The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1896, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 10nn AUTUs YOUNG LADIES DECLARE WAR Leap-Year Rights and Privi- leges Cause Trouble in Alameda. GIRLS MEAN BUSINESS. “Kissing Must Come With En- gagement Rings” Is the Proclamation. MEN ORGANIZE FOR DEFENSE. They Attempt to Compel the Enemy to Arbitrate by Swearing Not to Marry. There are troubles in the Transvaal, Armenian life is hard, some rapid Spanish is being spoken in Venezuela and Cuba, and warclouds are everywhere except over China and Japan, but the most serious disturbance yet reported has just broken out across the bay in the fair little city of Alameda. The girls of the Encinal City have issued & proclamation in the secret circles of their society that they will notallow young men to kiss them before they are engaged. This uitimatum, hurled at the enemy in the very beginning of a leap year, has caused consternation in the ranksof the young men. The latter want to arbitrate, but the girls refuse to yield a single oscu- latory point and intend to stand firmly for the ancient matrimony doctrine. They propose—and the girls have the right of proposing in leap year—to put an end to the tnfling with their affections, and the young man who wants to indulge n Alameda kissing will first have to es- tablish treaty relations with *‘papa.” It was early last week that the decision was agreed upon at a meeting of young women and the next day about every girl in the city had heard and indorsed. The young men heard of it, too, for they were brought face to face with the situa- tion. Thena lot of them held a conference to decide what measures should be adopted in defense. Arbitration was discussed, but the news was received that there could be neither arbitration nor appeal. Then the men determinea to adopt a policy as strict and severe as tbat of the young women to compel resort to arbitration, and a bachelors’ union was organized. The members of the club have pledged themselves not to form any “entangling alliances” this year; neither to marry nor become engaged. That is the condition of affairs at pres- eut, and wkile it exists there will be no weddings and the kissing will be limited strictly to the gentler sex. With the beauty and the bravery for which Alameda is noted, however, there will undoubtedly be sharp battles and long sieges, but the girls i t that they will cling to their principles even if they don’t have any young men to cling to. The charter members in the anti-matri- mony organization are prominent at Ala- meda and the girls admit that all of them would make good husbands. They T. C. Stoddard, the postmaster; Dr. rn, City Mearshal Rogers, Al C. P. Smiley, J. A. Munro, A. P. Stefvater, Lawyer W. M. Simpson, City Recorder A. F. St. Sure, P. A. Kearney, Louis Schoneau, A. G. Burns, Charles Nelson, Marcus H. Wiggin, Charles Flet- ter, George Odell, John Lucich, George J. Foster, Dexter Gilbert, Robert Mitchell, Homer Farris, James Wilson, Hans Hum- mel, George Manley, John Lubben, Albert Schumacher, Robert Brower, George Mc- Rae, Fred Schuman, Charles Frost, Thomas Hanson, A. Koerber, Frank Fa- bens, Walter Osborn, Will Hebard, Charles Hebard, Thomas Ernst, Henry Miller, Ed- ward Cleveland, Louis Fischer, William McKean and J. A. Powell. The girls are not troubled by the array of the organized bachelors, however, and they say that the young men have merely taken this opportunity of issuing a leap- year manifesto to show that they are un- married. One rule of the bachelors is that any member attending more than two leap- year parties during the year will be fined $10. Another is thata member seen in the company of any one young lady more than three consecutive times must pay $5 to the club treasury. Sunday evening calling is entirely prohibited by the con- stitution. ‘“We have learned all about the organ- ization,” said one of the Alameda young ladies last night, “and every member of it will be blacklisted. We are going to have rules, too, and one will be to invite no member of that club to a leap-year party. There are plenty of nice young men out- side of Alameda, you know. The rule about Sunday-evening calling we will ex- tend to the entire week, and the men will see that we have the be st of the battle.”” GOVERNMENT AID ASKED, Masons Wish to Communicate With Their Imprisoned Brethren. Impression That Some Repgrtl of the Transvaal Affair May Have Been Exaggerated. Much concern continues to be mani- fested in the City and State regarding the condition of the Americans imprisoned in the Boer capital. Yesterday’s dispatches would lead one to 1magine that Hammond, Cecil Rhodes’ principal agent, had been specially singled out for a species of scapegoat. An influential Mason of the City, speak- ing on the subject, stated that-he had been credibly informed that the Masonic fraternity in California intended doing something in order to relieve their breth- ren among the prisoners, four of whom are said to be Californians. He added: ““The preliminary steps will be taken to- night. State Grand Master Preston, head of the Masonic order in Calfornia, will telegraph President Cleveland, petitioning him to use his influence to the end that a dispatch from the Masons here may reach their incarcerated comrades in the Trans- vaal and receive an immediate reply. Until this reply comes the order will prob- ably take no decided stand in the matter.” About midnight Major R. P. Hamumond, the imprisoned mining engineer’s brother, (stated that Grand Master Preston had sent the following dispatch to the aunthorities at Washington: NEVADA CITY, January 25, 1896. Hon. Richard OU Secretary of State, Wash- ington, D. C.: John Hays Hammond and other Masons are imprisoned in South Africa. Be- lieve all messages to and from there are inter- cepted by the Boer Government. Will you secure assurance that my cable to them will be delivered to them? We desire to communicate with them as American citizens and Masons. Your answer by wire prepaid, M. PRESTON. Grand Master of Masons ot California. “We wish our Government to take this matter in hand. The thing should be made an_international matter. What's the use of treating with a faraway Consul whom nobody has seen for five days? The Government should take a hand without bothering with petty diplomatic courte- sies. 1 have asked Mr. Preston to keep me informed on the matter at my expense. I hope something will soon be done to show other nations that Americans may safely rely upon the protection of their Government.” In view of .the later reports from the Transvaal, the committee which was making arrangements for a mass-meeting at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday decided to postpone the meeting in- AFTER GAME BY SLEIGH, Thrilling Hunting Experience of C. M. Grunwaldt in Kamschatka. GRAPPLED WITH BIG HORN. | He Employs Thousands of Skilled Na- tive Trappers—Queer Life on Saghalien Island. Constantine Grunwaldt, agent of the | Russian Fur Company holding conces- | sions in Kamschatka, the island of Sag- halien and parts of East Siberia, has arrived here, after many months’ absence in the hunting and trapping grounds. Mr. Grunwaldt is from Moscow, Russia. will have changed to green and a few weeks later rosebushes will be in bloom and woodbine-berries and raspberries will be ripe; but soon, at the end of July at most, swallows depart, and sometimes on the first days of September the last sea- breeze of the season is enjoyed. About the first of October snow has fallen again, the trees stand leafless and in November the inner harbors are covered with ice. **At this time in Petropavlofsk the per- manent winter road .is established for Carrying passengers and goods on small sleighs called ‘narta,’ to which eleven, thirteen and sometimes fifteen dogs are harnessed. It is more exciting to make a trip in those little sleighs than to trip the troliey or to shoot thé chutes, but for heaven’s sake don’t try to drive in bloom- ers. The usual dress for such an expedi- tion is high boots (inside and outside fur) and a coat, with cap of the same material. This coat, called ‘kuklanka,’ is not fit for a Saturday promenade on Kearny or Mar- ket streets, but 1t is warm and handsome for Kamschatska’s long winter. . “Itis supposed that Kamschatka is rich in gold and next year it will be prospected for this purpose by the Russian Govern- ment. “*Saghalien was not long ago a Japanese island. Now it is a Russian criminal sta- tion. Criminals are sent from Russia to thisisland by a steamer of the Russian volunteer fleet. After their arrival on the e e ; b e U e dmtl iy G f Ty~ g N i L el & MR ey W flm Il e ———————————— e —————__ B 4t el 1 P"{“flb‘!!!h ] .l!L, nL‘ i 8 CR i | Y 4 fifi%. J 4 1, 5 ;(!!‘Sfi(/{/{f ,1/ 'Ui wm””%f“ . - 1 ol o O I gl o b w i :M “mm . UL, 1 ’/ il i The Town of Petropavlofsk, Capital of Kamschatka, in Summertime. It Has 360 Inhabitants. [Drawn from a photograph brought by Mr. Grunwaldt.) definitely. Walter Turnbull of the Gold Mining Exchange, who is the committee’s president, when asked the reason for ihe vostponement replied : “‘It looks as though the case of the im- prisoned Americans_had been somewhat exaggerated. The latest dispatches fail altogether to confirm the harrowing de- tails with which the earlier messages teemed. Until we are positive that there is some reason for believing our fellow- | citizens unjustly and tyrannically de- vrived of their liberty, the committee sees no reason for calling a mass meeting and | obtained a practical experience in taking | getting people worked up over something which may not be worth the trouble.” EEPT THE PREMIUMS, J. A. Linforth, Insurunce Broker, Ar- rested for Embezzlement. J. A. Linforth, an insurance broker, was arrested on Friday night on a warrant charging him with misdemeanor embez- zlement. His case came up before Judge Conlan yesterday morning and was con- tinued till Thursday. The complaining witness is L. Ramon, but others who have complained to the police against him are: Mrs. J. A. Ray- mond, 264 Turk street; A. E. Bartholdi, 1113 Valencia street;.A. 718 Twenty-first street; Heffelman & Mc - J. Mrs. Purnell, | | This company employs many hundreds of | men.. They traverse vast wastes, moving | in winter in sledges drawn by dogs in order to bring in their furs. : | They take the white bear, sable, red and [ blue foxes, mink, beaver and other ani- | mals, which may be found in profusion in | these remote and interesting regions. | While Mr. Giunwaldt was in Kam- | schatka he went out' with some of his | skilled trappers in the dog caravan, and | wild animals, | character. | Sometimes the hunting is done on horse- | back, “A hunting trip in Kamschatka fur- | nishes the most enjoyable of any kind of [ sport,” said Mr. Grunwaldt last night at | the Occidental. *‘This is, provided he is | strong enough to be satisfied with a bad horse, baa food and a hard bed; but who | thinks about luxuries when he is fortunate | enough to kill a bear and shoot a big horn! Fishing 1s done by the natives in a very primitive manner. Herring,king salmonand which was largely of a novel | many different kinds of common salmon | | are there in great quantities,and are the usual food for man, dogs and bears. “The dog is not allowed more than one ! fish a day, and never before working. The island they are put in irons and sent to work in the conlp mines or on the roaas. | After a certain time the irons are taken off | and the criminal is allowed more freedom | if he behaves himseli. Even here the | watchword is, ‘Be good, my boy.' I saw thousands of tnese criminals. ‘ “The southern part of Sazhalien is suited | to agricultural purposes that had no suc- | cess in Kamschatka. Both of these coun- tries would make a greater success in cattle-breeding than in anything else. ‘‘The Saghalien sables amount to about 5000 a year; they range lower in quality |and in price than'those of Kamschatka, because they are killed too early in the season. Efforts are being made to stop this disastrous kind of hunting. “Fish manure, seaweed and the cele- brated Saghalien grasses are other articles of export, Since lastyear the lumber busi- ness has increased very much. “A trip to either Saghalien or Kam- schatka is aelightful for a man who wouid | like to live a couple of months without | society and forego the happiness of leap | year.” | * Mr. Grunwaldt is on his way back to'St. | Petersburg, where most of the men form- ing the Russian Fur Company reside. Tie Football Game. The Comus Athletic Club of the Mission and combination eleven composed of former stu- Mr. Grunwaldt on His Hunting Trip in Kamschatka. The Second Man in the Sleigh is Mr. Grunwaldt. [Drawn from a photograph.] Nulty, Mission and Sixteenth streets, and 0. A. Adams, 208 Turk street. 3 Linforth has been in the habit of secur- ing insurance policies, and-instead of pay- ing the premiums collected to the com- panies which he represented he has been appropriating the money to his own uses lng purposes. He signed the receipts in his own name as representing the com- panies. % As the insurance companies have never received the premiums all the policies have been canceled, and the people who paid the premiums te Linforth are the sufferers, —————— Coming Woman’s Congress. The board of managers of the Woman’s Con- gress Association held its usual weekly meet- ing yesterday. Mrs. Lovell White and Mrs. George W. Haight were added to the board. It was reported that President Jordan, Rabbi Voorsanger, Mrs. Lovell White, Mrs. Mary A. Swift. Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper and others had sig- nified their acceptance of a place on the pro- gramme. The question of the timé of the con- gress was reconsidered, with the result thatit will open on May 11, s week later than was originally intended. An effort is being made o secure one of the theatres as its scene, fish is eaten salted and dried. Some ofthe medical authorities believe that leprosy is the result of the unusually large consump- tion of fish. “The counrtry is rich in furs as well as fish. TFor instance there are about 4000 sable taken every year, 4000 bearskins, and thousands on lamuumh of skins of red foxes, squirrels, deeranc elk, besides many big-horn sheep. : “‘These, with the skins of other animals, are all taken by aboriginal hunters and are turned over to us. My own hunting trip over the snow was exceeding inter- esting, though at times it was very cold. I went clad in heavy furs and slept out on the snow. “‘Kamschatka’s climate is not a warm one and earthquakes are not scarce. - The average number of earthquakes in a year in Petropaylofsk, the capital, which has 360 people, is about 4.6. The maximum of the thermometer is about 82 degrees above zero and the' minimum about 50 degrees below. The barometer maximum js 30.89, the minimum 28.20. ‘‘It is wonderful to see how quickly the grass and other wild products grow in this art of the world. In two weeks after the ast day when it wassnowing everything dents of the Crocker School and their friends met on the Central Park gridiron yesterday afternoon and divided the honors of the game, the mud and water of the field and the gate receipts equally, after two, K twenty-minute halves. Evans of Trinity School distinguished ‘himself for effective line plunges, while Koster made himself equally noticeable by dropping every pass for a punt. Following are the details and the players as they opposed each other: Touchdowns, in fiest half only—Comuses 1, by Lamont; Crocker 1, by Evans. No goals. Score, 4 to 4. i Ofticials — Umpire, “Kid” Hilborn, U. C.; referce, Castleman, Peerless Club; linesman, Davidson, Y. M. C.A. Attendence; 240. Position. Comus. L. end'R.. C The combined ages of sixteen persons at a birthday part; Goldsberry in day, at the home of John rankfort, Ind., the other footed up 1424, | vious affairs of the kind this AFTER THE FRANCHISE, The Ashbury Heights and Carl- Street People Are Thor- oughly Hot. MR. VINING'S METHOD DISLIKED Citizens Are Tired of Tracks Through Their District Upon Which Cars Do Not Run, The suit filed by D. E. Westover of the Ashbury Heights and Stanyan-street Im- provement Club against the Market-street Railway for forfeiture of the franchise on the streets south of Golden Gate Park is in the natural order of things. The 'rail- road company is occupying those streets in that locality with its tracks and no cars are ever run up Masonic avenue to Frederick street, thence to First avenue, though tracks were laid long ago and the franchise calls for a regu- lar service. On the Carl-street branch cars are run every thirty minutes from 6 to 10 in the forenoon and from 5 to 11:30 in the evening. At the junction of Clayton and Page streets, which is a transfer station, there is no station, not even a shelter from the rain. The railroad erected a small shanty on the sidewalk open to the south and the winter storms. The Carl-street tracks are so little nsed that they get covered up with sand, conse- quenily the car is often off the track at night. Passengers who are weary of wait- ing with their transfers for the appear- ance of that solitary car, and who wish to continue on by another street line, are put off by the conductors, although itis all one system—the Market-street Railway The Ashbury people stood this for years, and finding that pétitions and visits to the raiiroad officials were useless went to law, and the first railroad franchise forfeited was due to their efforts. ““This is only the first case,” said At- torney George A. Rankin, yesterday, ‘‘for there will be many more. I can assure you that there is hardly an existing street railway franchise in the City that wiil hold together in a courtof Jaw. The companies have changea and twisted their plans around from the original specifications till there is little similarity between the de- signs in the franchise and those in the lines as constructed. They have made their changes without taking the slightest trouble to consult with the City authori- ties. They have changed from cable to electric, double to single track at their own sweet will. “One would fancy their bondholders would object to such recklessness. Wher- ever a change has been made without law- ful authority the franchise has been im- periled, and there will be a heap of trouble for them some day. “In one of our interviews with Colonel Crocker he told us that they had a suit upon their hands relating to the validity of their bonds, and just as soon as that litigation was ended the Market-street Railway Company would see that we got a first-class service. But the suit was ended and so were all chances of that first-class service, for the railroad people afterwards wld us that they had concluded not to do anything. “‘Just as soon as this street-car octopus— right here let me say that the other part of the Southern Pacific neverapproached the degree of tyranny possessed by the octopus which San Francisco is permitting to take possession of her streets—just as soon as this street-car cuttle-fish gets its iron tentacles into the few. thoroughfares that are left, away will go the transfers. Then we will all pay many fares where we now pay one. Don't you fondly imagine Huntington and his man Vining are going to let you get out of one car into another without that other nickel. ““The fare should be less than 5 cents for a ride across this city, but it will never be less than a nickel. They are now com- plaining that they lose piles of monez by the few transfers the newsboys pick up. How many of these little tickets do you suppose these little fellows aispose of? At Market and Powell streets about 100 per day get into the boys’ hands. Even that is too large an nverage, and fifty would be nearer the truth. Now, about fifty of those who get them from the boys would not ride otherwise, but under the induce- ment of a newspaper they accept the trans- fer and ride. “So the railway company, at a big es- timate, loses fifty nickels—$2 50—about what it pays a first-class spotter. “‘We of Ashbury Heights and south of the park have stood Vining snd his methods long enough. He has tried to | cut that little strip of territory between | the park and the mountain to the south from the rest of the City. He has all of the car franchises running into that nar- Tow territory and he will give the peovle no service. ‘‘But this is the commencement of sey- eral years of li:igntion which the Market- street railway will have on its hands.’’ TWO BIG CELEBRATIONS, Preparing to Observe Emmet’s Birthday and St. Pat- rick’s Day. Anniversaries Dear to the Irish Heart Will Be Celebrated With Fit- ting Ceremonies. There will be two big celebrations by citizens of Irish birth and tradition in March. One will be on March 4, Emmet’s birthday, and the other on March 17, St. Patrick’s day. The Emmet affair will be under the auspices of the Knights of the Red Branch and the Irish National Alliance. Metro- politan Hall will be the scene of the cere- monies, and Colonel John Finerty of Chi- cago, journalist, orator and soldier, will be the star attraction. The colonel is now on his way to California, delivering lec- tures on the old but ever new subject of Irish independence, in the larger towns and cities. The tour is made under the auspices of the Irish National Alliance of America. The K. R. B. members in this City are very active just now in making arrange- ments for the reception of Colonel Fin- erty and the celebration of the anniversary of Emmet’s birthday. g The celebration of St. Patrick’s day will be conducted on an elaborate scale by the Irish-born citizens of San Francisco. Already committees are at work making the necessary arrangements. ‘There was no public observance of the day last year. Therefore an extra effort will be made to have a celebration that will eclipse all pre- ‘ear. The general committee has called a meeting for Sunday afternoon next, at K. R. B. Hall, corner of O'Farrell and Ma- son streets. Reoresentatives from all the Irish societies in the City, both National and religious, have been invited to attend. The manner of the public demonstration will be decided upon «t the meeting. 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