The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 12, 1895, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1895. PLEADING FOR A LIFE Belle Dormer Asks the Gover- nor to Spare Azoff, the Murderer. A VISIT TO SAN QUENTIN. Patrick Collins Is Ready to Die and Will Not See Women Re- porters. There are in this State, no doubt, hun- dreds of men who would like to be its Gov- ernor, and I want to say to them right here that it requires lot of brain and executive ability to fill thatoffice, and even then there is no end of worry and trouble. I learned all this in an hour’s time the other day while watching Governor Budd | manipulate the helm of state. Thad been told that the Governor was very kind hearted, and that he was opposed to capital punishment, and I wanted to ask him to commute the sentence of 2 manover at San Quentin, so I called on him at the California Hotel. 1 went early, but there were three hundred men there ahead of me: The Governor sat in a parlor to the leit of the lobby with his back to the corner time since your election. Ias chairman of our precinct committee. You will please ap- point me immediately to the position I men- | tioned to you, &t a salary of $200 & month, or | take the consequences. | “Blast his cheek,” said the Governor, | putting the letter in his pocket. “I guess iy takte thin consequances.” He didn’t tell me the man’s name, but I think it was “Dennis.” “Now about Azoff—Come in.” Aad they came, six or eight of them at one time. | One man was very pompous and couldn’t wait a moment. After the Governor had talked to him two minutes in a corner of the room his head had shrunk so that | there wasn’t a hat in the room that would fit him, and he went out bareheaded. | And the Governor talked about ten min- | utes to as many men, and then “Bill” i came and gave him a card, and the expres- | sion that came over his face as he read | that card wasn’t pieasant to see, “‘Take that fellow in there and keep him { till I come. He is the most important man | of the day: and I will give him such an abusing as he will never forget.” And Bill disappeared, and the Governor once more gasped out, “Azoff!” when all Xinds of raps came from all three doors at once. “Bill! Billl” he called. “Take every one of them in there, and give me a minute’s rest—can’t you?” And he sank exbausted into a chair. B - ‘‘How much longer will this state of | things last?” I asked of him in real com- passion, About three weeks,” he answered. “Not longer, for by that time 1 shall have given away every office in the State.” “The man you wanted to see has gone,” said “Bill,” sticking his head in at the door. | “Gone,” said the Goverror, ‘‘gone— well, I am sorry for that,” and so was_I, for I knew he wanted the Governor to give ! him something, and I had about made up AZOFF, THE MAN WHOSE LIFE BELLE DORMER HOPES TO SAVE of the room, and every one of those three hundred men were trying to get near enough to ask him for something. The Governor looked tired, and if my errand had been of a personal naturel should have spared him one interview at least, but I wanted to save a human life, and that gave me courage. One gentleman who appeared to be with- in about three hours of the coveted inter- view said to me: “If you want to see the Governor I can give You a pointer; go | round to the side door, near where heis sitting, and the gentleman there will let you pass.’’ I took the “pointer” and thanked him, and those men, gentlemen every one of them, made room for me, and I stood be- fore the Governor. The self-sacrifice of | those men is worthy of special mention. For months they had been waiting to “have a talk’’ with the Governor on mat- ters of great importance to themselves and to step smilingly back and give place | to a woman proved them herces. They | had never met me before. It wasa tribute to my sex, and when I thanked them the word seemed so shallow and incapable of expressing my appreciation that I felt ashamed of it. The Governor smiled and held out his band. “What can I do for you, madam?” I didn’t want to keep those men waiting, so I began in the middle of my story. “I want to go to San Quentin, Gover- nor.” He never waited for me to finish the sen- tence, but said: ‘I am very sorry, indeed, but I don’t believe there is any vacancy there at present, but come back this after- noon and I will see what can be done for you,” I thanked him and went out and the crowd closed in around him once more. Poor man. Everybody was asking for something, and no doubt the vision of a female guard in bloomers, with a gun over her shoulder, flitted through his mind when he heard my request to go to San Quentin. 1 went back at 5 o'clock. There were only about fifty men left out of the 300 who were there in the mornintf and they looked awiully limp, but hopeful. The clerk said the Governor was at the telephone and I might step into the little | room and wait. 1 did so and was surprised to find myself in the same room where the Governor was sghouting state secrets through the ““phone.” It was wrong to listen, but if went away I might miss seeing him, an the thought of that man over at Sa Quentin swinging around at theend of a rope made me stay. {%hen the Governor came out and saw me there a strange look came over his face. | he | “How long have you been here?” asked. “Ever since you began talking,” I an- swered him; ‘“but I fromise never to say one word of what I've heard.” And T have kept my promise, to affect my sleep. We went up to the Governor’s rooms. They are on the top floor, and he changes them every day, but so many people oc- cupy them that he can scarcely find stand- ing-room. When he had told “Bill,” who is the big man in charge up there, to put them all in the bathroom, he gave me a chair and asked what he could do for me. I said, “If you piease, Governor, I don't like to see Azoff hanged,” “Certainly not, madam; that would be & most dreadful thing. Why, I wouldn’t sec Azoff or any other man hanged forany- thing.” “C%me in, come in”—to three or four raps on_both doors. +‘Oh, Mr. Smith, I am pleased to see you. Just step in the other room a few mo- ments.” “But,” said Mr. Smith, “I wanted to tell you that it won'’t do to appoint that man ones to-that place. There’s only one such case on record.” “Idon’t care a cent what's on record. He will have the place, just the same. Good-day, sir.”” And the Governor turned to me once more. “You were speaking about Azoff—come in,” to a young man who gave him a card and a letter. He read the card and a strange, hard look came into his face. “Tell that man no.” Then he read the letter to himself and breathed hard a lit- tle. Then he read it to me and groaned some more. It read: but it is beginning 1 my mind that the “threatened abuse” wa {all he would ever get—and now he had gone without that. | ThenIreminded the Governor very gen- tly that at this rate Azoff would be hanged before we finished our interview, and he said to me with a very lawyer-like look on his face, “Remember, madam, I had | nothing whatever to do with the arrest, trial, conviction or sentence of this man, and I don’t intend to have anything to do with the hanging. There are five of those | men over at San Quentin who will hang | the first week in June. Go over and tell ‘Warden Hale that I said you were to inter- | view every one of them if you want to, and when you come back let me know what you think of them, but remember that un- ess I change my mind, and I have no idea of doing so, the law must take its course with the whole five of them.” And Itell you right now that all this alk about the Governor being kind-hearted nd opposed to capital punishment should be no inducement to anybody to commit | murder, just because they think he will be | easy on them, for the cbances are ten to one he would let them pay the penalty if they do. Well, the next day I wentio San Quen- tin, and it is the Joveliest place I ever saw in my life, and if the Warden will onl. promise not to turn the key on me, I will go there and stay the balance of my life— and I believe the turning of that same key is about the greatest objection that any of the Warden’s guests have to this popular, all-the-year-round resort across the bay. The hotel accommodations are ample, the scenery is incomparable. Low, sun-kissed grass grows on hills nestling close down to a beautiful bay, where great steamers loom up in the distance, and tiny, white-winged craft rest in the sheltered nooks Iike weary seagulls asleep. Even the matron, with a_face calm and sweet as a | sister of charity, loves to teil how the | Eolden sunlight rests upon the eastern hills, and, when the sunlight has faded into gray, how the western hills throw long, shapely shadows across the placid bay. And, oh, the wealth and world of beautiful, many-hued, fragrant flowers that cover the_terraced hills and well-kept yards. The Warden loves flowers, and everybody about him seems to have caught the spirit. _ Black and_white goods, in broad stripes, is the prevailing mode of dress worn by most of the guests at the Hotel de Hale— not, perhaps, so much for its beauty as for | the durability of the cloth. ‘When I looked about me at the army of nen in stripes, and knew that the Gov- | erner could pardon every one of them if he | wanted to, I began to realize what an aw- | fullv responsible thing it was to be Goy- | ernor. Now, if I were in his place I should L»srdon all of them, and get_impeached or anged w.yself, no doubt. But there isn’t the least bit of danger that Governor Budd will do anything of the kind. Yet, four out of the five men who are to be hanged the first week in June areinnocent—at | least, they say so—and declare they can prove it if given a fair chance. Anthony Azoff, sentenced to be hanged on June 6 for the murder of Len Harris, is, 1 believe, an innocent man. Some of the detectives seta trap to catcn Azoff. In- stead they caught their own man, Len Harris, and now have themseives and their miserable dupe to blame for it. Azoff had no money and that generally means no friends. Had Azoff’s attorney put him on | the stand to testify in his own behalf he would to-day be a free man. Sprague has disappeared and could not be fouudg to-day 1 if wanted. Amilio Garcia, 27 years old, will be hanged on the 5th of June, He isa Span- iard who speaks no word of English and talks through an interpreter. He and his two partners, also Spaniards, went to the house of an Italian in Colton, San Ber- nardino County,to get $500 that they needed very much in their business. They tied the old Italian up, but not finding the money they untied him again and went away. Afterward ,Juan Ferra, one of the | partners, went back and killed the old | man. And then the two, Juan Ferra and | Juan Lie, swore that Amilio Garciadid the killing. Juan Lie got away, Juan Ferra got thirty years at Folsom and Amilio | Garcia got a ticket to the other side. This | is Garcia’s story, and he ought to know as he was there. Fremont Smith is48 years old; he has an | engagement for the 7th of June, one that {he isnot at all anxious to keep. Smith | defies any man in the world to bringa Governor Budd—DEAR Sir: It has been some | word of evidence proving him guilty of the murder of his two partners, Dolph and Charlie, in Colusa. Smith says that the two men were killed by Japs who lived near, and that the blood on his overalls came there from killing a hog some three weeks before, but at the Coroner’s inguest they could not tell hog’s blood from human gore and Smith must be hanged for the killing of that superfluous hog. Collins, the San Francisco wife-mur- derer, declares that he has made his peace with God and man and is ready and will- ing to be hanged on June 7. He declined to see lady reporters, feeling, no dgubti that such a sight would bring back his ol desire to do a liftle carving. ~ His wife was brutally slashed with a knife. ¥ Enrico Morasco is 31 years old and is booked for a peaceful exit on the 7th of June unless the Governor decides to save an innocent man. Morasco was working for a man at Vacaville, when a third man came in and wanted to play cards with him for a bottle of wine. Morasco de- clined at first, but was persuaded to play. He won the wine and made the other man angry, whereupon, in the language of Morasco, whose rapidity of pronunciation is as greased lightning 1s to the movement of an ox team, the other man jumped on the table, smashed the dishes, the lamp, Morasco’s head and everything else in sight. The boss came in and told Morasco that he was too good a man to fight. Morasco took his word for it, and went to bed. Here follows Morasco’s account of the conclusion: The next evening the same mean man came back for another row. He put a butcher-knife to Morasco’s heart, cut his coat and shirt and made the blood run in rivers, and declared that he would make sausage meat of Morasco’s body. Morasco drew the line at sausage meat, and pulled the “trig” of & gun that he never dreamed was loaded. with the “butch’’ knife fell down, and now oor Morasco must hang because he didn’t now it was loaded, and Governor Budd will not intercede. BELLE DORMER. P. S.—Fortified with the facts that Azoff has suggested for his defense I shall make another argument with Governor Budd— that is, if Bill and I are able to keep the oliticians from banging in the doors. If can have another three minutes’ talk with the Governor I think I can save Azoff’s nec! B. H BEBALF OF ORTHLDON The Pastor of Beth Israel Tells Why He Is Opposed to Reform. Levy Thinks the Old Creed Eminently Adapted to Repub- lican Communities. Dr. During the Sabbath service at the Geary- street Temple yesterday morning Rabbi Mayer S. Levy took up the cudgels in be- half of orthodox Judaism. His action was called forth by some remarks of Rabbi Voorsanger in a recent lecture entitled, “Why I am a Reform Jew."” Dr. Levy prefaced his remarks by saying that his pulpit had never been used for denunciatory and accusatory discourses. He proposed to base his discourse.on the subject, “Why am I an Orthodox Jew?”" The rabbi disclaimed any attempt to apologize for his views, neither would he take refuge behind the stock excuse of “‘ac- cident ‘of birth.” “Orthodoxy,” said Dr. Levy, “is in perfect harmony with Serip- tural doctrines. The beauty of orthodoxy is in its universality. Divide it up into sects and its beauty and usefulness are im- paired, its force asa beacon light to hu- man kind is destroyed.” The speaker then discussed the funda- mental principles of orthodox Judaism and their relation toscience. Thedoctrine of one God is the first principle of or- thodoxy, and it is one that is upheld by science. The dietary laws which are ob- served by orthodox Jews in their entirety have been stamped with the approval of scientists. Another reason for Dr. Levy’s adherence to erthodoxy was that he found that Judaism as taught in the Mosaic code was peculiarly adapted to republican communi- ties. The establishment of e?lml rights, the impartial administration of justice are all enjoined in the laws of Moses. ‘‘Jus- tice shalt thou follow,” “Ye shall not deal falsely one with another,” “Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbor,” “Just balances, just weights,”” were given as illustrations of the rabbi’s meaning. “These laws,” said Dr. Levy, ‘‘are the erfection of just legislation. The fact Rmt there exist some orthodox Jews who do not observe them cannot be advanced as an argument to prove that they as a body are dishonest and inconsistent. Orthodox Judaism teaches morality toa greater extent than any other religion. Do not understand me as saying that the fol- lowers of other religions are immoral. What I desire to emphasize is that what is moral in other faiths is derived from orthodox Judaism.” In supportoi these ideas the rabbi made copious quotations from the Talmud and other rabbinical writings. “Iam an orthodox Jew,” continued Dr. Levy, ‘because orthodoxy teaches the lof- tiest patriotism and loyalty to one’s native country. We read in Proverbs xiv:21, ‘Fear thou tKe Lord and the Government.” The ancient rabbis said, ‘The law of the coun- try is the law.’ In every country where the orthodox Jew lives a prayer for the Government forms part of the Sabbath service. Can the reform Jew, who prates so eloquently of his love for the flag, say that he prays in his temple to the same end? “The charge of dishonesty and incon- sistency that has been made might more reasonably apply to those who make their religion conform to their own ideas, when it becomes necessary to lay aside every racial hope and Jewish aspiration. An- cient rnbEinism is far to be preferred to modern rabbinism. The modern rabbi wants the Sabbath day transferred to the first day of the week. e has no use for Hebrew as the language of prayer. He would like to observe Passover concur- rently with Easter and Dedication with Christmas. Yet I know one of these re- form_rabbis who will religiously observe the Jahrzeit anniversary, even though its i)bser,vanoe be consistent with rabbinical aw.’ Dr. Levy concluded by disclaiming any intention to attack his reform neighbors. “I appear as the champion of orthodoxy,” said he, *‘simply because it appeals to my reason. “‘Idon’t want to pass sentence on reform or upon its sincerity or con- sistency.” CIGAR-MAKERS' CAMPAIGN Representative Union Men Wil Visit All Loeal Cigar- Dealers. The union cigar-makers in this city, sup- ported by the recently organized State Blue Label League, are preparing for an active campaign in favor of home industry and white union labor. The- agitation committee of the Cigar- makers’ International Union No. 228 held ameeting last Friday night and discussed various plans of attack. It was finally de- cided to appoint a committee of two, whose duty it shall be to visit all the cigar- stores in San Francisco and interview the proprietors with a view of urging them to patronize home production. 'he com- mittee consists of T. F. Burns, president of the league, and W. E. Kelley. These gentlemen will begin their labors to-mor- row morning. TEey propose to put the cigar-dealers on record for or against Cali- fornia white labor-made cigars. . The constitution of the label league is now in the hands of the printer and will be ready for distribution in a few days. Copies will be sent to all unions in the State, which will then formally ratify the roceedings of the late Cigar-makers’ onvention and indorse the blue label. ————————— Ereaaxr flowers at Seavey’s. 1382 Market | you in this matter in full belief of your street, 10c, 15¢, 26¢ and 50¢ per bunch. (oERRORS” CAME HIGH, The man | Sensational History of Stamps That Had Changed Their Hue. A LOCAL COLLECTOR TAKEN IN. Experts Mystified and Philatellsts All Over the Country De~ celved. No stamps issued within the past few years have had so interesting a history or been productive of so many sensational episodes as the renowned so-called 5-cent error of the United States of 1890. During the later months of 1894 stamp- collectors were considerably surprised and puzzled to learn of the existence of a 5-cent stamp of the issue of 1890, printed in the dark brown color of the 4-cent of the same issue. The matter was taken up in the philatelic press and all kinds of theories were advanced for their existence. By some it was claimed that the alleged errors were simply essays made by the con- tractors and were never intended to be issued to the public for use, while by others it was claimed that they were *‘changelings” of the ordinary 5-cent stamp produced by chemical manipula- tion. Some went so far to prove their idea as to make changelings of the 5-cent stamp, but a com parison with the color of the 4-cent or with the so-called erroral- ways showed the manipulated stamp to be defective in some respect that unmistaka- bly showed its true character to the expert. hese error stamps at last fell into the hands of the C. H. Mekeel Stamp and Pul lishing Company of St. Louis, one of the largest stamp-dealers in the United States, who offered them for sale at $30 each, with a guarantee that they were genuine errors. Notwithstanding the high char- acter of the firm several of the more trucu- lent and persistent of the philatelic journals continued to assail the character of the stamps, claiming it was an impos- sibility that with the system in vogue in the establishment where the stamps were rinted such an_error could get into circu- ation. They cited the fact that such an occurrence was unprecedented. In order to break the force of these at- tacks the owners of the stamps printed in both their weekly and monthly publica- tions the following letter from Kerr Craige, Third Assistant Postmaster-General: *‘Sir: The three 5-cent postage stamps of the 1890 series, printed in the color of the 4-cent stamps, submitted with your letter, are herewith returned. Although of the wrong color these stamps are good for postage. I cannot account for the mistake made in thus printing them.” This, however, did not have the desired effect and libel suits were threatened against the two most bitter assailants of ¢he'‘error.” One was thus made to apologize and_ si- enced, but the other firmly maintained its stand. Meanwhile the Mekeel Company contin- ued to offer the stamps for sale, and as subsequentevents developed, found quite a number of customers for them. Amon, the purchasers were Henry J. Crocker o this city and a prominent collector of | Stockton, who each paid the full price of $30 for his specimen. At last, induced by a desire to put all doubt at rest, a most heroic course was de- termined upon and carried out by the Mekeels. The whole matter was reported to America’s greatest philatelic expert, John K. Tiffany, a prominent attorney of St. Louis. 'The disastrous and unexpected result of his labors is described in Mr. Tiffany’s report, the salient portions of which are herewith given. After referring to the fact that the char- acter of the ‘‘error’” had virtually been determined by the statement of an officer of the manufacturing company that the latter bad delivered them to the Postoffice Department as ‘‘finished proofs,” Mr. Tif- | fany says: *“We were confronted with a situation, | the only solution of which was to ascertain | whether there was any chemical a%ent | which would restore the ‘finished proof’ to the color of the ordinary stamp of the same value and at the same time not change the color of the 4-cent of the same shade. Soon as the suggestion was made C. H. Mekeel proposed that the experiment be made and offered to su;;gly the necessary speci- men of the ‘finished proof,’ ‘error’ or what- everitis. It was determined to make the first experiment with protoxide of hydrogen, which we knew would restore some of the acknowledged changelings to their original color. Accordingly, on the morning of April 9, a number of rsons interested met at the Mekeel establishment, and a number of known and suspected change- lings were subjected to treatment of the fluid. They did not all respond ec}uall rapidly, but eventually the portion of eac that had been treated was not very differ- ent from the ordinary stamp. “Next a number of specimens of the 4- cent value, as near in shade to the ‘finished proof’ as could be found, were subjected to the same treatment, but frequent applica- tions of the fluid produced little if any change in these. Mr. Mekeel then pro- duced a specimen of the ‘finished proof,’ and the liquid was applied. Unlike the 4-cent, but rather more quickly than most of the changelings, the specimen was stripped of its coat of velvet brown, and became of the shade of the ordinary stamp of this value. “‘Such, then, is the result of the only sat- isfactory method of determining whether this ‘error’ is printed in the color of the 4-cent or not. It is in the color of the 4-cent; it was evidently not printed with the same ink asany 4-cent that we could test.” In concluding Mr. Tiffany said: *These sfiedmens are so much more delicate in shade and are so far from showing any traces of having been tampered with, and so unlike any of the known changelings that, were I to hazard an expression of opinion, I should suspect that they were in reality produced by those slow and un- noticed processes of nature’s chemistry in the vaults of the department or the safe of the postmaster, which might easily occur nnydwhere that gas is burned or soft coal used.” In justice to themselves and their pa- trons who had purchased specimens of the “error’” from them, the Mekeel Company printed the expert’s report in their publi- cation and offered to return the amounts aid for them. They also published the ull correspondence between them and An- ton Amann, a collector of Dayton, Ohio, from whom they had purchased the stamps. This cnne?ondence showed that Amann had received a letter franked with one of the ‘‘errors” from Carthagena, Ohio, and that he had immediately written the gostmnster of Carthagena, asking him if e had any more of tfie 5-cent stamps of the same color. This resulted in his se- cumnfi 182 of them. Hesold eleven of them to collectors for §15 each, donated two to European friends, six were damaged and unfit for a stamp collection, and the re- maining 163 were sold to the C. H. Mekeel Stamp and Publishing Company under a contract which described them as ‘‘errors” printed in the color of the 4-cent stamps of the same issue. It was further provided that the Mekeel Company should take de- livery of such number as they required from time to time, paying $10 each for them, but_that all should be taken within one year from the date of the contract. At the time the experiment was made which resulted so disastrously the Mekeel Company had disposed of thirty-five copies of the ‘‘errors’’ at $30 each. - Mr. Amann was promptly informed of the result of the investigation made by Mr. Tiffany. In the communication for- warded by Mr. C. H. Mekeel the latter said: “Iam now of the opinian that the stamp is a changeling. I have dealt with guod‘ faith and have belieyed in" the UL , i e— UL iqiiaiaaaaaiiaiiiiiiiiii SLEEPLESSNESS INDIGESTION YIDNEY, LIVER AND STOMACH TR CUBLES ALL NERVOYS COMPLAINTS CURED NATURALLY KT qedisdisdisdisdiidinag £ 8405 X $84494884444444 AL ) stamps. With myself it has been an error of judgment; with you I hope it may prove to be the same, but you can realize that it devolves upon you to prove this fact. 1 have taken thirty-seven of the stamps under the contract, for which I have paid you $370. I look to you to re- fund me this money as fast as the stamps are returned.”’ Mr. Amann’s reply was made through his attorney, who claimed that the *‘error” was made by the Government and that the Mekeel Company would be held to the contract. Thus the matter now stands, and there is a very good prospect that philately from legal and scientific stand- points will receive a thorough ventilation in the courts. LITTLE CITY FARMS. The Co-operative Commonwealth Wants to Start Truck Gardens on Vacant City Lots. Articles of incorporation of the ‘‘Co- operative Commonwealth, a Co-operative Association,” were filed with the County Clerk yesterday. The leaders of the association are prepar- ing to open a new fieid of industry for their fellow-workers. Itisto be a system of agriculture on vacant City lots, if the lots can be secured either free or at low rental. This is what is generally known as the Detroit plan. In thecity of Detroit there are many acres of vacant lots under cultivation by commonwealers, who make a good living and a healthy surplus by raising vegetables of all kinds right in the city. Mrs. Addie Swain, one of the organ- ize_:ls of the local association, yesterday said : “We have been informed that Mayor Sutro may give us the use of some land free-possitfiy as much as 200 acres—but nothing definite has been done asyet. We shall try to secure the use of vacant lots in all parts of the city, and when we get them we will ask the Spring Valley Water Com- pany to donate the water necessary for ir- rigation. If we can’t get the water for nothing, we will get it at the lowest possible rates. We now have about forty men"who are looking for work of any kind. ‘%bere will be a labor mass-meeting in old St. Markus Church to-day at 3 p. M. BLEW OUT THE GAS. Two Swedish Girls' Nearly Suffocated at the American Exchange Hotel. Two young Swedish girls, Tilder and Hildy Hokason, were very near becoming subjects for a Coroner’s jury last Wednes- day nigit. It was the old story of blow- i:g out the gas, though both the girlsdeny this. The Misses Hokason arrived from Chi- cago last Wednesday and the brother not meeting them, as promised, they engaged a room at the American .Exchange Hotel. The young ladies were cautioned about the gas, but tney evidently did not understand, or else turned the gas only half off, for about 11 o’clock groans were heard coming from their room, and the odor of gas was lainly noticeable throughout the house. 'he door was broken ogen and one of the {:nnz ladies was foun th‘i across the d_unconscious, and the other blindly feeling her way around the room in a vain endeavor to find the door. ¢ A physician was calied, and after several hours’ vigorous work succeeded in bring- in%the young girls back to consciousness and life. Had they been left alone ten minutes longer they would unquestionably have suffocated. young girls called The brother of the ::hext mnmigg and the 'fi‘eefinx between em was a happy one. ladies are almost direl():t from Bwodeeny.m. 2 NEW:LAUNCH DESTROYED. The Naphtha Tank Exploding Wrecks and Sets Fire to the Vessel. One of the Young Men on Board Is Frightfully Burned and May Die. An explosion occurred at the hay wharf at the foot of Third and Berry streets yes- terday morning which resulted in the de- struction of a handsome gasoline launch, and badly burned three young men. Had it not been for the prompt response of the fire department the entire wharf and adjacent shipping might have been swal- lowed in the flames. The launch was built by Boatbuilder John F. Twigg and was only put in the water on Friday night. Timothy Twigg,a son of the builder, a young man named Lennox and another named Frank Fitz- | patrick were left in the boat all night to watch it. About 6:30 yesterday morning a sheet of flame shot up from the boat. There was a report like the explosion of a cannon and the next moment the young men were struggling in the water badly burned and scared. Lennox and young Twigg struck out for the landing steps and Fitzpatrick | attempted to follow them. Had notassist- | ance reached him he would have perished. His face was frightfully scalded and his | hair singed close to the scalp. homes and_Fitzpatrick was taken to the Receiving Hospital. The pretty little laanch was soon a mass | of lame and there was danger of the fire | spreading to the wharf. _A schooner loaded with hay lay close be- side the burning craft, and it seemed that she certainly must catch. A stitl alarm was sounded and an engine quickly re- sponded to the call. Had there been any wind there would have been work for the entire department. The wharf is stacked with hay and vessels loaded with hay or wood are moored to the docks all around. A good steady stream soon made short work of the fire, but the launch was badly burned in the forward part and around the ngine, he handsome little craft was Twigg for Ralph Granger, a Nuhgunpl City, San Dlegog()ountyl.nnker o She is 40 feet in length, 8 feet in beam and has an engine in her of 20 horsepower: She was built for speed, anda was as hand- somely furnished and fitted up as any craft of the kind ever turned out on the bay. Her seaworthiness may be judged by the fact that the owner was considering negotiations to have her make the voyage :eosveeren here and San Diego with her own She was built at an expense of $4000, an the damage to her hufiennd engine wifi amount to over half that sum. The force of the explosion burst all the beed pipes and the gasoline tank, as well as reaking out the quarter-inch glass of the windows around the cabin and blowing the roof off the structure, J. F. Twigg, the builder, insists that the tank leaked g“:‘;ih fl%a:":gl:“ d-nd the gasoline i:s L » the doo; i = in; ehao rs and windows h built by he sun shining warmly against the hull eated the vapor, uusinyg gflm usual ex- pansion and consequently the explosion. Atthe Union Gas Engine Works this theory is considered untenable. H. P. Coles, secretary of the firm. says that the tank was in “good order and perfectly sound, and that the idea of expansion can- not be held. He believes that the boys left the gauge-cock open, which permitted the Twigg and Lennox were removed to their | escape of the gasoline into the bottom of the boat, and the lighting of a match or the, drrgmping of a cigarette in the inflam- mab}‘e uid or gas brought about the catas- trophe. Xpmmg Fitzgerald was taken to his home at 216 Ritch street after having his wounds dressed. His hands and face are covered with burns, and Dr. Pettit thinks he has inhaled the flame and his chances of re- covery are doubtful. Until it is agreed upon who is respon- sible for the accident the pretty little ves- sel will lie at the wharf, a wreck. TELEPATHY AMONG INSEOTS. Certain of the Senses Appear to Be Be- yond Human Comprehension. Can it be that bugs are endowed with a wonderful sixth sense? Professor C. V. Riley thinks he has discovered satisfactory evidence of telepathy among insects—that isto say, a sixth sense by which they are able to communicate ideas from one to an- other at great distances., The power, as illustrated in the case about to be men- tioned, evidently depends not upon sight, or smell, or hearing. The fact that man is able to transmit sound by telegraph al- most instantaneously around the globe may suggest something of this subtie power, even though it furnishes no expla- nation thereof. Concerning the ordinary senses of in- sects comparatively little is known. Most of them certainly see well, the eyes of many species being far more elaborate than those of human beings. The eyes of common house flies and dragon flies are believed to be better fitted than the human eye for observing objects in motion, though these creatures are short-sighted. It may be reasonably supposed that insects possess taste, judging from the discrimination ;;h:ici: they exercise in the choice of their od. That they have smell is a matter of com- | mon observation and has been experi- | mentally proved by Sir John Lubbock and others. Most inseuts seem to be deaf to the sounds which are heard by human beings. At the same time there is no question that they produce sounds and hear sounds that are entirely beyond our own range of auditory perception. Sir | John Lubbock has said that we can no more form an idea of these sounds than we { should have been able to conceive 4 notion | of red or green if the human race had been blind. The air is doubtless often vocal with the sounds made by insects of so high a pitch as to beentirely out of range of man’s power to hear. Certain senses in insects appear to be beyond comprenension. The neuters among the ants known as ‘ter- mites’” are blind, and can have no sense of light while burrowing; yet they will re- duce a beam of wood or an elaborate piece of furniture to a mere shell without once gnawing through to the surface. An analogy is found among mammals. A bat ina lighted room, though blinded as to sight, will fly in all directions with great swiftness and with infallible certainty of avoiding concussion or contact with ‘any | object. It seems to be able to feel at a dis- tance.—Washington Star. eaTEER s Chinese Mourning. A traveler gives the lollowing description of Chinese mourning: The widow, sittin, down on the grave, commences a low, piti- ful wailing. Though the ceremony is something theatrical, this voice of mourn- ing is inexpressively sad. Gradually she works herself up into a pitch of apparent agony, throws herself prone on_the grave, weexmg and wailing and calling on the dead by every endearing name. Her cries re-echo from hill to hill; they certainly are most distressing to us, the unwilling hear- ers. By the time one might suppose her to be stupefied with crying and her head splitting with pain, a neat young woman comes to fetch her. She at once arises, ti- dies her dress, and the two walk off to- gether chatting cheerily.—Montreal Star ————— Goethe pays several tributes in hi it ings to the character of his mother, e