The San Francisco call., 1898-10-09
Will Be Go Tenant
 With the City.
GETS A CYCLERY RENT FREE
THE LATEST SCHEME AS TOLD
 BY A BICYCLE AGENT.
Though the City Pays All the Rent the New Police Station Will Have but Half the
 Building.

Supervisor Devany Is about to present to the city and county of San Francisco another handsome thing in the gold brick line, and the specimen that will be laid before the admiring eyes of the Board of Supervisors upon the next most suspicious occasion is of the pure quill and a good 900 me. lie has no alloys nor affinitiVe met als, but Is just one golden, dollar-marked proposition, from the Devany standpoint It consists of simply this: Devany in tends to be CO-tenant with the city in the new Stanyan-street police station, the city to pay rent for the whole of the present Devany cyclery and to occupy something like half the space.
 The assayer who fused the proposed De- vany brick with this result happens to be special agent of the Pope Bicycle Manu- featuring Company. He has been in the cycle situation in general, and more 8cutely into the situation out near Golden and Devany have been running opposition cyclerles- When it was announced that Deyany, was going to cycling pastures new and that the police were to take his place on Stanyan street the POpes also thought 1t might be well to seek another location where business would be better. Steps to this end were taken. and the Pope cyclery might have been moved downtown within a few weeks, but sud- denly the evacuation proceedings came to an abrupt end. The special agent had as Certained that DeVany was only playing possum. According to this agents story which he sent East to his firm last even ing, Devany is going to reopen his cyclery in the rear part of the Ragan building, just behind the new police station. The plan is to partition off the building into two sections, leaving DeVany 3IXl3I room, opening on to Page street, east of would thus have a room of only 5OX10O feet. Devany has lease on an adjoining seventy-hve-foot lot on Page street, so that he would have ample room for his cycleTy and riding school. The agent of the Pope company saw all Of these things, and wrote to his concern Tn the East, ad- yising that it should keep open its estaO- ushment near Devany's and light its principal competitor.
 This little business spat, In which the public has no interest, indirectly brought to light the gold bricks which the city Is
 The story is told by an admirer of su- -pervisor Devany as follows: You see, the bicycle business has been somewhat dull of late, and with winter coming on it promised to be duller than ever. Dey- any had Q monthly rental 70 pay or S4oo to Ragan. So Deyany he goes 10 the owner and says: 'Ragan. can [ auord to pay you so much money each month Nv lease has two years yet to run. What get the city as a tenant at S165 per month, you giving up say half or the puuulnS for a police station. The city VIII take take money on improvements that when the lease expires there will be no difficulty in renewing it. You will get a profitable ana a permanent tenant. As for me, l will want a place for my cyclery. What is the matter with locating me in the rear end of the building on Page street? There is plenty of room. As for rent why you win recoHect that l have secured you a fine tenant and as mucn money as YOU could ever expect to get for the whole building. One good turn deserves an- other and
 !" Do you want 1t altogether lreef
 ' That's a strange question, replied Devany How much money do you exo EAr he nl6 Ttchin' for more, eh?' m
 {" But IS S25 too much, for you to pay?
 " See here, Ragan, is 1t gold brick that you're tryin' to give me? Drop It now. You've got enough
 Ragan dropped it, and it Is he. 1t is esty will push forward to make this new est presentation when the board and Cap pun Delany have shaken off the moral sDasms that they were thrown into when through The Call the public got its first glance at the original Devany brick.