The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
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that am able to prove it, that T. Lehman,
agent of the Risdon Iron
Works, was sent to Los Angeles to try to
effect the sale of an engine to the Los
Angeles Railroad Company. Mr.. Lem
man succeeded, and the Risdon Company
sent East for Ball vertical engine. Ac-
cording to its way of reasoning boilers
manufactured on the coast are best for
Sutre but for no one else.
''In the more recent matter of the Cali
fornia Trust and Safe Deposit Company,
did these works employ California articles
in retitting the engine-room2 Not bit
of it. True, the Manufacturers and Pro.
ducers' Association entered feeble pro-
test, but so far as the world knew it died
natural death before the ink was dry.
When it is considered that the Union Iron
Works and the Risdon Iron Works, both
more or less under the influence of the
Mayors special friend, the octopus, are
the principal factors in the movement,
their antagonism to the Sutro Railroad
should not create any great amount of
surprise"
In the subioined statement, which will
be read before the Board of Supervisors
Monday, Mayor Sutro gives his reasons
for purchasing an Eastern boiler
'Mayor Sutro selected water-tube boil
ers for the new road" Mr.. Little con-
tinued, "for the reason that he was salts
fed as to their superior economy; but par
ticularly for reasons of safety, as a prop
erly constructed sectional water tube
boiler is not liable to disastrous explosions.
In fact, its construction practically pre-
vents trouble in that direction.
The order was placed with the Eastern
firm for Babcock d Wilcox patent boilers
as there are no sectional water-tube boilers
made on the Pacific Coast at the present
time, the only water-tube boilers made
hor hair nf 10
Mayor Sutro's franchise admits the
purchase of patented articles which can
not be obtained in this State, and the
boilers which we have ordered are fully
covered by letters patent. At the same
time they are no more an Eastern-m ade
boiler than many other so-called Califor-
nia-made boilers, as in reality the latter
are manufactured in the East, shipped
piecemeal to this coast, and simply put
together in the shops OF this City, but
through that means they derive the name
of niamanufactured boilers.
the California Street Cable Railway
Company, with precisely the same fra1,-
chise as that held by Mayor Sutro, selected
Babcock q Wilcox boilers in preference to
within itself that Mayor Sutro was not de-
sirous of saving cost, as he paid about
$4,000 more for them than he could have
got others for, but he felt that the result
he would secure would justify such an
outlay.
Another reason why we selected the
Eastern boilers in preference to those
manufactured on the coast is that the
close proximity of the power-house of the
Sutro road TO the Sutro Baths made it alb
solutely necessary that a safety boiler
should be used, as an explosion of the
boilers might cost many lives and do meal
culable damage.
"While Mayor Sutro regrets not being
able to purchase a sectional water-tube
boiler manufactured on this coast, he feels
that his own interest and the safety OF
those who would be in the vicinity OF the
power-house and in atte ndance at his
baths would be best secured by using what
he believed was the highest grade of safety
boiler procurable, even though such selec-
ton cost him very considerable amount
more than the sum for which he could
have purchased ordinary return tubular
boilers made on the Pacific Coast.