The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1906, Page 1

— | WEATHER FORECAST. For San Francisco and Vi- cinity: Cloudy, unsettled weather Tuesday; fresh southwest wind. news The Call prints more paper published in San Francisco. than any other » SAN FRANC ISCO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6; . 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ) L LEGISLATORS CHANGE MINDS Atter Defeating the Measure Vote to Give It More Study and Consideration. Eloguence of the San Francisco Delegation; Changes Feeling Toward the Plan. Assemblymen Demand Time in Which to Look Into the Proposed Amendment SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. EN 0 g a on buildings, : 3 s he and told th r e what he thought of the pl - r Montgomer and Kearny streets. 4 & RNY THE STREET TO WIDEN. ns relat- down- r outlines e business e atten- s widened, it > Mills and Koh sortan nally ridened or v avenue pidly and with 0st to the MAKE BROAD AVENUE. shoald widened P . o is done it . e gk | teom avenue to the the o g 373 4 and Townsend streets depot. 1f . e i T ird street is widened on the i s o3 e none of the large buildings 0. as C Spreckels or the Aro s T - str will be int g7 k will be as prac politic > approva idea of wid- m the w I suppose t the fact ned twen This cut down the property there to an alarming ex- tent. Now, if this work re- peated it mean ruin of f property t many year is to be I am in favor of leav- town streets as they are We cannot improve the was eration - brought . N X: town distri by widening v S If left as they are mo- ca interests will be jeopardized. and - ol vk 0k an begin the work of rebuilding at 2 yreshed out o gh OPPOSITION UNANIMOUS. to re Nearly every one in the room com- with S mented favorably on the plan to leave & mittee meet the business streets intact and to & allowed permits to commence the work xt of rebuilding without further delay. - e Before the members of the tion took up the discus: ~f street work an informal exct views s ng the proposed plan to intro- duce reinforced concrete as a structural wadgy i e afternoo material was indulged in. John Car- - 8¢ rchitect from St. Louis and an g e members of the Leg- | authority on this sort of materi: o s others assembled n | introduced. He said that twelve-sto 5 . tsagr to hear buildings can be constructed of this material at a cost ymuch less than that the class A material, steel and stone. _ Carson d the reinforced concrete wears even better and is in every sense city a e Assembly | of the word equal to the class A stru < Jpse ttee's action | tures, the only difference being in the e es up in the|cost - sharaiiisiton | He was questioned closely, and-it is | speaking for the San ¥Fran- | likely that a committee will be appoint- opened the battle to-|©d to investigate the use of this ma- e eviewing at length the impera- | terial e neces of legisl which will| The association will meet again on e the city to esta h safeguards | Tuesday motning ation and also s for metro- ———0 INVTES CHIEF 10 PLAY POKER A. P. Hansen, Gambler, CARRY FIGHT » CAPITAL. Downtown Business Men Send mittee to Sacramento. Com- { | | | | Downt W Property Ow 100K O casion yesterda ad adjourned @ con-| Mistakes Identity of B ik s Tyl St Nocturnal Visitor. June 5.—A. P. Hansen conducts poker zame at 967 Broad- Last night he unwittingly in- vited Chief of Policé Wilson. who was e headquartere at the cap- |on an inspecting tour, to take a hand. nd in its power to hring'Thfl Chief warned Hansen, and the fluence to bear on the lawmakers | gambler offered some comments on the )posed plans may die an|ability of the Police Department to put {on “the 114" Hansen w { OAKLAND, a mittee will have full power 1d to call upon the main body rcements, funds or whatever in giving battle to 2 delegation will start at needed " arreste] and s committee are many of the|charged with vagrancy Xnown property owners in the| In a poker game at Fourteenth street isiness district, and they all are pos-|and Broadway Joseph Davis, a losing sessed of much influence politically and | player, grabbed the pot of $260 and sled, The committee is made up|it is alleged. He was arrested on a M. H. de Young (chairman), ' charge of grand larceny. 2oyd, John M. Curtis, Walter SR AR g I PRI G. Morrow, Samuel Knight, Hepburn Renominated. ore Fvank M. Johnson, E.| CRESION, Iowa, June 5.—Congress- committee was appointed |man Hepburn was renominated by ac- of the association aired ¢lamation at 'X.E. Eighth District Re- rding the proposed wid. |publican convention today. He was imess strocte. After | enthusiastically commended, especially |“for great assistance vendered . the the opinions of several had beecn heard James H. Humphries, a structural en-|President in the railroad rate fight” otherwise. and this | ATWOOD Y3 HE 5 AMAZED | Fecls That Public Shows ' Undue Hostility to 1, Companies. \Declares, Though, That the| Quake Losses Will Be Deducted. OAKLAND, June | to be an extraordina toward the insurance companies | America on the part of the people of n Francisco, the alleged change hav- for the Es wood, ck st two weeks ago, H. F. man of the Fire Underwrit- lers' adjusting committee of fifteen, representing the insurance companies | with risks in this vicinity, returned to- {night from ew Yo perturbed and {evidently disgusted at a feeling which | {he characterized as unwarranted, un-| fair and certain to be an injury to| the public of San Francisco. Atwood is the representative from | | New York of the Roghester Insurance Company. His long experi- d of the committee of fifteen whieh \as stood, in the public'’s mind, as epresentative of all the great ard | small insurance concerns interested in he fire disaster in San Francisco. |and promulgated. - He returns, | posedly, with much .information -from the powers in the East about what is the feeling regarding payment of |losses and other intricate questions jated with the insurance problem His counsel is expected to clear >me of the murk apparently sur- ding the matter of settling up |affairs. His influence and counsel will in attendance at the officials in New riday, when a policy meeting York held < |be anticipated by insurance men with 1 feeling that both will avail to serve |in settling things. | his apartments in the Crellin an-hour after his arrival from York, Mr. Atwood said tonight: I am amazed at the hostility in evi- dence against the insurance men here. 1 not so when I left. It is a mys- to me that it should exist, or have been created in the short time that I :ave been absent. It is extraordinary. | Hotel, | N re. s- | VERY EASY IN BALTIMORE. during all the work of not a word of, ad- ncerning the insur- companies printed. After 1 angad for drafts to the amount 0,000 to settle my company's 1 left that city, and not a scin- 4 of adverse comment had I heard all my stay there. Here I find a | food of abuse, of charges of crooked- |ness, and suggestions that “insurance men should be in San Quentin,” with a |tide of hostility that is amazing, all | sweeping agal the insurance com- panies who are trying to settle their here. nsurance men are business men. They are not orators. They are not ‘K"il\fil into print. But I am inclined to break over and say to all in California that the insurance men are not to be bulldozed, nor hounded into any set- tlements that are not just nor fair nor reasonable. I know that insurance men |and companies will pay every dollar | for which they, are liable. | They will most certainly not pay earthquake losses, and that may as well be announced here and now as at ¢ time. The meeting of insurance company representatives in New York last week settled upon a pelicy for those who were represented there. The reports f the action have been sent every- here. They decided that earthquake losses will not be paid so far they are concerned. That is to say, where buildings were damaged by earthquake, {that fact will be taken into considera- tion in settling losses. 1If the insured, and the company that insures him, can- {not agree on a compromise under those circumstances, then the courts will ad- just the matter. That is all there is to that. DEPEND ON THE LAW. That being so, it is unfair and fool- ish to blackguard the companies or their men here, and to assume that bulldozing will accomplish any good. If there is a dishonest insurance man here, th scaring of the people will 1elp his game and play into his hands. Understand, I say if there is such a lishonest man here on the ground, fhe policy of scaring people by talkin about the danger of not being pax§ losses will help the game of such a man. The policy of putting yourself in a man's_place is a good one to follow. Consider the insprance company’s side of the affair. Remember that the men of those companies are business men, knowing their responsibilities to ali sides, and guided by law and knowledge of law which limits and prescribes their ‘”‘“M.'a B«-llg\ie that they are honest men and ca e men, as they assured- ly are, 3“.,”1%. done this, cease n abusing them and take this matter u in a fair way, with patienca on both Isides, and the Tesult will be much bet- ter for all concerned. The insurance companies are pre- pared with proofs where earthquake losses are in dispute. Abundance of photographic matter is in our hands. It will all be used to insure fairness on both sides. Incidentally, it may be considered as an extraordinary thing that in the first 2000 claims submitted to insurance men in San Francisco, after the earthquake and fire, every man _filling a claim swore that his propérty was uninjured by the earth- uake. I u&y, that is extraordinary. glean consider the insurance men's osition under such circumstances. gut yourself in their places. Remem- ber that earthquake clauses are in their policies, and that they believe an earthquake really occurred Francisco. £ In the light of that feeling, I repeat that earthquake losses most certainly 4 Will not be paid; and that a great host | —With hands up-| [1ifted in surprise at what he declared | hange of front| of | ing occurred since he left California At- | German | e caused him to be selected as the| He | of | regarding | payment of losses was agreed upon | sup- | | { MEAT DIET UNDER BAN IN GHIGAGD gResidean of the Lake City Join Ranks of Vegetarians. | | :Alarmed by Disclosures | as to Packing House Filthinessj Special Dispateh to The Call CHICAGO, June 5.—Chicago is turn- ing to the ¢ of the vegetarian. Meats are being spurned by residents throughout the eity. The greatest slump ever experienced in demands for meat for consumption in the ‘homes, hotels and restaurants of Chicago is on, because of the publication of the Neill-Reynolds ~report. Fish dealers SOUTHERN PACIFIG COMPANY WILL OCCUPY THE ENTIRE JAMES FLOOD BUILDING 1 === = 3 & i | are rejoicing because the down turn | ‘VVV in the meat trade has brought a brisk demand for their ,wares. In many homes and hotels dishes in which cheese and eggs figure prominently have supplanted roast and boiled meats. Meat-market men generally admitted today that the disclosures affecting the methods of the packers at the stock- yards had caused a falling off in the, retail business. The decrease in sales of sausages'and other manufactured products from the packing plants is declared to have been from 35 to 60 per cent throughout the city. Small packers are finding prosperity in the grilling the big fellows are get- ting. There are a half dozen con- cerns in Chicago which kill and’ handle from 50 to 300 animals daily. These manufacture, meat dealers say, most of the lard and much of the sausage sold in the city. Tt is asserted that the smaller companies have much cleaner .methods of doing business than many of the big concerns. Fishmen with Wagons, doing a house-to-house business, are “stepping lively” in competiton for the increased trade due to the public distrust of meats. Where these peddlers formerly made weekly trips, they are now cov- ering their routes daily, and extra wagons are being ‘placed in commis- sion throughout the city. _ PLANTS GET A CLEANING. One of the immediate effects of the President’'s disclosure of packing- nouse conditions was seen in a fren- zied attempt in the big plants to remedy the conditions condemned in the report. Practical confession of the truth of the criticisms was seen in the hurried manner in which toilet ar- rangements were Tenovated, floAs cleaned, walls scraped and light and ventilation improved. 3 Tha surroundings of thes workers in these three plants were improved 50 per cent in one day. It was sald that the packers knew of the r rt on Sunday night, and gangs of wen were taken from their work and placed at various cleaning and whitewashing Continued on Page 2, Column 1. hotographer: amateur and profes- :l(m)‘.)nl, r!:)rvlded. :he insurance mepn with indisputable proof of earthquake losses, in Saniand that the insurance men have this material, to be used in the adjustment laims. The insuraince people - §§w§ :omdo what is fair and H‘EL 'fhnw 0 not propose to do anything else, S WHICH THE WEST MAGN%‘{EI‘?"#(‘)FSUEILTD!I{%GA Ofcg [CTALS OFFICE EMPLOYES .OF B SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, AND ANOT SKYSCRAPER THAT IS ALREADY THE HOME OF SEVERAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. ERN NATIONAL BANK IS DOINGH BUSINESS AND - WHICH MILLIONS SENT [WOMAN JUMPS BACK TO EAGT| FROM BALLOON Money Rushed to Pacific| Makes Daring Parachute { ‘Coast Very Quickly Drop as a Result of Returns. Bantering. Special Dispatéh te The Call. Special Dispateh to The Call. z CHICAGO, June 5.—Local banks re-| MIDDLETON, June 5.—Because she was dared to do it and did- not relish port that approximately all of the money sent by them to the Pacific|being called a coward, Miss Maggie Coast immediately after the San Fran- | Dailey, a young woman of this city, took her life in her hands and made cisco disaster has been returned through shipments and the restoration |a balloon ascension and parachute leap at Midway Park, a summer resort near of the balances. here, today. While her horror stricken The disaster occurred on April 18, and Chicago banks were immediately | friends stood below and watched her appealed to for aid. Financial institu- fl:‘fi&"fi:&?tfi?}‘&. f:e‘:o hove tions not only of California, but of the | balloon and made a leap with the para- ‘entire Pacific Coast, borrowed funds in | chute with the -mf’l of : .;"eterln‘n. l(“d. . ind ing about two and a miles from L‘.’:‘:‘&a‘“xfil’é‘.‘i"m‘i‘.‘%&“ c:m:: ;:QTM:: ::: l"-’lrllns point, uninjured, but com- heavily. For this reason the exact |Pletely unnerved. amount of money sént west as a direct | Miss Dalley was with several com- result of the . cannot be esti- | anions at the park when Aegonaut mated acourataly. butsc ls figured hat | 0%, ing Teady for hia sfternoon P ient it m - exhibition, and they commenced ban- | tering and daring one another to make but [an ascension. Miss Dailey would not take the dare and prepared to go up She got away safely and ascended nearly 3000 feet and was but a mere in the sky when the parachute . was seen to separate itself from the balloon and the young woman shot toward the earth. on with increased activity, and the re- turn flow has been steady for some time. & x The movement of funds to the Paeci- fic Coast has been a factor in the local imoney market, although it has not been paramount. o The predominating feature of all times has been the enormous demand for funds by Dbusiness enterprises. However, the demand for funds by the Pacific Coast banks went far to sustain * interest rates at 6 per cent locally, and th:fi,euu:c og‘ u“t:l gmu m,. apparent rece may Al n part to the restoration of Western y much frighten: per eent. NEW YORK, June 5.—The Subtreas- ury received by telegraph from San Francisco . teday §1,300,000 for local o 3 b4 ’ |Upper Part Is to Be Used by the Managerial Departments. gLower F]oom ill Become . Big Ticket Office Center. The Southern Pacific Company has finally made arrangements.to lease |the James Flood building. The nime Ttop floors will bg used for the offices of the general managerial depart- ments, while the ground floors will be turned into ticket offices. This will make probably the greatest railroad office ' building in the country. Early yesterday morning Joseph H. Horsburgh Jr., assistant general pass- enger agent; W. S. Sproule, freight trafic manager, and G. W. Fletcher, general agent, made a thorough inspec- tion of the first floor of the building, with'a view of using it for ticket of- fices, and while after their visit there | they would not- state that they had se- cured the building they would not deny the fact. In these new offices the ' company will be able to house its 1500 em- ployes. This will include all those that were in the offices in the Mer- chants’ Exchange building. these in the big counting department in the building at the cormer of Fourth and I'Townsend streets and those in the old |ticket offices at Market and New Montgomery streets under the Grand Hotel. Every leading department of the Southern Pacific Company will ba brought together under ome roof. The upper nine floors, where the general offices of the company are to be, wili be ready for occupancy Oec- tober 1. This portion of the building will have to be largely remodeled so far as the rooms are concerned. but as many of the partitions were par- tially destroyed by fire the work will not be difficult. Officers of the com- pany were busy there most of the day yesterday deciding where the offices of the different departments should be locatdd. The offices of E. B. Calvin, the vice president- of “the company, will be at the cormer of Powell and Market streats, either on the third or fourth floor. The third floor was first select- ed, but owing to the heavy archways of stone masonry at that psint it was found the light would be better om the floor above, and it is probable that the chief's quarters will be located there. These offices are. to be large and spaclous, with a commodious re- ception-room. They are to be fitted with. every modern convenience. “The t floor will be devoted to the ticket offices of the Southern Pa cific Company and also for offices for the many different city offices of the various Eastern companies. This floor, which is without many partitions, cam be utilized to great advantage, and offices will be constructed to suit the wishes of the many different railroad officers. The offices are all to be hand- somely and elaborately fitted, and when completed the interior of the magnificent building will de in keep~ ing with its exterior A X | } | i | | IVELY BATTLE OVER THE STREET WIDENING PROJECT BEING WAGED AT THE STATE CAPITAL ABOUT GIVING CITY THE RIGHT TO BUY LANDS