The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1896, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1896. WEAVER WILL NOT SURRENDER. Reddy Must Go to Court to Gain Control of the Almshouse. LINES OF RESISTANCE. i;aw Contemplates That There Shall Be Just Cause for Removal, H. E. HIGHTON'S CONTENTION. Acting Mayor C, L. Taylor Holds Gov- ernor Budd Responsible for Debas. ing Politics in the Board. The aid of the courts will be invoked to prevent the displacement of Superin- tendent Weaver of the Almshouse. Henry E. Highton has been engaged as counsel to present the case to the judicial tribunal and demand that civil service and local sovereignty shall receive some considera- tion in the management of public institu- tions in 8an Francisco. Mr. Highton was seen yesterday by a re- porter of Tue CaLL and asked what form the court proceedings would assume. He said that he had not yet given to the sub- ject the attention it would require. It was very clear to his mind, however, that Mr. Weaver could not be lawfully removed without ‘just cause.”” The court might consider whether just cause could be es- tablished without investigation. In the proceedings for the removal of Mr. ‘W eaver there was no investigation of the facts to determine whether just cause ex- isted for the removal of the superintend- ent. Mr. Weaver had not been allowed the opportu y to disprove the charges brought against him. There was no trial in which he was represented by counsel, although he demanded investigation. Again the law requires the vote of four members to remove, and, while it may be " admitted that Dr. Williamson voted to re- move, it is not admitted that he acknowi- edged the existence on just cause inso | voting. Mr. Highton has not yet decided whether Mr. Weaver should surrender the office which hie now hoids and direct the | proceedings toward the ousting of Reddy, or to refuse to surrender the position, and thus force upon the Board of Health the | task of ejecting Mr. Weaver. The latter course will most likely be adopted. Mr. Highton understands that members of the Civic Federation and other leading citi- zens regard it as essential to the public welfare that good management of munici- pal institutions should not be sacrificed in order to carry out the system of rewarding the partisan victor with the spoils of | office. The argument is advanced that the Almshouse is purely a local institution, and should be managed and governed ex- clusively by the people who pay the taxes for the maintenance of the place. The Board of Health is composed of resident physicians, but the members are not elected by the voters of San Franeisco, and neither are they appointed by an elective local board. They derive their right to hold office from the Governor of | the State. Itis argued further that some excuse might have been given for divesting the local government of the right to manage the Almshouse when the State was con- tributing money for the support of the aged and indigent who bad found a home at the Almshouse. The Legislature of 1895, however, repealed the law extending State aid to the aged and indigent, and every county in California is now com- pelled to support its poor without help from the State. In some cf the interior counties money is raised to transport paupers to San Fran- cisco, and thus our local taxpayers are ob- liged not only to support our own poor, but to care for the helpless and indigent of other localities. It is now proposed as an additional burden to make the San Francisco Almshouse support political pensigners for whom the Governor can find no place in State institutions. One of the hottest contests ever waged in San Francisco was directed by politi- cians against J. M. Keating, whose man- agement of the Almshouse reflected the highest credit on the City and on himself. In that contest, which took place nearly twenty years ago, public sentiment was so aroused against the wrong which the poli- ticans were attempting to perpetrate that the ringleaders of the movement to dis- place Keating could not face the storm of public resentment. A well-known citizen in recalling the fight to oust Mr. Keating said yesterday: “This is local history repeating itself. Here is Mr. Weaver’s place, and the poli- ticians want it. He has proved beyond doubt that he is a capable and honest su- perintendent. The Grand Jury made a special and thorough examination of the institution and reported the facts to the Board of Health. No definite charges are made against Mr. Weaver. Itissaid ina general way that harmony cannot exist if be is maintained in place. It is hightime now that the people should take the man- agement of ihe institution out of the hands of the Board of Health, and not NEW. TO-DAY. SCRATCH SCREAM My baby broke out with & rash. He would soratch and scream. 1t would take two to hold him, and one to put medicine on him, We had 10 hold him sometimes an hour before we could get bim quieted down. All said that they never saw such n face or body on any baby as on him. I had to tie his hands Ught ina cloth, night and day, for five months, My sister had used CUTI- CURA, and I began to use it. only.one a8 he had not plication, he lay down and sle ch fellow. He has not a scar ap; for a month, poor on him now, an: as fair and his flesh is as soft as any baby. While he had this disease I had to cnngu eleeves out of his clothes, and put gauze underwear on him to keep him cool. I bad to Kkeep pleces of soft cloth around his neck, it was 80 wet with moisture from the sores, and I had to the cloths sometimes ten or twelve timas aday. Mges. A. HAYNES, L;-m.nu. D. Srzxoy EATMENT FOR BADT HuMORS.— W Daths with CoricoRy Boar. und gentle applics- B Ssmehent the wold. Eprrix Dive wxp e Caxu. Conr., Sole Props, Boston, U. 8. A. ——— Front Was Damaged but Slightly. (Sketched by a The Vulcan Iron Works as They Appeared After the Destructive Fire. To the Right a Heap of Crumbling Bricks and Sections of Bulging Walls Are All That Remain of the Mining-Machine Department. (4 7 "/ The Reliance Irom Works’ “Call” artist.] allow a dollar of public money to be ex- pended for the Almshouse until the right of the City to govern the institution is recognized. Yes, 1t is right to appeal to the courts. Judicial notice may be taken of the repeal of the law giving State aid to the aged and inaigent. The court may follow the line of recent decisions tending to the recognition of civil service principles. The right of local government, which the constitution recog- nizes so distinctly, may in this case re- ceive from the courts the interpretation which the framers of the constitution in- tended that it should have. When itis plain to the people that a scheme has been by tricks and cunning devices the courts should be appealed tofor the protection of taxpayers. If the law be interpreted to mean that the Board of Health appointed by the Governor can remove from office without cause a capable superintendent, who derives compensation from the City for superintending an institution wholly sustained by the taxpayers of the City, then the first act of the incoming Legislature should be the repeal of the law. Supervisor C. L. Taylor, Acting Mayor, was seen at his residence last evening. - He is very earnest in his views that Governor Budd 1s directly responsible for the de- plorable controversy concerning the man- agement of the Almshouse. Mr. Taylor said: “The law places the management of the hospital aud Alms- house in the Board of Health, but requires the Board of Supervisors to pay the bills. The City bears the whole burden of sup- porting the institutions. Formerly State aid to the extent of $40,000 was received, but the Legislature at its last session re- pealed the law under which the State granted such support. No, I cannot see that the Board of Su- pervisors could refuse to audit the bills, even if the Board of Health should con- tinue to put in places persons notoriously unfit and wholly incompetent for service. Should there be a contention in the courts 8s to whether Weaver or Reddy was su- perintendent the Finance Committee would not allow the salary of either while the litigation was pending. It may be necessary to repeal the law conferring upon the Board of Health the right to appoint the superintendents and subordinates of the hospital and Alms- house. The Governor would probably veto any law which would deprive his creatures of places, but I trust the Repub- licans will have a majority in the Legisla- ture sufficient to pass such a measure over the veto of the executive. ““Governor Budd is responsible for this debasement of the public service,”” con- tinued Mr. Taylor. “He has told the members of the Board of Health that they must appoint this man and that man. 1 am informed by a man who knows all about Reddy, that he (Reddy) lacks the experience and executive ability necessary to govern the Almshouse. The man that the Governor had appointed head cook at the Almshouse was dismissed from the police force for cause. Afterward he kept a saloon on Valencia street that could not be tolerated. ‘I read the testimony in the case against Weaver and it is not of a character to jus- tify one in voting for his removal. Besides, the superintendent had no opportanity to submit testimony in his own. bebalf. There was not under the law ‘just cause’ for his removal and I hope the courts will protect the taxpayers from debasing poli- tics, even if the Governor does give coun- tenance to such debasement. I speak with a knowledge of facts, and had the Board of Health asked me for the names of no- toriously unfit subordinates I could have given names and the record.” FIRED AT THE STEWARD. A Row on Board the Ship Falls of Hal- Iadale Ends in Gore. A row on board the British ship Falls of Haliadsale between Fred Brooks, the third maie, and the the steward, Herman de Leur, resulted in the mate firing two shots at his antagonist, but, fortunately, none of them took effect. De Leur, in his haste to escape from pending danger, fell against some sharp instrument, which inflicted a severe scalp wound on the back of his head, and possibly produced a fracture of the skull, . He was taken to the Receiving Hospital by the police, where his injuries were at- tended to. He gave 8 disconnected ac- count of the trouble by saying that the Yankee mate, who had shipped in this vort, had been ;uiim: him for the last two weeks, and when he went to his cabin to ask him if he wanted his tea he fired two shots outof a pistol at him, and in his haste to escape he fell. Here he declined to furnish any further information for the ‘‘blawst news- vapers, concocted to violate the spirit of the law | | Fierce Flames MACHINE SHOPS FALL N FLAMES, Vulcan Iron Works a Mass of Ashes and Black Debris. COME BEFORE THE DAWN ; Engulf Three Buildings and Leave Ruin Behind. RELIANCE WORKS ARE GUTTED. Brick Fire Walls Prevent a Serious Conflagration in the Foundry District. The Vulcan Iron Works on Fremont street, between Mission and Howard, were | destroyed by fire early yesterday morn- ing, and the Reliance Machine Works ad- joining was partially ruined by fire and water. Brick walls on three sides of the fire prevented a disastrous conflagration, As it was damage to the extent of nearly $200,000 was done. The watchman in the Vulean works dis- covered flames near the boilers about 3 o‘clock in the morning. He sounded an alarm from box 52, at Mission and Fre- mont streets. Engine 4 on Second street was on the way at that time, its foreman having seen the flames. Before water could be got unon the building it was al- most completely enveloped in dense smoke and blazes. A second alarm was promptly given, but hardly had the support arrived before a third bell was sounded to call up all the reserve strength 6f the Fire De- partment. Casks of oil exploded and added fresh fury to the flames and a boiler burst with tarrific noise. The proximity of the gas works made it dangerous for the firemen, but they held their ground. All efforts were bent upon confining the fire witin the walls surrounding the Vul- can. foundry. It happened, however, that the brick wall dividing the Reliance works 4 A from the buraning building was not high enough to afford complete protection, for flames leaped through the roof and caught the Reliance building. Presently the two large works were blazing furiously. The water tower was introduced oppor- tunely with four streams combined and it did good work until two more streams were added. It seems the men handling the tower were not aware of this and the result was startling. The big tower re- coiled and fell backward against Garratt’s brass foundry, smashine its upper works so that it was rendered untit for further use. Water was poured into the fire from doz- ens of engines so copiously that what had threatened to be a conflagration was kept in a comparatively small area. A two-story brick building, which was part of the Vulcan works, tottered in the flames and fell with a prodigious. crash. The front wall fell outward and the roof and second floor, the latter weighted with ponderous mining machinery, went down in a shower of sparks. This was about4 o’clock, and half an hour later the flames caught the Reliance works, while cor- nices and bits of wood were flying through the air. The firemen attacked the flames in this ground and succeeded in keeping them back, but it was not till after5 o'clock that the fire was under control. A mass of machinery and burned and charred timbers, seen through the remains of wooden walls, was all that remained vesterday of the Vulean works. These works were originally the Savage foundry and now belong to Messrs. Eyre and Gra- ham. The loss to the owners was esti- mated at about $60,000. The insurance was $31,500. How much the ramshackle old three-story frame building and the two-story brick one adjoining were worth was difficult to estimate, as they were vir- tually long past their day of usefulness. The latter is a heap of bricks and debris, while the former could only present a bhdly battered front yesterday with its in- terior gutted and filled with a great mass of wreckage. Luckily for the owners the office was not badly damaged and the books escaped injury. The insurance was placed by Brown & Eyre in several com- panies on the plant. In the Reliance works of Clot & Meese at 129 and 131 Fremont street, the fire pa- trol saved the insurance companies a handsome sum by covering the valuable machinery on the floors with water-proof sheets. This work was performed even while the fire raged in the third story. The patrolmen tied their govers like so many hammocks, from wall to wall, with the result that all surplus water was di- verted into harmless channels. The build- ing was an old three-story frame struct- ure, and in all probability will have ‘o be replaced with a modern brick factory. The top story was used as a pattern-shop and a storehouse for wooden pulleys. All this expensive stock, with the patterns and pattern-making machinery, was de- stroyed. In the next floor were numerous iron pulleys and machines, but they es- caped almost wholly, having been covered by rubber sheets. . The ground floor escaped except in odd places, where water rusted shaftings and a few machives. These were given a liberal coat of oil yesterday and saved thereby. Mr. Meese stated that he carried an in- surance of $25,000, in several companies, and believed that that sum fully covered his loss. He was pleased that his works escaped so well. But for the brick parti- tion wall, he said, the whole place would have been blotted out. It was the firm’s first fire and they were in business there for thirteen years. There had been other fires, however, in the place next door. Harrison D. Barrett, President of the National Spiritualist Association 0f America (From a photograph.] SPIRITUALISTS WILL COMBINE, et Seven Local Incorporated Societies to Hold a Convention. H.D. BARRETT IS COMING President of the National Asso- ciation Will Act as Organizer. GREAT PROGRESS OF THE CULT. As a Result of the Meeting in This City There May Be a Spirit. ualist Church. The spiritualists of San Francisco will hold a convention in this City on May 24, 25 and 26, on which occasion Harrison D. Barrett of Washington, D. C., president of the National Spiritualist Association of America, will take a leading part. Ar- rangements for the convention were prac- tically completed yesterday morning, when Mrs, J. J. Whitney, the local me- dium, received a telegram from Mr. Bar- rett, announcing his purpose of visiting the Pacific Coast and participating in this first general council of spiritualists here. The convention promises to be the most important event in the history of Pacific Coast spiritualism. It will be the first to be held in this part of America, and is in- tended as the beginning of a movement uniting all scattered spiritualist societies with the National organization. A meeting was held Saturday night at 218 Stockton street, at which the president of every spiritualistic society in San Fran- ¢isco was present. It was then that the date was fixed and a programme outlined. There are to be three sessions Sunday, May 24, in Golden Gate Hall, and sessions in Metropolitan Temple on the Monday and Tuesday following. Monday evening a grand phenomenal demonstration will be held in the temple. Jones Slater of Brooklyn and Mrs. Whitney of San Fran- cisco, test mediums, and Fred Evans and Mrs. Francis of San Francisco, slate- writers, will appear among other mediums and lights of their cult in the demonstra- tions. The Sunday’s session will be con- fined to services, as business matters are to be considered only at the week-day ses- s10ns. It may be that as a result of this con- vention the spiritualists will build a church or hall in 8an Francisco. The Progressive Spiritualist Society of this City has prop- erty valued at $50,000, bequeathed by Mrs. Eunice Sleeper for the object of establish- ing a meeting place and supporting the society. This money, withjmore to be col- lected, may be soon used in building a headquarters. Invitations have been issued to spirit- ualists in all parts of the State to be pres- entand participate in the convention, and it is believed by the local leaders that a large number of persons from the country will attend. They will be entertained at the demonstrations and will hear speeches on the philosophy of spiritualism and papers on that subject in all its phases. There are seven incorporated spiritu- alist societies in San Francisco. The old- est of these is the Progressive Spiritualist Society, which was estadlished twelve years ago. It has about seventy members. Professor Clegg Wright, its present speaker, has been with the society for five months. It meetsin Golden Gate Hall. The next oldest is the Independent Bible Spiritualist Socjety, which holds two ses- sions Sundays in Pythian Castle. It was organized seven years ago and is now pre- sided over by Dr. C. Rinn-es. The Progressive Mediums' Society was incorporated five vears ago. It meets Thursday evenings at 110 Hayes street with George 1. Drew in the chair. The First Spirituaiist Church meets Sun- days at Sixth and Market streets. Mrs. H. Fleming is its president. Every Wednesday night the People’s Spiritual Society meets at Scottish Hall, 111 Larkin street, with Mrs. May Drynan presiding. The Ladies’ Aid Society, Mrs. D. M. Peace president, has its headquarters at 110 Hayes street, where it meets Wednesday afternoons and does works of charity. The Mediums' Protective Asso- ciation was organized within the past year. Its president is W. T. Jones and its meeting place 110 Hayes street, Sunday evenings. 2 Of these the People's Spiritual Society is incorporated under the laws of Wash- ington, D. C., and affiliated ‘with the Na- tional organization. The remaining six are incorporated under the laws of Cali- fornia. President Barrett will endeavor 4 NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. BILLACK FRENCE DRESS GOODS! FIVE SPECIAL BARGAINS ONE CASE BLACK FRENCH ARMURES, 48 inches wide, assorted patterns - - - - $1.25 Yard ONE CASE BLACK FRENCH MOHAIR AND WOOL FAN- CIES, 20 different designs - - $1.00 Yard ONE CASE BLACK FRENCH WOOL FAN designs) - TWO CASES \CIES (elegant < o+« - ... 7he Yard BLACK FRENCH SERGE, 48 inches wide TWO CASES BLACK FRENC 45 inches wi 50¢ Yard H DIAGONAL (wide wale), de - - - - - - 50¢ Yard We will also exhibit this week an ele= gant line of NEW BLACK FRENCH CRE= PONS, prices $1.00 to $4.00 per yard. Samples Forwarded to Any Address. TELEPHONE MAIN S5777. 9 &QRP ORA: \d 1882. g 411, 118, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. to extend the National body in California | by inducing them to federate with it. “That he will be entirely successful goes without saying, since the local societies are eager to affiliate with the National body,” a prominent Spiritualist remarked yesterday. ‘‘Indeed, the presidents of our societies conferred upon this subject and agreed that an invitation be sent Mr. Bar- rett to come out here for this very pur- pose. Then we shall have a church and spiritualism will boom.” The. National Convention is beld annu- ally in Washington, D. C. The first one was beld in Chicago during the Columbian Exposition, about the time of the Parlia- ment of Religions. On September 27 the first convention sat. Delegates from almost every State in the Union were present, and permanent organization was effected next day. At the same time a declaration of principles was adopted in the form of a resolution to the effect that “on the facts underlying the philosophy of spiritualism we ask each society to con- struct a code of ethics commensurate with its intellectual requirements, and adopt such forms and ceremonies as the circum- stances and their needs require.” The convention by an almost unanimous vote defermined that spiritualism was to spiritualists a religion. The national asso- ciation was established, and H. D. Barrett of New York elected president. He was re-elected in 1894 and again in 1895 at ‘Washington. The Banner of Light, an Eastern spirit- ualist paper, says of him: ‘‘The president, H. D. Barrett, is a young man, but he has E been an earnest spiritualist for more than fifteen years, He is a native of Maine and a graduate of the Unitarian Theological School of Meadville, Pa. Although edu- cated for the ministry he did not forget spiritualism, and finding that he was not able to reconcile it and the tenets of the Unitarian church he resumed his profes- sion of teaching. President Barrett has a world-wide reputation as the efficient chairman of Cassadaga Camp, which posi- tion he has filled for the past seven years, and it was due to this fact that he was elected chairman of the Chicago conven- tion. As a writer he is well known, many trenchant articles appearing from his pen in the columns of the spiritualist papers. As a speaker he is eloquent and possessed of wonderful power.” His visit here is hailed with delight by local spiritualists, who are preparing to gather round him in the movement for a solid, united organization. —_— Professor Watson to Lecture. Professor John Watson, LL.D., professor of moral philosophy in the universiity of Queen’s College, Kingston, Ont., author of “Kant and His English Critics” and more recently *“Comte, Mill and Spencer,” which latter work is used as a textbook in the University of California, will address the Presbyterian Ministerial Union this morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Presbyterian Mission-House, 920 Sacramento street. Professor Howison, professor of philos- ophy of the University of California, wili also -Sdml theunion. Professor Watson isa mem- ber of the Presbyterian church, and is here delivering the course of philosophical lectures at the university. Rev. F. R. Farrand, chair- man of the executive commitiee of the Presby- terian Union, in behalf of the union extends a cordial invitation to the ministers of other de- uominations to meet with the union and listen to the distinguished visitors. Laymen are also invited. 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