The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., FRIDAY, MAY 5, 189 JOHN D. SPRECKE Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. LS, Proprietor. ;’L’HLICAT!O.\ OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F. ‘elephone Main 1868, Sunday vall), one year. 86.00 day Call), € months.. 3.00 . 3 months. 1.50 ALL— By My G50 CALL One Year 1.50 One Year 1.00 . rs are authorized to receive subscriptions. copies will be forwarded when requested. GAKLAND OFFICE.... 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ....Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building C.CEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 oclock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock, 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Markeb street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 251§ Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. i505 Polk street, open until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. “The Woman Hater.” House™-“'El Capitas Fllis streets, Specialties. Jarket street, near Eighth— ng Rac: ba popuiar resort. Amusements every g AUCTION SALES. ay, at 11 o'clock, Saloon, of the rate the gas com- nsumers is in doubt, Il advantage of the ding out bills at the old rate of feet and is making every effort to rtant the ratepayers rights under the circum- usand It is therefore imp« i theip ingly. ving his legal rights the con- the bill is presented, decline to $1 75 and ke the col Tl t the rate fixed by the' Super- r thousand. The collector 1 Accept pi at rate, | be served by the company that unless s rendered the meter will be taken hut off at the consumer should go to the 1er’s premises and the ga. he pay the amount extorted, t the same tin ake a formal protest against the te greater than $1 10. The result of at when the courts have passed upheld the rate fixed by mer will have a right to re- but payment <e will be | the cons up e quest 1, ave the Supervisors 1€ ¢ 1 that m 1as been paid by him the amount of legal charges protest be not made no part of the sum ex- torted by the company can be recovered, as the pay- such case will be held in law to have been If, however, the bill be paid under protest, ause it is extorted by a threat to remove the gas, the payment i and the excess extorted by the company must involun- nded right course to be pursued, there- The gas company can 1pelled to respect the law if the public is firm is to pay, but protest. AN EHSTER7N7V7IE‘W~OF IT. in upholding its rights OMMENTING upon the question of the right C of a Governor to appoint a United States Sen- a Legislature fails to elect, the Bos- ton Herald points out that the announced intention of the executive of California to appoint Burns, taken in connection with the appointment of Quay, confirms the wisdom of the framers of the constitution in de- such powers to the Governors of States. The Ecrald s “These cases in Pennsylvania and in California are stric a par in one important respect. The Sen- ators selected by the respective Governors are both { n n whom the people, acting through their Legislatures, have to elect. The most strenuous man in asserting thie Governor's power will hardly claim that the constitution intended that he should use it to veto an expressed decision of the peo- ple, vet this is what will be done if these two men from Pennsyl California are admitted to seats in the The reason and the equity of the case. as we the law, as again and again in- h claimants to seats from being ator w refused ania Senate terpreted, forbid &t accepted The soundness of that statement is not to be de- nied. The Herald occupies the position of an impar- tial student of the situation. From the distance - of Boston ations with factions or State | politics ei California or in Pennsylvania. It surveys torial contests from.the standpoint of national politics and its judgment, therefore, cannot be attributed to afy bias or prejudice against either Burns or Quay The poinf made by the Herald does not of course affect the legal argument, for that turns upon the power of a Governor to appoint without reference to the character of the man appointed. It does affect the issue, howéver, as a matter of fact, since it shows the importance of upholding a strict construction of the constitution in this respect. It has been said often of the framers of the con- stitution, “They builded wiser than they knew,” and the provision of the government on this point may be ‘taken as one of the evidences of it. - Certainly in the light of present experience, if we had the con- struction of the constitution to go over again, the danger of permitting Governors to appeint Senators would be guarded against as carefully as it was by the fathers, for we have seen what, the fathers but guessed at, that, were such powers conferred, Gov- ernors of States would intrigie to prevent the elec- tion of truly representative men to the Senate by Legislatures in order to obtain for themselves the opportunity of appointing some unworthy favorite of their own. " On his arrival at Southampton Tom Reed is re- ported to have said he is in England for the purpose of having a rest, and now the country would like to | societies, There exists in the commercial and finan- | rice swamps or the jungles and are as much of a fight- know who was disturbigg him down.in.Mainss . A ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street | M. M. ESTEE'S BLUNDER. LL patriotic citizens in the American republic united with the deepest enthusiasm in their recognition of the honor due to Admiral Dewey, in his personal and in his representative character. But Mr. Estee seized the opportunity of | his selection as one of the speakers on “Dewey day” » deliver an unjust, virulent and,inexcusable tirade t millions of Americans who oppose the po!ic_v! of foreign annexation or conquest. His address was as paipable a violation of the proprieties of the occa- | sion as the philippic of Senator Stewart at Oakland in 1869 in favor of the Chinese, which desecrated our | national anniversary. | Mr. Estee is the Handy Andy of the Pacific Coast. He can be safely relied upon to commit any possible | blunder upon any public occasion. During the last | sion of the Legislature he blatantly advocated the | T strong desire to see something of real value to the | taken up the cause of peace is shown by the recent cause of peace achieved by the movement now under way. London, being the center of the commerce and finance of the time, is naturally the point at which peace propositions are most cordially received, and accordingly public.sentiment there is more sanguine cf good results from the conference than that of per- haps any other large city. The earnestness with which the British people have statement of the Bishop of London: “No subject has been received with such complete enthusiasm and | unanimity as this subject of the promotion of peace; there is no subject on which the English people have been approached for a long time in which they have | -shown such deep interest. And this is the more re- | markable, for the English public are not given to the | expression of ideas in the abstract.” Mr. Balfour, leader of the House of Commons, didacy of Dan Burns, and thus involuntarily helped the public by contributing to his defeat. He has now set up a non-existing administration policy, | and by his unsolicited contribution to the numerous misrepresentations of the attitude of the Government i has furnished nutritious arguments against his own | opinions i It would be tedious to follow Mr. Estee through | his labyrinthine fulmination. But a few of his sen- tences may be profitably segregated and their ab- | surdity exposed. Evidently misled by the Examiner’s | perversions of Thomas Jefferson, instead of deriving | his information from original sources, he directly re- | verses that great statesman’s expressed opinions and | presents countrie: m as an advocate of expansion in foreign | He then oracularly states that “the nation | will grow fastest which offers to the world the best ' government and the greatest amount of good unoc- | | cupied land.” This correct proposition, the most ob- | vious argument for adherence to our constitutional | system, and for the development of the American re- | | public on this continent, is one of Mr. Estee’s rea- ! sons for insisting upon Asiatic expansion! What rot! | It is beyond controversy that unless revolutionized by { the imperialists we have the “best government” in existence, and that there is abundance of “good un- occupied land” in California, in Tex: in Arizona and in the greater part of the Union. We have land ! and resources that would easily support five hundred | millions of Americans, living in harmony and if | + prosperity under their constitutional Government. As the Philippine archipelago is far more densely | populated than the United States, even if the climate | were not prohibitory to our farmers and our horti- cultu there is no room for them in that unin- viting and distant group of Asiatic remnants. Mr. Estee also follows the monotone of expansion in | attempting to analogize ouir unsuccessful management | a few scattered Indian tribes in this vast continent | to the task of subduing and governing ten millions of Filipinos. If our own concerns are insufficient to | satisfy our energy and our cupidity, and there is a | demand that this Government should become a politi- | cal missionary, extending freedom by the use of ar- tillery, it would be preferable to take up the cause of the Armenians or the Finns and enforce our civiliza- | tion upon the Turks gnd the Russians. | In another part of his address he wantonly abused | every American citizen who, in opposition to -the| policy of ¢ expansion, has exercised his inalien- | able rights, guaranteed by the Declaration of Inde- |} pendence and by the constitution. He paraphrased | the observation of General Merritt that we have “out- grown the constitution” into the weaker expressicn | -that we have “grown beyond our youthful restraints,” | and characterized millions of Amerieans, who are | simply loyal to their institutions, as “the enemies of | our country.” He also falsified the record by saying: | “We would have had no war with. the Filipinos if | tisfied Americans had not sought to make the Filipinos believe that we were bent on their oppres- sion This is a nice assertion to make and a nice | doctrine to-be proclaimed by an aspiring politician | | who has frequently and unsuccessfully solicited the suffrages of his feliow citizens. In 1882 and again in t 1806 Mr. Estee should have announced his opinion | that dissatisfaction among Americans and the free discussion of questions affecting their constitution and their national palicy should be suppressed be- | cause they tended to encourage semi-barbarism six | thousand miles away own He was twice and overwhelmingly beaten as it If he had revealed his conversion to despotism | his first defeat would have been his last. Finally Mr. Estee uses the mercenary argument as a sort of climax to his partisan harangue on a day sacred to American nationality: “We have bought these islands and paid for them when we could have got them by conquest.”” We purchased the abstract pretensions of Spain to the Philippines and found that we had secured no element of title, not even naked possession. We are now engaged in the ap- plication of imperial ‘precedents in the distinct line of | conquest. This may have been forced upon us by | the treaty of Paris. But, if we had been contented with the crushing victories over Spain, had returned to our ordinary business of enlarging and improving | citizenship, had maintained the Monroe doctrine, had | adhered rigidly to our own principles and had con- | secrated ourselves afresh to the fulfillment of our | legitimate mission, the Filipinos would not have been | ! puzzled by their relegation, in their own home, to the | | ranks of “‘rebels” and “insurgents,” and there would | | have been no effort to ingrait imperial shoots on the American vine, rooted in our revolutionary epoch.and | yielding delicious fruits to humanity. & | Mr. Estee is welcome to his witches' caldron of | contradictory sentiments. The Call prefers its Americanism and the peaceful expansion of consti- tutional liberty. to resist invasion on their s soil. | was. BACKING T;IE PEACE CONFERENCE. 1 F the coming peace conference fail to accomplish anything of good for the world it will not be for lack of support among the people in any part of | the civilized world. Peace associations of all kinds | have been busily engaged in a campaign of education | on the subject ever since the Czar's invitation to the | | powers was first made public, and arrangements have | been prepared for making an international demon- | stration of peace sentiment during the sessions of the conference. - As was to have been expected, the lead in the in- ternational demonstration has been taken by the ladies. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, the American'mem- ber of “The International Peace and Arbitration Commission,”” has sent out circulars announcing that Lsimu]taneous meetings of women will be held May 15 in the more important towns all over the civilized world.”, It is the programme that at'the meetings the women will proclaim their universal and unanimous idea of peace and the promotion of the principle of justice (instead of force) in the international relations of peoples. Besides, they will interchange addresses . of sympathy with all the other women gathered for | the same cause and at the same hour in other coun- tries. The support given to the conference, however, will not be confined to that extended by the ladies of the international demonstration and by professional peace world -and 4n the -higher circles of statecraft-a | not to be extinguished it would be at least greatly.| | clothing and food supply? | i i has made himself conspicuous also among the san- | guine promoters of the cause. In a speech a short | time ago he declared his conviction that if war were diminished. He then went on to say: “Since the | conclusion of the great revolutionary wars this coun- try has only once been at war with a civilized power. | That is to say, in a period of more than eighty years | our peace with the civilized nations of the carth has |- only been disturbed for a single period oi about three | years. Compare that with what went on in the last | A man of 40 at the present time has never | in this country.” i There is no: gainsaying the strength of public sen- timent in favor of peace. All the same, the suppres- | sion of Finland has been accomplished, the nations | 2o on increasing their armaments, and so small a| matter as a witty speech on the part of a witty cap- | tain of the navy so arouses the war passions of a great people like the Germans that they are ready-to tax | themselves to build up a greater navy just to relieve | their feelings. GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS. century seen wa Los Angeles is a sort of Aaron's rod club, called “The New Democracy,” which is organized for the purpose of swallowing all the other tions, fragments, crowns, scepters, creeds, platforms, muniments of power and evidences of authority in the party. In conformity to its high title, it is new, if fresh. There have been new movements in the party be- | fore, but they were simply in the form of changes in its drill, tactics, manual of arms and field formation. Such was Vallandigham’s *“Dayton platform,” in | which, after the war, he amnestied and forgave the | Republican party and advised taking up issues | fac- not | of | revenue and matters that did not relate to the Civil War, its cause, continuance and result. ‘But the Los Angeles newness is newer than anything that’ has | heretofore been proposed. The club had announced | itself for all the new ideas in finance. It must be | confessed that these ideas are very old, have been | often tried and abandoned as unscientific and un- tenable. But the Los Angeles club has just heard of | them, and therefore they are new to it. | It has been | known ever since the troglodytes rubbed sticks to- gether and made a fire that it would burn any finger | that is stuck into it, but this knowledge is new to every child that is born and finds it out by trial. The club, however, does not stop at its financial discoveries. It is not content with its childlike faith that the stamp of the Government can turn fifty cents’ worth of property into a dollar’s worth. It craves for more new things. Mayor Phelan has these on tap in the form of public ownership of public utilities. On Wednesday night he appeared before the club and exhibited his list, whereupon the club, without leaving its several seats, amended its constitution so as to call for Government ownership of telegraphs, telephones, transportation, wharfage facilities and postal savings banks, and municipal ownership of water, lighting and street railroad plants. One is surprised that the club stopped with this sumptuous programme. If there is anything neces- sary to human existence it is food, fuel and shelter. Why chase monopoly out of the freight business, run it off the wharf and drive-it away from the well and the gas house and leave it to monopolize tenements, Already the pernicious principle of the trust has seized the prune and raisin product of this State, and henceforth our mince pie is of the humble varie eaten in tribute to a trust, and our stewed prunes are fed to us out of the hand of the monopoly. The wool and cotton trusts may be on our backs, and against whom have reformers said harder things than the landlord, who criminally erects houses and wickedly rents them to the poor? A man may live long and never ride on a street car, and may nightly retire by the flickering candle | or the moonbeam’s misty light. But he must have some “duds” and a house to live ig. One is aston- ished that the progressive Mayor paused in the mid- career of his state communist fight. He should in- clude the real utilities, withott which life is impos- sible. Give us state tenement houses, municipal bread | and butter and beefsteak, Government potatoes and gravy. Let the state no longer confine its tailor busi- ness to the striped misfits that cover those who serve it involuntarily and without consideration, but let it | set up as snip to all mankind and womankind, too. When a lady wants a tailor-made suit let her file her plan and specifications with the Secretary of State and receive her vestments at the hands of a Govern- ment messenger boy, who travels over a state rail- road and gets his pay out of the treasury. The noble Romans -did as well. The state bought triticum and triturated it in a state mill and baked loaves in a state oven, and the grangers all went to town to feed on state bread, and had nothing to ‘do but talk politics and mash the heads of each other. The new Democracy is at Los Angeles far on the road tq the Roman plan. Can it be taken as an ac- cident or shall it be accepted as a sign and portent that there is also at Los Angeles a general who has crossed the Rubicon? Where be the soothsayers? Will not some one bag and unbowel a gull and study the peristaltic signs of its interior? The new Democracy is abroad in the land, and so are other troubles. Where is Zadkiel and his almanac? - 3 soon | | If the story be true that the publication in Germany of Coghlan’s song about the Kaiser has had the effect of inclining the people to favor the scheme of increasing the navy, then our German cousins have -taken the joke entirely too seriously. It was intended the burden of the ditty should be a josh and not an increase of taxation. et B When the police have effectively closed the gam- bling rooms that have been running opely, it will be a good plan to start after those which have been working on the sly—but not so very sly as to be out of reach of any one wishing to gamble. ——— ; The report that the forces of Aguinaldo have been routed again probably means they have moved out of the way of our rifles to another hiding-place in the ing force as ever., |A. Vetter’s Son Killed | against the garbage crematory, testimony | to the effect that the fumes | whose sho { Mrs. Vetter were obl LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. HOXDAOROKO* O THE FIBER INDUSTRY IN CALIFORNIA. a recent banquet, remarked 3 things and pointedly .Italy and other To the Editor of The Call: C. P. Huntington, a that in California we are neglecting many most important named that of the fiber industry. which in France, C‘;ietx:m;m)'v European countries is very highly regarded and cared for. . 3 Why s it totally neglected here? Have we no land suitable for it, no (lg‘[e,:‘:h“’; eager for the employment it gives and no capital ready nor citizens (}1;1 '(;‘ s enough to develop so legitimate and profitable an industry, which, having (1 world for its market, is capable of almost unlimited expansion? ~We Bave S0 these, and feel sure it only necessary to point the facts out clearly to 0'11'.(1nt proper attention by our enterprising capitalists and land owners to this imports matter. ; Our farmers now find little profit in the old-time cereal current prirlr"‘es are scarcely Worth growing They are looking for new ?nghfl";‘g rofitable crops to raise, hence the successful attention that is now 78" g Be given to sugar beets. fiax and hemp, all of which are vearly Increasing. % Flax is a good, profitable crop for gur rich, moist lands, easily raised, an with recently improved machines bids fair to occupy before long a prominen placé in our farmers’ weeding required to insure its succ regard. Its great and almost only drawback is the hand i o and that of sugar beets. But no haons(: weeding is needed for the growth of flax’s twin sister, hemp. This is m{e most profitable crop that our farmers can put into the ground. There is no jntensive }armlnx required, no difficulty in the germination of seed, as in the case Off :ugz;j beets; no expensive hand weeding, as is nece with flax. = All our drml“ know:well how to prepare their land and how to seed and cover and later mow grain for hay close to the ground. This is exactly the procedure for hemp. s;' ece moist, loamy land—island, river bottom or irrigated is hest—prepare well as if for grain-hay, and about Aprii 15 to May 31 sow broadcast fully one to one and a half bushels per acre of good Japanese hemp seed—if possible grown one year in this State to in: its youth and fecundity—and nothing more is needed until 9 to 100 da elve to fifteen feet high stalks are cut down by the crops, which at low usual mo . The stalks are at present then rotted or ‘‘retted” in the fiol}l by the winte: rains, and about March or April are stacked in heaps, dried by the sun and then decorticated by a very crude machine into 1500 pounds per acre of dark, poor hemp “fiber,” which sells locally to Eastern buyers at about 4 cents per pound here free on board cars hcre.. This pays $60 per acre, of which 330 covers all expenses, leaving 330 net profit, a fair result, but handicapped by the long walt ¢f nine months after harvest before the farmer gets his pay and labor, as well as by the i to the quality .cf the hemp fiber hy t exposure to weather and the de tive method of decorticatio But all this is, learn, to be avoided in the near future, as a few public-spirited citizens are making a most praiseworthy effort to make and put in the field next harvest some of the latest improved and weil vouched for new decorticators. These ma- chines do rapid and effective work in the field the day the hemp alks are mowed down, securing one-third more fiber per acre of double the old quality and lue, besides saving nine months’ delay to the farmer in receiving payment. This higher quality sells for § cents a pound East, and thus nearly doubles the farmer’s profit per acre, which will no doubt and rapidly = increase our ‘hemp acreage and our farmers’ and la prosperity. We therefore be- gpeak for this movement from our c ttention and favor its merits and benefits deserve, and wish it heartil succe NISTER. izens the ev BAN TAKES UP THE B ROWN MAN'S BURDEN. To the Editor of The Call-Dear Sir: T see by your editorial page that The Call is the most fearless paper in San Francisco, and that you are fair enough to publish letters from the people whether they voice your sentiments or not. Therefore 1 hope you will be kind enough to publish this reply to some editorials which appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. After reading the Chronicle’s editorials of April Object Lesson in Expansion,” the latter,."Little Re that the Chronicle is following the advice of R. W what you think to-day, even though you contradict ;l'a say the least, it 1s pretty hard to tell which side s 23 and 2, the former, “An one would think son, who said, “‘Say you said yesterday. fence the Chronicle what of the on. In its editorial of takes our acquisition from Mexico in 1847 as “An Object Lesson in and tries to make it a parallel case with the one which now confr It is true that our acquisition from Mexico proved to be a wise policy, but the Chronicle does not mention the di of gold, which turned the eyes of the whole world and started the t of tens of thousands of feet in the direction of the Gold fornia to step into the sisterhood of States without the a_territorial .government, thereby becoming the bright ines about 1200 islands, aggregating 114000 square great republic. There P miles, w y three-fourths as large as the State of California, and they now have a population of 10,000,000 halfcivilized people. Think of it! Take three-fourthis of California and put 10,000,000 people on it and place 6300 miles away and then what would be the solé advantage in retaining it? Nothing but its commerce. There could he no other advantage. previous formation of ved Athena of this And now (aside from national digni v we have already put our foot into it and to back out is cowardly) I say'is ll(}:flnd policy tor a republic that was born in the blood of rebellion. and that could never have thrown off the shac. kles of oppression had it not been for the aid of foreign power, is it good policy, I repeat, for a republic that has so dearly learned the blessings of freedom and self-government to subjugate a poor, do trodden, tax-eaten and battle-heaten people who are fighting for self-govérnment and a freedom that is peculiarly adapted to their own understanding, vea, a subjugation that must come at the expense of, ma!nl:\inh’!f an army of 100,000 and may be 300,000 men, a great per- centage of whom will lay down their lives at their post of duty? Yours truly, San Francisco, May 4, 1899. G. EALY. DEWEY DAY AT MOUNT TAMALPAIS, To the Editor of The Call: There was no trouble or dissatisfaction of any kind at the Mount Tamalpais Military Academy in connection with the ob- servance of Dewey day. Our headmaster, Mr. Crosby, is an enthusiastic Ameri- can and a strong supporter of the administration and its policy toward the Phil- ippine Islands. There were excellent reasons which satigfied the boys, as well as the masters, against taking a whole holiday on that day. Respectfully yours, ALMER MAYO A\'E&"HALi, ARTHUR W. FOSTER JR. CHARLES W. CORBALEY, AL IPPEAL WILL DEATH FLOATING INTHE FUMES 0 BURNT GARBAG by a Nuisance. Democrats. —— : e THE FATHER'S PITIABLE TALE |PHELAN DEEPLY INTERESTED —_—— 5 { 4 SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY BE- HE WIRES THE COMMITTEE ASK- FORE JUDGE HEACOCK. ING DELAY. Nauseating Stenches, Charred Bits of Paper and Disgusting Rags Floating Over a Large Easy for the Members to Grant the Mayor’s Re- Area of the City. quest. e gon sl Testimony of the most damaging char- | ‘Mayor Phelan is aware,” apparently acter was given before Commisioner Heacock v United States that there is “somethin’ doi terday morning gether to his benefit. from the smokestack of the Sanitary Reduction Works were dealing death and disease around the neighborhood. The testimony is being taken by Commissioner Heacock for Judge Moorrow of the United States | Circuit Court, to be submitted for the purgn!e of the trial. * The onel W. P. Sullivan Jr., who showed | telegram A Knotty Problem for from’ his Honor containing the *| $ @ * @ ¥4 @*@*@*@*O*Q*@*@*Q*O*O*Q*O*o' BE FOUGHT 0UT The Absence of a Quorum Makes It | n' "' in Dem. | | ocratic politics that may not inure alto- | He was in Los ‘,\nkeles vesterday at the hour scheduled | for the meeting of the executive commit- | tee of the Democratic State Central Com- | mittee, but he manifested enough inter- | est in the event to be répresented by Col- a witness who gave the most sensa- | Teduest that the committee should ad- tional testimony of the day was August journ to some date at which he could be Vetter, a blacksmith and horseshoer | present. is on Ninth street, between | Bryant and Brannan. Mr. Vetter swore | that shortly after the so-called sanitar crematory had been put in operation his | and son, a robust, healthy boy of 18 vears of Thursday age, was taken sick. octor was called | Californ i dnd he declared that ‘the cause of the | Cpyormt boy's sickness was the fumes from the smokestack of the crematory. sickness lJasted for three months, at the end of which period he died. Vetter said that whenever the wind blew from the southeast the most sicken: ing odors were carried into his residence | through the windows and doors. In fact s0.great was the nuisance that Mr. and ot aAL? ns | entire committee of one hundre accounts for his desire Hotel. and @ W. J. dows closed tightly a‘fl night, every nigh: in the week, without regard to the direc- The fact that there was not a auorum of the members present made it | €asy to comply with the Mayor's request | the meeting adjourned until next | afternoon at 2 o'clock at the | { dental. | have been done in fun? Phelan’s interest in the meeting of the | The boy's | committee is accounted for by the knowl- | edge that that body ‘proposes to take up | ose in some way of the appeal of | ) eaney, in which he asks the State | Central Committee to declare the -local | committee of one hundred to be an ille- | %nl and undemocratic hody: The fact that | Phelan is, to all intents and purposes, the | . readily to be present | tion of the wind, for that might change | ;"h%n his political existence is being men- | ced. appeal is bein, shows beyon when they were asleep and allow stench from the burning garbage to per- meate the air of the house. Not only had | they to contend with that, but they were | annoyed and their health was endangered | by bfts of charred paper and rags flying | in at the windows and littering the yard | whenever the wind happened to be blow- | ing in their direction. Vetter added that the nuisance had become so unbearable that he had been obliged to begin @ suft | in the Superior Court to have the crema- | tory abated. | This testimony was taken in the suit of the Sanitary Reduction Works of San | Francisco and others against the Califor- nia Reduction Company and others to | ?revem the defendant from continuing in | he business of burning garbage, the com. plainant alleging that by the terms of a contract made with the Board of Super- | visors the sanitary works had the exclu- siye privilege of burning all the garbage collected in San Francisco and of charg ing h "fih(‘ taking of testimony will be conclud- ed in a day or two, and the transcript will | then be delivered to Judrfe Morrow for ‘his | erusal. Amon? the defendants are a arge number of scavengers who ‘are ac- cused of re!ualn%‘m take their loads to the sanjtary works and who insisted on having them burned at the opposition es- tablishment. the t 3 "o quection, even: if Mann and other members of the execu clusion that the hundred should be diss pated in the interest of party harmon do with it. The supporters of tions that they are in the majority—wi answer this contention with the othe mittee, that body of it - were Chairman Seth Mann, Prison DI Los Angeles and J. L. Gallagher. cino an those of Kassin of Santa Cruz and bar of Sonoma. it he mere fact that the Heaney | aken up at this late date | | Wwere not rumored about, that Chairman | tive committee have arrived at the con- 1i T, that, as the hundred was organlzeg at the direction of the State Central Com- certainly has contro! At the meeting yvesterday there were only four of the members of the execu- te scavengers a fee for that service, | tive committee present in the flesh. They s rector R. M. Fitzgerald, C. C. erg};} of our | others were represented by proxies, Mann holding those of J. H. Sewell of Mendo- d J. J. Dwyer, Gallagher ho}t)ilng un- The meeting was short, Manh notifying the members of the com- Phelan, of course, is expected to fight | the appeal on the ground that his hun- dred is a local and not a State political | body, for which reason he will claim the State Central Committee has nom!ng!fig‘ Heaney resolution—and there are indica- | the Heaney appeal S#Q ittee of the receipt of the telegram from HOROKOEBEOXOAOROLDROROHOXDH DN OOKOKOROXOKDHOXOHOK RO % | 1;“ helan, and suggesting that, as notice of the meeting had been malled to the Mayor during his absence, it migth}})’-* a ad- good plan to accede to his request, were no objections, and a moti journ untll next Thursday was Prison Director Fitzgerald voicing sentfment that at that time the c tec should take up and finally AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. D, L. Deal and wife of San Jose are guests at the Grand. Needham, an attorney of Modesto, ng at the Lick, George of Sacrame is wife. George M. HMi % engir Auburn, is ma Lick his . two prominent mining men of Leadvil le, Colo. guests at the Russ. Charl ile dairyman and rancher o is regis- tered at the J. Maleville mining man, and S. 2 ATt of Moss Landing, tithe Grana. Frank Barrett of who has extensive oil inter the southern part of the State, is d at the Licl James D. Spever, t on a ten days'. | Valley. He is accompar General Hubbard, first v the Southern Pacific, I Portland, en route t York. David William shier of the Bank, and A. Nichols and M mining men of Leadville, Colo. the arrivals at the Russ. ¢ arrived from istered at the He was an officer on board nited States ship Golden Gate before being | transferred to this coast. | . Fred J. Schiotfeld of Grand Isla Nebr., who is on his way to Manila, reg- istered at the Californi: Schlotfeld, who is a member of the Co missary Department, served under Coi- onel Bryan. Whitney Warren of New York, one of the eleven successful architects in the first competition for designs of the new university buildings to be donated Ly Mrs. Hearst, is a guest at the Palac Mr. Warren comes to study the topography of the proposed site and to collect other in- formation to aid him in perfecting the final designs which he will submit. 8. Fujita, a representative of the Tokio Btreet Railway, arrived from Washington last evening and registered at the He was accompanied by T. jita, a member of the paymaste partment of the Japanese navy former has been on an extended visit East ating the street much im- and for the purpose of investi, railway systems. He was ve pro d with the air motor tem thinks it will be used by his com He will leaye in a day or two for Japan and will report his investigations. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 4.—George Warford of San Francis¢o is registered at the Grand. P. B. 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