The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1899, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1899. NAVAL OFFICERS WILL COMMAND THE TRANSPORTS Capt. Lombard Takes the Morgan City. FOR GRAIN-CARRYING SHIPS A FRENCH DECISION FOLLOWS | HE AMERICAN LAW., Cap rage of the Al-Ki Now Has 1 Walla—George Dry- n Appointed Assistant Chief Wharfinger, enator are to-morrow for Ma- who lately com- e command vice Captain sen takes the command of rt ser wharf nspe 1 schooner Alecatraz, while in street yesterday, r Newsboy. The lat- 'h damaged. WOULD BE A CITIZEN. Look Poy, a Dentist, to Ask That He Be Naturalized Two Years Hence. better known as “Jim” Poy, T desires to become an if the law will aliow 1d in order to carry out T st O'Byr e to a jeclaration of intention. resided in San Francisce for vears continuously. He the American fashion, wears hort and conforms to the us- lized Caucasian nations. He ary oath yesterday before District _Court Clerk a declaration of m to_fors ¥ Emperor of China, and to be- come a citizen of the United States of America. Two years hence he will apply to the court for citizenship, and the ques- tion as to whether a nad\-e of China of e blood can be admitted to citi- will be put in issue. POSTUM CEREAL. POSTUM FOOD COFFEE. Ordinary coffee agrees perfectly with gome people and with others it does It is the hidden and unsuspected of numberless stubborn afls. To leave it off for ten days means a relief in such cases. Take on Postum Cereal ¥ood Coffee and enjoy your hot morn- ing cup. The food elements serve to quickly and surely rebuild the broken down nerve centers. 15 and 25 cents at grocerf ard, but the Alca- his allegiance to | | | [ R o o > . L3 ) STRNVH(t< | G T W 0| .4 [ o ot m @ 's ¢ A & ;l' i1 3 + & * e b *-e ROM present indications it will be impossible to hold a special bond election before next De- cember to determine whether or not the people of the city wish an elaborate municipal system of sew- ers, adequate public buildings, hos- | pitals and the extension of the pan- | handle of Golden Gate Park to Van Ness avenue. The preliminary work of preparation for such an election is in- tricate and cannot be hastened, al- though the local authorities are work- ing as rapldly as possible. Plans, speci- fications, estimates and rough ap- praisements must be made before the election can, under the law, be held. Public sentiment is rapidly crystalliz- ing Into an eager advocacy of the pro- posed improvements, particularly that of the extension of the panhandle. This support is being given more es- | pecially by the generality of the people, | by men and women of the middle- | classes, by those in moderate circum- | stances and the poor. Té these classes, who constitute the great bulk of the population of San Francisco, the ex- tension of the panhandle means an inestimable benefit as vet but poorly understood even by those who value it | most. The tremendous undertaking which | the Mayor and the Board of Supervis- ors are projecting is meeting also with | the favor of the residentd of the out- | cide districts, who will be benefited by ! the accession of new sewers, hospitals | and other incidental improvements. | The extension of the panhandle appeals | particularly to the people in the inside | @istricts, Those living south of Market | street, down town as well as in the Mission, will be benefited quite as much as those reslding north of Market street. For people in every part of the city H{_W! | el R [ G| (.1 < 908 | O\ 5 4 Zs NOLERD (Bt AMILIWID " KUYATHD ATHT el 0 b et POPULAR ENTHUSIASM AROUSED OVER THE EXTENSION OF THE PANHANDLE Thousands of Workmen, Laborers, Artisans and Me- chanics Will Find Employment in the Gigantic Undertaking to Improve the City | A¥2LIWID §M01123 0 O 3| 3 | 7 |7 sz NIHLNAOW . FNO 4 AHILIWT D AM3 L3IWII_DINOSYI, o 37 AL L ey e l i I 7/ lll;l 514 ] ZZ fims 2L 7 s 7% a0 SRS e e dle W 7 Lovd 7 G/ oo/ R a new park domain will be created for recreation, enjoyment, fresh air and health. An erroneous opinion seems to have gained some currency that the extension of the panhandle will mean simply that those who can afford to drive to Golden Gate Park will have a longer drive and that people who need a park will be neglected. This is alto- gether an error. Whatever objection has been made to the extension of the panhandle has come from wealthy men who balk at a public improvement when that improvement touches their pockets. These men look upon the pan- handle as it exists now from Stanyan i L 4 %1 ¢ RS ] R é, - oo 00000, 0o MAP OF THE PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE PARK PANHANDLE. street to Baker street as a necessary evil. Most of them do not utilize .it on their way to the park, but drive out Fell street. They are not concerned, therefore, in having the panhandle extended and they have not been slow to utter a protest because the proposed extension will cost them a considerable sum of money. They are not concerned in the fact that the tremendous undertaking of extending the panhandle will give thousands of workmen, laborers, arti- sans and mechanics employment for years. It will take time and money to effect the great change and to trans- ADVERTISEMENTS. of Hungary, owned by If YOU WANT “THE ONLY :( GENUINE HUNYADI WATER, Insist Upon Receiving Hunyadi Janos NATURAL APERIENT WATER, the only water which comes from the Hunyadi Springs ANDREAS SAXLEHNER,’ Budapest. VIRV | | | | | | | * : 3¢ L 1 Sl + % 8¢ 3¢ 3¢ } + f 3 : S { ) | chants’ Assoctation, will speak on “Civil form a little city into a great garden. | This money will be paid to the very | men for whose benefit the new park is | to be created and the coin will be paid | very largely by the men who drive now in their splendid teams to Golden Gate | Park. In order that the character of the change to be made by the proposed ex- | tension of the panhandle may be | theroughly understood a map of the | projected improvement {is published this morning. The present panhandle begins at Stanyan street and ends at Baker street. The extension from that point to Van Ness avenue between Oak and Fell streets is natural and in a straight line. Long before the city was what it is now such an extension was planned and advocated. When the site of the City Hall was a cemetery the creators of Golden Gate Park, with almost prophetic vision, saw that some day Golden Gate Park must start in the very heart of the city and then take its direct course to the ocean beach. But these men had to fight stubborn- ly for years to get Golden CGate Park, | and at last they were forced to give | | way and sacrifice the splendid park | that would have begun at Stanyan | street and ended at the City Hall. Only | | the strip from Stanyan to Baker was | | saved and it remains to-day to show | nat the people of the city ought to do. Under the proposed plan of extension | the new panhandle will be in every | | sense a great and beautiful park. It| will be ample to provide occupation for | | the thousands that now seek Golden | | Gate Park. It will be adorned with | statuary, fountains, arbors and a floral | | wealth which has made Golden Gate | Park one of the great garden spots of | | the world. In every sense it will be a| | park stretching block after block | | toward the west untjl it broadens out | i into the splendid domain of the park | proper. | " It 15 this prospect which has caught innr] will hold popular enthusiasm until | | the day when with ballots the voters | | of the city decide to make the prospect a reality and to acquire a new recrea- |-tion ground which will be without | parallel among the cities of America | and perhaps of the world. i TO ASSESS GOODS NOT HERETOFORE TAXED | ADVISORY EXPERT PLATT TO | SUBMIT HIS REPORT. | Personal Property Assessment Com- mittee of the Supervisors Will Meet To-Day to Take Offi- cial Action. The personal property assessment committee of the Board of Supervisors | will hold a meeting to-day in order to hear the report of Advisory Expert Al- | fred G. Platt regarding certain property | which has heretofore escaped taxation. | Mr. Platt will submit a tabulated stat ment of such properties and the commit- tee will declde whether it will be advi able to turn the data over to Assess | Dodge or submit it to the Board of Equalization, which meets on the first Monday in July. { Mr. Platt is extremely desirous of act- | ing in harmony with the Assessor, al- though the latter declined to appoint him as a deputy in order to arrive at the con- clusions which he has embodied in his report to the committee. The Asse has everything in hand at the pr. time with regard to assessments, and Mr. Platt’s dutles consisted in learning how | much property has missed being taxed. Should the report be turned over to the Assessor he can make the additional as- | | sessments accordingly. He is liable u: der under his bond if he does not make a proper assessment, and the informa- tion of Mr. Platt will gulde him in ar ing at correct valuations. Mr. Platt's re- port will be a comprehensive review of the situation. In regard to merchandise in bond, the opinion which was recently handed down by the City and County Attorney is rath- | | er equivocal, and it is difficult to fix the| taxation on such goods in the hands of the original importer and in the original | packages. As soon as a package is brok- | | en, however, it enters into the merchan- | | dife of the 'State and as such must be | | taxed. | l‘ In the case of goods Bottled in bond | | they would come under the head of pri-| vate bonded warehouses and as such would be taxable. In the matter of w kies withdrawn from the internal rev | nue bonded warehouse in Kentucky, for | example, and exporte or sale in foreign | 1 a d f le in £ | markets’ and brought back to the United tates and placed in a bonded warehouse |at a port of entry, it {s held that goods | of that class are not in the strict sense imported from a foreign country and in | fact are not treated as such by the Gov= | ernment, which exacts only the internal revenue tax and not the duty imposed on | foreign liquors. This point has not as | yet been definitely settled by the Su-| preme Court, but the contention is that | such reimported liquors should be taxed | as_personal property. The national banks come in for a share of Mr. Platt's attention in his report. The act regulating their operations provides | that such banks shall be obliged to invest in Government bonds to the extent of 9 per cent of their circulating issue. This is a technical loan to the Government, and if the funds cannot be taxed the shares of stock earning dividends can be. Mr. Platt ! is now tabulating the reports filed by the | national banks with the Bank Commissfon | on March 4 with a view to assessing on something more than the franchises, on which they have only paid taxes in’the | past. : | P¥ith regard to the premiums: outstand- ing and in process of collection by fire, marine and life insurance companies in- corporated in foreign countries, it s ex- pected that large revenues will be derived therefrom, 1f they are held to be solvent credits. If is a fact that $6,000,000 are sent away from the Pacific Coast every year which never pays a cent of tax. Consid- ering that the fire insurance companies have suffered only a 28 per cent loss ratio during the past twenty years, it seems but fair that they should be compelled to bear the slight burden of 1% per cent taxation for State purposes. They reap the benefits of fire, police, judiciary and other pro- tections, but. have never contributed to their maintenance, at least by payving tax- | es on what are held to be solvent credits. e POOL-SELLING OASES. | The Batch in Judé;t}on]an’s Court Are Continued Till May 10 to Be Set. The cases of H. L. Jones and others, ar- rested at the racetrack for violating the new poolselling ordinance, were called in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday to be set for trlal. Chief Lees and Captain Witt- man were in court. Attorney Ach, for the defendants, movedq that the cases be continued for a year, as there would be no more racing at the Ingleslde track, but Prosecuting Attorney Low retorted that such a motion was ridiculous, and the Judge promptly re- fused it. After argument the Jones case was continued till May 10 to be set. The Judge, in speaking of the matter Jater, said: “I was willing at the first call- ing of the cases to try one, but the police tnfil me that as the arrests were made on the second day the cases in my court were not so strong as those in Judgs Mogan's court, and they wanted mine continued, which has been done from time to time. To my surprise, the police came into my court this morning_and sald they were ready to proceed and asked that the cases be set. am going on my annual vac: tion at the end of the month and there- fore cannot try the cases, but I have set them for May 10 and the police can get an- other Judge to come into my court and iry them. Judge Low had never been con- !ultid by an ofi‘lclu of the Police Depart- ment fi the first calling of the cases.” Secretary Freud Will Lecture. J. 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