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TOWN OF BENICIA.
A Busy Manufacturing
Place on Carquinez
Straits.
ITS VARIOUS INDUSTRIES
Three of the Largest Tanneries
on the Pacific Slope in
Operation.
FARMERS' IMPLEMENTS WORKS.
A Thrifty and Industrious Commun
ity of 3500 People Which Is
Prospering.
Benicia, March 10.— San Francisco has
an interesting, prosperous neighbor in
Benicia. This town of 3500 inhabitants,
on the Straits of Carquini z, thirty miles
away, lias been an incorporated town since
the golden days of 1850. Benicia, like the
capital of the nation -Washington can
be . led the "city of magnificient dis
EENICIA'S HISTORIC BUILDING, THIS PIP.ST CAPITOL OF CALI
FORNIA.
[From a photograph taken expressly for the "Call."]
tanc* - for it has within its corporate lim
its, seemingly, half the rolling bills and
dales of Solano County.
In 1853 the Fourth Constitutional State
Assembly met in Benicia. In 1854 the first
fiuiluing built expressly for a Capitol was
used by the Fiftn State Assembly. This
quaint old building, which General J. FV
Houghton tilt, -till remains standing in
the heart of Benieia and is useful for city
offices. The Call's correspondent asked
an old resident of Benicia why Sacramento
won the prize from them.
"They came down from that region with
Must' enough to buy it, and Bcnicla's
hopes floated away in the boats that carried
the adjourned Assemblymen up the river
to Sacramento,"' was the terse reply.
"Dust" is synonomous with "boodle." So
the sons are no worse than the fathers.
The first Protestant college in th« State
was founded at Beni< ia. The building
still remains. Many cultured women ail
over the United States remember wit
gratitude Miss Atkinson, the gifted
teacher, who came to Benicia in 1854, and
with twelve girls started the school which
became the nucleus of tlic Mills Seminary,
she having retired in favor of the Mills in
1800. Miss Atkinson became the wife of
Judge John Lynch, and spent many happy
useful years in the town of her adoption.
When she was laid away in the little
cemetery on the hill, a monument was !
erected to her memory by former pupils
and friends. Judge Lynch, who is the
father of J. C Lynch, speaker of the
present Assembly, is •-till in the active
practice of bis profession, and is one of the
most interesting and highly respected me j
to be met with in Benicia to-day.
"One of the best Government reserva
tions in the United States is here. On this I
mile square owned by Uncle Sam there is
a barracks and the only arsenal on the ]
Pacific Coast. It is the intention of the
United States Government to locate a gun
plant on this coast. The Benicia reserva
tion has been reported on favorably by th
committee sent out by the Secretary of
War for the purpose of selecting the best
site. Benicia is anxiously waiting for
Congress to make an appropriation for
this gun-plant, which will bring hundreds
of skilled laborers to the town and put
thousands of dollars in circulation each
month. Indirectly the entire State would
receive an impetus and reap a harvest if
this Government works should be con
structed at Benicia. Why not make a
united effort for a gun-plant on the pro
tected land-locked arsenal grounds at Be
nicia?
Benicia is a manufacturing town. Th
Baker & Hamilton Agricultural Works,
the largest in the State, are located here.
They manufacture all kinds of farming j
implements, also spring wagons, carts and
buggies. When running full force they
employ from niuty-five to 100 men, but
with freight rates against them and th
general financial depression everywhere,
Hamilton & Baker consider themselves
fortunate to be working sixty-five me
One does not fully realize what harm rail
road monopoly does, not only to Califor
nia, but many other States, until we know
of manufacturers such as Baker fc Hamilton,
bringing coke and pigiron from England by
way of Cape Horn, because they cannot
buy in the East, pay freight rates and
compete with Eastern manufacturers.
Everywhere the people are saying
•'Speed the day when the San Joaquin
Valley road is completed to Bakersfield."
The distance between Bakersfield and Mo
jave, the terminus of the . Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe, all think will then
; be a matter of little moment and Cali
fornia will have a competing road to the
East.
On March 1 T. B. Montgomery, who has
been for quite a long period manager of
the Benicia Agricultural Works, retired
from the firm for the purpose of engaging in
a manufacturing enterprise. William A.
Cowley .of San Francisco succeeds Mr.
Montgomery in the management for Baker
& Hamilton.
Three large tanneries * make of Benicia
the leading leather-manufacturing town
not only in the State but the entire Pacific
slope. The Benicia Pioneer Tannery,
owned by McKay & Chisholm, employ
seventy men at their extensive works,
where they get out 2000 sides of leather per
week. The extent of the work may be
better understood when one item only is
considered— that of the oak bark, which is
to make the "tea" for tanning. Twelve
cords a day is consumed at the Pioneer
Tannery alone. This bark comes prin
cipally from .Mendocino County and costs
from $10 to $20 a ton. This firm sends
leather as far East as Chicago. it is be
coming generally known everywhere that
the water and bark of, California produces
a better quality of leather, hence the de
mand on California, and Benicia in par
ticular, for leather.
The Sumner Tanning Company's plant
has not quite the capacity of the Pioneer,
but turns out equally fine work. Charles
Stewart, vice-president of the company,
takes a cheerful view of matters. He
says business is much better than a year
ago. This is partially due to an extra de-
I mand for saddle and harness leather, be
! cause of the war in the Orient.
Kullman, Salte & Co. also have a large
.tanning plant, with a capacity for 2000
sides.
The Carquinez Packing Company puts
up large quantities of fruit and fish.
The Benicia Packing Company makes a
specialty of salmon.
There are also many smaller but thriving
industries, such as the Benicia Pottery
Company, Pacific Cement Works and
other enterprises, drawn here on account
of the splendid shipping facilities. Any
ship that can enter the Golden Gate can
come to Benicia under sail.
One noticeable and pleasant fact is that
there are no idle men in Benicia; so every
thing seems cheery. The working people
ail live in detached cottages, with pretty,
little dooryards in front, and for these
attractive little places the rent ranges from
$8 to $12. One striking thing I noticed,
and that is that every workingman has a
daily paper put down at his door.
The business houses seem to be in a good
condition. One of the most artistic places
imaginable is the jewelry and 'art novelty'
store of F. J. Stumm. Mr. Stumm, who
was engaged in the same line of business
in Paris and London, came to California
for his health and continued in the same
artistic line, partly for personal gratifica
tion, but his taste and judgment were soon
sough! and to-day he has orders from all
parts of the State. '
Benicia is extremely healthy, so said one
of their young doctors with a .slight sus
picion of a sigh. The drainage is perfect,
'!;• ground high and rolling. The water
supply is bountiful and pure. The pres
sure on the mains is wonderfully high,
85 pounds, an advantage in case of fire.
Benicia's fire department is far above
the average. The engines and all appli-
Prominent People of Benicia.
[Drawn by a " Call " artist from photographs.]
I ances are the very best and most modern.
George Hastings, whose father, D. M.
Hastings, brought out the first engine to
Benicia in the early fifties, is active in the
department to-day.
For the Benicia public schools I have
not words with which to express the praise
which should in justice be given. The
school trustees have allowed the most per
fect equipment in nil modern supplies.
The teachers arc alive to everything that is
new and for the best, so it is hard to specify
any one thing in particular. Miss Emma
M. Garretson, principal of the township as
well as teacher in ■ the High School, is the
dominating force to which the perfection of
the work is due. The vice-principal, Miss
Anna Durner, is a most energetic, popular
lady. The primary department is es
pecially well conducted, the lady in charge
having had the same school for twenty
years.
In India, it is said, the native barber
will shave you while you sleep, so light is
his touch. .--•.'-.;.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1895.
BURNING OF BANDITS.
Two Horsethieves in In
dian Territory Suffer
Terrible Death.
FIRING OF THEIR CABIN.
A Posse Runs Them to Cover
and a Fierce Fight Wages
for Several Hours.
THE OUTLAWS REFUSE TO YIELD
Then the Match Is Applied to
Their Retreat and They Perish
In Agony.
/ .
Little Rock, Ark., March 10.— A special
from Enterprise, I. T., says that a posse in
pursuit oi two men who had stolen thirty
horses in the Choctaw Nation followed
the thieves for three days, finally sur
rounding them ten miles east of that
place. The thieves refused to surrender
and kept up a constant fire, having dis
mounted from their horses and taken to
the woods. The posse pressed them closely
and the fight was kept up for two or three
hours.
One of the pursuers received a bullet in
his arm, shattering it and causing him to
fall from his horse. Finally the entire
party massed and charged the two crimi
nals, forcing them to take refuge in a
cabin. Here the thieves barricaded them
selves and defiantly proclaimed that they
would not be taken alive.
After repeated efforts to induce them to
give up the house was set afire. Although
the roof was a mass of flames the thieves
still refused to come out and threat
ened death to any of the posse who ven
tured near. At last the frame of the build
ing fell in, burying the desperadoes in the
ruins and they were roasted to death.
A NEW SPORTING LEAGUE.
Call for a Convention to
Form an American
Association.
To Promote All Legitimate
Sports and Secure Their
Honest Conduct.
Baltimore, March 10. Sidney W. Giles,
secretary of the Cleveland (Ohio) Driving
Park Company, has sent out a call for a
convention on Monday, April 9, in Cleve
land, to. organize the American Sporting
League, similar to that which exists in
England. The call says each sporting club
is to send one or more agents, and con
tinues:
"The object of the league will be to pro
\ mote racing and all legitimate sports hon
estly conducted; prevent legislation hos
tile to its interests, and .prevent the so
called winter tracks and other evils."
St. Louis Races End.
St. Louis, March 10.— The announcement
made by the Madison Park Association
that the meeting ended with the last race
yesterday created considerable surprise
J among local turfites. The association in
| tends to make the track a mile in circum
ference. When this is accomplished they
l will apply for membership in the Turf
[ Congress and give a legitimate meeting.
INDIANA LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS
Sixty Bills Are in the Governor's Hands
for Signature.
Indianapolis, March 10.— Indiana
Legislature will adjourn to-morrow night.
There are now in the Governor's hands
about sixty bills, among them being the
temperance bill. The Moore temperance
bill, a drastic measure, has already been
signed.
Among the more important bills that
have become laws are the Roby bill to pre
vent winter racing, the constitutionality
of whick is questioned; the Congressional
and legislative apportionment bills. A bill
was also passed giving councils the power
to gerrymander cities, which is distinctly
a partisan measure.
BOULTER FOUND GUILTY.
A. Cattleman WJio Killed Three People at
Last Convicted.
Cheyenne, Wyo., March 10.— The jury
in the case of Charles Boulter, charged
with murder, this evening brought in a
verdict of manslaughter. Boulter is a re
tired cattleman, who, during the past ten
years, has killed three men, heretofore es
caping punishment.
Prominent People Dead.
Columbia City, Ind., March 10.— L.
McLallin, aged 29 years, head of the bank
ing firm of McLallin & Co., dropped dead
this evening. He was a thirty-third degree
Mason.
Elk Point, S. D., March Henry D.
Doane, one of the early pioneers of South
Dakota, was buried here to-day. In his
youth he was a stage driver, and during
the war he served in the First Minnesota
Infantry.
Columbus, 0., March 10.— Rev. David
Harries, one of the oldest and best known
Welsh ministers of the country, died here
today. He was born at Caermanthan,
South Wales, in 1524. He had charge of
the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Chicago
for nineteen years. * v-v
London, March 10.— Admiral Sir George
Gifford, retired, is dead. He was born in
No New Police Commission.'
Albany, N.Y., March 10.— Speaker Ham
ilton Fish to-day affirmed very positively
the Associated Press report that there
will be no police reorganization commission
for the city of New York. He said :
"The reorganization of the department
will be done by the Police Commission it
self and not by special reorganization.
Heavy Snow in Nebraska.
Omaha, Nebr., March 10.— Snow com
menced falling at an early hour this morn
ing all over Nebraska, and continued
throughout the greater part of the day.
It was very heavy and damp, and in addi
tion to what now remains on the ground
much of it melted: It will be especially
beneficial to the winter wheat. There has
been no damage to stock, as the tempera
ture was high. ' ■■
Xew York Policemen Indicted.
. New York, March 10.— The . World to
morrow will say : District Attorney Fel
lows is authority for the statement that
the Oyer and Terminer Grand Jury will
report to Justice Ingraham this morning
and file fifty or sixty indictments, which,
it is understood, will deal with the Police
Department only and turn on the Lexow
Committee's recent investigations.
A Trust Company Appeals.
Dubuque, lowa, March 10.— The Union
Loan and Trust Company has appealed
from the decision of Judge Shiras award
ing to J. K. Tod $3,400,000 worth of Sioux
City and Northern and Sioux City and
O'Neil Western securities deposited with
Tod & Co. as security for a loan of $1,500,
--000, but previously pledged to the Union
Company to secure $3,000,000 of indorse
ments. Pending Hie appeal an effort to
reorganize the properties will be made by
the Credit Commutation Company, which
has acquired the assets of the Union Com
pany.
Two Murderers Conricted.
Murfreesboro, 111., March 10. — The
famous murder case being tried in Jackson
County ended to-day in the conviction of
Frank Jeffrey and Douglas Henderson for
killing James Towle last December. The
case was given to the jury at 5 o'clock yes
terday evening and at noon to-day the
verdict was rendered, fixing the death
penalty. The court will pass sentence to
morrow.
An Allegheny Man Roasted.
Pittsburg, March 10.— John Sweeney of
Allegheny was literally roasted alive at his
home early this morning and his wife so
badly burned in her efforts to rescue him
that she may aie. An exploded lamp
caused the fire.
ASSEMBLYMEN IN A CAUCUS.
Held -a Secret Meeting Yester
day and Discussed Their
Programme.
They Will Vote in Favor of a
General County Di
vision Bill.
About a score of members of the Assem
bly, including most of the leading spirits
of that branch of the Legislature, came
over from Sacramento yesterday and held
a quiet little meeting to lay out a pro
gramme for the last week of the thirty-first
session. The meeting was held in the back
room of a well-known place of entertain
ment and in its nature closely approached
a party caucus, all persons who are not
members of the Legislature having been
rigorously excluded from the deliberations.
# The programme, as laid out, includes the
passage of a general law regulating county
division. The bill containing such a
statute has been taken from the file, but
according to the programme it will be re
placed and hurried to its final passage.
The measure which grants to Boards of
Supervisors authority to regulate the
charges of electric light companies was an
other which received favorable considera
tion. By its provisions the Supervisors
will meet annually to fix the rates for elec
tric lights in much the same fashion as
they now regulate city water rates.
The Powers bill, enlarging the powers of
the Grand Jury so that that body may
hold open sessions and take evidence and
conduct their investigations in public,
was also discussed. This measure was
finally passed on Friday .night by a large
majority vote, but notice of reconsidera
tion has been given and the matter will
probably come up in Sacramento this morn
ing. Among the programmers there was a
division of opinion upon the merits of the
hill, but they decided finally to vote for a
reconsideration in ' order to* allow further
argument in the matter. It is not likely,
however, that there will be a slip in this
part of the programme.
Several other measures were talked over,
but in regard to them the Assemblymen
present at the meeting maintain the ut
most reserve. In fact, many of them when
closely questioned return* to the cross
examiner an official "I do not know of the
meeting."
Among the Assemblymen who were in
town yesterday were Speaker Lynch, Pen
dleton of Los Angeles, Bettman of San
Francisco, Lewis of San Francisco, Way
mire of Alameda and Boothby of San
Francisco. The railroad lobby" was also
down in force, among its members being
Lou Martin, Jack Masscy, Aaron Smith
and Major Gillis. It is a significant fact
that though several of the Assemblymen
occupied rooms at down-town hotels in no
case do their names appear on the hotel
registers,
AN ARIZONA MAN'S SUICIDE
Alphonse Lazar Shoots Him
; self in His Room at
a Hospital.
The Dead Man Was Once a
Frontier Scout— He Leaves
a Fortune of $80,000.
Alphonse Lazar, an Arizona Indian
trader, ex-scout, 64 years of age, shot him
self through the 'forehead at the French
Hospital yesterday afternoon, and died a
few minutes later.
Lazar had suffered for years from an in
curable malady . He became an inmate of
the hospital last October and engaged an
outside nurse. Dr. George Chismore, who
is not on the hospital staff, was his physi
cian. While the nurse was absent from
the room yesterday Lazar got his revolver,
which he kept in the room, though cart
ridges were denied him, and blew out his
brains. How he obtained the single cart
ridge that terminated his life is unknown.
The body was removed to the Morgue.
Lazar leaves a fortune of $80,000 behind
him. He was not married. Henry Lazar,
a clerk in Joy's drugstore, was his nephew
and his nearest relative in this country.
The deceased was an Alsatian by birth.
He came to the United States thirty-five
years ago and settled in Arizona at a time
when that territory was entitled to its
"wild and woolly" distinction. In the ex
citing days when the Apaches roamed the
country, carrying death and destruction
before them, when settlers were cut down
in cold blood, Lazar was in the service as a
scout. He was a fluent linguist, speaking
French, Spanish, German and all the In
dian tongues and Mexican patois with
ease. Thus he was enabled to trade
with the natives, and soon he be
came known throughout Arizona and
adjoining Territories and down into
Old Mexico. In this manner he built up
quite a handsome fortune which will go to
the Public Administrator until it is divided
by the court among the lawful heirs.
Lazar came here from Venandel,
Arizona, last fall, hoping that he might be
cured of his disease, out he fell into the
hands of the quacks, and they fattened on
his wealth while he suffered." He had said
that he would end his life with his own
hands, and patiently bided his time. It
came yesterday when the nurse was out of
the room',Tind when he came back Lazar
was tossing on his bed in the last struggles
of his life. He was once a rugged, active
man, full of energy and determination, but
illness had made inroads upon his con
stitution, and he often told his friends that
life to him was worse than death.
Ledgers, journals, cash books, letter and
bill heads, wrapping paper, twine, pens, ink,
pencils, typewriter papers and ribbons, legal
blanks, and all office supplies at the right
prices. Sanborn. Vail & Co. 741 Market st. *
LAKE MERCED MAY
BE ABANDONED.
Spring Valley Will Make It
a Pleasure Resort if Its
Water Is Impure.
THE COMPANY'S NEW PROJECT
Schussler Gives a Reason for
the Mayor's Recent
Outburst.
Mayor Sutro will have something to say
about the impure water in Lake Merced to
the Board of Supervisors to-day. Sutro
says he has more than enough proof to
substantiate his charges, and Hermann
Schussler, chief engineer of the Spring
Valley Water Works, does not deny that
the waters of the lake may be impure,
though he says be is not aware of their
present condition. Dr. Martin Regens
burger of the Board of Health has no par
ticularly favorable word for any of the
waters in lakes near this city. He believes
the water furnished to San Francisco is
better than that furnished any city of its
size, but he does not believe any large city
is getting really pure water at the present
day.
Chief Engineer Schussler in his answer
to Mayor Sutro's caustic denunciation of
the water supply of the Spring Valley
Company asserts that all the water sup
plied to the city at the present time is ab
solutely pure. He says that if the water of
Laguna de la Merced is as bad as Sutro
says it is, it will not be used.
If the waters cannot be used to supply
the city, the shores of the lake and the
lake itself will be turned into a pleasure
park with drives and cottages, and the
lake will be used for boat racing, both sail
ing and rowing. Mr. Schussler's remarks
also disclosed a plan of the Spring Valley
Water Works to put into operation a new
system vastly superior to the present as
regards the supply and force for fire
purposes.
Mr. Schussler kept his remarks as free as
possible from personalities, but he could
not refrain at times from making some
statements which were rather severe on the
Mayor. He intimated that Sutro's present
stand against the water company was actu
ated by a revengeful spirit. Mr. Schus
sler said:
"The Spring Valley Water Works is as
much interested in giving good water as
the citizens are in receiving it. Conse
quently we are constantly on the lookout
to prevent any contamination. When a
year or more ago there were indications of
a possible contamination of Lobos Creek,
which empties into the Golden Gate near
Bakers Beach, we had the water analyzed
by Professor Hilgard of the State Univer
sity. The result was that we abandoned it.
"The water of Lake Merced has not been
used since last summer, when it was in
good condition. This is because we have
enough water in our own San Mateo
County reservoirs. If our analysis, which
we will make this spring, should show any
deterioration of quality in the water we
will not use it. When we constructed the
new pumping system at Lake Merced in 1891
care was taken to construct it so that
in ease the lake as a water source should
have to be abandoned we could pump
water from a magnificent artesian water
belt which we know exists, under the
Rancho Laguna de la Merced. We can
also pump the San Andreas water with
J the same system into the upper level dis-
I trict. The" San Andreas water is now at
the 250-foot level, but we can raise it to the
400-foot level.
"We have always tried to keep the waters
of Lake Merced pure. If they become
foul, as Mayor Sutro says, it is not our
! fault. There is a law which makes people '.
liable for polluting water which is being
used for domestic purposes. The dilficulty
has heretofore been that water coming into
; Lake Merced from San Mateo County, by
the farms mentioned, passes through the
gravelly bed of the creek for two of three
miles, and is thus filtered and purified. At
the point where the water reaches the lake
it would be difficult to prove contamination.
If later in the year we should be desirous
of pumping water from Lake Merced and
our analysis would show a tendency to
ward contamination, we would most cer
tainly not pump the water, but would
probably invoke the aid of the law against
the persons polluting the water. This
would be the period at which we would
develop artesian water and make connec
tion with the San Andreas supply.
"About a year ago Sutro told the Board
of Supervisors, when the matter of rates
was before the Water Committee, that if
the Spring Valley Water Works would
abandon the project to build a reservoir on
Clarendon Heights at the" 600-foot level
and build one on the 700-foot level he
would donate the land to the company.
About five acres of land were surveyed and
the company was prepared to build a res
ervoir which would hold 4,000,000 or
5,000,000 gallons of water.
"Sutro said that the plat selected was a
very nice flat, and that he could not give it
to us. We told him we would pay him a
fair price for it. He demanded $10,000 or
about $2000 an acre. After waiting in vain
for him to modify his price to about one
fourth of what he asked, or $500 an acre,
we let the contract to the Union Iron
Works to build a steel tank to contain
500,000 gallons.
"Another thing which has not pleased
Sutro was our purchase of some of bis land
near the Industrial School. He happened
to own the only nearly level tract of about
forty or forty-five acres in the rear of the
Industrial School at an elevation of 300
feet. I proposed to the directors of
the Spring Valley Water Works about
a year ago to erect a reservoir
of 200,000,000 gallons on this tract. Fear
ing that Sutro might not sell the land to
the Spring Valley Water Works at as rea
sonable a figure as to a stranger, the com
pany employed a reliable outsider who
succeeded in purchasing from Sutro the
much-wanted forty-two acres of land for
about $63,000. This is one of the best pur
chases the company has made for some
time, as for their purposes this tract is al
most invaluable. hen Sutro learned
that the land had been purchased for
the Spring Valley Water Works he be
came enraged as he realized that he could
have compelled us to pay a great . deal
more for the property. The company is
negotiating for another large reservoir tract
at a high level. The moment it is secured
work on these two immense reservoirs
will be commenced. They will form the
basis for the remodeling of the entire high
level service.
"Sutro's charges that the waters of Lake
Pilar and Laguna Honda are impure
are false. We have an analysis made of
the water supplied to our customers every
little while. The water has been found to
be absolutely pure. The reservoirs are
perfectly clean. They do not get dirty. The
fact that there are no zymotic or other dis
eases traceable to impure water in the city
at the present time shows that pure water
is supplied. .If the Board of Supervisors, the
Fire Commissioners and the Board of Fire
Underwriters will assume the responsibility
of a fire risk in the Western Addition for a
day or two there will be no dilficulty in
emptying Lake Honda in ascertaining that
it is clean. There will be no risk of the
walls falling in, as Sutro believes. There
are no cracks in the walls of Lacuna
Honda, by which the sewer of the Alms
house passes. There are a few cracks in
the easterly wall or the northeasterly wall, '
but the sewer passes by the southerly and
westerly wall of the lake.
"The water of Laguna Honda is only
used, however, when there is a very heavy
call upon the supply of 200,000 gallons an
hour from Lake Pilarcitos. The main pipe
from Lake Pilarcitos goes past Laguna
Honda into town. It has a branch with a
check valve connecting the main pipe with
Laguna Honda reservoir. The water from
Lake Pilarcitos goes directly into town,
and the water in Laguna Honda only
comes to its assistance if for a short period
during the middle of the day or during a
large fire there is a sudden drain in excess
of the 200.000 gallons an hour supply com
ing from Lake Pilarcitos.
"The charge made by Sutro that winds
blow dirt into Laguna Honda is not true.
Laguna Honda is in a sheltered valley,
with very little wind, and in the summer
time the Almshouse people keep the road
in very good condition. I do not think
Sutro would say there was any heavy wind
about Laguna Honda if there were a pos
sible purchaser looking at his property
which surrounds the laguna.
Dr. Martin Regensburger of the Board of
Health does not believe that pure water
can be furnished this city from any point
near at hand. He said : "It is only a ques
tion of time when San Francisco will have
to secure its water from Lake Tahoe or
some place in the Sierra Nevada Mount
tains. As far as Sutro's charges are con
cerned I believe he has had trouble with
the Spring Valley Water Works and de
sires to get even.. 1 believe that examina
tions of water furnished the city should be
made, but they should be bacteriological
as well as chemical. When Mayor Sutro
desired to have the Board of Health see
that an analysis of the water of Lake
Merced be made I moved that examina
tions be made of all the different kinds of
water furnished and that the samples
be taken from the faucets in different
parts of the city. This motion was beaten
by a tie vote, but Sutro afterward said he
would give notice at a future meeting that
all the waters be examined. This was
exactly my motion. Sutro acted in the
way he did so that it would appear he was
doing all the work in the matter. It was
a very peculiar action on his part.
"We have authorized Dr. Spencer to ob
tain samples of water from Lake Merced
and to make a report to us. We expect
the report to be ready in a few days and
we will call a special meeting to hear it.
If it shows that the water of Lake Merced
is injurious we will condemn it.
Still if after examinations of all
the various waters furnished the city
it is proved they are all bad, what are we
going to do? We can't condemn them all
and create a disastrous water famine. The
trouble is that it is very difficult to furnish
large cities with pure water. There is
hardly any worse water in the world than
the Croton which is supplied to the people
of New York. Still, the people can get no
better.
"There is sure to be seepage into Lake
Pilarcitos or Crystal Springs from the
adjoining ranches or farms. Rivers which
run through farms and empty into hikes
are sure to have polluted water, and no
amount of running over gravel beds will
purify it. The lakes near by this city will
become fouler as the time passes and the
country tills up with settlers. Still I be
lieve that San Francisco is getting better
water than any city of its size.
THEY CELEBRATED PURIM.
A Time Honored Festival Ob- j
served by the Temple
Beth Israel.
"Esther," a Scriptural Cantata,
Presented to a Large
Audience.
Orthodox Judea in the city of San Fran
cisco celebrated the feast of Purim yester
terday. The observance of this time
honored festival is limited in America only
to those Hebrews who are conservative in
regard to the traditions of the faith.
Among these are numbered the members
of the Temple Beth Israel, who assembled
at Armory Hall last evening to witness the
performance of a cantata and drama en
titled "Esther."
The various character parts were well sus
tained by the following members of the
Geary-street Sunday-school :
Ahasuerus, King of Persia, Charles
Van Vliet ; Haman, Vizier great, Leo Levy ;
Mordecai, Sydney Herzog ; scribe, Eman
uel Levin; herald, Herbert Cramer; jester,
Joe Simmons; Charkas, George Franklin;
Tarshish, Meres, Memuchan, Menu
man (Persian statesmen), Harry
Harris, Edgar Levy, Gustave Meyer,
Leon Jacobs; butler, Albert Conn;
high priest, Isaac Latz ; Charbona, Mona
Abrahamson; Sotares, Irving Lewis;
Avagso, Louis Jacobs; Esther, Queen of
Persia, Hattie Lanzet; Zuleika, Theresa
Michael: Zerish, Lillie Fulda; Mordecai's
Sister, Lelia Cohn; Prophetess, Laura
Nathan ; Zether, Tessie Harris; Ridbah,
Rose Fulda; Dinahero, Rose Keilus;
maids, guards, Persians. Medians.
Act I opened showing the King's palace.
The scriptural text was followed as well as
the exigencies of the stage would permit.
Yashti's dethronement was well pictured
by the tiny actors, and the young gentle
man who presented the character of the
vacillating King of Persia created much
amusement by his liberal interpretation of
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