The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1906, Page 9

Y | 4 T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 1906. CONSIDER VIOLATIONS OF GARBAGE LAW. Supervisors Hear Complaints Sanitary Reduction Works Again at War With the Scavengers ties the I have to say that, | ber of the scavengers law ebiding people, miscuously Gented some of and 15 ‘well known e Police Department | Health iges of £ IS HI‘F('TED. enger OVERCHARG themselves, hard in their o ree 3 cents per uble yard for this | A be unfair, and our gatekeeper, | experience in this y .8 possible how | the garbage compressed in throw the garbage thére § 1 he has been overcharged & rebate is fm- | cfiately made to him | # is proven by the charge list, which is | rendered to me in the past nine years, T rove that e average of less than $2 per for overcharge to scav- There the gate- where the actually | originally | t the over- the scavengers, If | that it s & um.‘ ne time tor wome means by which we could | 5*t & more satisfactory and correct measure- | nent. WEIGHT OF GARBAG! l e matter | that & g both | ———————— | | POSTUM CEREAL. | OVER SEA HABIT. | Difference on This Side the Water. The persistent effect upon the heart of caffelne in coffee cannot but result | in the gravest conditions in time. { Bach attack of the drug (and that | meeans each cup of coffee) weakens the | organ a little more, and the end is al- most a matter of mathematical demon- | stration. A lady writes from & West- Btate: am of German descent and it was | ral that I should learn at a very age to drink coffee. Until I was ars old I drank scarcely anything | all ern go I'began to be af- fecte teadily increasing ner- vousness, which eventually developed distressing heart trouble that ery weak and miserable. ears ago, was added E t form. My suffer- 1 these things can be better than described. 1 this i - | time my rious "to me, to make me Stop. it was decided a few months it the use of coffee absolutely | dopt Postum Food Coffee as our e drink. I had but little idea t it would help me, but consented to to please my husband. I prepared very carefully, exactly according to| and was delighted with its| flavor and refreshing qunli-' rections, ous 3 ust so soon as the poison from the coffee had time to get out of my system the nutritive properties of the Postum began to build me up, and I am now recovered from all my mnervous- heart trouble and esthma. I glad- ly acknowledge that now, for the first time in years, I enjoy perfect health, | nd that I owe it all to Postum.” Name by Postum Co., Battle Creek, There's a reason. Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. Poestum Food Coffee contains no darugs of any description whatsosver, | ance were two, | and { patd the Dighest | | cisco, | demanded | tion Union. a large scale at the gateway, s would be weighed as they This struck me as a capital idea. y fair on both sides, and fair- the officers of the crematory obviate the unpleasant \ trouble both to the the officers of the Sanitary Re- and hes benefited only an army nd @ few busy, intriguing indi- ive over. however, was suggested by it of the Scavengers' Protective ays 60, and that was that e upion, consisting of 223 1d.pay a fixed charge per wagon offer was tenderéd recently e Souvengers' Prote tary of the Sanitary iation at a meeting heid In the five disinterested parties, and ac- officers of the Sanitary Redue- expecting that our, troubles ! we counted without our triguer, who had been leading gers by the moss into vexatious and n for the past nine years, when peace and harmony were about to | he scavengers and the crematory, bin n buzzing in. the ears of the | uded ngers that they wers about into a_contract which would prove to them and thus succeeded in arge number of the scavengers over- tious, practicable, Teasonable, sen- ngemeht which had been. proposed by | ficers of the scavengers, and duly ap- by their special committee appointed at purpose. it is to be hoped, however, on secend oconsideration the engers see that it was to their best interest to the plan proposed by their president and uvold all friction and relieve this honor- com from ‘any her trouble in this regard. NO OVERCHARGE SHOWN. now let us see if the Sanitary Reduc- Works has been guilty of overcharging s poor scavengers for the burning of the In the year 1894 I find by actual derived from the best official source bere were in San Francisco 99,500 houses, 660 of these houses were one story, the bal three, four, v houses, and 23,391 were stores, saloons, ries, laundries, hotels, shops, mills, etc. gentlemen, how much each e houses paid for the burning of the year 18047 The insigni- per month or 57 cents m. For the year 1905 we find that the number of residences has increased to 108865, in that year the price which they have as been increased from 4% cents to the In other rmous sum of b cents per month. per house per anpum. Is it possible that the citizens of who that e garbage of the city should should be cremated, m the books | Reduction. Works ana from hich I have delivered to the isors for the years 1904 and have been duly verified and | Mr. Willlams, the expert e Board of Supervisor total amouw 0 the garbage y amounted to $63,790 80, which divided by 108, 865 houses gives 60 cents per annum the sum | paid by each householder of San Francisce for burning tha garbage, or § cents per manth. WHAT HAS MONOPOLY DONE? Now what has this avaricious, grinding mon- oply done with the money which. it has re- ceived from the people of San Francisco for g the garbage during the last year? sre the figures, gentiemen, subject to the N&s&s 26 564 21 Legal expense in defending our case in the Supreme Court &t Washing- 1,516'20 ing gnrv-nge Office expense ope year .. : Depreciation of phant . hnmg net earnings . Total -$ Which is the amount received during the year 1606 for the burning of all the garbage of San Francisco, 2 You will observe that all the bookkeeping; rent, stenogripher, etc., of this great plant is done for $100 per month, which I venture to say is worth five times that much. The president and eecretary of this corpdra- tion, who have given it the greatest attention nd haye had a good amount of annoyance and buse, haVe rendered their services for the past ix years without the remuneration of one dei- . Tho stockholders, who have had the pub- lic spirit and enterprise to put their money in &n investment which is an absolute necessity for the city of San Francisco to the amount of | | $500,000—what interest have they received on | their investment? Not a single dollar! For ten years these stockholders have. been with- out any interest for their money, although the institution which they have heiped Yo bufid has been managed in the most economical manner, | 88 you have seen. IMPOSSIBILITY OF OVERCHARGES. Ts it possible, then, gentlemen, under these circumstances, that the officers of the Sanitary Reduction Works have been overcharging these poor ecavengers who bring the garbage to the crematory &nd pay 5 per cent for each bouse- holder to burn the eame? I have not mel what the scavengers receive for the of the garbage and how much they re- hauling | ceive from the families with which to pay for e burning of the garbage. t I do mot know, sod it is mone of my business, but I merely have shown to you gentlemen ths mmount which we have received from the peo- ple of Ban Francisco for doing this great neces- sary work and what disposition we have made of every doliar- we have recelved from the Dpeople. Gentlemen of the commilttee, there is not & | member of the board of directors, and I do not | belleve that there is a single member of our stotkholders, who desires to taks § cents from these honest, hard working scavengers to which they are not entitled, but they do come before you and demand only two things. First, that the practice of dumping all over the eity be immediately and effectually etopped so that bealth of our people may be protected and thaf strangers who come to us may not be offende by seeing everywhers all kinds of unsightly garbage. Second, that your honorable body fix on some plan by which the benefits of the franchise bos\am in good faith from the city may return Jegally & reasonable rate or interest on the in- vestment. SMOKE NUISANCE NOT BAD. Among the many accusations brought again us by the opponents of the crematory there hi Mn from time to time & complaint of the smoke emanating from its chimney 275 feet high, onc ot the highest chimney in the United tates, These complaints when ferreted to their source we have found to have generally come from parties who were for their own per- sonal end inimical to our plant. However, to remove the smail pretext that might appear againet us, we have spent several thousands of dollars in’reme the evil and finally our smoke now passes through large flues, and for 100 feet before it enters the cnlmney is thor- oughly washed by an emormous quantity of Water falling from the roof of the fiue, 8o that when this smoke goes out of the chimney it is absolutely odorless and inoffensive. As soon 8 our water plant was complete we called of The Board of Public Works and the Board of Health to examine the same, and I am pleased to say that both approved its working and were ed with its resuits. However, gen- tlemen, both President C. L. Tilden and my- self are largely interested in the city of Sanm Francieco and bave worked since our boyhood for the bullding up, Improving and. beautify- ing of our city, and if your honorable body | should find the least fault with any part of our plant we are willing to promptly adopt an; ® y | O P etions that your honorable body will have to_make to us. o ¥ben_our “iant was built ten years ago § b ‘the. most. complets plant iy the as perhi fl!:l for the purpose intended. Since the " other mechanisme, new inventions different new eystems, States and one from rapid; fensive and '“ fumhlhd power and electricity to an en- ul-uu-lmotmoa!m- com- pany that San mflmflhlnluvflurmt- RVAL ROADS STATE CLAIMS Issues Are Joined and Court Must Decide Which Con- testant Has Best Title — FAITH IN CITY COUNCIL Gould Counselors Announce They Hold Disputed Strip by the Oakland Franchise The answer-of the Western Pacific | to the complaint of the Southern Pacific | regarding the contested territory on the Oakiand side was filed yesterday in the United States Circuit Court before Judge Morrow. This answer joins is- sues, so that the date of the main trial, which will decide the question finally for one or other of the parties, will soon be set, probably next Monday. The answer fills -with close type- e end the Board of Supervisors | five and higher | cets, empty lots and | hat | was going on yesterday. | writing twenty-six . pages of legal- size paper. It is full of denials, many | of them technical, in order to force the Southern Pacific counsel to prove all |of the allegations. But the main de- | fense is along the following lines: In its complaint the Southern Pa- |cific claims that it owns thé water front {on the West Oakland shore to bulkhead, or low. tidé line; that the Western | Pacific. has no title to the land it has {occupied, and that by this occupation | and its future plans it is shutting out {the Southern Pacific: from ocean to deep water and thus destroying the | value of its water-front holdings. | The answer denies that the Southern | Pacific owne the land in dispute. It iclaims that the Western Pacific hds possession of it, and that it has the only title to it which can be obtained. This title, according to the Western Pacific attorneys, 18 a franchise from the city of Oakland. The State owns the land, but has no machinery . by which it can sell or lease it. ‘By the charter of 1889 the Legislature of - the State made it mandatory upon the city of Oakland to grant franchise to rail- roads upon the water front. By such a franchise only, the Western Pacific attorneys say in the answer, can title to the State lands be acquired from the | State, and the city of -Oakland is | forced by its charter to give it. With this title, and with actual possession, it claims g right superior to that of. | the Southern Pacific. -| It will be on these lines that the have for many years clamored and | big case will be fought. Meanwhile the hearing for tempor- ary injunctions during the litigation At noon the | Southern Pacific attorneys concluded | their presentation of testimony, and | the Western Pacific took a ‘turn at it Affidavits of Vice President Bogue, of United States Engineer John Le Conte, of Marshall C. Harrls, president of-the | American -Dredging Company, of War- en H. Pomeroy and of Colonel W. H. Heuer were offered. 5 —_————— | Moore & Scott Yron Works Get Larxe Contract, 2 The Union Sugar Company of Better- avia has. awarded to the Moore & Scott Iron Works of this city the con- tract for its new diffusion mill plant. The new machinery is to be in opera- tion by May 10th, in time for the first | sugar beets. |~ This contract is of such magnitude be employed on it night and day for the next three months. —_———————— Board Accepts Third-Street Bridge. The members of the Board of Works yes- terday accepted the Third-street bridge, which { was turned over to the city by the Santa Fe | Company. The bridge cost $160,000 and. was | fully tested by the Commissioners. John Cav- anagh has been put in charge of the structure. A resolution accepting the bridge will ke | passed at the next meeting of the hoard. Mo } | ters, should have the best of everything, among | which the best crematory in the world. .All |'that we ask of you'is to treat the scavengers | fairly and give our company fair play. | Attorney Harding produced the affida- | vits of seventy-eight scavengers to the effect that the capacity of their wagons | was on the average 3.87 ‘cubic yards, | whereas the foreman -at. the reduction works had charged them at the rate of 8:32 cubic yards. Tilden denfed that the scavengers were being overcharged, but suggested that in order to prevent disputes as to the | capacity of the ~wagons an official | measurer be appointed by the board who would determine the exact amount of gan bage which each scavenger brings to be cremated. Attorney Harding agreed to this suggestion but wanted it incorpo- rated in an ordinance. SCAVENGERS ARE ARRESTED. Supervisor Coffey, who appeared in be- half of the SBcavengers’ Union, asked if it were mnot a fact that the .corporation employed a special officer to arrest scavengers who dumped refuse in vacant lots. Sbarboro replied that he had em- ployed the officerdn order to enforce the provisions of the ordinance requiring gar- bage to be brought to the crematory, and also prohibiting the dumping of garbage in lots. - Paul Demartini, president of the Scav- engers’ Union, declared that he was com- ‘| pelled to pay $§1 to the works for a load of bricks which he afterward dumped in a public streest near the crematory by order of the foreman. A general discus- sion followed as to what constituted gar- bage required to be brought to the crema- tory and the committee took the matter under advisement, stating that u would file & report with the board shortl . The committee will consider the pmtm of various parties against the alleged emoke nuisance caused by the chimney of the Sanitary Reduction Works. next Tuesday afternoon. City Attorney Burke rendered an opin- jon that the ordinance requiring all gar- bage to be burned in the crematory of the Sanitary Reduction Works is valid, and the Board of Bupervisors has not the power to grant petitions for the issuance | of permits to deposit rubbish In the city dumping ground at North Point and Jones streets. PRI “Bring Them Out to California.” Bring out your folks and friends to Call- fornia while rates are Iww The Santa Fe will ticket and ses g telegraph ticket and o kvt them all from .00 from Kansas City. Tates from all Eastern noin‘us-nx:x Market strest, Francisco, Cal. * CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the md d% that several of the local foundries will |° PERSONAL. chnrleu Kint ot H:.ntord is at the Lick. G. H. Chandler of Pittsburg, Pa., is at the Palace. A. T. Rand and wife of Minneapolls are at the St. Francis. J. O, Horne of Santa Cruz, by his wife, is at the Bt. Francis. Willlam Sproule and wife ' have returned from the East and are at the Palace. Judge W. D. Crichton, & prominent Democratic politiclan of Fresno, is at the Lick. M. Bertram of Toronto, Canada, who is making a tour of the coast with his wife, is at the St. F'rs Mr. and Mrs. John D. Sprecksls will leave this evening for Ban Diego, to be gone about a week. A. L. Young and his bride have re- turned from their wedding tour to Hon- olulu and are at the Palace. Dr. E. B- Cofer, head of the United States Mavine Hospital Service at Honolulu, ac- companied by his family, is at the St. Francis, Dr. and Mrs. Dubruel of Tahit! are at the St. Francis. They will saifl for home to-morrow on the Oceanic Steamship Company’s liner Mariposa. Among those who registered at the Palace yesterday are: Julius Focke, from Bremen; C. P. Thelsen, trom Honolulu; W. B. Dorsey, from Shang- hai; F. B. Philllp, from Singapore, and Alfred Moore Redfird, from London. RS L 3 Californians in New York. NBW YORK, Feb. 1.—The following Call- forntans are In New York: From San Fran- cisco—Miss Allen and Mrs. H. F. Allen, at the Seville; 5. H. Paxton at the Grand: G. B. Boland, at_the Grand Uni nlon; 3. C. Cross- man, at the Hoffman; M. L. McCabe, at the Vendome, WF‘rorn Ban Diego—W. . O. Bowen, at the estminster. From Sants: Barbara—C. B. Hate, at the Holland. ) —_——— CATTLEMAN FOUND DEAD IN GRAND HOTEL ROOM Patrick Daly Supposed to Have Been an Accidental Vietim of Cear- ‘bon Momoxide. Patrick Daly, a retired cattleman, was found @eed In his room at the Grand Hotel yesterday morning by the night Watchman.: The body was lying scross the bed, partly under the covers. Gas was escaping from the Jet, which was slightly open. Plymire Wai sum- moned ‘and he expreuaz the opinion that the old men had been seized With a fainting spell To the Scotchmen of America HERE is an article in MUNSEY’'S MAGAZINE of great value to you—an article you can not afford not to read. It ison THE SONS OF SCOTLAND IN AMERICA, and is a romance of Scottish brains and Scottish pluck and Scottish achievement, It shows the constructive genius of the race, and the tireless energy and fighting qualities of the race. The Scots, like the English and the Irish and the Dutch, were basic in our civilization. Five Scotchmen were among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of the four members of George Washington’s original cabinet, three were of Scotch blood— Alexander Hamilton, Knox, and Randolph. Eight of our Presidents have been of Scottish or Scotch-Irish blood. A Great Series of Race Articles r in a series of race articles now appearing each month in he first was on THE Jews IN AMERICA. The third will be This is the second ‘pa; MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE. THE GERMANS IN AMERICA. Then follow TuE IrisH, TER ENcLsH, THE FreExcw, THE DurcH, THE CANADIANS, THE SCANDINAVIANS, THE ITALIANS, and finally Tas AMERICANS IN AMERICA. ‘This is a great series of articles which should be read by every one who is of the blood discussed, and every one of any blood at all who is * know who is who and what is what. This article on the Munsey’s Magazme For February Illustrated with 18 portraits of leading Scots In' America It was the romantic Paul Jones, a Scotchma;n, who founded our pavy. It was a Scotchman who founded Princeton University., It was a Scotchman, James Bennett, who gave us our modern American journalism. And it was Andrew Carnegie, a Scotchman, who first organized our steel industry upon its present colossal scale, and and had accldentally turned on the gas, The .| Coroner's office was notified and the body who, beginning his career as a messenger-boy in Pittsburg, became in a short span of life Daly was a widower, 74 years of age. His the greatest ironmaster of the world and the second richest man in the world. home was in Lakeport, Lake County. He had been & cattleman, but had retired for some time from that business and had been engaged in -financlal schemes. * A niece, Mrs, Lowton, Jives In this city. Her husband, it is said, is connected with the street department, There was nothing to indicate that.it was a case of suicide. The February MUNSEY is one of the finest and most finished numbers in that goes to make a high-grade magazine that we have ever issued. 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