The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1900, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO - CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1900. 5 AT 12 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT THE STREET LIGHTS WENT OUT AND SAN ERANCISCO WAS ENVELOPED IN DARKNESS . AN AN DA A A AN A, A DA A A DA AT A A A A A A DD TS @ g“ ‘ln ge, \\/ e” d and Wl]d Happen' / l Z 7 ITH the exception of five nights each month, during the next four months, San Francisco lnu\\ 'I h dt OLLU“ ed Last nght ( will be enveloped in darkness on account of the mania of economy that has seized the pres- ent Board of Supervisors. \\ h‘()n the EXGCUUOH Of the New After much discussion and consideration the Board of Supervisors decided on Wednesday night to accept the proposition of the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company to supply tlw gas _d SE ]<<Ut‘d bv the Board Of and electric lights of the city streets. But at the midnight hour out go the lights. \, lpi rv 1\01. , \A]ent ]ntO EfTeCt How the new ordinance will affect some of our prominent citizens is illustrated below. 0T T DD DT DT OSSO DT DT T DD AT What Changes the New Ordinance Will Effect in the Nocturnal Life of Some of Our Prominent Citi- zens Who Perambulate the Town After the Midnight Hour. Hunting in the Dark for the Elusive Keyhole, Escaping the Footpad in His Nightly Prowls and Other Kin- dred Practices Will Be in Vogue Under the New Order of Things. night in San Francisco, or at least a part of the night. Scheme after scheme has been proposed. The least radical would like batches of light to guide their footsteps by burning alternate lamps. Then there are others who are satisfled with {llumination on alternate nights. These are the ‘“every-other-night-out™ men. “Oh, put 'em out for four months” shout the brave. “Greater San Fran- cisco needs the money.: Think of the panhandle.” What a’business the hammam baths will do. That old husbandlike “gag.” a panacea the world over for avolding incriminating explanations, will stalk over the far Western Addition and the Mission in as many refulgent hues as Pa- pinta’s color lights. “Couldn’t come home, my dear, for fear of the horde of footpads that now in- P T D QP All the Old E\Luscs for Not Gomg Home Will Now Be Revived by Wary Husbands Who Fear to Brave a Walk on Jnlighted Streets and Remain Downtown Till Morning. Lamps pour into of dark streets. i their own light. ance pales the ordinary at the behests of soclety and ng headlight acting as the beacon fest the streets, so I thought a bath would be the wisest thing.” Then to him- self, “Well, wasn't that easy? Hurray for the Sups.” But the doctors all say that too many Turkish baths are injurious to good health. They do not, however, refer to baths of mental conjuration. While there are men who will make the best of an il wind and roam about dark streets in search of adventure, those Who fear the devil and the black of night will stay at home. Where W%l Moses—Gunst—be when the lights go out? He will be at home per- fecting himsSf in his favorite game and mastering the difficult task of beating his ver a big two-bit weed, doesn't rner fires or not. e that he will not g lamp. Constella- s Not only will ¢ and musical specialties will n who decided that his fellow men were free — "“"‘Gon-é,fi‘ 15 Eneriv ['oyr\d r~ore ?f\f'cU ‘than ever 1~ '- \locoh t Adge L:,\w!o» I’\lrcd a lanterry tgkcld RNire i Ris SeareA - o tke Califor~ia Hotel.-« deont nfiflqv\us uburr\ bac\rd and fordl ?K: comlexion threws light o~ sleeping“cops 3. ++ JoeTobin's clothes tillurinoted Ris homesword PAt™ e . own machines. Garret McEnerney will not bury his head for hours studying In his office library. He will burn the midnight oil of his fireside lamp. But when be does go out he 11 find more difficulty in locating the keyhole. Even Judge Law- lor will cease his midnight wanderings for the sake of exercise, and will pass “Jim"” O'Brien In the dark without an exchange of courtesies. Many other sal things will come to pass when the .iglits go out. Frank Sherman, mounted on tre drivers’ delight, will be able to escaps the vigilant eye of the slumbering policeman, and James the great will be forced to = inclination die- s met a strong the lie tc g Book What in the world will the old pyv will be left in fearful solitude, with- increase his personal expenses by ordering a few carleads of pocket torches t> to do them reverence in the spiral or *m-flé t help him to =afe nocturnal port. o QUND The old time will soon be upon Js again. Beating homeward the wanderers in 1 this misery is to be inflicted dominant streak of econ- bC(n dark that all the lights of g afraid 1 glow cannot bring them ta 5+0. - !\M \ ramd bloyed . the pitchy, inky darkness of night, approaching in opposite directions, will seek > the street for safety and give each other a scare that both attempted to avoid, and W 5 ~thus will San Francisco's disgrace be made complete. Full of glory is the way of our beneicent Supervisors. The day after they voted for darkness and its concomitants. Supervisor Tobin arose in the Police Committee and introduced a measure to re-establish racing at Inglesids. The light goes out and in its train is darkpess indced, in Mantla. By a fine analogical process of e of the opinion that the moon shines every kermnh rod e fast > o B"\f\ TMorr ! o5 being seen and Jf hisS Naudevi 1 without TS P OrS e oo