The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1897, Page 30

2 O HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, DAY, JANUARY 24, 1897 Whete San Surpasses All the Other Big Cities of the Union !0 LONG as human nature pre- serves its distinctiveness, so long 3 will comparisons continue to be made. Individuals compare their condi- tions, and enjoy satisfaction in contem- plating their enkanced financial or social standing resulting from the adoption of some method peculiar to themselves. Nations exercise their pride in the display of government affording special ad- vantages and privileges, and communities forming a town or City are mnot exempt from the rule, the point dwelt upon by each of the communities being its pos- session of one or more desirgble condi- tions to perfect living not possessed by other organized communities. he science of municipal government is now very close to being an exact one. 'hat it is not so everywhere applied is due to one of two reasons—either the badly governed community is lacking in common knowledge, or good government is rendered impossible by the existence of a loose system permitting the undue as- sumption of power by the dishonest por- tion of the community. This latter con- dition is rendered easier of attainment in a republic ' than under a more concen- trated form of government, for the reason that the rights of the individual are too often consicered by the many as being above the rights of the state, 1t is largely due to this reason that the science of mu- government has not reached that perfection in this country which it has at- ined abroad. The element of cupidity forms a large part of most men, and in the political “iboss” it is markedly predominant. Its presence is the lever moving the taought- less masses with a power against which patriotic unselfishness has 100 often striven in vain, and its power will continue until the majority of those whose privilege it is to make the Government learn by experience that their interests are en- hanced and their necess ily and better met by the application of the true principle that the rights of the state are above the rights of the indi- vi 1—in other words, the conveniences and comforts of the many may not be disregarded in order to increase the spe- cial enjoyments of the few. There is no trampling upon individual rights in the exercise of suct a principle. 1n every c the numerical majority of the voters gen- erally representstbe poor and measurably ignorant, if not the vicious and depraved. From this, it has been thought that “these classes holding the msjority ot the votes, and consequently choosing the rulers, the resulting bad government is not surpris- ing. But such argument is specious. The lust of power and wealth is quite as cor- rupting as poverty and ignorance, and moreover is of greater potency for evil, because of its intelligence. If two-thirds of the voting population of any large city were a proletariat mob, without political rights or interests, it would not be long before fierce rivals for power would be at work organizing them into factional fights. Bad government is always due to organ- ization on the pariof its supporters and to corresponding lack of organization among those honestly desirous of good government. Without organization any kind of government is impossible. Those methods and practices which ave secured success in administration ot pri- vate business interests and enterprises are equally if not more powerfully potent in the conduct of municipal affairs. The greatest merchants known to the com- mercial world recognize and strictly act upon one undeviating principle: One man at the head of each branch or depart- ment of the ess, and every one of these responsible to the chief head of all. On the other side of the wateris a city of 500,000 inhabitants, compactly built, covering about 9000 acres. It isa great manufacturing city. It makes and sells its own gas, collects and sells its water supply, builds its own street railroads, and bas made a closer approach to successful solution of the sewage problem than has been uccompiished elsewhere. It bas vprovided for its citi zens spacious and beautiful parks; splendid swimming and Turkish baths at less than cost; magnificent free libraries ies more speed- | | templating the change of his business Francisco {and museums, scliools; and is, above all, a business city run by business men upon business prin- | { ciples with a very low rate of taxation. | Its gasis sold ac a price of 50 cents per | 1000 feet, and the cost of water to the con- art_galleries and art| | | samer is almost nothing. This great city | s practically free from debt and is the | owner of immense values in realty andl buildi Its citizens enjoy bemefits un- known to those of other communities, | benefits possible only under a well-admin- | | istered municipality. No socialist bas | ever been elected to its Courcils. It is the | city of Birmingham, England. That such a condition of affairs is to be desired goes without argument. It may not prove uninteresting to briefly examine conditions as now exist in the principal cities and see which one promises the | speediest realization of good municipal government. The tabie herewith presented has been prepared from data furnished by the United States Bureau of Statistics in the report of the last census and contains some figures which are worthy of atten- | tion, 1Itis a statement showing the popu- lation and the public debts of the fifteen | largest cities in the United States and also | the assessed valuation of property, the percentage such assessed valuation bears to the actual value, the rate of taxation in each city, the actual value of city prop- erty, the rate of taxation based upon ectual values, the amount of wealth per capita and the amount of debt per capita in the respective cities. No table has ever been published until now giving the data | embraced in the last_four columns of this table. The enormous total of actual | wealth shown by New York is not, as a matter of fact, the correct showing. A { great portion is actually owned by non- residents, but is held by New York capi- talists under their control for purely spec- ulative purposes. The per capita wealth— obtained in all cases by dividing the actual value of property by the population—is, | therefore, misleading. A similarcondition in lesser degree obtains in Philadelphia and Boston, while in Washington the | holdings of the General Government are embraced in the total of actual property values. Notwithstanding these facts, the amount of per capita debt holds as against | the taxpayer, and 1t is consoiing to the city taxpayer out here on the far Pacific Coast to learn from this reliable data that while his Eastern brother may be bathing | in the financial sunshine of fictitious | wealth he has to rustle with exceeding energy to meet the payment of a heavy per capita debt, a labor which the Western | man is exempted from. Among these giants of municipal growth San Francisco stands proven the most desirable of all for the man who owns his own home, cr is engaged in | business transactions necessitating the ownership of property. The table shows that the individual San Franciscan holds | $1303 of the wealth of his City, and is | cailed upon to meetbut 67 cents and 7 mills of the City debt. A homely adage, but an exceedingly trite one, has it that “the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof.”” That form and practice of municipal adminis- tration which can confer upon the indi- | vidual citizens of its commuinity so splen- did a condition of financial affairs as is | here exhibited stands above criticism. Ivisa condition which must attract the | attention of every thoughtful man con- location irom a place where a per capita city debt of $25 to $80 stands like a menac- ing specter that will not down, to some other community where such harassment is impossible. 1t might be said by the uninformed that the paltry amount of San Francisco’s per capita debt was due to an absence of pub- lic works and enterprises such asin this modern age mark the presence of high- class civilization. Only the ignorant could entertain sucherroneous imaginings. But | | very few cities equal San Francisco in | matter of public institutions. Her parks, | her museums, her art schools ana gal- leries, her baths and other affairs devised | and maintained for the education and en- | | tertainment of her citizens are pre-emi- | Ineml)’ first class and modern. They are i | the Golden Gate. | are made 10 aid in the betterment of his | | tection to the Pacific Coast, and the re- | sand huge leviathans of the deep coming | western worlds, and all loading and un- as free to use by the general public as are any similar institutions elsewhere, in fact in many respects freer. The magnificent Free Public Library, carrving 100,000 bound volumes of the best literature of the world, has 1500 daily readers and over 20,000 borrowers, who take to their homes to read at leisure the volumes they de- sire. This without any price or fee what- | ever. The schoolsand higher institutions of learning of San Francisco are noted throughout the world for their high stan- dard of excellence. Astronomy and nat- ural physics have their greatest temples at The San Francisco millionaire has long been a thing of common talk. He is a dif- ferent creature from those of this class elsewhere, He keeps in touch with his fellow-citizen, and while ha may lack some of the traits which mark the one who looks toward Bastern Atlantic shores for guidance in the etiquette of the bac- carat table and the cut of knee breeches, he prefers the old-fashioned ways and customs of good old-fashioned "49ers, and Goes not falter when appeals to his purse poorer fellows. No greater, widespread | philanthropy has ever been witnessed than that practiced by the California mil: lionaire. High above all other things San Fran- | cisco is emphatically a business city, run by business men upon business principles. She can with pardonable pride point to a lesser number of business failures and foreclosures than can any other city of her size. And she is not yet out of swaddling clothes. The business of the Gélden Gate isin its infancy. For a long time the fair harbor of San Francisco has been antagonized by the selfish policy of a powerful corporation which by sharp practices obtained control of rights of way for land iransportation leading from the Golden Gate to the East- err States, and which in the pursuit of its grasping policy bas done all that cupidity | and greed could do to thwart enterprise | and deter industry by the imposition of inhibitory rates. Recently the National Congress has interposed its rightful pro- straint which has heretofore impeded manufacturing and commercial industries will shortly cease to be. Then will dawn i the bright morning of the golden land. | With the commerce ot half the world dis- i embarking at her wharves, with other and adequate railroads leading to the interior of the continent and to the shores of the | Atlantic, with rates of fairness making it | both possible and profitable to ship to the distant points the countless products of the favorea Pacific Slope, San Francisco will swiftly assume her regal rights as the greatest commeicial center. Fifty vears from now the maritime | trade of San Krancisco will outrank that of any other city of the world. The boy of 10 years, qf to-day, who may live to | witness the great City of 1947, will view a | splendid metropoiis of immense area; a | city of magnificent proportions, where | grand architectural palaces of trade will | iine broad and busy thoroughfares. He will be able to stand upon some eminence overlooking a noble bay and count a thou- and going through the sunset gate, each laden with the riches of the eastern and loading their Tespective cargoes at the great City’s docks. A dozen lines of steel highways will center at the City’s gates, whence their smooth-worn rails will spread north, east and south, four-tracked and occupied. It may, to the one who deals only in the | dull prosaic, seem too much of a romance to entertain such views as these; but to him who studies the causes leading to the rise and growth of cities, to him who will in fair candor of spirit examine into the conditions which encompass San Fran- cisco, and from such examination frame unbiased deductions, there will be no hesitation in arriving at the conclusion that all which has been said in this arti- cle is not only possible, it is highly prob- able. The histories of the greatest com- mercial cities of the globe had less favor- able promises than has San Francisco. F. M. Crosg, D.Sc. MUNICIPAL STATISTICS. Crrr. | | | i B g < B 3 = = |=<8| 28| € s g2 |2=8] = ° - H 1$28| 22| § 5 3 322 35| < £ o4 S0 23 = = 5 Rl B | s g :agl B8 z =] : g3 SuleE gz sm| B g £z E B 2 o [T 1,250,000 €50.0L0 150,000/ 1,962,554 $109.885,500| $1,612,710,740/ 1,750,000, 17, 24/347.6 61356, 3670.000| 2,113,000/ 5 1 / 50| 144000.000| 25,6 0.000 66. 48,000,000 151,846,200 50| $1 646,028,655 $370.919,007 $2,016,947.66 | .75/31.91| $1,027| $66.02 8,950 lozaossaz) “sonTrous T 2amatsens| 10| 'a7gl 139|987 5| B18827,549| .H0| 185 658| 24.70 70| 341,026'960] . 1401 b24, 31.76 )00 18| 493| :a'87 6 -9| 1,938 8614 1 64/ '478| 65, ) 39| 94z 062 5| 85| 3 31,8-0 10| b 82l 718 40,037,913 Not'given b51 240,000,000} .60 3 923 59,000.000| (40| 125 87 200.710,140{.3535| 1.10| 338 CHRISTIAN OR ROMAN? uman Remains Dug Out of the Gravel in England. An interesting discovery has been made near Horncastle, Engiand, says a corre- spondent. In the outskirts of the tdwn Mr. G. W. Smith, seedsman and greengroce: was employing a laborer to dig gravel on his premises. About two feet below the surface the man’s “‘pick’ struck against something hard, which, on investigation, proved to be a leaden coffin. It wasem- bedded in the gravel and proved to be in a fairly good state of preservation. The sides and ends, however, had lost cohe- sion between themselves and the lid, the latter being also broken in the process of uncovering it. Owing to this want of co- hesion the upper soil hud fallen in and filled the interior. This was carefully re- moved when there was disclosed to view a perfect skeleton, since pronounced by medical experts to be thatof a female. The coffin was five feet two inches in Jength, the body, of course, being rather shorter. Last week, as the gravel digging was continued, a second leaden cotfin was exhumed about a yard to the north of the former. This was in very much the same condition, the lid only being rather more broken in extricating it. This coffin was 5 feet 7 inches in length. The bones were larger, and are vronounced to be those of a male. Some twenty-four years ago three leaden cof- fins were found within 100 yards of the same site while workmen were digging with a view to laying the foundation of a nonconformist chapel. No care was taken of these, and they wera dispozed of as old lead. Several Roman cinerary urns | have been dug up at different times in | this locality, as well as many Roman | coins and other antiguities. The main | question}is, Were these Jead coffins Romsn or Christian? On the same side of the | fown there is a_publie recreation ground ”clhed the *‘Wong"—an old Saxon word | for *field.”” Were they Saxons? From | their lying east and west the correspond- | ent is inclined to consider them Christian. | Their somewhat rude construction, as | well as the absence of any kind of inserip- | | tion, also incline him to suppose that they | were originally inner “shells,”” inclosed in | a wooden exterior, but no trace of de- cayed wood was perceptible.—Boston | Herald. . THE SEEDS IN A PUMPRIN. How a Dream Made Thomas Rambo a Winning Guesser, Several months ago, when pumpkins were ripe, William Wint, proprietor of the saloon at 150 Penn avenue, bought a large yellow one with green stripesand placed a box alongside of it for gusseses as to the number ot seeds it contained. The fruit of the cornfield was not to be cut until December 26, and then the per- son who guessed the correct number or nearest to it was to receive the contents of the box. Mauny of the patrons of the house put 2 number of guesses in the box, each costing 5 cents, and when the box was opened there was $6 €5 in sands, one as high as 6000 and some as low as 234. When the pumpkin was cut | on Saturday evening in the presence of large crowd and the seeds taken out there were just 264 in it. Thomas Rambo, the veteran blacksmith, residing at 18 South Second street, was the nearest guesser, his number being 263, and he took the contents of the bux. Mr. Rambo had other guesses in the box lower than the winning one, but sev- eral nights before the cutting of the pump- kin he had a dream in wh%ch he saw five men counting ibe seeds in the same pump- kin and overheard them say 263 would win. The next morning he went to the saloon and place.i that numberin the box. Mr. Rambo said to a Times reporter that he did not believe in dreams or spooks, but in this case his dream was verified,— Reading Times. ———— How Animals Make Their Toilets. Cats, large and small, make the most l:are!u{ toilets of any class of animals, excepting sorae of the opossums. The lions and tigers wash themselves in ex- actly the same manner as the cat, wetting the dark, indiarubber-like ball of the fore- foot and’ ihe toe and passing it over the face and behind the ears. The foot is thus at the same time a face-sponge and brush, and the rongh tongue combs the rest of the body. Haresalso use their feet to wash their faces, and the hare's Rstrriastaspesiasiangoeirsiaeirsiniontasiesrntaotesniantesestantasfesedsfanianfraririasiesiesefrsfoniesdeageorepsiesiesiesfesrssiosio & FOURTH WEEK OF CLEARING SALE (INCORPORATED] SAN FRANCISCO. SdelBoon 937-945 Market Street, NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. : Every “SPECIAL.” Space-=Just SEe> Item We Quote Here Counts---No Extra Words---No Waste of Cfi/ (INCORPORATED] 987-945 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO. Prices. “SPECIAL.” SPECIAL NO. II. Tetlow’s Swan'’s Down Powde On Sale Special at 8 Cents Box. See our window display. ’Tis NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAI yards long and 45 inches wide, ecrn_o1ly. They sciually sold lust week 4t 75c. T0 CL08€........ THESE REDUCTION NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTALNS yards by 52 inches. We will sell Pair of the §1 25 ones at 14 {7 NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS. 814 and 4 yards long by 58 inches wide, white or «cru. To advercise, the $150 10t has been mursed to.... .. SEE OUR WINDOW D IRISH POINT CURTAIN long by 50 inches; only & few pair of each pattern: very cho ce: see our window; were 38 50 and $10. To close IRTSH POINT CURTAINS, 314 yards long, in white or ecrn, a few rich patterns of our 812 50 and $18 grade t0 go on sale at $7 50 and. $ k3 < < b < <+ = < b < b < <+ + < < < < < < & < < < & b3 < < < <+ < <+ < < < < < < < < < < & < < < <= 5 = < < < & = ONLY 3 BOXES TO A CUSTOMER. | BRI T R AT LACE CURTAINS. ter than an advertisement argument. S ARE BONA FIDE $10 Stron r. b: NOTIONS. Oceans of Notions at Choppy prices. | 600 yards of TORCHON LACE, 214 | to3 incaes wide, to be closed | = | 4° out to-morrow out. = Yard bet- SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIB- BON, Nos. 4 and 5, all puresiik, tan, ‘grav, gobelin, lignt, me- dium and dark greens, pink, 59C| it bioe. ‘sappbire cardinal, e terra cotta, garnet, Navy, eic. KC Fair the 8¢ and 10c¢ ribbo To- morrow at. Yard FANCY MESH VEILL 14 10(3 inches wide, chenille dot, no 98° black. Toclearat.. R Pair | OPENWORK SCRIM, for fancy work, 18 inches wide, the 151 kind.” To adverdise at & LINEN SPLASHERS, fringed, plain or drawn worked, prettily stamped, the 15¢ and 20c ones. | Tomorrow at. % 10¢ Yard 10¢ Each PLAY FOR | S T oLl t DRESS GOODS bt | NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAL 98| .. = e T yardalong and 541060 inches w 128 | strIpED ROUCLE sUiITINGS. ‘An honest reduction from $2 50 to. Pair Our 50c line will be placed on the counters to-morrow at 29c a - e, & SUEICELY. SILWOOL Cloths IRISH POINT LACE CURTAINS, 3 nches wide, in black, navy ‘)90 rds long b 48 inches wid were .00 rows, olive and myrue. o seliing for $3; a grand curtain. 1 a Special,. vk Yard close...... Pair 6:2 | 65c SERG in black or navy Dbiue, 50 inches wide and guar- A hummer anteed all wool. t0-morrow a; Yard BEIGE _ SUITINGS, fabric, in_crays, fancy mixtures. MOFTOW &5...... b. 38-inch O sale "o 2D Yard Pair iStrong buying makes strong selling. i [5C,00/00,0C0 000000000 C0COCIO00 0000 CIOIO00I00 000 COCOCON ¢ values for the asking. CLOAKS. The wonder is in the style and quality. LADIES DOUBLE CA PES, aswell garment of tan kersey cloth, top cepe and collar inlaid ~ with velvet, edged all around wm$5 00 were $10, now to close. .. Esch BLACK BOUCLE CAPES, 24 inches long and 135-inch sweep, | inibec, fur stound collar ad @ Q.50 down front, all silk lined: a@)O— woaderfal garment for.... Each BIGH-GRADE NOVELTY JACKETS RE- DUCED FOR ¢ LIZARAN CE— [he entire iine of $25, $27 50 up to $4) Jackets are w priced $16 50, $1550 up to $27. Cail and s2e them. THE BAZAAR. SHES — A good MAIL ORDER. If you are out of town order by mail. The best of attention. Send for samples and informa= tion. Misses” Black Fine Maco Yarn, ribbed and seamless, Furnishing Goods. Perhaps that cold was caused by band ofkersey cloth: these were' % s $7'50, cloartng sale price....... Lach :sl;mwronz underwear. Ours LADIES' PLUSH CAP! the AL e Bandsomest cups for e money o | MISSY ARRBONToE A xara fur on collar and iront: LL\Q!E$7— het “eas.lron” Stocking, wide or 50 narrow ribbed, sizes 6 Lo 914 wore 36c. Koduced to advertiseat... Pair | LADIES’ CORSETS, covered with Fancy Figured Black Sateen, closely boned £ (0 and long walst, all sizes, a special loz ©) reduced toclose. Ask for them at.... Pair LADIES’ ALL-WOOL UX fine Saxony yarn, Jers shaped, c:ochet silk_edge, white or gray. Clearing sale price. Sult CHILDREN'S WHITE WOOL UNION SUITS, large sizes, 5,7 and 8, for ages 7 shaped. These were actually marked $1 25 to 17! 10-mOrrow a CLOTHES BRU 98¢ = stiff brash to be sold te-morrow o INFA. NATURAL GRAY WOOL Lot - Tgcl MIXED VESTS - Perhaps baby needs X ome under A fine_soft Swiss £C WIRE SOAP DISHES—For any ]‘)IC ?'ll:ubed garment, insizes 1 and 2, to 30 kind of *good” housekeeper, to 1 &2 De ciosed out at, 5 % Esach close at. . " Eacn ekt WE CLAIM THE BEST HOSIERY ACCOUN 5e VALUES IN THE CITY. inches, out. Each | GENTS' FULLLAUND - RED SHIRTS, T broldered edge on bosom. 10 g0 10-MOTTOW &k GENTS' DERW ments, 10 be closed out this we grand garment for these An opgortanity to buy cheap. Price..Garment R S A P B e SPECIAL NO. L ! ; SPECIAL NO. lil ;: Bleached Sheeting. | Children’s Handkercliefs. % w"":"“&g.;:"",fi".', ::do-:;lr:e‘e‘slsy;!“ga. Tehbi i || A printea borcer, ench hem. Nt | _3. 15 Cents Yard. I customer. Spécial n;: Not more than § yards o a customer. | 21 Cents Each. | i’ COME EARLY FOR THESE SPECIALS COME EARLY FOR THESE SPECI;\L)‘ "2: | | | SPECIAL NO. IV. Cotton Hose. high-spliced heels and toes, sizes Fliato9 Special To-morrow 12} Cents Pair. Lhey SAY 1S SO. 10N SUITS, ribhed and WHAT WE $] 25 to 12 years Jersey ribbod and s fosfosfosfscfs e dssfodfssfssfusts s 75° suit each, The entirelot d back aud front, & neat em- The $1 ~WOOL RIBBF AR, the natural ga cod days. pisdudpdid THE BARBERS ALL FAVOR THE BILL The Measure to Have Bar- bers Appointed Is Popular. Officers of the Organizations of the Craft Speak With Empbhasis. They Declare Strongly and Unani. mously Against Fivz-Cent Skops and Low-Pric:d Work. There is much interest concerning the bill which has been introduced into the Senate by General John H. Dickinson to provide that it shall be unlawful for any person who is not now a practicing barber in this State to commence such prastice without a certificate from a board of ex- aminers to be appointed by the Governor. Unlike the majority of acts which make their appearance in Sacramento, thisone seems to have uo visible opposition on the part of those principally concerned. Conrad Troall, at 669 Clay street, who is secretary of the Barbers’ Protective Union, speaking for the craft yesterday, : “This bill meets with the indorse- ment of the barbers not only of this City, but of the State, and, I might add, of the Pacific Coast. “The question has been discussed at our meetings, and it was eventually decided to consult with General Dickinson, as a lawyer and a legislator, to see what could be done to prevent scab 5-cent shops, and at the same time keep the profession up to a standard of respectability and living wages. Ouc of this consultation the pres- ent bill has resulted.” 1 8. Fuchs, at 325 Grant avenue, who is the employment secretary of the Barbers’- Association of the Pacific Coast and vice- president of the Barbers’ Protective Union, spoke in a similar strain. He was very pronounced in his opposition to the existence of and the class of work done at the “Barbers' Coilege” at 1515 Howard street, where m+n and women are turned out as full-fledged barbers at short notice. “This place,” he said, “is dragging down our eraft, In it men, boys and girls are taken in indiscriminately if they will put upa certain sum of money and are turned out full-fledged barbers after a few weeks' work to make room for others who enter on the same terms. The result of this is that those so turned out of this "college consider themselves barbers until they get intoa first-class shop. “They cannot hold positions in first- class shops. They are discharged, and the n xt thing they do is to open a 5-cent shop for themseives or go to work for one of this class aiready established. “All of this has not only injured our business, but it has brought it down to the very dust, and a decent living is not left for good workmen. Consequently ihe bill now introduced has been sanctioned by the association of the coast, and I hope foot is so suitable for a brush that it is generally used to apply the “‘paint’’ to the face Tor the stage.—Spare Moments, —_——————— FINE half-tone printing by skilled men and it. Some of the guesses ran up:to thou- modern machinery. Mysell-Rollins, 22 Clay.* it will pass and become a law.” A. J. Stein of 604 Montgomery street and other barbers also favor the bill upon the same lines as those expressed by the two former speakers. At the ‘‘Barbers’ College,” at 1515 How- 1 ard street, W. 8. Budlong and W. H. Dun- | nagan, the proprietors, were seen. They were in favor of the bill, with but one single exception, and that was that the term of two years’ service asan apprentice is too long. Barbers say that in_the so-called Barber College five out of fourteen apprentices are women, and they shave and cut the | hair of all 'who apply, without charge, to get practice, and by doing the work for nothing the aporentices find subjects to operate on. THE MECHANIOS' LI LIBRARY. Members Must Soon Choose Seven Di- rectors From Fifteen Nominees. A new board of seven directors for the Mechanics’ Institute Library is to be elected on February 23, the last Tuesday of the month. The voting will be done by those of the 4300 members that may care to present themselves at the library on thatday. There are fifteen nominees from which the seven will be chosen bv what is known as a preference system. Each member in- dicates on his ballot his first, second and succeeding ‘choices for one place. The ballots are then classified and counted, and first-cholce men not having a certain percent of the total number of votes cast are eliminated until the seven highest are determined in conjunction with the sec- ond-choice votes. Four of the nominees—Denicke, Cole, Formhals and Kendrick—are members of the present board. Some of the members of the library particularly conversant with the successful conduct of affairs in the past are very desirous that Mr. Den- icke be re-elected, and are worrying lest in the scattering of votes among the many candidates the library should lose the services of one of its most energetic workers. Following are the nominees and the business interests they represent: R. P. Clement, lawyer, Mills buiiding; Ernest A. Denicke, Oakland Preserving_Com- pany, 320 Sansome street; Ferdinand Form- Dhals, chemist, 1609 Dupont street; Rodney Kendrick, manager Washington Mill Com- pany, 10 Market street; I A. Macdonald, con- tractor, 2510 Sacramento street; R. W.Neal ublisher, 320 California street: Charles M Plum Jr., first vice-nres'dent Charles ) Plum &' Company Upholstery ~Compan: 1301 Market street: E. H. Cole, man 40 New Mintgomery = street; . Doolan. architec, 1424 Mission sireet: Thomas Houseworth, photographer, 2019 Sacramento street ; Dr. C. A. Kern, chem ist, United States Appraisers’ Office; John Mc- Laren, Superintendent Golden Gate Park: L. E. Phillips, attorney-at-law, Supreme Court manufacturer surveving instruments, 439 Montgomery street; Horace Wilson, insutance, 421 California street. s 20 v S R AR BOTH OLASSES VIOTORIOUS. Polytechnic Juniors Won at Baseball and Middles at Football. Two rival classes of the Polyvtechnic High School played baseball and football at Central Park yesterday afternoon be- fore an enthusiastic crowd of youthful spectators. The baseball game resulted in a victory for the Junior Class. The score was 12 to 7. In the first inning the Junior Class made five runs, while the Middle Ciass was shut out. Among the noticeable fea- tures of the maich were the playing of Duden of the Middle team and the pitch- ing of Dorothy of the Junior nine. In the football match the Middle Class men retrieved themselves and defeated their rivals by a score of 14 to 0. Three touchdowns were made but no goals were kicked and Keene of the Junior team was compelled to score a salety, giving the Junior eleven two points. Two of the touchdowns were made by Duden, who, Dy the way. is one of the members of the famous little Y. M. C. A. team. and one was made by Natban. 1In individual play- ing Duden and Hammer, haltbacks for the Middle Class, and Holcombe, guard for the Junior Class, did creditable work. ‘The officials were: Bishop. referee; Brickett, umpire; Pope and Police Ser- geant Michael Josepb Conboy, linesmen. —_——————————— JEWELRY store, 5 and 7 Third street, removed to 803 Kearny street. building, 305 Larkin sireet; John C. Sala, | NO DISCIPLINE The Bar Association Will Kindly Give Them Free Rein. It Was Thus Decided at a Final Meeting Held Yester- day. Other Revisions A so Male in the Proposeé Amendment for Judicial Reform. The San Francisco Bar Association held its fina! meeting for the revision of its proposed constitutional amendment for judicial reform yesterday afternoon. Thers was a full attendance, and the conierence was spirited throughout. Section 13 was taken up first. It de- fines the jurisdiction and powers of the Superior Courts and does not differ ma- terially from the present law. One im- portant item provides that injunctions and writs of prohibition may be issued and served on lezal holidays and non- judicial days. The section was adopted after the elimination of a few redundant | expressions. From section 14 the following clause was cast out in its entirety: The Judges of the Superior Court, residing | or noiding sessions of the court within any | county in which more than two sessions of the court shall be neld at the same time, shatl by secret ballot choose from their own number & presiding Judge, who shall continue to pre- | side duriag his erm of oftics as Judge of the | caurt. For the clause stricken out the follow- ing substitute, sent in by Judge Seawell, was inserted : In every county where there are more than two Judges of the Superior Court for such county, they shall choose from their own number & presiding Judge, who may be Te- moved at their pieasure. The next section was adopted as recom- mended by the committee. It reads as follows: The jurisdietion of the Supreme Court and of the District Courts of Appeal, the Judges of the Superior Courts and tne Justices and Judges of all the other courts of record, ex- cepting those hereinafter designated as trustees of the bar, may be removed by con- | current resolution of both houses of the Legis- lature, adopted by a two-thirds vote of each house; but no removal shail be made by vir- tue of this section unless the cause tnereof and the votes by ayes and noes be entered on the journal, nor uniess the pirty Complained of Las been served with a copy of the com- plaintagainst him and had an gpportunity of eing heard in his delense. Trustees of the bar and all other judicial offices within this State may be removed in the manner herein- atter provided. Sections 16 to 37 inclusive were consid- ered as a whole, they relating generally to the same subject—the creation of a court of discipline. In their considera- tion a breezy debate ensued. It was this proposed court of discipline that came under the condemnation of Judge Van R. Paterson in the columns of THe CALL a few days ago. Attorney William J. Herrin began the debate by moving that the portion relat- ling to the establishment of a court of | FOR JUDGES discipline for the judiciary, as well as the bar be stricken out. Attorney John A Wright didn’t like this proposition a little bit, and made a lengthy speech 1n favor of a disciphinary court fof the ermine. He was followed by Dr, Edward R. Taylor, Attorneys Wil- nham H. Fifield, George A. Rankin and others, who as strongly opposed so exten= sive a scope of power for the proposed court. The aftermath of the debate was mani- fest in the result of a vote against giving the proposed tribunal power to discipline the judiciary. Next Monday a committee of four wiil meet and draft the proposed amendment as revised, when it will be taken to Sacra- mento and laid berore the Judiciary Com- mitiee of the Legislature. Judge R.Y. 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