The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, WATER ON THE HEIGHTS, Prospects of a Spring Valley Supply by the First of July. FROM THE BAY TO THE SEA. Army Street, When Extended, Will Prove a Great Boon to South San Franclsco. | Prospects are fair just now for water on gll the high land between Twenty-fifth street and theold San Jose road and ex- tending from the Almshouse to Noe street, T Company for not complet- »ply system. The water com- v has been working under its agree- ment to have water there by July, and the pumping works on the corner of Sixteenth d streets is about completed. This mmense two and a half story plantand will distribute the water from the Clarendon Heights reservoir, which was built last year, to the entire v i ¥ plateau; and that means much for the future of the Fairmount tract, Bernal Heights, Ashbury Heights and Pacific Heig The tunneling up Sixteenth street, south of Sutro’s monument, to the reservoir is practically finished, twenty- four inch iron pipes haying been put in. T water qu for years to t omas V. Brien, s Major B. Mc- Kinne, George D. burne, the Me- 4 s and others larg interested. a proposition to lower the company’s water rates was considered in connection with it, with the result that Board of Supervisors made the ex- supply imperative, con- an & ment not to lower any’s rate son is found by the Spring | the name of the “Lombard. Loan Com- pany,” and their place of business was moved to 1016 Market street. They are now posing, it is alleged, as a_corporation for the purpose of concealing their identity as the firm which was located at Kearny street. On the 24th ult. they commenced new insolvency proceedings and alleged that they had no assets at all and asked the court_to exempt them from ptyin§ the very debts which they compromised for in December last. On December 10, 1894, Judas Boas, a creditor, commenced an action to recover $2750 as the balance due on a promissory note, which had been accepted by Mr. Boas from the Lombard Loan Company. Boas had a writ of attachment issued and the Sheriff attached the stock to the value of $10,000. g R. I. Whelan was appointed receiver in | zoods. He claims that unless something is soon done in the matter the defendants will fraudulently transier the propera'. The plaintiff is represented by H. C. | Dibble and Gordon & Young and the | Sheriff is represented by Reddy, Campbell & Metson. WILL GO TOTHE COURTS, Action to Be Commenced Against the Market-Street Railway. Church -Street Property - Owners | Employ Mr. Van Duzer as Their Counsel. Quo warranto proceedings are to be com- | menced at an early date against the Mar- | ket-street Railway Company to compel it | to show by what right it holds the Church- | street franchise. Attorney A.P. Van Duzer was appointed last night for that purpose by the Church-street Improvement Club, at a citizens’ meeting in Duvenecks Hall, near the corner of Church and Twenty- | fourth streets. | A. R. Gunnison called the meeting to | | | rien said yesterday afternoon: 1 a tually the geographical ing to its being without City has grown all around it Jounty line, leaving the | PPl 14, 1o | ated by this time. d Joost's electric | 1d over the saddle | ore a water pipe he extension of the hil Twin Peaks b I unde 11 cost 0. o e! There is only one thing now that stands in t the grade from Twenty: I believe the company | on before the board to ugh so that it can pro- e work of laying pipes. s of the opinion that Army z extended from Belleview street clean to the bay at the Potrero, will }». .2 positive boon to Bouthern San Francisco. Were Army street to run about 600 feet further to the Ocean House road, | he says, it would make a straight cross- town thoroughfare from the bay to the ocean. It is necessary to deflect, at Twenty-sixth street, however, to avoid the The entire thoroughtare is almost level, there being hardly more then & ix per_cent gra 1.'01":1 bay to ocean. Army street is 66 feet w' with the exception of & portion between Vale cia street and the San Bruno road. We ha: 1dewalks narrowed down to a width of | Ive feet between Missouri street and the s0 85 to allow plenty of room for & street e in time the Harbor Commissioners he advisability of baving a seawall nded around to the Islais Creek channei, | the putting in of a dockthere. It would 1 immense advantage to the southern por- | t ¢ City. Yousee there is no chance y other crosstown rosdway between | n'and Army streets and there is no dway into South San Francisco other than Fifteenth avenue. 1 have talked over the proposition to have & whari at the mouth of Islais Creek_with Har- Commissioner Chadbourne. He said it | d have to come some time, but thet the | ssion was doing a great deal for the | north end just now and we would have towait. | It was, however, only 8 question of time and | money, he assured ime, Some years ago Mars- | den Manson offered to build a ‘seawall around | k free of cost to the State, provided ! it. He said there was big money | satisfied that the commerce of San | eventually make it imperative | seawall and dock, which will | be the next thing teken up after the | asin question shall heve been settled. | ~fifth street opened house and several old stables | ng the way. This is all the obstruc- | tion there is between Potrero avenue and | the base of Twin Peaks. | Switches are being put in at Mission and | > ts, on the teenth-street | s of the Folsom-street boule- | mong the residents of | , yesterday, was ness men and | below ful. »wners were found in favor of it. | on the San Francisco and | is in prospect on the gore cia, Market and Her Company B, League of the C will have a social time at 8 on Eighteenth and Shotwell streets, to- Council ill celel v of its organiza vith a banquet 0.3, Young Men’s In- the tenth anniver- ion on_the 15th inst., ion Parlor Hall. PAWNBROKERS IN TROUBLE | Suit Against J. L. Soloman and Adolph Mendelsohn for Peculiar Ways of Liguidating Debts. A complaint was filed yesterday in Judge Hunt’s department of the Superior Court by R. I. Whelan against the firm of J. L. Soloman & Co., 622 Kearny street, in- solvent debtors, for feloniously concealing | personal property h the intent to| “cheat, hinder and delay creditors.” Last | November J. L. Soloman and Adolph Men- delsohn were doing business under the firm name of the “Lombard Loan Office,” as dealers in jewelry and as general pawn- brokers. They were at that time in debt to many | persons in this State and_the East to the sum of $90,000, of which about $45,000 was | b s red the hypothecation of their | stock at Kearny street, and the balance of the amount, $45,000, was unsecured. At this time Mendelsohn commenced | suit against Soloman to dissolve the part- nership on the ground that Soloman had been contracting debts under the firm name unknown to himself and withuutl his consent. Julius L. Franklin was appointed re- ceiver upon an ex parte proceeding, but December 30, 1894, Mendelsohn had. the sroceedings dismissed and they continued Pasiness s before. | ‘While the action for dissolution of part- nership was pending the parties connected filed a joint petition in insolvency and placed their assets at $15,500, but in De- cember 13, 1894, they afiam had the pro- ceedings dismissed, called a meeting of their creditors - and compromised at 25 cents on the dollar. For 15 per cent they gave notes and the remaining 10 per cent they gave in cash. 3 The plaintiff charges that prior to. the commencement of these legal proceedings the defendants carried away from their store a Jarge amount of diamonds and jewelry. After they had compromised with their creditors, all of the coliaterals Concerning this, e said: { | order and related the facts of the Church- | str'eet grab, and reviewed the history of the | efforts of Church-street property-owners to | secure a street railway all the way out to Thirtieth street. About three years ago the sum of $1900 was raised by the Church- street Improvement Club for the purchase of a right of way through the Leroy estate, from Ridley to Sixteenth streets, occupied by Chinese gardeners. To this amount the ity added $600, and the right of way thus secured became a public highway, with an understanding that if a street railway franchise was granted it should be for a line all the way out Church street to | The story of the Church-street | Thirtieth. grab, about two months ago, is well known to the readers of the CALL. The Church-street people claim that the Market-street Company had promised to run its electric line out to Thirtieth street, the three blocks from Ridley street to Six- a street through the Leroy estate they say they fulfilled their part of the agreement, which was to get Church street opened al | the way to Market. On the other hand, teenth street to Twenty-first. The meeting was pretty well attended | and about all that could be said was said by Mr. Gunnison, C. E. Myers, who sided, and the other speakers. Mr. Van Duzer himself was present, and laid down the law, contrasting the provisions of the act of March 3, 1893, with the advertise- ment of the franchise as published. “‘According to the law,” explained Mr. Van Duzer, “the notice should state the length of time for which the franchise was to be granted; the streets on which it was to run, the nature of the franchise—that is, whether cable, electric, telegraph or other- wise, and the law also says that it is to be sold to the highest bidder. But the phrase- ology of the advertisement made it useless for any other company than the Market- street Railway to bid. It read thus: “ From a connection with the line of the Market-street Railway Company to Six- teenth street at or near its intersection with Church street, thence along and alongand upon Ridley street to Fillmore to a connection with the line of the Mar- hayeasll the land that would be rc- | ket-street Railway Company on Fillmore street at or near the intersection of Ridley street.” “0f course, no other company would’put | in a bid on any proposition like that.” Mr. Gunnison expressed the sense of the meeting when he stated that it was imma- "here is 2 movement on foot to have | terial what company had the franchise, so | at Guerrero, | Jong as they got a line all the way out | Shurch street to Thirtieth. It was con- ciuded that there was only one wa; about the matter, namely: a lawsuit. Ac cordingly Mr. Van Duzer was chosen a: counsel and promised to begin proceed ings at once. A committee to raise money enough to defray expenses of a legal con- test was chosen in the following, who will report progress next Thursday night: A R. Gunnison, J. J. Woodbouse, B. Cox T. F. Hegerty, W. Tegeler, R. B. Beall, D. Hoffmann, P. C. Stralile, H. Hewelcke and P. McMurray. e ‘Wanted to Wave. It was ten minutes before traintime. “You can’t pass through here without a ticket. madam,” said the ticket-taker. “But I want to wave.” “Can’t help it,”” said the ticket-taker. “Step aside and let the othersdpasa.” The diminutive woman addressed gath- ered herselt together and clutched her companion by the arm as she replied: “I’ve come here to wave and I'm gom%to wave. This is my sister Arimita, who bas been a-visitin’ me for three weeks, and she’d been here longer if she hadn’t lost flesh so fast, and I was afraid that if she stayed any longer she’d eet to be a livin’ skeleton; and then she was away from | home and didn’t know what might happen to the children while she was gone, so in spite of everything they could do to keep her she just packed up ber duds this morning and said she must go back home. “Don't interrupt me, for I don’t know when I will see Arimita again, it's so sel- dom thatshe can get away from home to visit me; and I can’t get away from the city, although I'd like to ever so much, for T’ve only been here three months, and it's ments, and I am jest mortally tired to death all the time, what with the noise and excitement and the goings on of my relatives hore; but they will have me stay, ana Arimita would come too if it wasn't for the children; but they are going to achool, you know, and take so much care, Jake especially, though he is a_good boy when he isn't in mischief; and I know Arimita will be glad to get back again, though I must say I want her to stay powerful bad, and—"" “Pags through!”’ roared the ticket-taker. And as he saw the superintendent of the road in the far corner of the room glancing at him furtively out of the corner of his | eye, he added, reflectively, to himself, “What's the use of trying to keep a job like this, anyway ?”’—Harper’s Magazine. ——————— . The Best of Women. The landlady had done something that the boarder didn’t like, and he was telling his roommate about it in rather vigorous language. “ghe didn’t do it intentionally.” I think she did."” “Oh, no! It was a mistake.” «Well, she had no right to make such a mistake.” “But, my dear fellow, the best of women make mistakes.” “Maybe they do, but I don’t think she’s as good as all that.”’—Detroit Free Press. — In Great Britain on an average nineteen which had been removed again made their appearance, but the firm then went under persons ont of every 100 committed on the charge of murder are executed. the last insolvency proceedings but is | unable to procure the possession of the but backed out after securing possession of | teenth. By securing the right of way for | the street railway company argues that it would be a physical impossibility for its electric-cars to climb the hill from Nine- | nlpon Church street to Ridley, and thence 2’ to go | dreadful hard_gittin’ around on the pave- | “My dear fellow,” said the roommate, | FOR THE NEW UNIVERSITY. Trustees Stir Up the Affairs of the Old University of the Pacific. NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY The San Jose College of Liberal Arts Will Soon Have Life and Vigor. The board of trustees of the University of the Pacific met at the university’s office in the Y. M. C. A. building in thus City yesterday morning. Nearly all the bon;d | were present, there being a notable in- crease of mew faces, the newly elected trustees having taken their seats. Important business, which affected the | educational standard of the school, was transacted. The day was spent in hearing the report of the treasurers from the uni- versity and from Napa College, the forma- tion of the articles of incorporation for the combined institutions, the report of the chancellor, the consideration of the ques- tion of granting degrees and the consid- eration of the financial situation. The treasurers of both schools reported the financial status of the respective insti- tutions good, considering the condition of the financial market. There will be but a small deficit in the funds. A great deal of time was spent upon the articles of incor- poration as it was necessary for these to be ready and to be filed before commence- ment day, because if they were not the diplomas would legally have to be issued under the old name, University of the Pacific, while if the incorporation articles are filed the diplomasat thisend will have upon them “University of the Pacific, San Jgse College of Liberal Arts.” The chancellor reported his work as pro- gressing finely. Forty-two thousand dol- lars of the $50,000 necessary to liquidate the debt has been secured, also $10, for an endowment fund, the interest accruing from which is being used to helg‘ students pursuing the classical course. Tae chan- cellor also said that not nearly all his ter- ritory had been covered, and that there would be no trouble in raising the remain- ing amount. One trustee thinks that before conference convenes again Dr. Jewell will have raised, taking into consideration the money secured for endowment funds, over $75,000. This same gentleman stated a short while ago that he was cognizant of several persons who had willed guite large | sums to the university, the amounts ranging from $5000 to $20,000. As to the granting of the degrees of Ph.D. and M.A. a consensus of opinion existed that they should be only granted in the future on the condition that the ap- plicant has completed the prescribed post- graduate course, which was by the action of the board advanced considerably. So | only those who have taken the course and assed satisfactory examinations will Eenceforth be granted these advanced de- rees. As to the granting of any honorary gegrees. it was deemed expedient by the board that no more be granted, at least not for a number of years. | When the financial guestion was brought ! up for consideration it was found the de- ficit in the running expenses was quite small, and it was the unanimous opinion of the board that the deficiency would be readily made up. The shortage, from the sentiment expressed, would be covered by the members of the board if the income would not be sufficient. To-day the board completes its business. The matters for discussion tor to-day will | be the supplying of the positions declared vacant at tg:e former meeting of the board, and all matters pertaining to the running affairs of the institution. There was a meeting held by the executive committee of the board last week in San Francisco, at which selections of teachers were made, although they have not before been an- nounced. The most startling announcement to the students and friends of the institution will be that Professor M. 8. Cross, who for the last three years has occupied the chair of ancient languages at the university, has been selecu‘i as dean of the school.” Pro- fessor Cross will occupy the position now held by Dean Sawyer. In the academic faculty Professor Camp- bell has been elected to fill the chair in the | commercial department. Professor Aitken, | who for the last four years has occupied | the position as principal of the academy, will retain that office, but will not live in East hall, as heretofore, He will still oc- i cupy the chair of college mathematics. The chair of history and literature will be | filled by Professor Hunt, who was form- rly a professor in Napa College and was granted a leave of absence to take a | post-graduate course in Jobn Hopkins | university. It isunderstood that he will teach the branches of his department in n Jose one semester and then will go to Napa college and teach them there the fol- lowing semester. Mr. Campbell and Miss Bessie Mayne will teach the history branches in the academy next term. Miss | Bessie Mayne will also occupy the position | of preceptress. The places which will be | left vacant bv the retiremeut of Professor Walter Perkins and Mrs. Hillman Smith will also be supplied by the board to-day. It is said Mrs. Koberts, who has been ma- tron for four months, will also be retired to-day. 10 SHOW A CONSPIRACY, . A. Loomis Tells How the | McClintock Shooting Was | Kept Secret. Mrs. Mabel Treadwell Approved the Wounding of the Detectlve In Her Rooms. The suit of C. A. Loomis against Calvin Somers in the Superior Court continues to | vield considerable interest. Yeésterday the examination of Fisher Ames was concluded, telling of his first knowledge of the shooting of Detective McClintock by Loomis, which had been kept secret from March in the year of its occurrence until June. In order to ward off the plea of defendant that he acled under the advice of his attorney it was brought out by counsel that in the case of Ames vs. Treadwell for fee for services Mrs. Treadwell and Somers had denied that Ames had been employed in the case of Loomis vs. Treadwell. It was also shown that Somers will plead that his meeting with Buckley was not at the Re- | ception by appointment, but occurred on | Geary street by accident. C. A. Loomis afterward resumed his testimony as to what took place after he | had shot McClintock at the Russ House. He had taken care of the wounded man and called in Dr. McNutt. Loomis had told McClintock that he ought not to have made aggressive motions, and then the two shook hands before the physician. Then McClintock, who was wounded in the face and could not speak, wrote two notes asking Somers an omis to give out that he had been wbunded in a car- riage accident and to keep the real circum. stances secret from his wife. Somers had pocketed the notes, remarking that if the real circumstances came out they would come in well. SBomers had promised to stand by Loomis in the event of trouble and get him bail at once. Afterward Loomis had gone to apologize t0 Mrs. Treadwell for shooting a man in her rooms. 4 “Oh, that's all right,” had replied Mrs, Thgeldwe]l; ‘you ought to have killed im.” Things went on quietly from March until June, when the relations between Mrs. Treadwell, Loomis and Somers be- came strained. Theshooting affair became gublic property and Loomis went to Mrs. ‘readwell, said he intended to surrender himself and asked her to stand by him. She had refnsed, but said that “Cal” (meaning Somers) had a few thousand dollars and would stand by him. “W hat else did she anfi to you at that time ?” asked Attorney Mhoon. But Somers’ attorney, Rix, objected, on the ground that there was no evidence of a conspiracy between Somers and Mrs. Treadwell and that any declaration of Mrs. Treadwell could not bind Somers, This was a nice point. The j was excused, and counsel argued it for the re- mainder of the day. The main object was to_prove ‘‘probable cause.’” inaily the court decided that there was enough " *‘probable cause” to admit the question in controversy and the case went over until to-day. —_— AMONG THE YACHTSMEN, A General Overhauling of the White Wings of San Fran- cisco Bay. The Ramona Beautifled—Reminis~ cences of Commodores of the Past. Masts were scraped and decks holystoned and sails scoured this week in the yacht fleet, for the merry western breezes have come to stay, and the winter calms have gone to the land of doldrums, On Thurs- day last the White Wings, which James V. Coleman has chartered for the season, and which now flies that veteran yachts- man’s private signal at the main, came off the ways at South San Francisco. The White Wings has been thoroughly over- hauled, new woodwork introduced where needed, and is now one of the daintiest, as she has always been one of the sturdiest, boats in the fleet. worked in co-operation with Mr. Cole- should look, and the result is more than satisfactory. The Ramona has been beautified by Commodore McCarthy until she looks like a debutante about to step into her first baliroom. ‘The graceful lines of this beau- tiful yacht have been accentuated with paint, scraper and polish, and her sym- metrical spars are so bright that they actu- ally mirror the green background of the Sausalito hills. Macis a sailor from the ground up. It was of him a local bard wrote: ‘The winds may blow, the billows flow, The stout boat rock and reel, We're not afraid, for well we know, McCarthy's at the wheel. This versical raconteur went on to de- scribe a yachting party on the Ramona when The pretty girls, they came on board, In silks and muslins dressed. Oh! some were blonde and some brunette, ‘And some wore muslin vests. Huzza! huzza! the anchor's weighed, And on an even keel, Away the good yacht glides, McCarthy’s ai the whe ‘What Captain Brooks has done to the Chispa shows how fond that stout tar is of the timbers he has o long called home. Commodore Gutte, whose sails are bent all the year round, for the Chispa is never out of commission, swears by his starry toplights and topgallant eyebrows that the Chispa should, metaphorically, “walk in silk attire and siller have to spare,” and that tough seaman has nobly kept his word. If any man in the world, not excepting , and lo! in any yacht or sailing in any waters, gets more fun out of his boat than Commodore Gutte he must be double ballasted with gray matter. He has plowed the waters of Raccoon Straits so long and so faithfully that it would not be surprising to see a crop of barnacles adorn the surface of the booming current. ‘The Tessie, with whom Commodore Mac- donough takes modest Sunday trips, though withal the old man sails & boat handsomely, is the perfection of grace and trimness as she lies at her moorings. - Her flush deck is so comfortable and roomy that one cannot but regret the harbor has not more yachts of her class and build. The Lurline, the Frolic, the Aggie—all the good old-timers—have been freshened up and will give their canvas to the breeze to-morrow. The Annie, Commodore Caduc's pet, famous by the part she played in helping the notorious Boss weed to escape, shines up fresh and comely this season as if she were launched only a week ago. These boats with oaken ribs defy time and decay, and only mellow in place of growing weaker with years and service. Not many of the yachtsmen who held the spokes aboard their own craft to-day go back to the early ‘‘seventies,” when the first yacht club house was built on Long Bridge to the leeward of unsavor Butchertown. Samuel Platt of Platt’s Hall was the first commodore, and clam- bakes and clam chowders were at that period in their infancy on the coast. As a judge of thissucculent dish Commodore Platt had no peer, but his seamanship was not even theoretical. He was an easy- going, good-natured old gentleman, and was most conscientious in his attendance at the everv-Saturday chowder. Eckley, Dr. Tucker and Captain Moody were then the representative yachtsmen of the time. Eckley had the £merald and DF. Tucker the schooner Minnie, while Captain Moody took a wheel all around. mander of a steam launch, Dr. Merritt built the Casco and Ed Wiener sailed the Startled Fawn, which afterward became ownership. ley and Captain Dick Ogden were promi- nent in the club. Captain Ogden labored hard to make yachting popular, and may be considered one of the patriarchs of the pastime in these waters, b‘Ca tain Richard Floyd brought out the g was a success. Even Floyd, who was an old sailor, became disgusted with her, and she lay for many months in Richardsons Bay until purchased for the sealing trade in ‘the north seas. She was clumsy in eye which was not off alee shore. Of those ancient yachtsmen has given up sailing. Charley Yale is as enthusiastic as ever and the veteran Cap- tain Moody still delights to sit in the lee of the San Francisco Yacht Club and watch the %pon which he has loved so dearly and has done so much to promote. Dax O’ConNELL. ——————— A Derelict Barge. The Merchants’ Exchange last nightreceived & dispatch from Port Harford reporting that the tug Tiger, O’Neill captain, had arrived from San Francisco and that at 2 A. M. yesterday at about ten miles south of Point Sur, a heav; donment of a barge the Tiger was towing to Port Hartord for use in the lumber improve- ment work there. The barge was a large one and is now a derelict. —————— Debate on Woman Suffrage. The Garfield Lyceum of the Second Unitarian Church will hold & debate this evening. The proposition before the meeting will be: solved, That the granting of suffrage to women will be detrimental to the United States. —————— Movements of the Mayor. Mayor Sutro left yesterday for Santa Rosa, to attend the rose festival. From Santa Rosa he will go to_his ranch in Napa County. He will not be at his office in the City Hall until Mon- day morning. S Rl Pope Leo XIII does not wear the real tiara on solemn occasions, but a papier- mache imitation, asthe tiara itself is much t00 heavy. Captain Chittenden has | man’s ideas of how a first-class yacht | Stewart Menzies was the proud com- | the Seven Bells under Captain Sheliey’s | Charles Yale, George Brom- | riel, a keel schooner, but she never stays, with a trick of hanging in the wind’s Flens&mt when tacking ) Dr. Tucker and Dr. Merritt are dead, Eckley northwest gale forced the aban- Re- MAY 10, 1895. NOT OUT OF THE TOILS Huntington May Be Arrested if He Comes to San Francisco. HIS‘ CASE NOT DISMISSED. The Indictment Is Still In Full Force and an Alias Warrant Can Be Used. Collis P. Huntington may not escape after all. Should he arrive in 8an Fran- cisco to-morrow the chances are that an “alias” warrant would be placed in the hands of United States Marshal Baldwin and the railroad magnate would at once be brought before Judge Morrow to answer the charge of issuing a free pass to Frank M. Stone and thus committing a breach of the interstate commerce law. Judge Addison Brown of the United | States District Court in New York denied the application for a writ of removal on the ground that the indictment was fatally defective, because it did not set forth that use had been made of the pass, and that transportation had been furnished under it. Still because Judge Brown refused an order of removal it does not follow that should Huntington ever come within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Judicial District e will not be arrested. On this point United States District Attorney Foote re- fused to make a positive statement yester- day, saying he preferred waiting the re- turn of Jud%:a Morrow, who is away on | account of sickness. ‘When asked whether the indictmeut | against Huntington would be dropped, | Mr. Foote said: I have not raade up my mind as to what will be eventually done. Should the gentleman | arrive in San Francisco to-morrow I am in- clined to think that an alias warrant would be issued and the Marshal would arrest him. Now, as to that warrant being fatally de- fective, I cannot say anything until Isee the full text of Judge Brown’s opinion. In the tel- | egraphic report he is quoted as saying: ‘A | free ticket or free pass not used is not trans- portstion; it is nota preference or advantage | to ihe holder, nor any prejudice nor disad- vantage to others. This precise point wasso | adjudged by the Interstate Commerce Com- | mission in_the case of Griffee against the Chi- | cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Com- | pany. That is practically the position of the Stone case. There is not & little of evidence that the ass was ever used outside the State. Of course t is in evidence that the holder of the pass | started for Ashland, but he got off at Redlands and stayed there. But he intended going. Intent! Why, intent is no crime. I might | startout with the intention of burning down your house, but if I stopped two blocks away | and came to the conclusion that I had better | not, do vou think you could haye me arrested | as an incendiary?” Why, if I had incorporated such a clause as that in the indictment I would have been the laughing-stock of every lawyer in the City. On that point Judge Brown says: “The issuing of a free puss for & purpose not allowable is doubtless prima facie evidence of intent to furnish unlawfully free transporta- tion; but there is nothing in the act that makes criminal the intent slone, or the mere issuing of a free pass without any actual transpartation under it.” Huntington may be guilty of the intent, but California I do not think there was any breach of the interstate commerce law. Still there seems to be some doubt on the subject, and | should Huwutington come here and Judge Mor- | | row concur, we will settie the point. In regard to this matter I advised the Grand Jury that_there was no case against the presi- dent of the railroad, but Judge Morrow over- ruled me, and the indictment was found. I was particularly careful in drawing the docu- ment, and inserted the fact that the pass cov- ered all the points between San Francisco, Og- den, Portland and New Orleans. I could not aver that the transportation outside of the State had been furnished under it because there was no evidence to that effect. ‘When Judge Morrow returns a confer- ence will be held to determine what course e{m]l be pursued by the officers in this ity. FRENCH COLONY EXCITED. Stormy Scene at the Mutual Benevolent Society Meeting. R. Chartrey Explains Why He Did Not Resent Being Called a Liar. The trouble that originated in the meet- ing of the French Mutual Benevolent So- ciety in Union-square Hall last Sunday, during which J. A. Bergerot questioned R. Chartrey’s veracity, has found its way into the French newspaper of this City, and it has been the talk of the French col- ony since the occurrence. Mr. Chartrey is vice-president of the Joshua Hendy Foun- dry and Mr. Bergerot, the father of Attor- ney P. A. Bergerot, is an old-time resident of this City. At the time the offensive word was used Mr. Chartrey did not resent it, but on the following day he wrote a letter to the Franco-Californien, of which the following is a translation: Last Sunday at the meeting of the French Mutual Benevolent Society, as I was expressing my opinion in regard to the distribution be- | fore an election of sample ballots—when, with- out any reason for the act, as I was not ad- dressing myself to any one in particular and only citing facts and saying that there had Dbeen a certain list that had seven names on it, but that the name of our president was not upon it, and that I had seen several such 1ists—a member arose, just as if 1 had thrown the truth. ‘Why the earnestness of the member? Did he vill say simply that it is not enough to a_person a liar; the accusation must be ked%' roof. The means are simple; the ciety, seaied in the election urn. With the garmlssion of the president we could count them and see who is right. 1t I did not reply during the meeting it was that I wished to maintain the dignity of the assemblage. It is, however, to be regretted that & member cannot speak to a question without the risk of being insulted. R. CHARTREY. In answer to the above the following appeared yesterday : 1note a communication signed R.Chartrey which appeared this morning in Le Franco and which is directed against me. Being very busy to-day, I will send my reply later. . A. BERGEROT. Mr. Bergerot said yesterday that be in- tended to reply to Mr. Chartrey’s letter, and would show that the position he as- sumed in the meeting in the heat of pas- sion, while not dignified, was correct. «I expected,” said he, “that the presi- dent would ask me to leave the room for the language I had used, and if he had done so 1 would have retired, but I never would have retracted the words I uttered. Mr. Chartrey in his letter does not set forth what he did say. He said that he had seen a hundred lists with seven names on each, and the name of the presi- dent was not on them; that these lists were the work of a cotferie. Now, am willing to bet $1000, providing the election urn and lists have not been tam- pered with since the election, that he can- not find a hundred such lists, and if he covers my bet I will turn_the money over to the society for its benefit, asI know that 1 would win.” 4 Mr. Bergerot intimated that the attack is the outgrowth of personal feeling arisin, out of the fact that Mr. Chartrey was one ol a committee of fifteen to superintend the a bomb, and pretended that I was not speaking | assured success. feel gullty? 1 b lists I allude to are still in the office of the so- | 28 the pass was not used outside of the State of | LADIES’ WHITE building of the hospital. 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