The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1907, Page 1

Society Leaders Discuss Calif mobiles, which, with illustrat appear in Jack Kneiff has prepared a good story for his boy readers on the making of auto- The Sunday Call ions, will j VOLUME CI—NO. 91. or nia Ty) = eauty—See Page 16 b » | A well-known San Francisco woman | Z school teacher, now in troubled Tangier, | !‘ B tells startling facts about that place in her article in The Sunday Call " PRICE FIVE CENTS. Disp CITY SEIZES THE “PLANT OF SPRING Supervisors Take Action Annulling Franchise of , the Concern WATER RATES FIXED Charge for Gas Is Set at Eightyfive Cents a Thousand Feet IN STORM MEETING Warm Words Exchanged by Members Over Price for Illuminants The Bosrd of Supervisors met last wigh( and 1906, Bxing the water rates for the mext re-emacied the ordinance of Bscal year and adopted » resolution de- claring the franchises nud properties of the Spricg Valley Water Company forfeited and eschedted to the city of tam Frascisec. begause the company had persisied in follecting under the rates of the ordingmce of 1902 and had tsvokies he nid of the courts to test the 1alidliy of (he subseguent rates fixed by the succreding Bourd of Super. visore, Twe bosrd also re-enacied the exist ing oidin to be edoption of the higher Previou board met SE U he to enact the sergeant st arms, 1 ates would not be won over rste x us had beer progress ee hours the Supervisors adjourned to the essembly-room and the ilne tion was @isposed of with out the or and bad feeling that marked tr doption of the gas rate REPORT OF COMMITTEE The committee filed a report recom the enactment of the or dinance of 1906. The report said in pa-t From the testimony sdduced during the investigation had before your hon- orable board it appeers that & reduc- tion the dinance of collecied by the Spring Valley Water Company under the ordinance of 1902 and aftho the Spring Valley Water officials reqgu The restoration of the former rate of 1902, nothing in the tes- timony fiven committee, would warrent it to recede from the position taken one year ago. Yoar committee therefore recommends the resdoption of the water rates or- dinance of 1906, and is of the opinion i thet if the schedule of rates therein specified are accepted by the Spring Valley Water Company, or any other compeny engeged In the business of supplying water in the city and county of San Francisco, without recourse to ‘!m.'unn that it wiil provide & fair | ®nd equiteble return upon its invest- ment of properties. RESOLUTION I$ ADOPTED The following resolution was then @dopted. in consonance with the recom- Aation of the committee: the Spring Valley Water Oom bas_persisted 1u defance of law in col- | water Fates in excess of those estab. Dy the Board of Supervieors under and | of 25 per centum was effected in retes collectible under th 1906 fron water or- those now being in the opimion of your fhe city and ocounty of tamily uses. for privete pur- Carmen Lose eased Fight for Shorter Hou With Award of Arbitrators I'S i INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE TEMFORARY 86 Mystery of Baby Edna’s RIDAY, MAR YESTERDAY—Oloudy; westerly wind; --ufl»I1 ® tempersture, 58; minimum temper- FORECAST FPOR TODAY -Sbowers; fresh | wouth winds Page 11 Debate on the Wolfe smendment limiting | legislative patromsge to $1000 » day. Page 8| Leavitt committec’s standerd form of insur- ance poiicy Page ¢ Amusing morals of E. H. Harrimap on the subject of bigh finance romsl George Berne Shaw's finding on goi~, to chureh as & stim t. Page 8 | LEGISLATURE | Hartman's ant! prize ight bill ts defeated. P.3 Senate pseses bill curteiling patropage manimously the one greb and approves lmost raising salary of members Page 3 Bill to submit guestion of removing capita! | to peopie passed by Senste Page 3 Bill Umiting lsnd tities passed to Japanese carried in House Page 3 ARBITRATION AWARD Plat! n gragted increase in wages of 15 1o 40 elght-bour Pages 1-6-7 ng opipion in of the car Pages 6.7 o milk wagon drivers| 4 famine ip Iactesl | Pase 1 hecomes iavolved in the cop t rbood of little Fdna Carson Hs Page 1 Bupervisors adopt gae and water rates and Ting Valley Oompans's piant escheated Page 1 Chauncy M. S Dare refuse ‘to Page 16 of United 4 Appraiser s tmplication | 3 new wenire is f. which begins Tues Page 16 types of Californis’s Page 16 at bome Page 16 ciety leaders discuss beautiful women Wite of Nevads men commits suicide of & friend Freight b proportions Ir. B. 15 elease from 1 < n_ Dear sture Page 4 Charles Wehb Bowsrd is sued for an ac- ing by bis wife. Page 2| SUBURBAN { Mre. Nix o of Charles R.| Tloyd's will a tildren will bave estate 1t Page 4 & =° Tallejo. Page 6 n from California finds citer to President ing of copd!tions Page 4 COAST Besutiful Fresno girl dies at Brron in giving | birth to child Page 16 | DOMESTIC | Paul Morton is re-elected president of the Equitcble Life Assurapce Societr Page b 1 of Adsms at Wallsce for murder of | skes ® semsetione! change Page 4 | Interstate Commerce Commiselon concludes fts | New York Page ¢ | Baltimore Ohio trzin running forty miles 5 hour s wrecked Page 2 Many smendments to shlp subsidy bill 05"7-41 in Oongress. Page 9| WASHINGTON { Denial i made at the White House thet Prencis J. Heney has been comsidered for the | new Federal Judgeship in Celifornis. Page 2 | SPORTS ! Brennus. at good odds. wins the steeplechase event at Ascot Park Page 10 | Oskiand _ basebell tesm s o Mnancial | straits uy Page 10 | Basebell officials intimate that Coast l‘-um; will comsist of four teams. Page 10 Reno promoters are ready to clinch the match | between Jimmy Britt and Young Corbett, P. |o| LABOR 2 District Council of Carpenters will loyally suppert the Building Trades Council in its con- | tertion with the electrical workers. Page 9 MARINE Capsized derelict sighted off shore thought to be gasoline schooner Bessie K and fears are entertzined for mafety of her crew of elight | men Page 11 | MINING | Dull day in Jorsl mining stock market I | attended with furtber declines in prices. P. 15 | THE CALLS| BRANCH Subscriptions and Advertise- ments will be received in San Francisco at following offices: STREET Open lock every night. £18 VAN NESS AVENUE Parent's Stationery Store. * SIXTEENTH AND MARKET STS. OFFICES |} ¥ MRS. CLAEA HALL AND FIVE-YEAR OLD EDNA, OVER WHOM SHE 13 BATTLING| Parentage Girows Deeper WITH MRS. OLIVE CARSON AS TO MOTHERHOOD, <+ mine her parentage. Where King Solomon was called upon to decide the merits of the claims of two women, Judge Seawell must..determine actually this littie one’s mother. The identity of the third woman remains to be discovered.” Her presence in the cage was made known with startling| fresh supply and drink the milk |suddenness yesterday when, just before the noon recess, Attorney Frank P.|prought the morning before, Which Kelly, counsel for Mrs. Hall, produced a letter purporting to have been|would be forty-eight hours old. — e s written by a fopmer friend of Dr. Olive’ Carson, in which it is declared that Cafson or Mrs. Hall, but ‘of an Italian ; ) mot . Italian Girl May Be the Next to Claim Beautiftl Child The mystery of the birth of little Edna Hall, or Carson, was deepened by the developments of the first day of the court hearing which is to deter- the mass of contradictory testimony | Edna is not the dzughter of either Mrs, | from ok 8 n Dr. Carson declar| | arivers, apparently, being content with | which of three is|,, ot begin, they say, before 5 o'clock, —_— - - 5 i | Salient Features of the Award | a LL platform men are to receive 31 cents an hour during the first year of service; 32 cents during the second year, and 33 cents during subsequent ‘years, a general indreas: of about 21 per cent. Platform men will be required to work ten hours a day, as at present. Station shopmen will receive a minimum of $3.50 a day. Station operators who formerly received from $80 to $90 a month will receive from $96 to $108. Linemen foremen will receive $4.50 a day and journeymen $4. Carbarn and track foremen will receive $110 a month; journeymen to be raised | from $2.50 and $2.80 a day to $85 and $100 a month. : | Laborers are to receive $2.25 a day during the first month and $2.50 thereafier. In general the eight-hour day will apply to all employes with the exception of platform men. \ Five documents were filed, two each by Father Yorke and Chief Justice Beatty and one by Msjor McLaughlin. i In his dissenting opinion Father Yorke favored the contention of the men for a flat rate of $3 and an eight-hour day. Father Yorke and Chief Justice Beatty differed materially as to the effect of the old contract, the latter holding that it had an important bearing on the issue, and the former contending that it was terminated by the April disaster. The award is to date from September 26, 1906, to May 1, 1907. ‘ The California. and Geary street lines are also to abide by the decision. & = : T ; B s MUCEWNELKLY Platform Men Get Higher s ,_2"%%%3%53 Pay With-Gld Hours e EESTAMERIPL e gy “’ofA“‘ilncrease About 21 Per Cent the Men o R y — The board of arbitration which has been adjusting the WAGES SATISFACTORY | controversy between the United Railroads and its em- T e e en.| PIOYes formally rendered its decision last night. The composed of nearly all the milk desters | Platform men are to receive an increase in wages amount- in this elty, vleld to the demands of an ; 9 3 y it seonived yestirdas from-tie| NS to 20 per cent and the ten-hour( day is to remaip- Milk Drivers’ Unfon, therewilt be no mic Unchanged. The other employes are to receive advances l::; ::-;:::.do;::'::fl:“:::yh.::‘::;ia"el‘aging from 15 to 40 per cent, and for the most part suffer. There is little chance that the the eight-hour day. The opinion was written by Chief n de, a4 President | . o - » % e d,:h::_!Just.lr'e Beatty and concurred in by Major MeLaughlin. he altimatum fnal, without chamee of | A dissenting opinion was filed by Father Yorke. Hon. P oo DY gsin The motormen, gripmen and conductors are to receive The aifculty is pc:f‘ullln;, st i 31 cents an hour the first year, with overtime at the rate v estion of wages, th ) 2 # s et AL of 37.2 cents: 32 cents the second vear, with overtime at at rate of 38.4 cents; 33 cents for the third and subse- |quent years of Service, with overtime at the rate of 39.6 ~ r receive 25 o N bk T e Tt day e CEIES The G R A cents an hour for the fi-rst trounle arises solely out of tne fact|Vear of serviee; 2614 cents for the second year, and 27145 O e e e s waoc | cents ‘thereafter. The award is to date from September in the morning and 5 o'clock in the[6, 1906, and is payable within the next sixty days. The e e 1o begtm untn 5| Schedule is to continue in force until May 1 of this year. o'clock in the morning: \ Following are the findings of the arbitrators in full. will & LA « 3P 5 % 3 The dairymen contend that they tust| Father Yorke's dissenting opinion, Justice Beatty’s reply trade” if the drivers do not take their| thereto and Father Yorke’s reply to Justice Beatty: the scale, $90 per month and two days off on pay. They have not, asserts Attorney Edward F, Moran, represent ing the milk decalers, expressed discon- not be able to supply the “breakfast wagons from the barn until 5 o'clock, and that they must accommodate the mrne i " Result of the Deliberations Given by Justice Beatty Reviews Case and Gives Ruling til March 1. It provided for a wage of $75 a month and a ten-hour day. The association raized the wages in Novem- ber to $90, and agreed, as an experi- ment, to try the hour schedule which | the union requested. This agreement expires today, and the experiment of the “day delivery” z 3 has been, say the milk dealers, a fail- Justice Beatty's ure. The drivers on the ton‘rary, de- clare the experiment was no failure and refuse to conscnt to the 3 o'clock hour of comMencing their ten-hour day. The following is Railroads of San Francisco and each | of said organizations above named shall had|P® Submitted to a common board of arbitration, to be composed of three i | members, one of such.members to be Tl ftiie Gk i Mo Festts | tween certain labor organizations and|selected by the United Railroads, one Attorney Moran will Appear tonight|the United Railroads of San Fran-|to be selected by said organizations and- before the Lubor Councll to ask for \Msco—many of whose employas were | third to be selected by the two thus an . Investigation in the conflicting|members of said k"l‘":“"; SR b e . e mt e, e e O e yarioU| sulted on that date on tho folIOWINE | thug sslected shall be wholy s The product reachés 'this city after 6| nected with the affalrs of any of the o'clock the same morning. and after be- parties: heretq. £ B e Mewtler tx o It is agreed that the board of arbie livered the next morning. If deliveries San Francisco, upon one part, and !he!trltlon\u‘hen thus selected shall pro. Amalgamated ~Association of Street|ceed promptly to hear, consider and de- and Electrical Employes of America.|termine the question of hours and Division No. 205; the Internatonal|wages with respect to each of sald | Brotherhod < of Eleetrical Workers, | organtzations: the majority vote to ba Local Union No. 151; Stationary Fire- | Jinal and binding upon all the pnm-: men, Local No. 86: Street Railroad Con- | hereto. struction Workers, Local No. 12,886, of | It is agreed that the case of each of sald or- the American Federation of Labor, upon m ..::-!: d:e heard, Fonsidered and de- other part. - ?; ‘wages and hours between.the Uni m-n..o,a....(" opinion: Various . arisen prior to September 18, 1906, be- controversies which organizations—re- agreement of arbitration: Memorandum of agreement of arbi- tration between the United Railroads of the workingman mu:t leave before the ‘What the answer of the union s to these arguments will be made