Show SAN FRANCISCO MAY LOSE RARE PICTURE San Francisco JUI July fa famous famous painting The Last Spike which the lie scene at the lug ing ot the last spike that marked tIme the completion of 01 th the Central Pacific rail railroad road and aud Its junction with the Union Pacific s In Iii danger of being lost to San Francisco The painting is now in the tho at al Golden Gate park but bUl John Wash Vash Washburn burn of the late lalo Thomas Hill HIli the mUst artist is negotiating for fOl time the sale of lie tho picture to an eastern maim mati fo 10 OO An effort Is being made to arouse ime people or of San Francisco to raise In order to save the for fIr lie tho city effort has th the en endorsement endorsement It Is said of millionaire descendants of the ho railroad builders whoso whose faces appear on the tho famous canvas Should lie effort to the plc pic ture tire to San Francisco fall the tho do 10 of the men who hullt tho thio first road will cn an deavor to procure the tho pIcture br lo 10 that end tho they have begun negotiations wIth the o tulo of Uw the late ale artist Among hose who havo taken time the matter mater up with the are Mrs Irs Reid Held wIfe of the AmerIcan ambassador to Grent I BritaIn I WIlliam m E Crocker D 0 Mills Mrs Irn Charles B Alexander or of New Ness York George Crocker Crocket of Now New NewYork York Mrs P Huntington ce cess s Hatzfeld formerly Miss Clara Mrs Jephson of London and nd Mrs Irs J Sloat Fassett I of Elmira N Y Hill the artist was as to get I for painting the lie picture but a rn I misunderstanding arose and l the pie pic Ire was left leCt on his hands Four hun hundred hundred I dred people Kople are shown in the lie picture I seventy of thom h by portraits grouped I according to offIcial l prominence |