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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-26
OPPOSED TO
CIVIL SERVICE

Editor The Call: In view of the fact
that The Call is the acknowledged organ
of the people, and speaks for all without
regard to it's policy on any of the great
questions of the day, and willing to give
a respectful hearing to ALL we most re-
specially beg leave to request that The
Call give publicity to the following COM
munication in reply to an article in the
Examiner which it has refused to pub
lish:
The Examiner contains an article in it's
issue Of April 49, 1899, under the caption Of
Under Civil Service Rules-Efforts of the
Amalgamated Society of the Off1ce-seekers
Meet With Small Success" which con-
tains these sentences: THAT was the
meaning of that strange political freak
calling itself the Anti-Civil Service
associated office-seekers. Apparently the
ants have fallen by the waySide, and
their brief activity has borne little fruit.
We desire to correct these misstate-
ments, and believing the Examiner would
not knowingly give publicity to mis-
statements without affording opportunity
for REPUTATION, the league assures the
public that 1t Is not composed of the as
ISOLATED office-seekers. or office-holderS
either in the mint or elsewhere. We have
not fallen by the wayside, nor has our
brief activity borne little fruit. On the
contrary our activity is undiSturbed and
giving great concern to certain interests,
notably the associated office-holders and
life-service element holding fat jobs under
Grover CleVeland'S SO-called civil service
order in the United States Mint and every
Federal office in the State Abuse, Vitu-
peration and opprobrium cannot cause the
league to fall by the wayside or falter in
it's efforts. We have held many meetings
and are publishing and distributing a
large amount of printed matter. as we'll
as keeping up a constant correspondence
with the leagues throughout the Union,
and have in Washington a personal rep
resentative, who is giving every attention
to the work mapped out. If the so-called
civil service law was founded on princi-
pies of justice the old veterans removed
by Daggett, Democratic Mint Superin-
tendent, would be reinstated. No; their
successors because they were Repub-
licans. We have taken up the matter and
shortly will take the matter before the
highest court Of the United States in an
effort to have justice done or unmask the
hypocrisy of the so-called civil service
law.
alleged civil service order claimed to be
promulgated by Gage, Roberts and the
civil Service Commission has no practical
effect The Mint has been operating I'M
der the same rule ever since Cleveland
order of May s, 1895, and it is asserted by
those who seem to know that the en-
ployes contribute to the funds of the asso-
ciated office holders league to foster the
present condition of life service.
The Call will greatly favor the league
to the foregoing reply to the article to
which they take exceptions.
The Anti-Civil Service State League by
E. NJ. CALVIN, President
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Lowest Bidder Wants
to Withdraw.
BIG Difference IN PRICES
PROTEST OF THE FIRM CoNSID-
Erred TRIVIAL.
George H. Fuller Desk Company In
Inmates It's Intention to Decline
to Go on With the
Work.

If the Board of Supervisors approves
the action taken yesterday by the Com
mittee on Public Buildings, and II no
trouble is made by the contractors, the
work of furnishing and completing the
Hall of Justice for occupancy will be be-
gun at once and pushed to an early COM
pletion
However desirable such result might
be the immediate prospect of it's attain
ment is small on account of the apparent
reluctance of the firm to which the prin-
cipal contract is to be awarded to fulfill
its obligations. The bids for furnishing
the Hall Of Justice were presented to the
Board of Supervisors on April II and
were to have been opened on that date.
This formality was, however, delayed un-
til last Monday, when the bids were
opened and referred TO the Committee on
Public Buildings. In the meantime one of
the bidders, the George H. Fuller Desk
Company filed a written protest and
asked for the withdrawal of their bid on
the ground that a member of the board
had declared that he was of the behef
that there was to be "rake-on ana
that he would defeat The proposition OF
letting the contracts. The protest was
considered trivial and was not allowed.
When the bids were opened It trans
pired that the bid of the George n. ruler
Desk Company for supplying furniture,
Photographic appliances and Kitchen 1ur-
niture was $G014 lower than the next hlgh-
est bid for the same WOIk. "A representa-
tive of the company appeared before the
Committee on Public Buildings yesterday
and declared that his firm did not want
the contract and renewed the protest pre-
viously made to the board. He even in
timated that if the board insisted on
awarding the contract to the firm as the
lowest bidder the matter would be taken
into the courts.
The implied threat had no effect and
the committee voted to recommend that
the contract be awarded to the reluctant
firm. The amount of the bid is $40 1856.
and there is in the hands of the clerk of
the Board of Supervisors a certified check
for $4,000 from the firm to insure its per-
Torrance of the CONTRACT. The other con-
tracts for providing furnishings for the
building were awarded to the lowest bid
derS as follows:
For gas and, electric fixtures, San Fran
cisco Novelty and Plating Works, Sl6,950;
water filter system California Artistic
and Metal Wire Company, $2450; electrical
apparatus, switchboard and telephone
system, Webro-Hendy Company. 1925;
tinting and decorating. j. Smith & Sons,
$500.
In the matter of the bids for doing the
plumbing work in the new police station
building at Seventeenth and Mission
streets the committee agreed to allow
John J. MCGOWAN to withdraw his bid
upon a showing that he had made a mis-
take in his figures and had asked leave
to withdraw the bid within the statutory
time. The contract was let to the next
lowest bidders. Allen & Looney, for $5675.
MCGOWAN bid was $1,000.
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BROADER GENERAL SMITH.

z Ii Californians will feel something OF gratii-
\ cation in the promotion OF Colonel Smith OF
the First California to the rank of brigader
general. The California in the Philippines have
had much Of the severest work Of the campaign to do
and have distinguished themselves for steadness OF
discipline well for daring valor the field OF
battle The promotion OF General Smith is of course
a recognition OF the service of his gallant regiment
and to that extent is an honor for the State.
The elevation OF the former colonel to the rank OF
brigade commander makes room, OF course, for the
advancement OF other California officers in the First
Regiment so that a considerable number of our fel-
low citizens at the front will come home with higher
rank than when they went away
AS these promotions constitute one Of the very few
pleasing features OF this dreary with savages in
ar-off land they will be received with the graft
fcaton Whatever may be the differences OF opinion
concerning the itself there will be to feel
other than just pride in every evidence given of the
military efficiency and patriotic valor OF boys
the front.
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COMPETITION IN LIGHTING.

{ O far as the Board OF Supervisors is concerned,
II has discharged its duty to the public in grant
- ing the Mutual Electric Light Company per-
mission to erect poles outside the fire limits But
this grant does not by any means solve the lighting
problem in San Francisco. II the Mutual Company
proceeds in good faith to construct a distributing
system outside the fire limits and an underground
system which it is already operating in part inside
the fire limits, rates may down all around. That
is to say il the competing corporation goes ahead
and completes in good faith with the monopoly con-
Germ consumers will derive benefit throughout the city
But heretofore it has not been the custom OF COM
petitive lighting companies to persist in bringing
prices down to business level AS soon as they have
succeeded in forciby entering the preserve OF the
monopoly concern they have consolidated with that
corporation.
It is not necessary to recount the history OF these
amafgamations. Every person familiar with the IL
Illuminating problem in San Francisco can recall at
least hall DOZEN However one great point has been
gained. The Supervisors have broken down the long
established rule that competition in electric lighting
may be prevented by refusing permission to compel
ing companies to erect poles. This has been effected
mainly by Judge Seawels decision declaring that it
is unconstitutional to stihe competition in that way
Now that poles are be permitted outside OF the FIRE
limits, and an underground system is to be enforced
inside the fire limits any company or person may
enter the field and inaugurate competition in supply
ing illumination to people. This is a tremen-
dous step toward squeezing the water out of the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Company and reducing
lighting in San Francisco to a business basis.
The Equitable Gas Company is furnishing il
urninant OF good quality at 81 per thousand cubic
feet The Mutual Electric Light Company is sup
plying electricity from 20 to 80 per cent less than
is being charged by the old concern When the indie
pendent Electric Lighting Company begins business
further reductions will undoubtedly follow.
Thus the light appears to be breaking in all direc-
lions San Francisco is behind almost every other
American city in the OF electricity, consequent
upon the maintenance by numerous Boards OF SUI
pcrvisors OF monopoly by single corporation. 1t
* interesting commentary on the situation to say
that the lines OF construction have been broken not
by regulation under State laws, but by fierce COM
Detitjye fight
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tobacco syndicates in the

of the largest tobacco syndicates IN the
United States.
Mr.. Gunst is also reported as SAYING:
eve will open leading retail cigar stores
in the cities of San Francisco, Chicago,
ST. Louis, New York and Boston.
We are positive of his failure IN Bos,
ton, as that is strictly a home Industrial
city Now of what benefit VIII this great
enterprise be to San Francisco or the
of our most prominent business men and
a city official. we would like to ask him
a few questions. Why will he not start
one of his factories IN San Francisco to
manufacture cigars for home consump-
ton? He states that he is. purchasing to-
bacco plantations in Cuba. Can 1t be that
he fears that the tobacco would spoil on
its transit to San Francisco? We can
positively assure him that tobacco i'm
proves with age Is 1t possible that he
thinks we have not the skilled mechanics
here to make the cigars?
The International Cigar-makers' Union
of America, of which our local union is
branch, is composed of the best skilled
mechanics in the trade In 1886 it paid
the railroad fares of 800 first-cfaSS Eastern
cigar-makers to San Francisco, and would
have furnished the means of transporta-
ton for more had they been needed here.
We therefore claim that Mr.. Gunst favOrs
other localities for the reason that he can
there obtain tenement-house cheap labor,
where father. mother and children slave
day and night for bare livelihood we
can assure Mr.. GunSt that If he cOntem-
plates the employment of free American
labor in the cities in which he proposes
to establish his factories we can serve
him equally as well at home in the manu-
featuring of these cigars. We would fur
Their ask him if California is not the best
adapted locality in the United States for
cigar-making. on account of its climatic
advantages The Cfgar-makers' Inter
national Union stands ready to deposit a
reasonable sum of money in any bank
designated by Mr.. Gunst to secure MIN
against pecuniary loss should it fail to
furnish him with as skilled mechanics in
San Francisco as he can find in either
New York or Key West. We cordially
invite Mr. Gunst's reply to these ques-
tons inside of a reasonable time. Re
specially, j. WOLF, President,
PHIL DAVIS, Secretary.
Press Committee Cigar-makers' Union rs
of San Francisco.
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THE TRANs-M MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS

II n official call for the assembling OF the tenth
I \ session OF the Trans Mississippi Commercial
4 4 Congress at Wichita has just been issued The
object of the Congress, as is we'll known is to pro-
mote the business interests OF all the States and Ter
ritories lying west OF the Mississippi, and it is
pected there will be large attendance.
While the discussions to be confined to subjects
of common interest the section represented the
congress- they will have, nevertheless, very wide
scope. Among the questions to be considered are
the irrigation OF arid regions the improvement Of
Western rivers, Nicaragua canal Pacific Coast har-
bors the Gulf outlet, transportation facilities Pacific
Ocean trade, mining, Western agriculture, national
quarantine and statehood for the Territories.
In addition to the strictly Western subjects there
to be discussions topics of interest the
nation as a whole Among these the Monroe
doctrine, trusts and combines, foreign pos
sessions the election Of United States Senator's and
representation at the Paris Exposition and at the
Louisiana purchase exhibition at ST Louis.
The discussions OF the congress have the effect Of
directing public attention important Western is
sues, and are helpful in promoting interests 1t
is to be hoped therefore, that California will be
strongly represented at the Wichita meeting
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
Young children, to avoid

Young children, to avoid
marasmus, Scrofula, or
ricketts,, and develop healthy
tissues, bones and teeth, need
fats andhypophosphites. DR..
W. Gilman Thompson,
Prof. Materia Medica and
Therapeutics, in the Uni
versity of New York, asserts
that Cod-liver Oil is the
best fat for the purpose.
SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil partly digested and
combined with hypophos-
Phites, it gives children
material for rich blood,
solid flesh, bones and teeth.
soc and sI.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE. Chemists. New York
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Wants Damages for a BEATING.

Fay j. Barnes began suit in the Jus
tees Court, through her attorney, ]. N.
E. Wilson, to recover $3.50 damages which
she claims to have sustained at the hands
of her brother-in-law. Charles H. Rogers,
on February 6 of this year In her com
plant she alleges that Rogers struck
her and knocked her down and inflicted
injuries that caused her much bodily and
mental agony and necessitatede the ser
vices of q physician for several weeks.
The day following the occurrence of the
events which form the basis of the COM
plant Rogers was arrested at the in
stance of Miss Barnes on a charge of bat
terry. The case was heard in the Police
Court and ROGERS was fined $50.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

Columbia-"The Wrong Mr.. Wright.
California-"A Old Time"
Opera Ell Captain.
Orpheurn-Vaudevile.
Acknowledgment swift
Tivoli-"The Geisha."
Theater-Naudevile every afternoon
and evening.
Oympa-Corner Mason Ellis streets. specialties
Co., Market street, Eighth
Battle of Manila Bay.
Metropolitan Temple-AIoving Pictures
odd Fellows Hall-Sauer Thursday Evening April a.
Ahambra Concert Saturday Night
April o.
FL Campo-The popular bay resort. Amusements every
Sunday
Campers Excursion-TO Santa Cruz Mountains, Sunday
April 80.
sutro Baths-Grand openng sunday April 80.
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Portraits of Postmagters.

Employees of the main Postoffice on
Washington street have subscribed to a
fund to procure portraits of all the San
Francisco Postmasters from the year 1S49
up to the present date and hang them on
the walls of Postmaster Montague Office.
Portraits in India ink of the following
named Postmasters have been obtained
and have been hung in the sanctum:
Frank McCoppin, n. B. Stone, William j.
Bryan, S. W. Baokus, w W. Montague
and Holland Smith; They have already
impaired a cheerful air to the Office.
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GUNST AND
UNION LABOR

To the Editor: In the issue of the Ex-
aminer of April 4. We notice an article
about M. A. Gunst's anticipated trip, in
which it is stated that he intends to buy
tobacco plantations in Cuba, in order to
obtain the raw material for cigar manu-
featuring purposes only. His mission is
to complete the details of gigantic deal.
which, when affected, will place the firm
of NJ. A. Gunst & Co. at the head Of one
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New Trial Denied.

The application of the Government for
a new trial of the case of the United
States VS.. David W. Jones was denied
yesterday by United States District Judge
de Haven. Jones had been sued by the
Der on public land in Siskyou County and
had received a verdict in his favor, on
che grounds of error in the survey and
on. the, plea of the defendant that he
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Yesterdays Insoluents

Petitions in insolvency were filed yes
terday in the United States District Court
by Albert L. Dryden and Franklin
Dryden, ranchers in Yuba County. Albert
owes 1852 and Franklin 1924. Neither has
available assets, LOS
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.eMrs. Wlnslow,s soothing szrnn,,

Has been used for fifty years by millions Of
mothers for their children while Teethlng with
perfect success. 1t sootkes the child, softens
the gums. allays Pain. cures Wind Collie. reg
uates the Bowels and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoeas. whether arising from teething or
other causes. For sale by Druggists in every
part OF the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-26
Stole a Horse and Buggy.

John Corbett, an ex-convict. was booked
at the City Prison yesterday by Detectives
Oman, Reynolds and Ellis on the charge
of grand larceny. 1t is claimed that he
stole q horse and buggy belonging to r.
D. Chandler, a coal dealer.
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The Legislature of Massachusetts, intends to revoke
an edict under which Roger Williams was banished
from the Massachusetts, colony in 1855 1t cannot be
possible that the legislators OF the New England State
think that Roger wants to come back
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AUCTION SALES.

BY A ". Louderback-This day, at 1890 and 2:3o
p Choice Turkish 125 Ceary street.
Davis. Belau CoThis dayat Il o'clock. Furniture. at
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

DEWEY DAY-subscriber. Santa Ma
ria; "A. NJ, San Jose; and NJ. D., City.
Dewey day CHay y mas been proclaimed
by H. T. Gage, Governor of California, as
a legal holiday, and on that day the
banks will be closed.
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banks will be closed.
PHILIPPINES-H., City. There has
never been a census of the population Of
the Philippine Islands and for that rea-
son it is impossible 20 give the figures.
All that there is on that point are esti-
mates varying from 800 900 to 10 600 600
1t is generally believed that 5000 600 is
about correct.
ROAD AND POLL TAX-G. S. E., Ell
Dorado, Cal. There is no law of Califor-
MIA that exempts "a discharged soldier
the United States from paying road or
poll tax. The only exemption are those
who are under q years and over 6O years
of age.
PENCILs-A. F., City. Lead pencils are
manufactured in France, Bavaria, Aus
tria and the United States Such are
manufactured in Jersey City, New York,
Fort Scott Kans., and Providence, r. /:
Other kinds of pencils are manufacturer
in Cleveland, O.; Fort Wayne, Ind, and
Northampton, Mass. The kinds of pen
ellis are: Lead, automatic, business, car
bon, copying, crayon, draughtSman s,
drawing and indelible.
MAJOR AND SERGEANT-Old Soldier,
Santa Monica, Cal. 1t was Major Lewis
Smith of the ordnance branch of the SER
vice, u. S. A, who on the last day of
June. 1897, married Miss Agnes Ruth
LANCE, the daughter of Sergeant LANCE
of the Third artillery, in San Francisco.
The two men were at one time prlVates
in the same command and a great friend
ship sprang up between them. They sep
arated Smith rose from the ranks until
he was commissioned major. Lange new
er rose above sergeant, but in the mean
time he married, and after many years
of separation Major Smith came and
claimed Miss LANCE as his bride. They
were married and have lived happily to-
gether since.
INK STAINS Subscriber, City 1t is
said that oxymuriatic acid removes per-
fectly stains of ink from paper. Nearly
all acids will remove spots of ink from
paper, but it is important to use only
such as do not attack its texture Spirits
of salt muriatic acid, diluted in five or
six times the quantity of water, may be
appl ed with success upon the spot q
minute or two after washing it with clean
water. "a solution of oxaiic acid. citric
acid and tartaric acid is attended with
the least risk, says one who declares
he has used it, land may be applied to
paper and printed plates without fear of
damage. These acids, taking out writing
ink and not touching the printing. can
be used for restoring books where the
margins have been written upon. with
out attacking the text" There are sew
eral preparations for the purpose to be
obtained from StatonerS
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cALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, April 25.-F. r. Hutchin-
son of San Francisco is at the Normandie.
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The dispatches announce that Ii Hung Chang is
going to get his yellow jacket back. After the hot
time he had with the jacket before it is altogether
certain that Chang wants it back.
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HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage
of the round-trip tickets. Now only $50 by
steamship, including fifteen days board at
hotel; longer stay, 50 so per day. Apply at 1
New Montgomery street. San Francisco.
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Cal glace fruit SOC per ID at Townsends..

Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allens). $40 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1042.
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complete service. Full particulars at 628 Mar
ket street.
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