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BEAUTY IN BOULEVARDS
Engineer William Ham Hall's
Ideas on How Best to
Build Them.
THE PARK IDEA SHOULD RULE.
Suggestions by a Landscape En
gineer on a Topic of Gen
eral Interest.
During the recent boulevard discussion*,
which are rapidly becoming more timely and
interesting ax the prospects for the building of
local pleasure driveways rapidly increase,
vi.vrh has been said about their routes and but
UWe about how they ought to be built.
Almost the same amount of money will
make a driveway s)iperb or commonplace,
according to the taste and intelligence with
which it is planned, and most people wilt
agree that when any of the unrivaled oppor
tunities in this line possessed hy this pctiinsvla
arc grasped it should be done in a fitting way
and in the icay that uili give the most beauty,
pleasure and fame that it is practicable to
attain.
. . Colonel Wit Ham Ham Hal! discutsa beloxo
the question of how a boulevard from the park
south ought to be built. He is a widely
known civil and landscape engineer, and has
given viuch stud;/ to boulevard and park con
sf ruction. He was the engineer and superin
tendent of Golden Gate Park during six or
seven years of Us improvement, and has since
■at times been consulting engineer to the Park
Commission. His ideas are those of both a
civil engineer and a landscape gardener, and
vhile he deals deiinitely u-ith -a boulevard
south from the park much that he says would
apply elsewhere.
Taking for granted as being already well
established the advantages of and benefits
to 1 c derived from a grand drive or boule
vard leading out of San Fran Cisco's park
through the county of homes to the Garden
City, we may well at this stage discuss the
character which should be given it and the
considerations that ought to govern in its
location, design and construction.
I>i.*t:nctly and unequivocally this should
} c a pleasure drive — a travel-way for the
enjoyment of locomotion and of passage
through the country — a via sacra, in so far
that it should be held sacred from profana
tion by the hoofs and wheels of trade and
business.
Moreover, it should not only be made
end reserved as a way for individual means
of carriage, distinctively from public or
collective means — such as railways, by
whatever power the carriages of these lat
ter might be propelled— but. with equal
decision, it should be kept apart even from
contact with or juxtaposition to this class
of tracked public highway. Neither the
"iron horse' 1 nor "death the motor"
should be in evidence, except at a distance
and unavoidably to those who wheel and
ride along the boulevards.
I do not stop to argue this point, for aside
from the plain utilitarian reasons which
uphold it, there are principles involved
whose discussion would lead into a longer
chat and one of more esthetic nature than
the topic yet calls for.
Not only should there be no railway of
any type designed alongside of or with the
bovileVarde, but, if possible, rights-of-way
for this latter should be obtained on condi
tions such that no commercial highway of
any character could, in future, be placed
within. »ay. 200 fett of it, except by the
exercise of the power of eminent domain,
which, of course, could not be done away
with.
A light-travel electric railway through
the country to be traversed by tnis boule
vard 19 surely a thing to be desired, but it
is no more a desirable feature or accom
paniment of a high-class country road
that it is of a city parkway or of a drive in
a city park. It would be even more objec
tionable alongside of a distinctly rural
boulevard than alongside of a city park
way, and there is room enough through
the country to admit of a widely separate
location for it.
These thoughts may be taken as giving
the key to the whole idea of the improve
ment. " We should think of the boulevard
as a rural parkway from Golden Gate to
Garden City — an intra-county park. With
this fundamental idea well fixed we are
prepared to answer the query: What
should be its character? Broadly: First,
this character should be to the best serving
of its primary purpose; and second, such
as is closely in keeping with its surround
ings in each locality traversed.
Now, the primary purpose is that of af
fording a way for agreeable locomotion
throughout the route. Attending this is
the attainment of an advantageous outlook
upon the country around and into the
more characteristic and attractive parts of
it in detail.
That the trip may be agreeable the road
surface should not only be smooth, with
out extreme hardness, but the route should
avoid unnecessary indirectness; the loca
tion and design for construction should
afford all the variety in the way of curva
ture, gradients anil landscape treatment
which the several localities traversed seem
to call for, and extreme wind and sun ef
fect? should be guarded against. In other
words, this boulevard may be treated, in
connection with its surroundings, as a
park study from beginning to end.
The short, straight avenue flanked by
rows of trees of umbel lated form and shad
ing character, the long, straight avenue
held between columns of trees of fustigiate
growth and imposing effect, the broad,
sweeping drive with easy curvature amid
scattered single specimens or «mall groups
of spreading trees, the winding, narrow
road whGse curvature comports not only to
governing forms of topography hut to
heavier groupings of varied foliage? the
canyon drive held between hillside and
stream channel and following their
crooked alignments amid growths entirely ,
in harmony with the surrounding natural '
foliage and" arrangement, the mountain or
hillside road with rock points guarded by
suitable walls and with canyon or ra
vine crossings made on bridges of design
in keeping with their site;* — these all
should find place and repeated introduc
tions into the design of this boulevard,
eacn according with its part of the route
covered.
To describe the proposed boulevards as
"a broad drive flanked by double rows of
trees," or as "two parallel drives with a
row of trees between and a row on each
side," or in any way to imply uniformity
of treatment throughout, is a grievous mis
take. That suitable portions of it should
be so treated goes without saying, but only
suitable portions and only a limited part
in any one stretch. Our climate is es
pecially not well adapted to the straight
alignment of ways for travel with flanking
rows of trees. A straight road anywhere
within the influence of Ban Francisco
winds and fogs is bound to haTe a bleak,
inhospitable aspect for many days in each
fear, and to be disagreeably dust-swept a
arge part of the time. Moreover, the
kinds of trees adapted to make avenue
like effects— whether of the crowned or
shaded or walled-in character — do not
thrive here and cannot be made to attain
ythat degree of perfection which will be
satisfying for long avenues.
For the San Francisco County and a good
portion of the San Mateo County part? of
the route the long, straight, avenue-like
treatment of this boulevard, therefore.
should be accepted only under protest ana
for those localities whose gentle gradients
and smooth and unbroken surfaces make
it most in keeping with immediate topo
graphic environment. That established
property and street lines and owners'ob
jections to having blocks and acreage lots
"cut up" will necessitate the adoption of a
street or avenue like construction for much
of the boulevard's length within this
county's limits is, perhaps, a foregone con
clusion, but it is also a forefixed misfor
tune and to be regretted as such. Hence,
that route which most admits of a de
parture from this undesirable form of
boulevard way, which is not tied up to ex
isting street or road lines, which admits of
the introduction of curves and other gentle
breaks in alignment where seemingly
called for by the ground's form, or other
wise (other things being equal), is to be
preferred.
To how many of our Golden Gate Park
drivers-out has it occur re d that an immense
feeling of relief is experienced the moment
one quits the straight lines at the Baker
and Fell streets corner and enters upon
the gentle curvature of "the avenue' or
miscalled "panhandle" driveway ? Doubt
less to all. To how many has the reason
presented itself? Doubtless to few.
In this feature of Golden Gate Park a
broad drive and two spacious walks are
carried in the teeth of the prevailing winds
(within a space but 375 feet wide) and in
the most exposed wind-swept valley of
the peninsula, for the length of about 4000
feet, and their alignments ami the adjacent
plantings are such that the effect is agree
able even on the windiest days when the
straight streets on either side are almost
undrivable.
When, in submitting the original plan
for this avenue to the first Park Commis
sion in 1889, the writer hereof proposed the
curved alignment of roads and walks, very
much criticism was evoked from interested
parties, who declared that the space was
too narrow for any such treatment, that
the curves would be insignificant and un
satisfactory, and that a great opportunity
for making a grand straight drive or pair
of drives flanked by noble rows of trees
would be lost. The result speaks for itself.
There is not, after twenty-five years of ef
fort, a tree grown within the entire park
that would impart a satisfying character to
a wide straight avenue. Moreover, anj' one
who will drive up either Fell or Oak street
on either side of our avenue on a windy
day and then go inside and follow up its
drive can immediately appreciate what a
grand mistake it would have been to have
adopted the straight-row tree-line form of
development for this parkway, no matter
how much the passage space might have
been divided up in the effort to reduce
width of openings and check the sweep of
winds.
What is true of our Golden Gate park
way, or avenue as it is officially desig
nated, would be true of our intra-county
boulevard, even though the alignment of
one is into the prevailing wind, while that
of the othei will, for the windiest part of
the county, be more nearly across it 3 gen
eral direction. All the long, straight
parts of the proposed new boulevard will
be comparatively bleak and uninviting, in
our climate. Itshould as a general thing,
where practicable, be curved or divided
into short reaches of a few hundred yards
each. Its reservation shoifld not be of
even width. Better to have it a mere
wide-street width for half the way, so it is
not straight in one direction for too great
a length, and then widen out the right of
way sufficiently to admit of a curved road
way within its limits, and the grouping in
masses (not in rows) of trees and shrub
bery about it.
In other words, could we have a series of
parkways, say 200 or 300 feet wide, includ
ing drive, ride, cycle-track and walks, each
from one to two miles long, spaced at
intervals of two to four miles apart and
connected with each other by simple, well
kept roads of standard widths, tne whole
extending as an unbroken boulevard way
from terminal to terminal, we would have
the most agreeable and attractive form of
boulevard that could be had within rea
sonable cost in our climate.
Each local, wide parkway would have its
distinctive character, according to its plac
ing and surroundings, and each should
have its name in keeping with that char
acter and with the spirit of tasteful design
pervading the whole.
There should be no Blow avenues, either
in fact or in name, notwithstanding that
some notable Mr. Blow had rendered her
culean service as a Commissioner to spend
the funds for the improvement; nor should
there be any Lammond Common, even
though some honorable Mr. Lammond
might yield himself up in the public cause
on the same altar of self-sacrifice.
It is possible to make a most unique, and
in time, world-famous boulevard, between
here and San Jose, and give it a character
in its original design that will render it ac
ceptabie and pleasurable for all time, even
when it shall have passed under the control
of the average or below the average polit
ical Commissioner; but it will be necessary
to keep this gentleman out at the piart, and
to let broad views, thoughtful study and
good professional taste in landscape art
govern in the choosing of route, location,
design and original construction.
Could this be done, and the property
owners, as a rule, along the line be in
duced to comport their grounds— planting,
under some general professional guidance,
to the local idea of treatment in the boule
vard itself, we might look forward to a
result that has not been and cannot be
attained elsewhere. For, while our cli
mate forbids palmetto or paulownia shaded
avenues as ta the Carolina*, or those em
bowered in elms or maples as in Connecti
cnt, or those walled-in stately planes as in
France, or ennobled by grand old oaks as
in England, we can have landscapes here
which are almost impossible of accomplish
ment outside of our bay region, and which
are not only unique in themselves but
pleasing and acceptable to all who expe
rience their influence.
William Ham Hall.
A Kansas Kobber Caught.
Walter C. Donaldson, ex-assistant Postmaster
at Caldwell.Sumner County. Kansas, is wanted
there on a charge of robbery. The Postmaster
has issued a postal card stating that a liberal
reward will be paid for his arrest. A man of
the same name and answering his description
was caught in Sacramento, and is now trying
to escape on n writ of habeas corpus. In order
to secure him Deputy Marshal Monckion ntid
Postoffice Inspector Gordon left la«st night with
a warrant for his arrest. He will be brought
to Kan Francisco, and from here forwarded to
Kansas.
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Food raised by the Royal Baking Powder
may be eaten hot, even by dyspeptics, with
impunity. | Hot bread, biscuits, hot cakes,
muffins, crusts, puddings, etc., are made
by its use perfectly wholesome.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, 31 AY 11, 1895.
THE WHALEBACK EVERETT
Better Than a Dime Museum or
Marine Midway Is the
Sea Freak.
LIKE A FLOATING SMOKESTACK
But Her Great Roomy Hold Proves
That She Is Built for Use,
Not Beauty.
The whalebaek City of Everett has been
discharging her cargo of coal at the foot of
Main street for several days and during
that time she has been crowded with
curious visitors. Although this is the sec
ond trip of the nautical freak to this port
she has not before been thrown open to
the public.
The whalebaek is better than a dime
museum. She is an ''educated pig," a
"nine-foot giant" and a "midway plais
ance" all in one. In fact the idea of a pig
THE PEOW OF THE WHALEBACK EVEBETT.
[Sketched for the "Call" by CoulUr.]
' is not far away from her cut, especially
where the long blacK snout protrudes in
! the air. When she is loaded her swine
; like muzzle seems on the point
iof taking a root for clams. But
i when empty, the whole weight of
the machinery and cabin being near
the stern, her nose sticks up over the
water as though she were trying to slide up
; some invisible rainbow and take her place
'. alongside of Jason's old snip in the con
■ stellation of Argo Navis.
The whalebaek seen at a distance strikes
one as being a strange thing to turn loose
;on the water. A big black smokestack,
pointed like a double-ender cigar, lying
horizontally on the surface, a two-story
llat near tne after part that looks so top
heavy that the spectator catches his breath
for fear the round, hog-like hull will roll
over and spill the cottage in the sea.
Seen close by the whalebaek knocks all
Ereconceived ideas nautical from one's
cad. The mind leaps back over the count
less centuries to the prehistoric mariner on
his log. The ark. fresh from the "ap
prentice-hands" of Noah and his sons, was
a fabric of surpassing beauty compared
with the whalebaek. One looks in vain
along this elongated iron pot for some of
the graceful lines that distinguish the
handsome hull of the yacht and clipper.
She is as homely as a tank and as shape
less as a nightmare.
But it is down in her great hold that can
be found the secret of her being. The
wide room space is only broken by the
steel stanchions running vertically and
horizontally through the big apartment.
The whalebaek is built for use, and not for
beauty.
Dr. Parkhurst said relative to reform,
"We can't get along without women."
They insist on Dr. Price's Baking Powder
as munition of war.
WOMAN'S CONGRESS.
I Susan B. Anthony and Many Other Dis
tinguished Persons Will Attend
the Meetings. '
At a recent meeting of the Executive
j Board and the Auxiliary Committee of the
j Woman's Congress Association of the
I Pacific Coast very encouraging reports
! from all the different committees were
I given and letters were received full of en
! thusiasm and telling of delegations who
j are coming to be in attendance upon the
meetings of the Congress. A letter from
i Mayor Sutro was read expressing a deep
; interest in the Congress, and accepting an
j invitation to be present at the opening ses-
I sion, to give an address of welcome on
I behalf of the City to the visiting guests.
Letters have been received from President
! Jordan, President Kellog?, Professor Le
! Conte and many other distinguished liter
| ary and educational men and women, who
are to take part in the Congress.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna
H. Shaw are already on their way to Cali
j fornia. They are to speak in many of the
larger cities en route. The>\ will arrive in
San Francisco on Saturday, the 18th in
stant. The congress will open in Golden
Gate Hall on Monday morning, the 20th.
I Rev. Anna Shaw will preach in the First
I Congregational Church of Oakland on
(Sunday morning, the 19th, and in the
j First Congregational Church of San Fran
i cisco on Sunday evening, the same date,
It will be remembered that Rev. Anna
I Shaw opened the Religious Congress of the
j World's Fair. Many receptions are al
-1 ready planned for these distinguished
I women, both by private individuals and
jby women's clubs of the city. Miss An
-1 thony has worked for women all her life.
She was the first to plead for women as
public school teachers and her strong and
'< vigorous logic has done much for good
j government in all departments of society.
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DEVISADERO STREET'S OLUB.
Five Blocks of That Thoroughfare to Be
Swept by Hand.
* Sixty-four business men of Devisadero
street met and organized the Devisadero
street Improvement Club yesterday.
The following officers were elected by
theclub: H. W. Miller, president; Adolph
j Meyer, vice-president; Frank B. Gibson,
secretary; Thomas H. Shumate, treasurer.
j The club will do for the live blocks of
I Devisadero between Geary and j California
I streets what the Merchants' Association is
j now doing for 7 the downtown streets.
These five blocks will be swept by hand
twice each day, beginning at 4:30 a. m. and
1 P. m. ,- .■•;■: ■■-.. /(,'■
It is also the intention of the club to
have arc liehts suspended at the intersec
tion of Devisadero with Geary. Sutter and
California streets. The club's membership
is not limited to the five blocks mentioned,
but will be extended to any section which
will bear its share of the expenses of the
enterprise.
COLLEQES CONSOLIDATE.
The University of the Pacific, at San
Jose, and >'apa College Incor
porate as One.
The new articles of incorporation and
consolidation of the Napa Coliege with the
University of the Pacific, at College Park,
I San Jose, will go into effect in a few days.
The two institutions will then be under the
control of a board of thirty-six trustees.
The joint property of the consolidated
institutions will amount to estates valued
at $250,000 with an endowment of $50,000.
Only $8000 is lacking in subscription to
cover the debt of $50,000.
"Our annual meeting should have taken
place last week," said Dr. Beard yesterday,
| "but we waited for an amendment, which
I was made last March, to go into effect, as
' it enables us to handle the property more
! easily. At its session in 189, i the Legisia
i ture passed a general law authorizing,
■ under certain conditions, the consolida
: tion of educational institutions, and though
| this law was amended last March, the
! amendment only took effect the day be
fore yesterday, it facilitates the transfer
of property from the old institutions to
the consolidated institutions."
Last September, the conference of the
If. E. church, realizing that it would be
better for the two colleges to be under the
same management, took steps for having
the same fifteen men elected to serve on
both boards, so that practically they have
been consolidated since that date. The
new corporation calls for a bourd of thirty
six trustees. Those who have so far ac
cepted the appointments are:
Messrs. C". H. Afflerbaek, F. D. Bovard, M. D.
Buck, Thomas Fllbin, R. G. Hart, J. Loiter, E.
D. McCreary, A. H. Needhara, C. B. Perkins, S.
M. Tool, E. R. Willis, J. 0. Zuck, E. R. Dille, S.
C. Evans, H. B. Heacock, S. E. Holdon, F. F.
Jewell, Alfred Kummer, Eli McClish, L. J. Nor
ton, I. J- Truman, J. A. Percy, R. V. Watt. T. H.
Woodward, J- N. Beard, H. \V. Bland, J. Coyle,
E. P. Denneti, K. French, J. W. Grigsby, I). A.
Hayes, R. Husband.
It is believed that in the near future the
two colleges will be incorporated under one
roof, but no steps will be taKen toward
that end till the debt is entirely paid off.
Dr. Price's Baking Powder as delivered
in homes is of the same supreme quality
that entitled it to highest honors at the
World's Fair.
ON THE WATER FRONT
The Long Overdue Norwegian
Ship Fjeld Given Up for
Lost.
The Triton's Derelict Supposed to
Have Been the Missing
Vessel.
The Norwegian ship Fjeld. bound from
Grimsby for San Diego, is now out 206
days and the local underwriters are of the
opinion that the vessel has been lost.
Within the past few days reinsurance on
the ship has been increased to 90 per cent
by the London underwriters, and very
few vessels have ever been heard from
after such a high figure has been offered.
The Fjeld sailed from Grimsby on Oc
tober 17, passed Dover ten days later, and
sailed from Portland, England, November
20. She had on hand a cargo of Kiverton
Park coal, which is said to be highly in
flammable.
The last seen of the Fjeld was twenty
miles south of Cape Horn. This was on
January 19, at which time she was in com
pany with the British ship Moresby. Tne
latter arrived here on March 30 and re
ported having met the Fjeld. On the day
the Moresby arrived here the German
bark Triton reached Honolulu from Liver
pool. She reported having sighted, in
latitude 10 deg. south and longitude 113
deg. west, an abandoned iron vessel on
which there wore no signs of life. The
captain of the Triton said that he thought
the vessel had been a four-master, al
though he could not tell for certain as
there were no spars standing.
It is thought by the local underwriters
that the derelict was the Fjeld. Besides
the latter there are only two vessels suffi
ciently overdue to warrant any feeling of
apprehension for their safety. One ot
these is the British ship Falls of Dee,
bound from Liverpool for San Francisco,
and the other is the British ship Chrys
omene, ninety days out from Newcastle,
N. S. AW, for this port. The Falls of Dee
is 153 days out, and she might have been
in the position in which the Triton's dere
lict was seen. The Chrysomene might
possibly have been driven that far east
ward, but those who are posted think not.
Eight per cent reinsurance has been offered
on the Falls of Dee and 5 per cent on the
Chrysomene.
The underwriters are complaining of the
want of judgment on the part of the Tri
ton's captain in not making a closer ob
servation of the derelict and ascertaining
her identity.
The sloop Cyclone sailed yesterday after
noon for the southern coast of California,
Japan and Bering Sea on a sealing cruise.
The vessel was formerly owned by Captain
yon Schmidt of the California Yacht Club,
but was sold a few months ago to Captain
Morris, who took her out. Up to the time
of the vessel's clearance her destination
was shrouded in mystery. From the re
marks of Captain Morris she was bound to
nearly every quarter on the globe. The
captain is accompanied by his wife.
The schooner Laura May, which was run
down by the schooner Beulah in March
last, is having a new mizzenmast put in
her at Main-street wharf.
The unequaled strength of the Royal, as
certified by the highest baking-powder au
thorities, makes it the cheapest to use,
even at a higher price than others.
SEVEN YEARS FOR FLOOD
The Embezzling Cashier of the
Donohoe- Kelly Bank
Sentenced.
HE SAID, "I AM NOT GUILTY."
Judge Wallace Failed to See Any
Mitigating Circumstances
Whatever.
There was a big crowd in Judge Wal
lace's courtroom yesterday morning to
witness the passing of sentence upon
John W. Flood for embezzlement in his
capacity of cashier for the Donohoe-Kelly
bank. The specific charge was altering
the records of a corporation by making it
appear that the estate of Delia Hope had
drawn $40,000 on a check, when no such
paper had passed through the bank. The
prisoner was represented by Carroll Cook,
and General W. H. L. Barnes appeared as
special counsel for the prosecution.
The court having denied a motion by the
prisoner's counsel for arrest of judgment
on statutory grounds, Carroll Cook made
a plea for leniency. He represented that
Flood, although tried twice, was practi
cally unconvicted. and up to his arrest
had stood high in the community. The
false entry, if it had been made by the
prisoner, had not been made in one of the
regular books of the bank, but in a mem
orandum-blotter. At any rate, he claimed,
the fault was a misdemeanor, and could
be construed by the court either as that or
a felony. As a misdemeanor the sentence
for conviction was one year in the County
Jail or $500 fine, or at the discretion of the
court the penalty might be made not less
than three nor more than ten years' im
prisonment in the penitentiary.
The court said that he knew nothing
about the previous character of Flood, or
the defense that he only made the entry to
conceal a past transaction. Technically,
the making of the entry was fraud under
the law.
Attorney W. H. L. Barnes stated that
the offense for which John W. Flood was
to receive sentence was a very serious one.
It practically amounted to the embezzle
ment of $167,000. He had no right to any
special consideration. He had been made
a partner and stockholder in the bank, put
ting in nothing but his integrity, which
had been found to be a pretense.
"If this prisoner had confessed his fault
to Mr. Donohoe," continued the counsel,
"that old man who shed tears in court at
being required to testify against one he
loved like his own boys, would have put
his arms round him and said, 'Well, John,
we'll do what we can.' But Donohoe is
dead and Flood is liviug; it would have
been better had this been reversed.
"I don't want to 3ee this man sent to
wear the devilish livery of San Quentin, but
at the Mime time I cannot ask your Honor
to treat this as a bagatelle. Don't say to
the young men of this mercantile com
munity, riddled as it is with frauds of this
nature: 'Pteal $l»>7,000, falsify records,
and Judge Wallace will only send you to
the County Jail for six months, as if you
had been" engaged in a brawl.' I don't
want my pound of flesh, but leave the
matter to your Honor on the facts."
The court asked the prisoner whether he
had anything to say why sentence should
not be passed upon him.
Flooa, who stood close to the bench, eaid
twice, "I am not, guilty."
The court said that in refusing to plead
the prisoner had placed nimseif in the
position of not being able to gainsay the
charge, and must be held guilty. He then
reviewed the offense, which, in a mercan
tile community, he considered particularly
heinous. Flooa was an elderly man, and
knew what he was doing. In his discretion
he would impose the sentence of seven
years' imprisonment in San Quentin.
Cook made a fight for a slay of execution
aud a writ of probable cause. Both were
denied by the court, and the prisoner was
removed in the custody of the Sheriff.
WANT NO STEAM OARS.
South San Francisco Property-Owners
Protest Against Any Fran
chise.
The property -owners of South San Fran
cisco are protesting against the granting of
a franchise to the San Joaquin Valley
Railroad along Railroad avenue. Six
copies of a petition were circulated yester
day for signatures. The intention is to
present it to the Board of Supervisors
Monday.
In the language of the petition, Railroad
avenue ''is the main and in fact the only
thoroughfare through that section of the
City, and should by all means be used only
for streetcar and general traffic purposes."
The reason for the protest is given as fol
lows:
For a distance of eighteen blocks it has been
graded, sewered and paved at a heavy expense,
and steps have already been taken to improve
said avenue through to the County line, which,
when completed, will Rive a broad and easy
entrance to the City from San Mateo County
and will afford the citizens of San Francisco a
delightful and picturesque drive into the coun
try along the shore line of the bay.
Among the first signers were Dr. David
B.'Todd, for himself and the Masonic Hall
Association, of which he is the agent, and
Lovell White, cashier of the San Francisco
Savings Union, which is a large property
owner there, and donated $06,000 to the
Valley road. Dr. M. A. McLaughlin and
John Puckhaber also put down their
names early in the day. Dr. Todd said :
It was the intention to extend the improve"
ments along Railrocd avenue to the Five-mile
House this rummer and that would have been
done but for the Valley road's application for a
franchise. The Crocker, Hudson and Hearst
estate:-; were all eager for the street improve
ments to go on. The railroad could run from
China Basin along Illinois street to First
avenue, thence along First avenue to India
Basin, thenre along H street to the County
line, tunneling under the hill, or it could go
by way of t lie marsh.
A request is to be made to Superintend
ent Vining of the Market-street Railway
Company, asking for the horsecars to be
again put on Fifteenth avenue to the San
Bruno road, "as a matter of mutual bene
fit." It 19 signed H. Crummy, G. McCon
nell, Wflliam J. P. Warner, John Paraille,
H. M. C. Mangels, H. F. Roskamp, D. D.
Harrington, W.*W. Leve:ne, August Briel,
David Dodge, Philip Zimmerman, John
Puckhaber, and a great many others.
Electric alarms at the South San Fran
cisco police station and engine-house are
being put in by the two Catholic orphan
asyiums at considerable expense. Incase
of fire they would thus obtain assistance in
a very short time. Police Sergeant Ros
kamp could be on hand with his gig in
Jess than ten minutes from the time an
alaim was sent in.
Doctors warn against alum baking pow
ders as injurious, and advise use of Dr.
Price's.
FROM THE POTRERO,
Turning Boilers Into Bcrap Iron — Col
lided With an Electric Car.
Other News.
The boilers which have been taken out
of the steamer Columbia, now on the ways
at the Union Iron Works, furnished a
number of workmen with some pretty
warm labor yesterday. A contractor has
undertaken to turn the boilers into a good
quality of scrap iron for $3 50 per ton.
Each of the boilers weighs about forty
tons. By way of making a good stroke of
business" he has sublet the work to some
local vulcans for $60 per boiler. The men
found it an intensely hot job during the
day and kept "peterfng out."
One of Miller & Lux's four-horse teams
I collided with an electric car at the corner
| of Kentucky and Nevada streets on Thurs
day afternoon. By some mishap one of
the lead lines slipped from Driver Taylor's
lianas as he was going out to Butchertown,
and when the car came along he was una
ble to wheel his horses away from it. One
of the lead horses had to be shot, and the
same fate may meet the other. The car
was very badly damaged.
Contractor William Hollis, who has heen
putting in the Army-street tilling from
lowa to Kentucky streets, has not been
able to avoid leaving in a bad condition
the box sewer which Ohland & Buck put
in about a year ago. Property-owners are
complaining, and say a proper culvert
should be added to the improvements there.
The Alaska steamer Queen, now at the
Broadway dock, being painted up, is to go
on the ways at the Union Iron Works about
June 5, if it is possible to finish the Colum
bia in time. There is to be a general over
hauling of the Queen's gearing.
MISSING PEOM HIS EOME.
Strange Disappearance of an Uphols
terer Last Friday Morning.
A. F. M. Terry, an upholsterer living at
229 Eighth street, has been missing from
his home since Friday morning last. On
that date he left home intending to go
down to his shop to work. His tools are
still there, but it is evident he has not yet
reached the shop. His friends have re
ported his disappearance to the police, and
they are looking for him, but in the mean
time his wife is left in almost destitute
circumstances.
The missing man is about 40 years old,
5 feet 8 inches tall, and has dark hair and
mustache. No reason for his disappear
ance haa been found.
TRACING STELLA HUGHES
She Fainted on Market Street
the Afternoon of Her Dis
appearance.
Last Seen Walking Toward Seventh
Street In Care of a Mysterious
Couple.
The police are slowly tracing Miss Stella
Hughes, who mysteriously disappeared on
Thursday of last week. Their most recent
information leads them to believe that she
fainted on Market street, between Sixth
and Seventh, about 4:15 o'clock of the
day she disappeared and was cared for
by a man and woman, who, after she par
tially recovered, walked wilh her along
Market street in the direction of Seventh.
The missing girl was noticed at that time
by Mrs. E. N. Harris, who tells the follow
ing story :
I was walking with a companion along Mar
ket street between 4 o'clock and 4:30 o'clock
that afternoon when we noticed a lady who
seemed to be just recovering from a fainting
spell. She was of medium height, oval face,
very light blue eyes and very pale.
When we first caw her she was lying on the
steps of a new building on the south side of
the street, but as we watched she seemed to re
cover, and, rising, walked off with a man and
woman who supported her on either side. The
man was short, slight and dark complexioned.
He had biack hair. The woman was older than
the man.
The sick girl wore a large hat, a fur cape and
a skirt of a peculiar bluish gray material. I
noticed the skirt particularly, because it had
become 60iled when she was on the steps.
A sample of the material of the dress
worn by Miss Hughes when she left her
home was shown to Mrs. Harris, and she
declared that it was identical with that
worn by the fainting girl she saw that
Thursday afternoon.
Dr. Price's Baking Powder, by creating
wholesome food, renders life endurable to
many tormented by dyspepsia.
MEMORIAL DAY.
S. M. Shortridge to Deliver the Oration
at the Presidio.
George H. Thomas Post No. 2, Grand
Army of the Republic, Memorial Day com
mittee held its weekly meeting at the Union
League Club rooms yesterday afternoon.
Present Chairman J. C. Currie, Horace
Wilson, W. R. Parnell, Joseph Simonson,
and Charles H. Blinn secretary.
Announcement was made, that S. M.
Shortridge had accepted the invitation
to deliver the oration at the Presidio Na
tional Cemetery. The Fifth United States
Artillery band of twenty-seven pieces will
furnish music. Mrs. B. W. Paxton, a
well-known soloist, will sing the "Battle
Hymn of the Republic," in which fifty
young ladies from the High School will
join in the chorus. Nellie HolbrooK Blinn
will read a poem written for her for the
occasion by John Vance Cheney, entitled
"The Fallen." Rev. Dr. A. C. Hirst will
deliver the invocation.
Colonel R. H. Warfield has accepted an
invitation to act as grand marshal, and
Colonel J. Murray Bailey will have charge
of the decorating of the 1200 graves in the
National plat. General Graham and the
troops at the Presidio will act as escort to
the post. It is expected Governor Budd
and Department Commander Charles E.
Wilson of the G. A. R. will be present.
If some people went as far to meet their
bills as they do to meet trouble, there
would not be so much debt in the world. —
Atchison Globe.
ACUTE DYSPEPSIA.
Sympathetic Heart Disease
Often Attends It.
From the Republican, Cedar Rapids, lowa.
Mrs. V. Curley, who has resided in Clarence,
lowa, for the past twenty-two years, tells an in
teresting story of what she considers rescue
from premature death. Her narrative is as
follows:
"For ten years prior to 1894 I was a constant
sufferer from acute stomach trouble. I had all
the manifold symptoms of acute dyspepsia and
at times other troubles were present in compli
cation; I did not know what it was to enjoy a
meal. No matter how careful I might be as to
the quality, quantity and preparation of my
food, distress always followed eating. I was de
spondent and blue, almost to the point of in
sanity at times and would have been glad to
die. "Often and often I could not sleep. Sym
pathetic heart trouble set in and time and
again I was obliged to call a doctor in the
night to relieve sudden attacks of suffocation
which would come on without a moment's
warning.
"My troubles increased as time wore on and
I spent large sums in doctor bills, being com
pelled to have medical attendants almost con
stantly. During 1892 and 1893 it was impos
sible for me to retain food, and water brashes
plagued me. I was reduced to a skeleton. A
consultation of physicians was unable to de
termine just what did ail me. The doctors
gave us as their opinion that the probable
trouble was ulceration of the coats of the
stomach and held out no hope of recovery.
One doctor said. 'All I can do to relieve your
suffering is by the use of opium.'
About this time a friend of mine, Mrs.
Symantha Smith of Glidden, lowa, told me
about the case of Mrs. Thurston, of Oxford
Junction, lowa. This lady said she had been
afflicted much the same as I had. She had con
sulted local physicians without relief, and had
gone to Davenport for treatment. Giving up
all hop* of recovery, she was persuaded By a
friend to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The re
sult was almost magical.
I was led to try them from her experience,
and before many months I felt better than I
had for a dozen years. lam now almost free
from trouble, and if through some error of diet
I feel badly, this splendid remedy sets me right
again. I have regained my strength and am
once more in my usual flesh. I sleep well and
can eat without distress. I have no doubt
that I owe my recovery to Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills. I only wish that I had heard of them
years ago, thereby saving myself ten years of
suffering and much money."
Dr. Williams' Pink Fills contain all the ele
ments necessary to give new life and richness
to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They
are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by
mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company,
chenectody, N. V., for 50c per box, or six
boxes for $2 50.
A GHASTLY FACE
It Glides to and From Yon Weirdly.
Yon Hate to Look bnt Must.
A SINGULAR PHENOMENON.
You Don't Want to Do Just Ex
actly What You Know You Are
Doing— ls It a bpell?
Perchance you have seen, as I did yesterday,
the friend of your youth, your bosom friend —
now a mere shadow— his face was ghastly. I
tried to keep my eyes from his countenance, I
wanted to hug him, I wanted to tell him now
glad I was to see him, but his face was for
bidding. Sorrow rose to my heart— the big
lump up in my throat almost gave him a clew
of my true feelings— poor felloe— he is the vic
tim—well, why dwell on the unhappy.
Sadly thinking upon the condition of ray
friend I went to the office— saying, I must go to
work now. Columns must be made ready
whether one's friend be sick or well. Turning
over the sheets of the various letters which had
piled up in my absence, I ran across this letter.
It reads thus:
Gentlemen: I am compelled to thank you all
for what has been done for my case. I have
been a chronic sufferer for years. I had tried
the various different remedies advised and ad
vertised. None did me any good. As a last
resort I took Joy's Vegetable Sursaparilla. My
life is saved. The sense of fullness after eat
ing, the bloating, the belching up of gases, the
palpitation of the heart, the all-gone let ling
have entirely disappeared. lam satisfied Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparilla cured me. I was con
stipated for yeßrs; nothing did me any perma
nent good until I took Joy's Vegetable Sarsa
parilla. lam so glad I refused a substitute
and took Joy's Vegetable Sarsapftrilla.
Willows, Cal. Thomas J. McFarland.
So, said I, there is some good to be done.
This wonderful California product is certainly
gaining friends every day.
IT HAS
KEPT US
BUSY.
The demand for Tan Shoes has been bit;— ln fact,
larger than we ever expected. This nek we have
received our entire stock of Summer Shoes, both
in tan and black, embracing all the late and pretty
shapes.
THE SAME LOW PRICES ALWAYS
PREVAIL.
Men's $2 50 Calf Shoes That Are Right,
In tan and black, and all style toes.
These Shoes are shapely faultless fitters, and are
only to be compared with Shoes you have been
paying double the prices we ask.
That Alt Solid Child's Dollar Shoe
IN TAN AND BLACK,
Made on new perfect-fitting lasts and warranted to
give the utmost satisfaction.
Sizes 7 to 10y 3 $100
Sizes 11 to 2 125
Those Stylish One Dollar Tan Oxfords.
Their equal Is yet to be found. Made In two
styles only, the new narrow square and the stylish
pointed toe, all sizes and widths.
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Our new illustrated catalogue seat free, postpaid, to
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i ' Dr. McNulty's methods are regular and scien-
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tBT Beware of strangers who try to talk to yoa
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