The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 18, 1898, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIIL.—NO. 49 FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE FIRST FRUIT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR CITY WATER LOS ANGELES PEOPLE ARE NOT FOOLED Company’s Offer Sell Not in Good Faith. | Same Old Cry Has Been Raised Many a Time | Before. ' STOCKHOLDERS OF THE LOS ANGELES WATER| | COMPANY. be settled, and the water company must secure attorneys who will be pres- ent. The directors have about exhaust- ed excuses on that line. I am just as confident now that the water company has no more intention of entering into | negotiations in good faith with the city than it has of deeding its property to a charity, as I was a year ago. “We have been striving ever since I went into office to get the company down to business. But it has delayed | and procrastinated and put matters off. It has muzzied the daily press and pre- | vented the people gaining any accurate | information as to what the situation as L0S ANGELES; Jan, 17.—The publi- | to municipal ownership was. Bvery et cation in The Gall this morning'of the | TOrt We have made to do something f0r position in which the ety ot Tos An- | the ‘Deople’dn this matter the fimes, Beles finds ltself, as regards the public | Herald and Express have ridiculed and ownership of a water distributing | Made light of. In the Councll the wa- plant, has already borne fruit. - This is | ter company’s fofces are strongly or- despite the fact that the paper contain- | 8anized and held well in hand. ing the first comprehensive review of “The corporation is playing for a the matter that has ever been printed stake of a million and a half, and it can has not yet reached this city. | afford to effect many combinations to At 10:10 this morning a messenger Carry its point. Everything is being | arrived at the City Hall in breathless | carefully looked after by the manipu- /*haste. He carried in his hand a letter | lators. . madressed: “Hon. F. M. Nickell, chalr- | “Now that The Call has determined an of the Water Supply Committee.” | to give the people of Los Angeles a ‘he messenger was in a great hurry to | hearing in the settlement of this great / find Councilman Nickell. He delivered | and !mportant question, which means the message and a few minutes there- | 5o much for the municipality, we have ter Mr. Nickell; as chairman of the | renewed hope of our ability to protect 7ater Supply Committee, submitted to | the people’s’ interests. The commuii- Whef\ the Corporation Is Pressed It Makes Pretense of Yielding. TO BIND CHAINS CLOSER. Mayor Snyder Will Not Stop Until the People Have Worked Their WAL | election the Council the following communica- | cation that was put in to-day by Sec- | tion from the City Water Company: | retary Mott is a jumble of words ab- “TWe recetved your note of December 29, | Solutely without meaning. It was evi- 1897, and have been desirous of making | dently written in great haste, and is reply thereto at earliest moment 1 S/l the first recognit “We have submitted to the attorneys of | pany of The Call the water companies, who are here in the | (Ope of the men who was foremost in the city, the question of how to approach this matter in the event we can agree upon prices. The legal difficulties of carrying pushing the petition asking the Coun- cil to call a speclal election to vote that agreement into effect are, as we are able, and it is our de- time we negotiate with | water distributing plant of its own in- pepotiate with | qependent of the city water company’s ' of cartying our con- | {rust was A. W. Fisher, a well-known e 4y | DUSInESS man and taxpayer. Mr. Fish- n attorneys s absent, but AV -5 will Teturn_shortly, and ‘If agreeable fo | ¥ has always been an ardent and con your commi we would like to have | sistent advocate of municipal owner- Yyou meet a representative or representa- | ghip of the water plant, and to a Call on by the water com- | bonds so that the city could build a | of iron pipe. to retire. They want us to pay $3,000,- 000 for a plant that is at a liberal esti- mate not worth over $1,200,000. “It is perhaps true that they would be perfectly willing to have a bond called to vote bonds to pay them this exorbitant figure for their old junk. They know, and we all know, that the people would not consent to pay any such figure for the plant, and the bond scheme would be defeated. This is what the water company wants done. They would certainly herald the result far and near as evidence of the fact that the voters of Los An- geles had pronounced against munici- pal ownership of a water plant. “The truth of the matter is nine- teen-twentieths of the people of this community are a unit for it, and they propose to have it. time, pr they will not consent to any oposition that consummates a cold- blooded hold-up of a million and a haif the water company is about $300,000 per or more. The net income of vear. They can afford to spend $200.- 000 or $300,000 per annum for a long period of years delaying this matter and holding off. Then their idea is that they can at an early date get a Council and Mayor who will renew thelr lease for a long term. This will give them another opportunity to sand- bag the water consumers and accumu- late millions. The present plant is ob- viously inadequate to the wants of the city, as every consumer knows. The mains are inadequate as to slze, and the system is for a village and not a great city. One of the great desidera- ta to be obtained by municipal own- ership is a plant fully and amply ade- quate to a city's needs. “It is now a year since I actively took this matter up. I looked upon it as a part of my duty as a citizen and I am going to stay with it to the end. During the past twelve months, though, we who have been honestly But, at the same | tives to be appointed by the companies | in a short time for the purpose of con- sidering these q Senator White, one of the attorneys, be In the city some time about the middle of February, d like to have matters in | striving for municipal ownership have met with many discouragements. Un- derstand, we do not desire or advocate the taking of anything trom the City correspondent he this evening gave his views of the matter as follows: “The city water company claims per- fect willingness to bring to a conclu- Water BATTLES OF ANARCHISTS AND STUDENTS | - Anti-Dreyfus Riots in Several French Cities. Wild Scene of Disorder at the Tivoli Vaux- hall Meeting. Mad Mobs in the Streets of Paris Charged by the Troops. MILITARY CLUBS GUARDED | & That Never Ending Army Scandal Threatens to Cause a Social Revelution. What they mean by that | is that if the people will submit to a | robbery of $1,800,000, they wiil consent | Epectal Dispatch to The Call PARIS, Jan. —A great anti-Drey- | fus and anti-Semitic meeting at the | Tivoll Vauxhall produced extraordinary | scenes. The neighborhood was pa- | trolled by police, mounted and on foot, and the rapidly growing crowd in- creased the excitement. At 9 o'clock, on the opening of the meeting, the hall was a seething sea of humanity, crowd- | ing every part, gesticulating, shouting, | “A" bas Zola,” “Vive I'Armee,” and | “Vive revolution soclale.” The members | of the anti-Semitic committee display- | ed banners bearing the words, “Death to the Jews,” and wore inscripti 's. It | was soon seen that the 5000 present | consisted largely of anarchists and | others bent on opposing the students. On M. Guerin, the president, propos- fng that the honorary presidency be | conferred upon M. Rochefort and M. Drumont, a great uproar ensued, the anarchists trying to wrench the ban- ners from the anti-Semitics. Scuffles took place, in which two of the officials | were injured. M. Thiebaud delivered an address de- nouncing the Jews and urging the meeting to support the Government. Tumults and fights for the banners contiued, with shouting, whistlipg and singing of the Marseliaise 8. A the Cor. magnole, while M. Thiebaud proceedea in a violent speech declaring that the | Dreyfus scandal was the commence- | ment of a social revolution by “a band | of scoundrels desiring to overthrow | everything in order to raise a traitor.” The scene now became a saturnalia. The anarchists removed the iron stair- case giving access to the tribune, so that the committee was unable to de- scend. Free fights began around the flags. Finally the students. chased the anarchists out of the hall. izers of the meeting then seized the flags decorating the hall and arranged | a rendezvous at the military club, cry- ing “Vice I'Armee."” The hall partially emptied, but soon the anarchists returned and, breaking open the great doors, began further fighting. It is alleged that several were injured. Finally the students were van- PRESIDENT DO | | | | | MRAS.V SANFORD B. DOLE. | spuez Zola™ to the offices of the Temps, | the direction of the bridges. Several | LE OT DULY SALUTED UPON HIS ARRIVAL ANNOYING OFFICIAL OVERSIGHT | Does Not Disturb the Hawaiian Ruler at All Talks Pleasantly of His Mission to Gentlemen of the Press. He Says He Has Not Come Here to Lobby for An- nexation. HIS VISIT IS ADVISORY. Wants the Islands Annexed and Will | Do What He Can to That End. sRsLLsLLRLLERRRRLRR 8 & . % 8 & NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—A spe- clal from Washington to the Post says: The reported arrival in San Francisco of President Dole of the Hawalian Republic is not regarded by annexation- ists here as a matter of concern. There is a feeling that it might be best for Mr. Dole to remain away from Washington until the discussion over the treaty is ended. His presence might arctuse antagonism, and such in- formation as he has to impart can be given at long range just as well. Pro-Hawalians will, it is sald, be governed by the desire of the administration spokesman as'to what course to pursue. S 8882 & ] 18 i3 gasueees gegsesesesatanesangsnens s BERVRRYIINVUINILNR There were several embarrassing cir- cumstances connected with the arrival | the Aurore and the Libre Parole, but attempts to cross the river were frus- the police again dispersed them. Near midnight 500 students, led by M. Mille- | trated, but eventually a large number reached the Place de la Republique. In of President Sanford B. Dole of Hawail yesterday morning, but they did not seem to ruffle his usual good temper or The organ- | | voye, assembled at the Military Club, but they met with the same fate. In| the melee some were wounded and others arrested. Ultimately M. Mille- voye obtained permission of the police to march before the club crying, “Vive I’Armee.” By midnight those who had been ar- | rested were released and quiet had| one case the crowd stopped in front of a shop that bore the name “Levi” shouting, “Death to the Jews. Let us pillage, let us pillage.” The students at the rear, ignorant of the cause of the delay, pushed on, and the mass | continued its onward course, after at- tempts in various directions to reach the principal boulevards. always frus- t he, in connection with | gjon the negotiations whereby the mu- s here, may dele!‘:‘\!"‘lfc;fi;‘ f)';?. nicipality is to acquire the plant. T | have arrived at the conclusion that it lusion, ““Representatives will be appointed by | gon" y the boards ¢ e i2hpoiated by | qon't contemplate anything of the kind. form you at are, and a | It is not now, and never has been, deal- time can be a discuss the p! may be submitt respective together and prrr’vr(fl!lxre_ and rlha[ it to the attorneys for the | ties for their consideration | willing to give up if a fair price is “5-{{33[&.:{” AT S | awarded them for thelr rusty streaks terms, to bring the.matter to a conclusion | s————————————— at once, and to that end we are working with our stockholders and endeavoring to get the consent of all of them that will authorize us to Ty the transaction into effect as soon the proceedings neces- gary for that purpose can be taken; and we have strong hopes that in the course of the next five or six weeks we shall have the consent of all of them. | “8. H. MOTT, Secretary.” | This communication is the first result | g of The Call's exposition of the local wa- | & ter situation. As soon as The Call ap- | peared on the streets of San Francisco | this morning, the secretary here was | ing in good faith with the city. The rY & NEWS OF THE DAY. her forecast for San Fran- : Fair on Tuesday; continued cold weather; northwesterly winds. Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours: San Francisco Portland Los Angeles Ean Diego 2 degrees 6 degrees 66 degrees 58 degrees FIRST PAGE. {mmediately informed by wire of what Los Angeles Water Fight. W it contained. It was then that the Great Riots In Paris. characteristic communication’ given President Dole in America, SECOND PAGE. Cotton Spinners Quit Work. Los Angeles School Scandal. Only Harness Horses Go at Chicago. THIRD PAGE. Cuban Insurgents Gain Victory. Killed in a Santa Fe Tunnel. A Father's Awful Crime. 014 Man Burned to Death. Judge Denounces Grand Juries. Million in_Gold From Klondike. FOURTH PAGE. Congress at Work. San Mateo Wants a Boulevard. FIFTH PAGE Fenders for One Car Line. How Greenway Saws Wood. News of the Water Front Charged With Hotel-Beatinz Suicide of & Soclety Vocalist SIXTH PAGE. Editortal. The Los Angeles Water War The Useful Injunction. Chinese Tmmigration. Judge Campbell's Jokes. The Grand Boulevard. A Stnecure and an Incubus. above was forwarded to the Council, post-haste. The people of Los Angeles, however, thoroughly understand the Water Company's tactics, and this| communication carries absolutely no weight whatever. | The popular feeling is most concisely | stated by Mayor M. P. Snyder, who in | talking about the latest communication| this evening sald: | “It 1s but fllustrative of the methods | of the Water Company in the past in blocking the will of the people. They have always claimed they were ready | & and desirous of bringing about nego-| tiations whereby the vity would come | ® into possession of its plant at any early | date. Then, through their news- | papers, attorneys and understrappers generally, they have always imme- diately set about to block every possi- ble settlement which could be obtained. | PPOPPPOIPPIIOPIPOIOO In this latest communication, . which Stories From the Corridors. has been sent forth, and which in my Letters and Queries CVEN' GE. judgment is the result of The Call's SEVENTH PAGE Status of the’ Police Courts. The City’s New Ferry Depot. EIGHTH PAGE. Unraveling the Berkeley Mystery. Nearing the Golden Jubilee. NINTH PAGE. Judge Low on His Mettle. Work of the Supervisors. Spanjer and Kelly Matched. TENTH PAGE. work, there is absolutely nothing new. | Whenever we have in the past succeed- | ed in getting matters down to a point where the Water Company was com- peiled to-do something, it has invaria- biy set forth that some oze or the other of its attorneys was absent from the city, and that for that reason it could not proceed. The directors now claim PPVPVPPPPP9P9PDP000600 The Commercial World. P ELEVENTH PAGE. that Senator White is away and that| s News From Over the Bay @ therefore they are privileged to delay | ® JV:‘FDE;! PAGE. - matters. They all knew White was go- g R Bl PADY. * ‘ ing to be absent from the city during|; Births, Marriages and Deaths. @ the seesion of Congress, and it is prob- | & FOURTEENTH PAGE. & able he will continue to be away for|® :fl' ‘;{’::"n;"k:h:a;‘x“ @ gome time to come, as this is the long : Tt Tii B datn ey : session of Congress. ® © “Rut this water guestion has got to | ® 10} 2008900 VPP0O PPV OPI O IR T E XL ET I T2 L i Company that belongs without giving it value for every dol- lar. We are willing to be llberal with to it | the corporation, but we are not in fa- water company pecple claim they are | vor of being robbed. ‘One of the great obstacles we have | met with has been the combination ex- isting among the three daily papers. They have all—the Times, Herald and Express—been as one in their policy of | protecting the water company in this 6060000006068 0606060660 & all-important controversy. They have refused absolutely to give any one who Btood for the people a hearing. All avenues of reaching the people in or- der to inform them as to the gravity of the situation have been cut off. The newspaper combine has been all-pow- | erful, and any Intelligent discussion of this question has been tabooed. This has made it very difficult to keep the masses informed, but, now that The Call has taken up the matter, we are golng to be released from the news- paper thralldom which has held us down. We want The Call to give full justice to the Water Company’s side | of the case, and we know that it will. But at the same time we shall expect it to do what the syndicated dally pa- pers of Los Angeles have not done— that is, to keep the people informed as to their side of the case and to let them know when their rights are in jeopardy. “The public officlals chosen at the last municipal election were all pledged solemnly to do everything in their pow- er to effect’ municipal ownership. Of nine Councilmen, only two have kept their pledges. The other seven hdte | equivocated and shuffled around until the people do not know where they stand. Councilman Nickell, as chair- man of the Water Supply Committee, has exhibited unpardonable weakness. while Councilman Toll, as 2 member of that committee, has rather acted as a | special pleader for the Water Company than otherwise. and enumerate. “I superintended the circulation of the petition asking the Council to call a special election to vote bonds to bulld an Independent plant. 1 talked with hundreds of citizens and taxpayers then, and I know the sentiment of the people. They are in deadly earnest in this matter. “We realize that we have a hard fight on hand, but we are enlisted for it, and we are going to stay with it to the end. Thus far we have received no aid, support or help of any kind or character in this contest for the people from the League for Better City Gov- ernment. We did not look for any help tfrom that organization and we have not been disappointed.” And so I might go on quished and the anarchists were mas- ters of the situation. The meeting broke up and the anarchists replaced the ladder and invaded the tribune, led by M. Curtois, flourishing a red flag | and all shouting, “Conspuez Rochefort™ | (spit upon Rochefort) and “Long live | Zola." The disturbance continued, the anar- | chists declaiming from the tribune | against the army and acclaiming Drey- | fus. Some of the injured people were carried out with their faces covered with blood. | The interest was now transferred to | the streets, where the police had been | reinforced by the Republican guards. At 10 o’clock this evening large bodies shouting, PRESIDENT DOLE Vive I’Armee,” proceeded in the direction of the Military Club in the Avenue de I'Opera. The troops cleared the place de la Re- publique and charged the bodies of stu- dents. A large force is protecting the Military Club. Several were arrested. The demon- strators then proceeded shouting, “Con- | of students, flourishing the tricolor and | | been restored In the Palace de 1'Opera. There were only trifing manifestations rested. The students were now joined elsewhere. by the riff-raff of the city, but flnally M. Blanc, the Prefect of Police, has desisted until evening. personally taken the direction of the| The students, having the sympathy of men who were protecting the Military | the authorities, were treated with sig- Club, through fear of further trouble. | nal forbearance by the police, who only Telegrams from various provincial |kept them within necessary bound towns report student manifestations at | According to some accourts. twenty Marseilles, where the windows of Jew- | people were wounded in the ish citizens were broken. charge outside the Tivoli Hall, which At Nantes there have been some at- | the police eventually cleared. The fm- | tacks on shops and the synagogue.|prisoned committee in the tribune was The crowd rescued those who were ar- | unable to make itself heard and hung rested. | out a placard announcing that the pro- The events of the past few days are | ceedings were closed. beginning to produce a feeling of panic| There is no doubt that the policy of in Jewish circles. Both the business | the Government is beginning to be and private houses of the Rothschilds | strongly assalled. Gemeral Billot, Min- | and other wealthy Jews are guarded by | jster of War, is especially the abject of | special detectives and gendarmes, for | attack and the smaliness of the major- | tear the crusade produce a sudden pop- 1 ity in the Chamber of D=puties to-day ular outbreak. | A heavy fog settled over the city this | afternoon and made it difficult to as-| The Cabinet was only saved from de- certain until late exactly what had|feat by the votes of Monarchists and happened. It ceems that, fearing dis- | Boulangtsts. orders, a large body of police moved in | General Billot of illegally spending 150.- the direction of the Pantheon about 4|00 francs of the war office funds in o'clock and barred the bridges across | hribing the press during the present the Seine. Half an hour later the stu- | crisis. A special service of police has been OF HAWAII IN HIS trated by the police. Many weare ar- indicates the waning of M. Meliue's in- fluence. organized around the residence of Ma- thieu Dreyfus. Le Soir asserts that M. Zola will call Continued on Second Page. VARYING MOODS. dents, issuing from their lecture-rooms, filled the Place de Pantheon. An agi- tated crowd shouting, “Conspuez Zo- la,” and raising other cries, moved in cavalry | The Libre Parole accuses | inconvenience him in any manner, ex- cept that he did not know just how to act. The President’s wife accompanies him. Heretofore the arrival of potentates from the distant islands of the sea has been the occasion of burning a great deal of Government powder by firing a In the case of the President of Hawaii there was nothing whatever to indicate that a person of rank had ar- rived. The few people who got aboard the Peru told Mr. Dole Market street was deccrated; that General Shafter had been instructed to meet him with an escort, and that his reception was to be a brilliant one. Accordingly, news was sent to the Mail dock that the President of Hawali was going to leave the steamer in a tug and land at the | Clay-street float, whence he was to drive uptown under the waving flags that had been strung across Market | street in his honor. A long hour was the Peru detained in the stream awalting the salute that | never came from the guns on Black Point; then when the news reached the | steamer that the flags were flying in | honor of the Golden Jubllee the anchor | of the Peru was raised, and a start was | made for the Mail dock. When the steamer got alongside the wharf Lieutenant Noble, aid-de-camp to General Shafter, went aboard and proffered his services, and that was the nearest approach to a military escort the President of Hawall got. The only carriage to met him was one sent down by the proprietor of the Occidental Ho- tel, and into it Mr. Dole got hurriedly and was driven away. Once at the ho- tel the President was as accessible as the humblest citizen. Though weary from the journey and crowded with work which he had laid out for the day, he granted representatives of the press an interview. To every question he gave a clear and courteous answer, saying that there was nothing to hide, and that there was no secret mean- ing to his visit. “It was the sense of the officers of the Government,” said the Chief Executive of Hawail, “that I make a visit to the Chief Executive of this country for the purpose of discussing with him va- rious phases of the proposed treaty with Hawali. I do not come here as a | epecial pleader for annexation, nor shall I appear before any Congressional committees. It would not be a very proper thing for me to do. The pro- posed treaty has been ratified by my | Government. If it is finally ratified by the United States Senate in the pres- ent shape, or with immaterial amend- | ments, there are a great many little | questions that will have to be settled. | Something will have to be arranged as | regards the form of government that ! will be maintained during the period between the ratification of the treaty by thls Government and the period when Hawaii will finally be turned over to the United States. For example, all suits would have to run in the name of the United States. It would have to be arranged in detall what would be the status of the Hawailan Islands salute.