The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1900. E——— A K SESAS XTSRS iy GoveRNMENT! |IATTERS N TUESDAY. Y 10, 1900 ECKELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. SPR Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFF -Teleph me Press 204 VUBLICATION OFF Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201, ‘ddress A 217 to 221 Stevemsom St. EDITORIAL 2O0OMS o Press Z0Z. Telep! Deltvered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. 5 Cemtw. ding Postage:s % Sunday), w Sunday), § months. . One Year. v 1N postmasters are thorized to receive subseriptio Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. subscribers in ordering change of address should be ve both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order iance with their request. Mat or ¢ 2 and correet oo OFFICE. +++1118 Broadway VAKLAND C GEORGE KROGNESS, t Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.”") Wan PONDENT: ... Heraid Square EW YORK CORRE! C C. CARL NEW YORK RE! INTATIVE: STEP, SMITH .30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont Mouse. Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astorta Hotel; A. Brestano, 3 Union Square; Murray MUl Hotel wa N . C. DFFIC HINGT ...Wallington Hote. E. CRANE CR. Chrrespandant -_— e AMUSEMENTS. | g | which the makers of this platiorm urged and into Girl.™” e streets lle every ~Spectaltie aftersoon AUCTION SALES. *resident eves but Mr. on the troubled oil loor, was not missed how the Bimetall ous statesman, Warner was ze com- 2 sweat bee in but is noisy out of proportion were ncipally occupied in the reitera to the ed aking prepar ign, the d of Health wise in by taking t action “hinese dis! endeavor he wrong done to the for me aton by the senseless bubonic scare and 1 are aware of y have it in power ta compel an obedience to the heaita but e reason they have neglected to It is, then, to the Grand Jury the tation of action. From that bers o f the exert the power ex: wn property which is in for reform should be the property and not the tenants 1 the owners of st of Little or nothing of Ci 1 € g ese for living WA heir conviction would - t and support at the ex- xpavers. The owners of the property ap the buildings, to prevent r ssages . and, in short, blish all vired by the law. The issue is up to t not be permitted to shirk it kely that the prope for having the district expense of the city. They would be t the burden irom their own taxpayers, and no doubt can ious reasons why that should be even probable that in the end it may be 7 the community as a whole to deal with 1 by reconstructing thé whole district. That, r, is something far off. The immediate issue e one of enforcing existing health ordi- Chinatown as they are enforced elsewhere. That can be done by recuiring the owners of prop- erty there to do their duty zs it is done in the city generally. That is the step to be taken now, and the sooncr it be taken the better for all concerned. p the ur to e -owners heme nances I the platform is a statesmanlike document. edily come complaints against | 1 un- | THE BRYAN PLATFORM. HE country will not be immediately, nor T deeply, impressed by a platform laudatory of the constitution, read by Senator Tillman, and with an anti-trust plank reported by Van Wyck of New York and cheered by Dick Croker. Laying it along- | side the Philadelphia platiorm, one is struck by the | contrast. The Kansas City document denounces and | destroys. The Philadelphia affirms and constructs. The Kansas City platiorm denounces. the Dingley bill as devised to give favors to the few and put bur- | dens upon the many, and then denounces the Repub- | lican party for not extending the Dingley bill to Porto Rico, declaring that failure to do so has | doomed the Porto Ricans “to poverty and distress.” | Therefore the Democratic remedy for poverty and | distress is to give favors to the few and burdens to | the many! | Such fractures of logic, divorce of premise from | conclusion and sense from sound, abound in this out- burst of rage. Everything that is is wrong, and goes on to say: “These Boxers are in reality a branch of a brotherhood universally dreaded in China as well as in Singapore, Penang, Northern India and i parts of the United States, and known as the Sam op Wui; while among the European population of Canton, Shanghai and Peking it is usually alluded to as the ‘Great Triad Society.’ This society, called also the Hung League, and known by many other titles as well, has been in existence so many hundreds of years that its origin is lost in obscurity. Originally it would seem to have been a society en a par with our own Freemasons, for its chief object, accord- ing to the society’s ‘Excellent Words of Exhortation,’ was first and foremost to foster brotherly love, unity, harmony, equality and freedom. These high and laudable aims have been completely neglected by the latter-day Boxer, who, to speak it plainly, is merely a corrupt and cruel ruffian, determined to stick at nothing in the way of crime and villainy and trusting to his fellow Boxers to shield him from the long arm of justice.” The writer estimates the number of Boxers at about Bryanism was born to set it right. The gold stan- dard law is viciously attacked, though it has reduced interest on the national debt to 2 per cent, and our bonds at that rate command a premium. No nation ever had as high credit as ours, under this law. Now will any man of sense give any good reason for de- nouncing it as a crime? Is high interest on the na- tional debt desirable? If so, the Kansas City con- jon, that yelled against the gold standard till the waters of the Kaw nearly turned upstream, is right. | Is bad public credit, that puts our bonds at a discount 1f so, instead of a premium, a desirable condition? It confuses money and currency, demands that the treasury be used as a bank, and ignores all that science and experience have discovered of the natural laws, which precede statutes in the selection of money and the circulation of currency e As to the unhappy legacies left by the Spanish war, the platiorm is insin- ares that the constitu- y nagged the countr, cere and inconsistent. It dec tion follows the flag, denounces the giving of a gov- Porto Rico, and declares that we must ent to the Philippines first and then h th ernment to give a It will require much ingenuity to ex- ical crime to give government to t to give a govern- ¥ to Rico, and an egual crime ment to the Philippines. Again, if the constitution Jliow the flag, we take it that not even Senator Ti who is so solemnly devoted to constitutional rights that he murdered negroes for claiming them. will deny that the treaty of Paris put the flag in the This is beyond denial. The platform | 3 t the constitution followed. Therefore. that territory is now under the constitution as much as Yet this ises to alienate the Philip; It requires no constitutional lawyer to 1es hil hilig remarkable platiorm nes and give them in- South Carolina is pre dependence see that. if they are under the constitfition, to alienats them is a dissolution of the Union, and if they independence how can alienation and indepen- dence be denied to South Carolina or any other part of the Union? When such a platform is prepared by Tillman, who recently said in the Senate that 95 per cent of the Southern people are yet in favor of seces- sion and sorry that the Union was not dissolved, ably assisted by Jones of Arkansas and other proponents of the doctrine of secession, it is well to proceed with ution in dealing with its constitutional theories, are given c What man among them all can put up a logical de- icnse of the platform against the charge that behind nciation of imperialism it ambushes a revival ssion and proposes a policy that dissolves the large and influential, but it will not support a platform d theory that makes it identical with That sentiment denies that the constitution follow he flag. because it denies that the Philippines are in- It desires to alienate them, and looks for- secession. t alienable. d to a reaction that will demand such alienation. . do not propose to dissolve the nate the Philippines, and there- ti-expansionist nion in order to ali fore prefer the conservative and tentative declarations party. We denounce the Philippine plank in the Kansas fe- 1ded to mislead the opponents of =xpan- form as ambushed secession or deliberate City p ception, inte It raises a theory under which its promise can- not be kept. { the party get p South, who control it, can compel the country to keep e Philippines or dissolve the Union. We propose to fight against such an alternative, as will every patriotic citizen. Mr. V. Wyek! trust plank has upon it the ar frost of the ice trust. except by dissolving the Union, so that ower the frantic expansionists in the ! purity is demanded by a convention which | mitted Senator Clark of Montana to Politica unanimousiy a seat, against a contest. The adoption of the platform was immediately and appropriately. followed by a speech by J. Webster Davis. in which he indorsed it and announced that he would support “William Brennings” for President. He had only been in the party twenty minutes, anl his tongue was already so thick that he could not pronounce the name of its candidate! Republicans will remember his campaign made in | California in 1808, in which he labored to stir up sen- { timent in favor of grabbing the Philippines, which he | invariably pronounced “Philippians.” He will no | an prepa: red to meet a new competitor. THE BOXER BROTHERHOOD. O 7T of the deep obscurity of the Chinese mass | bit of information concerning it a matter of interest to the wor In response to the desire for more | knowledge on the subiect there has been forthcoming | variety of opinions and statements, often | | an infitite conflicting and very rarely aiding any one to obtain a | clearer conception of the mysterious society. A few days ago we presented a summary of a state- ment of the aims and objects of the Boxers, given to the London Express by a Chinese merchant living in | Fngland and who claimed to speak with the authority | of membership in the brotherhood. According to his statement the “Boxers™ are patriots, Joyal to the Chi- nese Government and to Chinese civilization, and | foreigners | | cpposed to forcigners only because the | have attempted to stir up religious strife among the people and in other ways disorder the empire. A | different view of the brotherhood is presented by a | correspondent of the London Chronicle. and as he is | indorsed by that journal as an authority on Chinese | matters, his statements are worth noting. The writer begins by saying the number of Chinese | secret societies now :n existence is endless, and that most of the stories told about them by travelers are trash. Comparatively few of the societies are op- posed to the present dynasty, but one of the most infiuential of the few is that of the Boxers. He then | compelled under threat of torture to take the oaths. | There are some 333 orders in the society. It is divided doubt star as a spellbinder for “William Brennings,” | d old Boeras should inflate the lungs of him and be | the so-called “Boxer™ brotherhood has sud- | denly risen to an eminence that renders every | 4,000,000 ten years ago, and says the society is known to have increased since that time. The recruits are not always volunteers. Frequently persons are either decoyed into the order or are brought in by force and into five great lodges, and the governing body is a council composed of the presidents of the five lodges. It has no grand master or single executive head. The Chinese Government has repeatedly endeavored to suppress the order, but hae never come anywhere near success. The writer’s advice as to what should be done with respect to the brotherhood is curious in the light of what has happened since his article was written. He “Let them alone. \Whatever you do, let them If they are left unmolested they will not mo- lest Europeans. but. on the contrary, if we attempt to crush them, or insist on striving to convert their members to Christianity, we shall not merely fail, but in all probability our missionaries will be put to death with great cruelty. The Boxer Society bears a striking resemblance to a great nest of hornets. Leave the nest undisturbed and you may pass it with impunity fifty times a day. Stir it up thoroughly only for a moment, and €very hornet in the nest will at once turn upon you E show of events as recorded in the press must have noted that the great American eagle is not screaming so loudly over the American display at the Paris Exposition as might have been expected. | We miss the gladsome, buoyaunt boasting of ‘how we | beat everybody else in the world, to which we were | customed when former exhibitions were in full biast. This failure may be due to the fact t come blase on expositions, or that we are too busy with politics to talk of Paris; but there is reason to fear that it is due miinly to the fact that thus far we have had very little to brag about except the success v's band playing ragtime melodies. We have had, indeed, fairly good reports of Califor- nia's exhibits. It is stated they are all in place and | have attracted much attention; that in many respects they excel those of all other countries. We are far ahead of any of our sister States in fruits, woods and | minerals, while our wines have not only surpassed | those of any other American State, but have been of such excellence that the French judges have refused { to permit them to compete with French wines of the same names. All that is comiorting to State pride, but for our national patriotism there is little in the way of ex- | says: alone. CUR EUILDING AT PARIS. VEN the most casual observer of the passing at we have be of | | 1 The national building is reported to be al- most a disgrace. Dispatches from Paris some_time | ago described it inadequately furnished, and now | comes the correspondent of the Freeman's Journal and condemns the whole thing. He says: g “It is a boxlike building, opening fireely from a A poor imitation of the National Capitol s the structure and a golden eagle spreads his wings toward the Seine. The building is rot national; it is not harmonious with its surround- ings, and it is cheap and tawdry. The interior deco- rations are flags and cheap, conventionals American shields. apparentiy of pasteboard. The slight hand- rails around the platiorms of the stories opening on the rotunda are of eighth-inch strap iron, such as is used in foundries to make tees and angles. The bal- ustrades are of cheap red plush, harsh to the touch | and flimsy and inartistic in appearance.” Fortunately for us the advantages we expect from the exposition are to be gained by our industrial dis- play and not by the national building. If we can make a market for more of our products we shall for- | get the failure we have made in the way of architec- ture. Moreover, we are to have an exposition of our own at St. Louis within the near future, and with the memory of the wonderful White City at Chicago in mind, can count on St. Louis to accomplish some- thing that will redeem our fame as builders. All the same, we may be wise in not talking very much about our national display at Paris. ultation. rotunda. dome surmoun The intimation that a Japanese general may com- mand the international army now being formed for the invasion of China is curious. The sight of Ameri- | cans, British, Germans, French and Russians taking orders from a Jap would be a good scene in a’comic | opera. 3 United States Senator Hanna says he is eminently | pleased with the national Democratic platform.” If | the Democrats entertained a suspicion of unrest before | this assertion ought to settle the matter and reconcile | them to their fate. Sp il An Oakland young lady’s coolness is credited with having prevented damage by fire. It would be inter- | esting to know what would have happened if the | young lady's temperature had increased. Lord Francis Hope has honored us with his | presence and ‘his opinion that we are really deserving {people. This is probally one of those occasions when the pleasure is all his. i Eastern people are complaining of the hottest sum- mer on record, but perhaps the heated state of the | community with regard to the ice trust has something | to do with it. The free silver plank is pretty well hidden in the | multitude of words that make up the Kansas City platiorm, but the people know it is there and will vote accordingly. The murderous husband who shot his wife the other cay and is now sorry has the satisfaction at least of knowing that for once his wife shares one of his sen- | the budge The A | buildings was awarded to the San MCCEPTANCE OF HALL OF JUSTICE *NEAR AT HND Resolution Ordering It Is Passed to Print by Supervisors. Pound Limits Extended to the Mis- sion Road—Police Station Is Proposed for the South- ern District. —e A resolution was passed to print yester- day by the Board of Supervisors providing for the acceptance of the Hall of Justice and Morgue building. In one week the resolution will be finally passed and the building In the construction of which there have been so many vexation delays will be turned over to the city for occu- pancy. Supervisor Comte introduced the resolution, which reads: ‘Whereas, The City Attorney has advised this board thai it may accept the Hall of Justice without first having settied with the credi- tors asserting claims against the) same; now therefore be it Resolved, That the City and County of San Francisco dbes hereby accept sald Hail of Jus- tice; and be it further Resolved, That the committee on public buildings of this board be and is hereby author- ized 1o take possecsion of said Hall of Justice on behalf of the city and county to the end that the same may be used without delay for the purposes for which it was constructed. Sanford Bennett informed the board that the creditors had decided to take 70 per cent of the claims amounting to $84,000 as they did not care to be subjected to hopeless litigation. “All the creditors have signed an agree- ment,” said Mr. Bennett, “to discharge the city from all obligations on that basis. Bateman Brothers have also signed the agreement and we are ready to give the cty a clean receipt.” Establishing Pound Limits. An ordinance was passed to print, estab- | lishing a public pound and providing for | the extension of the pound iimits as fol- lows: the southern boundary line County of San Francisc the Pacific Ocean; the said southern boundary enters the waters of ce easterly along the line to Mission road; w6 thence norgheasterly along road | Ocean avenue; thence to San Jose avenue; thence southerly to Mount Vernon ave- nue; thence northwesterly cla street; hence northerly to Ovea. the Southern Pacifc side avenue; thence easterly westerly extremity of Islals street easterly to the Mission road; utherly to Persin avenue; the Paris street; thence northerly to nue; thence easterly to Kraut street; thence northerly to Islais street; thence northeaster- Iy along Islais Creek to the waters of the ba. thence to puint of commencement The original ordinance, extend northerly to Suns limits to the county line, was defe: A resolution was introduced by Braun- hart providing that a parcel of land sit ated at Fourth and Clara streets be trans- ferred from the Sc Police Department, and that the sum of $25.000 be set aside from' the general funa | for the erection of a police station upon the described lot. The resolution, which was referred to the Police Committee, calls attention to the fact that the south- ern police district is not provided with a station, that the district is one of the most thickly populated in the city and that the needs of the Police Department | urgently require that some place shail be provided therein where a patrol wagon may be located and persons under arrest detained. Miscellaneous Business. The Auditor was authorized to appoint | of fifty extra clerks, at a compensation $100 per month each, for a period not exceed thir d ‘or the purpose making out plicate tax list. The payment of to help liquid the expenses of the Fourth of July ¢ bration was authorized, It was resolved that all demands for ationery. books and printed blanks fur- nished the Board of Fire Commissioners and. Board of Health be charged paid out of the appropriation set aside in t for said departments.. essor was authorized to add to the assessment books, according to law, sits as a Board of Equalization, all prop- erty which might have escaped taxation during the fiscal year 19%-1391, and to make corrections of clerical errc and to | furnish a list thereof at the last meeting of the board. The contract to light with electricity the City Hall and other public buildings at .0395 cents per 1000 watt hours was award- ed to the Independent Electric Light and Power Company. That to light with gas the City Hall and certain engine houses went to the Pacific Gas Improvement Company for $1 35 per 100 cubic feet. The contract to light with gas certain public ran- ciseo Gas and Electric Company at $1 3% per 1000 cubic feet. Referred to Committees. The foliowing petitions., communications and protests were referred to committees: From superintendent of the California Home for Feebleminded Children, transmitting a list of commitments from San Francisco and other data. Federation of Mission Improvement Clubs, transmitting a resolution providing for an amendment to the ordinance imposing fees for inspecting alterations of buildings: also pro- testing against the creation of the position of | Inspector of Horseshoeing by the Fire Commis- | sloners. Independent Electric Light and Power Com- pany for permission to use ofl as a fuel under the bollers in the plant at the corner of Twen- ty-third and Loulsiana streets. Taxpayers, for the restoration of the side- walks or the east side of Stanvan street, be- | tween Waller and Frederick streets. Street Work. ‘The Board of Public Works recommend- ed that granite curbs and artificial stone sidewalks be lald on the four corners of Vallejo and Steiner sfreets and that the roadway of the crossing be paved with bituminous rock. The City Street Improvement Com; v was granted permission to repair with bi- tuminous rock the roadwav of Sansome street between Sutter and Bush. A resolution was adopted providing for the full acceptance of the roadway of the crossing of Twenty-ninth and Tiffany streets, Tvan Treadwell and others were granted an extension of one vear's time from Au- | gust 1800, on the contract to grade, macadamize, etc. on Grove Masonie avenue, Fulton, Clayton, Col Hayes and Ashbury streeets. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SWAMP LANDS—H. A, Napa. Cal. The record of swamp land in California Is: Swamp and overflowed lands. surveyved 1,635,227 acres: unsurveyed, 85,524 acres. PUNCTUATION—E. G. M. Oakland. Cal. The punctuation in the following lines is correct: May the tears of affection crystallize as they fal And, as gems. adorn the bosom of those e love. TIBURCIO VASQUEZ-C., City. Tibur- clo Vasquez. the California bandit, was in the County Jail, San Jose, | Santa Clara County, March 19, 1875, for the murder of A timents. —_— There is no question about the ability of the allied nations to whip China, but there is 3 question how long the alliance will last aiter the whipping has been done. o Vi Sy Sheritf, Rowisnds, and o that month :l placed | all the candidates be presented so that an | | | was supported by Booth, B 1 ol Department to the | during the time the Board of Supervisors | ' L e e e e kB S Sy OPPOSITION TO THE DICTATION OF THE MAYOR Supervisors Not in Har- mony Over Appointment of a Clerk. solution Calling Upon the Health Board to Resign Indefinitely Postponed After Discussion and Close Vote. —_— That all {s not harmony in the Phelan camp was demonstrated yesterday, when several Supervisors refused to be dictated to In the matter of appointing his Honor’s cholce for stationery clerk of the board. The proceedings over the attempt to pay one of the Mayor's political debts further demonstrated that when Phelan does small politics he throws aside the merit system, which the civil service provision of the charter imposes on the municipal | governmert. That the opposition to the | Mayor's driving methods was well defined will be understcod when it is known that the vote of acting Mayor Tobin was re- quired to consummate the deal. It was Braunhart, too, who insisted on Tobin re- | ceding from his seif-imposed custom of | not voting on any measure, and thus the | ex-Senator began to repay his absent chiel for his recent appointment. Supervisor Booth, chairman of the Com- | mittee on Printing and Salaries, started the ball by intrcducing an ordinance ap- | pointing Thomas W. Doyle to the position of stationery clerk, at $125 per month. Booth explained that the position requ.red | a man of experience as to stationery and in bookbinding and printing. Doyle pos- sessed the required qualifications, Booth | | said. Jennings stated that the position was in reality that of ‘‘expert to the print- ing committee,” and that only a compe- tent man could fill it. Connor said that he had another name to present, but would not do so until action regarding Doyle's nomination had been taken. Every | one knew that Connor referred to John F. | | Finn, whom Pheian had been trying to From a point where the western extremity of | of the City and | force on the Printing Committee for sev- | eral weeks past. | Brandenstein asked that the names of opporunity would be given to the mem- bers of the board to compare the aspir- ants. The vote was first taken on Doyle, | but he failed to get a majority vote. He oxton, Hotal- ing, Jennir McCarthy, Reed and San- Agafnst him were Brandenstein, | Comte, Curtis, d Aneona, | Dwyer and Helms. The vote on Finn was | then taken with the same result, those | who voted against Doyle voting for him. | A motion to reconsider was made possi- | | ble by the addition of the votes of Boxton | |and MeCarthy. The vote on the ordinance appointing Finn then showed Branden- | tein. Braunhart, Comte, Connor, Curtis. | d'Ancona, Dwyer, Helms and Boxton in favor. Ten votes being necessary Braun- hart jumped to the rescue and rising ex- | citedly said: | T move that the Acting Mayor be not excused from voting.” | Tobin interposed a mild objection, but | cast the deciding vote, explaining that he did so on a written recommendation of | Judge Caffey in favor of Finn, which had been read earlier by Comte. The recommendation of the Health and Hospital Committee that McCarthy's res- | olution calling upon the Board of Health to resign and reciting the reasons therefor be indefinitely postponed was opposed by the author. “1 believe that this resolution should bs voted upon,” said McCarthy. I am of the same opinion as I was when I intro- duced the bill-that plague has never ex- | | isted in this city; that the attempt to fast- ' {en it on the community was a swindle, and | that the irreparable injury done by the | Health Board's action demands the in- stant resignation of its members."” Sanderson moved to strike out all the aragraphs in the resolution except the | ast which reads: The Board of Health no longer has the sup- port and confidence of this Board of Super- visors and for the best interests of the com- | | munity_at large we deem the removal of its members from their office necessary and the | Mavyor is earnestly requested to see that their | offices are declared vacant forthwith. { . The indefinite postponement of the reso- | { lution prevailed by the votes of Booth, Box- | ton, Brandenstein, Comte, Connor, Curtis. d'Ancona, D r, Jennings and Tobin. The Acting Mayor cast the deciding vote in this case also and so saved the day for the Health Board. Hotaling, McCarthy, | Reed and Sanderson voted against indefi- nite postponement and Helms was ex- cused from voting. Registrar Appoints Clerks. Ten night clerks were appointed vester- | day by Registrar Walsh to assist in regis- | tering voters for the August primaries. | The civil service list of eligibles was the | medium through which they were chosen. The new night employes are: F. J. Me- Auliffe, James B. Camden, James D. Wiseman, Robert Hessian, Isaac Citron, Stanley A. How. Frank E. Madden, | Thomas Kenney and W. J. Swassey George W. Nickell refused to serve. | The Registrar declines to have anything | to do with women in his office and in mak- krl;ped | der: ing his selection of day clerks si over the names of two of the fair sex. The day clerks selected will each receive a salary of $10 and their duties will com :nem‘e ?egh"!l(nnél-sy They are as fol- | ows: T. rien, Fred Ernest | Giessing, —Alexander - d Anocas Daniel J. McCarthy, Andrew J. T. Mc- Creery, Ignatius J. Dwyer, ggwelrs‘ ARal thlh‘;‘n. arles A. Sankey, H. B. Moynihan Joseph P. Roesman. Patrick . Barrett and Charles J. Benninger were offe: - sitions, but declined. b o Thomas J. Richard Cline, | t FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. Bal ot S ot o ok e o 2 o i : 4 . % 4 - : * . ‘ : i . @ . Rd s 4| - 1 pS ® - :} b3 ‘: ! : *| : 3 + *} * * M—o—.—o-.—o-.+0—o—0—o—0+: A NEAT DINNER DRESS, The dress represen sul small dinrer party, l.:::‘:' coru';:!:l ::;fl: guipure. with black veiver waistband and | mming, haif-length sleeves trimmey | :‘-l;-h-lmnd-lfik‘-ek ahusitn anirt e | trimmed with ochre | ———— Tte ma Who tells you that clothes do not make t man mm”,‘;mammm 1 | ! i INVESTIGATION OF SOURCES OF WATER SUPPLY Supervisors Adopt Measures Affecting Municipal Ownership. City Attorney Will Enlighten Board Regarding Its Authority to Designate Expenditures Out of Park Fund. gt The Board of Supervisors adopted seve eral measures at its meeting yesterday which are preltminary to the acquisition of a municipal water system. The plans, as outlined by the resolutions, contem- plate an immediate inquiry by the Board of Public Works into the cost of the Spring Valley Water Works sys- tem; the appropriation of $00 for an in- spection of Lake Tahoe and Yuba River systems and the investigation of the vari- ous sources of water supply which have been submitted with a view to ultimate purchase by the city. The resolutions were all introduced by Chairman Reed of the Committee on Public Utilities and were unanimously adopted. The first res- olution says: The City Engineer and the Board of Public Works are hereby instructed to begin immed: ately an investigation of the east of the worl and machinery of the Spring Val Water Works actually used for supplying San Fran- cisco with water; that is to say, what is the worth of the tangible property of the Spring Valley Water Works independent of the cost or value of the water rights and lands. The Committee on Public Utilitles was directed to commence an investigation in the month of September of the cost and value of the property of the Spring Vailley Water Works; and to continue its sessions until next February, with the view of pre- senting an ordinance fixing water rates for the following year. The sum of $50 was appropriated to pay the expenses of the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Public Works in the in- vestigation of the Lake Tahoe water sys- tem and the water sheds of the north and gouth forks of the Yuba River. All proposals submitted to furnish San Franecisco with a water sxmrly were or- dered referred to the Board of Publie Works for the imvestigation of those deemed worthy of consideration. The City En;lnvrr was directed to make plans and to furnish estimates of the ac- tual cost of the original construction and completion by the city and county of wa ter works having their sources of supply |in Lake Tahoe, the forks of the American River, the forks of the Yuba River and | the Feather River The Board of Public Works was re- quested to make monthly analyses of the water furnished by the Spring Valley Water Works until the rains begin. The publication of an articie in last Sunday's Call to the effect that “the Board of Supervisors has no power to di- rect the expenditure of moneys for any specific_purpose out of the park improv ment fund, but that the Park Comm sioners alone have exclusive control of the fund,” prompted Supervisor Boxton to Introduce a resolution asking for the City Attorney’'s advice on the subject. The resolution recites: Whereas, This board set aside in the budget | for this fiscal year the sum of 3000 for the improvement of the Hospital Lot Park: and the rd of Park Commissioners im that It s not compell « Resolved, That the Cit is hereby requested to o his opinion as to whether the B visors has the power or authorit: any specific improvement to be made out of the park fund when compiling the budget. and if this board has the power, whether the Boa. of Park Commissioners would be required to use the amount set aside the purpose designated and no other. PERSONAL MENTION. F. B. Todd Sr. of Fresno is at the Lick. George E. Goodman, banker, of Napa, is at the Palace. J. R. Garrett and wife of Marysville are registered at the Lick. Colonel Forsythe, one of the raisin kinge | of Fresno, is at the Occldental. C. H. Jackson. a leading citizen of Loulsville, Ky., is at the Palace. Sig. Wormser, one of Fresno's leading merchants, is stopping at the Lick. Charles King, a prominent cattle raiser of Hanford, is a guest of the Lick. Stanley Oakley, a merchant of Calcutta, is at the California. He arrived on the Rio. Miss Keith Wakeman arrived from Los Angeles last night to join the Frawley Company. L. G. Dreyfus of Santa Barbara, accom- panied by his family, is stopping at the Occidental. J. M. Corcoran, a Frominent politictan and mining man of Mariposa, accom- panied by his family, is registered at tha Lick. Prince David, John H. Holt, J. H. Wise and William H. Cornwell, delegates to the Kansas City convention, arrived in the city last night en route to Honoluiu. They are stopping at the Palace. J. D. Sproul, District Attorney of Butte County, who is expected to be the Demo- cratic nominee for Congress from that | district, is In the city. He is accompanied by his family and will spend a month here. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 3—Waldeman Boyd of San Francisco is at the Manhattan: B. J. Davis of San Franeisco is at the Buck- ingham. Reception to Spaulding. O. L. Spaulding, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. will leave for Alaska the latter part of the week on_official business. Union League Club will tender the distinguish- ed gentleman a reception da. next, at $:3 o'clock. ez o Cal. glace fruit 5c per ™ at Townsend's. —_——— Spectal information suppiied dafly to business houses and public men Press Cif Bureau (Alien's). 510 te somery st ‘elephone Main - Time of the Fight. ‘Say." queried the inquisith “how long does it usually take te. des unfis; a pnunkxhx ;. “Don’t you knc sai rting editor. : S 0e “No. How long' “Oh! just a bout."—Philadelphia Press. —_——— St. Paul and R:turn $72.40. Tickets on sale at Union Pacific Office July 11 and 12. Rate open to all and good for re- turn within sixty days. Time to St. Paul less than three days on the “Overland Lim- ited” via Unicn Pacific. M‘m Agent. 1 Montgomery st San Fran- e A s Cheap Rate to St. Paul and Return. A f the season: kets July Tith and IR T. K Statelers Gen Age Northern Pacific Ry.. 638 Market st . ¥ —— e 2 No buffet shouid be without Siegerts Angostars Bitters, the Soutn Arary: can appetizer and Invigorator. —————— To St. Paul and retarm on July 1l and 12 onty $72 e sixty dags. Get full particulars