The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1906, Page 3

<+ FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28 UNION'S BULLETING SCHOOLS AFFECTED THOUSANS TRAMP CORPORKTION MAYF SEORE CALAOIN State That President . BY THE STRIKE. of Board of Education Fears| Reduced Attendance| Will Reduce Income the Road Ignored Men His Upon Arrival If the street car strike is protracted for any great length of time, declare the members of the Board of Education, the money due from the State for next | vear's appropriation will be much less than it would otherwise be, and par- s will be asked to do all they can | to keep the children at school in spite of the lack of transportation. An effort was made by the members of the board vesterday to determine the effect of the strike on the attendance for the first day. It was noted that the strike selected ttee of from the affected the high schools much more than it did the lower grades. was stated by members of the yesterday afternoon that al- some of the teachers live a great distance from their schools they 1 be on hand to do their work. It actically guaranteed by the board the teachers will perform their sual duties. As many of ihe schools do not have telephones, i1 is not possi- ble for the school authorities to deter- ne immediately how all the schools | affected. The greatest loss report- yesterday in any one school was e Everett School, Fourteenth and Sanchez streets, there being forty less pupils than on last Friday. the A few schoo practically owing to their being located | v settled localities. | dent - Altman and other mem- | the board stated vesterday af- oon that if the fire and earthquake not occurred re would not be : ting from the strike e school attendance is con- it present conditions require {ldren to travel long distances. At present there seems to be nothing for the board to do to aid the children to get to their schools with the excep- tion of tryir impress on the par- importance of having a large attendance this year in order to ney for next year's work. President Cornelius Evades Questions. President ichard Corneélius, when acked what former Congressman Ed- ward J. Livernash had to do with the preparati of the communication sent rmen's. Union to the United was non-committal, if not evasive. When asked his on the article printed in yes- morning’s Call concerning the activity in the interest of dis- which the Independent League might have played in the labor trouble t expense of Mayor Schmitz, Cor- us spoke a trifie nearer the mark, g, “I am not in politics; all I am $3 for eight hours.” He was in-| clined to treat the suggestion of pol- 1 lightly, dismissing the idea with a laugh. | But the Livernash proposition was apparently & more delicate matter for the president of the carmen to speak upon. He was approached on the sub- ject yesterday afternoon as he was en- tering the headquarters of the carmen at 835 Webster street. “I have no time for politics,” he de- clared when asked concerning Liver- nash’s role in the strike trouble. “I have not read the article in this morn- , but I have heard about it— of had Pre: | bers DEVOTES TIME TO LETTER. t able sug- fejlow That the time that t for reaching time to read it now.” he the paper was offered with a rising inflection, ime to talk about what had to do with this;all I am d in is $3 for eight hours.” >id Livernash write the communi- on sent by the union to the United £ roads? We regret “Livernash has been our attorney,” r th replied Cornelius, evading the ques- he is an honorary member of | nion, he was our representative on arbitration board several years| Street | es of| did he or did he not prepare| | the communications?” the interviewer he news that we give out will | in the form of bulletins,” answered | llus. “There will be one ready at his is a different matter, however, | ornellus; did or djd not Mr. Liver- write the letters sent the com- by the union?” e have frequently consulted with Mr. Livernash in our affairs,” was all that Cornelius would say. “Have you anything to say on what | |part the Independent League took or| | might have taken in this strike?” There was something of innocence | |and guilelessness in Cornelius’ laugh;| | there was not that constraint which | | had characterized the union president Mr. nash pa ivision No. 205, A. A. E. of A, 2 p. m,, Au- gust 2 the Peo Szn Francisco: | when he was disc ! h ussing ex-Congress- Representatives of the press require = . = ;"c.—, %o press itself on the fol-| M&n Livernash as Ir}e replied, “I have| owing language quoted by a reputable | BO time for polities. | words of If Livernash is the author of the| of the epistles to the street car combine he gets no pubdlic glory for his work fyom | e lips of President Cornelius; neither, | by the same token, does he get any| clearance papers from authorship if he is the responsible person. And the In- these words | dependent League gets laughed at by he repeats > u e el e iCm:elx s for its pains, if it took any. ng newspaper as tr ck Cslhoun, president if I have to en here to dc»‘ it. I was telligence neir solemn S DA TR S, Gift to President From Indian. When a2 man § h GAZELLE, Aug. —An Indi es says more than he | P S S alhoun personal. | Woman living at Scotts Bar, who is a withhold criticism of | fine basket-weaver and bead-worker, said about strike-breakers | recently made a beaded bottle for | S his own sober second thought |President Roosevelt. On one side-is| shall have come Into play. the name of McKinley, with the date | ATTITUDE ON CONTRACT. of his assassination, and on the other | given the usual a dey and be : rs As for our “solemn agreement with | the word “Roosevelt.” She sent it to the company,” Wwe quote from the let- | the President, who through Secretary ter which we addressed to the United | 1oeb has sent her a special letter of allroads on Saturday night: thanks. We never promised to work for you i S WE HAVE BEEN WURKING SINCE |4 e 15TH OF APRIL. We are break- % ct, ‘solemn’ or_otherwise, 5 he declined to go on doing work ver promised to do at wage rates opising to conditions THAT DO NOT NOW LXIST. £ Do you think you can justly read to o 1805 agreement double labor, ultiplied mnerve ura{ln, exllravngant en ing prices for nearly every- hing Pate to buy and hold us these conditions, UN- IN 1905, without any of YOUR OBLIGATIONS TO President ‘Cornelius of the Carmen's Union issued yesterday afternoon was there a reply to the charge made b3 President Calhoun of the United Rail- roads that the employes had vioiated the agreement by falling to submit their complaints to arbitration. | In the afternoon Cornelius was asked if the executive committee of the car- men would consider that matter in a| subsequent bulletin, but he could not reply to the question. “Whatever we have to issue to the| public will be given out by means of the bulletins which the committee pr pares,” Cornelius sald. “I cannot say, he continued, “what will be in the bul- letins until they are issued, nor can I discuss any matter which is not can- tained in these bulletins.. At present I| v v we have by ail [ bound A Mr. Calhoun should flnhlv;er h, jon put in that paragrap = ;;sequ}e:: aay‘: more sabout “broke s pro er to go back to work on A oS erms we have proposed. as been always willing to There should t!llen be{ er interruption of o mnc”"d sfi‘&l‘éfii’lkm need not be | cannot speak on what Mr. Calhoun Srought here in order to set his cars in | sald about our alleged failure to sub- | motion. We will run those cars with- | mit the differences which we have to| In an hour after he $ays the word | arbitration.” ! Amalgamat —— Electric ;’;Serk:"l)h"h!on No. Goodyear Rubber Company." By R. col(!:wgeml."s‘.nl’r#:::g; = xmo&lre; gxl:g ;,‘J’g,?“‘ -1: aexr :E:a“w BOWLING, Secre = = . 218-220. ar. st., bet. ward {i}:de‘l))er of the two bulletins which| and Folsom. Tel. Temporary 1733. * e the m He says he b treat us fairly. | was begun there was more or less!| TOTHEIR WORK Inadequate Car Service . Causes Wage Earners -*Much Inconvenience Tootsore and weary, 50,000 San Fran-| ciscans trudged across the hills last| night after a tedious, irksome day among the lime dust and sand of the| ruins. The inconvenience of a car-| less city was strongly brought home to the wage earners, many of whom were compelled to make the pilgrimage from the Western Addition and the| Mission to the business center. The morning walk was undertaken with a good will. The crowd moved | rapidly and cheerfully to the downtown | offices, but when the return journ grumbling, some caustic comments on the carmen and Calhoun and not a little torrid language opn the conditions that | have made the situation possible. | The two car lines, the California and | Geary street, were unable to carry the| traffic. Thousands of people who want- | ed to ride were compelled to wait ‘"i an hour and often longer before they| could find even standing room on the| few cars in operation. The California Company tried to improve its service | by utilizing some of the dummies of | the Union-street road. For a time the| expedient helped a little, but late in the | afternoon the cable stopped and for| half an hour the traffic was suspended. | OLD CARS BREAK DOWN. The Geary-street road put on all its rclling stock, even aragging from the scrap iron pile antiquated cars that have been out of date for a decade. The crowd did not mind that, however, and lost no time in leaping upon them. Four tons of huthan flesh proved too much for the weakened ¢xles, and eight of the “old timers” were retired from service. This left the Geary street| with only twenty cars. The - California-street road has. nine cars in commission, but expects to have | more by the end of the week, when {t| will resume a night service, the last car leaving Market street at 12:30 a. m. At present the service stops at 7 o'clock because the company has been unable to provide lanterns. It expects to have them by Monday. Up to the present there has been no violence. Neither the police mor the hospitals have been called upon to take a part In the struggle. The carmen promise that they will take no hand in any attacks that may be made upon the property of the com- pany and will not be responsible for the acts of the lawless element. 1 UNION WOULD PROTECT CARS. More than 100 carmen stood about the corner of Fillmore and Turk streets day, but nothing of moment oc- curred. The company made no . effort to take cars out and the small squad of police at hand had nothing to do. Secratary J. H. Bowling of the Car- men’s Union had advised the pickets stationed there to protect any ca which the company might desire to end out. If the United Ratlroads | | would permit, it was the Intention of | the union to send five uniformed men with every car for the purpose of pro- | tecting it from any violence which might be directed against it. This or- der was given by the union officials in keeping with their policy to have the strike conducted along peaceful lines. Should the company refuse to ac- cept the protection which the carmen wish to give, the union would not then feel responsible for any damage which might be inflicted by hotheaded sym- patnizers with the strikers. In the light of President Calhoun's statement that the “strikers are po longer employes of min it-is doubt- ful if their services will be accepted if offered. MEN GOLFERS LOOK CUTE IN SKIRTS AND VEILS. SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. DEL MONTE, Aug. 27.—Wih the poasible exception of a competitipn for | caddles, the golf tournament here was brought to a brillilant and successful close this afternoon with the ..andlcap | mixed foursomes for two handsome sil- | ver trophies presented by Miss Hager. The winners of a very close contest were Miss Mary Sherwood and R. Y. Hayne with a score of 100 less 42, net | 58. Mrs. J. Parker Whitney and| H. Warner Sherwood were second with a net score of 60. The event caused great amusement and brought every guest at the hotel out to the links. Ladies wore their usual goifing cos- tumes, but the men appeared in wom- en’s skirts, hats and vells. Some wore waist bands of ribbon, and others had circlets of broad ribbon to conune their skirts at the knees. The handicapping of the couples was done by Miss Hager and proved highly satisfactory, the | first five couples finishing close to | each other.. Scores: Han- { Players— Gross. dicap.Net. | Miss Sherwood-R. Y. Hayne....100 .42 58 Mrs. Whitney-H. W. Sherwood.. 93 33 60/ -C. T. Crocker. . 91 30 61| Mrs. Maud-H. S." Black. c92 30 62} aurice Dore. 102 37T 65 Miss Hager-Douglas Grant. 94 25 €9 | Mrs. Sherwood-C. E. Maud 3 23 69| Miss Armsby-A. R. Colquboun... 2 1 Miss Morgan-C. de la Montansa. 38 35| Miss Ives-C. S. Brincton.. 3 25 | Mrs. Wingate-L. S. White. 3% 824 Miss Crocker-S, S. Lowery A *No returns. It was intended that the trophies won during the tournameat should be pre- sented this evening oy Mrs. Henry T. Scott, but she left the hotel tonight for home in company with Mrs. W. S. Martin, C. T. Crocker and Miss Crocker. R. G. Hanford, Mrs. R. G. Hanford and Miss Guitard left this morning for San Francisco in their Thomas flier. An Interedting foursome was plaved this morning on the links between Miss Hager and H. Spens Black on one side and Mrs. W. S. Martin and C. E. Maud | on the other, all being scratch players. Miss Hager and H. Spens Black won, 3 up 2 to play, going out in 4, 5, §, 4, 5, 4, 6, 3, 4—total 41—and coming in in 4.4,3, 4.3, 4, 3 4, 5—total 34. Total for | the eighteen, 75. e N Mexico Against Revolutionists. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 27.—The Mexi- can Government has issued strict or- ders that no use shall be made of gulf| ports, especially those of Yucatan, as a base of supplies for the Cuban revo- lutionists. Cuban Minister Rivero has been active in his efforts to prevent the revolutionists = receiving assistance from their - sympathizers in this country. Jewelers and. Opticians. So Co., 715 Marlket st. Branches 1258 Eeon and 2505 Misston 2t F comple! onds, jew ax Sptical | and | to impsrt men to Man them. OPERATE TRAINS. Considers Plan to Run| -Electric Motors Under Protection of Guards! “You can accept today's decision of | the directors of the United Railroads as final, so far as President Calhoun and his business associates are con- | cerned. . They are already preparing | to resume the car Servise and wiil take the initative probably tomorrow or Friday.” This announcement was made by one | | of the prominent officials of the rail- road company last evening immediately | after the directors of the road had giyen out their statement to the public | made known their letters to Mayor Schmitz and President Cornelius of the Carmen’s Uniom. Incidentally the | official reiterated the previous state- ment of President Calhoun that cars| would be ran even if the company had FARLEY WITHIN CALL. It is no longer a seeret that John | Farley, the famous strike-breaker, is within easy call of San Francisco with | a large force of men who are engaged | to enter the eity at a given time and | start the cars of the United Rallroads | on various lines. In all probability the | first cars will be run on Devisadero or | Fillmore street, for the plan of the company is to resume business in a section of the city wheére the least prejudice against the company prevalils. | All the cars will be under guard of Farley’s men, the majority of whom | were here during the last strike and are familiar with the local congittons. Appreciating the need of a downtown egervice, that is one which will afford/ means for workingmen to reach their places of employment in the morning and return to their homes in the even- ing, General Manager Chapman has been figuring on running special trains {up and down Market street at regular intervals between sunrise and sunset. MAY USE MOTOR TRAINS. His plan is to use the eléctric motors recently imported*from the East for hauling debris trains in the lower por- tion of the city. The company has seven of these motors, which are cap- able of pulling half a dezen or more | of the big electric cars of the type used on the San Mateo line. These can be trailed after the big motors and afford a relief to the tired toilers who are now walking miles and miles each day through the ruined city to their places of labor. The idea of operating trains instead of single cars is that they can be bet- ter protected by guards. The trains will reach Fillmore and Devisadero streets by way of one or more of the side thorougnfares, and at Fillmore| street they will connect with crosstown | trains. Once having assured them-| selves of the safety of these trains,| the officials of the road expect to op- erate cars over other linés and grad-| ually resume the regular schedules| on all the lines of the United Rallroads’ system. ELECTRICIANS BROUGHT IN. There have already arrived in San Francisco 200 men, mostly electriclans, who were brought here from the East in anticipation of any further !rouhle‘ with the linemen. It is claimed by the| railroad officials that these men will be| among the first to be placed on the cars as motormen, while men for the rear platforms will be selected from the force that is at the command of Farley. The latter,is said to have 700 men in all at his disposal and of the number 400 are in different towns of | California awaiting instructions to come to San Francisco. | Asked yesterday if the company had any means of determining what pro-| portion of the members of the unfon who | are.out on the strike were away from | their posts against their will, an official | of the road said that to the best| knowledge of the company there Were | very few. “We regret to say,” said he, “that] our inquiries for information on this| subject revealed the fact that there| were very few men who had any re- gret at going out on Sunday morn- ing. Usually a large number of the men join in the strike, but moge out of fear of incurring the enmity of their associates than a desire to quit. In the present case. however, it was dif- ferent. This fact we attributed to sev- eral circumstances. . CALHOUN MAPS OUT PLAN. “In the first place, we doubt if the men would bave struck had it not been for the influences that were directed toward them. It is well known to the railroad men and ourselves that it was not the original plan of President Cor- nelius to present a formal demand for increased wages and shorter hours. He intended his first communication to be in the nature of a request and so couched it. But as the proposition for advanced wages began to be discussed by the 2000 employes of the road and patrons of the lines expressed sym- pathy with them in their efforts to get an advance, Cornelius suddenly changed his request inte a formal demand and the trouble was precipitated. “It was patent to the officials of the road that public sympathy was largely with the men, and this widespread in- fluence would no doubt have carried considerable welsht in the effofts of the carmen to get the advance had they gone about it in what we consider a fairer way. But we believe that pub- lic sympathy has chinged because of Cornelius’ hasty action. “Political influences fizured largely in this afair and the end of the trouble will probably be a revelation of this fact. President Calhoun is well advised of the situation and fs already decided on the course he will pursue. Political influences will not swerve him. His men will be given a chance to return to work, but President Calhoun has de- clared that he will not be coerced ‘in replacing them in their old. positions.” —_—— OIL FIELDS FAILING. Chilean Earthquakes Have Strange Ef- fect on Wells of Texas. . GALVESTON. Tex., Aug. 27.—Re- markable changes in the ofl fields of Texas since the Chilean earthquake are aseribed by scientists and geolo- gists to the seismic disturbances. The authcrities declare that the movements of the earth have opened new chan- nels for the' immense - subterranean reservoirs of oil, and that the fields within 100 miles of the coast will soon exhausted. e 7 % mAnBr"mo earthquake the' Teéxas fields began to show a startling and rapid decline, while an oil heretofore unknawn in . this part of the country has replaced the crude oil in three or foursof the wells. This new oil is very light, and it is believed that there has been a general shifting of the mineral bearing strata.. oil and Strike-Breakers Ready to Go to Work on the Cars | COERL A0 MY BE INVOKED. Stockholders of Road Consider Plan to Put a Receiver in Charge . Great public interest seems to cen- ter around the question as to the pos- sibility of the United Railroads in- voking the aid of the Federal Govern- ment to further its plans for defeating the Carmen’s Union. Yesterday it was stated by one who is well acquainted with the inner secrets of the corpora- tion that such a move had been care- fully considered by -ue directors of the roads and had received the attention of the corporation's counsel, both in| this city and New York, where the| representatives of the heaviest holder: of United Ralilroads’ stock reside. “It may be one of the ea moves,” said this man yesterday if undertaken it would probably voke one of the bitterest strifes witnessed on this coast. Patrick houn is anxious that bloodshed shall not grow out of the present difficulties, | but his anxiety in this direction will| not interfere with his determination to | operate his streetcar system unmo- lested by the union men.” PLAN FULLY CONSIDERED. TIE-UP CRIPPLES MAIL SERVIGE. Inconvenience Deemed “While the carmen’s strike will not interfere with the carrying of the/ mails between the postoffice and its| branches and. the traims, the carrier| service will be. seriously interfered with,” said Postmaster Arthur Fisk yesterday. “The Government has a| contract with the United Railroads for carrying. the mail between the post- | office and Station Twenty-second streets, but since the fire, owing to the incomplete service of the Mission-street line which prevented the rallway company from carrying the | mail in a direct line between the post- office and’ the ferry, the mail has been carried by wagons. The wagon service, | therefore, will continue to run on| schedule. ! “There was also a contract providing for the transportation of malil carriers, but after the fire, when the new over- head trolley franchises were granted, provision was made for the carrying of policemen, firemen and mail car- riers free of charge. The mail car- riers have consequently been riding to their various routes on the street cars. The plan in its entirety for carrying | the existing troubles into the United | States courts has been gone over and | has been definitely settled as one| | means for breaking the strike if pro-| longed to a point where it will mate- rially faterfere with the operating df | the electric cars. To secure Federal protection will simply necessitate a suit for a receiver, one .nat can be de- pendad on, and upon him will devolve | the responsibilty of getting the cars under military protection. It is claimed that the stockholders of | the United Rallroads, or rather those who control the stock in the holding company, have ample material upon which to build.a suit for a receiver. Their position is this: | The United Rallroads is controlled by | the United Railroads Investment Com-i | pany of New Jersey, a foreign corpora- tion, in which the principal stockhold- ers are Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. of | London, Berlin and New York; Patrick Calhoun and Brown Bros. & Co. of New York. The first named firm represents principally English and German invest- | ors.. Calhoun, who is credited with be- ing the largest individual stockholder | in the United Rallroads Investment Company, is in reality a holder of the| majority of steck, which is owned by small concerns that have permitted him to represent them and, by giving| him this power, have { red the per- manency of his present position of president of the local corporation. - RIGHT AS FOREIGN COMPANY. Brown Bros. & Co., formerly the largest of the shareholders, disposed of the bulk of their holdings two years ago to Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. and | Calhoun, but they are still of sufficient | importance in the directorate of the hclding company to have weight in tle‘ adoption of any policy for the local corporation. The fact that the New Jersey hold-| ing company is a foreign concern gives it the right to seek rellef in the local| branches of the Federal courts if it should decide that its interests here are not being properly cared for, and those who pretend to be enjoying the con- fidence of the United Railroads people here insist that to prove this claim would be an easy matter. WOULD CALL FOR TROOPS. Naturally the revenue of the big in-| vestmént has been seriously affected by the recent disaster, a fact that the stockholders, as well as the bondsmen, have been quick to appreciate. For the holding company, acting under the in- spiration of its own shareholders, to appeal to the courts for the appeint- nient of a receiver on a pretense that| its interests are not being properly safeguarded, would not be unreasona- ble from a business man’'s viewpoint, especially in view of the fact that the interest on the bonds of the company will become due in October of this year. i ‘With the suit before the court the next move would be the appeintment of a receiver, and with this officer of the court duly qualified he would pro- ceed with the work of operating the car system. Then the crisis would be hastened, for the first show of resist- ence on the part of the strikers would force the court to give the receiver a means of enforcing order, which would undoubtedly mean Federal soldiers, af- ter it had been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the court that the United States Marshal's forces were inadequate for the difficult and ever- perilous task. | ‘With the Federal troops in charge of | the railway lines the influence of the strikers’ would be expected to wane rapidly. LEGAL PHASES STUDIED. President Calhoun has thought care- | fully over all the phases of this affair| and he is prepared to say just when | the Federal courts should be appealed | to. In fact, it is no Secret among his | friends that the lawyers representing the different interests behind the United Rallroads have laid before him| written opinions on all the . legal| phasés df such & move and he and the directors of the United Railroads, as-| sured of co-operation from the chiefs of the other street rallroads. which are | as 'deeply Interested in the present strike, although they have not' yet be- | come as deeply involved In the trouble | as the larger company, are ready to go| into court If no other way lies open for them to stop the strike. 35 It is admitted by the officials of the TUnited Rallroads, as well as the busi- ness men of San Francisco, that the | solution of the present difficulties by means - of military feorce -is not desirable. | PARDEE. TAKES MO “HAND N FighT, “I have taken.no hand in the San Francisco streetear strike,” said Gov- rnor George C. Pardee, who was seen ' his headquarters in the ferry build- ing yesterday afternoon. “The report that Mr. Calhoun has called on me and me to have the troops of the State of ‘California in readiness for trouble is without” foundation. ““The city seems well able to hund!u' the strike situation. If Mayor Schmitz and Sheriff O'Nefl exhaust their re- sources, thould "violent trouble comie and the¥ should appeal to the State for The car strike makes it necessary for the carriers to walk to their routes, causing a delay of from fifteen to thirty minutes on each delivery. “In. the outlying districts this delay causes a change in the number of deliveries. Districts which were re- ceiving four deliveries a day before the strike will now receive mail only three times a day. and where there were formerly three deliveries there will be only two. “The inconvenience is not enough, however, for us to take any action and the strike, officially, will be ignored.” Calhoun’s Youngest Son Seriously IIL With the great car strike making an excessive demand -on his energies and attention and calling.for a vigilance that should demand his every moment, President Patrick Calhoun of the United Railroads is faced with a still greater trouble, which makes the af- fairs of the United| Railroads of but secondary importance to him person- ally. Loyalty to the great company of which he is the head and love for a son lying almost at the door of death are the conflicting emotions which have surged through his heart and brain for the past twenty-four hours, during which time his youngest son has been in the hands of physiclans at a San Francisco hospital awaiting a change | in condition which will make possible a difficult operation for appendicitis. Calhoun reached the. gity late Sun- day night from Chicago, accompanied by his two daughters and two sons, but | with every thought centered in the great fight which has caused the tie-up of the street rallway system. There were at that time no symptoms to suggest the iliness of the youngest child, but yesterday morning the lad suddenly be- came violently {ll. Dr. MacMonagle was called at once, and after an ex- amination pronounced the trouble ap- pendicitis. The patient was removed to the hos- | pital, and it was later decided, after a consultation with other physicians, that an operation would be necessary to save the boy's life. President Cal- houn himself accompanied the boy to the hospital and remained at his bed side almost eomstantly yesterday, ziv- ing his attention to the demands of the strike adjudication only when for a few moments at times during the day he was refused admission to the sick- room or was allowed to leave during a | Not Great Enough to .Warrant Any Action A, at Mission and| serious | GETS PERMIT FOR TROLLEY LINE. 'Company V_\Fi_ll Now Re- construct Union Street Road Without Delay TERMS ARE MADE The Board of Supervisors yesterday passed to print an ordinance granting to the Presidio and Ferries Railway Company a permit to reconmstruct the Union-street cable road into an electric trolley system. One section of the ordinance requires that construction work on the road shall commence within ten days after the final passage of the ordinance and be completed within ninety days there- after. The judiclary committee had delayed its recommendation on the permit pending the filing of the original fran- chises of the road. as there was some doubt as to the dates of their expira- tion. The company's officials proved conclusively that the franch under which the road has been operating has seven years yet to run. The committes thereupon flled a report recommending the granting of the permit, which was adopted. The ordinance requires that none but first-class material shall be used in the building of the road and that the com- pany shall install an electric arc light on each alternate ornamental iron pole. Supervisor Lonergan made a plea that letter carriers be allowed to ride free on the road and George Newhall, president of the compa: sald the let- ter carriers would have the same prive ileges they enjoyed on other roads. Supervisor Kelly's resolution provid- ing that the City Engineer be directed to file with the board not later than one week from date an estimate of the cost of draining the swamps lying be- tween Army and Twenty-sixth streets, known as “Precita Swamps.” also the cost of constructing a wooden or tem- porary sewer connecting the York- street sewer witlr the Army-street sewer, was adopted. The ordinance authorizing the Board of Works to appoint architects to pre- pare plans for public buildings under the bond issue in all cases where it is impossible to secure competitive plans was finally passed. Similar action wai taken om the ordinance ordering the payment of $28,§89.33 for the paving of Valencia street, from Nineteenth to Mission. The board finally passed the ordi- nance granting to F. E. Talbot a per- mit to maintain an engine and boiler in a planing mill at 115 Main street. The ordinance had failed of final pas- sage at the last meeting after William Denman had protested agaimst the granting of the privilege on the ground that it would damage adjacent prop= erty and ralse insurance rates. P. H. MecCarthy, president of the Bulldiag addressed the board be | Supervisor Duffey charged that Den- man’s oppesition was the result of Tal- bot's refusal to lease an adjoiming lot belonging to Denman’s father on which to build his planing mill. temporary change for the better in the patient’s condition. The operation will be performed as soon as possible, and it Is expected that the boy's life will be saved, al- though he is still in a dangerous com= ditton. Wants Salt OAKLAND, Aug. il sitting tonight as a committes of the whole, voted to recommend the ex- penditure of $70,000 for the construc- tion of a municipal salt water system for street sprinkling and fire protection. A committee, consisting of Councilmen Thurston, Pendleton and Baccus, will report on plans for the system. value in our clothing, Now as to value. W our own workshops. Buy here and you wi About September 1st will pronounce the fin Waists, Etc. _opened last March. aid, then it would be time enough for me to act. But it has not come up to me and I am glad to say that I do not State Interference.’ Style and Value Are Combined in Our Suits The Prices Range From *10 to *35 There is a pleasing combination of style and and those things which go to make clothes. Each garment is cut in the prevailing fall style. Even our $I10 suits are correct in style. mén’s usual profit, which is your saving. substantial saving of from $2 to $5 on a suit. Ladies’ Department. Soon to Open Francisco devoted to Ladies’ Cloaks, Coats, Suits, The department will be modeled after our famous’ department in the James Flood building which we Watch for the Opening Announcement. E— are the two e make all our clothing in This cuts off the middle- Il get good clothes at a we will open what you est department in San (o