The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 9, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1895. BUDD IS DISSATISFIED, The Governor Warm on the Subject of China Basin. A PROVISION THAT WAS RESCINDED. The Valley Road’s Attorney Ctates His Objections to the Lease. ITS RESTRICTIONS SAID TO BE TOO0 SEVERE. No Chance to Bond the Road or Float a Debt Under the Pro- visions. To say that the chief executive of the. State was angry vesterday would be to put it mildly. fovernor Budd was full of wrath. It was not because politicians assailed his point of vantage, either. There were very few seekers of places present at the meeting of the Harbor Commission- ers yesterday morning. Governor Budd had announced that he would not see any- body at the office of the Harbor Commis- sioners, except the representatives of the Valley road. Much to the surprise of the gubernatorial mind, not even a representa- tive of the road was present to meet him esterday morning, and that is why the Governor’s face was flushed. The Gover- | nor had read the morning papers and he saw therein that the directors of the Valley road had refused to accept the lease of China Basin as drafted by the Harbor Com- missioners and amended b; yor Sutro. ““Where’s Preston ?'’ a the Governor, 85 S0 On as 1 lled to orher. “I'm here, sioner Cole. “Me too,” said issioner Chad- | bourne, and then the Governor looked hard at the Mayor. “The first thing I want to know,” said Governor Budd, * ‘is what the directors of the Valley road mean by rejecting this lease; upon tne grounds upon which they have seen fit to take exceptions.”” “Well, you had better wait awhile,” said lli'rnsi(’ nt Colnon, “until Mr. Preston gets ere. “This meeting was called for 10 o’clock this morning,” replied the Governor, with a shade of annoyance in his voice, “and | why is it that ev y is not here?”’ ¥ Vell, I'll tell you, Governor,” said Mr. Colnon. “You remember Mr. Preston left | the meeting on Monday before we had | adjourned, and it is possible that he'did w when we were to meet again. not kne 2 Preston up by telephone,” sug- gested Chadbourne. The suggestion was taken up, and a mo- ent later Colnan was in communication the attorney of the Valley road gh the telephone. “‘Mr. Preston was not aware that there was a meeting this morning,” responded President Colnon a little later, ‘‘but he is coming rignt down.” Attorney Preston arrived at the meeting about an hour late profuse in his apologies for keeping the board waiting. 1 did not know that there was to be a meeting this morning, gentlemen,” he said or I had not been informed that there was to be a meeting by your secre- tary. Good morning, Govern 0d morning,” returned the execu- tive. *'Look here, Preston, I've been down here for a week trying to get this matter of the lease settled, and now we are just as far from a conclusicn as ever. You re- member the con tion you and I had at the last meeting?”’ “Yes, 1 remember, Governor; you in- sulted me,”’ and Preston’s rubicund visage ‘was wreathed in smiles. “What's that?’ queried the Governor, his bhair standing on_ end. ‘“Insult be hanged. Oh, yes; I remember. I called u down on that old story of your: And then the Governor and the attorney laughed and shook hands, and then again the Governor said: *‘Look here, Preston, what is the objec- tion to this leas You and John™ D. Spreckels sat here in our councils, heard all we had to say, and everything we did was subject to your amendment. Why didn’t you make your objections then?”’ “I was only at the meeting of the board of directors of the Valley road yesterday ek Co, . u:j{f:&% % X roz ;,; v 3 A KICK YOURSELF For having smoked any other kind of cigar after you've tried just one “CAPTAIN MARRYAT” ¢ FINEST BEYOND QUESTION.” H. LEVI & CO., 117-119 MARKET ST., Distributing Agents. | non, *‘we stand adjourned until Wednes- for a very short while,” said Mr. Preston, ‘“‘and while I was out they passed those resolutions. The directors expressed a general dissent against some of the pro- visions in the proposed lease and the mat- ter was referred to a spvecial committee to formulaie the objections which the Valley road has to the instrument. The report of the committee will be sent to this board in the shape of a communication expressing their views on the subject.” “Succinctly, Mr. Preston, what are the objections that the Valley road has to this lease?” asked Governor Budd. ‘“Definitely the objections are these,” said Attorney Preston. “First, we object to constructing a retaining wall, and the cond objection is that the lease is non- gnable.” Do you remember who inserted that the Governor. “I do not,” returned the attorney. “I think you did, Brother Preston,” said Governor Budd. “I would not be sure, but if my recollection serves me right you are the gentleman who threw that clause into the f e.”’ “Well,” broke in Commissioner Chad- bourne, “if the Valley road does not want that clause in the lease I for one am in favor of having it stricken out.” “I’ll entertain a motion to that effect,” said President Colnon. “With all my heart,” acquiesced Gov- ernor Budd. “The clause was inserted with the full knowledge of tne representa- i dissenting voice was raised against it. 1 merely mention this to show that this board has acted in good faith. We will let that pass.” ’lt'lhe motion of Mr. Chadbourne was car- ried. Now,” said the Governor, *‘as far as the second objection is concerned. does it strike you, Mr. Preston, that adease could not be given unless it was stated in the body that the lease was not assignable? That was all gone over in Sacramento, and it was agreed by all parties that that senti- ment should be incorporated in the lease before the law was passed giving the Board of Harbor Commissioners the power to enter into an agreement of any sort with the Valley road. That is the law as it stands now, Mr. Preston, and I don’t see how you can getaround it.” “The point, as as the lease is con- cerned,”’” said Attorney Preston, “is that if the Valley Railroad Company should build south from San Francisco they would be compelled to meet a financial problem TRl i tars e Toy they might not be able to solve successfuily under the present terms of the 1 Iu fact it would be im- ible to do so.” at is your proposition?” asked the Governor. “I have no proposition to offer until the report of the committee is made to the Board of Harbor Commissioners,” said Mr. Preston. “When will that queried the Governor. “I have not the slightest 1dea,” replied the attorney of the Valley road, ‘‘the mat- ter is entirely out of my hands.” ““Then I suppose that there sis nothing report be made?” ernor. “Move we adjourn to the call of the chair,” interposed Chadbourne. “Gentlemen, I have o much business on my hands,’”’ said the Mayor, ‘that I can- not possibly be with you again before Wednesday.” ‘I am going to Santa Rosa to-morrow,” said Governor Budd, and I will be away until Satu I will take Sunday off for a day of rest, and [ will be very busy on | Monday and Tuesds ““Then gentlemer ’ said President Col- day morning, unless something should in- tervene to bring us together before that time.” COMMISSIONERS TALK. They Say They Are Willing to Discard the Amend- ments. “It seems to me,” said President Colnon of the Board of Harbor Commissioners, | yesterday afternoon, “that the Valley | road does not want the lease very badly. | clause about the retaining wall?” asked | s of the board of directors and nota | left for us but to adjourn,” said the Gov- | may result in a conference meeting be- tween the directors and the board, and if the changes asked for are not granted we shall decline the lease. “If they want to keep the Valley road out of San Francisco they are going the | right way about it. We are not so anx- ious to build into San Francisco. The only | thing settled about the Valley road is that | it will be built from Stockton to Bakers- | field to give competition to producers of the valley. ¥ _ | *‘About $2,500,000 is subscribed. It will take from eight to ten millions to build | and equip the road as_fully planned. that | is to reach San _Francisco and the Santa | Clara Valley. Now where is the money to come from ? “Not from Mayor Sutro. e L | “Mayor Sutro would have a provision in | the lease prohibiting us from bonding the | line, since such proceedings would forfeit | the lease of China Basin. But he would not come to the rescue with money needed later on to extend the line through Cali- fornia.” Director Leon Sloss, who is a member of the committee appointed to communicate with the Harbor Commission regarding the rejection of the China Basin lease, de- clared that the objectionable clauses were | i’yteflecwd by Mayor Sutro and CGovernor udd. *‘As the lease comes to us it is absolutely | worthless,” he said, “because it would pre- vent the Valley Road Company from bond- | ing the road. It hampered us on every side, and, of course, as a business proposi- | tion we could do nothing but refuse to ac- | cept it. | ‘]'As for Governor Budd, I believe he | acted in good faith all through. He sim- | ply took every precaution he could think of to so surround the lease with safeguards | against the possibility of the road going | into other hands that the Southern Pacific or any other corporation could never get hold of the line or China Basin. His ac- tion at the meetings of the Harbor Com- missioners showed that he watched the in- terest of the State on every occasion. But there might be a little gallery play—Idon’t know, however. I don’t know what Mayor Sutro wanted, | with all his motions and amendments. | Gallery play, I suppose. “I understand that the Governor stated | this morning that he believed the directors didn’t want China Basin. We want China Basin right enough and are only too | anxious to get it, provided the terms of the lease are such as will permit us to issue bonds if the company o desires. | “The committee appointed to commu- nicate with the Harbor Commissioners | will meet in the morning in Mr. Preston’s | office and draw up a letter to be sent to | the commission. I cannot say now what | will be done eventually, but 1 feel that we | shall not take China Basin until the lease is amended o as to give us some power 1o | manage the railroad.” | Director Isaac Upham said that the CALL | bad presented correctly all he had stated or wished to state upon the lease question. Said he: | ““All T know about the matter is through Mr. Preston, the attorney. He tells me | everything that takes place, and kept me informed upon the meetings of the Har- bor Commissioners at which the lease was | considered. Forming my conclusions on | that information, 1 believe that the Gov- ernor and Mayor are responsible for all the trouble. The Commissioners, as I said be- | fore, acted very courteously and appar- | ently with consideration for the Valley Railroad. “Either the Governor or the Mayor will have to clean his skirts of the matter be- fore we can believe that they care to give | the Valley road a terminus in San Fran- cisco, or want the line to come into this City."” WILL INSPECT THE VALLEY. A Long Journey In Carrlages to Be Made by the Direc- tors. Beven directors of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway Company will leave here this evening for a tour of inspection of that part of the San Joaquin Valley lying between Fresno and Visalia. They will make a personal examination of the ground over which the line has been If they had returned the lease with the ob- depended upon it. We bhad no cognizance of the action of the Valley road directors except what we read in the newspapers. While I have every confidence in the news- papers, still we cannot accept a publica- tion as a communication of the ultima- tum of the board of directors.” “The disposition of the Harbor Commis- sioners,” said Commissioner Cole, *is to give evervthing to the Valley road that it asks for as long as we keep inside of the law. Idon’t know how Sutro_feels about the matter—he is an uncertain quantity, anyhow, but the Harbor Commissioners bave talked this matter over, and I know that they all feel as [ do. At a private talk we had it was decided to send a letter to the Valley road directors, asking them to draft a lease, and if the instrument they draw comes within the law, you can bet your life we will sign it.”” “We have been working on this lease now for three weeks,” said Commissioner Chadbourne, “‘and both Mr. Spreckels and Mr. Preston have been present at all our deliberations. They have approved of everything we have done with the excep- ticn of Mayor Sutro’s amendments. “Mr. Preston to-day said that he re- ceived an engrossed copy of the lease from us at 2 o'clock yesterday. He said that | the board took it up at 3:20 o’clock. Mr. | Magee had to leave the meeting at 3:40 to | catch the 4 o’clock boat. The deduction | to be drawn from this is that the directors gave just twenty minutes’ consideration to our lease. We are willing to do anything in the world to get a competing road into this City, but we do not think that the Valley road directors have met us half way. As Harbor Commissioners we de- cline to be put in the position of obstruct- ing the way of any competing road.” ANGRY OVER THE LEASE. Attorney Preston and Directors Express Some Strong Opinions. E. F. Preston, attorney for the railway company, said that the directors might throw up the whole thing if some consid- eration was not shown them in regard to the lease. He had no hesitation in stating his belief that Mayor Sutro would not ad- vance several million dollars to complete the railway if that money could not be raised on bonds. “My opinion of this thing is that the directors of the railroad thik many cum- bersome provisions were introduced in the agreement which would work the forfeit- ure of the lease should the road be bonded. As it stands to-day it would not be a safe business prgposition to entertain.’ ‘‘Whose clause is the one to which you object? “I don’t know,” and Mr. Preston shrugged his shoulders eloquentiy. ““The lease was amended so oftén I don’t know where the clause came from. They put in words, cut out words and interjected amendments time and again, so that it is not possible now to recognize it. The lease as originally drawn provided for an ussignment as required in the law, but they added to that ‘whether by operation of the law or otherwise, ang the lease slxp;xld at option of the State be declared void *‘There were so many changes in the amended lease I could not form an opinion on it when asked for one by the Harbor Commissioners. Ihad to wait until I got the lease as 2 whole, which I did not get till just before the board of directors met yesterday afternoon. “The sum of it is our board has ap- pointed a committee to communicate with jection against the Mayor’s amendments | projected, and confer with various com- we would have knocked those amendments | mittees of citizens with regard to important out. Isav this after consultation with my | matters affecting the railroad. colleagues, and we all came to the conclu- | sion that the Mayor would have withdrawn | contrary a tiresome task, which will show his amendment if the signing of the lease | This is going to be no junket, but on the the kind of material the directors are made of. About 200 miles will be covered in buggies, and not a little ground will have to be traveled on foot from different points along the country roads. The party will go direct to Fresno on the night train. After a short stay in that city they will drive to Hanford, a distance of about thirty-five miles. From Hanford they will ride sixty milesto Delano, thence to Visalia, fifty miles, returning to Fresno, which is abont forty-five miles north. All the way they will have to go in teams. This will be done so that the directors and Chief Engineer Storey, who will accom- pany them, may get a clear idea of the country from their own observation upon which a decision will be reached in select- ing a route. Mr. Storey is familiar with every foot of the district to be examined, having gained his knowledge through years of experience as civil engineer for the Southern Pacific Comrl_ny, and he will point out all matters of interest to the gentlemen of the party, Bakersfield will not_be visited this time, as there is no necessity for a visit to that city at present. The secreta: of the company began yesterday to call in all subscription-books that are out among committees and can- vassers both in San_Francisco and the in- terior. As the board of directors is desir- ous of knowing exactly how much stock has been subscribed up to date beyond the amounts already accounted for, it was found expedient to call in the books. As soon as the books are .returned a state- ment will be prepared showing the total amount of money subscribed to the )ieo- ple’s railroad, and these figures will then ublished. r. Samuel, president of the Seventy-six Land and Water Company, the Carmelito Vineyard Company and the California Fruit and Wine Land CompnnB, held a long consultation yesterday with Directors Watt and Payson of the Valley Railroad. The object of his visit was to impress upon the board of directors the importance of running the railway along the east side of San Joaquin Valley, bg ings River. He said that the Carmelito Vineyard Company had 1500 acres of rich bottom land in alialia, prunes, corn and hops, the Fruit and Wine Land Company acres and the Seventy-six Land Company 17,300 acres, all lying in_ Fresno and Tulare counties. These, with other productive tracts of land in the same district, he held should be sufficient inducement for a rail- way to build into the region in which he is interested. “We are free from alkali of any kind,” said he. “We have an inexhaustible amount of water for irrigation purposes that can never be disturbed. From the re- port of Secretary 8. F. Earl at Ridley, sub- mitted to me this morning, I can state that the prospects for the coming barvest in that section were never before known in the history of that country. The products will be fruit and grain, of which there will be enough to guarantee an enormous amount of business for the Valley road. In the interest of the stockholders I would advise that the road be built into this section and that it also take in the Pine Ridge country, where there is consiger- able freighting in lumber and sn‘Pplies, “The sawmills up there would run their flume to any convenient station on the line of railway for delivery of lumber. It would not require much of a deflection from the direct route to tap this country, which I'm sure can give immense business to the competing road.” Tobacco in California. J. D. Culp of San Felipe, who has been raising tobacco for twenty years, has written to the Manufacturers’ iation to enlist the in- the cultiva- the Harbor Commissioners, which possibly fluence of that body in promnfln% tion of the plant throughout the State. ANGRY REFORM ELEMENTS They Adopt Resolutions De- nouncing Superior Judge Bahrs. THE JUDGE IS INDIFFERENT. Mrs. French Says He Opposed the Ordinance Which Coleman Violated. Superior Judge George H. Bahrs was the subject of adverse criticism at two meet- irgs yesterday afternoon on account of the stand taken by his Honor in declining to transfer the case of Saloon-keeper William Coleman to some other department of the Superior Court for trial. At the meeting of the Central W. C. T', 1078 the first union of the W. C. T. U. organized in California, Mrs. Rose M. French and Mrs. H. Mason, who had been appointed a committee to investigate the facts con- cerning the alleged connection of Judge Bahrs with the liquor-dealers of San Fran- | cisco as counsel prior to his election to t}_le bench, submitted their report. They said that they had learned from Clerk Russell of the Board of Supervisors and from the records of his office that on July 21 an‘d'ZS, 1894, Judge Bahrs, at that time a practicing attorney, had appeared before the Super- visors with the statement that he repre- sented the German Snlmm-keeyers’ Asso- ciation and desired to oppose the passage of the side-entrance and dive ordinance. Attorney Bahrs further stated that he was there in the interest of capital and that the people who wished the ordinance to be passed were only talking sentiment. Mrs. - French “spoke earnestly on the subject, and referred to the fact that the ordinance, which was passed in spite of Attorney Bahrs and which he strongly op- posed, was the same ordinance under | which Saloon-keeper Coleman is now about | to be tried by Judge Bahrs. Mrs. Mason | added her voice to the denunciation by | Mrs. French, and the following resolutions, offered by Mrs. French, was unanimously adopted : WHEREAS, Central Union, W. C.T. U., learns with great indignation that Judge George H. | Bahrs, who formerly acted as attorney for the | Liguor-dealers’ Association, &nd as such ap- | pearea before the Board of Supervisors to pro- | test against the passage of the side-door ordi- nance and the dive ordinance, has reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Wil- liam® Coleman; and, whereas, we deem the course pursued by this Judge in this matter to be still another disgraceful judicial outrage upon this community, and sincerely regret that alaw of imperative mandate is not in force which Woulfe able us to demand his resigna- tion effectively; therefore, be it unanimously Resolved, That we hereby publicly ¥ondemn the aforesaid Judge George H. Bahrs, who re- fused to permit this side-entrance case to be tried by another Superior Judge, as had been requested by the prosecution. The Law and Order League also met yes- terday afternoon and devoted considerable attention to theattitude of Judge Bahrs in the Coleman case. Mrs. French reviewed the circumstances which occasioned tne adoption of the denunciatory resolutions against Judge Bahrs in the Union for Prac- tical Progress and Central Union W. C. T. U. and urged the adoption of resolutions which would reflect the sentiment of the league concerning Judge Bahrs' attitude. The following resolution was passed unani- mously: Resolved, That the case of the People vs. Wil- liam Coleman should be tried in some court other than that of the Hon. Judge Bahrs, for the reason that he was formerly employed as counsel for the German Saloon-keepers’ Asso- ciation and tynposed the passage of the Clay ordinance under which the case is being tried. Judge Bahrs when spoken to concerning the resolutions directed against him by the different reform elements said yester- day afternoon: **Oh, I suppose these People have a right to adopt resolutions if they wish to. will take no notice of them except to see that attorneys who are interested in cases pending in my court do not take part in resolutions which concern their cases. If they do I shall take steps to prevent a repetition. THE GOVERNOR'S REPRIEVE It May Eventually Give Collins a Longer Respite Than the Execu- tive Intended. The legal point which at a eritical moment saved McNulty’s life will prob- ably be revived again on behalf of Patrick Collins, now awaiting execution in San Quentin. The question involves the right of the Governor, after having suspended the execution of the death penalty, to set a day upon which that sentence shall be executed. In McNulty’s case Governor Markham granted him a reprieve of two weeks, and as the two weeks slipped slowly by Dorn & Dorn, then acting as attorneys for Sheriff Laumeister, advised their client that he had no right to hang the man under ex- isting conditions. %ection 1227 of the Penal Code requires that if for any cause the sentence of death pronounced by a competent court has not been executed the criminal must be brought into court again and be resentenced. It is provided elsewhere inthe code that acourt cannot set the dateof execution less than sixty nor more than ninety days from the date of sentence. A reprieve from the Governor, the Sheriff was advised, had only the effect of sending the accused-| to the courts to be resentenced. Under this advice the Sheriff, when the time came, refused to hang the man, and as subsequent events have shown, finally saved his life, On the Monday followin, the date set for the execution, the Sheri! was summoned before Judee Murphy to make his return as to the execution, and after a day’s argument on the question he was sentenced to pay afine of §1 and be placed in the jail under custody of the Coroner for one day. A writ of habeas corpus was secured, and it was tried before Judage Wallace. He discharged the Sheriff, thus uphold- ing Dorn’s view of the case, which was dismissed without ever going to the Su- preme Court. . McNulty was resentenced, but the sen- tence was eventually commuted. Colling’ case is a similar one in this, that the Governor has suspended the execution of the death sentence and has set June 14 as the date of Collins’ execution. The question hasarisen, Can Collins be hanged on June 14, with the McNulty case to cite as a precedent? There is a similar point now in New York in the case of Buchanan, charged with murder, and there, too, the Sheriff has refused to hang the man for the same reason as that which saved McNulty. 4 ——————— No Wings on Lawson’s Angels. Evangelist Thomas H. Lawson of Santa Clara preached last evening in St. Paul's Mission on AMission street on angelic ministrations. His text was, “The angel of the Lord encampeth around and about they that fear God and deliy- ereth them.” An angel, he said, is not a good dead man, nor a demon & bad dead msan, but angels e superior beings and they were created before man. Man was made 8 little lower than the angels. He did not be- lieve that angels are going around with wings sprouting from their shoulders, and quoted {rom the Bible in substantiation of his asser- tion that angels are in the semblance of human beings. “When they tell you that you have to be in a darkened room, with hands clasped, and that tables have to dance, to see angels, they tell you the blackestlie.” God, he said, never worked in darkness. Angels, he said, are always around to deliver from harm those who dwell in the fear of God. ————————— THERE is an article on this market seldom equaled and never exceiled—Jesse Moore Whis- ky. Moore, Hunt & Co, guarantee its purity. * NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. at tions. Is 1t worth your while to b Dress Goods. Some of the dozens upont doz= ens of items which make it worth your while to wait. SOME 50c LINES OF ALL-WOOL SERGES, 5C ALL-WOOL HENRIETTAS, ALL-WOOL FANCY CHEVIOTS.. 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The safes in the office of the Union Gas Engine Company were visited by burglars last Tuesday night. The thieves procured their tools in the machine-shop and pro- ceeded to drill holes in the door of the safe in the outer office. They succeeded 1n bursting the combination, but at the same | time jammed the small bolt that kept the lock in position. In their attempt to force the door they bored two more holes and in doing so cut their hands. The tools used were a ma- chinist’s hammer, a cape chisel and a large steel punch, which were fouhd on a bench yesterday morning and all had blood- stains on them. ‘When the robbers found they could not succeed they went to the safe out of which they took $70 and a gold watch last month and forced it open again. All they se- cured was a check on a Portland bank for $108. After examining and finding it to be payable to order they crumpled it up and threw it on the floor. ‘‘Burglars seem to have a liking for our establishment,” said Harrison P. Coles, treasurer of the Union Gas Engine Com- pany, yesterday. “On the last occasion they knocked "the combination knob off the inside safe and then drilled a hole through the lock. In that way they se- cured $70 and a gold watch. Last Tuesday night they had far greuer difficulties to overcome and got nothing for their pains. Even had they succeeded they would only have secured about $23 in silver, as all the rest of the money was in the bank. The robbers must have been well acquainted with the premises and our business. We have a contract to build a gas engine for young Mr. Fair, and he paid us a large de- positfinst Tuesday afternoon. The burglars thought that money was in the safe, but it wasn't, It was in the bank.” Detective Ben Bohen is now at work on the case. THE PRODIGAL SON. An Interesting Discourse by Evangelist Varley at the First Congrega- tional Church. The subject of Evangelist Henry Var- ley’s discourse at the First Congregational Church last night was ‘‘The Prodigal and the Father’s Love.” The speaker said: “‘The parable of the lost sheep represented the sinner. The parable of the lost piece of silver repre- sented value without life. The parable of the prodigal son refers to the sons of God. Children before the age of responsibility, if they die, are saved by virtue of Christ’s atonement, but after the age of responsibil- ity the individual by device accepts the atoning Christ. ‘“The experience of the prodigal son is not.an exceptional experience among the regenerate sons of men. The younger son did not fall in the far-off country, but in his father’s house and in the criminality of making a separate interest. He wanted his father’s goods. Shutting out love of house and father for love of goods—this the greatest crime in San Francisco to-day. Vast proportions of trouble come from re- fusing to recognize the father’s supremacy. The grenwngerfl in life is creating sepa- rate interest irom God. You cannot find the father as the son goesaway. He never | 1ation to your Father there are men in San son’s return, with ring and robe and | warmest welcome. 8o itis ever with our Heavenly Father. “If you get away from your true re- Francisco who will degrade you in swine feeding. ‘I have sinned against heaven and before thee,’ saia the prodigal; not against man, but against his own spirit and real nature.” HUNTINGTON’S EXPERT. ‘William Mahl From New York Is Here Examining the Southern Paci- fic's Books. William Mahl, who is second assistant to the president of the Southern Pacific Company, arrived here from New York a few days ago and is now busy with the books of the company at Montgomery and Market streets. Mr. Mahl is familiarly known as the ex- pert of C. P. Huntington. His presence here has been kept very quiet, although he bas been hard at work on the annual state- ments of the railway corporations and ex- perting the year’s accounts. A year ago, it might be remembered, he paid a visit to San Francisco. At that time the old build- ing at Fourth and Townsend streets was in a state of ferment over the dismissal of employes, which was part of the expense- reducing plan. Mr. Mahl got through with his work and proceeded at once to New York with all sortsof railroad business details, upon which was based many of the radical chanis,s that took place subsequently. _C. P. Huntington is expected to leave New York within a week for this City and on his arrival here will have an important conference with his able expert. Butwhat the result may be cannot yet be guessed at by the railroad officials. REDUCING THE RATES. The Water Committee of the Board of Supervisors Increases the Hydrant Tax. A meeting of the Water Committee of the Board of Supervisors was held last night to make changes in the rates now being levied on the City and property- owners. There was a strong reluctance upon the part of the individual members of the committee to come to the scratch and the subject was approached with ex- treme caution. Finally it was voted that a reduction of 10 per cent be made in favor of the rate-payer. The hydrant rate, which the Spring Valley Water Company contended should be raised from $2 50 to $10 per month, finally glwed _at§5. This was considered upon the basis of 4 per centof the pro- posed reduction, leaving the remainder, or 6 ger cent, assessed to the water company. t was, however, agreed that the whole question m vote chan; Board of evening at Wwas :Pht be reconsidered and the at_the next meeting of the upervisors, which will be Friday 7 o’clock. A Careless Peddler. Mrs. H. Platt of Ocean View stepped off & Valencia-street car yesterday aiternoon &t Jones and McAllister streets, and had made only a few steps when she was knocked down 'lgl horse driven by Harry Fickel, a peddler. €r screams atiracied nrfyurxe crowd. The ambulance was sent for, and she was taken to the Receiving Hospital in a hysterical condi- ton. Dr. Deane found that both her ankles were sprained and she was badly shaken up. Fickel was arrested by Policeman O'Dea and charged with battery. ————————— Two Sudden Deaths. J. A, Sinclair, aged 65 years, died suddenly at 321 Ninth street yesterday. A few hours previously Anne Garrity, aged 52 years, died suddenlyat 325 Tehama street. The autopsy in each case showed that death was due to natural causes. 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