation San Francisco will have its own cars run ning in eveTy part of Its widely-scat tered territory. The seventeen-year fight that made this system of street railways possiblp was begun by Mr. Hearst through The San Francisco Examiner. on August 13. 1896. Battle Long Continued. The fight was begun in 1896. when the improvement clubs, spurred on by The Examiner, secured an in junction preventing the board of su pervisors from opening the bids for the Geary street railway franchise. On May 26, 1898, the new city char ter was ratified by the people. In which the purpose of the city to ac quire public utilitife was declared. In June, 1898. another application was made for the Geary street fran chise and the franchise was again de nied. A proposal to issue bonds to recon struct the Geary street railway was made again in December. 1902. The bonds failed to receive the necessary two-thirds vote. The Examiner continued its fight, refusing to accept defeat. Another application for a 50-year franchise was made and defeated in February, 1903. Another defeat came on October 8, 190’S, when a bond election was called and the bonds failed to carry. Work Halted by Fire. The fight only grew in intensity, and on November 6. 1903, the fran chise for the Geary Street Park and Ocean Railway expired. No agree ment was made between the city and the railroad on advice of the City Attorney. The company paid 5 per cent of its gross receipts into the city treasury for permission to run its car9. In May, 1905, the supervisors de clared their intention of rebuilding the road with recourse to a bond issue. The sum of $350,000 was set aside in June, 1905. to begin the construc tion. The construction contract was signed just before the great fire of 1904? that reduced San Francisco to a pile of cinders and twisted iron. The records of the plans and esti mates for the road were destroyed in the fire and the negotiations for reconstruction were abandoned. The Examiner continued the fight throughout these days of stress and toil when the city was rebuilding itseW. In June. 1909, a proposition to is sue $2,000,000 bonds for an over head trolley line was defeated by the small margin of 421 votes. But friends of municipal owner ship began to struggle for the prin ciple with increased ardor, and on December 29, 1909, two municipal railway bond issues were submitted to the people. One provided for $1,900,000 to construct a line from Kearney street, out Geary, to the ocean. The other provided $120,000 to carry the road to the ferries. Both propo sitions carried overwhelmingly and the municipal ownership principle was established. On February 8. 1910. an ordinance was passed formally authorizing the bond issue. Horace Platt, president of the Geary Street Railway, sued to restrain the bond sale on the ground that the city had exceeded its au thority in authorizing the issue. Superior kludge Ellison decided that the bond issue was valid on April 16. 1910, and Ihe decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court in July of the same year. Bonds Sold Over Counter. On July 18, 1910, the first bids were received for the purchase of the bonds, $121,000 being hid for the $240,000 of bonds offered. The re mainder of the issue was sold “over the counter” to small local investors. The installation of poles and the overhead equipment of the munici pally-owned Geary Street Railway began in June, 1911. In August of the same year the roadbed construc tion was begun between Fifth avenue and Thirty-third on Geary street, and on Tenth avenue from Geary street to Golden Gate Park. The work was done by day labor. On April 19. 1912, the contract was let to P. H. Maloney for the roadbed from Fifth avenue to Kearney street. The first car over the road was started on December 28, 1912, from Kearney and Geary streets*. To the din of shrieking factory whistles and the cheering of the multitudes the fir*»t car went over the road with Mayor Rolph at the controller bar. It was a great day in Ban Fran cisco, a city that always give* ex pression to its emotion. Mayor Rolph dropped the first nickel coined at the San Francisco mint Into the box of the pay-««~you-enter steel gray car and out 4t went toward the Golden Gala* Built* owned and operated by the people of San Francisco with their own money, the turning of the wheel* ut the new railway representeU t&e most signal victory achieved in year.* by the people over private corpora tions, A band stormed The Examiner of fice and Mr. Hearst, who was then In the East, was inundated with tele grams of congratulation on the*sig nificance of the victory. Carried by Landslide. Since then the Geary Street Rail way has been extended from the ferry to the ocean beach. It has now- been operating along this route for nearly two months, and its profits have averaged $400 a day. No one in San Francisco longer doubts the practicability and profits of municipal ownership of municipal utilities. The profits go daily into the cash box of the city and the peo ple went to the polls yesterday de termined to extend their own enter prise. The bond issue authorizing the ex tension of the municipal line carried by an overwhelming vote. It was a veritable landslide, and the vote sur prised even the most optimistic- friends of municipal ownership. Led by The Examiner the people of San Franciaco have decided for all time their policy of owning their own transportation lines. The result of the election means the people of the Golden Gate will in time assume control of all their public utilities, and that the principle for which William Randolph Hearst has been fighting for so many years has been firmly established among the electorate. San Francisco has Mhown that pub lic ownership of public utilities can be achieved, and the people of th° other great American cities are cer tain to take pattern of it. Marital Failures in Movies as Warning ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1.—Desiring to warn young persons who contemplate matrimony Mrs. Matilda Good and her son John will have their wedded life troubles spread over the country in a moving picture play. Mrs. Good and her sons have just filed suits for divorca. ‘‘The pictures.” said Mrs. Good to day, ‘‘will be especially intended for young men and girls who intend mar rying against their parents’ wishes. My mother warned me against my husband and I advised my son against his wife, but neither of us listened to the advice.” Death Bars Dancing By Isadora Duncan NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Fitzhugh Hansel has received a ' letter from Isadora Duncan, the dancer, in which she said it had been erroneously re ported she was touring South Ameri ca. “To dance would be a crime against the great lesson of death I am try ing to learn in silence,” she said. Mrs. Duncan's two children were recently drowned. Stork and Cupid Cunning Plotters Many a New Home Will Have a Little Sunbeam to Brighten It. 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His physician said that complete rest to-day would put him in condi tion to proceed with the hearing of the case unless some unlocked for complication aroBe. Federal Judge VanFleet, presiding at the Caminetti case, announced to day that a new trial would not be ordered, but that the present one would wait on the recovery of Juror Adams. The court sent word to Ad ams not to try to appear in the court room until he was fully recovered The case will be resumed with tes timony for the defense. It was hoped by attorneys on both sides to bring the trial to a close by Thursday. U. S, Marine Band To Tour the East WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—President Wilson, it was announced to-day, has granted the United States Marine Band a long" leave-of absence so that the famous organization may make the fortieth tour of its history. The trip will last from September 25 until November 15, and will take in New England, Michigan and West Virginia. CHEAP EXCURSION TO FLORIDA Via G. S. & F. Railway. 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Give them to the children—they can’t get enough of them. Keep a few packages on the pantry shelf for daily use. Always look for the In-er-seal Trade Mark. 10c v Enthusiasm IsRunningHigh In Pedalmobile Contest “Gee, ain’t it a peach! Couldn’t I speed some if I had one of them! How many are you going to give away, Mister?” These are some of the remarks to be heard around The Georgian Office where the big red “Georgian Flyer” is on exhibition—the one just like The Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian will give to each boy and girl who secures forty new subscrip tions to the paper before October 1. There are many earnest workers and the subscriptions are coming fast. It would only be a wild guess now to say who will win the first fifteen cars and receive the Charter Membership Certificates to the Atlanta Pedalmobile Racing Club. These Cer tificates will entitle the holder to compete in any or all races and events to be held in the near future. Pedalmobile Clubs are to be found in many of the large cities, having been promoted hv some of the largest and best newspapers in the country. This sort of sport may be new in At lanta, but in many particulars the Pedalmobile races are to the children what the Auto races are to the grown-ups. In fact, they are handled a good deal on the same order and are interesting to the parents as well as tlie children. These little machines are not to be confined to pleasure alone, but can he put to good use in many different ways. In some cities carrier boys who have won Pedalmobiles may he seen distributing their papers in them. All these cars are well-made and serviceable and will surely gladden the heart of any boy or girl who is fortunate enough to win one. These cars are now on exhibition in the window of 0. C. Polk Dry Goods Store, 29 South Gordon Street.; South Pryor Ice Cream Parlor, 353 South Pryor Street, and Imperial Tire and Tube Company, 349 Peachtree Street. While attending the Odd- and-Ends Sale at Polk’s Dry Goods Company, be sure to notice the “Georgian Flyer” in the window. OUTSIDE WORKERS. A number of boys and girls outside of the city of Atlanta have sent in their application blanks and are now working earn estly to obtain one of the handsome little ears. The Pedalmobile man will be glad to send subscription blanks to more honest hust lers who would like to own a Pedalmobile. i Just fill out the application blank below and full particu lars will be mailed you at once. APPLICATION BLANK Pedalmobile Department of the Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian. 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. I am interested in your free Pedalmobile offer and am determined to win one if my application is accepted. Please send blanks and full particulars. : Name i Street ... j City i Recommended by