The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1895, Page 7

p——— B THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895. AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER.—* Wang." CALIFORNTA TH CoLUMBIA THEATER—Have! MOROSCO'S OPKRA-1O! e TIVOL1 OPFRA-HOUS! CrpErUM—High-Class Vande War of Wealth.” GROVER'S ATcAZAR.—+The C Mani HoPKINS' INSTITUTE OF ART.—Winter exhibition of Paintings. ¢ Festival Con- MECHANTCS' PavinioN—treat Festival Co certs in aid of Children's Hospital, commencing Tuesday, November 19. SroOr THE Ciroris_Dally at Haight street, ore block east of the Park. BAY DISTRICT TEACK BY HAMMERSMITH & Diamonds and Silverware, at 10 A. 3. and L. BY SULLIVAN & DovI 8, horses, at corner Four CITY NEWS IN BRIEFE. ;rch may call Rev. The Second A.J. Wells as i A large audienc third recital at Be e Spring V pastor greeted Otto Bendix at his ¢_proposes to Francisco. y refused to ase yesterday. v _cooler; south- 1 forecast for to- ing finished with the Pacific, will leave for Bacon lectured on “The Ig- at the Second Unitarian horses at the Bay District track Gondola, Toano, Perhaps, and Happy Day- etch Club opened its fall display of 1gs yesterday at the rooms of the organ- on'Montgomery street. L s from Atlanta show that the visitors ming greatly lnter- Milk Inspector Dockery s found the milk | veral hotels and restaurants not up to the ard and arrests will follow. Alexander recognizes Wililam i n the rogues’ gallery es that d A. Neville. | revolvers guarded the ¥ night’s meeting nsard roof proposed vt »rney on the hall. A laundry-wagon driver named J. E. Flaven tted snicide by cutting his throat with 032 Lombard street yesterday portion of the Lincoln School property on t street was leased to A. J. Proger's Sons 1, Oregon, by the Board of Education operty-owners in the vicinity of Noe th streets are indignant be- y-ninth street electric line has against the directors of the Pi to recover balances due on deposit, of the plaintiffs. to the United States Supreme on Pacific must do & commercial ess in_competition with the companie: Merchants® Assoclation, the See the inhabitants of Chinatown, e opening of & new headquarters ial street yesterdsay. . Schwertz, the_ clerical impostor we 4 worthless ‘checks on several gro- nen, ested in Secramento last ght, and > brought here. he Pacific Coast Steamship Company re- Puget Sound_yesterday to &8 ond. The Portland steamer 1 of passengers. g agent of the Mountain mine says that he will order all of supplies in San Francisco, 30,000 8 month. Tnion last evening levied a member to make up the ciency caused by_the embezzlement | nte treasurer, G compar h amount 1o § e Cigar-make G. W. Van Guelpen. 1 last night the Civic Federa- rsed the proposed new char- t indecent pic- | s and outlined | i ope of work. uing the Market-street Rail- $20 000 damages for per- | received by being struck by a ar, on Powell and Market 3,1894. 10 has two charges of embez- g against him before Judge 5 appear for trial yesterday. on hand to-day his bonds of 1000 ill be declared forfeited. rnia_Baseball League has been | cause of the light patronage. e players of the Oakland and San < have gone East. A new ieague is to d to include the Pacifics and Olympics. in the Black Pgint Reservation led by Warren & Malley, the con- . who will now devote_the $12,000 ap- fed monthly to filling in the lots of the tate. The work will be done in two e of arson at sea, bronght by Cap- colored) of the American whaling against the three white men, Bresling and Gehrmann, was nited Stetes Commissioner’ Hea- picend the Berkeley football teams & secret practice game at Central this aiternoon and &nother to-mor- afternoon, but on Friday the Olympics will before their big match with the Reliance Saturday. Miss Laura Booth, the leading lady of the “Wer of Wealth” conipany playing at the Cali- fornia Theater, was reccied in the deep water of the Lurline baths after having sunk twice. | declares that she is going swimming every | ¥ of her stay, thou | A Miss Arcy, & servant girl from a Third- | street employment office, wes injured, perhaps | Eeriously, in the spine by the elevator at the Beldwin yesterday. She walked in under the | clevator, the doors being left partly open, and when it came down she was seriously bruised. | Lonis Conderoth, a laborer employed in re- rubbish at a building being erected at | His nose was broken, and he | ned a possible fracture of the Jaisohn, M.D., & Korean nobleman, | eleven years ago by the Korean King, | Prince Pak, and who hes since been em- ed at Washington and become somewhat | in science, is at_the Occidental, accom- ied by his secretary. He has been called me by the Kin | fred Isson is endeavoring to have his other-in-law, George Stierlen, prosecuted for ating the postal laws. He received certain onymons letters at Tapachula, Mexico, he | addressed to “Mrs. W. G.' Steele,” but intended for his wife. Mrs. Isson was & im of the Colima disaster. Tudge Seawell has annulled the marriage of Augusia Semler and John W. Semler, on the Fround that both were under age aid not le- ¥ competent to marry without the parental ent, which was lacking in this case. The ntiff, Mrs. Semler, was allowed to resume r meiden neme of Augusta McNair. This morning THE CALL publishes an excel- | 1 the situation of the It is worth preserving. ALL contained a_carefully drawn showing the Alaskan boundary now in . Such maps are of Teal value to news- readers and should be kept for ready e wsar Crespi, editor and proprietor of Tl fero, has brought smt for $50,000 gainst the Italian Publishing Com- ause they printed in L'Italia the fact ad been arrested for criminallibel ight be arrested again for falsifying doc- s Ho considers thie publication of those acts libelous. cral Agent Rudolph Neumann of the Commercial Compeny brings news to e City of & bold assumption of jurisdiction the Canadian Government over “‘Forty- e,” a little mining town on the Yukon which has generally been regarded as ust west of the boundary line, and, therefore. in American territory. He says a force of Can- ; inn mounted police is there collecting du- The will of Charles Reade, who was supposed to have committed suicide on the rocks of the rin County shore, near Point Bonita, was itted to probate by Judge Coffey yesterday. Reade, ‘the widow, Mys, Ella Dressel and Haylinan, who claims to have seen him thoot himself, testified accordingly, and the will was admitted. Reade was the man sus- I« cted of being the author of the Reynolds elter in the Durrant case. ALONG THE WATER FRONT, The Details of the Loss of an Italian Bark Off Cape Horn, A SHIP COVERED WITH ICE. Three Men of the Life-Saving Crew at the Cliff House Almost Lose Their Lives. It is now known that four sailors of the Italian bark Brom Carlo, which was re- cently sunk in a collision with the British ship Condor off Cape Horn, were saved. Three of the men made their way up the coast to Guayaquil, Ecuador, and came aboard of the United States steamer Alert, undergoing repairs in that port, she hav- ing been run down by a British steamer, also named Condor. According to their story the awful disas- ter occurred during a dark, stormy night, and the two vessels came together with a crash before either one was aware of the other’s presence. The Condor struck the Italian bark squarely on the port side, cut- ting a great hole in the doomed vessel’s hull. The heavy seas soon dragged the ship away from her victim, and in the darkness could be heard the dreadful cries of the Italian crew. Boats were lowered from the Condor, but so deeply had the Carlo been cut into that she sank immediately, ng down fifteen out of her nineteen veople. Three men were found clinging to wreckage by the boats, and one more next day by a passing vessel. He had almost_perished, and, being unable to speak English with any fluency, could not give any account of the collis The fine American ship W. F. Babcock, Captain Grabam, arrived yesterday, 135 days from Liverpool. She experienced heavy gales off the Horn, with%xceed- ingiy cold weather. While the storms w beating down on_the great ship everything was frozen. Whenever the sea came over it would add to the thickness of the ice on the ng and decks. The running gear was frozen as rigid as iron, " and.it was impossible to walk along the slippery deck Septembe n latitude 34 south, lon- gitude 83 west, William Beckett, the cook, a native of:Virginia, died at sea of chronic liver comp! t. On the 1lth of this month, in latitude 34 north, longitude 125 west, George Jansen, ‘aged 35 years, a native of Iceland, fell off the jibboom while stowing the sail. He was dressed in very heavy clothing and sank immediately. The steam schooner Casper, while com- ! ing into Stenart-street wharf yesterday be- | came unmanageable and colilded with the | sbip Shenandoah, lying at the dock. The | big vessel was considerably damaged about | the bow and rail. As she sails Thursday a force of ship carpenters were put to work | repairing the damage. | The life-saving crew at the Cliff House | while drilling in their boat last Monday | were capsized in the breakers. It was with the utmost diffi that the men reached | the shore. Captain Mott was struck by | some object while in the water and came near being drowned. Two of the crew weredrawn into the undertow and dragged | away from the beach. Agai and again they would swim or | on_ the wave, and when it would comb over they would be dashed down and | washed out to sea. Finally a number of | | the people on the beach by tightly holding | | each others’ hands and forming a line | reaching down into the water succeeded in rescuing the men. They were taken from | the breakers partly unconscious, but re- | covered their senses after an hour’s treat- ment by & physician. i The Government steamer McDowell is | on the drydock, ber route on the bay being filled by the steamer Sonoma. | The British ship Lawhill, which sailed | from Shields, England, June 25 of this vear, arrived yesterday. In the vicinity | of the Horn she caught heavy gales and snowstorms, accompanied by high seas. | The British ship Kelat, which has just | reached Queenstown, spoke the ship | Chrysomene, which sailed from San Fran- | cisco for that port July 4. She had passed | through the usual Cape Horn zephyrs | with the loss of nearly all her boats and several sails, and had received severe dam- ages to her spars and hull, HUNTINGTON GOING HOME: The Southern Pacific’s President Will Leave for New York To-Day. He Has Done With California and the Pacific System for Another 1 Year. C. P. Huntington has made all arrange- ments to Jeave San Francisco to-day, and | the fine old mansion on Nob Hill will then be closed and barred up for another year. Mr. Huntington will go to New York, his | headquarters, and at once take up his resi- | dence there and plunge into affairs on Wall street. A railroad official remarked yesterday that there was no room left for doubt but | that the president had finished his read- justment of men and railway matters in California. The finer details would be left to H. E. Huntington and General Man- ager Kruttschnitt, while all the operating departments had already been placed on an altogether new and auite satisfactory basis. It was generally supposed, too, that the second vice-president had been de- cided on, and that the mantle would fall on the president’s nephew, H. E. Hunt- | ington. Besides, it has become quite ano- | ticeable fact that it was pretty nearly all | Huntington, but as for such names as| Crocker, Stanford, etc., they were bardly ever heard around the railroad building at | Montgomery and Market streets. The president of the Southern Pacific will go home by the southern route. He will travel in his private car and by special train, running in the daytime only and stopping by the wayside at night, so that the passengers may not be disturbed in their slumbers. He will be aceompanied | by Mrs. Huntington and a party of ladies from the East, who were visiting California with her. H. E. Huntington and the gen- eral manager will go as far as New Orleans, and Manager Fillmore to the end of the Pac:fic_system. The party will wander through-Southern California, stopping at interesting points for some days. Further on the magnate will personally inspect the road and its possibilities for still more business. It isthought he will not arrive in New York until January. WANT HOME PRODUCTS. A Good Example Set by the Mountain Mine of Shasta County. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald yester- | day received a letter from a young man for whom he had found a good position in the Mountain mine in Shasta County. The mine is one of the largest in the State and is owned by a wealthy English syndicate. Many hundred men are empioyed there, most of whom have been obtained from the State’s Free Labor Bureau. any. He says the company purchases 000 worth of supplies every month, and he new purchasing agent states that he will send all of his orders to S8an Francisco instead of to Eastern cities, as is usually the custom. WENT DOWN TWICE. \ Plucky Laura Booth of the ‘ War of Wealth’” Company Has an Un- pleasant Experience. Miss Laura Booth, the leading lady of the “War of Wealth’” Company now play- ing at the California Theater, had a terri- ble experience yesterday afternoon. Malcolm Williams, who is the poor but noble young man in the play, had an op- portunity to show that his strength and courage are not all make-believe. He suc- ceeded admirably. Since coming to the City the members of the company have nearly every day taken advantage of the Lurline Baths. In fact, the baths formed one of the sights which they had been advised to take in as soon as possible, and swimming parties were frequent. Vesterday Miss Booth, Mr. Williams, Belle Bucklin (the petite sou- brette) and John B. Maher (the *'son of an African missionary’’) went to the baths with several friends. Though not an expert swimmer, Miss Booth is very daring. She soon wearied of shooting down the shde and paddling in the safe depths in the neighoorhood of the rope, and made several excursions into deep water unaer safe guidance. Encour- aged by her success, she went out alone. In afew minutes she began to strike out wildly and went down. She came up Kfl"”"}fi for help and choking, but sank. Mr. Williams, who is a powerful swimmer, saw her danger and dived to the rescue. A few powerful strokes brought him to the young lady’s side, and he soon strug- gled with her to the nearest ladder. Miss Booth was at first quite sick from fright and the amount of salt water she had swallowed. She scon recovered her strength and declared that she would go to the batns for another swim every day she remained in town. SPREAD OF THE RATE WAR, The Pacific Coast Steamship Company Forced Into the Fight. Crowds Going to Portland by the Steamer—Prospects of Cut Rates to the South. The bitter contest between the Southern Pacific and the Oregon Railway and Navi- gation Company in passenger rates con- tinued yesterday on the basis last decided on. Tt was the chief topic of conversation around the various ticket offices on Market and Montgomery streets and kept the two ticket agencies of the rival companies ex- ceedingly busy all day long. The steam- ship people had undoubtedly the best of the fight, for at different hours there were rows of people waiting for tickets. The cabin of the steamer to sail to-day was fully reserved at $5a berth, which includes meals, and from appearances it seemed as if the second-class department would be full, for there was a steady demand for tickets at $2 50 each. In the Southern Pacific office the answer was, “We are well satisfied. The Portland | special will leave to-morrow as usual, full of passengers. We can stand it if the other fellows can.” Another and a very important develop- ment of the fight, which was in line with a corroboration of the statement made last week by railroad men that the warfare would involve other companies and there was no telling where it might end, was brought prominently to the notice of the traveling public. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company found that many passengers for the Puget Sound country were buying tickets to Portland via the Oregon Railway and Navigation steamers at the cut rates, with the purpose of going from Portland to the sound by rail.” By this method quite a large saving was made. So a consultation of Pacific Coast Steam- ship men was held, and immediately thereafter that company went into the fignt. Early in the day its agent under the Palace Hotel displayed a sign an- nouncing that tickets to all Puget Sound ports could be bought for $8 first class and $5 second class, including, of course, berths and meals on the steamers—a cut of about 30 per cent. The Northern Pacific Railway made a cut of $5 on all tickets from Portland to the sound cities, which, in conjunction with the Southern Pacific rates, made a through rate of $15 first class from San Francisco—a matter of $7 more than by steamer with the cost of meals added. Rates from the Northwest by steamer to Los Angeles have been ct, os already an- nounced, and yesteraay it was stated by agents that this might lead to a decided reduction between this City and the south. which in turn would force the railway company into making a low rate to Los Angeles. Passenger Agent Speers of the Santa Fe said that this would aot affect his system, and he did not expect to have any fight with the Southern Pacific. CALIFORNIA AT ATLANTA. Great Interest in the Dried Fruite From the Golden West. The State Development Committee is continually receiving glowing accounts of the success of its workers at the Atlanta Exposition. F. W. Crandall, who has charge of the stereopticon lectures and the cooking department of the California ex- hibit, in a recent letter writes that the visitors at the exposition are taking greater interest every day in the California exhibit and lectures. Inquiries for homes are being constantly made, and the de- mand for printed matter concerning the State exceeds the supply. People are fre- quently appealed to through their appe- tites, and to some extent this has been the case at Atlanta. At the culinary department only Cali- fornia products are used, and of thesea large part is dried fruit, prépared so as to attract the eye and tickle the palate. In this line Mr. Crandall is doing a rushing business. and in his letter to the committee n this City, in which he asks that more dried fruits be sent to Atlanta in a hurry, besays: “Give them (the fruit-raisers) an idea of our work here, and ask them to get fruit for us. I served about 3000 people yesterday. I am sure it will do lots of zood.” By this he means that the people he has served have thereby got their eves open to the high standard of California dried fruits for food and delicacies. Mr. Crandall is delivering lectures, which are illustrated by stereopticon views, and the attendance averages be- tween 1500 and 2000 people a night. EER NO INDICTMENTS. United States Grand Jury Ignores Charges in the Freeman and a Timber-Cutting Case. The United States Grand Jury refused | yesterday to make any indictments in the Freeman case. In its report it said it had ignored the charges of both sides, and gave as its reason the civil suit now in procress. - Marvin L. Freeman was still on_the stand in United States Commissioner Hea- cock’s department yesterday. He ad- mitted having seen experiments with trapsformpers at 108 Liberty street in this City, and tnat they were like the ‘“Na- tional’’ transformers. The charges against the Shel brothers for cutting timber on Government land in The writer stated that he has been pro- moted to purchasing agent for the com- Tuolumne County were also ignored by the Grand Jury. D 2 ’ WERE THEY STIERLEN'S? Alfred Isson Eager to Prosecute the Husband of His Sister. FIVE LETTERS IN SUCCESSION. They Were Received at Tapachula, Says Isson—His Wife Lost in the Colima Wreck. Alfred Isson of 116 Pacific street is very anxious to have his brother-in-law—the husband of his sister—George Stierlen, architect and house-builder, prosecuted by the Federal authorities for improper use of the mails. Several times he has impor- tuned Assistant Postal Inspector Erwin and United States District Attorney Foote. Finally he wrote to Postmaster-General Wilson about it, and Mr. Wilson has re- ferred his communication back to the postal inspectors here for irvestigation. Isson’s wife, a youag brunette, traveling as Mrs. Clara Irving, was on the steamer George Stierlen. Colima when she went down near Man- zanillo last May, and was lost. She strugeled bravely for life for two hours on a boat which capsized several times, and finally being struck by pieces of timber she sank beneath the waves. Inthe same boat were Prof. Harold Whiting and A. J. Sutherland. Isson’s story publishable that Stierlen wrote un- s to Mrs. Isson, anony- mously, addressing them to *“Mrs. W, G. Steele,” Tapachula, Mexico. According to his statement he went down to Tapa- chula, which is _a small place in the ex- treme south of Mexico, to better his con- dition last September, his wife following him later. She returned to San Francisco in March, leaving the port of San Benito on the steamer Barracouta, March Soon after she left Tapachula, he says, he received five letters there in quick succes- sion addressed “Mrs. W. G. Steele.” Secing the imprint of the Fairmount Hotel on the enyelopes and knowing that his prother-ir-law lived at that hotel he came suspicious and tore them open, From that circumstance arose his suit for $30,000 azainst Stierlen for alienating the affections of Mrs. Isson, which was tried in Superior Judge Sanderson’s de- partment two weeks ago and failed, the jury returning a verdict for the defendant. Judge Sanderson would not admit the letters as_evidence, because he said they were unfit and had been written by a “very foolish man to a very foolish woman."” This smt he began in July, but two days after tiling the complaint, he says, he went to Messrs, Erwin and Foote and endeav- | ored to have Stierlen prosecuted for violat- |ing the postal laws. Mr. Foote said at the time nothing could be done in view of the decision two years ago ot Judge Mor- row of the United States District Court in the Wilson case, and advised Isson to wait until the United States Supreme Court de- cided an appeal from the Southern District of California on the same question. Judge Morrow’s decision was based on his construction of the words “every ob- scene, lewd or lascivious hook, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication,” in section 3893 of the the “‘words of enumeration are limited in character by the concluding words ‘or other publication,’ and that, therefore, a sealed letter in writing did not come with- in the prohibition of the section.” About the same time Judge Ross of Los Angeles rendered a decision guite the opposite in the Andrews case. Judge Ross *‘regretted to be obliged to disagree with Brother Morrow,” and saying that Judge Morrow’s opinion was based upon the process of con- struction used by the United States Su- preme Court in the Chase case. Judge Morrow was a member of Congress at the time, September 26, 1883, the section in uestion was made to read as it does now. ?t is the Andrews case which has been ap- pealed. 2 Notwithstanding the reasons given by Mr. Foote Isson is determined, if possible, to get the matter in the Federal courts, so recently he gave Inspector Erwin a written order on Judge Sanderson for the letters, and Mr. Erwin sent Inspector Thrall a few days ago to Judge Sanderson with the order. Judge Sanderson, however, refused to give up the letters, explaining that the attorneys on both_sides in the Isson vs. Stierlen suit had stipulated that they were not to be turned over to anybody. Isson says his brother-in-law admitted that he wrote the letters during the trial in Judge Sanderson’s court and that he can prove hewrote them by the circum- stance of his wife and Stierlen being in San Jose and Santa Cruz as “Mr.and Mrs. W. G. Steele’’ last November and early part of December. They then traveled, he says, as a commercial traveler and his young wife on their honeymoon. A Mrs. W. G. Steele took almosi an overdose of morphine at the Hoffman House in San Jose on December 5 last. He claims to be able to establish their identity by Dr. Wayland, who attended “Mrs. Steele” at San Jose. ‘When his suspicions were first aroused at Tapachuia, says Isson, he telegraphed to his wife to leave San Francisco for Tapachula on April 18 instead of May 18, as originally intended, and he believes her infatuation here to that extent responsible for her death. He haga suit against the Pacific Mail Company in prospect for $50,- 000 damages for her drowning in the Colima wreck. The reason she sailed under the name of “Mrs. Irving” was because her husband went by the name of “Irving” in Tapa- chula to avoid grotesque mispronuncia- tions of his own name. He married his wife four years ago, in Berlin, Germany. | She was the daughter of a physician there, and spoke seven languages. Isson is a native of this City. “THE CRIME” FINISHED. After Eight Days of the Piece the Audi- torium Closes. . The devil has deserted the Auditorium. For eight days ‘‘The Crime of a Century” was committed on the boards of the Eddy- street Theater. Monday night the actors struck for their pay. One of the propri tors had taken the receipts and fled though, and they got nothing. The house was dis- missed, but no money was refunded. ““I'he place had paid as a free vandeville house till another place opened a block away,” said one of the employesof the house last night. “Then it began to lose money. To get rid of his obligations T. K. Moore turned the house over to Smith & Brown as proprietors. Fred Smith figured as proprietor on the bills, but Moore re- mained as manager and really ran the house. He didn't advertise right and the house busted. that's all.”’ R. C. White, the author of the play, said the house closed because he had with- drawn the play on the ground that Smith & Brown had not advertised the piece as they had contracted to. The actors say they were the ones who closed the hou SCHOOL PROPERTY LEASED. A Portland Firm Secures Lincoln School Premises on Market Street. The Board of Education held a special meeting yesterday to consider bids for the leasing of a portion of the Lincoln School property, Directors Barrett, Carew, Clin- ton, Comte Jr., Hawley, Henderson, Mc- Elroy, Murdock and President Dodge be- ing present. Bids for the lease of the premisesat 857 and 859 Market street were opened. Schroeder & Grabean asked a two years’ lease, agreeing to pay $710 per month in advance, and to make certain improve- ments in the property. J. Proger’s Sons of Portland, Oregen, bid $720 per month or a two years’ lease agre eing to make still greater improvements. A resolution grant- ing the latter firm the lease, after being amended to provide for a $5000 bond to carry out their agreement, was adopted. A resolution raquesting the City and County Attorney to defend the board and its members in the suit brought by Daniel Keefe for an injunction against the leasing of the property was adovted. FORFEITING A FRANCHISE Revised Statutes, the Judge holding that | Property-Owners Indignant at the Curtailment of Car Service. The Twenty-Ninth-Street Line With- out Notice Has Been Shortened One Block. The Market-street Railway Company, without notice, has discontinued a portion of one of its lines, and when the people complained there was gi en an explana- tion for the act which had as a rider to it, “What are you going to do about 1t?” The portion that has been abandoned by | the company is the block on Twenty-ninth street, between Sanchez and Noe, and those who live west, north and south of | Noe and Twenty-ninth streets are now forced to climb a 7)4 per cent grade in order to reach their homes. An answer to the impertinent question, “What are you going to do about it?” | was given last Saturday night, when over ! v property-owners held an indignation meeting at the southwest corner of the two streets named. W. W. Morrow of 430 Twenty-ninth stréet was the chairman of the meeting and J. McCormack the secre- tary. The chairman stated that when the rail- way company secured the franchise and opened the road to Noe street the result was | the infusing of new life into the district. | People of limited means were induced to | purchase property in the1immediate vic: ty of the terminus. Believing that the ra way company would keep up tothe re- quirements of the franchise these people built up homes. Without notice three weeks ago Sanchez street was made the terminus, and when the officers of the road were asked about 1t they replied that the company could not run 1i-ton cars up | the 714 per cent grade without incurring a loss of $8 a day. “That,” said Mr. Mor- Tow, *was simply a ghost'story. Then, as | a further excuse, the officers said that the power required to propel the cars up the grade burned out too many fuses. That was another ghost story. Now, the prop- erty-owners_must do something to show that they will not be trifled with.” Lincoln E. Savage, an attorney who re- sides on Twenty-eighth street, near Noe, also addressed the meeting and adyised the appointment of a committee to wait on the officers of the company and ask that they resume the service to the terminus to | which cars were run on four-minute time the 15th of August, 1894, “and if they do not,” continued Mr. Savage, ‘‘we can ask for the permission of the Attorney-General | to commence an action in the name of the people of the State to have the franchise forfeited for non-compliance with its pro- visions. The franchise granted in 1890 re- quires the company to run cars at intervais not less than fiitteen minutes over the road, and as this block over which cars no longer are operated is a part of the road. the com- pany is bound to carry into effect that provision.” Acting upon this suggestion the chair- man, the secretary and George Webber were appointed a committee to present a petition asking that the service over the entire road be resumed. “The committee called at the railway office,”” said Mr. Morrow, last night, *but as Superintendent Vining is absent, it is not likely that we will receive an answer | until be returns. If no favorable answer | is given we shall n}mly to_the Supervisors | for redress, and if that fails, Mr. Savage will take steps to have the franchise for- feited. We are in earnest about this mat- ter, and over 100 of the property-owners have already subscribed to a fund'to prose- cute the matter, if it is necessary. In the ast six months eleven houses have been | built within sight of the old terminus, but if our car service is to be curtailed, this will again become the sleepy district it was before the line was opened. - Many of those who were at the meeting were in favor of pledging themselves to walk to the Metro- politan line and ignore the Market-street line altogether, but it was thought best to wait until we can hear from Superin- tendent Vining."” — - EKEHRLEIN'S THEATER. The Opera-House Company Incorporates and Will Build Soon, Articles of incorporation of the Kehr- lein Opera-house Company have been tiled with the County Clerk. There are to pe 1500 shares of stock, valued at §100 each. This makes the capital stock $150,000, of which $67,110 has been subscribed. The directors are Emile Kehrlein, Henry B. Russ, Thomas F. Barry, Joseph Pescia, Paul Barbieri, Frederick W. Seibel, J. C. O’Connor, William B. Wegener, J. F. Laist, Valentine Kehrlein, and 0. Bozio. The company proposes to erect a mag- nificent opera-house on Howard street, near Sixth. The plans for the building, which has been described in THE CALL, are are all complete and work will begin soon, E. J. Holden is to be stage manager of the new house. Joseph Kreiing will be scenic artistand Sam Simmons master mechanic. Prices will be 10, 15, 25 and 35 cents. Mr. Holden said last night that sufficient: money to build the house had already been subscribed and that ground would be broken at once. . A Fast-Growing Note. Asa Fisk is suing the Hicks-Judd Company for the amount of an $800 note which has been running since 1888 on compound interest at 3 per cent & month. The note was executed by D. Hicks on March 6, 1888. He indorsed it with the old firm name of D. Hicks & Co., although Judd had purchased his interest in the firm nearly & year before, and the firm was being carried on under the name of Hicks & Judd. The defense will be that Hicks had no power to make the note, and that Judd, the g;g)fl:dmg did not know of its existence until | when the floos DEMANDED SEATON'S JOB. Many Applicants for the Position Declined by C. P. Hunting- ton’s Nephew, A WOODPILE STILL UNSAWED, Attorney Morgan Besieged by Laborers as the Result of a Practical Joke. Wanted—Good man to do steady work at §3 aday. Apply 9 A. M. to E. M. Morgan, 14 San- some street, rooms 49 and 50. Attorney E. M. Morgan is looking for the man who sent this innocent looking advertisement to a morning paper, with blood in his eye, and declares, moreover, that he will not give up his search until he finds him. {r. Morgan is attorney for Mrs. Ollie Seaton, who recently obtained a divorce from William H. Seaton, the nephew of Collis P. Huntington, with $35 per month alimony. Seaton declared his total inability to pay the alimony, stating that his only income was & $30 a month allowance from his mother. Thereupon Mr. Morgan offered him $3 per day to saw wood on the under- standing that his wife was to receive her money out of the stipend of $18 per week. Several attempts were made to get Seaton to interview the formidable pile of fuel that had been previded for bis benefit, but each time he backed down when the sturdy looking buck and saw that had also been purchased as a part of the outfit cume under his notice. Some joker evidently thought that as long as Seaton would not saw wood a sub- stitute should be provided, and the “ad” was the result. % Mr. Morgan saw an immense crowd about his office at 14 Sansome street when he went down to business yesterday morn- ing, and visions of briefs and fat fees floated before his eyes as he made his way through the crush and sat down at his desk to await developments. To be sure the men did not look like persons who were in the habit of retaining high-priced lawyers, but they might be clients, nevertheless, and might bring fame if not fortune. The at- torney was much mystified when the first mx_s(;\ at the door rushed to his side and said: . “I see by this morning’s paper that you want to employ a man at $3 per day. Now I'm your man. I'm as strong as an ox and as willing as a yearling steer. Just show | me the job.” “But,”’ gasped the startled ]esal light of eloquence ceased, *“I did not advertise fora man—I don’t want a Tan here you are,”’ said the applicant, looking daggers as he dragged a crumpled paver from his pocket and pointed out the advertisement. “There’s your notice, and I'm the first manon the ground and 1 want the job.” It took Mr. Morgan ten minutes to con- vince the eager laborer that the ‘ad” was inserted by a practical joker and by that time the office was fuli of men bent on the same errand. The attorney took them collectively and explained the matter, and while some grambled and said he ought to be lynched for deceiving poor people in that manner, the majority left peaceably. Then Mr. Morgan breathed a sigh_of re- lief and settled down to work. He was not aliowed to continue, however, for be- | fore noon he had wrangled and argued and pleaded with a dozen sturdy appli- cants who could not understand how it was that such an *“‘ad” could appear with- out a job being forthcoming. Finally, when patience and temper were at the Jast extremity a browsy head was | poked in the door and a voice began: *I understand you want a man to—" “Idon’t want any man. I never want to see another man,” shouted Mr. Morgan, as he grabbed his hat and shot through the door nearly knocking over the seeker for work in his hurried flight. He thought that ended the matter, but he was mistaken, Not finding him in his office the employment hunters sought his home address in the directory and his wife was besieged all day with hungry-looking men_ bent on getting a job whether she would or no. She was at" a loss to know what to make of the matter and finally in- structed her help not to answer the door- bell, which rang periodically daring the entire aiternoon. She telephoned to her husband, who simply groaned over the wire when the Ir;ews that his home was besieged reached im. Mr. Morgan was not at home last even- ing, and his wife said that he would not be in. Whether he was avoiding further interviews with anxious applicants or was detained from bis fireside on business she did not explain. In the meantime Seaton. who was cited bv Judge Seawell, who granted the divorce, to appear and show cause why he should not be punished for contempt for refusing to saw wood, is among the missing and thus far a bench warrant has failed to reach him. Itisnot known whether he is in this City or not, but it is believed that he has left wood piles and bucks and saws far behind him and is now enjoying him- self in some remot> spot beyond the juris- diction of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. Attorney Morgan would like to see him, for in spite of all surplus labor that tri to force itself on his hands that big stack of cordwood is still waiting to be sawed. May Call Rev. A. J. Wells. Rev. A.J. Wells of Redlands is a prominent candidate for the pastorate ot the Second Uni- tarian Church of this City, and it is probable that he will be called to that charge at an early date. A speciel meeting of the trustees of the church will be held this week to determine the matter. Mr. Wells is said to have been a pas- tor of Grace Methodist Church before his adoption of the Unitarien belief, and the con- gregation before whom he has appeared as a candidate is practically unanimous in its wish to call him to the position. ———————— Cut His Brother-in-Law. Andrew Ketterer was seriously stabbed in the right thigh by his brother-in-law, John Gun- ther, at the North Beach Hotel last evening. Gunther was arrested by Officer Robert Kerri- son and booked at the Central station on a charge of assault to murder. The cutting was the outcome of family trouble. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. IT WILL COOL YOU OFF! SHOOT THE CHUTES i Haight St., near the Park CONCERT AT 2 AND 8 P. M.—— ; ——ADMISSION 10 CENTS. 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 3:03 a.“ harp. McAllister and Geary stroet cars pase NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. L NAYMAN DY 5 INCORP D MHEATRE N\ PROPS. SECOND AND LAST WEEK! ——LAST 4 NIGHTS!—— ——LAST MATINEE SATURDAY!— YT AN G As presented by OE WOLF HOPPER! And His Merry Company. EXTRA SALE OF SEATS Commences TO-MORROW (Thursday) for DE WOLF HOPPER'S N:WEST SUCCESS, DR. SYNTAX! A Novelty in Comic Opera. First Presentation £~ Special Al HAYMAN LIFORNM ==, THEATRE ! Prors. SECOND AND LAST WEEK! LAST MATINEE SATURDAY. The Remarxably Successful American Play, WAR OF WEALTH By C. T. Dazey, Authorof “0ld Kentuck Last Time Sunday Night, Nov. NEXT MONDAY- Th HERRMANN .75 — SEID HIS NEW HYPNOTIC ILLUSION, o 2 =1 B = THE ALLEGORICAL AQUATIC SENSATION, THE SPRAY OF LIFE. SEATS 0% SALE T0-HORROW—THURSDAY. PRIEDLANOER.GOTTLOD & G- LE35ES ATDPATAGERS -+ A OF ROUND | LAUGHTER At Every Performance. HAVERLY'S GREAT MINSTRELS ING PEOPLE AWAY, The New Programme is a | GREAT BXG EIIT! ——MATINEE ON SUNDAY NEXT—— MONDAY NEXT— HENRY E. DIXEY And His Own Popular Company in “THE LOTTERY OF LOVE.” GROVER’S ALCAZAR. Iee-Cream and Caks Frea to All, A Superlative Performance of “THE GOVERNOR” An Unequivocal ana Highest-class Success. Matinee Prices—10c, 15c. 25c. Night Prices—10c, 15¢, 25c¢, 35¢, 50c. —NEXT WEEK—— “CAD, THE TOMBOY!? TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MRS. ERNESTINE KHVL_‘ Proprieior & Manages EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK! —ELABORATE PRODUCTION— Of Bizet’s Romantic Opera. ‘CARMEN — TO=-NIGEIT — LAURA MILLARD, MARTIN PACH FERRIS HART. N G EORGE BRODERICK, ETC, TO-MORROW EVENING, EMELIE MELVILLE in the Title Role, XT WEEK- Popular Prices—25¢c and 50c¢. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theaterin America. WALTER MOROSC Sole Lessee and Managss THIS FVENING AT FIGHT. —THIS IS A RECORD-BREAKER! — Sims and Buchanan's Famous Dramay “THE ENGLISH ROSE!” A Story of Ireland During the Late ‘Troublous Times. EVENING PRICE3—25¢ and 502 Famlly Circle and Galler, 10c. Usual Matinees Saturday and Sundav. ORPHEUM. O’Farrell Street, Between Stockion and Powslt. TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK, A GREAT BILL OF NOVELTIES! sames-THE ALLISONS-vrucy GRANTO and MAUD. AMMON’S CLERISE TRIO And a Choice Company of Artists. Reserved seats, 25¢; Balcony, 10c; Opera chalry and Box seats, 50¢. MECHANICS’ PAVILION. TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, November 19th and 20th, GREAT FESTIVAL CONCERTS! —IN AID OF THE— CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL! 1000 VOICES! SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA! MISS ELIZABETH BELL, Soprano, First appearance-in America. UGO TALBO, Famous Tenor. ROBERT LLOYD, Barytone. MISS NMADGE THORNTON, Soprano. TiSS DAISY COHN, Soprano. CANTOR E. J. STARK, Barytone. Miss Josephine Sistermans. Irs. A. A. Dewing. rirs. F. McCormacks Frank Coffin. €. H. Pkilgott. Walter Campbell. J. . Robinson. S. Homer Henley. AND OTHER NOTED SOLOISTS. Reserved Seats, 7sc, $1, $1.50; Boxes, $20. On Sale at Sherman, Clay & Co.'s. J. J. Morris. MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE OF ART—WINTER EXHIEITION. Comprising 120 PAINTINGS in Oil and Water Colors by Resident Artists; also 60 Works by Foreign Artists, including MURILLO'S ST, FRANCOIS @'ASSISE” and “ST. GRE- GOIRE,” the finest examples of this famous old master in the United States. Open Daily From 9 to 5, Admission 25¢, and Thursday evenings (including concert), admission 50c.