The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 1, 1896, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1896 13 = e I S et Y Ifint‘e’réstri n g Report of Important Up-to-Date News Items in Alameda County DALAND £S A COUNTY, The Movement in Favor With Both Organizations of Merchants. VALUE OF THE EXPOSITION. New Painters’ Union Decides to Affiliate 'With the Union Across the Bay. Th e eaNcisco CALy,) Broadway, Dec. 3L § ) about the crea- ty of Oakland is upport, and the meet- night at the City be an interesting one. . president of the Mer- hange, to-day: I can s an individual, but I kno twenty-two directors the the ex will give the movement the ve heartiest suppo I believe we are paying double taxes, when a single tax of considerable less amount would answer much bette Board of matter vresident of tl “I have agitated the city at a combined city way with on to put i in favor of the new Fire Doings for a Year. OAKLAND, ( 8 The annual report of in- foots San Leandro’s New P OAKLAND stor. tev. Barton tor of the Car w Lean- Charles . James The Pro- and last night neisco union The Artist Is Not Dead. ©AKLAND, CarL., De ~Geo, ess has a grievance against the expo- n art committee. In one report that was mentioned and the word has objec S0 bears testimony to position in a very posi- exhibit he made w and the ent _was his receiving work o the amount of County Money in Banks. 3L.—The cash in iry was counted to-day. ally in the treasury is a zold coin $18 . on special Pen OAKL. Xt ar 31.—On Frniday enalty of 10 per cent i taxes sold last tute re- e added if in six cent if two within 34, n the rate for th, 5 per cent. Hom d Loan Association, 6 per cent dividen this year, as" it did st Not Yet Caught. OAKLAND, CaL., Dec. 31.—J. R. Per. ! » was shot by Mer er Christmus eve, is impro z thoucht he will not die. HIS assailant keepy clear of the officer. i pposed to be in the care of pre € ifriends, who will not disclose h ce till certain that Perkins will Boman’s Bail Fixed. OAKLAND, CaL., Dec. 3L.—H. L. Bo- 1, wlio was arrested for assaulting Mrs. ontgome was in the Police Court as the injured woman dition to swear to & com- was continued. Judge ail at the sum of $2500, 7! DAY. Wood fixed HISTORY O Alameda County Happenings Told in Erief Chupters. ND OFFICE, SAN NCISCO CALL, ) 908’ Breadway, Dec. 1. § Rice and family remove this OAKL The Rey week 10 Pe charge of churches of H.H na, of the leading Presbyteriun rosperous city. s’ Aid Eocfety will hold a Thursday afternoon, . 1. Hell, when all members 10 be present as business of im- will be transacted. r¢e Moir has sued the Southern Pacific Company for $13,000 damages, alleged to have been sustaine his wife, Christiane, who = train on Jenuary 13, v are requested portan , Al Se SICT streeis. T. M. Holden, a telegraph operator employed by the railrond company, who is suing for a div from Idu M. Holden, nas been ordered lier $40 a4 month alimony. Mr. Holden erly lived at 867 Willow and h charges desertion, e Inspectors Pierce and Ott to-day seized ten en years. I noi now? It 1 ve s and give ail (e saburban | where Mr. Rice wiil assume | more hoxes of figs offered for sale at the free ket and this time arrested A, D. Smith, the man who was offering them for sale, and charged him with violating the ordinance against the sale of impure food. LewisI. Beck, a highly respected citizen of this city, died athis home, 1917 Myrile street, about b o'clock this morning, aiter quite an extended fllness. Although slmost 78 years of age at the time of his death, Mr. Beck until his last sickness was quite hale and hearty. In the matter of the resignation of the guardian of Jennie Nickols and other minors, expert testimony was taken from several den- LISTS 65 10 the reasonableness of & charge of Dr. Plomteaux of $650 for denial work. The matter, aiter partial hearing, went over fora week. The inquest was held last night on the Hays Canyon suicide. No one appesred to identify the remains, and the Coroner's juty returned a verdict in accordance with the {acts heretofore printed. To-day a Deputy Coroner took the body to the pauper's plot, and, unmourned, it was lowered into its last resting place. 1 be the twenty-fifth f Emperor Wil- % Wendte of the :h of Oakland will give s e or address dealing with the im- ent, and invitations have rman societies of Oakland rer Gilpin to-day forwarded the 00 to the Park National Bank of i-arnual payment of ilding bonds. There t outstanding $340,000 worth of these ),000 having been paid off at the rate sum of New Yo | | i | | { | | | i | | | | | { | | b | com | secure from the stables the attache 20,000 s year. The interest on tne bonds eT cent per annum. rick has ordered the distribution of om the estate of the late James A . Alice B. Wengel, sister, gots niee F1000, 1 reside in It The claim of F. A. Speddy for 4 as special administrator was disellowed James Stanley, Public Administrator, who succeeded him, and Speddy has sued to coll He has filed a suit against Stanley for $ forslander, (5 T Sl GLEE CLUB CONCERTS, College Students to Make a Va- cation Tour of Northern California. Mrs. Fonzo Acquitted — Funeral of Captain Peterson — Other Berkecley Notes. BERKELEY, Car., Dec. ‘31.—The Uni- versity Glee Club has made arrangements for a concert tour during the present vaca- tion, the first concert being arranged for Stockton, on January 8. From Stockton the club will go to Chico, where a concert will be given on the i0th. The singers will appear in Marysville on the 11th, clos- ing their tour in Sacramento on the 13th. Smith '9’ F ba r 198, G. H. ronfl ‘tenor . . ight mith '98. Sec < hins ‘96, R. H. Parsons '98, D. Hu , H. P. Veeder "96. Charles Parcells is viohnist. According to the orignal plans ihe St ford Mancolin Club and the U. C n- ce. tour together, bnt objections were raised at Stanford to the mandolin club unde waking 4 tour with any other glee c! than that of Stanford, hence the plan of a California Glee Mrs. Fonzo rs. Mary Fonzo, w f the ruided Berkeley, was acqu Judge James’ c ing the peace. Mrs. Fonzo's el shal Lloyd a horse and buggy belonging to onzo that had been attached. The prop- erty was d by Marshal Llcyd, and 1t s alleged that Mrs. Fonzo was gilty of irbing the peace in her endeavors to hLorse and buggy. Mrs. Fonzo demanded a jury 1 and the following were chosen s rs: E. C. Worden, H. Hartkup, S. Quackenbush, J. C. Gentry, J. Woodhul W. Hnddart, H. Zander, A. C. R. B. McGowan, J. Langlais, Fred Wass and E. Tobey. New Year's A watchnight social will be held by the Unitarians of Berkeley to-night. long been the custom of the Berkeley Uni- tarians to hold such a social on the last night of the old vear, and to-night's gathéring, which takes piace at the resi dence of Mrs. Marsh, on Durant avenue,will be of the usual order. Watch- night services will be held in Trinity M. E. Church and in the Baptist Church at Dwight way. Funeral of Captain Peterson. The remains of Captain_C. C. Peterson were interred in Mountain View Cemetery this ‘afternoon, the formal services being conducted by the Knights of Honor, ot which the deceased was a member. The services were held at the late residence, 2% Fifth stree:, Rev. Dr. Pearce of West Berkeley ting, The were E. McVey, J. 1. Revas, J. Mulligan, C. Maloney, A. Shakoff, M: Reiberio, all members of Tahoe Lodge, Knights of Honor. Jtub is going alone. quitted. of Fred Fonzo, r-sellers of Bast afternoon i tof a charge of disturb- e charge was a result of Eve. M. vallbearers A Lunatic Escapes. Francis Cassayez, a lunatic, who bas for some time been contined in the residence of his brother, at the corner of Fifth and Holyoke streets, West Berkeley, escaped this morning and has disappeared. A keeper was employed to look after the de- mented prisoner, but the latter managed to elude nis gnardian, and is thought to have gone ta Oakland. Library Trustees. The new Board of Trustees of the Berke- ley Public Library has appointed standing ommittees as follows: On books—Dr, omas Addison and A. W. Naylor; ad- ministratioa—H. W. Taylor, A. W. Nay- ior; printing and supplies—H. W. Taylor, H. D. Irwin; finance—Dr. Addison, H. D, Irwin, TO PROHIBIT BURIALS. The Richmond FPeople Will Hold an Anti-Cemetery Meeting Next Thursday. A public meeting under the auspices of the Richmond District Property-owners’ Association will be held in Bay District Hall, 1 Point Lobos avenue, near the Geary-street carhouse, to-morrow evening. The meeting at that time is_in view of the fact that the Health and Po- lice Committes on the next evening will again consider the motion to prohibit the al lots in the City Jimits. As the cemetery companies will be repre- sented at the committee meeting the Rich- mond people are determined to bring all the influence of the entire district to bear on the Board of Supervisors. “We have no fears but we will prevail on_the Supervisors to check the graveyard evil in the City,” said Secretary Hubbs of the association. “butweare going to show our fuil strength. I expect that the meas- ure will receive a big majority of the board when it goes back from the committee. Of course the cemetery people are making a fight, but they will lose and San Francisco will do just as other cities have done wien canfronted with the graveyard question— the grayeyards have simply gone outside of the limits, where they did not menace the living.”” e Gl Attempted Suicide. * Josie Frye,s servant girl employed by Dr. Micheel J. H. Wolff, 1017 Oak street, went to bed last night and attached a rubber tube to the gasjet, which was ciose to her bed, and placed the end in her month. She then turned on lhegu and prepared to die. She was dis- covered in time and hurried to the Receiving Hospital. She will recover. Shesaid ghe was tired of life. Howard Veeder is the manager and | Club were to have undertaken a concert | orts to secure from Mar- | Quackenbush, | It has | HER- LIFE OF ROMANCE, An Oakland Belle the Wife of a Millionaire Merchant of London. DESIRED TO BE A WIDOW. She Will: Soon Visit California to Attend to Her Property Interests. 1500 CALL,) | OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Fr 1 908 Broadway, Dec. 31. § Within a few weeks Miss Frankie | Brown of this city, now the wife of a Greek millionaire cizarette merchant of London, will visit Oakland to look after her prep- erty interests. Few people have enjoyed so romantic or | so fortunate a history as Miss Frankie { Brown. Miss Brown’s father was a pio- | neer who lived on Telegraph avenue and | at his death she inherited about $100,000. | Miss Brown became possessed of the idea ' his shotzun, loaded up with cartridges and advanced o1 the Chinese washhouse, which is situated almost in the heariof town. The four Chinese who lived there had retired, bur a light was burning. Ward walked till he was about ten yards from the frail hut and opened fire. He fired as rapidly as he !could discharge and reload. The noise awoke the inmates, and one of them went to extinguish the candle that burned in the window. This act of precantion may cost him his life. He received a charge of shot in the abdomen. As the shooting continued the Chinese screamed in terror like so many rats in a trap. They dared not to leave the place as the moon was shining brightly, and to expose themselves meant certain death., They had nothing with which to return the fire, so they huddled together in one cornerof the shack, ex- pecting that each succeeding shot might reach them. When the shooting ceased the Chinese ran out, and the inhabitants, who had been attracted by the shooting, looked for & Constable to arrest Ward, who had rushed back to his hotel. The local Constable was not in town, so one of the bombarded Chinese started on a run for Pleasanton, which is six miles away. He made the distance in an hour, and re- turned with Marshal Donnelly and Con- stable Lester. ‘Ward had locked himself up, but he finally consented to surrender if Charles Hadell would accompany him to Pleas- anton and arrange for his bond. This was agreed to and Ward was locked up. His bonds were afterward fixed at $25,000. An inspection of the Chinese hut by ex- pert shooters showed that not less than seventeen shots had been fired by { | | | | abroad if she were a widow. ation tour fell through and the | MISS FRANKIE BROWN OF OAKLAND, WHO ARETTE MILLIONAIRE CI IS NOW MAKER OF THE WIFE LONDON. OF [From a photograph.] that she would like to travel on the conti- | nent of Europe. One of her notions was that a female would be subjected to less curiosity and ecriticism while traveling This idea was pgar, who at Richard ff of Sa and through his i to a printer nam shortly expected, as he was a tim of consumption. On_ the very day of their marriage Mrs. McKee refused to live with her husband. Her fizure and the lavish manner in whick she entertained made her vpromi- nent in Paris, London and Algiers. But | while she spent money freely she also | made lucky investments that yielded | handsome returns. She was creditéd with being worth a miliion dollars, and a story came over the wires from Pa hand was sought in marria, French Duke, who had been deceivi an offer of marriage by the widow’s weeds which the bright Californienne wor She opened the Duke’s eyes to her true stand- ing as a married woman, whose hust was yet living, and he promised that would come to Oakland and get a divorce he would marry her. A few weeks later Mrs. McKee returned | to Oakland and was at the deathbed of her husband. She s greatly affected when the last hour came and expressed much regret that she bad acted in such & ro- mantic mauner. She provided a costly funeral, but after it was over the se tion-loving young widow made heart conguests on both sides of the b: and seemed to take great delight in de- stroying the peace of mind of everybody whom she couid influence. As sne was an expert banj; piano player, and w s0prano voice, he communicated to thattime was bz Court 2 ral ), violin and possessed of a rich 1 ried to induce her to go upon the staxe, but she refused and declined all kinds of theatrical offers. Several theatrical speculators tried to get her to become the “angel” of a company of which she was to be the star, but the wealthy young widow s far too shrewd to ran any such risk.of financial ruin. About this time she met Arthur Brans- comb, a young Australian actor, and she agreed to marry him. He was forced to | hurry off to Chicago to keep an engage- | ment, and a few days later the widow fol- lowed, intending to wed the young actor. ‘While en route she learned thut he had a wife and family living and %he continued on the journey to Europe. Then came the news of the marriage of Mrs. McKee to a wealthy cigarette manu- | facturer of London. He is of Greek origin, | and his name has never yet been pro- nounced by any of her friends in this city. | He is said to be worth a million pounds and to idolize his California wife. She leads the life of a duchess, and when she drives out is attended by servants in livery. During the past few years her property in this city hasincreased in value, | and she is coming out to visit her friends | and to look out for her interests. | e | FUSILLADEBY OOHLIGHT A Sunol Hotel Man Makes a Wild Attack on a Chinese Hut. He Was Refused Opium, so He Went for His Shotgua and Shot a Chinaman. OARLAND OFFICE SN Fraxcisco Carr, 808 Broadway, Dec. 31. } Thomas Ward, proprietor ¢f the Sunol Hotel, wantonly fired seventeen charges of buckshot into a Chinese hut early this morning; and it is yet likely that he may have to answer a charge of murder. About midnight, Ward, who had been drinking heavily of late, went to the house of the Chinese and ‘asked for opinm, but was refused. This angered him, and he demanded the drug. but with no success, and he then returned to his hotel. About 1 o’clock this morning Ward took b 3 Ward. The residents of Sunol say it was the most co dly attack on unarmed men of which they had ever heard. Ward was brought to the County Jail ght and charged It is not whose name i ith assault to mur- et certain that the Chinese, Wing Hop, will not die, - THINKS HE IS BOYCOTTED Judge Swasey's Complaint About the City Otficers of Alameda. | The Municipal Board Determined to Make Important Street Extensions. ALAMEDA, CaL., Dec. 31 the Peace Swasey bas a standing com- plaint, which he periodically makes known to the authorities. He is a town- ship officer, co-ordinate in power with an- other Justice and with a Recorder, elected as a municipal officer. He has the author- ity to try petty offenders against city or- s well as against general laws, emoluments come in the way of iees, it makes a difference how much business he His complaint is that the two constables and the entire nolice force divert all the business from his court to that of the other Justice. The fees of the other Justice in eleven months have been §771, while those of Swasey have been but $237. There is no law by which a able or police officer is required to Justice of swear to his complaints before oue magis- | | trate inste d of another, but the board was impressed with Swasey’s complaint suff ciently to order an investigation of the al- legations. Shooting on the Marsh. ALAMEDA, CAL., Dec. 31.—The Munic- ipal Board supposed it was doing exactly what the residents of Bay Farm Island wanted when it caused to be prepared an ordinance prohibiting the discharge of firearms in that portion of the city which had heretofore been exempt. There was something of a surprise, therefore, when | on the eve of the enactment thereof there appeared a Bay IFarm Islander who ob- jecied to the law. He represented that such a law would be a hardship on the 1slanders themselves, as it would prevent them shooting game for their own use on their own land. The objection did not prevail, however, as the complaints of reck- less shooting on the Bay Farm marshes are of years’ standing and the board had iully determined to put a stop to it. Extension of Streets. ALAMEDA, Car., Dec. 31.—The West End, or western portion of Alameda, has not progressed and improved in the same ratio as the remainder of the city. The reason for this is believed to be that so many large tracts are owned there that the building of houses is discouraged and re- R‘resfled thereby. ~Lately the Municipal rustees have taken up the subject of opening streets through some of these tracts, and have succeeded. They now {}:opose to opsfn :ther streets, and to get at section of the city as thoroy, divided as any other. cf Eply st Perkins’ Return. ALAMEDA, CAL., Dec. 31.—Rev. A. T. Perking, for fourteen years rector of Christ Chureh, but who resigned the pastorate { last summer and went East, has returned from Chicago to sl{){end the holidays with his family. ~ Rev, . Perkins is the pat- ent e of a method for preserving fruitin transit, and in storage as well, by a pro- cess of sterilized air. The process is being put into operation in Chicago for the ship- ment of fruit and perishable vegetables from the South. Bananas especially are the fruit which it has been found the method is peculiarly adapted to handle., The bananas are brought from tropical countries to New Orleans, and are shipped thence to all parts of the country. MANY NOTED EDUCATORS They Will Attend the State Teachers’ Association in Oakland, WOMEN TO BE PROMINENT. New Year's Day Will Be Given Up to Receptions, Reunions and Or- ganization. OARLAND OFFICE SAN Fraxcisco CALL,) 908 Broadway, Dec. 31. The State Teachers’ Association will meet in this city to-morrow and continue in session over Saturday. New Year's day will be spent in reunions and receptions. The Alumni Association of the San Jose State Normal School will hold a reception from 3to 5 ». M. at their headquarters, at the Crellin Hotel, and all visiting teachers and friends are cordially invited. In the evening at the same place a joint social reunion of the Chico, Los Angeles and San Jose State Normal schools will be held, and teachers and their friends will be welcome. A banquet will be given at the Metro- pole to-morrow to the alumni of the Uni- versity of California who are active teachers, Though some Eastern politicians have been accused of forgetting that California is on the map, the educational men of the Nation know that the State is here. There are some schoolmen who would be a credit in any country, and who are in some cases the envy of the Atlantic side. Le Conte, Howison, Jordan are names that nse first in the public mind, perhaps, but there is Stringham of Berkeley, who fig- ures more than he talks, who is a Eunro- | pean authority on mathematics, There is Sanford of Stanford, prophesied as a | leader in science in 1900. There are Hud- ‘[son and Gayley, equai in critical acumen | to the finest essayists in their especial | lines. In pedagogy Earl Barnes, Elmer Brown and P. B. Dresslar are reckoned leaders in the United States. C. H. Keyes of Pasa- dena is known in the South as a man of affairs and the president of a polytechnic school that ranks with that of Troy or St. Louis. P. W. Search, editor of the Ad- vance in Education and the apostle of in- dividualism in education, aroused the whole educational world a year or two ago by his revolutionary doctrines. Then there is W. H.V. Raymond, an all- asound schoolman, with just the qualities that mark the editor of a great daily. Again, there are C. W. Childs, E. T. Pierce and R. F. Pennell, each at the head of 2 great normal school, stamping his individ- uality upon scores of teachersand through j these upon hundreds of pupils up and | down the State. | _Among the women teachers are Miss | Lucy Washburn, one of the best tminefi { women in California, who might write sev- ! eral gronps of letters after her name if she | would; )!Irs. Mary Sheldon Barnes of Stan- | ford, who has written the best general his- | tory we have ; Miss Elizabeth Packard, one | of the finest organizers on the coast; Miss | Jean Parker, whose name in San Francisco |is a household word for wisdom and | strength, and many anocher. | Allof these and some hundreds of other | educators are to meet in this city to dis- | cuss ways and means to increase profes- sional usefulness. This wiil be thetwenty- ninth annual meeting of the California Teachers' Association, which every year | grows more earnest in efforts to reach the | highest standard. | Last year the association, meeting at | Santa Cruz, discussed the teacuing force and its preparation, the curriculum of the schools and the ditliculties in the way of employing tne ideal teachers and applying the ideal curriculum. President Kleeberger's plea for educa- | tion that will give ability to discover knowledge, to appreciate knowledge, to use know.edge for the world’s progress and for the unaerstanding of one’s own rela- tion to the rest of the universe was the keynote of the discussion, which will sound again this year. The mornings of the sessions will be given to reports of standing committees appointed last year. The Council of Edu- dation—the highest body in the State—will, through its committee, occupy Thursday morning, dealing with the correlation of studies. The manual training schools of the State will be heard from on Friday morning, and an exbibit of work will be a feature. | The committee on hygiene will occupy Saturday morning in exploiting the best health conditions available in California. The afternoon sessions will, no doubt, attract a large concourse of laymen also to | the Congregational churcii. The psycho- | logical side of educational matters will be the predominant theme. The great enthu- siasm manifested all over the country in studying the child himself in the same in- | teliigent way that bees and ants have been studied by naturalists is awakening all | thinking people to a great region of hith- erto unexplored knowiedge. The old dog- mas of education are being swept aside under the discoveries of the new search- | lights. gThe questions: What do we wang the child to become? What is the nature of the material we have to work upon? What is the effect of different studies on the mind? . These are the problems that psychology is pondering over to-day and which Californis, may study with the Teachers’ Association at Oakland. The morning session of the convention will be held inthe High School building and the afternoon and evening sessions in the First Congregational church. BARNES TALKS. The Stanford Professor Speaks of the Im- portance of the Meeting. | Professor Earl Barnes of Stanford Uni- versity, president of the California Teach- ers’ Association, is at the Grand in San Francisco. The professor savs the twenty-ninth an- nual meeting of the association, which will convene in Oakland at 9:30 to-morrow morning, will be a very important one. He expects from 700 to 1000 teachers from different parts of the State. Papers will be read and discussed by representative teachers. “KEvery phase of modern educational theory:and vractice is represented in the programme laid out for Thursday, Friday and Saturday,” said Professor Barnes, “and the social sideis not forgotten, There will be a promenade concert in the High School building Thursday evening, with normal and high-school receptionsin the hotels and in' private houses all through the three days. “‘Nowhere in the world is the convention spirit so highly developed as in America, and among no class is 1t more highly de- veloped than among the teachers. The great national associations in the summer have from ten to fifteen thousand attend- ants, and the associations of Southern California last spring had a thousand teachers in attendance for three days. The great vaiue of these meetings is undotibt- edly to be found in their social side. In the hotels and lobbies and assembly halls Sisktiyou jostles San Diego, and as the teachers listen to addresses of representa- tive men concerning taeir common work, there rises in their hearts a consciousness | | of their strength and sohdarity, and they %0 back home to a year’s work backed by the consciousness that in their often iso- lated lives they are representing the great commonwealth of California and that they are part of the advance guard of higher civilation. We live by our beliefs, and it is well to have a realizing sense of the strength ana power that is in us. ~'But the knowledge gained is itself well worth the efforts and the money expended. Representative teachers wiil carry back to all the schools in California the’ ideas of the revered Joseph Le Conte on the effects of the theory of evolution on education. The foremost experimental psycholozists in the sra\e—BaiYe_\' of the University of California, Dresslar of Los Angeles and Smith of San Jose—will give their latest and best thought on lines of educational work which they are prosecuting. The best men and women in the State wiil spend one morning discussing the physical conditions of school life, using the splendid new school buildings of Oakland as an object-lesson. Another morning will be given up to the problem of manuat training.” TO KEEP OPEN HOUSE. How the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion Will Celebrate To-Day. Members and friends of the Young Men’s Christian Association are invited to visit the building, Mason and Ellis streets, to- day during the following hours, when an informal reception will take place: From 11 to 12, promenede concert, or- chestral musie. At 12, noon, Rey. E. R. Dille, D.D., will de- liver an address to young men only in the lecture hall; subject appropriate to the day. From 2:30 to 5 . M., informal Teception in the parlors; a large corps of ladies will receive young men. At 8 o'clock there will be a grand con- cert in the auditorium, given by the Plymouth Quartet. - All young men invited to attend the reception, and especially Dr. Dille's ad- dress at 12 o’clock. MIDNIGHT AT ST, LUKE'S Solemn Service Held in the Episcopal Church on Van Ness Avenue. Rev. William H. Moreland, the Pastor, Addresses the Congregation on Timely Themes. A midnight service of solemn character was held last night at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Van Ness avenue and Clay street, which, as the Rev. William H. Moreland, the pastor, explained, was in- tended to accentuate the significance of the passing of time. The church was comfortably filled, and it was evident that all present entered into the spirit of the oceasion with a just understanding of its solemnity and importance. At about 11:20 the service began with a full vested choir of boys and men singing hymns appropriate to the season. Such hymns as *“A Few More Years Shall Roll,” “Alive With Me” and “Fast Falls the Eventide” were given. Mr. Moreland de- livered an address a few minutes before midnight, and at five minutes to that hour bade the congregation to kneel in silent prayer, urging penitence for failures and shortcomings of the past year, and a re- newed consecration to the service of God. He said: We are assembled, my friends, to watch the dying of the old year and the birth of the new. It is a soiemn hour. The passage from one year to the next is in some sense like the entrance of the soul of man from this world to the next. The book of 1895 crowded with the experiences of the pa: about to_close for- ever, and its record is before God, finished now, and never to be recalled. Not one of you present before me received from the new year, which you welcomed twelve months ago, opportunities of improvement and of bappi. n To every one of you God hes offered day by day giit aiter gilt; on esch he has again and egain pressed his forgiviog love, his abounding grace, inspiring you to higher, nobler living; to each he nas sought to reveal himselt in numberless ways. Think of the voices that bave spoken 10 you—the voices of children calling you to a life of puritv and love, the dear voices in_your own iamily, the tender warnings of mother or wife or husband or riend, voices that perh&ps to-night whisper to you from & graveor from loved ones far away—all have been the volces of God to your consclence, drawing you to.a life of goodness, holiness and love. Do you not feel guilty as yon look back upon what you might have been? Have we not ell more or less neglected these opportunities of walking close to God? Oh,if there be one smong you who has aliogéther scorned his proffered love, has rejected his sontinual reye- iation of himself or has been blinded to all bi mercies, let him now, in these last moments of the year, while we are gathered to seizea blessing {rom its departing sands, let him fall on his knees before God, and among his people, penitent for opportunities never to return, and confess his failure. Itis not too late even now, before the old vear is dead, to gather from it the rich blessing with which God charged it generously when he sent it on its mission a twelvemonth ago. Penitent for past failures, let us all even now consecrate our souls 1o God for the past and for the future. When we kneel in silent prayer, as we sball do in & few moments, before midnight strikes, let each of you spend these departing moments in deep repeniance and earnest aith, saying to the old year, “I will not let thee go except thou ies 3 will you gain even at the elev- blessing God is bending over you and waits to give, Standing now between the old year and the new, can we not hear them as they are crying aloud to one another? Listen to their voices. The old yeer is saying to the new, “Take this child of God and give him more of life. Show him greater things than I could show him. He hasa weak and humble spirit and bewails the mistakes and losses of the past. Now you open to him the richer, fuller life of the year to come.” And the hew year answers to the old: “I will take him and lead him into new experi- ences such as he expects not, as he sits here dreaming. I may lead him into valleys of sor- row or.to shining peaks of joy. But every dis- pensation will be full of Jesus Christ coming to enrich his life. Every experience may be to him & blessing and & glory, however sorrowful, if he receives it as a gift from the hand of God.” £ Oh, my friends, the old year is sl{rxlng from us. We cannot stay in it if we would. Let us go out of it nobly, acknowledge our failure, redeeming the past by soing forth to greater deeds, more consecrated life. 5 Think of Jesus Christ waiting to receive you on the steps of the new year. Go forth with bravery and hope and give yourself to him. After 12 p. M. the preacher said 1 extend to you, beloved, the greetings of the welcoming you to its new experi- responsibilities. Whether your feet are to be led into the furnaces of afiiction orinto the feasting rooms of life, it will be a happy yeer if you carry in your souls the abid- ing presence of the Almighty Helper. Every moment of this new year may be precious, every incident bring fresh revelation of God, if ouly the loving consecration is genuine, if the sacred dedication of the soul to God in these first moments of the new year is carried into its most trivial moments. God be with you and bless you in 1896, After the discourse the choir sangasa recessional hymn, ‘‘Awake, My Soul, Stretch Every Nerve,” and the service was at an end. NEW HEADQUARTERS. Removal of the ¥ruit And Flower Mis- sion to Sutter Street. The Fruitand Flower Mission has moved “from 420 Post street to new and much more commodious quarters at 631 Sutter street. The new home contains’a superabund- ance of cupboards, in which to store away the necessities which the society gives the voor and the dainties that are bestowed upon the sick in the hospitals. There is also a commodious room for the library, the books and periodicals from which are given out in the prisons and hospitals. The ladies and gentlemen who have gone actively to work toarrange the movingare: H. Channing Beales, Rev. Wil.iam Tubbs, Miss Leszynsky, Miss Bryce, Mrs. Bunker, Mrs, Buckingham and Miss Bean. STEELWEALS HRE WANTE A Merchant Who Has Sent Orders to Duncans Mills for Fish. Deputy Fish Commissioners Will Now Arrest All Persons Found Sein- ing the River. The decision as rendered by Judge Low on Monday last dismissing the charge of exposing for sale steelbead trout out of season, and which was placed against A. Paladini by Fish Commissioner Babeock, has given the merchants some grounds upon which to pursue a vocation which will eventually rid the coast rivers and streams of their apadromous fishes, namely, the steelhead trout—that is, if the catching of these fishes for marketable purposes by the use of nets is resumed. The Commissioners will certainly appeal the case to a higher court, as the question of whether a steelhead is a salmon or a trout is of particular interest to many people. Professor David Starr Jordan of the Stan- ford Universify is an acknowledged authority on the classification of fresh and salt water fishes. Heis looked to in the same light as an authority on piscatorial questions by the American people as is Blackstone and other famous authoerities on matters that pertain to the general law of the country when knotty questions are involved. Conseauently the surprise is all the more great at the dec sion as rendered by his Honor Judge Lo after having read the opinion of the dis- tinguished professor, which was clear and beyond any possible doubt as to what the steelhead really is. Professor Jordan stated that the steel- head was a ‘species of the trout family but the Judge nevertheless dismissed the case because the definition did not appear purticularly clear to him. The result of the dismissal of the case is that A. Paladini has telegraphed to fish- ermen in different parts of the country where the steelhead may be taken, to ship to him all the fish of that variety they can catch. As the Russian River has been one of the princival fishing waters of fish- ermen who use nets, the fish merchant is in hopes of receiving large consignments of steelheads from Duncans Mills, which is the principal shipping voint on the river. The Fish Commissioners, however, have sent to their deputies, now located at Duncans Mills, instructions to arrest all fishermen found in the act of seining the river and to confiscate every net found in their possession while illegally fishing. The Commissioners contend that the dis- missal of the case by Judge Low does not prove that the steeihead is a salmon. Two vears ago, when the net fishermen of the ussian River were arrested for trans- rressing the law, their cases were heard in Santa Rosa, and the Judge of the County Court decided against the fishermen be- cause of a decision rendered by Professor Jordan, the leading American autnority on questions of this kind. It is presumed that in case the fishermen attempt to catch steelheads in the Russian River with nets, arrests will follow and a second_trial will be held at-Santa Rosa, which is the county seat of Sonoma. CANNED GOODS BURNED. A Fire in the Overland Warehouse Causes a Loss of Several Thou- sand Dollars. A tire in the Overland warehouse, at the corner of Third and King streets, yester- day damaged a lot of canned goods owned by the California Canneries Company to the extent of about $3000. The loss op the-. ~= building, owned by G. Newlands &'Co. will not exceed $300. When the report of the fire came in several deputies of the Internal Revenue office hastened down thinking that the fire was in the Overland bonded warehouse, which is in the same building and where is stored over a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of liquor. The alarm was turned in at abont 12:30 and. Engine Company 53 responded and soon had the fire under control. It was supposed to have originated in a work- man's coat from a hot pive placed in the pocket. . The loss is covered by insurance. —_—————— Upset the Lamp. Mrs. Foster, 112 First street; drank too much Tiquor last might and" while in her room knocked over alamp. Her screams brought her assistance. She was found on the floor with her clothing on fire. The flames we extinguished-and she waz taken 1o the Receiv- ing Hospital. She was badly hurned about the arms, neck and back, but not dangerously. NEW TO-DAY. Uo You Use A Battery? 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