The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 11, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1895 7 CoLUMBIA THEATER—Haverly's MOROSCO'S OPERA-HO! TIVOLI OPFRA-HOU ORrEECM—High- GROVER'S ALCAZAR. MECHANICS' PAVILIO tival. 8300T THE CHUTEs—Daily at Haight street, one block east of the Park EW BUSH-ST. THEATER.—Prof. Ruchwaldy to-night. BAY DIsTRICT TRACK.—Races. e Favart.” ass Vaudevilie. cretary.” chiller Fes- Bernhardy AUCTION SALES. By Kmure & Co. ovember 12— Horses, at salesyard, corner avenuefand Market streets. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The ff House will be ready for occupancy in a few weeks. The depot for the Sutro road is being built near the Sutro baths. The new lodge in Golden Gate Park is being roofed with red tiles. Sly Boy won the Golden Gate cou Thousands of people Haight street place of A large numbe: were at the Sh Mayor Sutro bring pure w Dr. Basil geon of the & terday. at Kerrigan's vesterday. the chutes at the isement yesterday. > and pistol marksmen rifle-range yesterday. issuance of bonds to City from the Sierras. inguished retired sur- y, died at the Oceidental yes- SenAhancis ated Oakland by a score of D04 inw i ng game 8t Central Park yesterday ey bartender. killed himself by cutiir t and wrists at 212 Pros- pect place yes - The ancient ceremony of “Blessing the Sta- tions” celebrated at St. Jo- 1 yesterday f the Columbia Pistol and lu ne string of scores with & pi vesterday at Shell Mound. 1day, the 24th inst., & Thanksgiving 1g stake will be run at Casserly & Kerri Deean View grounds. e dove that fell on the deck of a ship es_outside the heads has been pre- d to Golden Gate Park. The weather forecast for to-day is for cloudy On Su coursin g At 200 weather, with showers in the forenoon. The temperature will be stationary. guardsmen attended the Columbia City heater yesterday lebut with Have Captain Merry ind take the Harbor Comm and introduce civil service tenure of office. The remsius of A.C. Hiester were buried vesterda funeral services being held at to honor Frank Kelly's minstrels. s Mr. Colnon’s plan to ion out of politics £t. John's' Episcopal Church and at Masonic Temple. The first e-team shipment made from this Ci by way of Stockton, is now eams will be used from red that if the courts decide the Young’s position ss School Mr. Stone may be reinstated to ucation. t that English capitalists have d to back the Nicaragua canal, as hed in aispatches from the East, is cor- © by Captain Merry. The s e schoolteachers’ pension fund passed by the last Legislature is in a flourishing condi- tion. It n amounts to over $2000 and is being au 500 a month. John Riley, an old man temporarily insane, attempted to_commit suicide b; the bay from Beale-street wharf y was rescued by a British captain. e, a_qtartermaster on board dney, who was injured in an acci- n Jose 'de Guatemala, died as the vessel was entering harbor yesterday. Mary E. Heller committed suicide by inhal- ini gas at her lodging-house, 116 Eddy street, verierday. Despondency through financial irotbles is believed to have been the cause. Yesterday the bark Oakland, bound from San Jose de Guatemsla 1o Port Madison, came into this port to report the death of her com- mander, Captain O. McGuier, on October 22 at last night at the sea. Lena Martin was locked e City Prison for breaking & heavy water-bottle on the head of A.Bergonyols, & waiter, with whom the had a quarrel in a restaurant on O’Farrell stre The police have pulled down all the nonde- script shacks on the Sixth-street dumps and burned them. There had been numerous com- plaints about “Dumpville” and the character of its inhabitants. “dward Wier, who is confined in the Re- ng Hospital pending an examination for nity, attempted to_escape last night, and gave the hospital stewards & desperate battle before he was subdued. The Rey. J. George Gibson has completed & vear in Emmanuel Baptist Church, and last night he told his congregation that he was not ne ceme and named the conditions that would cause him to leave. A few hundred angry Chinese resisted the police in Chinatown on Saturday night and iried to mob a See Yup man, who had violated the boycott which is being maintained against the Jackson-street Theater. Bert Roberts, a waiter in the Palace Hotel, had his left hand badly injured last evening in the “dumb waiter” that carries the food from the kitchen to the diring-room. The injury was dressed at the Receiving Hospital. Rev. William Rader of the Third Congrega- tional Church eloguently defended the real new woman in his sermon last night and de- clared that she occupied her present position because she was braver than the new man. Dimond Hubbard, an aged _janitor, was found dead in his bed at 515 Sacramemto street yesterday morning. He was a native of Scotland and for & number of years was affected with a disease of the lungs. The Morgue officials described death to natural causes. The Alaska Commercial Company’s steamer Dora, through the courtesy of members of the company who are honorary members of divi- sion 2 of the Naval Battalion, took forty-six men from Division 2 on a practice cruise Sat- urday night and Sunday. J. Jones, the Australian handball champion, was tendered a testimonial benefit by his friends in the San Francisco court yesterday afternoon, prior to his departure for Sydney, when he played against Harlow, Lawless and Williams, and was defeated. Yesterday the Marin County dairymen formed themselyes into an association, having forits object the raising of wholesale milk prices. The members of the new organization agreed to sell no more milk to retailers for less than 12!5 cents a gallon under s penalty of FAVORS NEW WOMEN. Rev. William Rader Speaks in Their Behalf in the Third Congrega- tional Church. An eloquent plea was made for the new woman last night by the Rev. William Rader at the Third Congregational Church. Mr. Rader declared that the new woman occupied the position she did as areformer because, recognizing the needs for im- provement, she had more courage than the men, and dared to demand that wrongs of which she was cognizant be riihmd. 5 The reverend speaker touched particu- larly upon woman’s connection with re- ligious and charitable works. He called attention to the fact that the societies for the amelioration of the condition of the poor and oppressed were alw-ya{oupded and supported chiefly by women. This he declared was due to three things. The first was that men were asleep to the important issues of the day. Many were unable to realize that they had any duty in righting the wrongs thataroused a deep- rooted and righteous indignation. The second was that most men lacked the courage to stand ‘up and fight for a better state of affairs, The third reason was that women, being educated with their brothers, had begun to think with them and were thinking to advantage. & 5 “I will not speak of woman’s nglats, Mr. Rader declared in ciosing. ~“All women have to do is their full duty to their State and the rights will take care of themselves. I have full confidence in the women of this country, and have no fear jumping in erday. He P ARMY AND NAVY NOTES, Active Work on the New Bar- racks and Steel Wharf of the Presidio. RECRUITS FOR THE BOSTON. Mare Island Pleased Over the Appoint- ment of Captain C. E. Clark. The work of building the new double brick barracks at the Presidio is going Aahend with vigor. The contractor has taken advantage of the delightful weather to put on the slate roofing, so that interior work may proceed, rain or shine. Colonel Amos 8. Kimball, chief auartermaster of the department, who has just returned from Los Angeles, predicts that the new barracks will be Teady for troops to move in before the holidays end. Grading for the enlarged parade ground is finished, and work on the new steel wharf is pro- gressing, Captain Lockett’s Troop I of the Fourth Cgvnlry left Sequoia Park yesterday and will come at once to the Presidio. General Forsyth, commanding the department, is well pleased with the manner in which the reservation was guarded. Sheepherders were kept off the premises, and the reser- vation was carefully protected from fires. Troop K, Fourth Cavalry, Captain Rod - gers, is en route to the Presidio. The troopers have been on duty in Yosemite Park. Their work of guarding against im- proper incursions has been performed to the] satisfaction of the commanding gen- eral. _Lieutenant Franklin P. Bell of General Forsyth's staif returned from Sequoia Park a few days ago. He had a hunting trip on the Sierra and saw many deer and frequent sign of bear. When he left the hills the snow was three feet deep in Farewell Gap. Captain Roberts of the Fifth Artillery and Colonel Babbitt of Benicia Arsenal have gone on a duck-hunting expedition to the marshes of the upper bay. Major Grosbeck is expected here this week to relieve Colonel Hunter, judge-ad- vocate of thedepartment. Colonel Hunter goes to St. Paul. General Miles is hapoy in Washington. He has bought a beautiful home on the corner of G and Twentieth streets, one block southof Pennsylvania avenue and three blocks west of the War Department. Special orders from headquarters, De- partment of California, announce that a board of officers has been appointed to consist of Captain Harlan E. Rlc\'uy, sur- geon; Captain C. G. Starr, First Infantry, and_First Lieutenant C. G. Treat, Fiith Artillery. Assoon as practicable the board will convene at Angel Island to solve the in- tricate problem whether or not the alleged deafness of Frederick P. Sutter, Company E, First Infantry, was_contracted prior or subsequent to his enlistment. The order surely contemplates a thorough investiga- tion of the question, for it is declared that such journeys as the officers comprising the board may make to and from their proper station, on such days as-the board may bein_session, are necessary for the public service. 'f the fact was not alr Private Sutter is deaf hi tested by firing the 1 Point in his immediate presence. The deafness is, however, acknowledged, so the | board must ascertain if his sense of hear- ing was impaired when the recruiting offi- cer, in the presence of the recruit, de- scribed the alfuremems and advantages of a soldier’s life. If it be established that the recruit’s hearing apparatus was in good order when he enlisted the board will then be con- ironted with the difficult problem of ascer- taining at what particular time and under what distressing circumstances subsequent to enlistment the sense of hearing left the recruit. The result of the inquest will be awaited with some degree of anxiety. A board of officers, consisting of Lieu- tenant-Colonel Samuel B. Young, Fourth Cavalry; Captain John McCleilan, Fifth Miley, Fifth Artillery, has been appointed to convene at the Presidio. This board will pass upon the qualifications of several sergeants for appointment as ordnance sergeants. The tailor of Company A, First Infantry, recently violated the sixty-second article of war. He neglected hiswork as tailor and neglected his duty as kitchen police, He was sentenced to be dishonorably dis. charged and to forfeit all pay and allow- ance doe him. There was a record of five previous convictions against him. Mare Island Letter. MARE ISLAND, CaL., Nov. 9.—While the attempt to man the United States navy with American seamen bids fair to prove a case of love’s labor lost, there is no end of applications from fine men, both young and middle-aged, who, driven to extremes by force of ad- verse circumstances, seek enlistment as marines in the marine corps and as yeo- men in the navy. For the enlightenment of many such 1 append a letter addressed by an officer of the navy to a young man who, having lost his place in a newspaper office, wrote at the suggestion of a mutual friend to ask advice and make inquiries. NAVY-YARD, Mare Island, Cal / aoP Oct. 1, 18 ) Dear Sir: Your letter of the 23d ult. received, and in reply have to inform you that I do not know whether any new yeomen are to be rated for ships going into commission. Your best course is to write tenant-Command A N., U. S Receiving Ship. Indepéendence. Mare Island, Cal. He is the prongfi nmui:;l to whom to make application. 1f Iremember correctly, the last orders con- cerning the rating of yeomen stated that yeo- men should be rated from *landsmen or sea- men; thata person could not be shipped as to Lieu- Crocker, U. 8, yeoman unless he had previously served as such and could produce his warrant from the Chief of Bureau of Navigation.” Tfwould never advise any one to go to sea as yeoman if he could possibly avoid it, as it is no lace for any one with ambition or prospects, e cannot aavance, has no social position, and is not treated with any consideration, or as if he were a human being, as a rule. In the case of & vacancy, or the death of the pay-clerk, & pRymaster's yeoman is sometimes appointed pay-clerk, but this does not happen, on the average, once in a lifetime, and then does not relieve him from his enlistment. Then, if you happen 1o be in a port where there is any disease, none of the crew (which includes the different ‘{eomen] are allowed ashore. Itisall very well for the officers and the pay-clerk to go to gea, because they mess at one table and can live as high as they want, unless their provisions should run out at sea, and can go ashore Very near as often as they like when in port. You know we officers are not supposed to be liable to catch diseases! After a man is three months at sea, living on “salt horse and salt pork,” the novelty wears off. I have made considerable inquiry in this direction. Yeomen have told me tiat they have been as long as six months without set- ting foot on shore. And yet they generally ship over again, because meg find "themselves completely unfitted for anything else and have %o re-ship to keep from starving. ‘When & man has been three years a yeoman he generally finds himself o hardened and careless that he has no ambition for anything else. 1have known several very bright men who bitterl; that anything will be neglected that should refire! the day. yeomen, and will never be anything else. 1 have been thus explicit in my statements because I hate to see & man mislead- ecially as I know some geople “erack qu" the service. Many officers who are very polite and agree- able when they meet i whose sea-yarns as well as their jolly good- nature and gracious demeanor seem to com- Artillery, and First Lieutenant John D. | | | E. S. Bogert of the Albatross and portunity, and that your case may prove an exception to the rule. Very truly yours, NOTES. Since Lieutenart F. H. Lefavor relieved and the latter joined the Philadelphia Mrs. Stoney and her little daughters have made their home at the Richelieu, San Francisco. Owing to the deatl: of one of Captain | Howison’s family Mrs. Howison has not resumed the formal receptions interrupted by her Alaskan journey and subsequent illness. naturally drop in on Thursday. Mrs. J. Miiton, wife of Lieutenant Mil- ton of the Monterey, is visiting Mrs. Le- favor at Mare Island. Lientenant and Mrs. Albion V. Wad- hams are visiting friends in San Rafael. Their eldest son, Cadet Albion J. Wad- hams, 1s attached to the Maine. Their other son is a student at Yale. The Ranger has had good luck in re- cruiting for the Boston—the good luck that pertains to steady persistence. It is hoped that within two weeks she will have discharged this duty and be free to come up to the yard for whatever work may await her here and for whatever docking may be necessary before she goes to sea a n. “Cadet Thomas 8. Wilson bas been de- tached from the Ranger and ordered to the Boston. It is in the air that when the Philadel- hia comesin her officers and crew are to Ee transferred to the Oregon with the double purpose of putting the latter into Lieutenant G. M. Stoney at the navy-yard | Many of her friends, however, | DUMPYILLE 1S NO MORE, Now a Scene of Desolation and the Inhabitants Are All Gone. ONE RAID SEALED ITS DOOM. Captain Spillane’s Police Invaded the Shacks by Night and Pulled Them Down. Dumpville is no more. Tts shanties—composite in both archi- tecture and material were they—hLave van- ished and the inhabitants thereof are gone. The bacillus of the Mission Creek swamp must look elsewhere for its prey and the bacteria of the canal which is misnamed Channel street will now have to feast upon | the occasional visitor to the dumps, for | the town of Dumpville, its mayor and | a bachelor town, for not a woman lived there. Jack Ryan, an old soldier drawing a small pension, was looked up to some- what and outsiders were led to believe that he was_the Mayor of Dumpville and his | immediate friends the City Council of the place—they acted so like other Mayors and Councils. And there were divisions in Dumpville, too. Occasionally a boss became unpopular and then a Junta wonld be formed to down him. But these things have ceased. What precipitated the downfall of Dumpville was the arrest of five men there nearly two weeks ago. They were Frank Murphy, a native of Michigan; Patrick Flynn, who was not born in this country, and three others who hailed from Auld Scotia, viz.: David Ross, a shipwright, and Hugh McDonald and James Russell, boiler-makers. The three last named had come over from the Potrero on invitation to enjoy a pitcher or two of beer, and a fight, which was free for all and not ac- cording to Queensberry rules, was the con- sequence. The five were taken to the sta- tion for disturbing the peace. There was also some trouble a little while ago over aforeign flag. The town of Dumpville was scattered around a sheet of foul-smelling water, yclept *‘Poverty lake.”” On the northeastern shore of it dweit some Fins. They found a Russian flag and hoisted it one day, and the pat- riotism of the other Dumpvillers was stirred to the depths. The Russian flag was soon hauled down. There were a few of the old residents surveying the ruins yesterday afternoon and indulging in reminiscences. One was commis: ing the former a thorough overhauling. Their many friends deeply regret the early detachment of Captain Frank Wildes—which also implies the departure of Mrs. Wildesaid M ‘Wildes—from the Independence. Their sojovrn here has been one of unmixed pleasure both for themselves and for their hosts of friends. The kine is dead! Long live the king! Captain Charles E. Clark 1s already in re- ceipt of congratulations from far and near is appointment to the command of the Independence. All Mare Island is de- lighted that, since Captain Wildes must go, Captain Clark can come. But his Vallejo friends, while cordially glad, are deploring that after the 1Sth inst. they must needs go across the strait instead of across the street—or several streets—to visit him and his family. Passed Assistant Surgeon J. E. Page, who has been for some time on temporary duty at Mare Island Hospital, has received his expected orders to join the Boston on the 18th inst. Passed Assistant Surgeon C. J. Decker is on duty, and his family in residence, at the naval hospital, Mare Island. The wedding of Passed AssistuntSur;if_un iss e of San Diego, daughter of the Pa- 5 will be celebrated in St. Paul’s Church, San Diego, on the 15th inst. A large party of friends and messmates will go down with Dr. Bogert on the 12th. To-day is pay day at Mare Island; §3%,000 1s to be disbursed; 1000 men are now employed, a number having been lately discharged. On Monday last twenty- five were laid off in steam engineering. Lieutenant Waldemar D. Kose and Mrs. Rose have the cordial svmpathy of their friends, whose name is legion. While on duty on the Olympia at Hawaii Mr. Rose, not yet fully recovered from the effects of the grip, was prostrated by the heat, and consequently ordered home on sick leave. Mrs. Rose had meanwhile sailed for China, expecting to meet her husband there on the arrival of the Olympia. On her return she will find him, still far from well, at the Oakland home of his sister, Mrs. Dingee, where Mrs. Rose, mere, has lately arrived from Chicago. The gay season isat hand and but few dancing men on deck. Nevertheless, this week’s fortnightly hop was the gayest of the autumn. Beine the last hop before the departure of Miss Emilita Carman for an extended visit at Portland, Or., it was somewhat in the nature of a demonstra- tion in her honor. Several came over irom Vallejo. Miss Carman and Miss Palmer dined with the family of Medical Director G. W. Woods and accompanied them to the dance. A party of fourteen dined on the Independence and adjourned to the sa1l-loft, where hops are hefd. Paymaster and Mrs. Machette and Mr. Frederick C. Carlyle were also there. To see this south- ern belle dancing with her nephew is to realize the significance of the phrase, “the poetry of motion.” Through the public-spirited enterprise of Surgeon George P. Bradley navy people here and hereabouts enjoyedyon T¥lurs ay evening, with a few inyited friends, the pleasures of a recital by that eminent Shakespearean, Mr. Hannibal C. Willamns, “Henry the Fourth” being his selection, By the addition of a handsomely draped and softly carpeted platform, flag-covered walls and numerous _rows of benches the sail-loft was transformed into an attractive audience-room. Mr. Williams’ recital, supplemented by explanatory interludes, was exposition as well as delineation, and a master-piece of art. YVAN DrAY. ¥ire on Post Street. Shortly befome 12 o'clock on Saturday night Mrs. Loryes, who resides at 422 Post street, a three-story frame building, returned home and found her rooms filled With smoke and in amoment saw that the side of the puilding was on fire. About this time Officer George who were yeomen, and who said that they first | extinguished the flames. enlisted through force of circumstances, but | origin between two trunks in one of the bed- They are still | rooms, destroyed them and their contents and Douglass came along and, being called upon, went up stairs and with a few buckets of water The fire had its was eating its way into the lath and plaster when it was discovered. e —.—— COLONEL A. ANDREWS has instructed the firm you in civil life, and | of Will E. Fisher & Co., auctioneers, 16 Post street, to sell at auction Tuesday, November 12, commencing at 11 _o'clock A. M., all his sil- mend the service, would fail to recognize you | verware, consisting of dinner-sets, fancy goods, in the service unless you belonged to the | toilet-sets, ornaments and bijoutrie, etc. “Jine” or “‘staff.” 1© 65y} U0BR J0W Wiy QA0 8B 1f, after what I have told you, you still de- | season, as the colonel is closing out his e r [T _-Selotes came and went. It wog distinctively | st $75. ete. the ime 14 This sale wili be the most attractive one of WGUse slock of valuahle Coast agent of the Santa Fe Railroad, | DUMPVILLE—A SCENE on as soon so practicable and giv- | counc | [Sketched by a ““ Call” artist.] , its bosses and its juntas, its socio- logical free lyceums and. its midnight “growler” soirees, are henceforth to be recRoned only among the dim and dusty memories of the things that have been. Dumpville has been effaced. On Saturday night the doom of Dump- ville was sealed. It came almost as sud- denly as the fate of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and its effect was as disastrous as the midnight raid of the Persian Cyrus upon the feasting Belshazzar of Babylon. In one night was the thing done, and when the big round sun began to grin through the trestles of the shipways of the Union Iron Works not a pole was standing—not a piece of tent cloth or Chinese matting was left. Captain John Spillane and a score of stalwart policemen from the Southern dis- trict did it. They marched out Sixth street late in the evening of Saturday and the work of invasion and demolition be- gan. Only two of the Dumpville folk were there when the police came; the cthers had made themselves absent, per- haps because they, having been notified beforehand, were afraid of a possible ride in the patrol wagon and the consequences of being “‘vagged.”” With a lusty ‘Yo, heave-ho!” the burly policemen razed the crude dwellings to the ground by means of ropes, and all that was combustible was thrown into a pile and seton fire. The two Dumpvillers looked on mournfully, and when the big bonfire was over and nothing but dying embers and smoking ashes were left of the homes of 150 men, they gave a last farewell look at the scene and sadly and silently walked away never to return. Dumpville was a scene of des- olation in a few hours The great trouble with Dumpville was that it happened to have been located upon land belonging to the Southern Pacificand its citizens had no real resources of their own. Now and then something would be missed from a freightcar of the railroad company, and once in a while some lum- ber would disappear from the lumber- yards of lessees of the company’s property along Channel street. Complaint was made to the police; hence the march of the twenty stalwarts out Sixth street and the destruction of Dumpville. Dumpville had been in existence for much more than a year. 1t was practically started by Stephen Maybell and his “Heaven-at-Hand” Army. Maybell and his wife camped there—just across Chan- nel street and near the Sixth-street bridge—about two years ago. One night the ‘“Heaven-at-Hand” com- munity got intoa free fight. The patrol wagon was sent to the scene and returned loaded with human freight to the Folsom- street station. Court was held right in the station, the police officers assuming the judiciary for the nonce, and the ‘‘Heaven- at-Hand’’ squatters were sharply repri- manded for their sheol-like doings and allowed to return to their abodes. ‘‘Cap- tain’’ Maybell and his army in time disap- eared. = Then when “Generals” Willev and Frye were dispossessed of the Postoffice siteat Seventh and Mission streets their followers began seeking for a place whereupon they could fix their habitations, and where they might feel free from annoyance. The stench from the dumps ll;efl were willing to endure if only they might feel secure, and malaria did not bother them a little bit. They were penniless and homeless, and so they moved to the dumps with their frying-pans, old kettles and coal-oil cans, and thus was Dumpville started. Houses were constructed of tent cloth, tea-box matting, bits of worn-out carpets and oilcloth, stretched on les, and floors were made of stone and pieces of cemeul‘7 Someof the habitations had even brick fireplaces, and it Was not uncommon to see a piece of rug serve as a carpet for what was parlor, drawing-room, library, dining-room, kitchen and bedroom all in one. The piles of rubbish at hand fur- nished a means of subsistence. Ola scrap iron and pieces of brass were gathered and sold to a Chinese near by, and everything on the dumps that possessed any measure of value at all was utilized. Sometimes food could be obtained there, such asit was—stuff that was refuse in the eves of more prosperous people. K The population ot Dumpville reached about 150 and afterward fluctuated more NEW TO-DAY. “Pure and Sure.” icveland's BAKING POWDER., “Absolutely the best and most desirable baking powder manufactured.” GeN. S. H. Hurst, Jate Okio Food Commissioner. FUNERAL OF A €, HIESTER. One of San Francisco's Leading | Newspaper Men Laid to | Rest. Impressive Services Held at St. John's Episcopal Church and at Masonic Temple. Funeral services over the body of A. Hiester, late associate proprietor of the Evening Report, were held yesterday at St. John’s Episcopal Church and at Ma- sonic Temple. The wide acquaintance of the deceased CHAMPION ofF X -\om GLORY OF DESOLATION. a kind of champion of “Old Glory,” and had an unmistakable accent. *If I caught a man putting up anything but the Amer- ican flag I'd take a rope and hang him, so I would,” he observed. Then the philosopher of the place, whose face was covered with a white down, re- marked: “Itisn’t flags. It’s the beer an’ cheap wine these fellows got an’ was drinking all the while. That’s what did it. If they’d a let that wine an’ beer alone we'd a been here yet.” And the sapient socialistic visitor re;pondcd: “It’s the plutocrats that did it.’ The police will keep the dumps clear, they say, from this time on. They are of the opinion that Dumuvville furnished too convenient a rendezvous and place of concealment for all manner of undesirable outcasts; that midnight marauders dwelled there, sleeping by day in their huts and devoting their nights to foraging and offenses which the law frowns upon. As if by the irony of fate, a magazine was lying open among the ruins, just in the middle of a story entitled * How to Get Hold of a Rancho.” This reminded the sage of Dumpville that only a little while ago President Wilderman of the World’s Christian Co-operative Society had distributed some tracts among the Dumpvillers elaborating upon the advan- tage of owning land in Lower California and going into the flour-manufacturing business. At that time there was prob- ably not a full dollar piece in all Dump- ville. ALONG THE WATER FRONT, The Bark Oakland Reports the Death of Her Commander i at Sea. Death of a Steamship’s Quartermaster. Gallant Rescue by a British Captain. The bark Oakland, sixty-one days from San Jose de Guatemala, bound to Port Madison, came into this port yesterday. She reported that on Cctober 22 Captain 0. McGuier died of heart disease and was buried at sea. The bark experienced calms and light winds all the way from Guatemala. Captain McGuier before he died directed thatas the ship had been delayed on her trip so long the vessel put into San Francisco whether he lived or not. The bark 1s in charge of Camtain Lourentson. The Pacific Mail steamship City of Syd- ney arrived yesterday, twenty-one days from Panama, with twenty-seven cabin and forty-four steerage passengers. While the vessel was being discharged at San Jose de Guatemala William Justice, & quartermaster, was injured so badly that he died ijust as the Sydney was entering this harbor yesterday. He was about 35 vears of age and unmarried. John Riley, about '60 years of age, at- «tempted to commit suicide yesterday morn- ing by jumpving off the Beale-street wharf into the bay. He was seen by Captain Lewis of the British bark Inverco, which was lying near, and his quick action and rare presence of mind saved a life. Without pausing a second he drew his knife and cut the falls of a boat hanging on the davits and the little craft dropped right side up in the water. With Frank Kenealey, the boatman, he sprang into the boat and succeeded in hauling Riley out of the water as he was sinking for the last time. The old man lives at 28 South Park and is at times insane. This is the third person Keneaiey has assisted in rescuing from drowning during the last two months. Yesterday the British bark Invergary arrived, 67 days from Newcastle, N. 8. W, and the schooner Annie arrived with a cargo of guano from Clipperton island. - Caused by a Lamp. An alarm from box 81 was turned in at 9:45 1ast night for a small fire in a wooden building occupied by Japanese school-teachers at 410 Franklin street. Carelessness with a or less about that figure as the unfortun- m| caused the blaze. The damage is emmltes filled St. John’s Church at 12:30 ». M. to | overflowing. Among them the newspaper men of San Francisco were largely repre- sented. Rev. E. B. Spalding read the | Episcopal burial service, after which the | body was removed to Masonic Temple, where the final ceremonies were per- formed. The dead newspaper man had been a | memberof San Francisco Chapter, Occ dental Lodge, of the Masonic order, and had endeared himse!f to the heart of every member of that, the largest lodge in the State. The sorrow of the brothers was touch- ingly attested by the contribution of a great number of elabcrate floral pieces and by an unmistakable reverence of manne: during the performance of the beautiful | service. The Masonic funeral ritual was read by Worshipful Master J. Savage of Occidental Lodge, and was listened. to with attention by those present. At the conclusion of the services the members and friends took a last look at the dead face in the casket, and then filed from the temple, while the remains, headed by the marshals and members of | the order, were followed to Masonic Cemetery by many mourners. The pall- | bearers, active and honorary, were P. D. | Code, Louis Hoefler,E. K. Hawkins, Joseph | }‘igel, John A. Russell, Fleet Strother, D. J. Toohy, Coiin A. Boyd, W. E. Lane and John Shirley WORLD OF AMUSEMENT. New Opera, Drama, Melodrama, Vaude- ville and Minstrelsy to Be Offered . This Evening. An opera new to the theater-goers of this City will be presented at the Baldwin this evening by De Wolt Hopper and his com- pany. Itisthe opera of “Wang,” which has been performed with extraordinary success in New York. The story isof Siam, and is said to be a production thatis bound to be popular. Edna Wallace, formerly of the stage of this City, now Mrs. Hopper, is leading lady. “The War of Wealth’’ is on the bill for this evening at the California Theater. This is a meloarama from the pen of C. T. Dazey, who is well known as the author of “In Old Kentucky” and “A War-time Wedding.” It isa play that is full of life, and American life at that, and in it there are a number of striking situations, some very thrilling. Then there are very fine scenic effects. The attraction billed at Morosco’s Grand Opera-house for to-night is Steele Mack- aye’s *‘Money Mad.” This is a melodrama in which the full strength of the company will appear and interpret the ideas of the author. The stage carpenters have put to- gether some unusually good scenes, one of which is a representation of the Clark- street drawbridge in Chicago and the ar- rival of a steamer said to be “true to life.”” At Grover's Alcazar there are two at- tractions for this evening, *The Open Gate’’ as a curtain-raiser, to be followed by ‘The Private Secretary.” The last named is one that is full of fun and when presented here by Grover delighted audi- ences every night. With the present com- pany to fill the cast it certainly will be as brilliant a success as it was in the past. The patrons of the Tivoli Opera-house will witness ‘“ Madame Favart’’ this even- ing. This brilliant gem of Offenbach, in which Emelie Melville during the past week appeared in the character of Justine Favart, has been so well received that the management has decided to continue it for another week. The management of the Orpheum Music Hall will this evening present another of its excellent vaudeville bills, introducing several new performers. Two of these are Granto and Maud, Parisian performers on the wire. Others are the Ammons-Clerise Trio, two female and one male voice, who will give clever topical songs and dialogues, and Topack and Steele, comedians from the Union-Square of New York. S Haverley’s minstrel troupe will occupy the stage at the Columbia this evenin, and present a medley of song and burn cork specialties. The Bush-street Theater will reopen its doors this evening, when Professor Bern- hardy Ruchwaldy, “Siamese socerer to his Majesty, the King of Siam,” will appear and show the audience some of the wonders of necromancy as shown before the potentate named. “‘Shooting the Chutes” will be open this evening. Attractive as these are during day they are more so at night, when a circle of electriclights illuminate the scene. The slide down the chutes at the Haight- street firounds is the exhilarating pleasure of the day. At the Macdonough in Oakland Hoyt's comedy troupe will present ‘A Coutented ‘Woman,” which was played at the Bald- win last week. Those of our Oakland readers who have watched the theatrical columns know what there is in store for them this evening. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MEs. ERNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manages THIS EVENING- BRILLIANT SUCCESS Of Offenbach's Sparkling Opera Comique, “MADAME FAVART” EMELIE MELVILLE—FERRIS HARTMAN In the Cast. A PERFECT PRODUCTION IN EVERY DETAIL. NEXT OPERA « CARMEN.” Popular Prices—25¢ and 50c. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. Fbo Ghic FPRIEDLANGLR.GOTTLOD & co- L3383 A1DRATALRS -+ 15¢ | AND 25¢ AGAIN 50c A 75¢ HIT! PAC ED TO THE DOORS TWICE YESTERDAY HAVERLY’S MINSTRELS BILLY RICE, BURT SHEPARD, CHARLES ERNEST, E. M. KAYNE AND OTHERS. SECURE SEATS AT ONCE. GROVER’S ALCAZAR. THAT GREATEST OF SUCCESSES, THE PRIVATE SECRETARY! AND A SIMPLY PERFECT CAST, Preceded by the Exquisite Lyceum Theater Cure tain-Raiser, THE OPEN GATE! Prices—10c, 15:.‘25(:. 385c¢, 50c. FATINEES WEDVESDAY, SATURDAY AND SUSDAY! Matinee Prices—10c, 15¢, 25c. Telephone Black 991, AT This “Wednesday Pop” Matinee a bound novel (100 varieties) presented to every lady and child. TO=-INXIGEIT And Every Night This Week (Including Sunday) ATURDAY. Jacob Litt’s Big Spectacular Production of C. Ty Dazey’s Most Successtul Melodrama, THE WAR OF WEALTH A Perfect, Picturesque and Elaborate Productiom, MA’ g :—1\ AT CAST, (AL MAYMEN P AnD Co. B Ln'ul INCORP'D HEATRE "\ PROPS. TO-NIGHT—FIRST TIME HERE, DE WOILE" W HOPPER % AND HIS N Merry Company, Presenting_the Comic Opera Success, MATINEE SATURDAY ONLY. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theaterin America. WALTER MOROSCO. ... Sole Lesseo and Managss THIS EVENING AT EIGHT. ——A SUPERB PRODUCTION—— Of sSteele Mackaye's Masterpiece, “NMONEY MAD!” According to Our Best Critics, “The Gem of American lodramas.’” EVENING PRICES. and_50c. Family Circle and Gallerv. 10c. Usual Matinees Saturday and Sund. ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and PowalL TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK, FAMOUS, NEW ATTRACTIONS ! GRANTO AND MAUD, AMMON’S CLERISE TRIO, TOPACK AND STEEL, BAND OF SAMOAN WARRIORS AND. OURGREATSPECIALTY COMPANY Reserved seats, 25¢; Balcony, 10c; Opera cnairs and Box seats, 5708. NEW BUSH-STREET THEATER. TO=INIGEIT. PROFESSOR BERNHARDY RUCHWALDY! SIAMESE SORCERER ‘To his Majesty, the KING OF S1AM, wecorated with the royal gold medal of honom Pussamala, has arrived in this city from Siam, and* will perform at the NEW BUSH-ST. THEATER, Begioning Monday - - - - November 11 B~ For particulars see bill THEY COULDN'T GO FAST ENOUGH ! SHOOTING THE CHUTES Turned Away Thousands Yesterday. Concert Afternoon and Evening. ADMISSION, TEN CENTS, Haight Street, Near the Park. CLOSING NIGHT. GOETHE-SCHILLER FESTIVAL St MECHANICS’ PAVILION MONDAY, NOV. 11. ADMISSION,..... RUNNING RUNKING RACES! RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, FALL MEETING! BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday Rain or Shine. Five or more races each day. Racesstartat 2:00 P. M. sharp. McAllister and Geary street cars pass the gate. BASEBALL—-CENTRAL PARK. San Francisco vs. Oakland. day, Sunday, Wednesday, Thursda; Saturday, N ovemper 9, 10, 15, 13, x 30 P. M. Sunday, 2:00 P. M,