The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST DURRANT AND THE JURORS They Will Face Each Other in Department 3 This Morning. JUDGE MURPHY IS BEITER. The District Attorney and Captaln Lees Make a Significant Little Trip. THE DURRANT CASE IN A MINUTE — RE- SUMING THE SEARCH FOR JURORS. Judge Murphy will resume his seat on the bench in Department 3 of the Superior Court this morning and the search for jurors in the Durrant case will be continued. It is expected that the four jurors necessary to fill the box will not be secured until the end of next week. During the recess of the court, as the public has been informed, new witnesses have been discovered, new theories advanced and new rumors started on their rounds. Yesterday was as prolific of these latter as any other day, and some of the grounds upon which theories have been formed have been thoroughly ex- ploited. Among other things it was learned that District-Attorney Barnes, Captain Lees and Detective Seymour had made a trip on the Powell and Valencia street cars from Clay and Powell streets to Emmanuel Baptist Church, over the route supposed to have been taken by Durrant and Blanche Lamont on the afternoon of April 3. They mede the trip in exactly thirty-eight minutes. Judge Murphy has sufficiently recovered from his recent severe illness to resume his seat on the bench and, as a result, the Durrant case will be taken up this morn- ing at the point where it was left off last Thursday. Four more jurors are neces- y to fill the box, and from all indica- tions it would seem as if it would be harder and more tedious work to secure them than it was to get the first eight. At any rate the hope is not entertained for a moment that the four good men and true will be landed in the jury-box this present week, as it is hardly likely that more than to-day will be devoted to the Durrant case. There are but a few derelict citizens left over from last venire and only what the Sheriff has been able to reach out of 125 on the present one. Taking this number and the endless array of excuses | that will certainly be advanced by most | of those summoned and it is pretty safe to | say that not more than forty names will | be placed in the little tin box when his | Honor _gets_through listening to the end- | less tales of woe. The owners of these forty names can readily be examined dur- ing the day and disposed of in some man- ner, exhausting the venire. Should the | four jurors not be secured from the ranks | of the forty veniremen his Honor will immediately order another venire, and to | allow the Sheriff sufficient time to serve | those drawn will recess until Monday. There is a hope, however, that with steady work during the next week the task of securing the full jury will have been completed and the decks will be cleared for the beginning of the trial on the following Monday morning. One thing is certain, however, and that is that whenever the jur{) is secured, be it to-day or a week hence, both sides are pre- pared to meet the issues at the earliest possible moment. All witnesses have been summoned to appear in court on dates not Jater than next Monday. the subpenas running, of course, from day to day there- after until their presence is desired on the witness-stand. The last summons was served yesterday morning by Detective John Seymour on Mrs. Mary Vogel of 919 Powell street, whose story was printed in yesterday’s Car. Mr. Seymour called upon the new witness about 10 o’clock in | the morning and had a long talk with her concerning her testimony in THE CALL, she | repeating substantially the printed story of | her observations of Durrant on the after- | noon of April 3. Mrs. Vogel produced for his inspection the postal-card by which | she had so exactly fixed the date upon which she claims she saw Durrant wait for and meet Blanche Lamont. The postal was from Miss K. Plunkett’s Employment Bureau, 424 Sutter street, | and bore date of March 23, 1895. It was addressed to_‘‘Advertiser, No. 732 Natoma street,” and had reference to the furnish- ing of help required in an advertisement | inserted in THE Carn by Mr. Vogel. It| bore the postoffice reception mark of | “April 2, 1895, 5:30 P. '’ and the delivery | mark, “April 3, 1895, 7 A. ».” This postal-card was found by Mr. Vogel on the morning of April 3, the morning upon which the postman must have deliv- it, under the door of one of his houses 2 Natoma street. He did not return home till evening, and then delivergd the card to his wife. The latter immediately called his attention to the date on the pos- tal, ‘“March ’ and ventured the remark that it was very strange that it had not been mailed until April 2, to be delivered op April 3. “I did not tell my husband that night about seeing the young man I had watched walking in front of the school during the afternoon,” said Mrs. Vogel to a reporter for THE CALL vesterday, ‘‘because he was tired, but I did speak of it the next day to Mrs. Nutting, one of iy neighbors. The day before I had seen the young man Mrs. Nutting called upon me and asked me if I had heard about the robberies in the neighborhood. 1 told herI had not, and she then told me of several of which she had heard, and I said to ber that I would keep a lookout for suspicious characters. The next day I saw this young man walk- ing in front of the school, and on the next afternoon Mrs. Nutting cailed on me again. She had evidently forgotten that she had 1old me about the robberies, for she asked me if I had heard of them. I said, ‘Why, you wld me of them yourself,’ and she said. ‘Why, so I did.’ “Then I told Mrs. Nutting how I had no- ticed a young man acting strangely in front of the school the day before and how closely I bad watched him in_the belief that he was a thief; and then I told her how glad I was when [ saw him meet the young lady and escort her to a car. “As I said before I never paid any more attention to the matter until the story of the murder came outin the papers, and one day when Mrs. Nutting was in my house one of the papers had a picture of Durrant. “That’s the man I saw in front of the school that day,” I said, ‘but Iam not exactly certain of the day Isaw him,’ Then 1 recalled the postal card, and while Mrs. Nutting was with me I hunted up the postal and found that I had received it on the evening of April 3.” The Mrs. Nutting referred to by Mrs. Vogel lives with her family at 923 Powell street and is a very intelligent-looking old lady. She was also seen yesterday by a re- porter for THE Carn, and bore out the statements of Mrs. Vogel concerning the story of the latter’s observations of the young man supposed to be Durrant. ‘Bome time after the murders were dis- covered,” said Mrs. Nutting, “I was in Mrs. Vogel's house and we were talking oh various matters, when she picked up a Buper in which there was a portrait of urrant. ‘My God, that’s the man I saw!" E: she exclaimed. Then she told me she was not certain about the date, but knew she could fix it by the postal-card, which she thought she had saved. She hunted around and found it, and explained to me about having received it from her husband the evening of the day upon which she had seen the young man she had watched 80 closely.” Having firmly established in their own minds from the testimony of all the wit- nesses that Durrant did meet Blanche La- mont as she came out of the Normal School on the afternoon of April 3 last, and that the young couple boarded a Powell-street car, passing Clay street at 239 o'clock, the prosecution has taken some_ pains to ascertain 'just about how long it must have taken the young couple to have reached Twenty-first and Valencia streets. In company with Captain Lees and Detective Seymour District Attorney Barnes went over the route himself on Sunday. The three boarded a southbound car at 2:59 o'clock that afternoon and rode to Market street, where they transferred to the Valencia-street car. On this_they rode to Twenty-first and Valencia. From that point they walked leisurely up to Bartlett street, turned the corner and walked just as leisurely to the church. There they compared watches and found that the trip, including all stops, which are frequent on Sundays, had consumed exactly thirty-eight minutes. A reporter for THE CALL, who made the trip vester- day, covered the same route in thirty-four minutes. 1t is the supposition of the p: of course, that Durrant and Miss Lamont took this route on April 3. In the first lace she was residing with her aunt, Mrs. Noble, on Twenty-first street, near York, and as it is known she had an appoint- ment with her music-teacher for a lesson at 4 o'clock, it was supposed that she would take this, the nearest and quickest way of getting there. In the next place there is the testimony, of Attorney Quin- lan to show_that he saw Durrant and the girl supposed to be Blanche Lamont com- ing up the east side of Bartlett street from Twenty-first. A thirty-eight-minute trip from Powell and Clay streets to Emmanuel Baptist Church would have brought the young couple to that edifice at 3:37 o'clock, fifty- three minutes before the time Durrant says he arrived there, and thirty-three minutes prior to the time Mrs. Caroline S. Leak is positive she saw him enter the church gate with Blanche Lamont. It is possible that this_time, this thirty- three minutes, or this fifty-three minutes, will cover the period of Durrant’s move- ments, out of which the defense hopes to establish his alibi—probably to show that he left Blanche Lamont somewhere on the route from Clay street to Twenty-first and Valencia, after which he never saw her alive again, although he did visit the church at 4:30 o’clock en that same after- noon. It is even hinted that Durrant, in the excitement succeedin, his arrest, stated the time of his arrival at 4:30, when it really might have been ten or fifteen minutes later. The defense will undoubt- edly endeavor to prove this, as the leeway of these few minutes may cut a big figure in the case. The prosecution naturally scouts the possibility of the proof of an alibi, and has a theory—maybe witnesses to demon- strate 1t, whom they may be keeping in the background—that when Durrant and Blanche Lamont alighted from the car at Twenty-tirst and Valencia streets, the young man and the young woman stood on the corner chatting, the girl desiring to proceed in the direction of York street to take her music lesson, and they are equally well satisfied that Durrant was trying to prevail upon her to accompany him to the chureh library, where he would give her the book, *The Newcomes,” which he had promised her when he had ridden uptown with her at 8 o’clock the same morning. Whether with Durrantor the young man who Jooked like him, Blanche Lamont went to Emmanuel Baptist Church that afternoon. She did not take her music lesson and she met her murderer and her fate without having parted from her school- books. The lapse of time between her ar- rival at Twenty-first and Valencia streets until Mrs. Leak saw her enter the church the grosecution will contend was spent in combating Durrant’s urgings to accom- pany him to the church. If there are wit- nesses to prove this the prosecution does not state, The defense continues equally mum on the methods it will pursue in the effort to establish the alibi and has little to say re- garding any of its witnesses atall. Tt is known, however, that counsel for Durrant have issued subpenas for Conductor West, who will not be called by the prosecution, and for a number of witnesses, including the Misses Gertie Taber and Daisy Wolf, who are expected to testify to the goo character of the accused, notwithstanding the many stories dug outof obscure corners in the effort to show that heisa human pervert and a yillain. And, incidentally with all this, comes Constable Palmer of Walnut Creek into the office of Captain Lees yesterday morn- ing with a Focket-knifa and a weird tale of the time when the young men of the signal corps camped on Easter Sunday in the shade of Mount Diablo. Constable Palmer was of the firm belief that the knife had been dropped by Durrant on that trip, while the signal corpsstopped in the Moses barn at Walnut Creek. When Constable Palmer reissued from the captain’s private room he was as mum as an oyster and glummer than two. He refused positively to have anything to say. The knife, which is a tortoise-shell af- fair, has two blades and a_scissors attach- ment. It was found by Mrs. Moses, the wife of the proprietor of the ranch where the signal corps boys stopped on the Sun- day o% Durrant’s arrest. Mrs. Moses car- ried the knife for several weeks, speaking to several neighbors of her find—the story in this way reaching Constable Palmer, who immediately jumped to the conclu- sion that it belonged to Durrant, and that the stains upon it were bloodstains. Thereupon, after telegraphing the story out on Tuesday afternoon, Constable Palmer followed it down to the City. After the constable had told his story, Captain Lees had nothing to say about the knife, which he had deposited with the other ex- hibits in the Minnie Williams case. It is not thought that the knife will cut much of a figure in the case, as it is hard], likely that the murderer of Minnie WiK liams, after stabbing her repeatedly with the broken tableknife, would have gone to the trouble of searching her clothing for a knife with to cut her wrists, as some are inclined to think. Miss Williams’ father, when questioned asto any knife his daughter had, stated that she had a tortoise-shell handled one, but he could not describe it. The hunt for witnesses still goes on in both cases with unabated fervor, the prose- cution bent on ‘)roving Durrant’s guilt; the defense equally in earnest to save his neck. The next proceeding to hasten either of these desired ends will be made when Judge Murphy ascends the bench this morning. AMATEUR ATHLETIOS. Private Boxing Bouts Entertain Hun- dreds of Guests—Dr. O’Don- nell’s Mind. The San Francisco Athletic Club gave a boxing exhibition last night which was at- tended by a large and apparently enthusi- tic audience, composed mainly of sports of high and low degree. Conspicuous near the stagze were to be seen a score or more of the “kid glove” variety, who were as liberal in their applause as the most earnest s_upgoners of the manly art could have desired. The most important feature of the pro- gramme seemed to be a mind-reader, who, after performing anly number of com- mon-place tricks, read a message in a sealed envelope, which was alleged to be an announcement from Dr. C. C. O’'Don- nell that he would continue his fight for the Mayoraly. Dr, O’Donnell occupled a seat near the front, within easy reach of the mind-reader, and as he did not deny the truth of the assertion the audience cheered until a couple of pugs made their appearance. me eight or ten 8-round bouts were scheduled and they passed off as ar- ranged, without blood or knock-outs. F. Raphael and Eugene Kelly gave the most interesting exhibition of the evening. Raphael seemed to have the best of the argument during the first two rounds, though Kelly so evened up in the last that Referee King decided the bout a draw. rosecution, The “bicycle face” of anxiety or despair is never seen on the bo{s who have learned to ride the wheel. Litile chaps with smil- ing faces may be seen riding gracefully and easily without & sign of any disturp- ance of the spirit. Those who acquire a thorough knowledge of the art of wheeling in their early youth possess a great ad- vantage over the veople who take their first lessons in it after the muscles have hardened. ENGLAND IN THE NORTH, She Wants to Grab a Big Slice of Alaska From America. S0 SAYS MONSIGNOR TOSL British Engineers Running a New Line to Cut Off Glacier Bay. On the Yukon. Monsignor Tosi, 8. J., Prefect Apostolic of Alaska, and Father Barnham, 8. J., ar- rived in this City Monday from Narthe)‘n Alaska and are staying at St. Ignnmq Church on Hayes street. Monsignor Tosi came to San Francisco on business con- nected with the Catholic missions in the northern territory, while Father Barnham will go East, where he will see his friends and enjoy & short rest. They started off on their long journey from St. Michaels, Alaska, July 15, and with the exception of a week’s delay at Seattle, due to the illness of Father Tost from the exhaustion of travel, they traveled continuously until Jast Monday. Father Tosi is a man well on in years, who has given the larger portion of his life to mis- sionary work and his priestly duties. He was laid upa secgnd time upon his ar- rival here and was not quite well last night, so Father Barnham represented him. Father Barnham drifted away in a con- versation from his missionary work to the interesting question of the boundary be- tween Canada and Alaska. *‘England has a surveying party up there now, running a new line to suit itself,” he said. ‘““These engineers are not on a junketing tour to ‘amuse themselves,” he said. *‘They are working hard. They have a magnificent equipment and have already accomplished a great deal. “Unless we have §umpnion, we shall lose an immense slice of Southeastern Alaska. They will steal Glacier Bay and some grand harbors. We have not paid enough attention to this question. Alaska until a few years ago used to be called ‘Seward’s Ice Chest.” Little or nothing was known about the country and peeple here did not take interest enough in it tothink abont it. “It is only within the last few years that our people began to go to Alaska in large numbers, and now it is fast becoming a favorite resort of American tourists. And why do they go there? Above all else it is to see Glacier Bay, the most sublime sight of a lifetime. And that is what the English want to take from us. i “In Europe people sit in front of a little glacier and go into raptures over it—a miserable two-for-a-nickel affarr in com- arison with the glaciers of Alaska. No- dy appreciates those facts more fully than the Canadian Pacificand the English. “‘The only ship that can sail through the land-locked waters and Glacier Bay is an American vessel. What a great thing it would be for the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian or English speculators to take that right from us! Then you could not %er. up there; you could not see Glacier ay without going on an English or Cana- dian vessel. American ships would be cast out unless they would fly an English flag. And nothing could be landed for an immense portion of American_territory unless in an English harbor. You could not get even a bag of flour without paying tribute to England, for it would have to enter a Canadian port before being taken inland across the boundary to Alaska. “I talk about this with considerable feel- ing, for I am an American and my people were Americans in Connecticut since 1631.” He petrayed how he felt about the ap- parent intention to grab the best part of Alaska from America, as_he went further to protest against it and the neglect of Alaska by the National Government. “We are cut off,” he continued, “by the general Congress. We have no right rep- resentation, and what is needed now is a man who will rise up and bring this ques- tion in the full magnitude of its impor- tance before the people. Arbitration? We always lose in arbitration. We lost in the San Juan question. The sixty-mile limit in the Bering Sea was nonsensical. We lost there, too. I suppose the English will decide on a boundary of their own between Alaska and Canada, Then we will howl. Canada will howl, too, and there must be arbitration, of course. Now, WhY do the English make this move at this late day, after 145 vears? Since 1841 the boundary was a settled fact. Tt was neverdisputed when the territory belonged to Russia and was known as Russian America. It 1s still on all the English maps, which shows that it was accepted by England through ail these vears, and to ask for arbitration now on a new line isnothin, Father Barnham dif account of the placer mjnes on Bircl Creek, near Fort Yukon, miles up the river. He said that there are nearly 2000 men at Forty-mile Creek and thereabouts, but they have only about sixty working days in the year and ten months of winter with the temperature often 80 degrees below zero. Though very rich in gold it is difficult to make the mines pay under such circumstances. At Forty-mile Creek, where there never had been trouble of any xind whatever, a detachment of Canadian gplice was stationed guite recently, and ather Barnham said he expected serious trouble there this coming winter between the American miners and the Canadian officers. The Prefect Apostolic has decidea to build a hospital at Forty-mile Creek for the miners and natives, and will bave a doctor there. The Bisters of St. Anne, eleven of whom are at the missions teach- ing Esquimaux and Indian children, will act as nurses. The Jesuit fathers have five stations for Indians, one each at Forty-mile Creek, Nulato and Holy Cross and on Shagiluk and Kuskokwin: rivers. For the Esqui- maux there are mission stations at the mouth of the Yukon, at 8t. Michaels, Norton and Kotzebue sounds. There are nine priests engaged on these missions, and they have two large schools for the children who speak English, and can beat their masters at the civilization game of chess. The fathers prefer to go slowly making catechumens_of the older natives until superstition disappears and the natives can be trained to understand and appreciate Christian teaching. Father Barnham has almost completed a dictionary of the Esquimaux language, having gathered fully 4000 words of their limited vocabulary. = He has the manu- script with him, and also the copy for an Esquimaux catechism in idiomatic lan- guage, both of which he will haye printed in the East. BERNARD' SOWARTZ'S MONEY. Relatives in Russis Anxious to Secure a Small Part of It. Joseph Raviez, United States Consul 2t ‘Warsaw, Russia, recently wrote to Chief of Police Crowley, asking him to find Mrs. Leosia Stern and Miss Amalia Schwartz, sisters of Bernard Schwartz, who died in Hailey, Idaho, on June 3, 1894. It seems that Bernard Schwartz was a member of Golden Gate Lodge, Order of B'nai B'rith, of this City, and directed that his bene- ficiary certificate of the order for $2000 be made payable to Miss Schwartz and Mrs. Stern. In the same bequest he wrote, “I wish them to pay from that $100 to each of four children of my deceased brother, J. W. Schwartz, and to Balka Harris, now residing in London, England.” The Consul wrote tgn Schwartz had been dead over a year, and_he haddearned that the $2000 had been paid to Mrs. Stern and Miss Schwartz, the sisters, but that the latter had failed to forward the $400 to the Warsaw relatives, He wanted the Chief to send a man to recall to the minds butimpertinence.” not _give a glowin of the sisters that they have not fnlfilled | 1 dozen'jars, hal gallons in box. the obligations placed upon them by the Will of ‘their deceased brother Bernard. Detective Anthony called u Grand Secretary Jacob Levison of the order of B’nai B'rith, and found that the money had been duly paid to the sisters by the late secretary, Louis Blank. s the be- quest had only said “I wish,” the late secretary evidently did not feel justified in Eithholding the” $600 for children in urope. Mrs. Stern and Miss Schwartz were found at their home, at 1236 Golden Gate avenue, and stated that they did not feel under obligations to send the money to the peoplein Warsaw and London. After mak- ing the bequests mentioned they stated that Bernard Schwartz had been very ill. His two sisters cared for him, and in his gratitude he told them that they need not send any of the money to the relatives in Europe.” They said they would have done 80, but the mother of the children in Russia had done all in her power to prevent Mrs. Stern and Miss Schwartz from getting the money, and had corresponded_with Secre- tary Blank to that end. When Miss Schwartz and Mrs. Stern tried to get the money they were oblized to hire a lawyer, whose fee almost consumed the amount of money that might have been sent to the European relatives. —_— e DENOUNCED T COMBI Residents South of the Park Speak Their Minds Freely. Senator Perry Recalls Past History. Gaden’s Opinion of Vining’s Move. It was a large, intelligent and enthu- siastic gathering which assembled at F. W. M. Lange’s residence, 137 Carl street, last night to express its opinion of the Market- street Railway combine and say what it thought of the withdrawal of the electric cars from the Clayton, Waller, Cole and Carl streets branch. The gathering was composed of residents who have built pretty and cozy homes south of Golden Gate Park and on Ash- bury Heights, and who bad been led in the past to indulge in the fond hope that all they would have to do to reach their homes after the tedious cares of the day would be to board a car that might take them almost to their very doors. They had been led to think so by the conditions under which the old Metropolitan Com- pany’s franchise was granted. Ex-Senator George H. Perry told what those conditions were last night. He was attorney for that company at the time and was competent to talk, He said in sub- stance: ‘When we went before the Board of Super- visors with our petition for a franchise we were met by the opposition of the Market- street Railway Company. Thetcompany com- gelled us toaceept these conditions, namely: ‘hat we would give a fifleen-minute service, build the first mile within six months, buil out to the ocean within tnree years, and pay 2 T cent of the reee?u into the City ‘I'Teasury. We had to yield, and you know what has tol- lowed. The fifteen-minute service condition has evidently been forgotten by the Market- street Railway Company, which has succeeded to the possession of the franchise, for the cars have been taken off altogether. This opened the cyes of his auditors and ;;rapnred them for what was to follow rom George T. Gaden. Mr. Gaden ‘‘sized up” the whole situation thns. There 1s only one excuse which the Market- street Railway Company offers for taking off these cars and that is that of Mr. Vining, that they did not pey. Now. it is well known that the immediate profits of the running of these cars is really a minor consideration with the street railway combine; what 1t actually regards as of consequence is the value of this' franchise as & plece of rapid-transit property, and the ul- timate value of the line out here when this section is all built up as 1t will be. The animus behind the taking off of these cars is piainly apparent. It is to deprecinte the value of the maguificent site offered by Mayor Sutro for the Aflillated Colieges. Itisa iece of petty spite work against Mr, Sutro—a ittle bit of contemptible revenge. A yvear and three months ago Huntington defied Mr. Sutro to réauce the car fare to the ocean to five cents. Mr. Sutro has deune so and Mr. Huntington feels sore over it and now takes this method of getting back at Mr. Sutro. If the Affiliated Colleges and the Sutro Li- brary are built out here it will cause a fine class of people to come here and build homes— a large number of literary people who like esthetic surroundings, and can appreciate fully the influences of nature which here abound. If that kind of resident comes here it will double the price of property within five vears easily. 1t will do for thigsection what a similar character of home-builders have done for Pasadena. The fact of the matter is the combine has possession of the franchise and now proposes 10 hold on to it without fulfilling its conditions while waiting for the property-owners to build u{;.zhiu section and make ‘its line valuable without any expense to the Market-street Railway Company. Mr. Gaden then offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That we, citizens of South Side, in mass-meeting assembled. do hereby solemnly protest against the withdrawal of the carser- vice from Waller, Carl, Cole and Clayton ;"et:u as wholly unjustified by any public ncts. If any ‘facts do exist for such withdrawal, then they are not apparent to our common view, and we demand that the company shall at once make such an exposition of K‘. reasens ‘i.t will satisfy all good citizens of such neces- sity. This section is a growing one, and we have made our investments and built our homes on the assumption that the cars would continue for our accommodation. ‘We regard the recent conduct of the Market- street Railway Company, in relation to said streets, as an outrage on our rights as property- owners and a flagrant act of villainous faith against this municipality. 2, 1895. S IO NAT DR g T s L e Pt Pt = For Ladies’ Wear. - THREE CLEARANCE SALE BARGAINS. 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Yard BLACK BRUSSELS NET, 27inches $2.50 wide—ornamented with irrides- cent beads and cut jet in novelde- signs NEW CUT JET YOKES. with epau- Tets for large sleeves and long jet fringe in front.... 3 CUT JET YOKES, with cut fet fringes; 20 beautiful patterns have arrived so far—prices range from $5.00 Four New Silks, About 15,000 yards of Silks in Fall and Winter patterns and colorings have been put on sale within a week—here are four of them : SPECIAL-BLACK FIGURED SILKS, 20 and 23 inches wide, entirely new and exclusive de- Ve d 80c; al o LINE : W ANCY SILKS, 19 inches wide, fall color 60° effects,. bought to- sell. at 75c; special at.... < 5 ad FANCY SILES, new weaves, new /750 designs, new colorings, 19 inches ) wide, large floral effects........... Yard STRIPED PEAU DE SOIE, in the ()G new shadow effects; & quality bought to sell at $1... Yard W, L. TOMLINS’ ADDRESS. Individualism in Music the Theme of His Lecture to the City Teachers. . Golden Gate Hall was crowded to the doors yesterday afternoon by teachers of the City schools, who assembled to hear Professor William L. Tomlins’ discourse on music. Professor Tomlins is a promi- nent vocal teacher of Chicago. He is spending a six weeks’ vacation in the City, and during that time training a chorus of 500 children’s voices for a concert to be given shortly before his departure. His forte is chorus training, and his work with the 1500 children who sang at the World's Fairreceived bigh commendation. He is prominently connected with the famous Apollo Club. rofesser Tomlins dwelt princisally upon his favorite theory that in order to sing properly the individuality of the singer must have full scope. “There must be expression not only of your own manhood, but your brotherhood for all,” said the speaker. “There must be a completeness of self before you have the song voice.” Taking a bell'from the table, he showed how resonant it was when permitted to proclaim iteelf, but, when muffied, that the only sound it gave forth was a clink. *‘Many pupils and, indeed, many adults, are never ar:iything more than mere clinks,” he said. ‘‘Look at a row of faces opposite you on a streetcar and see how little indiyiduality they show. "As'oung lady pupil of mine once re- sented an act of cruelty to a child. She in- terfered and prevented any further ill treatment of it. Her righteous indigna- tion knew no bounds. For once she We condemn the vicious and tyrannic polic: of the company that at all times follows gree 8s its guide and tramples popular rights in the dust to carry out its acts of malice. We believe that malice was the only motive that actuated the company, ana for the good :‘-clmnof the City we og?ect to being made its 3. 5 We do not desire to be sacrificed to satisfy its spite against public benefactors. Resolved, That a committee of five citizens be, and the same is hereby appointed, to investi- gate the legal status of the franchise and its seeming abandonment, with authority to take such proceedings as may be requisite to secure a renewal of car servics by the eompany, or, in case that cannot be done, by some other organ- ization ready and prepared to accommodate us. Afterward, at the suggestion of R. T. Harding, who advised conciliatory tactics, a portion of the first resolution, supvosed to be objectionable, was withdrawn until the committee had had an opportunity to confer with the heads of the combine. Chairman George W. Hansbrough n& pointed as the committee Messrs. F. W. M. Lange, W. H. Jones, Secretary D. L. Westover, R.T. Harding and Eugene M. Fritz, and it is to report at the next meet- lnf. next Wednesday evening. . It came out before the meeting ad- journed that the Market-street Railwa; ompany was having a petition circulate for signatures out there asking for a half- hour service. A letter from Snperinten- dent Vining was read in which he said that the two cars when they were running did not ga{ the expenses of one, and pro- posed that a half-hour service be given be- tween 6 and 9 A, m. and 5:30 and 11:30 P. ». '_lx‘lhg petition' had been drawn up accord- ingly. Mr. Gaden pronounced Mr. Vining’s let- ter a “piece of brazen impudence,” and Senator Perry recalled that this was the act of the company after it had ‘*‘secured the franchise, laid the track, bonded the road and sold the bonds.” At Bremen, the largest sailing'ship afloat has just been completed. She is called the Potosi, is a five-master, 394 feet long, 50 broad, with a draught of 25 feet and a car- rying capa of 6150 tons. A Family Jar. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO.'S Stores are salling MASON FRUIT JARS . At greatly reduced prices. 1 dozen fars, pints, in box 50c 1 dozen jars, quarts, in box. sounded all the depths and reached all the heights of her nature, but when she reached her destination she was well nigh fainting. That young lady had never un- derstood herself before, and she was frightened at the revelation. The com- pleteness of self ‘must be recognized and expressed before there can: be real singing. “In my experience of twenty years’ training of the voice I have had 40,000 children under my instruction, and in the course of that experience I have always found that the vital energy and influence which are given torth in fervent song are always more than returned in measure.”’ Here Professor Tomlins opened the iano and illustrated his theory by show- ing how the sounding board caused the tones of his voice to reverberate. ‘Do you hear the boy respond?’ he asked earn- estly and long and hearty applause at- tested the aptness of the illustration. . Thought, feeling and will he considered mdiupensuble to real song. Correspond- mg to thought is melody, to feeling har- mony, and to will rhythm. ‘“Manbood and musichood thus come together ina pulse or beat,’”’ he said. The address, though philosophic in tone, had many touches of pathos and humor, and the magnetic personality of the speaker united with the merits and treat- ment of the theme made a highly favora- ble impression on his audience. The hour was enlivened by the profes- sor’s amusing imitation of the style in which the average pupil sings ‘‘America,” and at the close o tge lecture he, by re- fluen, sang the patrioticsongin a way that id the sentiment justice. SOIENTIFI0O HANDBALL. Champion Harlow and M. J. Kilgallon Defeated by Bonnet and Lenihan. There was great excitement at the Occi- dental handball court caused by a match between J. Harlow, the coast champion, and M. J. Kilgallon and T. F. Bonnet and R. Lenihan. Both galleries were crowded, the upper with ladies and their escorts. Bonnet and Lenihan won the first two . games with comparative ease, as Harlow did not seem familiar with the alley or tossing from the ace line. In the third game he got “‘onto himself” and as pretty an exhibition of handball as was ever seen in the court followed. The game was won | Bonnet and Lenihan succeeded in winning | the fourth game and the match, the score being as follows: % Bonnet and Lenih Harlow and Kilgallon.. Another_interesting match was vlayed between Ed Maloney and Al Collins and Al Hampton and C.J. McGlvnn. 1t was won by Maloney and Collins by the score: 2112, 18—21, 21—17. A GREAT OIRCUS. Considered the Best Show of Its Kind That Ever Visited the Pacific Coast. The new Great Syndicate Circus and Paris Hippodrome continues to draw im- mense crowds every afternoon and evening at Central Park. The people go away de- lighted with the feats of skill and daring in the three rings and with the wonderful beasts and birds in the menagerie. At the afternoon performances the tents are crowded with ladies and their happy chil- dren, to whom the circus is a glimpse of fairyland. ‘The afternoon performances are intended for the enjoyment of ladies and children, who can see the whole show just as it is presented at night, with as much safety and comfort as though they were accompanied by escorts. The great feature of the ring perform- ance is the riding tigress Victoria. This savage beast is the one that escaped from her cage last Monday night and held 200 men at bay for two hours until her trainer arrived and coaxed her into another den. Inclosed in a steel cage from which escape is impossible Victoria appears in one of the rings at every performance. She has been trained to ride horseback, and does it well. Another feature that has never before been seen in San_Francisco is a baby kan- garoo nestling in the mother’s pouch. There is also the wonderful Martell family of bicycle riders in their marvelous per- formance; a troop of eunnin% Shetland onies, the smallest ever brought to Cali- Fornls, with their monkey riders; a flock of ostriches; Francis Reed, the youngest bareback somersault rider in the world; a performer who dives from the apex of the tent into a tank of water, and Miss Mollie Murray, who rides and drives five horses in tandem over hurdles and obstacles. The menagerie is the most complete and has more noveltles than were ever before shown here, and the ring performers are really wonders in their lines. It is con- sidered the greatest show that has ever visited the Pacific Coast. THE AMATEUR STAGE. Western Addition Literary and Social Club Compliments Miss Coonley, the Popular Young Actress. 0dd Fellows’ Hall was more than com- fortably filled last night with a select audience assembled to witness Jerome K. Jerome’s one act play, “Sunset,”” as pre- sented by the Western Addition Literary and Social Club. The _occasion was complimentary to Miss Zillah M. Coonley, the accomplished young amateur actress who is soon to make her professional debut in the East. Two ¥eqrs n?‘o Miss Coonley associated herself with the Western Addition Club, and has played leading parts in every piece given by them since that time. “SBunset” is a pretty little play, and in the character of Lois, Miss Coonley found ample opportunity to give the audience some idea of what she could do in a drama of wider scope and greater depth. The cast of characters was as follows: Lois and Joan, half-sisters, Miss Zillah M. Coonley and Miss Mabel Hazletine; Aunt Dru- silla, Miss Elsie Duncan; Lawrence, Joseph A. Fogarty; Azariah Stodd, Arthur W. Jones; Mr. Rivers, Lois' father, J. McCullough. e —————— Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte's librar: a unique philological collection of 25, volumes, R;r which his executors have more than onca “tried to find & purchaser at $200,000, Is again offered for sale en by Harlow and Kilgallon by only one ace. | bloc. }“Just Man!” To goup town and pay three dollars for his shoes when two dollars would buy as good, or better, at the Big Factory Retailing Shoes at Factory Prices. There are a good many men who have learned better, bowever. The regular three- dollar shoe costs the retailer $2.00—our price to you. A comparison will prove it. Rosenthal, Feder & Co., 581-583 MARKET ST., Open till 8 P. M. Saturdays till 10, COMEDOWN Some fine day and see what you think of this Antique Oak Chiffonier at $8.50.: Bargain? No. Our regular Mission-street prices are bar- gain-beaters. INDIANAPOLIS FURNITURE _ CO. - 750 Mission St,