The morning call., 1893-09-01
OVER IN OAKLAND.
How Some of the Names
Were Obtained.
WHO CIRCULATED THE PAPER
The Davie Ferry Slip - Matheny's
Trial - More Reductions of
Expense-NOtes.

cnanlS OF DrOauWdy 10 tne council, asking
that all proposed legislation against the
dear Southern Pacific be abandoned and
that corporation be allowed to carry out
its own sweet will, has caused a vast
amount of Indignation in Oakland. There
are several men whose names appear on
this roilcall who will have them stricken off
before the Council meets.
Let S. Jones, a picture-dealer at 515
Seventh street, tell his own story.
"Three days ago man, a stranger to
me-, walked into my store and said /:
Would you not like TO have all trains stop
! at Broadway? Certainly said l. Then
he pulled a paper from his pocket, and
telling me it was petition TO the railroad
company. asked me to sign it. read it
over carefully; lt was just what he had
stated, 50 put my name down.
"a halt.hour later Mr.. Bailey. photog-
rapher next door, called me into his
! place. and said there was another man
with a petition. | asked the newcomer
! what he was circulating the document for.
! and told him had just signed one asking
! that the trains stop at Broadway. Oh
! said he, that copy goes to the railroad
this one is for the Council So, without
/ reading it, l signed. MIR. Bailey did the
!
! THE CALL this morning to find what We
/ had put our names to. Several of our
neighbOrs were imposed on in the same
way. We are going in body TO the Coun-
Gil and ask that our names be stricken off. ,"
/ So 1t appears that some of these names
were obtained under false presentations.
/ Now as to the others.
Mayor Pardee said to a reporter vester-
I Il IL af,,lIr bo
to that petition and notice how many are
tenants of F. Delger."
| A few days since a petition was pre-
/ pared and it was presented for signatures
TO Mr.. Delger's tenants by Mr.. Lamping.
the collector for Mr.. Delger. Some OF the
tenants thought that to sign would please
the landlord and they lid so; but not all
conld be induced 10 place their names on
the list
That Mr.. Delger's collector was the per-
son who circulated the document for Mr..
Delger's tenants to sign comes from a state
ment to that effect made by E. J. Murphy
of 85S Broadway and Joseph Rosenberg of
I 9J9 Broadway.
Way up on Broadway is another man
whose name was obtained by fraud. He
is j. A. Hill of $50. Said he yesterday:
/
| petition. When l signed it l was very
/ busy. 1t was presented to me by man
/ whom l know well. / asked MIN what it
was and ne said it was petition to have
the trains stop at Broadway as they for
merly did. Now that l see what it really
! is | am decidedly against it, 1 think if
the City Council passes an ordinance to
make the trains stop at Webster street we
will naturally get the old trade back.
Through the change in the Seventh-street
system we have lost lots of trade from
I East and West Oakland which we for
merly had. think that the railroad COM
/ pany will do just as they please, whether
! those ordinances are passed or not"
! Considerable property has been bonded
/ Of late, and it is all along Webster street
/ The rumor started yesterday that the
property was being secured in the inter-
ests of the railroad. and that the Broad
way station would be moved 10 Webster
street. Many believe the whole affair is
part of big bluff aud intended to Greats
scare. Others think that the railroad has
given tip 10 somebody TO buy, and still
others believe that. from the bonding be-
ginning as long as two weeks ago, it is
something independent of the Seventh
street trouble and only comes together at
/ the same time ns a coincidence.
! The Davfe Ferry Slip.
! At a meeting of the waterfront COM
mittee of the City Council yesterday after
noon Clerk Kaufman of the Board of
Public Works was asked to draw up plans
and specifications for the building of
ferry slip and suitable houses at the foot
of Franklin street for the use of the Davie
md frrap
Kaufman will submit his plans to-day.
Mr.. Pomeroy and Captain Ebert of The
Davie company were present and talked
the matter over with the committee. The
Councilmen are inclined to make every
concession within reason 20 encourage the
opposition.
1t is thought that the Frankin-street
wharf will be cut off for 175 feet and a slip |
put In the end, the other 100 feet at the
shore end being reserved for ticket-offices |
and walting-rooms for passengers. When |
completed as designed the landing will be /
credit to the city and will make a most |
commodious and handsome ferry-house. !
I'VE want no barns or old sheds such as
the Southern Pacific trundles its passen- |
gers in," said Counc ilman.
Tho Mnthsny Trial.
Louis Matheny, the handsome, intelligent
looking young man who is on trial for his
life before Judge Henshaw and a jury in
the Superior Court, opened, tile testimony
yesterday assumed an interesting shape.
and tie waiting crowd with which the
courtroom has been daily packed felt that
it was well repaid for its long siege in
listening TO the uninteresting preIimi-
naries of laying foundation.
At the morning session yesterday the
barkeeper at Kuhlne's saloon, man
named Van Rheman. was the first witness
called. His testimony was unimportant.
as was also that of Deputy Coroner
Tony" Hart aud Deputy Coroner J. ].
Eyers. the two men who brought Touhill's
body To the morgue the day after the
burglary. Their testimony had all been
gone over before at the preliminary exami-
nation. and in questioning them their tes
timony at that time was read from.
William McGlinchey, the Southern Pa
cEc track-walker. was the next witness.
II q told hovy q IA All fnnnd tho hod,