The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1898, Page 14

14 THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, WEDN DAY, MAY 4, 1898 HARRY PIPER PLACED UNDER SUSPENSION He May Never Return to His Desk. Clerk Curry Says He Will Investigate. Piper’s Losses Estimated Between $10,000 and $50,000—Borrowed From Many Deputies. ¥arry Piper has been suspended pending an investigation. Hlis suspension will continue until I have looked into the mat- ter and have ascerinined the number of warranis he has hy- I have made an examination of his accounts and they are correct to a cent. Fe will not draw a single doliar of salary during his suspension. ¥If I find, after investigation, that he has done what he ischarged with having done he will never come back. Thatisail I have to say on the subject at the prese time.—Interview with Clerk Curry relative to s of his chief deputy. pothecated and to whom. County the misdo Ifa ver, he made the statement | into th warship had cast a shell | noon, how Hall it would probably A Which opens this article. | ed more surprise v Piper declined to have any- 1 than did the ust thing further to say about the matter. The¥Call. 5 estordny declared that there was nothing terda for him to say. anciering of Chief Dep- uditor’s office w City publicat the pecu s besiezed by pla had - | for February, the up pending the decisio: Mayor Phe! s, to each of whom ter ones being tied the test case | The three | had been as- uty Cour erk Harry Piper. It was money brokers yesterday, but on to even the | Broderick could do nothing towstd sat- | isfying their claims. The only warrant | s been no secret for the past|of Plper that he could give up was that | that Piper had b i and rumo 1 this warrant, finally agreed to| ; > the amount it represents between | v appea It was learned that Plper ob- rs from e of t a te of $1950 on his last tead of $1800, as re- an aggre: . ms of J. Boas, with whom Piper had made a duplicate hypothe of the warrants of T. L. Doran, V. Barber, deputies | arr: ts to Monday to these men if his ed. exposure will | of hypothe- t by the deputy i be more » the case, Broderick. He declares ciice has become a nuls- ce to his office, as it takes the entire 1e of one man for two or three keep proper track of hypothecated | who served under him at the ha -nt if cute still in h s on the r nated from $10. ed that he alone in one r 1 Audite t t the pr: I m il AN OLD FI WILL CLOSE OUT W rt distance out of Neuburger, Reiss & Co. | Honolulu, and the two vessels stopped | Are Retiring From | Business. ts a card and excellent ered throughout the ed Wedne r The day night L W n a shos s thelr spe- 1siness T EN ve now , Grant & rms have uying on a asons that led more. con- yrelgn goods and that | nd it dull. You may | now T such a rate to | with the foreign trade.” STOCKING TROUT STREAMS. | The C ssioners Are Now Giving Attention to Yosemite Waters. Striped Bass. Fish Commissioners have cal anglers that they would ck the Paper Mill, Sonoma and Creeks In May or June with bers of rainbow and cut-throat the stocking would T The promised SAYS HE IS THE SAVIOR OF Huntington Pats Back, but Tales. He Artfully Dodges All Pertinent Questions That Are Put by the Railroad ! Comm The Raflroad Commissioners made | another water haul yesterday. They cast thelr nets of inquiry into the limpid depths of C. P. Huntington's mind, and at the end of the day they found that they had caught a choice collection of anecdotes, reminiscences, | sparkling bits of repartee and an occa- sfonal chunk of advice, but the most patient search falled to reveal a single | | fact pertinent to the inquiry. The comm on wanted to ascertain | cost of the varlous roads of the| | Southern Pacific system and their present value. Mr. Huntington was quite willing that they should do so, | and expressed a desire to aid the in-| quiry in every way tn his power. It| would give him the greatest pleasure, | he sald, to tell all he knew concerning | the cost of constructing and operating | p the roads, because he wanted the peo- ple of California to understand that he and his accociates had the interests of the State at heart. They could not | understand this, he thought, unless | they were acquainted with all the facts | in the case. 2 | Once or twice :during the proceed- ings the veteran rallroad hull(leri chowed his teeth, but he never for a| | moment lost command of the situation {or allowed a word to escape his lips that could be of the least present or | prospective value to the members of | the commission. At one stage of the proceedings Com- missioner Hinton intimated that it was the intention of himself and his col- league to protect the int of the people of the State, and if by doing so the intere of the Southern Pacific| Company suffered, so much the worse for the company. “We will lock fer justice from th judicial _branch of the Government, replied Huntington. *“We have no fear that our rights will be made to suffer % | on account of the acts of this commis- ston.” At another time Mr. Hinfon Iaid claim to some considerable knowledge concerning the building of raflroads. “] am glad of that,” retorted Uncle | Collis. “T have been building railroads for forty years and have some slight | knowledge of the subject, but when I | want to learn something new I will | come to you.” And so it went on during the entire | day. When some question more direct | THE STATE Himself on the Tells No ission “What are the profits derived from the roads of the Southern Pacific sys- tem?”" “The profits? derstand that such a que Well, you must un- stion covers a very wide range of inquiry. You know, of cour that the profits are nall, because much of the earn- is expended in the betterment of roads. ‘We expect that sometime the tonnage will some small Ih the the rates will go up or increase so as to give w return on the money invested. thought it hetter to put the earnings| of the road into betterments of the property—that is, to keep the property | in first-class shape and let the share. holders wait for their profits.” “Do you hold any of the bonds of these roads’ “I don’'t hold & single bend that came to me from the stock 1ssues. Of course I own a few shares of stock that first | went to the public and were afterward hased by me “What is the av in- debtedness per mile of the lines in this State? ~1 cannot state exactly, but it should be easy to asce fact. I sup- at least, that | “I think th least, I will ¢ tain the fac ceal anything.” But the aid that he rendered consist- ed in multiplylng words and kicking up such a dust of speculation that at| the end of the day the Commissioners | found not one grain of t § the chaff that had been wir ing the long hours of the session. Growing tired of the profitless sub- ject of profits and values, Commlis sioner La Rue, who acted as interio~ cutor tried a new tack. “It i8 a fact,” he sald, “that the| amount of stock owned by the South- | ern Pacific Company this year is greater than last. Was this stock pur~ chased out of the earnings of the roads?” “I am inclined to say that it was not. 1 do not know where the money came ‘can be arrived at. At all that I can to ascer- I do not wish to con~ from. It came from somewhere, of course, but just what particular ac- count it was taken from I cannot at this moment state.” “Do vou know what was paid for this stock?” “I cannot say that T do. I might be able to find out for you, but at this mo- ment I am unable to state definitely.” Two hours having been spent in this sort of questioning on the part of the commission and evasions on the part of | and Banitary Commission of California | sicians, bankers, ministers and business T0 PROTECT THOSE WHO WILL FIGHT To-Day the Red Cross League Is to Muster Its Forces. Promptand Generous Ac- tion Now the Keynote of Effective Work. Two Appeals to Which Cali- fornia Will Now Eagerly Respond. ALL AT HOME MAY HELP. A Fund Must Be at Once Provided Sanitary to Equp the Corps. This morning at 7 o'clock the mus- tering-in of the National Guard of Cal- ifornia will begin. They are bound, probably, for Manila. This afternoon at 3:31 the executive committee of the Red Cross League It is bound, not imagination, for holds it first meeting. physlcally, but in Manila, too, In honor bound to serve the soldiers who go to serve Uncle Sam. This sudden realization of the hopes and fears of California’s men and women, this expected bugle-call to arms, is a double appeal. It calls 5000 men to the Orient. It calls a million men and women to humanity’s Red Cross army. It transforms civillans into soldlers, into heroes, into martyrs. It changes soclety into enthusiasts and benefactors and saints. It is an an- swer to those who counseled the wis- dom of proceeding slowly. It is & trumpet to those whose hearts, whose experience, whose sympathies urged the necessity for immediate action. It is an announcement that the time has come. It is an urwistakable sign pointing to the duty which is nearest —sanitary provision for the National Guard. The business of furthering the ob- Jects for which the Red Cross League was organized rests now in the hands of the executive committee, to meet this afternoon at the residence of Mrs. John F. Merrill, 1732 Washington street. Leaders of soclety, organizers of charitable and philanthropic work, devotees of culture and of art, physi- men are members of this committee, California has entrusted with the care and comfort of her soldlers. To-day will see this remarkable as- semblage working earnestly and faith- fully, appointing committees, sys- COLLIS P. HUNTINGTON “ANSWERING” QUESTIONS PUT BY THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS. ADVERTISEMENTS. e e COLORED DRESS GOODS! spection. 00 DRESS s ENGLISH TWO-TONE PIREOLA SUITING, INVISIBLE CHECKED TAILOR SUITING, NEW COVERT MIXTURES and FANCY BROKEN CHECKS and TWEED MIXTURES. PRICE, $4é(_] Pattern. Qur complete importations of COL- ORED WOOLEN DRESS GOODS for spring and summer, 1898, are now ready for in- This week we will offer PATTERNS , FANCY SILK STRIPE $1.50 per yard. We have also opened and placed on sale an elegant line of NEW FRENCH POPLINS, NEW FRENCH POPLIN CORDS and NEW FRENCH CRYSTAL CORDS. Price $1.25 and 9 1892, u, u3, us, 0T, 19, NOTE—AIl our new importations of Two- toned and Black CREPONS, we are offering at $12.00 Dress Pattern. : > 121 POST STREET. feel like criminals, but helpless, inno- cent criminals, if the people do mnot provide for their necessities, and we are compelled to accompany them to battle, knowing in our hearts that "the emergency will find us unprepared. T0 KEEP OUT a sclentific and a systematic | ana exchanged mail arid news of the war. | tocking the | Purser N. C. Walton of the Mariposa says | and it is | that the English passengers aboard were have fin- | very enthusiastic in their cheers over the nmissioners are now 2 Yosemite Vi will X - Wil teanEihelr | rumor that England and the United attention to the coast creeks, which are | States were contemplating an alllance. badly in need of stocking, and which are | R R i T BT, within easy reach of the thousands of | local anglers who cannot afford the time | or expense attached to a trip to the Yo- | semite. ) the Paper Mill . but It is hoped that be will be exercised this yvea on of trout fr: consignments of small n recelved within the ; fish ars ago X i T they have been s of restaurants dealers of this | FELL OFF HIS BICYCLE. | Joseph Hemphillr offlilameda Prob- ably Fatally Injured. | Joseph Hemphill, a relative of Dr. John | Hemphill, pastor of Calvary Presbyterian | Church, met with a serlous accident yes- terday afternoon while riding his bicycle down Jersey street. | The young man, who 18 engaged in the | Alvarado Sugar Works, came to this city | rree-pound iimit. This fact is 1 to the Chief of the Fish | his deputfes. The largest num- a bass recelved by any of the shipped from Rodeo. 1t is said | t five tons of bass were caught in a| single Laul of a net two weeks ago, in the vicinity of Pinole Station. to visit a friend named James Lawson, | at Twenty-sixth and Douglas streets. | After spending an hour or 80 there he | rted homeward, and when he reached | Castro street he fell from his wheel, sus- | taining a bad injury to his back. He was | conveved to the City and County Hospital | by Officer Anderson in the Seventeenth- | street ambulance. Here he was attended : by Dr. C. Treuholtz, who found him un- 2t | by 5 Waters Heirs Lose. | conscious and paralyzed from his hips | routt yesterday granted a non- | downward. On being examined it was | of Margaret Mulcahey | discovered that his spinal column was | the case rs against Hezekiah Dow, admi trator of the estate of Elizabeth Waters. | "he ntion was made by the plain- fre relatives of Arthur Waters, and of the decedent, that when four years ago they were not death, and that his widow me into the possession of badly injured, besides his having sus-| tained injuries’ to his head. | He was visited by his two brothers, | Charles and John, who are employed at Supervisor Morton’s coal yard on Geary | street. | At @ Jate hour last night little hope of | | his recovery was entertalned by the | physicians at the hospital. property. Inasmuch as the | Hemphill is a young man, aged 24 vears, | the action tried yesterday | @nd has been three years in the country. | to prove that there had been | He 18 & native of County Tyrone, Ireland. procedure in the settle- | TS o ate of the husband, Judge | Charter Registration. hat judgment of no b 3 Registrar Biggy reported 104 changes of residence and forty-three new registra- | tions filed vesterday for the forthcoming | charter eléction. The registration of- fice will remain open every day until 9 | o’clock, until the 10th inst. —lee Try our §1 Eveglasses. 710 Market & 11 Geary. The ¢ the he infor in th Mariposa’s Banner Trip. The Oceanic Steamship Company’s Mari- posa reached port last evening, having finished what Captain Haywards styles | & bemuer trip a day ahead of time. She | sume the books wiil than another would be put to him| Huntington would coquette with it for | a moment and then branch off into | scme interesting anecdote of his early | | life, or would tell the commission how | even to the spectators. | impossible it would have been for Cali- | Rue again took up his burden. fornia to have become anything more than an unexplored wilderness if laticn the happiest and most prosper- ous the sun shines upon. “I am vain enough to think,” he sald, “that there was no man west of the Rocky Mountains who could have ac- | 1 | complished what I have accomplished.” | To which sentiment the mutely assented. “What was the original cost of all of | the properties of the Southern Paclflc’ Compan; was asked. | “Now, that is a hard question to an- | swer,” replied the magnate. ‘‘You see, | these roads have been built in such a way that at the present time it would be hard for me to tell just what they | cost in dollars and cents. If there is | any way in which I can assist the | commission in arriving at some definite | conclusion I am only too willing to do | so. It is my desire to do all that I can | to help you out.” | “Can you tell us what these roads cost?” commission | | think s0. At least there must be some way of finding out. I haven't the figures in my head, but I will do all that I can to assist you In getting them.” “Will you supply us with these fig- ures?"” ““Yes; at least I suppose so. I pre- show what is wanted. I want to do all that I can to help you out, for I appreciate the fact that some of the people of . this State have been misinformed as to our motives and it will be a pleasure to me to clear up all doubt in the matter, I wish to be entirely frank with you.'; he | only income-producing properties of the | had not come upon the scen: In time | Southern Pacific Company are in Cali- | to save it and make its present popu- | fornia?” the witness an adjournment was taken until 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Up to this time the game had been so one- sided that it furn ed very little sport At 2 o'clock La “Is it not a fact,” he asked, “‘that the “I am Inclined to think that such is not the case. It is my impression that | the road between Yuma and El Paso | is paying in some small degree, but l] am not sure. I may be abie to ascer- | tain that fact for you. I will willingly | do 8o if T can.” 3 ““Are the Californja roads made to bear the losses of the roads outside of the State that do not pay?” “That is hardly a fair question. You must understand that the entire sys- tem is operated as a whole. We flgure those things, you know, on the entire system and not on any individual lines or pieces of lines.” Being on the subject of philanthropy Huntington procecded to pat himself on the back in connection with the ferry service and other great benefits that have been thrown into the lap of the people of this city and State by the phi- | lanthropic corporation of which he is the guiding spirit. “I believe the time will come” he| concluded, ‘““when the people of Cali- fornia will be willing to let the builders | of these roads get a fair return for the money that has been invested. I say this who ought &N know, and I think the people believe me to be an honest man.” This ended the profitless inquisition for the day. The inquiry Will be con- tinued this afternosn. ——e——————— Mint Adjusters. Examination for adjusters to serve in the United States Mint will be held at the Lowell High School Saturday, May 7, at 9 o'clock a. m. \ EASTERN MARBLE Employer and Employe Join Hands in a Struggle for Life. Competition Threatens to Crush Out Big California In- dustry. The members of the local Marble Cut- ters’ and Polishers' Unfon have a hard fight on thelr hands to keep out Eastern goods and Incidentally avold a reduction of from 25 to 50 per cent in thefr wages. The fight against Eastern and forelgn goods has been on for a long time, and recently the members of the union de- cided not to handle any goods cut outside the Btate. A committee from the union has worked hard among architects and “builders to have clauses inserted In the contracts to the effect that only marble cut in this State be used In construction. In some cases they have been succesful, but in many others they have fafled, as the work of the Eastern firms Is done largely by prison labor, and in many cases women and children do a good deal of the work for a mere pittance. This compeution is gradually killing the local enterprises, and the men have been notified that if they cannot keep the work inside the State wages will be reduced from 25 to 50 per cent, or to the wages paid by Eastern competitors. If on the other hand they are successiul there will be & correspond- ing increase. tematizing plans for filling its ex- chequer, pointing out the way for the willing hands and hearts whose best | efforts have been placed at the com- | misston’s disposal. | In speaking of the matter last night a member of the unlon said: “We have practically Leen requested by our em- ployers to build a fence around the State | of California to keep the work here, and Offers of ald of all kinds continue to | ig our business people could only be in- pour in upon these busy people, who | duced to open their eyes and show a lit- have glven and will continue to give | tle patriotism we could do it. At present till peace is declared, the heart of their the wages here are none too good, but day, tull to overflowing, to humanity's We, realize the position of our empiovers cause. Among the latest, Jennie VVard and the ‘.L.nss OF Jabic they Seifiread:td Hayes, the poet and musician, offers | COmpete with. Our home merchants are & , constantly raising the cry of ‘patronize the sale of the patriotic songs she has| home industries and keep the money composed. There is a hall, Mayor Phe- here,’ yet as soon as one of them starts lan says, In the City Hall, which is at| to erect a bullding he will let the con- the services of the lecturers who desire | tracts go to Cincinnati, Chicago or any- to labor for the Red Cross, The Where else to save $50. The result of this Sorosis Club donates the use of its IS @ stagnation at present in our business which threatens to drive the marble in- rooms and will be, among the many clubs and societieh to enlist under Humanily's Banner. All of those who have volunteersd for the Red Cross army will be accepted. There is no possibility of failure to pass. All one requires is loyalty and generosity. | And when did California lack either of | these great qualifications? But the work must be swift now and sure. Our men leave in a week, in ten days, in a fortnight, according.to various rumors. Whatever the term may be it is the Intention of California’s Sanitary Commission to do all that lies in its power to hurry on the creation ' of its varfous committees, the swelling | of its bank account, the outfitting of its depot of supplies. What Dr. Hopkins, | surgeon-general of the State, calls an “excellent peace footing” shall be changed into a sturdy war basis, or | Californian and unstinted liberality will | no more be synonymous terms. The first thing to be done is to at- tack that $9000 deficit, which makes the Sanitary Corps look grave when the anticipated orders to the Philippines are mentioned. “Charity begins at home,” quotes an experienced surgeon of the corps. “Our men will suffer. and wa will | they went East to do it. dustry out of the State. “The marble cutters here are as good workmen as can be found anywhere, but they won't stay In the city and subsist on two or three days’ work in the week. Out of my own acquaintance 1 can count twenty men who have left the city with- in the past three months, simply because San Francisco work was going East and Last week two of my shopmates safled for Italy. A con- tract for a big plece of marble for a church now being erected In this city was let in Italy. If they get there soon enough perhaps they will get a chance to do some work on it, and spend in Europe the goney they would otherwise have spent’| ere. ““None of our men will handle any mar- ble cut outside the State and the propri- etors will refuse to Sell to any contractor | who lets his contract outside and happens CASTORIA For Infants and Children. T xa b 'M, 2R v to run short on a plece of marble. This is all we can do now, and if these meas- i ures are unsuccessful another California Hndufilnry will be killed by the California people.” —_————————— HUNTINGTON’S GIFT. Southern Pacific President Donates $1000 to Academy of Sciences’ Publication Fund. A resolution was passed at the meeting’ of the Academy of Sciences on Monday thanking President C. P. Huntington of the Southern Pacific Company for a dona~ tion of $1000 to the soclety. It was read by the secretary and is as follows: ‘Whereas, Realizing that the publications of the Academy are the most important feature of its work and that they take rank the best scientiflc journals of this country and urope, an Whereéas, That in its effort to print all the pa- pers presénted which are worthy of publica- lon, the society is constantly ham) by the inadequacy of the funds at its disposal, an ap- peal was made to Mr. C, P. Huntington, who, without the slightest hesitation, generously subscribed the sum of one thousand dollars toward the publication fund; therefore, be It Iesolved, That the California Academy of Sciences, appreciating the generosity of Mr. Huntington, hereby tenders him its sincere s: and be it further © 3 t a copy of this preambl revolution " be forwarded to | Mr. Haninston and be entered {n the minute book of this so- clety. At the conclusion of the regular busi- ness of the soeiety, Dr. George J. Plerce entertained a large audience with a lecture on_*Is There An¥ Fundamental Difference Between Animals and Plants?" ———— Church Steps on Fire. A small blaze with but little damage took place yesterday at Olivet Presby- terfan Church on Nineteenth avenue and Mississippi street, in South San Francisco. It was caused by some children playing fwar oz::thhmm&hesnggd explaining to er how Com: ore Dewey caj tured Manila. i ADVERTISEMENTS. Doctors Don’t like us! Druggists Don’t like us! WHY? Because we give no commissions, but save that half of price of prescriptions to you. Because we sell the best goods for less money than others. Becauss we expose a system of robbery that we think the public should know about— the giving and taking of commissions by some druggists and some doctors. While we have thus incurred the enmity of the commission druggists, and a few doctors, we have made friends of physicians who do not ac- cept commission and of the public who do not want to be robbed. 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