The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1903, Page 6

The +Sobes FEBR[)ARY 25, 1903 :DNESDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprielor. S. LEAKE. Manager. 2ddress 81! Communications to W. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. I BLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. | CIMTORIAL ROOMS. to 221 Stevemson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by ding Postage: TLY CALL ¢n All Postmasters are authorized to receive subxeriptions. Sample coples wiil be forwarded when requested. vev...1118 Broadway VAKLAND OFFICE. .. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, ENTATIVE: NEW YORK REF b 0 Tribune Building TEN B. SMITH. . PONDENT Herald Square NEW YORK . €. CARLTON. 21 Unlon Square; STANDS ; Great Northerg Hotel; Palmer House. CE...1406 G St., Correspondent. N. W. MORTON BRANCH OFFICE ymery, corner of Clay, open 9:30 o'clock. €33 Larkin, open until 10 o'clock clock. Eleventh, open until 9 -second and Kentucky, open re, open until § p. m. THE BUBONIC FAKE. f rom Surgeon General Wy- | o the Legisiature by Gov- | sustained charge of | long nce of plague in this city is dis- her those who now to be seen whet 1 in propagating the charge will hing the refutation. The | ad and has done much dam- | to have been honest in cir- | e ompt in making known the by the surgeon general. te to the Governor the surgeon general | 1 December 11 no case of plague has San Francisco, and then only | have been subjected to examination, | ted L » infe has been found since Decem- | 8 He closes by ing: “The State D:pznmem] requested last week to notify the Governments | dor of the satisfactory conditions | have prevailed for some | 2 r , and doubtless this has been | the above facts, moreover, have been com- he International Union of American tement we may as well be content, lic will not fail to note that there is ague whose traces have to During all the years circulation San 1 even more than usually healthy. even natown has shown no dence of zbnormal unhealthfulness, much ce. The search for some signs of a been made with the closest scrutiny; mi- | other appliance of medical sght into use, rats have been tortured in the eagerness to get but at no time were there ever s of anything in the way of a g the community. occasionally there have been reports by the piague,‘ but in no case were , deaths reported as occurring in the | use, nor in the same circle of Chinese. If, crefore, the deaths were really caused by bubonic the pestilence must be about the most It never struck the same 1 every been b: a ever heard of e twice, nor was it ever known to affect any one g with or nursing the person alleged to have led by it When at fearful rav what the bubonic plague is and es it works among a people affected: it in other parts of the world, we may safely con- if San Francisco has had it for all this without surfering from the slightest in- se of mortality, this is the healthiest city on the globe I'here is a story that 2 man suffering from disease the liver came to California for his health, and | iter a few years acquired such a vigor in that organ hat after his death his liver was found to be still alive 1d had to be beaten to death with a club. There is iOther story of a man who came here with diseased wgs. After two years’ residence he went East and was found he could eat nothing and was suffering ym a general congestion of his insides. On submit- g to a surgical upcratiojthe examination of his in- »r organs showed that his lungs had developed to r fullest capacity and had sprouted another pair ings, whose growth crowded the other organs out place and shape. Such stories as those told to illustrate our mar- we rec clous healthfulness will count as nothing hereafler\' comparison to that which narrates how San Fran- | w0 had the bubonic plgue for three years and owered her death rate by it. ¢ The worse the pesti- jence raged the healthier became the city. The slander has run its course, and it is now ever. o a large extent it was due to jealous rivals who desired to injure this city in the hope of profiting by wh loss of trade to us as the report would cause. “rom first to last there has been evident some mean mus back of every new phase of the story. The continuous good health of the city stands as evidence tiyat there mever was such a thing as bubonic plague re. There has been no pestilence of any kind, zmong whites or among Chinese. In fact, it now zppears from the report of the surgeon genera] that' cven the rats are healthy. The latest New England novelty in damage suits is brought by one woman against another for stealing an affianced husband. As damages are fixed at $50,000 'bemg made for the delegation from the Southern | he favors the nomination of the President, and when | | the delegations supposed to be hostile. for a public trust. | condone offenses committed by minor trustees. | lar preference. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY. 25, 1903. THE CANDIDATES OF 1904. ) ! PRESENT survey of the Republican field dis- closes no candidate in opposition to President Roosevelt. It is evident that a contest is| i States, but no one is able to say for whom the attempt { is made to get delegates away from the President. Senator Hanna has been suspected of Presidential am- bitions, but if it be so he succeeds in securely con cealing ‘the symptoms. Indeed it is a growing be- lief that, desiring party supremacy above all things, the test comes will be found turning into camp all | To whatever extent the politicians abate hostility to the President they bow to the plainly indicated popular will. Without pretending that the President’| is, in all things, above criticism, it cannot be denied that the people believe implicitly in his honesty, his capacity and his fidelity to the constitution. Mr. Jefferson stood in the shoes of all generations - o(i Americans to follow him when he put honesty, capac- ity and fidelity to the constitution as the qualifications The people may be indifferent to them in minor places. If not indifferent they may take the flash of superficial gifts, the display of mere } brilliancy without depth, as a substitute. They may But n cate- when it comes to the Presidency the Jefferson chism and test, “Is he honest, is he capable, is he faithiul to the constitution?” is not forgotten, and all | who stand a chance for the of all trusts must stand that test. It is conceded that President Roosevelt by that test stands justified. The people believe in and trust | him, therefore, and connect his honesty with certain rugged qualities and that moral and physical courage | admired by the stout headed tribes who people the | republic. Up to this time no other figure has ap- peared to contest his place in, the focus of public at- tention when the Presidential nomination dis- cussed, nor to dispute with him the obvious popu- | Of course there lie twelve months be- | s greatest is tween this and the State conventions, and heads, plans. fortunes and futures may be broken in that time, but | the probability is small that the rugged and virile figure of the President will be any less attractive then | than it is now. Tilden said once that parties needed leaders with a physical 4uture. This was in deprecation of his | leadership, succeeding that of Governor Seymour, both being old men. There is some wisdom in it, es- pecially if that physical future be associated with past experience and proved qualitics. In this view of it | the Republican party has no exact substitute for the President. It may be said that this is a physical qual- ity merely, but when added thereto are the other quali- ities not physical, with which popular estimation en- dows the President, the combination takes a power- ful hold, which cannot be broken in the convention nor at the polls. Turning to the Democratic field, it is occupied by small bands, antagonistic to each other. When they come within shot “piff” go the bullets at each other. Mr. Bryan has strengthened his dictatorship by with- drawing as a candidate. He insists upon having all candidates submitted to him for examination in the grips, signs and passwords of 1896 and 1900. If they cannot utter shibboleth and lap water they are turned down. It is believed that he has already scared Judge Parker out of the field. Recently a dinner was given New York to give the Judge a chance to score as a candidate. Instead of doing so he deliv- ered a prosy address on the pleasure of sitting on the appellate bench. He might as well have speculated on the pleasures”of a setting hen. His expressed pref- erence for the bench is taken as indicating that he cannot pass Mr. Bryan's examination and establish his regularity. Of course the South can offer no can- didate. It remains as fixed as it was at the Appomattox surrender, that the first President from the South must be a Republican. Of the sixteen citi- zens who have been elected to the Presidency seven were from the South, and of the five Vice Presidents who_succeeded to the office two were from the South. | But the Civil War carried the office across Mason and Dixon’s line, and there it has remained for two score and three years. The Democracy can never | elect a Southern man President until he has been | preceded by a Southern Republican President. | Southern ambition may think of this beneficially to | its manners and its patriotism. 1 Judge Parker left to doze and dream on the appel- late bench, the rest of the field presents a squalid | appearance. It seems a situation just rotten ripe | enough to be captured by “Jim” Budd's nominee, “Bill” Hearst. This is admitted by members of Con- gress and party men in the East. When Mr. Bryan published in his paper that his two candidacies for the | Presidency increased his earning capacity these party men and members say it was an admission that he | used the place for advertising purposes for personal profit. They also say that Hearst is, next to Lydia | Pinkham, the keenest advertiser in the country, and is as much entitled as Mr. Bryan to increase his earn- ing capacity by using a Presidential candidacy for that purpose. While this is perfectly logical and consistent, it is a sad admission. Brewers and others who make beverages, and also those who bottle drastic purges- and cholagogues, emenagogues and alteratives, pay immense sums for advertising. We may soon expect to see one of them paying the Democracy a large sum for the Presidential nomination because it will increase their earning capacity. And why not? What is the difference between pasting on dead walls, “Vote | for Davis, Dcmocratic candidate for President, and% take his unrivaled hepatic alterative for a congested, morbid, torpid and inactive liver,” and giving the nomination to Mr. Bryan or “Bill” Hearst for ad- vertising purposes? o e THE NATIONAL GUARD. ROM various sources there have come a good F many objections to the new militia law designed by Congress for the better organization of the National Guard. Such opposition was, of course, to be expected, for there are always people who like the existing order of things and e dissatisfied with any and every change that comes. Moreover, each suc- ceeding change benefits somebody at the expense of somebody else. It shifts the relative positions of men and disturbs old authority and discipline. Naturally, then, the new law has developed opposition, and we are likely to hear a good deal of it in the course of the years during which we are changing from the old ‘ organization to the new. Of the new law it may be said it has been devised after careful consideration by competent éxperts, and is designed to remedy well understood defects in the present system. A cifcular in advocacy of it says: “The law aims to create a force homogeneous in all | friction in mobilization of the National Guard and its | that it might not be unwise to make some of the men | B | it seems that such plants can be operated economi- | it will be seen that fiances are rated pretty high in New England. | respects throughout the country, instead of what might well be termed forty-eight separate armies, each varying from the other in many respects, and to in- | of flattery can never go further. sure a degree of practical usefulness for the purposes for which soldiers are trained which will justify the liberal expenditure of public funds made by the State and nation on the citizen soldiery. The confusion and general lack of preparation in the practical wosk of the soldier in camp and field were demonstrated by the war with Spain.” It appears that some of the objections to it are based | upon the very fact that it aims at fusing the various | clements of the guard into a homogeneous force. With | such objection there can be little sympathy among intelligent men. We learn from our Eastern ex- changes that some of the “crack” regiments in thc: big cities object because the members do not like to | be put upon a footing with others.: Thus the New | York Tribune, in speaking of a certain type of guards- man, says: “He looks upon the military body of which he is a member as a uniformed club, organized for parade duty, and the idea that the Government should introduce stern regular army regulations and customs and jeopardize the club features of such a body is looked upon as an unpardonable imperti- nence.” } Of course it is not likely that such objectors will have much weight with the guard as a whole. The( law does not require summary changes, but gives | five years in which to effect them. Whatever features of the new order of things may be found objectionable ! after experience will of course be changed. The main thing is to convert the National Guard into a really effective military force, and that it seems will be ac- complished by a general conformity with the law. | B The recent and sweeping legislative investigation of the State prisons of California indicates clearly who govern the penitentiaries from the outside to serve a term on the inside just as horrible examples | for the rest of us. A BRITISH ENTERPRISE. Y way .of evading the effects of the threatened diminution of the coal supply, the British lead- ers of industry have undertaken the develop- ment of electrical energy on a more comprehensive | scale than that of any- other people. It is true that| no single enterprise in Britain is equal to the great series of plants established at Niagara Falls, but taken as a whole the recent electrical power enterprises in | Great Britain are easily ahead of all rivals. Further- more, the British are not confining themselves !o! power generated by waterfalls, but are establishing | plants for developing power by the use of coal, and | cally even in the very midst of the coal mining dis- tricts. United States Consul Mahan sends from Nottingham a long report concerning a great plant now in process of construction which will be completed within three | months and be able to distribute 20,000,000 units of | electrical power per annum throughout a district of ' 1500 square miles. It is said: “On some computa~| tions the coal bearing areas within the scope of the | scheme are the richest in the world and the mines themselves would justify the promotion of a wholesale system of electric power supply. * * * Besides | the advantage to the mines, it is belicved that many | local industries in villages or in the country will be | greatly stimulated by the advantages of cheap power. Tn addition various old established industries using | hand power and in a decaying state will receive new leases of life.” -2 o Concerning the economy expected of the use of electricity the Consul says: “The company contends that if a manufacturer can buy coal for as little as 5s ($1 21) per ton, he will even then find the use of ! electricity considerably cheaper than steam. It isj’ calculated that in the case of a 250-horsepower engine | there will be a saving of 36 per cent. Another ma- terial advantage is that when once installed the electric | motor is ready at a moment’s notice, day or night, by the mere turning of a switch. A peculiar inducement | to maintain low charges is found in the parliamentary | act, which provides that the dividends receivable by the stockholders of the company are dependent on the prices paid by the consumers, increasing as the | charges decrease, The company cannot, no matter | what the agreement.may be with a consun;er. charge | him more than the lowest price paid by any other con- i sumer whose circumstances are similar. Variation of | price is, of course, allowed where the supply varies. | Thus, for less than 100,000 units per annum the com- | pany will charge 1%4d (2%4 cents) per unit, but for 1,000,000 units the charge will be 1d (2 cents) per unit,” Despite the low price at which the power is to be| sold the company expects to make a profit of about ! 0 per cent on the capital invested. Should the enter- | prise prove as beneficial as is expected there will, of | course, be a much larger demand for power and a consequent increase in the percentage of profits. It is further estimated that the furnaces of the plant can use a quality of coal that is new dumped aside as| waste, and which can be obtained for as little as 36 | cents a ton. Altogether the project is one of great | interest and it may go a long way toward solving the | British power supply of the future. —— Democracy is rapidly becoming a party of ban- queters. Recently we have had Banquets on Jack- son’s day, Tilden's birthday and a whoop up for the Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln days. Furthermore, there are more party banquets to come. There is to be a gold faction feast on Jackson’s.birthday and a ssilver faction feast on Jefferson’s birthday. Were the | fitness of things to be fully observed there would be also a harmony feast of both factions on all fools’ day. The proposition to send the Spanish archives from ! this city to Washington has met with an immediate and emphatic protest. toric documents the national capital would win noth- ing it valued and we would be robbed of something we esteem as priceless. —_— A German anarchist, it is said, has pledged himself to murder Emperor William. It is such threats as | these, inspired in the brain of some devilish freak of humanity, that make us forget our differences and | wish well for even those who have treated us not well. | — | In their admirable and very prompt arrest of daring | street car robbers the police of Los Angeles have | announceqd clearly that there is one class of tourists | & for whom the city has no place. Climatic conditions | in San Francisco should be made similar. | A scheme has been started in France to establish at - Versailles the greatest opera-house in the world and . give a series of musical festivals every year that will eclipse Bayreuth and Munich combined. The exquisite esthetic Compte de Mol;tesquicu says American women are “alien Parisiennes,” and the de- voted dames who attend his lectures believe the power % If we were to lose these his- | | Bignature of SEEKS LIGHT ON CIVIL SERVICE SPRING VALLEY’S FLOATING DEBT EXAMINATIONS| WORRIES BOARD Supervisor | PBrandenstein introduced a resolution at! yesterday's meeting of) the | board calling upon the Civil Service Com- | missioners for information as to the ex-; aminations that have been held during the last three years for positions in the city government. The resolution, which was referred to the Finance Committee, fol- lows: : Resolved, That the Civil Service Commission | be requested to inform the Board of Supervis- ors how many places of employment in the offices and departments of the city and county | are filled by employes upon examination held by said commission in accordance with the | provisions of the charter, and how many of such places are filled by employes without such examination, the names of sald employes and the dates of their appointment; and, further, that said commission inform this board how many examinations for appointment and posi- tions have been held by sa'd commission gince its institution under the charter, and the dates of such examinations, d give to the board a general report of the proceedings of said com- mission in_ effecting the provisions of article | 13 of the charter. i Bids for doing the public printing were opened by the board. The Daily Journal of Commerce bid 11 cents for each inser- | tlon per half inch and the Post Publish- | ing Company bid 15 cents. | A. Ruef, attorney for the Post Publish- ing Company, urged that the bid of the Journal of Commerce be rejected because it had filed no affidavit of circulation. Both bids, however, were referred to the Printing Committee for investigation and | report. An ordinance was passed to print au- thorizing an expenditure of 330,000 for the widening and repaving with basalt blocks of the roadway of Third street, from Mis- sion to Berry, and the extension of the Third-street sewer from Berry street south., Similar action was taken on the ordinance authorizing the bltuminizing of Dupont street from Pacific to Sacra- | mento at a cost of $10,000. The ordinance providing for the regu- lation and inspection of the installation | of electric wires, apparatus, construction | and equipment in and about buildings or other structures and imposing fees for such work was passed to print. The Board of Public Works was granted permission to withdraw all reports, plans and estimates heretofore made upon a system of sewerage, it being the intention of the board to resubmit them with amendments to fit presefft conditions. Frederick Richie was granted permission to alter the premises at 1308-1310 Stockton | street so they'can be used for theatrical purposes. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. J. H. Glass of Paso Robles is at the | Lick. J. K. Lick. Dr. 8. L. Lee of Carson City is at the Palace. J. W. Rose, a merchant of Oxnard, is at the California. Percy Sherman, a mining man of Chit- tenden, is at the Palace. A. R. Underwood, a hotel proprietor of Monterey, is at the Russ. Dr. and Mrs. Harry A. Meyer of Port- land are at the Occidental. W. H. Clary Jr., a minmg man of So- nora, is stopping at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ryan, wealthy resi- dents of Toronto, Canada, are at the Pal- | ace, G. A. Fellows, agent of the Canadian Pacific Railroad at Spokane, is at the Russ. ©. G. Woodward, who ownd a large ranch on Woodward Island, is at the Grand. ! ‘Willlam Beckman, former railroad com- missloner and banker of Sacramento, is at the Grand. John Raggio, who for many years has conducted a stage line at San Andreas, is at the Lick. Colonel E. H. Plummer, who is stationed at Monterey, is in the city and registered at the California. Dr. and Mrs. O. A. Parker of Wake field, Mass., who have been touring the ccast, are at the Palace. N. E. Bishop, a lawyer of Courtland, and his bride, are at the Russ. They are going b Honolulu on a wedding tour. J. W. Corey, an attorney of Sacramento and prominently identified with the Grand Army of the Republic, is at the California. John Bransford, John Dern and Soloss Spiro, all mining men of Salt Lake, ar- rived yesterday and registered at the Pal- ace. Henry R. Maliory, a member of the steamship firm operating on the Atlantic Coast, and Mrs. Mallory are guests at the Palace. Major W. F. Lewis of the medical de- partment of the United States army is at the Occidental en route to the Philip- | pines. He is returning to service there at his own request. SN e Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—The following Californians are registered at the hotels- At the Ebbitt—John Cleveland. At the Ra- leigh—Charles A. Rand. At the National —C. A, Adou and wife and F. M. Bangs and wife, all of San Francisco. At the St. James—J. W. Mordecai of Madera. i ! Law, a Merced lawyer, is at the —— Lectures on the Holy City. Samuel Adelstein dellvered a most fin- teresting lecture, entitled “Temple of the Holy City,” last night at Odd Fellows building, under the auspices of Bay City Lodge No. 71, 1. O. The lecturer showed the following steropticon view “The Rock-bound Coast of Joppa,” “Jeru- the Golden,” ‘“‘Subterranean Quar- “Building of King Solomon’'s Tem- ple,” * Interlor of the Temple,” “‘Destruc- tion of the Temple and Fall of Jerusa- lem,” “Dome of the Rock,” “The Sa- cred Rock,” “Stables of Solomon,” “Place | of Lamentation.” Many of the views were | obtained by Mr. Adelstein while in the | Holy Land. ———————— Civil Service Examinations. _ The Civil Service Commissioners will | hold examinations for food and sanitary inspectors on March 14 and for milk in- | spectors on March 17. The list of entries | for these examinations will close on March 12. The salary attached to the po- sition of sanitary inspector is $100 a month, while food and milk inspectors re- ceive $85 per month. o ——————————— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. UNNA DEFINES A CAUSE. European Skin Specialist Says Dan- ' druff Is Caused by Parasites. Upon that theory, proved beyond a doubt, a cure for dandruff was sought af- ter. Scientists, chemists, druggists and physicians all ““took a hand” and the suc- cessful issue is the present product known as “Newbro’s Herpicide.” 1 This remedy actually kills the parasites that infest the hair bulb, does its work most effectively and contains not an atom substance injurious to any thing else m:n the germ alone. Herpicide causes should, soft and abundant. ing druggi Send Mglq to ch. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought i hair to grow as nature intended it Sold by | plant was so low that I The Board of Supervisors resumed its | investigation of the operations of the Spring Valley Water Company last night preliminary to the fixing of water rates for 1903-1904. Assistant Secretary Howard testified that the floating debt of the com- | pany is $739,000. Brandenstein asked if it was not the law that obligations of cor- porations should be paid out of the profits before any dividends were declared. At- torney N. B. Kellogg replied that the law required the payment of debts only after they had matured. Howard said the floating debt was secured by corporate notes. They are charged to “bills paya- ble” and could be matured on ten days’ notice by the holder. The money bor- rowed is applied to permanent comstruc- tion and the corporate notes arve held by banking corporatiops and Mrs. A. M Parrott. “The interest on the floating debt charged to operating expenses, is It not?” | asked Braunhart. - E “We did so charge it last year,” said Howard, “because we were under a cer- | tain expense in borrowing this money for permanent Improvements.” “We are allowlng interest as operating expenses on the money borrowed for per- manent construction, which is charged up to the assets of the company upon which we again allow interest,” said Braunhart. “The money thus borrowed,” replied Howard, “is expended in permanent im- provements, but no revenue is expected therefrém until the following year, when the floating debt is taken up by a new is- sue of stocks or bonds."” Braunhart drew from Secretary ard that the item of $240,000 for taxes in- cluded taxes on property not now in use for supplying water. » “The rents from our property go far to- ward paying our taxes,” said Howard, “and credit 1s given the city for rentals.” The company filed a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year 1%3-1%4 based upon the rates as follows: Receipts—Fire hydrants, $96,000; $14,000; parks, $12,600; public buildings, $14,000; shipping, $00,000; meters, $740.000; rates, $1,070,000; tents, $44,600; total, $2,080,- €00 Disbursements—Operating expenses. $506,010; interest, $720,000; dividends, $700,000; taxes, schools, | $275,000; total, $2,201,010; deficit, $110,410. Attorney Kellogg denied Brandenstein's statement that Chief Engineer Schussler had stated that the present water rates are fair. “He could not have made such a state- ment,” said Kellogg, ‘“because this board’'s allowance for taxes fell short by $30,000 and for operating expenses by $25,.- 000. Besides the valuation placed upon the two dividends woud have to be omitted.” Chief Bookkeeper Booker testified that the rate for shipping in New York is $2 50 per 1000 gallons, while in San Franciseo it is only $1 50. In Baltimore the ship Henry B. Hyde was charged $5 per 1000 gallons. Booker contended that the proper way to charge for water is by meter rates. The board directed the company to file an ap- praisement of its properties not in actual use and a statement of the amount of water yielded from the three péninsular reservoirs during the last five years. The board adjourned to meet next Friday night and will draft the water rate ordi- nance on Saturday Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 24—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—W. Morse, at the Criterion; M. ¥. O'Brien and P. R. Bradley, at the Im- perial; N. E. Sanford and C. J. Simon, at the HeraM Square; E. Blanckenburg, at the Unfon Square; J. Brower and C. B. Dexter, at the Albert; R. L. Clark and J. H. Clark, at the Ashland: T. B. Eastlake and C. Willlams and wife, at the Man- hattan; C. W. Howard Jr., at the Grand, H. Justin, at the Broadway Central; W. A. Kirkpatrick, at the Holland; H. L Kowalsky, at the Hoffman; P. R. Lynch, at the Broadway Central W. R. Me- Creery and H. C. Merton, at the Albe- merle, and Mrs. 8. Scheib, at the Vie- teria. From Los Angeles—W. F. Jantzen, at the Imperial; J. D. Schuyler, at the Man- hattan, and A. F. Norton, at the Win- sonfa. From San Jose—S. Gorlenborg, at the PBroaaway Central, and S. P. Hatcher, at the Arlington. From Santa Barbara—Miss Redington and Miss 8. E. Redington, at the Murray Hill. ———e— ATCHISON, Kans., Feb. 24 —Burglars early to-day blew open the safe at the E: Atchi- son Postoffice with dynamite. The explosion set fire to the bullding, which, with two ad- joining buildings and contents, and all the mail matter in the Postoffice, were destroyed. A series of ten beautiful art supplements to be given free with the Sunday Call: “Caliph’s Daughter,” “The Processional,” ‘““‘Great - tations,” “Meditation,” “Lis- ten,” “Retrieving,” “Persian Beauty,” . ‘“The Sheepfold,” “Three Boatmen of Barce- lona,” “Great Danger.” Collect this beautiful art series. _— - is ¢ How- | SUPERVISORS PLAN TECHNICAL ARTS SCHOOL yester: The Board of Supervisors adopted Wynn's resolution expressing determination when submitting prop | tions to the electors to incur a bonded indebtedness for new school buildings a; sites to include therein a proposition erect a schoolhouse to be used exclusi ly as a night school for students of me chanical, electrical, civil and min’ g ¢ gineering. architecture and naval arch tecture who are occupied in the t pursuit of these arts during the dajy The petition of R. Hermann th board memorialize Congress to the easterly line of the Presidio ning northerly and parallel w street was denied, and the Ci | was requested to take act the rethoval of obstructi street and the ejectment therefrom. In the event of being instituted by Hermann torney is requested to make the Unit States a party to the suit. It is the i | tention of the board to open Lyon street 12 d within 80 feet es easterly from idio as it now so as to include all measured at right a | the eastern line of the | exists, | The tender made by Frederick Dubring to deed for the sum of $500 the land necessary to open Lyon and Green streets through the so-called Miranda grant was accepted. The petition of the New California Ath- letic Club for permission to conduct a professional boxing exhibition during April went to the Police Committee. Grades were ordered established at cer- tain points on Clayton, Twenty-sixth, Guerrero, Eighteenth and Division streets and Treat avenue. The petition of the residents of Sunset district that the board grant the peti- tion of the United Railroads for permis- sion to connect its power-house by erect- ing Wwire§ on Churzh and other stree was referred to the Street Committee. The Market-street and Eureka Va Improvement Club sent a communica to the board asking what disposition h been made of the Carnegle library p osition. The club states that t | brought the matter té the attention of Mr. Carnegie, and some actic hould be taken to carry out the conditions of his sift. FAST SERVICE ALONG LINE TO SAN MATEO Manager Chapman Says Cars Will Be Running by the First of June. Twelve of the twenty new cars ordered by the United Railroads for the new ex- tension of the San Mateo electric line will arrive here Friday. The company is hur- rying operations on its North Beach pow- ér-house with a view of getting power across town for the line to San Mateo, which it expects to have in readiness for the publie about April 1 “This power-hou: said Manager Chapman yesterday, “will have a capacity of 3000 horsepower and will feed all the | electric lines controlled by the United Railroads in the city. Its completion has | been greatly retarded by the recent | strikes, and we have been expertencing some trouble in getting our San Mateo extension In readiness by reason of the opposition of certain residents on Church street, who have protested to the Board of Supervisors against granting our com- pany a permit to extend aiong that street the wires necessary to transmit power to the San Mateo branch. How- ever, we are now certain that we will have a through service from Fifth and Market streets to San Mateo by April.” It was also announced yesterday that as soon as it can be arranged the man- agement of the road purposes to establist 3 tem or fifteen minute car service be- tween the two above mentioned points and t) cover the distance to San Mateo in thirty-five or forty minutes in order to meet the requirements of the rapidly in- creasing traffic on that system. The new cars will be forty-five feet long and bet ter equipped than any of the rolling stock now .operated by the company. B The Kilties Are Applauded. A splendid crowd filled the Alhambra Theater last night to enjoy the musie of the Kilties’ efficient organization. An ex- ceptionally fine programme was rendered and every number was received with ‘hearty applause. The dancing of Master Eugene Lockhart, the bagpipe solo by Pipe Sergeant Ferguson, the singing of the Kilties" choir and of J. 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