The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1896. PADEREWSKI N THE HALO OF HIS HAIR The Great Pianist Struck a Responsive Chord in the Western Heart. AS WITH TOUCH DIVINE. Symphony Lovers Were Enrap- tured and the Unmusicaly Felt the Spell. THRONGED WAS THE THEATER San Francisco’s Cultured People Gave a Splendid Welcome to the Famous Artist. Society and the arts went to the Califor- nia Theatef last night to honor the great Paderewski. By ‘“the arts’ is understood the professors thereof, particularly the musicians, who were present in great force, painting and sculpture being-also repre- sented. For the most part society sat down- stairs and in the balcony, the arts taking seats aloft. This rule had many excep- tions, however, for society people did not scorn commodious seats in the gallery to hear Paderewski, and a number of the ¢ people put on dress suits and sat stairs. The Polish pianist was honored above most artists who visit these shores, for the whole house went early to hear him. At 8 o'clock the California Theater was literally besieged by a fashionable mob, It was necessary to get into line, even when one had tickets, but the beauty of people all coming promptly at 8 o’clock began to be apparent a little later, for by 20 minutes past 8 or thereabouts everything was in readiness for Padereweski’s appearance. Society had dressed a good deal to honor the Paderewski first night. Indeed the general appearance of the theater was more that of an opera-house, for a large proportion of the men wore dress suits and a numberof prominent society women were arrayed in full evening dress. HYPNOTISM OF MELODY. The Strange Power That the Planist Displayed in Controlling All His Hearers. The great audience was seated, and there was a hush of expectation in the house when the pianist appeared at the right door of the stage and bowed two or three times in a stiff, military way. The foot- lights were shrouded in darkness, but the light from the auditorium showed the great Paderewski to be tall, slender, with an upright bearing. His somewhat worn, emaciated-looking face was seen to be sur- mounted by the frizzy halo of light-brown hair, which is one of the distinctive char- acteristics of his familiar pictures. Paderewski sat down at the piano and the audience hung breathless on his ac- tions. He lifted his strong, slender hands and struck four preliminary chords, then he paused, as though he took a certain grim satisfaction in dangling with the ex- pectancy of the people, who, from floor to ceiling, were focusing him under their eyes. From under his bushy mane he took one sideway look at the people, which em- braced stalls and gallery, a look which seemed tinged with a certain cymecal amusement, or it might have been the hypnotic glance which was to bring un- musical as well as musical hearers to his feet. Paderewski began to play, and every glass in the house was leveled at him or his hands. People who sat to the left of the auditorium or in the center congratu- lated themselves because they could see those marvelous hands. All pianoforte players and students studied them as they would a lesson; they watched every movement of the wrists and the fingers, noted that Paderewski performed no cork- screw work either with his body or with his hands, and that he was much more reposeful than many lesser pianists they had seen. People who sat in the right of the theater, being denied the view of the hands, watched Paderewski’'s face and wished that there had been more light that they could have followed its expres- sion better. Whether it were accident or innate modesty it is impossible to say, but the weight of the light brown mane that shaded Paderewski’s manly brow fell on the side of the audience and acted as a semi-mask. : The composition in which Paderewski had elected to introduce himself to a San Francisco audience was Beethoven’s C major sonata. The allegro con brio was played in a way which made the critical minority listen with joy, while the un- critical ones, not being yet hypnotized, watched the pianist, and a few who were stumbling in utter darkness of things musical decided that he looked like a freak and wished the programme did not look so Jong. There was a pause at the end of a move- ment, when people applauded and a few belated listeners were hustled into their seats by the ushers. Paderewski paused, with his bands in midair, and remained immobile in that position till a pin coula have been heard to drop in the theater, then his hands feli gently and caressingly on the chords of the adagio. It was from the beginning of those NEW TO-DAY. IN THE WORLD OF BEAUTY (%m(:urd S0AP IS SUPREME Not only is it the most effective skin puri- ing and beautifying soap in the world, but it is the purest, sweetest, and most refreshing for toilet, bath, and nursery. It strikesatthe «cause of bad eomfuxions. falling hair, and simple baby blemishes, viz.: THE CLOGGED, INFLAMED, O VERWORKED, of SLUGGISH PORE. 80ld throughout the world. British depots NEWBERT, Lonion. Fories Dive s Curs. Conr. Bovton, DAL chords that Paderewski really bezan.to conquer and subdue his audience. Famili- arity was making people who had never singing quality of his tone. So much has been said and written about that same singing tone of Paderewski’s notes that it seems a work ot supererogation to dis- cuss it again, but it has to be heard to be believed, and last night as the Beet- hoven sonata progressed even people who did not know much about the pianoforte began to realize that under Paderewski’s touch the instrument had a new voice—a sweeter, clearer, more expressive voice than they bad ever heard it speak with before, and one that expressed more ligat and sbade and emotion. The pianoforte-players and students all through the sonata last night, and during revelled in the pianist’s marvellous tech- nigue, the way in which he made each and every note he struck sing, through the passages of most difficult execution, and, as every musician knows, there was some giant’s work in the sonata for him to give them a taste of his quality. Pader- ewski's wonderful command of the pedals was another matter for admiration on the part of those who took him as a study. The majority of his listeners, however, reveled in the perfect ease of his playing, the art which concealed art, and left them free to enter into the joy of his music without having to stop to think how he produced his effects. How Paderewski played that lovely air from ‘“Rosamund,” which Schubert uses as the theme of his B flat major, “Im- promptu’’! So simply, so touchingly he produced the simple melody that it spoke with more meaning than any human voice could throw into its tones. As the “Impromptu’”’ progresses the theme takes on a few embroideries. Pader- ewski threw them off as easily as one would shake dewdrops from a flower, and the lovers of Chopin absolutely hugged themselves in anticipation of the joy which the melancholy Pole’s works wonld give them performed by such hands, for there were four Chopin numbers'on the programme. Through all the intricacies of the “Im- promptu’’ Paderewski made that lovely “Rosamunder” air sing with a voice of al- most unearthly sweetness, and at the end there was an ovation for the pianist, who responded by repeated bows, and finally cut his admirers off short by bursting into the Mendelssohn fantasie on “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”” The **Wedding March” was & revelation, Not a man or woman there but had heard it droned on church organs and pounded into their reluctant ears on numerous other cccasions. But in Paderewski’s hands the *‘Wedding March” became a fairy-like thing—something so graceiul, so exqisite, so fantastic, that one could imagiae elves and brownies tripping to its measures. The *Wedding March’’ . finished the hypnotic process, for the rest of the even- ing Paderewski owned his audience. Even the people who had thought he looked like a freak atoned for the aspersion by leading the applause. There was such an unqualified demand for an encore that Paderewski, after giving a number of his gquick auatomatic bows, sat down to the piano again and charmed his hearers with the Paganini-Schumann “Caprice.” There was an interlude after this, dur- ing which people’s tongues were loosened. The Polish performer was discussed in all his bearings. face, his bangs, his expression—they all came in for a share of praise and criticiem. But his music aroused only one voice, and that was praise. The second part of the programme opened with a rare ireat, four Chopin com- positions all in a cluster. And how Pad- erewski did play the works of his great compatriot! It is said that he enjoys Chopin more than any other composer, because Chopin was so intensely patriotic he spoke with the voice of Paderewski's people, and only a Pole can thoroughly enter into the spirit of his works and in- terpret him to others. This may be true or not, but it is safe to say that Paderewski played Chopin last heard him before realize the murvellousl the rest of the programme for that matter, | His head, his hands, his | night as Chopin had never been played in San Francisco. The melancholy, the tenderness, the ex- quisite grace of Chopin’s music were all breathed out in the Polish pianist’s play- ing. Chopin requires more than mere tech- nical skill to do him anything like justice— he requires temperfiment on the part of his interpreter, and that he undoubtedly received last night. In the G major “Nocturne,” which opened the Chopin collection, one'realizad more than ever the marvelous resonance of Paderewski’s lightest pianissimo, ana this was apparent all through the Polish com- poser’s works, which consisted, in ad- dition to the .‘“Nocturne,”’ of the B minor Mazurka, No. 4 Etudes in F major and G flat minor, a Berceuse, and the Valse, op. 34. These five numbers were all vociferously applauded, the *‘Etude” No. 9 so much so that the pianist tepeated it, and at the end he good-na- turedly responded to a frantic demand for an encore by giving the Valse in D flat. Next on the programme came two of Paderewski’'s own works —a brilliant Caprice,”” which is not familiar here, and the . “Minuet a 1’Antique,” which is as well known as the “Washington Post March.”” Of course, Paderewski’slightand shade, his skill with the pedal and his general expression added so much to its beauties that the public went fairly wild over it anc insisted on hearing the minuet again, The concert was supposed to end with Liszt’s second ‘‘Hungarian Rhapsodie,’” but people were like Oliver Twist, they wanted more, and they followed the exam- vle of the advertisers who put on the labels of their goods, “When you ask for it, see that you get it.” Hand-clapping and cries of “Bravo!” were the means taken to get it last night and when Paderewski appeared on the stage again the ladies hurled their flowers at him till he had to pick his jway to the piano over bunches of violets and roses. To all this ovation he responded by playing Liszt’s *Hungarian Rhapso- die,” No. 10, and then the people went home very much against their will, appar- ently, while “Paddy’’ picked up his flowers. L e S IN THE AUDIENCE. Some of the Well-Known Soclety People Who Heard the First Concert. Among those present last night were the following: Prince and Princess Poniatowski, Prince Luigi of Savoy, Count Ceni, Mr. and Mrs. Will Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Herrin, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bovier, A. St. } J. Bowie, Mrs, Milton 8. Latham, Mr. and Mrs. George O. Bonny, Bruce Bonny, Miss Shreve, Mr. and Mrs. George R. Shreve, Joseph Clark, Mrs. Alex Coit, Mrs. John §. Hager, Miss Hager, Jerome A. Hart, Jo eph Grant, Miss Hobart, Dr. Harry Tevis, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Eyre and Robert Eyre, Charles M. Shortridge, Samuel M. Short- ridge, D. M. Delmas, Miss Gashwiler, Miss Laura Gashwiler, Mrs. Hubbard, W. O'B. Macdonough, Jack Casserly, Mr. Agar, Miss Casserly, Mrs. Pinkert. Among those in the body of the house | were: Dr. E. J. Overend, Miss Jerome, Sigmund Beel, Charles Turner, Mrs. Lucy Hayes, Miss Ina Griffin, Miss Jennie Moffatt, Miss Julia Steele, Miss Edith Bridges, Miss Paxton, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wilson, Harry Hol- brook, A. J. Kenzie, Miss Jolliffe, Miss Jennie Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Meyer, Lloyd Tevis, Miss Florence Breckinridge, Mrs. Page, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Schroeder, Mr. and Mrs. F. Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. L. Georges, Mr. and Mrs. Goewey, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Rix, R. Lucchesi, Mrs. A. To- | jetti, Mr. and Mrs. Ludovich, Mr. and Mrs, S. Betterman, Mr. and Mrs, Horace Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Hinckley, Dr. and Mrs. John F. Morse, Mr. and Mrs, Pierre Tif- | | fany, Mrs. M. A. Tobin, Richard Tobin, Miss Beatrice Tobin, Miss Ada Wei- | gel, Mr. and Mrs. Ignaz Steinhart, | | Mr. and 3irs. D. Roth, the Misses Roth, | | Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Stern; Mr. and | Mrs. J. Stern, Abe Stern, Mr. and Mrs. | Neustadter, Miss Mabel Estee, Milton H. | Esberg, Mrs. 8. Schwabacher, Mr. and | | Mrs. Leon Sloss, Mr. and Mrs. William | Haas, O. Greenwald, Miss Greenwald, Mrs, | Greenwald, Mrs. I. N. Walter, Dr. and Mrs. J. Dennis Arnold, Louis Neustadter, Mr. and Mrs. D. Neustadter, Mr. and Mrs, A. P. Hotaling, Dr. Gilbert Graham, Mr. | | | and Mrs. Levintritt, Mr. and Mrs. Frier- WHERE WEALTH ANDP BE . B — APEREWSK E.ic'r THE ONLY PADEREWSKI IN SOME OF HIS CHARACTERISTIC ATTITUDES. | [Sketched by a * Call ™ artist.] leben, Miss Mabel Love, Mrs. Love, Walter | Dean, Henry Heymany Mr. and Mrs. Koh- land, Mrs. Baker, Wakefield Baker, Miss Florence Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Starr Keeler, Mr. and Mrs. Nuthall, | George H. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. | H. E. F Wegener, Mrs. A. J. Weg- ener, Miss Abbie Jennings, Miss R. Jennings, Colonel Doolittle, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Spencer,the Misses Spencer,Ashton Stevens, Frank Marriott, J. O’Hara Cos- grove, Miss Cosgrove, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Baldwin, Joseph A. O’Sullivan, Gerry Field, Irving Lundborg, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Freese, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Bibb, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hosborough, Miss Hos- borough, Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Crocker, Colonel C. F. Crocker, Mr. ana Mrs. T. T. Williams, Mrs. R. H. Warfield, Mrs. B. Paxton, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Morton, Nate Franklin, Miss Franklin, Irving Meyers, Miss Rae Feder, 8. F. King- ston, the Misses Gyle, Mr. and Mrs. A. Lewis, Dr.and Mrs. D. Cohen, Miss Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. 8. Flyshaker, Mr. and Mrs. | Theodore Fiejan, Francis Stewart, Pro- fessor Katzenbach, Miss Katzenbach, Mrs. Pray, Mr. and Miss Agard, Miss Brune, Mr. and Miss Drew, Mr. Applegate, Miss Madeline Eschenberg, Mathew McCurrie, Miss Mollie Pratt, C. M. Parker, Mrs. Bermingham, Mrs. Van Pelt, Neameta Van Pelt, Mr. and Mrs. Hoefelt, Professor and Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Cellarius, Mr. Cove, Mrs. Harry Arnold, Miss Ouida Sargeant, Miss Vandherst, the Misses Siolz, Mr. and Mrs. Core, Dr. Smith, Mr., and Mrs. M, Martin, Abe Sunder- land, Fred Maurer, Miss Stone, C. Zeffroney, Daniel Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. A. Sutter, Miss Wilson, Mr. Bernhard Reiss, Miss Clemence Reiss,” Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Reiss, Mr. and Mrs. Phil. Lilen- thal, Miss Lilenthal, Thomas Keene, Dr. and Mrs. D. Cohen, Dr. and Mrs. Rosen- stern, Mr. and Mrs. Rosencrantz, the Misses Cram, Miss Irene Sylvester, J. Rialey, Colonel Kowalsky, Arthur McEwen, Mr. and Mrs. M. Herzog, Miss Herzog, Mrs. and M. Blumenthal, Mr. and Mrs. A. Shaen, the Misses Sena, Mr. and Mrs. Sena, Joseph Levin, Aaron Levin, Mr. ana Mrs. J. K. Wilson, Miss Wilson, Mrs. C. Neilson, Miss von Buckholz, Misses O'Connell, Miss F. Charles, Miss Josephine Jacobs, H. C. Haake Jr., Miss A. E. Munns, Miss Edith Stadtfeld, J. Stadtfeld Jr., Miss M. Goodrich, Miss Helen Lukens, T. Hoey, Miss F. S. Cooper, Miss E. Kinsey, Miss Rose Davis, Mrs. P. Davis D. A. Donelson, Mrs. William Stocomb, Mrs. A. E. Didgway, Mrs. Hattie Golduer Peyser, Miss O'Brien, Miss Derrick, Miss Anna Shorkeley, Mrs. Etta Kellogg, Mrs. C. W. Leach, Miss E. Joseph, Miss A. Pooley,Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Krausse, Mrs. 0. P. Evans, Miss May Palmer, Miss Julia Reed, Miss Sarah Dean, Mrs. P. Van Pelt, Miss Neamata Van Pelt, Dr. H. F. Walter, Miss E. Lindberg, Miss M. Lindberg. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. E. Ho- feld, ladies of Van Ness Seminary, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Batchelder, Miss Grace Joseph, Miss F. Guttman, Miss Clara Abrams, Mrs. C. H. Smith, Mrs. Oscar Mansfeldt, Miss Mansfeldt, Mrs. B. Joseph, Mrs. Harriet Brown, the | Misses Klink, Professor and Mrs. Locher, Adolf Herbst, Mrs. and Miss Sharon of Paso Robles, Mrs. F. H. Payne, Miss Ber- | tha Brehm, Mr. and Mrs. J. Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. P. 8. Montague, Miss Mignon Krebs, Dr. Aaron Newman, Miss Minnie Salomon, Mrs. A. E. Pirrie, Miss L. E. Pir- rie, Miss Mary Bigbee, Miss Minna Jans- sen, Mrs. Fleissner-Lewis, W. C. Lewis, Horace Blackman, Miss M. W. Knapp, A. Bach, Mrs. C. M. Barre, B. L. Bradley, Ed Rainey, Miss A. Robinson (U. C., Berkeley), B. B. Parker, Miss G, Sullivan, Blanche Ashley, Miss R. A. Jewell, Miss Richardson, Miss Yarrington, Mrs. A. L. Richardson, Max Goldman, Miss Gussie E. Mast,"W. E. Mast, T. H. Morrison, Mau- rice W. O’Connell, the Misses 0’Connell, Miss B. Oliver, Mrs. Rosa Goldmann, Miss | Ernestina Goldmann, G. B. Galvani, Eric | Francis, Miss L. Jenkins, Miss Lucinda Brown, H. J. Tomblin, Walter A. Stai- ford, Guido J. Musto, Joseph Newman, W. Boreiko, Miss Florence Wedekind, Miss Jane Tomppin, Miss Hilda F. Jacobs, Miss Susan Brown, Juhus L. Weyand, Mrs. Abbey Paxion-Senier, A. W. Turpin, Mrs. 8. T. Trowbridge, Mrs. Frederick M. Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bermingham, Miss Fanny Danforth, Albert Asher, Mrs. H. Rosengarden, Charles Gilbertson, Mrs. H. Ehrman, Paul A. Cullen, Mr. and Mrs. E. Davis, Miss E. Davis, Miss Stella Reiss, Mr. and Mrs. Hilleyers, C. Nien, Miss A. Gatto, J. Jones, Miss Nellie Dolan, Mrs. Elvira Nieri, Mr. and Mrs. J. Sena, J. Damonte, Mrs.: Moran, Nelson Madison, J. Bruns, Mr. Berton, Miss C. Nieri, S. Nieri, A. Nueri, W. Devitts; L. Socei. The Chicago cattle-marke: t fell off nearl; hnl_f a million beeves last y ey ear. AUTY MET TO HEAR THE GREAT PIANIST. [Sketobedby o “Cali” artisi) THE DECISION AFFIRMED, Big Suit Growing Out of theg City of Chester Disaster. Damages for Eleven Thousand Dollars Against the Oriental Steamship Company. The United States Court of Appeals banded down a decision yesterday affirm- ing the decision of the lower court in the suigof Eliza A. Smith against the Occi- dental and Oriental Steamship Company. It will be remembered that damages in the sum of §11,000 were allowed Mrs. Smith and her children against the com- | pany for the death of Henry Smith and his daughter, whose lives were lost in the disaster that befell the City of Chester. The steamer was wrecked in the harbor of San Francisco on August 22, 1888, hav- ing collided with the Oceanic of the Occi- dental and Oriental Steamship Company’s line. The Chester went to the bottom. Henry Smith and bis daughter, Myrta, were among the drowned. His wife and children brought two suits in the United States District Court, one against the Pa- cific Coast Steamship Company, which owned the City of Chester, but the liabili- ties of this concern were limited to $75,and | the case was withdrawn. i The smit was continued against the own- ers of the Oceanic, which ran into the other steamer, and was for $75,000 in the case of Henry Smith and $20,000 in the | cage of his child. The sum of $10,000 was | allowed on the former complaint and $1000 | on the latter. This decision of the lower court was affirmed. The court sums up the case as follows: This case affords an opportunity, which should not be lost, for emphasizing another rule for preventing collisions, which must be (fl)se!‘ver{J by navigators. This is found in article 21 of the international rules and article 25 of the act of Agust 19, 1890‘51 Supp. R. 8., Second Ed., 781-788), which reads as fol- lows: *In narrow channels every steam ves- sel shall, when it is safe and practicable, kee) to that side of the fairway or midchanne! whicn lies on the starboard side of such a ves- sel.” The statutes of California contain a similar provision, to which reference was made in the opinion of the District Judge. This rule was violated by the Oceanic in entering the Golden Gate on the occasion of the disaster involved | 1n these guits, and the only excuse offered for | taking the north side is that 1t is customary | for large vessels in entering to take the nort side. We cannot find in the testimony or argu- ment of counsel any attempt to give a reason for the alleged custom, and if it be true that there is such & custom, it is bad in principle and contrary to law, and ‘the courts will not recognize it as affording -any ground for ex- empting & vessel from liabilities incurred by disregarding the law. The decrees of the District Court are affirmed and the causes remanded for further proceed- ings, in accordance with this opinion. oty Qiniiy AN OPPOSING VERDIOT. In Judge Hunt's Court Yesterday the Steam- ship Company Won. A verdict, which stands in opposition to the Federal Court decision, was given yes- | terday 1n the Superior Court. The wandering jury from Judge Hunt’s court, which went out to find the City of Chester last Wednesday, has returned a verdict for the defendant in the suit of the children of John and Helen Hampton. Thz plaintiffs were suing for damages from the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company for the death of their parents in the aisaster which caused the sinking of whe City of Chester. This verdict means that it has been proved that the Oceanic ‘was on her course at the time of the colli- sion, and also was not to blame for the accident. ———— All Agree. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TBA CO. Sells Crockery, Chinaware, Glassware and Tinware CHEAPEST OF ALL. TRY THEM. CRUSHED UNDER A CAR. William Meadows Killed at Clarendon Heights Yester- day Morning. WAS COASTING DOWN GRADE, Empty Cars Used by the Graders Jumped From the Track at a Sudden Turn. William Meadows was killed at Claren- don Heights early yesterday morning. The tract bounded by Kighteenth, Stan- yan, Ashbury and Carl streets, comprising fourteen blocks, the property of Mrs. Pope, has been for some time past in charge of John W. Ferris, who has, contracted to grade tha property and render it available for residence purposes. Gravity cars are used for transporting earth and gravel to places where filling is needed, and Mr. Ferris and his agents have frequently cau- tioned the workmen against coasting down the steep grades. Shortly after 7 o’clock, work having just commenced, Meadows and & new man named Woods started down the incline with four empty cars. The cars were de- scending at a terribie rate of speed, and Woods, who was in charge of the front brake, apprehending danger, endeavored to slow up, pressing the weight of his body against the brake and exerting his entire strength. Noticing that his efforts were unavailing, and that they were ap- preaching a sharp curve in the track, he shouted to Meadows, who was at the rear brake: “Slow her up; trouble!” “Oh, let her go,” was Meadows’ only answer, and the. cars sped on until the curve was reached. R.J. Walton, one of the workmen in charge of a scraper near the curve, heard Woods’ warning shout, and looking up saw the four cars give one bound from the track and land in a con- fused heap seversl feet away. Woods was thrown up into the air by the force of the shock and landed with great violence upon a pile of rock about twenty feet from the track. Meadows was under the disordered heap of iron and splintered wood. The work- men near by hastened to the spot and found the man insensible, his head being crushed.and battered in by one of the car- wheels, which still rested upon it. A man was sent to the telephone station on Stan- yan street to summon an ambulance, while others extricated the inert form of Mead- ows from beneath the wrecked train. At first it was believed that the man was dead, but he was conveyed with all haste to the Receiving Hospital. Without hav- ing recovered consciousness the man died. He leaves a widow, a daughter and a son, the last-named of whom arrived at the Receiving Hospital a few minutes after his father’s remains had been taken to the Morgue. Then the young man returned to the family residence, 1043 Mission street, to tell his mother and sister of the death. Woods sustained a severe shock and a there’s going to be | number of contusions and flesh wounds. He was able later in the day to return t¢ his lodgings without assistance. When asked about the accident he said: *I can remember nothing except a dread- ful moment of extreme nervous tension. I did not have time to be afraid of being killed. In another moment I opened my eyes and saw the other men about me. I didn’t know how many bones I had broken, and moved my arms very gingerly at first. I feel sore all over, but I am not seriously in;ured. . My escape was certainly a wonderful one.” Woeods is a single man. and had been in Mr. Ferris' employ only a short time. Meadows had en working with the graaers for over a year and was considered an adept in the management of cars and other apparatus used in such work. Immediately after the accident Mr. Fer- ris proceeded to examine the track. It was found to be in good condition. T. Davidson, the superintendent, also made an examination with the same re- sult. It appears that the sad affair came to pass through the carelessness of the two men, who were descending at a rate of speed utterly beyond that which & pru- dent workman would have aliowed the cars to attain. A little over a week ago Meadows and ‘Woods met with what might have been a similar accident, though through no fault of theirs. Both men were on a train of cars which were being hauled up the grade when the cable broke. On that occasion they were fortunate enough to stop the cars before they could collide with the oth- ers at the foot of the incline. Harry S. Bullen, employed in s creamery on Sixteenth street, was arrested last night and booked at the Seventeenth-street Police Sta- tion on three charges of . The little girls are Annie darkie, 11 years of age, 2835 Sixteenth street; Florence Rankin, 9 yours of age, 1921 Mission street, and Eva iechster, 9 years of age, 2824 Sixteenth street. The offenses were committed in_nis Toom above the creamery on Saturday after- | noon. Bullen is about 30 years of age. NEW TO-DAY. When Paderewski omes HE WILL PLAY THE STEINWAY PIANO SHERMAN, CLAY & (0, Cor. Kearny and Sutfer s, Pacific Coast Representatives NOTICE T0 MILK DEALERS OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PER- sons dealing in milk that permits will be issued by the Board of Health on and after February 12+ Very Pretty Dishes, Very Cheap Prices. 52 Market street, S, F., Headquarters. BRANCH STORES EVERYWHERE. 1896 A. S. LOVELACE, M.D,, Health Officer.