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16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1895. MAGUIRE 1S GOING e He Will Start a New_and | Red-Hot Fight at { Once. NEW CHARGES READ. Will Demand of Cleveland That Daggett Be Investi- gated. THE LOCAL FIGHT COMES IN. Maguire Said to Be So Determined That He Has Threatened the Administration. 'hen Congressman Maguire gets to gton three or four days from now about the first thing he will do will be to make it red hot for John M. Daggett, the local reformer and Superintendent of the Mint. Beside the Maguire-Daggett war that is sbout to rage in Washington and San Francisco, the gingery tussel of a few weeks ago, after Maguire stopped off in Washington a day or two and filed scme charges against Daggett, will appear a mere preliminary skirmish. Magnire is aggressive, bold and deeply determined in the matter of demanding an official investigation cf Daggett’s condnct, and he is prepared to file stronger charges when he gets to Washington and back them up with new &nd more evidence and strong influence. Something will pop when Congressman Maguire reaches Washington. It is said that he is so determined about the matter that he has threatened to break with the | administration if his charges are ignored in' Daggett’s favor. This news will be a surprise to all but a few friends of Judge Maguire, for the matter has seemed to have dropped into “innocuous desuetude’” within the past two or three weeks. That, however, was only a seeming. It was about the middle of September when Maguire ran over to Washington for a day or two from Dela- ware, where he was making single-tax speeches, and, dropping in on Secrétary Carlisle, told him about his servant, John M. Daggett, gave him a lot of newspaper clippings, and left on file something or other in the nature of a written complaint which, perhaps, was not much more than & memorandum of things, showing that a special treasury agent ought to be sent to San Francisco to investigate the administration of the Mint. The gist of Maguire’s charges was that Daggett had neglected the duties of his office by being away about two-thirds of the time since his appointment; that he got up a stock mining company to develop a certain “Rosalie” mine of very uncer: tain value and “‘invited” Mint employes to subscribe to the stock, and that ke had been guilty of political conduct grossly unbecoming a Governmens official in his handling of the patronage of the Mint. Among the specifications of the IJast charge was the way he treated three Sta.e Senators, Biggy, Fay and Gesford, who dared to refuse him their complimentary Democratic votes for United States Sena- tor, which vote was valuable to Daggett, if large, as establishing his popularity and standing in the party in California, espe- cially in administration minds. Poor Senator Biggy, who gave his vote to Ma- guire, lost the Mint laundry work right away, and pretty soon his brother lost his place in the Mint. Daggett fired Fay’s brother and then Gesford’s sister, all of which was not a real nice way to use Government patronage power. Maguire wanted to see President Cleve- land, who has heard so much from various Californians about that great and good statesman and Democrat and that un- worthy political trickster, John Daggett of California, since he appointed him two years ago at the instance of Senator Stan- ford. But Cleveland was watching corks st Buzzards Bay, and the John M. Dag- gett matter didn’t make him shudder again at the thought of a third term. The Congressman came home three or four weeks ago, and several of his inti- mate friends say that he did not expect that anything would be definitely deter- mined about the matter until he rétarned to Washington for the session of Congress. While he was here he said nothing, but quietly made himself acquainted still bec- ter with the political ins and outof the Mint and with Mr. Daggett’s doings gen- erally. The last news about the matter was given in a brief telegraphic report from Wash- ington dated last Saturday, which con- veyed the information, given by a promi- nent official of the Treasury Department, that Secretary Carlisle had decided to take no action unless more serious charges were presented. “Unless it is proven to the satisfaction of Secretary Carlisle,’”” said the prominent official, ‘‘that Superintendent Daggett has been guilty of conduct un- becoming a Government official he will order noinvestigation. Nothing but formal charges in a case of this kind will be con- sidered. I believe, however, that the Dag- gett matter is practically settled as far as Mr. Daggett is concerned.” It is in so far as Mr. Maguire is con- cerned that the matter is not practically settled. Maguire now has formal charges, new evidence and plenty of anti-Daggett backers of political power, and he will see about the matter in red-hot style. Itis quietly understood among his intimate friends here that it will be mainly Presi- dent Cleveland whose official attention he | will direct to Mr. Daggett of the San Fran- | cisco Mint, but he will also have plenty of | strong talk for Secretary Carlisle. One | item to be considered in connection with Maguire's influence in the fight is the fact that he occupies a position of strong influence with the administration. He is not only the only Democratic Congressman elected at the last gen- eral election from thirteen Western States, but he was nearly, if not absolutely, the | the Twenty-ninth and Thirty-seventh dis- | | likely have plenty of supplies and re- FOR DAGGETT AGAIN. only Democratic Congressman returned by an increased majority. Besides his po- litical influence his vote will be needed for attempted administration financial legisla- tion, and when he goes so far, fortified by his home popularity, as to threaten o turn his back on the Cleveland administra- tion if Daggett is upheld in his asserted course of political piracy, party debauch- ery and official misdeeds, it is predicted that Maguire will at least be able to com- mand a respectful and tolerably patient hearing. Not the least among the counts in Ma- guire’s indictment will be the charge that Daggett has, for his selfish personal ends, and in an effort to control the State delega- tion to the National Convention, worked discord in the party to the peril of the Na- tional interests of the party, thrust him- self into the local primary politics of a big city to which he was a stranger, and forced therein the people he controlled through his Government patronage, These past three or four weeks that have elapsed with much political gayety have been jeweled with opportunities for a | politician 1n Mr. Maguire’s position to find out things about a politician in Mr. Dag- gett’s position. The local fight between Buckley and some independent elements of the party, including Maguire, and the combination starred principally by Rainey, Daggett and McNab, was not on when Ma- guire visited Washington last time. This fight has given the Congressman a whole new caisson of ammunition and a whole new regiment to help work his battery. It is very likely that Cleveland and Carlisle haven’t heard much about Chair- man Watkins’ election in the local general committee three or four weeks ago or about the way things went a week ago Saturday night, when Gavin McNab had the gas turned off. in the hope that Rainey and Daggett could get safely away with | the organization by the back door. | Now in this local tight John M. Daggett has singularly distinguished himself as a politician and done a number of things of which Maguire has heard. He will tell the folks in Washington about it all Those older matters, like taking the wash- ing away from Senator Biggy, will take a back place for the things freshly dug from the rich local political mess of the present. Maguire will try to make a showing to the effect that Daggett has béen guilty of offensive and indecent partisanship in the way he has marshaled the people under | him to do his polijical work with Sam Rainey, regardless of their individual in- clinations. What specific things Maguire will draw from the recent local fight for presentation at Washington are not given out, but it is declared by his friends that there is plenty to exhibit to Daggett’s discredit. Itisa | matter of common knowledge among inter- | ested local politicians that when the two factions were getting ready for that battle | in which A. A. Watkins defeated James H. O'Brien by a vote of 184 to 154 Daggett summoned man after man from their em- ployments in the Mint to his private office | and gave them peremptory orders what to | do. Daggett had shrewdly placed his local | patronage where he could best use it for | himself, and he was able to exert a strong influence in the general committee of 450. ! In this committee were quite a number of | members who have places in the Mint. Some of them, of course, have been from | the start eagerly enough on the Daggett- | Dekardie, who lived with him at 11 Polk Jane, on_ November 21, was released by order of Chief Crowley Wednesday. As soon as Detec- tives Egan and Silvey, who were working on the case, learned of the result of the autopsy Wednesday they stopped further inquiry. — o -————— STABBED IN THE! SIDE. Thomas Burns, a Peddler, Attacked by Three Men. Thomas Burns, a peddler living at 48 Eighth street, was walking along Clemen- tina street last night, and when near Fifth street three men sprang upon him out of a doorway. They tried to throw him down but he managed to throw them off. They rushed at him and one of them stabbed him in the lelt side with a pocketgknife. Burns’ cries for help alarmed the three footpads and they disappeared. KT G Burns was taken to the Receiving Hospi- tal and the wound in his side was attended to by Dr. Thompson. Altaough deep it is not considered dangerous. The police will endeavor to find the three men. MR, ASHWORTH'S BOOKS The Examination of Them to Be Undertaken by the Grand Jury. Prospects of the Methods of the Street Deputies Being Brought to Public View. The books of Mr. Ashworth, Superin- tendent of Streets, are to be examined by the Grand Jury. This body is not satisfied with the outcome of Mr. Ashworth’s trial in Judge Murphy’s court, and intends now to go to the very bottom of the matter. It is satisfied from the evidence of Mr. Ashworth himself that the street work has not béen done as it should, and instead of being discouraged by the stand taken %y Judge Murphy, that Mr. Ashworth could not be held criminally responsible for the acts of his deputies,*it sees in that very ruling itself a reason for further investiga- tion. If there has been crookedness and corruption-the books of the Street Super- intendent—Mr, Ashworth’s accounts with the City—ought to show it, the Grand Jury argues. That this shall be the very first step is the present intention of the Grand Jury, and unless there are good reasons to the contrary, a demand is to be made for Mr. Ashworth's books to-day. It is believed that figures may be made to prove more than can be brought out in a criminal trial or two, from cautious witnesses, and the Grand Jury has the privilege of mak- ing a report to the public when it has com= pleted its invesrigations, The idea of a thorough experting of Mr. Ashworth's records has been prompted in a measure by some communications which have recently come to hand, charging the Street Department with a too liberal use of money in the cases of certain favored per- sons. The Grand Jury is anxious to find out what particular connection Martin Keating (Mr. Ashworth’s brother-in-law), Fred Raabe and James W, Crowe have with the expenditure of the people's money. Messrs. Keating, Raabe and Crowe may now expect to _put in an appearance be- fore the Grand Juryatany time. There are two saloons in this Cilfy which, it is said, are thriving because of the patronage of Street Department employes. One of these vlaces is reported to be at 1651 Mission street, and it is generally understood that i owned by Deputy Superintendent ting; the other is at the northwest K. | corner of Ninth and Kolsom streets, and | f_that James W. Crowe is the proprietor. Incidentally the Grand Jury will ex- | national circuit. Rainey side of the fight, but some have not | amine into the records of some of the | been. Not a man, however, aared to do | anything but vote for Watkins that night. Among the general committeemen in the Mint are John Collins, George Ryan, C. 8. Arms, J. P. Fenton, Charles Mec- Courtney and Fred Murphy. These men belong to various districts. Then there are other Mint employes who had relatives in the regular general committee. Nathan Seelig is one, and be has two brothersin | tricts respectively, whose votes are thus | controlled by Daggett. W. H. McGeeney of the Forty-first has a sister in the Mint, Con Sullivan has a father there, and so on. Other Mint employes could control friends. Senagor Mitchell of the Thirty-third isin the Mint and is credited with controlling three or four votes in that district and | others could be used as political influences | in various ways. A number of Mint em- | ployes not in the general committee are members of the Junta’s new one, and rela- | tives of others are in the new committee, as for instance, the father and brother of State Senator Mitchell. | This gives a partial insight into the local power the Boss from Siskiyou has acquired through the tactical force of Government | patronage—a power which, when combined with Sam Rainey’s, amounted to over 100 votes in the general committee at the time 1‘ of Watkins’election, and which was strong | enough to enable Daggett and Rainey to control the appointment of the Junta’s new general committee and dictafs its policy. This partnership power is yeta practically ‘controlling one in the anti- Buckley organization. It has been the | way Daggett and Rainey were “hogging” the power that has caused various warm and dangerous quarrels in the Junta. It is Daggett’s way of using this patron- age, proven in the recent disgraceful row, that Maguire will make the most of. He will also maintain his stand that the Dag- gett-Rainey organization is a revolution- ary one, with a record of low' political trickery and with no title to the party. He will show the attempted wreck of the regular organization at the risk of party defeat, and argue that Daggett has béen ready to sacrifice party interests to his per- sonal ends. All around he has plenty of new material to add to his original charges, which, it is hinted, he is prepared to strengthen with new evidence. And then this Democratic row has come just in time to stir a lot of Daggett’s old enemies and a lot of new ones into activity sgainst him. The whole Buckley faction is naturally just now eager to jump onto John M. Daggett, and strong Democratic forces are getting ready to back Maguire. In the present situation an army is ready to_carry ammunition, and Maguire will enforcements. So a jolly new fight is on, and the ques- tion is, Will there be a special Treasury agent out here pretty soon to investigate the Superintendent of the Mint? Charles Is Released. Frank Charles, who was arrested pending an investigation into the sudden death of Katie Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE uors who served on the Ashworth panel. everal of the grand jurors were present at the impaneling of that jury, and one of them said at the time “This is dreadful,” because the names of a few of the Ash- worth jurors had not appeared on the poll- lists or the taxlists of the City. The deputy sheriffs who secured that jury have already been before the Grand Jury and examined, and they will be duly re- ferred to in the final report. The private confract work is also to be taken up and well sifted. Expert George W. Elder of the Street Committee says the system of private contracts in vogue is barefaced robbery. Hereare his words: Property-owners are robbed right and left to the extent of $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 every year by this system of privaie contracts. Yet what can we do other that to adopta new charter and have all street work attended to by a board of public works? The court has held that private contracts do not come within the province of the Superintendent of Streets; in fact, in the face of Judge Murphy's ruling it is difficult under the circumstances to see in what varticular respect Mr. Ashworth is re- sponsible 1o the City. According to my understanding of Judge Murphy’s position, Mr. Ashworth is ot respon- sible for the acts of his deputies and his depu- ties are responsible only to Mr. Ashworth. ‘Where does the City come in? As for the pri- vate contracts, nobody in” particular seems to be responsible for them, and the City has no authority over them. 7 The) robbery of the property-owners is mainly due to irresponsible contractors and unscrupulous solicitors. These contractors will takeé any kind of & joband do it as cheaply as possible. All they seem to care for is to get money out of the people for as little return as they can make & showing with, or to borrow money on their contracts and then do up the men who have made the loan to them. The solicitors try all kinds of schemes on the property-owners. A favorite plan with them is to get a man and induce him to subscribe by allowing him a bigreduction on the exorbitant rate they are 1o charge. He goes into the thing thinking he is gettjng a bargain, and suppos- ing that his neigh who will have to pay the high rate will thus be made to pay for his benefif. With his name at the head of the list the next man is worked in much the same manner, and so on; but after a while the offer of a reduction is dropped, unless it may be necessary to continue those tactics to secure the adequate number of subscribers. The re- maining one-third are in this way compelled to pay a disproportionate rate, and with the result thatthe job when completed is miser- ably done. Anotner favorite trick of the solicitors is for two of them to work & block together, but pre- tend to be woiking for rival concerns and un- derbidding each other. Of course, when they succeed in making the property-owners believe they are getting a bargain, the victims bite at the bait and pecome easy prey. ‘We do our best to keep the people from be- ing imposed upon,and whenever a pitce of bad work done under private contract comes up for acceptance it is promptly condemned. It is outrageous! I have a big lot of samples of work that is actually fraudulent. Bitumen bardly an inch thick—think of it! No wonder the paving is full of holes in a little while. Mr. Elder said $100.000 worth of work done by Mr. Ashworth has been con- demned this year, and that he had called Mr. Hobbs’ attention to a great many in- stances of reckless waste of Eublic money. +If there is any one thing that should run on business principles,” said Mr. Elder in conclusion, it is the Street Depart- ment.” ———————————— DINNERS FOR THE POOR. Christlan Young Women Bring Happliness to Many Homes. The Ladies of the Young Women’s Christian Association, 1221 O'Farrell street, through the kindness of numerous friends, made happy over 100 poor families on Thanksgiving day. To each family was given a_turkey or chicken. ham, beef, flour, tea, coffee, sugar, crackers, fruit, canned fruits, vegetables, mince pies, etc. T'hese dinners were carried to those who had been visited and regorud as specially worthy. The ladies who took an active interest in the work were: Mrs. L. C. Redington, Mrs. William O. Gonld, Mrs. J. Sgn'nnce, Mrs. W, Eagon, Mrs. A. R. Baldwin, Mrs. W. Gunn, Mrs. H. J. Saaler, Mrs. G. W. Prescott, Mrs. J. Martel, Miss M. Farquharson. LAWYERS use Blackstone “Bank Stock” pads. Strengthens eyes. Mysell-Rollins Co., 22 Clay.* | GTT0 ZIEGLER RETURNS, California’s Champion Bicyclist Back From His East- ern Trip. RECORD-BREAKING HIS FORTE. Has Traveled Twenty Thousand Miles and Won Many Valuable Prizes. Otto Ziegler Jr., the young California bicyele racer, returned from the East late last night, accompanied by his trainer, Frank Foster of the Olympic Club. Ziegler left here last April to race on the His team mates were C. R. Coulter and C. C. Harbottle, the team being managed by Trainer Tellam. From the start he was successful and won more than his share of the prizes. One day, however, in a hot finish between himseif, Monte Scott, Bald, Gardiner and other cracks, Scott swerved and fell, carrying fiie at the Convent of the Holy Family, 860 ayes street, yesterday afternoon. A delicious spread of the dainties that children like was 1a1d before thelittle ones, who had the happiest Thanksgiving imaginable, TIMOTHY CONWAY DROWNED. He Falls Into the Bay While Returning From a Sloop to the Wharf. % Timothy Conway, a machinehand em- ployed with Hobbs, Wall & Co. and living at 324 Austin avenue, was drowned yester- day evening. Some of his friends had re- turned from a duck-shooting expedition, and he wentto see them at their sloop, which was moored at the Mission-street wharf. While returning to the wharf Conway fell into the water. One of his hosts, Leon Frank, dove into the bay fully clothed after him. The rescuer could not reach Conway till he had sunk several times. ‘When the twq men were finaily hauled out Conway was unconscious. \ A futile attempt was made to resuscitate him at the wharl. Then the patrol-wagon was sent for and Conway was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where the doctors pro- nounced him dead. . Conway was 31 years of age and married. e e A JUDGMENT REVERSED. The Attorneys for Sadie M. Nichols Score a Point. Judge Seawell of the Superior Court on Wednesday reversed the order made by Justice Groezinger about a month ago in the case of Elizabeth 8. Blake against Sadie M. Nichols. down Gardiner with him, and Ziegler The suit is in reference to a chattel mort- OTITO ZIEGLER JR. went over both. He arose from the mix- | up to find his left wrist broken, and it was | six weeks before he was able to ride again. For the past two months Ziegier has | been at Louisville trying for records and | racing in competition. His greatest feat was the winning of the one-mile paced race on November 12, 1n the phenomenal | time of 1:53 2-5, which now stands as the world's competition record. He also holds the two-mile record of 3:51, the one-mile paced, standing start, at 1:50, and several short distance records. At Louisville on a one-third mile cement track he rode a mile paced, with a flving start, in 1:42 4-5, which is two-fifths of a second slower tham Arthur Gardiner’s world’s record. Ziegler said last night: “Iam very glad to get back to California and home once more, although I have had a most enjoy- abble and successtul trip, barring my gcci- dent. I have been away seven months now and have traveled over 20,000 miles in the United, States, Canada and Mexico. In prizes I have won over $2000, principally in unset diamonds. “The race meeting at Louisville, where 1 made that mile competition record, wasa blue-ribbon affair, the proceeds being do- nated to the Associated Charities. The racing men entered as heartily into it as if the prizes were diamonds. The grand stands were packed with people. “These charity meets are all the go in the East, and one ought to be promoted here. I would gladly ride for the glory of it, and so I am sure would the otner cir- cuit-chasers now on the coast. Itwas so cold that I had to wear two pair of tights, two sweaters, a coat, gloves, cap and ear muffs. At the same time the men were riding here in racing suits with bare legs. The‘x' are now, in fact, I believe. “We had a great time getting out here. Our train was fifteen hours late, caused by a wreck to the first section at Shoemaker, New Mexico. Luckily I was in the sec- ond section and suifered nothing more than the delay.” Upon their arrival last night Ziegler and Foster went diréctly to the Olympic Club, where they were heartily welcomed by the members. Z Ziegler was told to go upstairs to the reading-room, where he might find some one he knew. He went, and ran into the arms of his father, who had come up from their home in San Jose to meet him. His mother, he was told, was at a .downtown hotel, so the young champion was soon off to see her, for he ‘hinks a great deal of his E:ren!s, and they are justly proud of iheir Y. Dressed in the height of fashion, with his handsome, smiling countenance, Zieg- ler Jr. looks more like the son of some banker than a bicycle racer, though all the circuit riders are a stylish, well dressed set of young men. It did me good to meet the California boys, Charley %Vellu, Harry and Bob Ter- rill of the Bay City heelmen, back East,” he said. “I was homesick then, but it cheered me up a good deal, and 1 think I rode faster a?ter Wells and Bob Terrill came on the circuit with me.”” As to his present movements Ziegler statedthat he would go to San Jose this morning with his rents. The Road Club there, whose colors he has worn in all his races in the East, will tender him a big reception upon his arrival. He will return to this City either to-morrow or Monday as the guest of the Olympic Club Wiieelmen, who will give an immense theater party in his honor. After about a week’s rest he expects to_resume training again at 8an Jose and will ride for records. e will also compete at any race meets held hereabouts during this winter and the early spring. Ziegler expects to re- ceive a five-seated pacing machine from the East, which he will use in his recor travels. It will be manned by a auintet of crack Eastern pacers. 5 As to any of the other Eastern riders coming to California to spend the winter Ziegler was uncertain. Cabanne and Titus had intended to, but having been sus- nded from the track for life with Charley urphy, they havé given it up. Arthur Gardiner, Decardy and some of the others hly:figone out of training for the winter. W. W. Hamilton of Denver, holder of the world’s mile unpaced record of 2:00 1-5, is expected to arrive next Sunday, and C. R. Coulter, Ziegler's team mate, i8 Now on the way. Coulter is a consistent performer and ore of the best men on the path. o Feasted the Children. A large number of little folks stuffed them- selves with turkey, cranberry ssuce and mince gage of some furniture held by the plaintiff’ which the defendant claims to have paid | Justice Groezinger decided in favor of plaintiff and appointed Solomon Berliner as receiver. From this judgment the de- fendant appealed to Juage Seawell, who ordered the receiver to forthwith surren- | der the furniture to the defendant pend- ing a final disposition of the case. The final hearing will take place before Judge Seawell on December 13. R. Porter Ashe and A. S. Newburgh represented the de- fendant. I AMERTN” SHAINES Historic Scenes of the Revolution Described by Dr. Dille. HIGH-ROLLING DICE GAME OF PIRO PINTO. Two Players Staked $32, 000 on a Single Throw. WM. BOURN’S WINNING. The Wéli-Known Capitalist Gets $78,000 in One Night’s Sitting. EVERY DOLLAR PROMPTLY PAID The Loser Was a Central American Planter Who Proved to Be a Man of Courage. Therich coffee planters and the princely merchants that come annually from South America to spend a few months in San Francisco bring with them Iarge revenues. They spend money freely and have the luxuries of life without regard to cost. In games of chance high stakes rule, and while they prefer to trust the throw of the dice rather than the run of cards, they win and lose with the equanimity that marked the playing of the Southern planters in the good old ante-bellum days, when the brilliantly lighted cabin of a Mississippi River steamer was the one place on the globe to “banish care and tempt the smiles of fortune. During the past two years Central and South American planters have made a deal of money, the result of good crops and high prices. Some of the younger bloods with inclination to roll high in ‘their revels manifest a fondness for the Spanish game known as piro pinto and . stake such sums of money on a single throw that the few spectators watch with absorbing in- terest. A few nights ago two South Americans and the well-known capitalist and club- man of San Francisco, William Bourn, dined together at one of the small restau- rants on O'Farrell street. There were others in the party, and several joined in a little sport with the dicebox. Twenty- dollar vieces changed with such rapidity that all the players, except the two from the south country and the re!".ienb high roller, drew out of the game. Piro pinto is played with two dice, each player holding a box of his own. In course of time the game between the three players closed with the San Francisco man a winner of $14,000. Then a new game was opened between the winner and a blooded South American. The outcome of this game is the talk of clubcoteries. The stakes were so high and the payments of the loser so promptly made that the old-timers, who saw fortunes won and lost in 1849, are falling intoa reminiscent frame of mind. This particular after-dinner zession is sure to be the talk of the town for months. The amounts staked ranged along from $500, $1000, then up to $5000 on a single throw, finally reaching $16.000 a side. For- tune still smiled on Mr. Bourn of San Francisco, and he stood a winner of $14,- 000 and $32,000, or $46,000 in all. At this stage of the game, when the spectators expected to see the South Amer- ican play the role of a *‘quitter,’”” the blood of the sport from the southland was tested. He proposed one final cast for ‘“double or quuts,” $32,000 a side, $64,000 or nothing. It is not every player whom fortune has favored by a steady run of luck that will consent to stake all of his winnings on one hand, and, besides, it is an axiom of dice- throwers that the proposition to double at each throw will break any bank in the Plymouth Rock, Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill Shown by Stereopticon. Rev. B. R. Dille lectured last evening at Simpson Memorial Church, his subject be- ing ‘‘American Shrines.”” The address was illustrated with' some excelient stere- opticon views, but owing to the inclement weather the audience was comparatively small. i ® The true shrines of America, in the speaker’s estimation, were the historic spots where occurred the most stirring events in the great strugele for National independence, and accordingly Mr. Dille led his audience from Plymouth Rock and the times of the Pilgrim Eathers to Con- cord, Lexington and Bunker Hill, and even beyond. He said: +Of all places which gather around them the sacred memories of our fathers’ deeds none are more replete with interest, more truly the Mecca of America than Boston, the veritable guardian ot shrinés. Long before one reaches that city there looms into view the gold-bronze dome of the State House—the dome which is 10 every true Bostonian what the golden milestone in the forum was to the Romans—the center of the uni- verse, the point from which a1l distances were measured. Within its walls are rel- ics of Bunker Hiil and the battle-flags which Charles Sumner proposed to return to the Southern regiments, and for which action he was censured by the Massachu- setts Legislature, .. “Here we find the Old State House, the birthplace of American liberty. Before its venerable walls took place the Boston massacre, in which was shed the first blood of the Revolution—and that the blood of a negro, Christian Adams. Here was the demand made on Governor Hig- ginson for the withdrawai of the Britis! troops from the city, and from its balcony, for the last time on New England soil, ‘Washington reviewed his troops. ‘‘Fanueil Hall, the ‘cradle of liberty,’ even as the Statehouse was its birth place, stands hard bv. Here were held the celebrated Boston ‘town . meetings,’ which William Pitt declared nccomnlial%ed more than all the diplomacy of England, and here were first proclaimed the prin- ciple sof self-government which have made our country what it is. _“The old Seuth Church! What memo- ries hover around it. Fhis was indeed the ‘sanctuary of liberty.’ Our fathers did not believe that God had nothing to do with the state. They believed that their duty to their country was one with their duty to their Creator. They instituted a great nation, but it cannot endure if we se| te religion and politics and give God no-place in the councils of the people.” . The scenes of the battle of Concord, Lex- ington and Bunder Hill, the homes of Longfellow, Irving, Hawtho:ne and others of like fame were shown, and celebrated trees, houses, churches and monuments, even to the villn?e of Grand Pre, cele- ::‘ii::‘"by Longfellow in his poem “Evan- Recitations of ‘“Paul Revere's Ride” and “The Landing of the Pilgrims” and l:l‘:” by Mme. Alice Waltz were rendered at ap- propriate periods in the lecture. world if the player bas the coin to double his stakes as often as he loses. This atter-dinner seance was not in the line of a regular banking game. The play- ers were gentlemen, and not gamblers by profession, hence the winner consented to give his friendly antagonist a chance to even up. The bones were tossed for $64,000 or noth- ing, and chance again rendered a decree against the South American. The San Francisco capitalist won the stake, and on the following day cashed the South Amer- ican’s check for $32,000. Well-known men who saw the game as- sert positively that the South American did not plead intoxicatiomor mental in- firmity when the time for a settlement came, but paid his losses like a thorough- bred sport of the old school. Soin that famous game of piro pinto, Mr. Bourn will be known as the winner of $78,000 1n one sessio FOR DISTRICT CLUBS. The Civic Federation Maturing Plans for a Big Political Organization in This City. The Civic Federation will begin next week its active work of organization for the next campaign. Subordinate federa- tions or political clubs are to be organized in every district, and only a meeting of the executive committee is being waited for before beginning actual operations. “There will be a meeting of the execu- tive committee of the federation early next week and at that time it is expected that the proper persons for ofganizing the dis- trict clubs will be selected,” said Rev. Dr. | Dille last night. ' kee) “When that has been done, the actual work will be begun at once, and having been begun will be pushed rapidly forward. Wedo not in- tend to let this matter drop, and in the end you will find that this movement for good government will win."” 1 The politicians are studying the local situation carefully in an endeavor to as- certain just what bearing the federation s movement is going to have on the result of the nextelection. Already they say there have been formed or arein the pro- cess of formation in every district at least four political clubs, each representing & different interest, and the addition of still another organization renders still more complicated the already doubtful situa- tion. - Battered an Officer. Officer O’'Connell has a forehead that pro- trudes like a black and blue ostrich egg. This is not due to any marvelous cerebral develop- ment, but to a brick in the hands of James Rowe, a young man living at 734 Folsom street. Kowe got into a fight with James Wil- son yesterday. Officer O’Connell ordered him home and he defied the entire police force to arrest him. The two clinched and in the end Rowe had to be sent to the Receiving Hospital to be sewed up. Two charges were ‘yhced ;gnnst him. He gave the name of William ones. SOCALISH THE THEME, First Educational Meeting of the Labor Bureau Associa- tion. Spirited Addresses on Labor’s Comdie tion at Turk-Street ‘Temple Last Evening. A large number of people braved the storm to attend the monthly meeting of the Labor Bureau Association at the Turk- street Temple last evening. From the so- cialists’ point of view they were well re- paid by hearing a number of stirring addresses on the subject of labor and so- cialism. The association has decided to abolish the social features of their monthly gath- erings and devote the meetings to educa- tional pursuits in political economy. Last night’s was the inaugural meeting on this line. The speakers took up the varlous phases of the labor question and endeavored to explain the causes of what they termed the oppression of the laborer under existing political systems, and also strove to point out the only route, accord- ing to their ideas, by which the people mignt emerge Irom the conditions conse- quent upon the ‘‘capitalistic system.” The trend of the remarks of all the speakers was toward socialism as the Mecca to which the people must ultimately turn. The meeting was presided over by C. F. Shadt, who introduced P. Ross Martin, editor of The Coming Age, as the speaker of the evening. Mr. Martin argaed that the laborer was worthy of that wiich he produced, and held that no toiler re- ceived the full benefit of his production or anywhere nearit; and he asserted that to this fact was attributable the poverty of the world. “Trades unions,” he said, “were good as far as they went, but they would never bring deliverance to the laborer. Neither could the laborer look to the existing political organizations for relief. They could not give it to him if they would.” He spoke of the days when all articles of utility were made by hand, and drew com- parisons between those days and later times, when one man had been made todo the work of many by the invention of ma- chinery. He contended that capital had increased its profits many fold thereby and asked if the laborer had Teceived a like in- crease of the benefits of his production. He claimed not, but said that the oneman received practically the same pay for pro- ducing the great quantity that be did for the smaller, amount that came from his hands, while the men whom the machine had supplanted were out of employment, or had to crowd into other lines not af- fected by machinery, only to reduce the wage of himself and his associates, by fur- nishing an over-supply of labor. ‘‘What would the laborer do?” he asked. “The present system would not help him, He must turn to socialism if he would pro- cure the product of his labor.” CRUELTY IN TENERIFFE. Are Driven Full Speed Into m Dead Wall. A lady reader appeals to me to notice a letter in the journal of the' Humanitarian League respecting the atrocious cruelty which is practiced onanimals in the island of Teneriffe. The writer affirms that the cruelty there surpasses anything he has ever seen in other Spanish colonies, and he gives some sickening details of the torturing of the dumb creatures in every- day work, and at bull-fights and other spectacles. One entertainment peculiar to the town of Laguna is thus described: ‘A yoke of oxen are fastened to an empt; cart of the ordinary two-wheel kind use here, and as many men as can get near the poor animals keep alongside, running and oading them to agony with a terrible ong steel spur in the end of a pole or stick, the spectators keeping up in a mob with the yells and shouts while one man keeps in front of the poor oxen. The trick of the affair is that this man shall thus his position at the head of the ani- s. A blind lane is chosen, stopped by a wall or something at one end. Into this the poor animals are driven at a furious gallop, and encountering the wall fall into a heap along with the heavy cart. The man is supposed to be agile enough to es- cape, and is looked upon as a hero. 1t is no matter if the legs omhe poor animals are broken by the collision—that is only to be expected, and they are slaughtered on the spot for a further spectacle.” It is shogk- ing to read of such barbarous practices, but it is of little use for an English paper to condemn them.—London Truth. Oxen NEW TO-DAY. e mm. “Blue Signature Brand.” The best grass fed cattle ° making it, and only the best It has a pale brown color, are raised. expressly for parts of the beef are used. a faint odor of roast beef avy, and a delicate flavar; it dissolves perfectly *1n water, and For deliclous n'rw For l-mvd an m‘l"'umrk‘:;y‘ ates with the finest cooking, Keeps perfoctly anywhere for any length of i time, When buying see