The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1895, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1895. WALTER CAMP, THE COACH Identity of the Stanford Foot- ball Trainer at Last De- clared. FATHER OF THE COLLEGE GAME To Palo Alto for the Third Time. Will Leave New Haven on the 156th. Walter Camp, “‘the father of American football,” will coach the Stanford team this year. The secret so long guarded by the cap- tain and the managerof the Palo Alto eleven b aked out, and an unguarded remark has been substantiated. Careful as the management has been to comply with Mr. Camp’s request that nothing be said until he should be on the point of leaving New Haven, theinformation could not be successfully withheld from every one of the eager inquirers. Ever since college opened this year, and even long before that, there has been an unfounded but none the less hopeful gen- eral impression among Stanford collegians that Camp would again .be their coach. And at Palo Alto this idea has been strengthened " lately by an observation of the apparently contented looks of both Captain Cochran and Manager Eaton, who have continued to keep mum on the sub- ject of the identity of the coach. For several years Walter Camlp has been secretary and manager of a large clock factory in New Haven, employing many hundreds of men. Living so near to the Yale team, he has been its regular and most trusted and respected coach during the last ten years. It was on account of the disappointment the might feel over his absence from them while they were training that induced Mr. Camp to request that the matter be kept a secret as long as possible. Mis. Camp. ond Tittle Walter, last year's Stanford mascot, will accompany the foot- Yale players | T dren and booked at the City Prison on the charge of cruelty vo children, Perret is a hog rancher on Borden street, and owns the ranch. The family consists of the father and mother and five chil- dren—Emily, 14 years of age; Eugenia, 13; Antoinette, 10; Josephine, 4; and Emil, 3. The society received information that two of the children, Antoinette and Josephine, were each suffering from a broken leg, and that the parents were too miserly to pay for the services of a physi- cian. The three officers went out to the ranch yesterday afternoon and when they entered they found itin a state of filth that was inconceivable. 3 Antoinette broke her left leg by falling downstairs about seven months ago. The or child has been suffering pain from er broken limb eversince and now it is in a horrible condition. Dr. Neil expressed the ovpinion that amputation might be necessary, but if the limb should be saved she will be maimed for life, as her left lex will be shorter than the other one. | Josephine broke her left leg about five | weeks ago. She also fell downstirs. She | has been left to endure the pain since then. | Both children will be sent to the Childrens’ | Hospital to-day. : Emuly, the eldest girl, has been domg'a hired man’s work and her hands are as bi | and hard as any man’s. Her principal work was driving a swill-wagon. The children never went to school and were being brought up like barbarians. EDTOR MLSIPSWLL &0 A Man Who Has Controlled the War Cry for the Last Nine Years. Maljor Halpin, the New Edltor, Was at One Time Secretary to Gen- eral Booth. There is regret in Salvation Army circles over the fact that Kditor Milsaps of the ‘War Cry is to leave San Francisco and be- | come assistant editor of the War Cry in | New York. The news was only received at headquarters yesterday and the farewell reception has already been planned for next Monday. Staff Captain Milsaps hag been an active Salvationist ever since the first days of the army on the coast, when its stock in trade MAJOR HALPIN, S. A, WHO WILL NEXT WEEEK BECOME EDITOR OF THE WAR CRY, [From a photograph.] ball authority to this coast, as the visit to California will be in the nature of an outing and vacation for the whole party. Walter Camp was born April 7, 1859. He repared for college at Hopkins Grammar chool, where he captained the school eleven. In the fall of 1876 he entered Yale and- then began an unequaled record of athletic prominence, even for a Yale man. He captained his freshman baseball team and his freshman football team and played balfback on the varsity. In hissophomore ear he won the high hurdle. In his iunicr year he captained the varsity foot- all team, and in his senior year he cap- tained both varsity eleven and the varsity nine. He rowed in his class crew, and ‘was one of Yale’s representatives in the first intereollegiate tennis tournament in America. In all he played in the Yale Varaity eleven for six years, and was in every Yale- Princeton match in that time. The last two years he spent in graduate work at his alma mater. For four years he played on the varsity nine, on which he was again elected captain in his first graduate vear, but he resigned, expressing a belist that 'varsity teams should be captained by undergraduates. Camp is not only Yale's oldest and most vailuable coach, but he is the instructor ot every coach Yale has ever had, to say nothing of her veteran plavers that have come to this coast as coaches—such men as McClung, Heffelfinger, Gill, Butterworth and Laurie and “Pop” Bliss. It was through his efforts that many modifications were made in the old Rugby- Union game. He it was who instituted the idea of working off the field by line every five yards so that actua Jprogress with the ball could be readily determined. Iz isto this peculiar method of working that the American collegiate football field owes its name of ‘‘the gridiron field.” Camp also introduced interference as a feature of the play. This year's Stanford coach has the ad- vantage in knowing the players, for he coached the team last year. Furthermore, “he knows the general style of play of the Berkeley team, and it is always an ad- vantage to know just what to prepare for from opponents. ‘Walter Camp was Stanford’s first coach; he trained the team of ’92, when McClung coached. the Berkeley team, and the zame resulted in the first tie—10 to 10. But that year Camp was with the Yale team until after their big match. Last year, for the Yirst time, Walter Camp absented himself from the Yale campus during the majority of the training season, and this year he will again cross the continent to father the interests of the Stanford men, who have come to share a place in his_affections, so - long exclusively held by Yale’s famous . players. At Stanford University everybody likes : Walter Camp, the coach, the interesting lecturer on athletics and the genial gentle- man. By the faculty he is treated as one of their number, for his influence upon the men and for gentlemanly athletics is very evident. - INHUMAN PARENTS. Two of Their Children With Broken Legs Left in Pain and Filth, Eugene Perret and his wife, Josephine, were arrested last evening by Officers Hol- brook, McMurray and Collins of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- consisted of a coal-oil can, a torch and a drum. When he took charge of the War Cry nine years ago Ensign Boyden, the mailing clerk, used to carry away the whole issue of the paper in one of his pockets and at present the circulation is asserted to be over 15,000 copies. Much of this prosperity the army attributes to the activity of Staff Captain Milsaps, who is editor and business manager—‘‘The all- round boss of the paper,” in fact, as one of the officers remarked yesterday in de- ploring his loss. The griet of the army over the transla- tion of its editor to New York, however, is softened by the fact that Major Halpin, who has been appointed to succeed him, is very popular on the Pacific Coast. The last time he was out here was in the capacity of secretary to General Booth. At one time he was the adjutant who had charge of the northern district of Wash- ington and Oregon, and he has also done work in California, which has made him popular in army circies. Major Halpin is considered a good all-round man, as he has had a wide experience in general army work in addition to having been assistant editor of the New York War Cry. _Major Halpin is expected in San Fran- cisco next Wednesday and he will at once take the reins of editorship. Little change is anticipated in the paper, as Captain Mil- sap’s policy has proved too successful to be readily abandoned. The army is preparing to give a warm reception to the incoming editor, but the older officers cannot altogether resign themselves to the 1oss of the old manager of the War Cry. They spent their few leisure moments yesterday in comparing notes about the early days of the army on this coast—in 1882 and 1883—when Milsaps used to head the procession heroically, beating a coal-oil can, and when the as- tonished f;lsuers«by on the streets were a good deal less friendly than they are to- day. The army had no headquarters in that Beriod of stress and struggle and the War ry had not come into existence at all. Now that all the initial difficulties have been overcome and the army has become a potent factor in the City there is regret in its ranks that one of its few remaining pioneers should be called to other duties, even though he is to be replaced by an ex- cellent substitute. FIGHT WITH A MANIAQC. William Booth' Tries to Escape From the Receiving Hospital. William Booth, 218 Mission street, was taken to the Receiving Hospital Monday suffering from delirium tremens. Yester- | day afternoon Mrs. Keane, the matron, took him something to eat. As soon as shie opened the cell door Booth dashed ast her. She gave the alarm, and before ooth got out of the hospital he was seized by Steward Mogan. He lought desperately to get away, and his yells brought timely assistance to the steward. It was evident that he was in- sane, and he fought with a maniac’s strength. It took six strong men to force him back into a padded cell. He will be taken before the Insanity Commissioners this morning for examination. —_————— Louis I of France was the Stammerer, because of a defect in his speech. Michael II, Emperor of the East, had a similar de- fect, which gave him t|xe same designa- tion. It is said he could not speak until he had stamped his feet. | wBLINKER" ONA RAMPAGE He Has Filed a Red-Hot Dam- age Suit Against Police~ man Tuit. JUSTICE IN A FEARFUL MOOD. Issues Are at Stake That Will Elec- trify the Dry Bones of the Law. “Blinker” Murphy has gone to law. Affrightened Justice is undetermined whether to gather up her skirts and scuttle inside the big steel vault in the Justices’ Court for saféty, or pin a placara on the door with the inscription “Back After the Holidays,” then tumble into her bloomers and bike among the tules where the Polli- wog so successfully secreted herself. Of course it isn’t any ordinary case that impels “Blinker” Murphy to mix up in the law. Far from it. Mr. Murphy’s “pull,” social position, standing as a statesman, feelings as a gentleman, repu- tation as a philanthropist, position as a reform politician, stanchness as a triend, strength in ‘‘de push,” ability as a “knocker,” “inflooence wid de Espee,” etc., are all at stake. Mr. Murphy says he is confident of winning the case is Jus- tice does not get rattled over the details. He has sued Policeman “Jim” Tuit for $290 damages. “Oh, mn%:e it $29,000,”” pleaded hisaamir- ing friends when ‘*Blinker” gravely gave notice of his intentions. “You can do it just as well as not.” “No,” said Blinker magnanimously, ‘‘it’s principle. I'll just hammer it into Tuit for two-ninefy and show him that justice is still iiving in this country even if she don’t go round like a sandwich woman an’ tellin’ all she knows like Max Popper, Besides ['ve me reasons,” and he winked knowingly. 7 So it was “‘Blinker” fixed the damages at $200 and began the suit yesterday in the Justices’ Court. Itisthe court of lowest jurisdiction and gives him a wide sweep of territory, a chance to drag his adversary by the hair of the head right through the Superior, Supreme and United ' States Supreme Courts and right up to the very tribunal of the highest justices in the land. There are no flies on “Blinker's” Black- stone according to Advocate Mahoney The trouble grows out of the strange arrest of Mrs. Jane Hyland last June. Mrs. Hyland was arrested on the street by Policeman Tuit in citizen’s clothes. Mrs. Hyland declared she was respectable, but Tuit took her to the station-house. Cap- tain Short asked her a few questions and let her go. “Blinker” is a stanch friend of Hyland. He heard of the matter, and all his chival- rous spirit was roused. In the midstof his indignation he counseled the “‘breaking” of Tuit before the Police Commission ers. Some preparations weré made to do this, but they were dropped owing to lack of funds. Of course, *'Blinker’s"” activity in these proceedings came to the attention of Tuit, and he began to express anything but tender opinions of the politician. ‘Whenever they met Tuit taunted the sensitive “Blinker” with his inability to “‘douse his star.” “‘Blinker” repressed his boiling feelings and bided his time. No man ever twitted him with lack of influence and lived to fatten all his days at the public crib. If “Blinker” didn’t eventually ‘“knock” | him somebody else would, which was just the same to ‘‘Blinker.”” Every time the men met they glared and sputtered at one another. One day after dusk, about two weeks ago, *‘Blinker” came out of a store on Fourth street, near Howard. He paused to think, leastwise this is the way “Blinker’” tells the story. Suddenly some one said ‘“‘move on.” e recognized the tones, realized the irony and smarted under the taunt. The Blinker spirit arose in all its might and “Blinker” sim- vly coughed lightly and shrugged his shoulders. “Then Tuit began to revile me with my inability to break him,’”” went on “*Blinker” in his long complaint, “Then he said ‘move on, don’t obstruct the sidewalk that way.’ T'll not repeat his interspers- ing language. It's too much one way. 1 didn't see any ~rowd obstructing the sidewalk and I told him so. “‘Bab!’, said Tuit, as if he owned the Police Commissioners, ‘you are no good. I’ll run you in, anyhow.” “Then he started down Fourth street with me for the Folsom-street station. I knew better than to resist. I had my mind working against a boomerang. When we got to Tehama street he trie(f to take me up it. It was dark and I said: ‘Not much. Take me up that street ana 1’1l holler loud enough to raise Chris Buck- ley’s hopes.” I knew he wanted to get me into the dark to club me. He gave up try- ing and took me along Fourth streetagain. When he came to Clementina street he tried to take me that way. ‘Not much,” I i ‘LIl yell worse than ever if you try if *‘So he gaveit up; but when he got me to a dark place around the corner he pulled his club and said—well, never mind what he said, but he punched me in the ribs every time he said it, and if youw'll count the marks on wmy ribs you'll sée he said a good deal. ‘Coroner Hawkins counted the jabs and will bear out everything I say.” Tuit booked *‘Blinker” on the charge of obstructing the sidewalk. The charge was dismissed a few days later by Judge Low. Now “Blinker”” has hired Attornevs Deuglass and O'Brien and is going to try to make Truit pay so much a jab damages for every one of those pokes in the ribs. The lawyers are merely advisory and are employed by *‘Blinker” to handle the ob- jections he expects to shower from Tuit’s attorneys when he starts in to chase Tuit about the Justices’ Court. “When I go to Jaw I mean business,” said “Blinker,” flercely, as he filed his re- ceipt. “Tuit 'may think he owns the Police Commissioners, but I'll bump his head against a new ‘knocker’ in the law. He won't give me no ting-a-ling-ling when it comes to paymg that two-ninety dam- ages. TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION, New Members and the New Japanese ‘Trans - Paclfic Steamer Line Briefly Discussod. At a brief meeting of the executive com- mittee of the Traffic Association yesterday the chairmen of the coramittees now can- vassing for new members among the mer- chants reported very encouraging progress, but no definite statements were made. The committees have been at work but two days, but General Manager Curtis says that there 1s no doubt that the association will soon have a largely 1ncreased member- ship, with a consequent increase in the re- sources and influence with which the asso- ciation will enter on its enlarged scheme of operations. The new trans-Pacific steamship line Which press dispatches have announced is to be established by a Japanese syndicate came up briefly as a topic of discussion. This matter, however, will be taken up mainly by the Chamber of Commerce and the Traffic Association wiil not do any- thing until learning who the steamship people are and what they can do and pro- pose to do. ———— A Word With the Wise. Beautiful Decorated Breakiast Set, 24 pieces.$1 85 Decorated Tea Set, 18 pieces. , . 100 Cuspidors, Majolica Decorated, each Gold 1lluminated Lunch Set, 18 pie 160 You can’t duplicate for double the 'y. 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The Board May Declde Next Mon- day and the Company May Do Likewise. “This fender matter is all with the Supervisors,” said Superintendent Vining, when spoken to about it yesterday. *“You know that they passed a resolution as long ago as last July in which it is expressly stated that they (the Supervisors) shall first accept the device and that thereafter we shall be required to fit the cars with it within thirtv days. The resolution per- haps states it the other way—thatafter the Supervisors decide upon a fender accept- able to them the company shall have thirty days in which to equip the cars. ““So far as we are concerned,” continued the superintendent, ‘‘we have been ready and willing to equip the cars with any device acceptable to the Supervisors from the day the original resolution was passed. ““We submitted two daysafter its passace a device that, in my opinion, is as good as any submittel since. It was a simple scoop of our own construction. We have tried every device presented since and in- vited the Supervisors to witness them. “Of the three shown the other day one broke down. The other two seemed to have fayorably impressed those present. Oune of them is a fender used with good re- sults in Baltimore. Itisa double fender, one on the front of the car, the other back on the truck. I believe the fender striking out in front is more of a source of danger than otherwise. It isa habit of men—and women and children, for that matter—to give themselves just space enough to clear the car in running in front of it. They keep their eye on the body of the car. Now if there is a projection of two or four feet in front it is very likely to hit them on the ankles. Ihaveno doubt this has been the cause of a majority of the cases that gave the fender its good reputation— the outside fender knocks the man down, and the inner one picks him up, and word goes abroad of another man saved by the device. The fender under the car would do the saving as well without the outer one. “I do not suppose any device will ever be constructed that will entirely prevent these unhappy accidents. So far as these scoops are concerned they will not do it. I believe the fender-boards now used are as effective as any of them. A man or child falls in front of a car, their hands are stretched out upon the ground, the fender is as close to the surface as it can be laced, buo,,'&z rides.over the hand and is filted qp and passes over the body. | *‘So long as little children or men or women run in front of the car unexpect- edly these accidents will happen. We are ready, however, to equip our electric cars with any sort of fenders which' the Super- visors may direct as soon as is possible after they nominate the device.” Supervisors Benjamin and King and Wagner were asked as to the status of the fender question. Mr. Benjamin said: ‘“There have been only two fenders oi all the series_exhibited lha‘{&o my mind are worth considering at 4 all. They are the ones known as the Balti- more fe r and the Markley fender. I rather préferred the Markley. It projects in front of the car and has a wire netting, which I consider an admirable feature. When a person falls in front of andis knocked down by a car his instinct is to reach for something to save himself, and there is this wire netting at hand, which he is reasonably certain to catch hold of and save himself. “It is argued by Mr. Vining that its pro- jection in frontis a danger. Idonotthink so. Yes, it is patented, I understand— he wouldn’t allow itto be exhibited until he got the patent. The resolution passed by the board gives the railroad company thirty days to equlp the cars after a satis- factory fender is accepted by the board, so that this talk of arresting somebody for not having the fenders in place is non- sense.” % Supervisor King said much the same thing—that he favored the Markley or the Baltimore, he hadn’t decided which, and that some decision would possibly be reached at the next meeting of the board. Supervizor Wagner said he was favor- ably impressed at the last exhibition, but that an extension of time had been allowed to the man whose fenders had broken down to make a readjustment and try again; that the trial would take place next week, and that at the meeting fol- lowing he would be gmpnred perhaps to vote on the question, but not before. HAS ACCEPTED THE CALL, Third Congregational Church Secured Rev. William Rader’s Services. Is Satisfled That It Has Made a Pre-eminently Wise Cholce. The Third Congregational Church of this City is elated at having won what it regards as a prize in ministers. Rev. William Rader, the talented and popular ‘young associate pastor of the First Congregational Church of Oakland, will preach his last sermon for that church on the 13th inst. and on the 20th wili address the members of his new charge in this City. 2 At the regular weekly prayer meetmg of the Third Congregational Church last evening, Charles H. Ham read the follow- ingletter of acceptance: OAKLAKND, CAL., October 1, 1895. Mr. Charles Ham, San.Francisco, Cal.—DEAR BIR AND BRrOTHER: I wish through you, chairman of the committee appointed to per- sonally inform me of the call extended by the Third Congregational Church to become your pastor for one year, to announce my acceptance of the same, and of my determination to com- n‘x;‘ucu work as soon after October 15 as pos- sible. In formally accepting the responsibility of becoming your pastor, I am keenly sensible of the significance of such a decision, and I come to this conclusion with the consciousness that it is God’s will, I thank you for the honor which you confer upon me in asking me to succeed the watch- men who have stood upon your walls with such distinguished ability in the past, and for the opportunity which your call affords for re- ligious work in the City of San Francisco, b.-h:nl ask your prayers in my behalf and in of the church, that both may grow up into greater utrenfmjn Christ Jesus and that the divine blessing’' may crown our work. Very respecttully, WILLIAM RADER. Mtich pleasure was expressed at the con- summation of their plans, and all the members rresem,—-there was a goodly at- tendance for a prayer-meeting, too—signi- fied their intention to hold up the hands of the new pastor. TUSE BANK STocK paper if you value yeur eyes. Mysell-Rollins Company, 22 Clay street, print and bind it any shape, * MR, HINTON'S ESTIMATE, Figures the Registrar Gives of the Cost of a Special Election. PLENTY OF DATA ON UTILITIES. Municlpal Ownership People to Go Before the Finance Commit! To-Morrow. ‘The municipal ownership committee of the Union for Practical Progress will go before the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors to-morrow armed with facts and figures from various sources setting forth the feasibility of the City owning its own water works, It will get together to-day in John M. Reynolds’ office in the basement of the Crocker building and arrange the matter | it has in hand in the most effective way Its intention is to ask the Finance Com- mittee to recommend such an election. Chairman Reynolds has received an |§ estimate of the cost of the special election, for which the committee is now preparing a monster petition. sand names have been signed to the blanks circulated about the City. Registrar Hin- ton’s estimate of the cost of the election, communicated oy him to Mr, Reynolds, is $19,720, divided into the following items: Rent for polling places in 293 precincts at | $10 each, $2930; salaries of election officers, $8790; printing ballots, $2000; advertising, stationarv and other incidentals, $6000. The committee has been looking up fig- ures on the cost of the City’s water supply, and has learned the following from the re- port of the Spring Valley Water Company for 1803-94: That company paid dividends amounting to $663.000 and interest footing up $542, 75. Its operating expenses were $391,782 90 and its taxes $96,707 58. As Mr. Reynolds looks at it, this means that its profits were considerably over a million dollars, which the consumers. of course, had to pay. have taken in $1,694,121 23, while the net cost of running the gervice—that is, operat- ing expenses—was only $391,782 60. *‘And yet,” added Mr. Reynolds, signifi- cantly, “‘they said they Lad a loss of $39,282 197 i He remarked casually that the City also said $317,271 78 for gas and efectric lights uring the same time. He continued: San Francisco and New Orleans are the only two cities of 300,000 population and over in the conntry that do not have their own water service. \fie have ascertained from figures that the average water rate for a house of seven rooms in cities where the water service is owned by private corporations is 317 48, whereas in cities having municipal ownership the rate is only $11 63. He has received the following communi- cation from C. well service: Dear Sir: In’answer to your queries con- cerning the probablé cost of supplying the City of San Francisco with artesian wells dnd mat- ters pertaining thereto I have to say that I es- timate that this Oity is now using between 60 and 65 gallons of water per capita daily with present service. 5 That the average of large cities in the East is from sixty-five to ninety-five gallons per day and that in the estimates below given I have deemed it proper to consider that 100 gallons B day is Iittle enough for a city of the size of an Francisco_to be supplied with, when taking It might be said | parenthetically that already several thou- | Altogether it must | D. Rhodes, a civil engineer, | #s to the estimate of the cost of an artesian | into consideration the steady increase of the consumption of water, which all large cities develop as their population incre atistics show that the ave e s actually use for fire purposes a tenth of e h a gallon per day per inhabitant, from you will see that 100 gallons per day is ample 10 cover any needs of this City for the present in this respect, if sufficient reservoir capacity and mains of a suitable size are provided for. From reliavle sources it is known that arte- sien wells 6 inches in diameter, from 1200 to 1600 feet deep, are now constructed for $4800 to $6000 each and that for a well of this sort & yield of 100,000 gallons per day is a very low estimate of those that are a success, There is every evidenee that such' wells can be successfully bored in this City 5 mate their cost not to exceed £5250 each, when constructed on an extensive scale. Taking the last named price as a fair basis and_ 100,000 gallons Jer day as thelr eapacity, which un- doubtedly is a low i the first cost of $525 water ready for delivery for 1000 inhabitants at the rate of $5 25 per inhabitant. Statistics show that the average of Eastern cities of over 100,000 inhabitants have ex- pended in pumping plants, city Teservoirs, main and distributing pipes. and the delivery plant generally, a sum of $14 50 pér_inhabi- tant, which applied in this case woutd make a total cost of $1975 per inhabitant. Estimate ing 350,000 inhabitants for the City of San Francisco, the total cost of & system sypplied from artesian wells and ready for use could be 912,500, and estimating for 500,000 inhab- itants, & sum of £9,875,000. C. D. Ruopes, Consulting Engineer. This the committee wili lay beforethe Finarce Committee along with “its other matter. 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