The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 189 ; ‘ / committee to draft approl riate JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieton il s Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ...217 to 291 Stevenson Street 7 Telephone Main 1574 PUBLICATION OFFICE DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, § cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL Y e DAILY CALL DAILY CALL DAILY CALL- EUNDAY CALL One Year..... WEEKLY CALL, One Year Al OAKLAND OFFIKCE... NEW YORK OFFI DAVID ALL . Room 188, World Building | . Advertising Representative. | | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... ..Riggs House | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ceeen ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. Moiaoh | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll | $:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6!5 Larkin street, open until 9:3C -o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ene Kentucky streets, open untii 9 o'clock. ATTACKING THE PRESIDENT. T is expected that Jerry Simpson and other Jerries will attack the President personally in connection with public policies, and it is not expected that they will be scrupulous in picking ‘the mud they throw. But when the President is attacked from his own political household the matter takes on a totally different aspect. Mr. Johnson of Indiana, who here- tofore commanded much respect by his independence in voting on public questions, has compelled disre- spect by his personal attack on the President. The House and the country will listen patiently agd profit- ably to argument and reason for and against holding the Philippines and indefinite extension of our bor- ders and our power, but neither the House nor the country heard- with patience or profit Mr. Johnson's envenomed attack on the motives of the President. His statement that the executive has been controlled entirely in taking or letting alone islands and cities by the interef) of men who gave large sums to his cam- | paign in 1896 is something exceedingly. vile and unbe- coming. Mr. Johnson does not pretend recently ac- quired knowledge of such contributions nor of their requital. He enlarges this piece of evidence as an ac- { cessory, but it is significant that he did not turn state’s evidence until after his own defeat for re-clection and | the close of his own public career. His righteous soul remained steeped in the sulphurous knowledge of | these campaign contributions for nearly three years before it got on the housetop and proclaimed iniquity from the ridgepole thereof. The stomach of his con- u EMENTS e Cross. or the Magic Kiss.” I Left Behind Me.” | he Ocean.”” lis Opera Company, » Acro Monday even- o—Pianka, the “Lady of Lions.” Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Speclalties. ark—The Steeplechase. “Dewey the Hero of Manila,” Monday evening, a Concerts, Friday evening, March . 1ON SALES. Saturda Killip & Co, nd Race Track. rses, at O March 4, at 12 m., Thorough- | | science never turned until he saw the backs of his con- | stituency, and then he retched in public and spilled the | soured contents of his memory into the Congressional | Record. The country. has not been moved to mutiny and rage against the President by this exhibition, and the only effect visible is the exertion of stepping over the n Mr. Johnson made in getting rid of something which, if he had at all, was one of the confidences that public men respect. Plain and honest people think that if he felt so about campaign contributions and knew that these had been made he should have re- signed his seat long ago and appeared in the political REPUBLICAN PLEDGES. HILE the election of Dan Burns would be a | W knockout blow, his defeat, not because of his intrinsic importance, but as a demonstration of erity, would give the Republican party the great- d for years. The Republican press an speakers during the last campaign ired the people of two facts—first, that the ques- ng the debt of the Central Pacific was settled, and therefore not an issue, which was strictly true; and, second, that the railroad was out of poli- tics, which was based upon railroad asstrances be- lieved to be true, but in reality false. The election turned on these statements, which gave a rea- ntee to sound money Democrats, as well that, without treachery of any kind, ues declared in'the platforms were to | be settled. The result was a vindication of Repub- | lican principles in this State that corresponded to their triumph throughout the Union. That the railroad has falsified its declarations and | | ha tion of fun | | | i largely le gu: 80! as to Republic the importar that Dan Burns is its candidate is proved to a moral | certainty. Political hardihood would shrink from de- nying these facts. Even though he werz q alified, | h he were not fatally disqualified, there- | ccess would mean that the State organi- | even thou, fore, h zation of the Republican party, aided and abetted by county organizations, deliberately cheated the people. No party could stand this dis- | honorable record. On the other hand, if the. railroad be held down to its promises, if Republican pledges | are redeemed, and if some honorable, competent and | independent gentleman, of whom there aresome before | the Legislature and many in the party, be elected in | the face of the unholy combinations and the bold de- | fiance of the people that have marked the candidacy of Dan Burns, public confidence will be justified and increased to an extent that will insure Republican at least in State elections, for years to come. municipal and The railroad makes a hard fight because of its concen- trated selfishness and its secret machinations in busi- ness and among individuals. No intelligent and hon- | - orable citizen desires to injure its interests. But its | own welfare would be promoted by the defeat of Dan | Burns. Its rights can be and ought to be protected, | but it does not own and cannot permanently domi- pate the State, and there is no reason why its disquali- fied representative should be promoted to a Federal Senatorship. The obstinacy that would insist upon such | outrage and such a repudiation of formal pledges | would be an evidence not of power but of weakness. Moreover, no member of the Legislature who has any | respect for himself or ambition for the future can | | | afford to break his word, and, in view of the excep- | tionally definite and positive assurances of 1898, in | which every candidate on the Republican ticket was | represented, subserviency to the railroad designs, scenting the bait and entering the trap spryng by the announcement of Dan Burns on Janua would be a disgraceful infidelity from which there could | be no recovery. . This is an instance similar to the | case of Howard E. Wright, in which the «claptrap of vindication from substantial charges will surely fail: ch legislator who disgusts his constituents and | atirizes his State by a vote against his pledge and | ence will be more likely to draw to himself the reproach that Caesar addressed to Brutus—“et tu quoque mi fili.” Chinatown should be kept under police rule as strict as martial law. Among other reforms there ought to be that depriving the Chinese of the right ‘to possess arms. Every person and every house needs to be searched in the interest of public safety, and the Chinese found with knife or gun be given the limit of the law. The report that the Quay jury had been “fixed” will pain the Pennsylvania Senator, particularly if true, for the trial has been postponed, and any fixing there may have been will represent useless expense. ‘While the change.in the management of the pound . is satisfactory it would have been more pleasing still had it involved the impounding of a lot of the subor- dinate ruffians who have been connected with it. The officer who testified that he thought the army | ... beef good, but that to eat it made him sick, must have heen reared on beef of such quality as to leave no doubt of its badness. 2 Spanish immigrants, ever since the war, have been pouring into this country. Evidently the people over there -do not believe all their papers have said about us. Possibly it was contemplatior of the lack of en- fhusiasm with which his disarmament scheme was +~aeted that has caused the Czar’s illness. 2, 1899, | a A | nual convention of the League of American Munici- | highway with his staff and scrip to denounce the in- iquity which has nauseated him only just now, so long | after the fact. The opponents of expansion and all for which it stands will keenly regret that Mr. Johnson, and his emetic emotions are not on the other side of the question, and will begin to despair at the sinister pros- pect offered by such allies as hé and Colonel Bryan. The President has repeatedly said that Congress is to make pérmanent disposition of the Philippines, and Congress is to be reached and controlled by the peo- ple who elect it. The way to finally determine the whole issue, then, is by going to the people with rea- n, argument and fact, and not with the weapons of detraction and betrayal with which Mr. Johnson has ;armed his too active jaw. THE POUND RESCUED. HE Committee on Health and Police of the TBoard of Supervisors at a meeting Friday agreed to report in favor of appointing James W. Wal- ton to the position of poundkeeper, vice F. A. Os- born, term expired. Mf. Walton is a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and has been appointed for the purpose of again giving | that organization control of the public pound. The pound was taken from the society by the late Democratic Board of Supervisors solely for politi- cal reasons. No charges had been filed against the poundkeeper, and there were no allegations that he had not discharged his duties satisfactorily, but the politicians wanted the pound, and the board in a weak moment acceded to their wishes. The result has been an unending series of scan- dals. Scarcely a week has passed sjnce the change was made that the Police Judges have not been called upon to adjudicate charges against deputy pound- keepers. Men have been assaulted, women insulted, small boys whipped, all sorts of cruelties perpetrated upon animals, and lawlessness in every form indulged in by the poundkeeper’s deputies. In their pursuit of fees these officials have entirely disregarded not only the law, but the rights of the people. Considerable pressure was brought to bear upon the late board with a view to inducing it to again return the control of the pound to the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, but all the influence that could.be exerted was ineffectual. The politicians having got hold of the pound refused to let go. It | is to the credit of the Committee on Health and Po- lice that it at last has dismissed the political pound- keeper and restored the institution to its old man- agers. Outrages of all kinds will now cease, because the members of the society are reputable citizens who will not tolerate lawless conduct on the part of their employes. Besides, the cruelties that have heretofore been practice! will be discontinued. Thus the pecple nd the aninals will make a clear gain, and the Board of Supervisors will receive the credit which is its due. i MUNICIPAL PROBLEMS. WORK of considerable value to all students of municipal problems is a newly issued pamphlet containing the proceedings of the second an- palities held at Detroit last year. The discussions, which occupied four days, covered a wide range, and included every important depart- ment of municipal work. Their value lies in the fact that the debates were not by theoretical speculators cn government, but by men who had performed in office the work of civic adminstration, and who, there- fore, spoke from a practical knowledge of the sub- jects. One of the most interesting features of the pro- ceedings was the showing made of the results attained in the municipal ownership and operation of water that the city owns its water works and has been oper- ating them for twenty-one years. Water thoroughly filtrated and cleansed is furnished to private parties at 10 cents per thousand gallons; manufacturers are sup- plied at a graduated rate proportioned to the quan- tity used, and hydrants are established at various parts of the city where washerwomen and the poor obtain an abundant supply Tree of cost. The total cost of the plant was $764,482. Its value is now estimated at $2,500,000, and it yields the municipality an annual income of $180,000 in cash, besides furnishing all the water required for schoolhouses, Fire Department sewer flushing and other public uses. ¢ The object of the league is to bring officials of the various municipalifl'e‘s of the country together in or- der that they may have the advantage of counseling L works. Thus ex-Mayor Hillyer of Atlanta reported- the complex problems of a modern city: In tilqt way much good has been already accomplished, and it is of the league goes on. The publications of the pro- ceedings of the conventions are in many ways valuable will doubtless have a notable effect in educating the public mind concerning them. ERHAPS before these lines meet the eye Rud- yard Kipling will have been called from the fellows, he is acknowledged master. Literature could not in the death of any other one person sustain a loss giant of letters, this sorcerer of phrase, to be forever closed now when his mental powers can be reckoned There is none to take his place. There is no other poet whose work is so majestically resonant. There is ples, nor who, pouring wt his soul in verse, can start a wave of emotion which'stops only at the outermost this belongs to Kipling alone. Each time he has ut- tered his thought in the heroic meter which imitation the universe of intellect. It has been the voice of nation to nation, or the trumpet tone of one inspired hceded. Not alone as a poet must Kipling be judged. His written a line of poetry, his renown would have been secure, He never touched upon a theme, however product the distinct mark of genius. His short stories excel those of any among authors who have horrible and the grotesque. Some of them are from beginning to end an expression of happiness. In der and true. Some have the element of horroz, and they are uncanny, terrible, holding the reader to the superior mind conceiving them and the unapproach- able style of their treatment. he'can be considered less than the common property of the Anglo-Saxon race. He has written for all of veins of his children there runs American blood. His fame is as wide as civilization, his following nat lim- Everywhere there are fervent prayers that the writer and poet shall be spared, and if he be taken sea will mourn with an equal sorrow. e oo ams At THE QUESTION OF LABELS. California products, who is now in this State on business, gave our fruit-packers and shippers a good deal of sound advice through an in- terview published in The Call of Monday. In the ing the consumption of Califprnia fruits in Europe Mr. Polack said: they export their goods there should be nothing mis- leading in the labels. There appears to be a laxity of indiscriminately, and ‘choice’ being applied to fine yellow apricots, for instance, as well as to the black against having their cases branded as I saw some once in a Hamburg warehouse. On one end of the case read ‘Fancy California prunes.” They came from a New York firm and had been put up by the Van- took them to be Oregon prunes from the thick skin and large pit, but the flavor was good, though slightly it tends to shake confidence in the shipper.” By that statement attention is again directed to the one of the most serious evils of our commerce and one of the greatest handicaps placed upon the progress of supposing the wrong to be one which Californians can remedy. We are the victims and not the per- States are marked as the products of California it is not in our power to prevent or to punish. been making earnest efforts to procure the enactment by Congress of a law requiring all products to be the name of the packer. California ought to cordially assist the New Yorkers in their contest. We are lent labeling, and it is to be hoped Mr. Polack’s clear statement of the damage to our fruit trade in Europe p.]e to the importance of procuring national legisla- tion on the subject. HE tribute paid to The Call by the often- repeated declaration that it is one of two jour- of Dan Burns and the railroad is complimentary, but undeserved. The public or legislative memory is from influential papers in the intérior of the State, and for the numerous resolutions of Republican Central dacy, to have been forgotten. This kind of material, which illustrates the almost unanimous sentiment of duced daily in this State and in other States, and has so enormously accumulated that its republication Then the qualified and respectable Republican gen- tlemen at Sacramento whose supporters have thus far votes deserve some credif, which The Call has no de- sire to appropriate. It would be'as puzzling to find satellites, in favor of Dan Burns as it would be to discover any party service in his record or any per- liate his success. T ing on to their rifles. Such tears as they shed must be of the crocodile brand, of which Assemblyman John- likely the beneficial effects will increase as the work contributions to the solution of important issues, and THE GIANT OF LETTERS.- p sphere in which, towering high above all his so grievous as would be inflicted were the eyes of this scarcely to have reached their zenith. no other whose songs can stit principalities and peo- bound where English is spoken. The power to do vainly essays it has been as though a thrill passed over thundering warnings to a world. And the world has prose is luminous, stmfig, fascinating. Had he never commonplace in itself, but there was in the finished entered that field, for they do not depend upon the some there is a depth of pathos most sweet and ten- end captivated and overwhelmed with a sense of the England claims Kipling, but America denies that us. America admires and loves his work. In the ited by the lines of republic nor empire. the residents of the continents and of the isles of the OSC;—\R POLACE,-a—Hamburg importer of course of his counsel as to the best means of promot- “California growers should also see to it that when method in the labeling, ‘prime’ and ‘fancy’ being used and poorer grade. Then, too, they should guard was printed ‘Italian prunes,” while on the other end couver Packing Company of Vancouver, B. C. I acid. This conflict of labeling should be stopped, for practice of fraudulent labeling which has now become honest industry. Mr. Polack is in error, however, in petrators of the practice. When the products of other For some time past the New York dairymen have honestly labeled as to the place where produced and even greater sufferers than New York from fraudu- by the practice will have the effect of rousing our peo- BURNS @AND THE PRESS. Tnals that have so far blocked the shameful game hardly short enough for the vast number of extracts Committees antagonizing this irdescribable candi- Republicans and other reputable citizens, is still pro- would require a special edition. almost held down Burns and Grant to their original any solid influence, apart from the railroad and its sonal qualificationis in him tl.i'at would justify or pal- Filipinos are said to be crying for peace, but hold- son is supposed to have a monopoly. For the most reliable news concerning Manila thoughtful people are not }ooking to messages which come by way of Madrid. Alger’s dismissal has again been >pre'pared by a thoughtful correspondent, but the Secretary of War with one another as to the best means of dealing with | has not yet “OKed” it. SUPERVISORS WILL APPEAL They Gain by the First Decision. IN AN ANOMALOUS POSITION 1 PLAN FOR A MISSION PARK GOES OVER UNTIL JUNE. Proceedings Looking to the Condem- nation of the Former Jewish Cemetery Post- poned. An Innocent resolution, recommending that special counsel be employed to ap- peal the case of the Mutual Electric Light Company against the city to the Supreme Court, precipitated a heated debate at the meeting of the Supervisors yesterday. The resolution was presented by Super- visor Kalben, and for a time he was alone in the open fighting for it. He was Jjoined later by Supervisors €ollins and Holland, while the opposition was represented by Supervisors Byington, Lackmann and Deasy. After the resolution, which called for the appointment of John H. Durst as special counsel for the board, had been read a request was made that it be read again. The discussion then ensued on the point as to why the city should appeal a case when its loss meant a benefit to thel public. Supervisor Byington desired to know why the board should appeal. Under the decision of the Superior Court there will be competition in lighting, which meant reduction {n price. # In defense of the resolution Supervisor Collins said the law was on the side of the board, and he for one did not like to see the case go against the members. He did not want to stand in the way of public improvements, but he would be sorry to see this decision go against them. Super- visor Byington pressed the question as to why, if he was in favor of public im- provements, he stood in the way of the | Mutual Electric Light Company and its | right to erect poles. Mayor Phelan came | to ths mid of Mr. Bylngton, saying the | congtitution allows corporations the right g use the streets for the erection of poles “without permission of the authorities. Supervisor Holland suggested that an appeal be taken and a speedy hearing se- cured, as there seemed a decided differ- ence of opinion in the premises. He thought this actfon would be better for the electric company and for all con- cerned. Mr. Lackmann urged that the city should net appeal. Such action would benefit the gas company, and that cor- F)rallon could test the case if it desired. he city should not bear the expense when others would de: the benefit. He thought the decision was along ‘proper lines and should be wgheld and the fran- chise granted. Upon a vote being taken it was.decided to appeal the case. Those in favor of the appeal were: Holland, Kalbeun, Blaek, Phelps, Collins, Heyer and Attridge. The minority was composed of Perrault, Lack- mann, Byington, Deasy and Aigeltinger. A resolution was presented declaring the intention of the board to commence con- demnatlon proceedings to dcquire the old by Eight- vish cemeteries, bounded eenth, Twentleth, Dolores and Church streets. The property owners were asked | to file with the board before March 13 | statements of what they consider their l:,l;\sd d“e’girdt(?d n‘)“(ll[e; a shart .discussion it efer action un of the fiseal year, in June." Tt e y and County Attorney was di- rected to examine'into the status of .the title of the city and county to the strip | of land 200 feet on each slée of Fillmore street," between Bay street on the south and the water front line on the north, and to institute such proceedings as he may 4yem advisable to perfect the same if it S found defective, and to secure the re- moval of all obstructions to the free use and enjoyment by the city of the wharf l;l;ll::}zvs hereltofol:‘a exercised by it. This 2 ference to the propert y the Fair estate at BlavckaniKt.‘ndDSEd o The Superintendent of the Fire Alarm ‘Wwas notified to ascertain if the globes of arc lamps can be used for indicating | the location of fire alarm boxes. Seventy- | seven street gas lamps - where electric | lights are also maintained were ordered Ex"(;n?'xsigg(e:?oupj_on the recommendation of r Tu useless expense. PYEr I ey Were n accordance with a communicatio from the secretary of the State Colmmlsx: sion for Insane, the board notified "the caretaker of the insane ward of the Re- | :Tllv::gnsluspnall lSa‘t he l‘nust turn over Y recelved from insa toFth%Sl'grlljfl. ne patients | . A. Osborn was dismissed from his %‘t;sltlon of Poundkeeper, and James W. alton was made his successor. The change will take place March 1. A petition was presented by a number of firms requesting the board to dredge the south side of Channel street imme- diately beneath the draw-bridge at the in- tersection of Fourth and Channel streets. Owing to the accumulation of debris the passage of vessels is made impossible. A protest was presented by property owners on De Long avenue agains the paving of that thoroughfare from Frederick street-southerly. The board was asked for additional wa- ter supply and hydrants in the district contignous to San Bruno avenue an Twenty-fifth street. J. H. Belser was granted a license to solicit signatures to private contracts for street work. H. E. Law, president of Van Ness Ave- nue Improvement Club, requested the board to increase the Police Department. He claimed the northern part of the city suffered from the force not being up to the prescribed strength. He complained of the recklessness of the criminal ele- ment, claiming to have had a house stolen in its entirety, The Holly Park and Mission Street Tm- provement Club asked that the money appropriated and aiready set aside for the improvement of Holly Park be expended on the same. . Chairman Perrault of the Finance Com- mittee announced that the investigation into the affairs of the gas company had been postponed until March 7. The Street Committee was not ready to rerort upon the matter of granting per- mission to the Market Street Rallway Company to run its electric cars into Kearny street from Geary street. The desk of Secretary John A. Ruseell was decorated with a magnificent basket of flowers. The accompanying card bore the inscription: “John A. Russell, Esq., ‘Come 33." Com- pliments and best wishes of, thirteenth member.” g This was from Colonel W. B. th%k., managér of the Sutro estate. Upon_the adjournment of the meeting Mayor Phe- lan congratulated Mr. Russeil upon his thirty-three vears’ service in the board. His sentiments were applauded by the members. TWO BANKRUPTS. One of Them Does Not Know What His Liabilities and Assets Are. George G. Nichols, a merchant of Santa Cruz, filed a petition in bankruptey yester- day in the United States District Court. He alleged that on the 5th of January of this year his goods were attached by the Sheriff of Santa Cruz and sold on the 26th of the same month. There are some dehts due him, but the petitioner is unable to give the names of his debtors or the sums owing, because his books are in the hands of the Sheriff under attachment. A, Zirker of the firm of Zirker & Ham- matt of Snelling and Livin{ltoho filed a petition, with ,025_ liabilities, mostly romissory notes, and $7988 assets, mostly 0k -accounts. —_—————————— Arguelos Accused of Murder.” _Coroner Hill held an fnquest yesterday gx: h:he body gt Joseph SIel:-X, the Sicillan rman_who was stabl last Frid nlsm by Filipo Arguelos, allas Ferttlt&y, an the jury retaxrned a verdiet acousing rguelos of murder. A THEIR CASE| ‘was based t | interest on the company’ NO CHANGEIN THE PRESENT WATER RATES Five Supervisors Fa- vored Reduction. LINES WERE SHARPLY DRAWN MAJORITY DID NOT TALK, BUT THEY VOTED. Byington and Lackmann Amend- | ' inents Cutting Spring Valley Estimates Were Re- : * jected. pointed a resolutions of respect on the J. Kynette, chief secereta Church Extension Society of a. s PA¢ the con regational ministers weekly mesting Dr. B N. Greely of Berkeley read & paper on “The Emotional in Religion. At its conclusion it was favorably_ dis- cussed by the ministers present. —_— e e——— AROUND THE CORRIDORS H, C. Tandy of Hanford is a guest at the Lick. W. E. McCabe of Portland is registered at the Lick. 0. McHenry, a banker of Modesto, is at the Occldental. "H. D. Norris Jr. ot New York is stay- ing at the Grand. Henry Disque and W. S. Perkins of Col- fax are at the Grand. A. A. Woodhull and wite, U. 8. A., are staying at the Palace. Charles Rule, a large dairyman of Dun- canm Mills, is at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. George E. Goodman Jr. of Napa are at the Palace. F. W. Detter ,of Providence, R. L, 18 a guest at the Palace. C. Werngren, a Portland business man, death ‘of Dr. of the hiliadei- | 1s staying at the Lick. 8. N..Griflith, a capitalist of Fresno, is registered at the Palace. R. E. Hall and wife of Denver are guests at the Occidental. W. W. Campbell of the Lick Observa- For the first time since its organization the lines were somewhat sharply drawn in the Board of Supervisors yesterday over the order fixing the water rates for the coming year. By a vote of sev:n to five the existing rates were readopted. | As exclusively announced in The Call | yesterday morning Supervisors Lackmann and Byington made an effort to secure a | reduction. They were ‘supported by Su- pervisors Perrault, Deasy and Heyer. Hol- | land, Kalben Black, Phelps, Collins, At- | tridge and Aigeltinger composed the ma-.! jority. ! The water committee met at 9:30 in the | committes room and Chairman Phelps | presented a typewritten report re-enact- ing the present rates, which was signed | by the chairman, Kalben, Black, Attridge | and Aigeltinger. Lackmann demurred to | this plan and argued for a horizontal re- | duction of the estimates submitted by the | Spring Valley company and also reducing | the interest on the capital stock, which he | claimed was fictitious to a certain extent. Failing to swerve the majority of the | committee from the report agreed upon | before the meeting, Mr. Lackmann an- nounced that he would present a minority report to the board. It is claimed by the majority of the | board who voted for the old rates and | also by the representatives of the water | | company that under the order the Spring | Valley will only realize 5 per cent on the | money invested, and that if the season | should be a dry one the returns to the stockholders will be still smaller. Attached to the majority report, which | was read as soon as the board convened, | was a copy of the rate schedule passed by the former board. This was accepted | without reading, as all the members were | familiar with the rates. Supervisor By-| ington presented an amendment to this | order which provided for a reduction of 15 per cent in fixed rates for householders and also cut the meter rates 10 per cent. | Mr. Deasy seconded Byington's order. By- | ington, in advocating his order, said it | on fair compensation to the Spring Valley company for the amount of | property in actual use. In its statement the company had included a vast amount of land which was not in use and probably never would be, yet the water consumers of the city were to be forced to pay in- terest on this property if the old rates were again adopted. This contention was Supported by Messrs. Lackmann an Deasy. The amended order was vote down, however, by the following vote: Ayes—Perrault, = Lackmann, Byington, Heyer, Deasy—5. Nyopsfflnlland. Kalben, - Black, Phelps, Collins, Allrld% , Aigeltinger—T. The order submitted by Mr. Lackmann was then put on passage and the repre- sentative from the Sixth Ward asked that it be adopted, He declared .that the ma- jority report was unfair to the-people of this city in that it compelled them to pay an exorbitant price for the first necessity of Nife. He claimed that $1500,000 included in the Spring Valley's list of estimates was for property not in use, and he de- clared that the operating expenses were beyond reason. From the latter estimate of $473.000 he asked a reduction .of $146,000, and also sought to have other estimates cut accordingly. Mr. Lackmann’s posed Yorday's Call. The order introduced by Lackmann left the meter rates un- changed, but made a reduction of 15 per cent in fixed rates. Mr. Lackmann said he had hoped that Byington's schedule would prevail, but jnasmuch as it was rejected he thought a reduction in the householders’ rate would be better than no reduction, and he introduced his order as a compromise. Mr., Deasy said he had favored Bying- ton’s order, as he considered it just to the citizens, He reviewed the work done at the recent investigaion and declared the city should not be compelled to pay thou- sands of dollars interest yearly on the money expended by the water company to acquire the Calaveras supply, which| was bought to prevent the city from ob- taining a Flfl.nt which would have given half a million people cheap water. He declared that the company was yearly in- creasing its bond issue for a twofold pur-; pose—first, to mulct the people by increas- ing the interest account, and second to increase the alleged value of the property so a big clean-up could be made later on by selling the plant to the municipality. Mr. Deasy said some means should be de- vised to check this nefarious scheme, and Mayor Phelan suggested that the only so- Jution was for the Supervisors to cut the s investment and thereby stop the further issuance of L hearing that a report was The Mayor, in g(‘:culat’l’on that he favored the old wa- ter rates, declared he wished to go on record as supporting Byington's order. SBupervisor ackmann's order was voted down and the report of the majority' of the water committee adopted by the Tto 5 vote already glven. TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF REV. F. F. JEWELL SPECIAL SERVICES TO BE HELD TO-NIGHT. Addresses Made at the Weekly Meet- ings of the Methodist and Con- gregational Ministers. Special services will be held in the How- ard street M. E. Church to-night in mem- ory of Dr. F. F. Jewell, the distinguished preacher who passed away, early inthe present month. A programme has been | repared and will be participated in b, eading pastors of this city and Oakland. | The reverend gentleman w¥n to be thus honored was well known and beloved in this city. Twice he occupied the pulpit of the sacred edifice in which the seryices are to be held, and twice he watched over the destinies of the Central Methodist Church. Through his efforts the Simpson Memorial was built, and it is believed that representatives of the churches named will be largely in attend- ance to-night. The programme to be followed is as fol- lows: Music, by choir; hymn; scripture lesson, by Dr. Urmy; prayer, Dr. John Coyle; h: B D et e B Chbtai 1, _Robert iiroy, *"Captain _Nelson, Goodall, Messrs. Whiting and Watt; general remarks, by ministers_and others; closing hymn and bénediction. " Drs. Case and Kirby will preside. Dr. Louis Albert Banks of Clevelan Ohlo, who is sald to be the leading S valfst in the Methodist church, and who has been in Los Angeles attending the sessfons of the Epworth League School of Methodists, was present at the weekly meeting of the Methodist ministers yester- day and delivered an'interesting on ‘Revivals,” his method of conducting them the good results he has achi . He was questioned at length tors present, od £ e ot great benit 1o i teners, as they warmly encored him théhclom ome?: reémn.rkl. aplain F. C. Brown of was Scheduled o GeIver o agdrsse, AL the meeting, was nn.voldablg detained. e L O ll%;; and interesting mglor. (D e Bril- - Dille and Dr. Hammond were an- pro- Feduotions were published in yes- | tory is registered at the Palace. | Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Hammard of | Upper Lake are at the California. L. Huseman, a merchant of Montague, Siskiyou County, is at the Grand. Edward Ehrman and wife of Portland, Or., have taken apartments at the Pal- | ace. 5 W. B. Timms, a manufacturer from Elizabeth, N. J., and F. B. Pattee, a mer- chant of Valley Springs, are registered at the Grand. Thomas H. Houpt of Findlay, Ohio, United States Rural Inspector of the pos- tal delivery, has returned from his visit of inspection In the interlor of the State and is at the California. George L. Carr, F. C. Rose and E. A. Wagner, who own extensive mining prop- erties at Carrville, near Redding, are making the Russ their headquarters whils in the city. P. J. McCormack, a Los Angeles con- tractor, W. E. Duncan Jr., an Oroville mine owner, and William H. Cleary and son, proprietors of the Sheep Ranch mins near Stockton, are among the arrivals at the Lick. G. B. Berckmans, a member of the firm of Tiffany & Co., New York, is at the Palace, accomnanied by his wife. They have returned from a stay at Coronado, and will leave on the next steamer for Honolulu. Amos Burr, traveling passenger agent, and John A. Gill, Pacific Coast freight agent, of the New York Central lines, and A. S. Blair, general agent of the Great Northern, will leave for Northern California tosday in the interest of their roads. —_— e ¢ CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Willlam Fitz- hugh of San Francisco is at the Imperial. B. H. Elliot of San Francisco Is at the Cosmopolitan. — ——e—————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DRILLING AT THE PRESIDIO—M. E. | P., City. When there are regulars at the | Presidio they are drilled every day except Sundays. A NAVAL VOLUNTEERS—A. D. J., U. 8. S. Adams. The Senate passed a bill al- lowing extra pay to naval yolunteers dur- ing flllze S| anigh-Amerk‘nn ‘War. The bill | went to the House, and at last accounts was still before the committee of that | body. SR CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS— Subscriber. There is separate examina- tion under civil service rules in the United | States in each branch of the service, some | twenty two or three. The examinations are held at such time and place as the particular branch decides, and the fact is made known by posting at toe offices of the particular branch holding the same and by publication in the newspapers The studies vary according to the branch of the service. Lists of such studles are not furnished to arnlicants. For informa- tion on the subject decide in what branch of the public service you would ke to be examined and then write to the chief of the department, and you will be furnished the proper blanks. GENERAL BROOKE—M. C., City. Ma- jor General John R. Brooke, U. 8. A, was born in Pennsylvania, July 21, 1838. He was appointed from Pennsylvania from civil life with the rank of captain in the Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, April 20, 1861. He took part in the Civil War, being in many engagements, was wounded in action, was promoted brigadier general of volunteers in 1884, resigned in 1 6, the same year was appointed lieutenant colo- nel 0!} the Thirty-seventh United States Infantry, transferred to other commands and finally rose to major general. He will be retired in 1902. He was during the war of the rebellion breveted for gallant and meritorious_service at the battle of Get- tysburg and in the engagement at Spott- sylvania. e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsenda® —_————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men b; Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 han. - gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 e e————— The Case Dismissed. The case of Oscar Aronson, the cyclist, charged with attempting to defraud his trainer, “King"” Ryan, was dlsmls‘aedd by Police Judge Barry yesterday. fif-;‘x?sfm proved that he had given the ment_of the bicycle tournament g«?n&gepay Ryan, and the responsibility did not rest upon him. ————————— California Limited, Santa Fe Route. Leaves Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Elegant service. Vestibuled Sleepers, observation cars. Harvey's Dining Cars through from California to Chicago with- out change. Get full particulars at company’s office, 628 Market st. 5 . oo A S L TS s Dr. Stegert’'s Angostura Bitters has over 50 imitators and substitutes—most of them dan- gerous. Get.the genuine with signaturé. L ee——— A Cool Chinaman. Ah Dook walked into. the store of Horn Co., Battery street, mear California, yesterda{l afterncon, and after walking around the place coolly picked up a large package of cigars and tobacco and throw- ing it over his shoulder walked out with it Policeman Cullinane was naotified and ar- ested Ah Dook on Halleck street. He was booked at the City Prison on a charge of petty larceny. RovAL Bakingfiowder Made from pure cream of tartar, ; e mnn:mdfl.::dday. 3 aovas Bavine FOwRER oo, ew YO