The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1896 REV. ANNA' SHAW CALLED GREEDY The Suffrage Association Compared to a Tag- less Donkey. WOMEN ARE AT OUTS. Mrs. Harland’s Charge of Would | Be Boss Rule Against Mrs. and Miss Cooper. A FEMININE TAMMANY RING. The Ex-State Organizer Sure That Her Deposition Was Due to Mrs. Cooper’s Antagonism. The cry of “boss rule” bas been raised | in woman suffrage councils in this City. There are those who have the temerity | to insinuate that a feminine Tammany ring as rapacious as the Gotham society of unenviable fame exists in and rules the joint committee representing the Woman’s | Suffrage Association and the constitu- tional amendment campaign committee of California. They go farther and impeach Rev. Anna H. Shaw as the moving spirit in a game of grab, in which Susan B. Anthony follows a close second, and Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper playing into their hands. It was at a semi-business, semi-social gathering in a pretty uptown clubroom that the matter was freely discussed yes- terd It was an assemblage of types and of types. The society woman was there in ultra-fasbionabie at- tire. Beside her stood a woman who goes in for dress rejorms and believes in the doctrine of one Dr. Malthus. Theirneigh- bor isa socialist in practice as well as in th Somewhat in the background was a whitehaired lady who 1s conservatism personified, except that somewhere and somehow she was bent suffrageward. There were others who seemed an amalga- mation of two or more of these types. It was a representative assemblage and | there was a practically unanimous senti- | mentin regard to the situation, a belief that | greed for power is the Scylia and greed for | money the Charybdis that threaten sui- | fragists. | Mrs. Hester Harland, the deposed | State organizer, s a conspicuous are of the group. She told the story of aer deposition to an attentive audience. “‘We will lose,” she said by way of pre- | face. “There are seven or eight counties | in which an interest is shown in princi- | ples of political equality. In the remain- | der scarcely a thought is given toit. We have no chance except to make this an | educatioual campaign. If we do not om-i interminglings brace it we will be as far from the realiza- tion of our hopes as we were twenty ago.” | Mrs. Harland is a handsome woman of \ winning S-ersum\lil v. She is affable and | tactful. Her appearance won attention | and her story neiq it | “Yes, we will fail, ladies,” she contin»l ued, “because ours is a personal, a| political, campaign. When I was making my tour of the counties organizing suffrage societies_and arranging for Miss Shaw’ lectures I received notice from headquar- t that I should not stick to principles so closely, but talk more about Mrs. Cooper. | I regarded it as a suffrage, not Cooper, campaign, and continued to stick to prin- ciples. ~ Notwithstanding Mrs. Sargent’s and Madame Sorbier's 8enial, the fact re- mains that my refusal to conduct a Cooper campaign was the cause of my requested resignation. “That 18 the general statement. y to be more specific. As I visited the coun- ties I realized tnat addresses, np matter how brilliant, were ephemeral in their ef- fects, and that matter in printed form, to | be studied and referred to, was the great- est need. I wrote the officers, urging that | a systematic course of information on suf- frage matters should be provided and that therefore the aid of the press, especially of | the interior, should be secured. I recom- | mended the employment of some type- | writers for the purpose of furnishing such | matter. I had found that the editors, al- | most to a man, were willing to publish such matter once a week. | ““Instead of heeding my requestthe pow- ers ignored it, except to intimate through the secretary that they did not want any more suggestions. I continued to urge | that one, however, telling them that al- most daily I was the recipient of such ad- vice from business men and men of affairs who were interested in the cause. The re- ply was that my resignation would be ac- | cepted. I tendered it. Thatis the story in Tough outline, but there are countless | minor details. For instance I was taken to task by Miss Gooper for accepting the co-operation of a prominent lady in one | of the southern counties. ‘Why did you :o it? sheasked. ‘My mother doesn’t like er. “I did not know that, I replied; ‘but still do not regard that reason asa finalone. I will refer matters to your mother as a member of the executive com- mittee when that committee meets, In the meantime I must ask you tomind your own business.” s “In short, the Coopers’ motto is, ‘Rule or Ruin.’ They have never belonged to an organization in which they did not make trouble because of their adherence to that motto.”” The conversation turned upon Miss Bhaw. It was not economy,” said Mrs. Harland, “to permit Miss Shaw to take $1500 from the State with her, leaving us without money to carry forward the cam- paign. My suggestion” to the committee, at the outset, was to stipulate the sum. Miss Shaw asks for her lectures, $125 a week. Mrs. Cooper protested that the | lady should receive $50 a lecture. [ said it would be impossible to raise this in some of the country towns. She insisted that Miss Shaw is the support of a large family. This large family 1s a fiction, Miss Shaw's father received a pension. Her nephews and nieces, who, it was claimed, were de- pendent upon her, are all grown and self. supporting. She’ got her §50 a night, however.” Here Mrs. Anna Smith interpolated a vehement remark. “I have svent a good deal of time hating myself for ever believing that Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw were working for | the cause of suffrage. Itwasn’ta pleasant lesson, but I learned it well, that they are working for the money there isinit. I am disillusioned. The bloom is gone from the rose, the down from the peach. Miss Shaw is one of the best orators of the age, | She stands second to Ingersoll. But she years | | Now, | over, but Labor Commissioner I is the most grasping person I ever knew." “The most brilliant, and the most greedy,” agreed Mrs. Harland. “I trav- eled with her for six weeks and I never saw her rapacity equaled. One town failed to make up the full amount required for her lecture and, notwithstanding she was receiving more than she had been ac- customed to, she -accepted, and Mrs. Cooper insisted, enough from the associa- tion treasury to make up the deficit. She would not donate so small a sum to the fund. ‘ou all know, of course, that on the night of the mass-meeting, when Judge Maguire and Taylor Rogers spoke, she re- ceived $50 for a half-hour's talk? It is true, and Mrs. Cooper insisted upon that. She and Miss Anthony carried away $400 apiece, as well as having had all their expenses paid, railroad fare and all, dur- ing the Woman's Congress,” sugeested some one. “To sum it all up,” said Mrs. Harland, “‘the campaign is entirely under the con- trol of Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, Miss Hattie Cooper, Miss Elizabeth rgent, who in turn are directed by Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw from their Eastern point of dis- ntage. Miss Anthony promptly sup- my place by sending on her niece, also an Eastern woman.” Mrs. Smith remarked that the State or- ganizer's work could not be done effect- ively by any stranger. It should be the province of a woman thoroughly in touch with California sentiments and It was pointed out as a sign: that the attendance at the monthly open meetings of the suffragists is very small. ““The spirit moved me to stay away and Ifind I was wisely directed,”” remarked one lady. dryly. ‘“The State Suffrage Association is like the donkey that was shipped somewhere, but his tag was lost and the poor donkey didn’t know where he was,” said some on ‘*And the constitutional campaign com- mittee has chewed off its tag,”” remarked a hitherto silent listener. Amid laughter and invitations to soon” the ladies’ conclave dissolved. s two of the party wended their way to- ward Market street one remarked: *Mrs. Harland is sight. So long as the campaign remains an interchange of ideas between suffragists, as long as suffragists continue to talk to suffragists, it will be as effective as Don Quixote’s onslaught upon the windmill.”” MORE: FERRY FACILITIES A New Gangway for the Broad and Narrow Guage Steamers. Harbor Commissioners Will Build a Shed Over the New Pacific- Street Wharf. “call The new upper-deck gangway: for the Oakland steamers was formally opened by Harbor Commissioners Colnon, Cole and Chadbourne yesterday afternoon. After the regular meeting adjourned the mem- bers walked to the ferries and at 5 Chief Engineer Holmes expiained that every- thing was in readiness. A few minutes later the steamer Pied- mont entered the slip, and when all the passengers had left the boat President Colnon gave the word and the gangway was lowered. It acted perfectly, and when the gates were thrown open the people thronged in, many of them wondering when they found themselves on the upper deck of the steamer without any trouble. Others were not at all sure but” that they were on the wrong boat and the deckhands were kept busy answering questions. Everything passed off successfully and the Commissioners pronounced the innovation a complete success. The old waiting-room used by the pas- sengers of both narrow and broad-guage lines is entirely too limited in space, and there was always great crowdi and squeezing on the trips from 4 to 6:30 r. M. The upper-deck gangway gives two en- trances to the boat,and in this way the congestion is relieved. Chief Engineer Holmes has made a great success of the venture and many of the contrivances in use are of his own invention. Before adjourning to open the new upper-deck gangway, the Commissioners held their regular semi-weekly meeting. The Labor Commissioner sent in a com- munication setting forth that his office | woula be $2000 short this year, owing to his having done an enormous amount of gratuitous work. During the period men- tioned a free labor bureau had been main- tained which had secured employment for 6000 men and women. Nota cent had been_charged for this work, and if the | charitable do mnot assist it cannot be car- ried on. Commissioner Chadbourne re- marked that State funds could not be do- nated and Commissioner Cole coincided with him. The matter was finally laid itzgerald is determined to try the Commissioners individually. ‘The guestion of supplying the commis- sion with piles for repairing the various wharves came up. Several bids were sent in, but the work was let to Darby Leydon & Co., as that firm offered better facilities for the handling of the lumber. Leydon & Co.’s bid was, for i2-inch piles, 11 cents; | 14-inch, 124 cents, and 15-inch, 13} cents per foot. Dr. Peckham, the United States Quaran. tine Officer, stationed at Aneel Island, ap- peared before the board and asked fora | stay of proceedings in regard to the charg- ing of wharfage for the docking of the Sternberg. He explained that the steamer | might be put in commission for continuous service shortly, and then the United States Government would pay wharfage. As mat- ters are at present, however, the tug only comes here once or twice a week, and there is no flp'Fropriation for the wharfage charges. The board decided to allow the matter to lie in abeyance until Congress shall make an appropriation to put the Sternberg in commission. Chief Wharfinger Root asked that a shed be placed over the Pacific-street wharf, which is now being completed. He pointed out that there were not enough covered wharves on the front and that during the winter rains_vessels were often detained two weeks in discharging for want of sheds. Commissioner adbourne was of the opinion that the Oceanic Steamship Company might want the wharf when it was finished and if so & covering would be absolutely necessary. Commissioner Cole thought the wharf should be kept free in order to accommodate the fruit vessels when the season comes in. Just the same a covering would be necessary. The chief engineer wus instructed to prepare plans for a shed and at the meeting to-morrow the matter will be settled. ———— Would Regain‘His Child. John M. Wilson of 1201 Laguna street has asked the intervention of the Society for the Prevention ‘of Cruelty to Children for the re- covery of his child from his divorced wife, Jen- nie H. Wilson, who, he alleges, is leading an immoral life at 1082 McAllister street. ———————— Maltreated by Her Father. Florence Goodman, & nine-year-old colored girl, has charged her father, Adolph Goode man, a paper-hanger, with cruel treatment, and the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children will investigate the case. The family lives at C. Miles’ p Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Roal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY. PURE "HATS OFF" T0 THE CATHODE RAY, Professor George Davidson Says That Is the Thing to Do. SOMETHING QUITE NEW. If It Had Been Known at the Time Garfield’s Life Might . Have Been Saved. ITS WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES It May Let Us Look Into the Eartnh’s Surface and Discover Its Secrets. ‘“‘Before the cathode ray we must raise our hats,” said Professor George Dayid- son, discussing about the scientific marvel as presented in Tue CALL yesterday. It is something absolutely new to the scientific world. It has sprung upon us | almost with that unexpectedness with which sometimes the solid earth quakes under our feet. To be sure there are a number of men whom we know to have been close upon this discovery, working all about it, but not knowing what it. was they saw. A numper of men had theories and some few were id to have really been to the Western coatinent before Columbus made his voyage. But Cotum- bus got here—made it a reality. That is what Roentgen has done with this new vibration—whatever it may be. ‘It is not well to talk about it yet. The news has just been broken. If I had been working along physical lines I would take it up and follow it. We cannot tell where it may leud. From what we learn of it it widens the scope of possible knowledge immeasurably—of possible knowledge, you understand. “As I have said the news has just been broken, a very few experiments have been made and they are all abso- lutely new to the world. “What limitations the new thing may have we do not know. But it sets one thinking that we may, by its aid, be en- abled after a while to look into the earth and discover what is hidden there. Why not? By takingthe sun’s light and break- ing it up with a spectroscope we know the composition of the distant sun itself; here | is so much iron, here is so much salt, etc. It is not safe to laugh at things in these days. Thereis so much that we do not know. The longer I live and the more I find out the more I am inclined to stoop with the weight of the knowledge that I have not. ‘Some one talks loud in the room ad- the latest information | year—what was new and interesting. Among the replies a young Stanford pro- fessor “said, ‘I have done this: I have taken impressions of a coin on a sensitive plate ina dark room by means of a wire attached to it and to an’ electric battery.” What was that? It was new, and it was 80 close to this thing that there is scarcely & dividing line. It scems he did not follow it, and to Roentgen, as 1 have said, be- longs the credit of the discovery. I have seen a man holding the cylinders of a bat- tery in his hands, the current being so gentle that he did not feel it. A glass tube from which the air was exhausted was held two feet from his body and the tube was brightly illuminated from this current in the man’s body, which he did not feel. What caused the light?” VISITED BY THE PRINCE. Luigl of Savoy Called on Mayor Sutro and Inspects the City Hall. Prince Luigi of Savoy returned the visit made by Mayor Sutro to the Italian cruiser Cristoforo Colombo a few days ago, by calling on the chief executive at his offices tn the City Hall yesterday. The Mayor was taken by surprise when the noble Ttalian entered his sanctum escorted by Captsin Bertolini, his superior officer on” board the warship, but soon re- covered his equanimity sufficiently to show the Prince the pictures of his prede- cessors, which hang about the walls of the office. ‘When the Prince had tired of this diver- sion his host donned his white hatand taking his gold-headed cane escorted his | Toyal visitor about the hall, showing him the different departments and explaining | as well as he could, through an interpreter, the antics of the various officials. The hall was explored from dome to cellar and the Prince, who was dressed in a dark suit and Derby hat, expressed him- self as much pleased with what he bhad seen. A BIG ELK N BRONZE, ‘An Oakland Monument Modeled After the Animal in the Park. Made by Whyte & De Rome and to Be Mounted in Mountain View Cemetery. The only bronze elk modeled from life in California has just been finished by Messrs. Whyte & De Rome at their brass foundry on Main street. It was made at the order of Oakland Lodge No. 171 of Elks, and is to be used as amonument in their burial platin Moun- tain View Cemetery. The statuary is one of the handsomest of its kind ever cast, and differs widely in appearance and fin- ish from the combination white metal monstrosities sent out here from the East. Frank Happersberger, the sculptor, took for his model the father elk at Golden Gate Park. This famous antlered animal is called the father elk, because of his hav- ing been the first elk transferred from his native wilds to that edenic garden called Golden Gate Park. The model was made four years ago, and “father elk” is a little larger now and more dignified, as becomes his age, but the likeness between the Jiv- QUi 1m0 P %{llin sry M e The Bronze EIk to Be Erected by the Elks in Mountain View Cemetery. [(Drawn from a photograph.] joining here. I hear the words quite dis- tinetly. Sound is vibrations of the air, or ether. Do the vibrations come through that thick wall in their perfect continuity ? Do the walls vibrate? I lay my watch on the end of a thick bar of iron and put my ear to the other end of it, twenty feet away, and I distinctly hear its ticking; as distinctly as though I held it to my ear? Does the iron vibrate? What causes it? I have worked for sixteen and seven- teen hoars a day almost all my life. I spent eight hours at my office and nine hours at mly home making observations, trusting to Iuck to get some sleep. As I have sat at my telescope and noted what I could of the millions and millions of stars, the worlds that swing around us, of which our earth is a little handful of dirt, and wondered where was the bezinning and | what the boundaries of itall, and realized that no one could answer the question, I learned to quit langhing at the strange things I may hear in my day’s walk. “Ah!that’s what's the matter, There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. To be sure, that is as old as some of the stars. We know some things. Ican look at a certain star to-night that, as I am looking at it, will pass out of the line of my instru- ment. By a little fizuring and some care- ful adjustment I can fix the glass to cover that spot in the sky into which that star will pass at a certain moment on a certain night 100 years from now. The glass may remain, and if some one go to it at the moment I have nominated—I being long dead and. perhaps, otherwise forgotten—he will sce the star cross the hairline on the instant. There is no possibility of doubt, no deviation. The great world will swing into place exactly on time. But what canses it? Ah! there’s the rub. Icannot tell. No man can tell what governs it all, these millions and millions of worlds, with | such absolute nicety. “But leave your telescope and turn the other way—turn to earth. The revelations of the microscope are as wonderful as those of the telescope—just as wonderful. “They say there is nothing new under the sun. But that is such a lie that it makes me laugh. Everything is new—and the Roentgen or cathode ray is the very latest. The whole world of science, work- ing along physical lines, is busy with it, and we cannot tell what to-morrow may bring forth. Glass is opaque to_the new ray. But 1t is altogether possible thata new substance will be discovered that will focalize the lizht. Lenses would be made of it and greater strength secured in the shadowgraphs. Had this thing been known when Garfield was shot his life would have been saved. “As 1 this discovery for several years. About three years ago a half-dozen of us were called upon by a newspaper to tell what we had been doing during the preceding say, we have been on the verge of | | | | | | | | ing animal and his bronze replica is strik- ing. It was first intended to mount the elk on a pedestal of the Lick memorial statuary, but it was decided to substitute something emblematic of the State's developing com- mercial and agricultural industries. The sculptor’s model was therefore laid aside until a_few months ago when E. H. Benjamin of the Oakland Lodge of Elks called on the sculptor and ordered the cast made. Mr. Benjamin had charge of the mining exhibit at the Midwinter Fair. When the fair closed he was given the marble and onyx pedestal on wiich the principal por- tion of the exhibit rested. The base is of Inyo marble with an onyx coping. He in turn presented it to the Oakland Lodge of lks on condition that it be placed in the burial plat called “Elk: est” in the Mountain View Cemetery. The cast is life-size, and the pose is true to life of that of the model when standin, by the paling surrounding his keep o gazing with inquiring eyes at the visitors in the park. The makers of the statuary declinea to teil the cost of the work, but informed the reporter that under ordinary circumstances it would require $2000 or $2500 to produce a simitar casting in bronze. It probably cost less, because the model was already made, FIREMEN WILL PARADE. Veteran Volunteers Have Decided to Ac- <ept Oakland’s Invitation. At the meeting of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association of San Francisco held Monday evening, the invitation from | the Oakland varade committee inviting the association to parade in that city on \\'n.-l':_m;:tuu's birthday was accepted. The association will meet at their hall on the morning of that day at 8 o’clock, and will take !hc creek boat at9, arriving in Oak- land in time to start at 10. The association will be accompanied by their band of twent; piecces, and will pull their old machine “Veteéran.” Ex-Chief Bert Lawton and Colonel W. - Moore, president of the Exempt Fire Company of Oakland, were present and addressed the meeting. —————— A Frivolous Appeal. Dwight Younglove secured judgment against James F. Cunningham upon & promissory note and Cunningham appealed, on the ground that ademurrer 1o the original complaint should bave been sustained. The demurrer was made upon the single point that there was no aver. ment in the comglunz of a consideration for the note. The Supreme Court says there is nothing whatever in the point, and $100 is added to the costs allowed respondent as a penalty for a frivolous appeal. T0 BE A CAMPATGN ISSUE How the Union for Practical Progress Will Work for City Water. WILL PLEDGE CANDIDATES. Immediate Action by the Board of Supervisors on the Water Petition Looked For. movement like ours was ever lost,” said J. M. Reynolds of the Union for Practical Progress yesterday. **When a city or town starts out to get a municipal water supply she gets it—that is history. ‘We expect the Supervisors to take some action on the petition asking that the people of this City be permitted to vote on this question of issuing bonds for a water system. We are not, of course, over- sanguine that the Supervisors will grant the request, though I rather think they will. 1t is certainly a very reasonable re- quest, and it seems to me that those who are inclined not even to let the people ex- press their opinions on the question must have Spring {'ulley reasons for their atti- tuue. “Of course, if the question is left to the peaple it will'be overwhelmingly carried— it always is. “But suppose the Supervisors do not permit the question to be placed on the official ballot and the people are thus pre- vented from voting on the proposition. What thep? Why, we will make it a clear- cut issue of the campaign. How can that bedone? In many ways. We will pledge the candidates for Supervisors to support such a measure after election, or wili vote them down. “‘Not enough of us to do that? You don’t know the feeling there is on the sub- ject in this City. By scarcely turning a hand, and without the expenditure of a single dollar, we secured 3000 signatures of voters and home-owners and house- holders to our petition to the Board of Su- pervisors, and every signer was a voter. “Only a moderate effort is needed to focus and concentrate the feeling on the water question in this City. That effort will be made in the coming campaign by the Union for Practical Progress if the present Supervisors deny our most reason- able request. ““The Spring Valley tax is enormous, and the people know it.” Their profits are also enormous, and the people know that as well. A municipal waier system means greatly reduced taxes, and reduced tax rates would bring manufactures and many enterprises to this City. Our individual water rate is much too high, and what the City has to pay each year to the Spring Valley Company is enormously above the value returned. Both are manyiold greater than they would be if San Francisco owned her own watersystem. The savings woutd amount to more than a mitlion dollars a yea ow, the best of all this is that the people know itall. They are quite wide awake to the importance of the question, and any one who thinks the people of this City are at all apathetic on the question will be surprised at the resultof a little investigation. “You can be very sure that the water question will be a big issue in the next municipal campaign if the present Board of Supervisors refuse our petition to place the matter before the people in the way provided by law, and that it will not be a dead issue by any means. *No; Idonot think the Union for Prac- tical Progress will favor an independent municipal ticket for this purpose alone. I think it will be better to work upon the material afforded us by the existing par- ties. We will go to their supervisoral can- didates and request them to sign our water-works pledge. *‘The names of those who sign will be indorsed by the Union and their election advocated. We won’t rest there. We will £o on ana defeat those who refuse to sign the pledge. We will carry on an active campaign for that one purpose, and we will prepare such a straightforward and simple pledge that those who sign it wiil not dare to break 1t when the time comes foraction. Oh, we are not fearing for the success of the municipal water system plan. That is coming very surely and not so slowly as some people would li; to have it and those who do not know what keen interest is taken in it think it will.” WILL USE NATIVE STONE Sculptor Marion Wells Must Finish the City Hall Statue Within Two Weeks. Unless F. Marion Wells, the sculptor who was given the contract to furnish the statue to surmount the dome of the City Hall, finish his work within two weeks he will be taxed $50 by the City Hall Com- missioners for every day that he delays be- yond that time. When the sculptor asked for an exten- sion yesterday, both Auditor Broderick and City and County Attorney Creswell rose in their wrath and declared that they were tirea of delay, and would insist on the work being finished at once. PFinally, however, they were prevailed upon to grant two weeks on the conditions named. The floor of the dome then came in for discussion, and City and*County Attorney Creswell proposed that the accepted de- sign of a.star be changed to a bear, but his ideas did not suit the Auditor, and the or}ginal plan was adhered to. The wainscoting of the dome was dis- cuseed at length, and it was decided to use only California material in spite of the fact that Eastern stone could be procured at a cheaper rate. The matter of selecting the stone was left in the hands of Archi- tect Shea. CALIFORNIA-MADE ROPE. A Demand That the Harbor Commis- sioners Use It on All State Boats. The officers of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association recently discov- ered that the rope and cordage used on the State tugs and dredgers are of Eastern make. In order to have the money spent for these necessaries expended in this State the following letter was written yes- terday : To the Homorable the State Board of Harbor Commissioners—GENTLEMEN: Information has reached this oflice that the rope used on the State dredgers, tugs, etc., which is purchased by your honorable board is of Eastern menu- facture, and we would therefore call your at- tention to the fact that there is manufactured in California rope of as good quality, guaran- teed, as is manufactured anywhere in the United States, and at equally low, if not lower, prices. An investigation of the relative merits of rope manufactured in California and rope manufactured in the Eastern States we are certain will prove to your entire satisfaction that the California article is at least equal in both quality and }JI’(CE. and we believe that when you are satisfied that such is the case there will be no more purcheses of Eastern- made rope by your honorable board. We would, therefora, most respectfully request that you do investigate the matter, and if you find that Californiarope is manufactured equal in quality and price with the Eastern-made article we beg that you will give the prefer- ence to the California manufacture, thus help- ing to foster and build ur one of the industries of California and keeping in circulation at home moneys that would otherwise go East. FrED H. DINGLE, Assistant Secretary, e All Agree. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO. Sells Crockery, Chinaware, Glassware and Tinware CHEAPEST OF ALL. TRY THEM. Very Pretty Dishes. Very Cheap Prices. 62 Market street, S. F., Headquarters. BRANCH STORES EVERYWHERE. NEW TO-DAY. s WASH DRESS FABRIGS! SPRING 1896 We take pleasure in calling the attention of the public to our elegant assortment of NEW COTTON WASH DRESS FABRICS which we have just opened. We have never shown better styles and the prices are ex= ceedingly low. 20 cases 36-INCH PRINTED PERCALES (Light and Dark Colorings) = 15 cases 28-INCH PRINTED 6 cases 32-INCH SCOTCH ZE Price 12Ic a yard DUCKS (all new patterns) = Price 12ic a yard PHYRS - - Price 20c a yard 10 cases 27-INCH TOILLE DU NORD GINGHAMS - - 5 cases 32-INCH PRINTED I signs) Price 10c a yard RISH DIMITY (all new de- Price 25c a yard 2 cases 32-INCH FRENCH PRINTED ORGANDIES (ele- gant designs) - = = Price 40c a yard 1 case 31-INCH COLORED DOTTED SWISS (assorted colors) Price 50c a yard EXTRA SPECIAL! 100 pieces 36-INCH SILK STRIPED TENNIS FLANNEL 40c a Yard Write for Samples of Above Goods. i . GORPORATE, ’ 1892. 111, 112 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. STREETCAR TRANSFERS, The Merchants’ Association Re- plies to Manager Vining’s | Refusal. An Unkept Pledge Relative to Carry-. ing Passengers on Kearny Street. The Merchants’ Association is anything but pleased with the action of the Market- | street Cable Company in refusing to com- | ply with the request to issue transfers at ceriain points along its lines. The mer- chants are particularly desirous of having transfers issued to and from the Kearny- street electric line to cars running to the | Mission. Several months ago the Merchants’ As- sociation sent a special committee consist- ing of A, S. Baldwin, C. A, Benedict, S. W. Dixon, F. W. Dobrmann, John Farn- ham, A. S. Hallidie, H. Hart, H. D. Keil, M. S. Kohlberg, Frank Maskey, Frank A. Swain, H. H. Taylor, George D. Toy, W. G. Doane and J. Richard Freud (secretary) to interview General Manager E. P. Vin- ing. At that interview the committee made known the requests of the associa- tion, which voiced the wishes of every merchant on Kearny street and every resi- dent at North Beach. Mr. Vining raised the objection that the issuance of transfers is already sadly abused by the public through the traffic in passes at the present terminal points. He suggested that the association cause the Supervisors to pass a law making the traffic in transfers illegal. In oraer to gain time Mr. Vining asked that the committee present its request in writing, which was done a week later. On the 12th inst. the general manager answered the letter at length, giving rea- sons and excuses why the request could not be complied with. As stated, the re- fusal did not please the members of the association, and as an invitation was ex- tended by Vining to further continue the discussion of the matter the special com- mittee did notlet the subject drop. Yesterday morning the committee met and all were present except Mr. Doane. Mr. Vining’sletter of refusal was carefully considered and the Tollowing answer made, which was forwarded at once: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18, 1896. E. P. Vining, Esq., General Manager Market- Street Railway Company—DEAR SIR: Your reply of the 12th 1nst. to our communication of the 20th ult. addressed to the board of directors of the Market-street Railway ‘Company rela- tive to streetcar transfers has been received, and its contents carefully noted. We iully agree with you, as to the superior advantages afforded by the excellent street. car transfer system of San Francisco: and we believe that its benefits are appreciated by this community. Furthermore, it is indis. putable that the traflic ia transfers is not only wrong in principle, but also demoralizing in its effects. This illegitimate traflic should cer- tainly be stopped. Thé main point, however, in our communi- cation was that in granting transfer privileges no special discrimination should exist against Kearny street. We respectiully contend that similar_transfer privileges should be given to the patrons of the Kearny-street electric Jines as are now enjoyed on parallel lines. It does not seem equitable, even under existing con. ditions, that Kearny street, which heretotore has been the leading retail business street of this City, should now be entirely deprived of transfer ‘privileges. Nor do we think that it such transfer privileges were granted (o Kearny street it would materially aggravate the consequences of the traffic in transfers, of which you rightiully complain. 5 At any rate we feel that the Market-street Railway Com{:fluy should at least restore the transfer privilege from the Mission to North Beach and vice versa that existed before the electric line was introduced. It is stated by one of our members, Mr. Frank Maskey, thet definite promises were made to_him by parties claiming to represent your company that the transfer privilege would be continued on Kelrnf’ street, provided the electric system was ailowed on that street. Thereupon, he and others assisted in securing the consent of If such promises wera made by parties un- authorized by your company the fact still mains that such assurances were nat implied that tne previous transier s would be continued on Kearny street when nge to the electric line was completed. n lines operating from Kearny up to Pacific and Broadway to Mason, along Mason to North Beach, were stopped and a material saving was effected thereby, the transfer priv- ileges, which were previously enjoyed by the locality in question and which had become, as it were, part of the value of the property and of the business houses on this street, wera taken away without explanation or compensa- tion therefor. Under these circumstances we firmly convinced that your ccmpany at once restore to Kearny street the r privileges both ways from the Mission to North Beach, es previously enjoyed by that | thoroughfare. With reference to the other transfers men- tioned in our communication we will be giad 10 confer with you further, and_in_that con- nection assist 1n having the traflic in transfers legally abolish The’ following statement appears in your communication: “Viewed from our standpoint, this proposition involves the unfortunate feature of placing this company under a pere petual obligation to grant year after year cer- tain concessions of a nature which have not been imposed upon any street-railway com- pany anywhere, by the laws of this community or any other, aud this notwithstanding the fact that experience may prove these conces- sions to be exceedingly aisastrous to our inter- sts.” We cannot understand Low you arrive at the conclusions stated in the foregoing varagraph. It is not clear to us how it follows irom the simple proposition submitted in_our communication that your company will be placed “under a perpetual obligation to grang certain concessions year after year.” We should like very much to have this exe plained to us, as well as your assertion that the request in our communication for transfer privileges heretofore existing along Kearny street will bind your company perpetually and irretrievably to & policy the results of which are so uncertain. WELL-ENOWN TEACHER DEAD, Passing of One of the Most Valued Instructors in the Department. Miss Theresa Almira Flint, who for thirty years past has been one of the most valued employes of the School Depart- ment, died on Monday after an iliness of some duration. During almost her entire connection with the department Miss Flint was in charge of classes in the Den« man School, where she displayed rare talents. 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