Show A GRAFT ON ITS TS FACE Vo Yo take it that the suits which have been started against the water company which supplied San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco isco with water at tho the time of the earthquake and fire ire will be demurred out of court The claim is that the lie Spring Valley Water company agreed to supply the he city with water at all times that when the earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake came some of its mains were weak and some of f its foundations were not noton on solid ground are laughable to read When a cataclysm comes which twists the rails of street railways into corkscrews what kind of water pipes could be expected to meet and survive the shocks 7 Again a foundation in loose ground might gi give e enough nough to save sa it while in solid ground it wot would d simply imply be rent asunder The spirit that would wOd wO d com com- commence mence a r. suit of that kind against a supposedly rich corpora corporation tion could be founded only in graft and a acourt acourt acourt court ought not to spend a moments moment's time in considering considering consid consid- ering it it It carries blackmail on its face and is another another another an an- other evidence that the San Francisco of the old days has las passed away and the gallant old city has been turned into a den of thieves |