The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1895. NOT T0 B BEPEATEI].E The Church-Street Out- rage Was Enough of Its Kind. THAT THEFT OF STREETS. The Solid Eight Assisting the Combine to Deceive the People. i i | | i DELIBERATELY EVIL INTENT.| But It Furnishes Proof of That Fact, and Conviction Will Resuit in "~ | Permanent Good. No, it was no wonder that the Solid Eight of the Board of Supervisors felt the need of a guard of police during the ses- sion of Monday, nor that they felt called | upon to distribute a detail of officers in citizen’s clothes through the lobby and gallery, which it has since been learned | they did do. They knew better than any- body that the people had good causeto jeer and laugh them to shame. When the Solid Eight, at their meeting of last week, passed a resolution which | practically grants to the Market-street Rail- | way Company a franchise covering all the available routes to Ingleside and the new racetrack, when the law particularly stipu- lates that these privileges be put up at public auction and awarded to the highest | bidder, it was mnot their first offense in violating the law. The stress which THE | Carr has laid upon this transgression grows from a knowledge of the long line of jobbery committed by this board, and the knowledge also that it stands ready to lengthen that line indefinitely unless the | people stop it. For instance, the Church-street franchise | was granted under the identical conditions that have aroused the public to an almost united protest in this case of Ocean House road and Sunnyside avenue. The Church-street Improvement Club was organized six years ago for the sole purpose of securing for that section a cable road along the entire length of that street. The members of the club worked early and late to the desired end end interestod two companies, the Market street and the| Omnibus. Both applied for a franchise, and the | Market-street Company secured it, of course. The conditions of the franchise required that they begin work within one | year and finish it within three. They laid | s along one block within the year, which stopped.all cavil on the question of | their beginning the work, and then the | impatient people saw the end of the third year drag itself out, and the road was not | completed. The Market-street Railroad | Company had gained their point—they had kepta competitor from building a road | which it wanted and intended to build and | which it—the Market-street Company—did not want and had had no intention of | building. | After waiting all those years for the big | corporation to fulfill its obligation and | give them the road they had worked for the Church-street people saw the franchise | lapse and began to again invite a compet- | itor into the field, when, to their amaze- | ment, the Market-street Company came upon them in the night and laid tracks over two blocks of the street, beginning at Sixteenth street and leaving the entire | stréet south of Sixteenth street withouts | road. Insult was added to injury in this deal, for these two blocks in the early efforts of the club had belonged to private parties and the club had raised $2000 to purchase the franchise for the company— the franchise that had been allowed to lapse. Now the company had come upon them in the night and stolen the right of way, but had laid only two blocks connect- | ing with other branches of their road and | so had placed themselves in the way of | gny other company which might be will- ing to extend a road across the length of Church street, as was so much desired by the club and the people at large. The Mayor was appealed to, it will be remembered, and because i was about to tear up the tracks the Market-street Com- pany signified their willingness to take the | tracks up and apply in regular form for a | franchise over these two blocks. Of course they were absolutely certain of getting what they asked for or they would not haveassumed this meek attitude. The attorneys of the company drew up the form of a franchise and also an order for the advertisement, to be published “‘ac- | cording to law”’ (?) calling for bids for the | same. It was a form now made familiar | to the readers of THE CALL. It was identi- cal with this one now being advertised in the case of the Ocean-house road and Sun- nyside-avenue franchise, except the names of the streets to be traversed. It provides that the road, whoever buys ii, must be opérated— As an extension ofand adjunctto and in | connection with the lines of the Market- street Railway. The Church-street people protested and protested, but protested in vain. The Soild Eight evidently could not but obey their masters, the. Market-street Railway Com- pany, and the pleading of the people who elected them availed nothing. The franchise was sold, the Market- street Railway Company being the only bidder, and its bid being the lowest sum permissible under the standing order of the board, $500. A civil suit has been entered in the name of the people of the State against the company to compel it to remove these tracks, the grounds taken being that the resolution under which the bids were called for, was notaccording to the require- ments of the law of the Stat® Attorney- General Fitzgerald and A. P. Van Duzer Esq., council for the Church-street Im- provement Club, declare that no court on earth would ever hold that an advertise- ment of a railway franchise which stipu- lated that it must be run as an extension of and adjunct to and in_connection with some other railway is an open and fair auction. But it does not require a lawyer to see = it appear other than what its own language makes it. The Church-street people bave suffered long and patiently. They want street rail- way communication, which the Market- street. Company solemnly agreed to.give them three years ago, and they are going into tne civil courts as a means of getting it. Bnt the people of San Francisco at large find a broader duty before them to meet the unabashed attempt of their rep- resentatives to repeat this Church-street law-breaking upon a scale of magnificence that.aimost dignifies it. They propose to wover every outlet of the City toward Ingleside, embracing about fifteen miles of streets, with a single appli- cation for a franchise, which they expect to secure for the same paltry sum of $500, simply because, by the wording of the ad- vertisement, no other person or corpora- tion is expected to bid against them, although other companies are very eager to secure the right te huild over one or the other of these routes. The Solid Eight know that the Market- street Railroad Company does not intend to build the road over Sunnyside avenue. They know that the infamous outrage that was perpetrated upon the people of Church street is to be repeated upon the people of Sunnyside avenue and all that district, and they are calmly aiding the big monopoly in the commission of it. Every detail of that outrage is to be carried out. Another railroad company that really wants to lay tracks there is to be prevented from doing so under the pretense of giving the people the service of the Market-street Company, and then the Market-street Company will build no road. And the Supervisors know it will not. That was made perfectly ctear even to the most charitable by Supervisor Taylor when he moved to fix a time limit of 180 days, of one year and then two years, each of which was successively voted down by the Solid Eight—just as they voted down the motion to raise the minimum bid from $500 to $5000, and $4000 and $2000. That they had a perfect right to so raise it was made clear, but the Solid Eight were looking out for the interestsof the railroad company and would not do so. And Supervisor Hughes, by way of ex- plaining why the application of the San Francisco and San Mateo Company for a franchise over one of these routes was re- fused, said it was because that company failed to keep its obligations. But to so much as refer to that is trifling. The people have determined that the Church- street outrage shall not be repeated. The law must be observed—and first of all by the lawmakers. 1t is not that this proposed gift of a valu- able franchise to the Market-street com- bine is a so much more flagrant defiance of tke law than any other of the long series of outrages perpetrated by the Solid Eight that causes the people to rise in protest. It is the fact that they have now the proofs of guilt which will enable them to act— which puts a weapon in their hands with which to meet and stop them in their career. £ Every officer of the law knows that there are certain crimes and misdemeanors which, although the guilt of the accused may be patent to them, they find it most difficult to prove. That is the case with many of the transactions of the Solid Eight, conspicuous among them the street- paving order which created a Southern Pa- cific monopoly in bituminous rock, and the Van Ness avenue paving job. That there was crookedness here there could be no doubt in either case, but the proof would be more difficult. In this gift of a | railway franchise the violation of the law is so bold that it becomes self-evident. The law-breakers must be overhauled. FOR A SHASTA RAILROAD Incorporation of a Company That Is to Bulild With English Capital. The Object to Open Up Shasta County Mines—A Navarro Mill Corporation. The Iron Mountain Railway Company, to build a railroad in Shasta County, has been incorporated. The capital stock is $100,000, which has been all subscribed. The holders are Alfred Fellows.. Charles W. Fielding. 1,000 F. E. Vivien Bond. 1,000 M. M. O’Shaughn 1,000 Louis B. Parrott. 1,000 Charles P. Eels 1,000 Alexander Hil 1,000 Gilbert McM. Ross 1,000 Mountain Mines, L 92,000 Total.. .$100,000 Most of the capital is from England, rep- resented by the Mountain Mines corpora- tion. Fellowsand Fielding, who are direc- tors, reside in England. The other direc- tors are Parrott, Eels and O’Shaughnessy, all of this city. . F. E. Vivian Bond is the treasurer. According to the articles of incorpora- tion the object of the company is to build a steam or electric railroad from the Iron Mountain mines to the Spring Creek cross- ing on the California and Oregon Railroad, asistance of 1334 miles, with a four-mile branch to Copley station. : The entire line of the railroad will be in Shasta County. The Navarro Investment Company has been incorporated to carry on the lumber business in Mendocino County, about the Navarro mill region. The stock is $100,000, fully subscribed as follows: Mrs. Jane W. Clark. Herman Schnabel Abbie L. Marble. 3,639 Jennie E. Sanford . 13,86 | Mattie J. Spring 6,628 J. Fessenden Clark 10 Thomas 8. Russell. 10 B. C. Hawe! 10 Robert G. 10 Charles T. Blake 10 Lucy H. 8chnabel 2,019 Florence 8. Russell, 1,282 Taotal..o........ .$100,000 The John Hammon ompang incor- porated yesterday to carry on the business now conducted by that firm. The $300,000 capital stock is held by the five directors as tollows: John Hammond, $274,500; Manton E. Hammond, $25,000; Frederic Gottiried, $250; James Henry Mooney, $125; Walter F. Hasty, $125. A Baltimore barber has set up a musie- box in his shop, the tunes of which he turns on to suit the trend of his trade. By regulating the airs by the flow of cus- tomers he thinks he gets unusually good work out of his assistants. When business is light be runs out steady old ballads, and when it is brisk—as on Saturday nights, for instance —the music-box keeps the razors flying to the time of jigs, reels and that, and no juggling of words can make quicksteps. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Royal Baking Powder PURE I~ DEATH CAME SUDDENLY, A. N. Towne Passed Away at His Home on California Street. HEART DISEASE THE CAUSE. Sketch of the Career of a Man Who Made His Mark In Rall- road Circles. Alban N. Towne, the general manager and second vice-president of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, succumbed to heart disease and passed away yesterday morning at 4:15 o'clock. His death when announced came as a sudden shock to his many friends who had met him on the preceding day apparently in the best of health. To his most intimate friends and relations it was known that since recover- ering from an attack of the grip in New York three years since he had suffered painfully from heart disease, but even they had not looked for such a sudden visit of the grim destroyer. Since that time Mr. Towne had several $5000 & year. The sum was not sufficient, and it was raised to $15,000, which was ac- cepted. This was in 1869, and he retained the position until May, 1882. In recogni- tion of his services he was then appointed general manager of the Central Pacific road, and he remained as_such until July 23,1883. 1t was at this time that he was appointed general manager of the South- ern Pacific system running to Lafayette, near New Orleans. _In February, 1885, the Southern Pacific lines were divided into two systems—the Atlantic and the Pacific—and Mr. Towne was given charge of latter system. When in 13 the lines in Oregon were added they were also placed under his jurisdic- tion, and a few months afterward, in No- vember, 1888, he was elected third vice- president of the road and general manager of the Pacific system. In April, 1890, while retaining the general management, he was made second vice-president, which position he held up to the time of his death. . Itis estimated that Mr. Towne’s estate is worth something over half a million dollars. No arrangements have yet been made for the funéral. THE DIVORCE COURT. Mrs. Angelo Beretta Wants a Decree of Separation and Some Western jAd- dition Property. Action for divorce has been begun in Judge Slack’s department of the Superior Court by Mrs. Delia Beretta, for twenty- five years the wife of Angelo Beretta. The charge iscruelty. Thereare several grown- up children, The Berettas own three pieces of real estate—one on Sacramento street, one on Pacific avenue and the other ALBAN N. = = = = == = TOWNE. [From a photograph by Taber.] attacks of neart trouble, but of late he had been free from them and was usually in cheer ful spirits. Thoughout Monday he was at his desk in the railroad buildinlg and performed a vast amount of work. It w as after 5 o’clock in the afternoon when he concluded dictating letters and other ma tter to his private secretary, B. A. Worthington. He made no complaint of feeling unwell or fatigued. Much of the work was personal matter, and there was such a mass of it that Secretary Worthing- ton laid the greater part of it over until yesterday, little thinking that he would never see the dictater alive again. From the railroad building Mr. Towne went directly home and spent a pleasant evening in the bosom of his family. He retired about 11 o’clock and slept soundly until 2 A, m. At that hour he aroused his wife and complained of severe pains in his abdomen. It wasthought that indigestion was the cause of the trouble, but Dr. Hertz- stein was called in. The physician afforded some relief, but the pain spread upward and finally reached his heart. It was then that the attack assumed a serious phase and the family was called to the sick man’s bedside. Toward the last the pains were very severe. They lasted till a quarter past 4 o’clock,when the spirit of the sufferer passed away. On account of the suddenness of the death the family of Mr. Towne was com- pletely prostmted,eapecinliy Mrs. Towne and his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Worden, and yesteraay only the most intimate friends were admitted to the family residence at 1101 California street, where they oalled yesterday to offer their condolence. ‘When the announcement of his death was made at the railroad building it came as a sudden shock to those who had seen the dead man to all appearances in the glow of health the day before. The flag was hoisted at half-mast on the buildingat once. Throughout the day telegrams of refgxret and sorrow poured into the railroad offices. regndini Mr. Towne's death. One was from R. Koehler on behalf of the employes of offices and employes of the lines in Ore- gon; another was from F. V. Meyers, chairman B. L. E., Southern Pacific sys- tem; another from Division Superintend- ent J. 8. Noble; another from H. J. Small, superintendent of the M. P. & M.; R. C. Clowing, vice-president of the Western Union Telegraph Company; another from L. Frazier, Coast Division superin- tendent; another from H. M. Yerington, eneral superintendent of the Virginia and fi‘ruckee Railroad; another from M. Hughitt, president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, and many others. The death was announced to the South- ern Pacific employes by General Superin- tendent Fillmore in a circular, which was telegraphed all along the line. In the death of Mr. Towne there is a loss of one of the most able and widely recognized railroad men in the United States. Throughout his career his life was an example of personal energy and talent in his particular line. As such a man he made an individual record which was apart from the company with which he was connected during the greater part of his busy life. At the time of his death Mr. Towne, al- though a vigorous and_strong man, was not youn;I in years. He was born at Dresser ill in Charlton, Worcester County, Mass., Augusat 8, 1829, It was on that same date that the first railroad en- ine was placed on the rails at Honesdale, . He was the eldest of nine_children, five sons and four daughters. While his education was limited as to books, he in- herited the talent of skill and ingenuity in mechanics from his father. He early dis- played his ability in this line, and what- ever Mr. Towne undertook, as builder or machinist, he was master of.. His execu- tive ability in this respect was a marked feature of his career. Mr. Towne first learned the trade of a printer, and it was while eervln{lhh ap- prenticeship that he met with bis future wife, Miss Caroline Amelia Mansfield, daughter of Asahel Manstield of the town of Webster. She came of Puritan stock. He engaged in several callings after this, and at last selected railroading, as_one of his brothers was in the business. His first work was as brakeman on the C. B. and . Railroad in 1855, and he remained with e road in various capacities for eleven years. After a short service as superin- tendent of the Chicago and Great ern Railway Oomfi:ny he was offered by C. P. Hmin‘gnn e general superintendency of ntral Pacific road ata salary of on Clay street. This property, which is not all improved, yields an income of $215 a month. Mrs. Beretta sues for a com- munity share in the real estate and ali- mony of $1500, with an allowance of $150 a month. Judge Slack granted a divorce to George Hillabrand from Emily Hillabrand yester- day on proof of desertion. arrie Ward is suing James M. Ward for divorce on the ground of cruelty. The case is pending before Judge Troutt. CONTESTED BY THE SONS, An Attempt to Break the Will of Mrs. Jane Duff, a Pio~ neer’s Widow. Mrs. Duff Gave Nearly All the Property to a Daughter With Whom She Lived. AY contest for the $40,000 estate left by Mrs. Jane Duff, who died at 136 Fair Oaks street on January 7, was begun in the Su- perior Court yesterday. Three sons want shares in the property, which was be- queathed almost entirely to a daughter, Mrs. Mary Marcella Pfeiffer, who now oc- cupies the Fair Oaks-street residence. Mrs. Duff was the widow of a pioneer, who was a well-known steamship engineer in the early days of the State and who ac- cumulated & little fortune in real estate. The husband died twenty yearsago. There are four sons, of whom Thomas E., John F. and George W. Duff are the contestants of the will. George is employed by the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, and the other two sons mentioned are steamship engineers and are at sea. A fourth son, named James, is mentally incompetent and is in an asylum. By the will of Mrs. Duff the invalid son was given the income of $5000, each of the other sons inherited $10, and the remainder of the property, with the exception of small amounts bequeathed to the Youths’ Directory and Rev. Patrick R. Lynch of 8t. James Church, went to the daughter. The contesting sons, who are represented by Attorney J. J. Dwyer, allege that their mother was of unsound mind fora long time i:nor to her death and that she was unduly influenced by the daughter—par- ticularly in regard to the marriage of the son George to Miss Jeannette Buchanan, Z:ung lady of this City. The complaint 81 he decedent was naturally and in her younger years a good-humored and ami- able woman, but as she advanced in years, paruculmrlg toward the close of her life, she formed and entertained extravagant and fictitious notions of the distinction and even grandeur of her social position, and became very proud, ana affected a pompous style of speech and deportment, and was very desirous of being consider: a fine lady and better and of greater dig- nity in life than other women socially her equals. This, it is explained, caused her to be dissatisfied with the marriage of her son, George, to Jeannette Buchanan, and to dis- inherit him, George was married on May 3 of last year, and the will was drawn up soon after that. It is stated that the reason Mrs. Duff disinherited the other sons is that she was made to believe that they had willfully abandoned her by going to sea. —— Chicago’s rich people returned to the assessors of last yenl': $2000 worth of dia- monds and $74 worth of silver tableware. —————— Hiawatha, Kans., has a “new woman” candidate for County Clerk at the. coming election. Her name is Mrs. D. P. Leslie. —_———— A Family Jar. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.'S Stores are selling MASON FRUIT JARS 5 -a case EIGHTH-STREET OPENING, Southern Heights Improve- ment Club Prepares a Petition. ADVANTAGES TO BE GAINED. The Board of Supervisors Will Be Asked to Take Some Action Next Monday. The first formal step toward organizing the movement on the Portrero for the opening of Eighth street from Division (Channel) street to Sixteenth street, was taken last night, when the Southern Heights Improvement Club met in Antone Raymond’s Hall, corner of Twentieth and ‘Wisconsin streets. President R. Pengelly brought the mat- ter up. H. Whiteley, as the representa- tive of the Real Estate and Development Company, demonstrated with a map the great advantages to be gained by having Eighth street opened. Said he: It would give residents of the Potrero and Southern Heights the shortest and most direct route to the City Hall—in fact, the only direct route. There is only one inferest in the way and thatis that of the San Francisco Candle Works, which runs the big brick building—its factory—standing right on the line of the pro- posed thoroughfare. Beyond the candle works there is not an improvement of any kind that would be at all affected. To have a right-of-way condemned through there for E:ghth street would not work the slightest hardship on the San Francisco Candle Company, because the City would have to fully remunerate that company for any damage the opening of the street might cause to it. The opening of Eighth street would enhance every foot of property here and result in in- calculable benefit to futdre home-builders. There is » movement on foot to have the other end of Eighth street paved with bitumen from Folsom street to Market, and while I know no more of the future than any other man I feel that I can say with some assurance that if Eighth street be opened through it is only a uestion of time for this to be made one of the est boulevards in this City. You all understand the reason of the protest of the few weaithy property-owners sgainst the resolution of the Board of Supervisors for the grading of Eighth street. They claim it is not public property because it is part of the tidelands. The fact is the water line is lower down than Eighth street, and the City’s right of eminent domain can be exercised in con- demnation proceedings if the necessity of this street is fully ngprecined. The channel ter- minates at Eighth street, consequently we would have such access to the business center of town as we cannot possibly enjoy by any other route. In the opinions of Messrs. Antone Ray- mond, James Dickie, C. M. Hawes, Fred- erick Schultz and others the opening of Eighth street was very desirable. Accord- ingly, the following petition was signed by all those present after a resolution was adopted favoring the project: To the Honorable Board of Supervisors, City and County of San_Francisco, State of California— GENTLEMEN: Your petitioners, being property- owners and residents of Southern Heights, re- spectfully represent: That their only means of access to the City is by detours which would be almost wholly avoided if Eighth street were opened from Six- teenth to Channel. The drawbridges on Fourth and Sixth streets constantly interfere with travel. Fifth street was closed about two years ago by your body, and Seventh street has a steam railway, which renders travel dangerous if not impossible. A few weeks since your honorable board passed a resolution to have Eighth street, as commonly shown on the City maps, graded from Division street to Sixteenth. Your petitioners are informed that Eighth street does not exist between these points for the reason that it was not laid out by compe- tent authority. ‘Wherefore your petitioners pray that your honorable board will, by condemnation “pro- ceedings or otherwise, open this street for pub- lic travel. ‘The petition will now be circulated for signatures all over the Potrero, and at the Western Sugar Refinery, Union Iron Works, Pacitic Rolling Mills and other big concerns where large numbers of prop- erty-owners are employed. Itisthe inten- tion to present the petition to the Board of Supervisors next Mondage. Another meeting will be held by the club at the same place a week from to-night, at which the water question will be taken up. Messrs. Pengelly, Raymond and James T. Hamilton say the water service is very in~ adequate, and does not extend beyond Napa street. In case of fire they wouid be helpless. : Some water is at present supplied by Mr. Raymond’s tank. It is his belief that water could be served from the Lake Honda reservoir, the present source, the College Hill reservoir, 250 feet, being not high enough. Mr. Hamilton’s idea is to have an eighty- foot tank constructed on the highest point —say, about Connecticut and Nevada streets, which is about 350 feet above base —and have it filled by means of a small pumping station. ‘“‘¥or twoor three weeks at a time,” said Mr. Hamilton, “we have been without even enough water todrink.” STATUS OF THE PIPE LINE. How the Market-Street Combine Trespassed on Private Property. The movement for the opening of EBighth street from Division to S8ixteenth involves the Market-street Railway Company’s salt- water pipe line which runs from the bay to its Bryant-street power-house, and shows up another piece of high-handed work on the part of the great octopus. Just where it is proposed to open the street this pipe line—a 30-inch main—hap- pens to be. The property - owners awakened recently to the fact that since it was not a public thoroughfare there, the Market-street combine had taken curions liberties with their property in obtaining its franchise to run the pipe line over it, and, accordingly, they have entered a vigorous protest and have demanded through the Bank of California that the pipes be removed. The franchise for this pipe line was granted to the company over a year ago. At that time it was naturally supposed the part of it now objected to was to run along a thoroughfare, and the salt-water main was laid without any ado. When, however, the Board of Supervisors re- cently discussed a resolution to grade Eighth street the true statusof the steal came out so ‘plainly that the property- owners themselves were startled. The whole matter now stands like this: All the residents of the Potrero want Eighth street opened to give them better access to the business center of the Oity, Seventh street now being occupied with the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks, and the other streets running parallel thereto, viz., 8ixth and Fifth, being under water in what is known as_th %K sion marsh, which the Southern Pacific is reserving for its terminal grounds. As it is, to get downtown they must go around by way of Kentucky and Fourth streets. So much for that item. Second— The Eighth-street property-owners along the piece of proposed street involved have protested against its opening, and have succeeded in having the question post- poned by the Board of Supervisors for six months. These are the two conflicting elements, and the Market-street Company is simply nundiufi bgsnnd looking on, waiting to see what will be the ultimate outcome. It just happens_that for once the inter- ests of the street railway octopus coincide with those of a large numbér of residents who want a needed street opened. The postponement of action on the pro- posed grading of Eighth street, however, rather gives tic objecting property-owners against the street-railway company. Whether any legal steps may be taken to col'-dnl the company to remove its tres- passing salt- water pipe line from their premises remains to be seen. The only DRY GOODS. SILK DEPARTMENT! - EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS NOVELTY SILKS! 50c Rich Brocades, Fancy Ombre and Figured Silks, former prices $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 per yard. Fancy Surah Plaid Silks (large variety), former prices $1.25 and former 00, $4.00, $4.50 and and Fancy Plzids, former prices $2.00, $2.50 Per Yard Per Yard§ $l-50 per yard. Elegant, $1 .00% prices $3. per vara) $5.00 per yard. $,1 25; Novelty Brocades L] Per Yard and $3.00 per yard. SPECIAL! All Remnants Fancy Novelty Silks at less than one=third regular prices. E=Z The above are positively the greatest bargains ever offered in San Francisco. QOBP ORAY * ‘1892, i 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. _————————————eee e —— thing that has been done so far has beem the makinF of a formal demand by the Bank of California on the company for its speedy removal A MONSTER POMPANO. The Only One of Its Kind Caught in Twenty Years—It Weighs Sixty Pounds. A big fish which turns the scales at sixty pounds attracted a great deal of attention in the Clay-street market yesterday. Some people said it was a ‘‘moon” fish, others insisted that it was an “‘angel” fish, but A. Paladmi, in whose store it hung, insisted that it was a deep-sea pompano, and the only one of its kind that has been caught on the coast of California in twenty years. A Sixty-Pound Pompano. Tt certainly is shaped like the little fish so well known to epicures, but its coloris altogether different. Its skin—the scales are mi croscopical—is a brilliant interming- ling of gold and silver, and the sight would delight the heart of a bimetallist. T he big fish was caught in Monterey Bay by J. Faustino. He was out after sal- mon and had a trawl out. Suddenly there was a jerk that almost threw the men off their feet. Then began a fight that lasted over an hour. The fishermen thought it was a shark ancd sought to capture it be- fore the other lines became entangled. The fish fought bravely and it took four men to baul it into the boat. Once in the boat it was seen what a struggle it had made for its life. Its head was ripped from the gills to the mouth and one eye was gone. Another violent plunge and it could have got away. Once ashore the prize was carefully packed in ice and Shi‘f toSan Francisco. 2 “It is a regular deep-sea pompano,” said A. Paladini, “and the only one of its kind I have seen in twenty years. Before that I have seen small ones, but never one as big as this fellow. He must have been after the mackerel and got onto the hook by accident.” WILL VISIT THE PRISON. Governor Budd to Inspect the Iustitu- tion at San Quentin To-Day. Governor Budd will visit San Quentin prison to-day with Attorney-General Fitz- gerald, Thomas A. Lewis, expert for the State Board of Examiners, and L. J. Mad- dox of Modesto. Mr. Maddox was recently appointed a director of the Preston School at Ione, and he is slated for the position of member of the State Board of Prison Directors in case any change in the personnel of the board is made. Itis estimated from the returns of the eleventh census that 95 per cent of the wage-earners of this country own less than $10,000 each. L ————— Mississippi, from being one of the poor- est, has attained excellent rank among the Southern States. Its wealth is valued at $110,628,129. . 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