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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-07
NOE VALLEY Up IN ARMS,
The San Miguel Defense Asso'
citation Has Engaged a
Law Firm.
Rousing Meeting of Property.0wnerS
Held and a Subscription List
Started.

The San Miguel Defense Association
held rousing meeting last night at Jud-
son Hall.
The question so long agitated by the
property-owners as to who shall undertake
the defense of the suit and how 1t shall be
conducted was satisfactorily settled.
At last nights meeting four bids, SUBJ
mitted by different attorneys were read and
discussed at length. A committee of five
was finally appointed TO consider the
offers and make q recommendation for one
of them.
The bid of Attorneys Lane & Lane was
accepted by unanimous vote. The offer
reads as follows:
To Captain Robert ". anderson and other mem
berS OF the Vest Of Castro improvement Club
GENTLEMEN: At the solicitation of several of
your members we beg leave to submit the fol-
lowing proposition relating to the defense of
your proposition against the attack of the Noe
heirs:
If you will guarantee US the defense OF at
least 500 lots we viii defend them through the
Superior and Supreme courts for a fee OF 81 a
lot.
The County Clerk informs us that defend
ants can be grouped in answering and pay but
fee OF 81 per answer. This will enable us to
answer in the present case for many defend
ants at once and divide the expense among
them, which would make 1t but few cents
We should say that the total court expenses,
where so many are united in common de-
Tense, would not exceed so cents a lot. OF
course, where default has been taken to set
default aside would necessitate extra expense
and labor, and such cases could not be taken at
so low figure.
The ends aimed at can perhaps be best at
tanned with least expense and more perfect
guarantee on both sides If your club Will ap-
point small and representative committee,
which shall have charge OF all details
and shall obtain the cooperation of as
many lot-owners as possible and collect and
hold the fees.
Messrs. A. j. Rich & Co., real estate dealers,
have placed with US the defense OF thirty lots
and these you may include in the 500 Yours
respectfully, LANE & LANE.
A committee, composed of Captain
Robert Anderson, +. E. Hackney and w.
E. Nixon, was appointed to devise ways
and means for collecting the necessary
money and to report at the meeting next
Friday night.
A roll was prepared for each member to
sign as a pledge of the dollar to be paid at
the next meeting, and at the suggestion of
Mr.. Smith the secretary was directed to
deliver notice by mail to the active mem
bers who would use their influence in ex-
planning the nature of the offer to other
mem Ders and use their persuasion to bring
them to the next meeting.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-07
CAPT. WING DISGUISED.
He Will Not Refit His Ships in This Port
Any More Because of High
Port Charges.

High port charges are driving shipping
away from San Francisco. The big New
Bedford whaling firm of ]. & w. R. Wing
has for the past ten years reftted its YES
sells in this port. During that time it
has expended over half million dollars.
Three of its vessels-the Cape Horn
Pigeon, Charles W. Morgan and Alice
Knowles-sailed for the southern seas. and
it cost $50, 000 to refit them and get them
away. All that money was spent in San
Francisco, and the merchants got the
good of it.
Those days are past, however, and the
chances are that not one of J. & w. r..
Wings feet will ever be seen at this port
again. Mr.. Wing is disguised with the
port charges, and says that in future he
will make Panama his home port. AT that
point he has just as good shipping facili-
ties as in San Francisco, while the rates
for wharfage and port charges are not half
as high. Goods may be a little more ex-
pensive, but the saving on the other end
will more than compensate for that.
81 don't think Mr.. Wing will ever again
bring his ships to San Francisco" said a
whaling captain yesterday. HE is dis
gusted, and does not scruple to say SO.
don't think he has definitely settled upon
Panama for headquarters. He may go to
Honolulu. and [ think that would be the
better place Of the two. In Honolulu he
can get new crew If necessary, and in
Panama he could not. 1t is pity he is
going, as it will give this port black
eye"