The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1895, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1895. A SUIT FOR MILLIONS, Valuable Property Now Held by the Southern Pacific Involved. OPINION OF JOHN T. DOYLE. The Rallroad People Have Never Complied With the Conditions of the Grant. In a few days the Southern Pacific Com- ny of Kentucky will find itself in the valued at nearly $2,000,000. e ot California is the plaintiff in the suit in which effort will be made to re- cain sixty acres of land in Mission Bay ranted to the Central and Southern Pa- ¢ Railroad companies in 1868 for termi- nal purposes. Attorney-General Fitzger- ald is, of course, in charge of the proposed action, but like a wise captain is not parading his forces in view of the enemy, preferring to wait until the battle is fully on. It almost goes without ng that the proceeding when the matter is finally brought into court will be intensely in- teresting, for the reason that it will prob- ably be one of the hardest fought of the many legal contests that form a part of the history of this State. The land which the Attorney-General Pproposes to recover, or at least make a des- perate effort in that direction, came into the possession of the railroad company by an act passed March 20, 1868. By the grant the land was "to be used for terminal purposes only, and on a further condition that the company should make their ter- minus thereon and expend $100,000 in im- proving the property within thirty months. Failing in any of these conditions the grant was to become void. The time for carrying out the conditions of the grant was extended from time to time, but ex- pired years ago. By the act which gave the Southern Pa- cific sixty acres of valuable land a strip of land 200 feet wide was granted it over the tide lands claimed by the State, to be used asan approach to the terminal lands on the south. In aletter to the San Francisco Real Estate circular, John T. Doyle gives a few pertinent facts relating to the abortive at- tempt made some years ago to have the lands revert to the State. Mr. Doyle says: Assuming that the companies did spend the required amount in improvements, it is notori- ous that they never made their terminus there nor built the contemplated road of approach. In the summer of 1875 they ap- plied to Governor Pacheco for patents for the te nal grounds and the designated right of and a notice was published inviting ob- 35 to show cause, if they desired to, why these patents should not issue. I saw these notices and wrote to the Governorrequesting to be heard in opposition to issuing the patents. 1 received from his secretary a reply promising to fix a time thereaiter for the hearing and ap- prise me of it. I wrote and printed two letters addressed to the Governor, in July, 1875, pointing eut some of the reasons why the com- panies were not entitled to the patents asked for, and awaited his promised notification of the date of the proposed hear- ing, for which these letters were my brief. The notice never came. I presume the Governor forgot his promise to me, as, at the election of 1875, he was chosen a member of Congress, and must have had many things to think of about that time. On the 17th of September, just after the election, he issued to the railroad companies & patent for the sixty acres, but de- nied their application for that right ot way. I never could see how to reconcile the granting of the one with the denial of the other, but at least it showed the Governor's impartiality, as the Judge 1n early day: rved the slave—he geve the law to the public and the land to the T ds. ust before Governor Pacheco went out of ofiice the Attorney-General applied to me to aid him in an action he proposed to bring on behalf of the State to vacate this patent, and at his instance I prepared a bill in equity for that purpose,which was filed in December,1875. In January, 187 Mr. Jo Hamilton, the newly elected Attor General, assumed con- trol of the case, and, aiter granting many and long extensions of time, finally, on my remon- strance, refused further time. Then followed & motion te strike out matfer from the com- plaint, and more delay. I finally found that I had nocontrol, or even voice, in the manage- ment of the suit. General Hamilton also in- formed me that he could pay no fees, aithough he has & fund of $4000 a year allowed him by the State for such purposes, and I could but conclude thatI was not wanted in the case. About the same time I learned from my other associate counsel in it, Mr. Bishop, that he had become one of the leading counsel for the rail- road companies. Under these circumstances the suit naturally went to sleep. I never heard of the filing of any answer to it, although of the proceedings after the motion to strike out, if any there were, I have no knowledge, having never been consulted about them. While I remained in practice I occa- sionally inquired in the clerk’s office, and ex- pected some day to learn that the action had been dismissed, but that was not done. The last inquiry made by me, some three or four yesrs ago, revealed the fact that most of the papers Ied disappeared from the files, and I see no reason for surprise if, as you state, all have; but if the present Attorney-General de- sires to prosecute the case I believe I could be of material service to him in reproducing coples of those that are material. During the term of office of Attorney-General Hart he met me on the street one day and told me he was going to bring the suit to triai. He seemed, however, to have been sidetracked by other litigation with the same adversaries over the Oakland water front, and abandoned the idea, 1f he really entertained it, of taking the case up, Attorney-General Fitzgerald does pot propose that there shall be any “‘sleeping,”’ as Mr. Doyle terms the outcome of the first suit, in the proceedings which heis about to institute. In speaking of the im- pending action he said yesterday: “This is & matter about which Ido not care to talk at present, for the very good reason that it would be extremely unwise to do so. 1do not care to even outline the course I intend to follow, but of one thing the people of California can be assured I am guarding their interest in this and in other matters as well and as faithfully as I * know how.” Prior to the granting of this land by the State to the Southern Pacific Company cer- tain sections of the property were owned by citizens of this City. They were op- posed to allowing the property to fall into the hands of the corporation, and so de- manded prices much beyond what the company was willing to give. The rail- road then appealed to the Legislature, asking that they condemn the desired property, which demand was promptly complied with, Now that the State intends bringing suit against the Southern Pacific for the re- covery of the sixty acres these citizens are anxious to secure their original posses- sions, and demands setting-forth these facts are being drawn up. ‘When the suit finally comes to trial it will be full to overflowing with technicali- ties and, as a whole, one of the most com- plicated the legal talent has had to cope with for many years. ———meeee— Robert Hood Complimented. Robert Hood, formerly of the Union Iron: Works, and recently sppointed foreman joiner of a suit involving its right and title | at the Mare Island Navy-yards, was pleasantly entertnined last night by about fifty of his old fellow-workmen and presented with a hand- some gold watch as a token of their esteem. ———————— A HOME-MADE DRINK. Julian Ralph Tells of a Toddy He Got in the South. “Colonel Ralph,” said the planter, “en- joy this yer boundless panorama of nature. Feast yo' eyes, sah, on the beautiful rxver:” (Then aside, *“Wife, set out the mixin’s in the back room.”) *Colonel Ralph, you are welcome to share with us this grand feast of scenery and nature’s ornaments. But, sah, I think my wife has set out some- thing—just a little something—in the house. I dun’no what it is, sah, but if you find it good I shall be delighted, sah.”” S0 we went into the back room with this Colonel Mulberry Sellers and there on the dining table stood a bottle, a bow] of sugar, three glasses and spoons and a glass pitcher full of spring water. : “S8erve yourself to a toady, Colonel,’ said my host. 2 “I'll 'watch you first,”” said I; “I don’t know what a toddy is.”” 5 “Don’t know what a toddy is?” said the hospitable man. *“Why, sah, that does seem strange to me. Back in gran’ ole Virginia, sah, we children were all brought up on it, sah. Every morning my revered father and sainted mother began the day with a toddy, sah, and as we children ap- peared my mother prepared for each one an especially tempered drink of the same, sah, putting—I reeret to say—a little more water in mine than the others, because I was the youngest of the children.” As ke spoke he dipped some sugar into his glass, poured in a little water, sufficient to make a syrup when the two ingredients were stirred with a spoon, and then emptied in an Arkansas ‘‘stiffener” of whisky, a jorum, as the English would say. That is the drink of the South, where drinking, without being carried to any excess that I ever witnessed, still remains a genteel accomplishment, as it was_heid to be by the English, Scotch and Insh, who were progenitors of nearly all our Southern brothers.—Harper’s Magazine. 1S A LONDON REFORMER, Rev. Septimus Buss of Eng- land Talks of His Work. Preaches From the Spot Where Ellzabeth Heard the Bells of Shoreditch. Rev. Septimus Buss, rural dean of the Parish of Shoreditch, London, Eng., has arrived in California and is stopping at the Palace Hotel. He is accompanied by his wife and his eldest son, who is also a min- ister of the Church of England. Dr. Buss is personally of strong mental attainments, and possesses a wonderful fund of information about America as well as England. “My parish,” he said yesterday, “isin what is known as the Parish of Shoreditch, where there is a population of 123,000. We have in all twenty-one churches, and my own is what is known as the mother church, built on the same spot where the church stood in the time of the Saxons. The present structure was erected in 1740. Have you not heard of the time when Queen Elizabeth listened to the bells of Shoreditch? Well, the spot where LEFT WITHOUT A SERVICE| Residents South of the Park Robbed of Streetcar Facilities. NO NOTICE WAS GIVEN THEM. Part of the Metropolitan Franchise Suddenly and Mysteriously Abandoned. Property-owners and residents of the district immediately south of Golden Gate Park are indignant at the action of the Market-street Company in discontinuing its service on that portion of the Metropol- itan Street Railway Company’s franchise that lies south and west of the junction of ‘Waller and Cole streets. It appears to be one of those high- handed movements for which the South- ern Pacific Company is so justly famed in this community. The property-owners and residents are agitating the matter of foreclosure of the whole franchise because its provisions, they claim, have been grossly abused. Upon the completion of the Metropolitan Street Railway as far as Ninth avenue property in the vicinity began to enjoy a mild but very firm boom. It had long been very desirable property for residence, IR =a. g% AVF i} e e e e ——— em—= e ) i \ | Ed o) o | O o Map showing the district that has lost its streetcar facilities so suddenly and without mnotice. The heavy dotted lines show where the service was discontinued. Rev. Septimus Buss, the Dr. Parkhurst of London. [Sketched from life for the “Call™ by Nankivell.} those bells echoed out their tidings is where the church now stands. “I find that I haye got a grand work before me, and I feel that I am doing some good with the assistance of my ministers and those who understand our purpose. Most of the inhabitants of the parish are cabinet-makers, boxmakers for the linen- drapers, matchmakers and such other light trades. o ““The wages, you say? Yes, indeed, they are very small. Five and six shillings a week, or about $150 of your American money. There is a great deal of content- ment among the people and also a great deal of misery. The liquor traffic is the curse of the parish and I am concentrating all my efforts and all mf' force of helpers to destroy it. I absolutely believe in tem- perance and if it can be accomplished I shall indeed thank God. I believe in all kinds of reform and in politics I am a Radical. Woman’s suffrage! is a good thing. They can influence a great many men to do good things, and I have no doubt that their votes would to a great extent be used to elect the better class of office-seekers.” Dr. Buss has come to the Pacific Coast to visit his youngest son, who is farming at EiCajon, in the southern part of the State, and when the reverend gentleman has accomplished his mission he will re- turn to England and the Parish of Shore- ditch, where he is styled the “Dr. Park- hurst of London.” Hewill a little later on compile a book on American reform, which will be copyrighted both in England and this country. The doctor still sticks to the clerical garb of the old English min- isters, as well as to their faith. He is ve: much impressed with the climate of Oali- fornia and says he has never encountered such a long period of perfect weather as he has witnessed while here. DR U SIS In South Africa. The following quaint advertisement is from a Bouth African paper: Birth.—It was on Thursday, at 6:30 A. ., the 4th of April, 1895, that in the passive re- tirement of C. M. de Tarnowsky family, at Bonnme Terre Poenix, a lovely babe named Eliacin Milton Lubomir has drawn his first breath of life on this earthly world. All generons Christian friends kindly to pray our esvenly Father to protect this puny, iiving spring “through time and tor eternity!— uropean edition of New York Herald. Cornelius Vanderbilt has gates from France, stone from the West, a gardener from Berlin and plants from Italy. but now that there were streetcar facilities the locality began to be peopled and many handsomre and modest homes were built there. But it would appear that this prosperity did not please the Market-street'Company for some reason or cther. Possibly its property interests do not lie heavily in that direction. Possibly the company de- sired to kill this boom in order to help some boom in some other locality. Possi- bly—but speculation is useless in such a case. The facts are that suddenly, with- out a moment’s warning, giving no excuse for the outrage, the Market-street Com- pany—which is now the owner of the Met~ ropolitan franchise—simply stopped its cars at the intersection of Cole and Waller streets. It was one morning early last week. People all along the line, from Ninth ave- nue to Cole street, stood waiting for the cars that usually took them downtown to their shops and their offices. Not a few workmen and women who have positions in the City where punctuality is one of the things required of them stood there wait- ing for the cars, “There must have been a breakdown somewhere on the road. or perhaps in the vower-house,” they said, one to the other, these belated working people and business men, as they stood waiting. Long they waited, but no cars came. Then the disappointed men and women walked over to the steam railroad on H street and waited there for half an hour for the train to take them down to Stanyan street. Some walked across the park to the Powell - street cable - cars. Others walked down to Stanyan street and canght the cable-cars. The next morning the same crowd of peo- ple waited on the same corners. The day before they had seen the Metropolitan cars running downtown, and as no one had been notified of the discontinuance of the serv- ice everybody thought the stoppage was only temporary, to enable the road or ma- chinery to be repaired in some part. But in vain they waited. No cars came. Nor did any come the next morning, or the next. Since then no cars at all have run over that portion of the franchise. Therefore, the residents and property- owners are indignant. They say the action of the Market-street Company was an out- rage—and who shall gainsay them ? An attorney has been ceonsulted by some of the property-owners and he has advised them that their proper course is to demand 1mmediate action in the matter on the part of the proper City officials toward a fore- closure of the franchise. A recent decision of the Supreme Court in a Santa Rosa case makes 1t necessary for the authorities to act at the proper time in order ‘o legally foreclose a franchise. Thedecision is that, unless such action is taken within a reas- onable Tfieriod. the franchise does not lapse. is on the principle that silence ives consent. If the people are willing to ave these outrages perpetrated upon them they must stand the consequences. Will the proper authorities take the timely action needed ? LIONIZED IN LONDON, A French Author’s Account of His Eng- lish Experiences. M. Augustin Filon gives an amusing por- trait of the typical French lion, as lionized in London. “Iam off to London,”’ writes this lion in a diary, the leaves of which have been picked by M. Filon in a carriage of the Orient express. ‘L see too mnns people here in Paris. I talk too much an dine too much. They say the English have neither conversation nor cookery— just what suits me. I have often written about England and explained it to the public. It is time for me to know some- thing of that country and see if all I haye written is true.” For several days he is in the handsof an English friend whe intro- duces him to_everything. “I am passed on from hand to hand. Every minute I am introduced to fresh people, whose names I do not catch, and they present me to their friends. “Yesterday after dinner, at & strange house, I asked my neighbor: ‘Pray what is the name of the lady who introduced me to you?’ The stranger did not look astonished. This sort of thing must hap- pen every day. While I do not know the veople about me, they hardly know me any better. I have made a painful discov- ery for my vanity. The people who dine me, lodge me, pamper me, take me about, and, according te my iriend’s expression, ‘are (dying to see me,” have not read a line of my books. In conversation I was by turns brilliant and profound, as it is the right thing in Paris, in order to show that I was both a thinker and a man of the world. I found it was not worth while, and I fell back on the good old platitudes which allow you to save up your wit for your books.” My interlocutors were just as stingy of theirs. I have dined witha famous writer and philosopher. Here isa verbatim report of his conversation: ‘How do you do? Delighted to see you. How long have you been in London ? How long do you stn{? Do you enjoy yourself ? Allow me—Mrs. L., Mr. X. ery hot? Yes, stifling. Not so heavy as yesterday, though, and I think the windis coming round to the east. Have you read of the death of so-and-so? Great pity — great loss. Allow me—Lady Constance, Mr. X.” And so on until I took my leave, when he lS,ml! i ‘Delighted to have seen you. Good- A fortnight later: “Back to Paris. I am worn to death. A thumping hotel bill. My shirts reduced to rags by English washerwomen. Instead of a home}!y ng- lish fare, I have lived on an audacious French cookery aggravated by all sorts of outlandish relishes. What have I seen or learned? Nothing. The English have prevented my seeing ndon. have taken champagne, heard Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse and Yvette Guilbert. Per- sons around me spoke French and showed me nothing of their souls. If I had been but three hours alone in the streets I should have learned more than in those three weeks. But my bear-leaders would not leave me free. If ever I go_back to London I shall tell nobody. Iwill lodge in a low neighborhood, and go about on %oot or on the tops of buses.—London ews. LUMBER RATES WENT UP The Business Was Given to the S. E. Slade Com~ pany. Increased to $12 After a Bid of $8 Was With=- drawn. Price Reference to the records in the office of the secretary of the State Board oi Harbor Commissioners brings to light the fact that the 8. E. Slade Lumber Company supplied lumber in October, 1893, for $§8 per 1000 feet. Subsequently the firm advanced the price to $12. Now the State is paying Pope & Talbot $11. In an interview yesterday Harbor Com- missioner Colnon said: “When Icame into office the State was paying the S. E. Slade Company $12 per 1000 feet, I thought the price too high, and asked Commissioner Cole whether there was a contract with the Slade Com- pany, and he said there was not. Then we received a proposition from Pope & Talbot to supply us at $11 per 1000 feet. The question was asked: “Did it ever occur to the Harbor Commissioners to in- vite proposals from all lumber-dealers and thus open the sugplv to competition waerein the lowest bidder should get the contract?"” < Mr. Colnon replied: “That was consid- ered, but I regarded the first saving of $900 a month effected by the reduction of the price from $12to $11 as sufficient for a trial of six months. We may secure further reductions in the open market.” “Does not the law really require all State institutions to award contracts to the lowest bidders?”” Mr. Colnon replied that he was famillar with the law, having investigated the sub- ject in his newspaper, and the Commis- sioners were not required to invite bids for supplies involving an outlay of less than $3000. It was suggested that the continuous purchase of lumber, amounting in each month to nearly $3000, approximated $30,- 000 a year, and should be opened to compe- tition. Mr. Colnon insisted that the Commis- sioners knew the law and understood the market, and would get lumber still cheaper if the price declined. He said further: ““There are rumors that & lumber trust isto be formed to advance prices. If dealers combine to put up grices on the State, we shall establish a yard and bring our own lumber here.” At the office of Pope & Talbot inquiry was made as to the prices charged the State by that firm. The reporter was re- {ferred to the Harbor Commissioners. At the office of the Golden Gate Lumber Company, 4 Sutter street, D. H. Bibb, vice-president, imparted the information desired. He said that his company and not the Slade Company, as stated in Tug CArL, made the proposition to the Harbor Commissioners some time ago to supply lumber for $8 per 1000, and subsequently withdrew it as it was not accepted. In reviewing former dealings with the State Board of Harbor Commissioners he said: “For nearly ten years we supplied the Commissioners with lumber. We were ina sense the vehicle to procure it. The patronage, if it can be so called, was dis- tributed by us to eifiht or ten of the lead- ing lumber-dealers in the City. Surely we ave out 75 per cent of the entire business other firms. The fact that we held the privilege for so many years is in itself proof that we distributed the business properly to the trade. When Commis- sioner Cole came into office he took the privilege away from us for some reason and gave it to the Slade Lumber Company. The Pacific Pine Lumber Company put in a bid to supply lumber at $10 per 1000 feet and we put in a proposition to furnish it at $8, but neither proposition was accepted. “After my offer had remained with the board for several months without securing any aotice that I could hear of, I con- cluded to withdraw it. ‘‘Now in regard to advertising for pro- Fosals and awarding the contract to the owest bidder, it is my judgment,” con- tinued Mr. Bibb, ‘that the State saves from $6000 to $8000 a year by pur- chasing the lumber 1n the open market. No single firm cares to keep on hand a large quantity of the sizes required by the State, and for which there is little call else- where. I am not now supplying the State with any lumbey, and can speak certainly without prejudice.” The question asked: “Did Mr. Bas- sett, who was a Commissioner when Mr. Cole took the privilege from you, join in giving it to the Slade Company ?’ Mr. Bibb replied: ‘“ThatIdo not know. I only know thatit was taken from me and given to the Slade Company.” ‘The records of the Harbor Commi ers clearly show that the Slade Co: advanced the price to $12 per 1000 wi knowledge of Commissioners Cole and Bas- sett after the Golden Gate Company’s bid of $8 was withdrawn. Commissioner Colnon calculates that the reduction from $12 to $11saves the State $900 a month, hence it follows logically that the advance from $8 to $12 must have cost the State $3600 a month. ——————— The Latin word from which pléan is de- rived originally meant a_ fountain or spring; then the village which sprang up around it, and finally the residents of the village. As Chrstianity took strong root at first in the large centers of population and the worshi lingered longest in the country and among the country villages, it came to be under- stood that a pagan or villager was, in virtue of his residence, a worshiper of the old gods, and thus the term acquired its present significance. e Lucius Flaccus, the legate, and Metellus asserted that they beheld in Crete the body of a man 33 cubits long, or 42 feet, of the pagan deities| $1 A FAVORED CORPORATION The Market-Street Railway Company and Its Com- petitors. TWO0 PER CENT DIFFERENCE. Some Franchises Having the Awk- ward Little Clause and What Became of Them. No street-railway “franchises’” have been granted since 1889 by the Board of Super- visors without the provision being at- tached that they shall pay 2 per cent of their gross receipts into the City treasury. ‘‘Extensions’’ of franchises granted ear- lier than 1889, and which themselves do not earry that clause, are not so taxed. That means to say that the Market- street Railway Company can extend its lines in every direction to the City and County line, for the nominal sum of $500 for each extension and group of extensions, and be required to pay nothing further for its privileges, while any other concern wishing to build a line will be taxed 2 per cent of the gross earnings, and required to pay $5000 in the first instance. This is another thoughtful illustration of the many artful uses of that word “ex- tension,” no reference to which can be found in any of the laws regulating the granting of franchises, The fact is that the further one goes into the study of street railway legisiation in this City the more the wonders unfold. The franchises have been granted and re- granted, extended, re-extended, ramified and abandoned in whole and in part until only the high-salaried lawyers of the big corporation know anything of them. They, no doubt, through careful study, know every winding of the labyrinth. The grants overlap each other in” many cases, so that where the conditions of one are onerous the big company effects to be operating under the others. Certain it is every competitor is at a dis- advantage, and they use every means of keeping them so—cbief of which means is the Solid Eights of Boards of Supervisors. Here is a franchise, however, which has quer cent clause in it, which ought to make it difficult for even the company’s lawyers to find a way round. It was ranted December 20, 1890, to the City Railroad Company. The franchise became the property of the Market-street Railway Company at the time of the consolidation. One year ago the company reported to the expert of the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors that only one or two blocks had been laid, that there was no part of it in operation, and that there were no receipts. The franchise w. ranted in December, 1890, remember—: last year only a few blocks had been laid. The terms of this franchise are unusual. They are as follows: At expiration of one year from date of opera- tion of any portion of this road a sworn state- ment shall be made, certified to by the expert of the Finance Committee, showing gross receipts and 2 per cent paid thereon. The operation of “any portion of the franchise”” required a payment of 2 per cent. That is very different from and much more awkward than those 2 per cent provisions that read ‘‘one year after com- vletion of this franchise.” Therefore as recently as a year ago the company reports that “no part of the road is in operation.” But there are time limits under which these franchises are forfeited if their conditions are not fulfilled, so that yesterday, upon inquiry at the office of the company, Superintendent of Construction H. Ig Lynch stated to a CALL man that the line was all built except a strip on Page street, which had been formally abandoned. The route in this franchise is as follows: Commencing at Mission and Fourteenth, to Potter, Market, Page, Masonic avenue, Fred- erick street to First avenue. Commencing again at West Mission, to Brady, Market, Page. Here are four other franchises, most of them small ones, now comprised in the Market-street system, all containing the 2 per cent provision, none of whic! completed. The first, granted t6 Stump Doble and others November 18, 1891, is as follows: Commencing &t Mission and Sixth streets, on Brannan, Eighth, Channel, Kansas and Ken- tucky, Railroad to Sixteenth avenues. Mr. Lynch reports with regard to this that there is trouble about the grades at Sixteenth and Bryant streets, and for this the road is not built between Townsend and Kansas streets. The time does not run out until November of next year. A branch of the same, commencing at Kentucky and Solano, out Kentucky to Fourth to King, is running. The next frinchise was granted June 3, 1892, to the Ocean Beach Railway Com- pany, and commences at Fell and Stanyan streets, Fulton, First avenue, Cliff House road to the end thereof. Mr. Lynch re- ports the same difticulty about grades and the road as built does not extend beyond Thirteenth auenue outward. The branch of the same road franchise ranted the same time commencm%{ at hurch and Thirtieth on Church, to Her- mann, to Fillmore, was all abandoned— the now famous Church-street franchise. The franchise commencing at Church and Ridiey, on Ridley to Fillmore, to the northern end thereof, has been in opera- tion a month. On the branch commencing at Illinois and Sixteenth streets, on Sixteenth to Market to Seventeenth, to Ashbury, Clayton, Carl and Frederick streets, there is the same complaint about grades on the latter part. The first part is in operation. The same complaint is made on_the branch commencing at Turk and Fill- more, on Turk to First avenue, B street, Nineteenth avenue, D street and Golden Gate Park. The road is running to De- visadero. Following is the report concernin franchise granted on December 6, 1892. The branch commencing at Castro and Seventeenth, on Castro, Ridley, Devisadero to its northerly end. The part on Devisa- dero and Page to Jackson is running. Com- mencing again at Potter and Twenty-sec- ond streets to Chattanooga, Twenty-fourth to Hoffman avenue, has been running for three months. Commencing at Twenty-second and Do- lores strests, on Dolores, Twenty-fourth to Chattanooga, running. Commencing at Twenty-fourth and Noe, on Noe to Jersey, is a side track. Commencing again at Market and Sev- enth streets, on Seventh to King, nothing has been done; time expires December, at Napa and Kentucky apa to Eiaryland, nothing Commencin, streets, on done as yet. For these four franchises the terms are that two years after the completion of the roads, sworn statements must be filed and 2 per cent paid on the gross receipts. REAL ESTATE TRANSACOTIONS. Julius Bluemel and Maria Bitterman to Antonta Schoenemann, ot on E line of Columbia (¥Florida) street, 183 8 of Twenty-fourth, § 20 by E 100; $10, ‘Estate of Hermann Binning (by Charles Binning, administrator) to Patrick M. Toner, lot on N ling of Duncan _street, 199:113, E of Dolores, E 25:0%4 by N 114; $3150. bt Mathews to Catherine M. Mathews, Iine of Jackson street, 137:6 K of Larkin, 1by § 187:6: 810. lot on 23: . ‘Matthew and Catherine Kavanagh to Clara M, Platt, 1ot on E line of Steiner street, 128:3 N of Hayes, 85, N 038, W 10. N 14. W 75, 828:8; E. W. and Effie E. Hyde to Julia Drussel. lot on g;: roer of Fell and Scott streets, i 87:6 by S E 10. H nl!gnfé. Markham to Frank B. Moors, lot on 8 line of ento street, 165 W of Devisadero, W mgfl S132:7; 10, ‘harles A. KI:: to Cornelius C. lflrghuy.. lot on E line of Stevenson street, 125 N of Elghteenth, N 28 by K 80; $10. Alexandre and Marie Bertin to Jacob Holmann, 1ot on S line of Fifteenth street, 260 E of Castro, 50 by § 115; $10. M. Morgenthaa Company (a COrporation) to Ane ders A. Gradin, Iot on W line of York street, 127:6 S of Twenty-first, S 26:6 by W 100; 8825. Anders A, Gradin to Stephen A. A. B. Edwards to Arthur L. Sobey, lot on 8E cor- :;f] of Jersey and Sanchez streets, E 75 by 8 114; Thomas . Edwards (trustee for George and Sarah G. Edwards) to same, same; $6000. Virginia C. and Levi Van Auken to i. H. Davls, 1ot on W line of Pennsylvania avenue, 405:4 S of Yolo street, 8 27:8 by W 100; $10. _ . Charles A. H. Anderson to Albert Fredericks, lot on W line of Eleventh avenue, 225 B o2 Caliiornia street, § 25 by W 120; $10. David 8. and Sallie Morris to_Olive A. Wheeler, lot on E line of Second avenue, 160 S o2 California street South, 8 25 by E 120; $10. A. K. P. Harmon to Marr M. B.Martin, lot on NW corner of M street and Tenth avenue, N 600 by W 240: $10. George Fiddes (by J. J, McDade, Sheriff) to Fred H. Hilbert, lot on 1 Iirie of Thirty-fifth avenne, 280 8ot Ustreet, § 25 by W 120; $125, Sunnyside’ Land Company and California Title Insurance snd Trust Company to Ciarence H. Bishop, lot 30, block 48, Sunnyside: $10. August H. Zitterburg to Robert Stitt, lot 185, Gift Map No, 2; $10. John O. Nelson to Pacific States S., L. and B. Company, lot 19, block 4, Holly Park Tract: $ 1600. T. E. Jewell to Susan Daus, lot on NE corner of N street and Ninth avenue, E 100 by N 100, block 166, Central Park Homestéad; $2200. ALAMEDA COUNTY. Thomas Donnellan of Oskland to Edith Milli- chap of Oakland, lot on N line of Wallace or ‘Iwenty-eighth street, 165 W of Grove, W 25, N 280, E 50, S 140, W 25, $140 to beginning, being lots 3, 10 and 11. block D, Henry subdivision of ‘Whitcher, Brockhurst and Rowland Tnc'. Oak- land; $278. Aaron Cert of Mendogino to Bernard Cerf, lot on 8 line of Fourth street, 112:6 W of Alice, W 87:6 by 100, being lot 12" and W half of lot 13, block 84, Oakland: $10. P.'D. Andrews, Alexander C. ana Loulse M. Giddes to C. E. Palmer of Oakland, lot on S line of Ninth street, 115:9 E of Broadws line of Ninth 34:8,8 75, W 84 75 to begin- ning, being portion of lots 10 and 11, block 88, vakland: $10. Eliza A, Tompkins (by attorney) to Jane Mc- Cutcheon (wife of William), lot 26, block 84, Oak- land; $10. Estate of William H. Glascock (by John R. Glascock, trustee, and Mary A. Blow) to A. R. Wilson of Oakland, lots 36 and 37, block 24, North Alameda Traet, East Oakland: $10. Charles A, and Alice C. Bailey of Oakland to Alonzo Marston of Berkeley, lot on W line of Tenth street, 261.80 8 of Channing way, S 35 by 130, being Iot 11 and 8 10 feet of lo 10, block 137, corrected map, Avery Tract, Berkeley: 85. Arthur F. Bridge, A. P. and Lettie W. Holland, G. W, Kittie D., G. W. and Kittie M. Dearborn_to Eiizabeth B. Hitchcock (wife of D. W.), lot on NB line of Monroe strect, 248.12 SE_of Twenty-third avenue, SE 34, NE 9216, W 19.57 to an angle thereof, thence following oid county road 17.29 feat, to point of intersection of sald line of said road and N'W line of lot herein described, thence SW 79.04 to begiuning, being lot 4. Draper Tract, Brooklyn Township: $5. Edith Hewit te Felix Marcuse, lot on N line of Buena Vista avenne, 125 W of Joy street, W 29, N 99.94, E 25, § 99.91 te beginning, being lot 5, bl D, Piteh Tract, Alameda; $10. Henry G. and Elizabeth Fiske to Elsie A. Mcil- rath of Alameda, lot on N'W corner of San Pablo avenue and Isabellastreet, N 60 by W 100, being lot 30 and portion lov 31, Gunn Tract, Oukland; Born, same; Charles A. and Mary A. Miller of Oakland to Mary K. Field (wife of William J.). ot on SE cor- ner ‘of Bay and Willlams streets, E 151:214, S 145:11, W'157:10 15-16, N 110 to beginning, be- inglots 11 to 16, block 45, lands at Oakland point ferry landing, tract 406, Oakland ; $7000. John Silva of San Pablo to Frank A.. Mary, John |. T., Annie and_Catherine Silva, lot on § line of Usion avenue, 180 W of Green street, W 100 by S 155, being 1ot 26, block 8, Maxwell Tract, Oakland Township; gitt. Same to Elizabeth D. Silvs, lot on §line of Union avenue, 200 W of Green street, W 50 vy S 165, portion of lot 27, block 8, Maxwell Tract: gift. Jeremiah and Margaret McNamara to Robert J. McNamara, lot on W line of Tenth street, at the intersection of Durant street, N 100, thence at right angles 75, thence at right angles 100, thence at right angles 100, thence at Tight angles 75, 1o begiuning, being lots 11, 12, 13, block 2, LM. Wentworth Boot and Shoe Company's Tract (as recorded), Berkeley: $10. ‘Annie L. Laue of Alameda to Willism Lane, lot on W line of Laurel street, 320 8 of Clinton ave- nue, § 40 by W 130, lot 17, block B, Bellevue Tract, quitelaim deed, Alameda; $10. Joseph A. Leonard Company il corporation) to James 8. Tyler, 1ot on N line of Eagle avenue. 128 E ot Willow, E'42 by N 150, block 16, lands adja- cent to Encinal, Alameda; $10. Builders' Contracts, John Callaghan with Joseph Sullivan, to erect a two-story buildingon E line of Alabams street, 208 S of Twenty-second; $2665. Julla Drussel to E. W. Hyde, to erect a three- story bullding on SE corner of Fell and Scoit streets; $5300. Mrs. A. C. Kistz with H. B. Schmuckert, altera- tions on a three-story building on W line of Bart- lett street, 286 W of Twenty-first; $1189. ———— - Ferdinand Lopez, historiographer for the Kiniot Portugal, had a man brought be- fore him in the Indies whe ‘‘by good proof had lived 340 years, had grown young four times, changing his hair and getting new teeth.’’ This prodigy had about 700 wives altogether. NEW TO-DAY. THE OWL DRUG CO., CUT-RATE DRUGGISTN ! 1128 Market Streeot, > SAN FRANCISCO, 820 S. Spring Street, 10S ANGELES. OPEN ALL NIGHT. THEY BO NOT SAY How we can sell Canadian Club Whisky for $1 per bottle, OR EXPLAIN WHY We sell Hoffs Extract Malt for $2 85 per dozen, OR STATE THE FACT That we sell Woodbury’s Facial Soap for 25¢ a cake. OR THAT THE COMBINE TRIED To make us raise our prices T0 DIVERT THE FACT THAT We regulate the price of drugs in Sen Francisco. THAT EVERYBODY IS OUR FRIEND. Because we Yive them pure drugs and medicines at living prices, PRICES TALKI Paine’s Celery Compound. Scott’s Emuision. Mme. Churchill’s Antiseptic Soa) Cuticura and Pear's Soap. Kaufman’s Sulphur Bitte pole’s Cod Liver Oil. Joyis nd Hood's Sarsaparilia Allen’s Pure Malt Whisky. Lydia Pinkham’s Compounid ‘ellows’ Syru; [y pophos; Cutloura Resolvent.rr .o Chichester’s Pennyroys A TONIC, REMEDY AND APPETIZER, Painter’s Coca Wine and Celery Tonie The best, most delicious and popular as a gentle stimulant and appetizer. REGULAR PRICE $i 25. Our Price 85c a Bottle. FOR MEDICINAL USE, ALLEY'S PURE MALT WHISKY. Perfect in Flavor. Absolutely Pure. 85c per Bottle. PACIFIC COAST AGENTS FOR EDISON'S OBESITY GOODS. PILLS. SALTS. BANDS. WRITE FOB CIRCULAR. NEW TO-DAY. NOLAN BROS. THIS WEEK WE WILL CLOSE 0UT 00R ENTIRE STOCK g TAN SHOES =Y, e O THE DOLLA We are the only House that has a large stock of Tan Shoes. The peo- ple know it. They all say we are paralyzing the market on TAN SHOES We have the shoes, but must dis- pose of them to make room for our fall goods. Read the following NET CASH PRICE LIST And you will see that we are sell- ing shoes for about one-half what you have been paying. It will pay any one to buy all ths TAN SHOES they need for thls season during this sale. CHILDREN'S AND MISSES' TAN BUTTUN Sizes 8 10 11. Sizes 113 to LADIES' TAN BUTTO heel, square toe and ¢ HOES, heel or spring __'$1 50 per pair. Tegaiar price $2 50. BUTTON OR LACE $1 75 per palr. ular price $3. LADIES’ FINE TAN KID BUTTOXN, pointed Or narrow square tos 3 soles, a perfect finished shoe.. .. Regulas LADIES' RAZOR-TOE SHOES, flexible sole atest style nt flexible IY TAN KID BU TON OR LACE SHOES, hand-turn soles, late style pointed TaZor tOes..............$3 per pair. Reguiar price 85 per pair. LADIES’ TAN OXFORD TIES, pointed or narrow square Loes.. ...$1 per pair. LADIES’ FINEST Q LADIES’ TAN 80 TIES DArrow square toes.. .. 8 . pointed or 1 50 per pair. KID OXFORD TIES, le pointed or square $2 per pair. LADIES’ FINE TA hand turn soles, lat toes. YOUTHS' AND BOYS' TAN LACE SHOES, solid soles. Youths’ sizes. 11 to 2. Boys' sizes, 2 10 534 TAN CALF SHOES, ..$2 per pair. Regular price §4. WE WILL SELL ALL BLACK SHOES at the SAME PRICE. By the Above Yon Will See That You Have All to Gain and Nothing to Lose by Buying Your Shoes at NOLAN BROS. SHOE CO. §12814 MARKET STREET, PHELAN BUILDING. Telephone 5527. . LUNDY'S JEWELRY-STORE For 20 Years at the Corner of Third and Market, is REMOVED T0 16 ELLIS ST, OPPOSITE FOURTH, Where Old and New Customers Will Be Welcomed. 18k WEDDING RINGS A SPECIALTY, SHOE 0. __ < STHEVERY BESTONETO EXAMINE YOUR » eyes and fit them to Spectacles or Eyeglasseq with instruments of his own invention, whose superiority has not been equaled. My success has been due to the merits of my Work. Oftice Hours—12 (0 4 ¥. ). A LADIES GRILL ROOM Has been established in the Palace Hotel N ACCOUNT OF REPEATED DEMANDS O made on the management. It takes the piaco of the clty restaurant, with direct entrance irom Market st. Ledies shopping will find this & most Qesirable place to lunch. Prompt service and mod- erate charges, such as have given the gentlemen’s Grillroom an international reputation, will prevai In this new department. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION Of Graduates of San Francisco Nor- mal School. Y ORDER OF THE GITY BOARD OF EX- amination a competitive examination of the fadustes of the Sen Franciaco Normal Sehool of ay, 1§95, in conformity with Section 166 of the rules of the Board of Kducation, will be heid at the San Francisco Normal School building, on Powell st., near Clay st., commencing on Saturday ‘morning, August 10, at 8 o'clock. GEO. W. WADE, Secretary City Board of Examination.