The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1895, Page 7

THE SA AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER.—* Dorcas.” CorLUvMBIA THFATER—“ Diplemacy.” MOR05CO'S OPERA-HOUSE—“Love and Law..” TIVOL1 OPERA-HO! Ernani.” ORPHEUM—High-Class Vaudeville. GROVER'S ALCAZAR.—“Chip Of the Old Block,” Bay Districr T STATE BOAR treet, below S RIBIT.—575 Market dmission free. AUCTION SALES. LDRIDGE & Co.—Tuesday, Septem- e, at § oms, 638 Markct street, at 12 o'clock noon. WiLLIAM J. —The Real Estate Auc- 3 > Eighth street, will sell at September 28, the Lake Mer- CITY ITEMS IN BRIEF. The Mayor states definite v that he will veto the tax levy ordinan Kier Hardy, an English socinlist, will speak at Metropolitan Temple to-night. _The westher forecast for to-day is “Fair; con- tinued warm; fresh northerly winds.” The funeral 6f Miss Bertha Haake was held from Grace Methodist Church yesterdsay. The weather yesterday was ideal and crowds visited Golden Gate Park and the ocean beach. . Battery F cannot say nice things about Troop A any more and the breach is widening. 1 1 Club defented the Pa- yesterday by a score of e Basebi ki y contes udball courts ed Marion is fitting out at ise to the Hawaiian ordan delivered a sermon yes- ¥'s Cathedral upon the ob- a victory for the Californi ings. won first_place and H. B, Free- | oL Wheelman's giment won_the rday at the Shell sermon on “Ships the First Congrega- k barrack buildings in the Presidio are rap- pletion. c Gun Club held departed t Cypress 4 invited guests rbaro at lunch fIwaly's fete day. 4 Aristocracy | incumbered he | diately. ALONG THE WATER FRONT, Jacob Ewald Lost Yesterday From a Whaleboat Off Duxbury Reef. A STEAMER COOK DROWNED. Attempted Sunday Suicide In the Bay—An Unsettled Rowing Regatta. Frank Ellfs, a steamboat cook, fell off the wharf at the foot of Washington street yvesterday and was drowned. He was somewhat under the influence of liquor when he went overboard. It is mot be- lieved that he intended to commit suicide, as he was of a cheerful disposition. The body was recovered. He was a native of ‘Wilkesbarre, Pa., and about 35 years of age. Jacob Ewald, who lived at 1621 Buchanan street, was lost overboard from a whale- boat off Duxbury Reef yesterday morning. He was in charge of the boat, which was towed by the gasoline schooner Nettie Low on a tishing excursion. Five men were in the whaleboat with Ewald, while the rest of the party, about twenty persons, were aboard the schooner. They left Pacific-street wharf at mid- night and most of the party were asleep except the tain and engineer of the vessel and Ewald, who was steering the whaleboat. It is unknown how the unfortunate man got overboard as he was an experienced sailor and the sea was perfectly smooth. The slumbering men in the boat were awakened by aloud cry that came from the stern and starting up they found Ewald gone. The boat was quickiy rowed back through the broken water of the schooner’s wake and the vessel herself brought around, but no sign of the lost boat-steerer could be seen. He wore a heavy overcoat and rubber boots and thus must have sunk imme- He was about 50 years of age and left a family. Andrew Johnson,an old man, jumped into the bay from the ferry-boat (J‘aklaud on its 30 ». M. trip to the city vesterday. He sprang into the water from the forward hile it was nearing Goat A boat was instantly lowered and manned by the second ofticer and two men who rescued Johnson and rowed back with him to the ferry-boat. He was taken to Hospital in the patrol-wagon ngle-tax ques- ast night. , United ates Navy, will End Boat Club re-rowed now claim & race whic IS at SaCramonto, & teamboat coox, either fell ington-street wharf yesterda as drowned. The body was | races at the Bay Distr to guess. The eve ar to be open be he new pastor of Simp- is first appear- tion was g services | water. was lost overboard from a | on a fishing excursion off | 1 rning. He ots on, and rubber diately the Columbia Pistol and record for lady sharp- the Shell Mound range. ible 100 points with rd range. 0 at the Receiving Hospital. i name, respectively, | Robi e wagon a ar Black Point | that was not | ng for & body from Yang Yu, the ington, has been re- athorities bere &nd It urges the Lee the Sam Yups and attempting to separate John Willis, 8 and Joseph Hunter, & printer, who on the streetat 21 Valparaiso | Manuel Silva, & longshore- &b in the right lung from : wound is not thought fata!, Fisk, the young attorney, and Kate er were married very quietly by Jus- the Peace Kerrigan lasi night.” Mrs. e Wertheimer) ing her siepfather for some property to which she thinks she has some claim, and young Fisk is her attorney. McCarthy, & young stableman, hired a double team from P. Garrity, who keeps a liv- ery stable on Golden Gate avenue. When Mc- irthy returned with the team last evening, 4 drive down to San Mateo, both horses Imost dead from overdriving. McCarthy rested for cruelty to animals. Sales of real estate at’ present indicate & healthy condition of the marke?. Real estate men are complaining loudly egainst the pro- | posed action ot the Board of Supervisors to re- strict the height to wnich buildings may be carried in the future. They claim it will be detrimental to the growth of the City. United States Senators Perkins and White, Congressmen Loud, Hilborn, Barham, State Senator Gleaves and Congressman Clark of Migsouri met at the Palace yesterday and ar- ranged an itinerary mrnprogoscd inspection of State waterways. They will start to-day and be joined at Benicia by Governor Budd. i The fall meeting of the Presbytery of San Francisco will begin this evening with relig: ious exercises in Lebanon chureh, corner of Twenty-third and Sanchez streets. The open- ing sermon, which will be on & practical sub- ject of interest to all Christians, especially the Young people, will be preached by the retiring moderator, the Rev. James Woodworth. The trip of the Cross-Country Club to Camp Taylor yesterday was & marked success. It ook fourteen cars to accommodate those who went. The weather was superb, and all en- joyed the outing immensely. It wasannounced that on Sunday, October 6, the closing trip of the season would be given by special train to Bohemia Grove, on the Russian River, below Guerneville. M. Silva of 912 Kearny street was taken to the Receiving Hospital yesterday morning to be treated for & wound in the shoulder and another in the arm. Hesaid he was going up the stairs of the dance hall at 912 Kearny street, when & man met him and stabbed him twice with a knife. He had a quarrel with the man about one of the women in the dance hall ghortly before, but he did not know the man’s name, The WOULCS are 1o serious, Davi ibbon by the use of oxygen soon had him out of danger. Johnson said he was tired of life and wanted to die. He left aletter addressed *To whom it concern,” which was taken possession v Sergeant Avon of the Harbor police. It reads as follows: 2 is Andrew Johnson. T intend to cide this day, Sunday, 22nd of Sep- Ism not insane. Iknow what Iam Life is not worth living. In death Idonot believein & fature life. uch thing. I return again back to I came. IknowI b right short. 1f Idon’t do it nature health_is not good. ears and have noth- T thank all my friends that have been kind and good to me—Edward E. Potter, Thomas Mol 3 1y, Mrs, Johnson, Mrs. and < good-by to you all. If my body und I hope it will rest. Let it be he soil in the potter’s field. Iknow reat Wrong to any hu- I owe my friend a few dollars, a t, and I am not able to pay it. Good-by In'nature we will all be united again. sa_photogravh, and ii my body g0 with my body under the soil. ANDREW JOHNSON. My mind wears no priestly shackles. I fear no superstitions doom. I nave accepted fully and trinmphently the rational theory of life and death. It is as natural to die as to born, and for me the future holds no_fears doing. 1 have unbounded confidence in that eternal »wer which shines in the star and blooms in ne flowers, thunders in the cataract and | gently sings in the stream; holds all truth in p, and that in its completeness all is I realize that the cry of the child newly in the cry of grief its gri well. born into life will be hear ¥ those who somewhere further along life’s road will say, *Farewell.” That the first cry of the child is life’s “good morning,” ana that the last speech of expiring lite 1s life’s “‘good and my last word will be then: I will yes, we will all rest. When the brief episode of 1ife is ended we will again enter as we emerged from that eternal mystery which 1ies all around the little island we calllife. ANDREW JOHNSON. 1151 New# Broadwey, Ogkland. A large crowd assembled at Long Bridge yesterday to witness a race between the senior crews of the Pioneer and South End ing clubs, which was to be the re- rowing of a race pulled at Sacramento Sep- tember 9. The Pioneer crew, however, re- fused to line up for the contest, and the South Ends went over the mile-and-a-half se_in 10:23 and now claim the prizes, b is the championship of the Pacific Coast and several medals. It will be re- membered that at Sacramento the race was given to the Pioneers, notwithstand- ing a protest by the South Enders. The latter crew insisted that the race should be pulled over, whick they did yesterday alone, and now both clubs claim the prizes. The personnel of the crews that consider themselves the Pacific Coast crack rowers are: Pioneers—Fred Orr, captain and bow ; George “ollopy, forward waist; Coney Ochs, after waist; John Gifford, stroke; George Fitzsim- mons, coxswain. inds—arry Bode, bow; Bob McAr- thur, captain and forward waist; Gus Curson, fter waist; Frank Duplissan, stroke; George MGrill, coxswain. T0 INSPECT WATERWAYS Senators and Congressmen Will Learn What Improve- ments Are Necessary. Governor Budd Will Meet the Party at Beniclaand Accompany Them Up the Sacramento. There was an informal meeting at the Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon of Sena- tors and Congressmen to make arrange- ments for the contemplated tonr of the waterways now in need of attention. Present were: United States Senators George C. Perkins and Stephen M. White of Los Angeles and Congressmen E. F. Loud, S. G. Hilborn, J. Barham and State Senator Gleason, secretary of the Riverand Harbor Commission; also C. N. Clark, Congressman of the First District of Mis- souri. 1t is their purpose to inspect the bay and its tributaries, making a complete tour of the harbor waters, and to personally ac- quaint themselves with its present condi- tion as a harbor, and also ascertain what manner of improvements will be necessary. They will form a party and leave at 9:45 this morning via the narrow gauge. They will devote their attention to the Oakland Creek and its training-walls, where the sediment carried by both in and out going currents have occasioned so much trouble in the past. At 7 o’clock Tuesday evening they will leave for Redding to inspect the resources of that country. Wednesday evening they will take the train to Red Bluff. Returning, they will come down the river from Sacramento on the Govern- ment snag boat. Governor Budd wrote his intention of joining them at Benicia. On their return from Sacramento they will thoroughly examine San Francisco bay, the Alviso slough, Napa Creek and the rocks dangerous to navigation in the open water. The rivers San Joaquin and Sacramento will be examined with regard to dredging from their channels the debris which has accumulated in later years since the decline in steam navigation, making the rivers now wholly inadequate for commercial purposes. FOLSOM-STREET FIRE. Three Hundred Dollars’ Worth of Dam- age Done to M. Ossosky’s Place. There was a small fire in M. Ossosky’s restaurant, 1020 Folsom street, yesterday afternoon, resulting in a damage of about $300. Ossosky occupies the first floor of a three- story frame building owned by Nathan Bush. The upper floors are flats. Asnear as could be ascertained by the firemen the cause was a large kitchen range, fire from which had been communicated to some rubbish near by and burned a hole in the floor. The aamage done was mostly in the kitchen and cellar. The alarm was sent in from box 159, at P. M. Ossosky has $700 insurance on his fixtures chattels. Mrs. Ossosky says a lady’s gold watch, with a chain and fob, and two rings, one of them set with a diamond, disappeared from the restaurant during the excitement. The watch fob had been made from a German ten-mark piece. DURRANTDEFENSERUNDR He Is Said to Have Two Dis- tinct Chains of Evidence Prepared. One to Prove an Alibi, Another to Disqualify Witnesses Who Have Testified. New theories developed in the Durrant case yesterday concerning the probable line of defense the attorneys will seek to establish. Among these an alleged mysterious wit- ness figured whose identity is as problem- atical as is the likelihood that he will appear for the defense and testify to the story 1t was alleged he will tell. This mys- terions personage is said to be a profes- sional man and to have been passenger ona Powell-street car oneday in April on which Theodore Durrant and Blanche Lamont also rode. According to the report he at first believed it was the 3d of April that he observed the young people together on the car, but that he has since changed his mind and 1s now convinced it was another date. It was said his testimony would be offered by the defense as a link in the chain of evidence by which it expects to show that Minnie Belle Edwards, May Lannigan, Mrs. Dorgan and others who testified to seeing Durrant and Blanche Lamont together, were confused in their dates. Still another mysterious witness—for those who will testify for the defense are all mysterious as vet—is a man who is al- leged to have ridden on the same car with Mrs. Elizabeth Crosett the day she jour- neved across the city to the Mission, and, it is alleged, that he, too, remembers that the trip taken on another day than April 3. Still another rumor had it that the two mysterious gentlemen are one. These theories of the rumor-mongers are in_keeping with another which has gained some currency, and is to the effect that the defense, in establishing its alib, will bring forib witnesses whose testimony will form a chain of evidence showing that D nt was not at any of the places on April 3 at which he is alleged to have been by the witnesses who have testified for the prosecution, and that it has a chain of evidence to show that all the witnesses who have testified to seeing Durrant and Blanche Lamont together may have done 80, but on another day, and not April 3. These reports are of course rumor, and though, apparently, they come from an authentic source, only such reliance as rumor is entitied to may be placed in them. Durrant was not without his enjoyment of the sunny weather yesterday. morning he was permitfed an a.ring for a couple of hours on the rear porch of the County Jail, and in the afternoon he had a number of callers, among whom were Signors Jose Schlideand Manuel Robles of Guatemala. They are friends of young Melendez of Salvador, with whom Durrant was at college. He is now traveling in Europe and desird his friends to convey to Daurrant his sympatby and an expression of his firm belief in Durrant’s innocence. At the resumption of the trial this morn- ing Adolph Oppenheim will again take his seat on the stand to finish his testi- mony relative to the alleged visit of Dur- rant to his place. He will be followed by ‘W. J. Phillips in corroboration, and then the gasfitters who put in the savers at the Emmanuel Church will be called. 'This will close the State’s case unless the District Attorney should decide to place one or two other unimportant wit- nesses on the stand. It is possible, there- fore, that the State may rest to-day, although it is not at all certain. e AT THE PLAYHOUSES. What the Managers Have Provided for the Audiences This Evening. At the Baldwin Theater this evening Pauline Hall and her company will con- tinue the opera of “Dorcas.” Some new melodies will be introduced, and as they are by some of the most eminent compos- ers they will certainly prove attractive and be a treat to the music-loving public. The management of the Columbia will present Sardou’s standard play, *“Diplo- macy,” in whick Rose Coghlan will appear in the role of Countess Zieka in which she made such a hitin New York City. The cast will include Estelle Clayton and J. C. Richman, new members of the Columbia company. Milton !\'ol'les, the well-known and pop- ular playwright and actor, will open at Morosco’s Grand Opera-house in ‘“Love and Law,” a comedy-drama from his ewn pen. Itisa cosmopolitan play that is full of interest and one that when recently per- formed in New York won much praise. The Alcazar announces for this evening “A Chip of the Old Block,” in which Leonara Grover Jr.'will appear as the chip and Robert J. Scott will take the part of Major, an old seadog. Gracie Plaisted will also appear in the cast. The comedyisa cure for the blues. At the Orpheum Music Hall there will be a number of the people who last week de- lighted the audiences, but they will pre- sent new specialties. Pearl Andrews will continue her impersonations which are most clever,and Hines and Remington will offer a new sketch. There is plenty of fun at this place for one night. The Tivoli Opera-house manager will this evening offer to the audience Verdi’s opera “Ernani.” In this most dramatic work of the composer Martin Pache will interpret the title role and John J. Raf- fael will appear as Don Carlos. Ida Val- erga will appear as Elvira to-night. e Result of a Fall. G. Rogers, an engraver at 540 Clay street, was going downstairs yesterday morning with large glass in his hand, when he stumbled and fell. He struck on his head.mauinlngn laceraed wonnd, and both hands were badly cut with the broken glass. An artery was sev ered and he lost considerable blood before be ing taken to the Receiving Hospital. ———————— Kier Hardy Will Speak To-Night. Kier Hardy, the celebrated lecturer on social- ism, will arrive here at 9:45 o'clock this morn- ing and will talk at the Metropolitan Temple lhfl evening uuder the lulgk‘a! of the San Francisco section of the London labor bureau. He is accompanied by Secretary Smith of the Coal Miners' Association of England. GUARD THE GOLDEN GATE, Three Great Dynamite Guns Are Now About Ready for Action. COULD BE FIRED TO-MORROW. They Could Blow Out of the Water a Whole Hostile Fleet Within Three Milles. Uncle Sam is now ready and able to blow out of the water at a day’s notice a whole hostile fleet that might attempt to enter the Golden Gate. The battery of big pneumatic dynamite guns ordered for the defense of this port a year or more ago has, within the past few days, been advanced so far toward completion that two of the guns could pe effectively fired with only twenty-four hours’ preparation. The two guns now set up will be actually fired during the con- tractor’s preliminary tests within ten days, and it is expected that within six weeks some old hulks will have been blown to splinters in -official tests and the battery will have been turned over to the Govern- ment. They are grim and impressive engines of war, these immense blow-guns that can with one shot sink any man-of-war afloat within a two-mile range. The great mod- ern twelve-inch rifles that shoot twelve FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1895. gunnery. At one test five successive shells were thrown over two miles, and all struck within a space 5x7 yards in size. In one Government test the accuracy was sixteen times that required. One of the guns at Sandy Hook fired a cartridge con- taining fifty pounds of dynamite three miles, and struck and sent to splinters the old Government cutter Silliman. The process of loading is as ingenious and mapid ae any other feature of the guns’ operation. This interesting battery stands near Mc- Dowell avenue, about 300 feet back from the brow of a bluff 300 feet high-and but a little ways above the new 12-inch rifie that was tested the other day. It commandsa complete range of the entrance to the har- bor and is calculated to give any citizen of San Francisco a satisfying sense of se- curity. The manufacturers began operations last February and since that time D. C. Batchelier and Frank Watson have repre- sented the company here and superin- tended all operations. Once a week Lieu- tenant Lissak of Benicia comes around as the Government inspector. While the guns could now be fired in a few hours, it will be a week or so before the first dummy shells are thrown to privately test the operation of the guns. At the official test, not far off, a certain number of loaded shells will be fired atimaginary squares and old hulks towed out to sea. Mr. Batcheller wants the Government officials at this test to fire a shell or two at the solid rocks on the Marin County shore, to see the effect against fortifications. This experiment has never yet been tried. THE SINGLE-TAX SOCIETY, It Discu the Subject of Democracy vs. Aristocracy. The Single-tax Society held a meeting last night at 102 O’Farrell street. A. H. Sanborn spoke on the subject of Democracy vs. Aristocracy in relation to single-tax. He said that the present condition of things was radically wrong and quoted _ONE OF THE DYNAMITE GUNS NOW ABOUT READY TO GUARD THE GOLDEN GATE. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] miles are not so imposing, complicated or | profusely from Henry George's writings. striking in appearance nor so costly and | ““The richer a man becomes,” said he, “‘the terribly effective. Three of these guns are to stand ciose | income. less is the proportion of tax he pays on his A poor man pays 100 per cent of together on the brow of one of the highest | his earnings because he 15 taxea on all he bluffs that overiook the Golden Gate and | spends. the ocean between Fort Point and Baker's Beach. San Francisco will soon possess three of the eight dynamite guns in the world. Three have been set up at Sandy Hook, one is still on the Nictheroy of the Brazil- ian navy and the other one was two or three years ago sold to the English Gov- ernment and set up at Shoreburyness. These three guns and the air-compress- ing plant wiil cost the Government $200,000 when the Prieumatic Torpedo Construction Company of New York turns them over in working order. Protecting parapets and other things will cost many thousands more, so that at least a quarter of a million | dollars will be invested within a less space than that covered by the Mills building. They are the most ponderous looking engines of war ever constructed, and the most ingenious and powerful ones. Each gun as it stands in its revolving base, with- out its accessories below and behind, weighs 43 tons. They stand on great turn- tables, sunk four feet into the massive con- crete beds about them, and the gun bar- rels of massive steel, with 15-inch bores, stretch 52 feet through the air. The ac- companying cut gives but a general idea of their external appearance, but when one sees and understands the internal machinery, the delicate adjustments of massive things, the ease with which the 43-ton machines are handled, and their surprising aceuracy, they seem quite won- derful. Around each turntable, several feet in diameter, is a finely graduated brass scale by which the gun_can be ranged laterally with great precision, and the gun can be pointed in nnfl direction. A telescopic sight and level help to give the elevation. The gun can be depressed one degree be- low the level and elevated 35 degrees. The gun is_entirely handled and fired by one man who stands on a little platform be- side the gun’s axis, and two little levers and one wheel control the movements and firing of the gun. These movements are effected by an _electric motor and finely adjusted machinery inside the queer-look- ing carriage. 1n big concrete-protected cellars and cor- ridors below ground are the compressed- air reservoirs directly connected with the gun. There are eight firing reservoirs be- low each gun and connected with it. These reservoirs are great tubes, holding alto- gether, when charged, 360 cubic feet of air after compression to a pressure of 1000 pounds to the square inch. The opening of valves around the chamber of the gun at the base lets this pressure in behind the cart- ridge, which, with a diameter of 15 inches, receives a vressure of 176,000 pounds as it is ejected. 5 Even as striking and imposing is the Ereaz air-compressinfz plant which is oused in a brick building about 200 feet behind the three guns. This ?lnnt has {usc been completed b{ the Fulton Iron Works. Four great boilers give 400 horse- power, and a forced draught arrangement will add 200 horse-power more. In the engine-room two enormous du- plex engines and air-compressors stand ready for operation. The horizontal air- pumps are directly connected with the engine cylinders and the two duplex com- pressors appear at first to be four great engines about forty feet long. In opera- tion each compressor squeezes the air three times. In one cylinder it gets a pressure of 75 pounds. In the next it is compressed to 400 pounds, and then it is jammed up so hard in the third oue that its pressure becomes 2000 pounds. This heats the air so highly that it is taken at once through coils of copper tubing below the floor and immersed in water to be cooled off. It then reaches twenty-four storage reservoirs in another room. These are long tubes about a foot in diameter, and in operation the pressure in them is maintained at pounds. Through valves and large underground pipes these storage reservoirs supply the firing reser- voirs%;alow the guns. There is an electric plant and many other features which make the whole thing appear complicated and costly. 4 i 5 A supply of dynamite cartridges is due, but dny%«iou esterday there were onlf dummy cartridges ready for use. The projectiles for the use of this costly plant, built to destroy any hostile ships that might be reckless enough to get within two or three miles of the Golden Gate, are very imposing and complicated things themselves. They are several feet long and have vanes on a shaft behind them like the feathers on an arrow. Each sheli may be loaded with 500 pounds of dyna- mite, and what 500 pounds of dynamite might do may be guessed. When 0 loaded the shell would weigh 1160 pounds. They are ingeniously contrived and contain fuses which would variously be fired by impact against water or a solid body. Theseshells cost from $500 to $800 each. The accuracy of fire of these guns has at past tests been a marvel to experts in | arrived, ‘When taxes are transferred from that which the poor man spends to rents As stated, two are in position and | for land then will the poor man’s oppor- | the third is rapidly being put together. tunity to rise occur.” H. T. Pleace and A.Granger spoke at length on the same question. WERE BOUND TO MARRY, A Lawyer and His Fair Client Wed by Judge Kerrigan Last Night. Arthur G. Fiskand Kate Wertheimer Made One In a Very Quiet Manner. Arthur G. Fisk and Kate Wertheimer were married by Justice of the Peace Frank H. Kerrigan last night at the home of the groom’s. father on Hayes street. Some opposition was expected on the part of the bride’s stepfather, but he simply ignored the whole matter and allowed the young people to have their own way. The groom is the son of Asa Fisk, the well-known money-lender, and the bride is the stepdaughfer of Kaufman Wert- heimer, president of the wholesale butch- ering firm of ¥. Uri & Co. A brother of the bride keeps a cigar- stand on Pine street, and he made himself famous a few months ago by running away with a daughter of Asa Fisk and marrying her. The father of the girl was very wroth at the time and swore never to | speak to his daughter again. He relented, however, and the young couple are now living with him at 700 Hayes street. When the Wertheimers were quite young their father died. After a time the man who adopted them and gave them his name married the widow. From that time up to the time of the runaway match between young Ike and Miss Fisk he cared for them as if they were his own children. ‘When the couple returned from the honey- moon, they did not know where to take up their abode, so Wertheimer took them into ‘his home and made them comfortable. Next the daughter went away for a lon holiday, and the father, finding himself practically alone, married again. Then the trouble began. Young Mrs. Wer- theimer patched up a peace with her fa- ther, and she “and her husband removed to Fisk’s home on Hayes street. Kate came back from the country, but refused to return to her stepfather’s house, where she had been chief in authority. She went to live with a friend on O’Farrell street. After the marriage of their father, the young people began to harass him with all kinds of requests for money and prop- erty. They asserted that their mother owrned property in her own right when she died, and began suit to eject F. Uri & Co. from a piece of land on Army street, which they claimed was set aside as a homestead by the Probate Court in 1877. In his reply Wertheimer said: “Pay me back the money I expended in raising the mortgage on the property, and you can have it and welcome.” A number of other harassing notes were sent to the stepfather, and the attorney in each instance was Arthur G. Fisk. He fell in love with his fair client, and lately she moved from O'Farrell street to the Fisk residence on Hayes, where the mar- riage_ceremony took place. No one but the Fisk family was present when the Judge tied the knot. — e BREAKING OLAY PIGEONS, Newman and White Win the Olympic Gun Club Medals. The Olympic Gun Club held its regular monthly shoot at clay pigeons for club medals yesterday at the Oakland race- track. The scores were: Newman 22, W, Golcher 17, Haight 16, Fan- ning 20, Liddle 9, Jackson 11, Hughes 7, Street 16, Justins 12, Feudner 20, Carroll 15, H. Golcher 14, Bekeart 13, Allén 14, White 15, Hines 15, Peterson 9, Harrison 3. This ended the season’s shoot, and the scorer announced that Newman had won the first class medal for the season and that White had carried off the second class medal. At its conclusion several contests for small pools among members took place. e An Enjoyable Day. The combined branches of St. Patrick’s Alli- ance of America gave a picnic at Schuetzen Park, San Rl(aei.‘yes rday. The day was all that could be desired, and the morning boats brought large contingents from San Franeisco, Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. The dancing avilion was well patronized, and the light autastic toe kept good time to the strains of the Emmet Band until the hour of departure ARMY AND NAVY OTES, Indians at Alcatraz Island to Be Sent to Their Reser- vation. WARSHIPS IN THE HARBOR. Transfers and Assignments—Dally Duty at the Presidio—Mare Isiland Items. Commander C. H. Stockton, U. 8.N., passed through San Francisco recently en route to Yokohama. He will take com- mand of the Yorktown, relieving Com- mander Folger. Captain F. J. Higginson, who com- manded the Monterey on the recent cruise of that vessel to Callao, has gone East in obedience to orders from the Navy De- partment. He was censured a short time ago by the BSecretary of the Navy for reprimanding Engineer James M. Pick- erell in the presence of other officers aboard the ship. This censnre bad nothing to do with the order transferring him from the Monterey for duty on the Atlantic. 1t is contrary to the regulations of the navy for an officer to administer & repri- mand on the quarterdeck, and when the engineer reported the facts of the recent reprimand to the department there was nothing to be done at Washington but censure the caprain. It 1s all right for the commanding officer to call a subordinate into a private room and there, figuratively speaking, walk up and down the backbone of the cffender, but the commander must not lose his presence of mind and give vent to his feelings in public. Commander Curtis, United States navy, will soon relieve Commander Nichols of the responsibility of administering the affairs ot the Twelith Lighthouse district, San Francisco. The Thetis is preparing to sail south on a surveying trip under the command of Lieutenant Commander Knox. The Philadelphia and Thetis are in San Francisco bay. The cruiser Philadelphia is lying off the City. The officers of the vessel have been entertaining and been en- tertained by the society people of the City. The officers in a body, from the admiral down, have received the privileges of the leading clubs of the town, and are having time to participate in pleasures ashore. The same courtesies have been extended to the officers of Her British Majesty’s ship | Hyacinth. The Marion is fitting out for | sea, and will Jeave Mare Island in a few days for the Hawaiian Islands, and the Monterey is in the drydock there for re- pairs. The bids recently submitted in Wash- ington for building of torpedo boats 6, 7 and 8 were: Moran Brothers’ Company, Seattle, Wash., $163,500 for one; Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, Or., $168,- 700 for one; Union Iron Works, San Fran- cisco, $175,000 for one; Herreshoff Manu- facturing Company, Bristol, R. L., §144,- 000 for one or three at the same rate on | plans_of their own. The limit of cost placed by the department on_these boats | was $150,000 each. All of the Pacific Coast | bids were above this figure. It is expected | that competition will be reopened. The revised army regulations are now in the hands of the public printer at Washington, D. C. The new edition will | be ready October 1. General Schofield’s retirement will take | place September 29. | Two special military trains for the pur- | pose of conveying troops in case of need | from °the Atlantic to the Pacific is the latest aadition to the equipment oi the Canadian Pacific Railway. The subject of rapid transit for United States troops is engaging the attention of the War De- partment at Washington. The work of constructing thenew double brick barrack buildings at the Presidio is going forward vigorously. The new quar- ters may be ready for occupancy before the | heavy rains of winter set in. Recent orders from General Forsyth, commanding the Department of Culifor- nia, permit most of the routine duty of the | garrison, such as drills, parades, etc., to be | performed during the morning hours. | Under this regulation an officer whose i clination leads him to the study of some | particular branch of military science can have uninterrupted time for his work dur- | ing the afternoon. Equal advantages in | this respect are also extended to the en- listed men. Fifty-two young officers were graduated at West Point Military Academy this year, and two of the youngsters have been as- | signed to duty in the Fifth Artillery at the Presidio. In the choice of posts the Presidio stands well to the front. “The preferred plates are | ‘Washington barracks, New York harbor, San Francisco, Fort Sheridan (Chicago) | and Fort.Leavenworth. | The Indians that were sent to Alcatraz | Island some time ago for purposes ot dis- cipline will leave the island for their southwestern reservation to-day. Lieuten- ant Treat will conduct them to Arizona. Following is the official order relating to the transfer: Pursuant to instructions from the Secretary of War, the commanding officer of Alcatraz Island, California, will, on Monday. the 23d inst., send the Moqui_Indians, now in confine- ment at his post, to the Navajo Indian Agency, Fort Defiance, Arizona, in charge of an officer with a guard of one non-commissioned officer and three privates. Upon arrival at the agency the Indians will be turned over to the acting Indian agent, and upon completion thereof the officer and guard will return to their station. The quartermaster’s department will furnish transportation by rail between San Francisco, Cal., and Gallup, N. Mex. At the latter place ‘wagons will meet the party for transportation thence to the agency. The subsistence depart- ment will furnish® travel rations, including funds for the purchase of liguid coffee. It happens occasionally that an Indian, becoming unruly, refuses to accept the gospel of civilization as taught by the agent and exemplified by the army officer. He manifests his contempt for education by refusing to send his children to school. To remove from his mind the idea that ignorance is bliss and instruction a failure the authorities send him to Alcatraz,where the University of California may be seen every day when thereis no fog. After a season of reflection on the ‘‘Rock” the savage is returned to his reservation, pre- sumably a wiser man and a better Indian. Dr. Stevenson has been ordered from Vancouver Barracks to the Presidio. He will leave his Northern post of duty when relieved by Dr. Worthington. Lieutenant Gatchell, who has been on college duty in Vermont, has been ordered to this department. Lieutenant Newcomb has been ordered to Alcatraz from the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Va. Lieutenant Parker, additional second lieutenant Tenth Cavalry, attached to the Fourth Cavalry, is visiting at the Presidio. Lieutenant Thomas R. Adams, Fifth Artillery, has been appointed regimental auartermaster, vice Lieutenant Albert C. Blunt, transferred 1o Battery I of the same regiment. 7 A sentry on duty at the Fifth Artillery monument in the National Cemetery at the Presidio last Friday night was led to believe that two men were approaching his post. He challenged the comers and they ran away. As they refused to obey the command to balt the sentinel fired, but no one was hit. It was surmised by the Pre- sidio people that some persons were prowling about the monument, hoping to get an opportunity to deface the inscrip- tion ‘*Murdered by Strikers.”” 5 Every Friday afternoon the Fifth Artil- lery band discourses music at the Presidio. The concerts are popular and attract the attendance of music-lovers of the City as well as those of the garrison. Leave of absence for one month has been granted to Major J. B. Girard, surgeon, Minor Basball Games. The Nolan Bros, Baseball Olub was defeated 7 by the Will & Finks in a game of ball yester- day, the score standing 10 to 8 in favor of the 1 atter. The third ball game of. the California Cadet, League was played Saturday between Company C of St. Patrick’s and Company K of St. Paul’s, the former winning by a score of 17 to 13. Company L of Mission Dolores defeated Com- pany B of St. Charies in a game played yester day, the score standing 12 to 4. WELCOMED THE PASTOR. Rev. John Stevens Preaches His First Sermon at Simpson Memo- rial Church. The congregation of Simpson Memorial turned out en masse at both morning and evening services yesterday to welcome Rev. John Stevens, the new pastor. The choir rendered several delightful and ap- propriate selections. At the evening services Mr. Stevens took for his text Mark iv:31-32, his subject be- ing the “Kingdom of God.” The theme resented three aspects, he said, the most important of which was the God within men. The speaker paid particular attention to this line of thought, comparing the indi- vidual soul, and its power for spreading Christ's word, to a single star and 1ts power to shed Jight on the world. He also spoke of the good laws passed by legislators, claiming they were not due to the name attached to the bill, but to the good, Chris- tian people at their back. Mr. Stevens is a pleasant, easy speaker, and by his earnest, forcible manner has apparently already endeared himself to his congregation. A reception will be ten- derea him Friday night in the Simpson Memorial reception room. e Hands Badly Burned. John Scharff, a cooper, living at 623 Sacra- mento street, went home drunk yesterday morning. While trying to blow out a coal-oil lamp he let it fall and the burning oil set fire to the carpet. Scharff put the fire out with his hands, and both were terribly burned. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital. —e e NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. LmlioiGhali FRICOLANOLR.GOTTLOD & Co- LESSES ATID MAMAGERS -+ — TO=-INIGET — R GRAND SARDOU'S REVIVAL ! MASTERPIECE ! DIPLOMACY! ——BY THE— STOCKWELL GREAT STAR CAST. Read the Names. TEIE PLATYIERS: ROSE COGHL! ESTELLE CLAYTON, HENRY E. DIXEY, WILLIA . BEACH, C. J. RICHM A MAUD WINTER, L. R. STOCKWELL, Ete., Ete. Magnificent Stage Settings ! Elegant Toilettes! September 30—Last Week of the Stockwell Sea- son, Pinero's Great Comedy, “THE MAGIS- TRATE.” L MAYMAN AN Cop INCORP'D HEATRE “\ PROPS. LAST WEEK LAST NIGHTS! Last Souvenir Matinee Saturday ! PAULINE HALL And Her Incomparable Company in &6 » DORCAS A& Last Performance Sunday, Sept. 28, Monday Next, 0—“TRILBY.’” Se pt. Tatorpreted by A. M. Paimer's Company. Seats Ready Thursday. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theaterin America. WALTER MOKOSCO. ... Sole Lessce and Managae EVERY EVENING AT EIGHT. ——SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT—— Of the Tilustrious Author-Actor, MILTON NOBLES: In His Famous Comedy-Drama, 'LOVEAND LAW! EVENING PRICE3—25¢ and 500. Family Circle and Gallery. 10c. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE ixs. ERNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manage: | SEASON OF GRAND ITALIAY OPERA! ——THIS WEEK ONLY—— Verdi's Tragic Opers, "ERNANI" CAST INCL IDA VALERGA. MARTIN PACHE, JOHN J. RAFFA’ GEO. H. BRODERICK. WM. H. WE! MABELLA BAKER. ——NEXT WEEK—— “THE BOHEMIAN GIRL!” Popular Prices—25¢c and 50c. GROVER’S ALCAZAR. —TO-NICHEL T—— FIRST PERFORMANCE OF “CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK!” ROBERT SCOTT, GRACIE PLAISTED AND GROVER'S ALCAZIR COMEDIANS. Song, Dance and Merriment! Prices—10c, 15¢, 25¢, 35¢ and 50c. Matinees Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Don’t Forget the ‘‘Wednesday Pop,” A HUGE SUCCESS. Monday Next—Romantic Drama, “ROSEDALE ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and PowslL TO-NIGHT (MONDAY), SEPT. 23, A NEW, RECORD-BREAKING BILL}! HAINES and PETTINGILL, Mc MAHON and KING, MEEHAN and RAYMOND, PEARL ANDREWS —And ‘'ur Great Company— IN ENTIRELY NEW ACTS {—— Reserved seats, 26c; Balcony, 10¢; Opera chalry and Box seats, 50c. _ GOLDEN GATE HALL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 8 P. M, REV. ANNA H. SHAW Will Give Her Famous Lecture, “THE INJUSTICE OF CHIVALRY.” Admission (including reserved seat)—50c. Seats can be secured at Sherman & Clay’s musio- store, corner Kearny and Sutter streets, September 24, 25 and 26. RUNNING RUNNING RACES! %g RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY GLUB RACES, FALL MEETINGI BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Rain or Shine. Five or more races each day. Racesstartat 2:0Q McAlliste: P M. r and Geary sireet cars the gate. -