The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 26, 1897, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1897. 11 -GOLDEN GATE PARK AND MARKET STREET NOT T U BE INPROVED Serious Consequences of Small Appropriations Not Likely to Have an on the WHEELMEY WILL SUFFER ACUTELY. MOST | Fifty Laborers and Many Police | Soon to Go From Park Service, ) BRAYNAN-STREET SEWER !l’lSUCEi WILL REMAIN. Superintendents McLaren and Ambrose | Tell How They Will Be Handi- capped for a Year. **We will have to thin owut| eve dey tment, from the | museum to the police. Many of the ord ry day laborers will have te go by the latter part of next nd I am afraid that e force employed on special duty in the p. have to gzo with them ave ful as it is | proved one of the finest in the world — b - another yea improvements other than have can be looked will take the whole keep the no we now F4 appropriation S 1o park in its present condition, | and even as it is, I sadly fear that the labor of a decade in many instances will go for naught.”” These sig ant words were uttered by hn McLaren, superintendent of Golden te Pa en discussing the effect the ppropriation made ior the park by have, so far 1 for the concerned. The citi- aturaily take a ax levy and the doliar lin f them are gra 1o augment their satis- | one of the corollaries Iy smali appro- the celebrated they are wont spare time, the features 10, but ssity be slide down rd of Sup mprovem: t of n thei nings contem- e way of improvemeni—that f ing the | scope of its de—tend to iu- hilaration resulting eral truth. Super- stands at he has tosay on to be appreciated. the wheelmen and | he asserted, ‘‘the oners intended to light all | this winter. The small ap- ) makes this p: ally impos- request of sible. Whe en and drivers will have o wait awhile uniil we are uot so badiy handicapped.”’ e the wheclmen and drivers of Wh i mourning over this in- | mall solace for ) of the fact that 1e riders of mettle- in the soup.” also intended,”’” continued the rintendent, *‘to build a brid le-road for hose visitors who like 10 ride borseback, which wouid lead 1through the woods f-om € berry Hill to the ocean. That pro- j iil now have to be abandoned.” * When once started well i telling of the g that *'might bave been” the super- 1 nt’s woras flowed very fast and much more so than those on i Jeir meaning will fall so antithet- iiy conid wish. He continued: “We started to werk a month ago on he gradir loaming of meadow ve made a pretty addition | We expected a | we wounld not | Asitis we shail | | | ¢ 1 of ait ropriation or this work. ““Lhe loes, deer and | s much overcrowded. It was ourin- to build an additional inciosure vear. There is no heip for it in spite of t k of room. course, we intended to build a new | or the season. The ounds have very much crowded, and much complaint has been neard about the peodle not having a suf- nt number eof seal but they find elves among those wko will have to | hen there was the loaming and fer- izing of tuelrees west of Birawberry Hil. Ttis badly needed, but we will have o disconcinue it, althouyxh we have about 920,000 yards of loam hauled in there now. “We hope 1o keep the park well to the front in 1ls present improvements, and that is about all that any reasonable man | can expect of us. Compared with E:m- ern parks of the same size we get just | sbout half as much allowed per acre. | Consequently they go abead pretty rap- idly waile we have to play a kind of wait- game. - ) far as it is improved we have as fine a park as there is in the world. But even With =n equal break ia the approvration we are somewhat handicapped. We bave to pump water, buy coal to do 1t with and employ about fifty men to distribute it over the tawns and where it is needed After the month of October men are likely to be disciarged, | ) many of them will be needed then e uppropriation for the ensaine T is $207,000. Last year it was $250,0 00, | prior_to’ that $300000. We | <t §250.000 for this year, and 98, 000. sse trees of which I havespoken are worst sufferers by the small appro- v nave attained an age of and unless they are prop- d and Jonmed pretty -soon taie. Then the will be in and the work of a decade ances more than that—wili in, expe renliy eeded v will ai —in some have been wasted. “Boston was atlowed over $1,000,000 Jast year for her parks, New York annually { ment will have to be th | the City. Streets have bzen an ardent advocate of | Exhilarating Effect Public. allows Ceniral Park alone $1,250,000, Brooklyn yields up annually $500,000 to her parks, and Chicaco surrenders the immense sum of $950,000 each year. bis stroke of economy will not dam- age the park so much as it will delay improvements. Of course there ces where it will. Out at Buena we bad Jaid out work for a mile of fyotpaths leading from different sireets to the top of the hill. That must e indefinitely postponed, 100.” ne Superintendent re. ked with emphasis that every depart_ inned out, irom the museum to the police. Thus it can be easily seen when the facts are collated that the consequences of a smull appro- priation in Park sre damaging and far-reaching in their effects. | —_— AMBROSE ASKS FOR MONEY Declares That His Allowance Is Entirely Too Small for the Street Department. According to Superintendent of Streets Ambrose the tax levy, as fixed by the new | Board of Supervisors, is going toseriously embarrass lim. He is confident that the appropriation allowed the Street Depart- ment will not be sufficient for his needs. He says that he requires at least a quar- ter of a million of dollars miore than the appropriation allowed him by by the Su- pervisors. According to Ambrose, under LEAPED T0 DEATH WHILE DELIRIODS Henry Joyce Jumped From | a Second-Story Window of | the County Hospital. | Resident-Physician Dudley Says the Patients Are Not Prop- erly Watched. | | e Joyce Was the Second Patient to End His Life This Year—Sick Men Often Found Wandering. | Henry Joyce, an aged inmate of the the case of the Golden Gate | City and County Hospital, ended his hfe at that place vesterday morning by leap- ing from a second-story winaow. Joyce | was delirious when he made the jump | that ended his career. Tke occurrence re- veals the fact that the inmates of the hos- pital are improyperiy cared for. Sixmonths | ago another delirious patient was per- mitted to rise from his bed, wander about the ward, and then jump from a balcony to hisdeatb. It is a common occurrence for the doctors and nurses to discover men and women in the delirium of typhoid fever and pneumonia wandering about the hospital grounds in the dead of night ciad only 1n their undergarments. The resident physician of the hospital says these happenings are due to the fact that the city has never appropriated enough money to engage the necessary number of nurses and watchmen. Joyce, the man who kilied bimself yes- terday, came to the hospital six months | ago to be treated for hemiplegia. He was assigned to Ward D, which is located at the entrance to the grounds. The man seemed to be recovering from his malady and was rather cheerful until Friday | night. Then he became delirious and the present allowance of the Street De- partment the repaving of Market sireet is out of the guestion. Moreover, it will be impssible to pave downtown busine.s blocks with bitumen inetead of cobble- stones, and the Brannan-street sewer wiil have to be neglected, much as it is needed. “T asked for $300.000, and instead I have been allowed 3522,000. In my opini this is poor economy,” was the way the Superintendent o: Streets put ic yesterday. “Tae Brannan-street sewer is one of tha most urgent repairs that the taxpayersin that district have asked for. There are severa! breaks n it, and it 1s a8 nuisance to the people who live in that distri “But, in my estimation, the repaving of | Marker street is of vital importance. | According to estimates made by this de: partment to remove the present cobbl stones and replace them with a smooth pavement from Second street to Ninth, would cost 000. To put the street in proper order from the ferry to Valencia, would cost $150,600. “Thiss one oi the important needs of I as Super:ntendent of the smocth pavements. In my estimation the repaving of Marke: street would be of inestimable value to the commerce of that thoroughfare. Retailers and taxp. ers, I believe, are of the same opinion. Ti.eimprovement of this street would ba an issue -with the voters were it given to them. *But 1 digress. Oak street necds im- ovement from Baker to Stanyan. Golden Gate Park 1s the piavground of the world, and the entrances of it should be at lesst fixed so that either a bicycle or private vehicle mizht approach it without detriment to either. The Stanyan-sireet | entrance should have an asphalt pave- ment, and as for a matter of fact the en- trance 10 every public park and square in the City should be aporoached and sur- rounded Ly smoothly paved stree: “Last year this department managed to | get through on $504.000. This was in the interestof what we cali a ‘doliar limit,’ As for myself, of course I am willing 10 abide by any verdict the Supervisors may | render, but I can not ses the wisiom of a city that plays penny wise and pound foolish. For instance, the barbor front needs a great many repairs. The ap- proactes to the wharf in some cases zre dangerous to hortes. In many cases the planking has been worn out, leaving large holes in the street that are danger- ous to iife and limb. They ought 10 have st least $100,000 extra to make these im- provements. “The reconstruction of the San Mateo Rallroad has necessitated a raise of two feerin the grades over which the road runs. Under the present appropriation we wiil be unable t> make these improvements. There are anumber of streets that ought to be swept double the number of times they are at present. A million doilars is not too great a sum to carry on the work of my department. ADVANCES made on furniture and pianos, with or without removai. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission Fatal Jump of a Deliricus Man, shortly after 1 o’clock yesterday morning rose from his bed and walked to a closet located in a wing a% the west end of the ward. Soon afierward Miss Kelly, the nurse who has charge of the waurd, found that Joyce was missing and called on Dr. Hickey to join her in a search for the missing man, | Joyce was found lying on a path run- ningz beside the building. His limbs were broken in many place-; the broken bones of both legs protruded through the flesh and he was breathing his last. The man- gled man was carried into the hospital {on a stretcher, but the doctors were un- able to save bislite. ! fter finding t.e closet window u,climbed upon the sill and then made | bis fawsl leap. “Something must be aone to stop fur- ther occurrences of this kind,” said Dr. Dudley. “Miss Keily, on duty at the time of the accident, is a most admirable jand proficient nurse, but has several | wards to care for, and it was doring her absence in other wards that the unfortu- | nate patiant leaped 10 his deatn. “Delirons persons r quire watching, and the funds at the disposal of the hospital | bave n been sufficient to engage the projer number of watchmen and nurses. 1 think the situation will now be im- proved, for the hospital has been allowed | & liberal amount of money by the Super- | visors. The doctors have oftentimes teen ‘compeilzfi to get out of their beds on | wintry unights to capture delirious pa- | iients who haa escaped from the wards and who were wandering sbout the | grounds. Imagine persons suffering with | pnevmonia out in the cpen on winiry nights, clad only in their underclothes. The nurse had no opportunity to watch | Jovce. There should be wire screens on the closet windows.”" Beet-Sugar Maker The Union Sugar Company, organized for | the purpose of engaging in the manufacture | of beet sugar, was incorporated yesterday by John L. Howard, L C. Marschuiz, George H. | Collins, E. C. Burr and James Coffin, each of whom ' has subseribed for $2500° of the | $1,000,000 capital stock. i pesi st easas il The Origin of the Eace. On Wednesday evening, September 29, at 8 | P. 3., & iecture will be delivered &t the Turk- strect Temple by John Larsen on “The Origin and Evolution of the Human Race and So- ciety.” according to the theory of descent and | natural selection. — e Festival and Bazaar. | There will be a festival and bazaar at St. | Brendan's Hall, Thursday night. The object of the entertainment is to raise a fund 10 as- sist in settling the heavy indebtedness on the Lady of Mercy’s Acedemy and school prop- erty. Thedoors will be open at 7 P. M. - Struck With the Trolley. A peculier accident happened Frank Largo- masino, a vegetabie-gardener at Ingleside, yesterday morning. He got off an electric-car at Third and Mission streets and just then the wire of the trolley broke and the troliey fell, estigation disclosed the fact that | TWO WELL-TRAINED Do \ | | The sportsmen of this city can now have the pleasure of seeing two thorough- | bred English setters, which arrived here yesterday from the East in rather poor con- dition, owing poseibly to the poor tre ent they received whiie on the j.ournev. They were shipred to 538 Market sireet, in care of the Golcher brothers, by J. E. Ellison, the famous live-bird pigeon-shot of Philade phia. Mr. Ethson has a long time yearned for the opportunity of enjoying a quail shoot in California over his own | dogs, which are <aid t0 be trained to peif:ction on Eastera queail—Bob W hite—and | with this object in view he shipped from far-away Philadelphia_two beautiful speci- | mens of the breed they represent. The dogs look decidedly inteiligent, and will | doubtless give a good account of themselves when they are cast off on ground that is not too rough. Mr. Ellison will arrive here in a few days, and doubtless he will be joined by his friend, Mr. Worth, who is also a crackajack at tne tra; striking him on the right ear and face with such force as to knock him down. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where Dr. Kinne stitched and dressed a wound on his eer and face. The doctor thought the skull was fructured, but Largomasino refused to | stay In the hospital and went home. Wanted to Commit Suicide. Martha Nackel, a girl 16 years of age, was committed to the Girls’ Training Home yester- | day by Judge Conlan. About a month ago she | lost her pusition and, Lecoming despondent, ! went to the Cliff House Thursiay witn the in. tention of committing suicide. She lefta note on a window-siil at tie Cliff House and waiked down to the beach to throw herself into the waves. A lfe-saver intercepted her and turned her over ta her stepfather, an _employe of the Olympic Water Company's pumbing siation, | who gave her into the custody of Secretary Holbrook of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, suhs LIPS ¥ell Off itis Wagon. William Coogan, a teamster living at Pitts- burg and Jersey streets, fell off his wagon at Fourteenth and Folsom streets, last evening, and sustained a lacerated wound of the sealp and right temple. He was taken to the City and County Hospital. 4 DELAY 1s DANGEROUS~ If the teeth attacked by tartar have lost their enamel, it is too late to save them; but if not, use SOZODONT at once, the liquid daily, the pow- der twice a week. Both in one package. Druggists. HALL & RUCKEL NEW YORK Proprictors LONDON A sample of Sozodont and Sozoderma. Soap for the postage. three cents. Sued on u Judgzment. W. J. Weatherby has sued . F. 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STATEMENT STATEMENT —O0F THE— ——0F THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —O0F THE— OF THE— COMMERCIAL DNION IR artford Steam Boiter INSURANCE CoMPANY | Inspection and F NEW YORK, IN THE STATE OF NEW 'NSURANGE GOMPANY York, on the st day of December. A D. 1896, und ‘or the yeur ending on that 0o: e | OF HARTFORD, IN THE TATE OF CONNEG- | Oticut, on the scemner, A. D. Riade (0 the Insurance Commissioner of. thy = of Califorola pursuant to the provisions of see- | oo tient, on the S1sf fious 610 aud 611 of the Palitical Code, condensed | 1596;a0d for the vear end us per Liank furnished by the Lommissio er. | Cahfornia, pursuant to 1 610 and 811 of the P blaui furnished by the Conumissioner. { RSN CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Stoek, paid u Cash... 2553 issioner of e provisions of CAPITAL. ftal Stock, puld up In | 3 : P $200.00000 | Amount of Cash . ASSETS. Cash Market Value of a1 Stocks and Bonds owned by Company. $287,722 50 o Casb in Company’s uilice 569 | G Cash in Buiks. 2,845 3% | od by Com Interest dne a and Mort Stoexs and Loan Tnterest ac rued on Bank Balances. Pr miums n due Courseof Collec- tion ... a2 L2100 DY+ ompa 3961 | o Company’s Office. + ash in Bax 9,81 43 Interest due and ccrucd on on | Intere- cerued on Bonds ane Mortgages Premiums in due Course of Uoliection.. Total Assets.... Total Assels ... LIABILITIES, | Losses adjusted and unpaid. ...ee-... $116 90 Losses iu process of Adjusimeat or in sus\-en;&' ....... SR e 4,500 00 | LIABILITIES, : i Fire Risks it e senr o less. 843,900 3 | Losses in process of Adjustment o in relnsurance 50 per cent. 21,950 16 | P :|?|>;;|\:e... P LI Gross premiums on Eire Kisky roa- | Grass Premiutns on Risks ning more than one year, $411 17§ [ e cant. reinsurarce pro rata 2 22919 | Groes Premiur Allo.her demands agsinst the com- | “more than one year, pany... wees 2,863 13 insurance pro rata. Total Liabilitles .. $27,959 Total Liabilities.. INCOME, e : lsclox‘ui. i Net Cash actually received fo: Fire Net Cash actually received for - Bt G PBOIBST | QU o terest o dion Recelved for interest ard div | Hig o 17578 27 on Bouds. Stocks, Loans, and from | 3 dorids 4 a1 otlie: sources..... A 6,280 00 | Tom P Received for inier | 7 . A ,102 o4 s | it on Real Estate 20 56 e i s 500/ ‘mechanical se Total Income $50,45117 EXPENDITURES. Net amonnt paid for Fire l;ow; } (inclyding $13 65,° Jomyes (of Pre « | Netamount paid for Losse 83,049 26 prions yaets) . ‘g.azz o Dividends Itn“smi-,k‘ho ders. 60,000 00 viden . wid or allowed for on Puid or alowed fur Cummission or ! Brokera, . 108,223 98 .Bmkenge Sy B 7,201 88 | Pajd for Fees “and orher 1 Pald 1r Saiaries, Fees, and othel | churges for o le 00 cliarges for oflicers, C.erks, etc..... 1,106 65 | m for State o Paid for tate, bational snd local | Al other yaymen L44382 | Nanagers Paid for Inspections.. " All other payments and expenditure Total Expenditures. taxes.... All other paym tures.... . Total Expenditures during the year nis and expendi- President. Losses incurred (tire). Risks AND MIUMS. M. ALL J. B. PIERCE, Secretary. Sybscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day o - anuary, 1897, & ; HENRY E. TAINTOR, Notary Publle. MANN & WILSON, $8.87437 TrE | e Risks !anlum& Net amount of risks| written during the VEBLrnrooreoieee. | $T34265 | $7402278 Net l;afl‘;!gb “‘f fl::‘{ GENERAL AGENTS, expired duriug he | it hymll’r.u e | sessen 30,777 92 | NE. Cor. California and Sansome Sts. Net ount in fore Docember 311596 4,606,685 44311 48 SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. CHARLES SEWALL President. A M. 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