The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1895, SAUSALITO 1§ INGORPORATED, THE SUPREME COURT HOLDS THE ACT OF INCORPORATION TO BE VALID. WHAT THETRUSTEES WILL DO :‘ T TO BE PAVED—AN MiLE Drive WiILL BE BUILT. Beantiful Sausalito is an incorporated town of the sixth cla: That point was settled by an election held nearly two years ago. The Superior Court of Marin County held that the election was valid and yester- day the Supreme Court of the State af- | firmed that decision. The question was brought before the Supreme Court on the main contention A e == L/ Commodore Sausalito’s Harrison, Pioneer. [From a photograph.] that the votes in favor of the incorporation were not a majority of those cast at the election. It was also contended that the votes had not been properly canvassed by the Supervisors, they having canvassed only the returns and not the ballots. The Supreme Court considered this claim as of but little value, however, and it is dis- missed in a few words. As to the guestion of majority it appears and is so decided by the Supreme Court that there was a majority of one vote in favor of incorporating. There were 130 votes cast in favor of incorporating and 112 votes cast against it. Seven ballots bore no mark whatever upon them, neither for officers nor question of incorporation, and seventeen ballots, though marked for the officers, expressed no preference for or against the great question. The seven bal- lots with no marks at all on them are held by the Supreme Court to be no votes at all. They are considered as mere blank paper and are not counted nor considered by the court for any purpose. This leaves the total vote against the incorporation, in- ciuding the seventeen non-committal bal- lots, to be 129, which leaves a majority of one in favor of incorporation. This count the Supreme Court holds to be the true one, and it affirms the judg- Sausalito, and now we have a fine avenue nearly two miles in length of uniform width. Itisin rough yet, but shortly, now that L jon has been rendered, the Trustees will determine how it shall be paved. We shall have to determine how the money for this is to be raised. Il1 {amly be by creating & ¢ & general tax. e board, ‘consicting of General John H. Dickinson (prenden‘?, . W. Sperry, 0. C. Mil- ler, . T. Hughes and myseli, are in favor of making such improvements as will make this an attractive place for people to visit. The Government has given the right of way over its lands to the people of Sausalito, and the probubilities are that before long we shall have a drive from here to Lime Point, thence to Point Bonita, thence through Tennessee Valley to the county road to the starting point. The route described will make a drive eighteen miles in length, that will be pic- wuresque, having bay, valley, mountain, ocean and wooded scenery, and, in addi- tion, the fortifications, the fog signal sta- tion'and the lighthouse. It will probably surpass the far-famed Carmel drive in Monterey County. The town is in need of a first-class hotel and plans have been prepared to build one that will be on the eastern slope, with cot- tages on terraces below it; and it alsoneeds clectric lights, bur these will be put up, the residents hope, before long. H. C. Campbell, H. H. Noble and A.T. Marvin are negotiating for a right of way, witha view to_building a straight-away railroad from Water avenue to the apex of the hill from which a view of the ocean may be obtained. This will give access to many of the residences on the Nob Hill of the town. One of the projects that has been ad- vanced has been the establishment of pathing houses, either south of the ferry landing or fronting on Richardsons Bay. *Of course,” said Charles Forrest, one of the well-known residents, ‘‘we have baths in private residences, but Sausalito has not a public bathhouse, and those who want a bath have to go to San Francisco.”” There is a movement among the people looking toward an improved water system, that will produce more and cheaper water for consumption. There is a_likelihood that during the summer the railroad com- pany will run a boat to Oakland via the creek route, so that excursions can be made from one place to_the other without making transfers and without unnecessary loss of time. The talk of the people shows that they are alive to the necessities of the time, and when the work provosed is accomplished, Sausalito will be one of the most attractive towns within thirty miles of the metropolis. While the people have caunse for con- eratulation, they are in fear that the Governor may sign a bill rushed through the Legislature, that may cause them and those of all other towns of the sixth class a great deal of annoyance. “This bill,” said Trustee Miller, “gives the people of an incorporated town like ours the right to ask for disincorporation. It provides that if one-fourth of the in- habitants petition for disincorporation the Supervisors must order a special election, angif the proposition is voted down, then such demand shall not be renewed for one year.” ~ “The Governor should look at that bill very carefully before he signs it, if he should make up his mind to do so,” said Commodore Harrison. ‘It was rushed through in two days, and if it becomes a law will cause a great deal of annoyance, not only here, but in every town of the same class,” added Mr. Miller. LOST HER JEWELS. Miss Charlotte Dennis Is Minus a Num- ber of Diamonds. Charlotte Dennis is a seamstress who lives with her parents at 2507 Bush street. Being afraid that footpads or burglars might ransack the house during her ab- sence she has been in the habit of carrying her jewelry with her for safety. Last Thursday, Friday or Saturday she took with hera little package of brown paper in which was wrapped one solitaire dia- mond ring, one gentleman’s diamond scarf pin, two small unset diamonds, one screw diamond earring and two pearl shirt studs. The little package containing the valuables was usually well hidden, but with all her care Miss Dennis found Sunday morning that her valuables were gone. By the persuasion of her brother she in- serted an advertisement in the daily papers offering a reward for the return of the OR HJCRUMPTON 'COLDICKMAN TWO OF SAUSALITO’S STIRRING CITIZENS, [From photographs.] ment of the lower court, which was made ; jewels. upon the same basis. number of ballots examined by the court which had been objected to for various reasons, but all these were passed upon as the court below had already ruled. The fact that the struggle over the ques- tion of incorporation had terminated in favor of those who voted for the measure, and who are known as the progressionists of the town of 1300 inhabitants whose homes are nestled among the trees on the terraced slopes of the southern end of Marin Connty, was received with mani- festations of joy by the people. That is, the majority of them, for since the election many who were then lukewarm in the matter have come to the conclusion that it is time. the ingenuity of man should add to the attractions of nature. The stars and stripes were flying in the breeze from the flagstaff on the top of the residence of Commodore C. H. Harrison, the pioneer of the town, he who carried the first boatload of passengers from San Francisco to Old Sausalito in the days of ’49. Then the fact was announced by a bulletin at the railroad depot, and_the people when they read it exclaimed, **Now we shall have improvements.” A. D. Bell said: Iam glad that the matter has been settled, for now we shall be able to have decent road- ways and a presentable avenue along the water front. The propositions discussed have been to either macadamize Water avenue, which skirts the foot of the hill from old Sausalito to the town limits on the northwest, or pave it with bitumen. I, for one, do not like macadam, for if you water it mud is produced, and if it is not watered thereisdust. That will probably be one of the first things done by the Town Trustees. The town of Sausalito, which.has all the natural advantages to make it the prettiest terraced town in the State, has only re- cently been aroused to a realization that it is time to wake up and ‘‘geta move on,” and this has been forcibly impressed upon the inhabitants by the action of President Stetson of the North Pacific Coast Railroad Company. The company has recently fin- ished one of the finest ferry landings in the State, and the depot is one that would be a credit to any city of greater preten- sions. The company at its own expense and of its own motion removed its fence thirty feet northward along the line of its pro}(zerty and filled in the space’so as to make the roadway, which was onl thir? feet wide, twice that width. Said Dr. H. J. Crumpton, one of the Town Trustees: That act of the company is one that is grate- fully appreciated by all, and not only has this been done, but the company, through the in- tercession of Commodore Harrison, laid a temporary track and brought down rock to en- able the property-owners, at their own ex- pense, 1o build a bulkhead and put in good Genditien Water avenue from Princess to old ‘When seen at her home last night There were also a | she said: “I have no idea where I lost the package. 1 wasout riding Saturday afternoon with a friend, but did not learn'of my loss untill Sunday morning. The last I recollect of seeing the jewels was on Thursday. I know I had them then, but what time they were lost between that and Sunday I can- not gay. ‘I do not suspect any one of robbing me, because I had them where I could not lose them in that way without knowing it. I probably dropped them on the street some- where, but where I do not know.” e . —— DEEPLY HUMILIATED. J. C. Woldfang Kicked by Henry Miller, the Cattle King. J. C. Woldiang applied for a warrant in Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday for the arrest of Henry Miller of the firm of Miller & Lux on the charge of battery, and the warrant clerk took the matter under advisement. Woldfang said he was for some years superintendent of Mr. Miller’s ranch in Monterey County and was discharged for circulating a story detrimental to his em- ployer. He wrote several letters of apology to Mr. Miller and his wife, but received no reply. Then he began calling at Mr. Miller’s office, 508 California street, for payment of $100, balance due him for ser- vices rendered at the ranch. Mr. Miller refused to see him, so on Tuesday he took up a position in the hall- way of 508 California street and waited for hours till that gentleman made his appear- ance. He asked for a settlement and Mr. Miller invited him into his office, where he made out a check for $50 and a receipt in full, which he asked Woldfang to sign. After signing the receipt he got the check and was leaving the office when he alleged Mr. Miller called him a scoundrel and kicked him out. He said he felt deeply humiliated at such treatment and wanted Mr. Miller punished for it. ——— Investigating Election Frauds. Registrar Hinton was in attendance on the Grand Jury yesterday with the ballots cast during the last election in the Eighth and Ninth precincts of the Thirty-seventh District. The first named precinct was the one in which McNabb made a gawn of seventy-five over Whelan in the recount for the oflice of Sheriff, and in which gross frauds wereshown. Several election officers were also before the jury to explain their connection with the “mistakes.” —————————— FrITz SCHEEL at the park keeps the Park News presses rushing to supply programmes.* CONVENIENT FOR THE PASSENGERS. STATIONS OF THE NEW ROAD WILL BE NEAR THE HEART OF THE CITY. ‘WITH RAPID COMMUNICATION. CHINA BasiN Is BUT A MILE FrRoM THE CORNER OF MARKET AND THIRD STREETS. Whether the new railroad company comes into the city by the peninsula to China Basin or by ferry from the Oakland side of the bay the passengers will be landed within easy access to the heart of the city. If they come from Oakland a passenger station will be all ready for them at the foot of Market street, where two of the ferry slips, with ample accommoda- tions for all the ferry-boats required, can be placed at the disposal of the company by the Board of Harbor Commissioners. But if a road is first built up the coast to China Basin and passengers are brought there they will be landed with a little over a mile of the corner of Market and Third streets and less than two blocks beyond the Southern Pacific station at Third and Townsend streets. China Basin is not so far away from the business part of the city as many suvpose. The point where a passenger station would probably be built is but little further from the corner of Third and Market streets than is the ferry landing at the foot of Market street. Electric-cars now run out | along Third street to Berry, to Fourth, and along Fourth to the southwest corner of | China Basin. A drawbridge across Chan- nel street at Third would give a direct line from the basin to Third and Market streets. No definite idea can be given by the di- rectors of the new road as yet as to where they will build first, but John D. Spreckels said yesterday: “Which way we shall come into the city first I can’t say. [ cansay that I have no doubt that we shall build both ways. There will be a passenger sta- tion of course at China Easin, and the pas- sengers will be within easy distance of the center of the city, along Third street,where there is already an electric line.” Chief Engineer Storey said: “The main thing is to get a line through from here to Bakersfield whichever way it goes. With that as a starter we shall have no trouble about building ferry-boats for a line across the bay or branches all over the State. There isno obstacle to landing passengers convenient to the heartof the city. We would have the same facilities at the foot of Market street as the Southern Pacific Company, and passengers landed at the depot at China Basin would be within a few minutes’ ride of Market street by the electric-cars on Third street. Of course it will be necessary to have a draw- bridge across Channel street to save going around by Fourth street, but there should be no trouble about that.” It will probably be a number of years before the seawall is built from Folsom street around to China Basin, which is a distance of nearly a mile, but with the 200- foot boulevard along the water front it is likely that the Board of Harbor Commis- sioners will permit an electric road to be run which would carry passengers to street- car lines having water-front conueotions and to the ferry station. Chief Engineer Holmes of the harbor board said yesterday that he believed that in time electric mo- tors would be used instead of locomotives for hauling the freightcars on the belt line along the water front, as is being done in the East. The act of March 19, 1889, de- fining the powers of the board as to this line, provides that it may adopt regula- tions to (Prevem the passage of trains, en- gines and cars over said road across streets of the city at such hours and in such man- ner as may interfere with the safe and con- venient use of the streets. This would en- able the board to require most of the handling of freight to be done at night, and leave the boulevard comparatively iree for passenger tratfic during zfie day. At the meeting of the board of directors held yesterday aiternoon the bids for ma- terial were opened and the following awards made: Rails and plates, John F. Merrill ; spikes, Miller, Sloss & Scott; bolts and nuts, Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden. The rails purchased are of American make, but the directors refused to give out the price paid or the name of the makers. Ten thousand tons was the amount pur- chrsed. The pooling project was also_discussed, but action thereon was deferred until to- day, when another meeling will be held and the plan will probably be adopted. OHICAGO’S GREAT CANAL. It Has an Important Bearing on the Nicaraguan Enterprise. Ossian Guthrie, the originator of the Chicago system of sanitation, related to the members of the Geographical Society of the Pacific Tuesday evening how the construction of the Chicago Drainage canal may facilitate the Nicaragua canal enterprise, and how the Chicago main drainage waterway developed into the Lake Michigan and Mississippi river ship canal. Mr. Guthrie explained with the aid of maps that a great glacial district once ex- isted to the north of the lakes, and that the mass of ice forced down had cut a profound channel. passing by the spot where Chicago now stands to the Mississippi River. The ancient channels had become filled up, but they are being excavated as far as Joliet. Water will be take:i from Lake Michigan at the rate of 600,000 cubic inches a second and turned into the Illinois River, thereb; causing an outlet for the sewerage of Chi- cago and creating 325 miles of navigable stream. This is done by cutting through the rim of Lake Michigan to Joliet, forty miles away. That channel will be 160 feet wide at the bottom, 200 feet at the top and the depth of water from 22 to 26 feet. ‘When the Government provides locks fora distance of forty miles a ship canal will thus be opened 325 miles long. The cost of the work will be $27,750,000.” The work is about half completed and will be finished in the summer of next year. Mr. Guthrie stated that the great work had been such an educator of the con- tractors that they had learned to excavate the rocks for hali of what it cost five years ago. The same contractors could to-day do the excavating of the Nicaragua canal for half of the estimated cost of five years ago, and thisfact, Mr. Guthrie said, showed that the cost of the interoceanic waterway would now be only half as large as before. He therefore urged that a paid bureau of information be established in San Fran- cisco and other cities to bring influence on the next Congress, and then, he had no doubt, the Nicaragua canal bill would pass. ————— MRS, AUSTIN'S LIEN. It Is Established by the Supreme Court as Against a Bank Mortgage. One of the most complicated land suits that could well be imagined has just been decided by the Supreme Court, the decis- jon being in favor of a vender's lien as against a mortgage held by a bank. The suit was over ten acres of land in Santa Clara County, owned eventuallygby Gustav Pulschen. The lot in question was owned, so far as the purposes of the suit was concerned, by areal estate firm, Bruce & Kent. They sold the lot to Charles Henderson, giving a bond for a deed of the property as soon as | sol the full purchase-price was paid. Hender- :9"1 agreed mssell toa Mrs. M:‘:iry A. Aus- in for $5000. She paid $2500 and was given a bond for a deel:!uwhen the remu%nder should be paid. She then took possession and proceeded to sell the lot to Pulschen who agreed to pay $5500 for it. He paid t?'.’m down and gave his notes for the e H. McD ulschen then applied to R. H. McDon- 21d Jr., who was then managing the Pacific Bank, for a loan of $3000, giving as security the much sold piece of ground in Santa Clara, Mrs. Austin already had a vender's lien on the property, however, but this was overlooked by the bank, and the mort- gage was accepted. The question then arose as to whether Mrs. Austin’s vender’s lien for the remainder of the purchase Ence of $5500 or the mortgage of the Pacific ank took precedence. The Superior Court ruled that the mortgage should be first satisfied, and denied a motion made by Mrs. Austin for a new trial. Mrs. Austin placed her case in the hands of Attorney J. g{ Welch, and he took the case to the Supreme Court. That body has now rendered its decision ng?nst the mortgage and has practically established the vender’s lien by ordering a new trial. The position taken by the Supreme Court is that the bank should have investigated the title to the land more thoroughly, par- ticularly as Mrs. Austin, the one who held the vender’s lien, was in possession at the time of the sale. IT WONT GO ON FOREVER. ENGINEER W. H, SMYTH DISCUSSES THE " PERPETUAL-MOTION" MACHINE. His ReEAsons WHY THE WHEEL WiLL Notr Go WITHOUT EXTERIOR FORCE. W. H. Smyth, consulting engineer, of 226 Market street, has been studying the so- called perpetual-motion machine exhibited in a jeweler’s window and declares that he who says that machine will move until it is worn out takes unwarranted liberty with the truth. Speaking of the machine yesterday Mr. Smyth said: I have always maintained that the me- chanic’s proféssion must of necessity be the most honest of all forms of human ac- L D Feol tivity, for the mechanic in his work is deal ing most dire ith natural forces and laws, 8o even self-di tion in matters mechanical is disastrous. Feeling thus, the recently pub- lished description of the de gave me a most unpleasant shock, the device described therein being based not upon self-deception, but the other kind. A device comprising weights freely movable on spokes, rndimmfifmm & central hub which is journaled on a horizontal bearing cannot possibly cause rotary xgotion, for the reason that if the device is in rotation from any cause, either internal or external, the excess of weight will always be on the device which is ascending. That this is true can be readily seen from these diagrams which I have drawn. Commence with the weights as shown in Fig i: it is evident that no motion would oceur, for the device is in_equilibrum, the weight be- ing disposed equally on each side of the center line. Now move out the weight on arm B as in Fig. 2 and the device is no longer balanced, the side R is heavier and if B is_released it will fall till D rises to nearly the level of ER, but not quite, for a pendulum never rises to quite the height from which it is let fall. The evice will therefore swing to the position of . NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. Geoetss. ‘pecr Taer ?( A FEW P SPECIAL BEQUESTS. HERE is always a_host of ‘‘special values’ to be found in the different departments of our big busy store. We meet a veiling manufacturer who necds cash badly and his goods become ours for less than it cost to make them. Color lines are broken in a particular kind of dress stuff and down goes the price. Legitimate reasons for any price cutting we do. FANCY VEILING. an open diamond- shaped mesh, with woven border,pretty and s:ylish; black, blue, brown, tan, gray, cream white and red; ve clal ac. 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JET BAND TRIMMIN 3% to 2 inches in width, cut beads, silk back, in a great variety of patterns, all artistic and de- signed for use with 1895 dress fabrics 2 5 50¢ to 1,75 Yard JET POINTS, 5 to 35 inches wide, made of cut beads, with jet ornaments: best qualit patterns; lowest 3.50 to $10.00 Yard Ze to $2.25 a Point pretti IRIDESCENT COLORED BEADED | POINTS, in shades of navy blue and golden brown, 2 0 7 inches... 2.00 to %5.00 Yard PEARL BEADED POINT! costumes; one of the for_evening 0st_beantiful noveities of the season; 214 to 10 ...$3.00 to $10.00 Yard PEARL BEADED DRAPES...8$2.50 Yard Inches wide. PEARL BEADED 00 Colored Beaded Trimmings. with the new cut beads iridescent or black; Drapes of steel beads, etc. Yokes and Two New Veilings. BRUSSELS NET, rather close woven. with wide accordion pleated ruffle, very nea e width o -25¢ Yard CHENILLE DOTTED VEILING, dia- mond shape mesh, very open, dots widely scattered; double 25¢ Yard (INCORPORATED) 937, 939, 941 Market Street. L Fig. 3. In_ this position the side L is the heavier and if the device is to continue to move in the same direction the heavy side must ascend, which, by the way, is not the di- rection in ihich gravity usually acts. Of course what it would do-is, it would simply oscillate back again and continue to oscillate till it gradually ceased to move. Let us now ‘suppose that instead of merely dropping B some force was exerted so that D would swing past the horizonal, say till the line DA became sufficiently inclined (Fig. 4) for the weight on A to slide outward. Even so, the most result would be only an equilibrium, for the weight D is already out. Itisconse- o S/ £ - e 52 quently evident that if the device be caused to Totate as each arm on the ascending side reaches the horizontal position the weight on that arm will be out, but 'Ee weight on the corresponding arm on'the descending side will nothave moved out, for that frm is yet only horizontal. So to repeat the original statement the ascending side must always be the heavier. That this is so in fact as well as in reason can be seen by actual observation of the device it- self. If the constructor still says it runs without exterior force other than gravity he —he is mistaken. - Last of the Peabody. A cablegram was received yesterday at Lloyds' agency, giving further details of the loss of the sealing schooner George W. Peabody. The vessel went ashore in Eshinomaki, being almost 150 miles to the northward of Yoko- hama. Part of the cargo has been saved, and the vessel has been condemned and will be ASCENT OF MATTERHORN.| PROFESSOR JORDAN’S LECTURE BE- FORE THE HAWTHORNE SOCIETY. HEAVIEST MAN WHO EVER CLIMBED THE MosT DIFFICULT OF THE ALPS. The Hawthorne Society’s entertainment crowded the large hall of the Young Men’s Christian Association last evening. The prineipal feature of the exercises was Pres- ident Jordan’s lecture on his ascent of the Matterhorn. Judge Van Duzer, who introduced the lecturer, spoke of the good work the soci- ety was doing in increasing the intellectual activity of this city. Professor Jordan gave a short history of the futile attempts made to reach the sum- mit of the jagged, three-cornered cone un- til its top was finally mounted by the party of Whipper, Lord Douglas, Croz and oth- ers, of whom Whipper was the only one to make the descent alive. He spoke of the continual disintegrating of the surface and constant falling of rocks that gave this glacierless creature of sun and frost the evil reputation it had among the people of | the country about as the abode of Satan, while Ruskin, who had never. been very near it, wrote of the Matterhorn as having no sign of change or decay.” It was not until the beginning of this century that there was much mountain- climbing done, owing to the superstitious awethat prevailed in regard to mountainsas the abode of evil spirits. The people about the Matterhorn believed that it was to its summit that Satan ofterf came with some of his evil spirits as to a summer resort_to cool off, and amused himself by hurling down stones at the people below. The first ascent of Mont Blanc, the first of the Alps to be climbed, was made by some stusents from Geneva seventy years ago, but the Matterhorn was the most diffi- cult of all and its summit was never reached until 1865, after many futile at- tempts had been made and many lives lost. The professor was in the village of Yer- matt with some other American college- men in 1881, and six of them made the as- cent with five guides, the leader of whom was the celebrated Jean Bafiziste Aymono, who had so often climbed the jagged cone and who had placed on the most_ perilous places the ropes used for years by the peo- ple who dared the journey. The professor told a graphic story of the arduous and dangerous ascent, part of which was made in a heavy snowstorm. President Jordan enjoys the distinction to this day of being the heaviest man who ever climbed the Matterhorn. He weighed at the time 214 pounds, and weight makes a great deal of aifference where each man has to haul himself up almost perpen- dicularly at times by a rope hand over hand, and at_other times must be pulled up over precipices by his companion. In the party were Dr. Gilbert and Professor Anderson, both now of Stanford Univer- sity. The rest of the programme of the even- ing consisted of songs by the Plymouth male guartet, and a barytone solo by Wil- liam Harper. g LIBRARY BULLETIN. The New Books That Have Been Pro- vided for the Public. The third bulletin of the San Francisco Free Public Library has been issued. This | shows that since the issue of the previous bulletin, on the 15th of last month, 16,367 books were given out for home use and 15, 865 were issued for library use. Of this number the percentage of fiction was 52.44. There are now in tie main library 75,752 volumes and 3693 in the branch libraries. During the month there were 14,305 visit- ors to the newspaper department. The bulletin contains a list of the books that have been recommended for pupils of the eighth and ninth grades of the public schools and which are to be found in the library. It also presents a list of over 150 books that have been recently added to the library. In this list there is to be found the titles of books on philoso- phy and religion, political and social sci- ence, science and miscellany, literature, history, biography and fiction; also books for the young. TENTH-STREET HOME, Affairs of the Institution Are, Accord- ing to an Investigating Committee, Honestly Conducted. About three weeks ago some very ugly reports reflecting on the managers of the Men’s Home ,on Tenth street gained cir- culation. It was hinted that under the cloak of charity the managers were reap- ing a rich financial harvest and conducting things generally to suit themselves. Dr. Jerome A. Anderson admitted that while he was president of the institution he had never been called upon to attend a meeting of the board of directors, though he was sure that Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Cator, the managers, were conducting the home honestly. On the suggestion of Mrs, Moore he appointed Captain Bonestell, the paperman, and Captain Johnson, a clerk on Sansome street, to expert the books, Mrs. Moore asked for a week’s time in which to get her books ready, which re- quest was granted by President Anderson. Last Friga_v the experts made a report, to the effect that everything was honestly conducted, vouchers being on hand for every cent expended. At this same meet- ing the board of directors, consisting of Mrs. T. V. Cator, Mrs. Broughton (a sister of Mrs. Cator) and Dr. Anderson, voted Mrs. Moore a salary of $10 per month and also allowed her claim of $10 per month, which she had paid to herself since the home was started, in 1892. But there is one other point that causes comment. In the report issued by Mrs. Cator in February last for the two years ending March 1,1894, the name of A. H. Sanborn apxenrs as director and vice- president. At the first and only meeting of the directors held two weeks ago, to or- der the investigation referred to above, Mrs. Cator, the treasurer, stated that Mr. Sanborn regretted he could not be present, as a previous business engagement would prevent. Mr. Sanborn makes the state- ment that he is not a member of the board of directors, has never been asked to at- tend a meeting, and if his name has been used in_any way by the managers of the home it was without his authority or knowledge. In speaking of the financial statement issued by Mrs. Cator, Mr. San- born says: “It has been brought to my attention that a statement of the transac- tions of the Men’s Home Benevolent So- ciety on Tenth street, has been published over my name as vice-president and direc- tor, I wish to state that 1 have never had any connection with that institution and know nothing of its affairs.”” ———— More Street Railways. TheLos Angeles Railway Company, formed to operate street railroad franchises, has filed articles of incorporation. It will acquire and develop franchises for the distribution of mo- tive power and muminntinq light of every description. Its principal place of business will be in_this city. The directors are Lovell White of San Franeisco, Thomas Brown of San Francisco, John D. Bicknell of Los Angoles, A, H. Payson of San Mateo, George Stone of San Francisco, Alfred Borel of San Francisco, and M. H. Sherman of Los Angeles. The capital stock of the company will be $4,000,000, di- vided into 40,000 shares. So far $3000 worth of stock has been subscribed. A Longshoreman Injured. John Michelson, a longshoreman residing at 6 Polk street, while working near the ship Wilna at Mission wharf 2 yesterday was struck by a piece of stone-ballast and his skull fractured. His shoulder was also injured and the arm partially paralyzed. C. B. HOLBROOK'S D0G, TINY. THE NOTED PuG ILL FROM A COM- PLAINT WHICH BAFFLES THREE DOCTORS. No ExpPeNSE Is BEING SPARED TO RESTORE THE ANIMAL TO HEALTH. There are few dog-fanciers in the city who do not know Tiny, the little Japanese pug owned by C. B. Holbrook of 321 Clip- per street. Tiny is a small animal, but owing to its long pedigree is worth its weight in gold. It was imported from Japan at great expense two years ago. Tiny is seriously ill at present with a complaint which is baffling the skill of three physicians. The animal is a beauti- ful creature, with glossy black and white hair, and im the daysof robust health it tipped the beam at twelve pounds. Tiny has lost three pounds during the past two weeks, and is steadily losing flesh Tiny Is Sick. [From a photograph.] at an alarming rate. If this process of falling off continues for six weeks longer the dog will be a shadow of its former self. Until two months} ago Tiny was a re- markably active canine. It became a great favorite with Mr. Holbrook’s family, and were the animal to die its loss would be severely felt. About eight weeks ago it became ill, and a few days later paralysis of the limbs set in. Dr. Nief was called in, and then Dr. W.O. Wilcox and later Dr. Clark. The physicians diagnosed the case variously as paralysis and locomotor ataxis, but every remedy was applied without effect. Mr. Holbrook would not dispose of Tiny for a mint of money, and the matter of expense will not be considered if the result is a complete cure. ———————— PENOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES In Regard to Reading Matter for State Prisoners. The daily papers are strictly excluded from the State prisons of California, while miscellaneous reading of almost every de- scription, no matter how much it has been used, is freely admitted. On the other hand, in the Western Penitentiary of Penn- sylvania, at Allegheny, with nearly 1200 prisoners, the dailies are freely admitted, while second-hand papers are rigidly ex- cluded, as it is alleged, on sanitary grounds. e ee OONGRESSMAN MAGUIRE, He Will Arrive in This City To-morrow Morning. A private telegram received yesterday announces the fact that Congressman James G. Maguire, who is on his way home from Washington via the California and Oregon road, will reach this eity to-more row in the forenoon at 11 o'clock. 3