The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 14, 1895, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 1895. 21 N [N There is a present gratifying promise 1t the spirit of life and progress which thoroughly been awakened in San in common h the rest of the is to make the city grow in beauty as well as in prosperity The agitati which avor of new boulevards er San nit ncisco has gr °s than any other ci h more than y oth e it world-wide fame, has ing for several wee ve men of influence v enlisted in favor of the large evelopment of these opportuni- appears certain that definite on of boulevard build- 1 soon. rb project of building a broad i ay from Golden Gate Park to San Jose, which n San Mateo County recently, b boulevard That idea was up soon in this city by a few progressive men, and the po bility of t v's doing its share by bu! ing a boulevard from the south entrance of thepark to connect with th a1t high- way that was planned to run the length of San Mateo County quickly became a pos: bility. A driveway from the park southward to Lake Merced and the county line, using the present Almshouse road for a portion of the way, is one of the most natural and raple improvements from a purely local point of view, so that the south-of- the-park boulevard at once became an in- dependent project,though still retaining the surety of a connection with the main high- down the bay shore. Initself this c rd would afford one of the most megnificent and popular drives about the ¥ 1d even the road would connect the boulevard along the oces The who qui begun. get the opportunity for the n the world presented by the and n frontag f randest bo and the park. s of prominen ning what the city should do in of boulevard improvements a LOST OPPORTUNITIES. M. Scott Talks for a General Bo vard System. Every consideration urges the early cor ction of a fine driveway from t southward, and none stand in its v road leading out of the city and unoccu- pied by cable and trolleys is an absolute necessi sheltered boulevard running north h one would largely avoid the affording a delightful drive within the city limits it would make the lovely region along the bay to the south accessible from the city. The proposed improvement progress. To make the cit, must add to the conveniences, amusements and beauties of it, and not devote ever: thing to the simple making of mor Nearly all the cities of the East are stru gling with boulevard problems now. These in the line great we problems have been brought to the front | . by the encroachments of trolle existing thoroughfares, which '] streets or driveways unobstructed. Ch cago is spending more than $2,000,000 a vear on her parks and boulevards, and she keeps them free, not only from streetcar lines, but every kind of heavy business traffic. Baltimore has projected a boule- vard to Washington, forty miles di Tt is proposed to make it a broad and be tiful driveway with a reservation along it for an electric road, that will make the time of atrip to Washington thirty-five minutes, but the road will be wholly off the boulevard and will be separated from the driveway by rows of trees. San Francisco needs a system of boule- vards, and few cities in the world have such magnificent opportunities in this re- zard. This feature of the city should have een intelligently seen to vears ago, and | the'sooner this matter attracts general at- tention and is taken hold of the sooner the - -public will be able to save something that will- be_of everlasting benefit. All at- tempts in this line in_ the past have been defeated by private interests from the time Frank McCoppin tried to have the park panhandle extended to Market street 1o the present time. I have for five years advocated the dedication of streets for boulevards on which no street railroad of any kind should be allowed to run, and tried to accomplish this end through the néw charter. Some consideration should be shown to people who wish to drive, and the beauty of the city should be guarded and -fostered. 1In the past the ople did not realize the enormous multiplica- tion® of street railroads, occupying ever; evailable parallel street running north an south, or some appropriate streets, would have been reserved for driveways running across the city from north tol south, and from east to west. Public | accessibility from property immediately fronting on the road should not pay the whole cost,and the opinion had been educated to the belief that rapid transit lines on a street made property more valuable because business 1s‘increased, and there has been no agita- tion in favor of saving to the city opportu- nities that were priceless. The future will show io the public of Francisco how “much it has lost by being indifferent to ;’:12:::? s nner‘eiqts and by ?iat,ening to the 1 charges of loud-mouthed agitato . This city should have a i a the entire expense, the increase in value of the boulevard ex- - ten or tending along its entire water front and connecting with the great highway now being built by the Park Commissioners along the ocean south of the park. This would afford a drive of unrivaled interest from the ferry landings along the bay shore, through the Presidio, past the Golden Gate and along the commanding heights that would intervene before the ocean level and the beauties of the purk‘ would be reached. Another important feature of the city’ boulevard system should be a drivew from the business center of the city to the park. Van Ness avenue should be reserved with a street connecting it with the park. B street is now the only one left by which Van Ness avenue can be so con- nected with the business part of the city. Another avenue should connect the park and the Presidio reservation. The projected driveway from the park southward is of great importance, and is probably worthy of first consideration. It should be of ample width, of easy graaes, sheltered by trees and guarded by para- pets along There should be no great difficulty in_building it by forming an assessment district. S Francisco should seize the few magnificent oppor- tunities it_has left, and I hail an agitation in favor of any_boulevard as an evidence of the new spirit and asa promise of better legislation by the present for the future. Irvive M. Scorr. HOW TO BUILD IT. W. M. Fitshugh Gives Some Interesting Sug- gestions, The boulevard now being planned to run south of the park to the county line by some desirable route has many considera- tions in its favor. It would run on the natural course of a highway between San Jose and this city. For several miles south of the park it would run across the pre- vailing course of the wind, and for that reason would invite driving upon it. Its rare scenic attractions along every part would aid in making it one of the most popular drives about the city. From the plateaus over which it would pass there would be presented beautiful prospects in ious directions. ~ A magnificent view of ocean would be offered from the West, lden Gate Park stretching in the und. In another direction would n the spreading bay with the shores al_eounties about it. large part city, the Golden Gate, the ns beyond to the mnorth and the lakes in the nearer landscape be features of @ scene hardly surpassed in the world. If the driveway were made broad, ornamented and shel tered with trees and provided with paths for pedestrians and bicycles it would pro- vide the city with one of its most delight- 1d convenient opportunities for recre- , and with the park drives would pleasing choice of routes. The tion of the boulevard along the 1 front, with which it wonld naturally connected near the county line, is her consideration which makes its would an building timely now. Along with this boulevard there should be built one from the north end of Van ,l\y--. avenue, probably along Chestnut or | mbard streets to the Presidio Reserva- tion, through which fine drives arealready constructed. Another boulevard shouid connect the Presidio and the park, and for this First avenue, which is now 100 feet wide, would be appropriate. These two driveways would be each but a few blocks long and would give the north end of the city an outlet to the Presidio and the park, and afford a drive of three or four milesnot »ded in beauty anywhere. Several ts offer a route between Van Ness nue and the Presidio and in some man- treet selected should be protected ime from the encroachments of streetcar lines, as should all other streets which it would be wise to reserve for boul- evards. The cost of bituminizing and otherwise improving some of the streets mentioned would be paid many times over by the increase in the value of the property, and I have no doubt that a large majority of the property-owners interested would gladly encourage the improvement. Regarding the proposed boulevard from the park southward to the county line I am confident from a careful study of the tuation that there will not be any diffi- culty in arranging and carrying out the proje I have taken considerable pains 1o find out the sentiment of the people who would have to pay for it, and I am_confi- dent that the boultvard can belaid out and built within a year. It will have to be done by establishing an assessment dis- trict and the increase in property values that would result would be so large that the property-owners concerned are almost unanimous in favor of the improvement. 1 have made a rough preliminary esti- mate of what the boulevard should cost, and conclude that it can be built for §20,000 amile for the seven miles. A new route will be necessary much of the distance, but as the section of the city through which it would run is almost wholly unim- proved, a route contorming in an ideal way to the topography of the region may be selected and rights of way can be easily secured. . Let us figure ont what a_boulevard cost- ing $20,000 a mile would mean to the property-owners along it. Along both sides of each mile of the driveway there would be a total frontage of 10,500 feet and over. Twenty thousand dollars would therefore mean less than $2 a front foot if the whole expense were borne simply by the land fronting on the road. ut of course the land adjacent is also benefited. the benefit vxu-yin%1 with the distance and the roaaway. Hence the roposition resolves itself in one of say 1 a front foot along the route, with a tax on adjacent property, ranging down- ward to a few cents a front foot a 3uarter of a mile away. If the property irectly fronting on the roate should pay thi property would nsny the tax twenty times over, the same consideration will apply to adjacent prop- erty. Opposition to the improvement on the part of property-owners on the score of cost thus appears unlikely and ridiculous. The property-owners are not going to ob- ject. They will rather dispute aggressively over the route, and in_such a circumstance lies the only danger of the _m'oject failing. But let ushave a boulevard, and a first-class one, whatever may be the particular route decided upon in the future. Inmy opinion the best way to o about the work of securing the boulevards I have spoken of is to let the Half-million Club select as a commission or committee those standing and known integrity, would com- mand the respect and trust of the com- | able and public-spirited men who, by their | such it will be of priceless value in connec- tion with the system of boulevards which this city should some day possess. If a boulevard is built now south from the park it should be of generous width, | from 150 to 200 feet; be planned by compe- | tent engineers and with sole regard to the public interest now and in the future. When built it should be placed under the jurisdiction of the Park Commissioners. FraNK McCoppIN. NEEDED AT ONCE. The Half-Million Olub Will Soon Give It Backing. The boulevard system which San I'ran- cisco needs so much will undoubtedly be | munity. Men of this sort could be found | who would take a pride in their work and | who would serve without compensation. The work of such men would be most | likely to be broadly, intelligently and hon- estly conducted and be kept free from the influences of intriguing and wire-pulling | for private interests. | That voluntary commission after intelli- | gent study could make recommendations one of the first things which the Half- million Club will take hold of and care- fully consider as soon as its organization is completed and the excursions it now hasin hand are over. Fine and convenient driveways are an absolute necessity to the city, and they must be among the first improvements ith much force to the Board of Super- | undertaken if San Francisco is to success- isors, and part of their work would be | fully enter upon a new era of progress. the formulation of plans for an assessment | They will give the city a valuable reputa- district south of the park, for which they | tjon and desirable fame, will add greatly to should be made the official commissioners. | )¢ 11eqsure of residence here, do much to E suck lan definite and intelligent | Y . Y erss coull be made with the best in- | develop civic pride, enhance the value of s of the whole city securely in view. | property, increasing the assessed valuation W. M. Friznveu. | and will make the city attractive to people who may come here tolive. Euclid ave- nue has mainly given Cleveland its 3 £ | fame as a beautiful city, and many Some of Frank MoCoppin’s Ideas Concerning | people visit that place especially to see the City's Needs. |it. On every fair day it is crowded with A boulevard from the south entrance to | equipages as is the beautiful and famous the park through the hills to the region of | lake-shore drive of Chicago, which ig con- Lake Merced at the county line would be a | Stantly enjoved by thousands, San Fran- 2 Y : - cisco may have boulevards far exceeding | noble improvement and the idea is one | these in beauty and interest,as well as that should be cairied out. It would prob- | fame. The sooner they are begun the ably be one of the most desirable boule- | sooner they will be finished and the | vards with which the city could provide it- | cheaper they will be. They should be pro- | self, and it should be supplemented by 1;:33 ge‘ggmvne"Qg;ef',]*twfrg;f!fi{':mgenemtwn | others, notably in connecting the park and | i boulevard from the park southward | tne Presidio. | —that is the one now most definitely The region about Lake Merced should be | projected—would be one of the most de- | made easily accessible to the people of the | sirable, and would afford a superb and ex- city, and a boulevard leading to it, shel-mid;ngh‘lwpvsg‘:r fr:lr:zvr ;lttehstx;x: . ToSl I ok ttractions. 0 2! sidera- f)e’rle;“:l’u:‘:fi_r“\if:figg“izfi‘?rf):kafi:?:t i tions in its favor is that it would afford an Sachiosia = Flensuts drive Tevs Morcen | hocuinibe Destiis odmRonn alor bo S & plea e 2 | the south for pieasure driving, To make presents one of the most picturesque scenes | it complete and of its fullest benefit it sl | A NOBLE IMPROVEMENT. within eas riving distance of the city | must connect with an attractive driveway and it would be a greatattraction to people | through San Mateo County and on who find brief opportunities fora health- | to San Jose. Without further im- ful ougmr. Owing to its comparative in- | provement of the main highway through accessibility through the lack of con- | the two counties to the south, it venient and pleasant driveways few San | would make that interesting resion access- | Francisco people know anything about it. Some years ago [ advocated before the Board of Supervisors the purchase of about 1000 acres of the water company’s prop- erty about the lakes to be used as a park and that is its most natural use. I have | long thought that that picturesque pro) erty should belong to the city. It would need no great amount of gardening or other cultivation for twenty-five years. With forest trees planted, and_drives laid | out it would be a popular picnic resort and | a delightful place for enjoyment in many | ways. ’S’uch a use of it would not pollute the | waters, which could still be used to supply the cify, and when it was slightly im. | proved electric ronds would quickly” mak | it cheaply accessible. The pru{ected boule: vard south to that region would be of in. terest and benefit to the entire city, and should be paid for by the city. It should be laid out by the best route and grades, without regard to private wishes. We have gone along in a very contracted way in regard to such public improve. .. The development of the park has slow, but now that the people have really come to enjoy it as their own there will never be any lack of funds for s | maintenance and improvement. | ple should be given more such opporturi- | ties for healthful pleasure. The rich can go to Del Monte, Long | Branch or Carlsbad, but the masses have | to stay at home, and their only conyenient recreation is a ride to the parkonadummy or a stroll on the beach. Asthey have builded this city out of the sweat of their faces, and made it great and powerful in | its heaped-up millions, 1 beg leave to say | that they are entitled to have, and ought to have, those simple, health- ful and instructive enjoyments which |the garden, the parl and the boulevard enriched, expanded and beautified, would afford them. Just now the whole of California could easily stand for the ‘garden planted eastward in Eden, ”so beautiful is it. Nature seems to have sympathized with the patriotic feel. in;fs of the people and made all the land splendid. Beautiful boulevards, parks and botanic gardens are not only a popular de- light, but they imprave the ople, better their environment and uplift their moral tone. These things are needful to the masses of the people whose lives are ebbing away here, and therefore it is the duty of the city 1n its corporate capacity to take meas- ures for their establishment and mainte- nance. In regard to public improvements gen- erallv I undertake to say, and I say it with regret, that San Francisco is behind every other English-speaking community of equal size in the world. It is even behind Dublin, the capital of an impoverished country, whose commerce was strangled f’enrs ago by the British Government. Its streets are miserably paved, its sewers are rotten and exhale pes- tilential odors, its public grounds are in- adequate, and the approaches to the park are not creditable to a great city. The city has lost priceless opportunities for boulévard improvements in the past, and those that remain should be preserved. One of the things that San Francisco has lost is the chance of extending the park panhandle to Market street. ~This was nearl, accom{leished in 1878 when I intro- duced in the gislnturea bill enabling the city to take ten blocks intervening between the panhandle and Market street, giving a strip for public useone block wide from the lc‘:ity‘a greattentral thoroughfare to its park. The survey, which was made by Colonel Mendell and Hermann Schussler, required the taking of a block of land belonging to the Protestant Orphan Asylum and an ex- cavation thirty-eight feet deep at Bu- chanan and Waller streets, e opposi- tion of the asylum people defeated the bill. The improvement could then-have been secured for about $400,000, as™ there was not a house on the route proposed. Now it would cost millions and is im- practicable. It is lamentable that the roject failed, and the incident affords an illustration of the need of building for the future. Omne of the things that the city gorhldéggyk C': is e;l:e gudunbl nbnndonmené e Ci metery as a burying groun and its use as & park of the future. As The peo- | | ible for pleasure dri\'inF but eva without | that connection it wou d be f untold bene- | fitto the city. I can think of noimprovement | that would be of such value at compara- | tively small cost. Let it be built at once, | and it will be a big influence to stimulate | San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to take | u% the great bay-shore boulevard project. | Within the city limits this bouleyard | would afford a magnificent circular drive | through the commanding hillssouth of the | *mrk, connecting with the boulevard now being built south of the park along the ocean shore. It would give a majority of | the people of San Francisco a rev&fution of the scenic attractions about the city. I think there will be no difficulty in carrying his particular project through. It must e built b, estabfishing an assessment | district, and I am informed that a large | majority of the people along the route are more than anxious for the improvement. | It would undoubtedly more than double | the value of all property near it, and the | financial problem appears to be an easy one. H. P. Son~TaG. A GREAT NEED, Mayor Sutro Has Urged Such a Driveway for Years. 1t has been my opinion for a very long time that one of the greatest needs of the | city of San Francisco is a north and south | boulevard. Frequently I have talked the | matter over with citizens and rarely failed | to convince them of the correctness of my | view. | The reason such a boulevard is particu- | larly desirable in San Francisco is that the | intensely disagreeable westerly winds are | the prevailing ones for nearly ten months, | and especially in summer time when peo- | ple wish to be out in the open air, drivin, or walking. To drive or walk unsheltereg from the disagreeahle wihds that blow | from the Pacific is no pleasure on account |of the dust. Had wea north and south boulevard, with several rows of trees | planted on each side, but particularly on | the west,in a few years there would be am‘{:le protection from the inclement winds and walking, driving and riding backward and forward along a magnificent highwa; would become a popular delight an pleasure, I have a vivid recollection of several con- versations on the matter with Mr. Pond, when he filled the office of Mayor, though no practical result ever came of them. Our plan at that time was to start at the Pre- sidio on one of the avenues, Sixth, Sey- enth, Kighth, Ninth or Tenth, widen it to 100 feet, carry it through Golden Gate Park to Seventh avenue south, thereby taking advantage of the gap in the hills at this point to reach the southern part of the county, and there effect a junction with the proposed road through San Mateo County to the city of San Jose. San Francisco absolutely requires such a bouleyard, and I am pleased to see that the Cary has taken the matter up and ad- vocates it ably and earnestly. No greater service could it do for the city and its in- habitants, and T hope that thenear future may see it a success. If the property- owners south of the park through whose private property it must necessarily pass would deed a right of way of 100 feet within the city limits an assessment district em- bracing the whole of San Francisco could epeediFy be made for its construction. Once constructed this boulevard would rove a great attraction to strangers who, eligh with the locality and the climate, would be tempted to settle here. No better aid to the success of the Hali- million Club could be imagined. 1If only a beginning was made in San Francisco and the south line of the city reached the con- tinuance of the boulevard would be sure, and in a few years we could travel from San Francisco to San Jose along a mag- nificent highway, well sprinkled and mac- adamized, with beautiful homes on either side that would make it the gem residence district of the world. ApoLPH SUTRO, A BYSTEMATIC PLAN, Ex-Mayor Pond Wants & General Boulevard Bystem, The project of adding desirable boule- wvards to the city's attractions is worthy of A A A AN A A A AN the hearty support of every citizen and should enlist general interest. Such driveways add greatly to the beauty of a city, and San Francisco is_especially lack- ing in them, while possessing magnificent opportunities for them. First avenue was laid out for a driveway connecting the park and Presidio Reservation, and ought to be improved at once. Another well- paved driveway should connect Van Ness avenue and the Presidio. The city especially needs an outlet of this character to the south, and the one now projected would be a magnificent im- provement, and is, perhaps, worthy of first attention. There should a general sys- tem of boulevards wisely planned and systematically carried forward from ’Iyear to year as means can be provided. They should be built by direct taxation and by the city as a whole, or by districts, rather than by the issuance of bonds. E. B. Poxp. LAND PROMISED. What Charles Harkins Will Do for the Boulevard. Editor Call: In your issue of the 5th inst. ap- peared an_article on the proposed boulevard from San Francisco to San Jose, in which it was stated that the Alameda de las Pulgas isonly fifty feet wide. Permit me to correct this error, by stating that it is sixty feet wide by actual measurement. My property extends along the Alameda. I am willing to give, gratuitously, enough of my land to widen the Alameda into the proposed boulevard, and all of those own- ing land adjoining the Alameda with whom I have conversed on the subject have expressed themselves as being willing to do likewise. I am satisfied from investigations that the same concessions would not be granted by property- owners whose lands adjoin the county road, in case it should be decided to construct the bou- levard out of the county road by widening it and improving it. One very serious objection to run the boulevard along the county road is that in order to widen it into a boulevard it would be necessary to remove fences, cut down large numbers of trees, dig out the Toots aud move back large blocks of buildings, the cost of which would be very great, even if it were practicable, which is very doubtful, par- ticularly where the road forms the principal street of some of the towns through which it Tuns. The county road is monopolized now and probably will be to a greater extent in the future, when the valley becomes densely popu- lated, by heavy teams engaged in hauling lum- ber, sood, hay, grain, ete. This traflic would be more or less of an obstruction to a driveway, such as is contemplated by the new boulevard. Rock for macadamizing the boulevard could be more easily obtained and at much less cost along the foothills then near the county road. It is to be hoped that the Half-million Club will be ome interested in the proposed boule- vard. In case it should it can materially aid the enterprise, and in doing o will contribute largely toward accomplishing theobject that it has in view. Santa Ciara Valley is the natural outlet from San Francisco. It is most singular that it has uot been utilized to a greater extent for that urpose long before this. The people of San Mateo County who are in favorof the boulevard (and most of them are) gratefully appreciate the zealous efforts being made ;?! the CALL in aid of the project. CHARLES HARKINS. University Heights, San Mateo County. CALIFORNIA I8 TO EXCEL. The Driveways of European and Eastern Cities Will Be Eclipsed. ALAMEDA DE LAS PULGAS, San Mateo County, April u.( Editor Call: Many of the oldest cities in our country have their fine driveways, and no less is this true of Europe, but California is to excel in this direction, as she has in many others. A boulevard with the Garden City for one terminus and the great Golden Gate, with its park of 1100 acres, for the other, taking in on the way “old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,” cannot be paralleled on this planet. The residents of these partsarejhighly pleased that so worthy a paper as the CALL is espousing this canse. We are delighted too to see such men as Mr. Brittan leading off in this matter. Of our own tree will and accord we hereby state to you both thatwe are willing and glad to give the ten or more feet, required for the widening of the Alameda de las Pulgas for Dboulevard purposes. We have s _frontage of some 900 or 1000 feet, and reside here on the Alameda now. Our neighbors all unite with wus in this willingness to give the land for this purpose. The Alameda is sixty feet wide now and we think 100 feet none too wide for a driveway such as 1s projected. No one can ever know the beauties of this section or the perfection of this climate till he has lived here. The natural attractions of the Riviera, the Appian Way, norof the Champs Elysees are to be compared with those of this | foothill route. The parched deserts of Arabia, Syria and adjacent countries send out their deadly simoons, influencing at certain seasons many climates'on the Mediterranean Sea. In Italy, her malarial marshes work the same ob- struction. Here, in_our California, & pleasure drive would be available the year round. There is not & month in the year that you cannot have sweet peastand roses. It is the home of the orange. the lemon and the lime, and if you come here I will show you treesnow bending with their yellow lumps of “vegetable gold.” The fig, poegranate and Isabella love this climate and evidence it yearly by their re- sults. We have no “melancholy days,” no “wailing winds,” no “naked woods,” no “mead- ows brown and sere.’”’ Wehave eternal spring. In what other climate can {ot_l gather violets and pansies on Xmas day? It is no uncommon thing to see parasols and fans in use in the winter months. Referring to this vicinity the unexpected ‘beauty by sudden change of scenes is height- ened by the fine nebular effect. Lowell says: A ak{ above, ‘Where one white cloud like a stray lamb doth move. That the boulevard will enhance values is certain. Villa tracts will extend five and ten miles back from this ,5““ artery, connectin; with it by splendid drives. The 'soil and rock formations are such that the best of road can be easily made. The most enchanting retreats are not on the main_thoroughfare. This will ive rise to the subdivision of many large ts, and we all know the profits that arise from that kind of business. We are the for- tunate possessor of two parcels of land here, one some 1000 feet from the Alameda, and we expeet to_sell them off in 40-foot lots if the boulevard comes. roperty-owner who will profit most by the boulevard. Then let ushave it. There isno time like the present. Land will neyer be cheaper. Now is the time. Think what it will do for these valleys. It willdot them with homes, churches, schoolhouses; checker them with orchards and gardens. The drone of the bee on his morniug chase and the piping of the lark will give place to the sound of human voices and the ringing of belis. It will put Mateo by the ses, “the open sea.” Itwillbring sightseers and home-seekers who will come to know our boulevard as one of America’s won- ders. Itis a bigger card for our county and for the three concerned than the Valley road. Then let us be up and dol‘lxlfi let each one ex- press his desire to see it built; let all come for- ‘ward and work for it. There is one spot on the Alameda de las Pulgas where you can stand and_overlook the ‘bay, f“ agood view of Mount Hamilton and r ‘g nse‘::ennm No greater scenic route lies e ;) Do you n‘?pon New York, Boston, Chicago or London, if such a prospect presented itself, would let the effort of achie so ta thing rest unattempted on the 1top of suc- cess? Noj; but by their united efforts and with all the gold of Ophir they cannot climb it (climate). Y Dear Carv, I hope to hear from others through your columns whom this Anterest and profif greatly. BM TIES FOR THE NEW ROAD Directors Considering the Purchase of More i Supplies. NEARLY THREE MILLIONS NOW | Stock Subscribed Is Sufficient to Build and Equip the Railway. Saturday being a busy day with directors l‘ of the San Francisco and San Joaquin not one for the other, hereby subscribe for the number of shares of the capital stock of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Vailey Railway Company as are set Opposite our Tespective names, of the par value of one hundred dollars each, and do hereby further sgree that the same may be issued to trustees,and that we will execute agreement therefor as provided and agreed at the meeting of subseribers to the capital stock of saia corporation, held at the Chamber of Commerce, in the city of San Fran- cisco, upon the 5th day of April, 1895. So the matter of subscribing has changed largely from assisting a public enterprise to purchasing stock in a bona-fide corpora- tion, with prospects of the full dividend of 6 per cent. STILL QUARANTINED. Cabin Passengers of the Coptic Will Not Be Released Until Next Friday. The passengers on the quarantined steamer Coptic will spend their Easter on board, looking with longing eyes shore- Valley Railway, no meeting was held. Al ward. Tt was so decided yesterday by notice was sent out by the secretary that | Quarantine Officer Lawlér after a consulta- the directors are expected to meet to- | tion with United States Marine Surgeon morrow for the transaction of important | peckham, who is in charge of the Angel business requiring prompt action on their | fsland station. part. | Dr. Meloney of the Coptic had made such At Monday's session the question of | excellent arrangements for the care of the purchasing ties for the road will come up | cabin passengers after the smallpox was for discussion, and it is likely that a large | discovered that the authorities concluded order will be given there and then, or, at | that they need only remain in durance for - | nine days. This will give them their least, arrangements Will be made for the | }iperty on Friday, the 105 ot which dath purchase of ties for twenty miles of track. | the Coptic will go alongside at the Mail Chief Engineer Storey stated that there | dock. The passengers will be landed, but will be no difficulty in supplying ties_as | the officers of the vessel will not be per- quickly as they are needed for construction | mitted to go ashore. Neither will the Cus- of the road from Stockton. tom-house officers. “There are enough ties on hand in Iumber-yards up the coast to fill the first order before the rails and other material | arrive at Stockton,” said he. ‘It does not matter how fresh or green the ties are, as The quarantine officers argue that the Custom-house people, having come in con- tact with the steerage passengers, it is proper that they should remain in quaran* tine the full time, which will not be up until the 24th inst., fourteen days after the they will season after laying quite as well as in the yards. Once we begin laying | arrival of the steamer. The officers of the them we won’t stop to consider how green | Coptic will be deprived of their shore they are, for they will go down as fast as | liberty on account of having came in con- men can lay them from construction trains. | tact with Dr. Meloney. It will be hard on “I have been rehably informed that | the officers, for the steamer sails on the there are several corps of surveyors outin | 23d, a day before the quarantine expires, the field in different sections trying to head us off every way they can. But thal can make little, 1f any, difference to us. The valley road will be built over the sur- | veys made by our engineers, and I don’t | think that opposition can cut much of a figure now.” irector Isaac Upham made a statement | in the afternoon that the total subscrip- tions for stock in the road reported up to | Friday night amounted to $2,44 | “There are many more subscriptions not yet reported,” he added, *“‘and they are not | included in this aggregate sum. Then we | have not included subscriptions from Stockton, Fresno, Merced, Visalia and all the towns downin the San Joaquin Valley ‘We don’t know yet exactly how they stand. only that they are in every way satisfac: tory to . the directors and promoters. ‘With the local list that is not reported [ | should say the total subscriptions amount | to $2,500,000. Adding the subscriptions that have been made, and areyet to come from the interior, I believe that something like $3,000,000 of stock in the valley road has been purchased. “We have enough on hand to build the road from Bakersfield to Stockton and to fully equip it. After the road is in_opera- tion between thosetwo points we will bave enough to build into San Francisco or Oak- land. The rest will be very easy.” The headings on subscription books were changed yesterday from the old form, whicfi was in the nature of a promise or | uarantee, to the following business order | or stock: ‘ The undersigned do, each one for himself and | and when | hand he wrote from right to left. so the men will have to go to sea without etting a chance to see the city, The Custom- house men will be put on the island with the steerage passengers. Dual Action of the Mind. L. C. Bruce has revived the theory that the two hemispheres of the brain can act individually, and that the active one hasa preponderating influence on the ‘“‘control of the motor functions, the patient living two separate existences during the two stages through which he passes; the men- tal impressions received during each of these separate existences being recorded in one cerebral hemisphere only.” In illus- tration of this theory Mr. Bruce mentions ase in his own _ experience which eems to show R. L. Stevenson’s ex- pedient of making Dr. Jel drug in order to transform himself into Mr. Hyde, and vice versa,in a less im- probable light. Mr. Bruce’s patient was sometimes an Englishman, or at least an English-speaking man, and at other times a Welshman. As an Englishman he re- membered what he had done in former English periods, but forgot all his Welsh procecaings. He was fairly intelligent, but subject to chronic mania. He was right-handed, writing from left to right, asked to write with his left ‘When in the Welsh stage he was invariably left- handed. He was also subject to dementia and had no idea of English. In fact his mental and physical conditions were the reverse of what they were in the English stage. DKY GOODS. TELLING THE EXACT TRUTH, It Is Certainly a Difficult Task in Newspaper Columns. Although Drs. Copeland and Neal’s Offices Are Thronged With People, If the Exact Truth Could Be Clearly Would Be Large Enough to It one conld tell in the newspapers the exact, | unqualified truth regarding the work Drs. | Copeland and Neal are doing, no block in the | city weuld be large enough to accommodate | the crowds who would flock to them. The exact truth_painted by no axaggeration, | dulled by no atmosphere of advertising. | The exact truth just who Drs. Copeland and Neal are, what their vast experience has been, by what means their skill has been obtained, | just how many thousands who have come to theirofficesin the years pastburdened or broken with sickness have leit them at last, their health restored, their systems cleansed of dis- ease, new vigor and new sirength imparted to their lives. % The exact truth—but it is more difficult to represent than you imagine. The lawyers Will say that the witness who can set forth the exact truth has never yet been found. You may say that Drs. Copeland and Neal are qualified specialists, having had years’ more experience than any other specialistsin this eity. o «Oh, that is advertising says the render, and he _turns to an- other page and makes the same observation over the proclamation of & “pro- fessor” with_a bogus title, a record of expos- wures for fraudulent conduct, posing as a medi- cal man. You may say, as_is true, that Drs. Copeland and Neal are furnishing the best obtainable treatment for chronic troubles at one-twentieth the cost of any other adequate or legitimate special treatment, or you may print the state- ments of thousands of well-known people who affirm that Drs. Copeland and Neal have cured them after other doctors and other specialists “Oh, thaf is advertising,” says the reader, and with the same careless comment he sur- veys column upon column of portraits and tes- timonfals to mostrums and remedies, some true, some only hali true, some entirely fraud- ulent, butall printed in more or less varied imitation of the methods by which the public has become familiar with Drs. Copeland and Neal’s work for years. Ttis not so much that in telling the exact truth you are outclamored by a thousand lies. It is that in all you say you have the attitude of the advertiser, the words, the form, the neighborhood and Teputation of the advertise- ment, NASAL CATARRH. Why So Much Is Said About It—Danger of Neglect. It may have occurred to the average reader of the aaily papers to ask why it is that so much is said by medical specialists about catarrh. Nasal catarrh, when neglected, brings on a train of disorders that are frightful. That it is a repulsive disease every one knows, but that it is the mother of many other complaints few know or appear to aporeciate—least of all the catarrhal sufferer himself. A typical case of catarrh is furnished by Mr. 3.8 Bhvay, ‘proprictor of Shay's Bakery, 38 Fourth street. S J. B.SHAY, 38 FOURTH STREET. “Ihad catarrh for years,” said he, and all my efforts to get rid of it were without avail until T went to the Copeland Medical Institute. “For a time it seemed but a heavy cold, but it soon took on a more serious character. My nostrils were almost eomnletel{ closed and t quantities of mucus ithered in m; roat and keptme continu 5 hawking. TRAN y coughing an | tude. Set Forth, No Building in the City Accommodate the Crowds. good. Drs. Copeland and Neal made a careful examination and I began treatment with them. To-day I feel like another man, my symptoms are all gone or fast disappearing. I cannot find words strong enough 10 express my grati- I did not believe in advertising doctors, but seeing & case o near like mine I thought I would try, and now I believe in Drs. Copeland and Neal anyway.” A PROMINENT GENTLEMAN Adds His Testimony to the Long List. Probably no gentleman is better known in San Francisco, nor in the whole State, than Attorney F. M. Husted. He has lived here for years and is proprietor of Husted's directories, ‘which are gotten out for all the cities in the State except San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mr. Husted suffered from catarrh since his boy hood and was treated for it by Drs. Copeland and Neal. The results of treatment are shown in the following letter: LAW OFFICES OF F. M. HUSTED, SAVINGS UNION BUILDING, 530 California street. SAN FRAN , Cal., April 10, 1895. Drs. Copeland and Neal—Dear Sirs: In reply to your inquiry of the 3d inst. permit me to say that I do not require further treatment, as all traces of my catarrh seem to have disappeared. When I came to you, by the ad- vieo of & friend, I was very skeptical about the possibility of & cure, as I had suffered from chronic catarrh since boyhood, and had been unable to get any relief. Upon commencing treatment with you I almost immediately ex- perienced great relief, and now consider my- self entirely cured. You are at liberty to use this in any way you may see fit. Yours very truly, ALL DISEASES. The Treatment for A1l Chronic Diseases Is Only $5 a Month, Medicines Included. Are you afflicted with DEAFNESS? Do you suffer from DYSPEPSIA? Have you severe BRONCHIAL trouble? Are you a sufferer from ASTHMA? Do you suffer from RHEUMATISM? Do you suffer from HEART troubles? Do you suffer from LIVER complaint? Do you suffer from NERVOUS troubles? Do you suffer from any CHRONIC DISEASE! 1f you do, the only cost for all treatment an medicine is $5 a month, and no better treate ment is known than that of the Copeland sys- " HOME TREATMENT. Every mail brings additional proof of the success of the home or mail treatment. 1f you cannot come to this office write for a symptom blank. $5 A MIONTH. XNo fee larger than $5 a month asked for an’ disease. Our motto is: “A Low Fee. Quicl Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment.” The Copeland Medical Instituts, PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR, 916 Market St, Next o Baldwin Hotel, Over Beamish’s. W. H. COPELAND, M.D, J. G. NEAL, M.D, A raat and Langs. Ni o e Eye, , Throat and Lungs. Nervor eases. Skin Diseases, Chronio Diseasen, e Office bours—9 A. M. t0 1 P. M., 2 t05 P. M., 7 t08:30 P. M. Sunday—10 A. M. 10 2 P. M. Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated su by mail. Send 4 cents in stampe’