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The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
NEW FIREH0USES
IN BOND ISSUE
Board Of Public Works
to Figure Cost ofIm-
provements.
Bill Raising Boxing License
Is Defeated on Final
Passage.

The Board of Supervisors adopted a
resolution yesterday repeating a bill de-
claring against Incorporating in the pro-
posed bond issue for municipal improve
ments the proposition recommended by
the Board of Fire Commissioners for the
construction of fourteen fire department
houses and also the acquisition of five
additional sites. On recommendation of
the joint Judiciary and Utilities Commit
tee the Board OF Public Works was di-
rected 10 prepare necessary plans and es-
Inmates OF cost for the proposed improve
ments.
AS preliminary TO submitting the
proposition of improving Twin Peaks 10
vote of the people the Board of Public
Works was directed to appraise the cost
OF converting the tract into public park
The attention Of the Chief OIL Police was
called TO the violation Of the ordnance
providing Tor the printing OF diagrams of
exits on theater programmes.
The ordinance nXlng the license tax on
professional aIhleJlc clubs giving boxing
exhibitions at $1,000 per annum was de-
feateo on nnal passage and the license re-
mains at Its present ngure of Sl20U.
DAncona opposed raising the Incense as
he said there were other ways OF restrict
ing the sport
An ordnance transferring from the
School Department lot on Seventh ave-
nue. and California street TO the trustees
Of the public library for a site whereof
to erect a branch library was passed TO
print.
The protest Of the North Central I'm
prOvement Association against Depart
ment of the Superior Court holding
It's sessions in the City Hail, as quarters
have been provided therefor-in in the Hall of
Justice, was referred to the Building Com
mittee.
The City Attorney was requested to
give his opinion Al TO whether the Board
of Supervisors has power TO create a
board of examiners to examine applicants
for certificates TO operate stationary or
portable steam engines and boilers and
II so whether the power can be delegated
10 the Board Of Public Works. An or
dinance is under consideration providing
for the appointment of a board of eX-
amining engineers.
The Bay View Land Company rendered
an eight-acre tract of land as site for
a pesthOuse for SS000
The petition Of the Holly Park and Mis-
sion Street Improvement Club for extend
ing Folsom street to Cortland avenue
and providing for eNpending S20. 600 by a
BOND issue for the purpose was referred
10 the Street Committee.
The Board of Public Works was author
lied 10 eXpend $500 to build and eauip
nurses quarters at the City and County
Hospital
A resolution was adopted requesting the
Market Street Railway Company to in
form the board why children attending
school on Saturdays have been discrim-
mated against in the matter of 2Is-cent
fares for pupils
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
OFFICERS OF KING S0L0M0NS LODGE
OF MAS0NS ARE PUBLICLY INSTALLED
Many Ladies Are Given Opportunity Witness Some of the Work
Blue Lodge During the Placing Of the New Officials Into the Stations
Beautiful Silver Service Is Presented to the Retiring Master

~ rankin HALL on Fillmore
street was very artistically deco
IT rated last night for the pub
U lie installation of the officers
of King Solomon Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons. The highly i'm
pressive ceremony of obligating the Of
ficers for the ensuing Masonic term, in
Structing them in their respective duties
and conducting them to their stations
was witnessed by nearly 600 persons, In
Guiding many ladies, who were thus given
an insight into some of the Masonic work
George w. Whitman. past master, was
the installing officer. He was assisted py
Fred B. Wood, marshal of ceremonies
The officers who will rule the lodge dur
ing the present term are:
Roland English Hartley worshipful master;
William Parker Fillmer. senior warden; George
William Lake, junior warden; Benjamin Frank
lin Jelison, treasurer Harry Baehr, secretary;
Clarence Theodore Wendell senior deacon;
Clarence Taylor Cleve. Junior deacon; Samuel
Boyd Stevenson. marshal; George Mayberry
Davis and Ira Sedley Hobbs, stewards; George
Charles Dawson. tyler, and Alfred Augustus
Batkin, organist
The ceremonial session was followed by
the presentation by George R. Fletcher on
behalf of the lodge of silver table set
of knives, forks, spoons and ladies to
Samuel McKelvey, the retiring master,
review of the faithful manner in which
the recipient had served in the several Of
fees in the lodge, including the one he
had just surrendered to his successor.
There was a grateful response and then
followed speeches appropriate to the oc-
casion by Frank II. Gould and Rabbi
Jacob Voorsanger and Rabbi Jacob Nieto.
After the ceremony of installation the fol-
lowing musical programme was rendered:
March. King Solomon S, orchestra; quartet,
''Rigoletto'' VerdD, King Solomon's Quartet;
selection. Bohemian Girl (Balfe), orchestra;
tenor solo, -Four Leaf Clover (BrownelD,
Brother Clarence T. Wendell: selection III
Trovatore'' WerdD. orchestra; quartet, "The
Waltz VogeD quartet
Then followed the march to the ban
Quet hall, where excellent collation.
was served. After that, dancing was in
order.
During the session the following tele-
gram was read:
Members of King Solomon's Lodge. San
Francisco: Accept my hearty congra tulations
on instalment of officers for the ensuing year.
President Roosevelt sends congratulations to
Captain Whitman on his promotion to Chief of
Police. in which heartily join.
EUGENE +. LOUD.
Chief Whitman says that while visiting
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
BRIDGES
MAY Be ERECTED
Lane Says Charter Does
Not Forbid Special
Permits.
Chief of Police Will Arrest
Violators of the High
Fence Law.

Citv Attorney Lane filed an opinion yes
terday with the Board of Supervisors TO
the effect that there is nothing IN the IA"
which nrevents the Board Of Supervisors
from granting a special permit to Dullo
a bridge across a street. The opinion OIL
the City Attorney, which is lnteresIlihs inter tiias
from the fact that it modifies the strict
limitation of the charter concerning pun
lie encroachmentS, follows;
do not take it to have been intended oy h the
charter that the city could not authorlze tIS I,
use of an awning extending over the slqew4d4 1 IN
or of a bay-vindow or cOrnice or a sign at
such height above the sidewalk as TO De OF no no
possible hindrance to public traYel OI IHPoi.
the use of the street as a public highway.
permanent encroachment is not to be perInltIeu
by the Board of Public Works of any structure
This does not Certainly mean that the city
has no power to permit the use of portion of
the space under the sidewalk (Which in law is
city property when the fee Is in the city, OF
of a portion of the space in the unOcGuplSeU1
visors to regulate or prohibit such extensions
to the Supervisors any power to permit such
limited use of the street or sidewalk Is nowhere
expressed -
use is but a license revocable at the pleasure OF
the city, and no right to more than tempo
rary use whatever arise under permits SO
granted.
In conformity with the opinion the or
dinance granting the ChuteS Company
permit to construct q Drl0Re over 1eQLn
avenue, between G and Fulton streets,
was passed to print.
A resolution was adopted directing the
Chief of Police to cause the arrest OF any
person violating the provisions of the or
dinance limiting the height of fences to
ten feet and to prosecute the cases to a
conclusion.
The resolution directing the Board of
Works to require all owners of houses.
Sheds buildings and distractions Of every
kind now upon Third and Berry streets TO
remove the same from the roadway with
in sixty days was deferred one week At
torney w. F. Humphrey, representing the
South End Rowing Club, addressed the
board in opposition to the passage OF the
resolution, claiming that the Harbor Com
missioners had given the club permission
to occupy its premises, which were said
to be an obstruction to the street.
The board passed to print an ordinance
changing the classification of clerkshlp
to that of a deputyship in the Auditor
office. Action was taken on recommends
tfOn of the Mayor, who informed the
board that a legal point has been raised
as to the validity of certificates of re-
demption of real estate purchased by the
State. which are now signed by a clerk
instead of a deputy. Auditor Wells ex-
planned that it was only by special per
mission of the State Controller that the
redemption clerk has heretofore signed
the certificates.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
SPLENDID GIFT
FOR THE PEOPLE
Mayor Phelan Presents
Branch Library to
the City.

Mayor James D. Phelan formally pre-
sented to the city last night the branch
library building which he has had erected
at the corner of Fourth and Clara streets.
The presentation ceremony was approprl-
ately short and stripped of all unneces-
sary forms. 1t was held in the spacious
reading-room- of the library in the pres
ence of representatives of the Board of
Supervisors, the Board of Education, the
Board of Library Trustees, Mayor-elect
Schmitz and many other prominent citi-
zens In giving the handsome structure
to the city the Mayor made a short
speech in which he described the pur-
poses of the branch library. The gift was
accepted on behalf of the city by DR.. Ed
ward r. Taylor, president of the Board of
Library Trustees.
Mayor Phean said that the idea of max
ing a gift to the city first occurred to him
two years ago about Christmas time. He
was for a time puzzled to what his
gift should be, but finally decided that II
library would be best appreciated and
would prove the most beneficial in the
education Of the public. He described the
growth of the public library and the part
which it had played in the advancement
In accepting the gift DIR. Taylor said
that it afforded him great pleasure as a
representative of the Library Trustees
magnificent building from one who had
already given so much of his thought and
so much of his substance to San Fran
cisco. He said that he hoped that the
library would be taken as model in the
construction of other libraries. He de-
clared that Mayor Phelan's gift was justi-
fed in the fact that the people of that
section of the city had shown that they
appreciated good literature.
The ceremony was concluded by a few
appropriate remarks from Mayor-elect
Schmitz, who said that he was proud both
as a public spirited citizen and as Mayor
elect to be present at the presentation
He said that education is the foundation
of all good government.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
CONDEMN WATER
OF L0BOS GREEK
Resolution Unanimously
Adopted by the
Supervisors.
Cost of Single-Pipe-Line From
the Tuolumne to Be
Estimated.

The Board of Supervisors yesterday
adopted the resolution condemning the
water of Point Lobos Creek as a menace
TO public health and ordering the Spring
Valley Water Company to discontinue
supplying it to consumers.
D'Ancona in urging the adoption of the
resolution said that the burden of proof
was on the Spring Valley Company to
show that the water had been purified by
effective filtration. The Supervisor said
that if experts should find after an exam
ination extending over period of one
year that the water could be made hy-
CHEMICALLY pure in that time then the reso-
luton could afterward be rescinded.
Reed exhibited map prepared by the
area of Lobos Creek was contaminated
by sewage and bacteria. M. II. Garoutte,
attorney for the water company, eX-
planned that the water in the same drain
age area was being used by the Aims
house inmates. Garoutte asked that ac-
ton be postponed until further analyses
could be made. DR.. D'AncOna argued that
the favorable analysis made by Pro
fessor Hilgard was too superficial and not
long enough extended to make it of value.
Chief Engineer Schussler of the Spring
by letter that water would not be pumped
from Lobos Creek during this. and next
months, and petitioned that additional
analyses be made.
SChuSSler asks lnaI PROFESSOR
of Stanford University make the chemical
analysis and DR.. Moffatt of this city the
archaeological analysis.
The Board of Works and the City En-
gineer were requested to furnish an esti-
mate of the cost of the construction and
completion of a single pipe line, with
capacity of 40OO0,O00 gallons of water per
day. having the Tuolumne River as
source of supply. The estimate is to fol-
low out the details of construction recon-
mended in the report of the City En-
gineer on a water supply for San Fran
cisco. The City Engineer is also to con-
slider the Dumbarton Land Company's
proposition to furnish water from the
Alameda artesian well belt as a subsidi-
airy reservoir supply.
The Police Commission notified the
board that the charter permits five cap
tains and ten lieutenants in the depart
ment, and that there are three captains
and six lieutenants The vacancies in the
ranks of captains will be filled by the
Civil Service Commission. and the maxi
mum number of lieutenants allowed by
the charter will be employed when pro-
vision is made by the Supervisors for
their payment
A resolution was adopted directing the
Board of Works to require of the city
architect that he devote his time exclu-
sively to the service of the city and coun-
tY. The resolution recites that if the city
architect engages in private work he may
grant himself permits to alter or erect
buildings. which is held to be against pub
lie policy.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
EXCHANGE WILL
BUY MORE LAND
Votes for Purchase Of
Old Pacific Board
Site.

The Merchants Exchange directors
voted yesterday to purchase the old Pa
cific Stock Exchange property, with 'front.'
age upon Montgomery and Leidesdorlf
streets, for the agreed price of $15O,0OO
With the property of the old Merchants
+ Exchange upon California and Leidesdorff
streets, previously acquired, the added
property on Montgomery and Leidesdorff
streets will give three large frontages and
provide for three entrances upon the three
streets named
This action finally takes out of exist
ence an institution which was the scene
of much excitement in the days of wild
mining. Leidesdorff street acquired the
name of "Pauper alley on account Of
the number of spectators that went
broke after trying their luck in the
board. That was the theater of action
OF the famous mud hens,' women who
haunted the galleries whenever the board
was In session year in and year out.
After the Pacific Stock Exchange had
gone into decadence as the result of the
decline of the Comstock mines the old
board room was little used for a time.
Then the rise of the California petroleum
excitement gave new life. The front of
the building was repainted and was brave
with the name of a new petroleum eX-
change. There were ceremonies at the
opening and speeches. But the great pro-
ductivity of the Kern River district oil
wells and the low prices that resulted
from the rush of all the owners to mar
ket their oil at any price they could get
DESTROYED the chance that there would be
many dividend paying companies for a
time, until conditions could be readjusted.
Again the exchange fell into disuse. The
first time 1t failed because Of a scarcity
of the product upon which it's speculative
market was based: the second time it
failed for the opposite reason, because OF
the plethora.
The Merchants Exchange will erect a
| fine building on the two large sites and
| all the commercial bodies of the city and
kindred organizations will be invited to be
| housed therein.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
HOODLUMS ROB
INJURED WOMAN
Make a Brutal Attack
Upon Mrs. Rose
Kilbourn.

Frank Morrissey Thomas Crouch and
Martin j. Flynn, three young men, ap-
peared before Judge Mogan yesterday on
charges of robbery and attempt to COM
init a criminal assault. They were in
structed and arraigned and the cases cor
tinued till next Monday.
The complaining witness against them
is Mrs. Rose Kilbourn of Santa Rosa, at
present living with her husband at 22i
O.Farrell street They came from Santa
dealer, on visit. Sunday evening Mrs
k1lbourn made a call upon Mrs Norris
sey, 251 Chenery street.
After leaving the car Mrs. KiIbourn lost
her way In the darkness and fell into a
often, spraining her wrist and losing her
hat. When she reached the Morrissey
home she told Mrs. Morrissey of her ex-
perlence, and later in the evening Frank
Morrissey, son of Mrs. Morrissey. and
crouch, who was present. offered to go
with her to find her hat. Not suspecting
any violence, she readily accompanied
them, and they were joined by Flynn.
When they reached a barn owned by
Jeremiah Sullivan on French street, off
Mrs. Kilbourn into the barn. threw Rer
to the floor and robbed her of her dia-
mond earrings, valued at $50; diamond
ring, valued at $75 and her purse con-
tanning $40 and some small change. Then
they attempted to assault her and She
screamed for help. They threatened to
kill her, but she continued to scream ami
the men left her in semi-conscious con-
dition.
After recovering her composure Mrs.
Kilbourn walked out of the barn and met
Policeman Woliweber, to whom she re-
lated the story of the robbery. She gave
an accurate description of the three rob
bers. Wollweber notified Sergeant Blank,
and the two officers soon had Morrissey
and Crouch under arrest. They were
found in bed at their homes and were
identified by Mrs. Knbourn. Flynn was
arrested few hours later and was also
identified by the lady. She was in court
yesterday morning with her husband and
will remain in the city to prosecute the
case. The police give the three prisoners
a bad reputation.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
saIoonkeeper Tricked.

N Diers, proprietor of the Alcazar bar,
secured a complaint from Judge Cabaniss
yesterday for the arrest of w. o. Lehrke,
a young German, said to be of respecta-
BILE family, on the charge of obtaining
money by false pretenses. Lehrke called
upon Diers and asked for small loan,
saying that he was in receipt of weekly
allowance from his family in Germany Of
500 through the German Consul. Diers
gave him few dollars. Sunday Diers
was called to the telephone and some one
said he was the German Consul and it
would be safe to advance Lehrke $40 at
any time. Lehrke called a few hours later
and Diers advanced him SIG. Diers found
yesterday that the German Consul knows
nothing about Lehrke.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
CHILEANS AND JAPANESE
CLOSE COMMERCIAL DEAL
Consul Rey Returns From Orient and
Says Steamer Line Will Be
Established

A. Thompson Rey, an attache of the
Chilean consular service, arrived here
yesterday from Japan and is. at the Occi-.
dental. His mission TO Japan on behalf
of his Government was to bring closer
commercial relations between the two
Governments He feels greatly pleased
with the result of his work. and says that
he has a splendid report to make on his
return home.
He carried to Japan samples of the pro-
ducts of Chile, which were greatly ad-
mired While there he made arrangements
for the handling of nitrate by the Japa-
nese Government. 1t was also arranged
between Consul Rey and the president of
the Toyo KiSen Kaisha Steamship Com
pay for steamer to be put on the run
between Chile and Japan as am expert
ment. Should the ships trip prove profit
able t6e steamship company promised to
run three steamers year between the
two countries.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
SANTA FE ROAD 4
Gets FRANCHISE
Corporation Will Begin
improvements in
the Potrero.
Board Of Works Files Plans
to Beautify Van Ness
Avenue.

The ordinance granting the Santa Fe
Railway Company Il right-0f-Way to Oper-
ate a steam railroad on Illinois street and
other streets in the POtrerO was finally
passed by the Board of Supervisors yes
terday. The franchise was granted for
term of fOrty-fOur years by unanimous
vote of the board.
Grades were ordered changed on F,iHht-
eenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth. Iowa. In
diana Minnesota, MaripOsa and Ten
nessee streets and Pennsylvania avenue.
This will enable the Santa Fe Company
to excavate lands for the purpose OF
filling in China basin and constructing its
terminals.
Incidental TO the proposed change Of
grades in the POtrero the Santa Fe Rail-
bond in the sum of Sl0,O 900 and agree to
construct within two years and maintain
a safe way for foot passengers al0Ds-
Nineteenth street between Iowa and Ten
nessee; also a foot bridge crossing above
all tracks on Indiana street
The Board of Public Works submitted
a plan with drawings for the Improvement
of Van Ness avenue, between Bush and
Pine streets. The communication descrih-
ing the plan says:
The plan contemplates the setting apart Of
shrubs and grass At the end, and in the CEN
ter Of each strip are reserved spaces for satu-
ary monuments. ETC., as they shall be donated
the center of each block should be high reach
ing above any growth of trees. Those at each
end should be comparatively low with back
ground of trees and shrubbery. strips hve feet
wide are to be taken of the sidewalks on each
side leaving them seventeen feet wide. The
cost Of excavating, curbs and loam is estimated
al S195S % trees. shrubs and grass not In
cluded- The pavement of the block is now
macadam, which is 10 be replaced under plans
previously approved, by asphalt or bituminouc
rock. on cObble foundation.
The ordinance fixing the rate to Dba
charged for street car fares at 3 cefSts
was indefinitely postponed The measure
was introduced for the purpose of COM
pelling the Market Street Railway Com
pany 10 repave between it's abandoned
tracks. Some discussion was had over
the report of the Utilities Committee that
the recommendation for indefinite post
pOnemenU was the result of the corpora
tiOn agreeing TO Tepave the streets and
this portion of the report was eliminated
from the record.
The ordinance requiring electric poles
to be painted and erected ten feet away
from any lamp post was passed to print.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
RHEA GETTINGs SAYS SHE
LECTURED ON TEMPERANCE
Proponent of Kershow Will Says
She Talked on the Evils Of
LII

The Kershow will contest case will be
submitted in Department of the
Superior Court to-day. Miss Rhea Get
tings, the proponent of the will. was on
the stand all day yesterday. When she
left the stand her attorneys announced
that they had no further testimony to
offer.
when she was in Chicago KershOW wrote
to her and inclosed money and ticket
to San Francisco in the letter She came
out here, she said, and went to the MaisOn
Richie, where the Yale man was living
Miss Gettings also said that she "chas-
tised'' Kershow on several occasions for
drinking so much and threatened to leave
him unless he quit When asked what
she meant by "chastising him. she said
she gave him lectures on the evils of in
temperance.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
Pardee Paws His Debts

When the cases against S. c. Pardee
ex-clubman, charged with obtaining
money by false pretenses, were called i'm
Judge Mogan's court yesterday Pardee' s
attorney informed the Judge that the
amounts of all the checks passed by the
defendant on business men had been paid
The Judge continued the cases until to-
day.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
Circuit Court Holds Session.

The United States Circuit Court of APP
peals held five-minute session yesterday
and transacted some routine business.
Nothing was done in the matter of the
Noyes contempt case and the court adj
1ourned until next Monday.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
Boston Murderer Ts Fxec,,+.d

BOSTON. Dec 17.-Luigi Storti. the muir
derer Of Michele Calucci in Boston. No
Rember ), 1879, was executed by electricity
az the State Prison in Charlestown at
1928 o'clock this morning.
The San Francisco call., 1901-12-17
soldier convicted of LarcenY.

Ross Cobb, member of the Eighteenth
Cavalry, was convicted by Judge ConIan
yesterday on the charge of petty larceny
Friday night he was taken to the room
of Herman DOmalSki, 1910 Mission street
to sleep off the effects of too much liquor.
He left next morning while Domalski was
asleep and took with him two rings be-
longing to DOmalski. He was arrested
Saturday night on Grant avenue by Po-
Iicemen D. Murphy and Conner. He will
be sentenced to-day.