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Show ?Hdw ONE CITY f I KEEPS 5c FARE A , RTITOR'g NOTE: While street ear farea In - all sections of th country have gone up during the past few year a fiaa Francleco ha managed to hold on to the five-cent five-cent fare and the free transfer. This story tails bow this waa poa-albls. poa-albls. Br . R. 4. aewlew. SAN rftA.VClROO. Anrll It. "Jan FYanclsco has never paid more than five-cent street car fare and haa always al-ways enjoyed free transfer privilege. Two systems tha Municipal railways and the Market Htreet Railway company com-pany are competing and both make money. .Iltneva charging- 10-cent fare, operate In certain street a In nine years the city haa retired 11.000.000 of the original 15 600.000 bond lasues flotated to build the municipal mu-nicipal llnea It haa also accumulated a aurplua of fl. 711, 144 In depreciation and other fund. KXTKSSIO PIAVKD. A movement la now on foot to build extensions to tho municipal system with this surplus. The Market atreet rait way tn the nine months ending November. 1021, howed net earnings of $702,110 and paid dividends of 1 174 000 Hoth tinea give good service. In Msrket street, where each line haa two tracks, th headway la 14 aoeonds during the day. On the Qeary street municipal line the headway ta 4 seconds sec-onds and on the Sutter street Market ; Ftreet railway branch the headway Is 4& eecond. Th average apeed of care ia nine and a half mile an hour. Han Francleco, howover. haa aeverel advantage from th standpoint of atreet railway operation. The ferry building Is the common terminal of many llnea. Car come In from tha residential districts In ths morn In; loaded, discharge their paa- I aengera along Market atreet and go I out with a load picked up at the ferry building. Streets are wide, permitting the use of large car. jtTfKY m rowPU'rri ion. On th other hand. Jitney buaaea are allowed to operate In Market, Oolden date. Valent la and other atreet a In lr;t competition with the street cara. Th city la hilly. Increasing power rot's Borne haul are long. It I possible in Han Francleco to rid l mile for I ran I. The Municipal railway Is generally credited with keeping car farea down to canta and maintaining: good aerv-ice aerv-ice Tha municipal system comprises ten lines. Of these six ar profitable, one peya Ita own way wttnout profit and two In money. It cost IS 40 an hour to operate each munlctpal ear. The Market Street rallwav pays platform plat-form men 4 14 a day. The city, however, how-ever, pa IS a day. five each man two week' vaactlon a rear with pay and he pension provisions for every ri.As ri.rrTTATmo rwr.. "In a few yaara," .aye Bnp.rlnt.nd.nt Kr.d Beecken of the Municipal railway. rail-way. "1 heller. It will Na poaslbl. h.v. a fluctuating ear fare a. thr. cent, for eev.ral month, snd i c.ota for ths oth.r month.. "When our depreciation fnnd get. too larg. I bell.v. cutting atreet car f.rae some monthe to give the aurplua bark to th. public. Th. fact that th. municipal rallw.vs ar. operated for ervtr. and not for profit irakee such a proposal as this poeelble." |