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14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1895 CONVENTION FACILITIES OF SN FRANCISCO. Ample Accommodations for a Vast Throng of Visitors. NO SWELTERING NIGHTS. Railroads Can Transport All the Delegates and Spec-~ tators on Time. SERVICE SUFFICIENT. WIRE The Journey Across the Mountalns Will Instruct and Delight the Delegates. The facilities possessed by San Francisco for taking care of vast throngs of people are notldoubted by any one who surveys the field of accommodation. In the line of botel convenience only two cities in ed States surpass San Francisco, se two are New York and Chicago. The quality of accommodations afforded is just as good in San Francisco as can be found anywhere else. New York has more hotels, ana can therefore shelter a larger number of persons than the hostelries of this City can accommodate, but the ac- commodations are not superior to those provided here. When it comes to providing meals for a mnultitnde, San Francisco is not behind any Eastern city. The restaurant facili- ties of this town are unsurpassed. The quality of food served is first class, the service prompt and excellent, and prices are so moderate that New York and Chi- cago people wonder at the cheapness. The favor which the candidacy of San Francisco has already enlisted bas caused some of the newspapers of the East to ex- press a doubt as to the ability of the City to care for the multitude. The point is raised that hotel accommodations are in- eufficient, and it is further asserted that transportation facilities inadequate and telegraph communication is uncer- tain. persons who ar t enlightened, because the facts warrant the assertion that all the facilities required are available. Nome of the objections pointed out really exist. No one is better qualified to judge of the botel conveniences of San Francisco than George B. Warren, assistant manager of the Pal. He has lived here for twent; six years and knows the capacity of local caravansaries for affording shelter to travelers. Replying to questions on be- half of the CaLL he said yesterday that the principal hotels of San Francisco could easily entertain all the people that a Na- tional convention would bring to the City. “Apart from New York and Chicago,” said Mr. Warren, “San Francisco is one of the best equipped cities in the world for taking care of visitors. The hotels are es- pecially adapted for the uses of convention delegates. There is a concentration of leading houses that must prove highly con- venient. The accommodations offered are fully up to the modern standard. As for supplying people with food in restaurants neither Chicazo nor New York 18 ahead ot this City. If it became necessary San Francisco could easily shelter in leading hotels and boarding-houses 8000 people over and above the ordinary volume of local requirement. Aside from thisan im- mense number of people could be pro- vided for in rooms outside of the hotels. The capacity of the restaurants is so great that no guestion could arise in this regard. The accommodations of the leading ho- tels are first class and not excelled any- where.” Major W. B. Hooper, lessee and man- ager of the Occidental Hotel, expressed views similar to those entertained by Mr. Warren. s “There is no question,” said Major Hooper, “of 8an Francisco’s ability to take care of all the people who would come here to attend the convention, and as for rates, I am satisfied that an agreement could be reached to make them moderate. “In hotel accommodations the City is exceptionally well equipped. We have, sside from the leading hotels, a great num- ber of very large and well-conducted boarding-honses close to the center of busi- ness activity. Californians have been dominated so long by the independence of servants that thousands of families have abandoned housekeeping to board, and as a result elegant lodging-houses, with all modern conveniences of comfort and many luxurious accessories, have been con- structed. “If we should organize as we did when making preparations to receive the Grand Army of the Republic, accommodations for 12,000 visitors coula be readily ob- tained. and this would by no means repre- sent the capacity of the City to entertain strangers. The equipment of our leading hotels is first class and second to none in the country. The Eastern idea that our hotel facilities are meager is absurd, “CAPTAIN MARRYAT” CIGARS Under this brand are the “FINEST BEYOND QUESTION,” Notwithstanding the advertise~ " ments of rival factories. HARBURGER, HOMAN & CO., New York, Makers. H. LEVI & CO., 117-119 Market St,, Distributing Ageats. The objections surely emanate from | Cincinnati and St. Louis. The delegates | to the convention will have no trouble in | getting first-class accommodations in San Francisco, and I am sure that the Hotel Association, of which Mr. Thorn is presi- dent, would agree to make a very reason- able rate for convention guests.” When J. A. Fillmore, general superin- tendent of the Southern Pacific, was told that the Eastern papers were ving that the railroad facilities between the Missouri 2iver and the Pacific Ocean were inade- quate and could not accommodate the travel incident to a National Convention in S8an Francisco, he replied without hesi- tation that the Southern Pacific had all the facilities required. ‘‘We can take care of all the passengers they bring to us,” said Mr. Fillmore. “If 10,000 passengers from the East should come to you within a week, could you transport them to San Francisco?” “Wecould haul all of the cars coming to us and the equipment could remain here to be used in sending the travelers home. The transportation facilities for holding a | National convention in San Francisco are fully adequate, Of course passengers would not ali came by the one central route. Trainsof the northern and southern lines would carry guite a number of dele- gates. In the summer time there is not the slightest danger of delay by storms in the mountains.” In regard to Associated Press work the agent in this City, Mr. Dunning, holds that all the proceedingsof the convention could be promptly and accurately reported in San Francisco. Extra stenographers and i reporters would be necessary, but there would be time to engage in advance all the | force required to perform the increased service. M. G. Jonas, Pacific Coast manager of | the United Press, is confident that the | service of collecting the news and placing the copy in the hands of operators could be performed as speedily and as accurately in San Francisco as in New York or Chi- {cago. It would be necessary to engage extra men to report convention proceed- ings, but time 1o make the engagements would of course be afforded. L. W. Storror, superintendent of the Postal Telegraph Company, was asked | what he thought of the telegraphic facili- | ties of San Trancisco and whether they | were adequate for the transmission of National convention reports. In reply he said: *‘The wires have transmitted from Chicago and Minneapolis to the San Fran- cisco dailies the most elaborate reports. | These proceedings covered many pages of | the dailies. Is it not reasonable to sup- | pose that reports of equal magnitude can be sent from this City East? Since the last convention was held the facilities of the Postal Telegraph Company have been | largely increased. | *“In my opinion,” said Mr. Storror, “the | telegraphic facilities are ample. The in- | creased rate may diminish the volume of special business, but even with the ordin- ary demand for specials, I think the two companies—the Western Union and our own—could take care of all that would come to us. This idea which seems to ex- | istin the Kast that telegraphic service to | 8an Francisco is in danger of being cut off by stormsin the mountains comes from people who know nothing of the coast. But what can you expect of the people of the East when it comes to knowledge of the country out here? Why, even the President of the United States has never | been further West than Chicago.” | F. H. Lamb, assistant manager of the Western Union, said the company could handle an immense volume of business. The danger of the communication being in- terrupted by storms in the mountains did not exist. The most elaborate Associated Press reports could be readily transmitted, and facilities could be offered for extended special reports. The difference of time (two hours to Chicago and three to New York) would require the early filing of convention proceedings. Manager Thorn of the Grand Hotel is president of the San Francisco Hotel Asso- ciation. He was asked his opinion of a recent article in the Washington Post which speaks in a slighting manner of con- vention facilities in San Francisco. Mr. Thorn saia: “We have 160 hotels and Notown | H | | lodging-houses in San Francisco. in the United States except Chicago is bet- | ter off for convention facilities than this } City. The capacity of the large hotels is | very great and the well-appointed family hotels which have been built during the past six years will accommodate a large number of guests. We have taken care of everything in the way of National assem- blies which have come to us, and taken care of the visitors in good style, “‘All the hotel men woulu sign an agree- ment not to advance rates. We signed seven years ago and three years ago. We | came very close to getting the Republican | convention once. This time we may get it. The only thing we have to contend against is distance. I hud a long talk with Steve B. Elkins a few days ago and he said that the long travel would be the chief objec- tion to San Francisco. In the coming con- test St. Louis will be our leading rival. This time Chicago is not going to the ! front. The impression is widespread that Chicago has had consideration enough.” “If we get one National Convention,"” said Manager Thorn, “we will get both. This will follow in the natural logic of politics. We will have no trouble what- ever in finding good accommodation for all who can come. I will state this now: | I will give to the San Francisco promoters of the convention enterprise apartments free for a committee on rooms. A com- i mittee can find rooms for 8000 visitors and amessenger can be sent out to show each comer the room assigned to him.’” F. 0. Stanton of the Baldwin knows the hotel business well and is familiar with the capacity of San Francisco inns, He is positive that the Jeading hotels on Market and Montgomery streets would be able to take care of nearly all the delegates and spectators of a National Convention in this City. The Palace could take 1000 guests without inconvenience, and the Baldwin 500 more. The Occidental, California, Grand, Lick and Russ could provide ac- commodations for many others. “These hotels, together with the boarding-houses of high class, could shelter 8000 visitors. Yet if 4000 should come, nearly every one would call that number a great crowd.” The article printed in the Washington Post yesterday remarks that “careful com- | mitteemen have ‘weighed the distance to | the Pacific Coast, the meager railroad i facilities, the cost of transportation for delegates and inadequate means of tele- graphic communication.” The distance to San Francisco is well known, but when one gets aboard of a Pullman or a Wagner car after having made preparations for a journey of 1000 miles, it is not a great hardship to stay aboard the train three or four days longer. As to the cost of transportation San Fran- cisco may devise some plan by which ob- jection on this score may be removed. As to railroad facilities they are ample, and as for the telegraphic sezvice the wires of ¢ from the resident quarters of the City to the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Company can transmit full reports of the convention proceedings. None of the objections urged against San Francisco, excepting perhaps the distance, should in theslightest degree influence the committee, and there is a strong sentiment all over the country that time spent in crossing the continent and viewing the magnitude of the United States west of the Missouri River would not be wasted. i San Francisco possesses many delightful advantages for a convention. The tem- perature of summer weather is agreeable. The atmosphere is tempered with breezes from the ocean, which impart vigor and animafion to the fourist. There will be no sweltering hot days and oppressive nights | to endure. The interior conveniences of travel in San Francisco are excellent. Cable and electric cars carry passengers speedily the center of business. Last, but not least, San Francisco is one of the great cities of the world and should be visited by every American who can get the time and money to travel. GEORGE H. ROE'S ESTATE. It Is Appraised at Over Two Hundred Thousand Dollars. The estate of George H. Roe, who up to the time of his death was manager of the Edison Electric Light and Power Com- pany, has been appraised at a total of $216,522 11. The inventory shows that most of Roe’s estate was included in elec- tric-light stock. He had shares in most every company of any size in the vicinity | of the City. | Among the items of stock are: | Seventy-five shures of San Jose Light and Power Company, appraised at §3000; 20,900 | { was a great success. | redwoods. | spread out over MEMORY GF BUNKER ILL Successful Celebration of the Anniversary at Glen- wood Park. ! THREE THOUSAND PARTICIPATE Patrlotic Speeches, Telegrams and the Decoration of a Mimic Monument. The celebration yesterday at Glenwood Park, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, in honor of the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, | The Bunker Hill As- sociation of this City and the Ancient | Order of Foresters joined in the celebra- tion, and their united efforts brought 3000 people to the pretty little valley among the Two special trains left the foot of Market street yesterday morning at and 8:45 o'clock, respectively. Each carried twelye cars and both were crowded to the doors. A third train transported the contingents from San Jose and surrounding towns. The trains from this city moved slowly and the noon hour had arrived before Glenwood was reached. Then the crowd the pretty pleasure grounds, good things were produced from DR. O. O. [From a photograph.] BROWN. shares of Electric Engineering Company. praised at £25,000; 86 shares of Edison Lig] and Power Company. appraised at $8424; 1 share of California Electric Light and Power Company. appraised at $25; 1734 shares of Edison Light and Power Company, aporaised at $1721; 10 bonds of Edison Light and Power Company, appraised at $11,050. There are also 100 shares of Sperry Elec- | tric Light and Power Company, which are appraised as being of no value. The estate also includes $6366 77 in cash and real es- tate valued at $72,833. DENIES THE ALLEGATION, Juror Rfilofson Declares Mrs. John Martin’s Charges to Be False. Wants Criminal Proceedings Elther Agalnst the Lady or Against the Jury. | Alfred C. Rulofson, foreman of the jury in the recent Martin will contest, yester- day made the following statement regard- ing charges published in the daily press on the authority of Mrs. John Martin, through her attorney, J. C. Bates: It is stated that Mr. Patrick Cody refused to actas foreman of the jury. That {s false. He was nominated and elecied foreman. On the first ballot ten jurors pronounced the will a forgery. They wrote out the verdictand de- mandad that the foreman sign it. This he re- fused to do, as he did not concur init,and a deadlock ensued. He was then asked to re- sign as foreman, which he did. I was elected foreman in his place and ordered another bal- lot. The result was the same as at first, and I immediately signed the verdict and brought it into court. 1t is charged by Mrs, John Martin, through her attorney, J. C. Bates, that money was used with the ten jurors, and all are accused of hay- |- ing accepted bribes. This is false in every par- ticular, so far as I know and believe. It is particularly charged that Arthur Rodgers called at my house on the evening of the last day of the trial, and then and there bribed me with a large amount of gold coin; also that I made a statement to that effect to Mr. Bates. The charge and statement are unqualifiedly false. 1 never exchanged & word with Mr, Rodgers in my life till to-day. 'I then called on him to deny that I ever made any statement to the effect that he or any one else connected with the case had called on me or attempted to influence me in any manner. The first knowledge I had of anything of the kind was when I received a lctter from Mr. | Bates as follows: LAw OF¥IcE OF J. C. BATES, | 434 CALIFORNIA STRELT. SAN FRANCISCO, May 30, 1895. A. C. Rulofson Sr., Esg.—MY DEAR SIk: Some new developments of what took place during the trial of the Henry Martin will case are about to take place, and I'wonid like to see; you before the matter is made public. Yours respectfully, | . C. Bares. | To that letter I replied by mail that owing | to a press of business I was unable to call on | him, that the matter was of no interest to_me and that so far as I was concerned nothing had transpired which might not be given the | utmost publicity. ~To this letter Mr. Bates made 1o reply. It is also untrue that Mr. E. B. Pond has an; o1 ever had any connection or does any busi- ness with the firm of Beker & Hamilton, with | which I am associated. | 1t is also untrue that Henry Barman, one of the ten nccused jurors, IS now or ever was in the employ of Baker & Hamilton. The Jury was influenced soiely by the evi- dence ‘in “the case, and notwithstanding the fact that Grove L.Johnson had stated that in | case we brought in a verdict l.fflnst. the will the District Attorney, if he did his duty, would be obliged to proceed against Mrs. John Martin for forgery we reached our decision. This phase of the case was discussed at length in the jury room. We came to the conclusion that Mrs. John Martin had merited such pros- ecution and rendered a verdict accordingly. i§ The matter has n recently ed to the attention of the District Attorney, and we await his action with considerable interest. I wrote him to-day, stating that in any case & crime had been committed and asking him to proceed ?n(nst the guilty iun:y. whether it [3 a8 Mrs. John Martin or the en. Y A.(:..annm. | 2 o’clock. An excellent band composed of | the vocalists. a hundred baskets, and a long hour was spent in ministering to the needs of the inner man. The literary exercises began promptly at Foresters led the music and accompanied S President Badger of the Bunker Hill Association made a few re- marks, and prayer was offered by the chaplain of the day, Rev. T. J. Lacy of St. Luke’s Church, Professor E. Knowlton read a congratulatory telegram sent by the local association to the parent organiza- ;mn in Charlestown, Mass. It was as fol- ows: SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 1895. To President Lincoln, Charlestown, Mass.: Bun- ker Hill monument! Beacon-light of American freedom] Its immortal radiance spans the con- tinent! Heartiest greetings of fraternal patriot- ism from loyal descendants of the men of Bunker Hill, celebrating at_the Golden Gate, 10 their noble brethren of the old Bay State. God bless our native land. WILLIAM G. BADGER, President Bunker Hill Association of San Francisco. A reply to the dispatch was received and read as follows: i CHARLESTOWY, June 17, 1895. William G. Badger, President Bunker Hill Association, San Francisco : The Bunker Hill Monument Association, assembled at its meet- ing June 17, 1895, sends as greeting to the Bunker Hill Association of San Francisco the closing words of Webster, uttered seventy years ago to-day at the laying of the corner- stone of the monument: “Let our object be one country, one whole country and nothing butone country,and by the blessing of God may that country itseli become a vast and splendid monument not of oppression and terror but of wisdom, of peace and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admira: tion forever.” FREDERICK W. LINCOLN, President. It had been announced that Joaquin Miller would read an_original poem at the celebration. Mr. Miller was unable to be present or to prepare a poem because of sickness. Professor Knowlton therefore read an original production of his own en- titled “‘The Hills of Fame.” Rev. C. O. Brown, pastor of the First | Congregational Church, then deliverea the oration of the day. He said: A great monument is the frozen epic of a heroic past; the granite or marble pro%hecy of amajestic future, It tells not only where the hero died, but where something great began to live. The world honors no monument which bas not its prophecy as well as its history—its living testimony as truly as its dead heroes. Such is the monument which marks the memorable conflict of Bunker Hill. That monument stands there with the approval of all men, because it marks a contest for hum: ity. Bunker Hill monument is not bound merely b{ the iron railing at its base, or by the streets of some square in the worthy and his- toric city where it stands. I will give you its correct boundaries. It is boundedon the north by thenorth pole, on the east by the sunrise, on the south by Cape Horn and on the west by the day of judgment. In the guns of that conflict the hopes of man- kind were speaking. What our iathers did there became the heritage notofa colony butof a nation—not of a nation only, but of huma ity. In the agony of that brief battle our Na. tion wes horn: Then jtwas that the National spirit appeared. What Thomas Jeiferson said in the words of our great charter, that same the heroes of Bunker Hill had said in the thunder of battle, June 17, 1775. [Applause.] The public is under lasting obligation to this organization for choosing this patriotic day as the day which it wili honor. Our fathers staked on the issue of that con- flict not only their own lives and liberties, but. the priceless achievements of all the past. Mighty social and eivil revolutions, running through centuries lead up to that hour. He who has ears to hear can hear on Bunker Hili echoes of the lsrealitish revolt against Phafoab. He may hear there again the up- uprising of the gfndi-wrs against Caesar, and the thunders of Demostbenes’ eloquence againt Philip of Macedon. How many, how great, how affiuent the streams of the past which contributed to the significance of that struggle! Miltiades and his 10,000 orf the im- mortal field of -athon pressing back the Asiatic hordes made their_ contribution. Charles Martel withstanding Saracenic inva- sion handed on his achievement, without Wwhich Bunker Hill and American liberty must have waited acentury, perhaps centuries more. Then came that vast movement which broke the spell of former ecclesiastical and intel- lectual bond d_taught Europe the great Iesson tha bétore God &1l sen AieRd in abso. lute equality. Men awoke to che fact that the first word of the Lord’s prayer is big with Tevo- lution’s “Ourl” “Our Father!” “Our Father” said the noble. “Our Father” prayed the peas- ant. “Our Father” prayed both prince and peasant. Then if he is the father of both, the prince and the peasant must be brothers. Thus the 01d World on its knees was praying its way toward Bunker Hill—toward that nobler esti- mntledof man which America would give to the world. 41 Events had moved on in England, religious and civil movoments had taught her the worth and the power of Parliaments as a check to royal aggression. England had heard the voices of Pym and Hampden, speaking in the Dame of & power greater than that of nobility. She had felt the mighty spirit of Cromwell and heard the thunder of Marston Moor. Then Eugland knew that the power of the people without the throne is mightier than that of the throne without the people. [Applause.] She saw the King whom the people hated, over- thrown by the untitled Cromwell whom the people loved. Then England learned that what the people really want and agree upon they can have, in spite of Kings. [Applause.] Massachusetis looked on as Cromwell rose up. The colonies were all listening when Hampden told Parliament that *‘to resist the King is sometimes the duty of the citizen.” Massachusetts believea that too. She believed it when the Pilgrims landed. She believed it when the foundations of the commonwealth were laid. She taught it by her firesides,fin her churches, her schools and her college until that great day when the voices of her eloquent sons proclaimed it to the world. Sam Adams, while still in his teens, said the same thing in his graduating oration in the very presence of the royal Governor. Events moved rapidly on. There” were popular gatherings and popular resolutions. The cradle Liberty was working. Royal ageression was more and more insolent. Already the political atmosphere was athrob with the electricity of coming storms. Across the sea there were great men who saw and who affirmed in Parliament_the justice of the American cause. Edmund Burke pro- nounced in her behalf such an oration as Par- liament had never heard before. Charles James Fox exclaimed: “Open the port of Bos- ton or vou will drive the Americans into re- bellion{” William Pitt, with splendid elo- quence and real statesmanship, said: “Instead of exciting unconditional submission from the colonies we ought to give them unconditional redress.”” Isaac Barre, in a Parliamentary speech of great power, characterized the pa- triots as “sons of liberty’—a name at once adopted by the immortal band which met in Faneuil Hall, On this side of the sea there were great pa- triots whose eloguence thrilled the colonies James Otis, ardent, able, heroic; John Hanco who became the’ first' President of the Conti- nental Congress; John Adams, who was to be the second President of the United States; Ben- jamin Franklin, a son of Massachusetts and adopted son of Pennsylvania, whose powerful pénand voice made him one of the most con- spicuous figures of the revolutionary era. Patrick Henry of Virginia added his power- ful voice, saying: “I am no longer a Virginian, 1am an American.” But easily chief in this band of patriot leaders was that son of Massa- chusetts whom Pitt called “the greatest states- man of his age,” the man who through all that stormy period led the counsels of Faneuil Hall, shaped the colonial legislation and laid the foundations of the American Congress, the man who faced the British commander and forced him to withdraw the troops from Boston, the man under whose splendid leadership that little New England town became the hope of the world, the “parliament of man.” That great leader was Samuel Adams. [Applause.] He foresaw the conflict. He welcomed it. And now, on the eve of it, history discloses another immortal name linked with his on the Committee of Correspondence. It is that of the young, ardent and lofty Joseph Warren, whose blood, with that of others, would so soon consecrate the soil of Bunker Hill, who fell saying, “It is sweet to die for my country.” The hour had come for the birtn of a new nation and for the complete establishment of civil and religious liberty therein. The hour had come which, iu the presence of the civilized world, would test the spirit of those noble men whose defiance of tyranny in- vited the conflict. Sam Adams had said: “Qur fathers came here to escape from kings; let us get along without them. Independent we are and independent we will be!” He bad said it and Faneuil Hall had rocked with ap- plause. Would they stand to it? All the eroic achievements of the past were vocal with the great inquiry. The martyr blood of many ages—from the rich fields of Furope, of Florénce, of Coustance, of Smitnfield—cried out sny&n%: “0, heroes of the New World, stand fast!” Info that issue went all the tears of millions who had sighed for liberty and died in bondage. Into that jssue went all the martyr blood that had been shed. Into it the heroic struggles of the Reformation; into it went Runnymede and the splenid victories of Cromwell. The contests of the ages were to be fought over. It was for that little band on Bunker Hill to say whether these precious results, slow-maturing through the ages, should be handed back to feudalism. These heroic men answered the question. They answered for themselves and all man. kind. In the words of Kossuth, they answered in “a conflict destined to change the character of human governments and the condition of the human race.” Kings and despots, tyrants and masters heard the answer, which said *No_siaves will ever answer roll call at the foot of Bunker Hill monument.” [Great applause.] And so it came to pass that before the sun went down on that battlefield & new Nation had been born, Congress would assemble; independence would be declared; a constitution would issue. These were necessary formalities. But our Na- tion was born that day when Joseph Warren and his fellow patriots consecrated wiih their blood the soil of Bunker Hill. These are some of the historic elements which enter into that conflict which con- tribute affluence and significance to the noble monument which marks the spot where it was waged. But I have said that every great monument has its prophecy as truly as its history. What of the prophecy here? In that day of revoly, tion and prophecy this vast territory had, all told, less than four millions of people. To-dsy sixty-five milllons and more! These figures are the response of humanity to the heroic baptism of Bunker Hill. They donot mesn that the Englishman is unmindful of hjs native land, but that he loves liberty. They do not :nean that the Irishman loved the gréen fields of Erin less, but he loved freedom more. They mean that the dwellers in far-off Norway and Sweden have heard the invitation of freedom. They are still coming. 1 hear the tread of pioneers, Of empires yet to be, The first low wash of waves Where soon ‘Wil roll a mighty sea. We want them to come—but only on condi- tion that they will love America better than any other land; that they will defend its insti- tutions against all foes; that they will honor the stars and stripes before any other flag. [Great applause.] Yonder, where the Rhine mirrors the cramb- ling ruins of a broken feudalism, and yonder where the Tiber rolls by the ruined Col'iseum, and yonder where the lofty peaks of the Hima: layas lift their white heads in an Orient sky everywhere the story of successful free govern- ment is known. That great fact is John the Baptist crying in all the wildernesses of human oprreuion, “Prepare the way.” Said & petty Prince of India a few years ago, “Tell the Queen of England we are willing she should overn, but only 8o long as she governsjustly.” 'hat was notice duly served on the imperial crown. That satrap had read, “Governments derive thelr Just powers from'the consent of the governed.” A colored preacher whose church was in meu of repairs, and who desired to fresco he pulpit recess, told his congregation, “Bred- ren, you’se bleeged to keep on gibbin’ and a ibbin’ till dis yere abcess am fricaseed.” (Laughter.] Tne fresco brush of freedom is on the ceiling of the world. Kingsand thrones must kee¥ on giving and giving till the whole concave is covered with the sublime art of liberty. [Great applause. It was no idle boast of William Evarts when he said, ““As Plymouth settlement has been to the people of the United States, so is the United States to the future of the world.” The Italian patriot, Garibaldi, said truly, “The American Qquestion interests the whole world.” And the day of that vaster trinmph of free institutions ‘comes on apace. Since Bunker Hill the world has heard the echo of its rhyth- mic and majestic tread. No morning sunrise lighting up the great monument but traces anew its prophecy there; no evening glow on the capstone but foretells the coming glory, when tyrannies shall cease in the nobler vic- tories of freedom, when injustice shall have passed away and universal peace shall have begun. It will be the day ‘“‘when the war darum throbs no longer and the battle-flags are furled in the parliament of man, the federa- tion of the world.” . [Prolonged applause.] The decorating of Bunker Hill Monu- ment followed. A wooden model seven feep high was erected in the center of the pavilion and thirteen little girls represent- ing the thirteen original States marched about it and san% patriotic songs as they hung garlands of flowers about the minia- ture monument. The girls who participated in the cere- mony were: arriett Gilman Badgzer, Daisy Falconer, Katie Biggs, Constance Cunningham, May Falconer, Mollie Fitz- atrick, Dottle Caswell, Hattie Blundell, izzie Anderson, May Biggs, Edith Mujl: ner, Alice Lowrie and Marie McNulty. _But one accident marred the day. A little fellow of perhaps 10 years of age got his arm caught in the gearing of a Firth- wheel swing. The member was badly crushed, but no bones were broken. The start for S8an Francisco was made at 5 o’clock, but on account of slow service this City was not reached till 9 . M. About seven and a half millions of tons of coal are annually consumed in London. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, The Home for the Care of In- ebriates Presented to the City. A PROTEST AGAINST BURIALS. The Board’s Latest Appointees the Police Courts Are to Draw Salaries. in The City was presented with the Home for the Care of Inebriates, one lot in the Western Addition, one in the district known as Ocean View, and $30,000 in cash Yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Taylor stated that he had re- ceived a communication from ex-District Judge E. D. Sawyer, who desired to ad- dress the board in regard to the Home for the Care of iInebriates. ‘‘In fact,” said the speaker, “he desires to present the home to the City, and he would like to do so now.”” Mr. Sawyer said that he had been depu- tized by his fellow-trustees of the home to present the property of the home to the municipality. The trustees wished to per- petuate the home, which had been in ex- istence for thirty-two years, and it had been decided that there was no better way to do so than to placeit in the handsof the City Government. He read the deed which transfers to the City the lot on the northeast corner of Stockton and Chestnut streets, with the building thereon and its contents,fitted up for the purpose of treating those who are suffering from dipsomania, the opium habit, or arc affected with insanity, a lot near Tenth avenuse, in Richmond, in Ocean View, together with $1086 the Savings and Loan Society, $9046 54 in the San Francisco Savings Union, and $10,000 in the People's Home Savings Bank. A condition in the deed is that the pres- ent trustees shall remain on the board of managers until tne end of the corporation’s life, about eighteen years, but that when one of the trustees retires or passes away the vacancy shall be filled by a member of the City Government, and that the Super- visors shall allow a monthly sum, not ex- ceeding $500, to be used in connection with what donations are received at the home to maintain it for the care of the dipso- maniacs, those who have acquired the opium or cocaine habit, and those who to be temporarily detained pending e amination for insanity. The trustees who are to remsin in the management, he said, would serve without pay. Mr. Sawyer deposited the deed with the clerk and retired, after which the matter was referred to the Finance and Judiciary committees. A communication was read inviting the members of the board to attend a mass- meeting to be held at the corner of Eighteenth and Folsom streets on the evening of Tuesday, the 25th inst. Communications as follows were read: From Fire Commissioners, referring a commu- nication from John J. Mundwyler stating that eneine-house 3, on California street, between Leavenworth and Hyde, encroaches on his lot, and requesting an acknowledgment of his title to the land so encroached upon. From the Superintendent of Streets, esti- mating the expense of paving certain blocks on Van Ness avenue would be $28,045 36 clusive of the block between Golden Gate ave- nue and Turk street, the cost of which would From citizens, calling attention to the occu- ation of Bryant street, between Sixth and Seventh, as a lumber-yard by the firm of Har- tis, Jones & Co. In an opinion to the board the City and County Attorney says: In my opinion Corbett road, or Corbett ave- nue as it is sometimes called, is & public high- way, fifty feet in width for the entire distance from the intersection of Douglass and Seven- teenth streets to Casselli avenue. However, said road is not open to its full width between those points, being encroached upon by Behr- end Joost beétween Douglass street and Clara avenue, and 150 ata point just west of Clara avenue. The following petitions and protests were read by title and referred to the proper committees: From P. Portios offering to submit plans for & new system of sewerage and for the improve- ment of streets and sidewaiks. From property-owners against the construc- tion of a sewer at the crossing of Washington and Cherry streets. From property-owners asking for an appro- riation in the next tax levy for improvement P street work on Bernal Hojghts. From John H. and Fannie Moore for the pay- ment of $1500 for damages to their property on the west side of Sanchez street through changing the grade. From Charles Lampe for $1000 for damages to his property on Sanchez street caused by change of grade. From Frank J. French, executor of the will of Emily Tracy, for $1500 for damages to prop- erty on the southeast corner of Liberty and sanchez streets caused by change of grade on Sanchez street. From P. McDonough asking to be appointed poundmaster. Fiom J. L. Wilson of Berenda, Madera County, requesting an opportunity to demon- strate the efficiency of his guard for railway cars. From Frank Murasky requesting that a du- plicate assessment of personal property be de- clared erroneous. From the Richmond District Improvement Association for the passage of an order to pre- vent the further saie of 10ts for burial purposes in anyof the cemeteries in or near the Rich- mond district, and for placing electric lights | on Point Lobos avenue from Twenty-seventh avenue to the ocean: also for the grading, macadamizing and laying of sidewalks on Cal fornia street from Central avenue to Twent; fourth, and a three-inch plank walk on Lake and other streets. Protest from property-owners against con- :trucving an ironstone-pipe sewer on the Po- rero. Protest from Alice L. Eastland against the construction of sidewalks on the east side of Jones street, between Washington and Jackson. Petitions from Mary Bailey requesting that the Superintendent of Streets be instructed to report to the board immediately on the petition for the acceptance of Fourtéenth street, be- tween Mission and Howard. From Hogan & Crummy for permission to grade, macadamize and curb Thirteenth ave- nne south, between Railroad avenue and M street south. From citizens requesting that no obstacle be placed in the way of the contractor in blasting operations on the Pope & Talbot Tract, lying east of Stanyan street. From the Merchants’ Association requesting the City to pay one-half the cost, providing the property-owners will pay for the other half, for the work of bituminizing every street between Kearny and Powell; Post street, be- tween xll{etnrny lm‘} Montgomery, and to set orth what proportion the Ci i WOTk of thiskind, S Wilkmeyion From the Merchants’ Association submitting specifications for cleaning and sprinkling the streets during the next fiscal year., From C. E. Grunsky appealing from the action of the Auditor in refusing to audit three demands for services as civil engineer. From the West of Castro Street Improvement Club for better protection from fire in Noe Velley, between Twenty-first and Twenty- sixth and Castro street and Corbett avenue. n:‘:(;)l:)\rg:iil:‘c;l!y P?rglém rovement Club for oriation of § ,o&um ve- ment of Holly Park. S mprore Protest from property-owners against paving Noe street between Fifteenth and Market and Sixteenth sireet. From ~Wege-workers Union requesting favorable consideration for resolutions regard- Ing the sweeping of streets. TOm citizens requesting the appropriation of $10,000 to improve Alta plaza. From O. Fricot for permission to alter the Windsor Hotel building, corner of Market and Fifth streets. From Robert Hood of 524 Clementina street complaining of inadequate supply of water (n that section of the City. From property-owners requesting that the City and County Attorney bring suit against B. Joost and others, who elaim ownership of Corbett avenue. From the Fairmount Improvement Club, to place street lifihta on Chenery street, between Fairmount and Roanoke. From the Park Hill Improvement Club, ltgmnsl‘hulkh&ud on Broderick and Waller streets. The Street Committee reported in favor of appropriating §10,000 in the new tax levy for the purpose of providing an offi- cial map to replace the one made twenty- five years ago and no longer reliable; that the claim o?L. E. Grunsky for services as zineer be referred to the City and v Attorney for his opinion; that the sum of $30,000 be included in the next tax levy to bituminize Van Ness avenue, con- itional upon the property-owners paying haif of the expense; that the San Mateo electric road pay $1323 36, being the 2 per cent on gross receipts. b The proposed addition to the license ordinan reported in last Thursday’s issue of the CaLL was adopted and passed to‘prlni. The proposition to include $100,000 to build a home for dipsomaniacs was laid over for a week, this action being occa- sioned by the gift of the home already established to the ¢ It was resolved ti committee to t the board meet asa hole to-morrow night a franchise for the for the next fiscal of the w hear bidders for Auditor was empowered to audit and the Treasurer to pay out of the special fee fund cert bills for stationery for the Superior courts and de: S Supervisor Dimond of resolution was adoy as ever from rec Legislature has ordered The board decided to i y the sum s of the additi ers to be ad 1 p 1to print. he District Attorney, in a writte ion, declared that t appoi the Supervisors to tl es in the Polic Court were entitled to the salary due the month of May, and the Auditor was directed to audit their demand A communication from the Mayor was read. It was in relation to the complaints made inst the ro T for the manner it h. Clement street. The May ared that the company had follow les, and that when the grac > properly’ cor- rected the company will be ready to do its >}):m; H making the thoroughfare what it Mayor Sutro expressed a desire to retire and calied Superyisor Taylor to the chair, but befor it the Supe: or stated that the 1 called i hac ention trictures in the Grand Jury re- poccn the Finance Committee of the | board, based upon something the Auditor | had <aid before the inquisitorial body. The Auditor, he said, had informed him that the Finance Committee he represented was not the present one, but previous ones. The following communication was re- ceived by the board and referred : is association having been your honorable body is 1 contracts for Fire Department next two years, I am instructes drawn to the ¥ the board of directors 1o call your attention t0 the fact that many of t pplies required f in this State, and to ask y n awarding the con- | to articles of California lity and price are This w. ed by the officers of the California Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. ALL KINDS OF SPORTING. Mulverhill and Peppers Are Matched. The Lovers of Fancy Dogs Dis- cuss Bench Shows. The Colma Athletic Club matched Mar- tin Mulverhill against Henry Peppers (colored) last evening for a ten-round con- test, to precede the event of the evening at its next entertainment. The feature of the port will be a finish fight be- tween Mahoney and Anthony of Australia, and as the boxers are said to be first-class exponents of boxing, an exciting contest is promised. The St. Bernard dog is the dog Wcog- nized by all classes of society as the most aristocratic specimen of the canine race, and, as a result. the members of the St. Bernard Club believe, and justly, too, that they should receive particular recognition from the Pacific Kennel Club. The many lovers of fox terriers are in sym hy with the St. Bernard men, and although their opinions are, so to spe within them- selves, it _is said that the Bernard Club and the Fox Terrier Club will have much to say in the management of affairs of the next show, which, it is presumed, will be iven under the auspices of the Pacific ieunel Club of this Cit, J. G. Barker, whois president of the St. Bernard Club, Thomas Watson, a promi- nent member of the Pacific Kennel Club, and afew other gentlemen interested in dogs, held an informal meeting last even- ing at a prominent sporting resort on Kearny street, and the Pacific Kennel Club’s representative acknowledged that tne admirers of the St. Bernard had much to say in the future success of bench shows held in this C Although tt will be many months before another bench show will be held it is only Teasonable to presume, judging from the present outlook, that the admirers of the St. Bernard and Fox Terrier clubs will be a very material acquisitfon to the success of any bench show on the Pacific Coast. The Pacific Kennel Club is, however, in need of an infusion of new blood, as the old members have grown rusty and forget that something more interesting than the ordinary dog show is now necessary to at- tract public attention. 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