The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1895. 7 AMUSEMENTS. BALdWIN THEATER.—“The Amazons.” CoruMBIA THEATER—“The Jil CALIFORNIA THEATER—“A Black Sheep.” o Momosco's OrRA-HOUSE—Captain Herne, U. T1vOLI OPERA-HOUSE—“Satanella.” OrPHEUM—High- Vaudeville. ALCAZAR THEATER.—“Sweethearts.” Golden Gate Park Band. The Champion Horse nday RACES (Sacramento)—Ju . GLEAS 20, 23, 24, 27. £ BOARD OF TRADE EXRIBIT.—575 Market street, below Second. Open daily. Admission free. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. Caupo—Sunday, July 28—Music, dancing. ng, fishing, boat BY VoN REEIN Th Real Estate, at Salesroom, 513 By Kit at salesyard, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. A Japanese Episcopal mission has been 1'at 421 Powell street. k Theobald will sail to-day for Cooks with men, lumber and machinery. S. Cross,a Greek scholar, has been, dean of the University of the Pacifie. of Santa Cruz are making a bid they can get in their little »or Bureau has found em- 300 people within the last be made to broaden of the California State ed that jurors during the con- the United States gun- p from Honolulu on t the track yesterday , Ledette filly, Tim ) C. gitate the Olympic nominating com- and Producers’ Associa- & up its aggressive fight in products. traliaarrived yes- 1gers in the cabin ifacturer keep! of the Independent Order its annual session at In- s Hall to-morrow. for the Suppression of Vice may he low characters of the City r on Tegraph Hill. ces hetween Dr. C. . Brown and of the Christian Endeavor So- ch are practically adjusted. anization of Belve- en party yesterday ch building fund. in the State, made to show an 'increase ve and 8 half months. er has prepared speci- m _thirty to forty pianiste, formerly well- mber of the Schmidt quintet, before the public in & series ish ship Queen Margaret came in days from Hongkong, and xteth, sixty-five days from provement in Oakland’s letter-carrier rvice is asked for by those who or its present inadequacy. They amps here, Coon, 927 Heward street, was 1dge Campbell’s court yesterday child James E.Johnson, and tenced to-morrow. fe meeting of marine engineers arbor masters and pilots was held last agninst alien officers in the nt marine, chi Secretary Filcher of the State Board of Trade urges nnited action on the pert of the fruit- growers to secure open and consolidated auc- tions in New York and Chicago. City and C ¢ Creswell has sent Supervisors, to pute tax in the levy for the e new City Hall. for Dr. and Irs. Schmidt, Louis Hauser. ty that will prove for the prosecution. johnston, the butcher who was shot i's saloon on Wedniesday morning, e Receiving Hospital and m tem sietement yesterday. ufacturers charge the Home d in Oakland with selling s than cost. The aid of the rs’ Association is to be invoked. man, and John Hoffman, burned and injured in quarry on the San Bruno by the premature explosion of The Board of Education met yesterday to consider the proposition of photographing gch. ren for the Atlanta exposition. were exchanged and the scheme fell ard, alias “Dink” Wilson, the r'who escaped on “stfaw” o years ago, was brought from ective Ross Whittaker yester- ger of the Waverly agency, clist in_the world. She 18 our months old and is not Warren of Denver will preach in the -street M. E. Church this morning, ng companion, Chancelor MeDowell Denver Universily, will preach in the n Church. 2 Wab, tie Jackson-street overalls manu- rer, says he wants no more Asiatic work- in his place. He has placed an order in Free Labor Bureau for forty women to run sewing machines. afternoon at 3 o'clock E. A. Girvin will r a practical address to young men only e Christian Association Hall, Mason and streets. Boyns will preside and all d. The Merea ibrary auxiliary will give icale hursday evening next,at8 ock, at_the Mercantile Library. The per- rmers will be Mrs. Tojetti, J. Joseph, L. von hden and others. The Southern Pacific Company has aban- i its right of way for the bay-shore line the Potrero, and will run_the railway ecross the dnmps and then through 1 4t Seventh ana Santa Clara streets. > preliminary examination of C.B.Hen- charged ivith the murder of Clarence s zgain continued by Judge Low yes- terday August 7, owing to the sickness of Dr. Barrett, who made the autopsy on Barr's body. Waring Thomas, an advertising solicitor, was arrested by Policemen Reynolds and Donovan yesterday on the charge of forging names to advertising contracts in the Mi uarg Gazette and obtaining his commission on the forged contracts. James Frazer, & machinist in the Cali- 1 Electric Works, 35 Market street, j ed from s platform yesterday and frac- tured the bone of each heel. He was taken to the civing Hospital, and later to his home, 1413 Polk street. T ivic Federation has decided to brin, suit against the Solid Eight. An executive committee was appointed &t the Friday even- ing meeting to mrrlmend preliminary de- tuils aud confer with the attorneys of the so- ciety. It will hold secret meetings during the week. Thomas Arbuckle, the quartermaster of the lost Colima, went into a restaurant on Clay last night end partook of a five-cent ut got a check for 10 cents, as the waiter d be had also partaken of pie. A row d and Arbuckle thrown into the nd kicked in th? €] S}recilfl prominence isgiven to women writers of California and vieinity In the literary de- perimeut in this issue of 'HE SUNDAY CALL. It will be noted that nearly all of the excellent urticles are from the pens of bright feminine writers who have done so much to make the Ban icisco papers attractive and readable on & ndays and holidays. Connsel for the prosecution and the defense in the Durrant case were equelly busy yester- day. The District Attorney was engaged in drawing up cross-interrogatories to be pro- {.uunded to tne defendant’s new witness, “harles H. Clark, and General Dickinson took preliminary steps to have the production of ““The Crime of the Century” enjoined. The police still hunt for a mysterious Woman, Stockton and the Stanislaus | Valentine Cornwell, daughter of | ARCUND THE WATER FRONT Arrival of the Oceanic Steam- ship Australia From Honolulu. WHEAT SHIPS TO SAIL AWAY. The Undignified Way in Which the Slerra Estrella Made Her Exit From the Bay. The Oceanic steamship Australia ar- rived yesterday, six days and twelve hours from Honolulu, with sixty-seven passen- gers in the cabin and thirty-four in the steerage. The full list of the formerisas follows: Captain C. M. Thomas, U. §. N., J. F. Hors- burgh Jr., A. E. Murphy, J. A. Kennedy, W. W. Goodale, §. A. Hopper: Miss M. Hopper, J. P. Cooke end wife, J. F. Humburg, I. Rubenstein R. Ballentine, Miss E. Anderson, Miss M art, J. W. Colville, C. W. Filkins and wife, A. Conant and wife, F, M. Heath and wife, Mrs. tew- M. A. Heath, F. F. Collips and wife, A. B. Col- | ling, Mrs. Mullins and daughter, Mrs. C. S, Moses, Mrs. E. L. Hall, C. Burlingame, H. M. Brown, Mrs. W. N. Hannigan, A. C. Wall, W. Colville, J. P. Oberteuffer and wife, E. C. Oberteuffer, C. H. Willis and wife; H. Page, © on the charge of murdering Clarence Barr, th Chinatown guide. Yesterday morning, when the case was called in Judge Low’s court, it was stated that Dr. Barrett, who made the autopsy on Barr’s body, was sick, and by con- senta continuance was granted till Wednes- day, st 7. Henderson still refuses to make any statement, beyond asimple deniel, that would tend to clear him of the charges made by Mrs. Johnson, 110 Fourth street, that he is Con Sullivan, a notoricus bunko-steerer. BISHOP WARREN'S WORK. The Methodist Divine's Plans on This Coast—Will Preach in This City To-Day. Bishop H. W. Warren of the M. E, Church South arrived in the City yester- day from Denver, accompanied by_his guest, Chancellor McDowell of the Uni- versity of Denver. “[ will preach to-morrow,” said -the Bishop, “in the California-street Metho- dist Episcopal Church, and my friend Mr. McDowell will hold forth at the Simpson | Church. We will confine ourselves to the }morning service, as I have a good many | Chinese and Japanese missions to lool ver in the afternoon. | “August 29 I will hold the Nevada con: | ference at Winnemucca, Nev.; the Cal | fornia German conference in 8an Jose September 4; the California conference at Pacific Grove September 11; the Southern California conference at Pasadena Sc;isem- ber 25, and the Arizona conference at Flag- | staff October 8. “My duties, strange to say, are not con- fined to any one section. I have been all | over Korea, Japan and China, and also | held nine conferences in Europe. | “Monday we leave for Santa Cruz, where THE BRITISH SHIP SIERRA ESTRELLA BEING TOWED STERN- FIRST TO PORT COSTA. [Sketched by a “ Call” artist.] wife and daughter; Mrs. J. H. Lovejoy, Miss M. Lovejoy, C. Lovejoy, Miss Clausen, S. Chubb, s. Wiliong, A. Demmock, William Foster, J. M reto, C. Kay, Rev. 0. P. n, Miss A! Lestreto, M. Schmidt, . Peck, H. Deacon, F. W. Kin Lothian, C. Mafsden, C. H. Bishop, 4. K son, W. F. Atkinson, Professor M. M. Scott, Rev. J. O’Kabe. Captain Thomas has recently been de- tached from the Bennington, now in Hono- Tulu, and is on his way East. Mrs. Rooney, the wife of the exiled of Police of h Honolulu, came up on the steamer to join her husband her Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cooke of Oakland, a newly married couple, were pass the steamer. The bride was a M win, daughter of a planter near Honolalu, Mr. Cooke is the well-known merchant of Oakland. ; The British ship Queen Margaret which arrived Friday night sixty days from Shanghai, and the ship Toxteth, sixty-five days from Newcaatle, arc welcome to the almost empty barbor, - The British ship Sokoto is 170 days out from Liverpool, bound for this port, Some anxiety is felt for her safety, as she was spoken by the Drumcliff (which came in several weeks ago) off the Horn, 7 The following changes have been made in the buoyage at the mouth of the Co- lumbia River: The position of the outer buoy is changed to the following bearings in 84 feet I‘r\{x'wuv\r‘ Cape Disappointment light station, NE. 8¢ E. Novth Head (w by ; Point Adams (tangen Adams light station 2 Bar buoy first B. & W. perpendic- ular stripes, is changed to the following bear- ings in 32 feet menn low water: Cape Disap- pointmeént light station, NE. 3 N.; North Head (west tangent), N. 7 E. 1t Adems light sta- tion, E. 3{ §. 7 Inner Luoy first-class can B. & W, perpen- dicular stripes, is changed to the following bearings in 32 feet mean low water: Cape Dis- appointment light station, NNE. £ E.; North Head, N. 34 W.; Point Adams light station, iSE. 7 B Peacock Spit buoy, first-class can No, 1, is changed to the following bearings in 26 feet mean low water: Cape Disappointment light station, NE E.; North Head (west tangent), by E. % int Adams light statiom, k. % “®\¥reck of the William H. Besse, first-class can, red and black horizontal stripes, will be dis- continued on or about August 1 as no longer needed. Yesterday the British ship Sierra Estrella | was towed to Port Costa in an exceedingly undignified position. She had been par- tially loaded, and was down at the head, and with a heavy list to starboard. With her nose under water and her rudder out of the bay she conld not be steered after the tug, so (‘nptuin Smith of the Sea Queen solved the difficuity by snatching the big ship out of the bay stern first. The ship Jabez Howes will leave this coast, having been chartered to load wheat for Liverpool direct. : The Queen Margaret was chartered prior to arrival from Liverpool to load wheat to the United Kingdom, Antwerp or Dun- kirk at £1 7s 6d. The steamer Bawnmore will be loaded with merchandise for Cen- tral America by Page Bros. The ships Invermark and Speke have completed their cargoes and will soon sail. GLEASON AND THE STALLION. A Second Man-Eater to Be Handled by the Horse-Tamer. Another vicious stallion is to be taken in hand by Professor Oscar R. Gleason. The horse-tamer is to try to tame and drive Dixie, a vicious horse belonging to C. Arata and brother of Monticello, Napa County, at 3 o’clock this afternoon at Central Park. The horse is known thronghout his county as a terror. Professor Gleason, however, announces that he will render him as docile as a pet poodle before he is through with him. Though quite as vi-, cious as Jim Wicks there is no fear that hé will meet the untimely end of that unfor- tunate. Vaqueros have been brought from the biirapghes in Monterey County to give an exhibition of rough riding and bronco- breaking. There is also announced a spe- cial feature in the first appearance of Maud, the equine queen. HARRY BLINN IN DEMAND. Efiie Ellsler Wants Him to Star With Her Troupe. Harry Blinn, who recently went to Alaska on a theatrical tour with Mrs, Aazerais’ company, has been offered the lead with Effie Ellsler in her New York Company. She wants him to Pre!?are for Orlando in “As You. Like -1t,” Romeo, Armand in “Camille,” and Lord Travers in ‘‘Hazel | Kirk."” The correspondence was with Mr, Blinn’s father, and the young man has not yet heard of the offer. It is notknown therefore whether he will accept. ———————— Clarence Barr’s Slayer. Another delay has occurred in holding the preliminary examimation of C.B. Henderson | Mr. McDowell’s wife and children, also my own, have already zone to spénd the summer. ‘I haye always passed the warm weather n California, owing to its delightful cli- WILLTALKTO MORMONS, | Arrival in This City From ! Ogden, Utah, of Elder | Lorin Farr. He Was One of the Early Organ- izers of the Church and Was a Friend of Joseph Smith. . o Lorin Farr, one of the oldest members and most prominent elders of the Mor- mon church, or, as it is now known, the Church of Latter-day Saints, is in the City, and during his stay here proposes to carry on considerable missionary work for the religious cause which he represents. He arrived last Wednesday, and is the guest of Dr. Roberts, one of the foremost mem- { | bers of the local Mormon colony. It is his purpose to deliver several lec- tures upon the principle of the church which recognizes the gospel of Jesus Christ and also the authenticity of the book of Mormon, as discovered by Joseph Smith, with whom Elder Farr was intimately ac- quainted. The first of the lectures will be delivered this evening at the hall where the Mormons hold their religious services each Sunday, 909}4 Market street. It will be upon the life and works of Joseph Smith. The elder has been connected with the Mormon church since its foundation and he is a thorough believer in its tenets from the beginning to the end. “This is my seyenty-fifth birthday," said the elder last night to a CALL repre- sentative, “‘and I have been a missionary | in the church since the early forties. I re- member well the Millerite excitement ot 1843 and mingled with thos2 who prepared their ascension robes and really believed that the world was coming to an end on the predicted day. “Previous to that time, though, I bhad lived with Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church, and stayed with him through all his troubles. I was intimately acquainted with all his private and public affairs. T was with him through the Ifiinois troubles; and aiter his death and when the church moved to Utah, I followed and located in Ogden.” Elder Farr related many interesting ex- periences he had undergone during the early days of the church in that Territory. For twenty years he was presiding elder of the Weber stake, an ecclesiastical di- vision of the church. He also became vrominently identified with municipal affairs in Ogden, and for twenty years was Mayor of the town. At the same time he was always prominent in the circles of the Mormon: church, and was a close friend of the iate Brigham Young. At the late Constitutional convention held in Utah he took a prominent part as a delegate. He has made several trips to this coast in the interest of his church in past years, and since 1870 was a personal friend of the late Senator Stanford. He was at Palo Alto a few days before the Senator’s death and returned from Los Angeles to attend the funeral. . Made a False Charge. M. Brandstella, one of the Merchants’ Asso- ciation street-sweepers, accused Henry Brock- mann, a foreman, of extortion. He said the foreman made him pay $1a week outof his earnings for the privilege of holding his job. The association investigated the charge yester. day and found that it was untrue, he street-sweeper had been dismissed be- cause he would not attend to his work, and as he supposed the foreman was the cause of his discharge he took this means of retaliating. sl Railway Officials Go South. H. E. Huntington, Chief Engineer William Hood, General Superintendent J. A. Fillmore, and H. J. Small, superintendent of the motor power and machinery of the Southern Pacific Company, went to Los Angeles Friday night to make an im}aecuon of the new branch road to Pasadena. The short line is practically com- pleted, but there yet remains the question of erectini suitable ‘depots along the way that will be in keeping with the neat railway sta- | tions of Southern California. The Survival of the Fittest. By retaining your baggage checks until you reach San Francisco and leaving same at any of our offices you will save money in the transfer of your bnggafia. Trunks, 35 cents each. Morton Special Delivery, 650 Market street échromcle bnilding), 408 Taylorstreet and Oakland Ferry Depot.* mate, but my headquarters is in I)enver.‘;/ AGAINST ALIEN OFFICERS, Marine Engineers and Harbor Masters and Pilots in Session. SECRETARY OLNEY IS SCORED. Protesting Against Forelgnersinthe American Merchant Marine Service, A joint meeting of the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association No.35and Harbor No.15 of the American Association of Masters and Pilots was held last evening in the hall of the association in the Alca- zar building to discussaliens in the Ameri- can Merchant Marine service and to pro- test against the actions of Richard Olney, formerly Attorney-General, and Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle. The guest of the evening was George Uhler, Presidant of the National Marine Engineers, who is here on his annual visit to the associations of the Pacific Coast. President J. J. Searey of the local associ- ation presided over the meeting, and at his left hand sat Captain L. P. Harvey, captain of Harbor No. 15 0f Masters and Pilots. Among the masters of the vessels who ad- dressed the meeting were Captain H. 8. Ackley of the State of California, Captain Thomas Wallace of the Walla Walla, Cap- tain Howard White of the Tib- uron, Captain J. Leale of the Bay City, Captain George Scott, the pilot, and Ca tain J. J. Stofen of the General McDowell, Of the engineers the speakers were: Presi- dent Sear%y, Past Presidents D. C. Martin, E. Tucker, F. A. Jones and R. E. Tomlin. Mr. Uhler made the speech of the even- ing, and in his remarks scored the adminis- tration for putting foreign seamen and engineers on an equal footing with Ameri- cans in the merchant service. “This was done,” said he, “by Richard Olney, now Secretary of State, when he was Attorney-General of the United States, and we are Liere to raise our voices in pro- test against this un-American action. The decision of the then Attorney-General was contrary and totally at variance with the interpretation of the law by the Treasury Department and the customs and practices under that interpretation for eleven years. “‘An engineer had been considered an officer of a ship, and none but an Ameri- can could touch the lever of an engine on an American ship. The first, second and third officers of an American ship had to be Americans, but Mr. Olney swept aside the Dingley act of 1834, which had repealed that of 1874. The latter act gave privi- leges to aliens on American ships which a wise administration saw were fatal to the Government. “The decision of the Attorney-General was brought about by the reference to him by the Secretary of the Treasury of a pro- test by*the marine engineers of the coun- try against the licensing of aliens as engi- neers of the naturalized steamers New York and Paris. ‘‘His decision in_that case threw down the bars to all foreigners, to the great det- riment of Americans. The deep interest taken in the matter was evidenced by those affected all over the country, and the result was joint meetings everywhere of the harborsand associations. Joint com- mittees of these two organizations have been appointed to confer and endeavor to bring about legislation which will protect us in our calling, as was the intention of the framers of the laws of protection to the merchant marine.” The captains who addressed the meeting were received with cheers and other mani- festations of enthusiasm. They are the only people affiliatine with the engineers, whose positions are safe from the en- croachments of aliens, yet they wesge strongest in their condemnation of the un- American policy of the former Attorney- General. 10 BE COURT-MARTIALED, Lieuteriant Frank Brooks of the Naval Battalion in Trouble. Orders Issued That Were Not Ap- proved by the Commander= in-Chief, Adjutant-General Barrett and Lieutenant Frank A. Brooks have crossed oars, and the commander-in-chief of the army and navy of California says that the adjutant of the Naval Battalion must be court-mar- tialed. The cause of the existing difficulties be- tween Adjutant-General Barrett and the adjutant of the Naval Battalion arose over special orders No. 4, issued by the adju- tant-general from his office at Sacramento on the 3d inst., which! contained the fol- lowing paragraphs relative to the Naval Battaliol The application of citizens and residents of Santa Cruz_desirous of organizing a company of naval militia havin, een apvroved by the Board of Location an ‘ganization, Lieuten- ant Frank A. Brooks, adjutant of the Naval Battalion, is hereby directed to take the neces- sary steps as laid down in section 1951, Politi- calCode, for the mnucring in of said company, which shall be designated Company E. Copies of orders, a record of proceedings and company muster will duly forwaraed through the regular channels to this office. ‘When the special order reached the office of the Naval Battalion Lieutenant Brooks mutilated it and inserted six addi- tional paragraphs of his own. The incor- poration of these paragraphs caused the order to have a different aspect than that for which it was intended. When it was reissued by Adjutant Brooks it was questioned and a copy was mailed to Sacramento asking if the commander-in- chief had issued two orders bearing the same number but of different dates. ‘When the order was closely examined it was found that Lieutenant Brooks had not only changed its substance but had changed the date, making it May 31 instead of June 3. It was further found that the adjutant-general had never approved of the additional Enugnphs, and inquiry was made of the Governor if he had authorized them. The Governor had not, and when he found that Lieutenant Brooks had dared to promulgate orders over the signatuce of the commander-in-chief without authority the Governor at once ordered an investigation and _directed Adjutant-General-Barrett to detail Colonel James, the Naval Battalion inspector, to bring Lieutenant Brooks into court. Licutenant Brooks stated yesterday that the circumstances would be fully ex- lained. “When I became adjutant of the aval Battalion, I found thatall the bat- talion orders were issued justas I issued the one in question,” said he. “When Governor Budd became com- mander-in-chief, I was not informed that any change had been made in this regard. Iam at a loss, however, to account for the change in the dates from June 3 to May 31. It is nothing but a case of prejudice from beginning to end, and I blame Colonel Pegler for it, as he isopposed to the in- terests of the Naval Battalion.” ““The fact is plain,” said Adjutant-Gen- eral Barrett. ‘‘Brooks has mutilated an order issued under the authority of the Governor, by inserting paragraphs in the order which were not approved by either the commander-in-chief or myself, and over my signature. When [entered on my duties as ufizx‘nm—genenl, I found that the Naval Battalion had been running things their own way regardless of the Governor or his ad!uunt—ieneral, and I E‘“ lb&g to it. Iinformed Adjutant Brooks, officially, that all such matters must go through the reEular channels, and he has seen fit to do otherwise in this case.” Governor Budd said: “From_ what or- ders have been issued by me, I am sur- prised that any officer in the éhge service should so far forget himself as to issue any order that I had not authorized or ap- proved. Lieutenant Brooks has gone fur- ther. He chopped my order in" two, in- serted what he wanted, put it together again, and to make the job complete changed the date of the order. o %m were to do such a thing in the army he would be shot. I propose to be more lenient, but I can see no way of set- tling matters except to court-martial him and let him stand asan example. I donot ropose that any officer in the National Euard shall issue an order presumably ap- proved by me, which, in fact, I bave never seen. “I am going to put a stop to that free- and-easy gait, and make the guard one that will be the acme of military perfec- tion. Other States have it, and California will follow in line. I have directed Colonelf James to investigate Lieutenant Brooks doings, and after Colonel James has made his report I shall order my first court-mar- tial, which 1 deeply regret.” Colonel James has received a report from Liefitenant Brooks accounting for his acts, but the colonel refuses to make the report known. The opinion of officers con- versant with such matters is that Lieu- tenant Brooks cannot avoid being court- martialed if for no other cause than chang- ing the date of the order issued by a superior. INDEPENDENT RED MEN, Will Meet In Grand Lodge Session for Two Days in This City. An Attempt Wil Be Made to Have a Life Insurance Feature Adopted. Most of the delegates from interior points have already arrived to attend the annual session of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Red Men, which opens at Independent Red Men’s Hall Monday morning. All the members of the order are German-speaking citizens. It was instituted on this coast July 16, 1865. The membership in this jurisdiction ABANDONED RIHT OF WaY, The Southern Pacific Gives Up Its Route Through the Potrero. SOME OF THE LAND IS SOLD. New Line to Cross the Dumps and Go Through a Tunnel at Seventh Street. The Southern Pacific Company has abandoned its right ot way through the Potrerc and made radical changes in 1ts scheme for a bay-shore road out of San Francisco. Instead of building trestles and embank- ments in a direct line almost due south to the junction of Islais Creek channel and Railroad avenue, across indentations of the bay, the railroad engineers and execu- tive officers have decided to run the new line further west and tunnel the hills that rise from the City dumping ground, known as Mission Bay. Then, too, the problem of cutting away hills at the Potrero to reach a feasible grade has heen dropped. Very soon the map in that part of town will have to be changed as a result of these alterations, which very materially affect South San Francisco and the thriving Potrero district. For what has appeared for many years past on its surface as rail- way land—one long strip 200 feet wide, or just one block, beginning at Channel street and ending at the county line—will no longer remain thereon by right. As far back as 1868 the railway com- any was granted a charter by the State gmlamre for a free right of way 200 feet wide between Illinois and Kentucky streets over the water lots. Later on the Finance and Construction Company, a side issue of the railroad corporation, bought up all the land between those two streets above tidewater, and_principally in the Potrero, opposite the Union Iron Works. Subsequently this property was transferred to the Pacific Improvement Company, in whose name it still stands, excepting a large lot sold several days ago to Dr. E. L. Wemple at the corner of eutucky and Napa streets. As time wore on since the railway com- pany secured its right of way at consider- is 1258, of which number 100 were gained | able trouble and expense from the Legis- during the past year. Its capital is $66,215 50. During the year sick benefits were paid to 137 members, and aggregated $8196 15. The most important business that will come up for discussion will be the propo- sition of adopting a life insurance feature in connection with the order, to be under the supervision of the Supreme Lodge. Petitions will also be presented providing for changes in the existing ritual. The Grand Lodge will be in session two days, and the termination of the business session will be followed by a grana ball and banquet Tuesday evemn¥, in Califor- nia Hall, tendered by all the local lodges, in honor of the grand officersand delegates. This evening San Francisco Lodge No. 246 will give a social dance in honor of the grand officers and all delegates. The schuetzen section of the order will attend in full uniform. The grand officers are as follows: Qber rand chief, Valentine Humburg, San §ose~ under grand chief, Jacob Waener, San i"rancjsco; assistant grand chief, Mar- tin Fuetscher; grand secretary, B. A. Sammann; grand treasurer, Josepb Gut- berlet. 5 3 The list of accredited delegates is as fol- lows: California Lodge No. 70, San Franeisco— Charles Wekerle, C. Oldag, C. Berghoier, C. Roneke. Golden Gate Lodge No. 74, San Francisco—A. Stanke, H. Wetzler, M. Fuetscher. San Jose Lodge No. 77, San Jose—F. Schu- macher, P. Wurkentin, T. Hellison. Pacific Lodge No. 78, San Francisco—R. Mul- ler, J. L. Mayer, C. Munder, C. G. Bolsdorf, Theo Blodes, E. Grimm, L. Friedmann. Germania Lodge No.83, San Francisco—K. Emmel, R. Wieneke, K. Freund. Sacramento Lodge No.124, Sacramento—J. Claus, J. J. Carbuhn, J. A. Falkenstein. Santa Cruz Lodge No. 125, Santa Cruz—Theo Beck, P. J. Krieg. Hermann Lodge No. 224, San Francisco—J. Cordsen, G. Kiedlin, P. R. Schwartz, John Man- gels, A. Antony, R. Lauger, P. H. Whalter. San Francisco Lod(i No. 246, San Franecis- co—A. Dreimann, W. Wachter, C. Leidecker, V. Franz, Charles Fuhrig. Teutonia Lodge No. 250, San Francisco—M. Diekert, F. Grossmann, R. Bail, M. Meeller. Tos Angeles Lodge No. 252, Los Angeles—J. Rumetsch. Vorwarts Lodge No. 255, Sen Francisco—J. Triske, C. Dail, Theo Koch, Charles Schlesinger. Concordia Lodge No. 268, Alameda—William Hille, L. Cattermole, E. Ansel. Oakland Lodge No. 272, Oakland—H. Hoh- mann. Metamora Lodge No. 4, Pocahontas’ Daugh- ters, San Francssco—William Geistlich, C. B Rode, L. Krumb, P. H. Ralfs. NATIVE SONS’' DAY. They Make Elaborato Preparations for a Special Celebration of California’s Birthday at Sacramento. The twentieth anniversary celebration joint committee of San Francisco parlors of Native Sons of the Golden West met last night at Pioneer Hall. The meeting was called to order by J. P. Dockery, T. C. Conway secretary. The transportation committee reported that it had secured 2 $2 50 round trip rate to Sacramento, tickets to be good on all trains on the 7th, 8th and 9th of September. A special excursion train will leave here about 8 p. M. on Saturday, the 8th, taking the members of the order who participate in the parade here on thatevening. Twenty parlors will parade through the principal streets of the City, with about in line and six bands. Another special train will leave on Sunday and another early Monday morning. On Satnrdu{ night, upon the arrival of the special with the city paraders, Sacra- mento will inaugurate an electrical carni- val. The stores, hotels, public buildings and many private houses will be electri- cally illuminated in honor of the arriving Native Sons. A parade through the streets of Sacramento of city parlors, escorted by Sacramento and parlors of adjoining towns, will follow the arrival. Frank B. Ryan, Tom Fox and James Henderson of the Sacramento committee were present and stated that Sacramento was working day and night. Six City parlors will take bands from here with them, and any number of fife and drum corps will liven up the line of march in the big parade to be held in Sac- ramento on Mon ag. 3 Monday will be the gala day. First will come the grand parade, with bands, par- lors with white duck suits, suits of black and yellow, costly banners, drill corps, brass bands, drum and fife _corps, parasol and fan brigades, Native Daughters es- corted by gallant Native Sons, bazoo bands, parlors of curly bears, growling bears, mystic forty, foothill owls of El Do~ rado Parlor and "all the variations of badges, hat ornaments and fancy drilling that go with a Native Son parade. In the afternoon receptions will be held at the numerous headquarters, icecream parties, lemonade and cold tea socials, im- promptu dances and any and all features that kil time and care. In the evening the second electrical car- nival will take place, followed by the grand ball of Sacramento parlors. Tuesday will be a special day for Native Sons at the State Fai An Afternoon Blaze. The alarm at 10 o’clock yesterday was for a small blaze at 211 Stevenson street. Sparks from a tinsmitn’s furnace in the adjoining store sét fire to the place caused to the extent of $100. The place was mm by M. Graurath as a butcher-shop and dwel % lature, the project of a bay-shore line that would greatly facilitate operations on the branch to San Jose began to assume defi- nite form. Surveys were made, with the result that the more southerly portion of the right of way, from Islais Creek to the county line, nearly all of which is sub- merged, was abandoned. The more re- cent surveys changed the route from Islais Creek to Railroad avenue, with tunnels at Mount 8t. Josephs and at the county line. But even then the route from the City depot was laid through the Potrero, be- tween Kentucky and Illinois streets. Another change of base has been made, however, by which the whole grant of a right of way was rejected. 'he Pacific Improvement Company thereupon determined to place its row of blocks upon the market and get rid of them since they were no longer part or varcel of the Southern Pacific’s future plans. One sale was made to Dr. Wemple, who bought the Potrero lot for the pur- pose of erecting upon it a drugstore, of- fices and flats. Shortly after the transfer ‘was recorded, an offer came from a saloon man for another piece of the real estate. It was very liberal, even a second voluntary advance having been made, but it was de- clined to the complete surprise of the peo- vle interested. olonel C. F. Crocker, president of the Pacific Improvement Com- pany, suddenly withdrew the land from sale, stating as hisreason that the company would wait until prices are higherand busi- ness men desire to buy for improvement. ‘When the rignt of way was secured the railway company came "into possession of sixty acres as a State grant for terminal pm}xoses at the dumps, or Mission Bay. Added to this are the intervening streets recently closed by the Supervisors, with which additional ground the railway has a clear way across to the junction of Seventh and Santa Clara streets on the Potrero hillside. A line drawn from that point to Fourth and Townsend streets would inter- sect the railroad track almost diagonally, and it is along such a line that the pro- posed road will be laid out of San Fran- | cisco. | Near the end of Seventh street, between | Pennsylvania avenue and Iowa street, where the hill rises to a height of at least 100 feet, there will be a tunnel. This has | been decided on, although the exact loca- | tion has not yet been made known, for various reasons, since the announcement might advance land values upon the com- Fany. and all the land neede(})for this new ine is not yet secured. The low marsh will be filled with rock and earth from the ad{ucent hills, and this tunnel will be run out to a point west of the rope walk on the southern slope, whence the new route is to be extended toward the county line a lit- tle to the west of the former survey. So far as could be learned from railroad officials the Southern Pacific Company is desirous of beginning work on the road as soon as possible, but buying land on the way causes many delays. THE FIRST GUARDS' BIRTHDAY. An Interesting Programme of Horse- manship Given by the New Troop. The First California Guard celebrated its forty-sixth anniversary last evening with & military demonstration of a rather novel character. There were mounted drills and exhibitions of horsemanship, the presenta- tion of a new guidon to the troop and a new cavalry saber to Captain Sime, and some patriotic speeches, The First California Guard, formerly Battery A, Light Artillery, now Troop A, of the Cavalry, was out in full force. Its members took part in each number except the mounted broad-sword contest between Professor Tronchet, master-at-arms of the Olympic Club, and Captain Dillian, formerly of the French army. Colonel Barry presented the guidon to the troop in a ‘peat little speech, touching n its recent change from red to yellow. The flag was the gift of Judge G. C. Groe- zinger, a former member. Colonel Barry also presented the saber to Captain Sime. That was the gift of the company. Among the audience present were: Gen- eral Dimond, Adjutant-General Barreit, Colonel F. 8. Chadbourne, Colonel Barry, Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Currier, Lieu- tenant-Colonel N. T. James, Major fiuber, Captain Kelleher and Captain Smith, . THE BOARD OF TRADE. Business Men Interested in Broadening Xts Sphere of Usefulnes The members of the California State Board of Trade are desirous of increasing the gphere of usefulness of that body, and to do so will require money. ‘Within the past few days the needs of the organization have been presented to many ot the business community, and as a result a number of new subseribers have been added to the board’s list. The business men are becoming more in- terested of late in the efforts of the Board of Trade than they ever were before. SANTA ORUZ ENTERPRISE. Tts Citizens Making a Bid for Manufac- turing Industries. The ecitizens of Santa Cruz have already made a bid for the bicycle-factory that a company desires to establish in California, are now reaching out to have other industries established in their community. Good building sites_and electricity for power and light are offered. NEW TO-DAY. PESSSSS S sl Sladses e [FYaP AR SEMLANNUAL parance i BEFORE STOCK TAKING. HOUSEKEEPIN GOODS. BLEACHED HUCK TOWELS, ular price 31}4c, now, each 66-inch HEAVY BLEACHED DAM- ASK, regular price $1.10, F S S T 26x26 BLEACHED DAMASK NAP- KINS, extra heavy, regular price $2 $2.75, now, a dozen. z TURKEY RED DAMASK, fine qual-!’O ity, regular price 75¢, now, a yard 2UC SAMPLE PAIRS OF FINE WHITE BLANKETS GREATLY REDUCED IN PRICE. FALL JACKETS JUST ARRIVED. SE HABLA ESPANOL. G. VERDIER & CO,, SE. Cor. Geary and Grant Ave. VILLE DE PARIS. BRANCH HOUSE, LOS ANGELES. STATEMENT ~——OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS ~—OF THE— AACHEN AXD NUNICH FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY F AIX LA CHAPELLE, GERMANY, ON the 31st day of December, A. D. 1894, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Tnsur ance Commissioner of the State of California, pur- suant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of tke Political Code, condensed as per blank fur- nished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. $450,000 00 Real Estate owned by C $309,100 40 TLoans on Bond and Mor 471,492 85 Cash Market Value of al Bonds owned by Compan, 8,141,537 35 Cash in Company's Ufiice. 14,078 30 Cash in Banks.... 460,349 95 Interest due and accrued on all Stocks and Loans e S 21,915 57 Premiums in due Course of Collec- A 256,874 58 , ot Matu and Marine Risks. 276,809 32 Due from other Companies insurance 54,222 40 Total Assets. .$5,006,380 72 LIABILITIES. Losses Adjusted and unpaid 2 Tosses in process of Adlustment or [ 119 500 gg it Suspense.. ¥ & Losses resisted, including expenses | Gross premiums on Fire Risks run-] ning one_year or less, $—, rein- surance 50 per cent.... ... b 1,550,913 47 Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning more than one year, $— reinsurance pro rata. .. Cash dividends remainin All other demands against the 322,500 00 761,741 92 $2,756,855 39 Total Liabilities. INCOME. Net Cash actnally received for Fire premiums. Recerved {0 nd on Bonds, Stocks, Loans, and from 1,803,278 65 all other sources..... secasenen 400,299 65 ‘Total Income.... aeve 2,208,678 30 EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for Fire Losses (in- cluding $73,297 92 losses of pre- vious years) Dividends to stockbolders. Paid or allowed for Commission or 1,061,588 72 822,500 00 .. Brokerage. .. 291,024 45 Paid for Salaries, Fees and other charges for officers, clerks, etc. 71,600 20 Paid for State, National and taxes.. 30,732 03 120,444 97 ‘Total Expenditures................$1,807,800 39 “year, )esr eesasncnnaionaasesescsnensndt $1,174,088 72 Losses incurred during the (fire; Risks and Premi- ums. Premiums. Fire Risks. Net amount of Risks written dur- ing the year....... Net amount of Risks expired dur- $487,791,369 $2,691,079 05 | 433,727,279 ing the year....... 2,641,823 07 Net amount in force December 31, x 1804.............. ..| 1,675,546,142| 1,559,013 48 DR. MAX LUDEWIG, Managing Director. Subseribed and sworn to before me, this 3d day of May, 1895. W. C. EMMET, U. 8. Consul. PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT, 204 Sansome Strest, San Franmcisco, Cal, V0SS, CONRAD & CO., GENERAL MANAGERS. JULIUS JACOBS, San Francisco Agent. NEW SCHOOL! GERMAN AND ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1086 WEBSTEK ST., OAKLAND oFEs AvGUST WA REVex cones or teachers. Preparation for Universities. Ger- ‘man Kinder; ‘Opening Fxercsés held by DR. MCLURE of Oakland at 10 A. M. b