The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26
Reed and Nusbaumer Refuse to
Accept One-Halt of Their
Former Fee.
YEARS OF WORK IGNORED.
The Attorneys Were Anticipating an
Increase on Account of Faith.
full Service.
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OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALI
9OS Broadway, May %.
One OF the strongest combinations in
Alameda County has been broken, and
politicians and lawyers are wondering
what the next development will be.
Because the directors of the Haywards
Electric road have reduced their salaries
one-half, George Reed and Emile Nus
banner, one of the strongest politico- legal
combinations in the county, have severed
all connection with the corporation and
are now looking for a chance to openly
fight it.
Nothing that has happened on Broad
way for long time has aroused more
general interest than this split in the
ranks. The simple appellation of at
torneys for the company does not repre-
sent by any means the relationship OF
Reed and Nusbaumer toward the electric
road. The relationships of the alto rneys
with the Supervisors and with the CITY
Council and boards of trustees has been
far more prominent than their actual legal
work, and in reality they have been the
politicians for the company as well as the
attorneys.
A few weeks ago, during the riots at
San Leandro, when Egbert Stone was ar
rested and when the outlook for the com
pany was very blue, George Reed posted
in haste TO that town and did a great deal
of active work. He exposed himself to
some personal risk. He said the amount
OF work and worry of that job alone was
worth q thousand dollars.
The firm has been the attorney for the
road since it st started, and during all
these years the salary paid was 500 per
month. This was kept up till few days
ago, and owing to the increase OF the
legal business of the company their at
torneys are considering the sdvisability
Of demanding 500 for their services.
Since the advent of Assessor Dalton the
assessments of the company have made
necessary many fights for reductions. At
different times the attorneys have super
intended two bond issues amounting
to 100000, and it is said that the usual
commi ssion for so doing should be $1,000.
All that they have received from the com
pany for four years and half of service is
$500.
The thunder-clsp fell when the firm re-
ceived notice that the corporation had de-
cided to reduce their salaries to $50 per
month. Reed & Nusbaumer thought that
the announcement was preliminary to a
joke, but they were disappointed. They
discovered that the directors were in ear
nest and that $50 month was all the sal
airy for the corporations attorney would
be in the future.
The next day the strong com bination
was broken, and George Reed and Emil
Nusbaumer were not the legal and politi-
cal representatives of the company.
Curiosity as to the cause of the breach
has been great, but it was not till to-day
that the secret was out.
The officers of the company declare that
the amount of work required by the cor
poratiOn does not merit the payment of
more than $50 per month, and that as it is
cold business proposition they cannot
pay more. The successor to Reed &
Nusbaumer is Sam Bell Mckee.
Emil Nusbaumer was asked today
about the affair, but he merely remarked,
''Well, we've done with corporations now.
There is nothing in supplying brains for
'Buch bodies"