The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-16

for the McDonalds did not restrain MIN
He felt so keen an interest in their al
fairs and believed that it would be crue
on his part to kill himself just whef
they needed him. Excerpts from TIL.
interesting letter are as follows:
Wednesday,
My Dear Friend: 1 think 1 had writ
ten you something about Mr.. ray
bans. Among other things l am talk
ing to him about are the Phoenix wa
ter Works. We are threatened with
strong opposition there from rival
pend a large sum of money there to
prevent any new crowd coming IN
there, and If this money was spent
We could double our own. Your
$23 900 note of Hines and Millays and
the $4,000 note of my own, SlSS,OoO
worth of bonds and notes, and It has
occurred to me that If you could get
one-half of this amount in cash and
the other half in new 8 per cent bonds
covering the whole plant, and with
have named above at the head OF the
concern they to live there and to
manage the works, that perhaps you
would be willing to get out OF the
whole concern.
1 am working here without any
salary and l am at it eighteen hours
in the day, generally getting in my
office a couple of hours before the
it until late in the evening. When L
look at the old ocean at Santa Monica
l often wish that L could go into its
deeps and never come back and get
the rest which l much need. But
this will be a very cowardly deed and
1t would leave you in very unfor-
tunate condition in regard TO many
propositions in which we are interested
in together. And as long as you Will
all love me and trust me and help me
you may be sure that | will stay mere
%xrIyf r,cr fEV< q
or for a salary or anything else until
things are cleaned up. | am threat
ened with opposition in Phoenix to my
street railway line and 1 have have spent spent
to keep the City Council there from
Offering such encouragement as would
give me immediate opposition.
You must acknowledge, +. ", that
there is nothing drawer or truer than
for man to stand right by. every day
and try, through many discourage
ments, to clean everything up IN the
right spirit, never Sinking or run
ming, but trying to fix up everything
satisfactory to all. That nasty Eel
low Woodland is still trying TO do US
cisco for a week and is now back here
again. He went to Mr.. Spence and
told him that your banks were rot
ten and advised Mr.. Spence not to
he has been to nearly every bank IN
town and advised the same thing: L
suppose the reason he singled out MT
Spence was that he hoped Spence
would tell Mr.. Maybury and he would
make it unpleasant for R. H. Jr.
He has a piece of paper on which
he has a list of all the assets of the
Pacific Bank and he goes around and
shows this to prove that the bank is
not solvent and cannot pay off it's de-
postors, and he took this list with
him to S. F. and showed it around
there and has done all he could to get
newspaper reporters investigating
this subject.
This 1 learned on good authority. I
know that r. H. Jr. and d. s. have
got the Chronicle and the Examiner
all o. K, and that we will have no
trouble with them and will succeed in
accomplishing much still. all these
things are very disagreeable and very
humiliating and they make me feel
more anxious every day to try and
help turn everything that 1 am in any
way interested in into cash to put the
same in your bank.
Please do not worry, because worry
and anxiety is what kills people more
than hard work. Let's have only
kind words and kind thoughts for each
other and thoughts of sympathy,
for the Lord knows we are all having
a hard enough time. Very truly,
MI n SHERMAN