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

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1903. e — ALMSHOUSE ] THURSDAY...... eeseeee..SEPTEMBER 24, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. \ddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manage T TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Ots. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terme by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday) DAILY CALL (including Sun: DAILY CALL—By Single Month TS EUNDAY CALL, One Year... 250 WEEKLY CALL, One Year.......... 1.00 { Daily... $8.80 Per Year Extra POREIGN POSTAGE....... { Sunday. 4.15 Per Year Extra ikly.. 1.00 Per Year Extra All postmasters are authorized to recelve subseriptions. Sample coples will be rded when requested. 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BRANCH OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner cf Clay, open | until 9:80 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 8:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open unti] 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1086 Va- lencia, open until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NE. corner Church and Duncan streets, until o'clock. NW, corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ¥ o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 o'elock. THE GEARY-STREET ROAD. HE Examiner urges the pcopl; to vote for the T Geary-street bonds, and gives as a reason that if the road is reconstructed by the city the Board of Public Works will reconstruct it with the new improved grooved rail, such as is now being laid on Third street, and which, it also alleges, is used in Washington. This would be a very good argument if it were true, but the fact is that the plans and specifications, as prepared by the City Engineer, and upon which his estimate of $710,000 is based, do not call for this rail, except from the corner of Fifth and Point Lobos avenues out Point Lobos to Tenth avenue and out Tenth avenue to the park, where there is now no railroad and where there must consequently be an entirely new construction. But it is not true as to the present road. The rail provided by the City Engineer for this road from the corner of Kearny and Market streets out to Fifth and Point Lobos av now used by the Geary-street road. If the city were to rail and put down the above mentioned new rail the estimates would have to be increased from $70,000 to $75,000, and-the bond issue of $710,000 would there- fore fall short of the entire cost by about $75.000. The Examiner further states that in the city con- struction the streets between the tracks would be paved with the same material as is laid in the res of the street, while the present Geary-street road is not so paved. An examination of this road shows that the space between the tracks for thirty-seven blocks is paved with the same material as the rest of the street, while for nine blocks where the street is paved with bituminous rock the space between the tracks is paved with basalt blocks well laid cement. In the discussion of this question it is well to stick to the facts es is the rail in The mob has made its appearance, with all its dan- gerous and deadly consequences, in Mexico. It was not to be expected that our southern neighbors, laud- ably emulous of our good traits and deeds, might not seek, under the influence of associatipn, to imitate us in sope of those things which we strive most to con- ceal and condemn. THE DELAYED CANAL. ASHINGTON dispatches announce that Wlhe State Department deems the Panama canal treaty dead by reason of the failure of the Colombian Government to take favorable ac- tion upon it within the time agreed upon. The whole issue is therefore reopened. Under the Spooner act President Roosevelt can now take up the Nicaragua route, or he can permit the matter to rest for a time in the hope of finding some way of reaching an agreement with the Colombians. The situation is a favorable one for the display of statecraft and diplomatic skill. The people of the United States are eagerly awaiting the construction of the canal. They have watched with an increasing impatience the incessant recurrence of difficuities in the way of the enterprise. It was fondly believed when the Panama treaty was ratified by the Senate that the last obstacle had been removed and the great work would soon be under way. That hope has been disappointed. The opponents of the move- ment have found a means for baffling the national will, and once more the whole project is in danger of being subjected to a new controversy among the advocates of rival routes. Fortunately we have a President who can be re- lied on to act with promptness and a Secretary of State who has proven himself one of the ablest Ministers of Foreign Affairs now living. It is therefore reasonable to expect they will take up the issue at once and set in motion negotiations which will lead to a satisfactory treaty with either Colom- bia or Nicaragua. The great mass of the Ameri- can people are indifferent as to which of the two routes be chosen, for after all the choice is one of comparison only. Each of the two is in some re- spects superior to the other. A canal by either would most decidedly be better than none. The country expects the President to act under the authority given him, so that the issue may not once more go to Congress and be made the subject of useless and tedious debates. The people know the President has tight to act, and they expect him to act right, _ ; of that section of Wall street which has most bitterly | owns the earth. | itics, like poverty, makes strange bedfellows. | whole extent of our history, however, there has been | «+s2+30 Tribune Bullding | open | tear up this | A POLITICAL BUNKO. OHN RANDOLPH of Roanoke once shocked | J the country and brought a duel down upon his | head by declaring the appointment of Henry Ciay to the office of Secretary of State by John Quincy Adams to be “a union of the Puritan with the blackleg, a combination of Blifil and Black George.” In the days when everybody was familiar with the personages referred to the charge was looked upon as an aspersion that could be refuted only by pistols, and accordingly Clay called upon Randolph to come out and be shot at. Since that time there has been many a worse combination than that of the good New Englander with the genial Kentuckian. Wed have in fact become accustomed to queer alliances of that kind and have adopted it as a proverb that pol- In the no such alliance as that which is now reported to have been formed between the yellow journals of New York and the stock gamblers of Wall street to beat Roosevelt. The scheme as outlined is an ingenious one, and unless the public be put on guard against it is likely to prove dangerous. It consists of a plot to excite the workingmen of the country against the President to such a degree that the Wall-street combine, act- ing in collusion with the yellow journalists, can swing the labor unions against him in the coming Presidential campaign. | It is very well known that the action of the Presi- dent in bringing about an arbitration of the issues involved in the coal strike won the favor of the great mass of the American people, including labor, capi- | tal and middlemen alike. Holding the strong posi- | tion he does in his own party, his nomination is vir- | tually assured in advance of the Republican con- vention, and with a harmonious people behind him | his election would be a foregone conclusion. Two | sets of men, however, have been gravely offended by the President’s course—the yellow journalists dislike him because his action deprived them of a chance to | { precipitate a struggle of labor against capital, out of | which the yellow editors would have gained both money and notoriety, while the more reckless of the Wall-street magnates are aggrieved because he baffled their schemes for establishing a monopoly in | some of the great articles of public necessity. Out of the situation there has developed the cu- rious fact that the organs of the unscrupulous trusts and the organs of the yellow agitators are in full | cry against the President. We have then a combi- nation of the demagogues who denounce capital with the stock gamblers who denounce labor. Making faces at one another and hurling denuncia- tions against one another in public, they are working cunningly together in secret to defeat the President |and thus make way for a period of strife out of | which both the gamblers and the yellows hope to | make profit. A part of the working of the scheme has been dis- closed by the efforts to make campaign capital out of the reinstatement by the President of Foreman Miller in the Government Printing Office. The | magnates of Wall street who would not dare to at- tack the President openly have found in this case a good opportunity to make the attack while posing | as the friends of labor unions. A recent report from Washington concerning the | developments of the case in that city says: “It is as- |scncd that influences which cannot be questioned as to their purposes and which relate to Wall street | and other financial centers are endeavoring to pre- cipitate a fight by labor organizations on the Presi- dent, and that they are operating in conjunction with { prominent Democrats here. The plan is said to be 10 have Democrats make a fight on Mr. Roosevelt in | the Miller case in order to embroil organized labor against him. This is to be done by placing prejudi- { cial facts in the -Miller case before labor organiza- tions, 10 create a resentment at what they will under- take to show has been unfriendly action by the Presi- | dent toward the principles of organized labor. Those | who have become satisfied that this plan really is in progress have asked why it should be necessary to | begin such work so far ahead of the events it is hoped to influence. The reply has been that Wall- | street Republicans and other financial influences | which have sought to injure the President's pros- pects for the nomination realize that they cannot be- | gin too soon.” This is the way the game goes. Wall street is | willing to ally itself with yellow journalism for the sake of beating Roosevelt, and yellow journalism is willing to ally itself with Wall street for the same purpose. Organized labor is to be made the catspaw for the allied apes, provided always that it can be duped into consenting to play that role. It is a case of Blifil and Black George outdone. Fortunately it is too clumsy a trick to succeed. The American peo- ple are not going to be misled by any such manifest political bunko as that. Turkey, it is said by experts, can whip Bulgaria and force her to an understanding of international courtesies, but if she does the powers of Europe will not permit her to enjoy the fruits of her victory. It seems up to Bulgaria, therefore, to lose a few thousand citizens, who would not be missed, and give the world an occasional thrill of horror in ex- aggerated reports of the atrocities of war waged in the cause of Christianity. D candidate, in sweeping their dragnets over the bottom of the deep sea of bygone politics, have again brought Richard Olney to the surface, and once more his availability is being discussed with as much vigor as if it were a live issue. His reappear- ance comes to some extent opportunely, for the Gor- iman boom has faded away, the Parker movement has curled up in a sleep that seems like death, and the reorganizers feel they must have somebody in sight to look to for relief when Tom Johnson or any other Bryanite swaggers through the camp. The revival of the discussion of Olney’s chances is the more interesting by reason of certain new argu- ments advanced to prove his availability. Some of these are worth stating. A Boston authority gives three reasons why he should be nominated, summar- izing them in this way: “I® Western Democrats know that success is impossible without a candidate acceptable to the East. They would support Olney because he is one of the few prominent Eastern Dem- ocrats who did not repudiate Bryan. 2. Standing for ‘law and order, Mr. Olney would have a good chance of carrying the great doubtful States, New York, Ohio and Illinois. 3. Mr. Olney would serve the ‘high finance’ as a ‘vengeance’ candidate with whom to defeat Roosevelt. ‘Anything to beat Roose- velt,” comments the Wall-street Journal, ‘is the motto NEW PLEA FOR OLNEY. EMOCRATIC seekers after a Presidential resented execution of the law against itself. Mr. Ol- ney would suit as well as any other candidate.’” The third reason is unique in American politics. Never before has a candidate been recommended for the Presidency on the ground that he will be a “vengeance candidate,” serving to work out the re- venge of certain interests that believe they have been injured. The plea is of course unjust to Mr. Ol- ney, and it does not accord with the second reason given for his nomination—that he stands for law and order—for if he have a true regard for law and or- der he would enforce the law against corporations that violate it just as strictly as against any one else. It may be that the captains of finance would like to beat Mr. Roosevelt and that Mr. Olney would serve them as a candidate as well as any other Dem- ocrat, but if it be so they will have to keep the vengeance programme as dark as Egypt, for even the casual suggestion of it is enough to endanger whatever chances the Massachusetts leader may have of getting a nomination. The scheme of gamblers, sure-thing men and the numerous fraternity of rascals generally to incor- porate the town of Colma for vicious purposes has failed. The county authorities of San Mateo are evidently determined that we must bear the burden of our evildoers and suffer the consequences of tol- erating their operations among us. This decision is entirely a natural one. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. ARDLY any feature of the relations of i the H great powers of Europe to the anarchy that | prevails in the Balkans is more interesting than the attitude which Russia has taken as a friend oi the Turk and an opponent of the plans and as- pirations of the Christians of Macedonia and Bul- garia. For many a year the Russians posed before the world as champions of oppressed Christianity. Ardent and zealous souls in this country have prayed earnestly for Russia's success in every battle be- tween that power and the Turk. Sanguine hearts have cherished a hope that within a few years Rus- sia would drive the Turk out of Europe altogether and give peace and freedom to the suffering inno- cents of Macedonia. To those earnest souls and sanguine hearts there must be something almost horrifying in the reports that now come from Eu- rope, announcing with emphatic reiteration that the Russian Government has warned Bulgaria not to in- terfere in Macedonia, but to leave the Sultan a free hand in the suppression of the “insurrection,” no matter how much of slaughter the suppression may require. The seeming inconsistency in the conduct of the Government at St. Petersburg is due solely to the fact that the Russian policy has been judged in the past mainly by words and not by deeds. Announ- cing herself as the champion of Christianity, she has sought to overthrow the Turk and establish herself in Constantinople. In times past it was possible to advance her imperial interests while championing Christianity, and consequently it was easy to speak the “large, divine and comfortable” words that arouse enthusiasm in the Christian masses of Amer- ica and of Western Europe. At present it is no lon- ger possible to do so. Two Christian powers, at present weak but very ambitious, are seeking to ob- tain the empire of the Turk; Bulgaria is fighting for it in the north and Greece is intriguing for it in the south. Should either Bulgaria or Greece win the prize Russia will see her long cherished desire for Constantinople baffled and beaten. Therefore it is that she no longer champions the Christians. She is for the Turk, and will uphold him until the time when she can seize upon his kingdom in defiance of both Greece and Bulgaria, There are some other considerations that doubt- less have their share in holding the Russian Govern- ment back from giving aid to the insurgents of the Turkish empire. Among them is the revolt at this very time of a number of Armenian subjects of Rus- siag It would not be impossible for a Russian states- man to give orders for the slaughter of Armenians in Russia while at the same time sending a formal high-sounding protest to the Sultan against the slaughter of Bulgarians in Turkey, but the world would laugh. The publicity of our time has put an end to that free and easy way of regulating domes- tic politics on one principle while asserting the op- posite in foreign affairs. Russia is, in fact, doing very much what the Turk is doing, though on a smaller scale, and therefore finds sentimental as well as political reasons for upholding the Turk and bid- ding Bulgaria keep the peace. While the Armenian movement in Russia is by \nn means so formidable as that going on among the Christians of Macedonia, it is none the less quite a portentous uprising, and disturbs the empire much more than those massacres of Jews with which civ- ilization has been ringing. It appears, in fact, that the Armenians may yet undertake to fight, and if so it is predicted by those familiar with the country and the people the revoit will spread from province to province and affect many millions of people. The trouble between Russia and her Armenian subjects, like that between the Sultan and the Mace- donians, is largely one of religion. The Russian Government has been trying to force all Armenians into the orthodox church, and to that end has seized most of the Armenian church property. The results have been already serious and may become more so at any time. The situation is so grave the Russian Government has every reason to desire an early set- tlement of the troubles in the Balkans at whatever cost. ‘For once the Czar and the Sultan have a mutual interest. Christianity and liberty must wait. B A great light has descended upon the Federal offi- cials who in this city are striving to bring to bar the men that are cheating the Chinese exclusion law and reaping a harvest of ill-gotten gold. Uncle Sam’'s officers are firmly cenvinced that the frauds against the Government are the work of a formidable and cleverly organized ring. These astute investigators seem to be on the trail and we must wait with su- pended breath. Even a laugh would destroy the spell. —_— English military experts have decided that Amer- ican army tactics, involving the principle of skirmish- ing rather than that of mass formation, is the most effective in the world. This decision is probably the only asset of the South African war Yo which British generals can point with pride. It could only be reached by the sacrifice of thousands upon thou- sands of brave British lives. John D. Rockefeller, it is announced, intends to spend thirty million dollars in the construction of business buildings in Cleveland. This report, if true, comes as a shock and as a very definite correction of the current opinion that, Mr. Rockefeller already 4 | who recently committed suicide in New SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS NSRSV THE BANCROFT FIRE—A. M., City. The fire which destroyed the Bancroft building on Market street occurred on the afternon of April 30, 1886. SHARKEY-FITZSIMMONS —D. B, City. The first meeting between Tom Sharkey and Robert Fitzsimmons was at Coney Island, August 24, 1900. MUSIC—E. F. C., Martinez, Cal. Any of the first-class music stores in San Franclsco can furnish you a writer of music who will arrange musical composi- tions for the piano or other instrument. PURSE—Miss R. E., City. The safest way to restore a gray leather purse is fo turn it over to a professional cleaner, who | will do the work at small cost. An ama- teur would undoubtedly destroy the same in the attempt to clean it. STAMPS—Ignorance, Santa Rosa, Cal. The so-called language of stamps Is the arrangement of stamps on envelopes as agreed upon by two or more persons who may wish to use such a method to ex- press their ideas instead of writing the | same on paper. ROYAL ARCANUM-S. W. B., Benicia, Cal. The supreme secretary of the Royal | Arcanum is W. O. Robson, Boston, Mass; | the grand secretary for California is D. ‘W. Maloon, Los Angeles, and the secre- tary of Argonaut Councll, San Francisco, is George W. Dixon. PRECIOUS STONES—A. 1. F., Cozzens, Cal. There are a number of firms in San Francisco that deal in precious stones in the rough, but this department cannot | advertise such. If you send a self-ad- | dressed and stamped envelope this depart- | ment will mail you several addreses. RA!LROADSvS\Ihstrih(‘r. City. The | statistical abstract of ‘the United States for 1903, a Government publication, gives | the following figures concerning locomo- | tives, passenger and freignt cars in the | United States: Locomotives, 39.729; pas- | senger cars, 27,144; mail cars, 8667; freight | cars, 1,409,472, Two uncommon names beginning with S for girls are: Salva, which means ‘“safe,”” and Salome, which means ‘“peaceful.” Two names | commencing with U that are uncommon | and would de for boys are: Urian, which | means “a husbandman,” and Urfel, which | means “light of God.” CALLING—R. E. B, City. If a lady‘ send out “at home” cards those who re- celve them should call or send an excuse. i If subsequently the lady sends out cards | that she will be at home on four succes- sive Mondays the persons receiving them are governed by their own will as to whether or not they should accept the in- | vitation to call. NAMES—A. S., City. INDIAN ON LAND—F. M., Orleans, Cal._ If you have reason to believe that an Indian is unlawfully occupying min- eral land in your vicinity you should lay the matter before the United States Land Office at Eureka, Humboldt County. The question asked calls for a legal opinion, | one of the class that this department does | not answer. HISTORICAL CANE—F. T. M., Bur-| lingame, Cal. There is no market value for a ‘cane made of a plece of the cut- water of the old frigate Constitution. Such | a rellc is worth just what value the pos- sessor thereof places on it, or what some | one anxious to be possessed of it would | be willing to give. You should, if you de- | eire to part with it, advertise it in The Call. . _ | DIAMONDS—A Subscriber, City. The | diamond, one of the most valuable of | precious stones, is carbon, a simple or elementary substance, crystallized and in | its greatest purity. Diamond will burn} before the heat of the blowpipe in air or | oxygen gas, combining with oxygen to form carbonic acid. Imitation diamonds | are plentifui. but diamonds have never | been artificially made. NEMO—A Constant Reader, Occidental, Cal. Tt is probable that the man Sharp, York City and sought to conceal his iden- tity, assumed the name of Nemo because his condition was similar to that of Nemo, | a character in Dickens' “Bleak House.” Nemo was the name by which Captain | Hawdon was known at Krook's. He had once won the love of the future Lady of | Dedlock, by whom he had a child, Esther | Summerson, but he was compelled to| copy law writings for his daily bread and died a miserable death from an over- dose of opium. | FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION—A. S., Hemet, Cal. When an individual joins a fraternal beneficiary association he takes an obligation to abide by the laws of the supreme, is no law that will induce the association to pay back the amount paid in as assess- ments for protection, for that is the same as premium pald for insurance in any as- | socfation. During the time for which the premium is paid the association agrees to | pay in case of loss, and when the pre- mium has lapsed then the obligation of | the association ceases. UNCLE SAM—A. S, City. The term “Uncle Sam,” as applied to America, | arose at the time of the last war between England and America. At Troy. on the Hudson, Elbert Anderson, a contractor for the American army, had a storeyard. At- that place there was an inspector named Samuel Wilson, who was usually called “Uncle Sam,” whose duty it was to superintend the examination of the pro- visions and when such were passed each cask or package was marked E. A.—U. 8., the initials of the contractor and the United States. The man whose duty it was to mark the casks and packages was a facetious fellow and when asked what the letters meant replied that they stood for Elbert Anderson and Uncle Sam. The Joke was soon circulated, became widely | known and was heartily entered into by “Uncle Sam” himself. Before that war was over it got into print, was published in every paper and then by common con- sent everything that bore the initials of | the United States was said to be the prop- erty of “Uncle Sam.” Mr. Wiison, the original Uncle Sam, died in Troy August, 1854, at the age of 84 and the facts above given are from an article published at that time in the Albany Argus. ———— Shriners Are Active. ‘The members of Islam Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will go on a pllgrimage to Fresno City Saturday, October 3, where they will hold a ceremonial session and ! will conduct a number of novitiates over | the hot sands of the desert, which are several degrees hotter than the sofl of the city to be visited. The Shriners will remain in the raisin belt fér two days and will visit all points of interest. On the 14th there will be a ceremonial ses- sion in Golden Gate Hall in this city, when a number of local eligibles will be instructed in the mysteries of the order and the affair will be followed by a ban- ! from owners of personal { ment roll. | social, grand and subordinate bodies | and he is bound to obey such laws. There | TAXPAYERS WILL HAVE TO BEAR BURDEN The raising by 30 per cent of the val- uation of this city's assessmgnt by th3 State Board of Equalizaticn and the con- sequent reduction in the city’s tax raie by the Board of Supervisors o 84.4 cents per $100 will result In the cellection of ad- | ditional taxes, aggregating some $75,000 property un- secured by real estate. The sum of $600,000 was collected on such property during March, April, May and June by the Assessor, who was com- pelled to figure the taxes on the old rate of $1.608, fixed in 1902. These collections represented in a large number of in- stances taxes on the household furniture of small holders. These will be compelled to pay an additional sum to the city of approximately 12% per cent In excess of what they have already paid. ‘When Assessor Dodge was asked what the effeet would be in figuring the new rate fixed by the Supervisors on the in- creased valuation as returned by the Board of Equalization, that officlal said | 1t would result in additional taxes being collected from personal property holders who have already paid their taxes under { the old rate. ““Without desiring to criticize the action of city officlals in reducing the city’s tax rate to $4.4 cents in order to figure the rate on one valuation as increased by the State Board of Equalization,” said Assessor Dodge yesterday, “it appears to me that the very thing which it was de- sired to avoid, namely the collection of | contemplated by the | more taxes than municipal budget, will be foisted on the small property holders who have already paid under the old rate. “To illustrate, we will suppose that a | business man has been assessed for $10, 000 on which he has paid under the old ! rate of $1.608 the sum of $16050 in taxes to the city. Under the raise of the Board of Equalization, the Auditor will In- crease his assessment to $13,000. At the new rate of $1.405 (4.4 cents for the city and 561 cents for State purposes), he will be charged with $152 65 on the a Since he has paid $160 80, there will be due to the city under the new rate the sum of $2185. This represents approximately an Increase of 1215 per cent, which the personal property holder will be called upon to pay the city. “*As the collections of this kind amounted to some $600,000, it is plain that the city will collect $75,000 more of such taxes. This will necessitate the making out of extra bills by the Tax Collector and the sending of notifications to the properfy | owners, all of which will add to the ex- pense of the collections.” The amount of increasc exacted from small property holders will be in a man- ner offset by the fact that the banks and other holders of money and solvent cred- its and mortgages will have to pay some 000 less, owing to the reduction In the city tax rate to 844 cents. The assess- ment of $33,000,000 in the properties named was not increased by the State Board of Equalization according to the Political | Code. The reduced rate really should not apply to the property described, bul the old rate-of $1.076 should be applied to val- uations not raised by the Board of Equal- ization. Assessor Dodge is of the opinion that the difficulty could have been avoided by figuring the State rate on the increased valuation and the city's rate of $1.076 on the valuation as returned by him and upon which the city's rate was based. ——————— Changes Corporate Name. There was filed for record yesterday a deed covering the transfer of all the properties owned by the Spring Valley Water Works to a new corporation to be known as the Spring Valley Water Company. meeting of the board of directors of the Spring Valley Water Works a resolution was adopted authorizing the conveyances and grants of all its business, franchises | and real and personal properties to the | Spring Valley Water Company in this and other counties. The consideration mentioncd is $10. The transfer is made because the corporate name of the con- cern has been changed. ——— Woodcraft Social. San Francisco Circle No. 49, of the ‘Women of Wooderaft, has issued invita- tions in the form of a railroad ticket with | coupons attached ‘“‘good for one contin- uvous trip and return to the ice cream entertainment and dance to be given Friday evening, September 25, in Mission Masonic Hall, 2668 Mission street.” The guests will be entitled to ice cream and a chance to vote for the most popular lady and for the laziest man. The deed recites that at a | CHAPEL PLANS ARE SUBMITTED The Board of Public Works took under advisement the plans of the city architect for the addition to the Almshouse Chapel to cost $4600. The appropriation for the { purpose, however, is only $4000. The board recommended to the Super- visors the passage of an ordinance mak- ing it unlawful for any person to deposit refuse or garbage from any dwelling house or place of business in any recep- tacle which is being maintained by the city on any sidewalk for the purpese of holding street sweepings. J. G. Harney. contractor for street cleaning, complained that the sidewalk cans are being used as a dumping place for garbage by store- keepers and householders. The board appointed W. D. Fogus as- sistant timer at $3 per day: J. F. Flynz, P. Pritchard and Willlam Carter plum- bers at $ per day and D. McMahon plum- ber’s helper at $3 per day. The bo?:rd raised the salary of James B. McSheehy, inspector of school build- ings, from $100 to $135 per month. George Davis was granted permission to move the building belonging to George A. Newhall at the southwest corner of Van Ness avenue and Sutter street to a lot on Pacific avenue, near Webster street. The value of the house is given as $100,000 and it will be cut in twg before being | removed. On the site will be erected the | new synagogue for the Emanu-El con- | gregation. The petition of John McLaren and F. W. Rodefeld that a bituminous rock pave- ment be laid on the northerly side of Fuiton street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, was denied because the charter prescribes that a pavement cannot be aid under public contract without ex- ending the same throughout the whole width of the roadway. Flinn & Treacy were granted an exten- | :slon of sixty days within which to com- plete their contract to pave Waller street, between Masonic avenue and Ashbury | street, and the San Francisco Construc- tion Company an extension of ninety days to pave H street from First to Seventh venues. i 1?:9 City Engineer was directed to make slight alterations in the specifications. for the repaving of Spear street. ¢ stenographer at $75 per month. P The (‘ullfo:'ll: Stevedore and Ballast | Company was permitted to remove a pile | of refuse material containing 2500 tons | from the roadway of Montgomery street. | between Lombard and Chestnut, provided the land is first surveyed by the City En- | gineer, —_————————— | News in Army Circles. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Woodbury. | Thirteenth Infantry, has been ordered by | General MacArthur to take station at Fort McDowell. Captain Howland left yester- day for Benicia to inspect rifle practice on the department ranges. Major Devol, superintendent of the transport service, received word last evening that the Sheri- dan left Nagasaki yesterday. —_—————— Guests of Darina Parlor. Darina Parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West No. 114 will, on next Monday evening, hold services appropri- ate to the Ploneer day of the order. On that occasion the assoclation of Ploneer Women of this city will be the guests of the parlor. Mrs. Genevieve W. Baker will deliver an address and Mrs. E. M. Northrup will entertain with recitations. IR L Temples of the Holy City. Samuel Adelstein, a well known member of the Order of the Eastern Star, will de- liver an illustrated lecture to-morrow night before Harmony Chapter of that order in the upper hall of the Golden | Gate Asylum on Sutter street, on “The | Temples of the Holy City.” The lecture will be interspersed with vocal selections. ikt b o alomen Library Building Will Be Erected. WOODLAND, Sept. 23.—The report sent out to the effect that the disagreement between the City Trustees and the library trustees has virtually killed the Carnegie library enterprise is not true. The City Trustees are unanimously in favor of | meeting all the requirements of Mr. Car- negle, but they will not accept the site selected by the library trustees. ——————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bidg. * | i John F. Lewis was appointed as tem- | —_—— Special iInformation supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Puss Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 * RO course? of the following: engine crew were out of the operator displayed red 1s? way the strongest kind. but- it came out? the lives of those abou first for Frank remarkable series. ten strike even in the Reflections of the Kin; ‘World,” and the “Letters of a quet. On the following evening there will be a military novelty night in the Me- chanics’ Pavilion. The programme will consist of an exhibigion drill by the Shrine Drill Corps, hasty bridge building by a company of the First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C., saber drill by a troop of caval- Lol Pl:rson,” and the “Dainty Maid.” elor i Chfldrvn.""h’ William J. Sh George A. Maxwell, The Only Thing That Interests Everybody DID you ever stop to realize what it is in you the most—outside of eating, sleeping Is it the mock heroics, the polished gentility of a dead and gohe age, or isn't it life itseli—tense, eager, puisating life—the very things that the other fellow does that you do yourself? Just take note “The job of front-end brakeman on a mountain division is no great stake for a man ordinarily, but it was one for me just then. when we went into the superinten‘ent's office that somebody was to get fired; the only questior was who—the train crew or the operator? it was up to the conductor and to me. igna the operator said yes, but he lied. We couldn’t prove it; we could only put our word against his; and, what made it the worse for me, my con- , ductor was something of a liar himself. “I stood beading in a _cold sweat, for I could see with half an eye it was going against us. The superintendent, an up and up railroad man every inch and all business, but suspicious, was leaning the operator's “There wasn't another soul in the little room stood before the superintendent’s desk.” There’s a situation which at first blush might seem ordin is it? Perhaps you've been in the same fis Ty but it always will be to the man who has the experience time, and oh, what awful possibilities it portends. every man who works constantly stands in awe oi. But you want to know. know. That is the curiosity—sympathy—or t us—the real flesh and ?fn know.l—]tl;)e m?:t :Iysorbinxhsubject imaginable. if you will, but there is not the shadow of a doubt that : wil k H. Spearman’s thrilling o e Trainmaster’s Story” in the next Sunday Call. Of course you're reading “Lees and Leaven,” send, the famous author of “Chimmie Fadden,” w);:“h isb’na%hix m of a ing you the best novels of the da: the very i i . And then there are the two {ut‘f’vzns of D e o othe waeld. the most fascinating literary craze of “Philanthropic Whisper,” by Edwin Left And of course you're reading Thomas Fitch's “Oracle of Mulberry Center” and“Why Good Men Go irl Marries.” by Madge Moore, and enry Se'on-Kn:,"é. M. G, M. P, and 5 % § a | 5 § § life that really interests and being merry, of We knew Our Had The conductor said no, I said no, as the three of us fix yourseli. It is not new. T for the first It is a situation that Can you guess how Of course you want to what you will that makes blood men and women we You may deny this’ two-page narrative of “The It is the second in this “Half-Hour Storiettes,” the hour. And there is also “The jevre. 3 « A. M., Ph.D, and