The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1905, Page 36

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY ICHER PRICES FOR PRODUCTS Burean of Labor Bulle- tin Shows a Steady In- crease in Late Years| COST OF LIVING GROWS Food, Clothing, Fuel and All Household Goods Be- coming More Expensive Special Di flj"flu Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, May 27.— A bulletin Just jssued by the Bureau of Labor of the Department of OCommerce and Labor on the course of wholesale prices from 1800 to 1804 shows that prices have been steadily imcreasimg I higl memorable financial depression. A table giving the highest and low- est prices of various commodities classed under the head of farm prod- uots, food and clothing, fuel and light- ing, metal and implements, lumber and ding materials, drugs and chemi- cals and house furnishing goods shows that & majority of the highest prices are the figures paid at certain periods since 1900. The majority of the lowest figures fall within the years 94 to 1897 The lowest price for cattle was in the fourth week in April, 1896, when the best were quoted at $3 85 to $4 25 per 100 pounds. The highest price for cattle was the latter part of August, when it touched $7 60 to $9 per 100 pounds. Corn was lowest in 1896 and highest in 1892. Sixteen articles of farm production, ineluding sheep, cattle, hay, hogs, hides and grains, are enumerated. All have pased over the average price from 1690 to 1899. The increases in 1904 range from 7.8 per cent on sheep and 9.8 per cent on cattle to 32.6 per cent er tham inm 1892, just before the and commercial on corn, 35.8 per cent on oats and 38.3 per cent on wheat Th average increase in 1804 in wholesale prices of farm products over e average for the years 1890 to 189 23.2 per Of the fifty-two ar- ticles included under the head of food, is shown that in 1904 the prices of were lower than the he articles from 1890 screase over 6.8 per cent ty articles under the head of and clothing show t the price for 1804 is 9.8 per cent n from 1890 to 18! on fuel and lighting uminous and an- petrolenm and average 1904 price is higher than the 1590-99 hirty-six articles under the head Metals and Implements” show an in- se for 1904 of 10.1 ver cent over . price for 1890-99. Lumber ding mat of which er ix articles are listed, show an erease for 190¢ Of 24.6 per cent over price from 1890 to. 1899 nicals, house furnish- and miscellaneous articles w increases of 10 and 11.7 per cent ectively o prices of raw commodities in- sed 19.7 per cent and of manufac- commodities 11.3 per cent and commodities increased the average price from CALL ISSUED FOR BIDS FOR THE NEW CUSTOM-HOUSE Washington Authorities May Decide to Retain the Postofice Bullding at ments bids on the mew San an- sent out to-day. The bids will be opened here on June 20. The amount of the appropriation for the work is $1.500,000. The Postoffice Department is of the opinion that the new Postoffice at San Francisco will be ready to oc- cupy by August 1 The intention was to abandon the ferry postoffice, but it is possible that this decision may be changed if it is shown that it is essen- tial to the rapid distribution of the matls The following adjustments of salaries California postmasters were an- the First Assistant Post- ral to-day: Santa Maria, 0; Soldiers’ Home, $1100 to Creek, $1300 to $1200; Weaverville, $1400 to $1200; Santa Ro: $2500 to $2600; Sonoma, $1100 to $12 ¥ $1000, to fourth-class; Wood- land, $2100 to $2200. Edwin E. Cherry has been appointed fourth-class postmaster at Wendling, Mendocino County, Cal, vice Alvin R. Clary. of nounced by i Next to & Beautiful Woman ¥s a beautiful Passenger train like the WABASH CONTINENTAL LIMITED, running from Chicago to New~York and Boston. No extra charge made on this train for its superior accommodations. Ask your agent. - ph... oo B SR “Does your mother allow you to have two pleces of pie when vou are at home, Willle?” asked his hostess. “N aa'am.” . do you think she would like you to have two pleces here?” Oh, she wouldn't care,” said Willie. confidentially; “this isn’t her pie."— Ram's Horn. in the | four years until they are relatively | 1890-1899 | > Custom-house were prepared and | CONDUIT PLAN Says System Could Be Ap- plied to the Lines Here ——— {CHEAPER TO OPERATE —_— Surprised That Any Other | Sort of Road Is Used Except in the Suburbs | e BY JAMES S. TYLER, (Staff Correspondent of the Call) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.—After careful inquiry of the officials of the Capital Traction Company, the street corporation that controls and operates all of the principal street railroads of conclusion that the building of the Sut- road on the conduit plan is desirable but they will wonder how a corporation would care to operate any other sort of road except in suburban districts. The application of the conduit to the Mar- | ket-street system of San Francisco | would be fessible, it s said, except in sections where the grade is too steep for other than cable service. There are no trolley railroads in the city of Washington proper, but there are miles of well-buflt street lines that move swiftly and comfortably over level ground and grades alike and which are entirely free from break- downs. The officers. of the Washington cor- poration say that the condult gives lit- tle or mo trouble. It is as cheap & means of operation as the trolley and practically eliminates all danger of falling wires, carrying with them death-dealing currents of electricity. This means a minimum of lawsuits. The roads, however, are said to be con- siderably more expensive to comstruct, as they include not only the ordinary work required In the laying of such trackage as street lines require but the | conduit itself involves an expenditure that greatly adds to the capital in- vested Officials of the street roads of Wash- ington, Chicago and New York are naturally averse to discussing the mer- its or demerits of roads in other cities, | a feeling of professional courtesy, so to | speak, prevailing among them. But | once built is if anything a little cheaper to operate than the trolley. “In suburban sections,” said a Wash ington street railroad man, “we have found that it would require a great many years of patronage receipts to pay Interest on the large Investments required to build very long conduit | tnes. | WOULD REQUIRE BIG OUTLAY. “I understand that in San Francisco your street lines run a full ‘city- length’ in most cases; that is, the roads start from a given point and traverse | the town in a certain direction for its | entire length or breadth. A general | system of the conduit order would re- | quire in such a city as San Francisco, | I should imagine, a tr mendous outlay | | | | of money, as the lines would have to be rebuflt. But if a cable road exists where the condult is desired, then that is another question. § “I think that a cable line—that is, the roadbed and rails—could be con- verted much cheaper to the conduit | system than to the trolley system. But then one must take Into consideration the expense of changing the cars from | grip cars to motors. |~ “You say that your réad on Sutter is a cable road for part of its length. The car proposition would be a serious one for the company if the road were converted, but if new cars | have to be provided for the cable as it now is it would not cost any more for a conduit car than | cable car. The question of decision would be involved in the reconstruction and whether this would pay or not I | would not be able to judge unless I were in a position to know the per- centage of business carried by the cars and the proportions of its fluctuations. “Here in Washington we operate systems radiating from the center of the city in all directions. lines are conduit lines and they are highly satisfactory. However, our city is much smaller than San Franecisco and, as visitors here kKnow, we switch |from the conduit to the trolley in suburban extensions, or transfer to trolleys that traverse the less thickly settled parts of the city. “I don’t see how water could inter- ! fere with the operation of a conduit road, unless the drainage of the street ! and the sewerage maintained at a city's | expense were bad. We have no trouble |to speak of during snow storms and {our grades here are not heavy. Per- ! sonally, 1 believe that a conduit car | could go anywhere a trolley can climb. | A sudden rush of water in a conduit on ia steep grade might cause a loss of | power by induction and if rains were apt to eontinue in a downpour it might interfere with traffic. T am not posted sufficiently to offer an opinion.” SAN FRANCISCO IS PATIENT. | San Francisco is not the only city of | importance that has had to wait years for its new postoffice. Chicago has wait- | ed twenty years for its promised home | for mealls, and the citizens of that mu- street niclpality have come to the conclusion | that Government ownership should apply in the case of Government buildings as well as rallroads. lne contractors, “in- espectors” and the salaried “superintend- Ienu" of the Chicago postoffice bullding ] ““Pract Twenty “Practical vada and of California, Iflustrated for This s question of the strajification, for: vajusble articles are also containes in . the book. work Js that of John D. jong end patient study and especially men, 80 to those whose found &t Tomopah and THIS BOOK the U. 8. Lang Office time in the field Price of Book $1.00 Geological Structure of Tonopah Goldfields, Nev.'’ 8y join D. Hof, M. 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Pwnngum ol valuable as souvenirs and contalns the law pertaining to locating claims in lv“i: Decisions in regard to mining claims and the inal wr's Rights, which knowiedge is valusble to every one Siudy this book before you start for Nevada mines: it will save you six PUBLISHERS—iutual Publishing Co., 914 Mutual Savings Benk Bidg., 8. P, ical Information on the of those seek- - Hb)'rlnhnfifz. Hoff, M. neer Hoff's original vie ote,. Of the T Fold. regions. ©Other of" the Barth’s Crust Format} a autior has made recent] fl-ovnfea theories in respect to general formation in ‘the mining - IS DESIRABLE Washington Railroad Official this city, not only will one come to the | ter-street railroad or Geary-street rail- | they admit that the conduit road when | Concerning this | | for a trolley or a | | | needed to wipe away the dust of ages | mighty . refuse to flute, for the crust of twenty | years has filled their grooves and covered All of ihese | | quarters on Battery street. |new Custom-house for San Francisco | erally known that ever since the Spanish- | American war the painfully expensive MAY 28, 1903. 2 Weeks’ Sale Monday, May 2 COMMENCES Great Reducti IN EVERY DEPARTMENT Cor.Post % Kearny Sts.. are said to be the real owners of the premises at present writing, although it was duly declared several months ago that they would release the property so that the United States of America could have a hand in its management, as pro- vided by Congress. ! Chicago’s merchants have protested to | headquarters and have declared em- phatically that already a sandblast Is that rests heavily on the dome of the structure. The fluted columns up a multitude of contractorial sins. And 'twas ever thus. San Franeisco has watched its postoffice contractors erect fences and gates and derricks and other strange things for fifteen years. And there is not that which can be called a building yet. But San Francisco has! been patient and has not given up all| hope of being ousted from the dear old | The only thing that is worrying the San Fran-| cisco merchant is the proposed “Federal building,” that is to stand where the present postoffice is. Now and then comes a message of inquiry as to “when 18 that building going to be commenced?” Well, to make a long story short, the will not have been completed in less than fifteen years at the shortest calculation unless present methods governing con- struction of Government buildings are completely revised and the political grafters that now ‘‘create jobs” when- ever a public building is contemplated are rousted out. ADMINISTRATION IS FIRM. ‘i That the administration will not recede from the position it has taken in the matter of the purchase of supplies for the Panama canal and will seek bids from foreign manufacturers has already been dilated upon to a great extent in telegraph dispatches. But it is not gen- experience of the Government with East- ern shipowners, Middle Western packing establishments and army transpert frauds have weighed heavily upon the mind of President Roosevelt. When the expedition of General Shafter was ready to sail for Santlago from Key West It was apparent to the commissary depart- ment of the United States army and to the men in touch with the raiiroad mat- ters and the transport aceommodations— or lack of them—that there was the ever present specter of in every case of goods and at ‘wheel in a pllot- house. President Roosevelt was at Tampa and the miserable - of ers and dealers was made pain- fully evident to k cavalry leader. This -as it was by practl to him contractors to ‘‘get their feet In the trough,” is known to have had its influ- ence in the recent executive determina- tions. It formed a basis for an that has evoluted with the events of four -| years of history. President Roosevelt doegn't want the nation to be: held up- more. He doesn’t want a United States & fever- GARBAGE REMOVERS INDULGE IN GRAFT Compel Washington Resi- dents to Come Forward With “Tips.” Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, May 2.—One of the| most peculiar and at the same . time audacious abuses of the great American system of “tipping” was brought to light to-day, when Colonel M. M. Parker, pres- ident, retired from the firm known as the ‘Washington Fertilizing Company, con- tractors under Government supervision for the collection of garbage in the Dis- trict of Columbja. He was succeeded in office by John F. Wilkins under a ‘re- organization movement.” Charges made by business men and property owners were, in effect, that the afivers of garbage wagons were in the habit of charging fees—or rather solcit- ing ‘“‘tips”—for the removal of waste mat- ter. Although the Government pays lib- erally for this service, the spirit of graft could not be downed, and the contractors paid small wages and the drivers did the ;est. They became persistent and impu- ent. Kelster Brothers, a firm of retail mer- chants, determined to take the initiative against the abuse, and the result was prompt and decisive action by the Dis- trict officlals. No more tips will be paid for keeping Washington refuse barrels clean, and failure to perform the duty assigned him will mean imprisonment or a fine to the tip solicitor. —————————— SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL LEND MONEY TO FARMERS Agreea to Advance £200,000 to Improve the Irrigation System im Tm- perial Valley: IMPERIAL, May 27.—The Southern Pacific Company has agreed to loan the California Development Company $200,000 for the improvement of the Irrigation canal system, which 1is rapidly transforming Imperial Valley from & desert into a productive agri- cultural region. It is provided that the Southern Pacific shall name the president and three of the seven di- rectors of the development company. Epes Randolph is sald to be slated for the presidency. —_——— AUBURN WOMAN BADLY BURNED BY BOILING WATER Pan on Stove Upsets and ” ' Scald Housewife’s Head, Neck a:nUBafiRNdn l’(lly 27, — lace was horribl fiu ed this afternoon. She was L& the floor near a stove when a pan of boiling: water was accidentally upset. The water ran over her head; neck and ‘shoulders, burning her in & fearful manner. Her condition is considered trajtor to do with the Panama canal has nothing to case. 3 FIDELITY FUNDING COMPANY LOSES SUIT Texas Court Appoints a Re- ceiver for San Francis- - eo Coneern. Special Dispatch to The Call. AUSTIN, Tex., May 27.—In the Dis- trict Court here to-day, in the case of Sam Hirschfield and others against the Fidelity Funding Company of San Francsico, Cal, judgment was rendered against the defendant company and the temporary receivership was made per- manent. Joseph Cohen of Austin was appointed receiver. This company has more than 2000 policy holders in Texas, from whom {t is alleged to have received more than $200,000. Its assets are said to be $7500. DENVER, May 27.—Stephen D. Fox, State manager of the Fidelity Fund- ing Company of San Francisco, whish recently changed fts name to the Pru- dential Investment and Security Com- pany, received a letter several days ago from the home office of the concern stating that the United States postal laws prohibited the company from ful- filling matured contracts and that to secure the money pald in all patrons must enter into a new contract to pay 31 every week for the next 440 weeks, at which time the $440, besides the $160, will be paid. B Fox, who is well known in Denver, angry over the action of the concern and has written a letter to the presi- dent of the Prudential Investment and Security Company, stating that unless a man is sent to his territory at once to settle up all claims against the com- pany he will begin a bitter fight on behalf of himself and patrons to get what is coming to them. —————e— SANTA BARBARA FARMERS PLEASED WITH PROSPECTS Crop Conditions Indicate a Prosperous Season for the Graim Men in the South. SANTA MARIA, May 37.—Crop indi- cations on the whole are very en- couraging. Barley is bright and plump and If the weather continues favorable the section will have a large yield of this grain. Oats have suffered from rust and in some localities the loss will be'severe. Yet, in proportion to other grain, little oats are raised in this im- mediate vicinity, so that the loss will fall on very few. The threshers are getting their machines in order for the Season’s rum. —_—— Accident Delays Trafiic. AUBURN, May 27.—The breaking of an axle on a freight car next to the engine derailed six cars this afternoon Just below this city. No one was hurt, but traflic was delayed five hours. —_——— LIBEL FOR WAGES.—A. Gonzales and other seamen of the crew of the American mer Sea Gull filed a libel yesterday in TUnited States District Court to recover for wages alleged to be due. GRAVE DUG IN CELLAR FOR MURDERED WOMAN Husband Disappears and Wife Is Found Stabbed to Death. PUEBLO, Colo., May 37.—Returning to their home on South Santa Fe ave- nue this morning, the two sons of Mrs. Guiseppi Carmech! found her dead body lying across the bed. A hasty examina- tion revealed more than a dozen knife ‘wounds about Ler breast, any of which would have proved fatal. Further in- vestigation by the police resulted in the finding of a freshly dug grave in the cellar .under the house, the tools with which it had been dug remaining beside it. 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