The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 29, 1903, Page 6

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GEORGE KROG' ger Foreign Adver- « &, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.°") WASHINGTGN CORRESPONDENT: MORTON E. CRANE. NEW YORK RE STEPHEN B. SMITH 0 Tribune Dullding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT €. C. CARLTON...... ...Herald Square BRANCH OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 Nister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2361 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1086 Va- iencla, open w 108 Eleventh, open until 9 9 o'clock T LEASING THE RANGE HE CALL pioneered the issue of leasing the stock rangc on the public domain. stion of the It was and ufmost importance to the beef and mutton, and affects the very the range industry of the West. We predicted he price of meat, caused by he range through fe of progressive rise i its occupancy ad tirpation of the pas n consequent overstocking and ex- All oi these things have of the people are seri- price of meat. The range ress and the desert is spreading the rate of Western Congressmen come to pass. The ec ously affected by the high ows are destroyed at of acres a year. ze the problem and enter upon kmen while disagreement as to its real re been slow to the themselves, isery, were sevels y informed in it by ¢ West and his experience as a Congress to examine and re- The last Congress adjourned with- otected destruction in was pr rom by unlawiul fences. The Gowvinment-has ordered these torn down 2 e work is now in progress. While the | fences were egal, they protect meadow that | now « e to the desert. that is just ending has been 1 give pla violent conflicts bstween In these con- itted and sev- f property has e prob- lem see E the West t ve aroused public men of every Western meeting in Salt Lake City two years ago they resolved aigainst it. Now a change is noted in that typically grazing B Time was that Governor opposed leasing, and at th State, Wyoming, whose Governor, Mr. Chatterton, 1 requ r his views, says: “The arbi- gal authority ther drawing by parties in interest is a constant source of trouble and injustice and a continual men- ace to tk munities where it prevails. cal solution of the question that I am isty myself is just, equitable and for the best interests and for f the greatest number in the present asing of the ranges on the publi , through a board of competent . should have control of the leas- ing. The board should be selected nmot because of party afiili for this is a business proposition, but because of their integrity, business qualifications ard knowledge of conditions and the means of ob- taining the cbiect in view. “The lands should be apportioned on some equita- ble basis according to the realty holdings of actual settlers and, after they are provided for, to actual resident stock owners. The number of head aof live- stock allowed to be grazed should be limited ac- cording to the pasturage quality of the land, so that overstocking would not prevail as now and the fu- ture thereby be provided for. The rental should be mominal, say, ene or one-hali cent per acre, so the small ranchmen may take advantage of this means of protection. This would stop the ‘dead line,’ keep out nomadic sheep, which are such a menace, not only to our resident stockmen but.to the peace and quiet of those sections now infested by them. Give sheep and cattle scparate grazing grounds; preserve peace and insure the permanency of the pasturage. It would require two or three years to get the plan perfected and rightly adjusted, and those doing it would be subjected to adverse criticism; but if the board were honest, industrious and firm, five years would bring greatly beneficial results to all inter- ests. 1 find a large majority of those to whom I have talked favor such a method. Those who oppose it are generally the owners of large flocks and herds whe have no home in Wyoming.” If Wyoming conclude that permanency of stock ranging is better than its destruction and that law, order and peace on the range are better than disor- der, homicide and destruction of property, the other stock-growing States should hasten to join her in putting the curative policy promptly in action. pp—— on, Even the Shah of Persia is threatened with relig- ious difficulties which may culminate in fanatical war. In these modern days of toleration some people pay too much for their religion. This fact seems particularly to be true in those countries where the best of religions is not good. ...1406 G Street, N. W. | ! PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS. HE Governor of Massachusetts, John L. Bates, T in his inaugural discussed the need of reform in public accounting and especially separation of the cost of public utilities from the general fund. He said that a law to establish uniform accounting would not only greatly economize municipal admin- istration, but the separation of public utility accounts would supply useful knowledge on the problem of municipal industries, such as furnishing water, gas and electricity. Mr. Harvey S. Chase, Public Accountant and Auditor of Boston, commenting on this, says: “Herein the Governor touches upon a matter of most vital importance, namely, the great question of mu- nicipal ownership of public utilities, around which there is a surging and at times almost a raging tide of public opinion. The two camps of supporters and opposers of municipal management of public in- | dustries, such as electric light works, gas works, | water, street railways and other businesses, are vio- [ lently antagonistic. Both quote figures in support | of their views and both are hopelessly confused by these same figures, for there is to-day in these indus- | tries no uniform and comparative accounting and | reporting upon which such figures can be impartially | and authoritatively based. Think of the millions of | public money which may be hereafter voted for these enterprises in our various municipalities and judge if we do not need absolute accuracy in our financial | statements and an impartial and unassailable com- parison of these conditions and results before such vast sums are expended.” These views are simply the repetition of all the conclusions of experience in every American city where municipal ownership of any public utility has a history. Making the cost independent of the plant which it provides and supports has caused a confu- sion that none can untangle and an expense which staggers belief. cities in California are pushing forward to the same chaos, unless their people firmly insist that they start right by resting the whole cost of a public plant | and every penny of the expense of its administration upon the plant itself. ‘; This separates it efficiently, in the beginning, from | the general fund, and keeps it separate, so that any | moment and all the time the people can know the | cost of the experiment they are trying. This will put an end to that hopeless confusion which is upon both the proponents and opponents of municipal ownership. It will equip the people for judgment in | voting public utility bonds. They can easily redute any such proposition to exact figures, demonstrating cost and benefit, and in no other way can they vote | intelligently upon the issue of the millions in bonds which are now contemplated. | Under such a plan the people of Oakland, for il- lustration, can immediately compare the cost of an existing and a proposed water supply. To deprive them of this opportunity is asking them to take a leap in the dark. Public authority owes it to the people to give them full opportunity to judge intelli- gently when they are asked to vote millions of their property in taxes to enter upon a novel expedient for the supply of a public necessity. e e —— An infatuation for Princess Chamay, racehorse gambling, speculation in Alabama ranch lands and plunging at Monte Carlo are held responsible for the recent death of a Count ir this city. The deceased gentleman seems to have possessed a most persistent vitality. Any of these causes, much less four, would have killed an ordinary man. IRELAND'S PROSPECTS. | ISCUSSIONS concerning the prospects of D Ireland are so encouraging since the land bill and the King’s visit that it seems quite likziy we are to have what will be virtually a new Irelandi—one as notable for prosperity and good 1or as the old has been for adversity and discon- te It is not the land bill alone that is to do the work redemption, for it seems that now that good fortune has turned toward them the Irish are going to have it in about every way that it can come to a people. In the first place there has been so much satisfac- tion among the English over the reception given by the Irish to King Edward that many of the more influential papers of London are urging the King to establish a residence in Ireland and visit the country at least once a year, as he does Scotland. | It is argued that a royal residence in Ireland would |be an inducement to men of wealth to establish country homes there, and the result would be benefi- cial in many ways, as the social ‘gayety surrounding the court would break the monotony of Irish life, lessen the discontent of the people and lead to the | expenditure in Ireland of a great deal of money that would stimulate nearly all lines of local trade. | Another movement of note is that of the proposed establishment of a strong naval port and base of supplies on the south coast of Ireland. A military zuthority says: “A glance at the map will show that | the western capes of Ireland, thrust out, as it were, | into the Atlantic, lie in a strategic position of great importance in the event of a war with a first-class European power. Were Great Britain at war with ia foe having a formidable navy it would be to some point along the Irish coast that vessels laden with | grain from Canada or the United States would make, | whether under convoy or otherwise, before proceed- | ing to their destination on the south and east coasts | of England.” The establishment and maintenance | of such a port will be a direct benefit to the locality selected and indirectly of advantage to the island as a whole. The most important prediction of a new Ireland comes, however, from a representative not of courts nor of armies, but of commerce. Mr. C. C. Shayne, | president of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ ;Board of Trade of New York, in a recent interview }has declared a conviction that Ireland is to be the future great commercial distributing ground of the | international trade between America and Europe. As the military authorities see in Ireland a strategic | point of advantage in war, so he sees in it a strategic | point of advantage in commerce, and predicts that in a comparatively short time there will be built up on the coast of Ireland a commercial port of first- class importance. In explaining the reasons for his prediction Mr. | Shayne said: “We are nearing the era of steamships | with a tonnage of 40,000. The new vessels of the | Cunard line—to be the largest on the ocean—will have a length of 765 feet, with a tonnage of 33,000, and 1 predict that the ships which the German and the White Star lines may be expected to build to sur- pass them will reach the tonmage I have named. For such vessels to go to Liverpool will be impossible, both on account of their great draught and because of the many orecautions that their vast size would of Moved by the forces of society, our | 'm:kc necessary during fogs and general bad~weather, and for this reason we soon shall see some point in Ireland the great entry port and shipping port for freight to and from the United States.” In addition to the advantage which the Irish port will have over any port in England or the Continent as a distributing point for cargoes carried by the monster steamships of the future, there will be the further advantage of increased speed of transporta- tion. Mr. Shayne says: “I believe it will be possible for a shipper in Scotland to send goods to Ireland and from thence deliver them in Omaha in less time than is required at present to send them from Liver- pool to New York.” It is, of course, quite probable that these promises of courts, naval stations and cpmmerce are the ex- aggerations of oversanguine men, but the very fact that there is “boom talk” in Ireland is sufficiently strange to be notable. We have heard so much in the past about Ireland’s distressful condition that a prediction of a twentieth century Ireland occupying the commercial center of the globe is in itself a change that marks a new era in the prospects of the country. — ; To those who wish well for California nothing can be more encouraging than the fact, recently an- nounced, that the registration of students at Stanford and at Berkeley is extremely large this year. Good education makes it impossible for men and women |50 to conduct themselves as to refiect bad citizen- ship. O to the New England States early in the sum- | mer by forest fires something more than or- | dinary attention is being given in the East this year ' to the problem of preventing the spread if not the outbreak of such fires and thus conserving the for- ests. Serious damages resulting from fires in the woods have been occurring in the East every year since ever white man settled there, and yet, accord- ing to the National Bureau of Forestry, only three States in the Union—New York, Pennsylvania and Minnesota—have made even so much as a system- atic attempt to prevent them. The West of course suffers from this cause more in proportion than the East, because the West has now larger forests and the fires are more extensive. Es- timates of the losses by woodland fires last year are to the effect that in Oregon and Washington alone damage to the amount of $20,000,000 was done within two weeks by the big fires which will be readily re- | called. Those fires were exceptionally disastrous, but it is estimated that taking the country as a whole the loss has averaged upward of $30,000,000 annuaily for the past twenty years. | Since there are three States in the Union that have made “systematic attempts” at the prevention of forest fires there are ample precedents for a fourth | State to follow, and the State that first hastens to take up the work ought to be California. We have thus far escaped with comparatively little loss by fires in the woods and fields this year, but the dry season is not yet over. Even as it is the loss, if it could be fully computed, would be found to be far in excess of what a scientific system of forestry would entail in the way of expenditure. The Bureau of Forestry has undertaken to promote forest preservation in all the States and Territories, and is now making careful studies on the subject. A recent review of its work says: “The three States | having fire protection systems are said to have effi- cient ones, and the Government experts will .study their workings carefully; but what would do in one section would not do in another, and each district will be studied as to its peculiar needs. Then when the Government has formulated its system it can apply it to the Federal domain and suggest to the dif- ferent States the passage of suitable laws. Further it cannot go, but in view of the immense annual loss now incurred it would seem as if no State would re- fuse to act upon the suggestions of the Government. FOREST FIRE SERVICE. WING to the great amount of loss caused Sir Thomas Lipton is a hero. There is much to admire in a2 man who knowingly attempts the impos- sible and ends his effort only with a gracious ac- knowledgment of defeat. It would be unfair to ask him to try again, for there would be no glory in an- in another defeat for him. SEEP—— AMERICAN SILK. ECENTLY an Italian expert declared that R the efforts of the Department of Agriculture to establish a silk industry in the South would be futile because, as he said, the hands of the | negroes are too heavy ever to acquire the lightness | and deftness required to reel silk from the cocoons. Incidentally he intimated that the objection would be found to run against white as well as colored | women, and that in no part of the United States | would it be found possible to maintain a silk-pro- | ducing industry in opposition to that of Italy, of China and of Japan. The opinion of any expert concerning his trade is | always interesting and instructive, but in this case it appears the expert was not wise in his generation. Aimost at the time when the Italian silk grower was azserting the futility of our efforts at the production of silk, Secretary Wilson was exhibiting in Washing- ton a hank oi silk reeled by machinery and announc- ing that he proposes to teach the people of the South how to use the machine instead of relying on hand labor as formerly. A report from Washington giving an account of the exhibit and of Secretary Wilson's plans regard- ing the industry says: “There are three of these ma- chines, though only one of them has been put in operation, the intention being to send one of the two remaining machines to Tuskegee and the other to some place where sufficient interest may be shown to learn how to operate it. Cocoons have been pur- chased from all over the country and two expert fe- male French operatives have been brought to Wash- ington to teach the operation of the machines. It is Secretary Wilson's desire to have the people of the South, and especially negroes, learn the business, be- cause of the comparative cheapness of that labor. Arrangements have been made to have some girls come to Washington to learn the machines.” It appears from this report that we need not trou- ble ourselves to question whether or no the Ameri- can woman—white or black—has a neat enough hand and fingers nimble enough for reeling silk from co- coons. The work can be done by machinery. That, of course, means success for us, for when it comes to handling machines we beat the world. e s s s s An 18-year-old youth of Santa Cruz blew out his brains the other day exclaiming, “Tell her I died for her.” Some unknown young lady has received a stroke of exceotional good fortune. other victory for us and nothing above the expected | SAN FRANCISCO TEACHERS WANT INCREASED PAY “Resolved, That it be the sense of the teachers here assembled that we favor the proposition to contribute $1 a month extra for thirty months to the perma- nent fund for the teachers’ annuity fund, provided that ) per cent of the con- tributors thereto shall signify their will- ingness so to do by signing an agreement to that effect.” The foregoing resolution was adopted at a special meeting of the teachers of the San Francisco School Department, held in the auditorium of the Girls' High Sehool yesterday afternoon. It was in- troduced by Selden Sturges and was dis- | cussed very widely before it was adopted. | It was at the suggestion of Horace Mann | that the meeting was held. The annuity fund, which is contributed to by the teachers of this city, is diminishing and | the annuitants are increasing. To pre- vent the fund from becoming extinct, it was suggested that egch teacher who is contributing to the fund pay an addi- tional 31 for the next fwo years. | Many of the teachers went to the meet- ing opposed to such a course, but after | the lengthy discussion decided that it was | the only wa#® to prevent the pension plan | from disappearing. CONDITION OF FUND. President Woodward of the Board of Tducation was chairman of the meeting. At the outset of the meeting he deplored the fact that the attendance was not as | large as it should be. He sald the sub- | ject was an important one and since the | teachers are contributing their money | they should be present to take part in | the proceedings. He read a statement | prepared by Assistant Secretary Berliner, | which showed the condition of the annulity | fund, The statement showed that 82 day | school teachers contributed $1 a month to |the fund and that elghty-seven night school teachers contributed 50 cents each month. The total contributions for July | inmnunted to $896 50. In one year these | contributions would aggregate $10,746. He | read that the total amount in the fund on { July 1 was $25,210. Of this sum $20,492 was -bearing interest and $4718 was in the | hands of the City and County Treasurer and not drawing interest. He showed there were thirty-nine an-| nuitants. Of this number twenty-eight were drawing the maximum amount and eleven were drawing for services ren- dered. The total amount paid out each month to annuitants was $1106 and this would amount to $13,260 a year. He showed there were at present 104 day | school teachers and thirty evening school | teachers who were not contributors to the | fund. President Woodward thought it | would be a good plan to bring them Into | the fold. He sald he understood the | teachers who were not contributors had | ninety days in which to get in. “The proposition is to have each of you | contribute $30 and thus put the fund in | good shape,” said the president. *I would | like to have the Supervisors give you §2 a | month extra salary and this amount be | devoted to the annuity fund.” This state- | | ment was applauded. | Horace Mann was introduced and ex- | plained the condition of the teachers' an- | nuity fund and told of the efforts made | | by the Commissioners to carry out its!| provisions. He outlined its history and | | his explanations were lucid. At the con- | clusion of his address he made a motion ' that it he the sense of the meeting that a form of application be circulated among | the teachers, asking them to agree to pay | $30 into the permanent fund accumulated | for the teachers’ annuity fund. MRS. PRAG PROTESTS ‘When the motion was before the meet- | ing Mrs. Prag arose and read a long| statement in which she protested against | the ‘payment of the sum. She sald many | teachers could not pay the money, others would not give it and she believed no one should do so. She then told of the condl- | tions existing in other citles. She proved | by statistics that teachers were better ! paid In the Eastern cities and that the| annuity funds in New York, Philadelphia | and other Eastern cities were assisted by | | the boards of education and by special | legislative enactments. | She then introduced a substitute for the | motion. It was in part as follows: Be it resolved, That the Board of Educa- tion of this city and county be respectfully | requested to act upon the following resolution: That in order to co! | beneflctal and to provide a fund for the pen- | sioning of teachers the salary of each teacher now in the employ of the San Francisco School | Department be increased by the sum of $2, the | said $2 to be retained from each teacher and paid into the Teachers' Annuity Fund. Professor McCarthy was of the opinion that the proper thing to do was to appeal to the Board of Supervisors and not to | the Board of Education. ‘“We must have | | more money,” he said, “or the annul-| tants must get less salary. We have thirty-nine on the list, and they will draw | very nearly $1170 a month. Either the| Board of Supervisors must help us more or the teacehrs must increase their con- tributions. I think if the teachers vote to pay the $30 they should make it condi- tional. It is the duty of all teachers to bind themselves to such an agreement. It would not be fair for fifty teachers to pay it and fifty not to pay it."” FAVORS RESOLUTION. Principal Brooks of the Girls' High School spoke in favor of the resolution in- troduced by Mrs. Prag. President Wood- ward took occasion to say that the teach- ers could do more toward securing the raise in the salary by appealing to the Supervisors than the Board of Ed- ucation could accomplish. He said the members of the board had added $80,000 to the amount asked for the School De- partment and this was not even consid- ered by the Supervisors when making up the budget. He said the School Depart- ment had $140.000 less this year than last to carry out its important work. School Director Mark also spoke. He sald he would do all In his power to help the teachers mncrease the fund. He suggested that the teachers organize and appeal to the Supervisors who were up for election next month. Mrs. Prag was prevailed upon to with- draw her resolution and the one present- ed by Mr. Sturges was adopted without much opposition. —_———— Status of Point Lobos Avenue. City Attorney Lane advised the Board of Public Works yesterday that it has control over Point Lobos avenue for all street improvement purposes and there- fore it can compel the bullding of side- walks along the thoroughfare. While the avenue was under the exclusive control of the Park Commission before the char- ter went into effect it is now under the supervision of the Board of Works since the adoption of the charter. e Abbott’s Estate Appraised. The estate of the late Charles L. Ab- bott was appraised yesterday at 351,666 9. It consists, according td the appraisers' report, of §18,251 99 cash, stocks and bonds worth $2415 and realty in this city esti- mated to be worth $31,000. e —— & THE CALL'S GREAT ATLAS OFFER Will close on September 24, 1903, and all holders of Atlas Coupons are requested (o pre- gent them immediately, as this great opportunity to secure one of these splendid Atlases at The Call’s premium rates will be ‘brought to a close on Septem- ber 24. S | inue in force and make | DEATH SUMMONS NOTED DESIGNER OF LANDSCAPES — L FREDERICK L. OLMSTED, NOTED LANDSCAPE ARCHI- i | OSTON, Aug. 28.—Frederick L. | Olmsted, the noted landscape | TECT, WHO I8 DEAD. architect, dled to-day at Waver- ly, Mass., aged 81 years. Death was due to weakness resulting from {ll-health and advanced age. A wife, two sons and a daughter survive. Frederick Law Olmsted was born at Hartford, Conn, April 26, 1822. He was a student at Yale in 1843 and in later years | received the degree of A. M. from Am- | herst and of LL.D. from Harvard and Yalé. In 1857 he became landscape archi- tect and superintendent of Central Park, New York. From 181 to 1363 he was sec- retary of the United States Sanitary Commission. Subsequently he laid out public parks in many large cities, the grounds and terrace of the Capitol at Washington, the Stanford University grounds and was the landscape architect | of the World's Fair at Chicago. He was | the author of “Walks and Talks of an| American Farmer,"” “Our Seaboard Slave‘ | | Staty “A Journey Through Texa and “A Jourpey to the Back Country. b Sl T A | The New Overland Limited Via Chi- | cago and Northwestern Railway. Each train in the Overland Limited daily service between San Francisco and Chicago Is | provided with a eeparate and complete elec- | trical plant. Each berth, compartment and | drawing-room has its own reading lamp. Each | table fn the dining-car is adorned by a dainty lamp that sheds a soft glow of light. The | Baoklovers' Library of Philadelphia provides the latest books, which, with the current maga- zines, help to pass the evening hours delight fully on a train where one can read at ease | with a steady, brilliant light. | Electric fans are used to ccol the air. Elec- | tric heaters are provided for the ladles' curling | trons. Electric buttons bring quick service and | a telephone in the observation parlor comnects | the passenger with the outside world while the train is at terminals. The Overland Limited leaves San Francisco | daily at 10 a. m., reaching Chicago in less | than three day | For tickets, sleeping car reservations and full | information apply to R. R. Ritchle, genertl agent Pacific Coast. Chicago and Northwestern | Ratlway, 017 Market street, San Franeisco, Cal. i mutenrlnnares SACRAMENTO, Aug. 28.—State Printer W. W, Shannon reports that the getual cost of printing per book of the new history for an Pdition of K000 will be 31 cents. This together With the 30 cents royalty for the use of the plates and text will make the book ccst 81 Cents. UNDERWRITERS | REWARD FIRE CHIEF SULLIVAN Chief Engineer Denis T. Sullivan, head of the fire department of this city. was yesterday afternoon presented with a check for $1000 by the Board of Fire Un- derwriters. The chief is soon to start for Atlantie City, N. J., there to attend the convention of fire chiefs from all parts of the country, and the money is given him to defray his expenses and also a3 a token of appreciation for the good work he has done as head of the fire depart- ment. The Board of Supervisors appropriated $1000 for the chief a few days ago, but one member objected, so Sullivan refused to accept the money. Yesterday the Board of Fire Underwriters sent a letter to Chief Sullivan inclosing the check. Chief Sullivan referred the letter to the Commissioners. immediately gave their consent to chief's accepting the money. Follow! are the letters of the underwriters a the Fire Commissioners: Board of Fire Underwriters’ Executive Com mittee of the Pacific, 303 California stree August 28, 1903, Mr. Dennis T. Sullivan, Chief San Francisco Pire Department, City Hall, Sam Francisco Dear Sir: I have the honor to inform you that by unanimous vote of the executive com- mittee I was instructed to hand you the in- closed check for 31000 to meet such expense as will be incidental to your attendance at the meeting of fire chiefs and at the same time to express to you the pleasure of the underwriters in having an opportunity to show. in , thelr appreciation rl:l your services to city. Yours respectfully, 3 ALFRED STILLMAN, Secretary Executive Committee. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28, 1903 Board of Underwriters of the Pacific, Alfred Stiliman, Secretary Executive Committee, 308 California_street—Dear Sir: The chief engi- neer of this department, D. T. Sullivan, having this day and in_open board, handed us your communication of even date, in which you in- close a check in his favor for $1000 to meet Such expense as will be incidental to his at- tendance at the meettg of fire chiefs at At- lantic City, N. J., Beptember 8. 9, 10 and 11, and it being necessary under the rules and regulations governing this department that he be formally authorized to accept such moneys, we beg to Inform you that such authorization has been this day granted with the greatest pleasure by this board. We also desire to ex- tend to you gentlemen, our utmost thanks T sonally. and as members of the Hoard of Firg Commiasioners, for your very courteous act and appreciation of our chief engineer as shown. Thanking you again and wishing you all success, we are, gentlemen, yours very sincerely, JARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS. e J. W. McCARTHY, Secretary. The Fire Commissioners the o— i —— WILL ‘CONTRACT TO FINISH EXPERTING CITY’S BOOKS Hassell Audit Company Agrees to Submit Figures on Cost of Remaining Work. The Supervisors’ Finance Committes held a conference yesterday with J. J. Hassell, president of the Hassell Audit Company, which is at present experting the accounts of the County Clerk’s office with a view to ascertaining what it would cost to finish the work of experting the books of the municipal offices. The sum of §200 was appropriated in the last budget for the purpose and the appropriation will be nearly exhausted by the erd of the month. Hassell agreed to submit a contract covering the cost of completing the experting of all the city’s accounts. The Judiclary Committee reported In favor of the passage of a number of ordi- nances revised to comply with the char- ter provisions. The ordinance for house moving was amended so as to proyide that in cases where the house to be moyed covered a surface area of 100 square feet a permit for the moving must be obtained from the Board of Works. The old ordi- nance Judge Seawell held was too com- prehensive, as it would require a permit to move a doghouse. ——————————— Crescent City’s Liability. In the matter of the petition the Crescent City Transportation Company as owner of the steamer Crescent City for limitation of lability, United States Dis- trict Judge de Haven yesterday appointed United States Commissioner George E. of | Morse appraiser to ascertain and report upon the value of the steamer and freight pending and the company's interest in the same. — e — Townsend’s California glace frults and candies, S0c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 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KHOOHOHO SRR QIR KOO HOACHCHORCHCE SBOHORORCHORONY deformed, can, with tact and delicacy, win any man she sets her heart - How _many women have smilingly accepted the compliment of the assertion in public, only to ponder the ques- new to most of the gentler sex who will read these lines. Matrimony —the right man—a comfortable, happy home. lem of a woman's life from the cradle to the grave. They are the ideals It is a problem that few men can understand, or, worst of all, ever try to understand. Man. with his lordly assumption of all the prerog- atives of life worth having. may woo and win where and when he list- eth. But to woman—passive, receptive woman—what i must wait her lover’s coming. She may not seek, as man ddes. that which And out of the lovers who choose to woo she must something akin to the god of her dreams. And in this world of sham and show. of the mad chase for wealth. the problem has become vastly more vexatious than it ever was before. Even though it has been long accepted as something akin to a joke. it happens all too often in real life that she loves the poor man. and must rhoose between him and a wealthier though less Perverse woman. say the knowing and the worldly: but only the girl who has been confronted with such a problem can realize the heartburn- ing. the sublime emotional tragedy of it all. Whichever way she chooses some great part of the ideal is chattered and—what then? Every woman who reads is seeking the answer to just such a ques- Such a one is the “Half-Hour-Storiette” in the next Sunday Call, en- titled “When Jabberwock Rode.” Curious title. isn’t it? curious story, and one that answers the nroblem as—well, see if you would answer it that way. chances to one vou would or—would you? hich goes far toward clearing the mystery spent one million a vear to make six more. “easiest thing in the world to spend a million a year, worth and yet have nothing to show for it at th. you'll find valuable information in the next Sunday Call. You'll find also “A Red Haired Cunid” bv Henry Wallace Phillins, 3 reaman who has just brought a ereat ship safely into harbor Gorgon Graham's Alnhabet” which is the funniest thine vou ever excent perhans the “Wonderful Kingdom of Wonderful Things." really is a full page of somethine new wnder the sun YOU LOVE. any woman, who is not positively in the privacy of the boudoir. be sure, but oh, how appallingly It is the one great prob- always will. And hoy many, or is given? She her, and, burying the ideal, giveall future to shaping the real into undesirable suitor. have tried to answer it for her. ? Well. it is a § read it and If vou are a woman it is ten for there is another story that solves the riddle in a different wav. It is called “Betwixt Dad and Toe." hut . the problem before the girl is not exactlv what you would infer from that ti:ile—inde‘:d no:l by a great deal. o ner of finesse she used to brine ahout a happy ending—the only ardent girl will ever accent. Still another is “Under the Car ‘:rt;: Juggernaut.” but the girl in this story did not have things as much her own way as you might think she did frem such a title. Nor can you guess what man- Or does of what a remarkable story flli;hia: as a well selected title should? You'll be able to decide that i best for yourself when you read al' the bright, question, clever. up-to-date stories Storiette” pages in the nevt Sunday Call. Then, to be sure. there is the second installment of “Brew " of how' b Ti.you think it is the fet your money's end of that !ge. Madge Moore. the San Francisco a tramp on a 'mke—hea: '::!(‘;l: saw, which But what is the use of telling you any more. You will see all this for yourself, and much more, very much more. besides i Sunday Call, that is if you care anything at all-about -w,m mbnlb- next