The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1896, Page 9

- 4 aueue be discarded? 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1896. A QUESTION OF CHINESE QUEUES The Plaited Head Dress a Badge of Imperial Allegiance. MAY ITS ‘WEARER VOTE? Native Sons in Chinatown Agi- tated Over a Serious Le- gal Problem. A THOUSAND CHINESE VOTERS. Movement in Chinatown for the Discon- tinuance of the Pigtail—Its Real Significance. Shall the Chinese of Ban Francisco dis- card the queune? Its real significance is that of allegiance to the Chinese empire. To appear in China minus the queue is a sign of treason and is met with death at the hands of the public executioner. But now a movement is on foot in China | for the abolitivn of the law requiring the queue to be worn, and the Chinese in this | City as well 2s in China are agitated one | way or another on the question, Shall me{ | | However, no precipitate action 1n the matter is apprehended, and the question is considered seriously only among the edu- cated Mongolians. Dr. Henry, a famous | missionary stationed at Canton, writesin | a current number of the magazine issued | by his missionary board that there are not | lacking evidences of reform even in the | eternal kingdom. He says: The air is full of hopeful signs of better times | for China. A manifesto has already been is- | sued demanding (a) a change in the constitu- tional government, (b) the removal of inca- pable rulers, (c) the removal of the queue as a sign of government allegiance, (d) the prohibi- tion of foot-binding. * * * What 1nterests the inhabitants of China- town, however, is the probable or possible result of this azitation upon the local po- litical movement among the Chinese, | Judge Morrow has decided that a Chi- nese born in this country isentitled, under | the law, to the privilezes of the franchise. But wounld Judge Morrow orany other judge rule that a Chinese who still wears the badge of allegiance to a foreign Em- peror is eligible as a citizen of the United States? There is considerable agitation on this point already, and a decided movement is on foot to challenge the vote of all native Chinese who shall appear at the voting booths on election day wearing a queue. Or it may be that a 1iest case will be brought up in the courts before election. Those who hold that a Chinese should not be permitted to vote so long as he wears a pigtail ceclare that it would be an analo- gohs case if the son of English parents, born in the TUnited States, should take an oath of allegiance to Queen Victoria and then attempt to exercise his natal privilege of franchise in this country. Can a man be a citizen of two countries at one and the same time? Can a man who openly acknowledges his allegiance to a foreign power be a patriotic citizen of the United States? Does Judge Morrow’s decision go to the extent of ruling that a native son of Chi- nese parents, who recognizes and affirms, at least negatively, the sovereignty of the Chinese Imperial Government, is eligible as 2 voter in this Nation? May a pigtailed Chinese vote in San Francisco? These are questions with which the so- called ““United Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West” and some other citi- zens not members of that order are grap- pling in dead earnest, and the proba- bilities are that some legal steps will be taken in the matter before long. There are about 500 voters in China- town now, all members of this so-called | ‘“‘parlor,’”” and before election day the Chinatown politicians expect fo carry no less than 1000 votes in their vest pockets. At the last gubernatoral election 400 | votes cast either way would have changed the result. When 1000 votes can be handed to this or that candidate for this or that consideration those votes become a power and a menace at the same time. Those who have raised the issue declare that the only object the Chinese had in ex- ercising the franchise is to fight the anti- Chinese laws of this country. Once it was possible for a Chinaman to become a nat- uralized citizen, but at that time there were no hostile laws regarding the Chinese, and, therefore, the Chinese took no advan- tage of the opportunity. Now that the re- striction laws have been passed and en- forced the Mongosians see their mistake, and this new move toward the registration | of the native sons of Asiatic parentage is in the direction of acquiring political power to fight this class of legislation. Of course, the *‘parlor’ of Native Sons in Chinatown holds no charter or authoriza- tion from the Caucasian order of Native Sons, but it has organized under the laws of the State, and has secured articles of in- corporation. All the members of this . ‘“parlor” wear queues; all of them claim to be voters, and half of them have already voted at a prior election. Of course it will rest with those who in- ‘tend to challenge theright of these Chinese to vote to prove that the queue is in real- ity a badge of political allegiance to a foreign power, but this task, they claim, will not be difficnlt. Chinese literature and laws will themselves prove the point abundantly, they declare, and any one who has lived for a time in China knows the meaning of the quene. The Rev. F. ). Masters, D.D., superin- tendent of the Methodist Episcopal Chinese Mission in this City, has been a resident of Chira and is well posted on the manners and customs of the Mongo- lian. When asked concerning the signifi- cance of the Chinese queue, Dr. Masters said: “The Chinese custom cf wearing a queue is political rather than religious. Ii had its oriyin at the time of the Tartar con- quest of China in 1664. Up to that time the Clinese had been accustomed to wear the hair long ana unplaited, twisting it A into a tuit or coil on the top of the head to getitout of the way. The new Govern- ment had to deal with a hostile and sullen people who could not be conciliated into submission, “Soon after the new Emperor came to the throne an edict was issued requiring all persons who desired to be known as his loyal subjects to plait the hair at the back of the head, and shave the front part, aiter the custom of Manchuria. The queune at once and forever became the differentiating mark of allegiance to the Manchu dynasty, and all who retained the Meng coiffure were regarded as disloyal. “At first the order exasperated the Chinese, who looked upon it as a badge of Lumiliation, and it was nearly a hundred years before the custom was generally adopted.— Kang Hi, the second sovereign of the present dynasty, found it necessary to offer rewards and immunities to the natives of outlying districts that had re- fused to submit to the new order. ““When it became manifest that there was 1o possibility of a restoration of the Meng monarchy, when it was seen that queue- Ies? persons never bad any show in acourt qf Justice or any chance of success in the literary examinations, the people yielded. Ever since then a man with unbraided hair has been looked upon as a rebel and liable to arrest and decapitation. At the present day in China every Chinaman not in open rebellion wears a quene. What was once a degredation is now a mark of respectabil- ity. With the exception of priests, a Chinaman without a queue would be held up to universal execration. *‘That the queue is the badge of allegiance to the Emperor of China is evident from the fact that the first act of the rebels in the late Tai Ping rebellion was to unplait the hair and wear it in Meng dynasty fashion. The local Chee Kune Tong in Spofford alley, the so-called Free Masons, is a rebel secret society and on being ini- tiated into its secret rites the neophyte al- ways unplaits his queue while reciting the oaths renouncing allegiance to the Tartar sovereign. S “I have never urged a Chinaman resid- ing in this country to shave off his queue for this reason. Qur laws do not permit his naturalization and to urge him to re- move his queue would he to denationalize him and Jeave him practically without a country. “‘Some Chinese while residing here have found it more convenient to dress their hair in our style, but before returning to China they have always been careful to grow the hair long enough to enable them to attach a false queue, and they have as- sured me that to go about the streets of China without a queue would subject them to imprisonment. “You ask if my view is corroborated by any other missionaries? Yes; by Williams in his ‘Middle Kingdom, by Doolittle in bis *Social Life of the Chi- nese,’ by every missionary in China and by every authority on Chinese customs.”’ ‘‘Have you ever heard that the queue has any religious significance?"” *‘Never! It is not the mark of initiation into some religious order or caste. It is not analogous to the sacred cord of the Brahmans. That this is not so is apparent when it is considered that all the images of their gods are without queues, and so are their priests. The Buddahist priests, like the Buddhisatvas they worship, are shaven and shorn, and the Taoist priests wear their long hair, twisted around a wooden comb at the back of the head.” The Rev. Mr. Condit, superintendent of the Presbyterian Chinese Mission, who lived in China six years and traveled through the country considerably, who | speaks the language and is well versed in its literature, holds the same view as to the significance of the queue. | “Itis unquestionably a mark of polit- | ical aliegiance,” said he, “though I would | not like to say that all Chinamen who wear the queue wear it for this reason. I think, rather, that many of them cling to the queue merely as a custom.” However, those who agitate the matter now, declare that a man who seeks to cast his bailot in America should at least be strongly, to say the least, of imperial sovereignty. THE AFFILIATED COLLEGES Regents of the State University Discuss the Various De- signs. Judgment of Three Non-Competing Architects Invited by the Committee, A committee of regents of the State Uni- versity held a long session yesterday after- Art. The five designs for affiliated col- leges recently submitted by architects were discussed. The committee consisted of J. West Martin, Colonel C. F. Crocker, General Houghton, Timothy Guy Phelps, J. B. Remstein and the secretary, Dr. Bonte. Among others attending to hear the result of the committee’s deliberation were: Major Mhoon, attorney of the board of regents; Columbus Bartlett; Dr. R. Beverly Cole, president of the medical college; O. P. Evans of the law college; Professor Dunbar. dean of the dental col- lege; Melburne M. Searby, dean of the col- lege or pnarmacy; Dr. Skaef, the dean of the veterinary coilege; George T. Marve, Frank Powers, the competing architects, and several college representatives. The architects and college representa- tives were admitted singly to the commit- tee-room, and each bad a fair hearing. After a long discussion on ground plans, interior space, decorations, general fitting and estimates of probable cost the commit- tge decided to refer the matter toa com- mittee of three architects. It wasresolved to re%;lest Albert M. Pissis, Clinton Day and Walter J. Matthews to serve on this committee. This resolution did not appear to meet with the universal favor of the architects assembled. There was an impression that Clinton Day, a university man, was in- clined to favor the plans proposed by Architect Sutton. It issaid that Mr. Sut- ton’s design has many admirers among the regents, and that to counteract the influ- ence favorable to his pians and to ad vance the fortunes of Architect Pelton 0. P. Evans was on the rcene. Attorney Frank Powers was reported to be an advocate of Button’s cause on the chief ground that the latteris not only a capable architect, but also a graduate of the State Univer- sity. The gossip goes that Governor Budd bas unbounded faith in Architect Pelton. The Stockton Free Library building was designed by Mr. Pelton, and the designing of that edifice meets the full measure of the Governor’s conception of architecture. Dr. Cole has studied the plans presented by Mr. Sutton and says that the archit ct preparea them after elaborate survey and close detail inspection of modern colleges of the East. The committee made diligent inquiry as to the cost of the buildings, and each archi- tect called in, speaking for hisown plaus, assured the regents that the cost would not exceed the sum of money appropriated. Another meeting of the committee will be held next Saturday. On Tuesday next the board of regents wiil meet and at that meeting one of the five designs submitted will probably be chosen. The check on the Bank of California has been appropriately framed and presented to the board of regents by William Alvord. An indelible ink very commgnly nsed in the middle ages was made with & basis of the terchloride of gold applied to a cloth dampened with a solution of chloride of tin, , willing to forego a custom that smacks | noon at the Mark Hopkins Institute of | SUTRO' SELECTS A SITE, Has Offered a Location for the Wilmerding Training School. IN FAIR RICHMOND DISTRICT. An Eantire Block on an Elevation to Be Devoted to the Buildings and Grounds. Mayor Sutro has selected a site for the Wiimerding School of Manual Training, 1l human probability the last opportunity the people of the State of California will have 1o free themselves from the bondage of this thieving gigantic monopoly, which now threat- ens to take possession of the very Government itseli and put us in poverty. as it has our blacklisted members, and make of us its servile vassals for all time, and Resolved, That the enormous and ill-gotten gains realized from the coustruction and opera- tion of the railroad, which have been diverted from their p:oper channels into the pockets of C. P. Huntington and his fellow-conspirators, together with the present assets of the com- pany, are vastly more than sufficient to cancel ihe claim of the Government, we demand that foreclosure be made upon them and not upon the properties of the plundered and oppressed people of this State. Resolved, That we note with pride the honest and manly stand taken by our Senators, Perkins and White, and our esteemed Congressman, Maguire, and also a majority of the Con. gressional delegation against this iniquitous and infamous funding bill. Reso'ved, That to Mayor Sutro and the com- mittee of fifty of San Francisco, we are deeply indebted for their determined opposition to rn 1nsollvem,corrupl corporation ana itsgrovel- ng tools. Resolved, That to the. Ban Francisco Carr, Examiner and Star and other papers that are working in the interest of the people, and are waginguxclenl!us! war against an arrogant end unscrupulous enemy Of the State. we [ PRESIDIE, = 2 4 . Bie - - o o [The shaded portion S GroEn sa Ves s go= TE PARHK N o iaiaiite B aen e v e te o= L 80R The Site Selected by Mayor Sutro for the Wilmerding School. indicates the block.] which it is supposed will be located in San Francisco, and has offered the trustees of the Wilmerding bequest a free giit of the property. The site comprises an entire block on Thirty-second avenue, in Richmond, known as block 315, and is admirably situ- ated for such a purpose, being on rising ground that overlooks Golden Gate Park on the south and the Presidio reservation on the north. It is within one block of Point Lobos avenue, the main driveway to the ocean throngh the Richmond District, and also within one block of the electric line that runs along Thirty-third avenue on its way to the City, thus insuring an easy method of transportation for pupils, instructors and visitors. It is understood that the trustees of the | Wilmerding bequest, while not knowing | what the Mayor would do in the matter, favored such a location, and it is believed that should the school be built on thisside of the bay the site will be accepted. As large and substantial buildings will | be erected at a heavy outlay of money the | school will be of much benefit to Rich- | mond, and the residents and property- | owners in that district are enthu-iastic over the prospect of the school being lo- cated on block 315. The school will be under the control of the regents of the State University, and all has‘e will be | made to erect the buildings when the site | question is settled. Mayor Sutro said yesterday that he had | selected the site after long and careful consiaeration, and that in %is estimation | there was no more suitable location for such an institution on the San Francisco peninsula. At first he had an idea of se- lecting a block south of the park, but the residents of the north side were so earnest in their desire to have the school buildings located in Richmond that he acceded to their requestsand decided on a north-side block. :in case the site is accepted, build- ing will be begnn in a short time. E. A. Denicke, chairman of the joint com- mittees appointed for the({»urpose of select- ing a site for the Wilmerding School, was interviewed last night in relation to the offer of Mayor Sutro. ““Ireceived a communication from the Mayor to-day,’” said he, ‘“anforming me that he had presented the Wilmerding trust with a large block of land in Rich- mond district for a site. It islocated in block 315 on ‘Thirty-second avenue, be- tween A and B streets, on high ground—a very satisfactory glnca for the proposed institution. The Sutro electric road to the Cliff House is two blocks to the north and Golden Gate Park two bigcks to the south- ward of block 315. Point Lobos avenue, the big thoroughfare of the district, leading from the terminus of Geary street to the ocean, passes near the place selected for the site. “I don’t think a better localiiy could have been found, as Richmond district is coming to the front asa choice residence portion of the City. I cannotnow say just what the trustees or executors of ‘the Wilmerding trust will do, but doubtless they will hasten to accept the Mayor's offer. “A meeting will be held at the Hopkins Art Institute next Tuesday to take action in the matter.” AGHINST ANY REFUNDING The American Railway Union Exploits Anti-Railroad Resolutions, A Strong Demand That Congress Do Not Pass the Bill—The Other Trades Unions. Since the late railroad strike the mem- bers of the American Railway Union in this City and Qakland have been keeping quiet, because they saw that there was nothing to be gained by making them- selves conspicuous. Many have thereby been misled into believing that the de- feated union was crushed and dead. Such is not the case, for according to the mem- bership rolls there are more A. R. U. men than there were before. However, as many of those who were barred from serv- ing the railroad have found other posi- tions they do not attend every meeting of the unions. Local Union No. 345 frequently holds lively meetings, and those who have been blacklisted by the railroad express them- selves freely upon all subjects pertaining to the railroads in general and the Central and Southern Pacific in particular. Such a.meeting was held last evening when, after a number of vigorous speeches upon the funding-bill proposition, the following outspoken resolutions were passed: WHEREAS, The industrial and producing classes of the State of California and the black- listed membersof the American Raflway Union are now engaged in a death struggle with a gigantie, thieving, blood-sucking railroad mo- nopoly in order to break the ehains they have bound us in for the last quarter of a century; and whereas, the passage of a railroad funding bill bi Congress will but more than firml rivet the bonds upon an impoverished and al- most helpless people; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the members of Local Union No.345, American Railwey Union, in assemblage, do most ecarnestly and unani- mously gmten against the passage of any funding bill or any measure of similar char- acter which will enable the Central Pacific Company to evade the settlement of its just debts and by so doing imposing upon the people of California the burden of the payment, and that the present time 1s in extend the right hand of fellowship and bid them godspeed in their noble work. Resolved, That Mayor _Sutro voiced the unanimous sentiment of this meeting when he said that the pocket of every open friend of the funding bill contains railroaa passes and their gold. Resolved, That words fail to express our condempation snd detestation of any newspaper which either ignorantly ot for corporate hire attempts~ to place this community iu 8 false position upon the subject of the railroad funding bill. Resolved, That we pledge our votes and our influence to defeat any candidate who will in any way use his influence to pass the bill | through Congress should he come up for office in the future; and, lastly, be it further. Resolved, That we pledge our votesand in- | fience to'those who may stand by us and help | us out of our present condition, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to THE CALL, Chronicle, Examiner and Star, and to our official paper, the Railway Times, Adopted by local Union No, 345, A.R.T., Februaty 5, 1896. Before the meeting was over L. E. Stin- son and George W. West were selected as | delegates to the big mass-meeting of labor unions to be held at 1159 Mission street on the 14th inst. At the meeting of the District Council of Carpenters and Joiners last evening, the | subject of carpentering in_the Police De- | par ment was discussed. It was reported that in repairing the several stations regu- | lar police officers are kept-at work when they should be patrolling their beats and rotecting lives and property from the awless. It was stated that from one to half a dozen patrolmen are constantly kept engaged doing work that journgymen carpenters should have. 1t was consid- erect unfair that carpenters who are tax- payers should be deprived of the means of making a living while this class of work is being done by City officials who are sup- posed to be performing .another kind of service. o In order to learn who is responsible for this injustice a committee was appointed | to call upon the Chief of Police, Police | Commissioners and the Supervisors. The committee consists of John McCartney, L. P. Norburg and L. N. Vezina. The'idea prevailed that the Supervisors, and not the Police Commissioners, are responsible in not providing the means for the pay- ment of a carpenter for the Police Depart- ment’s carpenter work. Several months ago a dozen men and women employed in Schmidt’s Label Company at 17 Main street went on a strike because of a reduction in the wages. Their action was sustained by the Press- men’s Union, The executive committee of this body last evening reported that Schmidt had sent for them with a view of straightening out the difficulty and declaring the strike off. He insisted thatseveral of the women could not return to work. A second meet- ing was promised to fix up the matter and the executive committee reported that Schmidt had again changed his mind with regard to compromising the difficulty. The union decided to continue the strike and agree to no terms but those they offer, the re-establishment of the old rate of wages and that all those on the strike be taken back without prejudice. AT THE THEATERS. “The Gentle Savage” Draws Well. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin’’ at the Bush—Other Plays. The kaleidescope of color arnd costumes in “A Gentle Savage,” together with the erratic plot and humorous sayings, are g‘rovxng quite an attraction at the Tivoli. ittle Gertie Carlisle is particularly at home as the drummer boy and Ferns Hartman provokes plenty of laughter. Sidney Gundry’s dashing play, “The Arabian Nights,” is keeping the audiences at Grover’s Alcazar in a perpetual state of good humor. In “Joe’s Giris,” which fol- lows the main piece of the evening, Leon- ard Grover plays the part of [ra Bagstack with considerable verve, if with some ex- aggeration. *Men and Women” continues to enjoy its usual success at the Columbia Theater. The exciting melodrama, “Sins of a Night,” is fascinating Grand Overa-house audiences with its wealth of thrilling situ- ations and daeds of crime and of heroism. Rachael Walker is proving conclusively at the Orpheum that cultivated singing and good songs please a variety house au- dience better than unculture chortling and trivial ditties. Billy Carter, the banjo specialist, is making himself popular at this house. 2 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is exercising its attractions most successfully at the Bush- street Theater. The play is well staged and cleverly acted. — Dr. Jordan to Lecture, This evening David Starr Jorden will give the first of a series of popular lectures at the Veterinary College, corner of Post and Fill- more streets, on the “Heredity of Ri Roe.” The lectures will be delivered %!v].':;‘; two weeks free of charge, and the following gentlemen will announce the subjects later: rofessor Le Conte, Professor Ritter, Professor Seckel, Dr. W. F. MeNutt, Dr. Masters, etc. ————————— The three largest counties in England are Yorkshire, having anarea of 3,822 851 statute acres; Lincolnshire, 1,767,879 acres and Devonshire, 1,655,208 acres. The three counties havine the largest populations are Lancashire, 3,451 441; Middlesex, 2,920, 485, and Yorkshire, 2,886, — —-———— A Canal Choked Up Is practically useless. The human organism fs provided with a canal which sometimes becomes choked up, namely, the bowels, through which much of the effete and waste matter of the system escapes. When they are obstructed—constipated, in other words—Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will relieve them eftectually, but without pain, and in- stitute a regular habitof body. This medicine also Temedies malarial, bilious. dyspeptic, rheumatic, nervous and kidney trouble, and strengthens the entire system. « - LUMBER FOR THE SOUTH, F. H. Folsom's Story of the Heavy Shipments to Los An- geles. THE ENORMOUS SHINGLE TRADE He Says a Great Many Mills Have Recently Started Up in the Northern Forests. T.H Folsom, a lumberman of Maine and Minnesota,who notlong ago located at Everett, Wash., and who has been ship- ping large quantities of lumber and poles for electric roads to Southern California, is at the Grand. Mr. Folsom has forwarded three ship- loads of poles to San Pedro for use by Los Angeles, Pasadena and Redlands electric lines and for electric lighting, and hasa contract for a la;ge quantity in addition, which will be sent down at an early date. The poles are very heavy, being the best to be obtained from the northern woods. They are from thirty to fiity feet long. “The building boom at Los Angeles has been a godsend to the lumbermen of the north,” said Mr. Folsom. “There have been for some time an average of nine ships unloading lumber in the harbor of San Pedro, with all the lumber coming from Puget Sound and Grays Harbor. “By the building there a much better“ market has been afforded Northwestern lumbermen than formerly. Nearly all the mills—at least the big ones—up in Washington have been running for a vear past, but the demand, aside from thatin California, bas been from the East and abroad. “There is now and has been for some time past, however, a very stiff demand in dent of the road with a view of having the cars run according to the speed regulated by law. Messrs. Fillipinni, Dillon and Green were appointed on the committee. Luke Battles was elected vice-president of the club by acclamation. The secretary was instructed to send a petition to the Board of Supervisors re- questing that the width of all the side- walks on the lettered streets south of Point Lobos and north of the park be reduced to fifteen feet. Also to ask the board to Pplace proper signs at the corner of the streets and avenues. The president drew attention to the dis- graceful condition of the sidewalk at Cen- tral avenue, and Messrs. Wislow and Fletcher were appointed a committee to investigate the matter. The meeting then adjourned. MUST FILL UP THE SLOTS The Board of Health Warns the Market-Street Railway Company. Davis Censured—Startling Statements Regarding the Actions of Past Officials. The Board of Health gave the Market- street Railway Company warning yester- day that it must observe the regulations of the board and fill up the slots in branch roads that have been converted from cable to electric lines. Dr. Morse started the discussion by stating that he believed the unused slots were & menace to the health of the public. | He said that as long as they were used they were kept clean, but that when abandoned they were neglected and ac- cumulated all manner of filth and refuse, that, by rotting, poisoned the air and bred disease. He moved that the company be instructed by the Health Officer to fill up the objectivnable cavities at once or that the work woutd be done by the board at the expense of the corporation, The measure was carried unanimously, and Los F. H. Folsom, Who Is Shipping Large Quantitics of Electric Poles to Pasadena Angeles. the Puget Sound country for cedar shin- gles, Ve make very fine shingles there, having the best of wood and enormous quantitiegof it. ‘‘At the city of Everett, at the mouth of the Snohomish River, Puget Sound, where Ilive, there are about twenty-five shingle- mills running steadily, and over the Sound in all directions are many other mills, T suppose they average about 200,000 shin- gles each a day. This will give you an idea of the enormous quantity of the prod- uct. It has been extremely dull in Washing- ton for a year or two especially, and the shingle and lumber business, as lately de- veloped, has given us about the only monev we have had. I do not know whether the lumber combine has yet been effected or not, but most of the lumber- men think they ought to have a higher rice. 5 “The Santa Fe Railroad has been trying to get lumber shippers to San Pedro to change to Redondo harbor, but they are Eot satisfied thatiiis as good as it should e.” Everett, which is the home of Mr. Fol- som, 15 a sprightly manufacturing town of about 5000 population, having, as will be recalled, extensive whaleback barge works. It also has large nail works, a smelter and an extensive paper-mill, all of which are running. The nail works recently received a large contract from Japan. THE RICHMOND DISTRICT, Many Property-Holders Favor the Bituminizing of the Streets. The Sutro Road Asked to Reduce the Speed of Cars at Street Crossings. " The Point Lovos Club, comprising the active spirits of the Richmond district, heia an enthusiastic meeting last night. Much business of a routine nature, but of great concern to the neighborhood, was transacted. The question of bituminizing certain streets of the district, in line with the work now being done on the thoroughfares of the Presidio Heights, was discussed at length. Many of the property-owners present spoke in favor of having the work done at once, and thus ending the street- paving question for all time. Others thought it would be better to wait until next year, when the cost of putting down bitumen, it was thought, would be greatly reduced. : A committee was appointed to confer with the Superintendent of Streels relative to the renambering of houses on the dif- {ferent avenues of the district. A vote of thanks was extended to Super- intendent of Streets Ashworth for his ac- tivity in flushing the sewers of the dis- trict. P. Fillipinni called attention to the rate of speed made by the cars on the Sutro road from First to Eighth avenues and asked to have a committee appointed to interview the president and superinten- and Superintendent Vining will be notified to start the work at once. Councils No. 3 and 48 of the American Protective Association sent in communi- cations protesting against the proposed re- moval of Superintendent Weaver of the Almshouse. These were placed on file. When the charges against Market In- spector Davis were taken up E.C. Ham- mond, president of the Butchers’ Board of Trade, took the floor, and in a long speech intimated that the trouble had arisen more out of a faulty ordinance than any criminal intent on the part of ,the}inspec- tor in passing immature veal. He said that after killing it was almost impossible to tell the age of calves. He thought the ordinances relating to_ the matter should be amended to provide that calves should be of a certain weight—fifty- five pounds or over—before being per- mitted to be sold. Then Mr. Hammond made some state- ments that drew startled glances from the members. “In former administrations,” said Ham- mond, “I have known calves condemned by the meat inspector taken from one man and sold to another. 1 can quote In- siances where condemned meat has been taken right out of the slaughter-houses and sold. I should like to have embodied in the ordinance the rule that the duties of the Market Inspector shall be specifi- cally defined. There shall be a limit placed upon their powers. For instance, I myself have had calves weighing eighty }m\mds condemned by the inspectors, and think I know enough about meat to know that an eighty-pound calf is a pretty nealthy animal. *‘I've called the attention of inspectors to oversights myself, and they’ve come to my place and condemned calves I've ointed out to them. But the system has cen pretty lax, and I want the inspectors’ duties so construed as to be fair to us and fair to the City.”’ A majority of the board was in favor of finding that Davis had merely acted rashly and hurriedly in passing the veal,ana by a Yote of 3to 1 it was decided to censure Davis for that and nothing more. Dr. Weil of the Receiving Hospital de- manded an investigation of certain charges made agaiust bim by members of an or- ganization composed of ladies, but the board decid-d that the accusations had been exploded and that the best way of obviating the recurrence of such trouble was to pass an order requiring those of an investigating turn of mind to get permits before beginning operations. The motion was earried’ unanimously, and in_future committees bent on such errands will have to get the signatures of the Mayor and members of the board before venturing into institutions under the control of the board. Drs. Hart and Morse were appointed a committee to confer with the Hospital Committee of the Board of Supervisors re- garding the proposed new home for dipso- maniacs and inebriates; One of the most wonderful of the feathery inhabitants of South America is the oven bird, which mixes hair with mud and builds its next in the form of a baker’s oven. 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