The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1895, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1895 REGULATIONS AGAINST AMERICAN COMMERCE Stringent Rules Made Re-| garding Shipping in the South Seas. FOREIGNERS SHUT OUT. Trading Vessels Must Be Half Owned and Officered by Frenchmen. MUST FLY THE FRENCH FLAG. Times Bad in Tahiti and the Marque- sas and the Government Are Impoverished. France is after the trade of Tahiti and the Marq It is apparently, tenton g 1 the islands in sight, and Bolabol Huaheine are not the spots in the Southern Pacific that 1ce wants to annex. Other islands will be taken as the occasion warrants, and in hort time it will be a race between that country and Great Britain as to which na- tion will first get its hands upon the re- maining independent islands of Aus-| tralasia. In the meantime American commerce is also, in- bei wrt by these grabs, and the fleet of American traders in t} soon be extinct. Nine-tentns of the schooners, brigs and barks that trade be- tween Tahiti, the Marquesas, Gilbert group and other places in the southern seas are owned by Americans. France is ch: , and in fature all these vessels must be owned to the ex- tent of half by a Frenchman, and must be commanded by a master of the same nationalit ilt, all the vessels, or mearly all re tied up, as those which cafinot rench masters cannot get any one r willing to purchase an interest. n sailors are "in consequence n the beach at Papeecee and all z an opportunity to reach San thrown e pr: Franc The s the ¥ clhiooner Leon, which arrived from arquesas yesterday, is one of the vessels that came unde owner is an Ameri but the master who cleared her at Papeetee ) in Andron. The Leon 1s now | rench flag and after bein nd fitted with new s she will | hiti, where the Frenchman | iased a part inte z owner. This means months the American 'n on a trader to the ept when the Tropic | apeetee arrive at and with the American named Kennedy, 10ther six not be se rch colonies Bird and City of part from” Tahiti the schooner the white officers n tell a woeful tale of hard times ‘rench possessions. Nearly all the | mast hands are bareheaded and bare- footed natives, hite men say they were glad to work their way up with them in order to re zation. According to them there is no trade of any ki going on, and the people are heav. in order to keep up an y of ment ofticials. For years past the cocoa- in the F nut plantations have been going from bad to worse, until now a Government edict prohibits the making of copra for six | mot The natives are allowed to take all the nuts they require for their own use and what is wanted for planting. But for six months there are to be no harvests, and each native must do a certain amount of lan The pearl shell fisheries have also been closed except upon the newly acquired islands of Bolabola and Huaheine. As there is very little shell on these places, however, it means a practical shut down for six months. Then when the law came compelling all trading vessels to register under the French fiag and be commanded by a French officer it was the last straw. In addition to all this the crews of the traders are paid in Chilean money and as one of these dollars is only worth 50 cents in America the men have been practically working for half p: “Of course Franc is only taking a leaf out of the United States’ book,” said Captain Kennedy, “so we ought not to grumble. Before a vessel can trade be- tween American ports she must be owned and officered by Americans. Still the ap- plication of the rule in the South Seas is very hard on those traders who have built up a_good connection. They have the whip hand over us, however, and we can either comply with their laws or go out of business.” ALONG THE WATER FRONT. A Runaway German Sailor Boy Drowned From the Ship Hospodar, Arrival of an Unusually Large Fleet of Deep-Water Sailing Vessels. The overdue Swansea fleet came slipping into port yesterday. The Clan Galbraith, 133 days out, was the first to get in, and she was followed by the Routenburn, day: ling in after them came ‘he Flintshire, 1. the Cape York, 170 da 125 days, and the Cardiganshire, 132 days. All made re- markably close runs and all experienced the same lignt and baffling winds. The Cape York lost seven days at Cape- town or she would have been here a fort- night ago. On July Captain Mitchell discovered that the cargo was heated, He made for the nearest port and there sixty tons of coal were jettisoned. On July 30 the ship proceeded on her way. Other vessels that got in Wednesday ight and_Thursday were the Hospodar, Orpheus, 77 day W.; Tacoma, 17 Barfillan, 148 n bark Nord- and several Captain Kerr of the Hospodaris the only. one that reports a tragedy. One of the sailors was washed away in a storm, and impossible to save him. His name itz Falkenhagen and his parents are wealthy members of society in Berlin, Although rated asa seaman young Falken- 1 was only 17 years old, and ran from home to become a sailor. Cap- tain’ Kerr knew nothing about the lad’s escapade until the ship was a week out from Hamburg, and it was then too late to do anything. On July 16 last it began to blow, and for three d the ship was cousmm}y swept by heay The cabin was gutted s put out. Everything movable on deck was washed overboard, and it was during one of these sweeps that the voung sailor was caught in a wave and dashed against the jee rail. The next 10ll of the shigftook him overboard and he was Jever seen again. There was quite a scene at the ferries yesterday morning, and William Louis Glass came out on top. Several days ago President Colnon gave motice that when there was a full board present he would make a motion to the effect that all nickelin-the-slot machines be removed from the ferry depot. Commissioner Chadbourne has been away ever since, so no action has been taken. The trouble all_arose over a squabble between Glass and a man named Wainwright. Glass se- cured a permit from the commission, and has been paying rent. Wainwright put in his weighing-machine and then asked for a permit. It was then that President Colnon decided to act. s was suffer- ing in the meantime, however, and yester- day morning he put in an appearance with an express wagon and several as- sistants. He pulled up the Wainwright machines and carted them away. When the proprietor appeared he was angry and threatened vengeance. The chances are that next Tuesduy all the machines will be ordered out. .- PROBATE REAL ESTATE. A Successful Auction Sale, at Which There Was Active Bidding. The probate anction sale held yesterday at the auction-rooms of McAfee Bros. was one of the most successful of the season. The following pieces were reported sold: Improvement business property fron feet on Tilbert street and 120 on modern two-story building, for $11 ness property, shop and lot, nqrth bert street, 100 feet east of Filtmore, to Pixley street, for sroperty, Jlsom street, hetween Eighth and Ninth, $3600; income proper four flats, € j291; Natoma street, 25 Q teet, $4000; business property, store and dwelling, 1018 Folsom street, 50; in- come property, six flats, 24 and 241, Garden street, between DBryant and Harrison, for 2800; manufacturing property, 50-vara lot, jutheast corner of Webster and Chest streets, 137 feet on each street 3 cheap home lots on Old Hickory, Way Gates streets, for $300; boulevard home, house and lot, south_side of Point Lob feet west of Blake street, for §1: Clinton av, for $140, 'and lot on Vernon street for § MRS, BOOTH'S FAREWELL, The Salvation Army’s Foremost Woman Bids Adieu to California. This State’s Auxiliary League Second Only to That of New York. Mrs. Ballington Booth said good-by to a great audience in Metropolitan Temple last night. The red jerseys and the poke- bonnets of the Salvationists were promi- nent in the gallery and on the platform, but a very large majority of the hundreds | in the immense assemblage were people who bad prid popular theater prices for their s and had come to see what “The Black-sheep Church” would bring forth in connection with the last public appear- ance of the wife of Ballington Booth, com- mander of the Salvation Army in the United States. The sincerely interested went away con- | tented; the indifferent were pleased, and the simply curious were satistied, and | everybody ¢ 1t something of the Salva- tion Army jollity and good nature so charmingly exemplified by its greatest woman exponent and organizer, pretty little Mrs. Booth, and by several others who tovk t in the general programme of the evenin, It was the end of Mrs. Booth’s three weeks’ lecturing tour in Calitornia and it was also the occasion of the enrollment of tue one-thousandth member of the Aux- iliary League in this State and the promo- tion of several local officers of the army in recognition of their meritorious services. California now has 1012 members of the Salvation Army Auxiiiary League and is second only to New York State in respect | to the number enrolled. J. H. Barry, editor of the Weekly Star, his name publicly announced as the one-thousandth leaguer in California. On the platform were seated some ty Salvation ofticers and cadets, and near the speaker’s desk was a large oil-painting of General Booth, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army. All dbout were the army colors in streamers of red, blue and yellow. interspersed here and there with small National flags. As Mrs. Booth came on the platform her ci Everbody rise and fire a volley,” and the whole great au- dience rose and there was a tumultuous cheer. Then one of the army songs, adapted to “Marching Through Georgia,”’ was started and soon there was a great volume of voices rolling out the chorus: March on, march on! We bring the jubilee; n, fight on! Sulvation mukes us free; ‘We'll shout our Savior's Praise over land and sea As we go marching to glory. And the charioteer band played and the tambourines ana the bones rattled and nands were clapped in the generally tagious refrain. But all the enthusias that thig created was nothing to the furor that the army’s Oakland minstrel cansed with his banjo and bones accompuniment to his solos.” As an encore he gave a song of which this is the chorus: Slide, Satan, slide, I'll never know yon more: Slide, lide'I'm bound for Cannan shore. © enjoyment, torment: Fight Mr. and Mrs. Beet, the colored singers of real old plantation songs, cansed uncon- trollable pood humor by their inimitable and fervid singing, accompanying their words with swaying bodies, gestures and expressions that were evidently not lost on the audience. And then they wound up with: Gib me dat old-time ’ligion, it's good 'nough for me; it'll be good when the world’s on fire. The following officers were promoted by Mrs. Booth: Ensign Boyden to be adjutant, Captain Musick (a” woman) to be Adjutant Musick, Captain Barker to be Ensign Barker, Cadet Parke to be Lieuten- ant Parke, Mr. and Mrs. Reed to be cap- tains, Lieutenants Helen Seville and Ali Wright to be captains, and vella Wise coast leader of the movement.. During the course of her remarks Mrs, Booth said: Ican assure you that my experience here has made me fall in love heart and soul with California and her people. 1 can assure you that what T have seen makes me feel that the Salvation Army in California is in & healthy and prosperous con- dition. Iknow that T voice my dear husband’s and my own sentiments when Isay that we have the supremest interest in the army’s work on this consf You can place the utmost confidence in the work the Salvation Army is doing in this your City in its rescue work, in its shelters, in its Children’s Home. . The Salvation Army has a good footing—a secure footing—here. When I see the poor drunkard and the for- lorn and outcast stretch out their hands to the army here I cannot prophesy what the outcome will'be. But 1 hope that when I shall return 10 your Cityin four years 1 shall see much greater growth. 1 would like to see the streets of your City tlooded with Saivation soldiers. There is one thing that has weighed heavily Oon my mind while i have been here, but before 1 goEast Imean toshift the burden on to your minds. Waen we visited the Beulah Home a few days ago and saw the comfort and convenience of those quarters I felt that there shouid be another suen home, ana the Salva- tion Army should have it. And we are goin? to have one in the near future and who will build it? Why the people of San Francisco will furnish the money. The Salvation Army deserves it; it needs such & ;lgrmc. where the rescued outcast may be cared | Supren asm | It mekes my heart sick. sick, sick, when I hear the depreciatory remarks people make about the Salvation Army and it: neing men, its jingling tambourines and singing soldiers. Théy are the ones ‘who have never put their hands to the plow. Is it not better for these men who have danced for the devil to be danc- ing now for God? The ambulance in its mission of rescue and mercy is given full and unquestioned right of way in the streets. No one says, Why do they not compel them to travel on the back streets? The Salvation Army is domg just such work, and yet people do 1iot always ireatjt as though it had God’s right of way to engage in the work we are doing. Let his power, let his peace, let his cleansing ower come into your hearts to-mght. so that etting your little inconsistencies pass, you may be true-hearted Christians. Mrs. Booth leaves on this morning’s overland for her home in New York, but she expects to return to the coast in four years and perhaps sooner. e o ¥un on the Chutes. “Shooting the chutes” is becoming & very popular amusement here. Theatrical parties are in vogue. Yesterday the Tivoli people enjoyed themselves in sliding down the water- way, and this aiternoon the members of the Charlie’s Aunt Company and the actors from Morosco’s_ are going out. The musical pro- gramme for to-day is as follows: March, “Shoot the Chutes” (Blanchard:; selection, “Maritanw’ (Wallace); paraphrase (Nesvadba) waltz, “Artist’s Life” (Strauss) ; galop, “Friseo’s r Girls” (Blanchard); waltz, “Beautifil (Kela Beln); selection, “I Pagliacei vallo): populaT songs (Jacob- rnet duo, “The Two Dromios’”; march, moon” (Rosey). HOPE FOR MAS. SHATTUCK The Supreme Court Has Decided to Allow Her a New Trial. n); Honey The Murderess of Harry Poole Will Have Another Chance in the Superior Court. Jane Shattuck, convicted of killing y Poole, was granted a new trial by the Supreme Court yesterday. The murder attracted much attention at the time, on account of its sensational features. Harry Poole had been paying attentions to Truly Shattuck, who was then leader of the Tivoli chorus. Her mother learned of the intimacy between them, and when she learned that it had gone beyond the bounds of propriety she demanded that he marry her daughter. He refused, and she shot him one morning when he was at the house. The case was tried before Judge Belcher. A defense of insanity was made, but the jury found the mother guilty, and she was sentenced to the State prison for life. An appeal was taken, and the order of Judge Belcher denying a new trial was reversed. A few days before the shooting a letter was sent to Harry Poole by Mrs. S hattuck, asking that he decide whether or not he would marry her daughter. Truly, she said, was going East, and she wanted an answer from him. He showed this letter to his mother, and the letter and all that W aid about it by him and by his mother were allowed in the mother’s testimony. Counsel for the defense objected, on the ground that it was incompetent testimony, but without avail. In commenting upon this the Supreme Court said that the de- fense has a right to show malice on the part of Mrs. Shattuck, but what Poole him- self said s not competent testimony to prove malice. The prosecution made much out of this point in the lower court. as tending to support their claim that Poole murdered in cold blood. The Jourt says the admission of this testimony is alone sufficient to justify a reversal. Anotber error which the Supreme Court took cognizance of was in the lim:tations which the lower court placed upon the medical testimony The defense con- tended that Mrs. Shattuck did not know of anything improper between her daugh- ter and Poole until just before she shot him. There was latent insanity present in her mind at the time, they claimed, and the sudden discovery of the shame of her daughter unbalanced her intellect. To show this insanity, the defense wished to show the previous condition of the de- fendant’s mind. This the court refused to allow, but the Supreme Court declares the defense had a right to go back and attempt to_show the condition of the defendant’s mind before the murder. The charge af the court also contained error. In speaking of this the Supreme Court say The court instructed as follows: Certain relatives of the defendant, to-wit, the hus band, mother and daughtér, have be emined as witnesses in bet This is their right. It is proper, however, for | the jury to bear in mind the relationship be- | tween them and the defendant and the man- ner in which they may be interested t verdict and the very grave interest the feel in it, and it is proper for the jury to con- sider whether their position and interest may not affect the eredibility or color of their testi- mony. A charge of this character has been held to be error in the case of the People vs. Herz. This court has frequentiy hinted that a sim- flar instruction in regard to the defendant is erroneous, because it violates the constitu- tional provision that Judges shall not charge juries in regard to matters of fact. The court has heretofore declined to reverse for such in- struction, as it had been approved in some | former cases. The reason for this was that cases might have been already tried where such instruction had been given in reliance upon the former decisions, and in regard to the defendant the instructidn would not be so harmful, as the situation was obyious without being specially pointed ont. This case was tried before the profession be- came aware of the rule laid down in People ys. Herz. We do not care to modify this rule. .- AMERICAN MACHINERY IN JAraN.—Ad- vices from Japan in treating of the omni- presence of electrical devices in that country make special note of the extent to which American machinery is in favor. ctrical generating station of the a-Kioto canal twenty horse- power Pelton water-wheels are installed. They are belted with Edison, Thomson- Houston and Brosh dynamos, with coun- tershafts between them. Lately a th ree- Ehnse dynamo of Siemens & Halske has een added. The work of this plant is extremely interesting and the installation shows how keenly alive the Japanese are to the possibilities ot electricity. The canal, which provides the water power for the genemlin§ station, is crossed by sev- eral bridges. Near the water-power station 1san incline along which boats with cargo are moved up and down on wheedled cradles. The cradles are hauled by steel ropes passing around a drum, which is worked by electricity from the power- house. This peculiar adaptation is made necessary by the Gescent of the canal at this point, 118 feet in 1813 feet, to the level of the city. The gradient of the canal incline iz one in fifteen. Double hnes of railways, consisting of flat-hottomed steel rails, are laid on__ wooden sleep- ers. ' The gauge 'is 8 feet 3 inches. Two cradles, each with eight wheels, are so arranged that one goes up while another is descending. The width of the boat is 7 feet, and the length 45 feet. The weight of the cargo is from ten to fifteen tons, and the time of the passage of the cradle is about twelve minutes. Not only are the cradles moved up and down the canal incline by the electric motor, buy the electric power is used for spinning, weaving, in the manufacture of clocks, watches, needles, oil, lemonade, ice, soda- water factories, rolling-mills, ricemills, and for pumpimg water for the innumer- able bathhouses which are situated within a radius of two miles from the power- station. Besides these the station sup- g_lges electricity in the daytime to the (ioto Electric Railway Company, and at night to the Kioto Electric Light Com- any. The cost of the power ranges from 20 to $60 per horsepower per year for daily rates of twelve hours; for eighteen hours the increase is 30 per cent, and for twenty- four hours it is 50 per cent. If any one bas the idea that the Japanese are children in the feld of industry, he may safely be said to be in error. / 4 : SHARKEY WON THE FIGHT, Miller of the San Francisco Club Stood for Nine Rounds. THE SHERIFF STOPPED IT. Eight Hundred Sports Saw the Cham- pion Amateur Whipped by the Navy Demon. The defeat of big John Miller of the San Francisco Athletic Club in nine rounds by Tom Sharkey, the champion of the Eng- lish and American navies,at the Colma Athletic Ciub last night, was not a sur- prise to the sporting fraternity. Miller had whipped the champion ama- teur boxers of this City and the fight of last evening was his first professional ap- pearance in public. He stepped into the ring in splendid condition and wore a look of confidence on his face, and particularly was this noticeable when he estimated his stocky opponent, who by the way could have been in much better itrm. Sharkey evidently thought that in Miller he would find an easy victim and trained accordingly. A large boil which had taken possession of his right forearm proved that the champion of the navy had not trained very carefully for the miil. The betting was 2 to 1 on Sharkey and at these figures Miller money was not easily procured. The Ban Fraucisco Athletic Club’s mem- bers were present in force, and many of them expected to see Miller put his big right fist on Sharkey’s jaw when the op- vortunity offered, but in this they met with disappointment, as Miller either did not know how to handle his treacherous duke or else he was afraid of raising the sailor’s ire by smashing him a hard blow. When Sbarkey took his seat in the northeast corner of the ring the first ob- Ject that attracted his attention was a lit- tle wren which had perched immediately over his head on one of the raiters. Smilingly he turned to his second, Billy Smith, and said, “I am sure to win this fizht, Billy, as the Irish wren, the king of all birds, has come all the way from the old country to see the scrap and wish me good luck.” Smith smiled also, and Sharkey kept his eye' on the bird until the gong sounded time for an exchange of iistic compliments. It was exactly 9:450’clock when the two gladiators were ordered to meet by Referce Young Mitchell, Miller, who scaled 200 pounds and stood over six feet in his slip- pers, looked down at his powerfully built opponent, who tipped the scales at 185 pounds before entering the ring. “Are you ready, gentlemen?”’ asked the referee,” and ‘as both fighters answered Yes"'the gong sounded again and the fight was on. Sharkey fiddled around his opponent looking jor an opening, as it were, and then rushed in. Miller met his rush by straightening out left hand, the glove on which caught Sharkey’s de- cidedly hard-to-mark mouth. *‘Good for Milier,” shouted some one in the audience, and in the next second Sharkey caught his opponent a good stiff left punch on the chin. Again Sharkey tried a rushing game, but was met by a heavy left which sent him back a few feet. Miller remained on the defensive appar- ently satisfied to meet the rushes of the ‘demon of the navy’’ with his left. Shar- key had by this time got his fighting blood bolling and he made a desperate rush at Miller, took a glancing blow on the ear, gotunder Miller's guard and rushed the big fellow to the ropes, where some hot punchine resulted, The gong sounded the end of the first round, and Miller retired to his corner with the first appearance of a ‘“‘shanty’’ raising over his left eye. In the second round Sharkey opened the game by rushing at Miller and getting a §ood stiff left on the nose. Three times Miller stopped the rushes of his opponent, and Sharkey, being somewhat winded afier the lively rally in the first round, moved round Miller and turned his attention to the big fellow’s long stomach, which he found a good target for hot shot, it being unprotected. The third round opened with Sharkey playing for Miller's stomach. Time and again he get in bis right and left on that delicate part of Miller’s anatomy until the latter grew weary and essayed to land his awkward right on the sailor's neck. Sharkey bad much the best of the round, although he stopped one or two blows which, although leaving no marks, made the recipient think that the game was not s0 easiiy mastered. The fourth round was exciting. Sharkey made a wild lunge at Miller and missed. The latter got back and landed the first good right smash of the evening on Shar- key’s neck. Again Miller tried to plant his right but missed an easy shot. Sharkey tried infighting, and rushing Miller to the ropes he gave him one, two, three in quick order. Miller staggered back, but Sharkey followed up and caught the bigex-amateur champion a right-hander on the ear which sent the recipient to Pandemonium_followed, but order was regained when Miller got to his feet and gamely fought his opponent to the center of the ring, where, after a hot rally, the fighters clinched and were quickly separ~ ated. Milier had by this time raised two shanties, one over each eve. Sharkey had bellows to mend when he reuired to his corner. Condition told on Sharkey in the fifth round. He was weak from the previous hot rally, and remained off, occasionally jabbing Miller on the nose. The latter, | who was also tired, was satistied to make a waiting fight. 3 Very little fighting was done in the sixth round. Toward the end of it Miller landed two good lefts on Sharkey's face, which, however, did not leave an impres- sion. In the seventh round Miller's second tried hard to get his champion to go in and exchange blows with Sharkey, but the big fellow was afraid of the gaff, and played the usual game of stand off and wait. When the eighth round was called Billy Smith told Sharkey to sail in again and smash the big fellow good and hard. Sharkey followed instructions and the most exciting round of the evening re- sulted. The ““demon” made a plunge at his opponent the instant Miller reached the center of the ring, and it was give and take for half a minute. Miller was driven to the ropes and a grand bit of slogging which highly delighted the spectators fol- lowed. Miller was punching big holes in the smoky a(mnsp‘)\ere in the vain attempt to land his sledgehammer right on some part of Sharkey’s head or face. The sailor was uppercatting and undercutting and swing- ing right and left, regardless of what part of Miller's head his fists landed upon. Finally Sharkey caught the big 'un a right-band jolt on the point of the chin and down went Miller against a post. _The seconds were counted and when the eighth second was called Miller struggled to his feet and the gong sounded to the chairs. In the ninth round Sharkey sailed in to put the finishing touches on his opponent, and after landing a few blows Miller was about to drop ty the boards when Sheriff McEvoy of San Mateo County stepped be- tween the ropes and orde the contest stopped. The referee gave the fight to Sharkey, and the crowd dispersed in good order to catch the train for home. ~Joe McAuliffe offered top Sharkey in ten rounds whenever ths latter is ready to make a match. ek R Merchants Swindled. R. E. Caseris, 20 years of age, was arrested last night by Detectives Bee and Harper and booked at the City Prison on the charge of em- bezzlement. On October 23 he ordered a valu- able mandolin from Sherman, Clay & Co., and had it sent to an address. He took it from the messenger and pawned it. He also ordered a yaluable ring from W. K. Vanderslice & Co., to be sent to his room, but the messenger refused to part with until he got the cash and took it back. The detectives expect to have other charges against him. — . A Game of Poker. John Sherwood, alias Hyde, appeared in Judge Joachimsen's court yesterday to answer the charge of grand larceny. The complaining witness was Rudolph Schrensky, who conducts & poker game on Dramm street. Schrensky and a friend thought they could scheme to wia alot of money irom Sherwood at studhorse voker. They went to Sherwood’s room on O’Farrell street, and the game finished with Schrensky $55 the loser. He found that Sher- wood wore & ring with a glass attachment which enabled him to see the face of each card dealt, und he had him arrested. The Judge dismissed the case. Eomle e o Technical Battery. B.F. Hanlon, the insurance agent, was con- victed of battery upon Conductor O. T. Harper of the Devisadero-street line by Judge Joach- imsen yestesd: Wednesday the Judge, afier hearing the évidence, intimated that he thcuih! the defendant was in the rightand that he would likely dismiss the case. He had come to the conclusion, however, that tech- nically a battery had been committed, so he fined the defendant $5 without an alternative. et Sons of Vermont Social. For several weeks the Native Sons of Ver- mont have been preparing for a grand renion, entertainment and social to be held this even- ingat Odd Fellows' Hall. The entertainment will consistof vocal and instrumental musle, fancy dancing and a charming presentation of “A Dream in Fairyland.” It will conclude with a comedy that will make everybody laugh. After this there will be dancing. B s eac s Secured a Big Contract. The Fulton Engineering and Ship-building Works have secured the contract for building a ten-stamp mill for the Alaska-Willoughby Gold Mining Company, and the work is now nder way at the company’s plant at Harbor View. I INTERESTING EXHII, Fine Work Done by the Students of the Y. M. C. A. Night Schools. Educational Department Has Raised Laberers to Skilled Art- isans. Charles H. Hodge, the educational sec- retary of the international committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association, has on exhibition at the association building in this City a very interesting collection of work done by the educational department of the Young Men’s Christian Association. There are about fifty cities represented, including New York, Chicago and Phila- detphia. The specimens of work were taken from the classrooms prepared by students who had no thought of public exhibition. They comprise courses in seventy-five different lines of work, such as free-hand, mechanical and architectural drawing; in- dustrial design, preparatory to such tech- nical lines as carriage-draughting, wood and metal working, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. There are 100 winged frames in the exhibit made by the industrial class at Springfield, Ohio. Borders of classic design and high orna- mentation were produced by rough- handed bricklayers. A conspicuous o b- ject isa voltmeter made by students of Hartford, Conn. Secretary Hodge states the object of the work is to make young men more helpful o themselves. Statistics ‘show that 60 per cent of the Young Men’s Christian Association stu- dents are in commercial classes, and there- fore fitting themselves for the occupations n which one-fourth of the young men of the country are employed. Only 25 per cent are studying industrial and educa- tional courses. Of a consequence the au- thorities of the school are urging young men to follow these two courses, because they lie at the foundation of the occupa- tions of three-fourths of the workers in this country and open a corresponding wider field for success. e u— TrHE RELATION OF LABOR T0 NERVOUS DIs- eAsEs.—Professor Cognetti di Martiis, in showing that each occupation, mechanical or intellectual, has its peculiar nervous disease, draws a harrowing picture of the dangers attending modern industrial life. He begins by discussing the perils to the nerves of open-air workers. Lightning is one of these. It kills iwenty-two persons annually in England and seventy-one in France, and leaves many of those who es- cape death with shattered nerves for life. The malarial fevers common to open-air workers, erpecially agricultural laborers, are in many cases followed by severe nerv- ous disorders, and there is a true rural paralysis resultiog from these fevers. Te- tanus, the germ of which thrives in swampy ground, and sunstroke are both followed by distressing nervous disturb- ances. Strong light produces a nervous affection of the eve known as snow-blina- ness, and one form of the disturbance, to which foundrymen are very subject, makes the victim practically blind toward sun- set and after nightfali. Miners have painful nervous affections of the eye, but irom opposite causes. Their troubles are in great part caused by the rarefaction of the oxygen in the air in which they work, and are accompanied by stran;ge iliusions, such as the apparent swayifg back and forth of objects in the field of vision. Miners working in mountain shafts have the so-called mountain sickness, accom- panied by headache, writhing of the body, hesitancy of movement, heart affections, nausea and vomiting, sometimes followed by insensibility, delixium and coma. Aero- nauts have the same tronble. Men who work under high atmospheric pressure are even ina worse plight. The voice becomes metallic, utterance is difficult, and in the case of some sounds impossible; hear- ing is impaired, muscles are knotted, smell and taste are lost, and the la- borer handles his tools with diffi- culty. Seasickness is another nervous affection that has always defied the doc- tors, and no satisfactory remedy has ever been found for it. Too much schoolwork causes epilepsy and St. Vitus’ dance in children, besides impaired sight, headache, stammering, insomnia and fleeting hallu- cinations. Under the intense strain of modern commercial life the business man becomes a victim to neurasthenia and loses the power of mental application. The speed at which railway locomotives are driven on certain lines utterly break down the nerves of the drivers in a short time. The intense preoccupation and great manual exertion of the pianoforte player often produces paresis. Clarionet players have spasms of the tongue. Sew- ing-machine makers, telegraphers, cigar- makers, button-makers and others who bave to maintain a high speed at their work are subject to nervous dis- turbances immediately affecting the part of the body especially under strain, but extending to other parts. Dentists’ leg is a paralytic affection of parts kept long under pressure, Hammer paralysis comes to the man who has one arm constantly plying a tool of the striking kind. The professional bicyclist is subject to shock- ing nervous maladies. He is likely to suffer esgeciully from excessive weariness, loss of the power of attention, of critical sense, of judgment, and of all the higher psychic manifestations. Persons accus- tomed to use the voice a great deal are subject to laryngeal spasms; watchmalkers and others who use strong magnifying glasses become nearsighted. ~In fact, every occupation exacts its penalty, physical or mental, and the shortening of the hours of lgb:cr seems to be the only remedy in sight, WILL BATTLE NEXT WEEK. The Junta Agrees to Give Buck- ley an Interesting Meeting, IT DEMANDS A LITTLE TIME. The Buckleyites Want a Smaller Com- mittee and Will Not Quit if Beaten. The battle between Buckley and the Junta will come off next week. There is no prospect of interference with the mill, and the people will get their money’s worth. Yesterday foremoon a Buckley com- mittee presented to Chairman Watking their petition for a meeting of the general committee. They had arranged a refusal of Metropolitan Temple for either Monday or Tuesday night next, and asked Mr. Watkins to call the meeting for mnext Monday night. Mr. Watkins has an affable smile, a plug hat and a ready and decisive tongue. He said tbat he would call the meeting, but not so soon as all that— within a reasonable time. The petition, which required fifty names, had sixty-nine signatures. The com- mittee consisted of Attorney Joseph Rothschild (chairman), Robert Boyd, John Kreling, J.J. Fiynn, James O'Connor and Thomas Ford. ‘‘A committee presented a petition to me and asked that the meeting be called for Monday night,” said Mr. Watkins yes- terday. “I tola them that I would call the meeting within a reasonable time, within ten days or two weeks, and the gen- tlemen were perfectly satisfied with that. 1 didn’t propose to call the meeting for Monday night, because we are not quite ready, and it would not be fair to give them the advantage of their own time, As to the situation I have nothing to s: We are sawing wood and saying nothing. The committeachased around after Mr. Watkins yesterday morning and found him with Gavin McNab at the Mills build- ing. The committee pinned Mr. Watkins down to a promise that he would call the meeting within ten days, and with that the Buckley men have to be satisfied. The new general committee to be ap- pointed by the Deuprey committee is nearly completed and yesterday Junta leaders, while expressing eagerness for the fray, said that the meeting would likely be called for the latter part of next week. nothing new develops to change present plansand expectations the meeting when 1t comes will be a decisive one and afford a fair test of the full strength of each fac- tion. Until then there wifl remain pend- ing the question of votes as to whether a new party organization is to be appointed then by anti-Buckleyites or elected at a rimary to be held at once according to the uckley plan. A new feature of the Buckley programme came to light yesterday. If the Buckley faction wins the machine and orders a pri- mary the new general committee elected will be a smaller one. 1t will corsist, in all probability, of fifteen representatives of each district and a total of 270 members, instead of twenty-five from each district and a total membership of 450. But this would be but carrying out the very programme decided on a year and a half ago by the anti-Buckley management of affairs, and it would be doing what is required by the present constitution of the general committee. In March, 1894, when Max Popper was chairman of the general committee and in command of the organi- zation the constitution was amended mak- ing the new general committee that was then to be elected soon consist of fifteen from each district. The committee or- dered a primary under the constitution as | umendeg at that time by a two-thirds vote, and one was called for July 30. The call provided for district club enrollment from the 25th to the 30th of June and nomina- tions on July 16. The enrollment went on and then the Buckley scare and the trouble about purifying the rolls arose. On July 21 Popper resigned as a member of the committee from the Forty-third District, but retained the chairmanship. The arrangements for the primary were carried out to the 27th, when at a meeting of the general committee Popper’s motion that the primary be indefinitely postponed was carried. The managers were afraid to risk a primary because Buckley was around, convention delegates were elected by the commiitee itself and the committee has simply continued to exist until now, the amendments to the constitution re- maining as adopted. It is that indefinitely postponed primary which the Buckley faction will hold within thirty days or so if they can exhibit a majority of the general committee next week. The Junta is appointing a new committee of 450 because they do not hold that the amended constitution is particu- larly in force in that respectand because a large committee is deemed safest in the same town with Buckley. If one side finds that it didn’t count it- self right and is beaten when the meeting comes what will it do then? Now that is where the factions differ—that is, the leaders. The Junta people say that if Buckley should gain contiol of the ma- chine they would simply fight on until the platforms of the convention halls are reached and win there. If Buckley is still unbeaten then, they say—at least some of them do—ghnt they will vote the Republi- can or Non-Partisan ticket along with thousands of other Democrats who would never stomach Buckley again. The Buckleyites, if vicrorious, would on the other hand exhibit a chivalric magna- nimity. 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