The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1895. CLEVER GIRLS IN THE LIFE CLASS, IT IS THE LACK OF REASONABLE ENCOURAGEMENT THAT HAMPERS THEM. NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS. PROOF OF WHAT THE YoUNG La- DIES ARE DoING UNDER A. F. MATHEWS. The girls’ life class at the Hopkins Art | Scheol is working hard, and its teacher, A. F. Mathews, is confident thatas a class the work is successful. There are more than thirty members of this class, and repre- sentative studies are here reproduced. It is always hard for a girl to study art with any reasonable amount of encouragement from either her friends or relatives. It is this fact that hampers the girl worker all the time, and it is also this fact which makes the teacher of this class feel strongly inclined to swear at the position taken by those who are closest to the students. As a matter of fact, the woman studying art has more subtle and quicker perception of color than the man. She also suffers, despite the statement made by the “new woman,” from a certain lack of physical strength; but the trouble with the girl art student is that her parents will not admit that art work is anything more than an accomplishment. a_result, when she ht to be working she is besieged by visitors who think art a_fad, and really make nuisances of themsely When the young man studies art it is admitted generally that he does so with a desire to make it sne work of his life. He is to make his living by it, whether as an illustrator or a painter. Nobody doubts his strong intent, but when it comes to the An Independent Study. [From an original sketch.made for the “Call” by Miss Laura Adams.] no matter how much ability they ss, the case is changed and no or fathers or will admit to ouragement serious. ifornia has the extent of offering any en to the student that their work There is no doubt that C. lost strong feminine artistic representation through this Many girls whose work i have been noticeable in any of the of this or any other country have | Ives been held down and actuaily A Dainty Subject. {From an original sketch made for the “Call” by Miss Florence Lundborg.) prevented from doing serious work by the Position taken by their parents. ““It is discouraging, as well to the teacher as to the pupil,” Mr. Mathews, “to find that with strong ability, clever techni- cal knowledge and earnest purpose a student is spoiled because home or social influences decline to recognize the fact that the girl in earnest. The question of mixed life classes has been practically settled so far as San Francisco is concerned for some time at least. From my stand- A Clever Life Study. ' [From an original sketch made for the “Call” by Miss Marion Holden.] point I see no necessity for a mixed life lass, and there are conventionalities which, to some extent, interfere. “The present classof girls is doing strong work, and what I most desire to have un- derstood isthat they, the girls, should be corded equal chances with the boys. t the girl work out her own artistic ‘uture just so far as she may be able. In r, and to a great degree in.what might e called intuitive art sense, the average girl student is ahead of the boy. In form she is not so effective, but, everything con- sidered and the inequality of physical strength admitted, the two' life classes of the school are fairly equal.” In relative comparison of the individual merits of his pupils in the girls’ life class, Mr, Mathews is consistently uncommuni- cative. The studies reproduced are repre- sentative. Miss McCormick’s head irom a portrait is excellent. McFarlane's typical life study is strong. Miss Lund- borg’s study of a head is good. Miss Holden’s study shows fecling, while Miss Laura Adams’ independent study is well handled. Misses Kalisher, Callahan, Moss- man and Rixford, with many others in the class, promise well. A There is one thing to be said about the girls’ life class, and that is that they, while a large class, show strong individual work. There is little doubt that much is due to the fact that their master gives them plenty of latitude, aud as a result their individuality comes out. No student in the class can claim that they have been limited by any of the personal technique of their master. So far as is possible each one is taught to follow out her individual tendencies entirely irrespective of any par- ticular line of action usually followed by the teacher. The sketches reproduced show this and when it is remembered that thely were A Portrait Head. [From an original sketch made forsthe “Call” by Miss Nellie McCormick.) selected from a large number it mpust be admitted that they are representative. The work of the class is earnest and strong and the only objection or complaint that could be made is that the girls are not given afair chance to show what they Teally mean to do in art. If casual visitors, who think it pleasant to drop in at the art school, would think for a moment that the work they are interrupting is not a fanci- ful fad but a deliberat2 representation of earnest artistic purpose, they might con- clude not to interrupt the girls with their work. If parents would believe that when their daughters are working hard it is because they are convinced of their own artistic ambition and ability, it is also likely that the young ladies would not be subjected to that faint praise which damns any ambi- tion that they may possess. Both teachers and pupils are agreed as to the earnest desire for work, and with a o strong as the girls’ life class is no doubt that in the future it will y all lovers of art in California seriously regretted that the young ladies were not honestly encouraged t ow what they can do instead of being casunally dis- couraged from earnes isti KILLED BY A LIVE WIRE DEATH OF A HORSE AND INJURY OF THE DRIVER OF A MILK WAGON. NARrROW ESCAPE OF SEVERAL PED- ESTRIANS FrROM a SIMI- LAR FaTE. A horse was instantly killed and his driver rendered unconscious by contact with a live electric wire at the intersection of Gough and Market streets at 4 o’clock Wednesday morning last. John Peterson, a lad about 16 years of age, was driving a milk wagon belonging to the Baden Farm Dairy, around the cor- ner mentioned, when his horse suddenly stumbled and fell. As theanimalmade no effort to rise Peterson jumped to the ground and seized the equine by the bridle, intending to assist it to its feet. His hand had no sooner come in contact with the bit ring than he was thrown vio- lently to the ground and writhed about in apparent agony. Passers-by hurried to his assistance. It was then found that the horse was dead, killed by a shock received by stepping on a telephone wire, which, having been torn from the roofs of ' the ad- jacent houses by the high wind of the night before, had fallen across a live elec- tric wire and thence to the street, near the curb. Peterson came to his senses in a few moments and reported the accident to Officer Clifford, who sent word to the Elec- tric-light Company to remove the wire be- fore further trouble resulted. The officer has reason to thank his lucky star that he was not himself killed by contact with the wire. “I was passing the corner during the night,” he said yesterday, *when some- thing struck me on the breast. I grasped itand found that it wasan electric wire which had fallen from the roof above. I threw it up over the corner of an awning intending to have it attended to as soon as I could report. “The strange part of the matter is that T was not killed but I presume that the dangling strand had notas vet fallen on the electric light wire and become in- sulated. “It is strange that no human being was killed by the wire, for a large number of men pass that corner going to work, and they {:ad already begun to straggle along when the horse was killed.” Some of the storekeepers in the neigh- borhood were reticent about the matter, the proprietor of the Junction Pharmacy, from whose establishment runs the wire which caused the accident. professing to know nothing of the matter. Others say that the wire certainly fell from the line running into the pharmacy, as they saw it dangling before the employes of the com- pany had again put it in place. Patrick H. McVey, proprietor of the Baden Farm Dairy, is trying to tind out on whom the respon: ty of the loose wire rests, and will institute a suit for damages for the loss of his horse. Peterson, the driver, was confined to his room yesterday, but is not badly injured. IS THE MARRIAGE LEGAL? Mrs. Macondray Sues to Make Her Con- tract Valid. Following fast upon the announcement that the Governor has signed the bill mak- ing it obligatory that all marriage contracts be recorded comes the suit of Florence Bucklin Byers Macondray against Fred- erick L. Macondray to have declared legal the scant form which they went through and considered a marriage. The marriage was not solemnized nor was it ever recorded, the plaintiff states in her complaint. Subsequent to their agree- ment to live together as man and wife the plaintiff requested Macondray to make a declaration of the marriage, but this he refused to do, and he still so refuses. It is therefore prayed that the form which they went through be declared by the court to have been a legal marriage and that they be adjudged to to haye been husband and wife ever since. ————— Tom McKay’s Successor. A successor to T. D. McKay, ex-Pacific Coast passenger agent of the Burlington, has been appointed in the person of Fred W. Maders, who arrived in this city recentiy from Chicago, where he has for some years past held promi- nent positions in connection with several of the roads entering that city. ———— REVERIES of Florence, the great actor, in the smoke of an Almighty-dollar Cigar. hd HORE LIKE A KINDERGARTEN. SCHEEL THINKS A CONSERVATORY IS IMPOSSIBLE IN SAN FRANCISCO. WE HAVE NO GRAND OPERA. THE PHILHARMONIC REHEARSE FOR THE FIrsT TIME IN THE NEw ScHOOL. Scheel’s new conservatory has received its musical bavtism, or in other words its walls have resounded for the first time with the strains of violins and bass viols, clarionets, trombones and ail the other in- struments that make up an orchestra. The people in the neighborhood of 1118 Sutter street know now by oral demonstration that they have a conservatory in their very midst and they rejoice accordingly. It was the Philharmonic Society that christened the place. Scheel asked the or- chestra to assemble there on Wednesday night for the weekly practice, and the de- light of the members at all they saw was boundless. After mounting thelong flight of steps that leads to 1118 Sutter street they were ushered into a wide hall, painted white and carpeted with crimson. A flight of stairs to match was found to lead to a number of classrooms and to the reception parlor. But the Philharmonic Society had not come to be received, as the formal ovening is not yet, so they followed their leader into the concert hall, which was the part of the building that made them say they felt as much at home as if they had practiced there all their lives. Tt consists of two large rooms thrown into one, and as the hall is carpeted with striped matting that adds greatly to its ap- pearance of length and is adorned with mirrors that make it seem very wide some of the members began to think at once what delightful chamber coneerts could be given there. Everything was in readi- ness to rehearse for them, t0o. The drums and bass viols were arranged in their places, the music was on the stands and a large picture of Beethoven that com- manded a view of the whole proceedings seemed to smile encouragingly upon the scene. Without more ado the members took their seats, seized their instruments and after a preliminary tuning plunged with ardor into the rehearsal. And thus it was that the oldest orchestral organiza- tion in San Francisco gave its musical baptism to the infant conservatory. Yesterday morning Scheel was found in his sanctum at 1118 Sutter street filling large sheets of foolscap paper with his ideas of music in San Francisco. ‘A con- servatory,” he said, laying down _his pen reluctantly, ‘“‘well, the fact is I am not going to open a conservatory.” “And what is this?’’ was asked. “Well, I have not quite decided,” re- lied the director thoughtfully. ‘“Perhaps shall call it a musical institute or a scientific school of music. It would be ab- surd to call it a conservatory, because that means a_place where something is pre- served. Now, as there is no music in San Francisco, how can one possibly preserve what does not exist?”’ Having propounded this telling question, the conductor went on to explain that he was not alluding to ““Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay’’ and other gems of vaudeville, but to ster- lin music. “Milan, Leipsic, Paris and the other great conservatories are built to preserve the popular love of classical music—they are not built to create it, for it exists there already. What causes it to exist? There is only one thing—splendid performances of grand opera. The washerwoman will 20 to the gallery of the opera-house on a Cheap night, and the next morning you may hear her singing an air by Mozart or Gounod at her washtub. Yes, it is grand opera that makes good music popular with all classes. Grand opera well sung, remember, for if it is howled and shrieke out, as if bears and lions were taking the parts, it will never culiivate a popular love ior the classics.” And the conductor, put- ting his hands to his ears, intimated that that was the only attitude in which he had been able to hear some recent performances of grand opera here. “The singing was a menagerie,” he said. ‘When asked whether he considered classi- cal music could be popularized by means of symphony concerts, Scheel shook his head and intimated that as far as the gen- eral public is concerned, that is beginning at the wrong end. “People who are indi- ferent about classical music will not go to symphony concerts, but they can be won to appreciate the classi gradually by means of good opera. When San Fran- cisco has regular operatic performances of the best kind, then there will be time enough to talk of a conservatory,” and having annunciated this scathing proposi- tion, the conductor further intimated that in order to take one step toward this end, he was going to organize operatic classes for the study of choruses especially. ‘“‘And is it true that vou will ‘conduct operas for Gottiieb and Friedlander at the Stockwell Theater in April?” was asked. At this question the conductor fairly bounded in his chair, then he looked ap- pealingly at the pictures of Rubinstein and Hans von Bulow, hanging on the walls, as if asking them for sympathy, and, giv- ing a groan, replied: “Do you think I can pot raw students in a hot oven and bake them into opera singers in a month 2’ After it had been soothingly explained that the proposed opera at Stockwell’s had no connection with his opera class Scheel said: ‘Yes, a season at Stockwell’s with good artists has been talked of, but noth- ing is settled yet.” Then, giving a sigh of relief, he added: I thought at first 1 was expected to manufacture an opera com- pany out of raw material in 2 month. You do everything on the rush lfere.” Then Herr Scheel took up his pen, and, dipping it in the ink, added a few more opinions upon music in San Francisco, as it is and as it ought to_be, to the pages of manuseript, all of which he is going to have published in his prospectus. The Herr conductor is hurrying on with the work, as he intends to_open his school on or about the ist of Apri RYER ESTATE IN COURT. The Third and Market Street Property Under Consideration. A motion to confirm the sale of the Ryer property at Market and Third streets came up before Judge Slack yesterday. ‘When this property was offered at auction there were only three bidders. Claus Spreckels bid $306,000 and nobody would go higher so no transfer was made. Since then the executors have waited for a better offer, which was not made, ani finally the executors offered the property to Mr. Spreckels for §306,000, Hermann Shainwald of Shainwald, Buck- beef& Co. testified that the property was worth $55 a square foot, or $288,750 in all. He said that the improvements are out of date and} consetfilemly worth (little com- paratively. G. H. Umbsen gave similar testimony. As there was some opflosition from the Ryer heirs, Judge Slack postponed the case until thisafternoon. ———————— SURRENDERED HIMSELF, Stephen H. Henderson Wanted on a Charge of Forgery. Stephen H. Henderson, 2 man about 50 years of age, surrendered himself at the City “Prison yesterday. The warrant for his arrest was sworn out on January 30 by Louis Oettl, grocer, 446 Natoma street. On January 17 and 19 Henderson forged two orders in Oettl’s name for seven pack- ages of coffee on Hills Bros. and paint brushes_from the Bass-Heuter Paint Com- pany. He pawned the articles and spent 'the ‘money to satisfy his morbid craving for drink. A few days later he wrote Qettl, confess- ing the forgeries and telling him to prose- cute him if he felt so inclined, because if he was not arrested he was liable to do more dangerous work. Henderson is a college graduate and a man of superior intelligence, but drink has ruined him mentally and physically. tome s oo ATTACKING THE LOOAL BOARD. An Insurance Company Will Make Its Agents Withdraw. City agents of the compact insurance companies were surprised to hear yester- day that Franz Jacoby, manager of the Prussian National Company, had threat- ened to ask his agents, ‘Easton, Incell & Messinger, to withdraw from the local board. About a week ago the city agents and counter men of board companies organized a compact of their own for the purpose of acting intelligently on maintaining rates in San Francisco. They held executive meetings daily, where ideas were inter- changed so that they would not cut one another’s rates when not attacked by non- board companies. This went very well so far, but as it is an open secret that managers in the compact are cutting rates daily without caring whether they do soin fighting the inde- pendent concerns, Or solely to get business anyhow, some grave doubts have arisen over the utility of a combine of city agents. The Prussian National does not care to be placed under obligations to sustain rates THE SEAGULL'S BOUNDLESS GREED. A BIRD ALWAYS GLEANING THE WAVE AND SHORE FOR MEAL TICKETS. HIS NEVER-ENDING LABORS. He Lives ONLY To EAT AND STARVES TO DEATH WHILE HE EXIsTs. Among expert ornithologists the belief ! is general that eye has never seen nor ear | ever heard of a seagull that was not eating or energetically inviting himself to parti- cipate in a bountiful repast, as the bucolic correspondent always writes up a meal for the rural weekly. It is quite true that the gull has been seen standing on the end of a pile or the ridgepole of a warehouse wrapped in thought, but that thought is along the line which nature and chojce have marked out | for him, and it leads to the performance which the country scribe alluded to in the preceding paragraph describes so rurglly. The dominant feature of this bird is his dearment. So strong is this feeling and so apparent is it to him that he adopts a gen- eral peculiarity of the species whose com- panionship he seeks and presumes upon the familiarity with which he s treated. A seagull standing on the yard- arm ‘will look contemptuously down on the laborious longshoreman bucking a | truck of lumber over the uneven wharf- g!anking, and even the string of inter- icted languageconsequent upon the plunge of a sharp sliver into_some portion of the man’s anatomy, coming up to his perch, Stirs no passing interest in his mind. The pretty presiding spirit of that bit of marine estheticism—the yacht—may hang over the gilded rail an indifferent spectacle to him, until she throws him a biscuit, and that edible disk totally eclipses the beauty of the giver. Then his startling peculiar- ity asserts itself and he is_the true cormo- rant of the feathered world. INAVAL RESERVE'S WORK. An Ambulance Corps to Be Organized | and Equipped at Once. Orders have just been issued from the headquarters of the Naval Reserve direct- | ing that hereafter the staff officers shall at- | tend drills and target practice the same as | ordinary seamen. The ordnance officer is | instructed to take charge of the guns pur- | suant to the duties of his position as 1aid i down in tactics. The signal officer must | give instruction in signaling, and the sur- geon must organize an ambulance corps on a service footing, and see that it has a com- plete equipment. Next Tuesday evening, at the armory of Company D, on Pacific avenue, will be held the annual muster and inspection of the reserve. For it companies C and D will each prepare a section of artillery with limber, there being eighteen men to a sec- tion including petty officers. Company B will parade as infantry, and the battalion HOPEFUL SEAGULLS FOLLOWING A FISHING - BOAT IN THE BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO. [Sketched for the *Call” by W. A. Coulter.] because city agents agree to keep from cut- ting when ‘a non-board company is after their business. A meeting of city agents was to be held yesterday at which® Easton, Incell & Mes- singer would present their resignation. It did not take place, however, and another day will be allawed before they leave the local board. The tendency of their withdrawal will be to further demoralize insurance business. FOR ALL THE BAY CITIES AN EXCURSION FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN MAY PRO- POSED. THE HALF-MILLION CLUB AND THE MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION MET BY SANTA Rosa MEN. There is a project on foot in this city which will advance the interests of all the bay cities, by presenting the advantages of these localities to a large number of people from other States in a very enjoyable and profitable way. The proposition, which was presented by M. Carmen and Mark L. McDonald of Santa Rosa yesterday to the Half-million Club and Merchants’ Association, is to arrange for a grand excursion from Los Angeles, at the conclusion of the flower fiesta, to San Francisco and thence to all the cities on the bay. Mr. Carmen and Mr. McDonald came here as a committee appointed by repre- sentative citizens of Santa Rosa, to lay the proposition primarily before these asso- ciations and to act upon the conclusions of these bodies. A joint committee was formed, composed of C. D. Bunker, H. P. Sonntag, L. C. McAfee, Stewart Menzies, J. W. Sperry for the Half-million Club, and Hugo Kyle, William Doxey, A. S. Bald- win, K. Melrose, Frank Al Vail for the Merchants’ Association. The committee met at the Merchants’ Club, and delegated Mr. Carmen to call upon all the various commercial organiza- tions in_the city, and ask their co-opera- tion. Mr. Carmen will lay the project be- fore them, and report to the joint com- mittee, which adé’ourned yesterday, subject to the call of Chairman Bunker. The representatives of the Half-million Club sai(fat the meeting of the joint com- mittee that it would be premature on their part to act as with the full authority of the club, as a club, but they would assume the responsibility of saying that the club, at its meeting on the 27th inst., would un- doubtedly co-operate in the movement. So Mr. Carmen will be able to state to the Chamber of Commerce, State Board of Trade and other similar bodies that the Merchants’ Association and Half-million Club will enter into such arrangements for the carrying out of the excursion project as may be agreed upon by 2 joint committee composed of delegates from all these organizations. It was stated at the committee meetin, the Southern Pacific would issue a round- trip rate, good for ten to fifteen days, from Los Angeles for $1760. The committee be- lieves that a large number of the Eastern visitors at the Los Angeles fiesta can be in- duced to make this excursion. The Half-million Club promotion com- mittee also met qufc;qnf'm arrange for the holding of their initial public meetin, on Wednesday, the 26th inst. Several thousand invitations will be issued, but the list of speakers has not yet been com.-' pleted. “My love, what magic spell s thrown Upon your face? Its charm I own. Whence came thy pure and pearly teeth? Thy rosy lips! Thy perfumed breath?" She sald, in accents sweet and clear, “'Tis only SOZODONT, my dear.” —————— A special committee appointed by the Russian Ministry of Finance has drawn uj a scheme embodying the measures whieg it will be necessary to take in order to ex- tend the commerce between Russia, Cen- tral Asia and China.. | craw, and its only characteristic is in- | satiety. The shark is ever hungry, but the | gull is starvation in ideal perfection. But this feathered indigent who dies all 1 his life from absolute want, who perishes walled, floored and roofed with plenty— the land and sea are constantly fee him—does it cheerfully. Not, i 3 let it be understood, from a knowledge that each day will bring him bread cast upon the waters, but because he has inherited it from the first gull that flew outof Eden, and the unappeased hunger of countless bird-ages has stamped itself upon every fibler of hisibiging ' Apropos of the random thought that bread cast upon the waters will be returned after many days, it may | be known that no bread ever came back to the caster after the gull found it. And those who contemplate following literplly that manner of dispensing charity should prepare for an emergency in the shape of this tireless gleaner of the waves. In fact, alms-giving by twater, with this keen. sighted sns ubiquitous bird of eternal ap- petite in that quarter of the globe, is im- practicable, unsystematic and unsafe. Bet- ter let the shore-going bakery wagon sup- ply needy humanity with the loaves, if not the fishes. And yet, while everlastingly intent upon harvesting to the ultimate crumb the land and sea, there are intervals of infinitesimal brevity when the gull is not foraging directly for meal tickets. One of these periods is when he is satisfying his curi- ity. He is always trying to satisfy some- thing that is gnawing his vitals, and his inguisitiveness, like his alimentiveness, burdens him always. He will warp him- self alongside of a floating cocoanut husk with frenzied energy, notwithstanding he has investigated the castaway many times. An empty bottle bobbing purposelessly up and down on the surface of the bay will excite the liveliest interest in the seagull soul. He has experted the buoyancy ot bottles since the bounds of the sea were established, but he must hold a marine court of inquiry over every new one that comes within his boundless scope of vision. The spars of ships which were put up expressly for his use when he stops (if he should) *‘striking’’ creation for some- thing to eat, a new yard or boom slung aloft will be examined critically and its accommodations as roosting-places or look- out station thoroughly canvassed. ‘When he adjourns for dinner any busi- ness other than eating is figuratively laid under the table, not on it, and the seagull recommences the never-ending work of satiating hisinsatiable apg]etite and getting his living starving to death. Linnzus, who is supposed to be some- thing of a bird-fancier, says the gull mi- grates to some extent, and, if he does, nobody has ever seen him start, or kept log of his trip. His migrations are only from meal to meal, until he either floats lifelessly seaward on the ebb, or is encased in a tamale-husk and escorted with _a lantern around the dark city streets. Yet, no one would desire the departure of this graceful bird of the sea. His sociability, his assumption of a wel- come from the bipeds ashore wins for him a toleration that borders upon positive en- 1 AM 'A WORKING GIRL. I Stand Ten Hours a Day, (SPECIAL TO OUR LADY READERS) - ‘I have suf. fered terribly with bearing- down pains, )| giddiness, back- ache, and kid- ney trouble. i Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegeta- ble Compound has given me new life. I rec- o iy ommend it to all.” — MAGeIE LUKENs, Thirteenth j wnd Butte Streets, Nicetown, Pa. " s'iaff will be inspected at the same time and | vlace. At muster the companies will appear in | heavy marching order, the infantry with | blue service uniforms and leggings, the ar- | tillery with working suits. All will have haversacks, canteens, ponchos and lan- | yards, the latter to be carried to the shirt | pocket and the ponchos to be swung from | the right shoulder to the left hip. | _ Lieutenant D. B. Northrop will visit San | Diego and inspect Company A at its armo- | Ty there next Thursday night. The good report of the California Naval Reserve has trayeled across the continent. A letter from Lieutenant Long, command- ing efficer of the Naval Reserve of New Jer- | sey, asking for advice, tactics, etc., has | just been received at the local headquar- ters. TWO MEN EURT BY A BLAST POWDER THAT AT FIRST FAILED TO EXPLODE CAUSES AN ACCIDENT. JERRY SULLIVAN AND JOSEPH RYAN ARE IN THE COUNTY HosPITAL. Jerry Sullivan and Joseph Ryan, two laborers in the employ of John Kelso, the contractor, were badly injured through their own carelessness or that of a blast foreman at an early hour yesterday morn- ing. The contractor was given permission by the Board of Supervisors some time ago to assist in the work of grading Hancock street, between Church and Sanchez, by the use of blasts, and for some time past heavy charges of dynamite and blasting powder have been exploded at that point several times during the day. It has been the custom of the blasters to fire a charge each evening just as the men were quitting work and leave the job of cleaning up the debris resulting until the next morning. This course was followed on Wednesday evening, and yesterday morning Sullivan and Ryan were instructed, to inspect the work of the blast and loosen up any masses of rock which might still be hanging to the bank. They went to work with picks and had not been digging for more than a few moments when an explosion startled the other workmen, and the two men were seen lying on the ground near the scene of the blast of the night before. Investigation showed that a portion of the blast had failed to explode on Wednes- day evening, and the men in digging had struck some of the buried explosives, with the result mentioned. Both were found to be badly injured and were taken to the City and County Hospital to have their ‘wounds dressed. Sullivan upgesrs to have received the full shock of the explosion, for his face was badly cuw and bruised by the flying rocks and it is thought that his eyesight will be destroyed. Ryan wasnotso badly injured, though he will be confined to his bed for some time to come. Tt is believed that the blasters were to blame for the accident in not placing the powder sb that the electric spark, which is used_to ignite the explosion, would let it all off at once, though the workmen should have known from the appearance of the ground that the entire charge had not ex- ploded. Sl e T Young Llewellyn Recovering. Young David Llewellyn, brother of the As- semblyman from the Seventy-third District, who was severely burned about the face and arms by the explosion of oil-gas in the hold of the steamer Bawnmore, two weeks 8go, is re- covering rn;;lldly and will not have left a single scar to tell the story of the accident. New skin has grown over his whole face, and it is as smooth and white as before the explosion. His mother has been nursing him at the German Hospital since his misfortune, and he has o far recovered that he will be able to go to his home in Los Angeles next Tuesday. e Halleck prided himself esoecizlly on ‘“Marco Bozzaris,” whici ne once said haa the genuine ring of poesy. WASSERMAN SUES FOR DIVIDENDS, HE WANTS TO RECOVER NEARLY $140,000 FroM Louis SLOSS. RESULT OF A STOCK DEAL. A Too KEEN STRUGGLE FOR VALU ABLE LEASES CAUSES LITI- GATION. 3 The case of Wasserman against Sloss has come to trial at last. It opened yesterday before Judge Troutt, with the reading of the pleadings in the case and the testi- mony given in the st by David Selig- nian, a brother-in-law to Wasserman, as to what had occurred at the interview which led to the transfer of 400 shares of Wasser- man’s stock in the Alaska Commercial Company to Sloss. Upon this transferand its results the suit now on trial is based. Nearly $140,000 is the value of the conten- tion now pending between the merchants, most of the sum representing dividends upon the stock transferred. The cause of the trouble dates back to May, 1888. At that time the Alaska Commercial Com- pany was carrying on active negotiations with the United States and the Russian governments, with a view to securing leases to take seals in the Bering Sea in waters controlled by both America and Russia. The plan was to form a new com- pany when the new leases had been se- cured, allowing the old company to die with the expiration of the old leases. To the more easily secure the basis for the new company, Mr. Sloss, the defend- antin the present action, suggested that each member of the company donate 400 shares of stock toward the formation of the new company, such stock to be used by him as he thought best in his negotiations at Washington. It was at first suggested that he draw upon the stock as he wanted it, but it was afterward thought best to assign each 400 shares absolutely to him for convenience sake. ‘Wasserman was not quite willing to go to this length, but he was shown a tele- gram in which John Livingston, another stockholder, expressed a willingness to donate the shares asked, and so he finally agreed to the matter. The transfer was made in the form of a sale. Wasserman was given Sloss’ note for $32,000, or at the rate of $80 a share, and the stock was placed in Sloss’ name. Wasserman declares that the stock was to be reconveyed to him if the negotiations proved unsuccessful. Sloss claims that it was an actual sale, and from this has arisen the suit, for the leases were never secured. ‘Wasserman’s suit isfor the dividends which Sloss has collected upon the stock, amounting to $170,000, less the amount of Sloss’ note for $32,000, made in payment of the stock. He also claims the value of the stock, or its transfer to him, upon a return of Sloss’ note, To all of these facts the testimony of David Seligman isapplied, for he has beenintimately acquainted with the course taken by his brother-in-law in the matter, and was present at several of the interviews at which the transfer was ar- ranged. Quite a little stir was created in the case when it came up yesterday morning, for no one could find the amended answer filed by the defendant to the plaintiff’s complaint. Court was adjourned from 11 o’clock until 2 to allow a search, and it was agreed to file a cory if the original could not be found. This was done, as when court opened again the original was still unaccounted for. — SER? THE BRAND ON THE SOLE? THAT MEANS EXTRA LIGHT WEIGHT, EXTRA STRENGTH, EXTRA FIT, EXTRA LOW PRICES. UCKINGHAM & HECHT'S ICYCLE SHOES $2.50 Oxfords $3.00 Lace, Kasts 738-740 Market St. Headquarters for BUCKINGHAM & HECHT’S CavLiForRNIA MADE FINE SHOES. 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