The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY <20, 1896 5 POOLROOM RAEN ROUGHLY HANDLED, Dr. Dille Says San Fran- cisco Is a Botany Bay of Vice. STIRRING RESOLUTIONS. Mass-Meeting Called by the Civic Federation Is Largely Attended. | [ | | [ | | | | 1 | | | rascal in every Ame WESLEY REID'S ABLE EFFORT. Dr. Carlos Martyn of Chicago Tells How Many Evils Can Be Corrected. City has been disgraced by ce of gambling dens known as pooi- ving on openly their nefarious rooms, car | you get w! evils of to-day is the present condition of affairs, that to the victor belongs the spoils.” The speaker then discussed the mew charter at considerable length, urging all zood people to work and vote for its adop- tion. .One feature, he said, which should commend it to the people, was the civil service reform clause. He urged all good men to sustzin it, because it was better than the present slipshod affair. Mr. Truman was followed by Charles Wesley Reid, one of the attorneys for the federation. He declared that people who favor a good general government look fi for the annihilation of municipal vils. *This kind of corruption,” he said, “interests every law-abiding citizen. It was not until 1850 that this kind of corrup- tion became popular. Boss Tweed got his clutches on New York, and his example has been followed by some greater or lesser can city of any size.” Mr. Reid then spoke of local evils, dwelling particularly. on the mcttnuhit‘ was impossible to locate a wrong, even | though it was.shown to exist. It should be s0,”” he continued, “‘that you could go say so and so exists, 1. The new char- Vote for that and 1tis no one-man- It is to the Mayor and and it would be cor ter embodies all thi hat you want. power affair, as has been claimed. | based on the constitution of the United |isalso faulty States. It gives the Supervisors power to e the laws and the Mayor power to enforce them.” Rev. Dr. Dille was the next speaker, and ma | followed the line for which everybody was SPEAKERS patiently waiting. Without any waste of time he pitched into the poolrooms and gambling in general, and for half an hour If that is wrong then this charter | POLICE AS DUCK-HUNTERS They Clear the Marshes in the Mission of Reckless Sportsmen. A RUSE THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL. Residents Who Appreciate the Great Good Done By the Mounted Policemen. | | 'The residents on Bernal Heights, along | the San Bruno and Mission ' roads, and in other outlying districts of the Mission are | congratulating themselves upon the eradi- cation of numerous evils since the advent oi the mounted policemen. | 1t was impossible with the limited num- | ber of men in the Mission to properly keep | a check upon the Ilawlessness of the | “tough” element in certain portions, al- | though creditable work was done, but now that the six mounted policemen and a | number of extra patrolmen have been as- | signed to that district, all under the | efficient leadership of Captain Gillin and | his able assistant Lieutenant Burke, there | is a marked change for good, which the residents have been quick to appreciate. | Oneof the greatest evils that has been | entirely done away with was from duck 1 THE CIVIC FEDERATION. AT THE MEETING OF [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] | TRUNMAN s, preparing a bezziers, defal- cators and petty thie isting ordinance 8 ling has been found 1 and whereas there is 7 e the Board of ps Ot ¢ sof gamb- iandle this ng an ordi- esolved, That as citizens of S in mass-meeting assembled, we demand the utter extermination of poolrooms, whether ried on under pretense of doing business on ion or whether they do &n open busi- nes ook-making; and to this end we favor the passage of the ordinance now pending, and we insist thet when ordinence shall be passed no poolroom shall be allowed to open its doors in our fair City. Resolved, further, That President C. B. Per- kins and Rev. Dr. Dille be authorized to pre- sent these resolutions to the Board of Super- visors. The above resolutions were unanimously adopted at the monster mass-meeting held at Odd Fellows’ Hall yesterday under the auspices of the > Federation to protest against municipal evils, not the least of which are the iniquitous poolrooms. Incidentally the new charter received its share of attention, Wesley Reid and Dr. Dille urging on the people assembled to fight for its passage as the one way to se- cure pure municipal government. As early as2:30 o’clock people began to dnift into the auditorium of Odd Fellows’ Hall, and half an hour later, when the time for opening arrived, the lower floor and gallery were taxed to their utmost. The stage, however, save for the bright- colored American flags and several large vases of flowers, was quite deserted. The minutes rolled swiftly by until half an hour had elapsed, and still the Civic Federation asa body did not appear. It began to be whispered around the hall that the poolroom men were responsible for this. They were presentin force, it was said, for the single purpose of breaking up the meeting. Just as confusion seemed on the eve of asserting itself, I. J. Truman, followed by some twenty members of the federation, marched on the stage. Tremendous ap- plause, probably the result of long pent-up enthusiasm, greeted their appearance, only to be repeated with renewed vigor when the master of ceremonies, in the person of Mr. 'l_rumln, arose to formally declare the meeting open. “We are here to-day,” he said, ““to better our civic affairs. All are interested in good government, good streets, good offi- cers, and, in fact, everything pertaining to & pure municipality, One of the greatest and wheress, the ex- | oung men and | entertained his hearers with graphic de- scriptions of the evils which follow such institutions. “We drove them out of Oakland,” he continued, *‘and incidentally the -corrupt | Council then in existence. They have been driven from the East, until now this, the fairest city of all, is coming to be the Botany Bav of vice. We have them now at the sea shore. Let us drive them in, and let them swim to the Farallones and zull the gulls. I haveiton good authority that $2,900,000 was stolen in one single vear and played on the races. Now, we propose to drive them out— drive them where messenger boys will not be tempted.” The next speaker was Dr. Carlos Martyn of Chicago. He is an apt, versatile talker, and for more than an hour entertained the audience with anecdote and example ap- propriate to the theme. Among other things be said: “One of the significant and ominous fea- tures in America to-day is the abnormal growth of cities. I can remember when the country influence predominated. To- day nearly one-third of our population is urban. The great cities of this country are the predominating power. I want to tell you confidentially, and it must not go beyond these walls, you have a bad name back East. Gambling is car- ried on with impunity. Yourpolice would be honest if they dared be—but they don’t dare. The spoils system is at the bottom of itall. Such a system would corrupt the Angel Gabriel. “The present apathy of the people re- minds me of the time when Vanderbilt was president of the New York Central road. Vanderbilt was told that the pub- lic demanded certain things, and his reply vas,'The public be d——n.’.In many things the public is an ass, but it does not exer- cise the privilege of the ass—that is, to kick. i “The way out of all this is to discard party politics in municipal affairs—be sim- ply citizens of San Francisco. Vote when the time comes and vote right. The man who will not take the time to go to the ballot-box, let him go to Russia, where the Czar rules. The man who is not inter- ested enough in good government to vote, disfranchise him. ‘Just here I want to say a word of the man who comes to America to be naturalized. We expect him to be an American, and not an Irish-American, a German-American or a Scandinavian- American.” and snipe hunters in the marshes off the San Bruno road, between Bernal Heights and the Bay City House. These men were | 50 reckless in their shooting that they be- came a terror to residents in the locality. It was no uncommon thing for live stock to be slaughterea by stray shots, and the lives of the occupants of the dwellings im- periled in the same way. As soon as the mounted policemen were detailed for duty in the Mission, about four weeks ago, Captain Gillin instructed them to rid the marsnes of these duck and snipe hunters. They gave prompt atten- tion to the order, but when they appeared on the marshes the hunters took refuge in their boats. The officers rode into the water till it covered their saddle girths and were forced to beat a retreat for fear of both horse and rider being drowned. The hunters simply sat in their boats and laughed at them. Captain Gillin then ordered three of the mounted men, who are all active and daring fellows, to dress themselves as duck hunters and go out to the marshes with their gnns. The ruse was successful, and several arrests were made. The effect has been all that could be desired, and now residents can sleep at nights without the fear of being rudely awakened by the | | shattering of their windows from the shot | of duck Lunters or finding in the mornin, that during the night a horse or cow ha been slaughtered. Another evil from which ranchers were the sufferers has been checked. Men would drive out to the ranches in a wagon, seize a calf or sheep and throw it quickly into the wagon and drive off to Butcher- town and dispose of the animal. The loss sustained by the ranchers from this prac- tice has been very great, but the mounted volicemen have put an end to these depre- dations. The “tough’’ element on Bernal Heights | has been overawed by the presence of the mounted men. Formerly they could easily get away from a patrolman, but they find it impossible to outstrip a horse, and the use of a good club has had a beneficial ef- fect in checking their turbulence, and peaceable citizens can now go to their homes at nights without the fear of being lvrnylaid and beaten by balf-drunken hood- ums. The mounted men cover the territory from South San Franciszo to the county linehand across to Mount Olympus, day an night. HE WANTS HIS BOY. M. Waddill Willing to Let His Eloping Wife Go if He Can Get the Child. ‘W. M. Waddill, the Jessic- street barber whose wife ran away a few days ago, tak- ing the three-year-old boy with her, is w. He is willing to allow his wife to depart in peace if sne will leave the child. Waddill is making a still hunt for his wife about the City. He says that she is either in_hiding in San Francisco or has gone to Portland, Or. There is a possibility that the young wife has returned to her parents in Mon- treal. As stated in yesterday’s CALL, Mrs. ‘Waddill isa white woman, and the fact that she selected a colored man for her husband rather displeasel the family. Lately a truce has been raised between her- self and parents. 7 ‘Waddall is an industrious fellow and has several hundred dollars to his credit in the bank, AT PARK AND BEACH. But Little Damage Done by the Storm. The Work of Improvement Going On. The sky being hung with heavy clouds yesterday and there being no certainty that the storm was over, notwithstanding the *“fair”’ tlag that floated from the staff on the top of the Mills building, many | peovle were kept away from the park. The small number who did go went to the con- servatory, where there are now a great number of very rare parasites in bloom, displaying many colored blossoms, and to the museum to look at the curios. A few venturesome male and female cyclers appeared on the drives, but the way their wheels picked up moist real es- tate and threw it on their backs made cy- cling decidedly unpleasant. The fallen tower is being removed by a gang of men who,are in the employ of G. Goodman, who had a lien on the tower for $750 for the laying of the concrete founda- tion on which it rests. The tunnel on the north side of the grand court is finished, and if the weather permits work on the tunnel on the north side will be commenced this week. This tunnel, which is to be 20 feet wide and 120 feet long, will have its northern exit between Ninth and Tenth avenues and within 150 feet of Fulton street. It will be under the main drive. During the week but two days’ time was lost on account of the stormy weather. Considerable work has been done in the way of grading and much of the ground is in such a condition that within a month tree-planting will commence. ‘Work on the brick addition to the mu- seum is progressing rapidly. The walls of the first story are already up, and as soon as the storm abates the workmen will be directed to hasten the work: The new lodge has so far advanced that the workmen are now putting in the doors and windows. The interior plastering is all on. The walls of the Commissioners’ office will be covered with embossed paper 1 imitation of leather; the dining-room | walls will be covered with burlap, and sev- eral of them will be hard-finished in white, while others will be ficished in natural wood. g o The storm of Friday night did but little damage in the park. There were a few washouts, but none that cannot be filled with a few loads of soil. At Buena Vista Park, which is under control of the Com- missioners, there was a slide on the east bank that carried away nearly a hundred tons of earth. Thousands of people visited the beach in the hope of seeing the angry waves of the ocean chasing one another and raising their crests in racing for the shore, but in this they were disappointed, for the ocean was comparatively calm. The recent storm did considerable damage to glass on the south side of the new Cliff House, many panes being smashed. Nearly all by yesterday noon had been replaced. FELL FAOM A BALLOON. 1 Millie Viola’s Accident in Getting Ready for a Parachute Jump. The Young Woman Had Gone Upward Only Fifteen Feet When the Rope Broke. The balloon ascension at the Haight- street grounds yesterday was a faiiure, and Mss Millie Viola, who started on a voyage to the clouds, fell fifteen feet and hurt her back and spine. The announcement was that Miss Viola, sister of the young woman who afew weeks ago made a successful ascent from the same place, would go up on a trapeze hung to the balloon, and that when in midair she wounld give a performance on the swinging bar. During the afternoon the work of in- flating the balloon was commenced and several thousand people watched the op- Miilic Viola. [From"a photograph.] eration, but before the balloon was half inflated the rain began and the majority of the crowd deserted the grounds. Miss Viola was asked if the inflating of the balloon should be stopped. She re- plied that she would go up, rain orno rain. The work of filling the immense bag with gas and smoke continued, and at 4:30 o'clock it was nearly full. The parachute was ~attached to the mouth of the bag, the lines were stretched and the trapeze was held in position for the aeronaut. The latter appeared accom- anied by her sister and a curly-haired ittle boy. The word ‘‘ready” was given and Miss Viola, throwing off a coat, stood in para- chute costume. She kissed the poy ana her sister, took her seat on the bar and grasped the side ropes. The order ““let go'’ was given. All holds were released, the balloon rose slowly, moving to the north- ward. When the aeronaut was about fif- teen feet from the ground she leaned back- ward, as if to make a turn on the bar, when all of a suaden the erlchu(e parted from the balloon and fell to the ground with the young woman, the batloon con- tinuing upward. Miss Viola struck the ground and was buried under the parachute. She was aided to her feet and her first exclamation was, It was a failure.” Then she com- plained of pains in her back and the back of her head, but in a moment she recoy- ered and said, *If they can get the balloon back I'll go up anyhow.” There was no danger of getting the bal- loon back just then and the ascension was given up for the d: e The Presbyterians of the world main- tain one-fourth of the evangelical foreign ‘anxious to regain possession of the child. missionaries of the world. HILL TELLS HIS STORY, Declares He Has Not Seen His First Wife in Over Six Years. ANXIOUS FOR THE DIVORCE, The Former Druggist Says His Finan- cial Troubles Are Due to His Erring Wife. 1f the story told by H. W. Hill is true, the account of his recent escapades as re- lated by his wife are untrue. Mr. Hill denies that he has ever been East or anywhere else with his first wife, from whom he was divorced five years ago. He says he has not seen Mrs. Hill No. 1 in six years, and has no desire to see her now. “The whole story is a neat little scheme got up by my wife and her attorney to give the former some little prestige in the theatrical world. I have been right here in San Francisco at 1031 Market street, and she knows it. As for going East with my former wife, that is sheer nonsense. True, this lady is now beyond the Mississippi, but I have not seen her. “I notice that this woman says I have | meeting places. ! T of the meeting balls are engaged for every | night in the_week, and we are receiving | offers from Western Addition social and dauncing clubs, society cotillons and many fraternal societies.” Witn one exce‘)tion the meeting halls are finished. They are elegantly fur- nished, officers chairs’ and desks having | been specially designed on massive lines and in solid carved oak. ornamented with | emblems of the ordér and of California. The canopies are all exquisite efforts in | drapings with rich silks and velvets. With | the addition of costly carpets and ample | electroliers these halls are attractive and | have already become very popular as| The assembly hall and ball room is the | largest of the kind in town and quite ef- | fective, and-the Natives are very proud of it. The new library and reading rooms are handsomely furnished and better pat- ronized than were the old ones. Already the new building is a favorite rendezvous of Native Sons, and when it will have been dedicated, as rental contracts now indi- cate, it is certain to be a grand success | financially as well as in every other feature. ———————— HE ROBBED HIS FRIEND. An Oregon Youth Broke Into the Rooms | of the Man Who Helped Him. Harry Allbright, cashier and night clerk at the Palace restaurant, on Market street, near Fifth, took in Harry Donohue, a | young man who came from Ashland, Or., five days ago, fed him and let his occupy | part of his room. Last night he had Don- ohue arrested for burglary. Allbright knew Donohue’s people in Ashland, and so he was kind to the young fellow. He told Donohue a few days ago that he expected $500 from friends in the East. He also told him that only a short NAOMI HILL, THE CHILD WHO IS FIGURING IN THE DIVORCE TROUBLES, the time when the gospel would again be restored, and when the Eingdom would n be set up in the last days (Rev. , 6-7. Daniel ii, 44-5).- And we the Latter Day Saints testify that that anzel hascome (Rev. xiv, 6-7) and that Joseph Smith was the instrument in the hands of the Lord in restoring the gospel in thisday with all ite glorious gifts and blessings as of old. Rev. Mr. Martyn to Speak. Rev. Carlos Martyn, D.D., known as the “Parkhurst of Chicago,” will deliver an ad- dress to the Presbyterian Ministerial Union at its meeting at 10:30 o'clock this morning, in the Home of the Occidental Board £ mento street, on the subject of Citizenship.” S —————— NEW TO-DAY. B S S e e e S The January issue of The Black Cat (150,000 3¢ copies) was sold out in ten days. * The Black Cat FOR FEBRUARY X TiApAtop Tales Ghosts ! Adventure! Mystery ! Love! Al original, all captivating, all copy- righted, all complete, and FeA AR T O X 8 38 A A 2 2 A e K A A e Ak ek kR Akt 44 30Ok All for Cents. Of newsdealers. If yours hasn't it, and won't get it for you, gel another newsdealer. If you haven't a dealer.send us stamps for “the most fascinating five_ci earth.” The Shortstory pany, Boston, Mass. ts' worih on Publishing Com- not contributed anything toward the sup- port of her and the child for seven months. That is absolutely untrue. 1 have given her §10 every week for the support of the child, but I'shall do that no more until this affair is settled. On my return from Los Angeles four months ago we resumed our old-time relations and I continued to live with her until about five weeks ago. She then left me because I could not sup- port her as well as formerly. We lived very happily tozether until she became stage-struck. That was her ruin and my undoing. “It was her extravagance that broke me up in business. Why, just think of it, she had $700 worth of diamonds which I had boughtfor her at various times, and in order to buy fine clothes she pawned them for $400. Some time after she left me she said that if I would raise $2000 she would return. She wanted me to borrow the money from my brotner in Spokane, who, it so happens, is cashier of the First Na- tional Bank there. Irefused to do any- thing of tue kind, and I have not seen her since, except when I called to pay the $100 for the support of my child. “The only thing I want now is my baby girl. If ber attorney would only serve those papers on me, I could force her to bring the child into court. Asit is now she has hidden my little girl, and I can do absolutely nothing toward rescuing her.” NATIVES [N THEIR HOME, Seven Parlors Meet in the New Building on Mason Street. The N. S. G. W. Hall Will Be Dedi- cated February g—Grand Ball for the Opening. The magnificent new building of the Native Sons of the Golden West, on Mason street, is now so near completion in every detail that many members of the hall association believe that at a meeting to- morrow evening it will be decided to for- mally dedicate the building on February 9, and ceiebrate on February 11 with a grand ball and reunion of parlors. All building contracts cailed for com- pletion of the work early this montk, but on second thought the directors of the hall association concluded to make extensive changes in the plan of the ladies’ recep- tion-rooms. This necessitated alterations in the cor- ridors adjoining, all of which cansed un- expected delay. However. the contractors are now under heavy penalties to have the remaining work finished before February 9, and present progress indicates that nothing will remain to be done in the building on that date. Only the balustrade and marble flooring of the main stairway leading to the first story, the high marble wainscoting of the entrance, stairway and some alterations in the ladies’ recep- tion - rooms_and furnishing the grand assembly hall are yet to be finished. A large force of workmen were busy yes- terday in the unfinished parts of “the ouilding, and many more will be put upon the work to-day. The tuilding was visited by a large number of Native Sons during the day, as the new headquarters were ready to receive them. *‘We have closed the old rooms in the Pioneer building,” said a member of the association. *‘All the furniture we had there was presented to the Salvation Army, and our rooms furnished here anew. Seven lors are meeting here now. and have g::n all this month. This in itself is a considerable saving inrent. Already some | monies from paganism and thought by so 3 time before Mrs. Burke, who with her hus- | band, Colonel E. J. Burke, occupies the restof the flat at 919 Powell street, had | won §1000 in a lottery. It is thought that Donohue expected to get this money. The boy broke into the flat on Saturday night at 10 o’clock. He took a lamp and started to o through the rooms occupied by the Burkes, but was heard by the colonel, wno arose at once. This fright- ened the young man, who hurriedly went back to Allbrignt’s room. Then Donohue cléared out, taking a number of valuables. Allbright was telling Policeman Perry | of the case last night, when Dononhue | passed. Allbright called to him and had him arrested. ——— - A MORMON DISCOURSE. Elder Scowcroft of Utah Talks to a Sun- day Evening Congregation. Elder Willard Scowcroft of Ogden ad- dressed a congregation at Friendship Hall, 909 Market street, last evening on the res- toration of the Gospel and itsobject. He said that in the days of our Lord and Savior and his Apostles there were many great vrivileges and blessings that foi- lowed the believers. 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