The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1899, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY JUNE 13, 1899. @ all E 13, 1899 " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. o W. S. LEAKE, Manager. TUESDAY . JUN Address All Communications t PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., 8. F Telephone Matn 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.... 217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1ST4. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage DATLY CALL (including Sunday Call). one yea: 86.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 mont! 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 monthi 1.50 DAIL ALL—By Single M 650 SUNDAY CALL One Year. 1.60 WEEKLY CALT, One Year. 1.00 tmasters are authorized to weceive subscriptions. coples will be forwarded when requested. GAKLAND OFFICE........ ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building C. GEO. KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. r Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 tel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE S Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untl! 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street, open untii 10 o'clock. 229! Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o’'clock. 2518 Hission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. _—m AMUSEMENTS. El Capitan.” ille. Madame Angot fes, Vaudeville ev fternoon and Ellis strects )., Market street Specialties near Eighth Pan Bat- 12 Bay Baths tate rama f Ma Sut Swimming ay Hall— L John W. Taylor to-night. AUCTION SALES. Doyle. 1 o hureda lock, t | & Co—Thursday, June 23, at 10 a. m., Fremont streets, Planing Mill Machinery. RAILROAD SANDLOTISM. organ of the railroad and sandlot Saturday last was in an enjoyment. It clapped its HiE comb ation on cy vulgar cked up its heels, threw of its diversified infatua- could scarcely have Its recent fears must layed and it must have been ¢ wave of righteous indignation that rupt representatives in the Board d in other quarters had subsided the railroad lly reveled in proletarianism ustrated. its cor haracter of vspaper agencies is that of a bully. When eople rose in indignation at the obtrusion of Huntington's candidate for the | they were promptly slapped in The same course was pursued when the et ) Mr. Federal Senatorship, directed its ‘'munici- te to it in one bunch what- vileges San Francisco still re- 1ort time, however, the emblematical stilled this sandlot clamor in the Supervisors and a violent demand ily reduced to a comparatively modest Railway Company 1emp ywever, the original instinct for oped by incessant practice for ed its controlling power over d monopoly. It roared and lied ts and beat the air until it produced one It did t lying about Judge Bur- Vrooman act is unconstitu- that asse old-fashioned “tempests in a teapot.” dec: the ymparatively that perverted ruling into an ginar m to the new charter. But, on the rkscrew nchise, it outdid itseli. This com- had supposed that the attempted resuscita- doned franchises on Geary street, between Taylor and Grant avenue, through an application for | 1l privileges was designed to forestall the ter- the which' the treet railway is now operated and to deprive i a possible boulevard. It had also been part of the associated. villainies But the evening mouthpiece of cable franchise under oned. ailway emitted a blast upon this subject that » deafen all the jackasses in town. It red that the “corkscrew” should pull municipal cork out -of Geary street, amidst the loud acclamations of “property-owners, merchants and thus reduced to unassimilating groups, but reason that from Taylor street to four blocks and that, under the law, Iway could occupy the tracks for five, The particular competing railway referred to is the treet cable line, of which the Market Street was enough not only dec 1 citizens,” signed a Grant avenue i competing Geary for seven blocks from the intersection of Kearny street to the city front. It i pparent that the crushed spirit of the mon- d that it actually deludes itself with the belief that the public suppose the Market Street Railway Company and the Geary Street Rail- ay Company to be competitors, that an auction sale cf the new franchises within the twists of the “cork- screw” would attract more than one bidder, and that the protest of the Merchants’ Association is a forgery. apoly is reviving In official circles in Hawaii President McKinley is undoubtedly regarded as the best man that ever held the position. He has given orders there shall be no elections in the islands this fall, and all office- holders shall continue to hold and to draw salaries until further notice. 1bassador Choate’s latest public appearance was at a “charity dinner” in London, and in his speech he said that on his return home he would introduce charity dinmers here, so we have now one strong rea- son for hoping he will hold his job until he dies.- With Dreyfus going home from Devil Island and Paty du Clam in prison, it is clear those who predicted the affair would result in a revolution have some rea- son to boast their prophecies have been fulfilled. The Dewey monument fund subscriptions now ex- ceed $30,000, and the question of the hour is, Have you made your contribution yet? 7 —— John D. Rockefeller could not have been so much pleased with San Francisco as he pretended, for we notice he didn’t buy it Unfon Square; | I505 Polk street, open | sand in every direc- | impressed | and | iilway Company owns 6o per cent of the capital | tock, as it also owns the tracks on Market street | \ THE LAW? l I Fargo & Co. to compel its patrons to bear the | transmitted by express, under an act of Congress | The propriety and the validity of the law were be- ‘\HRE EXPRESS COMPANIES ABOVE | § HE CALL early and repeatedly has referred to the illegal and unpatriotic attempt of Wells, [cost of the internal revenue stamps, temporarily | exacted by the Federal Government on packages | passed to raise extraordinary revenue during the war | with Spain. | yond dispute. Nor has there ever been any serious | question that the infinitesimal tax was due from com- | mon carriers, engaged in the business of transporting | | packages, and not from their customers. The lan- | guage of the act is plain and any other construction ‘ni its terms would be absurd. As we have frequently | observed also such judicial decisions as have been ’actually rendered have almost uniformly sustained the | views we have expressed. | The united action of the press has produced some | effect even upon so hardened, though so recent, a sinner as Wells, Fargo & Co. Press bundles are forwarded without the imposition of the burthen of the internal revenue charge. In other directions also the express corporation has yielded to the sugges- i‘linns of policy. But it has only “stooped to con- quer.” Practically and essentially it defies the law }:*nd the governmeént in the most inexcusable forms in | | which such defiance can be expressed or acted. Inspired and governed by the identical policy that Mr. Huntington invariably applies in his railroad management, in respect to litigation pending as we | understand the fact both in State and Federal courts, 'it has adopted the Fabian tactics of delay. An au- | | thoritative and final decision could have been easily land promptly obtained if Wells, Fargo & Co. had acted in good faith and upon business rules which ‘mtrrh:\ntc and other ordinary citizens recognize. :Bm it has successfully managed indefinitely to post- pone a result that it knows to be inevitable, and, while we do not suppose that the courts aided the iplan of procrastination, certainly their acquiescence has facilitated a practice of pilfering that is equally | condemned by statutory law and by the moral code. While Congress and the executive department of | the Government, so to speak, are “held up” by Wells, ‘Far;zn & Co., it continues, with a multitude .of dis- criminations that in themselves are a wholesale in- fraction of the rule of absolute equality applicable ltn common carriers, to transfer every possible cent of internal revenue stamp expenditure from itself to the public. It exceeds even this measure of iniquity |for it favors or punishes individuals according to their independence or their submissiveness. A study of the grain rate schedule lately ratified by the obse- Guious Railway Commission, where large reductions are made in places from which no grain is shipped and the centers of grain production, away from rail- road competition, plundered, will convey a fair idea | of the tyrannous contempt for law that Wells, Fargo | & Co. shares with Mr. Huntington. 2 The most perfect illustration of equality before the law that can be derived from textbooks and from au- thorities is its application to common carriers, which deal with large numbers of people of every class, oc- cupation and business. Discrimination by common carriers, especially when exercised arbitrarily and | from motives of mere cupidity or revenge, is insup- | portable under a free and stable government. Yet this is the rule that for thirty years Mr. Huntington has imposed upon this State and which Wells, Fargo & Co. is now tenaciously enforcing. The relations | between this corporation and the people for forty | years or mare were substantially harmonious. It is infortunate that they are now so rudely and so un- | necessarily disturbed. | ‘We insist that the courts move with reasonable celerity in the revenue stamp litigation and end the delay which covers persistent robbery. All citizens, | moreover, who respect themselves and the laws to the | making of which they have contributed, should stand upon. their rights and refuse to yield to illegal and unconscionable exactions. A good beginning was made yesterday in the Cir- cuit Court of the United States when, upon the ap- plication of Attorney General Ford, Judge Morrow | sent back to the Superior Court the petition for a mandamus filed by Attorney General Fitzgerald to compel Wells, Fargo & Co. to stamp and transmit a package deposited injorder to make a test case. This is a substantial victory that should be vigorously followed up. THE VROOMAN ACT. N The Call of April 9, 1899, the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Village of Norwood vs. Baker was referred to as being of far-reaching importance in its application to street improvements. At that time we pointed out the fact that qur own Supreme Court had merci- fully held that on that kind of work nothing more than the land itself could be confiscated, and that, where the value of a lot was insufficient to pay:the assessment, there could be no judgment against the owner for the deficiency, but that in the Village of Norwood vs. Baker, upon grounds arising under the Federal constitution, the intelligible rule had been established that no recovery against property-owners for a street improvement could be had unless the re- sulting benefits substantially covered the assessment, cr under a statute which did not provide for an in- | quiry into the fact. Since that article was written, in the case of Peta- luma Paving Company vs. Singley et al.,, Judge Bur- | nett, one of the Superior Judges of Sonoma County, upon the authority of the decision above mentioned, has declared the Vrooman act of 1883, as subsequently amended, to be unconstitutional, on the ground that it authorizes the expense of street improvements to be levied upon adjoining lots by the front foot and with- out reference to benefits. The judgment will have to stand the test of the Supreme Court of this State, but the full opinion of Judge Burnett has been published and it very strongly supports his conclusion. The Vrooman act has been considered by our Supreme Court in numerous cases and upheld against at- tacks upon its constitutionality arising under particu- lar sections of the State constitution, and for a num- ber of years it has been the established law of this State. But in the case of Davies vs. the City of Los statute of 1889, providing specially for the opening, {widening and closing of streets, which for these pur- poses was modeled upon the Vrooman act, was un- der fire, Chief Justice Beatty, in his concurring opinion, declared that statute unconstitutional be- cause “it permits assessments upon the property sup- posed to be benefited in excess of the benefits.” The learned Chief Justice thus anticipated the decision upon which Judge Burnett has founded his important ruling. The principle upon which adjoining property- owners have been forced to pay for improvements upon unaccepted streets and, within specified districts, the cost of opening or widening streets, is that the work enhanced the value of their lots to a degree that substantially corresponded with or surpassed the pamount of the assessments. It is manifest that this Angeles (86 California Reports, pp. 57-58), where the- principle is.obliterated and arbitrary confiscation .substituted when the question of benefits is ignored.- It is now settled that State legislation that produces I this result is directly in' violation of article XIV, sec- | tion 1, of the amendments to the Federal constitution, ! which inhibits the States from depriving any person of his property without due process of law. Many decisions throughout the United States toler- ating the appropriation of city lots for the benefit of speculators and contractors, and some of them, aiter « lien has been exhausted, going so far as to justify | personal judgments for deficiencies against property- owners, have been wiped out of existence by the | just and salutary ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States. The fate of Judge ‘Burnett's decision will be awaited with great interest. It is sincerely to be hoped that several recent decisions upon which The Call has commented, and which are clearly for the public welfare, and rest upon propositions. that are as intelligible to the ordinary citizen as'to the bar and to the bench, may- be allowed to exercise their full weight and influence and that they may not be :emascuxated through ‘the subtlety or the ingenuity of | corporations or street improvement rings: ; ANOTHER IMPERIALIST CRITIC. A THER correspondent raises an ‘issue about the occupancy of the Philippines. He appears to believe that we began the war on Spain, not ‘m right the wrongs of the people whom she op- | pressed, and whose aspirations for independence and self-government she had denied and defeated, but for the purpose of conquest and that “forcible annexa- tion,” which President McKinley denounces as “criminal aggression.” We need not repeat that this policy was expressly disavowed. by Congress.and the President, in the declaration of war. Nothing has occurred since to make necessary the repudiation of our solemn pledge against conquest. | Our latest critic uses the island of Panay and Span- lish occupancy of Iloilo to develop the imperialist principle of conquest and the spoils of war, as an ex- cuse for practicing “criminal aggression,” where we had promised the Cubans, Porto Ricans and Fi | pinos, and pledged the world, that we would appear | only as a good Samaritan. Now as to the facts about Luzon and Panay. | Luzon was entirely in the hands of an organized na- | tive government, except Manilatand a narrow zone around the bay, when Dewey went there. The na- | tives closely invested Manila and Spanish sovereignty | | extended no farther from the water’s edge and the | | walls of the city than a rifle shot. It is doubtful if Montijo had in all the Spanish fleet a gunner who could have hit the island, unless by accident. If the :dnrn‘inc of the spoils of war is to prevail, the Filipinos | have the best title to Luzon, because they were born there, they own the land and by force had ended panish jurisdiction over most of it without any help There was the same situation in Panay. | The Spanish held only the capital, Iloilo; the natives | had taken all the rest away. After we had forced Spain to treat for peace, the natives continued their investment of Iloilo and finally forced the Spanish | General Rios, to surrender to them, which he did. | Our flag was not there when the flag of Spain was | hauled down. We had no military nor naval force there. The Spanish surrender to the natives made them, by the laws of war, the sovereigns of Panay. They made the conquest, forced the surrender and ended Spanish jurisdiction, themselves, with no help from us. Panay was theirs before our flag went there. As sovereignty passed over to them they proceeded ' to exercise it. Many Europeans were in Iloilo, the jnwncrs of property and managers of business enter- ‘priscs. The native government was a civilized gov- | ernment, able to protect and enforce the rights of per- jsou and property. It performed its public, govern- | mental functions so well that business proceeded and | life went on, with good order and no single case of violated rights. Not a dollar’'s worth of property was | destroyed nor was any one restrained of freedom. | We know of no way in which to prove that Spain | had sovereignty to sell in Panay. If she did, then | England has some for sale in the United States, and | can dispose of it to a syndicate of nations, which may | throw their navies upon eour coasts and begin’ bom- | bardment of our cities and blockade of our harbors, | without any declaration of war or demand upon us to | surrender. They can appear simply as the owners of what they have paid for, just as the United States appeared at Iloilo, and can do as they please with us, provided we are unable to resist them. All of Panay remained under the undisputed sover- | cignty of the native government until the army and navy of the United States appeared before Iloilo with the Spanish deed to the island. General Miller was in command of the whole expedition, but his subordi- nate, the naval officer in command of the ships, with- out notice to Miller, sent a flag ashore to notify the foreign Consuls and residents that if the city did not surrender he would wait twenty-four hours and then shell it. He hardly waited for the return of his mes- senger, but began shelling the town within two hours of his notice. At the moment his bombardment began General Miller, his superior and commander- in-chief, was in his cabin on the Newport arranging with three commissioners representing the native government of Panay, for our peaceful occupation of the island. The beginning of the shelling: ended the conference and the commissioners were detained on board. Much has been said about the Filipinos vio- lating the laws of war and disregarding a flag of truce, but we doubt whether they have ever been guilty of anything as flagrant as the shelling and de- struction of Panay. Foreign residents lost millions of dollars in property and in due time our taxpayers at home will have to pay the losses, when the claims | are proved and put in the hands of their respective governments. It appears then that on May 9, 1898, Iloilo was in possession of Spain. It was garrisoned by that sov- ereign power. It was not in the hands of the natives at that date. But it finally surrendered to them and not to us. If there are to be no differences on facts, we hope our critic will notice these facts and reconcile our shelling of Iloilo' with our declaration of war against Spain, or with any right of conquest we may hold as against her, or with any title acquired by pur- chase of her sovereignty in Panay, which she had parted with by surrender to the natives before the treaty of Paris had been ratified by either Govern- ment, and, therefore; did not have what she pretended to sell'and we pretended to buy. We can buy exactly the same title to Venice from Austria, or to-Alasace- Lorraine from France, or to the Netherlands from Spain, that she sold us to Panay and to ninety-nine hundredths of the area of the Philippine archipelago. B In their efforts to hit upon an acceptable arbitra- tion scheme the delegates to the Czar’s Peace Con- ference made one fatal mistake. They submitted too many drafts. That would explain the numerous cases of cold feet. . | from us. William F. Herrin has again shuffled the cards and the Railroad Commission has dealt the farmers of the State a new grain rate schedule.. Who will find the | “joker” in the pack? &k | ket street; pro] WANT THE MAYOR T0 BEGN AN INESTIEATION A Complaint Against Contractors. WORK ON HALL OF JUSTICE SUPERVISOR HOLLAND ACTS FOR ANGRY CITIZENS. e Preparing to Wipe Out the City’s In- debtedness for the Fiscal Year Just Drawing to a Close. SR At the meeting of the Board of Super- visors held yesterday afternoon Super- visor. Holland ifitroduced a resolution calling the attention of the Mayor and the members of the board to the numer- ous ‘delays in the completion of the con- tract for the construction of the Hall of Justice building, and also to the alleged discrimination that has been practiced against that portion of the city lying east of Kearny street and north of California. The resolution Is as follows: Whereas, In the completion of the con- tract with' Bateman Bros. to erect the Hall of Justice and Morgue buildings it is ap- parent from-the delays that have and are now being «had in the prosecution of the work, that the buflding will not be com- pleted by the first day of July, 18%; and Whereas, The contratt was awarded on December '3, 189, although the same was only executed by his Honor, James D. Phe- Jan, on January 8, 1597, after he assumed the’ dutles of Mayor of this city and coun- ty, and by reason of repeated delays, ex- tenslons of time were granted on one pre- text or another until July 1, 188, to finish and complete said contract; and Whereas, The owners of the contiguous property and in that portion of the city have been subjected to great loss, damage and inconvenience by reason of sald delay; therefore, Resolved, That the attentlon of his Honor the Mayor and ex-officio president of this board s called to the provisions of sald contract, and to the dilatory action of the contractors, and he is hereby requested to investigate' and “report in writing to this board, recommending such action as will protect the city's interest and be a sim- ple act of justice to the property owners in that section of the city. Resolved, That his Honor the Mayor's at tention is called to this fact; that this por- tion of the city—formerly its commercial center—has, through apathy and neglect of the city authorities for many years been entirely overlooked, having badly paved streets, and through the subsidence of the roadways below the grade, has induced the Dproperty owners to come to the conclusion that it results from a concerted plan to cause a depreciation of their property through ulterior motives, as permanent pavements have been lald at the public ex- pense in other portions of the:city, which from their condition did not demand an ex- penditure of the public moneye to the same extent as the streets lying east of Kearny street in the fifty-vara survey. Resolved, That In addition to the want of modern {mprovements, the property owners are and have been debarred from obtaining permission to use electricity as the motive power to insure rapid transit to all portions of this section of,the city by the streat ralroads having a franchise on the streets, without just cause, for reasons which can- not be defended, even if plausibly made, to which his Honor the Mayor's attentlon Is called. Resolved, That the imperative necessities of improving the streets, etc., In the district 1ying east of Kearny street and of affording the opportunities to the owners of property to rent or improve their property as their business interests require, is a paramount consideration and requires the representa- tive of the city and county to observe in the matter of street pavements the obliga- tions of the statute, that when a street is accepted, thereafter it shall be kept open and Improved at the expense of the oity and county, and not to impose a further burden upon the property owners; that be- fore a modern pavement shall be laid the property owners fronting on any ac- cepted block or crossing shali pay one-halt of the expense, which is contrary to the letter and spirit of the law, and the sald cobble and other pavements on the streets are allowed to remain, to the utter discom- fort, loss and damage to property owners, whereas, in the interest of the taxpayers, the funds which could be so used are de- voted to other schemes wholly unauthorized by law, and in this way, with official sanc- tion, they absorh the money which could be applied to_this purpose, to which his Honor the Mayor's attention is also called. The resolution was referred to the City and County Attorney for his opinion as to what steps should be taken in the matter. The. following resolution from the Fi- nance Committee was read and adopted and will be of interest to merchants and other creditors of the city: Resolved, That the several appropriations made by order No. 141 (second series) in the general and special fee funds, regulat ing and designating the limit of expe ditures of the various offices and depart- ments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 189, and by resolutions No. %73 and 2421 (fourth series) making a reapportionment of the several appropriations be and they are hereby suspended and set aside (ex- cept the sum of 355,000 for furnishing and properly equipping the Hall of Justice building and the further sum of $10,000 for the construction of & police station) so as to enable the Auditor and Treasurer to respectively audit and pay the demands on sald general and special fee fund as may be allowed and ordered paid by this Doard out of said géneral and special fee fund, to avold any indebtedness being car- ried ‘over at the expiration of the ‘fiscal year, it being the desire and intentlon of this ‘board with the aid of the Auditor and Treasurer to prevent the city and county from repudiating its just obligations to merchants and other créditors for merchan- dise furnished or for labor performed for the city and county; the Statutory salaries of the city and county officers being, und the decision of the Supreme Court, a con- tinuing liability which, irrespective of the year the services were performed, must te met and provided for. The hboard voted to indefinitely post- one the resolution granting permission or the alteration and repair of the prem- ises at the corner of Pacific and Stockton streets. The promoters of the ‘Hotel Nymphia” scheme proposed to alter the premises and convert the buildings into a lace of ill-repute. Father Caraher, Rev. r. Urmy and others addressed the board in opposition to the scheme. Consideration of the resolution for the repeal of the order El’ohlblung the selling of pools and the making of books on race- tracks within the limits of the city and county was indefinitely postponed by a unanimous vote. The same course was ursued in the case of the proposed or- Ser excepting coursing parks from the provisions of the race track order. PETITIONS RECEIVED. The following_petitions were referred to the Committes on Streets: Frances May Young, requesting the board to compel the laying of artificlal stone sidewalks on the north side of Broadway, between Fillmore and Stelner streets, where not already laid; Henry Kahn and Julius Levy, for permission to construct four ‘three-story bay windows on building on the southeast corner of Ellis street and Anna lane; Flinn & Treacy, for permission on behalf of property-owners to construct an eight-inch ironstone plpe sewer in_Vermont street, be- tween Seventeenth and Mariposa streets; Ig- natz C. Schmitz, for permission to erect an tron and wood bullding at 27 and 23 Main street; Peter McHugh, for permission on behalt of property-owners to grade, macadamize, etc., the westerly half of Twenty-fifth avenue, be- tween Point Lobos avenue and Clement street. C. A. Buckley, for permission to make cer- tain alterations’ and improvements in the brick bullding on the northeast corner of Grant ave. nue and Berry place; Consolidated Optical Company, for permission to project a sign two and a half feet over the sidewalk at 77 Mar- y-owners, for a reduction ot the width of the sidewalk on Bosworth street at the expense of the Market Street Railway Company; S. Gianettoni, for permlssion to make alterations in the front.of the premises at 29 Sixth street: Willlams, Belser & Co., for an extension of thirty days' time on contract to construct a sewer in Berkshire street, be- tween Diamond and the northwest line of the Southern Pacific Rallroad right of way; also for an extension of ninety days' time on con- tract to construct a sewer in Lower terrace, between Serpentine place and Pluto street, westerly from Pluto street; Henry Diener, for permission to remove & building from Frank- in street, between Clay and Washington, to McAllister, between Baker and Lyon; Federa. tion of Mission Improvement Clubs, requesting that guit be brought against the Southern Pa- cific Rallroad Company for lllegally operatin a steam raflroad across the public streets an sidewalks from Eighth street to the county line; also against Gray Brothers for illegally operating an engine and boller at the corner of Douglase and Clipper streets, for blasting in that vieinity and for maintaining rafiroad tracks across the public streets; property-owm- ers, for the extension of the pound limits to the county line; Fairmount and Glen Park Im- orovement Club, for a survey of Charles street, and Mission, Wwith the object of making said street of the width of French street and of taking proceedings to condemn the lands necessary to that end; California School of Mechanical Arts, for the grading and sewer- ing of San Bruno avenue, between TFifteenth street and Ninth and Division streets; Smith between Chene; & Young, for permission to sell and lay the | “Ready Rock” asphalt roofing on buildines in | this city without being required to lay asbestos | Perry, for | paper under the preparation; James the laying of artificial stone sidewalks on Brosnan street, between Valencla and Guerrero; J. Alex Bovyer, ment Club No. 1 of San Francisco, South, for the extension of the pound limits; Mrs. A. C. Rines, calljng attention to the dangerous con- dition’ of the premises adjoining 3516 Sixteenth | street, the fidor bf which is saturated with co: oil; Federation of Mlssion Improvement Club: for the appraisement, condemnation and pur- chase of certain lands for the purpose of a | boulevard connecting Market street at Dolores with the park panhandle; San Francisco Pav- ing Company, for permission to pave with bituminous rock, ete., Lanssat avenue, between Buchanan and Webster streets; San Francisco Paving Company, for permission to pave with | bituminous rock. etc., Belcher &treet, between | Thirteenth and Fourteenth; Patrick Reilly, that 2 contract be let for the construction of a sewer in Twenty-third street, between Rhode Island avenue and De Haro street; property-owners, for the paving of Dore street, between Bryant and Brannan. PROTESTS RECEIVED. The following protests were recelved and re- ferred to the proper committees: owners against the paving, etc., of Washington street, between First avenue and Cherry stive property owners against paving, ef street, " hetween Devisadero property ownars agafnst the laying of a four- foot sidewalk on Tenth avenue, between I and K streets; property owners agamst the grad- ing, etc., of California street, between Twenti- | eth’ and’ Twenty-first avenues; property own- ers against the laying of artifielal stone side- | walke on Spruce street, between Washington and Jackson; property owners against the grad- Ing and macadamizing of Chapultepec strect. between Virginia and Eugenia avenues and the crossing of Virginia avenue and Chapulte- pec atreét; property owners against laying of artificial stone sidewalks on Sixteenth’ street, between Church and Sanchez; property owners against laying of four-foot sidewalks on Ninth avenue, between I and K streets; property owners against the paving of the crossings of Broderick and Vallejo streets and Broderick and Green streets; Mary Flood against the construction of sidewalks on Sanchez street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets; property owners against laying of artificial stone sidewalks on Eighteenth street, between Noe and Sanchez; property owners against the grading, etc., of Stanyan street, between Twen- ty-severith and Twenty-elghth; property owners against the grading of Stanford Heights ave- nue, between New Market and Twenty-ninth streets; Twenty-seventh street, between Stan- ford Helghts and Stanyan avenue; ~Stanyan avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Twent eighth streets; Twenty-eighth street, between Stanford Heights and Twin Peaks avenues; Twin Peaks avenue, between Twenty-eighth and Valley streets; Glen avenue, between Twin Peaks and Lincoln avenues; Clara (administratrix of estate of Sarah W. Orrall, deceased) against the laying of artificial stoné sidewalks on the north side of Nineteenth . for permission to alter and | Tepalr premises at 1630 Polk street; Improve- | Property | Vallejo | and Broderick: | Faithtul | street from Collingwood street 124 feet wester- | ly, and on the west side of Collingwood street from Nineteenth street 149 feet northerly. COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED. The following communications were recelved and referred to the proper committeess: Health Officer, requesting that the matter of con- structing a sewer In Worth street, between Twenty-first and _Twenty-second, be given prompt attention; City Engineer, submitting a copy of the plans and specifications for the onstruction of a concrete culvert in Diamond treet, at the crossing of Islals Creek; Engineer, submitting plans and_specifications for improvement of Holly Park; City Engineer, submitting plans and specifications for the con- truction of an outlet sewer for the proposed ewer at the junction of Charles and Arlington streets, ete.; Clty Engineer, map showing prop- erty to be acquired for the construction of a main sewer from the westerly line of the Fair- mount Extension Homestead Tract ta and acrogs the right of way of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and also setting forth that in fixing the lines he has arranged for the ex- tension of the Arlington-street sewer to the | line of the present proposed main sewer; City Engineer, plat showing property to be ac- quired for the widening of Circuiar avenue to 70 feet and the extension of said avenue to | Diamond street; City Engineer, plans and spe- cifications for the construction of the main sewers in the Sunnyside Tract; Alfred Rosen- holz, presenting for consideration a_design of a fender for street cars; Precita Valley Im- provement Club, inquiring as to the status of their petition for an electric light at the corner of Harrison and Ridley streets; Charles Bone (agent for Flora McDermott), withdrawing his objections to the establishment of a Chinese Hospital at 828 Sacramento street; Federation of Mission Improvement Clubs, indorsing a scheme for flushing sewers and extinguishing fires by means of salt water; Merchants' As- socfation, submitting a detailed drawing of the wooden poles for suspending electric lights within the ‘‘underground dlstrict.”” instead of from span wires, and recommending that this pole be adoptedas the official pole for sus- pending street lights within sald district, ex- cept in such places as it may be desirable to use fron poles; Merchants' Association, rec- ommending the extension of the Sansome street line of railroad from its present termination at Jackson street northerly to the bay upon certain conditions. Resolutions of intention to perform work were passed as follows: That artificial stone sidewalks be laid on the north side of Myrtle avenue, between Octavia and Laguna streots, where not already laid, and except where ‘bituminous rock sidewalks are laid; ar- tificial stonp sidewalks on the south side of Bush street] between Steiner and Plerce, where not already laid, ete game on Grove street, betwcen Webster and Fillmore; same south side of ‘Sutter street, between Lyon street and Central avenue; =ame on Birch avenue, be- tween Octavia and Laguna strects; same on east side of Broderick street, between Bush and Pine; eight inch ironstone pipe sewer with two manholes and covers in Francisco street, be- tween Webster and Fillmore, to connect with sewer in Fillmore street: eight inch ironstone plpe sewer with four manholes and covers in Church lane, between Dolores and Church streets, to connect with the sewer in Dolores streat; eight inch irorstone pipe sewer with two manholes and covers in Fllbert place, be- tween Filbert and Union streets, to connect with sewer in Union street; granite curbs on Filbert place, between Union and Filbert streets, where not already lald, and that the roadway be paved with basalt blocks; that California street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first avenues, be graded to the official iine and grade and that redwood curbs be laid thereon, and that the roadway and sidewalks thereof be macadamized, except that portion re- quired by law to be kept in repair by the rafl- road company having tracks thereon; paving the roadway of Fillmore street, between Haight and Page streets with basalt blocks, where not already paved: artificial stone sidewalks on Pine street, between Buchanan and Webster streets, where not already laid, and except where bituminous rock sidewalks are laid; storm water inlets with gratings and culverts on the four angular corners of the crossing of Baker and Bay streets; storm water inlets with | gratings and culverts on the four angular cor- strest o| mers of the crossing of Baker and Francisco streets: remacadamising of certain portions of Twelth avenue, between Clement and Califor- nia streets; plank sidewalks on Baker street, between Greenwich and Lombard, where not already lald, and except where bituminous rock sidewalks are lald; artificial stone sidewalks on the east slde of Hyde street, between Val: lejo and Green, where not already laid, and except where bituminous rock sidewalks are laid; artificial stone sidewall Spruce street, Clay to Washington, where neither same nor bi. tuminous pavements are already laid; same on Pacific avenue, between Van Ness avenue and Gough street, on northerly line, where neither | same nor bituminous pavements are already laid; Jones street, between Chestnut and Fran- cisco, sixteen-inch ironstone pipe sewer with two manholes; Jones street, between Fran, sCo street and Montgomery avenue, sixteen-inch ironstone pipe sewer to connect wWith sewer in Montgomery avenue; northerly and outherly City | portions of crossing of Jones and Francisco | streets, sixteen-inch ironstone pipe crossing of easterly and westerly same, crossing and northwesterly, and southwesterly corners same pools, culverts, granite curbs stone sidewalks; northeasterly corner said crossing, granite curbs and artificial stone side. walks; Francisco street, between Jones and Leavenworth, twelve-inch Ironstone pipe sewer: Francisco street, between Jones' street and Montgomery avénue, twelve-inch sewer con. necting with sewer in Montgomery = avenue: Spruce street, between Sacramento and Clay: artificial stone sidgwalks; Henry street, bhe. tween Sanchez and Noe, gran! i e et granite curbs and bi- STREET WORK RECOMMENDED. - The Superintendent of Streets r the performance of street work s i Laying ot an Sinch fronstone pipe sewer. in reet, betw, v a R ity een Webster and Fill- erly from Webster street and running thenc westerly along center line of EFrancisso strect for a distance of 137 feet, balance of the street between Jackson and Gold street be paved with bituminous rock; artificial stone :gg:;fi;u.;odbe lmd" on mnortheasterly, north- .southwesterl - Tanterly_and 5o rly corners of cross sewe: portions southeasterly e Crossing, ce: and _artificial nous rock; artificial stone sidewalks to be laid on northwesterly and northeasterly corners of the crossing of Clay and Locust streets, road- Wway of crossing to be paved with bitum rock: artificlal stone sidewalks to he laid on northwesterly, southwesterly and southeasterly corners of cm!llnf of Laurel and Washington streets, bltumen n roadway; artificial stone sidewaik to be laid on northwesterly corner of the crossing of Castro and Seventeenth streets; Stone water inlet with grating and culvert to be constructed on the northwesterly corner of the crossing of Clement street and Sixth ave- nue; artificial stone sidewalk to be lald on tht four corners of the crossing of Dolores and Fitteenth streets, roadway paved with bitu- men; grading of Hartford street to official line and S-Inch fronstone pipe sewer be constructed therein to connect with sewer in Eighteenth Street, curbs, artificlal stone sidewalks and bi- tuminous rock pavement; roadway of the cross- ing of Chestnut and Leavenworth streets to be paved with bituminous rock: crossing of Clement street and Twenty-second street to be regraded to official line and roadway mac- adamized except that portlon required to be kept in condition by the raliroad company having tracks thereon; artificlal stone side- walk to be lald on southerly side of Post street between Devisadero and _Broderick where not already lald, etc.; artificial stone a point 137i; feet west- | Laurel streets, and that the | roadway of said crossing be paved with bitumi- | sidewalks to be laid on northerly side of Wil- low avenue between Gough and Octavia streets where not already laid, etc.; artificial stone sldewalks to be laid on westerly side of La- guna between Ellis and O'Farrell where not already laid, etc.; artificial stone sidewalks to be laid on southerly side of Eddy street be- tween Gough and Octavia where not already laid, etc.; artificial stone sidewalks to be laid on ‘easterly side of Laguna Street between Golden Gate avenue and McAllister street where_not already laid, etc.; artificial stone sidewalk on the southerly side of O'Farrell street between Laguna and Buchanan, also between Laguna and Octavia: artificial stone sidewalks to be laid on northerly side of Fil- bert street between Roach alley and Jones stréeet where not already laid, etc.; granite curbs to be laid on Washington street between Laurel and Locust where not already laid and roadway thereof to be paved with bituminous rock where not already 8o paved; granite curbs to be laid on Alabama street between Twenty- second and Twenty-third where not already laid and roadway thereof to be paved with bituminous rock where not already so paved; granite curbs to be laid on Alabama street be- tween Twent vird and Twenty-fourth streets where not already laid and roadway thereof with bituminous rock where not al- artificial stone sidewalk be wtherly side of Turk street be- and De where not already pave laid on_the tween Scott laid, ete.: artificia ‘sidawalks to be laid on northerl Post street between Oc- tavia ar t atready laid, ete. D. ORDE The tions ordering the per- form: vere passed: Paving roadway Clay and Lyon, bitu- men: artificial stone sidewalk six feet wide on Third avenue, between Clement and California streets south! where not laid, except where bituminous Iks 2o artits clal stone sidewalks on Ford hetween Noe and Sanchez. wh v laid, ete.; same cn_westerly side aks street. between Twenty-fifth and T xth, whera ete.; roadw h oa and sidewalks portion by the n: arti- rth side of Fell not already laid, at crossing of Tu street be remacadamized, required by law to be ke railroad company having ficlal stone sidewalks on street, between Polk stréet and Van Ness avenue, ‘where not already laid, etc. granite curb on Filbert stheet, between Baker and Broderick, where not already laid, and that the roadway -thereof, for a distance of seven feét south of the center line thereof be paved with basalt blotks where not already pas and the remalning portion of the roadway of Fil- bert street be paved with bitumen, where not already so paved; that roadway on Bush street, or that portion of it formerly occupied by the n street railway tracks, extending from Stocl street to Central avenue, be paved with bas blocks or with bituminous rock CONTRACTS AWARDED Contracts for the performance of street work were awarded as follows: City Street Improve- ment’ Company, for grading Bernal Park and contiguous_s 17% cents per.cubic vard: Williams, Belser & Co.. plank sidewalks on W er street between Mason and Taylor, where already lald, etc., 40 cents per lineal foot, pr vate contract; Willlams, Relser & Co. were au- thorized to construct a_sixteen-inch ironstone pipe sewer with two manholes in Treat avenue between FEighteenth and Nineteenth streets; also a fourteen-inch fronstone pipe sewer with manholes in Twenty-third street, between Rhode Island and De Haro; also to construct a three by five brick sewer, etc., in Dupont street, between Beach and North Point, and the crossing of Dupont and North Point streets, all by private contracts; the property owners on the westerly side of Fifteenth avenue, he- tween Clement street and Point Lobos avenue, to construct bulkheads, as provided by law. in front of their property, to prevent the sand from drifting upon the ‘sidewalk, In accord ance with the petition pf P. Ward and others: J. J. Dowling & Co. were authorized to pave Church street, between Market and Fifteenth, private contract, with bitumen: Pacific Paving Company, paving Clay street, between Locust and Spruce, private contract: Flinn & Treacy to_construct fronstone pipe sewers in Francisco street, hetween Jones and__ Leavenworth, in Broderick street, between Vallejo and Green. in Broderick street, between Green and Union, in crossing of Green and Broderick and in the crossing of Vallejo and Broderic private contracts; Felix McHugh, to constru ironstone pipe sewers, etc., in Ninth avenue, between I and J streets, and in crossing of Ninth avenue and 1 street, private contract: Warren & Malley, grading Van Ness avenue, between Bay street and the northerly line of North_Point street, provided, that said work shall be performed to the official line and grade and without cost to the city and county or_to the property owners. RESOLUTIONS OF FULL ACCEPTANCE Resolutions of full acceptance of street work were passed as follows: Spruce street, from Clay to Sacrimento, bitumen and basalt: Twenty-third street from Folsom to Harri- son, bitumen; Clay street from Laurel to Locust, bitumen; Harrison street from Twenty second’ to Twenty-third, bitumen; Central av nue from MeAllister to Fulton street, bitumen: crossing of Seventh and Berry streets, basalt: Sixth street from Channel to southeast line of Irwin, paved with basalt, conditionally ac- cepted. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS The Superintendent of Streets was instructed to recommend the construction of sewers to abate the nulsance caused by the sewage from the Almshouse flowing Into a vacant lot at Tenth avenue and J street; also to construct an outlet to the sewer in Harrison street at the crossing of Beale; also to stop further work of ' grading the crossing of Sixth ave- nue south and K street; also to con- tract with Williams, Belser & Co. for the' moving of the cesspools on the cor- ners of of the crossing of Eighteenth and Douglass streets back three feet to the line of the sidewalks at a cost not to exceed $15 per_corner. The appeal of Helen J. Hutchinson and oth- ers against the acceptance of the paving at the intersection of Jullan avenue and Four- teenth street, done by Flinn & Treasy, was set for hearing on June 26; also hearing on protest of property owners ' against the pro- posed laying of artificial stone sidewalks on Eighteenth street, between Church and San- chez; also protest of property owners against construction of a_sewer, etc., in Worth street, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second: also protest of property owners against construction of a sewer In Stevenson street from Tenth to northeasterly termination of Stevenson. The action of the board in awarding the con- tract to grade Van Ness avenue, between Bay and Beach streets, to John Holmes, was re- considered. 2 A resolution ‘was adopted directing the Com- mittee on Finance and Auditing to provide the following sums in the next tax levy: $20,000 for the extension of the main sewer in Foutreenth avenue and H street to Twenty- foutth avenue and I street, and $500 for the purchase of a boiler for the Fourth-street drawbridge. Grades were established on Sixteenth ave- nue south, on Q street and the crossings of the same; also on Jarnac, between the Southern Pacific right of way and San Jose avenue and northerly 157 feet from said right of way. ANOTHER CALL CRITIC. To the Editor of The Call: I read with | much interest the very able letter in your sue of the 6th inst. about the “Call and Expansion” and your reply thereto. You say that “all of the Philippines, except a few localitles on Manila Bay, were occu- pied by the natives, who had wrested them from Spain before our flag went there,” etc. Under date of May 9, 1898, you say under the heading of “There Is More Work for Dewey” the following: “Acting Admiral Dewey, the conqueror of Manila, still has consideruble work to per- form before the destruction of Spanish power in the Far East is complete. Iloilo, the capital of the island of Panay, which is fortified and garrisoned by Spanish troops, remains to be taken, and there are one or two points in the Philippines which the guns of his fleet will be called on to reduce.” Now, our flag had been there nine days, and before it went there, say on the 30th of April, 1898, Iloilo was not in the hands of the natives, and it Is not a locality of Manila Bay. Seeing there can be no dif- ferences on facts, will vou kindly publish and explain? 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