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The American Porter''-rivas the Englisi
Stout Porter and 'alf and 'alf-in refreshmen
and mildness new brew of the Anheuser
Busch Brewing Assn
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University Extension Lecture.

Tonight at the Association Auditorium
DR.. John Fryer will continue his lectures
In the university extension course His
subject this evening will be RAILWAYS
and Other Means of Communication in
China" Admission free
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An Arrangement With Father.

Charles Qoquitur)-It is quite true,
father, as you say. that our religious
duties are Of signal moment, but they
are often perplexing and some of them
often seem to me to conflict with others.
Perhaps you and 1 could cover the
ground better if we used some judicious
plan of cooperation. Suppose, for ex-
ample. that you obey the injunction,
"Give to him that asketh." and leave
ing no thought for the morrow life.
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officers for the creditable way in which
they performed their duties. Inspectors
of immigration H. H. Schell and A. de la
Tore were on hand, but had little to do.
The brunt of their labOrs will come to-
day. when the steerage passengers are
released
The people who have been sequestered
in the interest of public health were pro-
fuse in their expressions of thanks to the
steamship company and to DR.. kinyoun,
Federal quarantine officer, for their earn
est efforts to make their enforced stay on
the island as pleasant as possible under
the circumstances. The days have passed
agreeably enough. and the courtesy of the
Custom-house authorities in passing the
baggage one day ahead was deeply ap-
preciated by all concerned.
An event which served to add interest to
the isolation was the birth of little girl
two days ago. The mother. Mrs. May
jackson Hill, was attended by DR.. Kin
youn and Mrs. DR. Annie Walter Fearn,
one of the passengers. and medical mis-
sionary. The mother is the wife of a
rovai engineer in her Majesty's service in
the Orient Considerable entertainment
was afforded in the naming of the baby.
A request was made that she be named
Quarantine Angelina" but the mother
compromised on Margaret Frances.
George Newhall and Thomas d. Mckay,
Oriental passenger agent of dozen lines,
were jubilant at their unexpected release,
and expressed themselves as highly
pleased at everything except the fact that
they were obliged to sleep in one room,
where there were thirteen iron beds, and
they rather thought that the cubic air
law had been violated.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
QUEER METHODS.
A SAN FRANCISCO MEDICAL IN
STITUTION WHICH IS GRE
ATING NO SMALL
AMOUNT OF TALK.
Interest Aroused Throughout the
State and City.

The well-known specialists, DR.. Mey-
ers & Co. 731 Market street, are Great
ing a great deal of excitement in medi-
cal circles. They are the only physt-
clans in America who will wait for
their fee until their patients are cured
Other doctors and electric belt vendors
who are trying to initiate DR.. Meyers
& Co.'S methods of curing men of
weakness and disease. but who dare
not initiate their terms, are greatly
agitated. On the other hand, the sew
eral hundred men who are now treat
ing with DR. Meyers & Co., and the
thousands who have been cured by
these able specialists, are smiling with
satisfaction.
The universal success attained by
DR.. Meyers & Co. is due not only to
their ability and long experience, but
also to the thorough equipment of their
large institution. The staff is composed
of physicians of the highest standing,
SPECIALISTS who are recognized as au-
thority on all subjects pertaining to
diseases and weakness of men.
DR.. Meyers & Co. restore victims of
nervous debility to perfect manhood
and cure all private diseases quickly
and permanently. They cure diseases
of the kidney. bladder, spine, liver and
stomach also piles, varicOcele, rupture,
structure, contagious blood poison, etc.
Home cures a speciality. Call or write
for terms, symptom blanks. advice and
Private Counselor for Men," all free.
DR. Meyers & Co.. 731 Market street,
San Francisco. Elevator entrance.
Hours, to daily, to evenings, to
II Sundays. No charge for consulta-
tiOn Prices reaSOna BILE,
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To Be Installed.

The officers of Stanford Parlor Native
Sons of the Golden West, will be IN
stalled in Shasta Hall this evening by
District Deputy Grand President Henry
F. Pernau After the ceremony of in
stallation there will be the semi-annual
banquet commencing at 10 o'clock.
There will be a public installation this
evening of the officers of Unity Lodge or
the Ancient Order of United Workmen in
Laurel Hall of the Shiels building, after
which there will be an entertainment and
dancing.
The officers of Pioneer Lodge of the
Friends of the Forest will be installed
this evening and the event will be fol.
lowed by banquet in the banquet hall of
the Foresters' building.
Tomorrow night the officers of Rincon
Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West,
will be installed in public in Shasta Hall,
Native Sons building. Refreshments VIII
be served after the CeremOnY.
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BAGGAGE Of
NIPPON MARU
IS RELEASED
Customs Authorities
Do Good Work.
ACTION TAKEN ONE DAY AHEAD
GUARANTEED PASSENGERS TO
BE RELEASED TODAY.
All Fvnrecc Themselves as HiQhlv
ACTION TAKEN ONE DAY AHEAD
All Express Themselves as Highly
Pleased With Their Courteous
Treatment-A Baby Girl
Born in Quarantine.

United States Surveyor of the Port
Chauncey NJ. st. John took force of Gus
tom-house inspectors, examiners, apprais-
ers and laborers to the quarantine station
on Angel Island yesterday afternoon and
released the baggage of the passengers of
the Nippon Maru, who have been unwill-
ing sojourners there for the past two
weeks. Early this morning the quaran-
tine will be lifted by the Federal authori-
ties and the grateful prisoners will be al
lowed to leave a spot which will always
have rather unpleasant recollections for
them.
1t was entirely owing to the courtesy Of
the Custom-hou officers that the bag
gage was examined to-day, and the work
was done expeditiously. But two hours
were consumed in handling a mass of
packages which covered the wharf, and
many were the encomiums passed upon the
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ROUTINE WORK.
Petitions and Objections Keep
the Supervisors Busy.

the Su perVlSOPS BUSY.
The Board of Supervisors met in regu
lar session yesterday afternoon The May
or was absent and Supervisor Collins oc-
cupied the chair. Regular routine bust
ness gave way to the reading OF petitions
from many districts against the curtail-
ment of the appropriation for the Fire De-
partment. After this question was disposed
of the regular procedure was taken up.
The North End property owners. fearful
that the 81 tax limit will be rescinded, ad-
dressed the following letter to the board:
To the Honorable Board OF SUPERVISOR
Gentlemen: AS taxpayers and voters of the
city. we hear with dismay the fact that
the proposed tax rate shall be sl07 We
have reason to believe the members of your
honorable body will carry out and live up
TO the solemn pledges you took when elect
good why the tax rate should not
certainly not more than 81 Useless Off,
cias. clerks who do nothing. large, fat con-
tractors and rake-offs be dispensed
with easily and without loss. Every one
Of the taX-eating officials should be re-
stTicted to what ordinary business man
can easily run his business-a fair amount
without provision for a lot OF parasites
who eat out the substance of the munich
The so-caIied St Mary's Square scheme.
panhandle scheme and similar schemes for
flching the taxpayers should be abandon
ed and the schemers compelled to foot the
bills. The taxpayers should not be com
PEELED to pay lot OF real estate agents
who find themselves with q lot of unsal-
able or unrentable property outrageous
prices for their holdings in order TO in
crease our tax-paying burdens by estab-
fishing useless squares or panhandles. We
have enough squares and Golden Gate Park
and the Preside afford all the recreation
ground and are then only lnfrequcntly
utilized. though we pay hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars to maintain them. We
earnestly hope the board will strictly az
yOnd It for any special purpose whatever.
Let the tax rate be 81 less for MI pur-
poses which, with the extraordinary State
rate. about (estimated) 5S cents. will be
sufficiently burdensome
North End Property Owners Association,
J. WILLIAMS. Secretary.
A petition praying for the creation of a
free employment bureau to be maintained
by the city and county was referred TO
was signed by several hundred of the
leading business houses of the city.
The Board of Appraisers appointed to
find out just how much the panhandle
scheme will cost submitted to the board
an estimate of the coin 1t will need during
the year TO come and a request that II be
provided for in the tax levy. The sum re
quired is $4,000 of which S12,S10 is TO be
used for salaries of members of board
and attaches" and another $1,000 for "ad-
ditional clerical assistance and incidental
expenses" The petition was referred to
the Finance Committee.
Supervisor E. l.. Perrault introduced a
resolution that all supplies hereafter fur
nished any municipal department should
be awarded by contract The resolution
The surplus of $4,000 from the street
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-HE Finance Committee of the
Board Of Supervisors will meet to-
night to listen TO all protests that
may be made by municipal depart
ments to the provisional estimates
that have been made to govern all Of
EciaI expenditures until the tax levy is
definitely fixed in September Many
heads of departments are insisting that
they cannot conduct their offices with
the sum set aside for their use. They
ara threatening to cripple their depart
uants and to force the Supervisors TO
break their pledge to make an assess
n7ant of 81 on every 500 in q total as
sessment Of $3.50, 600 900 The board is
fixed in its determination to honor the
pledge and the members are willing to
listen 70 advice from any one who cares
10 give it and thinks that the Super
visors can reconcile their honor with
the obligations of the city and county
government Every person who is in
terested in the matter is invited to be
present at 1:30 o'clock tonight to en-
tighten the Finance Committee with
his opinions.
The preliminary battle was fought
yesterday afternoon, when representa-
tives of the Improvement clubs of the
outlying districts and officials Of the
Fire Department appeared before the
entire board TO make two demands, one
for an extraordinary additional appro-
priation of $4,000 for the Fire Depart
ment for the month of July and the
other for a general increase for the
entire year for the same purpose. If
This were not done the Fire Department
officials threatened to take out of COM
mission engine companies in Richmond
and on Ashbury Heights. Fire Com
missioner Bohen threatened to do this
tomorrow. There was a long debate
on the matter, which was finally re-
ferred for discussion to the Finance
Committee.
The 6rst petitioner to be heard was
George W. Fletcher, representing the
Point Lobos Improvement Club. He
urged the Supervisors to break their
pledge and provide for the petitioned
Increase No condemnation would fol-
low such action, he insisted, as it
would be taken in the public interest
He then presented the following reso-
luton, which he hoped would be intro
duced and adopted by the board:
Whereas. It appears that under the es
Inmates made by this board that the
efficiency of the Fire Department will be
lnterfered with and that the Auditor and
Treasurer will be debarred from auditing
or paying demands on behalf OF the Flre
DEPARTMENT to maintain the apparatus
of the Fire Department as at present
operated; therefore, be 1t
Resolved, That this board hereby ADDS
TO the. estimates made by resolution NO.
3l49 Fourth seres) the sum of nine thou
sand five hundred C$950O dollars for the
purpose of paying the demands OF en-
ployes of the several fire companies now
organized for the month of July, 1899.
Resolved. That further action will be
taken on his Honor the Mayors return
to correct the said estimate so that suit
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Improvement Clubs Petition for
Greater Appropriations.
Fire Department Threatens to Take Outside Engine
Companies Out of Commission if the Demand
for More Money Is Refused

able provision be made for the main
tenance of said department.
Resolved, That the attention Of the
Auditor and Treasurer be and is hereby
called to the provisions of this resolution.
r-,.. E a,t9 sTADER' ,a-.on.
CARTER HOUSTON.
c. D. SALFIELD,
President Panhandle Improvement Club.
H. E. GRIFFITHS,
Ocean View and Ingleside Club
THOMAS r. CAREW,
1888 Waller street.
WALTER d. BURKE.
L. A. REA.
North Beach Club.
+. J. MEYERS,
NJ. F. TAYLOR, |'i n D'
Ocean View Improvement Club.
GUSTAVE SCHNEE,
Sunnyside Improvement Club.
GEORGE r. FLETCHER,
Point Lobos Improvement club.
Z. L. WAGNER,
Golden Gate Valley Improvement club.
hearing, and after speaking briefly sub
mitted the following petition:
SAN. FRANCISCO, July 10. 1899.
To the Honorable the Board of Super
visors, City-Gentlemen: The annexed
preamble and resolution were unanimous
Of the city and county of San Francisco
in meeting assembled this day in Depart
ment of the Superior Court, and We sub
nit the same to your. honorable body for
favorable consideration, and that the
same be acted upon at once.
GUSTANE SCHNEE. Chairman.
c. D. SALFIELD. President Panhandle
and Ashbury Heights Improvement Club.
GEORGE r. FLETCHER, Point Lobos
N. F. TAYLOR. President Ocean View
WPIIIIAM WRIGHT. Golden Gate VAL
J. E. OWENS. Q Richmond District Club
WALTER D. BURKE, St. Nicholas
c. sTADER, Federation of Improve
ment Clubs.
in the appropriation for the Fire Depart
ment ii has been threatening 10 dlsband
number of fire companies ana engine
houses in this city; therefore be 1t
Resolved, That we view with the great
est alarm the proposition TO dlsband any
in this CITY and we sincerely protest
against any action of the Board OF super
visors which will impair in the least the
present efficiency of the Fire Department
of this city, and we demand that Sufhclent
appropriation be made for the malnten-
ance of said department and that 10 IRE
companies in this city and county be dlS-
banded GUSTAVE SCHNEE,
Chairman of Citizens Meeting
Secretary of Citizens Meeting.
When this petition had been read
Supervisor PerrauIt said that he wished
to know If the speakers favored the
dollar limit. The board had been
pledged to this limit and he could not
see how reductions were to be made
and the pledge honored. The Mer-
chants Association had promised to
submit estimates and Supervisor Per
rault wanted to see them. He urged
that the whole matter be referred to
the Finance Committee. Supervisor
Lackmann placed this recommendation
in a formal motion. Before a vote was
taken Fire Commissioner BOhen and
Chief Sullivan protested. but the mo-
tion was adopted and the Finance
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Mrs. Lungs Denial.

Mrs Elizabeth Lung filed answer yes
terdaY to the complaint of her husband,
DR. George A. Lung, surgeon of the
cruiser Philadelphia, who seeks a divorce
on the grounds of intemperance and
cruelty. in which she enters general denial
to the many allegations of the complaint.
She denies that she has been guilty of in
temperance that she treated her husband
cruelty; that she was ever incapacitated
and unable to perform her duties, and
that she caused her husband great mental
suffering. She asks that a decree of di-
vorce be denied her husband and that she
be given Judgment for suitable alimony,
together with counsel fees and costs.
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A Sen selesS Joker.

During the past week some silly per
son has been telephoning to the Receiving
Hospital for the ambulance to go TO diff
ferent parts of the city. While the ambu-
lance has been away on these fool errandS
in some instances calls were received for
urgent cases. and the patrol wagon had
to be sent. The police have been notified
asked to keep tab on all calls for the am
bulance, with the object of tracing the
Joker.
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HAPPY QUARANTINE VICTIMS
CONTRACTS AWARDED

The following contracts for street work
were awarded:
San Francisco Paving Company granite
curbs and paving of roadway on rupert street
between Baker and Broderick at 2912 cents a
square foot for paving and 80 cents a lineal
foot for laying granite curbs; Peter 1iii MGHush,
crossing of Twentieth avenue and Chestnut
street. at cents a square foot for macadam-
of Clay and Lyon streets with bitumen at %
cents square foot
PRIVATE CONTRACTS AWARDED.
Permission to perform the following
street work by private contract was
granted:
streets, curbs and paving with bitumen, San
Francisco Paving Company; Linden avenue
between Buchanan and Webster streets, bitu-
men pavement and granite curbs, Pacific Paw
ing Company.
ACCEPTANCES RECOMMENDED.
The Superintendent of Streets recon-
mended the full acceptance of street
work as follows
bitumen private contract, San Francisco Paw
ing Company: Sixteenth street crossing Of
Improvement Company; Baker street from
Jackson street to Pacific avenue, basalt pri-
vate contract, Finn & Treacy
TIME EXTENSIONS RECOMMENDED.
The Superintendent of Streets recon-
mended that extensions of time on street
contracts be granted as follows:
Finn & Treacy. sixty days on contract to
nave Central avenue crossing Haight street
same sixty days contract to construct a
sewer in the intersection of Joost Circular and
San Jose avenues and Diamond street.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
The Superintendent of the Almshouse
was ordered to grade and macadamize
Dewey boulevard through the Almshouse
tract.
The City and County Attorney was
asked for his opinion as to the proper
action to be taken by the board fixing
the official grade of Sanchez and Twenty
first streets.
The City Engineer was directed to re-
port to the board proper grades for dis
trict bounded by II street, Twenty-fifth
avenue X street and Twenty eighth ave
nue. at contingent cost of $5S5; also the
district bounded by H and X streets and
Twenty-second and Twenty-fifth avenues
at a contingent cost of S4S5; also to fur
nish tf7- board with a survey of all streets
in Spring Valley Homestead and a de-
scription of the property of r. c.. de
Boom said to have been appropria ted by
the city and also an estimate of the value
of said property; also description of land
to be acquired for opening street for
drainage purposes at a contingent cost of
$470.
The Superintendent of Streets was di-
rected to recommend such street i'm
provements in the Ingleside district as
to enable the Ocean View Fire Engine
Company to respond promptly to fire
alarms.
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STRUCK WITH AN IRON BAR.
Hung Dung Chow, a Chinese Mer-
chant, Attacked by Two High


Hung Dung Chow, a Chinese merchant
at 609 Jackson street, swore to COM
plant IN Judge Mogan's court yesterday
for the arrest of Lee Wee Too and an
other highbinder on the charge of as
sault with deadly weapon.
The complaining witness has been in
terested in a civil suit for damages
against a Stockton boat, and yesterday
morning the two highbinders called at
his store and demanded indemnity from
him. When he refused one of them
struck him on the head with an iron
bar, which he had concealed under his
lump on his head as big as mans fist.
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| DECLARATIONS OF INTENTION.
| Resolutions declaring intention to order

storm water inlet at southerly end Of Burrtt
street.
DECLARATIONS OF INTENTION.
Resolutions declaring intention to order
street work were adopted as follows:
Granite curbs on Shrader street. between
Waller and Frederick, where not already laid.
roadway to be paved with bitumen; granite
curbs Washington street, between Laurel
and Locust. roadway to be paved with btu
men, artificial stone sidewalks east side of
Fillmore street, between Haight and Waller;
artificial stone sidewalks on south side OF
Haight street, between Fillmore and Steiner;
plank sidewalks west side of Fifth avenue,
between Clement and California south; granite
curbs and bitumen pavement on Twenty ninth
street between Sanchez and Noe.
STREET WORK RECOMMENDED.
The Superintenden: Of Streets recon-
mended that street work be ordered as
follows:
Redwood curbs on Ninth avenue. between
Point Lobos avenue and Clement street, road
way TO be regarded and remacadamiZed; paving
with bitumen of the crossing of Union and
Franklin streets; cesspool. culvert granite curbs
and artificial stone sidewalk on northwesterly
corner of Bay street and Montgomery avenue,
roadway of crossing to be paved with basalt
blocks; granite curbs o.- buchanan street. be-
tween Union and Filbert; artificial stone side
STREET WORK ACCEPTED.
Resolutions were adopted accepting the
following street work:
Army street between San Jose avenue and
Guerrero street btumens Laurel street be
tween Washington and jackson, basalt and
btumen; Alabama street between Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth, btumen
TIME EXTENSIONS GRANTED.
Extensions of time on street work con-
tracts were granted as follows:
Warren 6, Malley, ninety days, macadam-
izing Steiner street between Chestnut and
Francisco same, ninety days macadamizing
Pierce street between Chestnut and Francisco,
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action on the reduction of the Fire De
partment it was decided to hold another
this evening. at which time an effort will
be made to devise ways and means to
keep the department intact. 1t is expect
ed that all who are interested In the mat
ter will attend.
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Benefit for Flood Sufferers.

There will be a concert by the Twenty
fourth Infantry band at the Starr King
A. NJ. E. Zion Church, on Stockton street,
between Sacramento and Clay, this
evening at o'clock. The proceeds OF the
concert will be sent to the flood sufferers
in
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For Fire Protection.

At the mass meeting which was held in
the chambers of Department Of the Su-
perior Court yesterday afternoon to take
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Given array with each cash want ddYer-
hsement ordered in next sundays Gail, q
magnificent portrait of admiral Dewey,
printed in ten coiors. size f4x2f inches
ready for frnniDq
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lighting fund was turned into the general
fund and the Treasurer ordered to make
the transfer
A resolution was adopted which requires
an appropriation Of 900 in the next tax
levy to pay the expenses incurred by the
Board of Engineers in the preparation or
plans and estimates for sewers and drain
age.
The reception committee which was ajp-
pointed to prepare welcome for the
First California presented its report, but
the matter was laid over week.
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Yesterdays Bankrupt.
W. H. Graves, Berkeley, s239 Is; no as
sets.
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Army street between San Jose avenue and
Guerrero street. bitumen5 Laurel street be
tween Washington and Jackson, basalt and
bitumen; Alabama street between Twenty
third and Twenty-fourth bitumen.
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STREET WORK ACCEPTED.
Resolutions were adopted accepting the
following street work: