The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1903 The Sadas~ Call. 1903 FRIDAY.. JCHN D. APRIL 24 SPRECKELS, Proprielor. E. Manager Adgdress All Communications to W. S. L;AK T TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. b Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year ..$6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months.. 8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months 1.80 | DAILY CALL—By Single Month.. 65c | SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. 1.80 | WEBKLY CALL, One 1.00 | All Postmasters are authorized to receive subscript! / Sample eoples will be far Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be pargicular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their reques: OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Bromdway Telephone Main 1083 T | and Bryan seem to be several cleats ahead. Each is | It seems that Bryan and Hearst have agreed to di- BERKELEY OFFICE. street .Telephone North 77 er 2148 Ce C. GEORGE XROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adver- | tising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") | NEW YORK REPIESENTATIVE | STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. G CARIPON - oo coso-a .Herald Square | NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. NEWS STANDS: | News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Tremont House: Hotel; Palmer House. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. CHICAGO Fherman House: o. 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FRANCE AND BRITAIN. ng Edward's visit to the Pope has been 7 that appears to be satis- 1al and the Vatican. journey will be that The Frenc in fact, f his tour in a political as H h i h wisit, be the culmination a geographical sense, and unless the unex- iation the work of ¢ which has been carried on ien on both s les and by the press f success suffi 1y notable to attract Europe ng ago that a member of the French d that France should prepare for a Britain ould provide naval iciently powerful to ish from separating France from her Among other things he speci- | and Great on the Mediterranean suff the Bri possessions in Africa. fied th truction of a base of naval supplies that would counteract Gibraltar and make France the power on the inland sea. That speech uch discussion, but the British Government | forebore to ask explanations, and as a conse- | e the reaction from it has led to an era of | d feeling on both sides. | wo official declarations of French friendliness | have been recently made, one by M. < leader of the Right in the Chamber of es, at a banquet of the British Association of bers of Commerce, and the other by M. Cam- French Embassador at the British court. Of urse the circumstances under which the two ad- dresses were made compelled a friendly utterance, but quen it i nificant that both were well received at Paris. Recent dispatches from the French capital are to the effect that the people are looking forward to the King's visit with great eagerness and are making ex- | tensive preparations for it. Thus all the probabilities are that the welcome given to the King will be highly | gratifying to the British public and tend to strengthen | the feeling of friendliness on their side. Of course much of the welcome to be accorded to the royal tor will be due to the personal charac- | ter of the King himself. Edward has always liked Paris and Paris has always liked him. Even in the days when he was Prince of Wales and his visits were | unofficial holiday tours there was a cordial liking iori him on the part of the French populace. At the | present juncture, however, something more than per- | sonal popularity figures in the public mind in con- nection with the visit. There are many points of | world politics in which the interests of France and | Britain have been long looked upon as conflicting, | but L. it is now believed, c4n be reconciled. It | is in the hope that a means may be found for reach- ing an amicable agreement on most of them that the | statesmen of both nations are preparing for thc: King’s visit in the expectation that it will lead to that end British authorities are quite free in expressing a conviction that France should be permitted 3 free hand in Morocco and encouraged to take part in the construction of railways that are designed to open a route across Asia Minor to the Persian Guli. Only a short time ago it was universally agreed in Lon- don that the occupation of Morocco by France would be 2 menace to British interests in the Mediter- ranean, but now a French alliance is so much in favor that public epinion would sanction almost any con- cession to France in that country. An evidence of the strong feeling for France in London is found in the recent statement of one of the leading papers: “The note of British foreign | policy to-day is friendship with France. Amity with our ancient rival means acceptance of her plans on Morocco, which in M. Delcasse’s phrase is ‘absorp- tion by pacific penetration.’ This diplomatic phrase was coined by the French statesman to describe the process of Russia in Manchuria and in Northern Per- sia. It can serve France in Africa as well as Rus- sia in Asia.” It @ppears, indeed, as if the twentieth century were to see the alliances of the nations of Europe arranged in wholly new combinations. Edward's visit may tend to hasten them so far as Britain and France are concerned, and it is for that reason his arrival in Paris is looked forward to with interest by the peo- ple of both countries. | | w It is reported that Lieutenant Governor Lee of M souri says that he does not wish to assist in the prosecution of the St. Louis boodlers who are being“ |in the Democratic party. | sounded with praises at the convention. | sentences William J. Bryan paid a glowing tribute Governor feels that an effort is being made to in- fringe upon some of his personal privileges . hunted from their holes. Perhaps the Licutenant “IT IS TO LAUGH.” HE tug of war is on in the Democratic party. ! On one side Hearst and Bryan are together, | and on the other a few of the aged devotees, So far Hearst who loved the party in its better days. in the newspaper business and they get a valuable lot of advertising, so that they win even if they lose. The gentlemen at the other end of the rope are not in any business that ean gain by using a ruined old party for advertising purposes, so they are not get- ting much but abuse out of the game so far. The latest appearance of Bryan and Hearst was at a meeting of Democratic newspaper men, all Mis- sourians, in Kansas City. The Democracy of Mis- | souri has troubles of its own' just now. Several of its statesmen in St. Louis are in the Mitellliary‘ or on the way there, and nearly a majority of its members in the last Legislature are under indictment for accepting bribes. It will be seen at once that a party so much under | indictment and so much in jail needs something mi divert its mind from its troubles. The diversion | was furnished by the Kansas City meeting of editors’ : vide the labor on such occasions. Bryan makes a speech and Hearst writes a letter. Bryan’s speech to the editors was full of “tang.” He presented Mr. Cleveland as his idea of every- thing a Democrat should not be, and Mr. Hearst as everything a Democrat should be. To quote liter- | Iy he said: “We have had enough of Clevelandism | The Democratic bed is gh for all who want to come in, but we to sit up nights to keep certain pretenders Grover Cleveland be- | | wide enou; don’t war from picking our pockets. trayed the Democratic party, and I carried the bur- den of his administration through two campaigns. He disgraced himself.” For the opposite picture we must resort to the re- port of Mr. Hearst's own newspaper, which is char- acterized by the coy modesty which is that gentle- most prominent endowment. In his own paper we learn that after Mr. Cleveland had been duly roasted “the name of William Randolph Hearst was The Demo- cratic editors were enthusiastic in their praise and | were roused to prolonged applause when in ringing man’s to the work Hearst had done for the cause of true Democracy.” Further on we learn that Mr. Bryan declared that the only Democratic daily papers in the country are Hearst's three, and the Kansas City World and the Omaha World-Herald. Just what Mr. Howell of the | Atlanta Constitution, and Colonel Watterson of the Louisvi Courier journal, and Mr. Walsh of the Chicago Chronicle, and numerous other gentlemen who think they are running Democratic dailies in | large cities, will think of this remains to be heard from. 2 After Mr. Bryan’s speech, which in effect pre-| sented Mr. Hearst as his successor in the Presiden- | tial candidacy, a letter from Mr. Hearst was read. | He regards that letter as so valuable, as so much too | good to waste, that he promotes his candidacy in California by publishing it as an editorial in his only Democratic paper in the State. The letter is away up on the list of curiosities. It is devoted to trusts. He discovers two kinds of trusts. One he vaguely calls speculative, and announces that it is a fearful thing. The other is a good kind, which he highly approves, because he say “it restricts competition through superior organization and the ability to undersell competitors.” He also indorses “large department stores, espe- cially those having branches in several great cities.” Having exhausted his vocabulary in praise of tru which destroy competition by underselling at the competing point, and indicated that a department store plank must go in the next platform, Mr. Hearst pulls h#€ Missouri language on the Republican party, which he denounces in the choicest “puke” as “a criminal combination of predatory wealth and cor- rupt politics, of plutocratic villainy.” This was balm ta the sore hearts of the Missouri Democracy—to the many in jail and the many more on the way, to the | Lieutenant Governor in exile, and to United States Senator Stone, who is accused of participating in the corruption of the Legislature which elected him. And the funny part of it is that the Missouri Democracy in Legislature assembled was bribed by the great baking powder trust. -Some one proposed an anti-alum bill, to punish the use of that astringent drug as an ingredient of baking powder. In a hot biscuit State baking powder rises to the dignity of a political issue, and the trust did not wish any leg- islative interference with its alum. Hence these in- dictments, this runaway Lieutenant Governor, this explanatory United States Senator, these statesmen in stripes and the glad welcome of Messrs. Bryan and Hearst, their show, as a means of diversion from the serious condition of the Missouri Democracy. In a recent visit to Rome General Wood was shown the most marked courtesy by the King of Italy, who granted an immediate and private audience. It is good to know that where the conduct of men may count for enormous good or immeasurable evil fate has placed big men in position. The courtesy of the King of Ttaly in a little matter may be great in con- sequences in two nations. B MARSHALL FIELD'S VIEW. ARSHALL FIELD of Chicago, after a six M weeks' visit to the Pacific Coast, has returned to his home afnd has told his fellow citizens what he saw in the West and what promise it holds for the prosperity of the future. He did not expatiate on our climate, nor upon our big trees. He looked at us with the eye of a business man and formed his judgments accordingly. He announces that “all conditions throughout the West point unerringly to a continuance of prosperity, and all the symptoms of trade are healthful.” We did not need Mr. Field to tell us that, but in the East there have been of late a multitude of warn- ing prophets. Noting the slump of speculative stock in the market on Wall street, and recalling the su- perstition that a panic comes in ten-year cycles, the prophets have been predicting for 1903 a return of the panic of 1893. The statement of Mr. Field serves a valuable purpose in counteracting the effects of such utterances. The prosperity of the country is not an outcome of Wall street. It has its origin in the farms, the mines, the orchards and the fac- tories of the country at large. As Mr. Field put it, “Crop failure could mar the prospect, but nothing clse could have that effect. A stock panic might come without any disturbance in the legitimate trade of the country.” Summing up his review of the situation Mr. Field said: “I see no danger whatever. I believe and have believed for some time that the prices of securities were too high. They had been advanced by great market activity to pcints which did not represent | ' |tive buyers of inflated stocks, but the country has | to guard against such an occurrence. | part of the world that when the arrangement | organized as the Imperial Ottoman Bagdad Rail- | possibly include colonization. proper values. There has been a large shrinkage as a result of the recent reaction, but this, T believe, is for good. Tt has operated beneficially, in my opinion.” That is perhaps as comprehensive a statement of the real situation as can be expressed in a single para- graph. There have been losses among the specula- | not lost anything. For several years past the output of mines and farms and factories has been abundant, and the producers have derived good revenues. Mortgages have been paid off and deposits in the banks have increased. Our prosperity, therefore, has a sound basis. A monetary stringency during the crop-moving season would unquestionably be dis- astrous in many ways, but the banks are taking steps | It seems, then, | e may face the year with confidence, and put away any fear of the ten-year panic cycle of which the | alarmists are so fond of talkin, Uncle Sam is making life something of a burden to his naval and transport officers because they insist | upon smuggling in articles of value from our Orien- tal possessions. The accused men are numerous enough to organize a society and fight the Govern- ment for an attack upon the vested rights of officials. Getting caught seems tq be the only offense with | S—— STRUCK A SNAG. JOULLIN'S «DRIVING OF LAST SPIKE"” ON NORTHERN PACIFIC IS COMPLE TED them. granted concessions for the extension of the | W Anatolian railway to Bagdad, and that Greas | Britain, Germany and France were interested in the | | enterprise, it was assumed as a matter of course that | Such the project would be promptly carried out. discussion as took place concerning it was therefore directed exclusively to the probable political and | military effects of the line. It occurred to no one| that the construction of the road might be postponed indefinitely for lack of funds, and yet that appears to be what is going to happen. The line is mainly in the interests of Germany, for the Germans have control of the trade and the bank- ing interest of Syria and are largely interested in the railways of the region. So much does German en- terprise dominate that of Britain and France in that for joint control was announced it was looked upon as a triumph for German diplomacy. In fact, some of the most influential papers in London flatly de- nounced the arrangement as a surrender to Germany and the entanglement of Great Britain in a quarrel in which she had no concern. The critics appear to have expressed the conviction of financiers, for it is now reported that the promoters oi the road have found it difficult to finance the work and ‘these is no immediate prospect of their getting sufficient sub- scriptions to render it advisable to begin work. The reports announce that the project has been way Company, with a capital of $3,000,000. The president is Arthur Gwinner of Berlin and the vice president is Adolph Dernes of Paris. At the time of the dispatch the British representative on the board | had not been appointed. The dispatch goes on to| quote the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Lon- | don Times as saying: “The Novoe Vremya declares | that the Germans have taken 20 per cent of the cost | of the line upon themselves, and the French have | become responsible for 40 per cent. It was hoped | in Berlin that the deficit would be supplied by Rus- sia, ‘but the Finance Minister explained how Rus- sian interests would be damaged by the railroad, and our capitalists refused to intrust their money to the peaceful conqueror of the Near East’ The Novoe Vremya goes on to relate how the Germans, after ineffectual efforts to raise the money in England and | America, again appealed to Russia through French | intermediaries, and were again refused in the most de- cisive manner Russian objections to assisting in financing the line can be readily understood. When completed the road will not only conflict with Russian railways in South- | ern Asia, but will compete with the Siberian road as a transcontinental line, for it is a foregone conclusion thas when once the Anatolian road reaches the Per- sian Gulf it will soon be brought into connection with | the British lines in India. The objections of capital‘[ ists in Germany, France and Great Britain are based | upon different grounds. They are afraid the road will not be profitable and that it will not develop trade | enough to pay for operating expenses. Thus, if| constructed, the stockholders would have to rely for | dividends upon the guarantee of the Turkish Govern- ment, and at present the finances of the Sultan are | not in sufficiently good condition to make the guar- antee worth much to business men. | One cause of the distrust of the scheme is the an- | nouncement that foreigners will not be permitted to establish colonies along the line. In a recent address | before the Geographical Society at Konigsburg Gen- | eral von der Goltz declared that owing to fresh com- | plications between the Anatolian company and lhe} Porte German enterprise along the line could not | Such was the situation at the latest reports. Tt seems that the real schemer in the whole affair is the Sultan himself. He desired to get the European pow- ers to build a military road for him at their expense. Statesmen were willing, but bankers hesitate. Ev dently the Bagdad road will not be in operation until the Sultan consents to a new deal. It is to be hoped that when Uncle Sam sends a repre- sentative of his fighting ships to Kiel he will:\forget that the Iowa is on the list of things that float. This boat of curs is fast becoming the hoodoo ship of the navy, and what was at first a situation to laugh at is now one to be fearful of, for the Kaiser's laughter is a serious matter. —_— The powers that be in Washington have made it known clearly and most emphatically that officers of the navy are educated, employed and paid in the service of the United States to fight in war and to keep their mouths shut and their pens idle in times of peace. How the ears of Admiral Dewey must be burning. A Britisher who says he wants to grace our civ- ilization with his presence, permanently endowed, wants to know if English is spoken in Northern Cali- fornia. We are pleased to inform him that English and not British is spoken throughout California ex- cept in a few remote communities not yet civilized. The Springfield Republican suggests Theodore Roosevelt as a successor to President Eliot at Har- vard, and should the project be approved we may have bear-baiting included in the list of university sports of the future, E The forty-third anfiual convention of British Cham- bers of Commerce has just been held and the presi- dent congratulated the delegates upon the fact that during the last year British trade has been “absolutely satisfactory,” 7 HEN it was announced that the Sultan had | | | of_stock. | ana e rail- driven from - o— XX L 5 > such as soldlers, cowboys, miners, ;{E commission given by the [ O B and Indlans of the Craw tribe orthern Pacific Railroad Com- The artist made & study of the scene at pany to Artist Amedee Joullin to | the place where the smke was paint a picture to represent the ,@? = near Gold Creek, fifteen miles driving of the golden spike which | Helena. + marked the completion of this corpora- | tion’s transcontinental rallway has been executed. The finished picture is now at Mr. Joullin's studio in this city, and will soon be forwarded to Helena, Mont. It will be fitted Into a deep panel at the head of the grand stairway in the State Capitol building of Montana. The can- vas is in the form of a half circle, the size being 18x9 feet. The spike was driven in 1882 by Gen- eral Grant, whose portrait occupies the L4 AMEDEE JOULLIN'S PAINTING WHICH WILL ADORN MON- TANA'S STATE CAPITOL. ABC AR MR B8 s T R RS central position of the group. Among other portraits easily recognized are those of Henry Villard, Senators H. M. Teller of Colorado and William Evarts of New York. The group also represents characters typical of the time and event, strong sunlight effects of the scene, lhzh;ellowls!h tinge of the earth, the deep purple shadows and the richly colcred trappings and blankets of the Indians contribute to the beauty of the picture. Two years ago Mr. Joullin exkhibited frontier pictures and sketches in New York. His faithful reproduction of scenes in Arizona and New Mexico attracted the notice of men who were familiar with the country. The success of this exhibition lJed to the artist's engagement to paint the panel picture for the State of Mon- tana. L @ ottt e e O SPRING VALLEY COMPANY PLANS IMPROVEMENTS The constantly increasing demands of the citizens of this city for water and the natural increase in the expense of supply- ing the same is the cause of an entire change in the affairs of the Spring Val- ley Water Works. The plan, which was determined upon after a’ careful study of existing eonditions, resulted yesterday in the fliing with the County Clerk of arti- cles of incorporation of a company to be known as the Spring Valley Water Com- pany, with a capital stock of $28,000,000, which will take over the entire plant of he old company and carry out the plans for the improvement of its service sug- gested at the last annual meeting of the directors of the old company and render- ed necessary by the increase in its busi- ness. The plan provides for the sale of the plant to the new corperation, which, with its capital stock of $28,000,000 and a twen- ty-vear bond issue for the same amount, will be able to provide the means for an extensive development of the sources of water supply under the control of the old company. The president of the Spring Valley Wa- ter Works says in his last annual re- port: Under the present capitalization the re- sources of the company are limited to the sale of the remaining two milllons of treasury stock, which, at present prices, would involve @ serious financial sacrifice, and as the present bonded issue matures in 106, it has been de- cided that the best way to meet all of these questions is by reorganizing the company at once. The plan which will be followed has been adopted after careful consideration and consultation with some of the largest holders of our securities, as as with financial authorities whose assistance will be required in the project, is briefly as follow: A sale of all the property owned or com- trolled by the Spring Valley Water Works to & new carporation, which will be formed with a capital of stock of §28,000,000 and a twenty- vear bond issue of the same amount. The stockholders of the present company will thus receive two shares for one, but this will be without any Inc of the increased sorted to only as the basis for a new bond jssue and to enable the company to provide for its requirements by the sale of bonds insteal The bonded issue, based on the new capital- ization, will be placed with a trustee, to he used only for redeeming the present bonds and cnlarging and improving the company's prop- erty, with carcful restriction as to their fssu- ance by the trustee, except for those purpose An estimate in detail for the expenditure of these funds has been prepared after careful study of all the questions involyed, from which it appears that by the gradual expenditure of the §14,000,000, which the proposed reorgani- zation should enable us to realize by the sale of the new issue of bonds, the supply of water can be gradually increased during the life of | the mortgage to more than meet the daily con- sumption during and at the end of the twenty- year period, viz., 1923. The directors of the new company, each ¢f whom has subscribed $509, are William | Alvord, R. J. Tobin, Ch. de Guigne, W. F. Hillegass, James M. Allen, E. 8. Heller M. B. Kellogg. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. J. G. Peirce of Sebastopol is at the Grand. R. L. Reid, a druggist of Vacaville, is at the Lick. G. Rouse, a merchant of Riverside, is at the Grand. C. A. Hall, a merchant of Monterey, is he Grand. ! § Max Strauss, a merchant of Turlock, is at the Californla. | A. H. Hewitt, a fruit grower of Yuba | City, is at the Lick. M. B. Curtis, a mining man o? Tono- pah, is at the Palace. M. S. Davis, an undertaker of Santa Rosa, is at the Grand. H. Waterhouse, a merchant of Honolu- 1u, is at the Occidental. W. F. Knox, an attorney of Sacr mento, is at the Grand. D. J. Mercer, a merchant of Mountain View, Is at the California. Webster L. Clark, chaplain at Benicia barracks, is at the California. R. F. Kerr, proprietor of the Highlands Springs Hotel, is at the Grand. O. J. Woodward of Fresno, a manufact- urer of agricultural implements, is at the Lick. T. W. Heintzelman, master mechanic of the Southern Pacific at S8acramento, is at the Grand. Pay Director L. G. Billings of the United States navy arrived yesterday from Washington, and Is registered at the Occidental. Henry Callaghan, the well-known min- ing expert, leaves to-day for Colorado, where he will be joined by a friend and | proceed direct to London. Walter F. Parker, the newly appointed | assistant tax and land agent of the Southern Pacific Company, is up from [l:?.k Angeles, and Is registered at the ck. D. Bowes of St. Louis, assistant gen- eral passenger agent of the Chicago and Alton road, and Robert Sommerville, gen- CALIFORNIA ORANGES TO BE SENT TO JAPAN e A very interesting trade experiment, of great prospective importance te Califor- than an attempt by the representative of a leading wholesale house in Japan to in- duce the Japanese to buy California oranges, California raisins and other Cali- fornia products on a large scale. There are oranges in Japan and the Japanese eat them, but the fruit is small and in- significant as compared with the oranges grown in California, from Riverside to the head of the Sacramento Valley. Raisins do not grow in Japan. There are many fruits grown in California that are not produced in Japan. Taikichi Shimizue, secretary of Dai Tchu Ginko of Tokio, has arrived in this city and has announced to the State Board of Trade that he is commissioned by the Japanese business concern that he fruits and other products and to arrange to have them transported to Japan under the same conditions that would attend them in actual commercial transactions. Consequently Taikichi Shimizue will take over to Japan very soon a consider- able consignment of oranges, a part of which consignment will island kingdom under refrigeration and the other part without fcing. It is sup- posed by the Japanese commercial agent that it is possible to dispense with ice and yet have the fruit arrive om the farther region of the Pacific in salable condition. The present experiment will definitely determine that very interesting commercial fact. If ice is not necessary on the voyage the cost of oranges in Japan will be quite reasonable and the market for the fruit among the Japan- ese will probably become very extensive in a short time. This prospect of enlarging the crange market and bringing into the considera- tion of what.to do with the oranges the fact that 40,000,000 of Japanese may be customers for the orange-growers of Cali- fornia after a reasonable time is of great significance. The same applies to other products of the State, like raisins and dried fruits not grown in Japan and also to canned goods. Japan is a promising field for California fruits in the opinion of the Japanese com- mercial agent, who feels satisfied, so he says, that California navel oranges, if they can be moved under proper condi- tions of cost, will soon be in great de- mand in Japan. He also believes that the Japanese palate will take kindly to other California products, of which he has made an experimental trade collec- tion to introduce them to the Japanese. ——————— By sea San Francisco Is farther from New York than it is from Liverpool. represents to get samples of California | proceed to the | | i FAVOR NEW SPUR"TRACK ORDINANCE The Supervisors’ Street Committee yes- terday recommended the passage of an nia, is about to be tried. This is no less | ordinance requiring holders of spur track privileges to pave and keep in repair the space between the rails and two feet on either side thereof. The ordinance origin- ally contemplated that the entire street should be kept in repair from curb to curb. Andrea Sbarbore, representing the Manufacturers’ Association, stated that such a condition would be unjust, but that there would be no objection to paving Lhe track space. The committee reported in favor of granting a permit to the Associated Cil Company to lay a pipe line in Sixteenth street on condition that it keep two fest of the roadway over #he trench in re . and a permit to the Standard Oil Com- pany for a double pipe line in Sixteeuth street and to keep four feet of the road- way in repair. The committee recommended that 35000 additional be set aside for the recon- struction of the Sixth street sewer. ‘The committee passed back to the Board of Works the petition of Simpson & Doyle to maintain a bootblack stand on Mission and Seventh streets. The last named beard has refused to issue permits to bootblack stands on sidewalks, and no M- censes are being collected therefrom. The committee recommended the con- struction of stone sidewalks on Chestnut street, between Jones and Leavenworth; on Pierce street, between Green and Un- ion, and the establishment of grades om Powell avenue, between First avenue and South Broderick street. The committee decided to take up the application of the Southern Pacific Com-~ pany for a bay shore franchise on May 7, at ila. m. The joint Committee on Finanee and Judiciary recommended that provision be made in the next budget for a public safety station at the intersection of Mar- ket and Powell streets. —_————— Insolvent Clerk. A petition in insolvency was filed in the United States Distriet Court yesterday by Adolph F. Horstman, clerk, San Francisco; liabilitles, $3806; no assets. —_— “Townsend's Cal glace frufis, 715 MrkEe ——— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistie fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. Moved from Palace Hotel building to 715 Market st., two doors above Call building.* Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 fornia street. Telephone Maln 1042, "2 | eral agent of the passenger department of the same road at Chicago, who have been touring the coast for several weeks, start- ed for the East last evening. | Second and Last Installment of Tainted Gold Read what became of Winifred Gra when she mysteriously disap- peared in scanty stage / v/ / B Most Humorou_sly 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