The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1896 —_— e e e RS e . el WHEAT STILL ON THE RISE, Animated Scenes in the San Francisco Produce Exchange. VIEWS OF BUSINESS MEN Probable Influence of the Ad- vance on Finance and Trade. GOLDEN DAYS ARE LOOKED FOR Facts, Figures and Fancies Galore in Reference to the Expected New Regime. Things downtown had a more cheerful aspect yesterday than they have worn for some time pa: vague, indefinable scmething flitting ly through the busi- ness streets, seemed to stop now and then in its capricious career and whisper a word of comfort and encourzgement into the ear of some would-be money king, making his step lighter and his glance brighter. It was at the Produce E. ever, that the financial fairy was busiest. All through the day men thronged the bare, dingy hall, and it was interesting to the last degree to observe the lightning change for the better which overspread the countenances of some of the habitues of that institution as they drank in golden tales of better times. “There’s no use talking,” saia a tall, elderly gentleman, dogmatically, *this rise in wheat means a great deal. It means, in fact, everything, financially speaking, for California.’” “I guess that old fellow’s about right,” observed a man who could not have been so very young himself, since he had iron- “There is going to be a change in things, and no mistake. The hard times have lasted long enough.” “I wish you gentlemen wouldn't talk so ,”’ peevishly protested a snowy-haired financial patriarch, who had dropped into the exchange to see the lay of the land. ““When there's such a racket going on, a an can't keep track of the market, par- ticularly when he’s hard of hearing. This morning May wheat opened at $1 133, end then dropped to $1 1314, but I hear it's on the rise again. This means some- ““After all,” continued the ancient mem- ber, plainly gratified to notice that the others had ce: speaking in order to n to his views, ‘‘we old Californians e in wheat. When wheat'sup the ntry’s a-booming, and when wheat's the State is flat on her back. This dow may not be the most reasonable view to take, but it is the general one. and cannot be red. This idea, be it true or false, influence peculiar to itself on all ments of trade and finance through West.” isten to that bidding, will you!”in- clerk from one of the grain- offices. “And they’re all buying, If the market should take a flop now, 1 know some people that would wail like keeners at a wake. It's up to$1 14 al- ready. Just get onto thatold gent with the gold eyeglasses, If anybody knows the markets it's he; and he seems to be buving right and left. There are no sellers, anyhow, at least there don’t seem to be.” At this point a steady rise by eighths commenced, and as it advanced great ex- citement was manifest. The highest point reached was $1 143, after which the price declined to $114)4, closing firm at that figure. Spot wheat for milling purposes closed at §1 25, which price was firmly held, while prospects of a rise are said to be more than fair. Like other members of the Produce Ex- change, L. affected by the prevailing refused, however, to allow himself to be altogether carried away by the tidal wave n, and stuck to tigures, which h no attempt at originality, s an listen to these figures,’’ said Mc- “Tne amount of wheat which be required which will have to be pro- duced in this State during the interval whick commenced on the first of last De- cember and wiil terminate at the begin- ning of the coming July will be at least 30,000 tons monthly. This, be it under- stood, means theamount necessary within the State for seed, for milling purposes and for feeding domestic animals. This seems (0 me & very conservative estimate if nota low one. The Sperry Mills alone require 14,000 tons every month and the other mills nearly as much more, so it looks as though my estimate was far be- low the mark, “However, let us assume this estimate to be somewhere near correct. The in- terval to which I have referred comprises seven full months, during which time 210,000 tons of wheat will have to be pro- duced for use and consumption within the borders of this State alone. This leaves the matter of exports altogether out of calculation. But now let us look for a moment at tho outside market. The latest advices from Australia give a most for- lorn picture of this year’s wheat crop in the colonies. At last accounts the yield was fully £650,000 bushels short. This amount is about equal to 209,500 tons of our measure. The drought of last October practically ruined the Australian wheat crop. This year's yield represents per- haps a fourth, or may be less, of the usual harvest. #Now, the demand in Australia must be met, and met at once. Nothing can be more reasonabie than to believe that the colonial wheat-dealers will contivue er- deavoring to replenish their depleted mar- ket from California’sabundance. Already, since the beginning of last December, 46,863 tons of wheat tave been shipped to Australia and Africa from Ban Francisco. Over 162,000 tons will have to be shipped to Australia alone during the coming five months in order to meet the normal de- mand in that country. ‘In this connection the question of transportation must be considered. It would be of little avail that a promising market were opened if carrying facilities were unduly limited or excessively ex- pensive. But such, happily, is not the case. We have here in port disengased vessels with a carrying capacity of 78,761 tons. The ships now on the way to this port, and whick will unload here, bave a I carrying capacity of fully 365,700 tons, making the total freight facilities 444,461 tons. From these figures it will easily be percieved that the shipping of wheat to Australia will be a matter of great facility, With these two great fac- tors, urgency of the demand in Australia and facility for transportation thither, I can only conclude that the California wheat trade in that quarter will be most brilliant. “In the East ovr wheat has been rather low, but there is commencing to be quite a daemand for it, and this demand I am in- formed is liable to assume much greater proportions. In Chicagothe winter wheat is almost gone, and by ihe end of Febru- ary there will in all probability be little or none of it left. The millers in and about Chicago require from 50,000 to 150,000 tons daily to keep their mills going, and at the present rate a call will soon be made for the Californian wheat, which, after all, is far superior to anything of the kind that can be produced in the East. ‘“Looking at the matter calmly,” con- cluded Mr. McGlauflin, “weighing sound factsand straight figures.which are the only safe guides in matters of this kind, I have come to the conclusion that the best thing we can do here is to raise all the wheat we can, and have it available as soon as pos- sible. There is no reason, there can be no reason, why Californian wheat should now go begging for a market. The demand being so extensive and imperative, prices must come up, and I trust in the near future that the expression ‘hard times’ will cease to be used in California by all except historians and others of that ilk who deal in antiquated reminiscences of the dead and buried past.” E. L. Atkinson of the grain brokerage house of T. T. Atkinson & Co. had much the same story to tell. “Some people,”’ he observed, “‘are will- ing and apparently anxious to be fooled all the time. Then there are other times when sudden crazes seem to take general possession of the financial world. But when we see solid, sensible men preparing for a reign of prosperity we have a right to conclude that something is going to turn up. That seems to be the case at present. The rise in wheat which is now raising the wind in the market has come to stay for a while. This is no scheme of the brokers, but the legitimate cutcome of a palpable fact. While Chicago markets have not vet reached our figures, they are bound to advance in the natural sequence of events and do their part toward the augmentation of the general prosperity. “Tne faiiure of the Australian crop and the present low freight standard will both contribute in no small degree to the suc- cess of Californian wheat in Eastern and foreign markets. Itis said that one large dealer has bought up most of the A No. 1 milling wheat on the market and is at present selling it to the mills at $1 20 and clamoring for more, but I cannot speak with any degree of certainty regarding the accuracy or inaccuracy of the statement. At any rate grain speculators are jubilant, since the present indications promise bet- ter things for them and their clients in the near future.” George D. Toy of Bovee, Toy & Co. had a few views to express from a real estate man'’s standpoint. “It is necessary,” he observed, ‘“for a man to keep himself in a calm aud con- servative disposition of mind while con- sidering situations like the present. There have been sudden rises in wheat before, and the dazzling castle in the air has flopped flatter than a flapjack, ruining the hopes and fortunes of multitudes in its collapse. However, this late rise seems to be of a different order. The facts which caused the advance are patet to all, and the rise in prices of wheat seems to me nothing but the normal effect of a given cause. A singrular feature of life in Cali- fornia is that many Californians, particu- larly the old stagers, literally swear by wheat. Youn can’t interest them in or- chards or in manufactures to any great extent, and while they seem to wake up a little when grapes are mentioned, still the subject does not move them as it might. But speak to them of wheart, and they glow with enthusiasm or groan in utter depression of spirit, according to the status of the market. Funny, isn't it? “8till in the real estate business, and in every business for that matter, we must deal with people and ideas as well as with facts and figures. Taking this for granted, I think we may predict a great financial revival if this rise in wheat is permanent. As things look now the wheat market is on the verge ot a most prosperous epoch. Now since wheat (whether rightfully or not Tleave to wiser heads) is so notable a factor in the industrial and financial life of the State, a rise in the wheat market if per- manent and bona fide must exercise 2 most. beneficial effect upon the material welfare of the State in every depariment.” A NOVEL JOURNEY. Traveling by London’s Electric Under- ground Railway. District and metropolitan railways keep mostly to the north side of the Thames. But South London has its electric under- ground, the only one of the kind, I be- lieve, in existence, though there are electric trains almost everywhere now, ex- cept in London, and probably Liverpool is not alone in its electric elevated. I my- seli have never had occasion to use it, but curiosity led me once to makea journey along its entire length, The trip is made in a quarter of an hour, and trains run every three minutes, I be- lieve as yet there are but ten trains in all, but as each makes the round tripin half an hour, a larger number could hardly be managed. The journey for the unaccus- tomed has an element of novelty. You are carried down to the piatform” and up again to the street level in an elevetor. There is no division of classes,and the cars arc built somewhat on the model of streetcars; three are attached to each en- gine. I found the light—though it may bave been a chance that one day—atro- ciously bad, the jolting dreadful and the stations clean and dull compared to those on the ordinary underground. For, of course, there is no smoke, and the tiled walls are immaculately clean; as up and down line: have each a separate tube or tunnel there is a platform but to one side, and it is made a5 narrow and contracted may be, while it is the one place I know where London is as silent as M. Daundet so recently fouud it. The absence of smoke is an advantage in a way. The atmosphere may savor of the cellar, but there is no danger of being stifled and suffocated by foul air. Lonaon being the most conservative place in the world, naturally the electric railway has not yet achieved so great a popularity as to warrant the creation of rivals. The Londoner must hayve time tc make up his mind about it; he is still in that stage of uncertainty when he will pay his penny or twopence to go below and inspect the platform. The wonder really is that this one line happened to be built in the me- tropolis, which has been most backward in accepting the modern applications of elec- tricity. Do not London streets, except here and there, still wazit for the electric light >—Harper's Magazine. ———————— The ways of auctioneers in different arts of the world vary greatly. In Eng- and and America the seller bears the ex- penseof the sales, but in France the pur- chaser bears the cost, 5 per cent being added to his purchase. In Holland it is still. worse, the purchaser being required to pay 10 LK" cent additional for the ex- pense of the sale. THEY FAILED TO' OPEN, Downtown Poolrooms Cannot Get Any Telegraphic Service. THE NEW MONTE CARLO. Gambling to Be Conducted in Annie Alley—News From Cripple Creek. Contrary to the general expectation the downtown poolrooms failed to open up for business yesterday. As a consequence the service of the district messenger office was unimpaired and no new cases of theft or misappropri- ation of employers’ funds were reported at police headquarters. President Thomas H. Williams of the California Jockey Club has set his foot down in earnest against allowing the poolmen telegraphic service from the Bay District track. The poolmen, therefore, are in such a position that they do not feel justitied in doing business over the grapevine route they used from the Ingleside track, 1 | chandise to or from the residents on said ave- nue. ®Sec. 4. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this order shall be deemed guilty of & misdemeanor, and shall, on convie- tion thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $5 or more than $50, or by imprisonment in the County Jall for not less than five days or more than six months. A report was decided upon in favor of having artificial stone sidewalks laid on the south side of Jackson street, between Steiner and Scott, in front of Alta plaza. The Superintendent of Streets was in- structed to investigate the matter of sew- ers on Prescott street, near Vallejo, and recommended the construction of a proper outlet for sewage in that district as soon as practicable, as the School Department has prohibited the further use of the sewer through the Irving-street school lot. The committee recommended the re- jection of the petitions of Caroline H. Robinson and James D. Phelan, executor of the estate of James Phelan, for the ac- ceptance of Folsom street, between Ninth and Tenth. Tke report of the committee is as follows: As the citizens of this district have been en- ergetically endeavoring to have a boulevard on Folsom street by haviug the same paved with bituminous rock, the City and County having appropriated the sum of $£35,000 for this purpose to_pave the accepted blocks and crossings, the balance to complete the entire street 1o be appropriated by the City and County during the next fiscal year, no atithor- ity can be found to accept the block paved with basalt blocks years ago,as the same s not in good condition, and your committee regards that this apparent omission of a pre- vious Superintendent of Streets to recommend the aceeptance of this block imposes upou the property-owners the additional expense of re- paving said street with bitumen. The committee decided that in view of the opinion rendered by City and County Attorney Creswell regarding the much- mooted Crocker fence in the rear of the Nob Hili mansion it would be unwise to JOE HARVEY’S NEW GAMBLING GAME AT THE BAY DISTRICT TRACK. although in this case they know it would be much easier to get the news than it was from the new course. Their inaction yesterday was greatly due, too, to the fact that the Driscoll case is now before Judge Wallace. Driscoll was arrested on a charge of violating the Etlert ordinance prohibiting the conduct- ing of pool-selling outside of a racetrack. The defendant was foumd guilty in the Police Court and the case was appealed, On Wednesday last Judge Wallace stated that he saw nothing more in the case than was in the messenger case which he tried months ago on the same charge and in which he awarded an acquittal. The Dis- trict Attorney asked to be aliowed to file briefs, which was granted, and the case now is. pending. In the meantime the oolmen are mapping out some scheme 'y which they may get prompt telegraphic service, ana they feel confident of success by to-morrow. The firms doinibusiness on Ellis street have ail closed their doors to the public and have secured quarters in a place less conspicuous. Henceforth Hallinan & Co., Levy & Co. aud Harry E. Corbett & Co. will transact their business in Annie alley, anarrow thoroughfare running from Eddy street to Ellis, betmeen Powell and Mason. They have secured a big abundoned stable. This has been fitted up with the necessary stalls and boxes wherein to makes books. “Billy” Kennedy, one of the speculators from the recently closed ‘‘Belfry,” who went to_ Cripple Creek, has been heard from. He writes that the campis more than overrun by gamblers and sure-thing men. Penniless men are reaching the place by the hundreds every day. There is nothing doing and the death rate from pneumonia alone is one each hour of the day and night. Kennedy is very bitter against his old partner, Joe Harvey, who, he claims, is the cause of his having to leave California. They were associated in the wheel of for- tune at the Bay District track until Har- vey decided he preferred to be unasso- ciated. That wheel earned, according to Kennedy, over $101,000 in six months dur- ing which it ran steadily at the Bay Dis- trict track. The Pacific Coast Jockey Club refused to Fermit Harvey to run his game at the ngleside track. GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD, The Prayer of Property Owners Answered by the Super- visors. Refusal to Accept Basalt-Paved Fol. som-Street Blocks—No Railroad Tracks. The Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors decided yesterday to grant the -prayer of the residents along Golden Gate avenue and recommend an order declar- ing that thoroughfare a public boulevard throughout its full length, thus forever shutting out street railroads from laying their tracks thereon, and making the ave- nue the pleasure driveway for which it was orignally intended. The matter was decided upon some time ago, but as the time was not considered ripe no definite steps were taken. Yester- day, however, the matter was brought up for discussion and the committee con- cluded that there was no use of fur- ther delay and instructed Clerk Russell to draw up an order covering the ground, which he did in the following words: SECTION 1. That certain street in the City and County of 8an Francisco known as Golden Gate avenue, throughout its entire length from Market street to Masonic avenue, is hereby declared to be and dedicated as’ an open boulevard upon and along which no rail- road franchise shall ever be granted and on which no railroad tracks shall ever be laid. Sec. 2. No permit shall ever be issued allow- ing the moving of any house along said street for any distsnce whatever, and no house- moving shall ever be done on said street, either along, upon or across the same, Sec. 3. No wagon, truck or dray, cart or other vehicle carrying or regularly employed in carrying goods, merchandise, coal, manure, sand, lumber or other articles of commerce or trade, shall travel upon seid boulevard or street for any pur orin any matter what- Lto v ever, provided that this article shall not apply les carrying goods, wares snd mer proceed further in the matter, and ordered the ordinance to remove it placed on file. This shelves the matter for the present, at least. It was decided to instruct the Superin- tendent of Streets to recommend the con- struction of sewers on California street, from Central avenue to First avenue, in order to complete the sewerago facilities thereon. It was also decided to request the gas and water companies to lay mains on the street, as it is the intention of the board to bituminize the blocks mentioned, — TALLOW SOLD FOR WAk, A Clever Game Operated by a Recent Arrival From Seattle. Phil Unger Arrested on a Charge of Having Obtained Money Under False Pretenses. Through the efforts of the Morse De- tective Agency of this City Phil Unger, who is suspected of being a clever swin- dler, was arrested last night on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, As far as could be gathered from Morse's men, Unger came to this City from Seattle about two weeks ago, accompanied by J. A.Brown and a lad, wio claimsto be a nephew of the latter, and who gives the name of Fred Brown. It is supposed the men have been carry- ing on their operations in a most sys- tematic manner and on a considerable scale, their victims being merchants along Front and other downtown streets who desal in beeswax. Unger called on Charles Jacobson & Co., 423 Front street, on January 10, and ex- hibiting a sample of beeswax, worth from 25 cents to 27 cents a pound, stated he had about a thousand pounds for sale. A bar- gain was struck at 23 cents a pound, and on the delivery of five barrels, the net con- tents of which weighed 975 pounds, Unger was given a check for $224 25 and gave the firm a receipt signed J. A. Baum. A few days ago the firm sold these five barrels of supposed beeswax and was about to ship them to Europe, when it was dis- covered that instead of beeswax the barrels contained a composition of tallow and paraffine colored to resemble beeswax, and worth about 4 cents & pound at most. The firm at once_placed the case in the hands of Harry Morse, who last nigit landed his man behind the prison bars. Unger and the two Browns were found at the Winchester House on Third street, but there being no evidence against either of the Browns they were released. The detectives discovered that they were running a factory for the wholesale manu- facture of imitation beeswax at 936 Harri- son street, and it is believed that quite a number of firms have been duped by the game. - The House of Lords. Probably the House of Lords is the least sentimental assembly in the world, vet it is peculiarly susceptible to the authority and magic of a stronLgoDeuonalizy‘ Ona celebrated occasion Lord Isndhurn Te- cited at enormous length all the bla letter authoritieson a subject. Lord Lynd- hurst got his way, not by the weight of his black-letter citations, which t pastoral peers who swell out full-dress debates could hardly be expected to appreciate, but by the accustomed, yet ever vivid, im%femon of Lord Lyndhurst on his legs. Thus, when Lord Sali rises to recommend a perilous success to the cohorts he controls, when the House “gives audience and attention still as night” to the sequence of clear-cut argu- ment and illustration, every phrase poised | to a bair, every point piercing to the quick, the whole speech acling like oxygen on the languid air of the House of Lo itis easy to realize the burden of responsibility which personal ascendancy lays upon the leader of the Conservative party in the House of Lords.—Nineteenth Century, e —e—— According to a Paris paper the crown of the King of Portugal, which was recently repaired by a jeweller, is the most costly in the world, being valued at over $5,000,000, ANTI-BUCKLEY PRIMARY, The Junta Decided Last Night to Hold One Within Two Weeks. i ONLY GOOD MEN FOR JUDGES. Ex.Election Commissioners James Den- man and P. M. Wellin Will Name the Officers. The anti-Buckley primary is now more clearly in view. The primary committee of the Junta met last night and decided to hold a primary for the election of a new general commifttee within about two weeks, the date to be fixed soonin the course of the frequent meetings the com- mittee will hold from now on. The Junta people have changed their minds about holding it according to the | postal primary plan. Chairman W, P. Sullivan stated Iast night that the primary would be an open club election of the usnal sort and according to the regular plan followed by the Buckley faction two weeks ago. After favorably considering the postal primary plan for a while it was decided that the value to the faction of ursuing regular party methods would be uperior to the Increased showing of strength that woiild be secured by letting every voterdeposit his ballot in a mail box. This move on the part of the Juntais a consequence of the decision of the Su- preme Court knocking out the new Elec- tion Commission, The Junta has been waiting to see if its plan of having the commission appoint the primary election officers could be carried out. Last night the primary committee de- - | cided to ask James Denman and P. M. Wellin, the Democratic members of the commission that is no more, to personally name the election officers, of which there | will be five in _each of the eighteen dis- tricts. This will be an evidence of good faith, at least, and will be supposed to im- part to the election the full degree of re- spectability with which the appointers are credited. 5 ““We are going, right ahead now,” said Chairman Sullivan last night, “and we an- ticipate a largé and successful Erimary election. The issue is squarely Buckley and anti-Buckley, and we have with us the decent elements of the party, who will turn rout at this primary if they have never voted at & primary before. We are having copies of the original rolls made in proper and convenient form for the use of the election officers. Further de- tails will be decided on during the next few days.” . Samuel Braunhart says that in the! Twenty-ninth District there are 700 anti- Buckleyites on the Junta roils which jare open for inspection, and that that isa sample of the strength that is arrayed against Buckley. Meanwhile the Buckley- ites smile and predict that the coming primary will be nipped by a frost. The Ghirardelli Case. Some important testimony was given in the Ghirardelli case yesterday in reference to the parentage of Mrs. Dowinga Barbagellata, the ¢ir who is contesting the wili. She was al- lowed $2000 under the will, but she claims she is entitled to an equal on nth, Lone Do Wong Sam Says He Was Slandered. Woug Sam, & Chinatown merchant, declares that he has had nothing to do with the Wong Sing Hong case,and that his name has been brought into it by enemies. He made a &tate- ment of the case yesterday to Commissioner Heacock. JOY’S JOY’S for the Jaded JOoy’s JOy’s - JOY’S for the Jaded JOoYy’s Joy’s JOY’S JOY’S STIRS JOY’S ! THE LIVER JOY’S for the Jaded I 5 CURES ECZEMA for the Jaded NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. OWERFUL INDUCEMENTS TO-DAY’S TRADE! As samples of the CROWD-BRINGING BARGAINS that are making our GREAT MIDWINTER CLEARANCE SALE the most successful of any sale San Francisco has ever known we present a variety of lines that are TO BE CLEARED OUT TO-DAY AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE! ALL-WOOL FRENCH SERGE. At 85 Cents. 2500 yards 33-INCH FINE ALL-WOOL FRENCH SERGE, dahlia and mahoguny, extra good value for 50c, 25c a yard. : , in green, gray, bronze, will be placed on sale this day at BLACK STORM SERGE. 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