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14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1895. THREE MEN SHOT BY MASKED HIGHWAYMEN, A Streetcar at Ingleside{; Held Up by Armed | Bandits. ‘ it up again with my left haud. AsI turned | ardund the robber made a strike at me SECURE A SACK OF COIN.| Reuben H. Clark, a Bartender, Wounded While Defending His Employer’s Cash. | the scene ana fired a nuraber of shots. JOSEPH ALSO HIT.‘[ OFFICER Flying Bullets Create Consternation Among the Passengers—The Police Trailing Four Men. Within one-eighth of a mile of the Ingle- | side racetrack, at 6:45 P. M. yesterday, a Mission-street car was held up by four desperate bandits, masked and armed with Win, nd a sack of gold estimated to contain all the way from $800 to $2300 fell into the hands of the highwaymen. The first intimation of the hold-up was d of a gunshot, and before the had ceased to wonder at it the car came to a halt and an exchange of Jeaden compliments took place between Reuben H. Clark, the barkeeper, who had | charge of the sack of coin, and the rob- | ¢ | We got on the car, and found a doctor at but only got a few feet when one of the robbers caught sight of me, and demanded that I drop the sack, accompanying the request with a shot. The bullet made a slight wound, causing me to drop the sack, but I picked with the rifle. Idodged back and again dropped the sack. The robber stooped dowr and reached for the sack. I said to Ciark, ‘My God, what shall I do? Clark said, ‘The — —— —— can’t take that sack.” Clark wanted to shoot, but John- son and Mrs. Peck said, ‘Don’t shoot,’ as they were afraid Mrs. Peck would be shot. “Clark went around to the other side of the car, and I think he fired a shot. The robbers had the sack, and were lenvin§ think about eight or ten shots were fired inall. I ran and found Clark in front of the car and saw that his foot was wounded. Mission and Twenty-ninth streets. Wemet | a police sergeant and patrol wagon there, and sent Clark to the Palace Hotel. “When the first shot was fired I looked out and saw two men near the fence. The first one who fired the shot had a light brown or drab coat on. The man that grabbed the sack was abqut five feet high and wore dark clothes. “Clark would unquestionably have killed | the robber who took the sack of coin from me but for the fact that when the high- wayman grabbed that he also took hold of Mrs. Peck, holding her so that she made a perfect shield. “Then the robbers—and I should judge there was at least four—told the motorman to pull ahead, but Clark, not satisfied to | see his coin go in that way, gave a counter order and so the fellow hardly knew what ‘| JOHN F. BRONNER. REUBEN H. CLARK. bers, and then foliowed a scene of panic among the passengers of the car, who fled | in terror. In the fracas Clark was | wounded in the right foot twice and J. G. | Bronner was very slightly wounded in the right hand. Two of the fleeing robbers were en- countered by Police Officer C.J. Joseph | and John Fitzgerald, who had been de- | tailed for duty to the racetrack, and were on their return, and then begana brave but short and futile pursuit. The revolvers of the officers, however, were of no avail nst the despe , who used their rifles to such good advantage that their first return fire at the officers brought | Joseph down with a bnilet through his thigh, and put an end at that time to pur- suit, None of the men are dangerously wounded. though Clark is likely to lose his foot. Immediately after the robbe: was carried to a drugstore at street and from there to the Palace Hotel, where his injuries were attended to by Dr. Gardner. It was found that two bullets had penetrated the rigut foot, inflicting injuries which may necessitate the ampu- tation of that member. The phy: removed two large pieces of bone, but further examination was then postponed until to-day. At 10 o'clock the wounded man was removed to the Waldeck Hos- pital, but just before being carried away | made the following brief statement: “We had gone but a short distance when | I heard a gunshot, immediately following * which the car came %0 a halt. There was a great deal of excitement, bustle and shooting going on, and in the midst of it all the robbers got away with the sack of coin. But for the women on board things would bave endea differently. I am suf- fering too much pain to go into details, but Bronner, who was with me, can give all the particulars.” Mr. Clark isa bartender in the Ingle- side wineroom. It is his custom to bring the day’s receipts, less what gold has been taken 1n, to the City. He is generally ac- companied by John F. Bronner, clerk of the Jockey Board, and that gentleman was with him during the exciting scene of last night. His version of the affair is as fol- low: “We left the track, as near as I can now recollect, about 6:55 p. M. Some 150 yards away is a thick stretch of woods, and when we were about half way through the trouble began. A shot was fired, and then the car began to slow aown. “I turned to Clark with the remark that something must be wrong. At that mo- ment a second shot split the air, when Clark rushed to the rear door, saying: “It’s a hold-up, John, look out for the sack.” The car came to a dead stop just as Clark reached the platform, when one of the robbers remarked : ‘““We want that black-haired rascal with the sack. Now shell out quick.’ *Clark had hisgun out by this time, and without further parley opened fire on two men standing on the edge of the woods, presumably members of the gang. One of the robbers returned the fire, the bullet striking Clark on the right foot. He called to me that he was wounded, but for ‘God’s sake to look out for the sack.’ “All this time the passengers, among whom were B. A. Johnsom, the Ingleside caterer, Mr. and Mrs. Peck and Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, were making desperate ef- forts to get out of harm’s way. They crowded around Clark who had by this time got to the ground. Hardly had he settled himself to make a fight for his life and the money under his care, when a second bullet struck within an inch or two of where the first had entered, tempo- rarily disabling him. “In the meantime, acting on Clark’s ad- vice to save the coln, I made my way out the front door with tne money, hoping to either hide it or effect my escape in the darkness. I tried to shove the sack under . the car, but the stout wooden fencer pre- vented. Ithen made a dash for the woods to do. He finally pulled ahead, however and that is all I know of the story.” Captain James W. Gillin received the first news of the affair in a telephone mes- sage from the Central station informing him that an officer had been injured at Ingleside. He started at once for the scene of the shooting, and at Twenty-ninth and Mission streets saw a large crowd gathered in front of the drugstore of Dr. Clinton. Here he found Clark suffering from a wound in the right foot. Clark on being questioned told Captain Gillin the following details of the occurrence : “I took the car to go to town, and had a sack of coin with me containing about $2000. Four men, armed with Winches- ters, held up the car. They were all masked, and ordered every one out of the car. I had a presentiment of what was coming, but before I could get my pistol where it would be of any use one of the highwaymen fired and I was wounded in the right foot. Other shots were fired by the robbers and then they fled, evidently taking my sack with them, as it could not afterward be found. I was brought here on the car.” From here Clark was conveved in the patroi-wagon to the Palace Hotel, after his wound had received some attention. Captain Gillin at once started Sergeants Martin and Perrin and Officer Sheehan in pursuit of the robbers on information ob- tained from the motorman of the car that had been raided. He then telephoned to the Seventeenth-street station, of which he has charge, ordering Lieutenant Burke and a mounted posse of five other officers in pursuit. At the time a car conveying Officer Joseph, who had been wounded, and his companion arrived. Officer Joseph was at once conveyed to the City and County Hospital, where his injuries were promptly attenied to by Superintendent Stahie and Dr. Bacigalupi. He was found to have been shot through the right thigh on the inner side. The bul- let passed entirely through, taking a down- ward and backward course, just grazing the bene. It is not serious, and if no un- expected complications set in, he will be up in a short time. At a late hour he was resting eusily, his greatest anxiety being the manner in which his wife would re- ceive the news of his having been shot. He is 28 years of age, ana has been on the force for about three years. Officer Joseph told the following story of his and Fitzgerald’s encounter with the fleeing outlaws: “Fitzgerald and I were walking cityward from the Ingleside track, when we heard the sound of shooting. We saw the car a little ahead and started toward it. [saw two men running toward us. One was tall and wore a long, light-colored overcoat and a black slouch hat. “The other was somewhat shorter and was dressed in dark clothes. We called on the men to stop, but they turned aside and continued their flight up the bank toward Ingleside, heading evidently for the hills. ‘When I shouted to them to halt, the tall man shot at me. I had my pistol in my overcoat pocket and succeeded in empty- ing the enure six chambers beforé I was wounded. “As soon as Fitzgerald saw me go down he stopped and took care of me, carefully bandaging up my wound, which he did in an expert manner, as he had formerly been a druggist.” The held-up car was in charge of Con- ductor E. A. Trellut, and was driven by Motorman H. McCready. Conductor Trel- lut tells the following story: “Car No. 1061 left the Ingleside race- track at 6:48 p.»M. It had reached the lower end of the racetrack, just where the entrance for teams is located, when it was held up by four or five men armed with rifles. One man stood in front of the car and ordered the motorman to stop. As there were several passengers inside, and no method appeared to oppose the high- waymen, the motorman concluded to stop the car. “Bookmaker Clark was inside with a | Trellut was the conductor. sack containing, it is said, over $2000. The highwayman who stopped the car ordered all the passengers to alight. Clark was coming with the rest, when a friend called his attention to the jact that he had left his sack behind. He went back, picked it up, and as he was getting off the car dropped his burden. The robbers grabbed and made off with it, shooting Clark in the ankle. “The highwaymen began firing shots as soon as the car was held up. Altogether some fifteen or sixteen shots were fired, the object apparently being to disconcert the passengers. The latter were: H. C. Saunders and wife; W. B. Peck, 21 Vernon Place; J. F. Bronner, Pacific Coast Jockey Club. “It appeared to me that the robbers knew Clark was aboard and only desired to get his sack. “Officer Joseph, who had been especially detailed to the track for the day, was quickly on the scene and I learned that the robbers shot him as he was trying to arrest them in their flight with the booty.” The passengers on the car, 1061, held up by the desperadoes were Reuben H. | Clark, who carried the hand-satchel of ; B. A. Johnson, a restaurateur; W. B. Peck, manager for Johnson; H. C. Sanders, the ownerof the horse Ransom, one of the day’s winners at the track, and also the horse Schnitz; the wife of Mr. Sanders, and Jobn F. Bromner, clerk of the jockey board of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club. Henry McCready of 15334 Dolores street was the motorman of the car and E. A, McCready is a rather old man and was easily overawed by the shout of the man on the track and the muzzle of his gun. It was the last trip for these two car men for the day. ‘“Tne loss to the association,” said Sec- retary Leake last night, “will not exceed $700 or $800. Fortunately we send all the gold into the City before night, so the amount stolen could not exceed the figure named. “While I have not consulted with any member of the association yet, I will offer a reward of §1000 for the capture and con- viction of the highwaymen. What the association willdo I am not prepared to say, though I think it will increase this offer.” News of the hold-up was first received at police headquarters from the branch County Jail, to the effect that a man had been shot at the racetrack. This was fol- lowed by a telephone message from Cap- tain Gillen at Seventeenth and Howard streets that an electric car bad been held up, and that he and Sergeants Martin and Perrin and a posse would start immedi- ately for the scene. Captain Lees, as soon as apprised of the hold-up, sent Detectives Reynolas, Wren and Campbell to the racetrack to hunt for the robbers, and Captain Wittman, accom- panied by Detective Crockett and Police- man Harry Hook, drove out in a hack in tbe direction of the park and the Alms- house road, in the hope that the robbers would come into the City in that direction. A telephone message was sent to Chief Crowley and he arrived at police head- quarters just as Captain Wittman was leaving. He remained in consultation with Captain Lees for some time, and both waited for hours in the hope of receiving information that the robbers had been captured. The Chief was particularly anxious about Policeman Joseph’s condi- tion, and kept the telephone busy till notified of it. He also sent an ofticer to the Palace Hotel to inquire as to Clark’s condition. “It is my belief,”” said Captain Lees, *“that the robbers must have had two bug- gies in readiness not far from the scene of the hold-up, and after doing the deed they ran to where their horses were stationed. They counld have concealed their rifles in the bottom of the buggies by covering them over with a blanket or rug, and driven into town without being suspected. “There were three roads open to them. The Almshouse road and then through the park, the Corbett Road that leads to the head of Sixteenth street and the Ocean House Road past Barney Farley’s. ‘It looks like the work of the men that held up the stationmaster at Palo Alio Station and robbed him of $30 or $%0. They made tracks for the City and were overtaken by a deputy sheriff in a corn field. They held him up and took his gun from him. Deputy sheriffs came here after them, but could not find them. ““What leads me to that bel ef isthat one of them was a tall man answering the de- scription of the tall man in the present bold-up.” Captain Wittman and a posse returned to the Central station about midnight, having been bushwhacking, so to speak, for several hours. He had started in upon his search on Ashbury Heights, skirted along the hills by the Almshouse road and down by the macadam quarries and through the gum trees to the Ingleside with the idea that possibly the robbers had headed north toward Golden Gate Park, From the Twin Peaks west toward the ocean isa rough stretch of hilly country heavily wooded with gum trees and covered with heavy brush. West of this are sand dunes with thousands of hollows, affording opportunities for escape and hiding. ~Scattered through this country are a dozen or two vegetable ranches, milk ranches and small farms. The police in- quired at every house from the park to the old Ocean House, but were unable to learn of any suspicious characters having been seen during the day or within several days. Goop paper, well sewed, flat opening, strongly bound ledgers, cash journals, ete. Mysell-Rol- lins Company, 22 Clay street. - e G, SUICIDE IN THE PARK. Edward E. Norton Takes Laudanum and Ends His Existence. The body of Edward E. Norton, a master mariner, was found in Golden Gate Park yesterday morning. It was evidently a case of suicide, as an empty laudanum phial was found near by. The body was removed to the Morgue. From papers found on the body it was learned ‘that the deceased had been a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and other fraternal organizations. Norton was about 40 years of age. Nothing could be learned about the family ties of the de- ceased by the Coroner's office. Norton has evidently been in poverty before death, and was prompted to commit suicide by reason of his distressed condition. ————— Office draughts don’t bother wearer of Jaros Hygienic Underwear. He is protected from climatic changes. Morgan Bros., 229 Montg. st.* W. M. Morrison held up James Kilby in & sa- loon at the corner of Washington and Montgom- ery streets at noon yesterday and robbed him of bis watch and a purse containing several dol- lars, The robber was caught by Officer Thomas Rourke as he left the saloon and taken to the California-street Police Station, The watch and purse were found on his person. ——————— When an African buifaio is wounded by a bunter it is surrounded bLy several others, who immediately group them- selves round him and he{p him along in their midst by shoving against his side until they have reached a place of safety. e A suit of Jaros Hygienic Underwear worth & barrel of cures. Morgan Bros., 229 Montg. st.* MAJOR SHERMAN WAITING FOR MR, FOOTE, The A: P. A. Appointee Criti- cises Father Yorke's Course. | BLAMES HIS JUDGMENT. Editor Hubbell Has More to Say Regarding Priestly Obli- gations. A POPE'S ALLEGED CURSE. Developments in the Progress of the Controversy Preliminary to the Big Test. Major E. A. Sherman of Oakland, who was selected by Rev. Donald M. Ross to act as one of the board of judges in the Yorke-Ross controversy and who, with Hon. W. W. Foote, is to select the third attorney to complete the board, sends the | following communication anent the mat- ters Editor Call: There has been no meeting between Mr. Foote and myseli nor any conference regarding the selection of a third lawyer to complete the board of judges. The reason for this is that I am awaiting from Mr. Foote a notification as to when and where it will suit his convenience to hold such a con- ference. He was the first to be named as a judge, and as such is entitled by both pre- cedent and courtesy to suit his convenience as to this meeting. Since my appointment as judge in this con- | troversy I have neither examined into the | merits of the questions at issue nor have I as yetany information as to the programme to be followed. There is, however, one thing which has occurred to me s being neither iair nor just. Rev. Donald Ross, the challenged party, re- tired from participation in the newspaper dis- cussion of these matters as soon as it had been agreed to submit the proois and arguments for and against them to & board of judges. Rev. Peter C. Yorke being the challenger shou.d have had the good sense to do the same. But he keeps up his newspaper discussion, desiring apparently to forestall with the public by his own statements the evidence to be presented and the formal decision of the authorized tribunal. This, too, before the board of judees has even been completed. Until the time for the trial arrives newspaper discussions of these | questions by the two parties chiefly concerned —viz.: Donald M. Rossand Peter X should absolutely cease. EDWIN A, December 25, 1895. = gt MR. HUBBELL WRITES, The Editor of the American Patriot Quotes an Alleged Oath and a Curse. The following communication from G. A. Hubbell, eaitor of the American Patriot, has been received : OFFICE AMERICAN PATRIOT, 819 Market st. December 25. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: On request of many of your readers, I here send you, ior publication,” the bishops’ oath, as | found in Dowling’s History of Romanism, and spoken of in my communication of December 24. It is to be noticed that that partof the oath which especially applies to people who do not believe that the Pope is the infallible agent of an infinite God i Heretics, schismatics and rebels to our Lord,or his aforesaid suc. cessors, I will to my utmost prosecute and op- pose. BISHOP'S OATH. — elect of the diocese, from henceforward will be faithful and obedient to St. Peter the apostle and to the Holy Roman Church, and to our lord, the holy Pope at Rome, and to his successors canon- ically entering. 'I will neither advise, consent nor do anything that they may lose life or member, or that their persons may be seized or hands in any- wise laid upon them or any injuries offered (o tuem under any pretense whatsoever. The counsel with which they shall Intrust me by themselves, their messages or let- ters, will 'not knowlugly reveal to any to ihefr prejudice. I will help them to de- fend and keep the Koman papacy and the rovalties of St. Peter,saving my order, against all men. The legate of the apostolic see, going_and coming. I will honorably treat and heélp in his necessities. The rights, honors, privileges and authority of the Holy Koman Church of cur lord. the Pope, and his aforesaid successors i will endeavor to preserve, defend, increase and advance. Iwill not bein any counsel, action or treaty in which shall be plotted acainst our said lord and the said Roman Church anything (o the hurt or prejudice of their persons, right, honor, siate or power, and if I shull know any such thing to be treated or agitated by any whatsoever I will hiuder it to my utmost, and as soon a8 I can I will signify 1t to our said 1ord or to some other by whom it may come to his knowl- edge. The rulesof the holy fathers, the apostolic decrees, ordinances or disposals, reservations, pro- visions ‘and mandates, | will observe with ail my might and cause to be observed by others. Heretics, schismatics and rebels to our sald lord, or his aforesaid successors. I will 10 my utmost | persecute and oppose. I will come to a council | when I am called, unless I be hindered by a | canonical impediment. I will by myseif in person | visit the threshold of the apo-tles every three years and give an account to our lord and his afore:aid successors of all my pastoral office and of all things anywise beloDging to the state of my church, to the discipline of my clergy and people, and lasty to the salvation of soulscommitted to my trust, and will in_like manner humbly receive and diligently execute the apos:olic commands. And if I'be detained by a lawiul ;mpediment I will perform all the things aforesaid by a certain messenzer hereto especially empowered, a mem- 1 0f my chapter, or some other in ecclésiastical dignity, or else having a parsonage, or in default of those by a priest of the diocese; or in default of one of the clergy of the diocese, by some other secular or regular priest of anproved integrity and religion fully instructed in all things above men- tioned. And such impediment I will make out by lawful proois to be transmitted by the afore- said messenger to the cardinal proponent of the Holy Roman Church in the congrega- tion of the sacred council. The posses- sions belonging to my table 1 wll neither sell Or give away, NOF MIOTLxaLe, NOT ETANL AUEW I fee, nor anywise alienace, not even with the ¢ nsent of the chapter of my church, without consulting the Roman Pontiff. Andif 1 shall make uny aliena- tions. I will thereby incur the penalties coutained in a certain constitution put forth about this mat- ter. S0 help me God and these holy gospels of 1, This is from “Dowling’s History of Roman- ism,” pp. 615, 616: The ancient form of the bishop’s oath you will find in Latin in the works of Cardinal Baonius, who wrote “Eccle- siastical Annals” in 1198. Vol. 10, page 1504, and Vol. 11, rage 1565. To show what opinion popeism has of any one who interferes with the temporal power of 8 Pope, we here'produce the curse of PD?\e Pius IX upon Victor Emmanuel, who, with his pa- triotic countrymen, liberated Ttaly forever from the grasp of ecclesiasticism, notwith- standing the prayers recently ordered by Peter | C. Yorke for the "Pope's temporal restoration: By authority o Almighty God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and of tlie holy canons, and of thie undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and nurse of our Savior, and of the ceiestial virtnes. anzels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubim, and seraphim, and of the holy patriarchs and prophets, and of the apostles and_ evangelists, and of the holy innocents, who, in the sight of the Holy Lamb, aré found worthy to sing the new song; and of all the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virzins.and of all the saints. together with ali the holy and elect of God, we excom- municase and anathematize him and from the threshold of the holy church of God Almighty we sequester him, that he may be tormented in eter- nal excruciatinz sufferings, together with Dathan Abiram and those that say'to (he Lord, God, *De- part from us, we desire none of thy ways." And as the fire is quenched with water. so let the light of him be put out forever.nore. May the Son who suftered forus curse him. May the Father who created man curse him. May the Holy Ghost which was given to usin our baptism curse him. May the holy cross which Christ, for our_salvation triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him. May the Holy and kternal Virgin Mary, Mother of God, curse him. May St. Michael, the advocate of holy souls, curse him. May all the angels and archangels, principalities and powers, and all the heavenly armies, curse bim. Moy .. John, the precursor, and S, Peier and St. Paul, and St. John the Baptist, and St. Andrew, and all other Christ’s apostles together curse him, and may the rest of his disciples and the four Iivangelists, who, by their preac iing, convert- ed the universal world—and may the hoiy and won- dertul company of martyrs and confessots, who by their holy work are found pleading to God Al- mighty—curse him. May the Choir of the Holy Vir- IS, Who 10F the honor of Christ have despised the things of this world, damn him. May ail the saints who from the beginning of the world and everiast- ing ages are found to be be aved of God,damn bim. May the heavens an ¢ earth, and all things remaining therein, da. ¥ him. May he be damned wherever he may be, whether in tt house or in tue field, whether in the highway or on the byway, whether in the wood or water, or whether in the church. May he be cursed in livin and dving, in eating and drinking, in fasting an thirsting, in slumbering and s eeping, in watching or walking, mengendo cancando, and in blood-letting. May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body. I'n May he be cursed inwaraly and outwardly. May be be cursed in his bair. May he be cursed In his brain. May he be cursed in the crown of his bead and in his tempies. in his fo-ehead and in hisears. In hisevebrows and In his cheeks. In is jawbones and In his nostrils. In his foreteeth and in his grinders. 1n his lips and in_his_throat. In his s’ oulders and in his wrists. In his arms, bis hands, and in his fingers. May he be damned in his mouth. in his breast. in his heart and in all the viscera of his body. May he be damned in his veins and in his croin, in his thighs and genital orzans and his hips and in his knees; in his legs, feet and toenals. May he be cursed inall his joints and articula- tions of his body. From the t0p of his head to the sole of his foot may there be no soundness in him. May the 5on of the living God, with all the glory of His Majesty, curse him, and may heaven, with all the powers that move therein, rise up against Bhim—curse snd damn him. Amen. So let It be. men. Komanism: The Danger Ahead, pp. 112-115. Peter C. Yorke says G. A. Hubbell Is forging oaths. Now, Mr. Editor, if a bishop's oath, or a priest’s oath, or a Jesuit's oath is found in any of our citations, and in others equally as 00d, and P. C. Yorke, chancellor archdiocese San Francisco, on behalf of the Roman Catho- lic Chureh, will admit the oath to be true and is taken by members of the Roman Church, we will show the oath or oaths—otherwise we would onliy hear him yelling *“forgery” for our trouble. G. A. HUBBELL. EUBISSAORS HRE BAC, Japan Not Yet Ready to Stand Alone in General Mission Work. Dr. Bradford of the American Board Tells How Christianity Is Stead- ily Spreading. Among the arrivals here by the steamer China from Japan yesterday were five Commissioners of the American Board of Missions, who went to that country five | months ago. Their object was to ascertain whether Japan was now, able to take charge of Cbristian missions there without further aid from the American Board. The Com- missioners traveled from one end of the country to the other, and made close ob- servations, finally concluding that Japan was yet bardly able to get along without help. These Commissioners consist of five emi- nent men in religious work, as follows: Rev. J. L. Barton of Boston, secretary of the American Board; Rev. Dr. J. G. John- son, pastor of the New England Church, Chicago; W. P. Ellison, a business man of Boston, and Dr. A. H. Bradford, editor of the New York Outlook. Dr. Bracford ani Secretary Barton are at the Palace, while some of the others have gone on East. The American board has hosts of mis- sionaries in all the newer regions of the globe. In Japan,as told by Dr. Bradford last night, it has sixty missionaries and some fifteen mission stations. Besides these there are now forty independent Christian churches in Japan as the out- growth of mission work. These churches are now supported entirely by Japanese. “‘There are no abler menin the country,” said Dr. Bradford, *‘than at least fifteen of our men who are engaged in general educational and mission work in Japan. They are graduates of the best institutions of the world; are exceedingly able and would take high rank in any line. A word, too, about the ‘little church and the big house,’ or how missionaries live. I ave careful attention to that in Japan. %found the story about the little church and the big house unfounded, and there is not a more self-sacrificing class of men than these missionaries in Japan. “I found the condition of Japan steady and encouraging. The feeling is more hos- pitable toward foreigners than for some time past. I met many high officials and was treated most cordially; but thereis a desire to be independent of other coan- tries as Soon as possible. We found a strong nationalistic tendency. They want to own their own railroads, and they are ispensing rapidly with the services of for- gners. here are no foreigners now in the mint. They are cultivating larger ideas. “Miss Talcott, one oi the missionaries, asked at the time of the war to minister to the wounded at Heroshima, but was re- fused. Thereply was misundersiood, and she went. When she got there and began work aiding the sick and dying she was not sent back, and to-day, ali over Japan, Miss Talcott is revered on account of her work as Florence Nightingale was. She is almost, worshiped.”’ Dr. Bradford and his remaining asso- ciates will probably leave for home to-day. LIKE NUGGETS OF GOLD How the Public Rushed After Copies of the Christmas “Call.” Of More Value to California Than Half a Dozen National Conventions. Never in the history of journalism in San Francisco and Alameda County has the special edition of any newspaper cre- ated such interest and demand as the Christmas CALL. By 9 o'clock yesterday morning there was not one to be bought in Qakland, and from Berkeley and Ala- meda came telephonre orders for hundreds of extra copies. The demand was so great that at 10 o’clock a special messenger was sent to San Francisco to send across the bay a second edition. When the papers arrived, about noon, all the newsstands were waiting anxiously, ana a small army of boys, who had become tired of being disappointed in the effort to offer substitutes, were around Tue CaLL office, anxious to make hay while the sun shone. Although all the newsstands bad ordered double supplies they clamored for more, and the demand was kept up throughout the aay. By the time the extra supply arrived all the route agents were at the office from their outlying districts waiting for more copies. Regularsubscribers wanted copies for mailing, and people by hundreds who do not subscribe called for e}»ecinl papers *'to get the news,’’ as many of them put it. The big edition arrived in Oakland at 8:30 A. M., so_that everybody could have it on their breakfast table, although it weighed three times and a half the usual edition and made it imperative that car- riers who generally use one wagon should use three or more. On the Oakland trains, the streetcars and the streets THE CALL was read by nearl everybody and its merits discussed. Al- though a good deal of praise was bestowed NEW TO-DAY. People Who stand or walk much need comfortable shoes. ‘“ Foot Comfort” tells you what shoes are comfortable, and how to get them. We send ‘‘ Foot Comfort” free. Write for it. COODYEAR SHOE MACH'Y CO,, BOSTON on the Christmas paper there were thou- sands who took it as a matter of course, merely remarking that ‘‘we might have expected that of THE CALL now, anyway.” 'hM:lyor Davie of Qakiand summed up e big paper in a few words. “Not a word of nonsense in it he said. “Every edition of a paper | that rises to the merits of t!.is one is worth |8 million dolars to California. Every | page neat, clean, valuable and dignitied. Would to God we had half a dozen papers like THE CALL in this State.” Rev. E. 8. Chapman, D.D., was goin, | home yesterday on an East Oaklan | car. “I must see what kind of & paper the | childaren got out,” he said, “but I was greatly interested in THE CALL this morn- ing. I consider it the cieanest and most dignified special paper I have ever seen. There is not an objectional word in it, and Iam glad to think there is a paper under such management. It professes to be a home paper, and I know of no paper so well fitted for the home. I read the pro- prietor’s advertisement yesterday, and was amused by its truth, its cleverness and withal its modesty, and I naturally formed some idea of what to expect this morning, But I was altogether off. I did not expect anything as truly great as I received. I will repeat that 1 think it is the best special paper I ever saw.”” M. J. Keller, president of the Board of Trade and vice-president of the Exposi- position, looked at the CarLL and soon jormed his opinion of it. “Two weeks ago we were breaking our necks to get a Republican National Convention here,” he said, “but I have no hesitation in say- ing that the Christmas CALL is worth to this State half a dozen National conven- tions. We would have been proud of the convention, but I think we should be more proud of such a paper.”” In Alameda and Berkeley the demand for copies of the special edition was just as great. The rapid increase of THE CALL'S circulation in Berkeley during the past vear of course made less business for the newsstands and newboys. However, they profited by the special edition, for a large number of regular subscribers sent out for extra copies to mail to their friends. The experience of those in Alameda was about the same as that of Berkeley. In San Francisco as early as 2 A, M. THE CarL’s big special found ‘its way on the sireets and the “night owls” soon pos- sessed copies and the ‘‘newsies” the de- sired nickels. During the day many thou- sands of copies were sold on the streets and in the news stands, and the number demanded for mailing astonishing. All day orders were received at the busi- ness office from the suburban tuwns for extra allowances. Tue mails for Sacra- mento, Stockton, San Jose, Petaluma and Santa Rosa were larger than ever beiore, and many telegrams announced that the supply in those and other cities was inade- quate for the demand, and more CALLs were ordered on the afternoon trains. The verdict of all was that THE CALL had sent out the best special editions ever issued from the presses of San Francisco. Jaros Hygienic Underwear the one under- wear that is comfortable; absorbs moisture; keeps folks well. Morgan Bros., 229 Montg. st.* A MIDNIGHT FIRE. Wooden Structures on Jessie Street Burned—Loss, $2000. Two alarms of fire followed each otherin i auick succession from box 37 at 12:20 o’clock this morning for what proved to be a trifling fire on Jessie street, between First and Second. The blaze originated in the rear of the two-story frame dwelling, | 42 Jessie street, owned and occupied by | Mrs. M. McAllister. This, together with its contents, was totally destroyed. A two-story frame tenement at 44 Jessie street, owned by the Sisters of Mercy, was badly damaged. Its occu- pants, six families in all, escaped with most of their effects. The three-story frame building at 40 Jessie street was owned and occupied by J. Craemer. He bad a zinc foundry on'the ground floor, and lived above with bis family. This structure was somewhat damaged, and some plaster casts of the angel for the new City Hall dome were de- stroyed. The loss will not exceed $2000. Craemer carried $1500 insurance on his property. The others were uninsured. During the progress of the fire consid- erable excitement was caused by Mrs. Mec- Allister, who, crazed by fear, crouched in a corner of the burning builiine and had to be dragged outside by the firemen. A young man rooming at44 Jessie street also refused to leave the premises till the hose was tarned on him. A Mysterious Stabbing. John Anderson, a sailor, was walking along Jackson street shortly after midnight and at | the corner of Montgomery there was a fight in progress. He entered the crowd to see what was going on and some one stabbed him in the right side. He was taken to the Receivin Hospital and Drs. Thompson and Stice foun | that the blade had penetrated the right lung and that the wound was dangerous. Anderson does not know who stabbed him. Helives in boarding-house on Steuart street. ———————— Jaros Hygienic Underwear for ladies, for gen= | tlemen, for children, for all places, all the' | year. Morgan Brotheis, 229 Montg. st. * The phantoscope is a new invention. It combines the principles of the kineto- scope and the stereopticon, and the result is a machine that will throw life-sized pictures on a screen, and impart to them the motions of living beings. One of these machines has been made so small that it can be put nnder a silk hat. The pictuies to be reproduced are taken upon a con- tinuous strip of sensitive film at the rate of twenty-five or thirty a second. NEW TO-DAY. | BETTER And for less money. French Calf Cork Sole Shoes for Women, $3; for Men, $350. ~ Immense variety of high-grade Shoes for Men and Women; also Strong Shoes for Boys and Girls, at the 3 BIG SHOE FACTORY, 581-583 MARKET ST., Near Second. Open Evenings. Christmas Presents BIG REDUCTIONS — Nt JACKETS, CAPES, FURS AND FEATHER BOAS ! ; 80 per eent Discount FUR CAPES! OPEN EVININGS. ARMAND CAILLEAU, 46-48 Geary Street. Corner Grant Avenue. NEW TO-DAY. —_— S WHOLVER WEARS NOVA SCOTIA SEAL SHOES Will find things com= ing his way. He’ll save doctor and drug= gist bills, for he will have no colds, grippe nor rheumatism, be~ cause the shoes zre ABSOLUTELY WATERPROOF. Imitations are very plentiful, but every genuine pair is stamp= ed with the name of the makers, Buckingham & Hecht. MEN’S (ork Sole. .$5.00 LADIES’ Xo (ork Sole. . $3.50 BOYS’.... .$3.00 YOUTHS?. ... ......$250 MISSES’....... .$1.75 Out=of=town orders filled the day received. 738-740 Market Street Wirrs s A MERRY CHRISTMAS —AND— A HAPPY NEW YEARI* Come and See the Many New and Suitable Things for NEW YEAR'S and | RETURN PRESENTS, FOR THE HOLIDAY OPERA-GLASS 'S, LORG 1. orn " SPECTACLES AND KYF P 25" OPEN EVENT &, ! -GLASSES, Targest and Best Selected Stock h‘ :h. City, L. A BERTELING, 427 Keamy