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. 6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1900 3 el AT S 1900 S. LEAKE, Manager, .. Telephone Press 204 Address All Communicaions to Vv !A! AGE-? 0‘Fl’l('l':. .. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS Stevenson St. to =1 ne Pross 202, 15 Cents Per Week. 5 Cenmts Tostage: All postmasters be forwarded when requested - Sample copies will should be Mall subscribers in ordering cl particular to give both NEW AN 1o insure & prompt and c * OAKLAND OFFICE... YORK NEW STEPHEN B. SMITH, 30 Tribune Building NEW YORK C. C. CARLTON... CORRESPONDENT: ~Heraid Square BRANCH OFFICES —£27 Mo ©nti] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes omery. corner of Clay, open open until 9:20 o'clock. 63 . open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 1 Mission, open until 10 c'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, Gpen until § o'clock. 1096 Valencla. open | untll § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW cor- Der Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen until 9 oglock. “The Great Ruby ney Islan umn Leaves on by a resolution her the Super- AVING been called visors have power to designate an n specific im- ment to be made out of the park fund when 1 nd whether the Park Com g the budget, would be required to use the amount set aside’ the purpose rated and no other, City Attor- ney Lane has cl and emphatically upheld the in- dependence of the commission. His view is in ac- cord w n by the Park Commissioners th accepted as a final .scttlement of the question. us sections of charter in- City Attorney say “All of 1 need not be cited eposed in the Park exclusive manage- It is not within selves and by the Auditor, and will doubtless be is the trust r have th ment a nt of all funds.’ the power o 3oard of Supervisors to say how any d shall be used. There is no the charter upon this plenary If it were possible for the Board of y part of the fund must be porti L grant of power y how Supervisors t used, it w fund and thereby comiro! to the utmost the managerial policy of the commission—a conclusion obnoxious to the letter and the spi-it of the charter.” It is further pointed out that the Park Commission- ers have exclusive nagement of the parks, and it is for them ) determine what improvements shall be ma e general affairs of the municipal park system chall be conducted. The charter places it below which the tax levy for park purposes uld be pos a Iim a shall not be fixed, and, as the City Attorney say “This provision was inserted in the charter doubtless | by way of precaution against the possible indifference ©f the Supervisors ¢o the interests of the parks, or be- cause of a fear of possible conflict between such boa and the Park Commission. The purpose was to make the Park Commission an independent branch of the municipal government. Ii the Board of Supervisors had the power to divide the park fund and compel its mse as it might see fit, there would be no value in guch a provision, and the character of the commission swould be converted from one having discretion and gontrol into one purely administrative.” probably been put to Mayor Phelan’s efforts to dictate to the Park Commission and make that body subordinate to his swill. His scheme of converting the park lodge into ® branch library was wle go to the parks for o Mot to sit in a house and read By this opinion a conclusion has i-door recreation and It has served, however, @ good purpose in bringing this issue to a prompt stest, and demonstrating the wisdom of the charter- mnakers in establishing the Park Commission as an Endependent=branch of the municipal government in ®o way subordinate to the politicians of the City Hall. A LOS ANGELES BILLBOARDS 1.LOS ANGELES ordinance limiting the height of advert ing iences to six feet has been gg- clared valid by the courts. The reports of the «case state that the decision of the Judge “covers every jesue involved in the dispute between the billposters @nd the authorities of various cities who have sought 4e check the skyward flight of the billboards. After referring to section 11 of article XI of the State con- stitution, which gives county, city, town and township government control of police and sanitary regulations, the court goes on to state that this.power is confirmed by the charter of the city.” The decision is one more victory movement now under way in every part of the Union, znd, indeed. over a considerable portion of Europe as for a well, for we have had occasion to recently note the | steps that have been taken in France and in Great Britain to abate the nuisance of billboaid advertising, not only in farge cities, but at all stations along rai way lines. It is not creditable to San Francisco that Los An- geles should have been permitted to lead in this im- portant reform. We have been forced to content our- selves with the passage of an ordinance limiting the height of advertising fences to ten feet, and to he enforced a vear hence. Los Angeles restricts such fences to six feet and the order is in effect now. Congratulations are duc to the thriving metropolis ! of the south. By the removal from her streets of the towering, lurid and dangerous advertising fences, which have become so.common in American cities, | her attractiveness to persons of artistic taste will be much increased. In the end similar ordinances will be enforced everywhere. Los Angeles has the satis- faction of leading the way, and now that the validity of her ordinance has heen sustained it will not be long before other cities will follow the example. in order | e, | ¢ for it to subdivide the entire foolish one in itself, for peo- | reform | BRYAN ON GOLD. N 1893 the Democratic convention of Nebraska in- dorsed President Cleveland in demanding repeal ot l the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. There- { upon Mr. Bryan, who was a member of the conven- - | tion, made a parting-cf-the-ways speech, in which ke | said: i sentlemen, I know not what others may do, but | duty to country is above duty to party. 1f the Demo- | cratic party, after you go home, indorses your action ! and makes your position its permanent policy, 1 | promise you that I will go out and serve my country | and my God under some other name, even if I must | go alone.” Well, the Nebraska Democracy did indorse that ac- | tion and Mr. Bryan bolted, formed a mongrel fusion | with the Populists, znd started out on the crooked | political path he has followed since. In 1806 that | straight Democracy of Nebraska held its convention | under the call of the National Committee, made 1ts delegation regularly and commissioned it to the Cho- | cugo convention. Mr. Tobias Castor was the Ne- braska member of the National Committee and had 1ot followed Mr. Bryan in bolting. Mr. Bryan ap- | peared in Chicago at the head of a delegation of Pop- ulists, greeenbackers znd political rag, tag and bob- tails, and Tillman, Jones & Company voted the regu- A lar and straight delegation out and Bryan and mongrels in. The young man changed his mind about “going cut alone” and preferring country to party. When the regular Democrats determined to stand by their country, its credit and its integrity, rather than go Fopulizing after office with Mr. Bryan, he said in his speech in Richmond, Va.: “I want to warn you who are contemplating deserting from the Democratic party at this time that the man who in the face of such an enemy either goes to the rear or is found in secret conference with the enemy is a traitor upoin whom the brand shall be placed and he shall not come b " That is a very fair index to Mr. Bryan's character. in line with ng God and When he bolted a party action that w the ps his country! ty policy and history he was s When other men refused to desert their party principles d history they were traitors, bidden by this upstart dictator to “come back! In 1896 his speeches were cast in the fashion of He used the language of the destroyer and anarchy sought by every means to rouse in his hearers the spirit of violence and destruction. On August he N. Y.: “We have then to consider this question: Ought the American people to sub- mit longer to a gold standard? The Democratic party has begun a war of extermination against the gold standard. We ask no quarter. We give no quarter. We shall prosecute our warfare until there is not a single American citizer: that dares to advocate a gold standard policy. You ask why? We reply that the gold standard is a conspiracy against the human race, end that we should no more join it than we would an ny to destroy our homes and to destroy our fami- said at Albany lies. Fine talk for an aspirant to the Presidency, but well Iculated to cultivate in his partisans that spirit of | violent intolerance expressed in his Richmond speech. At Syracuse, N. Y., August 24, he said: . “My friends, the conspiracy we have to meet is a conspiracy which has for its object the striking down of silver. | And that can only mean a gradual and continual in- crease in the purchasing power of the dollar, and that means an indefinite sczson during which the holders of fixed investments gather more than they loan and during which those whec owe debts will pay more than th agree to pay—an indefinite season during which it will be more profitable to hoard money or loan it ! than to invest it in enterprises or property That may be taken as a fair exposure of his knowl- cdge of ecoromics. What profit does hoarded money Money earns orly when in use, not when it is it by increase in its purchasing power, w pay? dor should those who have it hoard or loan it in preference to buying property? And, still again, what hinders those who borrow it from buying property and so taking ad- | vantage of its increasing purchasing power? As a fact, since the gold standard was established nfatter by the vote of 1896 the purchasing power of the dol- | Jar has steadily decreased instead of increasing, as this Mahdi of the Platte said it would. In 1896 sheep in Nebraska were $1 81 per head; now they are $2 86. Wool was 6 cents a pound; now it is 14. Wheat was 50 cents a bushel; now it is 80 cents. Corn was 16 cents a bushel; now it is 44 cents. Oats were 13 ! cents a bushel: now they are Hogs were Sz 85 per cwt.; now they are $5 25. Steers were §3 per cwt.; now they are $5 75. Horses are worth %o per cent more, and so runs the decrease in the pur- | chasing power of a dollar through the whole list of American productions. His foresight was vain. His prophecy was foolish. Not a line nor letter of it has come true. Then what are we to think of the political | jndgment, the public spirit and the patriotism of those | men who insist on presenting him again as a can- | didate, in whom there is the sum of all wisdom? | At Erie, Pa., on August 24, he said: “Do not let the Republicans beguile you about the future. The | future is written in blood, crushed out of you by | gold.” | " What was then that future is now the past and | the present. Out of whom has gold crushed blood? | | September 1 he said at Columbus, Ohio: “I call | your attention to the fact that no party in the history of this country has ever in a national convention | commended the gold standard. Its effects are so bad that no party has ever dared to uphold it. The ad- vocates of the gold standard have never dared to sub- mit tle arbitration of the gold standard to the ballot. Every step that has been taken has been taken by tealth gnd without the approval of the American | people.” In his Populistic oration to the convention which | nominated him he said, in paraphrase of Patrick | Henry We are fighting in defense of our homes, our families and our posterity. We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned. We have en- treated, and our entreefics have been disregarded. We have begged. and they have mocked, and our | calamity came. We heg no longer. We entreat no more. We defy them.” Now who are “they” and this vaporing? £ Looked at in the perspective of 1806, Colonel Bryan remains now the same size he was then, and we feel sure Yhat if the Gold Democrats are ready to admit | that they were wrong and “traitors,” they still would prefer that some other than he should be the bene- | ficiary of their abasement. L T £ O O TS | A Jocal minister is convinced that if the diplomats in China had paid more heed to the missionaries the frightful reign of blood which is now affrighting the world would not have happened. Some of the mis- | sionary societies might wisely reach a conclusion that the cost of their operations is now being counted in something more precicus than coin. “them” pointed to in all . for- Again, if the dollar buys more property, | A LITTLE SIDE TROUBLE. ITH so many vast movements and disturb- Wances going on in Asia to hold the attention of the world, there is little opportunity given to note the appearance there of minor events even when they are portentous of evil to come. A new compli- cation which has just arisen on the Afghan border is, however, sufficiently important to merit at least a passing study even in these troublous times of Rus- sian aggression, Indian famine and Chinese insurrec- tion. For a long time past the British\Govemmcnt has had under consideration the construction of a railway fiom Peshawur to Kiyber Pass. The distance to be covered by the road is only twelve miles, but that nar- row space is in the territory of the Airidis, and to cr it is something like crossing the Rubicon—a thing easy enough in itself, but certain to entail far- reaching consequences. 5 <The line is desired by the British because it will connect the whole railway system oi India with the gateway into Afghanistan, and enable the transporta- tion of troops in large numbers to the danger point at any moment they might be needed. Aiter hesi- tating over the project for years the Indian Govern- ment has recently decided to act, and a dis- patch from India announces that it is now definitely settled that the road will be completed within three months. The same dispatch states: “Omne of the more im- mediate results of the new railway has been to plunge the Afridis into almost open revolt. The greater part of the new line runs through Afridi country, and no subsidy can entirely recompense the Afridi for the | utilization of his country for the purpose.” A little scrimmage. with the Afridis would not he much in the way of a in these times, nor will it impose any great task upon the Indian Government te provide a force sufficient to guard a twelve-mile line of railway through the Airidi territory, but the hos tility of that small tribe of mountainecers is not th only element of danger in the problem. There is the Ameer of Afghanistan to be considered. What view will he take of a road that brings the British in force | to the very gate of his country? The London Chronicle takes a cheerful view of the uation. It concedes, indeed, that if the road were extended twenty-four miles farther, so as to have its terminus beyond Khyber Pass, it might be a sub- ject of trouble, but it does not look for anything like | war as the matter stands. Reviewing the whole sub- ject the Chronicle says: “As it is, the railway forms a | pendant to that already existing at Quetta, and brings our advanced base on the Khyber line to practically the same distance from Kabul as New Chaman is from Kandahar. With the aid of these two railways we | could pour an army into either Northern or Southern | Afghanistan without having recourse to the Karram line, which was utllized on the last occasion by Lord | Roberts. The Ameer will naturally view the move- | ment with some distrust, but the project has been so | long in hand that he has no ground for complaint, in | view of the fact that the present terminus of the line | will be twenty-four miles within our own border.” That is the British view of it. | getting ready to open the line with great ceremony, | and the Ameer of Aighanistan is studying the situa- | tion and trying to make up his mind what he will do when the issue is up to him. @ DISTRIBUTION OF WOMEN. i since the outburst of the imperial spirit caused by the war in South Africa, but about the most interesting cf them all is one for promoting an emigration of women from the mother country to Canada, Australia and South Africa. Throughout the colonies there is a notable majority | of men over women, while in Great Britain, and es- | pecially in London, there are far more women than men. Reformers who have plenty of time to take ‘llmught about the weliare of the world regard the | existing condition of things in that respect’ as preju- dicial to the old country and to the colonies, to men | and to women. They have therefore started a move- | ment to bring about what they call “sex equilibrium,” and are urging it forward with a good deal of en- | thusiasm and faith. | The British Government has tried in various ways to induce an emigration of women to the colonies, . but has failed. The girls prefer to be unmarried in London rather than married in Australia, South Aifrica or even British Columbia. It is said there are upward of 500,000 marriageable girls in London who | should go out and colonize, but who refuse to go. | Thus there exists within the empire the defect of hav- | ing too many men at the extremities and too many | women at the capital. £ | After profoundly considering the problem the re- formers have come to the conclusion that the reason | the girls are not willing to accept governmental as- | sistance and go to the colonies is because they have | not been properly introduced to the young men who | live out there. The British maiden has respect for the conventionalities of society, and will not go 10,000 miles to-marry a man tq whom she has not been introduced. Acting upon that belief the re- formers propose a new plan for governmental action. Instead of offering inducements for the girls to emi- grate, they propose that the Government offer some- thing like a bounty for young men in the colonies to | go to London and meet the girls there. | The scheme is unquestionably correct from a so- cial point of view. Mrs. Grundy can surely be counted on to give it her warmest approval. Tt is cer- + tainly much more proper for the man to seek the girl ANY are the movements for establishing closer relations between Great Britain and her than for the girl to ceck the man, and an“introduc- | | tion should of course precede a marriage. Should i the bounty offered by the Gavernment for young colonial wife-seekers €0 visit London be large enough to pay first class fare both ways the travel will be considerable. The experiment will be watched in this country with no little interest, for should it prove successful perhaps Uncle Sam will offer a bounty for young men of the West to go East and get introduced to the surplus women of Massachusetts. { The Deputy Sheriff .who in drunken, murderous | cruelty killed two men at a San Jose picnic the other | day and then proud!y called attention to his marks- “ manship ought to' be made to feel that a shot through a gallows trap is quite as effective. | T2 A | The world-appalling massacres in China are terrify- | ing evidence that the coveted open door for which the nations were ready to fly at one another’s throats ic one of those dread doors of death which never ! open outward. eSS The trouble Lord Roberts is having with the Boers is due not so much to his inability to catch their detachments as to their ability to catch his every time one of them gets any distance from the main Larmy: colonies that have been started in London | | panies from Gov | agement of the parks. In the meantime the | | Afridis are on the warpath, the Viceroy of India is | | | of the British War Department, is at the | santa Fe Company, is registered at the 4 tio ARTILLERYMEN ARE ORDERED T0 MAKE READY Officers and Men Anxious to Proceed to China With- out Delay. MR S Troops That Are Now En Route Here From the East—Aztec and Strathgyle to Carry Horses. SRR AR 5 Not for some time have the officers at the Presidio had such a busy day as yes- terday. Those of the artillery branch of the service were particularly affected, as orders were received early in the day to “make ready for foreign service as soon as possible.” Under the circumstances existing at present, foreign service means China and a chance to avepge the deaths of their comrades who were massacred by the Boxers.. The troops now at the Presidio will probably leave for the Orient about August 1, and the transports Meade and Hancock will be used for their transpor- tation. Batteries I. O and A of the Third Artillery, stationed at Alcatraz and the Presidio, and Battery D of San Diego are the envied ones. There are now en route from the East the following troops, whose probable des- tination is China, news of their starting being made publi¢ to-day: Company E of the Battalion of Engineers from West >oint. four companies of the Third Bat. pany from Atlanta, € and \"3]"‘!‘ com- ernors Island, New York. will leave about August 1 robable destination is China. The horses of the Third Cavalry will be shipped on the Aztec August 5 and those of the Ninth Cavalry will leave here on trathgyle August 7. The horses of the First Cavairy will be shipped from Seattle on_the Athenian, which is booked to leave the latter part of this month. The troopers are expected to arrive here They Their |in time to take passage for China about the same time. SUPERVISORS HAVE NO CONTROL OF PARK FUND Commissioners Alone Have Power {2 Specify What Improvements Shall Be Made. The City Attorney filed an opinion ves- | terday in which he holds that the Board of Supervisors has no power either to subdivide thé park fund or to direct how any portion thereof shall be used. The City Attorney quotes the charter in sub- | stantiation of his opinion, which is prac- | tically the same as outlined in an article on the subject published in The Call oti July 8. The opinion, which is given on| a resolution regarding’ the setting aside | in the “‘budget’” the sum of 365000 for im- proving the Hospital Lot Park, says in| conclusion: i The Park Commissioners have exclusive man- | It is for them alone to | what improvements shall be made and | w the general affairs of the municipal park | cystem shall be conducted. It would be aito- Zother without reason, therefore. to hold that | the Board of Supervisors should appropriate money for a specific purpose which it had no | power to effect. The charter places a limit below which the tax levy for park purposes cannot be fixed, viz.: five cents upon each one bundred dollars of taxaple property in the city and county. Toard /of Supervisors Is required to levy at least this tax. This provision was inserted in the charter doubtless by way of precaution | against possible indifference of the Supervisors 1o the Interests of the parks or because of a | fear of possible conflict between such hoard | and the Park Commission. The purpose was | to make the Park Commission an independent branch of the municipal government. If the Board of Supervisors had the power to divide the park fund and compel its use as it might | see fit, there would be no value in such provis- | ion and the character of the commission would be converted from one having discretion and control into one purely inistrative. jon of the Fifteenth Infantry. one com- | PERSONAL MENTION. R. H. Herron, a millionaire oil man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Captain W. H. McMina of Mission San Jose is registered at the Lick. W. W. Chapin, a well known Sacra- mento merchant, is a guest at the Palace. Crm:Sien Hampton, a. mining man of Sonora, is a guest of the Lick. Dr. Kent, a well-known physician of Sonora, is stopping at the Lick. T. W. Konns of the Santa Fe Company is at the Lick, registered from Topeka, Kans. Clifton Grannan, a civil service official Lick. “Joe” Chanslor, a big oil speculator from the Angel City, is registered at the Palace. - W. G. Nevin, a prominent official of the Palace. He came to the city to attend the annual meeting of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Com- pany. y George C. Coles is at the Californfa. He arrived from Japan on the Belgian King, accompanied by his wife and son, and Is on his way to London to take the com- mand of a new steamer” Mr. Coles has been for five vears first officer of the Bel- gian King, and was on Monday evening given a banquet by Captain George L. Weiss of the vessel named and its deck officers. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 17.—J. Berming- ham of San Francisco is at the Arlington; George W. Jackson of Sacramento is at the Raleigh; M. Newhall of Los Angeles is at the Metropolitan. LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS nd he only gave you a dime for find- ing his big pocketbook? ““That's all. He said he would have given me more, but the money in the pocketbook wasn't his. He was only hold- ing it in trust for a client. So he gave me a plugged dime.” “Plugged?"” E “Yep. But he said if I'd bring it around to his office in a_day or two he would give me a nickel for it."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. NOT OLD ENOUGH TO MARRY. “No,” sald a fond mother speaking of her S-year-old daughter; -no. May fsn‘t old enough to marry yet. She cries when- ev;:- any one scolds her, and until she be. comes hardened enough to reply vigorous- ly ahe iaw't @t for & wife”"—Olo State ournal. HER GOLDEN FUTURE. marry a man with half a said’ the girl in the bicy- “T'm million cle suit. flsd to hear it,” sald the other girl. s he?”’ “I'm “Who 2 “Oh, I mustn’t tell you that. He hasn’t got it all yet."—ChicE!o Tribune. POINT NOT WELL TAKEN. Ethel (to her younger brother. who had ‘been whipped)—~Don’t mind, brother, don't ing to “oilars.” mi Brother (between sobs) t’ T N e Jotirnal. : “You recKon the major's goin’ to run fer office next year?" 2 B AsAsassssssssasanas PRESS COMMENT ON PROBATE FRAUDS (SACRAMENTO BEE. The Call, followed by other pa- pers, has had the good fortune to expose one of the worst frauds ever perpetrated in probate \proceedings at San Francisco, and the confes- sion of Attorney Chretien completes the story of a shameful piece of robbery. So great a volume of pro- bate business is done in that city that the two Superior Court Judges having charge of it are scarcely able to give it proper attention. The wonder is that such frauds are not more frequently committed. In con- nection with this Sullivan case Judge Troutt has had the good sense to say: I shall never impugn the motives of newspapers when they criticise the ac- tions of the Judge here or anybody else in this court. I am satisfled that they will endeavor to do justice, and if they wrong anybody they will do so Inadver- tently. 1 will always try to do my duty, my public duty, as I see and understand it, and endeavor to prevent fraud being perpetrated upon the court. The action of the press in this matter is something that T think has been of great advantage o the community. That shows a proper and becom- ing spirit. It is much better than taking “high ground” and summon- ing newspaper men to be punished for “contempt” in daring to publish the truth. It conciliates public sen- timent and tends to make people that Judge Troutt has been im of a gross deception and is not a party to the wrongdoing. A rogue on the bench would ha been disposed to take ““high ground in the matter and summon report- ers and publishers to show why they should not be punished for “contempt of court,” when perhaps they had been doing their best to conceal it. + (GRASS VALLEY UNION.) The disclosures at San Francisco regarding the Joseph Sullivan estate have been of the most scandalous character. Attorney Chretien, who has long had a shady reputation, has been obliged to confess that by means of forgery and false persona- tion he imposed a bogus heir upon the Superior Court and so obtained a fraudulent distribution of an es- tate of $5000. The legal rascal has been sent to jail, and should be made to serve a term at San Quen- tin. There are many such lawyers who merit the same treatment, but they are smart enongh to keep out of the clutches of the law. Proba- bly there are numerous frauds of the sort just disclosed in the Sulli- van estate, ard the courts have had a shock they will not soon forget. K e (ALAMEDA ARGUS.) lawyer Chretien wants to loose, declaring that he has a purpose to “go to the Orient.” If he will give bonds to never let up traveling till he gets to Peking his proposition may be fair enough in the abstract, but there is not much moral stabil- ity in letting a man off who has of- fended one set of people upon the promise that he will not do it to them any more, but will go and do it to somebody else. It is good sense and good policy to nab a criminal or a flea wherever you come up with him. In this case there are undoubtedly others. And there is an abiding suspicion that the oth- ers are more anxious for Chretien to go to the Cricnt than he is. The be turned B L L R O S R R R L R S S S N L L T renueee ° 3 + % + $ : 1 A New Tug for the Spreckels Towboat Company Is on the Way. Tt The Fearless Goes to Hawaii and the Lewis Luckenback Comes From the East to Take Her - Place. =B M A There is going to be another revolution in the “Black Stack’” tugboat service. At | the outbreak of the Spanish war Uncle | Sam took possession of the Fearless, Act- | ive and Vigilant. The Fearless, renamed the Iroquois, is now used as a cruiser among the Hawailan Islands, the Vigilant | runs between the naval station at Goat Island and San Francisco, while the Active is at Mare Island. The loss of *hese three vessels necessi- | tated the building of another tug by the .00000000‘#00000000000‘00#00{00}00000000’00000000000000000‘006000#00000000000‘0000000 P e e R R ad SURPLUS OW TO BF ECEIVED BY * THE MERCHANTS Citizens’ Relief Committee | Makes Good Showing and Retires.: | ey | Final Accounting Leaves Balance of More Than $25,000 That Will Be Promptly Repaid to Subscribers. L The citizens' relief committee wound up its bustness yesterday and adjourned sine die. All accounts having been audited and approved and all bills having been settled, | the committee was in a position to report | that the subscribers to the emergency fund would receive back about 7812 per cent of the amount of their subscriptions. The final reports submitted show that | the total collections amounted to $32.158 o and that there will be a balance of $25.- 186 11 after meeting all obligations. Witn the report, which was prepared by the secretary, Eugene Goodwin, was submit- | ted a Iist of the subscribers and also the | amounts due them respectivel, | Watkins, president of the comm sided. Andrew Carrigan, pres| | the quarantine committee; G. , Near ' Jr., president of the commissary committee, and Walter M. Castle, president. of ation committee, were present. »st of the several pranches of the work done in Chinatown by the committee was reported to be as Quarantine, 3387 sanitatio 83; commissary T : laneous expenses am | making a total of $6%2 30. | 'The members of the committee who tcok an active part in the work were the fol- lowing named: A. A. Watkins, Andrew “arrigan, Levi Strauss, R. P. Jennings, 8. ."c'iv.‘kelsbul'Eo Joseph _ Sloss, William Haas, H. D. veland, Eugene Goodwin, | Walter M. Castle, William Cluff, C. R | Havens, G. W. McNear Jr. and Lawrence | Harris.” The expenses were for subsist- ence for indigent Chinése during the quar- | antine maintained by the bubonic Board | of Health, equipping the sulphur fumes | generator with an engine, flushing streets | and sewers, the purchase of a garbage | crematory, for gathering and destroying | garbage, the distributing of lime and aiso | for the preliminary work at Mission Rock, where the wharf was repe.ired and tanks were constructed. | PRODUCE EXCHANGE ELECTED OFFICERS | Also Raised Money by Subscriptions for Support of Kindergarten Bearing Its Name. The annual election of the San Fran- | etsco Produce Exchange, which took place yesterday, resulted in a victory for the | regular ticket. G. W. McNear was elected | president for the second time; H. Sher- | wood, vice president: H. F. Allen. treas- urer; Gauthier Jr., E. Ferguson, | B. E. Kahn, Max L Koshland, E. A. Bresse and J. E. de Ruyter, directors. A committee on appeals was also elected, | consisting of Maurice Casey, J. J. Moore, | Henry Sinsheimer, H. A. Mayhew and J. M. Pettigrew. Four of those elected. namely, Henry F. Allen, John E. de Ruyter, E. Gauthier | Jr. and Max I. Koshland, were on both the regular and the opposition ticket. The | opposition was headed by Harvey C. Som- ers. The contest was not very sharp, only about 85 votes beln’ cast, out of a pos- sible 200. McNear for president received | 57 votes against 23 for Somers. The offi- cers will be Installed and appointive offi- | cers will be named by the board of dirgs- tors to-day, when the old board of offi- cers will report the transactions of the year last past. For the maintenance of the Produce Ex- change Kindergarten, which has been re- moved from 1233 Pacific street to Eigh- teenth and Hartford streets, subscriptions were received by a committee to 'the amount of about $7%. This will probably be increased to 3500. E. B. Cutter, John Wightman and E. R. Lilienthal are the committee on subscriptions. PREPARING REPORTS ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Deputy Superintendent Howard Sub- mits Figures on Enrollment and Attendance of Pupils. The report on the schoolp of San Fran- cisco is now being prepared by Deputy Superintendent Howard and is based on the reports of the principals of the vari- ous schools. The report shows that there are %2 teachers in regular employment in the department, of whom 80 are men and 82 women. The total enrollment of puplls in all schools is 48.038. Of these 46,124 attend the primary and grammar schools and 1934 the high schools. The average daily at- tendance during the year ending June 30, 1900, was 35,004, the average number be- longing to the high, grammar and pri- mary schools being 37413. The number of pupils in the primary grades was 28.032; in the nlmmar’m 18.092; high school grades 1934. The reports of the principals from which the foregoing figures were compiled im- cluded data on attendance, absence and enrollment of Fupfls. the reports being in all cases complete and correct. ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF PACIFIC CAT CLUB Constitution Submitted and Adopted, Meeting Days Arranged and Registration Fee Fixed. company. The work was intrusted to the Union Iron Works, and the new Fearless was the result. i | The new Fearless has ndw been ordered | to Honolulu by the Spreckels Tugboat | Company and will be seen in company | with her namesake off Diamond Head in | the near future. She will leave here in | command of Captain Gilbert Brokaw, who | will remain in charge. while she is at the islands. Captain Harry Marshall, who is | now in command of the Fearless, will | take charge of the Reliance until the new | steamer atrives from the East. The Spreckels Tugboat Company has f‘urohaaed in the East the magnificent tug | ewis Luckenback. She is an ocean going vessel and one c¢i the most successful tug. boats on the Atlantic. She is ten feet longer than the Relief and proportionately | larger. Captain Mr(‘o;i‘. the superintend- | ent of the Spreckels Tughoat Company, is now on his way East to bring out the new boat. Water Front Notes. The tug Relief leaves this morning for Santa_Barbara to tow the dismasted bark 3. C. Pluger to San Francisco. *J. Trainor, a fireman on the steamer | Charles D. Lane, got into an altercation | with one of the engineers Monday night. | Tie was treated at the Harbor Hospital by Drs. Robinson and Bauer for a com- pound fracture of the left leg. Trainor re- members getting “‘one on the jaw" and nothing more. The steamer Charles D. overhauled at Fremont street, and will go north again next week. er foremast “buckled” whiie freight was being dis- gharged at Nome and a new one is to be Lane is to be ——ereae More Smuggled Opium Seized. Customs searchers seized yesterday morning 130 tins of smuggled opium on board the Walla Walla. The stuff was in the trunk of a o ey c?mmerclnl traveler and ut: John_has ordered a searci Jestiga- tion into the :\:\!te:. ;’n' Ty —_—— Federal Quarantine. The Pacific Cat Club met yesterday af- ternoon in the parlor of the California Hotel to elect officers and transact other business. The constitution was read and adopted as a whole. It was decided that the registration fee be fixed at 30 cents, and that the meetings of the club be heid on the first Wednesday of each month. The following officers’ were unanimously elected: President. Mrs. C. E. Martling: vice president, Mrs. A_ H. Hoag; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Alfred D. Robinson: re- cording secretary, Mrs. A. . B treasurer, Mrs. C.' E. Hilderbrand: com. mittee on finance—Mrs. A. H. Brod, Mrs, J. K. Wagner. Committees were named as follows: Committee on membership— Mrs. J. M. Peel, Mrs. W. E. Shepman, Mrs. A. H. Hoag: committee on printing— Mrs. E. Van Court, Mrs. Alfred D. Robin- son, Mrs. C. E. Hilderbrand: committee on stud book and registration—Mrs. A. H. Hoag and Mrs. C. E. Martiing. > E ——— To Hasten the War Tax Cage. Attorney General Tirey L. Ford has made application to the Supreme Court to have advanced on the calendar the a pealed case of Wells, Fargo & Co. This is the action brought to compel the transportation company to pay and cancel the war revenue stamps, at present being paid by the shippers. In the lower court | the company lost. | —_—— | Cal glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's.” —_——— Specfal information supplled dafly to buslmg‘ hfl,’“’g and p'uAl'fitc _men mm Somery ¢ Felepnone Main 0@ oS —_————— “Marshall” Fountain Pens for $1. “Wat- erman” Idea Fountain Pens from $250 to $7 each. Largest assortment in the city. Commercial stationery and office supplies at reasonable prices.” Printing m.? en- m;llun“ d:me at Sanborn, Vail & Co." st. When a woman brings out onl glm. calls 1t a loving cup. mi’ -"m°:'|'| er guests to drink out of it there is a | ways a suspicion ameng these not posted Dr. Kinyoun, Federal quarantine officer, has ordered a quarantine against all ves- sels and ngers from Haw: ‘Goin’ to run? Why, sakes alive, man, henl.:dn'l never quit!”—Atlanta Constitu- Lthe al and - Alaska because of the exist o smalipox and typhoid fever at N and fie‘ed plague at mn‘m ufi. on social customs that she hasn't enow glasses to go nmnd.—-Atell:i'Gloh.' 5 To neglect the hair is to lose liness. Save it with Parker's the best cure for corns, L