The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 25

FRANCISCO CALL, S DAY, JANUARY 19, 1896 25 comi ncia streets, as th f centrally it be the a brought so much of al he heads of our ci ver been of propert; t TETLE 1 admirably 00000007 t needs of the rporation. the most areon Market, Valencia and between Twelfth and 00000002 v coming nearer and close: and its value :lerefore s not too much to 1 the surrounc it air to Valenc hwest corner of Castro anc 1. 19, > 0000000000 0 0-0-00-0000000000C0000-000000-00000 00000000000 000 000000000000000GR000000000000 SzggoooooooTooooooooooo : 1 ; { I 2000 5500 0 T PO nuch of these hoidings wiil be osed of at auction by Baldwin & Ham- important portions of Hermann The business center of the city v enhanced in the course of time. that it will soon busirness center of the ci i ophesy t will be able to securean inv here which cannot be duplicated in years to come. In addition to the Market-street property, a large corner at Fifteenth and 1 will be sold in subdivisions, also streets and five lots on Waller street, ent to Golden Gate Park.—The Wave, MARKET ST RRCO | A (reat Business Center 20000000C00000C 0000000000000 THE SALE OF THE CENTURY. It is no misnomer to characterize the of business lots on Market, € *‘most p located real estate ever held in San Francisco.”” Unless 1ction of the City Hall lots that buse and censure fathers, there ed here at publ 1able unimproved busi- The Ryer estate which was compulsory, and took place un- der an order of the court, alone approaches event. During many years g provement Company, under 1 direction of Messrs, Stanford, Huntington, acquired muecn cated property. S now come when some of this tate been found unnecessary for the ic ven- sale, On Jan- Mission January r to this will be estment 10 Montgomery 1 Seven- 000000000000 00000C0000000: Our Great Auction Sale WILL BE HELD ¢ Thursday, (THIS WEEK), At 12 o’clock Noon, At Our Salesroom, Get a Catalogue and secure a lot that yields a ground rental. Only 3 Blocks LOTS— 23d —— l Title Insurance | policies issued to l purchasers by the { California Title In- ’ surance and Trust i Company at SPE~ i CIAL RATES. St. WER HOUSE CROCKER MISSION Maps of Property Owned By Pacific Improvement Company to Be Sold at Auction January 23. 'STREET STREET | | | 2 STREET Terms only 25 per cent cash, Balance in 1, 2 and 3 years. BALDWIN & HAMMOND, From the City Hall 70 INCOME AND INVESTMENT Fronting on Market Street Fronting on Valencia Street Fronting on Twelfth Street Fronting on Mission Street Fronting on Stevenson Street Fronting on Brady Street. 11 BUSINESS and FACTORY LOTS Fronting on Valencia Street Fronting on Fifteenth Street Fronting on Albion Avenue. .5 HOME LOTS ! Fronting on Waller, nr. Stanyan I GRAND N. W. CORNER 17th and Castro Streets. ' Everything to go At Auction, Thursday, Auctioneers. il { == I =l ALAMEDAS CANAL RIGHT OF WAY. Litigation That Can Be Made to Delay Fur- ther Dredging. COHEN ESTATE CLAIMS. : Declaration That demned Twenty Years Ago Was Not Paid For. THE RAILROAD POSSESSIONS. A Freight Yard That the Govern- ment Dredger Would Have to Cut Through. An obstacle in the way of the Alameda tidal canal’s completion will be the litiga- tion that is sure to result when the pres- ent means of railroad delay are exhausted. | When Congress finally mekes the ap- propriation that is needed for the work, and when the Government engineers con- clude that harbor improvements more sat- isfactory to the railroad do not require all the money appropriated, the canal project will be taken from its place on the map and will be transferred to the courts. The Southern Pacific Company has a right of way across the land just to the Land Con- | eastward of the present extremity of the canal and has established a sort of freight- vard there. Thatcan be made the subject of litigation for years, perhaps, when the railroad company cannot prevent the open- ing of the waterway, and there is cer- tainty of a prolonged court contest arising from another source. Twenty years ago the right of way for the tidal canal was established. A strip of land belonging to the Cohen Tract was condemned for the purpose, the Govern- ment paying about $2700 for it. This strip | has not yet been cut away. The money for the land was paid by the | Government to the court, as is stated, and was then turned over to the Alameda County Clerk. It was handed down from one County Clerk to arother until about ten years ago, when it disappeared. No | demand for the money was ever made by | the Cobens, and the actual pavment for | the right of way was never made. That is the story, at any rate, according | to the statements made by men prom- nently interested in the matter, though | the complication is something that may | long trouble the courts. n places where it controlled the frontage, 1 (spelled peoddare) is found _in the general ae well as to make a solid roadway along | sense of a small hawker in the Ancren the entire line of the narrow-gauge trestle. | Riwle, that is, before 1287; and peddler, or 2 3 pedlar, is probably formed from peddle, an | The company has obtained large tracts | unrecorded diminutive of ped. | of land along the line of the canal, and it | "Byt the point to observe is that all these | is expected that when other means of de- | derivations, right or wrong, either unduly | lay are exhausted a direct fight in the I narrow his calling or emphasize its hard- courts will be made. | ship and insignificance. Heis dowered The Cohen dispute has been allowed by | wm}: a name that unfairly depreciates him | | 5 | the Federal officials to remain unsettied, | *ihe Outset 7 , Nor has the historian been more kind to | and if the Government officials ever get | him; as historian, indeed, it was generally | ready to resume the dredging operations | out of his power. History has not been | they will be stopped by injunction, and slowhlo rgcuglnize the "f“rvort?nte of l‘;n(:e | e { in the development of nations, and to | the slow legal process will have to be taken 1 show how the peaceful operations of com- up anew. | merce are often the precursors of military ‘{ Onbl;land and Alameda want the canal, | conquest or at least of political dominion. | for both commercial and sanitary protec- tion. Candidates for Congress boom the | project, and the appropriations they get | | for “*harbor appropriations” after election | | are used where they will do the most | good—to the railroad. Health officers | urge the value of a free and open water- | way, but nobody in authority pays any at- | tention to them. | Encgineers declare that money is being | wasted in dredging out portions of Oak- | land’s harbor when there is no means of | But history does not go back far emough. | When the historian speaks of trade he | conceives it on a large scale, as an affair of ships and caravans, and neglects its hum- ble origin in the periodic fair and the itin- erant peddler‘—.\FAcmi]lln's Magazine, —_————— HOTEL ARRIVALS, RUSS HOUSE. ¥ Clark, Berkeley c E J Hawkins, Oakland A Webber, Visalia A ¥ Eddy, Ashland, Or An appeal by the Cohens concerning the | keeping the harbor scoured out so that it right of way has long been pending in the courts, if not stricken from the docket years ago. The matter has been ignored by | the Federal officials. | One point in the appeal is that the land | was condemned as the property of A. A. | Cobhen, while 1n reality the title was held | by Emily G. Cohen, Mr. Cohen’s wife. Itis the general understanding among the people across the bay that the lack of Federal appropriations has been the only cause of delay in the canal construction; but immense amounts of money have been used in the work of improving Oak- | 1and harbor, and only a small proportion of the recent appropriations would have been required to do the dredging. All the improvements during the late years have been in other portions of the harbor, and, as has been already shown, the work has been greatly to theadvantage of the Southern Pacific Company without greatly improving the conditions of the harbor for general navigation. Much of the dredging done has given the railroad company an opportunity to build up lana will not fill up again. They say that the first thine for the Government to do is to open the canal, but they also say that the railroad company has the power to keep that work from being done for many a year to come. THE PEDDLER'S OALLING. Its Antiquity and Universality Has Been Obscured. The antiquity and universality of the veddler’s calling has been obscured by a name given him in days when that calling had lost much of its importance, a name whose etymology, though still uncertain, unduly specifies or belittles it. Modern philology dismisses with a smile Johnson's explanation of a contraction from *'petty dealers,” or the more picturesque deriva- tion from pied pouldrenx, and observes that the word came probably with Danes | or Norsemen into England, and has its origin in the ped or i were brought to mar] the peddir (peddler) of Lowland Scotch is equally of Scandinavian origin. Peddar THE ALAMEDA CANAL AT THE POINT JUST BELOW THE [Sketched by a * Call ” staff artist.] LAND-LOCKED DRAWBRIDGE, panier in which fish | et in Norfolk, while | 1, [1linols R G Watson, Albany, Or nas H Sterling, Davis & wi, Arizona J H Neal. Pleasanton * B Belton & w, Detrolt S L Jones, Salem, Or P Harrington, Idaho T P Waod, Jamestown W S Land, Benson, Arlz Mrs Wood, Jamestown | A Van Horner, St Louis B S Little, Eureka J D Corley,w & ¢, Seattle H B Turman, Colusa E L Chorlton, Kansas A A Silver, Sn Ls Oblspo « « i Merchant, Healdsbg W Hanlon, Antioch Se Fraok Berry, Antioch RK Truitt,” Healdsburg M Cameron, Ventura H H Creighton, Ney O E Nash, Redding H A Moser. Redding Frank K Mayo nan, Antioch d, Omaha J D Putnam, Los Ang Senior Bray, Nev. 8G Hop 1ns, Hollister Phil Kline, Redding R E de Graw, San Jose | I E Jones Jr, Bishop G Baird & w, Chicag: | H Clay & w, Modesto J Nolan, Anaconda G ¥ Turper, Birminghm Henry Maloney, Butte LICK HOUS! T H Carpenter, Attleboro W E Smith, Menlo Park R W Menzio, San Rafael H Eickpoft, San Kafael E M Sween; n Jose G Wilson, San Jose F Schnieder.College Park H C H Jordan, Pasadena | G A Norse, Fresno | M Taylor, San Jose Mrs Griswold, Cal | A Caminetti, Jackson A Longstreet, Chicago W E Smiith, Menlo Park De Vries Van Doesburgh Mrs A Jones, Monterey St Helena Miss A Jones, Monterey M Bates, Nevada City Mrs J A Louttit, Stockion Miss L Séhilling, Stockton J King & wt, San Jose Dr P 8 Clark, Cal | | aver, Bureka J B Kirkland, Portland J ¥ Wilson, Montague | , Napa | W Butterfield & wi, Cal | Geo Wilson, Cal A Salsbur; | 4K Wheat & wi, Texas 8 Carle, S ! | nta Panla ramento G H George, Astoria Mrs L M Sisson, Suisun J Kittlewell & fam, Cal MrsJ Johnson, St Helena | S R Jobnson, San Jose S Garden, San Jose as Frankel, St Louis T Richardson, St. Louls GRAND HOTEL. Rice, Los Angeles A S Macdonald, Oakland Wheaton, Oskland A P Hayne, Berkeley . Mass © W Nicklin, L Angeles ‘anta Cruz F Havens & w, Oakiand H Alison, Cal Miss Fisher, Arizona 188 O Fisher, Arizona W F Hoke, C A M Cox, Cal W Marks. Ukiah G W Alexander, S Jose J R Carroll, Mt View H Long & w, Vallejo Mrs Hayes, San Jone A R Baxter, N ¥ H Malloch, Marysville E P Brown, Mass I A Fairbank, Sacto 20H B El A H B M A Replogle, Akron, O J ¥ Schwilk & w, Sacto Miss Cora Rand, Onkind W D Tiletson & fam, Mgats Pauline \mnuers, o ’{nlgomn Georgetown, N M > L Fisher, Stockton ¥ J Holland, Cal C F Ecklon, Cal G G Locke & w, Sacto PALACE HOTEL, H B Taylor. Oakland E K Folger, Oakland NAMCCUlly, USN FT Dwsor, Sacramento {{mv&mk% .vnswi i FH Buck, Vacaville rs Buck, Vacaville L R Drake, Kan J R McBride, Spokane e Bponaas A Manbeimer, N Y T W Enos, Tacoma T H Wainut, Phila C D Phillip, Belmont W H MeCord & w, N Y E Bartholemew N Y ‘W Simson, Chicago W Dater, N Y A lombach, Chicago W F Mellick, 1d; Owen, Bitte g CR Gliberr, rs D H Twaits, Balt e E NEW WESTERN HOTEL. €0 Corthay, St Helena George Chark, St H Whitemoré,Cambridge A Fleming Siockian " D Lemley, Clipper Gap & Edgman, Forbestown H Riffi, Magalia Wm Johnson, Sacramnto L Young, Denver W Wood, Cincinnati J Mogan, Petaluma Henry , Portland BALDWIN HOTEL. RERSRa J B Rowe, N Y L A Pellet, S8t Helena CH Herman, Los An S D Henderson & w, Or W L Reed, Stockton C Frankenthal, N Y Mrs A J McLeod, 8 Jose E Ryan, US N D V Garvin & w, Vacavl | “King” Frank M. Smith Decides Not to Build a Refinery in England. 2 CAPITALISTS ALL FIGHT SHY. Attorney Chickering Talks of a Com. bine to Control the World’s Raw Product. William H. Chickering, attorney for Frank M. Bmith, the “Borax King,” re- turned from Europe yesterday, where he has been during the past four months looking after the interests of his client. The attorney went abroad last Septem- ber with the intention, as understood at that time, of forming an English stock company to handle the California product. The “Borax King” had an idea that he could break the gigantic trust in London if one or two large refineries were estab- lished on the island, so his legal adviser was sent ahead to pave the way. English capital did not take kindly to the proposition, but offered to purchase such quantities of raw borax as would ad- mit of a handsome profit to the producer. WILL SELL RAW BOReY, A SR NAL BORAX KING SMITH. ‘W. H. Chickering. Mr. Smith was perforce satisfied with the arrangement, and, according to his attor- ney, it is greatly to his advantage to sell the raw material. ‘‘For months,” said Mr. Chickering yes- terday, “Mr. 8mith has had in contempla- tion the organization of an English com- pany to handle the raw material as shipped from this State. It was intended to build one big refinery near Liverpool. This would have enabled him to dispose of the refined article throughout Europe. ‘‘In company with Mr. Smith I made a thorough investigation of the borax market in Europe, and became satisfied that it would be better to sell the raw material if purchasers at good prices could be ob- tained. This was an easy matter, Mr, Smith securing contracts for 6000 tons to be delivered during the current year, What he will do 1n the future in the matter of forming a stock company is something 1 am not at liberty to speak about. of course, he is not seeking to break the | trust, but simply wants a new market for | the refined article. | “The Pa Coast Borax Company has | made satisfactory rates on all the raw material for which they find a European | market. There is some falk of pooling the | borax output of the world, and if this can | be done, the producers will_be practically | masters of the situation. We expect the scheme to be consummated within a few | weeks. | “There is absolutely no truth in the statement that Mr. Smith’s trip to Eng- | land has any connection whatever with | his railroad enterprises. His wvisit was | solely in the interest of the borax indus!r{, | and { can state positively that railroads | were not even mentioned to those with | whom he had business. | “Mr. Smith is now touring France. He | has not sold any borax stocks, and so far | as I know has no intention of doing so.” HILL A8 AN ORATOR. An Occasion When the New York Sena- tor Was Aroused, The New York Senator is said to be a cold man, with no passion. He does not | chew, nor smoke, nor drink, nor has he | ever developed any liking for cards. | Theorists are fond of propounding it as a | maxim that a man with a bloodless face, ‘ like Hill's, can never be aroused to enthus- | iasm, Those who saw him on Friday know | better. He was a picture of the fiery ora. tor and the aroused lion at once. He ges. ticulated, perspired, and thundered. H. paced this way and that, to and fro, with | every nerve strained and his voice pitched | to its highest key. He is not fluently given ‘ in the way of speech. Words do not come to him with the rapidity of thought, to be | poured out in a torrent of fiery lava, as | Mr. Mills doesit. He does not utter his | sarcasms with a rigid face as Mr. Vest is in | the habit of doing. He resembles a bub- bling caldron which burns the fingers of any one who touches it. He is relentlessin his bitterness. The more he is stirred the botter he grows. His sentences are often pressed out by main strength. Words will not come fast enough, or they are not strong enough, and then he acts out his meaning. He forms his hands into claws and squeezes his elbows into his sides, leaning far for- ward, with an expression on his pale face of bitterness or hate. Sometimes his pos- turing expresses triumph, sometimes the mockery of humility; again he metamor- phoses himself into a panther ready to pounce upon and tear to pieces a proposi- tion. Asoften he is the incarnation of a sneer. The most dangerous man on the Democratic side, because of his fearless- ness and unscrupulous disrezard of Sen- ate ethics, the Republicans stand in awe of him as of no other man on his side. He is the match of any one on the floor in wit or sarcasm; he has sounded to the depth every proposition on which he speaks; he is a thorough master of h1s subject, and he is altogether the most dangerous man in the Senate when aroused. — Washington Post. —————— The Managers. Managers are an ill-used race; they have a bad name which they do not always de- serve. Considering all things, it is small | wonder that their tempers are occasionally short; the wonder rather is that they ara as good fellows as they are. I remember, in my salad days, asking an actress of some experience what sort of folk man- gers were to deal with. “ My dear,” she said, imvpressively, ‘‘they’re angels if you're making money for them, and they’re the very devil if you aren’t.”” How- ever this may be, they certainly are not, as s so often represented, impervious to or ealous of rising talent. Like the equally maligned race of publishers and editors, they are quite awake to the value of a good thing when they find it. So many people dabble with the stage now-a-days, with no intention of taking1i up eeriously, that no wonder managers are apt to be skeptical of genius in the bud.—Macmillan’s Maga- zine. ———— It is claimed that a man standing at one end of the Grand Canyon of the golo- rado shouted the name ““Bob,” which was distinctly audible at the further end, g distance of eighteen miles.