The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 189 FRIDAY .FEBRUARY 7, 1896 AMUSEMENTS. PALDWIN THEATER.—Grand Opera—+ Cavalleria Rusticana.” , CA1IFORNIA THEATER—“Hendrick Hudson Jr.» CoLumBia THEATER—Men and Womeu." MoR0sco's OPERA-H, Tivorr OPERA-HOUSK. ORPHEUM.—High-Class Vi GROVER'S ALCAZAR.—*Arabian Nights” and “Joe's Girls.” MACDPONOUGH THEATER (OAKLAND)--* Mac beth® SHOOT mHE CuuTEs—Daily at Haight street, ©one block east of the Park. FACI¥IC COAST JOCKEY CL —Races to-day. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF, Fair weather is promised for to-day. The sale of tickets for Paderewski aggregated $9000 yesterday. e Carrie Clarke Ward shed crocodile tears 10 beguile a policeman. New and interesting developments came up on the Healy investigation yesterday. Dr. Case delivered a lecture on phrenology st the Y. M. C. A, Auditorium last evening. - The Union-street carhouse will hereafter re- peat the fire signals by means of its whistie. A reptile four and a half feet long, resem- bling an alligator, has been caught in Monte- Tey Bay. Mrs. Barry Baldwin Jr. was adjudged guilty of contempt of court yesterday by Judge Dain- gerfield. The Merchants' .Association will bid for the short-term street-sprinkling contract ending June 30 The Society of American Socialists passed resolutions condemnatory of the funding bill &t last night's meeting. N The unions of the building trades have formed a central organization to be known as the Building Trades Council. Yesterday Attorney Wood for the defendants in the Hale & Norcross case argued against the accuracy of car-sample assays. The suit of J. Q. Adems sgainst the Southern Pacific for damages for_breach of contract has been compromised for $20,000. A stiff wind in Oakland blew over a house in the course of construction yesterday morning, killing Charles Hurley, a workman. The Harbor Commissioners cannot sell water to ships, according to law, so Goodall, Perkins & Co. will continue to supply the demand. The néw bids for renairs to the ferry slips showed a reduction of $675 on the ones sub- mitted last week. The State is just that much ahead. X Yesterday was reopening day. at Ingleside track. The winning horses were: Zumar, Claequer, Logan, Burmah, George Miller and Levena C. Miss Lou Reddan, living at 311 Taylor street, while riding on California-street cable-car 37 was thrown ageinst n iron stanchion and badly injured. The Committee on Commerce makes & vigor- ous plea to Congress for suitable appropria- tions for the benefit of the shipping industry in this harbor. s The Charity Company will give & repetition of its receni success, ¢ 8, at the Bush- street Theater on Friday and Saturday even- ings next week. Miss Kathryn Jarboe and Jerome Case Bull were married vesterday at noon at St. Paul’s Church. There was & wedding breakfast at the home of the bride. A protest was filed with the Board of Super- visors yesteraay, signed by property-owners, expenditure of public money for g paved streets. The Manufscturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion has obtained a large lot for its home in- position building. The land is on and Twelith streets. Sullivan savs Max Popper is a liar he quotes him with saying that “Sam Rsiney was the only man who could drag the Fire Department into politics.” Six hundred tickets were distributed to the newsboys through THE CALL yesterday and the recipients will occupy the gallery as the guests of Corinne at the California to-night. The application of the Market-street Railway Company for a francnise over portions of Page, Mason, Hyde and_O'Farrell streets will be recommended favorably by the Supervisors. The West Side Christian Church of San Fran- cisco has filed articles of incorporation. The directors are B. F. Clarke, K. L. Rigdon, N. H. Remington, J. D. Hogden and Willlam A. Gardnet, Albert Oliver,a printer arrested for petty | larceny by trick and device, #0t two attorneys 10 go on his bonds by false representations, and failed to appear in court yesterday when his case was called. Mayor Sutro went before the Street Commit- tee o the Board of Supervisors yesterday to urge that no sewers be built as asked for south of the park until a complete systen for that region had been adopted. Frederick W. Brooks, menager of the Mer- chants’ Cleaning Company, wasarrested yester- day on two charges of jelony embezziérent, the complaining witness being Mrs. Orlinda Van Wie, & divorced woman. Rev. Pnilip O'Ryan delivéred a lecture last nightbefore the Catholic Educational Union in Metropolitan Hall on “The Church and Civilization.” A large audience listened to Lis eloquent muiden effort in public. The will of Ellen Fury, who died in conse- quence of injuries received in the recent Baden railroad- accident, was filed for probate erday. She leaves the whole of her $2000 te to her nephew, Henry Boland. Sam C. Hammond, president of the Butchers’ Board of Trade, says he intends bringing suit | 10-day because the Report last night falsely accused him af buying meat in Chinatown. It it is possible the Board of Trade will sue also. | A delegation of & lundred Mystic Snriners and their wives lett here yesterday for Los Angeles. On Sunday the seventy-third temple in the United States wiil be instituted at Phce- nix, Ariz., by Imperial Potentate Field, the head of the order and a member of the forty. Murtin Hughes, an ex-Deputy Sheriff, who was charged in Judge Low's court yestérday with _assaulting Mrs. Hugh Sellack. 1304 Powell street, with a deadly weapon, declared in court that the charge was faise and that he would have Mrs. Sellack arrested for perjury. KING'S DAUGHTLRS BENEFT. Charity Company to Give “7-20-8" at the Bush-Street Theater. Owing to the inability of ‘the Columbia Theater management to arrange for as sire for their benelit, it has been practically settled that it will be given at the Bush- street Theater on Friday and Saturday evenings. The charity company will repeat the comedy ‘‘7-20-8,”” given with phenomenal success at Oakland last month. Tne proceeds will be applied on the building fund of the King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables. The home has out- grown its quarters, and a movement is on foot for-the purchase of a lot and the erec- 1ion of a building which together will cost $50,000. There 1s no more worthy charity in the City, nor indeed in the country, it being the only King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables‘in the United States. It is the first time the King’s Daughters’ Home has made an appeal to the public and the response uld be a generous one. NEW TO-DAY. Pimples, blotches, blackhea 1ed, rough, and oily skin, preve by Cuticura Soap, the most effect- ive skin purifying and beautifying soap in the world, as well as pur- estand sweetest for toilet-and nur- sery. The only preventive of pim- ples, because the only preventive of inflammation of the pores. Bold the it the A i’_."::,mnnm_ gut e worid, Briish ¥, Nzwe 641 CORr,, Bole Frope, Boston, Us B, o BEAT HIS WIFE T0 INSENSIBILITY, Remarkable Story of Cru- elty Related in a Divorce Suit. MARRIED TWO YEARS. Martial Hainque Alleged to Have Attempted to Kill His Child. AN INJUNCTION IS ISSUED. It Will Prevent Him From Trans- ferring Any of His Property Pend- ing Divorce Proceedings. Papers were_filed yesterday in the Su- perior Court in behalf of Agnes M. Haique, making application for a divorce from her husband, Martial Haingue. Martial Hainque is a young man 23 years of age, a son of the former proprietor of the Cyclops Machine Works, and an heir to his father’s estate, owner of a sixth interest in the tools, ete., of those works. He is said to be worth $25,000, and, upon the motion of ‘Walter Linforth, the plaintiff’s attorney, Judge Hunt, yesterday issued an injunc- tion restraining Heinque from transfesring any of his property, as he threatened to do in case of suit being entered. The wife alleges extreme cruelty as the grounds of her petition, and cites a series of extraordinary instances. The couple were married on the 30th of July, 1893, in this City. The husband is alleged to have begun to treat his wife with brutal vio- lence almost immediately after the mar- | riage. On the evening of the 9th of Sep- tember, 1893, whiie they were returning to their-home at 510 Fifteenth street, after a visit to a sister of Hainque, he struck his bleed profusely. She was only saved from another attack in their house the next day by the ap- pearance of a friend, Mme. Rosine Guitrive. During the month of January, 1894, the husband is alleged to have beaten his wife 1n the face with his fist until he wearied of it, and then dragged her about the room by her hair. At this time the wife had but being but three weeks old. In February following the husband | again beat the petitioner in the face, | choked her, threw her upon the floor and | kicked her in the abdomen. She en- deavored (o escape from the house with his child, but he overtook and choked her again. A few days later, while the baby girl | was asieep in 1ts bed, being then less than | two months old, he threatened to kill her | should she awake and cry. The child did | awake and he hurled two wooden boxes at | her. The mother threw herself in front of | the child and was struck over the eye and | temple. As a result, her eye was. swollen and blackened and her face discolored for a period of two weeks thereafter. | In June, in the presence of a visitor, he | gave her another choking. | On theevening of the 4th of July, about 9 o'clock, he beat her into insensibility. She did not recover consciousness until 4 o’clock the next morning, or seven hours | after. Asanother result of this her face | was blackened and discolored for a period | of two weeks. On the 30th of May, 1895, while in a pub- | lic restaurant at Seventh and Market | streets, he threw a sugar bowl at her, | striking her on the shoulder. On January 27, 1896, with the acquies- | | cence of the husband, the wife “was re- i peatedly struck in the face with great forca | and violence by Mrs. Frank C. Bangs, a | sister of the defendant.” | The petition further states tbat these | instances were only a few of their kind, | but that repeatedly the husband beat and abused tue wife, in this way making her | sick, lame and disfigured. He used violent, | abusive and obscene language toward her charged her with being upon improper | terms with every man who came to the house. refered to and another not yet born, { The Mrs. Bangs referred to—a sister of | the respondent—is the wife of a well-known attorney of this City. Frederick William Brooks Ar- rested for Having Em- bezzled It. He Denies the Charge and Claims It Has Been Instigated by His Enemies. Frederick W. Brooks, manager of the Merchants’ Cleaning Company, was booked at the City Prison yesterday afternoon on two charges of felony embezzlement. The complaining witness is Mrs. Orhinda Van Wie, who was divorced from her hus- band in Augnst, 1394, and ‘was awarded one-third of the community property. Her share was assessed at $1125, which she alleges was paid in two sumsof $500 and $625 to Brooks on her bebalf and re- tained by him. ~ Brooks’ version of the affair is that after Mrs. van Wie was divorced his mother asked if he could not give her a-home in his house, as she was friendiess. He ccn- sented to do 50 and she went to live with ‘| him. The two attorneys who acted for her in the divorce suit got her to sign a docu- ment agreeing to pay them one-half of her interest in the estate, and when she com- plained to Brooks about it he advised her to consult an attorney. ‘Attorney C. G. Nugle was consulted,” said Brooks, ‘‘and he advised her to ignore the document. Several cunsultations were held with the attorney for Mr. Van Wie as to her share of the community property, and finally it was fixed at $1125, to hedpnid in two installments, one of $500 and the other of $625. 1 received the first install- ment, less $100 paid to Nagle for his fees, and handed 1o Mrs. Van Wie the $400 in gold in the presence of my wife. Nagle received the second installment and called with it at my office and Mrs. Van Wie got it from me. 3 b “She knew { was hard up and asked if she could be of any assistance to me. I wife with his fist, causing her nose tol risen from a bed of sickness, her chiid | frequently in the presence of visitors, and | | "The'issue of the marriage is the child | MBS, VAN WIE'S MONEY, early a date as the King's Daughters de- | borrowed $290 from her; which, I admit, T have not yet been able to repay. She started # confectionery-store on Steiner street and was forced to.sell out after los- ing between $400 and $500. I have always been friendly to her and sne used to tell | me she icoked upon me as ason. She lived in my house for nine months with- out paying a cent, and about ten days ago, 10 my astonishment, I was served with a bill from her for §270, being nine months’ work at §30 2 month, which of course I re- | fused to pay.” Brooks claims that Mrs. Van Wie has been instigated to have him arrested by his enemies, who have been the means of | separating him and his wife. 015 is not the fivst time he has been ar- rested. Two or three months ago a pri- vate detective, who had been employed to watch his movements, had him arrested for an assault with a deadly weapon, which was afterward reduced tq exhibit- ing a deadly weapon. SHED CROCODILE TEARS How Carrie Clarke Warde, the Actress, Beguiled a Police Officer. She Bewailed Armstrong’s Absence After Hiding Him in the Hall. = Frank Armsirong, the young California actor who deserted his wile and infant son a couple of weeks ago, has been located in Humboldt County, comfortably playing with the Carrie Clarke Warde Company. There is a tale connected with his escape from this City which proves that if Mrs, Warde were as fine an actress on the stage as she is off it she would be winning the acclamations of the multitude in metro- politan theaters. The day'that Frank Armstrong was to sail to Eureka with the Warde Company, on the steamer National City, Mrs. Arm- strong and Officer McMurray of the So- ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children went to Mission-street wharf with a warrant for Armstrong’s arrest, on the “charge of deserting his wife and child. When the destitute young wife and the Mrs. Frank Armstrong, the = Missing 2 Actor’s Wife. officer reached the steamer they found | Mrs. Carrie Clarke Warde walking the | deck and weeping bitterly. “He has gone, | deserted us,” she wailed when asked to | tell the whereabouts of her leading man. | “How can. we play without an actor to | take the lover's roles! It was base of him, | for his flight means financial ruin for the company.’’ as not he been down to the ship?” | asked Officer McMurray. | Mrs. Warde shook her head, wept afresh and tore her hair. ‘“‘He has sent no bag- age and no word,” she said in a voice | roken by sobs. | L will search the ship,” said Officer McMurray. Just at this point, however, the actress was seized with such a violent fiv of hysterics that she had to be patted on the back and led gently to a seat, while | the poor little wife, shocked at this fresh instance of.her husband’s perfidy, mingled ber tears with those of Carrie Clarke Warde, and the hungry baby, whose milk- man had cut off the'supply of food that morning, also raised his little voice in lamentation, 5 Taking advantage of the general con- fusion Officer McMurray paid a hasty visit to the statcrooms, but he found no trace of the missine actor. On returning to the deck he found Carrie Clarke Warde, some- what recovered from her hysterics, vowing eternal friendship for Mrs. Armstrong and her hungry baby. “Itis perfidiousof him to leave you in the lurch,” she said, ‘‘worse, a thousand times worse than deserting our company, although what we are to doon the road without. a leading man—,” and Carrie | Clarke Warde sobbed again and begged [ Mrs. Armstrong in broken accents to ac- company ber, as a last resource, to a re- | sort on Howard street, where Frank Arm- | strong might possibly be found. % The resort was visited without any re- sult. Then began a tour of the town, made by the two women, their footsteps being dogged by the officer. Neither of the guileless victims guessed for & moment that Carrie Clarke Warde had her leading man stowed away among the freight on board the National City, and that she was leading them a dance about town in order m prevent the warrant being served upon m. | - Just before the tinte for sailing the wily actress eluded Mrs. Armstrong and Officer MecMurray and hastily made her wav to Mission-street wharf in time not to be left -behind by her troupe.. Bince reaching Humboldt County Frank Armstrong has sent some money to his family, so 1t is just as well that he escaped being jailed. rs. Armstrong. who is a clever dancer and has held engagements in good companies, intends to return to the stage as soon as shé regains her. health, which bas suffered from the privations she has endured. Dr. Hall’s Coal Bill. John Smith, coal-dealer; 327 Sutter street, Swore out & warrant yesterday for the arrest of Dr.S.'H. Hall on the charge of battery. He met Dr. Hall on Montgomery street on Wednes- day and asked for a)lymenr of a coal bill amounting to $21 50. The doctor, instead 6f paying the bill, knocked him down. The coal ‘was supplied during the time Dr, Hall was in the County Jail awaiting his trial for criminal | malpractice. ASK FOR APPROPRIATIONS The Committee on Commerce Espousing the Shipping Interest. TURDENED BY OVERTAXATION. Several Proposed Recommendations Suggested for the Benefit of This Harbor. : A meeting of the committee on com- merce was held in the rooms of the Cham- ber of Commerce yesterday a‘ternoon. Previous to the arrival of T. J. Parsons, chairman of the committee, an informal discussion was bad over the guestion of water rates to the shipping. J. W. Dickie, chairman of the sub-committee on ‘““tax- | ation on shipping,” had discovered that the firm of Goodall & Perkins, who have a monopoly of the water supply along the front, are charging more than twice the price for supplying the ships what they themselves pay tothe water company. It for its tugs $97 50 for the water supplied, which they buy from the Spring Valley for $24 82, This 'subject will not, however, be brought before the committee for consid- eration until such time as the Harbor Commissioners look into the matter. The sub-committee on taxation of ship- ping submitted the following as ite report: “In submitting their report your com- mittee ate fully conscious of the. fact that the question of the taxation of shipping that we are asked to report on is one that in one shape or another has recently been acted upon by several of the States: It is also a question of vital importance to the commerce of San Franeisco, more so, per- haps, than to any other port in the United States, us the shipowner of San Francisco is in direct competition with foreign ship- ping, built cheap and subject to no taxa- tion. **We had hoped that there might be some way whereby the burden of taxation on our shipping might be relieved short of an appeal to the whole people of the State, but these bopes present but little founda- tion upon which to build. “Your committee therefore decided to recommend that the San Francisco com- mittee on commerce cernter 1ts energies on securing the passage of a resolution by the Legislature to amend the first section of Article XIII of the constitution of the State of California, providing that all ves- sels registered or enrolled at any port.in the United States and any foreign port, or between ports in the United States, shall be exempt from all local and State taxa- tion; and we further recommend that the committee at once begin the work of edu- cating the peOH)le'Oi this State as to the necessity for placing our shipowners in a better position to compete with the un- taxed ships that are now doing the work that our own ships should do. “To this end we recommend that papers or tracts be printed and issued by the com- mittee 10 every voter of the State, showing the justice and wisdom of such an amend- ment; its necessity in order to secure the commercial prosperity of the State; how all interests depend on the prosperity of our commerce; how other = States and voters free themselves of bar- dens, and how hopeless it is to compete. against free ships with taxed ships. By such means, aided by the newspaper press, which we think should be patriotic enongh to keep this matter constantly before their readers, not as a_party or sectional ques- tion, but as a great principal factor in the welfare of this commonwealth. “In this your committee sees the only hupe’of relief for an overburdened ship- ing.” v Agseries’ol petitions were sttbmitted by the various sub-committees on matters to them referred asking aporopristions from Congress for keeping the telegraph line between this City and Point Reyes light- house in godd working order. For this service the sum of $2000 was asked. The sum of $200,000 was asked for the purpose of removing several-dangerous ob- structions in the bay. Also for fair-way signals entering the bay, and charts of the various sections traversed by telegraph and telephone cables. On currents inside the Golden Gate the sum of $5000 was asked to be appropriated {0 the geodetic survey. For a fog signal on the northwest Far- allen, $20,000, and to connect the south- east Farallon island with the -main land on this side, $35,000 was prayed for. The | sum of $90,000 was asked to build and | equip a fog-signal vessel, with auxiliary | steam power, to be stationed outside of the | bar at San Francisco, in place of the ineffi- | cient whistling buoy now stationed there. | " In order tu give additional strength and | force to the committee’s request for the | above appropriations, a motion was made and carried that the chair appoint a com- | mittee of three to obtain the signatures of | other representative or:anizations not | connected with the Chamber of Commerce. On this committee W. M. Bunker, Alfred Bouvier and Captain Thayer were ap- pointed. MME. DORRE AS MIGNON, The Tavary Company Is Quite at Home in Thomas’ Tune- ful Work. The Prima Donna Shows Too Much Partiality for Carmen With Variations. The Tavary Company showed itself to be quite at home last night in Ambroise Thomas’ charming opera of “Mignon.” | The work 'is not too heavy for the per- formers; indeed, in the title role, the prima donna may be said to have erred by being too heavy for the work. The stag- ing and costuming of “Mignon’’ are not beyond the capacities of the company, as was the case in “‘Aida,” and the orchestra, barring an occasional uucertainty in in- fonation, played the melodious music brightly and crisply. Paype Clarke redeemed for- his quasi fiasco in the role of Radames on Monday by his singing of Wilhelm Meister last night. He produced his tones pleasantly and easily, pnrated with artistic feeling and acted naturally and sympathetically. Mme. Dorre’s Mignon was open to both praise and censure. ~She was alwavs a thorough artist, conscientious and full of abandon both in her acting and singing, but she made the mistake of applying the melodramatic methiods of modern fyric drama to a work that has passed its thou- ‘sandth performance at the Pamns Opera Comique, and the result was like putting new wine into old bottles. . At times it seemed as though Mme. Dorre had grasped an ideal conception of the guileless idyllic M:fi{kon; she was sim- ple and artless, “childlike and bland” in fact, but the ruling passionsof Carmen and Santuzza preved too strong for her to resist them long, and a luring, coquettish look, which of - right belonged to the ypsy girl’s armory, or a Santuzza-like urst of passion would come and shatter the illusion of Mignon.” If Mme. Dorre would cast aside her modern lyric drama tendencies and remember that she 1s play- | 8. H. Dudley acted well ‘and looked was shown that this firm charges the State |* become a wonde: | ully effective Mignon, | ing in opera mmi%ue she has it in her o . but she would have to fling to the winds her practice a systen of Delsarte all through the = opera which , would make those rigid “‘Cavalleria Rusticana” gestures an impossibility. ‘Even her fine smging would have to be less melodra- matic1f Mme. Dorre wished to place her Mignon on the same’ artistic plane as her Carmen. It seems a hard thing to say ' of s0 good an artist as Dorre, but last night her interpretation. of the role savored of playing to the gallery, though a good deal of her. applause came from tne stalls. She sang in Euglish and enunciated very dis- tinctly. ; 4 Mlle. Lichter was an_ideal Felina. She looked like a bit of Dresden china and warbled. and trilled like a lark. “I am Titania” wasa particularly delightful piece of singing, and the cadences with which she ended the aria brought down the house. Mile. Bella Tomlins was more at home as Frederick than sbe had been the night before in the more exacting role of Urbano. , Her singing of the gavotte, in the second act, was by no means an un- satisfactory piece.of work, and won her considerable applause. ARG Signor Abramoff, as Lotharlo, again dis- ringuished himself. Hisacting was marked by ‘simplicity and repose, and, as usual, his singing left nothing to be desired. Eugene Avery was effective as Laertes and turesque as Giarno. The choruses were for the most part good, and in the opening scene the crowd was dressed and grouped with a good deal of skitl. A The Tavary Grand Opera Company_ will present the double bill of *‘Cavalltria Rus- ticana’ and “I'Pagliacci’’ at the Baldwin Theater to-night. The cast includes botn the principal-tenors. MISS FERRY'S DEBUT, She Appears as -Dora Prescott “in “Men and Women” at the Columbia. The Frawley Company Takes a Cali- fornia Girl, New to the Stage, as One of Them. Miss Minnie Ferry was the star feature of last night’s presentation of “Men and Women” at the Columbia Theater. It was the occasion of that clever young San Francisco girl’s debut—her first appear- ance upon the stage. Those who may not have been aware of it, however, surely could not have guessed that the young lady who was playing Dora Prescott was going throngh the trying experience of a first night before the footlights. The part of Dora Prescott is thatofa soubrette—a young girl, gay and artless, who trips on and off the stage, has a little something to do with all the other charac- ters, pets and pouts, woos and is wooed by her first lover. It is by no means an un- important part, but requires a light step, a graceful bearing, a nice elocution—that art which wears the appearance of artless- ness. And all these requirements the pretty little debutante met so entirely as to delight her friends aware that she had just essayed the part and to give no warn- ing to others thet she had not played the vart a thousand times. - When Miss Ferry made her first ap- pearance on the stage she was instantly greeted by a burst of applause, for the boxes were occupied bv her personal friends, and very many in the house had come especially to see her. Her inother, Mrs. C. P. Ferry, and her little brother, with & party of friends, were seated in the center .of the orchestra circle, where the best view might be had. Miss Ferry was dressed in white with red carnations. In the next act she was dressed in pale sea green and violets. She appeared in the last act wearing a street dress of cadet biue with white trimming. During the evening she provoked fre- quent applause and flowers were showered upon the stage. Miss Ferry hus been regularly engaged by the Frawley Company and will go north and continue with them until the end of the season. She will go to New York, to friends there, and make arrange- ments for her subsequent career, which promises to be brilliant. Miss Ferry is a native of San Francisco. She is a graduate of the Denman Gram- mar School. She bLas traveled extensively with her parents, completed ner education in France and Switzerland. She is gifted with a good vojee,- pretty face and good figure, and is otherwise peculiarly equipped to adorn her chosen profession. BOXING FOR CHARITY. The National Club Will Give Its First Entertainment This Even- ing. The National Athletic Club will give its inaugural athletic entertainment this evening at the Auditorium Theater, and J. Ross Jackson, the president, is san- guine that success will crown the first of an interesting series of exhibitions which will be held under the auspices of this club. The principal feature of sport for the initial gathering will bean eight-round contest with gloves of regulation size be- tween Danny Needham and George Green. The principals. have been training faith- fully for three or four weeks for this exbi- bition, and speculation among the lovers of the sport is rife as to who will receive a fayorable decision at the termination of the bout. Green has an advantage in some ways. He is several years a younger man than Needham, and may possibly be in better trim to put on the finishing fouches. Need- ham has had long experience, and will, it is said, introduce several blows which may surprise the protege of Champion Corbett. It can be safely said, however, that the bout will be well worth seeing. Several of the greatest boxing contests witnessed in this City were finished inside of ten rounds, According to a letter which was received yesterday by a_ prominent promoter of tisticuffs from a New York sporting man, the bettinfieon the Maher and Fitzsimmons fight will be strongly in favor of the New Zealander. The §ambleu of New York and Chicago are of the opinion that Fiiz- simmons will stop Mabher in six or seven rounds, and already “several wagers have been made that the fight will not last four rounds, andthat Fitzeimmons will prove a winner. There is very small interest taken in the otherfights thatare preposed. The answer Corbett recently made to a challenge whieh he received from Peter Jaekson is not calculated to impress sport- ing people favorably toward the champion. The sporting men of New York have con- cluded that 1f Corbett intends to play for public pap.hie must throw off his theatri- cal robes and re-enter the arena. If Peter Jackson is, by a breaking down of his hysical forces, unable to do any more gghfing, Corbett should be all the more anxious to fight him and prove to thou- sands of people that.he is the better man. 1f Jackson was really in poor health Cor- bett would not receive a challenge from the colored pugilist to meet him in, a finish contest. —————— Death of a Veteran Printer. JamesS. Neill, one of the oldest printers in San Francisco, died yesterday after an illness of some duration. Neill was born in Edin- burgh, Scotiand, in 1846. and migrated to | Australia at the age of 17 years. He came to Californiz about 1368 and began working at his trade. Neill, who was finely educated, later gave recitations before large audiences and also taught elocution. He worked on the Report up to & few years , when s stroke of apoplexy so aisabled hiin that he had to aban- don the *‘case.” With the change of owne ship he read proof on the Bulletin, He was member,of the Workmen and leaves, besides many friends, & widow and six children to mourn his los A Russian farm laborer gets about £2 a month. Carmen-like coquetry and- A CRY FOR CHEAP BEER Saloon-Keepers Ready to Revolt Against the Local Breweries. THE SYNDICATE WAS SCORED. Scheme Presented for Supplying Un- -limited Beer at Four Dollars a Barrel, There was a meeting of syndicate-op- pressed saloon-keepers and grocerymen at 909 Market street last evening. Sixty sel- lers of beer responded to this call: ATTENTION| SA(I;OO\'~K€I\§PERS AND GRO- Dear Sir: You are cordially invited to at- tend a mass-meeting to be held in Pythian Hall, 909-915 Market street, San Francisco, on .| Thursday, the 6th day of February, 1896, at8 o'clock P. ., to discuss the late arbitrary ac- tion of the San Fraucisco breweries, or the syndicate,-and to devise ways and means to | buy a bmwet{ of our own and to have beerat $4 per barrel on the stand with rebate, and permission to the employes to spend money over the bar when or how they please. Important subjects on this question material | to our interests will be discussed by those who ungerstand the business. FRANK MARTY. - Please present this notice at the door. The breweries in the syndicate are the | Wieiand, Willows, Chicago, National, Fredericksburg and the United States, but the Brewers’ Association, which abides by the rules which the syndicate prescribes, embraces also the Enterprise, Milwaukee, Calitornia, San Francisco Stock, Ameri- | can, Broadway, Atbany, Hibernia, Jack- son and Washington, Recently an edict went forth from the association’ that drivers must not spend brewery money with customers, which is regarded as an indirect advance of 50 cents on a barrel of beer, as that much money ‘was formerly thrown across the counter in the delivery of each barrel. Hence beer is now $5 a barrel without the shadow of re- bate. That is. the sum that goes to the brewer for every barrel sold. R. Manuel took the chair last night and expounded the objects of the meeting. “Our cry,” he said, ‘a3 cheap beer and better beer. We have a brewer who will give it to us and release us from the ex- actions of the syndicate. For good reasons the name of the brewer must be now withheld, but he lives within 100 miles of San Francisco. He is a responsible man and understands the business. He was not inclined at first to help us,/but heis now willing to establish a brewery at a- cost of $30,000. He will put in $15,000 him- self. And we want 160 saloon-keepers to take each one share of stock—that is to but on the contrary is only & luxury, and should be paid for oniy by those voluntarily consenting thereto. ¢ It is further stated that ‘“‘sincethe streets bave been well cleaned there has been comparatively no incouvenience by ‘not sprinkling. in. proof of which Sutter and other streets formerly sprinkled have not been sprinkled within a year vast. If the whole City is to be sprinkled the expense will be too great toadd to the present high taxes. .If the whole City is not to sprinkled it will be special legislation, and an unjust and unlawiul discrimination.” The Fire Record. An alarm’was turned-in from box 46 at 3:33 o’clock yesterday, for a fire at 8 Ashburton place. The building is oceupied by David Wol{ n;n residence. It was'damaged to the amouny o NEW TO-DAY—-AMUSEMENTS. k'l Al AYMAN (ALIFQRH!II i THEATRE | ors TO-NIGHT———ONE WoEK ONLY! ONLY MATIN ATURDAY! KIMBAEL Opera Comique Organization 01.60 People and the Peerless CORINNE, In the Big Operatic Extravaganza, ENDRICK HUDSON JR.” Catchy Music, Gorgeons Costumes, Beaatiful S t Production. CALIFORNIA THEATER—Extra. IGNACE PADEREWSKI. THREE PIANO RECITALS—— To be given as follows: MONDAY NIGHT, February 10, WEDNESDAY AF R N Of February 12, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, February 14. PRICES: 85, $3. 82, according to location. Seats now ready at & Co.’s. m (AL MAYTTAN l AnD Co, B L WNC“F ° HMEATRE ™\ PROPS. 8=TWEERX SEASON! Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. TAVARY GRAND OPERA Under the Direction of CHAS, H. PR 3 To-N1GHT, **CAVALLERIA RU serman, Saturday E MIGNON MARTHA" Saturday Night .. Seats Now S A eady for N, NNH ER' ext Weelk. say, invest $100 in the enterprise. The beer which this brewer makes is of superior quality and will be sold for $4 per barret. He'guarantees a dividend of 10 per cent on the stock. ‘*So each customer selling or ordering a quantity of beer will get $114 the first ear. He can easily supply 200 saloon- keepers. We must do something, for the syndicate may advance the price to $6, $7, or even $10 a barrel.” Charles 8. Hubbs was the next speaker. ““This brewer,” he said, “who agrees to come to our relief has traveled all over Europe and this country. - He is a respon- sible and successful man. His brewery is located in a barley-growing district not far from here.” The next speaker was a refreshingz and | original orator who vouchsafed the in- formation that he was an agitator and an Irishman from the city of Dublin. Since the days of the sand lot, when the Kearney meetings - developed epigram- matic speakers, few orators have come to the front who can surpass John Nugent, formerly from Dublin, latterly from Ta- coma and Seattle and at present of San Francisco, He gained applause last even- ing when he'said that saloon-keepers who succeeded in San Francisco were the men who “‘bought thelr beer of the syndicate, their whisky of John Siebe and their cigars of Mose Gunst.”’” - Nugent said further: I started in with the co-operative brewers a few years ago, but the sharks and monop- olizers got hold of the scheme. - I made a mistake then in not having with me the labor union element. “I was then a workingman, but am now a saloon-keeper and the workingman’s friend. If you want to succeed in this new scheme you must have the labor unions with you. Monopoly cannot crush them out. The English syndicate has caught our German brewers. The English have caught Matt Nunan. All must come under the yoke of the syndi- cate. Nugent closed his speech by declaring that the liquor traffic was the life of a town, and that there could be no pros- perity until the workingman got wages enough so he could throw a dollsr across the saloon counter and not miss the money. A young man, who withheld his name from the meeting, but acknowledged that he represented the brewer who was willing to supply beer at $4 per barrel, spoke at length. He reported that Stone of the syndieate had said, “We have in our treas- ury $43,000 to combat just such casesas this.. We will sell beer in your town for $3 a barrel until the competition is crushed.” Despite Stone’s threat the young man said .the beer would be supplied if 100 saloon- keepers stood in. 5 John Nugent of Dublin got another chance to speak and referred to an. ex- perience- of the .co-operative business. “We were doing at one time such a fine trade on the Barbary Coast that Tobin took away our guides because we didn’t sell syndicate beer.”” ; Frank Martin was introdaced asa sturdy brewer from the fatnerland, and he an- nounced with emphasis and sufficient, lucidity that he would not succumb to the syndicate as long as he had a dollar. After more talk and encouraging assur- ances the Philadelphia Brewery Associa- tion was formed ard subscriptions to the capital stock were received. e temper of the meeting was decidedly in favor of a revolt azainst the exactions of the syndicate, and the next meeting promises to be a demonstration. IN SPITE OF PROTEST. The Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors Favors a Market- +Street Franchise. The Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors yesterday agreed to report favorably upon the application of the Market-street Railway Company for a franchise providing for certain connections along their road. The streets covered are as follows: Page street, from Masonic avenue to Stanvan street; Mason street, from Market to Eddy; Hyde street., from Ellis to O’Farrell, and along O'Farrell to Scott street. s A protest was made by citizens and property-owners, but thé cominiitee, as stated, will report favorably. SPRINKLING A LUXURY. Property-Ownors Protest Against the Expeunditure of Public Money. * A petition with about thirty signatures ‘was presented to the Board of Supervisors yesterday against the ‘‘expenditure of public ‘money for sprinkling the ' paved streets of the City.”” The reasons for the protest as given are that the work is not an “improvement’’ and does not increase the durability or change the surface or character of the material of which the street is made, or in any way add to the improvement of the street; that it is not necessary to the protection of life or health; FRICOLANDLR.GOTTLOD & G- L£35¢5 ANDAAGLRS -+ ONLY 4 MORE PERFORMANCES BY THE FRAWLEY COMPANY “MEN AND WOMEN I’ ‘Watch the Saturday and Sunday papers for oux surprise attraction. 3 . 9 - ALCAZAR Challenge Donble Funny Bill This Week! THE ARABIAN NIGHTS'’ ~——AND——— “JOE’S GIRLS.” LAUGH ENOUGH ¥OR A MONTH! MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, Matinee Prices—10c, 15¢, 25c. 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