The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1896, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1896. 10 UNITE TWO SISTER CITIES, A Great Terminal Company to Be Formed for That End. THE BAY T0 BE SPANNED Cantilever Bridge on a Grand Scale to Be Constructed for Traffic. NO ENGINEERING OBSTACLES. There Might Be Some D:lay in Finan- ciering the Preject—An Opinion - of an Authority. The project of connecting San Francisco and Osakland by means of a bridge is peculiarly fascinating. Commercially as the bridge to Madison street, in addition to the present curve into First street, would make a direct route for passenger or freight traffic. In addition to the above, for soutnern, through and subur- ban trains, local trains by First and Seventh streets, and Port Costa and Berkeley trains, can curve into and follow Peralta_street, across the estuary with a drawbridge to the proposed mole, and all trains on either side of the bay of San Francisco cross this much-needed bridge. Think of crossing the bay and f‘""g to Oakland in ten minutes, travelers and tourists; of getting into your Puiiman cars in Ban Francisco. *‘Now is the time to act and plan for the future, as well as for the present. The San Francisco Terminal Company should have this bridge built within the next five years.” DEPOSITORS AROUSED. Victims of the People's Home Bank Suspicious Over Attorney John Flournoy’s Removal. The executive committee of the People’s Home Savings Bank depositors held a meeting at 111 Sutter street last night. The committee was thoroughly aroused over the action of the board of directors of the People’s Home Bank in removing John Flournoy as atterney. It decided to call a mass-meeting of the depositors at Foresters Hall, 102 O'Farrell street, for Friday evening. At the close of the meeting T. S. Wil- liams Jr., secretary of the committee, said : “‘Matters that seriously concern the de- positors will be discussed. A lively meet- ing is expected. Resolutions will be passed expressing the opinions of the committee and the depositors, and possibly some other line of action may be mapped out. Every depositor is invited to be present. “M. H. Sherman and the stockholders’ interests are controlling the boara of di- well as socially it appeals to the popular rectors. Mr. Flournoy commenced suitsiin a strange way through the Rev. Lori- FOUND A SECRET SHAINE Dr. Wolff's Remarkable Discov- ery in the Lofty Mountains of Fiji. A TEMPLE CENTURIES OLD. Meeting Place of a Mysterious Society of Natives Inimical to the Government. Professor P. E. Wolff, the anthropologist, | of Berlin, who arrived here a day or two ago, says he has found in the mountains i of Fiji a strange stone temple, the place | of meeting of an old secret society, evi- | | dentiy of native Masons. As many as 700 natives have been able to meet there at a time, so large is the old | temple. It is a queer place in the mountain | | heights where the ancient temple was | ; built, and it shows, curiously enougn, as | | Dr. Wolff has learned, that centuries ago | | the people long known to us as bar- | barians belonged to the secret order and | held their meetings there. What is more, | the mountain Fijians who are members ‘ yet hold their meetings there, and are very tenacious of the secrets of the order. Dr. Wolff heard of the ancient temple ! | way. He will deliver lectures about it at very old, as old as the Masons, and, as I bad every reason to believe, it was that order itself. Probably the society was founded during the trip of the Spanish navigator Mendana, three centuries ago, when he went from Pern. There is a manuscript in Spain which tends to cor- roborate this. Mendana was a Mason. Galego, the pilot of the fleet, tells that the natives shot at them with silver-tipped arrows. The finding of the manuscript was kept quiet for a long time. = *The natives of F‘ij? belonging to this ancient order are inimical to the Govern- ment, and John Thurston, the Governor of Fiii, bas, as a matter of precaution, es- tablished a garrison in she district. “The ancient temple, which is in the form of a parallelogram, is divided into three parts. The entrance is for the first degree members, or novitiates, and_they can get no further for four years. Then, if they are deemed admissiblé they can go a step further and take a second degree, going into the second pert. After four years, if after the tests they are considered sufficiently worthy, they are admitted into the holy manga, which is a sacred inclos- ure entirely of stone, whose secrets can ! only be known to those who have reached the high conditions required.” Dr. Wolff considers the discovery of the temple of signal importance in a scientific Stanford and Berkeley universities. He says there are other places where members of this strange native order have long met, bnt none of them are so important as this. Infact, the old temple is the only structure of the kind yet discovered. The discoverer will speak before the Science Association of Berkeley University on Thursday evening, April 9. The date of the Stanford lecture is yet to be fixed. TO AID THE NEWSBOYS. A Beneflt to Be Given for the Powell- Street Home. A monster benefit will be given at the oung Men’s Christian Association on % BOSS PAINTERS DECIDE TO FIGHT, Masters’ Association Will Bitterly Combat the Union’s Card. THEIR CASTIRON PLEDGE To Issue a List of Those Who Refuse to Unionize Their Shops. THE WORKING CARD IN FORCE. It Was Favorably Accepted Yesterday by Contractors All Over the City. The Master Painters’ Association held an important meeting last night and de- cided to fight the Building Trades Coun- cil's working-card system so far as it LINE OF PROPOSED GIGANTIC SUSPENSION BRIDGE TO CONNECT SAN FRANCISCO AND OAKLAND. (SAN FRANCISD TERmNaL [From the design of Lyman Bridges, C. E.] T Cammany SR, THE MAP SHOWS THE ROUTE AT PRESENT PROJECTED. | given by all the unions affiliated with the contractors were obliged to get men on any terms. These remarks were repeated to several prominent members of the Building Trades and Painters’ Union, whereupon one made the following answer: T do not believe it. St. Denis & Co. came out openly and fought the union like men. They met the arbitration committee like men and made an agreement like men. It is not atall likely that they will act in any buta manly j manner in keeping their word of honor, and the person who fights you like a man will never stab you in the back liké asavage aiter pro- claiming peace. ——— FAVOR ARBITRATION. The Bullding Trades Council’s Rep- resentatives Will Call Upon P. N. Kuss To-Day. The building trades people are well satisfied so far as can be learned with the success of its grievance or arbitration com- mittee in securing for the striking painters a settlement with J. St. Denis & Co.. so that the latter’s shop is now unionized. The work in this line wili not stop. It is the belief that nearly every employing painter in the City can be in- duced to make terms with the Painters’ Union, so that further trouble may be avoided. If so, they reason that such a course is far better than prolonging or in- creasing the present difficulties. This morning H. M. Saunders and J. McCartney of the Bunilding Trades Coun- cil will call upon P. N. Kuss, the painter { who bas held out so firmly against the Painters’ Union. They will do all in their power to induce him to settle the present trouble by arbitration, the same as St. Denis & Co. They claim that the mission of the council is to settle differences peac- ably insteaa of by radical measures. Other employing painters will be called upon as soon as possible, e NO MEN CALLED OUT. The Walking Delegates of the Build- Ing Trades Council Met With No Opposition. According to ample notice previously Building Trades Council the card system went into effect yesterday. This signified that contractors for all kinds of buildings and for all work done by the craftsmen of unions affilhatea with the Building Trades Council were to employ no man except such as could show a properly certified card from his union declaring him to ve in good standing. Failure to restrict the force of men employed to the holders of union cards is to be met with the calling of foreclosure against Sherman in Pheenix, Ariz., and also against the stockholders, calling in the unpsid capital stock. These interests removesnim from the position of attorney so as to rehieve them of his e 58 IS5 35589 peesy S 5@5 <S55 o5 fi". S DDQ~§ Senan TSSO0SS “73'-:"5353;55 o feemr m 207 - SO0F5S! 3 dorren D:::;?;SO"\)‘Q \ = Q/\ Lot o s o ] pe N2 Lo\ & heart and little doubt exists that time will see the project an accomplished fact. Speaking of this matter yesterday Lyman Bridges, a _civil engineer of note.in this locality, said: **A double track steel cantilever raiiway bridge for standard and narrow gauge tracks between the cities.of San Francisco | and Oakland .and Alameda is practicable beyond question, and the benefits accruing | therefrom between these terminal citiesin | time saved for passengers and freight can | hardly be overestimated. *‘The profile of the ground- line of San Francisco Bay . from Folsom street, San Francisco (south of all the ferries), to the | nearest point in. Alameda south of the | narrow-gauge pier and mole, is entirely | practicable. . The bridge will have eleven spans of 1000 feet, two spans of 700 feet, ten spans f 500 feet and two draw or turn bridges 250 feet each, with a center pier of 50 feet in width, giving a clear space of 100 | feet on either side of the center pierand a | mole two miles in ‘length on the Alameda side having a width of 40 feet and 32 feet in the clear on the grade line. *‘The mole willbe level with the tapof the road way of the bridge: . The length of the | bridge will be three and a‘third miles and | the mole two miles in" length. The bridge | wiil be of sufficient height to allow tug- | boats to pass under arches between piers. | The piers for the bridge will be white metal, iron or .steel cylinders twenty feet in diameter, eight feet long, with cast flanges at either end, and bolted together after each section js filled with -concrete. Six of thess cylinders will be piaced at each pier and well braced and bonded together at each section while in the caissons. At the roadway at each pier strong steel cross beams wiillbe bolted to the cylinders, and steel stringers upon which ‘ties, rails and zuard rails will be placed. | for support and guards when the draws are ened. | “These. draw-bridges. will bave steam | on the top for opening and closing | andelectric signals as well as flag E It is-estimated that they can be opened or cjosed in on inute. “‘At New York the Kill von Kull draw- bridge between ‘Staten Island and New Jersey is 250 feet span with a 50-foot cen- ter pier, and the largest ships successfully pass withoutcomplaint from anybody. In | Chicago over 20,000 vessels annually pass in and out through a dozen draw or swing bridges, and commerce is berefited thereby | because rail and sail are brought more | closely together. Fortraffic over the great | railway bridge between Omahaand Coun- cil Bluffs they havea vestibule train with open ends. of cars, with four to ten cars in a train; they drive teams or stock into one end of the train, and when a car is full of teams orstock close the doors, and at_the destination at either side of the Missouri River open.and drive outupon a platiorm and incline safely and quickly. “At San’ Francisco an elevated road, | twenty-four feet .above and across East street, will bring the railway north along the three blocks between East and Steuart | streets to Market street, similar to that of | the Pennsylvania Central Railway in the | city of Philadelphia, av their city passen- | ger station, and eventually connect with! _ an elevated railway up Market street. Also from Folsom and East streets an elevated road will swing to the south toward Harri- | son and Spear or Beale streets, and con- | tinue to the Third and Townsend-street station and China Basin and Illinois street, connecting with all E ys and the present in San Francisco. **This plan can be extended further by securing three or four blocks west of Steu- art and south of Market streets, if a con- centration of railways and fast freight and {roit business could be induced to have a d central station near the foot of ket street and principal ferries. t the Oakland and Alameda end tne lines from the south end of the mole at the juuction with the narrow-gange rail- resent lines of elt Line Rail- | sioners, and, if need aggressive action. Flournoy.” **And that is the reason why we are sus- spicious,” added J. McCarthy, one of the committea. ‘‘We are aroused. as Mr. Flournoy was there we knew they could do no harm; but now that he is out, we are suspicious, for we have no security for our rights. “The depositors’ coramittee is going to lay the matter before the Bank Commis- be, go to the Gov- ernor himself, though we are satisfied the Commissioners will do their duty.” SHE HAS HEART FAILURE: Mrs. Susan Martin Had a Faint- ing Fit in the City Prison Yesterday. They could not use The Condition of Her Husband, John F. Martin, Showed Much Im- provement Last Night. Mrs. Susan Martin, who shot her hus- band, Jobn F. Martin, deputy County Clerk, in the corridor of the City Hall Mounday morning, had a bad spell yester- day morning. Sbe has been in a hysteri- cal state ever since her arrest, and yester- day morning she fainted. Dr. Bunnell, assistant police surgeon, was sent for, and Ned Foster, her prother-in-law, summoned Dr. C. W. Card, the family physician, by | telephone. | The physician pronounced it a case of | | heart failure, and it was some hours before she rallied. Her sister, Mrs, Foster, who | f has been constantly in attendance on her, | said last night that she was very much im- | proved. Ehe is constantly worrying her- | | self about her husband’s condition and | ‘‘At the center piers at the draw or turn | anxiously inquires from her visitors as to | dges additional cylinders will be placed | how be is. Mrs. Foster added that ever | since she began to worry about her hus- band’s crueity and neglect she has been subject to these fainting spells. Dr. Card said last night that Mrs. Mar- tin was simply suffering from an excess of worry and excitement and there was noth- ing dangerous in her condition. sohn F. Martin was slightly improved last night. His temperature nad decreased from 102}¢ Tuesday night to 100 last night, and no unfavorable symptoms had pre- sented themselves. Peritonitiz had not set in, whick Dr. Fitz%ibbon said lastnight was a hopeful sign. The doctor does not de- spair of pulling him through yet. Martin | expressed to the doctor a strong desire for a big glass of steam beer, as he thought it would do him good. THE OREGON'S TRIAL TRIP. Superintendent Scott Thinks It Likely She Will Exceed Fifteen Knots. Superintendent John T. Scott of the Union Iron Works when seen with jegard- to the launching of the battle-ship Oregon at the company’s office near the works yesterday afternoon made the followirng statements: “We intend to put the vessel on the dry- dock the latter part of this month, and it wiil be from three to six weeks before she is ready for sea. It is hard to tell the exact time in a matter of this kind. We don’t know ourselves. ‘‘As regards the speed of the vessel, she | will be required to make fifteen knots. I | am satistied there will be no trouble on this score.” “What 1s your preminm for a faster rate?” “Twenty-five thousand dollars for every quarter of a knot.” *‘Do you expect to make & premium ?” *“Weil, I don’t know,” was the cautious reply. “Such a tLing is possible, Yes, I might as well say [ am confizgent she will exceed this rate, though Low much I do not care to say. *‘The trial trip will be in Santa Barbara way can be built to a connection with Railroad avenue and Prospect street for Alameda, and for Oakland from the south end of the mole to_and across Alice-street railway bridge, which, with a curve from Channel, where our preceding five trial trips have taken place.” —_————— For sore or weak eyes use Mitchell's Magic Lotion. Gives quick relief and strength. * So long | ! mer Fison, who had been a long time in ‘ | Fiji. The antbropologist, who had started | | out on a tour of investigation in various | Pacific islands for the governments of | Germany, France and Spain, as well as the Smithsonian Institution, determined he | | would find out all about it if it took him | weeks and endangered his life. | | He was pleased bevond measure that he | was at last able to locate the temple and | secure a large amount of accurate informa- | tion regarding the wonderful and highly mysterious societies. | ““The secret shrine is in the heart of Fiji,” said Dr. Wolff, “in what is known | | | | Dr. P. E. Wolff, Who Found the Tem- ple, Centuries Old, of the Native Masous in Interior Fiji. [Sketched from life by @ “Call” artist.] as Viti-Levu, or Big Fiji. stone inclosure in the open air in the form { of a parallelogram, and with the walls | standing to a height of from four to five feet. Surrounding the sacred temple are a number of trees, which cast their re- freshing shadows over it. +It was only after a great deal of effort that I managed to get up into the mou tains where it was; but I finally succee ed, and saw it with my own eyes. [t took | Thursday evening. It is a sacred | me seven days to go twenty-six miles. I | Tuesday evening, the 2ist inst., for the benefit of the recently established News- | boys’ Home at 112 Powell street. | The home is making highly satisfactory | progress as far as the active interest of the boys is concerned. The room where the boys pather daily for their wholesome 5 or 10 cent meals is crowded by the young paper venders and yesterday afternoon eighteen of them enjoyed the bathing privileges for the first time furnished by | the home. | Singing classes and classes for evening udy will be organized shortly and some enevolent ladies are arranging to provide st b | cots and bedclothing for the boys who want a clean but cheap lodging. | An organization of the boysunder 15| years of age has been formed for the pur- | suit of profitable and pleasing exercises, among the most popular being a military drill. The officers are: John McKeever, president; Thomas Smith, vice-presi- Abe Harris, vice- president; ia secretary; Charles | nt secretary; jlmes Kel- lece, sergeant-at-arms; Tnomas Kennedy, assistant sergeant-at-arms. The club meets every Saturday evening. The older boys, whose organization has not yet been perfected, hold their weekly meetings on | A restaurant for the publie, distinct | from the newsboys’ dining-room, has been ! opened, in “the hope that it may serve to at least partially support the institution. THE POLICE TRIBUNAL. Two Patrolmen Dismissed From the | Forceand Two Fined. The Police Commissioners were occupjed | several hours last night in hearing the evi- dence on charges against four patrolmen, and two of them were dismissed from the force. William Gilheany, who conducted him- self in a peculiar manner by scaring the women on Berry street, was one of the two dismissed, and John Fanning was the other. Fanning, who is an old officer, had two charges against him, one of being in- | toxicated when he should have been on auty and the other not reporting for duty. John Kenville for slapping a boy in the Mission on the face was fined ), and John W. Durkin for not patrolling his beat was fined $25. —_——— The Evolution of Happiness. Professor Henry Huntington Powers de- livered a lecture last evening at the Academy of Sciences on “The Evolution of Happiness.” Hislecture was the second of the present series of discourses given under the auspices of the Stanford University Extension Ciub of this City. Professor Powers held that when man had learned the art of changing ‘things into had seven men with me in all, and all being natives who were acquainted some- what with the country. ‘I started from the town of Dule-Walu ln;i paddled up thlc Nlml“Rivlar till we 10 a point nearly opposi the secret Egrino. and then wye glarkd across the mountains, It was a slow and very diffi- cult task making our way through the bush, and only by strong effort amid dis- couragements was the expedition able to get through. “I investigated the founding of the tem- ple, and from the best information I ecould get I found that the secret scciety was The Remains of the Ancient Temple in the Mountains of the Strange Native Secret Society Have Met for Ages. [From a sketch by Dr. Wolff.] e Fiji. Where Members of goods"—dislributing wealth and acquiring property, works of art, etc.—he had not lesrned happiness. This was only the beginning of the process of evolution of happiness, The error of the whole human race was that man could not get some good—some satisfact.on from goods. The full measure of happiness ‘was obtainable only through a collective or co- ordinate enjoyment. The sounds of nature were dreary and monotonous. Even the most melodious "sounds—the songs of birds—were | Exchange there is to be a most determined | the association to resist individually and applies to the Painters’ and Decorators’ Union. About forty new members joinea the association and accepted the pledge | to fight the union journeymen to the bitter end. The Painters’ Union is rejoicing over the fact that St. Denis & Co. have union ized their shop. Work will be begun by this firm on the Parrott building very soon. The working card of the Allied Building Trades went into effect yesterday, and re- ports were made that it was well received by the contractors. No walkouts were ordered under the new system, but in sev- eral instances non-union men were com- peiled to quit work. s BOSSES WILL FIGHT. The Master Painters Are Pledged to Resist the Unlon Card System. From the developments at the meeting of the Master Painters’ and Decorators’ Association last night at the Buwlders’ nd aggressive stand taken by the mem- bers of that association against the card system, put into practice yesterday by the vainters and the other affiliated unions of the Building Trades Council. It was learned for the first time yester- | day that about a month ago a resolution was adopted pledging every member of jointly the system. At the meeting last night among tne subjects discussed ‘was the reported recalcitrancy of some of the mem- bers of the association, and at the conclusion of the session, which lasted for nearly four hours and was not over until near midnight, it was announced that not a single member had agreed to concede to the demands of the striking painters. ‘When the instance of 8t. Denis & Co., who are painting in the Parrott building, was cited as a case wherein the painters had won a victary, it was stated that this firm’s adhesion to the card system was but temporary in all probability and in- duced simply by the fear that the present | profitable jo» on the Parrott building | might rot be lost. Nomember of the firm | was present at the meeting, so the state- | ments made in explanation of the action | of the firm were really based on surmises only. It was claimed by the painters yesterday that M. J. Donovan had agreed to recog- mize the card system, but at the meeting he denied that he had made such a conces- sion. Forty-two new members were added to the association list, nearly doubling the membership, which 1s now close to 100. Those who joined last night had been sent special letters of invitation to doso. In furtherance of the policy to further con- solidate the bosses it was decided to retain the reduced initiation fee of $2 50 for sixiy days in order to encourage new applica. tions for membership. At the end of this period the iniation will be advanced to $25. 8o strongly wrought up were the mem- bers by the reports that the pledge against the card system had been violated by various firms that it was decided to put every member on record on this subject by having the firm or individual sign the | iotroduction of the card | pledge. Copies of this will then be published. R S — ST. DENIS’ POSITION. The Union Painters Do Not Belleve He WIill Betray Their Con- fidence. The position taken by J. St. Denis and his partner, Mr. Macauley, in settling their differences with the Painters’ Union, was assailed yesterday by several of the em- ploying peinters. TiRy said that St. Denis & Co. only made terms with the union painters in order to complete several big time contract jobs they have on hand and xceedingly simple. They don't give per- manent satisfaction. Primitive man used his ears ':o deteett’ lm‘.lnd.‘ of ;nulx; p;.;lv( m wants varety ant a8 deve) Tousie, possibilities of pleasure. measured only by the power to comprehend. that the firm will break its compact with the union_as soon as the urgent work on band is finished. They contended that gn.snm was brought to bear on St. Denis Co. by the Parrott estate, and that the out of all union men employed on the same building or job. So far as calling out men or precipitat- ing a strike is concerned, the work of H. M. Saunders and R. T. McIvor, the walk- ing delegates appointed by the Builaing Trades Council to bring about the exclu- sive employment of union men on all jobs | now in progress in the City, was barren of results. But the intelhgent and conserva- tive course of these two men yesterday undoubtedly strengthenea the cause of the union men directly interested in this con- test, as well as labor untonism generally. They found non-union men, it is true, working in some cases with union men, but where the bosses promised future com- pliance with the demands of the unions— | the recognition of the card system—con- cessions were made and work was allowed | to continue uninterruptedly. Both McIvor and Saunders started out | early in the morning to investigate all re- ported cases where non-union men were employed with union men. On the build- ing in course of alteration at the corner of First and Market streets, it was reported that several non-union lathers were being employed by Chris Morehouse. A visit to | the plac owed, however, that the non- | union men bad been laid off, owing to the refusal of the union carpenters and union plasterers to work with them. The latter assured Saunders that if any attempt was made to put on any non-union men they would all walk out without further notice. A three-story bay-window house is in course of erection on Post street, just east | of Larkin, under a contract with James Logan. Here fifteen non-union lathers were at work, as the result of the recent lathers’ strike. Mr, Logan bas alwayvs shown a8 most friendly spirit toward the unicns, and his representation that the lathers would coniplete their task by night and his promise that in all future jobs he would recognize the card system, is force—union and non-union men—was left undisturbed. At Fourth and Welsh streets it was | sound that all the employes were union men, though it had been reported other- wise. At tne Parrott building the men had the most difficult problem to solve. As already announced in THe CaArL, St Denis & Co. had agreed to recognize the card system and unionize their whole force. This they did. The committee found, however, three non-union men_do- ing some polishing work for P. V. Kuss, one of the boss painters arrayed against the card system. This was at first consid- | ered sufficient cause to call off the several | hundred union men employed on the building. But a further investigation of the mat- ter showed that this work was not being | done on the building proper nor under contract with the Parrott estate, It was finishing work on some fixtures for one of the intending tenants, who had contracted for it. Kuss refused to discharge and re- place them with union men, and thus the matter stande. This action of the committee was at In Spring Time take that which wil build up the tissues and supply force to the muscular, digestive and| nervous systems. If \you are thin, without appetite, pale because ‘of thin blood, or easily ‘exhausted, why further weaken the body by using tonics? Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver ‘Oil with Hypophos- phites is what you need. Cod-liver O1l is a food. It produces force and ilds up the system in a substantial way. The Hypophosphites give strength to the nerves. Better appe- tite, richer blood and stay. : first considered to be showing too great leniency to the Parrott building contract- ors, but when it became known that the Kuss job was entirely apart from the work on the building, the good sense and care- full judgment of the committee was gen- erally approved. Mrs. Blakeney, the lady who bas been a vear engaged in raising her house at 322 }-:llis street and adding a basement to it, was found to be employing non-union help, but it was found impossible by either member of the committee to get within arguing distance of the lady-afraid-oi-con- tractors-and-unions. . Several other places were visited, but for various reasons it was deeided to defer definite action for a day or two. The work of “‘unionizing” all building jobs will be continued to-day. e PLUMBERS IN LINE. They Pass Resolutions of Sympathy and Decide to Affillate With the Council. Significant and important action was taken at the meeting of the Journeymen Plumbers’ ana Gasfitters’ Union last night at the Alcazar building. Resolutions of sympathy with the striking painters were passed and the hope was expressed that the card-system would win, as the plumbers of this City had been most suc- cessfully working under that system for the past fourteen years. Their expression of sympatby was fol- lowed by something more substantial, however. A committee of three was an- pointed to arrange for tie affiliation of the union with the Building Trades Council. The import of this may be gathered from the fact that the plumbers constitute one of the most influential unions in the City, and have never had occasion to come fo an overt issue with employers or contract- ors. The amalgamation of this union, which is a branch of the United Associa- tion of Plumbers and Gasfitters of the United States and Canada, with the Build- ing Trades Council will give hoth added strength and prestige to the council. e P e v THE DISTRICT COUNCIL. The Building Trades’ Working-Card System Reported to Be Waell Recsived by Contractors. A short session of the District Couneil of Carpenters and Joiners was held last evening. Business Agent H. M. Saun- ders made a long report upon the recep- tion of the working card. He said that none of the building contractors manifest any opposition to the card. In several in- stances the non-union men left the jobs or were ordered by the bosses to quit work. Beveral mixed jobs were found, but they will be at once straightened out without the necessity of astrike or a call-outof the union workmen. His diseretion in these matters received the approval of the delegates. e THE DERRICK WORKERS. The spirit of organization among the laboring men seems to be spreading. The derrick workers will soon form a union, and the character of their work will per- mit them sending delegates to the Build- ing Trades Council. In this City there are upward of a bundred men who make | a living by derrick work, and their pres- ence is always observed around the new stone and iron buildings.. The handling of big slabs of stone and iron girders and beams is a trade by itself and ordinary laborers are unable to perform this char- acter of work. Mr. McCartney, a delegate to the Build- ing Trades Council, has been among the derrick workers recently with a view. of organizing the men of that craff. 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