The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1895, Page 14

14 i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1895. MOONALDTO EXPLAIN The Difference Between the 10 1-2 and the 14 Cent Bids. CONTRACTORS’ INTEREST. How That Bond on the Streeti Works to the Operator’s | Interest. OTHER BIG FIGURES CITED. If Mr. McDonald Can Clear Up Van Ness Avenue, Charity Will Spread Her Wings. When the Board of Supervisors refersa | communication to a committee it carries with it an understanding that that com- mittee will give the matter a hearing. It is reasonable then to presume that J. W. McDonald will to-morrow be given a chance to prove that the 14 cents a square foot, at which price the Superintendent of Streets is by resolution directed to enter into a private conwract with the City Street Improvement Company—alias Mc- Donald—to pave a great portion of Van Ness avenue, is not excessive. It will be remembered that Mr. Mc- Donald appeared before the Street Com- mittee of the board last week and de- clared that THE CALL was all wrong in say- ing that there wasevery known symptom of a job in the manner in which this contract was awarded to this company. He asked leave to be heard on the subject before the full board. The leave was granted and TrHE Carn was 5o confident that he would not appear that it offered to bet a good cigar that he would not. Well, he did not, but he sent a communication in which he said he was willing to—and very little more. “We are ready to appear before your honorable board or any committee of rep- utable business men of this City, selected from the Merchants’ Association or any other body of business men, and prove to them that our price of 14 cents leaves no margin other than a fair, legitimate profit,” says the communication. Now this is exactly what a great number of people and THE CaLL want Mr. Mec- Donald to do, and it is to be hoped that he will come before the Street Committee to-morrow and do it—if he can. Other contractors have been before the commit- tee or before members of it at least and complained that they were given no chance at public work because of this system of private contracts. It is alleged that system enables the board to let the contracts to whom they please; that when bids are, in some instances, czlled for and other contractors than the few favorites bid low enough to secure a right to the contracts the bids are in nearly every instance rejected; that the system has been attended by higher prices, which cannot but carry with it a suspicion of boodling—a suspicion that keeps grow-; ing as long as the system continues. Now Mr. McDonald has expressed a will- ss to explain that he is only making ir profit. By all means let him have | s communication goes on to say: “On September 11 we bid on Van Ness ave- nue contract and our price was then 1414 cents per square foot. Our present con- tract is 14 cents subject to the conditions of giving $10,000 bond to keep in repair for seven years.”’ Mr. McDonald, it will be noticed, makes no referenceto the fact that at the time he bid 1414 cents Warren & Malley had bid 10 cents, that the Santa Cruz Rock Paving Company bid 1034 cents, that J. L. McCros- san bid 14 cents and that he, McDonald, was the highest bidder at 1414 cents. Mec- Crossan got the contract at 14 cents be- cause of the bond he offered to keep the street in order for seven years. Mr. Den- man believed this consideration to be a big thing. The fact is any contractor would really bid lower to sceure o contract with the bond feature thau without it. A con- tractor who gives a bond to keep a street in order practically owns that street dur- ing the continuance of the bond, and every | man who has occasion to open the street must first see him about it. Contractors who have had experience in this thing say there is big money in it. But, as THE CArn had previously ex- plained, McCrossan, who secured the con- tract last fall, immediately assigned it to the Santa Cruz Paving Company—that company agreeing to share with McCrossan all the profits in it above their bid of 1034 cents. Contractors say that 1cent a square foot is a fair profit. That being the case, it will be interesting to learn how much McCros- gan got as his share of the division of the profits above 104 cents—for if it was any- thing then McDonald’s 14 cents must be yielding more than a reasonable profit— provided he gets it all. Van Ness avenue, however, is only cited as an instance of a widespread custom. | On July 8 resolutions were adopted di- recting the Superintendent of Streetsto enter into private contract with the City Street Improvement Company to pave the streets surrounding Alta plaza and Alamo square, half of the cost of which must be assessed to the City. The prices fixed were 23 cents per square foot for the paving and B85 cents a lineal foot for the curbing. No bids were called for. More than one repu- table contractor has said that 20 cents would be a good figure for the paving and 70 cents for the curbing. The difference in these figures for the City’s portion would amount to several thousand dollars. The circumstances are exactly the same with regard to the contract for paving Fell street, from Baker to Stanyan, being the length of the panhandle of Golden Gate Park. The iigures for paving and curbing are the same. The City’s portion of this assessment for paving is 40.000 square feet. The Jordan Bituminous Rock Company offered to do this work for 3)4 cents per square foot less than the contract price voluntarily offered to the City Street Im- provement Company. This item alone will amount to $1400. | cluded. There are also 3206 lineal feet of curbing which the Jordan Bituminous Rock Com- pany offered to do for 15 cents per lineal foot less, which amounts to $494¢40. By adding the two together the city would have made a net saving of $1894 40 on this job alone by having called for bids. Now, while he is at it, Mr. McDonald might just as well go to the meeting of the Street Committee to-morrow prepared to show that none of these figures are too high. However, there is no disposition to crowd. One thing ata time. If Mr. McDon- ald can make out a clear case on Van Ness avenue, perhaps the others may be credited to errors of figuring on the part of the half dozen other contractors who have offered to do it for less. MONEY FOR PRIMARIES. Election Commissioner Albert Castle Protests Against the Selection of Chairman Denman. The Election Commissioners met yester- day, but only held a short session, the main burden of the business in hand being the consideration of election expenses for the fiscal year 1895-96. A. E. Castle filed a protest against the election of Chairman Denman on the ground that it did not appear of record that he was the oldest member of the com- mission. Then followed a debate on the expendi- ture of the commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896. It was shown that the primaries, on account of the election law passed at the last Legislature, would THE DURRANT JURORS One Hundred and Fifty of the Talesmen in Court. EXCUSED TILL THURSDAY The Youthful Prisoner Had a Long Talk With His Mother and Father. SOME NEW PHOTOS TAKEN. District Attorney Barnes Busy Pre~ paring for To-Morrow’s Battle. William Henry Theodore Durrant faced Judge Murphy and a photographer, all within half an hour yesterday. Neither asked him to *Look pleasant, please,” and | he made no particular effort to do so. Sheriff after him, and the consequences would be something not desired.” Court was then adjourned till Thursday morning, the whole proceeding not having taken three minutes. The jurors filed out and Durrant and his father proceeded to the inner room to meet Mrs. Durrant, who was awaiting the reappearance of her son. General Dickinson and Mr, Deuprey ar- rived on the scenea few minutes later to find_that all was over. They joined the family group inside and, after a short talk with their client, made their way to the courtroom. Mr. Deuprey immediately made his way to theside of Judge Murphy, who had just stepped into the courtroom again, and asked him that an order be made transferring the exhibits in the pre- liminary hearings of Durrant—the school- books of Blanche Lamont, her torn cloth- ing, her rings and everything elsein the way of material evidence in the case now in the possession of the police—be turned overto the clerk of division IIL Judge Murphy could not see it in that light, and the articles in question still remain 1n the E_uuession of the police property clerk. here, too, in all likelihood, they will re- main untu they are produced on the trial and introduced in evidence by the prose- cution, which proposes that nobody, no matter how disinterested his motive, shall have access to these articles, which so vi- vidly recall the most horrible of tragedies ever enacted in San Francisco. > Durrant, while his_counsel was making this move in his behalf, was preparing himself to face the camera for photographs. The preparation took but a short time, and the man who touched the button went to work. He posed Durrant in ‘half a dozen different positions and caught several fleeting expressions of interest on the face that has hitherto appeared so sphinx-like, The prisoner rather seemed to like it, and JUDGE ROSS' DECISION. The Testing of the Wright Act Causing a Muddle All Around. IS IT TUNCONSTITUTIONAL? Unlted States Surveyor WIll Green Says That Is the Only Point Involved. Just what the result of the decision of United States Circuit Judge Ross, declar- ing the Wright irrigation act unconstitu- | tional, will be is a subject which was mnch discussed in local financial and busi- ness circles yesterday. Although the ju- dicial ultimatum is by no means final it is i still of sucn importance as to cause un- | easiness, especially among the interested capitalists. This is due to the enormous interests, amounting to many millions, which are involved. It is needless to say that the decision came as a surprise to those who have fortunes invested in the irrigation districts. It was an unlooked-for deter- > s SRR i f 4 —— s e DURRANT SITS BETWEEN HIS COUNSEL AND THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND LISTENS TO THE STORIES. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] be held 160 days earlier, bringing them into June. The salary of the commission, clerk, assistant clerk and messenger amounted to $9000. This amount was in- cluded in Hinton’s estimate to Audifor Broderick, but the expense of extra print- ing, clerk hire, etc., was not in- It was decided to ask the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors to include a further appropriation of $5000 in the tax levy. This will bring the total amount of the appropnation for the com- mission up to $42,640. JOSEPHINE AMIRAUX SUES An Actress Who Wants Free- dom From Her Marital Tribulations. The Wife Tells a Mournful Story of Cruel Treatment by Her Husband. There is trouble in the Amiraux family. Josephine Amiraux, the actress, formerly in the employ of Morosco, thinks she has been shabbily and shamefully treated by her husband, Gellar Amiraux, and she will sue him to-day for maintenance. The formal complaint was filed several days ago, but with the suit to be brought to-day begins the real battle. Gellar Amiraux is the nephew of ex- Mayor Hazzard of Los Angeles. He is well connected and his people are quite promi- nent socially. Gellar was identified with the Thespian class for some time, and it was while spout- ing in light drama that he met and loved Josephine. They were married by con- tract on the 3d of February, 1893. Their marital affairs were anything but harmo- nious, and according to the wife’s com- plaint her existence was made unbearable y the neglect of her husband and the cruel treatment of his mother. 1t is set forth in the complaint that two days after the birth of her child Mrs. Amiraux was driven out of the house by her husband’s mother, who is alleged to have applied obscene epithets to her and used violence. At the time she was driven from the house she was in such a physical condition that the exertion and exposure threatened to prove fatal. It is also charged that the husband was violent in his treatment of the plaintiff, that he repeatedly threatened to kill her and in divers other ways endeavored to make her life an inferno. The mother of defendant is charged with having struck her son’s wife and abused her in a most shameful manner. 3 At one time Mrs. Amiraux followed her recreant spouse to his relatives in Los Angeles, and in the effort to see him was expelled from the house and threatened with arrest by a policeman. Mrs. Amiraux does not ask for a divorce, because she thinks that would be too pleasing to her mother-in-law. She wants maintenance simply and the proper vin- dication in the courts. Her attorney, J. K. Kase, says there will be two charees of adultery brought against the husband. He further states that defendant’s father is prominent in insurance circles and draws a salary of $600 a month. ———————————— Stigmatize originally meant simply to brand, and in the daysof Shakespeare the farmer was said to stigmatize his sheep. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report IE=ZTT3 ABSOLUTELY PURE __ Royal Baking Powder Which was probably the best thing for him after all. Very little was done in his case in pub- lic and a whole lot in private. He was in court for only a few moments in full view of the 150 men from whose ranks may come some of the jurors who are {o try him for the Emmanuel Church murders—that is, providing Judee Murphy refuses to grant the application for a change of venue. Close to the young medical student sat his father, while Chief Jailer Sattler sat within reaching distance, exchanging a word now and then with his prisoner, who, although looking paler than usual, seemed to be in a particularly easy frame of mind. He smiled several times at some observations made by his father and did not seem to be a bit worried at the absence of his attorneys, despite the fact thatina very few seconds Judge Murphy would take the bench. The proximity of the mother of the defendant may have had something to do with hiseasy manner. Just before making bis appearance in the courtroom young Darrant had been ushered into an adjoin- ing chamber where his father and mother awaited his arrival from the Broadway jail. The meeting between parents and son, with the exception of the presence of Chief Jailer Sattler, was private, but it must have been cheering to the prisoner, for when he again stepped 1nto the court- brighter and his step more elastic. Most of the members of the waiting Eanel of jurors had never seen Durrant efore and there was noticeable a shuffling of feet and a rattling of chairs as they twisted around for just such a modest look as even the most promising of jurors is en- titled to. Aside from the summoned jurors and the court officers nobody was allowed in the courtroom, in consequence of which the corridors were crowded. All that the waiting crowd desired was a passing glimpse at the face of the prisoner, but only those who had patience enongh to wait for several hours were gratified even in this. Bailiff Rock’s gavel fell promptly on the desk at 10 o’clock, Judge Murphy took his seat and court was formally opened, with neither the prosecuting attorney nor coun- sel for the defense in sight. “People vs. W. H. T. Durrant,’” an- nounced Judge Murphy, after a hasty lance at the calendar on the desk before im. Both the prisoner and his father, who had been closely watching Judge Murphy from the moment of his entrance into the courtroom, seemed impelled to respond to his Honor’s announcement. They thought, sa)paremly, that in the absence of ‘connsel they were called upon to do something. Both started from their chairs as :hon% to inform the court that counsel for the defense were not present. The next in- stant they thoufht better of it, and sank back again into their chairs. “Where is the District Attorney?” asked his Honor, and on being told that Mr. Barnes was not present, ordered him to be notified to come into court at once. The bailiff had hardly started for the door when it opened and Mr. Barnes and his assistant, Mr. Peixotto, appeared. Judge Murphy_. who was impatient to begin the proceedings, turned to the jurors. ‘I desire to state to the jurors present,” he said, “that there is a preliminary mo- tion pending in the case in which you are summoned to try, that will necessitate an adjournment, so far as the jurors are con- cerned, until Thursday morning. This motion pending before the court must, necessarily, be disposed of before we can commence the examination of the jurors to try the case, should we conclude that the trial should go on. Therefore, it will be necessary for each and every juror to be here next Thursday morning at 11 o’clock. ‘It may work a hardship to some of you, this adjournment, but that cannot be avoided, and it would be improper on my part to undertake to excuse or listen to the excuse of any juror excéept in open court. So that the jurors here understand that their duty is to be here next Thursday morning at 11 o’clock. It is hardly neces- sary for me to say that they should be here dpmumuy at that time. If there should be nslvdmglect on the part of any juror, it would be my dutyto send the room a few minutes later his eye was | at the end of half an hour’s sitting was as willing to gaze into the camera’s mouth as any schoolgirl. The photographer had all'he wanted, however, and went his way, leaving the prisoner to his parents and the Sheriff’s deputies. He was taken to the Broadway jail soon afterward, there to remain till" Thursday morning when he will be again brought to court. Till Tfiurflday morning also will the District Attorney and his deputies be busy preparing the necessary material to resist the prisoner’s application for a change of venue. In fact they are busy now, and have been since the adjournment of court on Monday afternoon. As a result of this District Attorney Barnes states that he will be able to thirty to fifty affidavits of citizens of this City and County to the effect that no such ublic feeling as would interfere with the air and impartial trial of Durrant exists here. Each of these affiants bases his belief upon an extensive acquaintance with which he has exchanged opinions fioncerniug the Emmanuel Church mur- ers. Great public interest in the case the Dis- trict Attorney admits has been aroused as | to the outcome of the trial, but that any effort has been made to harm the prisoner or that any great outburst of public indig- nation has been manifested he emphati- cally denies, and he hopes to clinch this denial in the affidavits he will present to the court on Thursday. It will not take long to present these papers. They are short and to the point | desired, and it is more than likely they will be all in before the noon recess on Thursday. The jurors have been sum- moned for 11 o’clock on that morning and it is just barely possible that Judge Murphy | may be ready to decide the matter on hand. During the hours that intervene he will have thoroughly examined the points made by the defendants in their affidayits and will certainly have made up his mind as to what it will be necessary for the District Attorney to show to mak good his fight against the application of the accused. Whether or not his Honor can gather this from the counter affidavits very readily is the question upon which hinges the length of time necessary for the decision. Atan the outcome with that interest which has been constantly at a high pitch since the ghastly discoveries in Emmanuel Church. FREDERICKS TO DIE. The Condemned Murderer Has No Hope of a Further Delay of Execution. District Attorney Barnes received a dis- patch from Warden Hale yesterday stat- ing that Fredericks, the man who killed Cashier Herricks at the Market-street branch of the San Francisco Savings Union, would be hanged on Friday. Attorney Colwell, though temporarily retired from law practice on account of ill health has been endeavoring to further delay the execution. He raised the point several days ago that the prisoner could not be hanged while the appeal in his case is pending, but this has been_set aside on the showing by Attorney-General Fitz- gerald that the ‘appeal is on a subsidiary motion and does not affect the main case. DAILY FRUIT TRAINS. The Service Has Been Increased to Meet Demands of Shippers. The fourteenth ventilated fast fruit train le?t Sacramento last night heavily freighted wxgh green fruits for Chicago, where it will arrive in 120 hours from the time it started. As the orchardists have taken eager hold of the advantages offered by the fast ship- ment of their products to Eastern markets a daily service has become a necessity. Yesterday the general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company took the matter up and notified division superintendents, dastrict - freight ents, terminal agents and agents at fruit-shipping stations to announce to fruit-growers that a ventilated fast fruit train will be dispatched each night this week and also one on Sunday night for Chicago and the East, the time schedule in each case to be 120 hours. In Paris the other day a barber shaved man in a cage with a lion, to win a wager. 0 into court with from | rate the public will await | mination of the issues commenced in the light of many State Supreme Court de- cisions upholding the constitutionality of the irrigation law. According to what those who are inter- ested say it is upon these decisions that both foreign and local capital was intro- duced into the expensive plants in the various districts. The discussion has started all who are interested in the irrigation question to guessing as to how far it will, if eventually sustained, affect all the irrigation districts of the State. Many say that they are | exempt from its influence under the sup- plemental act of the Legislature which authorizes boards of directors to go into | the Superior Courts and have the regular- ity of all proceedings of organization passed upon judicially. Others claim that the confirmation or non-confirmation b, the Superior Court has nothing to do wilx the issue, but that eve;{thing rests solely \mton the constitutionality of the Wright act. All are agreed, though, that the whole irrigation matter is now in a frightful mud- dle, and what the outcome will be no one | can surmise. It is not only a question with the local capitalists as to what will become of their expensive plants, nor of how the foreign bondholders will come out in their financial difficulties, but it is the large agricnltural population throughout the various districts in the lower San Joa- quin Valley and further south, whose very existence depends upon the supply of | water, that will feel the effects of the mat- | ter. It may even come to a desperate | struggle between the land owners and the | water users. As to the bonds which were issued it may be stated upon good authority that | about $8,000,000 out of the $19,000,000 issued | bave been disposed of. Although the | majority of the purchasers are in Europe | there is much local capital invested. Of | the Central district bonds T. P. Drexel of | this City owns about $40,000 worth. W.F. oad, the capitalist, purchased $60,000 | worth and then invested another $100,000. He afterward disposed of them all and is not now interested.. The remainder of the $560,000 worth which was issued is dis- tributed around in small lots. R. W. Gor- rill of the Pacific Bridge Company owns $250,000 worth of Modesto district bonds. In the otherdistricts the greater partof the capital interested is foreign. It was drawn into investment after considerable difficulty. Some of the local banks are in- terested also, but to what extent is not known, and the officials of the institutions decline to make any statements. It is known that the Colusa County Bank is in- terested to the extent of about $25,000. In an interview yesterday, United States Surveyor-General Green, who is one of the best-informed men in the State on the irri- gation question, said: The regulation of the use of water is the most important matter the people of California have been called upon to settle; but here we are, at the end of nearly half a century of struggle, with the question in a worse muddle than it was when the miners in the fifties found it necessary to make their own laws regulating the use of water. It looks like the American people, with all their boasted intelli- gence, must admit that while they have an element worth hundreds of millions'of dollars annually, an element on the proper handling. of which the very life of the State depends, they are incapable of making a law for hand- n, No man knows the law to-day; uo man knows what laws the courts will permit the people to pass. Millions of dollars have been expended in litigating water rights, and yet no man can even guess at what a water right is. Every time the question goes into court it comes out more uncertain. Meanwhile the State in all her interests suffers. Riparian rights—the right of the last man down a stream to have the water flow undiminished in quantity and unimpaired in quality—have been urheld zy the cou nd hence nearly all the diversions of water by which orchards and vineyards flourish are made in direct violation of laws. One of the greatest reasons for the passage of the aistrict law, now declared void, Wwas to create & municipal or public corpora- tlon for handling this riparian question. Judge splits hairs on the question of what _constitutes a public use. The reclama- tion district law has been upheld by all the courts in the land, and the principles of that law and of the Wright act are more nearly alike than black-eyed peas; they are in fact ab- solutely identical. It is true the former had the advantage of being drawn by an editor in- stead of & lawyer. 1 drew it myself. Lawyers have talked nbontdninuge for_health and all that kind of nonsense, when there was nobody land to be healthy or unhealthy snd simple intent of the law on the swam w-but the DRY GOODS. WASH DRESSEABRICS! - SPECIAL VALUES THIS WEEKT On Monday, July 22d, and following days, we will offer the following extraordinary values in WASH DRESS FABRICS. 750 pieces NEW DUCK SUITINGS, very choice styles and best qual= ities.... sesee 8iCum Former Price 12}c and 15c. 75 pieces WASH CREPONS (or Crinkled Seersuckers), in a good variety of patterns.............. 8iC Regular value 12)4c a Yard« 100 pieces NEW TENNIS FLAN=- A NEL, in light and medium color=- 6.:C vt Former Price 10¢ a Yard. Samples forwarded free to any address. The attention of our regular customers is directed to this sale. The goods are all new and fresh styles and at the prices are bona-fide bargains. 111, 118, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. was to benefit the land-owners and not‘any “public,” for there was no “‘public” to benefit! Neither can they switch off on the assertion that swamp land owners bought the land of the State with the intent of having it re- claimed. In the case that went to the Supreme Court of the United States George Hagar owned a Spanish grant, a large portion of which was included in a reclamation district and was taxed, not for the benefit of any “public” or to keep any “public” from getting sick, there being no ““public’’ in the vicinity, but purely and simply for the benefit of the land-owners, who were not even residents. No other pur- ose ‘was pretended. Hagar liked the overflow; e pretended that he did not want the water kept off his land; it made the grass grow just at the time he wanted the grass to grow, but the Supreme Courtof theUnited Statesin an opinion written by Justice Field, who it is now claimed concurs with Judge Ross, said that Hagar must pay over $60,000 to have the water thatso came to suit him kept off his Spanish grant, and all because a majority of land-owners forming a district to suit themselves had an idea it would benefit them if not Hagar. Now we come down to splitting hairs, and find a wonderful difference between a majority of land-owners in a swamp where there could be 10 “public” to benefit, and a majority of land- owners on high land where there must be more or less of a “public.” This hair-splitting is incomprehensible to the lay mind. I notice that it is claimed that Judge Ross makes a difference between dis- iricts that have been confirmed under a sup- plemental act which authorizes boards of di- rectors to go into the Superior Courts to have the regularity ot all the proceedings of organi- zation and bond issue passed upon judicially, and those not so confirmed, but there can be no possible difference. The court in such cases passes simply on the regularity of the proceed- ings under the aet. It would seem to & layman that if a law was null and void it would not give it force and effect to show that it had been followed in letter and in spirit. The effect of this decision will be disastrous in the extreme, and the Supreme Court ot Cali- forniu ought to take up immediately & case be- fore it and again proclaim the constitutionality of the law. Must the American people bow their heads in shame and admit their inability to handle a question of so great importance—a question that the Mexicans find no difficulty in handling? SHOOTS HIS WIFE, A Family Quarrel at Bay View Results in the Use of a Shotgun by the Husband. George Stouble, who owns a hog ranch at Bay View, was arrested at his place yesterday evening and charged with at- tempting to kill his wife with a shotgun. He states that he came home and found her under the influence of liquor and very quarrelsome, and that she assaulted him with a hayfork. He had the gun in his hand and only wished to frighten her by pointing the weapon at her, when it was accidentally discharged, the load of shot striking her in the right arm. The woman is reported by the police offi- cers of that locality to beaddicted todrink, and has been arrested for disturbing the peace several times. Mrs. Stouble was taken to the City and County Hospital. It was found thatabout three inches of flesh had been shot away from her right arm clear to the bone, and the bone was broken. There were also several flesh wounds on her right side. The wounds are ot of themselves danger- ous, but Dr. G. F. McCormick, who at- tended to her, fears that blood-poisoning may set in. MECHANICS’' INSTITUTE. Employes for the Fair Are Appointed. Opening Exercises in the Columbia. The directors of the Mechanics’ Insti- tute met last night to appoint the employes of the fair to be opened on August 13. w. H. Smythe, who has had the burden of the work on his shoulders in making the ar- rangements for the fair, was promoted to the position of Superintendent. J. A. Jackson was elected day serg.egnt of the force of watchmen in the Pevxhon and Robert Lewin night sergeant. Chester Packard was appointed entry clerk; Larry. Dunn, engineer; John Gaffeney, fireman; Tom fl{cflrnh gasman; L. B. acobs,d p;Jr- ter. Long John Milkins was named for the latter position by Howard C. Holmes and he received one vote. Cale Laven- saler was named as messenger; Mrs. Car- rie L. Burt and Mrs. William Unger were gut in charge of the checkroom; Mrs. Simons and Mrs. Carter in charge of the ladies’ room. and J. R. Martin was selected as Solly Walter’s assistant in the art de- rtment. The watchmen named were as ollows: Arthur Unger, M. G. Buckley, George M. Woodward, Fred W. Brown, Z. %. ‘Adams, Joseph Grant, G. R. Thompson, W. T. Alexander, G. Gnffith, V. Glynn, M. Bushway, P. B. Wilbur, John Cosgrove, William Craig and G. H. Long. The opening exercises of the fair will be held in the Columbia Theater on the after- noon of August 13. An address will be made by President Hallidie, followed by an oration by Congressman Maguire. Music, vocal and instrumental, will be furnished by the Tivoli company, while the Frawley company will contribute specialties. 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