The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANéISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1896. THERE (5 GOLD N HURRICANE GULCH Sergeant Jack Hayes Makes a Rich Find in Sausalito. HIS WIFE'S DISHPAN. An Immense Rise Has Come in Property Values Since the Discovery. A WATER-FRONT SYNDICATE. Chief Wharfinger Root Has Joined W.th the Policeman to Work the New Claim. woula take something more powerful than an ordinary derrick to tear Sergeant John Hayes from the idea that THE CaLr, in 1ts eagerness to publish the news, did not do him an irreparable injury. Hayes is a State employe at the head of a little squad of policemen who look after the interests of the Board of Habor Com- missioners. He lives over in Sausalito at | the head of Hurricane Gulch, named that way on account of the wind that sweeps wn through it at all times, even when the remainder of Sausalito is calm and sweltering. Hayes is very domesticated and seldom spends any of his spare time away from the hearth, Sundays he is always at home tinkering away at something or other and beautifying his aiready lovely ack of his residence, past a doghouse in- habited b; ferocious canine, keeps tied up, is dry at this season | 10 all intent and purpose, excepting in spots where some of the rushing waters of winter still remain in shallow pools. | Sunday the policeman and some of | ends discussed mining and miners, quite familiar to Hayes, who was a in days long past in the enviroxs of | Peak. He told them of his expe- and recalled how the very land | upon reminded him of grourds | d and found to be good-pay- i ing propert: It reqaired little coaxing for him to take Mrs. Hayes' dishpan and give his friends an illustration of how mining was done in river beds in early days. It wasall very interestirg until the climax came. The | dirt was all washed ount of the pan, and | there, in the residue were four little bright | yellow specks. Gold! There was no questioning the fact. It was certainly the precious metal that peeped out from among the peebles. Marshall, when he discovered gola in 1848, was the Sutter mill-race in aston: He y was over on this side of the bay, where he confided the secret of his find to Chief Wharfinger George W. Root. Both these gentlemen took a run over to Sausalito and panned out more dirt. There was plenty of black sand, almost an infallible indication of good pay dirt, and some fine gold flakes were gatbered in. But most of the gold was found on an adjoining piece of property to the one owned by Hayes, am;] belonging to & man named Miller. BSo it was decided that be- fore the news of the gold find was made known that particular piece of property must be bougEt up. The property is triangular in shape and the major part of it is on & 45-degree fall to the creek and is valueless. S8tiil, Miller was willing to sell the whole thing for 250, so Hayes says. e day set for the purchase was yester- day, when au ill-advised newspaper was inconsiderate enough to publish the fact that there had been gold discovered in Hurricane Gulch, back of tbe Hayes cot- tage. That settled the deal. Miller read Tur CALL yesterday morning, and when Hayes and his partners, Messrs. Root, Gillett and Bloomer, who were all interested in the venture, ran Miller down and offered | him the $250, that gentleman smiled and asked for a week’s time in which to think the matter. 'He'll want all prices for it now!" ex- | claimed Hayes, when seen yesterday aft- ernoon by a CALL reporter. “That article should never have been published until I got hold of the property, and I’d show you how gold is panned out.” Years ago threre was considerable min- ing done north of Hurricane Gulch, but 1t never paid sufficiently to warrant ex- tensive working. There were too many paying river-bed claims to lose time in the guich, so it is comparatively a virgin field. That there is some gold there cannot be doubted, but it is not likely that Sergeant Hayes will give up his lucrative $150 posi- tion on the City front to become an out- and-out miner. A BANEKRUPT SALE. This I8 & Genuine One and Patrons of ““The Maze’* Will Be the Ones Benefited. So-called bankrupt sales are of frequent occurrence and are not always genuine, but in case of the sale now going on at the store of the Hamburger Company, well known as *The Maze,” the fact that itisa bankrupt sale cannot be questioned. The house has with their customary enterprise taken advantage of a rare opportunity to buy the stock of a bankrupt merchant of Los Angeles at a big discount. This mer- chant, E. Weinbur gb, carried an exten- sive stock of fine goods, but a combination of circumstances forced him to the wall and tbe best bid offered for his stock was that of the Hamburger Company. They offered the Board of Trade of Los Angeles, who had charge of the matter, 5734 cents on the dollar of the cost price and this bid was accepted. The goods were shipped here at once and the sale began last Monday, and it is no exaggeration to say that on that day The Maze never entertained such a crowd since they commenced business. They were obliged to put on erxtra clerks and in- crease their delivery facilities. Since that day many new goods have arrived, includ- ing: Shirtwaists, laces, mens’ neckwear, dress goods, wash goods, etc., and the crowds still continue to flock to the store. In order to conform to the prices that are ruling at this sale, The Hamburger Company kas reduced prices in many regular lines. This is particularly true in the cloak department, and now cloaks, jackets and suits are being sold at bigger discounts than bave ever been known in the history of this City, The ladies of San Francisco are quick to appreciate genuine bargains, the attendance at this sale at- tests, —————————— ‘Will Burn Spurious Tea. Collector Wise issued orders yesterday that & large quantity of spurious tea seized by cus- 10ms officials some months 8go be burned. The destruction in this manner will be the first that hag Z;‘.r“m.n place in this City. Under less the law the importer is privileged to remove the adulterated tea from out the country. In this CSAE. however, the privilege was not ac- ceptes Rl LT i r"', \‘\".‘ 3 sl | The First Discovery o6f Gold by Sergeant Jack Hayes in Hurricane Guleh, Sausalito. FOUND FILTH AND SMELLED GAS, {Members of the Board of Health Searching in Un- pleasant Places. |HORRIBLE DISCOVERIES. A Cellar in Which the Main Sewer Found a Ready Outlet. BUILDINGS TO BE CONDEMNED. The Board Will Recommend the De- molition of Several Unsanitary Structures. A delegation of the Board of Health went looking for foul stenches and iniqui- tous plumbing in Chinatown ¥esterda; afternoon. Chinatown is prolific in stenches that cry unto heaven, and the plumbing, though not extensive, is decidedly defect- ive. Yet the Board of Health yesterday did not see a tenth of the reeking filth that ordinarily attends the nostrilsof the ad- venturous sightseer who wanders into the crowded little alleys that serve as high- ways and sewers for the rickety tenement- houses that line them. Perhaps it was coincident, but everywhere was seen the marks of the broom. Fish alley, whose remarkably pungent odors have been a matter of history in the City for years, was in a state of compara- tive cleanliness. It would have put to shame the wholesale districts in the vi- cinity of Battery and Clay streets. The disgusting offal that ordinarily obstructs the gutters was nowhere in evidence, and instead limpid streams of pmilyinfi water found their way by the natural inlets to the sewer. Chinatown had reformed. The investigating party started out at 4 o’'clock yesterday afternoon. Officer J. H. Butterworth, who was several months ago on special duty as Plumbing Inspector of Chinatown, acted as guide, and Drs, Morse, Williamson and Hart of the board, Edwin Gottschaux, secretary; Dr. Love- lace, Health Officer; Dr. Lazaer of John Hopkins University, departmentof sani- tation, and some newspaper men were of the party. At Chinatown the party was joined by Inspector Fay, who is at present looxing out for Chinatown’s sanitary con- dition. The investigators proceeded through the narrow alleys, remarking as mhef went on the great improvement since last year, At Onsida place, a pocket off Sacramento street, between Dupont and Stockton, a visit was made to some of the habitations of the lowly Chinese. In one of these, oc- cupied by a ragpicker, the atmosphere was 8o vile that a few seconds ’stay in it made the eyes burn and the head swim. A small oil lamp burning before an ancestral tablet, which is a necessity to even the poorest of this race. gave forth a fetid and sickening odor. Yet even here there was nothing that could readily be criticized by the board, so they passed it by. As the party proceeded the Chinese gathered in wondering groups and chat- tered excitedly. Through open doorways could occasionally be caught glimpses of the ratlike faces of white *‘dope’” fiends. ‘These did not exhibit the same interest, as the Chinese life holds but one thing of in- terest for opium’s slave. Between Ross and Church alleys is a mekinf underground passage which the board last year ordered closed. When it was reached on yesterday’s tour it was open, buta white man was industriously playing a hose upon it while half a dozen Chinamen plyed brooms vigorously. “Who orXered this alley opened 7 was asked the white man. He replied it was under the orders of L. C. Babbin. Inspector Fay was in- tructed to investigate and if he found that Babbin was countermanding the board’s orders, to proceed against him. Church alley was in a generally objectionable con- dition and the inspector was instructed to have it closed. The next objectionable feature en- eountered was on Duncomb alley.- Here a rougi shed, barely tall enoughjwithin for & man to stand erec, is occupied by a startling number of emaciated human beings. The board decided there was but one thing to be done with the shed and at the next meeting they will recom- mend its complete destruction. The most_horrible case disclosed was in a cellar at 705 Pacific street kept by Hong Kee as 8 second-hand store. Hong Kee's sign announces in English that he is ready to buy and sell second-hand goods of all kinds and the assortment he has lcollecled suggests that he has succeeded | in getting a little of everything useless. | When Ofticer Butterworth stevped into | the cellar he recoiled as if he had been hit. The place was a veritable mine of sewer- | gas. vet calmly sorting rags in the dim | blue light of a flickering candle sat the ob- | livious proprietor. Taking a_deep breath | of fresh air and plucking up his courage, Officer Butterworth entered upon an ex- ploring tour.' His shouts soon brought one or two other members of the party to | his side, and there he showed the cause of the poisonous air. Beneuth the sidewalk the earth had caved away until a direct passageway was opened to the main | sewer, X | This will be remedied immediately, though just how it will be done was left to Inspector Fay’s discretion. Dupont street was next visited. The rotten walls of a row of buildings extend- ing from Baker alley to the Globe Hotel, between Pacific and Washington streets, | attracted the party’s attention. At the | corner of Baker alley the upper story of | the building is used as a “sweat’’ shop. | Here a number of Chinese were engaged in making overalls, while in an adjoining room were two or three women and one or two children, and evidence that the en- tire working force also resided there. The ceilings were low and the floors and wall threatened fo come down at any moment. Entrance to the place was gained by climbing a ladder, a knotted rope supplying the place of a bannister. The entire block was found to be in a sim- ilar condition and it was the sense of the members of the board that all the build- ings between the Globe Hotel and Baker alley should be condemned, | . Fish alley was visited, but nothing ob- jectionable was found in the street itself. | In the rear of one of the fish stores a num- | ber of barrels of salt fish giving forth a rightful stench were discovered, a mnot ery difficult task, and the inspector was instructed to have the nuisance abated. As a whote the board was very favora- bly impressed with improvements in the sanitary condition of the quarter, | though most of them are of the opinion | that nothing but a conflasration could | ever exterminate all Chinatown’s objec- tionable features. On their visit last year they made several recommendations, most of which have been carried out, but the Chinese have frequently rendered the innovations inoperative. -~ Where pipes were ordered in for flushing sink hoppers, they have taken off the faucets and capped the pipes. They have taken traps out of sinks because they impeded the flow of water, and have geveraily showed a most | hearty contempt for things sanitary. It is the Augean stable and the Board of Health modestly doubts that is the Heron- les who is to cleanse it, but they will try. MISSING MANY MONTHS, Mysterious Disappearance Curtis Gibson of North Bangor, N. Y. He Wrote to His Wife From This City on January 1, but Has Not Been Heard of Since. of The police were notified yesterday of the mysterious disappearance of an elderly eentleman, Curtis Gibson of North Ban- gor, ¥ranklin County, N. Y., by Mrs, Maud Lord Drake of 325 Geary street. He belongs to North Bangor, but lived for three or four years in Los Angeles where he purchased some property for about. $14,000. Toward the end of last year he was married to a lady friend of Mrs. Drake, and two weeks after the mar- riage he left North Bangor for Los Angeles to dicpose of his property there. He did 80, and wrote his wife to that effect and that he would bring the money home with m. He came to this City on his way home and wrote his wife on January 1 that he was to leave by that evening’s train. He did not return home, and since then his wife has heard nothing about him. “I did not know of my friend’s marria to Mr. Gibson,” said Mrs. Drake, “‘till I received a letter from her yesterday in which she told me of his disappearance :l}d asked me to make lnqnlrfu about im. “‘Mr. Gibson was about 65 years of age, [ should think, and his wife was some y younger, but she isan exceedingly bright laddy and bears her years well, The; had known each other from ehfluhood‘: Heiss man of wealth and they have a beautiful home in North Bangor. He wanted to dispose of his property in Los Angeles and return home 80 that he and his wile could spend the remainder of their life together in their native city. ‘“His disappearance is unaccountable and I am afraid _something serious has bappened him. He must have had about $14,000 with him and probably he has been robbed and murdered. His wife men. tioned that she thought he had written from the Russ House,” Inquiry was made at the Russ House, but no such name as Curtis Gibson was registered there, ——————— Two ounces of attar of roses represents the refined product of a ton of roses, 10 TEST PRECINCT REGISTRATION, Attorney Francoeur Will Take the Question to The Courts. ANOTHER LEGALMUDDLE The Usual Doubt as to How Far a General Law Affects This City. REGISTRATION IS STILL SLOW. Little Time Is Left, and There Is Dan- ger That Thousands Will Bs Disfranchised. The mooted question of whether or not the precinct re.istration decided upon by Registrar Hinton will actually occur, and whether or not it would be legal, is to be soon settled by taking a test case to the Supreme Court. Attorney George H. Francoeur, chair- man of the Iroquois Club committee appointed to consider the matter, will withm a day or two apply to the Supreme Court for an injunc- tion or a writ of mandamus, taking the step with the consent and assistance of the Registrar and the Election Commis- sioners. The Iroguois Club, the Registrar and the Election Board are all anxious to carry out precinct registration, but the le- gality of precinct registration this year is a question they deem highly importent to settle in advance, as there would pe a possibility that half the names on the register might be stricken therefrom or the election invalidated. The whole matter of registration is in a doubtful and dangerous condition. There isin this City a legal tangle involved that no lawyer has yet been willing to express definite opinions upon. Then, as has been urged be fore, the set- ting ahead of the period of registration and making it close three months before election presents the great danger that many thousands of voters will neglect to register in time and be disfranchised. As the new registration law which di- rects registration to begin 160 days before election and centinue for 75 days is a general one, this danger confronts the en- tire State. Nowhere in the State maya voter register after August 8. The un- usual necessity for general and prompt urging of voters everywhere to attend to registration is a matter which all the State Central committees are considering. The Populist State Oentral Committee has decided to issue warnings to all of its county central committees in the fear that its party may especially svifer. Registration in this City has always heretofore been carried on under a special law which provided for precinct registra- tion. The last Legislature passed a new neral registration law, and it is the loubt as to what extent and in what ways this general law repeals the special law applicable to San Francisco which deca- sions the trouble about precinct registra- tion. Registrar Hinton has ordered regis- tration in accordance with the general law, but has assumed that the tangle stiil allows precinct registration, though he has ordered it for an earlier time than twenty days before election, as specified in the law. City and County Attorney Cres- well yesterday stated the situation briefly as foliows: The amendments to the Political Code passed in 1895 show that it was the intention ot the Legislature to have the elections in San Fran- Ccisco governed by the general law. This is evident from the omission of the following clauses in the original section—1094—viz.: “Nothing in this section shall be held 1o re; any election ot Tegistration law applicable to or in force in the City and County of San Fran- cisco.” The special law required registration to be- gin ninety days before the election and con- tinue seventy-five days, The general law requires the registration to begin 160 days before the election and to cone tinue seventy-five days and then cease. Both of these laws cannot be put in force, for the obvious reason that you eannot at one and the same time commence registration 160 days and ninety days before the election; hence the general law must g:‘evml. The general law is silent about precinct reg- istration, The special law requires preciuct registration to begin fwenty days before the election and to continue till fifteen days before the election. 1t {s manifest that the requirement of the general law that the registration shall cease eighty-five days before the election cannot be observed il you continue the regisiration under the requirement of the special law tili fifteen days before the election. If the Supreme Court should hold that the requirement of the special law that the pre. cinct registration should begin twenty days before the election and continue till fifteen days before the election is an awkward way of saying that the last five days of the registra- tion period should be given over to precinet registration, and (hat it means that and noth- ing more, then the general law, being silent on precinot registration, the special law can be observed in that particular by devoting the last five days of the seventy-nve under the general law for that purpose. But {f the court snould hold that the special law méulrlng precinct refilm--uon 1o cease fifteen days before the election is a direction &s to time, then It cannot be observed, be- cauge the general la uires registration to cease eighty-five days beiore the election. Hence it will be seen that this is a most serious question. “I have no doubt in my own mind about the legality of the precinct registration I have ordered,” said Registrar Hinton yes- terday, “but still I admit that there may be a legal question, and it 1s well o have it settled. ~There is dunger that the courts may decide that there is no precinet regis- tration, and that many voters will be left in the Iurch., The question is, How does the general law affect the special law? Is San Francisco governed by the special or by the general act, or hfr the special act as modified by the general one? I regard the general law as modifying and not repeal- ing the special law."’ r. Rinton thinks that the law will be liberally construed in the interest of the voter whose registration it is the purpose of the law to facilitate as well as to pro- tect, and he points 10 the following ex- tract from a Supreme Court -decision in a case from Fresno: % f stration law, construction in h?:xj-':: v?netr:.81 ‘The object of the registration law is to prevent iliegal voting by providing, in advance of election, an authentic list o ualified electors, and When its terms are Zwblful they should be so construed as to give the fullest opportunity 1o voters to pro- cure the entry of their names utfln the register that is consistent with reasonable precautions against fraudulent registration. Mr. Francouer and Mr. Creswell held a conference yesterday, but it was not de- cided just what technicality would be seized upon for a test case. However, the question will be brought before the Su- preme Court witbin a day or two and an early decision sought. Registration is mcrunxpg at the central office, but it is yet severai hundred behind the daily average necessary to be made to register the usual number of voters within the comparatively few days remaining. The registration_yesterday was 974, mak- ing the total registration 12,266, Two vears ago the total stration was about 69,000. In the year in which a Presidential election is held the registra- tion 1s generally 10 per cent heavier, so that 75,000 names shounld be registered in this City this year. There are but twenty- | = w { /d NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. We’re doing the Biz of the town. believe it come up and see. Here’s how it’s done. =i ===\ = P —— If you don’t Sizsiss - = Ladies’ Dnclfinits, $1.50. Choice of any Duck Suit in the house sold as high as $6 apiece, all tailor-made. $7 50 LADIES’ TAN JACKETS.....$2.50 Elegant garments, 4 extra large iancy pearl buitons; tailor-made. and $5 LADIES CAPES, all " colors veree.. 8195 $5, 4 and $3 CHILDREN'S JACK- ETS, o g % ! I\ ¥£ " g " ! " ! Navy, t N w and streamers, Persian embroidered, the cloak wonder of the nineteenth cen- tury; an ordinary bargain at $2 50. Ladiey’ Shirt_ Waists, 43e. At 9 o'clock we place on sale 50 dozen Ladies’ Elegant Shirt Waists; couldn’t be bought regular under 85c¢. Ry Gents” Neckwear, 19e. At 9 o’clock we place on sale 180 dozen of Light and Dark Gents’ Tecks. These goods were bought by a bankrupt to run special 8 for $1. Here to-day 19c. Marvels in Dress Goods. 85c¢ for 52-inch BLACK MOHAIRS. 35¢ for 50-inch BLACK or BLUE STORM SERGES. These are every-day 75¢ seliers. 15¢ for SILK AND WOOL STRIPED CHALLIES. Bargains at 25¢. Bankrupt Pockethooks, 39c. Sterling silver mountings, each one stamped, combination pocketbooks. A grand bargain at 75¢. i ! : bl TACE SALE. Only & bankrupt could afford to sel! laces of the width and quality for the rice; 4 to 10 inches wide, worth 20¢ to 750 & 'yard, going to-day ai— 10c, 124e, 150, 20c and 25c. Dargains in Drugs. 50c_bottles of 'FINEST VIOLET WATER or Extra COLOGNES. . 26¢ %nllty of FINE SHEEP-WOOL SPONGES, . B50c 25¢c 10c HOSIERY, 15c, FAST BLACK LADIES' HOSIERY, aw- fully cheap for 25¢. BANKRUPT NOTIONS, HAIRPINS, ....1c & package PEARL BUTTONS, 26 to 30 lines..... «veee 8 doz, 100 HAIRPIN CABINETS ..2¢ 8 box CORSET STEELS .. ..5¢ & pair LINEN THREAD, 200 yards....5¢ a spool SILVERED THIMBLES LEAD HAIR CRIMPERS BLACK _ CAN lI‘):LD STOCKINET SHIELDS No. 2.......... +veer.100 pair BONE CASING, 8-yard plece...........50 CUBE PINBOOKS..... HOOKS AND EYES, card NEEDLES, papers.. =3 BANKRUPT WASH G0ODS - —1 DOWNSTAIRS. 10¢ FLANNELETTES., i 5o 10¢ FIGURED DIMITIES. .. Be 10c FIGURED LAWNS. Be 10c FANCY CREFO . B 15¢ MILLHOUSE GRASS LINENS., 8ige 15¢ CREPE GRENADINES......... 80 12)4c WARDOUGH CREPONS..... 7e 15¢ DIMITY CORDULETTE . 100 19¢ IRISH CHECKED DIMITIES.. 10e 20¢ JACONETTES or DIMITIES. ... 12140 25¢ DIMITY or ORGANDIES......, BANKRUPT LININGS, 20c 64-inch FIBRE LINING.....10¢ yard 20c BLACK and GRAY MOREEN...12}4¢c 12}4e quality GRAY CRINOLINE, pce 75¢ 6{¢ LINING CAMBRICS............... 12}4c DOUBLE-FOLD SILICIAS.......8%c SILES. 750 FANCY COLORED SILKS..... 35¢ 50¢ VELVETS AND PLUSHES,. 20c¢ CHINA SILKS, COLORED. MILLINERY Sold to-day at less money than you ever heard of in all your lives. HATS TRIMMED FOR...... 15¢ K =SS === === | ===l 25¢ . 10c¢ e —— o =3 B50c " & = == amanrgenrn(c. Proprs ¢ FDeMovze = seven days of registration left, making an average daily registration of about 2200 necessary for the time remaining. In past years about 30,000 voters have registered in the precincts, Should pre- cinct registration be knocked out this year the consequences can be imagined. The danger is especially great from the fact that citizens are used to waiting until shortly before election and from the fur- ther fact that there is not just now the in- centive and the grompling to lookin, after registration that a voter feels amis the full excitement of a campaign. Registrar Hinton decided yesterday to keep his office open for registration on Salnrdn{ evening from 7 to 9 o’clock, and it is likely that later the office will be open every evening. BOMBARDING A HOUSE. Two Boys Improvise Miniaturs Cannons and Play Havoe on the Fourth, Two 16-year-old boys amused themselves on Independence day by bombarding a house on Folsom street, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth, until they bad it look as if it had been struck by a cyclone. The posts of the fence and almost the entire fence were knocked into kindling- wood, and almost the entire front of the building was demolished. The house is a two-story frame one, and is owned by P. Murphy. It isoccupied by te nants, who were in the building at the time of the bombardment, and nar- rowly escaped being struck by the missiles. Murphy complained to the police, and Captain Gillen detailed Policeman Neil Reardon on the case. After diligent in- uiry Reardon ascertained tbat the two ys were Eugene Vandever, employed in a blacksmith-shop on Harrison street, and Norman Porter, employed in a far- niture factory. 5 rants for their arrest Wednesday, and Reardon arrested them that evening. They took a shotgun and sawed off the barrel, leaving about fifteen inches of it. Then they bound it to a thick piece of wood, making a sort of miniature caunon. They loaded it with powder and iron spikes, such as are used in railroad work, and fired them at the house. They had another instrument made outof the top of an ax. They cut the ax and rounded it off up to where it commences to bevel. Then they bored a hole through to about the center and another hole from the top to join the other. They also bound this to a piece of wood, loaded it with powder and spikes and bombarded the house with it. The two miniature cannons were captured by Poticeman Reardon. After they were arrested on the charge of malicious mischief Vandever confessed and explained the modus operandi. They were released on their own recognizance by Judge Campbell. ‘Wanderer and Porter were convicted be- fore Judge Campbell yesterday and were ordered into custody to appear for sen- tence this morning. NEVADA BANK OBJECTS. Wants Its Assessment Decreased Nearly Million and a Half, The Nevada Bank addressed the County Board of Equalization yesterday on the subject of Assessor Siebe’s valuation of its possessions, characterizing the resunit of his calculations as ‘‘unjust, excessive and illegal.” The communication states that of the $2,302,000 for which the bank is assessed $1,474,157 should be deducted, vecause it is not property within the State of California, but is entirely outof the State, as it be- longs to branch institutions and should be assessed to them in the States or coun- ties where they are located, and the board is asked to adjust the matter. Murphy swore out war- ! | THE COMING CARNIVAL, Citizens Express an Enthusiastic Sentiment in Favor of It. W. H. Mills Says It Will Result in Great Benefit to Commercial Interests. A citizens’ gathering in the interest of | the Carnival of the Golden Gate was held yesterday afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce. Hugh Craig was chosen chairman and 8. W. Backus secretary. ““We are here,” said the chairman, “to devise ways and means for the successful carryingout of the coming carnival or festival. To do this we must have the press with us and not depend too much upon a canvass from door to door asa source of revenue.” After Assistant Secretary Fisher had read the proposed prozramme for carnival week Colonel John O'Byrne of the execu- tive committee said that he heartily fa- vored tne holding of the contemplated carnival and realized that behind it were important consequences. To insure its success the aid of the great corporations would be essential, and he accordingly moved the appointment of a committee to confer with the moneyed men and cor- porations. The chair tamed as such committee Messrs. H. J. Crocker, W. G. Harrison, W. H. Milis, J. D. Phelan, George New- hall, Adolph 8preckels, D. Rich, F. A. Ha- ber, George Stone and General W. H. War- field, who will meet soon in consultation with the finance committee. H. J. Crocker announced that at 1:30 ». . next Tuesday, on the floor of the Mer- chants’ Exchange, 8. L. Jones would hold an auction sale of the boxes and loges in the Columbia Theater. The performance, which 1s to be for the benefit of the carni- val, will take place at the following Thursday matinee, when the mele; company will give ‘London Assurance.” A vote of thanks was tendered to the managers of the Columbia upon the mo- tion of Mr. Crocker, who said that their example would be foilowed by all of the other principal places of amusement. A letter was read from W. H. Mills in which it was stated that the money ex- pended uvon the carnival should be looked upon not as a donation by subscribers, butas an investment. It was desired in this way to introduce into the art life of San Francisco a permanent and profitable feature. Much money was lost to the City every vear because the residents were compelled to go elsewhere in search of amusement. F. A. Haber added that all of the re- tail merchants were enthusiastically in favor of the carnival, which would materially benefit commercial interests and bring about more intimate relations between the metropolis and the surround- ing cities and towns. THE CITY’S TITLE. City and County Attorney Creswell’s Opinion on the Ownership of Ocean Avenue. City and County Attorney Creswell was asked some time ago to pass upon the question as to whether the City has any title to Ocean avenue, formerly called the QOcean House road, portions of which are claimed by Behrend Joost and others, and to determine the width of the avenue. His reply was sent in yesterday as follows: Tu the Honorable the Board of Supervisors of the City and. County of San Francisco: On De- cember 18, 1895, I received from your honora- bLle body a resolution, of which the following | is & copy, viz: “‘Resolution No. 13421 (third series). Re- solved, That the City and County Attorney be and is hereby requestea to examine and re- port to this board as to whether the City and County has any right or title to Ocean avenue (formerly called Ocean House road) and if the title is vested 1n the City and County then to report the width of #sa1d avenue.” Ocean avenue is found on the Humphrey map of 1870 of the Cig and County first, and is there named Ocesn-House road. The ‘esst- ern terminus of the road is at the intersec- tion of Bauer street with the County road, and it runs thenge in an frregular course west and northwest about two miles to its western ter- minus at the place of its intersection with the old San Miguel toll road, near to what is now known as Ingleside. I have had a search made of the records of | the office of the City and County Surveyor and the Recorder's office, and have failed to find anything of record touching the width of Ocean-House road. 1have found two maps on file in the office of the Surveyor, made by County Surveyor Gard- ner in 1854, A. D., showing the route as it then existed of Ocean-House road. Neither of these maps show the width of the road. 1 have fonnd in the Recorder’s office a map made in 1854, A. D., showing what purports to be a dedication of ground for the purpose of widening Ocean-House road from Arlington avenue to Stagg’s Hotel. This map issigned as follows: “Approved May 13, 1895; Adolph Sutro. Approved for the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, M. YY O'8haugh- ne: engineer, May 9, 1895; M. M. O’Shaugh- nessy.’’ From the foregoing I conclude that aslong 8go s 1854 A, D. there was a road known as the Ocean House road; that it is not now in exactly the same situation it was then, but it is substantially so; and that it was used as a public hl%{:wny. The conveyances of land abuttin, e rond will probably show the width of it. It would be necessary to have an abstract of title made in order to obtain this information. Inasmuch as your resolution does not recite that the roadway has been infringed upon by any one I assume that none of the property rights of the City and County are imperiled, and that your inquiry was made at the request of some one speclally interested. If such is the case the specially interested party should furnish this office with a complete abstract of the sales of property contiguous to the road for the two miles of its iength, in order that a tull answer may be made to your resolution. It would require the undivided attention of one of the deputiesin this office several months to make such an abstract. Immediateiy ugon receipt of your resolution 1 investigated this matter sufficiently to see that no rights of the City and County were in jeopardy, and thereupon made this communi- oation give way to more important matters in m! office, xeg;lflng attention. uly 9, 1896, HARRY T. CRESWELL, City Attorney and Counselor. —_———— TIRED OF THE BOULEVARD, Van Ness and Golden Gate Avenue Property-Owners Want a Change. A portion of the residents .of two thoroughfares that were recently declared boulevards by the Board of Supervisors have discovered that such a proceeding was not without its disadvantages to them. Property-owners on Van Ness avenue from Turk street to Market and on Golden Gate avenue between Market street and Van Ness avenue have petitioned the Board of Supervisors, stating that between the points mentioned the two streets are given over to business, and that the boule- vard proposition has made them deterio- rate in value. They asked that the por- tions described be exempt from the action of the boulevard ordinance. The Street Committee of the board de- cided yesterday to recommend that the pe- tition of the Golden Gate avenue peopla be granted and that the Van Ness avenue matter be laid over for two weeks. ‘When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. ‘When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, Whea she had Children, she gave them Castoria,