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$3,500,000 Bond Issue Is Voted
White Man’s Slayer
Killed by Negress
Memphis Wife Held
As Husband's Slayer
150 Enter National
Golf Tournament
Samuel Untermeyer, Returning,
Discusses Foreign Opinion
of United States,
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Among a
group of thoughtful men coming home
aboard the Imperator from a summer
in Europe I passed an hour with
Samuel Untermeyer, during which
time he discussed in a most interest
ing manner his observations of the
European sentiment toward our coun
try and its conditions. England,
France and Germany take almost as
much interest in our country as in
their own and the thoughtful Ameri
can can see himself view from the
vantage ground of distance by the
public men of the older nations.
I asked Mr. Untermeyer about this
and his -comment was strong and
terse. He said:
“In London, Paris and Berlin the
progress of the currency bill is being
followed with the. closest and most
critical scrutiny. Every one of twenty
or more leading w'orld financiers in
those cities with whom I discuss-ed
the subject had a copy of the bill as
originally indorsed and had kept in
close touch with the changes that
were being made and discussed. Many
of them, especially the Germans, had
analyzed it, section by section, and
were marvelously equipped to dis
cuss its merits and demerits in the
minutest detail.
“The subject is to-day far better
understood in Berlin than in New
York. The Germane are students of
the science of finance as distinguished
from mere banking. With us the
metropolitan banker imagines he is
a financier, when, in fact, the every
day business of banking, as preached
in America, has no more relation to
finance than that of pork packing or
cotton spinning, and far less than the
practice , of law.
Think Bill Will Help.
“Whilst there is a wide divergence
of view upon certain features of the
bill, there is a consents of opinion
that, crude and imperfect as it still
is in some places, on the whole it, or
anything that could be derived, would
be a vast improvement upon the
archaic, absurd, panic-breeding sys
tem undfcr which we are staggering.
; “There is a far more hopeful feel
ing abroad in financial circles as to
the immediate future than has been
apparent at any time within the pa.st
two years. The Settlement of the
Southern Pacific controversy with the
Government, leaving undisturbed the
officers and directors designated by
'the Union Pacific, following the solu
tion of other difficulties of like char
acter. has led to the conviction that
pur war upon the trust is largely
Juckwickian and that these problems
will be solved without seriously af
fecting property rights or disturb
ing existing control or conditions.
t “Whatever temporary influence the
St. Louis and Sari Francisco incident
may have had on foreign investors
bus disappeared. It is generally rec
ognized that the purchasers of the
bonds knOw they were buying a pre
carious security, as evidenced by the
low price at,which they were sold.
“Above all things, the foreign in
vestor is just and enlightened; his
confidence in our stability and future
Is unabated. With a sound currency
system foreign investments will take
on a new impetus, provided our bank
ing laws are revised so as to protect
investors and dismember and pre
vent the dan rous concentration of
the control of credit in the hands of
a few men from which we are suf
fering.
Europe Far Ahead Socially.
“But far above and beyond all these
matters the most important lessons
we have yet to team from the old
world are in the domain of social re
forms and social justice. We have
not yet begun to attack the great
problems that they are solving. Parks,
public amusem.ents, industrial tracL-
schools, scientific and humane treat
ment of the criminal and insane, old
age pensions, insurance against sick
ness, accidents and unemployment
conservation of the health of the
masses, protection of trades unions i
are all subjects in which they are
many years in advance of us. And
when we come to the problems of
municipal government we are fairly
put to shame and bound in all fair
ness to admit that we are mere tyros
and victims of a system of graft
and incompetence that returns us
nothing for our vast .outlays."
Mr. Untermeyer, fresh from his
* in connection with th.- Pujo
committee, went to Europe for a few
weeks’ vacation and hi9 observations
abroad were direct 1 *- in the line of
hits most recent activities at home.
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Judge Announces Case Will Be
Resumed When Man Hurt in
Auto Crash Recovers.
WAYCROSS, Sept. 1.—To-day the
body of a negro killed in the Oke-
fonokee swamp in a fight Sunday
was positively identified as that of
Cleveland Mitchell, who, on August
2, shot and killed Slade Joyner, a
prominent white man at Sylvania,
Screven County. Rosa Wells, who
killed Mitchell, la In Jail. A reward
of $200 was offered to tne person
catching Mitchell and it is believed
the woman held on a murder charge
will be paid the reward. Three ne
groes were wounded by the woman
while ?he was shooting at Mitchell.
One of them may die.
MPIMPHIS, TENN., Sept. 1.—Eva
Darnell is under arrest here charged
with poisoning her husband, Dixon
Darnell, in order to collect his life in
surance.
Following her arrest the authorities
began an investigation into the deaths
of three other men who died sud
denly. Reports received by the po
lice declare the men were poisoned ,
for a similar reason.
GARDEN CTTY. N. Y., Sept. 1.—Some
sensational golf §laylng is In prospect
during the coming week as the result
of the beginning of the national tourna
ment herb to-day. There are 150 en
trants.
The tournament resolved itself Into
the question “Who is there to beat
Jerome Travers?”
Bird’s eye view of San Francisco with black lines howing the street railway additions, for the
building and operation of which by the city a $3,500,000 bond issue has been voted. The dotted
lines represent the roads already owned by the city.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1.—Com
mitting itself to the policy of the
public ownership of public utilities,
San Francisco voted a $3,500,000 bond
issue to build its own railroads to the
great Panama-Pacific Exposition that
will be held in 1915.
In voting for these bonds the city
won a fight that was begun seventeen
years ago by William Randolph
Hearst and his newspapers in the in
terest of municipal ownership, and the
victory is the most distinctive of its
Kind ever achieved in the United
States.
It means that San Francisco will
not only operate its own cars to the
fair grounds, but that in the days
to come it will be a city where public
ownership of public utilities will be
a vital factor in its civic life.
The bonds voted for authorize an
elaborate extension of the munlclpal-
Iv-owned Geary Street Railroad,
which has been operating through one
of the city’s principal arteries of traf
fic since last December.
Will Ride in Own Cars.
San Franciscans now ride on their
own street cars from the ferry sta
tion, where passerigers land from the
East, to Ocean Beach, a stretch of
tracks that traverse the city from
end to end.
The extensions to the railroad sys
tem authorized by the bond issue
voted yesterday will provide the peo
ple with their own cars in every por
tion of the city.
Competing against these cars will
be the cars of the United Railroads,
a corporation that has been so em
barrassed by litigation that it is using
every source of its vast organization
to accommodate the people who were
formerly subjected to the most
wretched railway accomodations in
the country.
Patrick Calhoun, who was president
of the United Railroads has been de
posed from office and his place has
been taken by Jesse W. Lilienthal a
San Francisco attorney.
The corporation saw the handwrit
ing on the wall at the eleventh hour,
and the announcement of the change
was made in* the hope of having the
people vote against the bonds.
But the announcement came too
late, and the overwhelming vote for
the bonds served the notice on the
barons of big business in San Fran
cisco that the people had grown tired
of wretched street car service and
were going to run their own cars.
Lilienthal will, of course, Improve
tHe service of the United Railroads,
and with this private corporation
competing with the municipally-
owned lines San Francisco should
have one of the best railway systems
in the country.
The moral of the election is a fav
orable one, and it shows that public
ownership of public utilities is a live,
practical issue that will have to be
met by the public-spirited men and
women of every city in the country.
Entire Nation Aroused.
The seventeen-year fight conducted
for this principle by William Ran
dolph Hearst and his newspapers le
not only felt here in San Francisco.
In his mail to-day Mayor Rolph of
San Francisco had messages from men
throughout the nation, and nearly all
of them referred to the fact that
what San Francisco authorized in
the election yesterday would In time
be authorized by the people every
where in the United States.
These details of the costs and
routes show how San Francisco will
spend the proceed-s of the new bond
issue in extending its municipally-
owned railway system:
Van Ness Avenue Line—Cost $478,-
000; double track road from Market
street to Fort Mason, 2.07 miles; will
carry most of the traffic from south
of Market street, the main business
thoroughfare, to the site of the Pana
ma-Pacific Exposition and the trans
fer traffic from the Geary street mu
nicipal railway and from the Union
street line.
Potrero Avenue Line—Cost $348,000;
from Potrero and Twenty-fifth street;
over Mariposa, Florida and Twelfth
streets to Market street, thence one
block to connect with the Van Ness
avenue line; distance, 2.2 miles.
Union Street Line—Estimated cost,
rails and equipment after franchise
reverts to city, $779,400; distance. 3.78
miles. #
North Point Line—Cost $235,600;
out Columbus avenue, from Union
3treet and Columbus to North Point
street, thence to the foot of Van
Ness avenue; distance, 1.05 miles.
Steiner Street Line—Cost $119,700;
extension of Union street line from
Union to Greenwich, thence to Scott
and Chestnut streets.
Stockton Street Line—Cost $229.-
200; through the tunnel from Market
street, one mile, to junction with
Union street line at Columbus ave
nue. forming the shortest possible
way to the exposition grounds.
Chestnut Street Line—Cost $225,-
000; Van Ness avenue to Devidesero
avenue, one mile, forming loop with
Steiner and Union streets.
Church Street Line—Cost $500,000;
out Market street from Twtlfth to
Church, thence to Thirteenth street,
2.45 miles 1 ; will give transportation
to populous Noe Valley, district.
California Street Line—Cost $500,-
000; connections with the Geary street
line will be built on some street near
Arguello boulevard and at Thirty-
ninth avenue, as the franchise for the
present line has expired between First
and Thirty-third avenue.
With these lines in operation San
Francisco will have its own cars run
ning in every part of its widely-scat
tered territory.
The seventeen-year fight that made
this system of street railways possible
was begun by Mr. Hearst through
The San Francisco Examiner on
August 13. 1896.
Battle Long Continued.
The fight was begun in 1896, when
the improvement clubs, spurred on
by The Examiner, secured an in
junction preventing the board of su
pervisors from opening the bids for
the Geary street railway franchise.
On May 26, 1898, the new city char
ter was ratified by the people, in
which the purpose of the city to ac
quire public utilities was declared.
In June, 1898. another application
was made for the Geary street fran
chise and the franchise was again de
nied.
A proposal to issue bonds to recon
struct the Geary street railway was
made again in December. 1902. The
bonds failed to receive the necessary
two-thirds vote.
The Examiner continued its fight,
fefuslng to accept defeat. Another
application for a 50-year franchise
was made and defeated in February,
1903.
Another defeat came on October 8.
1903, when a bond election was called
and the bonds failed to carry.
Work Halted by Fire.
The fight only grew in intensity,
and on November 6. 1903, the fran
chise for the Geary Street Park and
Ocean Railway expired. No agree
ment was made between the city and
the railroad on advice of the City
Attorney. The company paid 5 per
cent of its gross receipts into the
city treasury for permission to run
Its cars.
In May, 1905, the supervisors de
clared their Intention of rebuilding
the road with recourse to a bond
issue.
The sum of $350,000 was set aside
in June, 1905. to begin the cbnstruc-
tion. The construction contract was
signed just before the great fire of
1906 that reduced San Francisco to
a pile of cinders and twisted iron.
The records of the plans and esti
mates for the road were destroyed
in the fire and the negotiations for
reconstruction were abandoned.
The Examiner continued the fight
throughout these days of stress and
toil when the city was rebuilding
itself.
In June, 1909, a proposition to is
sue $2,000,000 bonds for an over
head trolley line was defeated by
the small margin of 421 votes.
But friends of municipal owner
ship began to struggle for the prin
ciple with increased ardor, and on
December 29, 1909, two municipal
railway bond Issues were submitted
to the people. One provided for
$1,900,000 to construct a line from
Kearney street, out Geary, to the
ocean.
The other provided $120,000 to carry
the road to the ferries. Both propo
sitions carried overwhelmingly and
the municipal ownership principle
was established.
On February 8, 1910. an ordinance
was passed formally authorizing the
bond issue. Horace Platt, president
of the Geary Street Railway, sued to
restrain the bond sale on the ground
that the city had exceeded its au
thority in authorizing the issue.
Superior Judge Ellison decided that
the bond issue was valid on April 16.
1910, and ♦he decision was affirmed
by the Supreme Court in July of the
same year.
Bonds Sold Over Counter.
On July 18, 1910, the first bids were
received for the purchase of the
bonds, $121,000 being bid for the
$240,000 of bonds offered. The re
mainder of the Issue was sold “over
the counter" to small local Investors.
The installation of poles and the
overhead equipment of the munici
pally-owned Geary Street Railway
began in June, 1911. Tn August of
the same year the roadbed construc
tion was begun between Fifth avenue
and Thirty-third on Geary street,
and on Tenth avenue from Geary
street to Golden Gate Park. The work
was done by day labor.
On A'pril 19, 1912, the contract was
let to P. H. Maloney for the roadbed
from Fifth avenue to Kearney street.
The first car over the road was
started on December 28. 1912, from
Kearney and Geary streets. To the
din of shrieking factory whistles and
the cheering of the multitudes the
firprt car went over the road with
Mayor Rolph at the controller bar.
It was a great day in San Fran
cisco, a city tnat always gives ex
pression to its emotion. Mayor Rolph
dropped the first nickel coined at the
San Francisco mint into the box of
the pay-as-you-enter steel gray car
arid out it went toward the Golden
Gate.
Built, owned and operated by the
people of San Francisco with their
own money, .the turning of the wheels
of the new railway represented the
most signal victory achieved in year.*
by the people over private corpora
tions.
A band stormed The Examiner of
fice and Mr. Hearst, who was then in
the East, was inundated with tele
grams of congratulation on the sig
nificance of the victory.
Carried by Landslide.
Since then the Geary Street Rail
way has been extended from the ferry
the ocean beach. It has now
to
been operating along this route for
nearly two months, and its profits
have averaged $400 a day.
No one in San Francisco longer
doubts the practicability and profits
of municipal ownership of municipal
utilities. The profits go dally into
the cash box of the city and the peo
ple went to the polls yesterday de
termined to extend their own enter
prise.
The bond issue authorizing the ex
tension of the municipal line carried
by an overwhelming vote. It was a
veritable landslide, and the vote sur
prised even the most optimistte
friends of municipal ownership.
Leri by The Examiner the people of
San Francisco have decided for all
time their polrv of owning their own
transportation lines.
The result of the election means
the people of the Golden Gate will
in time assume control of all their
public utilities, and that trie principle
for which William Randolph Hearst
has been fighting for so many years
has been firmly established among the
electorate.
San Francisco has shown that pub
lic ownership of public utilities can
be achieved, and the people of th"
other great American cities are cer
tain to take pattern of it.
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SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1.—Wil
liam H. Adams, juror in the trial of
F. Drew Caminetti, on trial here
charged with being a white slaver,
was much improved to-riay following
an automobile accident, in which the
bones In his foot were fractured
and hl^ shoulder was badly wrenched.
His physician said that complete
rest to-day would put him in condi
tion to proceed with the hearing of
the case unless some unlooked for
complication arose.
Federal Judge VanFleet, presiding
at the Caminetti case, announced to
day that a new trial would not be
ordered, but that the present one
would wait on the recovery of Juror
Adams. The court sent word to Ad
ams not to try to appear in the court
room until he was fully recovered
The ease will be resumed with tes
timony for the defense. It was hoped
by attorneys on both sides to bring
the trial to a close by Thursday.
Waycross Council
Wants Good Lights
WAYCROSS, GA.. Sept. 1.—A con
ference between officials of the Ware
County Light and Power Company
and the Council Committee on Light
Affairs, of which Aldermari Fred
Brewer Is chairman, was held to
day.
Recent bad service and the appar
ent lack of effort to remedy the de
fects pending the installation of new
equipment caused Chairman Brewer
to threaten drastic action. The con
ference was held preliminary to a
discussion of the matter at Council
meeting to-morrow night.
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FORSYTH SCHOOL OPENS.
FORSYTH.—The opening exercises
of Banks Stephens Institute took
place to-day in the new $30,000 build
ing that has just been completed.
Professor J. R. Campbell, formerly of
Jonesboro, the new principal, and Dr.
W. N. Ainsworth, formerly president
of Wesleyan Female College in Ma
con, delivered addresses.
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To Son Killed in Auto
MOBILE, Sept. 1.—Henry Lindsey,
son qf Martin Lindsey, one of the
wealthiest men in the South, was
killed late Sunday night near Pace,
Fla., when a speeding automobile he
was driving turned turtle as one of
the tires blew out.
Martin Lindsey chartered a special
train from Mobile to Pace when he
learned of the accident.
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