The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 15, 1895, Page 7

" THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1895. Nfi_—_ CIT} NEWS IN BRIET. rs items on the seventh page of | Brief city the CALL every day ' The s of the CALL is devoted ex- clusivel; al news items. The He State be! The Libe Cycling Club had its initial five- vesterday, going from Fruitvale to f Dr. Plouf, who was fatally ook place from the Ma- ¥ he autopsy on the body of howed that death had been lation. ' people attended Holy Com- Sath -lu-lchurche! vesterday, it val. Aid Society, No. 10, will tertainment and social at this evening. ri(.u:umbml attractions of music her drev h erhaps perhaps the t crowd of t terday. solutions weie passed by Grace Church school yesierday eulogistic of Blanche ut and her worthiness as a Christian. he Occidental Coursing Club had a very easant outing at Golden Gate Park, and at Park some excellent racing was wit- ie Olympic nine defeated the Pacifics in seball match at Central Park yesterday ;} nu'ore of 12t09. Thirteen innings were The aster services in the Catho lic churches were conducted upon & most elab- ded by immense con- nes, the Australian champion, defeated P, Cahill u'l Chicago and J. Harlow in a match at l:n!’d}»m] erday at the San Francisco court for $50 a the hunt- ause they n, where they J. F. Hayes of Oakland er of Berkeley has been of the severe crowded Dunbar alley he Lamont licemen w on duty all he crowd back. d_Crockett. d K. Pollack, Lt by Detectives Ditlon oroke into the house of Dav onverse street, and stole & rug. own amateur hand- professional ranks e to play any one or $100 2 side. oW, the w v, has joined ti s out with a chall cept Champion Jones When Durrant was ar; Nily e and alibi to offset & t be mad s conducted the E Cathedral—cor ch—and the thodox church was pe iy. Doane was installed as pastor of Presby in the ¥ of recent years has aroused S uch a high ch as the Wi fF were In contradistinetion to the progress of artin F e Boston Art Club shows de n its tifty-second wa h gives local arti excursion party es at 9 o'clock ure at Dr. labor to church. izes and it them. igate mat- possession t. e committee of the Civie Feder- s afternoon to formulate & ¢ crusade against bad gov- in & state- on proposes | igating two sus- i turday | old E. d the other in the &an, 1006 Valencia lent Association | ge cwell's Each night this at_ which partly go to the | ve of the Ameri- tarket-street cable s up Market street | oug attendance of marksmen at was not large, there Among those who ttery D, Second Artillery, :ndent’ Rifles, Columbia at St. Mary’s | d_for in the 11 be buried | morning. | ill be present nt, the suspected murderer of s and Blanche waiting to see h have caused trouble had the amily w he stock was $300; covered b; heel Green and Phil Brady of South San got into & Tow last night and Green | er the head with a hoe, | alp wound, which was dre County Hospital. G zeant Bennet and char \ & deadly weapon. Green that h not strike Brady till a pit < was jabbed into his erm. | President McGlynn of the Federated Eays the Salt Lake Herald of April 28 is to be gotten out entirely by labor organizations, one- third of the proceeds to go to these organiza. tions and two-thirds to charitable institutions, It will have among its contributors Samuei npers, John Burns, John_McBride, E. V. s, T. V. Powderly, Master Workman' Sover- gn and possibly Chief Arthur. ephen Le Count,an old soldier, died sud- Iy in the Continental lodging-house, 521 c street, yesterday. He was apparently 2004 health, and was talking with some nds a few minutes before his death. He was eading one of the daily papers when & choke ? fit sefzed fim, and before aeaistance could be called he was dead. It is surmised that ap- oplexy carried him off. The deceased was & private in Company C, fourth regiment of Cali- fornia infantry,and drew a pension from the Gavernment for disability incurred during the War. flict- ed | en wes d with ady ¢ AN INCENDIARY FIRE. A Family at the Mission Had a Narrow . Escape. While passing along Valencia street, near Twenty-first, at 6 o’clock yesterday morning, J. 8. Phillips noticed smoke issu- ing- from “Wichman’s’ candy-store. He turned in an alatm from box 142, and the department %uickly responded and extin- guished the blaze. The Wagner family, who lived over the gtore, wers aroused by the smoke and made their escape from the building. Mrs. Wagner said that she had heard a noise in the store ‘shortly beiore the fire was dis- covered, and the general opinion is that it was a case of incendiarism. Marshal Towe holds this opinion. He is making an investigation. The stock was :fd&ed at wbout $300, and the insurance is gan was charged with burglary | ed at Walnut Creek | AN OLD NAUTICAL RELIC, The Ship Cadmus Which Brought Lafayette to This Country. BROKEN UP IN THE BAY. Sunday Baseball Games Are Being Played on the Water Front. An old relic of the pastcan be seen in the company quarters of the French La- fayette Guard, on Montgomery street, near Pacific. Itisa brass plate taken from the ship Cadmus, which arrived in San Fran- cisco April 15, 1846, and was moored at the foot of Taylor street, where she was used as a marine hospital. She lay on the mud flats, a dismantled changes the preaching. But you should remind your minister at such a_time that you have not to do with the modes of man, but have to do with God alone and with | the hope of his gospel,” | Rev: Mr. Woodworth then, as moderator | of the presb‘yt/ery, asked the constitutional | questions of the new pastorand of the con- gregation. Rev. Mr. Farrand delivered { the charge to Mr. Doane and Rev. Mr. i Freer charged the people. The ceremonies i closed with a hymn, in which all joined. H. A. McKenney was installed as elder of the church before the ceremonies closed. e . OFF FOR THE SOUTH. Half-Million Club’s Excursion Party Starts for Los Angeles This Morning. The Hali-million Club’s excursion party will make its start on the journey to Los Angeles this morning at 9 o’clock. A large number of the members of the club and sympathizers is expected to be down | at the foot of Market to see the city’s | representative men off on their journey for | the good of the State. In the party will be a number of representative newspaper men. Charles M. Shortridge, the proprie- tor of the CarL, and several members of the staff, as well as representatives of the The CADMUS [Sketched for the “Call”™ by Coulter.] . hulk, in that locality for a long time, and was afterward broken up. When General Lafayette visited this country in 1824 he was a passenger on this vessel when a stanch new craft. The gen- eral returned to France in the frigate Bran- dywine, which was placed at his disposal by this Government. The Lafayette | Guard secured the plate from her cabin, Trades | and an engraving of the ship, which, with a bust of the honored Frenchman, adorns their quarters. The spirit of baseball that once flour- ished amid howls of the Oakland enthusiast and the bleacher crank at the Haight- street grounds has passed down to the water front and there holds high nival around the docks and among the shipping. The new diamond field is located in a va- cant lot at the foot of Folsom street and the games draw large crowds of the old- time lovers of the revived sport, The fences, warehouse roofs, seats of freight- trucks and the forecastles of Isin_the vicinity are points of va om which the players are urged to work and the long-suffering umpire is guyed with the vim and impunity of other days Yesterday a club uniformed by a local soap firm and one by an uptown clothing house batted for supremacy. The tailor of the latter nine failed to get his men in their new clothes, consequently they rushed their nicely garmented opponents all over the new grounds, beating them so badly that their score was lost in the count and runs of the clothing-house players. A huge new steel cufile for the Market- street Railway Company was taken up Market street yesterday. It contained 24,- 650 feet of wire rope and was drawn by forty horses. So heavy was theload that the basalt paving stones under the truck were driven into the ground, and the crossing stones all the way up the street were cracked. The war goes quietly on between the Sail- ors’ Union and Shipowners’ Association, and numbers of vessels are unable to get to sea for want of crews. Secretary Furu- seth of the union reports that two men are forcibly detained aboard the ship Wachu- sett, which sails to-day. MIZPAR'S NEW PASTOR Rev. F. A. Doane Installed With Appropriate Cere- monies. The Installation Sermon Preached by Rev. Robert Macken- zle. The quaint little Mizpah Presbyterian Church has now z pastor. He was installed yesterday with due formality by Rev. W. W. Woodworth, moderator of the San Francisco presbytery, who was assisted by several of the well-krown Presbyterian ministers of the city. The new pastor, Rev. F. A. Doane, is the same one who, for the past seven months, has had charge of the church, and under whose management the little church on Harrison street was built. As well in honor of the Easter services as for the ceremonies of installation the church had been most tastefully decorated by the ladies of the congregation. On the platform great bunches of golden yellow poppies were placed in every possible place, and among them, in beantiful contrast, were arranged vases loaded with white Easter lilies. 'To the side of the reading desk was placed an open book of white and red blossoms, and_across the floral pages was worked. in crimson petals, ‘“Welcome to Our Pastor.” Revs. Woodworth, Makeenzie, Farrand and Freer took their places on the plat- form, and after a hymn was rendered by a choir_especially trained for the occasion Mr. Woodworth asked a blessing on the afternoon’s occasion. Prayerand a chap- ter from the Bible followed, and then Rev. Robert Mackenzie, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of this city, rose to preach the installation sermon. He did not care to preach a regular sermon, he said, but did he have such a_desire, his text would be the words of 8t. Paul to the Romans, *“‘We are saved by hope.” ‘It is with God we have to do, and not with man,” he said, “and when your pas- tor bows his knee in prayer for you, his anxiety is not ‘what have i’to 8ay to—day % but what has God to say. And when he speaks to you it is not what Mr. Doane says which you hear, butitis what God is saying through him. No man has ever seen the Fatherat any time except Jesus Christ, for he was with God, and came from his side to this earth to preach his gospel. And this §aspel reached by Christ, who came to this world to clear the darkness as the sun of Greenland rises after the months of :inur’s gloom, is essentially a gospel of ope. ‘PVeVe are ministers of hope—hope of the gogpel of Cnrist, which shines on rich and and poor alike, upon the highest as well as the most lowly, and {;llds each with the same tinge of the golden light of truth. Ministers are sulgect to modes which vary ; a little ili-health, a little annoyance or overwork, the mode changes, and” with it other metropolitan dailies, will be among those who will go. It is expected that the paity will be joined by representatives of the papers in the towns on its route, as well as a committee representing the Cali- fornia Press ssociation. The interest awakened all along the route in the efforts of the Half-million Club promises a hearty reception everywhere. The vestibule train that will leave the Oakland mole consists of seven Pullman cars with a dining-car. THE WIRROR'S FLASHES They Are Distinctly Seen From San Francisco to Mount Diablo. | The Signal Corps Service Sends Messages a Distance of One Hundred Miles. On Saturday nforning Lieutenant G. C. Boazdman Jr. and a detachment of the signal corps left the city on the 8 o’clock boat on a mounted trip to Mount Diablo, where an intermediate station wasto be established for the work to be performed Sunday. After traversing the hills back of Berke- ley the troopers took the trail leading down into Contra Costa County and then struck the road for the summit of Mount Di- ablo. Arriving at the hotel the detach- ment dismounted and bivouacked in a field | and prepared for their evening repast, hav- ing first cared for their horses. An early morning start was made for the top of the mountain and by 9:15 o’clock communication was opened up with San Francisco. Captain Hanks, under whose supervision the expedition was con- ducted, established the home station on Telegraph Hill, with another detachment of the corps, and after waiting for the clouds to roll by, there being a long, lew line of clouds hanging over the valley below the peak, joyfully exclaimed, ‘‘there they are, look!” and immediately all eyes were turned in_that direction, the peak from that time being perfectly clear, and there was seen the flash of their mirror, which looked like a dazzling star peeping overthe mountain. Congratulations of success were at once forwarded to Lieutenant Boardman and on to Lieutenant F. L. Martin of the Sacramento Signal Corps, who was in charge at that end of the line, and later on word was received from Sacramento that everything was working in fine order. The work was kept up till noonday, when word to close station was forwarde and the Mount Diablo station started on their return to the city. The work just performed by the Signal Corps goes to show what a necessary ad- junct the functions of this branch of the service are to the State in case of actual warfare or telegraph or railroad strikes. The day was beantiful and exceptionally fine for the practice. The regulation helio- graphs were used. The distance over which the messages were transmitted was about 100 miles, it being thirty-two miles from the city to Mount Diablo and seventy from that point to Sacramento. The corps has various other trips mapped out, which they will undertake tgroug%cm the summer months. AT THE PARK, A More Than Usually Large Crowd Was at the City’s Playground Yesterday. Good music, magnificent weather and the natural desire of S8an Franciscans to visit their spreading garden drew what was, perhaps, the largest crowd of this year to fhe park yesterday. Vehicles were as thick as flies in sum- mer, and bicycles were both more numer- ous and more troublesome. . Several head- ers were taken on the main drive for the edification of the passing throng, but as it is getting to be a settled supposition that bicyclers cannot be killed by any of the ordinary means, the headers caused only a laugh. It wasso even when a lady in bloomers knocked herself insensible, for she roused herself quickly enough to curt], refuse the proffered assistance of a par! officer and mounted her wheel and rode away without help. } The bicyele track which parallels the main drive to the ocean for a mile beyond Strawberry Hill will be finished in time to let next Sunday’s wheelmen enjoy them- selves upon it. Some little excitement was caused in the children’s playground yesterday morning by a fire in an old rubbish heap just be- yond the playground. There was more smoke than fire, however, and even that was soon suppressed. The women of Morocco never celebrate their birthdays, and few of them know their ages. T 3 REVERIES of Fiorence, the great actor, in the moke of an Almighty-dollar Cigar. > READY FOR SOLID WORK, The Civic Federation to Syste- matize Its Crusade at Once. CHICAGO PLAN AS A MODEL. It Will Divide Up Into Sections and the City Is to Be Districted, The San Francisco Civic Federation, which embraces such reform associations as the Good Government Club and the Law and Order League, is preparing to get down to the solid work of reform at once. For the purpose, therefore, of having some well-defined plan of operation the execu- tive committee is to meet this afternoon at 4 o’clock in the office of President I. J. Tru- man at the Columbia Banking Company, 236 Bush street. At this meeting a scheme of apportioning the work to sub-organiza- tions and of districting the city so as to facilitate the labor of investigation will be outlined as a preliminary to the meeting of the federation which is to take place on Wednesday. The executive committee at present consists of: P. G. Dexter, chair- man; L J. Truman; Rev. J. Cummings Smith, pastor of the Trinity Presbyterian Church; Rev. B. R. Dille, pastor of the Central M. E. Church; Curtis Hillyer, sec- retary or tne federation; John M. Rey- nolds; M. McGlynn, president of the Fed- erated Trades, and Mrs. Rose M. French. A model for intelligent and scientific ac- tion is found in the plan of the Chicago Civic Federation, the methods of which have been brought out strongly to public notice in W. T. Stead’s book, “If Christ Came to Chicago,” but the San Francisco Federation will not follow closely upon the lines laid down there. It proposes, how- ever, to adopt a method of dividing the association 1nto sections somewhat sim- ilar to the Chicago plan, and of segregat- ing the reform work in a manner that will make such apportionment as should prom- ise the best results.- For instance, the Chi- cago Federation has segregated its work and apportioned it to ‘“'sections” or sub- organizations in this manner: Onesection devotes itself altogether to ‘“Municipal’”’ work; another to ““Philanthropic”; a third to “Industrial”; a fourth to ‘‘Educational and Social,” and a fifth to ““Moral Reform.” Rev. E. R. Dille summed up what was con- templated in the following statement yes- terday afternoon: “Wedon’t intend to reorganize, but to get more fully organized. Somewhat after the Chicago st;'le we are going to divide up into ‘sections,” but the great work to be undertaken is to partake of the nature of a campaign of education. “Qur time during the winter, you know, was mostly absorbed in our efforts to have what was called the Waymire bill enacted into a Jaw. We found that the public was not quite ready yet for that. It took two years for the New York public to be made ready for a Lexow investigation. We might possibly haye succeeded with the Fitzgeraid bill. The fact is, however, that we did better than if we had actually got the Waymire bill through—we aroused public sentiment. Now we will settle down to steady work for law and order and for the good government of the city, and will meet for 51-.\: purpose on Wednesday. “In dividing the federation into sections 4we will systematize the work in this manner: “One section will be known as the com- mitte on ‘health and safety.’ This section will deal with all sanitation questions, the use of streets, the danger of electric light wires and trolley wires and also the water supply and the sewers—everything, in lal;ct, pertaining to the health and safety of the city. *The second section will be on ‘Elec- tions'—{»urity of elections. This is the kind of work well suited to the Good Government Club and it will probably be assigned to it. “The third section will have to do with ‘Municipal Offices.” It will see to it that such offices are properly conducted—will prevent, if possible, municipal corruption. “Then there will be a section on ‘Police Department,’ to cover the whole police system of the city. “‘Aside from the committee on public morals dealing with the question of the social evil there is to be a separate section on gambling. The regular work of the committee on public morals will deal with bad literature and the indecent and much- joked-about nude exhibitions of the human anatomy upon theatrical boards. Some people seem to think that the offensively nude is eminently artistic. We consider the disgustingly ‘loud’ pictures posted in public places to be not only grossly inar- tistic but actually insulting to the ‘public mind. The perpetrators of them seem to assume that the people are no better than the indecent pictures wantonly forced upon the sense of sight. Sometimes I wonder if the public has any rifihts which private concerns are reasonably supposed to re- spect. p“A literary bureau will also be estab- ished in connection with this committee for the circulation of proper literature. I believe many of the crimes like this mur- der of two girls, which has just astounded the city, can be traceéd to degrading litera- ture, and the resultant loose relations be- tween the sexes. There seems to be a general conspiracy of literary and theatri- cal influences to produce, by appealing to the animal propensities of human nature, a far-spreading saturnalia of unrestraines license. We Lope to lessen these baneful influences. “Now, 8o as to be able to carry on the work more successfully we contemplate districtinithe city, and in each district we expect to have a club organized for pur- poses of propaganda, to keep the matter of good government before the city in the most aggressive manner. “The Civic Federation is here to stay. It will abide so long as there is a reason for its existence. Of course it takes a long time to move a large community like San Francisco, but some of the smaller cities have been profoundly awakened. I might mention San Jose, Stockton, Los Ange- les, Santa Rosa, Sacramento and Petaluma, and in Alameda there has been a gener: upheaval. The recent election in Oakland shows what the reform movement is do- mi. This matter of reform is the vital subject of the times. *‘So far our federation fhax done pretty well in active reform. The gambling mat- ters have all been turned over tothe Law and Order League. The Campbell cases will come up betore a jury in Judge Jo- achimson’s court ihursday afternoon. I will say, in reference to them, that if the police authorities do not make out a good case against them we will, for we have good evidence. We have succeeded in hav- ing stopped the notorious exhibitions on Dupont street. 3 “‘But all tiis work was purely incidental. Our real crusade is against corruption in high Ylnces‘. About everything to which we called the attention of the police was evaded. Chief Crowley pleaded ignorance of the existence of such matters until we brought them to light in such a way that they could no longer be overlooked. ~Asto our work in the last Legislature, I will say that it at least brought out certain men in their true colors, and we now know in what category to place them. “The necessity of such an organization as ours is made all the more manifest by the recent action of eight members of the Board of Supervisors in the matter of the bituminous street pavement. That was an infamous attempt to freeze out J. C. Jor- dan, who has expended $75,000 in estab- lishing a plant in_this cni. I must ex- press my admiration for the magnificent stand taken by Mr. Shortridge in the CarLr on that question.” The division of the city into districts, as proposed, involvesa pretty accurate knowl- edge of the character of different portions of the city. This task, Secretary Curtis Hillyer thought last night, would occupy 0 most of the session of the executive c mittee this afternoon. 233 4 ‘Whatever may be the plan of districting agreed upon, the aistem of detective work 0 be followed by the officers of each club or sub-organization is to be intelligent and thorough, and the reports will go to such sections or committees as will be the best equipped to handle them. Thus reports on vice will go to the committee on public morals from the various clubs, and the reports on filthy premises, improper sewer- age, or dirty streets and alleys, to the com- mittee on health and safety. A system of vigilance will keep sharp watch upon the intentions of the street railway companies in the matter of trol- ley wires. Every instance of danger arising from running streetcars at a great rate of speed over crossings where crowded thoroughfares intersect or from failure to properly signal the approach of streetcars will be carefully noted and acted upon. Amateur detectives will mingle with the audiences of diye theaters and keep a record of every violation of city or- dinances. Nothing that is allowed to come under the public eye upon bill-boards or in the book-stores will be missed. Above all a scrutinizing eye will be kept upon the City Hall. So that the matter of district- ing the city, owing to the complex nature of the work of the Federation, and its wide sc‘l)pe, becomes not an easy problem to solve. So general has the reform moyement be- come, and so necessary is the Civic Feder- ation as a check against the laxity of pub- lic officials that an effort is being made to nationalize the movement. President H. R. Waite_of the American Institution of Civics in New York has taken the initiative step toward securing a uniform co-opera- tion of all the civic federations of the coun- try. Accordingly some correspondence has already passed between him and Secremrz Hillyer looking toward affiliation, and wit! the promise of the San Francisco federa- tion that it is ready to affiliate at any time, The prominent magazines, too, which deal with economic subjects are devoting space to the work. A recent number of the Re- view of Reviews contained a summary of eleven civic federations, and the Arena gave an account of the San Francisco Fed- eration. SEAL SKINS ARE CHEAP The Hunters of the Arctic Are Disgruntled at Ruling Rates. Dangers and Disappointments Which Attend the Ocean Huntsmen. Peter Temple, the sharp-shooter of the sealing schooner Lily L, is disgusted and will squint no more over the barrel of a rifle in the Arctic Seas until] things im- proveand good marksmanship climbs back to the orlginal financial standard. The sporting gentlemen of the Country Club and Teal Duck Club, and the Tamalpais Shooting and Fishing Cluband kindred organizations, who lounge over the hills behind their pointers- and setters after quail or sit, flask in hand, in a dingy wait- ing for the ducks to come along, have no idea of the hardships of the man who hunts the fur seal. Once the price to the hunter used to be $4 per skin. Now it has been reduced to $1 50, hence the chagrin and indignation of Peter Temple. 2 Any one who has tried shooting game on the water from a tossing and uneasy boat can appreciate how difficult it is to plant the lead in the place where it will do the most good. There is a double motion to be calculated—the jumping of the boat and tne movement of the object. Unless these harmonize, «nd one fits exactly into the other, the bullet goes wide of the mark and the hunter swears. 1 Now, when the thermometer is away be- low zero, and the hands of the seal-hunter are enveloped in heavy gloves and he is swathed in a mass of coats to keep him from freezing to death, to plunk a fur seal through the head is not an easy task. It may hours before he sights one, and then, just as the rifle is at his shoulder, Mr. Seal, with a farewell grin, bobs under the water to reappear, perhaps, 200 yards away. This is too long ashot even for the most skillful hunter to attempt, so again he sneaks up on the seal. The latter are intelligent animals. 1f they have been hunted before they take a malicious deli%ht in fooling the hunter. They chuckle under their fur coats at his folly in endeavoring to stalk them, and it affords even their stolid Arctic temperament the keenest sort delight in leading him a doleful dance over the freez- ing deep, peeping at him around the corner of an icei)crg and in other ways rasping his temper to the pitch of insanity. Nor does a successful shot aiways mean the recovery of the quarry. Sometimes, and not by any means in mfixemly. just when the hunter is alongside the dead ani- mal it sinks, and nothing but the broadly stained water tells the story of the tragedy. This is the very intensity of irritation, and Peter Temple, though usually a good- natured young Britisher, has in such mo- ments of agony cast himself in the bottom of the boat and sunk his teeth in the stretcher. Such a misfortune is usually followed by a dense fog, a failure to make the ship and a wretched night pacing up and down the flat section of an iceberg. When skins were $4 apiece and upward to the seal-hunter it was a profitable busi- ness. In three months Arthur Pope, a halfbreed Aleutian, has cleared $800 and has reifiued for nearly four days the un- crowned king of Barbary Coast. Beauty has smiled upon him and beer flowed like water. Minstrels from sunny Italy have sung the praises of the bold hunter, and the %nmess of the land has been spread be- fore him in luxurious profusion. Nothing was too good for Arthur until the fifth day, when all the Guineveres and all the knights of the tables round and square deserted him, for Arthur bad spent his last quarter, and he was kicked out and told to “look for a ship.” Peter Temple, however, is cast in a different mold and has visions of a sunny- haired lass away in Devonshire and a snu, cottage close by the village common ani the society of his old cronies at that ad- mirable alehouse, the *‘Pig and Whistle,” where the beer is of the good old British sort and the cheese as yellow as California gold. But thess dreams will never come to pass with fur-seal skins at only $1 50 aplece. BROKEN-HEARTED. A Pathetic Epistle by a Woman Who Committed Suicide — Her Hus- band Blam The unknown woman who died at the Receiving Hospital early yesterday morn- ing from morphine poisoning was Mrs. M. Robart of 1 Kohler place. She left the fol- lowing letter scrawled on a piece of pape With my dying breath I swear I have not d ceived Gus Robart as his wife. We were mar- ried by Justice Grnx in the new City Hall. No more, only Gus told me not to come home any more, and I will not; so goodby to all and may God protect my children. I ‘cannot write no more, so goodby. The room is dark—excuse ‘my poor writing. I cannot stand m; abuse. He has treated me like a_dog through his jealousy. God bless my two little children, Freddie and Nellie; may God protect them. 1 am sick and broken-hearted. 1 hope no other woman will be yours. Will find my little ones at 1 Kohler place, off Kearny. MRs. M. ROBART. husband’s Bank Officers Elected. Howard Havens has been elected presi- dent of the Donohoe-Kelly Banking Com- any, vice Joseph A. Donohoe, deceased. oseph A. Donohoe, son of the deceased Ereudent, has been chosen vice-president; . B. Dunham, director, vice Donohoe, an Ed":vxud Donohoe assistant cashierand sec- retary, BOHEMIA'S HIGH PRIEST, Celebration of Uncle George T. Bromley’s Seventy-Eighth Birthday. FLOWERS, MUSIC, GOOD WILL, Rally of Old-Timers in Honor of the Event—The Owl’s Egg and Its Contents. Banks of roses and lilies, music vocal and instrumental, sacred and sympathetic, beautiful sentiments expressed in poetry and prose, and many messages of good will wired from distant places were inci- dents of the celebration of Uncle George T. Bromley’s seventy-eighth birthday at the Bohemian Club yesterday. Some sev- enty-eight members sat down to breakfast in honor of the high priest of Bohemia, George T. Bromley. and the guest observed with special pleas. ure that among the number were many who joined the club when it dwelt on Sac- mento street and when the leading lights were Thomas Newcombe, James Bowman, Charles Warren Stoddard, Henry Edwards, Toby Rosenthal, *“Caxton” and Jules Savernier. Th ere was quite 2 rally of the old-timers there being present W. H. L. Barnes, L. H. Foote, George W. Granniss, John Hewston Jr., George Chismore, Benjamin R. Swan. Dr. Behr, Daniel O’Connell, Ra- hael Weill, Henry Marshall, Alex G. awes, William Greer Harrison, James A. Thompson, James M. McDonald and Louis Schmidt. Horace G. Platt, president of the club, was master of ceremonies, Henry Heyman directed the music, and Robert H. Fletcher produced the cartoon representing *‘Uncle’” George emerging from an Easter egg. The poets of the clubSIna D. Coolbrith, | Daniel 0'Connell and General L. H. Foote responded to the occasion in appropriate verse. The muse touched General Foote in this way : » T0 UNCLE GEORGE BROMLEY On his seventy-cighth birthday. Bohemia langhs at scowling fate, ‘And bids the grim scythe-bearer wait, As here her clapsmen throng to meet you. With loving pride and hearts elate, Ho! brave old boy of seventy-eight, Across this festive board we greet you. High Priest of fun and frolic, he, "Neath frescoed walls or green wood tree, Will bivouac on the field of battle. What would the fete without him be ? Then let us give him three times three, ‘And make the clinking glasses rattle. Hall, stelwart sire! with face benign ‘As mellow as Falernian wine, And sparkling as the Widow Clicquot; ZLong may we hear that voice of thine, ‘Asin the days 0f “Auld Lang Syne,” Long life to thee, my old amigo. Among the acceptable presents to the high priest was an egg from the Owl, and it contained a check with four figures thereon. SOME CHAT ABOUT ART. San Franeisco Beats Boston From a Comparative Stand- point. There is considerable self-conratulaon in San Francisco art circles over the fact that the most influential art associations of the Eastern cities are showing retrogression rather than progress, while the San Fran- cisco Art Association is going ahead. Boston has for so long claimed artistic pre-eminence that it is not unnatural that the artists here should feel more or less pleased over the fact that their association here shows advancement, while the fifty- second exhibition of the Boston Art Club is a decided disappointment. “Pastels and black and white are not generally favored mediums here,” said a member of the Art Association hanging committee yesterday, ‘‘but there is no rea- son to believe that we may not in the near future have more of such work. Sincerity in the use of a medium is the prime basis of success, and so long as brilliant effects can be more easily secured in water-colors™ that medium is likely to be a favorite. “But the accumulation of such effects is too Eyrotechnicsl, and a wall hung with bright water-colors is apt to tire the eyes. That the Boston Art Club should give a poor water-color exhibition and San Fran- cisco a good art exhibition in any medium is nat'urully a source of pleasure to local men."” Receptions have been incidental during the last few years among the local artists, but a spirit is springing up now that prom- ises to give new impetus to the social side of local art work. Among quite a number of artists, esgeeinlly the women workers, it is expected that a series of receptions will take place, which will, it is believed by the chief movers, go far toward obtain- ing the generally friendly spirit which now is noticeable chiefly through its absence. Many artists who bave in a rather careless spirit belonged to the Art Association have concluded to work together hereafter, and {.be result is expected to show itself before ong. The action of James D. Phelan, presi- dent of the Art Association‘ in airanging for the exhibition of Tilden’s “‘Bear-fight- ers,” is strongly praised by those interested in the progress of California art. ““Whether the group as a work of art is or is not valuable,” says Arthur F. Mathews, “‘does not enter into the matter. It is a question as to whether or not the local workers are to receive any encourage- ment. As encouragement, Mr. Phelan’s ac- tion is most welcome to the members of the association.” Wednesday is “varnishing day” at the institute, where the spring exhibition is to be held this week, and by that time the jury and hanging committee will have de- cided many questions of value as to the pictures submitted. From all appearances the walls will be more thoroughly covered than they have been for some time. AT THE THEATERS. A Change of Bill to Be Presented at Each One To-Night. The “Bohemian Girl,” always a favorite with Tivoli-goers, drew a good house last evening, with an attendance fully as large as that which attended its opening vrodue- tion last Monday. This evening “Little Robinson Crusoe” will takeits place. At the California “The Girl I Left Be- hind Me” was attended by a full house last evening to witness the closing produc- tion of that piece. By the house it'looked asif the popular piece would run another week with profit, but it will be changed for a “Country Sport” this evening. At Morosco’'s Grand Opera-house the “Lightning’s Flash” played to good aud- iences right up to its close last evening. ‘The “Power of the Press,” a strong Amer- ican melodrama, will be gut on to-night. Popular specialties at the Orpheum drew crowds last night, as they have done all last week. An entire change of programme will be made this evening. One of the most notable and delightful events of the dramatic season in this city will be the appearance of J. K. Emmet in his charming comedy, “Fritz in a Mad- house,” at Stockwell’s Theater to-night, which has had a most successful run of three months at the Fourteenth-street Theater, .ew York. “Fritz in a Mad- house” is a most interesting play. It is one of the best that J. K. Emmet ever pre sented and is full of comedy and action, with nothing duill or supertluous in the telling. The new three-act operatic extrava- %:mzun the ‘‘Bathing Girl,” opens at the aldwin this evening. DR. PLOUF'S FUNERAL. The Murdered Man Buried From Masonic Temple. The funeral of Dr. J. E. Plouf, who was fatally shot on Market street, near the Baldwin Hotel, by McGaughey, took place yesterday afternoon from the Masonic Temple, at the corner of Post and Mont- gomery streets. His sister from Boston, who arrived a few hours before his death, was the chief mourner. The deceased was a member of St. John’s Lodge No. 1, F.and A. M. of Seattle,Wash., Ban Francisco Chapter No. 1, R. A. M. California Couneil No. 2, R. and 8. M., and Olive Branch Lodge No. 4, I. 0. 0. F. Dr. Plouf was a native of Canada and ‘was in his thirty-sixth year. the NEW TO-DAY-AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER. AL HAYMAN & CO. (Incorporated), Proprietors ONE WEEK ONLY Commenc’g To-night, Monday, April 15, ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY! The New Musical Extravaganza, CaTHn GEIRL Elaborately Presented by the FENCING-MASTER OPERA CCMPANY ———oF CALIFORNIA THEATER AL HAYMAN & Co. (Incorporated).....Proprietors Return of the Popular Favorite, ! PETER F. DAILEY, TO-NIGHT BEGINS THE SEASON And with him comes among others— MAY IRWIN, JOHN G. SPARKS, ADA LE ANDREW MACK, MAMIE GILROY, Ete. Seats Now Selling for the Entire Week, STOCKWELL’S THEATER. FRIEDLANDER, GOTTLOB & CO. .Lessees TO-INIGELT — FULL FULL OF OF MUSIC! FUN! A GENUINE NOVELTY ! “OUR FRITZ” MR. J. K. EMMET. EXCELLENT COMPANY ! SPLENDID PRODUCTION I ——RESERVED SEAT! Entire Balcony ... First Cloor—Dress Circle Orehe: Gallery. Matinee. MOCROSCO’S GRAND. OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO. le Lessee aud Managee THIS EVENING AT 8, -GREAT PRODUCTION Of the American Melodrama, “THE POWER OF THE PRESS!” ‘With a Wealth of Scenic Effects. EvENING PRIcEs—25¢ and 50c. Family Circle and Gallery, 10c. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. Seats on Sale from 9 a. M. 10 10 . M. A Mes. ERNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Managee ~——OH! WHY DID HE DO 80 ?— LCaDUGHT KuliealProlucion —FIRST PRESENTATION— ——Wilson and Hirschbach's Whirlwind of— —FUN AND MUSIC— LITTLE ROBINSON CRUSDE Popular Prices—25¢ and 50c. ORPHEUM. O’Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powell. April 15—EASTER WEEK ATTRACTIONS ! A Bl of Novelties Qurdoing Its Predecessors & -NEW, BRIGHT LUMINARIES!-& REDDING and STANTON, Refined Society Sketch Artists: THE RAYS, Eminent Sketch Artists; FORD and FRANCIS, Character Vocal BINNS and BINNS, ELECTRIC QUARTE' STUART, THE NAWNS, MAZUZ and ABACCO, LINA and VANIL Reserved Seats, 25¢; Balcony, 10c; Opera Chalrs and Box Seats, 50¢. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Parquet, any seat, 25¢; Balcony, any seat, 100} Children, 10c, any part. CIRCUS ROYAL And Venetian Water Carnival, Corner Eddy and Mason streets. CLIFF PHILLIPS.. Proprietor and Manager TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! 4-NEW FEATURES!-4 50—CLEOPATRA BALLET—4 WATER FOOTBALL. ENGLISH PANTOMIME. AQUATIC CARNIVAL, Evening Prices—Parquet and Dress Circle, Re- served, 25¢ and 50c: Gallery 15c. Saturday and Sunday Matinee—Parquet,Children 15¢, Aduits 25c. RUNNING .. RONHING RACES! fls RACES! CALIFORNIA JOCKES CLUB RACES, WINTER MEETING, BAY DISTRICT TRACK, COMMENCING SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1894 Races Monday, Tuesduy. Wodnesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—Rain or Shine. Five or more races each day. P. M. McAllister and tha oata. Races start at 3 street cars pass