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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ple press has been purchased A new for the Ca ¢ temperature and onfirmed a large class Church yesterday. 1 Progress has begun d labor in California. iers have protested to the nst scattering of refuse matter ic_baseball team went to Vallejo lejo team yesterday and won by 6. Pacific and Alameda cricket cly gameson the east side of sterday. co Religious Press commends shutting Jottery advertisements ns. er of improvements that will be ap- by the patrons of the Free Public g made. essful performance of “Ii Trovatore” was given last night at Stockwell’s Theater by the Italian Philharmonic Soeiety. : Archbishop Riordan and Rey. D. 0. Crowley leaye for Europe thisevening. Theformer sto Rome, the latter to Ireland. stella Hughes, daughter of Captain Willlam Hughes, 1914 Lexington avenue, has been missing from home since Thursday _Jones, the Australian champion, defeated Coast Champion Harlow and J. Lawless in the San Francisco handball court yesterday. + B. Anthony will be & A. Sargent during the W which will convene in this ¢ The San Francisco Relig! tion adopted resolutions st guest of Mrs. A. man’s Congrass, ¥ May 20. us Press Associa- porting the CALL rtisements. the veteran handball player, eat the Occidental court st time after his illness. ned the requirements s Christian Co-opera- Ruie Hell last night. farmer from Winters, at- mit suicide at 134 Fourth y by swallowing & dose of rat erty-owners meet again to- S Side boulevard e at the corner of Folsom and et Company will seek to ex- *t line across Market to 1o the Third and Town- of lots in the Richmond Dis- ed to the San Francisco and C . Joseph athrop last Sat fell of poison at ne time assist- v. He was ad- atual Benevo- in Union Hall mendments to Chinatown are incor- ¢ interference. hreatened in order to test the ef Crowley’s * ‘white devils.” regatta of the seascn was held at lay under the saspices of the Yacht Club. The Queen won smith & Field cup 8 second time. ghts of the Red Brajich held their t Glenwood, in he Sants Cruz There whts & large gath- was thoroughly enjoyed Ban_Francisc the Ham: un of the Cycling Annex of the mera Club will be held this even- members will meet at the park en- ight ride td the beach will in the County Jail v visitor was his 1ght him a bunch of violets er of the Emmanuel Baptist treet car yesterday octor refused to pay res and he was ariested for using ricks, an_alleged Russian ed a countryman, another re- named Rehbender, vesterday d and charged with asseult adly weapon. Rev. J. George Gibson, pastor of the Emman- uel Baptist Church, preached in the Grace Methoaist Episcopal Church again yesterday e exhorted his congregation to spite of afflictions. On last Friday evening Gordon Waiker, five age, was run over by a fruit wagon ng near his home at 5 Oiiva avenue. s are not serious, although the wheel passed over his chest. nterest is being taken in handball cir- the coming match between Feeney and of the Union handball courtand Har- and Condon of the S8an Francisco court for able trophy, and betting is brisk on the After the warm rains the gardens of Oakland ¢ glowing with flowers that promise much for the Fabiola fete, which will be grander than was ¢ desigrned. Many new en- have been made for the floral Daniels, who v Hospital last ed by his friends y not due 10 aleoholis ed at the City and rsday night, was erday. His death was d, but to inflam- Daniels was a strictly rate man. e Deuprey says the Democratic Super- 1 prom reduce water rates 15 nt if electe hur F. Briggs says epublican S ors who were indorsed by the Non-P ed 10 secure & 10 per cent Tocht, e socialist lecturer, told of the condi n, from a socialistie dpoint, street Temple. He 1 th tionship between the outgrowth of man’s fi cratic end selfish instinct tie, au d and the Austrian Military tety turned out under arms 5y will apply for a s, as otherwise the erate ageinst them. Itdenies tions not of the militia the right to carry arms. J. Pon, 1025 Pacific street, while laboring e supply of liquor, wandered harf at Fourth end Channel *ts at an egrly hour yesterday morning and Il into the bay. He was rescued in time and taken to the Receiving Hospital, where he graduelly recovered from his ducking. 3 Club will bring out the largest list den entries than has apyeared at any previous occasion in the club tanks—that is if all wh({ have signified their intention of enter- “"% will finally enter. *The tournament will be held under the auspices of the recently organ- ized swimming annex. Governor Budd and Colonel R. H. Warfield £pent part of vesterday in'inspecting the type- setting machines now in operation in the com. {vosmu room ol the German Demokrat. Every- hing short of taking the machines apart was @one to assist in the explanation, and over two hours were spent by the Governor in watching them st work. Orders for the election to be held in the First Infantry Regiment, which will take place on May 14 next, have been issued direct from division headquarters. This, in_a measure, substantiates the theory which has been ad- vanced by many of the officers of the guard, viz., that the brigadier-generals were retire by the passage of the legislative act reorganiz- ing the guard, and that since its passage there have really been no militia brigadiers in this tate. A testimonial benefit will be given this even- ing to Mrs. Laura de Furce Gordon by the Young Women’s Suffrage Club. The entertai ment will be held at Pythian Castle, 909 M. ket street. A dance will follow the programme, which is as follows: Overture, Ronaldson’s Orchestra; yocal duet, the isses Whiteside; recitation, Miss Celia Greene; soprano _solo, Mrs. Bessie R. Dibbie; addrejss, Rev. Dr. Scott; music, Ronaldson’s Orchestra. Refreshments will be served. Toward the end of this we'!ek the Californl» Camera Club will hold its tay outing on the steamer Caroline. It was to haye taken place & week ago, but the weather forbidding, it was postponed. The bay outing is a feature of the club due mainly to Captain Leale, ewner of the Caroline. Some days when she is not busy she is turned over to ‘the club, a dark rocm for reloading plateholders is fitted up in her hold, end the enthusiasts provide & sumptuous lunch. They spend the day on the bay, and for weeks afier the clubrooms are floeded with local marine views of all kinds, colors and THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1895. ARE GONG TO EUROPE, Archbishop Riordan to Visit Rome on Diocesan Matters. WILL LEAVE THIS EVENING. Rev. D. O. Crowley Will Attend the Centenary of Maynooth College. Archbishop Riordan and Rev. D. O. Crowley will leave for New York en route to Europe this evening. The Archbishop goes directly to Rome and his traveling companion will visit Ireland, the land of his birth. = It is compulsory on the part of an Arch- bishop of the Catholic church to visit in person or by delegate the ancient city at least once in ten years and make a full re- port to the propaganda relative to the standing of the diocese over which he presides. This is the purpose that com- pels the Arch op of San Francisco to cross the Atlantic at this time. His last visit to Rome was in 1886. His Grace will be absent several months. Father Crowley was kept very busy say- higddead colleague yesterday Dr. Bunker said: “Wolf was a bright youn, would have made a splendid physician an¢ surgeon if he had continued as he began. But he was wild and showed inclinations to dissipate. He did not drink much at the time we worked together in the old Receiving Hospital, but of late he has been drinking to excess. He acquired the mor- phine habit and never let an opportunity to procure the drug slip by. . “It is my opinion that Wolf did not mean to kithimseu, but simply took an overdose of some drug and was overcome by the effects of it.” Bt Robert Trewin, steward at the Receiving Hospital, knew Dr. Wolf for a number of years. Mr. Trewin yesterday said: “T was steward of the old Receiving Hos- ital when young Dr. Wolf was Assistant Bolice Surgeon. He was an industrious student and showed remarkable skill for one so young. But he took to drink—and worse—and_it finally became evident that he was heading downhill.” Dr. Wolf was married and had one child. Nor long ago his wife came to this city to visit friends. She left her husband in Lathrop and did not again see him until he was dead. e e e SABBATH-SOHOOL SCHOLARS. Twenty-fifth Anniversary of St. John’s Presbyterian School. There was a joyous reunion at St. John’s Presbyterian Church yesterday morning, the occasion being the twenty-fifth anni- versary of its Sunday-school. The pulpit platform was profusely dressed with a va- riety of sweet flowers and in distinct silver- tinted characters there stood out upon the dark background of the organ loft, “St. John’s Sunday School, 1870-1895.” At the opening note of the first hymn on fellow and ( iy > ge' ! - e O mmfi{m.w SN 4, Evn P THE NEW CATHOLIC CEURCH AT CLASSIC MAYNOOTH. ing good-by to his friends,which are legion, at the Youths’ Directory, 2035 Howard | street, over which he presides. There was aseries of receptions during the day. Father | Crowley is one of the best known priests | in San Francisco. | It was his zeal, skill and ceaseless energy that made the directory the splendid | home for orphan boys that it is to-day. He | is to San Francisco what_the late Father | Drumgool was to New York—father and | friend to the boys of the street. ! Father Crowley will attend the centen- | ary of Maynooth, the great ecclesiastical | college of Ireland, where thousands of | brilliant young priests were graduated | | and sent forth to teach Christian love and doctrine in distant lands. The centenary will occur in June. The Irish priests up to 1795 were educated in Paris or Louvain, at Antwerp, Lisle or Douay, at Bordeaux or | touen, at Salamanca or at St. Isidore’s. In 1789 the Irish Parliament—for Ireland | was an independent nation then and this | country had ceased to be acolony—estab- | lished Maynooth College with a grant of | £3000 a year. In 1845 the grant wasin- creased to £26,300 a year, and from that time | forth Maynooth became a great theological school. It was the intention of Father Crowley’s friends to present him with a testimonial of their respect and esteem on the eve of his departure, and at least a purse of §1000 was in sight when the reverend gentleman learned of the project and at once informed the committee, notwithstanding the deep | gratitude he felt at the generous compli- | ment which his friends had intended to confer upon him, he was nevertheless un- | alterably opposed to accepting the testi- monial for his private or personal use. A large number of gentlemen, friends of Father Crowley, assembled last evening at St. Charles’ Hall, Eighteenth and Shotwell streets, and proceeded thence in a bodv to the Youths’ Directory, for the purpose of | wishing “God-speed’’ to the reverend pres- ident of the institution, Father Crowley. The reverend gentleman warmly wel- comed his visitors, and during the evening was the recipient of the most hearty assur- ances of the esteem and good will which they, in common with their fellow-citizens | in general, entertain toward him. His long years of labor in providing | shelter, maintenance and education for the homeless boys of the City, and his un- tiring efforts for the moral and social wel- fare of the hard-working masses of our people with whom he is so deservedly popular, were themes upon which the speakers dwelt with evident pleasure, and it must have been gratifying to the good father to observe the warmth and sincerity of their utterances. In speaking of the action of his friends in regard to the pe- cuniary offering which they intended to present him, and which was abandoned in obedience to his own positive and geremp- tory request, the reverend father declared that the proofs of their friendship in this Eanicu!u respect, although not accepted y him, would, nevertheless, be always held in his grateful remembrance. Among the gentlemen present were: Rev. P. ). Cummins, Rev. W. G. O'Ma- hony, Matthew I. Sullivan, Jeremiah Ma- honey, Dr. M. C. O'Toole, John M. Bur-| nett, Dr. J. F. Gibbon, D. J. Costello, Jobn B. Mclntyre, T. P. Riordan, Thomas R. Bannerman, Charles McAuliffe, Dr. John Gallagher, Charles McCrystal, John Blake, Jeremiah Deasy, A.B. Maguire, Thomas Crimmins, George Lainey, Edward Fay, Captain James Fallon, Thomas Fay, Ed- l‘:urd J. Coffey, J. Kelleher and E.J. Ma- oney. A BLIGHTED HOME. Wolf, Who Died of Poison at Lathrop, Was Once Assistant Police Surgeon Here. Dr. The gloom of inconsolable sorrow hangs over a mother and daughter who dwell in the upper flat at 1307 Leavenworth street. The deeply afflicted are Mrs. Dr. Joseph ‘Wolf and Miss Wolf, mother and sister of Dr. Joseph Wolf Jr., who died from a dose of poison in his office at Lathrop last Satur- day morning. This blow, coming as it did within a month of the tragic death of Miss Adele Wolf—or Mrs. Carlo Enrico Reta— at the Palace Hotel in this City, has nearly crushed the hearts of the mother and sister of the two unfortunates. Mrs. Reta was the favorite sister of the young doctor who died from the fatal draughtat Lathrop, and since the tragedy at the Palace Dr. Joseph Wolf Jr. has not been right in mind or body. Whether or not he took the fatal dose with suicidal intent may perhaps never be definitely learned. The deceased was a graduate of the Cooper Medical College and was considered unusually skillful in his profession. He had traveled and studied in Europe, and at one period of his life showed signs of a burning ambition to rise in his profession. In 1890, while Dr. Williams was in_charge of the old Receiving Hospital, Dr. Wolf was assistant police surgeon for about nine months. Dr. R. E. Bunker was the other assistant, and he and Wolf were on terms of friandly intimacy. While speaking of the programme, “The Banmner of the Cross,” there appeared at the main en- trance of the church a procession of '95 Sunday-school children headed by the pastor, and while marzhing up the main aisle to front reserved seats sang the hymn in unison with the choir. Attorney F. A. Berlin, superintendent of the school, delivered an address befiiting the occasion. Following him came_the report of the secretary and treasarer, indi- cating not only a healthy growth in mem- bers, but also” a satisfactory financial con- dition of the school. Rev. D. Hanson Irwin attracted the at- tention of both his elder and younger hearers as he drew the paraliel between the raw recruit drilled into perfectedness to follow the banner of his country and the newly converted sinner fashioned to a singleness of purpose to follow unreserv- edly the cross-emblazoned banner of Christ. The healthy and. improved condition of St. John’s Sunday-school is steadily keep- ing pace with the increasing prosperity of the church itself, and under the efficient astorate of Mr. Irwin it has a bright uture. The school was started in a little room in a house on Post street and subsequently met in the hall over the California ’lgheater, afterward occupied by the free library, St. John’s pastor being the Rey. Dr. Scott. J. R. Garniss, still a member of St. John’s Church, was one of the first trustees of the Sunday-school. THROWN OFF A CABLE CAR Indignity Suffered by Dr. Laz- arus Shapiro and His Wife. The Conductor of the Conveyance Has Him Arrested for Vulgar Language. Dr. Lazarus Shapiro, 1205 Market street, is yowing vengeance against the Market- street Cable Company. Yesterday after- noon he suffered the indignity of being placed under arrest for vulgar language and being locked up in the City Prison till his wife procured bail for his release. The doctor and his wife got on Castro- street car 101 at Twenty-third street. The conductor collected the fares and when the carreached the terminus and turned round the doctor and his wife remained on it. Shortly after the car started on its trip to the ferry the conductor asked the doctor for his fares. The doctor replied that he had already paid. ‘“But,” said the con- ductor, “that was to the end of the line, Now you have to pay again.” The doctor declined to see it that way and positively refused to pay 10 cents mere. At Eighteenth street Detective Dillon got on the car and the conductor explained the position of matters to him. They went to where the doctor and his wife were seated and Dillon showed his star. He urged the irate doctor to pay the fares and if he had a grievance to lay it before the officers of the company. I have already paid,” said the doctor, “and I will not pay again. Iam a stranger to this part of the City and I am not to be swindled by any conductor.” “Well,” said Dillon, “if you won’t pay you will have to get off the car, and as you appear to be a gentleman I would advise you to do it quietly and not raise a dis- turbance.” x After some further persuasion the doctor and his wife left the car. As soon as he reached the ground he shook his fist at the conductor and called him a vile name two or three times. The conductor became angry and ordered Dillon to arrest him for using vulgar language, which was done. The doctor objected to riding on the car to Ninth street on his way to the City Prison, so he and his wife and Dillon walked all the way. When they reached the company’s office at Valencia ‘and Mar- ket streets he insisted upon going upstairs to make his complaint against the con- ductor and then went to the prison, where he was booked. “This is how the Southern Pacific treats people,”’ said the lngry doctor,” as he mop the perspiration from his fore- head. *Iam a stranger to that part of the City and thought the car was going toward Marketstreet. In fact the conductor told me so. It was only a block or two any-| how and he had no right to ask me to pay again, I was thrown from the car and my wife insulted, and I will make some one suffer for it before I am done. The South- ern Pacific! Bah! They are no good.” Detective Dillon denied that the doctor was thrown off the car or that his wife was insulted in his presence. e e SPURTOUS coin has no ring. Observe the ring of the Almighty Dollar (Cigar). % VERY EXCITED MEMBERS, TheFrench Benevolent Society Wrestles With Parlia- mentary Law. AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION. A Proposition to Allow Women to Vote Defeated by a Large Majority. An adjourned meeting of the members of the French Mutual Benevolent Society was held yesterday afternoon in Union- square Hall for the purpose of considering propositions petitioned for by members and of passing upon amendments offered at a previous meeting. Sylvian Weil, president of the society, occupied the chair and J. Dechamps acted as secretary. A petition from 100 members asking that the visiting physician extend his visits to patients in South San Francisco was read, and, as the same was recommended by the committee on revision of constitution, the proposition was carried. The secretary thenread a petition from 117 members asking that the manager of the hospital, the accountant and the col- lector be elected by the members of the society for four years and that the salary of the manager be fixed at $100 per month’; that the accountant be paid &5 and the collector be allowed 5 per cent on all col- lections. 2 g The reading of this petition was followed by a prolonged discussion, in which many of those present took part and became en- tangled in parliamentary law so deep that it would have taken ex-Speaker Reed con- siderable time to get the matter straight. Alexander Bergerd wanted the manager selected by the executive committee and offered his proposition as an amendment to the first section of the petition. Mr. Mayers offered as an amendment to the amendment that the executive commit- tee name the accountant and the collector. Mr. Chartrey then moved as a substitute that the committee name all the employes and that the employes then name tr\e ex- ecutive committee, a sort of reciprocity. The proposition was loudly applauded by the 400 members present, but there was not a second to it. Then another member moved as a sub- stitute for the two amendments that all three officials be named by the executive committee. One member asked that the substitute be amended by voting on the propositions separately. Mr. Guenin asked ‘“where are we at; we have so many propositions before the meet- ing that no one is able to tell what is be- fore the house.” A dozen different memnibers asked for recognition and the president good- naturedly announced that each would have an opportunity to express his views. They all did give expression to their views on parliamentary tactics. Mr. Char- trey proposed to put an end to the debate by referring the matter to a meeting to be held in 1896. “Why, that is what I proposed an hour ago,” said Mr. Lemoine. The motion was put and carried. The members proceeded to the con- sideration of the amendments to the con- stitution. The revision committee reported in favor of declaring that all male members of the society over 21 years of age and six months a member should have the right to vote. Dr. Gros offered an amendment that heads of families have the right to cast two ballots. A. Bergert moved to strike out the word male from the section. Mr. Mitchell said that would give the women members of the society the right to vote. He said that he was glad to see women take a deep interest in their house- hold affairs, but thought that there were enough ‘‘old women of the other sex” in the meetings without simon-pure women to take part. Some one remarked, not very gallant.” The proposition to iive women the right to vote was defeated by a large majority, only two voting in the afiirmative. During an animated discussion on an amendment to allow the distribution of ballots three days before election Mr. Chartrey took occasion to say that under that system, as at a previous election, a coterie would get together in favor of cer- (tlamtcandidaus, ag for instance, for presi- ent. . He was interru‘fbed by A. Bergerd, who in a most excited manner called him a liar. Men in all partsof the hall sprane to their feet. Mr. Chartrey remained silent for a second. The silence was, however, broken by Bergerd, more excited than be- fore, exclaiming, ‘‘He lies! he lies!” The two men gla: at each other fora mo- ment, but when Mr. Chartrey said that he withdrew his remarks as to ‘the president order was restored. Finally it was decided that sample bal- lots should be issued and that on election day ballots bearing the seal of the society and of a different color from those of the sample ballots should be used for voting. An amendment to reinstdte members suspended for non-payment of dues was id over until the meeting in 1896 after a heated argument. The society decided that applicants for membership should after examination by the ‘Shysicinn be further examined by the occulist, if the physician so recommended. An amendment that the resident phy- sician shall be named by the members and hissalary fixed at $150 a month wasadopted. An amendment providing that physi- cians who had studied in a medical uni- versity for four years or physicians who had_ previously served the .society be eligible for election was also adopted. THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Improvements for the Benefit of the Patrons of the Institu- tion. “You certainly are Librarian George T. Clark of the San Francisco Free Public Library is ever mindful of the comfort of those who visit the library. With the consent of the trus- tees he is making improvements beneficial to patrons and helpful in promptly obtain- ing volumes called for. The large space in front of the main en- trance to the library proper, which was formerly useless, has been converted into an anteroom by placing large swing doors in the arch. On the south wall there have been put up glass-covered frames, in which are placed lists of the latest additions to the library as soon as catalogued. Under these frames are two long desks for the use of the patrons who wish to make notes of the books they may desire. In an inner room within the large one in which the books for delivery are kept there are being fitted up a number of cases with roller sheives, on which to place bound volumes of the various news- {apen kept on file. This will be known as he “‘fileroom.” As at present, two years’ files will be kept in the reference room, but those of rior date will be placed in the file- room and be easy of access. At presenta great number of tomes are piled one on top of the other, and to obtain one that is at the bottom of a dozen involves loss of much time and considerable labor. Undcr the new arrangement but two large or three small volumes will be on each shelf. The reopening of the periodical and magazine room off the reading department is thoroughly .gecuml by the patrons who, for a long e, were deprived of the opportunity of the unlimited use of many magazines. The system of free access to the bound volumeson the shelves in this department has been founa to work well. It saves the cost of employing a number of attendants required under the delivery system. There is in this department one attendant, who, in addition to other duties that can be performed there, directs pa- trons to the location of the periodicals called for. Magazines and periodicals for the current month or quarter are distrib- uted on the tables, so that the patrons :i:an examine that class of literature up to ate. MANY CONFIRMED. Archbishop Riordan Lays Hands on a Large Class at St. Patrick’s Church. Archbishop Riordan, who leaves for Rome with Father Crowley to-day, per- formed his last function yesterday after- noon by administering the sacrament of confirmation to about 250 boys and girls, 20 adults and 10 recent converts, at St. Patrick’s Church. Shortly after 3 p. M. 150 girls filed out of St. Vincent’s, all arrayed in white and accompanied by four Sisters of Charity. They took their seatsin the church, which, lofty and well ventilated as it is, was packed to suffocation. Before the con- clusion of the service even the Archbishop appeared to be suffering, whilst the con- %regntion was in a most moppy state. here must have been between three and four thousand persons packed in the edi- fice. The hilgh altar was ablaze with lights and the side altars profusely decorated with flowers. After the girls came, the boys, headed by Father Brennan, all in new suits and but- ton-hole bouquets and their young faces solemnly innocent. At a signal they all genuflected together and at another signal all arose and sang a hymn. Then the Archbishop was vested in a cope of white and gold, é’is mitre and given his crozier, After ascending the altar and reciting the preliminary grn yers he descended to the altar-rails an: Bgmini'stered the sacrament of confirmation first to the boys, then to the girls and afterward to the adults and converts. The ceremony consists in sign- ing the forehead of the kneeling candidate with holy oil and slightly touching the face of the candidate; symbolical of a blow to remind him that heis now a full-fledged Christian and must practice fortitude. cross on the forehead is made with the thumb and the oil is afterward wiped off by a priest who follows. The sponsors for the boys were Mr. L. Dunningan and Mr. J. O’Brien; for the girls, Miss A. Downing and Miss K. Hayes, After the conclusion of the service the Archbishop administered the pledge of the League of the Cross to every boy confirmed. This binds them to drink no liquor and to #0 into no place where liquor is sold until they are 21 years old. The Archbishop ad- dressed the candidates for a few minutes after confirmation, exhorting them to be true to their faith, to lead good Catholic lives and promising them that if they did 50, the grace of the holy spirit would ever sustain them. He was assisted by the veteran rector of St. Patrick’s, Rev. Father Gray, by Father Griffin, Father Brennan and Father Hanlon. The vast congrega- tion comgletely blocked the street aiter leaving the church while waiting for the young people to come out. One hundred and fifty boys and girls who were con- firmed last year made their first com- muunion at 8 o’clock yesterday. ILD PONT LORLS AOA Once the Popular and Fash- ionable Toll Road Out of the City. Busses Carried Passengers, and a Round Trip Cost One Dollar. The sale to-day by auction of 160 lots in the Richmond District, that belonged to the San Francisco and Point Lobos Road Company, will wind up the affairs of a corporation that was dissolved some time ago. The Point Lobos Toll Road Company, of which Dr. H. Gates was the head and front, opened what is now known as the Point Lobos avenue as a toll road early in the sixties, and at about the same time the late Junius G. Foster opened the CIiff House at the terminus of the road. The new road was operated in opposition to the Ocean House road, which started from Seventeenth street, ran over the hills by the old Ocean House race track and the Lake House to the ocean beach, for many years the only route for reaching that por- tion of the county to view the seals, unless one was willing to trudge over six miles of sand dunes. The new road became popular and for many years it was the fashionable drive out of the City. No sight-seeing was com- plete unless it included a drive over the Point Lobos road to Captain Foster, the guardian of theseals. To enjoya drive over th is road those who held the ribbons were forced to pay toll in going from the City at the toll house, which stood on the north side of the road almost opposite what is now known as Masonic avenue, the thoroughfare that leads to the Masonic Cemetery. The driver received a ticket, which he dropped at the second gate, which stood near where the road took a turn and was down Jgnde to the Cliff. In 1862 the late John A. McGlynn, who had had experience in running busses for the accommodation of the public (for in those days there were no horsecars, nor cable-cars, nor electric-cars), operated a line of omnibusses over the new road. They started from the corner of Kearny and” Clay streets and ran out Kearny street and then westward, passing Dr. Gates’ beautiful gardens, fronting on Fill- more street, occupying two blocks from Post to Sutter and from Sutter to Bush, until they reached the road at Cemetery avenue, as Central avenue was then known, near Geary street. Then the busses, with their loads of passengers on leasure bent, rolled out to the Seal Rocks. For this ride the sum of 50 cents was charged. Now the same distance is trayersed in one-tenth of the time fora nickel. S In 1864, when the Central line of street- cars established its western terminus at Cemetery dvenue the bus company made the avenue its eastern terminus and re- duced the fair one-half. About twenty years ago those who op- erated the road having in mind a desire to make it more attractive constructed on the north side, commencing at the line of Twenty-third avenue. a straight away half- mile speed track, and over this many of the best horses that ever ran around a track, including Norfolk and Lodi, were speeded. About the same time Jim Eoff, a noted horseman, ;rned near the speed irack the Agricultural Park and race track, which, however, did not prove a successful venture. i ‘With the increase of population the City expanded, people moved westward and lo- cated, new ghoroughfne: ‘were opened, the Richmond District began to be known, horsecars superceded the omnibusses, the tollgates came down, a car line was og;x; .t.erflm the Point Lobos road up to withi; a short distance of the Seal Rocks; then came the lines of steam cars that drove the horses out of business, and ally the Point Lobos road became an open public thoroughfare with the name changed to Point Lobos avenue. THERE is an article on this market seldom equaled and never exceiled—Jesse Moore Whis- ky. Moore, Hunt & Co. guarantee its purity. * e A recent report shows that 11,530 con- victs this year passed through the forward- ing prisonat Iruman, Russia, HE SCORED THE CROAKERS, Auditor Broderick Points Out the Signs of Advance- ment. NO SYMPATHY FOR SILURIANS. Wherein San Francisco’s Develop- ment Excels That of Other Cities. Auditor Broderick was in a talkative mood yesterday and devoted an hour to the criticism of croakers and cranks, for- eign and local, who esteem it their espe- cial privilege to run down San Francisco, her people and their tastes, and everything pertaining to the development of the great western metropolis. “I can stand a good deal from foreigners like the prig Kipling, who came here and after accepting our hospitality went away a safe distance and called us barbarians and savages,” began the Auditor; “but when some of our own people begin to cast their slurs on our City and its advance- ment I cry hold, and will call their atten- tion to a few facts with which they are most likely not familiar. “We are all aware in a general way of the great advance made during the last few years toward an ideal modern metrop- olis, but I doubt if many are familiar in detail with the extent of our latter-day de- velopment. I own thatI was not until a short time ago, when I had occasion to look up certain statistics; and, as you know, I should be in a position to better acquaint myself with such matters than those who have nothing to do with the handling of municipal and county affairs. “To be sure, we are involved in a tem- gorary financial embarrassment at present, ut that has nothing to do with the criti- cisms made by the croakers on our de- velopment as a municipality. “Why, the bonded indebtedness of the City is nominally wiped out. Intwo years hence it will be; and what city of 300,000 inhabitants can show the same record ? “In 1851 the taxable property was $21,- 621,214 and this year it will reach $340,000,- 000, with a tax levy of only one dollar on the hundred. “But in no better way can the solid, moral and prosperous advancement of a city be shown than by an enumeration of her institutions, educational, religious and financial, not to forget her manufactures. “At present we have one hundred and twenty-six churches, thirty-three commercial banks and fourteen sav- ings and loan institutions. Our school system is as good as any in the land. We have seventy-five school build- ings, with an average attendance of fifty thousand pupils, and can show sixty-two thousand children_of school age. Thisjis quite an advance since 1849 when J. C. Pel- ton opened a school at his own expense, starting the first day with only three pupils. Judge Louderback was one of those pupils. “Many of our pioneer residents will re- call that the old ‘school used to bein the Baptist Church building on Washington street. Beside our public schools there are the night schools for apprentices. The ex- ense of the school system is about §1,000,- 800. Then we have seven medical colleges, the same number of business colleges and one devoted to the law. “In the matter of public charities we are not deficient. Our hospitals number ten all told, two charitable, too free, four self-sus- taing, besides two pestilential. “’lsake a glance, too, at our social organi- zations; including the fraternal societies, they number 365. The religious and benevolent societies aggregate about 100. ‘What a showing is this? Can any of the croakers name a city of the same F) ula- tion that can hold a candle to us? oubt it. ‘“We have also one of the finest street railway systems in the world, with twenty- five corporate lines and over 140 miles of tracks. Our manufacturing institutionsof every sort number 1170 and give emgloy— ment to 25,000 men, women and children. “‘Neitherare we behind when it comes to the professions. Our medical practitioners number 750 and the lawyers over 1100. “Among the public works I suppose might be mentioned our admirable fire fa- cilities. The system is finely equipped and includes forty-three companies. But chiefest among our institutions of pride is our public library. Foreigners, who have been liberal enough to see any good about us, have said that they had seen nothing to compare with it in the East. In view of what we have to show it is surprising that a croaker can find a _place to lay his head in the proud City of San Francisco. ‘We have no room for them,2and the Half- million Club movement will weed them out or relegate them to a life so private that their gibberings will not be heard in the new and happy song of prosperity and the busy hum of industry. The half mil- lion will come despite the cranks and croakers. You can take my word for it.” THO WARLIE NOBLEWEN Count Nicoluski Faedroff Thumps Count Alexis i Rehbender. He Tells a Doleful Tale of Shat- tered Joys in Two Con- tinents. Nicoluski Faedroff, or Nicholas Fred- ericks, is a Russian nobleman. Alexis Rehbender is also a peer from the land of Tolstoi, and possibly an exile suf- fering the martyrdom of expatriation for a principle. Neither of these blue-blooded Muscovites has proof of his respective rights-patent to a title other than a vigor- ous denial of each other’s alleged nobility and a desire, intense and mutual, to see the other wiped from the solar system. The animus of their rage is Mrs. Fred- ericks, or the Countess Faedroff, as the title-loving American dame would prefer. Her yearning desire to change her name and title (she was plain Emma Foster be- fore her marriage) has precipitated her lord and noble master into several ple- beian scrapes, the last one of which oc- curred yesterday afternoon, when he saw his lady and the hated Count Rehbender coming eff the Oakland ferry-boat. ‘With a Cossack yell he smote his coun- tryman with a heavy cane. The other parried the stroke with his stick in a man- ner becoming the duello, and the battle was %ag'ressing quite merrily when Cap- tain Dunleavy’s men ran the Fredericks peer into the station house and wrote “assault with a deadly weapon’’ against his lordly title. Z .'l'h%e domestic wloes of this dli:seordlnt rio began several years ago, when wgrnht tglgck ona l_vti.sil:yt.o Bussf:.' g g 2 o eir pass| s were Vi 1] Peursl;n?g ogl‘i’ci:ls, but vil;:dlez mi:ui'; Fredericks was jerked from the drosky in which he was riding up town to his hotel and thrown into the gloomy fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul. Rehbender had informed the Russian Government that his companion was a rabid nihilist and the head of a bomb fac- tory. '?;:en Rehbender and the countess skipped for America, leaving Fredericks with dread Siberia looming up before him. He finally convinced e Minister of Police that he was only a plumber, or a tinker, and not killing Czars for pastime, 7 and after nine months’ imprisonment he was run across the frontier with an injunc- tion to clear out. He returned to this country and found his way to San Francisco in search of his wife and the false friend. About eight months ago he found the recreant countess out in the Mission and Rehbender hover- ing near. Trouble ensued and the noble Faedroff was taken in by the police for rocking the streetcar in which the de- stroyer of his peace had taken refuge. He then persuaded her to return to his loving care, but while he was absent, negotiating with the corner grocery for commissary supplies, she spread wings and flew away. e joined Dr. Henry’s flock in the First Baptist Church and the members declared war against her Russian, who, they be- lieved, was anything but a nobleman. Acting under the advice of her co-religion- ists she sued for a divorce, but was unsuc- cessful, Fredericks proving himself a hus- band possessing some rights which the law might respect. The Countess Faedroff then took a suite of rooms at 1148 Sutter street and, as Reh- bender lived there also, Faedroff could watch them both without extra expense. She brought another suit against him, ask- ing thecourts to give Her $50 a month from his wages for the support of the woman he would not iree. The papers were served upon him a few days ago and he, believing this was more of Count Rehbender’s per- secutions, camped_day and night on his trail. He met his enemy, as has been mentioned, at the ferry landing and is now in the City Prison in consequence of the meeting. MAN MUST BE RESTORED. John Monteith Speaks at the Second Unitarian Church, Hon. “Religious Naturalization’ was the sub- ject Hon. john Monteith chose for dis- course at the Second Unitarian Church last night. The speaker held that the world in which we live was never created but was evolved by natural causes through the ages; he thought that man should go to the school of nature to find his God, and not search in the narrow paths of ortho- doxy. ‘“Atheism is but a protest against a ferocious and ignorant man God,” said Mr. Monteith, “and the atheist is right inas- much ashe has abolished the conception, but he cannot abolish the stupendous fact of nature. We can learn even from heathen sugersrition, for instance, the Japanese, when an earthquake is felt by them, say that their God is only turning over. Man, like the world in which he lives, is evolved from liquid atoms and star gn;t by the guiding hand of a supreme eing. ‘“‘Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and car- bon are necessary to animal life, and the destruction of life is simply a releasing of elements which in thousands, perhaps millions of years hence will furnish life to future generations. So* you see death really commences before birth, and all men who have lived or who will live through all time form one grand brother- hood. When I read of a_‘brutal murder’ I think it is a libel on the brute creation. Man has become denaturalized by defec- tive education and he must be restored by being taken into the temple of nature to seek for God. If you look up and see one atch of blue sky or one lone star in the rmament there is God.” NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. CALIFORNIA THEATER AL HAYMAN & Co. (Incerporated).....Proprietors Commencing To-night.. Second and Last Week. LAST MATINEE SATURDAY. GEORGE OSBOURNE, THE Two FAMOUS CHILDREN AND AN EXCELLENT COMPANY IN THE AMERICAN GIRL! A wholesome and entertaining Comedy-drama, ANDGRAND ORCHESTEA 1N FOUR CONCERTS ONLY Sale of season tickets begins this morning. Regular sale Thursday. Prices, $1, $1 50, $2, $2 50. Season tickets, 84, $6 and 8. M=rs. ERNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manager EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEE, LECOCQ’'S LA FILLE DE MADAME __ ANGOT! Next Opera—*“HEART AND HAND.” Popular Prices—25c and 50c. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO....Sole Lessee and Managee THIS EVENING! THIS EVENING! C. T. Dazey’s Great Comedy Drama, “ERNA THE ELF!” FUN FROM BEGINNING TO END! EVENING PRICES—25c and_50c. Famlily Circle and Gallery, 10c. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. ORPHEUM. ‘WEEK MIMENCING MONDAY, MAY 6. _ _REILLY AND WOOD’S Blg Spectacular Vaudeville Company. 'he Biggest Specialty Company in Existence. HADES The only PAT REILLY, greatest Irish comedian: LAUREL and HARVEY, UPTO | PERRY and TENBROOKE, LILLIAN PERRY, FELIX and CAIN. EVA ARM- DATE,| STRONG, ALLEN and WEST, etc. ‘The great chorus, gorzgeous scenery and costumes. ‘A spectacle not to be missed. Reserved seats. 25c; Balcony, 10c; Opera chairs and Box seats, 50c. Matinee Saturday and Sunday. Carauet, 38c; Balcony, 10c; Children, uy sesty CIRCUS ROYAL And Venetian Water Carnival, Corner Eddy and Mason streets. CLIFF PHILLIPS.........Proprietor and Manager MOST ARTISTIC AQUATIC CARNIVAL OF MODERN TIMES, — Combined with an— UP - TO - DATE CIRCUS. PROGRAMME CHANGED. A5~ MONDAY, May 6—Special engagement of GRANJEAU AND MAY, the World's Greatest Bounding-wire Artists. Evenlnchflcn—anuen and Dress Circle, Re- , 25¢ and 50c. Saturday and Sun Matinee—Parquet, Chil- dren, 15¢; Adults, Zbcd.u MACDONOUGH THEATER OAKLAND) TWO mon'!‘g. BEGINNING TO-NIGHT, PETE] R F. DAILEY, The funniest man of our time, in A COUNTRY SPORT. Seats on Sale—Popular prices. RURKING fis RUNNING RACES! RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, WINTER MEETING, BAY DISTRICT TRACK, COMMENCING SATURDAY, OCT. 27, 1834 Races Monday, Tuesday, Weodnesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—Raia or Shine. Five or more races each day. Races start at 2 &LM McAdlister and Geary streel cars pase