The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1895, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1895. THRD STREET N~ BAD GONDITION. THE PAVEMENT IS BROKEN—FULL | OF RuTs AND HOLES, IT Is DANGEROUS, RANCE OF NEGLECT. AN APPEA | in winter after a hard frost. LDINGS THAT ARE OuT oF DATE. THAT THOROUGHFARE SHOULD BE MODERNIZED. B One of the great thoroughfares that lead from the railroad depot in this city to the center of it is Third street, and those who pass through it from Townsend to Market | cannot fail to observe that it has been | A BEER PALACE ON THIRD STREET [From a photograph taken yesterday.] under the bane of si- lurianism and that the street, which ought to be one of the hand- The pavements—for there are a variety of them wretch- ed state. Some of the sidewalks are broken, uneven and almost unfit for pedestrians 1o pass over,and of the buildir have been since James built the first t house on that st in 1854, are so much in contrast w architecture A VETERAN S AN IMPOSING MARKET AT NO. 339 THIRD ST. [From a photograph taken for the *“Call” yesterday.] present time that they are offensive to the eye, and ought to be moved to some out-of- the-way place to be preserved for show only for those who delight in the memo- Ties of 9. In their time these houses served their purpose, but that was hen the community y shifting. In those days almost any. thing that had four walls, 2 roof to keep out the rain, windows for light and a door to close against in- truders answered the {mrpnsc of a habita- ion, but now that the community has be- come settled, that properties have fixed values, the owners ought to have enough self pride to join in the movement that is | would allow it to be in the condition in | which it now is. | at right angles with the curbs, some laid | ago, is , NEAR MARKET.1ot to be noticeable [From a photograph taken yesterday.] PICTURESQUE VIEW OF A CHINESE LAUNDRY, AS SEEN FROM THE ELECTRIC-CARS. [From a photograph taken for the “Call’® yesterday.] laid; some are cement and some asphal- tum. This condition of mixed material, except the basalt blocks, runs the entire length of the street, and it isa disgrace that it should be permitted by the author- ities. Should the passenger gaze atthe street pavement he could not help express- ing disgust for a Street Department that The distance from Townsend to Howard street is laid with basalt blocks; some are diagonally; and in many places ruts have been worn to such a depth that it is diffi- cult for teams to turn out to make wn)r for the cars. Beyond, northward, from Howard street, the bitumen—so called— pavement, laid down about four months is so badly cut up and full 6f ruts and holes that it looks like a country clay road Every time a team passes over this block the pavement is pulverized and it keeps the sweepers busy brushing the dust into piles to be ed away. The same condition is notice- in the block between Mission and Market streets, but in a less degree. Still, the work of crumbling into dust is going on slowly, but surely. On the west side of the street below Mar- ket the sidewalk is depressed between three and five inches below the level of the curbstones, yet the people do not grumble, but walk on taking chances about striking the projecting curb- stone. The same style of buildings which the passenger noted at the lower end is ob- servable all along the street, and many of them appear to be affected with “that tired feeling,” for the underpinning has given away beneath a number of them and sinking ones rest against those that have still a founda- tion. These buildings, i many of them low structures that have not been touched with a painter’s brush for many years, are no credit to their owners -and surely do not favorably impress | angers, Nor even zens, from other sections. They give the street an air of neglect which ought in San Francisco. w181 RELIC OF THE OLDEN DAYS. Then some of them which are occupied by laundries display from the roofs quanti- ties of linen hung out to dry, not a very attractive featureina great city. ‘When the railroad company changed the horsecar line into an electric one, the pave- ment between the tracks and rails and two feet on either side | was__taken up and relaid. Indoing this, the company tried to conform with the or- dinance that requires that the pavement be- tween the tracks shall conform to the other portions of the street, v did not make a success of it, for they could not keep up with 339-351¢ the number of rises and depressions. Still the pavers did succeed in doing a very un- even piece of work. The people of Third street should rouse themselves to the oc- casion and make one arand effort to have hat thoroughfare in the condition that it should be. They should draw the af- tention of the authori- ties to the shameful condition of the street and if* the reply is given that there is no money for repairs let them ask as property- THIS ELEGANT EDIFICE IS THE FIRST BUILD- ING IN SIGHT FROM THE RAILROAD DEPOT. [From a photograph taken yesterday.] now occupying public attention, that of lacing the metropolis of the Pacific Coast n the rank in which it belongs and mak- ing it the great commercial city that the new life instilled in many will soon make it. There must be a beginning in the im- provement of many of our thoroughfares, and there is none on_which such a begin. ning could be made better than on Third street. Not only is it the great avenue used by those who travel by rail, but it is the one street that eis used for heavy teaming to and from the freight depot. The passenger leaving the depot intend- ing to reach the central portion of the city by way of Third street sees right opposite to him low two-story, peaked-roof build- ings; then a row of flat frame structures that have no architectural lines about them; and if he casts his eye to the side- walk he would discover that it is fearfully and wonderfully made. The walk is a couple of inches below the curbstone, and for the distance of a block is composed of a variety of material. Part is wood, much of it broken and dangerous to walk upon; some in fd'ont of property owned by an ex- Supervisor is ofp basalt rocks unevenly owners and taxpayers that bonds be issued to make the improve- ments, and when the aunthorities do their part then the owners of property will be stimulated to do their Uncle S8am's Palatial Branch Postoffice, [From a photograph taken expressly for the “Call.”) share toward beautifying the street and removing those 'structures that %rl; spw axtnheyesgre, audl mfx '.hg sites erect uildings that the people of to-day require. ‘Then there will be a business boom. 7 HER NAME SAVED FRON DISHONOR. GRACE BENJAMIN, ASPHYXIATED IN MEYERS’ BATHROOM, WAS HIs WIFE. RECORDS OF HER MARRIAGE. THE EXTRAORDINARY SECRECY OF 2 HEeR HUSBAND AND RELATIVES. Grace Benjamin, the unfortunate girl who was asphyxiated in a bathroom at 406 Sutter street a few days ago, was in fact the wife of Samuel Meyers, whose mistress she was supposed to be, and her own blood relatives and her husband have bees: doing their best to send the poor girl to a ‘ishonored grave. The marriage, which took place last August, was known to her aunt, Mrs. Rebecca Bennett, who, in fact, obtained the license over in Oak- land, and to her sister, Mrs. Nolan. But all these, when a word might have saved the poor girl’s name, refused to utter it. The motive of the cowardly husband was presumably greed for his mother’s gold. What can haveinfluenced Mrs. Ben- nett and Mrs. Nolan to help blacken a dead niece and sister's name can only be surmised. The day after the tragedy it seems that the sister wanted to make the facts public, s silenced by Meyers, who has been visitor at the house of his wife’s relatives since her death, ‘When the Coroner’s deputy arrived at the Sutter-street lodging-house he noticed the marks of aring on the finger where a wedding-ring is usually worn and asked Meyers about it. He said thatshe had had no ring on. But a friend of the dead girl says that the wedding-ring had been removed by the husband and was after- ward delivered to Mrs. Bennett. Mattie Holland, a friend and chum of the unfortunate girl, who knew of her marriage, d told her father, Joseph Hol- land, of it. Mr. Holland, indignant at the zreat injustice being_doné, yesterday went over to Oakland and unearthed from the records proof that will clear the name of the dead and put to shame the unnatural husband and re‘nti\'t,, for it is shown now beyond doubt that she was the lawful wife of Samuel Meyers. The records of Alameda County are silent witnesses to the fact. In the marriage-lice: book in the office of the County Clerk is the following entry Simon Meyers, aged 25 years, & native of San Francisco, ana Gracie Benjamin, aged 17 years, also of San Francisco. Attached to the marriage license is the following significant entry 1 hereby certify that the written consent of Rebeccs Bennett, guardian of the minor Gracie Benjamin, is on file in my office. JAMES CRANE, County Clerk. Dated the 13th day of August, 1894. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. Jatho, pastor of the St. Markus Lutheran Church, who recorded the event in the office of the County Re- corder of Alameda County on September 17 last. The minister made this entry: 1 hereby certify that the parties were joined in wedlock by me on the 22d day of August, 1894, in Oakland, and that Mrs. Charles Wil- liams of Oakland and Miss Lilly Gemmel of Ogkland were present as witnesses. + The record shows that a marriage license was taken out on the 13th of August; that the couple were married on the 92d of Avygust, and that the papers were recorded on Eeptembcr 17 last. Rev. J. Jatho is a German and pastor of the little Lutheran church on Filbert street. At the time of the marriage he resided just across the street from his church, at 0. 873, in the family of a Mrs. Charles Williams, a widow, who lived there with her daughter, Lilly Gemmel, a girl of ; vears; her son, Stuart Gemamel, and his wife. Atnoon on August 22 last a gentleman with a girlish-looking young oman appeared at the house of Mrs. Williams and after walking uip and down in front of the house for some minutes as though undecided, they finally entered, and the man asked for the minister. He told Mr. Jatho that he wished to be married to the girl, and that there was money in the affair and he wanted it kept a profound secret. e did not want the matter published, and also insisted that the ceremony be per- formed without witnessee. Rev. Mr. Jatho told him that witnesses were necessary, and that he would not hear of such a thing as performing a marriage ceremony with- out witnesses. Finally the man, who proved to be Meyers, said, “All right, go ahead.” He wanted the matter kept as secret as possible, and accordingly took such wit- nesses as were to be found in the house. Mrs. Williams and her little daughter were asked to act as such, and the couple were made man and wife. Last night a CaLL reporter called at the residence, 873 Filbert street, and was met by a daughter of Mrs. Williams. She said that the minister was out just then. When asked about Mrs. Williams she said her mother died suddenly from apoplexy four months ago and as for the other witness, her younger sister, she said she would answer that Miss Lilly was really too young to understand at the time just what she was doing and was simply called upon because she was in the house. The lady who met the reporter, however, vouchsafed all the information she had. “Yes,"” she said, “Miss Benjamin was mar- ried to Mr. Meyers in this “house at noon on August 22 last, but I did not know, nor did my sister, nor did Mr. Jatho, that the poor child who died in that man’s room was thesame party. We did not know it until to-day when a reporter called. “Then Jatho, who talks English indiffer- ently, told us that the man had enjoined secrecy on him and told him that’ there ‘was money behind it. No, none of us had any idea that the couple were the same who were married in the house. Mrs. Ben- jamin or Mrs.Meyers has been to the house 3nce since the wedding, just after mother’s eath. She came to get the marriage certi- ficate from the minisier and when she secured it she appeared as happy asa child as she carried it away with her.” Meyers kept in hiding yesterday to avoid a subpena to summon him to the Coroner’s inquest on his dead wife. He was not to be found at his room at 406 Sut- ter street, where she died, and so missed an opportunity to explain the cause of his craven action. A reporter on calling at 1911 Devisadero street was met at the door by Mrs. Nolan, who said on being asked for "Mrs. Bennett, “I am Mrs. Bennett.”” When asked about the marriage of her sister to Meyers she positively denied it, and then ‘the real aunt came up apd made as strong denial. When told of the Alameda records she did not seem at all worried, but still- as positively denied that there had been any marriage between her niece and Meyers. She was told that her name appeared as applicant for the license. ““There are other Meyers and Bennetts,” she said. “Inever applied for a license. My niece was not married to Mr. Meyers. If you put that in the papers it will be untrue.” : And the dead girl's sister, who is said to have threatened the day after the tragedy to publish the fact of the marriage until silenced by Meyers, interposed occa- sionally with positive denials of the mar- riage, in a tone that would indicate that the marriage would be a disgrace instead of the saving of her sister’s name. But there was one loyal friend of poor Gracie Benjamin who was willing to do all she could for her memory, «'ls that was o/ Miss Mollie Holland, who was found at her home in the Mission. She seemed to agpreciaw that it was her duty to do all she could to clear the reputation of her dead friend. ‘‘No one but T seemed to know that they were married,” she said. ‘‘Grace told me a few days after the marriage that she was married to Sam. Idid not believe her at’ first, because she did not have her mar- riage certificate. But one day, shortly after, she came rushing out to see me and said that she had good news for me and showed me the certificate in which his name was given as Simon Meyers and his age as 35 instead of 25. I asked her for the reason of this and she said that it was done in case a notice of it\in any Oak- land gnper should reach his mother whom he did not wish informed of the marriage. “Mr. Meyers acknowledged the mar- riage to me voluntarily one day when I went to his room and found .him there. He said that some day when his mother’s estate was settled he would acknowledge it openly and take her away to some foreign country on account of theway she was be- ing talked about. Every time he saw me he spoke of his wife, and I havea letter from her signed Grace Meyers. Itold my father about it because he knew of Grace's golu% to meet the man. 2 ‘‘Three weeks before Grace died, I said to Mrs. Bennett, her aunt, that I was - the only one Sam ever told he was married to Grace, and she told me that she had got the marriage license for them. Mrs. Ben- nett always spoke of how kind Sam was to Grace. He used to take all his Sunday dinners at their house. After the death I said to Mrs. Bennett, ‘Don’t you know that the reporters will find out that there isa record of the marriage in Oakland?’ She kept saying that nobody would find it out. “I don’t know what means he has taken to keep them quiet. The day after the death of Grace, his sister, Mrs. Nolan, was going to publish the fact that they were married and expose him, but Sam came u{; to the house and talked her out of it. Then they told me that there had come a lawyer to the house one day, who told Mrs. Bennett that she had better keep the marriage a secret, because it would give her niece a terrible name if it came out. ““Sam is up at their house every day and they tell me that he has promised to” send them to Haywards for awhile and then to the spring “What makes me feel so bad about the way_they are acting is that _Gracie would sacrifice anything for Sam. When she died she had her wedding ring on, but he took that off before the Coroner arrived and | gave it to Mrs. Bennett.” ACCIDENTAL DEATH. Verdiot of the Coroner’s Jury—Meyers Was Absent. A verdict of accidental death from car- bonic acid gas poisoning was returned by the Coroner’s jury yesterday in the case of Grace A. Benjamin, whose dead body was found in S. Meyers’ bathroom at 406 Sutter street last Friday night. Meyers could not be found. A. J. Nixdorf, one of the jurors, de- clined to sign the verdict agreed upon by the rest of the jury. Coroner Haw- kins accepted the majority verdict, which included a statement that the owner of the bullding should put danger-signs in the bathroom. Dr. E. J. Fraser, the physician who was called when Miss Benjamin was jound, testified that he had tried everything to bring the dead woman to, but was certain she was dead when he first saw her. He pronounced the cause‘of death carbonic acid gas poisoning. F. W. Foley, the janitor of the building, testified that” he had seen Miss Benjamin several times, and upon the evening of her death he had encountered her at about 8 o’clock while she was running to catch the elevator, which she entered. She after- ward went upstairs. Shortly after after 10 o’clock he was in the hallway and heard some one call him. 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The handling of the heating apparatus was understood by all the families living in the building, and they were aware of the danger attached thereto. He admitted that a Mrs. Ives, a roomer, had been nearly killed about two years ago in the same manner in which Miss Benjamin met her death. One of the jurors asked Margetson whether danger signs were hung in the room to warn people about using the ap- paratus. A negative reply was given. J. F. Butler, the elevator-boy, testified that Miss Benjamin had a pass key to the room. She came to him Friday night and asked for the key to the bath- room, which he gave her. He had let her have the key twice before. The jury returned their verdict after a stormy deliberation, in which Mr. Nixdorf was the principal ‘actor. He contended that the nu\I}est should have been con- tinued until Meyers had been found. WITH HATCHET AND KNIFE. Furious Row in Hinckley Alley Over a Baby. There was a furious row at 13 Hinckley alley last night which resulted in Joseph Corsi’s going to the old City Prison on a charge of assault to murder and an East Indian named Sylva’s going to the Re- ceiving Hospital with a deep gash in one of his hands. ] About 6 r. M. yesterday Corsi and his wife missed their little daughter, and both went in search of her. Before going Mrs. Corsie left her infant boy in the care of Mrs. Sylva, who lives with her husband at 515 Vallejo street. Mr. Corsi was the first to return after a fruitless search for the missing girl. He went over to Sylva’s and asked to be admitted, saying that he wanted to take his child home. “Sylva was in a surly mood, and refused to_ open the outer door, at the same time informing Corsi that he could not have his child until his wife called for it. This angered Corsi, who forthwith forced open the door, entered and took his child in his arms. He started for the door and was followed by Sylva, who had a knife in his hand, held in" a threatening manner. Corsi managed to slip out to the hall, and there ickegu a large dipper for defense. Then he went home. A few minutes later Sylvaand a Mexican who works for him went over to Corsi’s house and asked to be admitted. Corsi let them in, and immediately saw that Sylva was armed with a knife. With a quick movement Corsi _secured the weapon, at | the same time striking Sylva a blow in the face. Just then the Mexican threw his arms around Corsi and held him as in a vise. On a table near by lay a hatchet belong- ing to Corsi. This weapon Sylva secured and hurled at Corsi’s head. The latter dodged in the nick of time and the hatchet stuck in the wall beyond. There was a free-for-all scuffle, and finally Silva and his henchman found themselves out of doors while Corsi was lord of his castle but very much upset. % Sylva found that he had received a wound in the hand and he at once caused Corsi’s arrest on a charge of assault to murder. When Corsi was taken to the Old City Prison he found his little girl asleep in a chair. She had been picked up by an officer on Washington street. ————— Last of the Stamboul. The old whaling bark Stamboul, which has done much service in the Arctic Ocean, is to be broken up. She was built in 1843 in Massa- chusetts and is one of the best known whalers now afloat. - —————— A party of Canadian boundary commis- sionersarrived at Junean, Alaska, a week or so ago to begin a survey of a trail 2300 miles long, from Taku Inlet to the head- waters of the Yukon River. ' ————— SPONGE Fiber Gov. Blotting is best absorbent known. Mysell & Rollins, 521 Clay, sole agents.* Each | = -O- O EMBROIDERY SALE NOW ON. 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A neat, plain mesh composition dots, white with black dots, black with colored dots and red with red dot you special ai 5 Yard NEW TO-DAY POINT LACE this tful 0 10 and white,........ 16%s¢ to NEW TO-DAY. NOVELTY ALL-OVER LACE, in 24-inch and 27-Inch widths, ecra and @ 00 to NEW TO-DAY the latest ond-shaped L'IDEALE 1 he mes Parisian nches across), & dotted @ 50c and O measure 5 effect without dots. NEW TO-DAY, NOV. 3 ING, > docs o' 50 width.... Yard NEW TO-DAY. BORDER VEILS—Black with white lace border, in entirely new effects. Lars .50c to NEW TO-DAY. STLK STRIPE GRANITE CLOTH, 42 inches wide, in some wonderful new color tones: tan, white st maove, bl stripe of light gold stripe etc NEW TO-DAY ART NOVEL CREPE—Has new wool N COTTON full ct the crepes, ven; it will retain its 1o pearance o after hard wear full ie of evening 20 colors 5 Yard (INCORPORATED) 837, 939 and 944 Market Street, SAN FR 18 PROPERTY-OWNERS INDICTED PRESENTMENTS AGAINST THE LESS- ORS OF DUPONT-STREET HOUSES. THE GRAND JURY INTENDS TO MAKE A THOROUGH INVES- * TIGATION. The Grand Jury took unto itself the functions of a Lexow committee at yester- | day’s session and made presentments | against fourteen persons on charges of | renting or leasing property owned by them or under their control for immoral pur- poses. The names of those who were placec under the ban of the law are as follow: Patricio Marsicano, president of the Amer- ican Salt Company; Capitalist ex-Super- visor Christian Reis, H. B. Bruton, H. Jaques, 0. Walthum, Victor Albouze, Mary E. Stearn, Charles Hughe: C. Mec- Kowen, A. Erosbois, Meyer Roth, Frank La Costie, M. Luchese and J. H. Snyder. Believing, as a majority of the jurymen | do, that the investigation and punishment of the corruption and immorality of the municipality should be in the hands of the local authorities, the Grand Jury has for some time been carrying on a quiet inquiry as to the ownership of the disreputable dens on Dupont and Morton streets, and | the evidence adduced being deemed sufficient for the purpose of making pre- sentments, a large number of witnesses | were summoned to appear before the | tribunal yesterday and give testimony on | which to base the charges mentioned. | The evidence was in no measure sensa- tional, the main object being to show the character of the people inhabiting the houses which had gecn shadowed and the owners or persons controlling the same. No difficulty was found in bringing out the | facts in the first matter, several police offi- cers as well as a'number of private citizens testifying as to the practices carried on in and general reputation of a number of houses on Dupont street between Pine and Caliiornia. The records of the city supplied the rest, giving the necessary information as to ownership. The presentments were immediately taken before Superior Judge Sanderson, who signed them, and they were trans- mitted to the Police courts, where the | orders for arrests will be issued as soon as | the necessary legal formalities are dis- posed of. i The foreman of the Grand Jury inti- mated after the body had adjourned tha yesterday’s proceedings were but the be. ginning of a crusade against vice in all | forms, and that presentments on misd meanors and indictments on felonies will follow in rapid succession. At the next meeting of the tribunal wit- nesses will be summoned to show that €ersons owning property on Morton, St. Marys and other streets in the tenderloin district, where disorderly houses exist, are within the reach of the law, and wholesale presentments are expected to follow, G . — “BEAUTY, for women, is a greater power than knowledge,” says Mrs. Nettie Harri- son, the famed beauty doctor, whose youthful beauty, despite her 37 years, strikingly illustrates the glorious possibi ties of the science she has created. ————— Asphyxiated by Gas. J. C.Lundborg, a laborer, was asphyxiated by gas in his room at the corner of Geary street and Central avenue last Tuesday night. He had been outof employment for some time, but having secured a position he was to have gone to work yesterday. The deceased for merly kept a cigar-store at 422 East street. ——————— Great Plate Sale. FIVE CENTS EACH FOR PURE WHITE DINNER PLATES, ‘They won't last long at this price. GREAT AMERICAN IMP. TEA CO.’S STORES Other lines of Crockery equally as cheap, HEAR! HEAR! It is HERE In San Francisco that the best and most h (white, percale and outing) Shirts are made. It is one of those Home in- dustries that the people are proud of, and which they can patronize without being out of pocket. All dealers sell STANDARD 1N NEUSTADTER BROS., Manufacturers, SAN FRANCISCO, CANCER CAN BE CURED, DR. A. S. COOK AND HRS. DR, COOK, Cancer, Tumor, Eezema and Femalo Disease Specialists, OFFICE, 231 POST ST., SAN FRANCISCO. rmack and ) Markell of Cloverdale, wa: operate. Dr. Cook cured me a year ago last Augu . HraTT, Hotel-keeper of Yorkville, Me unty—Cancer on_cheek, just below ti The same doctors wanted to operate, cured me December, 1893. Mg. FURTH, 209 Front stréet, was opersted twice for cancer on the noze by Dr. L. (. Lane, Upon its return, Dr. Cook cured it, now some eight years ago. PALACE HOTEL. HE PALACE HOTEL OCCUPIES AN EN- tire block In the center of o upon e, proof. fas nine elevators. e light and airy. The ventilation is perfect. A bath and closet_adjoin every room. _All rooms are easy of access from broad, light corridors. The central court, illuminated by electric light, its immense glass’ roof, broad balconies, carriage-way and trop- ical plants are features hitnerto unknown in Amer- ican hotels. Guests entertained on either the American or European plan. The restaurant is the finest in the city. Secure rooms in advance by telegraphing. THE PALACE HOTEL, San Francisco, Cal. % Tys BesT Ooranes By DEWEY & CO., 220 MARKET & [ Weekly Call $1.50 per Year,