The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 12, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FBANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1895. new ceiling. T told her she should not come to me and try to put such stories in my mouth as | she did when she wrote about the sweet pea | girl. Ttold her she had that young lady re- lated to me and furnishing funds for my de- fense, and asked her where she landed with it. 1 toid her tha story was mythical and nothing more, and told her to not bring any such stories or rumors, as T would not_either afiirm or deny them, and that was the end of 1t.” The court—iavg you done? Witness—Yes, sff. The court—Now, Mr, Reporter, just read that question over again, and you answer it yes orter read the question. » no,” said Mr. Diekinson to his client. e answer, said Mr. Barnes. n—When did you graduate from ammar school? 1 1888, I think.”? here does George King live?” et, between Twentieth and all,” said Mr. Dickinson. &l1,”” echoed Mr. Barnes. The prisoner stepped dc from the witness-stand and resamed his seat beside his mother. He took her small black fan and used it a few minutes. The witness Lenihan, who says that on April 13, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, he took a chip diamond ring that looks like the one worn by Bla Lamont to Pawn- broker Oppenheim’s shop, was recalled. Mr. Dickinson went over the same points — where Oppenheim stood, what he said and how Lenihan wrote to the de- fense about the occurrence—that had been previously gone over by Mr. Deuprey in the early part of the we Nothing new was el Dickinson ed, and, as Mr. not have with him the letter written by witness, upon which he wished to further question him, Lenihan was per- mitted todepart till Tuésday morning. Judge Murphy then said that, as Mon- day callection day for many of the | jurors he would hold no court that day, | ill Tuesday morning. ed that an adjourn- 1t be taken till Wednesday morning on ccount of the illness of Mr. Deuprey, whose physicians had advised him that he be able to be out by Wednesd court remarked that the pr oner 1ed counsel, so that the absence of the third could not hurt his interests in any way. He said he would abjourn till Tuesday, and then if a motion was made for a further adjournment he would con- sider it at that time. However, the wit- s and jurors must be oa hand Tues- morning, prepared to proceed with eady represented by two very able | TARRED AND FEATHERED, The Editor of the “Paradise of the Pacific” Mal- treated. BY HONOLULU WHITECAPS. A Story of Gruesome Scenes Wit- nessed in the Cholerg Hospital During the Recent Epidemic. Frank Godfrey, a mnewspaper the Pacific, published in Honolulu, and who has been employed on different jour- nals on this coast, procured admittance to the cholera hospital in Honolulu during the prevalence of the epidemic. He ob- tained considerable sensational informa- tion regarding the treatment of patients in the institution, which he afterward pub- lished. and six nights, and during that time saw bodies laid out undisinfected and uncof- fined for twelye hours after death, and also patients being disinfected and laid out to be buried alive. Godfrey's statemeunts apveared Septem- ber 16 in the papers; also on placards posted around the city, which caused the writer | known as the editor of the Paradise of | He was in the hospital seven days | etrated upon an American citizen. frey is yet in Honolulu, where he is taking steps to bring his claim before the United States Government through Min- ister Willis. Godfrey has written a sunccinet account of his experiences in communications ad- dressed to Secretary of State Olney anda Minister Willis demanding a strict investi- gation. TALKED BOOKS. Important Topics Discussed by the Library Association of Central California. The regular monthly meeting of the Library Association of Central California was held in the Mechanics’ Institute last night. President Rowell of the Univer- sity of California presided. In theabsence of Secretary A. M. Jellison the records were kept by J. H. Wood of the Mechanics’ Institute Library, The meeting unanimously adopted reso- | lutions of respect to the memory of Charles | C. Terrill, who was a member of the asso- ciation and' a trustee of the Public Library. The topics discussed were ‘‘Library Specialization” and *‘Relation of the State Library to Other Libraries.”” The discus- | sion was held through the medium of papers and addresses, and was parucipated in by the following-named person George T. Clark, librarian of the San Fran- o Public Library; H. F. Peterson of the Oakland Public Libray, J. T. Harbourn of the Alameda Public Library, Miss C. J. Hancock of the Sacramento Library, A. J. Cleary of the 0dd Fellows' Li " J. Teggart of Stanford | University, W. E. Coleman of San Francisco | and J. D. Layman of Berkeley. The meeting declared by the unanimous adovtion of a resolution in favor of a the case. Coust morning. then adjourned till Tuesday Putting Their | People Fast Names to the City Own- ership Petition. City Attorney Creswell to Up the Law on Special Electlons. Look The special committee of the Union for | Practical Progress intended, per appoint- ment, to fully lay its proposition for a spe- cial election on the municipal ownership question before the Finance Committee of the Board of Superyisors yesterday after- noon, but Chairman John M. Reynoldsre- ceived word that the matter of calling a special election had been referred to City and opinion. However, Mr. Reynolds went to the City Hall d left all the dat: his committee. ypewritten, on file with Clerk Russell. The opinion of Mr. Creswell will now be eagerly awaitea, and when that is given the next step of the committee will be Aliready about 3000 signatures have been | btained to the petition for a special elec- > man, H. W. Faust, brought in i by over 320 names, | in_another with liridge another | d into it the document Ilisnot so very volumin- ¢ well exhausts the | “the law bearing | amples and | | inancial is , “the evidences of public in favor of the proposition.” ement of the law bearing on the be summed up thus: First, no ility can be incurred for any | the annual income of | the City without the assent of two-thirds of the vo! : the act of March 14, 1891, empowers the City to acquire, by pur- chase or condemnation proceedings, it public utilities. As to the election Registrar Hinton X are given. **No objection, the docu- ment, ‘‘can thereiore be rightly made | from a Jegal standpoint, nor any plea that funds aYe notav le to pay the small | expense of an elect | gures, $19,720, A pumber of cities are then enumerated | which have their own water services. | “Only two ci in the 1 d States of ,”’ it states, * 0 not own water supply, namel Orleans n Francisco, and but five cities of United States (of the thirty-four | which have over 100,000 inhabitants) sub- mit to be taxed by private corporaticns for | this necessary element of life.” The five | named are § Francisco, Denver, Omaha and Indianapolis. Omaha the Board of Public Works has re- | Iy recommended city ownership, jally a suggestion is made as to the ssibility of obtaining the Calaveras Val- | ey water. There 15 a great deal of data, t0o, on the question of light, and a list of all the local organizations which proposition. | Dr. Voorsanger Inaugurates His Friday Evening Season—Arrangements at Other Synagogues. The Friday evening lecture season was inaugurated at the Temple Emanu-Ellast night. A good programme of music was rendered by an efficient choir. The New Union Prayer-book, adopted at the recent conference of American rabbis, was used for the first time in the Friday | evening service. This new prayer-book is well edited, the translations from the | Hebrew being particularly happy and accurate. It is quite noticeable, too, that the Friday night service retains in the translation much of the character present in the older ritual of orthodoxy, with, however, such portions eliminated as are not in accord with the modern tendency. After the reading of certain psalms D Voorsanger ascended the pulpit and de- livered the lecture. His address was en- titled ““A Little Jore Light.” In wel- coming s audience the rabbi trusted that ut the end of the series those present would have obtained that which the sub- ject of his lecture indicated. 2 Dr. Voorsanger recounted the history of Archimedes’ endeavor to move the world by means of a great lever. Many peogle since the time of the Greek philosopher have endeavored to do the same thing. The sloth of the world in progress is quite noticeable to the thinking man, to whom every accomplishment is a pledge of greater things yet to come. > The lecturer referred to his recent trip abroad, when he stood amazed at the changes wrought by Father Time in the quarter of a century he had been absent from the home of his youth. The friends of his youth had become grown men, and those whom he had left in their prime had become aged and decrePit‘ v The Friday evening lectures at the Tay- lor-street synagogue will commence ‘next week, while the season at the Beth Israel County Attorney Creswell for his | have indorsed thef s TEESNN U/R',‘,,,zfflf/’/l’ of HONOLULU, HL THE EDITOR’S BUSINESS CARD. | utmost excitement among the native popu- on. Next day he was kidnaped by rnment employes and tarred and feathered. The local authorities made no attempt to arrest his assailants. He appealed to Minister Willis and Consul-General Mills, stating that he wasan American citizen and an American war veteran, but noth- ing was done by those officials. The Hon- olulu papers, with the exception of the two Government sheets, condemned the act. Grave charges have been made daily against the authorities by the opposition | journal, the Independent, for their indif- | ference in the matter. Godfrey has made a claim for damages against the Hawaiian Government in the sum of $50,000. | Inan interview Godfrey stated to a CALL correspondent that he had learned of the | inhuman practices of the cholera hospital, { and concluded to enter the institution as a patient for the purpose of proving the truth of the reports. He had no difficulty is gaining admittance to the hospi though the Board of Health of als | doubted his protestations of illness. Know- ing him to be a newspaper man, and somewhat suspecting intentions, they not only proceeded to block his methods of gaining information, but placed him in the midst of the worst cholera patients of place. ‘I was ill treated and kep: confined,” said he, “‘without any needful attention and amount of in- | for two days, and was watched, not with | the view of making me well, but with the | view of making me sicker, and being no- | | ticed observing things too closely I was | bundled off to the quarantine grounds and placed in a room next to the deadhouse. I was kept in that noisome place seven days d six nights. Another prisoner of the institution was Father Valentine, a Cath- ic priest and fellow-countryman of Father Damien. The priest had nobly volunteered his services to assist the nurses in taking care of the patients, and to perform the last religious offices to the dying. He only gained admittance to the hospital by agreeing to remain closely confined in the place without any privileges other than those accorded to the poorest patient. | This 'was an unnecessary hardship upon the good man, as physicial stewards, nurses and visitors from select Govern- ment circles were constantly allowed free entrance and exit. Father Valentine occupied a bare room next to the deadhoyse also. He received no courtesies, and not even his sacred of- fice won for him anything but heartless in- | difference. Norepresentative of thesaintly missionary element offered his sleek, well- fed and well-clothed body to the possi- ble ravages of the too familiar and strongly embracing germs of the thol- era baccillus. Father Valentiue stayed to the last. There was also one other live inmate of the charnel- place—a native woman who was held | prisoner and ‘charged with being a Kah- una, or_doctress, and who was said to be interfering with the Government physi- | cians, “*All the bodies of the dead were put into this deadhouse, and for awhile the en- trances into this place kept pace with the admittances into the hospital. Father Val- entine and I could hear the dull fall of the bodies all hours of the day and night. It was not a pleasant sound I assure you, and what was worse the filthy remains were al- lowed to remain there in the tropical heat for eight and ten hours. *‘One morning a body was brought into this Morgue, and_after bemng disinfected was left lying on the slab awaiting burial. In ‘a few minutes the priest and 1 went in to look at the remains. We noticed a res- piratory, not relaxatory, movement of the blanketed form, showing that the person was not dead. A nurse examined the body, exclaiming ‘The man is alive!’ “Father Valentine was taken sick with nervous prostration and I nursed him. Soon after he was removed, but I was kept in my horrible quarters. I wrote to Con- sul-General Mills requesting my release, but he paid no attention to my plea and 1 was kept one day over the quarantine limit. “I was fumigated in the most bungling manner, my body and clothing burned by the careless hospital attendants, _‘““After my release I endeavored to pub- lish some of my experiences, but the E‘we“' had been instructed not to do so. he editors had been ordered to give my manuscript to the authorities. T told tne story of the ‘Alive dead man,’ and this was twisted into a statement that I had seen natives buried alive. Then posters were put up_ making the same state- ment. This was to kill the ef- fect of whatever information I might give regarding the mismanagement of the cholera hospital. I tried to contradict these statements, but the Government sanitarians would not hear me. I was then inveigled by one of the members of the Sanitary Committee to an out-of-the- way place, when was assaulted by masked men, blindfolded, bound and beaten. Then I was tarred and feathers were poured over my body."” All the newspapers in Honolulu now bear Godfrey out in his statement of this affair, and the Independent denounces the Police Department for their indiffer- ence. When the steamship Australia leit the islands Godfrey had been confined to his bed for sixteen days and his physician expressed doubts of his re- covery. Minister Willis comes in for much Temple, Geary street, will not start for several weeks to come, censure for his inactivity in not at least in- vestigating the lawless and brutal outrage | mutual libraries, books that _librarians who are members of the association be requested to present the resolution to their boards of exchange of between and ask their favorable action. announced that the sub- ject for discussion at the November meet- ing would be “Book-publishing and Book- selling in California | _The meeting then Friday, November 8. CALEGARIS CENSURED. | The Ttalian Colony Adopts Sweeping Resolutions Over the September Celebration Expenditures. There were about 300 members of the | Ttalian colony present at the mass-meeting | in Garibaldi Hall last night. The object of the meeting was to protest against more | money having been spent on lights, dec- | orations, etc., for the recent festival than | had been anticipated. | At about half an hour after: the ap- | pointed time for beginning the meeting | Dr. Perrone and E. Venagli took the plat- | form. The doctor read aloud the circular | of protestation, with which readers of Txx Carn are already familiar, and after ex- horting his hearers to ve calm and judicial he stated that while the Italian Consul had not authorized him to represent him he naa requested him to state that he (the | Consul) disapproved of the added ex- | pense. | There was frantic applause at this an- nouncement, and when it had subsided Dr. Perrone was elected president of the meeting and Signor Crespi secretary by acclamation. No sooner was this done than several voices in the crowd cried, ‘I demand a | word.” The floor was given to Lorenzi Griselli Dalormo,"who appealed to the “flower of the colony’’ to stigmatize the unjust expenses incurred by the executive committee. “It is strange that these people are not here to defend themselves,” added Dalormo. ‘“They are bated by the public. Was it just of them, was it right to exceed the sum they had fixed on for decorations, when the surplus should have gone to the school and the poor? I want to see the colony freed from these monopolists. | Henry IV, when asked what France was, once said, T am France.’ There are about a dozen people in San Francisco who say: ‘The Imfinn colony, itis 1. Several suggestions were made to cen- sure the executive committee. Dr. Per- rone made a somewhat lengthy address, pointing out that in his opinion the com- mittee was not responsible. | “Liberty of speech was not allowed, | only one_man was responsible —' Cries | of ““The President,” ‘‘Calegaris.”’ “These | poor people had not courage to speak,” resumed g)r. Perrone. “It would be an injustice to hoid them responsible; I was on the executive committee myself¥ It was the president who named the com- mittee and he is responsible for the ex- penses.”’ : A. Zabaldano said: “If any of us did not help toward the funds ourselves it was because we knew beforehand that the money would be spent in a foolish if splendid display, but we wanted to help the poor and the schools.” Dr. Perrone read a brief circular, which he said would be printed and distributed to-day. The document proposed a vote of censure against the newspaper L'Italia, on the grounds that it was the organ of the people who professed to own the col- trustees an | " The pr adjourned until ony. X note of censure wasalso passed against Calegaris. : Resolutions were passed aPpmvmg of the action taken by the Consnl and by the newspaper La Voce del Popolo. s A Great Milk Concern. According to the New York Tribune there is at least one corporation in the East which has successfully solved the strike problem. This is the New York Condensed Milk Company, organized by Gail and H. L. Borden. Their plan of operation has been to have & majority of the board of directors constituted of em- loyes of the company. These are men who Enve been steadily advanced in the employ of the company, and are all temiliar with the re- uirements of every portion of the business. &hls has resulted in the utmost harmony pre- vailing among the men, as the lowest of the employes knows that there is something better in the future for him if he conscientiously ful- fills the duties of his position. In addition to supplying over 50,000 castomers with milk in New York City this company at its great fac- tory in Walden carries on an immense business in ‘the preparation of condensed n,\llk for the general market. Every year & day’s outing is given to the 400 em;loyeu and a generous en- tertainment provided. Mrs, Ludwig Severely Hurt, Mrs. K. Ludwig, living at 6 Collins street, met with a peculiar accident yesterday that will confine her to her room for some weexs to come. She was playing in the room with her youngest child and catching her feet in the carpet was thrown violently to the floor, break- ing her leg just below the knee. Mrs. Ludwig was carried to the Recelving Hospital, whsre her injuries received proper attention, e The Wasp’s New Cover. The San Francisco Wasp has a new and a very attractive cover, but the editor manages 1o keep the contents even ahead of the outside sdornment. The central cartoon is a study in local politics that is worthy of attention, NINE SUSPECTS ARRESTED, Two Thought to Be the Ones Foiled by Mrs. Marshal at Baden. THE PLUCKY NIGHT OPERATOR. Mrs. Marshal’s Wound Slight and She Expects to Go to Work Soon, Mrs, Lena Marshal, the plucky young woman who placed her life between two highwaymen and $165 of the Southern Pa- afic's money at the South San Francisco station Thursday night, is a patient at St. Luke’s Hospital, and the officers are try- ing to find the miscreant or miscreants who attempted her murder. They think they are on the right track. ‘When seen at St. Luke’s Hospital yester- day afternoon, Mrs. Marshal was suffering only slightly from her wound, and dis- cussed her tragic experience of the night before in a matter-of-fact manner, without being flippant. “It was about half-past8,” she said, ‘‘and I was eating my lunch. All at once there was a bang at the aoor. “T bethought myself of the revolver and grabbed it from the drawer. Then there came another bang and the outer door flew open. A medium-sized man, well dressed and wearing a handkerchief or piece of white cloth over his face, came in Mrs. Lena Marshal, the Plucky Oper- ator Who Shot a Burglar in South San Francisco. [From a photograph.] and demanded the money. He said, ‘Give me all the money you've got.” I told him it was in the safe, whereupon he said, ‘Well, you'd better open it — quick.’ His manner was harsh and threatening, and for a moment ¥ thought that perhaps it might be beiter to let him have the few dollars in the till and get rid of him without further trouble, But with that thought came a return of my native ire and I putled the trigger. 1 do not think we were more than two feet apart when L shot, and I am sure the bullet struck him somewhere about the neck or shoulder if not the face. ‘‘Being so close I do not see how I could belp hitting him, though I sincerely hope Idid not kill him. He returned my fire immediately, and struck me in the fleshy part of my left arm above the elbow. T did not experience any pain at first. There was only a tingling, burning sensation. As soon as he had fired, he ran out and [ followed him. When I reached the door I noticed another man. He looked like a negro, though in the darkness I may have been mistaken. “I continued firing until I emptied my revolver and then returned to my desk. For half an hour or so I think I must have been unconscious, for it was about 9 o'clock before I managed to make Train- dispatcher Walters understand what had happened. At first he thought I was try- ing to perpetrate a joke on him, and the wire working badly 1 had to reach him through the operator at San Jose. As soon as he understood my condition a locomotive was sent out under charge of Engineer Steel. Before the locomotive ar- rived, however, Dr. Felton was summoned by Deputy Sheriff Desirelloand the former bandaged my arm. ‘No, I don’t think the man who entered the office was a tramp. He was well dressed and wore a white shirt, collar and cuffs, and was of very dark complexion. The lock on the door was not broken, but orly sprung. The men used a heavy shovel from the toolhouse to force their entrance. “I do not suffer much pain. The wound, the doctor tells me, is a remarkable one, The bullet passed between the bone and artery without damaging either one. After passing through my arm the lead im- bedded itself in the woodwork of the window-frame. I wanted to go to work to-night, but the doctors said it would not be safe.” Mrs. Marshall seemed more concerned about her little boy than anything else, and therefore chafes at her confinement. He is 9 years old, and is at present staying wi'i_h Station Agent C. B. Herbst and™ his wife. Detective Gard of the Southern Pacific Company was given charge of the tase yesterday, but up to last night had discov- ered no clew to the would-be robbers. Station Agent Herbst says that Thurs- day afternoon two men, one of whom tal- lied with the meager description of the man who did the shooting furnished by Mrs. Maxwell, were hanging around the station for two or three hours, and finally bought tickets for the City. One of them was well dressed and swarthy of com- plexion. Deputy Sheriff Desirello Is in the habit of visiting the station in South San Fran- cisco every night at about 10 o’clock, but Thursday night, as it fortunately hap- pened, heX went there at a few minutes after 9 o’clock. He was surprised at findin, the lights out, and while he and a frien saton the platform they heard groans from the interior of the building. Officer Desirello made an immediate investigation, and found Mrs. Marshal trying to get to the telegraph instrument. He immediately sent for Dr. Felton, and while the phy- sician was on his way to the station Mrs. Marshal managed to make herself under- stood over the wire to San Jose and this City. I\Pipa men were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Desirello during Thursday night and yesterday on suspicion, two of whom are thought to be the guilty parties. One of the two suspected is well dressed and answere Mrs. Marshal’s description as to height, build and dress, and the other isa negro, whom the Deputy Sheriff says he knows to be an all-round crook. Mrs. Mar- shal was not positive in her opinion con- cerning the man on the outaig . though she believes he was a negro. All the men will be held for further investigation, St. Mary’s College Parish. The students of the class of 96, St, Mary’s College, have kindly offered their services to assist the pastor of St. Mary's College. parish in building his new church, and on Saturday evening, November 9, at Odd Fellows' Hall, will give one of the entertainments for which St. Mary’s has made an enviable reputation. Besides an_excellent programme of vocal and instrumental music and select readings the students will produce Shakespeare's drama of “Richard IIL’" That the characters of the play will be ably inierpreted is to be confidently expected, as_the.students are unusually pro- ficfent in elocution. The college orchestra will furnish music for the occasion. e e e A SCIENTIST ON SEALS. He Returns From the Arctic With Data on 'Their Slaughter and Habits. Professor Steyneger of the Smithsonian Institution returned from the Arctic on the Russian steamer Kotik yesterday. He was sent to Bering Sea by the Government to inquire into the slaughter of the seals. The Government steamer Albatross carried him to the Pribyloff Group and thence to Copper Island. He remained at both these places for several months, and took vol- uminous notes of the coming and going and habits of the herd. From Copper Island the Albatross carried him to the Kommandorski Group, on the Russian side, where he remained until the Kotik sailed. Much of the information gathered by the rofessor has already been forwarded to Washington and the substance published. He has still many interesting facts which will not be disclosed, but will be used by the Government when making arrange- ments for the protection of the seals next season.’ REVIVING DEAD HISTORY, Joseph Goodman’s Scientific Mission to London, England. Dr. Gustav Eisen Says a Californian Has Deciphered Mayan Hiero- glyphics. Considerable of a stir was raised recently among the friends of Joseph Goodman, the newspaper man, by the statement com- ing from London that he had sold a compilation of hieroglyphies to the Brit- ish Museum for $100,000. As Mr. Good- man was known to have been making a very complete investigation of the sign languages of Mexico and Yucatan, and particularly the Maya race, his good for- tune was not thought improbable. Some years ago Professor Gustav Eisen of the California Academy of Sciences made a trip to Yucatan for the purpose of studying the Mayan hieroglyphics, and after returning induced Mr. Goodman to g0 on with him in investigating the char- acters. Both gentlemen co-operated in their research for about six years, during which time Mr. Goodman became deeply interested and devoted his entire time to the research, with Yhe result that at the present day he is further advanced than any student of the Mayas. “I can easily understand,” said Profes- sor Eisen, in speaking of the matter yes- terday, “how people will become mistaken in such matters. Itisimpossible for such a price to have been paid for Mr. Good- man’s compilation of the hieroglypbics, as there are several others as good as his, and they are but mere studies of the originals. No one will pay for studies, and the rumor was doubtless started by some one who did not understand that. Some months ago Alfred P. Maudslay, who has spent a great deal of time gathering antiquities and studying hieroglyphics all over Cen- tral America, met Mr. Goodman here and induced him to go to London, where they could both advance themselves in the sci- | ence. Mr. Maudslay has placed all his collection in the museum at South Ken- sington, and is associated with the best musenms of England. His opportunities for investigation were limitless, and under his care Mr. Goodman went to London. “It is more than probable that.our friend’s collection of hieroglyphics will be published in the Biologia Centro Ameri- cana, published in London, and that his own text will accompany them. T really consider his conclusions absolutely with- out flaw. Heis the only man among all those studying Mayan glyphs who has succeeded 1n deciphering the characters upon the monuments in Yucatan, and bhe has solved the calendar also. Since Mr. Goodman has gone into the study of hieroglyphics and I have been associated with him I have made a_very close study of the man, and I honestly think that he | has the most_perfect mind of any man living in the United States. I make that declaration without hesitancy, as he is | truly marvelous. There is no doubt in my mind but that he has sclved the characters on the casts taken from Yucatan, and that he will add important information to the volumes of history of the world. He is able to read the codices left by the early Mayas, and I doubt if there is another in- dividual living who can do likewise.” Professor Eisen is quite enthusiastic | over Mr. Goodman'’s discoveries and looks forward to the appearance of the publica- tion containing the information. THE FIRST FORTNIGHTLY. Brilliant Success of the Initinl Meeting of a Society Club—Who ‘Were There. The Friday Fortnightly Club held its first meeting last evening at Lunt’s Hall, Polk street, there being quite a large at- tendance. Most of the members are not yet in society, but will be next season. It is governed by four patronesses, who are: Mrs. Lloyd Tevis, Mrs. Monroe Salisbury, Mrs. Gordon Blanding and Mrs. Ira Pierce. The rules in regard to membership are similar to those in like organizations. There s a secret election committee, and none of the patronesses are on that com- mittee. A limited number of invitations will be given out for each meeting, and members wishing such invitation must make application to one of the four pat- ronesses, who in turn will send sald appli- cation to the committee on membership, which will issue the card of admission. No one will be admitted without a card. The meetings will be held every other Fri- day evening in each month until Lent. | Ash Wednesday falls on February 19. The dance last evening terminated with | several figures of the cotillon, under the leadership of E. M. Greenway. Huber's Hungarian orchestra played for the danc- ing, introducing several new deuxtemps and the new waltz ‘‘Moonlight and Star- light,” which is all the rage in the East. ‘With the service of light refreshments the pleasant affair came to a successiul end at midnight. i The members of the club are: Miss Kate Salisbury, Miss Susie Blanding, Miss Margaret Saiisbury, Miss Sophie Pierce, Mis3s Grimwood, Miss S. Voorhies, Miss Gene- vieve Goad, Miss Mabel McDonal, Miss Gertrude Carroll, Miss Ruth McNutt, Miss Carolan, Miss Margarita Collier, Miss Lillie Follis, Miss Jose- phine Lo\‘l%lmrnll h, Miss Hellman, Miss Gunn, Miss Davis, Miss May Stubbs, Miss Helen Wagner, Miss Olive Holbrook, Miss Fannie Baldwin. Among the young ladies invited were: Miss Ronetta Wallace, Miss Aileen Goad, Miss Clementina Kip, Miss Mary Kip, Miss Ida Gib- bons, Miss Jessie Glascock, Miss Bertha Smith, Miss Hannah Williams, Miss Juliette Williams, Miss Alice Hager, Miss Ella Hobart. Among the gentlemen invited were: Robert M. Eyre, Sidney Pringle, Milton 8. Latham, H. H, Scott, Walter Scott, Mr. Foote. Fred Magee, Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Pomeroy, W. _R. Heatn, Mr. Chamberlain, Ralph Carr, Charles Mills, Henry Dutton, Alex Baldwin, Lloyd Baldwin, Mr, Boss, Mr. Dore, George B. de Long, Mr. Upham, John F. Merrill, Ray Sherman, John Earl, ¥rank King, Mr. Roeding, Lieutenant W. R. Smedheff. U.S. A, Mr. Sel- fridge, L. S. Van Winkle, Critfenden Van Wyck, Alfred Williams, Mr. Craig, Horace _Béauty, W. S. Hobart, Allan Garwood Wright, John W. Barnes and several others. = BAR NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. GAIN-DAY SPECIALS NEW WAISTS, GLOVES AND NECKWEAR! Our regular Saturday Bargai n offering this week embraces the following and a great variety of other lines of NEW AND STYLISH GOODS specially selected to meet patrons and offered at PRICES THAT WILL COMMAND ATTENTION the requirements of our Saturday LADIES > SILK WAISTS! At $1.50. 20 LADIES’ BLACK SURAH SILK WAISTS, regular price $3, will be offered at $150 each. At S 3.00. 20 LADIES’ PLAID SILK WAISTS, regular price $6, will be offered at $3 each. LADIES’ LAUNDER At 9O 80 dozen LADIES’ LAUNDERED SHIRT be placed on sale at 90c each. ED SHIRT WAISTS! Cents. ‘WAISTS, regular price $1 25 and $1 50, will D GLOVES! LADIES’ KI At S0 Cents. 2000 pairs 5 and 7 HOOK KID GLOVES, regular price §1 25 and $150, will be offered at 90c a pair. At S 1.2s. 2000 pairs MOUSQUETAIRE KID GLOVES, undressed, 8-button length, all sizes, regular price $2, will be offered at $1 25 a pair. NOVELTIES IN NECKWEAR! At $1.50 Hach. LACE AND RIBBON COLLARETTES, y ribbom, any shade, ruffle of silk Russian oke of cream silk bourdon insertion and n lace, worth $2 50, At $1.75 Each. LACE AND RIBBON COLLARETTES, y ribbon, any shade, ruffle of silk Chanti oke of cream silk bourdon insertion and 11y lace, worth §: At $2.50 Hach. BUTTER POINT VENISE YOKE COLLARETTES, with epaulettes of lace, value $4 50, will be offered at $2 50 each. At -$2.50 Each. BLACK LACE COLLARETTES, Vandyke points, trimmed with Chantilly Lace, reg- ular value $4, will be offered at $2 50 each. At $38.00 EHach. CHIFFON COLLARETTES, in all shades, each. regular price $450, will be offered at $3 Marke! Street, Corner of Jongs, SAN FRANOISCO. LIKE PIES PEM AOAD The Tamalpais Rack Railway Will Be Built After That Model. What the President of the North Paclific Coast Line Saw in the East. James B. Stetson, president of the North Pacific Coast Railroad, returned Wednes- day from the East, and had many inter- esting things to tell about the proposed railway up Mount Tamalpais, and a pro- ject to transform the narrow-gauge rail- way from Sausalito through the Sonoma redwoods into an electric line. Mr. Stetson was at his desk yesterday in the railway offices at Sansome and Market streets, engrossed in affairs of importance to the road. He had collected photo- graphs, drawings and descriptive matter of mountain rack railroads in Europe and America, and they were all at hand to show people interested in the Tamalpais road enterprise. “Here is something on the subject,” he said, displaying a bulky bundle of photo- graphs and data on the Pikes Peak cele- brated railway. “I visited Pikes Peak for the express purpose of inspecting the rack road up to the summit, so that I could de- scribe it to the gentlemen interested in the Tamalpais road, and also see for myself how 1t was constructed and how it worked. B “The day I was there snow was falling heavily upon the mountain, and advices from the summit by telephone were that a storm was raging up there. For that reas son the managers would not run the train out, and I had to content myself with ex- amining the lower grades. [ was well sai isfied with what I saw, however. . “1 also inspected the White Mountain road in New England. It is built on the rack principle and has worked with com- plete satisfaction. < “Qur plan must be after these railways. Take the Pikes Peak one, for instance, as amodel for the Tamalpais road. It is nine miles long, and the engine and car make the trip about as fast as cable cars move along the streets in San Francisco—that is, you can get to the summit in something ike an hour or an hour and a half. Mid- way between the rails is a double row of steel cogs bolted down firmly to the ties, which in turn are anchored to rocks or to massive timbers embedded in the ground. By this means the track cannot be torn away by the weight of the train. Under the engine are two ponderous cogwheels, so that there are practically two safe- guards. The locomotive is set at an angle to the horizontal. It pushes the car up and comes down with the car pressing be- hind, and in that way intervenes between the car and danger. e “Qur proposed road up Tamalpais from Mill \'afiey will be about three miles long, ‘and I shall advise that it be built like the Pikes Peak road, which cost $50,000 a mile, including equipment. At that rate the Tamalpais zoad would cost about $150,000 for everything. i “Men who are well qualified to make the estimate—railway and hotel men—say that 30,000 to 50,000 tourists and travelers pass through San Francisco every year. Be- sides, there is an immense population around the bay of San Francisco, and now reaching an approximate estimate of the number of people who would patronize the Tamalpais railway we feel convinced that the enterprise will pay well. San Fran- cisco lacks in attractions when compared with other cities of its size in the United States. Its peog[e ought to have more attractions of this kind. iIn addition to the railway there will be a nice, clean, comfortable hotel on the summit, nearly 3000 feet above the sea, where a cheap meal can be had by visitors. “I made inquiries regarding electricity, looking toward its upp?ica(ion as a power in place of steam on our railway, but I 1 found the subject in too crude a state to be of any use at present. Electricians and railroad men in the East all say thatsteam will be superseded by electricity in a short while. I could not see where this had as yet been satisfactorily demonstrated, though I had been looking for it with a view to changing the North Pacific Coast line from a steam to an electric railroad. It was easy enough getting facts about street electric railways. Were it as easy to getinformation about the subject of altering steam roads to electric lines I would have taken it up with a view of making our railyay an electric one.” Mr. Stetson is also a director of the Val- ley road, but said he had received no com- missions from that source when going East, THE CIVIC FEDERATION. It May Ask the Grand Jury to Investle gate the Manner of Granting the Sunnyside Franchise. It may be that the Civic Federation, when it meets this afternoon in President Truman’s office, will take up the matter of the Sunnyside franchise granted by the Board of Supervisors to the Market-street Railway Company. There is some talk among its members of an endeavor to have the Grand Jury investigate the manner in which the franchise was granted—that is, as to whether the advertising was accord- ing to law. Attorney Reed is totally absorbed in the tax-levy mandamus proceedings. The argu- ment will be heard by the Supreme Court in bank on November 4, and Mr. Reed is now preparing his side. % Mr. Reed says City Attorney Creswell’s contention is to be as follows: That the act of March 28, 1895, repealed the consolidation act so far as it relates to revenue and taxation, and that the obtaining of rev- enue is now governed by the provisions of the Political Code; that the’ fact that the Political Code requires the rate of taxes to be fixed on or before the third Monday in September of necessity nullifies the provision of the con- solidation act governing the Mayor's power of veto, for the reason that it is impossible for the Supervisors to so fix the tax rate and at the same time the Mayor to have ten days afterward in which to veto it; that if the tax levy be not fixed by the third Monday in September, irrevocably, it cannot be fixed for some months afterward in the very nature of things, and that as the taxes become delin- quent on the last Monday in November it is quite possible for a delinquent penalty of 15 er cent to be in force before the tax rate has een fixed. In reply to this Mr. Reed will argue that the act of March 28, 1895, is unconstitn- tional on the ground that it 1s special legislation, and that as its provisions are not inconsistent with the Mayor’s power of veto anyway, therefore the veto power still stands. Emma Eames writes of «I find ¢«Vin Mariani’ the most delightful and efficacious tonic, of inestimable value fo singers.” Descriptive Book with Testimony and Portraits OF NOTED CELEBRITIES. Beneficial and 4, ble. flE‘o«yz‘un? I 'roves Reputation. Avoid Substitutions. Ask for‘Via Mariani.® At Druggists and Fancy Grocers. MARIANI & CO., Pazss: 41 B, Haospaon; 63 W, 166554, lf'!fl.