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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
STILL QUARANTINED.
Cabin Passengers of the Coptic Will
Not Be Released Until Next
Friday.

The passengers on the quarantined
steamer Coptic will spend their Easter on
board, looking with longing eyes shore
ward. 1t was so decided yesterday by
Quarantine Officer Lawler after consulta-
ton with United States Marine Surgeon
Peckham, who is in charge of the Angel
Island station.
DR.. Meloney of the Coptic had made such
excellent arrangements for the care of the
cabin passengers after the smallpox was
discovered that the authorities concluded
that they need only remain in durance for
nine days. This will give them their
liberty on Friday, the 10Th, at which date
the Coptic will go alongside at the Mail
dock. The passengers will be landed, but
the officers Of the vessel will not be per-
mitted to go ashore. Neither will the Gus
tom-house officers.
The quarantine officers argue that the
Custom-house people, having come in con-
tact with the Storage passengers, it is
proper that they should remain in quaran.
tine the full time, which will not be up
until the oath inst, fourteen days after the
arrival of the steamer. The officers of the
Coptic will be deprived of their shore
liberty on account of having came in con-
tact with DR.. Meloney. 1t will be hard on
the officers, for the steamer sails on the
23d, day before the quarantine expires,
so the men will have to go to sea without
getting chance to see the city. The Custom
house men will be put on the island with
the Steerage passengers.
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TIES FOR THE NEW ROAD.
Directors Considering the
Purchase of More
Supplies.
NEARLY THREE MILLIONS NOW
Stock Subscribed Is Sufficient to
Build and Equip the
Railway.

Saturday being busy day with directors
of the San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railway, no meeting was held. A
notice was sent out by the secretary that
the directors are expected to meet to-
morrow for the transaction of important
business requiring prompt action on their
part.
At Mondays session the question of
purchasing ties for the road will come up
for discussion, and it is likely that large
order will be given there and then, or, at
least, arrangements will be made for the
purchase of ties for twenty miles of track.
Chief Engineer Storey stated that there
will be no difficulty in supplying ties as
quickly as they are needed for construction
of the road from Stockton.
"There are enough ties on hand in
lumber-yards up The coast to fill the first
order before the rails and other material
arrive at Stockton" said he. at does not
matter how fresh or green the ties are, as
they will season after laying quite as well
as in the yards. Once we begin laying
them we won't stop to consider how green
they are, for they will go down as fast as
men can lay them from construction trains.
81 have been reliably informed that
there are several corps of surveyors out in
the field in different sections trying to
| head us off every way they can. But that
can make little, If any, difference to US.
| The valley road will be built over the sur
veys made by our engineers, and [ don't
| think that opposition can cut much OF a
| figure now"
| Director Isaac Upham made a statement
| in the afternoon that the total subscrip-
| tions for stock in the road reported up to
Friday night amounted to 81, 446, $50.
| ''There are many more subscriptions not
yet reported" he added land they are not
| included in this aggregate sum. Then we
| have not included subscriptions from
Stockton, Fresno, MERGED, Visaia and all
the towns down in the San Joaquin Valley.
We don't know yet exactly how they stand,
only that they are in every way satisfac-
tory to the directors and promoters.
With the local list that is not reported
! should say the total subscriptions amount
| to $2,5O0,000 Adding the subscriptions
that have been made, and are yet to come
from the interior, believe that something
like Sc, OO00 600 of stock in the valley road
has been purchased.
1--WE have enough on hand to build the
road from Bakersfield to Stockton and to
| fully equip it. After the road is in opera
| ton between those two points we will have
land. The rest will be very easy"
| The headings on subscription books were
changed yesterday from the old form,
which was in the nature of a promise or
guarantee, to the following business order
! for stock:
The undersigned do, each one for himself and
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consideration will apply to adjacent prop
erty. Opposition to the Improvement on
the part of property-owners on the score of
cost thus appears unlikely and ridiculous.
The property owners are not going to OBJ
ject. They will rather dispute aggressively
over the route, and in such a circumstance
lies the only danger of the project falling.
But let us have boulevard, and tirst-class
one, whatever may be the particular route
decided upon in the future.
In my opinion the best way to go about
the work OF securing the boulevards l have
spoken of is to let the Half-million Club
select as a commission or committee those
able and public-spirited men who, by their
standing and known integrity, would COM
mand the respect and trust of the COM
munity. Men of this sort could be found
who would take pride in their work and
who would serve without compensation.
The work of such men would be most
likely to be broadly intelligently and hon
estly conducted and be kept free from the
influences of intriguing and wire-pulling
for private interests.
That voluntary commission after intelli-
gent study could make recommendations
with much force to the Board of Super
visors, and part of their work would be
the formulation of plans for an assessment
district south of the park, for which they
should be made the official commissioners.
By such plan definite and intelligent
pragress could be made with the best in
terests of the whole city securely in view.
w NJ. FITZHUGH.
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tending along its entire water front and
connecting with the great highway now
being built by the Park Commissioners
along the ocean south of the park. This
would afford a drive of unrivaled interest
from the ferry landings along the bay
shore, through the Preside, past the
Golden Gate and along the commanding
heights that would intervene before the
ocean level and the beauties of the park
would be reached.
Another important feature of the city s
boulevard system should be a driveway
from the business center of the city to the
park. Van Ness avenue should be reserved
with a street connecting it with the park.
Bush street is now the only one left by
which Van Ness avenue can be so con-
nected with the business part of the city.
Another avenue should connect the park
and the Preside reservation.
The projected driveway from the park
southwark is of great Importance, and is
probably worthy of first consideration. 1t
should be of ample width, of easy grades,
sheltered by trees and guarded by para
pets along hillsides. There should be no
great difficulty in building it by forming
an assessment district. San Francisco
should seize the few magnificent oppor-
tunities it has left, and | hail an agitation
in favor of any boulevard as an evidence
of the new spirit and as promise OF better
legislation by the present for the future.
IRVING NJ. SCOTT.
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There is a present gratifying promise
that the spirit Of life and progress which
has so thoroughly been awakened in San
Francisco, in common with the rest of the
State, is to make the city grow in beauty
as we'll as in prosperity.
The agitation in favor of new boulevards
for which San Francisco has greater
natural opportunities than any other city
on earth, and which more than any other
feature might give it worldwide fame, has
been steadily growing for several weeks.
So many progressive men Of influence
have already enlisted in favor of the large
and early development OF these opportunl-
ties that it appears certain that definite
steps in the direction of boulevard build
ing viii be begun soon.
The superb project of building a broad
50-mile driveway from Golden Gate Park to
San Jose, which arose in San Mateo County
recently, began the boulevard agitation.
That idea was taken up soon in this city
by a few progressive men, and the posi-
bility of this city's doing its share by build
ing a boulevard from the south entrance
of the park to connect with the great high
way that was planned to run the length of
San Mateo County quickly became posi-
biIity
A driveway from the park southwark to
Lake MERGED and the county line, using
the present Almshouse road for portion
of the way, is one of the most natural and
desirable improvements from a purely
local point of view, so that the south-of-
the-park boulevard at once became an in
dependent project, though still retaining the
surety of a connection with the main high
way down the bay shore. In itself this
boulevard would afford one Of the most
magnificent and popular drives about the
bay, and even the present Ocean House
road would connect it conveniently with
the boulevard along the ocean shore.
The ideas OF those who quickly favored
this project at once enlarged to embrace
other needed driveways, and so a general
boulevard boom has been begun. Few for
get the opportunity for the grandest boule-
ward in the world presented by the entire
bay and ocean frontage of San
Francisco, nor the badly needed and easily
obtained driveways connecting Van Ness
avenue, the Presidio and the park.
Some interesting ideas of prominent men
concerning what the city should do in the
line of boulevard improvements are here
given.
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NEEDED AT ONCE.
The Half-Million Club Will Soon Give 1t
hacking

The Half-Million Club Will Soon Give 1t
Backing.
The boulevard system which San Fran
cisco needs so much will undoubtedly be
one of the first things which the Half
million Club will take hold of and care
fully consider as soon as its organization is
completed and the excursions it now has in
hand are over.
Fine and convenient driveways are an
absolute necessity to the city, and they
must be among. the first improvements
undertaken if San Francisco is to success
fully enter upon new era of progress.
They will give the city valuable reputa-
ton and desirable fame, will add greatly to
the pleasure of residence here, do much to
develop civic pride, enhance the value of
property, increasing the assessed valuation
and will make the city attractive to people
who may come here to live. Euclid ave-
nue. has mainly given Cleveland its
fame as a beautiful city, and many
it. On every fair day it is crowded with
equipages as is the beautiful and famous
lake-shore drive of Chicago, which is con-
stantly enioyed by thousands. San Fran
cisco may have boulevards far exceeding
these in beauty and interest, as we'll as
fame. The sooner they are begun the
sooner they will be finished and the
cheaper they will be. They should be pro-
vided now, that the. present generation
may get some benefit from them.
The boulevard from the park southwark
that is the one now most definitely
projected-would be one of the most de-
sirable, and would afford superb and ex-
ceedingIy popular drive, with rare scenic
attractions. One of the greatest considera-
tions in its favor is that it would afford an
outlet to the beautiful bay-shore region to
the south for pleasure driving. To make
it complete and of its fullest benefit it
must connect with an attractive driveway
through San Mateo County and on
to San Jose. Without further i'm
proyement of the main highway through
the two counties to the south, it
would make that interesting region access
ible for pleasure driving, but essa52 without
that connection it would be OF untold bene-
fit to the city. l can think of no Improvement
that would be of such value at compare
lively small cost. Let it be built at once.
and it will be a big influence to stimulate
San Mateo and Santa Clara counties to take
up the great bay-shore boulevard project.
Within the city limits this boulevard
would afford q magnificent circular drive
through the commanding hills south of the
park, connecting with the boulevard now
being built south of the park along the
ocean shore. 1t would give a majority of
the people of San Francisco a revelation of
the scenic attractions about the city. l
think there will be no difficulty in carrying
this particular project through. 1t must
be built by establishing an assessment
district, and l am informed that large
majority of the people along the route are
more than anxious for the improvement.
1t would undoubtedly more than double
the value of all property near it, and the
financial problem appears to be an easy
one. III. p. SoNNTAG.
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Dual Action of the Mind.

L. c. Bruce has revived the theory that
the two hemispheres of the brain can act
individually, and that the active one has
preponderating influence on the control
of the motor functions, the patient living
two separate existences during the two
stages through which he passes; the men
tai impressions received during each of
these separate existences being recorded in
one cerebral hemisphere only" In illus
tration of this theory Mr.. Bruce mentions
a case in his own experience which
seems to show r. l.. Stevenson's ex-
pedient of making DR.. Jekyll take a
drug in order to transform himself into
Mr.. Hyde, and vice versa, in less i'm
probable light. Mr.. Bruce's patient was
sometimes an Englishman, or at least an
English-s speaking man, and at other times
a Welshman. As an Englishman he re-
membered what he had done in former
English periods, but forgot all his Welsh
proceedings. He was fairly intelligent,
but subject to chronic mania. He was
right-handed, writing from left to right,
and when asked to write with his left
hand he wrote from right to left. When
in the Welsh stage he was invariably left
handed. He was also subject to dementia
and had no idea of English. In fact his
mental and physical conditions were the
reverse of what they were in the English
stage.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
DKY GOODS.
TELLING The EXACT TRUTH,
1t Is Certainly Difficult Task in Newspaper
Columns.
Offices Thronged With People,
Would Be Large ENOUGH to Accommodate the Crowds

If one could tell in the newspapers the exact,
unqualified truth regarding the work Drs.
Copeland and Neal are doing, no block in the
city would be large enough to accommodate
the crowds who would flock to them.
The exact truth painted by no axaggeration,
dulled by no atmosphere of advertising.
The exact truth just who Drs. Copeland and
Neal are what their vast experience has been,
by what means their skill has been obtained,
just how many thousands who have come to
their offices in the years past burdened or broken
with sickness have lett them at last their
health restored, their systems cleansed OF dis
ease new yigor and new strength impaired to
their lives
The exact truth-but it is more difficult to
represent than you imagine The lawyers
will say that the witness who can set forth the
exact truth has never yet been found
You may say that Drs. Copeland and Neal
are qualified specialists, having had years
more experience than any other specialists in
aoh, that is advertising" says the
other other page and makes the same
observation over the proclamation of ''pro-
lessor" with a bogus title, record of expos
ures for fraudulent conduct posing as medi-
cal man.
and Neal are furnishing the best obtainable
treatment for chronic troubles at one-twentleth
the cost of any other adequate or legitimate
special treatment, or you may print the state
ments of thousands OF well-knoWn people who
anlrm tnab DTS. OOpeldnu anu -NSal nave ". GU
them after other doctors and other specialists
have failed.
'Oh, that is advertising" says the reader,
and with the same careless comment he sur
veys column upon column of portraits and tes-
tirnonials to nostrums and remedies, some
true, some only half true, some entirely fraud
ulent, but all printed in more or less varied
imitation OF the methods by which the public
has become familiar with DrS. copeland ana
Meals work for years.
1t is not so much that in telling the exact
truth you are outclamored by thousand lies
1t is that in all you say you have the attitude
neighborhood and reputation of the advertise
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the hearty support of every citizen and
should enlist general interest. Such
driveways add greatly to the beauty of a
city, and San Francisco is especially lack
ing in them, while possessing magnificent
opportunities for them. First avenue was
laid out for driveway connecting the
park and Presidio Reservation, and ought
to be improved at once. Another we'll
paved driveway should connect Van Ness
avenue and the Preside.
The city especially needs an outlet of
this character to the south, and the one
now projected would be a magnificent I'M
provement, and is, perhaps, worthy of first
attention. There should be a general sys-
tenn of boulevards wisely planned and
Systematically carried forward from year
to year as means can be provided. They
should be built by direct taxation and by
the city as whole, or by districts, rather
than by the issuance of bonds.
r B. Pond
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not one for the other, hereby subscribe for the
number of shares OF the capital stock OF the
San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway
Company as are set opposite our respective
names, of the par value of one hundred dollars
each, and do hereby further agree that the
same may be issued TO trustees, and that we
will execute agreement therefor as provided
and agreed at the meeting of subscribers to the
capital stock of said corporation, held at the
Chamber of Commerce, in the city of San Fran
cisco, upon the 9th day OF April, 1895,
So the matter of subscribing has changed
largely from assisting public enterprise
to purchasing stock in bona-fde corpora :
ton, with prospects of the full dividend of
per cent.
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LAND PROMISED.
What Charles Harkins Will DO for the
Boulevard.

What Charles Harkins Will Do Tor the
Boulevard.
Editor Call: In your issue of the 9Th inst. ap-
peared an article on the proposed boulevard
from San Francisco to San Jose, in which 1t was
stated that the Alameda de las Pulgas is only
fifty feet wide. Permit me to correct this error,
by stating that it is sixty feet wide by actual
measurement. Ny property extends along the
Alameda. 1 am willing to give, gratuitously,
enough of my land to widen the Alameda into
the proposed boulevard, and all of those own
ing land adjoining the Alameda with whom
have conversed ON the subject have expressed
themselves as being willing to do likewise.
am satisfied from investigations that the same
concessions would not be granted by property
owners whose lands adjoin the county road, In
case it should be decided to construct the bou-
leyard out of the county road by widening it
and improving it. One very serious objection
to run the boulevard along the county road is
that in order to widen it into boulevard 1t
would be necessary to remove fences, cut
down large numbers of trees, dig out the roots
aud move back large blocks of buildings, the
cost of which would be very great, even If it
were practicable, which is very doubtful, par
ticularly where the road forms the principal
street of some of the towns through which it
runs.
The county road is monopolized now and
probably viii be to a greater extent in the
future, when the valley becomes densely popu-
lated, by heavy teams engaged in hauling lum-
Der, wood, hay, grain, etc. This traffic would
be more or less OF an obstruction TO driveway,
such as is contemplated by the new boulevard.
Rock for matchmaking the boulevard could be
more easily obtained and at much less cost
along the foothills than near the county road.
1t is to be hoped that the Half-million Club
will be ONE interested in the proposed boule-
ward In case it should it can materially aid
the enterprise, and in doing so win contribute
largely toward accomplishing the-object that
it has in view.
Santa Clara Valley is the natural outlet from
San Francisco. 1t is most singular that it has
not been utilized to a greater extent for that
purpose long before this. The people of San
Mateo County who are in favor of the boulevard
land most of them are) gratefully appreciate
the jealous efforts being made by the CALL in
aid of the project CHARLES HARKINs.
University Heights, San Mateo County.
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A GREAT NEED.
Mayor sutro Has Urged Such a Driveway
for Years.


for Years.
1t has been my opinion for very lone
time that one of the greatest needs of the
city of San Francisco is north and south
boulevard. Frequently have talked the
matter over with citizens and rarely failed
to convince them of the correctness of my
view.
The reason such boulevard is particu
larly desirable in San Francisco is that the
intensely disagreeable westerly winds are
the prevailing ones for nearly ten months
and especially in summer time when peo
pie wish to be out in the open air, driving
or walking. To drive or walk unsheltered
from the disagreeahle winds that blow
from the Pacific is no pleasure on account
of the dust. Had we north and south
boulevard, with several rows of trees
planted on each side, but particularly on
the west, in few years there would be
ample protection from the inclement winds
and walking driving and riding backward
and forward along magnificent highway
would become a popular delight and
pleasure.
[ have vivid recollection of several con-
versations on the matter with Mr.. Pond
when he filled the office of Mayor, though
no practical result ever came of them. Our
pau at CildG 1lllC Wic w obdio at Illt IIc-
sidio on one of the avenues, Sixth Sew
enth, Eighth, Ninth or Tenth, widen it to
100 feet, carry it through Golden Gate Park
to Seventh avenue south, thereby taking
advantage of the gap in the hills at this
point to reach the southern part of the
county, and there effect a junction with
the proposed road through San Mateo
County to the city of San Jose.
San Francisco absolutely requires such a
boulevard, and [ am pleased to see that
the CALL has taken the matter up and adj
vocates it ably and earnestly. No greater
service could it do for the city and its in
habitants, and | hope that thenear future
may see it success. If the property
owners south of the park through whose
private property it must necessarily pass
would deed right of way of 100 feet within
the city limits an assessment district en-
bracing the whole of San Francisco could
speedily be made for its construction.
Once constructed this boulevard would
prove a great attraction to strangers who,
delighted with the locality and the
climate, would be tempted to settle here.
No better aid to the success of the Half
million Club could be imagined. If only a
beginning was made in San Francisco and
the south line of the city reached the con-
tinuance of the boulevard would be sure,
and in few years we could travel from
San Francisco to San Jose along a mag
nificent highway, well sprlnkled and mac
adamized, with beautiful homes on either
side that would make it the gem residence
district of the world. ADoLPH SUTRo.