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A CONTRACTING COMBINE.
How Fortunes Are Being
Filched From Tax-
Payers.
MCDONALD'S FIGURES TESTED.
A Fair Field for Competing: Con
tractors Must Be Secured to
Prevent Fraud.
i_ . _
The Call's expose of the monopoly that
was to be fostered by the innocent-looking
order passed by the Solid Eight of the
Board of Supervisors providing specifica
tions for the laying of bituminous rock re
sulted, it will be remembered, in a public
discussion of its merits before the Mayor,
and as a result of that discussion the
Mayor vetoed the order.
Then the same order was introduced as
a resolution, was adopted, the veto mes
sage of the Mayor ignored and it now
stands on the books as law. Under the op
eration of that resolution the Santa Cruz
Rock Paving Company has a monopoly of
the bituminous rock business so far as the
City streets are concerned.
The City Street Improvement Company
and the San Francisco Paving Company
are "in" on the deal with the Santa Cruz
Rock Paving Company.
They form a combine under the protec
tion of the Solid Eight of the Board of
Supervisors, under which the cost of
street- pa has gone away up; the law
which requires that all work for the City
shall be advertised and let to the highest
bidder is wholly ignored, and in every in
stance where the size of the contract is
worth speaking about the Superintendent
of Streets is "directed to enter into pri
vate contract" with one or the other of
them.
In a statement before the Street Com
mittee of the Board of Supervisors on
Thursday, concerning the street work on
Van Ness avenue, J. W. McDonald, presi
dent of the City Street Improvement Com
pany, and Austin Walratb, president and
manager of the Santa Cruz Rock Paving
Company, made the iniquity of the work
ings of this combination particularly clear.
to eet th« full force of these statements
it should be understood that Van Ness
avenue is an "accepted street." That is to
say, the street work has once been done
and approved by the City. Streets are im
proved originally at the expense of the
property-owners. But once the street is
p aved, all the work done, and the City ac
cepts it, then, under the law, the City !
must keep it in repair without further ex
pense to the property-owners.
Van Ness avenue was macadamized : it I
was not satisfactory to the property- 1
owners; it is dusty; the people complained , J
and the last Board of Supervisors agreed,
under the circumstances, that the City
should pay half the cost of paving this
finest thoroughfare in the City with bitu
minous rock. The property-owners readily
assented. The rock was to be laid on the
macadam under special specifications.
The board — that is, the old board — pub
lished the specifications as required by
law — for this lead-pine-cinch-bituminous
rock-combine had not yet been organized
and the forms of law were reasonably well
observed.
Following were the bids:
"Warren & M:tll«y (for the City's
half) 5 Cents
Sauta Cruz Ruck Paving: Company...
10% Cents
J. T. BtcCrossan 14 Cents
City Street lini*rovemei>t Company..
; 14 l A Cents
The Call has told the story of how that j
contract was juggled. "Warren & Malley
bid for only the City's half, which was not
the thing to do. For that their bid was
not considered, although it was on a basis
of 10 cents for the whole work.
The Santa Cruz Rock Paving Company
was the lowest bidder. But the McCrosson
bid had a bond attached, providing that
under it the street would be kept in repair
for seven years. it was deemed that this
was a very valuable feature and the con
tract was let to McCrossan.
Mr. McCrossan straightway assigned
the contract to the Santa Cruz Rock Pav
ing Company for a "consideration." The
consideration was a division of the re
ceipts on the contract above the iO!< cents
bid by Mr. Walratb. That is to say Mr. Wal
rath got 1% cents per square foot more on
the job than he would had his own bid
been accepted and Mr. McCro?soc got 1%
cents for — for having made a successful
play before the board.
This contract was for paving five blocks—
from California to Pacific streets. Only
one block was paved. Then the contract
was apparently allowed to pans. The new
board came in with its Solid Eight, the
bituminous rock monopoly was formed,
and the .Superintendent of Streets was
'•directed" by this Solid Eight to "enter
into a private contract" with the Santa
Cruz Kock Paving Company for the paving
of live blocks and with the City Street Im
provement Company for rive blocks more.
These companies had, of course, secured
the contracts from the property-owners
for their half of the work. What figures
the property-owners agreed to pay is not
stated. It will be seen that no bids were
called for. The Solid Eight claim that 11
cents was established as the proper lijrnre
by the previous contract. This, regardless
of the fact that the man who bid 10% cents
was doing the work.
The law requires that all work let by the
City shall be advertised and given to the
lowest bidder, but that made no difference
with the Solid Eight.
Now comes J. W. McDonald of the City
Street Improvement Company and ex
plains that he figures this bond feature of
the contract at 2.1 cents and that he is
only making a profit of V/ z cents per
square foot.
For a difference of 2.1 cents, then, the
contract was taken away from Mr. Wal
rath, who bid 10% cents last September,
and given to McCrossan, who bid 14 cents.
Then McCrossan sold it back to Walrath
for a percentage of 1% cents a foot. Then
Walrath. having the influence of McDonald
in getting jobs through the board, stops
doing the work, drops McCrossan and they
(McDonald and Walrath) taKe the 14 cents
straight, by consent of the majority of the
board, which, without calling for bids,
directs the Superintendent of Streets to
enter into a private contract with them.
This is done despite the ; fact that the
Jordan Bituminous Rock Company makes
a formal offer, backed by a bond, to do the
work for 11 cents a square foot.
That is the story of Van Ness avenue.
The story of Fell "street, along the pan
handle of the park, from Baker to Stan
yan, is even more remarkable in its way. '
A resolution passed the board directing
the Superintendent of Streets to enter into
one of those private contracts with the
City Street Improvement Company, etc. by
which the City was bound to pay 23%
cents a square" foot for the paving and 85
cents a lineal foot for curbing.
The Jordan Bituminous Rock Company,
which is not in the combine, seeing this,
sent the .following letter to the board : r
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors of
the City and County of San Francisco: We re
spectfully call the attention of your honor
able board to the fact that the public conven
ience requires the paving of Oak 6treet, from
Baker to Stanyan, with bituminous rock.
We hereby agree to perform the City's por
tion of said work at the following prices: For
laying granite curbs, per lineal foot, 70 cents;
for paving with bituminous rock, per square
foot, 20 cents.
We respectfully petition your honorable
board to adopt a resolution authorizing the
Superintendent of Streets to enter into a con
tract with as for the performance of said work
at the above named prices. Respectfully,
JORbAN BITLMIKOUS ROCK AM> PAVING CO.,
James C. Joedan, President.
• Of course this communication was simply
placed on tile, but knowledge of it came to
the ears of the property-owners on Fell
street, which is parallel along the other
side of the panhandle. They saw that they
were being charged an exorbitant price,
and they set up a loi.d and persistent pro
test insomuch that the work could not be
done, and the resolution was repealed.
A little time passes, and these same
property-owners troop before the Street
Committee of the board, and say it was all
a mistake— they want the work done.
The Street Committee is accommodation
itself in such a matter, for four of its five
members are of the Solid Eight. They
recommended that the resolution of repeal
be repealed, and at the last meeting of the
board that was done. That meant that
the work goes on.
What caused this sudden change of heart
on the part of the property-owners.'
A man up a tree could easily guess that
the agents of these paving companies had
visited them and agreed to tax them for
their half of the work at a much lower
figure.
In consideration of this the property
owners withdraw their objections, the
private contract is let and the City is
cinched for an exorbitantly high rate. It
will be understood that the City here pays
half the assessment because these streets
bound City property.
Here there had been no previous bid to
"establish the rate." The rate was estab
lished by the contractors themselves. No
bids were called for. These contractors
simply went before the board as they went
before private property-owners and said,
"We offer to do this work for so much
THE SHIP RAPHAEL AS SHE WAS DRIVEN ASHORE WITH HER THREE ANCHORS DRAGQIN9.
money" — taking care that there was plenty
of profit — and the majority of the board
directed the Superintendent of Streets to
enter into the contract— all of which is
directly and defiantly and outrageously
contrary to the law.
The portion of this work to be assessed
to the City is 40,000 square feet. The
figures at which the Jordan company
offers to do proportionately the ?arae work
is just $1894 40 less than the City volun
tarily pays the City Street Improvement
Company. For a little stretch of street
like that it is quite a sum. It indicates a
vast amount that is being and is to be paia
to this combine above tue legitimate fig
ures for which this work should bo done.
There will be $300,000 or $.500,000 of the
City's money paid out next year for street
work of this character, and it the people
stand by it will be portioned out among
the individuals of this airtight combine
about in the proportion indicated.
What are the people going to do about it?
THE CHINESE BUTCHERS
They Can Neither Buy From
Nor Sell to White Dealers
Any More.
A Fight In That Direction Has Been
Begun by the Butchers' Board
of Trade.
The butchers have taken up the fight
against Chinese who are engaged In the
trade in earnest. In future no member of
the union can buy from or sell to a Celes
tial, under pain of a fine of $50 for the first
offense and expulsion from the Board of
Trade for a repetition of the act.
The following circular has been sent to
nearly every wholesale and retail butcher
in San Francisco:
To the Jfesttera "/ the Butcher*' Board of Trade—
Gentlkkzv: You nre hereby notified of the
adoption of the following resolution, by a
unanimons vote, at the regular meeting, held
Tuesday evening. July 23, 1595. .Said resolu
tion to go into effect on and after Monday,
July 29, 1895: , ._
Resolved, That no beef, mutton or veal be
sold to the Chinese beef butchers, except for
Chinese consumption, arid further that no
member of this Boßrd of Trade be allowed to
purchase meats from snid Chinese beef butch
er!". Sam C. Hammo.su. President.
B. J. Horn, Secretary.
The fieht against the Chinese butchers
began in the Board of Trade nearly nine
months ago. At that time Arruand De
courtieux Jr. sounded the note of alarm,
but the motion to fight the Mongolians
'was voted down, as the butchers had other
and more important contests on hand.
Decourtieux stuck to his point, however,
and insisted that it would only be a few
months before the Chinese would become
so aggressive that action would have to be
taken.
Time has shown that Mr. Decourtieux
was correct. The Chinese combined and
worting together at prohibitive rates, they
have succeeded in capturing a considerable
portion of the city's trade. Butchers'
wagons from Nob Hill, the Western Addi
tion, the Mission, North Beach and South
of Market street can be seen daily in China
town, between the hours of 5 and 7 a. m.
Hind quarters, fore quarters and carcasses
can be purchased fro"m the Chinese from a
quarter of a cent to a cent a pound less
than from a white butcher. A great deal
of the stuff is from old cows and worn-out
bullocks, but the Chinese have no diffi
culty in disposing of it, and their principal
customers are said to be American citizens.
Again, an American retail butcher has
no difficulty in disposing of the fore quar
ters of a bullock, but the demand for the
hina quarters is limited. These he has
been in the habit of selling to a Chinese at
a reduction, and the latter resells it to
some other white butcher who happens to
want that kind of meat. This is all to be
stopped, however. The Butchers' Board
of Trade has absolutely prohibited its
members from dealing with Chinese, un
less in meats that are for Chinese con
sumption. As they control nine-tenths of
the entire trade of San Francisco, the
movement will be a death-blow to the
butchering industry in Chinatown. The
new rule will be vigorously enforced, and
the butchers confidently assert that no
Chinatown meat will in future find its way
into the homes of American citizens.
Moving Into New Quarters.
The State Board of Horticulture, which has
occupied quarters at 220 Sutler street (or sev
eral years past, will remove within a few days
to more commodious apartments in the MiUs
building. The change was made necessary by
the increasing business of the board, which
rendered the old quarters inadequate. Ihe
new offices will be handsomely equipped and
much better calculated to accommodate visi
tors from the Interior than those now occupied.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1895.
WRECK OF THE RAPHAEL
She Drags Three Anchors
and Goes Ashore in a
Fierce Gale.
BROKEN UP ON THE BEACH.
How Louis Gomez, a Sailor Board
lnar-House-Keeper, Collects
His Money.
Word has been received by Captain A. Z.
Trask, managing owner of the ship Ra
phael, that the vessel went ashore in a gale
at Tanglefoot Bay, near Karluk, Alaska,
, July 7, and is a total loss. The officers and
! crew were saved, but it was only by the
i greatest struggle, climbing along a rope
hand-over-hand through the surf.
The Raphael left this port April 24 under
! charter of the Alaska Packers' Association
j loaded with cannery supplies. Sho was
i under command of Captain Albert Whit
j ney. While lying at anchor, about a mile
j from shore, July <J, the wind began to blow
I with great force. Additional chain was let
out and she hung to her moorings till
morning, when she began to drift. Two
! other anchors were let. go, which, with 140
I fathoms of chain, made a total of over
! 35,000 pounds of metal dragging on the
| bottom. Heavy seas washed over the ship,
! wrecking everything about the decks, and
the masts threatened to go by the board.
She kept moving toward the beach.
A line was got to the land a few mo
ments before the vessel struck, and the
Raphael was a mass of bronen wreckage in
! a short time. All hands made their
escape to the shore by the line, which
parted, caused by the breaking up of the
vessel, soon after Captain Whitney
reached the beach.
She had on board 7100 cases of salmon,
valued at $30,000, belonging to the Alaska
Packing Association. The vessel was built
at Catnden, Maine, in 1875, and was valued
at about $30,000.
Captain Whitney and a portion of the
crew will return to San Francisco by the
. steamer Uniatilla. The same gale wrecked
the steam tender Annie May and another
small craft owned by the association.
Thursday night Louis Gomez, a sailor
boarding-house keeper, was arrested and
charged with grand larceny, upon the
complaint of James Castro. Gomez waited
at the Ship-owners' Association's shipping
office till Castro, who was in debt to him,
had received his wages, $20. During a
quarrel over the settlement, the boarding
house keeper crabbed some of Castro's
money, and started away with it. The
two men had a fight, in which Castro
fared badly a second time.
A DISSATISFIED MILITIA
Numerous Changes Among
the Companies Not Well
Received.
Some Say a Political Significance
Lurks In the Back
ground.
The board of location has clone its work.
After weeks of investigation, during which
the corujmnies of this City have been
shivering in apprehension, the local
organizations of the jruard have been left
i practically as they were before— that is, all j
i but the Naval Battalion. That organiza
tion, the weakling of the guard, and the
branch for which each member of the
board has expressed the most profound ad
miration, has been shorn of one of its com
panies, and out of th 3 three it had in San
Francisco has been made to bear all the
burden of the local military economy.
Company B of the Naval Battalion will
be ordered to consolidate with Companies
D and C. It is the pioneer company of
naval militia in the West, and so far has
had a clean record. Company Aof the
First Regiment will be ordered into the
Third Regiment, and to take the place of
the company thus moved, these will be
added to the First, the company from
Eureka.
The Seconi Artillery will be allowed to
remain as it is now, no changes being
made at present. Those are all ihe local
changes. In the interior the Stockton
Signal Corps will be mustered out, and the
corps at Sacramento will be made larger.
The order, when issued, will contain a
little joker which is causing no end of con
sternation among such officers as
hear of it. It' states that next
January all companies which cannot
show an average attendance at drill of fifty
men will be mustered out. This the line
officers say means the end of the guard if
the order is carried out, for reports for
years back do not show anything like an
average attendance of fifty men on drill
I nights. Thirty, thirty-rive and forty is
! nearer the mark, but fifty is unheard of.
Company B of the Naval Battalion is not
to be really mustered out; it is to be con
i solidated. ' To the California Guardsman
i to be consolidated is an entirely new cx
i perience. The men of Company B will be
; assigned to the other companies, accord
ing to the dictates of the lieutenant
commander and Colonel James, the in
specting officer. The officers of the three
City companies of the battalion, according
to the statements made by Adjutant
! General Barrett last evening, will then be
investigated and the best ones will be
assigned to the two remaining companies.
As for the officers who are left out— the
Guard has but cold comfort for them.
According to the adjutant-general n >
discharges will be granted to those mem
ber* who do not want to undergo the
process of consolidation. "They are under
the orders of the commander-in-chief," he
said, "and if he orders the men transferred
to other commands they must go just as
they do in the regular army."
The guardsmen elect ;heir own officers,
however, and the question arises, can they
be made to perform involuntary service
under officers whom they do not elect.
General Barrett says they can.
"We have done the best we could for the
guard," said General Barrett, "and have
mustered out only such companies as we
thought could be spared. We have left
the regimental formations intact, and to
do this we have transferred Company A of
the First to the Third, of which regiment
it was originally a part. The officers
will go with it, and the men, we
expect, will follow the officers. As
for the company dropped from the
Naval Battalion, it is not mustered
out, but is simply merged into the
other two. The officers of that company
| will have to stand their chances of appoint
j ment to commissions in the two remain
ing companies. It will rest with Colonel
James and Lieutenant-Commander Stahl
' to select the officers, of course with the
approval of the Governor."
The reported transfer of Company A has
had a most demoralizing effect upon its
membership, as it is one of the largest and
richest in the State. It is flatly asserted that
politics is at the bottom of the transfer,
i and that Company A was selected because
its membership is large and its captain is
the senior captain in the guard. The
probable result of this transfer will be that
Captain Marshall will discharge every
man in his company and at the same time,
while keeping within the pale of the law,
he and First Lieutenant Sullivan and Sec
ond Lieutenant McCreagh will tender their
resignations.
It is rumored that Captain Marshall has
been askod to accept the position of lieu
tenant-colonel of the Second Regiment of
Artillery, but that lie had not given a de
cided answer. If he should "accept the
position 90 per cent of Company A will
join that regiment.
It is looked upon as exceedingly strange
tiuit in this reorganization three of the
best companies in tiie State should be par
ticularly singled out for what is considered
unfair treatment. Company H of the
First, with a membership of sixty men,
which was commanded by H. P. Bush
for twenty years before he was elected
iieutenant-colonel of the regiment, has
been mustered out. Company A., with a
membership of eighty men, has been
transferred to the Third Regiment, and
has been practically knocked out, and Com
pany B of the Naval Battalion,, the oldest
company of that organization, has been
asked to lose its identity in that of its
fellows.
"Since politics entered the National
Guard," said a prominent military man
yesterday, "it has done any amount of
mischief. Men have been appointed not
for merit but because of their political pull,
and the result has been demoralizing in
the extreme.
"I will never forget the remark made by
General Bnrnes at a banquet given him
when retiring from the position of ad
jutant-general. 'Politics,' he said, 'has
entered the N. N. C, and mark my words,
the N. G. C. will soon be n. g.' And his
witty remark has proved prophetic.
"The National Guard will never be in
that state of efficiency to be of practical
use to the State until politics is eliminated
from it and men are appointed for merit
alone. 11
DE. McCLISH'S SUCCESSOR
He Will Not Be Rev. J. M, Taul
bee.
The best informed members of Grace M.
E. Church state emphatically that there
is absolutely no truth in the report that
Rev. J. M. Taulbee, D.D., who preached to
the congregation last Sunday, is to be
recommended to the conference as a suc
cessor to the retiring pastor, Rev. E. Mc-
Clish, D.D.
Dr. McClish has rilled his term of five
years with Grace M. E. Church, and
according to the rules of the Methodist
Episcopal denomination he will be given
a fresh pastorate by the next conference.
The committee charged with recommend
ing a successor consists of T. O. Lewis, C.
iS. Holmes, J. J. Newbegin, L. Turpin and
B. Bryon. I. J. Truman, one of the
church trustees, said yesterday:
Our conference of the Grace Chnrch opens
on the 6th of next month, on which occasion
the committee will recommend to us a suc
cessor to Dr. McClish, and we, in our turn, will
make a recommendation to the California Con
ference that opens at Pacific Grove in Septem
ber. Speakinpr for myself I should say that
none but a member of the California Confer
ence will be recomru ended. 1 do not think the
wish of the church is to have any one from the
East.
T. O. Lewis of the recommendation
committee .stated that no meeting had
been held since Rev. J. M. Taulbee had
preached at Grace M. E. Church, and that
there was absolutely no truth in the
rumor that that gentleman might be rec
ommended. He said :
It would be premature to state whom we
have been considering, as there are several
names before us end we have not vet mado a
selection. I will state emphatically that we
are not considering any names for recom
mendation not in the California conference.
When the East sends us a man it is generally
one that it can spare, and we have so many
bright men in our own conference that we do
not need to go farther afield.
Military Entertainments.
Troop A, First California Guard, will cele
brate its forty-sixth anniversary in the armory,
IGIS Pacific avenue, this evening. The pro
gramme includes drills, sports and games on
horseback and a broadsword contest between
Captain J. Dilhan and L. Trouchet of the
Olympic Club. Judge Groezinger will present
the troop with & guidon.
Company C, Naval Battalion, will give a
grand entertainment and ball at their armory,
620 Bush street, to-night, at which Major-
General Dimond and stafV and Colonel James
will be present. A Hotehkiss gun drill will be
given by the members of the battalion, under
the immediate command of Captain Colin A.
Douglas.
The U. 5. Gov't Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
2^ superior to all others. ,''_
THE NEXT U. S. PRESIDENT.
General Williamson Saya a
Republican Will be
Elected.
CLEVELAND TO RUN AGAIN.
The Comparative Merits of Allison,
Harrison and Cleveland
Discussed.
General J. A. Williamson, who was ap
pointed Commissioner-General of the Land
Office during the second term of President
Grant, and continued in office throughout
the entire administration of President
Hayes, and served several months under
President Garfield, came as near serving
in the Cabinet as any man ever dia who
was not appointed Cabinet Minister. He
is sojourning at the Palace Hotel, having
been obliged te forego the pleasure of a
summer voyage to Alaska by reason of an
attack of rheumatic gout. In a talk yes
terday on the topics of National politics
and Presidential timber, the general said :
"Cleveland is the logical candidate of
the Democrats for another term, and I be
lieve that he will be nominated by that
party. There are not many available men
in the party. It must be taken into con
sideration that the brainiest leaders of tne
party are in the South, and the ablest of
them served in the Confederate army.
Now in the light of good politics, a man
who served in the rebel army, be he ever
so capable and popular, is not an eligible
candidate. Democratic political managers
fully comprehend this fact, and so they
are "compelled to take a leader from Demo
crate of the North, who ought to have been
in the Confederate army, but were not
there.
"Democrats require strong personality
of leadership," continued General "Wil
liamson, "and Clevelend represents that
personality. He has been able to guide
the party to the support of his own policy
as no man ever before directed a party.
The elements composing the organization
must have leadership of that character.
Again, it must be admitted that Cleveland
is what we call a safe man and is governed
by fairly good judgment. He is, it is true,
a monometallist, believing in the single
standard of gold. His party is not with
him on this question, but he will bring dis
senting Democrats into line. He does not
believe in protection to labor in the form
of tariff, and would be an out and out free
trader if it were not that import duties
are necessary to sustain the Government.
We must give Cleveland credit for nerve
and strength of purpose. In calling out
the troops to suppress the railroad strike
he knew that a majority of the men who
were bent on the work of wrecking trains
and burning cars belonged to his own
party. He used the force of the Govern
ment to restore order, and it indicated a
happy state of feeling in the Nation that
Congress acquiesced in that exercise of
executive authority.
"The great corporations of the country,
and especially the railway companies, re
gard Cleveland, therefore, as a safe man,
one whose judgment can be trusted, and
that counts a great deal in a party which
nas scant material of leadership."
General Williamson was asked to ex
plain the reason why so many people in
the East were speaking so confidently of
ex-President Harrison's chances of {jetting
the Republican nomination.
"In the Republican party," remarked
the Genera!, "not so much weight is at
tached to personality; but Harrison, like
Cleveland, is regarded, as a safe man. Just
after the railroad strike he was reported to
have criticized Cleveland's policy of call
ing out the troops, but he hastened to
deny the report. Harrison's strength is
simply this, that he made no mistakes
while at the head of the Nation. Men
knowing him best know that he is cold,
unsympathetic and in some respects nar
row" minded. Yet his judgment is good,
his intellect clear and withal he is patri
otic. In a word he is a safe man. The
country knows that he will make no mis
takes — do nothing rash or hasty. A com
paratively email number of people knew
him personally. The vast majority
judge him by his record in office. Like
Cleveland Harrison is a monometallist.
Both parties will nominate single stand
ard men, and each go into the contest
under the gold banner.
"As to Harrison himself, he firmly be
lieves, no doubt, in the divine right of
kings. He is convinced that it was or
dained millions of years ago that his
grandfather should be President and he
should be President himself."
Speaking of Senator Allison, General
Williamson said: "In my judgment,
Allison is the safest man of all. He has
been thirty-two years in Congress, and is
serving his fourth term in the Senate. I
have known him since 18U0. Of all men in
public life he would be the last one to act
in haste, or to do anything rash. He is
deliberate in his judgment by nature, and
his long training has taught him the value
of calm reflection. He has been so long in
public life and has been so closely identi
fied with the settlement of great National
questions that he feels the pulse of the
people more intelligently than any other
man mentioned. Allison is a patriot— a
broad man— broad in his sympathies and
charities. He understands the sentiment
of the people of the country on the silver
question, but perceives the difficulty of this
Nation alone settling the problem.
"The Presidential contest," continued
General Williamson, "will be made on
the tariff. Both the leading parties will
unfurl the single gold standard. There is
no time and there is no leadership to or
ganize a silver part}'. If the right kind of
leadership for organization could be found
a silver party would sweep the country.
The fight will come on the tariff. In my
judgment the Republicans will win. For
some time longer American labor must be
protected. Even if the imporr. duties were
not absolutely necessary to support the
Government the levy of the duty should
be made to protect American industries.
"Cleveland will be a candidate on a free
trade platform against the Republican
nominee, and whether our candidate shall
be Allison. Harrison, McKinley, Reed or
Peck the Republicans will win."
Will Return to Hpr Mother.
A 13-year-old girl, Susie Leddy by name, was
turned over to the custody of the police authori
ties yesterday afternoon by Mrs. McFee of the
Salvation Army. The police had been notified
on Thursday night that, the girl had dis
appeared from the residence of her aunt in
Stockton. The girl says her annt treated her
cruelly, and she determined to run away and
try and reach her home. On the boat she met
a Mrs. Dougherty, who took an interest in her
case and cared "ior her until she reached this
City. She said she wanted to return to her
mother, and through the aid of friends she
will be enabled to do so, and will leave on the
train to-night.
I QAILIORDEN 1
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I GAIL BORDEN I
EAGLE Brand!
g ..CONDENSED MILK.. |
1 Has No Equal 1
;P s , SOLD EVERYWHERE §
NEW WESTERN HOTEL.
KEARNY : AND WASHINGTON j: STS.— RE-
modeled and renovated. ; KING, WAKD A CO.
European plan..' Rooms 600, to $1 60 per day, $2
to 38 per week, f8 to 30 1 per month; i free baths: .
hot and cold water every room; tiro grates la every,
room; elevator rung aj} olghfc __________ - . : . .
NEW : TO-DAY. ,_._ __ _. ■ •
THE MOMENT
HAS ARRIVED
This morning at 8 o'clock
- the doors of our new store
will swing open on one of
the finest stocks of Cloth-
ing, Furnishings and Hats
ever seen in California.
It will mark an epoch in
this city's merchandising,
for we shall have strictly one
price and shall resort to no
I A M /|QI7 "guesses," no "Wholesale-
M. VJ"™Vld^V Retailing" tricks to gain
your trade. You shall have
your moneys worth, or youi
cash back quick.
Will you help us to estab-
lish a legitimate clothing
business in Frisco ?
To-day we want visitors.
Come and look around. We
won't press you to buy.
This is our Reception Day.
COME
EVERYBODY
H. ROMAN & CO.,
IN THE BUILDING FORMERLY OCCUPIED
BY THE KENNEDY DRY GOODS CO.,
COR. FIFTH AND MARKET STS.
WASTING DISEASES WEAKEN 1 WOWWOT
" * fully because they weaken you slowly, gradn
ally. : Do not allow this waste of body to make
you a poor, flabby, immature man.Health, strength
and vigor is for you whether you bo rich or poor.
The Great Hudyaa is to be had only from the Hud«
son Medical Institute. This wonderful discovery-
was made by the specialists of the old famous Hud-
son Medical Institute. It is tho strongest and most
powerful vitallxer made. It Is so powerful that it
is simply wonderful' how harmless it is. You can
: get it from nowhere but from the Hudson 31 cdlcal
Institute. "Write for circulars and testimonials.
This extraordinary. Kejuvenator is the most
•wonderful discovery of the age. It has been en-
dorsed by the leading scientific men of Europe and
America.
■ HXrDYA2WI3 purely vegetable.
HV'DYAX stops . prematurenesa of . the dis-
charge In . twenty | days. -■ Cures JLOST MAX-
HOOD, constipation, dizziness, falling sensations,
nervous twitching of the eyes and other parts. '/
Strengthens, Invigorates and tones the entire
system. : It is as cheap as any other remedy.
HTJBYAJV cures debility, nervousness, emis-
sions, and develops and restores weak organs.
Pains in the back, losses by day or night stopped
quickly. Over 2,000 private indorsements.
\ Prematureness means impotency In the first
stage. | It is a symptom of j seminal weakness and
barrenness. It can be stopped in twenty days by
the use of Hndyan. . Hudyan costs no more than
any other remedy.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
TAXSTED \ BLOOD— lmpure blood due to
serious private disorders carries ; myriads of sore-
producing germs. Then comes sore throat, pimples,'
copper colored spots, ulcers in mouth, old sores and
falling hair. You can save a trip to Hot Springs by
writing for 'Blood Cook' to the old physicians of the
HUDSON mnBDICAL INSTITUTE,
Stockton, Market and Ellis St*,, .
SAX FRANCISCO, CAX. ' - ' '[
WALL 1 1 WINDOW
PAPER |i SHADES
Largest ■ Stock and Lowest Prices.
G.W.CLARK^ca
653 Market Street.
SAMPLES SENT. V
TBTHEVERY BESTONETO EXAMINE YOTJR
. X eyes and tit them to Spectacles or Kyeglnssei
with Instrument* of his own invention, who**
euperiorlty has not been equaled. My (uccom urn
been due to the merits of my work. v
O0&O iloura-i- »* *• r —
HOW ON SALE AT FIRST LIST PRICES.
SUN MATEO HEIGHTS,
The most beautiful residence portion
of the City of San Blateo. ;
LARGE AM) SIGHTLY LOTS,
WIDE AYEXUES,
PURE WATER MD PERFECT SEWERAGE.
—
The Finest Suburban Investment in
This State.
C. E. Ki\ APP CO., Sole Agents
SAN FRANCISCO OFFICES: , ; '
Room 20, Seventh Floor, Mills Building.
San Mateo Office, Union Hotel Building.
COME QUICKLY.
OUR FIRE AD
; HAS DOUBLED OUR SALES.
gju^jif n I rgOH
DESKS ARE MARKED IN PLAIN
FIGURES AND
SOLD AT COST.
This offer will hold good only a few days.
GEORGE H. FULLER DESK CO.,
638 and 640 Mission street, -
LI PO TAI JR. S /^V-
Herb Sanitarium, jb^-f
No. 727 Washington St., \X 1
Cor. Brenham Place, above h£L* A
the plaza, San Francisco, CaL >/^f/^fe.
Office hours— 9 A. M. to v -^^
13 M., 1 to 4 and 5 to 8
P. M. . :-_
San Francisco, June 1, 1895.
613 Geary street.
After three years of acute suffering from bron-
chitis and insomnia and having been treated dur-
ing this time by physicians of both the old and new
schools without the slightest improvement I con-
sulted Dr. Li Vo Tai Jr., who at once found tho
direct cause of the trouble. After a course of treat-
ment with him I can pronounce myself - cured. I
■ feel I owe my life to his skill. DORA LONG.
I
I S*ft Chlctiecter'* English Diamond Brand. '
Pennyroyal pills
9 _/tj-s. Orleinnl »nd Only Genuine. ' A
• r v //«>X safe. aI«.T» reliable. ladies uk S\
*' 4\ {KSm Drui?i:l.»t for CMchuteri English <*-/sf\\
£lMZl£*tsS\mo7?i2trand in Kcd mod Cold U£UUic^W
*te^-O«=a Sa ™ «c»jeJ with blue ribbon. Take \ST
■*W *W«»» other. Xt'iuadangermurubitUU' V
It T* /If and imitations. At Druggi"'. •mend
I (^ JO i n itmmp* for fiartienlari, tostimooiili and
\ — , Pi "Relief for I>«<He«," »» letter, toy return
[■_\ • If Mall. 1 0,000 Tf«imoni»U. Same Paper.
>s — — rCljlfhe»t<>pCheinlc»loo. I M»ai»onSqn»rij,
Sold bl mil tocii Drutjim. fkllcdn., t"«.
JJ^i t Ltsl »
W*»s|rs^V •" The Great Merfcnn Remedy.
vLc^SSc^r <«ivo«-fccßlth and atreu^ii to
Lit bosuai Organa-
; : Bc-^oi, 333 Market St., S. F.
No Percentage Pharmacy, 953 ; MurKet; St.
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