The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1896, Page 16

18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1896. RAYS FROM THE GRAND JURY SEARCHLIGHT The Story Told by P. B. Cornwall to the Wal- lace Jury. IT IS NOW OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE. - Two Years’ Contract for Public Lighting Awarded by the Supervisors. A VERY HIGH RATE PAID BY THE CITY. The Investigation Just Now Pending Will Be Certain to Develop Some Rather Peculiar Transactions. The Grand Jury did not meet yesterday, and, so far as can be ascertained, no ses- sion will be held until next Friday. But members of the jury are not idle, and others than P. B. Cornwall may be heard as witnesses at the next meeting. At last accounts Mr. Cornwall was in Seattle. No information bas reached the Grand Jury to raise a doubt about his atrendance. disclosures which Mr. Cornwall made under oath to che Wallace Grand Jury in 1892, more than ordinary interest is in- volved in the call for his presence at this time. P. B. Cornwall was then president of the Electric Light Company. The Grand Jury subpenaed the president, the vice-presi- dent and the manager, George Roe. One officer testified that hedid not know of any money having been paid to Chris- topher Buckley or any other person to in- fluence the Board of Supervisors. Ten minutes laier Mr. Cornwall, the president, was called. He testified that at first the company paid Buckley $250 a month. The compensation was finally in- creased until it reached $450. One single payment of $8000 was made. The custom was to draw a check for the monthly al- lowance to Buckley, and for Mr. Roe to leave it at Sutro & Co., brokers. Mr. Corn- wall’'s testimony was to the effect that $25,000 & year had been paid to regulate the Supervisors. He was so disgusted with the transactions that he sold out his stock in the corporation. He told the jury that these facts were known to all the directors of the company. The Grand Jury then resolved to bring in the manager, George Roe, and compel him to produce the books of the corpora- tion. Several subpenas were issued for him, but not one was served. For some reason Mr. Roe, who was known to be in or about the City, could not be found at his office. After some days’ delay and disgust an anonymous letter was received by a well- known member of the jury whoisnowa citizen of San Francisco, stating where Mr. Roe could be found at a certain hour of the day. This member of the jury had a subpena placed in the hands of Detective Robert Hogan, who is now connected with the District Attorney’s office. Mr. Roe was found at the place designated in the anonymous letter and servea in due form with the subpena by Detective Hogan. Manager Roe then asked for an inter- view with the member of the Grand Jury whio had charge of that line of the investi- gation. The interview was accorded and took place in secret at the residence of the member. In that secret conference Mr. Roe said he believed that the Supreme Court would decide that the Grand Jury was an illegal body. He said if he should respond, tell all he knew and produce the books and thereafter the jury should be adjudged an illegal body that all therob- bers and scalawags would be on his back. He asked for time, pledging his word that if the jury was sustained by the Supreme Court he would tell the whole story with- out reservation and produce the books to verify it. The member of the Grand Jury who then conducted that negotiation said yes- terday to a CaLL reporter that he assented to the arrangement suggested by Mr. Roe and waited for the Supreme Court to de- cide. The decision of the Supreme Court, as Mr. Roe anticipated, was against tHe legality of the Wallace Grand Jury and Mr. Roe never testified as a witness. He died subsequently, and so the inside de- tails as to particular methods of disburse- ment were never submitted. Mr. Cornwall may return to this City by the end of the present week. He will be heard as a witness by the Grand Jury soon after he shall have arrived. As the president, successively, of three electric lighting companies he ought to be able to tell something of the subject of street lighting in the City of San Francisco in all its aspects. He was first a president of the California Electric Light Company, next president of the Edison Electric Light and Power Com- pany, and is now the head of the Mutual Electric Light Company. His incumbency in these three positions, collectively, has covered a series of vears and the terms of office of successive Boards of Bupervisors. During all that period rumors derogatory to the Supervisors have been periodically believed. If there has been any attempt, successful or unsuccessful, by the Super- visors to raid the treasury of any electric light company in San Francisco he has NEW TO-DAY. uticury SUAP Purifies and Beautifies The Slkkin by restoring to healthy activity the Clogged, Ir= ritated, Inflamed, Slug= gish? Overworked Pores. Bold wfllhl‘h ‘world. o Dzve Awp Cun. Conr.s Sole Prope, Boston, U, S low to Purify and Beautify the Skin,” matled free. In view of the remarkable | certainly had good opportunities to know all the facts. Hence his coming is awaited with interest by private individuals as it is by the community at large. Some facts have come to the suriace in reference to the discrimination against the City as compared with the prices paid by private parties for lights. The pro- posals for bids for electric street-lighting included 622 masts, each mast being forty ieet high, each light to be 2000 candle- power, the lights to be kept burning from | one hour after sunset until half an hour before sunrise, with the exception of three nights when the moon is about full each month, lights being suspended the night of the full moon, the night following and the night preceding. There was also the exception that nine lamps in Chinatown, one lamp at the City Receiving Hospital and one lamp at the Folsom-street police station shall be lighted every night. Bidders were called upon to estimate the price of each lamp of 2000 candle- power per night. In the proposals for the gas-lighting contract the number of lamp- posts to be maintained wal 5100, with the option that the number might be 1n- creased, upon due authorization, not to exceed 5800 during the coutinuance of the contract. The burners of the various lamps must average a consumption of not | less than five cubic feet per hour. Under existing conditions the only com- petition which could be immediately of- fered in street lighting must come from a rival electric light company, namely, the Mutual Electric Light Company. But as the contracts awarded read for two years the rates that the Board of Supervisors have allowed to the lighting companies will stand for a long period. It is this period of two years in the contrac@which has excited so much indignation. There aré two reasons for indignation. | The first is'that machinery for the produc- tion of electric lights especially is being | continually improved, the result being that electric light can be provided at less cost one year hence than it can be at this time; and if there shall be any cheapening, which is inevitable, the public should have all the advantage which can be derived in that way. Moreover, it is absolutely cer- tain that nothing can occur to make the production of electric light any more ex- pensive at the end of twelve months than it is at this time. Consequently there is no reason in sight why the public interest can be said to have been conserved by a contract for two years. The second reason for indignation is that the rates which the Board of Supervisors have authorized in behalf of the City are much in excess of the rates charged to private parties for the same service. Some explanation may be needed on this point, but the facts are indisputable. The average time per night during which electric lights will burn for the illumina- tion of the City is ten and a half hours, taking in the long nights with the short | ones, The specifications are from one hour | after sunset till a nalf hour before sunrise. | Private parties have an all-night service, averaging twelve hours, taking long nights and shorts together. This means that on the City contract the contracting company gains one and a half hours every night, as compared with the service they are compelled to furnish to private parties, which is one full night saved by the com- pany every week on the City contract. At the rate of 55 cents per electric light per night the City pays $3 85 per week for ten and a half hours’ burning per night. Pri- vate parties get the electric service twelve hours per night for $3 per week. There is another way to figure this. If the City had the same period of nightly service that the private parties secure, the price paid per lamp per week by the City would be $4 36 at the present rates. The City has on an average seventy-three ana a half hours light per week and the private parties have eighty-four hours for less money. The matter of incandescent lights is smaller than thearc light matter, but the same rate of discriminations in the price paid by the City, compared with the same price paid by private citizens, appears. The rates are estimated by the 1000 watts, The rate charged to the City 1s 11 cents. Large concerns, like the Palace Hotel, pay. only between 5 and 6 cents per 1000 watts, or about half the price charged up against the City. The incandescent lights fur- nished to the City illuminate the new City Hall, an engine-house on Bush street and a truckhouse on O'Farrell street. The City is a much larger customer than private concerns, which get a much lower rate. What becomes of the excess in price paid by the City is undoubtedly an interesting question. There are those who assert that in this lies the explana- tion of the supply of coin which is used to “square’’ Supervisors and to keep up all prices oy shutting out competition as much as possible in the light-furnishing business. An odd feature js found in the fact that in outlying districts gas lamps are found burning almost under electric arc lights, where the gas lights do no practical good, but they are paid for by the City at a speci- fied rate. THE BONSS ARE VALID, Judge McKenna Overrules the Demurrer of the City of Santa Cruz. It Is Generally Thought That This Piactically Settles the Disputed Point. Judge McKenna yesterday overruled the aemurrer of the city of Santa Cruz in the suit brought by Robert H. Waite to recover the interest on certain- bonds. ‘While the defendants are given twenty days in which to amend their answer, the decision of the Circuit Court Judge is re- garded as practically settling the case. The action in question was brought by Waite to recover the interest on bonds issued by the city of Santa Crnz under the act of March, 1893, which authorizes any municipality other than those of the first ciass to refund their indebtedness. In 1894 Santa Cruz owea $360,000, and when ihe proposition io refund this was sub- mitted to the people it was carrled by a vote of nearly three to one. Bonds bearing 5 per cent interest were uconfin%ly issued for the amount namegd above. They were divided into ior%y classes of nine bonds each, In May of last year the interest on the first batch be- came due. The City Treasurer of Santa Cruz refused to pay the same, whereupon Waite instituted suit in the United States Circuit Court to recover the interest on the entire issue of $360,000, amounting to The defendants entered a demurrer ask- infi that the action be dismissed on the following grounds: First, the bonds were onl; certain funds. 'y payable out of Second, the issue was unconstitutional be- cause the act of 1893 was special or class legis- latiop. Tl?fld. illegal because the amount of $360,- 000 exceeded the bonded indebtedness which the city of Santa Cruz could legally contract. Fourth, the refunding act did not authorize the issaing of bonds. Fifth, the bonds were not issued by the city of Santa Cruz because they were ouly signed by the Mayor and City Clerk. Judge McKennaafter reviewing the case at considerable length said: The questions involved in all these proposi- tions are close ones,butI do not think the first, second, fourth and fifth can be sustained. * * = Ageinst the third proposition, to wit, that there was an excessive and illegal issue of bonds, the complaint urges the recital of the bonds. On the controversy hence arising a reat many cases have been cited, which I finve caretully studied. I hayve come to no confident couclusion. Indeed, the contention of the defendant is not with certainty pre- sented in the bill. Assuming that there was & limitation of the power of the city, depending upon the existence of certain conditions of fact, the knowledge of the takers of the bonds of the existence of such conditions is not clearly apparent from the bill, and I am there- fore reluctant to base a decision on & question of law, unless there can be no ambiguity about the facts. 4 . The court then read numerous decisions in which the same point was involved, with the aifference that the purchasers fully understood the conditions of the purchase. In conclusion Judge McKenna said: It is claimed by the defendant that a fair in- ference from these ayerments is that glnmu_fl kaew of the excess of the issue, and hence is not a bona-fide purchaser. But it certainly does not follow, and as there is an ambiguity, Idonotcare to base an opinion upon it, but will reserve it until the answer is filed. The dein‘\;.rxer ofthe defendant is therefore over- rule CALIFORNIA PRODUCTS. Important Communication Sent by Will E. Fisher to the Progressive Associations. Will E. Fisher, the well-known real- estate agent, sent an important communi- cation yesterday to the Chamber of Com- merce, the City Board of Trade, the Manu- facturers and Producers’ Association, the Merchants’ Association and the State Board of Trade. It was a lengthy document and pointed out the necessity of something being done to gromo:e the sale of California products and to induce immigration to this State. He proposed that the five bodies should combine to form an association with these two important objects in view, and to carry them into effect he suggested that exhibits of the products of the State should be maintained at the expense of the State in the principal centers of popu- lation in the East. The exhibits could be of the same character as those to be seen in the Board of Trade rooms here. The exhibits could be placed in the railroad depots in the large Eastern cities and a man placed in charge to take oraers for the products, thereby bringing trade to the prodwcers and at the same time promoting immigration. A JMITOR 15 MISSING, W. F. Brooks of the Emporium Has Not Shown Up for Two Days. In Debt to His Assistants—The Police Are Looking for the Fugitive. The management of the Emporium and also seventeen janitors employed mn the mammoth building are on a still but determined hunt for W. F. Brooks, who up to yesterday occupied the position of head janitor of the mammoth Market- street structure. Brooks is not only gone but he has taken with him the month’s wages of the aforesaid seventeen janitors earned by the sweat of their brow during the warm days of July. When the Emporium building was fin- ished there was great rivalry as to who would get the plum of head janitor, ana there were many aspirants for the place. Ordinanily a janitor's job is not a sinecure, but in the care of a vast building like the Empo- rium the man who directs the clean- ers of all the offices is a man of some im- gormnce, and has as much patronage to ispense as many a petty politician. Brooks won the prize, and for some time things ran smooihly among the Em- porium janitors. Brooks collected the wages for the men and when the joyful period of the month known as payday arrived he dispensed to each according to his earnings. Brooks turned the money over to his subordinates regularly every month until the payday for July, which was yesterday, came around. ~ Then je failed to materialize with the coin. His men came as usual for their stipend, but Brooks was missing, and a ia_arch of his usual haunts failed to locate im. Then the management of the place and the janitors became anxious ana started out determined to look for him. At his residence nothing was known of his whereabouts and the police were finally notified. August Feist, president of' the Em- porium Company, when asked last night about the story said: *“The head janitor has not shown up for two days and his as- sistants, to whom he owes money, are fearful that he has skipped. “The Emporium Company had a contract with Brooks, and is not, of course, re- sponsible for any of his misdeeds. The amount he owes cannot exceed a few hun- dred dollars. This is all the information I can give you about the matter.” ——— CONVICT-CUT STONE. The Stonecutters’ Union Is Indignant atthe Midwinter Fair Commissioners. The stonecutters are up in opposition to the Midwinter Monument which has been just finished and put in place on ground where the fair had been held. This op- position is not because of the monument itself, but because the stone was cut by convicts at the Folsom State Prison. The Stonecutters’ Union claims that the base and cap upon which tuestatue stands were shipped to this City at thesame time that the stone for the Grant monument came, but the opposition of the taades unions to the placing of the Grant stone in tne park had & chilling effect upon the Midwinter -Fair Commissioners, and as a result the stone was boxed up until the storm biew over, when it was resurrected and put in place. \ The vigilance of the stonecutters did not abate, however, and they watched the movements until the disrovery was made that the convict-dressed stone was put in place. Hence their indi-nation at the acts of the Midwinter Fair Commissioners. - ————— A Kearny-Street Rush. The largest crowd of people ever seen in a dry-goods house was yesterday at the creditors’ sale of J. Samuels, 104 Kearny street. But no wonder. Silk and dress goods were almost given away by the creditors of this firm, who are determined to realize. ————————— 5 Saved by a Woman. Otto H. Berge, a special officer on Broadway, swore to a complaint in Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday charging Fred Strand with ex- hibiting & deadly weapon in a rude and threatening manner. rge sald he was standizg in front of a store on his beat Satur- day might, when Strand came up to him and resented a revolver ai his head. A woman nocked the weapon out of Strand’s hand ar.d Strand made his escape. About a year ago Berge testified in a case against Strand and he believes that was why anted to shoof him, ——r e England owns exactly one-eleventh of the land surface of Africa. = SHYS THE INMATES oSTAY IND STARVE" Henry Grim Arraigns the City and County Hospital. ESCAPED FOR DEAR LIFE “I Was Locked Up in a Room and No One Paid Any At- tention to Me.” PATHETIC TALE OF A PARIAH. Dumped On the City by M:ndocino County and Always: Told, Like : Jee, to ““Move On.” Like Dickens’ poor Joe in “Bleak House” Henry Grim, the possible leper alleged insane and thought-to-be-only- feeble-minded 10-year-old boy, now held, strike me. I pulled the revolyer out and reaching over my left shoulder shot the panther in the head. He let go and tell to the ground. Thetwo big dogs jumped him and he whipped them both, badly disabled as he was. nen I got a cnance to use my six-shooter again I broke his backand tuat ended him, I never was sick a day in my life, and if I could get away from this City I would start tor the woods again, where I have lived much of my life and where I could make my way. I don’t know what is the matter with” Lena, but I am sure that neither father nor myself have leprosy. If ever I get back to Mendocino County I will sue Day for bringing me down here and the county for burning our house.” This is the story of the lad whom the authorities of Mendocino said was either a leper, insane or was feeble-minded, and must be shipped to San Francisco to be- come a burden upon the already over- burdened City. While the medical experts who have ex- amined the girl are convinced that she is vrobably suffering from leprosy, they are not able to aetermine just what is the matter with the boy. They think that he has neuresthenia, a nervous complaint, either inherited or brought en by one of a number of possible causes. After escaping from the City and County Hospital, he was arrested in the streetand taken to the City Receiving Hospital, where he is now confined. In all San Fran- cisco there is no place for the unfortunate lad. Neither hospital nor the Pesthouse will have him, and the Commissioners of Insanity find him too rational for an asy- lum. It is thought by the authorities that in return for Mendocino’s gratuitous gift of the boy to this City he might be sent back to that county with thanks. The family came from the State of Washington to Mendocino several years ago and have lived there ever since—long enough to have acquired a residence in that county. Young Grim’s father is probably now in that locality and can support himself and sou in the wooas with rifle and ax, if the | back in Humboldt County. HENRY GRIM. housed and detained at the Receiving Hospital, is told to ‘‘move on, and on.” He was first told to move on by Mendo- cino County—to move on to San Francisco and become a burden to this now over- burdened City. Itwasanadmirable thing for Deputy Sheriff Day of Mendocino to dump Henry Grim, his father and sister, Lena, out 3f a hack at the Centra! police station here. That was three weexs ago, The Grims have been living in the woods on the rorth fork of Little River, the father and son cutting tanbark and wood and the 14-year-old daughter keeping house in their forest shanty. The two male Grims are hunters, and Isrge and small game found in the bush eked out their commissary department. Finally word was passed the country around that the family were lepers. They had formerly lived in the Hawaiian Islands, and “this, coupled with the fact that the girl appeared to be afflicted with the dreadful plague, was enough to make them unfit for even the wild woods. The authorities had them examined by the county physician, and the best way to dis- E‘g“ of the lepers was to ship them to S8an Francisco. The story of their enforced journey thither may be best told by the lad Henry: “We were brought down to Ukiah,” | said he yesterday at the Receiving Hos- pital, “by Deputy Sheriff Day and taken aboard the train for this City. At the ferry landing here we were ail bundled into a hack, stagecoach or whatever you call it, by Day, and the driver was told to take us to this place. Father is lame, hay- ing cut his foot some time ago, and his iujury was not doctored right. He was not locked up and I believe he has gone back home. I forgot to tell you that the officers of Mendocino County burned our cabin and everything in it after we were taken away. “Next day my sister was sent to the Pesthouse and I was taken to the City and County Hospital. There I was locked up in a room and nearly starved. Nobody paid ax:{y attention to me, and if I had not climbed the fence and run away I would have died. Eyerybody is hungry there, and that is the reason they stay sick; they just stay in their wards and starve and starve, “If I was ont in the Mendocino woods at home witn my rifle I could kill enough of game to keep myself and half of that hos- pital in meat. ~Father and I have often taken our dogs and killed brown bear, deer and other game on Little River and I have often been dut alone in the forest with my dogs. When I could see the sun I could ueerm* course by it, And when night came on would build a fire, cook some of my game and sleep under a tree till morning.” “‘Once I was attacked by a panther. I was traveling along the trail about dusk when the animal sprang on my shoulders from the limb of a tree over my head. In a second he had clawed most of my clothing off my body and was trying to bite my tnroat—you know panthers alwavs cut the veins in the neck to drink the blood. 1 had my rifle in my left hand and my six-shooter in my belt, and yon bet went for that just as soon as I felt him zealous officials don’t burn fhe family out again. So Henry Grim, the possible leper, alleged insane and thought to be feeble- minded, is told like poor Joe in “'Bleak House,” to “move on.” AMONG THE SUFFRAGISTS Encouraging Reports of Success- ful Endeavors in the Couantry. Flower-Loving Friends of the Cause Still Pay Their Tribute of Lovely Bloom. Golden yellow, glowing orance and pale canary were the colors with which Flora decked the Woman Suffrage Bureau yes- terday. Cheery matigolds, eschscholtzias, primroses and daffodils were seen at every hand, making the offices seem as though flooded in sunshine. Among the throng of visitors were Mrs, Mary L. Rice, the gifted colored orator, and Mrs. Belle A. Mansfield of Greencas- tle, Ind., both ardent suffragists and tire- less workers for the cause. Mrs. Mans- field was particularly impressed by the enthusiastic support which woman suf- frage is receiving in this State. and seemed delighted to fearn that local opposition to the movement is practically dead. Mrs. J. F. Swiit also dropped in for a few mo- menis and spoke of the absorbing interest with which the subject of equal suffrage is being discussed in social gatherings of ladies all over the City. % Among the letters received by Miss Hay, the chairman, was one couched in glowing and _triumphant terms, stating that Madera County had been completely erganized for the cnmgnign, there being woman suffrage clubs in every town in the county. Miss Mills reported great things of San Luis Obispo County, and Mrs. Riddell wrote that the organization of San Mateo County would be completed by the end of the present week. The lemonade set recently mentioned in TrE CALL is to be placed on view at Van- derslice’s jewelry-store, 136 Sutter street, during the month of August. Ballots, however, will continue to be received at the bureau only. The voting will close on the first of October, if not prolonged, and the set will be donated to the person, male or female, who shall have received the largest number of votes. The contest is becoming yery spirited, votes and dimes pouring into the bureau’s coffers at a great rate. .- To be perfectly proportioned a man should twenty-eight pounds for every foot to his height. SWIMMING IN A SEA OF FIRE, Frank Darling’s Startling Experience at Long Bridge. HIS LAUNCH BLEW UP. The Explosion Spread Liquid Fire All Over the Water. ‘WAS SPONTANEQUS COMBUSTION As Darling Opened the Cabin Door the Shock Wrecked the Boat. One of the strangest accidents thati could happen a gasoline launch caused the wreck of the launch Henrietta last evening. Her owners, Frank Darling, Charles Darling and John Durney, had just se- cured a contract with a grocery firm and a laundry company to do their shipping, and Frank Darling rowed out to the launch where she lay off Long Bridge last evening to see that she was in good order. He made fast his boat and stepped below, but as he opened the cabin door there came an explosion that blew him backward into the water and wrecked the launch. Darling, though badly shaken up by the explosion, rose to the surface almostim- | mediately, only to find that the snrface of | the water had been covered with burning gasoline, and that he was swimming about in the midst of it. He dove at once and swam under water for some distance, but he Lad to come to the surface twice before he got outside the circle of flaming o1l. Then a boat, which attracted by the explosion had put off from shore, pickea him up. In the meantime the launch had been burning merrily and to save her the rescu- ing boat came alongside and knocked a hole in her. The explosion without doubt was caused by the gasoline tank. It was situated in the bow of the boat and had been filled only the day before. It is supposed that some leak allowed the oil to escape, and this generating gas in the cabin caused an explosion when the door was opened. Or | it may be the sun shining through the cabin windows had heated the gas gener- ated to such a degree that it was exploded just in time to catch the boatman as he opened the door. The cabin was blown to atoms and the launch was set on fire. The oil from the tank had been scattered through a radius of itwenty feet and was being slowly borne by the tide toward some valuable yachts lying near by, the little patches of greasy fluid blazing merrily as they danced along. The yachts were quickly moved out of harm’s way, however, and the flaming oil burned harmlessly until it went out. Darling was down at the wharf yester- day superintending the raising of his boat. He was considerably shaken up by the ex- plosion, but otherwise was not badly hurt. “That was the narrowest escape from death I ever had in my life,”” said he. “The thing occurred so suddenly that I didn’t know what struck me. “I had just made a contract with a Sixth-street grocery firm and a laundry company to do their shipping and was just going to get the boat in shape to start in immediately, but I no sooner had the cabin door half open than I received a terrible shock and knew no more until I found myself in the water, whose surface was one mass of burning oil and terribly hot. “I knew it would be folly to undertake to swim through it on the surface. but by a succession of short dives, and swimming under water, I got out in safety. I was rendered assistance just in time, for swim- ming with my clothes on weakened me and I couldn’t have gone much longer. “It was a clear case of spontaneous com- ‘ustion, and although I ordered the best quality of gasoline tank I was given a defective one and through this the acci- dent was caused, but I am glad to have es- caped with my life.” CEMETERY IN THE ROAD Western Addition Improvement Club Desires the Calvary Cemetery Wall Moved Back Five Feet. At a regular meeting last evening of the Western Addition Improvement Club at Coakley’s Hall on Geary street, near Cen- tral avenue, a communication was ordered to be forwarded to the Board of Super- visors complaining of the action of the Sutro Railroad Company, and asking them to compel said road to comply with the terms of its franchise in making the intersection c¢f Geary street and Central avenue its terminal point instead of Sutter street and Central avenue. It was stated by Colonel Coakley that last Friday, during a stoppage of the Sut- ter-street line, people were obliged to walk down to Geary street and pay an extra fare in order to get to town. A communication was also ordered to be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors, agpeallng to them to assist the good work of the Board of Health by allowing them a liberal appropriation, such as was asked by the Merchants’ Association, for more thorough food inspection and the estab- lishing of the four inspection stations for this purpose. A communication was ordered to be sent to the Board of Supervisors calling their attention to the wall inclosing the Calvary Cemetery on the south side of Geary street, between St. Joseph avenue and Central avenue, running west, It is claimed that this wall occupies five feet of the public thoroughfare and should be re- moved back to the surveyed line of the | cemetery property proper. The wall of the cemetery on Geary street lying west of Central avenue has recenily been :x.mvuii !:;ck fi\lrs feet. The remaining por- ion is the only obstruction i tigrn of Geary uyf-reet. o e he attention of Superintendent Ash- worth was also called to this matter, .:Ik:- ing him to direct his attention in his :g}lchl capacity toward remedying this —————— Snakes and Birds. Professor Vanderburgh, curator for the Cali fornia Academy of Sciences, delivered a lect, o last evening before its members, on “The Die: tribation of Reptiles in California. P Charles A. Keeler, the librarian of the society, spoke on “Th poke on “The Disiribution of Birds n Cali- that are éasy on the feet. Keep d the feet =) comf ortable and the head cool, make Iessons a pleasure and recess a time of de- light. Great sale this week of school shoes for Misses, Boys and Children. Also, un- approach- able bar- gains in Ladies’ Oxfords And Southern Ties. An opportunity like this comes te you seldom enough; when it does, grasp it. The Big Shoe Factory, 581-583 Market St. Store closes 6:30 P. M. Saturdays 10 P. M. LEVIN BROS Leading Grocers Special For This Week. s Our oice Eastern Sugar-cured Hams poo ...11¢ pound BUTTER. Choice Point Reyes Creamery Squares....35¢ Three squares for $1. FRUIT SYRUPS. Strawberry, Raspberry, Grenadine, Pin: apple. Vanilla, Lemon, etc.. WHISKY. Rich and mellow (5 and medicinal use. SOAP' egular price Housekeepers' Delight, 20 large cakes in Reguiar price 40c. family allon, 82 50 years), for PRESERVED GINGER. New arrival from Canton in heavy syrup, extra quality, large size. .. 3 Réguiar price 50¢: Children’s Brownie Luneh Baskets, 15¢. Telephone South 398 Send For Monthly Price List Free. Country orders promptly attended to. Freight paid by us when within 100 mites, 1324-1326 MARKET ST. Opposite Odd Fellows’ Hall AND 134 SIXTH S8T. & SAN FRAncimco. COR. 10tk AND WASEINGTON 575, 1 OAKLAND BRANCHES 1784-1736 SEVENTE STREET | School Books Retailed at=--- Wholesale Prices. No Second-fand Books. Everything New. Full Line of Books and Stationery. OPEN EVENINGS. (We succeed the Bancroft Company.) THE WHITAKER & RAY CO., Second floor. 728 Market St. Good furniture, quick prices—get it at’“Red Letter” Sale. No, beg pardon—see it at “Red Letter” Sale—get it if you want to. You're wg" ome at “Red Levwwsr” Sale CALIFORNIA FuLNITURE COMPANY N. P. CoLE & Co.) 7 Geary Street. THESUCCESS OF THE SEASOY THE LADIES GRILL ROOM —O0Ff THE— PALAGE HOTEL, DIRECT ENTRANCE FROM MARKEI ST. OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT, COSMOPOLITAN. Opposite U. S. Mint, 100 and 102 Fifth st., San Francisco, Cal.—The most select family hotel in the city. Board and room $1, 51 25 and 81 50 per day, according to room. Meals 25¢.” Rooms and'75¢ a day. Free coach to and from the hotel. Look for the coach besring the name of the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. WM. FAHEY, Proprietor, Wright's Indian Vegetable Pill :‘n -c::owleam by thousands ocwper:ns who ive used them for over forty years to cu RICK HEADACHS, GIDDINESS, CONSTIPA- TION, Torpid Liver, Weak Stomach, Pimples, purity the blood. B of Crosoma's i s Wi i diet, of Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.