The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1895, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1895. THE LIE T0 STOCKTON, - out here in " November, 1890, and was killed °_pians as outlined, but I continued to work on _the -scheme and secured new backing. . had the necessary capital interested. The “all the funds required .in. the -now in this city. They arrived Valley Road Directors Formally Select a Starting Point. WORK WILL OPEN NEXT WEEK. This Action, However, Does Not In- terfere With the Santa Clara Project. Stockton’s offer to the valley road has been: accepted, that action having been taken at a full meeting of the board of di- resterday, and the favorable intel- ved to'the people of that city in the following telegram: axcisco, April 1, 1895, Stockton Cominercial As- P. A. Buell, P sociation, Stockton, Cal.—The board of directors of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company, in boerd essembled, ratify and_approve Stockton’s offe committee’s action accepting it being understood that the de of city limit be 100 feet EXANDER MACKIN, Secretary. val topic of discussion at the meeting yesterday, aside from the proposi- tion made by Stockton, was the matter of surveys and a decision was reached thata corps should take the field at once, Stock- ton, of ‘course, being the initial point at which work will begin. There appears to be an impression abroad that the action of the directors in'determin- ing to begin work at Stockton will have the effect of shutting out San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley. Such, however, 1s-an erroneous idea, as was ascertained by the answer President Spreckels made yesterday to a question upon that subject. “Will your determination to Tun toStock- ton have the effect of preventing the con- struction of a line through the Santa Clara Valley ?” ‘was asked. “Not in the least,”” said he. .*“We are go- ing to build one line to Stockton, and now we will look into’ the advantages of other sections, where more road may be built.” There is no doubt butthat the board -is making every effort to solve the problem of ‘how aroad can most cheaply be run from China Basin out ef the -city in the direction of San Jose. There are some puzzling features in a_route of that char- acter; but it is believed by the board that they canall be successfully overcome. . Engineer Storey s ‘that the first sur- veying corps which goes out: will comprise ten or fifteen men, and that other parties will take the field as ‘soon . as: practicable. It'is expected that the Commercial Asso- ciation -of Stockton, which has been:the moving spirit in securing the line for that | city, will materially assist in the work of finding an outlet from the city proper; and. the labors of the surveyors will be con- fined to the outside territory. Applications for a hearing continue to reach the board from outside towns which | wish te beconsidered before the route’ of road is definitely decided upon: Modesto. isthelast to come forward, anda létter from the citizens of that place yesterday stated ‘that they weré anxious that the| board should seta date at which they | ‘would be given an. andience. The board has as yet taken no action, but the request will undoubtedly be considered and the gentlemen be given an opportunity to pre- sent the inducements which they have to offer. The matter of the lease has as yet not been acted upon. It is probable thatthe Governor, Beard of Harbor Commissioners and the directors of the road will hold a joint meeting some day this week and give the subject their attention.-Oneof the Commissioners said yester: that. there were some suggestions of minor importance which they would probably make, but that they would have noeffect upon the general terms of the document as heretofore pub- lished: In the event of the construction of a line | from this city down - through the Santa Clara Valley, and also. one. between: this city and Stockton, it'is.quite probable that the former will - be the nirst 1o receive the attention of the board. Communication is already secured between here und Stock- ton by water, and the necessities for. a: rail line are not so pressing as they are for the building of the former. The first shipment of Trails for - the valley road will be made shortly from New York. They wili come : by vessel around Cape Horn, and it is probable ‘that they will ve taken' direct to Stockton' by water before they are unloaded. The matter of the election of a general manager for the new road does not appear be worrying the directors. John D. Bpreckels said yesterday that no necessity for the creation of such an official was ap- parent at present, and there probably ‘would be none for sonie time to come. The board will hold = another meeting this afternoon. President Spreckels yes- terday signed the contract for.the spikes, fishplates and. bolts for the new road, J. F. Merrill, the contractor, having secured the same. Eastern capl&al stands ready to build a road through the Saita Clara Valley and to'give it transcontinental connection with the ‘Atlantic and Pacific at a point nearand beyond Mojave. It simply awaits definite @ction by the San Francisco and San Joa- quin ‘Valley Railroad. Should the latter extend its_plans to provide the transpor- tation facilities embraced in the above proposition the Eastern parties will make no move in-the matter. In fact nothin will be done to interfere with the local project, the intention being to take up the work of giving the State a competing trans- continental road wherever it may be left by the San Joaquin Valley Railroad, should the latter not complete it. 1. ‘R. Wilbur is the promoter of this newly ‘mentioned enterprise, which, he says, in no way aspires to become a rival of that of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company. “ The . capitalists who are back- ing him are seeking a good field for invest- ment, and contemplated doing the very work that is now being so energetically ushed- by Claus Spreckels and his col- leagues, R ‘Phe groject of building roads through the rich-San-Joaquin and Santa Clara val- leys and: making a transcontinental con- nection'with the Atlantic and Pacific Rail- road was originated in my mind asearly as 1887, said Mr.Wilbur yesterday. *'I worked it agsiduously for three years, and in 1890 b :principal Eastern capitalist was on his way in a railroad accident coming into Chicago. ““Phis; of course, ‘interfered with the Six of the men who stand ready to provide Eroject are ere about six weeks. ago and “will remain ‘until the San:Joaquin Valley Railroad people de- " yelop the full'scope of their work. -*They came. prepared to enter the field atonce and begm active operationsbut I ad- vised that nothing be done until the Spreck- -els project was fully ontlined. I realized - that any-attempt to carry out a rival pro- _‘road through from 8an jéct would be generally viewed as a South- ein. Pacific move to thwart or interfere with the plans of the new railroad. = The; listened 1o my counsel and nothing will be done to_antdgonize in any way the in- _ terests of the local people: “Should the Santa Clara field, however, e left open, we ‘will step in and build a ‘rancisco to some int on the Atlantic and Pacific_near Mojave. Should the San Joaquin Railroad | directors decide to build through this ter- Titory as well as through the San Joaquin Valley; we shall leave them the field un- disturbed. 3 3 *‘As I understand it, the pian is to build enly as far as Bakersfield, making the new m’ds simply local. competing lines, with Francisco .as their outlet. If this is the case there is.capital back of me which will construct the gap between Bakersfield to a connection on the Atlantic and Pa- cific. < This gap would not exceed 100 miles, but would be the most expensive portion of the road to build, the estimated cost being in the neighborhood of $3,500,000. “We have already expended about $300,000 in surveys and securing right of way, gart of this being, of course, repre- sented in land. g “The proposition was to build the road, pay the contractors with the bonds of the road, which they were ready to accept, and place the stock in escrow in the hands of trustees for ten years, so as to preclude the possibility of the Southern Pacific securing control ok) it for at least that period.” WANTS THE VALLEY ROAD. Mining Companies in Corral Hollow Offer Big Induoements. “The proper route for the division of the new valley road between Stockton and San Francisco,” said H. E. Barber of the for- mer city last night, “is in my opinion not the line across the islands, as advocated by some of my fellow-townsmen, but the route by way of - Livermore and Haywards That_line is, by actual measure- NEW ROAD FOR TULARE, A Proposition Which Was Put Forward Several Years Ago. EASTERN MEN INTERESTED. Rights of Way and Other Require- ments Are Already Secured. Another railroad, or rather the revivifi- cation of a proposition which had its or- igin several years ago and which fell by the wayside because of the hard times which ROUTE OF THE PROPOSED RAILROAD FROM SAN FRANOISCO TO . B ) C. Merrill, assistant pastor of the church, and Dr. Beverly MacMonagle of the hos- pital, were thirty young ladies attired in the uniform of the training school, light blue gowns, white aprons, white lawn ties and neat little white caps. The graduates wore at the belt a handsome corsage bouquet of red roses and delicate ferns, hi?e the other members of the class wore each a pale pink rose. They formed a pretty picture. After prayer by Rev. Mr. Merrill, Mrs. Harrin&wn introduced Dr. MacMonagle, who said that the young ladies who' had assembled to receive their diplomas bad spent much time in the study of a profes- sion which is arduous, but full of charity. There are some things, he said, that men may do better than women, but there is one thing in which woman excels man, and that is.in nursing the sick. The train- ing school in connection with the Chil- dren’s Ho?iul, from which the young women graduated, is the first of the kind established on the Pacific slope. Muach credit was due to Mrs. Dr. Browne and to Dr. Wanzer, who had inaugurated the movement, and to the present manage- ment that had done so much to bring the school to its present state of perfection. To these young women who had devoted so many months to learning how to care for the sick the community owes a debt of grafitndev and should show its apprecia- ion of their services in time of need. On the other hand, the nurses owe a duty to those who empioy them, and that is to re- lieve trouble and not create additional trouble by reporting, as matters of idle gossip, that which may come under their observation. _He spoke to them at length of their ob- ligations, the necessity for continuing their studies and becoming, as they may, the right hand of the physician. He closed by expressing the hope that at no distant day some liberar-hearted man will give a suffi- cient sum to build a separate dormitory for MAKES HIS REVELATION “young Dutchy” Says He Was Thrown Down by the Sen- atorial Combine. BITTER AGAINST SEYMOUR. All the Trouble Is About the Re- ported Sacks of Which He Got No Share. If the Grand Jury of Sacramento County desires to investigate the Senatorial scan- dals of the recent legislative session, H. M. La Rue, its foreman, has a basic statement with which to begin. Whether he will attach sufficient importanceto the inform- ation which he gathered while in this city to deem it his duty to summon witnesses to Sacramento remains to be seen. The disclosures which George Faylor made following a prior session of the Leg- islature came about as the result of a fail- ure to divide. All through the recent session there was a certain sequence of Senatorial ayes and noes which lent force to the belief that if the combine of twenty-three Senators had not been perfected in wholeit had at least in part, and that there were a number of Senators banded together for revenue. Senator Biggy charged on the floor of the Senate that Senator Dunn sought to in- duce him to enter a combine for revenue. There was an investigation by a Senatorial committee of five, composed of Senators Simpson, “Seawell, Aram, Smith and ‘Whitehurst, which on the last night of the session returned tlre Scotch verdict of “not proven” and recommended that the Grand Jury of Sacramento County take up the investigation. Before that committee Julius Kahn had testified that Senator Dunn had told him, with reference to cer- O N AN TULARE. ment, twelve miles shorter than the other, | and the quantity off freight thereby to. be | obtained is materially larger. | “Eight miles from Livermore, in - the | midst of Corral Hollow, is situated the | I;mpeny of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Coal Com pany; whichhas a capac- ity of 2000 tons daily. That corporation | has pro}msed aroute which I think can be more cheaply built than -any other.. It starts. from . Oakland, traverses Alameda County, crosses Haywards Pass and thence | asses through Castre and Livermore val- | eys to Corral Hollow. From the mines it would run south of Tracey and Banta and west of Lathrop to Stockton. “The coal company has offered great in- ducements for such a line. ‘It 'promises | the railroad rights -of way and coaling fa- | cilities on its extensive property and cheap fuel, and will also give to it all'the freight, amounting, as -I. have said, to 2000 tons daily. - Of course the corporation: would benefit by being ona_through line of rail- road, but the railroad would also benefit by 1 handling all the coal for San Francisco and | for Stockton, the latter being. the largest| coal consuming ¢ity in the State outside of the metropolis. 1 “In case the route by way of Corral Hol- low is notselected by the directors of the valley road or is not built within a short time the coal company intendsto build a piivate roud to some distributing point. 'here has been some talk of having aland- ing somewhere on the San Joaquin River, | but the people of - Stockton -are now wide awake, and you can quote me: as saying that if that private line is built it will run to Stockton if there is any possibility. of that city getting it. The distance to Stock- ton from the mines. is twenty-six miles—a few more than to.the river mentioned—but | Stockton to secure the road will giverights. of way to the county boundary, depot fa- cilities in the city proper-and even more if necessary. It will .not be necessary, however, for the city to subscribe a great deal to secure that mine railroad. - There:is'to be an elec- tric road, carrying both freight and passen- gers, built between Lodi and: Stockton. Rights of way have already been -secured along the Cherokee Lane turnpike and the farmers haye promised, besides the rights of way, to give the road ten acres of land for each half mile it skirts. their property.: A. J. Larson of Lodi and some Stockton | capitalists are now carrying on negotia~ tions in this city for the building of that: road. ““There is, as’ you must know, a great quantity of ‘waste at a 'coal mine. The directors of the corporation are now eon- sidering the advisability of putting up an electric plantin Stockton where their waste can be utilized in making electricity. -They.| propose to furnish the power for this Lodi road and are even' talking of -establishing another line of the same kind between Stockton and Linden. “If the private railroad is built from the | mine to Stockton it can probably be read- ily acquired by the valley road people in case ,t'hey desire to extend through to this city. ENTHUSIASTIO STOCKTONIANS. Action Taken Toward Buying Property for the Valley Road. STOCKTON, CiL., April: 1.—There was an enthusiastic meeting of citizens here to- night at the rooms of the Stockton Com- mercial Association, to take action in. the matter of raising money with which to buy the property asked for by the San Joa- %u in Valley and S8an Francisco Railroad: resident Buell of the Comimercial Asso- ciation presided. A committee appointed for the purpose looked into the cost of the property required, and reported that to- gether with the rights of way to the county line it would require about $150,000. Senator John Boggs had knocked off about half the value of the tract owned by him, and Charles Weber had donated the two blocks.of land, the committee reported. There were a great many questions asked by those present relative to-the rights. of way and the time in: which the work of construction would commence. The an- swers to these questions produced. great enthusiasm, all of them being of the most encousaging nature. It was’ stated that the Council stood ready to grant all the rights of way. |- Cruz, it is said, assurances have been given: nipped the financial end of the project, has again come to the front and its- pro- moters say that this time it is bound to go through. Ttis the company known as the San Francisco and West Shore Railroad, which is referred to, and it is to be Teorganized under- the name of the West Shore and Valley Railroad. The proposition to build thisline had as- sumed a very favorable phase up to.about ayear ago. All the necessary 'arrange- ments had been made to float the bonds in the East, prominent bankers in that sec- tion having ' agreed to take -the entire amount. But then came the financial de- pression of last summer and these bankers found it necessary to request that they be relieved of their obligations. ‘Work had been commenced on the line at Halfmoon ‘Bay, where a good - deal olI grading has been done. There have also been purchased a large number of ties and other materials which will be turned - over to the new corporation. General' Thomas Ewing, oné of New York’s most prominent attorneys, made this city a visit about a yearago, the pur- pose of which was to ascertain the feasibility of the proposed route. That he was pleased with its prospects is certain, beeause the gentlemen whom he represented agreed to fulfill their part. of the contract—that of supplying the niecessary means—as soon as he returned East and made his report. Although these negotiations fell through, the proposition has not ‘been. allowed. to entirely: “die” out by those who have it “in charge in this ‘city. C.° M. Sanger,: the president ~of the company, has just re- turned from the East, having been'in New. York for the past: three ‘months. The re- sults of his visit were of a quite satisfactory nature, ‘and by the 10th of April it ‘s ex- pected that two prominent gentlemen from that. section “will - arrive. in- this city and take part in-the proposed reorganization. It was the intenition of the old.company to stop at Halimoon Bay, althiough it was expected that the lineé would be ‘exténded further in. time." The proposition now-is to run the road through to Tulare, by way of Santa Cruz, and a complete survey of the line has been made, and all the neces- sary - right-of-way - ‘promised. In. Santa that a franchise will be at: the disposal of the company - which ‘will ‘give it an en- trance ‘into the city, and in this city the new company will acquire the grant” made to the San Francisco and West Shore line by the Board of Supervisors on November 14, 1892, by which it is allowed to- utilize cess - to the- business ‘portion. - This gratit specifies minutely the property to be util- ized, and a copy of it'is at the company’s office:in the Crocker building. The. grant is for a period of fifty years. The depot for passengers will be. at . Twenry-fourth street and Potrero avenne, and the freight depot will be at some point on the bay near ‘the Spreckels refinery or certain streets, alleys, etc., ‘in_ gaining ac- the nurses, of which they now stand verY much in need. The Rey. Mr. Merrill spoke at some length and declared that-the time is at hand when the Protestant world is no longer to “permit ‘the sister church, the Roman, to have all the Sisters of Mercy. He then spoke of -the duty of the church and the need for more energetic work. . He predicted that within the next ten years there would be seen in every city great brotherhoods going out as the Nazarene went out to lift: up: fallen humanity, and great sisterhoods of young women, many of them trained nurses, devoted Christian souls who have sat at the feet of the Master and have learned of himthe secret of sal- vation and how to save. He then paid a high tribute to the young women who had" sacrificed so much time in.order that:they might learn to care for the sick and the suffering, and dwelt upon the unselfish motives that had prompted them to devote thémselyes to the relief of the distressed. Mrs. Harrington then,. in-a few well chosen ‘words, in which ‘she spoke of the duties they would haveto perform, handed each graduate her diploma. As soon as the benediction had been pro- nounced relatives and friends: crowded around the graduates and loaded them down with flowers, A COLD DEAL ALL ROUND. Ice. Companies Combine in Raising the Price of the Product. Company. Men Say. the Raise Is Only an Equalization of Prices. The war which has been waged for the past five years between the three local ice comipanies is-at an end, and while the ‘members .of the companies are congratu- lating themselves upon- the outcome some of the customers are in a dubjous frame ol mind. i The first intimation which: consumers of dce had that the warring magnates of the companies had smoked. the pipe of peace and shaken hands across the glacial chasm was in the form' of acard which notified them' that on:and after April 1 the prices would _be advanced - on: 100-pound . lots. The -card - was signed by the Union, Na- tional “and - Consumers’ Ice companies, and: by-it ice was.advanced {o consumers of from ten te fifty pounds 100 per-cent. The prices were then scaled as follows: . F’_f;'.‘}' to-one hundred pounds, 75 cents; 100 1o 150 ponnds; 60 cents, 150 to 300 pounds, 50 cerits; 300_ta 600 pounds, 45 cents; 600 to 1200 po1inds, 40 cents; 1200 to 2000, 35 cents; gog?.w 4000, 30 cerits; 4000 and upward, 2735 eits. - . The agréement which the ice.companies have reached is by no. means satistactory to the small :consumers, and as they form the majority of the ‘customers of the .com- panies they are complaining that they are gbliged to pay double what they did be- lore. " .- " the Union Iron Works. - It is ‘expected that the reorganization will have been perfécted inside of thirty days, and that work will be commenced o the line in a short time after. —_— T0 CARE FOR THE Sk, Eleven Trained Nursgécradu- ate and ' Receive Diplomas. An Address Delivered t6- Them in. C. A. Thurston, passenger agent of the Southern Pacific: Company,- appeared be- fore the association in the’ interest of the excursions proposed by the Half-million Club of San Francisco.'and explained -the scope of the club and its intentions. It was resolved to- co-operate with the club, and Secretiry Henderson of the Commer-: cial Association was instructed to write for further particulars. It was resolved to ap- point committees from among those pres- ‘the First Presbyterian Church. 5 The lecture-room ‘of the' First ‘Presby:- and - Sacramento street, was. beautifully i | decorated with evergreens and lilies * evening, it being the occasion of the grad uation of eleven of the nurses ent to solicit subscription of money, and it was decided to commence this soiiciting at once. A committee will be appointed for each ward and the canvass will be thorough. 1t is the desire to raise the money as soon as possible. Cash subscrip- tions nmounhnito several thousand dol- lars were made by those present, most of the subscriptions being small,” however. Meetings will be held frequently: until the money 18 raised. hngley’l—f)lrectory has more pages and 2594 more names than the opposition and is less cumbersome. -| none:of us any good. -I'an- advance i prices,. {1 3 -lldrdn -and noxfi terian Church, corner of Van Ness avenue | | Ry ‘It is very unjust and unfair,” said one- of these - com: (’ainants yesterday, *‘that where:we _had to. pay only half acenta _pound for- ice before we must pay a cent, compared with their -small ‘consumers; The result -of thiswill be that many of us [ will have to reduce our supply one-half; but: that will not affect the companies, as they know, for they will still get what they did’ before.?” e Sk The.company men,” however, i ferent view-of the matter. veaking of the situation; Joseph Martin, -_ufi d ent of the N.Ali'onaFXce'_ pany, said: It is time that this war ‘over. It hasdo ere losing mohey 1n Keeping up e compe W tien. I'domnotlook upan “ine [l ew schedule as in gome insiances, and an-equalization all ‘around. ‘You see, while the war was on were all cutting - b no mo;:ey bdn;flmuda.;l i o U vere paying one price and others an- ther: . That was n!o; fair. Now there’ is by e price to everybody. - { 3 No, there is no combin ‘between the cam- ies. - Our interests are not thrown togethe dren’s Hospital en California street, corner ‘of Maple. i . 2 The hall was crowded with membe the chiurch and relatives and frie graduating class, which cop: following named ladies e LA s Knnts kv, Mevens Mory. B B Fallig mans S o otk Page, Louise P. Bracher, Minnie. ’pu':“ Circled around the platform, w occupied by Mrs. W. B. Harrington, presi- ident of the Children’s Hospital; Rev.. W. ! tecti & fié&tnce to the Gr: really a reduction | Some_con. | from: th 1 ae FOURTH tain insurance bills: “If the insurance companies want bills passed or want bills defeated let them put up the stuff.” Now certain . threats are being bruited about that® disclosures will be made be- cause of a failure to divide the spoils. Fred Hansted, commonly known _as “Professor Young Dutchy,” who held the osition of sergeant-at-arms- to the Senate ‘'ommittee on Public Morals, has talked a deal about town of late. He has referred to a Senatorial .combine for.revenue, but the animus of his statement was directed against a single Senator. He made a state- ment to Attorney W.. W. Foote in the Bresence of H. M. La Rue; foreman of the acramento Grand Jury, buf it lacked cor- roboration.. :Mrs. Reina. Le Ballister also made a statement to attorneys who. have taken part.in the investigation, but it was not a very strong one. i The - statements made by = “Young Dutchy’” about town are much stronger than those made in the office of the Pine- street attorneys, for as hedeclared, “‘I have not told La Rue half yet.” He seems to think that Senator Seymour of San. Bernardino owes him something, for the animus of his statement i< direc against that legislator in connection® with several bills, but with special reference to the pilot bill, which Senator. Seymour in- troduced. - This bill was in- direct conflict with the Federal atsmtes&or it exempted vessels built and owned on the coast from ilotage tolls, while the United States laws rbid any discrimination against the ves- sels: owbed or built in any State of the Union. g The bill in_ its introduction : was some- what - later than. ‘the hoary -cinch which Senator Toner introduced to regulate pilot- age. ¥ sk “Young Dutchy’” im}fliesvthst there was revenue in that bill. . He declared -that E. A. Phillips, ex-secretary of the Pilot Com- missioners, would corrgborate his state- ment and declared that Mr. Phillips would make a statement in ‘the. office: of a legal firm. . He even ‘made an appointment for -| Phillips to.come, but the attorneys waited atientl for the ex:secreta ut he id not. materialize. ‘to appear, tary of the Pilot Commissioners had gone Phillips was on the streets last night. - He made a statement, but it lends no strength to what ““Young Dutchy” said, in fact its trend is directly against ‘the claims. of the sergeant-at-arms. of the Committee on . Public Morals. S e SO Tle scéne of the operations of ‘the Sena- torial combine, if such existed, is laid ina srick lodgmg-houu‘on K street, Sacra- ‘mento, where: Mrs. Reina Le Ballister lodged during a portion of the recent ses- -sion of the Legislature. . ‘Certain. residents ‘The companies may well keep the rate low |.of ‘Sac: to and 3 on large lots,: for they well gflfl,w that the | friend Qmfl:o L:' B:lm,hfidy.l‘;:uil;nih: consamers of large quantit re few-when |.story, g A 2GR The Grand Jury of Sacramento.County may attach sufficient. importance ‘to the ‘statements ‘made by *Young - Dutchy’’ and lis associates to take up this thread ‘of the investigation- or they may- not, be- lieving it to be a new: scheme to‘extort Tevenue. - . ‘Attorneys who have been- concerned-in the case Seém to regard the evidence as | insufficient ‘ta be of ‘much practical value. . It may be that Jerry Burke, ex-Director of the Board of Education, ¢an.be of as- . Faitz SCHEEL st the park keeps the Park News preeses rushing to supply programmes.* your charges against Senator Seymour, did you not?’ “1 did.” ““Was she statement taken down then?” “It was not. There wasno stenographer present.” “You went to Mr. Foote’s office again last Thursday and repeated your statement before a stenographer, did you not?” “I did.” “Was that statement made with the defi- nite view of bringing your charges against Senator Seymour before the Sacramento Grand Jury 2"’ “Well, I'suppose it was.” ““Mr. La Rue was present, and took a copy of the statement back to Sacramento tfie next day, did he not.” “I believe so.” ““What did you charge against Senator Seymour in your stacementg” : ere young Dutchy began to consider, but the longer he considered the angrier he seemed to get, and finally he broke out with evident bitterness, saying: “‘I charged Senator Seymour with throwing down my- self and Mrs. Reina Le Ballister.” “In what regard ?”’ . “Well, in several instances. The story is too long to tell now, and the time is not et ripe. When I get ready to make my ight all the details will be made public.”’ *‘May not Mrs. Le Ballister make them public before you are ready ?"” +No, indeed! When I am ready, she is ready. She will not say anything until I say so. She is with me in the fight all the way, and will make no independent moves.” ‘It is said that Senator Sey make a definite statement on ?1 count.” Then Mr. Hansted did get angry. ‘‘Senator Seymour make a statement!” he exclaimed. “He dare not. If heis game enough to say anything he will say that I and Mrs. Le Ballister are trying to blackmail him. If speaking the truth is what Senator Seymour calls blackmailing, then neither he nor his associates ever told the truth in their lives.” “What did the arrangement that you claim Senator Seymour violated include 2" “Well, a zood ‘many things. There was the pilot bill, the charity measure, which he calls ‘Governor Budd’s pet bill," the cordage bill and the scalpers’ bill. They all enter materially into the fight. Not until all my flrmmie'm‘nts are made will T open the fight. Then the details of the several bills and all their arrangements will be made public. The action of the Sacramento Grand Jury will open the ball, I think. 2 “So far as the two ladies are concerned they really knew little about anything except ‘the &IM bill and another matter, and even about those things they knew less than - half. 1 never told them the whole details of the arrangements or the violations of those arrangements. Why, do you. think, did Senator Seymour with- draw the pilot bill? . He withdrew it for a purpose and that purpose may easily be understood. When he put it back he knew that it was too late to be reached.” In talking of his: statenient made in W, W. Foote’s office before Mr. La Rue and stenographically reported, Mr. Hansted said: “I did not swearto the statement in the law office, but if the Sacramento Grand Jury will call me before them I will swear to much more than I said when in Mr. mour will is own ac- “Then the report grew that the ex-secre- to Alaska. -This was ‘not true, for Mr. | Foote’s office; and I think if my complaint is given: a fair hearing there may be more than one indictment resulting."” Fred Hansted has had peculiar legis- lative experiences, of which this is not the first. “As ‘“Young Dutchy,’” the boxer, he servéd as a bodyguard to ex-Senator Goucher -of Fresno. He claims . that Goucher. did not do-all‘ for him that he should in a financial way, but this did not deter him from a second legislative ex- ‘perience, this time as the sergeant-at-arms of the Committee on Public Morals. Mrs. Reina Le Ballister declined to make astatement last evening. When E. A. Phillips, ex-secretary of the Pilot Commission, was seen last night he seemed surprised that he should in any way have been connected - with the alleged non-division of spoils or with Fred Han- sted’s fight with" Senator Seymour, - In fact he appeared quiteignorant:that he had been in any way connected with the re- ported attempt at financial influence over the pilet bill. “I have been out of town since Sunday,”” said-"he; “‘and-it was only to-day that I learned “of the complaints of Hansted as to the biils proposing amendments in pilot legislation. “I have enly this to say : T'went to Sacra- mento and-did what I could to-aid legisla- tion in favor of the San Fransisco pil%ts—_ or, rather, to prevent legislaticn inimical to their interests. “My term of office as secretary of the Pilot :Commissioners- has . just expired. During the four years of my service with that commission I was treated: with es- pecial kindness and eonsideration by the ilots. ¢ p“Knovring as I did, beyond the: possi- bility of a doubt, that -these pilots had for many terms been annoyed, harassed and generally ‘vexed by what is known as 'ciuc}i legislators,’ I went to Sacramento with the ‘definite 1dea of “assisting in the prevention of the wholesalé looting of these men. “‘I-am personally, and to a co- siderable degree intimately, acquainted with-every legislator interested in pilot measures, and also with every pilot in the San Francisco service.: I know -the. pilots and I know their mterests.” e “Toyour knowledge, Mr. Phillips, was any money-expended -during the last ses- sion of the Legislature by interested pat- ties for the purpose of influencing legisla- tion ?”” was asked. L _‘'I can say this to you positively,” was the reply; ‘‘that not a five-cent piece of .pilot money was expended during this last rm of the Legislature for the - purpose of preventing or aiding in any wa{ whatever any legislation connected with the interests -of the San Francisco pilots. - So far asthe differences between. Hansted and Senator Seymiour are concerned I1:know absolutely nothing.” BRINGS OUT OTHER SCANDALS, A Combination: Formed to- Get a Peroentage S on Oertain Bills, SACRAMENTO, CArL., April 1.—Investi- gation of - the "pilot-bill combine, while not developed fully here, has brought out ‘other scandals and rumors of scandals of [ like nature. - Mrs. J. Collier, 612 K street, at ‘Whose lodging-house Mrs. Le Ballister stopped during the- Legislature, says Mrs, - | that the money had not come, 1 1] - | Francisco: She always s |‘mate she was to divide f | -sort that no Le Ballister claimed to. be. working in the ‘to | interest of the pilot bill: She says: “‘She told mie she’ expected several thou- ‘sand dollars il the bill passed and that she ‘and young Dutchy .were working fogether. Several times -she ‘seemed "disa pointed hen- the yet get got to San ke as ' if the -did not inti- it with any one,- unless young Dutohy, - o O . “She was_constantly visited by: gentle- en whom T'did ‘niot know ‘and often did not see, - She seemed hard up, but her bill-to:me, but -said she could her: bill was beaten she'said she would he: money, but not till she ‘money was for herself an though: i ‘made of it: He A. Phi] it s SOy A Fhil had net got his money for his work . vague | ive proof 'o:\il'd,,guv'e ’bgei!-' ded upon Phillips for substantiation talk. g A party close to members of the Legis- Jature, who claims he is not able at pres- ent to giveabsolute proof and hence with- holds his name, says the Conlin bill was believed to have been the most profitable to the combine. That bill was for the set- tlement of a suit against the city of San Francisco for work on public streets for $61,000. It is claimed that the combine was to get $30,000. g It was carried to a suceessful issue by the unanimous request of the Board of Supervisors for Budd’s signature to the bill. Tt will be remembered that he ex- pressed great regret in signing the bill and that it had the closest shave for a_veto of any bill that was presented to him. He seemed to think it a cinch bill. Senator Mahoney was the father of the bill, but if it had depended on his importunities it would not have been signed, so the Gov- ernor said. L A In the manipulation of the pilot bill, the street railway bill and other cinch bills those in the other combine were to get from §500 to $1000 each, which is a small sum compared to the members of the combine of two years ago. The peculiarity of the operations of this combine was that noone member ever talked to more than one fel- low member. The propositions were passed along the line in this way, and each reported back to the man from whom he had got his instruc- tions. So there was no chance to have a witness against any of them. T0 PATROL BERING SEA, OQutfitting of the Revenue Cut~ ter Bear to Begin To- Morrow. The Perry on Her Way to the Coast to Join the Northern Fleet. of The revenue cutter Richard Rush, which has been lying at Sausalito during the winter months will haul -over to this side to-morrow, and commence preparations for her cruise- in northern waters. ‘The Bear for years has been the guardian angel of the whalers: in the far north, and she will be found in the Arctic this year after the ice bas begun to break up. In com- pany with the Richard Rush she will leave for the sound on:the 15th.. The Corwin has already gone, and the Perry is ex- pected toarrive almost any day from the Central American coast. These four vessels will constitute the fleet’ which will patrol the whaling and sealing grounids this season, the Rush be- ing the flagship of - the fleet. All four will coal at the sound, and ‘then proceed to Alaska, and thence to the Bering Sea. The Bear is expected to reach the Aretic about July. 'Several whalers having spent: the winter in -the ice their: care will be the regenue cutters’ first duty. 'he Perry has never before been on this coast. She was ordered here from New York and has been proceeding along under aslow bell. ' She, with the Rush and Cor- win, will look: after. Uncle Sam’s interest in the neighborhoad of the seal rookéries. In the latter part of the season, when the sealing schoomers cross over from’ Japan into the Bering Sea, the. Bear will join the outfit; ‘and - this ‘fleet.is more feared by poachers than' the array of cruisers which were ‘sent north ‘last year. The cutters cover more ground and: get into more out- of-the-way hiding: places where the larger vessels could never enter. She Would Not Testify. The charge of assault to murder against Frank Rowell of 1330 Pine sfreet was dismissed by Judge Low yesterday. 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