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WHO IS YOUR MILKMAN?'
Why not ns? W* MU Pastearlaad Milk and
freaaa Mly. DeUvenA to say part at to*
etty
Creamery Dairy Co. Phones 871
VOLUME 31, No. 102
Tait Administration Is All Right— T. Roosevelt Says So In Letters He Has Written to White House
FREE ZONE ANO.
PAI ZONE IN INE
PAVING WORK
Some Folks Form Improvement
Districts, Others Get City to
Do Work for Nothing.
BUT THE TAXPAYER PAYS
Some Figures on Twenty-seven
Blocks of "Free" Paving In
the Mexican Quarter.
RUSSI ON MATHEMATICS
Yn pursuance of the time and C'jl
laghan honored policy of using the cur
rent income of the city to build new
pavements—meanwhile permitting the
old pavements to crumble into dust for
lack of repairs—the city hns finally
got the West side street topography
into a condition where it resembles a
relief map of mountainous west Texas.
To wagons and vehicles it is a bone
shaker and to automobiles a Death
val'ev of tire trouble.
Here and there is a plateau, like Du
rango street, for instance, where this
year's city income has been diverted
from repairs to build a pavement en
tirely at city expense.
Nice Streets Here.
Yn most other parts of San Antonio
persons who hanker after new pave
ments are told to go get a bond district
and buy their own improvements.
Things are different in Santa Kosa,
Matamoras and Durango streets.
Out that way, the first bond district
Fegins west of South Medina street,
where the bond interest is not apt to
pinch many close friends of the ad
ministration.
In the free district, where the city
pays for everything, Durango street is
not the only level spot that yellows
the landscape. New pavements have
been built, are building or are about
to be built upon South Frio from South
l.aredq through to Commerce; on Vera
Cpuz from South Frio to South Laredo;
on South Leona from Vera Cruz to El
Paso, and on Guadalupe from South
Frio to South street, and on
some other short streets.
It is a locality where house rents .ire
low and where the residents are not
sufficiently impressed by the benefits
of new improvements to go to the ex
pense of cypress-curbing at 12 1-2 cents
a foot. A proposition on the part of
the city to do the carpenter work free
if the property owners will pay merely
merely the cost of the lumber has not
stirred public spirit in the neighbor
hood to any great extent, though, no
doubt, patriotism will be rampant -in
election day.
Cost a Mystery.
What all this West Side paving work
has cost is one of those things past
finding out. It would take a court
mandamus to get the real figures, and
if Commissioner Kussi washes his cuffs
or loses the key to his desk at home
the valuable records may be forever
lost to the world.
Briefly, the Work has all been done
bv day’s labor, with hired teams, with
city steam rollers run by city cm
ployes. and by using rock from city
quarries. Engineers who have worked
in the city engineer's office say this
homespun pavement is twice as expen
sive and iialf as good as macadam road
laid on contract under honest inspec
tion and proper guarantee.
The cost may be estimated, conser
vatively, at $li»00 a block, varying ac
cording to distance from the quarries.
Tn this Durango street neighborhood
,the wagofis hauling rock from San
Pedro make two trips a day, team and
driver being paid $3. This makes the
rock hauling cost $1.50 per load, the
load beiug a yard and a quarter. It
takes three loads, end to end, to cross
the street —the width of the wagon
box. three feet, being the length of
the strip of pavement “base.” thus
constructed. The short blocks measure
338 feet, which brings the cost of
“base” alone to $507. It remains to
add the finer rock for “topping,”
which will cost $250, and to pay for
the grading at $lBO.
No Speed Becords.
Grading wagons, usually about five
of them, work about a week or ten
days on each block, according to the
distance from the dump. Three extra
shovelers at $1.50 each, and a foreman
at $4 must be paid. None of these
men is working for a speed record.
Earth taken out is distribute.! as fill
ing in yards in the neighborhood, it
being tacitly understood that the grad
ing gang is to get a “present” for
this favor.
The man on the steam roller must
be paid stationary engineer’s wages;
then cpmes the expense of surveying,
or city engineers work on the job and
a proportion o the cost of the city quar
ry. the city crusher and the city steam
rollers. The mayor paid $11,200 for
four steam rollers, and the life of such
a machine is about ten years.
This is gone into in detail because
Street. Commissioner Rossi buovantly
remarked yesterday that the cost of
the two blocks of Durango street pav
ing is not $2OOO, or anything like it,
but is $407.
A Close Figure.
Any person who has built an impor
taut permanent improvement, say a
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AT4D GAZETTE
12 PAGES
WORKING GIRL IS
HEIRESS TO MILLIONS
Miss Margaret Hoffman, who has
suddenly been transformed from a $l5-
a-week working girl employed as a
reader of manuscripts iiP a publishing
house, to a $2.000,00b heiress. Miss
Hoffman is to receive the major portion
of a $3,000,000 estate, which was left
by her uncle. C. F.'Hoffman. a Wall
street elerk. Not even the man's clos
est associates had any idea of the ex
tent of his wealth until after his death.
Miss Hoffman says she will not quit
work at present, but later expects to
travel and study music.
RATE READJUSTMENT
UNDER PREPARATION
Associated Press.
New York, May 2.—A rate readjust
ment which will affect railroads be
tween the Mississippi river and the
Atlantic seaboard is under preparation,
it is learned today from authoritative
sources.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS QUIT.
Special Dispatch.
Fort Worth, Tex., May 2.- —Half of
the electrical workers in this city
struck today when five shops refused to
sign the scale increasing tl.eir wages
‘ from $3.50 to $4.00 per da . Eight
i shops signed up. Thirt men are out.
fence around a chicken-yard. will real
ize that $2OO a block must be a very
close estimate on sltreet paving.
But Mr. Rusai says the city engineer
made the estimate. Tf this is so then
the engineer, by mistake, looked at
Durango street through the small end
of the telescope on his measuring ma
chine.
Mr. Russi’s figures may be attrihut
ed to inexperience. He never before
made public announcement of the cost
to the city of any particular piece of
street work!
In Durango. South Frio. South Leo
na. Guadalupe. Vera Cruz and else
where in the neighborhood arc twenty
seven blocks of new street work. The
cost is borne entirely by the city.
If Mr. Russi’s figure of $2OO a block
is taken, the aggregate expense is
$5400. If it is figured at $lOOO a block
the cost is $27,000.
Poor San Luis Street.
Now. if this money was to be spent
in the locality for street improvements
why was San Luis street overlooked?
The streets that are newly paved are
on both sides of San Luis street and
all around it.
The paving of San Luis street from
South Pecos to South Medina street
had been expressly ordered by resolu
tion of city council, ft was about the
only work in the neighborhood that
had been so authorized.
Then why was San Luis street not
paved! Was it because San Lu’s
street leads to the factory of Price.
Booker & Co., and because Mr. Price,
of that firm, had not voted for Cal
laghan?
Forecast till 7 P m - Sunday.
FFor San Antonio and vicinity:
Tonight, partly ciondy weather.
Tuesday, fair and cooler.
A The maximum temperature for
the 24 hours ending at 8 o’clock
this morning was RG degrees and
the minumum was 06 degr-es.
I Comparative temperatures for
this, year and last:
inns thio
4 a. m.... SO «9
« a. m ... 49 68
8 a. m ... 56 «»
■ W lo a. m ... 6 4
™ 12 noon .... 69
la. m.... 71 8#
10 PETITION
COUNCIL FOR
AN ELECTION
Commission Government
League Goes In a Body to
See the City Fathers.
OVER HEAD OF THE MAYOR
Want Aidermen to Act at Once
as the Mayor Would Not
Express Himself.
ASK ELECTION FOR JUNE 7
Latitude of Week, However, Is
Given—Haste Urged In View
of Summer Vacations.
Having received no response from
Mayor Callaghan to the petition
presented last week asking the ex
ecutive to call an election on June
7 to ascertain whether or not San
Antonio desires a commission form
of government, the Commission
Government league this afternoon
appeared before the city council in
a body, through its executive com
mittee, to present a petition em
bodying a similar request.
The petition was drawn up thia morn
ing at a meeting of the exeeut.ve com
mittee, and the request asks that the
election be held on June 7, if possible,
and if impossible, then not later than
June 15. Some latitude in the choosing
of a date is given, hut if the election is
called for a day later than June 15
many San Antonians wip be away on
vacation and cannot vote.
When the council convened this af
ternoon, the members of the executive
committee of the Commission Govern
ment league were in the corridor. After
the session was formally opened, it was
planned to present the petition and have
the members of the council act on it at
once. It was believed that the request
would be sent to a committee of the
council-
Text of Petition.
Tn full, the text of the petition pre
sented is as follows:
Hon. Bryan Callaghan. Mayor, and City
Council, San Antonio, Texas.
Gentlemen: We, the undersigned, pe-
I tition your honorable body to call an
election for June 7. 1910, to ascertain
if the people of San Antonio favor or
are opposed to securing from the next
legislature a charter providing for com
mission form of government for this
city.
We presented a communication to the
mayor on April 27, 1910, embodying this
request, but inasmuch as we have not
been favored with a reply to that let
ter we therefore present our request to.
your honorable body.
This organization has appointed a
committee to draft a form of charter
for submission to the people, and in this
work we desire the co operation of every
citizen interested in good government.
We ask for the election at the time
stated for the following reasons:
We do not want the issue confused
or befuddled with any other issue or
election.
Wa do not want the question submit
ted in the July primaries for the reason
above stated, and because ours is a non
partisan movement.
We do not want the election called
for any date after June 15, 1910. for
the reason that a great many citizens
leave the city by that date for their
summer vacations, nor do we want it
called prior to June 7, as we desire
time to prepare and submit to the peo
ple a commission government charter.
As we previously advised the mayor,
we desire the expression of sentiment
at the time stated so that candidates
for the legislature may know the wishes
of the people.
We believe the people of San Antonio
want to change to the commission form
of government, and we respectfully ask
that you grant this petition.
Yours very truly
Commission Government League.
(Signed) T. L. Conroy, chairman, and
members of executive committee.
MONISTS GO
OUT ON STRIKE
Sedalia. Mo., May 2. —All machinists
in-the shops here of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad struck at 10 o’clock this
morning and reports received here indi
cate the men everywhere on the system
went out at the same time. The men
demanded an increase from 36 to 40
cents per hour. The company offered
39 cents but the men declined this.
SAN.ANTONIO, TEX.AS. MONDAY, MAY 2 1910.
Weston Completes Long
Walk Across Continent
Associated Press. <
New York, May 2. —Edwavd Payson
Weston at 8:35 o’clock this morning,
set foot on Manhattan island. He was
cheered by thousands of persons and,
followed by a constantly increasing
crowd, walked straight down Broadway.
Weston interrupted his progress down
town at Broadway anti Seventy thir l
street, stopping at a hotel for lunch
and rest. He said he would wait until
1 o'clock before taking up the final
march to the city hall.
Edward Payson Weston by the feat
SHE WOULDN’T
TELL IF PISTOL
WAS AI HEAD
One Woman So Declares When
Asked By the Census Tak
ei far Information.
WOMEN FACE UNCLE SAM
The first woman arrested on a charge
of refusing to give the desired informa
tion to United States enumerators was
Mrs. Annie F. Benham, who conducts a
boarding house at 431 Soledad street.
She appeared before United States < om
missioner Earl D. Scott, who, upon hear
ing the evidence, released her from cus
tody From the evidence given it was
shown that her arrest was the result ot
a misunderstanding and that she had
withheld no information from the cen
sus enumerator.
Commissioner Scott acted upon the ev
idence given by Mrs. Sarah Miller, cen
sus enumerator No. 21, whose statement
showed there was no violation of the
law on the part of Mrs. Benham. Mrs.
Miller stated that when she called updn
Mrs. Benham the latter told her that
she was conducting a boarding house,
but that her boarders were all school
children, who did' not live here, and
transients, who were here merely for
the spring carnival. Mrs. Miller said
she did not consider it necessary to take
these names and that she did not ask
for them.
Mrs. Benham asked to be allowed to
make a statement, and she said:
“When the lady called week before
last I gave her my husband’s name and -
his family as much as 1
knew’ of it, as well as my own. I told,
her the boarders were school children
and transients who were here for the
carnival, and she did not ask me to
give the names. She asked me about
a horse and a dog that I had and asked:
what these were valued at. I told her
they were pets and were not for sale.
1 asked her if she was going to take
a census of these also and wnen she
asked what the value of the horse was
I told her I thought about $75, although
I did not think 1 could get over $5O for
it if I tried to Bell it.' ’
Another arrest made is that of Trial-1
-* ’ 4
4whMb 4ir finished today, broke all reO
lords for end.irnnee and long distance
walking in history. Weston is nearly
75 years old and last summer o-arted
to walk from the 'Atlantic const to the
Pawlic corsl in 100 days. - Through a
■piece of ill hick he was unable to fin
I ish within the limit, but made it in only
■ a few days more.
After his failure, Weston rested for
la while and then started from San ।
I Francisco on the return trim His ar- !
I rival today is well within the 100 day
limit,- ।
WOUNDS A THIEF
ANO IS WOUNDED
Former May Die and Latter, an
Oklahoma Farmer, Is Said to
Be In a Serious Condition.
Special Dispatch.
Oklahoma City, Okla.. May 2. •
Frank Ware of Fort Worth is dying
and Albert Carlson, a prominent. Okla
homa county farmer, is seriously in
jured as the result of a duBl Sunday
during a raid on Carlson’s chicken
coops. .
Hearing thieves operating in the
coops Carlson seized a shotgun and
overtook a gang, consisting of three
men. Carlson started to march them
to Oklahoma Citv when Ware pulled a
revolver and shot the farmer through
the abdomen. Carlson returned the fire
with his shotgun, the load hitting s\aie
in the face and mutilating him beyond
recognition. Both .men were taken to
the St. Anthony hospital here.
It is alleged’ that Ware headed a
gang operating throughout the state,
supplying hotels and restaurants at
prices competition couldn't meet.
dad Herrera, a Mexican, living on Guad
alupe street, and his case is set for hear
ing this afternoon. The ease of Hal
Robinson. a negro, is also set for hear
ing this afternoon.
There are warrants out for two Worn
en, who will likely be arrested this af
ternoon. One woman is said to have'
made the statement to an enumerator
that she would not answer the questions
if a pistol was held to her head.
HAS CARRIER'S ADDRESS
SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD
Probably the oldest New Year car
rier boy's address in existence today
is in possession of J. C. Schroeder, 501
Carson street. It is dated 1842. sixty
eight years ago. and is of black satin
flic letters being in gold. It was is
sued by the Louisville Journal. Mr.
Schroeder says the address came into
the family through his wife, who re
ceived it front her father. Robert A.
Wright, of the firm of Wright &
Wright, of Louisville. Mr. Wright
bought it from a newsboy at Louisville
at the time •_
12 PAGES
TEDDY PUTS
0. K. ON TAFT
Washington Newspapers Print Story
That Roosevelt Has Written Letters
Endorsing the Administration.
WILL NOT BE CANDIDATE IN 1912
Special Dispatch.
Washington, May 2. —That Theodore Roosevelt has mailed let
ters to President Taft endorsing the latter’s administration and say
ing that he (Roosevelt) will not be a candidate for the presidency
in 1912 or for any other office in the meantime is the story that is
printed by Washington newspapers this morning.
The letters are said to have been mailed from Paris and were
written after hearing both sides of the question. They have not yet
been received at the White House. It is said that the epistles give .
encouragement to Taft and promise aid to him in the furtherance of .
his policies. What conditions are imposed, if any. are not known.
It is also said that Roosevelt has expressed a wish that William
Loeb Jr. should be governor of New York.
Other details of the letters will probably not be known until
they are received at the White House and made public.
■ -- - — ■ ■■■ —a Tho nnlnnnl will nnf hd» a ranrii-
DOUBLE LIFE
IS REVEALED
BY TRAGEDY
Wealthy Massachusetts Mau
Killed by Folding-Bed Regis
tered Under False Name.
THE WOMAN IS MISSING
She Was Not Badly Hurt and
Left Quickly, Leaving Her
Identity a Mystery.
New York, May 2. —Through the col
lapse of the folding bed in a boarding
house at 426 West Twenty-third street,
last Tuesday night, which caused the
death of a man whose name was given
as William Smith, a paper manufact
urer of Waterbury, Conn., the double
life of a wealthy Massachusetts poli
tician and manufacturer was today re
vealed.
Almon C. Barrett, an employe of the
Butterick Publishing company, identi
fied the victim of the peculiar accident
as his brother-in-law, Wellington Smith
of Lee, Mass., formerly president of
the American Paper Makers’ assoeia
Woman Vanishes.
Narrowly escaping death by suffoca
tion before she was rescued by the two
girls who bad heard her moans and en
tered the room through a porch win
dow. Mr. Smith's woman companion,
who for three years had been known to
Mrs. N. A. Ralph, keeper of the board
ing house, as “Mrs. Smith,’ recover
ed sufficiently today to vanish from
sight before she could be questioned
regarding the identity of the paper
manufacturer. .
Dispatches front Lee, Mass., stated
that Mr. Smith left there several days
ago accompanied by his wife, who is
(Continued on page 2.)
IS THE BLACK HAND
AFTER EARL SCOTT?
United States Commissioner Earl D.
Scott received a letter written in Chb
uese this morning, which is a source of
much interest. Why the letter should
>e addressed to him and written in Chv
;ese when he does not know a word of
hineae is something Commissioner
Scott cannot understand. One of the
,rst questions he asked upon opening
he letter was: ‘‘Wonder if it is a
Slack Hand letter!”
I'he letter was black all right enough,
•„ r t he various characters were heavily
Irawn. On two sides of the paper were
humb prints in red ink. The letter was
iddressed to “Earl D. Scott, attorney
md counsellor at law, Alamo Bank
tuilding." As Mr- Scott's office has
mt been in that building, in a number
,f years he has some doubt as to wheth
i- the letter was intended for him. The
etter is postmarked “Montague, Cali
oruia April 26." and on the other side
-f the paper on which it is written is
he name “Kung Mook, Siskigomo.
Jontague, Cal.” Mr. Bcott will.have
he letter translated to aee what it is
H about
Best Always Velvet Ice Cream i
Made by
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PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
date to succeed Chauncey Depew in the
senate, and much less he desires any
other office. It is said also that the
former president will in no sense be a
candidate for the presidency in 1912
On the contrary, the letters are said t<
indicate it is his conviction the re-elee
tion of President Taft is the republicar
party's duty.
While Roosevelt believes the tight ir
1 the party, when confined to opinions or
| legislation, may be healthful, he does
i not favor a degree of insurgency that
threatens to disrupt the party at the
polls and will probably deliver some
speeches in the congressional campaign
iu the west urging the return at xegub.
Ilicnns to congress.
When Roosevelt speaks before the Na
tional Conservation congress in St. Paul
| in September. it is said, he will declare
; himself again for the policies for which
lie always stood, but will insist the work
be pressed forward without making con
■ serration a pivot for political expe
| dients. In a word, former President
Roosevelt, before seeing Gifford Pin
chot in Europe and since, has express
ed himself as convinced that Taft has
been working hard and
to carry out the policies which started
during the Roosevelt administration and
has given to the Taft administration his
whole approval.
BRIBE PROBES
10 BE SIARTED
IN ILLINOIS
Two Grand Juries Are Ready to
Take Up Charges Made By
State Assemblyman White.
WHITE IS SUMMONED
Will Go Before Gook County
Grand Jury at Once and Tes
tify at Springfield May 9.
Chicago, May 2.—Grand juries in
two counties of Winois are readv to
day to take up. and investigate the
charges of bribery which Charles A.
W kite, a member of the legislature,
has made in connection with the elec
tion of United States Senator Lori
mor at Springfield last summer. State
Attorney J. E. Wayman announced
that White will appear before the
Cook county special grand jury this
afternoon to repeat the statement al
leging that» he received $lOOO to vote
for Wm. E. Lorimer and that later Ue
received $9OO out of a “jaek pot" or
general legislative corruption fund.
At Springfield State Attorney Ed
mund Burke gave out that the corrupt
deals alleged by White to have been
transacted in the state capital will be
laid before the Sangamon county
grand jury today.
White has been summoned to testi
fy there on May 9.
BEGIN WORiTtHIS WEEK
ON BIG AUDITORIUM
Plans for the Baptist encampment
which is to be held at Sutherland
Springs Julv I, and continue for ten
.lays, are well under way aud work oa
the auditorium will soon beg:2. Re».
R F. Stokes, pastor of the (. a! vary Bap
tist church, stated today .hat the
ground on which the auditorium will io*
located, will be plotted this week. The
auditorium will be a frame structure
811x100 feet and it is to be omplete.i m
time for use during the encampment.