The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1904, Page 7

5 FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1904. SAN DIEGO'S CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS PROMOTING PUBLIC GOOD BY HOLCOMES IiRecTom VERY PRACTICAL UNDERTAKING — OFFICERS AND ME {BERS OF THE SAN DIEGO CHAMBER OF COMME RCE, WHO ARE ACTIVELY ADVANCING TH]'ZTR CITY i S INTERESTS. | City of of Citizens Who Stand Together to Improve. s city of | T making two oiled boul S h » the park and out beyond the atte sagie to the Normal School. The offer . wds accompanied with the condition . that the ¢ r some one else should lory pare the roads and ofl them. The < the city was made through t was Tne park com- Chamber of Commerce and d by the city. . the Chamber of Commerce ok care of the proposition as to the through the park, a ce of about two and two-thirds n The portion of the dri side of the park was prepared the city's street force, r that the expense snould not be snerity | 10O _great drain on the street fund ad city the Chamber of Commerce, its committee on roads and raised money to be ex- labor on this particular The offer of Mr. Gay, to the ofl, has cost him Soaliia or the driveway is seven efforts oil be used to make the best oiled drive in Southern California. IMPROVING THE DRIVES. r offer of a somewhat similac g s, Diego Ba was made through the »ast, next to San F Chamber .of Commerce by Colonel Al > and the Governme G. Spalding, known to every Amer- r depth of wat on | ican who ever played baseball, whose but no appropriation | home is now at Point Loma. The drive was passed until the merce raised a fund nt out amount of that with the bar would not again fill ment brought the aj and along Point Loma is the most htly on earth, not excepting that around the heights overlooking the bay of Naples. < In order to add to its attractiveness Mr. Spalding, through the Chamber of Commerce, offered to improve the drive now harbor can | and oil it thoroughly from the Rose- of water over the | ville Postoffice, through the portion of water, where, be-!the Point owned and occupled by the of the Government, | Theosophical Society and Universal Chamber of Com- | Brotherhood, to the military reserva- erly but twenty- | tion, if the city would likewise improve In something the | the roadway from the Courthouse in yme the appropria- | the city of San Diego proper to the y and for the | p, »ffice mentioned. Once more the ground, both Chamber of Commerce came forward are now in to assist in the acceptance of the offer | which had been made through it, and the committee on roads and boule- vards secured between $1800 and $2000 with which to assist the city in carry- ing out its portion of the improvement proposed. The work on both boule- vards is now going on. The chairman of the Chamber of Commerce commit- tee on roads, Dr. Grove, is not the jeast watchful of the superintendents of the work for which he has raised | close to $3500. Through the efforts of the chamber six improvement clubs were formed by the citizens of as many sections of the city. These clubs are looking out for the little improvements of their particular outer bar was out to sea y. The middle ake out some nside the bay of eighteen i where GREAT PARK AREA. D e o Chmter ot 0" | sections. Committees are _appointed D e s argely to Be eredited for|PY the clubs on the different streets ting work on the large public | 274 In ways best known to themselves - Kléh< "rfiouotru larger b;.a,;u "(l they succeed in getting the streets p - acres, larger by a small | ;o ned up, vacant lots freed’of their amount than Golden Gate Park in| (B 4 s cisco. Again the support of | collected rubbish and start the res! = FRRCISES, PPOTL Of | 5o1ts to gek that their street be grad- the people was asked for and was| ;' . hed and sidewalked. The work given. A fund of $20,000 was secured | yo. “TPCC ®0 PO 8 dve but ex- by subscription and the committee was | placed in charge of the work. The special permigsion of the Council and Board of Works authorized this. Mr. | farston supplied a fund almost as ge as that raised by the people, and | Samue! Parsons & Company, land- scape architects in the country, came west to assist with presence and ad- | The entire plan of improve- ceedingly effective for the amcunt of outlay. S The suggestion was made that’ the University of California would like to have jts blological school located here, |and a special committee of the cham- | ber took hcid of the work with the re- | sult that the school is now open and a local corporation formed to support it for three years, by which time the ment from the entire 1400 acres has| i been made out and hundreds of trees i fieg ots of the Datvirslty aré expected and shrubs have been set out. The| X committee has from time to | particular piece of work is at present m3 reported progress to the Cham-!j,ving plans to secure ‘overnmgnt aid ber. but the work has been done by | g, the station and the attendance for and under the supervision of the com- | .¢ jeast a portion of the time of the mittee, and it has been well done. In pyap Commission steamer Albatross. future years the improvement of the |y thig the chamber will succeed, for it immense area will take large sums of | pag formed the “habit of success” in money, but mrou" the efforts of this | wrae j¢ kes. 'C) committee of the /Chamber of Com- ARDS ITS INTERESTS. merce a start has/been well made. The improvement of the park by| All of the committees are working th\tn ::’l;\lllllee and its el-‘:nnn 'l::; oul ing upon the city funds to an offer by John H. Gay to supply -on horticulture ards | ber of Commerce the entire lemon growing portion of the State owes thanks for the continuation this year of the $1 rate on lemens until the 15th of instead, as the railroads to ha the rate 8o out on the 31st day. of March. of the excessively cold winteér East the lemon growers were getting no advantage of what wa termed the winter rate on lemons, as there s not the least demand for the The fact came to the attention of the Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Akerman of the committee on horticul- ture took it up. In the board of direct- ors’ room of the San Diego Chamber of Cemmerce Vice Presi Paul Mo 1« and Messrs. Bi ., Biddle ar Chambers of the Santa Fe road heard the @ uments that convinced them that an extension of the 31 rate would be the proper thing. It was extended further even than was requested. It is not often Diego institution is called upon to do | |s0_it does it with no more he than it would look into a transporta- | tion problem in which the community is interested. Last summer Sir Thomas Lipton sent a $1500 trophy to the Corinthian Yacht Club of San Diego to be raced for by the thirty- footers of the Pacific Coast annually off the mouth of San Diego harbor. It was necessary for San Diego to have |a yacht to compete in the race and | | | the Corinthians had none capable of protecting the trophy. Such races off the bay will certainly prove an adver- tising card for San Diego, while the failure of Sar Diego to have a yacht in the race would be an advertisement with a minus sign in front of it. There- fore Grant Conard of the advertising committee took charge of matters and twice formed a syndicate to purchase a yacht., Once he was going to pur chase the Cadillac of Detroit, but some one got ahead of him. When Presi- dent Peters of the chamber went East and und that the Detroit, which was the only rival of the Cadillac, could be purchased, he wired the fact to Mr. Conard and in two hours a sec- ond syndicate was formed and the yacht was bought by wire. The yacht is now on the way out here and it is confidently expected that she will prove what Chamber of Commerce un- dertakings down this way have al- ways proved—a success. AN ENERGETIC BODY. Recently the members of the board of directors have been considering the advisability of seeking a new home for the chamber, and a special com- mittee, with Willlam Clayton as chair- man, been named to make what investigations seem to be necessary. The committee has but just got organ- ized, with a sub-committee or two named. The outlook is bright, the prospects for plenty of work for the chamber are good and the chances that there ever will be a lack of inter- | est in that work are exceedingly slim. ‘What work will present itself can only be guessed. One aim of the year is a membership of 1000. That will be ac- complished and whatever tasks come to the front will be undertaken with confidence that success will continue to wait upon the efforts of this or- ganization of San Diego business men. The railroad committee has been a hard working committee and it has accomplished much. From the loyal citizens who believed that the cham- in position to take care of it. |per should be supported, a subscription The committee having charge of this | of $30,000 was raised, and with that amount of cash a survey was pushed through to Yuma and a reconnoissance survey was carried through Arizona and New Mexico. The result of the work of the committee brought C, W. French here, through whom it is e that the road will be built and other enterprises started, including the plant of the Pacific Steel Company, to use the immense iron deposits of Lower California. Faithfully the Chamber of Com- merce has worked for years. It was i that a Chamber of | miles long, and through the Chamber | Commerce is called upon to go into rce he directed that enough | the field of sports, but when the San itation | Splendid Promise in the South Finds Co-operation on the Part of Hundreds| (organized in 1870, embracing a body of the representative and active busi- ness men of the town, who were united for e beiter promotion of the pub- ; interest and the municipal wel- The by-laws provide that the en- couragement of immigration to San Diego Ceunty is a foremost purpose of the chamb and that two-thirds of the net ‘income of the chamber shall be applied to advertising San Diego and California of the Rockies. The remaining one-third is placed in a contingent fund, to be drawn upon only on vote of the boar® of directors. It is also provided that six of the members of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum and that the board shall meet in business hours once a week regularly, special meet- ings being called by the president | when deemed advisable. There are no open meetings of the members for the transaction of busi- ness, the entire management of the in- | stitution being left in the hands of the directors. The members put good men on the board and then turn the af- fairs of public interest over to the: This method is found far more satfs- | factory than attempting to hold full | membership meetings for the transac- [tion of business. A quorum is always present; the business is more satis- | factorily transacted. The directors at- |tend to the busin as the directors | of a bank or of a railroad corporation {and the business of the members 1s | only the same as the business of the | #tockholders of a corporation—to see that the board of directors is made up of good men. The present officers of the chamber are: THE OFFICIAL BOARD. | . President. Homer H. Peters, capitalist and banker; vice president, John S. Akerman of { the Pacific Wood and Coal Co.; second vice | president, E, Strablmann o ahlmann & | Meyer, druggists; treasurer, George W. Fisl | burn, ‘cashier First Natlonal Bank; secretary, {H. P. Wood; directors, Will H. Holcomb, County Clerk; E. A. Hornbeck, manager N | tiopal’ City and Otay Rallroad. Pacific Beac and La Jolla | ern_ Railroa 13 Rufus Choate. bank teller; J. | NewRirk, postmaster; Barker Burnell chant; W. L. Frev manager Chadbourne Furniture Company; Grant Conard, real es tate agent; Edward Grove, physician; E. B. Shaffer, County Auditer: L. A. Wright, at- | torney;” Melville Klauber, wholesale mer- | chant. W. L. Frevert was president last year and the vear before, and George H. Ballou was president for the two pre- ceding years. Among former presidents are Judge M. A. Luce, George W. Mars- ton, E. W. Morse and A. E. Horton, “‘father of San Diego.” The chamber is well supported and strong in membership. There are be- | tween 500 and 600 active members, be- sides three honorary members and twenty life members, and the list to be considered an.excellent business directary of the city. The present hon- orary members are A. E. Horton, E. W. Morse and A. H. Butler. The life nia and Oriental Steamship Company, Levi Chase, B. P. Cheney, Dr. G. W. Earl, A. H. ost, Ralph Granger, 8. Grant, ard Ivinson, George W. Marston, Richard O'Neill, James Phe- lan, Henry Phipps, R. M. Powers, H. W. Putnam, D. C. Reed, E. W. Scripps, J. W. Sefton, O. J. Btmé'gh and A. G. Wells. The chamber occupies a ground floor in the business center of the city, with entrances on D street and on Sixth. There is no billiard-room, no cardroom, no cigar case. One wing of the “L" is fully occupied with a comprehensive display of fruits, farm products and other of the industrial resources of the county, and the other has a fine collec- tion :; e::m.nl'lm et’ th:u eo:lmy and a geolo; spec] n collection, which belongs to E. A. Hornbeck, one of the directors, and which 1s said to b one! of the finest in the State. In the angie between the two wings, and barricaded behind bales of printed matter inforced by a capable steno, her, is the 's office, and it is very sel- dom that the secretary is not to be found at his desk during and usually 2ailroad and Cuyamac and East- | of members as issued annually comes | CONSECRATION SERVICE HELD AT THE CATHEDRAL Many Young Women of the Chil- dren of Mary Receive a Spe- clal Blessing. A number of young women of ghe Children of Mary were consecrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral yesterday dfter- noon. The impressivte ceremonies commenced at 2:30 o'clock, when the children filed into the church, headed Holy Angels' Society. of consecration opened with a hymn, “Come, Holy Ghost.” Then came the | reception to aspirants, the comsecra- | tion, inStruction, benediction of the | most blesed sacramento and the “Te | Deum.” After the services had concluded the | various sodalities repaired to the base- ment, where the following programme was rendered: Address, Lynette | Wayside Shrine,” aspirants of sodality; plano | 60lo, Bessle Raitigan; “‘An Evening in May, Lorétta Simmons: dialogue, “‘Gifts of | The Beneficiencia (Il G.) Company of San Francisco. ORGANIZED MAY, 1900. TO THE PUBLIC!! BEWARE OF COU: | TERFEITS!! All ne tickets of this | company have G. CO.” on faces | and monogram ““R. G. C.”" on backs théreof. Following are the capital prizes as decided ! by cia Publica Company, Thurs- | day, May 26, 1904: 63468 wins $7500, sold ! in Sacramento, Cal 67 wine $2500, sold |4n-San Francisco, 3 T wins $1250, sold in Oakland ), 15238, 35015, | 66028 and 72 | Franeisco, | Cal | ~The R. G. Company paid to E. S. Halsey, | 841 Thirty-fourth st Oakland, Cal.. $3750 for alf “gf ticket No. 77204, drawing April , 1904; to S. L. Beary, Portland, Ora for client, $1260, for one-balf ticket No. 33742, same date; to N. Hadeno, 123 North Broadway, Los Angeles Cal., whole ticket No. 36134, same date; to Mrs. J. Mack, 529 Ei | enth st., Oakland, Cal, $300. for one-half | ticket No. 68530, drawing May 14, 1904; to Bank of Alvarado, for M. Kiwa, $1000, for one- | half ticket No. 63864, same date. . —_———————— | l Treated at Park Hospital. | E. W. Moore, well known about the | Cliff House and better known as' “Ma- | jor"” Moore, was thrown from a horse | on the ocean driveway yesterday and | ! sustained painful injuries and bruises. | Mrs. H. J. Cummings of 316 San Pablo | avenue, Oakland, was struck by a bi- | cycle ridden by William Moore of 614D | Howard street and sustained contu- | slons of the back. Both were treated | at the Park Hospital. | | | a little after business hours. The secre- | tary is H. P. Wood, a business man by | training and a suave and courteous gentleman, most loyal to the city, the county and the State. He was a mer- chant in Honolulu for years. ADVERTISES RESOURCES. The chamber carries on the publica- tion of Homeland, embellished with much illustration and devoted to San Diego County affairs. It has run through a half-dozen editions of 50,000 each, and has become known as one of the best publications for the purpose intended—to reach the people and com- pel perusal. Since the first of the year an edition of 50,000 of Homeland has been printed, besides 50,000 pamphlets on San Diego County, 50,000 small circu- lars and 5000 cards. These particular editions will be used largely for distri- bution at the World's Fair. Between January 1 and April 30 the chamber received ‘1550 letters and sent out 1394 | specially written ietters, besides 21,037 | e pieces of literature by mail or express. During those four months there wer 30,000 visitors in the Chamber of Com- ! merce rooms and 25,000 pieces of litera- ture were distributed from the secre- tary's office. The work of the chamber has not been devoted to hot-air booming of the city. On the other hand its policy and practice have been very conservative. It has set forth the climatic advan- tages of the section as a place of resi- demce. It has given prominence to ways in which money may be made, but health and happiness rather than immense wealth have been the strong points in all arguments for residence here. The result of this campaign of ed: tion has been to draw attention to San Diego as a resort at all seasons of the year and to a very striking degree. The crowded trains and hotels during both summer and winter give evidence of the wide spread of the city's fame, and the arrival of hundreds of new resi- dents gives more evidence that adver- tising pays, for the Chamber of Com- merce has not limited its advertising to the pamphlets sent out, but has | prepared and paid for page advertise- ments at a time in the Sunday issues | of Eastern dailies, all of which made | for the good of both San Diego and the whole of California, for the San Diego | Chamber of Commerce has never lost ! sight of the fact that the advancement of the State is the advancement of San | Diego and the progress of the city is | the progress of California to an ex- | tent. The Chamber of Commerce maintains | | two exhibits, the one already described i es located in the rooms here, and an { exhibit almost as large at the rooms of !the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce. For the remainder of the pres- ent year the chamber will ship fresh exhibits, at least twice a week, to St. Louls. The country people, even to many miles away, are warm friends ot the Chamber of Commerce, realizing ! as for the city of San Diego. | ACTIVE COMMITTEES. ber is being extended as the years pass. Its committees, both standing and special, are constantly at work Most of the chairmen of committees are named by the president of the board of Airectors and selected from the boara. The chairmen select their own assistants from the body of the chamber, and each chairman is careful to get a committee that will work, and work in harmony. ing committees are: Executive—Homer H. Peters chairman; J. 8. Akerman, Edward Strahlmann, George W, | Fishburn, L. A. Wright. | Advertising—Grant Conard, W. M. H c. W. Ernstine. City improvement—J. MacMullen, E. E. White, | _ Commerce and _manufacture—M. Klauber, | W. M. Gray, B. W. McKenzie. | N. Newkirk, James W. B. Hage, C. H. Swallow. Harbor improvement—W. L. Frevert, L. L. Boone, G. H. Ballou. Horticulture and agriculture—J. 8. Aker- man, R. C. Allen, I L Irwin. Julius Wangenheim, xevzpber-hlp—numu Choate, D. C. Collier Jr., M_ W. Folsom. Mining—W. H. Holcomb, L. S. McLure, H. rdon. | Marston, H. P. 5 | 'Rr;ld- and _ boulevards—Edward Charles Kelly, D. F. Harbison. tie N. D. Tichenor, Jarvis L. Doyle, A Grove, ing include one on park improvements, g | George W. Marston chairman; on per- \mnent building, Willlam Clayten chairman; school of biology, Dr. F. M. ‘B.,ker chairman; improvement clubs, M. Klauber chairman. All of the committees work in har- | mony with the committees of the City ‘ouncil and Board of Supervisors. county government are members ' of d re- the Chamber of Comerce and some of | ! them are active in its couneils. More- over, the chamber has the active sup- ! port of the citizens of both city and + county. P ' NUMBERS ! by the Child Jesus Sodality and the | The formula recitation, ‘‘The ! Our | | Lady,”” members of the sodality; “Mater Ad- | mirables,” “A Crown for Our Queen,”” chil- | dren of Mary that it is doing good for them as well The field of usefulness of the cham- | The present stand- | 5ooa7 | tt, | County deveiopment—Edward Stfahlmann, | gec t ' | _ Legislation—L. 'A. Wright, Eugene Daney, members are H. H. Bancroft, Califor-| C. Go Rallroads—Georse W. Fishburn, George W. | . Wood. { ost of the members of the city nnd‘ —OF THE— BENEFIGENGIA PUBLICA : (Class “E.™) E City of Mexieo, May 26, 1904. | Prize.| Prize.| . 20| 20 20 100/ 40| APPROXIMATION PRIZES. 100 numbers from 63418 to 63518, inclusive, being fifty numbers on each side of the mum- ber drawing the capital prize of $60,000. $60. 0. 100 numbers from 18,817 to 18.917, inclusive, | being fifty numbers on each side of the num- ber drawing the capital prize of $20.000, $40. 100 pumbers from 6187 to 6387 inclusive, | being fifty numbers on each side of the num-~ ber drawing the capital prize of $10,000, $20. TERMINAL PRIZES. 790 numbers ending With 68, being the last of the number drawing the capital rize of $60.000, $20. P ambers ending with 6T, being the last two figures of the number drawing the capital prize of $20,000, $20. The subscribers having supervised the abovs | arawing of the Lottery of the Beneflcencia Publica, hereby certify that the above is an exact copy of the numbers which were this day drawn from the 30,000 placed in the wheel with the prizes corresponding to them. Witness onr hands at the City of Mexico, this 26th day of May, 1904 U. BASSETTIL Manager. X VEGA. Treasury Department. Intervenor. Auction! We will offer the following choice properties by order of the referee Thursday, June 2, 1904, at our salesroom, 20 Montgomery street. Subject to confirmation by the Superior Court. NO. . Ellis street, south line, 82:6 east of Jones street, east 27:6x 137:6. Improvements consist of a three-story dwelling rented low at $85 per month. A splendid holding to improve with 2 modern building. NO. 2. south line, 137:6 east of Stockt treet, east 45:10x137:6 to {aricm_ ylace. Improvements consist of frame building rented low at $11550 per month. Rents could readily be increased. Notice—Bids obtained at this Bush street 100131414, . 20131748, sale cannot be increased in court. For terms and further par- ticulars apply to G. H. UMBSEN & CO,, Auctioneers, 20 Montgomery st. STATEMENT OF THB CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THB North German Fire INSURANCE COMPANY HAMBURG, GERMANY, ON THE 31ST December, A. D. on that cay, Commissioner of pursuant to the pr fornia. 610 and 611 of the Political per biank furnished by the Commissioner: CAPITAL. t of Capital Stock, pa in Cash sxsne d up Amounf $375.000 00 ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Company. Loans on Bomds and Mortgages. Cash_Market Value of ali Stocks and Bonds owned by Company.. Cash it Company's Offic . Cash in Banks.. Interest due and accrued and Mortgages on for Fire and Marine Risks . Due from other Companies for Ra- insurance on losses already paid. Losses adjusted and unpaid. Losses resisted, including expenses. Gross premiums on Fire Risks run. bing one year or less, §—— reinsurance 50 per Gross premiums on Ft ning more than one year, Total Liabilitles .....c.cceneene INCOME. 20| Net cash actually received for Fire 40 premiums . cees 40| Received for interest on Bonds and 20| T MOTtEAGES +occveraeeiozan s 20| Received for interest and dividends 40| “on Bonds, Stocks, Loans, and 40| trom all other sources. . 100 | Received for Rents 20 20 Total Income 100 EXPENDITURES. | Net amourt pald for Fire Losses (ncluding $158,240 96, losses of previous yearst $250.991 43 Dividends to Stockbolders. . 18,750 00 Paid or allowed for Commission or Brokerage .. . 239,674 84 Paid for .Saiaries, Fees and other charges for officers, clerks, ete.. 62,430 08 Pa:d for State, National and Local taxes . 5,355 06 | All other C p 103,447 31 . $489,548 22 Fire. Losses incarred during the year... $266,610 33 Risks and Premijums.| Fire Risks. | Premtums. Net_amonnt of Risks| thel $519.826,253 $1.255,208 81 \ year s 843,408, 1,510,797 93 t in_force N‘l;ec;-;kr 31, 1908. .} lfle.'l.lfl 478.100 48 OSCAR RUPERTIL, Vice President. ESECKE. Manager. bscribed before me, this 2lst of March. 1904, HUGH LITERING, U. 8. Consul General. WALTER SPEYER, CENERAL AGENT, "PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT, 225 Sansome St. i : 8 SusB3un ssueluns ussuuws Buwsws sususs wus 20{68367.....