The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-30
SLOT MACHINES DOOMED.
Harbor Commissioner Colnon
Declares Them to Be a
Nuisance.
THE FAMOUS TANBARK CASE
Heyman & Mayer Present Their De-
Tense and Gain Big Con-
ceSSion.

President Coluon of the Harbor Com
mission put down his foot yesterday and
the chances are that the "nickel-in-the-slot
machines" at the ferries will be thing of
the past next Friday. 81 think that the
deriving of revenue from such source is
beneath the dignity of this commission"
said the president, and the representative
of James Wainwright and the Sunset Tele-
graph and Telephone Company retired.
The Wainwright Company asserts that
it has held the exclusive right of exhibit
ing monographs at the ferries and the or-
position wants to gain a foothold. 1t was
then that President Colnon got angry and
moved that everything in the shape of q
nickel-in-the-slot machine be removed.
81 think that if the entire travelling
public was polled, said he, "the vast ma
jority would be in favor of abolishing the
machines. Anyhow think it is beneath
the dignity of the board to accept an in
come from such a source"
The matter went over until the next
meeting of the board.
George w. Kneass appeared before the
board in regard to his boatyard on Illinois
and Solano streets. He pointed out that
he had been there for years and no rent
had been demanded from him. Commits
sioner Cole said that the matter had never
before been called to the consideration of
The board, but that now something had to
be done. as a report had been made.
President Colnon was not sure that the
Commissioners had a right to lease the
property, so the final settlement of the
matter went over to the next meeting of
the board.
The question of Heyman & Mayors re-
bate on tanbark came up on the motion of
PrnSiAant Cnlnnn Tho firm
duction on wharfage, but as Secretary
Regain asserted they had been granted a
similar privilege some time ago and
charged their client full rates, the matter
went over until yesterday.
In talking 20 a proposed reduction of
rates Mr.. Mayer said:
We wish to give our version Of the matter.
In May, 1894, Mr.. Windsor of the firm of R.
d. Hume d Co. came to US and stated that he
had some bark on Center-street wharf that he
could not sell on account OF its being some
what damaged. We took hold Of the matter
and managed to sell the bark to A. B. Patrick
Il Co.
At the same we had some tan bark on the
wharf that was shipped in to US from Fish
Rock, Mendocino County.
After all the bark was sold two bills came to
us for extra wharfage. One bill was for about
$40. being extra on the bark from Fish Rock.
The other was for $7S, being for the bark be-
longing to K. D. Hume & Co. We showed the
large bill to Mr.. Windsor of R. D. Hume & Co.
before the Board of Harbor Commissioners
no doubt he could get rebate on this
bill. He said that as we had bill would we
take his bill at the same time and try to get
rebate for him also?
Mr.. Heyman took the two bills to the Board
OF Commissioners and stated the case. The
board RENTED the small bill altogether and
reduced the large bill from $79 to $50. The
bark from Fish Rock had been on the wharf for
about ten days and the bark OF R. D. Hume IL
Co. for from thirty TO forty days. When Mr..
Maginiss came to collect the bill we told him
that the bill belonged to R. D. Hume & Co. and
that he should go there to collect it. Mr.. Ma
giniss must have done so. Mr.. Windsor then
met Mr.. Heyman and asked him about the bill,
saying that he thought 1t rather high and
wanted to know OF Heyman ii he could induce
the board TO reduce it still more. Heyman said
mo-; that he had done all he could for him,
and that he ought to be well satisfied with the
rebate allowed and ii he was not satisfied that
he could try himself.
Windsor then went to the secretary and to
him stated his case. We have not received one
cent benefit in this matter on account of +. D.
Hume d Co. We attended TO this matter for
! R. d. Hume 4; Co. the same as we would for
| any other customer, and shall continue to look
after the interests OF our customers as long as
! we are in the business.
we have had no business transactions with
R. D. Hume & Co. since May, 1894.
We have had no rebates allowed our firm this
We have the bill that Messrs. R. D. Hume &
| Co. paid to the Harbor Commissioners.
7. w
| being correct.
| The two bills were charged to Heyman G.
| Mayer, and rebates allowed 10 Heyman q
! Mayer and not to r. D. Hume d Co. That's all
| I've got to say.
After President Colnon had protested
that the speech was all out OF order he
| nevertheless came back to the fact that il
| was charging ''alp' if not "more" than the
| traffic would bear. The poor producer gets
nothing and the transportation agency
| gets the profit. Ir the case under discus
| sion Heyman & Mayer showed that freight
on tanbark was - 90 ton, and that at the
| chute it cost 81 delivered At the present
! time the article is only worth So cord
and naturally Mayer wanted to know
! where the producer was going to ''get off,
| in the transaction. On the motion of Com
missioner Cole the bill of $54 was cut in
! two, and President Colnon announced that
at the next meeting he would move to have
| the rates on tanbark reduced in order to
| help the small shippers.
! One Democrat and one Republican were
! appointed to places on the front, making
one Republican less in office. On the mo-
ton of President Colnon Thomas Casey
was appointed to the position of collector
at sections and 4 of the seawall, to super
sede j. II. Mccain, whose time has ex-
| pired. John Newford, on the motion OF
| Commissioner Cole, takes the place of H.
G. Geddes as collector at section l. New
| ford is a favorite from one end of the front
to the other, and his appointment will give
| general satisfaction. Tom" Casey is a
power among the Democrats, and his ele-
walton to Office is hailed with Joy by 1.-The
| boys" Casey has had years of experience
as shipping clerk" on American and
| English vessels, so he is we'll fitted for his
new position.