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TO GET CHINA BASIN
A Friendly Letter Ad
dressed to the Harbor
Commission.
POUR OBJECTIONS MADE.
They Are Not Given in Any
Captious or Caviling
Spirit, However.
PERSONALITIES ARE AVOIDED.
The Committee States Its Belief
That There Is No Serious
Disagreement.
As a result of the meeting held Thurs
day afternoon by a committee of Valley
Railroad directors in the office of Attorney
E. ¥. Preston a comprehensive statement
of the trouble over the lease of China Basin
was sent yesterday to the State Board of
Harbor Commissioners. The letter pours
considerable oil upon the turbulent waters,
or rather what appeared on the surface to
be fiercely agitated.
It sets forth the well-known reasons why
the lease was declined and suggests
changes which would make the agreement
acceptable to all concerned. spirit of
captiousness has entered the objections of
the railway directors, and indeed there is
really no objection to anything required
by the State's representatives, only the
committee was forced to conclude that
Borne of the covenants contained in the
lease would hamper and harass the direc
tors in hereafter conducting the necessary
business of the road.
More in the nature of a chiding than
belligerent declarations the directors state
that suppositions of fraudulent combina
tion with existing railroad lines are not
complimentary, nor do they offer pleasing
encouragement to the men who have
united to build a people's railroad for the
benefit of California. In conclusion, the
committee assures the Harbor Commis
sioners that it does not believe there is any
. serious disagreement between the directors
and Commissioners, and whatever differ
ences do now exist are nothing more than
the ordinary differences of business men in
settling a complicated proposition. All
this may be readily obviated by a confer
ence meeting of the two boards.
The letter was addressed to E. L. Colnon,
president of the Harbor Commission, and
s as follows :
May 10, 1895.
To the Honorable the Board of State Harbor
Commissioners — Gentlemen: At a meeting]
of the directors of the tan Francisco and
San Joaquin Valley Eailwaj' Company,
held upon Tuesday, the 7th day of May
last, a drait of a proposed lease of China
Basin by your honorable board to the rail
way corporation was submitted, and as the
board was unanimously of the opinion
that certain changes and modifications
were desirable the undersigned were ap
pointed a committee to state the principal
objections in writing to your honorable
board. They are, substantially:
First— That the clause forbidding the
assignment of the lease should be confined
to the language of the act giving your
honorable board power to lease, namely:
"That said lease shall not be assigned
without the written consent of the said
Board of State Harbor Commissioners."
As now formulated no bonded debt could
be created unless the present or some
future Board of State Harbor Commis
sioners were willing to consent, thereby
depriving the railway corporation of the
right to bond its own property.
Second— The proviso in the paragraph at
the beginning of page 4 is too comprehen
sive — "Provided that if said demised prem
ises or the said corporation pany of the
second part should ever, during the term
herein, become subject, directly or in
directly, to the control or dominion of any
person, company or corporation having
railway terminal facilities on the bay of
San Francisco, then, thereby and in that
event this lease shall forthwith terminate,
and all rights thereunder immediately
cease."
It is the opinion of the committee that
this clause should be restricted so as to
substantially provide that should the
premises leased ever fall under the control
of any railroad corporation now having
terminal facilities upon tne bay of San
Francisco or in control of any terminal
facilities upon the bay of Sau Francisco
now existing, then the lease should be
forfeited.
Third — The committee objects to the
covenant that the railroad corporation will
at any time upon demand by your honor
able board construct the inner embank
ment or retaining wall forming the entire
east line of the premises proposed to be
leased. No objection is made to that
covenant which requires the railway com
pany to pay the State all dockage and
tolls established by law, even at wharves
built by the company, but we feel that we
should enjoy the privileges of the seawall
to tne same extent and in common with
other citizens of the State.
Fourth — There is also a feeling of dissat
isfaction with the covenant on page 3
relating to the character of the improve
ments, the amount of road to be built, and
where it shall terminate, and as the act is
very specific in that regard it is question
able whetner it would not be safer to fol
low it.
These objections are not made in any
captious spirit, and while a desire to pre
serve the interests of the people has caused
your honorable board to place in the
lease a large number cf restrictive coven
ants not required by the law, and while the
committee feels that your honorable board
would have been perfectly justified in using
the same enlarged discretion as that shown
by the Legislature in the act giving you
authority to lease, there is yet no objection
made to anything required by you except
in bo far as the judgment of this committee
forces it to the conclusion that some of
such covenants would harass and hamper
the directors of the road hereafter in the
conduct of necessary business transac
tions.
The men composing the board of direc
tors of the San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railway Company are not moved
in this transaction by any consideration
of personal profit or advancement, and
indeed the interests of the State and its
citizens have been the guiding and con
trolling motive which has actuated the
entire board. Suppositions of fraudulent
combination with existing railroad lines
and charges of a possibility that those
engaged in this enterprise can be induced
in any way to surrender the rights of
stockholders of this road, scattered as they
pie throughout the length and breadth of
the State, to the dominion of any institu
tion inimical to the best prosperity and
advancement of the entire community, is
certainly not a pleasing encouragement to
men engaged in the discharge of a public
duty, and we are impelled to these re
marks because it has been reported that at
certain meetings of your honorable board
such supposititious remarks have been in
dulged in by one of the members of the
board.
We do not believe that there is any seri
ous disagreement between the Valley Rail
road Compauy and your honorable board,
and we think, whatever differences of
opinion as to the lease may now exist, that
they are but the ordinary differences of
business men in the establishing of a com
plicated proposition and which may be
readily obviated by a conference, which
we trust will be holden at your time and
convenience. "We are, very respectfully.
Thomas Magee, ]
E. P. Preston, J
Attorney Preston feels that an injustice
was done Mayor Sutro, and, indeed, the
Governor and Harbor Commissioners,
through the publication of a letter drafted
by a member of the committee. That
communication was not accepted by the
committee, though some of the more sen
sible portions are incorporated in the letter
sent yesterday, as here printed in full. It
seems now that the Mayor has come in for
more blame than he was entitled to in his
anxiety to have the lease binding in every
feature for the State's best interest.
There is no doubt now but that this letter
will establish perfect harmony and good
will among all members of the railway
corporation and the Harbor Commission,
and it will be only a matter of a little
time when China Basin will belong to the
Valley road for fifty years.
Dr. Price's Baking Powder is not a new
leavening force. For forty years it has never
been equaled either in purity or strength.
HERRON WILL BE HEARD.
Metropolitan Temple Engaged
for the Celebrated
Lecturer.
Many Well-Known Citizens, Includ
ing Several Clergymen,
Invite Him.
Professor Herron, who was called an
anarchist by the Rev. C. O. Brown, pastor
of the First Congregational Church, will
lecture at Metropolitan Temple Monday.
The subject will be, "The Fullness of
These Times," and nothing will be charged
for admittance.
Professor Herron consented to deliver
this lecture at the earnest request of more
than 300 citizens, among whom were the
following:
Revs. J. H. Warren, Frederick Flawith, Frank
Forbes, W. D. Williams, E. McClish, E. R. Dille,
W. W. Case. G. D. B. Stewart, E. J. Dupuy. H.
N. Bevier, H. R. Sheriff, S. M. Dodge, Father
Yorke, H. W. Colver, J. W. Ellis, Y. R. Farrand,
James Woodworth, J. Cumming Smith, D. Han
son Irwin, F. H. Doane, M. J. Fergusson, W. H.
Gardner, Elder J. H. Chown, E. G. Mathena,
J. E. Scott, E. P. Dennett.
D. Gilbert Dexter, John F. Myers, T. H.
Hatch, Jonathan T. McDonal, M.D., M. M. Mc-
Glynn, H. S. Stedman, R. L. Eames, Curtis
Hillyer, 1. J. Truman, E. 8. Barney, Hon. Cal
vin Ewing, J. S. Reynolds, C. C.Terrill, Hon. J.
Taylor Rogers, M. Strauss, George T. Gaden,
Dr. T. J. Frazer, Dr. F. L. Platt, C. W. Broad
bent, S. F. Buftord, Charles S. Eaton, Emil S.
Lemme, F. R. W T hitney, N. E. Kelsey, Job Har
riman, H. H. Hall, G. B. Benham.
Suit for Fraud.
E. W. Burke, a stockholder in the Automatic
Can Supply Company, has sued that organiza
tion, the Eagle Automatic Can Company,
Irvin Ayres, F. P. P. Howard, C. H. Watt, J. G.
Laws, F X G. Wight, H. D. Pike, H. S. Foote Jr.
and W. H. Mead, to have set aside a certain ac
tion of the Can Supply Company assigning cer
tain patents to the Eagle Company, alleging
fraud, and for an accounting of the Supply
Company's affairs.
The Rub hi in the South.
Rabbi Voorsanger, who is at present in Los
Angeles, lectured at the Unitarian church on
Monday night on "Cranks and Dreamers." On
Wednesday night he addressed a large audi
ence on "The New Woman." He will deliver a
third lecture this evening, and, at its conclu
sion will start for home.
Because of its much greater strength,
the Royal Baking Powder is more econom
ical than any similar leavening agent,
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1895.
FABIOLA'S DAY OF DAYS.
The Floral Parade Is to Be
Started on Its Sunlit Way
at Noon.
THREE HUNDRED VEHICLES.
Governor Budd and His Staff to
Ride In State In the
Procession.
This is the day to which all Oakland has
been looking for weeks past, for at the
Trotting Park the great Fabiola fete is to be
held. The festivities will commence at ari
early hour and will continue uninterrupt
edly until 6:30 in the evening, at which
time the last event of the day will be called.
Never before has an entertainment been
arranged across the bay on such elaborate
lines as the present one. All classes of the
community are directly interested in the
programme, for it includes social and
sporting events of a high order. The audi
ence, too, promises to be one of the most
brilliant that has ever assembled in Ala
meda County. Governor Budd will be
there, as will also Colonel Shatter and
staff from the Presidio, all the local crack
clubs, the leading dignitaries of the frater
nal and social organizations, the city and
county officials, and a general medley of
citizens, including every representative
family in the community.
Judging by the indications, fully 20,000
people will swarm into the park before the
day is out. Six thousand tickets have
I been disposed of in the stores of Oakland,
' between 2uOO and 3000 have been taken up
in the surrounding cities, and the sale in
San Francisco has been heavy enough to
assure the fact that thousands will journey
from this side of the bay. The arrange
ments for handling this mighty host are in
proportion to its magnitude. The South
ern Pacific will have special trains plying
in almost a continuous procession between
the broad-gauge mole and Shell Mound
station, the depot most convenient to the
grounds. All visitors from San Francisco
should cross by the broad-gauge line, as,
although the park can be reached from the
narrow-gauge depot, it entails a journey
by streetcars^ that can as well be avoided.
Visitors from Oakland and the interior
should travel by the San Pablo-avenue
road, which will carry passengers to within
a few feet of the gate. Every car that can
be pressed into service will be on the road
and a line of buses and wagonettes will
also be operated to aid in relieving the
pressure. .
At the grounds an army of employes
will be on hand to attend to the accommo
dation of the visitors. Twenty-five Deputy
Sheriffs will be there to preserve order,
for although the attendance will be a select
one, it is as well to have plenty of peace
ollicers so that authority can be exercised
in case of any need.
The grand stands will seat about 7500
people, and the main structure will be re
served so as to give a vantage poi?it to
ladies and children who desire to avoid the
surging of the crowd. A thorough inspec
tion and test of the stands has been made
by engineers, and they say that they are
strong enough to hold all the people that
can be placed on them and thousands of
tons besides. They have all beeu heavily
girdered and braced, so as to make it abso
lutely certain that there will be no acci
dent.
The gates will be thrown open at 8
o'clock, and the grounds will undoubtedly
be taken possession of at an early hour,
especially by the children, who will want
to get out and enjoy the games arranged
for their special delectation before the big
crowd comes.
At 10:45 the programme will start up
with the gentlemen's driving race, and
from that time on the track will not be
unoccupied for a moment. The United
States Infantry band will come early and a
continuous promenade concert will en
hance the enjoyment.
At 11 o'clock an exhibition will be given
by a number of the Tack horses that have
been quartered at the track all the winter.
Hulda will be sent a mile. As she is in
splendid condition her performance will
attract the attention of the horsemen, for
she has never before been speeded west of
Chicago.
At noon Grand Marshal Thomas and his
aids will sound the bugles calling the
floral Darade into line. As there are about
300 vehicles in the contest it will be a hard
task to get everything shipshape, so it is
announced that the pageant will not start
until 1 o'clock. At that hour promptly
the grand procession will move.
First will come the grand marshal and
his aids. The; Firat Regiment United
States Infantry band will be next, and
then will appear Governor Budd, accom
panied by his staff and State officials. They
will be in decorated four-in-hands and es
corted by the marshals of the first division.
Mayor Davie of Oakland and the City
Council will be next in order, and then
will come the various city and county
officials, the Board of Education, the dele
gates from the various relief societies and
a number of distinguished guests. The
decorated carriages will be next, and
among the many vehicles will be the fol
lowing:
Four-in-hands— Mrs. George C. Perkins,
A. A. Moore, George Newhall, Oscar Lun
ing, Robert Jackson. Mayor Davie.
Double teams— L. Is. Hager, E. G.
Lukens, Lurana Denison, Mrs. Gilbert L.
Curtis, Charles H. Shattuck, J. W. Lay
mance. Mrs. M. J. Laymance, Mrs. George
E. Plummer, Mrs. Charles Shattuck. Mrs.
J. A. Folger, G. L. Baraclough, Miss Ethel
Pomroy, Mrs. George W. Hume, Mrs. F.
H. Meyer. C. Wiedersheim, Mrs. F. M.
Smith, Mrs. Alexander Mcßean, Mrs. E.
H. Kittridge, Mrs. W. G. Henshaw, Dr. G.
L. Schmidt, Mrs. Isaac Requa, Mrs. Gor
don L. Stolp, J. Seulberger, Mrs. P. W.
Remillard, Mrs. James Moffltt. Mrs. M. J.
Thompson, J. W. Phillips, Dr. D. D.
Crowley. Mrs. W. Frank Pierce and Mrs.
Charles D. Pierce.
Single teams— J. F. Miller, Mrs. Orestes
Pierce, A. S. Macdonald, Miss May Her
bert, Miss A. L. Neal, W. J. Laymance, A.
M. Sanborn, Henry Squires, James Breck,
E. J. Barrett, Hugo Abrabamson, Miss
Gertrude Allen, Mrs. J. J. Valentine, Mrs.
R. G. Brown, Mrs. Robert Watt, M. E.
Snell, Mary Whitney, Maud Edith Pope,
Caroline Ritter, John Tisch, Mrs. A. W.
Burrell, G. F. Tinkham. J. M. Vaughn,
Mrs. R. W. Gorrill, Miss Marion Smith,
Mrs. J. M. Merrill, Harry and Daisy
Lomax, Dr. R. K. Dunn, Miss May Bur
hand, Mrs. C. George Brill. Miss Mar
garet Fitzgerald, Mrs. E. Hackett, Mrs. E.
M. Chabot, Miss F. M. Gilman, Mrs. A.
D. Miel, Mrs. E. L. Fitzgerald and Mrs.
E. L. Green, P. E. Bowles.
Equestrian— John P. Irish Jr., Mrs. L.
E. Ward, Miss Alice Moffitt, Mrs. Harry
Wetherbee. Miss Bessie Forrest, W. L.
Hackett, Mrs. Kate Chabot, Miss Pansy-
Perkins, Miss Evaline Craig.
Bicycles, tandems, etc. — Miss Hazel
Cope, Dottie Everson, Bess Graham,
Martha Alexander, George Quincy Chase,
Willard Barstow, Albert Coogan, Charlotte
Laws, George Herrick, J. A. McNamara,
C. Jergens Jr., May Coogan , Gertrude
Snow, Belle Carpenter, Lcuise Kellogg.
Some of the decorations will be simply
gorgeous, for every florist's store has been
ransacked and the ingenuity of the best
minds of Oakland taxed in "the arrange
ment of the different vehicles. It is esti
mated that fully $10,000 has been ex
pended privately for trf flowers and
embellishments of the equipages, so the
scene will be .one of the grandest ever wit
nessed in California.
As the procession count ermarches and
passes the grand stand for the second time
the battle of flowers will take place, and
the air will be filled with myriads of sweet
scented blossoms, for tons' of flowers are
to be sent or carried to the track by those
who intend participating. The warning is
repeated to those who will Join in the fray
notto|make the bouquets too large and not
to moisten them, so as to :ivoid unpleasant
consequences.
When the floral engagement is over the
racing will start. The nr^t event will be
a mile handicap, class A, for the cyclists.
It will be participated :n by forty five
•wheelmen from the leading clubs of this
Bection. In quick succession will follow a
two-mile handicap with forty-six starters,
a mile tandem with seven teams, a two
mile class B handicap with fourteen riders
and a mile scratch class B in which twelve
of the chamDions of the State will meet.
The horse meet will follow with the
events in this order: Half-mile dash: five
eighths dash; one-mile trot, 2:15 class;
one-mile trot, 2:25 class; one-mile trot,
2:40 class; one-mile pacing free-for-all.
Dovetailed in at the most convenient place
will come the hurdle race, and as this is to
be a professional event the interest ih it
will be very keen.
Outside of this splendid track pro
gramme there will be all sorts of amuse
ments for young and old at different
points and the day should pass off de
lightfully. Refreshments of every de
scription will be obtainable at huge booths
presided over by some of the leading ladies
of Oakland, and as the wares to be dis
pensed are to come from their larders and
are to be all home-cooking they need no
further guarantee. A good square lunch
will be served during the noon hours, and
as extraordinary preparations are being
made to guard against a famine there need
be no fear of any one going hungry.
A dispatch received by Postmaster
White from Washington yesterday au
thorized him to close his office between
the hours of 2 and 6 o'clock in honor of the
fete. This is regarded as a great compli
ment by the ladies of Fabiola and thanks
have been telegraphed.
The enthusiasm and interest over the
event is something remarkable. Nothing
has been too expensive or too hard to un
dertake that could in any way lead to suc
cess. Miss Ethel Pomroy, for instance,
has sent to the woods of Mendocino County
for wild rhododendrons with which to deco
rate her tandem, and even such a conser
vative body as the Merchants' Exchange
will turn out with a huge carryall in wfcicn
the twenty -two directors will ride. It will
be gorgeously decorated and will be drawn
by four horses.
Many of the leading business housed will
close, even though it is Saturday, and a
number of labor organizations have given
their men a half holiday. Nothing else is
talked of across the bay, and as Fabiola'a
fete passes into history it will do so under
the most favorable auspices that ever ac
companied an entertainment in Alameda
County.
HIBTOET OF THE HOSFITAL.
Prom a Small Beginning It Has Grown to a
Fine Institution.
Fifteen hundred years ago Fabiola, a
beautiful Roman lady of noble birth, es
tablished in Rome the first public hos
pital.
Seventeen years ago a number of phil
anthropic ladies of Oakland established
the first public institution lor tae care of
the needy sick in the Athens of the Pa
cific.
Though at first known as toe Oakland
Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary
Association its character soon led one
versed in classic lore to call the attention
of its officers to the story of Rome's first
refuge for the friendless victims of disease,
and they at once changed the name of
their association to that of the Fabiola
Hospital Association.
Its object was to provide a home for the
sick worthy poor entirely without means
or those of limited means, but no home.
To Mrs. R. W. Kirkham has always been
accorded the honor of having made the
initial steps, which eventually led to the
present great institution. She soon sur
rounded herself with cheritably inclined
ladies, and the following each contributed
$50 for a life membership, which at once
placed the organization on a fair financial
looting.
Mrs. J. M. Selfridge. Mrs. J. J. Scotchler,
Mrs. J. Hayes, Mrs. J. F. Houghton,
Mrs. Edson Adams, Mrs. W. W. Cran* .
Mrs. W. \V. Camron, Mrs. Samuel Woods,
Mrs. J. E. Nicholson, Mrs. Edwin Harris,
Mrs. I). B. Hinckley, Mrs. Dr. Liliencranz,
Mrs. Van L. Eastland, Mrs. E. Bigelow,
Mrs. W. W. Foote, Mrs. W. CL Little and
Mrs. Chauncey Taylor.
From a small beginning in a little house
on Market street, with a free dispensary
on Eighth street, the institution grew
until in 1883 a commodious building at
1057 Alice street was secured.
Then some of the wealthy people of Oak
land, among them Anthony Chabot, Fred
erick Delger, T. L. Barker, Captain Asa
Simpson, James A. Folger, and others, do
nated lands and funds and the present
handsome hospital was built.
The present officers of the association
are: Mrs. R. W. Kirkham, honorary
president; Mrs. John Yule, president:
Mrs. Renii Chabot, Mrs. Peder Sather and
Mrs. J. A. Folger, vice-presidents; Mrs. R.
W. Gorrill, recording secretary; Mrs. W.
W. Standeford, financial secretary; Miss
May Burnham, assistant financial secre
tary; Mrs. A. A. Barton, corresponding
secretary; Miss Grace Scotchler, assistant
corresponding secretary ; Mrs. Q. A. Chase,
treasurer.
UNION LEAGUE BANQUET
Senator Cullom of Illinois
Was the Guest of the
Evening.
Words of Praise for California, Her
Products and the Half-
Million Club.
A banquet was tendered to Senator S.
M. Cullom of Illinois by the Union League
Club last evening. After the discussion of
the items on the menu General Backus in
troduced Senator Cullom, the speaker of
the evening.
Mr. Cullom, who was very warmly
greeted, said that he had heard much and
read much of the Golden State. This was
his first visit to California, but he felt him
self in a position to say, like the Queen of*
Sheba at Solomon's court, "Not the half
of the greatness was told unto me."
Turning to politics, the speaker said it
was an undoubted fact that the masses be
lieved in a protective tariff. He thought
if things went on as they were going the
Republican party would soon be reinstated
in power. This would be the signal for a
general revival in commercial circles.
Senator Cullom referred to his acquaint
ance with Abraham Lincoln, whom he re
membered as a child. "I am proud," said
the Senator, "to come from the same
State that furnished Lincoln, and that
produced a Ulysses S. Grant." He also
spoke in pleasing terms of many eminent
representatives of California in Congress
whom he had known.
Senator George C. Perkins next took the
floor. Speaking of Lincoln, th« California
representative compared the condition
of the country's finances under his ad
ministration and now. "But," said Sena
tor Perkins, "it is not meet that I should
criticize the present Government. That
would not be Senatorial courtesy. How
ever, I thank God that 1 belong to the Re
publican party. As individuals, there are
lots of splendid Democrats, but as a party
they somehow lose their splendid mdi
vidual characteristics."
Senator Perkins concluded with a eulogy
of the Nicaragua canal project, which ne
thought would benefit every State in the
Union.
The last speech of the evening was de
livered by Irving M. Scott, who referred in
glowing terms to the services rendered the
State by the Half-million Club. "There are
no hard times here," said Mr. Scott, "for
our coast is full of undeveloped resources.
"We have scarce touched the mighty possi
bilities of it."
The speaker recounted the difficulties
which had to be overcome in founding the
ship-building industry on this coast. He
quoted the Charleston, Olympia and Ore
gon as unexcelled specimens of battle
ships, and closed with a fervent eulogy of
home industries.
The remainder of the proceedings were
of an informal character, the time being
passed in conversation and music.
Does your cake get dry quickly? Raise
it with Price's Cream Baking Powder and
it will keep moist and fresh.
WOMEN GAIN A POINT.
A Debate Before the Garfleld Lyceum
Ends in Favor of Female
Suffrage.
The new woman scored a point in the
lecture-room of the Second Unitarian
Church last night. Garneld Lyceum No.
869 of the Lyceum League of America had
a debate on the following resolution :
Besolved, That the granting of suffrage to
woman will be detrimental to the United
States.
The affirmative side of the question was
taken by Adam Smith and the negative
was presented by William Ford. Both of
these young gentlemen made able argu
ments on their respective sides. The de
bate was spirited throughout and Mr.
Smith made many humorous hits, which
called forth storms of applause by the
ladies, notwithstanding the fact that he
was the opponent of their champion.
Mr. Fora's argument was not so well
seasoned with witticisms, but he presented
an array of facts and deductions from facts
that carried with it a spirit of conviction.
The ladies cheered him, not because of his
funny sayings, but. because he made some
points in their favor.
The judges for the evening were: R.
Allen, J. J. Peltret and H. C. Sexton. At
the close of the debate these gentlemen re
tired to deliberate over a verdict. They
soon made a report to the effect that Mr.
Ford had made the best argument and that
the negative side of the question was ahead
up to date. The badge of the L.L.A. was
awarded to Mr. Ford as the prize of the
contest.
The programme for the evening included
banjo solos, recitations and songs.
There is an article on this market seldom
equaled and never excelled— Jesse Moore Whis
ky. Moore, Hunt & Co. guarantee its purity. *
For the Affiliated Colleges.
The joint committee of the affiliated colleges
met last evening in Dr. W. F. McNutt's office to
consider the most favorable site for a college
building to house the colleges of medicine,
pharmacy, dentistry and law. Offers of several
beautiful and desirable sites have been made.
In several instances the prices set are far in
excess of the market valuation of the property,
but these are usually in instances where the
committeemen have inspected the premises
and showed by their actions that the lands
would be suitable. It will probably be some
time before a site is selected.
Prof. Haines, chemist to the Chicago
Board of Health, says he has found the
Royal v Baking "i Powder <; the purest and
strongest,. and superior to all 1 others in
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CHEAP COAL IN PROSPECT
Encouraging Report Made to
the Manufacturers' As
sociation.
CAPTAIN LEES CRITICIZED.
Ho Is Reported as Not In Favor of
the Policy of Home
Patronage.
Considerable business of interest and
importance was transacted at the meeting
of the board of directors of the Manufac
turers' and Producers' Association of Cali
fornia yesterday afternoon. The first
matter of special moment was the report
of the committee on fuel, submitted by
Louis Blankenhorn, which reads:
Pursuant to your request we visited the coal
mines at Corral Hollow, the property of the
San Francisco and San Joaquin Coal Company,
a company but lately incorporated for the pur
poses of mining and marketing coal.
The letters of introduction furnished us by
your secretary, Mr. Mead, secured for us the
privilege of making a careful and extensive
examination, and we beg to submit the follow
ing facts and conclusions as the result of our
examination:
The coal mines are clearly traceable in and
include a territory over six and a half miles
long and one and a quarter miles wide, lying
in Corral Hollow Valley, about ten miles south
east from Livermore and eighteen miles from
navigable tidewater.
The owners of tne mines have in contempla
tion the construction of their own railroad
east to the San Joaquin River and tidewater,
about eighteen miles on a down grade in the
direction of traffic, thus insuring the lowest
possible cost of operation and transportation
market.
The work during the past five years has cen
tered chiefly in the Eureka mine, and we ex-
Slored closely nearly 7000 feet of tunnels,
rifts, shafts and slopes— dry, well timbered
and ventilated— crossing! or drifting with nu
merous veins of coal, cleanly and clearly de
fined, several of six and seven feet width, and
a number of smaller ones, the larger ones easy
to mine, and the smaller ones seemingly
feasible, and, as claimed, with profit.
The inspection left no doubt in our minds of
the immense quantity of available coal, and
we are not disposed to question the engineer's
estimate of 20,000,000 tons. The veins dip
from 50 deg. to 70 deg. approximately, and are
visible in numerous other tunneis and open
ings along the course of the veins for a distance
of over six miles.
As to the quality and character of the coal
it is, when freshly mined, or in tne veins, a
deep jet or glossy black lignite. We watched
it as used in the several boilers of the coal
company, rinding it to ignite readily and burn
freely, making a very hot fire, leaving no
clinker and but a small proportion of ash. It
seems to have the quality 01 high-grade lignite
like the New Mexico coals and others now in
use in California.
The comparative value of the coal in sta
tionary boilers is now being determined by
practical tests in this City and power plants
here and in Oakland. More important is the
result of a month's test by the Southern Pacific
Railroad, in its engines on the Oregon express
between Sacramento and Red Bluff, the report
of which concludes as follows:
"The result of the test shows conclusively
that the Corral Hollow coal- is entirely satis
factory for locomotive use."
So much for possible quantity and quality.
The managers offer to contract to deliver to
the San Francisco and San Joaquin Railroad,
at the mines, the entire supply required by
them, for five years, at $'2 per ton.
They also say they will be able to mine, with
proposed facilities, 2000 tons per day, and to
market the same in San Francisco for S?ti per
ton, and maintain a selling price not to ex
ceed $3 and $3 50 per ton, based on handling
coal over their own railroad to tidewater and
thence, in steel barges, to San Francisco or
accessible river points. The resulting 600,000
tons a year would represent over one-third of
the average importation and commercial
supply, and, if maintained, prove a potent
factor both in stimulating industries ana keep
ing a large amount of money at home.
San Francisco can hardly hope for cheap coal
from any source but these mines, on account
of the distance between San Francisco and
other coal fields. From the personal examina
tion we have made, we are of the opinion that
there is enough coal there to supply this city's
entire consumption for many years.
Your committee hope to offer something in
the near future to your board on the outlook
and possibilities of crude petroleum as fuel for
manufacturing purposes.
In an informal discussion the proposi
tion was considered of having about 100
tons of the coal from these mines sent to
several of the members of the association
who are large consumers, and this will
probably be done. Should the quality of
the coal meet expectations it will oe given
preference over the imported article.
in the matter of the Securities Exchange,
the committee to whom it was submitted
reported that it is such importance that
they preferred not to make any recom
mendation in the matter, and asked that a
special meeting of the board of directors
be called for the purpose of having a full
discussion on the subject at an early day.
The reDort was ordered filed.
It was then decided to hold a special
meeting of the board of directors on Tues
day, May 14, at 8 p. m., to consider the
proposition of organizing a securities ex
change.
A resolution was passed extending
thanks to the Stockton Commercial Asso
ciation for its cordial reception of the rep
resentatives of the Manufacturers' and
Producers' Association at the time of their
visit.
In a communication presented by George
W. Snyder it was suggested as a remedy
for the present unsatisfactory condition of
the cigar-manufacturing industry that to
bacco be generally introduced throughout
the State as one of the staple products.
"This," the writer states, "by giving us a
local growers' market from which to draw
our stock, would enable our manufactur
ers to sell their goods in competition with
any sold throughout the entire United
States." Attention is then called to the
fact that J. D. Culp of San Felipe has had
thirty-live years' experience in growing
tobacco in this State, and is now desirous
of placing his experience and service at
the disposal of California producers.
Mr. Culp, it is stated, proposes to publish
a book which shall embody all the knowl
edge acquired by him during his thirty-five
years' experience in tobacco culture, but
he requires that at least 50,000 copies of the
book shall be taken up by the various
counties of the State at a uniform price of
$1 a copy. The communication was re
ferred to the committee on new industries.
Oscar Lewis then described the visit of
the delegation of the Manufacturers' Asso
ciation to Stockton and argued that in ad
dition to enlisting the co-operation and
support of commercial and industrial
bodies outside of the City, the education of
the people was necessary. To accomplish
this he suggested that public meetings be
arranged in all the larger cities under the
auspices of the local organizations and
that lectures be delivered showing the im
portance of home patronage for home in
dustries.
Attention was then called to the article
in yesterday's Call, referring to the pur
pose of the Police Department to have the
new style uniforms of the police officers
made of imported goods. In this connec
tion Captain Lees came in for severe de
nunciation for his statement published in
the Call yesterday, as follows:
The men can buy whatever cloth they please.
Fatigue uniforms are made of French beaver,
it is true, but no order was ever issued from
this office regarding the kind of cloth the men
should have their uniforms made from. I
don't care what the Manufacturers' Associa
tion says about it, the men are going to buy
the best cloth they can get and the French is
the best.
Captain Heaiey's statement, that seven
teen years ago the Mission Woolen-mills
failed to turn out a satisfactory quality of
cloth for policemen's uniforms, was also
severely condemned, Chairman Julian
Sonntag asserting that Captain Healey
was probably not aware that considerable
progress had b«en made in manufacturing
during seventeen years.
M. M. Barnet reported that he had
an interview with Police Commissioners
Alvord and Tobin, and that they had
promised to give all due heed to any rec
ommendation of the association.
In the further debate which followed,
string condemnation was expressed for
those gentlemen who were responsible for
spending in foreign cities the taxes con
tributed by local residents. The result of
the discussion was that the executive com
mittee was instructed to draft and adopt
resolutions requesting the Police Depart
ment to confine its purchases of supplies
of all kinds, including uniforms for the
officers, to home-made products, and to
present such resolutions to the Board of
Police Commissioners.
R. S. Moore suggested that it be made
the manager's business to see that Califor
nia products be used wherever possible in
all branches of manufacturing, building,
etc. This met with hearty concurrence,
but no formal action was taken on it.
On motion, it was decided to hold th«
meetings of the board of directors here
after on Tuesday evenings at 8 o'clock.
The secretary reported that the associa
tion now has a membership of 506, most of
which is in the City.
BREACH OP EEVENUE LAWS.
Three Men Arrested for Selling Un
stamped Cigars.
F. L. Tobin, Dan Mulligan and F. E.
Xnapp, three men who have been running
games of chance in the vicinity of the fer
ries, were arrested by Deputy Internal
Agent GUchnst yesterday. They operated
a wheel of fortune and whenever the
needle stopped opposite a number a cor
responding number of cigars were handed
out These were taken from unstamped
packages, hence the breach of the internal
revenue laws.
The prisoners were taken before United
States Commissioner Heacock and pleaded
ignorance of the law. They also said they
had families to support ana on that show
ing United States District Attorney Footo
consented to the cases being dismissed
with the payment of costs. This was done
and the prisoners went free.
In the British army 97 per cent of the
troops are both able to read and write.
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