The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1895, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1895. DURRANT HAD WON Mi NNIE WILLIAMS' LOVE, Miss Dora Fales’ Theories in Regard to the Murder. C.T.HILLS MUST RETURN. Many Letters of Sympathy Re- ceived by Mrs. Durrant Daily. DID NOT DISPARAGE SERVANTS. One Reason Why Minnie Williams Entered Emmanuel Baptist Church. R'“Iam cerlain Minnie loved Durrant,” said Miss Dora Fales, a charming, brown- eyed girl, who was one of the most inti- Amate friends of the murdered girl. “I knew her well,” she continued, “‘and have seen the pair together often at church, and judged by their manner that they were fond of each other. Minnie was a retiring girl, and it was quite in keeping with her character that she never spoke, even to those she knew b of Theodore Durrant as her lover. She was not given to such confidences, and tne fact that she never spoke of ther loverlike relations yproves nothing.” Miss Williams made her home with Miss Fules’ parents for a time after the separa- ‘tion of her parents, and, as with all who knew her, daily association with the un- fortunate girl inspired the love and confi- dence of all. “Minnie was an_exceedingly discreet irl,” said Miss Fales, “and there must have been some very reasonable induce- ment for her to go to the church that even- ing. 1 have a theory that I believe is cor- rect for that fatal step of hers. Mrs. Cur- ler, Mrs.: Vogel's daughter, was ill at her moth home at the time of the social, and it seems probable that Durrant told her of that ill- ness and said the social would be held at the church instead of tne Vogel house. Under that pretext he might easily have persuaded her to go to the church, and even to enter it, to await the coming of the Test. “I think it reasonable, too, to suppoze that Durrant’s attempt to kill her may have been nunsuccessful at first, for I know the little creature was very muscular and had great powers of endurance one scemingly so frail. She veighed only about ninety younds, yet she could lift me without an effort.” Miss nelined to be robust and mbonpoint, hence this feat Miss V ams was no inconsiderable one for a small woman. TFales, who lives at 1330 Florida e of the voung people who : social at the Vogel residence on the evening of the murder and with whom Durrant walked as far as Twenty- yurth street on Howard. h s that she noticed evidences of fon on his part during the en while reading his sister’s letter. it he seemed very stupid all she remarked. - MRES. DURRANT STILL HOPES She Recelves Letters Expressive of Strong Sympathy Dalily. Darrant’s hope and courage are omenal. They have been the cause of much comment, favorable and other- wise, by the pressand public. The cause of her attitude is twofold—a sublime faith in her son and an unusual degree of recep- tiveness to the encouraging words of riends. The little mother has not met all these friends. Her introduction to many of has been by letters written by them- selves. Since the recent trial began she has received nearly 200 letters of sym- pathy, most of them from Californians, o0odly number has come from the st. The following i slum work in thi. E Mrs. William - N. Durrant— DEAR MADAM: As a mother let me express to you my sincere eympathy in your hour of trial. Icangive a clear and intelligent reason for my unwavering belief in your son’s innocence, and no ravings of public opinion have shaken it. I trust your son may yet be able to estab- that innocence and that the guilty crimi- nals may be found. Take heart of grace, O bravest mother of our time! whose loving courage has stoods the fiery trial of derision and still stands to him, bereit of all other consolation, the highest and best interpretation of God and his love and care. Of his father little has been said, but I am sure that he trusts and believes in his boy, and that that boy relies upon his father’s confi- dence and aid. E Iam a poor womean, and can_give nothing but loving sympathy; but if Ihad money I would go into every den of vice and criminal haunt in this City, and as the men and women congregate for tile winter search secretly for the foul murderers of those two girls. Iwould send agents to the othercities, where in mnests of wickeduess such foul deeds are batched. L am at present living on the border of the shadow of our City. Icame here to try to lift up a class of women if I can but reach them, and to help them {0 purify thelr surroundings and live happier and more useful lives. At first it seems hopeless, but I must try. The re- sults are with the Master in whose neme I work. I commend you and yours to our Fathers care, as I bave done nightly for months. Trust and be vigilant. Be diligent. Be patient and all must be well. Another, from a lady residing in Oak- land, is as follows: nt—DEAR MADAM: Allow me to ex- mpathy or you and your ly believe he is innocent. 1f words could in any degree console you for the terrible wrong I believe has been done your family how gladly would 1 multiply ihem, but I'am well aware that sympathy is of jittle avail to such overwhelming woe as is 8till I weep with vou and for you, as ‘Wwe are told to “weep with those that mourn.” Do not give up hope; God is good. Can he let the innocent suffer for the guilty? I have never for & moment believed that your son, & young man of spotless character as he has been proven to be, and possessed of Christian forbearance as hé has proved him- self to be since his arrest, could be the man who committed those terrible crimes, and I want you to let him know that there are thoughtful people who believe his word though dozens dispute it. My husband agrees with e in every particular, and we are both yours in Christian sympathy. Mrs. Durrant remarked yesterday that she had been misquoted regarding her view of the social position of servant girls in general and Minnie Williams in partic- ular. “Some one asked me whether Theo was engaged to Minnie Williams. I was sarprised at the question, and said: ‘En- gaged? Certainly not’; and afterward, re- calling the fact that Theo had never asked that she be invited to any of the little par- ties at the house, I remarked : ‘She was not in his circle of acquaintances.’ Now I did not mean to imply by that that she was his inferior; merely that she was not one of his habitual associates. The distortion of that remark has awakened much harsh criticism that I in no way de- served, for I have many times said that if my daughter should be required to earn her livelihood in a way other than she is fivting herself for, I would rather she would go into a family as ‘help’ than do almost anything else.” Maud had said to Mr: phe m a lady engaged in | me at the time of the tronble in the Wil- | liams family that I ought to give Minnie a trial in belping me about the work, but when I saw the child and noticed how frail and slight she was I said she could not endure hard work, and would have no use for her,as I needed some one strong_enough to do the work of I heard afterward that ameda and nat- urally associated her with those circum- S0 when a lady asked me what Hiams’ position was, I answered : ‘She belongs to the servant class, I be- lieve.’ “That is the answer any one with my limited acquaintance with her affairs might have made. I have no foolish ideas of the sort with which I have been cred- ited, and if Theo had shown any dispos tion to pay ber attention I would not have made the slightest objection.” AN OTHELLO TO TESTIFY. C. T. Hills Has Been Summoned From Pennsylvania as a Witness. C. T. Hills has been summoned from Conneauteville, Pa., to appear as a witness for the prosecution in the case of the State vs. W. H. T. Durrant, for the murder of Minnie Williams. It will be remembered that he was a wit- ness in the preliminary trial, and that he testified to having seen a couple entering the side door of Emmanuel Church about 8:30 ». M. on Friday evening, April His nervousness on the stand was due it i said to a temporary estrangement from his wife, owing to” his momentary sus- picion that it was she who entered the church with the young man, whom he was not able to identify. Hills and his wife, a plump, pretty do- mestic of Dr. and Mrs. George F. Hanson of 2534 Mission street, lived at that time with Mrs. Hill's er, Mrs. A. J. Hensel, at 20315 Bartlett street. He stood on Twenty-third and Bartlett streets at the hour named, expecting his wife to return, as usual, by way of Bartlett street. Looking down the street he saw a couple approaching the church from Twenty-second street. The lady was small and wore a cape and, the description tallying in these particulars with his wife, he stood ‘“‘rooted to the spot,’” as novelists § while the couple entered the church. He crossed Twenty-third street and went to his room, for what purpose he says he did not know himself, and was astonished to find his wife there before him. She had come home by way of Howard street, and reached home before he did. ik said nothing of his until in the com- boon companions the next , and his wife’s first knowledge oi them came through the papers. She was indignant, and in his humilia- tion and despondency Hills made an at- tempt at suicide by trying to sever an artery in his arm. During the illness that followed he was partially deranged. recovered his mental faculties, however, and went to Pennsylvania two weeks ago to take ch of his father's | farm, whither Mrs. Hills intended to fol- low him shortly summons to return and serve as a wit- ness for the prosecution was sent to him yesterday THEIR- GOLDEN WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Donks Celebrate a Notable Anniversary. Ceremony at St. Boniface’s Church, Followed by a Btilliant Reception. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Herman Donks of 33914 Hayes street celebrated their golden wedding yesterday, and the festivities of the day were enjoyed by four generations. The ceremony cccurred at St. Boniface’s (German Catholic) Church on Golden Gate avenue, between Jones and Leavenworth streets, in the morning, a solemn high mass being celebrated by Rev. Maximilian Neumann of the Franciscan fathers, as- sisted by Fathers Athanatius and Ed- mund. The church was most beautifully decorated with green and gold and a pro- fusion of chrysanthemums. After the ceremony the four generations enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast at thef residence of Mr. Donks, which is at the corner of Hayes and Gough streets. Like the church, the home was also decorated in green and gold. 5 Thelfeast of the day occurred during the evening at California Hall on Bush street. All theliving descendants of Mr. and Mrs, Donks were there, and a host of friends besides. About 150 covers were laid at the banguet. From morning until late at night the four generations rejoiced. It was a pleas- ing picture they presented, from the white-haired great-grandparents to the four bright-eyed great-granachildren at- tired in white. The youngest of the great- grandchildren is Henrietta, the two- month-old daugbter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Mibach. These four great. §rauuchildren are the two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eckart and the two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Mibach. Counting the four generations, there were present twenty-two descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Donk First, there were their two daughters, Mrs. F. L. Guntz and Mrs. Clara Reicn, dressed in black and gold; next the sixteen grandchildren, mostly in gold, and finally the wee folk in white. Both Mrs. Eckart and Mrs. Mi- bach are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Guntz, During the reception and dinner at Cali- fornia Hall addresscs of congratulation were made by Professor Van der Naillen, Karl Moritzen, Jacob Denzler, Henry Budde of California Volksfreund, Dr. Moore of Oakland and others, and fre- quartet of the St. Paul’s German Benevo- lent Society. Herr Kayser read an illumi- nated congratulation iramed with gold, and presented it to the beaming couple to whom the honors were being done. The presents were very profuse, con- sisting mostly of urns, bracelets, souvenirs, spoons, tableware and souvenirs of gold. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Guntz gave a diamond and pearl pin; Mr. and_ Mrs. Eckart, gold vase; Mr. and Mrs. Mibach, diamond stud; Mr. and Mrs. Reich, diamond cuff- buttons; the Guntz grandchildren, gold tray; the children of Mr. and Mrs. F. X, Kast (both deceased), gold dessert-spoons; and Theodore Kast, a table of onyx and gold. These are only a few of the many good things that are yet toremind Mr. and Mrs. Donks of their golden wedding. Mr. Donks came to this City in 1857 with his wife, whom, as _Johanna Geiscke, he married in Berlin. He has paid a visit to Germany since. ———————— THE VENTILATION AND SANITARY SysTEM OF RAtLwaY Cars.—Professor 8. H. Wood- bridge says that ventilation in railway cars is most inefficient, depending as it often does upon the speed of the car and the direction of the wind; but the public will be much worse off in this respect within the next few years unless therailway com- panies are compelled to take proper steps for the ingress and egress of a suitable supply of air. The development of high change in the construction of cars. Asthe air resistance will have to be reduced to the minimum, a smooth and unbroken surface will have to be given to the outside of the car, which will probably assume a quent songs were rendered by the double | speed in railroad service yitl soon cause a | wedge-shaped form. The supply rate of the air must then be as little as pos- sibie affected by the movements of the cars or the wind; the air must be continuously and regularly supplied in generous quantity, the action of the sys- tem being plenum rather than vacuum, in order to reduce the inward leakage of cold air, smoke, dust and cinders. The air will be filtered, and in cold weather elec- trically heated, and will probably be sent through the car by the action of a high efficiency fan, run by electric motor, the dynamo being run by a belt from the axle. There will be no draughts and the tem- perature of the car will be always under control. It is found that imagination playsa large part in ventilation effects, and any system planned to give the surest and highest satisfaction should furnish ocular evidence of its existence and its tion. Professor Wooabridge is of the opin- jon that any successful car ventilating sys- tem will have to include sell-announcing means, so 2s to enlist the imagination in its favor, and to put an effective stop to window-raising, that familiar disturber of the working of artificial ventilation. It has long been the popular belief that rail- way cars, especially the sleepers, were hot- beds of disease; in fact, that the traveler took great chances of infection from the arms of bacilli which they harbored. . C. Jordan has taken all the plausibility out of this idea by a deseription of the cleaning of railway carsin Boston, Chicago and St. Louis. On the arrival of the car at the terminus the windows are opened and the linen and carpets removed. In the morning, after airing the car all night, the mattress blankets and curtains are thrown out, placed on a rack and thor- oughly beaten on both sides. Meanwhile the springs are taken out and dusted and ‘wiped out with a wet and then a dry cloth. .The floor is next brushed and washed, and alt the wood- work is washed with castile soap. The closets are then disinfected, and the win- dows, which have been carefully cleaned, are again opened, and the berths partly lowered. The car remains in this way about an hour before it leaves the yard. Then the carpets which have been beaten are brought back and put down, and the car itself is again wiped with a woolen cloth inside and out. The carsare com- letely renovated and reupholstered every our or six months. 1f an invalid occupies a berth, the conductor reports the nature of the complaint. 1f it 13 contagious, the car is laid off and sent to the works; but if it is not contagious the bedding and cur- tains are sent to the works for examina- tion and renovation. Inspectors are very rigorous about the sanitary condition of the cars. So important is this subject re- garded that the Wagner Palace Car Com- pany has a school where employes are in- structed in the proper cleansing and ven- tilation of cart MINISTERS ARE DIVIDED, Many Dissent From the Opinions Expressed by Dr. Coyle. A Couple of Questions Sent to Each Minister in Alameda County. Rev. Robert F. Coyle, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of this City, is emphatic in the declaration of his stand- ing toward the Christian Endeavor Union of Alameda County. At the last meeting of the executive committee of the union, the body which transacts all the business for the organiza- tion, the following set of questions were drawn and ordered sent to all the pastors in the county, with a request that they reply before the next meeting of the com- mittee, which isto be held Monday, No- vember18. The questions read: rst—Do you favor an article in our consti- tution making pestors ex-officio members of xecutive committee ? Should such an amendment be made, could you give your personal attention to the meetings and business of said committee? The questions have been sent to all pastors as directed, and all interested are awaiting the result. The very first reply to be received came from Dr. Coyle and is as follows: Miss Lulu DBowen, Secretaru:—Replying to yours of the 22d inst., I beg to say that I am most emphaticaliy in’ favor of making pastors ex-ofiicio members of the County Executive Committee, and second I could give some time to the meetings of the committee. That, how- ever, is not the question exactly. There1sa principle involved. Presbyterian ministers will consent to regard the endeavor movement as an independenty organization. It is just as much a church society and_just as amenable to church authority as the Sabbath school, King's Daughters’ Society or any other society. Our Synod of California, at its late meeting in San Jose, took very emphaticaction and our entire denomination will do likewise. We cannot consent to permission to enter any committee or sub-organization of the church. We demand it as a Tight. Very respect- fully you R. F.'CoYLE. The minister who is supplying the pul- pit of the First Congregutional Church un- til a successor to Rey. J. K. McLean, D.D., is secured, makes the following reply to the county secretar, To your questions it appears to me to say: It seems to me that to put the pastors on sue a committes would be 1o smother the commit- tee under the weight of their number. Iam but a temporary pastor and could say nothing to bind my successor, the one that is to come. Respectiuil S. M. FREELAND. Mr. Edward Davis of the Christian church s: . “Personally I must_answer ‘no’ to both interrogations. In the first instance the committee solicits the minister’s voice in any advisory discussion, and allows the respective society to elect him as one of its two delegates. 1f the indiscriminate clergy becoiaes an ex-officio factor in the union it merely resolves into a ministerial associ- ation. I donot maintain that the execu- tive committee has not made mistakes, I merely ask: Was there ever a mistake made by a ministerial association? In the second case, a purpose of the Endeavor Society has been to assist the church, If the pastor must devote his time to that which is to be his aid, I feel that the fifth wheel should be torn from the gospel car. “I contend for a principle. If the min- isters of denominational prejudices shall poison the impartiality of a new genera- tion, the flaunted banner, ‘For Christ and the Church,” may be hauled down and over the vessel of the disrupted Union may be hoisted at half-mast the ensigns, A. P. A.and Y. M. L, the Epworth and West- minster leagues, the Baptist Union and the King’s Daughters’ societies. Yes, I would rather see the society 2,000,000 strong sink in an upfathomed sea of self-destruction than to float on the slime of sectarian selfishness. The ministers of this city, more loyal to the spirit of Christ than to their respective churches, cannot afford by their interferences to lessen the executive responsibility of the voung peo- ple of the Society of Christian Endeavor.” Rey. A. 8. McLellan or Siskiyou Count who is in attendance at the annual mee: ing of the General Association of Con- gregational churches, offered an amend- ment to the constitntion of the County Union three yearsago to make ministers ex-officio members of the executive com- mittee. At the time there wasno tatk about the matter and when it came up to a vote there were only a very few who voted forit. It wasalmost a solid vote in the negative. “I am of the opinion,” said he to-day, “‘that it would have been much better if the union had accepted it at that time. It is only a principle thatis at stake by the request and I can see nothing wrong in pressing the amendment. I be- lieve it should be adopted at this time to save any further trouble in the future.” ——————— . The nepenthe or pitcher plant is found in twenty or thirty varieties. It is in- digenous to Sumatra, Borneo, South India, Ceylon and many parts of Southern Asia and tropical Africa. 1n its simplest form a small receptacle or pitcher depends from the end of leaf or stem, a hinged hd clos- ing the upper part of the vessfi. BUCK AND THE JUNTA Who Has a Majority of the General Com- mittee? THE NEXT HOSTILE STEP A Meeting of the Old Organiza- tion Is to Be Called to’ Settle Things. TRIAL OF STRENGTH WANTED. If Buckley Is Too Strong the Reformers Will Appeal to the State Committee. The thing that everybody in politics wants to find out just now is what was the real complexion of the gathering under Buckley’s banner at the Occidental Club the other night. Buckley and his merry men say there were represented at the meeting 259 out of the 400 Democrats who constitute the general committee. 1f this is so, Buckley has the Democratic organization as tight as if he had hand- cuffs on them. The intellectual members of the Junta, however, foam at the mouth when any- bedy says this to them, and declare with as much violence as sach eminently pure and proper gentlemen may indaige in that instead of 259 there were just 69 mem- bers of the general committee present at that meeting, and that all of these cannot be trusted to remain under the Buckley banner. If the statement of the Junta be correct, Buckley’s grasp on the Democracy isabout as tenable as a thumb-and-finger clutch upon an eel’s tail. The logical sequence of Monday night's meeting is a petition for a meeting of the old general committee. the governing body of the local Democracy until it is succeeded in due form and by due process by another general committee. Under the rules of the game, the chairman of this committee is_bound to convene whenever a meeting is asked for by fifty members, and not even the Junta denies that Buckley controls at least that number of general committeemen. The promise of an early meeting was made by various speakers at the meeting Mond that effect was passed. ““‘What did we tell you?'’ say the mem- bers of the Juuta. “‘Buck is afraid of a trial of strength. If he had not been a resolution demanding a meeting of the | general committee would have whooped throagh at that meeting.” ‘A man does not have a bill passed through Congre every time he goes to take a drink,” say the political sages of the Occidental Club. *‘It is the easiest thing in the world to circulate a petition and get fifty names to it. Such a petition regularly drawn up and presented to Chaitman Watson would compel bhis at- tention and action. We might pass reso- lutions until we were black in the face and he would pay no more attention to them than he would to the barking of the seals out on the rocks.” “Will you demand s meeting of the gen- eral committee?” This question was put to half a dozen of the big men of the Buck- ley organization. “‘Young man,” answered the spokesman of the aggregation. “if you were going to still-hunt coyotes do you think you would start a brass band ahéad of you?” And that is as near a direct an- swer to the question as can be obtained at the Occidental Club. The reason for the mystery is not hard to find. Either of two conditions prevails. Buckley has not a been H majority of the general committee, or the | Junta proposes to carry its contest for the appointment of a new genersl committee up before the State committee, ignoring | the jurisdiction of the local organization altogether. If the latter is the programme, Buck- ’s men will try to get the general com- mittee in session in a hurry, so as to head off the Junta’s plan. Whatever is to be done must be done soon. The committee of fifty is hard at work and within three | weeks will report its selections for general committeemen. davin McNab said last night: ‘“Buck- ley’s majority of the general committee is simply on paper. The Occidental Club was furnished with the rollcall from Lead- quarters, and they did not dare to call the roll at the meeting the other night. Some of the names they give as of their parti- sans are there legitimately. Others are simply put down arbitrarily on the report of some member that he heard somebody else say such and such a man was with them. A number of the names were signed bonestly; but at the same time the signers do not takeon themselves tosupport Buck- ley. Do you remember Buckley’s claims before the meeting at which Watkins de- feated O’Brien for the chairmanship? Buckley went into that meeting with 100 majority on paper. On the rollcall his man lost the fight by over thirty votes. You will find that the same condition pre- vails now. He cannot realize on his paper estimates. It was an endeavor to do this the other night, but the men did not show up in anything iike the numbers he sug- gested, and soie did not dare to call the roll. *‘The claims the cx-boss made are ab- surd. To take the sympathy expressed for Judge’s Maguire's course and policy, that was thrown in to give the idea that the Congressman was with them. Asa matter of fact Congressman Maguire had openly stated that he sided with the anti-Buckiey movement. He warned us to be particu- larly careful of such influences as that of Buckley. Buckley is now just a scarecrow invented by the "Republicans to scare re- spectable Democrats from the field.” One thing i3 certain, whether Buckley is a scarecrow or not, the Junta is putting forward every effort to fight him. It is watching the list of general committee- men, and if Buckley is only = scarecrow he is attracting more hostile attention than ever a man of straw did before. Following is a partial list of the names of those claimea Ev the Occidental Club to be on their side. 1t is imperfect, becausea large number of Buckley’s adherents do not dare to come out_openly in his cause until they know just how the cat is going to jump.” They are taking no chances of excommunicating themselves from the fold in case the boss’ plans fall through. Frank Norton, Andrew L. Wood, John Rai- ferty, Martin Heney, W. P. Honan, P. J. Ryan, Chdrles Rappold, G. McElroy, Louis Leffman, John Ferris, D, . Geary, John Keegan, W. J. Turner, James H. Stevens, John Magee, Ter- rence Growney, John Gallager, J. T. Mooney, John Twigg, R. J. Barry, H. B. Goecken, James Boyd, 0. fi' Morten, Samuel Magner, Joseph Magner, P.J. McElroy, J. Rooney, 15 F. Dundon, Robert 'Bovd, Nick Delaney, John Rooney, Joseph Kelly, T. J. Clancy, F.Bateman, James E. Kenny, 'If. Joost, George L. Taylor, C. D. Harney, George McGuin, James McClosky, J. L. Sullivan, F. Raabe, John M. Martin, Mark A. Devine, John Kreling, Jumes J. Twohig, P. F. Ward, 'Daniel Riley, George Young, Philip Prior, W. A. Burns, John 0'Byrne, P. J. Carr, J.J. McDonald, Stephen Byrne, James Mulla’ ney, L. J. Dolan, J. fi McDonald. J. H. Robin- son, William Carroll, Thomas Brennan, John Huar, Charles Downes, M. J. Sullivan, William Connolly, John Tomaliy, N. C. Winholtz, 8.J. Crowley, J. F. Manton, Harry Mooney, J. McCormick, " H. F. McGrath, John Burns, Thomas McLaughlin, John McCarthy, J. F. Grady, M. 8. O’'Hare, M. G. Sears, Eugene 0O’'Donnell P. Mordant, 8. T. Denahy, James Byrnes, William Ring, N. Connors, Thomas Clark, W. H. McDonnell, E. C. Harrington, James Mclnerny, J. H. Sullivan, F. G, This is, of course, | v night, but no formal resolution to | Peterson, J. J. O'Brien, A. J. Foley, J. H. McGinney, Joseph A.’Coyle, Thomas F. Clark, Charles L. Cram, C. W. Welch, Owen McHugh, Eugene McFadden, W. G. Houston, James E. Sweeney, Thomas™ Ashworth, J. J. Dowling, T. J. Welsh, W. F. Armstrong, W. W. Coates, John F. Quale, Eli Landry, J. Murthe, F. W. Horan, P. M. Clarkson, H. J. Anson, J. H. lynn, ~Walter Malloy, Samuel Newman, Thomas Kenuedy, Freank' E. Durham, John A’ Winthrop, L. P. Ward, R. C. Scott, James J. Flynn, M. Fallon, Louis Reese, J. M. Crane, Max Goldman, Joseph Marks, Josenh Roths: child, D. J. Magner, William Henderson, E. P. Casserly. NOT A WAR, BUT A GAME, The Southern Pacific Selling a Long-Haul Ticket to St. Louis. Mr. Goodman Thinking of a Northern “Elbow” Scheme to Get Back at the Santa Fe. The action of the Santa Fe railway sys- tem in again issuing the $40 Omaha ticket, via Kansas City has set the Southern Pa- cific fo thinking, and the scalpers are ex- vecting a “‘rake-off”’ in a game of passen- ger business that they feel confident they can play both ways to perfection. ““It is not a war between the two roads,” said one yesterGay; ‘it is a nice little game of checkers,” and so it seems. In a quiet way the Southern Pacific is selling tickets to St. Louis by way of Orleans. The first-class thirty-day ticket 1s $6750; the first-class ticket with no time allowance, $57 50, and the second- class ticket, $47 50. The rates to St. Louis direct over the Santa Fe are on the same basis. The scalper continued : ‘‘We seil the Southern Pacific’s St. Louis ticket, via New Orleans, for $50, and give him an order on our correspondent at New Orieans for $7560. In this way the pur- chaser saves §5 and we make $2 50 at this end. That is, for his $50 he gets a ticket and an order for $7 50, being a cost to him of $42 50 net. [t would have cost him $47 50 for a straight ticket to New Orleans had he gone to the Southern Pacific Com- pany itself for it. ‘At the other end our correspondent pays him the §750 and takes the unused portion of ticket. That unused porticn is still good for the trip from New Orleans to St. Louis. The fare between those points over the -1llinois Central is $1250. Our correspondent at the New Orleans end sells for $10 the unused portion of the ticket redeemed by him for $7 50 from the original purchaser, and thus clears $2 50 more, besides saving his patron $2 50 on | the Illinois Central run. | “As I said yesterday, we simply play | upon the avariciousness of the railroads, | but_between you and me, if this kiud of | work pulls patrons away from some rival | road, the road 1ssuing the ticket stands in | with the play, although it tries to blufi the | public into believing the holder of a scalper’s ticket will be put off the train. ‘We can send right over to the company and get just such a ticket as I have been talk- ing about atany time. We can go right over with a passenger and do it. Why? Because the company gets the lion’s share of the money, and a passenger it might otherwise have lost. Certainly, if the com- pany can sell the ticket to the passenger direct and get all the money, its businessis to do so.” Thus the scalpers’ services are put to ood account against the Santa Fe by the outhern Pacific. The fact is, the South- ern Pacific has been doing this right along, though General Passenger Agent Goodman endeavored to make it appear that the long haul St. Louis ticket had only been resumed, as usual, for the winter season. | It was only yesterday the company began | to sell the ticket openly. So much, then, for guiet work by the Southern Pacific ‘against the Santa Ke up to the present. It is not going to stop | here, however.. Mr. Goodman admitted. late yesterday afternoon that his company was “thinking” of putting on a ticket to Kansas City via Omaha. Through the scalpers such a move might tend to offset considerably the action of the Santa Fe, but even then the Southern Pacific, a broker explained, would be over $1 50 out of pocket on every such ticket, compared with 1ts proportion of the rate to Kansas City direct. Out of the §40 rate it would get $16 90 instead of $18 53. MOUNTAIN AVALANCHE. Baron Holzhausen and Party Have a Terrifying Experience. The accident to Baron von Holzhausen of Frankfurt-am-Main happened on Mount Blanc on July 12. The party were just walking on the edge of the glacier when suddenly a terrible noise, louder than that of a train in a tunnel, reached their ears, and the most experienced of the guides called out: ‘““An avalanche! We are all lost!” An immense mass of ice had be- come loosened in a ravine of the mount- ain at about three-quarters of an hour’s distance from the tourists, and descended with frightful rapidity, carrying all before it on the glacier. There was no possibility of flight. There was nothing to be done but throw themselves flat on the ground. Baron Holzhausen was nearest the ava- lanche as he threw himself down with his arms protecting his bead. He saw the avalanche strike the glacier, while the pressure of the air cast his companions ten paces back, and then he lost his senses. “At the moment,” he aiterward related, “when the blast caught me I remembered having once read that a powerful pressure of the air preceded every avalanche, sweeping all away before it, and I thonght, here it is. All is lost! Then I lost my senses, and I must say if that had been my death it would have been both easy and beautiful.” Baron Holzhausen’s "com- panions came off better than himself.— Frankfurter Zeitung. —————— A TALR-METER WANTED.—The man who ‘wishes to take a short cut to fame and for- tune has now the chance of his life before him. The crying need in the telephone business is a talk-meter, an automatic ar- rangement by which language can be measured off and recorded in specific lengths. The telephone exchange people say that the trouble is not confined to one sex. The sound of their voices in the tele- phone transmitter bas for some peoplé a great fascination, and they will be ringing up ‘“‘central’”’ all day if they can find the most trivial pretext. The telephone com- panies say that in this way a large amount of work is unduly thrown on the ex- charge employes. They hold that the fault is with "the system, and that if people could be made to pay accord- ing to the number and length of their calls, they would make more temperate and legitimate use of the instrument. Philadelphia is approaching the idea. The Bell Telephone Company there gives what is called measured service, the ‘“measure- ment” being determined by the number of calls or connections, each five minutes’ con- versation, orfraction thereof, being counted a call. This gives subscribers rates in pro- gonion to the use of their instruments. ome such method as this will have to come into genernl use if the abuse of the telephoneisto be arrested. Seven hundred and fifty million telephone messages were sent over the wires last year, averaging about ten messages to every man, woman and child in the United States. Telegrams never exceeded one per head per year, ——————— One of the prized possessions of Mr. Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor of Chicago is the pipe the Infanta Eulalia smoked during her visit to the Columbian Exposi- tion. The precious relic is a briarwood, with a stem seven inches long and a bowl conequndingl{) large. With this ‘“‘schooner” pipe the Princess smoked Chi- cago cut plug. —_—————— THEY JOSHED" EDWARDS, Real Reason for the Suspension of the Two College Editors. WINN USED AS THE PRETEXT. The Fiery Students Intend to Hold a General Indignation Meeting To-Day. The real reason for the starting of the sity publication called the Josh, and the subseqnent summary suspension of two of them by the faculty, has, according to the students, been discovered. Instead of the trouble being caused by a too severe criti- cism of Lieutenant Winn and his iron- clad contract with a San Francisco tailor- ing firm to supply exclusively and at a fixed price the military suits, as has been generally a gentle caricature of Professor Edwards was the underlying motive of the action of the faculty. According to the students, Winn was simply made the pretext and his case was used in order to punish the editors for their lack of discretion in dar- ing to criticize one of their instructors. Professor Edwards, the one who is thought to really have the grievance, is one of the three who compose the com- mittee on student affairs, which body con- ducted the investigation and recom- mended the - suspension _penalty. BEd- wards’ two compeers are Professors Soule and Bacon. 2 : The province of this committee is to in- vestigate every prank of the students and to generally keep them in the straight and narrow educational path. It has sole juris- diction in the matter, with power to hale every student before it on ary affair con- nected with their university life. ever they recommend to the faculty is of course unanimously approved. Professor Edwards has been somewhat prominentin Oakland in its political life, at present being a member of the Board of Educa- tion. When the investigation was first started the students were mildly surprised, as the “Josh” had been patiently hammering away at Lieutenant {)\'inn and his objec- tivnable tailoring contract ever since its first issue. The lordly and pompous head of the “War Department” was generally supposed to be impregnable to assault. When the suspension of Editors Steele dumfounded, as proof against Winn was too positive for the faculty to dare to uphold him. Some of the students, who were suspicious that there was something lurking in the wood- pile, have since been carefully scanning the pages of the issue of the ““Josh” that caused the trouble, and they think they have solved the mystery of the facultv’s tardy action in just discovering that Winn was being heild up to scorn and con- tumely. On one of the pages of that issue appears a cartoon representing a newly arrived freshman as being surrounded with a ter- rifying gang of armed men. booters are meant to represent the different demands to be made upon the student by Each one of the brigands is solemnly labeled. In the rear and partially con- cealed stands one of the bandits named “Athletic Dues.” Now in the university there is an athletic organization composed practically NEW TO-DAY. See that you get the only genuine Waterproof Shoe the only shoe that will keep your feet warm and dry— the only shoe that will prevent Coughs and Colds in rainy weather, in damp weather, in cold weather. Buckingham & Hecht's Nova Scotia Seal Cork Sole Shoes None genuine unless so stamped. $5 ren Men’s. $4.50 —— FOR Ladies’ o cork sore). .00 i 4 BOYS’ (sizes 214 10 5. (Sizes 11 to 2). $y-25 to $l.75 L — —— FOR Misses’ and Children’s. Our New Catalogue free to any addres; Kasts unpipatar i Eagised, 6 more wnd more | 738 740 Market Street investigation of the editors of the univer- | pposed, it now transpires that | What- | and Robbins followed the students were | they thought that the | These free- | the various societies in the institution. | of every nfale member in attendance. Pro- fessor Edwards is the leading spirit in the society. The dues are trifling, amounting toonly about 10 cents a month, yet over 90 per cent of the members are in arrears. Impatient at the continued indifference or impecuniosity of the students, the pro- fessor recently decided to take stringent measures to fill the athletic treasury, and he appointed a committee of 100 students, who were in good standing, to enforce the collection. This decisive method met with considerable quiet grumbling on the part of the great body of delinquents. This committee was appointed about a week be- fore the last issue of the *‘Josh,”” and when that number appeared, Professors Ed- wards, Bacon and Soule convened their junta, which has resulted in raising such a storm among the students. 2. The students are now claiming that if | the Dick Turpin cartoon had been left out | no attention to Winn and his plaint would have been taken by the committee. The luckless lieutenant had been har- pooned at for weeks, almost every student taking a hurtling thrust at him. ~ The stu- dents also point out that Steele, the man who drew the cartoon of Edwards, was suspended to the first of next year, while Robbins, the business manager, who in- | serted the advertisement on Winn, which | has been given out as the animus of the | faculty’s action, bas only been suspended for a month. They think that is suffi- i ciently significant to show who was really | hurt by the jester. y i | - The student body are in an excitable and | turbulent state over the suspension of Steeie and Robbins. An indignation meet- |ing hes been called for to-day, and it is | expected that the faculty will be roundly | criticized if they refuse to reinstate the two editors. The students are in a bellig- erentand volcanic mood and are clamorous for the faculty to rescind their action. Both Steele and Robbins will not be able to graduate with their respective classes, if the sentenca of suspension is enforced, and they have said if they could not so graduate they would never return to the university. REHABILITATI THE OYSTER. — Some months ago there was a hue and cry in England about the typhoid-producing qualities of the oyster and the palatab! bivalve was for a while under a cloud. Two English scientists have taken in hand the task of clearing the oyster’s character, which they appear to have done to the satisfaction of the sympathetic British public. The oyster was experimented upon under many trying circumstance: Deprived of his natural diet of protophyta and protozoa, and fed on sugar, on oat- meal and flour, he died. nant water killed him at once, ana he was found to be greatiy inconvenienced by sewage. He could “stand, however, a_certain degree of foulness; but preferred ordinary sew- age to that containing typhoid matter. The crucial test of the oyster, 1 | and that in which he came out most cred- | itably, was his behavior in the presence of | micro-organisms. Though the oyster | would take in as many as 17,000 microbes, | he took care that most of them remained |in the pallial cavity, between his real self and the shell. The typhoid microbe, ad- mitted with the rest, although allowed to | stay for a fortnight, was not permitted to has | propagate. But even if the oyster | one wrong be can redeem himself. him plenty of air and salt w himself out_ with and he will shed all microbes. In fact, the French oyster farmers have already established **basins of disgorgement” where the oyster is en- | couraged to cleanse himself, and by the { time ne is ready for the table he is above | suspicion. | e A novel feat was performed at the Dia- mond Ice Company’s works in Newport, R. I. 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