The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1895, Page 15

: [4 . CISCO CALL, FRIDAY, J 21, 1895 15 irect communication with an able corre- spondent in any big city in Europe.” As an fll\}stration of the working of the #n service of The United Press the Sun g es a piece of news in this highly inter- ng manner: one morning, not long ago, a party ammedans desccrated, in some a place of worship in Calcutta. A 1d the Brahmin defenders led six of the Mohamme- itness what a small globule bec g his piece of ne ched the office of itta long before 1 man ran into the Government London,” he hastily lans desecrated Brah- morning. Fight fol- nmedans killed. All lead serious complica~ ch was telegraphed to f ern Telegraph Com- Bombay, whence it was trans- In Aden it was received he operator sent the message cable-room, and a few minutes t was on its way to Suez. There it vered to the Eastern Cable Com- v, whose operator immediately sent it alta. Att place another operator 1€ same company repeated the mes- e to Lisbon. From there it had only a siort stretch of sea to cover to reach Penzance, where, unmolested by pirates or t else, it was telegraphed to its desti- D in Londen m the moment that the operator in Calcutta sage was delivered to the in the United Press don two hours had elapsed. to the kindly habits of the sun, bad been filed in e two copies One he sent without de- 1 News of London. The er he sent by to the United Pre in New York. The man in the Cen- News office at once telegraphed it to the offices of all the afternoon and even- 1g papers in England and Scotland. The man in the United Press office in New York received the me: shortly after A. . of that same ¢ That roisterer, message. to the Cent sun, was siill turning night into day on the oth de of the Atlantic. *Now, at 2 of the newspapers New York have already gone to press, ten happens that they issuea n even at a later hour to pub- nportant news. At any rate, when ited Press office receives 3. he almost becomes he cries. e th n in the office seizes a book of d with sheets of er, inserts it in a typewriter ch impress of the key re- I upon thirty sheets—this ‘Grab a manifold uly 6.—A number of Mohamme- 2 Brahmin temple in this city is morning. A fight ensued and mmedans were killed. Allis it is possible that serious com- se from the affair. r boys set out all the newspapers that e and hand in the dis- me time half a dc in each of the big n received reets, again distributed to il the news ers along the Pa- that are members of thissglobe- ion, informing them that the day that has not yet six Mohammedans were d Calcutta. ““The incident of the Calcutta dispatch is nl ly occurrence. Sometimes the na or the South African colo- s equally remote; hut London it goes through the e Courier-Journal gave ng information on the sub- in an interview Mr, Walter P. Phillips, general man- f the United Press, “The principal th of the United Press,” it says, ‘‘is re Atlantic seaboard, while the Chi- cazo Associated Press draws its support inly from the country west of the Alle- nies. Both associations serve a num- ber of papers published within the terri- y occupied chiefly by its rival.” Mr. illips, when asked why the recent con- ference had been fruitless, replied that it was owing to the radically differing modes of organization in the two competing con- cerns. No plan had been devised, he said, at the recent conferences by which a com- bination of interests could be effected without one of the associations surren- dering its distinctive methods. The Chi- cago Associated Press is a co-operative partnership, in which each paper, re- gardless of its importance, has a voice in the management equal to that of the big Chicago dailies. The United Press is vurely a business concern, which buys and sclls news, although it is actually con- trolled by the principal New York papers. Mr. Phillips is confident that the United Press will eventunally triumph over the Western rival, and he bases his prediction upon the fact that the co-operative idea has never been a success inother busi- nesses, He believes that the Chicago Associated Press is organized upon wrong principles, and can have no permanent ex- istence. “Mr. Phillips said: “The United Press has behind it the great newspapers of the Tast, notably thosein New York, Phila- delphia and Boston. It also seryes the nore prominent papers throughout the rest of the section between the Alleghanies and the Atlantic coast, and supplies w'ith news 150 papers west of the Ahegh{:mgs. Among cur pewest alliesare the Clnpm— rati Tribune and the Chicago Chronicle, the morning daily just eztahlislged. We are also extending our wire service. The United Press nmow operates a system of eased wires from the Atlantic seaboard to Denver, and preparations are being made jor its extension to San Francisco and all slong the Pacific Coast “At present The United Press serves 100 more papers in the whole country than the Chicago Associated Press. It possesses a ® great element of strength in the unswerv- ing support of those New York news- papers which were the pioneers in the press business. 1 refer to the Herald, the Tribune, the Times, the Sun, the Journal of Commerce and the Mail and Express. Under our plan of operation the initial cost of gathering the news of the world is assumed by the New York City pupers served by us, the New England Associated Press, the Associated Press of f the Hindoo-European Cable | ¥ of his clicker | the St_ma of New York and the Southern Associated Press, all of which are affiliated V:l('h our organization.. All the other United Press papers buy their news at a fixed rate _under separate contracts. The cost of maintaining the organization, how- cver large it may become owing to un- usual expense, such as that entailed by the Japanese war, is borne by the rich and Powerful newspapers, and the smaller Papers get the benefit of it without extra expense. The character of the organiza- tion can be judged from the class of men who are associated in its management. Its president is Charles A. Dana of the Sun, the recognized dean of American journal. ism, and among the directors are James Gorden Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald; George F. Spinney, pub- lisher of the New York Times; Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Tribune; John H. Holmes, proprietor of the Boston Herald and president of the New England Associated Press; Evan P. Howell, pro- prietor of the Atlanta Constitution and president of the Southern Associated Press; George Bleistein, proprietor of the Buffalo Courier and president of the New York State Associated Press; Milton A, McRae, general manager of the Cincinnati Post and the St. Louis Chronicle, and L. Clark Davis of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.” “In what way,” the reporter asked, ‘““does the co-operative plan work disad- vantageously in the Chicago Associated Press?” “If anything were needed,” Mr. Phillips replied, ““to convince me that it was radi- cally wrong and unworkable certain points that came out in the recent conference would be sufficient to supply the defi- cie: It is a cumbersome piece of ma- chinery. It is like attempting to steera ship with a multitude of rudders. In seei- ing for a common ground of agreement we were met at every step by obstacles which the representatives of the Chicago Asso- | ciated Press believed to be insurmount- able, and all owing to their mutual plan of organization, as they called it. No plan for harmonizing our differences could be | proposed that they did not fear would be open to objection from two-thirds of their members.” ‘“‘Are not the small papers much better protected under the mutual plan?”’ “Not at all,”” was the reply. “They are not so well off. During the two years’ warfare with the Chicago Associated | Press, The United Press has never raised its prices to customers. The sinews of war have been supplied by the original members of the New York Associated Press, which are now the controlling force in The United Press. Further than that, during the depression of the last twenty months burdens have been light- ened where the smaller papers have found it difficult to meet their cblizations. None of our papers can complain that it has not been assisted to conserve its business. “The Chicago Associated Press has had | to meet its increased expenditures by rais- ing the assessment of its members, large or small, rich or poor, and by borrowing { money from the banks. The assessments have been just abont doubled since the | fight pegan, and the small papers are the real losers by it. In practice, yo®'see, our plan is much more advantageous for the smaller papers than the co-operative plan, which is supposed to inure to their special benefit.” W hat, in your opinion, will be the up- shot of this process?” “I look for the dissolution of the entire concern, believing as I do that its organi- zation is fundamentally wrong. ‘About 70 per cent of the entire cost of collecting the news is met by & few papers | in the large cities, and it is but natural | and just that the business management should be in their hands, instead of being | scattered among 2 number so large that it cannot work coherently together. Take the New England Associated Press, for in- stance. The Boston papers pay 70 per| cent of the cost of operation and the thirty or forty others outside of Boston make np the balance. The Boston papers are natu- rally largely looked to for the government of the organization. Their conservative in- fluence in the management has worked satisfactorily for over a quarter of a cen- tary, and the business is managed so con- scientiously that the interests of the other papers are as safely guarded as of those in Boston. “The co-operative plan, so called, has never been a success. No railroad, no newspaper, no bank, no insurance com- pany, no business has ever succeeded in which several hundred men had equal sharesin the management and meddled alike in its affairs. The Chicago Associated Press must fail ultimately for the same reasons, and the crash will come sooner than most people imagine. First, because of the speedy dissipation of the surplus of $120,000; second, the doubling of tolls, and third, the piling up of a debt which is ad- mitted in the annual report of the asso- ciation to have reached $200,000, 2nd is gen- erally believed to be between $300,000 and $400,000. “What is your idea of the way in which the entire business should be con- ducted ?” “Personally Iam unalterably opposed to the co-operative plan on any extended scale. I believe in a federation of the vari- ous associations, each to preserve its autonomy and to govern itself in its own fashion; to gather the news and to manage all its pecuniary transactions, and to ex- change the news it has gathered, within agreed-upon boundaries, at frontiers that may be mutually acceptable. There should be half a dozen or more organiza- tions, all working together in harmony but independent as to the management of their identity affairs, on the same theory that the various States which form the Union are left practically free in the man- agement of all but interstate affairs.” — = COL. ANDERSON HONORED. The Representative of The United Press Banqueted at the Palace. \ A dinner was given last evening at the Palace Hotel by the proprietor of the CaLy in recognition of the new alliance, which is regarded as among the most imporfant connections made between the two far dis- tant sections of the country since the com- pletion of the railway across the continent. In introducing Colonel Finley Ander- son of the United Press, Charles M. Shortridge said: “I congratulate you, Colonel Anderson, as well as The United Press and your auxiliary associa- tions, upon the new alliance which goes into practical effect to-night. The manner in which you have conducted the negotiations has inspired us here with perfect confidence in the fairness, in- tegrity, resources and stability of the United Press. We believe it will prove of great advantage not only to our news- papers, but to the people of California and indeed of all the States.” Colonel Anderson replied: “I thank you, sir, for the kindly way in which you have referred to the great National news assoclation which, chiefly at your call, I came here to represent. As proprietor of two important newspa- pers and as president of the Pacific Asso- ciated Press you have a field for your in- telligent activities sufficient to satisfy the ambition of almost any jour- nalist on - earth. I trust that your independent action in leading, on your own responsibility, the move- ment for a better service will not necessi- tate the severance of your relations with your local Pacific association which we desire to see preserved as one of the organized allies of The United Press. The spirit that led your members to associate themselves together for mutual protection is essentially the same as that which inspired the colonists on the Atlantic seaboard to resist the encroachments of the Crown. Arbitrary usages, inattention to complaints, imposi- tions incompatible with liberty and prog- ress—all that is implied ia the idea of despotism—induced our ancestors to declare their independence. All the world admires the man who appreciates, asserts and de- fends his rights, and hence the associations of newspapers on the Atlantic, like your own—the New York, the New England and the Southern—allied with us in a common cause, indeed, I may say, all of the Four Hundred wise men of the East, members and clients of The United Press, extend to you their cordial sympathies in approval of your course. “When I came to California, many weeks ago, and found that the Pacific As- sociated Press as an organization was not prepared to act, if I had returned at once I might have carried home with me impressions that would have been unjust; but the delicate and delightful way in which it was suggested that my re- maining might result to our mutual ad- vantage sounded like the voice of duty telling me to stay. But you know what is said of the mills of the gods and of what may come to him who waits. *The mterval has given me an oppor- tunity T had long desired of seeing some- thing more than I had seen in early days of this section of the country, and | of -the people who are {ringing| the Pacific Coast and penetrating the | interior with a degree of civilization which | none who do not look can fully compre- hend. And since I know your minds and hearts. as now I think I do, since in the voice that called me here I heard the true | resounding ring of that lofty mental and | moral sense which is the inspiration | and the leaven of mankind; as now I know I do, let us believe our mutual mission is to weave around this Union of | the States the spell of noble and joyous | life that your enchanting scenes and you yourselves have woven over me.” AVERY BRILLINAT AFENIR, Opening of the Louvre at Mar- ket and O’Farrell Streets To-Morrow. Finish Which Surpasses the De- | mands of the Most Arlsto~ | cratic Taste. | San Francisce, once noted for its miners’ huts and temporary wooden structures, | where the adventurer existed, has of late years become famous for the princely ac- | commodations for its guests. The City | numbers several first-class restaurants, and | as a peer of the best stands the old Louvre, This beautiful place, located at the gore of the Phelan building in the basement, will be opened to-morrow evening. Such achievements of artistic taste, elegance of appointments _and lavish expenditure should more often constitute the assign- ment of the descriptive writer. Everything throughout is massive and enduring, and will look as well fifty years | from now as it does to-day. The architeot of the place was William Curlett, and the finish and furnishings of svecial design were exccuted by Bader & Fincke. The private dining-rooms are a dream of | beauty, well furnished, lighted and venti- lated. The incandescent electric-light sys- tem, introduced by the Western Light and Power Company, is itself notable. The kitchen is completely shut off from the dining-rooms and provided with canopy flues to carry away all the steam and odors | from the range. Pabst Milwaukee lager beer, which main- tains the leading favor here it receives in other cities of this country, will be served, | The proprietors of the Louvre are Gus | Schwarz and Adolph Beth. The former gentleman for many years was in business | on Market street, near Mason, where he acquired a bie circle of friends as well as a | fortune, while Adolph Beth is best known as the proprietor of the Post Kellar, many years a popular place at Post and Kearny streets. A continuation of the care and oversight of these gentlemen, united with their affable manners, which made their former places so popular, will give the old Louvre widespread popularity. e ———— THE TELEGRAPH TAX. | City Attorney Creswell Says the Board | of Supervisors Cannot Impose One. A short time ago the Board of Super- visors passed the following resolution : Resolved, That the opinion of the City and County Attorney is hereby requested as to tne Jower of tnis board to fmpose municipal icense upon telegraph companies, and if so, | whether the board can fix & stated sum per quarter, the said companies using the public streets for the erection of poles and in the | suspension of wires over and along said | streets. In answer thereto City and County At- torney Creswell sent down the opinion yesterday, in which he quotes the opinion | of the Supreme Court of the United States | in a case presenting the same question from the city of Mobile, in which it is held that to do so would be contrary to the pro- vision of the constitution which gives to Congress alone to regulate interstate com- merce. In conclusion it says: In our opinion * * * no State has the right to lay & tax on interstate commerce in any form, whether by way of duties laid on the transportation of the subjects of that commerce or on the receipts derived from that transpor- tation, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on, and the reason is that such tax- ation is a burden on that commerce and amounts to & regulation of it, which belongs solely to Congress. * * * We may here re- peat what we have so often said before, that this exemption of interstate and foreign com- merce from State regulation does not prevent the State from taxing the property of those en- geged in such commerce located 'within the State as the propert{ of other citizens is taxed. Leloup vs. Port ot Mobile, 127 U. S. 640, This opinion is not intended to apply to tele- 5“""- companies operating wholly within this tate if there are any such doing business in this City. e SEECS o e Big Excursion to Ukiah. An excursion train will be run from San Fran- cisco to Ukiabh, taking in way ports, to-morrow by the San Francisco and North Pacific Rail- way Company, with low fare for the round tfl{). The Second Artillery Regiment, N. G. C., will have a grand drill, dress parade, battaiion drill and guard mount at iah in the after- noon, and Major-General Dimond, Brigadier- General Warfield end their Will be pres- ent. The special train will leave Tiburon twenty minutes ahead of the regular mornin train, and returning will leave Ukiah ‘lb:lg o'clock P. M. Clothes for the Lepers. Beveral packages of much-needed clothing havebeen received at the lazaretto recently. One lot was received from Mrs. H. W. Wilkins of BSan Rafaecl. Supervisor Benjamin also sent some. A box contaning socks and shirts was received from some unknown party. There are now thirteen lepers at the Pesthouse. Twelye of these are men. There is but one woman. Superintendent Brice says that clothing of any sort is always acceptable. It should ge sent'to the lazaretto in care of the Health Office, . & 3 STREET-SWEEPERS' WAGES President Dohrmann and Denis Kearney Discuss Them. MR. ASHWORTH'S CRITICISMS. The Merchants’ Assoclation Wants the Streets Kept Clean by All Day Work. The feature of the meeting of the Street Committee of the Board of Sapervisors yesterday was the consideration of the street cleaning and sprinkling specifica- tions, which evolved a spicy passage-at- arms between President Dohrmann of the Merchants, Association and Denis Kear- ney. Kearney had gone there, he said, at the request of workingmen who had been flocking to his house for days, begging him to make a plea in their behalf against the low. wages which were being paid in the work of cleaning the streets. “They have met me on the streets and wherever I go,” he said, ‘‘but I refused, telling them I had raised my voice in be- half of labor for the last time, for the la- berer is his own worst enemy. But at last I consented,’’ he said, “and am here to challenge Mr. Dohrman or any other man to go on the platform and discuss this question. 1 _say the Merchants’ Associa- tion has used the City and thisIcontract as a lever by which to degrade labor.” He had gotten this far when Mr. Dohr- mann took an exception. Every member of the Street Committee was present, Chairman Spreckels presid- ing. The specifications for the street cleaning had been under discussion for some time, Superintendent of Streets Ash- worth being their critic for the day, and arguing against many of the provisions on the ground that they provided for too much cleaning. Mr. Dohrmann offered several sections of a report of the official in charge of the work in Boston, going to show that the trend of opinion was in favor of greater cleanliness in cities rather than the re- verse. Kearney had essayed to speak earlier in the proceedings, but had been told that the time had not come. Now he tried again, declaring that this report was the pleading of a City official for the spending of more money, and not an effort to have the work ‘‘done cheap.” “The citizens of S8an Francisco,” he said, | “paid to have the streets cleaned, and the money so collected should be paid at legitimate rates of days’ wages for the work done. The City is the wealthiest corporation in the State. It would not do, therefore, to allow it to degrade American labor by setting a precedent of this kind— of buying labor at the lowest figure it could be obtained. That once established what was to prevent the Spring Valley Water Works, the gas company, all the big cor- porations and the smaller business houses in town pointing to the fact and cutting down the wages of their employes?”’ ““I do not beligve that any person will be influenced in His opinion’ concerning the work we have done by what Mr. Kearney has said,” remarked Mr. Dohrmann in an even tone of voice when it came to his turn. *“But we owe it to our own seli- respect not to allow the charge that the Merchants’ Association isdegrading Amer- ican labor to go unanswered. The proof is all directed the other way. No person is so interested in seeing the workman well paid as is the merchant. 1tis his life—his business life. If after all we have done in_ behalfi of the laboring man _durin, the past months, the individual labor that we ourselves have given without remunerstion in their cause, we are to be charged with prostituting our opportunity it is a strange thing. Last year the streets were swept by means of a ew machines and the employment of some forty or fifty young unmarried men. Since we have had charge of the work we have employed comparatively a small army of men whom we have carefully se- lected from among married men who most needed the work. We bave given work to | yery many who could not have found em- ployment with other contractors, and we paid them all that they earned,and this kept | them from want and from being burdens on the community. We have told the men that they should seek work elsewhere as we knew what we had to do and the money we had to do it with, So the facts are all against the statement that we have attempted to degrade labor. Mr. Kearney should find fault with those whose parsimony has caused them to refuse to contribute to us, and to the financial stress of the City an to the hard times, rather than to those who have contributed their own money and used what they had as judiciously as they knew how.”” J. Richard Froude of the Merchants’ Association made a spirited address on the same lines, saying that he could not allow this charge against men who had left their desks, neglected their own private busi- ness for months to carry through a benefi- cent work on behalf of the whole City and the great benefit of numbers of laboring men, to go unanswered. Kearney again repeated that he was talk- | ing for a principle and not as a friend of the workingman, but declared that the prin- ciple of low wages in one department gave the right to all and that Mr. Fraude would be the first man to cut the wages of hisem- glnyes if warranted by this precedent. Some one had said to him it was nota guestion of wages but of cleanliness. He wanted the privilege of speaking again at the time the clause concerning wages was up. IZ\Ir. Dohrmann wanted to know ifin the letting of any other contracts the wages to be paid the men was stipulated. Mr. Ashworth said it was not. “Those are private contracts,”’ said Kear,ney, ‘“‘they are not works done by the City.” 1\¥r. Dobrmann said this was a private contract also. This matter was open for bids. These sfiecificntiom\ had been pre- sented by the Merchants’ Association asa basis for the method and as a result of the ex{pericnce gained. They came here to offer suggestions by request of the com- mittee. The matter was open for the bid- ding of whomsoever would. In the review of the specifications, Super- intendent Ashworth thought they pro- vided for too much work; that many of the streets could get along with much less. For instance, he did not think Golden Gate avenue needed to be swept every day, as provided. That three times a week was quite sufficient. Mr. Dohrmann said that there was no street from which they had received so much complaint as from Golden Gate ave- nue during their brief experience, They had cleaned it. thoroughly twice a week. The immense traffic on the thoroughfare called for a z:lexminfl every day. Wherever there were many horses there was dirt, and it should be cleaned. The people were entitled to clean streets. “What we want is the most that can be had for the money,” said Ashworth, “We must make it go as far as possible. We must economize.” *‘There is no hody of men more anxious to save money for the City than the Mer- chants’ Association,” said Dohrmann. ‘But we must not take a step backward. We are especially anxious to see the all- day work §Pt up on the leading thorough- fares. On Market street too much atten- tion cannot be paid to this matter. That is the great artery where everybody asses daily and it should be kept clean. hen we started in this work we found places on Market street where we had to take picks and dig up the impacted refuse. ‘When I saw tbat my heart sank within me.~ If this confronted us on Market street, what should we find elsewhere? The fact is that we soon discovered the streets had never been cleaned; enough ‘Envlable Position Accomplished by money had never been appropriated. Now, I believe we should do the work within the §150,000 proposed to be devoted to cleaning and sprinkling- If, as we go along, we find that good results can be 2ined with less work than is provided for ere the Street Superintendent has the power to regulate it and keep down the expense.”” % Jpon motion of Benjamin the specifica- tions were referred to the Superintendent to go over and report upon them at the next meetin J. C. DAVIS IS HELD. He Will Have to Answer Before the Superior Court. The preliminary examination of J. C. Davis of Rochester, N. Y., charged with passing a fictitious check for §200 upon Jacob Macowsky, jeweler, Kearny street, was concluded before Judge Joachimsen yesterday. The check, or draft, was drawn upon the ““American Exchangze Bank, New York,” and S.P.Smith, assistantcashier of the Bank of California, testified that there was no suc bank in New York. Captain Lees also tes- tified that Davis had admitted to him that the draft forms were purchased by him from Upton Bros. on Montgomery street. Attorney Fr; M. Stone moved for a dismissal, which the Judge denied and held Davis to answer before the Superior Court in $2000 bonds. Another case of a similar nature against Dayis, in which W. K. Vanderslice & Co.; jewelers, are the complaining witnesses, was continued until Tuesday. THE LATEST HEWS I Its Quality Very Much proved by a Native Daughter. Im- the Perseverance of Mrs. M. Tracy. Newspaper men who know with what persistence Easterners have tried to usurp the coast trade in news inks ave liberal in their praise of Mrs. M. Tracy, who manu- Mrs. M, Tracy. factures news inks for the San Francisco Carr and other leading dailies of this coast. When interviewed in her offices yester- day she said: The indorsement which I | have received from the big dailies has | given me much encouragement, and I take it is fully due. There is a disposi- tion to prefer foreign things to home manufacture, especiaily if the foreign arti- cle is a little cheaper.” With regard to her experience in the manufacture of inks Mrs. Tracy said: “While I have not been engaged in this | industry very long, I have given the sub- ject a great deal of study. My attention was directed to news inks through an in- terest I owned in the plant bejore I be- came sole owner. “What I claim for my ink is a free flow, clearness, unmiformity and that it does not clog the rollers; besides ten barrels of my ink will do as much work and give more satisfactory results than twelve barrels of any other newspaper printing ink. “What are the ingredients used to make the improved Carbon ink which the San Francisco CaLy is now using, which makes the printed matter show up so distinctly 2"’ repeated Mrs. Tracy. “It would not do for me to disclose them,for the secret,which is my invention, is my stock in trade.” ———— FIREME ISMISSED. The Board of Supervisors to Be Peti- tioned to Organize Two New En- gine Companies. The Board of Fire Commissioners met yesterday afternoon and decided to peti- tion the Board of Supervisors to organize two new engine companies, 27 on Her- mann street, between Steiner and Fillmore, and 28 on Brannan street, between Seventh and Eighth. The following transfers, and promotions were made: Flem- ing, from engineer of chemical engine 5 to clérk of the corporation yard; Peter Wralty, from engineer of the water tower to engineer of chemical engine 5; John Feeney, from clerk of the corporation yard to engineer of the water tower; Thomas Hardy, from hoseman of engine 4 to hose- man of engine 10; B. 8. Wilson, hoseman of engine 10, promoted to foreman of en- gine 4; Richard Fogarty, from engine 7 to engine 10, and Alfred Van Bergen, from engine 10 to_engine 7. John Fitzatrick was appointed hoseman of engine 4, and the resignation of James Brown, hoseman of engine 20, was accepted. A set of resolutions commendatory of George W. Kennard, late second assistant chief engineer, for eflicient services ren- dered the department, was presented and appointments 11. k adopted. i Joseph Kilcline, stoker of engine 2, was charged with acts and conduct injurious to the welfare and discipline of the depart- ment and was dismissed from the service. ‘William Casey, extraman of engine 6, was tried on two charges of battery upon mem. bers of his company,and was also dis- missed from the service, CLERK O'BRIEN DENIES. Contradictory Statements About the Missing Complaint and Warrant for Attorney Long’s Arrest. The extraordinary disappearance of the complaint sworn to by James Carroll | tion trains. | cars the price would be greater than on the | | inserted a clause in the contracts that cars charging James H. Long with felony em- bezzlement and the accompanying war- rant of arrest from Judge Campbell’s court- room on Wednesday is a greater mystery than ever. Attorney Martin Stevens, who drew up the complaint, made inquiry gesterdsy morning as to the complaint and warrant and was told by Clerk O’Brien that they had not yet been found. Stevens left after stating that he would get another com- plaint sworn to. Clerk O’Brien, in the presence of Prose- cuting Attorney Forbes, was asked in the afternoon if the missing documents had yet turned up and he repliedin the negative. It was learned from a reliable source that both documents were in the possession of Clerk O’Brien, who stated that he had found them among some papers and Prosecuting Attorney Forbes remarked that there was no use in making such a fuss about it. Sergeant Houghulug, who has charge of the warrants at the Central Police station, was asked if the warrant had been sent to him and he said it had not, which rather surprised him. The mystery now is why Clerk O'Brien should deny to one that the papers were still missing and. previous to that denial show the papers another and explain that he had found them among some pers, and also why the warrant for ng's arrest is being held back. CARS FOR THE NEW ROAD, Valley Road Directors Award Contracts for a Steel Bridge. TO BE BUILT BY HOME LABOR. The Work Will Put a Large Sum of Money Into Circulation in This City. The directors of the Sgn Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway met yesterday and awarded contracts for 150 carsand ma- | terials for a steel drawbridge at Stockton. Besides this important action in the line of | construction and equipment of the Valley Railway, they discussed different proposi- ions for building a line of telegraph along | the road, and referred the whole matter | back to the committee on construction. | In awarding the contracts, the board | gave the preference to Californian manu- facturers and material, with the result that, as far as possible, the work will be done in California. It was not possible to get wheels, brakes or couplings in this State, so they must be made and purchased | in the East, but the lumber in the cars will be Oregon pine and California redwood, | and all other material employed will be vroducts of California. The amount of money to be thus expended at home and circulated among manufacturers, mechan- ics and business men will be about $80,000 to $85,000. The bridge, which is to bea | substantial one of two steel trusses, each one ' covering' a clearway of 75 feet, ana joined over the central pier or “‘draw,” will be built in San Francisco and | moved to Stockton piecemeal. It repre- sents quite a large outlay at home and will give employment to mechanics who live | here. Though both contracts taken together are not'of such magnitude as to create an appreciable stir in home manufactures, they serve as a medium for the men build- ing the competing railway to show their | intentions in the matter of supporting | home enterprises. This spirit is all the{ more pleasing in view of the fact that the Southern Pacific Company is now having | 500 fruit cars built in Th stern workshop: h the bid of John Hammond & Co. was $2000 higher than the lowest estimate | submutted, the contract for 100 flat cars | and fifty box cars was awarded that firm. The contract provides that the first de- livery of ten cars must be made at Stock- | ton in thirty-five days after the acceptance | of the bid. Hammond & Co. agreed to de- | liver ten cars a week after that date, so that | in two months from now there will be enough cars ready to make up construc- | Flat cars are to be made | first, as there is no immediate neces- | ty for the box cars, which will not | be used in construction. There were three bids from ifornia houses and one from | the Bast. th freight added on Eastern | local ones, and for that reason conditions | favor local manufacturers. The lowest bid | was made by Carter Brothers of Newark, Alameda County. To insure against use of Eastern mate- | rial, except in the case of wheels and pa- | tent coupliugs and airbrakes, the directors | should be made of Oregon pine and Cali- | fornia redwood. After the board adjourned yesterday Mr. | Carter of Newark protested to Vice-Presi- | dent Watt that, as he was the lowest bid- der, he should' have been given the con- tract. He went further and claimed that | he had been discriminated against. Mr. ‘Watt denied that there had been any dis- crimination, adding that when Carter’s bid was not regular he was given permission to change it to comply with the desire of the board to have home material. It was Car- | ter's intention, so Mr. Watt said, to have | fifty boxcars made in the East and then load them with materials for flatcars, which would be simply put together at Newark. The board wanted to have its work done here, and intendsto stand by this resolution in buying all supplies for the Valley road. The contract for the steel drawbridge Mormon Channel was awarded to Tibbetts & Co. of San Francisco. e will be 180 feet Jong, on a pivot round when vessels have to pass. ts truss framework of steel is twenty feet high and fifteen feet wide in the clear, in- side measurements. The engineering party below Hanford will move back to Rings River after sur- veying the line to Waukena, [t will run a second line in the same vicinity. Gra- | T w | the Judge accepted as si | decision is ham’s party islocating a route between the Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers, their task being confined to a second survey of the country. TREADWELL IN CONTEMPT. Judge Joachimsen and a Well-Known Attorney Create an Exciting Scene. Judge Joachimsen and ex-Judge A. B. Treadwell locked horns yesterday after- noon, resulting in the latter being ad judged guilty of contempt of court and ordered to be sent to the County Jail for twenty-four hours. The case of William Lynch, a China- town guide, charged with procuring a woman to give an indecent exhibition, s being tried before a jury. Treadwell ;Tpmm-d as attorney for the defendant. He rose to argue certain propositions and the Judge ordered him to sit down. Treadwell continued his argument, when the Judge said sternly, “Sit down, sir.” Treadwell did not sit down and was protest gainst the command when the Judge said: “I will adjudge you guilty of contempt of court and will sentence you to twenty-four hours in the County Jail.” There was a scene of excitement in court, which was intensified when the Judge or- | dered Sergeant Duncan to place Treadwell under arrest and take him to the City | Prison. Treadwell was taken to the prison and the Sheriff was notified. The Judge dismissed the jury and ordered them to in attendance this afternoon. Meantime friends of Treadwell urged him to apologize te the Judge, but he re- fused. After half an hour Prosecuting At= torney Dare prevailed upon him to see the Judge, and he made an explanation, which isfactory. The order committing him for contempt was accordingly withdrawn. WINTHROP IS REMANDED The Supreme Court Refuses to Grant His Writ of Habeas Corpus. While There Is No Positive Evidence of Gullt There Is Enough to Hold Him. The writ of habeas corpus applied for to the Supreme Court by O. W. Winthrop has been denied by Chief Justice Beatty and the prisoner has been remanded into custody. The opinion accompanying the self-explanatory and is as follows: The prisoner is in custody of the Sheriff of San Francisco under an order holding him to | answer on & charge of murder and asks to be released upon the ground that he was com- mitted without reasonable or probable cause. With his return to the writ of habeas corpus the Sheriff has submitted a transeript of the evidence adduced atthe examination of the prisoner before the convicting magistrate, which I have carefully examined. The result is that while I do not deem it very satisfactory or convinecing I still cannot say that it is legally insufficient to justify the order holding the prisoner to answer. To main- tain such an order it is not necessary that the vidence should be s0 convincing as to justify ct against the suspected party, but it is sufficient if it points to him and induces a be- lief that he may have committed the offense charged. It is unnecessary and would perhaps be im- proper to review the evidence in detail, and I content myself with saying that whlle the con- duct and bearing of the prisoner at and subse- quent to the time when he was first seen in company with Mrs, Matthews at the cemetery have been those of an innocent and humane man, and while the evidence as to the insur-, ance of her life in his favor as trustee for her little daughter is totally insufficient to show any motive jor causing her death, there is yet some testimony which, if true, tends to prove that he gave her the strychnine which un- doubtedly caused her death. Some of this testimony was perhaps incom- petent, but it was admitied without objection, and it is not clear that its competency might nmdhnve been shown if the objection had been made. On the whcle I feel obliged to remand the prisoner. So ordered. ‘Winthrop's petition was for a writ of ha- beas corpus on the ground that he had been held to answer to the caarge of mur- der without any evidence against him. He applied first to Judge Mur{)ny of the Su- perior Court, ana Judge Murphy refused to release him. The Supreme Court deci- sion ends all possibility of escape on his present line of defense. —————— Another New Car Guard. Charles A. Doran has a new idea in the mat. ter of guards for the protection of pedestrians from injury by streetcars. It was submitted to the committee of the Board of Supervisors on Wednesday. It consists of a frame of 5¢-inch iron rods, covered with wire netting. ‘It is o arranged that_the front edge will automatically adjust itself to the track on either up or down grades, Itis expected to pick upa person or any obe struction and gently drag itinto the wire nete ting out of harm’s way. 0 YOU LIKE WARM weather? No? It makes system shows how much it. 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