Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-10
The DEMOCRATIC CITY coNvEsrIos.
The Democratic City Convention met at

2. j. Hsrney, Chairman of the City
Democratic Committee, called the meeting to
order. J. H. McKune was chosen temporary
Chairman, Henry Kilgariff Secretary, s. NJ.
johnson Assistant Secretary, ard James
Gildea sergeent-at-Arme.
Committees were thsn appointed, as fol.
lows: Order of Business and Cradensiale-
G. Nich)'s Isadors Tow nssnd, J. P. DALI N.
a. ). Woods, j. NJ. Henderson. Platform
II. B. Neilsen, r. o. CIaver s. Jas. Galloway,
Matt. Z. johnson, j. W. Hughes.
The fiest named committee reported tie
iiss Of delegates, and that the temporary eff
Gers shall be the permanent officers Of the
Convention. The report was adopted.
The report of the COMMITTEES on Rasolu.
ticns vas then taken up. The full platform
appears, as reported and adopted, in our a6-
YertisiEg columns.
The c5nsi ;eratiQn Of the plstform drew on
heated debate Of an hour. The Convention
was very much divided in opinion as to the
policy set forth.
Major Harvey opposed pledging candidates
by a platform to specific measures. He
wanted honest men wi hout pledges. S. r.
Caldwell protested against pledgiag candi-
dates TO & l per cent. tax levy as itapolitic,
uawiss and impossible 10 be carried out Mr.
but was understood 60 hold that the very law
under which psr cent. must be levied, puts
% per cent of 1t into the sinking and interest
fund, thus leaving nothing with which TO
carry On the city government. Hon. ADD
q. Hinkson objected TO some provisions of
the platform also. Patrick Nash wanted
another Gutenberger in mis-. Mr.. Devine
opposed the policy of promUlgating plan
for . per cent. interest on retunding the
debt, and voted no 10 thu last on the pat.
form. The platform was finally adopted
after several amendments we're proposed but
rejected.
Matt, Cofey off 4red resolution that il
was the sense of the Convention that it was
opposed to an Increase in the present. license
system. BY an almost unanimous vote il
was laid OF the table.
The delegates from each ward assembled
and elec-ed City Central Committee as fol-
lows: Fret Ward-rhomss Fox, NJ Foster.
Second Ward-D. j. Considine Richard
Singleton. Third Ward-A s. Woods, Frank
Carroll Fourth WArd-E. g. Blessing,
Thomas O'Neil. For the city at large, J. q.
Kelly was chosen.
Nominations for Second Trustee we've then
in order. L. P FiPg w. L. Hernaon, E.
A. Bovyer and II. B. Nielsen were named
Each one Endorsed the platform. On the
second ballot MIR. Nielsen was nominated
NJ. J. Burke was nominated for City
Auditor by reclamation. D. f, BeveridgeJ
WAS nominated for Tax Collector By accla-
nation. Matt. Coffsy was nominated for
| City Assessor-Messrs. J. P. Dalton, P. J.
Harvey, Geo. w. Nichols and Richard
Brown declining to be candidates.
For Fire Commissioner j. r. Webster was
nominated, Martin Steinmitz declining to be
candidate. The Convention at 1870 al
| jOurned.
Nv,p Covcp,5,,v~rr T ,pcp Soma 4;r,a
ago United States Engineer Mendell engaged
J. W. Rock, Of this city, to prepare plans
and specifications for the construction cf |
new Government barge, to be used in con-
nection with the United States snag. boat |
Seller. & few days ago the contract for |
building the barge, under the specifications
made by Mr.. Rock, was let to San Fran |
cisco firm. The barge will be $50 feet in keel |
| length and 159 feet 6 inches on the deck, with
breadth on the fl 3or of &c feet, aud on the |
beam 81 feet. The depth at the stern will bs |
feet inches, midships feet inches, and !
at the transom 8 feet 9 inches. The bsrge |
differs in build somewhat from any now in |
use. There will be mast forward of the |
boom, to assist in raising snags. The con- !
tract requires that it be completed within 100 !
days from the letting, which tina will expire |
|
wharf in this city, and will not be used |
again until the new barge is finished The |
| barge Staten Islsud which has been used |
ever since the building of the Seller, was,
when purchased, a second. handed one, and is |
cow unfit for use. Mr.. Rock prepared the |
plans and superintended the construction of |
the Seller in 1880. He will probably be en- |
gagged by Colonel Mendell to superiatend the |
building of the RsW barge.
AN EXPLOSION. o'clock yester- |
dsy afternoon, a vulcanizer used in making |
artificial teeth exploded with terrific force
in the mechanical rooms of DIR. H. H Pier
son, on J, between Fourth and Fifth streets.
The boiler of the vulcauizer was of copper,
about three-sixteenths of an inch in thick
ness, end of capacity to hold about quart of
water. DIR. G. Il. Stephenson, who was
using the vulcanizer, lighted the gas under
meath the boiler, and after regulating the |
flow so as to give about the required heat,
left it temporarily and went upon an errsnd
to drug store near by. During his absence |
The gas was turned on at the gas-works, and |
with the increase OF pressure thus produced |
the flame under the vulcapizer became so
strong as to overhead the boiler, causing an
explosion which threw the boiler and entire
apparatus iato o thousand pieces, which went |
every direction. A portion of the chair in
which DIR. Stephenson had just been sitting, |
was carried away and converted into debris, |
and the room generally was left with the ap
pearance of having been through general |
bombardment. Fortunately no one was in
iured, but the loud report startled people in /
the vicinity and produced run upon the in |
stitution until the cause was explained
BOARD OF SUPERvIsoRs.-Yes terdsy was /
the last day of the regular term of the Board |
of Supervisors. Absent Mclaughlin. The |
special order, the petition of E. G. Morton |
and others for a new road in Brighton town.
ship, was taken up. A number of witnesses |
were examined, after which the matter WAS
taken under ADJUSTMENT until March 22d. |
Christy offered resolution granting desti- |
tute woman relief in the sum Of $10 but it |
was lost by vote of to l. Bids for insur- /
ance of county buildings were received from /
dozen different agents. A motion was car /
ried directing that $50, 600 insurance be |
plscsd ON the County Hospital s., 600 in the |
Home Mutual, and the remainder to be d. |
vided pro rata among companies beloE ging to |
the Board of Fire Underwriters OF San Fran |
cisco. No further business appearing the |
Board adjourned for the term.
A SUCCESSFUL TEsT.-The Hsrber lamp, |
row in use in the business office of the |
| RECORD UNION, is attracting much attention |
among business men and others. Its light |
is fully equal in candle power to The best
Argand gas burner, and by reason of the |
steadiness of fame and softness of light Is |
superior to gas. It was at first intended by |
the inventor for use at the printers case,
where it proves to be the best light knnwn, |
but when put in offices and applied to light |
10 large rooms or halls, it is found to be
equally superior for such purpose, and viii
no doubt, for this reason. and on account Of
It's economy, meet with general favor and
adoption.
Y. NJ. C. a. ENTERTAINMEST,-A very
pleasant social entertainment was given at