The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1895, Page 11

. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895. ix WON BY THE WIELANDS, Robert}P. and C. S., [Executors of Their Mother’s Estate, Victorious. BY JUDGE HUNT. DECISION Result of a Suit Arising Out of the Sale of a Brewery to a Big English Syndicate. After a trial lasting nine days Robert . and Charles 8. Wieland, executors of the . estate of their mother, Sophie Wie- land, who died in 1891, won an important n Judge Hunt’s court yesterday. g-pending_suit ‘brought by the | te of John H. Wieland, deceased, | ainst the estate of Sophie Wieland P ¢ out of negotiations sur- leading up to the sale of the nd Brewery to the English 1890. From the testimony it E in 1889 there were nego- tis s looking to a purchase of the Vieland Brewery, and that a contract was entered into on Qctober 16, 1889, with Ed- ard Fairweather of London whereby Mrs. phie Wieland and her cnildren agreed to sell thesproperty for §2,900,000. This contract was modified by a later contract with the same gentleman, dateG December However, after much time spent ¥ amount of negotiations, Mr. Fair- weather failed to carry out his contracts and the sale of the well-known brewery fell through. Later on, in 1890, the Eng- reweries, appeared on the scene and ultimately purchased the Wieland Brewery. The contract under which the brewery was sold called for $2,400,000— $1,000,000 in bonds and $1,400,000 in cash, ess certain large, indefinite amounts due editors of the brewery. a case which has been on trial before ge Hunt and a jury 1t was claimed by widow of John H. Wieland that Sophie Wieland promised to pay her son e $15,000 out of her share if he would with her in agreeing to sell the brew- Aiter the sale of the brewery both vhie Wieland and her son, John Henry, died, o that the suit was brought by the estate of the one inst the estate of the th W. Heut and_George Lezinsky i (e plaintiff,and Samuel M. appeared for tue defendant. aintiff was Mrs. Emma Zelt- vife of Jahn H, Wieland, | i New Yorl d to prosecute th the nd powerful ar- | g for the de-| hat Miss Sophie Wie- | and had de a promise to p: John H. Wi 5,000 orany other sum, and that t ’ presented a ber estate fal tribute to | i argued that had to her son she | ladly observed | of the matter | ided that no such | eland. s apparent | had no per- 3 Zeltner, the t opposed her ‘“‘claim’ be- knew their mother had never | contract alleged. | mother loved John Henry, as che her children,”’ Charles last evening, “and if she had | to pay or give him $15,000, or er sum of money, she would have We knew and Mr. Shortridge m my mother’s own lips that she r made any such promise as was to be proved, and therefore we ve fended and I am happy to say e w this suit. We are grateful for ctof the jury, foritisa vindica- only of ourselves but of our r’s character.” AAILADADS NEW DUTIES, They Must Own and Operate Their Own Telegraph Lines. How the Supreme Court Decision Will Affect the Government-Aided Roads. One of the most important results to the general public in the decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court in the cate, which now owns thisand | | No Evidence by Captain Shorey | the same offense—at Honolu rospect of having cheir telegrams de- ayed by the preferred business of the rail- road company. Considerable talk has been current of late regarding the severance of the pres- ent relations as outlined above between the telegraph and railroad people and the making of a new agreement. Superintendent Jaynes stated yesterday that there was no friction of any kind be- tween the twe companies, and that the present negotiation simply covered the am- icable readjustment of afgiin between thie two contracting paities. The decision of the Supreme Court, he added, would have no effect on the pending negotiations. ——— BALL LEAGUE BROKEN. Comiskey, ELngle and Their Players Go, but Morse Remains and Will Play Ball. The midweek games of baseball are no more. Comiskey and his Eastern players have returned to their homes. Comiskey went Saturday and the bulk of his men left last night. The Oakland and San Jose teams are now things of the past. The league is disrupted, but Manager J. F. Morse is confident that a new league 11 continue the games. The two teams Sastern players will be replaced by the cs and the Olympics. The Los Angeles and San Francisco nines will, of course, be part of the new organization. Owing to the Reliance-Olympic football game there will be no ball played on Saturday. The Pacifics and Friscos play on Sunday, though. The Los Angeles nine and the San Francisco nine play Saturday week. The next day the Olym- pics will meet the visitors. “Engle andiComiskey were disgruntled about receipts,’”” said Mr. Morse last night. “They kept their contract in every re- spect except in remaining here till Decem- ber12. I have not yet completed all my arrangements, but I am satisfied that the new league will be in working order in a few days.” EAYHEAD CASE DISMISSED. Against His White Sailors. Logbook Entries Not According to Law. Criticisms of Consul-General ! Mills. The prosecution? yesterday of the three white sailors, Walter Ekerenkutter, Wil- liam Bresling and William Gehrmann, on the charge of Captain W. T. Shorey (col- ored) of attempting to burn his ship, the American whaling bars Gayhead, in the harbor of Honolulu last March, was dis- missed by United States Commissioner Heacock, who discharged the men. Captain Shorey, 8. Rigby and John Laverty were examined. Tne last named was & white man. Captain Shorey gave the place of his own birth as Cape Cod, Mass., though he aumitted that he was gene upposed to be a nativeof the | Barbad oes. Rigby was apparently a full negro. Capt in Shorev explained that his princi- itness, Martin Paredo, a half-Mal- yan, was in the Marine Hospital sick. Attorney Monteith did not find it neces- sary to put on any witnesses for the de- fense. om the testimony of Captain Shorey Monteith drew out that the men had once before been placed in !'eapardy for u—and were discharged because there was not evi- dence enough to convict, and all three of the Governnient’s witnesses swore that there was nothing but mere suspicion case of the Government against the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the West- ern Union Telegraph Company is that the Union Pacific Railroad will have to build end maintain a telegraph line of its own and do a general telegraph business over its wires, just as is now done by the West- ern Union Company, and in competition with that and other telegraph companies. This means that the Union Pacific Rail- road Company will have to construct or purchase a telegraph system, issue a rate schedule and maintain a corps of employes to transact commercial. business. It also annuls all contracts between interstate railroad companies and telegraph com- panies under which the latter have exclu- sive rights along the line of such railroads to maintain and operate telegraph lines. This decision applies only to the Union Pacific Company, but a case 1s pending in which the Western Union Telegraph Com- v and the Central Pacific Railroad are ndants. Should the decision in this case follow the lines of that just rendered, pected it will, the existing rela- ween the Western Union Tele- ¢raph Company and the Central Pacific Railroad Company, according to the state- ment of Superintendent Jaynes of the former company, will not be materially affected. The Central Pacinc has lines of its own along every mile of road built by it, in accordance with the charter terms. These lines were built by the railroad company, but under an arrangement_with the West- ern Union the iatter maintains the rail- road lines in good repair, and also agrees to give the railroad company the use of the Western Union lines whenever the railroad lines are interrupted and the Western Union’s are not. In return for these ser sices and grivileges the Western Union has the right to use the railroad wires when the latter are not required by Captain W. T. Shorey. against the accused whites, and that when the fire broke out they helped willingly and readily in putting it out. The captain was on shore at the iime, and Bresling went in a boat after the cag- tain as soon as the fire was discovered. If anything the evidence was complimentary to the men. The only circumstance upon which suspicion was based was the habit the three white men had of associating to- gether and talking among themselves. There were only five white men in the crew. An effort was made by Mr. Monteith to ascertain if Bresling had been properly shipped, so as to havearecord of damaging evidence against the captain. Judge Heacock considered this irrelevant, but al- lowed Agent John A. Magee, who was sresent, to go after the ship’s articles. ‘Nhen Mr. Magee returned the case was over. Bresling’s name did not appear on the list of the crew, and there may now be a prosecution of some one for “‘shanghai- ing.” %he logbook was admitted in evidence, Compared with the requirements of the law on this point it was a curiously kent loghook. The law savs every charge against seamen must be entered, signed by the master and also the mate or one of the crew, and that the answer of the accused in each case must also be entered signed. There were no signatures, however, to any of its entries, nor was there any record of the men ever answering the charges, or ever having had them read over to them as the law requires. Here were the entries relating to the affair at Honolulu: saturday, March 9—American Consul came aboard of the ship to investigate the cause of the fire. Monday, March 11—E. Enconter, Wm. Bres- ley and Wim. Gehman arrested on suspicion of having set fire 1o the ship. Damage to ship the railroad, and is also entitled to the use | «jght. of the rolling stock of the railroad com- pany when making line repairs. Under the expected decision the Central Pacific will aiso have to do a general com- mercial telegraph business and establish rates of its own and provide the necessa clerks and operators to han that may be lendere.d to it by the general public. z According to the (_)Fn posted the decision will ence in the amount of the Western Union Telegraph Company, for few, it is claimed, will care to entrust their messages to the railroad witi nion of those well make little differ- { business done by | olulu Bulletin of March 21, h its | Mills, and also Marshal Hitchcock, Wednesday, March 13—The three men ar- rested brought back. Not sufficient evidence to convict them. They refused to work and are arrested agein for refusing duty. And that was all; no record whatever of ry | Consul Mills having been consulted as to dle the business | the second arrest. ‘The captain admitted that the men were arrested the second time by the Hawaiian police upon his mere charge, and when in Honolulu he had a communication printed in the Hon- critieizing Consul-General Ellis Mills. Captain Shorey in substance then charged Mtll-x wi necessarily limited facilities and with the | indifference. 1S CALLED BY THE KING Nobleman Sah Jai Pil Going Back to Korea After Ten Years’ Exile. STRANGE TURN OF FORTUNE. Sah’s Story of the Great Opportunities Afforded in Korea for Money- Making. Sah Jai Pil, the Korean exile who, in company with Prince Pak and Soh Quong Pom, fled from his native land and came to this country eleven years ago, is at the Occidental Hotel. The erstwhile exile, who is of noble birth, has changed greatly since, friendless, he landed with his com- panions on these shores. He has become a physician. a pathol- ogist and bacteriologist of repute, married an American wife and become an Amer- ican citizen, and is now going back at the Nobleman Sah Jai Pil, the Erstwhile, Korean Exile, Who Has Been Called Home. request of the King himself. From a poor and despised youth, driven forth by his countrymen, he is returning clothed with honors. Soh Quong Pom, too, who re- turned to Korea a few months ago, has, so Sah Jai Pil says, been recently made Min- | ister of Justice. Prince Pak isin Wash- ington yet, where the nobleman Sah Jai Pil has been makinz his home, butitis not improbable that he, too, may be called home. Nobleman Sah Jai Pil, whose name has been Americanized into Philip Jaisohn, with B.8. and M.D. to it, is pathologist to the Garfield Memorial Hospital and asso- ciate professor of bacteriology in Colum- bian University. He is uncertain how long be will remain in Korea, but heis anxious, after his long absence, to see his native land and do anything he can for his | countrymen. HeR Yt | “There are great opportunities in Korea now,” said Nobleman Sah Jai Pil. “Asto | the recent troubles there and the threaten- ing attitude of Russia you know all about that by the cablegrams. The best advices .we have now are to the effect that things hav= quieted down. The country 1s now ripe for progress. “Tt is a great field for American capital, and the Americans are the best people for the Koreans to deal with. I hope the capitalists of the Pacific Coast will more freely investigate the financial oppor- tunities in Korea. Money could be made in building rail s, introducing modern machinery, building telegraphs, and by engaging in banking and other. enter- prises. A streetcar system would pay well in Seoul, the capital, a_city with over 250, 000 people. There wouid be money alsoin introducing electric lights and electricity as a power. “With 15,000,000 people and a country so rich in _agriculture, mines and rare woods as Korea there is now a mag- nificent chance for investment. It is only three weeks’ travel to get there and that is pot far. Iam sure great advancement will tnke\}flnce there during the next few vears. Mr. Greathouse, who went out rom here some years ago, is,I am informed, doing great things for Korea. IHe enjoys the confidence of the people, has learned the language and has adopted to a large extent the native ways of living. “I am returning under peculiar circum- stances, It is strange that after bein driven from my home and country should in this way, after so long a time, be called back by the King. As strange things are liable to occur in a lifetime, however, I suppose I ought to accept the situation and think now cnly of bettering my countrymen.’’ Sah Jai Pil is accompanied by his secre- tary, Wan L. Rhee, formerly connected with the Korean Police Department, but being a friend of Prince Pak he fell into disfavor and was aiso, some time since, expelled. The King is now willing he should come home with Nobleman Sah. The latter, on going to Washington, was very poor, but through vpolitical influence he "was able to get a position in the Surgeon-General’s office at $1000 a vear. He studied medicine, and in a class of twenty-six at graduation ranked third. His progress since this has been steady. The nobleman and his secretary will sail on the Coptic to-morrow. VALUES AND TAXES. Interesting Figures Showing the Wealth of California as a State and by Counties. From a table prepared by State Con- troller Colgan it appears that the aggre- gate value of real estate in the State this year 18 $600,42,325; the value of improve- ment on such, $241,994,060; the value of personal property, including money, §157,- 726,988; total value of property as returned by Auditors, $1,090,263,373; value of rail- roads as assessed by the State Board of Equalization, $43,018,640; grand total value oi all property, $1,133,282,013. The original assessed value of mortgages is $195,279,833; the funded debt, $5.140,- 887 15, and the floating debt, $147,725 73, making the grand total of county indebt- edness $5,288,612 87. The counties of Amador, Colusa, Kings, Lassen, Mariposa, Nevada, Orange, River- side, Tuolumne and Yolo have neither funded nor floating debt. Alameda, -Alpine, Madera, Modoc and Santa Barbara are the only counties that have funded debt, while the counties that have floating debts are Alameda, Alpine, Butte, Contra Costa, Del Ncrte, Invo, Madera, Mendocino, Modoc, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Stanislans, Trinity and Tulare. Stanislaus bas the smallest floating debt, $774; Tulare the greatest, $23,225. Los Angeles has the greatest funded debt, $873,500; Contra Costa the smallest, $2000. San Francisco’s funded debt is $599,000, Sacramento’s §560,- 000, Marin’s $242,000 and Kern’s $270,000. The valuation of real estate in San Fran- cisco is $178,948,266; improvements, $86,- 033,059; personal property, $62,814; value of property returned by Auditor, $327,845,- 342; value of railroads, $226,766; total value ofall property, $328,072,108. The next richest counties, according to total valuation, are: Alameda, $34,304,497; Los Angeles, $84,817,151; Santa Clara, $56,- 723,127; Sacramento, $33,831,194; San Joa- uin, 647,948; Sonoma, $27,175,145; resno, $26,590,806. All the others are un- der $25,000,000. s The highest rate of taxation isin Mari- posa, $3 15 on the hundred dollars of valu- ation. In this Cit§vand County it is $2 25. The lowest is in Yolo, $1 06 on property within the corporate limits, $1 30 oatside. In Alameda it is $1 18 and $1 53, in Fresno $1 60 and $1 85, Los Angeles $1 40 and $1 70, Sacramento $140 and $1 60, San Joaquin $129 and $1 47, San Mateo $1 201 and $1 60, Santa Clara $115 and $1 45, Sonoma $1 31 and $1 53. B The State rate of taxation is 68.5 cents, 5 L THE CYCLE SHOW. Its Success Is Assured by the Joining of Rival Forces. A combination has been effected between the different cycle shows proposed to be given in San Francisco, and one complete show will be given by(the Pacific Coast Cycle Show Association in the Mechanics’ Pavilion from February 17 to 21. G. A. Wahlgreen of the Denver Cycle Show and J. F. Burns will garticipale in the managemsnt with the Pacific Coast Association. . 4 A representative will be sent to the Chicago, New York and Denver shows to transfer the exhibits fromZthose shows to San Francisco. The date for the San Francisco. show has been fixed to give plenty of time for shipment after the other shows are over. Y This combination of interests is a happy one for the show here. Mr. Wahlgreen is the organizer of the Denver show, and gained his experience at the Chicago show of last year. With'the support of local citizens and various San Francisco organizations the affair promises to be one of mercantile and social importance to San Francisco. REGARDING THE TERRAPIN The Real Diamond-Back Article Is Not Evident Here as Yet. Mr. Emeric and Mr. Foote, Together With Mr. Daggett, Have Certain Set Opinions. “Give me a terrapin stew.” “What kine, sah? Ches’'peake Bay or Sacramento Ribber, sah?” “‘Chesapeake Bay.”’ “Dey ain’t none, sah. Mr. Emeric done plant just two dozen las’ year. Dey ain’t no mo’ in dis-State, sah.” “Let it go at Sacramento River, boys.” Thus the painful trath leaksout, and the gourmet who wants the genuine diamond- back terrapin must suffer the gastronomic shock that comes with the information. However anxious he is to get back to the old Maryland flavor there is no possibility of realizing that pleasure here because 1t doesn’t happen to be obtainable. Caterers advertise them, and epicures smack their lips over the thought of it, | but when it comes right down to the real thing—well, it's not in the cards, as some people would say. Some day, however, Mr. Emeric’s dia- mond-backs may be able to showa good record, but until then the bon vivant will have to be contented with the home pro- duction which reaches San Francisco via the Sacramento River. Mr. Emeric was inclined to chat about 1."9 importations yesterday and frankly # fmitted that he had seen very little of the delicacies since be turned them loose in his marsh last year. “I brought iwenty- four of them home with me the last time I went East, and it may be possible that they have a pretty good colony by this time, althongh I have not made a raid on them yet. 1 want them to get thoroughly accustomed to the new pasture and to in- crease as rapidly as possible. If they propagate well in this section it will be a very easy matter to raise quantities of them, as the marsh lands are limitless. You know the real diamond-back terrapin is an inhabitant of salt-water marsh land, and does not take much stock in fresh water a la Sacramento River. Down in old Maryland they sell for §1 an inch, measuring from the extreme ends of the under shell, and are guaranteed to make an epicure’s mouth water. ‘“It is not so much the terrapin, I might as well admit, as it is the way they are flavored. Of course the pure, blown-in- the-bottle, diamond-back article is the only thing that is worth betting on, but as a matter of fact if it is not flavored right the game Is up with the individual who eats of the same. “Now I have always thought that I have the only proper receipt for cooking terra- vin. No, 1 won't say that. Billy Foote has the receipt also. I gave it to him myself.” “‘Can’t you give it to me?” asked one of Mr. Enreric’s friends. “*What!"” exclaimed the Fish Commis- sioner, “Po_you suppose I would wound my friend Foote by depriving him of the pleasure of being one of the two men on the Pacific Coast who knows the only true and never-failing way to cook terrapin? Do you think I want to incur the everlast- ing hatred of Friend Foote?"’ “What does he want of a receipt for cook- ing something that was never seen here?” “‘But they will be here soon. Just wait until I get ready to make a haul on my marsk. I will pick out the best on the slantation and we will have a feast that elshazzar never dreamed of in his wildest gastronomic nightmares. We will fall upon those terrapin and serve up abont three gallons of them. It takes wine, sea- | sonings and various kinds of spices to do the thing properly, and ¥oote and I will have the finest terrapin stew ever put beiore a citizen of this country. Thereis only one way to cook terrapin, and we know how. You can talk French chef all you please and call up all the old masters of the range in the United Kingdom, but the terrapin must be stewed to be correct, and it re- quires a whole day to do it properly. Itis perfectly useless to discuss the maiter, but the good old colored woman’s receipt which [ have right here in my pocket, which she left as a priceless legacy to the world of epicures, is the one invincible and correct method.” Mr .Emeric (no doubt supported by Mr. Foote) is very much devoted to the terra~ rin as a dish of some importance, but Rol- in M. Daggett is a little-shaky on the point of its being essential in the prepara- tion of the stew. “Now, as regards terrapin,” said Mr. Daggett, “if you will take some scraps of meat, throw ina few chicken wings well cracked, so as to make the bones, and then season it properly, it is just a ter- rapin stew as can be served. this bun- combe about terrapin i8 getting pretty heavy, and if the right ingredients are put ul\ an Irish stew you can sell it for$4 a plate.” Notwithstanding Mr. Emeric’s laudation of the diamond-back and Mr. Daggett’s be- lief that tife diamond bas a fai;e glitter, the Sacramento River terrapin output is just as large as ever, and the connoisseurs will wait with open mouths for the high- priced morsel to become acclimated and do some growing in the Golden West. PR L Although Vermont has for several years offered the liberal hounty of $15 on bears, the animals are still found upon the mountains and, in the opinion of hunters and trappers, are growing in numbers in that section. THE NEVILLE MURDERER, Walter Alexander Claims to Rec- ognize Him in William Schultz. A RECENTLY FREED CONVICT, F. G. Eickhorst Is Positive He Saw the Assassin’s Picture in the Rogues’ Gallery. A few more detectives, Ben Bohen at their head, have been thrown on the Neville murder case by Chief Crowley, who claims that the affair is as mystify- ing to him as to the layman. “We haven’t got the man yet,” im- patiently asserted the old veteran, “and I dor’t propose to talk of this case until he is brought in.” Detective Gibson, who worked on the case Monday, a few hours after Alired A. Neville was shot down, was scouring the outskirts of the City yesterday, presumably in search of the man whose photograph in the rogues’ gallery was recognized by F. G. Eickhorst, the grocer, as. the man who first came into his place on Sunday night ordering a glass of beer, and subsequently came in ordering him to “throw up your hands.” Who that mysterious individual is the detectives will not say. They fear that divulging his name would not only put him on his guard, but likewise help his partner in the murder to getaway from their clutches. However, F. G. Eickhorst is emphatic that he knows the murderer by sight and that he picked his photograph out of a Esnoramic display of jail-bird pictures anded to him by the police for inspec- tion. Here is a brief note to that effect written by him yesterday when he learned that the detectives were inclined to con- trovert his assertion that he could not and had not picked out the murderer’s picture: November 19, 1895. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The statement made in to-day’s issue of THE CALL that I have seen the portrait of the big man who attempted to robme and who, pre- sumably, killed A. A. Neville, is correct. I picked the portrait out of a number of those presented to me by the detectives. F. G. EICKHORS' Grant, the intimate friend of Neville, who had seen a suspicious character skulk- ing around the neighborhood of Pierce and Greenwich streets, whose descrintion exactly fitted the murderer, also picked out the same I;ictllre as did Eickhorst, but the police not having captured that indi- vicual as yet will not give out his name. All of yesterday the people living in the district where the murder occurred and who in any way believed they knew the assassins were marched singly and in pairs to Detective Bainbridge’s oflice, where the rogues’ gallery is kept. As a rule they were unable 1o pick out any familiar face. In the case of Walter Alexander, a ainter living within one block of Eick- orst’s store, it is different. Hewas inthe | saloon at the time the tall stranger entered | and ordered his drink.. He was seated at one of the tables in the small room, and had a Euod opportunity to observe the man, who seemed to dct in an unnatural manner. When the fellow left the place Alexander casually remarked that the fel- low looked odd. After the murder Alex- ander recalled the incident, and Eickhorst informed him that it was the same man who pulled the pistol and killed Neville. Alexander was at police headquarters yesterday glancinfi over the rogues’ gal- lery. He did not hesitate when he came to the photograph of William Schultz, an ex-convict. “This is the man!” he exclaimed. “I would know him in a thousand.” Whether Schultz is the man that Grant and Eickhorst also picked out the police are adverse to saying, but they do not be- lieve he is the murderer, so they say. “Schultz is only a thief.” said Chief Crowley, as if this qualification debarred the man from being something more dan- gerous. Schultz was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for robbing the effects of Mrs. I)annenberi[. a dressmaker, some three years ago. He wasliberated a couple of months since, and has been seen fre- quently in this City. His discription agrees perfectly with the man who is wanted, and, no doubt, he will be gathered in on sight, that he may make an explana- tion of his whereabouts on Sunday night. Patrick McCoy, a butcher, who dropped into Stamke’s grocery store on Union and Octavia streets two hours before the mur- der of Neville took place, encountered the two suspects. They foliowed him in and icked up the fifteen cents the barkeeper fiad returned him as change. McCoy de- murred to this, and made such a front that the coins were returned to him and the strangers made a hasty exit. Detective Bohen visited the scene of the murder yesterday and also iook in the Presidio, whence many of Eickhorst's atrons come. His investigations were un- ruitful so far as developing clews. At the grocery store he found a small ragged hole in the ceiling which might have been made by a bullet. Thefleaden missile, however, could not be found. The Rev. William Bolton, a curate from the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, occupies the five rooms apove the grocery store asa study. He was not there on the evening of the kill- ing, but his privacy was disturbed yester- day by Bohen and the reporters, who were anxious to see if the supposed bullet-hole traversed into his apartment. There was no sign of a bullet-hole in the place. The bullet, however, may be lodged i the rafters between the floor and the ceiling below. The funeral of the dead carpenter will take place at 3 o’clock this afternoon from the undertaking pariors on Mint avenue SEE YUP DEMONSTRATION Opening of the New Headquarters of the Chinese Merchants’ Association. The Air of Commercial Street Filled With the Din of Exploding Firecrackers. The See Yup contingent of the inhabit- ants of Chinatown celebrated the opening of the new headquarters of the Chinese Merchants’ Association yesterday and last evening. It is doubtful if in the most heated battle of the late Japan-Chinese war there was more smoke or greater din than filled the afr of Commercial street nearly all the afternoon. The uproar was prompted by hostile feeling, but in the demonstration there was no expression of that feeling beyond a general jollification at the discomfiture it caused the Sam Yu T{: Chinese Merchants’ Association is organization of the five companies of :l:‘e See Yup faction, and is the outgrowti of the boycott instituted against the Sam ‘Yups some month!:go when the Six Com- panies were disrupted by the dissensions over Mock Tai, the alleged murderer of Chong Wai. At that time there were fre- quent scenes of disorder as the result of the bitterness with whicn the boycott was W but forcible measures finally ceased and quiet determined tactics were gdopted. On September 7 the See Yups organized the Chinese Merchants’ Association, and all the Chinese outside of the Sam Yup Society were taken in. The Sam Yups had the Chinese Government officials be- hind them and the Consul-General and the Chinese Minister at Washington ex- erted themselves to break up the %)oyoott, out to no purpose, for as long as the See Yups were peaceable they were powerless. The quiet warfare has con- sequently gone steadily on and the See Yups have from time to time opened new stores until now the Merchants’ Asso- ciation is largely represented among the business houses of Chinatown. The See Yups,or Merchants’ Association, have occu- pied temporary headquarters since Sep- tember 7 while the “new house,” as it is termed, was being fitted up. The new headquarters is a three-story building at 785 Commercial street, finely fitted up with offices for the officers of the associ- ation and clubrooms for the members. | R — HAMILTON TO TRY AGAIN. He Failed to Climb the Flagpole on the | Chief Wharfinger’s Office. Alfred S. Hamilton drew an immense crowd to Clay-street wharf on Monday morning. He is an expert rigger and | knows more about climbing lofty flag- poles than almost anybody else in Califor- nia. He met his Waterloo, however, but would not acknowledge defeat. The pole in question surmounts the office of the chief wharfinger, and the gilded ball at the top of it is over 100 feet from the ground. The halyards are old and rotten, and the pole wants painting, so Chief Wharfinger Root engaged Ham- | ilton to do the job. The ‘‘climber” was on hand at the time specified, and with a new halyard over his arm started to climb. ‘When within ten feet of the top he rested for a few seconds and then went on again. Two feet from the golden ball he seemed to lose his grip and came sliding down the slim stick. ~ A couple of feet from the roof he lost control of himself and fell back- ward in a faint. Luckily the roof was flat, and when he | was picked up and resuscitated, he was | not much the worse for his venture. | After apologizing to Chief Wharfinger Root for his failure Hamilton said: ‘“You | see, it’s just this way. I haven’t had a | square meal for a week and when a man’s stomach is empty his nerves arn’t as good as they ought to be. Now the best dinner | I've had for some time has cost me just 10 cents, and other times I've lived off the lunch-counters. But I'll g0 home now and take a rest and you can bet I'Il earn | that money to-morrow."’ | “Are you not afraid you may fall and | get killed ?”” asked the Chigf Wharfinger. | At thig Hamilton laughed and said: “A | man may as well be dead as broke.” Root then gave him enough to get his dinner and supper with and told him to | come around next morning and he would pay for his breakfast. Then av 10 A. . he THE DIVIDED DEMOCRATS: Buckley Leaders Confer With Maguire About Next Fri- day Night. Both Sides Evolving Their Plans for the Eventful Meetings of the Next Two Days. Mr. Watkins didn’t issue the call yes- terday for the meeting on Friday evening of the Democratic General Committee, which is charged with having adjourned sine die, and so Vice-Chairman Joseph Rothschild did, naming B'nai B'rith Hail as the place of meeting. As the motion to adjourn to Friday evening, put by Rothschild on Saturday night, after Watkins had declared the committee adjourned sine die, provided for three days” notice of the place of meet- | ing, it was necessary, under the motion, |to issue the notice yesterday. In | the morning Rotnschild" addressed a communication to Watkins, stating the circumstances and requesting a reply by 4 . M. as to whether or not he had selected a hall and would issue the notice. ‘Watkins ignored the communication, as it was supposed would be done, and last evening postal cards announcing the meet- ing for the time and place mentioned were sent out to all members of the committee signed by Joseph Rothschild as vice-chair- man and Thomas P. Cusick as secretary. An important conference on the situa- tion was held in Judge Maguire’s office yesterday afternoon. ‘1$he Buckley faction was revresented by a A. T. Spotts, James H. O’Brien, J. J. Flynn, Joseph Rothschild and Thomas Gallagher, and these gentle- men held a long informal conference with Mr. Maguire and his partner, Joseph Leg- gett. 'fi]e chief topic was what should be done Friday evenine to deal wisely with the situation and fairly with all party in- terests. It was decided that if the missing roll was not returned a copy of the roll known to be in existence should be used, a°ter its verification hy the district represeniatives present. After the roll is veritied and ac- cepted the minutes of the previous meet- ing will be considered. It was the opinion expressed at the con- ference that a_fair record could be made from recollection should the secretary fail to present his own minutes. 1t was under- stood at the meeting that fully 250 mem- bers of the general committee would at- tend. The plan by which the primary should be held was discussed, without definite results, but before Friday night a plan will | be agreed upon. The Junta was busy yesterday with will make another attempt at mending the halyards and painting the pole. He only | weighs 122 pounds, butafter he got through | with the meal Le ordered at a water-front | restaurant his avoirdupois was considera- | bly increased. A stormy winter is expected on the front | and, in consequence, Chief Warfinger Root | wants to fly the danger signal on all neces- sary occasions. As a number of altera- | tions have been made to the office and the | building painted it was considered neces- sary to fix up the flagpole. | The pole climber made bright and early yesterday morning. He} got his promised breakf: and after a hour's rest he tackled the poie again. This | time he was successful, and after fixing the halyards he got the paint potand painted the mast from the golden knob to ! the roof of the house. He was cheered by the crowd after he reached the dock. his appearance E A novelty in advertising is showp in a Scotch church. The congregation could not pay its minister, when a soap firm | offered to pay $500 a year for five years, on | condition that its advertisement’ be hung up in front, of the gallery in the church; | offer accepted. preparations for the meeting of the Com- mittee of Fifty to-night to complete, or nearly do so, the list of the 450 members of its private general committee which in turn isto awaken to life and being, or- ganize and do something at Pioneer Hall on Thursday evening. There will be another caucus of the | Buckley contingent of the general com- | mittee at the Occidental Club to-night, preparatory to Friday’s meeting. ————————— Needlework Guild. The second annual meeting of the San Fran- cisco branch of the.Needlework Guild of | America was held yesterday afternoon at the house of Mrs. F. M. Pixley. The secretary’s re- ort showed that about 7300 garments had en collecied, an increase of more than 1300 over last year, and expinined that this material | 18 to be distributed to about seventy different | charitable societies which deal directly with | the needy and have their committees and | agents to investigate cases. The Needlework | Guild is an suxiliary, not an independent | charity. The officers” elected for the coming vear are: Mrs, F. M. Pixley, president; M . M. er, secretary, and Mrs. W. R. § berg, treasurer. Last year this branch stood | fourth in the mumber of garments in the United States. This year it hoves tobe the | third. 4 NEW TO-DAY. HARRIET HUBBARD AYER'S Recamier Toilet Preparations JULIE RECAMIER, THE ORIGINAL OF THIS PICTURE RE- TAINED HER EXQUISITE COMPLEX- 10N THROUGH THE USE OF RE- CAMIER CREAM UNTIL HER DEATH AT EIGHTY. 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