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I TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS A » » ' I\ ■DIET BILL San Francisco to Own Car Lines fj(]fj'[j |NJ|jHY 4*®4* +•+ +#+ 4* •4* +•+ 4* •4* 4**4* 4*®4* Victory for Municipal Ownership HALTS ! RIAL OF *’••4* 4-*4* 4*®4* +*4* 4*®4 # +♦+ 4*®4* 4**4* 4*»v $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. •Weak, Nervous and Diseased Men Permanently Cured DR. HUGHES is an experienced specialist. Dr. Hughes success fully treats and per manently cures Pre mature W e a k n ess, Blood Poison, Kidney, Bladder. Pros tatic and Contracted Diseases and all Chronic and Private Diseases cured in a few days. Varicocele. Hydrocele Stricture. Piles and Fistula. I am against high and extortionate fees charged by some physicians and spe cialists You will find my charges very reasonable and no more than you are able to pay for skillful treatment. 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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. Stork and Cupid Cunning Plotters Many a New Home 'Will Have a Little Sunbeam to Brighten It. 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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. Graham Crackers are wholesome. They are nourishing. 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