The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1895, Page 14

14 7 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1895. THEY WANT THE BASIN President Claus Spreck- els Speaks for the Valley Road. THIS CITY IS TO BE THE TERMINTUS. He Repels the Governor’s In- sinuation About the Direc- tors’ Intentions. { MAYOR SUTRO'S POSITION IS CRITICIZED. | | Harbor Commissloners *Told That | There Was No Cause for Suspicion. Claus Spreckels, president of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail- way Company, made a positive denial yes- | terday to the Governor’s asserti e | Valley road management had changed its mind and does not w to take China Basin for a terminus in San Francisco. Instead of throwing up the lease the di- cure China Basin tha minal £: ities here consider the propos joi heart of California to the metrop bands of steel. The committee appointed by President Spreckels to draft a communication and send it to the Harbor Commissioners, Gov- ernor Budd and Mayor Sutro making formal objection to the case and suggest- ing changes met yesterday in the office of E.F. Preston, attorney for the company, and prepared a letter for presentation to the Harbor Commissioners. ! d communication is addressed to Governor Budd, Mayor Sutro and the State Board of Harbor Commissioners. It states that a committee had been ap- nted to before the Harbor Commis- sion in writing a statement showing why | the railway company was most anwillingly compelled to decline the lease as of and continuing says that two of the clauses in the proposed lease are wholly objection- | able. One of these clauses forbidding a trans- fer of the Jease would render it impossible | for the company to issue bonds salable to capitalists, because if such honds were issued and from possible misfortunes the ge were foreclosed the foreclosure not include the leased premises in China Basin, and therefore the road would | be without a terminus at its chief place of he second objection is that the lease requires the company to build an inner | restraining wall to support the outer sea- | wall when the latter is built across the water line of China Basin, a work every- | where built by the State on the water | front where it collects—as it will from this | company—regular wharf charges. | The committee asks that these prohibi- | tory clauses may be stricken out and the | lease therefore made acceptable to the company. | Italso adds that the attorney has at | various meetings of the commission | endeavored to have the objectionable | clauses modified, but was utterly unable | to have this done, chiefly because of the excessive zeal of May i who because of company’s fu “existing monopo! prevent the pos: ment of any oppo: “In view of the w cemsdetermined to | v of the establish- | on o it. ! espread subscriptions | to the stock of the San Francisco and San | ¢ Joaquin Valley Railroad on the part of the | citizens of S8an Francisco and of the State, | subscriptions made wholly because the | line is to be a competing one, the fears ex- pressed that the road may consolidate with | the Southern Pacific are certainly not com- limentary to the men who, to resuscitate and values and rescue State and City com- merce and agriculture from utter depres- sion, organized this company,” continues the letter. *‘If the consolidation feared by | some members of your honorable board | were ever made it would naturally only be done because of the pecuniary profit to result to the stockholders of the San Francicco and San Joaquin | Valley Railroad; but that large| profits from the road was not the primary | object of the subscribers is shown by the fact that it has been expressly agreed that the | company will not at any time allow the | stock to pay over 6 per cent per year in dividends. Nor would any possible profit, however large, resulting from possible con- solidation or seiling out, be at all compara- ble in its benefits to the stockholders of this company from the maintenance of compe- tition, the exaction of fair rates only for freights and fares, and the resulting com- mercial benefits to be derived by all classes of our citizens. ““This company wasorganized in the best interests of the City and State, and its di- rectors are at a loss to imagine what they have done since to justify the creation of even a suspicion that they havein the least swerved from the policy which they orig- inally united to subserve. : *‘The directors of the road are anxious to obtain the lease of China Basin if it can be bad without the imposition of restrictions that will render it useless or worse than useless to them, and to this end they ask for an ogen conference with your honor- able board.” CLAUS SPRECKEL’S WORDS He Is Very Earnest In His Posl- tion Regarding the Lease. During a discussion of the situation President Claus Spreckels said yesterday: The committee T appointed at the last meet- ing drew up a letter which fully explains the position of the board of direetors. “The Governor has intimated that he believes you don’t want China Basin now?” 0Of course I cannot help what he says. But . we do want it. 'Why did we ask for it and send two men to Sacramento 1o get & bill through the Legislature giving us a lease to China Basin? You can state authoritatively from me that the Valley road is anxious to have China Basin; but we don’twant it hempered with provisions such as are in the lease submitted tothe board. Andyou can state that Ideny any statement to the effect that we don’t want China Basin. We want it under terms that would allow us to issue bonds on the road. The law says that we shell get China Basin for fifty yeers at & rental of 1000, but here they have puton additions and amendments that change altogether the spirit of the lease. What good is & railroad without a terminus? That is the question that would be asked by capitalists who would consider bonds on the property. Now there isa building across the street, for instance, and its title 1s clouded. You are the landlord. You want to get mone: from & bank on a mortgage. The bank will tefl you, “We don’t want that security, the title is clouded; we can’t loan money on stich a title.” Itis exactly the same with the Valley road in case we should accept that lease and try to raise money on bonds. The lease would not permit us o bond China Basin, and surely we Cconldn’t bond a railroad Without a terminus. No, we do not wish to throw up China Basin. Our desire is to build a railroad into San Fran- cisco, ana it is our intention to take up this project as soon as we finish the railroad through the San Joaquin . We are work- ing us fast as we possibly can tobuild the road in one place. But thé original intention of naving & terminus of & competing railroad in San Francisco is still as strong as ever. That is what we want 1o see accomplished in the near future. PAYSON AND HOLBROOK. They Do Not Want to Be Con- sldered as Outside Specu- lators. Captain A. H. Payson found a few minutes for expression of his views on the lease, while he hurriedly made prepara- tions for his trip down the San Joaquin Valley at night. He said: The directors are not responsible for what the vernor may say, or for what he may do. We we want applied for a lense of China Basin an 10 get China Basin, but only under proper con- dit ; cert ly not under those terms set forth in the We don’t w to throw up the lease—not at It is very desirable to have the terminus San Francisco, and thatis our ultimate in- tion. The Valley road shell come into San Francisco. Director Charles Holbrook of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson expressed surprise that the suggestion of susp n should have been cast upon the public-spirited work of the Valley road directors. There was an apparent tinge of indignation in his voice as he spoke about the treatment the direc- tors had received in connection with the lease of China Basin: We certainly. would like to lease China Basin on conditions that could be accepted, but not with such exactions as have been im- 1 have spent all the morning and part fternoon with the Grand Jury, and now ing ready to start off on & tiresome m gett journey through the Sau Joaquin Valley in t iterest of the Valley road. I sm ure 'm not doing all this for _selfish ends, or for protit, nor are any of the other di- rectors making & speculation of the railwa: We are not a set of speculators. We are pu ting in our money with the understanding | that it cannot pay more than 6 per cent, as the by-laws strictly state. Now we. could get double that interest here in town without any personal inconyenience to speak of. We are spending our time on a railroad, and for what? To build up the San_Joaquin Valley, the City of San Francisco and the State. 1 think that the Governor and Mayor ought to recognize this and should treat differently with our company than if we were foreign cap- italists coming here fo speculate. The Governor said, “If the Valley road does not want China Basin the Santa Fe company will be glad to get it.” That is not the right way to talk. We are not like the Santa Fe. We ayers, and we can se Governor our own people, living here in 8; our interests all lie here,and the lley road company is di a Califor- nia company.” For that re e are enti- tled to different treatment from a number of speculators. 1 think that the public andall public officials ought to recognize this is an enterprise started for the relief of Californis. This is only the beginning of a movement that will grow, and it is intended as an object lesson to show to the ple of California what Californians can ac- aplish by co-operation. It will show what can be done in building up the State by united,| eflort, and that we can establish and operate factories, industries of all kinds, by coming to- gether with a determination to stand by one another. Then I would liketo know why the Mayor insists_on provisions in the lease so onerous that & New York speculator would not touch it? Does he, as a sensible man of affairs, think that.we—that is, the directors who are well known in_this community—are in the Valley road purely for speculation, or that we expect to make money out of it? Not much; he knows only too well that there is no return for the money and the time we are giving the en- terprise. Mayor Sutro owrs more land in_this City than any other man, but he has not given & dollar to the Valley road, which is intended 10 help such men as he more than any one else. In benefiting the State and City, real estate values will be improved.and he will come in for the greatest share of the benefits accruing from the work we have only begun. But he would not give even as much as $10,000 s interest in the State or the City, dent good will or moral support of the people’s railway. Talk is cheap, 2nd he likes to talk about China Basin. We intend to bnild the Valley line first from Stockton to Bakersfield with our money, and when that part of the work is finished the n Joaquin will feel the benefit of ransportation for its products to tide- Then we will have to bond the road to water. build into San Francisco, which we could not possibly do if we accepted this lease. We desire to act all through in good faith with the public, and alsoin the matter of bond- ing the road in its relation to its effect on the lease of the China Basin. THREE DECIDED OPINIONS. James Cross, Alvinza Hayward and Thomas Magee Agree on Im- portant Points. James Cross, one of the trustees of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad, talked straight to the pointin expressing his opinions of the obstructions to securing China Basin as a terminal. He evidently believes that unless the objec- tionable features in the lease are removed the competing road will not reach San Francisco. He says: The object of the subscribers to this road isto build & competing road in the interest of all the people of this State. Those in authority who are disposed to interpose amendments to the lease of China Basin will not be consid- ered friends of this State. I believe Governor Budd is a careful, prudent man and that when he considers this matter thoroughly he will recede from the position he has taken in re- gard to this lease. Unless they do recede from the position they have taken it will be impos- sible to build the road as contemplated. While Director Alvinza Hayward, who was present, d@clined to be interviewed upon the subject he plainly showed that he indorses the sentiments expressed by Mr. Cross. There was no uncertainty in the tone of Director Thomas Magee in discussing the matter of leasing China Basin. His opin- ion was as follows: So far there isnot one thing to show that the promoters of the Valley railroad are acting in other than good faith and there is no reason | for any one t intimate, directly or indirectly, that we are likely to act in bad faith, as has been done by sticking in the objectionable amendments in the lease. So far the promoters have shown that they have the interests of the people at heart quite as much as those who now come in and try to put strings aroundthe project. 1f we wisbed to act in bad faith all the strings the authorities can put on will not stop us. “What will be the result is the lease is not changed more to your satisfaction ?”” The result will be_that the Valley railroad will not reach San Francisco. We are bound to put the road through, and if we cannot get a terminal in San Francisco without being tied up in the manner proposed in the lease, we will secure a terminal somewhere else. If it is the wish of any one in authority to prevent the Valley road from coming into this city let them insist upon the clauses and amendments in the lease that we have objected to. THE COMMISSION’S SIDE. Mr. Colnon Is Simply Waliting for the Valley Road Directors to Move. Harbor Commissioner Colnon stated that the Harbor Commissioners are waiting for the next move of the Valley railroad people. We do not have the slightest idea what they Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov't Report RoYal poking ABSOLUTELY, PURE . - will do next. They wanted the China Basin for terminal purposes, and we are willing to do all in our power under the law to help them out. They have refused to accept the contract under which the China Basin was to be leased to them, and their refusal leaves us nothing to do in the matter. “Are you of the opinion that the Valley road people do not want to secure posses- sion of this place for a, terminal of their railroad 2’ Such a suggestion was made yesterday at the meeting at which Governor Budd was present. ok “I'do not wish to express an opinion on this matter. Let the public be the judge.” “From your point of observation have you any idea that the project of navmg a terminal in this City will be abandoned?” was asked. “I am not prepared to discuss what may ba done by what has been done. We are waiting to see what the Valley road people will do or propose next. ~Until they make some move we can do nothing.”’ Commissioner Cole was present, and seemed to indorse the remarks of Mr. Colnon. DIRECTORS IN THE VALLEY. Happenings of a Day at the Valley | Road Headquarters— Tles Wanted. Directors John D. Spreckels, Robert Watt, Charles Holbrook, A. H. Payson, Leon Sloss and Thomas Magee and Chief En- gineer Storey of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company k=it last evening for a tour of personal inspec- tion of the San Joaquin Valley between Fresno and Visalia. Citizens’ committees who had offered to come to San Francisco and lay various propositions before the board will meet with the directors at different places vis- ited. Some conferences of much public interest are therefore expected while the Valley rcad managers remain in the en- terprising towns that are soon to have a comipeting railway. With a few exceptions of subscriptions that came in lately to the secretary, the first call of 10 per cent on the Valley road stock was paid up yesterday. The sub- scription-books are coming in rapidly from all sources, and in a few days it will be possible to publish the exact amount of money subseribed. Sealed proposals will be receivedat the office of the company up to 2 . ™. on Mon- day, May 20, for the supply of 300,000 red- wood or Port Orford cedar ties, or any part thereof. Specifications, terms of payment and other information can be had on ap- plication at the office of the company, 821 Market street. The right is reserved to re- ject any or all bids or to accept bids in part, as may be found desirable. Payment for each lot of ties shall be made within sixty days from the last day of the month during which same are re- ceived by the roadmaster or tie-inspector. Second-class ties will be paid for at a_ rate of 16 per cent less than first-class, third- class ties 36 per cent less than first-class, and culls, if taken, 60 per cent less than first-class. S LNING PICTURES Society People Will Pose In the Name of Sweet Charity. Fashlonable Entertainment to Be Given in the Maple Room of the Palace. For two weeks past society has been whispering vo itself all sorts of pleasin, things about living pictures being di played in charity’s name, but the matter only assumed definite shape at a meeting held at the Century Club yesterday after- noon. Some eight or ten pronounced society leaders were present, among whom were the Misses Withrow, Mrs. Francis Edgerton, Mrs. Margaret Touchard, Miss Marjorie Gibbon, the Misses Castle and Miss Moody. The ladies determined to give a series of tableaux for the benefit of the Girls’ Exchbange, an enterprise just in its infancy and fashioned after the Woman's Ex- change. The Girls’ Exchange, however, will in no way conflict with the last named institution. The object of the exchange is to afford poor girls and girls who by misfortune or otherwise are in reduced circumstances an opportunity of disposing of any article of fancy work or any other kind made by themselves. The system to be adoptea is fair and just to all, eliminating all 1dea of favoritism as each article is numbered and the name of the maker is known only to the management. The exchange is really an auxiliary of the Califorula%lub. and will be domiciled, for the present at least, in one of the rooms occupied by the club at 131 Post street. The entertainment will be given in the Maple room of the Palace, May 16, and will be managed by Miss Withrow, assisted by Mrs. Frances Edgerton. Twenty-two young ladies have promised to take part in the affair, and it will unquestionably be one of the social events of the season. Twelve tableaux will be presented, as fol- lows: “Spring,” “Summer,”’ ‘“Autumn,” *“Winter,” *“The Months,” “The Winds,” “The Muses.” “The Fates,’ ‘Past,”’ “Present,” “Future,” +‘Pleiades,’ “The Graces,” and “California.” 1In each of the first four there will be 8 young ladies, in the “Months” 12, the “Winds” 5, the “Muses” 9, the “‘Graces” and “Fates” 3 each, “Pleiades’’ 7, and in “California” 22 young society buds will be seen. The costumes will all be white and white background, the colors showing only in the lights. Music will precede each tableau and it is the determination of the management to have each selection suit the tableau. This part of the entertainment will be under the direction of Miss Marie Withrow, assisted by the following young ladies: Miss Ad- ler, Mrs. Allerdyce, Miss rd, Miss Whittemore, Miss White, Miss Doyen, Miss Cresse, Miss Lange, Miss Byler. The young ladies who will assist in the tableau are: Miss Morgan, Miss Goodwin, Miss Champlin, Miss Gonzales, Miss May Hooper, Miss Blanche Baldwin, Miss Sarah Bancroft, Miss Mamie McMullen, Miss Anna Shepherd, Miss May Sharon, Miss Elsie Marsh, Miss Marie Zane, Miss Blanche Castle, the Misses Gibbons, Miss Helen Stubbs, Miss Bessie Bedell, Miss Lottie Wood. il e NV Fair's Lots at North Beach. There is & chance now that the work of fill- ing in the Fair lots at North Beach will be con- tinued. Yesterday the special administrators withdrew their opposition to the payment to Contractors Warren & Malley of some $9000 for work done and the money was paid. Itis expected that the work will now go forward. The matter of repairing the Lick House, in accordance with the petftlon of_the special ad- ministrators, was yesterday ordered by Judge Slack continued until Mongly next. ————————— Little Left to the Husband. Ella V. McCloskey bas applied for letters of administration over the estate of her cousin, Mrs. Mary F. Collins, whose estate at the time of her death on May 5 was worth about $5245 20. Ina will dated the 5th of the pre- vious month all but $100 is left to the peti- tionerand her sister “for kindness, affection and attention to me all my life.” To her hus- band Mrs, Collins lellfifl) and & note for $100 borrowed by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin of Santa Cruz. Miners Bound North. The schooner Golden Gate is fitting outat Folsom-street wharf for & hunting and gold prospecting trip on_the coast of Alaska. She will be manned by J. J. Richardson, an experi- enced hunter and miner, and fifteen other ad- venturous young men. ——————— THERE is an article on this market seldom equaled and never exceiled—Jesse Moore Whis- ky. Moore, Hunt & Co. guarantee its purity, * FRUIT BY RAIL IN 'S5 Ventilated Car Service From Sacramento to Chicago. THE TIME AND THE RATE The Santa Fe’s Package Sys- tem—A New Method With Much Merit. MONEY SAVED TO THE GROWER. Light and Durable Packages to Re- place Heavy Boxes—Rates of Refrigeration. The supremacy which California has held for many years in the fruit markets of the East cannot be maintained without special effort. It will not do fo rely alone on the ewperior excellence of orchard products. The transportation companies and the growers have a common cause at stake in holding this market, and each class should make concessions to render the business profitable. The larger devel- opment of California in wealth and popu- lation is so closely connected with the fruit industry that the entire common- wealth has a deep interest in the subject. The growing of berries, vegetables and “‘garden truck,” so to speak, is engaging the attention of many farmers in the South and Southwest. The business has become so profitable by reason of cheap transpor- tation and rapid service between the farms south’of the Ohio Riverand the great cities of the lakes and seaboard that the growers are preparing to cultivate orchards and enter the fruit-shipping business in com- petition with Californi Our growers must meet this competition, and it is clearly the duty and the interests of the transportation companies to do all that can be done to enable them to meet it suc- cessfully. It may be necessary to spend some money in experiments, to test new inven- tions and study improved methods of packing, ventilation and refrigeration. Above and beyond everything else rates should be reduced and speed increased. The fruit-growers of this State in the convention ield at Sacramento last No- vember, went over the ground thoroughly. In the address of the committee of that convention to the officers of the Southern Pacific Railroad reasons were presented justifying a request for concessions. Itis true that the Southern Pacific has con- ceded something; but does the concession equal the emergency? The growers sub- mitted their views in this language: “As far back as 1887, when a reduction in transportation rates was asked for, the fruit-growers were informed that the rate then grevailing was the lowest possible rate that could be established for the vol- ume of business then handled, and that no reduction of rates could be hoped for until the volume of business had largely increased; in other words, that the only way for the grower to obtain lower rates was to increase his tonnage. Since then the green-fruit shipments have in- creased from 35,573,000 pounds to 161,300,- 000 pounds, an increase of nearly five- fold, and yet there has been no reduction of rates. This, in the face of the acknowl- edgment on the part of your officials that itisa principle in railroading to reduce rates until a certain minimum is reached in proportion as there is an increase in | the volume of business.” The growers acknowled%fd their appre- ciation of the assurance that a five-day ventilated car service between Sacramento and Chicago would be established for the season of 1895, but pointed out the fact that there were certain districts in Cali- fornia, such as the 8an Joaquin Valley, which cannot profitably use ventilate cars at any price, for the reason that their fruits must necessarily pass through this great valley at the most heated period, thus seriously affecting the contents of the | ventilated cars before they leave the State. The growers therefore feel justified in first asking for a reduction in refrigerator charges, and in the second place request- ing a reduced rate on ventilated cars with ei ,in.-day service from Sacramento to Chicago. The transportation companies were not asked to carry fresh fruit at cost, yet the growers contended that if the rail- road companies could afford to carry 36,000,000 pounds of fruit in 1886 on the basis of a $125 rate it certainly can afford to carry 160,000,000 pounds at a reasonably lower rate. In summing up the growers ask: Five- day ventilated car service; a reduction on refrigerator charges of at Teast $50 per car; a $1 rate to Chicago on ventilated cars for eight-day service; that carload lots for Eastern shipment be hauled to points on the main line on a basis of through rates instead of local rates; that ten tons be made the minimum amount of cherries to be loaded in refrigerator cars, and, finally, that mixed cars of dried and canned fruit and nuts be accepted, each variety paying onerate instead of the highest rated article establishing the rate for the entire car. It is gratifying to note that something will be conceded to the growers, but the main concession does not come from the Southern Pacific, but from companies owning or controlling the refrigerators. These companies are: The Armour line, known as, the Fruit-growers’ Express; the California Fruit Transportation Company ; the Goodell Refrigerator, controlled by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad; the California Fruit Express, using Armour cars, and the Santa Ie Fruit and Refriger- ator line. The refrigerator charges will be settled in a few days, and very likely on vhe basis of $90 from California to Chicago. The Southern Pacific Cuml’nny stands out alone in discouraging, as far as possi- ble, the use of refrigerators. The cost of hauling heavy cars and large quantities of ice over the mountains is the reason given for the opposition. The mlnsgers of the corporation have decided to go back to first experiments in fruit shipments from Cali- fornia East, and run ventilated cars from Sacramento to Chicago on a schedule of 120 hours, charging s% 25 per 100 pounds, With ‘this purpose in view 700 standard ventilated cars have been ordered. It is contended that the fruit business was egs. tablished in cars of thisvattern. Thecarg weighing each 25,000 pounds, carried 24,00 pounds of fruit. Now the heavy refrig_ erator-car with ice weighs 54,000 pounds, and the quantity of fruiv carried in the car does not exceed 24,000 pounds. : The schedule of 120 hours to Chicago will apply as the $125 rate to ventilated cars only, the company suppl¥ing the cars, The refrigerators as a rule will run on reg- ular freight trains and only on passenger trains when passenger rates are vaid. In handling refrigerators speed is not consid- ered necessary. In ventilated cars the fruit must beriepm moving. 1f the car is kept in constant motion with the ventila- tors open the fruit will reach its destina- tion in good condition and stand up better on the sidewalk than fruit _chilled by re- frigeration. That is the view of the case resented in the freight department of the uthern Pacific. ipw rate, the officers of the company assert that it cannot be made lower than $1 25 on a service of 120 hours. The raisin rate of $1 is pronounced to be ‘“‘bedrock.” Any further reduction would be below the actual cost of hauling the raisins to market. . The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe is more progressive than its neighbor, the Southern Pacific. It is not inclined to re- cede to the old style of transportation in ventilated cars until new methods are tested. - In a progressive manner a study is made of new inventions. The managers have adopted a new plan of shilpping in bulk, the cars being supplied by the Santa Fe Bulk Fruit Express Compan; and operated by the Santa Fe Fruit an Refrigerator line. The interior of the car presents to the view tiers of fruit-trays. Each end of the car up to the doorway is filled with these trays and fastened securel in the center of the car with a bulkhead. In the trays fruit packages are placed. The trays are made of slats so as to give proper ventilation. They are 12 inches wide, 6 inches deep and as long as the car is wide. They rest at the ends on tracks 9 inches apart, giving 234 inches space be- tween the tops of the packages in one tray and the bottom of the tray above. The trays ’| are folded flat and compact, leaving the car available for a load of merchandise on the return trip. 2 The company is incliped to believe that the problem of safe and economical trans- portation of deciduous fruit for long dis- tances has been solved. The packages are durable and light. There is ample space for the air to circulate. The expense of making and hauling heavy boxes is saved. According to the gresent style of boxing, the lower tier of boxes must be heavy to sustain the weight. By the package s);)s- tem the pressure of weight is sustained by the car and bulkhead. Each tray will carry, for example, eighteen cherry pack- ages, each package containing eight pounds of cherries, and as the car has an equip- ment of 162 trays, it will contain, when loaded to its full capacity, 2916 packages, or actually 23,328 pounds of cherries. The package empty, including cover, weighs half a pound. In a car of cherries shipped East the shipper will pay freight on only 1458 pounds of packing materlal. As a matter of comparison it is noted that in the old style of shipping cherries an av- erage carload consists of 2000 boxes of cherries, each box containing ten pounds, or a total of 20,000 pounds of fruit in a car. The boxes weigh two pounds each, or 4000 pounds to the car. The shipper by the new method has 3328 pounds more ot fruit to sell in the East and saves the freight on 2552 pounds of E&%king material. The cost of supplying boxes of the old style—a car’s com- lement—is $90. The packages necessary or a car of the new style cost $43 75. Here is a saving of $47 25 added to the gain of having 3328 pounds more of fruit to sell. The company claims the same advantage in packages for shipping pears, peaches and apricots. = So well was the Santa Fe management pleased by experimentsin shipping oranges in such packages that it has resolved to extend the operations to shipping cherries, peaches, pears and apricots. The pack- ages are x;fm, it is true, but they have all the strength required in the handling at the point of destination, Leading orch- ardists of California who are always on the alert for new inventions speak highly of the car. The Santa Fe has given an order for sixty more cars, believing that Cali- fornia shippers are ready to abandon old and expensive methods. There is a charge to the shipper of $20 for the use of one of these cars to Chicago. - It is a question whether the Southern Pacific will haul these cars from points on their line to the Santa Fe connecting point. At the freizht department the impression exists that the cars will not be accepted. A point is made that California fruit” should not go to the Eastern market in any other than a compactly boxed manner. "Again, the manufacture of fruit boxes is regarded as an important industry in this State, which givesemployment to many men and provides a deal of transportation in lum- er. The Southern Pacific is manifesting a disposition to make concessions in regard to local’'charges from points off the main line to the common point of shipment. This concession is granted by crentmg ad- ditional points of common shipment, from which a through rate is given to Chicago. The magnitude of the fruit industry in California can be comprehended when one reflects that 5000 carloads of green fruit were shipsed from California to Eastern markets during the year 1894, Of this quantity Chicago and New York took 2500 cars. Itis estimated that 40,000 tons of green fruits were so marketed. In the same year about 2000 carloads of green fruit in cars were shipped. To market the output of raisins and dried fruit 10,000 cars were required in 1894. In shipping deciduous fruit the cost of refrigeration 1s a large item. Forexam- ple, ice at Sacramento costs $5 a ton, and when it is packed in the car the figure of expense is not less than $6 50 per ton. The supply must be renewed at least four times between Sacramento and Chicago, but the cost of ice grows less as the cars travel East. The great advantage of re- frigerators comes at the point of distribu- tion. For instance, a car_consigned from Sacramento to Denver arrives at the latter point at a time when the market is over- stocked. ,The agent can make this fact known and have the car replenished with ice and zirected to Kansas City, Omaha or St. Louis as the condition of the market may invite. The Southern Pacific, and the Santa Fe for that matter, may take the ground that they have nothing to do with the cost or methods of refrigeration, but the fruit- rowers of California may be pleased to inow that the Interstate Commerce Com- mission takes a different view of the ques- tion. In the case of the Truck Farmers’ Association of Charleston and vicinity vs. the railroads (many companies bein, enumerated), it was held by a decision file: April6,1895: ““When carriers undertake the transportation of perishable traffic, ice and the facilities for its transportation in con- nection with that traffic are incidental to the service of transportation and the charge therefor is a charge ‘in connection with” such service within the meaning of section 1 of the act.to regulate commerce in respect to the reasonableness of which the carrier is subject to that provision of the statute.”” APRIL BILLS AUDITED. Some Contractors Who Furnish Sup- plies Receive Their Money. Auditor Broderick allowed the April bills of the contractors supplying the City and County hospitals and institutions with provisions and material yesterday, and there was a grand rush on the Treasurer’s office for coin. Only a few of those to arrive first were paid, as the money on hand soon ran out. There were only a few thousand dollars paid, though billsamount- ing to over $20,000 were audited. éhere will be money on hand in a few days, however, and the warrants of those who were unfortunate in yesterday’s skir- mish will be paid. It will be remembered that Mr. Broderick bad refused to audit the April accounts of the contractors be- cause of the stand they had taken in re- fusing to furnish the City with supplies during May and June unless provision was made for the immediate payment of the same. SCHOOL FUNDS EXHAUSTED. Only a Temporary Difficulty, as There Will Be Money in ~ June. Those who have warrants against the school fund were disappointed yesterday when they presented them for payment at the Treasurer’s office and were told that the fund had been exhausted. The deple- tion of the fund, however, is only tem- , as there will be cash on hand next month to ‘pny salaries, though a deficit is expected in the appropriation for the fiscal ‘ear. “Funds will be forthcoming_ from the State scfiool tax in June,” said Treasurer ‘Widbern yesterday, ‘‘which will enable us to meet demands. This trouble is only temporary. The different county Treas- urers of the State mudt first make their returns to the State Controller, and then we will go up to Sacramento and get our money.” / ——————————— THEY manipulate paper into every conceiv- able shape; print or bind it. Mysell & Rollins, 521 Clay street. & PREPARING FOR THE FRAY Opponents in the Board of Health Scramble Hunt- ing Evidence. LEVINGSTON MAKES ANSWER. He Denles Friendship With the Bosses and Repels the Charges Against Him. “I want to be made Health Officer as a matter of vindication,” explained Dr. Marc Leyingston in talking of the Board of Health scramble yesterday. ‘I have only asked for one thing else. That is the Quarantine Office for Dr. Mizner. “I have not requested any other pat- ronage and I don’t expect it. I do hope to get the position of Health Officer, though. Not because I am a friend of Mr. Budd or for any personal favors I have done him, but because Iam a Democrat and because I worked hard to assist in Mr. Budd’s election. *“You will admit that a change will be made in the Health Office. I think that as & Democrat I have a right to apply for-the place. I ieel thoroughly qualified for it as I haye studied the subject of sanitary science and have a number of changes in mind which would, if I were allowed to put them into practice, greatly lessen both the expense of the City Government and the death rate. b Levingston has in course of prepara- tion an exhaustive answer to the charges made against him by the Civic Federation and individual politicians. He asserts that their efforts are made entirely through desire to make political capital or to gratify spite. He quotes his report to show that during his term of office, $61,913 26 was turned over as tne property of the dead. This, he asserts, is a sum larger by over $30,000 than any other Coroner can show for the same time. Bv this, he says it is made evident that the charges of robbing the dead are untrue. 5 The stories of orgies at the Morgue and disgusting maltreatment of bodies were, he says, told to relatives of the dead by un- dertakers who had been disappointed when the burial of bodies was placed in other hands than their own. These stories, he says, were never shown even by their origi- nators to bear any foundation in fact. At the time he was Coroner Dr. Leving- ston says the County Hospital was furnish- ing more cadayers than the medical col- leges needed. This, he urges, would have rendered it impossible for him to have trafficked in corpses even had he desired to put them on the market. Finally, he alleges that he is not and never was & Buckley man. In thisrespect, his story of the first nominating conven- tion in which his name came up for Coroner is interesting. It was in 1881. There were two rival Demo- cratic factions. One, called the Manhattan Club, was dominated by McMann. This wanted me nominated. The other, the Yosemite Club, was under Buckley’s management and wanted & Mr. McAllister nominated. MecAllister re- ceived the nomination, but was badly beaten, In 1882 the Union Hall convention was held. I had five districts sure. I also had some strength in others and Buckley, whose prestige has grown largely from the fact that he has good judgment and allies himself with the winning side, threw his district, the Tenth, for me. I was elected, but did not owe my position to him. This election was the instrument that brought Mr. Buckley his boss=hip. Everything went overwhelmingly Democratie, and there were places for nearly all the professional poli- ticians. Most of these owed their positions to ?uv{k ¥, and afterward rewarded him by their enlty. Even if nothing else would indicate it my action three years ago would show that I was not with the bosses. It was then the fight for purity was made. The records will show that out in the Forty-third District I consistently opposed Sam Newman, J.J. Flynn, Matt Fallon, Ed Cassidy, Dave Magner and other of Buck- ley’s adherents. 2 Speaking of the political bosses of to-day, Dr. Levingston was equally emphatic. He declared that he had no affiliations with them. He said: 2 I4have not talked with Maurice Schmidt more than ten minutes in all my life. I don't think I have spoken to Sam Rainey more than two or three times. Mr. Buckley came to me uite recently to have me operate on his nose. %ne visits were entirely, professional, how- ever. Judge Walter Levy 1 know quite well. He congratulated me a short time ago upon m: good fortune in having the Examiner attacl me editorially. That isall. I have nevertalked with him about the Board of Health matter. As for slated positions I know nothing. I do not know Senators Percy Henderson and Billy Dunn, Assemblyman McCarthy, Ed Reddy or Peter McGlade.” The only person said to have been assured of a place by me, whom I know, is Dr. 8. S. Kahn, and I ao not like him much personally. Dr. Levingston declares that no charges against him can be substantiated. ie says that the Grand Jury, which inves- tigated the office during his incumbency, praised the management. He is going to ask. that the Governor leave judg- ment on his case to the editors of the Carr and Examiner, and any two Demo- crats whom they may choose. He says he is willing to have tbem_ljlud e the testi- mony of witnesses, and will abide by any report they may make to the Governor. MRS, STEVENSON ABRIES The Widow of the Novelist hair is a dark iron gray and the tropic suns have darkened her complexion. A CHINESE DAMAGE SUIT. Lee Fee Kee Wants $50,000 From the Market-Street Railway Com- pany. ; A Chinese merchant has brought a big damage suit against the Market-street Railway Company, and hisattorney is fully confident of winning the case. The plain- tiff asserts that his wife was killed by one of the company’s cars, and he places her value at $50,000. He also asks judgment for $900 doctor’s fees and $250 funeral ex- penses, The plaintiff is Lee Fee Kee a merchant of Winnemucca. On the 19th of June, 1894, his wife, Chin Choy Fong, took a car at the corner of Dupont and Cfsy streets to ride out to the Park. Turning into Lake street she was, according to the complaint, th'rown'v_m]gm]y into the street and re- ceived injuries from which she died five months later. The blame is placed upon the gripman and conductor who are charged with gross negligence. It will probably be three or four months before the case comes to trial. —_—e A DESPERATE SUICIDE. R. W. Janney of Paso Robles Kills Him= self at Apia, Samoa. The news of the suicide of R. W. Janney of Pasa Robles, son of the Janneys, wealthy and influential people of Santa Clara County, was brought from Samoa by the Mariposa. The young man, who was 24 years of age when lie died, went to Apia over two years ago for his health, being a sufferer from a severe attack of brain fever. His mind seemed to be affected, but his erratic actions were not considered so serious ag to necessitate placing the young man under restraint. He married a Samoan lady named Miss Nellie Pita in1893 and soon_after he be- came so violent as to require watching. He fancied that a conspiracy was being formed against him and that some Mor- mons were seeking his life. On April 10 he obtained possession of a repeating rifle and locking e IE iri i xora Filowe his brains out with the weapon. The remains 3’ere buried in the Apia cemetery the same ay. .. The Verein Election. The San Francisco Verein met last evening for the purpose of electing officers. The result of the ballot_showed the following gentlemen, who will serve for the ensuing term: President, M. Ehrman; vice-presidents, A. Mack and S, W. Saalburg; treasurer, Bert R. Hechit; records ing secretary, Simon Scheeiine; financial s retary, William Gerstle; librarian, A. W. Has Come Up From Her Island Home. Lloyd Osbourne Will Send the Author’s Private Papers to the Biographers. The widow of Robert Louis Stevenson, -and her son and daughter, came up from their island home on the Mariposa, and will remain in this city four or five months. Their coming was due solely to the fact that Mrs. Stevenson and her son, Lloyd Osbourne, need a change for their health. The three, Mrs. L. Stevenson, her daughter, Mrs. Isabel Strong, and her son, Lloyd Osbourne, are stopping at the Occidental. “I did not come to San Francisco,” said Mrs. Stevenson, yesterday, *‘with the in- tention of making my home here. We expect to remain four or five months, and shall then réturn to Samoa.” Lloyd Osbourne, in speaking of the nn- published works of Steyenson, said: All that is in the hands of Mr, Charles Baxter. We have brought up with us, however, all the Erivav.e papers and Jetters which were left by hg:vlf:‘;m;e—cxex?:eodnl all l?ese but also all letters Tom interestin; le &l over the world. These are to b'e m%n‘e)s?ver to G. Balfour, his cousin, 0 i to look them over. Then he will send in all he thinksshould §o.0r would be of use to Sidney Colvin, the ceper of the Prints of the British Museum, Who is to write Stevenson’s biography. Colvin, you know, is one of nis oldest friends, and it Wwas gettled between them some seven years ago that he was to do this work. Colvin has adver- tised for letters received from Stevenson and I have heard that they are coming in very well. That is natural, for there are not many of the People whom he would write to who would not take an interest in helping the work on. Our plans as to our future movementsare vague. We expect to return to Samoa in four or five monthn%ut ‘whether we shall stay there or not I cannot say. Mrs, Stevenson and her children are old residents of California and will find many friends to welcome them back. Sheisa striking and attractive looking woman and would attract attention anywhere. Her Science and medicine succeed only when they help nature. They must work with her. If they do not they fail. When the hair falls out, or gets gray, it isbecause the laws of nature have been transgressed in some way. The glands which supply nutri- ment and coloring matter to the hair have become diseased or haye been dried up. If they can be revitalized the hair will grow in again and it will return to its natural color. Only one person in the whole world knows how this can be done. This person is Madame M. Yale, and she has used her knowledge in the preparation—for men and Yale’s Hair Tonic . Itisthe most wonderfully efficacious med- icine for the hair that was evercompounded. It is not a dye. It does not color the hair, It simply restores perfect hair-health, and nature does the rest. Under its influence the hair becomes soft, silky and glossy; the growth is increased: dandruff disappears and the rich natural color comes back. Price $1. Also Yale's Skin Yale's Complexion Cream, $1; Powder, 50c; Yale's Beauty Soap, ME. YALE, Health and Compiexion Specialist, Temple of Beauty, 146 State street, Chicago. 'Guide to Beauty mailed free. The FALSE GODS Are not all dead yet. Eastern made Shoes, whose equals and betters are made right here, are among the false gods adored by most retailers of 8. F. To fig}it such idolatry we re- tail our shoes (to city customers only) right here at the factory at factory prices—the retailers’ cost. While the merry war lasts, gather the spoils ;—while the crops are ripe, garner the grain. Come now ! ROSENTHAL, FEDER & CO., ‘WHOLESALE MAKERS OF SHOES, 581-583 MARKET ST. NEAR SECOND. Open till 8 P. 1. Saturday Nights till "