The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1895. THE BAY DISTRICT RACES Owner Don Williams Assaulted Bookmaker Beverly and Was Fined. TROUBLE NARROWLY AVERTED. Arnette and Del Norte Indulged In & Hair-Ralsing Finish in the Handicap. v Coleman backed Royel Flush to win handicep. ne illy Donathon has & very fast fi nette, but she will nev npsigning. Don Pio Pico has speed, he carries high in the airei much wind, or he is a counte s tail which tches too s been learning to ead of doing track poor showing Silver State, it is said, b ride the bicycle of late work, which accounts vesterday. or Grady is a pretty war iay’s race was msily ridden by Rel oungster, and yes- jon to g0 Dy. o dropped his ould have it is ques- ler in the winner a ¢ Briton, and Elsie re sick list with d yesterday to that ’ the bowels co ho was considered t track, was owned by J. B. cata 1 disease a 2 rather exciting finale to the the card yesterday. The event 1s a five and a half furlong for which Venus and Blue to the post equal choices, 8 to 5 closing quo ainst each. good as 214 romp after letting Blue the running, and this is make all the came in for! T, now colored Don When put to be auctioned, the mare, en- tered to be sold for $300, w d wn bookmaker, so 1s averted. etiquette. but the attend- the game o ady decli t got home. heers, made g race of the at five and a son of Th his maiden ess the openi day v a half furlongs, an , the thi 5 to 1. Bil ook third ce from the favorite, Prince Hooker. The black daughter of imp. True Briton Virgie A, furnished the surprise in the two-year-old handicap at five furlongs. ng away second she assumed the lead from the jump and was never headed. winning by two lengths from Per- haps in the fast time of 4. Grady, who with Perhaps had first call in the bet- ting, was a good third. h on the card, the five-furlong p for the all-aged division n another grand sy i ut 8 3 2 favo: 11 re- it in front when the flag fell, a the pace, wor front of How The winner’s s4}{tol. ish to the miie and a sixteenth p was exciting enough to suit the stidious racegoer. There were five s, and Royal Flush reigned favorite, the post 13 to 5. Arnette was but e cheaper in the betting, with Del 1e next fancier. nd, den out half rd, with the when th at’ once took s took uo chances with Ar- 1e flag sent the bunch away, the lead. She was a but length in front of Del Norte rounding the | v winning by h was a poor third. marked the chestnut filly asa e two-year-olds; §250, Ind. maid; Horse. weight, jockey. Fin. R100 1 L 212 Don Good start. Won e ' b. c., by Three Cheers-Dam of 5 Bett Bloomsbury 5 to 1, Agravator 7 to 2, Mt 20 to 1, Prince Hooker 8 to 5, Don oy B ; purse $300. St. 3 Str. Fin. Virgie A, 94 (Chevalier)....3 11512 12 Pernaps, 107 (Shaw).. 2k 2 28 2)Grady, 90 (Reidy)............8 T 3l 32 (935)Imp al Miss Brummel, 107 (Piggott) ......... 6 6n 52 41 215 Cardwell, 97 (Cleary 31 4h 51 98 (G 45 62 63 BA" 72 T2 8 8 8 0134 Win- ig Bertha. 10 2, Grady irgie 4 , Perhaps ip. Miss Brummel 5 to 1, Cardweil 15 o er 1 9 to 1, Nabopolassar, 7 to 1, Emcino 12 wards; purse 4. lon, Ind. Horse. weight, jockes. 14 Str. Fin. 1158 Venus, 96 (Chevalier).. 5 3n 27 1T 1208 Blue Bell, 97 (Piggott) 3 13412 2 (1184)Little Tough, 102 (Hin TR RE Svinvhools BTOLS BT 1208 Regal, 99 (McIntyre) 2 2h 32 45 1227 Raphael, 99 (E.Jones).....1 ‘ah 5I &I 1182 O'Bee, 99 (Reidy).. 6 65 615 620 | %88 Soon Enough, 110 (C ber) ... 4 F.7: 9353 Straggling stert. Won easily. Time 1:0734. ‘Winner, 1., by Verando-Belinda. Bettin, Venus 8 to 5. Biue Bell 8 to 5, Regal 30 to 1, Little Tough 12 to 1, O’Bee 10 to 1, Raph- ael 20 fo 1, Soon Enough 12 to 1. 99 123 $300. In 1 FOURTH RACE—Five turlongs: handi- « cap: three-year-olas and upward; purse St. 3 Str. Fin. 2" 17512 1n 4%81 22 31 2I 31 27 4 4 me, 1:01. Winner, Horse. weight, jockey. 7 Nervoso. 88 (E. Jones) . 7 Howard, 107 (L. Lioyd) (1207)Silver State, 103 (Pizgol 1125 Rinfax, 110 (T. Smith Fair start. Won driving. ch, I g., by imp. Bratus-Nerva. ciling: Nervoso 9 to 2, Howard 14 to 5, Silver 3102, Rinfax 7 10 2. 994 FIFTH RACE — One and a sixteenth 4%, miles; handicap; three-year-oldsand up- 1 ward; purse $400. Horse. welght, jockey. Arnette 97 (E. Jone: Del Norte, 110 (Piggot 1 Flush, 112 (Hinri Ua, 97 (Coady). us, 102 (Chevalier). Won driving. Time, 1:47%. Win- irap. Midlothian-Filena. nette 14 to 5, Del Norte3 to 1,lnoyn.\ o1, ing Fiush 1310’5, Flirtilla 10 to 1, Remus 4 Following are to-day’s entries: First race, five-eighths of a mile, selling, non- winners of - '95—Model 107, Gondola 102, luguenot 104, Dr. Stevens 115, Hello 119, Wild Rose 91, Bob Tucker 94, Monarch 104, De Groat 101, Little Pete 87, Rob Roy 100, Yreka 109, Mary Foster 92, Addie M 91, Elaire 102, Lady Splendor 102, Ladamed 80,imp. Green 107, ne on | pleased from | ng to the | rice in the | to the wire, but the real race was | Del Norte drew up nearly on equal furlong from home, and the iwo and & half fur- purse ive furlongs: handi- | ©9¢) THIRD RACE—Five and a half fur- | : selling; three-year-olds and up- | 300. selling—Nebuchadnezeer 100,Seraphin 89, Bell- i ringer 104, Frondeur 97, Harry Lewis 98, Ver- { E)mn 94, Quarterstaff 107, Ricardo 98, Charmer ‘hird race, eleven-sixteenths of a mile, sell- ! iny, inside course, light’weights—Nellie G 117, | Tioka 110, Gussie 117, Miss Ruch 110. Fourth race, & mile, selling—Wheel of For- 1¢ 93, Peter 11 103, Boreas Fifth Tace, about a mile, | treme short course— 1131, Hanford 12 Yangedene 12! Mutineer endocino 137, Last 1387, Sympathetic’s The Drummer 1t OLYMPIC CLUB AFFAIRS. | The Boating Aunex ¥lect Officers—H. | J. Crocker May Be the Next President. The Olympic Ciub boating annex met last evening and formed a permanent or- ganization. J. M. McElroy was elected president, E. Allison secretary-treasurer and R: McArthur captain. The executive committee is eomposed of C. 0. Sullivan Dr. W. Bryant and A. A. Martin. mittee on membership—J. E. Godley, J. Morton and D. L. Conkling. The club has appropriated the sum of $300, whick will be expended in the purcha racing craft. A four-oared barge will be {one of the first boats purchased. The oarsmen will have a clubhouse | future and a_committee ppointed to look up a suitable situation. The Olympic | oarsmen are determined to be well repre. sented in all of the amateur regattas held in the future. | There is plenty of good material in the { clubto draw from, and there is no reason why the rowing annex should not prove a great success. George Green, alias “Young Corbett, arrived from the East yesterday and put in an unexpected appearance at the club last evening. He states that the athietic | of | i { clubs of the East under whose a ices he boxed did not give him anything like fair ¥ and he dec hake” the ex- cessive heat of an Eas | beautiful climate of California. Henry J. Crocker is the latest of the | proposeéd candidates for president now | spoken of, and there ere many members who are of the opinion that Mr. Crocker will be the next presiding officer. Paul | Bernhard is spoken very favorably of for leader. BT T0 PALD AT Handsome Bust of Governor Stanford to Adorn the Museum. Stanford Commissioned Ru- pert Schmid to Make the Work. ummer for the EMrs, land Stanford, soon to be placed in the Stanford museum, is to be mounted ona | {nupen Schmid’s tust of Governor | = tanford. pedestal of polished gray marble, immedi- ately below the figure, and the whole will be set npon a black marble column. The bust is larger than life s carved from the finest Carrara marble ob- | tainabl [N in San mid prepared his design while ncisco and chiseled it in Ttaly. | The chiseling was begun in Carrara and | finished in Florence. g i Inattempting to get a perfect work with | perfect material Mr. Schmid spoiled se ras as near perfect in point of carving and ! resemblance as it was possible to make it. | This specimen is one of if not the best | piece of sculpture in California, and is a | magnificent addition to the museuam at Palo Alto. el SO S T Rain Gambling in Calcutta. Come down again to where old Chooni Lall himself sits cross-legged—cheery, genial and wrinkled. He is always glad to | see you. He never mentions a bet. You i' the price, unable in the clamor of tongues to hear and understand. He mur- | murs six and a half. Come, let us bet and | see how it is done. Here goes for 10 pees. The broker holds it up—more | shouting, more laughing, more fingers 1 held up. He tells you he has sold it at 7; | the price is rising. “Supposing that it rains between now and 9 o'clock at night we shall win 6 rupees for every rupee of our stake, our own rupee making up 7. the { quoted price. Chooni Lall will take an | anna in every rupee for brokerage. He already worth many lakns, for fortunes are won and lost here every day in the monsoon. The very sugar-cane seller at the door, who doles out sticks of sugar cane at 2 pice, is worth thousands of rupees. You | can bet either way, for or against the rain, for to-day or to-morrow or against any fixed day, if you can find a taker. You our choice of the two periods of | | | 1 | till 9 p. M. that rain will fall in the first period, far | longer odds are offered. It rarely rains, | even in the monsoon, between those hours; | and I have seen 400 to 1 offered. Rich men deposit large sums with Chooni Lall—he is also a banker—and lay odds on the rain falling within a certain month. For the month on which the monsoon usually breaks they lay 5 and 6 i to 1 on the rain, and it would undoubtedly be a very good bet. Brokers themselves bet but rarely—their brokerage pays them; but, of course, there comes oiten a cer- tainty of winning by easy hedging. The odds are not hard to foretell. Every bet is sold in the open market and the pricc re- corded. Therlace is really a sort of rain exchange, and, as in the monsoon weather it is constantly full, there is never any dif- ficulty in betting either way, supposing you wiil be wi]linf to take the current price.—Chambers’ Journal. —————————— Starve was once to die any manner of death. Wycliffe’s sermons tell how *Christ starved on the cross for the redemption of men.” i B St Open the Safety Valve ‘When there is too big a head of steam on, or you will be in danger. Similarly, when that important safety valve of the system, the bowels, becomes obstructed, open it prompily with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and guard against the conse- quences of its closure. Biliousness, dyspepsia, ma- larial, rheumatic and kidney complaint, nervous- ness and _neuralgia are all subjugated by this Becond race, thirteen-sixteenths of s mile | pleasaut but potent conqueror of dlsedse. ceplechase, ex- | Com- | C3 1 the near | Rupert Schmid’s marble bust of Le- e, and is | blocks, but his concluding production | | hours from 6 A. M. till noon, or from 6 A. M. | Of course, to a man who bets | WOULD BREAK THE WILL. Heirs of the Late Ellen Gal- 1 lagher Very Much Dis- ! satisfied. RESORT TO LEGAL MEASURES. | | Petition Asking for Revocation of Probate Proceedings Filed In the Superior Court. A vpetition was filed yesterday in the | Superior Court by Henley & Costello, at- | terneys, on behalf of the heirs of the late | Ellen Gallagher, who died in this City on , 1895, asking that the court decree shing a certain document as the last will of deceased, be revoked, and that let- ters of administration of the estate be is- | sued to Peter Collins, one of the lawful heirs of deceased, or some other person | competent to administer upon the estate. The petitioners are: James M:Callum, now residing in Ireland, & brother of the | deceased; James, Hannah and Rosanna Collins and Margaret Dowds, all of Phila- | delphia, children of a sister of deceased. | The circumstances leading up to the iling of the petition yesterday as set forth therein are as follows: Thomas Gallagher died in San TFrancisco on \uary 1892, leaving an estate val- | ued at $183,489. The share of his surviving | wife in the estate amounted, according to its appraised value, to $146,792 83. The and left a will, and, after due process , the estate was distributed and his s wound up. One of the executors of this'will was Rev. Dennis Nugent. On April 8, 1895, the Widow Gallagher passed away, leaving a will the provisi of which were in substance as follows To Mary B. Russell of St. Mary 2 Hos- pital, $5000, interest on the same to be paid to a brother of deceased, James McCallum of Ireland, snd at his death the principai to revert to Mrs. Russell. To Peter Collins ! of Philadelphia, a nephew, $2500. To James Collins, Margaret Dowds, Rosanna | Collins and Hannah Collins, children of a | deceased sister, $2500 each. ! Mary B. Russell of St. Mary’s Hospital, $1000, the interest to be paid to a cousin, Rosanna Reily of San Francisco. To the Superior of the Franciscan Fathers, located | on Golden Gate avenue, San Francisco, | $300. | ALl the rest, residue and remainder- of i the es athed to St. Bernard’s | conferer 3t. Vincent de Paul So- | ciety of San Franeisco. Rev. D. Nugent, | pastor of St. Rose’s Church, was appointed executor, without bonds. Between the | time of the distribution of her husband’s estate and her own demise, Mrs. Gallagher | disposed of considerable property, as shown by the records in the Recorder’s office. On December 20, 1894, she deeded to J. ! aued at $80,000, Kearny street, the Nugent and the 0. Hirschielder propert situated at 213 and witness being Dennis consideration § T'he second con Gailagher to Christopher 2 deed being dated Septem ber ! the witness John F. Lyons. The deed was acknowledged September 1893, before a notary public. The consideration was $4000. The third conv was from en Gallagher to Pa Riordan, the deed being dated April 3, 1895, and the onsideration stated $10. The property was appraised at $22,500. The fourth con- veyance was from Eilen Gallagher to Mar- et R. Nugent by a deed dated Decem- , acknowledged January 5, 1894, | and recorded Avpril 11, 1895, the stated con- ! sideration being $10. The property was ituated on Harrison street and was ap- | praised at $3500. The petition filed yesterday in the Supe- rior Court by Henley & Costello alleges various acts of undue infiuence claimed to have been practiced upon £llen Gallagher to induce her to make the will sought to be set aside in this action, and concludes with the prayer that the will be revoked. Father Nugent seemed very much sur- prised when informed last evening at bis residence on Brannan street that the peti- tion had been filed during the day by At- | torneys Henley and Costello. *'I bad no idea,” said he, in discussing the matter, | “‘that Henley had the remotest intention | of taking the case into court. It is true | that he threatened to do so when I refused to answer certain impudent questions which he put to me, relative to the estate i of Mrs. Gallagher, but I set the whole thing on the basis of the old adage about a ‘barking dog,’ etc. “In other words, 1 thought he was | making 3 you might call a ‘bluif.’ Henley is given to that sort of thing, as | everybody knov he has really filed the petition, has Well, so be it. No, I will not go into ils. Ido not believe in trying these s in the newspapers. it's only a little mily jar and will be settled in due time. *Mrs. Gallagher was of sound mind to | the day of her death. Most of her prop- | erty was disposed of during her lifetime | by gift, sale, transfer, etc. The tritle that | was left to the church at the time of her | death need cause no one alarm. It was trifle. she had a right to dispose of the as she saw fit. It was her hus- sire at the time of his death that | the bulk of his property should go to the | charch when_the widow should no longer ! live to enjoy it.” | “Isittrue that Henley agreed not to file this petition if you would make a full ex- | planation relative to the disposition of | certain moneys derived from property dur- |ing M rallagher’s lifetime asked. R that is correct. I refused to make | any explanation whatever because I do not he? | deta c | recognize his right to me questions | about the estate. How would that poo: | dead laay, Mrs. Gallagher, feel if she knew | that Henley had calied me down to his | office to ask me a series of impudent ques- i tions as to how I had fulfilled my trust as executor of her estute? | right has he to ask me questions? | woman knew what she w: | depend upon that. Tt will all come out at the proper time. What This about: you may | As T haye said, this woman was in her | Tight mind when she disposed of her possessions. There was no undue infiu- | ence. It was the intention of both Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher that the bulk of their property should go to the chiurch.” |CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Result of the Covoner’s Inquest in the Johnstone Case. | Coroner Hawkins held two inquests yes- terday. The first was in the case of Daniel J. Johnstone, who was shot and killed, as | alleged, by John J. Comerford, with the latter’s barkeeper, William Wellman, as an accessory. The tragedy occurred on the 24th inst., after 12 o’clock, at the corner of Duncan and Dolores streets. It was shown in the evidence that at the time Johnstone was taking a friend of his named McMullen home, the latter being intoxicated. A stop was made at Comerford’s saloon | corner of Duncan and Dolores streets, and | it was then that the trouble occurred. Comerford, in his testimony, swore that McMullen and Johnstone made such a noise that both he and his barkeeper thought that a gang of hoodlums were in the vicinity, and as a result, Comerford said he fired a shot through the Duncan- street door of the saloon, and his bar- keeper, Wellman, fired three shots through the Dolores-street entrance. Wellman corroborated the testimony of Comer- ford regarding the firing of the shots. After hearing all the evidence in the case, the jury returned a verdict which ser forth that Johnstone came to his death from the eftects of a gunshot wound in his rightlung, and that the shot was fired by i ed | To Mother | | | Wellman; further that Comerford was equally responsibleffor the act. While there was no intent to kill, the jury believed that both men should be charged with manslaughter. NEW ZEALAND SUBSIDY. Object of Giving a Bonus to the Cana- dian Line s to Secure Semi- Monthly Service. A dispatch from Wellington, New Zea- land, states that the Government of that colony has decided to subsidize a line of steamers to Vancouver, B. C., to the amount of £20,000. A bill has also been introduced in the House of Repse- sentatives therc_, proposing co-operation with the Dominion Government in a sub- marine cable project. Regarding the proposed steamship sub- sidy, H. Stephenson Smith, resident agent here for the New Zealand Government, said Jast night: 1 think the idea is simply to contribute to- ward the Canadian steamship service and not, as the dispatch might indicate, to subsidize any independent line of steamers. 1t will not affect the San Francisco service at all. At resent the Oceanic line receives snbsidies rom the United States, New Zealand and New South Wales Governments, but no subsidy has heretofore been paid to the Canadian line. The former line has the steamers Mariposa and Alameda touching at Auckland, New Zealand, on the way to Sydney, and calling at Apia and Honolulu both ways. The steamers of the Canadien line running between Australia_and Vancouver, B.C., are the Warrimoo and Miowera, neither of which call at any New Zealand port, The object of subsidizing the Canadian line is, doubtless, to induce its steamers to call tliere and thus secure a_semi-monthly service, with the San Francisco and Vancouver lines alternating. Isaw the Colonial Treasurer, J. G. Wi x weeks ago in Victoria, B. C.,'on I Ward, is way out from London, England. THE MOTHER SAVED LOIS Mrs. Edwards Did Not Admin- ister Poison to Her Little Girl. Kind-Hearted Mrs. Skerrett WIll ‘Adopt the Orphan—Inquest To-Morrow. it was positively determined yesterday that the life of little Lois Edwards, the only surviving member of the Edwards family that died from voluntary poison- | ing, was saved because her mother did not desire that she should go with the rest. Instead of giving the child cyanide of po- tassium, she administered a dose of pare- goric and sugar. Little Lois, who is a remarkably bright child, maintains that her mother gave her paregoric. «Mamma give baby some white sugar,” she said. *'Ilike sugar. Mamma give me drink from small bottle. I know pare- goric.” The bodies of H. H, Edwards, his wife and their baby will be buried in a pauper’s THE VALLEY ROAD'S GAIN. Chief Locating Engineer Edes of the Southern Pacific Engaged. WILL SUPERVISE THE ROUTE. He Resigned After Finishing the Coast Division Line to Santa Barbara. ‘W. C. Edes, who for many years past was the chief locating engineer of the Southern Pacific Company under Chief Engineer Hood, resigned his position a week ago to accept a similar appointment 1n the engineering department of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail- way. He has already entered on the duties of his new office, where he is the first assistant to Chief Engineer W. B. Storey. His withdrawal from the Southern Pacific Company was a source of consider- able surprise to the numerous engineers, draughtsmen and other employes of the construction department, for be was re- garded as a man alone in his sphere of locating new raiiroad lines. Even his col- leagues looked up to him as a remarkably talented engineer in this particular line of the profession, and Mr. Hood invariably deferred to his judgment in the selection or “locating” of routes, no matter what the character of the land might have been. The Valley road directors are therefore to be congratulated on securing him to work with Mr. Storey in laying out the people’s railroad through California. Mr. Edes is a Boston man and a gradu- ate of the Massachusetts [nstitute of Tech- nology. He worked for the Southern Pa- cific Company as an engineer for sixteen or seventeen years, and in that time, to use the words of a man who was inti- umately associated with him, he earned the reputation of being the best locating engin- eer on the Pacific Coast. He located the coast division road exclusively south of San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara, which he had just completed before resigning. His other locating work was the west-side road down the San Joaquin Valley to Los Banos, one which he also had charge of constructing; the Santa Rosa branch, the Capay Valley branch of thirty miles, the Willows and Knights Landing branches, long stretches of the Oregon-California Railway through the mountains, and along the Sunset route in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. There are also loca- tions made by him for lines that are yet to be built. Who his successor will be has not been determined and it is understood it will be difficult to get an engineer who can take his place. | He will have general supervision over the routes of the.-Valley road with the title | of chief assistant engineer. Mr. Storey has all he can attend to and will have still MRS. i Wy HER KITTEN. grave unless some of their relatives be found or some charitable persons come forward and guarantee the expense of the funeral. The Coroner’s deputies were hunting yesterday for any person who could give some information as to where any of the relatives could be found, but their efforts proved futile. It seemed as if the family stood alone in the world. A cousin of Edwards was assistant su- perintendent of the Oakland, San Leandro and Haywards electric line, but he left for Chicago about tive months ago. His where- abouts could not be found. The residence of Mrs. Daniel Skerrett at 113 Webster street, where Lois was taken from the Receiving Hospital, was besieged yesterday by men and women in well-to- do circumstances, who desired to adopt the little orphan girl. Lois was sitting in a large chair yester- | day nursing her kitten, which she had done incessantly since the death of her father, mother and baby brother. Every now and again the child would call for her mother, her big round eyes at ihe same time filling with tears, She could not understand why mamma did not come. Mrs. Skerrett whei- asked what would be done with the little girl said she had de- cided to adopt the child. “My sister, Mrs. Fowler, anda myself knew the Edwards family,” said she, “and this little child has entirely won my heart.” The ‘inquest will be held at 9 o’clock to- morrow morning. SUING THE ATTORNEY. The Macdonoughs Ask E. F. Preston to Pay $25,000 for Alleged Neglect. The sons and daughters of the late Joseph Macdonough, the millionaire, are suing Attorney E. F. Preston for $25,000, alleged to have been lost through neglect of business placed in his charge. In 1888 Mrs. Macdonough bought the Rutherford property at Dupont and Mor- ton streets, Rutherford guaranteeing the urchaser against a street-widening tax. §ir. Preston obtained $30,000 from the Rutherford estate, but the taxes will amount to $55,000, and so the Macdonoughs are endeavoring to hold the attorney re- sponsible for the difference ————— Colonel Stuart M. Taylor Dying. Intelligence comes from Paris that Colonel Stuart M. Taylor, formerly Recorder and Naval Officer in this City, is in failing health and go: expeend to live l‘ons“.M golg:al‘ Taylor fell eir to quite jum of m¢ about three years 8g0 ‘and went abroad to reside. 3 more in an executive capacity for such duties as buying material, superintending construction, ete., in which work his old co-workers, the assistant engineers of the Southern Pacific, say he can hold his own with the best railroad-builders in Cali- fornia. In a construction contract for 20,000 lineal feet of ng and 375,000 feet of bridge lumber ‘between Stockton and the Stanislaus River there isa clause setting forth that the contractor ‘‘must agree not to employ any man either as overseer or laborer who shall have been discharged by the railway company for drunkenness, dis- orderly conduct, negligence or bad work- manship, and whenever directed by the | engineer must dismiss any and every per- son who is disorderly, intemperate, quar- relsome, unfaithful or unskillful.” NOT A CHURCH MEMBER. Meyer Strauss Dropped From the First Congregational Roll. Wrote a Private Letter That Reflected on the Pastor, Rev. C. O. Brown. He The name of Deacon Meyer Strauss of the First Congregational Church was stricken from the roll of membership last evening. Mr. Strauss had written a private letter to Miss Myrtle Simpson adyising her to stand stanch by the young people’s society and oppose the pastor, C. O. Brown, and Deacon I. H. Morse, who were conspiring to become the ““boss’” of the church and the auxiliary bodies. The congregation held their breath while the following resolution was read: WHEREAS, A series of articles unfriendly to this church and apparently designed to stir up aissention among its members, have recently appeared in several newspapers of this City; and whereas, this series culminated in an arti- cle published in last Sunday’s Chronicle, the sabject of it being & letter from one of our own number, & member both of the church and standing committee, Mr. M. Strauss, to a young lady of the church, followed by the record of an ‘interview between Mr. Strauss and a re- rter, PO eaolued, That, we cannot but express our profound astonishment that any member of this church, much more any officer of this church, could have permitted to_write ana publish, or allow to be published, a leiter referring to his pastor and a_deacon in the church in terms so disrespectful, so unjust, so uncharitable and so untruthful as those con- tained in the letter referred to: Resolved, That in the judgment of this board Brother Strauss has done & great wrong to Dr. Brown, the pastor, to Brother J. H. Morse, one of its deacons, and to the church itself, whose good name is compromised with thatof its officers, and is highly censurable for conduct 80 unbrother!y and so unchristian. Deacon Rankin said the accused acknowl- e”f"d writing the letter, but expressed only regret that it had been published. Several of the congregation protested against such aresolution. Dr. Brown, Dea- con Rankin and others urged that Deacon Strauss’ acknowleagment of the author- ship of the letter was sufficient. A motion to lay the matter on the table was voted down, and the resolution of censure was passed. The storm broke in earnest when James T. Westgate, president of the Endeavor Society, proposed to drop Mr. Strauss from the church’s membership roll. He stated that offending members should be disci- plined in order to preserve harmony, and as Mr. Strauss had admitted writing the letter and showed no repentance therefor he should be expelled. For nearly an hour the question was argued. Mr. Strauss’ friends, of whom but few were present, stated that the church had no right to do such a thing without preferring formal charges and giv- ing the man a chance to defend his name and position. Mr. Strauss might be able to prove what he had said. A motion to delay the excommunication was voted down, and when the original resolution was voted upon Mr. Strauss was turned out of the First Congregational Church by a vote of 61t0 49. The congre- gation hastened from the church in ex- cited knots. THE HALF-MILLION CLUB Work of Promotion Reviewed and Its Plans for the Future. State Board of Trade Wants It to Prepare Lectures for Atlanta. A report of the work done by the Half- million Club since its organization was read at the adjourned meeting of the exec- utive committee yesterday afternoon. It recalled the first gathering of a few gentlemen at the Chamber of Commerce on March 3, and the plan adopted of excur- sions into the interior of the State. The first excursion wasto Los Angeles on April 15, with stopsat Merced and Fresno on the way down. The motto on that occasion was “A New United *Pro- gressive California,”” and the occasion was most successful in stirring up enthusiasm along tkat line. Max Meyberg, the di- rector-general of the Los Angeles fiesta, with 120 members of the Gentlemen’s Club of that city, escorted the excursionists to their headquarters at the Chamber of Com- merce there with a procession over a mile long. The Los Angeles convention was then held and Santa Barbara, Redlands, River- side and the return home frequent stops were made, the receptions to the excursionists being enthusiastic. meeting of the club was called at the Chamber of Commerce, at which the fol- lowing executive committee was elected: C. E. Bickford, I. W. Hellman Jr., A. Bouvier, H. E. Highton, W. M. Bunker, J. D. Phelan, E. Castle, David Rich, fugh Craig, Louis Sloss Jr., H. J H. P. Sonntag, F. Dalton, F. W. Sumner and F. G. Voss. This meeting was followed by one of the executive committee, which elected H.J. Crocker president, Frank Dalton vice- }»resident. Alfred Bouvier secretary, and . W. Hellman treasurer. Ata subsequent meeting the promotion committee, com- osed of W. M. Bunker, L. G. Harvey, A. ouvier, A. E. Castle and D. M. Carman, and the local improvement committee, composed of H. P. Sonntag, W. and David Rich, were appointed. The promotion committee has sub- mitted a plan of work which is briefly out- lined as follows: Encourage formation of improvement ciubs in the interior; estab- lish headquarters in Chicago; increase markets for California fruits; inaugurate a carnival season; inaugurate a series of mountain excursions; establish a series of excursions from Chicago as a center, and establish a monthly or quarterly publica- tion. Before the executive committee ad- journed, yesterday afternoon, a letter was read from Secretary J. A. Filcher of the State Board of Trade asking the club to prepare a series of lectures with stereop- ticon illustrations, for California’s exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. President Crocker and W. M. Bunker were chosen a committee to confer with the Board of Trade on that matte: DEFIANCE TO THE BOARD. Richmond Property-Owners to Contest the Blue-Rock Ordi- nance. If the Solid Eight of the Board of Su- pervisors attempts to enforce the blue rock ordinance on the people of the Richmond district it will have an ugly fight on its hands. The property-owners are arrayed against it to a man and open rebellion in a legal way will meet any effort to compel them | to pay $4a load for biue rock from Tele- graph hill for the benefit of Gray Bros., when they can get the red rock close by at 75 cents a Joad. Several property-owners and enthusiastic promoters of Richmond’s interests, one of them being Presiaent T. G. Parker of the Point Lobos Improvement Club, have made up their minds to give the board an opportunity to assert itself, and, if the op- portunity is taken to immediately attack the legality of the ordinance in the courts. So a little trap will be set for the board like this: Contractors McHugh and Sherrin are just now grading Twentieth avenue be- tween Clement and California streets and utting in a sewer there. When this work 1s finished that of macadamizing will be- gin. Somebody—it mav be Messrs. Me- ugh and Sherrin—will proceed to mac- adamize with the same red made Point Lobos avenue and the drive- ways of Golden Gate Park so substantial and firm in the eyes of the Richmond resi- dents. Then the fun will begin. If any arrests are made for violating the blue- rock ordinance legal counsel, already se- cured by the property-owners and pro- moters aforesaid, will immediately begin proceedings to habeas corpus the of{enders and contest the legality of the ordinance. That is all there is to it just now. It will be a sort of aefiance to the Solid Eight of the Board of Supervisors, and when the Point Lobos Club meets in Farrell’s hall next Wednesday it will arrange for a cam- paign of law that will cause the Supervisors to pause and think. The Richmond Dis- trict Improvement Association will follow suit a week later with such a protest as will make the board feel that the senti- ment of that neighborhood is unanimous and determined. “Why,” Mr. Parker queried yesterda}', “do they suppose we are going to tamely submit ‘to a proposition that will cost us $200 a block for macadamizing, when we can get the work done for less than a fifth of that amount, and with rock that has stood the testof time—Point Lobos ave- nue, for instance?”’ The U. S. Gov’t Reports show Royal Baking Powder i superior to all others. ____ 3an Bernardino were visited. On | on the return to this City a general Crocker, | rock that has | NEW TO-DAY. 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