The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 24, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1895. 7 —+ The Bauble Shop.” A Tragedy Rehearsed,” an of the World.” A Cracker-Jack.” BIA THEA ice Oldfield” and MOROSCO'S OPERA-HOUSE: TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE—“The Royal Middy.” OrPHEDN—High-Class Vaudeville. MECHANICS' FATR.—Larkin street, near Market. STATE BOARD OF TRADE EXRTBIT. farket etreet, below Second. Open daily. Admission free. BAY DisTRICT TRACK.—Races. CALIFORNIA STATE FATR—Sacramento, Septem- ber2to 14. PICNICS ANE? CURSIO! 5—Aquatic Exhi- SELECT August CITY NEWS IN BRIEL. ted his non-com- | Colonel Bush has app missioned staf L. B. Cosper cree of divorce an Several bold burgl perpetrated in the M Judge Wallace has set cision in the poolroom case! to have his wife's de- T es have recently been de Judge Low’s de- can be found on rning. Mrs. Worthing- Quentin. & Co. are lution may Local items, bright and this page of the CALL every Judge Wa ton to twe: Partners in th fighting in the co! e has sentenced n Labor Comm : ald states that the anti 8 on is spreading all over the § The ( v Company was in- cory = tructa road from Alviso to San J 0. W, W ed with the murder of Mrs. Jer , was acquitted on the | first b » has reorganized for the rsuline Indian mis- atlroad companies are e in the CALL for the ac- being drawn at Colma. On white citizens and on the n the township. g at the Mechanics’ Fair. tole about $1600 worth of jewelry from the residence of John M. 804 Bush street, about two weeks of the Senate Committee on s of Legislation last night a le correspondence was consid- ailway from San Jose to Alvisowill a line,of steamers and_schooners v and give the Santa Clara Valley Low ordered Andrey Berg, & cigar- nto custody yesterday for perjury. He | 1id not sell cigareties 10 James Col- of the African Third giving & series of entertain- the purpose of raising money 10 pay h debt. ominating committee of the Olympic e its selections last evening, heading ) the name of F. W. Eatoh. Oppo- ed. turers’ and Producers’ he doctors a irug- nize home industries ces in a small district | ve been entered | last month, but no captures have niard, and Vincent sireet row over a | they have gone to the v of the man which was found in the ot of Harrison street last Thursday | ified as John O'Brien yesterday. He dower and destitute. owners on Thirteenth avenue and ve filed protests with the against certain street quest of $400,000 to a technical school was xecutors of the estate to ts of the University of California. cast official W. H. Hammon predicts fair r, with_nearly stationary temperature, Slight variable winds may be the sfternoon, growing brisk d evening. A San Francisco architect has stated that an from & ruz_had offered him the payment of $6000. startling phase in the court- cations. n complains that Sheriff Whelan fes are not making the proper rt to_serve the warrant issued by Juc Seawell for the arrest of Mrs. Jennie Himmel- mann, his divorced wife. A girl camed Minnie Ferguson, let out of the Christian Union Mission on probation, ran off and married & Sen Jose man. She is not of legal age, and the consent of only one of her parents had been secured. The railway company_is prepering volumes of testimony against reduction of local freight rates. Railroad Commissioner _Stanton’s friends say he will move that Californian tariffs be cut down 15 to 25 per cent. Armine Boutin has_petitioned the Probate Court 10 compel Mrs. Edna Dean, H. W. West- hal and E. H. Wa know of Louis Corriveau’s estate. was issued in pursuance of the affida Edward Campbell is in the City Prison charged with vagrancy. He was the running mate of Sidney Bell at_the time of the Jacob- son murder and was allowed to go free upon turning State’s evidence and testifying against his former partner. No satisfaction was given by Superintendent Vining to the committee of South Side resi- dents which called upon him yesterday morn- ing to ask that the Clayton-street Mc!m}"mimn car-service be resumed: Another conierence will be held Monday. At its meeting last night the Civic Federa- tion adopted articles of incorporation and also & resolution requesting the Grand Jury to in- . vestigate certain charges made by Harbor Commissioner Colnon against several un- named local politicians. Andrew J. Collins, an_ex-employe of the Southern Pacific Reilway Company, wanted to kill General Superintendent Fillmore yesterday at the company’s building and got thrown downstairs. He is a crank with an imaginary grievance against the company. The Boys’ Brigade of the bay cou decide Monday evening whether they - tinue to have military officers and sman to tell what they An order il officers in command of all the branches of the organi- zation, the Eastern departments having done away with the higher civil officers. The West of Castro Street Improvement Club held a spirited meeting lastnight at Judson Hall, on Douglass and Diamond streets, on the * Noe heir suit. They called 8 mass-meeting for next Thursday night at Twin Peaks Hall, at the corner of Seventeenth and Noe streets. There is now hardly any doubt but that the committee will select the Sutro site for the Aftilinted Colleges. Nine of the committee have expressed their preference for this prop- erty and there is no reason to believe that they Wil change front when the final vote is taken. The trustees of the Chamber of Commerce vesterday expressed approval of Colonel Z. . Spalding’s project to connect San Fran- cisco with Hawail by cable, and promised sub- stantial aid should the colonel succeed in ob- taining the Government subsidy which he desires. Twenty-three veniremen were examined in the Durrant ¢ yesterday, but no additional i;xrora were_obtained. he venire was ex- austed, and Judge Murphy ordered 200 more names drawn from the box, returnabie Mon- day morning, to which time the trial was ad- journed. The railway passenger ticket agents were aroused yestérday by a_new sign over the Southern Pacific ticket office announcing that it was the “only City ticket office of ‘Sunset,’ Shasta and Ogden routes.”” The agents tele- graphed to theircompanies, and believed that this was the beginning of & free fight for business. In the case of Hans Nielsen, who took strych- nine last week, the Coroner’s Jury could not arrive at a verdict yesterday. A chemical analysis showed enough of the poison in the stomach to cause death, but the jurors could } not decide whether it had been taken with suicidal intent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has over- drawn its allowance of printed matter from the State Printer and there is a grave fear that the * usefulness of the bureau will come to an end very soon. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald states that without printed matter he will have 10 “shut up shop.” x | this City day before yesterda; ALONG THE WATER FRONT, A Purchasing Agent for State Harbor Commission Supplies. THE FIRE TUG QUESTION. — Alviso and San Jose Railroad—A Survivor of the Wrecked Ship Arabla. The Harbor Commissioners intend to appoint a new officer in the person of a purchasing agent, who will attend to the buying of supplies for the five depart- ments. It has been the custom that pro- curing the needful supplies was left to the heads of the different departments. The Commissioners believe that by that method there was no chance of comparing or checking the accounts of the depart- ment that greater care and economy might be exercised in purchasing. The new offi- cial will have a storehouse in which every article not in actual use will be kept, and where the accounts of all State property, from a hammer to a tug, willghe kept. This plan meets the approval of the en- tire board, who consider it practical and economical. Mr. Cole stated yesterday that he has erroneously been made to ap- pear as ignorant and dissatisfied with the manner in which the contracts for dredger Tepairs were let. He was absent when the matter was attended to, and, 1t being urgent, was not delayed. The Califor- nia Machine Works being the lowest bidders the work was awarded to them for $625. It is the intention of the board to purchase no article except by competitive bids, and it will be the duty of the purchasing agent to keep on file a list of the bidsof the various firms, and any dealer in the City may compete for the said supplies for the State. It is thought that 8. J. Westlake, who has been in the secretary’s office for years, will per- form the duties of general purchaser. The statement of Chief Sullivan of the Fire Department to the board at the last meeting that the State fire tugs were not efficient bas set the Commissioners thinking. Boats that draw fiiteen feet of water, and cannot get close to the shore or wharves in the extreme northern and southern portions of the water front are not extremely use- ful things to have around, and when those boats cannot throw a much greater stream than the modern fire engines the situation is not an agreeable one. How to make heir tugs more able to cope with possible water-front fires, and afford sutlicient pro- tection to property there, is the yearning desire of the harbor officials. Yesterday the sealing schooner Bowhead, recently seized by the customs officers for ins in prohibited waters without onded for $1700 and her alskins for $6000. She will be a by William Brent and laid up pending her forfeiture trial in the United States courts. Mrs. W. 5. Meyer was at the ferry land- ing yesterday afternoon watching for her busband, who kissed her farewell so fondly | and speedily ran away with $200, their all, leaving her without a cent. They came from Sacramento two days ago and put up nternational Hotel, and yesterday morning Meyer stole down to the transfer office, where his trunk had been thought- fuily left, and passed with it quite away to parts unknown. Meyer has deserted his wife several times before, but she has hunted him up and at her pleadings he has promised to run away no more. Sergeant Tom Mahoney of the Harbor Police, whose gallant heart is ever open to the supplica- tions of beauty in distress, watched care- fully for the recreant Meyer without suc- ess. The articles of incorporation of the San Jose and Alviso Railroad were signed yes- terday and $10,000 deposited as a guarantee | of good faith. The stock already sub- scribed amounts to over $60,000, and the work of condemning a right of way will soon commence. The trustees of the new company are R.J. R. Aden of Vallejo. P Frank Piper, H. W. Goodall, H. Thayer, Andrew Rocca, C. 4. Shurileff and’ A, E. Pryor of San Francisco. The road will be a broad-gauge and will run from Alviso, or New Chicago, as it is now cailed, to San Jose. A regular line of steamers will run between the bay end of the road and San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Vallejo. A survivor of the recent wreck of the American ship Arabia, Mrs. C. H. Maloon, wife of the captain of the vessel, arrived in . The Arabia was lost on the coast near Cape Horn dur- ing her voyage from New York to this port, becoming unmanageable in a furious gale of wind and drifting on to the beach. Mrs. Maloon refused 1o leave the fast- breaking ship until her husband was ready to accompany her and was hoisted with her child into the last boat to leave the vessel. After tossing about in the cold and stormy seas for days they were picked up and taken to Montevideo. Mrs. Ma- loon and her little boy is stiliunder the care of a physician, her terrible sufferings having undermined her health. The members of the naval battalion have received permission from the Uity authori- ties to swim in the bay off their boathouse at Folsom street. A POOLROOM VICTORY. Superior Judge Wallace Sets Aside the Decision Recently Given by Judge Low. Judge Wallace has reversed the decision that Judge Low gave in the Police Court against the poolrooms. This action is in the case of Isadore Mes- senger, who was charged with violation of the City ordinance by accepting a wager in a Leidesdorff-street poolroom. Messenger was convicted in Judge Low’s court, and an appeal was taken for the purpose of | testing the ordinance. Judge Wallace in setting aside the con- viction declared that the ordinance had not been violated, and that it is not suffi- cient for the object for which it was in- tended. “If the people want to close the pool- rooms,” said the Judge, “‘they will have to do it by passing an ordinance prohibiting the commission business.” In the argument of the case W. W. Foote, for the appellant, held that the bet was actually made at the track, as the dol- lar wagered by Officer Sullivan was taken to the racetrack and played there. He claimed that the firm of Goldtree & Co., by whom Messenger was employed, was a common carrier and ‘took the money to the track and charged a commission. Ex-Judge Levy, for the people, argued that the laying of the wager was in open violation of the municipal ordinance which prohibits betting on a horse race except within the inclosure in which the contest takes place. TO FIX THE FIRETRAP. Department Authorities Anxious About the City Hall. Chief Sullivan of the Fire Department is preparing a report on the condition of the roof of the new City Hall, which he be- lieves will lead the Board of Supervisors to take action in effacing that firetrap. Fire Marshal Towe called the attention of the City authorities to the deplorable condition of the place in 1893, but nothing was ever done. He says now that if a citizen owned the place he would be arrested at once. The rire ordinances are flagrantly broken, but owing to red tape nothing can be done in the matter tiil a lot of %ormmies are attended to. City Fire and County Attorney Creswell has given the Board of Supervisors his opinion of the matter, and after the report of Chief Sulli- van is handed in it is expected that some- thing will be done. 2 The Superintendent of Fire Alarms in- spected the place yesterday, and declared it one of the worst firetraps in the City. Between the {op ceiling and the false roof there is a forest of dry scantling and timbers threaded with electric wires. The fire walls are not built up, and if a blaze started the place would have the draught of a furnace. If the $350,000 appropriation, recom- mended by the last Legislature, is levied there is a prospect that the roof will be fixed. R e ASSAULT TO MURDER. Paul Gelimas Accuses Charles Brown of Stabbing Him. Charles Brown is confined in the City Prison to answer to a charge of assault to murder, preferred by Paul Napoleon Geli- mas, a barkeeper employed at 42 Turk street. Gelimas states that at 12:15 A. M. Thurs- day be was walking along Mason street to his work when he met Brown and a com- panion. Brown ran against him in pre- tended accident, then drew a knife, saying «“Now I’ll fix you,” and plunged it into the barkeeper. Gelimas sustained a flesh wound four inches long, situated in the right groin. The motive for Brown's at- tack is said to have been a desire for revenge, because Gelimas once ejected him from a saloon. ¢ Brown states that he was not on Mason street at the time mentioned and knows nothing of the case. No charge has yet been lodged against him, his name being still upon the small book. HEBUEINGEE}EHT RATES, The Railway Company Putting on Armor for the Conflict. o Rallroad Commissioners Will Be Met With Heavy Testimony Upon Tariffs. The next session of the Railroad Com- missioners, to be held Wednesday in this City, already gives promise of being a most interesting and important one for the people of California. There will be a battle in which the rail- road giants will appear. Stacks of sta- tistics and documents and piles of volumes will be introduced as freight tariffs and tabulated statements, and on them the | fight is to be made. The Southern Pacific Company will have its own share of such documentary evidence, for the heads of the freight department have been working in- cessantly preparing for the railroad’s state- ment. This, it was learned yesterday, will be in the nature of a defense against any general reduction of freight rates through- Jalifornia. The Southern Pacific ofh- cials would not say what they were doing in this direction, explaining that it would be an act of discourtesy to the Railroad Commissioners to divulge a report or com- munication intended for them and not yet actually received by the commission. One of those officials remarked that they had not been idle in view of the fact that an effort was to be made to reduce freight rates. They will present extracts from the company’s annual report to show that freighting in California is not so profitable as to allow a reduction of 25 per cent in rates. Taxes, running expenses, expendi- { tures for constant repairs and ‘‘better- | ments”” or necessary alterations in the road will all cut a figure in the argument against reduction. There will be figures and still more figures until the Railroad Commissioners in the debate will ask where they are. It is understood that Commissioner Stanton has been preparing a surprise for this coming meeting. With an assistant after night until early morning going over local freight rates and estimating com para- tive charges. While Commissioner La Rue will move for a reduction of 10 to 15 per cent in certain parts of the State, Dr. Stanton’s friends claim he will go the Sacramento member one better and pro- pose that a_general rednction of freight rates throughout the State from 15 to 25 per cent at least be made. In the mean- time the Commissioners will not state pre- cisely what they intend to do. TESTING THE OOUPLERS. The Valley Railroad to Have the Most Approved Appliances. The San Joaquin Valley road is doing all in its power to introduce the most ap- proved mechanical appliances for the pro- tection of its employes, and with that pur- Cross Section of No. 1, Showing Coupling-Pin. pose in view, the company will use nothing but the best automatic couplers obtainable. Several kinds will be tested, and the Charles W. Hinton vertical plain coupler Nos. 1 and 2 will be put on five cars. This coupler is the invention of a Cali- fornian, and has several very excellent ad- vantages. It can be Jocked by coming in contact with its mate coupler and without assistance. This makes it unnecessary for a brakeman to get between the cars and thus jeopordize his life and limb. _All that is necessary to do 15 to set the pin arranged for the purpose, and the cars Coupler No. 1 Open. will instantly separate. The coupler has another advantage that makes it of con- siderable value to trainmen. No matter how it is set, or whether the pin 1s up or down, it 1s impossible to prevent a thorough coupling, and in case of an accident to freight trains, a separation can be effected from the top of a boxcar. Its total weight is 170 pounds, and it is cast in steel. ~Master carbuilders claim great things for it, all of which will be proved or disproved at the trial. It operates very easily, and contains but four parts in its entire mechanism. ——— Violated a Park Ordinance. John Harrington was tried before Judge Joachimsen for vinlating a park ordinance. He took a dog into Golden Gate Park and refused to remove it when ordered to do so by Captain T‘l.\ompmrkl. Théag{ox lal!t:;wlrd kflltet: 1; ir of peacocks, and Harrington’s arrest fo! 3 Hepvevm be sentenced to-day. i he has been working in his office night | WOULD EXCLUDE CANADA, Colonel Z. S. Spalding’s Four Million Dollar Cable to Honolulu. LOCAL COMMERCE IN FAVOR. The Promoter Will Now Try to Obtain a Subsidy From the Government. Colonel Z. S. Spalding, who has obtained an exclusive concession from the Hawaiian Government to bring a cable to the islands from San Francisco, had reason to con- gratulate himself over the result of a con- ference which he held yesterday with the trustees of the Chamber of Commerce. General W. H. Dimona being absent Hugh Craig presided, and there were present be- sides: J. J. McKinnon, L. B. Parrott, TLouis Sloss Jr., J. F. Chapman, Colonel C. L. Taylor, Captain Charles Nelson, E. B. Pond and A. G. Towne. Colonel Spalding explained his project in full and the trustees expressed them- - Colonel Z. 8. Spalding. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.) selves in hearty sympathy with it and pledged themselves to give all the aid in their power. After completing all he ex- pects to accomplish in Washington the colonel will communicate with the Cham- ber of Commerce, which will then do its part. ! A main consideration in Colonel Spal- ing's project is that he has obtained an ex- clusive concession from the Hawaiian Government, which would prevent Canada from obtaining a foothold there except by arrangement with his people. The Cana- dian Pacific has long desired to communi- cate directly with fawaii en route to China, Japan and Australia, but so far has only succeeded in projecting a line to Fan- ning Island, g distance of 3500 miles. A direct line bétween San Francisco and Honolulu would be 2800 miles. In explaining this to the Chamber of Commerce trustees yesterday Colonel Spalding referred to the fact that while there were 160,000 nautical miles of ocean cable represented on the charts of the rld, which he exhibited, the Pacific ean was clear. It was of vast commer- cial importance to the Pacific Coast and the Government interests that one be laid to the Hawaiian Islands, afterward to be extended, without delay. After the order was given it would only take eighteen months to manufacture and lay such a cable. As to the sinewsof war, the Hawaiian Government had agreed to give a subsidy of $40,000 a year for twenty years on cer- tain terms. One of these was that the work should be commenced not later than May 1, 1897, and finished by November, 1898. There were other minor conditions reFurding interruption of service, inter- island ownership, government rates, etc. The contractor would also be required to give a $250,000 bond to secure faithful service. Another condition was that the United States Government should give “substan- tial aid” to the enterprise. The colonel explained that he desired to obtain from the Government a subsidy of $260,000 a year for twenty years, which, with that already secured, would aggregate $300,000 a year. He estimated that the cable com- plete, with stations, plant, land lines, cable-ships and running expenses, would require $4,000,000 capital. o realize this amount the colonel said it was his intention as soon as he had se- cured the Government subsidy to form a company. #e would expect to sell at least $250,000 werth of stock in San Francisco, as much in Honoluiu, and the rest required in the Past and Europe. He calculated that at_any rate there would be a yearly expenditure of $400,000, of which $300,000 wonlfi be supplied by subsidy and $100,000 from the business receipts. The proposed company would thus have to possess at leagt $1,000,000 capital in order to properly finance the project. The trustees expressed warm interest in the project, usking many questions. The promoter of the scheme, Colonel Z. 8. Spal dinfi. isan American, having been born in Ohio, and led a_regiment in the war. He first went to Hawaii in 1867 as the special confidential agent of the United States Government. While there he was made United States Consul at Honolulu and was appointed charge d’affairs. Since then he has been in busi- ness in the islands as a sugar-planter. Business has brought him frequently to San Francisco, and he states that he has crossed the iutervening water seventy-five or eighty times, so that he had a thor- ough acquaintance with the geographical situation. He acquired a legal citizenship in Hawaii, but claims to have never aban- doned his American citizenship and right to vote. The Colonel leaves to-day or to-morrow for Washington, D. C., where he will pro- ceed to prepare for an active campaign when Congress meets. REMODELING THE TIVOLIL The Interior Decorating Will Be Com- pleted In Time for the Grand Opera Season. The Tivoli Opera-house is undergoing extensive alterations at present, in view of making it more commodious and attract- ive in appearance. After the work of the decorators and remodelers has been com- pleted the theater promises to be second to none in the City so far as a beautiful in- terior appearance and the comfort of pa- trons are concerned. C. T. Tidball 1s superintending the deco- rating, and has selected ivory white as the predominating color to be used in the dec- orating and a relief of pink and gold leaf intermingling. 5 A 30-inch_proscenium arch of *‘plastic relief,”’ studded with small colored electric lights, will extend above and across the stage, and the boxes will also be of “plastic,” decorated similarly to the arch, ivory and gold satin constituting the in- terior fittings. The balcony face will be of plastic, with a pink background, ivory and gold figures in relief. The entrance as it now stands will be removed, and a dome of plate-glass mirrors, covered with water- colored portraits of celebrities who are now treading or have in bygone days trod- den tha boards in the old theater, will be erected. The stairways and numerous exits will also be enlarged. The work of remodeling will in no way interfere with the nightly production of the schednled plays, and it is the aim of the management to have the interior fully completed in time for the season of grand opera, which commences on September 2. - OPPOSED TO THE WORK. Street Protes Filed With the Board of Supervisors. Property-owners on Thirteenth avenue, between L and M streets, have complained to the Board of Bupervisors that if the pro- posed grading and sewering of that sec- tion is carried out to the present grade the result will be a confiscation of the property fronting on the work. The petitioners have asked the board to stay further proceedings by directing the contractor not to do anything until the present grades are changed. They have asked the board further to have the City and County Surveyor examine the strect and report the proper changes to be made to permit of the street being improved to | conform to the present contour of the ground. Also, that when his report is made, the board will order, the grade changed in accordance with the terms of the petition. " The petitioners are Mary Quinn, Charles F. Doe, G. W. Frink, P. Collins and Mrs. E. Banam. Property-owners on Moss avenue have protested to the Board of *Supervisors against the laying of a fourteen-inch iron- stone-pipe sewer on that avenue between Corbett avenue and Falcon avenue. They declare the improvement is unnecessary and uncalled for, and that Donald Bruce, who asked for the work, is not a property- owner. The protest is signed by Behrend Joost, John D. Mitchell, Mrs. E: S. Callen- der and K. C. Stubo, who own the entire frontage. THE RALROAD'S NEW SIGN It Angered the Passenger - Ticket Agents, Who Are Ready for War. The Southern Pacific Claims It Has the Only Office for Sale of Tickets. “Only City ticket-office of Sunset, Shasta and Ogden routes.” Whatever they may mean—it was hoisted in letters five feet high above the Southern Pacific passenger ticket-office under the Grand Hotel yesterday. The Southern Pacific people alleged that its meaning was so plain there could be no possible doubt aboutit. There was only one office where tickets might be bought to Shasta, Ogden or over the Sunset route; and that was all the sign claimed—from the railroad point of view. But what does it mean? the agents of other companies asked one anotber before rushing to their respective offices and telegraphing to head offices in the East and in the West that the friendly Southern Pacific had shut them out—publicly as well as privately. These agents declared they saw in the tremendous sign—letters five feet high— that it was intended to mislead the gen- eral public. “Only City ticket-office of Sunset, Shasta and Ogden routes” meant, according to their interpretation, the one exclusive place in all San Francisco where a traveler could buy his ticket if he were about to travel beyond California, either by Ogden or Shasta or the Southern routes. They said, further, that the route via the Union Pacific, etc., has been familiarly called the Ogden route, and the Northern Pacific or Great Northern trips, when taken all rail from San Francisco, the Shasta route. General Passenger Agent Goodman ex- lained that the sign had been displayed for no other reason than to serve as a guide to people who were frequently bewildered by the number of ticket-offices, and also as a help to passengers who wish to dispose of return balves of round-trip tickets. ‘This means that the railroad company hasgone | into a determined fight against the scalp- ers. Anyway, the Western and Eastern raillway agents were angry, and some of them asserted that they would combine against the Southern Pacific, even if asso- ciation rules were broken twice over, and start a conflict which might end in a gen- eral disruption of passenger-rate compacts. THE FATHER NOT ASKED. Marriage of a Girl Not of Legal Age Under Circumstances That ‘Were Peculiar. Matron Baker of the Christion Union Mission brought to the Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children yester- day a sixteen-year-old girl named Minnie Ferguson, who ran away from that institu- tion recently when given an opportunity to go to work for a lady on probation, and who has since got married. The girl when sent to the lady pretended she had fits. and thus made herself unde- sirable. She was given a note of explana- tion to the matron of the mission, but never returned. Minnie says her sister sent her to San Jose, and there she met and married J. T. Smith. He and she represented to Secre- tary McComb that the consent of the girl's mother had been obtained, but not that of the father, and_that they were duly mar- ried by Rev. Mr. Wilson of the South Methodist church, at the home of Smith’s parents, 315 South First street, in that city, after providing themselves with a license. The girl’s mother is a Mrs. Tur- ner, living at %utsonville. Smith and his wife stop; at113 Fourth street Thursday night, and were intending to return to San Jose to-day, but the girl was taken to the City Prison until he could produce his marriage license and the fail- ure to obtain the father’s consent is satis- factorily explained, the girl's age being under the statatory limit. Home-Made Doctors’ Supplies. The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion has taken a new departure in order to in- crease the patronage of home industries. It is in the form of an nspell to all the doctors in the State, about in number, to prescribe phermaceutical preparations of - California make. A similar appeal is made to 700drug- gists of the State, and a request is made that they handle California preparations, anticep- tics, etc. The request is also made that home ‘manufacturers be patronized for fancy goods, brooms, cigars, stationery, etc., carried in drugstores. These appeals are in the form of circular letters. A MAN OF MANY EXCUSES, Mr. Vining’s Suave Treatment of the South Side Resi- dents. | WILL CONSULT HIS CHIEFs. Another Conference to Be Had as Nothing Came of Yester- day’s Talk. Superintendent Vining of the Market- street llailway Company proved himself a man of many excuses, conversational gifts and smiling polish of manner when called upon yesterday morning by the committee which the residents south of Golden Gate Park selected, Wednesday, to personally interview him about the with- drawal of the Metropolitan electric-cars. The committee obtained no satisfaction from Mr. Vining, other than the sensation of talking with an urbane man, who for many years has cultivated the easy graces of the East, and is not perturbed by the importunities of the aggrieved citizens of his adopted City. Like H. E. Huntington, he has the happy faculty of making his in- terviewers feel charmed in his presence without their receiving any substantial benefit. He did, however, go far enough to make the slig}xt concession of promising to lay the grievance before Messrs. Hunt- ington and Crocker, and with tbat the committee withdrew to call again Monday morning and hear the fiat of those two powerful persons. The committee, which is composed of F. W. M. Lange, W. H. Jones, D. L. West- over, R. T. Harding and Eugene M. Fritz, and which was accompanied by the chair- man of the Wednesday night indignation pxeeunfi, George W. Hansbrough, thought | it would be prudent not to press matters | too hard on Mr. Vining at its first confer- ence with him. Itdid not, therefore, say to him in just so many words that the Market-street combine had forfeited the Metropolitan franchise by not complying with 1ts conditions. According to ex- Senator George H. Perry those conditions | were: A fifteen-minute service, the pay- | ment of 2 per cent of its receipts into the | City treasury and the building of the line | ail the way to the ocean within three years. Neither did it ask Mr. Vining whether the street railway monopoly would choose the alternative of relinquishing its franchise and giving somebody else a chance in the | event of its continued refusal to give a | proper service on the Clayton, Waller, Cole | and Carl streets branch. It did not yet | threaten to begin legal proceedings to have | the franchise adjudged forfeited. The excuse of Mr. Vining for the with- drawal of the cars which stood out with firm majesty above all others was the | simple business one that the cars—even the two-car service—**did not pay.” The expense of running a car per_day, he said, was about $40, while the receipts had been only from $8 to $1350 daily. Chairman Hansbrough on a count of the houses on Ashbury Heights alone and a calculation of residents who would have to ride to get from home to place of business and back, said the receipts from that source alone would probably amount to $1300 a month. | But Mr. Vining was doubtfnl and insisted that the service did not and would not pay, and the conditions of the franchise | were for the nonce apparently forgotten. Eventually Mr. Vining did a_gracious thing. He offered to give a service of one | carto run every balf hour between the | hours of 6 and 9 A. m. and the hours of 5:30 and 11:30 p. M. It is for just such a com- romise as this that the' Market-street ailway Company is bhaving a peti- tion now industriously circulated south of the park. Mr. Vining, of course, had nothing to do, it would seem from his lausible reasoning, with any attempt to urt the value of the site offered by Adolph Sutro for the Affiliated Cotleges— he is simply the superintendent of the company, he said, not its controlling ani- mus, and looks at things from a purely business point of view. When, therefore, expenses exceed receipts, as a business man he 80 manages, in the interests of the company bi which he is employed, to so arrange the service as to make it more profitable to the company. It was purely a matter of dollars and cents. The committee played checkers with bhim somewhat, as it were, and began making suggestions in the mutual interest of the company and the property-owners. It suggested that he run the cars out Ma- sonic avenue and Frederick, Cole and Carl streets. In response, Mr. Vining said the difference of gauges prevented that, the Carl-street and Frederick-street tracks being of different widths, sceing that the Frederick-street line had been constructed for a cable service. The grades, too, he said, were very bad. Mr. Fritz remarked that the grade on Frederick street, be- tween Cole and Clayton, could be avoided by running the track all the way down Clayton street to Carl, and assured Mr. Vining that Messrs. F. W. M. Lange and William D. Meyer would allow the company to go through their property on whatever portion of the streets has not been formally dedicated to the public. Mr. Vining said he had not yet looked into the feasibility of that route, but he would, and he suavely marked it out on his map. As for the Ashbury Heights route, he thought that was altogether out of the question owing to the steep grades. The Ashbury Heights route means that from ount Masonic avenue to Frederick, and thence running out Frederick, Cole and Carl streets. There was yet one more little matter to which Mr. Vining’s attention was called. That was the removal of the little shanty used as a waiting and transfer station from the corner of Page and Clayton streets to the corner of Stanyan and Frederick streets. In case the company concludes to give a service on the Clayton-street branch, passengers would have to stand out in the cold and wind without any shel- ter. AMr. Vining’s excuse for this removal was that the station stood on leased zround and was therefore expensive to the com- pany. He suggested, without any appa- rent effort at making bold, that the prop- erty-owners themselves secure a site at their own expense for a waiting station for the company. The committee left with mingled hopes and misgivings as to what the Monday conference would develop. He Passed Gilded Nickels. A. J. Tooney, an old man, fully 70 years of age, was turned over to United States Secret Service Agent Harrls yesterday. He gilded BALE i doust miekels and passed oot th‘e‘m:s THE SUNDAY CALL. SOME FEATURES OF THE SUNDAY CALL, AvuGusT 25, 1895, G A STUDY OF JAPANESE BY JOAQUIN MILLER. A MOTLEY OF MIDNIGHT, A POEM, BY ADELINE KNAPP. ISRAEL ZANGWILL, A SKETCH, HORACHIO, THE TATTOOER, BY EMANUEL ELZAS. - BY ROBERT H. DAVIS. COLONEL STRONG’S RECOLLECTIONS BY E. C. STOCK. MARVELS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY BY ROSE O'HALLORAN, RICE, THE FATHER OF MINSTRELS, BY ESTHER C. QUINN. KINETIC STABILITY BY ROBT. STEVENSON, C. E. THE DRAMA, BOOK REVIEWS, FASHIONS FOR MEN AND ‘WOMEN, EVENTS IN SOCIETY, IN CHILDHOOD'S REALM AND OTHER INTERESTING ARTICLES. $5-pieces before he was caught. With one of the gilded coins he purchased a pair of shoes, and the change and four other counterfeits were found in his pockets. He says hissons and danghters are well-to-do, but as they will not willingly support him, e is too proud to ask for their assistance. Heaccordingly turned counterfeiter. Tooney is a resident of Stockton and at one time was well off, ———————————— Cut With a Hatchet. Moo Ah 800, a Chinese cigar-maker, is at the Receiving Hospital suffering from half a dozen serious wounds in the right wrist and shoul- der and in the abdomen. Hemaydie. He was assailed by a fellow-countryman armed with a hatchet early yesterday morning, and has ap- arently not yet recovered from s fright, for e refuses to give the police any information concerning his assailant. The assault took place on Dupont street in the Chinese quarter. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. L MAYMAN AN Co, INCORP D HEATRE “\ PROPS. Mi. JORN ! B RAT Only 2 More Performances YTHE BAUBLE SHOP! Matinee To-day at 2. To-Night at 8. ———NEXT WEEK “THAT I!glil]flb!'l‘ YOUNG COUPLE,” Henry Guy Carleton. &5 Seats Now Selling. FRICOLANDLR.GOTTLOD & Co- LESSES ANDMANAGLRS -+ 3 MORE, 3 BEAUTIFUL 3 PERFORMANCES OF THE GREAT TRIPLE BILL BY THE STOCKWELL PLAYERS THE REMARKABLE STAR CAST. “A TRAGEDY RFHEARSED," “NANCE OLDFIELD’’ “‘A MAN OF THE WORLD.” Monday Next—‘*MASKS AND FACES.” (Peg Woflington) TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE Mes. ERNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Managas LAST NIGHTS Of the Artistic Rendition of “THE ROYAL MIDDY” —NEXT WEEK— “THE BLACK HUSSAR” Popular Prices—25¢ and 50c. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theaterin America. WALTER MOROSCO. ...Sole Lessea and Manages EVERY EVENING AT EIGHT, ——HERBERT HALL WINSLOW'S— Famous Comedy-Drama. “A CRACKER-JACK!” EVENING PRICES—25¢ and 506, Famliy Circle and Gallerv. 10c. Usual Matinees Saturday and Sunday. ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and PowslL MATINEE T0-DAY (SYT'DAY), AUGUST 24, Parquet, any seat, 26¢; Balcony, any seat, 10c; Children, any part, 10c. A PEERLESS VAUDEVILLE BILL! ENTIRE CHAHGE OF PROGRAMME! LAST TWO NIGHTS —OF THE— FAMOUS JORDAN FAMILY! WORLD-FAMED STAR FEATURES! TWENTY-EIGHTH INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION ——O0F THE—— MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE NOW OPEN. GRAND -CONCERT Each Afternoon and Evening by an Orchestra of Forty Musicians. PROF. FRITZ SCHEEL, CONDUCTOR. ADMISSION: Double Season Ticket. 25 00 Single Season Ticket. 3 00 Children’s Season Ticke 150 Adult, admission, daytime, 25¢; evening, 50c. Children, admission, daytime, 15¢; evening, 25c. Season Tickets 10 Members of the Institute, hal? rates. Forsale at Library, 31 Post street. RUNNING % RUNNING RACES! RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEX CLUB RACES, SPRING MEETING! BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays Friday and Saturday—Rain or Shine. Five or more races each day. Racesstartat 2:30 ‘rfl . sharp. McAllister and Geary)sireet cars pass e gate. 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