Cable Car Days In San Francisco By Edgar Kahn Hard Cover 1940

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Cable Car Days In San Francisco By Edgar Kahn

Hard Cover with dust jacket (has plastic protective covering) Dust jacket has damage

134 Pages

CONTENTS

PAGE

FOREWORD, by Carl I. Wheat ix

CHAPTER

I. SAN FRANCISCO OF THE 'SEVENTIES . . . .3

II. THE HORSECAR PERIOD 8

III. ANDREW S. HALLIDIE : THE START OF THE CLAY STREET HILL RAILWAY COMPANY . . . . . 27

IV. LELAND STANFORD: THE BEGINNING OF THE CALIFORNIA STREET CABLE RAILROAD COMPANY . . 43

V. ANTOINE BOREL : THE CABLE CAR DURING THE 'EIGHTIES 57

VI. NOB HILL HOMES IN THE 'EIGHTIES . . . . . 71

VII. CHINATOWN AND THE CABLE CARS . . . .77

VIII. JAMES B. STETSON: THE CABLE CAR COMES OF AGE 85

IX. JAMES W. HARRIS: THE CABLE CAR REACHES MATURITY I O I

X. Fading out II2

APPENDIX

Henry Casebolt and the Sutter Street Cable Railraod Co 117

Market Street Cable Railway Company 120

Statistics on horse and cable railroad operations 127

REFERENCES 133

For more than half a century the cable cars have been one of the city's most characteristic feature. This is an informal narrative. Through its pages march many notable characters of the city's eventufl past and many a long forgotten anecdote with all its variety and flavor has here been retold.

PREFACE

THE ILLUSTRATIONS were executed by William Wilke, an artist who stands high in San Francisco. Genius such as his has contributed to the lofty position pen-and-ink work holds in the field of art.

I am thankful to Samuel I. Wormser, who gave me his recollections of events which took place when his father was the first treasurer of the California Street Cable Railroad Company.

Samuel Pond I thank for a copy of Vignettes of Early San Francisco Homes and Gardens and a considerable amount of helpful information regarding Nob Hill in the late 'eighties.

I am indebted to the late James W. Harris for his readiness to reconstruct for me the sixty-year history of the California Street Cable Railroad Company.

I desire to express my gratitude to the following: Lester Wells, Secretary of the Company, who assisted me in delving into records of directors' and stockholders' meetings dating back many years; Antoine Borel, Jr., George Coleman, S. Waldo Coleman, Harry Stetson, the late Ralph Hare, and Frank Buck, who provided me with information concerning their fathers' activities in the Company; Archie Treat, the late Joseph Cummings, David Oliver, and John McGaw, who contributed recollections of personalities; Fred Boeken, for the loan of a valuable scrapbook; R. A. Couey, former Superintendent of the California Street Cable Railroad Company, for data concerning James W. Harris; Jack M. Dodson, for valuable assistance rendered in connection with checking the manuscript; John William A. Hall, the oldest conductor, and George Mitchell, the oldest gripman, of the California Street Cable Line, for many anecdotes; Gelett Burgess for the use of his "The Ballad of the Hyde Street Grip"; Miss Jean Price, of the Library School of the University of California, for her research work in my behalf at the Bancroft Library; Miss Mabel Gillis, State Librarian at Sacramento, for furnishing me with many references; Lindley Bynum, for material from the Henry E. Huntington Library at San Marino; Phillip McLean, for information gathered in the Hopkins Transportation Library at Stanford University; Pardee Lowe, who collaborated with me on the chapter on Chinatown ; the Society of California Pioneers for the use of several illustrations; and the California Historical Society for material on Andrew S. Hallidie.

I am indebted to friends who supplied me with a fund of personal information: H. M. A. Miller, C. 0. G. Miller, John Freuler, Berthold Guggenhime, the late H. R. Williar, the late Albert Bender, Fred Pickering, the late Dr. Emmet Rixford, James K. Moffitt, Francis Farquhar, Edward O'Day, Richard Schmidt, Joel Hecht, George Berton, the late Miss Anna Beaver, John Cuddy, Leonard V. Newton, Walter Swanson, Louis S. Slevin, Fred G. Will, William Magee, Earl G. Ryan, George W. Gerhard, Mrs. Mary Taylor Beardslee, Charles M. Bufford, Michael Harrington, John Henry Mentz, and Fabius T. Finch.

I desire to express my gratitude to a host of other friends, too numerous to mention, for their helpful suggestions and criticisms.

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