The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-07
WIRELESS PLANT
JARS NERVES OF
TIE HILL TRIBE
Dwellers in Terraced Castles
Tire of Flash and Crash of
the instruments
Board of Education Is Asked to
Abate Nuisance by Ousting
Company From Lot

Wireless Telegraph" hill is a storage
battery of complaint. And that is be-
cause it is Wireless Telegraph" hill,
and is not now Russian hill, as it once
was, nor simple, old fashioned "Tele-
graph" hill. like its cousin across the
valley
For the jewellers in the terraced
castsles on the eminence are harassed
night and day by the proximity of the
United Wireless company's station at
Taylor and Vallejo streets and are pre-
pairing a petition to present to the
board of education, custodians of the
city lot on which the station is located,
asking that the property be vacaed and
some nice, quie industry, like boiler
works or steam siren training sta
ton, be installed there Anything is
better than a wireless station. say the
people on he hill.
Novelty Wears Off
Wireless Telegraph" hill alias Rus
sian Hill. has long been dedicaed to
homes of those who would join high
living (5O0 feet altitude, more or less)
with high thinking Among the eIe-
waited folk dwelling on the hill are DR..
j. Mora Moss. Livingston jerks the
attorney and Mechanis' library trustee,
Hiram W. Johnson the attorney, C. ].
Durbrow. E. A. Dakin and other pro-
testants against wireless. Then there
has been the wireless station.
At nrst the intellectuals on the hill
welcomed the coming of the wireless.
Its tail anenae was a symbol of prog
ress. But the novelty of wireless teleg-
raphy has worn off. Aeroplanes and
dirigibles are the mode now among
inventors. The wireless proposition is
slightly out of fashion-like a Merry
Widow hat, once boasted of, now COM
mon thing for every day wear
When the novelty of the wireless
mast wore off the zip and crash of the
wireless instruments wore on the
nerves of the people.
Too Noisy for Tribe
A wireless message makes the noise
of Jove ripping the tin roof off Olym-
pus The vibrations are too much for
the Russian hin tribes Eo Dr. ]. Mora
Moss, De Los Ma gee, Livingston jerks
and others started a petition. Captain
Thomas Duke of the North end district
and Policeman Hurd, who does the
steppes of Russian hill, have also taken
part in the campaign. The petition will
be presented soon to the board of edu-
cation and the wireless company will
be forced to leave. The company is
not unwilling to hist it's mast some
where else. There is too much amateur
competition in the vicinity of Russian
hill to make the professional operation
entirely satisfactory The lease held
by the company on the board of educa-
ton lot at Vallejo and Taylor street
expired June /. and since that time the
company has been renting the ground
from month to month at nominal
rental of about $25 a month
AmeIioration Is Removal
In discussing the tantalizing presence
of the wireless apparatus last evening
DIR. j. Mora Moss said; THE noise of
the wireless operation is very disturb
ing, and the presence of the instru-
ments there interfere materially with
our telephone service. We have pre-
pared petition which will pre-
scented to the city authorities asking
that the company be forced to vacate'
De Los Magee said: I'VE have joined
together to have the nuisance stopped.
The flashes of light from the instru-
ments and the noise is very disturbing
But we have spoken to the secretary
of the company and he has promised
that the evil viii be ameliorated.'
The amelioration. it is understood by
the board of education, will be removal
Tie people of Russian Hill are not much
longer to be disturbed by the wild cries
of the mysterious Cossacks of the air.
nor viii they much longer be dashed to
the wireless mast.
MURDERED MANS BODY