The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1895. 9 THE HASKINS WILL Verdict of the Jury in the Hard-Fought Pro- bate Contest. ViICTORY FOR THE WIDOW Mrs. Haskins Is Vindicated and She Will Retain the Property. DELIBERATION OF THE JURY. Hours of Walting That Caused Spec~ ulations Concerning the Fair Interests. The contest for the James S. Haskins estaté was ended in ge Coffey’s depart- ment of the Superior Court last night, and the jury declared that the disputed will is genuine, This verdict carries with it the declara- tion that the eleven w n paper and on boards, are all gen , and none of the charges made by t supported. Mrs. { fhe charges were though the attorney declared in court that t sation of forgery. - Attorney I red a powerful ar- IS NOT A FORGERY, | Heine. The fourth number was a tenor | solo by Frank.Coffin—‘The Aimighty.” |one of Liszt's masterpieces. “To the | Genesis of Music" proved to be a cantata | for soprano solo, quartet and chorus of male voices. Miss Beatrice Priest rendered the solo with excellent effect, and the n‘i\mrtel was made up by J. H. Dresmond, 1J. J. Morris, W. C. Stadfeldt and . E. | Tucker. | The officers of the club, under whom the concerts for this season will be arranged, areasfollows: President, William Alvord; vice-president, Charles F. Crocker; secre- tary, W. C. Stadfeldt; treasurer, W.A. Murisen; librarian, J. G. Morrisey; director, D. P. Hughes; music committee— Charles H. Van Orden, B. G. Somers, J. C. Fyee; voice committee—Frank Coffin, G. | D. Humphrey, Ben Romanie, S. E. Tucker. | ————-—— | THE WHITE'S SURVIVOES. The Shipwrecked Sealers Receive the | Money Donated to Them. | The money that was subscribed for the | benefit of the survivors of the ill-fated | sealing schooner C. G. White, that was | wrecked at Kodiak Island on April 13, was | distributed yesterday at the office of the | Examiner. The story of the wreck and the sufferings of those who escaped death has been told repeatedly. The latter ar- rived from the north about ten days ago and presented a sorry appearance. E.W. Bails lost both feet, E. J. Voisinat lost five fingers, four others lost their toes and g{a&k Sweaney wasjrendered temporarily ind. Soon after the newsof the wreck reached this City Al White, who is well known on | the water front, started a fund for the sur- vivors and subscribed §10. He requested the Examiner to be the custodian of the money and the paper generously added $50. H. Liebes }ollowed with §100, D. Spreckels $50, the Merchants’ Ex- | change $50, Louis Sloss $50. The fund ran | his clutches upon one of them and lock him up safely in the City Prison will get two weeks' leave of absence. ITS MAIDEN TOURNAMENT. First Event to Be Given by the Swim- ming Annex to the Olympic Club., The swimming annex of the Olympic Club is preparing to give its first tourna- ment as soon as the excitement of the election passes. The entries will be lim- ited to members of the annex and to mem- bers who are in good standing with their annex dues. Some entries have been re- ceived so far, but as the matter has not been made public around the club, there are not many. So faras it is at present outlined the progamme will be as follows: First event—60-yard handicap race. C.Mel- rose, O. Crable and F. M. Wheatou, scratch; George 8. McComb, two seconds; Archie Tay- lor, three seconds; W. Taylor and J. Boyle, five seconds; J. Coffroth, six seconds; F. Smith, seven seconds. Second event—100-yard handicap race. Third event—Life-preserver race. Fourth event—Tub-pushing race. Fifth event—50-yard swim on the back. Sixth event—Neatest straight dive, handicap, ten points to govern. Crable, minus three points handicap; King and McComb, minus two; Wheaton, minus two; all others scratch. Seventh event—Slow race, last in to win. Eighth event—Swim under water; best men to be handicapped by being tied to life-pre- servers. Ninth event—Neatest dive, go as_you please, ten points to govern. McComb, Wheaton and J. P. Jackson minus three points handicap, Healey and Taylor minus 2, C. B. Ring minus one. Tenth event—Diving for objects blindfolded. Eleventh event—50-yard race across Rarrow diameter of the tank. Twelfth event—Tug of war. Thirteenth event—Submersion time contest. The programme for the evening will con- clude with a tug of war between teams of six and an exhibition of fancy diving, the entries for which will include Dana Thompson, Dan Green, Ed Mowr{, E. Stolle, Matt Gay and Harry Clark, the club’s swimming instructor, There will be first ana second prizes in MRS. HASEINS, MISS CRAVEN AND FRIENDS WAITING FOR THE JURY TO RETURN. [From a sketch by a “Call” artist.] morning. Judge Coffey delivered harge to the jury in the afternoon, and 50'clock the case was submitted to the jury. it was the general expectation that a prompt verdict would be returned, but the ry had many specimens of handwriting and some incidental issues in the tcase made the matter complicated. i'he entire audience waited, momen- expecting a decision, throughout lock there was a rap on the door iliff responded. Everybody con- at the case had been settied, bat merely walked to the jury-box, up an overcoat that had been left nd returned to the jury-room with it. v are sending for their blankets,” dge Coffey, and some of the noved for the door. ‘clock an adjournment for two cas ordered, and the jury suspended to dine. its wo The unexpected delay in the jury’s re- turn of a verdict was apparently a surprise to-ev body about the court, for the gen- eral opinion had been that there was no showing at all on the charge of forgery. | On:thaf account_the interests of the Fair estate were brought up in the conversatiou of many of the groups that formed in the idors, and prophecies were made that au.agreement in favor of Mrs. Haskins Wouid never be reached. The long wait at evening added to the suggestions of the conversation, but the prognostications were not well founded. At 9 o'clock the jury filed into the court- foom;, but no decision had been reached. Infermation was wanted. Some of the jurors had got mixed up on the arguments and instructions, and they wanted their ideas straightened out, ; Judge Coffey gave the information, and the jury retired once more. Then Mrs, Haskins’ friends settled down for another long wait. Most of these were ladies who are neighbors to Mrs. Haskins, and they were so interested in the case that they intended to wait till midnightif a verdict was not brought in. Margaret Craven was there, and she de- clared that if the case did not end last night she would have to give up-her Stock- well engagement jor ‘Masks and Faces next week, for she had pot devoted two minutes to either the lines or her cos- | tumes. . At 10:30 o’clock there was another an- nouncement of the jury’s desire to be heard. .The twelve men resumed their seats and Toreman Charles 8. Eaton announced a verdict that the will is enuine. The jurors who gave that ver- ict. are..Charles Eaton, Patrick O. Aherne, ‘Leopoid Diamant, James H. Nolan, Edmund Lauterbach, S. 8. Frank- fin, Henry- Euler, Louis Saroni, Pierre Dreydemi and William Hencke. T. F. House and E. A. Huber were opposed. The will of 1888 is declared not to be the last that Mr. Haskins wrote, but_the later | one is merely a republication and does not affect the ca: THE LORING OLUB. Opening Concert of Its Nineteenth Season. The Loring Club gave the initial concert of its nineteenth season last evening at Odd Fellows’ Hall. The attendance was large and the music of that high standard of excellence for which this organization is noted. In itsentertainment of last even- ing the club was assisted by Miss Beatrice Priest, Mrs. Carmichael-Carr, Sigmund Beel and Louis Heine. The first number on the programme was a barytone solo—*‘Discovery,” by Grieg, rendered by Clarence A. Howard. This was followed by Mendelssohn’s “Turkish Cupbearer,” sung by a (quartel composed of l}) M. Lawrence, B. G. Somers, W. 8. Mackay and Robert®Blair. Theme and variations was for piano, violin and violon- cello. The performers were Mrs. Car- michael-Carr, Sigmund Beelffand Louis | money was made yesterday by T.T. Wil- liams of the Examiner, and according to the injuries the survivors received. The beneficiaries were as follows: E.W. Bail, E. J. Voisinat, §1 R. D. Rogers, ay Wi trom, $67; Nathias Mat- F. H. Murray, $67; and I The seamen were highly pleased and | heartily expressed their appreciation when [ Mr. Williams had conclml)ed making a few | appropriate remarks. Poor Bails was un- able to be present toreceive his share, as he | is now in the Marine Hospital, but the money was taken to him by his brother Oscar. Sweaney was the spokesman for the sealers and made a neat speech ex- pressing the thanks of his comrades to all who had shown their kindness and sym- pathy. The sailorsdecided to reserve some of the money with which to purchase a tes- timonial for Dr. C. F. Dickinson of Kodiak, who for two weeks was a constant attend- ant upon the suffecers. ‘THREE MEN IN-h BUGGS, | They Have Committed Several i Daring Burglaries in | the Mission. | Men ‘Speclally Detalled In Plaln ] Clothes From the Dif- | ferent Stations. The police and detectives are scouring | the Mission in search of three men in a | buggy who have given evidence of extra- | ordinary skill in committing burglaries. | Their modus operandi is to drive up to a house in the early morning. Two of them leave the buggy and effect an entrance to | the house while the other remains outside | | 1n the buggy on guard anfl ready to give | the alarm when danger of discovery ap- | proaches. | * Sunday morning the residence of James | D. Phelan, corner of Valencia and Seven- teenth streets, was entered and several articles of jewelry and $50 in coin were | stoler. Before leaving the house the | | burglars partook of a hearty meal in the | | kitchen. | | Wednesday morning about 4 o’clock | they entered the house of William Metz- | er, 1231 Guerrero street. After leaving | the doors open they went through the dif- | | ferent rooms and secured a number of | articles of jewelry. They then went to the | kitchen and partook of a hearty breakfast | while the family were sieeping soundly | upstairs. The approach of a miikman’s cart made them take a more hurried departure than they intended. But they did not go far, as they bestowed their attentions upon the jesidence of Eugene P. Murphy, on the corner of Twenty-fifth and Guerrero streets. They succeeded in making an entrance in their usual way and left with a number of valuable articles. At the Metzner residence they were foolish enough to Jeave a *jimmy’” behind | them. The police got possession of it, and | yesterday it was taken to the Phelan resi- dence and it fitted exactly the marks made on the window there when used to force it open_ to give them an entrance. This gatisfied the police that the burglaries were done by the same three men who were seen driving away from the Metzner resi- dence in the buggy. 2 The police are making every possible effort to arrest the three men and put an end to their depredations. Several men from the Southern and Seventeenth-street olice stations have for the past twoor three nights been patroling the streets in the Mission in plain clothes, and as an in- ive to them to capture the burglars :;n;g’;icer who is fortunate enough to get ént for the contestants, occupying the | up to $671. The apportionment of the | each event, all of which will be purchased from the annex funds. A BURGLAR'S WORK. The Residence of J. M. Chretien Robbed of a Case of Valuable Family Jewels. On Sunday evening, the 11th inst., the residence of J. M. Chretien, 804 Bush street, was entered by a burglar during the absence of the family, and the thigf carried away a case of jewels and a purse contain- ing $60 belonging to Mrs. Chretien. He gained an entrance to the house by climb- ing up a pillar of the balcony and stepping through the open window into Mrs. Chre- tien’s room. The jewel-case, which he found in a bureau drawer, contained a | large number of rings, pins, bracelets and various trinkets, many of them old and rare, and had been in Mrs. Chretien’s family for years. A number of them for- merly belonged to her mother, who died several months ago. and were priceless from the tender associations connected with them. A peculiar trinket 250 years old, an old-fashioned jeweled snuffbox, and a gold watch and chain costing $200, a graduating present to Mrs, Chretien, are among the articles taken. ““At the very lowest estimate,” said the lady, yesterday, ‘‘the jewelry was worth over $800, but to me its value was much greater. If I could only recover the arti- cles which once belonged to my mother I would be reconciled to my loss of the rest. When we notified the detectives thez we re very anxious that nothing would be said until they had found some clew of the jew- elry or burglar. We followed their advice faithfully and I cannot imagine how the news became public. I have learned that during our absence that evening three suspicious characters were seen prowling around, looking at the houses in that vicinity. Two of them must have watched while the third man entered my resi- dence.” The officers have found no_clew of the burglary nor of the stolen articles. . ————— One of the Beechers. Rev. Thomas K. Beecher of Elmira lon has been noted for his eccentricities, ang never was he more peculiar than in his address the other day in_Brooklyn at the funeral of his brother, Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher. Stepping to the edge of the plat- form and gazing down at the coffin, he said: ‘“Edward Beecher, born of Roxanna Foote and Lyman Beecher; Jesus was born of woman; you were born of woman. Jesus lived and suffered; you lived and suffered. Jesus laid down his life, and you have laid down your life. An ava- lanche does not stop for a tiny gravestone. It is not written that life shall stop for such a trifle as death. Henceforth we know you no more after the flesh. This was the illum- ination of the early Christian. Iam able to tell you that death, as business men phrase it, has been discounted daily for years in this man’s life. I would not have you ignorant. The Lord shall appear in the heavens with a shout and with the archangels of heaven. The dead shall rise and be caught up to meet the Lord. Let us learn the letters of our alphabet. Iam the Alpha and Omega. Let us be stead- fast, immovable. Our labor in the Lord is not in vain, Deny yourselves worldly lusts, as this man did. Live soberly and righteously, looking for the bles: end and for Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us that he might purify us for himself. I had a brother, but I have one who ranks him by 2000 years—my elder brother—and every one of you is his brother.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Russia is so anxious to colonize quickly the Amur district with Cossacks, in order to watch the Chinese frontier, that she of- fers each male settler eifihty acres of land free, a loan of $325 without interest for thirty-three years, and exemption from taxes for three years and from military service for five. MALE & NORCROSS SUIT Defendants Will File a Petition for a Rehearing To-Day. TO BE NO CRIMINAL ISSUE. . M. Levy, Senator Lynch and Others Furnish a Serles of Surprises in the Case. H. The celebrated Hale & Norcross case con- tinues to develop surprises and wreck com- binations that would at first glance seem to be perpetuat. Last week the contro- versy over the incidents bearing qn the case broke up the friendship of Senator Jeremiah Lynch and H. M. Levy, but to- day those gentlemen are inseparable again, and the hatchet is burled beyond the pos- sibility of resurrection. The cause of the original separation was traced to remarks made by Mr. Levy, who said that his friend Mr. Lynch did not buy 4000 shares of stock for the purpose of bringing the case before the Grand Jury, but that the stock in question was bought some months before by Mr. Lynch, who was doing a little speculating on the ver- dict; that he failed to land, owing to the fact that the decision wasnot for $2,000,000, the original amount, but was for $250,000 instead. Mr. Levy said that such a drop from the amount sued for would make Mr. Lynch feel very bad, and the result was Mr. Lynch waxed wroth and proceeded to tell Mr. Levy to go to various places and never show his face again. It looked for a time that the two friends would meet each other on the street and have trouble, but Tuesday night, through the efforts of a friend, Mr. Lynch and Mr. Levy were brotight together, and the latter’s home was made the scene of a reconciliation where the former remained all nigat and smoked the cigarjof peace. The next surprise was developed yester- day when it was learned that Plaintiff Fox, through his attorney, had concluded that it was out of the question to push the criminal end of the case, as it was barred from the courts by the statute of limita- tion, which provides that suit shall be begun within three years after the com- mission of fraud, and not three years after the discovery of it. The latfer under- standing of the law prevailed before 1891, when it was amended and changed as first stated. Mr. Baggett said yesterday: ““There is no likelihood of eriminal pro- ceedings ever being brought, as the frand was committed over five yearsago. We are satisfied on that pointand the statute of limitation is clear. There is another thing we will push, however, and it is the damage suit. We have already got a judgment for $250,000, but that is for profits on the milling, and now we want to get judgment for $759,000, the amount we claim as damage to the stockholders of the corporation. On this particular point the Supreme Court informed us that the; could not render a decision, as the testi- mony on that point was not sufficient to justify it. We will carry this issue back to ihe lower court, add more testimony and then send it up to the Supreme Court again, where we will in all probability get judgment in our favor.”” “When will you get the money that the Supreme Court has already decided is yours?”’ “Not for thirty days from the date of judgment. No Supreme Court decision is final for thirty days after the filing of the opinion. That is to allow the other side to petition for a rehearing and the petition has to be filed within twenty days after the decision and the Supreme Court has to take up the petition for rehearing within thirty days. To-morrow is the last day set for filing the petition for rehearing which 1 understand is now being prepared.’”’ Later in the day Attorney W. S. Wood was found and stated that he would file his petition to-day for the defendants and that there would be twenty-five pages of the document. Upon what lines the petition for a re- hearing will be constructed is not known, but one of the attorneys for the defend- ants said recently at the Silver Conven- tion in the hearing of several gentlemen that the defense was preparing a petition for rehearing, that it was twenty-five pages long and that he was satisfied that it wouldn’t do a particle of good, and that | the game was up and the case was lost. He not on!ly repeated this several times, but reviewed the case and pointed out the foolishness of making such a demand on the court. It will be seen from the recent develop- ments that the Hale & Norcross case is turned completely upside down, and those who are in a position to know claim that as soon as the claim for $759,000 damages to the stockholders is settled there will be more trouble from other sources, Mr. Fox said yesterday that the statuteé of limita- tion had not run out on some other charges that would be brought, and that there were other cases besides the one that has Haie & Norcross in its title, WATOHES OHEAP AND GOOD. ‘Women the Chief Victims of the Craze to Possess & Good Timeckeeper. Good watches were probably never be- fore nearly so cheap as they now are. You may buy for less than $12 a watch war- ranted to vary not more than a few seconds a month, says the New York®Sun. The silver in the case of a watch never was an important part of the cost of a good time- keeper, and now that silver is so cheap watch cases at wholesale are -of trifling cost. The watchmaking business has been greatly subdivided. Crystals are made at one place, cases at another and works at still another. There is a growing belief among men of moderate means that a gold watch is a vanity and that the sole important thing in a watch is the works. These were never so good and so cheap as now. The number of men who carry cheap watches is constantly on the increase. The watch clubs of some years ago conld hardly succeed now, because men are less under the fetich of the gold watch than formerly. Many men lay aside their _fiold watches, heirlooms, gifts and the like and car good timekeepers that cost only one-tent! as much. At the same time some men of much less means are willing to save and deny themselves in order to buy gold watches. The well-to-do merchant is per- haps more likely to carry a gold watch than the professional man of ten times his income. There are still in use a few old key- winding silver watches of the sort that be- gan to disappear with the advent of the stem-winders. Many of these are excel- lent iimekeepers. They cost when new from $25 to $50, and have stood the wear of a quarter of a century. They are better than the §5 and $6 stem-winders freely offered now, though the key-winders bring almost nothing in exchange. It would take half a dozen good timekeeping silver-cased key-winders to buy one of the cheap stem-winders. The dial of the modern cheap watch is usually numbered in Arabic instead of Roman numerals, and any watch bearing the latter is usually far from new. ‘Women still cling to the gold watch, and among the most expensive watches are those made in Switzerland for women, It is not unusual forone of these small and richly enameled affairs to cost $250, and the prices run from that into the thousands. & The gold-faced watch is such a nuisance that it is disappearing. The expensive watches made for women are usually ex- cellent timekeepers. There are, however, many cheap and gaudy watches made in answer to the craze for watches as orna- ments, and these cannot so well be de- pended upon. Watches that have more or less gold in the case are very cheap now. ‘Women of all sorts have them, and itis not unusual to see one in the hands of a maid-servant. Showy watches are made to be given as gflzes for those that play the hundred and one gambling devices set up in saloons. Some saloon-keepers get watches of thesame sort and offer them as Erizs! for the man getting a certain num- ered ticket—a ticket being given out with every drink sold. These watches are al- ways advertised as gold. Their cheapness is proclaimed in the character of the deco- ration, which is crudely elaborate. ———————— THE STREETS OF THE FUTURE All Light Carts to Disappear From City Thoroughfares. In an interesting report on the hygienic virtues and shortcomings of wood pave- ment, Dr. Blythe, the health officer for Marylebone, refers to asphalt, which he is inclined to prefer on the ground of its be- ing less capsble of absorbing the im- purities of @ busy thoroughfare. Its chief drawback, however, as he observes, is its noisiness. = The sharp pit- nat of the horses’ hoofs is almost as an- noying as the rattle and roar of the traffic over granite cubes. “In the near future, however, when that unfortunate locomotive act, 1865, is repealed and the reat industry in self-propelling cnrrinlges y compressed air, by petroleum and elec- tricity, 1s in full swinlg, the hansom cab, the omnibus and all lights will disappear from the streets, motors in the long run bemng much cheaper and more convenient; in that hapgy time this o‘l:&ection against asphalt will not hold good. A London from which the horse has eliminsted for draught purposes will have lost a pictar- esque feature of its open-air life. On the other hand, the winter’s snow and ice and the greasy streets, which we have in the last few months almost forgotten, cannot distress a road locomotive as they can our four-footed servants.”—London Telegraph. THE COMMITTEE OF FIVE Chairman Ricketts Calls a Meeting for Wednesday Afternoon. Judge Henshaw’s Declsion Shows How the Struggle Concerns Laborers. Chairman Ricketts will call a meeting at his office at 2 p. M. next Wednesday of the committee of five chosen by the Miners’ Association executive committee at its last meeting, to consider the advisability of a conference with the Southern Pacific. The correspondence between Attorney John M. Wright and Land Agent Mills relating to the proposition for a joint expert commission to make an inspection of the lands will then be taken up on its merits. Itis bard to predict just what the out- come of the overture for an amicable settlement will be. In Mr. Ricketts’ opinion, the expressed wish of Mr. Mills that all legal proceedings now pending be discontinued, presents an insurmountable difficulty. The railroad company hasa great deal at stake. In its grant 7,000,000 out of the 20,000,000 acres is estimated by the Land Department to be mineral lands. If, how- ever, most of this could be agreed upon by the two experts as agricultural land it would be just what the railroad company would want. Supposing the expert of the comFanv to be true to the interests he would represent and the expert of the Miners’ Association would prove loyal to those of the association and a man of strong character, it is questionable if the two men could ever reach a unanimous conclusion, -considering the conflict of business interests. Mr. Ricketts’ regards Mr. Mills’ proposi- tion as simply a play to either get the le- Enl proceedings dropped = altogether or ave them indefinitely delayed so as to allow the company to go on making its se- lections, meanwhile, with more than usual alacrity—and without fear of any legal trouble. Another apparent intention of Mr. Mills’ letter, according to Mr. Rick- etts, is to make it appear that Mr. Ricketts, as attorney for the association, is an ob- structionist, and to bid for a measure of sympathy on that representation. ““The fact is,”’ said Mr. Ricketts yester- day, “‘the railroad company would not have offered to treat with the association at all, but for these protests and appeals and the effective work of the San Francisco newspapers in bringing the true inward- ness of this controversy to light. “The mineral lands controversy is more far-reaching than would at first appear. Under the laws of this State a laborer, material-man, machinist, contractoror any other class of service employed upon a mining claim may put a mechanic's lien on the claim in the event of non-payment of compensation, ~ So says section 1183 of the Civil Code, but a recent decision of Judge Henshaw of the State Supreme Court shows that no lien can be had by any such laborer asa lien upon a mining claim when the land is covered by an ag- ricultural patent. “In the case at issue Judge Henshaw re- versed the action of the Superior Court in Tuolumne County. Milton Morse_ and others had filed liens upon Matthew L. De Adro’s mining clzeim, and the lower court allowed them under section 1183. “De Adro had a farm of 160 acres upon which he had sunk a shaft and discovered a vein of auriferous gravel, but the land was covered by an agricultural patent. “Quoting from Judgze Sawyer of the Federal court, Judge Henshaw reiterated judicial definition of a ‘mining claim’ the { as follows: A “mining claim’’ is the name given to that portion of the public mineral lands which the miner, for mining purposes, takes up and holds in accordance with the mining law. “He accordingly held that ‘section 1183 does not authorizeaa lien for labor in work- ing a mine on lands held under an agriul- tural patent from the United States,’ and justified this view in the following: Since the Legislature has seen fit to limit the benefit of the lien to particular classes (mining claims) we are not at liberty to extend it to others. To do-so would not be construction but judicial legislation. “Thisdecision has just been placed before the legal profession in the Pacific Re porter.”” Invented the Baremeter. The barometer was invented by Torri- celli, a*pupil of Galilei, in 1643. In at- tempting to pump water from a very deep well near Florence he found that in spite of all his efforts the liquid would rise in the pump stock only 32 feet. This set the young scientist to thinking, and as he could not account for the phenomenon in any other way he was not slow in attribut- ing it to atmospheric pressure. He argued that water would rise in a vacuum only to such a height as would render the downward pressure or weight of the col- umn_of wnger just equal the atmos- heric pressure, and further that should a eavier fluid be used the height of the col- umn could be much reduced. To prove this he selected a glass tube four feet long, and after sealing one end filled it wit mercury and then inverted it in a basin containing a quantity of the same peculiar liquid. The column in the tube quickly fell to a height of nearly thirty inches above the mercury in_the basin, leaving in the top of the tube a vacuum, which is most perfect that has ever been obtained, and which is to this day called the Tor- ricelli vacuum in honor of the discoverer. The name of the instrument means ‘“‘air measure,” and ity fundamental principles cannot be better illustrated than by the above-described experiment. — 8t. Louis Republican. Omdurman, the Khalifa' according to Slatin Pasha, a population of 400,000 capital, has, ffimm'mn& is the SUTRO'S GIFT FAVORED, Majority of the Affiliated Col- leges Committee In= dorse the Site. HOW THE REGENTS STAND. Dr. Cole Glves a Few Pertinent Facts Relative to the Work Accomplished. There is apparently no longer room to doubt the presence and consequent influ- ence of the Southern Pacific in the com- mittee appointed to select a site for the affiliated colleges. The corporation did not reveal its hand until Sutro came for- ward with his generous offer, when there was an immediate scramble on the part of certain members of the committee to have the Potrero site accepted. First came objections to the way the deed of gift was drawn, the claim beingset up that there were too many strings at- tached to the proposition. When this was done away with and the site tendered as an absolute gift these same members em- phatically stated that they would not con- sider the gift unless the affiliated colleges were given the site set apart for the Sutro Library. The wording of the deed of gift 'was accordingly altered and the committee was consequently forced to a discussion between that and the Potrero property. It was here that the Southern Pacific dealt a blow that for a time promised to work serious injury to the Sutro gift. In the meantime the Southern Pacific, or some one closely related to the com- pany, was hard at work on the Potrero, with a view of placing it on an equal foot- ing as regards cost, with the Sutro site. First, they asked the State to pay $110,000 for the property, the money to be used in purchasing the lots owned by individuals within the three blocks proposed. This sum was reduced $60,000, and an earnest effort made at the time to gain the com- mittee’s acceptance of the same. The plan did not work, however, and so the sub-committee asked for an extension of time, expressing the opinion that a still further reduction could be secured. This committee made a report at the meeting held Wednesday night, stating that for $40,000 they could secure the prop- erty held by private citizens on YorE and Hampshire streets. It was said that a further reduction of $5000 could be secured if the committee were given a little more time, and for this reason it would ask that no definite action be taken at that meet- ing. In spite of all this, however, there was an evident desire on the part of the committee to come to a final vote, but out of deference to Judge Slack, the college of law representative, who was absent, final action was postponed for two weeks. “I am sick, tired and disgusted with the whole business,” said Dr. Beverly Cole yes- terday, “and I shall make it a point fo bring the matter to a head atthe next meeting. The majority of the committee are in favor of Sutro’s offer, though ['am unwilling to give their names at present. At first I was opposed to this property, be- cause of the conditious surrounding the deed of gift, but as these objectionable features have been removed one after the other I consider it vastly superior to any- thing yet offered, or that we could hope to t, ge“I have had maps of the two properties made and estimates of the cost of grading carefully computed. It would cost the State not less than $60,000 to place the Potrero site in condition for the buildings, while on the other hand the Sutro proper- ty, or what is needed at present, can be graded and filled in for $4000 or less. In fact I would take it for that and make money out of it. There are other possible expenses, which would make the center site cost the Scate anywhere from $100,000 to $150,000 without a lick of work being done toward putting up the buildings. For instance, in order to make this prop- erty available, it would be necessary to close up two streets, York and Hampshire, and it is not by any means certain that this can be done without considerable cost. The Supervisors might order them closed, but the people have some rights and it is questionable if an objection would not be sustained by the court.’”’ “Do you know exactly how General J. F. Houghton, George T. Marye and A. S. Hallidie, representing the Board of Re- ents, stand as regards the Potrero and Sutro sites,” was asked Dr. Cole by THE CALL representative. _“I am hardly prepared to state posi- tively,” was the cautious reply. “I am very much afraid that they favor the Po- trero property. Mind, I do not state this as an absolute fact, but merely as an opin- ion gathered from their talk, and the po- sition assumed by them at various times, and I would not pretend to say that they are influenced by the Southern Pacific, for I accord to_them the same disinterested motives as inspire the majority of the com- mittee in favoring the Sutro site. There is a common belief, however, that the rail- road is exerting every means in their power to defeat the Sutro site, though just where this influence is being expended none of the committee would be willing to say, even if we knew.”’ Corrupting Novels. The abnormal, sensual, depraved art and literature of Eurove is not new in its brutal essence. It has existed as long as art and letters. There never was a time when the republic of letters did not possess its crimi- nal class, men and women who offend against ail the laws of beauty and ?m‘ity and therefore against the supreme law of art. 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