The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. = SI;'BSCRIPTIDN RATES: DAILY CALL—$G per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ per weeik. SUNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern offics of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver. tising Bureau, Rhinclander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. WEDNESD No more monopoly. n Joaquin road. Competition will be the death of silurian- ism. Invest in the A new railroad is worth a dozen mud flats. Display California goods and let the peo- ple see them. Never count a millionaire’s children until his will is hatched. The millionaire who lacks public spirit always has public contempt. We must have the San Joaquin road and the road must have a water-front terminus. ‘We thought we had the cap on the legis- lative climax, but we must bow to Indiana. Every county in the State is in line and all of them wish to be on the competing line. The war among the insurance companies may not set the City on fire but it is getting red hot. Parisian fashions will no longer have the same worth, but they won't come any cheaper. Give the mud flats to the competingroad and in a short time they will cease to be mnud flats. We must make a lively movement in City improvement, to meet the coming century in good style. Cleveland appears to be trying to find forgetfulness by neither saying anything nor sawing wood. Now that San Francisco is to be per- mitted to do her own investigating, she must get in and do it. Perhaps it might improve the silurians a little, to give each of them an individual as well as general kick. Subseribing to the competing road is an investment and not a donation; there isno giveaway in it anywhere. When the work of the Half-million Club is accomplished for the City there will be millions in it for the Stal Legislators who attempt to shut off the competing road, are simply renewing the old circus of the donkey and the locomo- tive. The Merchants’ Association has dome well in sweeping the streets, but it will de better when it sweeps the cobbles out of sight. If the Indiana Legislature hadn’t ad- journed when it did, the Governor would have been justif in having it arrested for prize-fighti | ucts of our soil and of our factories should | | those of foreign make. | | | i i 1 ; DISPLAY HOME GOODS. In the task of making a California mar- | ket for California products, the producer <an do much by advertising his goods, the consumer can do much by eiving prefer- ence to home articles over those of foreign make, but the merchant can do most of all. He is the link in the chain that con- { nects the producer with the consumer, and | without nis cordial help and co-operation neither the productive energy of the one nor the willingness to purchase on the part of the other, can be of any avail. Every California merchant should put California articles to the front. The prod- bedisplayed conspicuously in the windows of shops dealing in such goods, so that every passer along the street might see the large variety of articles grown or manufactured here and be convinced of the wisdom of purchasing the home goods rather than It would add, moreover, to the attractiveness and the value of the display if the prices were marked and the fact made evident that | to patronize home industries is a matter of household economy as well as of patriotic sentiment. Dealers in California dried fruits have especially good reasons for making a dis- play of this kind. Few formsof window decoration can be more attractive to casual passers or more enticing to shop- pers than a well-arranged exhibit of choice fruit. Such exhibits brighten up any store front. Evidences of their value in this way can be seen in many places about the City. An instance, conspicuously notice- able because of the environment, is that of the grocery of C. H. Montgomery on the corner of Third and Minna streets, which, by its rich array of luscious fruit marked at low prices, goes far to redeem the un- sightliness of the ill-paved, ill-tended street and the ramshackle buildings around it. The effect produced there shows what could be done everywhere, and with even greater success amid better and more attractive surroundings. It is, of course, to be understood that the burden of making attractive displays of California goods should not be thrown wholly on the merchant. The manufac- turer and the fruit-packer should put them up in 3 manner as artistic as can be made compatible with economy. The esthetic faculty of the American people has been developed very rapidly in recent years, and we are no longer indifferent to the accom- plishments of art and the pleasures of a cultivated taste. The American of to-day buys a great many things simply because they look nice. This taste must be ap- pealed toand satisfied. The manufacturer, the fruit-packer and the merchant should co-operate in the task and give to our home-made goods a display as attractive as any that come from France itself. A NEIGHBOR'S RIGHTS. The ancient maxim of the law, *So use vour own as not to injure that of another,” is one of the foundations upon which the conduct of the CaLL is laid. It stated this proposition plainly enough in its issue of March 4, in reference to the rehabilitation of hydraulic mining in California; and yet our able contemporary, the Yuba City In- dependent, with a vehemence that better discloses its zeal than its judgment, finds that article a sufficient reason for a violent assault upon the CaLL. One of the greatest misfortunes that California has ever suf- fered is the bitter partisanship that has grown out of the conflict between the farmers and the miners. The damage done to lands and water- ways through the absence of means for impounding debris has been serious | enough; but greater still was the harm | to the State at large from - stopping Every merchant should display his Cali- | fornia goods in the front windows of his shop so as to let people know he is in favor of home industry Don’t forget that the earnings of the San Joaquin road will be kept at home to help home industries and not sent abroad to pay foreign bondholders, : As the Ban J Mercury advises every- body to quit “rushing the growler,” it owes it to mankind to devise a better means of getting the growler to his bier. In celebrating their accession to citizen- ship by getting drunk, the Umatilla In- have proven themselves too much some other citizens to be good citizens. When Russell le for a wedding written init: *Silver and gold haveIin plenty, but what I need most I give unto thee. San Francisco assists Tos Angeles in working nup the great flower festival and Los Angeles will assist San Francisco in getting the next Republican National Con- ntion. He oniy is a good citizen who with awise regard for his private interests employs his 2 way as to ssist in the advancement of his city and the welfare of his fellow-citiz The manufacturers of all parts of the State are showing a warm interest in the coming convention and eyery day fur- nishes rew reasons for believing that the assembly will have not only important dis- cussions but important results. The charge of impurity in the watersup- ply of the City should be most carefully in- quired into. Bad whisky, bad morals and bad politics affect only a few people, butim- pure water is liable to carry disease, plague and pestilence into every home. The propetty-owner who does not see the advantage to himself that will result from an investment in the San Joaquin road, must have made his money by bull luck or snake trickery, for he hasn’t enough busi- ness sense to know a good thing when itis introduced to him. The Los Angeles Express is in error in ac- cusing the CALL of inconsistency because “in one column it berates lotteries and in another it boasts of the numberof mar- riage licenses.” Marriage may be regarded as a lottery in Los Angeles, but in this sec- tion of the State it is an infant industry. We are pleased to learn from the Mar- tinez Gazette that an Eastern manufacturer, whose attention was drawn to the advan- tages of the place by a recent article in the Cary, has written to get advice in regard to the location there of a planing-mill and sash and door factory. This is the kind of gift that the CaLw likes to make California towns. It beats the fake trade. The Argonaut's highly complimentary statement of the CALL’s innovation in giving due prominence to Pacige Coast news and refraining from making it secondary to for- eign scandals and accidents that do not con- cern us, is the expression of an intelligent editor who, as a representative of the higher intelligence of the community, has said in the clearest manner what every other inteiligent citizen would say if he published a high-class weekly paper. the arnual output of $10,000,000 which the hydraulic mines yielded, and greatest of all has been the bitter feeling which has grown out of it all, and which, manifested principally by the valley farmers, has made the resumption of hydraulic mining, under proper restrictions, so difficult. ‘When the Cary declared that “1 per cent of the profits that would result to Cali- fornia and the United Btates from the re- vival of hydraulic mining would defray all | the cost of caring for the rivers and val- leys,” the Independent denounced this as showing a reckless disregard of facts, and added: “It would take the entire output of all the hydraulic mines on the water- shed of the Feather and Sacramento years to restore those rivers to their primitive condition.” Whether or not this may be true, it happens to be foreign to the issue; but it has an important value as tending to show a bitter partisanship against any proposition which looks to the re-establish- ment of mining. The Carr, on the contrary, is in no sense a partisan in this matter. It stands on the simple proposition that if hydraulic mining can be resumed by the adoption of impounding facilities which will prevent further injury to lands and waterways, it is the duty of the coun- try and of all its good citizens to forward the enterprise; that such facilities have been devised, and require only the assist- ance of the Government to put them into operation. Thus the old legal maxim is followed by the CALy, and those friends of the farmers who are also unhappily the enemies of hydraulic mining, might profit by the example. PAVING THE STREETS. The announcement in the CALL yester- day that the Merchants’ Association in- tended entering upon a series of experi- ments in street-paving, was doubtless read by every progressive citizen with a feeling of satisfaction alloyed only by the regret that such experimentsshould be necessary. Long before this, San Frahcisco should have found the right solution of the prob- lem of street-paving, and by this time should have carried it into extensive ap- plication. Regrets over past neglect, however, are out of place now. The one duty before us is to take advantage of the present and make the future better. It isa matter of congratulation that this particular work has been undertaken by a body of men so competent to perform it. The Merchants’ Association has shown its ability to grap- ple with street probleras and find a practi- cal solution for them. Within the area of its operation, it has revolutionized the street-sweeping of the City and has pro- duced as good results as are possible on the present pavements. With these ac- complishments to prove the energy and public spirit of the Association, we can with reason indulge the belief that it will be equally successful with the new enterprise, and having swept the old pavements clean, it will next succeed in sweeping them off altogether to make way for better. It will not be necessary to make any blind experiments in the work proposed. Street paving has long been one of the most extensively studied of municipal problems, and its solution is now pretty well understood. Experiments made in cities in various parts of the world have demonstrated by the test of actual wear and tear what paving is best fitted for the heavy traffic of city streets, as well as the most economical with respect both to first cost and the expenditure for maintenance. ‘Without attempting to prejudge the tests to be made by" the Association, we believe it will be found here as elsewhere, that no system of paving meets all the require- ments of traffic and economy so completely as an asphalt pavement laid with due care upon a substantial concrete foundation. If this should prove to be the case, the City is to be congratulated, for within a com- paratively few miles of it there are abund- ant quantities of all the materials needed for the foundation and for the asphalt cov- ering. It will be a comparatively easy task and cheap process therefore to improve the streets by this system if should prove as advantageous here as it has shown itself to be in other cities on the Pacific Coast and elsewhere. While itis a matter of gratification to live in a community where there are mer- chants of sufficient public spirit and gen- erosity to undertake a work of this kind at their own cost, there is necessarily a feeling of shame that it should be imposed tpon individuals to do a work that the City should do. Have we not a represen- tative government? Are not the people taxed to pay for street improvements? ‘Why would it not be better for all con- cerned to bond the City for $5,000,000 and enter actively and extensively upon the important work which the Merchants’ As- sociation has with so much civic patriot- ism undertaken to do tentatively at the expense of its liberal and progressive mem- bers? A GOOD' INVESTMENT. The one substantial and permanent ele- ment in the conduct of legitimate business enterprises is the hope of a profit on the investment. That is the test of the true business man. Contrariwise, a capitalist who is too timid to invest in an enterprise which offers every reasonable assurance of a profit is not a genuine business man. Tt is the employment of capital in developing resources that makes a community pros- perous, and he who withholds his money from such employment fails in one of the salient qualifications of a useful citizen. All this is evident without taking into ac- count such a humane consideration as the employment of the poor or the effect that such employment has on the character and enforcement of penal laws. He is the best citizen who, with a wise regard for his private interests, understands his enor- mous power for good or evil in the employ- ment of his own capital. Those eminent capitalists who refuse to invest in the shares of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad through fear that they | will not receive a profit may take what consolation they can from these considera- tions. It would require hardihood and in- genuity of an uncommon order to assert and attempt to prove that a generous profit would not accrue from the invest- ment. The matter should be regarded solely as an investment with a reasonable prospect of a fair return and in no sense as a donation. The promoters of the enter- prise being shrewd, able and successful business men have put their millions into it because it is so evident to them that it will yield a handsome profit. It is easy to ime that, having shown themselves in this aspect to be good and useful citizens, they will be glad to see the community at large enjoy a prosperity which their enter- prise has made possible; but however ad- mirable they may appear from this point of view, there are many who need look no further than personal benefits. Those who are inaccessible to the promptings of pride and shame have nevertheless abundant | Toom in their pockets. A very important matter that has re- ceived no attention is the fact thatas thisis to be strictly a home affair, there will be no drain upon the resources of the State in the form of interest paid to foreign holders ofthe securities. This country annually sends to Europe about $100,000,000 in in- terest and dividends on railroad securities alone. The expenditure of ene: and the consumption of resources required to meet this drain are enormous, reaching vastly further than the face of the outgo. The benefits which would accrue from the keeping of this money at home, where it might be reinvested in further enterprises which would furnish employment and produce prosperity, would be beyond com- putation. It is a knowledge of these vital matters that has prompted the promoters of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad to use all diligence in disposing of the shares to the capitalists of California. Not alone by direct means will the shareholders receive a benefit, but they will enjoy the additional advantage which will come indirectly from the increased prosperilty of the State. This is an advantage which local share- holders in railroad properties that have borrowed largely abroad cannot hope to enjoy. Itisinstructive to observe how much greater confidence generally foreign capi- talists have in American enterprises than Americans themselves are apt to show; and most conspicuous among such Ameri- cans are those in California, and particu- larly in San Francisco, who prefer to count their small gainson “gilt-edged loans” and who are content to be merely usurers and pawnbrokers. A Connecticut State Senator is trying to procure the passage of a bill making it unlawful to publish the portrait of an in- dividual without his consent, or, if dead, the consent of his representatives; and 1t is scarcely necessary to say that every ab- sconding criminal in the country would like to have a chance to get in and lobby for it. It is not California only that has resumed the work of railroad building, for a Georgia company has placed a big order for rails with a Pennsylvania rolling-mill and we are going to have a rival to see who will get there first. California fruit, neatly packed and of- fered at low prices, should be put conspi. uously to the front in every grocery in the State. San Francisco has been a metropolis for some time, but she hasonly just begun to act like one. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS, Briggs—I was reading a paper in the elevated this morning and the man next to me was wild. Griggs—Why? Briggs—I turned it over before he got through. —New York Herald. “There’s some satisfaction in being a kodak fiend,” mused the amateur photographer, as he sent a bundle of pictures to a friend. ‘“Atleast 2 man can express his own views.”—Phila- delphia Record. After all marriage can’t be called a failure when you consider how many possible elocu- tionists it has kept off the amateurstage.—New York Recorder. Mrs. Subutb—I don't see what's the matter with our hens. They don’t lay at all. Farmer Meadow—You don't feed ’em right, mum. Justyou give 'em ebaut $2 worth of corn every week and they'll lay you ®1 worth of eggs every seven days.—New York Weekly. Teacher—Yes, children, the hairs of our heads are all numbered. Smart boy (pulling out a hair and presenting it)—Well, what is the number of this hair. Teacher—Number one, Johnny, and (pulling out several more) these are numbers two, three, four, five and six. Anything else you want to know?"—Pleyer aud Sporisman. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Frank L. Pommer of the G. H. Mumm wine firm left for New York last night, after a fort- night's sojourn in this State. While here he inspected some of the vineyards of California and found that good progress is being made by the growers of native wines. “California has not been using as much champagne for the past vear as formerly, but I think the business is picking up somewhat,” said Mr. Pommer at the Palace Hotel yesterday afterncon. Several gen- tlemen who were present ventured various sugges- tions in regard to the de- creased consumption of champagne on this coast. Mr. Pommer strikes Nobody was willing to an attitude. admit that hard times have had anything to do with checking the flow of the sparkling beverage. There wasa generally prevalent opinion among the home people that loyalty to home production has been a factor in the changed condition of affairs tonching choice potables, and the visitor good naturedly allowed this plea. Among the party of friends who gathered to bid Mr. Pom- mer good-by on the eve of his departure were W. A. Carnes and Semuel G. Whitney. E. C. Pitts, a well-to-do merchant of Butler, 8. €., who has been enjoying California climate for several weeks past, was speaking of the material development, noticeable in the South, to several gentlemen in the Palace lasteven- ing, and among other things mentioned the growth of the tobacco industry in his State. “It was formerly the case,” said he, “thaton the plantations little patches of tobacco were cultivated by the slaves, from which was raised only sufficient to supply the wantsof them- selves and their masters. Not a leaf was grown for the trade until a few years ago, but within the past ten years tobacco-growing has become one of the important and profitable industries of the State, and the annual crop runs up to millions of pounds. Some of the growers geta yield of as much as 1400 pounds to the acre, and this pays well when sold for 12 to 13 cents a pound. South Carolina has become a competitor with its sister States in the tobacco trade, and its influence will soon be felt in the markets.” Mr. Coplice, an old-time resident of Mon- tana, is in the city for the first time and after looking over & good portion of this State de- clares that California isaboutas near Paradise, in point of known attractions, as any section of country he ever visited or expects to. Mr. Coplice is & merchant, butin the years agone he has not been of that class who simply dole out sugar and salt at so much & pound where values are fixed and stable, but he has sought out localities where the demand for his wares permitted him to make his own prices, and where his customers gladly paid them. In early days, when Alder Gulch was a young mining camp, he went there and opened out & stock of merchandise. Those were the days when a peir of boots were worth & small fort- une and the cost of a bushel of potatoes would, nowadays, board a man fora week. Mr. Cop- lice prospered and is now able to view the world leisurely. J. P. Meehan, superintendent of the Pullman Car Company for this coast, was discussing the luxuries demanded in modern travel and the outlay of capital required to meet the same in the Palace yesterday. “It costs about $15,000 nowadays to build the most approved pattern of dining-car,” said he, “‘and the kitchen uten- sils, table furniture, silverware and linen ave- rage about $3000 a car. Each car must have a steward, who gets about $100 a month, and a head cook who values himself at $75 & month. There must &lso be one or two assistant cooks and three or four waiters, lars & month is the very smallest outlay of wages, while the cost of raw material, break- age of dishes and board of employes is about $3000 a month additional. Anaverage of five dsays’ run costs nearly $600 for food and ser- vice, 0 that it is easy to figure out how many customers would be required each day to alone meet the running expenses.” Thomas Cook, who runs a large ranch. in the southern portion of the State, and who has given the cultivation of the strawberry much attention of late years, was at the Russ yester- day. He says that the growers in the vicinity of Coving, Glendora and other towns in the neighborhood are making all the necessary arrangements for the formation of a strawberry exchange on the same plan as that adopted by the orange growers. “We believe that the best results can be secured by handling our own crops,” said he, “and this can only be ac- complished by organization.” A. M. Justice of San Bernardino, who was at the Lick yesterday, says that & recently reported big strike of rich gold ore in the Rose mine in his locality is panning out better than some first reports indicated. The strike was made at the 425-foot level, and there is now developed seven feet of solid ore which assays all the way from $30 to $500 & ton. PERSONAL. J. Naglee Burke is at the Palace. R. A. Long, an attorney at Willows,1s at the Grand. Dr. N. J. Backwood, U. 8. Califernia. Ex-Judge R. Saffold of Napa was at the Lick last night. Ex-Senator 8. 8. Berry of Lindsay is & guest at the Lick. E. J. Cahill, a civil engineer of San Martin, is at the Lick. R. I Bentley, an attorney of Sacramento, is 2t the Lick. General A. P. Chipman of Red Bluff is a guest at the Palace. George T. Dunlop, a vineyardist of Gilroy, is at the California. John Daley, a merchant of Healdsburg, is & guest at the Russ. Nick Frayer, a mining man of Sierra City, is registered at the Russ, W. W. Alexander, a mining man of Portland, is & guest at the Grand. : H. J. Maxwell, & Woodland banker, was at the California last night. 8. G. Little, president of the Bank of Dixon, is a guest at the Russ House, George E. Faw, a grain man of Gonzales, is registered at the Occidental. J. Alexander Yoell, a prominent citizen of San Jose, is at the Occidental. James A. Hardin, a banker of Santa Rosa, is registered at the California. Stillson Hutchins, the Washington (D. C.) newspaper man, is at the Palace. George A. Smith, a large fruit-grower of Cortland, was at the Grand last night. H. Tietig, a tobacco manufacturer of Cincin- nati, Ohio, is registered at the Grand. Captain A. W. Kellar of the bark Palmyra registered at the Russ House yesterday. C. Darling, proprietor of the Darling mine in El Doredo County, is at the California. A. H. Barr, a merchant of Callahans, has just returned from a trip East and is at the Grand. L. A. Steiger, superintendent Normal School at San Jose, registered at the Palace yesterday. Hon. J. M. Walling, department commander G. A. R., from Nevada City, Cal., is at the Russ House. , 15 8 guest at the —_— Sues His Prosecutor. C. E. Mackey, an insurance solicitor, has be- gun suit in the Justice Court against James Taylor, alias J. R. Hardy, a tailor, for $299 and costs. Taylor had Mackey arrested on January 10 last on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, but the charge was dismissed by Police Judge Conlan. Mackey was confined in jail for several hours and considers that his reputation and feelings were injured to the extent mentioned. Drowning of D. ¥. Oswald. The body of & man, supposed to be D. Ferdi- nand Oswald, a flower peddler, was picked up in the bay off Lombard street Monday. The bodg was very badly decomposed. 1In the ckets of the clothing was found a peddling icense, which was made out in the name of D. F. Oswald, 60 Annie street. E—— A Stranger Falls in the Bay. James Bailey, a visitor in the city, while walking around the city frontsightseeing, fell into the bay at the Oregon dock and narrowly escaped drowning before being rescued. He was taken to the Receiving Hospitel and fin- DsCIousness. aly brought to co Three hundred dol- | PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. In height Bourke Cockran is 5 feet 1015 inches; weight, 210 pounds; chest and shoul- | ders very broad. Built like a Hercules. Head, enormous, massive, leonine. Wears number 8 | | | | | | hat. Has to have headgear made to order. Hands and feet large. Wears number 9 gloves and number 10 shoes. Hair curly, dark brown. | Eyes deepset and large and dark brown. | Heavy eyelids, mustache and imperial short | and curly and dark brown. Great expanse of cheek. Always dressed in dark colors. Wears 18-inch collar and little jewelry. Hasno reg-| ular hours for sieeping and eating. Capable of | | great physical effort. Drinks nothing stronger than vichy. Smokes gigantic black cigars. Preparations are making to celebrate the one hundred and seventh birthday of Mrs. Hannah Chard of Vineland, N.J., the oldest | woman in that State, which occurs on April | 20. Five generations are to be represented at the celebration. Mrs, Chard, during seventy- seven years of married life, had twelve child- ren, but only three of them are now living. at the ages of 85,73 and 61 years, respectively. She is still an active housekeeper and is an in- | veterate pipe-smoker, | Frederick Douglass was & conspicuous illus- tration of what may be accomplished by deter- mination, industry and zeal.—Oyster Bay Pilot. | Douglass was a man of genius. All the indus- try and zeal in the world could not make such | & career es his without a potent original brain. —New York Sun. The man who is President when the son of Colonel Fred Grant becomes of age sufficient for admission to West Point will receive a let- ter from an ex-President, written long before his death, asking that his grandson be ap- pointed a cadet in the institution. . Tom Reed favors the removel of chairs from the House of Representatives and the substitu- tion of benches such as are used in the British Parliament. He thinks this would lessen the noise and confusion and facilitate the trans- action of business, BIDS WERE T00 LOW. Confirming the Sales of Mrs. Kate John- son’s Realty—Residence and Other Lots in Abeyance. From a Probate Judge to an auctioneer, and without loss of dignity, was about the | extent of the change which Judge Coffey | executed yesterday. He had the sale of Mrs. Kate Johnson’s property to confirm, and was ready to accept any bids which would overtop those offered at the public sale on Tebruary 5last. Spectators were | numerous, but bidders were scarce. In| only one case was a bid raised—that of the | property on the corner of Green and Bat- tery streets—and this was promptly ac- cegled. All the report of the sale submit- ted some days ago was confirmed with the | exception of the 50-vara lot on the corner | of Golden Gate avenue and Leavenworth | street and the residence property on the | corner of O'Farrell and avenworth | streets. In these two cases the court decided to delay action for a week on the ground that the bids made at the sale were far below what the property should realize. The Golden Gate avenue property was ap- | praised at $120,000, This was admitted by | one of the appraisers to be a little high, | but it was conceded on all sides that the | property is worth at least $100,000. The | amount bid was $74,000, Thomas J. Clunie | being the intending purchaser. Several real estate experts were called to | tell what they thought of the property in question, and_all but Wendell Easton | were of theo};inion that the lot was worth | much more than what had been offered. None of them would gunarantee a pur- | chaser for 10 per cent more than the bid | offered, however, even if they were allowed | sixty days in which to try. Mr. Easton | was of the opinion that’ the bid, while | | this rate a train of thirt; perhaps not up to the actual value of the property, was within a reasonable percent- | age of it,and he thought the court would | be in serious error if the sale for $74,000 were not confirmed. The court finally | ended the matter for the time being by | announcing that the sale of that particular | lot would be laid over until next Tuesday. | Ii the bid be raised 10 per cent the new offer will be accepted; if on next Tuesday it has not been raised, then the present | offer will be confirmed. | Similar action was taken in J. J. O'Far- | rell’s bid on the residence property. That lot was appraised at $65,000, which every one considered a fair valuation. O'Far- rell bid $45,000 and his offer will be taken if not raised within the week. A1l through the bids on the property averaged over 90 per cent of the appraised value. The appraisement of both the Johnson residence property and the lot on Golden Gate avenue was made abouta year ago, and are regarded by experts as excessive. At that time the late Senator Fair made a bid on the fifty-vara lot on Golden Gate avenue and Leavenworth street, when he had a project to sell land at that place to the Masonic society. This naturally affect- ed the price of land in the block then. The appraisement of February 5 last was $120,000 on the Golden Gate perty and $62,500 on the dwelling at arrell and Leavenworth streets. Both of these were excessive. Real estate men concede that the John- son auction was held a month too soon, be- cause many impertant matters have taken place since then to create new confidence in San Francisco real estate. The belief now prevails that if the auction were held yesterday, or any day within the past , much higher prices would have been obtained. J. J. O'Farrell is the bidder on the John- son mansion, but it is understood that he is acting as agent for Drs. Buckley and Thorne and Very Rev. J. J. Prendergast, trustees of the Mary Help Hospital, founded and endowed by Mrs. Johnson, and that the big dwelling at O'Farrell and Leavenworth streets will be converted into the hospital building. B A Female Bigamist. Sarah A. Lynch appeared before Judge Camp- bell yesterday to answer to the charge of bigamy preferred by her husband, Timothy Lynch. Timothy testified that when he mar- ried her last January her previous husband, Julius M. Sousa, & sailor, was alive. Mrs. Lynch's attorney acknowledged both mar- riages, but said that Sousa had been one of the crew of the coal steamer Montserrat, and had been lost with her. enable the defendant to obtain proof of Sousa’s death. ——————— Medicine Company Attached. The Happy Medium Medicine Company, manufacturer of veterinary specifics, has been attached by Harding's Collection Agency on an assigned clmm for £17 80 for bottles fur- nished. Phil Archibald and other well-known horsemen are directors of the company. S BAcox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * T STRONG hoarhound candy,15¢ 1b. Townsend's* —————— - . INPORTANT.—Genuine eyeglasses, 15¢ up, 81 4th st.; Sunday, 786 Market (Kast’s shoestore)* R J. F. CurTER'S OLD BourBoN—This celebrated whisky for sale by all first-class druggists and grocers. Trademark—Star within a shield, * ———— Cur-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; itrelieves pain and abates inflammation, * R e THOSE WHO CONTEMPLATE BUILDING can do so advantageously to themselves by entrusting their building improvements to Jas. E. Wolfe‘ architect, Flood building. Specialties in flats. —————— It is estimated that 200 tons of ostrich feathers have been exported from Cape Colony during the past thirty years, valued at $50,000,000. PEOPLE who are very nervous will not finda permanent cure in opiates and sedative prepara- tions. Nervousness is caused by impure blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures nervousness by’ making pure blood. ——————— “‘Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’® Has been used over fity years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Te-thing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheess, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a botile. owners in the The case was continued to | HE KNOWS THE ROAD WILL PAY. L. P. DREXLER DISCUSSES THE SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN JOAQUIN ENTERPRISE. ENORMOUS PROFIT MADE THE SouTHERN PaciFic TAKES $8,000,000 A YEAR OUT OF THE VALLEY. “Itis the best place in the country in which to build a railroad,” said L. P. Drex- | ler of 409 California street yesterday in dis- cussing the district through which the S?l? Francisco and San Joaquin Railroad wili pass. “From the figures of Mr. Leeds of the Traflic Association it is very easy to judge that the new road will pay from the start, and those who are putting their money into the proposition need have no fear about receiving a dividend. It will be forthcoming as soon as the road is in ope- ration. “Mr. Leeds says that the Southern Pa- cific Company draws $8,000,000 annually out of the San Joaguin Valley in traffic, and that $6,000,000 of this is clear profit. If these figures are true, and I have no reason to question them, it is very evident that another road dividing the trafic with the Southern Pacific cuufii\-e and prosper. If the profit of the Southern Pacific is 75 per cent of the entire traffic by cutting the business in two the competing roads would have a sufficient dividend to satify the most sel! bondholder. “The San Joaquin is a level country. I have been over every foot of it and know it like a book. A locomotive can haul a train of from thirty to forty loaded cars of twelve tons each. 2 and the cost of running a train may be safely estimated at $120 for coal and $25 for | train help. *‘At present the freight rate on wheat is $3 a ton, which should at that rate realize to the railroad company at least 200 per cent on the original cost of The cost of shipping wine is $75a car. At y-five cars would cost $2625. Deducting the cost of transpor- tation from this amount a profit of at least $2000 is left to the railroad company. It costs $1350 to ship merchandise from San Francisco to Fresno, or §162 a car of twelve tons capacity and $5630 for a train of thirty. five cars. At such high rates the railroad would derive a profit on the whole train of at least $3000. “There are other reasons why a new railroad through the San Joaquin would be a paying investment o “Estimating the cost of building the road at $6,000,000, and with the new com- | petitor getting only half the traffic at a greatly reduced schedule, it appears to me that at least from 6 to 10 per cent dividend should be realized. “Inaddi when the line reaches | Bakersfield it is within an air line of fifty | miles to a connection with the Santa Fe. | This gap could be closed by building 100 miles of road, and thus we would have an- | other transcontinental railroad giving us | the long sought-for competing line to the East. “The San Francisco and San Joaguin Railroad should certainly be built at once, | and as a business proposition it 4s self. | evident that there are no better invest- ments.” Mr. Drexler is one of the largest land- San Joaquin Valley and has given the subject of transportation close study. BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE. VALLEY ROAD OFFICIALS HAVE PRACTICALLY SUSPENDED ALL WORK. DEVELOPMENTS IN SACRAMENTO WILL SHAPE FUTURE ACTION HEeRE. So much depends upon the action of the Legislature regarding the bill now pending before it relative to the valley road that the officials of the line have practically stopped all work, except that which is urgent, and are awaiting final action at Sacramento. The proposals for bids for rails were not sent out yesterday, as was expected. At the last moment it was learned that cer- tain important provisions had been omitted, among them being a requirement thata certified check should accompany each bid, and it was found necessary to make these corrections. The proposals will be sent out to-dlf’. Hollister, like many other towns in the State, has decided to make a bid for the new road, and at a meeting recently held there adopted the following resolution : Resolved, By the citizens of San Benito County, in mass-meeting assembled, that we indorse the enterprise displayed by the citizens of San Francisco in organizing the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company, and their effgrt to build & peopie's road, aad we pledge ourselves to earnestly support and assist the committee appointed to soficit subscrip- tions, and to secure $50,000 end right of way for said road. The proposed meeting of the promoters’ committee, which was to have been held yesterday, has, like many other important matters, been deferred indefinitely. When the business in Sacramento has been settled one way or the other the directors will then be able to outline their future work. It is known, however, that the work of soliciting subscriptions has progressed very favorably and that the sum of $100,000, which Mr. Whittier thought would be forthcoming at the next meeting, will very likely be exceeded. John D. Spreckels has publicly stated that he has been authorized to take $25,000 in stock as trustee for an unknown person, and there are several other sources from which large subscrip- tions will pousibl{ be forthcoming before the meeting is held. The question has been asked how it would possible for manufacturers of rails in the East to conform with the re- quirement of the prof;osals for bids which specifies that such will only be received up to the 20th of the present month. As to- day is the 13th it has been suggested that the intervening week would not give the requisite time for necessary correspond- ence. The explanation is that all the large manufacturing concerns of the East The valley is verfectly level, | of transportation. | | M. J. Finnigan of Oakland to i after the order passed by the Supervisors, pmmisingppropeny-owners that he would veto the measure. 2 1. J. Truman, president of the Columbian Banking Company, sent the f(thlowuyg communication to the Board of Supervi- sors yesterday: R ice that Guerrero street, from Eighteen o Rineteenth, is up before your honorable board for acceptance by the cify. 1 know that this work was not done saccordini :O e specifications required for that kind of pare ment, and if you accept the street for the city you will be doing yourselves a great injustice, besides saddling on the municipality & poobr job of work which will ultimately have to be v t the city’s expense. T take off the top bitumen you will find what should be conerete soft. It can easily be removed with a pick and shovel, while if it Was made of the materials as called tor by the Specifications it would be hard as stone, and could only be removed with a hammer and co'}g-cd?;ifie\- are removing the concrete put down by the railroad company with nhoveg. Such work is a disgrace to the city and the offi- céra who are guilty of accepting it. I hope you gentlemen will watch closely all such jobs. Property-owners on & street, as they appear on the Assessor’s books, should be nn:l fled When streets are to be accepted and the ,,z’rp.—; Superintendent and the deputy who examine the work should each be sworn that they know the work is done according to the »"pecfllcl?- tions. Their bondsmen should be held ac- countable if it is not. : " Superintendent of Streets Ashworth was sPenE’es!erday regarding the condition in which he found the strect when he investi- gated it with the Street Committee. I must admit,” he said, “that the work was not up to specifications. The concrete was not what the contract called for, though on the other hand it was as good as that used on many other of our streets previous to the time that I had contractors give notice twenty-four hours before be- girning work so that we could have in- spectors on hand to see that they do their work up to specifications. "Tbepremoval of the railroad tracks made the streets slightly uneven, and I suppose this will have to be fixed, but otherwise I cannot see but that the work is just as good as hundreds of other jobs tgxa! have been accepted by the Supervisors. .. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS, Geneva F. Robinson to William H. L#'th ¢ g’(on N lineJof Eddy street, 137:6 W of Franklin, W S4:415 by N 120, subject to an agree- ment: $10. { Shren Werthelmer to Ray Wertgeimer, lot on N line of Sacrament street, 156:3 & of evisadero, | E 50 by N*127:814, also lot on NE line of Clay and Baker, E 56:3 by N 103, also lot on N line of Pa- Cific avenue,99:9 E of Webster street, E 40 by N i ew T, and Margaret McKenna to Jennie Baker, lot on E line of Castro street, 100 S of | Sixteenth street. s 30 by E 115; $10. lla Seeley to Richard Roche, lot on S line o #th street, 101 E of Noe, E 214 inches by S114; 83 4 Ada M. Glidden to Frederick B. Sadler, lot on N linie of Jersey street, 129:3 W of Castro, W 24:8 by N 114; $10. ;:mn? C. Krueger to John J. Mitchkus, re- | record of 1623 d 375, lot on W line of Alabama | street, 104 N of Twenty-first, N 26 by W 100; quit- claim deed; $10. ‘A. W. Peierson to Mary E. Foster, lot commenc- | ing 285 teet from the NE corner of California street and Eigbteenth averue, N 25 by E 120; lot on the E ltne of Eighteenth avenue, 310 N of California street, N 50 by E 120; also lot on E line | of Twenty-third avenue, 150 N of California street, N 50 by E 120; $10. i 3 5 George A. Bills to Harriet L. Bills, lot on N line of Pomnt_Lobos avenue, 107:6 W of Tenth, W 25 ¥ N 100; gift. "'s. Ié.o?fihfilc Lumber Company, Wood, Slade & Thaver Lumber Company, S. E. Slade & Ci E. Slade, E. K. Wood & C K. Wood Lumber Company lot_on SW Grafton street and Faxon avenue, S 6: 125, block kevie 0. . George and Lina Summer too Louis Kahn, lot on SW line of China avenue, 25 SE of London, SE 25 by SW 100, block 13, Excelsior Homestead ; $10. "Emma Hogers to William J. Rogers Sr., lot on SE corner of Gutenberg and Branswick streets, S | 165, E 164, N 185, W 79:11, West End Hom stead; $10. ALAMEDA COUNTY, p corge F. Cavalll 7 San Francisco, 1ot on § line of Nineteenth street, 95 feet I of Brush, E 50 by S 100, block 287, Oak land; $2100. s ey T Maxwell of Haywards to Chris and Elizabeth Joknson, lot on W line of Adeline stre: 70 feer NW of Fourteenth, N 35 by W 104 correct 535 d 145, quitclaim 'deed, Oakland: $1 Chris and Ellzabeth Jobneon 10 Agnes e of William), same; $10. o Ot H. and. Caroline H. Breed to Carl C. and Eilzabeth B. Plehn, lot on W iine of Warring street, 100 fest. S of Banéroft way, 8100 by W 150, lots 2 and 33, Benton property, Berkel S B hant Searies Lo Charies S. Flood, lots 75 and ; 310. e . Fidod 1o J. F. and Mary Barracky, Mann Charles S. Fl Townshi g 4 7 San Francisco to Emile Cucuel , lot 34, Rose Tract, Brooklyn of L vnship; $5. T sha anie C. Bruns of Alameda to Ernest Pollerfen of San Francisco, lot on X line of Rail- Toad avenue, 350 E of Walnut street, E 100 by N 150, being 10ts & and 9, biock 83, lands adjacent to inal, Alameda; $10. 3 B ey and Narah Strobel and Charles Neudeck of Haywards to Mary Neudeck (wife of Charles) ot Haywards lot on K line of Main street, 200 NW from its intersection with the N line of C, thence XE 100, SE 30, SW 100, KW 50 to beglnning, Hay- iqen Township: $10. o aame 10t beginning at a stake on W Ii e of Main street, 200 SE from the intersection of S line of Calhoun or B_ street with W line of Main; thence SE 80, SW 183, NW 80, NE 188 to begin- “to correct 130 d 202, Fden Townskip: $10. Charles and Mary Neu v Strobel of Haywards to Sarah Strobel (wife of Hen, NI corner of C and Main streets, NW ] 100, to correct 112 d 204, Haywards, Eden e 30 wByrne of San Francisco to Emeline w $1 o(;‘:fio;:(: same two pieces, Oakland Township; $10. Builders’ Contracts. with James McLean, to build on E e S ostsomery street, between Green and Vallejo: $2345. S C. Hammond with C. S. Emmons, to misuamdn line of Shotwell street, 150 £ of Twenty- ; $3363. We sell better clothing for less money, than any firm west of Chicago. This is the plain statement of a represen- tative wholesale manufacturing firm of thirty years’ standing, and what’s more, we're ready, willing and anxious to prove it. You may go elsewhere, you may be suited else- where, but remember this: We could have suited you just as well or better, and saved you money, considerable money— and we'll prove it. ‘We make cloth and make clothing and sell it only at WHOLESALE PRICES—you can buy it that way if you are wi 2 l5 have agents in this city who are prepared to bid for the rails just as though the mi were located in this city. & il —_————— CALLS IT A BAD JOB, L. J. Truman Protests Against the Ac- ceptance of Guerrero Street by the City—Ashworth’s Admission. Though the Superintendent of Streets and the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors have investigated the condi- tion of Guerrero street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth, and presumably will report at the next meeting as to the condition of the thoroughfare, the property-owners on the block have not lost interest in the matter. g This was the block which Mayor Sutro approved through failure to carefully read —_——— BROS. & CO BROWN Wholesale Manufacturers Props. Oregon Cily Woolen Mills Fine Clothing For Man, Boy or Child RETAILED At Wholesale Prices 121-123 SANSOME STREET, Bet. Bush and Pine Sts. ALL BLUE SIGNS