The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1895, Page 15

ba rity of mitta rporation s the Supreme Court holds to be the true one, and it afirms the judg- a ma) hidden, but with all nd Sunday morning that ber valu v gone By the persuasion of her brother she in- ted an advertisement in the daily papers offering a reward for the return of the OR M.JCRUMPTON ‘COL DICKMAN TWO OF SAUSALITO’S STIRRING CITIZENS, [From photographs.) ment of the lower court, which was made ; upon the same basis. There were also a 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 nestied among the trees on the terraced slopes of the southern end of Marin County, 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: Jam 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 vl;sonifionA 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 bitamen. I, for one, do not like macadam, for if you water it mud is produced, and if it is not watered there is dust. That will probably beone of the first things done by the Town Trustees. The town of Saunsalito, 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 ‘‘get a 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 landingsin the State, and the depot is one that would he 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 property and filled in the space so as to make the roadway, which was pnl thirt; 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 -l{f,nmd 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 pm‘ren -owners, at their own ex- Pense, 1o build a pulknead and put in good conditien Water avenue from Princess to old jewels. When seen at her home last night she said: “Ihave no idea where I lost the package. 1 wasout riding Saturday afternoon with a {riend, but did not learn'of my loss untill Sunday morning. The last { 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. 1 probably dropped them on the street some- where, but where I do not know.” 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 oftice, 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 Teceipt in full, which he asked Woldfang to sign. After signing the receipt he got 519 check and was leaving the oflice 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 gan of seventy-five over Whelan in the recount for the office of Sheriff, and in which gross frauds wereshown. Several election officers were also before the jury to explain their connection with the “mistakes.” - e .———— FRITZ SCHEEL at the park keeps the Park News presses rushing to supply programmes.* ard along t ' Buard o permit carry passe nes ing water tron | and to the ferry st Chief Engir | Holmes of the harbor board said yesterda, that he believed that in time electric m. tors would be used ir ad 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, 1359, de- fining the powers of the board as to this line, provides that it may adopt regula- tions to prevent 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 free for passenger tratfic during the 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 OANAL. 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: from Lake Michigan at the rate of 600,000 cubic inches a second and turned into the Illinois River, thereby = ater Hasbor ( an elecinie Toad to be 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- ion 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 & Keut. They sold the lot to Charles Henderson, giving a bond for a deed of the property as soon as either internal or external, the excess of welght 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 1: it is evident that no motion would occur, 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 EB, but not (Lune, for a pendulum never rises to uite the height from which it is let fall. The evice will therefore swing to the position of Fig. 8. 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 which gravity usually acts. Of course what 1t 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 iorce was exerted so that D would swing past the horizontal, say till the line DA becawe 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- K H (-] Pd % - quently evident that if the device be caused to Totate A8 each arm on the ascending side reaches the horizontal position the weight on thatarm will be out, but the weight on the corresponding arm on'the descending side will not have moved out, for thatarm is yetonly horizontal. So to repeat the original statement the ascending side must always be the heavier, That this is 80 in fact as well as in reason can be seen by actual observation of the device it- self. 1If ‘the constructor still says it runs without exterior force other than gravity he —he is mistaken. e Last of the Peabody. A cablegram was received yesterday at Lloyds' agency, giving further details of the 10ss of the sealing schooner George W. Peabody. The vessel went ashore in Eshinomaki, being ;lmon lgo 'mpe‘: to the "{,""‘;;'e'.i"u"v J".‘S’i amu. art of the cargo has the vessel haa been Condemned and will be 80] (INCORPORATED ) 039, 041 Market Street. 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 principal 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 continunal ntegrating 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 awe that 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 eo1ple below. The first ascent of Mont Blane, the first of the Alps to be climbed, was made by some sLuSents 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- fempts had been made and many lives ost. 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 Bagtiste 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 difference 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. 'i"he rest of the programme of the even- ing consisted of songs by the Plymouth male lgum’tet, and a barytone solo by Wil- liam Harper. : 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 the main library 75,752 volumes and 3693 in the branch libraries. , During the month there were 1 ors to the newspaper department. 5 visit- 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. Mirs. Moore asked for a week’s time in which to get her books ready, which re- quest wasgranted by President Anderson. Last Friday 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 appears 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 illuminating light of every deseription. Its principal place of business will be in_ this city. The directors are Lovell White of San Francisco, Thomas Brown of San Francisco, John D. Bicknell of Los Angeles, 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 tured. His shoulder was also injured and the arm partially paralyzed. C. B. HOLBROOK'S DOG, TINY. THE NOTED PuG ILL FROM A COM- PLAINT WHICH BAFFLES THREE DOCTORS. No ExPENSE 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 in 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 @ 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. Q. Wilcox and later Dr. Clark. The physicians diagnosed the case variously as paralysis and locomotor ataxis, bl‘_\ft every remedy was applied vithout effect. % ¥ L‘dr?llfloelbrgnk 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 strigtly qxclud_ed from the State prisons of California, while miscellaneous reading of alml;)s_tce}:'er);nde- iptil matter how much it has been D ey 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. ————————— 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 Washinmn'm the .Ca!ifom{- and Oregon road, will reach this city to-more row in the forenoon at 11 o’clock. 3 A