The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1896. GFSMITH&CO, ARE IN TROUBLE. Short in Their Accounts and an Explanation De- manded. AGENTS OF MANY SHIPS Captain Bluhm of the W. H. Tal- bot Precipitated the Investigation, WHERE HAS THE MONEY GONE? The Owners of the Various Vessels Are Trying to Find Out, but Have Failed. The well-known shipping and commis- sion firm of George F. Smith & Co. is in serious financial difficulties. The trouble is the talk of the water front, and all kinds of wild rumors are afloat. Some say that the concern is $30,000 short, and others as- sert that arrests will follow the final ex- perting of the books. One thing is cer- tain—there are a number of angry ship captains and owners, who held a daily ses- sion at 207 East street, whose temper does not improve with each report. The firm of George ¥. Smith & Co. is composed of George F. Smith, the Santa Barbara capitalist; Captain A. H. Paul, formerly of the bark Colusa, and William Schmidt, son-in-law of Senator George C. Ferkins. Smith is wealthy, but all his property hasbeen in his wife's name for years. ‘When the trouble first came to light he was telegraphed for, and last Saturday be and the creditors of the firm had a con- ference, but no definite arrangement was reached. Another meeting will be held to-day, and the outcome of it wiil be a set- tlement or some extreme proceedings. Young Schmidt has been married to Miss Perkins about eighteen months and his wife and baby are now living at 1314 Jackson street. The husband and father is said to be on a visit to his grandmother, who lives somewbere in the vicinity of New York, but whether he is in the metropolis or not his partners cannot tell. Captain A. H. Paul is well known in San Francisco and be says he can explain where every cent of the shortage has gone. It has been paid out on the various ships managed by the firm, according to him, but the irate owners ask persistently the vouchers. The books have been kept in a very loose manner and the vouchers are not forthcoming and thatis the cause of the day to day meetings. George F. Smith & Co. were ‘‘the man- aging owners’’ for the barkentine George C. Perkins, the barkentine Mary Winkle- man, the bark Sonoma, the bark Colusa, the four-masted schooner W. H. Talbot, the barkentine 8. G. Wilder and the bark- Antine Irmgard. They were also formerly “‘managing” owners of the four-masted schooner Aloha and the bark Albert, but some trouble arose over the management and it was transferred by the other owners to Williams, Diamond & Co. Since this investigation began other changes have taken place, and Captain W. H. Bluhm is now ‘“managing owner” of the W. H. Talbot and Charles Athern, of the Coiusa, 8. G. Wilder and Irmgard. Just who will take charge of the others remains to be seen, but Captain Paul is certain thatv everything will come out all right and that his firm will assume con- trol again in a few days. The storm came from a clear The big schooner W. H. Talbot arrived from Hongkong after the smartest round trip on record, and Captain Bluhm'’s first in- quiry was for the £1985 freight money he had sent by draft to George F. Smith & Co. from Hongkong. Captain Paul ex- -plained that the money had all been paid out, but there was nothing to show where an expenditure of $10,000 on the schooner was justifiable. The schooner left San Francisco free from debt. On her arrival at Tacoma she took on board a load of lumber for Shanghai, China. Debts were contracted there, and drafts were drawn on the managing owner in payment. On arriving at Shanghai, Captain Bluhm discharged her cargo and collected the freight. Then he took aboard 2 load of rice for Amoy, and from the latter point he loaded beans for Hongkong. On his arrival at Hongkong, Captain Bluhm found he had $9780 in actual cash on hand, and that sum he turned into a draft in favor of George F. Smith & Co., the ““managing owners,” and sent it to San Francisco. Then he took ona cargo of general merchandise and made the very fast run to this portof 44 days and 12 hours, having completed the round trip, as above described, in the remarkable time of 6 months and 15 days. Of course the captain was delighted with the trip, and as he owns an eighth interest in the vessel he naturally looked for a dividend as well as his salary as master. When he " learned that the $10,000 had been dis- bursed, and that the ship was in debt, he was thunderstruck and demanded an ex- planation. The next day the investiga- tion began and it has been going on ever since, with the result that the debts against the various ships grow bigger cach day. don’t care so much about the money,” said Captain W. H. Bluhm yesterday, “if I only knew where 1t had gone to. If you drop a gold piece overboard you are satis- fied it will never come up again, but here is $10,000 of good money, earned by hard labor, and nobody knows how it was spent. I sent £1985 from Hongkong on account of the vessel, and that sum alone would have left a good surplus with which to pay a dividend, but when I got here’the money had all been paid out. Just how the affair stands I don’t know. Some say the firm is §20,000 short and others place the figure at $50,000. All I know is that forty out of every fifty business men ap the water-front are out and injured by the practical fail- ure of this firm. They have got George F. 8mith here from Santa Barbara, but T doubt very much whether he will do any- thing. He has not been actively con- nected with the concern for a long time and as he has very little property in his own name he cannot be touched. “‘A few months ago Paul’s danghter got married and he deeded to her some real estate he owned in tuis City. Schmidt’s estate (the father) is in the Probate Court, and when the creditors of Gorge F. Smith & Co. sought to attach a piece of the property on Brannau street they attached the wrong lot and afterward found out that the young man had no title, but might have one when the case was settled. “Such a mix-up I have never seen, but if an understanding can be reached with George ¥. Smith then everything will be plain sailing, but if not then some other steps will have to be taken.” Lawrence Sutton, the bookkeeper for George F. Smith & Co., has nothing fo say in regard to the trouble. He asserts that his bocks are all night and that nothing in the shape of investigation can hurt him. Still those who are conducting the in- quiry say he can tell more than he admits and they want power to compel him. Just where the screw will be put on remains to be seen. Young Schmidt, who is now absent from the City, was a gay liver, it is said. In spite of the fact that he was a married man, they further say, he contracted a great friendship with Miss Bessie Bonehill of the ““1492" company. W hile the company was here Miss Bonehill and her husband, Lawrence Seely, and Walter Watson, the sparring instructor of the Olympic Club, were his guests night after night in the Louvre. People on the water front assert that Schmidt has followed Mrs. Seely to the East, but his friends deny the rumor in an cmphatic manner, and say he has really gone East to visit his grandmother, who is slowly dying. “Itis lucky T didn’t crack that bottle of wine, or else I would have beeu out an- other §$5,’" is the remark made by Gus Ger- dan when he was told of the failure of George W. Smith & Co. A few days pre- viously he had cashed an $80 check for the firm, and the next morn- ing got a telephone message asking him not to present it as Smith & Co. were a little short with the bank. Gerdan held the check for four days and then got a message from Smith saying “I will be down in the morning and take up that check; in the meantime crack a bottle of wine at my exvense.” The bottle of wine was not cracked and Gerdan is still out the $80. In talking about the matter, Captain Lee, late of the bark Sonoma, said: “You can quote me as saying that there has been crooked work going on in that firm for years. When 1 sailed on a voyage some years ago I left an amount due the vessel in the hands of Captain Paul for | collection. Seven or eight months later when I got back to San Francisco I found that the money had not been credited to the Sonoma and Captain Padl said he had never collected it. I went to the mer- chant who owed the freightand he showed me the receipt of George F. Smith & Co. for it. Then and not till then was the bark credited with the money. “Some months later there was a new hawser shat we did not want and I sent it ashore. It was stored over Wright, Bowne & Co.’s store, and during the fire that gutted the place was supposed to be burnt up. On my return I made some inquiries and found that Paul had removed the bawser months before the fire and had | placed it aboard one of the other vessels he was managing. That was my experi- ence with them and I guess other ship- masters are in the same box.”’ Just what will be done in the premises remains to be seen. If the shortage is made good probably nothing miore will be heard of the matter. Smith, however, does not feel like shouldering the whole | responsibil Paul has no money and | Schmidt is ““in the East.”” At the meeting to be held this afternoon it is thought that some understanding can be reached. THE HEW WOMAK PRASED Dr. Carlos Martyn Looks Upon Her as a Creature to Be Admired. The Speaker Says She Is Aglow With New Thoughts and Expectant With New Hopes. Dr. Carlos Martyn delivered an address on the “new woman,”” at Central Metho- dist Church yesterday. The lecture was given under the auspices of the W.C. T. U., and was listened to by a large and attentive audience. Dr. Martyn, among other things, said: By the new woman, I understand, not a slangy_edition of young America who has stolen her brother’s clothes and who apes his vices, but & woman athrob with new feelings and aglow with new thoughts, expeetant with new hopes, sober with new responsibilities, broadened with new expectations and healthy with the new activities of this last decade of the nineteenth century. Thisis the real new woman—the old in a new and enlarged en- vironment. For my part I hail even the bloomer. There is common sense in it, and is something never before found in woman’s dress. The Chinese women in the streets of San Francisco are more sensibly dressed for outdoor locomotion than thousands of women who are gowned asfashion decrees. In former times women were regarded as live bric-a-brac. They were shut in and their world bounded by the four walls of & house. They were taught that it was ladylike to be a stationary article for men to write love letters on. Then the classic draperiesand clinging ;kiru were appropriate—the dresssuited the ife, Old-fashioned people looked with terror upon this appearance of the new woman. Let us possess our souls with patience; it will be found that the new woman is ouly the old one with larger ideas. The home will survive, sweetheartehip will survive, marriage will sur- vive, motherhood will gurvive. These arein her nature. No outward changes can reyerse tht: feminine function or the feminine dispo- sition. Deep thinkers have foreseen the new woman —ours is the age of a larger life. It were ab- surd to imagine that woman alone would re- main unaffected by the universal trend, Luther thought the devil was not entitled to all the good times, and woman has concladed that man is not entitled to all the good times. Hence she has helped herself to many things which convention has hitherto deprived her of. It is the infraction of convention that startles timid folks—nothing else. We shall presently adjust ourselves to the new order and wonder how bygone times ever tolerated anything else. Dr. Martyn then said that three facts with regard to ‘woman are patent, name- ?:‘Thelr .equality, the fsct that many uties are in the neuter gender and the truth that, as life becomes complex, woman is increasingly unprovided for in marriage. 5 In Massachusetts there are 70,000 women in excess. There are not hus- bands enough to go round; hence woman must earn a living. They can’t all be housewives; they can’t all’ teach school; they can’t all be needlewomen. Hood’s “Song of the Shirt” wails through too many poverty-stricken lips. “This is why,” he said, “‘that thought- ful men and women insist that those duties and activities which are of neuter gender and which have been arbitrarily given to man shall be thrown open to women.” The speaker insisted that woman is en- titled to vote if the American doctrine of no taxation without representation is orthodox, He insisited that woman was excluded from the franchise at the behest of inherited prejudice. 2 Dr. Martyn answered elaborately the seriptural objection, and maintained that St. Paul himseif was a good woman suf- fragist. ————— Fire on Bush Street. There was & lively blaze in Charles Lan- non’s stable at 2611 Bush street shortly be- fore midnight lest night, and an alarm was sounded from box 217. The horses were re- moved in safety, The rear end of the struc. ture and the roof were damaged to the extent of about $1000. How the fire started is un- known. GOLD HID N A WOODPILE, Extraordinary Discovery of Com- bined Wealth and Des- titution, A FEMALE MISER'S CUNNING, Mrs. McNally’s Shanty on York Street Where She Kept Her Grand- child in Squaior. A strange case of destitution was in- vestizated on Saturday by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. A family which appeared to be in the direst need was ultimately found to comprise land-owners and to have nearly five thou- sand dollars in gold hidden in the wood- pile. Deputy Health Inspector Kinne re- ported to Secretary Charles Holbrook that Mrs. McNally of 1218 York street, near Twenty-fifth, was. living with two children in a state of filth which wasa menace to public heatth. The mnspector further stated that the wowan had two starved horses in a shed adjoining. Assistant Secretary M. McCurray, repre- senting the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Officers ‘| will charge me extra,” she wailed. Her cup of trouble overflowed when she. was informed that the officers had taken her horses. *They’ll steal that colt,” she declared. She refused to be comforted. “The officers! What officers? How will I ever get my horses? And if I do they The woman’s stories about the child differed, but she admitted at the police station that her daughter Julia was Annie’s mother. “ls your daughter mar- ried ?” asked some one. ‘‘No, more’s mar- ried than’s happy,” was her answer. “I not kind to my little Annie?” she said in her neryous voice. ‘‘Why, Annie’'s my pet. She cried in the evening sometimes as children will, but I was never cross to her, never.” 2 i Her story is that she sold a ranch at the Willows a few years ago and received $3000 forit. Thesum has been augmented since by the sale of fruit and by the accrued in- terest on the first amount, She was released at 10 . 3., but returned to the station atnoon toask if any one had 1nquired for her, and when she heard that her daughter had been there and learned about the money she was frantic with fear and anger, “[f she comes back tell her there is no money, that it was all a humbug,” she demanded. “Ob, why did you tell her?” She told a CaLL reporter she had but a little money. “Ounly $10,” she said, eye- ing the gunnysack nervously the while. She showed some malevolence toward the complaining witnesses. “It’sall along of bad neighbors,” she said. Mrs, McNally says she wants to buya small ranch of her own. Her son and daughter have both filed on land near Fresno, but she is not content to live with either. When asked whether she was afraid her children would steal her money she shook her head and answered ‘‘They might.” li was evident that she was humiliated by her night in 2 cell. for she assured her neighbors that she had “Only been in & MRS. MeNALLY’S SHANTY. F. Holbrook and McMurray of the Children’s Society visited the place the same afternoon. They found an indescrib- able state of filth and destitution. In the tumbie-down shanty was an old woman dressed in rags. With her was a little child about two years of age, with her head wrapped upinadirty shawl, old bits of flannel tied to her feet by pieces of string, and everything she wore foully dirty. The shanty contained a couple of broken chairs fastened together with wire, a number of battered milk-cans and a guantity of broken, mildewed harness. A wooden shelf holding a few rags wasthe only apoiogy for a bed in the rooms, and the broken stove filled the place with a dense black smoke. The roof was broken in a dozen places and bore evidences of having admitted a large amount of the recent rains into the wretched rooms. In a shed adjoining two bony horses were standing knee deep in mud. The younger of the two had evi- dently had food that day, but the old horse was in a starving condition, and had eaten away a large portion of its manger, as well as part of the post to which it was attached. Standing in the yard was an old cart, which . Mrs.® McNally said she used to peddle vegetables and fruit in the country. Thatmust have been before the cart’s days of usefulness de- parted, however. Yesterday it looked like a battered ship cast up on the beach. The ofticers of the two societies politely suggested that they had come to relieve Mrs. McNally’s necessities. The old woman answered indignantly that she wanted no charity, but, on the contrary, was well-to-do. In reply to questions she said she was a native of Oregon, that her husband had been killed a counle of years ago while driving through the streets of San Jose, and that she came down in No- vember from her ranch in San Benito county, leaving her son to manage her property there. The child, she said, was her niece, the daughter of her brother- in-law, Barney McNally, who lived in Ore- gon, and had given the child to her to take care of. The neighbors, when questioned, scout- ed tie idea of the child being taken care of ; they said the little one was neglected. They also said that Mrs. McNally was the owner of the property on which she was found, as well as of lots on Howard street. Her daughter, whose age she refused to divulge, lived with her, the old woman stated, but was a wild girl and frequently stayved out all night. The officers lieved that there was every reason for arresting Mrs. McNally on the grounds of cruelty to children and to animals. Early the same evening they went to the shanty on York street with a warrant for her arrest. Just as they were leading her to thie pa- trol wagon she begged M. McCurrav and F. McMurray to allow her to see the horses before leaving. The woman went straight to the woodpile, and after groping there a while and hiding something in the waist of her dress, announced her readi- ness to go to the wagon. On reaching the Seventeenth-street sta- tion she was found to have the sum of $4742 50 tied up in a floursack and then cov- ered with a gunnyeack hidden in the waist of herdress. Most of the money wasin $20 gold pieces and was blue and mildewed with damp and age. Evidently this money was what Hannah McNally had dug out of the woodpile when she went there ac- companied by the officers. The woman remained at the station, booked on the charges of cruelty to chil- dren and animals. The little girl was sent to the Youths' Directory. Mrs. McNally gave her age as 40 years, but she looks much older. The weazened little widow, who seemed aged by care and privation rather than years, gave up her gold to the care of the officers with much reluctance. From the wicket of her cell she watched them count it and when they missed one tin{ gold viece she told them where they would find it in the old gunnysack. She did not close her eyes through the night hours. Her face never left the wicket for a mo- ment, and the officer who dozed by the fire said her fierce, uncanny gaze gave him the nightmare three times. Early yesterday morning she was taken to the Central Police station, and.after three hours in the bastile her resolution to remain in j rather than payv the bail ‘wavered. last ll)nd the $50 required for the charge of cruelty to children and $20 for cruelty to animals and wended her way fram jail, poorer by $70. Before leav- ing she engagea Walter Gallagher to de- {fend her. She walked from the City Hall to her miserable home on York street, carrying her gunnysack with its precious load.” To the few who accosted her she hastened to say: “I have some meat in that bag.” private place,”’ nor would she acknowl- edge that Annie was beyond her control. “‘She is with some of my friends,” she averred. A Hint From the Landlord. A Vermont paper revives some stories.of “Uncle” Peter Bates, a local celebrity, who kept a hotel in Randolpn, Vt., in the old staging days. He was noted for his dry humor, and was never at a loss for a retort or for a method for expressing his ideas. One morning, after breakfast, as a stranger was about to depart without pay- ing his bill, Uncle Peter walked up to him and blandly said, “Mister, if you should lose your pocketbook between here and Montpelier remember you didn’t take it out here.” ———— Gray hairs at an early age are heredi- tary in certain families. It 15 a result asa rule of men with dark hair marrying women with dark hdir through several generations. After a time the hair indi- cates debility of stamina by falling off or becoming prematurely gray. RALLY OF THE LEAGUE Enthusiastic Meeting of Tem- perance Advocates and Their Friends. ESSAYISTS IN A CONTEST They Give Their Reasons for Being Total Abstainers in Terse and Vigorous Style. Digtrict No. 3 of the League of the Cross held a *‘rally” yesterday afternoon at Odd Fellows’ Hall and the event proved to be one of the most enthusiastic and most suc- cessful yet held by the Catholic tem perance society. The hall was densely crowded. Hundreds of boys, members of the leag: occupied chairs in the front rows, and elsewhere ladies and gentlemea filled every space, even to the corridors, where many had to stand during the rally. Five parishes were represented by the boys—St. Patrick’s, 8t. Rose’s, ‘‘old” St. Mary’s, St. Teresa's and All Hallows—and he cadet corps thronged the stage. The meeting bad one special feature, which excited considerable interest, and that was the prize essay contest by four members of the league for a beautiful silver medal, on “Why I am a Total Ab- stainer.” When the meeting opened ‘“Veni Cre- ator” was sung by the audience, after which W. A. Breslin, district president, who occupied the chair, made a brief ad- dress. He said that the leagus was or- ganized about six years ago by Bishop Montgomery and it has spread through- out the City parishes, each one now having a branch. The membership is nearly 7000, all pledged to abstain from intoxicating liquor until they have attained the age of 21 years, Miss Mari¢ Giorgiani and Miss nellie Ford gave an instrumental duet, and Harry Dinan a tenor solo. Rev. J. P. Ferguson delivered an ad- dress, which was mainly a timely talk to the boys and young men followed by a homily on temperance. ‘‘He that is tem- g‘erme shall prolong life,”” was the text. ‘ather Ferguson said that intemperance was not only a great evil to the body politic, but also to the individual; it ruined the body. Then why should aman contract the babit? He would fly from a pestilence, then why not fly from an evil far more deadly and insidious in its effects than a plague—the evil of intemvperance? Why not secure a strong and vigorous constitution while still young by refraining from liquor? A man who has the bless- ing of bealth is rich even if he have nota doilar in his pocket. When the pledge is taken to refrain from liquor until twenty- one years of age is reached a man can rest assured that he may go through life with- out being assailed with the tempiation to drink. The audience standing sang ‘“America,” and then the essays were read. The con- testants were William Fitzgerald, St. Patrick’s; John Fitzsimmons, St. Mary’s; ‘William Walsh, 8t. Rose’s; Thomas Eccles, St. Brendan’s. Brother Frminold, presi- dent of Sacred Heart College, T. R. Curtis of St. Peter's church and Miss E. 8. Mahoney were the judges. They awarded the prize to Thomas Eccles, ‘who said: Tam & total abstainer because [ hate drunk- enness. My pledge shows that I am in eatnest. What is soghateful #s this vice? Drunkenness deprives man of God’s precious gift of reason. Reason in men is a spark of God’s intellizence. Ivestablishes the bond of union between man as creature and God as his creator. Drunk- enness dethrones reason and leaves man & prey to his vilest passions. God made man & liitle less than the angels, the drunkard makes him- self s little less than the brutes. Moreover this horrid vice extends its blighting curse over man in his other relations. Itisruin io pros- verity and despair in adversity. Cowardice, theit, cruelty, murder, contempt of God sad hatred of man go along and Ioliow after it. Disease of body and imbecility of mind are notorious results of drunkenness. Whoever Ioves humanity hates drankennéss. ove X If you relizion you hate drunkenness, for drunken Catholics disgrace their church, and | if they die drunk, as too often happens, what other fate but eternal loss can await them. For e e ————————————————————— ————————— “THE CALL” I distance are given. Abbreviations—F., fast; Fa., fair; H., heavy; m., RACING GUIDE. To-day’s Entries at the California Jockey Club, Bay District Track. D races where the horses have no record at the distance to be run the records at the next nearest , mile; £., furiong; ¥, about. FIRST RACE—Five furlongs; selling; non-wini ners since October 1, 1895. Best Pecksnift . Me¥arlane. Red Will Oakland. Index. Name, Lbs| record.| Dist. Owner. Pedigree. 734|514 £ Qdel) stable. . Peregrini-Lady Foster 714 544 £ California_stable... Regent-Sadie | Duke Norfolk-May D | Flood-Gouta. Apache-Emma Longfield Himyar-Maggie R D. Mr. Pickwick-Henlopen p mp. Muriner-Moonlight |0, . Johnson... .| Tim Gore-War Banner |F. ¥, Maley.. | Buck Walton-Alice John A-Alameds | Williams & Mrvhise Eolian by Patsy Dufly | Rey Alfonso stable. Imp. Chevlo:-Varona urba. W. Chamberiain....| Wildidie-Turban 467 | Brown Dic) Terrace stable. m . Strachino-Frazola 626 |Rapido. . LK. Rautman. Cyclone-Nyanza SECOND RACE—Seven furlongs; selling: throe-year-olds. Beac | o Index. Name. |Lbs|record.| Dist. !Lb-%x.‘ Owner. Pedigree. (628) | Decision.. 389, 7t |106 H.. M. T.Donovan....|Tmp. Wagner Fleia 609 | E 50 *| pm (101 Waodiawn stabie..| Ben All-Ezzn (448) 98 H..|E. Schrelber. Duk Montrose-La Farondale 92|H.. K1 Primero stable.. Fitziames-Springlike 6 99| H. | M. Johnson. |21 ko Rey-V: 97 H..|W. D. Randal |Hiyder Ali-Namo: Al Morine . ‘Apache-Riel one-sixteenth mile: (609) | Jack Atkins. THIRD RACE—One and andicap. Beat | Index. | Name. Lbs| record.| Dist. (Lbs|Tk. Owner. Pedigree. 554 |Sir Waiter 9147 ¢ Elmwcod stk farm. | Nathan Coombs-Bessie 581 | Thornhil 6|1 . Lundy mp.Chevio: Phowbe Andern 608 Gilead. 1411 Syeamore aviour-Mistake (€32)| Loan. 7 1igm 110 A. Shields, itigure-Pert 632" | Moderocio 6341 m (104 H..|G. B. Morris & Co.. | Imp. Sir Modred-Preciosa FOURTH RACE—Seven furiongs; selling; inside track. Best TIndex. Name. Lb-lremrd. Dist. Lbs|Tk. Owner. Pedigree. (619) Hanover-Deceit 600 | Orbit. 1 re Oneka-Flotilia 632 Cambridge stable. .. | fmp. King Gallop-Nanka 558 B. Schrefber. Imp. Woodlands. Honora 472 |Swiftsure. ...... *|A H. Small Coloma-Laura D' 622 |Tar and Tartar N, & Hall, . Hindoo-Brambaletia Z 606 | Whitestone 1 White & Clark. Jacqu-Becky Shar 628 | Zaragora. 5 Iey Alfonso stabio. | Imp.Cheviot-Bessie Hooker 622 | Aliahabad V. D. Randall Hyder Ali-*lorlde (608) Monitor 4t California stal mp. Sir Modred-Visalia J. P. Atkin, Regent-Misadie FIFTH RACE—About six furlongs; selling. Best record. Owner. Pedigree. Sea ) > 553 Kond Runner... Monterey SIXTH RAC! *6f Best record. | Dist. 1:0235 5 ¢ 1o 1:07 *Formerly Miss May. Fresno-sister to Jim Douglas Rathone-Miss Melbourne Col. Hepburn-Edua Powhattan-Zuma Lmp. Mariner-Moonlight Ked Tron-Fannie Johnson J. G. Follansbee, Karp S . | Kingston-Lady G olden. Mokelum ‘m | Imp. Midlo: hian-Little Flush Burns & Waterh'se | Im. Midlothisu-ElectricLght ! |P. Siebenth ++|Tmp. Mariner-Maranette. Antrim stable Joe Daniels-Miss Hooker Elkton Hidaigo-G! llen ‘ive furlongs: selling: non-winners since October 1,1895. Pedigree. —_— Little Alp-unknown Tronwood-Jennie Mack Duke of Norfolk-Futurity Tmp. Blackbird II-Charity Jumbo-Toddy Imp. Greenback-Acquito Imp. Greenback-Levereit Jim Gore-Moliie P.tcher Imp. Cyrus-Precious Unknown GlenDudiey-TokMiner mare Longfellow-imp. Manzanita Tynm-mnhmng Ip Midlothian-bv Great Tom Imp. Mariner-Enfaula Sampson-unknown Jack ly-Pey 1} Dnnfloflmk-h; .’Tfie‘_}lmkex St. Paul says “The drunkard canznot enter the kingdom of heaven.”’, The first step in practical opposition to an vice is the practice of the opposite virtue. If hate drunkenness L hate everything that leads to drunkenness. If Ilove a clean, sober life, I will cultivate every agency that makes for temperance and_thus induce the practice of that virtue in others. - Temperance is one of the great eardinal vir tues. ~ Total abstinence is its heroic form Every soldier has his flag. Those who make Wwar on drunkenness unfurl the banner of total abstinence. Every disease has its rzmod{. Ac- cording to the highest speaking authority in the Catholic church the proper and truly effi- ?clcul remedy for intemperance is the prac- ce of total abstinence. It wasin tnis that our Lord Jesus Christ saved the world. He not only practiced the contrary to the vice he attacked, but he carried the gructlce of it to a heroic degree. He ;combated our love for drink by his thirst upon the cross. Not only Christ'slife and doetrine, but the sound sense of mankind demands that sincere aversion for any vice shall be shown by the practice of the contrary virtue, I have taken the pledge because it is the high form of Christianity. Every element in me sharpens for the welfare of my brethren. The drunkard is my brother. He needs good example to reform.” I have made up my mind to give it to him. I may be too poor to give money for the reform of drunkaras, but I can give Wwhat is more precious, a good example. A very pleasing feature of the pro- gramme was the singing of Miss Mary opillane, whose sweet voice captivated the audience. Miss Spillane sang *Call Me Back,” and received enthusiastic applause, in response to which she rendered ‘‘This for That,” a sparkling ballad, prettily in- terpreted. The other singers were 0. Jones, Daniel 8heerin and John Cathcart. Father O’Kyan, spiritual director of the leugue, told the audience he was delighted tosee the bone and sinew of the intel- lectual community taking an earnest in- terest in the league and its work, which was the cause of humanity. It gave him hope in humanity, for he held that the American of the future must be a temper- ate man in all things, honest, industrious, and above all, temperate in regard to in- toxicating liquors; and this, he declared, ;vns what the League of the Cross was oing./ He announced that a great sclemn re- newal of promises would be held at St. Mary’'s Cathedral, February 16, when Archbishop Riordan will deliver an ad- dress. The meeting was brought to a close by the singing of the “Te Deum” by all present. THE HANDBALL COURTS. ‘Two Great Games in Which Champions Took Part Played at the San Francisco. Four teams of handball giants met in the San Francisco court yesterday afternoon and contended for supremacy. The court was crowded to suffocation, and a large number of enthusiasts climbed to the roof and viewed the games from their lofty perch. M. J. Kilgallon, the Denver champion, and James Nealon played agamst P. T. Donnelly, the amateur champion, and T. F. Bonnet. ror the first time Donnelly and Bonnet had their colors lowered, and their long record of victories has been broken. They won the first gzame, but Kilgallon and Nealon won the next three games in great style amid the cheers of the spectators. Tue other game was between J. Jones, the Australian champion, and J. Lawless and J. Harlow, the coast champion, and John Riordan. Jones has been absent from the City for two or three months and his reappearance in the court was the oc- casion for an ovation. In his playing he showed the want of practice, and he and his partner were defeated by three sames to one. Riordan’s service was great, and he has seldom been seen in better forn:. Jones and Lawiess immediately challenged Harlow and Riordan to play a return match on Wednesday night for $50 a side, which was as promptly accepted. The usual crowd was in attendance at the Occidental court and many new faces were seen among the contestants. In the game of the day Richard Linehan, the overhand swiper, and Ed Maloney defeated J. J. Feeney and John Purcell. On C. A. Sullivan of the Olympic Club will Ela_v James McEiroy of the Acme Club and . Lineban. At the Union court the attraction was a match between Terry McManus and M. Dilion and J. J. Feeuey and J. Nelson, the latter team winning after an exciting contest. Next Sunday afternoon T. F. Bonnet and J. C. Nealon will play R. Linehan and J. J. Feeney, the “crackerjacks” of the court. Following were the games played in the different courts: Sen Frencisco court—P. Ryan and G. McDon- ald defeated M. McNeil and J. Rodgers, 21—12, 9—21, 21—20." James Nelson and J. White defented A. Hendry and W. Darius, 2114, | 16—21,21—19. W, Williamns and G. Hutchin. | son defeated Al Pennoyer and P. Hutchinson, 21—18, 1821, 21—14. M. J. Kilgallon, the Denver champion, and James C. Nealon de- feated P. Donnelly the amateur champion, and T. F. Bonnet, 1221, 217, 2112, 2120, J. Collopy and W. O’Donhell_defeated ray and J. Sweeney, 21—10, 18—21, 21. O'Brien and T. 8. Kelly deieated D. Sul and J. Callaghan, 2119, 9—21, 91—13. J. Harlow, the coast champion, and J. Riordan defeated J. Jones, the Australian champlon, and J. Lawless, 21—9, 17—21, 21—10, 21—16. Occidental court—R. 8. Shields andjW. Col- lins defested V. Tobin, and B. Clemmeps 21— 15,16—21, 21—19. C. Kaneand A. G. McKer- ron defeated J. Healy and A. G. Graen, 14—21, 2117, 21—16. W. Collins and G. Goggin de- . Jacobs and B. Ciemmens, 13—21, 2116, 21—18 Joe Baxter and D. E, Condon defeated James J. O'Brien and Matt 0'Don- neil, 21—14, 21—16. Dr. Ed E. Hill and W. Cronan defeated F. . Shea and A. C. Bauer, 21—14, 16-21, 21-17. In the game between the Acme Club mem: bers Lou Hardie and H. R. French d. feated Jed Hanifan and T. Fennessy, 18—21, 2120, 21-—17. Dave Williamson and C. J. McGlyng defented C. Tobin and P. F. MecCormick, 21-7, 16—%1," 21-10. R. Linéhan and Ed. Maloney_deféated John Purcell and J. J. TFeeney, 21—14, 17—21, 2119, 20—21,2118. Union court —Tim Jordan and William Keough defeated A. McDuflie and M. Kon- nealy, 21—17, 19—21, 2120, Mat Naliy and M. Rogers defeated 3. Collins and P. Fay, 15-21, 2118, 21—14. Thomas Doyle aud Joe MiNamara defeated Lon Magner and J. Dooly, 2117, 16—21, 21—20. James 0’Don- nell, the old veteran,'and T. Lenihan defeated T. Welch and T. Fay, 18—31, 2116, 2115, William McManus and H. Batzner dafeated H. McKinney and Charles Long: 2118, 1821, 21 Colonel James Smitn and Major Tom Drady defeated Colonel J, C. 0'Con- norand the “Hessian,” 2118, 1991, 2120, J.J. Feeney and J. Nelson defeatea Terry M- anus and M. Dillon, 19—21, 21—18, 2120, 1721, 2190, MORALITY AND RELIGION, Why It Is Hard to Keep the Golden Rule. Rev. Arthur M. Clark delivered a dis- course on “Morality and Religion” at St. Mary’s Church last evening. He said: It is commonly asserted that the “Golden Rule” is enough and that any more religion than this is superfiuous. This may or may not be true, or it may be half true. “Do unto others what you would they should do unto you.” What a paradise on earth if this were really carried out by each individual! But, aias, it is not, and the days when it will be seem utopian. ‘Why is it g0 hard to keep the golden rule. Is it not because thers is so much “cussedness” in man? Or rather because the way of man is corrupted and turned from the high and lofty things to those base and degrading? ere is in each one of us an immense amount of selfishness or pride. Naturally each one likes his own way and to do his own will Dbetter than the will of another, and this would be ?ulta right, too, except for the fact that we will todo not what is always best, but often what is worse. If men were keeping the golden rule they would put down sclfishness and at- tend to the wants of others even at the expense of their own. Then again there is innate an- ger, and this ought to be conquered as well as selfishness by good judgment and right reason. Before any golden rule can be observed the Euap“ must be taught self-control. They must rn that their passions are to be subjected to kept down by severe dis- right reason and cipline; that men are to be the masters of themselves and of ali their passions and appe- tites, and that that is the Hrst thing in wi th true manhood consists. A jasper vase, presented by the Czar of Russia to _the city of Paris, has just ar- rived in Havre. It is made of the most verfect block of jasper ever known, is eight_feet high, with the Russian arms on one side and those of the city of Paris on the other; the handles are female heads. Wednesday evening M. J. Kilgallon and | FOR A MISSING BROTHER, How Young Lizzie Grinter Waits and Watches and Hopes. NOW LOOKING FOR THE LOST. She Follows Her Brother From Iowa. ‘When She Arrives There Is No One to Meet Her. Lizzie Grinter is a shy, pretty girl who receives the customers in a Market-street photograph gallery and tells them how much it will cost to reproduce their faces and poses. Her black eyes have a wistful expression, and her voice and manner betoken a timidity much at variance with the aver- age city product. She is pale and slight and looks scarcely equal to the battle for bread. She can tell a story of loneliness and want and rescue in a strange city that would furnish valuable material to an en- terprising novelist. Lizzie is 19 years old, but locks scarcely 16. Her brother and herself have been orphans almost since their infancy. They grew somehow, Topsy fashion, and in time the boy’s sturdy arm served him well as a laborer, while the delicate girl gained a meager livelihood as a saleswoman at their native town in Iowa. There was not much joy in their lives, it is true, but there was a measure of con- tentment until Roy Glinter chose to seek his fortune in that wondrous Golden West of which he had beard such vague and marvelous stories. After he came to Cali- fornia he wrote in glowing terms of the beauties of the State, but deplored his hard luck. Emplosment was scarce and he had but little money. After a while there were no more letters, and the lonely, friendless girl felt that she could no longer endure silence and separa- ticn. She would use her little hoard of | savings in a joarney to California, where she could surely join her brother. When she arrived in San Francisco there was but little money left, not enough to take her to Redding, where her brother was when he wrote that last letter. She | found a cheap lodging-house, and the next morning began her weary search for work. She could not go out to service in a home, as her arm, broken when she was a child, had not mended properly because of lack of attention. Her very limited edu- cation closed the doors of some avenues of employment. She had gone to store after store without success. Her poor hand- writing and worse spelling had destroyed | her opportunities for securing work through answering advertisements. Some | one told her that artists paid good wages | to models, and one day when the sum in | the little purse had grown pitifully small she drifted into the studio of one of San | Francisco’s women artists. The artist smiled a little as.she noted the pinched features and thin arms of her would-be model, but she did not dismiss | the applicant until she had heard her story. There had been ro answers to the letters | addressed to Roy Grinter at Redding. His sister was frightened by the terrible un- known something that threatened her. ‘What should she do? There was more of hope in her face and money in her purse when Lizzie returned to her dark little room. And the artist laid aside her brushes and looked with | moist eyes at the coals in the grate. She is a keen, clever, careless woman of the | world, but this homely lttle idyl had touched her. When she rose it was to write to an official at Redding, whom she requested to make personal inquiries for the missing young man and to send a per- sonal appeal to the papers of that town, asking that Roy communicate with the dispirited, tonely little sister. Then she threw on her wraps and hastened to the photograph gallery of a friend and talked energetically to that busy man for a few | minutes. The result was that the shy, black-eyed girl has employment and that while she | waits for news of the missing brother her heart is full of gratitude to the artist, who says she.means to paint her conception of “Fidelity,” with Lizzie, brighter, plumper and happier, as her model. | Bamboo pens have been used in India for over 1000 years. They are made like quill pens, and for afew hours’ writing are very serviceable. —— e NEW TO-DAY. The cheapest easy-chair, the easiest cheap chair and the best looking easy and cheap chair we ever seld. You can lean way back or sit up straight. Adjustable. Deep spring seat, nicely padded and tufted; that’s what makes it so comforta- ble. $18 covered in figured de- nim. $25 covered in tapestry. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street. CALIFORNIA STATE EXPOSITION. APPLICAT!DNS FOR EXHIBITION SPACE, or for concessions of any kind, in the CALIFORNIA STATE EXPOSITION, Tobe held in the Madison-square Garden, New York, May, 1896. should be filed at the Executive Office, New York. on or before March 1. Application blanks, diagrams and descriptive pamphlels can be secu at the office of this er. PR atiress all communications to WALTER H. WICKES, Manager, Madison-square Garden, New York.