The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1899, Page 12

o < 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1899. PLOT TO PURCHASE A NATIONAL HONOR Dan Burns Is Using the Police Department of This City With Which to Bait Officers of State. Daniel M. Burns is playing a gambler's | will meet and adjourn until he is able| game to win the prize of a seat in the | to do so. The unfortunate officers will | Cnited States Semate. In his striped ca- | then have a little more time in which to H fight for their lives. reer as a malefactor in and out of prison ,(v’hh.gu Lees is‘ :iste confident, however, | cells, he has staked his personal honor| that Tobin will be able to attend. The | and the lives and liberty of his closest | Chief held yesterday afternoon, therefore, | and dearest friends against success.| his last Trnllmhlary conference with Sometimes he won with the instruments | Wright. The talk lasted for several | of his dishonest greed and sometimes he | Bours, The list of men selected for dis- | Fro - it he crawled, | o, peaing Bohen and Dunlevy; Detectives | elike, public trust| painbridge and Sil Sergeants Lind- now is personality | heimer and Brown Prison; Sergeant | to those upon | Shields, North End station; = Sergeant | Barnstead, Southern station; Sergeant Harbor station; Corporals John Burke, California-street station; Heaney and~Hagarty, Seventeenth-street station: Patrolmen Dugan, attached to the School Department; Peter Coleman and Libby, | Southern station; _John McGreevy and | Avan, ate life 4 and despised. been blackie his victims. Hav His public iend and Y Jishor e *| Charles O'Malley, Harbor station; ~Gag- ing dishonored himself, condemned by | . “Norehouse, Fred Smith and Barney assoclation his 1s, and robbed his| Harter, Central station. benefactor 1 how to bring | 1t will be seen that this list includes listress to ies and with a bait | two captains, two detectives, five three' corporals and tiventy-one in all. Some of the men Who are to be retired are among, the most efficient and widely experienced in the de- ment. Some of them are so thoroughly | informed on the affairs of the department | | w elemen for the § ied to rob Police v taking | agree- of victims e fear of public t the suc I dec of the livelthood positions. and its necessities that they cannot be re- | placed. To dismiss such men means sim- ply to serve a dishonest purpose and obey a dangerous demand. '™ Through the influence of superior offi- ' ICTIMMS OF DAN BURNS ranged his bait to suit his game. Big fish need large bait and small fish are tempted | little hooks and Burns knows that | by there are big and Legislature. little fish in the State HE expose of the dishonorable meth- ods employed by the Pacific Tele- phone and Telegraph Company toward its patrons and the public has excited general dismay, disgust and in- Craftily, therefore, Burns has arranged | dignation. Were it not for the absolute to give 1o each member whom he needs | proof presented by The Call it would seem from the interior the right to appoint one | that this company would not dare violate patrolman of . the Francisco. police . farce of San The higher positions are to be given to the legislative delégation from this city. , This in outline is the plot that is so cruel to officers that must live by their labors and so injurious.to a department that is saturated more than enough al- ready with the drippings of corruption. The Call does not pretend to predict that the plot will be carried to completion. the Police Commissioners obey It the de- mand of Burns they will have precedent for their action. 1f they do not another | public expose will have prevented another public outrage. — Big Typewriter Order. The United States War Department of this city just placed another order with L. & M. Alexander for ten more new | model Smith Premier typewriters. — ——e———— Lighting Bills Will Be Paid. Judge Seawell has handed down an opinion dissolving the temporary injunc- tion granted in the suit recently instituted | AMBI TION. [ :o Police Patrolmen Whose Living Is Demanded That -: VVotes May Be Bought in the State Legislature. o ae on me® om @ Captain Benjamin F. Bohen. | Sergeant Thomas D. Barnstead. Patrolman Daniel C. Libby. en B P Captain Andrew J. Dunlevy. Sergeant John Avan. Patrolman John McGreevy. oE = Detective Arnop Bainbridge. Corporal John H. Burke. Patrolman Charles 0’Malley. e 5 Detective Raymond M. Silvey. Corperal John Heaney. Patrolman Wm. P. Morehouse. u® Sergeant Mier Lindheimer. | Corporal Patrick S. Hagarty. Patrolman Frederick Smith. n® Sergeant Fred T. Brown. | Patrolman Timothy J. Dugan. | Patrolman Barney Harter. n® Sergeant John W. Shields. | Patrolman Peter Coleman. | - Patrolman William Gaynor. up to| cers a few of the men on the list of de-| capitation informed of thelr : proaching misfortune. With a despera- tion inspired by the knowledge that they are to lose their livelihood these men have since been vigorously seeking influence to save their positions. Among those that wre fighting practicaily for their existence are: Corporal Heaney, Sergeants Brown and Lindhelmer and Captain Dunlevy, all of these men are of acknowledged ability and value in their respective spheres, but they are to be sacrificed to mu Police De: t give Burns the which they live. and . a blackl was made I of Police s to the schen s needs votes to win the Knowing from his own impulse cupidity jeves that he can | and he intends to buy slators the power to an S on the local | the ambition of Dan Burns. et value of a&| With the vacancies created by the dis- T fie police force is | missal of these men Dan Burns hopes to 550 ‘ime. . This is no | be able to buy v e 1o one who would ac-| A legislator w s the power to ap- alent, of San Francisco ates Sena- | point a captain of polic vote for United coUt e price varies from to time, | would be no mean political figure in his tor. ~The price varles o, i o one of | district. A legislator who may name a RNTOners Places | sergeant of police would be less powerful, In such manner this but still important. scheptér of the Candel acancies, jema terrible sacrifice the Also several officers who are on the sick list. by auditing and payment a lighting made by the San Francisco Gas | and Electric Company. W. R. Summerhayes to prevent the of _demands for | The way is now clear for the settlement of the demands. _———e—————— The famous old JESSE MOORE WHISKY 1s recommended by physicians for family and medicinal use because it is pure. —_——————— Trustees Will The regular mee trustees of the Mechanics' Institute wil be held at 31 Post ing, January 3, o'clock. Owing to tant questions of interest to be dis it is expected that Hold a Meeting. ting of the board of street Tuesday even commencing g at 7 the number of impor- ussed every member of the board will be present. Over 11,000,000 fans are exported in one laria has thus ar-|year from Canton, China. “demanded living. st is a party to the plot be- - owes his present political life hope of its_continuance to Dan Police joner, to protect. They are that are good for the are the interests of Gunst . of gamblers and black- fegs. Gunst therefore did not weigh lon the balance between hi those of twenty-one men are i interests an nd their living. from the effects v » city. They have, | dependent upon them, fami-| of support. | e been a hero in | duty. But assoclate, 3 Burns, counts thes l Even considerations nothing. ~ He has | ty-one vacancles that Burns may romised to make tw n the Police Departmi offer members of the | State Legislatu s protect | the immo N v to the Chief ¢ scheme because he is It ssion of power. tful for the con- When Gunst tinual po: t sought ake from the old man this | power Lees, in fretful fuming and_the fury of 0ld age, rebelled. Now that there he greedv hope that he will | his sham of greatness | to the demand of the | is- for him t not. be molested in he agrees heartily Pofepirators. He cares nothing for the | efficiency of the Police Department nor | for the existence of its members. Some | of the t have “been selected for | retirement are among the most efficient in the service. Others are ill and friendless and others without power. It is easy for Pan Burns, Mose Gunst and Chief Lees to destroy such men. The scheme was readily formed. Lees has made the Palace Hotel his head- quarters for a month.. When he should Rave been, in the performance of his duty at the City Hall he was at the Palace Hotel in consul jon with Dan Burns The Chief of Police was willing to obey Burns and: eager. to propitiate Gunst. It | was thought feastble at first to increase the police force by twenty-five members, | but this would require an flpproprllllon‘ from the Board of Supervisors, and the Jan was abandoned. It was then dr‘(‘:{]ed: 1o create as many vacancies as poss \16.3 Vacancies have been made in the Police Deprtment before for the benefit of State Jegislators by manufacturing charges | against unprotected patrolmen and dis- | Tissing them from the service. Such a | plan sooner discussed abandoned, as the administration of Lees is offensive enough wit of the old man himself. Charges of cor- than | 1 ffption would be an admission of gullt, | | | and the gcheme was dismissed with very littie discussion. i Burns then determined that those mem- | pers of the department who are eligible for retirement under the pension law and those that have met misfortune and are {ll £hould be retired. Burns' demand was at once accepted. Chief Clerk Wright of the Police Department was at once in- structed to prepare a list of those that. the provisions of the scheme, could be retired from the department and their | laces filled by the selections of State leg- | sintors. Clerk Wright was not slow in | obeying. The pension law provides that 21l members of the department that have | fiad @& continuous service of twenty years and have reached the age of 6) years may be retired on a pension of half pay. tirement is not compulsory, but is .(thig discretion of the Police’ Commis- fion, sitting as a Board of Police Pen- sion’ Commi Tt would be absurd to retire effici they had reached action has been taken honestly. ORIZ ROSENTHAL, the celebrat- ed virtuoso of the piano, arrived at the Palace yesterday from Los Angeles. To-morrow evening he will be heard at the Metropolitan Temple in a recital embracing four numbers. Society at large and the music-loving public of San Francisco in particular have heard much of Rosenthal. His triumph of ten years ago in this coun- try is still remembered, as is the dis- appointment that was experienced two vears ago when he was suduenly taken il and was unable to fulfill his con- tract to tour this country. His ap- pearance here to-morrow evening Is simply the realization of a deferred pleasure. Rosenthal possesses a personality a certain age. Such It 1eve as a man that is no less attractive than his art. ing. the Low of statur 2 bulld that suggests much latent physical strength, he at the same time not MORIZ ROSENTHAL. KEYBOARD WIZARD Virtuoso Bows to Society To-Morrow iy :n“ i but with time spent in his ig only in an emergency, such as Burns a softness of charm and manner that makes delightful as presented, that the Police Commis- o = et e ol e s “compliant or worse, lend them. | SOTPADY He converses with a rare degree of intelligence and a fascinating gelves to a scheme that works mischiet e R R ] ~ 16 the service and grave injustice to un- protected officers. 3 When Wright had finished his list and discovered all of the men in the depart- | fent who were either ill or more than | ears of age coples of the list were | to the different captains in whose di- | | else. ceaseless study. Rosenthal never sacrifices technique for does not lack life or fire, and with his master of any composition that he may pretation he is the opposite of the vitriolic vigions are the men who are to be re-| tired. Through these sources the victims Jearned of their coming fate. They knew that their time is short, as the Police Commissioners will meet to-morrow morning as Pension Commissioners unless the illness of Commisisoner Tobin pre- vents. Mr. Tobin has been seriously but not dangerously ill, and if he cannot at- tend to-morrow the other Commissioners scope and wonderful reserve force of his He is a musician because he canno! Imbued with the most refined sensibilites of harmony, he hta.sb%mu ht th controlling passion of his life to a masterly degree o ? interpretation. A anything of perfection b; ear: Two vears ago he was here convalescing from his Hlacen bor to-morrow evening marks his first bow to a San Francisco audience as & pianist t the same time he ‘wonderful digital abllity he is truly the set before him. In respect to inter- Joseffy, for there is never the slightest execution, suggestion of effort in Rosenthal's manipulation of the keys. The first number on to-morrow’s programme is Beethoven's “S ” The three movements of this masterpiece will give Rosenthal’'s nu&';ifi_fgiuiwa to judge of his soul, expression and interpretation, while the very next numl;%gr' Schumann’s “Carnival,” will serve to {llustrate his dexterity and the muterl; | the confidence reposed In its honesty as | far as to become a public menace instead of what it is paid to be—a public benefit. | But men may be bribed to commit the most despicable offenses, one of which the Pacific Telephone Company has raised | to the despicable dignity of a corporate | existence. This company has made itself | 2 gigantic bureau of eavesdroping, organ- | ized and protected under the law, to | listen at every man's door. So thoroughly is this shameful fact known that employes of the corporation from the highest to the lowest are aware that in every telephone office there is a “listening table,” where the eavesdropper is carried on over any wire operated by the company in any part of the city, State or coast. The “listening table” Is the keyhole of the telephone company and it is operated by the eavesdroppers of the company, even without the knowledge of the ordinary employes. Only the most trusted servants of the | concern are allowed to manipulate it. The dishonorable possibilities of such a | system cannot be exaggerated. Affairs from the most trivial to the most import- | ant are known to these legalized eaves- | droppers. Information that they are bribed, as The Call has shown, to give or that they may use for blackmail, is at thelr command. Facts that the exigen- s of public or private business demand hould be kept secret are in the posses- sion of this company. The substance of every message that is | sent or received over the_Sunset system | is reduced to writing, indexed and filed | away. Why this_should be done it is easy to understand. Men are not knaves for pleasure. When they are rascals they | are paid for being such. The Call deems | it a duty therefore to warn the public of the manner of men who are managing the Pacific Telephone Company, and while they are being overpaid to render an hon- | est public service they are stealing for dishonest gain the secrets of the city anl State. Particularly should a warning be given to those patrons of the Pacific Telephone Company who belleve they are paying for what is known as a ‘“private tele- may sit and hear any conversation that | PREYING UPON THE COMMUNITY How the Telephone Company Per- fected Its Gigantic Bureau of Eavesdropping. phone” In their place of business or in their homes. The company agrees, upon request, not to place the number of a patron’s telephone in the public books. This is a concession that is asked for many reasons. Patrons may wish to be saved from annayance. They may desire to discuss only those affairs that are of the greatest privacy. Whatever their rea- son may be it is their own and the com- pany promises to honor it. Under the terms of this agreement the company promises mnot to give an in- quirer such a patron’s number under any condition. To communicate with such a patron one must know the number of the telephone and must receive the informa- tion from any source except the telephone company. This is the theory. The prac- tice is different. The managers of the Pacific Telephone Company affect to be greatly concerned over the exposure of their offenses. Their concern is the chagrin of detection, not the humiliation of guilt. For some peo- ple, “getting caught” is the only offense in the calendar. Officers of the Telephone Company have made lists of these private telephones and have sold them to whomever offered a sufficient consideration. 1In this way they strike a double bargain. By becoming what they believe to be a public necessity they are bribed to give an exacting ser- vice. They are then bribed to sell the secrets they obtain. John I. Sabin, president and general | manager of the Pacific- Telephone Com- | pany, was seen yesterday afternoon by a Call reporter in regard to the expose of the lax and corrupt methods in the ope- ration of the company’s business. He dis- played_evidence of great confusion and refused to talk on the subject. The as- sistant general manager, Louis Glass, was more communicative, however, until in- terdicted by his_superior officer, Mr. Sa- Dbin. “I did not know of the in The i e sald, that such a state of affairs as described in The Call cannot exist. Whenever we discover that there is an employe—of whom we have a large number—who is not strictly secretive as to the communi- cations_passing through the office, he or she is discharged immediately.” Just at this juncture Mr. called to his private telephone. Glass was ‘When he returned he said that he was interdicted | from speaking further and that Mr. Sabin would represent the company for all interviews. Being asked If it were not possible that an operator might receive or overhear a message and then transmit it to some other than the party to whom it was to be properly sent, he refused to answer. The ban had been placed upon his tongus | and he declined be further. to interviewed A CAUCUS O THE NEW BOARD F SUPERVISORS iAppoin’cmen'ts to City Jobs Considered. COURT CHANGES | POLICE JUDGES LOW AND JOACHIMSEN | AS PROSECUTORS. | L. G. Carpenter and George Went- | worth Also Selected—Recorder Ber- | thier Completes His List of Deputies and Copyists. The incoming Board of Supervisors held a caucus on appointments last evening in Dr. Perrault’'s office. The list of fortu- nate ones who are to receive positions under the new administration was prac- tically completed, but the names are not to be announced until to-night, as several changes are possible. The positions in the four Police Courts are all decided. Police Judges Charles A, Low and H. L. Joachimsen are to be prosecuting at- torneys. This is one of the peculiar re- sults in the game of politics. Thomas Graham, Prosecuting Attorney in Judge Joachimsen’s court, will ascend the bench, and the ex-judge will take his place as prosecutor. L. G. Carpenter, the well-known news- paper man, who i$ a graduate of the Ann Arbor (Mich.) Law School, and Attorney George A. Wentworth will prosecute criminals in the other two departments. Jack P. Rice, James W. McQuaide, F. Kelly and Fred Conway are to be clerks of the Police Courts. One of the important changes made by the new board was the appointment of W. 1. Thompson._ as superintendent of construction of thé new Hall of Justice. Recorder Bertheir will take charge of his office at 2 p. m. to-day, when his as- | slstants are to meet at the Recorder’s | office for instructions. Last night the ap- | pointments in_this office were completed. | They are as follows: | Chief deputy, Charles B. Corey; depu- ties, Harry Baehr and Max Warshaner; marriage license clerk, Joseph Tittel; mortgage clerk, Edward W. Eustice; messenger, John Patten; chief copy- ist, John E. Durnier; copyists, John Cal- . ish, Charles Malpiede, Eli Landry, Wil- jam Fritz, A. T. Green, Joseph Hayes, | Fred Franks, Joseph Maguire, Jerry Moore, W. L. Dauterman Jr., Sam Hamil- ton, Percy Levy, Ed Duffield, E. B. Car- roll, Frank Koegel, Edward Haugkey. Joe Mogan, for several years steward at the Receiving Hospital, has been ap- O(nle{lil clerk in the Coroner’s office by r. H ————————— Proud of the Record. Captain Spillane feels proud of the rec- ord made by the patrol wagon of the Southern Station during the month of De- cember. He has prepared a tabulated statement of the number of “runs.” It is now in the hands of Chief Lees. The document shows that there were 580 “runs’” during that period, the largest for the same length of time in the history of the department. There were 648 prisoners conveyed in the wagon to the City Prison and 68 injured eople taken to the Receiving Hospital. he number of miles traversed by the wagon was nearly 1100. B — Meeting of the Pavers’ Union. The; monthly meeting of the Pavers’ Union, held yesterday at Hibernia Hall, was a success, being well attended by representatives from all over the city. As Indicated by the reports read before the assembled members, the union is in a flourishing condition, which bids well to continue during the entire new year. ————— EX-SENATOR DUBOIS TO WED. South Dakota Miss Will Become the Idaho Statesman’s Bride. CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Cards are out to-day announcing the marriage of ex-United States Senator Fred Dubois of Blackfoot, Idaho, and Miss Edna Maxfleld Whited of | | I , in Chicago on January 11 at e_of Miss Whited's brother- Howland Hanson. Immedi- ide and groom will tern trip. They in Blackfoot, in-law, Rev. ately afferward the b leave on a six weeks expect to be “at Idaho, after March 1. bkt CONGRESSMAN DINGLEY IS CRITICALLY ILL Leader of the Republican Majority in the House a Sufferer From Pneumonia. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—Representative Nelson Dingley of Maine is critically ill at his apartments at the Hamilton House in this city with an attack of pneumo nia. Because of his age much concern is felt over his condition. His illness dates from Wednesday of last week, when he had an attack of la grippe. He gre rapldly worse, and last night pneumoni set in. This afternoon it was stated ther had been a slight change for the better and this has continued throughout the evening. Mr. Dingley is of delicate physique, is | an unremitting worker, and has fgired n tarift legislation in the great number of years pas chairman of the Committee on W House for a * Hi now and pubii- ouse. sing a | Means, and is the leader of the Re can majority on the floor of the His wife and daughter are here nu him in his iliness, while a physician is in constant attendance at his bedside. Noted Educator Dead. SHELBYVILLE, Ky., Jan. 1.—Dr. J. P. ADVERTISEMENTS. JANUARY SALES! DRESS - GOoDS SILKS GLOVES FLANNELS | All Departments! Extraordinary Values 5 cases 36 and 40 inch Mixed Cheviot and Bour- ette DRESS GOODS, in 25 different stules and col- orings. . Price 25¢ Yard. Regular value 50¢ yard. - 4500 yards FANCY SILKS in Plaids, Stripes and Bauvadere effects, all new goods and very desirahle for waists and skirts. 'Prie 85¢ a1 $1.00 11 Regular value $1.25 to $2.25 yard. 275 dozen Ladies’ 2-Clasp ENGLISH WALKING GLOVES, all sizes, in reds, tans, browns, 0x- blood and black. Price "¢5¢ Pair Regular value $1.00 pair. 175 pleces Genuine German EIDERDOWN FLANNEL —a great variety of new pafterns. Price 8sc Yard Regular value 12*4c and 150 yard. NOTE.—Ses display of above goods In our show windows. m, n3, 15, 1T, 19, 121 POST STREET. morning, aged 74, He was the son of Mrs. | Julia A. Tevis, founder and for fifty vears Girl’s High institution’s al- umni he was_well known in nearly every principal of the Science Hill School. Through that part of the Union. NEW YORK, special to the Herald says: |ately after Congress convenes & list of | army officers entitled in his opinion to ‘bre\'et rank for gallant and meritorious | service during the recent war. As soon as the | officers RECOGNITION OF VALOR. Army and Naval Officers to Be Re- warded for Gallant Service. Jan. 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