The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1897, Page 16

16 / = O S T e e—p— B e e T THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1897 FERRY-BOATS WILL ' THE CITY UNITE 10 POINT RICHMOND The Valley Road Makes Another Great Forward Stride by Decisively Locating a Bay Terminal. “ON TO SAN FRANCISCO,” NOW THE ORDERS. A Vigorous Advance From Stock- ton to the Bay Waits Only on Surveys. DEEDS TO TERMINAL LAND3 ARE FILED. A Passenger Terminal at Oskland An- iicipated, but That Wili Wait cn the Future. The bay terminal of the Valley road, or at least the first one, is to be Point Rich- mond, on the Contra Costa County shore, and the ferry-steamers of a competing road will be runniug from there to the 1oot of Markot street and Cnina basin just as quickly as the surveying and construe- t'on of the line from Stockton can be ac- complished. That Point Richmond would be the bay terminal of the San Francisco and San aquin Valley road was rumored two nths ago, when knowledge of some quiet negotiations leaked out, but it re- ed only a surmise until yesterday, the officials of the road admitting only that Point Richmond was under consid- eration among other portions of the bay coast, as was the fact. Yeste: a certainty, when deeds to the Point Rich- ay, however, the surmise became | now transferred to the company. The property acquired by the company thus consists of about 175 acres, of which the largest part is tideland. Other purchases of land in the vicinity, made by private parties for speculative reasons, will be- come known soon. The decisive selection of the bay ter- minal of the Valley road marks another great stride in the rapid development of this competing system which means so much to San Frencisco as well as to the interior of the State. This planting of the enterprise in the eastern bay shore is a palpable appearance at the City's gates of what hus been a hope and a praspect. Chief Engineer Btorey, in a talk with a CaLL man yesterday, said that the next step would be the selection of the route to Stockton, and this will soon be done. “Soon,” in a matter Ifke this, means | a few months. Surveyors are in the field, | and Mr. Storey expects that the route will be definitely settled by early fall at the farthest. There will be no delay in the processs, as far as the company is con- | cerned. The route between Stockton and Point | Richmond remsins uncertain, except that | the terminal selection made means that there is no longer any possibility that the road will come to the bay through the | hills behind Oakland or the shore to the | south. “There are several possible routes,” says Mr. Storey, indefinitely. One possibility is that the road may parallel the Southern Pacific route, swing- ing around past Vallejo Junction and Martinez by following the bluffs above the Southern Pacific tracks in a general way. The most natural and most likely route, however, appears 1o be the one by Wal- nut Creek, which is pursued, as far as it goes, by the California and Nevada nar- row gauge. From Point Richmond the Valley road can cut directly northeast- || o dan Map of Point Richmond, Sho Valley wing Properties Bought by the Road. mond properties were filea at Martinez ana Chief Engineer Storey outlined the terminal plans at last decided upon. Point Richmond is a little peninsula— 2 natural mole—extending from the Con- tra Costa County shore to deep water, some distance north of West Berkeley and nearly opposite Tiburon. This finger of land projects from a long body of land called the Potrero of the San Pablo Rancho, which consists of a range of low hills parallel with the coast trend and con- nected with the rest of the mainland by a stretch of marsh. The jutting peninsula called Point Rich- mond is entirely contained in an irregu- larly bounded piece of land comprising fifty-seven acres, which is deeded to the company by John Nicholl of Oakland. No other parcels of dry ground have yet been deeded to the company, but through other deeds filed yesterday the company acquires tide ands lying on either side of the point. These tidelands reach to the oute- end of the point, and may be filled or dredged, as required. The tidelands on the north side of the point which have been purchased comprise 110 acres belong- ing to the Crooks estate, and only an undi- vided interest in this property has been acquired. The transfer of this interest is effected by deeds from A. 8. McDonald, a real estate dealer of Oaklan¢, who acquired the proverty for the company. The tideland in the south consists of about nine acres, acquired by McDonald from the Tewksbury estate, and by him | ward across the Southern Pacific line, and | reaching the little valley of San Pablo | Creek, where it emerges from the hills, | foilow it upward to Walnut Creek and go on through the interior of Contra Costa County. | When the route is selected, after the | careful consideration of surveys and other matters, there wili be no delay in con- struction, unless such delays are enforced by others, and it is Mr. Storey’s expecta- tion that in a little more than a year | trains will be running from Bakersfield to | Point Richmond, and ferry-boats to the | foot of Market street and to China Basin. Point Richmond is admirably adapted | for a railroad terminal, the distance from | the San Francisco water front not being | the oostacle it may seem to many at first | thought. It is seven milies in a direct line | from the ferry depot at the foot of Market | Girsat and passenger terry-boats will have | a straight run of that distance. The dis- | tance across the bay to the Oakland mole | is nearly four miles, and it is six miles to | the first stopping-places by train in Oak- land, so that the straight run by water of the fast ferry-boats of the Valley road will be as quickly made as the ride to | Oakland. It will be less than a mile more than the r.de to Tiburon. The run to China Basin will be but a little over seven miles and" but little longer than the dis- tance the Southern Pacific freightboats travel from the freight terminal on Oak- land Creek. As Point Richmond juts into deep NEW vo. UL S made it popular. THEY’RE STRICTLY CUBAN mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnmvm RINALDO BROS.&CO 300-302 BATTERY ST., S. F., Coast Agents. i e = E S s g 3 ¥ E = A big demand for a popular Cigar is to continue the high grade of excellence that JACKSON SQUARE E2DC=R CIGAR! The HAND-MADE. ALL DEALERS. LD AR ARG LA I 3 2 GuENTIY Z Z 2 WT FERRY FOUTE =07 ———E Outline Map of a Mid-Section of San Francisco Bay, Showing Geographieal Relations of Point Richmond. water, six fathoms lying close to the outer shore, there will be no costly mole to build and maintain, and the oniy invest- ment required, aside from the natural depot facilities, wili be for wharves, docks and a little dredging. While the terminal facilities locatea there will doubtless be extensive and comparatively costly the additional cost of reaching deep water requirea at any other available point on the bay will not be imposed. The selection of Point Richmond may worry Oakland, which is keenly interested in securing the terminal. A committee of leading citizens was appointed a short time ago to confer with the directors of the road to find what wants the company had in connection with Oakland. The absence of Claus Spreckels has so far delayed conferences. However, Oakiand will probably get a Vaslley road terininal in the future—either a near or a distant future. An Oakland terminal is one of the wishes and plans of the company, and after a while its pas- penger ferry-boats will probably be run- ning from Market street across to a molea little north of the Suutnern Pacific mole. When this comes about Point Richmond will remain the freight terminal, while passenger trains will proceea down the bay shore by some route inside of the Southern Pacific line and out on the mole. And when this comes it may be antici- pated that there will be connection of some sort with a street railway system to bandle the suburban passenger traffic across the bav, which would became an important feature of the Valley Road Company’s business. But an adequate terminal having been secured the question of getting into Oak- land will be allowed to work itself out as the future develops. Now every energy mond and Stockion with steel rails, and the money will be ready as fast as wanted for this extension, as well as the one to Bakersfield, which wili hardly be com- pleted before the other is under way. It is possible that next season’s wheat cron may fill warehouses of the Vatley road at Port Costa and Point Richmond. and sbility with which the construction of the Valley road has been pushed and managed from the inception of the great enterprise, Vv e OAKLAND CONFIDENCE. The Ccmmittee of Citizens Will Confer With Claus Spreckels Soon. OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FrANCISCO CALL, 908 Broadway, March 20, l’ A. 8. McDonald of this city went to Martinez to-day and recorded six deeds, which makes it abrolutely certain that the Valley Railroad has decided to locate its freight terminus at Point Richmond, near San Pablo, in Contra Costa County, about twelve miles north of Oakland. All the deeds are made out direct to the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad. The deed of most importance is from John Nicholl of this city o about fitty acres of upland adjoiniug the proverty to which a deed to CI Bpreckles was re- corded some weeks ago. The other deeds are from David Crooks and Ida Hodman to A. 8. McDonald, who in turn deeds them over to the Valley Railroad. The deeds refer to large sec- tions of tide land on either side of Point Ricimond proper. In order to reach its terminus the railroad must cross the land of the Emeric estate, ;5 The Point Richmond move is not re- garded as being in any sense hostile to Oakland any more than are the wharves at Port Costa. As saon as President Clans Spreckels returns to San Francisco'and is ready to meet the Oaklanders the inter- rupted negotiations will be renewed, and it is the opinion of the local commercial bodies that the road will most assuredly continue its passenger service to this city. STANFORD MEETS DEFEAT. Olympic Scored Eight in the Eighth Inning—A Hot Game, The Btanford University baseball team was defeated by the Olympic Club nine yesterday afternoon at Central Park by a score of 15+t0 10. It wasan even contest and anybo!y's #ame when the eighth iuning opened with the score 6 to 6. Then everything wént wrong for the coilegians. Bafe hits, unfortunate cir ¢ umstances, confusion and costly errors com bined to ruin thechances of victory and the Olympics scored eight rups. Yesterday’s game showed that Stanford is weak at batting. It demonstrated also that the fight for first place in the league, composed of Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Clara College and Olympic, will be closely contested. So far -Stanford has beaten Santa Ciara by a doubtful margin, Berke- 1 en Olympic and Olympic has ey has be: beaten Santa Clara. ————— ACKNOWLEDGED superior. the Waltz safes, in sll sizes. 109 and 111 Marketst., 8. F. = will be bent to connecting Point Rich- | This is atl another display of the vigor | SOCIETY KICKS OVER THE TRACES Swelldlom Rent Over a Knockout at the Riding Club. Captain Dilhan, Sustained by the Members, Fights Sec- retary Quarre. “Musical Night” Was the Bone ol Contention—Crocker an1 New- hall May Resign There has been the largest kind of an uproar within the selegt tanbark atmos- phere of the San Francisco Riding Club. George Quarre, the secretary, is carry- ing around some bandag2a knuckles, Cap- tain Diihan, the riding instructor, wears a blackened eye and scarred visage, and Henry Crocker, the prasident, and George Newhali, one of the board of directors, threaten to resign, It all grew out of an obnoxious order issued by the president withoyt consult- ing the directors, ana which order Secre- tary Quarre ‘attempte ! to put in force, or rather to post in the club quarters. Cap- tain Dilhan remonstrated with such vehe- mance that Quarre’s wrath was aroused and the two came to blows, provoking a smali-sized riot despite the presence of several ladies of the club. Difhlfl being a much slighter man physically than Quarre, besides having been on the sick Iist for weeks. got much the worst of the encounter, but has all the sympathy of the club. This—the sympathy with Dilban in his protes. against the president’s order—nas provoked the latter’s tureat to resign. Alto- gether the history of the new and very popular riding club 1s_experiencing a crisis that has quickened a lively interest in it. The club was organized last Sep- tember. It grew out of the riding and paper-chasing events at San Rafael, by which ihe City horsemen and women were drawn together and came to feel the need of & rendezvous. George Quarre and Captain Dilhan and others set (0 work on the proposition. The old armory on Pacific avenue, near Polk street, was secured and an or:aniza- tion was effected. Henry Crocker was made president and Quarre secretary. The armory was fitted with stalls and boxes, a driving-ring was_built and the club was inaugurated by a first night with music, refreshments and all that. Presi- dept Crocker did not attend in the saddle, but drove his drag into the ring to the ap- plause of the people. Captain J. Dilhan was engaged ss riding teacher and a regular “musical night’’ was inaugurated, held every Thurs- day wight. The musical -night became very pupular, the band being placed in the gallery and to its music the: horses were put through the figures of the dance, marched and countermarched. These meetings were sustamned by those who attended; that is, on all members of the ciub who attended was levied an equal share of the cost, so that it was a private affair rather than one of the club, the club treasury not being taxed in any v hese meetings Mr. Crocker never a l tended. Indeed, it is said be seldom ap- peared at the club at all except to preside at the meetings of the boara of directors. 1t was, therefore, a greatsurprise to the members of the club when Secretary Quarre appeared last Thursday evening with printed notices, bearing the presi- dent’s name, stating that the ‘*musical night’’ would be discontinued aiter that evening. Tne secretary was about to post one of these up in the office when Captain Dilhan remonstrated. The discussion grew loud and anery and was heard all over the building. The two were in the office with the door shut. Suddenly trere was a crash and the ladies in the ring knew that the words had come to biows. B There was & rush toward the office, and the secretary of the club was discovered with his knee upon the chest of the rid- ing-1naster, his hand upon his throat, the riding-master being prone upon his back. Quarre was using his free hand upon the riding-master’s face. The two wrestled about the room, up- setting the furniture and causing s panic | among the on-lookers, The _ladies | screamed, and the men interfered, but be- fore they were parted both men were | badly damaged, Dithan particularty. [ Quarre explained, by way of apolog'zing {0 the ladies, that he could not brook the conduct of the “puid man.” He was o ex- plaining, at the same time putting his clothes to rights, when Dilhan entered and struck him What bad taken n. lace was child’s play. to what foilowed. Both men fought hard and again overturned the furniture. Quarre was getting the best of the fight ana his brother was crying for ‘“fair play” as against those who wished to separate them, for Quarre’s brother joined in Quarre’s dislike of the riding- master. At last one of the stablemen got into the room and between the men, and by striking out right and left fi rated them. “Dilhan’s face w: The “‘musical evening” was spoiled. A meeting of the board of directors was called for the next afiernoon. President | Crocker and the members were pres- ent. They are: H. J. Crocker, George Newhail, Baron von Schroeder, William Lent, Mre. Fannie Leat, Mrs. William A. Hooper. It was proposed to dismiss both Dilhan and Quarre. The matter was discussed at lengtn. The majority sympathized with Dithan, ‘and were against his dismissal They favored the musical evening, and re- sented the dictation of the president in a matter which thev felt did not concern him. Besides the musical evening was spoken of as the one particular attraction o! the club, making it popular. When the interference of one of the “‘paid men” with the secretary was referred to they answered that the secretary him- self recejved $50 a month from the club, So no action was taken. The musical evenings will be continued—the board de- cided that—and Mr. Crocker and Mr. Newhall, who wishes to sustain him, de- clare they will resign. NEW TO-DAY. SPECIAL $10 SKIRT AND ETON! TEN DOLLARS. silk-lined, braid-trim- med. great everywhere for $is. Our special for two days...... Moire Velour Separate Skirts, the new inverted pleat style, blacks only, lined throughout and finished with velvet bands. This season’s richest skirt, dressy and elegant, sold every- where for $15. Our special for two; days. . 310 Velvet Eton Jacket, The season’s novelty, sold KELLY & LIEBE Y Cloak and Suit Houso 120 Kearny St. HOSIERY * NEW TO-DAY —DRY GOODS. e e DEPARTMENT! 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