The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
LOANED, BROKEN OR STOLEN.
Er-SecretGry WetmOre Says Erery Ar
ticLe Can Be accounted For.


Er-Secretdry Wetmore Says Erery Ar-
ticIe Can Be accounted For.
C. J. Wetmore, a mem Der and formerly
secretary of the State Viticultural Com
mission, which has been called to task by
Cove rnor Budd because of large discrep-
now in its possession ana the records of
expenditures for the commission, states
emphatically that every article can be ac-
counted for. Said he, Yesterday:
MANY OF the things supposed to be lost
are in the rooms. The $400 spectroscope is
at the university and has been ever since
1t was purchased. 4 $178 microscope is
not there Just now, but We can produce it,
and smaller microscope that cost $25 has
been stolen. The Pasteur filter, some re-
tOrts and watch glasses and a saccarame tor,
costing in all about $35, have been broken
during the years of use IN experimenting.
An icecheSt that cost $40 was sent to
Chicago at the time of the Fair, and was
left there, as it would not pay to bring it
back.
'Gas apparatus to the value of $22 was
put In at the old rooms-404 Montgom-
ery-and was lett there when we moved.
An electrical apparatus that cost $50 and
that was used in experimenting upon
wines, was no good after it had served its
purpose. Four chandeliers, worth origin
ally 500, were left in Platt's Hall when we
had TO abandon our rooms there. Some
bug-catching machines, quoted at about
$50, were sent out into different parts of
the country and they became bent up and
were of no further use. A $l15-icechest
became old and went to pieces. The
forty-two thermometers, valued at $120
were sent out to the inspectors for use in
different parts of the.State
"A large furnace that we had to heat
Platb's Hall cost $50, but when the hall
was to be torn down to make room for the
Mills building we could not sell it after
advertising il, and finally at the very last
as the building was being torn down
sold it for $40, and the money was appro-
priated to the expenses of moving.
The commission has moved five times
and every move necessitates some break
age or loss, or else there are fixtures put
into rooms that after few years are not
really worth tearing out.
''In all | do not think the loss is more
than 500 during fourteen years. Moving.
breakage, wear and other reasons have
caused that loss. Not single bill has
being approved by the State Board of
Examiners, consisting of the Governor,
the Attorney General and the Secretary of
State.
The Viticultural Commission has al
ways been friendly to the university, but
the university has never been friendly to
us. 1t has been antafonistic. In 1888 and
1884 the commission sent Professor Hill
gard and Professor Rising out during their
vacation to visit the vineyards OF the State
and paid them $500. and Professor Hilgard
never even reported his observations to US.
"For several years after that time we
gave the State analyst. VINO was then q
professor in the university, $250for analvz-
ing wines. And for several years we paid
T. w. Morse, then an instructor in the
viticultural department, So a day and his
expenses during summer vacations to ex-
anime vineyards for phylloxera, the vine
pest.
''Now A. ?. Hayne of the vitlcultural
department over there is causing all this
trouble. He has gone to Sacramento and
pried around to find out how much would
be coming to him from the commission
and then, without waiting to complain
when the commission should not be able
to produce the things, he stlrs up prema-
ture disturbance.
1--WE furnished Hayne the money that
enabled him to get his first view of the
vineyards of the State. 1t was two years
ago when Professor Cos came out here
from France and we invited him to visit
the vineyards with the French specialist.
For the last six years the agricultural
department of the university has done
everything possible to injure the commits
sion and | defy any one to find on their
records any mention or credit for what we
have accomplished.
1--WE put the bill in to abolish the COM
mission for we saw the people did not
want it. But we wanted the library of
about 5000 volumes TO remain in this City
In very many cases the books had been
duplicated by the department at the uni
versity, and we did not think there was
any use of a duplicate library there, so We
wished to have it given to the Academy of
Sciences or to the Mechanics Institute
for the benefit of the people of San Fran
cisco But that suggestion was not needed,
and everything was ordered turned over 10
the university.
1.-The university department cannot do
the practical work the commission has
been doing; it can do the scientific work
all right. So some of the members of the
commission, associated with others, have
just taken steps to incorporate viticul-
tural college that shall carry on the work
done by the commission. The members
are: Arpad Haraszthy, e. T. Preston.
John T. Doyle. George West, l. de Turk,
G. A. Wetmore, Z. c. Bichawsky, J. de
Barth Shorb, John SWEET, William PAIN
tag, Winfield Scott and G. ]. Wetmore.
LAS TO the disappearance of SIT wine
glasses. it was only natural when 900 peo-
pie would come together at the annual
State Convention of Wine-growers that
great many of the frail glasses should be
destroyed in the course of years. Samples
OF VINE were exhibited at these meet tings
and little awards made.
1T was through the efforts of the COM
mission in bringing California wines before
the public in this City that they were
given their deserved recognition on hotel
and restaurant wine-lists. And now the
California wines in this City are consid-
cred frst and ahead of foreign Wines"