The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1903, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1903. WILL DISCUSS CHURCH UNITY —— Representatives of the Several of Presbyterians Union ’ of Creeds | SOUTHERN BRANCH ABSENT | e Reformers Present Ten Items| Upon Which Coneessions May ' ed Upon by Factions Branches to Plan >~ NEW Dec. 8.—A joint com- t sentatives of four Presbyterian faith met liscuss the question of | cordance with the General eformed a Sy- Presbyterian iphia last year. | pointed by the Gen- | of the Presbyterian > United States of Amer- H sisted of Rev. Drs. William H. F s of Philadelphia Robert F. e of Denver, moderat of the Gen- Char A. Dickie of ¥ adelphia, Reuben H. Hartley of La- rte, Ind.; Douglass P. Putnam of Princeton, Ind., Elders W. M E the Reformed presented by J. El- the e pres- ersey ter General Dr. Thon £ nd Rev. Dr. nat T selecting Dr. James D. ting that the as the Presby- had declined the in the confer- Prince Jokes the Emperor. It ned that his f: in ther’s, 1 ardent e Prince number of ricatures it is sai them m. large d ar part of it to the ADVERTISEMENTS. CATARRH CURED ELECTRO-CHEMISTRY CURES CA- TARRHE OF THE HEAD, CATARRE OF THE THEROAT, CATARRE OF THE EARS, CATARRE OF THE LUNGS AXND CONSTITUTIONAL CATARRE OF EVERY VARIETY. MORE PROOF: Mr. T. T. Rea, Palo Alto, Cal. Mr. Rea says: “The Electro-Chemic treatment cured me of a serious con- sti catarrh after many physi- had treated me with little syc- I gladly recommend electro- | try to all in need of a catarrhal | ment T. T. REA, Palo Alto, | fornia. uretunal REL AND X-RAY EXAMINATION Epecialties — Comnsumption, Caterrh, Bronchitis, Asthma, Cancers, Tumors, Deafness, Head and Bar Noises, Rheuma- | tism, Paralysis, Neuraigia, Piles, Dis- | eases of the Stomach, Liver, Xidneys and Bowels. Speciz] Diseases cf Men and Wo- men. All chronic diseases. a cess chem iOME TREATMENT—IL you live at a dis- try to come for a personal examination. d can't’ come, write for instgmtions for examinetion and treatment. FLECTRO-CFEMIC INSTITUTE, 118 GRANT AVE., Cor. Post. SA% FRANCISCO. Office Jours—9 8. m. 19 5 p. ms; and 7 to 8 p. Gatly: Sundays, 10 a. m. 101 p. m. Beparaic uyrtients for ladics and gentiemen. o | som, | power to fix, COMMISSION MEN WILL TO-DAY ASK FOR RESTRAINT OF HARBOR BOARD Officials Adhere to Rulings Under the Woodward Law and Suits Follow to Enjoin of Perishable Products in Limits of San Francisco Four large produce commission houses will to-day file injunction suits in the BSuperior Court against the Board of State Harbor Commissioners and will the court to restrain the Harbor Commissioners from interfer- ing with the sale by them of perish- able produce in the city and county of San Francisc The firms that will so act have ail been deprived of their permits to seil on the State property, this under the provisions of the Woodward law. With this will begin the test of the extent of the jurisdiction and péwers of the Har- bor Commissioners, as conferred by the Woodward law. The suits will be filed Attorney J. B. Reinstein, who ap- pears for the commission men. No re cent proceedings have possessed more of interest for the whole State. The Woodward law was enacted for the express purpose of preventing the formation of a fruit-selling ring or cor by { spiracy. The Harbor Commissioner: when they voted last week to take W the permits from Wolf & Sons, & Co., We Brothers and McDongugh & Runyon, were aware re that a test of the law was threatered. They held that the parties who had lost their permits through revocatioa had been given a right to permits upon the ful m of certain condition w impartiall ich compelled them to buy and se!l without regard to the af- filiations or non-affiliatiops of the par- es with whom they did busin The Commissioners believed that the condi- d °n violated and so took rmits away. & C Wetmore Brother: ons and McDonough & Run- deny that they have vic i the law. Y R on, Jol G. Wetmore and A nini, the latter representing Sca na & Co., filed a long communication with the Board of Harbor Commission- In that they submitted sugges- at great length for the considera- f the Commissioners. It amount- in to a circumstantial denial 1 the charges that have been made their firms and also contained e reflections upon the Harbor Com- t also embodied the alers at large. NOT REOPENED. When this communication was pre- sented by President Spear to be read to the board yesterday Commissioner Kirkpatrick said that he supposed that nounted to a request for a rehear- ing. The four firms represented by the signatures to the document had already had a hearing and so far as they were ers. tion sners the CASE:! | concerned the matter was closed and heir cases would not be reopened. He asked President Spear if this was his view of the case and Spear answered n the affirmative. The board cour- listened to the reading of the document, however. It began by setting forth that, inas- much as there was not a full board when the four permits to sell were re- voked last week it was desired by the signers “'to submit suggestions for con- sideration Some of the “suggestions” amounted to an attack upon the Commissioners For instance, it was said to the Com- missioners, in one place, that “natural- ly, under such circumstances we must infer that your judgment is clouded by error; that your action is due to some passion, prejudice or ignorance, or to some consideration of personal or political advantage, which, of course, | should play no part in what should be a judicial determination.” In another part of the communication it is asserted that “there is not now and never has been any conspiracy or { agreement or understanding concerning such prices (the prices of perishable products) and you know very well that no one of such organizations nor any of their members, nor any combination of their members, has the slightest modify, control or regu- late such price Incidentally a threat was contained in the long document, as follow: “Your act (of the Harbor Commis- sioners) affects the wholesalers direct- 1y, but indirectly it affects the growers and consumcrs. The growers outside of San Francisco have an association and are members of the Wholesale Dealers’ Association, and are satisfied with the present conditions. As to the consumers, you may compel us to re- move from the docks all produce of the State that comes to San Francisco every twenty-four hours. This will simply mean that we must pay the en- tirely unnecessary cost of removal to warehouses, storage charges and the destruction in rehandling these perish- able products. This loss we must add to the cost to the dealer and he must add it to the cost to the consumer.” SUGGESTS A TEST. After the reading of the document, Commissioner Kirkpatrick said that the place to try the question of the jurisdiction of the board was not be- fore the board, but in the courts. The matter appeared to him to be directed to the competency of the board to act as it had acted and the validity of its acts. Commissioner Spear referred to some statements made in the opening of the communication, in which it was in sub- stance asserted that the board had acted in opposition to what the dealers had Peen led to expect by conversa- tion they had with him before they took out their permits to sell on the wharves. This inference Commissioner Spear resented. He denied that the committee, consisting of William H. Wolf, Albert J. Runyon and James A. Eveleth. who had waited on him, At- torney Davis for the Board of Harbor Commissioners being present at the interview, had any reason to assert that the permits were taken oat be- cause of any such agreement with him concerning the interpretation of the Woodward law. On the contrary, so said Commissioner Spear, he had at the interview referred to taken up the by-laws of the association of produce commission men and had torn such by-laws to pieces. He told the com- mittee that the law would be enforced. He also told them that any man who was cited before the board would have the opportunity to withdraw his per- terday W. H. Wolf, | Inter mit. He resented the insinuations in the communication. Before the meeting of the board end- ed action was decisively taken in two matters. L. G. Sresovich & Co., Gar- | cia & Maggini, Mitchell & Goodall and | G. Berti & Co. were notified to appear | next Tuesday morning at 10:30 o’clock to be heard relative to the revocation | of their permits to sell, it having been | set uv in an affidavit that they had j refused to sell to a retailer who was not a member of the retailers’ asso- ("L’Hinn.. To put the board more defi- nitely on record, so that every one might understand its purpose fully, the following, prepared by Attorney Davis for the board, was, on motion of Commissioner Kirkpatrick, adopted: Whereas, This board desires to lend all aid possible to carry into effect the provisions of the act known as the Woodward act, DOw therefore be it Resolved, That the rule the port n Franci Board of State Harb nded by adding a_ne | and regulations for co_adopted by the Commissioners be on thereto to | be numbered 45, which se hall read as | totiows | No person, firm or corporation shall bs per- | mitted to seil an t. vegetables, poultiy, ©ggs_ honey or other produce commonly known as perishab ducts over and upon any of the public rves or other property belong- Ing to the State in the city and county of San Franclsco, within the jurisdiction of the Board Harbor Commissioners, who is or who may e & party toany conspiracy or agreement tnderstdnding whereby such person, firm rporation shall refuse to sell to any solv- purch »x buy from any person what- tate: or who does mot sell at the same price to all with- bec ser v this Iy and in the State who desire to picchase for cash. without regard to their business or intended disposition the products, or who exercise whatever, between buyers ny discrimination B and sellers by reason of their occupation, af- | Aitations or atfiliations. | An application for a permit was re- | ceived from A. Bruman, Front street, but no action was taken. The communication of the representatives of the four commission firms that have logt their permits through revocation by the Harbor Commissioners is, in full, as follows: T OF COMMUNICATION. Californi Inasmuch was not a full board present on Dacember 3, when you revoked our permits under the dward law, we desire to submit the fol- lowing suggestions for your consideration: On April 30, 1903, your board sent written notice others who are all wholesalers requesting that take cut permits under the Woodward hereupon a committee of the 1it and Produce Merchants, com- am H. Wolf. Albert J. Runyon, James A leth, with thelr attor inter- t his written Tequest , the attorney, of your viewed Preside In his office, board, being present This committee stated that th v did not de- sire to take out permits under this law, which they were advised was not only unconstitu- tional, but impracticable and ambiguous construction might in the law to the refuse to sell any or buy from any person and that we would sell “impar- tially and at the same prices to all who de- sire to purchase for cash.” We explained that we were wholesalers and exhibited to you our rules that we could not | sell to any one on the seawall or docks less than fifty sacks of patatoes or twenty-five sacks | that nio one cot laced upon the of onions at cne time; that we considered it utterly impracticable to sell at such places. at retail to e vho might want only a pound of a nich we deal. You agr that “this was a reasonable construc- tion of the law, and that so long as we abided by it we would not be deemed to bave violated the permit; and you promised to pass rules and regulations in conformity with those of our Soclation. With that understanding, and only on that understanding, and relyi we took out the permitar o 708 upon it, JURISDICTION OF BOARD. We then took the position, and now reiterate and you then acquiesced 'in it, that your ju- limited to sales on State proper- . it ! the fact that when we were you, we demanded in writing that yo should file some specific charge against e shyw. ing whe: ted the law, and giv e, pi mstance, and’ we refterate Ume, pla ance, and we reiterate No such charge has been filed be h I cause no truthful charge can be made. You do. not | Blve us any specific charge simply because you cannot. We have not violated the Wood. ward law nor our understanding had with You before we took out permits. Naturally, under such circumstances, we m Infer that your judgment is clouded by ®ome error; that your action is due to some passion, prejudice or ignorance, or to some consideration of personal or political advan- tage, which, of course should play no part in what should be a judicial determination Now. this cause of your error is neither hard fo find nor far fo seek. For several months past one of the newspapers of this city has devoted much of its Ume trying to thow that we and other produce dealers wWere members of a combination which had in- 4-{»3'0\‘ the price of vegetables In San Fran- cisco. it is easy to raise a public clamor against a dealer in food products whenever the price of such products is high; and when a news- paper inflames the public opinion sufficlently there is little use in trving to tell tha public facts which show that there is not the slight- est reason for complaint: and sometimes of- ficials charged with public dutles consider it | wise to make their deci clamor. Therefore we algo requested in writing the | opportunity to present all the facts before your board, and as you denied us that un- doubted right. we beg to present at least some of the most important ones bearing on the question PRICE OF VEGETABLES. And first_to relieve the problem of the ran- cor from the charge that we have raised the ons sult this public price of small vegetables and garden truck, we beg to state o simple single faet, which of course you know: ihat holders of permits deal In such vegetables. You know, of course, that we are wholesalers and bave nothing to d6 with the retailing of such vegetables. and do not deal in so called garden truck or small vegetables in an; Whatever; and if_we need them wé must b of the Colombo Market at their prices. You know that the Colombo Market, which is an organization Solely of growers ‘handles practically. all of what is called garden truck or smell vegetables, at least 95 per cent of it. and that mo dealer is or ean be member of this market and that the members of the Colombo Market fix the vrices of their prod- ucts each Saturday for the ensuing week. In other words, the only combination to fix prices, and which does fix prices, is that of the vegetable growers themselves: and you know that we have no more to do with these prices than the man in the moon. Neverthele. broadeast newspaper statements have been med> recently that there is a corrupt assaviation of which w SRy sses the price of This 1s imply nru; Unquaiifiedly false, and in_the. performance o vour quties as Harbor Commissioners it seems consumers this city. ¥ 1 fo us impossible that you should not know it. here wte. four uesociations whose members deal in produce: First, the Wholesale Fruit and Produce Merchants' Protective Association; fecond, the Produce Dealers’ Protective Asso clation: third, the Retail Fruit and Vegetable Dealers’ Association, and fourth, the Colombo Market Association. HOLDERS OF PERMITS. The holders of permits from your board are all wholesalers, and all members of the first and second associations. ' Any reputable dealer can become a member of efther assocfation, there is no_reputable dealer who is not member. The etatus of membership in the R tall Dealers’ Association is exactly the same. The Colcmbo Market limits its members to growers only ¢ There is not one word in the rules or regu- lations. bylaws or papers of any of the first three asspclations which mentions prices or fixes or cohcerns itself with or alters or modi- fies or controls, directly or indirectly, the prices of any article bought or sold by any of its members. There, i no written or_verbal or secret_understanding, directly or indirectly, in reference to the cost or price of any article bought or sold by any member of these asso- clations. Ther« is not now and never has been any conspiracy or ngresment or understandliig con. cerning such prices, and you know_very well that no one of fuch organizations nor any of thelr members, Tor any combination of thelr mem- bers, has the slightest power to fix, modify, control or regulate such prices. The articles of association. rules, by-laws, agreements, ete., of each of these associations you have seen; they are at your disposal ference With Sale any time: and they prove what we say if you want proof. There are nearly 1000 members of the Re- tail Lealers' Association, over 100 of {the Wholen salers’ Assoclatior. and about 100 of the P: duce Dealers' Assoclation. We submit to you what sensivle people will see at once, that (here cannot be a combination of S0 many members scattered through so large an area to fix prices. And it is ridiculous to expect them to have or to keep any agreement with reference to the price of perishable products, the value of which changes frcm hour to hour, To rivet this home to you we beg to say that the Wholesalers’ Association meets only once a month; the Retailers’ Association once a month, and the Produce Dealers’ Association once a year. H We arfirm and tiercest c retailers of pro tions that was ever known in this cit; will not even try to deny this statement. MEMBERSHIP RESTR(CTEDL We have 1 that any reputable dealer can these assciations if oLy The assoclations Plves must are reputable dealers that there is to-day the freest mpetition among wholesalers and uce in the first three associa- You be: any sald join of with their rule: be permitted to judge who We are glad to submit the rules and regulations of the first two as- sociations, h are the only ones of which the holders of permits are membe: Thelr only regulations are that produce shall be sold only at wholesale on State property, and after the hour of 7 o'clock In the morning. Any regutable person who complies with these re- quirements s welcome to membership, The Produce Dealers’ Protective Assoclation alone restricts the buying and selling of po- tatoes and onlons in wholesale lots to its mem- bers: but they restrict such membership only by the requirement that the applicant be re- putable, Your act but indirectly affects the wholesalers directly, | it affects the growers and the consumers. Now, see, the growers cutside of | San Francisco bave an assoclation and are members of the Wholesale Dealers’ Aesociation | and are satisfied with the preseat cenditions. As to the gonsume You may compel us to remove from the doc all the produce of the State that comes to San Franel: every twen- ty-four hours. This will simply mean that Wt‘ must pay the entirely unnecessary cost of re- moval to warehouses. storage charges and the destruction in rehandling these perishable pro ducts. ‘his loss we must add to the cost to the dealer and he must add it to the cost to | the co ner. It ‘the state of affairs were such as to justify the revocation of our permits there would be some explicit charge setting forth the violation of the Woodward law. We have demanded this charge and we now demand it, but always In v TWO STATE LAWS. On March 2, 1903, two laws were passed In this State, one known as the Woodward law, to regulate the sales of perishable property at | wholesale on the seawall and docks, and one known as the free market law, for the sale of such products by growers only, at retafl, on | some particular block or blocks to be set apart | for that purpose by the Harbor Commissioners | before March 2, 1904. At the meeting of our committee with your president, early in May, 1903, both these laws were discussed and the understanding was reached between us that | the Woodward law was restricted n its opera- | tion to sales on State property and at whole- sale and with that understanding we took out the permits and we have never done anything | o forfeit such permit £ But there are numerous cases since the adoption of the Woodward law where growers of produce and dealers holding no permits | whatever. have sold perishable products on State property; and we respectfully submit that your board should restrain such sales made "in undoubted violation ‘of the law in- | stead of revoking the permits of those who have not violated the law in any regard, On November 27, 1903, you sent us a writ- ten notice to appear before your board on De- cember 3. 1903, “‘for the purpose of investi- gating the alleged violation of the provisions of the law regulating the sales of perishable | products on the wharves and other State property”’ In this city. On December 3 we appeared before you in answer to your cita- | tion. and demanded a written statement of | charges, and requested only twenty-four hours | to answer the same. You did mot answer our | demand because vou could not; there was no person who had filed or dared file any such charge, because it would have been false, You proceeded, nevertheless to question s, and our replies Were that we had not refused to buy or sell produce impartially on State property, and we denfed your jurisdiction to inquire into our business outside of State property: while Mr. Runyon denied your right | to question him at all, without a specific | charge ghowing wherein he had violated the Woodward law. . REASON FOR REFUSAL. ‘ In declining to answer your questions as to | our business outside of State property, we proceeded under our judgment that you, as | officers of this Government. should confine | yourselves to your officlal duties and neither | aid nor abet vublic or newspaper clamor, | which was without reason or right. We be- lieve that you are advised that the law re stricts your power to State property; and we believe it to be both the right and ‘the duty of any self-respecting citizen to refuse to an- swer you concerning matters which are none | of vour officlal business. We declined to an- | swer your questions, not because our answers would Injure us but solely because of the | ample reason that we believe you have no Double Green Trading Stamps Given With All Purchases To-Day nd of the Season Bargain Sale of Women’s Suits, Coats, Skirts and Wrappers HIS sale will be the greatest money-saving one ever conducted in tune for Christmas gifts. Every garment in stock is absolutely this as possible. ~f double green trading stamps should be eagerly taken advantage of. selection. Extra salespeople have been secured to wait upon our custom SVUITS. up to date in every particular. They tures. $9.95—For <uits that were reduced $12.45—For suits that were reduced $17.50— For suits that were reduced $19.75— For suits that were reduced MISSES’ SUITS. mixtures. in the latest styles. Sizes, 14, COATS. $14.95— Peau regular $27.50 values. $17.50—Peau de .ie or taffeta 1 Worth $32.50. $8.95 —Black corset coats; beautifu SKIRTS. s ONE-HALF OFF ON FURS. $1.45 _Cluster scarfs of gen- uine Belgium lynx; six tails. Worth $3.00 regularly. $2.45—Genuine northern mink cluster scarfs. x tails. These cannot be bought elsewhere - for less than $6.00. $1.95 Brook worth $4.00. 98c¢—Children's Turkish Angora and cape collar. $1.95, .45, $2.75 and up 5—Other sets in ermine, ngora and squirrel. PETTICOATS. 935¢—These are made of extra quality of sateen. beautifully fin- ished. They sell regularly at mink scarfs; sets; genuine fur, muff and Jorth $2.00. de soie and taffeta silk coat $2.95— Skirts made of fancy mixtures. Regular $5.00 value. this city, and particularly opper- ‘'season’s newest style, and many of them have been received only within the last two weeks. There are no troken lines. Usually an offer anything like this is not made until some time later, but because of the present scarcity of space in the store we are compelled to provide room for holiday displays. We have an extraordinarily large Christmas novelty stock, and- it is therefore very necessary that a good part of our cloak and suit section be cleared as quickly This is a grand offer for garments far below the regular values and with the extra inducement Early shopping will insure a better ers and give them prompt service. These suits are all this season’s styles and are are made of cheviots, broadcloth, zibeline and fancy mix- from $20 from $2 $14.95—For suits that were reduced from $27 from $30. from $35 $22.50—Forsuits that were reduced from $37 825.00—For suits that were reduced from $42. $12.45—These suits are made of pretty fancy Coat and skirt are made 16 and 18 ilk coats. ‘3 lly strapped. Worth $15.00. 7§ I WRAPPERS. JU8e—Fine flannelette wrappers, reduced from $1.75 $1.45 flannelette y choice patterns in wrappers. Worth Wonderful Growth in of the 1. 358 per cent more business written in Novc: 3. 364 per cent more premiums on new business of November, 1903, than 4 1902. Note the following advantages: ¥ Quicker returns on your policies. Co-operate with your friends «nd neighbors interested in the upbuilding than Eastern communities. right to ask the questions. After our excmination was completed J. E. | Grayes filed an affidavit which was sworn to | on December 2, 1903, five days after we wers cited to appear before vov to answer charges. | In this affidavit Mr. Wolf, Mr. Runyon, M Wetmore and Mr. Eveleth Te not even me: tloned; and this affidavit did not state one word as to the business done on State property, and made only vague general charges utterly unworthy of consideration. You requested him to file this affidavit as a charge on which to found e hearing, although the hearing had already taken place and was finished; and he then filed this affidavit as a charge, after you had taken all the testimony of all the persons whom you cited. In other words, the charge we were requested to answer was not in ex- istence until five days after we were notified - to_answer it. From the standnoint of law and common sense, justice and fair play such a procedure | s ridiculous and cannot be vindicated. From such a procedure only an unjust decision could have been expected; and It followed promptly. he only excuse or reason riven for your decision, and the best one you could give, was, as the president of your board said, ‘‘to bring this thing to' a head.”” The nroduce business of this State done at the ci of San Francisco is very large. The reason you give for seri- ously injuring this business is very small. FREE MARKET BILL. 1 Fortunately for a!l concerned, the holders of | your permits, and zenerally: the prodnce deal- | ers of San Fran ‘0 will soon be relfsved.of the unjust odlum which has been stirred up against them for raising the prices of vege- tables in which they de not even deal, Thers are fust elghty-one davs within which your board- must_*'set apart uvon some convenient portion of the water front of San Franeisco suffisient number of blocks, or parts of blocks belonging to the State. contiguous to the docl and wharves far a free market for the perish- able products of the State of California ar- | riving in San Francisco.' | In this free market, bursuant to this law. | no commisgion men Wil be nermitted to ap- | pear, for you are dirécted to “permit the sale of such vroducts unon said blocks and por- tions of blocks of land by or for the account of the producers thereof only.” under such | regulations as may be prescribed by vour | board. There should be no doubt that the free ' markst will be established within the tima Timited, to-wit.: March 2, 1904, hecause section 1 of the said act; passed March 2, 1903, re- quires as fallows i ““The Board of State Harbor Commi!ssioners | shall. within one year from the passage of this act.” set anart such blocks for such pur- pose. Fortunately, also, under section 9 of this act. there can be no question about the neces- sary funds for such free market, for, according to section 9. there is ‘‘hereby appropriated out of the San Francisco harbor imnrovement fund the mecessary monerg to enable the Harhor Commissicn to carry this act into effect: and this appropriation shall have precedence of 511 other claims on such fund for improyements.” ARGUES THEs CASE. We have shown your board heretofore that the revocation of your permits to us can in- jure only the grower or the consumer or both, In the Interest, therefore, of the produce by ness of this State we are anxious to comoly with the Woodward 1aw as it was construed by the president of your board and vour at- | torney before we took out the pern We are satisfled that unon further consid- eration you will appreciate the certainty that the Wocdward law should apply only to the wholesale business done upon the seawall and docks within_your zuflldlclhm: and on or be- fore March 2, . your board will follow the law and establ market the producer will sell at retail directly to the consumer Without the intsrvention of the middleman. P The Colombo Market Association, which now fixes the price of Vegetables othér than po. tatoes, onions beans #nd at prices which the Chronicle considers exorbitant, is a pri- vate assoclation of growers. and the fres mar. ket which you are compelied to esizblish on or before 2, 1904, will be open to every grower to growers only and every con- h the free market, in which | More complete personal protection to offer your patrons. Policies provide for Combination Life, Accident and Health Insurance. fornia. OFFICES—230 Montgomery street and 110 Geary street, San Francisco; and Ochsner building, Sacramento. GREATEST LIFE INSURANCE SUCCES Conservalive Lifc Insvrance Co. ber of this year than corresponding month of 1goa. 2. 277 per cent more busifiess written to date in 1903 than corresponding month of 1goz. 289 per cent more premiums on new business written to date in this year than corresponding period in ..AGENTS WANTED... Contract DIRECT with Home Office, instead of under Agent of Eastern company. Policies registered with- Insurance Department and Reserves deposited with State Treasurer of Cali- ...A California Company 1903 L 5 4 ® : H L ° » same month in 1g0z. of our own city and State rather All for one premium. Abrahamson building, Oakland, [ 3 963006680000 00000000 ©000000000090000299000 6090000000000 0 : o e T ————— | : cumer can buy directly and without interven- [ Craney, Carl Peterson, M. Kelly and lon of any middleman. And inasmuch as the e bilshment of this market will relieve you | Albert Hermal. r disagreeable and doubiful | —_————— and us of many 1 contentions and unjust Criticlsms we respect- | ?, Tespect-| The Chinese Narcissus has become a | ‘v:nzs:na‘b':"::d‘;;fl“;’:;_“;:r}g!“ P required of | Very popular flower. requiring no earth. B resretting that the time for doing | Only a bed of pebbles and plenty lof water To to wit, ‘on or before March 2, 1904, is ex- | to bring forth the most fragrant flowers. tremely short for Yours very | Gas ranges require very little attention. bt £ | They are always ready if bought from | San Francisco Gas and Electric Com- | pany, 415 Post street. . YR S T e Sunday School Entertainment. The annual musical and literary en- tertainment for the benefit of St. Domi- nic’s Sunday school will be given at Gclden Gate Hall on Sutter street this A GIANNINL 3 Referring to the foregoing commun: ation to | the Board of State Harbor Commiseioners of | California the undersigned assoc'ati con- | firm every statement therein contain=d concern- ing the vroduce business and join in the de- for = {ree market. '\‘\"x}fl'ghr ALE FRUIT AND PRODUCE MER- | CHANTS' PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO. evening. An elabordte programme has been prepared for the occasion and many of the best known amateur art- ists in the city have volunteered their services. —_——— Christmas Presents. Dress suit cases, traveling sets, pocket and bill - books, cigar and card cases, wrist bags and lap tablets all make fin Christmas presents. and.can be bought at popular prices from Sanborn, Vail & C —_——— BAKERSFIELD, Dee. 9. L Davis found guilty last night of embezzling from the Miners' Union of Mojave, of which he was treasurer. Judge Bennett ordered him to_appear for semtence on Saturday next JEROME PORTER, Secretary. PRODUCE DEALERS' PROTECTIVE ASSO- CIATION * | FRANK M. BURNHAM, Secretary. A communication was also received from Secretary Polite of the Retail Dealers’ Association. * —_——— Letter Carriers Choose Officers. The election of officers of Golden Gate Branch No. 214, National Associaticn of Letter Carriers, and the San Fran- cisco Letter Carriers’ Mutual Aid As- | Paintings sociation resulted as follows: Presi- Pictures dent, H. M. Locke: vice president, Miniatures James 1. Donohoe; treasurer. George Statuary C. Goe; recording secretary, Ike Holz; In Bronze financial secretary, Conrad Trieber; collecter M. B. A., Thomas Nixon; di- rector (three years), John A. O'Con- nell; physician, Dr. John F. Dillon: ser- ! geant at arms, R. D. Cuningham; board of directors of sick and death benefit fund—Louis E. Boivin, Charles A. Brittan, D. F. Dougherty, William Barry, J. 3 Sullivan. Improvemient Club Officers. The Precita Valley Improvement Club held its annual election of officers at Powers' Hall last night and after the election twenty-seven mnew members signed the roll. The election resulted as follows: President, Stephen A. Byrne; vice president, George Ryai financial secretary. 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