The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1899 TUESDAY . SPRECKELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1365. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ...21T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEBK. Stngle Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one yea DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § monthi DAILY CALL tincluding Sunday Call), 3 monthe. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. EUNDAY CALL One Year. KLY CALL, One Year. postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. ample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... ....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. “Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASBHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICL . .Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Corrcepondent. CHICAGO OFFKCE.............. . Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | c'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock, | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2513 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | streat, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana hentucky streets. opean until 9 o'clock. | | g | he Wrong Mr. Wright.” fa—"A Hot Old Time.” ) H, “El Capitan.’™ eater—Vaudeville every afternoon | s streets, Market street, Specialties. near Elghth— | ier Mason and rama Co., Rosenthal this afternoon. ng Pictures. Thursday Evening, April 7. ercollegiate Concert, Saturday Night, spolitan mbra T! Amusements every Campo—The popular bay resort. ers’ Excursion—To Santa Cruz Mountains, Sunday, and opening Sunday, Aprll 30. AUCTION SALES. _This day, April %, at 12| fe arket street | nesday, April 26, at 11 o'clock, avenue. “JOR the anti-cartoon law which has now gone I into effect the press of the State almost uni- ly holds The Call responsible. A car- | the penman,” published in this paper | iid to have the spur which made the galled jade of official stion wince and buck to the extent of enacting 1i this be true, The Call has no regrets for its | On the contrary, it | g the session of the Legislature is rse; no apologies to offer. cites that very fact as a convincing evidence of the ness of the cartoon to the press and to the pub-] 1 proof of its effectiveness as a moral weapon, a | tration of its potency to so hold the mirror o lity and folly that the guilty offender slushes at his depravity and “weeps to find it fame.” rs the ablest writers and the ablest orators a have employed every weapon of :n'gu-; n, satire and invective to pierce the thick | hide of Johnson's self-conceit and shameless audac- | to expose his true nature so clearly that not onlyl would it be plain to all the world, but that even he, | ind as he is in his besotted egotism, might sce him- as others see him and realize his moral degrada- rascs it se tion All these efforts of tongue and pen were vain. It was in vain the eloquent Edgerton, that master of | an oratory whose invective burned and flamed like fire, assailed the impudence of Johnson; it was in vain McClatchy of the Bee, one of the most virile and vitrio ers who ever essayed tg drive cor- | ruption from politics, opposed his pretensions and | In y another writer tried each in turn to make | n feel in his heart the sting of public scorn. All| of tongue and pen were vain; they were futile; | they had no effect. | Then The published its cartoon. Grove John- son was pictured visibly so that the eye could see | him as he is. With that pictured page before them ! the people saw what his record is and what he is. He himself saw himself, and knew at last how the people see him, and the hide of his egotism was his very impudence was shamed into re- morse; he broke down and wept. An intelligent public can demand no stronger or more convincing proof of the effectiveness of the’| cartoon as a moral weapon. The pencil of the skilledé artist ceeds where all words fail. It carries con- viction not only to the public, but to the mind of scality itself. It is the most potent means which virtue has to expose vice, folly, fraud and hypocrisy | and make their hideousness so clear that even those | who practice them shrink from them in dismay. | A free press charged with the duty of exposing | ! and driving from high places all who practice | it cannot surrendar this effective weapon at the com- | mand of malicious rascality. The anti-cartoon law enacted in a moment of fright and malice is uncon- | stitutional. It is a of the fundamental | rights of the press. The Call will continue in the | future as in the past to cartoon vicious men, fools in high office, boodier: exposed his record. vain many another orator | and man; WOrC sc violation s, criminals, betrayers of public | trust, corrupt legislators, and, in, short, all kinds and | sorts of r who by trickery and knavery ha\'ci attained or position in the State. It has| proven the potent sharpness of the cartoon as a| moral weapon and will not lay it down so long as there is a battle to be fought for virtue and honesty | in California, i S : = 3 | The San Francisco Chronicle has added new laurels | tc the many it has won for its aggressive defense of | power is right and its uncompromising defiance nft what The brilliant stand taken yesterday the Chronicle against the injustice of the anti- | srtoon law merits commendation. The Chronicle | cserved many a meed of praise for its eloquent hes of silence. | RS S nperor William of Germany is getting into all sorts of trouble. Ttaly threatens to form an alliance with France, desert the Triple Alliance and leave Ger- y facing the jaws of the English lion. And Em- or William wanted to pick a quarrel with Uncle n. wron | H i i “The season has arrived when the chief ambition of hip captains along the coast seems to be to take their vessels overland. The collision of the Glenogle and | City of Kingston off Browns Point is the initial per- formance in that line this season WHAT iS TREASON? MERICANS have a profound respect for their Government as created and supported by them. This generates in the feeling that if the prin- ciples of the constitution are enforced the Govern- ment compels respect for the popular rights which are secured by law. The anti-imperialist sentiment of the country has its origin in this regard of the people for the prin- ciples of their Government, and their fear that those principles may sustain a deathly shock by the exer- cise of powers beyond our continental borders which the constitution does not permit to the Government within those borders. When a major general in the United States army said last January that it makes no difference if im- perialism is a violation of the constitution, for the republic has outgrown that instrument and it is no longer worth discussing, he was not rebuked by the Government, nor was his destructive utterance dis- avowed by imperialists. Others, prominent in civil life, have entered upon a regular campaign, as they declare, to teach the people the absurdity of the Declaration of Independence and the nonsense of the statement therein that Governments derive their just powers froin the consent of the governed. The course followed on these two lines has seemed to a large number of thoughtful people as leading to the destruction of our institutions. The effect of the policy it is intended to justify has developed quite rapidly. Within ten day. an impe-ial- ist organ in this city has declared that we must pro- y to the subduing of the rebellion “our subjects” in the Philippines, and the term ‘subjects”” of this country in the same connection has ceed without mer of | appeared twice since in news dispatches in which the matter has been discussed. There are men and patriots in the country who be- lieve that “‘subjects” and “citizens” cannot long exist under a Government which derives all of its powers, and all of its sovereignty, and all of its jurisdiction from the constitution. They believe that the tendency of events will be to make all men under that sover- nty “subjects” or Filipinos “citizens,” and they re- gard either as disastrous to our institutions. In order to discredit these sentiments, which a year ago were universally held by the American people, it has become necessary to stamp them as treason to the Government, and this is being done by charging the anti-imperialists with sending dispatches to troops in | the Philippines, advising against their re-enlistment in the hard service in which they have borne themselves so gallantly for the last two months. It isprobablytrue that parents of volunteers whose enlistment has ex- pired have exhorted them to come home, but it is probably untrue that other parties, not in the pa- rental relation to volunteers nor moved by domestic affection, have used the cable or the mail for any such purpose. have been sent signed “committee” able, for any one with intelligence and resources The last form of the story that cablegrams s still less prob- enough to send lengthy cablegrams knows that the | cable to the Philippines i tary authorities and that s reach the men in the camps or the field. in possession of our mili- ch dispatches would never The state- ment has been propagated that these dispatches have | changed the spirit of the volunteers and that they no longer desire to re-enlist, and at the same time it is declared that the dispatches were seized and held by the military authoriti The two statéments are in- consistent and destroy each other. The censorship at Manila is unleakably strict, and even as public news nothing pass able to the military censor. As far as developed, the anti-imperial sentiment in this country is unaffected by war or peace in the Phil- ippines. The complete pacification of the islands to- morrow would in no way change it. It is a sentiment held from the point of view of our welfare at home and arises in a desire for the perpetuity of our iree institutions and the peaceful development of our re- sources by a free people. In its essence this sentiment is not parti It has no sympathy with Mr. Bryan’s labored effort to make politics out of it. With Senator Morgan, the Democratic leader of the Senate. advocating expan- sion, standing for the killing of all the Samoans and Filipinos as a necessary precedent to the introductior of civilization, and Senator Hoar, the Republica leader of the Senate, opposing expansion, imperialism and slaughter, and supported by Republicans like Governor Boutwell, ex-Attorney General Pillsbury, John Sherman, Senator Mason, William E. Dodge and the President of the United States, who has de- nounced conquest as “criminal aggression,” the issue is not partisan, and anti-imperialists do not need to resort to unsigned telegrams or covert devic If “committees” have been sending costly cablegrams to be pocketed by General Otis it is far more likely that they are composed of men who are out for annexation by conquest and criminal aggression and war for what there is in it for them. An. REVIVE THE OLD PLAN. F the Board of Supervisors desires to secure a practical plan for adapting the present sewer sys- tem of San Francisco to a new system which will provide the city with adequate drainage, it would bet- | ter abandon its attempt to get funds by transfer and adopt the resolutions under which one of its prede- cessors a few years ago began the same work As we recall the history of the former sewer com- mission, it was composed of three unsalaried com- missioners, who were authorized ‘to employ engin- eers and supervise their work. An appropriation of $30,000 was made and a general plan of operations adopted. But before any tangible results had been produced the Board of Supervisors which created this commission went out of office and a machine- Democratic in. The members of the latter were unable to control the patronage of the commission as it had been embodied, and in order board came to secure the appropriation for their dependents, they | repealed the sewer resolutions, dismissed the com- missioners and turned the money into the Street De- partment fund. This was a triumph for machine politics which re- sulted in the entire cclipse of the movement for sewer reform. Professor Davidson, Irving M. Scott | and Engineer Mendell, as we remember, comprised the sewer commission. They employed Engineers Manson and Grunsky, who, with a force of draughts- men, were proceeding to reduce the sewerage prob- lem of San Francisco to a scientific basis, when the entire scheme was interrupted by the appearance of the political bosses and the repealing orders of the | Board of Supervisors. Nothing has occurred since the dismissal of this commission to render its plans obsolete, and the | work should be taken up now exactly where it was | then leit off. The same gentlemen are still alive | and available for commissioners. Doubtless all three would accept an appointment at the hands of this Board of Supervisors and serve without compensa- tion. But at the outset the board must make up its | mind to oneé thing—it can procure no plans that will command respect, nor secure the services of compe- tent commissioners or engineers, unless politics is en- es that is not agree- tirely eliminated from the movement. If the work is to be done by the City Hall politicians nothing will be accomplished toward the solution of the problem, and when the time comes to vote bonds the people will bury the entire scheme under a shoal of ballots. Ii the present Board of Supervisors appoints a commission it should thereafter turn it loose with instructions to report a scientific plan, not one de- signed to promote the interests of sewer builders, street contractors or private interests of any kind. FLAUNTING IMMORALITY. N the course of its campaign for the purification of the city from the grosser:evils which corrupt its youth The Call has accomplished much in the way of reform. The racetrack gambling, which led to the ruin of so many lives, has been suppressed, and the exposure of indecent pictures in the phonograph par- lors has been restricted by the conviction and the punishment of several of the proprietors of such places. In the campaign thus far the object of The Call has been to direct attention to corrupting evils wherever carried on, whether downtown or out at the racetrack; but it has now to point out that some evils are the more offensive by reason of the place where they are maintained. A public scandal is more pernicious than a hidden scandal, inasmuch as it poisons a larger num- ber of minds, and so a gambling room or other nefa- rious place increases in its pernicious influence in proportion to the openness and boldness with which it is carried on. In the course of its fight against gambling rooms, poolrooms and lewd picture rooms The Call has had occasion to point out that a considerable number of such places are conducted along Market street and flaunt their iniquity in the face of all who pass up and down that thoroughfare. As it is the main highway of the retail trade of the city, the promenade along which pass the great mass of men and women engaged in shopping, and the avenue over which the great streetcar lines run, any corrupting evil tolerated there becomes in the very nature of things the cause of a far greater injury to the community than if hidden away from sight in the slums or among the less tra- versed streets, and its suppression is, therefore, of the greater importance. It 15 of course impossible to rid a community alto- gether of the vicious elements of humanity. There | will be always more or less depravity in every con- siderable city so long as the human race remains what it is. It is not too much to demand, however, that vice shall be made to hide itself and depravity to seek concealment. There is no reason why dives, gam- bling rooms, nickel-in-the-slot machines, indecent pictures, lewd and vicious places of almost all kinds should be tolerated on Market street. The police and the Commissioners above them have been very indulgent to certain forms of vice along Market street and in neighborhoods almost as well | | known and frequented. There have been suspicions | of men high in authority in police circles being inter- ested in gambling rooms and dives and worse. Pos- sibly some of the proprietors of these places on Mar- ket street may have protection in high quarters. If it be so, it is time the public should know it. If not, why are they tolerated in their shameless depravity? | | O s ——— i A HOLIDAY FOR ALL. 1 extraordinary preparations for the celebration of I [:: Dewey day. It is to be a festival in the true | sense of the word. The occasion is not one to be | commemorated with perfunctory ceremonies, but by the spontaneous outbursting of popular rejoicing over | | a great victory in honor of the hero who accom- | plished it. As the day is to be one of be one in which every citizen All will delig ROM all parts of the State come reports of unusual interest it will | should have the privi- | it in taking some part in the celebration of the day and all ought to have full freedom to do so. The festival should be made a true public holiday, so that all business men and their employes may have their share in the pleasures it will afford to the patriotic. | It has been the custom of a considerable number of people in California to ignore public holidays as far as possible and to keep their employes at work and their places of business open as on ordinary days. | Such people are probably animated in adopting that course less by motives of avarice than by an indiffer- ence to the occasion of the holiday. They lack sym- pathy with popular movements and go on about their | vocations in life as if there were nothing in the world | worth living for except business. Even such people can hardly afford to ignore Dewey day. The great victory of last May is too fresh in the public mind to have been forgotten by any; and surely none is so unpatriotic as not to feel a patriotic pride in it. Therefore, we may ekpect that on this occasion every store, shop, factory and office | in the city will be closed and that all will take part in | the festival. Dewey day in San Francisco should be a | holiday for every man, woman and child in the city, except for those engaged in trades whose daily work is absolutely necessary to public convenience. B - The English army authorities complain of a lack of desire on the part of the males of the British Isles to present themselves at the recruiting offices. The cause assigned is that the condition of the labor mar- ket in the United Kingdom is so satisfactory that the Queen’s shilling a day, from which the price of rations is deducted, is no inducement for the average English- man to don a red coat. lege of joining. Advices from Samoa indicate that America, Eng- land and Germany will have to unite and whip the South Sea islanders into good behavior. After the savages have stopped killing each other they may then receive the sermon of the powers on the bless- | ings of peace. A local theater is giving a dramatic presentation of | “The Wrong Mr. Wright.” It is fortunate for San | Franciscans that the play is not upon the same im- | moral plane as was the exhibition of another wrong Mr. Wright at Sacramento. The Central Pacific Company protests against pay- ing the rent fixed by the Harbor Commission for privileges in the ferry depot. The Central Pacific Fjompax!y has the right still to vacate the premises if it doesn’t like the tariff. The authorities of Georgia have decided to buy re- ligion for the convicts of that State at a stipulated price for each sermon. There is also the encour- agirg announcement that the convicts will have to pay the price. —_— An Eastern dispatch is authority for the state- ment that Cubans make better police than American soldiers. This is, perhaps, the first definite announce- i‘ ment that the Cubans were good for anything. No matter what the writing experts find on the face of that celebrated Murdock note, now the subject of | litigation at Willows, it is certain that a shave would improve it ¢ ¥4 | on.* | tlon, but th | the | passed, | and Wire Compa COMPETITION 1N LIGHTING AL LAST WADE POSSIBLE MUTUAL COMPANY MAY ERECT POLES Supervisors Grant the Privilege. BIDS ARE FINALLY OPENED WORK OF FURNISHING HALL OF JUSTICE TO PROCEED. The Majority Members of the Board Apparently Favor the Reopen- ing of Ingleside Cours- ing Park. After a struggle waged bitterly for weeks past, the Mutual Electrlc Light Company was granted permission yester- day to erect poles for its wires throughout the city except in that portion of the business section which is designated as the fire limits. The action of the board was a surprise to all parties interested. From appearances such action was not contemplated, and the matter passed the board beyond recall before some members of the majority realized what had hap- pened. At the last meeting of the board the order was passed to print. Subsequently Supervisor Attridge said he had voted under a misapprehension and it was gen- erally understood he would vote against the measure yesterday when it came up for final passage. It was late in the after- noon when the board was acting on un- finished business. The clerk reads merely the title of the order, and a number of minor matters had been finally passed when he reached the measure which in- sures competition in lighting. This was read, and Mayor Phelan, following his usual custom, said: “On final passage. Hearing no objection, finally passed. The minority members of the board smiled, and their exhibition of mirth at- tracted the attention of their associates. Supervisor Phelps was the first to realize | the action that was taken, and said: “I object. 1 did not hear what was going Messrs, Lackmann, Perrault and Deasy objected to reopening, the matter, saying they heard and understood and voted with full knowledge in the premises, Supervisor Phelps then asked to be re- corded as voting in the negative. Su visor Kalben made the same request. Su- pervisor Attridge said he understood the matter was not coming up at the meeting owing to the absence of Supervisor Bying- ton at Salinas. He was informed there was much opposition in the Mi: streets being disfigured with a posts Supervisor Lackmann cut short his ex- qlulmxiun. saying the question had been finally disposed of. He raised this as a point of order, and Mayor Phelan held it was well taken. Phelps thereupon ap- pealed from the decision of the chair. Six voted against sustaining the chairman, but it required nine votes, hence the chalr Wwas sustained. Lackmann then said that in view of the board itself on record regarding ion to itional bla\'in?' the matter of poles outside the fire limits, | he requested the Mayor to affix his signa- ture to the measure, making it a law be- yond recall. For reply his Honor said: “If the clerk will hand it to me 1 will sign it.”” This he did. Three separate times during the sut quent proceedings Supervisor Phelps tried to have the minutes of the meeting show that he voted against the measure. He first tried to give notice for a recons was ruled out of orde and approved it had passed fon of the board. Phelps like to be The matter was it was signe out of posses sald he did no of his vote. dropped. Dr. Perrault introduced a that City and County Attorney Lan directed to dismiss the apoeal in the cas of the Mutual Electric Light Company v Board of Supervisors. This It is an appeal from the deci of Judge Seawell, and which really vored the city, as flimflammed out finally fa- it held the Mutual Com- pany had the same right to erect poles that enjoyed by any other company. This closes’ the incident as far as compe- | tition is concerned. The matter of opening bids for the fur- nishing of the Hall of Justice precipitated a heated discussion and an_acrimonious debate between Supervisor Perrault and Architect Frank Shea. The matter was introduced by Supervisor Holland, who asked that Messrs. Byington, @easy, Lackmann and Phelps be added to the regular Building Committee of the board to share the responsibility of outfitting the Hall of Justice and building the Mis- sion Police_Station. This was adoptes Supervisor. Perrault then moved that bids be rejected and advertised for again. He vicked the specifications to pieces and aid they were ‘“rotten” and framed to favor some firm. He assailed the archi- tec Shea & Shea, placing the burden of h!;{mu ‘((mslh( m. ‘ran hea, who was present, replied feelingly to the allegations. He suig he was thunderstruck that a member of the Board of Supervisors not familiar with past proceedings of the board could stand there and cast reflections on a firm as honorable as that of the member who had just spoken. He characterized his utterances such as a child would not make, they were so easily refuted. He objected to a statement that there was a ‘“rakedown” coming to the architect. His remark that the gentleman was prob- ably acquainted with such matters was l;:rlflud(‘d by the lobby. fter some general discussion, partici- pated in by persons who had bid on the furnishing, Supervisor Collins moved the bids be opened at once. The bids were as follows: For furnishings and fittings—George H. Fuller Desk Company, $45,456; Leahy Bros., $51,50 Joseph Frederick & Co., $56,208; J. F. Oakes $56,807; H. P. Terry, $4,930; C.' F. Webber & 360,854 56, Gas and electrical fi Novelty and Plat Day Company, $17, Company, $17,590. Tinting’ and decorating—L. J. Marley, $1054; George J. Smith & Sons, $900; Merchant & s, §2450; Gustave Schnee, §2650; Chris ;s 3. W. Goetz, $6000. Water filter system—California Artistic Metal $230; _California Jewel ew York Filter Manu- facturing Company, $2792 60. The total of the lowest bids in each class is 69,021 The former bid, which was.vetoed by Mayor Phelan, was $77,890. The Superintendent of Streets was given positive orders to move the fence which surrounds the Baldwin Hotel ruins back to the line of the building. At pres- ent it shuts off all the sidewaik and a portion of the street on Ellis street, to the damage of all fhe shopkeepers in’tue neighborhood and to the discomfort of edestrians. P e order presented at the last meet- ing of the board permitting betting on coursing was passed to print by a vote ures—San Francisco rics, $1 Thomas lifornia Gas Fixture of 7 to 4. It will come before the board for a final passage at the next meeting, Supervisor Deasy objected to the board tloning the gambling on the ground ?:2? there was no difference between coursing dogs and racing horses for men to bet upon them. Deasy, Heyer, Lack- mann and Perrault represented the minority in the vote. 'All daily newspapers published in this city can bid upon the printing of the de- linquent tax list. An effort was made to shut out papers having less than 8000 cir- culation, but this was defeated, The following resolution was adopted as preliminary to one inviting proposals for the repaving of Bush street, made necessar{‘ by thegremoval of the rails owned by _the Sutter-street Rallway Company. It reads Resolved, That the subject matter of sald communication be and Is hereby referred to the City and County Attorney for his opin- ion as to whether or not the action pro- sed 1s proper, in order to enable the city End county 4 recover the cost of said work as proposed, and damages from the Sut- ter-street Ratiway Company; also the said City and County Attorney is hereby direct- ed to bring such euits against said rail- way company, at the time and in the man- ner a in his judgment may be proper. The following resolution regarding the opening of ~ Twenty-seventh street through the property of St. Luke's Hos- pital Association was adopted: Whereas, a_petition of property owners was filed on March 21, 1888, for the open- ing of Twenty-seventh stréet, from San Jose avenue to Valencia street, and, where- as, it appears that this is' one’ of the streets that should be extended to Valen- cia street, and that there can be no doubt the board of directors of St. Luke's Hos- pital will be reasonable in its demands as to the value of the property necessary for enid extenslon, therefore Resolved, That no_ further consideration of this matter will be had by this board until the property owners and parties in- terested in the extension of said street meet, confer and decide as to the value of the property to be acquired for said ex- tension, and the district to be assessed therefor,” and file a report thereon With the board. In order that the number of citizens to assume charge of the Fourth of July cele- bration be equally divided and all sections of the city represented each member of the board was requested to select and submit the names of eight citizens from his ward to the Committee on Finance and Auditing on or before Tuesday, May 2, 1899, so that the call for a meetir be made in suficient Lime to allow suit aihlc preparations for the saiu celebra- tion. The subject matter of a communication filed by Fred A. Elllott was referred to & special committee consisting of Super- visors Deasy, Byington and Lackmann. It submits a general outline of the pur- poses and duties to be subserved and per- formed In the service of a suitable per- son to be continuously employed as an examiner and expert of the records and accounts of the municipal institutions and departments, and of such officials who collect fees that are required to be paid into the city and county tre ry or for which thecity and county is accountable. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was granted permission to extend a ban- ner across Market street at Seventh. The following order granting the Mar- ket-street Railway Company permission to operate street cars over certain streets by means of electricity was again referred to the Street Committee. Efforts have been made to Keep the company off Geary street as far as an clectric road is con- cerned. The company declines to build unless allowed to traverse Geary street. The resolution reads: The people of the city and county of San Francisco do ordaim es follows: Section 1. Permission is hereby granted to the Mar- Ket-street Rallway Company to operate by means of electricity, with modern improve- ments and appliances, or by such other means as may be sanctioned by law, all those certain street railroads within' the clty and county of San Francisco for which said company is now the holder, by as- signment from or successor to the grantees therein named, of franchises heretofore granted the Board of Supervisors of said city and county upon the following named streets: Sixth street, from Brannan to Market, thence across Market street to Taylor; thence along Tayior street to Geary. Geary street, from Taylor street to Grant avenue. Montgomery street, from Market to Jack- son; Sansome street, from Jackson to Mar- ket; Jackson street, from Montgomery to Sansome; Post street, from Montgomery to Sansome; Post street, from Market = to Leavenworth, Leavenworth from Post across MeAllister to City Hall avenue, City Hall avenue to Grove, Grove to Polk, Polk to Market, to Tenth, to Bryant. Proposals were advertised for a f chise for an electric line commencing at Geary street and Grant avenue and con- necting with the tracks of the Market Street Railway Company on Geary street, and thence along Grant avenue to Bush street and on Bush street to Sansome street, connecting with the same system at that point. It was referred to the Street Committee. Spring Valley Water Works protested against the action of the Finance Com- mittee in reducing its bill for March, The bill called for the sum of $20,9% but $6110 91 was taken therefrom. PE REFERRED. The following petitions were received and referred to the proper committees: Farson, Leach & Co. of Chicago, requesting to be ad- vised of the result of the special election on the question of the issuance of bonds for the extension of the park panhandle, in order that the firm may submit a proposition for the pur- chase of sald securities; property-owners, for the improvement of that portion of Alta Plaza fronting on Steiner stréet; North Pacific Coast s hip Company, requesting information of the rules and regulations for the opening and closing of the Fourth-street drawbridge, and stating that a steamer of that company was recently detained fourteen hours at that draw; Commercial Electric Company, for permission to attach a sign to the front of building at 33 xth street; Precita Valley Improvement Club, for an electric light at the corner of Harrison and Ripley streets; Stauffer Chemical Com- pany, for permission to lay a spur track on North Point_ street, from the Belt road to the corner of North Point and Dupont streets; Healy, Tibbitts & Co., calling attention to the fé condition Of the hoiler of the engine operates, the Fourth-street drawbridge; D. D, Shattuck, for permission to use a n of Miles place, oft California street, be- tween Stockton and Powell, as an entrance to her property; Franklin J. Hunt, for permission to erect a three-story dwelling at the corner of Octavia street and Pacific avenue; John Greeley, for a license to solicit signatures of property-owners to private contracts for street work; Hannah Liebes, that owners of the prop- erty on the north line of Broadway, west of Fillmore street, be required to lay a concrete stdewalk there; Baldwin & Howell, for the grading and macadamizing of Stanford Heights avenue, between Corbett avenue and Twenty- seventh street, Twenty-seventh street, between Stanford Heights and Stanyan avenues, Stan van avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Dun can streets, and between Duncan and Twenty- elghth streets, Twenty-eighth street, between Stanyan and Twin Peaks avenues, Twin Peaks avenue, between Twenty-cighth and Valley streets, and the crossings of said streets; Max Davis, for permission to erect a two-story frame building on the east side of Larkin street, between Geary and Post; - Andrew Burke, for permission to occupy three-tenths of the ¢ the sidewalk by an entrance to prem 27 Haight street; G. R. Thomp- son, for p L on behalf of property-own- ers, to grade, sewer, etc., Arlington street, be- tween Miguel and Natick, by private contract; Peter M. Hugh, requesting that the Superin- tendent of Streets be authorized to sign & private contract with him to remacadamize ‘Pwelfth avenue, between Clement and Cali- fornia_streets, in front of a school lot, at the rate of 80 cents per front foot; Carl G. Larsen, for permission to lay a line of water pipe from block 846, fronting on Nineteenth avenue, along M street, Fifteenth and Sixteenth avenues and P street to block $76 and other nelghboring blocks; Jefferson Martenet, requesting the pay. ment to him of $300 for his services as commis- sioner for the extension of Post street: prop- erty owners, for the grading, macadamizing and sewering of Crescent avenue between And- over and San Bruno avenues, and protesting against the connection of the Holly-street sewer with the sewer in Crescent avenue; Federation of Mission Improvement Clubs, requesting that the Mutual Electric Light Company, as well as other companies, be granted the privilege to erect poles outside the fire limits: J. G, Harney, for a_ license to' solicit street work: Congregation Emanu-El, for the paving with bituminous rock of Eighteenth streot between Dolores and Church streets; Theresa Kurl- baum, for the construction of a public sewer in Stevenson street between Ninth and Tenth; per- City Street Improvement mission on behalf of property owners to p with bitumen rock the crossing of Sixteenth and Church streets; Union Paving and Contracting Company, for Telease from contracts to pave Sixth street between Channel and Hooper, and between Hooper and Irwin streets and oross- ings: W. S. Covey, for permission to move a building from Post street between Hyde and Larkin to Franklin between Filbert and Green- wich; James Loughman, for permission to con- struct an artificial stoné sidewalk on west side of Capp street from Seventeenth southerly Sunnyside and Castro-street Addition Improve- ment Club, for the establishment of the grades of the streets in the Castro-street Addition; same, for the placing of hydrants at Diamond and Sussex, Diamond and Surrev, Martin and Sussex and 'Douglass and Sussex streets; Unfon Paving and Contracting Company, for permis- sion on behalf of property owners to pave with bituminous rock Deshon_ street between Six- teerith and Seventeenth; West of Castro Street Improvement ‘Club, for the immediate placing of three electric lights in that district; Charies G. Larsen, for permission to lay water pipes along M street, ete., to his chicken ranch; Felix McHugh, for permission on behalf of property owners to - grade, macadamize and sewer C street between Seventh and Eighth avenues; C. H. G. Wilbush, for permisison to maintain grass plat six and a half feet wide on the-sidewalk at the corner of Seventeenth ana Sanchez streets; Felix McHugh, for license to solicit street work; George Davis, for per- mission to remove a buflding from Broadway between Buchanan and Webster to Union street between Scott and Devisadero. PROTESTS RECEIVED. The following protests were received and re- ferred: Majority property-owners, against the proposed regrading of Twenty-fourth avenue, between A and C streets; majority property- owners, against the laying of plank sidewalks on the south side of Francisco street, hetween Maeon and Taylor streots: —property-awners, against the paving with bituminous rock, etc., of Green street, between Fillmore and Stetner; Company, for - , against the paving with bitu- Drious” rock o 'the " crossiniof Green and Steiner streets; Misston and Potrero Improve- ment clubs, against the erection of a new pest- houre on the site of the old bulldings; citizens, againist the order prohibiting the sprinkling o bitumen-paved streets; Spring Vallev Water Works, against the proposed reduction in the amounts of bills for water supplied the city in March, 1599 STREET WORK RECOMMENDED. vere made The following recommendations were ma by the Superintendent of Street xtension for ninety day: e etc., of Scott street, from nut! acceptance of work on from Church to Sanchez, on K meda to sz;»mh,unn-l from teenth, including. the of cet; performance of S work on Fou el stveet. from Dolores to Market, granite curbs and bitumen pavement. : RESOLUTIONS OF INTENTION. Eighteenth st #, from ifteenth_to of Fiff Four- Renolutions of intention to perform street work Were passed as follows: For repaie ing and paving of that portion of Bust i v d Central avenue, formerly between Stockton and Central avenuc, forncrly occupied by street car t Frederick, to a point sidewalks; C street, Seven redwood curb: C street, macadan bitumen; Third avenue, street, stone sidewalk: 5 feet southerly, th to Eighth ave Seventh av and Lyon o Callf cific, 'stone shlewall‘:(s 8 kin," stone sidewa P xth i« Army, twelve-inch manholes_and_ cov. ers ord, Noe to Sanchez, stone Fair Oaks, Twenty-fifth to Twenty-six side, stone sidewalks: Twentieth avertic Clement crossing, remacadamiz Fell. to Van Ness, north side, e, sflewal Grove, Broderick to Baker, stone sidewalks. CONTRACTS AWARDED. Resolutions awarding contracts for street work were adopted as follow ‘Arkansas, Mariposa to teenth, paving, 17 cents a cul rd; crossing of Sixth ave south and K street south, paving a cubic var: amizing rc a square f dewalkc urbs, 15 cents a lin Devisadero, Faight to Waller, basalt blocks in center. 21 9-10 cents a square foot: Be: Diamon to the rallway, sixteen-inch iron sewer pipe. $209 a lineal foot, each manhole complete, $45. STREET WORK ORDERED. Resolutions ordering street work were f¢ Bay st tlimore Lo ed as follows: Ay rading; crossing Le Streets, grading: Haves, avenue, stone sidewalk e . Washington Spruce and _ Washingto i ; Fossing ‘of Spruce and Clay jeamen an Ness avenue, Bay to Dea et, rad Ing: Church street, Thirteenth to Hermann, stone sidewalks 7 SPECIAL PRIVILEGES GRANTED. Special privileges were granted on re bitumen; on of the Street Committee P R fledman, to extend steps on the sidewallc three and a half feet at nd_Gousli; Jerome Mullen, to extend e fe v sidewalk on ' Tenth 4 - Rallroad avenue and : Techau, to maintain an ligh ; projecting over the sl Mason and Eddy streets; Austin Green, to extend 2 ¢ window twelve inches over tne sidewalx at 200 Noe street. directed The Superintend ecte to examine the sic at Scott street, between C ne amento, and make recessary repairs at the expense of the city; also to enter into a contract Wit John Greeley to grade. da ete., Ninth_avenue, Point Lobos to for which the city is llable, @ square foot. An extension of sf on the grading, ete. and Twenty-sixth i Ivy avenue, Buchanan to Webster, with bitumen, was conditionally ¢ Permission fo 1 contract was awarded Wasuington to Jackson umen side; * time was granted the crossing of York paved private Laurel, bit- ty-fifth, bitumen, A stre avenue, 3:6x7:9 brick sewer with manhol lington, Miguel to Natick, twelve-inch reet, from F finally accepted. The paving of Diamond teenth to Nineteenth, w RUSSIANS IN ALASKA Editor of The Call: Unjustly offend- ed and feeling the insult given to 000 members of the orthodox church, peo- ple and clergy, living under the pro- tection of the Stars and Stripes, I pub- licly protest against the unfounded as sertions publicly made by Mr. Curtis P. Coe, as published in the Examiner on last Tuesday morning. in the re- view on cal club proceedings un- der ‘he caption, “Movement to Close Theaters on Sunday First—Among many an American- born citizen, and as a canonically or- dained minister, I worked in this field since 1888. Previous to this' I was a missionary assistant in Alaska. Among many Americans, Governor Swineford is one who approved of our work in Alaska. . Second—To show the falsity of Mr. Coe’s assertion, with which he so bit- terly attacks the Greek church, I am compelled to set forth the fact that I have been connected for some years with the diocesan coasistory, to which all priests must report, and I do not know of any case of the kind to which our accuser refers. I admit there have been instances in which our preacher declared that non-Christian unbeliev ers have sometimes fallen to the lev of the brute. Third—Mr. Coe declares that in the field, to which he has not been called, “most of the people belonged to the sreek church and knew nothing of - morality. I repeat that he is correct in regard to the population. for actual- ly nine-tenths of all the people on the Island Kodiak and the surrounding places are members of the orthodox church. Now, naturally es this question: Is this m nary of the Baptist slighted because the parish priests of the orthodox church in his neighborhood prove to be a barrier to the prosperity of his work by their zeal in their own holy mission? Fourth—About the “‘morality in the Greek church”; for want of time and space I shall put forth but this one statement: Look into San Quentin, Wwhich contains over a thousand pris- oners, and you will find that only five of the number were baptized in the orthodox church. 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