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14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1895. A PAGE BROWN 15 BLUE. The Ferry Depot Architect Hates to Talk About His Work. HE WANTS TIME FOR THOUGHT. . WIill Need About a Year In Which to Prepare His Ex- planation. A" A. Page Brown, architect of the State’s | depot foundations at the foot of Market street, is preparing thunder in the contro- versy now pending between Engineer How- | ard C. Holmes and Detective C. J. S!il-i‘ well. Mr. Brown announced yesterday afternoon that he would take ample time in preparing for his part of the explosion, and that before he took part in the pyro- technics he would consult the Harbor Com- nissioners and such other persons as he thought would be proper under the circum- stances. : «T prepared the plans and specifications for the depot and ferry piers here in my office,” Mr. Brown said erday. “And I was paid for my services by order of the Harbor Commissioners.” | “Who wants to see Mr. Brown?” he asked, when first accosted in his office. He was in the act of folding and unfolding large sheets of drawing paper bearing the perspectives of ferry piers that are to be— or have been, or ought to be. When told that the caller was a repor- ter, Mr. Brown said: “Well, sir r. Brown is not in to-day— probably he will not be in to reporters and other inquisitive persons for two or three days to come. Mr. Brown isn’t ready. Besides there was enough in the papers this morning to do for some time. No, Mr. | Brown is out.” “When will you be in, Mr. Brown?” | asked the reporter, readily identifying the gentleman to whom he was speakin This abrupt and unexpected question | seemed to amuse the architect, who had thus far played the incognito act. He dropped the plans which he held in his hands and gave his black mustache a vig- orous twist on each siae. After a mo- ment’s pause he said: “] will not be interviewed to-day—posi- tively not.” “When will you be interviewed on the subject of water-front work in general and ferry piers in particular?” «Not for a day or two. I shall first have 8 consultation with the Harbor Commis- sioners; then I will prepare a statement for publication,” he replied, as he made an- other lunge with both hands after more pictures of prospective ferry piers and foundations. “Did you prepare the plans and specifi- cations for the ferry piers?” was asked. “Yes, I did. It was all done here in my office.” nd you were paid for that work ?”’ Yes; certainly,” replied Mr. Brown, with a series of beaming smiles. “The ' Harbor Commissioners ordered my bills paid.” “Did you superintend the work in gen- eral?” “Excuse me. Ihave no more to say on the subject at present. Come in some other day and I may talk more freely to you on this subject.” After this remark Mr. Brown disap- peared within his private office, and all efforts to make him reappear were futile. DIDN'T STOP THE FLUE. Judge Belcher Issues an Order on the Sheriff Without Effect. Sheriff Whelan presented himself hefore the City Hall Commission at its meeting esterday morning with a document signed v Judge Belcher ordering him to stop up the flues which are supposed to ventilate | his courtroom, but which instead, he says, carry up impure air from the basement and form a menace to his health and that of the officials of his court. Mayor Sutro was inclined to think the complaint of the Judge was good and tha it was of the first importance to doa with health-destroying nuisances. He said that he had discovered only a few days ago a deposit of some eighty cubic yards of | filth near his office that percolated through the walls. He thought the sanitary sys- | tem of the hall should be looked into, and | that the man who planted the heating apparatus in the sub-basement sbould be sent to jail. City Attorney Creswell remarked that the flues from the basement opened into | his office and he had never seen any ill effects result. He had noticed, he said, that persons newly elected to office were prone to develop fad notions on the health guestion. Judge Belcher, he said, had no | right to order the Sheriff to make changes §n the architectural arrangements of the | building. The commission would attend | to that. Superintendent Mellus volunteered to | conduct the Mayor on a tour of inspection | through the sub-basement, which he con- | gented to, and in the meantime the flues | into Judge Belcher’s court remain as they were. i ———— | SPRINGER IN POVERTY. | | ‘Worth Millions Once, but Now a Lum- ber-Yard Laborer. Jason Springer, an old-time resident of this city and at one time the wealthiest | umber-dealer in the State, was brought $rom Dunsmuir as a witness by the United | Btates Marshal yesterday. He was sum- | moned to appear in one of the counterfeit- | ing cases now before the United States | courts, but sent back word thai he had no | money with which to pay transportation. | A process had therefore fo be issued and placed in the hands of Marshal Baldwin o secure his attendance. Springer’s lumber-yards used to be on Front street, and on three different occa- sions they were burned down. As there was no insurance, the disasters ruined him. Finally he moved to Dunsmuir, and was working in a lumber-yard for a living when the Marshal summoned him to appear in San Francisco. —— MRS. JOHNSON'S WILL. The Bulk of the Estate Goes to Her Relatives. The will of Margaret Johnson, who died on the 18th inst., was filed for probate yes- terday. The value of the estate is about |He Was | Bichiani on the charge of attempting to $25,410. The will nominates Garrett Burke executor and leayes him $1000; gives to de- cedent’s sister, Julia Robinson, $500; to a brother, John Kiernan, $5000; Rey. Father Casey, pastor of St. Peter’s Church of 'this city, Rev. Father Lyons of the same church, $200; to the executor, $200 to}f)re— serve and beautify testatrix’s plot at Holy Cross Cemetery; to St. Peter’s Church. $100; to J. C. O’Connor, undertaker, for funeral expenses, $150. The residue is given in equal shares to John Kiernan, Sulia Robinson, Thomas Peter Robinson, Hannah Mariah Leonard, Mary Christina Robinson, Margaret Bowen and Miss Julia Robinson or their survivors. —————— FAIR AND THE LICK TRUST. Special Authority Asked for the Pay- ment of $100.000. Charles M. Plum, Edwin B. Mastick and George Schonewald, as surviving trustees of the James Lick trust, have petitioned the Probate Court in the matter of the estate of James Graham Fair for an order authorizing the special administrators to pay out of the estate §100,000 on account of a promissory note and mortgage executed September 12, 1894. The mortgage is on property on Montgomery and Sutter streets, including the Lick Hotel valued at $100,000. The petitioners state that the money is all ready for payment, and that the late Senator intended to pay it before his death. They declare that in view of the fact that already two wills have been filed there is likely to be considerable delay before the estate can be distributed, and that, there- fore, they are obliged by the exigencies of winding up their trust to ask for the authorization in question. The matter of the contest of the Fair will, as regards the course of procedure as to the precedence of wills to be considered, was to have been taken up yesterday, but on the motion of Attorney Pierson, who alleged the*enforced absence of Attorney Garret McErnerny, engaged in the Heath case, it was continued to Friday afternoon next. O, H. M. BENS SUCDE The Eminent Hebrew Divine Was Well Known in This City. o Rabbi of the Temple Emanu-El and Wrote Sev- eral Books. A telegram printed in yesterday’s morn- ing papers was read with considerable interest by the Jewish residents of this city and formed an absorbing topic of dis- cussion and conversation among the older of them. The telegram was as follows: BIRMINGHAM, Ara., April 22.—Dr. H. M. Bien, a well-known Jewish rabbi, committed suicide here by taking morphine. He came to Birmingham from Vicksburg, last week to secure the pastorate of Temple Emanuel. He preached for that congregation Friday night, but was not engaged, objection being made to his age. The Rev. H. M. Bien was an old-time resident of San Fran He was the predecessor of Rabbi Elkan Cohn in the | pastorate of the Congregation Emanu-El, of which Dr. Jacob Voorsanger is the incumbent. Dr. Bien came to this city in 1859. He | was immediately placed at the head of | affairs at the Temple Emanu-El, and for | seven years worthily held that post. He was the author of many bodks on religion | and kindred subjects, among others ““Ben Beor’’ and “Samson and Delilah.” He also wrote one or two dramatized | versions of scriptural scenes, suitable for | rerformance by Sabbath-school children. r. Bien left San Fran in 186: go to New York, when the position was given to Rabbi Elkan Cohn. On the death of Dr. | Cohn the pastorate of the Congregation | Emanu-El was offered to and accepted by Rabbi Voorsanger, the well-known Hebrew divine and Talmudist. On leaving this city Dr. Bien went to New York, and shortly after his arrival there he was offered a position in Dallas, Tex. He left there to take cl congregation in Vicksburg, Mis he remained fifteen years. About a fort- night ago he applied for a position in Birmingham, Ala,, and, as stated in the dispatch; he preached before the Hebrew congregation in that city last Friday night. He was not elected, however, solely on ac- of being considered too old to fill the position. Dr. Bien had a brother resi and O’Farrell streets, thi 3 had a son, who was employed in the office of a prominent firm of Jewish attorneys. This son left for home immediately upon | receiving the hews of his father’s death. | No reason can be assigned for Rabbi | Bien’s suicide except his very natural dis- appointment and despondency at not being elected to the position he sought in Birmingham. ing on Pierce He also e YOSEMITE OPEN. Governor Budd Will Spend His Summer Vacation in the Valley. Galen Clark, the guardian of the Yo- semite Valley, has sent an interesting re- | port to Commissioner John F. Sheehan, in which he states that the carriage roads in the valley have been put in order and‘ cleared of the obstructions left by the winter storms. Cascade avenue is also safe for travel. The new Pohono bridge that crosses the Merced River at the lower end of the valley is finished. The old structure was swept away by torrents a vear ago. The trails to Yosemite and Nevada falls are now open, as well as the trail to Glacier Point. The Stoneman and Sentinel hotels are open for the summer. On the 1st of June the Commissioners will visit the valley, accompanied by Governor Budd. The Governor will spend his vacation in the valley, and has promised himself the pleasure of hunting and fishing there dur- ing the entire month of June. His pres- ence will, no doubt, attract many of his friends to the seme resort, and the hotel- keepers are preparing for several grand balls and parties at the hotels. LOVE AND POISON. Case of Two Bay View Fishermen, Vincenz Castaguta, accompaied by his wife, called upon Warrant Clerk Graham of Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday and swore outa warrant for the arrest of G. The Strange kill. Castaguta and Bichiani are fishermen at Bay View, South San Francisco. Bichiani fell in love with Castaguta’a wife and in- duced her to poison her husband so that he could marry her. She was afraid to do so, and Bichiani, on Monday, put some arsenic in Castaguta’s coffee. Castaguta swallowed a portion of the coffee, when his wife, in a repentant mood, told him what Bichiani had done,and that he had advised her to poison him. The husband forgave her, and after recovering from his scare went in search of Bichiani, but did not find him. The police are now hunting for him. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder N i STREET RAILWAY GUARDS, A New One Was Tried Yester- day on West Mission Street. IT SEEMED T0O WORK WELL. Several of the Supervisors Were on Hand to See the Test. There was great excitement along West Mission street yesterday afternoon when the Supervisors were witnessing a test of a new fender for electric cars. ‘There was acrowd, a car stopped for a suspiciously long time, and & “dummy man’’ lying on above the _Fhround, a height which makes it useless. en, too, with the fender placed far under the car the motorman has six or eight feet more in which to bring his car to a standstill before the fender strikes the body. This is a factor which needs to be practically illustrated, as_it was yester- darv’ before it is fully appreciated. 1 no trial was the dummy scraped along the ground for more than two feet, while, if the guard had been at the extreme end of the car, even had it been possible to build it close enough to the ground to catch the dummy, it would have bounded it along for ten feet or more. There were present at the trial yester- day Supervisors Hirsch, Dunker, Morgen- The New Guard Tried Yesterday. Used at Present on Sutter Street. the track, all of which was sufficient to induce people to run from all directions to see what had happened. As a consequence the test was witnessed by some hundreds of people. The fender being tested yesterday is the result of experience and the hundreds of suggestions regarding the matter which have come to the railroad people from every source. E.P. Vining, superintend- ent of the street railroad system, was there to explain and describe the fender, and the number of suggestions which he received Used on the Sutter-Street in 1889. from the crowd may prove of value to him, for every inventor in the Mission was there to see and to criticize. The fender tested is a concave steel screen placed just in front of the wheels of the car. It curves down from just below the bottom of the car until it runs nearly parallel with the ground and not more than two inches above it. On its forward edge is a strip of rubber about six inches wide, which, upon the least pressure, is borne down until it sweeps the ground. Under this are a number of little rollers upon which the screen itself will run, should it be weighted down until it touches the pavement. The screen projects about eight inches beyond the wheels and the rails and is bolted rigidly to the frame of The Present Mission-Street Guard. the truck. In itself, however, there is suf- ficient elasticity for all practical purposes. In the car which was being tested were two fearfully and wonderfully made dum- mies, a. “man” and a “boy.” The *“boy” was tried first. He was laid upon the track entirely between the ruils and the car was run toward him at full speed. Just as it reached him the current was thrown off and the brakes put on tight. The dummy was picked 1pon the rubber edge of the | screen and was carried along for two or three feet until the car was stopped. Had the car been going at full speed when the fender struck the dumm[v)' it would have undoubtedly thrown the obstruction up on The 014 Jackson-Streét Guard. to the flat fender, and would have carried it along clear of the ground. The ‘“boy” was tried once more, and then the “man” was laid out with his legs across the rail. Ineach case the car was so nearly at a standstill when the fender struck that the dummies were carried along the ground by the edge of the fender, butin no case were they allowed to roll under the screen or near the wheels. The knowing ones in the crowd found fault, with the fact that the guard was so far under the body of the car, but the rea- son for this isapparent. The essential fea- ture of any guard must be an ability to run close to the ground, otherwise 1t will prove The Howard-Street Guard of 1889. more dangerous than helpful, by rollin the unfortunate victim underneath wha is expected to be a protection, and placing him just in front of the wheels. If the Egg was placed at the end of the car- ody the oscillation of the car when run- ning rapidly would make it necessary to have the lower edges six or eight inches stern, Hughes, Benjamin and Wagner, and all expressed themselyes as satisfied with the test. It was easily seen that if any one’s arm got under the guard, unless the car was quickly stopped, he would in- evitably be drawn under, but the same thing applies to ail the other guards which have been tried. It was also seen that the steps of the cars are a dangerous element, but then they are a necessary evil. Mr. Ay ining thinks the new fender, "with some alterations which are seen to be advisable, is nsgoom if not better, than any yet pro- duced. It has been run several times along the Mission line, and each time it has been loaded with small stones, so close does the forward edge skim along the pavement. There is some thought of vaing the guard now carried on the end of the car body—a sort of gate consisting of three horizontal wooden bars—to assist the new fender, but that is not held to be of much use any way, and may be discarded. The question of guarding the wheels of moving cars is a vexing-one, and of the hundreds of designs submitted, and the scores of them tried, not one has been found without serious faults. Every one high enough 1o sweep the cobbles is too high to be of service, and every one low enough to insure protection is too low to do anything but tear itself to pieces on the avements. The Sutter-street road has ong used a contrivance resembling some- what the pilot of a locomotive; the Powell and Jackson street cars have_tried vertical rollers, triangular guards and wire screens; the Market-street roads have tried hori- zontal and vertical guards; the Howard- street lines have alss tried numerous wire- sereen guards, but in spite of all people have been killed, and will continue to be killed by thestreetcars. Thereisstillroom for invention in the case. SPARFS SECOND TR A Tilt Between a Witness and the Attorney for the Defense. The Government’s Mainstay Con- tradicts His Previous Testimony. There was quite a little scene in the case of Herman Sparf, charged with murder, in the United States Circuit Court yesterday. Henry Green was on the stand and as he contradicted himself in one or two impor- tant particulars Attorney Smith for the de- fense got very angry with him and for'a time there was a lively interchange of words. Sparf, Hanson, 8t. Clair and Green were all arrested in Tahiti for the murder of Mate M. Fitzgerald of the American bark Hesper while on a voyage from Newcastle, N.S. W., to Honolulu. They were trans- ferred to San Francisco and on their ar- rival here Green turned State’s evidence. During the cross-examination Smith at- tempted to show that Green was a London waif who had been picked up and sent to a reform school. From the latter place he graduated into a training-ship and there earned navigation. All these points Green admitted on the previous trial, but vesterday he denied positively that he f(ncw anything about navigation. He in- sisted that Attorney Smith had insulted him on the previous trial and said he was now going to stand up for his rights. In answer to various questions, he de- scribed the murder of Mate Fitzgerald and gave all the particulars of the oft-told story. The attempt to kill Captain Soder- gren and secure his wife was a failure. Green told how the order to send a hand forward to bring “the old man up from the cabin” was given, and how no one re- sponded. 2 “‘What were you going to do with the old man when you got him on deck?’ was asked. “Well, I don’t know. We might have asked him to have a waltz,” was the flip- pant reply. A few minutes later Green got angry be- canse he said Smith was “pushing him” because he had turned State’s evidence, and almost in the same breath he swore that he did not know what State’s evi dence meant. ‘The theory of the defense is that Green was the only man in the forecastle who understood navigation, and that he was the leader of the mutiny which resulted in the death of Mate Fitzgerald. AFRAID OF HIS LIFE. Willard Newell Wants David Rivers of the Emmet Company Arrested. Willard Newell, the well-known actor, is afraid of his life. He appeared in Judge Campbell’s court yesterday afternoon and swore out a warrant for the arrest of David Rivers, another Thespian, on the charge of threats to kill. Rivers is a member of the J. K. Emmet Company now playing at Stockwell’s. On Monday night Newell was in Emmet’s dressing-room at the theater, when Rivers entered and threatened that he would be the means of making Newell “shuffle off this mortal coil.”” He tried hard to carry his_threat into effect, but was prevented by Emmet. For a few minutes there was a scene of great excitement among the players and attaches of the theater. “T have befriended this man Rivers,” said Newell, when applying for the war- rant, ‘“‘for the past six or seven years aud got his present employment for him. I have known his wife’s family for several years. Sheis a beautiful woman, highly accomplished and much superior to Rivers in every way. Her parents strongly op- Po!ed the marriage, but she was young and oolish. She is playing with a company in Chicago and has obtained a separation from him. This has made him despondent and when in his cups he loses his head. He blames me for his wife obtaining a separation from him, but I had nothing to do with it. He is a dangerous man and I am afraid of my life.” S ——————— You need printing or binding? Tel. 5051. Mysell & Rollins, 521 Clay. First-class work. * — e Attached a Grocery. An attachment was levied yesterday by Sherift Whelan against Henry Lachman and others, owning a grocery-store at the corner of Pine and Broderick streets, to recover upon a iudxmen: of $1061 50 secured by W. 8. Morgan n & Tecent suit. ———————— TisSUE paper for lamp shades and flowers. All colors, Sanborn, Vail & Co.,741 Market st.* HE 1S JACK THE RIPPER ol The Author of the Whitechapel Murders a London Physician. CONFINED IN A MADHOUSE. The Story Told by an Englishman to Willlam Greer Har- rison. Dr. Howard, a London physician of con- siderable prominence, was the guest of William Greer Harrison at the Bohemian Club recently. He is one who has also made a reputation in literature. T}_:e Eng- lishman told a singular story to his host and vouched for its correctness In every particular. It related to the mystery of “Jack the Ripper,” which the physician declared was no longer a mystery among the scientific men of London, or the de- tectives at Scotland Yard. He said that this atrocious assassin was a medical man of high standing and extensive practice. He was married to a beautiful and amiable wife, and had a family. Shortly before t%u‘ beginning of the Whitechapel murders he developed a peculiar and, to his wife, an inexplicable mania—an unnatural pleasure in causing pain. This malady at last attained such growth that his wife became afraid of him, and used to lock herself and the children up when she observed those paroxysms com- ing on. Yet when the fits were over and she spoke to him about them, he professed perfect ignorance of their occurrence, and actually laughed at her, and accused her of being the victim of some strange hal- lucination. Yet he acknowledged that he had encountered in his practice cases simi- lar to those she attributed to him, and de- fined them as a most dangerous form of in- sanity. Then the Whitechapel murders filled London with horror, and the physician, in discussing them, freely expressed his opin- ion that they were the work of a maniac. The suspicions of the wife were aroused, and as one assassination succeeded the other she noted with heartbreaking dread that at the periods when these murders were supposed to have been committed her husband was invariably absent from home. There was blood on his clothes, which seemed to puzzle him, and he ac- counted to her for its presence by stating that he must have got it while assisting at some operation, but was annoyed that he could not fix the time or place. At last the suspense and fear of the wretched wife became unbearable, and she went to a few of her husband’s medical friends, stated the case, and asked their advice and assistance. They were as- tounded at her suspicions, but she cited so many peculiar circumstances that they re- solved to make a quiet investigation into the conduct and movements of their brother physician. They called the Scot- land Yard force to assist them, and by adding one fact to another the chain of evidence pointing to the doctor as the aunthor of the murders became complete. The sequel is the strangest part of Dr. Howard's story, and conflicts with the established ideas of English methods. The physicians visited the murderer, and told him they wished to consult him abouta remarkable case. Then they stated his own in detail, and asked him what should be done under the circumstances. He replied promptly that, while the unmistakable in- sanity of the person who could commit these crimes would save him from the halter, he should certainly be confined to a lunatic asylum. Then they told him that he himself was the maniac who had done these fearful acts. He declared the impos- sibility of the accusation, but confessed that of late years he feared he had been yielding to unusual promptings and that there were gaps in the twenty-four hours of which he positively had no recollection. He said that he had awakened in his own rooms as if from a stupor and found mud upon his boots, indicating that he had been in the streets, and stains of blood upon his hands. This had distressed him very much, and he had communicated these incidents to his wife, in whom he had the utmost confidence, but she could not account for them. He had also scratches upon his face, and his ampu- tating knives had shown signs of use, though he could not recall having assisted at any operation. He begged them in all sincerity to unravel this mystery for him. Kindly and sympathetically the doctors assured him that most deplorably there could be no doubt of his identity with the ‘Whitechapel assassin. They made an ex- haustive search of the house, led by the accused, who assisted them in every way with a calm stolidity, as if he were helping to pile up the evidence against some other individual. They found ample proofs of murder, and so numerous and unmistakable were the results of their in- vestigation that the unhappy man, whose mind at that moment was in its normally clear condition, pronounced his own sen- tence, and begged to be removed from the world as a guilty and dangerous monster. He reproached himself with not having communicated his suspicions of the extent of this mania before to his medical asso- ciates, but he was restrained by pride and his dread of being removed from practice. The necessary papers were made out and the irresponsible murderer was committed to an insane asylum. Ina month or so he lost all semblance of sanity and is now the most intractable and dangerous mad- man confined in that institution. His mania has got to that extent that, incapa- ble of inflcting torture on others, he would tear his own flesh but for the bonds that confine him. ‘When asked why this discovery was not made generally public, Dr. Howard said that it would have a panicky effect, and that if it became generally known that a physician in good standing could be the victim of a mania so murderous in its char- acter the entire profession would suffer. Again, the result in the law courts would lead to the only punishment possible un- der such conditions, namely, the lifelong confinement of the lunatic. This was not done on the resvonsibility of the doctors who examined him, or the detectives who aui.uted them in completing their investi- gations. Men high in authority were con- sulted, and agreed that the methods they adopted were the best for the public weal, and with this discovery of thep assassin all murdersin London of the Whitechapel character ceased. e SPEOIAL EXAMINER LAIDLAW. 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Assist Nature a little now and then, with a gentle, cleansing laxative, there- by removing offending matter from the stomach and bowels, tonin and invigorating the liver and quickening its tardy ncticm{ and you thereby remove the cause of a multitude of distressing diseases, such as headaches, indigestion, or dyspepsia, biliousness, pimples, blotches, eruptions, boils, constipation, piles, fistula and maladies too numer- ous to mention, If people would pay more attention to properly regulating the action of their bowels, they would have less fre- quent occasion to call for their doctor’s services to subdue attacks of dangerous disecases. The secondary effect of the ‘‘ Pellets ” is to keep the bowels open and regular, not to further constipate, as is the case with other pills. ence, their great popularity, with sufferers from habitual constipation, piles and indigestion. _They absolutely cure sick headache, biliousness, constipation, coated tongue, T appetite, dyspepsia and kin red lerangements of the stomach, liver and bowels. A free sample of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, 13 to 7 doses) on trial, is mailed to any address, post-paid, on receipt of name and address on postal card. Address for free sample, WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ~ASSOCIATION, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, No Y. | or risco olks’ eet. ™ T T Our Retail Department is open only te residents of San Francisco and suburbs, It’s to them we want to show how good and first-class and comparatively how cheap our shoes are. Out-of-town wearers of shoes can get our goods from the re. tailers. HERE we sell at retail, using the same prices named to dealers in our wholesale departments. It’s quite a saving, we think—what do you think? But we KNOW—do you? ROSENTHAL, FEDER & CO., WHOLESALE MAKERS OF SHOES, 581-583 MARKET ST. NEAR SECOND. aturday Nights till 10, Open till 8 P. ROYAL WORCESTER ORSETS. Each and every pair of Royal Worcester Corsets have the full name stamped inside on the line tape at the waist. If the full name is not thers they are not geuuine Royal Worcesters. The place to buy them is at the fitting-rooms, 10 Geary st. up stairs, corrier of Kearny, where they are ‘xn«i free. We can fit any fOrm at any price and vae rant every pair. i you BAve 1ot worn them ‘you should try a pair. CHESTER P. WRIGT, 10 Geary st., cor. Kearny. Interior merchants please address Tooms, 85 New Montgomery st., San Frang ‘wholesale Cisco.