The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1895, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1895. 7 FALDWIN THEATER.—Rice's R CALYFORNIA TEEATER COLUMBIA THEATER B | i AUCTION SALE A A “TION Co. and Curios, a BY INDIANA morrow (M ¥ se Geary str . UsmBsEN & Co.—Real Estate, Saturday, ber 28, at 12 o'clock noon at salesroom, ofs are gay with preparations for oner Baldwin is still in a seri- 1s will be preached in most s morning. Gilbert Blode king ot newsboys, ar- , can be found on Tning. g at Wil to be able icted near of Adams ag: 118,000 for and Carl ed Goldmark, Heinreich Conre DD ar 1 to have & receiver pla of the Tivoli and to have some t 1 the stock set aside. They are cr e money due on royal es. John Galindo, the missing capitalistof Con- i, Contra Costa County, was found yester- rning in a saloon on Fourth and Minna , where he had been spending his ey for the past eight days. ° en, editor of the Los Angeles hat the mining industry now in & very pros- 1 that rich ledges of gold h were overlooked years nagement of the Kindergarten Society gave a charming as festival at Golden Gate Hall yes \con. A similar e n-square Hall by the O announced that fy has been Dr. Johnson, not allowed to te 5 w of the present urge some means for pre s accumulated for rre Nevadas, the ) 1 ared a bill for Congress appropri #1,030,000 for the building of impo dprms. In th Horac ed States Circuit Court Attorney i iled a doc brook hes just fil Judge John A. Stanly is accused of duly influenced Mrs. Catherine M. Garcelon n benefit. . Dough: s suing George F. Beveridge of the Santa 000 shares of the capital s Y losalin gold mine, or for $3000. the value of the stock. Dougherty claims he assisted in making a mosi advaniageous contract of sale of the ,and the amount he sues for d reward. beer war among the brewers has started, » two weeks it is believed that the bever: ill be sold at retail cheaper than ev bers of the Brewers' Protective Asso- \ are satisfied that certain brewerics are false to their obligations, and a general siam- pede for patronage is expected soon. Mrs. Nora Silvia was taken to the Receiving ospita terd Hospital about 8 o'clock y Imor g ‘very soon became a moihe e had been by her husband and was employed as vant at Eddy street. Her sister, Mrs. nes, 812 Laguna street, adopted the’baby and took him to her home. e will be ‘hristened Frederick Rinne Barnes, Dr. Rinne e tlended the mother at the hospital. having att Mrs. F. H. De Pue died at hgl‘ home’}n San Quentin Thursday aiter & brief illness, The in- sent was at San Rafacl. Mrs. De Pue was the wife of Captain Frank H. De Pue, chief of ihe prisou’s agricultural force, and brother of the dgar De Pue, president of the joard of State Prison Directors. She leaves three children, a daughter aged 13 years, a son ars old and an infant of 15 months. Forty-Niners,” a social organization o e iy last Thursday evening by the bers of San Francisco Parlor No. 49, N. S. The following are the officers elec: d for ensuing term: President, Charles R rin; vice-president, William H. McF her- | recording secretary, George Folsom; financial secretary, John Nelson; treasurer, Frank Marini; trustees—L. P. Powelson and Walter Colliier. { Mre. E. C. Bumpus of Boston, an artist well | known there and in New York, has on exhibi- | tion at p several water | colors that sttract considerable attenti Without being in the most advanced impres- jonist school they are on that order, “Soli- being particularly aamired, while Misty Day on the Marshes” and sketches in the little Briton town of Pont Aven make up the exhibit. It is understood Mrs, Bumpus will_later give an exhibition of her Californie work'as well as the New Engiand and foreign res which she has brought with her, i ter, | each year by the Alumni Association for a | that fifty-two members had died since the establishment of the university in 1865. : The election of officers resulted as fol- ows: President, A. F, Morrison; first vice- president, W. C. Gregory; second vice- vresident, Miss Catherine Felton; secre- tary, L. T. Hengstler; treasurer, J. K. Mofiitt; trustee of the Alumni Associa- tion, Frank Dunn; trustee of the Le Conte fellowship fund, W. R, Davis. It was announced that the banquet to J. B. Reinstein, the newly appointed regent of the university, was to take place at the Palace Hotel on Saturday, December 28. A large gathering is expected, as already a great many acceptances have been received. Governor Budd has promised to be i’msem' and a feature will be the at- tendance of a considerable number of the oldest alumni. 2% F S An Immeunse Sale of Seats. At the Columbia Theater yesterday morning there was a line nearly a block in length com- posed entirely of members of the Pacific Coast Commercial Travelers’ Association, wbo have bought out the house for Friday evening next, when Fanny Rice and her company will ap- pear in “Nancy as the French Ball.’”” Itis the annual benefit of this organization, and the proceeds are to be devoted to charitable pur- Harry Howe Started to Become | a Doctor, but Has Become a Sailor. NO ONE WOULD HELP HIM OUT | Sad Fate of a Soldier Who Told a Lie About a Pair of Military Blankets. The British ships Falls of Afton and | Dundonald both got in from Swansea yes- | terday with coal. The Falls of Afton | took a week longer to make the voyage | poses. than the Dundonald, and both were off Staten Island about the same time. Both encountered heavy gales,in which hail, sleet and snow formed disagreeable ele- fton was in the vicinity of two large ¥ 3 = % ! | Writers and Their Friends Enjoy eres, and five days later an immense field of ice was encountered. About the | Themselves in Merry Fashion. same time the Dundonald had an en- | counter with three icebergs, which the | captain describes as being about 300 feet | high and 100 yards wide. The ship had | 2 TR ; to be put aboat in order to get away from | They Fill the Clubrooms and Incident. her dangerous neig i | ally Themselves With High J. H. Tracey, who was dismissed from | % his position as watchman at the Harbor | Jinks, Ete. Commissioners’ storehouse by President | Colnon, lays all his trouble ac the door of | Superintendent Haste. He haunted the rooms of the commission yesterday, and to all who would listen to him he detailed thie charges he was going to bring against the Superintendent. Tracey, while in|early in the evening—that is early for the charge of the storehouse, found it had been | Press Club—the free and easy style of en- broken open and that the thief was inside. | tertainment characteristic of that organ- Instead of capturing him he went and | q¢ion was running and the stage in the aroused the crew of the fireboat. By the g e & time they got to_the storehouse the thief a'“%‘ch‘”‘s_ kept filled with the best talent ohemia. was gone. President Colnon at once dis- | 0f missed the watchman. 3 a1 Decorations were not spared. On the The steamer noma, now running in | walls, over the fireplace, around the sides place of the McDowell between the | of the alcove where stocd the stage, and hbors. | It was Christmas at the Press Club last evening, and the club’s principal com- modity—hospitality—was free as air to all the guests who thronged its rooms. The Christmas jinks were on, and from th military p ‘Eolnu. l\)\rokel\_-\?[e‘f\:‘?g:;’f:‘f‘:u'o\md the frames of the big pictures bkl A Service” he has been eon. | Which adorn the walls the holiday green demned to imprisonment on the rock for | Was twined and scattered. Christmasand six months and then to be dishonorably | red berries lurked in every niche and cor- charged from the army. In four more | ner of the main room. the prisoner’s last five years of ser- The stage itself was a bower of verdure, »uid have been up, and there would | and Arthur Barendt, the sire, sat in state y $300 in pay ana trans- | upon it, a blue pencil in his hand, and ng to him. Allof this he | showing an expanse of shirt front that the d by his own foll The prisoner le: vored mortals in the rows of seats » of Company G, First In- | looked upon with awe and envy. In the inner rcoms, in the sacred pre- cinctsof the pedro apartments, the card- tables were for once put aside and in their place was sparkling beer for the multitude. Vor did newspaper hospitality stop at the | faucet. Close at hand were plates of sand- es, with the contents heaped high, | besides other relishes to enliven the way between the table and the keg. The programme was very like that which used to be given at the old late watches in the Pine-street rooms like them than any of the later aff the club—and the men who participated were all members of the club. . M. Coe. president of the club, opened | the proceedings. He welcomed the guests | and gave them the club’s holiday greet- | ing. He introduced Barendt, the sire, and Barendt lost no time in starting the enter- repaired and 1000 | tainment. | wboard. Itis| Music, recitations, witticisms, local hits he 10t thrash into | and sarcasms, words from well-known he seas as she efore when going upthe | people and mirth-provoking anecdotes | coast in ballast. The Zealandia went out | kept the interest at the highest pitch until | ed with passengers and cargo, and | the blue pencil dropped for the last time. | s a friend of Bartholomew, | soldiers and g placed under stole a pair of rto King as part ‘he stolen blankets on bed, and he was Had he then confessed how they possession he might have He persisted, however, i lomew’s acquaintanceship. nd swore that the blankets were his own. It is that he is now a dishonored lier with a six-months’ e Lis esca Bart rve. imber of steamers sailed yes- ie City of Puebla left for Puget st for Departure Bay, na and the City of Progressist has now expeci I assed th ckels dock all the Homer He: Frank Coffin, Sam Tucker | iute f Peking took | and Jack Raffael sang their best. out twe Chinese pi Judge Hunt, with his dry humor and his sengers. Among the latter were thirt four actors from the Midwinter Fair and tlanta Exposition. Another passen Sigmund Beel and his violin—the one Yang Kay, who for twenty years was | which so often charms even the pedro- interpreter for the Pacific Mail Steamship | players from their cards— roused the Company. He has accumulated some | people into a pitch of enthusiasm which money and is now going to spend the last | left hard-clapping entirely inadequate and | of his d mong his own penple. Before | vented itself in shouts of **bravo.” leaving the clerks in the company’s office There were four quartets on hand, the presented him with a handsome testi- Balfian, the Californian, the Plymouth monial. The Aztec also ed last night | and the club’sown Press Club Quartet, and for Central America. She also was | after each had sung its merriest, the four crowded with freight, among which were | joined together in chorus. two surfboats, twelve head of cattie and | = Greer Harrison, Soily Walter, W. twenty-four horses for San Jose de Guate- | D. Armes and C. J. Stilwell appeared and mala. | talked, Fred Gutterson tuned up his The steamer rina is now on her way | ’cello and played his sweetest, and Daniel to San Francisco from Pensacola, to go Sully, Robert Downing, Eugene Bowles into the coal trade. The demand for Bever | and Ferris Hartman did what they could— Hill coal has grown to such anextent that | and that was not little—to liven the pro- the Homer cannot supply the demand, so | gramme. the agents had to charter another vessel. | ~ It was not until after 12—long after | The Czarina was the most suitable, so she | 12—that the last man on the programme | pointed wit, left the stage long before the | audience was willing to let him. secured. | steppea down, and_the blue pencil rapped | aptain Howard of the Oceanic Steam- | the jinks adjourned. But it was still early | ship Company gave a boy a jobon the | for the Prese Club. | steamer Alameda vesterday, just on ac- count of his wonderful ~perseverance, ( d 7 Young Harry Howe thought he woul DU MAURIER'S ART. like to be a doctor and accordingly went | A Famous Label Designed by Him to to the State University to study. He cal- | Oblige a Friend. culated upon earning a living by running | | errands and doing odd jobs for the good | Probably not fifty people know that the | people of Berkeley. The largest sum he | drawing by Mr. Du Maurier which has | earned was 25 , for moving two tons | been the most widely circulated is theonly | of coal into a cellar. He gave that up in | one that does not bear his signature. Itis | despair and Captain Howard helped him | one that millions of people have seen and | . are still seeing every day without ever sus- | to get to Los Ange There young Ho cot work, but unfortupately broke his A Al : arm and lost his job. fHe wrote to his| Pecting whose the drawing is, and it has iriend again and the captain told him to | been seen by millions of people who never even heard of Mr. Du Maurier's name. ‘rhe drawing in question is the picture of come to San Francisco and he would give him work on the Monowai. The Mono- wai sailed on the i2th inst., but Howe did not put in an appearance. Yesterday he turned up, footsore and.weary, having | amped all but fifty miles of the road be- tween Los Angeles and San Francisco. Howe will probably be shipped as one of | the crew on the Alameda in a few days. The captain of the ship Dashing Wave re- ports that 90 miles southwest of Cape Flat- 3 sed a quantity of lumber. He thinks it was probably the deck load of some vessel. Daniel O’Connell, the well-known writer and newspaperman, has been abpointed spector of woodwork on the water front’ by the Harbor Commissioners. The tower designed by Chief Engineer Howard Holmes to light the way of the ferry steamers into their slips, has been completed. Itis a very handsome affair, and will be a great benefit to the shipping. There are three lights of 2000 candle power each, which take the place of the old 200 candle power affairs, ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. Annual Meeting of Graduates of the University of California—Elec- tion of Officers. r Sole Agents. AOILEARIS COMPANY 4 earaed Dic ! the bubbling spring which decorates the label of every bottle of Apollinaris water. Of those who areaware of the authorship of this widely circulated design probably At the annual meeting of the Alumni | not more than half a dozen know how Mr. Association of the University of Cali- | Du Maurier came to make it. The prin- cipal stockholder of the Apollinaris com- | pany is an old and intimate friend of the author of “‘Trilby.” When the mineral water was first put upon the market he was in doubt as to a design for the label, and having haflwned to mention the 1aat- ter to Mr. Du Maurier, the artist at once volunteered to draw something and his offer was gladly accepted. The original design was signed by him and is now in the Eossession of the Apolli- naris company, but the signature was omitted in the printed reproduction. An intimate friend once asked Mr. Du Man- rier how on earth he happened to do such a thing and received the reply: “I would do anything for my friend.” Our revela- tion of the source of the label will scarcely enhance Mr. Du Maurier’s artistic reputa- tion, but it will certainly prove the sim- licity and loyalty of his friendship.—The ookman. ———————— ANOTHER large shipment of leather goods just received. Ladies’ pocket-books, plain and silver mounted; letter and card cases, bill- fornia last night at the Mark Hopkins In- stitute of Art there was an attendance of about fifty members, including a fair pro- portion of co-eds. When the amendment to the constitu- tion providing for the admission as mem- bers of the association of graduates of the affiliated colleges came up it was laid over for final action until the next annual meeting. In the report the president announced i that the Le Conte fellowship fund of $10,000 was almost completed. This is the fund the interest of which, §500, is awarded fellowship in the University of California. Appropriate allusion was made to the death during the year of three members of the association—Lieutenant-Governor Red- dick, Regent George Ainsworth and E. P. Pomeroy. The president referred with pride to the fact that the attendance of students at Berkeley was1400,that the whole number of studens enrolled on_ the books of. the | yo0ke yalises, writing tablets and pieture university was about 2000, nnd'clmt the | frames. All the newest things right up to date, graduates numbered 1000. He also stated | Sanborn, Vail & Co. * GOLF T0 BE INTRODUCED, Society Has Concluded to Go in for the Old Scotch Game. THE COURSE IS CONSTRUCTED. A Sport That Is Not Indulged in by Dudes Because It Requires Violent Exercise. The great and good Scotch game of golf, which Mr. Balfour, M. P., has found so many humors to write about, is soon to be one of society’s fads in San Francisco. Already the grounds have been prepared in a crude way on a tract of land west of the Presidio, and William Robertson of Burlingame, who is to be tbe instructor, will be ready with a perfect golf link by the middle of January. The ground in its present condition is good enough for practice games and is frequently visitea by devotees of the sport. “Golf as she is played” is not altogether a dude’s game, and good healthy men will be found to be the best players. It re- quires energy and skill, two elements that warms up the blood and is a better tonic than bottled medicine. Harry Babcock, who is well known in social circles, is at the head of what will soon be the San Francisco Golf Club, and he has plenty of followers who are equally interested. A clubhouse will be erected near the first goal for the use of the mem- bers, and the game will be played accord- ing to.the Scotch rules. BALDWIN’S CONDITION. The Code Commissioner Still Seriously I11-The Extent of Injury to His Brain Yet Unknown. Code Commissioner Baldwin, who was stricken with paralysis on Fridsy, is still in a dangerous condition at the Palace Hotel. Dr. Whitney, who is in attend- ance, stated yesterday that physically his condition was somewhat improved, but that he had not recovered his mental bal- ance. There was a little rise in the tem- perature, which was the cause of some anxiety owing to the danger of disturb- ance to the brain. He was able to walk yesterday, but could not talk nor comprehend what was going on. Dr. Whitney yesterday called in consultation two other physicians, and there will be held another consultation this morning. The physicians state that the patient is in such condition that they do not know what has taken place in the brain. There may have been a rupture of blood vessels, but how serious they are unable as yet to determine. —————— The Christmas Monitor. The Christmas Monitor, forty pages, appeared yesterday. It is a very handsome number. There are many engravings, exquisite alike in conception and construction. The frontispiece MAP OF THE GOLF LINK NOW BEING PREPARED ON A TR:\CT OF LAND THE FLAGS * WEST OF THE PRESIDIO. (From a sketch by Mr. J. MARK THE GOALS. H. Hardy, a golf devotee.) can only be obtained by frequent indul- gence. The popular idea that golf can be played in one’s back yard will be found to be a mistake when it is better understood. | To begin with the course, or the “links,” as they are generally called, cover several square miles of territory, a considerable part of which is covered with low shrubs and sand dunes, all of which make the ob- structions that the skillful player learns to avoid in time, and which make the un- skilled player lose his temper and the ame, To the laymen the jollowing brief description of golf will be found valuable: small gutta - percha ball, 13 inches in diameter, painted white so as to be easily seen at any time, is placed on the apex of asmall pucker of sand, and the player stands over it with the driving- club, some four or five ieet long, so con- structed as to possess elasticity and proper weight. Some hundred or two yards away, the distance varying with each goal, is a small hole four and one-fourth inches in diameter. The object is to get the ball in that hole in as few strokes as possible. The player starting out from home or the “tee” tirst strikes the ball in such a way and with such force that it is carried as near the first goal as possible. In deliver- ing the blow he swings his anatomy with a graceful motion, and the gutta-percha lobe, when squarely hit, sails into the air ike a buliet, frequently covering over 200 yards of space inside of two seconds. The Elnyer then follows it over the ground, and y careful driving and striking gets it near enough to the hole to place it in with the ‘‘putter.” by He may succeed in winuing each goal with from four to_six strokes, and some- times three, but it is not unusual that several times that number are frequently taken. There are nine goalsin all on the Presidio course, but in Scotland and Eng- land when the ground justifies it there are eighteen. After getting the ball in the first goal it is taken out and placed in position again on the “tee,” one of which i1s near each hole, and preparations are made for another drive to the next. Thus the game continues until all are made. A score of forty-tive drives to cover the nine holes is considered unusually good, but it will be some time before such scores will be made here. 5 There are a frent many things to over- come in golf. If the ball becomes lodged in a brush one has to keep on striking until 1t is free again, no matter how man: strokes it requires to accomplish it, Eacl stroke counts against the player. In some parts of the ground are high sandhills, over which it is well to get the ball, for if iv gets in_the sand it is & difficult thing to driveitup hill and over the obstruction. Deep gullies and clumps of thick brush are scattered over the ground, all of which make it difficult to do as you please. Around each hole for the space of fifteen yards the ground is leveled off and planted with grass, which is kept short and level, so that skill in rolling the globe will be re- warded with success. Flags of rei bunt- ing, numpered consecutively, mark these f')&ll s0 they can be seen from a distance. t requires an hour or two to play a game, but the exercise is invigorating, and in the excitement of following the ball one for- ets that there are hills to climb and sand- rs to wade through. Should the ball be lost, the player who is following it _is nll_oweé five minutes to find it, failing in which he loses the goal for which he is leading. It will never do to lose your temper, for it unnerves you for precision of stroke, and precision is one of the chief requisites. There are a great many different kinds of clubs for playing the game, but the driver, the brassey, the cleek, the lofting iron, the mashie and the putter are the most generally used. They all have their value in lifting the ball from all sorts of localities, from the center of a brushtosa rabbit hole, i Altogether golf is a game that any American citizen can well afford to play, if he is in need of exercise ana open air treatment. It cannot be indulged in with- out walking, and cold and bracing air is preferred by those who play often, It | s a combination of the city of Nazareth and the virgin and the infant. “Our Lady and St. | Elizabeth” is a beautiful illustration, and the | holy places are carefully presented. Howard V. Sutherland has a clever poem to “Our Lady | of Great Consolation,” while the “Flight of Joseph, the Child and His Mother Into Egypt” is & happy creation of the artist. The Catholic educational instructors of San Francisco are | prominently presented. In fact the number generally is a credit to the publishers. KINDEREARTEN FESTIALS Pretty Songs and Exercises by Scores of Happy Children. Christmas Joy Brought to the Hearts of Little Ones by Benevo. lent Ladies. There were no happier little people yes- terday than the 300 little totsof the Pio- neer Kindergarten who went through their pretty exercises and merry songs at Gold- en Gate Hall for the amusement of about an equal number of grown folk. It was not the songs and the exercises, however, which made them so happy, because these were anold story to them, bnt it was the sight which met their eyes every time they gazed toward the stage, which ‘was very frequently. Here there were two large Christmas trees decked out in holi- day glory, and by each tree, like a bunch of flame tokays, was a cluster of 150 toy bal- loons. The Pioneer Kinderfnun is composad of three branche The largest of these i8 the Silver Star Kindergarten, located at San- some and Pacific streets. The children in this school are almost all of (oreiEn of“e"lt_ age. For this reason theworl Miss Lizzie Wainright, who isthe main instruc- tor, has been largely directed toward in- stilling patriotism in the children. The opening number of the programme was a song, “Tramp, Trnmr, Tramp,” by the children of this school, each child waving an American flag. The other schools are the Adler, situated at Second and Folsom streets, and presided over by Miss Manning, and the Sutro Mail' Dock, at 237 Brannan, of which Miss Bchultze is principal. Each of these par- ticipated in the exercises. The feature of the entertainment in which the children were chiefly interested was the distribution of gifts. Besides the balloons, each child received a pair of stockings, donated by Mrs. Bixler, Mrs. Grinbaum and Miss Atkinson; a hand: kerchief, donated by Mrs. Goldenstein, and candy. Besides this each boy re- ceived a trumpet and each girl a doll, which, with fruit and nuts, were the re- sults of the generasity of Mrs. David Bix- ler, president of the Pioneer Kindergarten Society, and Mesdames M. H. Hecht, L. F. Monteagle, George Roe, Atkinson, Fred- erica George, M. 8. Grinbaum, L. Dunbar, E. 8. Dupue, George Moore, D. W. Winterburg, A. 8. Moore, Gorbam, Helen Hecht, Will Crocker, Clark Crocker, A. Grimm and A. M. Vail, directors of the society. £ At '&nion-squm Hall there was a simi- lar scene of juvenile animation. Here the Occidental * Kinder%mn was holding a Christmas festival. This institution is under the management of an organization known as the Occidental Kindergarten Association, consisting almost entirely of young ladies. They have 102 pupils, who are instructed by Miss Mattie Bniloc_k, assisted by Miss Agnes Noonan and Miss O'Rourke. The school is situated at 214 Second street. There were a number of specimens of the children’s work on ex- hibition. - The exercises concluded with a distribution of gifts by a very realistic Santa Claus. SAUSALITO STIRRED UP, Action of the Trustees in the Matter of Road-Widening Denounced. RUMORS OF IMPEACHMENT. Property - Holders Object to Having Their Homes Sliced— The Situation. There is serious trouble brewing in the generally peaceful burg of Sausalito, in Marin County, on account of the action of the Board of Town Trustees in ordering the widening of the roads, according to the original survey of the town. People living in the aristocratic part of Sausalito, which is the district most affected by the order of the board, have raised a great row aud lawsuits are threatened on every side. Some have even been so rash as to sug- gest the impeachment of the board of trustees, which is composed of Messrs. John H. Dickinson (president), T. H. Hughes, 0. C. Miller, James W. Sperry and H. J. Crumpton. Years ago when the town was laid out and the original surveys made, stakes were driven into the ground outlining the prop- erty set apart for the roads. It was not long before the stakes became loose and were broken off and lost, and when people fenced in their property, they only left thirty - foot roads, where the original surveys called for sixty feet. On one of the roads which the Town Trustees ordered widened, are situated the homes of Charles L. Barrett, Commodore Henry Harrison, Charles Mason, A. F. _Maryin, D. Childs Macdonald, Dr. H. J. Crumpton and a number of other prominent men of Sausalitoand San Fran- cisco. Itis from these that the principal amount of complaint is heard, for the widening of the road to its original width would leave A. F. Marvin’s house half on his own property and half on the road. Charles L. Barrett, the secretary of the San Francisco Gas Company, would be compelled to cut off three feet from the rear of his house, and as he has just gone to considerable expense in_repairing the effects of a landshide which occurred on his property he does not feel like shaving off the three feet of his home which is on the roadway. Mrs. Charles Mason will lose a mag- nificent tennis court if the road is widened to sixty feet, and she is decidedly opposed to the scheme. Dr. Crumpton would lose his back fence, but says he does not mind that as much as the losing of his property. James Bell, having recently erected a house on his property, is decidedly against widening the road, as the line brings his house over half way on the highway. Mr. Shepard’s stone wall, erected at con- siderable expense, would have to be sacri- ficed, and he does not take kindly to the scheme. Dr. D. Childs Macdonald’s barn would occupy a central position on the street if the road is widened, and Captain Harrison would be without a stone wall. Everything in Sausalito had been going along nicely for years, until some two | months ago the Board of Town Trustees met and decided to extend the width of the roads. Ernest McCullough, the town engineer, | commenced a systematic reoutlining of the roads. It was then found that nearly every fence and many houses in the bon- ton. district of the town were upon the property of the townxh,ixy. A few days later the Trustees held a spe- cial meetingto hear Mr. McCullough's re- port, and to their surprise it was found that among the list of sixty citizens in- fringing upon town property four of the names were those of the Trustees. There was an attempt to let the matter drop, but :McCullough, the engineer, had received his orders, and he intended to carry them out. The engineer’s report leaked out, and the non-infringers took the matter in hand, and the work of re- surveying the town went on. More names were added to the list of those occupying the highways, and things commenced to look black. Another special and secret meeting of the Board of Town Trustees took place, and it was decided to inform the infringers of their position, and to request the re- moval of every house, fence, wall, garden, barn, ternis court and anything eise that did not belong to the municipality. Ac- cordingly letters were sent to all property- owners against whom there was any claim on account of overestimating their ‘possessions. These letters were got upin the best of form and signed by each trustee, but.the recipients did not look favorable toward them. Some considered them the work of practical jokers, others were indignant and some wrote very tart replies to the Town Trustees. This was the beginning of the trouble, and citizens are holding private indigna- tion meetings, and some have suggested the impeachment of the unfortunate Board of Trustees, who did all in their ‘power to suppress the outbreak, and would have done so if it had not been for the overzealous engineer. It is now learned that the town has made arrangements to fight its side of the matter in_the courts. Commodoere Harrison and Henry Schnell, both large property-owners in the town, have con- sulted counsel and Mr. Harrison does not intend to lose his stone wall without a fight. It is probable that the offenders against the town will unite ana make a bold fight to retain the property. Many attempts have been made to buy the disputed territory, but the town re= fuses to sell, and the trustees say the mat- ter will only end when the people peace- fully submit to the widening of the road, which the trustees claim is the legal and proper way. If the people refuse to subm mit there will be trouble. FULFILLED THEIR CONTRACT. Judge Bahrs Has Dismissed the Charges Against Murray and Ready. Judge Bahrs has dismissed the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses which was brought against the employ- ment firm of Murray and Ready. The case came before him on an appeal from the decision of Judge Campbell, who dismissed the charge against Murray, but fined Ready $100. Judge Bahrs has dis- missed this fine. About two monthsago a man named Coop applied to Murray and Ready for sixty men to work in the Ben Lomond vineyards in Santa Cruz County. Hesent the men down and they had two weeks’ work. When they returned one of them, a man named Todd, had the members of the firm arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses, claiming that they had been promised two months’ work. Judge Campbell’s decision was appealed from and Judge Bahbrs has ruled that there was no contract between the parties as to length of service. 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