The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1895, Page 20

20 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1895 DR, GIBSON HAS HIS SAY, What the Pastor Thinks of the Emmanuel Baptist Church Murders. SCORES JUDGE CONLAN. | HE References Made to General Dick- inson and the Spirit of the Press. Less than 500 people gathered in Metro- politan Temple last evening to hear the Rev. J. G. Gibson, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, where the two girls, Min- nie Williams and Blanclie Lamont, were murdered last April, deliver a lecture bear- ing upon the awful crimes and the lessons | to be gained therefrom. Incidentally he was supposed to give some personal views concerning the tragedies and the attendant circumstances following the crime. The object of his lecture was a worthy one. It was to raise funds for the benefit of the church, which, since the crimes | were committed, has not been used for | formed a plan to hel | friends know that 1 hate notoriety. us; no one outside the {riends of the churcll?‘ls given usa singlecent. Yet the moment we began to move people came forward with their opinion againstour plan. Now if any one will give usa better plan we will adopt it. I em not golng to turn this congregation into & court of law and decide who the murderer is. Iam not going to wound your feelings with & brutal description of the murders. The church But if the public is willing to help us it seems to me that it would be a shame to let Emmanuel Church crumble into dust when it might be made a memorial to the virtue of the two girls who would rather die than surrender their woman- hood. To lose sight of that nobility in pres- ence of the horror associated with the crime is like regretting that slavery was abolished in America because there was a terrible war. arting out in life all I live in a great n is universal, there- When & young person is itis not a question of city or a small town?” fore danger is_everywhere. In a small town I bave buried the drunkard, the suicide, the divoreed, the murdered; have seen the young man cut down in his prime with diseasc; known famiiies wrecked by gambling and speculation. There is no place of perfect moral and physi- cal safety. If there is only one devil-hearted man in & little town he may ruin you. Foreigners are in the habit of describing San Francisco as a very wicked city. I am not going to say that it is particularly good. Some forms of sin may be more pronounced here than in other cities. The fires of hell that burn in wicked hearts may shoot out larger flames, but they are 10t more consuming than those that burst out in smaller towns. This is not the only city where the sacred floor of God’s house has been stained with human | blood; it is not the only city where poor girls fling themselves iuto the bay to find the silence of watery graves; it is not the only city where peaceful Citizens, as they walk home at night, are suddenly deprived of life; it is not the only city where weak children work and ery for bread. ; Censure as unfair as that which has fallen on San Francisco has fellen on Emmanuel REV. J. GEORGE GIBSON. religious purposes by the congregation, | There is a debt of $12,000 upon the edifice, | and the pastor is anxious to pay the inter- | est upon that sum and place the church in | a position to stand against the stigma which has been put upon it. | Nearly all of those present last Qveningi were members of the congregation, who | were imbued with the purpose of assisting | their pastor in his object. Financially the 1 event was not as successful as had been | hoped for. The lecture itself was rather disappoint- | ing despite the fact that the speaker tried his best to make it effective from an ora- | torical standpoint. A greater part of the | sgeech was given up to comments upon the daily press, which, he claimed, had | misrepresented his actions and purposes | in reportiny the details of the crimes, and a scoring of Police Judge Conlan’s methods during the preliminary examination of | Durrant when he (the speaker) was a wit- ness. As one instance of the so-called | misrepresentations Rev. Mr. Gibson called | the audience’s attention particunlarly to | the fact that he did not bave an effemini- | tive voice, nor did he wear pointed shoes and a frock coat. 1 There was a rather sensational ending to | the evening’s event. As Dr. Gibson con- cluded, a Professor Tyndall, an alleged hypnotist, jumped upon the stage and de- fied the reverend gentleman to submit to | a test of hypnotic power. Captain Lees and Detective Seymour, who were in the ! front row of seats, prevented confusion in | ‘the house by mounting the platform and convincing the professor that there was more efficiency in physical force than hyp- notic power. | It was hali-past 8 o'clock when the lec- | turer walked on the stage, accompanied by | his private secretary, Mr. Lynch. Through- out the evening they were the sole occu- pants of the platform. The reverend gentleman was attired in a neat-fitting | suit of black and spoke in a calm and de- | Jiberate style for a little over an hour. He said: Bome of you have been in Dore’s picture gellery in’ London. When you entered the | Toom you removed your hat from your head. | i8everal people were “in the room. Everything jwas still. You noticed that the visitors spoke | n whispers. Aftera while you sat down and Jooked et the pictures in silence. Strange that | people should be so silent before religious ‘paintings. Have paintings ears? Are the ieyes on the canvas strong enough to read | sécrets? P To-night, as the vision of the two girls passes ‘before me, T feel, In reverence for their purity and in sympathy for their friends, that I would rather be silent than deliver a lecture. 1 have been advised by correspondents not to «deliver this lecture, and it has been remarked to me that it will be my ruin. Ruin is a small word with a large meaning. ! Who will ruin me? The unbelieving world that does not love preachersor the Christian ropl. who can be_unkind to preachess? The uture will tell. To speak the truth Ido not ‘wish 10 offend my true friends. The curious thing about the situatlon is just this: We have been two months out of our church, yet the ex- nses are going on. The BAPLsts 0 now that before I became Church. The wildest stories have been iold of people going in and out at all hours of the day and uight. Strange, indeed, that Guring the course of six years the police on Mi and Bertlett streets never saw the Jights gleaming through the windows at midnight. Strange, indeed, that many other churches are open all day and that dozens of men, women und chil- dren go in and ont without any comment be- ing made. Why this distinction? Is it so in the land of the free that a Baptist church must keep its doors locked except when there is a religious serv Are we more immoral than the members of other churches fsimply Lecause we are Bapti Has 1t come to this that a Baptist preacher cannot have. what every other preacher has,a key to his study door and a couch to rest on without having in his mind the thought of vice and in his hand & knife to sacrifice a vietim ? Orne could understand such insinuations if the newspapers were subsidized by the authori- ties of ate church, butin the land where irches are onan equal footing, the in- 1 is one of those mysteries that would make even the learned, Jogical literary Judze Conlan exclaim in & dramatic aside, “Yes, it's strange.” 1should say it was strange. Considerable capital has been made out of the fact that these murders were committed in a church. Do we refuse to engage in business because some men swindie? Do we refuse 10 believe in physicians because some of them | commit crimes? There is a difference be- | tween u crime committed in & church and by a church. Who is the murderer? The Examiner has already solved the question. One pf its letter- writers said: “Dr. Gibson is the murderer, and don’t you forget it.” When the case came u for trial in Judge Conlan’s court it was calle “the People ve. Durrant,” but it ought to have been called “Judge Conlan vs. the Pastor of Emmanuel Church.” It was not the trial of the prisoner, but the trial of the ministerial witness. An enthusiastic reporter, as he stepped out of my room after an unsuccessful interview, | said, “I guess you could enlighten the public on who the murderer is if you wanted to do £0.”” That I cannot do, because I do not know. ometimes we surprise ourselves by our good- ness. Some men have been known to startle themselves by their wickedness. Circum- stances have “developed a demon in their hearts, and, like a spider when the opportunity came, they crawled out of their dark corners to do their deadly work on some innocent fly. Dr. Gibson then devoted himself to a re- view of the newspapers and the reporters, in which he said it would be ntterly im- possible to reply to all the eriticisms, and that he did not propose to enter into a de- fense of himself. ge said his greatest sin seemed to have been his silence and that he might have turned his literary ability against Durrant or any other person ac- cused. Referring again to Judge Conlan, Dr. Gibson said he did not getangry at the Judge, because the Judge had revealed his ignorance of Buptist churches and preach- ers. | He said he had too much veneration for General Dickinson to criticize him, and said he hoped he might have the ovpor- tunity of rewarding him for his kindness. Concluding his lecture, Dr. Gibson talked of the lessons which the crime had taught, urging that the lesson for girls is t00 plain to be missed. J. MclIvor Tyndali, the disturber of the this State | Meeting, was taken to the Southern police tor it was bur- | station where he was charged with dis- 500, dened with a debt of $12,000. No one has | turbing the peace. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report R al saz=ma A ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powder SILVER 1S THE ISSUE, Views of California Congress- men on the .Coming Campaign. LOUD TALES ON TARIFF. Hilborn Thinks the Democratic Party Will Split—Sutro Is Pessimistic. Despite the fact that the Presidential campaign is still more than a year away, it is yet near enough to make valuable and interesting the opinions of men in posi- tions well qualified to give their words weight and influence. Herewith are given interviews with eight such gentlemen as to what are likely to be the most important questions that will in- fluence the next Presidential election. All believe that the money question will be one of the leading issues, more particu- larly the remonetization of silver. Two lay considerable stress on the matter of revenue, favoring a return to the protec- tive tariff for the securing of the necessary funds to meet the expensesof government; two believe the un-American foreign policy of the present administration will tend strongly to alienate many voters from the next Democratic standard-bearer, and one believes that the existing domination of corporations should come in for a good share of attention. Not the least significant of the utte ances made is that of Congressman Hi born, that the split foreshadowed in the | Democratic ranks over the silver question will resuit in two Democratic Presidential | candidates being placed in the field. el Rl s g CONGRESSMAN LOUD. He Considers the Question of Rev- enue the Most Important Issue. | “The greatest question as it now appears in the next campaign must be the consid- eration of such a policy as will provide ! sufficient revenue to run the United States Government,” said Congressman Eugene | F. Loud. *‘That question cannot be over- shadowed by any other, because, as I be- lieve, the depleted condition of our treas- | ury has been the cause more thanany- thing else of the great financial depression that has hung over the country. “Next to that will be the financial ques- tion, which is agitating the pecple of the whole country and which is demanding some solution. What that solution will be I am not prepared to state. ButI have | faith in the Republican party, and firmly believe that its wisdom and patriotism will formulate such measures as will solve this much vexed question. “As a Republican I should advise cau- tion, because the coming year may present | a different phase of the financial question from California have been instructed by the Legislature to vote for the iree and unlimited coinage of silyer at a ratio of 16 to1, and I think it is their duty to carry out the instructions or resign. “I have never heard any one success- fully controvert the proposition to first open our mints to American silver, pro- tecting the American product by a duty on foreign base bullion. "Even Senator John Sherman, whose single standard ideas are 80 pronounced, had nothing more to offer to this policy than that it would presenta temptation to smugglers. He did not make any objection really to the policy as affecting the welfare of American in- terests. “Yes, I am satisfied the finance and tariff questions will be the great features of the coming campaign, for upon them and especially upon the silver proposition de- pends the industrial advancement of this country. ““We will produce this year from our sil- ver wines not more than 40,000,000 ounces of silver, and we use about_that quantity |in the arts and sciences, Suppose we in- crease that to 60,000,000 ounces, which is about our capacity, retire all one and two dollar bills first, and then the fives, im- pose a duty on the silver imports from foreign countries—do you not see that there will be piven to the industries of America a great impetus? It would result in opening the great silver mines of the West and would demand the building of improved machinery, thus giving employ- ment to a million people. It would bene- | fit not alone the miner, the artisan and the mechanic, but the farmer as well. ‘“I'he people are coming to see that the solution of the money problem is the lift- | ing of industrial depression, and that be- ing true the money question will command first attention in" the Presidential cam- paign.”’ ——-——— CONGRESSMAN HILBORN. He Belleves the Silver Question "WI1ll Split the Demo- crats. Congressman Samuel ‘G. Hilborn' said that it was too early to make suggestions as to the details of the Republican Na- tional policy. “But I will say this,” he | added, “that all questions will be subordi- nated to the currency question. That will be the greatest issue of the day. *'I think the un-American volicy of the present administration in the Hawaiian, Venezuelan and Nicaragnan affairs has emphasized the n y for seeing to it that the next administration shall have a more decided American policy. The Dem- ocratic party is confronted with the same conditions in the monetary question that it encountered in 1860 over the slavery question. “The great majority of Democrats will favor the nomination of a silver man, but with the two-thirds rule they will be un- able to accomplish it, and the result will be two Democratic candidates, as was the case in 1860. ““The tariff will be an issue in the cam- paign, but it will be subordinate to the monetary issue.”” e e o MAYOR SUTRO. The Breaking of Corporation Power Should Receive Attention First. ““There are two great issues that will con- front the American people in this cam- paign,” said Mayor Sutro, ““and the greater than is now presented, I should advise | the Republicans of California to keep with- | in the ranks of the party and do the best | they can to secure the desired end by Re- | publican principles. | It is difficult to look forward a vear and | see just what the conditions may then be. | The prosperity of the industrial world may | return and thus lessen the demand for the solution of the monetary problem. Then | again the conditions may be such that the | financial question may overshadow every- thing else and become the only great ques- tion to solve. “The country has now generally ac- cepted the protective policy of the Repub- | lican party, but its readoption must be the | duty of that party, for, as I said, the great | stion is the providing of revenue for the ration of the Government, and unless | the conditions change that must be the commanding issue of the campaign.” ———— CONGRESSMAN SMITH. Our Financial and Foreign Poll- cies Need Remodel- ing. Congressman G. W. Smith of the Twent second Illinois Congressional District, w with his wife, is visiting California, was seen at the Hotel St. Nicholas. He ex- pressed the opinion that the financial issue | would be the most important of the cam- paign. “It is a very difficult question,” he said, “and one to which T have given a great deal of study,but it is one which men | better qualificd than 1 have failed to solve, even to their own satisfaction. I believe that in the next Congress the Republican party cannot accomplish ything dis- tincfive in the way of legislation on such a | proposition, yet I doubt not that when | the members get together and discuss the matter they will be able to arrive at some | conclusion that will form the basis of action in the next campaign. But this is | a very serious question and concessions | will iave to be made by Republicans enter- taining extreme views on both sides of it. “I think the party has always been able to meet successfully any great emergenc: The country has never been seriously appointed under Republican administra- | tion, and I believe on this question, as on others, the party will be able to come to someé agreement that will go a long way toward the solution of the money question. “While Iam in favor of both goid and | silver and have always defended that pol- | icy, yet Istand to-day, as I have always stood, for the principle thateach and every dollar of either metal must be worth as much as that of the otherin purchasing and debt-puying power. I want no distinc- tion between the two. ‘“*Looking back upon the financial con- ditions of a yearago I am not sure that the free coinage of silver, had it been adopted then, would have accomplished what we desired. I mean the free coinage by the United States, without any action on the part of the other powers. It might have resulted in the withdrawal of gold from circulation. and thus restricted the circulating medinm by leaving silver to bear the burden. That would have largely counteracted the industrial improvement which free coinage would have brought. “I am certain the rather unsatisfactory course of the present administration upon foreign affairs will be sharply criticized by the people in the coming campaign. They will demand that the next administration carry oui a more thoroughly American policy. Thus the foreign policy will be- come an issue in the campaign. But the leading issue will be the financial ques- tion.” SR SENATOR PERKINS. Silver and Protection Viewed as the Prominent Questions to Be Settled. “The silver question is the absorbing question now in the Eastern States, and incidentally here,” said Senator Geerge C. Perkins. “This financial issue and that of vrotection to American industries and labor are to be the commanding issues of the coming campaign. We need revenue and the Republican party believes that the way to get revenue is to impose duties upon the luxuries and manufactures that come from other countries. The silver question will form a part of the protection idea, for avhen we oven the American mints to the free coinage of silver we should at the same time protect American silver by imposing a duty on the base bul- lion that comes to our mints from foreign lands. I believe this would be the wisest policy. 1t would be a notice to the world that we had adopted an American policy. “The members of Congress aud Senators of these is the breaking of the power of corporations. The people are up in rebel- lion against them. This is no longer a re- publican form of government. The United States Senate and Congress are elected with the money of the big corporations and the people will assert their rights. “Then the next question is the silver question. There is no doubt that the whole world is in favor of bimetallism. The only Government that holds back is the English, but the English people are undoubtedly in favor of tfie double stand- ard. If the English people could be reached by the circulation of pamphlets on this subject, a Parliament would be elected that would forever settle the eilver question in favor of bimetallism.” | BOWERS ON THE OUTLOOK. | He Expresses Some Very Strong Sentiments on Our For- eign Policy. SAN DIEGO, Car., June 20.—Congress- man Bowers was interviewed to-night as to his views on the leading issues in the nexi National campaign. He wrote and signed the following: I consider the leading issues of the next National campaign to be: First—Whether Americans shall conduct the public busi- ness of the United States, or whether it shall continue to be conducted by Anglo- American cuckoos as it is now ? “‘Second—Whether the tariff laws of the | United States shall be enacted, as they are now, in the interests of foreign peoyle orin the interests of the Ameriean people. “Third—Whether England shall continue to have entire charge and direction of the financial policy of this Nation through her cuckoos and syndicate thieves and of the treasury of the United States, as she now hag, or whether the American people of to-day have the same kind of sand in their craw that the American colonists had 119 years ago, and will declare their independ- ence and resolve to run their own Gov- | ernment? ‘ourth—Whether the American people will continue to play_second fiddle in the world’s orchestra to” John Bull's first, as they do now at every performance, public or private. “‘I consider the building of the Nicara- guan canal, under the control of the United States, a pressing public necessity, to the end that the Atlanticand Pacific States may trade with each other and both get into the best market in the world—the American market. These are the great issues and cover all minor questions.” RS G WHAT JOHNSON SAYS. He Declares That Silver Is Going to Be the Coming Issue. SACRAMENTO, CAr., June 20.—*“There is no doubt in my mind,” sald Congress- { man Grove L. Johnson this evening when | questioned upon the subject, “‘that one of the important and leading issues of the coming campaign will be the silver ques- tion. 8till, the matter isone entirely of the distant future, in fact so distant that it is absolutely impossible for any one to at- tempt to Inretcil with accuracy what the jeading issue will be. To a great extent the silver question will be governed by the aetion taken by the committee now in ses- sion at Cleveland. Of course, this matter is one of vital interest to us Western men, and we want to see it made a winning one. ‘‘Another powerful issue, without doubt, will be a revision of the tariff, with a | tendency toward protection. Still, as I said before, it is entirely too early to at- tempt a forecast, as there may be many important issues arise which at present are unknown and unthought of. “Itis a fact that personnglly I have as yet scarcely given the matter a tho:iht. and for the past day or vwo have h at- tention so fully occupied by legal affai that I have been hiterally unable to follow the line of action pursued by the conven- tion now in séssion.” SENATOR WHITE SILENT. Congressman McLachlan Favors the Free Coinage of Silver. LOS ANGELES, Cav., June 20.—Senator White refused positively to be interviewed, sayine that he had declined requests from papers all over the United States and could not consistently make an exception. Congressman James McLachlan, seen at his cozy home in Pasadena, said: “I have received many requests for an interview on this subject, but have declined all for the reason that am _a newly clected member of the House and have not yet come in touch with those who will be my associates and dis- like to air my opinions until 1 have accom- plished or been instrumental in accom- plishing something. However, I believe | | PRESS that two of the most important things that the next Congress will deal with are the revision of the prote ctive tariff to raise sufiicient revenues to meet the ex- enses of the Government and tter protect our American indus- tries, and the currency question, Wwith legislation ~more favorable to silver. T hope a bill will be passed for the free coinage of silver, and I shall use all my endeavors to that end. It is claimed that the Senate has a majority of ten, and the House a slightly larger one in favor of the | free coinage of silver, but should the next Congress attempt to modify the tariff or the currency Iam very much afraid thatv the object will not be accomplished as, even if the bills passed, the President would un- doubtedly exercise the veto power, as he is opposed to all reforms in the directions I have mentioned. ‘“A bill for the building of the Nicaragua canal, in my judgment, will be passed by the next Congress. Locally [ am especially anxious to obtain an appropriation for the deep-sea harbor at San Pedro. For a Free Silver Platform. OMAHA, Nepr., June — The Ne- braska Republican Bimetallic Club was organized here to-day by some of the leading Republican _business men of Omaha. Branches will be formed in all parts of the State. A constitution was adopted, setting forth that the object of the club is to secure the passage of a free silver platform in 1896 by the Republican National Convention. CUTTING FREGHT PATES A Merry War Between Two Rival Transportation Companies. Reduction In Lumber and Merchan- dise Rates Between This City and Portland. Competition between the Oregon Rail- way and Nav; Lumber Company, and unattached vessels | o of all kinds, fer freight between this C and Portland, has at last broken into an open rate war, in which sweeping cuts 1 recently been made on the estab! schedule. Between the ports mentioned, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com- pany held for a long time a monopoly of the carrying trade. When the Truckee Lumber Company established mills at Astoria and Portland, a line of vessels was put on for the purpose of bringing the out- put to this City. For awhile this company confined its transportation operations to | | lumber alone, but finally got to taking general merchandise from this City to Portland. The vessels had to go there for lumber, and it occurred ta the manage- ment that they might as well go up_loaded as light. Here the Oregon Railway and Navigation 'Company en- countered its first opposition. Then other craft got into the trade until it was pretty well divided. It was impossible to make and hold a uniform rate. The un- attached vessels would abide by no fixed schedule, and the lnmber people, being on the line for a one-way cargo of their own, could handle merchandise at a lowér rate than a regular transportation company. This condition of affairs has existed for vear past, and the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company has recently recog- nized the feasibility of a decided stand. Merchandise rates have been greatly re- duced and in lumber the charges have dropped from §3 50 to $1 per 1000. “We have made this cut,” said General Agent F. F. Connor yesterday, “in_order to give the opposition some of their own medicine. We dc not object to legitimate competition, but we do object to tramp competition. It has been impossible to maintain fixdd rates. Nearly every vessel outside of those operated by our company had a rate of its own, and the result was general demoralization.” J. L. Merguire, manager of the Truckee Lumber Compan; ys that the Oregon Railway and gation people want the earth, and that they seem to think that no other company has a right to engage in me({;arrying trade between here and Port- and. “For several months,” continued Mr. Merguire, “‘they have been trying to get us off this line. We have to go to Portland anyway, and why should we not take a cargo of merchandise at a race agreed upon between the shipper and ourselves? We shall meet, in fact we have already met, their cut, and I guess we can hold out as long as our competitors. The Oregon Railway and Navigation Company has offered us many inducements to let the Portland trade alone, and now it seems that they have adopted bulldozing tactics. We can meet all of their reductions and still make mone; NEW ELECTRIC METHODS. Gas Engines to Be Used in Generating This Fluid. In establishing an electric-light plant in this City the San Francisco Gaslight Com- pany proposes to use gas engines in gener- ating their electricity, a process, by the way, entirely new on the Pacific Coast and but little used anywhere in America. As a generator the gas engine was first intro- duced in England, and in the northern counties is extensively used in nearly all of the large co-operative stores, It is for the purpose of gaining information on this subject that Manager J. B. Crocket of the San Francisco Gaslight Company is now in Europe. By the old steam-engine process exten- sive machinery was necessary which, in its operation, required the employment of a large force of men. This was not all. The waste on steam engines 1s enormous and amounts to over 90 per cent. By the best engines in use it is not possible to utilize more than 10 per cent of the steam. With gas less than 50 per cent is lost, and, the machinery being of the simplest construc- tion, requires only two men where twenty were found necessary under the old method. Mr. C. Blagburn, ‘an engineer, formerly of London, now of this City, who has ob- served the revolution in the generation of electricity which has taken place in the north of England since the introduction of gas engines, says the competition between companies using steam and gas is simply out of the question. “The relative cost of the two methods admits of no comparison,” said Mr. Blag- burn yesterday. ‘‘If one company adopts ga8 generation the others would be obliged to follow suit or leave the field.” GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.'S Stores are selling MASON FRUIT JARS At greatly reduced prices. 1 dozen jars, pints, in box . 1 dozen jars, quarts, in box. 1 dozen ars, haif gallons, In box. Tnspect our Tmproved Jelly Glasses, Ice Cream and Berry Sets of 7 pleces, 2c, 35c and 50c per set. Our prices for Teas and Coffees the lowest. Buying directly from us saves middlemen’s and peddier’s profits. —_————— Marcus D. Boruck Better. Marcus D. Boruck was slightly better last evening. 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The most important feature of the pro- ceedings was the raising of rents on the coal bunkers. the proposition to equalize the rents along the water-front would come up at the meeting and it was intimated that the | coal men would be the first to feel the effect of the movement. Manager Jewett of Dunsmuir & Sons and Louis Rosenfeld of John Rosenfeld’s Sons, were present to argue the coal men’s side of the auestion, and tne following letter was received by the board : 2 d FRANCISCO, June 20, 1895. St Harbor Commission: ers, San Francisco, C With ref. erence to the matter of raising rents of the wharves, we beg to call your attention to the following: That shouid it become mecessary in the opinion of your honorable board to raise rents in order to have sufficient income to meet ex- pense of keeping wharves in_good state of re- air, we think the burden should be equally orne by all occupving these wharves under rental. ~As it stands now the wharves oceupied by coal bunkers are slready paying a much higher rental than those occupied by steam- ship comranies and for other purposes. We find we are already paying nearly double the rental for less than hali the space occupied, which means that compared to space the coal bunkers are charged four times as much rental as the steamship companies. We believe the low rates made to the steam- ship companies % when there was no occasion to raise more revenue, and they have never since been ad- justed. The wharves occupied by them are covered with expensive 'sheds, which add to the cost of maintenance by the State as well as erection. As to ability to stand the charge for rental on the comparative amount of business done, both in tons and the value of merchan- dise handled, we are certain that nupon investi- gation you will find that such increased charges could be better borne by ether products than coal. While we have no desire to have ratesin- creased on others, as long as your honorable | board has signified its intention to readjust Honorable rents we think it would only be fair to first raise others 1o the basis we dre paying and if | the revenue is then still deficient we can only consider it fair to crease. The discus of this matter has brought to our mnotice the fact that the coal- bunkers are paying a long way higher rents than other concerns which we know can es well or better afford to ay for the accommoda- tions as the coal business. Upon a thorough investigation we are conv your honorable board will find what we claim borne out by facts. Very respectfully, JOHN ROSENFELD'S SONS. President Colnon read the letter and said that the board had been misunderstood. There was no desire, he said, to raise rents, but to put all on an equal footing accord- ing to the space occupied and the amount of profit accruing therefrom. ““We propose,”” said Mr. Colnon, “fo con- duct the City front as a business proposi- tion as nearly as possible. We desire to lessen the cost of maintenance of the wharves so that we will have more money to repair them and for other work."” A comparison of charges on the various wharves showed tha the Pacific_Coast Steamship Company is paying $1 month for a wharf 100x590 feet and $! for another dock of the same size, Spear-street dock of about the s: sions is yielding a rental of $125 a month. Rosenfeld was paying $225 a month for Mission-street whari No. 2, occupying 40x 580 feet. President Colnon said that the subject had been carefully considered and that it was proposed to raise the rent at first 50 1t had been announced that | re made a long time ago | nd our pro rata of in- | al The | me dimen- | | | where it could be best afforded. On motion the monthly rental of John Rosen- feld’s Sons was advanced from $225 to - that of Dunsmuir & Sons to the same figure and that of the Oregon Improve- ment Company for the Beale-street bunk- ers from $150 to §250. The rents on other wharves will be raised n- 1 those occupying the prem- ve the ben in_the way of . When the cost of maintenance is reduced then will follow a general reduc- tion in rents. It was announced_that the rent of the Oregon Coal and Navigation Company would not be raised as the com- pany was handling only a low-priced coal and selling it at a small margin. R. H. Stafford was appointed Wharfin- ger, vice E. H. Livingstone, term expired. It was decided to charge a monthly rental of $5 on all the coal-hoppers in use on the wharves. For years Captain Rob- erts has been exacting a royalty on all these machines, and has never paid a cent in rents. A communication was received from Jacob Strah sking that the roof of the Union depot be covered with California ate instead of imported corrugated iron The communication was referred to Chief Engineer Holmes. A committee from the Belt railroad waited on the board and asked that the men be paid extra time for vorking on Sunday night. The request and the San Francisco and ific Coast and South Pacific d companies will be asked to pay the amount to the Commissioners as the extra work is being done for their ac- commodation. ——————— COOLUSA CITIZENS IN COURT. An Irrigation Company Will Have to Fight for Its Assessments. George H. Abel and thirty-seven other residents of Colusa have begun suit in the United States Circuit Court to restrain the Central Irrigation Company from seizing their lands because of delinquent assess- | ments. The case is tically a test of the Wright irrigation act, and has been be- fore the courts for some time, but has never come to an issue. The plaintiffs now propose to see where they stand in re- gard to the matter, and, in consequence, they have brought 'action against the irri- gation company to restrain it from seizing their property. o 2 Coleridge reverenced his mother. He once said: “A motheris a mother still the holiest thing alive.” e curler ew thing. CARTE BLANCHE, EcLipsE, GhippaoN The present output of these brands has reached & very high degree of excelience, Show your local pride. Try them and you will surely be pleased. GO TO THE “NEW LOUVRE,” 8 to 14 O'Farrell Street. TE HAVE REMOVED THE “LOUVRE” from the old basement under the Phelan building, and now occupy the finest quarters above ground in the city. RUDOLPH HAGEN, FELIX EISELE, Prop’s,