The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-21
Partly of Eastern ManufaC-
ture That Is Covered by
a Patent.
FRANCHISE IS NOT VIOLATED
The Railroad Company Resents the
Complaint of the Manufao-
turers' Association.

EOCldIlOn IS after the SutfO hdllIOdu SOIll-
pany. The board of directors of that as
ISOLATION, whose sole purpose for existence
is the protection and defense of home IN
dustry, complains that the Sutro Railroad
Company, whose head and front is the
Mayor of San Francisco, has violated, or
is about to violate, the franchise granted
TO it by this City
This violation, it is claimed, rests in the
purchase of a boiler not made by Callfor-
MIA hands. Mayor Sutro admits the pur-
chase of the boiler, but denies the violence
claimed to have been made to the fran
chise.
The complaint made to the board of
directors of the Manufacturers and Pro-
ducers' Association inspired the following
letter from the association:
MANUFACTURERS AND PRODUCERS
ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Is, 1882
Sufro Railroad COmDdRU-GENTLEMEN: AT a
meeting of our board OF directors held last
evening ii was brought to their attic ntioh that
your company had recently given an order or
is about 10 give IN order Tor an Eastern-make
boiler for use in the operation OF said railway.
! have been instructed to communicate with
you upon the subject and most respectfully
call your attention TO section of the franchise
granting your company permission to con-
struct and operate railroad, which section
reads as follows:
Section g. This privilege is granted on the condi-
ton that the machinery, and cars required in
the construction and operation of the railroad shall
be OF California manufacture, except such are
patent; otherwise the grantee. his successors or
assigns shall acquire no rights hereunder. as in
of violation of this condition the privilege and
franchise thereby granted shall become null Snd
void.
desire, on behalf OF this association, to call
your attention to the fact that there is no
~ hcsla cd
in the United States that is not manufactured
in this City and State OF equal quality, and re-
quest that this order be given to the California
manufacturer, and II the order has already
been given in the East that it be counter
manded and that the conditions set forth in
the above quoted section be rigidly complied
with.
Awaiting your immediate reply, am, for the
association, yours truly,
FRED H. DINGIE, Assistant Secretary.
The Sutro Railroad Company, by its Sec
rotary, very promptly responded in the fol-
lowing brief epistle, leaving it for the sec
rotary of the Manufacturers and Producers
Association to infer what may not be set
out IN sufficiently specific detail:
To the Manufacturers and Producers AsSoeia-
ton Of California; rooms and 3, Sirth floor, Nils
Building, SCR FrdnciscO-GENTLEMEN 1 have
the honor 10 acknowledge receipt of your favor
OF 18th inst. and responsive thereto beg leave
to say that the Sutro Railroad Company has
not purchased anything other than of Califor-
was not governed by patents.
l might add that in the purchase of some
articles this company has also been guided only
by desire 10 have them of such construction as
10 guarantee perfect safety TO the public while
in use.
Regretting that misstatements have been
made concerning the company, 1 am, with
". C. LITTLE,
.1 Secretary sutro Railroad Company.
Secretary Little of the Sutro Railroad
Company stated yesterday that the COM
pany has ordered what is called sectional
water-tube boiler, 20 per cent of the con-
struction of which is of Eastern manufac-
ture and 30 per cent of California manu-
facture. THAT part which is made in the
East" said Mr.. Little, 'must be made
there, because there is no factory here for
its construction.
Our franchise admits of the purchase of
patented articles, and this kind of boiler is
patented. The California street Cable
Company, which is operated under pre-
Cisely the same franchise as the Sutro
Railroad Company, secured the same
boiler in preference to all others at an adj
vanced price. The same desire actuates
Mr.. Sutro and the company in this pur-
chase-that OF securing the utmost safety.
These boilers are actually explosion proof,
and that is one of the most essential items
TO be considered in the selection OF boiler
for plant such as this is TO be-
THE company would gladly have made
the entire purchase here could it have
been done, but as that is impossible, and
as it is determined to procure the very
best, the purchase has been made as | have
stated. The records of the United States
show for several years ian average of 200
boiler explosions annually, with an aggre-
gate OF 600 lives lost each year. This ought
to be sufficient incentive for the purchase
of a aon-explosive boiler, and the in
centive ought to be appreciated. These
boilers are used in the majority if not all
of the street-railroad plants in San Fran
cisco and adjoining towns.
Besides these recommendations, Mr..
Sutro has used these boilers IN other plants
to his entire satisfaction. As a mere
pointer l will say that the Risdon Iron
WORKS, a company that is largely mem
Der of the Manufacturers and Producers
Association, has its warehouses full of
Eastern-manufactured goods, for which it
is agent
1.-THE order for the sectional water-tube
boilers for the Sutro Railroad Company
was placed with the Fulton Engineering
and Ship-building Works, which has the
contract for the power plant.