The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 15, 1898, Page 6

\ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, TUESDAY..... .NOVEMBER 15, 1 Call 898 | = | Whether this gift to a long-subject race were wise or THE RACE RIOTS. HERE are ten millions of negroes in the United States. The amended constitution gives them equality of civil rights and the franchise. A 1 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. A e e o P B o PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Teleph Main 1865, EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Strest Telephone Main 1874, YTHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for IS cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per;montb 65 cents. / THE WEEKLY CALL.............One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE......... tesess..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. «...-Rigge House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untli 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street, open untll I0 o'clock. 2201 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Bl n street, open until 9 o'clock. street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ene Kentucky until 9 o'clock, Marquette Bullding | 106 Eleventh | | unwise need not be discussed now. The act is a fact | and must be reckoned with as a fact. i It is a fact, too, that is full of present and future | portent. The result of our war with Spain is to give | Cuba a negro government, it she is to be seli-govern- | irg at all. After the Spaniards have withdrawn three- | fourths of the people leit will be negroes and their congeners. We have sent negro regiments of our regular army as a significant part of our invading | force to expel Spain from the island. * These black | regulars have risen in the scale of intelligence by the | drill, discipline and esprit de corps of the army. They | return with their commands to their own country to i find their race denied here the independenceand equal- | ity which they fought to gain for it in Cuba. They find | a stubborn rejection of the negro as a voter and an | office-holder, while he is called on as a soldier to | bleed and die for these very rights of his people | abroad. The situation is startling” It cannot be met | by shutting our eyes to it. Children afraid of the | dark shut their eyes, but that does not end the dark- | ness. The leaders of the Cuban insurgents have been ne- | groes. Maceo was of that race, and Gomez is a San | Domingo negro. Seen through the lens of our own situation the insurrection in Cuba appears every day AMUSEMENTS Californta—'‘Northern Lights Columble—Kellar, the Magician. Baldwin—'‘Mistakes Will Happen.” Alcazar—*"A Fool of Fortune.' Morosco's—'*A Midnight Trust."” Orpheum — Vaudeville. Tivoli—*'Suzette,” Comedy—*‘Under the Dome." Olympia — Corner Mason and Eddy Streets, Specialties. The Chutes—Lillian F. Smith, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Sutro’s Baths—Swimming. Ingleside Track—Races To-day. Orpheum — Concert Thursday, November 17. Rosenthal — Coming in December. more clearly as a race war. i Are we on the verge of such a war at home? If i a Maceo or a Gomez arise in the South, at the head of | an armed force, proclaiming to the world that they | are ready to wade through slaughter to get the full | rights guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States, what answer can we make to them and to the world? We do not say that white men, when they are in a| | minority in any State, must submit patiently to the | | rule of a black majority. We do not say that States AUCTION SALES. | | can progress and prosper in this country under snch' But we do say that the Federal constitution rule. Wm. G. Layng—This Evening, November 15, at 8/ . s : A a‘Cl.;gk, Horses, at 141 Howard Street. | gives to a negro majority, everywhere in the republic, By E. Watkins & Co.—This Day, November 15, at 11 : Hr-u G o'Clock, Livery Stable, at 33 Twelfth Street. the right to cast its vote, have it falrl). counfed and y Frank W. Butterfield—This Day, November 15, at 11 |take and exercise the power and authority which that B: o'Clock, Furniture, at 534 Haight Street. & LET US HAVE RAIN. ALIFORNIA has been through one dry sea- son, and only a State so well equipped with varied industries and so vast in extent could so well have borne the calamity. Yet there is a limit even to the endurance of California. People,are hop- ing and praying there will not be this year a continu- ation of the drought. They want the baked fields flooded, the lean kine given grass wherewith to lay fat on their protuberant ribs. They yearn for the orchards to bloom again and bear fruit, the dust of the vineyard to be laid. They desire to get soaked, saturated and half-drowned. It is not a shower they ask for, but a procession of showers with such short irtervals between as shall barely give them oppor- tunity to wring themselves out. So far as can be learned, the only ones who would not hail rain as a blessing are the beautiful but per- haps thoughtless ladies who have provided themselves with the prevalent picture hat whereon waves a wealth of plumes, the glory of which is impaired by a good fog and utterly departs in the presence of a downpour. ® But the ladies would join in the general petition and graciously joy in having the plumes be- draggled could the} but realize how the man who paid for the millinery pines for rain, and the chances that unless the rain come next year they may have to wear gingham sunbonnets and sell the feathers to buy shoes for the baby. In other words, California must have rain. The weather is lovely now. Within the human breast it arouses a spirit of poesy. The little birds are satisfied with it. The person who does not think deeply nor see beyond the end of his nose believes it is all right. On the contrary, it is all wrong. Lowering clouds might drive the comeliness from the landscape and interfere with Sunday picnics, but they would tickle the soil, and later in the deal render glad the heart of man, which cannot forever be made buoyant by a ray of sunshine and a gentle breeze. [ — THE SILVER DEMOCRATS. ARD indeedhave been the times for the Silver H Democrats, and harder still are going to be the times that await them. Even fortune, which is proverbially said to favor fools, seems to have for- saken them. They have gained nothing from the last campaign, not even the wholesome benefit of a sound thrashing, for their pet issue was not permitted to " have a place in the game. The free silver craze will take rank hereafter as one of the most extraordinary forms of political lunacy that ever affected the mind of any considerable num- ber of the American people. It was the madness of an hour and has so far spent its force that even its stanchest advocates never dared to defend it or hardly even to refer to it on any stump in the United States. It was ignored like a poor relation, hushed up like an indiscretion and kept out of sight like a skeleton in a closet. 3 The few Republicans who were carried away by it f are not so badly off, for they did not contaminate the ! fold. They have only to repent, come back, be for- | given, and they will find once more a secure shelter. | The Populists have only to return to the middle of the | road, and they also will have a future for themselves. The free silver Democrat, however, has no resource | left. He has despoiled the house of his fathers. He has no longer a place of refuge even should he re- pent; neither has he a road to which to betake himJ self. There is nothing left for him but the woods or | the grave. | Fortune as well as fate, caprice as well as reason, have taken part in reducing the Silver Democrat to utter- nothingness. Every event of the time, every prospect of the future militates against him. Logic has refuted his arguments, prosperity has destroyed | the discontent which was his strength, and popular favor has deserted him. Even in the social swim the girls mock at him. He is out of date. There may be some sort of future for the Silver Democrat, but never for that cause nor under that name will Ameri- can politics ever know him agai Roosevelt is said to have an eye on the White House. There is no particular harm in this. Many another gentleman has focused his optics in the same direction without getting beyond the stage of doing all his gazing from the outside of the structure. Colonel Smith of the First California will be pleased to learn that the President has praised the troops of“his command. Other colonels have found ir a more substantial way that their services were ap- preciated. Li Hung Chang bobs up and down like a cork in the surf, but whether he is up or down the people of this country are just as much concerned as about the | vote gives. Armed intervention to establish a black govern- | ment in Cuba has been Jike a sun glass focused on | tinder throughout the South. The whites have met the issue with a relentless firmness. Any of them | who have not aligned with their race have been for- | cibly exiled from their homes and are driven out of | any community in which they seek refuge. These events are indicative of the desperate nature of the conflict. What are we going to do about it? Having | gone abroad to enfranchise the inferior races, are we going to disfranchise an inferior race at home, and leave standing in the constitution the great guarantee of its civil and political equality? The issue concerns the whites and blacks in thirteen States, but in the broader view it affects our national attitude before the world and the soundness of our own fundamental | law. The Spanish war has afforded ‘only one point upon which to impinge hope of a reasonable solution. The former sectional feeling and prejudice between North and South have been destroyed. There is no longer standing room for it in the fear that, touching the great purposes of the Union, the South and North | are in discord. 8 | { The race problem is separated entirely irom the | fermer sectional issue. As related to that it is a new | problem entirely. The white leaders of the North ana | South must face each other calmly, without passion, | and discuss that problem and settle it. = The progressive consolidation of the Government, | | the prospective completion of that process as a re- | sult of our brief war, may point the way. Under a consolidated Federal Government will disappear the effect of a local black majority in Alabama, Missis- sippi, Louisiana and South Carolina. The question in this new aspect will be between a white majority of 70,000,000 and a black minority of 10,000,000 in a con- solidated nation, under a highly centralized Govern- ment. This implies the surrender by the South, and byi our people everywhere, of the last vestige of State | rights as founded in the Virginia and Kentucky reso- | lutions of 1768 and 1799. This surrender is likely to | be the crux of the whole question. If the centralizing | revolution is turned back by aversion to that change | the further question arises as to the extent to which Congress can go under its constitutional grant of | power to guarantee to each State a republican form 1 of government. That form is well seftled, under our | system, to mean a government in which the majority | rules by lawful expression of its will at the baliot | box. | These are the alternatives. They must be consid- | ered. The issue must be met. It must be settled. If | it is not we will run into the deepest difficulties that | have et beset the republic, and their burden will be | greater because of the sentiment and principle upon ‘| which we made war upon Spain and the results | which have followed our victory. {THE PRESIDENT AND IMPERIALISM. ITH a persistent iteration the expansionists W and imperialists of the yellow press assert and reassert that the President is determined upon the annexation of the Philippines and will exert all the powers of his great office to accomplish it. It. istration Republicans of the House into an opposition to the election of Reed as Speaker during the next Congress, because Mr. Reed is not in favor of im- perialism. In short, the yellow organs claim to be spokesmen for the President. They proclaim with | so much impudence what he is going to do that a considerable number of people are no doubt misled | by their statements. So widespread have been these reports that Senator Hoar found it necessary in a recent speech at Worces- ter to remind his hearers that there is no authority | under the constitution of the United States to ac- quire any foreign territory save by treaty approved by a two-thirds vote of the Senate, or by an act of legislation in which the President, the Senate and | the House of Representatives must.unite. He added: | “It is just as well to bear this fact in mind when reading some of the remarkable dispatches in which wiseacres in Paris (as correspondents for American "$5000 for “fixing” the Board of Education; that (2) tions of official rascals are before that body; the investigation which now confronts Director Wal- Jury comedy. insturance on the buildings was lessee’s bond was scaled and why Snook’s company | paid Jake Samuels a $5000 fee justified in acquitting the School Board ring. credit should be given by the victorious Republicans to the masterly work accomplished in the local cam- paign by the County Central Committee. This work is too important to be overlooked even in the rejoic- ing over the larger victories in the State and in the nation. cumstances. at their head a Mayor entrenched in office and with has been even said that he will organize the admin- | seriously be doubted to-daywhether the American people want to engage in a tropical campaign of four or five years’ duration, carried on solely with a view to the conquest of 9,000,000 Malays who are now roaming in savagery in an archipelago which includes about islands, over which the taint of disease hangs constantly, a menace of death to any invading force of white men.” S——— THE LATEST SCHOOL SCANDAL. HE light and airy manner in which certain Tmembers of the Board of Education have re- ceived the charges of John P. Reynolds, who has sworn that they were bribed to award a lease of the Lincoln School lots to the San Francisco Real Fstate Investment Company, indicates that they do not understand the gravity-of the situation in which they are placed. Reynolds has commenced a suit to recover the amount Snook and Williams agreed to pay him for his services in negotiating the business. In that action the particulars of the entire affair may become legal evidence. In other words, a defense will NOVEMBER, 15, 1898. AROUND THE RRIDORS. A Rl Hon. Sidney Trench of London s at the Palace. Dr. W. C. Grove and wifs of Modesto are at the Occldental. F. D. Nicol, a Stockton, lawyer, is a guest at the Lick. State Senator J. C. Holloway of Clover- dale is at the Russ. H. 8. Allen, a well-known Sonora min- ing man, is at the Grand. H. H. Blood, a prominent Virginia City attorney, is at the Grand. D. V. Weeks, a large land owner of Pescadero, is at the Russ. L. Hyman, in the merchandise line at Neyada City, is at the Lick. W. P. Thomas, a prominent Uklah at- torney, is a guest at the Grand. J. P. Rathburn, a prominent mining man of College City, is at the Russ. Marion Biggs Jr., an Oroville ranchkman and capitalist, is at the Grand. ‘William Whalen, a well-known Pleasan- ton cattleman, is a guest at the Russ, have to be made and established or Reynolds will re- cover judgment. Under these circumstances it will not do for the accused parties to declare that Reynolds drinks, bor- rows money and is generally a disreputable character. Some-evidence will have to be produced to offset his sworn statement, that: (1) Sam Waller received somebody “jumbled” the advertisement for tenders; that (3) the insurance on the buildings covering the lots was reduced by trickery; that (4) bad tenants were ejected for the benefit of the lessees; that (5) a sewer was put in under Phil Crimmins’ saloon be- fore the award was made; and (6) that the bond of the Real Estate Investment Company was scaled. All these things are matters of record. On their face they look bad, though we do not say they cannot be explained. Certainly, in the teeth of such charges and such a record it will not do for Waller, Snook, Williams and their associates to aver that Reynolds drinks and borrows money. If Mr. Waller and his alleged “business” colleagues in the Board of Edu- cation are guilty of having sold the lease of the Lin- coln School lots in this way they have committed a crime which has attached to it a State prison penalty. Moreover, the lease itself is void and may be an- nulled. Nor is this a Grand Jury case. The suit brought by Reynolds is a civil action, and the suit to annul the lease, if one be commenced, will be a civil action. Evidence may be taken in both which it will.be im- possible hereafter to refute or obliterate. Mr. Snook was secretary of the Grand Jury when he is alleged to have conceived the idea of organiz- ing the San Francisco Real Estate Investment Com- pany, and he probably knows how futile prosecu- hence his experienced judgment will tell him at once that | ler’s associates is not to be compared with a Grand | Edwin C. Rush, editor of the Amador Dispatch, at Jackson, is at the Lick. John A. Mclntire, a well-known Sac- ramento mining man, is at the Grand. General A. W. Greely has returned from San Jose, and is again at the Pal- ace. 8. 8. Bradford, who has large mining and lumber interests at Sonera, is at the Russ. A. C. Cleveland, a prominent Nevada politician, is among recent arrivals at the Palace. M. Rheinhart, a prominent merchant of Winnemucca, Nev., is registered at the Baldwin. H. B. Everest, a Riverside capitalist, accompanied by his daughter, is at the California. C. Ferguson, an extensive coffee planter of Honolulu, is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife. Alfred Ragglo, agent Commercial Steamship Company Genoa, I8 a guest at the Grand. R. A. Boggess, largely interested in quicksilver mining at Sulphur Creek, is at the Occidental, with Mrs. Boggess. J. R. Dwyer leaves this city shortly for New York. He will remain in the Eastern metropolis for about five weeks. A party of Northwestern mining men, composed of Dr. R. E. Stewart, Bert Shellow, Willlam Liggitt, Fred Hutchin- of of from the Klondike and are at the Russ. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—H. Brantnober of San Francisco is at the Windsor. Miss Florence Lippitt of San Francisco is at the Savoy. James Brignolin and Dr. Charles H. Catelmoon of San Francisco are at the Cosmopolitan WHEN PAPA’S SICK. When papa’s sick, my goodness sakes! Such awful, awful times it makes, He speaks in oh! such lonesome tones, And gives such ghas'ly kind of groans, And rolls his eyes and holds his head, If the accused School Directors desire to clear | themselves they should explain why the advertisement | for leasing the school lots was “jumbled,” why the | reduced, why thei for services which should not have cost over $500. All these matters will have to be explained before the people will be REPUBLICAN COUNTY COMMITTEE. B EFORE the events of the recent election are forgotten in the approach of Thanksgiving and the rush of holiday trade, it is but just that due It merits general recognition. | The local campaign opened under threatening cir- The Democrats were in power, and had | an autocratic control of all the ‘machinery of his party. He was also supported by a Non-Partisan organization, which at the beginning of the canvass was supposed to represent a considerable voting strength.. Against such odds the Central Committee had to make headway without any of the adventitious aids which favored the Phelanites. The county convention nominated a strong ticket, and with that one factor in their favot the committee went to work. The task of organizing the party and, rousing the ardor of the rank and file was undertaken with vigor and energy. In a comparatively short time a new aspect was given to the situation. Repub- licanism was united and Democracy divided. The work of the committee began to tell. Activity took the place of despondency, and the hopes of'the party became sangtine. The results of the contest speak for themselves and attest the excellence of the tactics adopted by the party managers. The victory of the Republicans in the city and county was almost a clean sweep. In- stead of giving a majority of 10,000 for Maguire, as the Democrats had predicted, the city gave a hand- some majority for Gage. The Board of Supervisors, the Board of Education and almost all the important offices of the county were won for the Republican candidates. R 5 The members of the County Committee can well be satisfied with the proof thus given of the sagacity and energy of their conduct of the canvass. They achieved a sweeping sticcess where dtffltéflq threat- cned, and have a right to a large share of the honors of the splendid campaign which resulted so bril- liantly for San Francisco Republicanism! If President Valentine of the Wells-Fargo Express Company can induce California co?n'u, as has been done in the East, to hold that when Congress said ex- press companies should pay a share of the war tax, it did not know what it was talking about, hé will have been recompensed, for all the trouble he has had in writing tracts on the subject. » Residents of a city not blessed with a morally and physically reeking Chinatown cannot appreciate the difficulty of apprehending a Chinese murderer. This is about as hard a job as to enter a sewer full of rats newspapers) profess to be able to outline the policy of the United States.” 0k President McKinley has had # large experience in politics, and is a statesman of known conservatism and sagacity. He is not at all likely to attempt to domineer over Congress nor to try to dictate the choice of Speaker of the House. His policy will be announced in due time. He is not using the yellow journals as his organs nor even as his confidants. Whether the Senate will approve of the annexation of the Philippines remains to be seen. The more the subject is studied and understood the less inclined are the people to undertake the venture. As the Bos- ton Transcript says: P “Whatever may have been public sentiment at the fate of the cork, : | time of the first news of Dewey's great victory, it may | of polifiu; cripples. - and catch the rodent guilty of nibbling a particular cheese. 4 All this talk about the Spanish making renewed resistance is a waste of patience, time, breath and space. They may feel in the mood, but have nothing to make it with. ! "There should be a rigid investigation of the rumors concerning the cruiser Buffalo. The people of this country do not want any “hell ships” in the navy. New York soldiers are to be called back from Honolulu. They have not found military life a pic- nic, and a picnic was what they were looking for. And makes ma help him up to bed; While Sis and Bridget run to heat Hot water bags to warm his feet, And I must get the doctor quick— We have to jump when papa’s sick. When papa’s sick ma has to stand Right side the bed and hold his hand, While Sis she has to fan an’ fan, For he says he's “a dyin’ man.' And wants the children round him to Be there when ‘sufferin’ pa gets through''; | He says he wants to say good-by And Kkiss us all and then he'll die; Then moans and says his ‘“bréathin’s thick”— It's awful sad when papa’s sick. ‘When papa’s sick he acts that way Until he hears the doctor say, “You've only got a cold, you know, You'll be all right 'n a day or so.” And then—well, say! you ought to see, He's different as he can be, And growls and swears from noon to night Just 'cause his dinner ain’t cooked right, And all he does is fuss and kic We're all used up when papa’s sick. JOE LINCOLN in L. A. W. Bullétin. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PETITION TO PROBATE-M. E. P., City. Any interested party, devisee or legatee or executor, may, in the State of | California, petition to have a will pro- bated. NATIONAL GUARD-T. H., Placerville, Cal. The State of California does not, in time of peace, allow the members of the National Guard any money except the monthly allowance for armory rent, etc. They are only given pay when called into service. BETTING ON ELECTION—The Ad- mirer, City. The section of the Code that prohibits betting on elections is_still a art of the Penai Code of the State of alifornia. This department not being the custodlan of the minds of those whose duty it 1s to enforce the law cannot inform you why that law is not enforced. A YOUNG WRITER—B. M. 8, City. A young writer who wishes to have his articles criticized should form the ac- quaintance of some well known literary man who has the time and inclination and submit his articles to him. Newspapefs all over the United States accept well written. newsy items. DRAUGHT OF A VESSEL—N., City. This department has not been able to find a record of a vessel drawing thirty- six feet of water. There are some war vessels that have great draught, for in stance the Italia and the Lepanto of the ltn:lan navy draw thirty-one feet of water. A FIVE-CENT PIECE—J. M. C., City. A copper nickel flve-cent piece of 139 hav- mtg on the reverse the figure 5 in a circle of alternate stars and rays, with the words_cents underneath, and the legend United States of America above, sells at from twenty-five to forty cents, accord- ing to condition, POLL TAX—N. N,, City. The States in which women are allowed full suffrage are Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. ‘Women pa?-lyoll tax only in Wyoming. The law o tah and Colorado says that males shall pay poll tax, while in Wyom- ing the lawis that “every person shail pay poll tax.” In each of these States there is a limit to age when poll tax shall cease. TRESPASS BY ANIMALS—L. H., Oat Hill, Cal. The act of March 27, 1897, in relation to taking up estrays says that an individual may take up estrays on his property or on the highway adjacent thereto, and makes no mention of fences. From: this it is to be inferred that ani- mals that stray upon the property of any one in this State, whether-the same fs fenced or not, can be taken up and held according to law. There is a law that deals with animals that enter upon lands that are fenced. PROBATING A WILL—V. J. T., Jamul, Cal. If the party was a rasident of Jamul 2t the time of his death, though he died in San Frarcisco, the will should be pro- bated in San Diego County, in which Jamul is located; but if he was a resident of San Francisco at the time of death, the will must be probated in San Francis- co. A resident of Jamul can have the will presented In Francisco through an attorney, but when it comes to provin the wili it would require the presence ol the party offering the will for probate, if the party is an interested one. PROVING UP A HOMESTEAD-M., Carson City, Nev. The letter of inquiry is not sufficiently definite to warrant a positive answer, as it does not appear what steps were taken to prove the home- stead, but the rule is, where a homestead settier dies before the completion of his claim the widow or in case of her death the heirs may continue settlement or cul- tivation and obtain title upon proper proof at the right time. If the widow smun up, the title passes to her. If she up, an heirs make the proof, title will vest in them. The facts gnte& - " The campaign is over, but the hospital is still full A in the letter of inqui are not sufficlently set forth to -hgwrl; | there was any fraud practiced in the up=ts 3 the Ttallan | son and Willlam R. Lloyd, have returned | WILL PAY FOR GAS, OVER THE MAYOR'S VETO Supervisors Stand by the Corporation. VOTE FOR A FREE MARKET A LIVELY SESSION IN WHICH THE BOARD GOES IT ALONE. Permits Granted for Two Boxing Contests—People’s Mutual Tel- ephone Company Gets an Extension. | By a vote of seven to three yesterday the Board of Supervisors overruled the veto of the Mayor and allowed the Au- gust and September bills of the Gas and | Electric Company amounting in the ag- | gregate to $i8,842 85. The bills came up in the regular order of business, and Su- pervisor Rottanzi got up to say that he | had looked into the law upon which | Mayor Phelan had based his veto of Oc- tober 7 and he found no reason for beat- ing the gas company out of what was justly due it. The company had fur- nished the goods, he said, and there was no reason why payment should longer be delayed, the Mayor to the contrary not- withstanding. Supervisor Rottanzi was the principal object of attack in Mayor Phelan’s veto. His two objections to allowing the com- pany’s claims were that the contract with the gas and electric people had been en- tered into in spite of his veto, and that the man who cast the deciding vote was Supervisor Roitanzi, who at that time was not only drawing salary as a Su- pervisor but was holding a lucrative posi- tion under the Government as a surgeon of volunteers. This, the Mayor contended, was contrary to the law, and his veto is- | sued accordingly. Supervisor Rottanzl’s championship of the motion to pass was decldedlf* aggressive in tone, .but he suc- ceeded in eliciting no reply from the | Mayor, who quietly put the vote. - The | only noes were Supervisors Dodge, Clin- | ton and Lackmann, and the bills passed. Another step was taken toward the es- tablishing of the free market on the water {ront in a resolution granting to the Har- bor Commissioners the right to use the one and three-quarter biocks bounded by East, Davis and Pacific streets as a site for the sheds, railroad terminals and other conveniences needed for the re- celving and display of all produce shipped from the country for marketing. The res- olution passed without objection. Theé)etmun to close, by the erection of a building, the cul de sac known as Ash- | burton place, between Post and Sutter | streets, again occupied the attention of | the board, and Supervisor Rottanzi strongly objected to permission being granted as_the city was to_receive no in- | demnity. He was seconded in_his objec- | tions by Supervisor Clinton, and when the | matter came to a vote it stood at five to | flve. Supervisor Britt changed his vote | from aye to no and gave motice that at | the next meeting he would move to recon- | | sider the vote. | | .An amendment to section 50 of - !dlnnnce regulating offensive adve}msg\rg} | Was referred, upon motion of Supervisor { Haskins, to the Police Committee. 'Lue | amendment prohibits the pasting of cir- culars or advertising matter of any de- | seription upon electric light and telephone | poles. It has. the unanimous sanction of | the boaru. 3 | _ Observant of the fact that the Hall of | | Justice is finally nearing completion, the | | board also adopted a resolution directing | | the Committee on Public Buildings to | | ather necessary information relative-to | furnishing the new building. No time was ‘ ;et tt‘m- the hearing of the committee’s re- ort. i James L. Crittenton of the People's Mu- tual Telephone Company appeared before the board to urge the request made at a | | previous meeting for another extension of | | one year in the time granted the company | | under its franchise to complete its sys- | tem. Upon the promise that all of the ca- bles and wires in the business center of | the city would be laid underground, the | extension was granted. By the unanimous vote of the board, a resolution was adopted directing the City | | and County Attorney to represent the city ! in the suit brought by H. Julius Conradt | for an injunction restraining the Board of | Supervisors from entering into a contract | | with the Sanitary Reduction Company ror the incineration of garbage gathered on the city’s streets, Permits were granted to the National Athletic Club for a boxing contest, to | occur between December 20 and 31, and to the Atlas Amateur Athletic Club for a contest at B’'nai B'rith Hall, to take place on the 28th inst. In the case of the Atlas Club the license for fistic exhibi- tions was suspended, as the contest is to be an amateur performanee and not for the purpose of raising revenue. Another batch of claims for the paving of Market street was brought up and the bills were passed to be printed. Among were those of City Improvement Company for paving Market street, pe- tween Second and Sixth. for $13,716 bo; Fourth street, between Market and Mis- sion, $1148 55; Bryant street, between Twenty-second and Twenty-thira, $786 85; for repairs during September, $1718 04; ‘glamn & Treacy, paving Market street, 5. After establishing a half dozen street lights on south of Market street corners, the board adjourned to Monday next. ot 2t STREET IMPROVEMENTS. Summary of the Week’s Work of the Board. The following is a complete list of the various stree: improvements passed by the Board of Supervisors at yesterday's session: oy RESOLUTION ORDERING STREET WORK. Crossing of Central avenue and Halght—Pav- ing with bituminous rock. §nrtherly line of Golden Gate avenue, Baker to Lyons—Artificlal stone sidewalks. erry, Third street and the northeasterly termination of Perry—Curbs and paving with ‘basalt biocks. Clayton, Halght to Page—Artificlal stope stdewalks. ‘Gough, Union to Filbert—Curbs and paving with besalt blocks. Crossing of Jones and Breadway—Paving with bituminous rock. Page, Fillmore to Steiner—Curbs and pav- ing with bituminous rock. enty-fourth, Guerrero to Falr Oaks—Same. Twenty-fourth, Valencia to San Jose ave- nue—Artificial stoné sidewalks. Nineteenth, Castro to Hartford—Plank side- walks, Westerly angular corner of Fifth and Te- hama—Artificlal stone sidewalk. Chestnut, Leavenworth to Hyde—Paving with basalt blocks. Croseing of Hayes street and Masonic avenue —Cesspools, culverts, curbs and artificial stone stdewalke. ; Northeasterly and southeasterly corners of same crossing—Curbs, artificial stone sidewalks and paving with bituminous rock. Utah, Twenty-fifth to southerly !efhnltlon of Utah—Grading, redwood curbs, sidewalks and paving. Crossing of Page and Baker—Paving with bituminous rock and artificial stone sidewalk on_the northwesterly corner of same crossing. ebster, Greenwich to Lombard—Curbs and paving with bituminous rock. RESOLUTION OF INTENTION. Cumberland, Guerrero to Dolores—Curbs and paving_with_bituminous rock. . De Haro, Fifteenth to Sixteenth—Grading. Northeasterly and northwesterly corner ot the intersection of Twenty-second and North— Ces ls and culverts. Sl Laguna—16-inch pipe Waller, Octavia to sewer. De Haro, southerly line of Twenty-thirg to a point four hundred feet northerly from Twen- ty-third—Grading. Fleventh avenue, A to B—Grading, redwood curbs, sidewalks and macadamizing. RESOLUTION ORDERED REPEALED. Nineteenth avenue, northerly line of I street, to a point five hundred feet south of southerly Tine of W street—Red curbs, grading, mac- adamizing the roadway and sidewalks. RESOLUTION OF FULL ACCEPTANCE. Twenty-sixth, Valencia to Guerrero—Bitu- i f / _ PRIVATE CONTRACTS. I Fell, Filimore to Stelner—Paving with bitu- minous rock with strip of basalt blocks in center, to City Street: Improvement Company. Ninth avenue, H to I—I-inch ironstone pipe sewer, to Williams, Belser & Co. EXTENSIONS OF TIME GRANTED. Market, from southwesterly line of Fifth street to westerly line of Taylor—To Flinn & Treacy, 9 days on paving. EXTENSIONS OF TIME RECOMMENDED. Easterly line of Dolores to a point distant 205 feet east of the easterly line of Dolores— To Flinn & Treacy, 60 days on their contract for sewering. BIDS ORDERED REJECTED. Mission street, Crescent to Silver avenue— Paving and curbing. RESOLUTION _AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF STREET CONTRACTS. Bryant, Twenty-second to Twenty-third—To City Street Improvement Company, for 2550 square feet of bitumen pavement at 23 cents, $58650; 150 lineal feet granite curbing at 85 cents,’ $12750; engineering, $20; inspector, $3; printing, $35 85, making a sum total of $786 85. Market, Secofd to Sixth—To same, $13,716 65, for paving with bituminous rock. RECOMMENDED _BY SUPERINTENDENT STREETS. Eighth avenue, Point Lobos avenue to A street—Construction of brick sewer. Devisadero, Hajght to Waller—Paving with basalt blocks for a distance of seven feet east of the center line and remaining portion of roadway be paved with bituminous rock. PETITIONS REFERRED TO STREET COM- Berkshire to Glen avenue—Fairmount and Glen Park Improvement and Sunnyside and Castro Addition Improvement clubs, for the extension of the street. Broderick, Jackson street to Paciflc avenue— J._J. Dowling,,for paving with cobbles. ‘Flibert street and Sunnydale avenue—Prop= erty owners, for removal of fences. ‘Nineteenth and ~Sanchez—Property owners, for hydrant on the northwest corner. Buchanan, Haight to Waller—San Francisco Paving Company, for permission to pave with bituminous rock. ‘Waller, Laguna_to Buchanan—Flinn & Trea~ ¢y, for conditional acceptance of street work. CGrossing of Lundy’s lane and Esmeralda aves nue—Property-owners for the raising of the grade three feet. Fourth and Channel—Unfon Iron Works, re- questing that drawbridge be closed November 26 between the hours of 8 and 9:50 . m., When Tnited States battle-ship Wisconsin will be launched. Tenth avenue, M to N street. including cross- ing of N street—Property-owners for grading. De Haro, Twenty-third street, to a point 400 feet mortherly—Manuel J. Pires for, permission to grade by private contract. 7/ PROTESTS REFERRED TO STREET COM~ MITTEE. Northwest, northeast and southwest corners of Clement street and Fifth avenue—Property=- owners against construction of sidewalk. Shrader, Waller to Frederick—Same against paving, ete. Vincent, Green to Unfon—Same against con- struction of sewer. REPORT OF STREET ' COMMITTEE ON MATTERS SUBMITTED AT PRE- VIOUS SESSION. . on street, Crescent to Silver avenues—In f&‘;'lcl':'z)! rejecting all bids received and opened on March 28, 1898, for the work of paving and S side avenue at crossing of Edna street. unnys = 1n favor of referring petition of Sunnyside Dis- trct Progressive Improvement Club and prop- erty-owners for culverts and the repairing of Strect break to Superintendent of Streets. Termination of Twenty-second avenue, north- erly from Lake street—In favor of _referring communication of Superintendent of Streets re- Hesting the establishment of grades to City Engineer for examination. Shutheast and southwest corners of Army and Alabama—In fayor of storm water inlets. Crossing of Haight street dnd Central ave- nue—Tn favor of paving with bituminous rock. Filbert, Polk to Larkin—In favor of side- H walks. Fell, Fillmore to Steiner—In favor of paving with bituminous rock with strip basalt blocks pavement in center. Ninth avenve, H to I streets—In favor of con~ struction of 12-inch ironstone pipe sewer. Other petitions and protests reported on ad= versely or filed LIGHT AND AIRY. “I see by your dictionary,” said the for- elgner who was struggling with the Eng- lish language, “that ‘unbend’ means to ‘relax.’ and ‘Unbending’ means ‘unyield- “Don’t blame me,” feplied his American friend, cheerfully; “I didm’'t write the dic- tionary.”—Puck. The Chemist—These pilules will, I think, cure giddiness. If they don’t make you feel better, I'll give you something else. Mrs. Young— h, they're not for me. I want something for my poor husband. He comes home night after night hardly able to stand or speak. 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