New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-11-03
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
BIG SHIPPING BUSINESS AT SAN FRAN.
CISCO-UNCERTAINTY ABOUT ArU-
NICIPAL ELECTION-HIGH
PRICED PROPERTY.
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San Francisco. Nov. 2.-More shipping busi-
done through this port last month
than in any previous month Of the year. the
figures showing tremendous volume OF trade
following the strike OF the departures 143.4S4
tons were foreign and i76.134 tons were do
mest1c: of the arrivals the foreign tonnage
amounted to 13o,1s4 tons and the domestic to
169 9s1 TONS
The local election next week has aroused
extraordinary interest here. because OF the
certainty of the result. Not the best
perts make any guess in regard TO the may
orally contest in which there are three candi-
dates: Joseph s. Tobin. attorney for the Hiber-
MIA Bank (Den): Asa r Wells. the present
Auditor (Rep). and Eugene E Schuitz. an Or
chestra leader the Union Labor candidate
Tobin has been a supervisor and acted Mayor
for three months in Mayor Phelan's absence last
year. He is rich well educated and ambitious
and it is certain II he is elected that he will
carry out the policy OF Mayor Phelan. who has
given San Francisco in his two terms the best
administration the city has ever known. Wells
is a veteran politician who has made good
Auditor. but his associates are the professional
politicians Of the city. Schmitz Is the manager
of a big machine works besides being q musi-
cian and is man Of considerable ability, al
though he is poor public speaker The recent
strike consolidated all the Union Labor inter
ANSS
their votes by going into the country after work
The great majority of the property owners will
vote for Tobfn as the man who will do the most
for the city's interests But the uncertainty OF
the result Is greater than has been felt here IN
| many years and the prophets who usually pre-
dict results accurately will not venture a fore
| cast.
The payment by the Union Trust Company of
| 81 900 front foot for fifty foot lot in Mont
| gomery-st-, near Market-st.. this week marks
the highest price ever paid for inside realty on
| this street The trust company desired this lot,
/ which adjoins its present building at Market
| and Montgomery SITS. in order to increase the
| size of the building and thus give room for the
| Southern Pacific Company, which is now the
| main tenant The trust company will add two
| stories to the present structure ard make 4 new
| building of nine stories. Henry Kahn this week
Maid S725 a front foot for a lot In Eddy-st, be-
| tween TAYLOR and Jones SITS. for which Mayor
| Phelan paid $500 front foot four years ago II
| belonged to Sharon & Tate and was sold at auc-
| ton. This marked increase shows an advance
| In values in Eddy-st.. which is building up rap
| idly.
| Material is on the way from Pittsburg for a
| new pipe line by which the Standard OIL Com
| pany will bring oil from Kerneyver and other
| fields to tidewater San Francisco Bay This
! line will require about four hundred miles or
piping and the distance over which the OIL must
| be transported through the pipes is 30 miles
| Pumping stations will be located twenty miles
| apart and at each Of these will be settling sta
| tons. where the heavier materials viii be pre-
ctnitated II is estimated that the oil can be
| TRANSPORTED in this way for 10 cents a barrel.
| as AGAINST 40 cents by rail One Of the larg-
| est oil refneries in the country will be erected
| at Point Richmond the east shore Of the
| bay.
| A tract of land adjoining the Standard OIL re-
| fnery site and the Santa Fe terminal at Point
| Richmond was sold this week by the Jesuit or
| der for 100000. The tract comprises five nun
| dred acres and is valuable, as the water all
| along the frontage is deep enough for ocean
vessels Of the largest draught- 1t was rurnored
that J. Pierpont Morgan was the real purchaser.
| but this Is now denied
| Nothing noteworthy displayed at the the
! aires but Mr. Robson did a big second weeks
| business IN The Henrietta at the Columbia
despite the fact that his company Is not OF the
| best. Next week Sarah CoweH lie Noyne VIII
| appear at this house in The First Duchess CT
Marlborough" the sale for which IS already
| yerv large This week saw the close OF the
Ttvon season OF italian opera at popular prices
For rs cents performances were given
which were unparalleled in this city, as the
company was drawn from the members or sew
eraI small Italian opera troupes- The operas
were admirably sung and well staged Among
the old operas which were revived and Wnlcn
proved popular was "NabucO-' The raVorlIe
opera was Carmen in which SignOrfna Cola
rnarini made a great hit as she did last season
The sale Of tickets for the three weeks season
Of the Grau Opera Company amounts 10 ~ ',UoD.
which is $4,000 more than the similar sale last
wear There is big demand for single tickets
Calvs. Sytfl Sauderson and ''Lohensrin on the
opening night the chief attractions
Nine W. the wife Of the Chinese Minister
at Washington. arrived here this week after a
three months visit 10 China She brought with
her Miss Ho All Chez her niece. and MISS Daisy
WI her adopted daughter. two beautiful young
Chinese girls whom she viii introduce 10
washington society this winter. Several express
wagons were needed to carry their Wardrones
from the steamer 10 the Chinese consulate.
where they will spend ten days before making;
LIE overland journey
Miss Ethel S. Keeney and 7. z. TOrlinSon, con-
uected with the Havenleyer Sugar Company or
New-York- Miss Keeney is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Charles Mcintosh keeney and grand
daughter of Ms William Alvord
Ex-Prestdent Hays OF the Southern Pacific
Company started for the East this week WIN
his family. 1t is understood here that he viii
go direct to London TO consult with Charles
Speyer over the Speyer interests in Mexican
railroads. Mr.. Hays was very reticent about
tbousht here that he viii take charge or the
Speylr properties In Mexico and reorganlze al
the railroads. Transforming the Mexican Va
tionaI which is narrow gauge. TO standard
road.
Nrs Alice Meynell. the English essayist. lect-
,,ralI here this week before the Century CIuo on
..1-ba Transftion Period of English Poetry She
dveIt on the debt Of Coleridge, wordsworth.
Tennyson and Coventry Patrnore 70 tne seventh
century for the spirituality IN their pest poems