The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1896. BALDWIN THEATEE.— CALIFORNTA THEATER COLUMBIA THEATER— s OPERA-HOUSE The Senator.” A Long Lane.” Ixion: or, The Man of Morosc Baby.” 211is streets— i Choir, Wed- Friday Halght street ~Golden Gate Park Band to-morrow* c1e Llock eas EN GATE T YacrFicC v 20, Work arrison street, at January 21 at 12 o'clock 4 ( Toesday, January 21. ads Horses, &t salesyard, cor- N arket st., 8t 11 A. M. ANMONT M rhursiay* January gomery st 3, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF, ises falr weather, co. THE CHARGES ~ UNTRUE, |Evan Williams Exonerated From a Serious Accu- sation. AN INVESTIGATION MADE, The Court Records Show Him to Be Entirely Free From Fault. As the policy of TuE CALL is to be as just s it is critical it is but fair that misstate- | menis be corrected with the same readi- ness with which they are published, not- withstanding that at the time of their ap- pearance they may be believed to be true. In a city of 350,000 inhabitants it is not unusual that the haste necessary in com- piling a daily paper will result in mistakes | that would not occdr were it possible to give them more extended attention. It isin this spirit and with this refer- ence to the fallibilities of newsgathering | that we now direct attention to prominent | articles in Tue CALL of the 26th and 27th o have bet $100 1 case was con- e McKenna. | & score of 6 t, has been | om by Judge v with R.B. Wes really married him, ge annulled. The strike of the coopers empl ¢ Woodenware Company is thinks an effected by st spend two years in Folsom for Thomas Maloney will serve a si same place for grand larce Both were sentenced by Judge Belcher. The Mercantile Library Association will hold 1ts annual election to-morrow, but there will be no opposition ticket in the field, members being satistied with the regular nominees. The case of the pool-seller, Gilbert Blodes, will be decided by Jud oachimsen 1 or- 0w, Blodes in his testimony_yesterdsy claim- ng that he was only & commission broker. George Herger and John Lawrence were each eld by Judge Conlan yesterday to answer be- e Superior Court in $10,000 bonds on arge of felonious assault upon little by he Javidson e black- hey wer cre was an interesting time in Judge ’s court yesterday when the fee which s supposed to have been allowed to the full ount £15,000. John R. Bolton has filed a contest of the will of his grandiather. He claims that the grand- as unduly influenced in bequeathing 500,000 estate, and that he was not of 1. vy tribes of Red Men held a public ip of chiefs” last evening at_Odd ' Hall. District Deputy P. L. Hoff was nted with a beautiful diamond badge ter the ceremonies. A. Bergman, clerk for Thomas J. 0'Donnell, plumber, 1105 Buchanan street, was arresied yesterday on a warrant charging him with em- bezzling $28, the amount of an account paid to omer of his employer. ostal Inspectors to Yick, for looti on and P. Peranti, poultry- sted last g on complaint of ame Commissioner Dougherty, the ling quail and the latier for sell. 1CKs out of season. Both were re- ’ A. Golds, ar; e wife of has run mulatio child, loped. She ter of George W. tat Montreal. al admint: Hand) =G4, the v, the det " His edminis of estate; ve who died last Sep- i zes his widow ty. THE POOLROOM EVIL The Civic Tederation Will Hold a Big Mass-Meeting To-Day. The Civic Federation has taken up the fight against the poolroom evil in earnest, and to-day a big mass-meeting will be held in Odd Fellows’ Hall at 3 . to consider the matter and devise ways and means for suppressing the evil. A call has been issued inviting the public in general to attend, and all of the city ministers have been requested to urge upon their con- pregations the importance of a large at- tendance. In this invitation Thomas n of the special committee sa; is not needful to emphasize with you the nace to the morais of the commuunity, es- ally of our young men and boys, presented his evil as rampant among us. The ex- ws seem unequal to grapple with the w and sweeping ordinances are xtermination, and it is in- eting to voice a sentiment ious in the city against the evil, emund the passage of an ordinance for Suppression. Dr. Carlos Martyn of Chicago will be one of the speakers to address tne gathering, He ba h - : ¢ has been prominently engaged 1n similar reform movements in the East, and has made a special study of the pool- T00m evil since he has been here. Other | was conne & of $26,000 was found to be only | of last month, both relating to the suit of | M. W. Fox against the management of the Hale & Norcross Mining Company and others connected with that company’s ation, and both alluding, in terms of 1 severity, to Mr. Evan Williams,who ted with the milling of a por- tion of the ores of that corporation at the time certain irregularities are alleged to have taken place. The articles embraced little beyond the unsupported statements made by M. W. Fox to a CALL reporter. In these articles Mr. Williams is accused not only of converting to his own use wagon-loads of bullion belonging to the stockholders of the Hale and Norcross mine, of carrying a key to the Carson branch mint, of procuring the illicit coin- of thousands of silver dollars, of gation and of numerous col- crimes, but inferentially of em- a thug of unnamed nationality to ¢ man who was piously bent misdemeanors. ing come to the atten- Williams, and it appearing sposition in unfriendiy charges seriously pe: The T tion of M that there guarters to d cl! r. V | a simpl amine the case and our reporter had beenmisled through the statements of Mr. Fox. fairness we could not do otherwise ith the request of Mr. Wil- charges were serious. They | attacked the reputation of a gentleman who for more than thirty years had com- manded the respect and confidence of ithe 0 p! f 3 which has been his These charges had been given to the public through the col- umns of THE CALL, unaccompanied by any expressed doubt of their accuracy, and duty to our many readers no less than to Mr. Williams impelled us to undertake the investigation. And now, having completed an examina- i 1 the records in the case, we freely they afford { the charges made a; published in THE CALL of the th of last month, and in the ab- v testimony in their support, are bound to believe them to be wholly ue. ice requested us to ex- d other records in the nst Mr. * FREIGHT ATE STUATION The Advance on Shipments for New York to Be Made on Wednesday. General Manager Schwerin of the Pacific Mail Asks Support for the Panama Route. The recently advanced eastbound rates of 60 cents per 100 pounds via the Panama route, instead of going into effect on the steamer which leaves San Francisco on | January 28 are to be charged on ship- | ments made on the City of Sydney, that leaves next Wednesday or two days earlier | than the day on which the advanced over- | land freight rates are put in force. | In view of the developments of the past | day or two there is no immediate pros- | pects of westbound rates being changed for at least a month to come, either by the all-rail or Panama route. Shortly after the signing of the agree- ment between the Panama Railroad Com- pany and the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- | pany the latter withdrew its three steamers | from the Atlantic seabord, and it then de- | volved upon the Coiumbian line steamers, | owned by the Panama Railroad Company, { to handle all the freight offered at New | York for Central American ports as well | as for San Francisco. This they were un- able to do and in consequence H. H. Hin- ton, the local general agent of the Panama Railroad Company, was compelled to withdraw all quotations at this end for westbound business. His company is now in position to handle more of this business and he is again quoting westbound rates and engaging tonnage for westbound ship- | ments. it was generally supposed, particularly after the eastbound rates had been ad- vanced, that the westbound rates would undergo similar treatment, but_according | to the statements of both the railroad peo- | ple and the Panama Railroad representa- tive there is no immediate prospect of any change. The same rates are now in_force that obtained before the Panama-Pacific il agreement. The recent manifesto of the Panama Railroad Company to the effect thatit pro- posed to maintain the Panama route as an independent line and a genuine competi- tor of the transcontinental lines was con- siderable of a surprise to the larger ship- pers of the community, and they doubted whether the Pacific Mail, controlled as it was by C. P. Huntington, would co-oper- ate in the right spirit to this end. R. P, hwerin, general manager of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, when spoken to on the subject said: We shall be very glad to promote the interests of shippers by the Panama route. We ask their co-operation and assistance for that route so as 1o kecp us running up to our full facilities ull the time. I would like to see the Panama route traffic developed to such an extent that we would have to run asteamer every four days. The statement made by the Panama people is correct. The Panama route is in actual com- petion with the transcontinental lines. There is no idea of putting in extortionate rates, but to put in such rates &s will be remunerative to the carriers. Under the old rates all the transportation companies were losing money. Idoun’t think any reasonable man would ex- pect the transportation companies to Carr iheir freight at a serious loss, and if they wi co-operate with the Panama route we will do tne best to co-operate with them. The Columbia, a sister ship of the Pern, was to leave Newport News on the 15th inst., and the City of Para is to leave assoon after as the; could get her away, and both are to be plnceg in service on this side between San Francisco and Panama. 1t has been stated that we in- tended fore time at least to cease running our steamers regularly to Panama. This re- rt was absolutely without foundation. The Pacific Mail during the entire time that the North American Navigation Company and the well-known speakers will also present their views. Panama Raifiroad Company handled through freight to New York has never ceased to run H 1 the full extent to which | no ground for | its steamers to Panama and to handle freight and passengers from the west coast of Mexico and Central America, to jts connections at Panama, for New York, other Eastern or Eu- Topean points. In conclusion Mr. Schwerin said that he earnestly hoped that the producers and merchants of ‘California and of the whole Pacific Coast would give their hearty co- O}xermion to the interests and development of the Panama route. BORROMEAN COUNCIL. The Mission Young Men Preparing for an Entertainment Next Thurs- day Evening. The Borromean Council, Y. M. I, will give an entertainment next Thursday evening at the Mission Opera Hall. This council is one of the strongest in the order, its membership comprising some of the brightest of the young men in the Mission district. One of the features of the evening will be a burlesque on *Trilby.” The cast will be made up exclusively of members of the Borromean Council as follows: Seven-gally Dr. J. P. McCarthy azackerley . Corrigan Dowdall Mrs. Braggart, 2 The Borromean Council was orgzanized six years ago and is now in a flourishing condition. The charter members were young men who resided at the Mission. The early success of the council was due in a great measure to the practical aid of Rev. P. J. Cummins, pastor of St. Charles Church, and Rev. P. E. Mulligan, his assistant, now secretary to the Archbishop. Thomas J. Lennon was the first presi- dent, and in succession Joseph A. McInnis, John Riley, Rovert E. Fazackerley, Ed- ward J. Coffey, Dr. J. P. McCarthy and Nicholas J. Hoey, the incumbent, have guided the affairs of the council. ITALIAN PAPERS AT WAR La Voce del Popolo Denies a Holocaust of Ten Thousand Abyssinians, L'Italia Offers to Bet That Its “Scoop” Is Correct—The Bet Accepted. The Ttalian colony is stirred up overa lively newspaper war between L'Italiaand La Voce del Popolo, which arose out of a | difference of opinion between the two es- teemed journals regarding 10,000 Abys- siniaus, more or less, massacred in a re- cent combat. L'Italia has thrown down the gauntlet of a $100 bet. La Voce has snatched up the cartel, and now it on mains for a jury of prominent citizens to decide whether L'Italia or La Voce shall make the poor of the colony richer by the amount of the bet. The controversy arose in this wise: Last Thursday’s issue of I'Italia contained | 8 somewhat lengthy and exclusive tele- | gram, aated January 13, which gave an account of an assault on the fort of Ma- Ikallm in Abyssinia, and stated that the Italian troops had not only won a signal victory, but that the Abyssinians had left | 10,000 dead and wounded on the field. | This news called forth the following | honeyed words in the Friday’s issue of La { Voce: *‘Ten thousand dead and wounded. | Good gracious! And to think that no tele- graphic agency and no American paper was cognizant of such important new A sprite whispers in our ear that the fa mous telegram of our contemporary had no source outside the editorial rooms on Washington street, and no other scope but to give the editorial chief an opportun- | ity of showing that he has studied in the school of war. “But to achieve this object, innocent in itself, why send forth to the fray 10,000 Abyssiniaus? Atthis rate, and with a few | not remain a single enemy for General | Baratiere to combat, when he finds it con- venient to move from Adigrat."” In Friday’'s issue L'Italia, nothing daunted by the sarcasm of its contempo- rary, repeated the story of the ten thou- sand dead, with_added particulars. The paper also contained an offer of $100 that the news was correct, the jurors to be four prominent citizens, two chosen by each paper, and tne $100 to be handed to the talian Consul, for the benefit of the poor of the colon The bet was accepted with alacrity, and | yesterday’s issue of each paper expressed | confidence in the result of the arbitration. La Voce does not believe it possible that the Italian troops can be offering up such holocausts of Abyssinians in the Dark Continent. I’Italia says its telegram came via New York, and is authentic. The latter paper yesterday evening contained the following announcement in the largest and most ornamental style of type: “The | day before yesterday’s news in L’Italia ! relative to~ the slaugnter of 10,000 | Abyssinians by the Italian troops in re- puising an attack on Makalle has been confirmed by the Italian Herala of New York and the Italio-American of New Orleans.” The Italia promises to give the jury under the promise of secrecy the source of its telegram, and both papers pledge themselves to put up the ;7100, the loser to give the sum it wins to the poor. It is probable that the jury will be appointed 10-morrow. z FOR SICK CHILDREN. The Frawley Company Gives a Bene- it for the Children’s Hos- pital. A thoroughly successful benefit per- formance of “The Jilt” was given yester- day afternoon at the Columbia Theater by the Frawley Company. The total proceeds of the performance, which amounted to $670 45, are to go toward building a deaf and blind ward for the Children’s Hos- pital. There was a large attendance and the clever acting of the mele§ Company aroused plenty of applause. etween the first and second acts Little Mildred gave a song and dance, “I'm Your Little Sweet- heart,” and Miss Hope Ross gave a clever re?dering of “Old Lang Syne” as a violin solo. The cast included such artists as Maclyn Arbuckle, Wilson Enos, Charles W. King, H. D. Blakemore, Daniel Frawley, George W. Leslie, George Bosworth, Thomas i Phillips, Frank C. Thompson, Miss Lan- sing Rowan, Miss Blanche Bates, Miss Phosa McAfister and Miss Hope Ross. The performance was in every way pleuin%nnd satisfactory to the large audi- ence and aided a worthy cause as well. MISS MERCER’'S FREEDOM She Is Loosed ¥rom the Bonds of a Sham Marriage Which Proved Genuine. Inez Mercer has had annulled the pe- culiar marriage which she contracted with R. B. Westcott in Portland in May, 1895, She and Westcott went through a mar- riage ceremony tor the edification of a few friends gathered together for an evening's enjoyment, but it was not until some time after that sue learned that the marriage had been performed by a real minister un- der sanction of a genuine license and be- fore competent witnesses, and that she was tied hard and fast to Westcott. She came down here and sued for an an- nullment of the marriage on the ground of otler as homicidal telegrams, there would:| pi fraud. Judge Slack granted her prayer. THINK THEY WILL BUILD, S. C. Heilig and T. W, Enos Have Five Propositions for a Theater, THEY WILL SUBMIT THEM. The New Theater Will Hold at Least 2500 People and Have Three Galleries. 8. C. Heilig of Portland, manager of the Northwestern circuit of theaters, and T. W. Enos, the Tacoma banker, who is identified with the Eastern syndicate in the ownership of most of the theaters, will leave for home to-day. During the two weeks they have been here they have thoroughiy looked up the situation in reference to leasing or build- ing a theater in San Francisco. One or the other is to be done, with the chances decidedly in favor of the latter. They are carrying back with them, so they say, to be submitted for the consid- eration of the capitalists owning the thea- ters, five different propositions from dif- ferent people here. One of them will be decided upon, and then the theater people things he would, according to the stories told, charge a company $500 for bringing it and would also assess the manager of the Northwest circuit $500 a year. He wrote the companies that be would get for them the highest possible per cent and also assured the Northwest theater-owners that he was giving them steadily the highest percentage he could possibly get. Buch Jittle plays as these, all adding cash to the already plethoric exchequer of Hayman, have made the Northwestern theater peovle very tired, so their friends say. So they are out to build a theater here and be independent. 5 *We will immediately place our proposi- tions before those who are interested with us,” said one of the gentlemen, “‘and one of them will no doubt be adopted. It will probably be the one for a theater with 2500 capacity. I expect to get the decision and be back in about one month.” The theaters in their circuit and largely owned by them are at Portland, Astoria, Tacoma, Olvmpia, Seattle aad Spokane. No bar will be allowed in the theater here, nor will the builders permit it to be open on Sunday, no matter if for a sacred concert. A CHILD ACTOR. McComb Refuses to Allow Sadaugemon Ogino to Appear. General McComb of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intends to dispute in court the statement that Sadaugemon Ogino, the Japanese child acfor, is 16 years of age. Sadaugemon, whose stature is in inverse ratio to the length of his name, is the Japanese child who used to tie himself into knots and perform other unnatural feats in the Midway Plaisance 6f the Mid- inter Fair, in order to decoy spectators into the Japanese Theater. General Mc- eneral S. C. HEILIG, MANAGER [Sketched by a il i OF THE NORTHWESTERN CIRCUIT OF THEATERS. “Call” artist.] of the Northwest will be in the field here | with Al Hayman & Co. and other man- agers. | They say they are not talking for effect and express the desire that nothing of an | exaggerated character be stated, but that | they mean exactly what they formerly | said when Tur CaLL announced their pur- The probabilty is now that they will build here the finest theater in the West. The one in view is expected to cost about $125,000, have three galleries and a seating capacity of at least 2500 people. They may build a larger and costlier theater even than this. ‘‘We have had five different propositions submitted to us,” said one of the gentle- men yesterday. “Ofe was, first, from capitalists heré to build us a theater, we to | lease it for a period of years. Another was from men who own_the lots, for us to go in with them and form a company and take st and build a theater. Another proposition we are considering is the buy- | ing of real estate outright ourselves and | erecting a theater, all with our own money. | Another proposition is a sort of combina- tion of one o1 all oi these, and the other is in reference to leasing a theater. “The last, by the way, is the least proba- ble of any. ' We feel that we must have a new theater to enable us to take the posi- tion in the theatrical business on tl\is' coast which we, in justice, should to make our other investments profitable. *‘One of the propositions which we have | is from men here to build a great Thespian temple, costing $300,000, that would hold 5000 or 6000 people. 1f we had a theater of this kind the price of seats could be re- duced to aslow as75centsor $1 each at most. Probably we could go lower than this, at least for certain entertainments. “With such a large seating capacity we could materially reduce prices. Besides this, if Damrosch or any other men with a big choral company wanted to come to San Francisco he would find plenty of room in such a theater. It would afford capacity for any company or occasion. ‘“However, my own opinion is that a theater with a seating capacity of 2500 people is about what is required. This theater need not cost over $125,000. It would have three galleries, be modern in every way and be a theater solely. There wouf’d be no offices or storerooms in the building. < “The one we have in view would be something near the size of Morosco’s Grand Opera-house, only constructed in the modern style, and with a considerably deevper stage. I have found here that taxes are very low, as compared with the north, and that is something for investors to con- sider. A theater license, too, is only $100 a year here, whereas in Tacoma and™ Port- land it has been $250 a year at each place. Water and electric light rates are also much lower here than there. The loca- tions submitted to us are admirable. “Take it all in all the conditions are very favorable. We only want to make5 per cent, and we can do that very easily. As to the money we represent being Va derbilt money, it is not all that. We have other money besides that. It is a strange thing to me that you have no Eastern money here. In Portland, Tacoma, Seat- tle, Spokane and Los Angeles it is nearly all “Eastern money that is invested, but here you have none at all. San Francisco is unique in that respect. The building and other improvements are all with home capital. 2 “Eastern investors are glad to get any- thing that will pay 5 per cent. They can get it here. 1 wonder that they have not come here. A theater in San Francisco I consider a good investment.’’ 1t is claimed that Hayman has so held the whip hand on the people owning the theaters of the north that there is almost no profit in the businédss there. In some cases he charged 80 per cent, while he would give the company but 60 per cent. He had 20 per cent clean, but out of the 20 per cent left the Northern theater- owners they had to pay all expenses of water, lighting and furnish use of theater and pay contingent expenses, which left nothing at all. For a long time he charged 10 per cent for booking merely. In addition to these Comb says that the performance which the child has to go through is dangerous and cruel, as his little limbs are contorted into horribly unnatural postures, and if his nerve or courage failed at certain points of his performance he might fall and do him- self grievous bodily injury. ““If the child is really 16 he is a dwarf, and a very small dwari,”” said General Mc- Comb. *‘We donot believe, however, that he can possibly be over 12, if he is asold as that. He has been engaged for a music hall in this City and we have told the man- ager if he persists in exhibiting the child we shall have him arrested, but he intends to go ahead and see if he cannot win in the courts. The child’s cer- tificate says be is just 16, but that 1sthe way with all these imported child per- formers; they are always a few days or such over 16.” Sadaugemon’s mother, a gorgeously appareled young Japanese woman, who does not look much over 20, has been to plead with the general to let her son ap- vear,but it ishisopinion that she had better work for the child instead of putting the little fellow’s earning on her own back, and the :general persists in his determina- tion thatif Sadaugemon appears to-morrow he will have the manager arrested. ————— Invention and Education. W. H. Smith, M.E., discussed “The Art of In- | vention and Its Bearing on Education” at the | Mechanics’ Institute last night. There wasa good audience in attendance and the lecture was listened to with interest. Mr. Smith’s argument was to the effect that invention is N0t = lawless art, but rather the product of herd and careful study. He showed the slow development of experiments and attending re- sults. His discourse was exceptionally thought- ul, —_———— Super-Physical Contact. J.J. Morse will lecture under the anspices of the California Psychical Society at National Hall, Ellis street, between Polk street and Van Ness' avenue, this evening at 7:45 on “The Super-pl cal Universe; Its Point of C With Us ortase NEW TO-DAY. THE OWL DRUG cO., 2 CUT-RATE DRUGGISTS ! 1128 Marlzet Street, ! SAN FRANCISCO. 320 S. Spring LOS ANGELES, Free Delivery. ‘THE OWL DRUG (9. Willdeliver Drugs, Medi- cines and Toilet Articles FREE OF FREIGHT OR EXPRESS CHARGES to any railroad point with- in100 miles of San Fran- cisco when purchases amount to $5 or over, PROVIDED orders are accompanied with the money. SEND FOR PRICE LIST Street, ALONG THE WATER FRONT, Many Changes Have Taken Place Among Captains and Chief Engineers. OPPOSITION LINE TO BERKELEY Remarkable Run of the Little Steamer Santa Lucia to San Jose de Guatemala. The sailing of the Pacific Mail Com- pany’s steamer Peru was the only excite- ment on the water front yesterday. The steamer took away 191 Chinese in the = steerage and 12 cabin passengers. Among | the latter were three missionaries, and a great number of church members were down to see them off. As the vessels| moved away irom the wharf both parties joined in singing “God Be With You Till ‘We Meet Again” and ‘“Nearer, My God, to Thee.”” The hundreds of heathens who were there to see their relatives looked on in open-eyed astonishment. Among the passengers on the Peru was E. 8t. Vraz, a Prussian zoologist, who has been making a tour of the United States. He is a member of the Royal Museum of Prague, and in all the big cities wher- ever there is a Bohemian population he has lectured in the Bohemian tongue. He i‘ \ | n | nishes a splendid collection. partment of Tix Cavr, | the colles last day of the old year that the vessel ar- rived at her destination. During stormy weather the little craft would make for an anchorage, and in this way thirteen days | were spent in port. “ARTS AND CRAFTS.” First Exhibition of the Guild Assocla- tion Is a Success—Society in Attendance. ‘The first exhibition of books and print- ing undertaken by the Guild of Arts and Crafts opened last night at their rooms, 424 Pine street. It wasa most creditable collection of hooks, original drawings, etchings, lithographs, engravings—wood, steel and copper. In fact, every detail of the printer'sart was to be seen, the ex- hibits going back to the fifteenth gentury, and then in comparison is shown the progression of each successive age. There is an excellent collection of etch- ings, framed and unframed; such masters as Hadin, Rembrandt and Fortuny being well represented. The etchings are from ion of George H. Buckingham, . K. Vickery and A. 8. McDonald, Mayor Sutro has loaned a rare lot of Mexi- can and Spanish books and a few etchings which he gathered in the old country. The collection of engravings on wood, copper and steel are from various sources, V. K. Vickery, W. D. McCann, W. H. Reaser, George H. Mastick and others having contributed. A. M. Robinson fur- nishes the copper-press plant in operation, the artisans at work on plates specially pre- pared for thisexhibition forming an inter- esting feature. Of original drawings for books and ewspaper illustratior, Miss Hobart fur- The art de- with drawings by ahler, Fisher, Lewis, Partington and Van | Harlingen, is one of the attractive features | of the arts and craits display. | partments of the will remain in Japan about three months | and will then go to Europe via Hongkong. E. C. Troy, the auctioneer, was another passenger. He will buy a large assort- ment of Japanese goods in Yokohama and on his return will enter into competition with California-made articles. A great number of changes have taken | place in shipping circles during the past few days. Captain Green of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s St. Paul went out in command of the Umatilla, Oaptain Hunter being on the sick list. Captain Duggan is now master of the St. Paul. Captain Jacobson of the barkentine Con- suelo is also on the sick list, and Captain Friis will take th trip to the Hawaiian Islands. Chief En- gineer Holland, who has been laid up for over a year, was able to resume work last week and went out on the steamer Peru. Chief Engineer Rossiter, who filled his place, has been transferred to the steamer City of Sydney and Chief Engineer Don- nelly will take the Acapulco. It has been stated that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company was about to put the stern-wheeler Herald on the run between San Francisco and Berkeley. At present Piper, Aden, Goodall & Co.’s steamer Hope has the trade all to herself, ard as the Herald is steadily losing money for the railroad on the Valiejo run, Agent White is said to be looking around fora new field in which there is more money. When spoken to about the matiter yester- day, Harry Goodall laughed and said: *‘Let them goahead. The Hope just about pays expenses, and if the Southern Pacific thinks it can make any money by running | in opposition to us, let them try it.” Among the passengers who came up | San Jose de Guatemala on the | from on_t steamer City of Sydney were - Captain Nel- son and four men whq formed the crew of | the little steamer Santa Lucia when she left San Francisco last November. was built to tow tenders from the shore to the steamers, and when she leit here peo- ple said she would never reach her desti- nation. She isonly 48 feet long, 13 feet broad and 6 feet deeg, but she turned out to be a splendid seaboat. The run of 2800 miles was made on thir- teen tons of coal, but it was not until the | and 617 Sixth street, near Brannan. vessel out on her next | She | | The art de- xaminer and Chronicle are also represented. The department of lithography is com- plete in every detail. Illustrations of the swelled gelatine process, zine etching, or zincograph, the Gillot process, hali-tone, embossing, wax engraving and the chalk process, are on band in plentiful numbers, orming as a whole one of the most attrac- tive exhibits to be seen in the hall. Society apparently takes a deep interest in anything undertaken by the Guild of Arts and Craits, for they attended m force last night, The exhibition will close Jan- uary 25. THE HEALY INQUIRY. Nothing but Preliminaries Accom= plished So Far, as All the Wit- nesses Have Not Arrived. Very little progress, it is expected, will be made by the Healy board of inquiry | until all the witnesses against the Bear’s captain arrive. So far there has been nothing done beyond the preliminaries of organization in room 83 of the Appraisers’ building. The full personnel of the board as organ- ized is: Captain Daniel B. Hodgson of the Fessenden, stationed at Detroit, president; Captain Louis N. Stodder of the Manhat- tan, stationed at New York; Captain W. C. Couison of the Life-saving Servic Lieutenant Henry B. Rodgers, comman- der of the Hartley, recorder, and Lieuten- ant William E. Reynolds of the Wolcott, now_ at Sitka, prosecutor. Lieutenants Daniels and Emory of the Bear and As- sistant Dorey of the Perry are on hand as witnesses, but these are all up to date. The investigation may yet be an open one—that is, it isoptional with the accused to say whether it shall be secret or public. He has the right to demand a public i quiry, and as he has a large number of friends in the business world, all of whom would testify in his favor as to capability and efficiency, he may do so. ———————— Scott & McCord. Office and main warehouse remo ved to 615 NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. selberg, Siciuuds S =% 107=109 POST STRERET, 1220=1222.1224 MARKEZT TRERET. January Sales Extraordinary of Silks, Fine Ribbons, Dress Goods, Neck= wear, House Furnish= ings, Laces, Embroideries and Stamped Linens. It’s the regular January doings at our store, the bargain harvest of careful shoppers—only this year we are outdoing all of our previous Clearance Sale efforts. Never undersold—up-to-date things only is the K. S. & F. style of merchandising. Below a very few of This Week’s Golden Chances. Momie Crepe, 12ic grade, 5c. The cotton momie crepe that fancy evening dresses are made of—such colors as pink, yel- low, light blue, primrose, red, apole green, cream, white and black. Kaiki Wash ... before less Silks, 25¢c. tanswaard. 7500 yards of 1896 styles just received. Fully 100 atterns and color effects. They are full 20 nches wide, all silk, wash beautifully, make the most dressy and economical waists. Nowhere else 9 town at twiee Se. 75¢ SilKS 75 seasows styles. for 35c. Every piece perject. JACQUARD WOVE inches wide, dot figures, 20 patter: from 60c anu 75¢. Crinkle Crepe, A price that showld 15c grade, 10c. indues tiberat pur- chases. Heavy Crinkle Serpentine Crepe, in pink, cream, yellow, white, Nile green and electric blue oniy—color line ‘broken, hence the price cut. N SILKS, Taffeta finish, 20 | stripes, tiny checks, small and color effects, Reéduced | | . | EflgllSh The kind that g :Flannelettes. is ' fuzzy” on both sides. Wazr P Most artistic product | These are good patterns and desirable colors— Ribbons, 50c. ¥ thelomeershoun. | just bus them—necer mind why we sell 1970 Hannelettes for 81go a yard. Thavs the price The design is printed on the warp, then the rest of s week. Market street only for flannelettes, the ribbonis woven in and the result is the strikingly beautiful ribbon now so popular for neckwear, millinery, etc. The 3-inch width we Bave marked 500 yard, Other widtha and Linen Martet-street store styles, up to inches, , 65¢, T0c, 75¢ an H only for linens. 80c the yard., Specials. Y J HUCK TOWELS—17x36, all pure linen, IMITATION WARP PRINT RIBBONS, 3 fringed, the 1215c grade, for 10c each. inches, 85 yard. e Y HUCK TOWELS—26x45, all pure linen, Leavy, fringed, good value 4t 35¢, & bargain at sale price—25¢ each. HUCK TOWELS—27x45, all pure linen, hemmed, were 40c, come early if yon want some at 25¢ each. UNBLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, 66 inches, all linen, very heavy, 85¢ grade—clear- ance sale price 25¢ a yard. HALF BLEACHED GERMAN TABLE DAMASK, b4 inches wide, all linen, sofi fin- ish, last week 50c, this week 40c a yard. BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, 70 inches wide, satin finish, elegant designs; former price $1 25, now marked $1 a yard. Ostrich Feather z..;rich eatner Boas, $1.50. ity to. $4 50 Boas, 45 inches long: not_“skimpy,” but plenty of nice curly feathers. Now only $2 75. 83 Boas, 21 inches long, that tie at the throat with fine black satin ribbon, first quality and now only $1 50. Other grades, 21-inch Boas, at $2 50, X and $5 each. * 50,4809 Silkalines, 20c Kind, 12ic. Exactly as good as the 20c Silkolines of last 3 Fully a yard wide. Persian and flowered pat- terus. Dainty bedroom drapery these, Black Figured .500can Armures, 25c. afford ablack dress. We have just 20 pieces left, the patterns srs neat and pretty, color fast, width 45 inches, and price just one-half of any one else’s. Mar- ket-street store only for these. The new 1596 style—just in.