The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1906, Page 5

Gt ESSIONS mmiiiee Wishes J o ris on Novel nping Big Fires. Repe 0 6 | | d to move to could be of business of Market of the fire limits: | ng &t & point in the center reet, distant 137:6 feet from the southwesterly th street; thence south- westerly along the center line of Bry- ant street to th center line of Sixth ;thence southeasterly along the r line of Sixth street to the cen-| ne of the intersection eof Sixth| and Bluxome streets; thence north- reet to a point distant 137:6! southwesterly from the southwest- ly line of Fourth street; thence | hwesterly to the point of begin- | provided that detween every two | ings occupled for wood-working rposes on the street front there shall tained & clear space of sixteen h space shall extend parallel ing and sixteen feet beyond the nd thereof. and such clear spaces of sixteen feet shall nmot be further apart than 150 feet. e recommendation as to fire lim- | was passed and no changes will e from now on. A resolution r ng owners of elevators to have | the shafts enclosed at the bottom was | passed by unanimous vote. Civil En-| gineer W. 8 Smith reported on m-} The scheme is to erect | se telescopic stand pipes along | streets. When a fire approaches ' pipe is thrown out to its full| h of 100 feet by water pressure | & hyfrant. Vast quantities of | ter are pumped through the pipe,! aping through nozzles at the top. water is thrown to the height of | 50 feet from the top of the pipe, or| 50 feet from the ground. A mist'is| thus formed - which ' flames cannot| break . The engineer thinks| ¥ of investigation. Frank T. Campbell Wanted. T. Campbell, who resided at ember of Damon 2, Knights of Pythias 1is A. T. Davis of 3662 Twenty- at Always Uniform Always Reliable Everywhere Obtainable BAKER’S CHOCOLATE & COCOA have stood the tests of time and service for over 125 years | | i ST Be sure that you get the genuine with thetrade-markonthepackage. Directions for preparing more than one hundred dainty dishes in our Choice Recipe Book, sent free on st. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Established 1780 Dorchester, Maes. 46 Highest Awards in Europe and America MARINE ENGINEERS’ BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION. | COMMITTEE. | embers now | the COM-' i F om and Harrison. | TAKE NOTICE.—Regu- | of the Association will be | at 1 o'clock p. m. RELIEF ies of wi ers on bulk- cat RS i Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature | el |Reruse SUBSTITUTES.: 0 CO-OPERATE | might | cording IN REBUILDING North Beach Club Urges the Buying of Sites for Public Offices. Favors Wider Streets and the! Overhead . Trolley for the District. North Beach Improvement Club yesterday in Mont- h Theodore Baciga- nt, in the chair. Th interested in the re- building of the city generally and-the reconstru n of' the burned section The of the Beach in particuar. Alva U offered the following res- olution, which was unanimously adopts Whereas, The yalue of the public rec- ords, municipal, State and national, de- stroyed in the recent conflagration of San Prancisco cannot be estimated, inasmuch as a large portion of the’ most valuable of sajd records capnot be replaced and are n_irreparable loss; ‘ana reas, The loss of sald records is ct result of the disastrous policy ng offices for the public use and g public ‘bulldings exposed - to v fire hazards in different sec- of the city; and reag, The persistence in said dis- astrous policy is attendant with future d expensive. In practical results inal in its operation, inasmuch as it exposes the records and other public property ¢o unnecessary hazards, and be- vond calculation endangers the pubiic concerns; therefore be it Ived, By the North Beach Improve- Ci that we most respectfuilly and earnestly \protest against the pey- sistence in that policy which exposes the records and other public property: to unnecessary hazards, an. we insist that the city and county of San Fancisco and the State of California_should construct own the offices and buildings neces- 1 blic use within the center of nt area to reduce to nger ol destruction by elsewhere in the city; and be it further Resolved. That we do hereby urge the public autherities, both State and mu- nicipal, te jointly or severaily take over and acquire for public use and protection and construction of necessary public bulldings in said city and county the title to the land in the district bounded by Clay, Kearny, Pacific and Stockton streets; and be it further Resolved, That, being urged and moved by the foregoing reasons, we in- sist that the Government of the United States should not persist in that disas- trous policy which endangered the Cus- tom-house and appraisers’ building and resulted in the loss of the Bub-Treasu: bullding and the Mexican archives an other priceless records therein; and be it fu er Resolved, That we urge upon the Federal Government the evident neces- sity of u.kln! over and a public use and protection an struction ef the neces: Federal build- ings the title to the land in the district bounded by Montgemery, Clay, Battery and Pacific streets in d city and coun- ty;.and be it further Resolved, That we do h-rebymrove e by the commu.itee of forty in regard to the the con- the recommendations heretofore ] | widening of certain streets of the city real estate speculation, were on both and ceunty of S8an Francisco; and be it further Resolved, That a cop- of these reso- lutions be forthwith transmitted to the President of the United States, the Cali- for delegatien in Longr&l. the Governor ef California, the Senate and Assembly of. California, the Mayor of the city and ceunty. of .Ban Francisco, and the Board of BSupervisors thereof, and that each and all of sald public authort- ties -be.and ui( are hereby respectfully requested _to e appropriate action to the end that sald properties may be pur- chased for gublic use and protection and permanent bufidings thereon immediately erected, 'thus affording -necessary relief to “our ‘afflicted city and giving employ- ment to needy laborers. he club also unanimously adopted the following resolution: ‘Whereas, That part of the city known as the North Beach is- practically . with- out street car seryice;. an ‘Whereas.. The needs of the public gen- era.- and the inhabitants of North Beach particularly demand the immed!- ate restoration of suitable street car ser- vice in-the North Beach section of the city; therefore be it esolved, That the immediate needs of the inhabitants of the city and the public_generally will be more fully sup- plied by the establishment of a trolley street car service from a {mlm on East street, near the Ferry bullding, at the junction of Market and East streets, thence along East street to Bay, thence along Bay street to Montgomery avenue, thence along Montgomery avenue to North Point street, thence along North Polnt street to Van Ness avenue, thence along the most practical route to the Presidio re!!rvl*llcrn. CLAIMS THE CREDIT FOR SAVING APPRAISER’S BUILDING E. A. Groezinger Explains That' He Provided the Pump With Which Water Was Made Available, Heroes aplenty there are to claim premier place in the tale of the sav- ing of the Appraiser’s building. Who be the real simon-pure hero in the battle with the flames is-for | conjecture, so many persons claim the honors. But if the National Congress shall | decide that recognition of service is { due any one for effort April 18 and succeeding ‘days of. terror | E. A. Groezinger of the firm of A. Finke's widow, formerly at 809 Mont- gomery street, makes his.demand for recognition and he bases it upon the fact that at sacrifice to his own busi- ness he procured and installed pump and hose by the use of which water was procured for the bucket: brigade that successfully fought the encroach- | ing flames and saved-the big building. The story runs that Groezinger, Fri- day morning, April 20, managed to break sugh the lines of soldiers and get to his place of business then un- | burned, but in the pathway of the ad- vancing fire. that time not a move een made In the neighborhood of Monig: y and Jjackson streets, ac- to save any re swepl through the buildings he saw ‘that it was a few hours at best There was pump and hose attachments tore. Groezinger, after a care- of the situaticn, decided that could be done to save his hous: in e lot, the excavation. From this heads or which had. been in bv the soldiers. From this he bucket brigade got the only t was used, and it was this water made avallable by Groezinger, which, he declares, saved the struc- ture. PO P e S L A S A Bowlegged Twins Missing. Chief Dinan nas received ; a letter from W. H. Shreve of Tuscola. @I, asking about twin boys, Horace and How-~ ard Mauch, about four years of age, who had been left homeless in this city by thé earthquake. Shreve wrote that thy parents of the twins had been in Los An- geles a short time prior w the earthquake and intended coming to this city, but nothing had been heard of ‘them since. The twins were bowlegged and had black eyes and light curly bair. uiring for | and | on the fatal; where it was set up in| > water was pumped into punch-| SEEK ADVICE Want to l(no—\;jf They Must - ‘Pay Losses on Uncom- pleted Sewers. Attorneys Think That City Is Only Liable for Ac- cepted Work. The Board of Publicc Works has jannounced that permits would be is- sued immediately for alterations of houses in the unburned aistrict. This| will enable many a thrifty landlord to! §e— . |change an inconspicuous fiat into, a | Sellers and purchasers.of San Fran-|big retail store. Applications for per- i cisco. real estate who before the great! mits for this sort of work are block- fire signed contracts to sell and buy|ing the doors at the headquarters of are now In the midst of a hot contro-, the board. versy as to whether the dgstruction of | ' The sénior member of the firm of { the ‘improvements that were stand-| Healy, Tibbetts & Co. was present |ing when the contracts were filed has/ at the meeting of the board for |{set aside the liability of purchasers..the purpose of ascertaining who would [In March the sales of real estate in have to pay for the damage done by | San Francisco amounted to more than the -earthquake to Incompleted bond | $18,000,000. April found in full swing work. President Maestretti refused to | the greatest speculative market - for commit Limself or allow the board to | real estate holdings ' in- this city’ that|do so. The Baker-sireet sewer in par- | has ever been known. Betweén April ticular was under discussion. It ap- |1 and 18 contracts were entered into, Pears that a large part of the work pending the search of titles, that rep- had been completed, but had not been i resented possibly as much as half of, accepted by the city. Healy felt that | the total sales of March, or $9,000,000.,the contractors would like to know After the deposit-is made on a con- | Whether to finish the work under the TIRE TANGLES CON ~ MANY DEALS Lawyers ire_ Consuled in Matter of Burned Im- provements. ‘Buyers and Sellers Hold 0p- | posite Views on Gon- | tracts. ' t t 3 . contracts or to make repairs and e Chairman James Gallagher of the i that it may be determined how strong i the title is- All the title companies | and many private concerns that search 4 records of realty were kept busy night finance committee of the Board of Su- pervisors said that payment would certainly not be made on sewers brok- en from any cause whatever. It was and day during the perlod immediately | simply a qli’estion of delivering goods | preceding April 18, the volume of busi- |called for in the contract, he stated. {ness and the aggregate of values un-|James Devoto, attorney for the Board ! der selling contracts being large. Pur-|of Works, said that he should think chasers made a point that improve-, offhand the city should pay only for ments were bringing in a certaln year- | accepted work and that no money 1y income when the price was made| could legally be given the contractors |.for properties. 'This was considered by: until the sewers were in proper shape. | purchasers, especially where ~large; Other attorneys state that there can| sums were borrowed on mortgage, K be no question but that the contractors |notes to carry the property, the in-|must suffer the loss. come being relied upon to pay the in-| “Dr. Salfield addressed the board, | terest money and taxes pending a sale! Wildly in complaint against the gas! | or payment of the face of notes. In| COmpany. He saild he had some fllll} | some contracts for sale the improve-|and that the tenants were moving to | . Oakland because of the inconvenience ments were mentioned; probably in 2{or ki ¢ of di Wh ! majority of cases such was the fact,| Of COOKIng out of doors. When he be- o came calm enough to allow any one Dut there wvere many others wnere Nelelse to speak President Maestrett! {l:?e:";:m"‘ i e i i ed h-lirndhow many h%fil he owned. | - e excited property er rattled off 2 TI}&? xfl'l;‘e thd:;t::l};:;! :::é‘o’n :!":g a string of numbers and streets about ullding a mile long to the amusement IV city, which was the scene of the great- . 9L qrery one present. When he had completed est activity in the real estate dealings! Supervisor James Gallagher rose and, that were on foet. Consequently the | extending his hand, remarked gravely, question raised by the burning of busi-| “I want to congratulate you.” |ness blocks is of large proportions| Unappreciative of the joke the doctor from the financial point of view.| moaned, “What, what shall T do?” | Parties on both.sides of the question “That is a question you should ask are consulting attorneys and the buzz!a lawyer,” observed Maestretti with a of legal talk is general on Fillmore|wink. |street and on other thoroughfares Then Gallagher attempted to per- | where real estate brokers have offices.|suade the physician to accept legal Radically opposite views may pos- | advice for only one flat, but in vain. sibly be obtained in the matter of ad-| City Engineer Woodward complained vice. Some partles, financlally inter- against some bullders who were con- ested, who were particularly active in i | structing a house over a Sacramento-| | street sidewalk. The board took the| matter under advisement. Woodward also reported that the condition of the Callfornia-street bond work sewer was fairly good. The damage done to the Sixth-street sewer has not been ascer- tained. The Cole-street sewer escaped damage. The Baker-street sewer suf- fered badly and the Fourth-street Sewer but little. The pavements were badly injured’ by the fire. There will have to be much reconstruction work LONDON sides of the house, being purchasers of some properties and sellers in other instances and having contracts open at the time of the fire last ‘month both to sell and to buy. Certain _attorneys, —among them Henry W. Bradley of Bradley & Mc- Kinstry, take the ground that when a contract of sale has been’ made and part of the price, the' deposit, pald and the title is good, the purchaser has become _the equitable owner of the property and the seller is merely the trustee of the propérty pending the payment - of - the remainder of the| | purchase price ‘agreed . upon. The; {opinion . _on which mahy ~Ameri- can opinions rest was delivered by Lord Eldon in England, which is in accordance with the idea that the pur- | chaser 1s the eguitable owner, the title | being good, from the time the deposit is made. Lord.Eldon’s decision was in the case of Payne vs. Miller. v The controversy is likely to get be- | Ptore the Supreme Court of California | because of the millions of dollars that may be involved. | COLUMBIA PARK BOYS’ | CLUB TO HAVE NEW HOME | Places for Continuation of the Fine In- stitution Are Rapidly Nearing Completion. Although the building of the Columbia | Park Boys' Club was completely de- | stroyed by the fire, plans are already | maturing for ' the contlnuation of 'the work which has done so much for the boys of the south of Market district. The worker-In-chief, Major 8. Peixotto, is now on his way East, and assurances have been received from him that funds to help carry on the work of the club will. soon be forthcoming. During the | past year Major Peixotto has recefved so |* many letters inquiring about the work that undoubtedly there will be many out- side of this city interested in its con- | tinuance. He will give illustrated lectures in the East on the work of the club, similar to that given before the Cnllfor—_, nia Club the day before the fire. We take much ple Iclients and friends that ..WE ARE OPEN has charge of the club, in the absence of the worker-in-chief, is trying to hold | the boys of the club together by means of a camp at Carmel. About ninety boys hope to'go there within the next two weeks and establish the “State’ of Co- | lumbia” on lines similar to those of the club’s camps for the past four years, —————— CONTRACTS ARE SIGNED FOR WATER FRONT IMPROVEMENTS . or before June 1st. { Harbor Commissioners Meet and Complete Business: Postpcned on Ac- count of Fire. The State Board of Harbor Commis- sioners has signed ‘contracts for the rebuilding of Lombard street wharf ‘and the construction “of -1000 ‘feet,of seawal' from the Pacific Mail dock-north. , Thest contracts were awarded before the firc which was respansible for the long- delay in_completing the business. The Healy-Tibbitts Construction Com- | pany has the contract for rebuilding Lom- bard street wharf which will cost the State $129,800. ; . Gray Bros. will build the 1000.feet of | seawall. Their bid was $163,500. —_— Contractor Joins Chaingang. L. H. Hansen, a contractor living at 730" Central avenue, and John McFad- den and Arthur Wells, two boys, were arrested at Turk and _Leavenworth streets Wednesday afternoon by Police- | | i \ ? French Amer'can Bank Is moving to its new quarters in the “UNION TRUST BUILDING,” third floor; and will be ready to accommo- date its customers and do a general banking busizzss May 21, 1908. : ‘We wili oollect on insurance poli- . cies for thos, wishing our services. THE YRENCH SAVINGS BANK w’ll occupy offices In the same build. ng. : 2 man Sliver and taker to police head-! | quarters. Hansen had a wagon and | had purchased ‘a quantity of copper wire from the boys when Silver placed ' the trio uncer arrest. 'They were ‘sent to Portsmouth Square to work on, the brick pile. o, e B X Such a Place as Paso Robles, ' - With the finest bathhouse in America, | | Breat hot springs and a roomy, com-" fortable modern hotel, with mountain’ environment, is just the place to spend a’'month’ in restl: | 1 100,00 | covered by the GET INCREASE Wages of JEmeymen Will} Be Increased to $7 on Next !fllflfiy: Helpers Are Also to Receive an Advance in Their Pay. : At a meeting of the Masons’ and Builders’ Association o:.San Francisco held at the Builders’ Exchange, 226 Oak street, Wednesday evening for the purpose of discussing trade conditions it developed that- br.cklayers were practically unobtainable for the pur- pose of completing old ‘contracts or beginning new ones. After applica- tion to the Building Trades Council for assistance in the matter which through no fault on their part could be obtalned it was decided that some inducement must be offered journey- men to come and help in the great re- building of the city. It was decided in order to obtain the desired end that commencing Mon- day, May 21, the wages of a journey- man bricklayer be $7 per day of eight hours. This is an advance of $1 per day. Also that the wages of brick- layers’ helpers be $4 per day, an ad- vance of 50 cents. Great confidence was expressed in the future of San Francisco and the friendly relations existing between em- ployer and employe, eay having the best interests of the city at heart. The present advance was caused primarily by the fact that so many journeymen are repairing chimneys on their own account and, secondly, because many, as in the case of all other crafts, have left the city. The advance therefore was deemed necessary for the purpose of inducing those who leff to return and attract others to the end that work may be carried along with all possible dis- patch, thus giving a guarantee to the owner and an incentive to the me- chanic, —_—— Shorta~e In the Hemp Crop. MANILA, May 18.—Exporters report a shortage of the hemp crop amounting to 0 bales, valued at 2,000,000. Drought and a typhoon in September caused the slump. Statisticians forecast that the production for the first five months of 1906 will be 150,000 bales less than that for the same time crop next year will reach the normal amount. done on the Valencia, Harrison, Mis- sion, Minna, Pacific, Larkin and Stev- enson street pavements. That means a tremendous expense. The board partly reviewed the work outlined for next year and then de- cided that the amount necessary to get the streets into shape again would run far into the miliions. On the counsel of President Maes- tretti that the most rigid -economy must be enforced to reduce taxes and help the stricken city as much as pos- sible it was decided to ask for the comparatively modest sum of $1,501,450. It is expected that the Supervisors wlill pass the demand without question, as the burdens imposed on the Board of Works for this year are immensely greater than usual. , PARIS and - AMERICAN BANK, L td. asure in informing our we have opened all our vaults and safes and found all our books, records and securities in perfect condition. FOR BUSINESS... At Our Emergency Headquarters 1806 PACIFIC AVENUE And will move to our former location as soon as | "in'the meantime John 3. Brewer, who|OUT NEW temporary. bank building is finished, on | London, Paris and American Bank, Lid 1806 Pacific Avenue TeleEhone West 326 The Italian-American Bank. IMPORTANT NOTICE. /e are pleased to i our numer- sus clients that e m‘-mm has 0 exchange matters, S0th on- commercial and savings depos- its, -as may be required by - itors, on May 23d. o It affords us great rleuurvm inform our shareholders .- depositors that tqrtunnul{ the loss of from i e paratively BRICKLAYERS N WELLS VADA 'NATIONAL BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO Will Remove to its New Quarters in the Union Trust Building No. 4 Montgomery Street ON MONDAY, MAY 21, 1906 TheBank of California wis Old Location 424 California Street MONDAY, MAY 2ist. CALIFORN!A SAFE DEPOSIT AMD TRUST COMPANY Corser Cailiorsia asd Monigomery Sts. It affords us much satis‘action to assure eur Patrons that eur Safe Deposit Vaults are absolutely intact and the content: uninjured. They will open for business as usual on THURSDAY. May 17. Hours: 10 to 3 daily, uatil farther notice. Safe Deposit Boxes for reat, $5 per year upward. J. DALZELL BROWN, Manager. - The National Bank of the Pacific Is Doing Business Under Clearing House Rules at the Old Location, in the CLAUS SPRECKELS BUILDING MARKET AND THIRD STREETS Deposits received and checks cashed. Vaults uninjured by earthquake or fire. Safe Deposit Vaults open daily from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Boxes $4.00 per year. Proofs of Loss made and Insurance collected. The American National Bank Is Occupying Its Former Quarters in the Merchants’ Exchange Building . |{® And is fully prepared to care for the business needs of its patrons First National Bank OF SAN FRANCISCO Corner Bush and Sansome Sireefs NOW DOING BUSINESS 'ON THE OLD FOUNDATION SUBJECT TO CLEARING-HOUSE RULES Depository, Will Please Send In San Francisco Checks for Clearing. security Savings Bank 316 MONTGOMERY STREET ‘We beg to annource that we will resume business on MONDAY, May 28, 19086, in our own building, No, 316 Montgomery street. Our vault is Intact, and all of our records are uninjured. Depositors are cautioned against selling or assigning tkeir passbooks. SECURITY SAVINGS BANK 8. L. ABBOTT, Vice P resident cnd Manager. THE .Lrocker -Woolworth National Bank.. WILL OCCUPY PREMISES CROCKER BUILDING MONDAY MORNING . MAY 21, 1906 Levi Strauss/ROvAL WORESTER * o CORSET CO0. Temporary Quarters: 1218 BROADWAY, OAKLAND. Can Fill Orders Promptly for -