The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 11, 1895, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1895. One day when the stage arrived at Big Flats a very handsome, well-dressed, athlete-looking young man alighted and took the trail for Shady Canyon. Turning the corner of & huge granite column, out of whose perpendicular split center grew a stunted pine, he stopped short and laughed outright at the kittenish antics of a small girl playing alone by the trail. The girl stopped her play and stood before him with hands down and clasped, looking straight into his face, not boldly nor yet bashfully, but with asort of wonderment of expression. She was a very small crea- ture, and as to age might have been any- where from 12 to 16. Her hair, which was & peculiar yellow, was cut close to her head. The young man started slightly when A Calfornia | Story of the Developement op * Cat E7e5 of Sl;qd), Cafon e By e ma_g.sg Morris \)(/Agncr" with much graciousness of manner. So she was popular with the men. Cat-Eyes, therefore, in spite of her environments, re- ceived some advantages of speech and pol- ish from the woman. Cat-Eyes led the young man into Mrs. Squeers’ place. Vernon Allinson, which was the young man’s name, did not stay as Cat-Eyes had hoped, but went to the little hotel, whose creakingb signboard seemed always lamenting a better time. Alinson’s stay at Shady Canyon lengthened into months. He took Cat-Eyeson long rambles up steep heights where they ha to use their hands to help them up. On these long rambles their talks were grave and quiet, and on many subjects. She learned much from him, and was an eager though an unobtrusive listener. One evening she was cailed into the saloon to recite. She had a marvelous voice, and it amazed the crowd. Barty, a sport, in his enthusiasm attempted to kiss her, when Vernon struck him a blow on the face. There would have been bloodshed had not Mrs. Squeers interfered. Barty swore that he would have revenge. At the same time Allinson peremptorily told Mrs. Squeers to send Cat-Eyes out of the place and never have her in the saloon again. Frightened and stupid with amazement she was sent to her room, and never again recited in the saloon. But from that hour she was a self-abnegated slave to Allinson, and was afraid that Barty would take vengeance upon him. One crisp, cold morning in the late fall she stood among the fading flowers and yellow leaves in the garden, with an ache of intuition in her heart. She had changed much in a few months—no longer a child, not yet a woman. Presently Allinson be met the full gaze of the strange, yellow called to her, as he had doneon other diamond pin from his cravat, and the boutonniere from his coaty thrust the pin through the flowers, and threw the im- provised bouquet at her feet. She saw the gleam of light coming, and the hand which had thrown it, and_flashed #her wonderful eyes on his face. He shivered in the fas- cination of them. She picked up the boutonniere, pinned it carelessly to her breast, then made an interpolation in the part she was playing, and sang: Oh, do you remember the well-beaten trail That 1éd from the camp to the spring? And the pot-ples we had from the squir'l and quail, And the evenings when we used to sing? Tlie shady old camp is all gone to decay, ‘The ham bone has dropped from the pin, The roof and the door have both rotted away Andthe chimney is all tumbled in. The glorious voice rose untrammeled. The warm rich notes filled and thrilled the place. The words of the bld song sung at S0 many camg fires seemed to float and linger over the heads of the people. A large part of the audience were Californians of the oid days, and the familiar tune with its memories made many a grizzled face wet with tears. Vernon did not appland. She had sung at him and for him. This was the girl he had thought stupid in the mountain path, shaded with pines, seven years ago. ‘‘Cat- Eyes” had grown to the subtle grace and charm of the tigress. He had been blind, so blind. Who had made this change? A flerce jealousy took possession of him. What man had taken up this beautiful creature, Allinson forgetting that he had dropped’ her with a few words of cold advice. “Take me to the stage to see her,” he said to his companion. i “Take you to the moon,” he replied. hy not to the. stage?”’ “Why not to the moon? one is as ac- cessible as the other to you.” = ““Where does she live?”” asked Allinson. “Who?” asked his friend. “The Tigress, who else?”’ “Don’t know. Tt is said she does mnot receive callers, except those on business.” “Well, I'll find out,” and he did. The next morning at an ealy hour he handed his card to the Chinaman who opened_the door, with the request to take it to the lady of the house. “No sabe,” said the Chinaman. Vernon ointed to the card, then to his hand, then into the house. “No sabe.” ) Let me brighten your understanding,” and he handed him a piece of money. «‘Heap no sabe,” but there was a sly ‘twin- kle in the Chinaman's eye. Just then a young woman_came to the door and in- Vited him in. With his pulses on fire, he waited to see if she would come. Then there was the sliding of folding-doors, the heavy curtains were pushed apart and the Tigress, in all her royal, graceful loveli- ness, stepped into the room. Vernon rose eagerly to meet her. She held his card in one band and extended the other, and eyes. “Cat eyes” was his first thought; a repelling fascination crept over him as the impression deepened in his mind that there was an indescribable feline expres- sion all over the child. So swiftly do one’s thoughts take shape, before he could bring hjs lips to form a guestion the ridiculous jdea had come and gone, that should he turn away from the moveless stare of those curious yéllow eyes the small creature would spring upon his shoulders, a fero- ciously wild cat. “My lttle girl, can you tell me how far it is to Shady Canyon?” She bobbed her head over one shoulder, thus indicating both distance and direc- tion. “‘Beeit?” He flushed slightly at the nearness to the town, or may be at the implication conveyed in the tone and the gesture. “Nobody ever said that to me before since he died.” “Said what?” “My little girl.” “What is your name?”’ “It's Cat-Eyes since he died.” The creepy sensation again came over the young man when the child uttered the first thought which had come to him about her eyes. He conquered the feeling and asked her very kindly, “How long has it been since he died?” “It has been a hundred years, I think. Anything in that,” nodding to the valise which he’ carried, “that’d get out?” As- sured that there was not, she continued in her quiet, quaint way: *“Then I'll carry it up to the house_for you, 'cause you called me what he used to.” He let her take it and followed her up the trail just to see -how the adventure would end. To him anything that prom- ised a new -sensation would surely be fol- lowed. He was only 24, but he had been born rich, artistically, intellectually, phy- siologically and financially, and bad {;een adventurously ?rodigul with all these gifts. A few steps below the trail, one of some boys who were picking gum from a burnt ine log said to his companions, purposely oud énough that the girl might hear, “By Jehosephat, it’s Cat-Eyes a-towing a green- horn up to Mrs. Squeers’.” She put down the valise and turned upon them in a-fury of rage and shame, but they had vanished in & chorus of laughter. The girl could not have told why she was ashamed, but ashamed she was. Cat-Eyes pelonged to Shady Canyon, but not a child in the village would play with ~ her. They said _they were afraid of her cat eyes, and that sparks would fly from her yellow hair. One boy deolared that he had only given her hair the least little touch and that she had turned into an angry yellow cat and scratched his face. Some of the people said her mother had been frightened terri- bl% by a cat. hree years before, on a chilly Sunday afternoon, she had been left crouching on her father’s irave. Each kind-hearted woman_ thought, of course, that some other kind-hearted woman would care for her. And so it happened that Mrs. Bqueers, remrmng from a walk in_ the woods, took the sobbing child to her saloon ‘and gambling resort. The child’s father bad ndered many a gold piece in her lace, and when the child clung to her in er desolation a feeling of protection sprung up in her heart. Mrs. Squeers was an educated woman “1 LOVE YOU,” HE BAID. mornings. A dull red, painful to see, darkened her face. He carried the gripsack which he had brought to the place. Silently, entirely subdued, she walked beside him down the canfon,nnd though he tried his best he ould not get a word from her. Just beyond the Ereat bowlder where he first met her he said *‘good-by.” He made a ertty s&)eech and gave her advice. only gazed and gazed at him with a help- less vacant stare, which so irritated him that he dropped her hand and walked | away. “Stupid creature,” he said to himself, “I've wasted a summer trying to put a soul into this odd creature.’”’ "While she in the dead leaves where he had left her standing dropped to the earth, shaking from head to foot with tearless sobs. She bit the dry leaves and scratched her face with her hands, and there in the afternoon of the day Mrs. Bqueers found her. S PRE B e It was seven years since Vernon Allin- son left the little girl Cat-Eyes standing in the mountain path. He had just re- turned to San Francisco, and stood shak- ing hands with an acquaintance, a youn man much younger in years than he, an knowledge of years. “How long have you been in the city 2" “Landed on California soil at 10 this morning.”’ +*Straight from Paris?” P“ n a roundabout way, straight from aris. “Then you have not seen the Tigress.” “Nor heara of it; what isit?” “It! Ha!ba!ha! It'sat Maguire’s, and it has set the town crazy in three nights.”” ‘A woman, 1 see,” said Vernon, indif- ferently. “A woman you do not see,” said the otlier, *‘or you would not speak so indif- ferently. Ob, Vernon, such a woman! A glittering, dazzling creature, whose acting and face are indescribable and incompara- ble. You have never seen anything like her. I know.” ““Hard hit you are, my boy; very hard hit. You forget that I have dined on the theater beauty of Paris, London and Madrid, and had my virtue chilled in the cold of northern loveliness and scorched by the fires of Georgian eyes. Do you think I'll be captivated by an amateur in your Prmutive metropolis at the Golden Gate?” SR ““You may laugh at me, but you will not laugh after you have seen her.” “Then by all the saints take me to her at once.” They were comfortably seated. A storm of a?lmse announced the appearance of the debutante. ‘A glittering, daulin‘g creature, incomparable and indescribable.”” He caught himself repeating his friend’s words, and from that moment his eyes never left her while she was in sight of them. “‘Tigress! Tieress! Why the Tigress?” he thought, then felt the appro- priateness of the title. Only a tigress with the freedom of the jungle in its limbs could have such a superb grace of movement and perfection of contour. And such eyes, what were they? They were mirrors of topaz reflect~ ing the gaslight. And her hair, what a glorious crown it was! He thought it rich amber in the shadows and spun sunshine when the lights fell upon it. And yet it was the impression rither than the ap- pearance that made him repeat again and again, “Tigress, my beautiful Tigress,” so quick are we to lay claim to what pleases us. In the middle of the play he took the She | [ ring ot a silver bell. prosaically said: “Mr. Allinson, I'm pleased to meet you.” This cold, beautiful woman, whose name he did not know, had evidently no prior knowledge of him. “Cat-Eyes, it is not fair.” These were not the words he intended to say. It was | what he called her in 8hady Canyon. He said it now with so much of the plaintive and petulant in his tone that Cat-Eyes langhed. And sucha laugh! Clear as the A musical ripple of Then she shook bands with him again. The ice was suddenlg melted. They sat down facing each other, their knees nearly touching, so close were they. They lived over that summer in Shady Canyon. “And do ycu remember,”’ he said, “that I made you a wreath of man- zanita berries, and crowned you queen, you, my little Cat-Eyes—Miss ? What is your name? Strange that I should have known you so long, and not know your real name.”’ ““An evidence that you bave been very, very much interested in me.” “Remember I stayed three months longer in Shady Canyon because you were there.” I remember.” “Then pity my embarrassment. You have outgrown Cat-Eyes. Your friends call you—" “The Tigress.” “Tigress, be it then; my tigress, my precious, royal, dangerous, jungle tigress. My arms shall be gour cage.”” He leaned forward to clusr er in hisarms. There was something in the laughter of ber shin- ing topaz eyes that stopped him. “There are forty-nine other cages with the same placard on them all ahead of yours.”” “But I love you,” he said. “Same announcement that the other forty-nine make,”” as she glanced at him. ';1"3\'& you loved me a little bit, did you not?’ “May be, but that was seven years ago. They say one changes utterly in seven years. And if Cat-Eyes loved you it has exhaled and evaporated, and been shorn from her head, and clipped from ber nails, and rubbed off on towels. 1t isthe Tigress now.” “You are cruel; you know I loved you 80, seven years 4go.” “You must have loved me. How vou must have loved me then!” The yellow topaz eyes were laughing, the mouth was still smiling, but the words were cutting, and ended in a moan like that of a wounded wild beast. All the days of her joylesschildhood were crowaed info it. The nails of ber hand, which ‘rested on the arm of the sofa, dug into the velvet till her wrist was raised from the cushion and the knuckles of her fingers looked white because of the tenseness of the skin. ¢ He got up and sat_down ‘beside her and took her hands. *I love {on terribly now. My love is an avalanche broken from avery,reatnint. 1 love you, Miss Ti- 8.’ ‘“‘Perhaps Mrs, Tigress. are not afraid to hold a tigress’ paws. might get scratched,” “You've scratched my heart into shreds already. But tell me, you do not live here without any protecton ?” 4 “No; 1 have the most, protecting of rotectors. One who will not go away and leave me.” S ey laugh, a e laugl a happy ' laugh, peepe around into his eyes nl::?i said: “My man- er is my protector. I live with my merriment. I wonder you ou anager,” He flung. her hands savagely from him it is all through the Summer fabrics. son’s goods must go. Summer Clearance Sale begins incomparable—unmatchable. makes it imperative that all merchandise be closed in its ceason—if not at one price then at another, ready —gaining space for an extraordinary exhibit of Autumn Before these new stocks are opened the present sea- To increase the sale this week we still further diminish the prices. The greatest bargain week of the lists these last two weeks of August. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. For instance, we planned to sell certain dress goods at $1.25—now they are fifty cents. <ell at 25c a yard, and this week they’re marked 12c, and so SOME OF OUR planning has been turned topsy-turvy. We bought ribbons to stocks. Our business policy We are getting to-morrow. Watch our price The bargains will be 388 pleces of choice Faney Silks in the ~“newest and daintiest of autumn styles came to us 1ast week ana will be on exhibition and sale t0-mOrIoOw. FANCY FIG- New URE D Silks TarsE For 1 :;dé hes dide, " fa Fall and Ee;lg{lu % r and color = Winter. A ) Bk eens Yard CHANGEABLE SBILKS, new fancy stripes, with clouded effect, fail designs and colorines, simply per- 0CKs v ecvnson BLACK FIGURED TAFFETAS, 21 inches, large desiens, large assoft- /7 50 for Yard ment, ‘the fashionable thi ladies’ skirts... Special line of BLACK I ~ FIGURED | 4 SILKS, 23 inches wide, all 5 new de- signs. reg- 60 ularat75¢ Yard FANCY Here, as CHECK Nowhere SILKS, 19 inches Else, for wide, five . styles, ex- Silk cetient for & . children’s B Bargains. e 20 Iadies’ waists, half Prico........... Yard Entire line 50c SWIVEL SILKS, e silk and cotton wash fabrics, all 0 1n light coiors, closing price only. Yard Al of our §1 83 $2 and $2 50 @7.25 FANCY SILKES are now marked — down to... . Yard Monday at 8 A. M. We place on sale our entire lines of Summer Suitings, all wool and silk and wool. from the leading French and German looms, that 05 a1 108 Fand Such aigoior ¥ %0 Cuts in 50c a Yard. Dress Goods e As These. A e in WOOL SERGES AND CASH- meres, 38-inch width, worth 40c and 50c, special at. 25° Yard WORSTED FANCIES, 36 inches, £()C new fall designs and colorings, just opened... P e 30 52-inch cloths for blscle costumes, 5()C heavy quality, dark staple colors, ¢ new and dress Yard RED FLAN- 3 NELET- TES, with black fig- ures, reg- rular at 70 Biggest Yard Bargains in Domestic Fabrics auallty e sold at 8lhc or 10c, bargain price. e cessonence Yard 86 INCH COTTON COVERT CLOTH, double foid. they sold at 121jc, we are going to make the last two weeks of August inter- esting, so say for these (We C will not guarantee these to last over Monday). S ' COTTON CHEVIOT, dark stripes or SIC checks, regular 121/4¢, special 3 price... hees Yard FINE SCOTCH GINGHAMS, the real article, downtown or any- 1620 where else but Hale's 26¢ a yard, '3 we've cut 'em to. Yard 31-INCH CALICOES, mostly black 60 grounds, with pretty patterns, very desirable, the 1214¢ quality. Yard 45-INCH UNBLEACHED MUS- 1C L worth 10c, on sale at. 2 . AT Yard 45-INCH BLEACHED MUSLIN, 100 the Lockwooil, for pillowcas first class in every particular. Yard 81-INCH UNBLEACHED BHE! ING, the famous Lockwood ]50 brand, always sold at 20c, special price. sesecaien Yard 1214C QUALITY UNBLEACHED CANTON—prices on all cotton fabrics are steadily advancing— these offerings cannot be dupli- cated after this sale. Tty s 7 C Yard NOTTING- D" A LAC { CUR TAINS—3 yards by 34 inches i — another g“;?‘ns and ot of 200 in: pairsonly, cOTAnE likelywobe 400 Bargains. sold intwo g days at... Pair NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS —Bthyards by 60 inches—wlio or 3 1 .00 cra e and beantiinl dealgnas D 1o an exceptional value at sale price. Pair CHENILLE PORTIERES—3 vards by 44 inches—a heavy desirable auality—handsome _pattern—tan, $3:2¢ rose, olive green, botile green Pair brown—very special. ALL-WOOL WHITE BLANKETS— full size—made on Pacific Const— Qo .00 A prize winner in the. Dlanker 1ine D O ~very special at. d Pair “The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee.” WHITE BEDSPREADS — 75x85 inches—never sold at less than $1. It you need spreads buy now— they will be much higher after 800 this sale—These $1 spreads to- morrow and until sold............ Each HEMMEDSHEETS—made of heat Boston Sheeting, the strongasy competitor of Pequot — 90x90 inches, 80c eac! 55° Each fine quality, narrow rib bed, double knees, heels Such and toes, prob- ably yoa wont 150 Bargains D ensts 3 3 ual at 25c. . in Hosiery s G it MISSES as These. BLACK COTTON HOSE, fine quality, o plain, sizes 734 'to 814, doubls 15 eels'and toes, only... Pair LADIES' FANCY COTTON HOSE, extra fine quality, all black and tan shades, sfik embroidered boots, Very cheap at 3 for $1, sale price.. 25° Palr LADIES' BLACK COTTON HOSE, 40-gauge, high spliced heels, c douhle toes,a value at 25¢,special 19 bargain.... Pair i Bargains drawers, Like only a few ozen lett, These come @t = For Men. 25° garments at..... Each MEN'S WOOL U ERWEAR, heavy quality, silk-bound neck 750 and front, colors, camels’ hair i3 and natural, were $1, sale price.. Each MEN’S COTTON CHEVIOT OVER- SHIRTS, heavy quallty, fancy stripes and checks, dark colors, all sizes, were 75¢, DOW............ 50° Each LADIES’ . CORSETS h fine black sateen, boned with horned bone,close- 1y boned, silk stitch- ed, no- where else Bargaias Like These for Women. LADIES' FLANNELETTE WRAP- PERS. wide skirts, full sleeves, Tuffied, light and medium colors, were $1 50, to close out Wi for than sale price. say. 5 LADIES WHITE APRONS, 36x36 | 50 inches, fancy open work, striped ) edges, sale price.. Each Henrietta, White Mountain 74 Bougquet, at Prices Crown Cas- tile at six Like These. cakes for 25c, very special indeed........... Bazaar Goods PLAYING CARDS — Three good qualities of glazed cards. We can't mention the name: come and see for yourself. 35ckind, 12° 17c pack: 25¢ kind, 14c, and 20c 1, A SRR (R S Pack LAUNDRY LISTS—Ladies’, men's children’s and household Jists, all in one, board covers. Everybody 4° needs one. Instead of 10c wi charge.... Each BROI- DERY EDGING. Quality g 0 o d. Many pat- terns and pretty Real gnes,2 {0 i inches Bargains wide, val: ()0 In Veiling, ue at I F 1sc. Yard Embroidery, A SNAP IN Etc. RIBBONS, all silk, heavy quality, moire, satin and Gros grain, double- faced, two-toned, satin edge and cashmere. To insure immediate sale these extraordinarily low prices: Nos.....2,3and4 b5and7 12and16 22 Peryard 2Yac 6c 10c 12c FANCY MESH VEILINGS, black -7 ()C or colors, with or without dot, sin- gle width, regular at 25c.......... Yard BONE HATIRPINS, 214 inches long, shell, horn or black colors, value 20c; price... . LADIES’ BICYCLE GLOVES—Tan fabric gloves with gauntlets. Price cut in half 57 10° Dozen 121° Pair 34 BLEACH- ED NAP- K A special p urchase at forced sale; 200 dozen all- linen nap- kins that beat any $1 25 nap- @7 .00 Xi ] e Dozen Genuine Bargains In Linens. city. Specialat. 22-INCH CHECKED CRASH—-20 pleces of the kind usually sold at ] 91C 18c to be closed out during re- 2 maining days of sale at........... Yard 20INCH BLEACHED CRASH—a1l ] ()C linen, cheap at 10c. Cheaper at special price.... Yard HUCK TOWELS, 16x32 inches, not il iinen, but one of the bes val- (3] .00 ues you ever saw at the very sp — cial price... .. Dozen c)f/ g INCORPORATED 037, 939 and 941 Market Street, San Francisco. and sprang to his feet. “I would rather have met you face to face in redhot hell than under such circumstances.” He | saw her face blanch to the whiteness of death, then went out. It was a restless day for him. That evening he went to the theater, but the Tigress did not appear. Something was | wrong. He went to the house. All was silent. A great fear seized him. He tried the bell. It did not ring. It was muffled. He opened the door and entered. The parlors were closed. He saw another door. The light was low, and he saw that a woman was very sick and heard the light step of some one leaving the rcom as he entered the hall. He approached the bed- side, 4 “Cat-Eyes,” he said, piteously. Two great hollow eyes opened and looked up wonderingly at him. As he bent over the bed he saw that the head on the pillow was gray. “Mrs. Squeers,” he said. A faint smile of recognition lighted her features. “She told me you were here. I wanted to see vou. BSitdown; vou see Iam dying, and have no time to waste in words. ‘What do you want with her?”’ I wanted to marry her.” 8he pressed his hand with her thin, cold, pale fingers. “Wanted is past. Do you want o marry her now? Will you care for her and protect her?”’ ‘‘But her manager?” said Vernon, a great hope coming into his heart. “I'm the only manager and protector she has had. She told me all about your abrupt leaving yesterday. I knew you would return. I'have guarded her clogely the past seven years. All.her teachers have been women. I closed my place in Shady Cahyon after you left, and have traveled and tried to arrest the consump- tion, but it was nouse.. I had hoped that we wouid meet you sooner, because I knew her heart. I'll beable to rest now. Go find ber. Her shivering sobs made me die harder. I sent her away.” Vernon’s heart gave a great bound of joy, as he went intuitively to the place he saw her in the morning. He struck a match and Jighted the gas. She lay on the lounge with her face buried in the satin pillow, her hands pressed against her head. He knelt beside Eer and touched her hair with his lips. “Forgive me.” She started up, her eyes flashing anger and surprise at him. ‘‘For- ive me.” . 8till she xé’id not answer. “I ave been to her room. She sent me.” *1f she sent you,”” and she laid her hand gently on his forehead. The brightness had gone out of her face, but he thought her all the more beautiful. ‘‘What a fool; oh, what a fool I was not to know seven years ago that youloved me,” he said. “‘And what a fool not to know it now!” There was bitterness—nay, almost con- tempt—in her voice. but the words were all satisfying. He caught her to his breast, and kissed her, and kissed ‘her eyelids an forehead, cold hands and pale cheeks, am- ber hair, and her wrists, and her sleeves and her tremulous mouth. Her head sunk on hisshoulder, her beautiful arms claspea round him, and a torrent of tears burst from her eyes, the first she had ever shed. A Mining Engineer Seeking Divorce. M. Maryanski, an Austrian mining engineer, now located in California, is suing for divorce from his wife, Jadwiga Maryanski, on the alle- gation of desertion. The case was before Judge PRISON DIRECTORS MEET, National Prison Congress at Denver. The Consulting Engineer Recom- mends a Bullding for the In- sane Ward. The Board of State Prison Directors met at 8an Quentin yesterday. Directors Hayes, Neff and DePue being present. ‘W. B. Larzalere urged the board to grant a release on parole to Thomas King. King was concerned in the burglary of Neu- berger, Reiss & Co.’s store two or three years ago when a wagon load of valuable dress goods was removed from the store. King was sentenced to five years at San Quentin, two of which have passed. Lar- zalere used the expressicn that it ‘“‘was a shame’ to keep King in prison when he had a chance to secure steady employment and to reform. Chairman DesPue con- strued the words to be a willful reflection on the board, imputing improper motives for not granting the parole. As a result Larzalere was very effectually snubbed. Consulting Engineer Eckhardt reported that it would cost §9556 to fit up the old prisen laundrv as an insane ward, and ex- pressed doubts of the strength of the struc- ture. He recommended the erection of a new building in which the old material should be utilized, and he was ordered to prepare plans for the same. Director Hayes reported that the prison water rate had been reduced from 3314 to 30 cents a thousand gallons, a saving of $70 a month. ‘Warden Hale was authorized to pur- chase 40 tons of bitumen for use in the prison yard and about the stables. Samuel Taylor, a convict, who lost a hand in the jutemill machinery in 1892, will be soon released. He asked the boar to buy him an artificial hand and give him money enough to take him East. The Di- rectors will grant him $10 when he is dis- charged instead of the usual §5. Convict George Mitchell, sailor, who has been in prison for fourteen years, was re- stored enough forfeited credits to make him a free man. His friends have raised money enough to send him away, and the Warden will see him aboard a vessel bound for British Columbia. Fred Mayne, whose term would have ex- f»ired three weeks ago except that at the ast meeting he was deprived of two mon¢hs’ credite for stealing photographic material from the prison gallery, made a pitiful appeal to have enough credits re- stored to free him by the 2Ist inst. The 22d inst. 15 the anniversary of his mar- riage and the 23d is_his child’s birthday. No action was taken by the board. ‘Warden Hale was granted leave of ab- sence for fifteen days to enable him to at- tend the meeting of the National Prison Congress, which will assemble 1 Denver eptember 14. 2:- l:v’. s!energ;y, '}m; fi connxfi-.-noe of one ranted. The Maryanskis were mar- ried in 1881. They have one child. { Suing for a Commission. William Reynolds and W. M. Coward are suing George 8. Montgomery and William Dennett for $6250, claimed as a commission for selling the Lytton Springs property. Mont- omery i8 the nnulgn mfil onma {nd Den- ett is the restaurant man. e FURNITURE moved, stored, packed and shipped at low rates by Morton Special De- livery, 650 Market street (Chronicle build- ing) and 408 Taylor street. » e THE FREE LABOR BUREAU. Commissioner Fitzgerald Wants Branch in Los Angeles. Labor Commissioner E. L. Fitzgerald, who is taking a vacation in Los Angeles, has been doing a little quiet investigating on his own account, as may be judged from his last letter to Deputy C. L. Dam in which he says: I am taking in Los Angeles both from an official and social standpoint. In the former I find great need of a Deputy Labor Commis- sioner in this seetion of the State, as the laws relative to laboring people are g violated Warden Hale Will Attend the | to as great an extent as in San Francisco. The | condition of workshops, restaurants, etc., are inabout the same condition. Theemployment agents flourish here under the same conditions they do in San Francisco, and are bold enough in their operations to warrant a mask and cut- off shotgun in their work. The people complain & great deal of their fleecing methods. * * * I approve of your methods of advertising the bureau. There is one thing I note with a great deal of pleasure. That is, the people of Los Angeles are as deeply interested and as weil posted of the workings of the bureau as they are in San Francisco. They all agree and hope thata branch office will be established here by the next Legisla- ture. During the last day or two several good orders for help have been received at the Labor Bureau, which were easily filled, and more have been promised for next week. Yesterday fifteen men and seven- teen women were sent out to fill situations. To-morrow sixty men will be sent to the hop yards near Perkins, in Sacramento Valley. ‘They will be able to earn fair wages, and the work, which is light, will last a couple of months or more. SAVED THESTATE’'S MONEY. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation of California Has Decided That It Will Soon Incorporate. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation of California decided yesterday to incorporate. This matter has been un- der consideration for some time and a few days ago a committee was selected to look into the legal status of the proposition and particularly to learn if the board of directors can be reduced from fifteen to eleven. The committee reported that both could be done and would no doubt be of great benefit to the association. A special meefing of the entire body was called for yesterday morning and about 100 members metin the Chamber of Commerce. Julian Sonntag, in explaining the situation, stated that the organization had been in existence five months and the membership had in- creased from thirteen to over 1100. The association has been the means of saving to the manufacturers of the State large contracts that would have been filled in the ZEast. The aggregate amount saved would reach fully $1,000,000. The association now had such a membership and standing that it was necessary to incorporate., Such a move would give a better and a legal standing. M. McGlynn suggested that the presi- dent and two members of the association be authorized to act as a committee to file articles of incorporation, and be further empowered to name the eleven directors, who shall serve until the next annual meeting of the board in February. A long discussion followed, the guestion being whether it was advisable to leave the busi- ness of the association in the hands of only eleven directors. The majority of the opposition were satisfied with the state- _ment that the various committees act as advisory boards to the present board, and can do so with anincorporated body. ‘When the motion to incorporate under the circumstances stated came up, it was ssed with only two dissenting voices, C. - Dutton and P. F. Dundon, who favored having a larger board of directors. ——————————— Assoclation Meeting for Young Men. The meeting for young men only at the Asso- ciation building, Mason-and Ellis streets, this afternoon, will be especially interesting. A delegation from the Oakland association will be gmem. and D. Edward Collins, president of the Oakland association, will deliver the ad- dress. The service commences pron?tly at 3 o'clock, and young men between 16 and 40 years of age are cordially invited. —_————————— The Townsend Divores Suit. A default was entered yesterday in the di- yorce suitof Sarah S. Townsend vs. William 8. Townsend, and the ease was referred by Judge :tfl.\“l to Court Commissioner John ¥. Pink- am. HOW MR, SCHMID GOT FAT. He Added to His Own Propor- tions While Chiseling in Italy. Old Wine., Cheese and Wonderful Macaroni Caused a Galn of Twenty Pounds. Rupert Schmid, the local sculptor who recently returned from Italy after chisel- ing a California Venus and some busts of well-known men out of big blocks of marble, says that he grew fat while he was abroad, and that the gain in weight was obtained as a result of scientific study and devoted application to the principles he adopted. When he went away from San Francisco eight or nine months ago he weighed 145 pounds. He undertook to increase his weight soon after he reached Florence, and he succeeded so well that he gained twenty pounds before his return. “I had never been satisfied with my weight,” said the sculptor yesterday. “You see, I believe that a man ought to have enough physical material in reserve to meet all demands upon his system that may be made in the constant struggling. “What struggling? Why, the battle with the rest of the world in business—the struggle for existence, as it is called. Well, I thought that I would try while I wasg in Italy to get fat. That was my op- portunity, I thought, for ‘I never would have any chance in San Francisco, because I have to work so much. So I took life leisurely and began a systematic course of dieting. “One thing I did was never to read the right-hand side of the bill o7 fare. That's about the only side we read in this coun- try, you know, for we nearly always order our. food according to the fizures. We have to do that here, but in the old coun- try it is different. “Any American can read an Italian bill of fare all right, for we get all languages in our own restaurants, and I never had any trouble to get just the foods that I wanted. I gained twenty pounds by eating just what I wanted, but the principal foods that I relied on were that fine old cheese and that wonderful old macaroni that I found everywhere I went in Italy. l“And the old wine—that was the most of all! “We Americans still make wine as an industry; there they make it as an art. Here it is a matter of business largely, of pride, perhaps; there it is regarded as something divine. *With the wine and the macaroni and the cheese I soon found myself growing very fat, and I continued to increase in weight every day that I was there. But now I am back here at the same hard work as before, and I find that I am going back to my old habit of reading the wrong side of the restaurant bills. Asaresultl am losing just as rapidly and steadily as I ined while abroad. ButI can’t help it. 'his is America and thereis no time to grow fat.” —————— Park Music To-Day. The following sattractive programme has been arranged for to-day’s open-air concert in Goiden Gate Park: “American Overture”... “Spring Song” . gvnnfl potpourri