The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1895, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1895. . MARCH IN THE PINE WOODS. Tt was my rare good fortune to spend an entire winter among the pines of Mendo- | cino County; to see the autumn with its glory of golden oaks impalpably subside into the purple huesof winter with blus- tering storms of rain and snow, and to see the gradual emergence of spring—iresh and buoyant and inspiring asin the East- ern States. Febrnary was an uncertain month, but March was joyful with the glow of renewed life. The open glades | were shimmering with the fresh, tender green of the new spring grass. The brooks, i swollen with the winter rain and snow, | were lifting their joyous voices to every that watched over them. | by the stream had put forth | vny catkins, and the hazel bushes | were hanging their pendulous blooms be- | neath the pine trees. What daysof joy are these, when the tree squirrels are bark- ing and chuckling over their love-making, the salmon are spawning in the tain brooks, and the birds are crowd- back to their old nesting places! One by one the spring flowers push their tender een shoots through the woodland mold e hounds-tongue with its clusters of the fair, pale, dog-toothed violet b ium. The mountain quail sounds its loud, restless whistling titter from the highlands, the valley quail crows p among the pine trees a grouse is booming its love calls. To know these birds in the market hung up with limp bodies and ruffled plumage is ¢ different matter from an acquaint- athing the same sweet air of the pine woods that they breathe and feeling the e thrill of spring life. The mountain il habitually frequents higher levels n the valley quail, although during the winter their range sometimes overlaps. is a_somewhat larger bird, with alon elender double plume projecting backwar from its head. Its back is brown, shaded with olive, the throat and under parts being chestnut interrupted by a_broad | atch of bluish slaty color on the breast. Fn each side of the throat is aline of black California Valley Quail. the sides of the bird with bl and king the bird in a ve: Altogether it is a very showy species, alert manners, generally tather shy in its habits and less abundant in numbers than its more familiar cousin >f the valleys. It seems almost superfluous to describe fhe valley quail, so familiar to the average Californian it has become, but a word of tontrast m not be out of place in the resent connection. Its most distinguish- ng feature is its crest formed by a series »f beautiful erect black plumes broadening 1t their terminals anx giving the bird’s ead much the effect of a plumed helmet. When sarprised or alarmed this showy ppendage is thrown forward over the beak, but habitually it stands erect, irembling and quivering with the restless motiors of the head as the bird runs hither and thither over the ground in tearch of food. The general color is staty biue, the throat black bordered all around with a rim of white. The neck is finely mottled with white and the under parts, vhich are chestnut in color, have the leathers tipped with black, producing a turious scaled effect. The familiar call of this bird is a cu cuck’ cu, the accented ivllable pitched on a higher key than the sther two. When suddenly startled from the covert a flock of these birds take to wing through the brush with a loud whirring. of wings and_ a promiscuous high chuckling call, but if the approach bf danger is not too sudden they prefer to tlude pursuit by running into the dense anderbrush. The dusky grouse is exclusively a bird of are broadly marked w s, thus striking man- ner. with quick, activ Blue-Fronted Jay. ‘he pine woods, and although I have ob- terved it to be quite tame in the high bierras, it was very shy and retiring in Mendocino County. Once during the late tutumn I startled a flock of five or six of /hem in the dense woods, but during the vinter months they entirely disappeared. In late February and in March, however, their curious booming was to be heard on wvery side, although tiie author of the jound was extremely difficult to detect. {he birds have a habit of alighting upon a Ene limb close to the trunk at a height of om twenty to filty feet from the ground, n which situation it is well nigh impossi- ¥le to detect them, so dark is the shade oi ke “foliage and so perfectly does their slumage blend with the tree trunk. Their Jooming, too, is as elusive as the will-o’- he-wisp. It may be described as a low, ieep, muffled boof, boof, sounding first Yom one direction and then from another. Che general color of the bird is mottled irown, grayer upon the breast and darker i the back, with a broad dark band at the ip of the tail. " Other game birds there are in this Eel It | bordered with another line of white, and | River country. Flocks of band-tail pigeons were seen every now and then, while the swift-flying mourning dove had returned at the first intimation of spring. Long | lines of wild geese in wedge-shaped files were flying overhead, and their noisy honking floated down from the far regions of the sky like voices irom another world. With the advent of spring came the turkey buzzards, wheeling in easy gyra- tions from crest to crest of the rugged mountains. A silent shadow passes along the green hillside, and looking up I'see one of these great black creatures, with its outspread, fringed wings, serenely climb- ing upon the impalpable air in calm tri- umph at its mastery of the element. O, j Dusky Grouse. | | thou ugly bald-headed harpy, banqueting | upon the offal of life’s charnel-house, thou | hast only to launch upon the air to become | sublime!! The red-tailed hawk is screaming in its ecstacy of love-making, and the meddle- some blue-fronted jay has the audacity to imitate its cri Chere are two distinct | species of the jay family commonly found | in California, one inhabiting the lowlands especially and known as the California jay, and the other confined to the conifer- | ous regions, called the blue-fronted ja, | The latter is 4 larger and more showy | bird with a conspicuous crest, which wanting in the lowland species. Its back and head are of a smoky black color, which gradually merges into a dull blue on the upper tail coverts and on the breast. The wings and tail are a brilliant blue barred mark the forehead. The C: smaller and less marked ifornia_ja. in ing. The under parts are dull whate, streaked with blue on the sides of the throat, the | back is blue, varied with gray in the center, | while above the eye is a_well-defined | streak of white. Both species are noisy, inquisitive and vivaciousin manners. The | | note of the California jay may be described | |as a squawking inquisitive laughter, | while the blue-fronted’s note is a loud rattling kuck——kuck—kuck—kuck, making | the most hilarious clatter imaginable. Bothspecies have a great variety of sub- ordinate notes, the most interesting of | which is the imitation of the latter bird of the cry of the red-tailed hawk. Jusy why this jay should have cultivated this call— whether for the purpose of protection from mimetic instinet or from pure love of mis- chief—I am unable to say, but certain it is that the imitation is so perfect that the Western Chickadee. most experienced ear will oftentimes be deceived. These mountainous pine forests are the home of a host of smaller birds. The barn and cliff swallows are once more in their old haunts, after a winter’s sojourn in the South. -Amid the pine branches are flocks of chickadees, incessantly in motion. Bands of Oregon snowbirds are flitting from bush to bush in more open places. The loud, sweet call of the robin rings out cheerily from the white oaks, which are now putting forth their first buds, and regularly as the sun wheels into the golden west the flocks of Brewer’s blackbirds re- turn from their foraging excursions in the valleys below. At first they assemble in small squads, flying directly to the top of a great dead pine tree that forms their evening rendezvous. As theirnumbers in- crease, the melodious clamor of innu- merable voices resounds through the twilight air. Finally, as of one accord, they leave their perches, wheel back and forth through the air a number of times and finally settle in a patch of tules in an old pond. Suddenly all is silence. The pine tree grows blacker and blacker in silhouette against the saffron sky, the timid deer comes out in the lopen from the somber fringe of the forest,an owl hoots in the solitude, and beiore we are aware of it night is upon us. A FTAIR FOR CHARITY. Successful and Pieasant Affair at a ‘Washington-Street Home. A fair was given yesterday at the resi- dence of Mrs. Wolff, 1314 Washington street, the proceeds of which are to be de- voted to the relief of poor families of the neighborhood. The hail and icecream parlors were beautifully decorated and were crowded by happy children. The feature of the afternoon was a farce ren- dered by the California Amateurs, namely: Miss Sadie E. Gardner, R. W. Travers, Miss Myra K. Hepburn, S. Honigsberger and L. G. Salomon. The successful fair was attended by a number of young ladies from the Girls’ High School. Among those in_charee of the booths may be mentioned Miss Grace Field, Miss Grrace Cordell, Miss Christabel Sobey, Miss Flora Oliver, Miss Mabel Valou, Mrs. W. Gardner, Mrs. Wolff, Miss Kittie Barkhouse, Miss Lizzie Shandley, Miss Johnson, Miss Flora Ballinger, Leo McMahan, Launcelot White, Everett Sharpp and Harry Fulton. with black, and a few streaks of the same | | i NEW 'I'O-\DAY—DEY GOODS. “GOOD WINE NEEDS NO BUSH.” geration. oods. 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A FINE LINE OF FULL FLOUNC- INGS, cambric and Swiss, 45 inches wide, neat patterns, pe WOOD SWINGS, painted, made to hang in dooror in a swing-stand, Just what would please the littl ones, each. 5 WICKER BODY DOLL-CABS, with ‘metal wheels, very special at..... MAIL DEPARTMENT. Our New Catalogue, a handsomely jllustrated work of 100 pages, mailed free tothe country. Nonedistributed in the city. (INCORPORATED). 987, 939, 941 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. FOLSOM-STREET - PLMS The Board of Supervisors Is to Be Again Asked to Pave It. Action on the Sldewalk Question Is Deferred Until the Result Is Seen. The South Side property-owners most conspicuously identified with the move- ment to have Folsom street bituminized concluded, when they met in Attorney George D. Shadburne’s office yesterday afternoon, to take no action yet respecting the sidewalk notices recently served by the Street Department. Instead they will make one more effort to get the street paved as they desire. George L. Center, A. B. Maguire, George A. Raabe, John Rafferty, I. Schwartz, H. McEwen and Dr. T. A. Rottanzi met with Mr. Shadburne at the hour appointed and fully discussed future plans. There have been several Supreme Court decisions on the street and sidewalk ques- tion, notably that in the Parker case, which Mr. Shadburne recalled. It affected all the streets accepted prior to 1870, and | the court declared that the City accepted the sidewalks along with such streets. | J The natural inference would be that such | being the case the City was in duty bound 1 to keep the sidewalks in repair at its own expense. Since that decision the Board of Super- visors has usually accepted only the road- ways, leaving the sidewalks to be taken care of by the property-owners. Part of Folsom street, said Mr. Shadburne, bad been accepted previous to 1853. There was a general discussion of the tax levy and the various appropriations, and of ways and means to best bring abount the desired object. Mr. Maguire said he was unalterably opposed to having any- thing less than the whole of Folsom street bituminized, though Sapervisor Hobbs bad asked him if he wouid be satisfied with a $40,000 appropriation and the bi- tuminizing of part of the street. Mr. Ma- guire explained that he would continue to insist upon the paving of the entire street on the ground of consistency and out of consideration for all the property along that thoroughfare. It was finally decided to have another petition presented to the board—a very brief one reading thus: To_the Honorable the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco—GENTLE- MEN: We, the undersigned, property-owners on Folsom street and contiguous thereto, respect- fully petition: That your honorable board order the road- way of Folsom street bituminized from Steuart street to the south side of Nineteenth street. This all the gentlemen present signed. Copies will be at once circulated for signa- tures and the petition will be presented next Monday, to be followed up with a strong personal appeal to the Street Com- wittee by large numbers of property- owners on Thursday. The explanation of this was: The board has set aran §500,000 for street purposes; part of that appropriation can be deveted to the paving of Folsom street, so no special levy is necessary ; the board will be asked, therefore, to order a sufficient amount out of the street fund already pro- vided for, to be applied to Folsom-street’s bituminizing. If the result of the new petition proves disappointing a fight on the sidewalk question can then be made. ——————— PUT OUT OF HARM'S WAY. Three Dangerous Characters Arrested on Bush Street. E. R. Heber alias Savage, E. Kelly alias Saullivan and F. G. Hudson, three card sharpers, were arrested at an early hour {‘eslerday morning by Sergeant John B. A :tmiu and Policemen Dinan and Dough- erty. The officers heard a piswl_ shot on Bush | Following is an account of the princi‘g‘oal = street, near Stockton, and on reaching the place found the three men there. On searching them a revolver with one cham- ber empty was found upon Heber and a “‘black jack” upon Keily. These two were booked at the City Prison on the charge of vagrancy and carrying a concealed weapon | | and Hudson was booked for vagrancy. | | The officers believe that Heber fired the | i shot, but they could obtain no explanation of why he did so. From the weapons | found in their possession it is suspected they were in the hold-up business. | WEBSTER SENTENCED. Judge Belcher. Sends the Convicted | Artist to Prison for Fourte en Years. Warren Webster, the artist convicted of | felonionsly assaulting young girls at his | studio on Louisa street, was yesterday sen- tenced by Judge Belcher to fourteen years in San Quentin. John Lofdahl, convicted of seduction, was sentenced to five years in San Quentin. ! John McCarthy, an opium fiend who | { fired three shots at Policeman Cayot when ; surprised in an attempt at burglary on | Bush sireet, was sentenced by Judge | Bahrs to twenty vears in the prison. The | | charge against him was assault with intent | | to murder. _Frank Murphy for burglary received a six-year sentence, and Josie Griflith a five- | | year sentence for erand larceny. i The Special Administrators| File Their Account for Six Months. Recelpts of $3,620,846 66, and a Cash Balance of $381,418 22 Now on Hand. The first account of the special adminis- trators of the James G. Fair estate, covers ng the period from January 2 to June 30 of this year, was tiled yesterday in Judge | Slack’s epartment of the Superior Court. i The totals given in the account are: | Receipts. ... Disbursements Cash on hand $381,418 22 The main items in the receipts are as follows: Money in Bank of British Colum-. bia, $76,196 48; January rents, $23,568 81; J. B. Haggin, note, $54000; February rents, $17,973 31; March rents, $18,405 25; April rents, $24,602 57; sale of wheat on i May 9, $168,768 43; May rents, $18,783; sale of wheat on June 3, $3,050,509 71; insur- ance on wheat destroyed by fireat Benicia, 1 $15,000; L. W. McGlauflin ‘& Co.. balance, fi;,?_(_"l‘ 40: June interest and dividends, 257 June rents, $18,948 40. disbursements: San Francisco taxes, § 923 17; George Whittell, account of loan, $155,529; principal and interest of Lick loan, $107,14140; Contra Costa taxes on wheat, $25 961 wheat storage at Port Costa, $47,604 89; Nevada warehouse, stor- age, $15.457 08; Wheatport warehouse, storage, $54,16608; Grangers’ warehouse, storage, $15,28421; Pacific Coast ware- house, storage, $49,040 17; George Whit- tell, balance, $1,279,914 72; Nevada Bank, ioan, $100,73333; Balfour, Guthrie & Co., balance on a loan, $37.07123; Bank of British Columbia, loan, $51,125; fees to special administratorsand attor- neys, $55,000; Bank of British Columbia, balance on loan, $179.793 75; Anglo-Cali fornia Bank, loan, $102,640 66; Hibernia Savings Bank, loan, $100,652 79; Mutual Savings Bank. loan, $306,070; Bank of Cali- | fornia, loan, $50,659 72; Balfour, Guthrie | & Co., $51,065 53; H. Dutard, commissions on wheat, $44:860 44; L. W. McGlauflin & Co., commissions on wheat, $44,860 44; an% ttruaseef, bnlanlt]:a of loan, flfll,ll’tisfim; Tolit and loss, wheat destroyed re Fosiz, o Rl MARCY'S JUST A HUMMER It’s the Nickel Plate Man Who Stirs the Local Railway Pot. Gossip About the Cloud Over the Railway Agents’ Association. Tourist Parties. The local ticket agents are about evenly divided when it comes to betting on the chances for the survival of the present as- sociation for the maintenance of rates. The more conservative among the agents favor the continuance of the union, but the restless younger element are sincerely hoping for the first-class scrap with their rivals which dissolution of the association would render possible. Representatives of the big trunk lines, as the main roads be- tween Chicago and the Atlantic seaboard | are generally known, blame the Nickel- Plate agent for much of the ‘“demoraliza- tion,”” as inability to keep to schedule rates | is termed. If the Nickel Plate is really | guilty of shaking things up among the | local agents, it 1s only foliowing out its es- tablished prestive through the East. When it was first built from Chicago to Cleveiand, | there was a rattiing of dry bones among the competing lines, and in general tactics the road has ever since been moreor less of a guerrilla, 2 This don’t mean anything very bad, so far as the traveling public goes—quite the contrary. It means simply that the road’s representatives never lose any tricks in | order to get business, and, belng less re- stricted by regulations than the agents of other roads, they usually get what they go after. The San Francisco agent of the Nickel Plate is a breezy young man named Wil- liam Marcy. In the language of the West he is a hummer. He has an office up in the top of the Crocker l)ui]din{, and_don’t pretend to do any ticket-selling himself. But he has a happy way of drifting around town, with his hands in his pockets and smoking good cigars, and calling o agents who do the ticket-selling. He may make suggestions, and the chances are he does. Just what they are is something the agents of the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Erie and Baltimore and Ohio roads | would like to find out. It isan undoubted | fact that two-thirds of the second-class business from here east of Chicago is routed over the Nickel Plate. The Nickel | Plate is a Vanderbiit road now, but the tactics it pursues are so different from the staid methods of the other Vanderbilt | roads that it has a distinct agent. The other trunk line men say that Marcy don’t play fair, but they have no evidence to show that he does not. Tourist Agent Sam Miller, who directs travel toward the Yosemite, reports that the past season has been one of the best in many years. Among those who left here yesterday for the valley were Judge Gross- cu? of Chicago and his daughter. It was before Judge Grosscup that Eugene Debs of the A. R. U. was tried. The Railway Commissioners will meet next Wednesday to wrestle with the problems of the proposed freight schedule. The Raymond and Whitcomb excursion managers announce nine winter tours to California, leaving Boston and New York in special trains on_October 18, November 15, December 13. January 8, January 17, January 29, February 7, %ehmry 19 and March 7. The parties of January 29 and Februoary 19 will run to the City of Mexico. THE SUTRO RAILROAD BOILER. Another Request That the Eastern Order Be Countermanded. ' On the 18th inst. the Manufacturers’and Producers’ Association sent a letter to tlie Sutro Railroad Company protesting against the company purchasing the big steam boiler that will run the electric plant for the railroad from an Eastern manufacturer. Attention was called to the fact that the streetcar franchise was | granted upon the assurance that all the material used shoulg beof California man- ufacture, excepting such as could not be obtained in the State or was covered by patents. Yesterday W. C. Little, the secretary of the Sutro Railroad Company, sent a lstter to the ass tion, in which he ‘denied that the company bhas purchased other than California-made articles or articles not governed by patents. This is not wholly satisfactory to the officers of the association, and next week they will send another communication to the company. In the letter will be set forth that the co: pany has ordered a Babcock & Wilson boiler, and that while it is true that this style cannot be obtained from the local manufacturers because of the patent there- on, still in this State there are several styles of steam boilers made similar te the one mentioned, and which they believe are equally good. The letter will set forth further that as the railroad will in a great measure depend upon the laboring class for its support the association thinks it would be well for the railroad company to countermand its order for the Babcock & Wilson boiler, and order in its stead a boiler made by California manufacturers. DEFENDED TWO DOORS. Actor Olmi Opposes an Active Siege by Deputy Sheriffs. The Actor Won the Sult for the Furniture—Now He Is Going to Sue for Damages. The interesting story of the lively siege of Actor George Olmi’s house by six active Deputy Sheriffs to capture a lot of furni- ture was told before Justice of the Peace Kerrigan yesterday. Olmi bought the furniture of Henry Hufschmidt on the instaliment plan. The original bill was $106. Later on he bought two other bills of furniture and owed something like $160. By monthly pay- ments he reduced this sum to less than $50. “Then came a revision of the Tivoli payroil and Olmi missed several payments. | That settled the matter with the furniture- dealer. He demanded the property under the terms of the so-called lease. Olmi not only refused to surrender it but he barri- caded himself within doors to defend it to the last stick. Then came the famous assault led by Collector Blumenthal, backed by six lusty Deputy Sheriffs. The Olmi fortification had two ap- proaches, an upstairs and a downstairs door. Olmi, armed with a painted poker and a belligerent spirit, stood behind one of the locked doors. Mrs. Olmi, surrounded by her big dogs and armed with a stout wire, defended the other. Three Deputy Sheriffs attacked the lower door and tEu-ee of them tackled the other door in hopes of dividing the attention of the defenders. Attorney Julius Kahn dragged their ex- asperating experiences out of them in court yesterday. “We tried to get keys into the doors, so as to unlock them,” ‘the Deputy Sheriffs testified, “but as fast as we poked ther into the keyholes they pushed them out with wires from the inside. We worked over two hours at that game without mak- ing any headway. Then we tried to rattle them, so as to distract their attention. Some of the men kept running up and down stairs while the rest of us gept peg- ging away at the door to gamn an en- trance.” “Did you get in?”” demanded the court, very much interestec. 3 *'Yep,” said the deputy with a erin. “We rattled Olmi. He kept running up and down stairs to see which door the tramping deputies were going to autack. and at last we got a dcor open and illmpfl{ in, but we jumped out a good deal quicker.” “Why ?” demanded Attorney Kahn. “Why, because Mrs. Olmi was standin, there with half a dozen of the biggest an fiercest dogs I ever saw in my life. But | we'd got into the house and we didn’t pro- | pose to give way if we could help it.” Then 1t came out that pistols were drawn and Mrs. Olmi was compelled to retire | with her dogs. The best of the furniture was removed and the Olmis were obliged to sleep that night as best they could. Next day they assumed the aggressive themselves and consulted Attorney Kahn on their rights. Yesterday they defeated Collector Blum- enthal in the suit over the furniture. The dealer will have to replace 1t as it was and take his money like eyery other creditor who is waiting for a balance or a bill. There have been several cases similar to this in the Justices’ courts of late and in all of them the purchasers have defeated the furniture-dealers. The Olmis, however, de not intend to let the case rest here. ~They are going to bring a heavy suit for damages against the collector on account of the way he besieged their house and carted off the furniture. Olmi hurt hisfeetin running up and down stairs and altogether the whole matter is a very painful subject to him. ———— Rev. Anna H. Shaw. Early this week Rev. Anna H.Shaw is ex- pected to arrive in this Ci: She will give her famous lecture on “The Injustice of Chivalry’ next Thursday evening in Golden Gate Hall. The sale of tickets has been unprecedented. This lecture is said to be one of Miss Shaw’s most brilliant efforts. When given in the Hall of Representatives, in Washington, D. C., standing room was at a premium. 1t sparkles with wit, and is full of logic and power. B RS M The Montgomery Estate. 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