The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1899, Page 6

DNESDAY. WE FEBRUARY 1, 1899 V*JOHN D. SPéECK&S Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S, F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2i7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Sirgle Copies. & cents Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months. SUNDAY CALL, one year WEEKLY CALL, one year All postmasters are authorized to Bample copies will be forwarded W recel ptiol hen requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....... . Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ...Marquette Building CHICAGO OFFICE ek , Advertising Representative. C.GEORGE KROGNESS BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, opgn until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street. open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—*The Idol's Call Tivoli—"La Per Orpheum—Vaudeville, Chutes and Zoo—Planka, the “Lady of Lions.” Olympla— Corner Mason and Elils streets, Specialties. Central Park—The Steeplechase. Oakland, Race Track—Races To-day. Metropelitan Temple—Piano Recital Monday evening, Feb- ruary 6. AUCTION SALES, —This day, at 11 o'clock, Furniture w st street, near Masc Butterf at P SUSTAIN Tl-tE SCHOOL BO@ARD. P 2 ROM the way in which the new Board of Edu- cation has begun the work of retrenchment and m good auguries can be drawn for the fu- board has started well and is making an st effort to reduce expenses in spite of an ag- gressive opposition from those who have profited by the extravaga »f former boards. that this opposition and antagon- 1t the board in its efforts at re- » kind of abuse of public trust that benefit somebody. Wherever there is are people who profit by it. Extravagant st officials place upon the payrolls of the larger number of employes than are needed they purchase supplies that are not for them prices above the market ; there is formed a considerable whom municipal extrava- It was inevitable company of persons_to e is a valuable §oon. Vhen a reforming administration comes in and about reducing expenses to an economical basis crowd that have drawn incomes from the abuses find themselves shut out from their former profitable business, and then a storm breaks forth. These people gather their friends around them and raise a howl to heaven. They circulate petitions among good-natured citizens, who will sign without ng it almost anything except a chcck,'and pro- ceed to work up something that looks like popular in against the administration that has turned them down sct all reac gnatio acks are ma When such atta de upon officials who are r to protect the public interests it is the duty o good citizens to stand by them and to speak out in their behalf. That duty, however, is but rarely performed. When an official does wrong all are prompt to denounce him, but when he does right generally left to fight his battle alone against the host that has been fattening on the spoils Not infrequently the very persons who have been most clamorous for reform turn in hostility upon the men who undertake it and rage as fiercely as the spoilsmen themselves. Much of that sort of injustice is now being done toward the Board of Education in its earnest begin- ning at an economical administration of the school fund. Instead of making use of the office as a means of distributing patronage the new members of the board have set about the task of placing the schools The work is one which the public has long desired, which the people have frequently demanded—one to the performance of which every political party has pledged its candi- dates in each successive campaign. Why, then, should the citizens and taxpayers stand silent when the spoilsmen array themselves and attack the offi- cials whose only offending is that they are keeping their pledges and acting with fidelity toward the . people? The Republican party-of San Francisco has a just reason to be proud of the record which its represen- tatives on the Board of Education are making. The .~ Republican board is a striking contrast to the Demo- cratic board that preceded it. The party will be strengthened in future municipal elections by the faithful work-now being done by these stalwart sup- porters of economy and honesty in their adminis!r‘a- tion of the schools. For Republicans, therefore, as well as for independent citizens of all parties, the duty of the hour is to sustain the board. e s — e After Judge Hebbard had denied divorce to a young wife the mother of the plaintiff sought out her son-in-law and smashed him on the jaw. Possibly this will afford opportunity for a reopening of the case. Certainly a man with a mother-in-law of that - style could win the sympathy of the court if he were to try. T he is of municipal patronage. upon a strictly business basis. While the human race is not lacking in sympathy, it has difficulty in mustering up any of it for a man who answers the advertisement of a mairiage bureau and gets put on exhibition as a sucker. Assemblyman Burnett may not be trained in the trick of oratory, but there is no doubt that he recog- nizes a square deal when he sees it, and thinks it a pretty good thing. . e There is beginning to be a suspicion that Dan over- trained a little for his contest, and with the handi- cap of his record he is not making much progress. A St Perhaps Tom Williams is at Sacramento for the purpose of promoting legislation for the discourage- ment of horse-racing. If Gomez has really demanded $60,000,000, his chances of not getting it are good enough to bet on. Wright's'vote as a member will be exactly as valu- able as it was as Speaker. REPUBLICANS SHOULD REFLECT. HE CALL is battling for the integrity and the Tfu!ure of Republicanism in California. 1t is not a far cry backward to the beginning of the last campaign, nor forward to the opening of the next. Looking backward, every man in the party recalls the fear of defeat that hung over the opening days of the last fight. The fusion of all opposing elements presented an imposing front and a most powerful and threatening line of battle. When the shock of conflict came, The Call did its full Repub- lican duty and rallied to the party ticket all of the elements in the State which look to its welfare, prog- ress and purity of reputation. We did not then pre- tend, nor do we now make claim, that honor and honesty are the peculiar characteristics of all Re- publicans, and that their opposites are to be found only in the opposition. But we did and do claim that upon the public issues presented the Republican party represented the average aspirations and prin- ciples of the best citizenship, and therefore the party won. It triumphed because the best citizenship felt that it would not need to be as closely watched and tended in power, to keep it in line with those aspira- tions, as the fusion party would require. We here record our deep and lasting protest against the claim that the party owed its success to the designs and devices of any boss or bosses. That such were around, watching the chances of the battle, we do not deny. They were followers of both camps, but our fight gained no vote by their presence or their practices. It was won because the people were with us, and to them The Call addressed itself in ceaseless urging, as it addresses itself now. When bad faith, corruption and immorality ap- peared at Sacramento, regardless of the effect upon itself this paper took means to purge the party of evil, and those means have prevailed, against more opposition than we like to see. We are unable to conceive how any party can expect to gain strength by sheltering and protecting the classes against which we have been doing battle. Does not every Repub- lican know that his party raises itself in public esti- mation by running them out of it? Do Wright and his defenders represent California Republicanism? If so, God help the party, for man won't, and it can depend only on that divine mercy which is extended to sinners. In the Legislature a few men fret and fume and call names -and utter strange cries about us. They for- get that they are in a representative position, that they are not there to feed their greeds or grudges or use a position of public authority to carry out their personal aims. They are there to so uprightly dis- charge their high public duties as to honor the party that passed those duties to them. Can any of these say with his conscience that he is doing this the discredited and dismounted Speaker, or in doing any of the nasty things which occupy them, to the honorable to the State? We would have much preferred to have been spared punish the chief betrayer of his public trust.- It is the first case in*American politics where a party news- legislative Speakership, believing in his honor, and in a fortnight has been instrumental in deposing him was no pleasure for us to make this public admission that we had been deceived, that our confidence had of betrayal that he be disarmed of the power - of treachery to others. discharged it as well, it would not have waited a mo- ment for the backing and approval of The Call, as right-thinking citizens of all parties. We plead again- with this Republican Legislature chosen by the party to stand for the best service and with the best aspirations of the people, and the favor averted from the party of Lincoln and McKinley. T T R e SRS THE STATE NOT RESIGNED. I E. Wright will not be followed by the resigna- tion of the people. They will believe that the be quite correct. The revelations of the investigation were bad enough on the surface, but they were worse there was moral but not legal proof. Dan Burns had posed as a philanthropist who, for the benefit of tickets from the law department of the railroad and paid for them on the street. The ex-Speaker had method. With his soul transfixed by sharp-pointed and jostling pledges, he had temporarily deceived Burns and his friends had also been secured, pre- sumptively, by the promise that he would lie to every which swallowed up all his other pledges, was ac- tually redeemed. caurt, which usually expresses just enough to sus- tain the decision, but often implies a great deal more. ing to Dan Burns, and the situation for him was de- cidedly embarrassing. The problem before him was yet padlock Wright's tongue and hold his vote. This was done by a coup de theatre. The shell, which was nel, which is Wright, might be preserved. After a deadlock of weeks it was easy to speculate upon the and their legislative adherents, to seize any oppor- tunity to avoid the disturbance: that just punishment end crowned the work. Wright, as an innocent bribe-taker and pledge-breaker, abandoned by some ug the ghost as Speaker and came down to the floor, where he was retained by a vote, unaccountable sons already mentioned and to prevent dynamitical intrusions into Senatorial combinations. The argu- without sin should cast the first stone, and that the Speaker had been sufficiently punished, was a re- unintended. It sounded like the terse appeal of a man charged with crime, by which he ‘supplemented “You know how it is yourselves.” Wright can be more serviceable now behind the shield of the muni- a floor manager he will be more in his element, and his chicaneries overspread by a deeper shadow. goat and to array Wright in the toggery of a Pavian hero who has lost all but his seat and his honor—to in supporting unfit men for the Senate, in defending exclusion of the things required by the people and the doing of what has been necessary to expose and paper has been instrumental in elevating a man to a from his office upon knowledge of his dishonor. It been betrayed, but it was a duty to arrest his career If another paper had assumed this duty and had we are sure we have not lacked the support of all to obey its highest sense of duty, and to all officers of California will not cease nor its shining face be HE resignation of the Speakership by Howard proceeding was a trick of Dan Burns, and they will as they pointed to the deeper infamies, of which Assemblyman Merrill's friend, had bought railway also secured transportation by the same eccentrical The Call by a vulgar lie. But the support 6f Dan one else, but not to Dan Burns. And this pledge, The report was as guarded as the finding of a In the present instance, the implications were damn- how to appease the Legislature and the public, and the Speakership, was sacrificed in order that the ker- inclination of the other candidates, especially Grant, by a popular body usually causes. The temporary of his fellows, who were wondrously unkind, yielded upon principle, but politically comprehensible for rea- ment of Mr. Dibble to the effect that he who was flection upon his fellow-members that was probably the efforts of his counsel when he said to the jury, cipal Achilles. As Speaker he was handicapped. As This trick may tend to load up Grant as the scape- { Daniel Burns? It may avert further disclpsure: and possibly deeper investigation. But it will not adorn the shirt of Nessus with the toga of a Senator. The people are not resigned. The candidates. who have clean skins and decent friends have not surrendered. The legislators have not recast their divergent judg- ments and flocked to the camps where votes may command from sixteen hundred and fifty to six thousand dollars apiece. They have not yet been wheedled or bullied into the elevation of lawless coim- petition and ignorance to the seat where greatness may represent a nation, but where even mediocrity is the voice of a State. Still, for all concerned there is a future, although it is growing short. In the bright light of the Union California_ ob- serves and waits. To Burns and Grant she exclaims, “A plague on both your houses.” Of the Legislature, with kindling eyes and in ominous tones, she re- iterates her demand for a Republican, a statesman and a gentleman. e A RECORD OF BRIBERY. l the Yolo County Superior Court over a year ago, the Supreme Court the other day handed down a decision which possesses more than ordinary interest at the present time: Indeed, it is especially applic- able to a condition which often prevails at Sacra- mento, involving, as it does, the corruption of an en- tire Legislature by an entire community. In 1889 the people of Willows, Colusa County, con- ceived the idea that they could attain to the dignity of a metropolis by dividing their county and creating the county of Glenn. A bill was introduced into the Legislature with that end in view, and subscriptions were taken (p at Willows for the purpose of paying whatwwas denominated the “legitimate expense” of passing the measure. A committee was appointed, of which J. C. Ball was made chairman, and the fund raised was placed in his hands. On arriving at Sacramento Ball found that one Christopher A. Buckley had control of the Legisla- ture, and after various negotiations he agreed to pay that famous manipulator $15,000 if he would interest himself in the Glenn County bill. Buckley did in- terest himself in the bill and it passed both branches of the Legislature. In the Senate a motion to re- consider was made, and while this motion was pend- ing Buckley informed Judge Ball that $6000 more would be required to defeat it. The additional money was raised by negotiating a promissory note signed by J. E. Putnam, K. E. Kel- ley; F. G. Crawford, August Henning, W. H. Kel- ley and Joseph Muller, all of whom were residents of Willows and interested in the passage of the divi- sion bill. It was represented to these men that the $6000 would be contributed by the Willows bank and that putting their nathes to a negotiable note meant merely an accommodation. In this way the money was raised and paid to Buckley. Subsequently the makers of the note refused to pay it, and Ball began suit to recover. This action was tried in the Superior Court of Yolo County, whence it had been transferred by stip- ulation, and in which Ball obtained judgment for the full amount. In his testimony at the trial Judge Ball explained the financial part of the transaction as follows: My memorandum shows that I got at the Cali- fornia State Bank on March 7, $14,500, which was paid over the counter and put in carpet sacks. Our draft for $6000 was drawn there in the bank and handed to the bank before the money was paid out. It was for $6000 and $7500 was drawn on what was known as the Glenn note and $1000 was furnished by K. E. Kelley. I was present when the money was paid over. The memorandum I have shows that there was pald to Buckley $14,550, paid back to K. E. Kelley $250 and a balance of $100. My recollection is that all the money I got from the bank in the morning was pald over to Buckley. I went along with the parties that took the money from the bank —Mr. Crawford, Mr. Hill, Buck Kelley and myself— and interested myself in seeing it paid over to the party. That was part of my business to see that the proper amount was paid over on whatever was yet unpaid on the contract that was made by Mr. Kel- ley. Mr. Buckley received what he claimed to be due, but what statement he made I have no recsl- lection of. I had heard that there was an obligation to be met but the exact amount I did not know. I went there to see that he did not get more than was due him. I did not have anything to do with placing the money in the carpet sacks. I may have carried one of the sacks part of the time. I did'not carry both of them at any time. I have a distinct recollection that Buckley’s men did the counting. Buckley handled it. I think he counted it. Buckley is blind, but he can feel money. I know that he became satisfied when he felt it that the amount he claimed was paid to him. I think Steppacher or Rudolph was there. ‘When the money was paid Steppacher, Rudolph, Buckley himself and Mrs. Buckley were present, and there was Crawford, Jim Hill, Buck Kelley, and there may have been others that I have now forgotten. This testimony is contained in the transcript on appeal, and when the Supreme Court came to con- sider the case it of course perused it. The judgment of the Yolo County Superior Court was reversed on a technicality, but the Supreme Court took occasion to say that the contract upon which the promissory note to Ball was made was evidentl} against public policy, good morals, or the express mandate of the law, and as such that it could not be made the basis of any action, legal or equitable; moreover, the court added that neither silence nor the consent of the parties justified the court in retaining jurisdiction of such an action. Probably this reversal will settie the litigation for- ever, but the case is interesting at this time because it throws a side light upon the way in which some leg- islation is procured at Sacramento. Here an entire community conspired to corrupt a Legislature, and in doing it their authorized committee openly and in the presence of a large number of persons paid $15,000 to a political boss for his influence in passing a bill. The interesting question is, how much did Buckley pay the Senators and Assemblymen for their votes? Another interesting question is how often has this process been repeated, and is it being re- peated at Sacramento at the present time? N the case of Ball vs. Putnam et al., appealed from According to Expert Yale, California has many as rich mines as the one in which a wonderful strike of gold has been made in Colorado. This is good news, and confirmation of it through mint returns will be welcome. —_— Works and Johnson seem' to lack the sense of humor so utterly 3s not to be able to discern any fun in the situation they have devised for themselves, and théy even begrudge the fun the artists are having. Dibble’s allusion to the attitude of Christ toward the Pharisees was most irreverent and unseemly. An orator should have some regard for his environment. Among other things, the Board of Education ha.s won the disapproval of the Post. While this is not much, still in a small way it is a triumph. The Senate has elected about two score eclerks since the passage of the Cutter bill, which is probably at least four times more than needed. Matters at Sacramento are rather quiet, since a week has passed without any statesman having spat in the eye of another. 7 + THE SAN FRANCISCO' CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1899. HEALTH BOARD ~ MAKES MANY REDUCTIONS Curtailed. HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS SAVED EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DE- PARTMENT IMPAIRED. Nine Employes Dismissed From the Service and Sweeping Reduc- tions Made Wherever Possible. The Board of Health has followed the example of the Board of Education and has revolutionized the department over which it presides. At a special meeting yesterday five food inspectors were dis- missed, together with the cigar factory inspector, bath and laundry inspector, as- sistant vaccinating officer and assistant to the bacteriologist. % This, with the reduction of the allow- ances for incidental expenses of the at- taches of the department and reduction in wages of others, will result in a sav- ing of $83 per month. Without reducing the effectiveness of the officers who con- serve the health of the city it will per- mit of the present board retiring from of- fice without the deficit which has in- varlably marked each change of adminis- tration. An executive session of the board was held at 11 o'clock, at which the proposed changes recommended by the Finance Committee were dismissed. An hour later an open meeting was held. The report of the Finance Committee, which consists of Dr. R. W. Baum and Dr. J. W. William- son, was read as follows: In accordance with instructions issued at the last meeting of the board directing the Finance Committee to take steps necessary to expunge the deficit at present existing in the funds of the department, the com- mittee herewith submits for your approval the following proposition: First—Reduction in transportation account as follows: Chief Food Inspector Dockery, allowed $55, should be reduced to $25; Chief Plumbing Inspector Sullivan, allowed should be reduc to §25; Chief Market In< spector Ben Davls, allowed $30, should be reduced to §25; Veterinary Surgeon I. W. O’Rourke, allowed §25 per month, should be reduced to $20 per month; Police Officer Butterworth, reduced from $30 to $25. Second—Reduction in number of assistant fo0d inspectors: Five Inspectors, each re- celving a salary of §75 per month, should be dropped from the pay roll of the depart- m ent. Third—The following reductions in salarles of employes at Park Emergency Hospital: Two drivers, each recelving $75 per month, should be reduced to $60; two matrons, each Teceiving $60 per month, should be reduced to $0. This will effect ‘a saving of $50 per month in the Park Hospital alone. Fourth—The salary of Veterinary Surgeon 1. W. O'Rourke should be reduced from $150 1o $100 per month. Fifth—The salary of Bacteriologlst Dr. John_Spencer should be reduced from $150 to $100 per month. Sixth—The position of assistant vaccinat- ing officer should be abolished; amount saved, $50. Seventh—The position of bath and laundry inspector, salary §75, be abolished, Eighth—The position of cigar factory in- spector, salary $75, be abolished. Ninth—thesalaries of two assistant plumb- ing ingpeoctors, receiving $100 per month, be reduced to $75. Tenth—The salaries of the twoinspectorsot {n?:ggu transportation, at $100, be reduced 0 $75. Eleventh—The position of assistant'to the bacteriologist, salary $5 per month, be abolished. The report was accepted, and in keeping with its recommendatior the following men were dismissed from the department: Food Inspectors W. Brennan, H. O'Donnell, W. McHugh, P. A. Cadogan, J. J. Sullivan. Cigar Factory Inspector R. B. Porter. Bath and Laundry Inspector P. Lydon. Assistant Vaccinating Officer = Dr. pps. Assistant to Bacteriologist Andre Des- soulavy. Two appointments were announced—J. Cabal was made garbage inspector, vice Frank Corbett, resigned; John Thomas was appointed assistant food inspector. Salaries were fixed at $75 per month. The bill of C. H. Taylor, a special nurse at the Pesthouse, for §150 salary and $33 35 clothes destroyed, was allowed. It was determined that hereafter no allowance will be made for clothes destroyed. The changes In the department take effect to-day. PUNISHED AS HE DESERVED LOCKWOOD DISTRICT, Jan. 30, 1899, An article appeared in The Call of Saturday, the 28th inst., in reference to the principal of the Lockwood School punishing a child. The only truth in the article was that he punished the child deservedly and not unduly. He simply serformed his duty in preserving the or- er of the school, as the facts will show when his trial comes off. They need only to be known to completely exonerate him. G. W. HAZELTON J. TYRREL, . H, SILVA, Trustees Lockwood District. e e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. “THE OLD HOMESTEAD—Subscriber, Victorla, B, C. Denman Thompson ap- eared in the “Old Homestead” in San rancisco. THE CITY OF CHESTER—M., City. The teamer City of Chester sank in the bay of San Francisco as a result of a collision with the steamer Oceanica, on the 224 of August, 1883. A MISDEAL—H. E. D. Oakland, Cal, In playing seven-up, if both players have an equal number of points and in the next deal the dealer, after turning trumps, discovers that he has made & misdeal, he loses the deal and the other player deals. THE DOME OF ST. PETER'S—K. C., City.—Michelangelo was the architect of the dome of St. Peter’s, Rome. It was he who gave it its magnificent dimensions and beautiful profile and arranged tl&e :paé:lngl of the pilasters as they appear o-day. THE CALIFORNTA LECTURER—J. T. ‘W., City. Up to the beginning of the current week Miss Helen Kelleher, the California lecturer, had delivered lectures on California. in Chicago, Ii.; Kenosha, ‘Wis.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Waukegan, Wis.; Appleton, Wis.; Oshkosh, Wis.; St. Paul, Minn.; Winona, Minn.; Oak Park, Iil. Cleveland, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Mich. Peorfa, IlL; Streator, Ill.; Lincoln, Ii.; Bloomington, Ill.; Lafayette, Ind.; Kala- mazoo, Mich.; Springfield, Ill., and Co- lumbus, Ohio. Her itinerary then included the following named cities: Albion, Mich.; Sandusky, Ohio; Dayton, Ohio; Lockport, N. Y.; Albany, N. Y.; Roches N. g Syracuse, N. ¥.; Utica, N. Y. N. Y.; Schenectady, Y keepsie, N. Y.; Yo Vernon, N. Y.; city; Brooklyn, ?‘é:del hia, P ngton, ‘Wheeling, W. Va.; Louisvill. sas City, Mo.; Topeka, Kans.; Denver, Colo. In many of the larger cities she has already delivered several lectures, and will give two or more In other cities she is to visit, making-in all about 100 lectures during December, January, Feb- ruary and March. These lectures are de- livered under the auspices of the Southern Pacific Company, the State of Trade, the ufacturers’ and Producers’ Association tbe Los Angeles Chamber fof-Commerce. - ; Baltimore, Md.; Wi 3 %7; Pittsburg, Pa.; Beaver, Pa ; e, Ky.; Kan- Salaries and Expenses. [ terests ge! IN THICK FOG THE NOYO AAN AT FULL SPEED Her Captain Suspend- ed for One Year. HE HAD NO DEVIATION CARD| NEGLECTED TO CAST THE LEAD OR TO VERLFY COMPASS. Although Warned That the Sur!’ Could Be Heard Ahead He Nevertheless Drove Upon the Reef. Captain William F. Daniels, late of the coasting steamer Noyo, will for the next year to come take his bearings and | lay out his course on dry land, and the briny deep will know him no more save as a passenger or a swimmer. United States Local Inspectors Bolles and Bulger yesterday published their findings ‘accusing him of being respon- sible for the wreck of the Noyo by rea- son of gross negligence. The steamer, with twenty-seven pas- sengers and a cargo of lumber, went ashore on January 17 on Duxbury Reef, about nine miles from the northwest entrance of San Francisco Bay. She was damaged to the extent of $4000 and her passengers and crew were saved in the lifeboats and were transferred to_the steamer Henrietta. Just before the Noyo was run -upon the reef the report states that she was running at full speed in a thick fog and her whistles were sounding at reg- ular intervals. At 4 o'clock in the morning the second mate informed the chief mate that he heard the roaring of the surf. The chief mate called up the captain, and the captain said the mate must be mistaken, that they could not be that close to the shore according to the course they were steering. In spite of the doubt the captain allowed the steamer to go ahead at full speed through the fog, nor did he change her course, or take soundings. At 4:50 a. m. the steamer ran upon the reef and was saved from sinking only by the buoyancy of the lumber with which she was loaded. Captain Daniels was convicted on his own testimony principally. He swore that there was no deviation card on board the Noyo and that he had never “swung” the vessel to get the deviation of the compass. On the previous trip he had ascertained the deviation on south by east, south-southeast and southeast-by-south courses, but he could not be sure that they were cor- rect as there was quite a swell on at the time. He had never got the devia- tion by courses east of southeast by south. The report goes on to say that the inspectors are of the opinion that Cap- taln Daniels was negligent and unskill- ful in navigating the steamer. First—In leaving the deck in charge of the second mate when so near the land in a fog, especially as he did not know the deviation of the compass on the course steered after passing Point Reyes. Second—In running at full speed in the fog. Third—In not taking soundings when he came on deck at 4 o'clock. The report goes on to say that had he taken a cast of the lead at that time he would have seen that the stegmer was near the land and he would have averted the disaster. His license as master was therefore suspended for one year. The sentence would have been much more severe had it not been for the admirable manner in which the captain acted in getting the passengers and crew into lifeboats and saving them from further accident. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. J. C. Skiff of St. Louls is at the Grand. J. E. Ward and wife of Modesto are at the Occidental. Attorney O. J. Woodward of Fresno is registered at the Lick. H. B. Shackelford and wife of Red Bluff are at the Grand. Morton B. Howell Jr. Tenn., is at the Palace. James Douglass, a miner from Virginia City, is a guest at the Lick. Superior Judge Erskine Ross and wife of Los Angeles are guests at the Palace. P. W. Holmes, a Chicago merchant, ac- companied by his wife, is at the Palace. James Fleming and wife of Nevada are spending their honeymoon at the Califor- nia. ‘Thomas R. Bard of Hueneme, who is one of the candidates for the United States Senate, is at the Occidental. W. T. Lewis and wife of Racine, Wis., are registered at the Occidental. Mr, Lewis is a large wagon manufacturer. Mr. and Mrs. Jules C. Weiss of New York are at the Palace. Mr. Weiss is a large cloth manufacturer. He and his wife are here for pleasure. The committee appointed by the Legis- lature to attend the funeral of the late Senator John Boggs arrived here last night. They are: Senators Bettman, Boyce, Dwyer, Langford, Moggard, More- house and Sims, Assemblymen Belshaw, Caminetti, Sanford, Glenn and Dunlop. Lieutenant Governor Neff is also with the | committee. Lieutenant Donald R. Green, Battery | B, California Heavy Artillery, which was | mustered out of the service on Monday, | of Nashville, has returned to his old home at Colusa. || Battery B, it will be remembered, was stationed at Angel Island. Lieutenant Green is the son of Will S. Green, ex- gtate Treasurer and editor of the Colusa un, —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 3-—L. Stern and wife of San Francisco are at the Savoy; H. C. Teft of Oakland is at the Hoffman; the Misses Montgomery of San Francisco are visiting their mlgtber‘ Mrs. Arthur J. Rodgers, at the Netherland; M. J. Kauf- man of San Francisco is at the Imperial; W. H. Moloney of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. ————————— A Union May Strike. Argument for a nonsuit in the case of Fred Hess Jr. against the Typographi- cal Union of San Francisco, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover $25,000 damages by reason that he was forced out of em- ployment by the union, he being a non- union man, was heard by Judge Dainger- fleld yesterday. On the motion for a non- suit a case, recently decided by the mghe-g court in England, was cited, in which it was held that unon labor has a rlghl to order a strike and that those ‘who might nrotect themselves by taking advantage of the organization and re- fused and were Injured thereby had no action for damages: t was also held that a conspiracy entered into hnvlnf no illegal object in view was not an illegal conspiracy, and a conspiracy among unfons to legally further their in- would not rerder them lable to an action for dam: Judge D Wil docids the motlon to-day. rield SPRING VALLEY SUBMITS TS STATEMENT Shows Loss on Year’s Business. TELLS OF EXTRA EXPENSES A LARGE SUM FOR PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS. Spent on Construction of New Pipe Lines and Pumping Plants at Milpitas and Crystal Springs. Spring Valley Water Works rendered its annual statement of receipts ana ex- penditures with the Supervisors vesteriay as required by law. The report is an im- mense bound volume, and contains the name of ¢very householder in the city who has paid for water during the past year. The report shows that after paying $766,- 500 ir aividends the disbursements exceed the Teceipts by $56,800 04, which amount appears in the statement as a loss. The tigures as given are: RECEIPTS. From water rents of private sumers 2 From water county From water rents of shipping. con- ...$1,490,921 55 d rents of city From other SOUTCES ......... Total income .. For taxes . For interes! 1, Dividends paid (11 months) Loss 56, $1,174,973 13 (Signed.) SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS. By CHAS. WEBB HOWARD, President. PELHAM W. AMES, Secretary. Acompanying the bound volume con- | taining * the list of persons to whom wa- ter was supphed was the following letter: To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco— Gentlemen: Herewith is presented to your honorable board the annual report of the Spring Valley Water Works for the year 1838 As you will observe from the report, the year has required more than the aver- age annual expenditure for permanent im- provements—the total sum amounting to $1,174,973 13. This has been required in the necessary construction of the new San Andreas pipe lines, the new Locks Créek pipé line, the Milpitas pumping plant, the Crystal Springs pumping plant and other permanent improvements, all made nect sary by the demands arising upon the coj pany during the year. You will also ol serve an increase in the operating ex- penses, occasioned by the extra amount of pumping necessarily done on account of the dry season, to meet the demand for water. This extra expense amounts in round num- bers to $85,000 more than for the preceding year—the total for the year 1398 being $453, 50 80, and the total for the preceding year but $183,34 27. The difference between|these last two sums is less than the extra cost of pumping, such difference being 324,814, thus showing that the operating expenses in the aggregate in other departments was that much les during the vear 1598 than In 1867. The particulars calied for by resolution No. 2212 (Fourth Series) of vour honorable board will be ready and furnished to your committee at its first meeting to consider the question of fixing rates. Respectfully yours, THE SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS. By CHARLES WEBB HOWARD, President. and permanent improvements. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsends.* e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * SR aNenei . Sans Restaurant Men Indicted. The United States Grand Jury yesterday indicted G. Pouchau and Louis Schlatter, proprietors of the St. Germain restau- rant, for not stamping bottles of wine served to patrons at meals. ——e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fitty —ears by millions of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and {s the “est remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from- teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mre. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. c a bottle. HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now oaly 0 by steamshlp, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay $250 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Franclaco. —_———————— ACKER'S ENGLISH REMEDY IS BEYOND uestion the greatest of all modern remedies. JE Wil cute & cough or cold immediately oF money back. 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