The morning call., 1893-04-01

| eater-such men, in the nature of things,
would be eligible to answer the momentous
| question, Fresh or stale bread Sunday
morning?
But the question has not been left for
! decision with these farm inded gentlemen
| mentioned. The Supervisors have been
| asked to decide it.
When you have counted the number Of
! Supervisory afflicted with dyspepsia you
! have told off the ayes" for stale bread
Correlatively the other fellows will vote
| for fresh bread first. last and all the time.
The suggestion very naturally presents
| itself as TO why, for happy alternative,
| the 800, eco bread-eaters of San Francisco
should not be permitted to settle the ques-
| ton for themselves and in their SEQ 900
various ways?
But this is impossible. The bakers them
| selves have broached the question, and they
have asked the Supervisors, in their super
| abundant wisdom, for light on that dark
| problem, Fresh or stale bread Sunday
| morning.
The bakers themselves are hot partisan
on the subject. They have even gone to the
! extreme of trying to influence The result of
| the Supervisorial canvass on the matter.
To man they're for stale bread on SUM-
| day morning. In truth, they're willing to
go without any bread at all Sunday morn
ing. Pancakes or mullins are their size on
| Sunday.
And there's a reason for this hot parti-
sanship on the part of the bakers.
To them stale bread Sunday morning
means night off every week.
Now the journeymen German bakers
work seven nights week.
They're tired Of 1t and look with longing
eyes upon the seventh night OF leisure en-
| j0ved BY their Engish-s speaking brethren.
No American baker works his oven Sat
| urday night and Sunday morning Only
the Germans do that. But then the Ger
mans do most of the baking in San Fran
cisco.
There are about Geo German bakers and
100 American bakers in this city, These
go have. urged the Supervisors to declare
Tor stale bread.
They have petitioned for an ordinance
prohibiting the delivery OF bakery supplies
Saturday night and Sunday morning. And
the Supervisors are now wrestling with the
| problem.
The employing bakers say such an ordi
nance would be impracticable
1T can't be done" said Mr.. Swain to a
| CALL man. "A large part of our best
business is done on Sunday. and this is
true of every bakery and cafe in the city.
I'VE only work very few men Saturday
] night and Sunday morning, because the
| character OF our trade don't demand much
| help. lie bread bakers are off Saturday
| night, the same as IN tile other shops. but
to prohibit the delivery of our icecream,
cream pies, Jam tarts. and all that sort of
thing for the Sunday trade, would be ruin
| Gus to US. 1t would he unfair to our GUS
| toners, too, and it simply can't be done.
| If the German bakers don't want to work
seven nights week, let them 60 about
| stopping it in some other way"
Yes; that's just the size OF It," said the
! secretary OF the German Bakers UnIon:
IF we can get the Supervisors to pass that
| ordinance it will stop this Saturday-nipht
work. 1t will compel all the bakers to give
us one night oil every week. That's what
we're after. The boss bakers wouIdn't
| lose so much by IT, They wouldn't lose AT
all after it got to working all right. But.
anyway, it's no more than Just that we
should have night of leisure every week
the same as other people have"
And the Iourneymen bakers are enthusi
| aStlc Tor the new move. Iu one of the bip
shops visited by THE CALL man yesterday.
the spokesman for the other men, who
speak only the Teuton tongue. said thav
| felt sure that the Supervisors would mass
the ordinance if only ''some of them could
| come down here and mind that oven for a
few hours every morning"
When the Health and Police Committee
OF the Board OF Supervisors met Yesterday
morning there appeared before them Henry
! Elckhofi, attorney for the master bakers.
who strenuously opposed the petition of
the Bakers Union for the enactment of an
ordinance prohibiting the delivery of bak-
cry supplies on Saturday night and Sunday.
There were tfty-six names on the master
bakers petition.
Swain Brothers declared through their
| representative that the icecream, cream
pies and jam tarts ordered by customers ON
Saturday could not possibly be kept till
! Monday.
ii. r. Young said that milk bread and
! several kinds OF pastry would sour if not
delivered Immediately 10 customers
w: Westerfeldt, while not ohjecting to a
Sunday law, said that II the Bakers Union
gained their point there would be no fresh
bread on Sunday.
Chairman Kennedy was opposed to the
proposed ordinance as being hard On tho
poor. who are largely dependent on Sunday
baking. and Supervisor Dundon declared
that 1t was class legislation pure and Simple,
The matter was finally taken under ad-
vsemeDt.