The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
Health Board and the :.:Council Are Moving.
NEW RATES NOT IN USE
PATRONAGE TAKEN FROM THE
 FORMER FAVoRITE.
Padlocks Placed on Hydrants SoThat the Fluid Cannot Be Used Unless It Is Paid
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Oakland Office San Francisco Call
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 :The permanent war between the two water companies, which has twice been relieved by a truce, is now as bitter as ever, and it is predicted that before long the rate cutting which was indulged in prior to March of this year will again be resorted to.
 =: A year ago it was freely stated that the present Board of Health was appointed :. largely in the interests of the new or Oakland Water Company. There was mulch to justify this statement and Mayor Thomas name was very freely used In this connection It was also evident that a majority of the City Council favored the Oakland Water Company as against the Contra Costa Water Company. All pub :. lie patronage that could be diverted from the Contra Costa Company was taken from it, and whenever the pressure or quality of the new company water was not always up to the mark there was al ways some one on the floor of the CounclI to apologize for it.
 . The Board of Health after examining the supplies of the Contra Costa company promulgated a very rabid document " hlch was circulated by thousands and for which the city government did not pay.
 Now without any apparent reason all this has changed. A few weeks ago the City Council by majority vote seemed pleased when the opportunity presented itself to take the patronage Of the City Hall away from the Dinget Company and give it back to the old company. little later it transpired that some members or .. the Board of Health were privately ex- amining some of the sources or supply or the new company, and some dIspara8lng remarks concerning il appeared In print. Still later it has been noticed that around the hydrants iron bands are being placed secured by padlocks, and the only reason for this can be to prevent one company which is paid for street sprinkling or for water for fire purposes, from stealing the water of it's rival and to prevent any . fhar. 1fGTa l. hg k ling wagons might make.
 These incidents plainly show that what ever truce may have existed is apparently at an end, and now that bitterness is again in evidence there may be some reve- . lations. The grand jury that tried to dis cover several months ago why Major Woodward and others were so uneQuivo- Cally in favor of high-Water rates did not find anything of value, 1t being acknow- ledged that all those involved in fixing water rates were not anxious to tell on each other Now that the situation has suddenly become so strained, any sensa- tion is likely to result.
 The new water schedule which those who favored 1t said was the result or years of study has proved that its alleged authors were a long way off in their cal .culations The water companies have dis covered that it was not necessary to en- force it on July l., and they are quite | satisfied with the revenue obtained under l the old rate. This is situation which l columns of defense of the ordinance, could explain.
 Army and Navy League.
 7, OAKLAND, Aug. 22.-The fifteenth an- .nual encampment of the Army and Navy Republican League will be held in the AiCazar building, San Francisco, on the 27th inst, and twenty alternate delegates have been elected from here to attend They are as follows J. A. Sands, Major Sherman, F. W. Little, F. NJ Phelps, F. c. ShipIey, Colonel c. NJ Pierce. H D. Talcott, R. A. Marshall, F V Wood, L. D. Manning, pr. E. ". Bradley, Os- car Judeh. James Evans, E. B. Reader, ~ M. w. O'Brieu, J. Ellington, k. c. Rob ,inson, NJ D. Hyde, W. J Collins
 Divorced in Old Age.
 :.- OAKLAND, Aug. 22-Judge Hall to- day granted a divorce to Frida Frisch- knecht from her husband, Conrad Frisch- knecht, on the ground of cruelty The parties are both aged residents here. The plaintiff is allowed to resume her maiden name, Frida Brennenstuhl, and to her is Awarded the household furniture. also