The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1895, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1%95. HE WANTS. A SPECIAL CHARTER ELECTION. Mayor Sutro Now Search- ing the Laws for Au- thority. THE TAX LEVY A CAUSE. Is Property Depreciating in Value Through the High Rate? TO AUGMENT A MAYOR'S POWER. His Honmor Says That Now He Is Merely Clerk to the Superintend. ent of Streets. Mayor Suiro is seeking ways and means f ing about a special election to give the voters of this City a chance to pass pon the charter formulated by the Board Freeholders,*whose exciting meetings »ok place several months ago. At the time the Freeholders were in ses- n the Mayor was an interested auditor their gatherings and took an active part which, on several occasions, im into personal conflict Scott, a member of that debates, vor thought he saw the hand of hern Pacific in almost every e advocated by the shipbuilder and he latter’s moves in his own way. t the time the tax levy was ard of Supervisors, said veio thé measure on the was not only excessive, but at it ie his veto or the Supreme 1 that the levy was legal, the ation for San Francisco in the adoption of the new char- much of the municipal hands of the Board of and places it in ‘the hands of bent of the Mayor’s chair. en Mr. Sutro has taken much the matter and been actively 1 gaining adherents to the cause arter. He was somewhat cha- sterday when he learned that the Court had decided that his posi- s untenable, and expressed his eely on the effect the opinion would municipal affairs, fect,”” he declared, ‘“‘this decision the clerk of the Superintendent required to passupon his business is legal, just and honest or ve no alternative but to sign nts he presents. his municipality are so mixed and ting that it is imvossible at the sent time to tell where we stand, and the remedy must be found by some means er remedy I see is in the new and it must come and come soon. Ttis useless to delay matters and allow hem to run on as they are at present. these same men who we: pledged to fix the tax at the doilar limit 11 ao more*than they have this year. e Court decision throws the o them, and it would not sur- me to see the levy fixed at 24 per I veto it next year? Why, of But it will not stop the matter. ope we hi s that the people against su imposition, and t of the tangle we shall get the new and then everything will be se- Since this levy was made the valua- operty in t City has dropped ent, and why? Because Eastern ho were preparing to invest money not put their capital into land in the rate of taxation is so high. pal government under the old ion act, under which we are g, means simply chaos. Even ers cannot interpret the laws, and vill go from bad to worse unless a dy be found. have instructed my secretary to h the legal authorities and siatutes some power to enable us to call a ecial election, and in case the power is nd we will have the election by all means. “The Board of Freeholders in the resuit f their deiiberations provided that the charter should be passed upon at a special election, and I think their wishes should arried out.” he Supreme Court having sustained . the Police Department is »us over the question whether s-five new policemen provided v will be appointed, Concerning the tter Police Commissioner Robert J. 1 said yesterday: was our duty to appoint the seventy- new policemen when the provision s made for their appointment, but we took the ground that it would not be ad- sable until some provision was made for payment of their salaries. We have applications from a number od men asking for positions upon the e,but as yet we have not decidedjwhom we will appoint.” Now that means for their payment have been provided the Commissioners will probably take the atter up immediately. Park Commissioners Austin, Seott and Rose: d were delighted to hear that the vy had been sustained by the Supreme Cotrt. No meeting of the Commissioners as beld last evening, but one will be called before many days, as Superinten- dent McLaren has several suggestions to submit concerning the exvenditure of $330,000 which the levy of 10 cents will rovide. The Commissioners may not deem it de- sirable at present to proceed with the con- struction of a peristyle. but the new music concourse will probably be placed in order at once. The directors of the Driving Park and Boulevard Association have received urances from the Commissioners that everal thousand dollars will be expended to improve the park poulevards. The appropriation this year is the most munificent ever made for the maintenance and adornment of Golden Gate Park, hence the public is deeply interested in all the plans and purposes to improve the City’s famous pleasure-grotnd. BUENA VISTA PARE. Residents on the Park Hill Tract Are Still Agitating for Its Tm- provement. The agitation for park improvements and a boulevard system has struck the residents on the Park Hill tract. That lo- cality has recently been considerably built upon, and as itis in the vicinity of Buena ta Park the residents are clamoring for improvements to that park. 3 The park is at present nothing but a wide expanse of brush without flowers, proper vaths, or anything to make it re- semble what it purports to be. It isun- der the control of the Golden Gate Park Commissioners, but they have been so re- stricted in their appropriations that they’ could not devote any portion to the im- provement of Buena Vista. Every winter the rains wash away a por- tion of the embankment on Haight street, which bas frequently stopped all pedes- urian trafiic on the south side of the street, case the Supervisors | The laws_that | and two years ago put a stop to the cable- cars for a time, ‘With a comparatlvely small expenditure of money the park could be made an at- tractive spot instead of an eysore and with this laudable object in view Charles Ellis and other residents will call a mass-meet- | ing1n a few days to devise ways and means for its accomplishment. It is probable that a delegation will be appointed to wait upon the Park Commissioners before further action is taken. ———— A CURE FOR DIPSOMANIA Dr. Gavigan Claims That It Is a| Disease and That It Is Curable. Dr. William J. Gavigan delivered an in- teresting lecture on “Dipsomania” under the auspices of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Dipsomania and In- ebriety last evening at Golden Gate Hall. President Lewis of the society, in intro- ducing the lecturer, spoke of his efforts in | bebalf of the bill passed by the last Legis- lature providing for the establishment of hospitals for the cure of dipsomania. He said that it was the purpose of the society to have given other lectureson the subject, particularly for the purpose of educating the public up to the fact that dipsomania was a disease and curable. Dr. Gavigan’s lecture was largely de- voted to the explanation of the causes for dipsomania and inebriety in their different forms. He showed that the cause of most cases could be traced to nervous disorders or shocks or accidents that had af- fected the brain, and went on to prove that the victims suffered from a disease that was in most cases curable by a proper course of treatment. He decried the use of the present method of punishing | by imprisonment as barbarous and useless, | as was the old custom of imprisoning and | punishing the insane. He spoke of the | bright prospects for a new era in the treat- | ment by confining patients in public hos- }»imls under a system that would be free | rom all the objections of the present so- | called ““homes.”” The means to be used in these cases, he | said, would be abstinence, ascertaining and removal of the predisposing causes and a | restoration of the mental and physical tone. ‘A mnew era is coming,” he said, *‘and it wiil not be long before people will be | glad to go into these retreats as into a hos- | pital or asylum. The public will soon rec- | ognize that every dipsomaniac is a danger and a menace to society, and that society has a right to insist on his remcval.” | | The Supreme Court of the United | States to Be Asked Just ‘What They*Are. | An Important Patent Infringement Case Which Depends Upon Five Questions. | = | John Hammond’s patent-infringement | suit in the Federal courts, against the | Stockton Agricultural Works, involving his double-ender streetcar patent, is now | to go up to the highest judicial tribunal. | His attorney, John H. Miller, has filed a | petition for a rehearing before the United | | States Circuit Court of Appeals, and yes- | terday he filed a motion to have ceriain | ling questions of law sent up to the | nited States Supreme Court. Mr. Harfimond received his letters-pate nt in September, 1891. The cable-cars on the | | California-street system were of hisdesign, ‘ and the double-ender cars on the Mission | | | | { and Kearny streets electric system were | during all the rebearsals, and he was sup- | He would lay out his scenes with reds and | choruses, and move the chips around until 'HERE EMERSON WAS KING | 1888 by one William Emerson, the “king | society was delighted to listen to his songs | ing has paid there. | Union Mission—all are invited—took pos- | session of it and the theater was converted | into a free-for-all ' lodging-house. | wafted upward toward the glittering but duties that they go down to her attorney and draw up a contract, and that.-he him- self suid there was no necessity for a con- tract between them. 3 Testimony on both sides showed that Nash wasa devotee of horse-racing and that Ferris Hartman aided and abetted him iu his financial judgments on horse- flesh. Hartman admitted that he went to the: races almost every day for his amuse- ment and his profit’ and loss, he added, and he met Nash there nearly all the time. Nash was supposed to be at the theater posed also to invent new ‘business’” for the operas being put on and to see that they were properly staged and cast. This he neglected, witnesses for the defense tes- tified, and he depended upon the older actors to tell him what had been done be- fore, in order that he might copy. His only original work in the way of ‘“busi- ness” was done in his Toom with poker chips for actors and a table for the stage. blues, with® platoons of whites for his he had hit upon an idea. The case will go on again this morning. The Old Bijou Theater Has Been Sold at Auction for $166,000. The Homeless Poor Slumbered There After the Minstrel’s Gags Were Forgotten. The old Bijou Theater, opened first in of black-face wit,” was sold yesterday at auction by A. J. Rich & Co. to Daniel Rogers, a capitalist residing in this City. It was a part of the Cynthia Hoff Schilla- ber estate, and brought the sum of $166,000. The property is situated between Third and Fourth streets, running trom Market to Stevenson, and is at present occupied by a hardware-store, a tailoring establish- ment and a costumer. These institutions surround and are over the old Bijou Thea- ter, which has served for many purposes. ‘When Emerson opened it with his cork show, minstrelsy wasin its prime and the invineible *“Billy” was at the top of the ladder. He rattled the bonesand thumped his banjo with the finest of them all, and and witness his clever dancing. Nightly the box-office looked like a young National surplus, and the money came in so thick and fast that William thought it would be a_good thing to lay off occasionally and give his understudies a chance. That settled it. The Bijou went to the wail and William went with it. After that Lewis Morrison took hold of it with indifferent success and ran it for some four weeks. It was a failure. The *hoodoo was on, and since that time noth- In 1893-the Christian It was only under this management that it be- gan to draw again, and every night about the time the fog settled over the City there would be a pilgrimage of the lame, the halt and the blind from every quarter of the town. They came in singles, twos and threes and occasionally in “blocks of five,”” wended their weary way up the long stairs and scattered all over the house from the pit to the gnl]er?' of the gods. By midnight the house would be full, but instead of the buzz of voices rising from gayly dressed women and tailored men, an ominous snore (concert pitech) was dusty chandelier only to escape through the ventilators and the half-opened and smashed windows. The picturesque bro- gans of all sorts and conditions of men hung over the balconies and a select few of the inmates ripped out aristocratic snorts in the private boxes. It was a veritable song from slumberland, but the bass notes were a little heavy. It was an all-night play, and the utter HAMMOND PATENT DOUBLE-ENDER STREETCAR. also made by him. He either has a patent or he has not, and he wants to know for a certainty. | According to a decision by Judge Mc- | | Kenna of the Circuit Court he has not, | and Judge McKenna's decision has just | been affirmed by the Court of Appeals. The counsel for Mr. Hammond thinks | | Judge McKenna mixed up his law in that | decision, hence the motion to have the | | questions involved sent up to the Supreme Court. 7 | 1t will be the first time the angust body | of jurists at Washington will have had to | pass upon the distinction between a ‘‘me- | chanical device” and a ‘‘design.” Jud, et | McKenna held substantially that the | | Hammond patent was simply an aggre- | gation of designs already patented. Mr. | Miller's opinion is that “design patents | stand on a different basis from mechanical | patents, that different rules of law apply | to them, that only a minimum amount of | the inventive faculty is necessary in pro- | ducing tbém, and that they stand very | nearly on the same plane as trademarks and copyrights.” is contention is, | | therefore, that the courts should deal | | more lenientlv with design patents, and not apply the strict rules of law that | Judge McKenna did. The five questions he is anxious to have | | the Supreme Court pass upon are: Is there any difference in character between | the inventive faculty displayed in produc- ing a “mechanical device” and that dis- | | played in producing a ‘‘design’’? Should | the same rules appiy to the determining of | a suit mvolving a ““‘design’ as one involv- | ing & “mechanical device”? What is the | proper test by which to. determine the presence or absence of the inventive fac- | ulty? Did John Hammond display an ex- ercise of the inventive faculty? Is the Hammond patent valid or invalid ? NASH'S CONTRACT. The Ex-Stage Manager of the Tivoli Ap- pears in Court in His Suit Against Mrs. Kreling. The fonduess of John E. Nash, late stage manager of the Tivoli, for horse-racing was the subject of testimony in. Judge Hunt’s court yesterday, the occasion being Nash’s suit against Mrs. Ernestine Kreling for the amount he claimed was still due on a contract of employment. Nash had been hired at a salary of §90 a week for the first year and $100 for the sec- ond year. He was discharged before the expiration of the two years, however, and the question arose whether or not he had a. contract. Mrs. Kreling’ said he had not, and refused to pay him more than his money to date. Nash said he had, and he sued for the amount he would have earned if he had continued on until the two years were up. Nash’s claim that there was a contract between them was based on letters which went back and forth between Mrs. Kreling in 8an Francisco and Nash in New York, while the defense submitted testimony to show that Mrs. Kreling had suggested the day after he came out here to assume his | man who resides at Berkeley, was the oblivion of the audience to the presence of & stage made it unnecessary to “change the programme nightly.” 1Inthemorning the | light streaming in through the open win- dows awakened the sleepers and they Jeft their hard couches to scatter througn the City to eke out a miserable existence | through the day. When night fell again the army of weary men came back to the old playhouse, where, instead of tumultu- ous applause and the echo of the orchestra, only the labored breathing of half-starved men was heard. The hacking voice of the boy who sells peanuts and pictures of the ‘‘entire cast in one group” was hushed. The patter of | the feet of the “buck and wing dancer”’ was but a memory, and the grand inter- lude came only in dreams. It was a drama of real life, but the actors were tired of the play. Finally the tramps and unemployed left | it and the Eden Musee with its waxwork | and marionettes filled in to’carry on the show. It became a haunt for children and their nurses, but even that eventually dis- appeared, and since then it has been prac- tically idle, a grewsome and convenient place for rats and spiders, whose footprints are still visible in the accumulated dust. The residence property at the corner of Sixteenth street and Hoff avenue was pur- chased by Mrs. W. Cook, who bought in her life interest, while Charles W. Rosen- baum secured the Hoff-avenue flats, be- tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, for $11,750. M. H. de Young purchased two statues of “Delilah and Saul” by Storey and a statue of “The Lost Pleiad” by Randoiph Rogers for $150 each, subject to the life in- terest, which will bring them up to over $1000 each., It is pretty generally under- stood that they are to be housed in the museum at the park. Mrs. Coo bought in the npictures, furpiture, and cabiuets which are associated with her life and which form a great part of the family heir- loors. NEW HOWELL JUROR. Simon H. Dikeman the Eleventh Man Selected to Nit in the Counter- feiting Case. One more juror in the Howell counter- feiting case was secured yesterday and then Judge Morrow’s court was adjourned until this morning, leaving one more juror still to be secured. Simon H. Dikeman, a retired mining eleventh man chosen. He 1s an elderly gentleman and confessed to a mind that was ‘almost entirely a blank so far as the case of the United States against Martin D. Howell, charged with counterfeiting, is concerned. Among the talesmen examined yester- day was N. W. Spaulding, the manu- facturer. He qualified to the entire satis- faction of the defense, but said that he was one of the bondsmen for Benson, whose trial is now pending in this court for land frauds. He was excused peremptorily by the Government, l WOMEN GO TO THE FRONT Will Effect the Organization of a Federation for Public Good. : MRS. FRENCH. AS INSPECTOR. A Mass-Meeting Will Be Held at the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium To- Morrow Afternoon. A mass-meeting of women interested in the suppression of vice hus been called for 3 p. M. to-morrow at the Y. M. C. A. audi- torium. The plan is the outgrowth of several earnest conferences by the committee on plan of organization appointed at Sun- day’s mass-meeting. A plan of organiza- tion will be discussed atto-morrow’s meet- ing which will be submitted to the assem- blage at the First Congregational Church on Sunday afternoon. The plan is one formulated by the committee at yester- day’'s meeting and contemplates the organization of what is to be known as the Women’s Federation for Public Good. It will consist of a representation from all women'’s societies in the City having the public good for their object, and the appor- tionment of represesenttltion is one dele- gate for every twenty-five members, and at least one delegate from each society. Each local organization is entitled to district representation aside from that which is due to it as an integral part of some county or State somet'y. Mrs. J.-6. Mason and Mrs. C. B. Williams were added to the committee on organization and contributed to the work of yesterday. The programme for Sunday’s mass- meeting was also prepared by the ladies to whom that work fell. There will be a scripture-reading by Mrs. Henrietta E. Brown, opening prayer by Mrs. J. C. Mason, reports from the committees on plan of organization and plan of work, addresses by Mrs. Rose M. French and Mrs. 8, C. Sanford. Mrs. French will have ample opportunity to speak of her exten- sive and varied erience with young women prisoners, and Mrs. Sanford -will talk of cases similar to those of Lane and his associates which have come nnder her observation through her connection with the Humane Society of Oakland. Mrs. Lois Anderson will have charge of the congregational singing and. a quartet of deaconesses will sing Mrs. H. T. Ben- son’s “Rescue Hymn,” to the tune' of “Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?”” Mrs, H. L. Benson,” Miss ‘Kerns and Miss Butterin will compose the quartet. A symposium of expressions of opinion as to the recent North Beach outrages will conclude the meeting. There will be a la¥ger representation of women in Judge Camvbell’s court this' afterngpn, probably, than at any previous time, as Mrs. Benson, the deaconess, se- cured Carroll Cook’s permission: that her sex should be well represented. While the committee on organization s effecting its work, looking toward a per- manent body, the committee on plan of work, having for 1ts purpose specific pians in regard to the cases under general public discussion, is not idle. Mrs. Addie L. Ballou, the chairman, will submit resoiu- tions at the meeting of her associates on Saturday, and which, if approved, will be presented to the Supervisors, asking .that {mdy to create the office of inspector of homes, that office to be held by a woman, whose duty will be to report such habits of living as she believes conducive to vice. It is the opinion of many that this office should be held by Mrs. R, M. French. The resolutions will recommend, fur- ther, that a woman physician be appointed to examine delicate cases of women pris- oners and that her duties shall extend to post-mortem examinations of such prison- | ers. A plan isbeing evolved for the open- ing of a kinaergarten and provision for mothers’ meetings and lectures on social purity. THE POLICE BOARD, They Express Their Views as to Mrs, French, Other Business, At the meeting of the Police Commis- sioners last night no application was re- ceived in regard to making a position for Mrs. Rose M. French, as outlined at the mass-meeting of women last Sunday. The Commissioners were asked to express their views on the proposition. President Tobin said that section 24 of the consolidation act would debar them from making such an appointment. Under ita member of the olice force must be ‘‘a citizen of the Jnited States and of this State, and be a resident and qualified voter of the City and County of San Francisco.” Both the president and Comimnissioner | Hartley $25 for neglect of duty. i Alvord spoke highly of Mrs. French and said that if the Board of Supervisors gave her an.appointment they would place one of the most efficient officers in the depart- ment at her disposal which would be better than having her wear a star. They would go further and give her as many men as she desired to help her in her laudable ob%ect for the protection of young girls. he Commissioners fined Policeman H. G. Clancy of Company B $20 for neglect of duty at the Market-street ssing from Grant avenue and Policeman Evasmus Three new patrolmen were sworn in yes- terday, Luke Livingston, born in New York, 34 'years, butcher; Jonn J. Conlan, born in Ban Francisco, 28 years of age, shoecutter; Owen E. Heffernan, born in Salem, Mass., 34 years of age, collector. The Commissioners took no action as to the appointment of the new captain, five lieutenants, five sergeants, three detectives and seventy-five men provided forin the year's appropriation. It was expected that they mignt make the appointments last night now that the tax levy has been affirmed by the Supreme Court, but they will wait till next meeting, so that the ap- pointments will run from December 1. UNION STOCK YARD CASE: B. Fernandez Will Sue P. Tor- mey for Sixty Thousand Dollars. Tormey Is the President of the Yards and Is Said to Have Borrowed Freely. Bernando Fernandez, a wealthy Span- iard of Contra Costa County, is about to bring a suit in foreclosure of a mortgages of $62,742 12 against Petrich Tormey, presi- dent of the Union Stockyards at Rodeo, a few miles from Vallejo. Gunnison, Booth & Bartnett are attor- neys for the plaintiff. The suit, which is very complicated, is supposed to be an outgrowth of the foreclosure on the $250,- 000 bonds of the company, of which suit the same legal firm had charge as attor- neys for the Safe Deposit and Trust Com- pany. The mortgage was made by Tormey in August, 1893, to secure the plaintiff, Fer- nandez, on a promissory noté in the amount named. : It covers. lands situate in Contra Costa County, and was made to secure him against any loss which might occur by reason of his assigning a certain note executed by Annie Tormey in the sum of $50,000 to Harry Rogers. It seems that Tormey, as president of the Union Stockyard Company, according to the statement of the attorneys, had occa- sion fo borrow money from Rogers. The loans were in large amounts. .Fernandez, the wealthy Spanish land-owner, came: to the assistange of his friend Tormey and as- sumed the payment of several notes and claims. - Among the latter was one of $8000 | held by the Commercial Bank of Vallejo, | which the plaintiff in his complaint says has.been paid. It is further set forth_that | the defendant Tormey has been requested | to make good his obligations, but has failed to do so, and hence the numerous | transfers and retransfers of notes and as- | signment of divers claims back and forth | will give the lawyers considerable work in | unuvelinfi]the complications in the case. During the progress of the suit many in- teresting facts concerning the Union Stock- | yard Company ‘will doubtless be brought | out. | THE WAR IN RATES. Crowded Decks on the Steamer for Port- land Give Evidence of the Sea Line’s Success. The rate war between San Francisco ana | Portland was at its height yesterday. | There was no change in the situation, how | ever, only it was a fight in earnest, with the | who were most familiar with his affairs that LANE NEEDS A BIG: BOND, Judge Campbell Adds $15,000 to the $25,000 Already Insisted Upon. LITTLE JULIA ON THE STAND. i There Yet Remain Three Cases and They May All Be Disposed Of This Afternoon. Captain P. F. Lane will have to put up $15,000 bail in addition to the $25,000 al- ready required by Judge Campbell asa guarantee to answer for the outrageous offenses he is charged with having com- mitted. The testimony, as in the other-cases al- ready heard, is of a character unfit for publication. The witnesses, who do not testify in the presence of each other, cor- roborate each other in all essential par- ticulars. The prosecuting witness was KEva Gui- nasso, aged 11 years. She detailed all the particulars of the offense charged. stating as a part of her testimony that Julia Chris- tiansen, the prosecuting witness in the case reported Tuesday, in which Captain Lane was held in $25,000 bail, was present and witnessed all that had been done. Julia Christiansen’s testimony substan- tially corroborated the story of Eva Guin- asso. “There was a trunk in Captain Lane’s room, full of pins, bracelets and every- thing,” said the witness. “Do you know how serious a thing it is to this defendant, this charge that you mal;c against him ?” said Judge Campbell. (Yes “And knowing this you are sure you are only telling that which is true?” “Yes,” “You are sure of this?” “Yes.” ; Mrs. Rosa Guinosso testified that Eva was 11 years old, although she could not state the year of Eva’s birth. She said she had a record at-home. Officer Rourke tes- tified as to the shape and location of the windows in the room., This concluded the ‘testimony for the prosecution. “Have you anything to offer, Mr. Cook ?”’ said Judge Campbell. “No, sir.” There remain three charges againist Lane yet to be disposed of, and an. effort will be made to-day to bear them at 2 o’clock. | The mass-meeting called by the commit- tee appointed by the Good Citizenship meeting, held at Metropolitan Hall last Sunday afternoon forthe purpose of express- ing the indignation of the citizens of San Francisco-at the outrages of decency, to the purity of childhood and to home vir- tues, will be held on Monday evening, No- vember 25, instead of Friday as heretofore stated, at Metropolitan Temple. ‘A num- ber of eloquent speakers will addréss the meeting. Their names wilk be announced later, and notice of the meeting will be given from all the pulpits of the chuirches -of San Francisco, Oakland” and Alameda. ‘ESTATE OF G. W. GIBBS. The Property Will Go to His Widow. Charities Were Recognized While He Lived. The late George W. Gibbs left a valuable estate, and it is the impression of those nearly all the property he possessed was deeded many months ago, so that it now goes.to his widow. The will of itself may not provide for the disbursement of more rival lines watching each other and a| steamer and train out in opposition. | The steamer Columbia sailed for Port- | land in the morning with 195 passengers, | most of whom were in the cabin. She had | also 1000 tons of freight aboard, which | more than paid running expenses. Freight | on those steamers will form the backbone | of the Oregon Reailway and Navigation | Company’s fight, since it will keep tha’ vessels running almost independently oi} receipts from passenger travel. Two agents | of the Southern Pacific Company were at | the dock to count the passengers going | aboard and to take other notes. i This the steamship men regarded as| “small business,” adding that nene of | them would 2o over to Oakland to count | Southern Pacific passengers leaving on the Portland special. The steamer State of | California left Portland yesterday with 297 passengers aboard. Assistant General Passenger Agent Ju- | dah of the Southern Pucific states that a | train of seventeen cars had started south | from Portland in opposition to this steamer. | A train of fourteen cars, he said, would | leave Oakiand mole with over 200 passen- gers. than $20,000. A year or two ago Mr. Gibbs gave ex- pression to his views on the subject of giving to charities, wherein he took the position that a man desiring to make such Ems shoula carry out hisintentions during is lifetime. It is known now that Mr. Gibbs adhered to this rule himself and that his will, which may be filed within the next two or three days, does not contain charitable bequests. At the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion yesterday Mr. McCoy said he knew nothing whatever of Mr. Gibb’s will or the executors of the estate. To the Y. M. C.'A. building Mr. Gibbs gave $40,000 outright, and the association does not expect any- thing more. Several times Mr. Gibbs paid the debts of Grace Church and must have given in the nggmi te a vast sum of money to that church. He also gave to St. Luke’s Hos- pital, the San Mateo Orphan Asylum and various other institutions. —————— Does Not Frequent Lunch Counters. Alfred 8. Hamilton, the pole-elimber, is authority for the statement that he never ob- tained his sustenance from lunch counters, but always earned his living by hard work. e Co THE BAR AS A PROFESSION. Articles by three Cabinet Ministers, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. 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N. E. cornerof Jones and Jackson sts.; compris- ing vacant lot on N. . corner of Jones and Jackson sts.; residences Nos. 1502, 1504, 150 15 1506 1508 Jones st., and 1224, 1226 and 1228 st.: being 8 residences and one vacan rents, $205.50; one vacant, $4 $250.50. ‘T'his is choice propert dences in good condition; Powell cabie: ks ; present réntal, ; resit and Hyde street 0 not #afl 10 ex- property, 140x., ject to approval of uperior Court—Probate Department. Also, for Same Account. 8. line (No. 21) of Bernard, 160 rees, E. of Jones st., bet. Pacific and Broadway: a comfbrtable honse of 7 rooms; rents for $17; now vacant; street inized: elegant car accommodatios examine is; lot 23x feet. Terms—Cash: subject to ap- provalot the Superior Court—Probate Department. Golden Gate Park—Residence Lot. N.line of Grove, 125 feet W. of Baker st.: this elegant residence lot 1s all ready for building: two blocks only from the Golden Gate Park: a fine lo- cation for a gentleman’s home; several car lines; 10t 25x137:6 feot. Pacific Heights—Residence Corner, N. W. corner Clay and Baker sts. residence corner &hould be examined tieman desifing an elegant location i home: car facilities not excelled: grand coruer lot, the | 81:3x100 feet. Presidio Heights—Residence Lots. S. W. corner of Jackson and Maple sts.; who de- sires tolive in this unequaled locadon ? Marine view, pure air. near the Presidio_Reservatior amine these lots for a hom and to-be Pacific-ayenue cable 117:9 feet. Inside lot adjoining, Down-Town French Flats. N. W. line (Nos. 112 to 11414) of Welsh, 130 S. W. of Fourth st. (bet. Bryant and Branaan sts. improvements consist of 6 French flats of 4 and rooms: full rents, $54; street bituminized; lot 25x 75 feet. ~ Mission French Flats. 8. line (No. 123) of Valley, 175 feet st.; improvements a 2.story bay-wind: ing of 2 French flats oi 4 rooms ea of Church L buiid- n Fra cisco and San Mateo and Mission-sirest eleciric roads: lot 27x114 feet. Western Addition Residence Lots. E. line of Cook, 150 feet S. of Geary st.; 2 re: aence lots all ready for building; must be sol only 150 feet from Geary-street cable; fine chance for a speculator or builder, or a person wanting to build a home; lot 25x120 feet. EASTON, ELDRIDGE & C0., 638 Market street. ‘ Auctioneera. 2 b Y b AUCTION ! AUCTION ! FORCED SALE. 785—EOoORSES—7S8 SATURDAY. ......... November 23, 1895, At 11 0'clock A. M., At Car Stables, cor. Fourteenth and Mission sts ‘We will sell, by order of the Bank of Kings Counc; 75 Head of Weli-broke Horses, from 4 .10 7 years eighing from 1000 to 1600 | ounds. No finer raft, Buggy or Wagon Horses was ever T LIV AN & DOYLE, Livestock Auctioneors Office—327 Sixth street. HAMMERSMITH & FIELD AUCTION Of high grade JEWELRY. WATCHES, DIA- MONDS and SILVERWARE, with MR. J. H. FRENCH of New York as auctioneer. Sales daily at 10 a. 3. and 2 ¥ . tll further noticg. Absolutely NO RESERVE. 118 SUTTER STREET. Saturday..