The San Francisco call., 1898-10-07
DELANY HAS
 ENOUGH OF
 GOLD BRICKS Intimates That More Are in Sight. RAGAN'S REMARKABLE OFFER WOULD LEASE HALF OF sTAN- YAN-sTREET PROPERTY. The Matter to Come Up Again To- Day at Meeting of the
 Health and Police
 Committee.
RAGAN'S REMARKABLE OFFER
WOULD LEASE HALF OF STAN
 YAN-sTREET PROPERTY.

There will he a meeting of the Health and Police Committee of the Supervisors to-day, at which Captain F. M Delany will have something to say regarolng the lease for Devany's Stanyan-street cyciery, which School Director Ragan was In sucn a rush to have recorded last Monday, that he forgot to acknowledge his own sigma ture to the instrument, although he per formed that office for the five Supervisors, parties of the second part
 Captain Delany will not give out an advance sheet of his speech; he will not even outline it, but from the nature Of his remarks to the assembled deputies in the Recorders office, when he learned that the document had been filed, and from what he has let drop on the subject since then, his discourse is expected to be upon lines something like these:
 Fellow members of the Health and Police Committees: As you are doubtless aware I have discovered couple of par ties who are selling gold bricks in San Francisco, and that the city and county has invested In one of these eye-ticklers. brass-bullion merchants, and it is pal pablo that they are new to the business, even though we did invest in their wares
 Now gentlemen, I wish to say that l was flim-fammed into signing this lease for the Stanyan-street police station +
  was signing some resolution to go peIore the board and the insinuatiOn that those fellows opened wine for me DeIoLe signed it does me gross inJustice; snose fellows wouldn't uncOrk a bottle or HI ported beer.
 What 1 want to say, Is this: thlnk these fellows are getting scared anu II, " . . can make better terms for that leasS M lndn the present arrangements. why, hdsd1 came to me the other day ana sbgHeareu h1,fIdins that we only take part of the pullQlhg He said it was altogether too large Tor a police station in that district, ana IT we SIPS a month. Now, there's an idea for vou We can get the whole building for S166. or half of 1t for $125 Having sold us one gold brick he thinks we are crylng TOT victim in sight. who is panting for a chance to pay him $125 month Tor the other half of the place, giving him an income of S250 from the pr9opeLIIyi @ insteau Sl was so anxious to get on record. don Understand this man Ragan, but guess he knows his business.
 This and lot more tne SupeIylser aI se hin troIh will make choice reading Tor the taxpay- CTS. Captain Delany spent much or the lime yesterday at the City Hall, but had iittIe to say about the lease. He did make a few statements, however, that x1era most interesting. He was asked how he learned about the document being in existence If he was not aware that he had signed it.. . answered the captain Supervisor Clin- aon a,,9 came to me and asked why I had signed it. I denied having done any such thing, and he insisted that l had l was kind that I said: If any man says signed that lease he lies.' Clinton stuck to it. however, and rushed over to the Recorders office to see If 1t was there.