The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 30, 1903, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1903. WISHES NATIVES T0 BE EXHIBITED Filcher Plans for Big Excursion Parties. to-8t. Louis. Septéember 9. Is Sélecte‘d as’ Date for.a Rally of Oslifornigns. —_—— e great exposi- v will be, 80 cesf sho% at’t émen of from Calif: ved that the iposition, tember 9§ signifi- s that the afford ner as fac- ns and Native w city " satd to en- of Native this mat- o was a mem- Lieuten for Burglary. ars of age; was held - EQUIPMENT a oollective | are GOANELIDG - TALKS ABOUT S_ays Streetcars Here - Have Old-Fashioned Brakes. B |@rocer Gives His Business Secrets' Away on the Witness Stand. —_— Brewer Tells How Men Drink Five Pints of Beer in Thirty- Five Minutes Dur- | ing Rest. > | The taking of testimeny in the arbitra- | tion proceedings between the Carmen's Union and the United Rallroads was re- | sumed yesterday. Throughout both the , morning and afternoon sessions Livernash continued to call representatives from | different labor organizations of this cit 10 told the amount of wages earned by membe ¢ the unions and of how their wages had all been recently raised. | e only amusing incident of the day was admission of a grocer conducting a in the Mission district that he charged c and other customers the price with the exception “of those weént way behind.” In the case of tter he always charged a little more each article. Attorney Moore sug- ested that the grocer ought to charge a lttle if he lost the bill it would k so large. Livernash opened the case by present- affidavits from local merchants to the ct that the price of clothing and other of life had increased in the | ast few months. Each affidavit was num- | b will be used by the arbitrators | ds an exhibit | John B. Connelly, vice president of the Retail Delivety Drivers’ Assoclation, was | lled. He testified that | w the business less necessities d a t witn, under the present minimum schedule irivers- of double teams received $2 50 a dny, and $2 was paid drivers of single | ms. Ten hours constituted a day’s | work, and if a driver took out a load | fter 4 m. he received $1 extra. A | ra > 38 > $12 0 p o the minimium wages varied from | week for a single wagon and for a double team. The into effect | ES week new ule of wages went en December 1 of last year. NOT STEADY WORK. lowed by a Connell Ry The members | arned a minimum and $4 5 for fi > of the latter wox] as $6 a day. Last cement worke complained that mer October the | were raised, as wages ¢ the men For.kitchens; hall various “other public places. pecially récommended fo i I Hy bathrooms, banks, saloons and | Inlaid linoleum is es- ||| r hard usage, as each color is ||} | inserted separately and goes clear through to the back. No paint surface to wear off, as is the case with printed linoleums. Besides, it is the printed grade, making it more durable and lighter to the tread. As a stric! has no equal and it is a has tried- to keep- a pla Our price, laid on your floor, Did you see our.ldist day’s paper? Have you taken from that list? Sunday’s paper is not at Tuesday and Wednesday only. Smith’s Axminster r ze A regular $3 0o oak A regular $2.00 cane seat oak dining chair, $1.30. { A regular $1000 wh A regular §28.50 combination bookcase-desk, $16.80 A regular $13 oo spring edge wardrobe box couch, $9.95 Clean, odorless feather pillows, heavy ticking, $2.10 the pair. Repp portieres which sell regularly for $s550 of- | fered at $3.50. A regular $25.00 gol A regular $13.50 six-foot oak ‘extension table, $9.90; or @ $16.00 eight-foot table for $11.75. St Geewner G (Successors to California Furniture Co.) 957 to 977 Market Street, Opp. Golden Gate Aventye. Here are the items again in case 27 by 63 inclies, $1.95; size 36 by 72 inches, $3.10. of a greater thickness than tly sanitary floor covering it || boon to the housewife who || in. board kitchen floor clean. || s $1.45 the square yard. of three-day specials in Suan- | seen our window full of things | | hand. Positively for Monday, || ugs 18 by 36 inches, g5 cents; parlor table, $1.83. 1] ite metal bed, §6.25. den oak bureau, $19.75. | casionally DRILL FOR GOLD MEDAL BY FOURTEEN COMPANIES Company D, League of the Cross Cadets, Arrange for Military Exhibition and-a Mu- sical Entertainment at Native Sons’ Hall | | | | i their work was not steady and the price of living had gone up. Richard Cornelius, president of the Car- on, took the stand and ex- the difficult work of a carman, whether working as a conductor or a gripman. He said he had been employed fourteen years on cars in this clty, work- ing first as a gripman on the Clay street line, and w 1t road was abandoned he found h hardly strong enough to work longer as a gripman, and took a po- sition on the Sacramento street line as a conductor. He thought the work and re- sponsibilities of a carman to-day were | double what they were years ago, when only cit horse cars were operated in this Street car employment, he sald, was to a very fine point, as the cars n | were improved and plans were laid down by the company to nearer perfect the sy tem from a money-making point of view. Continuing Cornelius sald: essful street car man you must qualitiel that would make you n any r bueiness. The United ul and probes deep Into history of every applicant who seeks em- ployment on the You must have good health, a good eye and cool nerve, A man who works nine hours on a car to-day 'uses as much energy as a man who drove a horse car fifteen hours vears ago. You have to be ready for emergencies: you have to watch pe- destrians crossing the street and teams at side and look for other cars, ail at the time Now_ a cond or has all sorts of things to contend with. Perhaps he has a drunken man on the car who says he won't pay his fare The co or has to get this man's fare with. out insulting him. Whe 1 we to work as a conductor the erintendent sald to me, ‘It you want to work as a conductor you must keep your temper in vour pocket.”” There is o tside of San Francisco, half its size, that does not equip its cars with up to date brakes. At Pittsburg, boys of 19 and 20 years of age run the cars, because all the c there have the latest Westinghouse automatic brakes. Here it takes a fairly powerful man, with the ald of a conductor, to check the cars on some of the grades. A motorman must ave some knowledge of electricity, and if his ar breaks down he is supposed to know what is the matter with it CORNELIUS A MINER. Cross-examined by ‘Atiorney Moore, Cornelius sald he was a native of Corn- wall, England, and that before he came to this country he worked in tin and oc- coal mines. He had been un- able to accumulate any money and said that all he possessed was some building and loan shares. In explaining why there were =0 many applicants for positions as street car employes, he said he thought most of the new men were like he used to be—they considered that wearing a blue uniform and brass buttons was the acme of happiness. The glamor soon | wore off, however, he said, and not more than one-third of the men Yhroken in re- mained in the street car service. When Moore attempted to get Cornelius to ad- mit that the climatic conditions here | were better for carmen than were the severe winters in the East, Liverrash interrupted with the remark, *“We will admit the climate is fine out here, as we do not want to discourage Mr. Straus from coming.”” Cornelius closed his tes- timony by saying that the carmen in Oakland had better climatic conditions than the carmen on this side of the bay. Michael John Sullivan, delegate to the council of electrical workers, as a line- man, was next called. He sald that in his union journeymen received $3 50 and apprentices $2 5 Eight hours was a day’'s work and the men got time and a half up to midnight for overtime and double time Sundays and after midnight. All power and electrical companies were now paying this schedule with the excep- tion of the telephone company, which the union was flghting. Wiillam J. C. Goldkuhl, a conductor on the Howard street line and an officer of the carmen’s union, testified that his rent had been raised and that the price of food in his household had considerably increased. ‘W. W. Copeland, business agent of the Printing Trades Council and Typograph- ical Union, testified that the minimum wages for men employed on daily papers was $5 a night and $4 50 for day work. In the job offices a new schedule would go into effect on July 1, which would gradually raise the wagcs of the men about 30 per cent. The wages of the men on the papers had been raised about 20 per cent. Six months ago all the men had been ralsed 60 cents, as they had found that thelr living expenses had gone up considerably. BEER AS A SOLACE. George Hook secretary of the Brewers’ and Malters’ Union, was next called. He said the members of his union were given $3 55 a day and 50 cents an hour overtime. He also volunteered the statement that all the rest the men were allowed during the day was thirty-five minutes and that they were allowed five pints of beer in that | 1 | { | [ | | ! | | | | | CAPTAIN JAMES McCORMICK, | FIRST LIEUTENANT WIL- | LIAM SENNESSY, SECOND LIEUTENANT C. BARRAIO, i | 1 ol | OMPANY D, First Regiment, | League of the Cross Cadets, has | just made its final arrangements | to give an amateur entertainment which is expected to be of un- usual excellence. In fact, it is the inten- | tion of Company D to use every endeavor | to eclipse any former record it has made ! as host and entertainer. The evening of | Thursday, July 2, has been set apart for | the entertainment, which will be given | in the Native Sons' Hall. “Among the features to be be a regimental individual competitive | darill, the winner to be presented with a | gold medal. Fourteen companies will be | represented in the contest | The officers of Company D are: James | McCormick, captain; Willlam Sennessy first lieutenant, and Charles Barralo, sec- ond lieutenant. Besldes the military ‘evolutions, there are to be numerous numbers, both vocal | and instrumental, by well known enter- tainers. Among these performers will be Miss Etta Welch, soprano from the Tivoli | Opera-house, who fas promised to ren- der several songs, and Thomas Curle: who is to be heard In illustrative songs. | James Conlan will be enjoyed in his buck | and wing dances and the Manhattan Quartet is to indulge their whimsicali- ties, as well as thbir more serious vocal selections. ““The League of the Cross Cadets March and Two-step,” composed by Charles Kremer, will be played by the orchesira, which will be under the direction of Pro- fessor John Fitzgerald. The entertainment will begin punctually at 8 o'clock and dancing will follow at 10. L e e e e e time. They could, if they wished, drink beer at the rate of one pint every seven minutes during their sfesta. W. R. Heggerty, a machinist, stated that in his union machine hands earned $3 as a minimum and some 2s much as $4. The average, however, was $3 50, F. B. Willlamson, chairman of the ex- ecutive committee of the Carpenters’ and Theatrical Mechanlcs’ Association, said he was emvloyed at the Central Theater. The head mechanics at theaters received $30 a week, he said, and assistants $2, property men $25 a week and extra car- penters $4 50 a day. Should they work at night, these extra mechanics earned $1 50 a performance. John McLaughlin, business agent of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, said the fol- lowing minimum wages were now being recelved by the members of his unio Drivers of four-horse teams, $3 50 a day: two-horse teams, $3 and $2 50; one-horse teams_ $2. PacMuge wagon boys earned $10 a week, he sald. Overtime was 50 cents an hour. The wages were increased to their present standard last Oectober. George Estes, president of the Brother- hood of Railway Employes, and James P. Brown, who is employed to examine applicants for positions on the United Rallroads, also testified. The case will be resumed this morning at 10 o’clock. —————— Do You Want a Trunk At a moderate price—one that looks good —or a dress sult case, valise or traveling get? We have them all in best materials and at lowest prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . —_——— Princess Loulse of Saxony has again been prayed for in:the. royal chapel at Dresden as “that unhappy woman.” offered will ; i | enforcing | tion, | vistony | adjusted that | countles of the State. { tion of the perishable part of the plant during | prod SPRING VALLEY BETS DECISION Judge Morrow Declares Water Ordinance Invalid. Finds Value of the Property to Be Twenty-Six Millions. S ey The Spring Valley Water Works scored a decisive victory over the city authori- ties yesterday in the United States Circuit Court. Judge Morrow handed down a de- cision embracing about 18,000 words, in which he restrains the authorities from the water rate ordinances adopted on March 9 and May 23 of the present year. He finds that the value of the corporation’s property is $26,752,500, In- stead of $40,000,000, as claimed by the water company, and that on the lower valua-| tion mentioned the rates fixed by the or- dinances would allow the company a net profit of only four and forty one-hun-| dredths per cent, instead of five per cent.i which the court finds to be a reasonable allowance. In the decision hydrant rates | and the rates for other than private con- | sumers are not considered. ‘While the restraining order is only tem- porary, and pending the trial of the suit, the opinfon of Judge Morrow enters so | exhaustively Into the subject that it is improbable that the result of the trial | will show any change whatever in the opinion of the court that the ordinances | are confiscatory and unreasonable. | After reviewing the history of the case and the evidence, the decision goes on to | say: The principles of just compensation estab- | lished by the courts in the several cases that they have had under consideration are of great assistance in solving many of the difficult | questions invoived [n the character of litiga- | but the application of these principles to the facts of a particular case is, after all, the simple rule of determining’ what, under ali the clrcumstances, is reasonable and just as between the rate payers and the corporation en- gaged In performing the public service. With these decisions and this rule before the court, | we proceed to inquire whether, upon the evi- | dence submitted in support of the motion for a temporary injunction, it appears probable that the complainant will be successful upon the final hearing in showing that the ordi- nance under consideration will have the ef- | fect of depriving complainant of just compen- | sation for the public service in which It is en- | gaged. VALUE OF THE STOCK. | After reviewing the evidence as to the | value of the works, the decision goes on | to say: | During April of the present year t stock of the corporation sold as low as $S3 per share and as high as $85 the average selling price being about $84 per share. If the whole capital stock of the corporation were valued at the rate of $84 per share the entire capital stock would be worth only $11,760,000, and it is contended by the defendants that under this method of ascertaining the value of complain- ant's property, no greater sum than the pres- ent market value of the stock should be con- | sidered. It is contended, on the other hand, that this reduced valuation would be unfair and unjust. It is probabiy true that only a small part of the capital stock could be bought at this price. It is also true that the stock market is not always a safe guide to val- lues. ® * The fact remains that in the year 1809 the stock of this corporation soid as high as $103 per share, and there is nothing in the record tending to show any depreclation in | the value of the property since that time; on the contrary, the phenomenal growth of the | city during the past three years and the in- crease In the consumption of water should rather have tended to at least maintain the par value of the stock. * * We. will as- sume for the present purpose that the value of th the stock is $84 per share. at which rate entire capital stock would be worth $11,760.0 The. present value of complainant's capital | stock and the indebtedness may then be sum- | marized as follows: Capital stock, present Bonded indebtedness . Floating indebtedness value. . Total ... ..$26 0 For present purposes this appears to be a fair valuation of complainant’s property. * ** | RATE OF PROFIT. The weight of evidence is clearly in favor of a rate of not less than 6 per cent per annum This evidence is further supported by the pro- of the act of the Legislature approved March 3, 1885, providing for the control, sale, | rental and distribution of appropriated wa State, in the several counties of the This act provides that the rates fixed b Board of upervisors for the various counties shall be so | the net annual receipts and) profits * * * shall be not less than 6 nor | more than 1S per cent per annum, presumably because the Legislature considered that invest- ments of capital by private individuals in a public work and service that the State might otherwise undertake, would be reasonably en- titled to receive at least 6 per cent income on the Investment and that 18 per cent would be unreasonably large. This act does not, in terms, apply to the city and county of San Francisco, but there seems to be no good rea son why private capital invested In a public | use for the benefit of the people of the city | and county of San Francisco is not entitled to | the same presumption as to what would be | reasonable compensation for its use as capital | invested for the benefit of the people in other In view, therefore, of all the circumstances, the court s of the opinion that the complain- | ant is entitled to recefve at least b per cent as | the net compensation on the value of its property. With these estimates determined, | the following result is reached: | The value of complainant’s property is at least $26,752,300. The rate of income to profit should not be less than 5 per cemt or $1,3 as.the net compensation for the vear. It ap- | pears from the evidence that the operating ex- | Penses of the corporation for the year whl be $506,000 and taxes $286,300. making the total expenses §792,3%). Adding this sum to the net, compensation of §1,337,625 the gross income for | the year should be $2,130,015. | The comnlaint asks that an allowance be made of $106,000 for the element of deteriora- the year. GROSS INCOME PRODUCED. The question now occurs, Will the ordinance ce a gross income of $2,130,0157 It ap- pears that the estimated receipts of the com- plalnant for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, under the present ordinance, will be §1.- 998,406; that for the vear ending Jjune 30. 1904 there will probably be an increase in the de- livery of water to private consumers. * * * In the absence of more definite proof the doubt as to, the actual fact will be resolved against the complainant and the increase estimated at $102,000. The total receipts of the complainant i sources for the vear ending June 30, will, therefore, not exceed $2,100,906. From this sum is to be deducted the reduc- tion upon present rates for private consumers as provided in the ordfinance under considera- tion, namely, a reduction of approximately 7 per ‘cent. it is estimated that this redu will amount to the aggregate sum of $130.361. The gross income of the complainant under the ordinance would then be $1,970, or $150,47 less than the income it _is entitled to receive as just compensation. The effect of this re- duction upon the rate of income that com- plainant would receive would be the relation which the amount of the net income, namely, $1,178,150, bears to_the value of complainant's property, namely, $21 500, which would be 4.41 per cent, or .00 per cent less than just compensation for the public use of complain- ant’s_property. * + ¢ From the brief of the City and County Attorney it appears that the average water rate required to be paid for a six-room house in thirty of the large cities of the Union is $17 25 per annum. The present rate in San Franclsco for the same house s $17 40 per an- num, or a very little above the average. In this discussion I have not considered the controversy concerning hydrant rates for wa- ter supplied to the city, alleged by thé com- plainant to be unreasonably low. nor have I considered the water rates for public buildings paid for by the city. The questions discussed have had. relation only to the rights of pri- vate consumers, and in this connection the court, at the close of the oral argument, sug- gested a query as to the effect of an injunction upon private consumers directed to the defend- ants, the Board of Supervisors or the muniei- pal corporation or perhaps both representing fhe water rate payers in this controversy and are bound by the proceedings. The court Is of the opinion that the ordi- pance wiil not furnish the complainant a just or fair compensation for the service to be ren- dered_ or a reasonable and just return for the use of its property; that the ardinance will be confiscatory in effect and deprive complainant of its property without just compensation and fhat it s probable upon the final heariug it will be so determined. A preliminary Injunction will therefore issue, restraining the defendants, pendente lite, from enforeing elther the ordinance of March 9, 1903, or the ordinance of May 23, 1003, and the complainant will give bond in the sum of $135.000 to answer all damages which the de- fendants or any person injured by reason of this injunction may sustain, if upon the entry of a final decree upon the merits it shall be- determined to have been im| issued. | of catarrh of | reported. | rise | WESTER | Willits & most desirable location for ADVERTISEMENT One of the Many Thousand Homes Where Pe-ru-na is the Family Medicine. [Many Weomen 'Have Catarrh and Do Not Know It -ooe +oosoe ADOCTORAS LONG AS WE HAVE PERUNA Pe-ru-na Cures Catarrh Wherever Located. :Wmmmo- + E Mrs. F. Desaulmiers, 341 Dor- chester street, Montreal, Canada, writes: “Peruna_is of unfold blessiny to women. FPeruna builds up the en- tire sys’em and makes you well. | have the greatest faith in it, for I have never yet found it to fail either my family or myself in time of sick- ness. [ have known it to cure cases : of chrenic catarrh and stomach ¢ troubles of long standing. We dnt not reed a doctor as long as we have | Peruna.—Mrs. F. Desaulmiers. + LSRR RS For the most acute cases of dyspepsia and the most chronic and stubborn cases the stomach Peruna is an | i | unfailing cure. Mr. E. E. Gaston, a recent letter to Dr. Hartman “My wife has been sick with trouble for almost three y = “During that time we doctored with three of the best doctors in this part of of Milton, Tow sa; stomach in the country, but they did her no good She fell off in flesh from 134 pounds to 80 pounds, and was unzble to do any thing: in fact, was confined to her bed | a good part of the time. Everything she ate she would throw up, even water. The last doctor we had and sald she had cancer of the stomach, & examined her | R — N D sevsesscreeves | | | | | and said he could do her no good except to give her something to relieve the pain, and that he would not advise us to have an operation performed. This coming from one whom I.have always had great confidence in, you cannot imagine my feelings and thoughts “It was then we dectded toring and try Peruna, and from the beginning helped her. She is now able to do all the housework. She is gaining in flesh, and I think will soon be back to her former weighi “To make a long story short, we owe her life to Peruna, for I am satisfled had we not tried it she would now be in the grave. If you do not derive prompt and satis- | factory results from the use of Peruna write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will | be pleased to give you nis valuable al- | vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The ‘'olumbus, O. to quit doe- it | Hartman Sanitarfum TORRENT RAGES AROUND LEVEES Colorado River Reaches a Danger Point Near Yuma. YUMA, Ariz, June 29.—The Colorado River has risen to the danger point, the gauge of the hydrographic office here showing 27.10 inches as its height within the past three days. Above Yuma but little damage has been East of the town the levee is vet zood for an even greater rise, al- though the backwater of the Colorado in the channel of the Gila River has attained a width of several miles. Below the city, in the Colorado Valley, considerable dam- age has been done in and around Somer- ton, several weak points in the levee hav- ing given way. The Government hydrographer reports that measurements of the volume for three days past show that 4,000 cubic feet is passing to the sea each second. This is considerably later in the season than usual and indicates an unusual depth of snowfall in and around the headwaters in Colorado and Wyoming. _——————— Special Rate to Willits for the Fourth of July Holidays. An excellent opportunity to visit Willits auring the Fourth of July holidays is of- fered by the CALIFORNIA NORTH- RAILWAY. On the 2d_3d, 4th and 5th of July tickets 7 | will be on sale, with return limit Monday, July 6, «t only $6.00 for the round trip. Hotel Willits, the largest and finest hotel in Northern California, built by the | citizens of Willits and opened last April, offers splendid accommodations and ex- cellent meals. Terms, $2 00 to $330 per day: $10 00 to $18 00 per week. . The mountain surroundings, redwood forests and picturesque canyons make a summer outing. . — e e————— W YORK. June 2).—The executors an trustees of the estate of former Judge Hen: Hiltor report that it amounts, all told, to $6,249,500. Tis value was computed originally at’ $20,000,000. maximum | FIRE DESTROYS HOTEL IN NOME Thousands of Dollars Lost in a Great Blaze. SEATTLE, June 20.—The steamer Sen ator arrived in port this morning from Nome, the third vessel out from Bering Sea, The Senator brought $i0,000 in gold from the Nome country and several pas sengers. She arrived at her northern de tination June 16, after battling with the ice for more than two weeks, and the ice was so thick in Bering Sea on the way | southward that the vessel was delayed tully a day by the flc The Lawrence Hotel at Nome, the largest hotels In the town, was de- | stroyed by fire just previous to the de- parture of the Senator, entailing a loss of fully $25,000. The day previous to the hotel blaze fire was discovered in the big store of the North Ameriofn Transporta- tion and Trading Company, but was ex- tinguished before much damage had been done. Several other Nome vessels are ‘expect ed to arrive in port within the next da: or two. The Portland, the first of the larger vessels to sail at the beginning of the season, had reached Nome and was discharging at the time of the Senator's departure. The Senator sailed from Nome June 19 one of e S — v The elephant has a trunk. Have you? 1f-not, buy one from Leibold Harness Co. 211 Larkin st. Ten per cent off for next twi weeks. All goods marked in plain figures.® C ——————————— Vanderbilt Wins the Prix du Conecil. PARIS, June 20—W. K. Vanderbilt's Bright, with Nash Turner up, to-day won the Prix du Conefl Municipal—3$2400. ———— A curious medical fact was elicited late- ly at an'inquest on a man who died from injurfes rec in falling out of bed n Hoxton House Lunatic Asylum, London. The bones of a lunatic, stated a doetor, are far more brittle than those of a per- son of strong miné: Bood Every-Day When we say that these $1 30 hats are good for every-day wear we mean that any man usually wearing a $2 50 article will be satis- fied. The hat and in quali Each hat equal $2 50 goods Hat for $1.30 in assortment of shapes and colors, of material and workmanship. made by union labor and bears the label. We pur- chased direct from the factory, \vhich; together with our plan of small profits, reduced the price to £1.30. Furthermore, any man not it can have another at mo cost or his money back. word. pleased with the hat after wearing We mean every Soft and stiff shapes in all the popular colors. Engineers’ union-made silk q Out-of-town orders filled—write uilted caps, 45e. forourne il/filfnhd catalogue, S NW 00D § (0 740 Mar ket Street