The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1896, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL, MO NDAY, JANUARY 6, 1896. DR, GOODWI Some Pointed Allusions by the Methodist Preacher. 1 | { | | | | At the Metropolitan Temple Threatening Missives Are Discussed. SCORED THE DAILY PAPERS. The Orator of the Occasion Indulges in Some Caustic Comment on the Press. Dr. W. R. Goodwir fornia-street Methc the Good pastor of the Cali- politan Temple yesterday tics of Good the subject.* Cha He alluded Yorke-Ross-B peatedly to ovard -Case-Hubbell - Brewer | POKES FUN AT FATHER YORKE, ks, and if he hasn’t we her.” hurch are somewhat rently am easy called upon to think a Meth- s £00d enough. The other day wedding of £ Protestant man 1. A priest told the girl that stant ministe ry her she it she tho she would aid to her: *‘Little gir), I 0 send you to heaven est has to send you to y of the ( 11 ions of the rack, the he Every tiie best blood pare it to-day with our New Wwas settled by poor Protestants, A of see the dif land and Mexico. It 1s be of the respective relig Further than this there was nothing said which had any controversy between the A.P.A. He di sed to opinion of what socialism was, in _answer to some b handed remark of a socialist periodical, and then got back on the straight track and defined a good citizen as > who is interested in the weifare of others; who tries to build up society : who endeavors to make the world better; who struggles to ice, poverty and crime.” eobserved: “Any ma the foundations of business inj good citizer n paid his respects to lawyers and the liquor fects is not 1en Dr. Good the newspapers, th REV. W. R. GOODWIN. Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] controversy, but rather in an indirect way | than o his refere were ve ¥ pleased hi: Iiste pac In ovening the meeting Chairman Quit- ZOW exp d that thecommittee had just elected its officers,with but slight changes. | “‘America’” was then sung by the audience standing, and also a religious version of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” with solo. As a prelude to what T. Brewer devoted a few minutes to the Roman Catholics. He intimated that he bad been receiving some threatening let- ters of late, and said in substance: 5t 0T two to make of my Roman 1ds who are here. I know they | numerous letters [ atthe writers “saw me My first request s to foliow, M. ceive, whi at the Met is: Eithe te s more plainly or have Father Yorke writ m for you. And one thing I wili add: ght be coaxed off this platiorm, but 1 a cannot be driven off. | I may have received many letters this week which may have been worth reading, but I had | e you as friends I 10 consign them to the waste basket because I could not read them. I know the Monitor says 1 cannot read, but I can spell. Lnuginer.l Those that I have been nble to read aad spel are below a gentleman’s notice. In a somewhat daring spirit he gave out his correct address for the benefit of the would-be correspondents and then re- | marked that in one meeting he had found | one friend of Father Yorke. Rambling | along he said he was going to dine with | Father Yorke, as he wanted to discuss | matters with that prelate ‘“‘over a large | beefsteak.” Finally he explained that he { bhad nothing against the individuai Roman | Catholic—that_as good citizens come from Erin's isle as elsewhere—but when of $700,- | 000,000 expended by the Government of the United States 75 per cent went to the | benefit of the Catholic one-twelfth of the | F)pu}aliun and only per cent to the rotestant 80 per cent of the population he did not think it was quite right. He was opposed to the use of any public funds for ecclesiastical purposes, and he regarded the public school system as a boon to the | whoYe people. Chairman Quitzow took occasion to say that he, too, had not been overlooked by the lettéx-writers, but that he had prompt- ly consigned their missives to the waste- basket. | Then Dr. Goodwin was brought forward | end introduced. His address was in the | nature of a general scoring of the press, | the lawyers and_the liquor busimess, with | some side allusions to Father Yorke and | the Catholic church at which the audience always laughed. His desire was to show what constituted a good citizen and who and what were bad citizens. Here are some of his allusions to the Catholics: 1 have found it always difficult in eddressing the A.P. A.’s {0 make & speech that would please the Catholics, and as there are both elasses here it will be no easy matter for me to talk. Now, a word was let fall by Father Yorke that gave me a thought. 1t was his reference 1o Father Yorke. Imyself am not scquainted with Father Yorke, nor with any member of his family, but I am aequainted with “Father” | Bovard some of his children. Iam satis- | | fied that if Father Yorke is a “father” he must | “The Unburied Dead.” business. The lawyer who for money, office or anything ‘else would stand be- tween justice and crime and shield the guilty he did not deem a good citizen; and if a minister had no right to do evil, he thoucht, neither had a iawyer such right. In his opinion the liquor business con- trolled the city’s politics and its govern- ment. In his scathing of the newspapers and newspaper men the speaker must have had the Brown-Davidson scandal in mind. Somewhat condensed, what he saia was tnis: T am opposed first, last and all the time to aper which does not try to improve ch, instead, panders to the grosser public and iowers the tone. A ione of society as & newspaper. One good thing I can say for the papers, and that is that they are extremely jealous of preachers and the church. If I was to be | Jound drunk to-nigiit it would be told to-mor- Tow in London. The probability is that if I did something not very min ul they wou give me three solid pages. The fact is, preac ersdon’t dare o cut up much now. great carefulness for the preacher is 1o see that the preachers and the church are nll Tight—if this is the moti well and goo but if the motive is to smirch the church and slur the church, then Istand here as a minister of the gospel and denounce it. The scandal-monger- ing newspaper going into the howmes of decent people is not a good citizen. Ithink 1 have shown zenship in ot i tensely imbue: influetice of the daily press cannot only mold pu politics, but th: puvlic morals as I have no patience with such newspapers as advertise lotteries and devote three whole pages to the races, the poolrooms and gamb- ling, and only a little insignificant space to the things that make for the good and peace a1 happiness of society, aud as a citizen I ap 10 the City press to help the churches and nli ncies to make this community better and purer. 1asa preacher have just as much Tight to encourage vice and lewdness as a newspaper has. In as much as they do th justas much they are not good citizens. V want a people that will fear God and lo righteousness, and we have a right to de- mand it. In conclusion, Dr. Goodwin took occasion to say that he was surprised when he could stand on the platform and face an audience of 2000 people that the evils of the present are allowed to run unchecked. THE LIBERALS. Dr. J. L. York Addresses an Audience of Freethinkers in Scottish Hall. atis not good citi- yet I am so in- in the power and that I feel they can mold—and do mo! Dr. J. L. York addressed about three | King would boost me up and Johnny Ro- | hundred liberals and freethinkers night at 105 Larkin street. last His theme was Previous to de- livering the main address, he gave a pre- | lude on. ““the devil,” who he declared is | “‘the myth that sustains all the churches. If you were to kill the devil every church would be an orphan, hang on every church door.’ He announced that arrangements are being made for the proper observance of the anniversary of the birth of Tom Paine, and that on Thursday night C. Fannie Allyn would lecture at 111 Larkin street, on *“If Jesus Christ came to San Fran- | cisco.”” He then delivered the lecture of the even- ing, occupying over an hour in its deliv- Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov't Report Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE “atholic re- | jurious | s much right to lower the | If this | T | ery. He said that there isa need of indi- | viduality, so that individuals may think for themselves and not be ss they were when freedom of thought and speech was nos allowed. *“The time was,” he said, “when the church did not allow men to think, but compelled them to grow up in ignorance; but the time came when indi- viduals had an opportunity to tear them- selyes away from ignorant superstition and study the only true religion, Nature. “The unburied dead are those fossil indi- viduals who are_members of the different churches—the Methodist. the Presbyte- rian, the Roman and others—and who fol- low the superstitious ideas stilled into them from childbhood. They are merely coffins for dead souls and they are walk around to save funeral exveuses. Man is | born without a mind, but his mind grows | on what it feeds on, and when it is fed on : the teachings of the orthodox churchit has | no opportunity to study the true religion— natural science.’ | Speaking the Sunday-schools he de- clared that ‘‘they are strait-jackets that | deform the juvenile mind. The Sunday- | schools are the hotbeds of superstition. | No liberal or freethinker should permit his children to go to such schools, but | should use every effort to establish lyceums, in which thechilaren should be | brought up to understand free thought.” The speaker said that he did not believe in anything but nature and did not be- lieve 1n any of the gods of the churches. He spoke at length of those who had suffered for the cause of free thougit and said that there is need for an hon, | that will fearlessly stand up | ruption and fo: i LITILE BOY BURGLARS, They Are Only Seven and Eight | Years of Age, but Old in Crime. | Caught Like Rats in a Trap in a | Front-Street Commission Warehouse. Two of the youngest burglars ever placed behind prison bars were locked up in the Harbor Police station yesterday. They are William King, aged 7 years, and Al- bino Romano, aged 8 years. Both of the children wept bitterly 1 begzed to be allowed to go home. Their elder broti.ers are the real culprits, however, and the boys will be held until they are arrested. Then the youngsters will be sent to a re- | formatory. For some time past the produce houses and commission stores on Front and Davis streets have been systematically burglar- ized. Just how an entrance was gained was a mystery, as there were no signs of burglars’ tools having been used and none | of the doors were forced. The bulk of the | goods stolen consisted of honey and other canued goods that could be easily packed. Last Sunday week the store of H. Heck- | man & Co., 400 Davis street, was robbed and no one could explain how the goods were got out of the place. The mystery was expleined yesterday | when W. H. Nach of Eveleth & Nash, Fron! street, by accident visited the store. As soon he opened the door two as frightened boys tried to dart past him. One got out, but the door was shut on the | Nash g The little | fellow was caught before he had run a block and turned over to Officer Callaghan. It wasnot hard tosecure the other lad, who, soon as the door was opened again, was found sitting on a butter-box and crying s if his heart would break. n the Harbor Police station Romano told the story of how they came to turn burglars. “Weall live on Himmelmann | place—that’s between Broadway and Pa- cific and_Taylor and Mason streets, you | know. We didn’t steal anything, but we P, . DUNDON'S TRANTWAY, It May Get Him Into Trouble With the Harbor Com- missioners. BUILT WITHOUT PERMISSION. He Has Also Erected a Derrick in the Middle of the Seawall Roadway. P. F. Dundon, the ex-Supervisor, is likely to have a hot quarter of an hour when the Harbor Commissioners meet to- morrow. He has come to the conclusion, apparently, that he owns the water front, and has his men working night and day to lay a double track across section B of the seawall in spite of the protests of the chief wharfinger. He has also built a der- rick in the middle of the roadway, and teams have to make a detour in order to reach the present end of the seawall. His employes were laying the tracks along the wharf yesterday right out to where the barkentine Wrestler islying, and when the teams begin their rounds this morning they will have to bump their way over four iron rails in order to reach | what is known as Meiggs wharf. Dundon’s controversy with the Harbor Commissioners dates back to last No- vember. About the end of that month he appeared before the board and asked for the lease of a piece of ground on the front between Powell and Mason streets. He explained that he wanted to start an in- dustry which would greatly benefit the community and aad to the revenue of the State. President Colnon was not very much in favor of the scheme, but when Commis- sioner Cole saiu the land was desired for the purposes of dressing lumber, and that that portion of the water front was given over to the lumber interests, he gavein and Dundon gained his point. As soon as the first month’s rent was aid and receipted for Dundon began to uild. When a sm erected an engine and boiler were placed pinit. Then Dundon began tolay his tracks on which he proposes running trucks, and announced that his venture was a patent process for preserving piles. His men tore up the roadbed, and working Sundays and week davs they made good progress. frame building was | erty were supposed to be on hand to tow th m to sea. The tugs were on time, but the drawbridge was cioseq, and no amount of whistling could draw the keeper to the scene. The captains of the schooners tried to hunt him up but faled. Then the tugs were put about and went back to their dock. ~ About an hour later the keeper turned up and opened the draw. With the assistance of their boats the schooners were towed and warped through the ovening, and about 2 p. M. the tugs again went to their assistance and towed them to sea. The ownersof the towboats intend to loage a complaint with the Supervisors about the alleged negligence of the keeper. The cruisers Boston and Philadelphia were thrown open to the public yesterday and large crowds avaiied themselves of the opportunity. The tug Millie ran - from Clay-street wharf and the launch Amy, owned by Henry Peterson, from Folsom street. he latter was well patronized, but the Millie did not pay expenses. The Boston’s launch cut considerably into the trade of both boats, whereat there was considerable indignation. The men of the cruiser were granted the use of the launch to carry their friends, but others took ad- vantage of the boat. Both cruisers are awaiting the arrival of the Baltimore, and as the latter is now out thirty days from Yokohama Admiral Beardslee is beginning to wonder what is the matter. The Iast scen of the Baltimore was by the China when that vessel was on her way to San Francisco. At that time the cruiser was breaking into a heavy gale, but seemed to be making good weather of it. The steamer Monticello went on the dry- dock vesterday for an overhauling. She will resume her running to-day, and Cap- tain Hatch says she will now be able to hold her own with any boat on the bay. The Mail Company’s steamer Colon has come off the ways after having been over- hauled and thoroughly repaired. She will back on the Panama route in about ten i | The cargo of the big steamer Afridi is not | turning out as well as was expected. She was busy dischargingall day yesterday and over a 1000 chests of tea were found to be damaged. The steamer was caughtin a hurricane between Amoy in China and Kobe, Japan. She labored heavily ana scme of the lashing gave way. The tea was thrown about and many of the chests broken. In the second batch yester- he longshoremen were working up to their knees in tex which had been spilled all over the deck. Some one will have to | pay for the damage and the chances are that the steamsnip company and the un- derwriters will have a squabble over the settlement. The steamer Farrallon arrived from Yaquina Bay yesterday after being bar- | bound for about three weeks. The captain it blew harder during the time he was | detained than he haa ever seen before on this coast. The waves were mountain { high and it would have been folly to at- | tempt to take the steamer over the bar. DR. BOYNTON'S INAUGURAL. | h1s men to hurry up the work. Chief Wharfinger Root was notified by | The First Baptist Church Has a New Wharfinger Crowley at se(citions A :Lnd Ei Pastor of the seawall, and he visited the work an: - ; 4 ordered Dundon’s men to stop. While| With ‘hel“e“i’?“’ and l‘”“}. the reno: Root was in sight they did stop, but as | V:n!mz and ‘remtmg of the First Baptist soon as he turned a corner they went to | Church on Eddy street has come a new work again. | pastor, the Rev. M. P. Boynton, who de- Root was again notified, and he informed | livered his inaugural sermon yesterday, “'fule,"’.'f‘fi g)umr‘né;!rl%g?rsé u’f;‘?;‘éfii‘d Jras | the occasion being made memorable by summoned to appi or it - e ahe" Helpnbiniani noe | the addition of seventeen new members to ance President Colnon would not allow | the church. him to make an explanation. He said| The young clergyman has been mark- that the work of laying tracks was being | edly successful in the parish over which done without permission, and he ordered | he now presides. For the last eleven Chief Engineer Holmes and Chief Wharf- | months he has served the pulpit to which inger Root to investigate the matter and | he was formally elected on December 4 by report. | an unprecedented majority. Dundon left the meeting with a smile | His inaugural was upon the text, “Let on his face, and driving to the seawall told | us go up and possess the land, for we are Since that | abundantly able to possess it,”’ and was time a derrick has been erected, just where | entitled ‘A Forward Look,” the theme be- the wharf joins the wall, and an exhaust- | ing the religious outlook for the church pipe run out from the engine-house and | and its congregation. the wharf cut in order to allow it to drop | Alter referring tothefailure of the Israel- into the bay. The rails will be out to|ites to obey God and their wanderings in where the barkentine Wrestler is this | the wilderness for forty yearsin conse- morning, and then the trucks will begin hauling lumber from that vessel. The Wrestler has just arrived from Ja- pan. On her voyage to Hakodate she was quence, he outlined the duty of a minister, dealing perticularly with explanations of Christ's teachings. In conclusion hesaid: ‘“Thereisachance 1 l | | | | | | P. F. DUNDON'S TRAMWAY, ON JAPANESE CARPENTERS, WHO Wi WHICH HE IS BUILDING WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE HARBOR COMMISSIONERS STATE PROPERTY, AND THE BARKENTINE WRESTLER, WHICH WAS REPAIRED IN YOKOHAMA BY ORKED FOR 20 CENTS A DAY. NEW TO-DAY. SPECIALSALE oOx" NOVELTY SILEKS! We take pleasure in notifying our cus= tomers that we have placed on sale TEN CASES ELEGANT NOVELTY SILKS (all the latest styles) at prices that have never been equaled in this city. .. 65¢ ; worth $1.00 .75¢ ; worth $1.25 ; worth $1.50 worth $1.25 worth $1.50 worth $1.50 Dresden Striped Taffeta (Black Grounds). Two-Toned Figared Satin Duchesse. . . . .. Changeable Striped Taffeta........... Evening Shades Broeaded Satin Duchesse. . . . 75¢ ; Persian Brocaded Duchesse .76 Changeahle Striped Taffeta (24 inches wide) Se ; Faney Striped Taffeta................85¢; worth $150 Novelty Brocaded Duchesse. . .. ..........85¢; worth $150 Striped Taffeta (Lace effects). ... ......$100; worth $1.75 Figured Gros de Londres (changeable effects) $1.00 ; worth $1.75 Colored Faille Franeaise, all silk, full line street shades Black Bengaline (French manufacture). . . .75 ; worth $1.25 Black Satin Rhadames (all silk). . .. .....75¢; worth $1.00 Black Natin Broeades (all silk) ..75¢ ; worth $1.00 .- 4be The attention of our patrons residing outside of the city is respectfully directed to this sale. ORPORATE, < & 1882. 411, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. CLEARANCE SALE fomn THE NEXT 60 DAYS As T have ordered direct from the manufacturers a full and tost designs {0 SPRING and SUM- MEE Goobs, 1 therefore offer my entire stock of WOOLEXS mow on hand at PRICEs never before offered in San Francisco. GUARANTEED GENUINE ENGLISE CASSIMERE PANTS TO ORDER : FORMERLY REDUCED TO $10.00 $6.50 ALL WOOL SUITS TO ORDER : FoRMERLY EEDUCED TO $25.00 $17.50 All other GARMENTS REDUCED in like proportion. You will do 7 well to avall yourself of this opportunity, me a call before buying elsewhere. JOE POHEIM, The Tailor 201 & 203 Montgomery St., cor. Bush, 724 Market St. and 1110 & 1112 Market St SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 45, DON'T PAY or $40 for an Electric Belt when we will sell_yoa ar betier one a: from Buy no bels u examine DR. Has current $11 buys this metal bed- stead; white enameled; knobs and top rails of bur- nished brass ; light, clean, durable, pretty. Every one should be “‘up| to date”’—especially when it only costs $11. and give i This week: Lace curtains, point d’esprit in brussels ef- fect, $1.90 a pair (see them in the window), white or ecru. regu or and all latest im- i provements. Pamphlet LR E iree. lor address DR. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings PIE & SON, 704 Sacramento Sl““,',s“? ¥ CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street. VOV OVOBIDIVOVIVIV DOV BOVODVEIDIDY only helped our brothers. When we | found a place where there wasa transom | biz enough for us to get through Tom ano would boost Willy up. | ‘“‘They boosted us through the transom | of that store on Front street yesterday, but | when we got in_we found we couldn’t get jout. The windows had fixtures on we couldn’t work and we were caught. We | called to Johnny and Tom, but when they | found we couldn’t get out and couldn’t | m | and crape would | bass them out anything, they ran away. | | We helped ourselves to some honey and | erackers and when the man came we tried | torun away. That's all we did, mister, At this | and now we want to go home.” | both the children broke down and began to cry again. ‘Warrants have been issued for the arrest | of Johnny Romano and Tom King and Captain Dunleayy expects to have them in custody before the day is out. The police say the father of the Romano family isa sailor and that he has deserted his family. The elder King is a bricklayer. There are eighteen or twenty children in the two families. — e Dempsey Benefit Committee. The general committee which had charge of the benefit entertainment for the widow of Dempsey will hold & meeting to-night to make a settlement of its atfairs. Complete reports Wwill be had from all of the sub-committees and the precise amount of the returns will be ascer- tained. The members of the committee re- | quest that reports be prepared by all of the members whose statements have not been re- ceived. ————————— | BANK stock paper es the eyes. The My- | sell-Rollins Co., 22 Clay, manufacturers, * | dismasted and very much battered. She putinto Yokohama and there the repairs were made. Inthe Japanese metropolis carpenters were only too glad to work for 20 cents a day, and the owners of the Wrestler seized the opportunity and made almost a new vessel out of the barkentine. All the ends and spare lumber that were not used were returned by the contractors, and the crew of the vessel were employed all of yesterday in discharging it on the wharf. to heat up Dund | on’s furnaces to-day. no permission had been granted to Mr. Dundon to lay tracks, and that he had been told to apply in the regrlar manner. President Colnon notified the extSuper- | visor of this fact, but he evidently thinks | he has the Street Department to deal with, | and has gone along with the work as | though nothing was the matter. ¥ S ALONG THE FRONT. Towboat Owners Have a Grievance Against the Keeper of the Fourth-Street Bridge. The towboat captains have a grievance against the keeper of the Fourth-street bridge. They say that he is frequently not on duty and that on Sunday morning he is always late. They do not object toa man taking a little extra nap on the sev- enth day of the week, but they do to being kept waiting until they missthe tide. Yes- terday the schooners Gleaner, Webfoot and Maid of Orleans were all at the Hay wharf and at7 A, a. the tugs Monarch and Lib- This 1s the stuff that will be used | Secretary Keegan of the board said that | | for this church to do more mission work | in this City. There are three fields: One at North Beach, one at the Mission and ona south of Ma:ket street, east of Ninth.”” The evening sermon’ was upon _the sub- ject of “Money’s Side of Life.” The ordi- nance of baptism was administered during the service. Rumors that there isa division in the church are emphatically denied by, the pasior, who says that the published ac- counts of such a condition were wholly | unfounded. He asserts that never before was the church so prosperous or generally am- icable within the congregation. . APROPOS OF WAR. R. Hamilton Will Dis- Lieutenant W. course on Military Schools. The lecture to be delivered to-morrow evening by Lieutenant W. R. Hamil- ton in the Young Men’s Christian Association Hall promises to be a social event in both military and naval circles. The lieutenant is the military statistician of the “World Almanac,” and is accepted throughout the United States as an authority on matters pertain- ing to the army and nav: His subject will be * Naval Schools of the United States,” a fitting theme at the present time. 2 Lieutenant Hamilton has been an in- structor of National Guard in Eastern cities, and is the author of a set of instruc- tions for that body. Besides this he has spent many years in the military schools, and is, therefore, well qualified” to speak on the subject he has chosen. The lecture will be illustrated with nearly 100 stereop- ticon views. The Military and | LEA & PERRINS’ SIGNATURE is now printed in BLUE, diagonally across the OUTSIDE wrapper of every bottle of LEA & PERRINS. SAU: 2 The Original and Genuine WORCESTERSHIRE, as a further pro- ) tection against all imitations. | pAzents for the United states: JOHN DUNCAN’S SONS, N. 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