The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1899, Page 1

The Call VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 144, SAN FRANCISCO. SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1899—THIRTY-TWO PAGES, ancisco | Van Ness avenue the people of San Francisco will gain a new grave k of possibly greater popul Franciscans than the present at pleasure-ground. Phel ne \ new pleasure-ground wili be ( ors ask the | created for the benefit of the ) i many and not of “the few. St fc lendid recreation ground de ) 1 ite ned for the great mass of the ¢ crested | people will be established. Those I perhaps one | that can ill afford carfare to and ( & t S ever ag from Golden Gate Park will have t When the peo- | in the extension of the panhandle c those leaders of the peo-|a superb park within easy access. t had the we and the | It will be but a step from the of San Francisco at | t, | bustling, business thoroughfares 1 the comment was |of the city. The original plan of 1 crime had been com- | the founders of the Golden Gate posterity. Park will have been carried into 74 < rain raised, and | realization, and San Francisco t San Francis- | Will have a park designed for the ; i , masses and not alone for the few. o e el \\:hi]c Golden Gate Park is it Lo [ admittedly a park Vfur the people, A g R {and, on hulu.lr(.\\. is thronged by noone st | thousands of men, women and ediate prospect of the | children seeking recreation, the extension of what is now pleasure-ground is, nevertheless s in the too remote for the daily presence of many thousands more who want a place of pure air, green I I xtension of the street to trees and sunlight. In every sec- tion of the city people have been | agitating for years for new parks trict voice the want. are inadequate but accessible. The extension of the panhan- dle on the lines proposed would satisfy ~a want that every vear is growing with need | great park in their midst, and i they will fight against real | tate speculators; wealthy land- | owners and private selfish power | to obtain it. The people of San | Francisco were forced in the first instance to fight against corrup- tion to win Golden Gate Park, ‘he people of the city a es- and real estate speculators won for themselves the very land which it is now proposed to use as an extension of the panhandle. | The people will renew the strug- gle with their ballots and will find opposed to them wealth and power. Men that can afford to drive to Golden Wate Park do not want an extension of the pan- handle. It is their privilege to use the great stretch of pleasure- and even then the land-grabbers | reservation that benefit ‘to the penerality’ of San| Lmprovement clubs i every dis-| a Thousands | Men that have property on greater. | | should not be placed upon t ground from Stanyan street to the ocean beach, and in their opinion those that have not such rivilege may do without it. the proposed line of the extension and hold their private interests greater than those of the public Tho wi that see nothir the city and c 1 be in hese lines a great battle for t I oppose extension. in the future- of re nothing for i opposition, and wi city will be lost or won. t will be argued against e tension that the expense wiil that burden he This argu- too great and its people of the city. ment is over thirty years old. robbed the people of San Fran- cisco out of a splendid pubtic was designed to extend from Stanyan street to the site of the City Hall. This argument was made when the lines of Golden Gate Park were fixed, and it was made by men who said that some day the prop- erty would be of enormous value. When, after years of struggle against wealth and corruption in high places, Golden Gate Park was won to the people of San Francisco, the designers of the e | It | great pleasure-ground decided | that there should be a panhandle | extending from Stanyan street 1 to the City Hall. | Land the in would have pronosed outcry. then, when the land could have been purchased at a comparatively small that the expense would be abbers interested property that been involved in the panhandle raised They claimed an cost, too great. A stubborn struggle he- | tween the well-wishers. of the city and the land-grabbers fol- lowed. The result was a com- | promise that cost the city its | splendid extension to the park. | The land-grabbers would not consent to a panhandle extend- ing from Stanyan street to the | site of the City Hall, but did per- | mit one running from Stanyan street to Baker street.” It is now purposed to carry out the orig- inal intention of the people and to give to Golden Gate Park its natural extension from Stanyan street, between Fell and Oak streets, to Van Ness avenue. As a matter of course the peo- ple owning property in the dis- trict that will be confiscated if the extension is authorized by the people are vitally interested. They have property and business | ably will be taken sooner or later interests involved. They have | by the people of the city. built up a trade or profession and | Franciscans have seen for many must necessarily suffer, whatever | years the loss they suffered in not San | they may be paid for their hold- | securing the panhandle thirty ings. They have in the district | years ago. It is inevitable that a capital that is valuable in great | some day the extension will be measure simply by virtue of lo-|made, and it can be done now cality. This they will lose in con- | more cheaply than it will be fiscation, and, having acquired |later. The extension of the pan- ownership in honorable - ways, | handle is a i they are fearful of the result. In|need of the general public, of the | 1d not the public necessity, a h ! being forced from their present | poor holdings to contribiite to a gen-| An argument has been made eral public good they must start “ that the city has greater and anew in other districts almost | more pressing needs than the ex- with the same disadvantage as ii 1 tension of the panhandle. Resi- they migrated to a new city. | dents of outside districts want This condition of affairs is a [improved sewers, public build- serious one and has already re- | ings, schools, hospitals and ade- ceived some attention. There is | quate quarters for the Fire De- a disposition on the part of |partment. The Mayor and nearly all who have discussed the | Board of Supervisors have wisely question to do all in their power to induce the appraisers of the property to place liberal esti-| posed bond issue. mates upon holdings, having in | thorities not view in the estimates the that private citizens, merchants, tradesmen and professional men will suffer in the confiscations Those who oppose the pro-| posed extension of the panhandle | can with their opposition postpone an action that inevit- se needs and have in the pro- The local au- blind to the present needs of the city nor to They seek to considered the provided for t em are loss its future welfare. provide for both in the proposed legislation and popular indorse- ment. In this splendid public en- | terprise the local authorities have only | | as models the experience of other American cities. iNni York states that he will be a candidate S for Speaker of the next House of Rep- iun i resent her no reason why there should 11 ] be any secret about my position in ‘the matter,” said Mr. Payne to me this | evening. | “Of course T will be a candidate jf Mr. Reed resigns. This proviso must | be made, for who knows that Mr. Reed is going to resign? He has not said s himself, has he? I only assume that | he intends to do so from what I have seen in the newspapers concerning his acceptance of a partnership with a | New York law firm. We may not know formally until next December that Mr. Payne of New York Enters the Race. al Dispatch to The Call. | ;Rv-ud really intends to resign from EW YORK, April 22.—The Wash- |‘Congress.” ir 1y correspondent of the Herald| “But you will doubtless begin your telegraphs: Sereno E. Payne of New | campaign for the Speakership . before that time?” “I don’t know that there is any hurry about that. Not much can be done until just before the reassembling of Congress. During the last contest for the Speakership I was not ap- proached for my vote until after I ar- rived in Washington for the winter's | work.” | Mr. Payne expects to have Represen- tatives Henderson of Iowa, Hopkins of Illinois, Cannon of Illinois and Sher- man as rival candidates. He expressed | the opinion that the President would :entm‘n neutral in the Speakership con- est. | _President McKinley’s most intimate friends who have talked the matter over with him assure me he will keep his hands entirely off the Speakership contest. Aged Man’s ‘Sudden Death. PACIFIC GROVE, April 22—W. M. Da- vison died ver; terday. [ 1t the Duke of Connaught's succes throne continues, ouita suddenly at his home yes- He w found dead in his room at noon. after having been apparently in his usual health in the morning. Mr. Da- vison was very old and had been faiiing for some time. the result of a general wi sudden collapse of the vi Davison's wife died in two years ago. both” grown. Jose to-day for interment. Doctors say death was ring out and a functions. Mr. similar manner two grandsons, was taken to San He lea The body GERMANS OPPOSED TO CONNAUGHT’S SUCCESSION Bluntly Declare. That a Foreigner Should Not Be Put in Possession of Secrets of Country’s Defenses. BERLIN, April 22—The discussion of sion to the and Gotha comments are Cologne - Gagzette of Saxe-Coburg and. some radical. The stated quite bluntly that the peo- ple will not view the matter with any sympathy, *“as a person helonging to another race and speaking another lan- guage ought not to sit on a German throne.” P A number of other papers Speak in the same vein. The National Liberal Corre- spondenz and the Deutsche Zeitung, reply- ing to statements in the British pre: declare it to be an undesirable anomaly which ought to be put to a speedy end that a man “‘belonging to a country which recently talked warlike and fiercely against Germany should, as one of the German rulers, be put in possession of all the secrets of the defense of the coun- trys LIFE OF POPE LEO XIIL His Failing Health Adds Interest to the Book to Be Published. Special Cable to The Call and the New York 1" Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gor- don Bennett. LONDON, April 22.—The Pope's preca- rious-state of health gives added Inter- tempting to land at the Mosquito Lagoon est to the life of him which Messrs. Chap- house of refuge upset and twelve men, Ir man and Hall are ahout to publ Jop S as Tl |is written by a Frenchman, N. {Sna s aails | who has had unusual facilities for se- |14+ has been recovered. curing exact information ¢n the subject. Fifteen men -in another boat are still | The Tnglish translation is being made | GITean TR ‘Pa K Raper. Besid tting out | - 4 | Dersonal godeip concerning him. © " "| NO SMALLPOX IMMUNES. | SUNK OE! { One Who Has Had the Dread Dis- STEAMER SUNK OFF I°" " came Not Proof. Against Tt New York es Gor- ‘ THE FLORIDA COAST | st covs 10 | don Bennett PARIS, April At a meeting of the emy of Medicine, Dr. Herviu brought before that learned body the results of long study into the question of the abi ity of persons who h lipox to b | come_ tuber The result of exten- sive investigations shows that the fact of having had smallpox makes a person more liable than if he had not had the disease, thus demolishing another anti- vaccination contention. Ccall the hted y , by J | Captain and Eleven Men Lose Their Lives by the Capsizing of a Boat. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., special to the Times-Union and Citizen from Oakhill, Fla., says: The steamer General Whitney,. Captain Hawthorne, sank fifty miles east of Cape Canavarel to-day. One boatload of sixteen men at- April- 22.—A