The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUHESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1898. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manage; IR wsboduw ol e i e B eI d o Badall 0 00 PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. . Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 291 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carriers In this clty and surrounding towns | for 15 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE...... 908 Broadway | WEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE. «...--Rigge Houes | €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. | CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Buflding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representativo. | One year, By mal, $1.50 | | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock, | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, ope untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—"An Enemy to the King. Columbta—»Ingomar.” Aleagar—*In Mizzoura.” Moroeco's—~Trilby Tivoli—"The-Queen of Sheba.” Orpheum— Vandeville New Comedy Theater—* What Happened to Jones.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville ‘Ibe Chutes—Pietro Marino, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Ulympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. £utro’s Bathe—Swimming. Sherman-Clay Hall—Durward Lely. Rosenthal—Coming in February ———— AUCTION SALES, By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, September 27, Furniture, #1208 Grant avenue, st 11 0 clock. By E, Cohn—This day, September 27 Furniture, Howard street, at 11 0'0locK. at 1128 NE need not search far afield for the reasons THE MARKET STREET PAVEMENT. which have determined Superintendent Am- | : brose of the Street Department to advise the | Supervisors to discontinue the Market | street upon the completion of the present contracts. There is no scarcity of funds. The levy for the depart- | ment is as large within a few thousands as last year, and there is no reason why a portion of the money | should not be used in extending the bitumen on Mar- ket street to Valencia. In fact, no figures have been offered to show that the amount appropriated for | Market street last year cannot be appropriated this | year. The inspiration of Superintendent Ambrose is found | in the system under which he works. If Market street | is bituminized to-Valencia the work will be awarded | to a contractor who will employ his own men and | machinery and buy his own materials. If the money | in the: Street Department fund is expended in clean- | ing sewers, repairing accepted streets and paving in | front of city property it will be expended under the direction of the officials of the Street Department. In other words, Mr. Ambrose will then do the employ- ing and will himself buy the material. This accounts for the milk in the cocoanut. In one case it is'a business proposition, in which all the peo- | ple of the city are interested; in the other it is a case | | { | repaving of of “doing” some Democratic politics with the public money. If Superintendent Ambrose shall, after reflection, conclude to send in a recommendation to abandon‘ the repaving of Market street to Valencia, we trust | the Board of Supervisors will place it in a pigeon | hole. Making Democratic politics under ordinary circumstances is not a bad thing, and we are far from objecting to it. For instance, we did not object when Mayor Phelan tore up the tracks on Market street, | though as a Republican journal we knew he under- took the work as a vote-getting scheme. But sub- stantially all the people in San Francisco are interest- ed in repaving Market street to Valencia. The thoroughfare -is practically worn out and has long been a disgrace to the city. Replacing the street with bitumen may not be the best thing that can be done with it, but the Mayor and Supervisors have decided on such a pavement, and they ought not to stop short of completing the work. Certainly they should not permit the political necessities of the Street Depart- ment Democrats to interfere with so just a public en- terprise. Of-course, in common with his other admiring con- stituents, we shall regret to see the political powers of Mr. Ambrose curtailed. But there ought to be some other way of “doing” Democratic politics than using the money of the Street Department to pay for corner grocery discussions of the merits of the various candidates for municipal office. It is notorious that during canpaigns the employes of the Street Depart- ment never work, O showers of such profusion as to give promise that we are to have anything rather than a dry winter this season. They have, moreover, been wide- spread, and have carried their blessings to almost every section of the State. That some damage will result from such general rains this early in the year is certgin. A considerable part of the prune crop is in process of drying, and the rain where it has been heavy will entail loss of some of the fruit and a good deal of expense in saving -the rest that was exposed to the showers. Moreover the grape crop may be more or less hurt, but reports are to the effect that the injury to that crop is not ex- pected to be great in any part of the State. It is worth noting that from nearly all the centers of the fruit and grape industry it. is announced that the warnings of the Weather Bureau of the coming of the si.owers were given in time to enable the orchard- ists and vineyardists to prepare for them. Prunes that had been spread for drying were stacked beiore the rains came, and the loss therefore was much smaller than it would have been otherwise. The usefulness of the bureau has thus been again demonstrated, and when all rural workers learn to pay attention to its re- ports the profit from its labors will be even greater than now. In any case, however, the losses from the showers would have been slight in comparison with the gains that will result from the early coming of the begin- ning of the rainy season. The drought has been long and severe. It was beginning to tell upon the vitality of the orchards in many Sections, and fears were ex- THE EARLY RAINS. UR eariy rains have begun this year with J. HAM LEWIS. ONGRESSMAN J. HAM LEWIS of Wash- C ington has passed across the stage of California | politics like a resplendent pageant. He has | faded in the distance, a vision of hair, whiskers and | fine raiment, and the odors of Araby linger in his trail. For one too brief night he stood upon the plat- form of Metropolitan Temple and shed a sumptuous illumination upon our local campaign, and then re- tired into his bandbox and left us, creased trousers and all, for the more appreciative precincts of Puget Sound. His business here was to arraign the Republican party for not keeping its pledges. He did not sob forth his sorrow. It is not an inarticulate grief with J. Ham. Its expression requires a resort to all the parts of speech. But his set and permanent melan- choly over Republican shortcomings did not hinder him in taking his audience into his confidence when he came to boast that he had taken away the Demo- | cratic leadership from Bailey, the tall Texan, and ap- | propriated it to himself, with all the hereditaments and | muniments of power. This part of his speech pre- | sented himself, J. Ham Lewis, as the Dewey of the campaign, who manned the parliamentary conning tower, and by use of telephone, speaking tube and wig-wag, silenced the guns and drowned the ships of | Montijo Bailey, and made him take water in a row- | boat and leave his flag behind him. It was a pleasure to look upon the rare and radiant, the airy, fairy and iridescent person of the victor in this fight for lead- ership on the stormy Congressional waters. Having captured leadership by the use of the smoke- | less powder of oratory, J. Ham must hold it by turn- ing his vocal Krupp upon the Republicans, and he did it. They have not kept their pledges is the casus belli which this land and water, marine and submarine and ultra-marine, warrior asserted as thg reason for his devastating presence on the platiorm of Metropolitdn Temple. An examination of the record since McKinley’s in- auguration, as shown in the reliable, non-partisan sta- tistics of commerce and finance, may be the means of confining this opalescent and scintillating statesman to an account of his victory over Bailey to the aban- donment of discussion of mere politics. The day Bryan was nominated in 1896 the money in | circulation in this country was $1,506,434.966. Just | two years later it was $1,843,435,749, or an increase of | more than half a million dollars a day for the whole period, or $20,000 an hour. Yet Mr. Bryan and his men declared that in 1896 the only way to increase the | volume of circulation was by the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and the Republican party said the way to increase it was by sound credit and restored confi- dence. The gold in circulation when Mr. Bryan was nominated amounted to $454,005,064; when he was de- | | feated it increased at once to $516,340,279. A month after McKinley's inauguration it was $517,125,757. By | December 1, 1897, it was $544,494,748. It went on in- creasing last winter in the face of certain war with Spain, and on April 1, after the Maine was destroyed and war resolutions were pending. it was $582,120,724. Then came the war, and in the midst of it, on July 1, | 1898, when Shafter was hammering at the walls of; Santiago, the gold circulation stood at $660,959,830, the largest amount in the history of this country. The total circulation at the same date of all kinds of money and every dollar of it at par in gold was $1,843,- 435,740. This is the largest circulation in the history | of the country, and the largest per capita, for it amounted to $24 74 per head of population. In 1806 Mr. Bryan and the prismatic J. Ham Lewis | said that low prices were caused by the denial of free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and that prices would never rise until the country had free silver. | Bradstreet's comparison of prices for July 1, 1896, and July, 1808, proves that this pot of silver, the raise in prices, was not at the place where the Bryan rainbow touched the earth. That comparison shows: 1898 | Beef per bbl.... .. $11.30 Pork ner bbl .. 10.00 Bacon per b .04 3-8 .06 | Lard per b .04 1-5 .05 1-2 | Beef in carcass 1. .05 1-2 07 2-3 Hogs In carcassib...... .03 7-8 04 4-5 Mutton In carcass Ib. .05 1-2 .08 1-2 Horses . . eee. 65.00 85.00 Wool, O. 18 .25 Wheat . .64 3-8 .86 Rye .37 1-2 52 Oats .21 1-2 28 Throughout the list, including beans, barley, flour, cotton seed, hops, flax, tobacco and hides, the increase runs fom 16 to 25 per cent in prices. In addition to this the balance of trade in our favor July 1, 1898, was $615,324,791, for during the year we had exported our products to the amount of $1,231,320,950, and had im- ported only $616,005,159." So that we sold twice as much as we bought and took the balance in gold and liguidated obligations held abroad. The effect of sound credit and sound money has been felt throughout all the channels of trade, and has changed the position of this country to the rest of the world. Instead of being the world’s debtor we are the creditor nation, with the prospect of increasing the debts of the nations to us during the next two years. J. Ham Lewis has come and gone, like a beautiful déream. He was a lovely figment, but he leaveg be- hind the impression that his charms are not for this practical world. Let him hie to Arcadia and com- pare feathers with the lyre bird, or go down to Ore- gon to compete with the iris and gold of the cock pheasant from Mongolia, who shames the glories of the firefly, by the clear-winding Willamette, C ple to sustain” Congress in voting large sums of money for war purposes and the certainty that the jingo programme of colonial expansion will entail even larger expenditures than those caused by the brief conflict with Spain, the Pittsburg Dispatch points out that since the nation is rich enough to bear the burdens of taxation necessary to provide for these ex- BETTER THAN IMPERIALISM. OMMENTING upon the readiness of the peo- penditures, it would be better to apply the money to internal improvements than to foreign adventures. The Dispatch says: “The sum of $500,000,000 ex- pended in improving the rivers of the nation, in con- necting the rivers with the lakes and the lakes with the ocean, would give the entire population between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic coast the cheapest transportation in the world. A similar sum expended in establishing irrigation on the arid lands of the West would add more than 60,000,000 acres to the productive area of the United States and increase the wealth of the country by over $1,200,000,000. The proposition of course does not come within the domain of practical politics, but it is worth con- sideration in contrast with the proposed expenditure of hundreds of millions to establish a colonial system and educate the mongrel races of the tropics in the art of self-government. It i3 a failing of humanity that both individuals and nations are more willing to spend money for the sake of prestige and cutting a big figure in the world than pressed whether the trees would be able to form buds | to provide for comfort at home, Therefore money for the fruit of next year. The showers have come in | for war is more easy to obtain than for internal im- time, it is to be hoped, to put an end to all anxieties | provements. on that score, and to give every rural industry reason for the hope of an abundant harvest in 18g9. Nevertheless the Dispatch is right in saying: “The turning of pu_b“c ‘menfion and public expenditure to these and cognate questions will give the people of the United States more real return than all the schemes for spending money for “imperialism” in savage and antipodal regions. $ THE CAMPAIG IN CALIFORNIA. HATEVER defeat and disaster may await W them on election day, the fused factions of dis- content have at least fulfilled their boast of forcing State issues to the front during the campaign. By nominating for Governor so irresponsible a dema- gogue as James G. Maguire on a platform so threat ening to all the interests of the thrifty and industrious classes of the people, they have compelled intelligent men to recognize that the chief issue in the contest is that of preserving the State from the domination of the Maguires and the Gallaghers, J The issue is the more -pressing because the pros perity which followed the accession of McKinley to office and the speedy enactment of a Republican tariff for the protection of American industry Has resulted in a renewed activity among capitalists in the direc- tion of large investments and great enterprises. This has been accompanied by a revival of the westward march of progressive young men looking for places in which to establish business and make permanent homes. California, having vast resources undeveloped and millions of acres uncultivated, will naturally at- tract many of these home-seckers, but the attraction will be in vain if the government of the State should at this juncture be politically unsound and antagonis- tic to capital. If this had been a year of industrial distress and financial embarrassment, if thousands of people were out of work and times were hard, the Maguire move- ment would be everywhere recognized as one of the most dangerous in our annals. Then its true nature would have been revealed and its hostility to property and industry would have shown itself in fierce denun- ciations of all kinds of thrift and all forms of con- servatism. As it is the leaders have had to be some- what mild in their harangues, but none the less they have said and done enough to exhibit the reckless character of their policies and their principles. To defeat them is therefore a necessary step toward our continuance in the paths of prosperity. It is a State issue which no property-owner, business man or in- dustrious worker can ignore. THE SITUATION AT FASHODA. ENERAL KITCHENER'S advance guard has 6 reached Fashoda and found there a French force under Major Marchand. The British commander notified the French that Great Britain claims the territory and demanded their retirement. Marchand replied courteously that France claims the territory, and in turn demanded that the British retire. The incident closed for the time with the opposing forces encamped within view of each other; there to remain on friendly terms until the diplomats of Lon- don and Paris decide which shall retire. The situation is strikingly like.one which occurred between the forces of the same nations when they were struggling for supremacy in this country during the middle of the last century. The British colonists along the Atlantic had extended their outposts to the crests of the Alleghenies, and claimed the Ohio River region beyond. A French force marched down from Canada and started to establish a fort at the point where Pittsburg now stands. George Washington, then serving in the British army as a major of the Virginia colonial troops, was sent forward to warn the daring Frenchmen to vacate the territory, and did so, coming up with their advance guard some dis- tance from the site where the fort was in process of construction. Up to that point the incident in America 150 years ago was almost exactly like that in Africa to-day. The results of the meeting of the two forces in the last cen- tury, however, were very different from those which have followed from the meeting at Fashoda. There was no courteous interchange of compliments and patient waiting for diplomatists in the old days. Wash- ington attacked the French as soon as he met them, and the fight that followed was the beginning of a war that did not end until the French were driven out of not only the Ohio River region, but Canada as well. It will be seen the civilized world has made a long stride since the last century. Nations are no longer to be hurried into wars by the rash actions of com- manders of distant outposts. The pen of the diplo- matist in the capital dominates the sword of the war- rior even in the wilderness of barbarous lands, and compels armies to halt in the face of one another in- stead of fighting as soon as they meet. Tennyson, when in a fit of pessimism he wrote “Maud,” denounced with no little indignation this curbing of the military valor of men, and said with scorn: “The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels; and the nations do but murmur, snarling at each other’s heels.” Few intelligent men, however, will regret the change that has come over the world. The incident at Fashoda will not be so heroic a record on the pages of history as that which took place on the frontier of Pennsylvania in the last century, but it will none the less be a proof of the ad- vancing civilization of both the British and the French. P Even the Memphis Commercial-Appeal takes up the warfare against the First Tennessee statioried at this point. It should bear in mind that in this regi- ment are about 150 untamed moonshiners, caught in the Southern mountains, and never before brought into contact with any civilization save that represent- ed by revenue officers. The rest of the regiment is made up of as good blood as has gone to the front, and the officers are gentlemen to whom the conduct of the few scalawags has caused greater pain than it could have caused to any one else Sy Nt There is no use in jumping to the conclusion that California volunteers want to be mustered out of the service, nor that the purpose for which they were called to arms has been fully accomplished. On the other hand, some who are being mustered out do not accept the situation joyously, and there is no assur- ance that grave work does not await in the Philip- pines. Charles Van Alstine, a returned Klondiker, who married on a few hours’ acquaintance, is reported as “alarmed” because his wife has disappeared with most of his ready cash. There is not the slightest occasion for alarm or even surprise. While his belief that there has been foul play is well founded, Charles may be reasonably assured that he is the only victim of it. It is a fortunate circumstance that Aguinaldo should have the columns of a New York paperthrough which to address the people of the world. It gives some space writer the assurance of being able to look the landlady in the face. At last there seems to be a growing impression that the Spanish must get out of Cuba. If recollection is not at fault, American troops were sent there under the stimulus of the same idea. Highwaymen in the Klondike Iuv.e begun to rob and murder. Thus do the influences of a benign civ- ilization reach into and permeate the Arctic circle. (ITY FATHERS MiK The Bupervigors transncted some fmpor- tant business at thelr meeting yesterdny afternoon. The report of the Committee on Health and Pollce, in favor of collect- Ing garbage by contract, and doing away with the present scavenger system, was nanimously adopted. The scavengers were present In forco as spectators, hav- Ing Attorney Harding there also s gpokesman No action was taken on the guestion of repaving Market street from Sixth to Vi- lencia with bitumen. The petition from property ewners on the thoroughfare, asking that the bitumen be extended at once as far as the City Hall square, was referred to the Street Committee. Cap- taln Delany afterward stated that there was a well-defined Intention on the part of the Bupervisors, so he understood, to pave with bitumen on Marset out to Va- lencia, although no specifications had yet been adopted. He did not agree with Su- perintendent Ambroge as to the necessity for Knocking off work upon Market street, simply becuuse the tax levy was low. Im- provements could go ahead. . After thinking over matters on Sunday, Mr. Ambrose concluded not to take the initlative In calling the attention of the Bupervisors to his conclusion that the Market-street improvements would have to stop. 1 will walt for the board to consider further repalring contracts on Market street,” said he, “and then I will send in my communication stating that the avallable funds of the department will not allow the work to be done. Al- ready there are some $70,000 worth of bi- tumen contriots outstanding which must be met out of my appropriution. This is all that it will stand.” Just what will be done by the Supervi- sors_regarding the project to bituminize to Valencia street will probably develop within the next week, after the Street Committee shall have had time to form- ulate a report. The chances seem fairly good for the improvement to be orderea, despite the objections of Mr. Ambrose. The board took no further notice of the recent communication from the Grand Jury to the effect that it needed $5000 for the purpose of conducting an expert in- vestigation into certain municipal affairs. On recommendation of the Finance Com- mittee the communication was filed with- out comments, Bateman Bros. were given until Janu- ary 1, 1899, to finish the Hall of Justice. The Clerk was instructed to advertise for proposals for sweeping and cleaning ublic_streets for a period of two years | from December 1, 1896. On recommendation of the Committee on Health and Police, the Supervisors un- animousiy directed #hat a two years lease of the premises, 507 and 509 Stanyan street, be eftected, the same to be used as a police station and the rental to be $166 per month. On its face the little reso- lution looked innocent enough, but later Mayor Phelan raised a question. “I un- derstand,” said he, “that there are no such numbers as 507 and 509 Stanyan. How is that?” “Well,” replied Delany, “the property that we want to lease is that now occu- pled by Devany & Hopkins, the bicycle e Devany?"” the T es,” it is rented by Devany & Hop- kins from Dr. Ragan of the School Board,” replied the captain. “The build- ing is'to be refitted at Ragan's expense. The lease will provide that. Subsequently there was some explana- tion demanded by the reporters. ‘There- upon Delany made this statement: “We do not consider the rent too high, in view of the fact that Ragan will have to ex- pend $3000 on the building to put it in proper condition for use as a police sta- | tion.” This statement was somewhat mystify- ing in view of the fact that $3000 expended by Dr. Ragan, out of two years' rental, would only leave him 3384 profit, rather a small sum, considering the location of | the property’ and the size of the build- | ing, 50 by 100 feet. “f "don’t understand 1t was Mayor Phelan’s remark after the meeting ad- ourned. ‘“Property out in that neigh- orhood ought not to rent at such a fig- ure.” It is highly probable that Super- visor Delany will be called upon by the Mayor to explain which is getting the worst of the deal, the city or Ragan. Supervigor Devany ‘claims to have no in- terests in the lease, alleging that Hopkins and himself merely rented of Ragan and are about to seek another location. Supervisor Morton was granted thirty | days leave of absence from the State to attend to private business. A contract was awarded for the steam lant at the Almshouse for $5650. Phil- ips & Smyth were granted a contract for printine 200 copies of the general order | for. $1.70 per page. The name of Morton street was changed to_Union Square. | William Tobin, janitor of Police Court No. 2, was dismissed and his place given | to_John Devereaux. | _Supervisor Sheehan presented for con- | sideration an ordinance prohibiting the | circulation, or distribution, of lottery | tickets, scrolls or devices, making the | same a misdemeanor, punishable by a | $20 to $500 fine, or imprisonment from ten | days to six months. Consideration was deferred until next meeting. Supervisor Delany handed in a resolu- | tion to take the license off all nickel-in- | the-slot machines, so that they could be | operated without restrictions, at the same time prohibiting gaming with cards and dice. This remarkable move In favor of the nickel gambling machines will be | brought to the attention of the full Board at its next meeting. S g STREET IMPROVEMENTS. Summary of the Week’s Work of the Board. The following is a complete record of the street Improvements passed by the Board of Supervisors at yesterday's ses- slon: RESOLUTION ORDERING STREET WORK. Bush, Stockton to Powell—Paving. Post, Leavenworth to Hyde—Same. Southerly line of Pacl > avenue, Franklin to Gough—Artificlal stone sidewalks, Devisadero, Haight to Waller—Paving. queried Franklin, Green to Unfon—Curbing and pav- ng. Franklin, Unton to Filbert—Same, Franklin, Filbert to Greenwich—Same, Franklin, Greenwich to Lombard—Sarme, Lombard, Van Ness avenue to Polk—Same. Second avenue and Lake—Paving. Second avenue, California to Clement—Curb- ing and paving. cond avenue, Clement to Point Lobos ave- nue—Same. Octavia, Jackson to Pacific avent . —Artificial stone sidewal Second avenue, Lake to California—Regrad- Ing, curbing and artificlal stone Sidewa ks, uhbury, Waller to Frederick—Same. Collingwood, Nineteenth to Tw :ntieth—Curb- ing and paving. Hwenty-third and Harrison—Same. (o Ellbert, Hyde to Larkin—Curbing and pav- ng. Biberty, Dolores to Church—same. Linden avenue, Gough to Octavia—Same. Army, Dolores’ to Church—Same. Trwelfth avenue, from the northerly line of A to_northerly line of B—Grading, curbing, eon- struction of sidewalks and pavify. Plerce, ValleJo to Green—Curbing and pav- ing. Eutheasterly corner of Green and Pierce— Granite curbs, artificlal stone sidewalks, cul- verts, etc. Northeasterly corner of same crossing—Curbs, stdewalks and paving. Bryant, Eleventh and Alameda—Curbs, side- walks and paving. Bryant and Divislon—Storm water inlets, gratings, ete. Bryant and Eleventh—Same. Fifteenth, Folsom to Harrison—Curbing and paving. Salina place, California street o northerly termination of Salina place—~Curbs, artificial stone sidewalks and pipe sewer. lberty, Dolores to Church—Curbs and arti- ficlal stone sidewalks. 1, Twelfth to Thirteenth—Curbs and paving. Rhode Island and Fifteenth—Curbs and pav- ing. 'Be Haro, Twenty-second to Twenty-thira— Pipg sewer. Rsom, Army to Precita avenue—Curbs and paving. Valley, Sanchez to Nde—Grading, curbs, sidewalks: Dipe sewer and paving. Walter, irteenth to = Fourteenth—Curbs, paving, pipe sewer, etc. Broadway, Octavia to Laguna—Artificial stone sidewalks. Northerly and southerly portions of the cross- ing of De Haro and Twentleth—S-inch pipe sewer, etc. Easterly portion of same crossing—12-inch pipe sewer. Westerly portion of same crossing—td-noh sewer, ete. ntire four corners of same crossing—Cess- pools, culverts, etc., sidewalks and paving. RECOMMENDED PASSED TO RESOLUTION ORDERING. Morton, Kearny to Grant avenue—Paving with bituminous rock, San Jose avenue and Thirtieth street—Bitu- men. ‘Waller, Clayton to Cole—E#me. Ashbury, Waller to Frederick—Artificial stons sldewalks. RESOLUTION OF INTENTION. First avenue to Seventh avenue—Grading, cul;bl“. sidewalks, ok . g; fi:‘ to Fell. \yes to Fell—Bame. E A BIG “CLEAN-UPR.” Octavia, Sacramento to Californta—Pipe sower, Lanksat avenue, Fillmore to Steiner—Same. Jumterson, Devikadero fo Tiroderick—Grading. Utah, Twenty-fifth to southerly termination of former—8idewalks, curbs, grading and pav- 1 z "fore, Bryant to Brannan—Curbing and pav. inj Fage, Filimore to Stelner—Curbing anc paving. Y ety tourth, Guerrero to Fair Oaks—Sams. avenue, northerly line of I, to & south of the southerly line’ of W mlking, grading and paving. DED BY SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS, Waller, Cenfral to Buena Vista avenue— Grading,’ curbing and paving. 4 Gough, Golden Gate avenue to Turk—Paving. Jones, Broandway to Vallejo—Curbing ana aving. Vyones, Vallefo to Green—Curbing and paving. point 600 fe LCurbing, RIECOMM Jones' and Broadway—Paving. Loutwa nlley, Shipley, to the: northwesterly termination of former—Paving. Jilizabeth place, Folsom to southwesterly ter- mination Vv/ former—Paving. B Ronch, paving. Twenty-fourth, Valencla to San Jose avenue —Artificial stone sidewalks. Nineteenth, Castro to Hartford—Plank side. Filbert to Greenwich—Curbing and festerly angular corner of Fifth and Te: hama—Artificial stone sidewalks. Chestnut, Leavenworth to Hyde—Paving. RESOLUTION OF FULL ACCEPTANCE. Kansas and Alabama—Bitumen. Intersection of San Jose avenue and Vallejo stroet—Same, Page, Baker to Lyon—Same. Page, Broderick to Baker—Same. Hyde, Filbert to Greenwich—Same. Haight, Shrader to Stanyan—Same. Page, Steiner to Plerce—Same. RECOMMENDED FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE. Masonic avenue, Fell to Hayes—Bitumen, York, Twenty-second to Twenty-third—Same. ‘Washington, Locust to Spruce—Same. Mission, at the intersection of Brook—Same. Mission, at the intersection of Randall— Saine. Seventh, Trwin to Hubbell—Basalt. Seventh and Irwin—Same Filbert, Polk to Van Ness avenue—Same. Filbert, Larkin to Polk—Cobbles. PROPOSALS RECOMMENDED READVER- TISED. Twenty-fifth Clement, Sewering. to Twenty-sixth— PRIVATE CONTRACTS. Clinton Park, Valencia to Guerrero—Paving, to City Street Improvement Company. Eighth avenue, J to K—To property owners, £ or grading and’ paving. : Vincent, Green to Union—Property owners, for paving. Eighth avenue, Point Lobos avenue to A street—To property owners, for sewering. RESOLUTION OF RELEASE OF CONTRACT. Seventeenth, Sanchez to Noe—To .J. J. Dow- ling, for construction of artificial stone side- walks. FURTHER PROCEEDINGS IN ' STREET WORK RECOMMENDED OMITTED. Halght and Shrader—For construction of sewer. EXTENSIONS OF TIME GRANTED. Clinton Park, easterly line of Dolores to & point 205 feet east of said easterly line of Do- lores—To Flinn & Treacy, sixty days on sewer- ing. De Haro, Twenty-third street to a point dfs- tant 466 feet northerly from Twenty-third. Pierce, Chestnut to Francisco—To Warren & Malley, ninety days on paving. Steiner, Chestnut to Francisco--Same, ~ . Ninth avenue, K to P—To E. F. Dennson, ninety days on grading, curbing and paving. California, Twelfth to Thirteenth avenues— To L. C. Williams, sixty days on sewerin; Lower Terrace, Serpentine place to street—Same. PETITIONS REFERRED TO STREET COM- MITTEE. Fiuto Masonic avenue, Fulton to Grove—Smith & Murasky, for an extension of ninety days om grading. Grove and Hayes—Same, Clayton and Ashbury streets and the cross- ings of Grove and Masonic avenue and Grove and Ashbury streets—Same. | Franklin street, Lombard to Bay—Property owners, for paving and sewering. Francisco, Van Ness avenue to Franklin— Same. Filbert, Broderick to Baker—San Francisco Paving Company, for permission to construct | twelve-inch iron stone pipe sewer and pave. Sixth, Hubbell to Sixteenth—Real Estate and Development Company, for grading. Fifteenth, Folsom to Harrison—Property own- ers, for postponement paving until they receive a hearinz, Washington, First avenue to Cherry—Prop- erty owners, for construction of sewer, Cedar avenue, Octavia to Laguna—Willlam Ludemann, for sewering. Ninth ayenue, J to K-James McCoy, for permission to construct & sixteen-inch’ fron stone pipe sewer. Devisadero, Hal ers, for paving. Fourteenth avenue south, Rallroad avenue to N street south—M. C. Hogan, for grading, etc. | Treat avenue and Twenty-third—City Street Improvement Company, for paving. Harrison and Twenty-third—Same. Twenty-third, Folsom to Harrison—Same. Harrison, Twenty-second to Twenty-third— Same. Pierce, Green to Unlon—Property owners, for paving. Sacramento, Kearny to Montgomery—Prop- erty owners, for the repair of sidewalks. 84l to 343 Tenth street—Citizens in behalf of G. 1. Raychester, for permission to construct a basalt ninway {5 front of the premises as out- ined. Locust avenue, Franklin 137% feet westerly— Flinn & Treacy, for permission to pave. Waller streei-Charles V. Heegard, for grad- ing, sewering and paving. Market, Sixth to City Hall square—Property owners, for paving with bituminous rock. Sixteenth, Castro to Osborne—Property own- ers, for the establishment of grades. PROTESTS REFERRED TO STREET COM- MITTEE. ght to Wallér—Property own- Market, east of Davis and Beale streets— Froperty’ owners, against the ralsing of the sidewaliss to the official grade. Rhode Island, north of Twenty-third—Prop- erty owners, against the excavation of a pore tion of the street for sidewalk purposes. A Bush street—Property owners, against declar- ing the street a boulevard. Pope, Mission to Cross—Property owners, against opening and grading of the street. Army street, Dolores to Church—Property owners, against paving and curbing. Berry, Seventh to Eighth—Same, against p ing. Filbert, Hyde to Larkin—Same. Franklin, Greenwich to Lombard—Same, Liberty, Dolores to Church—Same. 2 Howard, Army to Twenty-sixth—Andrew Nelson, warning the Supervisors not to grade the street. REPORT OF THE STREET COMMITTEE ON MATTERS SUBMITTED AT PRE- VIOUS SESSION. street—In favor of granting gel permission to erect an elec- 55 Market Detjen & M tric light sig “1232 Union—In favor of repairing plank side- walk. Lundy's lane, Esmeralda &venue northerly— In_tavor of/grading. . Fifteenth avenue, N to Q—In favor of plank ‘sidewalks. Buchanan, Vallejo to Green—In favor of arti- fictal stone ‘sidewalks. Locust avenue, Franklin street westerly—In favor of paving. Hayes, Cole to Shrader—In favor of clean- ing sewer. Northwest corner of Fourth and Bluxome— In favor of compelling owner to repair side- walk. Sanchez, Liberty to Twentieth—In favor of an etension of 150 days on grading, sewering, ete. Crossing of Liberty and Sanchez—Sama. Seventeenth, Sanchez to Noe—In favor of granting J. J. Dowling a release from his con- ract to construct artificial stone sidewalks, Eighteenth and Sanchez—In favor of grant- Ing property-owners permission to pave, ‘ete. ighteenth and Church—same. Premises at the junction of Market, Kearny and Geary—In favor of granting permission to place electric light signs over the entrance to the ‘building on Market and the two entrances on_Geary street. Garden avenue, Devisadero to Broderick—In favor of the protest against sewering. Palmer, Randall to Fairmount—In favor of changing' and establishing grades. Market, Fifth to Taylor—in favor of grant- ing $260 for construction of basalt block gut- terways. Osborn, Sixteenth to State—In favor of pass- ing to print order closing and vaca:ing Os- o Mt C; In *ope, Mission to Cross—In favor of openis and grading sald street. e 2 Southerly line of Market, Main to Fast, and the northerly line of Markét, Davis to Bast—In favor of altering sidewalks to contorm to the offlcial grade. Rhode Island, Alameda to Division—In favor of referring the necessity of the construction of a sewer to City Engineer. 1ry, Seventh fo Eighth—In favor of pass- ing subject of paving to a resolution ordering. Rhode Island and Fifteenth—Same. Kansas, Division to Sixteenth—Same, Lyon, Golden Gate avenue to Turk—Same. Vermont, Alameda to Sixteenth—In favor of passing work of curbing and paving to resolu- fon ordert De Hi ‘teenth to Sixteenth—Same. Rhode Island, Fifteenth to Sixteenth—Same. Sixteenth, Kansas to De Haro—Same. ’D: Haro, Twe1=ty-secokm'm Twenty-third— n favor of passing work of sewe; - lution_ordering same. o 1. neo De Haro and Twenty-third—Same. Richland avenue, Holly Park to South ave- nue—In favor of passing grading, sewering and paving to resolution_ordering. Francisco, Webster to Fillmore—Same. Valley, hez to Noe—Same. Wolfe, Peralta avenue to Isabtl—In favor of aro, | year. | notable works of Omar Khayyam, a col- Folsom' Twenty-sixth to Army—In favor of passing wnstruction of curbs and paving to resolution ordering, Walter, Thirteenth to Fourteenth—Same. Caledonii, Fifteenth to Sixteenth—Same. Chestnutand Polk—In favor of passing pro- posed work of paving to a resolution ordering. Golden Gite avenue and Lyon—Same. - ValleJo, Gjugh to Octavia—in favor of pass- ing work of curbing and bituminous rock side- walke to reslution ordering. Other petitiyns and. protests reported on ad- versely or fll. TO CLARISSA. A butterfly «f rose-lit June That flits from flower to flower, And takes the honey.of the noon, And lords it for an hour— It flashes in the summer sun, It floats upon the wind, And when its minute sands have rum, Leaves not a ‘trace behind— So_broke Clarissa on my way, So did Claris: ;. But ever since ur hollday Another man am L —~Blackwood's Magazine, AROUND THE 'CORRIDORS, ‘Willlam H. Aliord of Visalia is at the California. y R. M. Straus, a mining man of Arizona, is at the Grand. . William M. Stewart, Senator of Nevada, is at. the Palace. Railroad Commissioner H. M. La Rue is at the Occidental. F. A. Hihn, the capitalist, of Santa Cruz is'at the Occidentai. L. T. Hatfield, an attorney of Sacra- mento, {s at the Lick. State Senator Robert N. Bulla of Los Angeles is at the Grand. B. F. McCullough, a cattleman of Crows Landing, is at the Grand. A. D. Tower, a merchant of Nevada City, and daughter are registered at tne Lick. 06206 G608 0E 0 QX LH - Colonel Jefter- o ¥ son Doolittle, a - HORSES ON g hero of many un- el THE o fought battlesand the pride of the % COLONEL.- ¥ Palace Hotel ra- o 1 conteurs, recently BYGG BB G YW G had an adventure which has advanced him three numbers among the Palace Guards, of which Colo- nel Chadbourne Is . senlor officer. The usual Saturday. night assemblage was in session, and no matter what was said in the way of risque stories, Colonel Doo- little maintained a deep silence. Some one noticed.that his mind was far away and made mention of it. -The colonel came out of his trance and told his tale: “Gentlemen of the unspotted brigade, whose honor has never been questioned, my sadness is due to horses. Oh, no, I have ‘not been to the races. Worse, I have been-investing' in horse-flesh. I was about to make a trip up the coun- try a few days ago and I wanted to buy a horse for my .own use. A friend ad- vised me to go to the stock yards, where I would certainly get one very cheap. I went, and he went with me. There the horses .stood. aréund with numbers plas- tered on their backs—skates' with every varfety of disorder known to Veterinary experts. The catalogue of diseases which Petruchio recites’ in ° ‘Taming of the Shrew’ were all materialized. Out of the lot I noticed one horse with number 17 on his side.- He was sound in wind and beautiful of form, and I determined to buy. him when the auction began. Boon after the sale on number 17 was called and I stripped for work. Ten -dollars, $20, $30, up it .went, and before I knew whera I was I had offered $80 for the horse. . It seemed to me that this was pretty stiff, but I never like to be beat, and I stayed with: it. Finally I twon at $9; the rest had- dropped out. e “I felt pretty good, and after the sale I went over to the auctioneer to see about the delivery of the ‘horse. He directed me to one of the corrals. I asked for number 17, and ten men, each leading a skate, rushed up to me.. I had bought a lot of useless horse-flesh. You see num- ber 17 was a lot and I got the entire works. What will I do with them? I don’ . That's what makes me sad, i Willlam' Vanderhurst, a rancher of Sa- linas, is at the Occidental. H. W. Gorham, a mining man of Gold Hill, Nev., is at the Palace. Edward E. Young, a lumber merchant, and wife are guests at the Lick. David 8. Jordan, president of Stanford University, s at the Occldental. Mrs. Frank McLaughlin. and daughter have come up from their home in Santa Cruz. Mrs. John P. Jones, the wife of Senator Jones of Nevada, and. her = daughters, Marfon and Georgina, arrived yesterday, and are at the Palace. ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, Sept. 26—Edgar Mills of Menlo Park and W. P. Scott of San Fran- cisco are at the Holland House, St I bkl ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ELOCUTION—Subscriber, * City. This department will not advertise the teacher of any system of: elocution. THE POTATO—A. S., City. The potato as an article of food is not classed as of the articles that are hard to Edlgest?na FOREIGN . KAMES—Zed, City. The pronunciation of the “Rubaiyat” of Omar Khayyam 'was given in the. Answers to Correspondents August:19 of the current “Rubalyat” is ome of the most lection of 500 epigrams, full of y - ticism and philosoph:; T A PENSIONER'S “WIDOW-J. C. T., City. The widow of a soldler who was honorably discharged from the service of the United States in time of peace, on account of disablilities incurred in such gervice, and who was allowed a pension by reason of. such disability, is ent?tled to her({)e‘nslun. the same ds if hér late hus- band had served in one of the wars. CIRCUMNAVIGATION—C. 8., City. No one has as ‘yet circumnavigated the ex- treme north coast of the North American continent. There have: been more than two hundred expeditions to search for the northwest passage. It was discovered by several, notably, Franklin, Hudson and Baffin. Greely and others have reached very far north, but not far enough to dis- cover ‘‘a clear passage from -the Atlantic to the Pacific.”™ el LAFAYETTE'S WATCH — Subscriber, City. The Congress.of the United States did not purchase a watch for General La- fayette, but took one ‘out of pawn for res- toration to his family. On the occasion of Lafayette's visit to the United States in 1825, his pocket’ was picked of a watch that had been presented ‘to him by Wash- ington. Forty-eight. years affer’ the stolen watch was-found in a pawnshop in New York City and on the 22(? of June, 1874, Congress, by joint resolution, ordere: the purchase of the watch and its restora- tion to Lafayette's family. 5 —_—— Cal. glace fruit S per Ib at-Townsend's* T RO This week; best eyeglasses; specs; I5c, 40c; 66 Fourth street; look out for No. 6. * —_————— Bpecial information -supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 [ont- gomery ctreet. Telephone Main 1042~ * — ‘Why not lunch with a panorama of the city before you? The Spreckels Rotisser- ie, 15th floor of the Spreckels building, serves regular lunch with wine for 75c. * —_————— “My son,” sald tire London business man, “I must again caution you to live within your means,"” iyas anybody been- sending you my 82" ““Not yet. But you have been seen say: ing ‘howdydo’ to two dukes and an ear! —Washington Star. ferrin ing, I venth avenue, on’to C—Same. I, Thirteenth Fourteenth—Sam possing pro oo on 08" stome. sidewalies o_resolution ords New M R Ty Gy g