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The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
MAY
RIDE ON STEPS.
Supervisors Eliminate Sec
ton Prohibiting Persons
From Clinging to Cars
ORDINANCE is PASSED

The Board of Supervisors passed to
print yesterday the amended ordinance
to regulate traffic on street cars and
prohibit them being overcrowded- Ac-
tion was taken, however, only after the
section providing that IT shall be un-
lawful for any person to ride on any
a street car had been stricken fzom the
measure.
Supervisor Nicholas moved that Sec
tion 8. prohibit ng passengers riding
on certain portiorlS of the car, be eHmi-
mated; but Super visor Sanderson who
introduced the ordinance. objected to
striking out any eetion thereof Super
visor Wilson called attention to the
narrow entrances of some of the cars,
which he said is dangerous to life. Will
son thought the ordinance should go
over to give the U.aited Railroads time
TO widen the entrar ces of cars.
Supervisor Furey' held that the Unit
ed Railroads should be compelled to
put on more cars before any restric-
tion affecting pass sngers was adopted
Supervisor Kelly re ferred to the protest
Of the Building Tr; Ides Council agaJ nst
section 5, which he said would cause a
hardship to workiI Igmen going to and
from their work
Sanderson finally consented TO Scrik-.
ing out the section, named on the un-
derstanding that committee of Super
visors wait on the corporation with a
view to compelling ii to put on more
cars. Sandersop also reserved the
right to reintrod4Icfs the section which,
was eliminated.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
GALLAGHER WAN s
CITY STABLES.

Acting Mayor Gallagher stated yes
terday that he proposes to take steps
for the establishment of stables to ac-
commodate the horses and teams re-
quired for the business of the city
government.
Gallaghers announcement was
prompted by the fact that the rental
of a horse and buggy Will be raised
by stable owners from s35 per month,
the price now being paid by the city,
to $45 per month.
Gallagher is of the opinion that it
would be advantageous from an eco
nomical point of view for the city to
purchase its own horses and buggies
and to have a municipality owned stable
erected on some city lot to care for
them.
The city is now using some thirty
rigs, and at s45 per month the yearly
cost of the service would be in excess
of $4,000. While the first cost of a
city stable would be largely in excess
OF that amount the subsequent saving
in rentals would more than pay for
the outlay in a few years
Gallagher intends to bring the mat
ter UP before the finance committee
of the Board of Supervisors at its next
meeting If Gallagher has his way a
city stable will be an accomplished
fact before many days have passed.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
ENGAGED VICE To
LOCATE VICE.
Union Pacific Company Re
tanned Alleged Embezzler
to Find Self in MADEIRA
UNDER NAME OF RYAN

Billy" Vice couldn't find William
Vice in MADEIRA when the Union Pacific
engaged him to do SO some months ago.
He couldn't find himself even in such
a small town as MADEIRA, and it cost
the railroad company $3.50 to learn
that its ex-agent could not be located,
even when that same som etime-a an en-
ploye went out to find him.
Some time after Billy Vice quit
the Union Pacific employ with an al
legged shortage of $4,000 in his account,
a new collector of debts put out his
sign in the San Joaquin Valley town.
The name of Thomas R. Ryan appeared
on the shingle Ryan became a sue
cessful collector.
About the first of the present year
the Union Pacific Company heard that
Vice was in MADEIRA, and described to
make an effort to locate him. They
decided that if he We're there a col
lector of debts should be in a position
to find him. So the company engaged
Ryan, the foremost collector of the
town, to locate Vice. Ryan must have
made tireless effort to find Vice. He
charged $3.50 for his endeavors. But
the effort, however expensive, was fu-
tile. Ryan reported that he could not
locate Vice in MADEIRA County. He
regretted very much his inability to
aid the railroad; please remit
$3.50 fee
With the arrest of Vice it was
learned that while in MADEIRA he went
under the name of Thomas Ryan, and
was collector. The railroad company
has learned that 1t is not profitable to
paraphrase an adage-you cannot send
Vice to catch a Vice.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
STOCKHOLDERS SUES
OFFICERS OF BANK
Asks Injunction to Prevent
Transfer of Bonds Worth
Forty Thousand Dollars

Otto B. Schmidt, stockholder of the
Pacific Coast Bank, has brought suit
for Injunction against Arthur P. Hol-
land, 1. Freeman, J. B. Fuller, Otto f.
Grundell, L. II. Noise, the Pacific Coast
Bank, the United Abstract Company
and the Central Title Insurance Com
pany to prevent the transfer of 200
bonds of the United Abstract Company,
which he claims are the property of
the Pacific Coast Bank.
The bonds are said to be worth $40,-
0O0, and Schmidt alleges that the de-
PENDANTS have conspired to transfer
them to the Title Insurance Company
and substitute alleged worthless stock.
According to Schmidt's complaint, Free
man is the president of the. Pacific
Coast Bank, of which the other de-
PENDANTS. with the exception of Hol-
land, are directors. Holland is a stock
holder of the bank and director of
the other two defendant corporations.
Schmidt states that, according to his
information and belief, the defendants
named are acting in accordance with
Freemans wishes and have given to
him all power to act in the case In
question.
Schmidt also claims that Freeman en-
tered into a conspiracy with Holland
and the United Abstract Company to
transfer the bonds on the claim that
they are not assets of the Pacific Coast
Bank, but were pledged by the United
Abstract Company on loan or $4o,0o0
made by the Pacific Coast Bank to the
United Abstract Company, which
amount was to be loaned In turn to
the Title Insurance Company
Schmidt asks that a restraining or
der be issued and that the bonds be
adjudged the property Of the Pacihc
Coast Bank.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
STATISTICS SHOW
MARVELLOUS GROWTH
Figures Supplied by Promo
ton Committee Prove City
Is Making Good Headway

According to statistics furnished by
the California Promotion Committee,
San Francisco is enjoying unusual
prosperity at the present time. Since
the fire more than $50. ZOO. 600 has been
spent in improvements in the city, and
more than 5000 buildings have been
erected There are $4,000 men en-
ployed in construction work Debris Is
being moved at the rate of 200 carloads
each day.
Permits for building have been is
sued since the fire to the number of
1886, representing a total value of
$27,02O,033. This is within $1,000. 900
OF the value of permits issued in Balti-
more within two years from the time
of the fire in that city
October Of this year has been an un-
usually progressive month in this city.
The building permits for the month
represent a total valuation of S777O. $40.
being more than a million dollars in
crease over that of any other month
since the fire.
As a result of the colonist rates in
troduced by the railroads for the fall
immigration, 10000 persons have ar
rived in the State from the East. and
a large part of these have come TO San
Francisco. The Promotion COMMITTEES
reports a continued demand for labor
Of various kinds in the city.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
ISSUES TEMPORARY
TRACK PERMIT.

The Board of Public Works granted
to the United Railroads yesterday
temporary permit TO lay tracks and in
stall poles on Seventh street, from
Howard to Freelon, in order that the
building of a sewer in and the repav-
ing of Fourth street from Howard to
Freelon may be carried on without in
terruption. Under the permit the COM
p2ny will utilize Seventh street instead
of Fourth to operate its cars connect
ing with Howard street.
The board awarded contracts for the
repaving of Sixteenth street, from Va
lencia to Folsom, and Bartlett alley to
the Barber Asphalt Company for $685.
215.16 and s1650.55, respectively.
President Duffey secured from Gen
eral Manager Chapman of the United
Railroads a promise that the corpora
tion would put all the streets that
have been torn up for railroad recon
struction in good condition at once, in
cluding Hayes street at the junction
of Market, about which frequent com
plants have been made. Duffey told
Chapman that the corporation would
not be permitted to tear up any more
streets until those already disturbed
shall be put in condition.
Fred Leff1er got the contract to build
a sewer in Haight street, between
Steiner and Pierce, for s1257.25.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
LIVED TOO WELL,
SAYS SHEARER.
Defendant in Divorce Suit
Blames Wife's Tastes for
All His Domestic Troubles
COULDN'T STAND PACE

High life on a small salary was the
cause of the disruption of the home of
George A Shearer, a postoffice en-
ploye, according TO his testimony in
the trial of the divorce suit brought
against him by Sarah ], Shearer,
which was heard and submitted in
Judge Troutt's court yesterday after a
year of preliminary legal proceed
ings. The suit was originally be-
gun in the Alameda County courts
on a charge of cruelty and was
transferred to the local courts on
motion of the defendant The rec
ords were all burned and restored, a
supplementary complaint charging de-
sertion and failure to provide filed. and
a cross complaint filed by the defend
ant before the matter ever came up for
hearing.
Shearer testified that he had known
Mrs. Shearer for twenty years before
marrying her and that the marriage on
September Is, 1904, was largely ar
ranged by correspondence while she
was still at Los Angeles. When the
bride-elect arrived in the city Shearer
says that she seemed i'll and that he
foresaw trouble ahead because he be-
lieved she would be unable to attend
to the care of a house. He says she
insisted on taking a fiat. while he
argued for room or apartments. A
fat was finally secured at 63S Ash
bury street for $3.50 monthly rental,
which was a greater drain on Shear
er's finances than he was able to with
stand. He says he pawned his ring,
purchased some furniture on contract
allowed his life insurance to lapse in
order to meet his bills and otherwise
went rapidly down the financial to-
boggan. Mrs. Shearer, he said, re-
fused to give up the fat or rent por-
ton of the rooms as he desired and
also visited the Postmaster in order
tation. all these troubles finally leading
to a separation.
Mrs. Shearer declared that her hus-
band treated her with cruelty, failed to
provide for her and did not care for
her when she was ILL., She says she
has been dependent on her brother
aided by her own exertions as a dress
maker when she was well enough to
work, for her support. She admitted
that she had visiteo the Postmaster,
but said she did so in order to have
pressure brought TO bear on her hus-
band to give more money for her
support and not for the purpose Of in
juring him in business. Mrs. Shearer
is now living in Oakland and her hus-
band in this city.
Interlocutory DEGREES of divorce were
yesterday granted to Lydia Plumley
from Charles H. Plumley by Judge
Trout. neglect; Lizzie A. White from
George r. White by Judge Trout,
cruelty; Bessie I. Lucas from Arthur e.
Lucas by Judge Hebbard. desertion.
and Oscar Lazansky from Tillie Lazan-
sky by Judge Hebbard, desertion.
Suits for divorce were begun yester-
day by Mary ]. Mitchell against John
A. Mitchell on the grounds of intem-
perance and neglect; Dora Bortoli
against Giuseppi Bortoli, extreme
cruelty, and William E. Nelson against
Emma Nelson, desertion.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
Mclaughlin, Yorke and
Beatty Are Ready
to Begin Work.

Major Frank L. Mclaughlin of
Santa Cruz, who has succeeded Francis
J. Heney as the third member of the
arbitration board that will decide the
matters at variance between the
United Railroads and the Carmen s
Union, arrived in the city yesterday.
In the afternoon he was visited at the
Majestic Hotel by Rev. p. C. Yorke and
later both called upon Chief Justice w.
H. Beatty at the Supreme Court. After
a consultation it was decided to begin
the arbitration hearing this morning
at 10 o'clock at S31 Fulton street.
Major Mclaughlin said last evening
that he has not listened to any argu-
ments of the points at issue in the con-
troversy and therefore is able to bring
to the case a mind free from prejudice.
He was summoned from Santa Cruz by
the United Railroads, through the COM
panys counsel, Tirey l.. Ford, who
visited Major Mclaughlin at Santa
Cruz and after an all-day conference
finally persuaded him to accept the
post recently held by Mr.. Heney.
There is some adverse comment
among the members of the union, who
charge the United Railroads with al
lowing it's inferior officers to show hos
tility to the employees. AS the result
of the discussions concerning. the mat
ter the executive board of the union
company:
Mr.. e. D. Hibbs, General Superintend
ent United Railroads:
We the undersigned members OF the
executive board of Division NO. Z0o,
desire to call the attention of the
United Railroads, through you, to cer-
tain facts in connection with our en-
ployment by said company. At the
time of resuming work after the Str1ke
on September Mr.. Patrick Calhoun,
NJ
company would start off with clean
slate. Now, this expressed attitude
of the company has not been lived up
to, for ever since we returned to work
the officials of the company-1nspec-
tors, car dispatchers anl superintend-
ents-have shown an absolute spirit
of hostility toward our union. Scores
of men have been suspended, repri-
manded and cautioned upon all manner
of trumped up charges. This has been
carried to such an extent that the
suspended have not been able to get
a day of rest for months. This is a
clear violation of the agreement be-
tween your company and our union,
and the men be given their regular
days off.
Under the pretense of maintaining
discipline your company is acting very
ployes who are members of Division
No 205. This is also violation OF
the agreement, and we request that 1T,
too. cease. Your employees are working
under nerve-racking and soul-killing
conditions which should call for kind
ly consideration from your compapS,
but instead of that you are making
their lot unbearable by giving full rein
to your officials, who are and always
have been opposed to our union.
Hoping you Will give this your i'm
mediate attention to the end that bet
ter conditions will prevail for your
employees, we beg to remain yours
EXECUTIVE BOARD OF DTvI-
SION 205.
By r. CORNELIUS, President.
JAMES H. BOWLING, Sec.-Treas.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
ALL RAILWAYS ARE
MAKINGF SCHEDULES
Trains Carrying Mails Will
Be Run Slower to Avoid
Fines Named in New Law

All the railways in the country are
engaged in revising their train sched-
ules and, as a reslalt, all trains which
carry mails will rxD longer be run as
swiftly as formerly, as their time is
being heightened.
This move is in accordance with the
new law which went into effect re-
Gently and which empowers the Gov
ernment to impose a fine on all rail-
ways where the malls are DELAYED
more than one-Aalf hour over the con-
tract time.
The penalty Will be enforced unless
the railway cam show that the deIay
was caused by ain act of providence or
interference
The, fine will range from 500 up
ward.
The Southern Pacific Company is
observing the law to the lettsr and is
lengthening- the schedule of its mail
trains from one to two hours so as
to minimize the danger Of penalties
being imposed as the result of mails
being delayed beyond the stipulated
time.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
JUDGE HUNT RULES
ON TITLE ACT.
Orders Procedure Tending
to Eliminate Conflict
ing Land Judgments
DEMANDS MORE PROOF

In one of the first cases brought to
trial in the Superior Court for the
establishment of title to land under the
McEnerney act, Judge Hunt yesterday
made ruling regarding procedure IN
such actions, which will be followed
in. all future cases of this nature in the
Superior Court and will prevent the
possibility of conflicting judgments be-
ing entered regarding the title to any
parcel of land. The case in which the
method of procedure was determined
was one brought by j. f. Schroeder un-
der the McEnerney act, providing for
the establishment of land titles for
which the records were destroyed by
fire, through the medium of suit
against the world.
The rule laid down yesterday, and
which all the Judges of the Superior
Court have agreed to follow in the
conduct of all title cases, provides that
as a preliminary to the Introduction
of the proof to title. proof must be
shown that an examination of records
in the Office of the Recorder has been
made to ascertain If any other claim
has been made or suit commenced in
volving the title to any part of the
property in controversy.
This examination must cover all time
up to the beginning of the plaintiffs
action. In case no other suit has been
brought against the land in question,
the plaintiff can proceed to introduce
proof to establish his own title to the
land without further delay. If, how
ever. the preliminary proof shows that
another suit has been commenced, no
further action can be taken until the
claimants under that suit have been ac-
tually brought into court as defend
ants in the suit under consideration,
thus giving both contestants an equal
chance to prove title.
As, under this ruling, no suit can be
brought to trial until it is shown that
no other is pending. it makes impos-
sible the rendering of conflicting judg-
ments concerning title to any land by
the Judges in the different divisions
of the Superior Court and tends to
eliminate all possibility of fraud
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
WHEELER ACTS FOR
THE PRESIDENT.

The controversy between the local
colony of Japanese and the Board of
Education relative tn the admission of
Japanese school children to the public
schools has reached an acute stage.
The climax will come Wednesday
evening, when Secretary Metcalf of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
will arrive. Yesterday BENJAMIN Ide
Wheeler. president of the University
of California, called on President Alt
mann of the board and asked to be
furnished data relative to the contro-
versy. He was given complete his
tory of the events leading up to the
barring of the Japanese children
President Wheeler acted on the request
of President Roosevelt, who has much
faith in the head of the university. T
NJ. Crawford, representing the local
branch of the Immigra ton Bureau, also
asked for information concerning the
little brown children.
President Wheeler was much con-
cerned as to whether the question. was
of recent origin. He was informed by
President Altman that the question
of segregation of the Orientals and the
white children was considered long be-
fore the fire. In reply to the inquiries
of President Wheeler, the head of the
local educational department said:
This board will stand on it's original
ruling unless it be shown that this
ruling is in violation of the treaty
entered into with Japan in 1894 The
exclusion of the Japanese from the
public schools has been considered for
a long time. The law provides that
Orientals shall be housed by them
selves. Twice we have asked the Su-
pervisors to appropriate money for
the housing of the Japanese school
children. On each occasion lack of
funds was pleaded by the Supervisors.
After the fire, owing to the exodus
of Chinese, we found that there was
ample room for the Japanese in the
Oriental school. In compliance with
the law we made the change. The
number of pupils involved in the
change is ninety-three. We would have
made the change sooner except that
the presence of Chinese pupils made it
impossible.
The attendance of white children has
increased from 10000 on the opening
day to $4,000 at the present time.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
REFUGEE BUSINESS
MEN ARE AIDED.
Relief Corporation Ready
to Make Loans to Those
Who Lost Capital in Fire
SICKNESS IN CAMPS

Application blanks for the re- estab-
lishment OF business are ready for dis
tribution by the Relief Corporation.
which is prepared to supply funds for
worthy merchants who lost their cap
ital in the fire and earthquake. Money
borrowed for the establishment of
la business is payable to the Relief
Corporation in monthly inStallmentS.
the amount of which will be deter
mined by circumstances The appli-
cation blanks contain three pages OF
printed questions.
Some alarm is felt by the officials
OF the Relief Corporation concerning
the increased number of. typhoid fever
cases among the refugees There are
more than 100 fever patients. and IL IS
somewhat difficult to find room for all
of them In the hospitals. DR.. w. j.
Hawkins. Assistant superintendent OF
Hospitals. attributes the spread OF the
disease to flies, and says that cold
weather would put end TO 1t to a
great extent II Is believed that many
of the refugees have been careless Fe-
garding sanitary. conditions. and gave
selves. The Board Of Health mayf\ae
asked to aid in bettering the condl-
tions.
No one has yet been selected to take
the place of F. W Dohrmann. chair
man of the rehabilitation committed
and local representative of the National
Red Cross. He will leave for Europe.
probably the latter part of this week
or the beginning of the next, but will
be absent from his relief work only
temporarily
Mr.. Dohrrnann's trip to Europe Is TAX
Ell to aid in bringing the German in
surance companies to terms. His work
in that line will be to correct what
Is believed to be a wrong opinion
among the stockholders of the COM
panies. to whom. it is believed. the
local conditions have been misrepre-
sented- 1t may be necessary for him
to make trip TO Germarr again next
summer, after some Of the cases have
been tried in the courts OF that coun-
try
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
NEW CAR LINE IN
WESTERN ADDITION
United Railroads Will Open
Sacramento Street Road
From Ferries to Richmond

BY the first of next week another
Western Addition line of the United
Railroads will be rehabilitated and in
operation. This will be the Sacra-
mento-street line, over which cars will
run west from Fillmore street to the
Richmond District. The cars to run on
the Sacramento-s line are to
reach the ferry via Fillmore and Sut-
ter streets. The present Sutter-street
line will be continued. The torn up
pavement on that street has been re-
placed
Last night the gang of men working
on the Hayes-street line. from Fill
more to Market, finished their work on
one track. Work on the other track
will be pushed and Thornwall Mutually
states that the road will be in opera
ton soon.
The announced plan of the United
Railroads is to close up all open street
work and in keeping with that policy
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
FRATERNITY INcoRPoRATEs-

Alpha of Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the
name of an organization for which ar
ticles Of Incorporation were filed yes
terday with the County Clerk by Louis
S. Beedy Of the law firm Of Thomas.
Gerstle, Frick G. Beedy The object of
the society is to acquire under corpor-
ate title the chapter house of the Greek
letter fraternity at Stanford University.
The capital stock is $4,000, of which
$50 has been subscribed The direc-
tors are w. H Smith Jr., l. H Bailey
and Louis s. Beedy.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
COURAGEOUS STRANGER RISKS
LIFE TO STOP RUNAWAY HORSE
Pedestrian Braves HOOfs of Frightened
Animal About TO Plunge Into Crowd,
but FIees From Cheers

runaway horse endangered the lives
OF several hundred people ON Fillmore
and Bush streets, who were on their way
from work, yesterday afternoon. Had
it not been for the courageous act of
pedestrian, who risked his life to
stop the runaway, some one, possibly
many, would undoubtedly have been
injured. He grasped the animals hal
ter as it was going at full speed and
succeeded in stopping it.
The horse broke loose from a barn
on Bush street, where it was stabbed.
1t ran along Bush street and was about
to turn into Fillmore, when the citizen,
who was too modest to give his name,
stopped it. He was cheered by the
crowd for his courageou act.