The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1895, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1895 22 - FIGURES ON THE COST OF WATER AND LIGHTS City Ownership Lowers the Expense to the Consumer. COST IN SACRAMENTO. A Government Employe’s Ideas on the Artesian Water Supply. CHICAGO'S WELLS ARE DEEP. San Franclsco Sald to Pay Much More for Its Supply Than Eastern Clties. The Union for Practica! Progress ap- pears to be meeting with no difficulty in gaining signatures to its petition to the Board of Supervisors for a special election to cecide whether or no San Francisco its own water and lighting shall own plants e All day yesterday men went in single and in pairs to the office of John M. Rey- nolds, in the basement of the Crocker building, where the petition blanks are to be obtained and took them away, some to be used themselves in soliciting support to the movement and others to be given 1o friends for the same purpose. Though the blanks have been out only since Thursday many bave already been returned full and those who held them have taken more to carry on the work. One man took two at the time they first came out and filled them within twenty-four hours without going out of his place of busi- Iwino(her man, who works for a multi- millionaire capitalist and manufacturer. filled a blank in the office where he works within a few minutes and took another to circulate among his friends. ‘Among those with whom blanks have been placed, and who are willing to take signatures openly, are: H. Simon, grocer, 801 Larkin street; C. H. Hoeceker & Co., grocers, 829 Polk street; J. E. Redmond, Constine, grocer, | H. M. Herzog, black- . Johnson, 602 nolds, Crocker build- H. S.de Roche- 1408 Buchanan street; smith, 739 Broadway; Market street; R mont, 2312 Larkin_street Treat avenue; J. H. Johnso! Dr. E. H. Berta Tehama street; tobacco-dealer, 1 01 Grant avenue; tailor trimmings, 120 Geary street; notion-store, 514 Geary sreet; C. H. Thielle, er, 144 Geary 518 Hyde street. Four more were started out with blank | dug. ! cost of water in the United States per family is | 43 per cent higher where private companies control the supply. In San Francisco the average cost per family | can be estimated at 75 per cent higher than the average of Eastern cities that own their water. The great cost attending the construc- tion of such works should be met squarely in the outset, as the earlier in the history of any city that the subject is grappled with the sooner the progress and growth of that city is assured. Scant water supply and high prices are drawbacks to the best geographically lo- cated municipality, which no natural advan- tages can overcome. The rapid progress and success that is at- tending the system of artesian well boring is atiracting attention all over the world. Where it can be applied the greatly diminished cost of obtaining water by this means commends it at once to the taxpayer and capitalist. Arte- sian water being usually free from organic matter is generally much purer than water irom other sources, and any mineral impurity, in such quantity to be injurious to the health, is easily recognized from its taste, which is not alw the case of many of the impurities found in surface water. That there is evidence of an immense supply of good water beneath San Francisco is easily demonstrated by any one who will investigate the subject for an hour. Chieago, with an inland sea of fresh water at its very doors, finds that it is economy to use artesian weter. There are over twenty artesian wells in that city, varying from 1200 to 1700 feet in depth.” The most successful is 5l inches in diameter, yielding 900,000 gallons renty The average cost of wells is #6000 for 5l inches diameter 5000 for 415 inches in diameter. An official investigation of the cost of developing the resources of San Francisco in this direction is certainly worth the trouble and trifling ex- pense. Another gentleman who has long been identified with the City’s growth and has held a responsible office said: There is plenty of good, pure water obtain- able in this City. At the northeast corner of Stockton and Union streeis, in early days, there was a soda factory which was supplied with water from an art n well five inches in diameter. The water continuelly flowed over the five-inch curb. I think the name of the proprietor of the soda works was Thompson. On Charles Bawm's property, at 1705 Powell street, there was a well, the water in which could never be lowered less than twenty-two feet in depth. In the rear of the Bawm lot and on Thomas Taylor's prorurl_v there was a well 137} feet from the northwest corner of Powell and Unio streets, the water in which was never reduced. This neighborhood is seventy- five feet above base. John Harold, a brewer, purchased s fifty- vara lot on Filbert street, between Powell and Masen, and was induced to dig a well. He supplied his brewery altogether from this well by means of a two-inch pipe, and by that saved an expense equivalent to the price he paid for the lot—several thousand doliars. 1 remember another instance. M. F. Truett lived at the corner of John and Powell streets. Along a corner of his cellar and under a corner of the African Methodist Church on Powell street was & running stream equal in volume %0 four or five inches in diameter. The Ensign Water Company had a spring somewhere in this vicinity, to the possession of which John Benson succeeded and ultimately the Spring Valley Company. Yes, there is plenty of water. All down here on the flaton Sansome and Pine streets water could be obtained easily. There were several bathhouses which got their supplies from wells Turner Cowing, the water-cart man, got his water from an artesian well right where the Stock Exchange building now stands on Pine street. Again, look at Buena Vista Park. Itisal- wet. Llewellyn on Buena Vista avenue, ere it must be about 500 feet above base, w W h had a 100-foot well and was supplying his | neighbors until the Spring Valley Company ma It is no new thing for a city to Brooklyn, e some sort of an arrangement with him. & its water N.Y., s an from artesian wells. petitions yesterday. They were W. Beer- man, H. Spiro, J. Wyatt and John A. Wall. & Others who are doing active work are: V. D. Farrell, P. Molloy, N.L. Wendells, M. , Thane brothe; F. Zahn, Labor Bu ion, Dr. George W. Lavis, A.V v Knox, P. McCol- Job Harriman, ell, George T. inghorn-Jones, P. Ober, M. Holm, , A. B. Kinne. P. Henley, Marks Bros., J. Foley, J. ) J. Gibney. G A Oliver Everett, Guire, Dunkelma Long, S. A. C thoneéy, H. T. Bestor, iller, F. B. Gibson, A. Cridge, A. Lietz, and Dr. A. O Brown. Meanwhile the officers of the union-are wasting no time in gathering the vast mass of figures and statistics with which they will fortify their case when it comes to be presented to the Board of Suvervi- sors. Dozens of letters have been sent East to towns owning their own water and lighting plants, and estimates of men who are familiar w the advantages of such institutions when operated by city governments are being obtained and laced in such shape that they can readily Ee explained to the Supervisors. Within the past few days Mr. Reynolds has received figzures from the City Clerks of Stockton and Sacramento on the water rates of their towns, and is very much pleased by the showing in favor of the lat- ter municipality, which owns and operates its own water works. Mr. Reynolds makes the following stetement based on the in- formation already received: Drawing e comperison between Stockton, which buys water irom a private corporation, and Sacramento, which owns its own plant, shows how advisable it is for municipalities 1o have water supplies of their own. The Board of Trustees of Sacramento some time ago fixed the rates for householders as follows: Houses of 7 rooms or less, $1 per ; more than 7 rooms and less than 10, for 10 rooms and less than 15, $150; for each additional room, 10 cents. ~Rates for business-house: ixed in proportion. Now here is_Stockton, supplied by a private corporation. Houses of the size for which Sac- ramento charges $1 per month pay $150 per month, and ell rates are proportionately high in comparison with those of the capital.” That ought to convince any doubting Thomas who fears that the citr cannot handle its own water supply. I nave aiso a Jetter here from the City Clerk of Sacramento in which he siates that, low as the rates appear to be, they yield a profit to the city of 200 per cent on the cost of running. Now as to lighting plants, we have found figures that are fully as stertling as those just given. This table will give an idea of the cost of lighting before and after the lighting plants passed into the hands of the munici- palities: o, iR Before. After. Bangor, Me 848 Lewliston, M 5o 5 50 Goshen, Ind . 7 Bloomington, Til. 51 Chicago, 111 96 in. il 43 ‘Aurora, Tii. 70 Fairtield, fowa. 70 Marshailtown, Tow: 27 Jacksonville, Fla. These are yearly rates on each electric light. These matters should open the eves of the community to the necessity of getting the lighting of the City into the hands of the municipal government without further delay. WATER 1S PLENTIFUL. A Government Employe Says the Supply Is Inexhaustible. An engineer of high standing in his pro- fession, who is now in the Government employ and who has for a number of years past devoted much of his time to water supplies and irrigation districts, and par- ticularly to the artesian product, has con- tributed the following on the subject of the feasibility of supplying San Francisco with the water of artesian wells to be duyg right at bome: There is at present no sanitary or financial subject of more general interest to the average citizen of San Francisco than that relating to an abundant and wholesome supply of domes- tic water. No town or city can submit to a continued want without a serious check in its prosperity. The history of all large cities shows that the daily amount of water con-_ sumed per capite is constantly increasing and that its legitimate use is being popularized as civilization advances, and there can be no doubt that an ample and cheap supply of water llwndn dmmcxs capital to points that are so rovided. pThe question of the advisability of cities owning and controlling their water supply sys- tem is decided by the fact that over 70 per cent of the, cities in the United States own their water works, and that the majority of them were in the beginning the property of private corporations. When owned by such corpora- tions they are probably as complete natural monopolies as are in existence, and competi- tion is rare and almost impossible from their nature. Statistics develop the fact that the average example of this. CANNOT VETO THE LEVY, Attorney Bergin’s Report on the Mayor’s Right to Op- pose the Tax Rate. QUOTES LAW ON THE CASE. In Spite of the Opinion a Strong Fight Is Being Made to Defeat the Resolution. Attorney T. 1. Bergin has reported to the presidents of the local savings banks that he does not think that Mayor Sutro has the power under the law to veto the $2 25 tax levy imposed by the Board of Supervisors. Shortly after the tax rate was levied the presidents of the savings banks met and discussed the situation. It was pretty well understood that unless the levy could be reduced the banks would lower the rates of interest paid depositors. President Tobin of the Hibernia Bank, President Becker of the German Bank and President Le Breton of the French Bank were appointed a committee to handle the case. They en- gaged Attorney T. I. Bergin to examine into the matter and report as to the possi- bility of securing relief against the levy through the veto of the Mayor, and if the measure was vetoed whether or not in case his veto should not be overruled another levy could be legally made. It was definitely known that Mayor Sutro stood ready to veto the levy pro- viding it was found that he had the power. Attorney Bergin, in his report, states that there ‘was a conflict between section 68 of the Consolidation Act,which vests the veto power in the Mayor, and section 3714 of the Political Code, providing a method of raising revenue for the City. After dis- cussing the wording, he holds that the Po- litical Code repeals the expression of the Consolidation Act. Then he cites the very pertinent case of The People vs. McCreery, and notes the pertinent sentence, ‘‘The Board of Supervisors shall levy the amount of taxes.” Back to section 3714 of the Political Code he goes to get it hamiaered into its au- thoritive form: The Board of Supervisors must fix the rate of the county taxes, and must levy the State and county taxes upon the taxable property of the county The opinion continues as follows: In the instances quoted the Board of Super- visors is empowered to levy. In neither in- | stance is any mention made of the Mayor. Yet the court in the case of the city of Stockton against an insurance company held that the ordinance making the levy was invalid with- out the approval of the Mayor. Of course if the a{)provnl of the Mayor be necessary, he is entiiled to veto as well as tosign. The right to sign and the right to veto spring from the same source and depend on the same statutes. Ii entitled to approve, the Mayor is equally en- titled to disapprove, and such_disapproval is nothing less than to veto. While the right to veto thus exists in the Mayor the question still remains as to his right ‘to exercise it in this particular instance. That must necessarily depend on the statute affecting the levy of taxes. The opinion then goes on to quote the statutes, and the meat of them relevant to the case is found to be, ‘‘the Board of Supervisors must on the third Monday of September fix the rate.”’ Nothing can be more imperative and mandatory than this. Manifestly, exercise of the right to veto, secured under the terms of section 68 of the Con- solidation Act, is utterly incompatible with the pover and duty of the Board of Supervisors to ix the rate of taxes on the third Monday in Beptember. Then the opinion goes on to point out what the Mayor might do with the levy if he had the veto power: If entitled to veto the ordinance making this Kurllculnr levy, should his veto be sustained, e would be equally entitled to veto any and every succeeding ordinance making the lev: that might be submitted for his approval, ani hus not only defeat operation of the provi- ions of section 3714 of the Political Code, but s:uirely defeat the levy of all City and County xes. It will be needless to dwell upon the inex- pediency of casting suspieion or doubt upon the legality of the levy of the Cityand County taxes or jeopardizing their colleciion. De- parture from the text of the statute can only excite suspicion or doubt and invite litigation, casting & cloud upon the title to the property of such persons as may not choose to volun- tarily pay their taxes. We therefore feel constrained to come to the conclusion that as to taxes levied under the rovisions of the Political Code his Honor, the Mayor, has not the right to_exercise his power of veto_over their levy; that as to them his right of veto has been repealed. ?n view of this “onclusion it becomes imma- terial to inquire whether or not if his Honor, the Mayor, veto the levy, and his veto be not overruled another levy can legally be made. Notwithstanding this opinion Mayor Sutro still thinks be has power in the mat- ter. He bases the opinion on what certain lawyers he has engaged have reported to him If ther can bear out their opinions with sound law he will take the matter into the courts. The bankers will discuss Attorney Ber- gin’s report next Monday and endeavor to find some other method to block the levy in a legal way. THE ITALIANS CELEBRATE, A Grand Concert Held Last Evening in Washington Square. LANTERNS IN THE TREES. The Park and Streets Crowded With Thousands Who Enjoyed the Music. The Italian colony turned out in great numbers last evening to listen to the grand concert held in Washington square, on Stockton "and Filbert streets. It was the second day's celebration of the twenty- fifth anniversary of Victor Emmanuel’s entry into Rome. The celebration will be continued to-day and to-night. Never in the history of this City has ‘Washington Park held such a number of people as it did last evening. The Italian quarter was practically deserted, and their numbers in the square were increased by large delegations from the surrounding country. The scene was indeed attractive, for the grounds were illuminated with nearly 1000 large Chinese lanterns of Italy’s national colors—red, green and white. These were hung upon heavy cords that were strung between the trees and posts. These lan- terns afforded the juvenile population lots of fun, for not a few caught on fire and flared up with a lively blaze. One lantern caused a small stampede. It purned through a long rope to which were hung at least thirty lanterns. These fell into the thickest of the crowd near the band, and not a few bonnets and hats were singed and garments covered with hot talilow from the candles. The trees, too, were decorated, every bough as large asa broomstick was festooned with small boys. In consequence there were many broken boughs and bruised bones. Bejore the band began and during the first part the committee setoff nearly a hundred skyrockets, which burst display- ing varicolored lights. At 8 o’clock Cassasa’s band of forty musi- cians took their places in the opening in the northern portion of the square. The concert lasted until 10 o’clock and was greatly appreciated. The following pro- gramme was rendered, beginning with the “‘Star-spangled Banner’: (a) Marcia Reale, (b) Inno di Mameli, (¢) Inno ai Garibaldi, (d) Star Spangled Banner (Gam- bett), sinfonia del “Barbiere di Siviglia” (Rosdini), poutpourri sulla “Sonnambul (Bellini), sinfonia del “Guglielmo Tell” (Ros- sini), poutpourri sul “Rigoletto” (Verdi), sestetto e finale della “Lucia” (Donizett “Cavalleria Rusticana” (Mascagni), mosaico canzoni ‘{:‘npolnrl (Rampezati), (@) coro dei “Lombardi,” (b) poutpourri sul ‘Trovatore” (Verdi), finalle del secondo atto dell’ “Aida’ (Verdi). To-day’s programme will be very inter- esting. It will begin with a parade of military and civic bodies, who will march ai 10 o'clock from Garibaldi_ Hall, on Broadway, to Kearny street, to Market, to Sixth, countermarching to Montgomery and to Montgomery avenue. From there the people will be transported to Harbor View, where there will be a picnic and dancing from 2 p. M. until midnight. Dur- ing the afternoon addresses will be de livered by General W. H. L. Barnes, G. Calegaris and others. In the evening there will be a grand display of fireworks in the Harbor View Park. A SUSALITO" SENSATION, The Whir of Horsewhip and Angry Words Between Doctors. Dr. McDonald and Dr. Freeman Renew Thelir Quarrel—An Arrest Threatened. Bausalito enjoyed a sensation yesterday morning. The peacefulness of the citizens who enjoy the morning sun along Water street was broken by the angry voices of a pair of belligerent medical gentlemen. The soft, balmy atmosphere of that lux- urious bay suburb was pierced with the shrill whirr of a horsewhip in the hands of Dr. McDonald, who arew red marks on the face of Dr. Freeman. Before the little knot of startled citizens had compehended the situation the fight- ing medicos were separated by J. J. O'Con- nor, the chief eyewitness of the trouble. But while the battle lasted it was fierce, warm and exciting. Dr. McDonald was driving down Water street in his buggy and was met by Dr. Freeman. There had been bad blood b tween them for the past month, and it bad been increlsinf in temperature until neither could look the other in the face without a flush of resentment. Their first words were angry words, and the assailing doctor’s blows were said by those who heard or saw them to be vicious blows. Dr. Freeman called his antagonist a very bad name, but accord- ing to the spectators the bad name was so badly mixed up with the blow from the whip that it would be difficult to tell which provoked the other. Dr. Freeman secured a warrant for the arrest of Dr. McDonald, and the latter, unconscious of the action of the other, boarded the steamer for San Francisco. He was accompanied by J. J. McDonald. Dr. McDonaEi expressed his intention of returning to Sausalito_on Monday and standing trial before Judge Pryor, and g‘l“"b“ Creed will be at the dock to greet m The quarrel between the two doctors grew out of an action of Dr. McDonald in endeavoring to bar Dr. Freeman from the medical profession about a month ago. But it was believed to have been con- cluded then, and the sensation of yester- day was a surp e e e A Carr-Beel Concert. The first Carr-Beel Saturday pop concert will take place October 5 at 3:15P. M. Brahm's sextet for strings will be one of the features of this concert. The work has never yet been rformed in San Francisco. Dvorak's beauti- ul E flat pianoforte duet will also be played. e A Brewery Incorporation. The Union Brewing Company was incorpo- rated yesterday with $100,000 of capital stock subscribed as follows: Henning Thode, $71,- 400; John Schleemann, A;umoo; Herman Denicke, $3500; Mrs. Henrietia Thode, $100; Mrs. Mathilde Schleemann, $100. | BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. BY FRANK ELLIOTT MYERS. Both armies regarded the possession of Chattanooga as by far the most important strategic point in that part of the pano- rama of the War of the Rebellion. To the Confederates it was a gateway of supplies for its army operations in Tennessee, and to the Union forces it was the most for- midable point from which its organiza- tions could debouch into the heart of the Confederacy. To secure this commanding advantage Buell, after Shiloh, directed his movements which resulted in his getting flanked by Bragg out of the very positions on the north side of the Tennessee River where Rosecrans made 2 successful cross- g with the same army exactly a year later. Rosecrans began his advance from Mur- freesboro on the 24th of June, 1863, and by the 4th of September his entire army had crossed. General Crittenden with the Twenty-first Corps passed around Look- out Mountain on Septemver 10 and occu- pied Chattancoga, which Bragg had evac-| uated the day before. Leaving one brigade | in the town, Crittenden followed the re- treating enemy, whose main body had gone to Lafayette; but he was found in force in the Chattanooga Valley, and Crit- tenden took a defensible position near Gordons Mills and closed up on Thomas’ Fourteenth Corps, which bad been moved to the Jeft along Chickamauga Creek to Crawfish Springs. As soon as Thomas made way to the left | McCook, who, through some misapprehen- sion of orders, had got on the wrong road— thereby losing several days of valuable time —moved his three divisions to the right of Crittenden and massed them. What little cavalry.was within reach of Rosecrans’ or- ders was kept busy reconnoitering and on the flanks. ~Although there was a corps of two divisions of cavalry Colonel Minty’s brigade and Colonel Wilder's brigade of mounted infaniry were depended npon to do the work of that branch, and most gal- lantly was 1t performed. General Gordon Granger, with a reserve corps of 11,000 ef- fective men, was advanced as far as Ross- ville, thus covering our extreme left and rear. These were the positions in which our troops were disposed during the 18th, and their positions were the same at the beginning of the first day’s battle. Saturday morning developed into a good day for battle. It was cool, and therefore favorable to those who were to stop bul- lets of the enemy. The enemy had com- bined in heavy masses on our left, and soon the rattle of musketry and roar of ar- tillery told those further alongthe line and to the right to be in readiness. At this point, where the battle began, the land was generally covered with timber, densely interspersed with undergrowth, through which it was impossible to see more than a hundred and fifty feet. Following the attack on Brannan, Baird was next engaged and began to fiercely drive the enemy, whose dead and wounded covered the ground. On his left the ene- my was pressing Brannan so badly that Baird closed up to support him, and had just gol into proper position when he was compelled to change front to meet the enemy who was assailing his right. He was unable to withstand the superior force of the enemy and was driven back in dis- order. McCook hastily sent Johnson’s di- vision to Baird’s relief and in doing so he struck the enemy’s column in flank and drove it back half a mile, when his own right became overlapped and was in danger of being turned. Crittenden saw the emergency and immediately threw Palm- er’s division to the support of Baird and coming upon the right of Johnson drove back the enemy’s advance column, but in turn his right was soon overlapped and Van Cleve was rushed to his support, but was beaten back by overwhelmingnumbers. In turn Reynolds’ division came into the action and was overfowered, but by the opportune arrival of Davis’ division the tide of disaster was stayed and the enemy driven back. It was only for a moment, however, as the enemy returned to the attack with augmented force and pressed Davis heavily. He was giving ground with Heg's brigade in dis- order when Wood’s_division came to his relief and by judiciously disposing his troops, soon checked the enemy’s advance, but indoing so, met with heavy losses. The hour was about 4 p. M., when the firing was hottest and the fighting fiercest, and nearly every one in our front line was engaged. Everywhere the ground was strewn with the dead, and their numbers attested tne bitterness of the battle. Up to this time, or for mostof the time, it had been an attack and repulse on one side, with the same tactics and results employed and experienced by the other, each later one being made, if possible, more vicious than the preceding. Moreaid from the right came in the shape of two brigades from Bheridan, one of them going into action most zallantly at a moment preatly to the relief of Wood, who had been receiving and repelling the heavy onslaughts of the enemy, in addition to which a crowd of fugitives rushed through the ranks of Colone!l Buell’s brigade and threw it into confusion. The day's battle was vpractically over. The Army of the Cumberland held its po- sition and covered the roads to Chatia- nooga, objects for which the rebels had so desperately battled. Day was over and the tired troops, worn out with marching and fighting, hungry and thirsty, were per- mitted to rest on their arms and contem- plate the battle of the next day. Sunday’s battle, as anticipated, began on the left at about 8:30 A. M. Thomas, with re-enforcements, held his position of the day before; McCook close on Thomas’ left, his right refused, and Crittenden, with two divisions in reserve near the junction of Thomas and McCook’s lines, ready to 1ender assistance to either. An hour later and the battle was raging furi- ously on our left. Nothing like its roar of cannon and rattle of smail arms could be described, and it was evident that the enemy would make it hot for the boys in blue. From left to center the assaults were made and repelled, and it was yet early when Thomas asked for aid. as he was heavily pressed. Negley’s and Van Cleve’s divisions were sent to him. Then came word that Brannan, in the center, was out of line and that Reynolds’ right was exposed. Wood at 11 A. M. was ordered by Rosecrans to *‘close up on Rey- nolds and support him.” It was found that Brannan was not out of line, but en echelon. To obey the order Wood withdrew from the line leaving a gap through which the enemy rushed with great rapidity, intercepting and breaking our line of battle at that point. Branran was compelled to swing back on the right, and after a hard battle, supported by rem- nants from some other commands, held the enemy in check fora time, being as- sisted by McCook on his right. Brannan then fell -back to a defensible pcsition, which he was holding against gent odds, an Cleve, when supJ»on from Palmer, Negley and Colonel Van Derveer reached him. The fierce assaults of the egemy continued until 3:30 p. m., when Granger came to our relief with a portion of the re- serves. Then Negley, without authority, withdrew to Rossville and weakened the line. Finding that Reynolds did not need Wood’s assistance Thomas ordered the latter to send a brigade to Baird on the left. Wood observed a movement of the enemy which gave color to the belief that he was trying to get in rear of our right, 80 Wood fell back with two brigades to where he made a union with Bran- nan, which they held against re- peated as:aults of a most vicious character until night fell, when they with- drew under orders to Rossville. McCook in the meanwhile had been cut off from the main army with five brigades, which were thrown into confusion, and he with- f rew with Sheridan and the brigades re- derred to toward Rossville, where he re- formed and was placed in position by Thomas. During the day Baird’s, Johnson’s, Pal- mer’s and Reynolds’ divisions were each re- yenwdly assaulted with great fierceness by resh troops, but the final effort of the enemy did not take place until in the f afternoon. For two hours column after column was hurled against Thomas, but he stood like a rock defending his position and the roadway to Chattanooga until the broken ranks and demoralized troops of the right and center had succeeded in get- ting safely to Rossville. Rosecrans wired him from Chattanooga to take command make a threatening stand at Rossville and send the unorganized forces to Chatta- nooga. That evening Thomas effected a withdrawal to Rossville in good order, and on the night of the 21st brought his command into Chattanooga. Our effective force in the battle Septem- ber 20 consisted of: Infantry—Officers, 3015; enlisted men, 43,546. Cavalry—Offi- cers, 559; enlisted men, 9555. Artillery— Officers, 131; enlisted men. 4061. Total, 57,162, against 63,816, which was the report for September 10. The casualties were: Officers killed, 140; enlisted men, 1517; officers wounded, 609; enlisted men, 9147; officers captured or missing, 248; enlisted men, 4509. Total, 16,170. Of this number Thomas lost 6114; McCook, 4257; Critten- 26911,3403; Granger, 1822, and the cavalry 68, The Confederate force was estimated at from 70,000 to 100,000. Bragg's report after the battle, dated September 27, gives his infantry then at 36,142 and artillery 2704. Total, 38,846. He admitted bis en- tire loss in the battle to be about 18,000, which would have given him in infantry and artillery alone a force equal to Rose- crans, in addition to which he had a strong cavalry force, Johnston’s troops not men- tioned in his report and about 10,000 raw levies. San Francisco, Sept. 19, 1895. WANTS HIS MONEY BACK, George W. Hendy Says His Wife’s Love Was on a Financial Basis. GAVE HER A $5000 LEGACY. Then She Became Indifferent and Cold to Him and a Separation Has Resulted. George W. Hendy is suing his wife, Emma J. Hendy, to recover $5000, a legacy from the Joshua Hendy estate. He says in his complaint, mentioning his marriage in 1892: That very soon after the marriage of the par- ties to this action the said defendant began to request and urge said plantifi to sign a written assignmeni to her of the said legacy, and she continued to persistently importune and coax said plaintiff to sign awritten assign- ment to her, and finally succeeded in prevail- ing upon said plaintiff so to do on the 30th day of June, 1892. Mr. Hendy stated that he thus conveyed to his wife the legacy left to him by his uncle, and he goes on: At the time of the said marriage and until said defendant obtained possession of sail written assignment the said defendant pro- fessed great affection for said plaintiff and was very attentive to him, and thereby caused said plaintiff to believe that she was and ever would be a dutiful, faithful, affectionate and devoted wife to him. Further, he declares that the money was given to her in trust for him; that heis and was susceptible to infiuence and im- portunity, and that as long as they lived together after the assignment of the legacy was made his wife treated him in a very contemptuous manner. They lived at the Marechal Niel Hotel, but have been sepa- rated since September, 1893. ‘The complaint also recites that soon after the money was transferred to the wife, Mrs. Hendy “commenced going out in the evening unaccompanied by said plaintiff, and was frequentiy absent from their rooms in said hotel until a late hour at night’’; that while the plaintiff was at work in the Postoffice sometimes she re mained away until midnight or 1 o’clock in the morning; that she often went to the rooms of other guests at the hotel, drinking wine and playing cards with men and other women, but that *‘she never invited the plaintiff to accompanv her’; that she forbade her husband to enter the parlor when she was there, and that when the plaintiff protested his wife told him he was “an old crank.” Now Mr. Hendy asks that the assignment of his uncle’s legacy be canceled, and that no money be paid to her. He does not ask for a divorce. HOTEL ARRIVALS. RUSS HOUSE. T A Peacock, San Rafael J Spudrum, Peach Tree S Jordway, Glenwood K A Hardy, Minneapoiis JF McBride, Yreka W Meredith,shpDominion B Graves, Salinas Mrs Tinsley, Washington J S Huntley, Hopland . J P Murray. Sacto C Cunningham, Sunol W J Lewis & fam, China E Sunard, Redwood M E Ward, Reno P Joseph, Los Angeles A C Slick, Hawthorne J B Dawson, Santa Cruz E B Mitcnell, Fresno § A Loomis, 1lwaco J'W Peters, Tacoma C Peters, Tacoma Mrs J Powers, Seattle IS Vance, Berkeley Juage Ciark, Mott Wm Hayden, Martines Miss C Ferry, S Rafael ¥ Leek, Loomis F McCabe, Madera n Luis Obispo Captain M G Lelsquit, v ship Pierra Cornell v T BGlynn & w,0ccidental 1 Ironson, Alaska E la Montague, Vacaville E Read, Garberville Mrs J A Hollister, Eureka § A Rice, Sacramento J Plerson & sn, Coos Bay J G Graham, Humboldt C Pierson, Sacramento G W Ellery, Loomis W A Ransome & w, Cal A E Lichen & w, Penn Gv G W Gibson, Willows ~ Rev W A Finley, S Rosa Mrs M Ferry, S Rafael L J Pinard & sn,Madrone GRAND HOTEL. G F Heusner, Portland _J H Gyselman, Eureka Mrs A M Hickok, 8 Cruz D J Flanigan, Eureka J E Manlow, Sacramento A Cosellis & w1, Sacto W A Cooper.Los Angeles L C Schindler, Sacto G A Crystal, Vacaville R M Gay, Fresno G 1 Waggner, Vacaville J R Page Fresno A Shaw, San Diego H Page, Fresno D J Greene, San Diego W I Deacon, Bakerafield W E Horne. tug Collis J § Bagley & w, Sn Diegos M Bonider, Alameda Mrs W M Fredricks, San Miss Fredricks, San Jose _ Jose W A Casper, Alameda J H Jones, Los Angeles N H Alison, Alameda H Schmidt & w. Ls Angls J Wolfians, Tulare N S Gregory. Jackson 8 Goldstone, Sanger alkins, Tilinois Ros nhal, Tulare H Lautro, Sn Bernardino rere, Los Angeles H C Koth, Sn Bernardino Osborne, Oakland W H Bentz, Salt Lake Hayden, Tacoma Mrs R Davis, La Grange La Grange H P Davis, San Mateo G FF MC JA Miss J Davis, J W Smith, Cottonwood W C Good, Kanta Rosa. E Bartholome, Decatur W Hunter, Napa. S Bell, Santa Barbara_ W P Ingiish, Vacaville PALACE HOTEL. M Merten, Cal C W Fay, San Jose ‘A Walnwright,Burlingm F_Swanton, Santa Cruz E Holliday& w, Los Ang E A Benjamin, Syracuse A Fruhling,Los Angeles &5 Henna, Stanford A M Burgess, Canada Wm Pearce, Cal G Dennis, Cal ¥ Whitehouse, N Y H Whitehouse, NY_ A W Sanford & f, Minn BW Wells Jr, USN C A Parker, Gilroy Kind. N ¥ W W Foote, Oakland 8 Rothschild, Ohio Dr M J Rosman U S N R'M Carr, Stanford W H Read&w. Baltimore Jennie Read, Baltimore Daisy Read, Baltimore, W C Peyton, Santa Cruz LICK HOUSE. € C Crow, Crow’s Lndg J King & w, San Jose W Barklage, Colorado EmmaBarkiage, Missourl 1 C Fish, Rhode Island H H Hatch, Sacramento § &t Jonnson, San Jose A S MacDougall, Pleaston J H Levy, Halfmoon Bay Miss A Taggart, Los Ang W H Rogers, Atizona LB Palmer & w, San Joso D M McDona'd, Sonora Mrs F P Wickersham & 1, €8 Fitca, Sonora J Rutherford, Vallejo LT Hutfield. Sacto W E Boyd & w, Yuba Cy NEW WESTERN HOTEL. John R Brooks. Cal O Rice, Chicago E Francis, Eoston B L Cruthers, Boston C Cuminings, Boston L B Butts. Vallejo Lucy Booth, Valiejo M C Curtis, Visilia San Jose W H Deviin & w, Sacto B Lewls, Allegheny L L Barry, Victoria D C Duft, Cal 8 L Lucy, Cal B C George, Suisun Jas Conboy, Suisun M F Furry, Ashland BT Frank, Ashland Miss Frank, Ashland F F Ferland. Cal T G Stern, Cal BALDWIN HOTEL, A P Ogellin, Ship Eudon T C Vance, Boston T B Priichard,S Gleneslin A Douthitt, N Y Miss A M McGlynn, Siby Mrs J McGlynn, Selby S Bullin. Salinas A T Bullin, Sulinas O H Bullin, Halinas T W Wilks, Chicago E'A Richmond,Alvarado E O Haen, San Jose G Dole, Berkeléy AUCTION SALES, ‘\fi, 2 DOCT 737 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Opposite Examiner Office. HIS LEARNED SPECIALIST, WELL and favorably known throughout the ‘West by his long residence and successful practice in this city, desires to thank the people of the Pacific Coast for their confi- dence and patronage in the past, and to assure the afflicted everywhere of receiving from him skillful and scientific treatment now and in the future. With a thorough literary and professional education, and with extensive experience in the practice of Nervous, Chronic and private diseases of both sexes, he cures every case in the catalogue of human ills. He addresses himself in particular to cases that have baffled the skill &nd science of other doc- tors. His patients are among our most in- telligent citizens of every trade and pro- fession, including merchants, manufactur- ers, mechanics, miners, farmers, laborers, literary and professional gentlemen, many of whom have exhausted the skill of their famly physicians without obtaining relief. His name is a sufficient guarantee of a per- fect cure of every case he undertakes. Consult him, either by person or by letter, this day. A tonfidential chat may save you much mental and physical suffering and add golden years to your life. NERVOUS DEBILITY Of every kind, name and nature treated farin advance of any institution in the country. This distinguished doctor’s success in cases of this character has been really phenomenal. YOUNG MEN. There are thousands of you troubled with night emissions, sleeplessness, pimples on face, bashfulness, aversion to society, 10ss of energy, ambition and self-confidence, a tired, discontented, despondent and gloomy feeling, failing of memory, confusion of ideas and so forth. If you are suffering from these or simi- lar symptoms you know the reason. 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Many of you are afflicted with weak. aching backs and kidneys, frequent, painful urination and sediment in urine. impotence or weakness of sexual organs and other unmistakable signs of nervous debility and premature decay. Many die of this difficulty, ignorant of the cause, which is the second stage of seminal weakness. In justice to DOCTOR SWEANY it can be truthfully said that in all such cases of middle-aged men, as well as of young men, his success has been almost invariable. The most obstinate cases solicited, treated and cured. PRIVATE Diseases are more prevalent than generally supposed, and among them all none is more horrible than Syphilis. Indeed, if not checked in time, it becomes almost as terrible in its sccondary and tertiary stages as leprosy itself. Many doctors suppress this terrible disease by filling tneir patients’ systems with mercurial poison, with that damnable curse from which your children as well as_yourself will suffer, but DOCTOR SWEANY warrants a positive and permanent cure of Syphilis with- out injurious drugs. ' He also effects a speedy cure in all cases of Gleet, Gonorrhces, inflam- mations, pains, itchings, swellings and dis- charges of every kind, Stricture, irritability of the bladder and kindred troubles, many of which are the result of improper treatment of former diseases by other physicians. BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASE Of every description, embracing cancers, tumors, scrofula, syphilitie taints, humors and all other impurities of the blood, causing erup- tions and blemishes on the face and body, thor- oughly eradicated, leaving the system in a pure, strong and healthful state. RUPTURE This most distressing and dangerous ailment, common to both sexes, is cured by DOCTOR SWEANY without trusses or salves in from two to eight weeks. He has new, safe, successful and painless treatment, which is known to no other physician in the West, and which causes the rupture to heal as a -broken bone unites; also Piles, Fistula, Varicocele, Hydrocele and similar troubles promptly cured without pain or detention from business. STOMACH, Liver, Lung, Chest, Throat, Bladder, Heart and Kidney Diseases, Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Asthma, Catarrh and all other diseases of the respiratory organs cured in the shortest pos- sible time; also consumption when the de- struction of the tissue is not too great, by com- bining his own with the latest approved anti- septic methods. LADIES, If you are suffering from any of the distress- ing ailments peculiar to your sex, such as persistent headaches, painful menstruation, leucorrheea or whites, intolerable itehing, dis- placement of the womb, etc., you should not give up in despair because you have met with repeated disappointments in seeking relief. DOCTOR SWEANY has cured hundreds of cases after other eminent physicians have pronounced them hopeless. If such diseases were indeed incurable life would not be worth its possession to & large number of American women. HOME TREATMENT.—Write your trou- bles if living away from the city and unable to call. Thousands cured at home and in all vartsof the country by correspondence and by medicines sent secure from observation. Book entitled “GUIDE TO HEALTH” sent free to those describing their troubles. Address F. L. SWEANY, M. D., 737 Market St., San Franeisco, Cal. Opposite Examiner Office. 16, a d 462 Lighth .t Caklacd, LAYMANCE Real Estate and Tovestuent (o No. 466 Eighth St., Ockland, LAKE MERRITT BOULEVARD TRACT AT AUCTION! SATURDAY Saturday, Septemher 28, 1895, At 2 0°Clock P. M. on the Grounds, N LARGE SUBDIVISIONS, We will positively sell that grand property for FINE HOME SITES, facing LAKE MER- RITT and OAKLAND'S NEW GRAND BOUL VARD AND DRIVEWAY AROUUND LAKE MERRITT, which has just been completed in front of this property at an expense of over $50,000. Elevated lots, beautifully terraced, and gently sloping toward the lake, command- ing a magnificent view of Oakland’s Natural Water Park; grand panoramic landscape of the Piedmont district. THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS and TWO YEARS’ TIME have blen spent in preparing this choice property for the market. Every detail has been attended to. The magnificent boulevard graded and macadamized. Cement walks laid oncach side. Sewers constructed and drainage com- pleted under the supervision of the best of en- gineers. Every lot in the much sought-for tract will be offered on the day of the auction, Not & foot has been dispased of, although nu- merous offers have been received. Every one has an equal chance, and the chances are limited. THIS GRAND CREDIT AUCTION Will be the most Interesting and the most im- portant public offering of high-class Home Sites ever held in Oakland. EASY TERMS: ONE=FIFTH CASH, balance in FOUR EQUAL YEARLY PAYMENTS, with interest at SEVEN PER CENT per annum. These Easy Terms for this High Class Realty should bo a Special Inducement. TAKE NOTICE 0f the Central Location. Five Minutes to Broadway, with two car lines passing the property, and a few minutes walk to all local trains, both broad and narrow gauge. ELEGANT SURROUNDINGS, The fine houses of Mrs. A. Chabot, Judge F. W. Henshaw, George Grant, Hiram Tubbs and others surround this property. The improvements that will be erected on this tract by the purchasers will undoubtedly surpass anything in the city. Several architects already have received or- ders to prepare plans tor splendid houses to ba built immediately after the sale. Such im- provements will certainly not be a detriment to the future value of these lots. See diagram. LAKE MERRITT Bomlevard Tract! The lots are all large subdivisions in the most select and fashionable neighborhood of Oakland, facing the mew Boulevard avenue, East Twelfth street, Enst Fourteenth street, First avenue and East Fifteenth street. SIZE OF LOTS: 50x160 Feet, 40x140 Feet, 30x145 Feet. . Remember the date-=-SATURDAY, Septemb:r 28, 1895, and at 2 o’clock, on the grounds. A Further particulars from WILLIAM J. DINGEE, 460 and 462 Eighth St., Oakland, LAYMANCE REAL ESTATE AND IN- VESTMENT CO., 466 Eighth St., Oakland. EASTON, ELDRIDGE & CO., 638 Market St., San Francisco.