The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FBANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1900 I - + Frane; | THE POTHOUSE BOSSES. redress, and now that charges are made of bribery and | + The ‘*% Q:all | . s - SEEtnten staNie fub of ieatjustice bl the b, ASSESSMENT ROLL SHOWS INCREASE. MONEY FOR FUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. B, coate Sl e o = o l /IELLY and Crimmins have about as much right | is likely the petitions will be granted and Klondike . e . . 2 R in the Republican party as a burglar has in a | mining will enter upon a new phase. . ILTSOAN, b 51 \ bank. They have entered it solely for what they 2l Rl et Matters Of Moment to Clty TaxpayerS. : N D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor * | can get out of it. To them and their Mint saloon fol- A BOXER'S VIEW OF IT. POV 0. O PO " W lowing pol is a means of obtaining boodle and ST o oo QEAL P AP M v Even when they are most decent and assume a Y way of reply to the continuous repetition in INQUIRY CONCERNING GAMBLING LAWS. CITY LIGHTING CONTRACTS AWARDED. ns to W. S , Mare e a . ...Telephone Press 204 tespectability they get no further than to support a the journals of Europe and of America that the 3 ¥ - jobseeker in his effort to become a taxeater and live invasion of Chira by the powers is justified by north and middle forks into which PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 Telephone Press 202. 221 Stevensom St. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 6 Cents. Terms by Mail, cluding Postage: % a A the “B e B i theren h Bush street, DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), one year. .9 | Their very presence in the party discredits it to some e oxer” society, and therefore asserts a right to erence to the trolley wires on Bush street, DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), § month o | i pany i s g between Kearny and Sapsome, until the prop- 5 speak with authority. erty owners may be hea 3 months DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday B ¥ AKLE. Bos Famr e -5 uence in its counsels they will drive from the ranks | His first declaration is that China has had a civiliza- Simiping ot retate ‘from. ihe tewers on the lo* SDA A i > v = : A Rt Nator ts: Precita_Valley WEEKLY CAIL One Year. L% | o good citizens for every vicious bum they can |tion similar to that now existing in the Western world e Gk Tequesting ihat the balance All postmasters are authorired to receive subscriptions. Sampie coples will b a1l subscribers in orfering change of address should be forwarded when requested. 3 at the expense of the taxpayers. Ngither of the two bosses nor any of the gang that follows knows or cares much about party principles or party policies. ley have fastened themselves upon Republicanism only because they hope to be able to prey upon it bring in, The fight extent, and if they be permitted to attain to any in- which these disreputable men are now making for what they have the impudence to call a the fact that the invaders will carry to the people of that country a higher civilization than they now pos- sess, a Chinese merchant doing business in England has presented to the London Express the Chinese view of the situation. He claims to be a member of and has passed from it to a better one. He says: "T'here was a time when we had your struggle for existence, the race for wealth, the ambition for power, CONTRACTS FOR ~ CITY LIGHTING ARE AWARDED D e e ey Independent Company’s Bid cluding the mining debris is dumped; Charles R. Allen, atating that but one brand of coal is called for in the advertisement for vearly supplies and that there can be no genuine competition un- der such conditions; A. Paladini, against the passage of the ordinance regulating the hours of labor of persons employed In wholesale fish markets; North Central Improvement Aswocia- thon, requesting that no action be taken in ref- property owners, for the abatement of a nuisance caused by remaining in the fund for the filling of Bernal Park be used to place coping around the park: Point Lobos Improvement Club, for the imme- diate placing of twenty new electric arc Hghts in the Richmond district;: Public Improvement Central League, requesting the consecutive COMPLETION ISSESSMENT OF LIV PROPERT! Dodge Submits Four Hun- dred Million Dollar Roll ; w _— tion i< a matter of more importance than many Re- |also many clever inventions, gunpowder, printing and to Supervisors OAKLAND OFFICE.............1118 Bremdway ... .o gware. The voters of San Francisco | the rest, but in the end we found that all these things Accepted. MUST PAY BACK THE P g C GEORGE KROGNESS, Wanager Foreign Adverticing, Marquette Building, Chicago (Long Distance Tel ““Central 2619. YORK CORRESPONDENT: ne have become intolerant of boss politics. ections thousands of good Republicans have voted inst the party ticket simply because there was a suspicion of In recent an affiliation with Crimmins and Kelly, are unnecessary. We had our periods of religious dissensions and fanaticism. We had our reformers and our martyrs, and then we reached toleration. We have outgrown all those strifes. We have learned s oS Rl Ordinance Extending Pound Limits to County Line Defeated, but TAXES TO THE BANK State Has No Right to Asses: Certain Properties of National Asso- e The Sum of 8200,000 Set Aside as a Public Improvement Fund—FPer- sonal Holdings Increased 0 -..of . : ¢ ; ; = Will Be Reconsidered at C. C. CARLTON., _Heraid Square .nd as a result the city is now misgoverned by a |wisdom. Our passions and our ambitions have set- Next Meeting. ciations. by $30,000,000. XEW YORK BEFRESENTATIVE: Democratic administration. We have seen what is |tled down to a calm desire for happiness in this world; ‘The First National Barnll( o; Sllr(x Fr:u‘;l EPHE SMI 0 il he resul i i voti 2 igi 1 3 - H 7 cisco S n s STEPHEN B SMITH.. ...30 Tribune Building the result n.f that kind of voting. The streets are un :ur religion is reduced_ to a phfln:op!fl of' life. \\.e R e "“lns:‘*‘&ebffi'; ::;czgun"!y of San Fran-| The assessment roll for the city and RN T AN swept and ill-lighted. A bungling Board of Health, elm_'e that the best thing to pursue in this world is | buildings for six months from July 15| cisco in the action brought to recover | county for the year 130 was lransmln;d happiness, and we teach our children that their hap- | Were awarded by the Board of Supervisors | §520 it paid under protest for taxes as | (0 the Board of Supervisors yesterday by Shermaz House: P. O. News Co.; Hcuse; Auditorium Hotel Great Northern Hotel: in an effort to do po! city to the extent tics, has injured the trade of the f mi llions of dollars by starting a piness can be secured only by the performance of yesterday. The bids submitted by the vari- ous local light and power companies were sessed to it upon personai property owned in March, 186, The property consisted of | fixtures valued at $3600 and money on hand Assessor Dodge. The total assessed valu- ation of property is $405,740,000, the revenue will be great enough NEW YORK NEWE STANDS: senseless bubonic quarantine. Such are some of the duty. We believe in making the best of this life, | ovened in the presence of the full board, a from which 180rt-Astor J s 1% 0 E — - g st 4 . ' e ferred to | AMounting to $589.333. In the lower COUIL | ., 4116w of the sum of §200,000 being spent N D = k Hote, | 1OTY representation” in Republican conventions. | certain. retired into executive session. The com- | power of taxation over the property of a | immediately introduced an ordlnanf:. 0 C.) OFFIC Vellington Hote. Having laid down that much by way of stating the | mittee reported its recommendations | national bank_is ngxled and defined in | which was passed to print, setting astde MORTON E. CRANE, Correspon Wi men Republican is willing to repeat the experi- From the enrollments made in the districts it is well condition of Chinese civilization and religion, he went toward the close of the board's meeting, and they were adopted. The contract for the electric lighting of section 5219, Revised Statutes of the United States. Under the provisions of that section the real property of the bank that sum as a public improvement fund and authorizing the board to determine the various items of expenditures to be BR * YW OFFICES 527 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open on to discuss the present situation. “You purpose,” y -' . A o . 3 : may be t xtent ac- | untf $30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 3:30 o'clock. 63 s é £t S hlt g s . BUR certain public buildings was awarded to mrémg z:’:fg va‘l(:wn;es ‘other el’e;l“;amp apportioned therefrom. Allister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until assured the better element of the party will have such | he said, “to revive in China the worry, the disturb- | ¢ Ingependent Light and Power Com- | erty is taxed: and the shares in the as-| The Assessor's figures prove the esti- o'clock. 3841 Mission. open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market. | (;ccecs in the organization of the clubs and in the | ance and the strife of the old times. You wish to | pany, the bid of which was 3.95 cents per | sociation may be assessed as other per-| mate of Auditor Wells, made a month o e, SIS S pecic S8 Wmlencls. apes ! , B R §s d e . $1 10 10000 watts hours, against 5 cents by the | sonal property to the owners or holders | ago, in which he based his tax rate on o # o'clock venth, open until § o'cjeck. NW cor- nomination of delegates for the convention as to be !introduce a new religion concerning another life in San Francisco Gas and Electric Com- (hpreorand taxed in such a manner as the | assessed valuation of mw;)\mh x% r&a»: r Twenty-aec el y % i 9 i | y g wenty-a. ucky, épen until 9 ¢ clock reasonably certain of 2 thorough control of that body. | another world, about which you cannot agree among | pany. The contract includes all the pub- lf‘gs‘;“,};‘f;mfisrfl';!?szm?fi:‘;mge:‘;- e s e The ‘:}m&:,rm" - A o = . hat s caatifying, ut it is BobenanEh: It willl got N ROHrs AxEs s Vo T linet i P chich | iic buildings upon which the company bid. | ¢ - B dtaodis derived | included in the dollar limit, but was AMUSEMENTS. T gratifying, bt is not enougl will not s to build railways, for which | “Fhe Equitable Gaslight Company’s bid B R G | I eted by the board in Its final report. A Day and Night."” take the pothouse bosses long to hoodoo the best ticket the party can put up if they are given an oppor- party P P non v to do so. The best and safest way is for hon- It is better for the party to fight the You wish us to build factories so as to debase our beautiful arts and handicraits, and pro- duce machine-made finery in place of our delicate we have no use. calm life and the fruits of our centuries of experience. | to furnish gas to certain public buildings at $1 per thousand feet, against $135 by the rival companies, was accepted. The remaining public buildings were other company was desirous of lighting. er only to the extent and in the mode pre- scribed by the section. The provision for assessing the shares of the association to | the owners or the holders thereof is the | only authority given to the State under‘ ment of the Superior Court was reversed | The Assessor strongly protested against the assumption of a 340,000,000 valuation, but he has exceeded it by $6,740,000. Of the entire roll, real estate, with im- provements thereon, amounts to $255.540.- property to $116,600,000. “"Children of the Ghett est Republicans to nominate a clean ticket in every | textures and hues. Against all that we protest. We |bid upon by the Pacific and the San Fran- | which it may tax the 00, and personal | n ; 3 personal assets of roll of las Know i fics + Lelly a i i 4 | wish be let al We wi 2 clsco Gaslight companies, but nefther | fhebank and an assessment to the bank | There has been added to the of las st wh lly and Crimmins contro wish to be let alone. E nai t s vly e g ¢ here Kelly G atrol the club | e wish to be free to enjoy our company bid on any building that the | of its personal assets is vold. The judg- | Year $30,000,00 of newly discovered per sonal property, which will now contribute revenue to the city in the way of taxes . ks : 5 % .~ ; poish Srrvs = % | “Romec bosses out of the convention than in it, on the same | We ldo not ]\:;!sh to be tormented by quarrels about | §i*{ e ontiacis Sp’ér{;‘fhfififi“‘éfisé Judgment in tavoy of ihe benk for the é?rl;ey;esoz?l‘ ;;'rr:;én;hg filnnlgeofma%:mix the—Open rinciple that it is better to keep a polecat out of | another world when our duty is to be happy in this | ries bid were awarded them, eX-|amount praved for in its complaint. Py F ; > P Y PRYI0 LIS s to those buildings bid upon by the lows: AUCTION SALES. .,_ Saturday, July 7, at 10 o' THE SCAVENGER NUISANCE. S order for the arrest of all rd violating the ordinances of vour house than to iet him in and then try to put him out. THZ CLEANING OF CHINATOWN. P LANS and projects for the reformation or the removal of Chinatown from its present quarters continue to be put forth. Their number attests the widespread interest taken in the subject, and the magnitude of some of them proves that the interest is not only wide but intense. The people are aroused. The bubonic board and Kinyoun have taught the one. When we ask you to go away you refuse, and you even threaten us with subjugation if we do not give you our harbors, our towns and our land. Now, having carefully considered the matter, we of the so- called ‘Boxer Society’ have decided that the only way to get rid of you is to kill you. We are not bloodthirsty. We are not robbers. But when per- suasion, arguments and appeals to your sense of jus- tice are of no avail, we find ourselves face to face with the fact that our only recourse is to put you out of existence.” $ Such is the view of the situation taken by the Lquitable Company. "L'he report of thé committee says: The Mutual Electric Light Company, from which 8o much was hoped in the way. of com- petition, has made no bid. Regarding the contracts for lighting the pub- Iic streets, your committee suggests that the matter be reterred to the Public Utilities Com- mittee, with directions to meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The San Francisco Gas Light Company has bid 9 cents for gas lamps and 35 cents per arc lamp in certain districts, and 39 cents per arc lamp in districts four and five. It Is said that these figures will come within the appropria- tion, but this question will have to be consid- ered. The president of the company says that @ few new arc lamps may be ordered used. The San Francisco Gas Company was directed to light the K‘m“c streets and e rates offered by ENFORCEMENT OF ANTI-GAMBLING LAWS 1S URGED Supervisor Comte Presents Capitalists ... Private bankers Wholesale mercha: Quasi-public corporations. Large estates . ranchises . 2 National bank stocks Total In an_official report accompanying the roll Dodge say: The courts bw their decision struck from the roll of last year about $§18,000,000 of bonds and $7,000,000 of national bank stock, which I, act- ing under the instruction of the State Board of Equalization, had added to the roil. These Sums being recognized last year, when the tax It was fixed, as a doubtful source of revenue, the city’s income was estimated and collected, not on_the: entire roll of 305,000,000, but on a o effect yesterday. The order whole community a lesson, and_on all s|de_s there is | Boxers. It is another illustration of the impossibility ;’A‘:P‘(’_L“mgfé;‘c“: R el Lol 4 B O e S 700,016, oo aguiudy the: oMl ‘of All wagons evident an earnest desire to avoid a repetition of the | of getting harmony between two widely different civi- | after sunset until one hour before sun- . > s $350.000,000 of the previous administration i 2 e : J ST e e fnoontight scheauie, | & Bill Directing an In- This year, however, there will be availabie for ¢ tion of garbage must be lined experience. One quarantine and bubonic scare is |lizations. That the aggressions of Europe upon China | until July 15 the date when the new con- | revenue .m,-(n of at least §0%.00,00. The bal- h o . e ] R it o s : o year's roll is made up Of assess- wit s 1 or other metallic substance, and | enough. Chinatown must be’ cleaned up. have been unjust is not to be denied. Out of the in- | tracts will go into eftect. = =~ vegt]gat)on. e L dinal Bank taecits chlk et E he covers must be of oiled | While cach of the plans proposed for remedying | justice done to them the Chinese have themselves be- | fixing the duties of the poundmaster and e e e a ely iastened at all times exce he evil has i b , | j i 3 fextending the Hmits toithe Sty - LS take the same Into consideration in ca y ia u‘|.e'1 at all t except the evil h: s its rnn\mcm.]a .1e features, and some of | come unjust, andlfl?elr rage now falls upon the inno- | Was defeated, Booth, Jennings Mc: | A resolution was adopted by the Board | sum on which o estimate our revenue. The w s being put in the carts, them are of notable merit, it does not appear to be | cent. Western civilization must protect the traders | Carthy and Reed voted In iavor Of | of Supervisors yesterday directing the | addition to this vear s roll of such new personal worth while to undertake either of them at present. the extension, and Boxton, Comte, Con- nor, Curtis, D'Ancona, Dwyer and Helms District Attorney to confer with the Chief property as taxes will undoubtedly be collected upon will increase the city’s estimated revenue o ether the carts zre loaded or emp! | and the missionaries who under treaties of peace have | el ¢ t3 | . i nghinst it The Joint’ Committee on Po- | of Police to determine whether the laws | 300,000, This additional sum being outside of € r these ordinances wfll be of The prospects are that if the health ordinances of the | gone to China, and war has become inevitable. Never- ,,fi, and Streets, to which the question | prohibiting public gambling are enforce- | YOur present estimate of expenses and appro- gr efit 1o the community, for the nuisance city be impartially and firmly enforced in Chinatown, | theless, the statements of the Boxer to the Express | Jad been referred, recommended the | able to the end that gambling may be B e e eness. rbage wagons traversing the stree : There will still a< they are in other sections of the city, the greater part of the nuisance will be abated by that very fact, make very pertinent reading, and men of impar- tial minds will admit the truth of much of what he limits should extend to the Missoin road and along Islais Creek, but this was lost also, though notice of reconsideration was abated and those who conduct it arrested and punished. The resolution was intro- duced by Comte, who said: make. 1 regret that I could not foretell this increase, for the guidance of your honorable board when you were estimating the revenue of the city Te o however, even aiter the 'and the change t\uc brought about in the district will | has stated. 51:3";32%;?&?;5‘;‘;15 bt::{,e'l’“llllxbe consid- | “I ask the passage of the resolution. |and fixing the tax rate, but until the asses- ardered city in this | so that in the end the whole problem will be solved | SIGNBOARDS AND BILLBOARDS. | Biohib the i iimies *ft o755 foulows: | and vet nothing seems to have been done. | "o xtimsta ot s amount ot e rolr. “Thia P It chall be deemed unlawful for any person | The bill is intended to determine whether | fact will always be an embarrassment, while of garbage ss hos through hout recourse to any extraordinary means. "he decisions of the court in the quarantine cases are to the effect that the Health Board can make no UT of the Paris Exposition there has already come a“movement promising to be of great benefit not only to Europe, but to this coun- O owning or having the control or custody of any antmal to permit or allow such animal to stray, or run at large, or to be herded, or In any other way to be upon any public highway, or street, or alley, or court, or public square, or the laws bearing on the subject are effi clent or not and I move that the rules | be suspended and the resolution be con- sidered at once.” the tax levy has to be fixed early in Junme, in- tead of September, as heretofore. It will be noted that real estate and the fm- ements thereon are assessed this year for pro 258,540,000, as against $285.465,000 in 1899, or an sl or tt pervisors enact any hea b=1 | & ¢ a commuy i to | 1egul nor "K‘, Sur ervisor cn?ct any health ordi ‘; . . DUBNE grounds, or upon any untenced lot within | No objectioh being raised to the resolu- | increase of §3.000,000. This increase is almost T Am glad to see you are Jiscriminating against Chinese. The course | try- It is in the nature of a reform with respect to | the city and county of San Francisco. tion it was immediately passed. The | éntirsly made up of new bulldings, land values e . » = e | billboard il | Provided, however, that all horses, mules and | measure follows: having been raised only In rare instances. " 4 trust the good work ch The Call recommends would entail no dis- | billboards and signboards. It appears that for the | asses, harnessed or ‘saddied, and in the actual | yopo oo prom time to time the S o(’m“;.;“ :e""*‘ !*c‘:on;‘of this eity is, and » y 5 | s 7 2 | custody and control at the time of some = 3 8 ! has n for a number years, assessed en- w »n of their w In | crimination of any kind. It would do no more than |purpose of giving all visitors to the exposition a high | rom e persons. and licensed dogs are excepted | thiS city Has charged that public gambling ex- | uirely too Bigh. It has always been my desirs S & S AR % : : - B ¥ his ce; - ue d bition t: 1 " o'clock this morning I put an end to the discrimination which at present | idea not only of Paris, but of all France, the big sign- | "am the provisions of this Srloencet wnd,, |, | thoroughtares to ‘the discredit and disgrace | sectione, el youe Betd hets et ks e of Tasg | of the city; and, year communications from me asking for the not apply to any animals within any fen 1 re gon N n o sermits the owners v i inatows vade | boards and advertising boards al i ¢ 5 I ¢ agons, and went around a | permits the owners of property in Chinatown to evade | nd ising boards along the railroads and | not, apoly to an¥, aninals SN Ao Fran: Whereas, It Is provided in section 2 of chap- | additional heip, then needed, to make the neces- ers. which stunk worse than | laws that are enforced elsewhere. Against the genera] | at the railway stations of that country were removed. | cisco, nor to any animal In the actual custody o i % anticle ¥ of the charter it ihe [ sy respgeaivement of lsbd Seives, whish o : , and control of any person or persons and being ! """*g g i all the powers [ o task of considerable magnitude. Unfortu- u ice about 9 I got the bene- | sanitary regulations znd orders of the city there can | Thus travelers are nowhere offended by those glaring | driven trom one portion of the city and county 60":’"**1 fln?‘ lnfl‘l ischarge all duties im- | nately your finances were in such a condition ¢ 1 well I et - | hid h | o another, and not otherwise violating the | PoSed upon the District Attorneys of counties | that you were unable to furnish me the neces- fi ore. In 21l well regulated cities the re- e no objection on the part of the courts. The appli- | hideous posters that are among the greatest offenses | provisions of tbis ordinance. o _‘g‘d'm'n‘;“"';,“p‘"’&';e“,‘h;]',"’ms‘m:;'e and that | sary heip. I desire, however, to inform your 1 . 4 o : : 2 n ™ nd con- | ho sarbage and the like is required to be dote | cation of those laws to Chinatown would therefore | of the time against art and beauty. The charm of | An ordinance allowing an appeal to the | duct on behalf of the people all prosecutions T e o Sl ST cognizable In the police court of the city and | provements thercon whenever such reduction is »f disease and contagion night and 7 a. m., likewise the sweeping of side <. Here men and women going to their morning get the annoyance of both, be- San Fran- mmercial city, but not necessarily cheap.? be a prompt and valid method of getting rid of most of the abominations that exist there. It js the duty of the Board of Health to see to it that the health ordinances are enforced, and it is the duty of the Mayor to remove the members of the scenery is not marred by lurid invitations to buy soap or pickles, nor by announcements of the unparalleled virtues of pills and shoeblacking. Prompted by the French movement the London County Council has, it is said, recently enacted an Board of Supervisors when cattle escape from inclosures without fault of the owner and directing the poundkeeper to release all animals so escaping without charge, was also passed to print. The 'Tesolution directing the "Auditor and Treasurer to keep the St. Mary's Park fund intact was rescinded in view of the county, and shall, when required, advise the Chief 0f Police upon matters relating to the dutles of his office; and, Whereas, By the general laws the District Attorney is the public prosecutor and must, under subdivision 2 of section 425 of the Po- litical Code of this State, institute proceed- ings before magistrates for the arrest of per- 10K Charged With or reasonably muspected of warranted during the coming year. Such re- ductions will, in my opinion, aggregate fully $10,000,000, and it is my hope that I will now be abie. unaided, to carry out this plan. The tax roll of this year, therefors, must be modi- fled to this extent, If it i3 to be used as a guide in fixing the expenditures of the fiscal year 1901-1902. cisco is a ¢ c . f : 1 . ntl two court decisions that the money be- New York has the regulations I mention, beard if they neglect their duty. It happens, however, | ordinance which empowers the municipal officers to |lonss to the general fund and is avallable | pubiic oiEses’ when rhas information hat | 1ate e honorable. bourd on being abie. 1o and it has done something in the way of commerce. | that the present bubonic board was appointed by the | remove all signboards extended over the street or | Brandenstein's ordinance limiting the e A e e e o Byt Sy e e i - : Pl . 2 sheet, rs, being car- D ¥ il we are in line with the most | present Mayor, and neither the one nor the other can | sidewalks, and all illominated signs on the fronts of | NelERt of &Il fences o o enty Heet o | neene e pastad to Sonsalt with the Chief | Tied lorward. and on your possessing the e fav 3 c c v whi ¢ i buildi hat are o i i | #5ot “ordinance becomes a'law, -was re- | of Police with the view of obtaining from | thef, assurance of now having a large surplus be counted on to do the duty which the law imposes | buildings that are offensive to public taste. The e et b Fididtary Committes o cect. information as o such charges so | fund at your command for needed public im- We have given the letter in full because it is a terse 1 tement of the existing evils and the re- It will be gratify- o have the present ordinances our correspondent says, the effort ia i improvement should not cease until nuisance has been abated in all e streets are freed from it during the uld be accomplished. en- its hours when business, traffic and pleasure are active. ate. Atherican E: h H Ch ted, has mbassador to Eng- y that an English dictionary of biography, no reference to the United States, upon their offices. Jury. of law. he issue, then, is up to the Grand That body has been summonsed to investigate | the affairs of the The members of this jury have an opportun- y to prove the usefulness of the institution. The peo- ple are ardent be taken toward suppressing the evils of Chinatows county and to report all violations waiting for some important step to and the grand jurors can serve the community weil by leading the w: SCANDAL IN THE KLONDIKE. EPORTS of dissatisfaction with the Canadian | change which the ordinance will bring about is ex- pected to be an immense improvement to London, not only from an artistic standpoint, but from that of safety, as many of the big signboards and billboards of the city are undoubtedly dangerous. From London the reform movement has reached New York, and an agitation is now under way in that city for a suppression of at least the worst of these street nuisances. It has been suggested that bill- boards and street car and ferry-boat advertisements should be taxed like other property that yields a large income, and that where it is carried to excess it should be prevented altogether. J | Jose road was rel Miscellaneous Business. The resignation of Supervisor A. B. Maguire, who has been appointed on the Board of Pub- e Works, was accepted and Samuel Braun- | hart, who was appointed in his place, took his seat’ without any ceremony. The question of the ownership of Sherman avenue between V\'rvnmlng avenue and the San erred to the City Attorney for further investigation. He will confer with the attorneys of the Southern Pacific Company, which lays claim to a portion of the thorough- are. The City Street Improvement Company was granted permission to repave with bitumen the block on Sansome street between Sutter and Bush, the expense to berne by the property owners. The Board of Pubijc Works was ordered to proceed with the work of reconstructing a plank roadway on Spear street between ar- rison and Bryant. made by the press, and If the same be true, then and in such case to report to this board whether prosecutions can be maintained un- der the provisions of section 330 of the Penal Code of this State or under the orders and ordinances of the city and county of San o or other laws, and if such laws are inadequate to maintain a prosecution, then and in such case to advise this board as to What legisiation is needed in order to enable prosecution to be maintained successfuily against_such public gambling to the end that the same may be abated and that those who permit the same or carry on the same may be_arrested and punished. Be It further resolved, That the clerk of this board furnish the District Attorney with a certified copy of this resolution, and also give another certified copy to the Chief of Police. —_——————— HEALTH BOARD HOLDS provements. I desire also to assure your board of the active and cheerful co-operation of this department In your attempt to establish the finances of this city on a permanent and safe as well as an equitable basis. As illustrating what this office has sccom- plished in this direction, it may be stated that the expenses of our department during the past year have been kept strictly within our appropriation, which was, however, entirely In- sutficient, thus effecting a saving of $30,000 in salaries alone. In two years we have over $450,000 to the income of the city (this rep- resenting the city tax on $45.000,000 increased valuation), and without increasing the burden of taxation on the taxpayers at large, such increase being made up of personal property which had previously escaped taxation er beem greatly underassessed. Trusting that this work will merit the ap- proval of your honorable board, and will entitle thie department to such financial or other as- sistance as we deem the demonstrated impor- tance of this work may, from time to time, de- and a reader of the i v v = i £ : . o e . 3 - “n 1 a reader of the Fl?ol; m!gdhl nflt(; klnfl“ that R ]]:I\s and the manner of their enforcement in the | The prevailing opinion in New York is fairly well | ;8 of an artincial iy R e ffr g UNIMPORTANT MEETING | mand. T am vory respectiuiiy voars, America exists, Tt mbassador need not unneces- {londike country have been so fr . i H iewi erly corner of Sixteenth and Guerrero streets. i WASHINGTON DODGE, Assessor. ) equent that | expressed by the Tribune, which after reviewing what | The JRoard of Public Works was Instructed sarily concern dictionary to k msel Britain needs no biographical w that Uncle Sam is on earth. little or no surprise fol lows the announcement that formal complaints have been made against some of has been accomplished in France and in London says: “One of these days, it is to be hoped, this country and as_recommended The sweepings to dispose of street sweeping: by the Merchants' Association. will be hauled to a central yard and loaded on Harbor and Central Hospitals and Insane Detention Ward Allotted The board decided to meet Thursday at 2 p. m. as a Board of Equalization hear applications of correction and reduction of their assess- to roperty-owners for " = & 3 the prominent officials of the district. The laws ap- | this cif ill institute simil ‘m! i | ety e o e T e $600 a Month. ments. Chairman Tobin stated that the: California has already made a deep impression upon to be so unfair as to al p- | this city will institute similar reforms. Nowherein | be taken to Golden Gate Park for (ertiliing |\ o meeting of the Board of Heath | Would be plenty of work in that connec: the stistemin of ou TS SRtioy < ik pear to so as to almost amount to an en- |the world, probably, is the signboard business so | "'Fle regrading, curbing and paving of Sixth | held yesterday afternoon Drs. Willlamson, tion, which would take until July 16 to ke st . 3 - street between Folsom and Harrison and Ship- | Baget, Baum and Buckley were present. | COPiete. couragement to fraud. and it was well nigh inevitable largely practiced as here. Nowhere is public prop- A resolution providing that the notlce The guiding political spirits of the islands, learnin : ley street near Sixth, at & cost of $3517, was " et P % '@ 3 that the men charged with the duty of enforcing | erty so unblushingly appropriated for uses of private | ordered. The meeting was called for the purpose |to corporations to show cause why their lesson from us, perhaps. have decided that they will | . ony chould bend them now and then to the advan. | gain. Nowhere fidently beli 1 | An matianhs as peeet 1o geine declie | OF DO o inE O O Tor 1hg | Ceeased aait’ be writtes or 3o} —~ . 2 3 = - = ain. Nowhere, we may con ieve, are Rk it wiul o remove paint from any 'or e maintenal T'¢ or t creas <hal W) en or order no extra session of their Legislature, as the ex- ¥ e . ad- | ing it unlawfol o remove Datnt from eRy | for R ar Just commencing. On motiog | addressed to the presidernit, secratary no periment would be too expensive. The tribute which thousands of people paid with their presence on Friday afternoon at the Grand ltage of themselves and their friends. | So unjust are many of the laws and so unjustly | have they been administered that the Canadians have jalnmst killed the goose that laid them the golden vertising signboards, posters and the like made so offensive to public taste, and in many cases so inimi- cal to public comfort, convenience and even safety. It is a reproach to civic culture and public spirit that out first having given three days' notice to the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, and receiving permission from him. The consideration of bids for city printing was postponed until the next meeting on ac- count of the Injunction restraining the Su- pervisors from awarding the contracts. of Dr. Baum $600 per month was set aside for the maintenance of the Central and Harbor Emergency hospitals and the in- sane detention ward. Dr. Bazet intro- duced a resolution correcting the list of removals and promotions and the cor- rected list Is as follows: managing agent, and delivered b sergeant-at-arms of the board n!y Iellg: twelve hours before the time set for hear- ng the parties, was adopted. I Wit ‘be Rotified by mail. T e | s 3 4 | eggs. Despite the kuown richness of the i i t Toy Killed Him Opera-house is the most glorious epitaph which could | 885 CIsPIe TS oW FEATess country | such disfigurements of what should be our finest | The ordinancs Wmpoane 1 lewnse of 4 pot| °3.°F. Durham. clerk to Health Offcer Tiatel aroun awson. thousands of hardy and adven- | scenery should be permitted to proceed with a free | Poilea Committee for an amendment, sug- | Vice W. J. Kelly, resigned: E. ur- | Sidney Smith, the 13-year-old boy who be written in honor of a brave man. The family of Fireman Sweeney have a heritage worth preserving. Some of the military prophets now in South Africa ought to learn a lesson from the proverbial experience The boast that the Boers will of their political rivals. | turous miners have leit it for mining districts under It is true there is confusion at 1 Nome and not much order anywhere on the Ameri- | can side of the line, but there is a chance for a man ! the American flag. | to obtain a claim, and if it prove rich the riches will hand. It is a reflection upon our thrift and adminis- trative shrewdness that so large and so proper an ob- ject of revenue taxation should be neglected. The abolition of all offensive, injurious and dangerous signs, and the taxation of all that are permitted to re- gested by Braunhart, to meake the license a graduated one on the amount of business done, Acting Mayor Tobin was excused from vot- ing on all measures except When necessary to Create a quorum, as he is authorlzed to exer- cise the veto power. The resolution directing the clerk to read- vertlse for proposals to furnish the varlous branches of the city government phy. food inspector, vice J. Lydon, - missed: Gregory Walsh, clerk, {'\cen J.d I;‘ Durham, transferred. . ———— Teachers’ Credentials Arrive. The City Board of Examiners held no meeting vesterday on account of the ab- sence of some of its members, but will was accldentally shot in the palm of the left hand last week while handling g toy pistol, died at the City and County Hos- ital ‘vesterday of lockjaw su {7 the Wound. . — Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's.* —_—— be subdued in three months or in less than twice that | be for himself. On the Canadian side of the fine, | main. would be measures not only conducive to ur- | SiEH Hoiracts "for their. own suspiles was | meet to-day, when (he cases of C. T | poecm jinformation 9 time will look silly a year from now. | however. it appears the law takes almost all from the | ban and rural beauty, but also accordant with admin- | Feferred, o, h® JUCRR CHed ormiasion | WoTks and Mies Beebe will be brouight Bress Clipping Bureau (Alien'ry B Mo s | prospector and the officials take the rest. istrative thrift, with sound business principles and | to Dlace an additlon on top of its bullding on | UB; Thohran® Merqrmi! credentials Jfrom | gomery st._Telephone Main i0ia o The enthusiasin with which local Republicans are | The illiberality of the Canadian Government in | with common justice.” P e hdntc " Siapomoring. - the | hich Ia mot accredited To & University: | wenl, Willle,” sall, ma - o sz : = '3 z B z P & Boa: ~Public Works to invite b! The law’ states that only e . 0 mma, con - enrolling themselves as members of the district clubs | dealing. with miners in.the Klondike and elsewhere | The issue, as we all know, is of as much interest to | o cuosion ot an elestric elavator i the City | sued by colleges of equal ::vrxfiflfmf;;, it handiwors, erbockers v mdicates at least that the notion that the source and fountain of political power was in a tenderjoin saloon | within her territory has been in striking contrast to | the liberal spirit that shows itself in the mining laws San Francisco as to any other city in the United States. It is therefore a matter of satisfaction to note Hall to replace the two now In the buflding. A Referred to Committee. The tollowing communications, protests petitions were referred to committees: University of California shall - nized in California. The 'mfv-"x' '&°z'l‘5- day morning. however, of credentiais from the Columbia University of New York look ve well on you. Of course, s -4 = ¥ con % they're a trifle _“¥es, ma,” replled the bright boy. “f 051! describe has disappeared. | of this country, but it is now believed a change will | the westward trend of the reformii ‘widk v ' | g orming movement. ¢ - N e removes all doubt as to the qualifications | fhem " Phlladeiahi Brec > | be made and the Dominion will encourage mining | the artistic impulses emanating from the Paris Expo- 1nk e ackion of Uhe board in passing the erdl- | oL (he teachers. The question of grant- them."—Fhiladeinhis. Press San Francisco has won new fame. A young actress | hereafter instead of putting upon it such burdens as | sition lead to an elimination of signboard advertising B T Srney. statios that the Han'of | Kervan Robson ves a puzzier. My Dr. Sanford’s Liver who hoasts this &ty a< her birthplace has saved a man | have come near (o ~uining even 50 rich a district as | from railroads and cities, the benefits will be suffi- | s she ciaime .,..m,a o e T sty 5l peb = wng | e Bort i medicine, A vegetable cure op from drowning at*Atlantic City. and nobody even sus- | the Kiondike. Strong petitions have' been sent by | ciently great to justify every intelligent man in rising | ji a® SuRrt o Coater sumply gvet proposai stution, e faidbed: I Stenting Uni. wects that she did it ior an :dvefl.uaney& the Canadians themselves from Dawson asking for | up and calling it blessed. b o o ‘__’_.'fl“:._m"_n._..“ R (g &":': I ‘&”“m“’ ';“m&s':“:. °"":: ;:. =""".D'.~‘-"." Kears The a---""": * Bl