Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 5

1u 1 OAKLAND DAILY EVENING TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1890. the room, and said that he understood that the proposition of the water company would.be submitted to the committee. The company had resolved to ASA SETTLER amount of money had been expended. Cbairmain Collins then called on Mr.

Boardman for information regarding the works, and asked, if he was conversant with the reports furnished by Mesrs. Schuyler and Le Conte, and, if so. if he thought the esiimate was a good one. Engineer Boardman's Estimates. Mr.

Boardman said that he th water company. Mr. Sihoyler could not find more than $3,200,000 worth of propeny there. In this he did not include water tights, but he did include S172.COO for real estate and $1000 for fish. It cannot be shown tbat the water company has more than $3,200,000 in there.

They now claim that they have spent in the last four i years. Tbey have not spent tbat amount on new work, but if tbey have 1 spent it, wheie did it come from? In that time we, the citizens of have paid into the Water Company $1,200,000, besides paying all their I taxes. 1 bave assumed tbat the Schuy-ler report is correct, and tbat it repre- SPELM We Wish tO not. tV ciiasers that we have made extraordinary preparations for Spring; business. 6 As far hnfV oa a ber and xaau ye ax we placed orders wita Eastern and En- ycau luanuiaccuxers Cloths Shirtings, Underwear, Gloves, etc are iar in excess of any house on the Coast in these lines.

beca.nsA nf mi. root, uuuet at. Home and abroad throueh Travel. iVMiucui, stents in all parts of the Facific Coast States and. The first, nf oKnnt An m.

-xv luuereuh ShlDments rlnA no in fT, nn days is already on hand. It is our intention to announce in this paper the arrival of each shipment, as well a uuuse it, nas come trora, so that our wnnlil-ho, For Water and the Water Question. I BIG BIGEL1HD PARR RESESTOIB. Will RniM Rnt 1.11V IIBbWl WUlUtUiJ UUI AUllUa Aytl Barker Is Not Pleased. Bo the Company Will Htb Farther Effort to Satisfy the Exacting TUird Ward Thinker.

ine nanners oi tne mil were up against the banners of the marsh last night a( the meeting of the Council in Committee of the Whole. The cohorts of the water company, massed under the leaderthni of. I. C. Martin, deployed on one side of the chamber, while the eaemy rallied about irray-haired inn carter on tlie otner.

The oppos ing forces giowered at each other -in arkling menace across the the clear and spafkling Contra Costa water in the big crystal pitcher in front of the Cleqjc desk and quietly prepared for the fray. Mr. Martin had his lance in long, direful map, rolled into rest a a hard wad. benerer he made motions with this weapon Mr. (nicknamed "the bad warlike Barker at him with a sometime copy of Tue Tribune, loaded with facts and figures.

Mr, Mr. Barker's faith in the infallibility of JJta paper was as beautiful to see as the trustful confidence ol a child in the December visitation of Santa Claus. "The Tribc.nb always trlls the truth." he said. (Tanks, Timmy; tanks! Henry Pierce, J. H.

Watkinson, George E. De Goha snd W. T. Board mu WUCCICU UII LUC IJUlUK-lUUUca Martin, while behind the rumbling Barter were Henry Haves and Dr. George C.

Pardee, colloquially called "Zymotic." But Mr. Barker put not his trust in them nor in the Council-men who showed themselves clearly of his opinion. He stuck to his Tribune and lunged vigorously, though his blows lacked the precision of his better trained and' more skillful antagonist. To the Jefi side of the chamber were Council men Kirk, Brosnahan, McAvoy, Earl, and Evans. They said never a word, but sat and listened as willing to be convinced, On the other side were Messrs.

Camron, Hackett, Mac-donald, Towle, and Wakefield. With the exception of Messrs. Macdonald and Wakefield, they talked a great deal Whenever there was a lull in the windy Straggle of the champions. Mr. Martin bowled them over, one up, the other His logical home thrusts and juieuy euecuve cynicisms were too much for ibe earnest but scattering talk of the statesmen.

Mr. Martin unrolled his map early in the" evening. Plotted thereon was as Vfair and blue a lake as ever was kissed Wby the mists or mirrored a primrose. This, lie etnl.iined waa urrlinr. reservoir, so much desired, and so often Remarkable Bescae iur.

Micnacl Certain, Plamfield 111. manes tde statement that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was treated for a month by her family out grew worse. He told iier she was a hopeless victim ofeonsump. ttrvn and that no meiikii.e could cure her. Her Migge-teJ Dr.

King's 1 Ion. 1 iui i.onumpuon; le nought a battle and to herde.hrht found oenemcu irom Dm She wuiiiiut-u 11s use iitui iter taking ten buttles, found herself sound and well, iVjw jut own nousework and is as "well as she ever was Free trial bo ties of this Grcit Discovery at Osgood Bros jrug ei re, sxvcvitfi and Broadway. fcr ufim-s ana i. No so Called Piano CI aba. Tf 1 ii uci join sucn a ciuo.

you pay $2 a week or $3 a month and vou have to taee a certain piano, whether vou like it or not, and can not the instru- iulii mi youriocKoy ranin gets it. iney use your money and you have no piano. Oirard's Piano House 115 Broadway will sell you a first class piano for $3 per month and vou caa get the piano at ce and select vour own instrument. Do not be deceived oy agents; go to a reliable house. The Ourney Cab Co.

ine Ourney Lab Company have just put on seven new cabs and are prepared to meet 'he ull dema- of the public. Any discourtesy or over c-narges rv the drivers, if reported at the omee, will he cons dcred a favor, Ollicc isroauway. Telephone 43. A a voukuijr 01 progre-s nas not pro cured a rpniedy equal to Ely's Cream Hum for Catarrh, cold 111 the head and nay tever. It is not a liquid or a snuff.

but is perectly safe and easily applied into the nostrils. It gjves immediate reuei ana cures the worst cases. Dont say there is no help for catarrh, 1. 1 uy it-vec ana com in ine nead. since thousands testify that Eiy's Cream 1.

hi ui iiu eniireiy cureu tuein. it supersedes the dangerous use of liquids and "-nulfs. It easily applied into the nostrils and giye3 relief at odcc Price ouets. Bkecuam's Pills cure sick-headache. TTT l- wBctujin rianos are used and endorsed by Prof Hughes, Prof Iliche Von Adlung.

Mary's College v.urisLiun Drainers, eis'ers of. oc. Joseph, West Oakland and East Oakland, and all thoe who know what a goodpiano is. .11. Sirard, 1150 Broad way, general agent.

(5rs A. Iloenier, "The Eclipse" saloon, 1456 Seventh street, Center station, est uasiana. Orkat Keduction8 111 the price of inne Trimmed Hats at M. Rey Wil- son's Millinery. 1255 San Pablo avenue, and 606 Fifteenth street.

McGijcty buys his music and pianos rrnn. Pln.t. IfWIO Li 1 Send your orders for ice cream for Christmas to Brookes 1205 Broadway. tenvereu iree. Adams Springs Mtneril Water.

Unsurpassed lor all complaints of the kidney, liver or blood, dyspepsia. costiveness, etc. W. P. W'heeler, 1211 uroauway, soie agent.

LiABOE and elegant line of musical goods at Clark lse 1008 Broadway. Plbase call at 1242 San Pablo avenue, and examine the UcMillan Pants, if you cannot get a fit from our ftock, we will take your order and make vou the best pair ot pants you ever had at the same price. Other pants will cost you aoupie tne price we charge. Our stock i ail custom made. Mas.

E. M. Btac ev. A cent for cainornia. When all others fail to give vou relief.

try Ammeu's Cough Syrup. Quick cure. A beahtiful young lady became sadly disfigured with pimples and blotches that it was feared she would die of grief. A friend recommended Ayer's Sarsara- rilla, which she took, and was completely cured. She is now one of the fairest of the fair.

Grpaf Reductions in the prices of Fine Trimmed Hats at M. Hey Wil son's Millinery, 1255 San Pablo avenue, and 503 fifteenth street. No humbug piano clubs. Cirard's Piano House. 1159 Broadwav.

se'ls first class pianos at $10 monthly installments. No raffling off of pianos. Only a legitimate business done. Agents for Bieinway ana Wheeiock pianos, ape. Many musicians complain of their pianos.

Why Because their pianos are not tuned by competent workmen. Girard's piano House warrants all work done by their fnners. Pure Candies; Children are sometimes poisoned by eating cheap candy. If you want pure candies go where they are manufactured freah every day bv Lehnhardt, Fourteenth street, next door to Post-office. Removal Sale.

Ladies' best quality $7 hand sewed French kid button now selling at $3 40 at Wentworth Boot and Shoe Company, 463 Thirteenth street. Bed'. Sofas and Louage Must be sold. A fine assortment, at H. Schellhaas', Eleventh street.

For the Patti Season, Novelties for evening wear just from Pans, at M. Rey Wilson's, 1255 San Pablo avenue, and 50( fifteenth street. FITS. AU Flu stopped free by 'lr. Kllae's Brest Nerve Betorer.

No Fits after fiist day's me. Marvellous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial bottle free to Fit canes. Send to Dr. Kline, 931 Arch street, Fa.

Decorations, cornucopias, fancy baskets, bon bon boxes, at Lehnhardt's Fourteenths treei, nex to he post office Piano House, 1159 Broadway, employs only first class piano tuners. The branch office of the Western Union Telegraph Company in THE TRIBUNE counting room, Go.lindo Hotel Building, is directly connected with all vires leading out of Oakland. Send your friends in the country a tin box filled with candy. It will keep fresh for weeks. Sold only by Lehnhardt, Fourteenth street, next to the Postoffice.

A Perfect Face Powder aneeii a sua 7K UiwSjU. SsstrassCBsh'fcTBrMt'H, tm Broodway: RlllT', 1 Ml: Wettmaa Hu.v.H; Klrfc- TrowtorMc. Oftffcad Bros. cor. Bell's Jucttoa, Telfnh 8MB TmUo At.i Wrjrt'm, 1U1; Ben ear.

St. i am Wuklaftoa B.t rMmV. ear. ink: RiU'ei ear. Sta: OB ttfc: Kama's.

11H; Mart, lots; Baaiu'e, iota aurw; a. nun CUpp'e, ink ear. inh; Mehrln a sta am a a ltta; Boa Mania-, tM Are. a E. 14th 81; W.

Oakland: BaoaeUa a Ttk Jliiai'if Clara ara. SrarkSt, LATEST Pn.raME"?7 A A 1 1 A Kadical Cure FRENCH AS Til II AS Am 1K occasion, receiving, as a rul. tbe mark, "lou've a hobby." direct promises had ever been made, however, to the Council, although thev had been given to individual members of that body. Mr. Barker concluded, bv expressing the opinion that a settling reservoir is about tbe only thing that will give tbe city good water when weather is stormy.

Chairman Collins remarked tbat it was current talk on the street corners that Mr. Caabot bad come before the old Council and had promised to build a settling reservoir. He wanted to know if that wbs so. Mr. Barker replied in tbe negative.

ana said that if Mr. Chabot had made such a promise he would have kept it, and if Mr. Pierce would make a similar promise now that would also be a good guaranty. Mr. Camron Wants a Guarantee.

M-. Camron said that when people heard of pure water their enthusiasm could not be controlled. He understood that the members were here not to quarrel with the Council but as representatives of a great citv. and the Company was there as merchants, who were supplving good not according to sample. The Committee wanted to know when the goods would be brought up to sample, and he had expected a written report saving pre cisely what thev wer to.

rfn Such a document could have been filed in the archives of the Council and it would set men's minds at eae. Tlio company had argued that there might or a oi rates say twenty per cent, -not qui teas much as" the insurance men were making and thus their credit would he impaired. Tins had nothing to do with tbe question. If pure water was supplied, there would be no grumbling about the rates. He did not like this dodging of the question.

What the people wanted was pure water. Tbe company said in effect that they wanted us to leave the rates high to stimulate their credit. He for one would not object to consider favorably anything that would tend tohelothe credit of the comnanv, but he would insist on getting value in the shape of assurance of the prospect of getting pure water. (Applause.) Mr. Hackelt Advice.

"I am not going lo make any particular talk," sr.il Councilman Hackett, opening bis remarks. "What improves tne city improves the water company and what improves the water company improves the city. They are co-partners, and what is lor the benefit of one is for tbe benefit of the other. It is not prot-er for us to discuss this question of wotci mies uniu rne water is tired, it is to tne beneht ol the company to sub mil a pian lor good water and carry it out. oelieve with Mr.

Barker, that if tney say that they will do a thing that tney win tio it, and the object is to make them say what they will do. I tell the water company not to dodge the question, but just come up to the scratch and the Council will back yon up. Don't beat about the bush Give us good water and we will give you good rates. This citv improve unless you have good water. Spend half a million on water works if necessary, and tbe city will give vou in terest on your money.

This city is the Destin tne world and the people are all decent people, and we all want to do what is right. Now the water company ain't ready and I think we had better adjourn for a week and give ttem a chance to sit down with us and spell this out. They are decent men, but we won't allow them to rob the 2ity. All that t'jev can ask is a fair interest on their money." What More Can Be Done. Mr.

Martin said that he did not know what more the water company could do. It had submitted its plans in black and white and the whole matter before the Council. The question of purifying water one that is agitating the whole world. The water comuanv w.oole world. Ihe water con not.furr.ish sparkling water.

not dodging," repeated Mr. Marti could are neated Mr. Martin. 1 did not say that ere dodging," said Councilman Hackett, who look this as a personal remark. "1 alluded to the man who was thinking that we were dodging," laughed Mr.

Martin. "I object," said Mr. Barker. "He is making me an object of derision." Resuming. Mr.

Martin said that if the plans submitted would not do others would have to be obtained. The company proposed, to spend a good deal and wanted to do so to the best advantage. Tbe present water is not as good as it might be, but it is not unhealtbful. The company is doing all its power to remedy the" evil, and is trying to do right. The same trouble could be heard ell over the land.

Mr. Barker had very well said that it would be hard to find any one who would take water stock now-a-days. Tbe company had been accused ofnot spendingsuffici-ent money to make the system a good one, but the books would show that $200,000 had, during the past year, gone out lor the sale of bonds, and $20,000 borrowed monev, and that the total expenses since 1885 had been $000,000. Mr. Barker pulled a copy of The Tribune of February 10, 1887, containing a report of the meeting the night before, and said that that was authority enough for him, as The Tribune always mid the truth.

Councilman Toivle asked if a communication had been received from the water company, and was told that nothing bnt the plans had been turned in. Written Statement Has Been Made. Mr. Martin explained thata month ago, over the signature of the president, tbe intention of the company had been declared. He then read some extracts from a report of a meeting of the former Council, at which tbe estimates 61 the water rights had been discussed.

When he came to a point where the total expenses were enumerated, Mr. Barker interrupted with a remark about the figures. Mr. Martin said, "I only know what here," holding up a copy of a report the meeting of the Council in question. Mr.

Barker "And I only know what here," holding up a copy of The Tbibune containing a report of the same meeting. Councilman Camron then arose and said that he had jfist had a talk with the President of the water company and tbat that gentleman had said that by Monday next he would submit to the Council further details' regarding the proposed improvements. He therefore moved that "when adjournment was made it be until Tuesday evening next, and, the question being put, the motion was carried unanimously. There was an attempt to adjourn for good at this point, but a persuasive speech from Mr. Hackett caused a withdrawal of the motion.

"What I to know is when this water is going to be made better," said Mr. Kirk. "I consider that .1 am as good a judge of water as anybody, and want to kcow how soon it is going to be improved." "I don't come here for pleasure," said T. L. Barker, Ex-Councilman.

"This is tbe second time I hare been here, and I don't want to come here again to hear myself or anyone else talk. It is well known that a great number of the ratepayers in this citv believe that the water rates are too high but there are very few men who will coaae here and say so. Most men will not corte here and stand np before this Council and the best attorney In Alameda county backed by the water company and its engineers. I always was tbe friend of the water company, even when I was in the Council, and Mr. Chabot bad been a friend of mine for thirty Tears, and I always thought tbat be was a friend of mhie, nnoll tried to get that promise to build this reservoir out of aim, and then ha dklnt seen friendly.

My calculations have been made wa th basis of Mr. Bchay ler'e report, the eojlneer of the construct a settiirjg and distributing reservcar, iiiu jiei inougoi me plans soouiu suomuiea to me committee. The chairman asked whether the members would like to have the plans submitted to them or to the Council. No objection being offered Mr. Martin was asked to explain what proposition the company had to make about tbe plans.

Mr. Martin stated that the reservoir would be titua'ed bear Fruitvale avenue on Sausal creek, and would embrace about nineteen acres and contain 100,000.000 gallons. The construction will cost a great deal moDey and as tbe expenditure is for the public good and is likely to be criticised hereafter, he would like to have the plans carefully considered and approved. The plans were then displayed on the table in front of tbe clerk's desk and the meirhers of the committee spent considerable time in their inspection and discussion. Mr.

TVatklnsbn's Explanation. J. H. T. Watkinson of the water company explained, in reply to iroin the Cou'ncilmeri, that tbe reservoir wou-d hold about one hundred million of gallons a supply that would last tbe cuyaoouta month, as the citv used now about twelve or I fifteen iniliion of gallons per day.

Tie dam would be fifty feet high and would cost from to Mr. Martin said Mr. Boardman conM probably give some information ahnnt the plans. The Engineer's Statement. W.

Boardman, civil engineer, said the location is eouih of the Fruitvale railroad, on property bought years ago by Mr. ohabot lor this very purpose its elevation would be 1S9 feet above sea level and the embankment will be fixty feet above the level of the vallev The surf ace soil will removed, to a nepth of two or two and a half feer. The whole surface will, if necessarv. be covered with cement. I The connection with tbe San Ieandro reservoir.

will be made and all other connections that may be found necessary. In the ca.e of a storm the pipe from San Leandro will be shut oft and the water in the reservoir would serve the city for at least a month. No surface water from adjacent land will be admitted. pipe will be ran to a height of 300 feet above sea level on Sausal creek, whence a supply of clear water could be frep from all mud. The cost will be nGthinsr less that $300,000, and it would take about a vear to do the work, so that next winter the cuv could be supplied froni that source.

mis nas teen an exceptional winter, owiug to the light rains for the last turee years, so that the water in San ieandr reservoir at the beeinning- of tue rainy season was tower than ever it has been since tbe coustruction of the works. This was the cause of the Dad water. Councilman Camron asked if there were any streets crossing the reservoir. and was informed that there was a small depression, which would be avoided, so that there would be no surface water received. He then wanted to know if the Water Compary owned the property, and was answers, i in the affirmative.

Mr. Fleming, who was sitting in th lobby, jumped up with a question, but was rued down as being out of order. Couucilman Camron; then asked if water standing in a reservoir of the kind proposed would not turn green in uie sun. Mr. Boardman renlied that if it were there a long time it probably would, but that it was not the intention to run the storing place in that msnner.

Running water not covered does not become stagnant, neither would this. The speaker also explained that it is noi proposed to let tue: water remain tnirty days, except in the winter time. lavs exceDt in the winter timp for his jnories hv ititinw that J-d taqUwFh rTiK1 counci reasons he had had a tank at his place which. when uncovered, though daily supplied from a well, had a green scum on top, and that when a cover was placed over it the scum He therefore wanted to if five acres covered would not be better than nineteen un covered. He Expected a Written Promise.

Mr. Camron then had feomething more to say. and he so announced, "it was not understood, When we ad journed last Tuesday nfgbHsaid he, that the water company would pre sent plans, but it! was expected that they would submit a written report, saying what they would do or what they would not do; whether they would build a settling reservoir or not, and whether they would filter the water or not. 1 want tbe to say this authoritatively. I want to know whether this will be done this year or next.

I want to know whether thev will begin work this month or next year. We want to know whether they will give us pure water or not. We know the ability of the water com pany. We know that it they say- they will build this reservoir, they will build it. Wc know that they say that they will do it at once, they will do it, but we must make them say so.

It is not our proposition to say bow this company shall spend their money, but we do ask that they give us good, pure water. (Applause) we do not want to say how these men shall do this work, we do not want to take the responsibility of saying what this- plan shall be, because if the plan fails we will not take the responsibility. We want them to make the plan, arid than if it is not a success, they are responsible, and we can still sav, 'Give us good, pure (Applause.) No Poison in the Xyster. Mr. Martin said that the of the company had been to submit their plan, and if tbat plan was approved, that, in his opinion, was tbe best that could be done.

He had found that there waa nothing poisonous in tbe Oakland water, though! it had been often very malodorous and muddy. To get rid of these defects was the object, and if the plan submitted: could do this that sb aid end it There was no reward offered as a premium for a plan, as some see ued to think, but if a bet er plan was Sjggested the company was ready to adopt it. In answer to the Chairman, Mr. Martin said tbat as soon as tbe weather permitted, the work would be begun and carried on with due diligence. Councilman Towle asked if there was anything more definite about this proposition than there was about the one formerly made by Mr.

Chabot. Mr. Martin said he had good authority on which to answer that inquiry Mr. Barker, who spoke emphatically at the last meeting in favor of a settling reservoir, and added that be had endeavored, personally,) to get the Water company to do this very thing, but had- failed, because of want of backing in the Council, Mr. Martin added that an endeavor had been made some time ago to obtain a site for such a reservoir, and the Council hindered the company from securing it, because it would involve the closing of certain streets.

The company had been working for a long time to secure this very object, though it had been said tbat the company had vtrou uuuig uuuuiig. ft mi lue company had done tonight was the very thing Mr. Barker had been anxious for. Mr. Barker Anwiri a Question.

Chairman Collins wanted to know if the representatives of the water company had appeared prior to this occasion, and made a proposition to the Council regarding th matter. I T. L. Barker, ex-member of the Council, was called upon to answer the query; and said, that he had tried to get the company to build a reservoir, m4 fcid talked ut suite up on erery of in A is of is 1 it was an under-estimate. At thet'nie referred to, Mr.

Chabot had asked bim to go through the works and figure what they had cost. He objected, and Mr. Le Conts was given the task and made up his report alone. When Mr. Schuyler was there he had assisted that gentleman.

The evening the reports were presented to the Council several inaccuracies had been found in Mr. Le Conte's report, as was only natural owing to the hurry in which it had been drawn up. The reports of Messrs Schuyler aad Le Conte had differed only very Mightiv. lut after they had compare! notes they decided that $3,250.0 0 was a fir estimate. Mr.

Barker asked if anything had ceen omitted from. Mr. Scliuvler report, and Mr. Boardman replied that everything tbat could be obtained had been included. There were many difficulties as regards the making tbe report, osrmg to the charges consequent on construction, Mr.

Martin asked Mr. Boardman If had personally made au estimate at the time, and he said that he had, and figUreS had Mr. Barker wanted to know where the increased water was to come from luv company now proposed sup ply. and was told by Mr. Barker thai hat there were plenty of places, Lak Taboe auiuug mem.

'Oh, I thought the Contra Costa. Company already had everything iu siht, remarked Mr. Barker. Prcsi Jeiit Camron wanted to know if the operating expenses of one vear are addej to the total amount oi expended capital each year. Mr.

Martin said that they are not whereupon Mr. Wakefield wanted to know it the interest oa the original capital was not compounded semiannually and added to the orijnial amount. Mr. Martin said that if this had" been done the original copitil would bave hct'u swelled to $0,000,000. In Days Gone By.

Mr. Barker, again, produced Thk T' report of February 10, 188 in wmcn Mr. Wa'kinson had admitted before the Council that taking up old nipe had been charged to the construc tion account. iur. upheld the action of the company, saying that tbe life of a pipe is bllt 5l) nnil tK 1 iT.f i uiab cost 01 ine pimc pmiu snouia be added to the orig lnal cost at the end of 20 years.

"The cnlv difference httu-oon r. sum air. Aisrtm, "is the cost of the plant. Mr. Barker will allow auu we use only per oent.

We aj iuai me piant cost so much, Mr. Barker says that it con less and Mr. Haves says that it cost nothing at all." Mr. Wakefield said something ah.mt report made bv Mr. r.ntoen showed that the interest on the nrii- capital had been coLLnounde.i semi-annually at 9 per cent.

is mat on meY" asked Mr. Martin. No," smiled President. rnn jki me "No." ever act upon it?" "Who bas ever seen it?" "I have." said Mr. Camron.

"I can tell a lnt.lo ahnnt vr. Hayes. "I paid $150 mit n'f pocket for that report, in nrrior could understand those reports." ven, wuere is i it keeps iumn- ng up like a iack-in-the-hur nrt one knows anything about it." I've got it, and you will see it in time." said Mr. Haves. -Then the eonimiitea adi week.

OAKLAND GIRLS IN NEW YORK Miss Jennie Dyer, Miss Angasta Low- en, and Miss Jennie Lob man. A correspondent of the San Fran cisco Call gives the following paragraphs about some Oakland ladies in New York: "What is she here for?" "What has she come to do or to learn?" are the uestions that greet the announcement a new arrival from California, and when one reviews the Californians here, who are WOrkinp like Trniana art literature, and all that, it seems natural enough the casual observer would get the impression that, pvpi-v Clifimnin has a definite object in life. xnere 13 Miss Jennie Dyer of Oakland. painting in her cosv fitnilin Seventeenth street. MISS Augusta Lowell, well lrnnwn in Oakland musical circles, is orgairst th-e Cnurcn tne Incarnation, on Madison avenfV.

Arthar Brooks, brother of the renowned Vhiilins Brooks, iipastor of this church, and it a compliment worthy of the talented Oakland girl's studious devotion to her that she was elected to fill so responsible a position. She gives organ recitals in the church Wednesdays of each week. Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin has been staying at the Albert, on Eleventh street. She has the most tender sympathy ol a wide circle of friends in her great bereavement.

Her husband died here some months ago. Her charming Stsry of Patsy." and the pathetically funny and delightful little bookThe Bird's Christmas Carol," have a good sale in New York. Mrs. Wiggin has made many warm friends, among them Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editor of the Atcholas, aud the bewitching child actr- as, the bonny Elsie Leslie Lvnde, who made such a hit as "Little" Lord auntieroy," and is now winning favor Murk Twain's nlav of Th Prinr Pauper.

Mrs. Wiggin wiil soon return California, where she will lemain a few months, and then go abroad. Miss Jennie Lobman of Oakland is in Luke's Hospital, learning to be a. She is devoting herself tn thi vacation from purely philanthropic motives, as her numerous friends may readily imagine, as she is a charming young ladv of varied accomplishments and considerable fortune. Probate Matters.

H. W. Taylor, H. P. Nobson and Fred V.

Wood have been appointed to appraise the estate of Margaret AUen-dorf, deceased. Charles A. Post has filed his final account as administrator of tbe estate of Mar? A. Post, deceased. The cash received amounts to $1068 20.

SUPERIOR COURT. Department One Ureene, Judge-February 12th: In re Kthel Gray 8mith; habeas corpus continued to Friday morning Department Two GiDton. Judge: February 12th: People vs. John H. Chnroh trial to be continued.

1 DepartmentThree-Ellsworth, Judge February I2lh 6 Brushie ts. Landregan on trial. THE DEATH RECORD. Justus W. Held, whooping cough, February 6 W.

D. Hardy, railroad accident, February 9th. Joon Hall, suicide, February 9th. lOthf ewqui3t iFebrusry LICENSED TO MARRY, Name. Residence.

age. Barker Stone, Ban Leandro 27 Stella Marian Sean, Saa Leandro. ..,.23 Charles Abl West 28 Addle Beadell, West Joeenh J. MeKlnnotLfUn K0erine MacphsaTOakland; sents every dollar that could be tound, though LsConte could not find as much I as that by $250,000. Now, this $3,250,000 includes $1,200,000 worth of bonds, taking the figures of Schuyl r's report.

Now, we will allow tbat tbev have spent $250,000 since then, making as the cost of their works. Of ibis amount $1,200 000 is bonds, leaving as theamount paid in on their stock. Mr. Martin is saying that they haven't maoe 8 per cent, "and he is talking about a $3,000,000 investment. whn they have oniy put in By and by, when they doubie their stock, they won't nake 2 or 3 per cent.

This Council could reduce the water rates 15 per cent and the water company still receive 7 per cent net on its investment. That is, afier paving all iis expenses of every kind there will be 7 per cent left for the stockholders, which will amount to" Mr. Barker conunenced searchin some memoranda. "Two dollars an eighty cents," eu gested Mr. Marlm.

Mr. Barker's Water Stock. "Something overSUO.OOO clear profit, continued Mr. Barker. "Now as to nx water stock, haven bad anv since Mr.

Martin was a very small boy About twenty years ago I once had some stock in an enterprise out on Sausal Creek, but Mr. Chabot cam aiong anu Dougnt it up lor httv cents on the dollar. The value of property 1 generally shown by its market value Tbe company says tbat they are badlv dealt with and arc making nothing and yet we find that the 3000 shares of their stock is selling ou the stock board lor more than tbey were iou years ago. At that time it was quoted at 77, wnile it is now quoted at 92 cents on me dollar, that don't look as if i had been treated very badly. There are from tXKXt to 7000 rate-payers in this ciiy, most oi wuom are tne owners small houses, and the water rate is from 0 to 10 per cent, on the income of the progeny.

On houses that are bringin in tu to a montn, the water rate is Irom $2 to $4, or to 10 per cent. It is the duty of this Council to lift as much from tbe citizens as i ossible after deal ing fairly with the company. I hope that the Council will look into this mat ter and see if they have only put in aim ii mey nave, aiiow taem interest on that amount. The water company understands its business, aud ii it uoes not, it nas no right to engage in it. Let the company adopt the plan mat win purity tne water.

Tne Conn cil is not supposed to know anything aoout mat. i nave nere a report oi fhat ceieDratea meeting, ol whuh Mr. Mar tin has the. notes, when Mr. Chabot said that God Almignty sent just as good water to Oakland as to San Francisco.

If that be true, the ix)ru probaoly sends just as good water now as he did then, and certainly there is better water now in San Francisco than here, or they in San Francisco inlist use some process for clearing it. Now, if the Contra Costa Water Company wants to find oul what is done in San rrancitco to make it bet ter, it can do so at the small cost Of 25 cents for a round trip ticket. I don't think that Mr. Boardman will say upon his reputation as an engineer that the settling reservoir proposed will cost $100,000, or that the pipe line will cost $200,000 more from the San Leandro road to the reservoir and back. 'I chjn't come here for fun, but from a sense of dutv.

I remember in the old Council how Mr. Le Conte asked time to criticise Schuyler's report, but the Council wouldn't have it. Thev wouldn't even hear from Mr. Hayes, who was sick, but the only thing thev would do was to fix the rate then and there, and they did it." Sworn Statements-' vs. Conjectures.

Mr. Martin arose to respond, and said tbat he did not think Mr. Barker's remarks ought to go far With the Coun cil. The sworn statements of the company showed an expenditure of $600,000, and he thought they ought to be taken before Mr. Barker's coniectures.

Then Mr. Barker had stated tbat the com pany's stock had actually risen to be worth 92 cents on the dollar. Well. ought it not be worth 100 per ceht as well as Mr. Barker's realty is.

The $300,000 that is to be expended is not for the reservoir alone. How about the connecting pipes and other details. Fireside estimates are being made, by people who know nothing of the matter. When people put money into any sort of public enterprise thev fiiioht tn anmo for it. Generally there is much cordiality about iretunp mnnpv in nnrl it ought to prevail, after capital has once Deen expended' ine streets are now open for anyone who wants to bring water Into this city.

The whole question ought to be looked at like any other business proposition. Instead of the 8 per cent tnat it is claimed the company had been obtaining, not half of that amount had been obtained. Mr. Barker said tbat his pohit was upon the difference of the figures, and asked if the franchise did not go in as cash. "No, sir." thundered Mr.

Martin. "Have you made your calculations on mat Dasis Mr. Barker said certainly not: that be had made them on the report of the vulu fuLi ciinicci. uu uis ecueuuie anyhow lie bad given to the company seven per cent, net profit. Ex-Councilman Haxea' Question.

"I just want to ask one question," said Harry Hayes, who was a member of the Council during former water fights. "Did Mr. Chabot ever put the franchise in as so much of the capital stock?" "I dou't so understand it," replied Mr. Martin. "I was very friendly with Mr.

Chabot," said Mr. Hsyes, "and I used to go out and watch the progress of the works at San Leandro. Mr. Chabot always gave me td understand that be put the franchise in for so much of the capital stock, and also tbat the stock was watered and doubled at one time and then put in as original capital." "I don't so understand," repeated Mr. Martin.

"80 they watered the water stock, did they?" "Now. those works were not so expensive," continued Mr. Hayes. "I know something about such work, and there wasn't over 300 or 400 yards of dam to build. It was a natural reservoir, and then the whole thing was built by cheap Chinese labor." Mr.

Martin and Mr. Baker bandied words about the two reports of Mr. Schuyler and Mr. Le Conte, in which air. Barker defended the tatter's report and Mr.

Martin called attention to omissions, i Mr. Collins Seek Light. Chairman Collins asked far information. As he understood the situation, four or five years ago there was a question about the value of ths iroperty. The Council sent an engineer, Mr.

Le Conte, to investigate, and the water company also, sent one, Mr. Schuyler. They both reported and agreed that 13.250,000 was a fair estimate. Now, allowing for expenditures sinca then, the water rates should be fixed upon a basis of riving a fair revenue to tbe company lor the xotmey to tn present time. t.v Mr, Barker jaldV fhat the, pb5o't Urse did not baiim that 'any euch a of on the is art 111.

to St. Mw liMmpCLlLUrS ltM.TI not deny our statements. TAILOR. SHIETMAZEB, FURNISHER: 1007 AND 1009 BROADWAY. THE Ashcat Hambletonian Will Make thm Season of 1890, Com mencing February 15, 1890, at Dexter Stables, corner Twelfth and Harrison Streets, Oakland.

He is a very dark bar with ki.nb vww and flowing mane and ta stands 16 handa mgn: weigns aoont 1200 poondss la 9 rear at age; la heavy limbed and muscled, and for style. action. and equal to anv aTiioH k- nnn. r- dieposition he can't be beat. He thowai at tha oay Kiainci rraci in Han In 1837 and took the first Dramlnm fnr o.

a horse of all work. PKDIURHE Anhrit Tr.mhl.ii,nl.. a.i,t uwu Waa COt br Klmhl.tnni.n In.w. -i aim UJ Whipple's Hambletonlan; he by Guy Miller, Guy Miller by Kysdyk's PambietoDlan; Ham bletontaa. Junior's dam waa i andsnewas rot by Kyadyk's Hambletonlan iiuiuiweu oy oiene wn ppie, la Orangv Connty.

New York, to S10.0 10, and Import to California, She Is the mother of' the three noieo. irouera, Hambletonlan Junior, Ajaxandand Kitty Thome. This leaves to Atbcat Hambletonlan tbe standard breed American stock. The Ashcat Hambletonlan lft dam Topsy 2d dim Persy. Pegiry wai a Hessenger mare and imported from Kentucky by Don Cameron of Easi Oakland, Topsy waa sired by Blsck Pilot: Sluk Pilnrwo.

and Black Hawk stcck. Topsy trotted a Sard race in uurnoat tnree yeais old. in a beary road sulky and won the race in 2 For Season, J35. Any mares Drove! to have not foaled will be serresl next year free of charge. Iff For farther particulars apply to STEPHEN HOOS, Foreman of Defter Stable.

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Palace Hotel. Baa Made Only to Order by BBS. a A. BIGELOrfa THE sKea ior uut it aian settle any-tiling last night. Those of the Council-men who deigned to look at the map at all, just shrugged their shoulders and Trent away impressed with its artistic beauties and scenic possibilities.

As for the majority, goats might hare come and devoured that 'work of rt for all they seemed to care. They sat with their chairs tilted back against the rail which divides the elect from the electors as stolid as men who have grown weary of the music of the chins and would fain relegate the entire water question to the thermal belt, whajre reservoirs are most in demand, and' where no drop of rain e'er falls on parched and arid tongues to start them into flowers of speech. And above all eat Mr. Collins, 'Who occasionally cleared away a tittle fog that drifted out with Mr. Barkers Now, Mr.

Martin," and, failed to be dispelled by the sirroccos nd gusty skaws which now and again Hew.out of the Second ward. Mr. Hackett worked his pet word, decent," into several elocutionary in- terstiees, and Mr. Camron. encouraged by the thundering lobby, permitted himself the luxury of two or three flights of Second ward eloquence.

Mr. Towle split into the question like a buzz aw, every now and then, and Henry Hayes was redolent of a mystical repart from expert Lutgen, for which he had paid sundry of his own good dollars in the days when he ruied the Council with a butcher knife. Bat, all the time, Dr. Pardee tt and pulled his long, barbaric beard, as if stripping it of spores, bacilli, microbes, and all the other a dread concoctions of those who see snakes where nature has reared only lowers. With all the talk little progress was made toward the solution of the prob- lems, how to get better water, and what rates shall be fixed.

The water company seemed entirely willing to build a big settling reservoir, and n- rineer uoaroman was oi mo opinion tbat the work could be completed in a jear, or at least pushed to a point -which would make the reservoir effective next winter. Bat Mr. Barker was not satisfied. He iiad loaded himself with a speech, and She proposed to fire it if he didn't hit anything but himself. He fired, and when the smoke cleared away a man on the rear benches was seen to suc-umb.

He dropped off to sleep. But the benign Mr. Barker tried to seem glad that be had done so well, though Mr. Martin kept worrying him like a -prripr does a rat. The upshot of the meeting was mat xuesaay evening to prepare i rn if1 trieV Ill iiirufti LruijU9ii.v.", hope, will fit about all the cranial irreg- 1 nlarities of the good Mr.

carxer. The Plans of the Water Company. 'Councilman Collins, chairman of the Committee on Fire and Water, called th meeting to order at 8 o'clock, and explained that it was an adjourned N'T meeting, suggesting that the business be taken up where it was left oft He JhsaidJ. C. Martin had the floor on be- half of the water company.

said he understood the 6IGE10W iSHIHE jut rxBLo AxmsxvMmW'f President of the water company bad a A AM Ra. AikiMMlrrea jvtr Martin, who bad been at the cUcx of tht Board of Work, entered ft-.