The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1898. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, _ PATTON'S GALLANT CAMPAIGN. HARLES L. PATTON has earned the support | C of every voter who favors good government and who admires a clean and gallant campaign. So minutely has the progress of the struggle been noted that an extended review of it on this day of its climax can hardly be necessary. That it has been to Mr. Patton a creditable fight against odds which at first seemed strong beyond the possibility of over- coming, not even his opponents will deny. He under- took it, not tily, not eagerly, but when a grave sense of duty had led him to make the personal sacri- fice. Having entered the race, he began from the start to gather strength. Here was a citizen who had never | sought preferment, whose energy was in his business | and whose heart was in his home, sallying against the | fortified hosts of a boss who had been in office for two | years, and who during all this period had planned and | s to dictate the party f in a station whereof schested to get more power, policy and to perpetuate himse: he had found the sweets too enticing. Mr. Patton had no record of which to be ashamed, no alliances to drag him down, he had no sympathy with the tricks and pretenses of politics. He would not sink his individuality, neither would he set him- self up above the people. He was simply an honest man, anxious to have the weal of the city safeguarded. He had no boasts to make, no purposes to conceal. He has been frank and manly. He would not accept the nomination until he had seen the platform and found that he could approve. This circumstance gave the key to his character. People were pleased and they discerned at once the contrast between this con- duct and that of Mayor Phelan. Mayor Phelan accepted two mnominations before either platform had been formulated. Whatever ex- pression of principle might be projected into either declaration mattered nothing to him. He was the nominee. There was office in sight and principle did not count. Had a weak man been placed in nomina- tion against Phelan there would not have been the thorough canvass that has for weeks been in progress. | It was when Patton came into view, magnetic, un- | trammeled, a big man with a big brain, and one whose | reputation was more to him than chance of victory, that what had promised to be a campaign of lethergy assumed a new phase. It became energetic, inspired by an ever increasing hope that at the last was cer- | tainty. There arose occasion for an analysis of the methods and motives of the Mayor. Alas for him! These would “not stand the test of scrutiny. It was found | that he had sought to thwart the popular will by mak- ing himself superior to it, that his committee of 10z was a fraud, his demand for the purification of politics merely a demand that he alone should guide the mu- nicipal destiny, so that a path to greater political glory might be paved for his feet. It was found that | in the discharge of official duties he had been lax and | careless, that he was unfriendly to the toiler, deem- | ing the laborer overpaid. So Phelan shrank. As he | grew smaller and smaller, those who had been his | admirers saw him in his true light and left him. And as Phelan shrank Patton grew. The more the two | were compared the more the Mayor suffered. At last | he observed his prospective triumph swept frombefore | his mental vision. He and his followers have resorted | to every device to check the tide of disaster, but it carrying them away. Every vote cast for Patton will be a rebuke to boss- ism, an encouragement to honesty, a lesson to the | derelict office-holder, the promise of reward to the man who takes into political life the same probity which governs him in his personal dealings with his fellow-men. | | | VOTE EARLY AND VOTE RIGHT. fl portant to be treated as an off year election and passed over with indifference. The decision of the | State in whichever way it goes should be given by a | clear majority of all voters. The choice of not one single candidate should be determined by the fact that a number of his opponents stayed at home through apathy or indifference. The issues of the campaign are not those which ordinarily divide political parties. In the Bryanite movement in the nation and the Maguire movement in the State there is a distant menace to society. The foundations of finance, of property, of industry and of law itself are threatened by the avowed advocates of LL registered voters should exercise the right | of suffrage to-day. The occasion is too im- | a debased currency and land confiscation and the apclogists of anarchy and riot. | It will be easy to save the commonwealth from Maguireism if all conservative citizens do their duty to-day, but it will be difficult if through a neglect to vote they permit the election of Maguire to the Gov- ernorship or any considerable number of his followers to the Legislature. The situation is well illustrated by the old vers ‘I hear a lion in the lobby roar. Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door And keep him out; or shall we let him in, Then do our best to put him out again?”’ It will be the part of wisdom to keep Maguire out of the State government and to put Phelan out of the city government. To effect these desirable ends energy and activity will be required on the part of the censervative forces. The discontented, the single- taxers, the lawless—all the Maguireites and the Phe- lanites will be sure to go to the polls. There will be no apathy nor indifference in their ranks. To the conservatives of the State public business is to-day of more importance than any private business. Every consideration of patriotism and of enlightened self-interest combines to impel good citizens to unite in defending the administration from the assaults of the fused factions of the opposition and the State from the attempt of the single-taxers to gain control of its government. The vote of the conservatives, moreover, should be solid for the straight Republican ticket. Not one single candidate who stands for Republicanism in the nation, the State or the city should be overlooked by the voters. The victory over Phelanism in the city, over Maguireism in the State and over Bryanism in the nation should be complete and overwhelming. The duty of the day is simple, but it is imperative. It cannot be postponed. Vote early, vote right, and then see that your friends and neighbors go to the polls. e The Examiner seems to be so painfully and vocifer- ously certain that fraud will be perpetrated in relation to the voting and the counting that the police will do well to keep an eye upon that reform sheet. Some- times a pickpocket has been known to cry “Stop | time in which to study the questions involved impel Thief!” It would be like Hobson to take ’a yacht and, going out to sea, lasso the Maria Teresa. . THE ISSUES OF THIS CAMPAIGN. HEN this is read the battle of the ballots will be on and the people will be en- gaged in recording their judgment. The Call has fought a fair fight for princi- ples that are held dear by all Republicans and by thousands who, though not members of that party, see clearly the principles involved and follow them, no matter what party may promise their vindication. Sound money and a safe and flexible financial system suited to our expanding commerce and promising to make us the creditor nation, with the world as our debtor, is a principle held by all thinking Americans as necessary to our progress and prosperity. The freedom of contract necessary for all forms of business, and more necessary to the laboring men than to any others of our fellow-citizens, is believed by good Republicans and good Democrats to be put in peril by the candidates who indorse those platforms. ship of land is absolutely necessary to the prosperity of the State. fusion platforms. Therefore they oppose the The safety of vested rights, titles and owner- Judge Maguire has announced that he proposes to destroy these vested rights, titles and land ownership. He charges the four original directors of the Central Pacific—Stanford, Huntington, Crocker and Hopkins—with embezzling $80,000,000 from the United States. If this gross charge were true, we ask the voters what is the loss of that amount to the Govern- ment compared with his proposition to destroy in this State $861,000,000 of property in vested rights and land titles and ownership, and the loans secured on those vested rights and titles? Think of it for one moment before you vote! . We have kept this Maguire propositio: declared by himself. a statement made by him, printed in his exac In the same connection he has declared that when mineral—gold, n before the people, in his own language, as It is no conclusion drawn from any argument he has made, but is t language. silver or other—is taken out of the ground by private individuals “its value must be given to the whole people.” California has always had one unfaili ng resource for men of enterprise and for | men suffering financial misfortune. This resource is in her mineral wealth. A man can take his.prospector’s pick and horn and go to the mountains and try and test their min- eral ledges, with the chance of striking pay quartz and recuperating his ~fortunes. But Maguire says that when he has done so and digs gold out of his claim it must be given to the whole people, to whom it belongs! If a prize had been offered for a scheme which would do the most injury to the people of California, destroy the most property, cut off the most hope, take away the most resources, remove from labor the most protection, impoverish the most people, do the State the most injury in the estimation of th prize by the award of any fair-minded jury. e world, the Maguire scheme would take the The Call has daily exposed that scheme by putting it before the people in the ex- act language of its author. stand his scheme. That answer condemns it. system, given to us by the fathers of the republic, is plain and simple. His only answer has been that the people don’t under- Government is for the plain people. Our Its workings are easily understood. It is against any scheme in politics and economics that is so eso- | . . 5 teric that only its designers can comprehend it The people don’t want to indorse anything so complex that they must wait to see it tried before they know whether it is for or propositions come under the rule of thumb. against their interests. All of Maguire’s He proposes to destroy what is and build to replace it on the cut-and-try plan. This implies experiment, unrest, empiricism in gov- ernment. The welfare of the people cannot These issues have been put plainly. their author, Judge Maguire. in salaries to train him in statesmanship. B survive such experiments. They stand undenied and unexplained by He says the State has spent a great deal of money on him ut all that expense has only trained him to oppose and seek to destroy the very foundations of the State and the vested rights which the State has guaranteed to the people. Therefore the money spent on him in salaries has been wasted. The people in training him have not secured a statesman but a well-fed fanatic, who sees, nothing but evil in the institutions of government under which he has been rearéd and fed and TATISTICS show that scarcely half the voters clothed at the public treasury. S at general elections in this State express their opinions upon constitutional amendments sub- mitted for adoption. The cause of this is not far to seek. Indifference, lack of understanding or lack of many voters to skip that portion of their ballot which covers constitutional law. This is a somewhat dis- concerting condition of affairs, but it exists and must be considered. Generally very little harm is done by the neglect of the people to vote on constitutional amendments. The intelligence of those who do vote usually saves the State from damage, for it is a matter of history that a really bad constitutional amendment has yet to be adopted in California. But while this is true, no | chances should be taken on the discrimination of those who are at the pains to master for every election the points involved in the amendments submitted. This year, especially, every voter ought to carefully scan the list and vote for or against each proposi- tion. Amendment No. 1, which provides for paying pub- lic debts which have heretofore been declared illegal, should be voted down. The purpose is to authorize the payment of certain claims irf this city and Vallejo, which are just enough, but it is charged that in at- tempting this the doors have been thrown open to other claims which are fraudulent. At the present time no one can tell whether the charge is true or not, and consequently no chances should be taken. The safest way to vote is to vote the amendment down. The claims may be paid in some other way. Amendment No. 2 is Judge Maguire’s single tax scheme, concealed under a home rule county govern- ment proposition. The latter is good, but the former is revolutionary. All classes should vote against this amendment. Amendment No. 3, providing for the establishment of a Court of Claims; amendment No. 4, exempting city charters from legislative control; amendment No. 5, fixing the gubernatorial succession; and amendment No. 6, relating to the schools, are all safe and sound and may be adopted. In fact, all four are in the line of progress and good government. 3 But No. 7 is a fraud and a swindle. It proposes to split sessions of the Legislature in two and increase the pay of Senators and Assemblymen. It is un- necessary and uncalled for and is a job of the Sacra- mento lobby. Every person opposed to legistative chicanery and who believes that the legislation of the State is now costing enough should vote against this amendment. It will add $25,000 to the expenses of the biennial sessions without producing in the slightest degree a change for the better in State legislation, STAND BY THE PRESIDENT. LL the voices of patriotism call upon the fl American people in the Congressional elec- tions to-day to stand by the President. Re- ports from Europe declare that the Spanish are fight- ing against-the terms of peace offered by our Com- missioners in the hope that the elections will result in a Democratic victory—that the country will declare against McKinley. The issue is made up. The voter must cast his bal- lot for the President or for the Spaniards. The elec- tion of a Democratic Congress known to be opposed to the President on every important auestion of the day will encourage all the enemies of the nation and strengthen all the hopes of Sagasta and Weyler. So great would be the stimulus given to Spanish expec- tations by a defeat of the administration that it would probably be necessary to renew the war in order to force them to accept peace on the terms now pro- posed. Nor would it be in foreign relations only that the nation would suffer from a defeat of the administra- tion at this juncture. tariff, all the enemies of sound money, all the advo- cates of riot, disorder, disturbance would be roused to make a fiercer and a bitterer fight against the ex- isting order of things. Every interest of property would be threatened, every industry harassed, every institution menaced. McKinley has deserved well of the country. His home policy has restored domestic prosperity, his for- eign policy has maintained the dignity and increased the prestige of the nation. While the leaders of dis- content have been talking and clamoring and criticiz- ing and condemning he has been patiently and bravely working in silence for the people and for the flag. He has accomplished great things, as all the world knows, and will accomplish more if rightly sus- tained. It is for the voters to-day to show to the world that the American people are not fickle; it is for them to teach the Spaniard wisdom and cow the factions of anarchy at home; it is for them to stand by the Pres- ident. BE NOT DECEIVED. HEN unscrupulous men are faced with certain Wd:f:at of their schemes they resort to desperate tactics. The leaders of the fused factions are unscrupulous, and they see defeat before them. They have begun already the desperate tactics of slander and lying in the hope of weakening the forces of pure politics and good government. It is likely that a swarm of lies will be circulated to- day, for it is a part of the cunning of the unscrupulous to issue the most malignant of their falsehoods on election day when it is too late for honesty and truth to refute them. Be not deceived. The Republican party in this campaign stands not only for the best measures, but for the best men. It has put forward candidates of the highest worth for all offices, and rightly expects them to receive the votes of all citizens who believe in straight politics, good government and the admin- istration of public affairs on business principles by business men. Among the lies issued by the demagogues none have been worse than those asserted . through the Examiner against the Republican candidates for judicial offices. A rogue never speaks well cither of the law or of the men who im- partially administer it. Tt is not strange, therefore, that the attacks on the Judges should be vicious and persistent. The Republicans have not nominated can- dates for judgeships who would be pleasing to anar- chists, land confiscators or boodlers. Be not deceived. Show your scorn of campaign lying by voting for men who have made a clean can- vass. Vote the Republican ticket straight, and in the next campaign perhaps Democracy will profit by the lesson and nominate a ticket which it can defend and support without slandering honesty and integrity. e Sp—— Had Congress been in session that explosion mightl have been ascribed to natural gas. All the foes of the protective | | | | THE INCOMPETENT MANAGER. To the Editor: I am a stockholder in a most extensive local corpora- tion, doing a business of about $5,000,000 a year. For the last two years we have had in our employ as our business man- ager a young man who, it was asserted, was a person of most exemplary character and a most capable man of affairs. By the rules of the corpora- tion, it is the duty of our manager to see and count all the money of the corporation in the hands of the company’s cashier once a month. A short time ago the cashier was found to be short in his accounts in the sum of $117,000, and when the manager was Informed of the state of affairs, he said he had “hefted” the coin at the last monthly settlement, but had not seen and counted it as the company’s rules made it imperative he should do. Now, sir, an annual election is approaching and the question arises shall we retain this young man as our manager during the ensuing year, as his friends claim the company should do, I claim as a business proposition that a man who has so failed in his duty once and who has shown no reason since to cause the stockholders to have any more confidence in his capacity should give place to a new man. VOTER. (Y GARBAGE CONTRACT HAS A NEW ASPECT Supervisors Adopt a Juggled Report. The Supervisors Finally Approve a Resolution Making the Even- ing Post the Official Paper. The Board of Supervisors awarded the garbage contract yesterday and gave the city printing for a period of two years to the evening organ of the Southern Pa- cific Railroad. The action taken on the garbage matter ‘was, to say the least, peculiar. Beveral days ago the Supervisors’ Committee on Health and Police agreed to make a re- port to the board in favor of awarding a contract to the Sanitary Reduction Com- pany for burning the garbage at the rate of 20 cents per cubic yard, and providing that the collection of the refuse should be left to the scavengers, who should agree to return to the reduced scale of prices charged householders prior to the time when the crematory was estab- lished. A report to this effect was drawn up by the committee and was to have | been presented yesterday. In the mean- time, however, Captain Delany took the trouble to alter the report on his own responsibility, tearing off the first page and substituting certain modifications to suit himself. The amended report, as. presented yes- terday, gave the contract to the crema- tory at the agreed price of 20 cents, but omitted all reference to a reduction in the prices charged by the scavengers for the collection of garbage, thus leaving the latter free to collect on the present scale or to Increase the rate if they see fit. The Supervisors passed the resolu- tion as presented, although several of them claimed later that they did not know that the report had been altered. The effect of the action is to empower the Committee on Health and Police to contract with the Sanitary Reduction Company to cremate the garbage, with- out advertising for bids. 'his action is regarded as of doubtful validity by some of the best posted authorities about the city buildings, inasmuch as the law re« quires that bids shall be advertised for in all cases before contracts are let. The Sanitary Reduction Company will thus be left a leophole through which to crawl out of the agreement at any time in the future should it desire to do so, while on the other hand any citizen who objects to the contract will have the chance to enter the courts to stop pay- ment of the bills of the Sanitary Com- pany. No explanation was offered by Super- visor Delany for his surprising action in changing the report of the Committee on Health and Police so as to favor the scavengers. The city will now pay for the incineration of garbage, while the householders may receive no direct ben- efit. The matter of publie é)rinfing was also handled in_ a very odd manner. The Printing Committee had reported in favor of rejecting the bids of the Journal of Commerce, the Report and the Post, but this did not suit the views of a mu jority of the board. Numerous futile a tempts were made to knock out the com mittee's report, which were finally suc- cessful. Then Supervisor Sheehan made a motion that the contract be awarded to the Evening Post. This was also voted down. Agaln the _committee’s report came to the front. Supervisor Britt took occasion to say that the whole system of ublic printing was wrong, and that the oard ought to advertise for new bids based upon prices for each kind of work to be done, instead of letting matters run along in the loose manner now in vogue, and allowing the official paper to make such excessive charges to citizens as it might see fit. Ogn a reconsideration the contract was finally awarded to the Evening Post. R STREET IMPROVEMENTS. Complete Record of the Work Passed by the Board. The following is a complete list of the street improvements passed by the Board of Supervisors at yesterday’s session: AWARD OF CONTRACTS. Waller, Cole to Shrader—Bituminous rock, 17 cents, granite curbs, 63 cents. Crossing of Waller and Schrader—Bitumen, 173 cents. RESOLUTION ORDERING, Tenth avenue, L to M—Grading, macadamiz- redwood curbs. ‘n%v?el:‘ly-nnl, Alabama to Bryant—Granite d bitumen. euTfl:e:&-flut, York to Potrero avenue—Same. Leavenworth, Green to Unfon—Same. Haight, Shrader to Stanyan—Same. Leavenworth, Green to Union—Same. Haight, Shrader to Stanyan—Same and eight- I N eMine “and Southern Pacific. Raflroad crossing—Concrete arch. RESOLUTION OF INTENTION. Lundys lane, Esmeralda 350 feet northeast- o Facadam and reawood curbs. O einer Broadway o Green—Artificlal stone sidewalks. Green, Plerce to Scott—Same. Tywenty-first, Florida to Potrero avenue— inite curbs and bitumen. O hvenue, Lobos to Oceanavenue—Grad- ng, macadam, ete. o muron place, off Grant avenue—Closing and vacating same. BIDS REJECTED. First, near Tehama—Artificial 1ks. wEekn.tnl avenue, California to Sacramento— Same. N FLEASE OF CONTRACT. Capp, Army to Twenty-sixth—J. E. Belser for rading avenue—F. stone side- ‘Wulfinstnfl. Cherry to First Sheerin, for sewer. EXTENSIONS OF TIME GRANTED. Pighteenth street, Uranus to Ashbury—To Daniel O'Day, 90 days on grading. RESOLUTION OF FULL ACCEPTANCE. Irwin, Seventh to Eighth—Basalt. Twenty-fourth, Guerrero to Fair Oaks—Bitu- P Natoma, First to Fremont—Basalt. RESOLUTION OF CONDITIONAL ACCEPT- ANCE. Caledonia avenue, Fifteenth to Sixteenth— Bitumen. ; PRIVATE CONTRACTS. Baker, Greenwich to Lombard—Paving. Masonic avenue, crossing of Ashbury—Bitu- T venty-stxth; Guerrero to Dolores—Same. RECOMMENDED BY SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. Cumberland, Guerrero to Dolores—Granite curbs_and paving with bituminous. De Haro, Fifteenth to Sixteenth—Grading. De Haro, Sixteenth and Seventeenth—Same, Crossing of leentyficond and North streets lverts, et —Cesspoois, cul c. | Waller, Octavia to Laguna—Sixteen-inch /Pt er. P'e “Haro, from southerly line of Twenty- third to a point 400 feet northerly from Twen- -third—Grading. t’xmevremh r;ve‘:gs_ A to B—Grading, sidewalk- ing and paving. ° STREETS FINALLY ACCEPTED. lzr“ymmt, Twenty-second to Twenty-third— It Twenty-ffth to Twenty-sixth—Same, Crossing of Bryant and Twenty-fifth—Same. OBSTRUCTIONS ORDERED REMOVED. Lyon, Lombard to its termination—Superin- tendent of Streets ordered to perform the work. Washington, Montgomery to Kearny—For re- moval of raiiroad tracks. Seventh avenue, B to C—Superintendent of Streets notified to enter into a contract on be- half of the city for grading, curbing, etc. SURVEYS ORDERED MADE FOR GRADING. Fifteenth and Vermont—City Engineers di- rected to commence the work. Alameda and Vermont—Same. ORDER CHANGING AND ESTABLISHING GRADES. Sixth street—Changed and established. Sixteenth, at crossing of South—At elevations ranging from 145 to .50 feet. PETITIONS REFERRED TO STREET COM- MITTEE. Rallroad avenue, Twenty-fourth _avenue South and San Bruno avenue — Property owners for electric lights. Broderick, Lombard to Tonquin—Same. Marcy plice—Same for gas lamps. Eleventh avenue, for a_distance of 12 feet southerly from A street—Frank L. Sheerin for permission to grade, curb_and macadamize, Francisco, Fillmore to Webster—Same, for permission to lay granite curbs and pave with ituminous rock. Filbert, Octavia to Laguna—§. Wray for pav- 7 on sing of Sunnyside avenue and BEdmer street—Sunnyeide District Improvement Club for culvert, etc. Sunnyside district—Same for erection of hy- rants, Palmer to Lindley—Fairmount and Glen Park Improvement Club for extension of water mains, 19 Perry—Joseph Taylor for permission to pave in front of his premises with basalt blocks. Walter, Thirteenth to Fourteenth—City Street Improvement Company for permission on behalf of property owners to retain artificial stone curbs. Crossing of Army and Alabama—Precita Val- ley Improvement Club for construction of storm-water inlets. Harrison, Army to Precita—A. E. Buckman for an extension of time on grading. At certain points in same district—Same for electric lights at certain points. Broadway, Scott to Devisadero—J. J. Dow- lng for paving with cobbles by privhte con- ract. Crossing of Pacific avenue and Broderick street—City Street Improvement Company for paving with bituminous rock. PROTESTS REFERRED TO STREET COM- MITTEE. Crossing of Harrison to Beale—Property- owners against changing grade. Harrison and Main—Same. Beale and Bryant—Same. Hurlbert alley, Folsom to Harrison—Prop- erty-owners, against grading. REPORT OF STREET COMMITTEE ON MATTERS SUBMITTED AT PRE- VIOUS SESSION. Washington street, Mongomery to Kearny— M. A. Bond, for bituminous rock. Bunnyside’ avenue and Forester street—Me- Carthy Company, for culvert. Gates street ‘and Crescent avenue—Felix Gonzales, to malntain a fence. Leldersdorff street, Halleck to Sacramento— Property-owners, for paving: provided they agree to bear one-half the expense. Fifteenth and Vermont, and Alameda and Vermont _streets—Crossings, property-owners, for change of grade and directing the City Engineer to make surveys. Ashburton place, oft Grant avenue, Crocker estate—For closing same. Sixteenth street, Market tq Sanchez—Willtam E, Dubols, to repair plank sidewalk. Twenty-sixth street, Guerrero to Dolores— City Improvement Company, to pave with bi- tumen by private contract. Devisadero street, No. 1605—E. K. Cochran, to maintain o hitcHing ot evenson street, near Br . E. Putnam, to_ocoupy two' fect of sidewalk Eighteenth street, Uranus to Ashbury— Daniel O'Dea, for an extension of ninety days’ time on grading contract. . » Capp street, Army to Twenty-sixth—J, H. Belser, for rolease from contract to grade. Mason street, near Washington—L. Perliano, to_construct steps on sidewalk, Beker street, Grange to Lombard—San Fran- cisco Paving Company, to pave by private contract. Page street, Masonic to Ashbury—Same. Washington street, Montgomery to Kearny— M. A. Bond, for removal of railroad tracks and directing the Superintendent qf Streets to remove same. Masonic street, Hayes to Fell street—Trend- well estate, against stone sidewalks; in favor. Cedar avenue, Octavia to Laguna street— Property owners, against sewer: in favor. Fillmore street, O'Farrell to 'ary street— C. C. Butler, against stone sidewalke: in favor, Valparaiso street, Jones to Roach Streete Property owners, against paving; in favor and stopping proceedings for six months. Hurlbert alley. Folsom to Harrison street— Property owners, against aving; in favor. Fell street, Fillmore to Stelner street—Brop- erty owners, agalnst paving: adversely, Pacific avenue, Broderick street to Baker— Same. . RECOMMENDED PLACED ON FILE. Eighteenth street, Douglass to Danvers street—Petition to pave with bituminous rock bY grivate canteact, contract having been let to fFhomas Clarke. Presidio_sewer outlet—Petition of R. Herr- man, requesting construction of same pending procesdings for acquiring land through the Miranda grant. Communication from the Superintendent of Streets notifying the board that the street fund is exhausted. NEWPORT SAILS TO-DAY. She Carries General Marcus P. Miller and the Last of the Troops. The Newpert, the last of the transports, will “sail for Manila to-day. The vessel will get away about 3 o'clock this after- noon. She will carry the Third Battalion of the Twentieth Kansas Regiment, the Wyoming Light Artillery and General Marcus P. Miller and his staff, consisting of First Lieutenants Woodward and sar- roll of the Third Artillery and the head- quarters staff. General Miller is the last of the general officers to go. The excellent shape in which these troops have been prepared for departure is entirely due to his personal efforts in caring for them and in ing them for the trip. When the Newpott goes out she will be given a salute’ of eleven guns from Alcatraz and Fort Point in honor of General Miller. A n the wives of officers will also sn‘lllm::rtgg Newport. ———— ACCUSED OF TOADYISM. Muller's Allegations Against Officers Who First Sailed With the Newport. According to the story of Andre Muller, erstwhile steward of the transport New- port, the first trip that that boat made to Manila with General Merritt and his staff was not the pleasantest one in the world for the crew and the soldiers who were on board. Muller alleges that the officers were hail fellows well met with the men of the Astor Battery and showed them much in the way of favoritism, to the exclusion of the rights of the men who were not traveling on the strength of a pull. The first incident occurred on the sail- ing day. The steamer was equipped with an ice machine that had an average ca- pacity of 240 pounds daily. Steward Mul- ler in dealing out the ice placed about twenty pounds in Lieutenant Colonel ‘Wheeler’s ice-chest. When Wheeler dis- covered his allowance he was furfous, and ordered him to fill the ice-chest to its utmost capacity. Muller explained that the chest would hold 600 pounds, that it ‘was only possible to obtain 240 pounds in a day, and the matter was finally com- promised at fifty pounds. Seven days after the steamer left Hon- olulu the water supply gave out and dis- tillation became necessary. The privates on board were obliged to drink lukewarm water, but the officers recelved their usual quota of ice. In regard to the interchange of favors between Captain Saunders and certain staff officers Muller says that the former had been scheming with the evident ex- pectation of rocdv‘ln'fi a testimonfal from them, which was duly acco to him, and in return the delighted captain pre- sented some of the officers with certain glassware and other things for their use in camp, all of which was the property of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Steward Muller says that he would not have cared, but he received a bill of $47, he being responsible for all shortage and breakage, wglch he refused to pay. The staff officers, to further show their appre- clation of Captain Saunders, presented him with several rifles while at Manila, which Muller s(r?ngly suspects were vernment property. G‘Altogethet fhe trip was-far from being a pleasant one, and one reason for this was the fact that there was a crew of untrained men in the saloon, but Steward Muller was instructed by General Man- ager Schwerin to make the best of it and not to be too severe in the interpretation of rules. The consequence was that dis- satisfaction was rife. A private in one of the companies made complaint to General Merritt, who immediately took a hand in the matter and ordered his secretary, Howell, to see that the privates on boar were made comfortable and given atten- tion. His orders were carried out to the letter. AROUND THE p CORRIDORS H. Kellar, the magiclan, s stopping at the Palace. ‘A. Menke, a merchant of Perkins Sta- tion, is at the Lick. Rev. Dr. Wakefleld of San Jose is a guest at the Occidental. L. T. Hatfleld, a prominent Sacramento attorney, is at the Lick. Tyson S. Dines, a well-known Denver banker, is at the Palace. Dr. C. E. Reed of Petaluma is among recent arrivals at the Grand. J. B. Thomas, a retired whaling cap- tain of Rio Vista, is at the Russ. John Lawlor, a prominent Petaluma cattleman, is registered at the Russ. §. F. Gitterman, representing Marshall, Field & Co. of Chicago, is registered at the Palace. Captain John B. Jeffrey, U. 8. A., a guest at the Occidental, will leave for Manila to-day on the transport Newport. Two overland trains delayed, coupled with the near approach of election, result- ed in unusually light registration at the various hotels yesterday. Vittore Ferdinando del Cellini, Barone de Milano, has arrived in this city from Denver. He will remain with friends about ten days. During his stay in this city Barone de Milano will look after his mining interests in Northern California. ——————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—Samuel J. Til- ton of San Francisco is at the Cosmopoli- tan. Julius L. Haas of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. —_———— VITICULTURAL INTERESTS. A Fine Outlook for California Wines in South American Markets. The California Winemakers’ Corpora- tion, at a recent meeting, forwarded to the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation of California and the Philadel- phia Commercial Museum resolutions thanking those bodies for the interest they are taking in the wine industry of this coast. The resolution recites that California winemakers can successfully compete in price, quality and quantity with the countries of South America, and that there is no reason why the produc- ers here cannot find a splendid market on the southern continent for the wines made here. The resolution says: We now believe that the darkest days of the wine industry of California have passed and that a bright future s before us; that not only will the winemakers of this State be shortly enabled to dispose of their wines at remunerative prices, but that the Vviti- cultural industry of this State must and will in time become onme of the largest and best- paying industries of California. i = e A Christmas Dinner. The employes of the office of the Sur- veyor of the Port have prepared the ma- terials for a grand Christmas dinner for ex-employes of the office who enlisted in the army and went to Manila. Mrs. Jo- seph S. Spear, wife of the Surveyor, was delegated to make the purchases, and she has laid in a store of delicacies that will be good for at least a month’s indigestion. There will be a bottle of champagne and two bottles of beer to each man, with a can of chicken and fancy cheese, pate de foie gras, French mushrooms, salad dress- ing, canned tongue, lobster ‘and shrimps and plum pudding. 'The names of the can- didates for the indigestion ward in tne Manila hospital are: Captain T. McCreagh of Company C, First California Regiment; Privates C. BE. Kesseler, 8. 1. Marston, Lioyd Spencer, Corporal’ H. F. Ruthraft and Commissary Sergeant Arthur H. Clifford. < The dinner will be sent on the Newport, which will leave for Manila to-day. — e Historical Lecture. The third of the series of historical lec~ tures under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be given by Professor Clyde A. Duniway of Stan- ford University at Golden Gate Hall t. afterncon at §:30 o’clock. The subject is “The Federal Constitutional Convention of 1787.”" ——————— New Trial for Friedlander. A. A. Friedlander, convicted of embez- zlement, was granted a new trial by Judge Cook yesterday. The case was continued until November 19 to be set. ——— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's® —_——— Special information supplied dafly to business lwune;3 and puAbll:c m)cn by the. Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery -pg-eet. Telephone Main 1042. * e Hopkins Institute of Art. Last week of the exhibition. Last con- cert Thursday, November 10. Will close Sunday, 13th inst. Members must regis- ter their names for the distribution of paintings on or before Thursday evening, ‘when tge distribution will take place, * —_—e——— MERELY A HARD POINT. It would not be accurate to say that the meeting of Admiral Cervera and the Spanish Minister of Marine made no ice.— Fprom the Detro.. Free Press. —_———— Through Tourist Car to St. Paul. This car is nicely upholstered in leather, leaves every Tuesday night, no change. Goes via Shasta route and Northern Pacific Rail- way. The scenic line of the continent. Tick- ets on sale to all Eastern cities at lowest rates. T. K. Stateler, general agent, 635 Market st., San Francisco. There is but one Angostura Bitters—Dr. Sfe- gert’s, tmported from South America. Beware of the “‘just as good” dangerous substitutes. —_—— MAY RETAIN THEIR SIDE ARMS. Under the terms of fhie evacuation Blanco and his staff will surely be allowed to carry their typewriters with them.— From the Philadelphia North American. ADVERTISEMENTS. RovaL Baking Powder