Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
Claus and Rudolph SprecIeeIs to Build
Opposition Street Railway.

san Francisco. April at is an
nounced hy Rudolph Sprccllcls that he
and his father, Claus SprrckcIs, pur-
pose to build an opposition electric
street railroad system for san Fran
cisco. whether the United Railroads
Company agrees or refuses to install
the conduit system. II is probable that
the new company will absorb the Cali
fornia street cable road. and through
right IF way possessed by his com
panY reach the ferry at Market street
II is suggested that tn" new company
will establish some working arrange
mcnt for connections with the railroad
tnat has 4 franchise for a terminal at
the junction OF Market and Eth streets
Tn" United Railroads Company still
crsiStS in declaring that il win install
an overhead trolley system III Market
street. Although Claus Spreckcis is
NOR" than eighty years old, he is still
vigorous. ana this opposition electric
system promises to give him occupation
for several years.
the largest savings bank deal ever
ma'i' in this city was concluded this
week, when the Mechanics Savings
Bank. only tive years old, absorbed the
Saving and Loan Society, nearly fifty
years old. The new institution will
have paid up capital of 81. .00O. 900 and
resources of $1,000 900 James .. Il.
Gum. now head of the Mechanics
Bank, will be president.
II. G. lowers. manager of the Port
land Hotel at Portland, ore. will bc
manager Of th" new Fairmont Hotel,
recently purchased from Mrs Theresa
oclrichs by Law Brothers Bowers for
twelve years has been in charge of the
Portland, and prior to that ne was for
seventeen Years with tn" Arlington at
Washington, u. 6. IT is estimated that
furniture can hc installed in seven
months 50 ,h" I'airmont will probably
J." OF, nod by November I. although
new additions planned will NOT be
completed at that time.
The Sharon heirs have approved
plans for adding two more stories tn
tn" Palace Hotel at a cost Of half .
million dollars These stories Will give
tho hotel I1b NOR" rooms. Work will
he begun as soon AS contracts can be
laced. There viii hc no change III the
glass rooted palm garden, which is 50
attractive 4 feature Of that hotel.
John Hays Hammond. the famous
mining engineer, who was sentenced to
d"ath by the Bncr government and
aft"rWard rrpricVod with a heavy fine
narrowly escaped an attack of acute
pneumonia last week. He returned
from the Tonordh and Manhatt ttan
camps with = bad cold which settled
into pneumonia, but the doctors trans
f"rred linn +" southern California.
w. H. Talbot, the Iumbcrman, is il
the courts tn defend his right To the
custod" Of lis children. When his wife
Sncd him for divorce last June She Oh
taincd All order Of the court giving her
the custody Of three minor children.
and providing that Talbot should not
take them away from the family home.
He has violated this order and now
contends that the court had II" juris-
dictiOn.
TIL" california Supreme Court this
week knocked out Edna Wallace Hop
per's hopes of getting share Of tn"
millions Of Alexander DunSmuir. the
la tie coal mining man Of British Column
bia. Two years ago the actress whose
mother married Dunsmuir, obtained an
order from the Probate Court here APP
pointing an administrator for the estate
in place of James Dunsmuir, chief heir
and executor. James Dunsmuir ap
realed to the Supreme Court, which
now virtually declares that the actress
has no claim
The new Conried grand opera season
Of two weeks. which begins April Il,
promises to be the most profitable of
any ever given in San Francisco.
Charles W. Strine. the manager says
the sale OF the seasons tickets and