The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 18, 1899, Page 6

Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ot RS SIS IS S o) PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F. | Telephone Main 1863. | ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Street | Tel EDITORIAL DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK Single Coples Terms 5 cents. neluding Postage; cluding Sunday Call), one year. ding Sunday Cail), 6 months. ng Sunday Call), 8 months, DAILY CALL—By Single Month. BUNDAY CALL.One Year.. LY CALL. One All postmasters are authorized to recelve subs Bample copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND GFPICE.........ccouvnnnriasenacess 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.... oom 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..Welllngton Hotsl | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE o Marquette Bailding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o’clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 258 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second anq Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. by Mall, AMUSEMENTS. —Vaudevilis every afternoon 5 and Ell Moving P Sauer Re: treets, Specialties. “tures. Wednesday afternoon, rama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- | v., popular bay resort. Amusements every AUCTION SALES. at 2 and § p. m., at 3 Jods, - P of m Z | z | | 0 _|4 | D \—« & pur m [e) o = 2 n E o 12 -k and fast on the aching heads of newspaper ughout the State. To-morrow | g upon the dead or assailing the | be i, in each instance, “by the | of the writer This remarkable specimen by ch it is proposed to undo the the press cent is a joint produc- | f well-known corruptionists, egged on by the i indorsed by the present Governor. The the statute by Governor Gage was tersely en, in a published interview at Los An- | - treated the bare suggestion that he intended | e newspaper business as absurd, for the rea- | had signed it, together with the anti- | l ~0O-DAY questions of statutory construction fall | tior rtion of the freedom of the close of 1 it the object of this conspir- | nd executive departments ent is to gag the press. Like tive f the State 1 similar efforts, it will miserably fail. The breaches ¢ e condti n to which Grove L. Johnson, Sena- | tor Morehouse, Governor Gage and other stung and re iticism were parties have been | already pointed out, and in due time will probably tims of just ¢ arrest judicial attention. But it would be amazing, if purblindness were not an inherent attribute of | alignity, that these astute and aspiring lawyers | 1ld have produced so many questions of interpre- ng them the most difficult to solve is ng of the phrase, “the true name of the | Within the language of the statute a con- recurring question will be, Who is the writer— | who composes an article or the copyist? A ling to blacken the memory of the | 1 article, te: dead or to disparage the living, may be the product | ree or four different minds. Their contributions | of suggestions so interblended | npossible to segregate them. The language | ch the suggestions are expressed may | have been selected by a person or persons who fur- | nished none of the ideas. The words may have been | dictated to an amenuensis. Now, under these condi- | tions, which are practical and could be infinitely varied, who is the writer meant by the statute? We | are free to confess that to the ordinary lay mind this | question seems an unanswerable conundrum. But more difficult problems can be suggested. Suppose, | for public reasons, that is, “from good motives and for | justifiable ends,” it is deemed expedient by a newspa- per proprietor to republish the opinion of a court, in which shameful misconduct has been imputed, for example, to an aspirant for the Senate of the United States. A reporter copies, or two or three reporters | copy, the opinion, or it may be that it is set up from the volume in which it originally appeared. In this case who is the writer? Was the opinion written by the Judge or the bench of Judges who signed it or by the copyist? Will some of the more learned pro- fessional tools of the railroad answer these ques- tions? It is conceivable that, upon the grounds already stated, it might be considered proper to publish a judgment roll, including the finding and the decree in a particular case, as, for instance, a suit - in Los Angeles that affects one of our highest State offi- These papers are the composition of the law- vers, the clerk, the process servers and the court. Who is the writer under the new law? It might almost be wished that the act should be operative for a brief period, so that the public might have an opportunity, by actual examples, to test the common sense and the legal ability of the legislators whose agitated nerves and perturbed brains are re- sponsible for such a half-fledged abortion.” Its phraseology is unusually respectiul to the dead. Are Dan Burns and his supporters included in this cate- gory or will the courts recognize the fact that phy- sically they survive? 2 e s of t have consiste cials. Z Sacramento advices are to the effect that Dan Burns and Hen Gage held a slate-writing seance last Sunday in the Governor's: office. Portentous rap- pings of these two congenial spirits are said to have filled with woe the hearts of numerous eavesdropping job-chasers. “There are no birds in last year's nest,” quotes the writer of a patent medicine ad., after Longfellow. No? That's strange! Has there been 2 recent wholesale prison delivery at San Quentin? Senator Perkins has undertaken to contrast Gov- ernor Gage with President McKinley. It is under- stood that California’s Senator did not intend pur- posely to insult the President, | -APRIL 18, 1899_ | force that was led jointly by an American and a Brit- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1899. JONATHAN AND JOHN. HE co-operation in actual war of Englishmen and Americans at Samoa raises a series of very interesting speculations. The ambuscaded ish lieutenant was the first allied milita‘ry organiza- tion of the two countries that has marched and fought side by side for seven score years. The twos ieuten- ants fell together and died side by side, ambushed, as Braddock ‘was. When their bodies were recovered the two flags were at half-mast, and the volley over | the dead rattled from the guns of each nation in a mingled chorus that may echo around the world, in the track of that shot fired by embattled farmers at Lexington. The world looks on the scene at Samoa, and the sober-minded peer into the future for its re- mote meaning. It brings the impression of the stability of issues, the permanence of national lines and the fixity of national genius. About one hundred and forty years ago the policy of the elder Pitt had matured. Shortly aiter the ac- cession of George III Pitt became aware of the “family compact” between the Bourbons of France and Spain, and favored immediate war on Spain and perpetuation of the Prussian alliance by continuing the subsidy to Frederick the Great. When his policy was questioned in the Ministerial Council he declared his purpose to conquer America in Germany. This meant that the Prussian alliance was necessary to enable Great Britain to expel France and Spain from this hemisphere. The Council, led by Bute, defeated Pitt’s purpose and he retired from the Ministry. Almost immediately his enemies found it necessary to begin and carry out his policy, but in doing so violated his purpose as to Prussia and made an enemy of an ally. To the war which followed the American colonies contributed 25000 soldiers, and equipped, clothed and paid them. Americans, among them General Israel Pitnam, were at the long siege and final capture of Havana The French were expelled from Canada and the banished Acadians were scattered. Thirteen thousand of them went to French Guiana and perished miserably of tropical | diseases, thousands of them dying on Devil's Island, where Dreyfus is now a prisoner. When the war ended England had taken the Canadas, including all | the country north of Ohio. The name of the French | post, Fort Duquesne, had been changed to Pittsburg in honor of the British statesman whose policy had prevailed, and the British flag floated over Cuba, the Philippines, Martinique, Tobago, Dominica, St. Vin- cent, Granada and Minorca. So, a hundred or two | score years ago Americans and British were under arms together in a war that had in large part the same objectives as our recent war with Spain, and against the same enemy we have just now overcome. When our Revolution began in denial of the right of taxation without representation, and it became necessary to hold France in check, George III sought a renewal of the Prussian alliance, but Frederick had by that time learned to go it alone, and took occa- sion to resent his desertion by Lord Bute by curtly refusing the overture. Pitt said he would conquer America in Germany. England probably lost America in Germany by Bute's lack of foresight, for, with Frederick as an ally of England, France could not have spared the fleet and army which turned the scale and gained for the colonies victory. At Samoa John and Jonathan stood side by side fighting against the policy, the purpose and the na- tive gllies of the King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, the descendant of Frederick. The end there is not yet. No eye can see far enough into the future to discern what gains and losses, far from Samoa, may come from what has happened there. If war is finally lighted by the fire of Ameri- can and English guns at a common foe, the union of action between the two nations at Apia will logically and necessarily continue to the end. With both against Germany why may not the French dream of retaking Alsace and Lorraine be realized, and our Revolutionary ally be rewarded for the gift of Rochambeau’s army and De Grasse’s fleet through an alliance with our ancient enemy, which would pun- ish Germany for not holding France in check in 17! J to permit England to defeat our Revolution? It is an alluring play in history that would punish Germany for not standing as an ally of Great Britain against us and reward France for standing as our ally against Great Britain. The scene includes all the parties to Pitt's great war, and may mark the close of an epoch in the history of a race. The centri- fugal force which disintegrated the Anglo-Saxon race was generated in Grenville's stamp act and proposi- tion to tax Americans without representation. It has continued in the self-sufficiency of the actual Anglo- Saxon colonies of Great Britain, for the Canadas, Australia and New Zealand have assisted the mother country more by expressions of loyalty than enlist- | ment of troops. But the English and American blood | shed in Samoa had not dried in the tropical sun be- fore New Zealand offered assistance to Great Britain and no doubt set going a sentiment which will spread through the Australian colonies. The centrifugal force is spent. Integration of a widespread race seems to have begun. Where will it lead? THE TAX¥ SHIR?ER'S WRIGGLE. HE wriggle resorted to by Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express Company to escape paying its share of war taxes exceeds in picturesqueness the twist- ing of the longest and most experienced reptile that ever played a menagerie star engagement.. This corporation has been beaten in every case so far brought against it to enforce the law, and it has been condemned almost unanimously in the court of public opinion. Not only this, but the point for which it contends has been decided against it by the Supreme Courts of several States and one or two United States Courts. : The law says plainly that express companies shall stamp their receipts and bills of lading before issuing them. But these conscienceless corporations through- out the country refuse to do so on purely technical grounds. An alleged ambiguity in the law has enabled them to evade bearing their share of the taxa- ttion resulting from the Spanish-American war. In this city the wriggle resorted to has degenerated into a mere trifling with the processes of justice. It was noted the other day in our local columns that Wells, Fargo & Co., after being fairly defeated on jurisdictional points in ‘the United States Circuit Court, has again caused a case against it to be carried to that tribunal by writ of certiorari. The issuance of this writ and the consequent delay can serve no purpose except to make sport of the United States Circuit Court. Judge Morrow decided in the Benham case that he had no jurisdiction to consider the ques- tion as raised in that litigation. Taking the same case again before him by writ of certiorari can only result in compelling him to reaffirm his former judg- ment. The contumacious corporation which is ordering its attorney to thus travesty justice knows very well that it ought to pay its war taxes. But under the leadership of President Valentine it is forcing delay o aiter delay, not, perhaps, in the hope that ultimatel the United States Supreme Court will decide the question in its favor, but for the purpose of saving as much in war taxes as possible. Every month during which this corporation succeeds in preventing a decision against it by a court of last resort in this State it forces upon the people the payment of be- tween $8000 and $10,000 which it owes the Govern- ‘ment.. What ought to be done with Wells, Fargo & Co. is to boycott it. Its resistance to law, to reason and to common decency is becoming a painful scandal. Its course in this matter has been unpatriotic and despicable. ““ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND STRONG.’, HE CALL, while regretting what is demon- strated to have been the unnecessary outbreak of hostilities between our troops and the Fili- pinos at Manila, has recognized the necessity of de- fensive measures and has done what it could to in- duce the country to provide such measures in the ample form required by the situation. It is not our fault that those who should have counted the cost of American policy toward the Filipinos failed to do so. That policy proceeded rapidly from neglect to exasperation, and the conse- quences are upon us. General Lawton has made a fruitless expedition, exhaustive of military energy and resources, to the south of Manila, protected by gunboats on the La- guna de Bai, and has been compelled to retire and surrender to the natives the country he conquested. He found the same problem that is worrying the military wits of Otis and MacArthur, in the swarm- | ing numbers of the Filipinos and their matchless ca- pacity for the quick and covert movements of guer- rilla warfare. It is perfectly plain to any one who has followed military events in Luzon since the 4th of February that no more permanent results have been accomplished there than may be attained by drawing your hand through water. No furrow is left in the fiuid, which closes in as the obstruction passes. So the swarms of natives close in behind our regiments as they march and are ready to ambush and fight | them as they countermarch. With the merciless torch we have planted desolation where stood the peaceful homes of those people, but they have seemed to spring out of the ashes of their huts, gun in hand, ready to fight again. Lawton gave it up, and returning to Manila said: “With the forces I have I could go through the whole island, but if a government is to be established it will be necessary to garrison all the towns. It would take 100,000 men to pacify the islands. I re- gret the necessity of abandoning the captured ter- ritory.” Long ago we warned the imperialists that, having roused Filipino resentment by indiscriminate slaughter, there would be no safety in the islands out- side of the garrison posts, and that any relaxation of military vigilance would be followed by uprisings and massacres. We have roused a native hatred more bitter than that against Spain, for she never prom- ised independence nor justified a hope of self-govern- ment. We did, and have followed bitter disappoint- ment with a slaughter in two months of more ghastly proportions than Spain was guilty of in two cen- turies. It is worth while to follow Lawton’s frank regret at the necessity of abandoning the territory he had | captured by reading the evident afterthought of the War Department at Washington. The acting ad- jutant general is quoted as saying that Lawton’s ex- pedition accomplished its purpose, which was to dis- tribute “dodgers” on which the proclamation of the American Commissioners was printed. The depart- ment adds: “Considerable difficulty has been ex- perienced by the commission in acquainting the na- tives of the kindly intentions of this Government.” Therefore Lawton was sent with gunboats and regi- ments, shelling and shooting as they went, “to spread broadcast the recent proclamation of the Philippine Commission, and before his departure he was given careful instructions as to the line of conduct he should pursue, and he has evidently carried them out in a satisfactory manner.” Then why does Law- ton regret the necessity of abandoning the captured territory, if he was not sent out to capture it, but | went merely as a bill-sticker? This evident afterthought of the War Department will deceive nobody. The adventure in the Philip- pines has developed a wretched situation. The equal- izing effects of disease and the climate, upon which The Call has ceaselessly insisted, have not been reck- oned with by our Government, Thelist of dead, wound- ed and sick American soldiers in that tropical climate lengthens day by day. They are martyrs to a funda- mental error committed at home, to the sap-pated enthusiasm of imperialism and the misleading of pul- pit, press and-politicians. With the history of the South Sea bubble and Law’s Mississippi scheme be- fore us we have paid $20,000,000 for the same old gold brick, and the 100,000 men required to hold it will cost us $200,000,000 a year. Ii things continue as they are tending now it is the plain duty of the President to call Congress together and consult the representatives of the people. The costly measures now in action are not within the executive scope. The war with Spain is officially finished; it began by the Congressional declaration of war. But without any such declaration we are in a war that is costing ten times as much in lives and money. It cannot go on much longer without seek- ing council with the people. The statement from Washington that General Lawton’s expedition from Manila was designed, not to subdue the Filipinos, but “to spread broadcast throughout the territory traversed by the American troops copies® of the proclamation issued by the Philippine Commission several weeks: ago,” throws a new light on the subject. The press has been treat- ing the General as a soldier, but the Government seems to have regarded him as general bill-poster. The Chief of the New York Fire Department says the only moral to be drawn from the destruction of the Windsor Hotel and the Andrews mansion is that heavy draperies about windows are dangerdus and ought to be suppressed. If you wish to prevent peo- ple from seeing into your parlors pull down the blinds. Now that another legislative committee is investi- gating the Tammany administration of New York City, it is worth while for some antiquarian to dig over the political graveyard of the State and find out where that old Lexow Committee is buried and what sort of epitaph is written on the tomb. As the Earl of Dunraven has just been elected a member of the Limerick Council, it is evident he is still capable of making a winning race in Irish poli- tics, but it is safe to say he won't try yacht-racing any more. As -General Alger will not resign, nor General Miles retire, the beef inquiry board will have to make a very straight and narrow report if they wish it to pass without hitting somebody in authorityy ELECTRIC LIGHT -~ FRANCHISE GETS A BIG BOOST Passed to Print by a Majority Vote. FOR THE BOND ELECTION FIXING OF GAS RATES POST- PONED ONE WEEK. Opening of the Bids for Furnishing the New Hall of Justice Pro- vokes Some Warm Dis- cussion. At its meeting yesterday the Board of Supervisors put itself on record as favor- ing the proposition to allow the Mutual Electric Light Company and the Inde- pendent Light and Power Company such privileges In the erection of poles along the streets and thoroughfares of the city as will insure competition in electric lighting and relieve the city and the peo- | ple from the monopoly that now has con- trol of this utility. A resolution by Su- pervisor Perrault was passed to print granting the Mutual Company the privi- lege of erecting and maintaining poles along the stréets outside the fire limits, | and " also granting to the Independent Company the right to use the-poles of the Mutual Company upon the payment of a fair proportion of the cost of erect- ing and maintaining the same. The res- | olution is as follows: Resolved, That the Mutual Electric Light Company, a corporation, be and is hereby granted the privilege to erect and maintain | poles and posts along and upon the public | streets and thoroughfares of the City and County of San Francisco outside of the fire | limits’ of said city and county (except upon }‘\m Ness avenue) for the purpose of placing ‘electnc wires and lights thereon, provided said | poles or posts shall be placed to the entire sat- | isfaction of the superintendent of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph, and under ‘his su- pervision and subject to such use by said su- perintendent for the wires of his department as shall be fitting and proper and the streets and thoroughfares where the same are erected shall be left in good order and condition to the satis- | faction of the Superintendent of Public Stre Highways and Squares of the City and unty of San Francisco; also that the Independent Light and Power Company shall have the right to and is hereby granted the privilege to use #aid poles erected by the Mutual Electric Com- pany upon payment of a proportionate amount of the cost of erection and maintenance of | said poles, and to erect poles in other portions | of the city and county outside the fire limits | (éxcept Van Ness avenue) where no poles of #aid Mutual Electric Light Company are erect- ed; provided that these privileges shall not be ldeemcd to be granted for a longer period than allowed by law. Supervisor Phelps objected to the pass- age of the resolution, and upon the roll Dbeing called the vote Stood: Ayes—Aigel- tinger,” Attridge, Byington, Deasy, Hol- land, Lackmann' and Perrauit—7. = Noes— Black, Collins, Heyer, Kalben and Phelps —5. The business of fixing the rates to be paid by consumers for gas was to have come up before the board at its session, but by unanimous consent everythin, pertaining to the matter was posiponeq until the next meeting in order that the matter may be more fully investigated before final action is taken. The Street Lights Committee is to hold a special meeting for this purpose at 11 o'clock this morning, and at the suggestion of the Mayor all of the members of the board have been invited to be present. As a_preliminary measure to institute roceedings that have been agreed upon n regard to the calling of a special elec- tion to submit to the people the .propo- sition of voting a bond issue for the ex- tension of the Rafirk panhandle and the { institution of other public Improvements, the following resolution was adopted: Whereas, The Federation of Mission Im- proyement’ Cluba was heard by the Committes ets, arves, etc., as to the of school bulldings in the respectice oo™ in the southern portion of the city and county; and 3 Whereas, It appears that the sche 5 ings petitioned for are a necessity, Oge]lnbs:”}gr the convenience and education of the children in_these outlylng districts; and Whereas, Under the municipal indebtedness act (section i) it is necessary to obtaln plans and estimates of the cost of said buildings in order to enable this board under section 4 of the municipai indebtedness act to call a special flection and Submit the question .of a_bond e wi e total amoun - e e t of the bonds re esolved, That the Board of Educatio | and is Mereby empowered and requceted 1o have thelr architect prepare plans for new school bulldings for the outlying districts and in the city and county where required, and furnish this board with the estimate of the construc- tion of each’bullding and furnishing the same, with the aggregate amount for the erection and furnishing of the buildings to be designated, to enable this board to call a special election, at which the question as to whether the issuance of bonds in the amount required will be author- , can be submitted to fen el to the electors for tifeir < B. AIGELTINGER, Chairmany In pursuance with the recommen of the Committee on Streets the %fl% gassed to print a resolution appointing a oard of appralsers to appraise the real estate and improvements proposed to be acquired by the city for the extension of the ?anhandle. The board consists of G. H. Umbsen, J. R. Howell, Henry C. Rob- ingon, A. J. Raisch and §. H. Kent. Mr. Uumbsen is named as chairman of the board of aPpnusers and will act with J. R. Howell in anralslng the value of real estate. The other gentlemen named will appraise the value of improvements. The board is required to complete its re- port within thirty days of the day of its appointment, or "as soon thereafter as may be practicable. The resolution fixes the compensation of each appraiser at $500 and authorizes the emplovment of a stenographer and necessary clerical help. On motion of Supervisor Perrault the rules were suspended and a resolution adopted providing for the calling of the roll of members arranged in al; gabetlcal order. Aigeiunger, Attridge and Houand voted against the resolution. The committee on street lights reported recommending the postponement of ac- tion on the proposed resolution fixing the rate to be ' charged consumers for gas. The report stated that the matier was still under consideration by the commit- tee, this morning having been fixed upon as the ttme for giving a hearing to rep- resentatives of the gas companies, who wl:h ‘f pr'es‘t;n_,t5 srgun;lents wc'xgy the pres- ent rate o per thousand fee nost To! r?ducePd. ; t should upervisor Perrault introduced a resolu- tion, which was defeated, requirin otlt‘lle architects of the Hall of Justice building to '&P" to the board in writing any pro- POS: changes in the building and the cost of same before any action as to such g“",’.?,““ changed are passed upon vy the oard. A resolution was adopted Thomas Sheehan engineer at ti street drawbridge at a salary of $100 a month. His hours of duty are fixed at from § o'clock in the evening until § o’'clock in the morning. This arrangement will grovlde a tender for the bridge all of the time dur!nf the twenty-four hours and will meet the protest recently made by shipping men as to charges made for opeflng the draw after 6 o'clock in the evening. ‘ Bids were received for the erection of the new Mission police station from the following persons and for the amounts set opf‘oulte their names: Plumbing and G? itting—Joseph McCutchen, $4643; John J. McGowan, $3000; Allen M. Liunini ; J. D. Welch, $4220; William ‘ulcken, $438. For the Building—M. M 'ann, $3439; David Pierce, - §33.850; Thomas Butler, $34,875 illiams Bros., $34,450 %Ca;ntnro 0 ‘.hmt)'b.lnmes Fe nel 4,770. Referred e Public Build- lmn g:mmlttm el ’ appointin he %‘ourths SUPERVISORS VOTE IN FAVOR: OF COMPETITION The motion to reconsider the vote by which the resolution giving the Mutual Electric Light Company permission to light public bulldlnss at six cents per light per night was defeated three weeks ago came up and was lost, the Mayor casting the deciding vote. The same f'dte awaited the motion to_reconsider the vote by which the Mutual Electric Light Com- pany was refused the right to erect poles on the public streets. The motion to reconsider the vote by which the November and December gas bills were ordered paid at the rate of $17 per 1000 feet was lost. The vote stood: Ayes—Byington, Deasy, Heyer, Perrault, Lackmann. Noes—Algeltinge: %;‘trlidge. Black, Collins, Holland, Kalben, elps. On recommendation of committee ac- tion on the proposed ordinance fixing the annual license fee of incorporated ath- letic clubs at 35000 was indefinitely post- poned. Supervisor Aigeltinger introduced a resolution I)rohilu(infl the sprinkling or throwing of water on streets paved with bitumen. The reason given that the | streets so paved were made slippery by being sprinkled and rendered dangerou for horses. The resolution was passed to_print. Something of a breeze was created by an objection offered by Supervisor Per- rault to the opening of the bids that were called for some time ago for furnishing the Hall of Justice. In support of his objection he stated that in his opinion the specifications prepared by the city’s architect were not so drawn as to per- mit the city reaping any advantage from the competition of _bidder: He also thought that many of the things called for in the furnished specifications were more properly chargeable to the build- ing account. He asked that the opening of the bids be postponed for one week in order to give members who wished to do s0 an opportunity to investigate the mat- ter and ascertain the facts. A motion to this effect was carried, Aigeltinger, At- tridge, Holland and Kalben voting no. The follow ng resolution by Supervisor Perrault wasi on motion of Phelps, in-| definitely posfponed, it being urged that the_proper time for the consideration of such a proposition was when some defl- nite proposition was properly before the board: Resolved, That this board pledges itself not to accept the surrender of any railroad fran- chise during its term of office, so that as con- templated under the provisions of the new charter the question of the surrender of or the granting of any franchise shall in the public interests be governed and controlled by the pro- visions of said charter, which charter takes effect on the first Monday after the first day of January, 1500. Supervisor Collins introduced a_resolu- tion permitting the proprietors of cours- ing parks within the city limits to sell pools on dog races. On motion of Per- rault it was referred to the City and County Attorney with the request that that official examine the resolution flnq see if its provisions would nuilify in any way the provisions of the racetrack ordi- nance recently passed and which had the effect of closing the Ingleside track. PETITIONS REFERRED. The following petitions were received and re- ferred to the proper committees: Austin Green, for permission to construct a show window to extend 12 inches over the sidewalk in front of premises 200 Noe street: A. Becker, for permission to alter and repair premises at 706, 708 and 710 Kearny street; Z U. Dodge, on be- half of the estate of Ella’ B. Church et al., for a delay of the proceedings of grading Eighth avenue, between I and J streets, until the sewer is put in; San Franclsco Paving Com- pany, on behalf 0f property owners, for permis- sion to pave Clay street, between’Laurel and ust - streets, by private contract; W. B. Fredericks, for permission to use a small space on the Hall of Records to test a compound of his invention 8s a coating to stuccoed walls to prevent the appearance of alkall and lime; Struven & Birgen, calling attentlon to the con- dition of Army street sewer outlet; Walter Morosco, for vermission to erect @ post and electric light_sign at the northeast corner of Fourth and Mission streets; Colin M. Smith, for permission to use 3x4 inch studding instead of 2x6 in a frame building to be erected on the south line of Greenwich street, east of Tay- lor; J. Jaussand, for permission to erect a shed 20x20 and 12 feet high with corrugated iron in the rear of 331 Geary street; Agnes McMahon, for the refunding to-her of $4 70, duplicate ‘pay- ment of taxes on real estate; Mrs. A. Farrelly, to have an assessment against her on the per- gonal property roll declared to be an erroneous assessment. Frank C. Selfridge, for such amendment of section 44 of order 1387 as will impose a license on rag, bottle and sack ped- dlers; Ann C. Stott, for the payment to her of the sum of $1000 for grading Montgomery ave- nue, from Chestnut street to a boint 22 feet north of Houston street in 1875-77; George Da- vidson, for the refunding to him of the sum of $9 03, duplicate of taxes on real "estate; Sunnyside District Improvement Club, request- ing the oard to invite bids for the construction of sewers in that district and for the grading . property owners, for the changing and establishment of the grade at the Crossing of Alameda street and San Bruno avenue; A. J. Techan, for permission to erect and maintain an electric {lluminated iron sign to project 9 feet over and 12 feet above the sidewalk in front of premises on west side of Mason street, between Eddy and Ellis streets; John Greely, requesting that the Superintendent of Streets be authorized to sign a private con- tract with him to grade and macadamize Ninth avenue, between Point Lobos avenue and Cle- ment street; Sophia_Wolf, for the refunding to her of the sum of $5 99, duplicate payment of taxes on real estate; City Street Improvement Company tor permission to pave and bitumin- ize Laurel, Washington and Jackson streets, | With a fourteen-foot strip of basalt blocks In the center; J. S. Isaacs, Eor permission l? raise roof of frame bullding 718 Stockton street; Mrs. R. Jones, for permission to make altera- Uons and repairs to building 448 Jessie street; Charles Herrold, for the refunding of 3181 duplicate payment of taxes on real estate; property owners for the suspension of proceed- fngs for the sewering of Ninth avenue between T and J streets and of the crossing of Ninth avenue and I street; Soclety of St. Vincent 3o Paul, for the enlargement of the chapel at the Almshouse; L. Friedman and H. Rogers, for permission to extend the entrance steps of two buildings in course of erection on the northwest corner of Ellis and Gough streets three and six-twelfths feet on the sidewalks | of both streets; H. F. Suhr, for permission | to add a room to the rear of premises at 1137 Mission street; West of Castro Btreet Im- Provement Club, for an immediate hearing of heir petition for the abatement of the rock crushing plant nuisance near the intersection of Clipper and Douglass streets: J. R. Pool, for petmission to remove a buiiding from Polk street, between McAllister and Golden Gate avenue to Ash avenue; Joseph Kowalsky, for permission to erect a brick building, ninety- £ix feet In height, on east side of Mason street, horth of Eddy; Federation of Mission Im- provement Clubs, for the holding of the bond Pleotion for school buildings and sewers pre- Vious to the election for the Park Panhandle extension; Fairmount and Glen Park Improve- ment Club, for the laying of a twelve-inch sewer in Arlington street, instead of an eight- inch sewer as contemplaied; same, requesting that contractors be required to complete sewer in Chenery street as per agresment; Thomas McCoy, for license to solicit street work; B. | Roman, for permission to alter and repair premises at 875 Market street: Quimby & Har- Telson, for an allowance of $3500 on their con- tract to construct a concrete archway at the intersection of Berkshire street and the South- ern Pacific Rallroad; Naval Militia, N. G. C., for permission to extend a banner across Mar- ket street to announce an excursion: City Street Improvement Company, for permission to pave Alabama street, between Twenty- fourth _and Twenty-fifth streets, with bitumen rock; National Athletic Club, for the refund- ing of the sum of $100 pald’ for a license to hold a_boxing exhibition which did not take place; H. J. Jacobson, for a license to solfeit street work; Jerome Mellen, for permission to extend four feet onto the sidewalk the steps of the premises on Tenth avenue, between Raliroad avenue and M street south; Neustad- ter Brothers, for permission to construct an addition to the feame bullding on southeast corner Grove and Gough streets to a_height of elght feet In excess of the limit allowed by law: Flinn & Treacy, for permission to pave with bitumen Front street, between Clay and Washington streets; same, for permission to construct by private contract a brick sewer in A street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. STREET WORK RECOMMENDED, The Superintendent of Streets recommended that the following street work be done: Arti- ficlal stone sidewalks on De Long avenue, be- tween Frederick street and a point 440 feet south of Frederick where not already lald; red- wood curbs on C street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, and roadway macadamized: roadway of crossing at Seventh avenue and C street be macadamized; roadway of the cross- ing of Clay and Lyon streets be paved with bi- tumen; artificial stone sidewalk on Third ave- nue, between Clement and California street south where not already laid; artifictal stone sidewalk on Hyde street, between Jackson and Pacific, where not already laid; artificial stone sidewaik on Jackson street, between Hyde and Larkin where not already laid; sewer pipe with manholes in York street, between Twenty- sixth and Army, to connect with sewer in Army street; artificial stone sidewalk on Ford street, between Noe and Sanchez, where not al- ready laid; artificlal stone sidewalk on wester- Iy side of Fair Oaks street, between Twenty- fitth and Twenty-sixth, where not already laid; roadway and sidewalks of crossing at ‘Twentieth avenue and Clement street be mac- adamized: artificial stone sidewalk on north side of Fell street, betwebn Polk street Van Ness avenue, where not already laid; arti- ficlal etone sidewalk on Grove street, between Broderick and Baker, where not already laid. STREET WORK ORDERED. _Resolutions ordering street work were pass- ed as follows: Granite curbs on McAllister street, between .ll,yun “l"ledt, and ‘g:mm ave- nue, where not giready laid, and that roadway be paved with bituminous rock; Twenty-fourth avenue, between A and C streets, be regraded to official line and grade; intention to change the grade at the crossing of Sixteenth avenue gouth and Q street south; paving of Waller street, between Thirteenth an;(l F Uflu{ileseu“r!};\;si‘}:- recting City Engineer to make nec - Veys for the opening and extension of Dia- mond street from Berkshire to Wilder, and the widening of Diamond street between Wilder and Chenery; also to prepare plans and speci- fications for the construction of a concrete cul- vert in Diamond street; for a sewer in Dupont street, between Bay and North Point streets, private contract; grading and macadamizing and sewering of Bennington street, between Newman street and East avenue, by propertys owners; paving Clay street, between Laurel and Locust streets, property-owners. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. Resolutions were adopted as follows: Ae- cepting the additional bond filed on April 1, by, Gray Bros., in the sum of §20,000, for blast- ing on”the premises bounded by Douglas and Army streets, Hofthan and Crocker avenues: granting a héaring, to be held on April property owners protesting against “the struction of a sewer In Dupont street, betw Bay and North Point, and in Dupont street, between North Point and Beach; overruling objections to the laying of artificial stone side- walks on Hayes street, between Masonic and Central avenues: overruling objections to lay- ing artificial stone sidewalks on Masonic ave- nue, between Fell and Hayes streets; request- ing’the Board of Health to abate the nuisance caused by the pond of stagnant water In the block bounded by Greenwich, Lombard, Gough and Octavia streets; reconsidering the award- ing of the contract to J. R. Pla rd for the grading of Bernal Park; direc ent of Stree to remedy nuisance falling of earth onto sidewalk o Shay from adjoining lots, by m heads; extending the time of Warren & Mal- ley thirty days for the construction of a cul- vert at Mission and Canal streets; granting the Mutual Electric Light Company privilege to erect and maintain poles along and upon pub- lic streets outside the fire limits, except upon Van Ness avenue; granting permission to J. G. James to move a building from corner of Stockton and Geary to Folsom street, between Nineteenth and Twentlet the City Engineer to prepare an 7 the expense to be incurred in the extension of Nineteenth street to Ocean avenue across George W. them in the lands of William H. and Greene under conditions imposed by granting right of way for said extel to prepare estimates for right of extension of the same across the Lake Mer- ced Rancho under conditions imposed by the Spring Valley Water Works in granting right way; to grade, macadamize and sewer Bennington street, ietween Newman street and East avenue, private contract (passed to print). FINAL ACCEPTANCE. Resolutions of final acceptance of street work were adopted as follows: Capp street, from Twentieth to Twenty-first, bitumen; Market 2 street, from Church to Fifteenth; also for tha full ‘acceptance of Diamond street, from Eighteen to Nineteenth, bitumen. ACCEPTANCES RECOMMENDED. The Superintendent of Streets recommended the acceptance of the following work: Bitumen pavement on Page street, from Ashbury to Clayton, and from crossing to bitumen pavement on Golden Gate avenue, from crossing to Lyon; basalt pavement of Green- wich street, from Plerce to Scott. EXTENSIONS OF TIME. The Street Superintendent has recommended extensions of time on contracts as follows: Flinn & Treacy, eixty days in which to com- plete work of grading Twenty-sixth & street, crossing York. PROTESTS RECEIVED. Protests were received as follows: West of Castro- I rovement Clu’ against the {ssu- ance of bonds for the acquisition of lands for the extension. of the Park Panhandle until pub- lic needs shall have been provided for. COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED. The following communications were received: From Albert Gallatin, stating that the Sac- ramento Electric Rallway Company is located in Sacramento; San Francisco Art Association, approving and commending the project of ex- tending the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park to Van Ness avenue and of connecting the Park and the Presidi AROUND THE CORRIDORS George 'W. Weidler, a foundryman of Portland, Or., is a guest at the Occidental. H. C. Bowers, manager of the Portland (Or.) Hotel, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. 8. Bellervy, a London merchant, and E. W. Toole, a Helena mining man, are among the arrivals at the Palace. Emil Sauer, the distinguished pianist, who comes here to play a local engage- ment, registered last night at the Palace from Dresden. W. O. H. Martin, a banker of Reno, Nev., is making a tour of this State with his family, and has engaged apartments at the Occidental. J. A. Becker, a merchant of Juneau; Dr. I. H. Noppin of Ventura, and Addison Ballard, a Chicago business man, are guests at the Grand. A. J. Levy, a prominent bookmaker of New York, who has been on a tour of the world, drrived last night from the Orient with his wife and registered at the Palace, W. A. Bissell, assistant manager of the Santa Fe, left last night for New York City, where, with other California rail- road representatives, he will meet with the agents of all the transcontinental and trunk lines in a conference over transcon- tinental transportation and rates. Manuel Morales Tobar, who was Min- ister of Foreign Affairs and the Interior at Guatemala during President Barrios’ administration, is at the Occidental with his secretary, Manuel Saenz. Mr. Tobar is the adviser of President Cabrera, who recalled him from the exile to which Bar- rios had subjected him about a year ago. 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