The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO éALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1899. JOH‘N D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. #ddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. oo e PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS... ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 8 cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: PAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (inoluding Sunday Call), 8 months. DAILY CALL cinclu Sunday Call), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Sin NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room IS8, World Bulilding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. ‘Woeliington Hotel €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .. . . ...Marguette Ballding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | cpen untll ©:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 62! McAllister street, open uptil 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1841 Mission streect, open unti! 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk straet, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. —_— AMUSEMENTS. | mbla—*"The Serenade. se—"The Black Hussar." v Ball.” lden Locks." t Mated.” Tan Maclaren, Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon rnia—I “Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. d Opera Hous Sauer Recitals, Wednesday afternoon, o—The popular bay resort. Amusements every "AUCTION SALES. Tuesday, 1, street. ton, real April e & C at £33 Market *elock, FOR THE WIDOWS AND THE ORPHANS. | N ONFRONTED by the action of the Board of L’ Supervisors reducing the price of lighting to co! ners in this city from the former extor- te rates to a reasonable charge, the gas com- y sets up the old familiar wail that ruin and deso- bout to befall the widow and the orphan. nt of the monopoly virtually amounts ea that the people of San Francisco should 1e to pay excessive charges for gas and for | hts as an act of charity to the widow and . The assertion is that widows own | hans own stock in the company, and at a reductioft of revenue to the company means in the hon of these dependent ones. natter with what tearful eloquence | what amount of money its publi- corporation journals, cannot of intelligent men. A due con- e needs of the great majority of | orphans in this city requires ‘hat extor- 1g rates shall be prohibited. For one in the gas company there are r one orphan who would be bene- umph of the monopoly there are a 10 would be injured. 1l a few widows and orphans who have invested n watered gas stock go about bearing bones the meat furnished by thousands of > r widows and orpha: claims for justice of the widows and ckholders should be di- t the public but against the company ed stock and sold it to such innocent Even at the rates fixed by the Super- npany can pay ample dividends on italization. It has no right what- | ever, ai ng put forth shares representing a fic- | titious capital, to now demand that the public shall’| bull those shares in the stock market vy consenting to pay exorbitant rat r gas. | The gas company, however, is not the only sinner | in this respect, nor by any means the greatest. Thal‘ domineering monopoly known as the telephone com- ‘ pany has a long score of offenses against the public to be dealt with. It is another charger of extortion- ate rates, ostensibly for the benefit of the widow and tlhie orphan. For that company also a day of reckon- | ing is coming, when competition will compel it to | give San Francisco a better service for less money or | quit the business. | among the sto i [ amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure that | These spectacular episodes, | be excluded, and once sworn the mischief is done. | the others mainly belonged to the wretched class we | situations and temperaments. THZ JURY SYSTEM. HE present Governor of the State has been se- | verely and justly criticized for his failure to sign would have improved the manner of selecting jurors. But it may as-well be understood by the public that the deepest evils in our jury system grow out of the manner of its administration and cannot be cured merely by legislation. Occasional investigations are paraded and the country for brief periods imagines that public exposure will insure actual reform. however, are ‘usually mere sideshows that do not even ruifle the serenity of the men who are really conversant with the methods employed in “influenced” litigation. There is nothing more difficult to trace and to prove than the “fixing” of juries. But there are some observed facts that go a long way in the right direction. For example, there are many persons of limited incomes, retired from active business, who seek to get their names in the jury-box or on special venires, of which many are summoned at the City Hall and “in interior counties where “Courthouse rings” exist. This is accomplished by suggestion, usually through friends within and without municipal and county offices. Of these men some are honest | and simply anxious to earn a per diem. But the practice is vicious, for it opens the door to the pol- luted hacks who aspire only to opportunities to per- vert justice, either by contrelling verdicts or forcing disagreements. Again: A panel of jurors drawn from a box will probably contain a fajr proportion of reputable citizens, not anxious to.serve, but also a number who are so thoroughly trained and ex- perienced that they can begin a trial with a fixed pur- pose to disregard the evidence, and achieve their ob- ject without danger of exposure. These villains, for such they are, promptly obey every call. They are letter perfect on their voir dire and never reveal knowledge of a party or of the subject matter at is- sue or any bias, prejudice or opinion whatever. After four peremptory challenges on each side they cannot | | | ! A striking illustration of this method of corruption deserves notice. In an action against a railroad cor- poration the regular panel in a department of the Superior Court consisted of 110 citizens, or there- abouts, of whom eighty were beyond criticism, and have described. There, as in other departments, after the panel had been drawn, in order to minimize the inconvenience of service, jurors were specially noti- fied to attend by postal-cards, sent by the clerk or by the bailiff. In the case before us, where the prelim- inary tests were necessarily rigid, the box was filled up eight times before a full jury was obtained. Eighty-two jurors, the best of the lot, failed to an- swer when their names were called. The others were all present, and a disagreement inevitably followed. It appears certain that in this instance, endlessly re- peated, for some occult reason many notices were suppressed. Such frauds are perpetrated under the judicial eye and in such an example as we have given connivance by court officers was essential to success. The Judges are unconscious of the rascality, which could be easily blocked by alertness on their part. But there are many ways, both in original selection and in specific trials, in which tainted and cunning agents of special interests succeed in defeating righteous judg- ment. The weaknesses, the necessities and the sur- roundings of jurors are studied, and they are sub- jected to the most insidious approaches. Corrupt ver- dicts or equally corrupt disagreements are not al- ways procured by the direct expenditures of money. | The influences employed are as diverse as indi\'iduall' It is said that there are corporations in San Fran- cisco that, for their own guidance, have descriptive lists of citizens eligible to jury duty, and who instruct their attorneys, so that they can select jurors prac- tically without examination. This enormous advan- tage over ordinary litigants produces marked inequal- ity before the law. The jury system is necessary to free government. Most Americ?n citizens make honest jurors. But it is too evident for discussion that while safeguards in selection, such as those incorporated into the amend- ments discarded by the Governor, are important, in- creased vigilance and more practical discrimination | by courts, by their officers and by the bar, are even of more vital consequence. FRUIT GROWING IN FLORIDA. CCORDING to a Floridian correspondent of fl the Savannah News, the outlook for the pro- duction of tropical fruit in Florida is by no means promising. After pointing out that for sev- eral winters in succession the fruit crops have been | killed, and that the various means resorted to for protection have proven ineffectual, the writer says: “Major George R. Fairbanks, an old and highly es- Investigations made by the Postoffice Department | teemed citizen of Florida, says our climate has not of London have disclosed that telephones can be | changed; that freezes have always prevailed here. profitably operated in that city for £3, or about $15, a | But Major Fairbanks does not live in South Florida, year. The experience of several cities in the United | his home being in the old seaport city of Fernandina. States has shown that where competing telephones | We of South Florida know that the climate has are in operation the cost to the public is hardly one- | changed in a general way; that we are now unable half what is charged by the monopoly here. That to grow guavas, bananas and sometimes mulberries, fact was fully brought out by Congressional investi- | and that our young budded orange trees are killed gztion resulting from extortionate telephone charges | or injured every winter.” in Washington City. It must not be supposed that Floridians suffered the The telephone monopoly in this city not only | successive losses of their crops without making earnest charges rates so high as to prevent the great majority | and costly efforts to save them. The trees were banked of widows and orphans from Having the benefits of | with earth and leaves, fires were kept burning in the the invention, but the service is poor, and, as has been orchards on cold nights, and high fences were erected shown by The Call, the secrets of patrons are fre- | as windbreaks; But all in vain. It is noted by the quently betrayed by the company or its employes to | writer to whom we have referred that even the cov- rivals in business, or to spies, or to almost any one | ering of groves with close sheds, as Millionaire Stet- who will pay for them. | son has done at De Land, did not save exposed trees I; is full time that San Francisco were rid of the | without the aid of well-kept-up fires inside the in- burdens and the vexations of this monopoly, and | closure. fortunately the end is near at hand. In this case, as| It appears from that record that the growing of | in that of the gas company, moreover, the fight is | oranges and pineapples in Florida can be made a safeK made for the public generally, including the widow | business only where the orchards are covered from and the orphan. | wind and rain and are warmed by fires. That means every orchard must be made virtually a conservatory. Such being the conditions of the industry in that Stafe, it is not.likely to prove profitable in the face of the increasing competition of California. | Whether the theory that the climate of Southern | Florida has changed can be sustained or not, it is certain a remarkable change has occurred in the fruit industry of the State. Thousands of people have gone to Florida within the last few years to engage in orange growing, lands were sold at boom prices and REMEMBER THE HEROIC DEAD. EMEMBER the heroic dead whose bodies are R to be buried in the historic cemetery of Arling- ton to-day, and in whose honor the President has ordered that the flags of the nation shall be dis- playved at half-mast during the afternoon. The people should unite with the Government in this solemn commemoration. Let every flag in San Francisco be made an evidence of the sympathy of - the citizens with the simple but solemn ceremony that will to-day engage the attention of the national ‘capital. Float every flag at half-mast. The service should not be overlooked in any office, or store, or factory, or household in the city. It is the duty of all. Wherever there is a nuisance there is a way to get | rid of it, and accordingly it would be worth while for. the Supervisors to give the turntable at Lotta’s foun- tain another-whirl in the courts, millions of money were invested by settlers who ex- pected to obtain large profits from their venture. Re- cently these orchards have been mowed down by frosts as a wheat field is shorn by a harvester. Many families have lost about all they ever possessed, and the outlook is so discouraging that a considerable number have lost hope as well as fortune. Of course in the end the Floridians will find some industry which can be counted on. The State has many resources and many attractions, and American energy and skill can be relied upon to make profitable - _dwse of them, For the time being, however, it looks ag | from Canada, if the Floridians would have to live mainly on game and fish and rely for money upon Northern tourists and the sale of phosphates. Tem world and distinct from it is one of the mar- vels of the world. That race has taken a fore- most place in art, science and finance, and has been at the head in major statesmanship and has played no mean part in war. At the same time it has remained as distinct as it was before Moses led it out of Egyptian bondage into the freedom of the wilderness. Its history is an impressive story of the mighty pre- potency of the great nomads from whom it sprang, for out of their shepherd tents issued a line of prophets, priests and kings outdazzling the rulers of the first empires, and leaving behind a literature which is the world’s greatest religious and intellectual inspiration in these latter days. Where are the people of Babylon? Where the race of Jamshyd? Where now the blood of the Mace- donian conqueror? What common principle and feith is there to lead the modern Latins in recreating the glories of Rome on the soil where they flourished? What trumpet-blast shall resurrect the one purpose and assemble the people of the blood that built the empire of Charlemagne? Division, destruction, the melting of common bonds, make up the history of them all But between the black Jew, who lives neighbor to the Tamils and responds to their language as old as Sanskrit, in the speech in which Abraham uttered prayers over his dead, and the cringing Russian Hebrew and the lordly capitalists of Frankfort and the English Jew, who has seen his race rule the Brit- ish empire and preside over the Capitol of the Anglo- Saxon world, there is the old tie of the tribes, made in the wilderness, before the Ark of the Covenant, that has persisted unbroken, while the race has been scattered like ashes to the four winds, has borne the yoke of oppression and the lash of persecution, groaned in bonds and tasted death in every form zealots can invent and cruelty inflict. Running with this common tie has long been an aspiration to pos- sess Palestine again, to repeople the land which their fathers entered when it was full of corn and wine, flowing with milk and honey. The movement toward Zion has taken organized shape. The Jew in all lands lifts his face toward Judea, and the whole world i$ for an hour withdrawn from its strifes and struggles to look upon a move- ment that is of greater interest than the exploiting of a new continent. To repeople Palestine requires that the land be re- clad in the forests that made it fruitful. Where the daughters of Shiloh were found dancing in the vine- yards by the sons of Benjamin the blear sands scorch in the sun. Naboth's vineyard is as dry as the bones of Jezebel. Where Ruth gleaned in the field no green blade is tipped with dew. The springs and wells around which the people rested on the way to the Passover, no longer aifiuent, feed no rills. The forests are gone, and the beauty of the land and its fountains went with them. The early and the latter rain falls upon the sand. If Israel move upon the land again to restore it the first energy expended must be in bringing back its trees and fountains. In this respect alone the Zionist movement is of first in- terest to the world. The desert has claimed the seat cf the shepherd kings; Babylon, Palmyra, the great scats of ancient empire, are all buried in the sands, and there are none to resurrect them. If the Jew go back to Zion and, applying that persistence which has marked his race, shall recall the verdure, the mea- dows, the vineyards, the bosky glens and sweet oases, THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT. HE persistence of the Jew as a part of the mod- the possession of which called out all the poetry in the ond to the Exodus. THE TURNTABLE CASE. O considers that Judge Bahrs, in his decision in the Geary-street turntable case, evaded the sented on the question of nuisance. It is the opinion of this able journalistic counsel that the lawyers for souls of his fathers, a work will be done hardly sec- UR estcemed contemporary, the Chronicle, main proposition by deciding that no issue was pre- the Superintendent of Streets got a nuisance before the court in their pleadings, and it is unable to see | how Judge Bahrs could sustain the objections of the railroad without doing violence to what it calls “equity.” Ii our contemporary were as familiar with equity as it is with turntables it would know that no man can appeal to equity who has a speedy, complete and adequate remedy at law. This may sound a trifle technical to the average reader of newspaper law, but it ought to be entirely familiar to the Chronicle, which in the domain of judicial journalism occupies the same position that Chief Justice Beatty occupies in the jurisprudence of the State. Judge Bahrs has simply held in the case under ccrsideration that the proper remedy for abating nuisances such as the Geary-street turntable is alleged to be is an action at law. In an action at law a jury may be impaneled and the fact whether or not the turntable is a nuisance tried according to the rules of law. In other words, he holds that the question of nuisance cannot be debated in an application for a writ of injunction, which is an equitable proceeding. Though we claim no precedence at the bar, we ven- ture to say that this position is eminently correct, not only on legal technical grounds, but on broad grounds of public policy. Property rights are too sacred to be placed within the absolute control of Boards of Supervisors and other political officials. The turntable of the Geary Street Company may be, and probably is, a nuisance. If it did nothing more than annoy our contemporary we should consider it a flagrant nuisance. But there is a legal and proper way of ascertaining its character and procuring its removal. That way, we are free to say, does not lie through resolutions by Boards of Supervisors and raids in pursuance thereof by Supergitendents of Streets. However, our esteemed contemporary may easily ascertain whether or not Judge Bahrs is right. It can take his decision to the Supreme Court, which has everybody's confidence and which rarely gets off the track on law propositions. Beyond question that tribunal will uphold him. The Washington Post recently gave half a column of its valuable space to an account of how Creelman the Prevaricator was kicked by a mule, thus showing that everr well regulated journals sometimes give un- due prominence to what is merely a family quarrel in low life. 3 The partition of Samoa will give Mataafa a chance to rule in the German division, young Malietoa will assume the scepter in the British domain, and in the American portion we shall have the long desired sight of an office seeking 2 man. 1 The Canadian annex to the Examiner and truckling bidder for railroad patronage assumes that it has some connection with the Republican party. That party is composed of American citizens and needs no advice ~. THE GOVERNOR AND THE JURY STUFFERS To the Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: vetoing Senate bill No. 202, known as Senator Braunhart, the passage of whi has been a source of regret to those SAN FRANCISCO, April 3, 1899. The action of Governor Gage in the “Braunhart bill,” introduced by ich was ably advocated by The Call, interested in the amelioration of the evils of the jury system in this city and county. The bill was aimed at the abuses tem and which were so fully exposed Francisco during the last year. As was fully shown by the press which have crept into the jury sys- by the public press generally in San in the year 1897, in this city and county, out of claims aggregating $325,000 the Market-street Railway Com- pany was compelled to pay only $5000 in one year and the Southern Pa- cific Company escaped with a loss of $200,000. edy and that it would have proved eff only $500 out of claims aggresating This is the condition of affairs that the bill was designed to rem- ectual there can be no doubt. Heretofore it had been the custom for jurors to serve year after year, and they were transferred from one department of the Superior Court to an- other. The bill in question provided that a juror should serve on only five cases during a year, and then it provided he was to be excused from further duty. This would not only kill the occupation of the ‘professional but would remove the objection that Juries. Jjuror,” business men have to serving on Had this bill received the seal of executive approval it would have been reasonable to predict that the Market-street Railway Company and the Southern Pacific Company would have provided their cars with fenders as provided by law and would have in other respects conformed to the regula- tions of the State and city for their government, but it is fair to assume that they will now do in the future as they have done in the past, viz., refuse to equip their cars with the proper appliances for saving lift and defy thg provisions of the law, knowing that it is cheaper to rely upon a ‘“stuffed Jjury than to incur the expense necessary to enable them to carry on their business lawfully and with due regard for the safety of human life. The chief executive cannot plead ignorance of the existence of the evils this bill was designed to remedy. The legislators were fully advised of the abuses of the jury system and promptly assented to the measure, knowing it was a move in the direction of decency and right. Besides the newspapers of the city and county of San Francisco, the Superior Judges, many of the officers and members of the Bar Association, the leading members of the legal profession, County Clerk Deane and his efficient chief deputy, Joseph Goddard, had all announced their approval of the measure and many of them were active in securing its passage. And furthermore, the writer, having drawn the measure, proper to put before the Governor the thought it facts and circumstances that led to the preparation and introduction of the bill, which he did in due time in a communication forwarded to the Governor. If in the stress of official duties the Governor overlooked the bill in ques- tion then, of course, the offense can be condoned, but if upon his own respon- sibility or moved by some occult influence he intentionally “pocketed” the measure he places himself in the attit fixer and jury-stuffer. It is a matter of sincere regret to ude of aiding and abetting the case- those interested in a decent and or- derly administration of justice, especially in the city and county of San Francisco, that a piece of legislation of grave importance to the proper ad- ministration of law in this city and far-reaching in its beneficent effects on our courts, after having secured the should be rendered ineffectual through charitable aspect of the case. Very si unanimous vote of the Legislature, executive neglect, taking the most neerely, 5. V. COSTELLO. SIGNING THE STATEMENTS. Dan Burns tried very hard to buy his way, $pending $ome S$cads; ’ti$ Surely $ad, 'twas $o. He's older now and knoweth more, they say. Idoubt! (Here sign). The depot was a dreadful, thieving PRO BONO PUBLICO. job, And several reputations went to gra$$. Some men conspired our glorious State to rob! For further facts apply to VERITAS. Hereafter when we count the city’s cash We'll have no use for “hefter” or That sort of method leads to final The author this time surely is Now Ingleside no more a scandal i But will the Board resist the wily If not we'll roast them well. You That is the duty of for weigher! smash. TAXIAYIR, s, briber? bet! Gee whizz!! AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. Let Morehouse smile—his hide is tender still! Let Johnson weep—and curse the PUBLIC pen. The needed lash will blister with good will! T'll sign this now. 'Tis (Signed), OLD CITIZEN. OTASLASLROTEOLED L & L STAOQOVOTONOL Governor Gage did not sign the but this was not sufficient and so th aid. for such a purpose, although not a of the State rendering the aid. Th one with money would advance $2: sufferers, whose needs were urgent, His refusal is a disgrace to the Sta should blush.—Merced Sun. OHUVIVSVVU & VOBV OLk & Claus Spreckels of the $25,000 advanced by him for the relief of the drought victims of San Luis Obispo and Monterey months ago the people of those communities were actually suffering for the want of food for themselves and their stock. The Examiner organ- ized relief expeditions and sent many carloads of food to the sufferers, It happened that the State had no fund that could be legally used an appropriation of the next Legislature to whoever would advance it. Claus Spreckels, the big-hearted capitalist, put up the money, and in ac- cordance with the agreement the Legislature passed a bill reimbursing him. Now comes the news that Governor Gage refused to sign the bill, LDV SVOTO L OVSTCLIA & OO > bill authorizing the payment to counties. Some DL LE OO e people appealed to the State for voice was raised against the idea en it was suggested that if some 00 for the immediate relief of the the amount would be returned by te, for which every honest citizen 0O LORROLIDLIOLIOTI & L CLEOLOLO LIS & LSO DOV AROUND THE CORRIDORS E. P. Stacy, a prominent resident of | Minnesota, is at the Occidental. Dr. H. N. Winton of Haywards is at the California, accompanied by his wife. R. S. Lenhardt, a mine-owner of Yreka, is at the Grand with his wife for a short | visit. John Irwin, Santa Paula, Russ. | W. S. Conway, a prominent merchant | of Castella, is making the Russ his head- | quarters. { A. M. Woolson, a merchant of Toledo, Ohio, is at the Palace with his wife ‘and | two daughters. | William W. Hague, a capitalist of Phil- adelphia, Pa., is visiting this State and | is registered at the California. J. O. Carlisie of Angels Camp, and | Thomas E. Johnson of San Jose, both | mining men, are registered at the Lick. | Rev. Daniel G. McKinnon and wife of | Stockton, and J. C. Fraser, a banker of | Stockton, and his sister, are among the | guests at the Occidental. { Jesse Poundstone, a merchant of | Grimes; H. H. Blood, a Virginia City | mining man, and Judge A. C. Hinkson of | Sacramento are among the arrivals at/ the Grand. | Harvey E. Lounsbury, traveling freight | agent of the Southern Pacific Company’'s | lines in Oregon, came down from Port- | land yesterday morning with his wife | and engaged apartments at the Califor- nia. J. Renato Valle, an extensive silk mer- | chant of Buenos Ayres, left for the | Orient yesterday on the steamer. He is the bearer of diplomatic letters from Ar- | gentine to the Japanese Government, and | will probably represent the latter in some consular capacity on his return. | Charles G. Raub of Meridian, who rep- | resented the Eighth Assembly District, | comprising Yuba and Sutter counties, in the last Legislature, is in the city for' a brief stay. Mr. Raub was chairman of the Committee on Corporations, and per- formed zealous and indefatigable service in that connection. He also made an en- viable record by exposing the efforts made to bribe him into voting for Burns | for Senator. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 5.—John Marsh ot San Francisco is at the Savoy. Mrs, M. H. Fisher of San Francisco is at the Bre- voort. H. E. Loose of San Jose is at the Manhattan. s { prd SRR DTN L Mary Baker Eddy’s letter to Chris- | a large fruit-grower of | is a late arrival at the tian Scientists, in next Sunday’s| bi. | Call, | little ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS—H, B., City. This department doe: SWi puzzles nor problems. =0 SmawEr ACADEMIC LEAGUE FIELD DAY_L. E. F.. San Mateo, Cal._The mile run dur. ng the last held Acad day was made in sis T C -eague fleld MARY SPRWART fgnorsmus, City 'y Y. There is a tragedy entitled “Mary Ste: art,” written by V. Alfieri, anot fathe Tame written b b C. Mary Stewart and the Maid - a play, was written by Schilloefr.or GARFIELD'S FAMILY-X. Y Orange, Cal. James A. and Lucretia & Garfleld were the parents of seven chil. dren. One, a daughter. dfed in infaney At the time 'S assassination there were four sons and one daughtor they ‘ate doing ai-thie time ™ YoU What TO BE AN ENGINEER. City. A young man who des engineer on board of a vess. start in as an oiler, and he vhi tiir?éngfltel;av. wo;k shtudy ‘works o‘r?‘;:lglgge];e . Steam and the like. He woulg morg to remain in the first place at one year, and eg::]n Dy advance in mLefi;rig?xg neer until he becomes fled to_assume the duties ot Sngi- of chi - neer. He would be advanced cln‘e;megglL tion with his ability teries of the profession, | o C" the Mys- CD'AYS .OF THE WEEK-—Subscriber, ity. While the Romans have directly glven us the names of the months, we ha\‘; immediately derived those of the week from the Saxons. Both amon, 3 g the Romans, however, and the Saxons, the n leans,” —An A. M, ires to be an el must first | several days were dedicated to the chiet national deities and in the character of these several sets of nattonal deities | there is in nearly every instance an ob- vious analogy and correspondence; so that the Roman names have undergone more than a translation in the Saxon and consequently English names. The following is & history of the days of the week: The first day Wwith the Saxons; Monda; Lus of the week is Sunnan-dasg Dies Solis with the Romans. y_is Monon-daeg with the Saxons; Dies nae with the Romans. Tuesday is among the Saxons, Tues-daeg—that s, Tuesco's day— from Tuesco, a mythic person, supposed to have been the first war-like leader of the Teutonic nations; among the Romans it is Die the day of Mars, their god of war. day of the week was among the Saxons, Woden's-daeg, the day of Woden. or Ode: another mythical being of high warlike repu: tation among the northern nations, and the nearest in character to the Roman god of War; among the Romans this day was Dies Mercuri{, Mercury’s day. The next, Thors- daeg of ‘the Saxon: s dedicated 'to their god Thor, who, in his supremacy over other gods, and his attribute of the Thunderer, cor- responds very exactly to Jupiter, whose day this was (Dies Jovis) among the Romane. Friv day, dedicated to Venus among the Romans (Dies Veneris) was named by the Saxons in honor of their corresponding diety (Friga) Frige-daeg. Saturday took its Rom: name Dies Satumi, and its Saxon appellative ot ater-daeg. respectively form dieties who approach otheo in = SUPERVISORS 10 RESCIND THEIR ACTION ON CAS Rate to Be Finally Fixed at $! 50. CITY FATHERS WEAKENING HOPES OF CONSUMERS WILL BE DASHED AGAIN. Corporation’s Dircctors Will Not De- cide on Their Course Until Attor- neys Investigate Their Rights. Stock Quotations Steady. San Francisco Gas and Electric stock was steady on the Stock and Bond Ex- change vesterday, opening at 73 and clos- ing at 72%. This is a fraction higher than the closing quotations Tuesday and but a point or so under the market price for the stock before the action of the Board of Supervisors in reducing the rate to consumers from $175 to $110 on Monday afternoon. The predictions freely made Tuesday night that the stock would go by the board when the exchange opened for business yesterday morning were not realized. On the contrary, many orders to sell, received by brokers after closing hours Tuesday, had been canceled before the doors of the exchange were opened yesterday, and the market remained firm in consequence. All kinds of rumors were in circulation on the ktreet as to the cause of the sudden abatement of the flurry, but there swas no excitement. The true reason is believed to be con- tained in_a_report that was persistently circulated duang the day to the effect that the Board of Supervisors would at its meeting next Monday rescind its ac. tion fixing the rate at $110 a thousand feet and order the rate fixed at $130 a thousand. It is claimed that several of the Supervisors who voted for the big cut at the meeting last Monday feel that they made a mistake and the indications that the matter will be reconsidered are of such a positive character that there seems to be little doubt that such action will be taken. The Supervisors who are supposed to have experienced a change of heart on the subject of gas rates are said to have been influenced by the fear that an arbitrary reduction in the rate would work a great hardship on the small holders of gas and electric stock, the “widows and orphans.” President Crockett of the gas company says there is no foundation for the state- meént_that the company has already di- rected its attorneys to apply to the courts for an injunction to restain the city from enforcing the order fixing the rate at $110. The directors of the gas company at their meeting yesterday morning referred the whole matter to the attorneys for the company for investigation and a report. “This is an important question,” said President Crockett last night, ‘“and our attorneys have been instructed to inves- tigate our rights under the law. That was the only action taken by the direct- ors at their meeting this morning, and they will take no further steps until our attorneys have made their report. In matters of policy the actions of the di- rectors are influenced by their own judg- ment, but in legal matters such as this our course would ndturally be according to_the advice of our legal advisers.” President Crockett knew nothing of the report that the Board of Supervisors would probably rescind its action at its next meeting, and he declined to say ‘what effect such action would have on future policy of the gas company. would not say whether he would be satis fied with the rate to consumers fixed at $1 50, contending that that was a question that could only be answered by the board of directors. There seems to be a misunderstanding as to the power of Mayor Phelan in the | fixing of the rate to consumers. It ha | béen stated that the gas company confi dently expected that the Mayor woul veto the resolution dDaSSed by the Super- | visors on the ground that the cut was too | deep and unfair to the corporation. ! But Mayor Phelan will not make use of his veto, as according to his own statement he has no authority to do so, even were he so inclined. The Mayor says that the power to fix the rate at which gas shall be furnished to private consumers lies ntirely with the Board of Supervisors nd that the action of the board in the | premises is final, unless the board should see fit to reconsider the matter of its own volition. Should the Supervisors rescind their ac- tion and fix the rate at $1 50 next Monday there is likely to be a great deal of insin- uating talk concerning their motives and the influences which tended to bring about such a sudden and radical change in their ideas of what the people and the gas com- pany are respectively entitled to. It may be that they will be influenced solely by a desire to protect the small holders of | gas stock, who would be ruined by a de- preciation in the lue of their securities, | but the majority of the people of San Francisco will hardly accept this as the true reason for such action on their part. The Supervisors are disinclined to discuss the matter, and it probably will not be definitely known until the board meets next Monday whether such action is con- templated, or if contempiated whether the Supervisors wil not in the meantime experience another change of heart. For Furious Driving. James Peterson, a driver for a commis- sion house at 428 Sansome street, was convicted by Judge Mogan yesterday of fast driving and battery and was ordered into custody to appear for sentence this morning. 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