The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1895, Page 7

R R IR THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1895. ‘T AMUSEMENTS. TALDWIN THFATER.—*Wang.” CALIFORNIA THRATER—* The War of Wealth.” COLUMEIA THEATYR—Haverly's Minstrels. MOROSCO'S OPKRA-HOUSE 7 IVOLI OX¥RA-ROY CrePnFeyn—High-C GROVER'S ALCAZAR ©one block cast of the BAY DISTRICT TRACK CENTRAL PARK AUCTION SALE By Wirn E. Fisuer & Co. day, November 1. IeNEEEE e CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ; | vas suffocdted in | street yesterday nd at Central Park. 1sco beats € G om key’s pitching was batted 8. Co wiih much ease. The Jackson and treot Railway Com- ¢ trip every Sunday - late Detective an rday for threatening inson inspected the He thought another lered built. . case of Frank Kloss, | er of William Deady, | s insani 1 is hignly commended for i school Director to fill the va- Board of Education. mede by the police at the o City Hall a marked improvement ksmanship can be seen. 1 of Dr. Basil Norris. U. 8. A., took rday at the Presidio and was attend- essive military ceremonies. American Cuban Volunteers are vy organized, and are only waiting ers from headquarters to march. fair weather with increasing nd stationary temperature are the features of to-day’s forecast. “harles Root, leaving $100,000 | was filed for prabate yesterday, ! on of the pioneer, D. E. Root. | he Womans' Educational and Industrial | n held its annual meeting on the 12th range | in their The { place ¥ ed officers agd airectors for the 5 | ¥ | . Goodwin of the California-street | reh will next Sunday night discuss | | | nd their relation to their clients 110 society.” iie Board of Education failed to elect suc- r 1o Director Stone last evening, though rintendent of Schools Babcock nominated | George Drucker. Foley, aged 42 years, died sud- | home, 25 Frederick street, yester- | ing. Heart disease is supposed to | the cause. ‘ decorations and booths used in the | »n at the Goethe-Schiller festival were o theatrical managers for only $125. ver $3500. 1 i of Health made a_tour of inspec- | \gh the City and County Hospital aud a few nights ago paid a visit to Recelving Hospital. A ont of six favorites were downed at the | + The winning horses were Chance, Castanetta, Don Pio Pico, Wa- Detective and J O C. Salomon_and Adolph Mendelsohn are | William B. Bradbury for an_ accounting | 100 due from them to him | y some jewelry. sundred and seventy sults are to be | brought against the stockholders of the Pacific | 10 Tealize on the unpaid capital stock, | iting to about $660,000. | j00dwin, former administrator in the | n State. has sued Horace W. 500 counsel fees for his attor- | he former firm of Henly & MacSherry. | 1 Giilen, a teamster, 60 years of age, was | found dead in bed at his house,414 Four- teenth sircet, vesterday afternoon. An autopsy | disclosed the'fact that he haa heart disease. | McCormick, a Mission-street black- | jth, undertook to do business on the co- | T e plan, and his peculiar practices | Lim lo the attention of the anthorities. | am Kearner, carpenter, was found dead | rooms at 44514 Ninth ‘street yesterday | noon. He fell 1rom the roof of & building | jut e year ago and had been siling ever | y mor since. e Baldwin, an engineer, was arrested last | i ¢ Policeman Shanahan and booked at | the City Prison. en route for Chico, where he is wanted on the charge of assault to murder kis wite. ister Plenipotentiary and ! from Switzerland to the | 1here yesterday and will n by the Swiss colony on Le give Saturday. , alies “Spider” Kelly, the pugi- licted by the Grand Juryon | sbery, was arrested last might | 1 on $1000 bonds, acceptea by Judge a servantin the house of ex-Super- | <, 1506 Washington street, was ar- rday afternoon and charged with v in steeling money and diamonds | cmployer. e Railroad Commission, acting on the ad- vice of Attorney-General Fitzgerald, has de- cided to demand annuat statements from all | ds, stage lines, electric lines and local | i companies. The trial of Thomas Arhworth, Superinten- | of Streets for this City, was opened before | lge Murphy yesterday. Seven jurors were | d. His defense will be that he was de- | luded by his deputies. The leading loca! capitalists captured the | best boxes at the auction sale yesterday at the | Baldwin Theater of boxes and seats for the great festival concert soon to be given in aid | of the Children’s Hospital. >aulsell, who has been twi g Carroll’s faro ba on the night of February 16, 189: found guilty by a jury 1t Judee Bel He will be sentenced November 23. Touis Pars was vesterday held to answer before the Superior Court by Judge Joachim- | 2000 bonds for st tried for on Market street | has been cr's court. ina Varela, 228 Bran- nan street, employed. The Western railways have asked the South- e Pacific Company 1o hold another confer- ence at Salt Lake over Utah freignt busi- ness, recently discussed there, and the local compuny agreed to meet them again, The third trial of M. D. Howell of Stockton for passing counterfeit money is to begin in the United States District Court this morning. Secret Service Agent Harris expects to have | Matt Jones on hand to upset his defense. The celebrated copywright controversy in which Dr. Jjoseph Simms accuses Mary Olm- stead Stenton of deliberate plagiarism of his works on_physiognomy was partly argued in the Ur ed States Circuit Court yesterday. ard Kelly was convicted of the' charge »d larceny in Judge Wallace's court crday. He will be sentenced next Friday. sonly about a year out of the State her he was sent for fourtecn years ahoe, & plumber living at 267 Minna while under the influence of liquor last ciening, walked in front of a McAllister-street car on ‘Market street, opposite Grant avenuc, and was knocked down. His left side and leg bruised. By thecleverintervention of Attorney Joseph Crmpoell, Marvin L. Freeman was yesterday -ed to withdraw his plea of incriminating d to answer all questions relating to mer testimony given in the Freeman- | stinghouse case. lie case of Mrs. Tobin came up once more in perior Court vesterday. Therc was a day.and it will probably make an in- teresting trial. 8he is sning the Pacific Coast Blood-horse Association and others for $25,000 | dumeges for being cjected from the betting ring at the track. At the Morgue the body of the man who shot | Limself in den Gate Park on October 26 is still unidentitied. Coroner Hawkins received wous letter yesterday 7ivlug the in- n that the picture of a iady the man hud was & photograph of his wife, with whom he had lived unhappily. Park Commissioner Austin says that $6000 or $8000 will be appropriated from the funds for ‘Golden Gate Park toilluminate the main the i from the fine new FLED FROM HIS BRIDE A Tremendous Social Sen- sation Rocks the Potrero. WHERE IS JIM DALY? {He Failed to Materialize on His Wedding Day When the Feast Was Spread. A CROWD WAS DISAPPOINTED. Mamie Connors Ready for the Altar and the Little Flat Furnished on Scotch Hill. Potrero society has been rocking on its foundations since last Sunday night. At least that figurative assertion will do quite well in telling of the social sensation that began out there on Sunday evening, when a brideeroom came not to the altar of St. Theresa’s Church when the rather impos- | ing edifice was crowded to the doors at the appointed time; and this sensation, with its romance, its mystery, its speeding rumors and its clashing sounds of battle and of human trouble, has been the one and universal topic of conversation ever since. James Daly is the recreant bridegroom and Mamie Connors the more or less dis- consolate bride. Daly was expected all through the day of the wedding and until the wedding feast was ready late at night, but he disappeared on Sunday. He hasn’t | been seen since, and what became of him is a Potrero mystery. A little flat wasall furnished and ready, the bride was | dressed, the priest waited to perform an- other happy ceremony, and nearly 2000 people gathered in or about the church to see the function that was to the Potrero somewhat as the Marlborough-Vanderbilt affair was to New York. ‘When 9 o’clock came on Sunday evening the great broad steps of St. Theresa’s Church and the sidewalks about were packed with a wondering and expactant throng. Then Father O’'Connor, the parish priest, addressed the crowd briefly, telling that perhaps the couple had got married in the City, and the crowd slowly dis- persed through the hilly streets of the Potrero, beginning a terrific gossiping that is yet growing in volume and intensity. The affair is gossiped about in the saloons and stores and all through the great shops of the Union Iron Works as eagerly as it is about the gates and kitchen tables through the hills. Opinion is divided as to whether Jim Daly should have allowed his folks to wreck the wedding in that fashion, as to the degree in which the Daly family are warranted in holding their Jim and themselves to be too good for Mamie Connors, and 2s to the degree in which Jim is to blame, for it was the bridegroom’s family that headed off the function by drastic measures for the rea- son intimated. Jim Daly and Mamie Connors have been raised at the Potrero, are known to every- body, as are their people, and they have been leading social lights amid the balls aud routs that lighten the lives of toil beyond Islais Creek. Mr. Daly Sr. settled at the Potrero before Jim was born, and that was twenty-two vears and more ago. The Dalys have led eminently respectable lives, devoutly religious and decently and aristocratically exclusive. Mr. Daly toiled away at the gas works and elsewhere as his children grew up and were well edu- cated in the public schools. These, now young men or women, found good posi- tions in large downtown establishments, | and as age camie to the parents a certain air of refinement and gentility increased in the happy but obscure little home. A little over four#rears ago Jim left the | grammar-school and became a machinist apprentice at the Union Iron Works. He was ‘‘out of his time” a few weeks ago— thatis, he becamea journeyman and began a new and successful career as a man at his trade. Jim was always a decent fellow, and it would seem that a picture of a strong, fndustrious, well-liked young man completing his apprenticeship while he was furnishing a pretty little home on a hill and getting ready to end an old love affair in the proper way must be onec that it wonid be cruel to spoil. Mamie Connors is a vivacious and quite pretty Miss of 18 years or so. She lives with her people in a neatly and newiy furnished lower flat right across the street schoolhouse. Mamie has worked at the rope-walk for a long time,and has ever been ready for gay even- ing affairs, whether at the Potrero or at Ixora Hall. People won't say anything worse of her than, “Well, she’d go to dances every night in the week if she could, and I guess Daly’s folks didn’t like her style.” Jim liked dances, too, and for four years he has been ‘‘her company.” Out of the association grew ‘he love and the engage- ment that was able to defy opposition until the eritical hour arrived. People don’t know just how the Dalys got Jim 1o give his bride the slip right at the altar. One current report was tha the was drugged, and another was to the effect that his father bad him arrested. But gossip is ruthless and unkind. Itiseven told that Mamie’s mother lured Jim into the matri- monial net, and that one thing that helped make the Dalys so proud was & piano that Mrs. Hydenfeldt gave Jim’s sister after the latter was a witness for tue former in the Hydenfeldt litigation. It should be.remembered that human nature is quite the same in the Potrero { and the Western Addition and that Cupd is as impartial as death. It is only the trimmings that vary, and why may not Sierra street climb a hill tc as interesting a love story as may California street. Mamie Connors was at home yesterday and, after some gizgles in the hall, she cheerily apologized in the parlor for not being fixed up. Mamie was not crying about anything. Smiies and little laugis displayed her pretty teeth right along. “No, I haven't seen or heard of him yet,” she said, ““and I don’t know how it's going to come out any more’n anybody driveway to the ocean beach if interested citi- eise. 1 wished I did know. Well, if he zens will contribute the rest of the sum neces- | don't come back I s’pose I'll have to wait sary. R. D. nageerty and Henry Doscher promise that the required sum will be raised. e Football-Players Practic | Both the University and the Olympic football | elevens are doing severe practicing. Both teams were at Central Park yesterday after- noon working with their coaches. They de- voted themselves to new passes and team plays. A short game was indulged in. All the men are in splendid condition. gain. “Yes, we waited and waited for him, i.{or some other fellow,”” and she laughed but we had the wedding anyhow. a fine time that nignt. There was 200 people here—everybody that was invited— and we treated his friends just the sameas my friends. We danced in this room and that room and in the bedroom, and the We had | band played in that bay-window. We had a brass band.” “There was nine pieces,” observed Ma- mie’s sister, who was to have been brides- maid. % ““Then we had a ftine supper upstairs in the flat next door (Mr. Leffernan’s), and everybody had a good time anyhow.” “Did you see him Sunday at all?” was | asked. ‘*Yes, in the morning. That is, I didn’t see him after he left, but he promised to be around again at 9 o’clock that morning. That was most 3 o’clock Sunday morning. We had a lot of wedding presents. That lamp was one. Jess, bring them in.” Two big grocery boxes came in. “They packed them away because I didn’t want to see them,” explained Mamie as the dishes, the glass water pitcher with beautiful marguerites painted all over it, and the rest of the pretty things came out of wrappers. The pres- ents were certain evidence of popularity. “P'raps you'd like to see the weading dress,” the bride remarked, and Miss Jen- nie brought the pretty creation in pink with a loose chiffon front and beaded revers. *Mine is just like it,” explained the dis- appointed bridesmaid, who was going to | “stand up”’ with her sister. “Yes, everything was ready,” Miss Mamie declared. “The license was out. and Jim left it here with the wedding-ring i for fear his folks would tear it up and we couldn’t get married. I don’t think it was Jim’s fault so much as his folks’, and especially that fight-cat of a sister of his. But then he always said his folks couldn’t say who he’d marry. My mother said to him one night, ‘Jim, I hear your folks is fighting because you're going to marry | Mame,’” and he said, ‘Well, what good | will it do ’em ?’ “He's been going with me for over four | years, ever since I left school. Four of us started going together—me and my sister and that young lady over there and Ma- mie Farrell up on the hill—and four fel- lows. The others got to fighting, but Jim and I stuck together and we fixed the wed- ding day three months azo. We had a flat all fixed up on Scotch Hill and here I am yet.” Mrs. Connors came in and helped tell the story. “Oh, we don't want anything in the papers about it, but then what's going round, with everybody talking, is worse than the papers,” said the well-built mother of the abandoned bride. “I look at it this way; we didn't lose | much. Suppose his folks did oppose it. He’s 22 years old and he’s his own boss, and after him coming here two years—that is two years in this house—and setting up with Mamie that very night till 11 o’clock —anyhow it was when 1 went to bed and he was setting right there where you are | COPYRIGHTS IN COURT, Celebrated Dispute of Physiogno- mists in the Federal Court. AN ARGUMENT ON PLAGIARISM. Judge Morrow Listens Patiently to the Logic of Attorneys Redding and Kalloch. The legal battle between Dr. Joseph Simms, author of several standard works on physiognomy, and* Mary Olmstead Stanton, fhom he accuses of deliberate plagiarism, began in the United States Circuit Court yesterday. This has become one of the most celebrated copyright con- troversies of the country. Both sides were ably championed by forensic talent, and Judge Morrow, being ex-officio Cir- | cuit Judge, heard the argument. For Dr. Stmms Attorney Joseph D. Red- ding filled the courtroom with beautiful metaphors, and during the afternoon the now-—I say if he goes off now, if his folks did object, it's no great loss. But we don’t | want to say much.’’ { *“Idon't believe he was to blame,” pat in Mamie. “Oh, you can’'t see any of his fault. We hear that he was drugged, and all sorts of things, but we don’t know any- | thing, and don’t know what'll happen if he should come back, and I s'pose he will some time. They cut up his good clothes Sunday, I hear, but he was free that day, | for he was seen on a carat 1 o'clock by a man that wouldn’t belie him. Her father went up there Sunday evening when he didn’t come and they slammed the doorin his face. They had a good time at the wedding, anyhow, and now we’ll just have to wait.” So the bride waits quite cheertully with her wedding dress and ber wedding presents for a chance to leave the rope walk and move into the little flat on Scotch Hill, and “‘otherwise” the wedding was a great success, The woe in the case is in the Daly home. When you go to see the Dalys you climb a tremendously long flight of stairs from where Sierra street bumps into a perpen- dicular rocky bluff to where Michigan street seems to sleep on top of a hill. Down Michigan, past a few cottages and a few goats, is a little cul de sac, and at the end of it, right on the edge of a hundred-foot precipace, is a little old cot- tage with three straggling additions, and with vines, rose bushes and asters crowd- ing the little bit of a front vard in an old- fashioned careless style. In thecozy little parlor, with its piano, sofa, pictures, its framed diploma that tells that one of the Daly family graduated from a commer- cial school, and with its many ornamental treasures that suggest a nice refinement, Mrs. Daly told why Jim should not marry Mamie Connors. She is quite aged now, and it is plainthatif Jim marries his affianced there will be broken hearts up there in the little cottage. “My boy has gone away and he’s not been drugged.” she said. “I don’t want to say a word against anybody, no matter what lies they tell, but we don’t want.Jim to marry into such a family. Jim got to know her when he got to going to dances, and it was Ixora Hall one night and B. B. Hall another—gentlemen two-bits, ladles | free—and that’s the sortof a girl she is. That ain’t the sort of a girl for Jim to marry or to come into our family. We’'re very strict Catholics, and last Sunday I asked Father O’Connor if he was going to marry my boy without confession and the holy sacrament, and he said the confession would do. “The boy didn’t get home Sunday morn- ing till 3 o’clock, where he ought to have been fasting since 12 and getting ready for the sacrament. On Sunday I told him that he was forgetting his religion very early, that if he was going to marry that girl he conld pack up his things and leave us forever. His brother and his sisters talked to him and his father laid down the law to bim. Noj; if he comes back to us he's welcome, for he iz very dear to our hearts; but if he marries that girl he's zone out of my heart foreyer,” and tears ran down the furrows they found. “Jim is a good boy. He never drank, nor smoked nor cursed. Now they’re trying to nip him just as he’s out of his time and get him to say that his father and his mother that raised him can go. It's pretty hard. We’ve never had any trouble in our home before, but now our time has come. That girl’s mother has been taking Jim's wages and buying furniture on the instaillment plan, and he's been foolish enough to be led on. Wedon’t know what Jim will do, but it will be a sad home here if he throws himself away. Jim’s worthy of something better.”” That’s the Daly-Connors situation. No- body Xknows where Jim is or what will happen. Everything but the supper awaits the wedding, including the little flat on Scotch Hill, Tt's a grave thing to abandon a bride at the altar. If Jim moves into the little flat the hearts of his old mother and father and of his sisters will be broken. What will Jim Daly do? N should Jim Daly do:,[) 9%, waet ——— When Wrinkles Seam the Brow, And the locks grow scant and silvery, infirmitles of age come on space. To retard and ameliorate these is one of the benign effects of Hostetter's Stomach Bltters, a meaicine 1o which the aged and infirm can resort es a safe solace and invigorant. It counteracts a tendency to rheumatism and neuralgia, improves digestion, rectifies bilionsness and overcomes maiaria. A wineglass before re- tiring promotes slumber. { from | defense contradicted through Attorney L M. Kalloch with all the logic he could command. Attorney A. B. Hayes will re- sume for Dr. Simms this morning. He will be able to devote only an hour to his client’s side of the dispute, however, as Judge Morrow will then take up the Howell counterfeiting case, but this will be time enough for him, he thinks, in which to close the argument. Dr. Simms’' name has become very familiar to scientific circles and the read- ing world. He is a member of the Anthro- Yological Institute of Great Britain and reland, and graduated as an old-school physician in New York. His principal works on physiognomy have been ‘‘Na- | they have prevailed on the Western roads ture's Revelations of Character,” **Physi- ognomy” and ‘“Health and Character.” Mrs. Stanton gave her book the title of “Scientific Physiognomy,” and, according to Mr. Redding's argument yesterday, she boiled all Dr. gimms‘ ideas into one_little volume, in which bad grammar and pla- gim‘ism were equally prominent. Stanton had her book published in 1889, and the doctor proceeded against her pub- lishers as well as her, making the San Francisco News Company and the Argo- naut Publishing Company co-defendants in another suit. 3 In substance Mr. Redding’s argument was that Dr. Simms was a vein of gold ich Mrs. Stanton obtained the material for her work, and that she not only appropriated his ideas, but copied his classification, the general structure of his work, and, in a great many instances, almost his very language. One of Dr. Simms’ most striking similitudes—the clock—to demonstrate how the human character is plainly indicated by thecoun- tenance to the physiognomist, Mrs. Stan- ton, so Mr. Redding said, had literally stolen from the doctor’s publications. Mr. Redding did_the “deadly parailel” act with vigorous effect. Simms and Stan- ton were compared until it looked as if the work of Mrs. Stanton was almost a repro- duction of that of Dr. Simms. The doctor had made five divisions 1n his physiog- nomical classification—namely, the ab- dominal form, the thoracic form, the mus- cular and fibrous form, the osseous or bony form, and_the brain and nerve form. Mrs. Stanton’s classification, he said, was virtually the same. Here are examples of the paralilels: Simms—These forms, which are five in num- ber. I shall consider in the following order: The abdominal form, the thoracic form, the muscular and fibrous form, the osseous or bony form and the brain and nerve form. Stanton—Five different systems of (unction‘ which create the different forms of man, and which are always found in combination, but in different degrees of development in differ- ent persons. These are named the vegetative, the thoracie, the muscular, the osseous and the brain and nerve. Simms—It is a law of nature that those who are liberally endowed with any capacity are always prompted to its liberal nsing. Stanton—It is a law of human nature that we love to use most our strongest faculties. Or. Simms had mentioned Washington, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, Lafayette, Alex- ander the Great, Cssar, Mahommed and Cromwell as types of the bony form and men on whom “of all others the nations relied for supgort.” Mrs. Stanton uses the names of the same heroes of history to show that bony men excelled in morality and the nobler qualities of character. Thsse are only 2 mere suggestion of the multitude of parallels by which Dr. Simms is endeavoring to convince the court that Mrs. Stanton was a literary pirate.. He does not swe at that, though, but merci- lessly attacks her grammar gnd singles out a mass of grotesque mistakes which he alleges she made in ber ideas of anatomy, and not satisfied with that he accuses her of poor orthography in_an effort to show that she was uninformed even in the rudi- ments of writing. Attorney Redding reached his climax when he pronounced Mrs. Stanton’s work a ‘“garbled reproduction with aurora borealis illustrations.” The argument of Mrs. Stanton’s attor- ney, Mr. Kalloch, was to the effect that idéas of themselves cannot be copy- righted—that they are everybody’s prop- erty. He tried to show that Mrs. Stanton had not plagiarized Dr. Simms’ language, NOT RESPONSIBLE. The Defense in the Case of Kloss, Charged With Murder, The prosecution in the case of Frank Kloss, charged with the murder of Wil- liam Deady, closed yesterday and the de- fense commenced. The defense is that some time in 1839 Kloss, while working as a stagehand at the Orpheum Theater, was «truck on the head with a curtain-pole, «nd that ever since he has not been re- | disagreeable to the taste. The sample Mrs. | cisco merchants and ( sponsible, particularly when he has taken api?ttle liduri)r, Gustav Walter, one of thel proprietors of the Orpheum, testified to this. P. J. Corbett, the stableman, had employed Kloss since his accident in 1889, but he had to discharge him because he was so cruel to the horses. Kioss’ brother also took the stand and told how the defendant was afflicted with epileptic fits. The cn{e will be finished to- day. A SECOND CONFERENCE. Western Railways Ask for Another Meeting Over Utah Trade. The Western railways leading into Utah have become dissatisfied with the result of the recent conference with the Southern Pacific at Salt Lake City. On second thought they have suddenly reconsidered their action, and are now only too anxious to undo it and talk the whole question over again. They have been forced into this peculiar pogition by pressure from Salt Lake merchants, nd yesterday a tele- gram was issued by them jointly to the Soutkern Pacific asking for a conference to consider exactly what occupied many days in Saly Lake City. The Southern Pacitic Company replied that it would suspendaction with regard to eutting rates to Ogden, and would glad- ly take partin a discussion of the tangled situation, provided the conference was held at an early date. These conditions were promptly accented, and a meeting of the different railway representatives will take place in Utah's capital within two or three weeks. Meantime, there will be a cessation of hostilities between the com- peting railways with regard to Utah busi- ness. The merchants of California have been looking toward Utah with great expecta- tions, but found that the low rates of Ea: ern and Western roads shut out compe! tion from the Pacific Coast. Chicago ship- pers could deliver merchandise in Utah on & far oetter basis than San ¥Francisco mer- chants could. The Southern Pacific Company saw it Reovfng, was losing heavily over the Central Pa- cific and cut down its rates to Ogden. Here all the trouble started. The Union Pacific would not join the Southern Pacific in a reduction, and so practically closed Salt Lake City against California. The merchants of that city now find that freight is taken to Ogden at lower rates than they can get, and consequently their | jobbing business passes to Ogden. So to ask for another conference. Assistant Freight Agent Sproule of the Southern Pacific Company, said that his company would meey the Western lines balf way on any friendly arrangement that would give the Southern Pacific business and incidentally open Utah to San Fran- it interior shippers throughout California. WATER HAT SHELLS 4D People of Noe Valley Complain of the Spring Valley Product. The Fluid Has to Be Filtered and Boiled Before It Can Be Used. Dirty, disagreeable water from the Spring Valley mains is a particular cause of an- noyance and apprehension that 1s disturb- ing the people of that part of the Mission known as Noe Valley. Their complaints are not the result of the recent publications regarding the poor water supplied to the City. Nearly a month ago some of these pegple first mooted a public'meeting at which they might discuss the problem of good water. In the low districts, where the natural flush of the pipes is not so perfect, a The Interesting Little Creature That Mr. Peterson Found in a Glass of Spring Valley Water. better opportunity seems to be given the disagreeable properties in the water to show themselves. In Noe Valley the water from the Spring Valley pives smells bad, tastes bad and is dirty. There is a pro- nounced odor of decayed vegetation. Many of the consumers are chary about using the water even after it has been filtered. They boil it before they drink it, and phy- sicians recommend that it be boiled before it is given the sick. Parts of Noe and Eureka vaileys are sup- plied by the Mountain Spring Water Com- any, a private concern with the source of its supply in the hills to the westward. With water near them that is at least agreeable to the taste and to the smell those who are compelled to use the dis- agreeable solution of decayed unknowns realize more seriously their position and look doubtingly upon the collection of filth intercepted by their filters, and in some cases wondered if with the evident impurities there are not germs that are re- sponsible for several fevers in that neigh- borhood. But this does not seem to be the only part of the City that has serious cause to complain of the water furnished. Warren Temple, a lawyer, and his family, living at 2524 Sutter street, have been unable to use the water from the Spring Valley &peu for several wecks past without first boiling it. They complain that it has an offensive odor and is very l NEW TO-DAY. You believe in pure food, you buy the best flour, the best eggs, the best sugar, yet you have not tried the best baking powder unless you have used Cleveland's, , A ¢ Pure and Sure.” eyelands But judge for yourself. ~Try a can. ) shown a reporter vesterday afternoon Justified the complaint in every way. To a delicate stomach it would have been nauseating. A sample of the pure and undefiled (?) Spring Valley sent to this office in a small vial by G. Peterson, a carpenter, residing at 25 Eighth street, contained an insect of repulsive shape. It was alive, and though little more than a quarter of an inch in length possessed a wriggling activity that was disgusting in the extreme, In shape it resembles an abridged edition of the caterpillar species, having countless small legs and long antennwm. The Peterson family are warranted in the indignation they feel toward the condition of affairs which makes sach things possible. MIDWEEK THEATER HOTES De Wolf Hopper Has Achieved Popularity at the Baldwin. Stirring Melodramas at the California Theater and the Grand Opera-House. Even a comedian of De Wolf Hopper's standing can be by no means certain that because he is popular in New York he will likewise prove a steliar attraction in San Francisco. However, a few nights generally show which way the tide of popularity is go- ing to flow, and judging from last night’s audi- ence at the Baldwin Theater, and the favor with which his efforts were received, the comedian has no reason to be dissatistied with his San Francisco success. “Wang” has much to recommend it, in addi- tion to De Woli Hopper, though he is its strongest point. The spectacular qualities of the production are very good, and the musie, though timid, is bright and is tinged here and there with originality. “The War of Wealth” at the California Thea- ter is considerably above the average melo- | drama. The characterization is more human and possible, and in making men and women out of his dramatic person, instead of pup- pets labeled “virtue” or “vice,” Dazey has not sncrificed any of the required melodramatic ex- citement. The play is, on the whole, well acted and the staging is good. | “Money Mad” at the Grand isa rather seri- ous and romantic drama in which the two vil- | lains, one from choice and the other cireumstance, are ably presented by Rutler and Coulter Brinker. The pre tiest scene is the one in the tenement- house, when the stage is divided into two parts and one sees at the same time the young couple reduced to stervation and the interest- ing typewriter in her elegant little apartment. Miss Folz is a graceful actress and the sceno between her and her lover (Brinker) is particu- larly pretty and natural. by Grover’s Alenzar was agan visited by the | PRIVATE SECRETARY! Improved Order of Red Men last night, and between the acts some interesting steoreopti- con views were shown. Many of the scenmes were laid in Redwood City, and applause was again elicited by the view of the new CALL building. Grover's company is giving a good performance of “The Private Secretary,” Leon- ard Grover in particular eliciting plenty of mirth by his amusing characterization of the “Do you know?”’ curate. e { The Granto and Maud act is the strong fea- ture of the Orpheum’s bill this week. The ease and grace with which Granto performs difficult feats on the bounding wire, including back somersaults, have made him immediately popular. The Ammons Clerise trio are clever vocalists, comedians and instrumental Topack and Steel also come in for a share popular favor. Haverley’s minstrels are nightly beguiling the hours for Columbin Theater audiences with the jokes and songs and repartces peculiar to comediens of the cork-blacked variety. “Madame Favart” has only a few more days to run at the Tivoli. “Carmen” is being re- hearsed for next Monday. — THE MAN WITH A SECRET An Anonymous Letter to the Coroner About His Marital Rela- tions. An anonymous letter was received by Coroner Hawkins yesterday respecting the unknown man who shot himself in Golden Gate Park on October 26, and who died at the City and County Hospital three days ago, his body being still unidentified at the Morgue. % If anything the leiter only made the mystery of the ‘‘man who died with a se- cret” more of a mystery than ever. The man had in his possession a picture of a lady, and upon this the letter attempted to throw a little light by telling the Coro- ner she was his wife and that he was un- happily married. he writer was apparently as much averse to being known as wasthe man who shot himself. Here is the letter: The Coroner—DEAR Sik: The man found in G. G. Park on Oct. 26 last and who died yesterday was well known to me. He has only been here a little over 3 months, coming here from Missouri, where his mother and young wife, whose photograph was found on person, reside. He frequently expressed his desire to die ow- ing to unhappy marital relations. I notified his relatiyes when he was found, stating Lo could not recover, and have just received & letter from his mother stating her desire that his body should be buried with the unknown, as he wished it. He left his valise containing letters and other effects in my room on the day before he was found, and he said, ‘‘Good-by, George,” but I did not believe the poor boy would carry out his threat. his body be buried and not dissected. For many reasons he wished to be unknown | when found, and so I will not betray his de- sire. Otherwise I would come out like a man and tell you all about him. Kindly publish number of his grave in the public graveyard, and oblige, 18 FRIEND. P. S.—I sent his valise and things to his mother, which I suppose was all right. He was in Olympia a short time with his wife over two years ago. The only clew to the identity of the man so far found is the silver matchbox he had, on which were the letters, “‘A. P. H. Co.” This matchbox was evidently given him as a Christmas souvenir nl‘()lym‘nm, Wash. Inquiry of A.P. Hotalinz & Co., however, has not yet succeeded in estab- lishing who or what he was. ———————— CARR-BEEL CONCERT. The Forty-Seventh of This Popular Series to Be Given Saturday. The forty-seventh Carr-Beel popular concert will take place Saturday at 3:15 ?. M. The programme, which is unusually interesting, will contain Mendelssohn’s fine string quartet in D. Miss Caroline Little will make her first public appear- ance in this City as a vocalist. Mr. Beel and Mr. Heine will play a duo for violin and 'cello, and Mr. Newbauer will play a new suite for the flute by Edward German, a rising young English composer. The programme will be as follows: trings in D, op. 44, No. = actieniay 5 Hoo Allsers Vavace: 2. Mom uetto un poco Allegro: 3, Andante expressivo ma con moto; 4, Presto con Brio—ine Beel His mother only wishes that | | | i | I { | i o String Quartet. Songs: q, “Das Veilchen" (Mo- b, “Love’s Young Dream,” (Old Irish ); ¢, “Der Kafer und aie Blume” (Paul a Folletta” (Salvater Ma 0T piu non mi sento” (Pai- Caroline Little; duo for violin onard-Servais), Mr. Beel and M and Heine; suite for flute and plano (E ello (L 1, Vaise man), ne E Danc racieuse 3, Gyp: & 8. Carr and NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. LDWIN =%, ANBCo‘. INCORPD | l'|'t'|El'-\'l'RE PROPS. TO-NIGHT AND >ALL THE WEEK, DE WOoOILE -W Merry Company, N Presenting the Comlic Opera Succes: v G‘ NEXT W 2d and Last of Mer; Tunefal “NAT ATTG? ¢ Al AYMAS ©Co., INCORFD THEATRE! Frors. And Every Night This Week (Inciuding Sunday), MATI TURDAY. Jacob Litt's Big Spectacular Production of C. T, AND HIS MATINEE SATURDAY ONLY, SEATS READY T0-DAY FOR REXT WEEI. TO=IN LG EXT Dazey's Most Successful Melodrama, THE War ey Wealth! A Perfect, Picturesque and Elaborate Production, A GREAT CAST—— Next Week—S WAR OF W econd and last of “THE WEALTH.”’ ¢ . winbio Sheale, FRICOLANDLR.GOTTLOD @ Co- LE33E3 AND MANAGERS -+ GREAT, GRAND, | :“ TREL GLORIOUS ESTIVAL! J. H. HAVERLY’S MASTODON MINSTRELS! Monarchs Supreme of Superfine Minstrelsy, Reserved Seats—15¢, 25¢, 50¢ and 75e, GROVER’S ALCAZAR. Theater Crowded ! Bon’t Miss It! Simply the Most Delightful Entertainment in the Wide World—THE ——AND—— THE OPEN GATE: Have you seen a tear-dewed audience lighting up with smiles? Have you heard the great roaring laugh and the roof-raising applause? The sweetest, merriest and funniest bill on earth. Next—The London “go"—“THE GOVERNOR.” NIGHT PRICES—EHS(:. 25¢, 35¢, 50c. MATINEES SATURDAY, SUNDAY AND WEDYESDAY! Matinee Prices—10c, 15¢, 25c. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MEs. EENESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Manages: LAST NIGHTS Of Offenbach’s Sparkling Opera Comique, “MADAME FAVART” SEATS NOW ON SALE FOR NEXT WEFK. ‘CARMENY Bizet's Romantic Opera. WATCH OUT FOR “THE LUCKY STAR.” Popular Prices—25c and 50c. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theaterin America. WALTER MOROSCO. ... Sole Lesseo and Manages THIS EVENING AT FIGHT. ——A SUPERB PRODUCTION—— Of Steele Mackaye's Masterpiece, “MORNEY MAD!” According to Our Best Critics, “The Gem of American Melodramas.’s- EvENING PRICE3—25¢ and 50c. Family Circle and Gallegy. 10c. Usual M=tinees Saturday and Sunday. ORPHEUM. O’Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Poweil. Tremendous Success of Our New People! GRANTO AND MAUD, AMMON’S CLERISE TRIO, TOPACK AND STEEL, AND—— OURGREATSPECIALTY COMPANY Reserved seats, 25¢; Balcony, 10c; Opera chalrs and Box seats, 50c. WHATEVER YOU DO, SH00T THE CHOUTES! THE SENSATION OF SENSATIONS ! Open Afternoon and Evening. ADMISSION, TEN CENTS. Haight Street, Near the Park. CONCERTS AT 2°AND 8 P. M. RUNNING % RURKING RACES! RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, FALL MEETING! BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday— Kain or Shine. Five or more races each day. Racesstartat 2:03 . x. sharp. McAllister and Geary street cars pass the gate. BASEBALL—CENTRAL PARK. San Francisco vs. Oakland. ,Thursday, Saturday, Sund wedn"d-g};ven:‘b‘;% 1"31 118 17.: > ':_ 2% ) nd Thursda, . Wednesday ks yhes.