The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1898, Page 12

1 [ 4] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1898. TEN STRONG REASONS WHY THE CHARTER SHOULD BE OPPOSED Garret McEnerney, as an Attorney, Tells Why the City Govern- ment Would Be Injured by Adopting the Proposed Measure. [t Gives Unparalleled Powers to the Mayor—It Elections and It Fails to Make Many Provisions. Garret W. McEnerney as an attorney, a few days ago to give an opinion on | His reply isi Recognizing the ability of he-was requested by The Call the adwisability of adopting the proposed new charter. as follows: fogo=g=Begegcg-F-3-3-F-F-3-F-3-3-3-3-3-F-3-5-3-3-F-3-3-3-3-F-F-F-F-3 -3 The proposed charter is open to the follow- ing objections, among others: 1. It gives unparalleled powers to the Mayor, who is made, for all practical purposes, an autocrat. 2. It allows the Mayor to suspénd, and the Board of Supervisors to remove, elected officers. 8. It doubles the number of our elections, making them annual, at an unnecessary cost of ninety thousand dollars and more per annum. 4. No provision is made for registering voters for the municipal elections to be held un- der the charter. 5. The Board of Public Works, the Board of Health, the Board of Park Commissioners and other heads of various departments are author- ized to employ subordinates without number at salaries without limit. custody of the moneys i effect is certain to give and litigation. peicg=g=gegegegeg=guiogegeg-gogeRF-goR R -RoFoFoR R R TeR R TR F R R R BB R F o ] T . It gives unparalleled powers to the | Mayor, who is made, for all practical | purposes, an autocrat. The annual cost of conducting the | municipal government is over five mil- | lion dollars. The Mayor is authorized to appoint the heads of the departments of the city government through which from three and one-half to four millions will be expended anually. These offi- cers, though their tenure is fixed by the charter, nevertheless hold at the pleas- | ure of the Mayor. The charter provides that any appointed officer may be re- moved by the Mayor, who shall notify the Board of Supervisors of the removal and furnish a statement of the cause (Article XVI, sections 18, 20; p. 142). Every appointed officer, therefore, holds at the will and pleasure of the Mayor. He can be removed when it pleases the Mayor to remove him, and the suf- ficlency of the reasons are not open to review. | In his letter published in your issue | of Friday, Mr. John T. Doyle points out | that the power of removal secured by | this provision involves eight hundred employes of the city government. In| the Examiner of to-day, Dr. E. R. Tay- ior, one of the freeholders, makes the claim that when the charter says the Mayor may remove “any appointed of- | ficer” it means any officer appointed by the Mayor. If it means that, it does not say it. A deputy is as much an of- ficer as his principal; so that if the pro- | vision limits the removal to heads of departments, it is because the charter means something which it does not say. But, concede that the Mayor has no power to remove the subordinates of an appointed officer, confessedly he can re- move the principal. The principal can remove his subordinates at pleasure. Section 21 of Article X VI (p. 142) pro- vides that every principal may re- move his appointees unless otherwise provided. Dr. Taylor claims that under | the civil service provision (p. 131) appointees cannot be removed except for cause, upon written charges and after trial. I expect to show under an other heading that this provision has been three times declared unconstitu- tional by the Supreme Court of this State. So that, whether the Mayor can directly remove the subordinate of an appointed officer or not cuts little fig- ure. He can remove the principal as a matter of caprice, and can force the removal of the subordinate vunder a threattoremove the principal ifthe sub- ordinate is not removed. The principal departments of the city government over which the Mayor has this absolute authority, with the amounts appropriated for their mainte- nance dur'ne the current year, are: The School Department, $1,200,000; the Street Department and the Surveyor’s office (absorbed by the Board of Public Works), $568,000° the Fire Department, $646,200; the Police Department, $773,- 898; the Park Commissioners, $207,000; the Health Department, $265,300. Whatever arguments may be ad- vanced in support of the appointment by the Mayor of a very considerable number of the heads of the departments of a municipality, no argument can be adduced in support of such power where the officers appointed hold at the will and pleasure of the Mayor, ex- cept that government by the people in municipalities has proved a failure and we must now resort to a strong one- man government. Ir. It allows the Mayor to suspend, and the Board of Supervisors to re- move, elected officers. The charter provides (Article XVI, 6. There is no adequate provision for the 7. The tax levy is required to be fixed before the assessment roll is completed. 8. The new provisions in relation to the Police Courts are unwise and pernicious. 9. The provisions relating to civil service are a promise to the ear to be broken to the hope, for they are manifestly unconstitutional. 10. The question of when the charter takes QOQD’DQDQHC{!:UJflflfifififififlfififlfiflflfifififlfififiu n the treasury. CEfififififi?fifl&fldfibfifififibdfifi'flfififitfl:&flfibo‘dfi - Q\ b3 | | fod | | pended by the Mayor and removed hyl the Supervisors for cause. The Mayor | suspends the officer, and may fill his | place while he stands suspended. There i& no provision limiting the period of suspension. It is qdite possible under the charter to suspend him for the re- mainder of his term. It is true that the Mayor is required to immediately call | a session of the Supervisors to hear the | charges, but there is no provision which requires them to complete the hearing at once or to decide the case at once. They may keep it dallying for weeks and months. In the meantime the Mayor's appointee fills the vacancy | and removes the subordinates if he | likes. The great objection to this power is that it enables the Mayor and the Su- pervisors to remove persons elected by the people. There are ample provis- ions now for the removal of officers if they violate their duties, but the provis- | jons now secure accused officers the privilege of a trial in court before an tmpartial tribunal. They do not turn him over to the mercies of a ploitical party, which may be unfriendly to him or ich he defeated at the last elec- tion. Furthermore, this power in the Mayor and Supervisors would enable them to | get rid of an Auditor and a Treasurer | who stood in the way of a possible raid | upon the treasury. If we ever have the | misfortune to have a Mayor and a | Board of Supervisors who have loose | ideas about the expenditure of public | moneys their way to the public treas- | ury is clear. They can suspend Treas- | urer and Auditor, appoint persons who | entertain the point of view which they | hold, and the safeguards of the treas- ury are gone. It should be a cardinal rise to great confusion | rule in municipalities that the Auditor | and Treasurer are independent to the | very highest degree of every other offi- | eer of the municipality. They should | be responsible to the people who elect them and to the courts. This provision is essential to the welfare and security | of good government, more than to the mere security of the officers mentioned. III. It doubles the numbe= of our elec- tions, making them annual, at an un- necessary cost of ninety thousand | dollars and more per annum. An election in San Francisco costs | That of 189 cost $195,- | over $180,000. 556 78 (Auditor's report, 1897, pp. 20 | and 21). Independent of this, the fre- quency of elections is one of the curses of the country; and yet the Board of Freeholders, in framing the charter, not only did not studiously endeavor to render them less frequent, but on the | contrary doubled their number. The even-numbered years are glven over to presidential and gubernatorial elections. Immediately upon the adop- tion of the constitution in 1879 the Leg- islature provided for the election of all county and city and county officers at the time of the presidential and gubernatorial elections in the even- numbered years. So that, for nearly twenty years, we have had our munic- ipal elections in even-numbered years and have been free from the worry and | expense of them in odd-numbered ones. By the charter the municial elections are required to be held in No- vember of the odd-numbered years. Consequently, in every four years we will have one gubernatorial, one presi- | dential and two municipal elections in- stead, as now, of one joint guberna- torial and municipal election and one Joint presidential and municipal elec- tion. In other words, we will have two additional elections every four years, and those two elections will cost $360,- 000 and more. We will have, by the operation of the charter, an unneces- sary expense of $90.000 and over per annum, not counting the turmoil and excitement which unsettle business and entall injury and loss. Iv. No provision is made for register- ing voters for the municipal elections to be held under the charter. Bections 18 and 19) that any elected efficer, except Supervisor, may be sus- How the framers of the charter ex- 4 | And how is the Registrar of Vot | obtain machinery for Doubles the Number of Necessary -pect to hold a municipal election in each odd-numbered year without reg- istering the voters therefor passes comprehension, and yet totally failed to make any provisfon for the registration of voters for the municipal elections. The charter provides that the gen- eral laws of the State respecting elec- tions and registration of voters shall be applicable to the elections held and | the registrations had in San ranclsco (Art. XI, sec. 5, p. 123). The registra- tion provided by law for San Fran- cisco is registration preceding a_ gen- eral election. Section 1094 of the Polit- ical Code provides that registration shall commence 160 days before a gen- eral election, and shall continue for 76 days thence next ensuing, when such registration shall cease. A general election is defined in sec- tion 1041 of the Political Code to be an election held throughout the State in November in the even-numbered years. Consequently, the provision for regis- tration is a provision for registration in even-numbered years. What pro- vision is there for registration in the odd-numbered years? And what pro- vision s there for using in the odd- numbered years at municipal elections the registers which were printed for use at the preceding general election in the even-numbered years? And how are those persons who become entitled | to vote between seventy-five days be- | fore the election in the even-numbered | year and November of the following | year to be placed upon the register? | ers to open his office for registration for mu- nicipal electlons? Although I possess some familiarity with the law of elec- tions, I am at a loss to know how these things will be brought to pass. The omission, it occurs to me, to make these provisions is a great blunder. It may be suggested by the advo- cates of the charter that they can g0 to the Legislature in January, 1899, and ] carrying on a municipal election; but for them to do that would be highly inconsistent. They advancing the theory (at least some of them are) that the Legislature can pass no law upon any municipal affair and make it applicable to San I“rlnm“lsco‘.1 Tpon this subject see Mo v Broderick, 118 Cal d7s, "o MOTton ve. I presume that the framers of the charter will claim that a municipal election is a municipal affair. How is this situation to be met? V. The Board of Public Works, the Board of Health, the Board of Park Commissioners, and other heads of various departments, are authorized to employ subordinates without num- ber at salaries without limit. One of the distinguishing features of the consolidation act which obtained for it so strong a hold upon the prop- | erty owning and tax paying citizens was the various limitations contained | defendant is convicted in a Police Court | In it with respect to the number of of- | ficers to be employed and the amount | of salaries to be pald to them. These salutary protections against overwhelmed with mxesglo pay s has been omitted with respect to the chief departments oth)?]le c;‘ty government. e charter provides that of Public Works oyt clerks, superintendents, inspectors, en gineers, surveyors, deputies, architect: and workmen as shall be necessai and may fix their compensation, VI, Sec. 3, p. 52.) There is no limit to the number. There {s no limit to the amount of compensation. The section, it is true, provides that the compensa. tion shall not be greater than is paid In cases of similar employment. But upon the question of what s paid in cases of similar employment the Board of Public Works is the judge, and from its determination there is no appeal. The Board of Public Works has pow- er to appoint as many subordinates as it pleases and to pay without limit. 1t is also invested with power to appoint the City Engineer without any limit upon the amount of his salary. The consolidation act lim- its the Surveyor’s salary to five hun- dred dollars. Would it not have been well to have limited the City Engi- neer’s salary to ten times that amount, or twenty times, so that we might know exactly what he is to get, or know some limit beyond which the Board of Public Works could not g0? This board absorbs two departments of the city government which expend- ed $568,000 and more during the current year, and absorbs many functions which have been heretofore exerciged by other departments of the city gov- ernment. It will control the construc- tion and repair of all public buildings and will have charge of the cleaning of them, with the incidental power to employ such janitors and other em- ploves as may be needed for the pur- pose. (Art. VI, Sec. 9, Subd. 4, p. 54.) It is safe to say that this department | of the city government will annually |expend between seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars and one million | dollars. The voters of the city will | have no voice in the selection of the of- | ficers by whom this vast sum will be spent. They will not be heard to say | how much of that sum shall g0 to pay salaries nor how many salary takers there may be. The board will be ap- pointed by the Mayor, removable at his will. It will appoint its vast army of | subordinates at what prices it pleases, removable (as I shall hereafter show) | at its will. So that that great depart- | ment of the city government will be at | the beck and call of the Mayor. If, to use the language of Mr. Doyle, he is either “‘an angel or demigod,” 1t may be all right; if he is not, it may be all wrong. h The power to appoint as many sub- | ordinates as it pleases, at what salary it will, 1s also conferred upon the Board of Health (Art. X, sec. 5, p. 120). The same power Is conferred upon the Park Commissioners (Art. XI, sec. 6, p. 135). | It is likewise conferred upon other de- | partments of the city government. It | may be said In brief that every depart- ment of the city government the heads of which are appointed by the Mayor, have unlimited powers with’ respect to the number of employes and their sal- arfes, and that only those departments to which the people elect .are limited with respect to the number and salary of the employes. In other words, it is s Ty, (Art. they have | innu- | | merable officers at exorbitant salaries from the charter | are then submitted to the Judge, who | them salaries | safer to trust the Mayor than to trust the voters. VI. There is no adequate provision for the custody of the moneys in the treasury. The provision of the conc lidation act which provides that the Mayor, Treas- urer and one of the Judges of th> Supe- { rior Court shall, each month, count the money in the treasury has been omitted from the charter, Why? Was not that a salutary rule? Was It not a sub- stantial protection against embezzle- ment, If rigidly cbserved? What pre- cautions have been substituted in its place? Bimply these: that the bulk of the money in the treasury shali be in a Joint-custody safe, which can enly be opened by the Auditor and Treasurer together. But the Auditor has no con- trol over the funds except to open and close the safe, and the charter ex- pressly provides that he “shall not be held responsible on his oticial bond for any shortage which may occur in the ;Ie)ssury." (Art. IV, Chap. 3, Sec. 3, p. 7. This 8 the only provision for the safe custody of the funds; and, in view of the fact that the Treasurer is re- quired to give a bond of only $100,000, Wwhile carrying at times more than $1,000,000. it would seem that the safe- guards are both meager and unsatis- factory. VII. The tax levy is required to be fixed ‘before the assessment roll is com- pleted. | The charter nrovides that the tax levy shall be made on or before the last | Monday of June in each year (Art. 111, Sec. 21, p. 23). It is provided that the | levy, exclusive of certain fixed charges, | shall not exceed $1 on each $100 valua- | tion of the property assessed. But, sin- gularly enough, the Political Code pro- | his assessment, not on or before the | last Monday of June, but on or before the first Monday of Julv. in each year (Sec. 3652, Political Code). So that the | Freeholders have furnished us with a | provision which requires the tax rate | to be fixed a week before the Assessor | 1s required to complete the assessment | roll upon which the tax levy is to be based. Furthermore, after the Assessor com- | pletes the assessment roll, it becomes | the subject of equalization by the | Board of Supervisors, sitting as a | Board of Equalization, from the first to the third Monday of July, if the business in hand shall require it to be in session that long (Sec. 3672, Pol. Code). Until the third Monday of July in each | year the assessment roll is not defin- | itely established. And yet the charter provides that three weeks before that time the tax rate upon that assessment roll shall be established. VIII The new provisions in relation to the Police Courts are unwise and per- nicious. The present Police Court has jurisdic- tion of those misdemeanors only which can be punished by one year's im- prisonment and by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars (Statutes of 1893, | P. 10). The charter gives it concurrent Jurisdiction with the Superior Court of all misdemeanors. _ Every crime is a misdemeanor unless it be punishable by death or imprison- ment in the penitentiary. The grant of Jurisdiction to a Police Court of every misdemeanor is a very dangerous inno- vation. The crimes which are punish- able as misdemeanors are of greater magnitude than may reasonably be ex- pected to be disposed of in the Folice Courts with due regard to justice. Take the crime of libel. For that crime a man may be imprisoned for a year and fined five thousand dollars. The imprisonment Is to be in the County Jail. Should he be tried in the Police | Court? And take other crimes which are punishable by two or three years' imprisonment in the County Jail, and which may be punished as false tenses by a fine represented by five fig- | ures, ten thousdnd, twenty thousand, | thirty thousand dollars. Should those offenses be tried in the Police Court? | But, passing that question, the char- | ter contains what must seem to every lawyer a very improper provision relat- ing to the record on appeals to the Su- perior Court from Police Courts. If a and desires to appeal to the Superfor | Court he prepares his statement on ap- | peal. Within a reasonable time the | District Attorney is entitled to propose | amendments to the statement. The | proposed statement and amendments | settles and certifies to the statement on | appeal in accordance with the facts. If | the District Attorney’'s amendments do may employ such | not cover the case he 4s entitled, under | | the present practice, to make the state- ment on appeal conform to the truth, 8o that he shall not be misrepresented | in_the appellate court. ! _But the charter provides that if the | District Attorney sbhall fail to file | amendments to the proposed statement | within five days after service thereof | “the proposed statement on appeal shall | be the statement on appeal” (Art. V, | chap. 8, sec. 3, subd.2d, p. 48). In | other words, the Judge who tries the case has no power to make the state- ment on appeal set forth the truth about the trial and rulings of the court if, from Inadvertence, neglect or indif- | ference, the District Attorney shall fail to file amendments within five days. IX. The provisions relating to civil broken to the hope, for they are man. ifestly unconstitutional. Upon what theory the framers of the charter provide for the appointment of Commission, whose salary, with that of the secretary. is $6000 per annum, when the provisions for civil service are In the teeth of three decisions of the Su- preme Court, can be better answered by the author of the provisions than by me. . The charter provides that no ap- pointments shall be made, with a few | exceptions, except from the list of the | persons who have passed civil service examinations. The plan pursued is this: The commissioners of civil ser- vice certify to the officer who is to fill | the vacancy the name or address of one {or more candidates, not exceeding | three. He takes the appointee from | those certifted to him. The charter | provides “in making such certification | sex shall be disregarded, except when | some statute, the rules of the commis- sfoners and the appointing power spe- | cifies sex” (Article X1II, Section 9, page 1130.) I do not know whether this pro- | vision was intended to secure us female deputy sheriffs or not. I do not quite understand the provision and I shall not therefore undertake to put a con- struction upon it. However, it is provided in the char- ter (page 131) “that no_ appointment not so made shall be void”; that is to | say, except through the Civil Service Commission. | The provision of the charter which secures fixed tenure of office, unless the Mayor at his pleasure shall remove, seems to be this (for there is no other): “No deputy, clerk or employe in the classifled civil service of the city and county, who shall have been appointed under said rules, shall be removed or discharged excent for cause, Upon writ- ten charges, and after opportunity to be heard in his own defense.” (Article XIIT, Section 12, page 131). If there is one rule better established than another .in this State it is that under our constitution suck a provision is unconstitutional. The provision of the constitution which it violates pro- vides in substance that if the consti- tution does not fix the term of an officer Vides that the Assessor must complete | pre- | service are a promise to the ear to be | subordinates through a Clvil Service | such term may be fixed by law, but not in any case to exceed four years. The section urther provides that if no term is fixed the officer holds at the pleasure of the appointing power. The provision referred to is section 16 of ar- ticle XX of the constitution of 1879, copied from section 7 of article XI of the constitution o' 1849. The constitu- tional provision means that the term of office shall be measured by years, for it provides that the term shai. never exceed four years; and a provision fixing a term at five years was declared unconstitutional {n People vs. Perry, 79 Cal., 105. That a provision that an officer shall not be removed except for cause and after trial is unconstitutional under this provision of the constitution was de- cided in 1857 in People v. Hill, 7 Cal., 9_7'; in 1881, in Smith v. Brown, 59 Cal., 672, and in 1887, in People v. Shear, 15 Pacific Reporter, 92. In each of those cases there was a provision that an officer should not be removed except for cause. In People v. Hill the officer removed was the Captain of Police of San Fran- clsco; in Smith v. Brown the officer re- moved was a police officer of Sacra- mentd; in People v. Shear the officer removed was the Superintendent of the House of Correction in San Francisco. | The law provided that he should only be rsmoved for just and sufficlent cause, after - fair and impartial in- vestigation*by the Supervisors. No in- | vestigation was had and no cause as- | slgned. The case -as tried before Judge Hunt, and on the authority of | People v. Hill and Smith v. Brown he decided that the Board of Supervisors had power to remove Shear without cause. His decision was upheld in the | Supreme Court, as follows: “‘On_authoritv of Smith v. Brown, 59 | Cal., 672, and People v. Hill, T Cal.. 97, | the judgment and order appealed from | are affirmed.” Judge Seawell has, within six months, decided a similar case, which ‘involved a Superintendent of the Almshouse. | The statute proviced that he should not | be removed without cause. The Board | appointed Captain Reddy his successor. Judge Seawell decided that, notwith- | standing the provision that he should | not be removed without cause, Mr. ‘Weaver held at the pleasure of the ap- pointing power, and that Captain Red- | dy’s appointment by the Board of | Health was valid. X. | The question of when the charter | takes effect is certain to give rise to | great confusion and litigation. | The advocates of the charter claim | that {t takes effect on January 1, 1900. | Some of them certainly intended that it | should take effect at that time. A ref- | erence to their proceedings will show | that. At one of their meetings Mr. M. | C. Hassett, who is supporting the | adoption of the charter, appeared be- fore the Board of Freeholders and sug- gested that the Mayor elected in 1898 should put the charter into effect. Dr. E. R. Taylor, one of the Freeholders, was reported in the papers to have de- | nounced the proposition. The propo- | sition was put and voted down, and | the charter provision on the subject | stood as it is contained in the char- ter (p. 145). That provision is that the | | Mayor, elected in November, 1899, shall, | between December 1, 1899, and Jan- uary 1, 1900, make all appoint- ments provided by this charter to {|be made by him, and the per- !sons so appointed shall qualify; and all boards, commissions and offi- cers holding by appointment under ex- isting law shall hold no longer. But there is no provision whatever | as to when the charter shall take effect. The constitution provides that “if ap- proved by a majority of the members | elected to each house it shall become | the charter of such city, or if such city | be consolidated with a county, then of such city and county, and it shall be- come the organic law thereof and su- persede any existing charters a-d all | amendments thereof and all laws in- ADVERTISEMENTS. Ribbons! Ribbons! SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK 900 pieces No. 40 RIBBON, extra TAFFETA MOIRE heavy quality and all pure silk, 40 different shades, also black. Ribbon measures full J Inches in width. 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I venture to prophesy that if the charter be adopted | it will be claimed (the matter will cer- tainly have to be settled) that unless | | the charter has provided when it takes | | effect it takes effect from its ratifica- | tion. | So that, after all, when the charter | takes effect depends upon whether it | will go into effect at the time the Free- | holders intended, but omitted to state, or whether it will go into effect at the time when, in the absence of any pro- viston or indication of intemtion upon | | the subject, it must by the constitu- | tion go into effect. It seems to be a | case of omitting to say what one in- tended. It is the counterpart of the provision respecting the Mayor’'s power of removal. In that instance he was given power to remove all appointive | officers; but Dr. Taylor is authority for | the statement that it was only intend- ed to permit him to remove his own appointees. A WOMAN BRUTALLY BEATEN. Mrs. Katie McKay the Victim of a| Drunken Row on Geary Street. Mrs. Katle McKay, living at 268 O'Far- rell street, was taken fo the Recelving Hospital early yesterday morning in an unconscious condition, and it was not un- til late in the afternoon that she regained her senses. Her nose was fractured and her left cheek and eye were badly swol- len and discolored. The last thing she re- | membered was drinking in a saloon with a young man whom she met on the street. She did not know his name. Charles McBay, a watchman, is in the City Prison suspected of being the as- sailant. Sergeant Steve Bunner heard that a woman had been murdered on Geary street, and he found Katie uncon- sclous on the sidewalk. McBay was point- ed out to him as one of the men who was with her, so he was arrested. Mc- Bay admitted that he had been drinking with the woman and another man in the saloon, 112 Geary street, but he knew nothing about her being beaten. 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FIDELITY AND BEPOSIT C0. OF MARYLAND. Home Office, Baltimore, Maryland. FINANCIAL STATEMENT Janucxri_l. 1898. RESOURCES. Real estate (Fidelity bullding) 600,000 00 State and municipal bonds. 1,255,010 00 Street rallway bonds (Baltimore City’ 169,240 00 Rallroad and other bonds. 186,550 00 Agents’ debit sions 95,116 34 Premium: (home office) 6,020 43 Cash In office and banks. 188,587 54 Capital stock (paid in) Burplus ........ Premium reserve. Claims in process of adjustment. Claims reporte: not filed. Undivided EDWIN WARFIELD, President. HERMAN E. BOSLER, Secretary and Treasurer. GILBERT, General Agent Pacific Coast, 204-208 Sansome St., San Francisco, FRANK L. Beware of Imitations Q0000000000000 0009 O THE PALACE ANDD P LY °SGRAND HOTELSS ° SAN FRANCISCO. ° Comnecicd by iy esaksear. o © 1400 Rooms. 900 With Bath Attachad. © al. Uxpern Ove Mavaceusae O NOTE TEE PRICES: (<] European Plan.$1. 00 per day and upward © Kierican Plan. 83, 00 per day and upward Correspondence Solicited. 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