The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1896, Page 8

8 SEWERS WHICH ARE CESSPOOLS, Property - Owners Talking of a Public Up rising. CONTAGION SPREADING Two Deaths Have Already Been Caused by the Foul Gases. CEN GAIN NO RELIEF. Petitions to the Superintendent of Receive No At- tention. Streets | | The biggest kind of a row is brewing | among the residents and property-owners | in the vicinity of California street, at the intersection of Walnut. The indignation of the people is directed at Superintendent ot Streets Ashworth for what they claim to be an almost criminal neglect of their interests. A Certainly, an investigation of the cause of this complaint, as was done yesterday by THE CALL, makes it appear good and sufficient for a considerable amount of kicking. The ways of the Street Depart- ment for severai years have been past finding out. This cause of the Walnut and California streets kick is 4 case in point. They have | two sewers out there that have no outlet. Quite a number of communities in the | | v are favored with one such sewer—% | thanks to a reckless, irresponsible policy in the Street Department—but no other is | so distinguished as to have two of that kind. Walnut street drains south to California and California drains east to Walnut. A sewer is laid in California street, west of Walnut, but it stops at the Walnut-street line. Continued on one block from there to Central avenue it would make connec- tion with the general sewer system there. But it does not. It'is left to fil up with | e drainage from the stretch of hill west- | ward. Over a vear ago a sewer was laid in Wal- nut street to the line of California. Wal- nut street is thickly settled, costly resi- dences lining both sides of it. The drain- from these houses runs into this sewer d lies there—no outiet being afforded. Th2 effect has been such as to empty | of the houses of the tenantsand to | g kness and death to the tenants who have been unable to get away. | The residents and property-owners have | besieged the Superintendent of Streets, | but they get no satisfaction. The Board | of Health being notified visited the place and immediately condemned the work, | butnothing has been done. In April last the people in the vicinity | were made to rejoice by the appesrance of | a gang of men who got to work digging | and afterward building an extension to | the sewer. They thought, of course, that relief had come. Some forty-six feet were | added to the end of the sewer, carrying it | from the north line to the center of Cali- fornia street. And then, to the amaze- ment of everybody, the workmen stopped, filled up the hote and went away. The people were to be taxed for having their distress aggravated, for the longer the blind sewer extended the more filth it | would hold and the more contagion it would spread. Remonstrance was 're- doubled, but it ended with remonstrance. It is true a man from the Street Depart- ment was ordered one day to go out and look at the loose sand above the blind end which it was declared was fall of foul seepage. ¥ He struck his pick into it and the escap- ing gas blew the seepage into the air. Some sand bags were piled over the top in the hopes of suppressing it, the man went away and that is the last that has been done in the way of relief. " In the meantime Mr. and Mrs, Hickby, living in the house on the corner of Cali- fornia and Walnut streets, have lost two children by death. A sister-in-law of Mrs. Hickby is now lying seriously ill, and the physician warns her that she cannot get well so long as she stays in the infected neighborhood. The family of E. Wilkins is also suffer- ing ill health directly chargeable by the physicians to the poison in the air. R. C. Miller, who owns some cottages mn the neighborhood which he is unable to find tenants for from the same cause, J. W. Burling end Charles B. Holbrook, all interested in property in the nelghbor- hood, have been saying and doing all they can to gain relief. “One trouble 1s that the Supervisors ac- cept such straw bondsmen for contractors that they can break their contracts with impunity,” said R. C. Miller yesterday. “Two different parties have taken con- tracts for this work, and both have failed to do the work. The trouble seems to be that the block between Walnut street and Central avenue, that makes the breach between the sewers, is covered with the tracks of the Market-street Rail- way Company. The steam road from the Cliff House comes in there, and there is the turntable of the California-street line, *“My notion is that there is the real trouble. Some influence is exerted to call off the contractors. Some of these days, however, you will see the biggest accident on that line that we have witnessed in San Francisco for a long time. The tracks are sinking and cannot be maintained over that wet earth. The rails will spread and | go down under one of those heavy trains some day,/and—well, after that, this out. | rage will be remedied perhaps.” George W. Elder, expert to the Board of Supervisors, was seen last night about this matter. He said: “I have done every- thing I possibly can for these people, but I cannot force the Street Department to do this work. I have reported the matter to the Superintendent and to the Board of Health and to the Supervisors. It is a crying shame, there is no doubt about that. If this work had been done properly two lives might have been saved and much loss to the property-owners. The property- owners are willing to pay all proper assess- ments and why it is not done I don’t un- derstand. “The building of the sewer in ihat shape was a great blunder in the first. place, Nosewer should ever be begun that did not-continue to an outlet. The idea of building a sewer half way down the side of a hill and there stdpping, within a | Star, few yards of an outlet, thus becoming a mere well or cesspool in the middle of a street! No other city would tolerate it. To stand over one of the manholes of that Walnut-street sewer is as much as a man’s life is worth.” 3 PURGING THE LISTS. Numerous Changes Among the Accepted Roll of Election Officers Made Yesterday. At the meeting of the Election Commis- sioners yesterday objections were filed against the following ‘election officers on the ground that they served two years ago in precincts where irregularities were dis- covered : 2 John Archer, Tenth of the Thirty-first; E. Murphy, Sixteenth of the Thirty-sixth; Richard Giblin and Arthur McGuire, Four- teenth of the Thirty-third; James M. Ma- honey, Tenth of the Thirty-first. Objections on account of non-residence in the precincts from which they were ap- nointed were filed against E. C. Thatcher, Fourteenth of the Thirty-sixth; T. H. Shea, First of the Twenty-eightn; T. J. Fellows, Sixth of the Twenty-eighth; John F. Kelly, Seventh of the Tienty-eighth; M. Corwin, Sixth of the Twenty-eighth. Vacancies on account of removals were filled as follows: John Fahey, Tenth of the Thirty-first; Charles Kane, Seventh of the Thirty-ninth; H. J. Anson, Sixteenth of the Thirty-ninth; A. Cavagnaro, Four- teenth of the Forty-third; Otto C. Cappel- man, Third of the Forty-fifth; Thomas Walsn, Eighteenth of the Thirty-sixth; William H. Gerran, Sixth of the Thirty- second. The following were dropped from the lists on account of non-residence in the precinets for which they were appointed : James Gallagher, Seventeenth of the Thirty-eighth; H. Jenkins, Second of the Forty-third; P.J. Higgins, Twentieth of the Thirty-seventh; Leon Van Vliet, Third of the Fortieth, B0 TRAMING - HOME A New Board of Officers Se- lected for the Institu- tion. Several Industrial Departments Are Already in Operation—Plans for the Future. A meeting of the Boys' Training Home was held Thursday aiterncon and the fol- lowing persons were present: Isaac Up- ham, William M. Bunker, A. C. Stevens, H. E. Witkinson, D.M: Carman, Mrs. H. E. Stevens, Mrs. J. A, Campbell, Dr. Sarah E. Wise. This meeting was for perma- nent organization. The following officers were elected : President, Isaac Upham; vice-president, A. C. Btevens; secretary and manager, D. M, Carman; financial secretary, Mrs. A. C. Stevens; treasurer, L. J. Truman; trustees—Isaac Upham, .A. C. Steyens, L. J. Truman, J. Da!zell Brown and Wiiliam M. Bunker; advisory board—Dr. E. R. Dille, Dr. M. M. Gibson, Rev. M. F. Boyn- ton, Rev. William Rader, Rev. W. A. Garduper, Judge J. M. Troutt, f. B. Peter- son, J. A. Wiles, George 8. Montgomery, H. E. Snook, H. E. Wilkinson, D. M. Car- man, Mrs. A. C. Stevens, Mrs, J. U. Beard, Mrs. M. M. Mein, Mrs. Martin Jones, Mrs. J. A. Campbell, Mrs. L J. Lenman, Mrs. George T. Gaden, Mrs. R. L. W. Davis, Mrs. Sarah E. Wise, M.D., Mrs. A. Kel- ley, Mrs. H. J. Benson, Dr. T. B. Janes. The board of management is composed of the officers, together with Mrs. H. L. Ben- son and Mrs. W. H. L. Davis and George S. Montgomery. This is an outgrowth of the Newsboys' Home, started some time ago. Itaims to give the boysa home that is so, not only in name but in fact, wnere they will have not only food and shelter and the care which boys with homes receive from | their parents and relatives; a place where | they will have friends to interest them- selves in obtaining work for them when they are able to do it, and to which they can return when in distress or trouble of any kind. A special branch of the work is the training department, where the boys may be taught useful occupations. A photo- graphic department is in good running order and on a paying basis at the present time, and the boy managers turn out some very creditabie work. Besides this the lads are doing a considerable amount of developing and printing for outside parties. The printing office is almost ready to open up, thanks to several dona- tions of type and material during the past week. A further enterprise is the mattress repairing and upholstering de- partment, which will be ready for busi- ness in a few days. A number of boys are in the building at the present time, and several have already gone to good places secured through the good offices of friends of the home, Arrangements have been completed for thee(rubumion of-a monthly paper de- voted to the interests of the boys and girls of California, the proceeds of which will go toward the support of the home, and it is boped that it will not be long before the entiré work on the “Pacific Youth’ will be done in the home by the boys. No one connected with the institution Teceives any salary or compensation. It has a very efficient lady in charge in the person of Mrs. Jackson. The mechanical department is in charge of Mr. Hutchin- son, who has had experience in the News- boys’ Home in Los Angeles and other similar institutions elsewhere, The phatographic department is under the care of Master Philip Carman, who has demonstrated his ability in the past few weeks. Every Thursday night a newsboys’ club meets at the home, where they are enter- tained and refreshments are served. It is proposed to organize a similar club for messenger-boys in the near future. Though the work of getting the institu- tion on its feet has been done in a very quiet manner, 1t has already become pretty well known, and numerous donations of cash and material for the various depart- ments have been received, which have enabled the managers to do more than could have been expected with the little' publicity given their plans. 3 e e Colombia Investigation Closed, The 'investigation into the cause ot the Colombia disaster was resumed before Super- ising 1nspector Birmingham yesterday. Cap- tain Alexander of the Santa Rosa and Captamn von Helmes of the Orizaba Were the only wit- nesses called. Their tescimony was to the ef- fect that the currents off Pigeon Point were very strong and frequently carried vessels in- shore. The fog signals were not to be relied on, as they did not always whistle. Captain von Helms said he once anchored off Pigeon Point and then sent & boat to the shore to learn his exact position and also to ascertain why the fog signals dia not opezate. No more witnesses will be called. Captain Birmingh: expects to render a decision within ten days. % g FroM and aiter this date the business of sell- ing Welsbach lights in San Francisco will be conducted by our San Francisce 1t 5 mont at the address balow, whers. Al oob: nications shouid be adaressed. No other per- sor'in San Francisco is authorized to handle our goo_dl and we caution the public against purcl n:rw from unauthorized parties ELSBACH COMMERCIAL COMPANY, August 1. 134 Ellis street. * Targe Opium Importation. Th Belgie, which arrived from China yester- day, had on board the largest opjum importa- tion recorded at this port within the past twelvy months. There were 455 cases averag- ing sonething over forty-one pouads tp the case and appraised at $6 per pound. The value of the importation is about ‘fu,ooo. 7 Baprist preachersand Rev. A, P. A. Bnfle} son is the subject of a strong article in BIH';'I -| the place in a state of frenzied grief. Her ‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALDL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1396 AS THOUGH BY A LIGHTNING FLASH Sudden Death of Maurice Hultzmer, a2 Boy But- ton-Holer. A LIVE WIRE'S WORK. The Fatal Current Strikes the Luckless Youth Through a Pair of Shears, HIS MOTHER'S BITTER GRIEF She Last Saw Hm Alive Sitting With His Little Brothers at the Midday Meal. Death, mysterious asthe midnight dark- ness and sudden as the lightning’s flash, cut the thread of a young boy’s life yester- day afternoon as he sat at his work, not ; his side. Dr, Lovelace was called soon after Clerk’s office. By the provisions set forth in the decree Mrs. Taaffe is granted a di- vorce becanse of her husband’s desertion. She is awarded the custody of Randal, her minor son, and property in Sanfa Clara County worth about $35,000 is de- clared to belong to her personally and not %0 be considered as community property. | The Taaffes’ home was on_a large frait ranch down near Mountain View, in Santa Clara County. The domestic relations, it is stated, had not been harmonious for a perivd of a year or more. S s PR TR PAUL NEUMANN IS ILL Ex-Queen Lilinokalani’s Adviser Comes Here for Treatment. Paul Neumann, the Honolulu attorney, who is legal adviser to ex-Queen Liliuo- kalani and who was Attorney-Generaldur- ing thie last years of her reign, has come to this City for medical care at_the request of his twin brother, Edward Neumann, the well-known local chemist and police court interpreter, Mr. Neumang is 2 sick man. All day yesterday and last nignt_he was confined to his rooms at the Palace, where his brother remained carefully watching by the arrival of the patient. The Honolulu physicians pronounced Mr. Neumann's ailment to be diabetes. How long he will remain here or where he wiil g0 next is not known even to his brother, for he has not conversed about his plans or about Hawaiian affairs since he arnved. ——————————— Hennessy Held to Answer. P.J. Hannessy, arrested two days ago for pass- ing a counterfeit silyer dollar on a tomale BENTS PAD I - ENGLISH PoliDS Leases That Call for Pay- ment in Sterling Money. ALSO IN GOLD BULLION. John T. Doyle Makes Certain of His Client’s Rental Income. HOW MRS. DONAHUE IS PAID. For San Francisco Property She Gets Ounces of Gold or British vendor, was held by Commissioner Heacock yesterday for triul in the United States Dis- is an old offender against the law. He was convicted October 31,1884, In the United States District Court on a jeiony charge of false regictration and sent to San Quentin for three he was charged and convicted in the Superior Court ot assault and given five years in the trict Court, same prison. Hennessy | Maurice Hultzmer, a 15-Year-Old Buttonhole-Maker, Yesterday Met Death by His Shears Came in Contact With a Live Wire | terms of this lease ohanged, an Extraordinary Accident. Left Exposed in His Workshop in the Donohoe Building and the Lad Was Instantly ‘Killed by the Force of the Current. Where the Boy Touched the Wire With the Shears. The Cross Marks the Flace giving him even one brief fraction of an instant in which to raise a cry of unayail- ing protest against the potent force which struck kim down. 5 For some tims past Maurice Hultzmer, a boy of 15 years, has been in the employ of a ladies’ tailor named Speier, who has offices in room 77 on the fourth floor of the Donahue building. Of frail and sickly constitution, he had not been working for a few days, but yesterday, feeling some- what better, he returned to histasks, He was a_buttonhole-maker, and ran a ma- chine in one corner of the shop. Near by are two sewing-machines, all three being run by electricity. At lunchtime yesterday Maurice went to his home at 1048 Howard street to take his midday meal with his family. His aged father keeps & second-hand shop at the number mentioned, the next house being occupied by a married sister, whose husband keeps a shoestore. Theré are two smaller brotliers, the elder of whom is barely old enough to go to school. _ * During lunch Maurice seemed to be gay and full of fun. His sister’s husband and he jested throughout the meal, ana when the lad hastened back to work a bright, })oyish smile was playing over his open ace, ‘When next the little home circle gazed on that unwrinkled countenance it was set and rigid in the pale colduess of death. On returning to the shop Maurice re- snmed his work, chatting meanwhile with two of the sewing giris—Flora Gursky of 229 Hayes street and Minna Monesck of 1055 Folsom street. About 3 o’clock the lad had occasion to use a pair of steel shears. As he laid them down on the machine the A)oime touched the exposed cougling of the electric wire and the boy sank back in his chair a corpse.. o Not a scream nor a struggle accompa- nied the advent of the dread destroyer. Silently and suddenly, like a lamp blown out by the wind, the young lifé came to its end. When the surviving employes realized what had occurred the shop became a scene of wildest confusion. The gzirls be- came hysterical, and for a time it seemed impossible to restrein their shrieks. By a strange lack of thought the boy's mother was notificd of the sad affair ana came to’ wails of anguished bereavement resounded through the corridors for nearly an hour, and when the Coroner’s officers arrived to remove the body her transports of bitter agony were heartrending. She clung to the siender form—so white and fair, save for a shght discoloration of the hand which had held the shears—and refused to let it go until firm but kindly hands g-rud her from what remained of her ek 't the onté Meprr ac e once ha; ome, now submerged in desolation, vlpe’:t the mother with her tale of grief. The frightened girls departed for the day, as did the equally nervous proprietor, locking the door behind him. Much blame would seem to lie at the docr of the person or persons charged with the inspection and care of the electric-powér apparatus. The wire which led to the machines was un- covered for nearly an inch at the coupling near the buttonhole machine, having been for an indefinite period a standing menace to the lives of all who ap- proached it. Meanwhile the youthful victim, foreyer freed from every eartbly danger, lies at rest, one of e silent, everchanging throng borne in and out of the City Morgue. 2 THE TAAFFE DIVORCE. The Mother Awarded the Custody of Her Little Boy. Judge Hebbard’s decree in the divorce case of Mary J. Taaffe versus William F. Taaffe was filed yesterday in the Couaty - PRECITA VALLEY'S WANTS The Residents There Insist Upon Various Needed Improve- ments. Extending the Car Line—Police Pro- tection and Betler Streets . Demanded. Sovereigns. John T. Doyle, the prominent lawyer, declares with evident pride that the man who langhs last laughs best. Of course, he says so in other words, but he nods his head, looks wise and remarks with a knowing air: “I knew what I was doing when I insisted on having my client’s leases contain a provision that rent be paid in gold bullion or pounds sterling money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ““Yon may think it strange, but don’t you think I knew what I was doing? I saw this thing coming, this disturbance of finance. Four years ago I could see ap- proaching some serious change in the value of United States money. Now, isit not here? Have we not reached that point where we are menaced by a change? That is why I took time by the forelock and looked ahead. That is why I de- manded payment of large sums in gold bullion. *‘Ouncesof gold. They are iy favorites. When a man could not tell what was go- ing to happen with regard to money, only you felt that a crisis was not impossible, ounces of gold, standard fineness,would be absolutely sale.” Mr. Doyle is attorney for Mrs. Annie Donahue, who has large real estate inter- ests in San Francisco. Mrs. Donahue lives here and is not Igivan to sojourning in Great Britain and Irelana) In fact this City is her home and here her money re- mains. Leases in which she appears as lessor make provision for payment in pounds sterling instead of in the custom- ary ‘‘gold coin of the United. States,’” as specified in the State laws, have recently been recorded at the City Hail, Naturally they gave rise to considerable comment among real estate agents and financiers, butthose men will retain their opinions on the necessity of such an expedient. The following is a copy of the clanse in those leases demanding English money in paymentof rentof San Francisco property : But the monthly rent or sum of four hun- dred Xsd()oy dollars, payable only as herein specified, in equal installments on_ the eighth day of each and every month of said term, said monthly paymenis to be made in gold coin of the United States of the mint standard of A.D. 1861, provided, however, if at any time during the term hereby created, the lessee orAts assigns shall propose or offer 10 pay said monthly rent or any part thereof in any other currency than that above specified, the lessor, her heirs or assigns shall have the right by aa instrument under her hand to deciare the and they shall thereupon be changed so that the said monthly rent shall thenceforth become and be the sum of eighty (£80) pounds sterling, money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, . The lease in which this appears is a re- newal of a lease with the Union Stock- yards Company for property on Townsend street. It is now on record at the City all. imilar leases have been made with other tenants of Mrs. Donahue, with the exception that instead of dollars they call for gold bulhion, 900 fine and in ounces and fractions of ounces. A lease for a por- tion of the Columbia building is made on this plan with the option of substituring British sovereigns if the lessee and lessor wish to make a change in the mone{. Mr. Doyle gave his explanation for the peculiar form of agreement yesterday: “Four years ago,” said he, “I madea lease in one instance calling for paymens O in gold bullion, 800 fine, and specifying The residents of Precita Valley are wide awake and active, and intend that the neighborhood in which they live shall, as soon as possible, have the benefit of all t modern improvements. Electric lights, |1 police protection, better streetcar service, improved streets, sidewalks and sewers are some of the things urgently needed. At the meeting last night of the Precita Valley Improvement? Club in Graham Hall, President 8. A. Byrne in the chair, the railroad committee reported that the prospect was favorable for soon securing an extension of the electric line from its present terminus at Folsom and Twenty- sixth streets to Precita avenue. Steps are also being taken to get the | ¥ City to make an appropriation for the im- | provemeut of Bernul Park, which, by the expenditure of a comparatively small sum of money, could be made one of the most ut(lll'-cuva and popular features of the valley. A letter was read by the secretarv an, nouncing the incorporation of the Precita Valley organization in the San Francisco Association of Improvement clubs, It was stated that the unsanitary condi- tion of the sewers in the neighborhood would be shortly attended to by the Board of Health. . The sewer at Bryant and Twenty-sixth streets was ludicrously de- scribed as being on stilts and a nuisance to the public’ health. Sidewalks are needed from Twenty-sixth street to Ala- bama for the benefit, especially, of the hundreds of school children by whom the street is traversea daily. The matter will be brought to the attention of Superinten- dent of Streets Ashworth. Daniel Sullivan, Henry Behrens and Joseph Vizzard were appointed a commit- tee on park and street improvements and Messrs. Vizzard, McCOarthy and Behrens were selected to make a canvass of the dis- trict and thus increase the numericai and and moral strength of the club. ———————— Commotion on a Car. Women shrieked and children ran madly to and iroin a Market-street car early last even- ing, between Stockton and Powell streets, Passers on the sidewalke had their attentfon attracted and peered curlously at the moving Tfigures and listened to the unusual commo- ton. A woman grasped a conductor con- Yulsively and another seized him and threw aboutasif be were a feeble child. The con- ductor had & surprise in both cases, At Stock- ton street a lady and gentleman stepped on the car and declined to go inside. When the conductor was on the forward part of the car f’ollwun. fares the lug fell ina fit. After a me 8he recovered, . the commotion, AE s oxiang ——————— An Irish Evangelist. To-mozrow afternoon at 3 o’clock Thomas A. sovereign is. in value—it is a standard of gold, if you will, and there can’t be any quibbling over the weight. O course, paymeht could be made in United States $20 gold pieces, for the specifications were equivalent to so many the bullion to the mint and have it turned 20 pieces. Anyhow, I could send nto gold coin. “‘One tenant’'said to me, ‘I don’t under- stand this gold bullion proposition.’ ‘‘He refused to take up the lease on the terms proposed for payment. I said, ‘You understand pounds sterling, then?’ “‘He said he did. So I replied: ‘We'll make it pounds sterling, or their equiva- lent.” ‘‘Very well,’ says he, and we madc the lease out that way. ‘‘Everybody knows what an English It is not liable to fluctuate t when it comes to determine the dif- ference in values of currency. It is very easy to give the equivalent of English soy- ereigns, 0 a bill of exchange would not be necessary.’’ PROCESSION VANDALS, Stable and Livery Men Sustain Damages by Malicious Persons. /»L—- Political Parades’ Offer the Most Attractive Opportunities for ~ {he Rowdies. Complaints have been received from livery men that during parades, etc., street rowdies have been mutilating car- riages and harness and maiming horses. It has become 50 bad that it is with re- luctance that some stablemen allow their horses to be taken in a parade at all. After every one of the recent turncuts it has been found that some valuable horse has been injured by being cut with a knife, or some carriage has been damaged by havingz the varnish scraped off iny big patches or the wood mutilated. At the last Fourth of July procession it was noticed that a horse ridden by one of the 2ids to the grand marshal had been injured in a similar manner, and &t the bicyele turnout last week a similar injury is said to have been inflicted upon a horse ridden by one of the 3 T8, J. W. Gregory, superintendent of the St. Bailey of Belfast, Ireland, who is on a tour | Ge ¥ " i3 orge's stable, on Bush street, just above o ;:Jgi:::’g-_ Elli:“i‘ge:; oung men st | Kearny, has had harness cut on several Ellis streets, on *True Liberty and How to Obtain 1t.” Erincess C. Long of Kentueky will sing & wos :z’e :peuld Tequest. Seats free to young 24 occasions, besides vehicles mutilated to greater or less degree. This line of injury to prevalent when the and roperty is more e 5" held under ik fldrelg Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. the auspices of any one of the political parties. : The greatest sufferer from the fiends’ acts is probably W. Michelson of 617 Ellis street, who has had several glass doors on his carriages broken, as if a cane had been bbed through the pane, and when he hired out a $/400 carrage for the first time to carry some politicians at a politi- cal ratification the els of that new car- riage were scored along one side asif it had been held against a buzzsaw. So annoying is this petty injury to stablemen that they are not over-anxious to hire out valuable horses or carriages at street parades, particularly wheu the pro- cession smacks of politics. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. Woman Suffragists Are Preparing for a Vigorous and Well-Organized Campaign. Interest in woman suffrage among the colored people, of the City is becoming very marked, Mrs. Anderson’s lectures drawing immense crowds. Last night at her adaress in the colorad Baptist church on Powell street the auditorium was thronged, the aisles being filled with men. Apparently the manifest sym- pathy of her audience bad some effect on the gifted lecturers’ eloquence, for she spoke as she has never spoken here before. In the Thiriy-fourth Assembly District sixteen precinct clubs are being formed, much interest being shown by all the ladies living in the vicinity. Yesterday after- noon an enthusiastic rally took place at 1630 Folsom street, at which several hun- dred iriends of the cause were present. Mrs. Sargent, Mrs. Long, Miss Sargent and other well.-known lady orators ad- dressed the assemblage on topics germain to the movement. Similar activity is be- ing evinced in the other districts, and every indication points to a spirited, well- organized campaign. WOKT CLOSE WEBSTER School Directors Table the Mat- ter on the Grand Jury’s Action. No Provision Had Been Made to Accommodate the Numerous Pupils Elsswhere. The Webster Primary School will not be closed, at least at this time, The School Directors met yesterday to consider a proposition tq close the schoal. When the hoard came together a group of lady schoolteachers occupied seats in the room and took a lively interest in the proceed- ings. The session was special, and was brought about by a petition signed by Charles A. Murdock, Charles H. Hawley, H. McElroy and H. C. Henderson. The petition proposed to discontinue and abol- ish the Webster Primary School; also to transfer Miss M, M. Murphy from the principalship of the Jefferson Primary School to the principalship of the Le Conte | Primary; to transfer Miss Agnes M. Man- | ning from the principalship of the Web- ster Primary School o the principalship of the Jefferson Primary School; and to 1053 Washington st. 131 San Pablo ave. allow the principal of the Jefferson Pri- mary School to retain the fifth-grade classes in that school without further orders. 3 Only one part of this programme re- ceived any attention, which was the por- tion relating to the closing of the Webster Primary School. Just before the board came together a communication referring tp the action proposed was received from the Grand Jury. That body did not wish to have the school discontinued. The pro- ceedings were opened by Direcior Mur- dock, who offered a resolution for closing the Webster Primary, and the Director spoke a little, saying that closing must come some time, because there is a gen- eral agreement that this is necessary, Now, however, he was inclined to con- sider the suggestion and recommendation from tbe Grand Jury, and he would there- fore move that the matter be tabled. Miss Manning became so interested dur- ing Director Murdock’s remarks that she began to speak. As Mr. Murdock moved to table the resolution Miss Manning and the other teachers of the group passed suddenly from gloom to hngp.mess. Director Carew spoke briefly. Then the motion made by Director Murdock was adopted unanimously and the board was declared adjourned. The communication from the Grand Jury, which was signed by Frank Maskey as foreman, is as follows: The Grand Jury has learned that it is the intention of your honorable body to condemn as unfic and unsafe for further school purposes the buildings now and beretofore in use by the Webster Primary School on Fifth street, near Market. The condition of sundry school buildings and adjacent premises has been called to the attsation of the Grand Jury since it has been in session, and visits of inspection have been made by jurors at various times to the buildings and premises reeuiring repairs, one of which was the Webster Primary School. The reports of visiting jurors'in regard to the said Webster Primary School build- ings are that they are in comparatively good repair, and in safe condition for use as heretofore for school purposes. We hayve been informed that between 800 and 900 children are in atteadance at the said school, and that the pupils live within the prescribed territorial limit assigned to that school. . Further, that there has been no ‘greater percentage of sickness among said pupils than in other schools, and that danger to life and limb from fire in the adjacent premises has been guarded against by pre- cautions taken to have several safe places of exit from said school premises. In view of the foregoing circumstances, and also the fact that no provision has been made in the appropriations asked —————————————— NEW TO-DAY. 1344 Market st. 2510 _Mission st. 140 Sixth st. 617 Kearny st. 1419 Polk st. 521 Montgomery ave. 333 Hayes st. for by your honorable body for the erec- tion of new and suitable buildings {o ac. commodate the punils of said Webster Primary School within the territorial limits assigned thereto and that no in- come or amount of revenue can be real- ized from the rental of the buildings or premises annexed thereto far the benefit of the School Department, we, the Grand Jury of the City and County of San Fran- cisco, do, most respectfully request that you, the Board of Education, do not de- clare the buildings of said Websier Primary School to be unfit and unsafe for school purposes. And we, the Grand Juy, do hereby most solemnly protest against said proposed action on your part as being unjust to the children heretofore attending said Webster Primary School, it not being in the public inferest that said school buildings shall be closed from further use or service to the School De- partment of this City and County at this time. e Crooked Township Lines Explained. ““There is a reason for most everything,’” said a Cumberland County man, when he was asked how in the world they came to have such a crpoked line between two towns in his county, ‘*‘there’s a reason for this crooked line. You see, some of our towns established, in pioneer times when land was abundant and people were few, had a big territory which was afterward sliced off to make new towns. It wassoi the case you mention and when the cu was made people along the line of division were of different minds as to which town they wunted to be in. 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