The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 28

28 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1896. 2 Hes winter's weaves. ILivery yand made for son’s selling. The special lots mention e yard among them. 1 the price in half. le ground, in brown, tle, ROS DE LO vy quality, fancy n small figured designs, 1de, a special sale price. LALLM AT A AT AR A ATAMA AUATRNAUAN P22 S M A AN AMAVANAMALAN AN AHANANAMAUANANA AN AVANAMALS RN AT BRI entire wind- reliable flrsi-class siocks. They are the w in goods of these grades. SILK, ex- colored dis- appearing stripe on a plain change- olive, S A WHAT BROUGHT OUT THE PEOPLE? were we buzzing with business ? Why ® during the rainy days? THE QUALITY OF 0UR CLEARANGE LINES, re is the of this this sea- ned com- in the department w complete and satisfa any in the city duri the lowest in San Fr: In some 1-00 Yard ] .00 Yard FA ZmMZ -~ NOTIONS force them to a quick selling. Wedo not hesitate to say that the coming week our prices are positively SPECIAL SALE OF VEILINGS: mesh, chenille dot, colors nayy brown, tan, cream, white, 14 SILK GIMP, 54 101 inch wide, vilue 25¢ & yard It is our effort to_present during this sale stocks of ® %00ds at prices that will We think our lines e call Notions are the most ctory to the average wants of ancisco. inches assorted colors, all_silk, C lue 50¢ to ] 0 colors, - Yard ANCY BROCH = heavy ¢ {l Z, 3 inches wide, ] OC was $1 40 pe: - aline to be closed, value more than Yard FANCY PEAU DE SOILE SILK, beauti- § contrasting shades of thr GARTER ELASTIC, fancy rufiled, silk (s} e e FA LRI ) center, full line, stapis colors, io bs 10 inches wide, sold all'season for 62 & = closed out, worth 20c a yard.......... Yard yard . . Yard y FANCY BLACK MOHAIR SC A ()C COLORED BEADED MP, a variety of ] 9C in small s e shades, 110 114 inches wide, was 50¢ season for 75¢ a yard, 45 1 » Yard a yard.. i £ Yard FANCY SILK AND WOOL SWIV z RO Tl et ADIored A T &1-00 JET AIGRETTES-See our showcase Q=G ound, sold all season for § DL — for displ or hat trimmings, very <t 42 iy Yard special Each S0P GOLD BRATD, fancy colored, for dress EC Fle i it el 3 T trmming 11 Inches wide, reduced 20 ety : = from 60c a yard.. i b aed FRENCH NOVELTY SUITING, bright 7~ £C ; ™ stitc! - rc yeffects, sod il season for 3135, 10 PILLOW SHAMS, hemstitched, fancy OBC hes wide s ard : e Each D WOOL NOVEL SUIT- -toned effect, swivel figure on mrc BILK PLUSH DRE TRIMMING, | ] RC cloud background, soid all sea- § O royal brown and mink, 1 inch wide ) ¥1 85 a yard, 40 inches wide.. Yard B Yard PP We THE Answer PRICES L gt OF 0UR SALE GOODS, A Speclal sale of Household Table Linens. These goods @ _are our own SPECIAL 1M: PORTATION, and better values have NEVER been offered in this city. It Is a regular hotel- keepers’ harvest. UNBLEACHE €xtra weav TABLE DAMASK, Irish Linen, g00d assortment of new patterns. vard 2 ard : c, 76¢ and $1 yard ed Napkins to match, $2 and $3 4 do: UNBLEA h Eleach zen. CHED TABLE DAMASK, Irish Linen, eavy quality, the serviceable kind for hotels and rostaurants. 25¢ yard 40c yard 50c yard Tbc yard BLEACHED NAPKIN good assortment for ¢ #1 50 and $2 dozen. Extra 3 size, Exura fine qualit; 4 size, fine Irish Linen, sing; prices $1, $1 82 75 doz d $6 50 doz woven selvage, fringed, close absorbent. $1 00 dozen | 20x40 1 25 dozen | 20x42 $2 00 doze: n n 1 75 dozen . u5ceach HUCK TOWELS, Hotel Towel, hemmed, fine weave. 18x $1 25 dozen 20x40. .. 15c eacn 21x41. . 20c each BLEA(I"HED CRASH, all linen, extra heavy quality. 18-inch.. 81sc yard | 17-inch. 17-inch 10c¢ yard | 20:inch. HUCK TOWELIN inches wide, 11 close e, hedvy quality, a chance 1 &2 for a year's supply..... Yard GLASS CRASH, 24 inches wide. fine 1¢)1C quality, woven selvage, vawe 20c 1Z2 yard.. S % 5 vand LINENS TABLE DAMASK, 60 inches bleached, ail linen, TABLE COVERS, turkey red 21/, ACHED MUSLI UNBLE. wide, extra heavy quality S, hemstitched, 0) or 45 by 381 inche , good grade, sli 5¢; Lo close lot. GRAY S, $1 50. good und warm for these days. BLANK I I N E N COMFORTERS, full siz filling, sateen-covered COMFORTEES, Eiderdown, value $5 COMFORTS, covering. erdown, full Our Great Special Sale of Linen will be conducted in ® our new annex. tic stocks and Linens have been moved. vite you to inspect our new addition. heavy Clean Table Linen is appetizing 1, yards long, guaranteed fast colors, hemmed, a neat cloch and always clean Domestics. , fine quality muslin, 42 81x90 Inches, bleached, hem- 10-4 size, ? THE CONFIDENCE IN 0UR NEWSPAPER ST All Domes- We in- made before. No woman who cares to save mon can_afford to miss the items we quote from this department. er such a rich collection. Never such values, wide,un- 350 quality. > CHILDR , all-wool Cashmere, . Yard fine quality, narrow rib, fast color, €©=C spliced heeis toes, sizes 6 to 8la, L) 2 ana Qo were 35¢ and 45 Pair L LADIES' HOSE, extra quality, Herms- ] C dorff dye, high-spliced < were 25¢. . Pair GENTS HANDKERCHILES, cambric, ] ()C fancy hemstitched colored border, nar- , 36 inches 5C Tow or wide Lem, were $2 dozen. . Each value 8lsc ¢ Shca Yard DERWEAR, all wool, heavy .00 elt finish, were $1 50 Ll two rows O()C Garment . Each e unlaundered, odd = i, dply’ Mnen 500 ghtly soiled, Qoh Each LADIES' WAISTS, black sateen, ruf- RO value $1,oo fle down front, 75¢ qual o s o) W Each able cut = Each vhit WAISTS, heavy French C Each 81 each, good generous cut .. Each full size, @ 9. CHILDRE natural T4 R ; &3 e s ST 5T Each .. Garment size, silk @75 1 silk, metal and wood @ ¢). 0 ¥rame, were $3, $4 D200 $5 each, the lot to close......, Each HALE BROS., INCORPORATED, VYT Yy YOIy TN YTy YTy IvY T 937, 939, AR 41, 943, 045 MARKET STREET. LYy YTy YTy YO YR T WI Y AE FURNISHINGS AL LA GBI AUAL M AUAA A ATENENTS, Nothing like these offer- s 1ngs have w DLV IO SRR IR dibdd u = £ £ S = £ - 7 gravel channel, through which the water percolates from the mountains into the ¥, county of Alameda. The means by which I intend to divert said | land above the lakes forms a great, white | cisco nnv‘l1 and said town of Berkele; 1 | water are as follows: By pumping the water SUPPLY SOURCE. | | Castroville Lakes to Yield| Eighty Million Gallons a Day. i | | | | NATURAL FILTRATION.| | | | | Could Be Brought in Steel Pipes at a Cost of Six and a Half Millions. “PURE AND INEXHAUSTIBLE” Plans and Estimates for a System That Might Solve the Water Problem for All Time. What bears on the face of it the stamp of the best and most practicable plan that has ever been broached for supplying San Francisco with a cheap, ample and pure water supply is that which is now being pushed forward by the men interestea in the Castroville lakes. If all that these men claim for this pro- jected system be true—and the statements appear to be such as can be readily proven or disproven—then it seems a safe pre- diction that not only San Francisco, but all the near-by cities ana towns will eventually be supplied with water, from | the Castro lakes system. No definite financial plan has yet beer formed, but surveys, tests, measurements ard estimates have been made,and upon | these two of the gentlemen most inter- | ested, Attorney M. E. Babb and Civil En- gineer S. L. Hansborough, make the fol- lowing statements: | The lakes at Castroville cover an area of | over 3000 acres. Their average depth is | from thirty-tive to 350 feet, and at all | seasons of the year they remain at about | the same level. They are fed from subter- | ranean springs in the coast range, and the water is of the very purest and most whole- | some character. The early padres, in | their report to the King of Span, set forth that these lakes were the sink of Lake Tulare, which is in itself one of the great- est catchment basinsin the world. It is known that although Lake Tulare has no outlet to the ocean its banks are not over- flown in the rainy seasons, and that there are many other indications which seem to proye that Lake Tulare must have a sub- terranean outlet. But whether the guesses of the early adres that the water in the Castroville akes comes all the way through the mountains from Lake Tulare be right or wrong certain it is, at all events, that the Castroville lakes are fed by a more admir- able system of filtration than human in- | genuity could devise. The lakesare about | four miles from the ocean and the Jand immediately behind them begins to slope up to the foothills, which are fifteen miles to the west. All or most of the sloping { channel. | said town of Berkele: lake. This gravel channel is several miles in width, and one using a spade in it at | any point readily brings to the surface a stream of crystal purity. Engineer Hanstorough was sent to the | region to search for a solid stream of ! water, which it was thought must pour cut of the mountains at some point in order to feed these great lakes at Castro- ville. Instead of the solid stream gushing from the mountain-side or rushing down | the gullies he found this great gravel And he declares that he can convince the most skeptical by the most | casual or the most thorough examination that this channel of fine, white gravel forms the most perfect filter in the world. The region around these lakes is one of | those earliest settled, and the oldest in- | habitant of the land, as well as the newe: comer, lauds the purity of Castroville- | lake water to the skies. The Hotel ael Monte used the water for years, before it Imt in its own pumping plant, and the in- | habitants of Castroville ciaim to have | iiven the water, in all these years, a far etter test than the most perfect scientific | analysis could vouchsa! So much for | the lakes and the source of their supply | and the quality of the water. It is only necessary to add that there are no cow | ranches near the lakes and no possible or | probable sources of contamination, either at present or in the future. Now, about the water system. Engi neer Hansborough has located a sohd stream of water that runs from the lakes | to the ocean. Thisis called the Tembla- | dera, and is a ravine eight feet deep and | twenty feet in average width, through | which there flows a steady stream equal to | thirty feet per second. At a point on this channel, about 150 feet below the crossing of the Southern Pacific’s Monterey branch railroad, Engineer Hansborough has lo- | cated his site for pumping works. Krom this Point to the mouth of Lake Superior— the largest of the Castroville group of lakes—the distance is three-quarters of a mile. And from this point, in the other direction, the stream flows on down the channel to the ocean, or rather to Monte- rey Bay, at a point about three miles from Moss Landing. Mr. Hansborongh says that his experi- ments at this point show a flow of 0 000 gallons in twenty-four hours. ‘These measurements were taken at 8 time when | the lakes were at their lowest point, owing to a long dry spell. When there is the ordinary rainfall each year, of course the | tlow is considerably increased. Being im- | pressed with the extraordinary advantages of this stream and the lakes which feed it as forming the basis of a water system for | San Francisco and the near-by cities the | following document was drawn up by At. torney Babb and duly filed with the proper authorities. The document speaks its own purpose and reads as follows: NOTICE OF APPROPRIATION AND LOCATION. | Notice is hereby given that I,S. L. Hans- borough, of the City and County of San Fran. cisco, State of California, a resident and house. holder therein, have appropriated and do here- by appropriate of the water here flowing in the Tembladera Slough, at a point about 150 feet below the place where the Southern Pacific branch to Monterey crosses the said Tembladera Slough, in the county of Monterey, State of California, township 13 south, range 2 east, Bolsa Nueva y Morocojo, M. D. B. & M., to the extent of five thousand (5000) inches. The purposes for which I claim said water are as follows: For sale for domestic use to the residents of the City and County of San Franeisco and to the City and County of San Francisco for the purpose of extinguishing fires, flushing sewers and all necessary or gruper uses thereof by the said City and county or the residents thereof, and for sale | for domestic use to the residents of the cities of San Jose and Oakland, the towns of Berke- ley and Alameda and of all residents of the towns and cities and the country along the line of the aqueduct or pipe carrying the said water from the said Tembladera Slough to the said City and County of San Francisco and the e y and also to said cities, towns and residents for the purpose of ex- tinguishing fires, flushing sewers, irrigating lands, and all necessary or proper uses thereof; said aqueduct or pipe line will follow as nearly as practicable the route of the Sonthern Pacific railroad from point of appropriation and loca- tion to said City and County of San Fran- out of said Tembladera Slough at said point therein into iron pipessixty inche one laid from said point to the City and Coun- ty of San Francisco, and one to the city of San Jose and one to the town of Berkeley. With the same pumps at the same time 1 in- tend pumping water out of Tembladera Slough | into the pipes and will put upon the water so yumped into the pipes a pressure sufficient to | Borce the same through. the. pipe 1o the Gt and County of San Francisco, the city of Sa Jose and the town of Berkeley, their respec- tive destinations, and maintaining at such destination a pressure of eighty pounds per square inch. 3. SBOROUGH, and Locator. Appropriator Witness: J. B. CASTRO, This document is regularly sworn and attested before a notary public, and seems to comply with all the requirements of the law, so far as the preliminary steps are concerned. Those who have had the patience to wade through the legal verbiage of the document have seen that there is alread$ a definite plan to pump the water from indismeter, | I are said to be invested in the Spring Val- | ley plant, and aside from this thev are | paying the interest and principal of | | the cost of an army of collectors and | clerks, including high-salaried officials, | whose sole usefulness is to collect the ex- orbitant tax and influence a majority of | the Board of Supervisors to keep u rat i ) the | B\ if the municipality sfnould; hold of the Castro Lake proposition | and pay in cash or bonds for the entire | plant water could ultimately be as free as air to the householders of San Francisco; orat least the rate would greatly be de- | creased, while the quality, quantity and pressure would be well nigh' perfect. | In this connection the recent report of | | Engineer Hansborough to Attorney Mil- | | ton E. Babb and those he represents will be of interest. It reads as follows | | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15, 1896. | sritton E. Bty E n reply to your inquiry, «Is there an available water Suppiy neat this City, and what would be the cost of bringing it | here?” I desire to reply: I have located a supply of over 80,000,000 gallons per twenty-four hours of water that is within seventy-five miles of this City. The | tne Holly Company is the owner of many patents on pressure pumps, which are said to have revolutionized pumping methods in the East. In the foregoing are most of the claims set forth by the promoters of the Castro- ville Lake system of municipal water supply. Allof which look very alluring ona surface view, and will certainly re- pey the . serious consideration of San | Francisco taxpayers. IRt O THE CITY'S WATER. Judge Seawell’s Decision in a Case Involving the Supply.at Fires, The suit of James F. Hill agamst the | Spring Valley Water Company, which in- { cluded an interesting point involving the | liability of the company when the water | supply fails in case of fire, has been de- | cidea by Judge Seawell. He hassustained | the demurrer of the defendant company. | The demurrer was made upon the ground | that facts sufficient to form a cause of action had not been stated. OUTLINE MAP OF THE CASTRO LAKES, SITUATED ON THE BOLSA [The lakes cover an area of over 3000 acres, averaging from 35 to 350 feet in depth, being fod largest catchment basins in the world.] NUEVA Y MOROCOJO GRANT. by subterranean springs, forming one of the the Tembladera Channel to San Francisco and adjacent cities. Some estimates from one of the largest fi'xmpig{g manufacturers in the world—the olly Manufacturing Company of Locks- port, N, Y.—are to the effect that for the sum of $6,000,000 the Holly Company will guarantee to convey to San Francisco from Tembladera Channel, through a half-inch steel pipe of the diameter of sixty inches, 24,000,000 gallons of water every twenty-four hours, with a perpetual pressure at this end of eighty pounds to the square inch. And for the total sum of $10,000,000 the same company will pump and pipe the Wwater to every householder in this City. The cost of &?enting the pumping station would be $100 a day. The promoters of this plan do not hesi- tate to point out. among other things, the financial advantages of the system. It is kuown, they say, that the Spring Valley system is not only antiquated and impure, but excessively expensive and inadequate as well. The people of San Francisco are paying the interest on $15,000,000 which water is cool, clear and absolutely pure, and can be delivered to this City in pipes at about | the following cost: A 100 miles of 60-inch steel pipe $6,000,000 Digging, ditching ane laying pi 100,000 Cost of three 12,000,000 gallon pump- ingengines (high duty), including Dolters and buildings i 0,000 Setting up machinery, buiiding suction- Pipes, etc.. 0,000 Total. .. e iy *...$6,600,000 ‘The above machinery will deliver 24,000,000 gallons of water every twenty-four hoursin this City at & pressure of eighty pounds to the cost of maintaining d be as follows: square inch, and the dail the pumping station wou' 1 superintendent’s salary . 2 stokers' salary . 2 engineers’ saiar; 27 tons of coal at $4. Total....... The Castroville lakes are seventy-five miles from San Francisco as the crow | flies, but the nearest available pipe route | would be nearly a hundred miles, The lakes are ten feet above the level of high water, an elevation, of course, that is in- sufficient to give the proper pressure, But Tle suit was for the value of a $5000 building belonging to Hili which was burned on July 11, 1885. A building on the corner of Bryant and Fifth streets caught fire, and as the water supply was | very inadequate the flames spread until they finally consumed the building on Bluxome street, which belonged to the plaintift, Had the defendant furnished sufficient water, it was contended, the fire would not have spread to the plaintif’s building and consequently he sought to have the company made liable for his loss. In the act under which the water com. pany was incorporated in 1858, occurred | the following: All companies formed under the provisions of this act or claiming any of the privileges of the same, shall furnish pure fresh water to the inhabitants of each eity and county or city and town for family uses so-long as the supply permits, at reasonable rates and without dis- tinction of persons, upon proper demand there- for, and shall furnish water to the extent of their means to such city and county or city and town, in case of fire or other great neces- sity, free of charge. Subsequently, in 1873, the following sec- i) tion of the Civil Code was put in force— section 549: All corporations formed to supply water to cities or towns must furnish pure fresh water to the inhabitants thereot for iamily uses so long as the supply permits, a1 reasonable rates and without distinction of persons upon proper demand therefor, and must furnish water to the extent of their means, in case of fire or other great necessity, free of charge. It was upon the difference between these laws that the case was based. In theact of 1838 it requires that the water furnished for fires shall be furnished to the City. In the section of the code no distinction is made. Another inference to be drawn is that the water must be furnished to the inhabitants. i In referring to the plaintiff’s contention that the water must be furnished to the inhabitants and not to the city, the court says: If plaintiff’s construction be correct, the de- fendant has notat any time since the codes | went into effect been under the obligation to farnish water free to the City and County in case of fire or for sprinkling streets, flushing the sew2rs or irrigating the public’ parks or squares. 7 No good reason can be assigned for requiring the defendant to furnish water free to the in- habitants instead of to the City and County in case of fire. The inhabitants are not equipped with the apparatus necessary for the ex- tinguishing of fires. Water for extinguishing fires has always been _supplied to the munici- pality through its Fire Department. Pipes and mains are laid in the streets and hydrants | erected from time to time as the public in- terest requires and are used in extinguishing fires, not by the inhabitants as such, but by the Fire Department of the City. It was admitted by plaintiff’s counsel that if the law req furnished to the City and not the inhabi- tants then the City only can recover, and this was Judge Seawell’s position. He sustained the demurrer, with ten days to amend if possible. PEACE IN THE LIBRARY. Annual Election of the Association Will Have No Oppo- sition Ticket. The Mercantile Library Association will hold its annual election of officers at the Library building, on Van Ness avenue, to- morrow. Polls are to be open from 9 a. m. to 6 . M. and from 7 to 8 p. M. As there is no opposition this year in the field but little attention has been given the election by members, and so the asso- s ciation misses the turmoil of a politicai | campaign. All members appeared to be entirely pleased with the regular ticket, in which great hopes are placed for the com- | ing year. “The lack of contest,” said A. E. Castle, the recording secretary, yesterday, “shows that the affairs of the library have been brought_into pretty good condition. library is beginning to do much better than before, and new members are coming in quite rapidly; besides, we received two large donations that helped us out mate- rially. So the incoming board can take up tfxe management with quite a satisfac- tory prospece ahead ofthem.” The new board that will be elected Mon- day without opposition is as follows Thomas Magee, presiden muel low, vice-president; J. J en, treasurer; Charles J. King, recording secretary; William Doxey, corresponding secretary; trustees— H. Craig, T. K. Bannerman, Sheidon G. Ke! . Reinstein, Julius Kahn, George H. P. Woodward, Miss S. D. Hamlin, Acknowledged by All GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO, ‘Teas, Coffees and Spices Best and Cheapest. Try Them. Pretty presents given away free. 52 Market st., S. F. Headquarters. BRANCH STORES EVERY WHERE, B ool ¥ond of Champagne. A. D, Porter of the Imperial saloon, 1016 Market street, swore out warrants yesterday for the arrest of Fred Heyer, son of the ex-Super. visor, and W. Egar on the ‘charge of burglary. Porter alleges that on the night of January 11 Heyer and Egar broke into the busement of his saloon and stole thirty bottles of champagne, ed the water to be | Mercantile | The | s | ily sat at dinner in the hotel, ‘CHARLTON GOT HIS WIFE: | The Kansas ‘Man Starts for Olathe With Her and Their Two Boys. SOME PATHETIC INCIDENTS. | | | Charlton’s Story of His Wife’s Journey | to Ohio and the Duplicity of A. J. Rich. E. L. Charlton, steward of the deaf and dumb asylum at Olathe, Kans., whose wife | ran away with A. J. Rich and came to California recently, induced Mrs. Charlton | to go back yesterday, and, in company with their boys, the two started East. Charlton had a hard time of it. ror sey- eral days his wife would have nothing | to do with him, and she wouldn’t give up | the two little boys, who had come across | the continent with her and Rich. | As for the fellow Rich, he kept out ot the way of Charlton, for the latter had a | bad look in his eye. Rich knew enough | to stay out of his sight. | A bronzed, sunburned man, with a dark | mustache and dark eyes, stood at the desk | of the Russ House at 1o’clock yesterday. He had the air of one expectant and anxious, It was Charlton. Friends had finally arranged for a meeting of the mem- | bers of the family after much effort. The woman had even promised to bring the two boys, meet her husband and go back with him. | Sne’s liable to be along here any min | ute now, she and the boys,” said the | bronzed man toa CALL representative as | he leaned heavily against the desk, “Strangest thing I ever heard of. I never | would have thouzht it. You see my wife's | a very sympathetic woman, and this fel- low Rich—well, he just wrapped her around his little finger. “‘While at Olathe I needed some paint- This ad been a As he was | ing done, and got this man to do it. is how he rewarded me. He h | friend for five or six years. hard up I employed him “I have been sending my wife to her former home in Ohio every few years. As | she needed rest, I thought, I sent her and the boys home again. Six days after they started Rich started too. They met at Hamilton, Ohio, and then started for San Francisco, via New Orleans. y wife was at Marysville, Ky., twelve | miles from Manchester, where her father {1 a ived, yet she never went to see him at ‘While Charlton talked a slender woman | in somber garb came in through the hall from the side entrance. It was not Charl- ton's wife, but evidently a woman who was bridging domestic chasms for them. | Charlton weunt with her into the parlor, jand there behind closed doors met his | unhappy spouse. | . Half an hour afterward the united fam- 3 reparatory to taking the overland train for Leaven. worth. ‘When the repast was eaten the reunited family Yame out. The woman was dressed in deepest black and leaned heavily on the arm of her husband. Charlton says Rich’s only resources were from an insurauce policy of $1000 on his wife, v\'ho‘ dile\l 3hree weeks before he ran away with Charlton’s wife, hi has but $340 left. 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