The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1896, Page 7

i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1896. AMUSEMENTS. 1A ThE «In 014 Kentucky.” N THEATE February 3, * COLUMBIA THEAT MoRrosc High-Class Vaudevllle. B ALCAZAR.—“A Canting Scoundrel. PuspsT. THEAT ncle Tom's commencing sunday ) February 2. GATE HALL—Lectu Mr. J. 7. ndon. Friday evening, January 81, LROVER'S NEw t¥ HaLi—-Symphony and Popular certs, Friday, January 31, 8t 3:15 P. M. CooPER MEDICAL COLLEGE.—Lane Lectures. aily at Haight street, CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. :ht Club has Incorporated. esu predicts fair weather The Corin tt's will was filed for probate yes- ves $50,000 to relatives. n M. Gougar will give temperance this City on March 13, 14 and 15. s Martyn. will lecture on “The st Central M. E. Church Sunday B p n of Los Angeles reports that sheep are ing by the thousands in Santa Barbara County. 2 Donovan and J. S. Swan addressed riy-fourth Assemoly District Repubii- last night. Mayor Sutro signed the order prohibiting the sale of burial lots 1n the cemeteries within the City limits yesterday. Neal Hughes, who was married to Miss Mabel Tyler in’ Chicago in 1894, is suing to have his marriage annulled. ‘harges of drunkenness and gravely insult- ing behavior on the part of Captain Healy were investigated yesterday. The Grand Jury will be asked to inv: gate the acts of . A. Hyde while acting as presi- dent of the Board of Education. Belle of Stonewall, Sam Leake, Hidago, Howard 8, All Over and Ida Sauer captured | races at the Bay District yesterday. The Supreme Court has decided a knotty | oroblem in horee-trading between Thomas H. | Villiams, Mike Kelly and Porter Ashe. Otto Dobbertin, the sculptor, has presented > Press Club with a bust of J. Ross Jac of the founders of the organization. g Richard I. Whelan | 00 for attaching his e . Townsend was received by the | osis Club vesterday and entertai he ladies with readings from his own books. J. W. Bruner, & member of the commit- tee on inspection of public ins replies | to Dr. Weil about the Receiving Hospital. Bernard Donnelly, 1901 re street, EWOre out & warr: vesterday tfor the arrest of ) 3. F. Ramacciotti on the ch of forgery. Judge Campbell severely , who ,J. A. Filcher, manager of the State Board of | Trade, has returned from Atlanta and tells of | ciories won by California at the big ex- wittee of the Board of Super- to recommend ving, h of parations for the Mardi Gras ball at Inst e on the 18th are under way, aad all the committees appointed. t was sworn out vesterday by Mrs, Phyhooff, 204 Turk street, for the J.'Linforth on the charge of ormally opened to- nd officers treet line ¥ 0 les Mayne | With g Hos- | e Mrs.J. W. Bruner | ration indicted by the | ers vesterday organized es from the mechani- tment, as authorized by dof § isors. ¥ & Southern Pacific gton was on his way ht the bill to re- that State. g her son, Plerre maintenance, Her a month each, and vel the defendant to | dren pa court to e 1 upon the | an of the Chronicle for x ted ia his | lay for ed he ¢ mitted suicide. i min ured at Metropoli- | hton *A Trip Through ths ccture was one of the Cathe | m e. and was heard the house. ik nheim, the German | 1 people, held their | the establishment the ¢ he organi- u fine financial condition. fire underwriters have determined Monterey next Tuesday for the ing undisturbed sessions there hact on rates. They could | ’ity, as business constantly attendance at meetings. | n the suit for $825,000 of the Carson City € Company against the North Star Min. ing Company, involving the extra lateral rights of the latter corporation, United States Circuit Judge Beatty has taken the questipn of +he admissibility of evidence under sdvise- ment until Saturday. NG T E Popel, assistant cashier of the New York Life Insurance Company at St. Louls, who is charged with having embezzled $8000, was seen at the races in this City. The American Burety Company, which secured him on heavy bonds, has been searching for him for some days. Hesquandered the stolen coin on pools. A Collector in Trouble. Thomes Cheseman, 120 Chattanooga street, swore out & warrant in Judge Joachimsen’s court yesterday for the arrest of C. E. Kinard, & collector living in Oskiand, on the charge of embezzlement and obtaining money by false pretenses. * Kinard, ‘Chessman alleges, called upon his wife and ‘informed her that’he had filed a garnishment upon his wages to secure & bill of 25. He demanded $10 to pay the costs and $7 50 on account of the bill. As his ner was threatening Mrs. Chessman paid money, which Kinard applied to his own NEW TO-DAY. In Curing Torturing Disfiguring Skin Diseases * Works Wonders 80ld thronghont the w preY & Sovs. 1, Ki DU & CusuicAL orld. British depot: F, New- ing Edward-at, London. POTTER Coxr., Sole Prope., , U, | when we arrived. DR, WEIL 1S ON HIS METTLE Resents the Strictures on Him and the Receiving Hospital. PROMPT ACTION TAKEN. District Attorney Consulted as to Indicting Mrs. Bruner for Criminal Libel. MRS. BRUNER IS INDIGNANT. She Reiterates Her Charges, but the Woman'’s Federation Will Not Support Her. Mrs. J. W. Bruner was very angry yes- terday. There was lightning in her glance, and she would have been in no wise sorry if that lightning had struck Dr. Weil of the Receiving Hospital. Mrs. Bruner was a member of a committee appointed by the Woman’'s Federation for Public Good to inspect pub- lic institutions. The committee, which consisted of Mrs. Bruner, Mrs. F. G. Fair- ban nd Mrs. D. K. Farr, made its first visit to the Receiving Hospital on Wednes- | day of last week. It discovered points of | strength and weakness in the administra- tion of affairs, and Mrs. Farr was over- heard to refer to the matron’s work as an example of the former. The members of the committee were surprised to find their report to the federation published the fol- lowing morninz. The premature an- nouncem ent was attributed for some rea- son to Dr. Weil, and Mrs. Bruner has shown anything but a pacific inclination toward the pbysician since. She acted as spokeswoman for the com- mittee at the meeting of the federation on Monday and pointed out, in characteristic manner, what she considered abuses in the instytution. She deplored the fact that beardiess youths are employed there in- stead of graybeaids, objected to the lack of privacy in the operating-room, where, she believed, that women should be more protected from the gaze of passersby, and madce some reference to the condition of the surgical mstruments. The lady’s wrath against Dr. Weil as the alleged inspirer of the newspaper article might have smoldered into nothingness had it not been for the interview with Dr. Weil published in yesterday’s CALL, in which the doctor said that the ladies meant well, but might know more of sur- gery than they do. Mrs. Bruner’s indig- nation rosg when she read this. “The whole trouble came from those | young doctors making reports to the news- | papers instead of leaving us to make them | to_the federation,” said Mrs. Bruner. | “Their reports were not in accordance | with facts. *‘Dr. Weil accuses us of ignorance of sur- | gical instruments. Well, we certainly had no more knowledge when we left than All the information we received was from Joseph Mogan, the under steward. There was no physician there to instruct us. The under steward took down a razor and said: ‘That wouldn’t cut, anyway.’ sked: ‘Whatis it for?’ and he answered, ‘To shave heads in case of scalp wounds, but it doesn’t cut; it pulls out by the roo. »' One of us said: ‘It is an | instriment of torture,’ and he agreed that it was. He showed ussome forceps ana | remarked that they were ineffective be- | cause they were Jiable to slip from the | arteries. He told us there was not a decent | instrument among them and that $1000 [ would replace them with a proper set. | have nothing against the matron. She received us kindly. But we regretted that | we called on what seemed to be the funeral day of the institution. It wasstrange that all of the friends of the physicians were dead ordying. *“We are informed that the place is in charge of men. We would be glad to know what days the men are there, so that we may cail at some other time than the boys’ days.” Mrs. Broner was angry. The habitues of the hospital discovered that when sne called to examine the records to ascertain whether Dr. Weil was reaily present when he affirmed that he was she claimed that | the register made some startling revela- tions as to the internes’ practice of regis- tering for their superiors. The Woman's Federation deplores the misunderstanding. Dr. Conrad Weil, head surgeon at the Receiving Hospital, says he does not in- | tend to quietly submit to the strictures made upon him personally and the man- | agement of the hospital by the committee of the Woman’s Federation who visited the hospital and reported the result to a meetine on Monday night. He called npon District Attorney Barnes vesterday and submitted the articles that have appeared in the press relating to the visit of the ladies, with the object of hav- ing Mrs. Bruner' indicted by the Grand Jury for criminal libel. District Attorney Barnes told the doctor that he would carefully peruse the arti- cles, and if he found any ground therein for criminal libel, he would at once lay the matter before the Grand Jury. Dr. Weil has also requested the Board of Health to make a full investigation into the charges brought by the ladies at the very earliest opportunity. “I ao nouv propose,’” said Dr. Weil yes- terday, “to allow any woman or any man to charge me with direct falsenood when there is not the slightest ground for it. ‘Why this woman should deliberately make statements which she must know are not in accordance with facts is a puzzle to me. ‘‘Her talk about boys being in the hospi- tal is all nonsense. On the day the three ladies visited the hospital, a week ago yes- terday, they were received by Dr. Kinne, who wears a bushy beard and mustache. He escorted them™ to my office and I told him to give them every facility for obtain- ing all the information they wanted. He returned with them to the hospital and just about that time—1:40 p. M.—Dr. Bun- nell, who also wears a beard and mustache, was attending to a case, as the record shows the time as 1:42, “Dr. Fitzgibbon and Dr. Helms relieve Drs. Bunnell and Kinne at 1:45 ». M., but, as I explained beiore, Dr. Fitzgibbon was absent that day at the funeral of a relative, Dr. Helms, however, who wears a mus- tache, reported on duty at1:45. No case came in till 3:15. Meantime Dr. Helms had received a dispatch, which he still has in his possession, that his mother was se- riously ill, and I gave him permission to leave so that he could catch a train, and I told the steward to call me by telephone if any case came in before Drs. Thompson and Stice reported on duty at 3:45, Two cases came in, one at 3:15 and the other at 3:25, and I attended to them both, and the ladies were in the hospital at the time. They were also there when Drs. Thompson and Stice reported on duty, and Dr. Thompson was talking with Mrs. Farr for :ome time about a Chinese insane patient in whom she was interested. These are facts that can be substantiated. 1 *Mrs. Bruner asserts that the records at the hospital have been falsified. That is not true. She bases her charge upon what she saw in the register when she and some other ladies visited the hospital last even- ing. She made the glaring mistake of examining thie records on January 7in- We | stead of on January 22, the day they visited the hospital, and upon what she found on the former date she publicly brands us with falsifying the records. If she had looked at January 22 she would have found that my statements in THE CALL yesterday were correct. “I understand the ladies blame me for giving a report to the press for publica- tion on the day of their visit, when the fact is that no one in the hospital did so, buta member of the committee herself.” EMERGENCY COMPANIES Four Organized by the Fire Commis- sioners ¥rom the Mechanical Force of the Department. The Board of Fire Commissioners yes- terday afternoon organized four emer- gency companies as authorizea by order 2951 of the Board of Supervisors. The companies will be made up from the me- chanical force of the department, and Engineers McKittrick, Conlon, Waters and McCluskey, in conformity with the order, will be detailed to perform the duties of assistant engineers in addition to the services required by the four emef- gency companies. The apparatus for the four companies will be kept at the corpo- | ration yards, and on a second, thira, fourth or genersl alarm, or two second alarms at one time, the members of the companies will report immediately at the corporation yards for duty. Thomas Minton of engine 14 was placed on the retired list at $1750 per month. Peter Burke, hoseman of engine 24, ten- dered his resignation and it was accepted. William Peterson was appointed hoseman of engine 30. Andrew Reese of engine 13 was fined five days’ pay for riding on a streetcar and presenting his fire badge to the conductor, saying that he was going to a fire when there was no fire. Thus by saving a nickel he has bad to lose five days’ pay. WILL MEET AT MONTEREY, Local Insurance Managers Leav- ing the City to Effect a Union. | They Failed to Organize a Compact in Town and Will Try Again in the Country. The general managers of the fire insur- ance companies are on the verge of de- spair over tieir futile efforts at organizing a compact among themselves to raise rates and maintain the cost of policies at a standard to be observed by all. Though each and every one of these underwriters | is painfully aware of the fact that business | in fire insurance has been demoralized on | this coast, yet they cannot discern a way out of the dilemma. They met December 3, after having in- formally discussed the situation, and | forthwith began permanent organization | of a compact. This new society was called | the Pacific Insurance Union, and with a | code of by-laws and rules presented by the | committee on legislation its members set- jtled down to work. There was sucha unanimity of sentiment regarding the ne- cessity of this new compact that general managers freely declared that nothing could stop its formation. Rates were demoralized so badly, busi- ness had gone from bad to worse with the general agents—that is, from the point of view assumed by those ient]emen. And | so without the compact there was no hope | for improvement. The compact with | rigid rules all agreed, should be estab- | Jished and maintained at any price. Then the general managers held meetings twice a week. Sometimes an extra weekly session was necessary. The greatest en- thusiasm and sincerity were brought into | play, but to little purpose. Some points | arose upon which an agreement seemed | utterly impossible. The business szriously | interfered with the sessions of the com- | pact, as at one time some members could not attend, and, again, others were com- pelled toleave in the middle of a debate | that they might keep important business engagements. But at last all business and social ap- | ‘Rmnlmems for several days after next | Monday were canceled by mutual consent of tne general managers, who have de- | cided to go into country retirement Tues- | | day afternoon. | The managers of nearly all the fire in: | surance companies having agencies in Sa | Francisco have, in following out this plan, | ! made up their minds on going to the Hotel del Monte at Monterey Tuesday. time is to be wasted, or spent in social pleasures at the hotel, but on the contrary {1he insurance men will hold morning, | afternoon and evening sessions ina good ! final effort to agree on laws and rules for the compact. The items of compensation to city agents, and aquestions of commission and salaries will, it is understood, be the main | causes of contention; but of the facts little is known by anybody except the insur ance men themselves, who have given mutual pledges to observe as a strict secret everything connected with the Monterey gathering. It is believed by some of the most active participants in the movement that two,or at most three days, will suffice for the work at Monterey, | inasmuch as if an agreement cannot be | eftected in that period, no compact can | be formed at all. HELEN M. GOUGAR COMING. Activity at the Woman’s Christian Tem- perance Union Headquarters. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union headquarters is the scene of unu- sual activity at present. Preparations are being made for lectures by Mrs. Heten M. Gougar on March 13, 14 and 15, and for the series which will be given by John G. Woolley in May. Ar- rangements will be made for appointments | by both speakers in other parts of the State. It 1s not too early for preliminary arrangements for the National Woman’s Chrisuan Temperance Union, which will be held in November. Energetic efforts are being made to increase the member- ship in order to make a good showing at that time. It is ex ecuefthnt there will ‘be between 400 and 500 delegates in attend- ance. Miss Frances Willard and Lady Henry Somerset will be the brigntest stars in the galaxy. This evening there will be a *scissors party”’ at the headquarters, for which 500 invitations have been issued. —————— Ex-Firemen Organize. The Ex-Firemen’s Mutual Protective Asso- ciation was organized Wednesday evening at- 371 Natoma street. Two hundred ex-firemen | signed the membership roll. The following ficers were nnlnhnouu!{y elected: President, lent, George Smith; James Ward; vice-presi segretary, Victor Demartini; treasurer, Wil- 1l Casey; sergeants-at-arms—John Mec- Caully, James Finn, William Brown. The as- sociation will be a political as well as a bene- ficial organization, and the members are band- ing themselves together preparatory to the next election. For Home Products. The secretary of the Manufscturers and Producers’ Association has written to the Board of Supervisors of SBacramento County with reference to the Hynmh-na of medicines, etc., for the County Hcspital. He says that the eall for bids specifies many goods of East- ern brand and requests that the scheduie be amended so as to specily the quzliz{. quantity, ete.. instead of the brand. This will give Cali- fornia dealers and manufacturers an oppor- tuuity to bid for the contracts Got Six Monthi John St. Clair, Everett street, was sen tenced by Judge Low yesterday to six monthsin the County Jail for cruelty to his seven-year-old daughter Sadie. St. Clair's attorney gave no- tice of appeal, and St. Clair was rcleased on furnishing $200 cash bail. | mind it. WITH THE SNAKE DANCERS i:5:7 Gruesome Experiences of G. W, James in the Pueblos of the Mogquis. HE DRANK A POISON SPECIFIC. The Bitten Indians Did Not Mind the Bites at All—The Strange After-Stupor. Among the arrivals at the Palace yester- day was G. W. James of Pasadena, who has been visiting the Moqui Indian snake- dancers in Arizona. Mr. James spent some time there. He visited many villages or pueblos of the Moquis, traveling for the most part on horseback. Several friends were with him. Long before they got back they were al- most as bronzed as the wild aborigines they went to see. The villages they visited were on the G. W. James, Now Here, Who Had Grim Experiences With the Moqui Snake Dancers. to the president, Mrs. S. 8. Wright, con- taining the suggestion issigned by Charles el oward, A. B. McCreery, F. A. Hyde, J. H. Rathbone, W. C. Little, Wil- liam Alvord. William Thomas, E.J. Mc- Cutcheon, W. S. Jones, E. Bosqui, H. P. Tevis, G. W. McNear, Pelham W. Ames and others. Mrs. Wright has signified the accegtam:e of the offer by the young ladies and has designated Monday evening, Feb- ruary 17, at Metropolitan Temple, as the time and place for the concert. SCHOOLS DAMAGED. The Big Storm Cost the Department Several Thousand Dollars. The Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Board of Education has just finished an inspection of the schoolhouses in the City with a view to 2scertaining the dam- age done by the big storm. In areport made to the board it isstated that the loss will be about $3000, and that in the present state of the fundsof the committee repairs cannot be begun until the summer vacation. The Pacific Heights Grammar School and Polytechnic H?gh School were found to have been damaged to the extent of $500 each, while the bulkhead of the Cooper Primary Sehool was found to have caved to such an extent as to render it unsafe. The Denman and Columbia Grammar schools and the Garfield and Lafayette Primary_schools were reporied to be in bad condition. The report also states that the bitumen- edgesof the desert, from twenty to fiftv miles northeast of Flagstaff, and near the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The country there is extremely wild, In all seven villages were visited. It was at the villages of Mashongnavi and Walpi, on the Moqui reservation, that Mr. James saw the snake-dancers. The former viilage is on the first mesa, and the latter probably 1000 feet higher on the second. He bad through friends got a special permit from Supeli, the snake chief, to at- tend the festivities. Fully 2000 Indians were gathered at each village to see the snakes and participate in the dance. “T had long heard of these snake dances and of the profusion of snakes displayed,”” said he, “but the difficulties were so great n believing what was said that I always discounted them. However, what I saw was incredible enough. “The Indians swarmed around an open and nearly level place in the pueblo, each with snakes in their hands or entwined about their necks or bodies. Not infre- quently the Indians appeared holding them in their teeth, while the tail lashed one way and the head the other. ““At Mashongnavi the scene was particu- larly wild. The snakes were nearly all rattlesnakes, and of all ages and sizes. Sometimes the Indians were bitten in the | face by the reptiles which they held in beir teeth. But they didn’t seem to “T saw them sometimes hold two rattle- snakes in their teeth, one above the other. The reptiles, when they bit the Indians in the face,as they did a few times, were ped from the tecth and an effort was dro‘;l | made to shake them off, but they would | hold on for some time by their fangs, and thus were shaken and dangled in space. bite until some time afterward, when they had got through dancing, when they drink from herbs of some sort, which they had prepared. o “Idrank abouta pint of the'stuff, too. I concluded if they could drink well on to a gallon 8ach of 1t, as they did before they got through, I could stand a pint. 1 did it to see what its effect was. It wasawful stuff,’eo far as the taste went. The effect was not particularly noticeable. “When the Indians got through danc- ing they would toss their reptiles on the ground in the center ot the circle in one writhing mass. Each dance lasted about thirty-five - minutes. When they got through finally for the day, all the'snake- dancers having participated, they threw off the bitter drink by running the finger down the throat, if not sick already by the drink and exertion. “Then they went swa{ to their adobe and stone houses, to fall into a stupor which would last for many hours. “‘It was an exciting experience. At the { other village of Walpi the snake dance was carried on in much the same manner. The viliages are about fifteen miles apart. ‘“I'ne Indians were very picturesquely arrayed when not dancing. When they stole away to sleep they were wrapped in their jotsitz, a kind of blanket. I secured several of these blankets and also a number of Navajo blankets, so fine that I wouid not like to take $150 apiece for them. “‘Both Chief Supeli, the snake chief, and Wiki, the antelope chief, whom I also met, were fine fellows. They are large, daunt- less men, whom to see is to like. I was used in the mosi courteous manner by them.” Mr. James is here on a business trip and will remain several days. He thinks no one should fail to see the Moqui snake dances if such a thing is possible. The dnl;se: are weird and interesting beyond ‘words. DESERVED COMPLIMENT. Monday Evening, Febru- _ary 1. In view of the fact that the young ladies of the Saturday Morming Club have al- ways been ready to respond when asked to appear for the benefit of others friends of that excellent organization have suggested that a performance ought to be given for the benefit of the club. The letter addressed “The Indians never bothered about the | would go and drink a quart of a very bitter | Saturday Morning Club Benefit Set for | ous pavement at all the schools is in poor shape. SPRING VALLEY EXPENSES Disbursements Greater Than Re- ceipts During the Past Year. The Annual Report to the Board of Supervisors Shows a Loss of Over $16,000. According to a statement of its financial affairs filed with the Board of Supervisors yesterday the Spring Valley Water Com- ny lost $16,485 during the year ending ?:nunrv 1, 1896. A bout this time each year the Board of Bupervisors prepares an ordinance fixing water rates for the ensuing twelve months and the company is expected to give them com plele figures on which to base the esti- mates. The principal figures in the report tiled yesterday are as follows: From water rent of private con- From water rent of City and County. From waste fines. . Xrom ather sources . 81,548.834 77 137,285 73 1853 90 309 75 Total income. .#1,707,234 15 The disbursements were reported as fol- lows: For operating expenses. For taxes. . ¥or int . $376,825 72 102,155 84 terest 533,738 14 Dividends paid 711,000 00 Total disbursements. 723,718 70 The correctness of the report is certified to by theoath of Charles Webb Howard, president of the company. The difference ot over $16,000 between the receipts and disbursements figures as a loss, but in view of the fact that dividends amounting to §711,000 were paid during the year, it is not believed that the company is 1n very serious financial difficulties. The report shows that during the year $485,910 20 was expended in permanent im- provements. ———— League of the Cross. Next Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock the an- ALONG THE WATER FRONT, Narrow Escape of the Ship Wachusett During the Re- cent Gales. THROWN ON HER BEAM ENDS. Extra Hands Had to Be Shipped in IOrder to Keep the Pumps Going. The vessels that suffered during the re- cent storms seem to be without number. Every new arrival has a fresh chapter of accidents to recount, but luckily the loss of life has been very slight. The ship Wa- chusett, which got in from Nanaimo, B. C., yesterday, made the following meager re- port: Sailed from Nanaimo December 13, 1895. Put into Clallam Bay on December 14. Sailed from Clallam Bay December 17.% On December 19, about eigiiy miles south- west of Cape Flattery, had beavy southwest gales and very neavy southwest squalls, throw- ing the ship on her beem ends and shifting the lc_argo to starboard, giving the vessel a six-foot 0 and had six feet of ixe waves stove in poop bulwarks and gutted the galley and forecastle, the sailors losing all their effects, and washing overboard everything movable on deck. Put into Port Angeles on December 22 and lightered 200 tons of cargo. Made temporary repairs and shipped an extra crew to man the vessel and sailed again from Port Angeles on January 14. Then had a succession of south- east to south-southwest gales for seven days. The ship was leaking badly during the entire passage. Captain Williams, who took the Wachu- sett to Puget Sound, did not bring her | home. He did not the way things were going and resigned his command to Captain Watts. There was trouble with the vessel and her cargo from the start. After leaving Nanaimo the crew discovered that the ship was leaking and they re- ist. Vessel leaking badl water in the hold. T the Straits of San Juan de Fuca. Four days later the captain put into Clallam Bay and discharged the crew. Once ashore the men expressed themselves plainly about tie “leaky old box” that they had just left. Captain Watts secured a new crew and made another start for S8an Francisco. The ship had barely made her offing when it began to blow, and it did not take long to have the Wachusett in distress. She was tbrown on her beam ends, and not one of the crew expected her to right again. Eyerything was awash, but the sailors stuck to their posts and finally the ship was cot about and headed for the Sound again. Port Angeles was reached and the necessary repairs made. ‘When another start was about to be made the second crew rebelled. on the round that the pumps would have to be Eeptizohigall tho way: (o’ San Francisco, and that they could not stand the strain. Captain Watts agreed to tieir demands and shipped extra men. It was a wise course, as during the run of sixteen days the pumps were going all the time, and gdrle still, as the vesscl 1s taking water rap- idly. ‘“We had a terrible time of it,”” said one of the sailors yesterday. ‘‘When the squall strpck us and the waves came breaking aboard I thought it was all over with us. We managed to pull through, but I never want to go to ses again in _the Wachusetr. After leaving Port Angeles we had not much time to think about danger, as every watch had to take itsturn at the pumos. It was a joyful hour when we sighted the Golden Gate, I can tell you.” The Wachusett will go to the drydock after discharging her cargo of coal. The Pacific Mail Company’s Rio €e Jan- eiro arrived from Hongkong via Yoko- hama yesterday. She was delayed a cou- ple of hoursowing toa blunder made by Captain Russell. When the steamer was passing Fort Point Quarantine Officer Chalmers started out to meet her. Instead of slowing_down the big liner was kept under a full head of steam, and after a vain attempt to catch her the doctor got angry and went to the steamer Welling- ton, which was passing in from British Columbia. After passing upon her bill of health Dr. Chalmers went to the Rio de s by the Rio Janeiro. The only cabin passenger were Kenead Buxton, M. Fum kotashi and wife, Rev. H. B. Price and J. K. Eveleth. M. Fumakotashi is the new Vice-Consul from Japan to San Francisco. He was recently married to the daughter of one of the major-genefals who con- ducted the war against China. The Eastern mails that came by the steamer missed the overland train and will have to wait for to-day’s express, thus losing twenty-four hours. There is on board 474 cases of opium, the duty on which will net Uncle Sam §116,000. The British ship Craigmulien, whizh was 215 days out from Singapore for Pisco, Peru, has arrived in safety. She was posted as long overdue, and 90 per cent reinsurance was paid on her. The British ship Lord Brassey, from Hongkong for Puget Sound, has been posted as missing, angsfithe reinsurance on her will have to be paid. The Pacific Coast Steamshi will run a special boat to Mexican ports this month. There was se much freight fused point blank to take her out through | 1 He’s All Right! Who’s All Right? ‘Why the man who knows the true value of sound health, who always keeps his blood moving and his system toned up to the highest pitch. He can safely defy the colds, coughs, grip, chills, pneumonia and otizer dangers of winter time. You never hear him complaining of tired feelings, in- digestion, nervousness or lack of vitality. He Is the man who succeeds because he is always at his best. Are you feeling as well as this or are you feeling *‘under the weather,” low-spirited and worn out? If so, why not follow the example of the thousands who keep their systems in splendid condition by using Duffy’s Pure Mait Whiskey? Evervbody who tries it finds it has a wonderful effect on the circulation; that it gives tome to every part of the bcay and adds a zest to life that nothing else can produce. Thisis because it is not an ordinary whiskey, but a pure, healthful stimulant which quickens the blood, arouses the flazging energies and makes all who take it feel strong, healthy and well. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER AL HAYMAN & Co. (Tucorporated).. ... Proprietors OPERA SEASON, “me Feh, 3, | SEATS | NOW ~Q, SELLING ‘AIDA™ RMEN" pop prices, “BOHEMIAN GIRL'" Night. . “HUGUENOTS . “MIGNON RUSTICANA q P Wednesasy Thursday Friday. RE ND WEEK: . ““LUCIA’ and ‘““CAVALLERTA TICANA” sday i MIGNON"" Wed. Matinee (at pop. prices) MARTHA Wednesday Night. : Thursday.. Friday. Saturda; Saturday Night .. 4 LEFORRIA/ 5., =G0 INCORPD THEATRE ! =ors. ;&;'{‘;‘ET“,,E IN The Fast Horses i OLD !The Fumny Picks WOMEN By KENTUCKY! NOTHING APPROACHING THE CROWDS EVER ' SEEN BEFORE. Next Monday—CORINNE In “HENRY HUDSON JR.”™ Seats Now Ready. 4 ALCAZAR Easily the Best Comedy To-day on the American Stage. “A CANTING SCOUNDREL” I e e e e e Theater Crowded With the Fashion of Sen Fran- cisco—Delighted—Smiles and Tears Mingled. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, PRICES—10c, 15c and 25c. Night Prices—10c, 15¢, 23¢, 35¢, 50c. ~——— MONDAY- *‘ARABIAN NIGHTS' and ‘'JOE’S GIRLS.” FRIEDLANDER.GOTTLOD & o+ L£35¢3 ANDMANAGERS -+~ YOUR | ARE DLIYS NUMBE' RED IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE FRAWLEY COMPANY S “MEN AND WOMEN" COME——QUICK! SEATS—15¢, 25¢, 50¢ and 75¢. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO, Sole Lessee and Manager THIS EVENING AT EIGHT, First Production in This House of Vincent and Aldrict’'s Sparkling Comedy Drama, offering that the Willamette Valley could not handle it all, so the Coos Bay has been added to the route. Should the business continue as at present the arrangement will be made permanent. California Drydock Case. The jury of the United States Circuit Court disagreed in the case of J.J. Cousins against the California Drydock Company, involving patent rights to an invention in water-] caissons. NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS, nual rally of the Third district of the League of the Cross will be held at Odd Fellows’ Hall, Seventh street. The district isone of the largest in the league, and comprises All Hallows, St. Ter esa’ Mary’s (Paulist), St. Patrick’s, St. Bre ndan’s and St. Rose’s parishes. The vari- ous branches will assemble in their respective parishes and will parade to Odd Fellows’ Hall. Company C, First Regiment, L. C. C., of St. Patrick’s, and _Company H, First Regiment, J.. C. C. of St. Brendan's parishes will act as escort. An appropriate programme will be presented, and will include an address on tom- rance by Rev. J. P. Ferguson, the well- o own oretor of Al Tatioa parish, who is said to have fironouneed ideas on this subject. A feature will be the essay contest, in which & member from each branch will compete for the district silver medal presented by tha ex- ecutive committee. This will entitle the win- ner to represent his entire district at the grand rally to be held at the Mechanics’ Pavilion in August next, the contest on_that occasion to be decided by Archbishop Riordan,who will })l’!leni & handsome gold medal to the success- ul essayist. e Military Instruction. The non-commissioned officers of Company B, City Guard, First Infantry Regiment, of this City, have organized aschool of instruction, ‘which held its first meeting last Tuesday even- ing. A paper was read by Sergeant H. B. Tay. lor, the subject of which was “Discipline.” After the reading the subject was discussed. This is the onli' orgavization of the kind in tne State, and will prove of much benefit to the company in particular and the guard in gen- eral. Regular meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of every month. The next paper will be read by Corporal Philip Bannan. This company now has its full complement of officers, & second lieutenant having been elected last Monday evening in the person of A. F, Ramen, for many years first sergeant of the company. —————— B ‘The Country Fair.” James A. Garfield Womsan's Relief Corps 21 will celebrate its tenth anniversary at So- cial Hall, Aleazar building, on the 11th prox. “The Country Fair” is the form of entertain- ment to be provided for the occasion. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE Dims. LRNESTINE KRELING Proprietor & Managa: AST NIGETS Of the Brilliant Success, “IXTOIN!” NEXT MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 3, A New American Opera, “THE GENTLE SAVAGE!” Book by Fstelle Clayton and Nym Crinkle, Music by E. I Darling. INDIAN, MEXICAN, COWBOYSGENES, The 49 Mining Camp Fandango. Popular Prices—25¢ and 50c. NEW BUSH-ST. THEATER. 12—PERFORMANCES—12 Commencing Sunday Matinee, February 2. Cook Twin Sisters. Unele Tom’s Cabln. Direct from Academy of Music, Philadelphia. 50—People—50. 20—Panies, Donkeys, Dogs—20 ADMISSION—15, 25, 35, 50 cts. Matinees Sundays, Wednesdays, Saturdays. A&~ Box Office open 11 A. M. 10 4 P. M. SEE THE BIG PARADE. GOLDEN GATE HALL. Symphony and Popular Concerts by the San trancisco Symphony Orchestra. FRIDAY AFTERNOONS AT 3:15. Soloists—B. Mollenhauer, S. Homer Henley. FIRST CONCERT FRIDAY, JAN. 31, Course Tickets on sale at 308 Post street. “THE EDITOR!” And of all the Editors in Town The Most Entertaining | EVENING PRICKs—25c and 50c. Family Circie and Gallerv. 10c. Usual Matlinees Saturday and Sunday, ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockion and PowaiL TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEEK A BRILLIANT AUGMENTED BILL! MONS. DE BESSELL, HEELEY AND MARBA, RACHEL WALKER ——AND—— A PEERLESS VAUDEVILLE CO. Reserved seats, 26¢; Balcony, 10c; Opera cnales and Box seats, 50¢. %?OPER MEDICAL COLLEGE, roer of Sacramento and Webster streets. LANE LECTURES. FRIDAY EVENING........ JANUARY 31, DR. C. N. ELLINWOOD. SUBJECT.... .--“TOBACCO” &7 ADMISSION FREE..gy NOW THE SUN SHINES Shoot the Chutes and Trip the Trolley! Afternoon and Evening. ADMISSION. ——10 CENTS Children (including Merry-Go-Round Ride), 10c. CALIFORNIA PSYCHICAL SOCIETY LECTURE by MR. J. J. MORSE of London on “Some Fundamental Principles of Psychic Science.” Golden Gate Hall, 625 Sutter st., FRI- DAY, January 81, at 8 o'clock P. M. Tickets 25c, at Sherman & Clay’s and Doxey’s Boo.store. RACING! RACING! RACINGI CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB. ——WINTER MEETING— Beginning Thursday, January 23, BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Rain or Shine. FIVE OR MORE RACES EACH DAY. MoAllister and Gonrs strect cars pass the saie ary 3 S, H. WILLIAMS JR., R. B. MILROY. ~ THOS. H. LL i