The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1896, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1%96. MILLIONS MAY COME T0 HER. Miss Eleanor Calhoun, the Heiress of Andrew J. Davis. , | | | DETECTIVES AT WORK. | A Famous Will Contest Which Is Now Rapidly Drawing to a Close. A COMPROMISE MAY RESULT. | Something About the Struggle for the Miner’s Wealth. Celebrated Butte Strong interest has been revived in the celebrated contest over the $4,000,000 estate of Andrew J. Davis, the deceased million- sire, late of Butte, Montana, who died not knowing that this was going on relied on the Ingersoll contestants toconduct the contest, and the first thing they knew was that the contest was dismissed for the want of prosecucion, thus leaving the field clear apparently to the favored brother and the few contestants who had settled with him. ‘The story of the woman who claimed to be the widow of the deceased millionaire is the most interesting chapter of this whole case. Her maiden name she states was Queen and that she was the daughter of a tarmer. Her story then is that on April 15,1842, in the County of Carroil, Arkansas, she yas married to Andrew J. Davis, and that two children was born to them, viz.: those who are now Mrs. M. L. Morrow and Mrs. Laura A. Calhoun. bir. Davis she represents as having been of a very eccentric character, who would ab- sent himself from home for a large part of the time. In 1849 he left her, saying he was going to California. Just when he did go is not known. He was known to be here from early in the 50's until far into 1856. She supposed he was dead, and after about three years she married again, but not until she had beard that he was dead. She came to Fort Tejon, Cal., ahout 1854. In 1855, while she was living there, A.J. Davis came to see her, and told her he had been successiul in mining and other enterprises, and blamed her for again marrying, while she blamed bhim for not keeping her posted on his movements. He saw the children, spoke to them and told them who he was. After making them all presents of some gold he went away. She heard nothing more of him until she heard of his death in Butte. Atter his death persons who were inter- ested 1n her behalf took to her quite a large number of different photographs of men, and among them was that of the de- ceased millionaire. This woman, Mrs. Snell-Dayis, looked them over, and imme- diately recognized that of Andrew J. Da- vis as her husband. Among the interesting features of the case is the fact that Nellie Calhoun, to Andrew J. Davis, tie Butte Miner Whose in the Nea: - Millions May Be Harmoniously Divided r Future. about six years ago, by the knowledge that during the past few weeks detectives have been at work in this State endeavoring to secure evidence to be used against Mrs. Huida Snell-Davis of Tehachapi, who | claims to be the widow of the deceased | millionaire, and Mrs. Mary Isabella Mor- | row of Fresno and Mrs. Laura A. Calhoun of this City, daughters of Mrs. Sneli-Davis. With what success the trial of the case, which is expected to take plaece before the summer vacation of the Montana court, will determine. At this juncture, too, Miss Eleanor Cal- houn, granddaughter of Millionaire Davis, arrives from New York. Yesterday she stated that she was in hopes that a com- promise would be brought about. Miss Calhoun has suffered from a complete loss of voice and comes to recruit her strength | with a period of rest in congenial sur- roundings. Thus far the developments in this case have been of a most romantic and extraor- | dinary character, and the future, judging | from “the determined manner in which | the various contestants are at work, prom- ises to be productive of even more sensa- tional facts and incidents. From dispatches recently out to different | parties in the United States from Helena, Mont., it appears that Mr. Cavanaugh, | the Montana resident attorney. of Mrs. | Snell-Davis and her two daughters, is | about to bring up for trial the contest, | which he has filed on their behalf to the | will of Andrew J. Davis. Mr. Davis was a man who presnmably | died a bachelor, leaving a very large es- tate, which he had amassed in Montana and other places. It consists of the prin- cipal ownership and stock of the First National Bank of Butte City, Mont., and the principal interest in the most promi- nent bank of Helena, Mont. He also left & very valuable mine, which was paying large returns, and cash in the safe deposit vaults in Boston to the amount of overa million and a quarter. Although Mr. Davis died in March, 1890, his estate has never got out of the hands | of the special administrator. The reason for this is that some time after his death a somewhat clumsily drawn will on rough paper, evidently hastily jotted down, came into the possession of ‘a woman who had kept it back. his will was filed for probate and gave the bulk of his property to one of his brothers, thus cutting off six other broth- ersand five sisters, or their descendants, whoall immediately combined, with few exceptions, to attack the will. There were three contests filed by three different sets of these collateral neirs. Robert G. Ingersoll led the contest for the first set of contestants and a jury trial en- sued lastinz over three months and ata cost to both sides of over $100,000. Car- loaas of witnesses were brought from dif- ferent parts of the United States and the | expenses were very great in every respect. The trial resulted in a disagreement of the jury, which stood, it is cluimed, eight against and four in favor of the will. On hearing of this Mr. Root, a nephew of Mr. Davis, who was a clerk in his bank, claimed that Mr. Davis had made him a gift in contemplation of his death of a tin box full of certain bank stock, valued at over a million dollars. Judge Knowles, a iriend of the deceased, testified that he heard Mr. Davis tell his nephew, “This is for you,” at the same time handing him the box containing the securities. The lower court decided in favor of Mr. Root, giving him this slice of the fortune. Tie case has since been taken up to the Supreme Court of Montana on appeal. Another interesting controversy arose in connection with the estate in behalf of Pet Davis, claiming to be an illegitimate child of Mr. Davis. Subsequently the contestants repre- sented by Mr. Ingersoll settled their dif- ferences with the brother, who was given the bulk of the estaie under the will, and they filed a consent to admit the will to probate wita the understanding that the estate was to be divided between the brother mentioned in the wili and this particular set of contestants to the exclu- sion of all other brothers and sistars. In the meantime the other contestants | and the alleged granddaughter of tue de- | Abraham Davis and of a different family whom William R. Hearst, the proprietor of this City and of the Journal of New York City, was reported to be engaged, is the daughter of Mrs., Laura A. Calhoun, ceased Montana millionaire. 3 Those who are opposed to the claims of the alleged widow and her daughters deny in toto the claims of Mrs. Snell-Davis. They allege that her husband was an | | Robert Toplitz and Al Stetson. altogether, and that he had no connection | whatever with Andrew J. Davis, the de- | ceased millionaire. They further state | that they can prove the residence else- | where of the Montana Dayvig, during the | time it is claimed he went to Arkansasand | married Miss Queen. | It is the brothers and sisters of the de- | ceased millionaire who have sentdetectives | to this State to investigate the claims of | Mrs. Snell-Davis and her daughters, In the meantims the special administra- tor and the fortunate nephew of Mr. | Davis are in the enjoyment and control of the estate and have great influence in the | part of Montana where they reside and do | business | Lloyd Tevis of this City has been for a long time in negotiation with the purpose in view of rendering the necessary finan- | cial aid to the California claimants in | return for a certain percentage of the mount to which they may establisa their | claim. At the present time the attorneys | for Mrs. Snell-Davis and her daughters are | Alva E. Snow of Fresno, ex-Judge Harris of Fresno and James M. Haven of Haven & Haven of this City. BEFORE THE GRAND JURY The Board of Health Has Been Called For to Hold a Conference. City and County Hospital Supplies Will B: Investigated as Well as Other Matters. The recent visit of the Grand Jury to the City and County Hospital and Almshouse is apparently about to bear fruit in the way of a conference between the jury and the Board of Health. Snortly after the visit mentioned the Grand Jury sent a communication to the board, in which mismanagement in the City and County Hospital was plainly harged, and 1t was intimated thata rigid nvestigation of the institution would be carried out. The secretary of the Grand Jury notified the secretary of the board that a conference was desired immediately, but as Dr. Morse was in San Luis Obispo the matter was deferred until Friday next, when all of the members will be in the Cl’iy. I'he matters that will be particularly in- ?mrefl into are the quality of the supplies urnished the institution by the contract- ors, to whom contracts are let by the Board of Supervisors, and the necessity of the traiuing school for nurses, which costs the City several thousands per year. The jury is under the impression that the sup- ghes, at least in some instances, are far elow the standard called for in the ad- vertised bids, and desires to sift the re- sponsibility and place it on the right shoulders. The members believe that Superintendent Stahle should have re- jected many articles of food that they saw at the hospital. The training school will come in for close scrutiny, because the jurymen believe that the money spent on it could be better employed in hiring belp to keep the insti- tution in a cleanly condition. | charges were that repeaters operated all —_—————— The man with the theory that luck will even up in the long run isstill trying to porrow a dollar with which to fest his theory. TWODISTRICT SQUABBLES The Republican Fifth Congres- sional Committee Listens to Contests. WILL SETTLE THINGS TO-DAY. Factions in the Thirty-Seventh and Fortieth Make Charges Which Are Denied. The Congressional committee of the Fifth District wrestled all day yesterday with two Assembly district squabbles{in this City, and, not getting through with the hearing of testimony and arguments, adjourned until 10 A. M. to-day without passing any judgments or taking any of- ficial action. At the meeting to-day the committee, which is a canvassing and returning board, with authority over all contests arising out of the selection of aelegates to the coming State Convention, will decide the contests from the Thirty-seventh, Fortieth and Forty-first Assembly districts PI San Francisco, give final judgment in the County Committee returns of convention delegates from Santa Clara and San Mateo counties and from the seven districts of San Francisco lying within the Fifth Con- gressional district, and issue credentials to the delegates. But four of the seven members of the committee were present when the meeting was called to order at 11 A. M. in the law office of John E. Richards in the Crocker building. The four were James W. Rea, chairman; John E. Richards, secretary; There were on hand a throng of factional Republicans from the Thirty-seventh and Fortieth districts. It was decided to hear the Fortieth District contest first and the Fortieth District crowd stayed and grew, while the little army from the Thirty- seventh withdrew to return with re-enforce- ments in the afternoon. These contests are wholly confined in their party significance to their respective districts and represent no schism or obpo- sition extending beyond the question of district control and recognition among district elements. In each case the contestants represent small minorities, which, before the pri- maries, refused the measure of representa- tion on the regular tickets offered them by the other elements which made up the regular district delegations to the State Convention. In each case the contestants put up opposition tickets which, the con- testants admit, received comparatively smali minorities of the votes legitimately cast. The contestants, however, allege, in each case, that the frauds were perpetrated | by the representatives of the majority factions in control of the election machin- ery, and the contests are based on these charges of fraud rather than on any claim that the contestants would bave received | a majority of the votes cast, if all had gone fairly. In each case the most that is hoped for is that the Congressional Committee will, | in the belief that frauds were really com- | mitted by somebody, and in the interest of harmony, award the contestants portions of the delegations. The victorious fac- | tions naturally oppose with vigor sucha | step. In both districts the A. P. A. and | anu-A. P. A. elements cut a partial figure | in the alignment of forces. The Fortieth District is the one repre- sented in the County Committee by Jesse | L. Marks, who has acted in harmony with the County Committee and who used his influence in giving ail elements in his dis- trict as fair a division of representation as couid be prought about amid the exigen- cies of district politics. The contestants from this district were loud and indignant and the regulars were just as loud and indignant later. The day in the interest of the regular ticket; that challenges were ignored and that generally the regulars, having the inside, carried things by usual primary election methods. The gist of the evidence was: “You did” and “we didn’t.” 0. W. Wintkrop was spokesman for the | contestants. He offered a petition alleg- ing frauds and asking that the election be deglared void and that the committee ap- point a delegation. He stated that he had affidavits in support of the charges of fraud, and called as a witness H. H. Holmes, who was one of the opposition candidates for delegate and who acted as a challenger at one of the polling plates. He said that he saw a number of men vote three or four times and that the name of M. H. de Young was voted several times. Other witnesses for the con- testants gave similar testimony. On cross- examination Holmes admitted that the opposition polled but ten votes at one polling-place and sixty-six at the other and the regulars made a strong point on this showing of residual equity. County Committeeman Jesse Marks testitied at length and with positiveness that the election had been fair, that all challenges had been allowed and that the vote was honestly counted. All the charges were denied in detail. Holmes and Irving of the opposition admitted that at the upper end everything was fairly conducted and that the alleged frauds were confined to the lower end. Marks was supported by the similar tes- timony of B. D. Pike, John Carson, B. F. Miller, John C. Nobmann, W. L. Cole, Thomas Eager, William Wilkinson and H. W. Miller of the regular delegates; by William Klinger, Joseph Peckman, O. G. Hallett and Frank Bauer, election officers, and by other witnesses. The Fortieth District was taken under advisement and then the committee took lunch. The- fight in the Thirty-seventh District 18 more bitter and complicated than that of the Fortieth, and is decorated with more of the picturesqueness of district politics. It took the committee from 2 to 6:30 P. M. to hear what the factions had to offer. James Alya Watt is the County Commit- teeman from this district, and during the anteprimary skirmishing made every ef- fort to get the faction led by Ed Donnelly and some others to accept two or three delegatesand become a sample of harmony. They demanded four delegates or a fight, and the fight came. Two or three times in the afternooon the regulars showed a disposition to let into the record a story that two years ago Don- nelly was with the top and’ victorious in- side, and that his protest describing the frauds charged was a mild description of the Prim-ry of 184, but the committee wouldn’t admit any irrelevant bygones. The contest displayed the presence on both sides of Republicans of high char- acter, eminent respectability and honest; of purpose, and between them were unnd{ wiched, in story and in person, representa- tives of the *‘push.” 8% chief prosecutor for the contestants, and ii! Spirit was fair, though strong. James Iva Watt handled the case for the regu- lars, assisted by Attorney George A, Went- ‘worth. Besides the charges of frauds in the way of repeating, there was as a basis of the contest the charge that the opposition was Dot given representation on the boards of election officers, or given tickets aamitting their watchers to the polling-places. ! The charges of fraud were not only vig- orously denied by the regulars, but testi- mony was piled up to the effect that the opposition massed at the pollsagangof toughs, including Hector Brodie and oth- ers from the water front, and John O’Shea, a member of the Buckley General Com- tiittee, who acted as challenger for the opposition, all of whom attempted and committed fraud, Watt's showing was further that Donnelly presented no nomi- nations for election officers, as he was toid 1o do, before they were appointed by the County Committee, and that while the sepresentatives of the opposition were not entitled to cards of admission through having failed to comply with conditions prescribed in the election call, he had _ol— fered to let their representatives inside anyway, and did do so. Ed Donnelly’s testimony was lengthy, but under Watt’s cross-examination it somewhat petered out into a general state- ment that he knew that repeating had been done. Dr. O'Connell, a vigorous young man, said that he saw one man vote seven times, and concluded to protest when he tried it the eighth time. Attorney Wentworth asked if *Windy Dick” Stapleton and Jack Short were not working for the opposition ticket all day, but the witness didn't know. “Do you know, doctor,’”’ asked John E. Richards, “whether the bona-fide Repub- lican voters of the district turned out gen- erally on that day ?” “‘Well, I understand so,” was the reply. The witness had seen no Republican re- fused 2p opportunity to vote. James E. Fields declared, that in a saloon he saw a vote mill where chras were given out io repeaters, but he couldn't tell the name of anybody who had voted anybody else’s name. He gave the information that the opposition threw up its bands and quit at 3 p. M. Chief Wharfinger George W. Root was one of the main witnesses, as he was one of the leading fizures among the oppo- sition. He was charged with having got Hector Brodie and Tommy Leunihan to bring a gang from the water front into the district. He said that he did not ask Brodie and Lenihan to go there but solely to help spot people. Martin Donovan and John H. Kelly, watchers for the opposition, gave testi- mony for the opposition about repeating which became general assertions under cross-examinatton. For the regulars Charles H. Ward, in- spector at poiling - place 1, submitted an aflidavit that John O'Shea and others did various wrongs in behalf of the oppo- sition; that no challenges were allowed; that Democrats and non-residents swore in their votes in behalf of the opposition and that the election was fairly conducted. There was much testimony about an alleged howling mob tiat vainly repre- sented the opposition and about frauds, gangs and threats of stealing the ballot- box. R. C. McLennon, Paul Fowler, James Toomey and Fred Eggers testified, and then James Alva Watt made a briet and com- prehensive statement, in which he demon- strated the fairness which had been shown to an 1ntractable opposition, and with which the election haa been conducted. There was no charge that the opposition ticket would have been elected, anyhow. The opposition wanted time to present further evidence, and adjournment was taken until this morning at 10 o’clock. The committee will not probably con- sume much time to-day over the farcical contest filed by Leon Dennery, the ex- County Committeeman of thejForty-first Districr. THE REPUBLIC IS LOST, Return of the Fearless and Vigi- lant After a Vain Search for Her. She Probably Capsized in Saturday’s Gale ani Went Down Bodily. The tugs Fearless and Vigilant got back from a four days’ cruise after the British ship Republic last night. The vessel was burned at sea when 250 miles off the coast, and the tugs were sent out to look for her after Captain Hughes had abandoned her. When the tugs went out Captain Has kell, in the Fearless, took the north and west course, while Captain Randell, in the Vigilant, took the south and east direc- tion. Neither tug spoke the other one until yesterday morning, when, after scouring 100 miles of ocean each, they gave up the search and headed for San Francisco. When a few miles off the Faral- lones they ran across each other and came back into port almost neck and neck. “l don’t think the Republic is above water,”” said Captain Dan Haskell last night., *‘Saturday and Sunday it was ter- ribly rough and squally, and if the burn- ing Republic was then afloat she would not have lived an hour. Sunday might and Monday last the weather was beauti- ful, and we had a splendid time, but saw no sign of the burning ship. We could see for over fifteen miles, and I spoke the bark Don in 34.47 north, 126.15 west. She was on her way from Puget Sound for South Africa, and I had no trouble in making her out. Tuesday morning I spoke the schooner Bertie Minor in lati- tude 36.30 north, longitude 124.10 west, and the captain reported ‘all well.’ ”’ 7 Captain Clem Randell reports thatin the position in which the Republic was abandoned he saw'a floating spar, and the chances are that it was part of the burning ship. Insurance men and ship-owners are now satisfied that the Republic has filled | and gone down. She is never expected to be heard f rom again. Superintendent Hawley of the Spreckels’ line is going to have a new means of get- ting information from the ocean. A Eigeun cote is to be built atthe Oceanic ock and every steamer that goes out ona long cruise will take a homing bird. For instance, the Australia for Honolulu and the Alarzeda, Mariposa and Monowai for Australasia will take_birds out with them for a couple of hundred miles and they will then be released. If any vessel is in sight or in distress the news will come at once to Spreckels’ dock and a tug will be sent out. It will be the same in the case of tugs, and the Fearless and Vigilant will be able in this manner to keep the office posted. Reunion at Mills College. The graduates and former pupils of Mills Seminary and College are invited to spend next Saturday, May 2, “founder’s day,” at the old home. 1f any have failed to receive invi- tations they will still consider that they are cordizlly invited. From the City they should take the 9 and 10 o’clock boats and Oakland Judge Marcus J. Waldheimer appeared local trein to Froitvale, thence by the Califor- nia Railroad to Mills College station. DEMOCRATS ON THE PRESIDENCY. No Candidate Yet Rides on a Wave of Popular Favor. THE FIELD WIDE OPEN, The Party Is Not Getting Up Any Enthusiasm Abont It, Anyway. CARLISLE'S FEDERAL BRIGADE. Leading Local Democrats Have All Sorts of Ideas and No Ideas About Candidates. There is in the local Democratic ranks no general enthusiastic wave of favor for any man who might be exalted to the seat which Jefferson and Jackson and Grover have occupied if this were a Democratic year. . Local Democrats don’t know whom they want for President. In that they are like the Democrats of the entire country. It isremarkable and yet not remarkable that here at about the 1st of May ne Democratic boom for any favorite son has caused enough stir in Democratic waters to rock a ship. The Democratic party is not displaying any particular hurry about anything, feel- ing any severe itching for the Chicago con- vention or any deep thrills over the ap- proaching election. Among local Democrats we may easily get the impression that the party realizes that it is going to be banged, and that itis going to make the best of it. It is making about as much fuss as a clam in a clam- digeer’s tin pail. Most of the local Demo- cratic politicians feel that there is nothing to be gained in National politics this year, and so they are turning their ambitions and energies to the local situation, in the hope of being able to capture a few muni- cipal offices. The active interest in the coming State Convention is due to its in- fluence on the factional fortunes of the local party in municipal politics. On this cff-Democratic year few are aspiring to be sent to Chicago to spend several hundred dollars and vote for a loser. There are of course still other reasons for the general party stolidity in refer- ence to Presidential candidates, though this is the main one. The Republicans are to move first at 8t. Louis, and the Democrats will want to see what is done there. Then the financial question is one from which the party is yet shrinking, and about which it 1is early to tell what is best to be done. The strongly threaten- ing danger of a wide-open split in the National Convention, the uncertainties that yet attend many State conventions and the uncertainties of what will come from the actions of the free silver party and 1ts late National Convention at St. Lous are also things that repress any for- wardness in Presidential booms. Cleveland seems reliably out of the race. Towa will present Boies, or at least the silver element of the party will. Pattison will be Pennsylvania’s favorite son. Mas- sachusetts has set up its young executive, Russell. Morgan is taiked of amid the tele- grams about his possible death. Whitney looms up with perhaps especial strength and promise. Secretary Carlisle has long been in the field, and the Federal brigades of the whole country must be either for him or not against, and David B. Hill is not without many aamirers. The silver uestion brings opposition to many of these in California and elsewhere. One will chase around some time in San Francisco before he finds three Democrats of both any mind and the same mind on Democratic candidates. John Daggett, superintendent of the Mint, is for g&rlis]e with all his teeth and his ten toenails, but be wouldn’t say so for publication yesterday. “I do not wish to discuss the matter,” he said. *“Iknow nothing about Presidential candidates and bhaven’t heard any talk about them.” Others of the Federal brigade were about _equally non-committal when inter- viewed. The uncertainties of the State Convention—or, perhaps, rather tne cer- tainty—that it will have a majority for silver while practically all the adminis- tration forces in the State will back the gold end, may have something to do with the reluctance of Federal office-holders to talk just now. *I am for the nominee of the party,” was the way the Collector of Internal Revenue, O. M. Welburn, discussed Presi- dential candidates, Said District Attorney H. 8. Foote: ““I will support the nominee of the party. I have no cnoice for the nomination. 1 am not thinking about men. There are plenty of distinguished men in the Demo- cratic party capable of filling the great office of President.” “You are asking me a question, my son, that I cannot answer,” said John H. Wise, Collector of the Port, when spoken to on the subject. “Carlisle is a good man,a reat man and a brilliant statesman, but just whether he would be acceptable to the entire California delegation or not I don’t know. Personally I have no choice in the matter, and therefore I cannot express an opinion. As to Cleveland and the third term proposition that is all nonsense. Cleveland does not want the nomination and would not take it if it was offered to bim. He will retire into private life at the end of his administration, and if the out- cry may be somewhat against him now he will be Tevered a generation hence.” ‘‘Carlisle will never be the choice of the Democrats of California,” said K. L. Col- non, president of the State Board of Har- bor Commissioners, yesterday. *“He is a great man, a very great man, but his rec- ord on the money question is against him, and the people of this State will never tolerate him as a Presidential possibility. We have lost confidence in him owing to his change of front, and confidence once lost takes a long time to restore. Russell Pattison and Boies are all great men, and stand high in the estimation of their coun- trymen, but they are all in the same boat with Carlisie. Notone of them will sat- isfy the majority of the Democratic voters of California.” “If Russell, Pattison, Boies and Carlisle are not available, who in your mind is the most likely candidate ?” was asked. “Morgan of Alabama,” saia President Colnon without a moment’s hesitation. “Heis sound on the money question, and from my point of view the money question overshadows every other issue. = As I said before, Carlisle will never be our choice. 1 feel strongly on this subject and I am con- fident thata man who will stand up for sound money will get the nomination.” Bert Schlesinger, second assistant United States Attorney, said: favor any man for the Democratic nomination that can carry the labor element of the country with him and who will deal with the corporations with impartiality.” Louis Loupe, Chiet Deputy of Internal mue, said: “My individua! choice for the nomination would be Carlisle.” *‘Whitney and Morgan or Hill and Mor- gan or Whitney and Hill for first place,” said Dr. Joseph Pe:cia, “or almost any Western Democrat would suit me. I am not hard to please, but would like to see the best men in the party placed on the ticket. I fancy that the Democrats w1ll be influenced by the nominations of the St. Louis convention.” oW Whitney represents my senti- ment,” said Max Popper. *‘He is for sound money and he represents our views on the tariff. He is young, active and in- telligent, and would make a safe, reliable and vigorous President. His record as Secretary of the Navy demonstrates his executive ability. Idon't think that Car- lisle is physically the equal of Whitney. for one thing, and I question the advisa- bility of selecting a candidate from out- side of New York. I believe in the pre- sentation of younger men. ‘‘Pattison would be a good candidate, but next to Whitney I would fayor Russell of Massachusetts. [ like his courageous style. So little has been done or formu- lated yet that it is hard to make predic- tions.” No one has yet developed any par- ticular strength or made any showing of leadership. Wait for the State conven- tions. Ithink that the California delega- tion will go and_have no idea whom ‘the favorite here will turn out to be.” *‘Pattison has the warm place in my heart,” said Alex T. Vogelsang. “I am a silver man and Pattison is a sound- money man, but I think that both the Re- publican and Democratic parties will take conservative stands on this question. Pat- tison would be a strong candidute on the Pacific Coast on account of his record as a member of the Government Railroad Com- mission. His.minority report on the af- fairs of the Central and Union Pacific roads burns yet. Russell isa likely man. Both of these are good and young and strong men. “Carlisle} is not as strong as either, though a better or a more upright man than John Griffin Carlisle does not live. Heis one of the greatest lawyers of the United States, but there is a popular prejudice against him on account of the bond issues. Whitney would be a_strong candidate, but he won’t take it. I think that Pattison will be the favorite of the California Democracy."” Barclay Henley is naturally for Pattison, because Henley in a measure “discovered” Pattison in National affairs. It was Bar- clay Henley’s bill creating the Railroad Commission passed in 1836, when Henley was a member of Congress, that made Pat- tison the Commissioner, as which he be- came more widely known as a man of ability and strong character. “Pattison has been twice Governor of Pennsylvania,” said Mr. Henley, ‘and would be the strongest candidate avail- able. He is from a central State, is a man of lofty integrity and high ability, and has many elements of poquflrit)’.” AFTER ABANDONED ROADS Richmond Residents Want Cer- tain Market-Street Fran- chises Forfeited. Three Corporation Lines Which Dis- figure the Streets and Impeds Public Travel. There are two street railroads in the Richmond district owned by the Market- street Company which have long since City. One commences at Point Lobos avenue and runs down First avenue four blocks. The second begins at the junction of First and Point Lobos avenues, run- ning down the latter thoroughfare to what is known as the old half-mile track. In addition to the abandoned roads named there is a third on Seventh avenue, beginning at California street, running thence to the park. Actual service on this line was only stopped when the Sutro road began operations, though for eigh- teen months prior to that time the schedule consisted of two trains a week— one each way on Sunday. The people of Richmond have grown weary of these street obstructions without something in return. They are deter- mined, if possible, to have the several franchises forfeited, and they propose to go about the work systematically. The two improvement clubs—the Point Lobos and the Richmond District—will take up the matter at their next meeting. The Point Lobos avenue road is proba- bly the most objectionable of the thrae., From First avenue to Tenth the tracks for a time lightly covered up are now from one to three inches above the level. Con- sidering that_this is the main drive to the beach, and the further fact that it is one of the handsomest roadways in the City, the peogle believe that these defacing marks should be removed. Years agoa steam dummy ran out Point Lobos to the Half-mile Race Course, but with the buiiding of the Bay District Track the line was abandoned. The Market-street Company, however, never lost its grip on the franchise, in spite of the fact that they did not pay one cent in taxes. Some months ago they secured an “extension from the Park Commis- sioners, but so far they have not spent $1 toward fulfilling the conditions of the original franchise. The exposed tracks have in many places put the great driveway in terrible condi- 2iss Wi ceased to be a source of ravenue to the | aios 1 orery | F Gooshing, S | TA Louttit & tion. Driving at nifihk is dangerous and heavily loaded vehicles find it difficult to cross from one side of the street to the other during the rainy season. & Tne same conditions prevail on First and Seventh avenues. The people of Richmond believe they have some rights in the premises, and they will endeavor to enforce them by an appeal to the Board of Supervisors. 5 They claim that the several franchises were granted under the express condi- tions that a regular service should be maintained. The partly covered tracks bear eloquent testimony to the fact that it is not now, uor has it been done for years. The Market-street Company has a way of reclaiming old franchises, should the occasion demand it. 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