The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1895. 7 SATURDAY SPTEMBER 14, 1895 AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER.—“The Butterflies,” *The e Shop.” Bauble & COLUMBIA THEATE! M OROSCO'S OPERA-HO! T1VOLI OPERA-HOUSE- ust.” - ORPHEUM—HIigh-Class Vaudeville. GROVFR'S ALCAZAR.—*Everybody's Friend™ and “A Ringer,” commencing Saturday evening, September 14th. CIrRCUS—At Centrai Park, Great Wallace Shows. MECHANICS' FAIR.—Larkin street, near Market. CALIFORNIA THEATER-Y. M. L strels. ETATE BOARD oF TRAD 75 Mutks: street, below Second. Open daily. Admi PICNICS AND CURSIONS. OCEAN EXCURSION: Pomona, Eanta Cruz and Montere; due tack Mondays, 5 “The District Attorney.” “On the Rio Grande.” to CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. Forecaster W. H. Hammon predicts “fair” for to-day’s weath The McLean divorce case was argued and submitted yesterday. The new rles of the carpe will be enforced next Monday. Five hundred High School girls sang last night in Metropolitan le. _There will be no the Pe ers and joiners f German opera at | n | n by a_Chinese 0 by Internal Revenue | officials, Con day ag scation procee were begun yester- hooner Winchester, ing received at the State aen to work in mines in _Many order 1 Free Labor B all partsof t The verdict of oner’s jury yesterday was that Mrs. Hugh Toner’s death Was due to tive carpe: 13 WOrk. ern Hotel in Bak- ecure a lease of the 1 resist the attempt of the emoved from the executor- X estate. g for Mary and Mag- who ran away from | angdon street. | hal Baldwin began inves- Status of operatives in sev- wn factories yesterday. art, formerly s’ found asphyxiated at the -house on ELlis street. g Eudoxie McBirney, one widow of Samuel ruey, is suing to recover property from Maj McBirney, the other widow. Ex-Attorney-General Charles Creighton and several other exiles have been pardoned and lowed to return by the Hawaiian Govern- on hes sued the San Francisco pany for $990 on account of re- ply gas at his house, 2206 Jones A cann g company to preserve the tunnies caught in Southern California being 1y a law clerk at 318 | formed with a capital of | SPUR TRACK STILLTHERE Ocean Boulevard and Golden Gate Park Remain in . Fetters. PROMISES NOT FULFILLED. A Questign of Fertilizers for the Park Made an Excuse for Dis= regarding Pledges. Well, but about that Southern Pacific spur track running along the ocean boule- vard into Golden Gate Park—the people’s playground? Several weeks ago THE CALL gave some | expression of the people’s impatience about the matter, arid both Mr. Austin and Mr. Rosenfeld, Park Commissioners, declared they would order them taken up. That was deemed sufficient and THE CarLL gave no more space to the matter. Days have run into weeks and weeks into months, and those Southern Pacific tracks, like the star-spangled banner in the dawn’s early light, are “still there.” More than that, the Park Commissioners have reconsidered and rearranged their judgment in the matter and flatly declare that so far as they are concerned ‘‘they will stay tnere. ” For a mile, stretching along San Fran- cisco’s most beautiful drive—the ocean boulevard — without warrant of City ordinance or State law a pair of unsightly iron rails usurp the uses of the beautiful roadway. A franchise? The Market-street Railway Company has scarcely a point to learn of all the in- finite art of securing franchises and it is barely possible that this great corporation has leaned over and whispered something to its friend and neighbor, that other great corporation—the Southern Pacific Com- pany—finding the latter in its preserves. Ah, there are ways and ways of getting franchises, and it is easier sometimes to than even to go before a pliable majority of the Board of Supervisors and pay $500 for an ordinance to order. This much is certain—the tracks are still there. They are still there, despite the promises of the railroad company to have them up and out of the way a year ago. They are still there despite the promise to the Park Comm Board of Supervisors that 1if a few months’ extension of the time would be allowed they would then certainly be pulled up; still there notwithstanding that time has long ago elapsed. They are here despite the protest row decides an important point in gainst the Port Blakeley Mill m has applied for letters of ad tion upon the estate of his mother. Maria L. Crim. The property is valued 50,000. tects who have been preparing plans Howard Presbyterian Church ified that the pians must bein 1l Jr., who was charged by A. J. obtaining $25 from him under | surrendered himself ) n Franciscan and dustrial Company t Sunday Executive Co 1perior Co ate. ho lost his left arm as lbel n with a Southern Pacific | viil begin suit this morn- | c Compsny hasmade a cents to New York | roia. The objectisio | mers. d & claim with the State | r $10,000, which he | juries received | tate tugboat Governor Irwi | iry Smith, who wes arrested some days rying t0 break into & house on Valen- 10 answer the charge of ¥, with bail fixed at $1000. State Floral Society met yesterdey in C.’A. buflding and determined to give their next flower show in the last week in October in the maple room of the Palace Hotel. | Mrs. Elizabeth L. Moxley has been awarded | & half interest in the ,000 estate of her | husband, John 8. Moxley, who died here in | 1892. A second wife elaimed the entire estate. | hat spur track along the ocean boulevard | into Golden Gate Park remains as of old, undis. turbed despite the pledge oi the railroa ¢ompany, made several weeks 8go, to remove it. W. N. Briggs, who was arrested on Thursday night for shooting at his stepson, W. N, Thomas, was before Judge Joachimsen . He was released on his own recognizauce. al Administrator White will commeuce da Father Nugent for the re- { or their value, which he | om Ellen Gallagher, de- ederation Is preparing to put a | lottery advertisements by framing | meking it & misdemeanor o | at any time, either past, pres- | {oners have decided to | Tiain important work relating | tion and run the chance of get- cision on the test suit before | go ahed man named James | Rooney wa: sco and San | Mateo car, at Chenery street, while drunk, and was bedly injured. = He died yesterday. An inquest will be held. Though blasting has been stopped on Tele- graph Hill by Judge Hebbard’s decision, it is | thought the old landmark is destined to be- | come & memory as the result of the almost cer- tain resumption of the work. The prosecution in_the Durrant case has dis- covered 'a_witness who saw Durrant on the Valencia-street car on April 3 on the way to | the Mission. The “sweet peas girl” has been | found to be au old friend of the prisoner. The Mechanics’ Fair will close to-night, the etition of the exnibitors for another week raving been denied. A banquet was giverw by the board of directors last night to the Manu- facturers’ and Producers’ Association, at which several interesting addresses were made. The Attorney-General,in a recent opinion, holds that all moneys collected by special county collectors must be paid into the ci treasury, and the collectors’ commissi 3 ¢ n should niever be deducted before tic money is | Other turned over to the Treusurer. ’ Bankers nave requested Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald to move the free labor bureau from the banking center of the City, as they fear that the rough element that comes to the City in the winter may cause troubleat the sight of money and the evidence of wealth. The bureau will probebly be moved up town. The Board of Health met yesterday and de- clared Honolulu an infected port. Special in- spection will hereaiter be given all vessels ar- riving from_the Orient, the islands and from the north. The State Board of Health has been invited 1o co-operate with the local board in meeting the threatened approach of cholera. Reuben and Ben Baddeley were arrested yes- terday on charges of assauli and battery. They usrnu{led W. Worthington on the Cliff House peach last Sunday. Worthington is the hus- band of Louisa Worthington, now serving a twenty-five-vear sentence for killing Henry Baddeley, a brother of the prisoners. The row of Sunday grew out of this old case. Cesare Crespi, editor of El Messegero, an Ital- ia» newspaper, described G. Almagis, the edi- tor of D’Itadia, as a “hired aesessin of the pen.” e aiso spoke of him s & combine of some sort, and Mr. Almagia interpreted these things ¢ meaning that e was something like & good, old-fashioned brigand. Crespi was arrested for criminal libel, and the case was heard by Judge Wallace yesterday, but the defendant denied that any mslice had been intended. George Hayford, an attorney who resided for scacval years in Los Angeles, but is now lo- cated in this City, obtained a divorce yester- day from Tillie Hayford, who had been his wile since 1877. He alleged that his wife had frequently attacked him at hisoffice and on the streets, and that in 1892 she so slandered him n the damage case of Mate | | the v | provisior | Commissioners. | ple matter and e people that rose and grew into a clamor, voiced by THE CALL some £ 11 there despite the declara- | tion of the Park Commissioners that they would see to it that they were taken up; st untington to that commission fully a | month ago declaring his intention to take them up at once. They are still there. Now, what is to be done about it? In anin ew the other day Mr. Hunt- ington rep twelve or thi the Midwinter tracks were laid had passed away. The answers to the questions | were not studied, but fell readily like a | recitation. “We are ready to remove the tracksat any time,” he said, “‘just as soon as other are made for carrying fertilizers to the park. We have no desire to keep the tracks there further than as they ac- commodate the Park Commissioners.” The argument for keeping the tracks there, as is well known, is that the pgrk is in need of fertilizers, and that they #ford acheap means of dumping loam and the street sweepings of the City on the sand dunes. that argument is that the street sweep- ings can be carried to the park over the streetcar lines. “That can be done to be sure,” said Mr. Huntington in answer to the question, “but the Market-street Railway Company the work. The City will have to build its own cars and furnish its own switching room and sidetracks. cars, of course, for a consideration.” Under the new specifications for street cleaning there seems to be some uncer- tainty as to who shall handle the sweep- ings—the contractor or the City. At He bhas sent out twenty- five carloads this mcnth. The full force of men are not at work, and the worst is dirt is accumulating in the streets. As stated, this question of fertilizers for the park is the one _that worries the Park Until it is solved some other way they now flatly declare in favor of the spur track. Commissioner Austin yesterday after- noon said: ‘“We need loam for the park, and unless some other means of securinfi it at a figure we can pay is supplied I shal favor the railroad maintaining these tracks. We haye no money and we are having the loam brought here on our promise to pay $5a load. Huntington sent us a letter say- ing he would remove the tracks, but [ re- quested him not to do so.” Park Commissioner Rosenfeld said much the same thing. Superintendent McLaren said: ‘“‘Some arrangement ought to be made for bring- ing all the sweepings of the City here over rangement. This park embraces acres of sand. It will need to be constantly fed with earth. Carsshould be constructed for the purpose. I am for the removal of the tracks ii some other means of supply- ing us with loam is provided, but until then I think the tracks should remain.” With regard to the carrrying of the street-sweepings to the park there is no room for two opinions. Itisa very sim- solyes itself according suggestions of Mr. McLaren. regard to the Southern Pacific | tracks occupying and destroying for any the ocean boulevard there is also room but for one opinion. They must come up. They were put down for 'a_cer- | tain purpose, and long ago they fulfilled | that purpose. 7 Thomas Magee voiced the sentiment of the people of San Francisco yesterday when he said: ““It)s very strange that we cannot have one drive in the City that shall be proof against the encroachments of the railroad company. They should be compelled to take up those tracks at once.” ———— NO DAMROSOH SEASON. The Wagnerian Conductor Will Not Come to San Francisco. A. Bouvier has received an official letter that Damrosch will not come out to this coast. The only company, therefore, that is booked so far fo present an exclusively grand opera repertoire is the Tayary Com- pany. The tour of the Tavary Company will be noticeable for its brilliancy. The reper- toire will include ‘“Aida,” “Lucia,” “L’Africaine,” “The Flying Dutchman,” “Mignon,” “The Huguenots,” “The Jew- ess,” “Curmen"’ ¢ Cavalleria Rusticana,” “II Trovatore,” “Tannhauser,” “Lonen- grin,” “William Tell,” etc., making in all a repertoire of twenty-three of the most prominent of grand operas. Manager Pratt wasin Europe for some time engaging artists. Two exceptionally to the | With nty | in & Los Angeles paper that he sued the editor forlibel and caused the paper to be suspended. Mrs. Hayford, he further claimed, deserted him in 1893. strong features with the company will be the chorus and orchestra. They will con- sist of artists brought over from the simply hold on to what one already has | sioners and to the last | 1 there despite the letter from Mr, | ted what he has said some | teen times since the close of | r, and the uses to which | therefore, | The immediate and patent answer to | has neither cars nor any other facility for | We will haul the | present Street Superintendent Ashworth | | 1s sending the sweepings to the park over | the spur track. the streetcar lines. It could easily be | done. This park should have all the City sweepings not for one year, but for all time. It should be made a permanent ar- 1000 | Covent Garden, London, and other well- known homes of the higiwr art. Many of the most prominent Europeans have been engaged, placing the orgaunization on a par with any company that ever crossed the continent to_present grand opera in San Francisco. It comes to the Baldwin in February. WINE RATES REDUCED. | The Southern Pacific Makes a Radical Cut to Fight the Panama Steamers. The Southern Pacific Company has de- termined to make a radical cut in 1ts rates on wine shipments from California to New York. It has entered into competi- tion with the Panama Railway Company’s steamers and hopes to be able to divert the larger buik of wine exports over its lines. In this latest cut for business the rate on wine has been brought down as low as 50 cents a hundred ‘pounds from all points in California to New York. This, however, applies only to the *‘Sunset” route via New Orleans, by which arrangement the money will be kept almost exclasively in the Southern Pacific Company’s treasury | instead of going largely to other roads, as would be the case were the Ogden route seiected. Wine men away from what is known in railroad regulations as ‘‘common points”— Sacramento, San Jose, San Francisco and Fresno—will gain first of all the *‘local” tariff from their respective places to those points, which they had to pay vefore get- | ting their godds on the common rate to the East. In addition to this they will save considerably in the general sweeping reduction. MOVE THE LABOR BUREAU. It | The Business Men Want Away, From the Bank- ing Center. | | They Fear the Rough Element That Comes to the City In the Winter. | The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the free employment bureau attached will, no | doubt, be moved from 215 Sansome street | to some place up town not so near the | banking center of the City. The bankers | and business men desire the change and Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald will be pleased to grant the request. Yesterday a gentleman, who does not wish to have his name made public, called upon the Labor Commissioner and asked if he in- tended to maintain the free labor bureau during the coming winter. Mr. Fitzgerald replied that such was his intention and | asked the reason for the question. | The gentleman prefaced his explanation | by stating that the business men and bankers of the community appreciate the good work the Labor Commi: ner has | aone in obtaining work for many hun- ared worthy men and women who were | out of employment. Of the class of men | who have frequented and are frequenting | i the Labor Bureau the bankers have no cause for uneasiness, but the latter are | looking forward to the winter months, He went on to state that every winter the cold weather and rains drive hundreds ! of homeless people, better known as tramps and hobos, into the Cl(f‘. Even in tne City the times are- duller in the winter than in the summer months. With the natural increase of un- | emploved and the rougher element | from all parts of the country greater | care has to be exercised to prevent trouble. | Naturally enough the worthy unemployed | will flock to the State’s Free Labor Bureau | and the undeserving idlers, roughs and | tramps will assist in swelling the crowd | the same as in the past when they assem- | blea damily at the Merchants’ Exchange | when they were provided for by contribu- tions from the merchants and business men. The gentleman said: ‘‘With the Free Labor Bureau located in the banking | center of the City some of the more reck- less might be tempted to resort to des- | perate measures, The San Francisco | Clearing-house adjoins the entrance to the | Labor Bureau, and the sight of clerks pass- |ing in and out with money checks and drafts might cause trouble that had better be avoided. There are a dozen banks | with money piled ugon the counters with- | in two blocks of this place, and the sight of money to hungry men is like a red gflg to a bull.” He wound up by telling Mr. Fitzgerala that the bankers and business men would | feel safer with the labor bureau somewhere | else during the winter months, and asked | if Mr. Fitzgerald would be willing to move | further away from the banking center. | The Labor Commissioner replied that he would be glad to do so for several reasons, but his State appropriation is too short to i permit of contracting adaitional expenses. He would like to change to a place where the people would not have to climb two flights of stairs to reach the bureau and where they would not have to go so far to reach the bureau. Besides this he saw the force of his visitor’s argument. The gentleman quickly answered that the matter of money need not stand in the way, as the bankers would freely give all that was necessary for making the change and even the maintenance of the bureau | further out from the center. The business men are accustomed to donating consid- erable money during the winter months, and besides standing the expense of mov- | ing they would gladly make Mr. Fitzgerald the custodian of any money they may con- tribute in the cause of charity, as he is in | & position to be familiar with those worthy of assistance. % The Labor Commissioner said that when the proposition takes a more definite shape he will no doubt give it his favorable con- | sideration. He would like to move out to | the neighborhood of Stockton and Geary streets. He will also accept the position of dispenser of charities. The gentleman said that the matter would no doubt be satis- | factorily arranged by the time the harvest- ingis over and the rains set in for the winter. WANTS THE STATE TO PAY, John Deming Wants $10,000 for In- Jjuries Received While Employed | on the Tug Governor Irwin. John Deming, formerly employed on the tugboat Governor Irwin, has filed with the State Board of Examiners a claim of $10,000 against the State of California for injuries received while in the employ of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners. The papers were served yesterday. _On May 5 last Deming, while engaged in his usual duties of placing signal lights in their proper places on the tug Governor Irwin, was thrown to the deck by the breaking of the ladder, the fall resulting in serious injury. His back was so twisted and spine’injured as to prevent his doing i any labor requiring physical exertion. Henley & Costello are Deming’s attorneys. THE FEDERAL COURTS. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF AP- PEALS. Stephen J. Fleld, Joseph McKenna, Willlam B, Gilbert, Erskine M. Ross, Circuit Judges. Meets September 16. United States vs. Jane L. Stanford, executrix; set for argument September 16, UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. [Before Joseph McKenna, Judge.1 Altoons Quicksilver Mining Company vs. In- tegral Quicksilver Mining Company: on trial. agginson vs. Lone Jack Mining Cempany; set for September 27. Adjourned until Monday. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, [Before W. W. Morrow, Judge.] - United Atates vs. Jong Fook Sing; continued two weeks; deportation. Charles Hermann vs. Port Blakeley Mill Com pany: in admiralty; exceptions overruled. United States vs. 'schooner Winchester and 753 sealsking; libel filed; confiscation. T0-NIGHT ENDS THE FAIR, Banquet to the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Asso- ciation. TRUSTEE LEGGETT'S ADDRESS. The Directors Denled the Petition of the Exhibitors for Another Week. The Mechanics’ Fair will close to-night. So said the board of directors at its meet~ ing last evening, prior to the banquet given by the directors to the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. The petition, signed by a large number of the exhibitors, requesting that the exhibition be extended one week from the time set for closing. under which they now groan, and at the same exempt our American shipping from taxation and this proud City by the Golden Gate will soon become what nature intended she should be—one of the greatest industrial and commer- cial cities of the world. The musical .programme for this after- noon and evening will be as follows: Waliz, “Vienna Gir: Polka, “Brillante” . L(b) “Beautiful Isles of Nowhere”....Leila France Duet for two cornets, “Short and Sweet”.....Short By Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bates. Gavotte, “Hamburger”. .. Selection, “Robert le Diable'". EVENING. March. “Stanford University”. Overture, “Semiramide” . Schottische, “Roble Hal Alr Varle, “Facilita". Solo for cornet, by W. E. Bates. Selection, “Bohemian Girl Marches. ra) Junior, '(b) Sophomore, v/ Freshmen. These marches are dedicated to their respective classes and will be conducted by tho composer. Overture, ““Robesplerre’”. Litoift Trombone solo (selected: Dance No.11......... Duet for two cornets, air varie, By Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bates. Selection, *Amorita” 5 “Trot de Cavalerie” Saturday evening, September 14—was dis- cussed, with the result that the secretary was instructed to notify the petitioning exhibitors and all others “‘that it was con- sidered inadvisable to continue the ex- hibition longer than the original time | fixed for closing the same."” Many expressions of disappointment were heard from the exhibitors and several THE OIRCUS GOING. Only a Few More Chances to See the Big Show. The circus doors were vesterday closed at an early hour in the evening because the big tent was not able to accommodate’ all who sought its attractions. Every one was anxious to see the exceptionally fine RanE THE (n WHEELS THE AR ABSOLUTY LY ST PARTIAL VIEW OF THE BICYCLES ON THE TOP FLOOR AT THE FAIR. [Sketched by a ‘“ Call’ artist.] visitors as well. The attendance during | the afternoon and evening was as large as | that of any other day of the present week, | and those of the exhibitors who have their | wares for sale reported an increased a@: uvity in business, which furnishes a| plausible explanation for the manifest de- | sire to continue the fair another week. | The feature of the week was the banquet | given by the board of directors of the in- | stitute last night to members of the Manu- | facturers’ and Producers’ Association. | Plates were laid for twenty-five in the room adjoining the secretary’s office, and | the affair passed off with greatenthusiasm. | President A. S. Hallidie was the presid- | ing host and acted as toast master. Ad-| dresses were made by the followiug: A. | S. Hallidie, toast, “The Manufacturers’ | and Producers’ Association of Cahfornia®; | Julian Sontag, toast, ‘‘Calfornia Undery Diversified Industries”; J. Leugett, toast, “Reciprocity at Home'; Louis Saroni, | toast, ‘‘California Homes and California Industries”; Richard P. Doolan, toast, “Industrialism Essential to the Growth of the State”; M. McGlynn, toast, *‘Manu- facturers’ and Producers’ Association.” All the addresses were well received. That of Trustee Leggett was particularly pertinent and caused much favorable com- ment. He spoke in substance as follows: I take a deep interest in manufacturing enterprises, and earnestly desire to see San Francisco become a great and prosper- ous manufacturing city. And I believe I know how to attain that desirable end. An ancient Greek of some note is reported to have said something to this effect: “I1do not know how to play on any wind instrument, but I do | know how to make & great ity out of a small | village.” { Now, I do not know how to run any manu- | factory, and yet 1 am confident I know how | out of this ‘stunted and paralyzed town to | make & great manufacturing and commercial city. Tgis can be done only by fostering and | encouraging manufacturers. Different methods of encouraging manufac- turers have been proposed and tried. One of | these is to enact tariff laws and to give boun- ties; another is to appeal to local pride and patriotism to induce consumers of manufac- tured products to purchase and use articles of home manufacture in preference to those of foreign manufacture. An objection to the first method is that the mass of consumers are like- ly to weary of being taxed for the benefit of others without receiving any commensurate advantage for themselves. And besides the effects of such taxation is to make the mass of consumers less able to purchase the manufac- tured products. The difficulty with the second method is that it is tov great & strain on human nature. It is & human hmn% to desire to buv the article that suits us at the lowest price we can obtain it for, and while we may, under the influence of strong appeals to our feelings,for a time con- sent to buy and use articles of home manufac- ture and production, even though we have to pay more for them, we are liable to soon weary of ‘this particular kind of well doing. These facts may be regretted, but they are facts of human nature which must be taken into ac- count. There is another method of encouraging manufactures which is open to none of the ob- }ections urged against the two other methods have mentioned. I refer to the method of exempting from taxation the machinery, raw material and finished product of the manufac- turer as well as the capital devoted by him to the carrying on of his business. This method violates no law of political economy and in- volves no abnegation of the laws of human na- ture. It is nonovel or untried scheme, for it has been tested atvarious times and places, forlimited periods, with the most satisfactory results, Several of the Southern States have, since the close of the War of the Rebellion, adopted the policy of exempting from taxation for a limited period the plant and product of mauufacturers, and the effects have in every case been beneficial. But why should such ex- emption be limited as to duration? If this policy has proved effectual in establishing manufactures, why should it not rma- nently pursued in maintaining them in health and vigor? It can work no possible harm or lnfury 1o others. 1 our manufacturers were wholly exempted from taxation on their capital,” plant and product, !he{ could undoubtedly compete suc- cessfully with all the world. The effect of all restrictions on production and exchange is to lessen the ability of the consumer to purchase. But the removal of restrictions and burdens upon production has contrary effect. Manu- facturers are now taxed between 2 and 3 per cent on their capital, plant and product. The removal of this burden would speedily revive our waning industries and place our home manufacturers upon a secure and enduring basis of prosperity. 1 believe the time is ripe for such a chan; in our fiscal system. Intelligent people u.f.‘: to serceive the tolly of hampering industry and obstructing the production of “the things necessary to the supply of human wants. And if this be true we cannot begin the struggle to attain it too soon. Remoye from the shoul- ders of our manufacturers the tax burdens collection of animals and witness the rovelties provided by the management. Only two days remain in which the ublic can enjoy the present aggregation. The circus will give its last performance on Sunday night. Contrary to all pre- | cedent, however, the managers assert that the great show will be given in all its en- tirety up to the last performance, special efforts to please being made to-day and to-morrow. The entire company is billed to show, and not a single number will omitted from the programme. There will be no attempt to tear down any of the can- vas village until Monday morning, so_that all patrons may be assured of obtaining their money’s worth. PARDONABLE CONFUSION, Amusing Mistakes Made Over a Display at the Me- chanics’ Fair. A Forelgn Device Unexpectedly Gets Credit Out of a Wrong Impression. The remark was made by a well-known downtown business man last night, as he stood before a booth on the lower north floor of the Mechanics’ Fair, the object of which is to illustrate the latest and highest at- tainments in gas-lighting, “I never knew before electric lights were so soft.” It is needless to say he felt a little confused and embarrassed when a mutual admirer pointed out his mistake in the kind of light. His reply was, “I didn’t laok at the fixtures, I was only noticing the character of the light.”” The like has occurred so often at the fair that it has been taken up by the newspapers. Doubtless the old gen- tiemen who, when surrounded by a bevy of beautiful women, turned red, white and other colors alternately over such an error, will feel relieved when he reads this, as “misery loves company.’’ The !ight 20 much admired isa foreign de vice called the * Welsbach Gas-burner.” Although a comparatively new patent, isis uliar that it had not received more favor here, in view of the almost universal adoption it has received in many foreign cities, as well as several towns of note in this country. That the Welsbach Gaslight is brilliant and beautiful to a degree calculated to at- tract the attention of everybody is well illustrated to all who come within its soft rays at the Mechanics’ Fair. The fixtures, which combine apparently many fanciful designs, are the work of a local company, showing the every day application that is made of the new burner. It has been adopted bis several prominent business houses, clubs and hospitals in this City. The bookkeepers in the wholesale house of ‘Walter Bros. speak in the highest terms of it; Maskey, the confectioner, says it is far more economical than the incandescent electric light; Wakelee & Co., druggists at Polik and Sutter streets, have perhaps the most brilliantly lighted drug emporium in the West; the Cosmos, Bohemian and University clubs are delighted with the improvement made in lighting facilities by the use of this burner, while the hospi- tals using it here bear the same testimony as in Germany, where there has been a wholesale adoption by such institutions. Lighting one’s premises is largely the re- sult of custom and habit, consequently the first to adopt a change are men of force. The introduction of any new thing like this 1s slow, but when the public find out that users of it claim it is a gas-saving device, more durable than the ordinary incandes- cent electric light, it will rapidly come into quite general use. e - Captain Austen Released From Agnews. Joseph Ostrovald von Austen, who was cap- tain of Company D, Ninety-first New York Heavy Artillery, during the Civil War, and who was committed to l‘fiuemu recently, has been dischary as cured. Captain Austen was wounded fifteen times during the battles of the rebellion and suffered greatly from wom‘a:n received twelve general engage- men ALONG THE WATER FRONT, The Stranded Steamer Belgic Is Safely Floated From the Beach. ARRIVAL OF THE ELEANOR. Cholera In the Steafher Benning- ton—The Phlladelphia Will Enlist Men Here. The Pacific Coast Steamship Umatilla arrived from the north yerterday forenoon at 10 o’clock and waited in the lower bay for the quarantine officer who was delayed by a Board of Health meeting. He ex- amined the vessel, passengers and crew, and she was permitted to dock at noon. Nobody was allowed to board the Uma- tilla in the stream except two Pacific Transfer runners. The officers of the Oriental and Occi- dental Steamship Company are disposed to disbelieve that the plague now raging at Honolulu is Asiatic cholera and emphat- ically deny that the Belgic brought the disease to Honolulu, A letter from a prom- inent merchant at the islands was re- ceived per the steamship Australia, in which the writer says that no fears are felt by the white or any of the foreign popula- tion of Honolulu. The sailor on the United States gunboat Bennington was taken sick before the Belgic arrived, a fact which the writer considers as evidence that the plague has a local origin. A letter was received Thursday by Dr. Rupert Blin of the Marine Hospital in this City from his brother, Ensign Victor Blin of the Bennington, which states that the lugue is genuine Asiatic cholera. There a(?beon six cases aboard of the war-vessel up to September 4; butall, with theexcep- tion of the first case, had yielded to careful treatment of Dr. Hibbitt, the ship’ surgeon. The Olympia had come into port, but none of her peogle had gone aboard of the Bennington; the yellow flag at the masthead of the latter vessel had kept visitors from her infected decks. En- sign Blin stated that the deaths were about 90 per cent of the persons attacked. He believes that the disease was brought in by the Belgic’s 538 Chinese contract passengers. The Bennington is 100 miles down the coast, where her patients are recovering, and no new cases have appeared. The Pacific Mail steamship City of Rio Janeiro, which is due here from China, Japan and Honolulu next Sunday, will be quarantined on her arrival. There is a feel- ing among shipping people that all steam- ers coming from Victoria and other Puget Sound ports should be placed in quaran- tine for the five days’ infection period. Yesterday a dispatch was received from the Oriental and Occidental agent at Yo- kohama, announcing that the steamship Belgic had been floated off the beach and that the vessel was only slightly aamaged. Much of the cargo had been unloaded into lighters and the vessel so lightened that she drifted off at high tide. She will be docked at Yokohama and repaired there. After going to Hongkong she will return to this port. No news has been received giving par- ticulars of the death of Second Officer Beckman. The steam yacht Eleanor arrived yester- day from her Alaska trip, and dropped anchor off Jackson-street wharf. W. A. Slater, her owner, and family came down from Tacoma by rail. The splendid vessel met a hard two days’ blow after leaving the Sound, and weathered it like a daisy, is the report of Captain Scott. It is the intention of Mr. Slater to pay off his crew and lay the Eleanor up, }u’obubly at Sausalito, till about November . Sne will be docked and her hull scraped and cleaned for her trip around Cape Horn. The travelers will visit all the South American ports, the West Indies, and arrive home in April. Her next voynfia will be in Northern European waters. It costs over $12.000 a month to run the Eleanor, but Mr. Slater’s health demands almost constant sea voyages, and the trim little vessel has busy years before her. The United States cruiser Philadelphia will leave Vallejo for this City to-day, reaching here late in the afternoon. She will enfist about thirty-five men to com- plete here complement of crew before sail- ing on_a cruise along the southern coast. The billets to be filled are_six oilers, one water-tender,one fireman, six coal-passers, eight seamen and eleven ordinary seamen. Lieutenant-commander Ingersoll, the executive officer, states that only Ameri- can citizens may apply for enlistment and only first-class men will be accepted. The Philadelphia has the name in naval circles of being the best ship on the station. Captain Cotton and Executiye Officer In- gersoll are reported to be kind and con- siderate officers and no complaints ever come from the crew regarding harsh treat- ment or lack of common privileges, as were heard from the Olympia a few months ago. While the men of the latter cruiser were complaining of poor food the Phila- delphia men were living on shore pro- visions, notwithstanding the so-called orders from the Navy Department to con- fine the sailors to ship’s rations. PRECINCT OFFICERS. The Election Commissioners Discuss a ‘Way of Selecting Them. Election Commissioners Denman, Castle, Wellin and Foster met yesterday and dis- cussed what they had better do under the circumstance that the Supreme Court will probably not reach the case on which the life of the Commissioners depend until next November. The court has just cleared up the busi- ness of hearing arguments on a miscella- neous lot of cases and is busy making up opinions on them. It flatly refuses to take up the Election Commission’s case till it had finished these opinions. It happens, however, that as soon as the opinions are finished the court must go south to take up the Los Angeles calendar. That will put the Election Commission’s case over to November 4 at the earliest. In reviewing maiters the members of the commission decided that, as their time was short even now to do any work, and asthe judgment would not come in till the latter part of November, they would take up certain important work and carry it on as far as possible on the chance that the decision would be 1n their favor. Accordingly the preliminary work was started in the selection of 9000 names from the assessment rolls, from which the selec- tion will be made of the officers to act at the next election. Thirty names wiil be taken from each precinct and the names placed in envelopes. Twenty days before election these envelopes will be opened and from them five names will be selected. The persons whose names are drawn will act as election officers in the City’s pre- cincts. An outline of the method of selecting the names was considered and the details will be gone into at the next meeting. THE TRADES UNIONS. The Carpenters’ New Rules to Be En- forced Next Monday. At a meeting of the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union No. 22 last evening seven- teen new members were initiated. This brings the membership of the union up to 798, which is about fifty more than the number on the rolls when the union made a successful fight for eight hours to con- stitute a working day. On Monday the new rules go into effect under which no union carpenter will be permitted to work with a non-union carpenter. The mem- bers feel that they will bave no_trouble in carrying out all of the provisions laid down by the new rules, for the union members now number nine-tenths of the carpenters of the City. At the Labor Council last evening a let- ter was read from the Trades Assembly of Cripple Creek asking for the names of all non-union factories and manufacturers in this City. The assembly’s secretary stated that the union people of that loeality do not wish to_purchase of any manufacturer in this City who is unfriendly to the trades unions. ——— Stanford Case Argument. The Stanford ease will come up for argument before the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals on Monday. Judges Hawley, Gilbertand Morrow will hear . i 13 e e NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. e e FPRICDLANDER.GOTTLOD & co- LE35Es AMDMATAGERS® THE _ |THIS MATINEE AFTERNOON! NO ONE SHOULD MISS IT! ~——THE STOCKWELL PLAYERS— In the Perfect Melodrama, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY! RESERVED SEATS: 15¢, 25¢, 500, 75¢ ¢, 25¢, 50c, $1,00 GROVER’ELCAZAR. Sale of Secured Seats NOW OPEN! ——OPENING TO-NIGAT—— ——GALA DOUBLE BILL— EVERYBODY'S FRIEND & “A RINGER.” Leonard Grover Jr., Jennie Kennark, Gracie Plaisted, May Noble, Fanny ‘Warren, Charles Lothian, Hereward Hoyt and the Entire New Company. Prices—10c, 15¢, 25¢, 35¢ and 50c. No extra for securing. —FIRST MATINEE SUNDAY NEXT— Prices—10¢, 15¢ and 25¢. L NATMAN ) Ano Co, NCORP'D "THEATRE "\ PROPS. LAST 2 PERFORMANCES-MR. JOHN D R E W Matinee To-day—To-night Farewell Performance! ““The Butterflies,”"“The Bauble Shop.” NEXT WEEK | PAULINE HALL Honday, Sept. 16| ** DORCAS.” ——SEATS NOW READY.—— TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE Mzs. ERNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manages SEASON OF GRAND ITALIAN OPERA! LAST NIGHTS: Ot Gounod’s Immortal Opers, “FAUST.” ——THIS EVENING !— By Special Request, IDA VALERGA AND MARTIN PACHE IN THE CAST. NEXT WEEK. “I, T CIALY SEATS NOW ON SALE. Popular Prices—25c and 50c. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theaterin America. WALTER MOROSCO. ...Sole Lesseo and Managae EVERY EVENING AT EIGHT. Mark Price’s Famous Comedy-Drama, “(ONTHE RID GRANDE" Superb Scenery ! Laughter-Moving Comedy ! EVENING PRICES—25¢ and 50c. Family Circle and Gallery. 10c. Usual Matinees Saturday and Sundays. ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powill. Matinee To-day (Saturday), Sept.14. Parquet, any seat, 25¢; Balcony, any ses, 10c; Children, any part, 10c. A NEW ALL-STAR SHOW! HYNES AND REMINGTON! DRYDEN AND MITCHELI! MORELAND, THOMPSON AND BUSH! WRIGHT AND O’BRIEN ! FARBIANU TROUPE! HUGH EMMETT! CEFALLOS! NEW CALIFORNIA THEATER T0-HGHT! TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! MINSTRELS GREATEST SHOW Of EARTH! ——ALL STARS !— TICKETS—25¢, 506 75¢, § ——BOX OFFICE N(W OPEN!— CIRCUS TO-DAY. GREAT WALLACE SHOWS! Now the Leading Ciscus and Menagerie of the Westerp Hemisphere. THE BEST EQUIPPED (IRCUS in the WORLD With the Fines{ Horses of Any Show o1 Earth. Yositively the Firs Big Show to come acrossthe Rocky Mountainy with its Entire Equipmen/, And also the first to charge the same prices West and East. ADMISSION 50c, CHILDREN 25c. Two Shows Daily. Afternoos and Evening. &~ CENTRAL PARK. MECHANICS® FAIR. LAST WEEEK ENGAGENENT OF MR. AND MRS.W. E. BATES, THE TAENTED CORNET B30LOISTS! SPECIAL PROG/AMNE OF MUSIC EVERY AFTI N AND EVENING. THURSDAY EENING, SEPT. 12, SAILORS’ SOIGS and CHANTS By SELECT 'qORUs OF SEAMEN. FAIR CLOSES ATURDAY, SEPT. 14, AMISSION: DAY—Adult 25¢; Children, 15¢. EVENING—Ad‘A"- 50¢; Children, 25¢. /