The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 4, 1897, Page 10

— e R " Archb shop Riordan Sends in a Sub. . boulevard pay-office, where be deposits ) iy {"im@ ‘{‘.@L Ll \ : " ¥ i et Lt i a1 =t S AA BA LBOA BOULEVARD, Between the Almshouse and the Trocadero Canyon Where Grow Cabbages and Beets, the Pacific Ocean in the Background. BALBOA'S ROAD LEADS 10 THE SEA' Seven Hundred Men Fin- ishing Up to the ! Trocadero. A SPLENDID DRIVE WILL | BE MADE | How the Sack of Silver Dollars Is Breught to the Laborers Every Day. | PICTUREIQUZ RCUTE THROUGH | ‘WCOD3 AND FIELDS, scription—Mr. Sutro Does Not Think Much of Senor Balb:a “‘All bright new silver dollars fresh from the Mint; there are some half-aollars and | dimes all new also,”” said Capitalist Daniel Meyer to William M. Bunker yesterday afternoon. Then Mr. Bunker lifted from the floor to the counter a fat, canvas sack, weigh- ing about fifty pounds avoirdupois, and containing over $860 in silver. This sum was for the payment for the day’s wages of 721 men at work on Balboa boulevard. Every afternoon at 3 o’clock Mr. Bunker starts from Capitalist Meyer's office, ut 212 Pine street, with a sack of silver. He places the sack under the seat of his buggy and drives out to the little shanty oppoeite the Almshouss, known as the | of whit- cotton cloth fastened on top of | of the sack. Here the men receive their pay | at the close of each day’s work. : Eight huudred doliars even in silver isa powesful temptation to knights of the | road in these days of hard times. A man at. boulevard wages weuld have to work a little more than two years to earn that much. That sum would buy 16,000 schooners of beer. In view of the risk in raveling with such an amount of money at the same hour of the day and on the | same roads Mr. Bunker Las taken a few simple precautions. He always has some | one with Lim in the bugey, and when he | reaches Seventh avenue, which leads up | into the picturesque canyon of the Spring | Valley reservoir und 1be Almshouse, be is met by a mounted policeman, who accom- pauies him to the pay station. A CALL reporter went with Mr. Bunker yesterday, seated behind that retired trot- | ter, ton Brown,” who made good | time up Golden Gate avenue, throuzh the | Panbandle and to Seventh avenue, where the policeman was waiting on a rangy horse and with a glad smiie. Signs of the boulevard were seen up the canyon in the shape of surveyor's stakes on the wooded slopes, with pieces them. They were sst 100 feet apar:, which will “be the width or the new road. Approaching the reservoir is a deep gully, wnich will require a fill of betwesn twenty and thirty teet; and about 100 yards lonx | this roadway has been fitled and | macadamized by the water company. | The first batch of workmen was found on the Almshouse tract, grading and smoothiog off a piece of the new boule- | vard. 1n muking the grade they had been obliged 10 cut down and grub out several cypress and eucalyptus trees of at least two feetindiameter. The boulevard runs through a pretiy wood here, and looking nor:h affords a nicturesque view of Golden Gaie Park, the Golden Gate and Mount Tamalpais, From this point, or for about a mile, the 721 laborers ure strunz up- like an army, and they present a lively spectacle. Passing the Almshouse, ihe road turns abruptly 1o the south, brenstinga rise of a 4 per cent grade, und here a large number of men and teams are at work laying macadam on the middle of the roadwa; On both sides are geutly sloping hills co ered with a dense growth of cypress and | eucalyptus. On the summit of this place | is a_beautiful view of ihe ocean, and in | | the forezround ou the sandy siopes and in | the gulch between, through which runs s little streain, cabbl.ges, carrots, beets, tur- nips and artichokes are growing. Through the middle of tnis pleasant garden, which flourishes ail tie year round, runs the track of the Boulevard de Balboa. It goes downhill into u gulch, the Trocadero Canyon, about thirty feet deep. The Iaborers are cutting awsy the top of the rise, from which a narrow- gauge railroad track extends into the guliy. Two dirtears tandem are hauled up empty by a team of two hurses. The horses are unbitehed and sent downhill again, When the cars are filled, which task re- quires but a very fes minutes, the cars in charge of a brakeman are turned loose down tue grade and the dirt is dumped into the canyon. At the bottom about fifty men are engaged in buiiding s culyert NEW TO-DAY GRAND OPENING OF OUR NEW STORE INEW GOooOoDs A TS NEW PRICES! TO-MORROW, MONDAY, April 5, J. SAMUELS will open the doors of his new, larg 1216-1218 MARKET STREET With a stock of Imported and Dome: chase and importation and complete be offered to the buying public at prices “The motto of our business, A very few of very many good " TAFFETA WASH SILKS, checks and stri COVERT CLOTHS, 50 inches wide, latest FRENCH ORGANDIES An invitation is extended to everybody to cali place. Fair and courteous treatmen to buy or not. ~J. SAMUELS, ‘1216-1218 MAR and that we have always lived upto: BEST VALUES AT SMALLEST PRICES, e, light and airy store at stic Dry Goods, all of recent pur- in every particular, and which will that will defy competition, things : ipes shad 25¢ a yard 75¢ a yard -10¢, 15¢ and 20c a yard and inspect our new t assured you, whether intending KET STREET, FORMERLY OF 104-108 KEARNY ST. > 1 i/ | Eurojeans | unguished thangBai 10 carry off the waters of the Trocadero, which are heading for that ocean which Vasco Nunes de Ba.boa, soldier of fortune, discovered o0 long ago. Tai= gulch will be filled up to the level of the cabbage patch and the road will lead over it around the sides of the wooded hills to Ingleside, with a fine view of the sea all the way. From tne Aimshouse 10 the Trocadero, & half mile or more, the 721 laborers were strung out, making tue dirt fly with pick nd shovel and wheelbarrow and tram- car. The greater part of this route belongs to Adolph Sutro. Even the ground | on which the cabbages and the Egyptisn | blood beets are growing Is hix. Naturally he takes a great interest in the work. He began by donating the roadway 100 feet Wide, and his good wisues, a thousand yards broad. Hence, when he met Mr. Bunker at the edge of the garden patch be hed a few suggestions to offer, while the 8ait sea breeze tore viciously at his whis- kers, and while Stockton Brown, gleefully snapping his curbrein, lunched upon the cabbages that opened their bix green petals vitingly at his hoofs. Now, that was a foolish thing they sald the Mayor. ““They named this road Balboa bouievard, because it had three B’'s in it. Who in the blank was Baluos, anyhow? He was only a Spanish adventurer, and he didn’t do a thing. Why didn’t they name it aiter somenody who did something? There are plenty of and “Americans mors dis- “Well,” moralized 5ir. Bunker, “he was about us good as tnat English pirate Drake, aiter whom we named one of the bays on this coast.” The transition from buccaneers to cul- verts was easy, Mr. Sutro insisting that dark redwood should be used insiead of pine. But theday was waning and the party went back 10 the pay station. Ata quar- | ter of 5 p. M. a man blew a police waisile aud 700 men all siong the line, with picks | and suovels in hand, rusted furiously | toward the pay station and formed in two lines, each to:ler to receive $1 10 for his day's work. The 10 c-nts goes to the Market-sircet Railway Company for hn: to and irom work and amounts to more thap $80 a day, from people who were obliged 1o walk before they got the joo on tue boulevard. ‘They bless the name of Balboa as fer vently as they would cthatof Sutro had the driveway been callod the Sutro boule- vard, for tnis $110 per day buys food and pays rent for a family, and every dollar of the eight hundred and odd goes at once into circulation among the retailers. So it helps business and muakes nearly 700 families happy. Preference is given to married men and in proportion to the number ot children in the tamily. Each of the 2650 applicants for work has signed a blank jorm, eiving his name, ad- dress, occupation, the fact ihat he is mar- ried, ‘the number of persuns dependent | upon him for their livelihood, bi-age, the lengih of time he has resided in San Fran- cisco and the name of some person as his reterence. This application is sent to the Associated Charit.es for investigation inio the truth of the representations made, and is returned 1o the commitiee with'a re- vort favorable or otherwise. On these applications 1283 tickets, a lit- tle less than half tne number, have been issued. The tirst bateh of tickets entitied the holder to fourteen days’ employment on the boulevard. The ones teing given out now are good for ten days’ work, be- cause the intention is to increase the force, 80 #8 to give the waiting applicants an early turn at the shovel. Of the whole number of tickets issued 270 were left un- called for. the applicants naving left the City or gone back to begging nickels from passers-by in the meighborhood of the 5-cent restaurants on Clay street. Yesterday was the seventeenih day of the work, and the expenditures amouited o $8933 he total collections have been | $17,104 25; <0 that a half of the funi has been expended on laborand not more than a third of the roadway completed. All the lumber, the tools, etc., have been do- nated through the exertions of Mesars, Bunker and Ellert, who are devoling al- most the whole of their time to the project. Following are the cash subscriptions 1o date: Heretotore acknowledged.. Re order’s office. 00 Fire Department, 22 50 Police I purimen; 716 50 Arcnbishop 1 jord; 100 00 Daniel Mev: 100 00 Alvert Meyer. o Mrs Hattie “imon. 100 00 J. M. Kothschild. 20 00 Kullman, ~alz & % 20 0 Casn 100 Charl, 10 00 Rev. 1 0 Grand total. -$17.104 25 Under the management of Louis Butler, at the Stsndard Theater on Bush sireet will be presented on April 12 three one- uct plays, entitled, A Fair Encounter,” “The Violin-maker of Cremona,” “Off the Stage" by the following amateurs: Miss Freda Gallick, Miss Minna Fery, Miss Etta Butler, Miss Juiia Steveler, William M. Ogilvie, Charles W. Wilson, Reginald Travers, Harry E. de Lasaux and Louis Butler. Miss Flossie Siiverstone, pianist, will play the “Faust’ waitz, by Jaell. Miss Etta Butler will give imitations of Mod- jeska’s Magda and Rose Coghlan’s Car- men, 4 BROKEN CONCRETE RAISES A DOUBT Mayor Phelan Investigat- ing Folsom-Street Pavements. The Whole Job May Have to Be Done Over Again by the Contractor. Holes Bored in the Foundation With the Too of a Boot—Tests to Be Made To-Morrow. Mayor Phelan and Chairman Dvanye of the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors have ordered work on the bituminous pavement on Folsom street, between Third snd Fifth, stopped pend- ing an investigation as to the character of the concrete foundation. Thisws a por- tion of the Foisom-street boulevard, of which so much has been said and written. and the Mayor s of the opinion that gross | neglect, at the very least, has character- ized the work that has been done. A test of the foundation will be made to-morrow, and if the suspicions that now exist are verified the whole, job may be condemned., . Engineer McCullough, who is the ex- pert of the Mayor and of the Street Com- mittee, was sent yesterday morning to ex- amine the work of laying the concrete foundation, because of reports that it was not up to specifications. He stated, on his return, that with the toe of his boot he had bored a hole several inches into the concrete, and that it was so broken in places, from the passage of teams, as to be unfit 10 receive the bitu: men. Mayor Phelan called on Superintendent of Streets Ambrose for an explanation of the matter, and that official declared that the work was of firsi-ciass character. Mayor Phelan was not satisfiea with the case as it stood and sent for Expert Hoff- man of the Street Department, who at first insisted that the work was done in s proper manner, but when closely ques- | tioned admitted that it might have been better done. He =aid that the contractors had taken up the planking that protected the con- crete because some of the materiais had been stolen, ana that they attributed the condition of the foundation to the passage of teams over the unprotected concrete. Mayor Phelan wants more light an the subject, and will make tests to show just bow good the concrete is. » He insists that something must be done, and done immediately, otherwise thi heavy teaming will ruin the street in a few months, as the foundation is the prinei- pal part of the work. Tue contract to pave the rosdway for the two blocks mentioned was let by the last Board of Supervisors to E.G. Keen, who agreed to take the job for $12,000, which inciuded the placing of curbs and cesspools, as well as the bitumen with its concrete foundation. If to-morrow’s tests are not satisfactory the board will be asked to insist that the conerete be relaid. E. J. BALDWIN ARRESTED. The Millionaire Refused to Obey an Order of the Superior Court, Millionaire E. J. Baldwin, the horseman and hotel owner, was arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Galland by order of Su- perior Court Judge Dangerfield for refus- ing to obey a court process. He was sub- penaed to appear as a witness In the case of Finn vs. Highton, but dia not answer. When arrested Baldwin produced an-o» der of releasesigned by Judge Seawell, ana was allowed t0 remain at liberty. He is 1o abpear on Friday next to show cause why he shotld not be committed for Gontem pt. —————— Benefit to Herrin Felix Ollert. The testimonial benefit to be tendered to Herrin Felix Ollert, the well-known pianist from Leipsic, at the Y. M. C. A. building, on Friday, April 9:h, will be an ally inter- esting affair. The programme is an excellent one, and will include th Mlie. Christine Labarragu Brown, mezzo soprano; Miss Mary E.Gray, whistling selolst; Miss May C. Schreiber, | rto come is exhausted. pupil of F. Ollert; Charles Wynne, the great tenor from New York: Charles Scawerdtfeger, barytone; Fred C. Plise, violinist; A. Panella. celloist; Miss May C. Schreiber, accompanisi; A. C. Cunningham, mansger. MAYOR INVESTIGATING. Looking Closely Into the ¥xpenditures of the District Attorney’s Office. Mayor Phelan is preparing a com- munication to the Board of Supervizors on the subject of the expenditures of the District Attorney’s office, that is expected to contain some interesting figures and facts. The District Attorney recently applied to have Attorney Dunne retained as special counsel in spite of the fact that the fund out of which his salary is expected He stated in his petition that there are now fifty-eight criminals awaiting trial, and that their cases should be closely attended to. Mayor Phelan thinks that it is strange that so many cases should be hanging fire, and has sent to the District Attorney for information as to how long they have been on the court calendar, how and by whom continuances were obtained and other particulars. He is of the opinion that the District Attorney should curtail expenses and keep the work of his office nearer up to date. ————— FROM THE HIGH SIERRAS. Snowstorms in Yosemite—Nevertheless Pilgrimages Begin. ¥rom all accounts the storms along the Upper Sierras during the past month have beaten all previous records. Galen Clark, guardian of the Yosemite Valley, writes under date of March 29, that they have been having ‘‘regular blizzards” recently, He adds: . “March ha« been the most severely cold and unpleasant month of the winter. Yesterday (Sunday last) we experienced one of the most severe and blustering snowstorms I huve ever seen in Yosemite. The trails leading to some of the points of iterest apout the vy will hardly be open by the middle of April, though sta; travel will commence at an earlier date. The latest from Wawona was that the road was open to that point and would be cleared of obstructions between that sta- tion and the valley auring the week. Sev- eral Eastern tourists are booked to leave San Francisco in that direction next ‘Tuesday. Beveral years ago some of those early parties encountered a snowstorm and got a specimen of California sleigh-riding that was not on the programme. Possi- bly they may have a repetition of that ex- perience this season—for since the date of Guardian Clark's letter there has been an- other brisk snowstorm in that latitude. Between sleigh-riuing, snow-balling and competitive lines there is a vprospect of lots of fun in the mountains this season. —_——————— Contest of Mra. Sandell’s Will A contest of the will of the late Mrs. Cath- erine Sandell was filed yesterday by her daughters, Mrs. Margarot C. Broeder and Mrs. Amelia E. Sherman, an_the groundg that the testatrix was not of sound and disposing mind, that she was under dure:s and that sbe was imoroperly influenced by her second husbard, the stepfather of the contestants. ————— Twenty Years for Burglary Thomas Johnson, an ex-convict, who was recently found gutlty of burglary for breaking Into the towboat Columbia at the foot of Spear street, was yesterday sent to State Prison for twenty years for the offense by Judge Cook. The Well Known Specialist, Doctor Cook, Whose Cures Are Remarkahle. MEN! Are you weak? Are you troubled with dreams by night . or losses by day? Are you annoyed with Pimpl Blackheads? Are you bashful or .averse to society? Are you losing your energy, ambition or self-confidence? 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OPEN EVENINGS. ;;mmmntm,r' ot STATEMENT- OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS - OF THE " NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURAKCE COMPARY - F MILWAUKEE, IN THE STATE OF WIS- . consin, on the S1st day of December, A 1896, and for the year ending on that d: 0 the Insurance Commissioner of the Sta California. pursuant to the requirements of sec- tion 613 of the Political Code of said State. CAPILAL. Amount of Capital Stock paid up in Cash....... s Py NSO AN NN N NN NN H N NN I N NI N NN AN NI AR SO ke b Net value of Real Estate owned by the Company .. g B ... 31,814,791 33 Amount of Loans secured by Hond and Mortgae on Jieal : siate.... $6,871 974 65 Premium note: and loans in any form taken In paymeut of pre- miums ou polictes row In force.. 386394 03 Cash market value of all Stocks and 'Bonds owned by the Com- sael weseies . 14,613,770 96 of Cash on hand in Com- ottice . 126,840 72 Banks .. Interest du Rents due and ace 2 Net amount of ) remiums in pro- cess of collection, and of deferred 1,794,443 36 1,631,55] 44 prem um 1,667,146 39 Cash loans t policy Company’s 1oii coliateral .- 3,817,235 00 Total Assets. LIABILITIES, 2 Claims for death losses and ma- tured endowments, due and un- ¢ Palle .. $T5570 50 Ciaims for death icssed and ma- tured eniowments in process of adjustment, or adjusted but not due = 184,856 00 Claims ‘ompan. . 22,700 00 Net present vawe ot all the oui- * standing policies, compuied ac cording to the Combined Kxpert- ence ables of Mortality, wilh four per cent interest.......... 72,601,674 00 Amount of all unpaiu dividends to policy-holders . .. 102,170 00 Present value of smounts not ye due on matured installment poil- ci 86,276 47 All oibr demands against Company .. 49,349 03 Total Liabilitles,...............575,12,506 00 INCOME. Cash_received for premiums on new policies during the year..... §1,771,950 58 Cash recelved for renewal of pre- miums doring the year. 12,479,473 49 Cash received for sale of 11.750 \750 26 4182.7.9 32 124,808 99 il other sources.. NG 19,140 87 Total Income... ... 318,589, 82: EXPENDITURES. Cash paid for losses and matured ndowments. .. Cash paid to annuitanis, 84,058,670 74 5,686 28 a for surrenderea policie: 1262 1 Paid for dividends T o & 1,372,627 61 Premiim voies 10'881 68 Commissions paid (o agents. 1,591,355 74 Salaries and other com: easation of officers and cmployas, escept agenty and medical examiners. .. 326,739 48 Medical examiners’ fees and sal- arios . 119188 78 Cash 31'475 07 Cash paid for rent 33,000 00 Cash paid for commuting sions Ali other cush pavment: 28.209 85 © 0 %01.296 02 Total Expenditures during th 20!146,783 43 PREMIUM-NOTE ACCOUNT. Premiom noces and B ‘ob- a T premium ob- . lizations received 87,724 85— during the year. Total 3 the year as $508,026 1. Deductiosa during e follows: Amount of notes and other premium ob- lgations usid in payment of ivsses and claims ........ $19.435 44 . Amoun of notia ind other premium ob- . in ligations used 7.356 18 ‘oiher premfum ob- ligations u-ed in other jremium ub- lizations void d by i lapse of poticic 119,652 18 e $386,394 08 H. L PyLMER, Presideat. J. W. SKINNER, Secretary. SWOrn {0 hefore me this 5d duy Ealance, note assets at end of the year, Bubscribed “an of February, 18, - SANBORN, Notary Pub'fe. CLARENCE M. SMITH, GFNERAL AGENT, Rooms 110, 112, 114, Phelan ‘Bnudlng, San Francisco, Cal, ra:"'v‘é"ré”fii‘i"i"é only rellable female reguintor Never Faila, Sold by $2.00 Send 4c.for Woman’s ¥ lwm"u.m $.8th 84, PAlls, Py, Articlo £ } j 2,158 86 ) f