The San Francisco call., 1897-03-25
FIVE FIGURES
FOR THE FUND
The Subscriptions in Daniel
Meyers Hands Still
Increase.
Claus Spreckels Gave Hand
somely to Yesterdays
Collections.
The Home and Help Supply Associa.
lion Opposed by the Employ
msnt Agencies.

Mayor Phelan and Lippman Sachs were
especially active yesterday in a praise
worthy endeavor to arouse interest in the
boulevard project among tine business
men of San Francisco. They conducted
systematic canvass and materially
helped to raise the funds in the hands of
Daniel Meyer to grand total of $12, ,414 15.
Claus Spreckels headed the list of yester-
days receipts with a generous contribu-
ton of $1,000. Ths complete list is as fol-
lows:
Claus Spreckels, $1,000; Walters Orpheum
Company, $25; Sperry Flour Company, 800;
Haas Bros, $25; Castle Bros, $25; ]. A. Fol-
ger d Co., $25; William Cluff & Co., $40; NJ J.
Brandenstein Co., $40; Neville & Co., $50;
M Ehrman & Co.. $40; Rothschild & Ehren-
ter Bros. & Co.. $40; Hills Bros, $40; Ma
condray & Co., $40; Z. Z. Bickford, So; Jones'
Mundy & Co.. So; Del Monte Milling Co, $5;
Bradbury, $40; Miss on Grammar School, $40;
Judge John Hunt, $40; Alfred Borel g. Co.,
$50; total. $142O.
With amount previously collected, $40
994 15. Grand total, $12.4 .414 Is.
Out of this amount $1797 80 has already
been expended for manual labor.
The boulevard where some of the erst-
while unemployed are now hard at work
presented scene of renewed activity yes
terday morning, when 400 eager men
started at their daily task. A portion of
these were set to work on roadway lead
ing to the quarry where the rock will be
taken out for the macadam over the new
driveway.
The grading Is well under way for nearly
a mile and only lacks few more DAYS
work to have an excellent roadwa the
entire distance. Most of the hills en-
work are practically leveled, the big cui-
vert is nearly filed, and altogether the
work Is progressing far better than was
e1fPee.eds: fPeesd.v,. cort,,hnt,o,. o.,., 80.
money, consisted of tools and material.
The Justinian Caire Company, /. s. Van
Winkle and the George w. Gibbs Company
contributed picks, sledges and steel. Yes
terday the Pacific Pine Lumber Com pany
made substantial donation in the form
OF 5000 feet of pine lumber. The commit
tee also wishes to thank the Sunset Teie-
phone Company for putting In telephone
In the Toulouse on the boulevard.
An offer from John Kelso of twenty
i've or thirty cars and q mile of
track for use in transporting rock
from the quarry on the hillside to the
boulevard has been received, and Warren
q Malley and A. E. Buckman have each
agreed TO furnish the committee with $100
worth of team work. With this the COM
mittee will be able to widen the scope of
boulevard operations and employ q larger
number of men, of whom there are now
no less than 2150 registered at the COM
mittee's headquarters.
The men at the armory are trying hard
to realize that they are duly certifcated
corporation and are Incidentally paying
the penalty of greatness
Hitherto the organization has encoun-
tered few rebuffs of serious consequences,
but its recent determination to enter the
field OF competition against the regular
employment agencies has moved the lat
ter so members Of the new Home and