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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14
.EUREKA'S NEW RAILROAD,
To Connect With the Northern
Pacific Coast at Grants
Pass.
A Subsidy of 100000 Has Been
Raised and the Necessary Rights
of Way Are Secured.

Eureka will soon have direct railway
communication with San Francisco A
short line is to be built at once connecting
that city with the terminus of the North
ern Pacific Coast Railroad at Grants Pass.
bonus for the construction of the road
has been raised and the rights of way have
already been secured.
''The chief drawback to the development
of Eureka s resources, said Frank N. Page,
merchant and leading business man of
that city, yesterday, "has been the lack of
railway communication with the outside
world. We have a local road seventy
FIVE, miles long, which connects us
with the interior, but heretofore our
only outlet has been by steamer.
The northern terminus of the North
Pacific Coast road is within fifty miles of
our city, but the way is a hard one Tor rail
road building. To meet the difficulties.
however, we have raised a cash bonus of
500, 600 and secured all the necessary rights
OF way and terminal facilities, and work
on the road will begin at once
Business in Eureka? 1t has been
rather dull IN lumber but you must know
we have the finest dairy country in the
State, the value of our OUTPUT being
second only to that of Marin County. SO
general business has not suffered. We
have, too. in Humboldt Bay, one OF the
finest harbors in the State. The Govern
ment ietty, for which $2,500,OOO was APP
proprlated. is under construction and the
water in the harbor has deepened from
fifteen to thirty feet within a year. We
have all the deep-water ships at our doors
now and next season we will accommodate
the cruisers"
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amassed an estate worth about $50, 900.
His new store took the place of the old one
five years ago.
Once he had a legal contest with the
Southern Pacific people and San Francisco
Bridge Company over the grading and
paving of Kentucky street, which he won.
1t was not that he was opposed to the i'm
provement, but he thought he was IN
Justly assessed, considering that his prop
erty was two blocks away.
For two terms he was member of the
lower house in the Legislature during pio-
neer days. He was for long time receiver
in Golden West Lodge No. 264, A. o. U.
W., and was also a member of California
Lodge No. 1, /. o. o. F., the Turn Verein
Vorwaerts and local German social Or
ganization. Deceased was native of Han
over, Germany, 63 years of age, and leaves
widow-his second wife-and a family of
four grown-up sons and one daughter.
Contractors have begun excavating for
the new parochial residence at st. Teresas
Church and expect to have their task fin
ished in a week. The contract for the
building will be let soon.
The Union Iron Works has the first set
of generating engines ready for the Bry
ant-street power-house.
a. B. Mcguire, George Raabe, II. F.
Wynne, Joseph Kelly, Lionel Samuels, w.
T. McEwen and John Rafferty, are arrang-
ing good programme for the grand rally
of all the Folsom-street improvement clubs
which is to be held at Eighth and Fol-
SONS streets Monday evening.
A namber of the Mission ladies have or
gained the Alpha Cycling Club, with Mrs.
Keller, president; Miss A. Wynne, vice
president; Miss Mccarthy, secretary; Mrs.
A. Pendergast' treasurer; Mrs. II. Wynne,
captain; Mrs. Smith, frst;lieutenant and
Mrs Yocum, second lieutenant. The club
will take run out to the Preside Sunday.
Several of the schools in the Mission dis
trict are very enthusiastic in their Fourth
of July preparations. The James Lick
Grammar School will have float. The
South San Francisco Primary School will
also turn out.
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some of the large corporations on the water
front are as follows:
The Pacific Mail uses space 100 feet in
length and 100 wide, takes all dockage and
tolls, makes its own repairs and pays $500
per month.
The Oregon Railway and Transportation
Company at Spear street uses wharf about
600 feet long and 100 feet wide, pays for no re-
pairs, but pays for dockages and tolls and
rent of 1925 per month.
The Oceanic Steamship Company at Folsom
No. pays dockage and tolls and q rent OF $3.50
per month.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company uses
the two wharves of Broadway, sheds, berth
and offices, pays tolls and dockage, but not for
repairs, for $3.50 per month.
The Dunsmuir Coal Company uses 1913 linear
feet of wharf and pays S225 per month.
The Rosenfeld Coal Company uses sos feet
and pays 1925 rent.
President Coinon stated yesterday that
the cigar and other stands on the wharves
have been paying nothing for the privilege
and it was being considered by the board
that small rental should be charged for
those places; also that the coal-hoppers
which occupy the wharves would be
charged a rent. These contrivances are
patented and the owner charges for their
use, yet pays the State nothing for the
privilege of working on the docks. In
cases where the wharf is assigned to GER
tain persons these hoppers will not be
charged n rental.
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storage alone amounted to $4,000, and
the commissions on the sale to $4,000,
this sum being equally divided between
McGlauflin & Co., and III. Dutard. Taxes
on the lot for the year amounted to
$25, 961 65, which was paid by the admins
traitors a short time before the sale.
Of course the weevil story, set on foot no
doubt for purpose which was not lacking
in intended effect, was myth pure and
simple. as was also the rumor that the
wheat was showing signs of decay. Now
and then a rotten streak is encountered,
and occasionally the work of the weev1 is
seen, but this would naturally follow in
any lot of wheat two years old. AS a
matter of fact the loss from these sources
will not amount to anything worth men
tioning, and for grain from the crop of
1893, it may be said to be in as perfect con-
dition as may be expected.
ssWith the sacks it is different, and decay
is everywhere. This occasions considera-
BILE difficulty in handling, but does not
necessarily imply any loss further than the
employment of an unusual number OF men
in resacking. This is said to be due to the
methods used in harvesting, which are in
ferior to the old methods, where the grain
must remain for a long time in storage.
With the combined harvester the wheat is
sacked and dumped from the trip board to
the ground, where it is allowed to lie for
four or five days on the ground exposed to
the scorching rays of the sun.
This burns the sack, and the moving
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ing action as they stow away the grain for

ing action as they stow away the grain for
Liverpool.
When the wheat is all loaded and the
ships have sailed away across the water
the population runs rapidly from 1900 or
1000 souls down to 200 or less and for those
left there is absolutely nothing to do. The
faro banks suspend, the stores close, the
minstrel seeks wider field, and those who
decide to wait around for the wheat to
come again occupy themselves in sleeping
and catfishing around the wharves.
This year the town awoke month earlier
than usual and prepared to load the Fair
wheat. In two days after the deal the
population had trebled. In four days it
had jumped from 200 to 1000, and they are
still coming.
The big warehouses where the loading is
going on stretch along the irregular shore
line from Nevada dock to Starts mills, a
distance of nearly. two miles. The Gran
gers warehouse holds 1893, 903 centals, the
Pacific warehouse 638, 900 centals, the Port
Costa warehouse 708, 957 centals, the Cali
fornia warehouse 900 centals, the Ne
vada warehouse 766, 403 centais and Starts
warehouse 81, 312 centals. Some idea of
the magnitude of this enormous sale may
be gathered from the fact that the admin
istrators received for the block the sum of
S., 053, 200.
George McNear got 60,O50 tons, Ep-
pinger & Co. 81, 450 tons, Balfour, Guthrie
81 Co. 50,050 tons, and Blum, Baldwin d
Girvin 1900 tons. McNear's bill for
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Big men with Drawn and muscle to sell
flock there from all parts of the State to
help load the ships. Buildings along Steam
Beer row, unused for months, rent readily
for lodging houses and stores, and the
rusty rails that thread the principal thor
oughfare grow bright under the incessant
pounding of busy switch-engines. With
returning activity the negro minstrel
comes, the circus, the ight-ingered faro
dealer and the gaudily bedecked siren of
the dance,hall. At Casey's place, down on
the row, they run three games all night,
and over in the canyon behind the hills
longshoremen meet frequently to emulate
the proves of ''Bloody Mike" Brennan
and Sailor Brown in twenty-four foot
ring.
Port Costa is not without real fame,
though. Old settlers point with pride to
the fact that it is the largest wheat depot
in California. 1t shares with Benicia the
honor of having the largest ferry-boat in
the world. And then there was the Port
Costa giant-Mike Brennan-who used to
load wheat at Is cents per hour. To be
sure, he was not native of Port Costa
(who is p, but he lived there for many years,
waxed strong at rustling 10O-pound wheat
sacks, then whipped five men in Casey's
one night, and finally trained on q free
lunch diet and stood up for forty-nine furi-
Gus rounds before the great Jack McAuliffe.
The giant is living in Chicago now and
has given up loading wheat, but they
still boast of his mighty arms and lghtn-
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the force necessary by either of the oth.r
processes by about one-half. The men are
divided into gangs, ranging in number
from six to twelve or fifteen, according to
the needs of the situation. Gang bosses
are paid Sc per day. Truckmen receive 25
cents per hour, while men who work in
the matches or over the side of the ship get
55 cents per hour. 1t is the duty of the
gang bosses to keep the truckmen under
them moving at an easy trot from in the
morning until at night, with an hour off
at noon. AS the labor of the other men
depends upon the regularity with which
the sacks are brought alongside, it may be-
inferred that the crews throughout are
kept at the highest point of exertion.
The ships now at the Port Costa docks
are, with a single exception, all iron bot
toms of English build. In tonnage they
range from 5000 tons to 1900 tons, the
former being the tonnage of the Dunstaff-
mage, the heaviest ship in port, and the
latter figures marking the burden of the
Elmhurst, the smallest craft now waiting
for cargo.
OF the fourteen ships locked only six
are being loaded. 1t is clear that the COM
bine is in no hurry. The syndicate wheat
is heavy club for the farmers of Califor-
MIA. The ships are there and the officers
are impatient for their cargoes. The men
are there and anxious to work, but the
combine is not moved to action commen-
surate with the occasion, and the end il
far away.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14
AN UNDERGROUND SYSTEM
Electricians Are Inspecting a
New Electric Railway
System.
INVENTED BY c. M. BRIDGES.
A Model Has Been Placed on Exhi-
bItion at the History
Building.

An exhibition has Just been opened on
the top floor of the History building which
a good many electricians and people inter
ested in streetcars are examining with in
terest.
1t is model for an underground cleo
trio railroad, and consists of track about
120 feet long, with curves and up and down
grades, over which a little car speeds rap
idly when set in motion. The exterior of
the track resembles cable railroad, but
the interior arrangement is widely differ
ent. AT intervals under the track are
stationary rollers, which long metal rod
under the car raises in passing, the rod
being long enough to reach from roller to
roller. This bar is flexible and accommo-
dates itself to the shape of the track on the
up and down grades.
The inventor, @. M. Bridges, asserts that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14
RENT WAR ON THE FRONT
Captain Goodall Talks on the
Subject of DoCkage
and Tolls.
SPACES USED BY BIG FIRMS,
Small Stands and Coal-Hoppers
Must Hereafter Pay for Wharf
Privileges.

At meeting Of the Board OF State Har-
boz Commissioners yesterday, the question
OF levying tolls upon Oregon and Washing
ton wheat and -four landed at sections l
and of the seawall was considered. At
torney T. L. Ford, the legal adviser of the
board, gave as an opinion that inasmuch
as California grain products were admitted
free of toll over these wharves the COM
mission could not well discriminate against
the importations of other States, and that
it would be an infringement upon the right
OF Congress to regulate commerce.
President Colnon proposed to charge
tolls upon all shippers irrespective
of State at the sections named. The mat
ter was continued until next meeting.
In response to a request for the attend
ance of coalmen at the board to consider
the question of raising the rents of coal
bunkers on the city front number OF the
representatives of the firms were present.
CAPTAIN Charles Goodall made a statement
said that San Francisco was already
charging one-third more than New York
for dock privileges. He also stated that
the Pacific Coast Steamship Company,
which he represented, was already paying
for their coal business as much as they
u.
posed action of the board was unjust and
not proportional TO the volume of the
firms business.
He was informed that it was only the
desire to regulate the rentals in accordance
with the volume of individual business
done by the people along the wharves, and
no discrimination against any one was
thought of. "The law on the question"
said President Colnon, requires that all
wharf privileges must be let to the highest
bidder vet, for some reason, that law has
not been complied with"
"You are evidently not well posted in re-
gard to the affairs along our vicinity" said
Captain Goodall, returning to his argument
that his company was being disseminated
against in the proposed change.
'tHold on, captain" interrupted Presi-
dent Colnon, you pay rent for only the
north side of Broadway No. 1, yet you use
two wharves and the bulkhead, and by SO
doing you get large wharfage free, and
YOU exercise all the privileges of owner
Ship there, saying who shall and who shall
not drive or go there. You see, captain, |
am better posted than you imagined.
think you should pay 40 per cent more
rent than you do at present"
This aroused the ire of the doughty coast
steamship captain, and his retort was tenn
pestuous. =,
President Colnon answered that the
wharyes must be made self-supporting and
shippers must be taxed in proportion to
their business. 81 know or no way to
eoualize matters between your company,
captain. and the Stockton steamers" said
Mr. Colnon, (which can only afford low
rental. than by"
Lowering my rent to theirs, quickly
interrupted the witty captain.
The board continued further discussion
of the matter until next meeting.
The present wharf space and rentals OF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14
A|TKEN IS EX0NERATED
M. M. Foote'S Charges of I'm
professional Conduct Not
Sustained.
Committee of the San Francisco
Bar Association.

The charges of unprofessional conduct
in case now pending in the Superior
Court against Judge John r. Aitken, re-
Gently laid before the Bar Association by
M. M. Foote, have been investigated by
that body, with the result that Judge
Aitken is completely exonerated.
Relative to the matter in question the
grievance committee of the Bar Association
has submitted the following report:
WHEREAS The committee on grievances of
the Bar Association of San Francisco has in
vestigated the professional conduct of John R.
Aitken in his relation to the action of F.
o. Robbins VS.. A. Haskins (No. 5O2S9), now
pending in the Superior Court OF the City and
County of San Francisco, and from such inves-
hgation the committee finds that said Aitken
did not violate the provisions of the Penal
Code, or was not in any sense guilty of unpro-
fessional conduct as an attorney and counsel
lor at law in said action, as charged by M NJ
Foote Now therefore 1t is
ResoIped That said charges are groundless,
and said John r. Aiken should be and he is
hereby exonerated from each and all thereof.
f. R. Taylor, A. L. Rhodes, Warren Gregory, w.
J. Herrin--COmmittee.
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AN INDUSTRY IMPAIRED.
Unfortunate Effect of the New
Fish and Game Law in
Del NOrte.
THE VIEWS OF R. w. MILLER.
Salmon Canneries With an Annual
Output Of 100000 Forced to
Shut Down.

Del Norte County is suffering to the ex-
tent of from $4,000 to 100000 year from
the effects of the new fish and game law
passed by the last Legislature. 1t is likely
that an attempt will be made at the next
session of the Legislature to have the law
repealed
SIN the rivers of our county" said At
torney r. W. Miller of Crescent City last
night, 'the salmon run is peculiar in that
it occurs in months in which they do not
appear in any other streams in the State.
The run occurs, too, only in those odd
months, and at other times not a fish is
obtainable.
I'VE have in the county two canneries,
of which the entire business is confined to
canning salmon. By some oversight on
the part of those who framed the new law,
the close season under its provisions in
cludes all the months and the only
months during which the fish is to be seen
in our waters and for that reason the can
neries have been forced to shut down.
The value of the output of the canneries
has been, at the least calculation, from
$4,000 to 10000 year. They have en-
ployed hundreds of men and women, who
must now seek employment in other lines
OF business and the result has been de-
cided blow to the working people and to
trade generally"
Nearly all the glass eyes used in the world
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14

%OURTEEN big ships are dashed to
the warehouse docks at Port Costa,
and 200 sturdy men are loading the
n Fair syndicate wheat for Liver
pool. 1t is a large lot 900
tons in all-and fills the spacious ware
houses 20 overlooking. This years crop
will begin to come in about the last week
in June, and where it is to be stored is
what nobody seems to know. At the
present rate of moving August will see only
half of the present lot on shipboard, and
where the harvest of the present season is
to be stored is an enigma.
The combine is not at all worried. The
market is theirs to play with as they
choose, and the farmers of California are
at their mercy. Now the mercy of q trust
is not tender, and the producers are sore
afraid. With plenty of ships at their com
mand and a thousand idle men hanging
around the docks and begging for employ
ment the warehouses might soon be cleared
OF this enormous block of wheat that has
been used by combination to bull the
market Of California.
But the game is not yet over The ulti-
mate dollar has not yet been extracted,
and it is fair to presume that the combine
will hold the deal over the heads of the
local producers as long as it can. They
are in 40 hurry to ship, because when the
wheat IS on the Liverpool market they can
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rubbish. Mr.. Lehrke attempted to hurl a
heavy log into the fire and ruptured a
blood vessel in his right lung by the effort.
This laid him up at Rosters place for three
weeks with bad hemorrhage, but at the
end of that time he felt well enough to
come home.
When he arrived the hemorrhage started
again and he was confined to his bed until
the day before yesterday. Then, feeling
pretty well, he got up and went down
stairs to his store. To all appearances he
was well. He ate good supper IL the
evening, but at $50 the hemorrhage
began once more, and DIR. Wemple's
efforts to save him were this time unsuc-
cessful.
When he settled at the Potrero on April
10, 1854, the water was close up to his
place, three-masted schooners frequently
anchored in Mission Bay. and the only
communication with the City proper was
by ferry at Third street. He started a
hotel. but being burned out the first year
he commenced his grocery business
which he gradually built up until he
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the functions required of it. He illustrated
his statement by taking up: one of the
feeding-boxes of the model railroad and
showing the simplicity of its construction.
Another advantage Mr.. Tanning put forth
in favor of an underground electric rail
road is that it cannot be affected by light
ming or kindred causes.
G. M. Bridges said ''This is the first I'M
derground electric system that has been
worked successfully and number of
electricians have Endorsed it. Among
them [ may name Professor A. L. Wander
Naillen and F. Hoffmeister of the Pacific
Electrical Works"
A movement is on foot to take the inven-
ton to France, as some French capitalists
are interested in it.
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POTRERO AND THE SOUTH
Death of Henry Lehrke, a Pros
porous Old Pioneer and
NimrOd.
HE DEFEATED THE RAILROAD.
Had Only So SO When He Crossed
the PlaIns-His Estate Worth
$4,000.

The death of Henry Lehrke, a we'll
known and prosperous pioneer OF the
Potrero, occurred at his home on the cor
ner of Mariposa and Minnesota streets,
night before last.
He was accustomed every year to spend
period of recreation in hunting and fish
ing during the spring with his friend, John
l.. Roster, at the latter's ranch, near
Boulder Creek. Last April he accepted
Mr. Rosters invitation and went there for
a three days visit. On the 9th of that
month he took stroll around with his
host, and they proceeded to burn some
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14
A NEW BAGGAGE AGENT.
j. I. Carothers Appointed General Agent
of the Coast system.

of the Coast System.
]. 7. Carothers was yesterday appointed
general baggage agent of the Southern
Pacific Company in this City. The terri
tory under Mr.. Carothers' supervision is
known as the Pacific system, which in.
cludes the company's roads in California,
Oregon and Nevada.
The appointment was made to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of G. L. Crab
tree, who was general baggage agent of
the Pacific railroads for many years. Mr..
Carothers was station baggagemastera at the
San Francisco ferries depot for number
OF years and enjoyed popularity among all
who had business transactions with his
Office. 1t is thought likely that the change
will result in the introduction of new
methods in handling baggage.