The San Francisco call., 1898-01-20
SUPERVISOR CLINTON.T
 BE INDORSED Public Meetings Will Be Called to Up-
 hold Him. Mission Property-Holders Fighting the "Monkey
 Park Job." Movement Organizing to Un- mask the Plot to Rob
 the City. l OPINION TO BE AROUSED.
  An Influential Committee Will Point Out the Path of Duty to the
 Supervisors.
Movement Organizing to Un- mask the Plot to Rob
 the City.
OPINION TO BE AROUSED,
An Influential Committee Will Point Out the Path of Duty to the
 Supervisors.


 The better class of citizens in the Mission district is thoroughly aroused to realization of the kind of colored biped that turks in the woodpile of the geological experts and enthusiasts on l the Board of Supervisors, and purpose making public exhibition of the freak. At an important meeting held by lead ing property-owners and influential residents of the Mission yesterday | afternoon 1t was decided to provide for | the public ratification, at an early day, 1 of the position Supervisor Clinton has | taken against the conspiracy to dump 1 on the already overburdened taxpay- CTS of San Francisco what has come | to be described as "the monkey-park job" Under cover of the resolutions to | be presented an exposure is to be made of the plot to rob the city in the inter- est of a clique. Besides, the subject of | improvements actually needed in the district will come up for thorough dis cussfon and review.
 Primarily it was the intention to hold this mass meeting Saturday night, but the organization committee was unable to procure a suitable hall. Monday and Tuesday nights were objected to on the ground that public interest and excitement would be centered in the d1- versions of the Jubilee week, while i similar objection obtained against nam ing the following Saturday evening, as | 1t Is on that day the mining exhibition opens. All things considered, 1t was deemed wisest to name some early day in the succeeding week for the first de- [ +rnf ion nd n ing promptly with a second and third, in widely separate sections of the dis drict so that knowledge of the pro- posed fraud may be brought to the at- tention of all classes.
 The gentlemen having the matter in hand are acting in perfect accord, and affirm they will fight the manipulators of the deal to a finish.
 When this proposition for Mis- sion park and zoo was originally can- vassed," said one of the committee yes terday, many of us favored it, and a large number of good citizens signed the petition, without having given the subject proper inquiry. As to the real motive at the bottom of the scheme the design to rob the city out of many thousands of dollars under the pretext of having the Supervisors un- dertake a public improvement-we were kept in the dark. In short, we were cunningly and plausibly deceived. The moment we learned that the proposal concealed a m0EstrouS and daring piece of jobbery we opposed it. Dr. Clinton was deceived like the rest of us. He speaks our sentiments and has the courage to represent officially not only our disapproval of the hum bug, but our determination to unmask it, even if we have to go into the courts. This we do not think will be necessary. We know the Mission people will not indorse such a transparent steal and we are certain the Supervisors will not dare to act in defiance of the public opinion certain to be expressed to them in no uncertain manner before we get through with showing up the jobbery."
 It is a claim to be urged by the com- mittee that little more than half the amount of money proposed to be squandered on the purchase of the so- called "monkey-house tract" would be sufficient to equip the city with a first class hospital and pesthouse, to take the place of the inhuman and disgrace full institutions at present described by those names.
 2 They insist that the system of dis tributive confinement for criminals is . especially pernicious, and that the worst and most expensive feature of il is what they sarcastically denominate :; the health resort" maintained for yagabonds and petty offenders in the
 
 this building, as we'll as the industrial home, should be vacated, and the in- mates transferred to the City Prison 2 If the people desire an institute for the : propagation of monkeys and parrots '. the House of Correction building, at a comparatively trifling outlay, they = maintain, could be utilized for such 7 purpose, while at the same time econ- = omy and greater efficiency of control would be assumed by the removal :, thence of class of willful criminals , who are at present pampered.
 : The hundred-acre tract occupied by z. these structures and owned by the city ,, is not more than a thousand yards dis . tant from the "Gum-tree Tract" and is better adapted for a park. Moreover it would cost no more than might be re quired for improvements, while in the q case of the Mission Park and Zoe = scheme 1t is proposed to make the tax. v payers disgorge the handsome sum o1 $3S7. 900 for a plot of ground on whicf the appraisement is approximately $55, ,00O
 These subjects, as we'll as the necessi r ty of reconstructing the Mission school. V and extending the street Improvements ' will be discussed thoroughly by prop erty-owners and citizens having the best interests of the Mission at heart when the promised meetings are held :. SUPERVISOR SMITH, might as wei say it first as last: l am not in favor O.