The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1903, Page 6

4 ' ANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1903. THURSDAY.....cc0c0ne0ne--..... APRIL 23, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriefor. Communications to W. S. LEAK| © . TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third, S. F. tevenson St. Address All E, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 § Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copl Terms by Mail, Inel DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year... WEEKLY CALL, One Year gzfzss All Postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of sfdress should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to fnsure a prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Broadway.. .Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY OFFICE. 2148 Center Street. ..Telephone North 77 C. GEORGE XROGNESS, Manager Forelgn tising, Marquette Building, (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.”") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Trib NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT C. C. CARLTON. .... .Herald Square NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldor?- Astor’ A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; ur venue Hotel and Hofman House. Adver- CHICAGO NEWE STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.: Great Northern Hotel: Tremont House; Auditorium Hotel; Palmer House. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. ' 633 | o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until until 10 o'clock. McAllister, open un FUTILE REVOLUTIONS. HE day’s news runs to revolytion in many Latin-American countries. In San Domingo a thousand are slain; in Honduras the pretender, Arias, is in jail; in Venezuela Matos threatens the capital and Castro, drunk or sober, is preparing his defense; Colombia is temporarily quiet; in Salvador Regalado, ex-President, is in possession of all the arms and ammunition of the country, which he sent to his own town of Santa Ana before he relinquished the Presidency, and as he has the guns is virtually dictator, though Escalon is going through the mo- tions of governing the country. So has run the history of Latin-America for more than fifty years. Revolution succeeds revolution, and one dictator follows another. Because of the grow- | ing responsibility of the United States it is necessary that our people understand the cause and nature of these chronic revolutions, which destroy stability of administration, make judicial justice impossible and | keep the hemisphere in constant explosion. Going back to our own Revolution of 1776 we know, historically, that it was undertaken from a sense of high devotion to the principles of free gov- ernment and for the better establishment of the rights of man, to make person and property more sacred and secure. Therefore we have invested the term revolution with a certain high sanctity, and too many | of us carry its American meaning over to the civil disturbances in the other Americas. The fact is, however, that these chronic Latin- Butlding | American revolutions have not a single characteristic | in common with ours, or with the dignity with which 2 5 i 1our history invests the term. They are not to es- | tablish principles, but to destroy them. They are not | to make life and property safe, but unsafe. They are | not to -establish civil stability, but to make it impos- They are for the grasping of power for purely They are merely contests between | two parties of thieves to determine which crowd shall have the right to rob the country and steal the prop- | sible | mercenary use. 2261 | erty of foreigners under pretense of public authority. | canal across Darien has proved attractive to Great Britain, and there may possibly be some foundation for the report that is so interesting to General Serrell and his friends.” While the construction of a competing canal would to some extent impair the value of the American canal by Panama, it is by no means certain that it would not be on the whole beneficial to commerce. At any rate the construction of the San Blas canal would be interesting by reason of the spectacular fea- ture of the big tunnel through which ocean ships would pass. The achievement of such a triumph of engineering .would give the twentieth century some- thing to be proud of in the days of its youth and serve as an incentive to further engineering works of which at this time we can have hardly so much as a dream. e Since the Mafia have not been able to conceal their assassinations by packing the victims in barrels, we iay next hear of them putting up murdered men in cans for a change. A S ———— THE PLUTOCRAT'S PROBLEM. UR great captains of industry and finance who O know so many easy ways to make money are i evidently perplexed to find means of spending it. Mr. Carnegie has recently avowed that the work of accumulating his fortune was light in comparison | to the toil he is undergoing in distributing it. = Re- | ports of his recent experiences'in trying to get rid of | | some of his millions confirm the statement. He has| offered library buildings to cities -that have | either refused them outright or delayed in ac- cepting them. He has offered to pay the doctors’ | bills of students at Cornell suffering from the typhoid, i‘but the students have declined the proffer. As a last | resort it is said' he now purposes to erect at Pitts- | | burg a huge university, not that Pcnnsylvapia needs | | another university, but something must be done to| scatter the millions Icst Carnegie undergo what he | | himself called the disgrace of dying rich. | Other eminent magnates of the realm of plutocracy | - ?o‘n:‘r;:’cfwnln::(i‘l * | Take San Domingo as an example. The last gang | are evidently as hard pressed as Carnegie himself. J. | ; 2 and Kwu;ru::\(y. open |that got control of thc_gm'ernmmt robbed the | Pierpont Morgan undertook to lighten his load of — = | American Clyde Steamship Company of nearly a|wealth by buying out the art treasures of Europc,j on, got away with the money and probably de-|but found himself hampered by the amount of fake | | posited it in Paris, which seems to be the favorite | stuff offered him at high prices under the name of = “fence” of all the public thieves in that part of our | some of the most renowned of the old masters. Theq BRITISH CONDITIONS. | hemisphere. Of course the country is compelled to } Newport set has exhausted its energies in building 1 convention of the As- so far as the com ed, contained severe 1 of the country the municipal rises conducted for profit. al prosper- ing a reaction d times foreign ounted last year to more that of the previous a i breaking the rec- riking when a pe- review. On that S said that during that fime the ton- British shipping has more than doubled, an of or now prod be called in rial welfare of the country has tion of he ques! and accordingly spoke at some length on the issue. He recent ued that American in- siying foodstuffs to the Brit- that the American Govern- t to grain being treated nor would it permit American h British ports to be in- The view is unquestionably a popular tish, for it relieves them from the nest with the food problem. founded or not can never be r itself. It may be taken, how- ever ncession that no British statesman will ever venture upon war with the United States commercial y subject rightly before the of Baliour in 2 as rch terfered with one with the E well view of conditions, con- vention Avebury proceeded to emphasize the urgent necessity for a better system of public educa- tion. He laid the blame of existing defects primarily upon the universities, saying it seems extraordinary that th o not require for their degrees some knowl- edge of at least one modern language, and of the conditibns of the world of to-day. The neglect of upon the preparatory schools, and even upon the public schools, so that while in other nations children are being fitted in the schools for the work they are to do in life those of Britain receive very little training that is of use to them. Upon the subjéct of municipal trading the speaker was emphat The practice has been carried to an enormous extent in several of the cities of the king- dom, and the efforts of socialists and other experi- menters in politics are being continually exerted to carry it further still. The politicians who favor and undertake such experiments invariably make glowing reports of the results, but Lord Avebury intimates that it is by no means certain that the reports are ac- He did not charge that the mumicipal ac- counts are false as far as they go, but declared a con- viction that if sufficient allowance were made for rent, depreciation, services of the upper staff, etc., it would be found that instead of a profit for the mu- nicipality in such enterprises there would be shown a heavy loss in almost every instance. Statements of that kind concerning the municipal trading experiments azre now becoming quite com- mon in Great “Britain, so it is evident the enticing reports so promptly taken up by the municipal so- cialists in this country are not altogether reliable. It s to be noted also that every attempt to get a royal commission to investigate the subject has been opposed by the municipal traders. From that fact, as Lord Avebury said, “intelligent men can draw their own inferences.” e e A Bishop of Delaware says that 12,250,000,000 sins are committed in the United Stites every year, and it seems he must have estimated the average of the country to be the same as that of Delaware during an Addicks campaign. the universities re curate. Washington City is complaining of too many monu- ments, and it must be conceded she would be more 1ces twice as much | | reimburse the Clyde Steamship Company. The suc- | cess of the government in this and other thefts roused ambers of Commerce of the | the cupidity of eutsiders, who have organized a revo- | jom Lord Avebury delivered an | jution, not to make government better, but to keep | | it bad and if possible make it worse. | In fact, these Latin-Ameri yore dignified than the occasional raids of mounted an revolutions are no | motive is exactly the same. Yet there are Americans who take no pains iv the course of the disorder called government in to st far to offset | those nations who thrill and turn hot and cold when | they read of a revolution in Latin-America. It is time In this | the press enlightened this country as to the nature|long for birds to throw at. All America cannot fur- to sustain such fore-| of those commotions. This is necessary because it is | nish enough. ! ministration will have to face stern and severe respon- sibility growing out of those robber revolutions and the application of the Monroe doctrine to the sov- ereignty of those countries. { It will be noticed that Europe is holding Turkey responsible for the peace of the Balkans. She has that responsibility under the' treaty ‘'of Berlin. The | powers urge her to her duty because the ferment !in Macedonia and Albania threatens the peace of | Europe. The United States,-by its own declaration, jmukes itseli responsible for Latin-America by for- Ibuldmg invasion of the soil or sovereignty of nine- Those states almost daily teen ependent states. to do about it? | e e . | Senator Martin of Virginia says the only hope for tariff reform is through the Democratic party, so we may as well put it out of the domain of practical | politics. | DARIEN ROUTE AGAIN. HEN the selection of a route for the isth- mian canal was under consideration and there was an apparent deadlock between the advocates of Nicaragua and those of Panama | there appeared at Washington a number of gentle- | men to urge the claims of the Darien route. They | represented a company having a concession and full | title to construct a canal across the Darien isthmus, }and presented strong arguments in favor of adopting { that route. With the ratification by the Senate of the treaty with Colombia for the construction of the canal across the isthmus at Panama it was believed the Darien project would be abandoned. It appears, however, the company is so firmly convinced of the | superiority of their line that they are now trying to have it financed by ropean capitalists and con- structed as a competing line. It is also reported that | the enterprise has been taken under consideration by British capitalists and that it is probable they will enter upon its construction. i The Darien project has many attractions. The route is the shortest between the two oceans, it is the only one that offers an opportunity for a sea level | canal from end to end, and it has on each ocean a good harbor in which to provide for shipping while | awaiting entrance to the canal. The difficulty of the | route is that it is traversed by a lofty mountain range | of solid rock. The plan of the projectors is to cut | through the mountain a tunnel ten miles long and large enough to enable ocean steamers to pass through. The mere suggestion of such an obstacle a few years ago would have been sufficient to put the i project out of the range of practical enterprises. In late years, however, there have been enormous de- velopments in the way of improved facilities for run- neling and boring through rock, and it is now be- lieved by the promoters of the Darien scheme that | the “San Blas” canal,” as it is called, could be cut | through the ‘ten miles of mountain cheaper and quicker than a canal can be constructed either at Panama or at Nicaragua. General Serrell, who is promoting the route, is re- ported to have already obtained subscriptions of up- ward of $50,000,000 in London to begin the work, and according to Washington authorities the report has probably a good foundation in fact. A recent dis- patch from that city says: “In official circles an in- teresting explanation is given of the English interest in the San Blas route. It will be remembered that some months ago Sir Michael Herbert had a confer- ence with Secretary Hay, in which he asked cer- tain preferences for British ships in the use of the comipleted Panama canal. The reply was given that the canal would be for the use of the commerce of the world, and that the privileges asked could not be | W | cottages at a cost of millions, giving sumptuous din- ners and using diamonds in profusion as dress decora- | tions. Recently one of the set gave a dinner to a| large number of guests on horseback. The saddle- | cloths were satin and the feast was a marvel. It cost| | money enough to start a town in business, and in the | | early days of the republic the sum would have been\ the British call | robbers on country banks in our Western States. The | accounted a fortune had it been held by one man. | =3 ‘Stil] it did not empty-the ever-filling purse, and the | | weary host is doubtless racking his brains to devise | new means of distributing his pile. Time was when a'man boasted of having money | | enough to throw to the birds, but now the plutocrats | It is thrown to gulls, to jays, to geese | e from | written in the book of fate that some American ad- |and to peacocks, but still it accumulates when the | {arm grows weary of thfowing and can ¢ast no more. | Hardly a week passes without bringing from the | East a report of some new scheme devised in a [ happy moment for relieving the rich of their burden. | ‘!.‘\n enterprising gambler furnished a palace in New | York to drain the purple purses. but in the height of | | his philanthropy he was cut off by an untimely raid | | of the police. He had relieved some of the Vandcr-' ibills and might have relieved them more had he not | | been interrupted, buut as it'was he had to fly, leaving! them plethoric and sad. 'Now and then a wandering | ;uoble from the gilded courts of Europe comes over | with a title and scoops up a girl and three or four feels | menace the peace of the world. What are we going | millions, but his services avail little. The money ac- | | cumulates. Yachts, horses, dogs, cats, pictures, | braries, universities, hospitals, churches, mansions in | | the city, palaces in the country, villas by the sea, pro- | %\-idc inadequate outlets for the swelling hoards | Every new quarter’s dividends is greater than the | last, and the most tireless of the spenders grows rich‘ in spite of himself. It is not easy to foresee what will be the outcome | of it all. Carnegie recently spoke of founding ani ideal newspaper. That would probably solve the | problem for him, but the rest would have to suffer as | ;of old. Tt is not impossible that in the end capital will accumulate to such an extent that interest and | dividends will diminish into comparative nothing- ness, and then we shall hear of rich men going to work solely because they can find no one to borrow their gapital at living rates of interest. e s e Th®Rapidity with which the Carter Harrlson Presi- dential boom is growing in Chicago would be porten- tous if there were any reason to believe that Chicago can wag the nation. Sy — |WIDE INFLUENCE OF TRUSTS. HEN the Federal court held against J. J. W Hill's raiiroad merger Wall street was tem- - porarily affected and plans for similar mer- gers were arrested. The railroads of the country are | practically divided into great systems already. These groups are the Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania, Hirrilnan, Hill, Morgan, Gould, Moores, Rockefeller and Santa Fe, the nine having a mileage of 146,082 miles, a stock issue of $3,827,000,000, and bonded for $3,6235,000,000, or a total capitalization of seven billion four hun- dred and fifty-two million dollars. If the Hill merger had been sustained these nine systems would have been, by consolidation, reduced {to five or less. They embrace more than three- quarters of the rail mileage of the country, and now divide territory and compete for business in every part of the country. It is well for the future of trans- portation that the covrts have put a stop to the plan by which it was possible to put all these lines and nearly eight billions of capital entirely under one control. The country needs a rest and time to take stock in the matter of these vast combinations. Wall street has a bad reputation that has not been entirely deserved, but would be earned if it continued to be the scene of the reckless marketing of the flood of securities enlarged by these trusts, which emit securities in sums that stagger arithmetic. The comniunity of trade and finance all over the v{orld is shown by the effect of the anti-trust deci- sion in the European bourses. The London stock exchange had a nervous fit, and the conservative Berlin boerse felt a period of irregular pulsations, and Paris had some severe palpitations, showing the widespread effect of these immense masses of capital (qund necessary by the. trust organizers for the com- bination of our vast activities in transportation and | shipping firms are up | graph Convention of Berne, which meets THE SAN FR MEN OF FRIGID NORTH BOAST SEAT OF SCIENTIFIC STUD TERPRISING y|. SCHEME OF THE ~ STOCKTONIANS $ AR AARAIAAAR R AR RS AR RARRARRIR RIS ¢1/md%aénla/ /lu/éyz Biler Frvul, P @sok, Foos. G C. Ry luny, % Phesilinds A fd B Rl @ hewsomar Fesoulive Bl | —— ] Because Stockton has concluded that i does not get its share of the tourist travel to this State that is induced by the low rallroad rates, that bustling city has de- termined to see what can be done in San Francisco to secure the attention that its advantages merit. As a preliminary move Colvin B. Brown, secretary of the Stockton Cham- ber of Commerce and also secretary of As: the San Joaquin Commercial cidtic has been sent to San Francisco with | structions to visit the State Board Trade and see what can be done to in- duce visitors from the East to visit Stock- { ton. Secretary Brown arrived In_ the | eity yesterday and went to the State | Board of Trade, where he stated his mis | slon. Hundreds of Eastern people dai | visit the rooms of the State Board Trade. Manager J. A. Filcher prom | to place all the facilities of the estab ment at the disposal of Secretary Brown Not long ago a meeting of the Stockton | chamber of Commerce was held, at which a statement was made by Professor James A. Barr, who, in addition to being a trustee of the Chamber of Commerce | s principal of the publie schools of Stock- ! ton. The substance of his presentation of | | facts relating to the extent that Stockton is getting the go-by on the part of the | | cotonist travel is that during seven weeks | | ending April 4 there arrived in California by the Southern Pacific road alome 97 colonists via Ogden and 8224 via El Paso In addition there arrived thousands by the Santa Fe route, the exact number be- ing unstated. But of all the thousands arriving by the two routes, only thirty eight stopped over at Stockton. This report stirred Stockton intensely | Favorable action was taken on recom- ¢ > e | | ; i ! { | mendations looking to the establishme B J Hlynboofs Frnasiives u of information in San Fran- adding of exhibits to the store of products that San Joaquin County | maintains at the rooms of Board of Trade, the printing of #,000 fol ers for distribution in San Franel , th gent to meet colonists and for other means of n talked about. wn went vigorously at his Upon the degree of suc- he attains will depend the ¢ inuation permanently Joaquin | bureau of information in this ¢ of a bure: cisco, tk the State appointment of an 2 Sacramento at | Roosevelt Republican Club. A most enthusiastic meeting | | Roosevelt Republican Club of the Thirty- i | ninth District was held at 150 Central day, April 21, for the election for the ensuing term. Two A NEW YEAR'S GREETING FROM THE FAR NORTH, EVIDENCING THE FACT THAT ART HAS NOT BEEN FORGOTTER ABANDONDED BY THE HARDY GOLD-SEEKERS. hundred ar The meeting closed with a smoker and 1 fifty members were preser entertainment. The following offi were elected for one year: President, H. Countryman; first vice president, Aug- ust Tilden; second vice president, J OR METHOD OME, Alaska, can now even boast { AR of its seat of deep learning, as is shown by the novel and artistic- ally arranged New Year greeting sent out by members of the “Alaska ‘Academy of Sclences” to its friends on the first day of 1903, Owing to a full win- ter crop of snow, the greetings have been late in arriving. The academy has on its roll a male membership of fifty, its important of- fices of librarian and secretary being in the hands of women. The greeting from north shows that t the far and frigid he people out there are not only a hardy type, but are wholly artistic, for the drawing on the card is unique and clever and the engraving is ) 3 LOCAL FIRMS OPPOSE UNIFORM TELEGRAPHCODE commercial and in arms against the proposal of the International Tele- The local financial, n conference in London in May of this vear, to adopt for compulsory use the new “official vocabulary” for cablegrams. Protests are being formulated by the va- rious commercial organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce, and these will be forwarded to the convention at an early date. The protests repeat the objections that were recorded against any official vocabu- lary before the convention when in con- ference at Budapest in 18%. THe grounds for the protest include the inadequate number of ciphers in the vocabulary: the inflexibility of any fixed list of ciphers; the absence of the necessity for changing existing conditions except to broaden them: the enormous expense that would attend revision of existing printed and manuscript cable codes and the strong objection of the commercial cabling pub- lic to the adoption of a compulsory me- dium. The 'protests are made in conjunction with European financial and commercial houses making similar presentments with a view to having the International Tele- graph Convention reconsider its intention to adopt the uniform code. The protests say: The experience of the commercial cabling public fails to support objections to the old plan, on which existing printed and mani- | script codes have been: constructed. This pub- | lic claims to be entitled to every consideration, | in view of the vast expense incurred for the | complex and scientific arrangement of exist- ing media, which, as is well known, present Do hindrance or complications to cable traffic as_it is conducted to-day. Instead of any limitation the necessities of | modern business demand a greater range for code ciphers, embracing the Latin roots and terminations that are so generally employed for combinations apart from the necessary dialogue and composition of phrases. —_— TAHITI RECOVERING FROM LATE DISASTER New Hotel Being Built and Other Important Improvements Are Now Under Way. Guy L. Kennedy, a member of the Ta- hiti Commercial and Sugar Company of Tahiti arrived from the south seas on the steamer Mariposa Monday and is regis- tered at the Occidental. This is his first visit to San Francisco since the recent disasters attending the tidal wave In the islands. In discussing the great damage done, he said yesterday: “The story of the disaster is now an old one. The islands are rapidly recovering from the effects and business is getting along as nicely as could be expected. Re-. building is progressing as fast as material can be obtained. In Tahitl they are build- ing a new three-story stone hotel, which will be completed about the end of the vear and will prove a most valuable ac- quisition to the town, which is being greatly benefited by the large number of tourists who are now including the island in thelr travels. “The greatest damage fhat was done on the island was to the copra product, which has been reduced about 5 per cent. The loss to property amounted to about $500,000 and 570 persons were killed.” Kennedy's firm is the only American one in Tahiti, although there are quite a industry. A If the decision of Judge Caldwell is affirmed by the and of capi.tal embarked in the same business will cease, and in its place there will probably be a pro- metropolitan if she had more citizens and fewer office- | given. In consequence of this attitude taken by Mr. | gressive disintegration of many combinations already holders and statues. 1 Hay it is suspected that the construction of a rival | formed. Supreme Court the further integration of the system | number of Americans on the islands. ——e—— - Commissioner Sargent Coming. A letter was received yesterday by United States Immigrant Commissioner Hart North from National Commissioner + thoroughly metropolitar in style and exe- cution. The Alaska Academy of Sciences is tak- ing the place of a bureau of information | and volunteers to give advice regarding Alaska and her resources to those who | Sykes; recording secretary, | so financial secretary. | | treasurer, Crawford Douglas; at arms, Joseph Rebsto committee, James J. Curie; erson, Ed Beeler, A. Steif. A. R. Alhiborn, J. F. sergeant execntive Walter Anc ., J. B. Whi slinn, Chas. M desire to become _acquainted with the [ Medley, R. E. Patton, J. D. Harriss, S existing", conditions of that part of the | E. Atkinson, Phil. J. Diez and J. Spar globe. The. academy. indeed, declares —— e ——— | | | | | | that nothing but the most authentic news escapes from its archives of knowledge. It is promised that the Alaska Acaaemy of Scierces will in a short while be ex- changing views and papers with the Tragedian Downing Fails. Robert Downing is a crushed tragedian at last. He flled a petition in insolvency sterday in the clerk’'s office of -the nited States District Court in which Royal Soclety, Londen, and the sim!lar | he alleges that he owes $13,241 and that he profound institutions of Washington, New | has not a cent wherewith to pay his York and Boston. One of the chief aims | gebts. The heaviest creditor is J. B of the academy is to render whatever ser- vice is in its power to those who are de- sirous of visiting Nome. o Book of Detroit, Mich., who loaned the tragedian 34000, and now feels in tragic mood. Frar & Valentine are crec tors for 3250 for printing, while printers and costumers in different cities of the ! Union are his creditors. Mr. Downing claims $300 worth of clothing, furniture and carpets as exempt. P . Townsend's Cal. glace fruits, 715 Mrkt.* ——ee—— is SCHOOL BOARD ORDERS TEACHERS' EXAMINATION ‘Will Hold Competitive Test in June for Appointments to the Substitute List. The Board of Education yesterday set Monday, June 15, 193, at 9 a. m., as the time for holding the next annual competi- tive examination for the appointment of teachers to the substitute list. The presi- dent of the board was ‘authorized to issue a circular of information pertaining to the | examination. i In accordance with section 1874 of the | State law, the secretary of the board was ordered to advertise for sixty days, from | April 23 to June 22, 1903, in the official | newspaper of the City and County of San Francisco, for sealed proposals to supply the pupils of the public schools of thi | city and county with suitable text books on the subjects of vertical writing, draw- Townsend's California glace fruit ana | candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. Moved from Palace Hotel building to 715 Market st., two doors above Call building.* L —e——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephome Main 1042. * @ =it @ and full compietion of the Laguna Honda School. The lowest was from Hannah Bros., who bid 36 The bid is in ex- cess of the estimate of $43,000, but is ex- plained by the raise of $4 per 1000 feet in the price of lumber. The board also received bids for the construction of sewers in Richland ave- ing and music. nue, South avenue, Crescent avenue The rooms located at 918 Clay stroet, | Twelfth avenue, I street and = Kansas rented for school purposes, were ordered | Street and the bituminizing of the cross- ing of Dolores and Twenty<third streets. The lowest bidders will receive the con- tracts to-day. The board rejected the bid of Fred Lef- fler, the only ome filed, for the construc- tion of a sewer in Hodges alley as being excessive. The bid called for 168 line feet of $-inch ironstone pipe and Leff wanted to charge $3 24 per foot, the usu rate being from % cents to §1 30. The board appointed Miss Lillian F. Johnson sténographer at $5 per month, The board recommended to the Super- visors that the Fourth-street bridge closed between 5 and § o’clock p. m. surrendered, to take effect April 1, 1903 Leaves of absence were granted to Miss Eleanor G. McEwen, Miss Nellie Kershaw and Miss K. B. Childs. OPENS BIDS FOR BUILDING OF LAGUNA HONDA SCHOOL Board of Works Rejects Solitary Bid for Street Work as Being Excessive. Bids were opened yesterday by the Board of Public Works for the erection al be | Most Thrilling = ot All =—— Second and Last Instaliment of Tainted Gold Read what became of Winifred Gra: when she mysteriously dinp-/' peared in scanty stage ..Next Sunday Call.. Most Humorously Clever Story of the Day, TINKER'S COLT Read of His Amazing Adventures. Beautiful full page miniature of the most envied wo- man in San Francisco society. Can you guess who she is ? BUT, BEST OF ALl======—=—WATCH FOR THIS THE NEW ANIMAL FABLE PUZZLES Frank P. Sargent announcing ‘that Mr. Sargent will arrive in this city on Wed- waale nosday marning of navt