The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1895 9 ONWARD MOVES | THE HALF MILLION. i THE CLUB TAKES A STAND ON| THE QUESTION OF MUNICI- | PAL PROGRESS. | LARGE MEETING OF CITIZENS. | | 2 i ENCOURAGING WORDS OF UNITED | STATES SENATOR PERKINS | AND OTHERS. I The general meeting of the Half-million | Club in the Chamber of Commerce yester- day afternoon was sttended by several | hundred earnest and enthusiastic citizens | who seemed deeply concerned in the pur- | pose of the gathering—municipal and State progress. Hugh Craig presided, and in his opening | remark: d: Ban Francisco cannot to-day ignore the work | of her pioneers, who laid the foundation of our city broad and streng. In 1850 San Francisco ! | in their furtherance. helped to found. The Parrott block covers an area of 96,000 square feet, in other words nearly 21 acres, and when complete with a flooring area of something like 460,000 square feet, or over ten scres. Surely we need not despair, but may go forward encouraged that the same spirit of enterprise and faith in the future of our city will carry uson the point at which this club aims, namely, halfa million population for San Francisco before the end of the century. A communication was read from Mayor Sutro expressing his regret at not being able to attend the meeting. He wrote: 1 am in closest sympathy with its object and as far as in me lies’ stand ready to co-operate San Francisco should be & city not of 500,000 people, it should be the metropolis of the Western world, as great as London and as beautiful as Paris. Ithas every natural quality to make it so. Ex-Mayor Ellert wrote in a similarly en- couraging strain. He delighted in the thought that the community has suddenly woke ‘t‘ip from its Rip Van "Winkle slum- ber and esteemed it as a happy omen of the future: He said: The growing sentiment in this clty for the | advancement of our material interests arises from a conservative element in the community which you represent that believes in action rather than words, to bring about & regenera- tion of our ideas as to how confidence can be restored and encouragement given {o many enterprises that will develop the grand re- sources of our State. An increase of the population in the several counties and their consequent industrial pur- suits and progress, while adding to our State's advancement, is the only way to_secure to this city the fruits of these benificent results. The outlook for i’olll’ labors, therefore, will be fraught with all that will endear San Fran- cisco to our sister counties and do away with the unjust impression that our citizens are selfish and are striving to build themselves up at the expense of those we most need. Your labors will demenstrate that we appreciate the /N MAYOR MeGarTHY BARTLETT FROMINENT MEN AT THE HALF-MILLION CLUB MEETING. [Sketched by a “Call ™ artist.) wes the twenty-second in the list of American 1890 she was the eighth; at the last us fiffh in wealth and third in wealth per . There is one thing San Francisco may be proud of, and that is her small public debt, w &‘u is some $930,000, with & sinking fund 01 $670.000, leaving & net public debt of only | $260,000—sbout 80 cents per capita. Certain things in San Francisco might be im- proved npon. The sewsrage system, which was | Sufficient for & population of 150,000, is insuf- ficient ‘ora pepulation of more than double thet number, and must be remodeled to pre- are for e-population of helf a million, 8 mil- lion or several millions during the next cen- tury. We might do worse than appoint a commission 10 examine into the sewerage sys- tems of the city of Paris, the city of Glasgow or of our new American cities. The city of | deed, intercepts her sewage before at the river, extracts from it all solid matter, which it reduces to easily handled blocks -and sells as fertilizers. The sewer water, when the cleansers are done with it, is free from odor, and when turned into the river is about as clean as could be expected. i takeit, the keynote of any city to.a stranger is taken from the arance of ilsstreets. We need not go far afield to realize that improve- ment is practicable and absolutely necessar: With bituminous rock at our doors, than which there is nothing better if properly manipu- lated, there is little exense for such a street s Market street being paved with cobbles or basaltic blocks. The city of San Francisco should own i water supply, its gas supply and its street rail- roads, and these should not be operated by cor- porations for profit, butall economies in manip- ulstion should inure to the benefit of the citizen. 4 Lately I received from Kansas City an article, “‘What Makes Kansas Ci: In reading this over I was struck with the fact that a ci younger than San Francisco, of 170,000 pop iation only, possesses the terminals of twents six railroads, controlling a trackage of 50,000 miles. Notwitnstanding the fact that St. Louis and Chicago are nok very far away, the people of Kansas City, by means of these railroads, zeach outand sipply the wants of a populatiorn of twoand a hall millions. Is it asking too much or expecting oo much thet San Fran. cisco should in the near future, when railroad transportation is reduced to practical business principles, that we should reach out as far as the west banks of the Mississippi? Outside of | these absolute necessities for the growth of any city, San Francisco possesses advan- tages of which no other city in the Union can | boast, for on this Pacific Coast all roads lead to Ban Francisco. The entire commerce of the Pacific must con- | centrate on the shores of San Francisco harbor. ur Golden Gate will some day be the theater . &3 enormous commerce, and round the snores of our bay will be seen a population reaching up to the millions. With great seats of knowledge and research, such as Stanford University, the Lick Observatory, the State University and many other cenfers of learning, | desirable population must be atiracted. But, | beyond the practical necessities cited, there is much room for making provision for our people | in the shape of public halis, museums, libra- | ries, public baths and other improvements inci dental to altruistic nineteenth-century civili- zation. | How many public baths we have in the city | of San Francisco 1 am unable to say, beyens, that left by one of our pioneers, Mr. Lick, which took some fifteen years to put into operation, And here our civilization, much as it is boasted | of, might take a lesson from the civilizations of | some twelve and & half centuries back. It is a matter of history that the city of Alexandria was captured in the early part of the seventh | century by the Mohammedan general, Amru. | Reporfing his success to his chief, the Caliph Omar, he spoke of ha c-gwre& & city con- | taining 3000 palaces, 2600 theaters an 4000 | public baths. | Rome one has said cleanliness is next to god- | liness, The meaning of godliness, as youall | know, s simply goodness. With all our striv- ing we shall certainly be unable to obtain the perfection of goodness. This we can do, how- ever, work one and all for cleanliness, so that the stranger visiting our city shall be struck by its clean gnd neat appearance, in which di- réction something already has been done by President Dohrmann of our Citizens’ Commit- tes. Hut just imagine what an attractive place San Fraucisco would be with an abundance of fresh and salt water already in our possession and 1000 public baths spréad throughout the clty. Notwithstanding the fact that the entire union has for the last eighteen months or nearly two years been passing through a per- i0d of unparatleled depression, we can yet point to the fact that the financial distress in our city and Rtate compared with thatof other States is much less. In eur city many sub- stantial improvements have been made in the past two years, and I will venture to say that in few of ‘the cities in the union with popula- tions similar to ours, will be found a block of buildings in course of erection equal to those on Merket street. Evidently the ploneers of the city have not lost confidence in the young giant which they situetion and know that only on the advance: ment and the State depend the success and advantages which will be our reward for the enterprise in this and similar movements to bring about & community of interests. This movement will tend to herald the ad- vantages of our State, and will, as these efforts and lebors are reported in the chronicles of the times, induce many of the citizens of other States to seek here their opportunities for for- wne’s favors. Thus will public opinion pre- dominate and glowing acceunts of our great and glorious resources and enterprise, fgith- fully narrated, attract, and not prevent, an in- | flux of population to our State. This movement, wise, prndent and intelli- gent, will make reforms which no species of Tegislation could effect in our political system, and meake this not alone a model, but o great city. W. M. Bunker explained the origin and growth of the Hali-million Club and pre- | dicted good results from the excursions | that were to be run i ;h‘an Francisco and om Los Angeles to ce versa during the fiesta at the former e Mayor McCarthy of San Rafael made an earnest and energetic speech. He said: “Ihave only words of praise for San Fran- cisco, the eity” in which I was raised. Judging from the size of this assemblage and the spirit that prevails here to-day, great good is to come of this movement. Some of us may live to see the day when San Francisco will be a city of 2,000,000 people and a State of 5,000,000 souls. Energetic and steady work is needed. Ican say to you that the entire population of the State is applauding this splendid effort of this city. Mr. McCarthy spoke in praise of the press and said the newspapers were doing a great work. “As Berlin is to Germany,” he said in conclusion, “‘Paris to France, London to England, San Francisco will be to Cali- fornia.” State Senator Ford was then introduced and delivered a speech brilliant of thought and eloquent of expression. He said: * Ii anght were needed to indicate the re- awakening that has come to our fair city the enthusiasm and determined energy displayed by this admirably equipped organization fur- nishes the needed proof. With the advent of the Half-million Club, backed by men of sound business judgment and commercial sagacity, there comes a cheerful hope and a widesprea belief that the nightof our financial depression has run its course and that the dawn of com- mercial prosperity is at hand. It also fur- nishes the gratifying proot that the business men of San Francisco and of Californin have made the valuable discovery that only through an intelligent and umted display of business eniterprise can we ever hope to attain that de- gree of commercial and financial supremacy to which our geographical position and natural ld\'xntusvs clearly entitle us. T would not presume o criticize the business men of this city, for I know they are public- spirited citizens and are filled with an earnest desire to see San Francisco occupy a leading E]ll‘c among the world’s commercial cities, ut somehow the impression has gone forth that we have not always been fully alive to the supreme advantages with which nature has s0 bountifully supplied this favored portion of the earth. Mr. Ford said he feared that our people had relied too much ll;)on legislation and natural advantages and not enough upon their own exertions. He referred to the enterprise that had brought competing railroads and unprecedented developmen to Southern California, and the mighty march of commercial progress that had made such headway in the Northwest from Pu_x&tland to Vancouver. Continuing, he said: Shell we be'unmindful of the lessons taught us by our more enterprising brethren? - Shall the great central valleys of California, with their fertile plains and natural waterways be left behind in the onward march of commer- cial edvancement? Shall San Francisco, wi her magnificent harbor and geographical ad- yantages, be left to flounder among the rocks of legislative uncertainties? Thank heaven, the time has arrived when we can E,mndlyl swer these questions by point- ing o the awakeried sentiment aroused by this enterprising body, and to the inspiring hopes created by that laudable enterprise now speed- ing so grandly along under the controlling and masterful hand of Claus Spreckels. 1 have no doubt of the future. Californian never do IMT by halves. Thespirit of **'49" has awakened from its temporary sleep, and is breathing new life into the energies of ‘*’95.” There {8 much to be done, but there is no doubt of its accomplishment. Engineering skill muxt point out the way to take from the gravel-beds of the Sierras the untold millions now locked up in these eternal Our rosperity of theé other counties of | great valleys must be wrested from the, iand monnPolm and _converted into & broad domain of small, happy snd prosperous homes, with & schoolhouse and the American Mgg on every crossroad. * an Francisco must become at once the manufacturing as well as the commecial cen- terof the entire Pacific Coast, and the com- merce of the Orient must find its natural route of travel thmufh the Golden Gate. The Half-million Club is on the right road. Let it persevere in its _glorious work and may God speed its cause. Let there be no laggards. Let cusl(ll and labor join hands and move forward with a common vpurpose and with & high resolve that here, on the shores of the Pacific, the energies of man shall find their fullest fruition and their highest reward. United States Senator Perkins made a strong speech. He grew eloquent in pic- turing the resources, beauty and greatness of California. The Senator received an ovation. He said: Iam a Californian. I came here to-day as & spectator, but I am glad of the privilege of ad- dressing you. What you require most is action, not words. You want to resolve that you are going to support home manufacture, home in- ustry, home interests. A few weeks ago citi- zens met and raised several hundred thousand dollars to build a railroad down the valley. That is action. - What advances the interests of San Francisco advances the interests of the whole State, San Francisco is not jealous of Oakland, Sac mento, Fresno or Los Angeles. Therefore, this movement to build up San Francisco should re- ceive the co-operation of other cities. Contrast the climate in this city with that at Washington or Chicago. Here you can ‘work out of doors all the year round without suffer- ing from inclement weatber, ag in_those East- ern cities. Chicago is & wonderful city, built up by the enterprise of its citizens. But some day San Francisco will equal it. Ifere we have the finest harbor in the world, and should con- trol the trade of Asia and the Orient. Your representatives in Congress have no politics aiter leaving California. They are all Californians. They work together in the inter- ests of the State. While they have not suc- ceeded in getting appropriations which the State is entitled to, yet much has been accom- plished. We will have a new postoffice one of thesedays. Work on the foundation will be begun shortly, giving employment to hun- dreds of men. 'We hope some day to have the Presidio as beautiful as the park. San Francisco must move forward. It is to- day the fifth city in the Union in point of ex- ports and third or fourth in its imports. We must wake up and_ not leave all the work for Jones or Smith to do. We must work together. California_last vear produced 40,000,000 bels of wheat and 90,000,000 pounds of ns. It can produce anything that grows on the face of the earth. We must encourage the farmer and the manufacturer. Let us not send to London for & suit of clothes, but buy them here in California. Let us buy home- made clothing, home-made shoes, drink howme- made wines, and smeke home-made cigars, agd beantify our hemes with the works of our home artists and home talent. Californis has progressed. Our fathers have left us a splendid heritage. In point of educa- tion we have a great State university, where the son of the humblest citizen can recejve an education without price, and we have the Le- land Stanford Jr. University, where rich and oor alike may drink inspiration from the ountains of learning. 1 congratulate you on this step in the right direction. v God speed yon in your labor. Henry E. Highton read the following report from the committee on prometion, which was adopted : 1. That the results of their practical work speak for themselyes and the actails would be tedious. hat they find an_enthusiastic sentiment in all classes of the community in favor of the Hall-million Club. This last is the salient point upon which they make a few observations. In many respects & great building is like a great city. It combines strength with beauty Ttisat once massive and symmetrical. It diversified in its parts, but harmonfous as & whole. 1t unites the intelligence, the special training, the industry of men, to the products of the mine, the quarry, the forest, the manu- factory, the studio. It depends upon the world, ‘and particularly on its own situation and surroundings, for its existence and its maintenance, and yet in & true sense it is com- plete in itself. These fundamental and joined to the aspiration forsolid and attractive growth and development, are taking deep root in San Francisco. The sepurated and often blending. Heterogeneousness is changing to enzousness, and there is a steady ap- 10 & genuine cosmopolitanism, which vital element in vigorous and permanent Upon these lines the Half-million Club was established, and, in these directions, the labors of your commitiee have converred. They are gratified to observe the extraordinary success which has attended their initial movements. From thé manual worker to the millionaire, through all the phases which represent labor and capital, they observe a spontaneous mani- festation of that form of patriotism which has not inaptly been christened—*Civic Pride.” This sentiment is broad and yet concentrated, It includes vital sympathy with the State and with all its parts and with the country at large, and also just appreciation of onr rela- tion, present and prospective, te the business of the world. It grasps opportunity in every quarter, 1t estimates, without exaggeration, our local advantages and recognizes ull the r sources that contribute to civic prosperity. And, in this wide range of thought, effort and Sympathy, the upbuilding and the expansion of San Francisco are the supreme objects. Sound government, egunln before the law, improved education, diversified and co-re- lated industries, the multiplication of homes, clean and orderly society, atiractive recreations and amusements—in brief, the right conditions, intelligently conveyed to every part of the world, are the means through which it is clesrly discerned, the kind of population we require can be secured and the purposes of the Hali-million Club speedily attained. nry E. Highton, W. M. Bunker, H. P. Sonntag, Stewart Menzies, L. C. McAfee. The movement to bring the National Re- publican Convention to San Francisco was indorsed, and the Knights Templar were asked to make an effort to bring their con- clave here in 1898. John H. Marble, J. H. Bartlett and Ed- gar Biggs delivered brief addresses. THE SOOTHERN FIESTA, Fresno Sends a Delegation to Confer With the Merchants, The Merchants’ Association of 8an Fran- cisco has taken active steps to make the fiesta at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara successful. In order that both ends of the State may come together and work in harmony a committee was suggested to the Half- million Club yesterday, and by that body appointed to carry out the arrangements aFrrunspomflon between the north and south and return. In this regard H. P. Sonntag, George A, Newhall, 1. W. Hellman Jr., Frank Dal- ton and H. J. Crocker were selected as the finance committee of the organization. They will meet this afternoon in the office of the Union Trust Company, to consider the business appertaining to their end of the arrangements. Sessions will be held every afternoon at 4 o’clock until the work of the committee has ended, but this after- noon they will assemble in room 29 on the second floor of the Mills building im- mediately upon the adjournment of the meeting of the Half-million Club. The object of this meeting is to outline a plan for the financial success of the north- ern end of the two fiestas. In this matter they will not be alone, for the Fresno Board of Trade has dele- gated Arthur R. Briggs to represent that section of the country. Before the com- mittee assembles it is expected that other interior towns will have elected delegates to represent their interests in the move- ment. Probably no better idea could be given of the proposed fiesta and the expectations of the same than is conveyed in the re- marks of W. M. Bunker, who said: We of this city and Northern California are going to the floral festival:at Santa Barbara, and tully prepared to enjoy and aporeciate to the fullest extent the climate, scenery and flowers of that favored country. We propose 10 go with the intention of winning the respect and attention of the people of Southern California. When we return we will bring with us such residents of Bouthern California and such resi- dents of the East as may desire to see our por- tion of the State. We Wwill treat those visitors cordially, and endeavor to make their visit one of mutual pleasantry and cordiahty. Under the new condition of affairs, the man who proposes to stay our progress should be shot on the s| We must show the interior from one end of the State to the other that this city is big enough, broad enough and strong cnough to lend assistance to every section without re- garding itself. We niust keep pace with the spirit of prog- ress, and we must above all thingsshow to the ople of the interior that the deys of mis- ntergmman, narrowness and prejudice have passed away forever, and that the act of courtesy, from which we derive great benefit, must be performed in a graceful wng. This we will do first, last and all the time. e e Langley’s Directory has 2594 more names than the opposition. Two maps, suggestive facts, | conflicting sections of population are rapidly | COLIN W BOYD A FIRE COMMISSIONER, A. J. MARTIN ASSERTS THAT THE BOARD STOLE A QUICK MARCH ON Him. TO CONTEST IN THE COURTS. WHAT MARTIN'S ATTORNEYS SAY OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE CASE. Colin M. Boyd was seated as a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners to succeed A. J. Martin at a special meeting of the board at 11 A.M. yesterday. Mr. Boyd was appointed by Governor Budd on the 23d instant, and thereby hangs a tale of the past which will probably aevelop into much litigation in the future. A special meeting of the Fire Com- missioners was called to take place at 11 o’clock, and notices to that effect were sent out by the secretary. Mr. Martin re- ceived his notice at 10:49 A, which gave him thirteen minutes in which to reach the new City Hall from his place of bu ness at the corner of Bush and Kearny streets. Mr. Martin had a suspicion of what was to come, and he immediately proceeded to the office of his attorney, Charles Heg- | gerty, of the firm of Knight & Heggerty, | and accompanied by Mr. Heggerty he | | ment. Any vacancies occurring were to be filled by the same power which made the origi- nal appointments. On December 1, 1879, Frank G. Edwards was appointed Fire Commissioner b‘)' Judge Selden 8. nght..vudga of he County Court. On June 20, 1389, Governor Waterman sppointed Thomas J. Parsons to succeed Edware The latter refused to give up his offics sued and Judge Shafter ousted Ed: 1 seated Parsons. Edwards appealed to the Su- preme Court, and this court reversed the judg- ment of the lower court and seated Edwards. The groundsoi the decision, as stated by Justice Paterson in his written opinion, were that the questions in Edwards' case involved the same principles ~ as were determined in - the ammond Police Commission _case, by which he held that the constitution of 1879 having abolished the appointing power and, having failed to vest power to appoint successors to Commissioners then in office in any otner person or tribunal. Mr. Edwards was entitled to hold his office until the Legislature should vest in some person the power to ap- point his successor, expressly holding that the expiration of the term of office did not create a vacancy, and that the Governor had no authority to appoint Mr. Parsons or any one else to succeed Edwards while he was filling the office. Governor Waterman sppointed An- drew J. Martin tofill a vacancy caused by the death of a Commissioner. In December, 1891, Governor Markham appointed John D. Daly to succeed Martin, and William Proll to suecceed Par<ons (the case of Edwards against Parsons in the Supreme Court not having been decided at that time). Parsons and Martin both re- fused to give up their offices. In February, 1892, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the Edwards case, reseating Ed- wards and ousting Parsons, and thus settling all controversies of like character at that time. GROPING IN T_HE DARK. No Clew to the Man Who Shot Walter Blake. The police are groping in the dark for the man who shot Walter Blake in an alley in rear of the Palace Hotel on Sunday night. William Ziegler and Henry Mullin were released from custody yesterday afternoon by order of Captain Lees. Detective By- ram made a thorough investigation into the statement made by the two young men and found no reason to doubt it. They had been drinking together on Sunday, and between 4 and 5 o’clock that afternoon COLIN M. BOYD AND A. J. MARTIN. [Reproduced from photographs.} went to the new City Hall and entered the commissioners’ office just as the board was taking a vote on adjournment. Colin M. | Boyd, the Governor's appointee, occupied | Martin's former official seat. | Martin turned to the chairman, Frank | G. Edwards, and asked to be recognized | and heard on the matter just acted upon | by the board. Mr. Edwards replied by saying: “The board has adjourned. Besides, you | are no longer a member, and therefore | have no right to be heard here at all.” i With that, Edwards repeated his an- | nouncement that the Board of Fire Com- | missioners stood adjourned. Martin’s pro- tests and his further requests to be heard | in the matter were fruitless. He and At torney Heggerty also adjourned and pro- ceeded to consult law, precedents and | Supreme Court decisions: Mr. Martin will combat the action of the Commissioners and the seating of Mr. Boyd by laying the case before the courts. He said yesterday afternoon: 1 do not particularly care for the office, but I do want to be treated like a man and with some courtesy. In the first p Governor Budd had no authority to rem me or ap- point any other man to take my place. But that matter will be settled in court. What I most objectto isthe way I was treated this morning. Mr. Edwards and all of the other Commissioners know that as Port War- den I have dnties to perform on the water front. and that I am never at my place of busi- ness before 11 o’clock in the forenoon. Know- ing this they called a meeting for the unusual hour of 11 and gave me thirteen minutes’ no- tice. It was merely by accident that I got that much time. Well, they had Boyd there, all ready, and before I could appear to enter pro- test they had seated and sworn in my suc- cessor. hairman Edwards was chiefly instru- mental in this, and that is the queerest part of it. Why, Edwards was in precisely the same boat once. His successor, Parsons, was ap- ointed. Edwards refused to give up hisoffice. gnrsuuu sued, and Judge Shafter decreed that Edwards was out and Parsons in. Edwlrds\ appealed to the Supreme Court, & that tri- | bunal reversed Judge Shafter’s decision and re- | seated Edwards. This case of mine is exactly similar. The power that appointed Edwards appointed me. Now that the other Coramis- sioners haye taken this snap judgment on me 1shall make, every effort to regain my seat in the board. My aitorneys are Knight & Heg- | gerty and Senator Frank McGowan. | Mr. Boyd said #1 did not seek this appointment and had no | idea of running into any lezal complications. Governor Budd sent me ‘word to call and seo | him at the California Hotel one evening last | week. I went as requested and became first acquainted, personally, with the Governor. He member ot the Board of Fire Commissioners | because he ihought my past connection with public affairs in this cify and_ county had well qualified me for the position. Of course I felt complimenited by the Gover- nor’s tender of the appointment, and when he asked me if 1 would accept the office I gave him a favorable answer. Nothing more was said or | done until I received my commission. ; What will I do 1n case of a legal contest by Mr. Martin? Well, Ishall endeavor to hold the vosition until I am declared ineligible by the courts that have jurisdiction in such matters. Back of all this turmoil of commis- sioners on various boards and appoint- | ments by the Governor that are coinbated in the courts there is a long string of con- tests, decisions and precedents. Charles J. Heggeny, one of the attorneys for Mr. Martin, gave the status of the case—as | viewed by him in law and decisions—yes- terday afternoon. Said Mr. Heggerty: There will be a complaint filed in the Su- | perior Court to-morrow against Colin M. Boyd | 15 determine his right to Rold the office of Fire | Commissioner, vice Mr. Martin. The case is | identical with that of Edwardsand Parsons. In order to %We a comprehensive view of the situation it will be necessary to refer to legal actions of the past. In March, 1878, under the act providing for & paid Fire Department in the city and_county of San Francisco, the Board of Fire Commis- sioners, which was created by the act of March, 1866, and continued by the acts of April, 1872, end March, 1874, was in existence in San Francisco. There lies the basis of the con- troversy. By section 8 of the act of March, 1874, the persons comprising the Board of Fire Commis- sioners then existing were permitted to serve out their terms of office. Three of these terms ex%ired in December, 1875, and the other two in December, 1877. The law further provided that at the general election in said city and county, to be held in November, 1875, three persons should be clected 1o serve as Fire Com- missioners for four years from the first Monday in December, 1879, and any yacancy should be filled by the Board of Supervisors. On March 28, 1878, the Legislature reorgan- ized the Fire Departmentof San Francisco, nrenlnf anew Board of Fire Commissioners, consisting of five members, but who were not to be appointed until the exPlntlon of ‘the terms of office of the then existing board, three of which would expire in December, 1879, and the other two in December, 1881. It was pro- vided that the three vacancies occurring in 1879 should be filled, one by the Board ofSu- ervisors, one by the Judge of the Municipal ’riminal Court ‘and one by the Judge of the County Couri. The other two were to beap- pointed in December, 1881, by the Board of | Supervisors. The act also provided‘that there- after the appointments of Commissioners ] | | informed me that he wanted toappoint me asa ! | | i went to Ziegler's room in the St. David Iouse on Howard street, near Third. They went to bed and were aroused by Police- men Ryan and Tuite about 1 o’clock Mon- day morning. Steve, the night clerk at the St. David | House, saw them enter, and was satisfied they did not go out again, as he could not have failed to both see and hear them if they had. The lady and gentleman who were near | Blake when he was shot havenot yet called upon Captain Lees. He is particularly anxious to see them, as they might be able to give him an accurate description of the robber. The man who helped Dalton to lead Blake to the Grand Hotel has also not been heard from. ROCK WITHOOT A LIMIT OPENED ON TABER’S RANCH IN THE VICINITY OF HUNTERS POINT. To BE DUMPED ON THE ALAMEDA MoLE AND ON THE FAIR PROPERTY. One of the largest rock quarries ever opened on this coast has been opened by Warren & Malley, the well-known con- tractors of this city, and the rock to be ob- tained from there is to be used for two pur- poses; filling in the Alameda mole for the Southern Pacific Company, and complet- ing the contracts on the Fair property near Harbor View. Mr. Malley said yestérday: This quarry is located on Taber’s ranch, in the southern part of the county, just south of Hunters Point, and it is situated & mile and a hali from the shore line. The rock is put on carsand conveyed to the water's edge, where is run on & wharf, and from there to barges es- ecially built for the rurpow These are very arge and Will carry sixty cars, each having in them about six tons of Tock, or a total of 360 tons as a freight load. The Southeérn Pacific on the Alameda side { have arranged one of their slips to fit our barges, 5o when a towed barge runs into the slipan engine hooks on to one of the trains, hauling it to the point where the rock is to bhe dumped. The cars are of such a pattern that they are hauled to the point desired and there 1hey are tipped and rock drops into the bay where wanted. The amount of Tock that will be required is indefinite, as it is impossible to even estimate how much will be wanted for the fill, but we will continue to furnish all that is wanted. The limit of the quarry? Well, there is grmtlicull y no limit to it, for it isin a mountain 500 or 600 feet high. The quality is a blue rock that is hard and solid. It isof a quality that would make first class building stone. The indicationsare that the further we get into it the better the rock will be and the greater the blocks that can be obtained. Of course all will depend upon the developments and the freedom from fissures. If it should turn out as we expect we will devote our attention to ge(tlng out some building stone in connection with filling-in rock. By the way, thatis the uarry from which basalt blocks were taken or pavements some twelve years ago. At present we are running about 100 men, | but will employ & greater number as develop: ments progress. You ask about our contracts for filling in the Fair property at North Beach. Well, we are going right on to do the work we ‘cone tracted to do for Mr. Fair in hislifetime. There has not been any stoppage of the work, but we have not had so many men at work there as formerly. We have only about 75 men there now. us far we have filled in about 1,500, 000 square yards, and there remains about 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 more to be filled. This includes a rock facing along the Iine of piles on the north side of tue gl’oper! v and a sand or earth filling inside of that. The rock for the facing or bulkhead will tome from our new quarry. This filling will be from fifteen to twenty feet. No, this is not & new contract; it is carrying out the old one we entered into with Mr. Fair, and we flmpnu 1o carry it out. The rock barges will be towed over the same as they will be at the Alameda mole and the rock dumped. By this system it avoids the necessity of hand- ling the rock twice. W. 8. Goodfellow, one of the executors of the Fair estate under the first will, said, when asked what was to be done with the North Beach property : Nothing will be done in the matter beyond carrying into effect the contracts already ex- isting as to the filling in. e Smith Disinherited Them. The sisters and brothers and other relatives of Frank L.Smith, who died in possession of an_ $8000 estate, have combined to break the Will, by which it is all left to his brother Ter- rance. It is alleged that while the testator was down with hislast illness at Terrance's house e came unduly under his brother’s influence, and that the estate thereby hecario diverted from its natural trend in their direction to the ockets of Terrance. The estate was all left to film, and hence the trouble. ° should be made in the same manner, and the terms 1o be four years from the dase of appointe ' —————— You need not despair! Salvation Oil will heal your burnt arm without a scar. 25 cents. IF IT5 ANNALS WERE WRITTEN. WHERE THE MOST PATHETIC OF HISTORIES ARE TO BE FOUND. STORIES OF THE ALMSHOUSE. A MoTHER MAY REAR 14 CHIL- DREN, BUT 14 CHILDREN CAN- NOT SUPPORT HER. John Fell, a hale old man of 71years, went into the Health Office on Saturday last with a friend and a permit to the Almshouse. The friend did all the talk- ing for the old man would ngt trust him- self to speak. He tried to look brave and the effort called for all his resource. When he attempted to say good-by and to thank the friend for several litile kind offices he had shown him he simply said that he could not. “This old man has two sons who are well able to work and support him,” said the friend when the old man had gone. “One of them is an engineer at work for the Fair estate on Pacific street and the other is at Los Angeles. They will do nothing for him. This old man has been a steady-going workman and it is a long illness that brings him here—and the re- fusal of his sons to help him. [am going to write those sons a letter they will not forget.” The old man had turned into the little room where he was to wait for the Alms- house van. A ‘“canary,” smoking his pipe with cheerful complais taking his ease in his inn, sat on the bench opposite the door and greeted the newcomer with airy heartiness, volunteer- ing the time at which the van was to be expected. He knew it well. Two dismal old women moved along a little to give | him room on the bench. It was still an hour before the time for the wagon, and towards the end of it this rugged old man’s face had taken on that melancholy hopelessness of expression that distin- guishes all of them—all suve the cheerful old ‘‘canaries,” as they are called, to whom it is all familiar. But when roused at that time by a ques- tion from an outsider as to just how he, a workman, could have touched this extrem- ity, a look of alarm came into his face as he instantly devined the purpose. “For God’s sake don’t put this in the newspapers,” he said. ‘I am seventy-one years of age, but I will soon be able to work again and then I will leave the place. It must never be known that John Fell went to the almshouse. No! No! My sons are all right. The one that is em- ployed by Mr. Fair tells me that it is more than he can do to support himself and the other that is in Los Angeles has been look- ing for work for a year and cannot find it. I wasat work in the navy-yard and hurt myself. I will soon be all right, so please don’t put it in the newspapers.” Out_of respect for his plea, therefore, John Fell, as given above, is not his name. “If the annalsof the ruurhonses were faithfully written,” said Mrs. Weaver, matron of the San Francisco Almshouse, speaking of this case, ‘‘they would form the most pathetic of histories. Just the other day an old man who has been a faithful (*m‘\!nyee of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for forty-three years reached here at last. He had occupied responsible positions for a great part of that time. l{c represented the company for years at Acapuico. But fevers and other misfortunes kept him poor. For several years past he has been watchman in the company’s coalyards here, and he says he was just getting upon his feet again when some change in the manage- ment resulted in his summary discharge. After a lifetime of steady industry, an un- relieved struggle, he is here—separated from his wife, somewhat younger than himself, who has taken up the struggle alone. X “But speaking of ungrateful children,” continued Mrs. %\'ea\'?r, ‘‘we have Lear’s story repeated here with variations almost daily. The old saying that one mother can care for for fourteen children, but fourteen children are often unable to care for one mother is shown tobe a common- place truism. “We had a recent instance: A meat little old lady of an intelligence imme- diately apparent arrived with the others and went through the ordeal of being questioned and assigned to her room—that moment of arrival that is most trying to those of any refinement when the full horror of being in the poorhouse is upon them—with a hard, steady face that meant to wccept it and not waver. “I divined something of her case and did what I could to make her comfortable and_cause her to feel that her aays here might still be bright and cheerful. Scarcely an hour after she arrived a car- riage drove up and two well-dressed young wonien came in and asked if this old lady was here. I told them she had just ar- rived. ‘! ‘She is our mother,’ said one of them, ‘and we are well able to take care of her. It is a mere caprice, her coming here. Please tell her that we have come to take her home.” 1 did not do that, but without saying who it was told the old lady that she was wanted in the office. “When she stood in the doorway and saw her pert daughters in their stylish dresses her eyes lit up with anger, but she waited until they spoke. ‘ ‘Mother, we have come to take you | home. What in the world do you mean by coming here? You know very well nce, the air of a man that we are able to take care of you,’ the manner being anything but kindly and in- viting. *“‘That I do, indeed’—with a steady, low, tense voice and taking a step toward them—but I have been made welcome here and here I shall remain. The dread of going to the poorhouse hung over me for_years as the terrible alternative of living in my daughters’ house, and know- ing that my daughters did not want me there. Indeed, I know quite well that you are able to take care of me, but when have .you allowed a day to pass that you have not given me to understand that I wasa burden to you? What did you expect? | Where was I to go? Did youimagine that | I'would live on alwavs that way? Well, you are rid of me. I hope you may be sat- isfied. I am certain that I shall be hap- pier. Ihave taken the step; I am in the poorhouse, where you have sent me. shall compose myself to remain here to the end of my days. You may go home | with the knowledge that I shall no more spend my nights in weeping as I did when under the roof of my ungrateful daughters. Iam glad that you came, so that these seople may know how wicked you have been, and to' what they are indebted for my coming here.’ #With this the little woman turned and, without waiting for their answer, although they began at once to protest, went back to her room. The daughters made a -long defense, of course, charging their mother with imaginary slights that never were in- tended, and all that. They wanted to-fol- low and entreat her, but I refused to allow it. They finally wentaway, declaring that they were sure she would soon be willing | to return to them. But she neverhas. Not only that, but she refuse clothes and other things which they would | be glad to supply her with, and seems— whether or not she really is—perfectly con- tent with her sewing, at which she is always busy. Hers is by no means the | only case of that kind that is here. “But we had quite a different situation not long ago, with much the same :tyle of characters, a5 one might say, of a play. Think of a woman designed as an inmate | to a poorhouse being brought here in a | carriage. She was just such a trim little | body as is the other, having a rich Irish brogue, though, and a keen, alert manner. T was not in at the moment of her arrival, and the knowledge of the carriage came ater. They brought her up the front way, | turned her over to some of the attendants, »atted her on the shoulder, fussed about a | rinlc and went away. When I arrived on | the scene the little woman was just begin- | ning to get hysterical. The two women | who brought her here were relatives, near | or aistant, and they had represented to her | that they were taking her to a hospital, | She had’just begun to realize/that there had been some deception, and “she turned antly to me to know what this place I'told her as soothingly as I could. e made a bound past me, and, like & year-old girl, dashed down the hallw nd through a screen door without sto ping, and out upon the portico. The range of wooded hills that form the horizon im- pressed her instantly, no doubt with the | sense of being far from home. On the | half-mile of road that may be seen from | where she was even the dust had settled | behind the carriage that gone. She took in the scene and the impression that went with it in just an instant, and wheel- | ing round ran” back and threw herself | prostrate on the floor of the hail, and | while kicking her heels, now like 4 nine- -old girl, uttered the most piercing reams. I had to remain with her almost I that night. It wasa long time before | she would listen to me at all. | “‘Look at me,/ I said. ‘Do I look as | though I would harm you? Iam your | friend and mean to help you.’ | ‘At last when somewhat exhausted she did look at me and mutual confidence was | estal hed. Thenextmorning some other relative came to_the office to make inqui- | ries about the old lady, evidently being | uneasy about the transaction, but she got | away too before I saw her. I learned her | name, however, visited her at a very com- | fortable home on Eddy street,and the next e came and took her away. As she full of resentment to her relatives, | upon' whom_she really had a claim to take care of her, and with the intention, no doubt, of making it hot for them, she turred to me and in her rich brogue ex- claimed: ‘‘Indade, Mrs. Weaver, the worst that may be said about this place is' the name of it.” EPICUREAN BURGLARS. They Tarried Too Long at their Supper and a “Bobby’’ Nipped Them. The burglars who stayed to supper ata house in Hampstead, after clearing out the premises, were not so very far out of their reckoning of impunity. They were caught, | indeed, but by the police, and' not by the owner of the premises, who had twice heard them breaking into the house, and had twice allowed himself to be satisfied by a search in the upper rooms. They were at work in the basement, and were natu- rally in no hurry to leave a place guarded in that perfunctory way. After securing their booty they took a fowl from the lar- der, cooked it over a stove in the green- house and made a hearty meal. This, with a tumbler or two of toddy and cigars, | brought them to the end of their night’s work, and at 6 o'clock they set out for home. But a policeman saw them; that policeman carried a whistle and a stout heart. and the rest need not be told. The owner of the premises may be a philosopher, but there is no_alternative to this supposition. It is in evidence that on hearing a ‘‘loud, rumbling noise,”” he searched the upper part of his house, and, finding nothing, went back to bed. Another loud, rumbling noise induced him to extend his search to some of the lower flights, with the A third would, no doubt, h: the basement, but by this time his guests were taking their little bit of supper and they were under no necessity of further disturbing the repose of the famil: ‘whole incident shows a touching con on both sides that raises our respect for human nature. 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