The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1895, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1895. 17 Look you! We have had five plays by the Frawley Company and the Unforgiv- able 8in has stalked through every one. “Sweet Lavender” is the last chapter in the story of a woman betrayed. “The Comforts of Home'’ deals with the ram- pant desires of a lascivious old man. “Moths' is the picture of la femme in- comprise with the subdued lover effect in | the background. “Nancy & Co.” trifles elegantly with adultery. ‘‘Young Mrs. Winthrop” minces up to it squeam- ishly. “The Senator,’ bolder than any, grapples it sans gloves and chokes it in the sight of men. Did it ever occur to you—and, of course, | I have no idea who you are, so you may | answer or not as you choose—how much of | a part The Unforgivable Sin plays in the | scale of our amusements? It is everywhere. It is the sob of tragedy, | the laugh of comedy, the mystery of melo- | drama, the fun of farce. It is the absorb- | ing study of life. It is the greatest joke on | earth. | 'This is not a nice thought. 1t is a truth. You may look at it with a smile or a sneer—as I said before, I do not know you—you may gaze down on it specula- | tively, turn it over with your foot, pick it | up daintily on the end of a stick, stamp on it brutally and cry out that itis ugly, un- wholesome, ill smelling and pestilential, | but you will have to admit, in the end, that it is a truth after all. You will have | to admit that it is a truth, even if it makes yousad. Aydemi! And sometimes it | will. | Ofall the five plays “The Senator” is the best, and of all the five it was best played. With decent wonder, I observed | that it hummed along as plays of " that order should do. 1t had life, go, zip. It | was well pictured and properly set. It had a little of George Osbourne and lots of Mr. Leslie, and an exquisite quantity of Mr. King. It neatly ranged®the members of the Frawley Company according to | their talents and thus cared for and com- panioned by congenial characters they loomed up quite majestically in the first harmonious ensemble they have presented | to S8an Francisco. 1 It may be regarded as incambent on any | one talking about *‘The Senator,” as played last week in San Francisco, to mention | that Mr. Maclyn Arbuckle is not Mr. Wil- | liam Crane. I expressly state, therefore, that Mr. Arbuckle is not Mr. Crane. And | having done what was expected of me, I | would like to be allowed to congratulate Mr. Arbuckle. Whatever disadvantages this actor may have labored under, throughout his stage career, he has at least | | | anybody else. | against him that he is himself. Nor can | it be thrown gracefully in the faces of the | Frawley Company that they are not | Rehans and Drews and Gilberts and | Lewises and all the Frohman and Empire and Lyceum stock companies rolled into one, simply because they have agreeably and cheerfully reproduced plays | which were first presented by these more ambitiots persons and organizations. In further justice to Mr. Arbuckle, be it said that while he is neither so violently cheer- ful nor so aggressively energetic as Mr. Crane, while he does not raise his voice and howl as if with fell intent to wake the been spared the pain and effort of being | And it cannot be counted | dead from dreamless sleep,while he does not chuckle and chortle in fatty glee, after the unctuous methods of Mr. Crane, yet is he a hustling, rustling and most realistic Sen- ator, with more of dignity than Mr. Crane finds fit or possible and with infinitely less of noise, for which let us make burnt offer- ings to the gods of peace. Mr. King covered himself with glory. As the relic of the days of Webster he not only redeems the honor of Dick Phenyl, sadly out of evidence of late, but goes be- yond and above it by many lengths. The old man of the stage is usually a thing of horror and a beast forever. His monoton- ous cracked treble, his doddering crook- ed limbs, his tiresome palsied head, the ghastly color and the villainous wig of him are as detestable as they are familiar, and even trained actors of the school of Shake- speare, who reveled in octogenarians, fall into the conventional gaffer of high or low degree and fall too low for all redemp- tion. Mr. King’s Denman is nothing of this sort. He isa gentle, pathetic, tired old man, and so exquisitely careful is the makeup and so consistent is the portraiture that after this I can forgive Mr. King any- thing—even Lord Jura. The debutante seems a harmless lady, with contralto notes opgray and dovelike quality., She mourned and mourned and mourned, as the hapless Lucy is intended todo. Ialwaysthought the Secretary of State would have been well rid of his Lucy had not her pleasant little elopement plans fallen through under the pressure of the doughty Senator. Still, no woman de- served such a fate as Mr. Wyngate's Count von Stahl. Iremember Mr. Wyngate. He can say good-by with more volume of sound than any man in the world. I re- member him in the “American Girl.”” GOOD-BY! Still, it is unfortunate that his talent should be thus limited. One cannot build up a stage career on the word good-by. his reminds me of a French artist who | was glib enough of tongue and deft enough | of brush, but when he tried to write te never could think of anything except the word “Bonjour,”” and the pathetic part of it was that he wanted to be a great novel- ist. I think this is quite a touching coin- cidence. > I have just said that comparisons were unkind, and yet who can forget Georgie | Drew in “The Senator,”” or find another | Mrs. Hilary like unto hers? Iam not fond | of Miss Bates, either, in the role of young matron, wife or widow. As The Girl—the Gibsonian American Girl—she is truly cear and lovable. Her matronly assur- ance is less agreeable, and when she be- comes too blithe, as is sometimes the case, and indulges in exaggerations and flip-flaps | she loses much of the pretty poise which | suits her daintily and verges toward the | precipitous edge where vivacity ends and | something else—lower down, you know, | | begins. Here she would be crowding Miss | Ross, who strives in vain to soar. Miss | Ross is not to be felicitated on having | chosen the stage as a profession. She is, doubtless, painstaking and unquestionably satisfied with the result, but her friends should be able to reason her out of that. The ingénue who can fail to grasp such a golden chance as “Josie” should tie up her little stagestruck head in iced bandages, drink cool things and try to think about something else. Every now and again I go to the Tivoli, and for awhile I went there because I liked to hear Miss Millard sing. I still have that sensation semi-occasionally, but the Tivoli is a hard master and a soft, sweet voice sometimes meets there the fate | of La bedide Honorine, the leedle Cheru- salem skylark, and gets all the music strangled out of it. Miss Millard, too, has buried beneath the regulation, brass-band Tivoli manner that suggestion of modesty which was so pleasing on her first appear- | ance, and with large pink silk legs flashing through a fringe of blue satin ribbons, the degagée Tivoli bearing and a tired strain running through her head tones, she is booming along toward the commonplace at | avery pretty pace. The “Tar and the Tar- tar” is said to be the highest point of ex- cellence to which the present Tivoli com- | pany attains. With Leary in the cast in place of the person whose name I have forgotten, it was, as I remember it, infi- nitely better than during the present run, but it is a bright, gay little affair under any circumstances and shows up oneor two of the troupe in a more favorable light than that which shines on Miss Millard. Miss Plaisted, for example, seems somewhat conquered by her Turk- ish trousers and, for the nonce, assumes & subdued and almost plaintive air which accompanies her even through her evolution into bloomers. I am %impressed with the superior grace of | Miss Plaisted when she is plaintive. Not | so very long ago she sang ‘“Alice Ben Bolt’’ | under the hypnotic_influence of Svengali | Hartman. This is the only opportunity I | have had of looking at Miss Plaisted when she was standing still. She was singing | the sweet old air, which even Du Maurier has not been able to stale and wither, with feeling and with art. The calcium light { thrown full upon her was flattering to a | dainty little figure in one of the Empire frocks of which Miss Plaisted does not weary. There were none of the disfigur- | ing winks and_knowing nods and strange grimacings and twitchings of the lips and | hard, stiff, little flings of hard, stift little | legs and arms and roughety-tough man- | nerisms which Miss Plaisted so grievously | mistakes for opera boutfe vivacity, but just {for one fleeting minute, a quaint, pictur- esque, sweet-singing small person who might be charming an’ she chose. T have a burning thought which must | have vent. I am weary of the gifted | Hartman. An actor who can do one thing so cleverly over and over again ought to be clever enough to do something else occasionally. I used to laugh when Mr. Hartman said, ““‘Oh, say !’ and smiled loosely on the world and wobbled up the stage and down and then up again | (but always in the center) and fell over himself and all that sortof thing. Further details are superfluous and, for the matter of that, any—since every man, woman and child /in’ San Francisco has seen Mr. Hartman doing these things over and over again. The point is that once I laughed and now Ilaugh no more. Neither | at these things nor at that bounding, india- rubber dance which has not varied by the tripping of a toe since I came here from New York some three or four years agone and bound myself to the statement, in rint, that Hartman was the cleverest ow eomedian in the.country. I am glad I expressed it that way. There is comfort in this. I may still say truthfully that I think Mr. Hartman would be funny—in the country. There is a sort of magic lantern shadow picture going on at the Orpheum, which is known by the bills as Silhouettes Vivants, and may be regarded in the light of a pub- lic educator. It opened up to me, at all events, astraight-away course of learning, to which I had never inclined or aspired. The exact manner in which a' young woman ot a certain recognized address wins the confidence of a bearded man with the ultimate purpose of decoying him into a saloon, where she has a business under- standing, and there relieving him of his watch, chain and pocket-book, to the tune of “Her Golden Hair,” is not s line of thought down whicn my mentality had ever traveled. Like most persons over twenty-one, I am aware that this order of crime plies its trade in every large city, and thanks to the enterprise of the Or- pheum management, I now know just how itis done. I know that she drops her handkerchief and that he picks it up; that he grasps her hand with empressement when he returns it to her, and that she then plucks him by the beard. I know that this establishes an acquaintance which is precipitately followed up by the cham- pagne incident, and such results as the length of the man’s thirst and the depth of the man’s pocket may justify. I dare say this is as realistic as’it is painful. But I donot think it is necessary. I cannot say that I felt myself a better and a wiser woman because this rosy phase of life had been presented to my eyes in every per- fumed detail. I think one may scarcely be regarded as finicky who finds this sort of spectacle utterly and absolutely revolt- ing. I think oné may hardly be called hypercritical who suggests that this sort of entertainment is absolutely and utterly unwarrantable at a place of amusement which pretends to cater to persons of in- tellizence and decency. Ocherwise the Orpheum bill is excellent— avast improvement on last week. ‘‘Miss Scottie’’ is a collie dog and a dear, brill- iantly clever and as vain as a peacock. The large wag she carries through her cunning act is a pleasant sight to see, and another is the caress she takes so prettily from her masterat the end of each success- ful trick—a_genuine love-pat, you know, a give-and-take of the friendliest. The Mar- tinettis, who are still flying through the air at all sorts of angles, and a man with reversible legs, and some whirlwind danc- ers, who give a few startling effects in yel- low satin and white frills, make up the best vaudeville the Orpheum has grouped on its stage this suammer. The more the pity that it should bear so large a blot at the tail of the programme. 1 Adonis Dixey, who has won his bet, made a year ago on the Rialto, that he would play a whole season under Augustin Daly without rowing with that most diffi- cult of managers, is once again to become a star in the theatrical sky. He comes to San_ Francisco to begin his stellar tour, and will play the Columbia for two weeks about August, I believe. Maurice Barrymore and Rose Coghlan are also to follow the Frawley engagement. Dear heaven, what a constellation! Eyes accustomed tothe theatrical night which | has so long prevailed in this jay town may not endure such brilliancy. Rudyard Kipling, it is said, is writinga play for the Beerbohm Trees, who are, by the way, particularly sore on the subject of America. They have of a certainty had that shabbiest of treatment, slander sent after affectedly honored guests. It seems that some gossipy paragrapher reported a sarcasm purporting to have slipped from Mr. Tree's lips anent Mr. Lackaye’s inter- pretation of Svengaliin Potter’s dramatizu- tion of “Trilby.” And swift on the heels of this came the statement that Mr. Tree had cribbed this version of “Trilby” and intended to make it his own in London. The Trees are really very deligntful peo- ple, and far above any such discourtesy and double-dealing. ~ They persistentl: deny one story and the other, but bot! have gone out the length and breadth of the dramatic press, and contradictions—as all the world knows—never travel as far or as fast as the rumor that flies on evil winds. Apropos de “Trilby”’—Oh! you can stand | this—the Leigh girls are doing a Trilby dance at the New York Casino Roof Gar- den. It is most particularly queer, this dance. The “Trilbys,” two pair of them, a;{)near beneath a” huge white umbrella, which screens both dancers to the knees. Thence downward is the sweep of lithe white limbs and ankles and a twinkling of twenty pink toes on a properly protected stage. ith the last pirouette down comes the umbrella and the dancers bow low in short petticoats, the sight of which is a matter of gratitude and relief to the audience. There had been & doubt, you see. Once again—this time preparatory to leaving for Europe—Kyrle Bellew has had himeelf interviewed. Once again we hear about papa who was a clergyman—so re- fined and respectable for one’s father to be a clergyman—and how mamma’s name was Miss Kyrle. ‘Once again the cemetery story is dug up and the impassioned re- rter writes for dear life how a smile ecorated Mr. Bellew’s classic lips, as he said: “QOh, yes! ['ve been a grave-digger in my time.” know these interviews by heart. Ican skip around in them. Some time, when I can_find somebody sufficiently interested in Kyrle Bellew to lisien, I will repeat one backward. WAGES AT THE POTRERD. Pacific Rolling-Mills Steel-| Workers Advanced 10 Per Cent. BETTER MARKET FOR IRON. No Particularly Blg Orders, How- ever, Recelved atthe Large Concerns. General Manager Charles M. Keeney announced yesterday that the wages of the steelworkers and also of a number of men on the rolis at the Pacific Rolling-mills ve been inereased 10 per cent voluntar- and without any request for such raise being made by the men themselves. About 150 employes are thus benefited. The increase took effect on the 1st of the month. Mr. Keeney’s explanation is that the raise was made because the company | ved it was the proper thing to do. Naturally, the large number of iron- workers employed in this City and partic- ularly at the ZPotrero view this increase of wages as an indication of a2 manufacturing revival. The inference is that the price of manufactured products has gore up some- what, warranting the wage increase. On this point, however, local manufacturers are divided. A visit was paid to the Pacific Rolling- mills vesterday. It was stated that no big orders were recently received. The mills have just had their customary an- nual closing down for a few days for gen- eral repairs and overhauling and wn]! open up this week. Work on the material for the dome of the new City Hall is progress- ing. The Parrott building contract is about finished. E President Henry T. Scott of the Union Iron Works is not_particularly optimistic as to the future. The works, he says, em- ploys about 1000 men now, whereas it for- merly gave work to 2200 men. k “1f there has been any advance in_the price of raw materizl,” he cbserved, “Iam not aware of it. As for manufactured prod- ucts the;dealers here never reduced their prices. Itisall very well to increase your prices, but if you can’t sell your products what does it amount to?” On the wage question General Manager Dickie said: **We are raising the wages of men individually all the time, more or les’s, and sometimes we have to lower a man’s wages, which naturally goes against the grain, you know. “If we think a man is worth more we in- crease his pay; if we think he is not worth as much as our salary list calls for we re. duce him. Whenever we advance a salary it is done voluntarily and it is purely a matter of merit. We are always willing to Jay a good price for a good man. That's Lu'smess as we understand it. Accom- plishment is what we look to, and the'man who can do the best work commands the highest figure in the labor market with us.” ‘At the George W. Gibbs Company, the Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Company and Miller, Sloss & Scott’s the information was given that iron products, such as pipe, bar and sheet iron and nails, had advanced in price considerably in the Eastern mar- ket; though they aiffered in their figures. On the coast nails had gone up in the last sixty days from 25 to 30 per cent, and other products from 10 to 20 per cent. b Prices in the East, it was said, are still higher. g : | According to_Vice-President Bothin of | the Judson Manufacturing Company, | Eastern manufacturers have increased prices a little too rapidly from a stand- | point of good business policy ; but they had to advance prices, he says, to protect them- | selves, seeing that they have been doing business on a losing basis for the past three | years. He attributes the Tise in nailstoa general closing down of many factories in | the East and the formation of a combina- tion. | The Union Iron Works put 142 tons | of 18-inch belt armor cn the battle- | ship Oregon, which Manager Dickie thinks | is a good record. All the armor is to be | placed on her within ten days, except the | two shutter plates, one of which is now on | the'way from the Carnegie works and the | other will be as soon as its length can be determined. The main batteries and mounts are ex- pected to be shipped shortly from the Washington (D. C} arsenal for the Oregon. There will be four 13-inch 62-ton guns for the big turrets and eight 8-inch 2-ton guns for the smaller ones. These 13-inch guns will be the largest ever brought across the continent nng are bigger than the famous “Big Betsy’’—a 56-ton _gun. The Union Iron | Works will install the batteries. 5 | Ex-Senator Charles N. Felton, president of the Pacific Coast Oil Company, drove | the first rivet himself yesterday into the | new oiltank steamer, which the Union Iron Works is building for the company. He sent the three-quarter bolt home into the keel plate and headed it like an old hand at the business, being rewarded with commendation from Irving M. Scott. ‘The Union Iron Works has just started in to build two sets of 900-horsepower elec- tric engines for the Tuttle Manufacturing Company at Anaconda, Mont. They are to be used in anew process of reducing cop:per ores by electricity. B As soon as the steamer Columbia is fin- ished, which will be in about four weeks, the steamer Oregon will be put on the ways for a similar overhauling, new boil- ers and new machinery. £ The English turret steamer Progressist, Captain §nmes Pinkham, from Sunder- land, England, is at presentat the West- | ern Sugar Refinery unloading a cargo of 3500 tons of English coal there. The Progressist has been chartered by Dunsmuir & Sons for a year. Sixteen | more vessels of the same type are being built at William Doxford & Sons’ yard at | Sunderlana. Ten new boilers have recently been put into the Western Sugar Refinery. A great ay’s record was made by the refinery re- cently, 1,750,000 pounds of sugar being the output of a twenty-four hours’ run. Cap- tain Hackett of Pacific coast dredger 3 Las been dredging in frontof the refinery’s dock for a few days. ARRESTED FOR FORGERY. Melville London Wanted Money to See His Dying Mother. Melville London was arrested yesterday afternoon by Policeman T. V. Gibson on the charge of forgery. London recently arrived in the City from Fresno and se- cured employment with the Columbus Buggy Company. He made his home in t}:e lodging-house kept by J. C. Paulsell’and as he owed Paulsell some money he gave him a check a few days ago for $80 on the First National Bank, signed by J. C. Glenn of the Colum- bus Buggy C‘"“P":iyn Paulsell gave him $2 and said he would give him the balance as soon as he cashed the check, When the check was presented at the bank the signature of Mr. Glenn was pronounced a forgery. London was prostrated by his arrest. He said his mother was on the point of daath in Fresno and he wanted the money to pay his {are there. 'DOINGS OF HOME TRADE Order for Reclamation Plant for Use in the Sacra- mento River. MACHINERY FOR MONTANA. Latest Contracts and Shipments Made by Various Local Industries. George Ames of the Union Works, who recently closed a contract with the Ana- conda Company to furnish two of the largest hoisting engines ever constructed for use in two of the syndicate mines, of the latest pattern aud capable of sinking 6000 feet, has a contract to furnish the re- finery at Anaconda with two of the largest engines ever constructed—triple expansion Corliss engines, with a rating of 900 horse- power each. The company will also fur- nish three mammoth steam stamps on several Bruckner furnaces, the whnole amounting to about 700 tons of machinery. requiring about thirty-five cars for trans- portation. The Selby Smelting and Lead Company reports business good, with a considerable increase over last year. Especially is this s0 with the gold bullion trade. The revival of gold mining all along the coast is greatly increasing the gold output. For the past tnree weeks the works have been pushed up to full capacity on account of the an- nual closing down of the United States mint. During this time, in aadition to their regular trade, they have received the bullion shipments formeriy going to that institution. The mint opens again to- morrow, and the strain will be somewhat relieved. The Perkins Pump and Engine Com- pany has orders on hand which keep-the works up to_about full capacity. During the week this company shipped an engine and pumping plant to Biggs, one engine to Newman and two pumping plants to Fultz, Nev. Paul B. PerEins was asked about making their gas and oil engines re- versible. He says they can make them reversible at an extra cost of $5, but that this is not considered so desirable, as the engine has to be started each time, whereas in gearing this is avoided. he Krogh Manufacturing Company has during the past week received orders for one of their centrifugal pumps of 2400 gal- lons per hour capacity, one of 9000 and one of 18,000 gallons per hour. This company has also just closed a contract with a Sac- ramento River reclamation company for a reclamation plant of 150,000 gallons per hour. This Jast-mentioned plant is toin- clude compound condensing engines and boilers, with all necessary auxiliaries com- lete to make a first-class plant, costing ?11,000. H. D. Morris is furnishing the Merced G. M. Co. at Coulterville with a 14x22 Rand compressor and drills. The Pacific Shoe Compon% has adopted the profit-sharing svstem. The employes, in addition to wages received, share in the profits of the business. About thirty men are emgloyed. The Fulton Engineering and Shipbuild- ing Works are building a 100-stamp quartz mfil for a coast mining company, also a launch towboat for Central America, and a twin-screw_steamer to be used on the Sacramento River. This company will bid | on one of the torpedo boats to be built by the United States Government. The General Electric Company of this | City has closed a contract with the San | Joaquin Electric Company at Fresno for | putting in a transmission of 1200 horse- | power a distance of thirty-five miles. The P. F. Clerc Machine Works, manu- facturers of laundry machinery, are plac- ing some large machines in Neustadter Bros.” factory. Eastern agents tried hard to get this contract, but Neustadter Bros. were bound to favor home establishments, and =o the contract went to the Clerc Machine Works. The Union Machine Company has just shipped two concentrators to Murray, Idaho, and are building two more for a California quicksilver mine. They are also placing some big machinery in a Sacra- mento brewery. and during the week finished a_twenty horsepower gas engine for the California Gas Engine Company. Luke G. Sresovich of L. G. Sresovich & Co. has just invented and has now in operation at his Pioneer Cocoanut Factory a new machine which is a great success. | It manufactures the cocoanut into long white strings, which he claims isq much better than the shredded cocoanut. The Pacific Can Company has justadded a lot of new machinery to their factory. It consists of a complete plant for litho- graphing on tin and o&er metals in | colors. The starting up of this plant will | put a number of additional men to work. | The California Fire: vorts a very satisfactor; over last year. On account of the recent | agitation in favor of patronizing home in- ourth of stitutions their trade for the July was greatly augmented. The San Francisco Bridge Company has just closed a contract for building two ridges in the Hawaiian Islands, and also a contract for building & $20,000 iron wharf at the Presidio for the United States Gov- ernment. M. O'Brien, manufacturer of flour-mill | machinery, shipped yesterday two carloads of machinery to Elko, Nev., for a new mill being erected there. He is also shipping machinery for a mill at Irvine, Cal. The new flour-mill at Durham, for which he recently furnished the machinery, has started up and is running smoothly to its full capacity. v The Golden State and Miners’ [ron Works are building a_five-stamp mill for griudmg red mineral rock for a Sonoma ounty paint company, a new industry just starting up. This company is con- structing the machinery and rolls for the Corralitos Paper Company of Santa Cruz County. The Woodbury Concentrator Comvan is shipping two concentrators to the W. Y. 0. D. mine at Grass Valley, and six to dif- ferent mines in Utah. BETTER TIMES OOMING. Governor Budd’s Encouraging Words to an Eastern Inquirer. Governor Budd has prophesied that the prospects of California this season will be brighter than for vears past. Yesterday he received from the Chicago Tribune a dispatch which reads: What s your opinion as to the future pros- pects of California, and what are the indica- tious of returning prosperity? The Governor at once sent the following Teply: The wave of better times which at first ap- ared on Atlantic seaboard is gradually com- ng this way. As we were the last to feel the depression, we are the last to experience the reaction, but already the increased activity in the manufacturing industries has given a feel- ing of greater confidence, and the better rices being realized for fruits and the prices or cereal products and for wool have given to the farming community new hope, all of which combine to indicate a good season and re- newed prosperity for California. As Governor Budd has recently traveled over the State and is in touch with all classes his opinion carries considerable weight. UNION FRUIT SALESROOM Resolutions Are Adopted at Suisun, San Jose and Elsewhere. UNITED ACTION BEING TAKEN. Statement From One of the Firms Not Connected With the Assoclation. The question of the maintenance of several auction-rooms in the different Eastern cities for the sale of California green fruits is being vigorously taken up by prominent fruit-growers throughout the State. Colonel Weinstock, who isjclosely con- nected with the recently organized Cali- fornia Fruit-growers’ and Shippers’ Asso- ciation of Sacramento, addressed a well- attended meeting of fruitmen at San Jose June 27, where resolutions were adopted calling upon all parties interested to stand together and place their shipments only with that organization. On the same date the fruit-growers of Suisun and vicinity also had a mass- meeting, at which the following resoln- tions were adopted : ‘WHEREAS, The experience of the past has made it plain that the existence of two or more auction salesrooms in each Eastern city for the sale of California fresh fruits has seriously in- jured the welfare of the growers by bnnxlng California fruit into competition with itsell and making combinations among Eastern buy- ers possible; and whereas, at the annual State convention of fruit- growers, held in Sacramento in November last, under the auspices of the State Horticultural Society, a resolution was unanimousl passed "calling upon California growers an shippers to establish an organization, to be known as the California Fruit Growers’ and Shippers’ Association, which should have for its o%e]ccts: First, the establishment of a bureau of information to prevent gluts; sec- ond, the establishing of a consolidated auction- room at each auction point; third, the making of such sauction salesrcoms free and open to all buyers; and whereas, such an association ~ has been formed, and is earnestly striving to carry out the expressed wishes of the growers in tie hope of remedying the serious evils of the past; and whereas, we learn that the National Fruit Association, Sgobel & Day New York agents, and the California Greenand Dried Fruit Com- any, P. Ruhiman & Co. New York agents, Euvs established a rival auction salesroom in the city of New York, against the pronounced wishes and despite the earnest protests of the growers of California, which rival salesroom threatens to perpetuate the grave evils of the past in scattering the Eestern buyers in two or more salesrooms and in bringing California fruit in needless competition with itself; there- fore .be it Resolved, That we, the fruit growers and shi) pers of Suisun, Solaho County, and vieinity, in mu-meetlng assembled, hereby pledge our- selves to withhold our support from all ship- T8, receivers or auctioneers who do not agree glell our fruits, when sold in auction, in the the California Union Salesrooms ngproved b e B on; an Fruit Growers’ and Shippers’ e it Resolved, That we call upon the growers and shippers elsewhere to likewise stand by the DleAge taken in the November convention and 1o lend their heurt‘{ support to the California Fruit Growers’ and Shippers’ Association. Resolved, That the secretary of this mass- meeting be hereby authorized to disseminate these resolutions as widely as sible among.| the fruit-growers throughout the State. The National Fruit Association referred to in the Suisun resolutions 1s represented F in California by H. A. Fairbanks with headquarters at Sacramento. The other concern, the California Green and Dried Fruit Company, has offices at 327 Market street in this City. Mr. Randolph, the manager, was seen at his office yesterday. When showed the resolutions and protests he said: “These are theold stereotyped moves. In the first place, What is the California Fruit Growers’ and Shippers’ Association? ‘Who are its directors? It is advanced, con- trolled and fostered by the shipping firms of Sacramento, who, by the hoid they have upon many unfortunate growers, are en- abled to control their actions to suit them- selves. Itistrue we have a separate auc- tion-room, but it is far more favorably sit- uated than,the old one of the combine. “In the matter of rates on refrigerator cars alone, there is a difference of from $35 to $45 a carload alone in favor of the out- side firms as against controlling members of the association, who use their own cars, of an antiquated pattern, while the rival firms have the recently improved Armour cars. Shippers should have their eyes open to their own interests.” Inquiry among the prominent local shipping firms indicated that there is a very. good demand for apricots, peaches similar fruits at home, very few of them having had occasion as yet to seek an Eastern market. It is noticeable that the larger growers throughout the State are making an effort to handle their own product, this being particularly the case in the lower valleys. The decided cuts in the figures hereto- fore charged for reirigerator car service has stimulated even the small fruit-raiser to action. DIED FROM NEGLECT. Mrs. Flynn Arrested for Causing Her Infant’s Death. Mrs. Mary Flynn, aged 25 years, charged with cruelty to her children, occupies a cell in the City Prison. Her six months baby died Wednesday morning and the cause given in the burial certificate is in- anition. The infant died of neglect. Mrs. Flynn was deserted by her husband several weeks ago because of her passion for drink. She lived on Lydia avenue with her three children—two aged 2 and 4 years respectively, and the third a babe of six- months. On Tuesday night Mrs. Fiynn, very much under the influence of liquor and carrying her baby in her arms, applied for shelter and assistance to Mrs. O'Eonnell, who lives on Blanding avenue, near Valencia street. Mrs. O’Connell was horri- fied at the appearance of the mother and child. The infant had not been properly nourished for weeks. Its cheeks were pale and sunken and it cried pitifully. The mother told Mrs. O’'Connell that the baby had not been fed for hours and the mother herself was starving. Mrs. O’Connell gave them shelter for the night. Early Wednes- day morning the baby died from ex- haustion, brought on by starvation and neglect. e — Park Music To-Day. The following is the programme prepared for the concert in Golden Gate Park to-day: March, “Fortuna”....... Burald Uverture, - Suppe Selection, Bullivan Besch ngari ein Overture, “Oberon"” ‘eber Selection, “Macbeth’ Verdi Waltz, “Morgenblatter’ Descriptive fantasia, Galop, “Cyclists”. An Undesirable Roomer. Charles Harrington rented a room recently from Josephine Walravens, 227 O'Farrell street. A few days ago during her temporary absence he procured an express wagon and carted off a room set and some carpets, which he sold to a second-hand dealer. Mrs. Walravens Kore out a warrant for his arrest yesterday on e charge of grand larceny, and he is now locked up in the City Prison. NEW TO-DAY. SILK DEPARTHENT CLEARANGE SALE THIS WEEK _— SPECIAL BARGAINS At 25¢ Per Yard 8000 yards KATKA WASH SILKS, In pretty Plaids, Checks and Stripes, former price 35¢ and 40c per yard, Clearance Sale Price 25¢ per yard. At 50c Per Yard 120 pleces 24-INCH FIGURED INDIA SILKS, all this year's importation, comprising the newest designs and colorings, rormer price, 65¢, 75¢_and 85c per yard, Clearance Sale Price 50¢ per yard. At T5¢ Per Yard 110 pleces 27-INCH FIGTRED INDIA SILKS, comprising the choicest patterns shown thisseason, former price $1 00 and §1 25 per yard, Clearance Sale Price 75¢ per yard. At $1.00 Per Yard 85 pleces 24-INCH CHENEY INDIA SILKS, in new combination stripes and floral designs.worth 81 35 per yard, Clearance Sale Price $1 00 per Silk Remnants 8000 SILK REMNANTS, ranging ir lengths from one yard up, comprising. the prettiest and best designs and weaves ever sl These we will sacrifice at astonishingly low pri THE COST NOT CONSIDERED. Just Eeceived 32-Inch Superior Quality Black Velvet, for Capes, ete., $3.00 and $4.00 Per Yard. : Ribbons Best Quality, Pure Silk, Double-Faced Satin Ribbon, in Black. No. 22....3 inches wide.......25¢ per yard No. 40, 4 inches wide. .30¢ per yard No. 60....4%; inches wid, Oc per yard Mail orders receive prompt attention. NEWMAN & LEVINSON, 125, 127, 129 and 131 Kearny Street, and 209 Sutter Street Awful Slaughter Sale. Commencing July 1 we have made such cuts in all departments that cost has entirely been lost sight of. Notea few of our quotations: Ladies’ Thoroughly Tailored Suits from...$7 75 up Ladies’ Cloth Capes, from 115up Labies’ Blouse Waists, from 35 up Ladies’ Silk Walsts, from.... 2 75 up Children’s Reefers, an endless variety, from. R 1 25up And a whole lot of other bargains that you must see to appreciate. LOEWENTHAL'S Cloak and Suit Honse, NO. 844 MARKET ST. NEAR STOCKTON. NONTGOMERY & CO. GROEERS. For the ensuing week we quote: San Jose Raspberry Jam, per jar..... Shrewsbury Tomato Catsup, per bot..25¢ Best Queen Olives, pint jars, each....20¢ Best Queen Olives, quart jars, each...35¢ Best Queen Olives, half-gallon jars, each.. 53 ..60c Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder. 1-1b tins.... o Dr. Price’s Cream Bakin, 34-1b tins. French Sardines, per ti Goods delivered free to all parts of the City and suburban towns. 31 Sixth Street, 118 Third Street. 1645 Polk Ntreet. SAN FRANCISCO. N. B.—Stores close every evening at 7 o’clock, ‘except Saturday. 320,000 WANTED AT SIX PER CENT. N _INSIDE CITY PROPERTY, YIELDING $3300 per .annum: worth more thau double; principals only. Apply to COLUMBUS BARTLETT, Attorney at law, 530 California st. GRANITE MONUMENTS. deppiseiniedy | JONES BROS. & 0. and Imported by Cor. Second and Brannan Sts., 8. F. A&~ Superior to ALL OTHERS and the latest designs. Strictly wholesale. Can be purchased through any Retail Dealer. STORES