The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1899, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1899. .JANUA;Y 13, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. AMUSEMENTS Columbia— *“The Man From Mexico.™ California— *Pudd'nhead Wilson."” Alcazer—*‘The Magistrate.” The Yellow Dwarf."” Hi Henry Minstrels. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Comedy— “Uncle Tom’s Cabin." The Chutes—Gorilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Olympla— Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Central Park—The Steeplechase. Ingleside Racetrack—Races To-day. Sherman-Clay Hali—Gerome Helmont, Violinist, Tuesday evening, January 17. e e e —— AUCTION SALES, Willlam G. Layng—Saturday, January 14, at 11 o'clock, Buggles, etc., at 721 Howard street. ¥ W. Louderback—Monday, January 16, at 10:30 a. m. 2:30 p. m., Turkish Rugs, at 123 Geary street. v Madison & Burke—Tuesday, January 17, at 12 o'clock, Estate, at 626 Market st Horses, A SURPRISING @ADDITION. HEN the names of the men who voted for W Burns were published yesterday it was thought the black list was complete. That another shauld follow the example of Jilson was hardly con- ceivable, yet one more has yielded and must be placed on the roll of dishonor. This one, and the fact is stated with regret, is Speaker Howard E. Wright of the Assembly. Of him better had been expected. He has wounded and disappointed his friends, and in so doing has accomplished nothing more. Seeking to aid and abet the enemy, he was able to carry only his individual strength, and not to do the evil of placing Burns appreciably nearer the goal. Here is the list revised: SENATORS. Bettman, San Francisco. Burnett, 8an Francisco. Hoey, San Francisco. Laird, Shasta. Leavitt, Alameda. Shortridge, Santa Clara. Wolfe, San Francisco. ASSEMBLYMEN. Arnerich, Santa Clara. Barry, San Francisco. Beecher, Shasta. Cobb, San Francisco. Devoto, San Francisco. Dibbie, San Francisco. Henry, San Francisco. Jilson, Siskiyou. Johneon, Sacramento. Keiley, Alameda. Kelsey, Santa Clara. Kenneally, San Francisco. Lundquist, San Francisco. McKeen, Alameda. Miller, San Francisco. | Pierce, Yolo. Rickard, San Francisco. Eugene Sullivan, San Francisco. WRICHT, Alameda. Since decent Republicans have thus been twice be- trayed, there is no telling but there are more Judas- like characters still to be revealed. Jilson was the first. Wright the second. We quote from the edi- toria} of yesterday the finaf word “next.” THE PACIFIC EXPOSITION. F.‘ennce between the Board of Supervisors and the Pacific position committee appointed by Mayor Phelan, good auguries can be drawn of the success of the proposed enterprise. The project was discussed only in a general way, but enough was done to show that the Supervisors are willing to co-operate | in any well devised plan for carrying out the under. taking, and that the committee can be relied upon to suggest such plans. The proposal submitted at the meeting was that the Supervisors should ask the Legislature for power to appropriate $1,000,000 for the exposition, that $250,000 should be asked as a special State appropriation, and that Congress should be asked for $3500,000. These sums are not excessive. The city and the State can well afford the amounts asked for such a purpose as a great exposition conducted on a scale of the first mag- nitude, and Congress has in the past made so many liberal grants to expositions in other States it can hardly refuse the amount it is proposed to ask for salifornia. -It is stated to be the intention of the committee ap- pointéd by the Mayor to request the various commer- eial, industrial and financial organizations to elect rep- ..resentatives to serve with the committee, and in that increase the membership from the original fifteen appoiated by the Mayor to 150. No better plan could -be-devised for augmenting the strength of the com- imittee and widening its influence. With the enlarged riembership the committee would be fully represen- ‘tative of the business interests and energies of our people, and therefore well qualified to conduct with success all the complex work the great enterprise will reqtiire. “.The exposition is in many respects the most im- portant undertaking that now occupies the attention of the progressive men of the city. When well under way and a comprehensive statement of plans can be " published it will be found to be a movement of inter- " -est.to the whole United States, for it will not only ex- “hibit the industrial achievements and resources of the ‘region known as the Greater West, but the possibili- ties of commerce with all countries hordering on the _ Pacific Ocean and the fruitiul islands that dot its wide expanse. ¥ ‘. . When once fairly started the movement will go for- ward largely of its own momentum, and the enter- _prisé will increase in magnitude and importance as it .nié\'csA The main thing is to make the start this win- ter so as to allow an ample period for preparation. he time is none too long for the accomplishment of - such an undertaking, and it is gratifying to note that is being pushed with vigor and finding favor -throughout the State. It would appear from a casual glance at the mes- sages of the various Governors that most of them think they were elected not mere State executives, -but to bear the burdens of the earth, while Pingree takes in the sun, moon and stars as well. ROM the tenor of the proceedings of the con- 3 WA’ WRIGHT YIELDS HIS HONOR. PEAKER HOWARD E. WRIGHT has S gone over to Burns. He has yielded his honor and his manhood, has brazenly be- trayed the trust of his constituents and be- come part and parcel of the unclean gang trailing, purchased and branded, at the heels of the Mexican. There is not another man in the Assembly who could have had less excuse for such a course as that taken by Wright. He knew that the people who sent him there did not want him to support Burns. They had so declared. Representative voters, including ministers, bankers, merchants, members of the pro- fessions, had made known that they would regard the election of Burns as a calamity and disgrace. Yet Wright listened to the tempter, ignored the counsel of friends to whom he was under obligations and stamped himself an ingrate and a political pervert. Such avenues to reputation as were open to him he has deliberately closed. Such admirers as he had he has insulted grossly. Such hope as held out promise to him he has dashed to earth. He has sacrificed reputation, humiliated all who had confidence in him, violated promises and acquired an obloguy which will last until he shall drop from the public life for which he has shown himself to be unworthy and unfit. Wright has issued an “explanation” which but makes his weakness and treachery more apparent. By coupling himself with other of the Burns tools he thinks to avert the storm of indignation, but his rea- soning is as bad as his act. He cannot hide under the bedraggled ermine of the Supreme Court, even if members of that body have left the duties for which they are paid to slosh and swagger, inglorious and be- smirched, through the pool of politiés made more foul by the presence of Burns and his creatures. When a meraber of the Supreme Court is elected, as was McFarland, as a railroad man, and the capital to urge the support of Burns, the fact is evi- dent anew that this corporation regards the Mexican as its property even as, with the best of grounds, it reckons McFarland with its other assets. Instead of | visits clearing his own skirts, Wright has directed attention | to the iniquity of those among whom, with a fatuity akin to madness, he has cast his lot. Yet Wright is not so dead to the impulses of remorse as not to un- cerstand that he has taken a plunge into a deep of di grace out of which he can never ascend. The mire of the pit is on him, and is indelible. His conscience must torture him, for when he called the name “D. M. Burns” he hung his head with all the abject- ness of a cornered thief, and blushed the scarlet hue of shame. His voice trembled, his hand shook, and well may they have done so. That instant he was leaving his high estate, that instant he was taking his place in a rabble of outcasts, whose methods are criminal, whose object is gain, and whom respecta- bility loathes as a virulent form of evil. To record the truth concerning Wright is a painful duty, but as he shall reflect on the ruin he has wrought he will have to acknowledge that he alone is to blame. There can be no shifting of responsibility nor evading ! of penalty. A BOARD OF THIEVES. N esteemed evening contemporary, speaking of f\ the late Board of Education and its achieve- | ments, refers to it as a “board of thieves.” It | declares that no other combination of English words | will adequately describe that choice aggregation of political rascals. It cites some of the acts of the mem- | bers to prove that they rose higher in the scale of infamy than any other set of men who, in the his- | tory of San Francisco, ever attempted to govern the | schools. It may seem a little harsh to indorse this designa- tion, yet it cannot be denied that, while these School Directors did not actually steal and thus lay them- selves liable to the statutes against petty and grand larceny, they nevertheless were with whom Jack Shepard and Dick Turpin were gen- ; tlemen. 1 The late Board of Education did not pick the pockets of the rich, nor fleece corporations, nor stand up taxpayers, nor rob the mercantile community. What they did was to steal money designed to pro- | s. | vide the children of the city with the means of ob- | taining an education. In other words, they stole | from the young and helpless—a class who were not | able to resent their infamous conduct or set on foot | measures for their punishment. On the whole, we | think history will justly describe the late Board of | Education as a “board of thieves.” We imagine that the future searcher of public records, who, perhaps, a century hence, may sit down to compose a municipal history of *San Francisco, vill marvel greatly at one thing. When he comes to | study the record left behind by this “board of thieves” | he will wonder why no measures were taken for | their punishment. If he delves deep enough into | the subject he may indite some scathing sentences§ upon pusillanimous grand juries, indifferent and neg- | lectful District Attorneys, busy and complacent courts and a lethargic and longsuffering people. But in any event the late Board of Education will | go thundering down the ages as the most infamous | civilized community. No apology will ever be made for them. It will be impossible to apologize for men tired from office with the curses of mothers upon their heads and the maledictions of an entire press We had imagined that the “tough old board” of 1881 would never have a counterpart in our history. given them a heavenly projection. AN INCIDEN IN SCOTLAND. REPORT comes to us from London to the effect that Mr. Dunbar, Assistant Under Secre- a gas company over the amount of his gas bill, and has not only surmounted the trouble by defeating the practices on the part of gas meters in Scotland which are of interest to gas consumers in all parts of the According to the story as it comes to us, Mr. Dun- bar’s gas meter showed that within six months he had fered to compromise, but the company stood firm by the meter, and when he persisted in his refusal to pay him for the amount. When the case came up for hearing the official meter inspector of Edinburgh was and report on it. The inspector solved the mystery. It is reported verse action.” Instead of registering 10,000 feet it would register 90,000, and so on, until it became a tail. In Mr. Dunbar’s case he figured that there had been an overcharge of 71.400 feet. This left Mr. Dun- pay for 21,000 feet when the bill was first presented to him. aggregation of political rascals who ever disgraced a who robbed the children of a great city and who re- covering them with obloquy. The “board of thieves,” however, has by contrast fl tary for Scotland, has recently had trouble with company, but has disclosed certain reprehensible world. consumed 80,200 feet of gas. He protested and of- on that basis the company shut off his gas and sued appointed as an expert to examine the Dunbar meter that he found the meter had what he called a “re- jumble, of which one could make neither head nor bar liable for 13800 feet, although he had offered to ‘When the report of the inspector was filed in court thieves, compared | the gas company not only abandoned the suit and re- placed Mr. Dunbar’s gas meter with a better one, but they paid his legal expenses, and doubtless showed | other evidences of a sincere desire to have the trouble forgotten. Unfortunately for the company, however, the matter is not of a kind to be forgbtten. The dis- covery that a gas meter may have a ‘“reverse action” | which enables it to pass from 10,000 feet to 0,000 feet at one jump makes the case one of international interest. It will be read here with as much attention as in Scotland itself. It is not likely that any meter in San Francisco is so nimble as to register 80,200 feet of gas when only 15800 feet had been consumed—it is only a canny Scot’s meter can do that—but all the same there are reasons for believing some of the meters in the city have a capacity for the reverse action in a restrained way. Companies whose officials persist in extorting $5 deposits from their patrons are not likely to have |been neglectful of the advantages of such meters. It f is even possible that one of the reasons why they | boldly violate the law and illegally demand the deposit i+ because they have such meters, and wish to secure | their pay in advance in case a kick comes on account | of the results of the reverse action. ‘ACCESSORlES BEFORE THE FACT. T is impossible to commend on any conceivable i | | l ground the attitude of the Democratic press and | * a small portion of the Democratic party in the Sen- | atorial contest now pending at Sacramento. Under the futelage of the principal organ of the party in this ‘ci(y a sentiment of glee has been fostered over the | candidacy of Dan Burns. In short, the Democracy is | rejoicing at the beautiful predicament in which the | Republican party is placed, and it is fair to assume | from the expressions of its organs that if the race- | track gambler and political boss is finally foisted upon it there will be general jubilation among . the | Democratic leaders. This sentiment is founded entirely upon political feeling. It has no higher inspiration than the thought that if the Republicans elect Dan Burns Senator it will result in a sweeping Democratic victory in this city next year and in the State in 1900. The latter campaign will involve not only the Presidency, but a Senatorship, and the Democracy hopes that if Burns chosen they will carry the State for the Democratic candidate for President and elect a Senator to suc- ceed Senator Perkins. | While this may be denominated politics, it cannot | be commended on grounds of morality or decency. A ;Dcmocraxic newspaper conniving at the election of Dan Burns is engaged in quite as disreputable busi- ness as a Republican paper similarly employed. Over and beyond the political character of United States | Senators there exists the welfare of the State and its | people. When California sinks so low as to send for | its representative in the upper house of Congress a political boss, a racetrack gambler and a corruption- | ist, the commonwealth will have reached a state of | development which cannot fail to result in its un- | doing. For a political party to hope for such a condition s little less than criminal. And for Democratic news- papers or Democratic legislators to connive and abet the realization of such an event betrays a condition of degeneracy that is simply appalling. What the Democracy and its organs should do is to aid the respectable Republican newspapers in de- feating the gigantic conspiracy which the election of Dan Burns to the United States Sen- ate. This conspiracy has been organized by the rail- road, and is being carried out by the worst elements in the Republican party. evil effects of its consummation will be felt by Demo- crats and Republicans alike, and the disgrace cannot fail to inflict injury upon the interests of all the people. Unless the Democratic party and its organs desire to earn everlasting infamy, they will abandon their | secret attempts to aid the candidacy of Burns and go in with decent Republicans to encompass his defeat. THOSE CONFEDERATE PENSIONS. HE CALL recently suggested that Senator But- ler's proposition to admit ex-Confederate vet- peal to those veterans. erans to the Federal pension roll would not ap- Our position was promptly confirmed by the ex-Confederates themselves. The Confederate Veteran Camp of New York has | since passed the following resolution, offered by Com- rade Beasley, himself from North Carolina, Senator | | Butler’s State: | Resolved, That the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York condemns in unmeasured terms the ef- forts of Senator Butler of North Carolina (who is not a Confederate veteran) to debauch the manhood of the South by seeking to obtain pensions for ex- Confederate soldiers from the United States, and that any similar effort by any Southern member of Con- gress will be abhorrent to this camp and meet with ungqualified condemnation. The Senator seems to have had no conception of the affront he offered to the manhood of the men | who threw their lives in the balance for what they | thought to be right, and, losing their cause, lost it like men and not like cringing beggars. It is to be forever remembered, to the credit of the Southern people, that they have supported without complaint the taxation necessary to pension the Union soldiers | whom they disabled in civil strife, while at the same | time caring adequately for their own maimed or fweakened in the vain struggle they maintained so | long and so bravely. 4 | The hostile reception they have everywhere given }to Senator Butler’s proposition is proof that they can | sustain the access of good feeling as our fellow coun- | trymen without any sordid inducement, and this very | attitude adds to the happiness and confidence which | have attended the mutual expressions of good will ! from both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line. That line itself is likely to hereafter be remembered more as the work of those two eminent English as- | tronomers and Fellows of the Royal Society of Brit- | ish Scientists than as the former line dividing slave 'and free States and union and disunion. The discussion of this subject of pensions has brought to general knowledge the fact that Confed- | erate veterans will not even care for admission to the | National Soldiers’ Homes, for the reason that the | Southern States have built and equipped such homes for their own who need them, and the old soldiers | are more likely to be contented in the midst of their | own people than far removed to the national institu- tions. Time will soon efface all that tells of our civil struggle except the memory of it, and it is a tribute to | American manliness that that memory on each side j will be so softened toward the other, and that the valor of all who fought wil! be cherished as the common heritage of their children to the remotest time. _Readers will also remember that The Call was in- strumental in the detection and capture of the late Frank Belew. Perhaps James Gallagher really broke his own head and then filled his corpse with lead. But those who witnessed the phenomenon ought to give the details. contemplates | Unless it can be defeated | | the State is going to be irretrievably damaged. The | | WINE MEN ARE ~ VERY PROPERLY EXASPERATED Resent the Slight to Their Industry. CRITICIZE THE COMMITTEE THE “LEMONADE FEAST” NOT | TO THEIR LIKING. Declare That the Legislators’ Action Was an Unjustifiable Blow to One of the State’s Great- I u est Interests. The announcement that the committee | of the Legislature having in charge the | banquet of the Governor's inaugural ball | had decided not to serve wine at that function, and the publication of the menu | card showing that lemonade was the star | | beverage, has most properly exasperated the wine men of California. It appears to them almost inconceivable that such a thing could happen in this famous home of the vine. They have been discussing the matter during the past two days in no complimentary man- ner, so far as the men responsible for the act are concerned. They call atten- tion to the fact that the State of Cali-| fornia, through its Legislature, has for many years by generous appropriations greatly fostered the viticultural industry, and that by reason of such assistance that industry has grown to be one of the greatest in the State—one that carries an investment of more than $60,000,600, em- | | ploying thousands of people and paying | about a fifth of the realty and personal property taxes of the commonwealth. They further speculate upon the obvious fact that in due course of time the mak- | ing of wine in thq Golden State will be a paramount interes After such reflections these men natur- ally ask what luence was powerful enough to induce a committee of the Leg- | islature to give to the wine industry such | an uncalled-for and damaging slap in the e; and, moreover, to parade to the world the fact that the lawmaking power | of the State deliberately discredited one of its pet industri The allegation is most earnestly ade that California's dry, wholesome wines properly belonged upon the banquet table, and that people at thal table were not required to par- take of them. And, finally, they make what is probably a deserved comment to the eftect that the lemonade was doubt- | tueir representatives such an insult, | less “made from limes imported from Mexico or lemons from Sicily.” 4 nexed interviews from m Is represenung the 1wo gre: the industry will sutfice to show the pre- | vailing s I consider fon of the legisia- | tive committe >t reflecuon upon | the people of alifornia that an industry nearly a nfth of all the taxes of e snould receive at the hanas of said Charles K. Bowen of the Wetmore-Bowen Company. *Wheat, wine and wood have | for years been the mainstay of taxauon in tms State. Agriculture in its varied form is the new iife and wealth of the State. Why denounce and advertise to the world by State sanction, through State officlals, one of its life-giving indus. | tries? 11 it were in my power I would | deduct from. the salary of each responsi- bie legisiator 20 per cent'of his pay, or an amount equal 1o that contributed by the wine industry toward his salary. The | average California legisiator who woula | ‘tempted’ by the sight of a bottle of | alitornia winé served at a gubernatorial banquet need not ‘reach’ for it it his 1d of temperance intrudes. 1t is to be hop: that State legislation against California raisins, the seeds of which have been | known to produce appendicitis, will not toliow.” | *'This action of the legislative committee | is an unw anted blow to one of tne most important industries of this State | and a atuitous insult from the Legis- | lature,” said Andrea Sbarboro, secretary | of the Itaifan-Swiss Agricultural Colony, | and president of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. “Talifornia nas such an immense territory sparsely set-| tled, and what it wants most is a popu- | lation of thriving agriculturists, wno, while producing a certain iine of agri- | cuitural products, will also consume other | products of the State and make th® com- | monwealth more prosperous. There are | many industries of the State which can compete with other States of the Union, but there is only one industry which has absolutely no competition. 7The great a chitect of the universe seems to have iven to only one of the States of the | nion, and that California, a soil and | climate required to produce as fine wines | as those of Italy and France. With tuis | blessing _California has also within | easy reach a mighty population to suppiy with wuis most healthful, nourishing and | not intoxicating beverage. ““While the little republic of Chile, with a territory and population about as iarge paying the & as that of the State of ifornia, now produces and cons imes 75,000,000 gallons | of wine per annum, the State of Califor- nia barely brings forth a third of that uanutity. ‘With 70,000,000 of inhabitants in the United States, with its wine trade al- ready extended to the Central and South American republics, to England, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany, where the wine connoisseurs of Burope prefer the pure grape juice of California to the same class of wines produced in Italy and France, the State can hardly dispose of the small quantity of wine which it now produces, and, strange to say, some of the greatest drawbacks to this important industry are caused by some of the misguided peopie of California. In fact, if the Legislature acted for the true interests of the State it would devote its energies to and ap- propriate millions of dollars for the de- velopment of this great industry and the encouragement of the American peopie to the general use of light wines at their table, whereby the curse of drunkenness would be driyen from the State and from the United States. “It Is a well known fact that in the wine-drinking countries of the world in- toxication is practically unknown, yet our own Legislature a few days ago passed a resolution declaring that the members of the Legislature and the high officials and society geople, who might attend the banquet to be given after the inaugural ball, were not sufficiently civilized to be able to sit at a feast where wine was served and control themselves in such a manner as becomes decent people. The great lawmakers therefore prohihited the use of wine at the banquet. “Now, when we consider that the State of California is as large as the kingdom of Italy, where one billion gallons of wine is produced annually, which quantity could also be produced in this State, thus giving employment to ten millions of pec- le and enhancing the value of grazing and £o0 as to pay interest on a valuation of $100 per acre, it should certainly be the business and the duty of our law-makers to encourage instead of discredit this great and promising branch of our agri- culture. “The wine men will remember their en- emies.” ACCORDED MASONIC HONORS. Charles M. Chase’s Remains Interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery. The funeral of the late Charles M. Chase took place at 2 o’'clock yesterday from the Masonic Temple. The remains were interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Mr. Chase, being a member of Doric Lodge and also_the Cal}fcrnia. Command- ery, was accorded the full ceremoni the order by his brother Masons. e’rfi: services took place in King Solo; 's | Hall and was conducted bgWorumo?u: Master Simon Myrson of Doric Lo ge. The casket was hidden from sight be. neath a wealth of beautiful floral trib- utes that were sent by the friends of the iiaevc:a!ed in token of their esteem and Dorie Lodge was represented h; r Kalmuk, Judge Walter H. Levy gmxi“ %;:: Master Henry Willlamson. The Califor- | present and | ever, had been embalmed by Undertaker | peritonitis was the cause of death. This | being injected before certificates of death are | | ly words of encouragement were recelved | nia Commandery was represented by C. | M. Daughtery, Martin Jones and F. A. Hornblower, = These, with the follawing friends of the family, were the pallyear- ers: D. J. Tobin, Charles G. Lathrop, Edwin F. Smith and H. W. Bowley. ————————— ANOTHER STORM COMING. Weather Officials "S;y‘the Prospects | Are Excellent for More Rain. | Professor Hammon of the Weather Bu-| reau said late last evening that the con-| ditions were becoming more and more favorable for another storm. The pres- | sure has begun to fall all along the| coast, the weather is foggy and the wind easterly, and all of these are good fore- | runners of a storm. | “I do not know just how much of this | storm we will get,” said Professor Ilam-i mon, “or just when it will strike us, but | | from local signs it should rain again Fri- | about the ri day night. The barometer rose some on | ‘Wednesday, but it has been on the down grade ever since. The weather conditions have been behaving beautifully and we must admit that the backbone of the drought has been effectually broken. The | great rise in the Sacramento River is a | sure sign that the last rain fully per-| formed its duty and the ground got pretty | thoroughly filled with water. The pecu- larity of all the clearings since January | 1 lies in the fact that they have not been followed by north wind and cold weather, | and under those conditions it Is easier for rain to return again. Besides the moist- | ¢ in the ground has not been drunk up | oSt immediately by the cold winds. | evidence presented to us is for still | irticle of this State escaped the 1e last precipitation, and ail | Lerefit the rain necessary to assure bright crop respects fell everywhere except, per- in the Upper San Joaquin Valley. easonal rainfall for this city is now | 6.9 inches, about twice as much as last | season.” DECLINE TO AGCEPT , THE NEW CITY HALL| SUPERVISORS DECLARE IT IS| NOT COMPLETE. Building Committee of the Board In- vites Bids for the New Police Station on Seventeenth Street. The Bullding Committee of the Board of Supervisors met yesterday afternoon and | declined to accept the new City Hall from the Commissioners who had charge of its | construction. They took this decided stand on the ground that the building was | already sadly in need of repairs and that it was not fair to make it a charge upon the resources of the Supervisors. The commission having it in charge is composed of the Mayor, Auditor and City and-County Attorney. The Mayor is the only member of the old board, which re- ported the building as being completed, | who is now in office. Architect Shea was | d no money had ever been | spent on the building in the nature of re- | pairs and as a consequence the iron work was rusting away. Its life could be pro- { with proper care, but this it had | received. k Russeli told of the bad condition | in which the ceilings on the top floor were | left by the man who built the néw roof. | The plaster is falling steadily, and in many places requires immediate attention. The committeemen claimed that the retir- | ing Commissioners should have in-| corporated in their report a statement as to the exact condition of all portions of | fna Eullding . lne i ceportimas referred ack. It was determined to advertise for bids | for the new police statlon in keeping with the revised plans submitted by Architect | Shea. In these red brick take the place of p d brick, and other minor changes | are made in order that the building may come within the appropriation of $30.000 allowed by the last Board of Super ors. At a recent meeting of the Finance Committee of the present board Chairman | Perrault suggested that this appropriation | might be stricken out in order to cut down the expendlitures of the board, This sug- gestion has not taken definite shape yet. e DESTROYING EVIDENCE. Coroner Hill Will Stop the Prema- ture Embalming of Bodies. Certain undertakers in this city are in the habit of embalming bodies before tha | death certificate has been signed and in | several instances during the past two vears the evidence in cases of suspected malpractice and poisoning has been cov- ered up and destroved. Two death certificates were presented vesterday to Coroner Hill for his signa- ture—one of Minnie Sutter of 80 Jackson street, 26 yvears old. Dr. Edward Selzer was the attending physician and he cer- tified that the cause of death was alco- holism and apoplexy. The body, how- Metzler. The other case was that of El- en F. Nelson, a married woman, 35 years old, whose residence was 1722 Twelfth ave- nué. Dr. Alfred McLaughlin was the at- tending physician and he certified that body had been embalmed by the Pacific’ Undertaking Company Dr. Hill said he was determined to put a stop to the tampering with human bodies after death and before the death certificate had been signed and a,pi)rovefl, and to that end he issued the following circular yesterday: Attention is particularly called to the fact that the law is being violated when bodies are accepted by the health authorities. You will please see that the certificate Is satisfactory to the Coroner or the health au- thorities before injecting or in any way inter- | fering with the body. Notice is hereby given | that violators of this rule will be summarily | dealt with, I trust that this office will have the hearty co-operation of the undertaking pro- fession in this matter. e HELP FROM THE SOUTH. San Francisco’s New Charter. The Merchants’' Association of this city | has a strong friend in the Merchants’ and | Manufacturers’ Association of Los Ange- les. The former made a hard fight to se- cure the adoption of the new charter by | the voters of San Francisco, and frequent- from the affiliating organization in the southern part of the State. The charter | is now before the Legislature, and the Los Angeles merchants manifest thelr good will by taking action to have the | charter made a law, as shown by the fol- lowing communication received yesterday: Whereas, the people of the city of San Fran- | cisco have adopted & new charter for that city, which is now pending before the Leglslature of the State for ratification; and | ‘Whereae, we deem the principle -of home rule | in municipal affairs as laid down by the con- | stitution and’complied with in the preparation of this charter a means for obtaining good and rogressive municipal government; therefore | e it Resolved, That our representatives in the | Legislature be and they are hereby requested to use all honorable means to secure the ratifica- tion of said charter. . i ND MANUFACTURERS' AS- MERCHANTS' A SOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES. ————— BARNEY KEARNEY’S DEATH. Verdict That It Was Caused by Par- ties Unknown. Coroner Hill held an inquest yesterday morning on the body of Barney Kearney, who died at the City and County Hospi- tal on January 8 from the effect of a frac- tured skull. The testimony was that on New Year's day deceased was struck on the head with a bottle in a saloon on the corner of Folsom and Spear streets owned by C. O'Donnell, a nephew of the dead man. The injured man was taken to the Har- bor Hospital and a lacerated wound in his scnls was sewed up, the surgeons not having discovered that the skull had been fractured. Kearney went to work the next day, but had to knock off, and was 5?"5; to the County Hospital, where he ed. It was reported at the time that the blow had been inflicted by O'Donnell, but the widow of Kearney testified yesterday that her husband did not give the name of his assailant. A verdict was rendered implicating a party or parties unknown. ——— Child Study Club. The Child Study Club wiil meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the parlors of the Occidental. Mrs. Hester Harland will | the Bureau of Navig: preside. WHO WILL GO TO GUAM? Among the members of the Pacific Coast Naval Colony there is much speculation regarding the appointment of Captain Henry Glass to the Governorship of Guam. The word has been passed along that it is taking a ‘“snap judgment” on Glass, who is tossing on the Pacific en route from Manila to San Francisco and is totally ignorant of the soft thing the Vavy Department is piling up for him. Tong ago the gallant captain slated him- sef for the new Training Station at Goat Isand, and he is enthusiastic upon the sunject of teaching Uncle Sam’s young saliors ideas how to shoot like Dewey. Anc the department knows he is just ght man for the new blue- jacket schoolhouse at Yerba Buena. Now Captain Glass will be about as well pleased over his job at Guam as he would be if the Government would make him superintendent of a home for superannu= ated seals on one of the Pribyloff Islands, and when he lands at San Francisco, which will be in a few dnl the (wh':; vl grow warm between this port a Washington, - He will want to know who the thundes around the Bureau of Navi gation has a grudge against him, and if e finds out the barometer in that per- son's latitude and longitude will take & itsel o s 4 15y aab of land on the map of Oceanica, blistering in the dry nal{l of the year and todden wet during the last six months. Added to its utter unat tractiveness and unhenlthfulness is (1o fact that it is the leper pesthouse of a; nila. A few Spaniards, a tribe or two o squalid natives and an intermediate class o% mixed breeds in the village 1;1}1%1. this place of exile which the Navy 90 partment has picked out for the most Cur ergetic, the brightest and the handso Zso says society—captain In the navy. , “I don't know what Crnwn]nsh!e!d s driving at,” said a lieutenant yesterday, “He couldn’t load Glass into a 100-tonne and shoot him into Guam. T! he Chl‘?f (;s ation ought to kno will kick like the recoil of an d some other fellow will be ordered away to Guam. Glass, Governs or of Guam—quite an alliteration, isn't t? ‘Glass, of Gua{n.’ Trhar egrlax‘lous title ould stick to Henry forever. w“T‘h(—n there is Kempff. They wanted to send him to Guam, but he won't g0. Yg\l see, he has been triced up on board tl 5 rotten old Independence at Mare Island off and on for yvears. In fact, like ol Paddy White's ghost that haunts the gun deck of the Guardo at midnight, Kempff owns a plank in the ancient hulk. He is one of the few officers on the station that have been kept here right along. When the fighting began most of the available officers on this coast were shipped East for service. The navy-yard was pretty well cleaned out, and the re- maining officers there howled over the little extra duty falling to their lot and also because they were missing a chance to jump up in the line of promotion. Hughes was snatched out of the Hydro- graphic office, and MacMillan, his clerk, who is an Annapolis graduate, was given a commission and sent to Manila. Stoney at the enlisting rendezvous was chased off to Cuba, and eventually fetched up as a teacher of navigation in the academy. By the way, why don’t Crowninshield send Stoney to Guam? There is an officer that would take to the place and be an honor to the job. Stone heart and soul is buried in the Pacific or along its shores, and, being tired of hammering ‘sights’ into the heads of the cadets, he would 2 his traps for Guam at an hour’s no- DITIONS ARE TO BLAME Editor Call—Dear Sir: The periodical cry of corruption (again noticeable) is to a great extent useless. It is as natural under the present political con- ditions as respiration is to the human system, and will continue while these conditions exist. S. MOORE. San Francisco, Jan. 12, 1899. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. M. H. Foley of 8t. Paul is at the Lick. J. D. Carr of Salinas is at the Occiden- tal. B. H. Merchant, U. S. ace. F. H. Coe and wife of Seattle are at the Grand. C. G. Height of Pekin, Ill, is at the Palace. Mrs. F. T. Pugh of New York is at the California. A. T. Lightner of Bakersfield is a guest at the Lick. Robert Nixon of the Yreka Journal is at the Grand. Carroll Hutchins of Boston is registered at the Palace. Ex-Mayor Robert Effey of Santa Cruz is at the Grand. T. J. Field, a banker of Monterey, is & guest at the Palace. 1. Bear of Dwights, Colo., & miner, is a guest at the Grand. Easton Mills of San Luis Obispo is stay- ing at the Occidental. Judge George A. Nouse and wife of Fresno are.at the Lick. W. S. Clayton of San Jose arrived at the California yesterday. W. E. Brown and wife of Los Angeles are guests at the Grand. Attorney John T. Griffith of Los Ange- lés is a guest at the Occidental. William and D. E. Llewellyn, merchants that Henry old 1l-incher an tice Cco A., is at the Pal- | of Los Angeles, are at the Palace. Charles Beekreap, United States steam- er Nero, is a guest at the Occidental. Attorney William G. Gosslin, an officlal of the Astoria and Columbia River Rail- road, is at the Occidental. Sir Charles and Lady Payne of Henwick Hall, near Wellingborough, Eng., arrived at the Occidental yesterday. Major Guy L. Edle, U. 8. A, Is at the Occidental. Major Edie will shortly lead to the altar Miss Kip, a prominent so- ciety belle of this city. —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 12—H. H. Scott and wife of San Francisco are at the Gerard; L. F. Scott of San Francisco is at the Holland. —_———— The Cresta Estate. A warrant was sworn out in Judge Mo- gan's court yesterday for the arrest of Manuelo Cresta on a charge of perjury. The charge arises out of tne contest in the estate of Tomaso Cresta, which is be- ing heard in Judge Troutt's court. Man- uelo claimed that he was copartner with his father and tried to shut out his broth- ers and sisters from participation in the estate. He was committed for contempt of court by unwarrantably interfering with the estate, and he made an affidavit in relation to the contempt proceedings on which the charge of perjury is based. —_———— Cal. gilace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsends.® —_—— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ ——— Teacher—In the sentence, ""The sick boy loves his medicine, what part of speech is love?” Johnny—It's a lie, mum.—Roxbury Ga- zette. —_—— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothinz Syrup” Has been used over fifty -ears by miliions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drugsists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mre. ‘Winslow's Soothing Syrup. %c a bottle. 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