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

e THE' SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY o, 1006. : NEW FREIGHT LINE LONG THOUGHT OF Southern Pacific Carries Out Ideas Con-| ceived by Late Senator Fair. 2 = f € 11 8.—When the South- e public yes- blish a new n Francisco by way wark, Dumbarton Point off along the San Matco Harriman corporation ave t e rallroad world evidence of, ions which have been long eve the tremendous new cu int, extending into San t its southern extrem- e objective point of ut not umtil any firally ped it 2ding plans hes the assurance been given that this ex cellent nat crossing from the cast £} v ow be utilized. r does T arton Point reach a unty side of the bay nning of the waterway link iplished by bridging. This of the engineering projects by hich the company proposes to lMnk its side - west tracks with its lines out of ton Point is about fifteen New rk, formerly the s the old South Pacific Coast These shops were bailt by late Senator James G. Fair and essoclates PROJECT IS AN OLD ONE. This road was constructed as a nar- rauge system. Fair's engineers heir eyes on the point, and thirty figured carrying lines 2t that crossiny. But secure a franchise to operate through Telegraph avenue, and sold out the road to ‘he Pacific ien the line has been trans- & standard-gauge system, will form the outlet from Oak- Newark on the new branca :nto ed 1 of the maps of the San region shows that e City, on the comst lino of the rn Pacific out of San Freucisco, west of Dumbarton Point. To the road from Newark to the Pacific tracks at Recdwood City is an easy engineering feat. Many months ago the project was placed before Willlam Hood, chief en- gineer of the Southern Pacific Company Eyster Burveys were made and all the preliminary work done as loag ago as October, 1904, when the Central (ol- foruni Rallway Company was incor- to construct and operate the r ing Jines between Newark on the east side and Dumbarton Ppint. CONGESTION OF FREIGHT. No secret was made of the intentions of this company, which is formed of officiels of the Southern Pacific. The articles of imcorperation were drawn joug before they were filed in Alameda County in June, 1905. They recite that the company pur- poses to construet and maintain a standard-gauge rallway, of the | railroading after he | to commence ' day at | BAY SHORE TUNNEL AND ROUTE ACROSS LOWER BAY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S PROPOSED ROAD TO OAKLAND. near Newark and extend in a genecral | westerly direction fifteen miles to Dum- barton. Point. The company 1s capita ized at $1,000,000. The directors are T. Smith, treasurer of the Southern I cific Company; Willlam Hood, chief en- gineer of the Southern Pacific Com- pany; Frank Shea, J. E. Foulds and | Foshay Walker of the Southern Pacific ‘13‘- department. The reconstruction of the South Pa- cific Coast Line and the connection which will be made with that rcad and the Southern Pacific main line some- where south of Oakland will give the Southern Paclific facilities it has never enjoyed in the movement of {ts heavy tra bay freight traffic. Besides re- ving a heavy pressure at Oakland it will simplify the handling of freight in avolding the necessity of frequent re- shipping on the transfer ferry-bouts be- tween Oakland and San Francisco. | The congestion at West Oakland has been a serious problem. It has com- | pelled the earnest attention of the rail- | way officials for months. Much of the recent new trackage plans on the Oak- 1and side have been formulated with the main idea of relief. With the demand which the rebuilding of San Fraucisco | will create for materiufs the company has been forced to hasten its cut-off project to completion. CHINESE SMUGGLED INTO AMERICA FROM CANADA Deputy Collector of Customs In- volved in Plot Exposed by the Secret Service. 1‘ HELENA, Mont, | Collector of Customs David Hoover, stationed at Gateway, on the Canadian border, was arrested in this city yes- terday on complaint of R. H. Taylor, a | Secret Service man sent out from | Washington to investigate charges of a conspiracy to smuggle Chinese un- |lawfully into this country from Canada. Hoover came from Gateway to appear as a witness in a deportation case be- fore a United States Commissioner and |was arrested on his arrival here, charged with conspiracy. The complaint states that Hoover, | Quen Lee and Wong Wing Guey con- | { | DEPUTY GETS SATISFACTION spired to bring Yee Feen into the| 5 ok | Unitea States and that they did so| SUE O o8 ShIvOwn | | June 27. Yee Feen was arraigned to- ‘d&)‘ on the charge of being in the coun- | try unlawfully and pleaded gullty. He will be deported. It is sald that the smuggling of Chi- nese into this country by way of Gate- way has been going on for over a year, the first evidence of the existence of a | conspiracy being found in the East when a number of Chinese were ar- |rested by immigration officlals: It is | sald that other arrests will follow. Hoover was formerly a deputy gherift | and later chief of police of Kallspell. | S S U Drops Dead at Supper Table. SANTA MONICA, July 8.—George Ar- | nott, a prominent implement dealer of ! Los Angeles, dropped dead here this evening while seated at supper with his wife. The couple had come from Los An‘;lu this morning to spend the the beach. 3 July 8.—Deputy LAFOLLETTEPAYS "HISRESPECTSTD HEMENWAY |Grills Fellow-Senator in a Speech* After the Latter Acts as His Introducer. RATE BILL FAILURE Wisconsin Statesman Says It WillNot Remedy the Ewvils It was Sought to Check. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. EVANSVILLE, Ind., July 8.—Senator La Follette turned upen Senator Hem- | enway, who introduced him to his audi- |ence here yesterday, and publicly | grilled him for his opposition to the amendments proposed for the rate bill by the Wisconsin Senator. La Follette spoke before the Evansville Chautau- qua on railroad rate legislation. He declared that the Dbill just passed by Congress did “not have a leg to stand on"; that the time spent in considering it was wasted, as it would serve no good purpose, and announced his inten- tion of denouncing it before every au- dience he addressed this season. Had the bill been defeated, he said, .t would have been a good thing, as it would have caused a popular uprising and re- sulted in the passage of a bill at the | next session that would have brought rellef from the rebate evil. Then the speaker gave his attention to Senator Hemenway, who sat just be- hind him, and criticised him for his op- position to the amendments offered to the measure with a view of making it effective. Senator La Follette read an amend- | ment which he had proposed which pro- | vided that the Interstate Commerce | Commission might hire expert engin- | eers to ascertain the value of railroads {and the gost of maintenance. Upon in- | tormation thus gained, he sald, it could | be_determined what was a fair rate. | He then called the roll of the Senate and showed that Hemenway had voted against the amendment. | La Follette said he proposed another amendment making it impossible for any Judge owning railroad stock to try a case involving rates. Another call of the roll of the Senate showed Hem- |enway had voted against that amend- !mom. | Hemenway blushed scarlet, and the crowd laughed and groaned as La Fol- lette thus continued to show up the rec- |ord that Hemenway had made. Amend- | ment after amendment was read, and Hemenway appeared as opposed to |them, and the crowd chgered and groaned, much to the discomfiture of the Indiana Senator. O IMMUNITY FOR ~ THE RAILROAD OFFIGIALS. | CLEVELAND, Ohlo, July 8.—Federal | officials announced today that G. J. | Grammar, trafic manager of the New | York Central lines west of Buffalo, {wonld not be called as a witness be- | fore the Grand Jury which will meet tomorrow to ferret out. violators:of the | interstate commerce laws. . The announcement that Grammar would not be called was accompanied by the statement that the Government vould not be put into a position where any high rallway official could claim immunity from prosecution because he |had been compelled to give testimony | before the Grand Jury. Service was secured today on N. H. | Anspach, head of the tariff and sched- ule bureau of the Lake Shore Raflway. Anspach will be asked to bring tariff sheets running back a number of years. This action reveals the plans of the Government officials to strike at some | of the biggest and most influential rail- way men in the country. ‘TUBERCULOSIS FINDS OPEN FIELD IN FRANGE | Statistics Show Startling Extent of Ravages of the Diseasc. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, | WASHINGTON, July 8.—Startling sta- | tistics of the extent of tuberculosis in France are contained in a report ren- | dered to the bureau of manufactures, | Department of Commerce and Labor, by Consular Clerk Augustus E. Ingram at Paris. Official statistics discussed by | the Acamedy of Medicine in the French | capital show that 150,000 persons die of tuberculosis in France every year, representing thirty-nine deaths to each 10,000 inhabitants. In Germany the rate i only twenty-two deaths from tu- | berculosis to every 10,000 inhabitants, | but chronic bronchitis is counted as tu- berculosis in France and not in Ger- many. The statistics are admitted to be in- complete, and an approximation for the whole country is made on the basis of such figures as were gathered from 713 citles and towns with populations of more than 5000 each and repregenting an aggregate population of 1,200,000 | persons. The report says in part: | “In Paris there 45.6 deaths from tu- | berculosis to each 10,000 inhabitants. | In cities of from 100,000 to 492,000 in- {bahitants there are 34.4 deaths to the same number; in cities of from 30,000 to 100,000 inhabitants 32.8 deaths; in cities of from 20,000 to 20,000 inhabit- ants 30.8 deaths; in cities of from 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants 26.6 deaths; in clties of from 5000 to 10,000 inhabitants 23.4 deaths, and In cities of from 1000 to 5000 people 20.4 deaths.” i L TOLEDO, Ore, July S8.—William Matthews, editor of the Newport News, was thrashed by “Ted” McElwaln, Deputy Town Marshal of Newport, yesterday. McElwain received what |he considered an unjust criticism in |the columns of the News and asked Matthews for an explanation. The ex- planation was not satisfactory and McElwaln proceeded to get satisfac- tion by “taking it out of the editor's hide.” Matthews was not seriously in- jured, although considerably disfig- ured. L — Explosion Kills Twe. BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio, July 8.—In the factory of the Portland Cement | Company today, a coal grading machine | exploded, killing John Scott, the super- intendent, and an unknown man, and badly burning M. D. Thomas, a work- man. City Officialdom Receives Shake-Up Administration Is Dissatisfied With the Action of Some Appointees. COLUMNS 2 AND 3. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1, men declare that he was attempting to get hold of the liguor traffic through the guise of tue crockery business. “There will be more news tomorrow,” said Mayor Schmitz last night. The significance of this sentence in the light of the happenings of Sat- urday and the statement of those “close in” that a shake-up will take place immediately is plain. The Mayor will probably announce today that he has received the resignation of Alexander O'Grady. He may also make public the chopping off of other official heads. ENTIRE BOARD MAY GO. Possibly Police Commissioner Reagan is to go. He was a street con- tractor up to the time of his appointment to the board, but he immediately went into the insurance business after that date. Saloon men said that his rates are very high. Police Commissioner Drinkhouse may have his scalp placed on the belt of the Mayor alongside those of Poheim and O'Grady. He sells cigars; all salodns must have cigars. If Reagan and Drinkhouse resign an entire new Board of Police Commissioners must be appointed. That little sentence of the Mayor’s, “There may be more news tomor- row,” may mean that Frank Maestretti will be asked to resign, from the Board of Public Works, of which he is the president. He had entered into a partnership with Poheim and others to build a skating rink. Possibly, but far, of course, from probably, Herbert Schmitz may be in- cluded in the pregnant sentence of the Mayor. He Is secretary of the Board of Park Commissioners. He is also an insurance broker. There is little connection between the two positions, but his closeness to the ad- ministration has caused many insurance agents to wish that the brother of the Mayor had chosen some other business. Hérbert Schmitz is said to be engaged in the real estate brokerage business as well. Police Commissioner O'Grady could not be found yesterday. He did not appear at any of his usual haunts. His wife said she did not know where he was nor when he would return. - Later she said that he would see no one. He was evidently in hiding all day. Former Police Commissioner Poheim declares that he was not asked to resign by either Mayor Schmitz or Ruef. He says that he retired be- cause of the criticism attached to his entering the crockery business. It is sald in administration circles that both Mayor Schmitz and Ruef were sorry to see Poheim fall, but that they felt compelled to hint to him that his resignation would be accepted. Both the Mayor and Ruef have known Poheim since his boyhood and they have held him in high pgrsonal regard. Through their friendship he was made president of the Board of Police Commissioners, a place second in importance to that of the Mayor. Late- 1y, however, it is declared, the Mayor and Ruef have not approved of the associations Poheim has formed. The crockery venture is sald to have been the last straw. b Commissioners Drinkhouse and Reagan have both been In official diffi- culties. The union ecigar-makers complained to Mayor Schmitz over a year ago that Drinkhouse was using his position as Police Commissioner to sell non-union cigars to the saloon men. The Mayor questioned Drinkhouse about the matter, but took no action. Reagan has been accused of using his position to further his insurance business. His conduct has never been officially investigated. Frank Maestretti declares that his business ventures will not subject him to officlal disfavor. He says that his position on the Board of Public ‘Works cannot be used to further his skating-rink busines. He declares that he advised Poheim to stay out of the crockery business because of the scandal that might arise. } 1t 1s certain that the Mayor is dissatisfied with the action of other of his ap- pointees. This dissatisfaction has reached such a stage that it is said their resignations will be demanded and that if they are not forthcoming the offenders will be removed. RUEF ADMITS ACTION, Abraham Ruef would not dfscuss the coming shake-up, but he sald last night, when -pukln‘ of Poheim’'s action: 4 “While a man has the'right to engage in any business he desires while holding public office and it does not disqualify him, yet when he goes into a business purposely to use the power of such office, it causes annoy- ance and embarrassment to the Mayor and administration as well as more or less unpleasantness. “In the case of Police Commissioners Poheim and O'Grady, they.en- gaged in the glassware business and made no secret of the fact that it was their aim to do buginess with the saloon men. “Now, a saloon man would not be forced in any way to purchase their wares from the firm, still many would be led to believe that it would be advisable to become thelr customers. Many complaints were made to the Mayor by saloon men and some action was necessary on his part.” Dr. Pohelm declares that he is the victim of “knockers.” He said last night: “No man can occupy a municipal office in this town and escape be- ing knocked. The people went right after me—that is, some of them did. They called me a robber. They said that I was holding up the saloon- keepers. I grew tired of it all. I said to myself last night, I am going to quit’ I came to this decision without much previous thought and I sat right down and wrote out my resignation. “Now I'm out of the Board of Police Commissioners. I never robbed anybody.' I never took one cent of dishonest money. have only invested the money my father left me. “I quit of my own accord. The Mayor had nothing to do with it Neither did Abe Ruef or any one else. I was not asked to resign. I just quit because I was tired of being knocked and I was not willing to glve up my business interests. \ “I believe that .. is all right for a Police Commissioner to engage in any kind of business he pleases if he is honest about it. “I daid not need the office of Police Commissioner. I am making more money now than I ever did before In my life. The speculations that I have entered Into are proving successful. I have my medical practice. For sev- eral months the salary I have received as Police Commlissioner has not pald me for the time I have spent attending the meetings of the board.” The police officers say that they are sorry to See Poheim leave the Board of Police Commissioners. “He has always been fair to us,” said one patrolman. “Poheim -always gave us a chance to tell our side of the story when complaint was made against us. For this reason we like him.” Chief Dinan praised the work of Poheim on the board. “He was very energetic,” sald Chief Dinan, “and he was fair. I think him one of the most efficient Commissioners this city has ever had. I am sorry to see him leave the board.” MAESTRETTI WARNS POHEIM. Frank Maestretti, president of the Board of Public Works and a part- ner of Police Commissioner Poheim in a skating rink enterprise, says he warned Dr. Poheim of the inadvisability of entering the glassware busi- ness with O'Grady and Solomon. He said: “The resignation of Dr. Poheim from the Police Commission was rather a surprise to me, for I had not looked for it at this time. From what I read in the papers as to the Mayor's attitude in regard to the establishment of a glassware business by Poheim and O’Grady, I felt sat- isfled that something would drop. I hardly believe that Poheim's resig- nation was asked for by the Mayor. It looks to me as if the Commis- sioner found resignation the only course to pursue. If he retired from the glabsware business and held on to his appointment as Police Commis- sioner, it would be a practical admission that he was wrong and that the criticism of his actions was called for. “His resignation leaves Commissioner O’'Grady high and dry. He is cer- tainly placed in a peculiar position, and no doubt feels it. I am sorry for Poheim, for he had a brilllant future before him. He is a young man, and I think he went into the glassware business at the suggestion of Solomon, whoever he isswithout giving the matter any thought. They could not have made much money in that business in any event, and Pohelm has plenty of means. One deal alone that he made in Fillmore-street property will net him $19,000. He has plenty of ready cash, and that is why he joined us in the skating rink. Now people who might look for favors from commissions ‘would hardly help a skating rink along, so I can hardly be accused of using my position en the Board of Works to get people on skates—roller skates. “When Poheim told me about embarking in the glassware business with Commissioner O'Grady and this man Solomon, I advised him to keep out of it. I told him that there would be a lot of people talking about graft, and that he would have a lot of trouble on his hands. He seemed to think, how- ever, that he had as good a right to go into any kind of a business as the next one. “I have heard that they sent out cards to saloon men, - bearing their names and the business they were engaged in. That would certainly look bad, and if they did it I must say they they certainly lacked judgment. I really don’t belleve that they even openly solicited trade from the saloon men. Still, at this particular time, when saloons all over the city are open- ing and reopening, the glassware business would look promising. “I am in politics and T know that this kind of thing is doing us no good. Take the case of Commissioner Reagan, who went into the insur- ance business shortly after he was appointed on the police board. Then there i{s Commissioner Drinkhouse in the cigar business. » Well, I get around a whole lot among saloon men and I know from them that they are opposed to doing business with the commissioners. “1hey of course have to have insurance and cigars and also gldssware, but don’t feel like being placed in the position of getting the articles from men simply through fear of their power. ‘“I don't say that Commissioners Reagan or Drinkhouse have ever forced any saloonman to do business with them, but the saloonmen would not care to overlook them. “The saloonmen don’t like the situation, and say so on the low down. They don’t care, however, to come out with a protest. We have cam- paigns to win. One-can hardly afford to lose the friendship of saloon- men. “I must say that $100 & month is a very small salary for a Police Com- missioner,"and unless he has some other business {s bound to be open to the suspicion of grafting. What is $100 a month? A bare living. People would at once say of a Police Commissioner, whose only income was the salary attached to that office, that he was getting his by graft. < “In the case of Commissioner Drinkhouse. He was in the cigar bus! ness for years before he was ever appointed to office. I belleve a Police Commisisoner should have some business that would relieve him of any suspicion of grafting or being forced to graft. There are many different lines of business a man can go into. Take, for instance, the skating rink. Saloon men about the city were not at all sorry to see Police Com- missioner Poheim resign. They all recelved printed matter from the glagssware firm of Poheim, O'Grady & Solomon and letters soliciting their trade. One saloon man, in speaking of the matter yesterday, said: “These fellows must think we are all crazy and would easily stand for their graft. It was not the glassware business they were after. That was simply a little side issue. It was the liquor business of the town that they had their eye on. One of the notices I received, after referring to the fine lot of glassware that O'Grady, Poheim & Solomon would be glad to supply, related the fact that Mr. Solomon, besides being intér- ested in the glassware business, was the proprietor of a wholesale liquor ‘place next door. His whisky was highly recommended. “Whisky and not glassware are what they were trying to peddle. I am glad they are being called down and I suppose O'Grady will be forced to resign. Reagan is another that needs a trimming. He asks and gets a whole lot more for a saloon man's insurance than any other agent. If that is not graft, what s it? As for Drinkhouse, I must say that I never heard of him forcing anything on the saloon men. He has always acted decen I g % Single or double offices, 1 Desk room 10x10. Stores 20x64. Offices, Desk Room and Stores to Rent MARKET ST., BETWEEN THIRD AND FOURTH IN THE NEW Midway Office Building Under Construction, to Be Completed July 15th. WILL CONTAIN 66 WELL-LIGHTED OFFICES. Apply on premises, or to THOMAS MAGEE & SONS Real Estate Agents 5 MONTGOMERY STREET 0x10, 10x20 and 12x20. NATIONAL BANKS MUST | REDUCE_THER LOANS May No' Longer Lend on Uncl.i-;i vided Profits as Part of the Surplus. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, July 8.—W. B.| Ridgely, Comptroller of the Currency, has notified all the national banks in the country that the recent law of Con- gress permitting national banks to lend 10 per cent of thelr capital and unimpaired surplus does not include | undivided profits as a part of the sur- plus. BSome of the banks took the| ground that because under the con- struction of the war revenue law the undivided profits were regarded as part of the surplus for purposes of taxa- tion, the new legislation included un- divided profits within the term “sur- plus.” | Comptroller Ridgely has also in-| formed the officers of the natlonal banks that excessive loans must be| collected or reduced to the limit at once and that it will be the policy of the Comptroller of the Currency to enforce the law by requiring every bank to keep Its loans within the| statutory limit. | In urging this legislation on Con- gress Comptroller Ridgely explained that he found it impossible to enforce | ELECTRIG AR COLLIDES WITH KEY ROUTE TRAIN Mis. F. A. Sherrot Is Shightly In- jured in a Smashup in Oakland. OAKLAND, July $.—A north bound Telegraph avenue electric car, loaded | with passengers, collided this afternoon with a Key Route train at Twenty- second street and Telegraph avenue. The train was runging into the Broad- way station when the car, of which the motorman lost contrel for a mo- ment, struck one of the coaches. The passengers were thrown in a heap but none of them were Injured. The front of the car was smashed and the: motors damaged so badly that it was sent to the repair shop. Among the passengers on the elec- tric car was Mrs. F. A. Sherrot of 1364 Eighth street. She was slightly bruised about the head. the limit of leans to 10 per cent of the capital, but promised if the pro- posed legislation were enacted he would enforce the new law strictly. e e e et Summer Colds Laxative Bromo Quinine, world wide Cold Cure, removes cause. Call for f name; look for sig. of EEW 3 California Safe Deposit and Trust 1 am no grafter. - Com CAPITAL, FULLY PAID - TOTAL ASSETS - pany 52,000,000 10,0000 A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS CONDUCTED. SAVINGS AND CHECKING ACCOUNTS RECEIVED. INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS. MAIN OFFICE—Corner Mon tgomery and California Sts. BRANCHES: WEST END BRANCH—1531 Devisadero St., Near Post. MISSION BRANCH—927 Valencia St., near Twenty-first. UPTOWN BRANCH—1850 Geary St., West, of Filimore. DAVID F. WALKER, President. J. DALZELL BROWN, Manager. Electric Less CHICAGO-UNION PACIFIC AUGUST 7, 8, 9 THE BEST OF Tickets to and from S.F. BOOTH, G. A. U.P. Nave of Ferry Building San Francisco . OVERLAND LIMITED Than THREE Days to Chicago S ROUND TRIP TICKETS AT HALF RATES TO ALL EASTERN POINTS Daily and personally conducted Tourist Cars to Chicago without change. SEND ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO OAKLAND OFFICE. Lighted =4 NORTHWESTERN LINE SEPTEMBER 8 and 10 EVERYTHING——— all Points in Europe Gireat North orn Railway “THE COMFORTABLE WAY” SPECIAL EXCURSION RATES To St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago and All Points East. North Nave Ferry Depot San Francisco A G. W. COLBY, General Agent 952 Broadway Qakland