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Identifier: americanmunicipa00zueb (find matches)
Title: American municipal progress
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Zueblin, Charles, 1866-1924 Sweeny, Helen Bernice
Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States Municipal government -- United States
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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purchase of public utilities possible.This was inspired by the high-handed methods of the UnitedRailways that had been organized by familiar New York de-vices involving financial obUgations no corporation could meetand serve the public adequately. The company had sufferedfrom the fire and from a subsequent strike and would have hadthe sympathy of the people but for the entanglement of therailway officials in the graft revelations that aroused San Fran-cisco from its lethargy. The straight and narrow path ought to have been easy inSan Francisco streets, but for ways that are devious Bret HartesHeathen Chinee has had no monopoly. As early as 1896 the Supervisors of San Francisco had at-tempted to extend the franchise of the Geary Street Railway,but the court decided it was not legitimate more than a yearbefore its expiration in 1903. With the charter revision givingthe city authority for municipal ownership, agitation to munici-palize the Geary Street road began. The first referendum in
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