The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1904, Page 9

10 SELL PART OF BOND ISSUE Supervisors Finally ]’b. -Bill | Setting April 18,1904, a ———— GO TO {]1;](}?.\‘T','BID'YLEl.(: ICISCO CALL; ¥ REPORT Sapervisers Direet -Joint Com-| ‘ mittee to- Investigate Con- | REGULAR . LIGHT SHAFTS| | Board "of ‘Supervisors Inquires : MISSION STREET | i.‘resident and Cashier of an Finance Conmmiitee Favors an ND OWNERS ARRESTS MAKE WIN BIG SUT! LEGAL TANCLE preme Court’ Gives Valuable|Action of Courts in Two Z ] ~ARIZONA EY. I | : v » Into - Fimancial - Operations| = Appropriation of 875,000 in.| - Institution That Failed Re-| Properfy tothe Californial Counties the Cause of the Date for Opening of Proposals| _dition of Various Strueturcs| of Spring: Valley Company| ~Next Budget for Improvement| eently Are Arrested at Xight} and Oregon:.Land Cémpany | : Appeal to Supreme Tribunal INQUIRY IS = DESULTORY | ORGANIZATIONS QUARREL|CHARGE OF E){BEZZLEMENT’OVER A MILLION IX}"_OL.’VE,D PROBLEM FOR JUSTICES —_— | . e | ST F5s 0 —_— il -1 San Franciseo. Gas-and Eléctric | Company Files: a’ Statement of Revenue and Expenditures| 18th o 3 : Board | adopted a reselution providing that the Ordinarce Proposes. to Extend Limits in Which Blasting and | Rock Crushing AreProhibited | R The Board ¢f Superyisors yesterday Judiciary and Fire Committee jointly institute a-thorough and complete ir- vesfigation of the condition of “all the- ters. hotel lodging-houses, hospitais and sanitartrms with respect to their | ety against danger frcm fire and panic. - Aftér the completicn of the in- véstigation the comrittee will report back to thé beard such recommenda- | tions -as seem proper feér the safety -of patrons of sich structures. f In . the inveéstigation the committes | e - lwill ‘advise With the boards of Pubilc Werks, re Fire Commis- | Passe sioners, Chief of Pol. Chief: of s directed to ion of side- er they are ed by la ed to fur- all er- er ten feet in a th | A TAX TENDER COLLECTOR SMITH « vil Service Employes Gather at Ta- ble and Enjoyab the Affair Is Result. Lyons’ Will Is Filed. th ate Charles Lyons, for probate yes- leaves the e his widor was filed eased 1o ST ST NS | to a Waterman, pen. Price 5 il & Co.* nborr ——————— Customs Laborer Appointed. R w Brackett was appointed yes- ns Collector Strat at of §540 salary per ———— e annum f Eastern | years ago pports more Australia ag a sandy than a A thirty tract which desert million | | | | | Corner in in San Francisco. | and | was prepared to make a A very striking article by Ray Stannard Baker about the entirely new in the labor world, described for the first time in this number of McClure’s. and.| inée extending the limits,| within- which-it is prohibited to biast and crush rock so as-to inglude the easterly liné of San Migrel Rancho and the northerly and_easterly line. of he House, of Refuge lot on Havelock- street was rel ed to the Street Comy ¢ s o) e resolufien rescinding the’ perniit | iding purposes_on .block stro-street Addition was’| urance Com- 15 for use:| itled Eu- the city and county ite Club was granted boxing. perrhit for®Febru in “the gene Leroy The Yosei professional The ordinance regulating the butld-’ ing of light and vent shafts in bulld-, ings was passed to print. ensuing The petiticn Club to give a professional boxing con- test in. March was referred to the Po- ce Committee. HEALTH BOARD PROBES CHARGES Ex-Superintendent W. J. Kelly of the Almshouse Is Asked to Explain Certain Shortages et | Ex-Superintendent W. J. Kelly of the Almshouse is the subject of an investi- tion by the Board of Health result from charges filed by Frank A..| mitz, the present superintendent. When Schmitz took office and the books of the Almshouse were -turned over n he claimed to have found that n accounts needed explanation by ned that Kelly had han- n of Mrs. Mary O'N of the Almshouse. and that of pvaid over to she the sum he 2 entitled nother cor t made by was that Kelly had not a for the fund of $250 donated by Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst previous to Christmas, the donation being for the benefit of the inmates of the Alms- house An expert examined the books of the Almshouse and a report was filed with the Board of Heaith. The resuit was that a special committee was appointed to investigate. The committee, con- sisting jof Drs. Poheim, Harvey and Hughes, met yvesterday and was aided by Deputy Health Officer Louis Levy in probing into the rges made by Frank A. Schmitz against Kelly. J. W. Cameron, ex-assiétant secre- | tary of the Board of Health. appeared | for Kelly. Cameron stated that Kelly | was too ill to attend the meeting, but v explanation In reply to questions, Cameron neaded | stated that he had worked on the books of the Almshouse for Kelly previous to Schmitz taking office and that ever thing was supposed to be in good shape. Cameron made no expianation of why Kelly had made an_error of $72 in pay- ing the penision of Mrs. O'Neil, other than it was an erro Cameron, on behalf of Keily, tendered the $72 to { the investigating committee, but the | was not in their province to do so. Finally Superintendert ank A. Schmitz accepted the money and ga a receipt for it to Cameron and the | Paid for permanent improveme Grunsky Says Plant s Worth | $24.673,212 and Schussler Values 1t at $40,000,000 —— ey The Board of Supervisors yesterday | met as’a committek-of the whole to | ¥ operations able the sum of investigate the financial during 1903 of the Spring Vallay Wa- ter Company for the-purpose of fixing | Mission street frem East street the water rates for the next fiscal year. Little progress was macde into the ex- fore the commitiee and sakd the sum | t¥, on warrants charging them the company, owing to a n#sunder- standing 38 to the character -of the questions to be asked at the initial in- iuiry and as a result the inquiry a desultory one. Mayor Schmitz was present at the investigntion and at his side suat Rus- special assistant enginegr ‘during ihe investigation by- the Board of Works, while. City Engiiteer Grunsky sat with Supervisor.d’Ancona, chairman of tkte Wiiter Commitiee. D’Ancona said that the line of inves- tion would. inctude the cause of hange of the corporate name from t pring Valley - Water Works” 1o pring Vidlley Wiiter Company.” Brainhart quoted from the. decision of | the United States court that only prop- erty actually iu use could be used as a basis for fixing the valuation of the plani. preceding years .were made a part of he record. Pelham ‘Ames, secretary of the com- pany, was the ‘first: and only witness sworn and he agreed to file a fiscal his- one and a half yea questioned _regarding the new con- struction rk by the company, for which he gave the kegregated items. ' COMPAD M past, The company had filed a statement {; e i showing Jts rec ipts during 1903 to ‘er rents Private consumers City and county Shipping .. $178T 47 45 Other *sources: ..s... T Opi Taxes Interest .. 407 16 Surplus . Divicends, 680,767 01 The statement is segregated so as to show «thle fifancial operations from January 1, 1903, to September 24 of the Spring Valley Water Works and those for the remainder of the. r, when the corporate name was changed to-the Spring The statement also shows the name of each water rat€ paver, his place of residence and the amount he‘has.paid for water dur thé year. Explaining an item of discount on borids, Ames sum had been written off new construction account bhecause the bonds had been sold below par and the money raised had been used to pay a floating debt incurred for new con- $25,000 for d that the a loss on struction work. FIX VALUE OF PLANT. The Board of Public Works trans- to the Supervisor nent prepared by Ci y of the properties the ap- Engineer of mitted used in furnishing the ci nd its in- habitants with a pure supply of water. ( ky states that the appraisement agrees in the main with those sub- mitted in preceding years, betterments being added at about cost to the original valuation. It does not in- clude such properties as the Portola eservoif, the upper sections of the Locks Creek aqueduct, the Lobos Creek lands and the Market-street reservoir site, which are not at pres- ent in use. The recapitulation of the report follows |amination of ‘the representatives of of $I2 was Societies to which Q the | Sell L. Duiin, who has Leen appointed © The investigations of the SiX gap Francisce society. During -the dis. a*| tory of the company’s operations for | the San Francisco society, to call Stern Ameés was a liar. ] ley Water Company. *y ! land the | alley Water Company actually |- Per Pilarct §1,228,660 San Andreas system 2,302,701 . eeyeees - e e | money will be turned over to Mrs. | O'Neil. Regarding the disbursement of the donation of Mrs. Hearst, Cameron said that Kelly was entitled to expend the amount he saw fit, and that he had given the money away to ap- plicants for charity and other worthy causes. The investigating doctors thought that Kelly should furnish vouchers for the amounts expended out of Hearst's donation, but Cameron did not j doctors refused to accept it, saying it | agree with them. | | The investigation was then adjourned Mrs. |- Management of Publie Pound Ieads .to Disputes Between | Officors. -of- Rival Societies The Supervisors' Finance Committee | erday recommended that if' avail- 000 e aliowed dn.| or the widening of | o] Property owners appeared be- | the next budget Ninth. 25,000 would be required. The Mayor's sefretary, George B.! Keane, was requested to file a state-| ment showing the different benevolent | ‘the Robinson be- |- st fund has been distributed. 3 he County Clerk wasg directed to use the hood tyrewriting machine instead | f the loose leaf system in his office. fér the Prévention of Cruelty to Ani-| mals to take charge of the pound for | 3500 a month and to file a band of $5900 | for its. faithful .condnct of the public' pound during its vemporary ‘manage- | ment, - The society will displace H. - O. Irwin, the Mayeor's appointee, the Su- | pervisors having passed an -erdinance tuking the appointment away.from the city's chief executive. Ren Stern’ of. the Pacific Humane So- | n ciety thought the-latter should be. the pound as its offer was more tageous to the city than that of th o cussion Stern said that he could make yut as bad a case against the latter so- ciety when it had the pound once be- fore &s was made against Irwin. This ‘caused John Partridge, president of Both mer advanced threaten- ingly toward each othér, but the chair- | man made them sit down. The int Committee of Finance and v refused’ to recommend ' the £ an ordinance providing for appointment of an electrical - en- gineer, cashier, stenographer, clerk, .storekeeper, machinist and rapher-secretary for the Department of Elec as recommended by .the Mayor on July 13, 1903. .All of the em- ployes are at present employed by the cashier, -who was laid offs 'about a month ago. Two months’ salary is now due kim, the'Civil Service Com-| iis: iming that -the position | should Pe created by the Board of Su- pervisors. The committee was of the copinion that a cashier could ‘be taken Stom the eligible’ list of experienced | clerks, and-as the other employes, were *being paid*no actien should ‘be taken. ..An ordipance was passed to print by +he board accepting a- deed from thé Spring JValley Water Company of land | to be used for the extension of Nine. teenth avenue to Ocean avehue. - ° The fesolution authorizing the Board of W s to purchase the land for $3500 s repealed. The City Attorney was directed not to prosecute an appeal in the case’of the city vérsus Albouze et al., affect- ing the tondemnation of lands for®St. Marys squere, belonging to Annie Chapman. * . 2 The Civil ‘Service Commission fi'>d with the board” a list showing the names, saries and positicng of all temporar civil service. K The deed made by C. L. ‘Pattén to conveyed to the city for $1500 t6 extend East Park street and Rich- | land avenue was aceepted. —————— Horses Killed by a Train. N RAFAEIL, Feb. 1.—Five valu- able horses belonging to D. Valen- tine, were, killed near San Clemente station, on the California Northwest- ern Railroad, some time last night. All of the animals were high-bred stock. They were killed by an up-country freight train. It .is presumed that some one let them out of the pasture and drove thefn on the track. S f—— Crystal Springs system wae pumpifig station ter rights v $9,018,100 Alameda Cfeek system 5,039,418 City distributing system Office 1ot and buflding........... Lake Merced lands, pumping plant, drainage WOrkS ............. Miscellaneous properties .. The report concludes: igd 1t be determined by the Supervisors ude in the valuation an allowance due to the fact that the business is an established one this additional allowance would be &p- praised at $1,500,000, being about 25 per cent Ljail, where he found Swain under ar- The ccmmittee directed the Seciety | rest: | court .sténog- |- appointments subject tol of the appraisement of the city aistributing system Chief Engineer Schussler of the Spring Valley Company filed a pamph- let, in which he figures that the in- in order to give Kelly an opportunity trinsic value of the plant is in excess of appearing and making a personal ©of $40,000,000. explanation. ADVERTISEMENTS. MAGAZINE For February contains Labor Something ANY NEWSDEALER OR McCLURE AGENT The most extraordinary chap- ter of Ida M. Tarbell’s story of RocKefeller A collection of papers never before published, showing how the Standard Oil spies on its rivals and kills their business. Good Short Stories—Fine Illustrations : “THE ALIENS” 055827 BOOTH TARKINGTON YOU CAN GET McCLURE'S FROM 10c A COPY—$1.00 FOR A YEAR'S 8. 8. McCLURE CO., 157 EAST 25th #TREET, NEW YORK Assessor Dodge filed a statement showing that the assessment of the Spring Valley Company for 1903 was [as follows: OR FROM THE PUBLISHERS Real estate .« §782,580 Improvements N 030 Personal property 4,008,372 | Franchise 5,330,000 Total -$10,678,982 WILL RAISE ASSESSMENT. Dodge makes the following signi- fleant statement in his report: In this connection it may interest your hon- orable board to know that it Is my intention to make a material increase in the assessment of .the Spring Valley Water Company this year. The Spring Vailey Water Company was directed to file an itemized state- ment showing the cost of new construe- tion during the years 1901, 1902 and 1903, the amount expended on each part of its works in separate items for each year and omitting the statements of expenditures already furnished on properties obtained from the Suburban Water Company. The same company was also directed to furnish a detailed statement of its operating expenses for the last three vears including the salaries or wag»s of each employe, the amount paid for advertising and to whom, the amount paid for counsel fees and the amounts paid for commissions and to whom. The company was also directed to furnish a statement of its revenues derived from all. sources and of its expenditures for 1903; also the quantity of water pumped at each of its pump- ing stations and the amount of water in its various reservoirs; also to fur- nish maps showing the acreage of ad- ditional lands pmow owned by the cor- poration. Stephen A. Byrne, president of the Precita Valley Club, informed the board in a communication that the Y Spring Valley Water Company had failed to comply with a resolution or- dering a better water supply for the residents east of Folsom street and north of Powhattan, and that it is necessary to attach pumps to the ser- vice to get water. The board adjourned until Friday night at £ o’clock, when the inquiry will be resumed. f P-roxhihent Citizens in the|Realty Is Located in Klamath| Fast 'Driving of a Former Southwest Go to Jail Because | Reservation and Was ¢laimed | .. Ceustable of Pajaro Results * of Alleged Failure to PayCoin| Under the Grant of. 1864 |: in->a * Deuble Convietion NOGALES, Ariz, Feb. ~John| WASHINGTON, Feb.' 1—Ii an|- SALPVAS Feb, 1.—A curious legal Dysart, president, and ‘L. R. Swain, |opinion by Justice Holmes the Unitell | sanglé will be brought before the Su- cashier, Gf the International Bank,:States Supreme Ceurt to-day deétided -preme Court. to-morrow on appeal. were arrested at 1 o'clock this morn-/the long pending case, between. the’| The : decision will have interest ing /at their respective residenges by | United States and the Califprnis, and | ‘throughout .the Starte. Sheriff Turner of Santa Ciara’ Coun-| Oregon Land Company, involving the | About three. weeks ago George Ri- with | ownership of land in the Klarhath In- | fey &f " Pajaro, a former constable, emhezzling: $21,004 belonging to the]dian Reservation in Oregon, which was| #rove across a bridge which spans the firm of P. Sandoval & C9., bankers of | claimed by the land coyipany under| Pajaro River at Watsonville, dividing that ¢ity, which was on deposit in theflh! grant to the Oregon .Mfiillpry_oeu-;‘aamg< ruz an(t\ Mrinlfwroy‘ (l-]nux.\u;s. H: bank at the tire of tho recent failure, ’;rsflelc.“ dgon Réad Compaiy, madé in ;::;;;Tf"‘l-ll»""m‘:_:‘l:“";:h; ;:“ ‘m‘;:“ Presidert Dysart was in bed when | ™"y, jeoigion was favorable to the [was mdde in Santa Cruz County Sheriff Turiier cafe to serve WarTants, | .ompasy and agalnst the Government. Igon. his return to Pajaro. which is bat ‘was taken at once to the county | There are 90,000 acres of land in- .in Monterey County. Riley was again ed and it is valued at $Y,3.06,000. | srrested ‘a pleaded not guilty, but The case was argued three times.for was convicted and fined $30. He ap- the land ‘company by Judge Z. E. Pil- | plied for a writ of habeas corpus on c & 3 —_—— An hour later L. H. Renart, one of the directors, was servell with . - L ind that he had already been : ‘hile in the lobby of the lon and A. F. Browne and: for' the ‘the Zround i s ;:flg’.}fia‘flofflx;nd locked up ~ on | Government by the Solicitor Genera). . punished for the same offense. iis dimitar charge. - The . imprisoned| The Chief Justice,and Justiets Har~| writ was denied by "‘:{m;n?; bl ks R v re- | gent this aftérnoon men have not yet furnished bonds. 88 AN BLON PG ‘manded to the custody of the Sheriff. The bank closed its dcors three 4 3 “ - - weeks ago, the officials promising it| 3 & A wiit of hab as lm'}ms”"\:‘vll< *jé ap- would resume on the fellowing Mon- |<¢itizens of Arizona, having . been ;plied :for. to-moriow in Supreme day, but it. ‘failed to-do so, where- | prominent for years in financial’ mer- |'Court. ; upon- the Territorial Bank Examiner |cantile and political circles.. . Ruhart./- . ... . TS SRR . made an examipation and asked the| was foimerly Territorial manager for.|. The United States now produces 85 't _to appoint .a receiver. Presi-|the New York Life Insurancg -Com- :per cent of all the refined copper of the dent, Dysart is one. of the best knows | pany. ; f World. GRAPE-NUTS. More nourishrhent is therefore needed to support . that sort of brain-work than to support twice as much of a diffused and varied kind. . - Nearly all great successes have been achieved thropgh intense Concentration, which is like the ‘. “Burning Glass,” that-focuses' sunlight so hotly upon a single spot as to set wood affame. -~ The apility to Concentrate is reckoned equivalent to having twice as much Brain power of non- . Ambitious people’ are therefore the greatest suf- ferers from “ Brain-fag,” which is exhaustion of reserve gray matter in certain Nerve Cells, frequently due to over-concentration. When that reserve of gray matter is gone—the valuable power of concentration is lost, and oniy the __ right elements in food can quickly restore it. ; These elements are Phosphate of Potash and Albumen, which are contained in the outer coats of wheat. -] c But,—the Miller carefully sifts out thesc dark The outer coats are too fibrous to crush into fine Flour, and so dark in color as to prevent its sale to people wno want white flour merely because “Grape-Nut’ it looks nice. ~ * differs from all other Wheat foods in coler as well as in nutritive quality. It is dark brown, instead of white, or creamy, like other Wheat foods, because it contains all of the dark colored Bran-coats, in their full efficiency of Phosphates. ‘It is heavier than any other Wheat preparation because it is concentrated, and contains a high per cent. of the mineral elements that rebuild Brain and Nerve tissue. But,—though heavier and darker, a Government Analysis proves it to be eighteen times more digestible than Oatmeal, and three times as ready for assimilation as the average Wheat food. “Grape-Nuf " contains the best Brain and Nerve materials, past the Liver Stage, so that the imperfect stomach of the average person can get all the nutrition cut of it. - It promptly repairs “Brain-fag” and is the correct food for Grape - e “NULS brains are made of”