New-York tribune., 1906-03-11
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE.

San Francisco. March 9.-No real estate trans
fer for years has excited so much interest as
the exchange by Mrs. Hermann Oerichs. of
New-York, Of the Fairmount Hotel on the
crest Of Mob Hill. with Law Brothers for the
Crossley and Rialto Office buildings on op-
posite corners OF Mission and Montgomery
streets. II is understood Mrs. Oelrichs agrees
10 fulfil her contracts and furnish the Fair
mount Hotel throughout and in return Herbert
E and DR.. Hartland Law will pay her bonus
Of 100000. The two Office buildings are worth
a triie more than 100000 and bring in per
cent net on that valuation. The hotel is val
ued at S31O0OOo and Mrs. Oelrichs was un-
able to get per cent net on this vaIua-
ton from the tenants. The Law Brothers, who
have made millions out Of patent medicine Will
add two stories TO the Fairmount and will man.
age the big hotel themselves. They declare
that in furnishings It will surpass the St Regis
Mrs oelrichs this week also transferred valua-
bic property in Oakland near Newark, in Ala
media county. The total value of her holdings
which she has sold is $55OOOO
The schroth Company will begin at once
erecting seventeen story Office building on a
lot at the corner Of Union Square avenue and
Stockton street, overlooking Union Square The
same company has also decided TO double the
size Of the Charlemagne apartment house at
Geary and Van Ness avenues
The Unitarian Club this week gave a dinner
in honor Of DR.. Samuel A Eliot, president of
the American Unitarian Association. Dr. Eliot
IN his address on ''The Federation OF Liberal
Thinkers and Workers" made two announce
ments Of general interest. One was that owing
to the generosity Of Starr Kings children the
Unitarian Association had acquired the owner
ship Of plates and copyright of the famous Dine
Works. and would issue them hereafter. The
other was that the Unitarian School of Divinity
would soon be added as an affiliated college to
the University of California.
Two new directors were added 10 the of5cers
Of the Western Pacific Railroad Company at
the annual meeting this week. and four changes
were made in the old board. The new directors
are Warren Olney. jr., and Auditor ]. r. Evans
-Four other directors who displaced members Of
the old board are George ]. Gould and w w
Miller, of New-York and Judge Charles w
Stack and H. H. Mccartney. OF San Francisco
J This gives much larger representation OF local
men in the directorate
After ffty-three years service as watchman
/ in the custom house, Edward Durkin was re-
tired this week as his Office recently abol-
ished The old man had been faithful pub
lie servant, and the general opinion here is that
he should have received a pension
George H. Thomas Post Of the Grand Army
is protesting against the reduction of salaries
4 OF veterans in the Postof1ce Department II
( seems Postmaster Fisk has reduced the salaries
Of many employees who have lost efficiency
through age. and among this class are veterans
The local post will refer the subject to the de-
partment encampment, which meets in May.
and then 10 the President
George d. Collins whose case has pervaded
the local courts for ten months had a new trial
refused him this week the charge Of per-
jury, on which the jury disagreed. Collins
presented thirty-seven points on which he
wished the court 10 rule but the Judge swept
away his three hours of argument by declaring
that most Of his points were without merit
Miss Elizabeth Vincent Huntington daughter
OF h. Z. Huntington the Los Angeles traction
man. was quietly married here this week to
John Brockway Metcalf. son OF tho Secretary OF
Labor and Commerce The young couple will
make their home here. the BRIDES father giving
them handsome house.
After being shut down three years the big
beet sugar refinery at Crockett opened yester-
day. The machinery has all been overhauled and
many new labor saving appliances have been
installed. Twenty-four thousand sacks OF raw
sugar are already IN the refinery. and the
steamer Nevada with 5000 TONS arrived this
week and is now unloading. The sugar trust
paid 100000 year for the enforced idleness
OF the refinery. but the contract out on
March 3, and the independent planters OF Ha-
waM decided to handle and refine their own
! sugar.