New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-04
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
San Francisco Noe Run as a Vide
Omen" TO1cn.

Schn1itz and his administration to make san
Francisco a wide open town. in the fullest
meaning of the word shown this week when
a resolution prohibiting nickel I'm the slot ma
chimes was repealed. This action permitted two
thousand saloons to restore gambling devices
which had been idle for nearly four years. only
card machines on cigar store counters have
been permitted Now all slot machines may DC
installed. including devices that lure nickels
from school children The chief revenue now
ever comes from saloons. which are unoerstoou
IN nav 40 per cent of the earnings of the ma
chimes to the city administration for protec-
ton" This restoration of gambling devices is
simply another means OF lucrative graft added
TO those which making rich men OF those
who are in charge Of the municipal government
The real estate transactions in San Francisco
in January amounted to S110O0oo0 which is
an increase of 100000 over the previous
month. Some idea of the growth of the city
may be gained from the fact that real estate
transac tions in January last year amounted to
only 100000. For the month mortgage IN
debtedness on property increased SlIoo'ooo' bur
building contracts have almost exactly equaiied
this amount
Semi-annual reports of twelve city savings
banks show that these institutions owed dePos-
itors $3.50 53s, pa. and that the increase Oh oe-
posts for the six months was So'3oo'o49- inns
increase of more than 81 100000 month has
been pretty regular since the revival of business
in 1897.
Former MAYOR James D. Phelan has oHefeu
riza of 5000 for the best oil painting portraying
the first hosting Of the American flag at San
Francisco. July o. 1916. This competition Is to
celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the notable
event in California history. Additional prizes
Of 500 and $50 are offered for the second ana
third best pictures Artists desiring to enter
the competition must send in their names TO the
secretary Of the San Francisco Art Association
before June /.
William s. Cook, the oldest initiated Odd Eel
low IN California. died recently. apparently in
great novertv and his lodge buried him. He
was even In arrears for several months rent
for a shabby room where he had lodged for
thirty years The public administrators search
of safe deposit vaults, however, revealed that
Cook was a miser who left more than 100000
in bonds and other securities. His only rela-
tive is a brother in Virginia.
The suicide this week of Captain Joseph r
Cattarinich. formerly captain of the Pacific Mail
steamship San Bias illustrates the fate that be-
falls master of ship when he loses his IL
cense The captain piled up his vessel on Re
mideas Reef whose lights he mistook for those
of La IAbertad. His license was revoked four
years ago, but pride kept him from accepting
any subordinate position. Recently he had been
driven to take a quartermasters place on the
transport Meade. but at the last moment he de-
cided death preferable.
Walter Hobart was hurt this week in polo
game at Burlingame, being thrown from his
pony Marigold by the breaking OF girth- Ho-
bart landed squarely his back and was so
badly Jared that he could not continue the
game His injury spoiled sport, he is the
most spectacular as we'll the most skilful
player the Coast.
The Southern Pacific company has issued
markabie book entitled The Road of Thou
sand Wonders" 1t describes the scenic beau
ties of the Central. Sunset and Oregon branches
Of the system.
The Feather River Exploration Company and
the Cherokee Dredging Company have been
merged into a corporation. with the title
Of the former company and paid up capital Of
81, 10000 The merger was effected by W. P.
Harmon, who has thus placed in the hands of
California capitalists two dredging concerns
! that were formerly owned in New-York and
PittsbUrg
The Western Pacific Company. which is
building the new Gould railroad from Salt Lake
City TO San Francisco through Beckwith Pass.
has decided to discharge all japanese and sup
plant them with white Iaborers. The company
has had several thousand japanese employed in
the construction of the roadbed but finds that
they are unable to do heavy work in q satisfac-
tory way and that they are unreliable throw
ing up positions without any good reason and
shifting to other places.
No labor has ever been found effective on
the railway as Chinese. but the Monaghan will
not do this work now. because it is not so we'll
paid gardening domestic service.
After lying idle for three years, the big sugar
factory at Crockett will be reopened next
month. The plant will be enlarged so that the
annual output will be hundred thousand
tons The factory will be by Hawaiian SUI
Sugar Trust
Representatives Of the Guggenhems are here
making arrangements for building the largest
customs smelter in the world at Port Costa, on
the shore OF San Francisco Bay, capable of
handling thousand tons daily The Shelter
Trust. controlled by the Guggenheims and the
Rockefellers. has been buying up copper prop
critics On this coast and making ARRANGEMENTS
to ship ores TO San Francisco for treatment.
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