The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1895, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1895. GRANT'S BUST FOR TH E MONUMENT MISSING A Hoodoo Has Hung Over the Memorial for Ten Years. R. SCHMID GETS NO NEWS Remarkable Mortality Among the Ranks of Its Promoters. TWO0 MEN STILL INTERESTED. The Sculptor Will Be the Loser if the Bust and Ornaments Do Not Materialize. A hoodoo seems to have hung over the Grant monument from the time the idea of erecting a monument to the famous general was first started until the ]lrescr& he latest development in the history of the ill-fated monument is that the marble busts and the bronze scrolls and orna- ments which were being imported from Europe have disappeared and no news has been obtained of them for the last four months. Rupert Schmid, the sculptor, completed his heroic bust of Grant at Car- rara last spring. The bronze ornaments to adorn the monument were also made during Sthmid’s visit to Europe, and like the Christmas cheer of tle Billee and his studio friends in “Trilby” the bust and trim: gs were dispatched by ‘petite vitesse. It must have been the slowest of ‘“‘petite rdier than the most lagging of French freight trains, because the consign- ent of art goods was aue in San Fran- o four months ago ana it still tarries. .etters have bee y the anxious sculptor and t atched, but be- d the ne: hat the Grant bust and the bronze ornaments were sent on their way by ‘‘petite vitesse,” no news can.be gath- ered of them. Schmid is still hopeful and the committee has not yet begun to worry for one reason—because there are very few of them left to do so. There is another feature of the hoodoo over the Grant monument, ¢, the extraordinary mortality the promoters of the scheme for ing a great and good man. Ten last August twenty-eight of the s most prominent men met together ise ways and means for erecting a grandiose memorial to General Grant; to- Leland Stan- ford was the president of the organization, ilter the first vice-president and Flood the second vice-president. 1e,other officers and the commit- here i$ only a remnant left who have one 10 join the great majori 1 rd promised to the sum of $100,000 could , for the original idea was a $500,- the scheme sed bevond mortal ken. scribed remained in the bank year after year at compound interest, but otherwise without being aaded to by a single cent. tion—Isaac Hecht, C. O’ dore Reichert—formed a committee to utilize the money by erecting a monument on a much humbler plan than the original Since that time Isaac Hecht o h Iso died. It was decided to enrich Golden Gate Park with a pile of masonry, ornamented n bronze and surmounted by bust of General Grant. Sculptor Schmid received the contract for a design that was symmetrical and artistic. His plaster cast for the bust was a life-like and imposing likeness of General Grant, and it was helieved that when the work was wrought in marble it would prove an orna- ment to the City. In marble Schmid wrought it at Carrara, he caused the work of art to be carefully packed in strong wooden and iron casings, and secure in its tirm packing he had it dispatched by “petite vitesse’, and returned to California to await its arrival. Other busts that Schmid dispatched from Carrara arrived months ago—the Montgomery busts, the Barron b and the bust of Gover- nor Downe, but the bust of General Grant, where is it? Another question is: ‘Will General Reichert and C. O’Connor tempt fate by making another effort to secure a Grant monument for San Fran- cisco? JONES ON THE ELECTIONS The Silver Senator Believes They Have Been an Ob- ject Lesson. He Is Anxious for the Chicégo Con. ference, and Wants a Party of Bimetallists. ‘. T ited States Senator John P. Jones is strongly of opinion that there will be a separate silver party in the campaign of next year. The formation of such a party is to grow out of the coming silver confer- ence at Chicago, he thinks. This Chicago conference is to take place some time near the Christmas holidays, in the hope that it may have some effect on Congress. A call is now being prepared by the executive committee which grew out of the Memphis conference of last summer. This committee consists of Con- gressman J. H. Acklen of Tennesses, M. W. Rusk of Colorado and Joseph Batallal of Vermont, and the American Bimetallic League, of which General A. J. Warner is chairman, with headquarters at Washing- ton, D. C., and the National Bimetallic Union of Salt Lake City, R. C. Chambers chairman, are working in conjunction with 1t, says Secretary George P. Keeney of the local branch of the American League. Mr. Keeney has kad frequent conferences with Senator Jones at the Palace Hotel since_he has been here, and yesterday he stated that Mr. Jones, since the result of the elections in the East has become known, is particularly anxious for the con- ference to be heid. According to Mr, Keeney, Benator Jones expressed himself as follows on the outcome of the elections: “I think that the elections just held have demonstrated beyond the possibility of any doubt whatever that the issue in the campaign of 1896 will be flatly between the champions of gold and silver; that finance and not turiffgis to be the only question, and that it can no longer be settled within party lines. “The gold and silver men kmfed each other in these elections regardless of party. It is an object lesson to silyer men all over the Nation. If the battle between metals be not forced now on a straight issue and along unmistakable lines the zold brokers of London and New York will dominate the Government of the country for the onnor and Theo- | | next four years also, whichever of the two | old parties wins. “The best thing for the silver men to do is to get together at Chicago and outline a plan of organization for a completely separate and independent party. The people have been pretty well educated and they now know quite well what free and unlimited coinage of silver means to their business interests. In my opinion a dis- | tinctively silver party could win.” Secretary Keeney says the silver men of this State are rather encouraged than otherwise by the outcome of the elections, and that they believe the elections have served the purpose of an object lesson to cohvince sympathizers of the necessity of abandoniug their old parties entirely and coming out distinctively on thesilver ques- tion. So far the work of the American Bimetal- lic League has been more on the line of education than anything else, and this, Mr. Keeney says, will be kept up. A bureau of silver literature is to be started at once in the league’'s headquarters in the Mills building, and funds are now be- ing gathered for that purpose. But after the Chicago conference of next month, he explained, the real work of organization will begin. Then there is to be a general plan of county orgapization carried out in every State, preliminary to the State and National conventions of next year. The Populists are gradually organizing on their new basis of precinct and district clubs. Messrs. Cator, Gillespie and Hackett are the organizing committee. Chairman Barney of the county committee remarked yesterday that a good start had been made in neariy every district in this City. BATTLE AGAINST - CHRIS The First Hints of Denunciatory Mass - Meetings, Have Appeared. Arms Says Buckley Will Be Beaten. If Not He Will Vote the Re- publican Ticket. The Democratic preparations for battle went on yesterday without any important surface developments. Both the Junta and the Buckley faction kept up their snorts of defiance and proclaimed again that it was all over but the shouting. 1f the members of the general commit- tee would all send to the papers announce- ments of how they will vote it would re- lieve the suspense, but they won't. As both sides are now supremely confident of having a large majority at the meeting that is to decide the control and reorgani- zation of the party within a few days, it is likely that some of them are ‘‘false alarms” and are trying to avoid hurting the feelings i of either Buckley or McNab when they are asked for their votes. As the Junta depends so much for its prosent and ultimate success on the public hostility to Buckley, there is already talk about getting up a mass-meeting to nounce him and to make the people sensi- ble of the imminent dangerof his return to power. Handsome Senator C. 8. Arms, who, hav- ing a good job in the Mint, is a valiant supporter of Daggett and the Junta, is very active now in_the present campaign, and is wielding quite an influence. He is one of the hustlers whon, next to MeNab, and then Braunhart, is oftenest respect- fully consulted by the committee workers who drop every evening into the Junta headquarters, on the second floor rear of the Flood building. Of course Mr. Arms doesn’t go into _the back room and shut the the wainscoting as often as Mr. McNab, but he consults in one corner of the roo frequently. This is Senator Arms’ idea of the situation: “Don’t forget that we are as anxious for this meeting as they are, and that we know what we are talking about when we say that we have a majority. If our majority is not between sixty and seventy-five I'll be surprised. If we, who want good gov- ernment and decent politics, cannot keep the party out of the hands of a thing like Buckley what will become of the party? Do you suppose—does Bucklef’ suppose— | that the Beuple of this City will stand him again? Do they want the ‘push’ to run elections, courts and juries to be corrupted in spite of watching, and the City govern- raent given over to the corrupt and selfish politiciang? Buckley 1s a fool to make the mistake he is making. Since heran things in the '80's things have changed. 5 “A wave of municipal reform has swept over the country, and an era when the people of cities take an interest in good government has come. In municipal poli- tics citizens are more independent, and they will vote a non-partisan ticket now if it is necessary to get clean government. Itell you that Buckley can never get on top again. If he should win this party organization he wouldn’t have passed the first water-tank in his rocky road. Th people wouldn’t have him. If he put up the twelve apostles for a Board of, Super- visors the people wouldn’t elect them. If such a thing would happen it would simply mean that thousands of Democrats would vote a Republican or non-partisan ticket, and I tell you that 1 would be one of them. But, Buckley, sir, is not going to run this party.”’ THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW. Contractor McDonald Is Charged With Working His Men Ten Hours on the Streets. There is a little friction between the State Labor Bureau and President John W. Mec- Donald of the City Street Improvement Company. Mr. McDonald has a large force of men employed in street work, and indi- vidual complaints have been received at the bureaa that men were compelled to work ten hours on street-cleaning. Deputy Labor Commissioner C. L. Dam proceeded yesterday to investigate. He saw Contractor McDonald and the latter explained to him that the men were work- ing on a per-hour basis and were suffering no hardship witbout being paid for it cor- responuing:iy; that the length of time they worked was a matter entirely of their own choice. Some time ago Attorney-General Fitz- gerald was asked for an individual opinion on the eight-hour question, and Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald is waiting for it. The Attorney-General has been so busy lately with the railroad grain-rate suits jand other matters that he has not had | time, he says, to give the matter proper at- tention. Some time ago the question was raised relative to street work in Oakland as to whether the eight-hour law applied to | municipalities as well as counties. The | Attorney-General’s opinion was that it does. The Labor Commisdioner says he is de- termined to have the eight-hour law en- forced. By its provisions no man can be compelled to labor on public work for over eight hours per day. The theory of the labor organizations 1s that when a man works longer than eight hours be dis- places, or rather, takes the place, of some man in need of work. The complaints to the Labor Bureau ac- cuse Mr. McDonald of working his men ten hours for eight hours’ pay. AN INSURANCE WIT}IDBAWAL.‘ The Pacific Fire Company Leaves This Coast to Rivals. : The Pacific Eire Insurance Company of New York, a company with $200,000 capital and $720,000 gross assets, which has been on this coast for the past twelve years, door or go out in the hall and lean :\gamy has decided to reinsure and withdraw from the coast, and has reinsured its Pacific Coast liabilities in the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, of which company Rolla V. Watt is the coast manager. The Pacific has done a small and con- servative business in fire department towns, and has had a remarkably low loss ratio during the past five years. This is another addition to the list of withdrawals on account of the demoralized condition of business on the coast. A WIDOW’S MONEY. Gifts to a Church Cause Serious Trouble Between the Heirs and Father Nugent. The wrangle over the estate of Ellen Gallagher came up before Judge Hunt yesterday. The case was to be set, but even at this early stage the fight was on. The complainant wanted the case set as soon as possible, but the defense wished it put off, and on that point they wrangled the more. The estate of Ellen Gallagher is mostly in the hands of Father Denis Nugent, to whom the greater part of it was leit for the purpose of building a church. The church is now under process of construction. The heirs of Mrs. Gallagher through the administrator ot the estate, P. J. White, sued to have returned to the estate the proceeds of a certain sale made just before the testator’s death, and which they claim were turned over to Father Nugent because of his influence over her. Their counsel objected to the continuance of the case, because the church now under course of construction will eat up much of the money they wish returned to them, and to prevent this as far as possible they wanted the case set at an early date. The court was disposed to let it take its TOWED FROM GUAYMAS Bark Sharpshooter Brought Up by the Spreckels Tug Fearless. IS A PACIFIC COAST RECORD. The Round Trip Was Made in Less Than Sixteen Days—Mail- boat Time. After being nearly cast away in the Gulf of California during the gale that wrecked ;a Paz and other Mexican ports, the Brit- ish bark Sharpshooter arrived safely yes- terday in tow of the tug Fearless. The voyage from Guaymas to San Francisco Was an uneventful one, and Captain Clem Randall says he would have been here twelve hours earlier had not the bark been so foul. The Sharpshooter has not been docked for years and her bottom is coated with barnacles and long grass. In bringing the Sharpshooter into port the Fearless has completed one of the longest tows on the Pacific Coast. From here to Guaymas.is 1840 miles, and the big tug made the run down and the tow back without the slightest trouble. Before she away with little stomach for the balance of their day’s work. “But what are we to do about it?”’ was the question none of them could answer. The big abattoirs have to occupy some space somewhere; also the fertilizing es- tablishments. Their proprietors claim that they have invested considerable capital there and should not be ordered away without some cause. The board will take the matter under consideration. OF INTEREST TO LABOR. A Convention of the Labor Federation to Be Held in New York, At the meeting of the Labor Council last evening the Sailors’ Union reported that a new shipping office had been organized on the water front with the ostensible inten- tion of fighting the ship-owners. It was thought, however, that the ship-owners themselves were behind the movement. It was also reportea that the furniture- workers had induced a non-union cigar- dealer on Folsom street to sell only union brands. The Cigar-makers’ Union reported that the number of its unemployed was in- creasing. In the Electrical Workers’ Union every- thing was very favorable. The motion was carried that the resigna- tion of C. E. Maston, chairman of the or- ganizing committee, be accepted, and Thomas Moore was appointed in his place. The call for the convention of the Fed- eration of Labor wasread. The conven- tion will be held at Madison-square Gar- den, New York, December 9. The ques- tion of sending a delegate from this coun- cil was discussed and finally placed upon the table for further consideration. The Carpenters’ Union has just put in OF 1840 MILES. [Sketched by a * Call” artist.] THE TUG FEARLESS BRINGING IN THE BRITISH BARK SHARPSHOOTER AFTER A” TOW regular place on the calendar, however, and then Mr. Baggett, counsel for White, suggested that Mr. Hayes, counsel for Father Nugent and Archbishop Riordan, who is made a party to the suit, turn over to the court the amount of the funds in dispute which now remain, or if that were too much to announce the sum. Mr. Hayes refused to do either, and the court refused to compel him, so the case was set for January 14 without further trouble. ‘The amount involved is about $22,000, and this sum Mr. Hayes announced to the opposing counsel after they .went out and long as he was not compelled to do so. BENSON TO BE TRIED. The Ex-United States Surveyor Must Answer to un Indictment Brought Ten Years Ago. John A. Benson, the ex-United States Surveyor, who was indicted by the United States Grand Jury some ten years ago for | defrauding the Government by fraudulent | returns of surveys for which he drew com- pensation without performing the labor claimed, will have to stand trial after all. At the time of the indictment Benson’s | attorney got out a_writ of habeas corpus, | returnable before Judge Hanford, and so | convinced that jurist that the document was defective that Benson was released. The Unitea States Attorneys appealed the case and yesterday the United States Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Judge Hanford’s ruling was erroneous and that Benson must be tried. It is not believed that the ex-Surveyor can be convicted, for many of the witnesses against him have left the State, others are dead, and the present United States At- torneys haye much less evidence against, the accused than their pred ecessors. AHLANDT’S BIG SUIT. He Wants to Recover Nearly Three Hundred Thousand Dollars From the Joost Interests. Nicholas Ahlandt, John A. Buck and Henry Ahlandt have brought suit against Behrend Joost, Fabian Joost, the City Street Improvement Company, the South- | ern California Bituminous Paving Com- pany, the Hibernia Bank and a number of others to recover $279,108 18, The amount is due on various sums loaned for different purposes to the Joosts and to the companies in which they and the other defendants are interested. This amount was advanced in sums varying from $20.000 to $80,000, :nd to secure it | mortgages on stocks in the different com- | panies and real estate were given. The suit is to recover the value of the loans made. AN ELEGANT RESTAURANT. Perini’s Famous House Remodeled in Up-to-Date Fashion. The old-fashioned Perini’s restaurant, at 207 Post street, that for twenty years has beena familiar and popular resort, has kept up with the march of improvements and now blossoms ontwes one of the most elegant hguses in San Franeisco. Perini’s was established May 1, 1876, and quickly became the leading Italian and French restaurant in the City, which reputation it has since sustained. Its present Fropricmr has spent several thousands of dollars in recon- structing-the interior of hiscozy dining-rooms and arranging and decorating’it in the latest style, so that it is now the only first-class restaurant of its kind, up to date in every par- ticular. It was decorated and refurnished by W. and J. Sloane & Co., 8 & G. Gump, J. St. Denis & Co., Thomas Day & Co., Edison Light and Power Co. and R. Stone, and will well re- pay a visit. > SIERP HELD TO ANSWER. On October 12 He Shot and Fatally ‘Wounded Emanuel Morego. ‘William Sierp was heid to answer to the charge of murder by Judge Joachimsen vesterday. - On October 12 Sierp and Eman- uel Moreno engaged in a dispute over some trifling matter. The trouble was ar- ranged, the men separating apparently good friends. Later in the evening the two met in Hinckley alley, resulting in Sierp shooting Moreno through the body. Moreno was carried to the City and County Hospital, g:ath ending his sufferings on Monday st. The day for the preliminary hearing of the case has not been fixed as yet. +| foul that our best sailing under the most left Captain Hawley, superintendent of the Tugbeat Compa ny, had such faith in his | boat that he wagered she would make the Tound trip in fifteen days. That is, the | Fearless, in spite of her heavy tow, would equal mailboat time. Hawley has lost his bets by about eight hours, but shipping and towboat men willingly admit that had the Sharpshooter been free from barnacles and grass the trip could easily have been made in the time specified. Four months ago the Sharpshooter sailed from the nitrate ports for San Francisco. The voyage was a tedious one, but all went ell until’ the hurricane that wrecked La az was encountered. Then the bark was at the mercy of the winds and waves, and Captain Watts could not keep his vessel on her course. He had with him his wife and three children, and this added to his anxiety. As the storm increased the bark became unmanageable, and soon the fore- mast carried away. In its fall it took part of the mainmastand the jibboom. Soon afterward another portion of the mainmast went, and in its fall the jigger-mast was wrecked. At this time the seas were breaking over the hull continuously, and the spars were pounding against the ship’s sides, and evervbody expected a hole would be knocked in her side at any moment. In the meantime, Mrs. Watts and her three children—Clara Maggie, Rupert King and Zela Mercedes—were clinging to each other in the cabin, while the husband and father was working heroically on deck to save his ship. The hurricane died out almost as quickly as it came up and then Captain Watts dis- covered that he was in as bad a predica- ment as ever. His vessel was dismantled and there were bnly twenty days’ pro- visions aboard. Spare spars were brought up from below, and soon a makeshift foremast and mizzenmast were stepped and a topmast was added to the main. One yard was got on the fore and two on the main, and the mizzen fixed up so as to carry sail. Even with these accessories the Sharp- shooter could not make headway and in consequence she drifted about the Gulf of California with the current. Then Captain Watts almost lost heart, and as a last resort he threw overboard a bottle con- taining a description of the condition of his vessel and the desperate position he wasin. Luckily for Watts four fishermen picked up the bottle and sent the com- munication to the United States Consul at La Paz and the latter communicated with Guaymas. The Consul at the latter place appealed to the Mexican Government and the revenue cutter Oaxaca was sent out and the Sharpshooter towed in. A tele- gram to Spreckels & Co. took the Fearless to the scene and the bark was towed to San Francisco. “We were in a terrible predicament,” said Captain Watts yesterday when talk- ing about the disaster. ‘“‘The ship would not stay and her bottom was so favorable circumstances was about two knots an hour. We had only twenty days’ Pprovisions left, and unless” we had been picked up or made a Mexican port we would have starved. “On September 18 we were off Mazat- lan, but were driven past, much against our will, by a strong southwest wind. Then we tried to make Guaymas, but when twenty miles from Ygnacio another gale came up and we were driven across the gulf to San Jose Island. Thus we drifted about from one end of the gulf to the other until T almost gave up in despair. .. "I finally came to the conclusion that if the current could do what it liked with our boat it might earry a bottle ashore. You know the result. We sighted a steam scheoner on two oceasions during our driftings, but we could not make them take any notice. They apparently could not see us owing to our masts being gone. In all the years I have been to sea that was the worst experience I ever had.”” he Sharpshooter will discharge and then dock for repairs. Afterward she will load for Europe. INSPECTING BUTCHERTOWN. The Board of Health and Mayor on an Unpleasant Tour. Mayor Sutro, the members of the Board of Health and Secretary Godchaux of that -body visited Butchertown yesterday to in- spect the district so graphically described by the late Health Officer Keeney in his recent report as being filled with un- sightly sightsand unwholesome smells. All that Dr. Keeney described was found be confirmed by the nose and eyes of the board and the Mayorand they came 'Y operation its revised working-card system, in which a union man.isforbidden to work with a non-union man; also, making the minimum rate for wages $3 per day. The system is working very smoothly. All the reliable contractors of the City have agreed to it, althongh a few smalil con- tractore still hold out, but do not succeed in obtaining workmen. The union now controls between 1700 and 1800 men. New unions are being con- stantly formed. A union will be formed at Berkeley next Tuesday evening, and during the latter part of the month unions will be formed in Sacramento and Stockton. Thirty new members were enrolled at last night’s meeting. ALONG THE WATER FRONT, A Schooner for Missionary Work in Japanese Waters Completed. Calkers Are Very Scarce and Repairs on Ships Are Thus Being Delayed. The Pacific Mail Company’s steamer City of Panama arrived from Panama and way ports yesterday. There were the fol- lowing cabin passengers: Mrs. H. D. Grant, Charles E. Mordaunt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin, Juan Cattanco, George V. Gray, Mrs. M. A. Everitt, H. C. Bagley and Mrs.-Dr. L. Cool. Mrs. H. D. Grant is the wife of one of the officers stationed at the Presidio. Charles E. Mordaunt is a well-known capitalist in San Jose and the others are mostly from Central America. The Panama also brought 23 steerage passengers and a small cargo. Among the latter were 1014 cases of limes, which will be a welcome addition to the fruit market, which has been almost bare of the com- modity. The principal other items were 37 sacks of specie, valued at $43,306 67, and 855 sacks of silver ore. The missionaries in Japan are to have a craft in which they can go from island to island in their endeavor to spread the gos- vel. It has just been completed by George W. Kneass and is named the Robert W. Logan. The new boat is a schooner yacht, and looks as though she would be a good sea boat and fast. She is 60 feet long and has a 12-foot beam. Her cabins will be tastefully furnished, and there will be a bathroom. The quarters for the crew will be comfortable and commodious. The new missionary boat is being fitted out at Main-street wharf, and the chances are that she will have her trial trip in about a week. She will then take a load of goods suitable for frade and will sail for Yoko- hama. Instead of being tied up in Oakland Creek for the avinter the steamer Jeanie will be ut in the Central American trade. itherto she has been used rincipally as a tender to the whalers in the Arctic, but as the catch/has been a failure for the past two years the owners of the steamer are | going to turn her to some practical use curing the winter months. She will dock at Spear-street wharf to-day, and wifl im- mediately begin loading for Guatemala, Part of the deckload will be the little steamer El Querzal. The latter is to take the place of the steam launch lost in the wreck of the steamer Bawnmore. Calkers are very scarce along the water front, and enongh 'men cannot secured to get the vessels out in time. The British ship Carned Llewelly, lying at Union- street wharf, has a full force of men at work, but other vessels cannot get them for love or morey. The steamer Rival went on to the dry- dock yesterday to be recalked, but men could not be secured. Finally, about 2 P. M., & couple of men were rounded up and went to work. The whalers Cape Horn Pigeon, Charles W. Morgan, Cali- fornia and Lydia are all to be recalked, and most of them are waiting patiently for the men. The California only secnred one whale during a two years’ cruise, and the men are ailin debtto the ship. They are all anxious to try it again, fiowevur. and will go out on theé bark when she sails next month for the southern seas. TO LABOR AMONG LEPERS, Bishop Ropert Brings Priests and Brothers for Molo- kai. SAIL FOR HONOLULU TO-DAY. Result of His Trip to Europe—A Sec- ond Father Damien Among the Missionaries. Right Rev. Bishop Ropert of the Ha- waiian Islands will sail for Honolulu this morning on the Oceanic steamship Aus- tralia. The Bishop has just returned from Europe, where he went to secure recruits | for missionary work in the islands of the South Pacific. He brought back with him two priests,four brothers and foursisters,all belonging to the order of the Sacred Heart, the mother house of which is in Paris. The sisters go to the convent at Honolulu, where they will be engaged as teachers, and the reverend brothers will take up their stations on the leper island of Molo- kai, All will sail with the Bishop this morning. About one of the party much interest centers. He is Father Pamphile Damien, brother to Father Joseph Damien, who, while laboring among the lepers at Molo- | kai six years ago, contracted the awful | disease and died. Now his brother goes to take up his unfinished work. He will be stationed at Kalawao, Molokai, where his late brother lived and built a church. Father Pamphile will be in charge of this same church and administer to religious wants and physical comforts of the suffer- ing lepers about him, as his brother before him did. He will live there permanently and, like his self-sacrificing brother, pos- sibly perish, too. Bishop Rogen. who is staying with the fathers of the French church on Bush street, has been six months in Europe. Among other places he visited Rome and had an audience with Leo XIII, who in- ?uired about affairs in the Hawaiian slands and was glad to know that peace reigned there. *The Holy Father takes a deep interest in all the children of the world,’” said the Bishop, ‘“‘and was pleased to learn that everything was quiet in the islands. He is a wonderful man for_his age and bas a remarkable memory. He showed himself quite familiar with Hawaiian affairs. The church experienced no injustice from the change of governments in Hawaii. It never interferes with political matters. Its mission is for the spiritnal elevation of mankind. We are well satisfied with the new Government and look forward to much prosperity under its gnidance. “There are about twenty-five priests n the diocese. ‘I'Ley are scattered over the different islands and are constantly at work for the spiritual good of the people. At Honolulu our institutions are in a flourishing condition. We have some five hundred children attending the day school, which is conducted by the Brothers of Mary from Dayton, Ohio. The sisters who are in charge of the con- vent belong to the Sacred Heart. Uur Xsc{mols are regarded as the best in Hono- ulu. *The Government provides for the lepers at Molokai, setting off .a portion of the island for them. They receive their food and clothing from the Government and are very well cared for. There is also a physician on the 1slana to attend to their physical 1lls. We have two missions there—one at Kalawao and another at Kalaupapa. ‘Father Damien founded the former mission. He was sixteen years on the island working for the lepers. He suffered from the disease several years himself be- fore he died. His brother, who accom- anies me, is a few years older than he. Ele was educated at Loutaine and has been teaching at different placesin Europe, where our order, the Sacred Heart, has es- tablished colleges. The mission at Kalau- apa is in charge of Father Vendelin Muller, a native of Germany. Father Damien is from Belgium. There are also seven sisters distributed* among the leper missions. They are from Syracuse, N. Y., and are touchingly devoted to their unfortunate wards. We should liké to have more' priests, brothers and sisters to assist in this work, put other countries make demands upon the resources of the chm-’ch, and we must accept what we can get.” Bisho}) Ropert first went to Hawaii in 1868, a few years after the late Father Damien. He has since been located there permanently. Three vears ago he was made Bishop of Honolulu, the consecrat- ing services being performed in this City by Archbishop Riordan. He isa French- man by birth, slight in stature, retiring and unostentatious in manner. Father Damien is 53 years of age. He comes from an old Belgian family and is a man of profound scholarship. He has held the chair of theology at the University of Louvaine and like high places in other great institutions of Eurove. Now he goes to console the lepers at Molokai. ANOTHER BOY INJURED. William Fritschi, Run Down by an Eddy-Street Electric-Car, Nar- rowly Escapes Death. The Market-street Railroad Company came very near adding another victim to its death list yesterday. Luckily William Fritsehi, a 15-yeard-old boy, living at 107 Larkin street, the prospective victim, es- caped with only a broken leg and a severe scalp wound. Young Fritschi was running down Van Ness avenue on his way home from school, tious authors, and, as shown by the clear and interesting style of his best known stories, “‘A Blind Bargain” and ‘Marjorie and Her Papa,” is fully competext to de- scribe how a story, to be successful, should be constructed. THE NEW GUNBOATS. Material for Their Construction Ore dered by the Union Irom Works. That clause in the treaty between the United States and Great Britain which prohibits either power from building ships of war or maintaining naval stations on the great lakes reaounds to the benefit of San Francisco. Two gunboats which would have gone to Detroit as a lower bidder than San Francisco will by indi- rect operation of the treaty be constructed by the Union Iron Works. Last evening George W. Prescott smd that the work of building the boats would begin without delay. Hesaid the material for their constructlon had already been ordeéred amd shipments would soon follow. The tuuding of the gunboats will en- able the Union Iron Works to increase its force of employes, and in many ways San Francisco will secure benef Regarding _the probabi of orders from Japan, Mr. Prescott d no definite intelligence had been received from that country, He observed that England would handle the indemnity which China was required to pay Japan, and conse- quently British influence would be ex- erted to secure contractsfor ship-building, In Japan there was agitation in favor of building warships at home, so_that he could not say that the outlook for Japanese orders was very promising. From sources outside of the Union Iron Works it is learned that all the articles in the American newspapers containing criticism or comment on the new navy of the United States are marked and filed in the al Construction Bureau of the Japanese Government. Agents of British ship-building firms take especial care to see that all the comments on slow cruisers and defective armor plate are brought tor the attention of the Japanese. MUST SAW WOOD. An Unexpected Offer of Work & & Husband Who Would Not Pay Alimony. W. H. Seaton was before Judge Hunts yesterday to plead to his delinquency in not paying his wife $25a month alimony. Seaton said that he was a brother-in-law of C. P. Huntington, but that his influen~ tial relative would not give him any worle to_do. E. M. Morgan, counsel for Mrs. Seaton, came to the rescue. He said he was wills ing to hire the penniless spouse of his client and pay him §3 a day, provided he paid his earnings over to his wife. The court thought this an excellent jdea, and Seaton thought the attorney’s offer par- ticularly magnanimous, but ‘much of the beauty of the plan faded when he asked what the work was. “Sawing wood in a woodyard,” ane swered Morgan. Seaton’s face fell, and he proceeded to inform the court that he had done no work for a number of months, and that sawing wood was a little too violent to begin with. He was finally induced to visit the yard and report to the court next week his progress toward greater wealth. WEDDED TOO YOUNG. A Marriage of Sixteen and Eighteen Ends in the Civil Court§ Inside of Two Months. Augusta Semler, the 16-year-old wife of 18-year-old John W. Semler, is sning to have her marriage annulled and for per- mission to resume her maiden name of Augusta McNair. ) The pair were married on August 1 last, Semler swearing at the time that he was 22 and the girl 18. Semler ran an elewator at 711 Bush street, and the girl lived with Mrs. Mary E. Farrell at 713 Bush street, The courtship was not long, but the honey- | moon was even shorter. for the girl soon went back to her gnardian and the suit for annulment was brought. Semler is offer- ing no opposition, for if he does he will be prosecuted for perjury for having sworn falsely to his age and that of the girl. TWO ILLEGAL LEGACIES. Judge Coffey Knocks Out Some of Mrs, Kennedy’s Bequests. Judge Coffey has decided that the lega« cigs left by Emelie Marie Kennedy to her mother, Mrs. Chaigneau, and her sister, Louise Chaigneau, are invalig. The tes- tatrix left a legacy of $5000 to her mother and $2000 to her sister, both to be paid out of the income of certain property. As the property yields only $26 a month and the interest on the legacies amounts to nearly $40 a month, the court held that they were impossible of payment and so declared them invalid. THE VANDERBILT- MARLBOROUGH WEDDING Invitations were not supplied by Sanborn, Vail & Co., but we are prepared to furnish such_invita- tions of the very best quality and the finest engraving that the most artistic taste can demand. Our department of Fine Stationery con- tains everything requisite for fine correspondence from the most elegant writing papers to the dainty colored sealing wax. IN OCUR and when attempting to cross Eddy street was struck by an electric-car. He was knocked some distance, fortunately falling to one side of the track. The boy either did not see the car or miscalculated the speed at which it was going and attempted to cross, thinking himnel§ out of harm’s reach. The ambulance was promptly summoned and Fritschi in an unconscious condition conveyed to the Receiving Hospital, where it was discovered that he had received & severe fracture of the left leg, as well as an ugly-looking scalp wound. His injuries ‘were promptly attended to by Dr. Bunnell, after which the boy was carried to his home, 107 Larkin st. ————————— MAKING OF STORIES. The Channing Auxiliary Will Hear All About It This Evening. In choosing “How Stories Are Made” as the subject of his lecture this evening before and for the benefit of the Channing Auxiliary, Lieutenant Robért Howe Fletcher, the well-known author and ra- conteur, has taken one which will interest young and rising writers of both sexes. Lieutenant Fletcher has been through the trials and disappointments of ambi- Why Goodyear Welts are the best leather shoes is told in *‘ Foot Com- fort.” Write for it. All dealers sell Goodyear Welts; LEATHER G00DS DEPARTHENT Can be found the latest novelties in Laaies’ Purses, Card Cases, Com- bination Pocketbooks, Gentlemen's Letter Cases, Card Cases, Bill Books and Fine Memorandums. =Also an assortment of Fine Traveling Bags, Hand Satchels and Valises. “SOMETHING NEW.” Perfumery and Toilet Soap at Bed- rock Prices. 3 Give us a call before purchasing elsewhere. Our prices cannot be equaled any- where in town. Staple and Holiday Goods attrac- tively gotten up. A SANBORN, VAIL & GO, 741-743-745 MARKET STREET. 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