The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1895. 7 A MAY 24, 1895 OITY ITEMS IN BRIEF. Lee Fairchild will address the Portia Club Mondey night. The cranky stesmer Kahului gave an exhi- bition of sidewise sailing yesterday. R Commission denied the railway ise the rate on petroleum and its 3 s’ class of the Eilver-street en held its closing exercises yester- oon. ent Clerk Kyle of Judge Low’s court is d to make way for the son of Super- \jamin. ning horses at the track yesterday dwell, Captain Rece, Gold ‘Bug, Mr. A . Martin, a colored boy, was booked at esterday for stealing robes big wheelmen’s meeting called by the League of American Wheelmen will be held in Pioneer Hall to-night. new advanced tariff on grain over the Central Pacific will be discussed by the Rail- road Commission to-day. The steamer Oakland ran into a dolphin south of her slip yesterday morning and de- molished twenty-six piles. Louis Meyer, the well-known restaurant pro- prictor, has béen forced tnto insolvency, with iabilities amounting to $13,000. James McCabe, 40 Arctic street, is wanted by the police for bratally beating his aged father, T. J. McCabe, on Wednesday night. A successful performance was given last night at the California Theater in aid of the Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society. Foreign insurance companies are showing a disposition to abolish the commission sysiem introduce salaried men to do the work. dministrator Mercer of the Osborn estate yesterday filed a specific denial of neglect in the matter of his care of the Osborn estate. Judge Daingerfield yesterday rendered a de- cision giving the Theresa Fair estate $19,000 out of $30,000, paid as taxes under protest. Pollsopened at the headquarters of the Santa Cruz Venetian Water Carnival in the Grand Hotel for the election of Queen of the carnival. The question of the right of the Farmers’ Alliance to engege in the fire insurance busi- ness was submitied to Judge Murphy yesterday aiter argument, The Weather Bureau forecast for to-day in San Francisco is fair, nearly stationary tem- perature, light winds in the morning and risk after noon. The Street Committee decided vesterday to recommend that $80,000 be called for in the mext tax levy for paving Folsom street with bituminous rock. Charles H. Scanlan, the aged Lothario, known as the “widows’ friend,” yesterday brought suit to recover property, out of which he declared be had been victimized. The grocers’ picnic next Sunday, celebratin the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Retail Grocers' Protective Union, will be one of the best ever given by that body. Congregation Ohabai Shalome nas purchased a site_for the new synagogue on Bush street. near Laguna. The cdifice will be ready for the holiday services, four months hence. Patrick Cunningham is making ineffectual efforts to get the body of his brother, who died in the Almshouse, {rom the Cooper Medical College, where it was sent for dissection. The Street Committee yesterday decided to report against the petition for cutting the grade of Beale street at Harrison twenty feet, but favored paving and sewering the straet. The Mackinaw, which arrived from Tecoma last evening, attempted to land a couple of passengers, but her boat was swamped, and tro sailorsnarrowly escaped plunging into the ay. Adam Fitzgerald, the t. Louis millionare, accompanied by 'his_private secretary, O. Yerkes, will seil on the steamer China June 4, to extend his travels through China and Jepan. A second engineering party was dispatched to Fresno yesterday to survey & route through Hanford for the Valley road, and the party 1leave next week to work from Fresno via The jury in the case of Mrs. Louise A. Worth- fngton, on her second trial for murder, failed 1o agree and were discharged by Judge Belcher, who pronounced the defense theory as lieged widows of one David Jaffa, alias as Levet, were yesterday found to made an emicable arrangement to divide e deceased, which was yet in the ter Ross and W. B. Holland, two of the ds who held up John 8. ‘MacIntosh, or-keeper, last Sunday morning, werd ed in the Oakland City Prison yester- two witnesses. 11:25 last night an alarm from box 29 e Department to John H. Van residence, 812 California street. A thrown into the back yard caught here was no other damage. The wife of William Jenkins, keeper of a restaurant at 3131 Mission street, has eloped with a sea captain, taking with héra diamond pin and $900. Jenkins yesterday swore out a warrant for her arrest for grand larceny. Walter Ross, having been identified by two witnesses as being implicated in the MacIntosh Tobbery on McAllister and Leavenworth streets lest Sunday morning, was brought from Ok~ land last night and booked at the City Prison for the crime. Rev. M. Balogh of Cleveland, Ohio, and Rev. Julius Balogh of St. Louis, Mo., have arrived in this city, and will officiate at the Congregation Beth Menachim Streisant, Minna street, be- tween Fourth and Fi this Friday evening and Saturday morning. H. Ahrens, night clerk at the Hammam Baths, swore out a warrant yesterday for the firest of James Dunn or petty larceny, in ob- taining $15 from him on May 15 by represent- )n(:hlmself as the son of & member of of Nolan Bros., shoe merchants. Nicholas Jennotti, shoemaker, Vallejo stree: who nearly killed his son Louis on S beating him over the head with a piece of \ui Ripe, was vesterday held to answer before the Superior Court by Judge Low in $2000 bonds on the cherge of assault to murder. Henry Belville, a bunko man, was sent to the House ‘of Correction for six months by Judge Low yesterday for playing upon & stranger the old confidence trick of dropping a $50 Confed. erate bill on the street and getting $25 in good coin from the stranger as half of the find. The ladies’ central committee of the German branch of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion gave & “tea of roses” last evening. A 00d programme was provided st Association Hall. The object of the entertainment was to raise funds for furnishing the German branch Tooms. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company began suit in the United States District Court yester- day to recover the sum of $251 15 from Moore, Ferguson & Co. of San Diego. The latter shipped 2448 sacks of barley by the plaintiff’s steamer Bonita, and the dispute is over the freight bill. The plans for the grand stand of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club have been finished. The track is beinfi graded. Accommodations are being provided for 1000 horses and 5000 spec- tators. Work is guaranteed to be finished by November 1, but will probably end by Octo- ber 1. At the meeting ot the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors yesterday it was decided to recommend that provision for $150,- 000 be made in the nmew tax levy for street cleaning, as this was the estimate given by President Dohrmann of the Merchants’ Associa- tion as being necessary. Names of every color in the rainbow and out- of it were among those of the defendantsin the on brought yesterday by John Baptiste Podesta and others to quiet title to property on the corner of Union and Dupont streets.. Altogether ninety-eight names were entered £ ing fictitious, us the real s of the parties were not known. The Supreme Court has affirmed the judg ment of the Superior Court in the once famous suit of Hallie Holt vs. Fred 8. Holt. The plain- tiff'held, on the suthority of some “dear wife” letters ard other evidence,that a marriage had existed between herself and the defendant, but on the authority of the Sharon case Judge Wal- lace and a special jury of four had decided 10 the contrary. Nathan Martin, & colored boy, was booked 8t the City Prison vesterday by Detectives Bee and Harper and Policeman Donovan on ihe felony charge of petty larceny, second offense. He stole_several robes from Slocum’s livery stable, 925 Sutter street, aud pawned them. e is also believed to have stolen a lot of robes from Bridge’s livery stable on Post streel_about three months ago. He served & term of five months for the same offense. The Supreme Court yesterday ordered a new trial in the case of Joseph W. Taylor against W. R. Hearst for libel in an article in the Ex- aminer charging Taylor with fraud in street- paving contracis. The lower court had decided in favor of Hearst, but the Supreme Court de- cides that the trial Judge had infringed the rule that “in an ection for libel the question g demages xslfin- the jury.” Tnemcoun had iven some positive instructions to the on this head. Lo e firm CRASHED INTO A DOLPHIN The Steamer Oakland Misses Her Slip and Smashes the Piles. CRANKY STEAMER KAHULUL A Vessel Which Fails to Ride on an Even Keel—The Mackinaw’s Mishap. The steamer Oakland, on the 6:15 trip over to this side of the bay yesterday | south side of her slip and smashed the | structure to splinters. At least twenty-five | piles were snapped off as if they were so many matches and the pierhead was al- most entirely demolished. Captain Hughes was in command of the | Oakland when the accident occurred. The boat, approaching her slip, was a little down stream, as the tide was on the first of the flood. She missed the slip en- | tirely and went crashing into the dolphin almost bow on. Most of the passengers were on the forward lower deck and the heavy shock of the collision knocked nearly every man off his feet. There was a sound of tearing timbers and then fol- lowed the clanging of bells and the big steamer backed out. The collision was only the work of a mo- ment, dbut in that short interval nearly morning, ran into the dolphin on the | for Estee and received letters of apprecia- im;lt from men high in the councils of the party. NO DIVORCE WANTED. Defendani Says His Wife Has $70,000 and He Desires Half. An original answer has been filed by Henry Mayers, who was sued for divorce by Isabella Mayers, on the ground of de- sertion. Mayers is a man 64 years of age, and there are five children living. e denies that he deserted the plaintiff and says that be left her upon an agree- ment to live apart. This agreement, he | says, was entered into at Castroville in | 1883, after the arising of certain differences between himself and his wife, and it was expressly provided that no divorce was to be applied for. The wife claims thst there is no com- | munity property, but Mayers says there is property to the value of $70,000 standing n Eis wife’'s name acquired by his exer- tions, and if the divorce 1s granted he wants | his share, as he is incapacitated. But in | the meantime he is willing to resume re- | lations with his wife, formally offers to do so and wishes her petition denied. ( | | THEIR FIFTH EXEEBITION. Many Interesting Pictures to Be Shown Their Friends by the Sketch Club. All day yesterday and the day before the | members of the Sketch Club were busy | preparing for their fifth semi-annual exhi- | bition, which is to be held in their studio, | 508 Montgomery street. Their work will | make a very attractive showing, especially | with its surroundings of dainty and esthetic decorations. The club tenders a reception to the in- | timate friends of the members to-night. | This will be a sort of private view and will | be strictly invitational. To-morrow and [Sketched for the THE CRANKY EKAHULUI ALONGSIDE THE GREAT ADMIRAL. “Call™ by Coulter.] $1000 worth of damage had been done. Stumps of sgring piles showed their ragged tops above the water, and the rest of them hung down from the ribbing. It was a most complete wreck. After the passen- ers had been landed Captain Hughes went lown to the dolphin from inside the wharf. He gazed long and earnestly on the damage which had been done, and then sadly walked away. During his many years of service this was his first accident, and coming so closely on his great misfortune he seemed to feel it very keenly. & At the meeting of the Harbor Commis- sioners in the afternoon State Engineer Holmes made his report on the damage done. He said that twenty-one springand five standard piles had been entirely de- stroyed, with the ribbing, chocks, caps, ete.” It would cost for removing the piles, he said, $130; for Iumishin{z and driving new ones, $520. and for labor, ribbing, ch;ocks, caps, etc., $300, making a total of The naval reserve has petitioned the board to build a boathouse for their boat. The matter was referred yesterday to the Chief Wharfinger and engineer. - The *‘cranky’’ steamer Kahului has dis- charged her mi“ at ‘the refinery, com- leting the task witkout tipping over. hen she came into port she seemed to be scudding along on her port beam ends. She still had the list when she went to the refinery, and it was hoped that she would remain in that condition until sufficient sugar was taken out of her to put her on an even keel. She took a roll to starboard and her masts banged iuto the shed. She carried the same list when she left the re- finery and went sailing sidewise down the bay yesterday to the Great Admiral to take in her coal. The steamer Mackinaw arrived from Ta- coma yesterday afternoon with a cargo of coal. She dttempted to land a couple of passengers at Meiggs’ wharf, but the boat she launched was swamped, and two sailors narrowly escaped a swim. The boat was in the water and three valises had been placed in it. A heavy sea wasrunning and a stiff breeze was blowing, and the boat filled as two sailors tried to lower themselves down_the ropes. The sailors went back, the valises were picked up by Jimmy Black, the Merchants’ Exchange boatman, and the passengers failed to land. C. W, KYLE TO BE RETIRED, He Has to Make Way for the Son of Supervisor Benjamin. The Efficlent Warrant Clerk of Judge Low’s Court the Latest Victim. Charles W. Kyle, warrant clerk in Judge Low's court, is to be retired to make room for the son of a Supervisor. Supervisor Benjamin has a son who occupies the position of clerk in the whole- sale liguor-store of Crane, Hastings & Co. Since Supervisor Morgenstern was success- fulinousting Ambrose Watson, the efficient clerk in Judge Conlan’s court, and placing hisson in the position, Supervisor Benjamin has felt it incumbent upon him to look out for a “soft thing” for hisson. So Warrant Clerk Kyle had to be sacrificed. For several days past Supervisor Benja- min’s son has been under the tuition of Warrant Clerk Jackson of Judge Camp- bell’s court and in a few days he will blos- som out as a full-fledged warrant clerk. When spoken to on the subject yester- day Kyle did not care to discussit. I went to Supervisor Benjamin,” he said, “and when he told me his son was to take my position I asked him to send him to me and I would show him every courtes and do my best to help him with my ml vice. 1 did not seek the position, but it was given me and I will bow gracefully to the decision of the powers that be.” Attorney Kyle is a speaker of no mean order and during the last campaign he effectively stumped some of the counties | on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of | next week the club’s rooms will be opened wide. The public in general will then be | welcome and all are extended a cordial in- | Vitation by the young artists to inspect their work. The club is highly prosperous now. It has thirty-eight active members, while there are over 125 associate members. The pictures that are hung this year show that | the active members have been thoroughly | industrious. The walls of the two rooms of their studio | are covered with many beautiful creations. | The main room is devoted to oil paintin, | pastels and other works in color. The | smaller room contains a very attractive | collection of sketches in black and white while Helen Hyde exhibits an etching. ,’Iihere will also be a number of heads in clay. FOR HIS BROTHER'S B0DY Peter Cunningham’s Remains Found in the Cooper Medical College. Ineffectual Efforts of His Brother to Obtain Possession of Them. Patrick Cunningham, an old man living at 28 Gilbert street, wants to get posses- sion of the dead body of his brother, which is in the dissecting-room of the Cooper Medical College, but the college authori- ties refuse to surrender it. Peter Cunningham, an old gardener, died at the Almshouse on May 8. No relative was present to claim the body, and it was handed over to the Cooper Medical College for dissection. Patrick did not learn of his brother’s death till Monday last. He was shocked to find that the body had been sent to the college, and hastened to the college and demanded the body, which was refused unless he refunded §6 50 paid to the under- taker for embalming it. He is a poor nian and did not feel disposed to pay the amount. He applied to the Board of Health and Becretary Lawler gave him an order for the body. He presented the order at the college, but was again informed that the body would not be delivered unless he paid the undertaker’s fees. Yesterday he applied to Warrant Clerk Graham of Judge Joachimsen’s court for a search warrant, but the Judge refused to iissue it on the ground that a dead body could not be considered as “‘property,” and that it had not been claimed within twenty-four hours in accordance with sec- | tion 3092 of the Political Code. ——————— The Toboggan Slide. A resort for young and old, which is en- joying greater patronage this season than last, is the toboggan slide on Market street, between Eighth and Ninth, Tt is popular because it ministers to the pleasure of both old and young. Parents ride with their children, grandparents with their grand- children. To thus mingle the joys of all uszes not only gives the toboggan a distinct place umonfi amusements, but adds to the novelty and doubles the delight of the ride. For years the toboggan has been an attraction at the famous watering-places in the East and South. The small charge of 5 cents for a ride is made at the Market- street toboggan, the management calcu- lating to make their money upon the im- mense throngs which ride over the slide. ——————— The Levins on Trial. ‘The Levin case was concluded in the United States District Court yesterday. The prisoners are accused of sending indecent pictures and immoral literature through the mail. The chief witness ageinst them generdly was C. A. Lee of the Daily Report. He gave a detailed account of having purchased pictures from the prisoners and as 10 their methods of sending them through the mail in answer to a request for them. At 4 P. M. an adjournment was taken and the case wili be argned this morning. .Ll;g!gle Hawley will charge the jury in the aiier- PCTRERD AND THE SOUTH, Mammoth Jobs Now in Hand by the Union Iron Works. THE BRYANT-STREET PLANT. Two Little Children Taken From a Burning Bullding on Sixth Avenue. When the improvements at the Bryant- street power-house shall have been com- pleted the Market-street Railway Company will have an immense electric plant there that is to supply all the motive power for the Mission, Folsom, Bryant, Sixteenth, Kentucky, Third and Kearny street sys- tems. The concrete foundation is now being laid for the first of four big generative en- gines which the Union Iron Works is con- structing for the power-house. Each of these engines is to be of 1200 horse-power, making a total of 6000 horse-power. The Union Iron Works will have the first en- gine ready by the time Buperintendent Lynch of the construction department of the Market-street Railway Company has the foundation laid. The operation of the Sixteenth-street system will be delayed until the cut at Bryant street is put through. The Church- street contest will only stand in the way.so far as preventing connection with the Fill- more-street line. Until Attorney Van Du- zer has that matter settled residents of the Mission district will have to be content with the Haight-street route whenever they wish to visit the Golden Gate Park. Anent the movement to compel, if possi- ble, the Market-street Railway Company to run its electric line out-Church street to Thirtieth, it is learned at the construction department that the company did expend between $20.000 and $30, on rails fora cable line there, but when it ascertained what the cost of running a cable line over the grades would be as compared with the cost of running the Sixteenth and Fillmore streets system by electricity the original project was dropped. “It was simply a matter of dollars and cents,” is the ex- planation. It will take until about the middle of July to complete the alterations and gen- eral renovation of the steamer Columbia, on the wais at the Union Iron Works, She is having several new boilers put into her of 160 pounds steam pressure, so as to give her a propelling capacity of 2000 horse-power, with the Howden system of forced combastion. This will increase her speed from 14 to 15} knots, bringing her up to the Queen, Puebla and other fast coast steamers. Her engines are being completely remodeled to suit the high pressure. A large portion of the bottom plating of the vessel is being renewed ung)an entire new keel being put in. This hasbeen made necessary owing to the scouring action of the water at the Columbia River bar. Her cabins are being refitted and a new forward deck is being built. A complete new electric-light plant is going into her—one of 400 incandescent lights of 16 candle-power. The old electric- light plant was put into the steamer fifteen years ago, and was the first to go into any vessel. . She will also have a powertul search- light, and her running lights are to be electric. The Union Iron Works is building two sets of hoisting-engines for the Anaconda mine in Montana, which are the larzest in this country and will cost about $100,000. The securing of this piece of work wasa demonstration of the fact that the com- pany was able to best all other competitors in the country in that line of work. A 20-stamp mill is now being shipped by the company to Mexico. The company has been successful in obtaining some big foreign contracts. The tank-ship which the Union Works is building for the Pacific Coast Oil Com- pany to bring crude petrolenm up from {ueneme to the Alameda refinery is to have a carrying capacity of 6000 barrels and will be of 400 horse-power. A new shed to take the place of the old one damaged by fire a short while ago at A. Patrick & Co.’stannery on Sixth avenue is being rapidly built. The frame is up, too, for a new shed atthe Legallet-Hellwig sheepskin tannery. Martin Holje’s new drier at his glove factoryis among the improvements along Sixth avenue. Electric cars will soou be again running to Baden, the track between the cemeteries and that point having been almost cleared of the dirt and debris by which it was covered from last spring’s landslide. It is given out that a change in the route of the Castro-street railroad is con- templated. The report is that the Market- street Railway Company intends to aban- don_that portion of Oustro street south of Nineteenth, where the grades are pretty steep, and take the line out Eureka street, where the grade is much easier. Tennessee street is soon to be cut through the hill at the Potrero. The Reis estate will bear the most of the assessment, as it is the largest property- owner there. A still alarm at 4 P. m. Tuesday called the South San Francisco Fire Department to a blaze on Sixth avenue, between J and K streets, in a cottage occui»ied by F. Shoemacker, an employe of Milly Bros. The cause of the fire was a “‘live” ash barrel close to the rear steps. About $100 worth of damages was done. Shoemacker’s two little children were locked up in the house at the time the fire broke out, but a npi%hbor happening to pass by was attracted by the smoke and let the little ones out in time to save them from injury. ‘While M. McSwain, whose home is on Fourteenth avenue south, between N and P streets, was out driving on Silver ave- nue with two friends, a herd of steers col- lided with them. Mr. McSwain was thrown out and had hisshoulder dislocated and fractured. Hugh Chalmers, a mineral water man, reported at the Potrero police-station that a i}c')rmer employe, P. Lettich of 926 Nine- teenth street, has threatened to shoot him. Chalmers says Lettich would not make proper returns of the mineral waters he sold and he had to let him go, hence Let- tich’s threats of mischief. Jacob Oman, a shipwright employed on Frederick Siemers’ ways at Hunters Point, had a leg broken Tuesday morning. A plank fell on him. The Holly Park Improvement Club will have a meeting Monday night. A report is expected from the committee chosen to see the Spring Valley Company as to & supply of water from the Clarendon Heights reservoir. Residents of Ocean View are endeavor- ing to get a chemical fire engine in their district. : Tuesday night the past masters visited Noe Valley Lodge, A. O. U. W., at Duveneck’s Hall, corner of Church and Twenty-fourth streets, Samuel Booth of Excelsior Lodge No. 126 gave an interesting talk on music. A two-story frame building on Church street, near Sixteenth, is to be built by Contractor J. C. Pene for L. Lane. The cost is to be $2765. Two new stores have been built on Castro street, between Nineteenth and Twentieth. Two cottages are going up for Messrs. McDonald and Kispert on Seventeenth and Bixteenth avenues respectively, in South Ban Francisco. John O0’Connor is just finishing a neat cottage cn Fifteenth avenue, between N and P streets. Division 9, Ancient Order of Hibernians, will give its first annual picnic at Harbor View Park next Thursday from the Po- trero. The Sundng-school of the Olivet Presby- terian Church at the Potrero will enjoy a picnic at Petaluma on the 30th inst. ilesperion Parlor No. 137, N. 8. G. W., will give an entertainment and ball at Na- tive Sons’ Hall, on Seventeenth street, be- tween Valencia and Guerrero, this eyening. Next Tuesday evening Alta Lodge No. 242, A. 0. U. W., will give an open meet- ing at Mangel’s Hall, Twenty-fourth and Folsom streets. W. H. Barnes will then distribute the officers’ gold badges prom- ised to the lodge in district 5 which has the record for doing the best work for the past year. s The James Lick Grammar School is to be enlarged so as to accommodate 250 extra pu)fils. the petition of the residents in the vicinity of Castro and Twenty-fifth streets having been successful. Another floor will be added, making four stories alto- gether. Mission Choral Union will five its first concert at Mission Parlor Hall on the 31st inst. Superintendent Joseph C. Gallagher of Station C has recovered from his illness and will be at his post Monday. WITH THE BOSTONIANS. Elmer De Pue Returns After Eight Months on the Opera Stage. Elmer de Pue, the famous local tenor, has just returned from a twelve months’ sojourn in the East. A portion of that time has been spent with the Bostonians, while the remainder of the time has been employed in cultivating an already well- traived voice. “There is no place I like so well as San Francisco,”” said he last night. “I am sorry to say that my time here is limited to about two months. Then I must return tomy duties in the East. For the last il : Elmer de Pue. [From a photograph.] eight months I have been with the Bos- tonians, and during that time have visited all the large cities of the East. I like San Francisco audiences best of all, because generally they are more ap- preciative. There is another point also in their favor, and that is that the women are far handsomer than those seen in the most select audiences in the East.” Mr. De Pue’s friends have determined to give him a concert at Association Hall next week, and the following well-known veople will take part: Mrs. Maud Berry Fisher. Mrs. C. J. Dickman, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Stewart, Louis yon der Mehden Jr. and Donald deV. Graham. MAYOR SUTRD AFTER ART He Is Opposed to the Placing of the Statue on the Tower Summit. He Thinks Wells Should Be Pald a Compromise Figure and the Con~ tract Canceled. Mayor Sutro is not satisfied with the statue ordered for the top of the great dome of the City Hall. He is opposed to the design and favors the payment of a compromise figure to Artist Wells on fthe cancellation of the contract. The Mayor has looked deeply into the subject and is convinced that any such figure as the one proposed, if made of white metal as intended, would not stand the strain of the wirds nor be a pretty work of art as should surmount the dome. In discussing the question last night he said : “I am opposed to the statue under the vresent contract. In the first place the figure should be a work of art which wounld be a credit to the city. It must be remem- bered that the figure when placed in posi- tion is expected to remain there for cen- turies. If we are going to have anything it should be of bronze. “The contract price is $6000. To put it in bronze would probably cost $12,000, and in fact I do not know but what the white- metal one will reach that amount before it is in position. What I would prefer to do is compromise with Mr. Wells and reject his figure. Itwould pay the City to do so, and then advertise for designs and award a contract to some artist who will give us a work of art. “Anotherthing; I believe we should have is a clock in the tower. It would cost very little, but would be a great benefit to the people of the city. Ido not know whether a clock couid be tract for building has been let, but I think it could. ¥ ‘“‘Here is part of a letter I received from one of the best artists who ever visited San Francisco. Ido not care to make the gen- tleman’s name public at present, as this was simply a private letter to me and not intended for publication:” MUNICH, GERMANY, April 20. Dear Mr. Sutro: * * * There were some things at the Cil{ Hall T would like to talk to you about. That building is truly a magnifi- cent structure, and & work ofart not appreci- ated by your people. The architect who planned that building 1s a great artist, and it is posi- tively outrageous the way he has been treated by the City anthorities. That imposing work of his will carry hisname down to posterity, while those of the others will be totally forgot- ten. * * * He was right in protestin, against that monstrosity which had commences to disfigure the proportions of the building be- fore I left. To erect that dome is a piece of vandalism. r 5:‘9 To any American interested in art in country this eannot scem otherwise, and one satisfaction remains, namely, that tuture San ciscans will be more ‘cultivated in such matters and that thing will have to come down. Ihave not the slightest doubt about it. Victor Gulielmo, who is considered by the writer the finest artist who ever visited Cali- fornia, had his design ‘‘rejected by that pack of idiots, the Board of Supervisors.” & Anywhere else in the world no committee of Supervisors would have had the presumption to have thought of depending upon their own Jjudgment. This great sculptor was treated in a most outrageous manner by these people. * * * Some time the history of these matters will be made known, 2s it is being contemplated. Mayor Sutro is undecided as to what action he will take regarding the statue, but if he can find any way to have the matter reconsidered h% presenting a mes- sage to the Board of Supervisors he will do so. ——— Special Baggage Notice. Round-trip transfer tickets on sale at re- duced rates at our office oNLY. One trunk, round trip, 50 cents; single trip, 35 cents. Morton Special Delivery. 31 Geary street, 408 Taylor street and Oakland ferry depot.* e Tt is probaple that in a very few years it will be a common thing to sell electricity in jars, like milk. ————— MONEY makes the mare go and buys the Al mighty-dollarCigar. . ut in now that the con- | CREATING NEW ACTIVITY, It Is Proposed to Consolidate All the Comstock Mines. SEVEN COMPANIES INTERESTED. |z If the Directors Agree Part of the Brunswick Lode WIill Be Purchased. A very determined effort is being made by mining and stock men to rejuvenate, as it were, the waning interests of the Com- stock lode. Asa matter of fact, this prop- erty is just as well known to-day as it ever was, except that speculation is not so rife as in olden times. It is proposed by those most deeply in- terested in the several mines on the Com- stock lode to amalgamate and purchase a part of the Brunswick lode. This property, which lies about a mile east of the Com- stock and running parallel with it, has re- cently developed some very fine paying claims, and it is thought that if the Com- stock people can secure sufficient interest in that direction it will be not only beneficial to them, but will revive the flag- ging interest in what bas always been one of San Francisco’s chief factors of business —namely, an active stock market. The companies interested in the pro- posed deal are the Consolidated California | and Virginia, Gould and Curry, Hale and Norcross, Best and Belcher, Chollar and Potosi, and the Savage. For months past ali of these mines except the Consolidated California and Virginia have been run at a dead loss to the stockholders. Of course this has no reference to the old workings, which in several instances bave made large returns of bullion. The Best and | Belcher mine and also the Gould and Curry | are in very bad condition, not a pound of | ore has been taken from them for months, and what is worse, there is nothing in sight. The directors of the Chollar and Potosi mining companies held a meeting yester- day at which time they heartily approved the proposed counsolidation. The other companies interested will hold meetings to-day and to-morrow and it is not expected that there will be any opposition to the scheme. “The proposed consolidation,” said Mr. Durbrow, secretary of the Gould and Curry Company, yesterday, ‘‘means a revival of the mining and stock interests of San Fran- cisco. The recent improvements and de- velopments in the Occidental mine, which is a part of the Brunswick lode, are the real cause of the movement. The directors of the seven mines, as I understand it, pro- | pose to pool issues and purchase 5000 feet of the Brunswick lode. The property they have in view lies north and south of the Sutro tunnel and includes the St. Johis, | Alabama and Bailey claims, The St. Johns claim has 2900 feet to the south of the tunnel, while the combined Alabama and Bailey have 2100 feet on the north. “The Brunswick lode runs parallel with | the Comstock, about a mile to the east. It | is about two miles in length, extending on the north from the Monte Cristo ledge to the Occidental on the south. Samples of the croppings at all points give assays. The greatest width of this iode so far de- veloped is 112 feet, with a perpendicular depth down to the Sutro tunnel of 1400 feet. Regardless of the fact that as yet but little work has been done, the mine has produced at least $2,000,000. \ *‘Should the several companies decide to make the purchase, it is understood that they will share expenses and profits in pro- portion to the number of feet they hold on the Comstock ledge. “The Consolidated California and Virginia mines own 1300 feet, the Gould and Curry 700, Best and Belcher 600, Savage 612, Hale and Norcross 400 feet, Chollar and Potosi 1400 feet. My company, Gould and Curry, hold a meeting to-day at noon, and I have not the slightest doubt that they will pass resolutions agreeing to the plan.” If the directors of various companies agree on the plan, a meeting of the Stock- holders will be called to ratify their action. It is not thought that there will be any material opposition from them. If the plan is properly executed, there will not be any increase of monthly expenses, which will of course be a strong point in favor of the consolidation and purchase. IRVING INSTITUTE. Twelve Young Ladies Graduate and Re- ceive Their Diplomas From Right Rev. Bishop Nichols. “To-day and to-morrow,” a pleasing sketch of the pastand the future, was the subject of the essay which was read by Miss Elizabeth Curry at the commence- ment exercises of Irving Institute last night. Miss Curry introduced the essay by say- ing that, “The ancients said wisely that man lives in what has been, what is and what will be, but the modern writers as- tutely say that man lives by retrospection.” The essay upon ‘“Gordian Knots” de- livered by Fannie M. Agar, demonstrated the capacity of the young lady’s mind in | the direction of the labor and financial questions of the present. A realistic version of the life of a school irl was given by Cornelia Lott, under the ead of a School Girl’s Potpourri. Miss Mabel Meaney delivered an address on “Lights,” dealing in an interesting man- ner with the subject from the time that nccording‘ to Genesis the Lord said, “Let there be light.” | The other essays were as follows: “Queen of Song,” Estelle M. Davis; “Follow Your Genius,” Eleanor Dill; ground,” Juliet L. Greninger; Tongue of Music,” Miriam Hal cal Thistles,” Ethelwynne Marrack; Constitutes a State,” Helen L. Ruthrauff; “The House of Rumor,” Agnes M. 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