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10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1896. FATHER YORKE 10 DR, YORK, Comment on a Lecture in Reply to Argument on Infallibility. THE POINTS DISCUSSED' President Hudelson’s Interpreta- tion of A. P. A. Objects as Officially Set Forth, MEMBERSHIP OF THE ORDER. A Series of Questions Are Again Pre- sented to Father Yorke and His Answer Asked For. The following is an answer by Rev. Father P. C. Yorke to the synopsis of a lecture recently delivered by Dr. J. L. York: February 11, 1896. To the Editor_of The Call—DEAR SIR: I see in your issue of Monday the synopsis of & lec- ture by Dr. J. L. York in reply to my argument on “Inrallibility’” delivered before the Educa: | tional Union. That argument presupposed the existence of a God and the existence of a revelation from God to man. Naturally Dr. York objects to these suppositions and devotes his lecture to a description of the divine and of revelstion. | In his survey of the universe the learned | Jecturer discovers certain things which be con- siders divine. These are matter, force and natural law. To these he applies the incom- | municable ettributes eternal and infinite. Let us consider how far be is justified in this pro- | ceeding, and first let us take the question of 1. MATTES The doctor evidently considers that matter is something different from force, something in which forceinheres, as, for instance, heat in ron, or, more roughly, water in a ‘sponge. | sand for the phenomenon. If it be said as it is some- times said that the stone falls because of the law of gravitation, this when interpreted means that it falls because it falls. Hence when the doctor was looking abroad for the divine and pitched n the natural law, he made a poor choice. He might as well have taken the rulesof syntax or the muiti- plication tables and set them up as divinities. 3. FoRrcE. There remains then only force to which the doctor may apply the term divine. Now when we consider the forces with which we come in contact we learn that each is the resultant of other forces. The main business of natural science is to resolve the composite forces which we denominate phenomena into other forces. Each force which sends its message to our brain is the result of a long series of forces which stretches away beyond our ken. One force succeeds to another like the links of a chain, The intellect, therefore, comes to this series of forces with its eternal why? The question is put, Whence came the first of those forcs the original impulse? It does not do to say that the chain is eternal or infinite. Even though the primal energy be one and the same under all forms, still these forms sweep over it in & succession of wa: Succession implies numeration and numeration infinity. Each force is caused bya combination of other forces. We can number these combina- tious one, two, three. We may go back as far as we please, passing the million point, the billion point, "the trillion point, but we can never pass & point where numbers cease to be available, and wherever numbers are available is within the region of the limited, the finite. 1f achain should hang down outof the sky and men should climb u a thou- links or two thousand or three they would not have answered the question from what does the chain hang by saying that beyond the last link they reached there were still links unnumbered. " We must, if we do justice to our reason, assume the existence of Some point of support, just as, if we do_justice 10 ourreason, we must supposeé the existence of some force which is uncaused by any other force and from which all other forces proceed. 4. Gop. This first force must be at least the dynamic equivalent of all existing, sensible forces, be- cause the greater cannot proceed from the less, Every pound of force expended by the wheels of the clock must be contained in the main- spring. ow, this sensible force cannot be infinite or i . York would have it. Because, if sinfinite, then it is equaled by the first force and we have two infinites, which is as absurd as the claim made by your conterr po- raries that each has the largest circulation. There cannot be two infinities, and therefore sensible or physical force must be finite. Is the first or uncaused force finite? Has that force which is not caused by any other force, but exists of itself, any limits? - In the very beginning, as this force is unproduced, it cannot be limited by a producing force. The force exerted by a steam engine is limited by the power of the engine, the fuel, in & word the productive agencies. But the first force being unproduced by anything cannot be lim- ited by anything. Again, as itisa force which exists by its own nature there is nothing in that nature which would imply limitation. Only force can limit force, and that force which is_first, supreme and alone, cannot be limited by any other. Hence the very idea of an uncaused, self-existing force implicates the idea that such force is infinite, and therefore contradiets ut what evidence has he that there is such & thing as matter apart from force? He has | never seen matter, never touched matter, never came in direct contact with matter in | any shape or form, and yet we find him, | agnostic though he be, making a_public act of | faith in something which ~his eyes have not seen mor his ears heard nor his hands | handied. Let us see how this accusation is justified, | We come into relations with things outside of | ourselves through the seuses. These senses are all modifications of touch. From all por- tions of our body are minute threads running to the brain. These threads are telegra wires and the brain is the central offic When en excitement is set up by any of th | threads a message is flashed slong the nerves 10 the brain, where its significance is inter- | preted by our consciousness. | s I kinds of messages are received by v developed organs. The eye receives | vhich we- commonly call light, | sound; the palate taste, the | nostrils odor. These specialized organs we call sense and their office is to_receive messages from the world which is outside our conscious- ness. Now 1we see at once that there is nosense which brings us in direct contact with what | we call matter, or that in which force resides. | All the messages which come to usare the re- sults of fc When I put my hand ona table the only message which my conscions- | ceives is that there issome foree which | s force exerted by my hand. That force I find occupies a definite area and acts in certain definite ways. I the element of light is introduced I discover that certain othermes. | sages are teleeraphed through the optic nerve, but these s, too, are the results of | forces. remaining senses, their | activity is stimulated only by forces and only by force are we brought into relations with thirgs which are outside of ourselves. We speak, it is true, of chairs, tables, houses, mountains,’ streams, meadows, but ali these names are only labels put_upon certain deter- | minate sets of forces which produce certain erminate messages on the telegraph wires | which lead to the central office, where con- | sciousness receives and interprets them. | A veculiar character of this consciousness of | ours is that it is always asking questions. It | is not satisfied with receiving message marks each of them with a big interrog merk. Indeed our intellect is only enimated why, as the poet knew who put hap- piness in its answe: Felix qui potuit rernm cognoscere causas. Hence it is continually asking what is the | ions, sensatipns or mes- | from the outside. The | cause of these impry sages which come to u first thing it settlés is that there is something outside of us. There exists something which isnotl Itisthe thing (whatever we may call i) which starts these messages along the nerves to the brain. But what is this something? Let us call it force. Now, force means nothing more than the exciting agentof these sensations. It is pOWer or act in its most tenuous form. We 1ind, however, that this force or power is mani- fested in certain well-define hus for instance it can be localized. A certain set of forces can be stationed, so to speak, in a dis- tinct area. When we speak of & stone -or & Jump of coal or.a piece of gold we merely mean that -certain bundles of things which cause sensations or messages 1o our brain have been imprisoned in in certain locations. We can deal with the forces thus imprisoned; we can transport them 1;nm place to place; we can generally dissipate them. Hence the mind asks the question, How is it that force may be so localized, may be €0 im- risoned? A'common answer supposes what s called matter, or anvther something in | which force rests and which gives it, so to spesk, a local habitation and & name. The essential idea of this something called marter is its localization, its limitation. It puts limits to the wanderings of force. It is the vessel which contains water; it is the cord which ties the bundle of sticks. Hence it will_be readily seen how unscien- tific itis for Dr. York to say that matter is di- vine because itis everlasting and universal. Matter is only an hypothesis to explain the be havior of certain forces. Some people do away vith the idea altogether as unnecessary, But, supposing the hypothesis is necessary, and that there is a something different from force in which force resides, 1t is puerile to sy that it is universal or infinite. The very idea of mat- ter is the antithesis of universality. It is #omething which can be cut in chunksand some of it put here and some of it put there. Its essential attribute is limitation, and anything ‘which is limited cannot be universal. A thing is necessarily universal when by 1ts very nature it must be diffused everywhere; but matter, which is only a synonym for limits, is not ne- cesserily universal. On the coutrary, it is ne- cessarily defined—circumscribed—for the only possible use of it is to limit, define or cipeum- &cribe force. Agein, the idea of matter is opposed to the idea of everlasting. It is only a function of force, and we cannot deal with it as ever- lasting apart from force. When Dr. York says that matter eannot be destroyed he is con- founding matter with energy or jorce. Indeed, there is mnothing so easily destructible as matter. In reality it is but a more or less stable balance of forces, and that balance is upsetting every minute and hour of the day and night. The matter which we call a lump ©of coal can be destroyed in a few seconds. The forces inherent in the matter are not de- stroyed, but &re releared to'form other com. binations, but the matter itself is done for, finished, and anything which can be done for or finished 1s not everlasting nor yet divine. 2. NATURAL Law. One peculiarity we remark about these forces, which set up sensations in us, 1s that their ac. tion is constant and uniform. If & man sits down' on & red-hot stove. the nerves alwi ys carry aremarkably weli-defined series of mes- sages to the central oflice. So in the relations of forces one to another, we find that they are combined or resolved in certain definite ways. A description of these combinations or these Tesoiutions we call natural law. We say that natural law is- constant and unchangeable. meaning thereby that forces always act in the £ame manner under the same conditions, and that the only way to alter their action is to al. ter the relations of the forces. Now, as the doctor well remarks, natural law, in this sense, is not the cause why the forces 8o behave. It is merely a description of their behavior. To say, therefore, that natural law isdivine or eternal is as reasonable as to predicate divinity of the description of & dog: L, i! natural law meant the cause or reason why forces so acted there might be some reason for decking it withcomplimentary ad. iecuvel, Buc science is superstitiously care- ul to excise the idea of causation. When it is laid down as & law that a stone when unsup- ported falls to the carth, no cause is assigned an | It ain forms, in certain shapes, | God. It is evident at once that this self-existent force is not to be confounded with the forces which he created, which he set in motion. Being infinite force he must be infinite will, infinite knowledge, infinite power. In a word, he is God as the reason of man bas discovered him from the beginning through the works of | his hands and the heavens which show forth his glory. Yours truly, P. C. YORKE. A. P. A. PRINCIPLES. Another Communication From the State Presldent. The following is a copy of a letter ad- dressed by B. F. Hudelson, State pras dent of the A. P. A., to Rev. Father Yorke: Room 40, Academy of Science Building, 819 Market street. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., February 11, 1896, | To the Editor of the Cali—Deaw Sir: Having sonciuded my statement of the principles of the American Protective Association by the presentation of its objects and its_platiorm and its political principles, I herewith pass o the consideration of the “A.P. A. Interpreta- tion of A. P. A. Principles.” This letter deals OFFICE OF THE STATE COUNCIL OF (‘u.rmn.\'u,l with the interpretation of the *‘Objects of the . P. A" as officially set forth by_tne supreme authority of. the order. These objects will be found below in quoted paragraphs, the imter- pretation of each section following immedi- ately the paragraph to which it refers: NTERPRETATION OF A. P. A. OBJECTS, 1 “The American Protective A jon is | organized for the purpose of purifying politic & non-sectarian aud @ non-part cy true American cltizen d to nationality.” rifying politics” means the elimina councils of the Nation, State and muni without and the securing to the majority of American without manipulation, & free and hom nition of their wish in respect 1o the adminis- tration of the severa! departments of Government. It does not mean turning out one set of rascals to | instail another. “While we urnite to protect our country and nstitutions, we attack ho man’s religion 56 long | 28 he does not attempt to make it an element in | political power. | | We hold that “any religion attempts to become o | factor in political power” wnen Its church by or- ganized representatives attempts to control or y the vote of its communicants, or to dictate islation, or to name appointees for public office. “Ouraim is to preserve and maintain the rnment of the United States and the princi- | ples of the Declarationof Independence as set | forth by the founders against the encroachments of all foreign influence.’” We hold that the “preservdlion and maintenauce | of the Government of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence as set forth by the founders” juvolves (he Dermanence Of a representalive government, as DOw constitu- ted, and the upholding of the spirit and the letter £ sdium of American liberty.” The “en- hment of all foreign Influence’” means what 1t forergn influence, whether found under polit- ical, military or ecelesiastical garb. 4. “We regard ail religio-political organizations as the enemies of civil and religious liberties.” We hold that “religio-political organizations” are organizations formed wholly or in part for po- litical purposes, yet which require thatis man to | be eligible to membership therein must be a com- municant of some particular church. 5. “Itis, in our opinion, unsafe and unwise to appoint or elect to civil or military offices in this couniry men who owe supreme allegiance to any foreign king, potentate or ecclesiasical bower, or who are sworn to obey such power.” ‘We hold that “men’ owe supreme allegiance to any foreign king. potentate or ecclesiastteal power” who, in case of conflict on whatsoever point between the United States Government and | 8aid king, potentate or ecclesiasical power, would be constrained to uphold such power in preference 10 our National Government. 6. “We are in favor of maintaining one general, unsectarian public school system, and will oppose-| all attempis to supplant it by any sectarian insti- tution. - We aré opposed to the use of public funds for any sectarian purpose.” “The “maintenance of the unsectarian free public school ‘system” includes the non-diversion of its revenue for any purpose whatever. “All attempts to supplant i by any sectarian institution” in- cludes any organized purpose on the part of mem- bers of any sect 10 withdraw or withhold their chiidren from the public schools. - The *use of public funds for any sectarian. purpose” Includes tlie payment of_public moneys to institutions con- trolied by any sect or church upon any. pretext whatever. 7. “We are in favor of changing onr immizgration laws in such a manner that they will protect our citizen laborers from the influences of pauper and criminal labor, which, through the instrumentality of European propagandist’ societies, are rapidly supplanting our free and educated American citi- zens in every line of industry; but we do not op- pose honest and educated immigrants who come for the purpose of becoming A merican citizens and who will forswear allegiance to all forelgn poten- tates ana powers.”” This section means simply the close restriction of immigration, admitting only- those who come with the intelligent purpose of becoming American citizens, and who will forswear alleglance to every forclgn power, whethier military, clvil or ecclesias- tical. 8. “We are in favor of putting into_oflice honest and true patriots, who are qualified and who owe allegiance only t= the Stars and Stripes.” We hold that men “who are qualified” for office are men who by character, education and ability are fitted to fill the particular offices to which they may_have aspi We hold that “allegiance to the Stars. and Stripes” s exclusive, and forbids al- legiance to any foreign potentate or power what- soever. Mr. Editor: This concludes my interpreta- | tion of the “Objects of the A. P. A."" In proper course I shall hand you my official interpreta- tion of our platform and our political prin- cigle& In the meantime permit me, Mr. Editar, to repeat for the last time in yousr columns the questions which I have asked of Peter C. Yorke and which he has thus far re- 1used to answer. 1do this because I desire to afford bim one more opportunity to define for himself his position in opposition to the A. P. A. Iam desirous of having him define that osition, and for that reason I have refrained rom taking advantage of his silence, but should he now fail to speak for himself 1'shall construe his silence ay answering my ques- tions in the affirmative, inasmuch ‘as the Proverh sayeth, “‘Silence gives consent.” And n my future articles I shall govern myself accordingly. The questions I have propounded are as follow: ON OBIECTS OF THE A. P. A. Question 1—Does Mr. Yorke deny that politics need purifying, or does he object Lo their purifica- n? Question 2--Does Mr. Yorke object to onr attack- ing any religious organization attempting to be- come & factor in politics? Question 3—Is Mr. Yorke hostile to our aim to rreterve and maintain the Government against all oreign influence? Question 4—Does Mr. Yorke regard religio-politl- ¢l organizations as friends to civil and religious T Quéstion 6—Ts it not, n Mr. Yorke's opinfon, unsafe and unwise to put in office men who owe allegiance to a foreign power? Question 6—Is Mr. Yorke an enemy of the free ublic sciool system, and does he favor supplant- ng it with & sectarian institution? Question 7—Does Mr. Yorke oppose protecting our citizen laborers from Kuropean pauper and criminal abor, and is he hostile to honest and edu- cated immigrants who e becoming Ameri- can citizens and who will forswear allegiarce to every foreign power? Question 8—Does Mr. Yorke oppose putting into oftice honest and true men—patriots who are qual- ified and who owe allegiance solely to the siars and stripes? ON THE A. P. A. PLATFORM. Question 9—fs Mr. Yorke hostile to “loyaity to true Americanism which knows neither birthplace, Tace, creed or party” as a first requisite for mem- bership in any organization? Question 10—Is Mr. Yorke hostile to intense political activity and a conscientious discharge of the duties of cltizenship by every individual in the solution of the problems confronting our people? Question 11—Is Mr. Yorke hostile to our toiera- tion of all creeds, and does he deny us the right of franchise guarauteed by the constitution Of the United States—the right to support or oppose such candidates as we think proper? Question 12—TIs Mr. Yorke hostile to our position that subjection to and suppor: of any ecclesiastical power which clalms equal if not greater sover- eignty than the United States Government and which is not controlled by such Government is irreconcilable with citizenship? Question 13—Is Mr. Yorke hostlle to the uphold- ing of the constitution of the United States and its guarantee of religious liberty to the individual? Question 14—Is Mr. Yorke hostile to our position that the non-sectarian free public school is the bul- wark of American institutions, and does he claim that It is not the best place for the education of American children? Question 15—1Is Mr. Yorke Lostile to the princi- ple which condemns the support from the public treasury of any sectarian school. reformatory or otherinstitution not under public control ? Question 16—Does not Mr. Yorke believe that exem ption from taxation is equivalent to a grant of public funds, and is he hostile to the taxation of all property the title to which i3 not vested in the National or State governments or their subdivi- sions? Question 17—Does Mr. Yorke favor the enlist- ment in the military arm of the Government of any one not actually acitizen of the United States? Question 18—Does Mr. Yorke object to our re- quiring some proof of the ability and honest inten- tion to become self-supporting American citizens from all immigrants? A Question 19—Would Mr. Yorke object to the repewi of the act nuthorizing the naturalization of minors without a previous declaration of intention, and is he hostile to a provision by law that persons 10 be naturalized must speak the language of the land and must prove seven years' continuous resi- dence in this country from the date of the declara- tion of intention? s Question 20—Does Mr. Yorke object to & protest against the laxity with which our present naturali- zation Jaws are administered > Question 21—Is Mr. Yorke hostile to the public ipspeccion at all times of all hosplals, asylums, reformatories or other institutions in which people are under restraint? Question 22—Does Mr. Yorke favor State lezislation in favor of any one s country or of any class? ational or ion of the ON POLITICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE A. P. A. Question 28—Ts Mr. Yorke opposed to such re- striction of immigration as will prevent paupers, | eriminals and snarchists from landing on our shores? Question 24—Ts Mr. Yorke hostile tothe exten- slon of the time for naturalization. to the end that foreigners may become familiar with our institu- tions and laws before they be permitted to vote? Question 25—1-0es Mr. Yorke oppose an educa- tional qualification for every voter® Does he wish them to be ignorant of tne duties and privileges of citizenship and the pliant tdols of politicians? Question 26—Does Mr. Yorke oppose supporting from the public funds one general non-sectariau free public school sysiem suflicient forthe primary education of our children? Questlon 27—Does Mr. Yorke favor using public funds or public properiy for sectarian purposes whether directly or indirectly? Question 28—Does Mr. Yorke oppose the taxation o ail non-governmental property ? Question 29—Does Mr. Yorke oppose the putlic inspection of all private schools, convents, nun- neries, monasteries, seminaries and other educa- tional or charitable institntions? Question 30—Does Mr. Yorke support for office any person who recognizes allegiance to any foreign or ecclesiagtical potentate as superior to our Goy- ernment? Question 31—Ts Mr. Yorke In favor of granting public lands to other than actual settlers? Yours respectfully, B. F. HUDELSON, State President A. P.'A. of California. The Engraving Took Two Years. Representative White of Illinois wears on his little finger of the left Liand a seal ring whose historic interest far surpasses the intrinsic value of the jewel, although it is probably the finest infaglio in Wash- ington. It is a plain, unostentatious hLya- cinth, bearing the classic head of Antonius Pius, ruler of Rome from 138 to 161, and was cut and worn by the great Roman philosopher and emperor 1700 years ago. Mr. White secured it during his sojourn in Italy, paying 3000 francs for it, or about $600'in American money. 1t hada Roman setting of great antiquity. Mr. White took the ring to Tiffany’s, in Paris, and ordered the stone to be set in a plain cold band. The great jewelery firm specified that it would do so only at the owner’s risk, on account of the incalculable valye of the stone. The head is engraved in a pure hyacinth, which, whon held to the light, is perfectly translucent and gives out a remarkable play of colors, The en- raving is perfect, and leading lapidaries ga\'e assured Mr. White that it required two years to com{;lete the head in its per- fected details.—Washington Post. —————— There will be a 1neeting of the San Fran- cisco Bicycle Track Association next Fri- day evening at 8 o'clock at the rooms of the Bay City Wheelmen. Each club in this City is entitled to send three dele- eates. Business of great importance re- garding a bicycle racetrack for the wheel- men here is to be brought up and a large attendance is requested. ———————— The Irish Tourist Association proposes to hold .a photographic exhibition and competition, at whica prizes will be offered for photographs of Irish scenery. SENT AWAY NOSES APART, The Australian Starting Machine Proved a Revelation to Race-Goers. ‘WAS CHEERED TO THE ECHO. Favorites Took but Two Races at In. gleside—Sir Vassar Won at Lengthy Odds. The Gray Australian starting machine was given a trial at Ingleside track yester- day. Many tales have been wafted over the seas from the land of the Southern Cross of gigantic fields of Antipodean racers being sent away in Lig stake races heads on the starting post in incredibly short periods of time, but new innovations in racing are hard to introduce, and after its earnest advocate, F.de B. Lopez, the Aastralian turfman, had almost despaired of ever being given an opportunity to demonstrate its efficacy, it remained for the Pacific Coast Jockey Clubto give the invention a trial that is destined to revolu- tionize starting in this country. That the public might be the judge, the machine was set up in front of the grand stand. In construction it is simplicity personified. ‘Two strong bands of webbing stretching across the track are attached toa frame that by means of strong elastic bands slides upward and away on iron rods, placed at an dngle of 45 degrees, at the touch of a lever. The experimental trial occurred in the mile hungle race with ten starters, and all sorts of predictions were made as to what that notoriously bad acter, Bellringer, would do with the strands of webbing. The race was a good betting affair, Three Forks going to the post a 214 to 1 choice: £t. Brandon, who opened at 6 to 5, reced- ing to sixes. When the horses were called out Mr. Lopez took his place on a tempo- rari lg constructed stand opposite the grand stand. 5 It was a trying ordeal, for the trial meant success or relegation te the junk- store forever., From the outset the horses took kindly toit, and before one minute had elapsed the operator pulled down the lever., The webbing instantly shot up- ward and the horses went away to one of the prettiest starts ever seen on a race- course. Neglectful of the field of ‘‘lep- pers,”’ the grand-stand arose en masse and cheered. Not detracting from Mr. Cald- well’s starting, which has been uniformly excellent throughout the meeting, it must be said that this mechanical contrivance is a revelation and that the time is near when human patience and skill must give way to the inventor’'s art. So it has been in other trades and professions and why not on the turf? The race developed a surprise, for after leading up to the last jump, Three Forks made a mistake and threw Allmark heav- ily. St. Brandon then won easily from Burmah. g The day’s sport was most enjoyable. The weather was summery and the at- tendance large. Favorites captured two | events, the others going to outsiders. For the opening six-furlong race, Kam- sin and Gratify went to the post equal choices, 2 to 1 being obtained against either. After Levena C had made all the running, Kamsin passed her in the stretch and in a miid drive beat the mare outa neck. Olive was an ordinary third. Gratily was away from ttre post poorly. The four-furlong race for two-year-olds, with seven starters, was a mere cake-walk for the 2 to 5 favorite Zamar, who won bands down from Ingleside. Lord Ches- terfield finished "in the show. The winner covered the distance in :5014. The third event, over seven furlongs, re- sulted in a hollow victory for Tom Grif- fin’s colt Sir Vassar, on which Lamley beat the flag, and, never headed, won easily from Scimitar, the 11 to 5 favorite. The “start was a bad one, imp. Fullerton Lass, Daylight and Ida Sauer being left at the post. The last race was also a seven-furtong affair. Our Maggie was made an8 to 5 favorite, with Tenacity a strong second choice. Barney Schreiber’s gelding Ferris Haruman, a 10 to 1shot, led from the jump and won handily, with Fortuna second in a drive with Tenacity. Track and Paddock Items. The well-known bookmaker and owner of racegoers, Charles Durkee, passed away in the city of Los Angeles on Monday of the present week. Leonville pulled up slightly lame after his race, Tom Griffin had Sir Vassar in to be sold for §500. When put up to be auctioned, Leo Mayer, the Chicago bookmaker, bid “THE CALL” RACING CHART. Fnrty-flrlt Day of the Pacific Coast Jockey.Club. side Track, San Francisco, Tuesday, February 11, 1896. Weather Fine. Track Fast. Ingle- 676, ¥*RET RACE—Six furlongs; selling; conditions; penalties; purse $400. Index.| florse,age, welght. |St| 124 | 14 % | str. | Fin Jockeys. | petting, 623 | Kamsin, 3. 91 1| 3h .| 2n | am T 99| 2| ir | 12 | 28 10 91| 4 23, | 335 | 83 3 92| 6 | 5| i3 3 6531 | Oakland, b, 5 6 6 53 100 (683) |Clacquer, 6 3 54 | 41 | 6 9 Good start. Won driving. Winner, L. Ezell's b. g, by Blazes Miss Hal (77, SECOND RACK—Fous turiongs; two-year-olds; purse $400. Tndex.| Homewelnt. |st| 3% | % | % | sn | Fin | Jookeys |omevn o9 4 g 542 | Inglesid 1106 2 |$oEner, 3 618 |Lord Chesterileid 102 3 6 80 weee102| B s 5 |8t .20 30 8 ifa0 it 7 7 0 25 Good start. Won easily. Winner, W. 0.’B. Macdonough’ . 12 e e oL e gh’s b c., by St. Carlo-Royal Bess. At post *Formerly Virginia Dare gelding. **Formerly Nettle Beatrice colt. @78, THIRD RACE—Seven turlongs; selling: purse $400. Index. | Horse,age,weight. [8t.| 1% | 35 | 3 | s | #m. Jockeys | gaetiing, - |Sir Vassar, 3. itTe e {16 Scimitar, 4 3)an | sh.| a1 |83 |28 &5 § Teonville, . 3| 8n | a% |31 |83 |33 &7 1|6 6 56 | 41 | 41 5 15 6163 | 2n | 42 | 510 520 5 15 4h | 58 | & 3 6 20 80 left - Bios et 740, et : 5 100 300 Bad starc._Won easily. Winner, H. Grifis b. ¢, by sir Dixon-Vassar, Time, 172855 79, FOURTH RACE-Ove mile; over four hurdies; handicap; purse $400. Index. | Horse, age, welght. % | % | S | B | Jockeys |gBering St. Brandon, 7h | 8z | 81 0 3n | 83 | 23 42 41 5 82 | 5 H h'| an 83 110 10 Three Forks, 5. 1 1s |14 Pertect start, - Won dr ving. Winber, John Brenock's ¢h. hy, aise-Guenn. L T s ¢h. b, by imp. St Blaise-Guenn. Time, "k de B. Lope started this race with the Australian sta 3 rses batched in absolutely perfect alignment without deiuy. "5 F¢ (9ray's patent), and ihe ho FIFTH RACE—Seven furlongs; selling; conditions; purse $400, Horse, age, weight. | 5t.| %4 | 34 | %% | s | Fin. Jockeys. | Betting, Fer. Hartman, 3. LA ss e e |as 663 |Foriuna, 5, 2| 23 | 24 | 38 | 25 | 3% [Bowon 978 668 | Tenacity, 5/ 6 5 5 5 33 |T.Sloan 85 3 888 |Qur Magi 4183 | 3% | 3n | 31 | 4n |carner 85 85 653 | K. H. Sherley. 4l 43 |3 42 | 435 | 5 |H Marin..ll(200 18 44 z : gl . .| Macklin. . 6 '8 Good star except Hazard. Won easily. Winner, B. Schreiber's b, g, by Imp. Woodlands-Honora. Time, 1:39%. him up to $1200, his owner retaining him with the usual §5 bid. (tis said the origin of the *boost’’ dates back to a couple of ‘years ago, when a brother of Griffin’s claimed a horse owned by Mayer out of a selling Dunne’s colors. Macklin pulled Hazard up as the flag fell on tfe field in the last race and wasleft at the post. On account of the peculiar in and out form shown by Levena C in her races the stewards decided yesterday to refuse her entry in future at Ingleside track. Starter Ferguson claimed that Tod Sloan, astride of Fullerton Lass i the thitd race, pulled up, which caused him as well as Daylight and Ida Sauer being left at the post. Sloan was suspended for the meet- ing. _Bellringer was worked on at the conclu- sion of the hurdle event, and owner Frank Taylor was fined $25 for not first obtaining permission from the judges. A. B. Spreckels, president of the new Jockey Club, stated last evening to some friends that ie.was more than sorry that important business kept him from visiting the track yesterday and witnessing the trial of the starting machine. The wealthy turfman has always been an advocate of the machine and has been in correspond- ence with different Australian racing officials in regard to the merits of the in- vention. Itwas through the instrumen- tality of the president that the machine was first setup on the backstretch and he was delighted to learn of its success. The general opinion of horsemen was favorable to the niechanical starter. **Jim” Ferguson, starter at the ‘“‘Bay,” said ‘‘there’s no doubt about it being a success,” but wondered how the two-year-olds would take to it. Mr. Caldwell aiso admitted its efficacy, but wanted to see it tried on the younger division. In his dry way Marty Bergen remarked: *If that thing had come out ten years ago I'd been a million- aire now.” 1% is claimed for Marty that he has ;mid more fines than any boy on the turf. Sam Doggett said it was the best thing he ever saw in the starting line, and predicted a jgreat success for the machine. *Stony’” Clarke wanted to see it tried first. . Previous to the race he said he could just imagine old Bell- ringer chasing around the track encircled by about foity yards of webbing. S e LADIES’ DAY AT INGLESIDE. An Unusually Fine Programme Prepared for the Edification of Fair Race-Goers. Following the usnal custom at the Ingle- side track the gate will be free to the fair sex to-day. An unusually fine programme of six events has been prepared. Among the many starters will be game old Logan, the seasoned campaigner, who would rather be out on the track racing than standing in his stal]. Two of the events on the card are over @ mile, and both starts will be made with the Australian starting-machine. Extra cars will be run for the accommo- dation of ladies and the management pre- dict the largest crowd of the meeting. Pools wilt be sold on all the fights at El Paso by George Rose at 25 Ellis street. AMONG THE WHEELMEN. Good Roads Meeting To-Morrow Even- ing —Acme Wheelmen’s Election. The good roads meeting to be held to- morrow evening at the rooms of the Bay City Wheelmen, 441 Golden Gate avenue, promises to be well attended. Delegates will be present from all the bicycle clubs, draymen and teamsters’ unions, the dairy- men’s association, the carrizge companies, and every organization which could possi- biy havean interest in the securing of good streets and roads in San Francisco County. Arrangements will be made for a big public demonstration upon the occasion of the visit of the State Bureau of High- ways to this county next month. A great deal of enthusiasm is being manifested in the good roads work by the League of American Wheelmen, tfo whom it has seemingly been left by general consent, and it is surely in good hands. The racing men are training actively now. Those who have aspirations for track honors are not doing as hard work as the road-racers, for the next track meet does not occur until the indoor tourna- ment in March. A week from next Satur- aay, however, is the Associated Clubs’ twenty-five mile rdadrace, and it is for some of the valuable prizes in this event that the men are exerting themselves now 80 as to be in proper shape. Twenty-five miles is a long distance to ride at top speed and it requires a great deal of pre- paratory work to enable a rider to main- tain the pace required for such a long distance. The wheelmen watch the arrival of the race that was sporting in Pat| Australian steamer Monowai to-morrow with considerable interest. - 1t is possible that Arthur A. Zimmerman, the world’s champion bicyelist, may return from his Australian trip on her, and if so he will be accorded a hearty welcome by the local wheelmen. A delegation of the Bay City ‘Wheelmen will be down to the dock, so that 1if he is aboard he will be shown that his arrival was not wholly nnexpected. If not on this steamer he will be on the next one, it is thought. The Acme Club wheelmen of Oakland held their annual election last Monday evening, which resulted as follows: H. L. Gelbert, president; Charles Hannan, vice- resident; J. H. Wright, treasurer; George rouillet, secretary. These eentlemen, with A. P. Swain, E. F. Thayer and F. R. Hamilton, constitute the boardgof direc- tors. The road officers are: A. P. Swain, captain; E. L. Johnson, first lieutenant: Frank Agnew, second lleutenant. Leslie V. Raymond, a racer of consider- able speed, left yesterday for a trip awheel toSanta Monica. When he reaches that point he will join the racing team already there and try for records. The league visiting committee has post - poned its visit to the Olympic Cyclers from next Friday evening to Thursday evening, Febrnary 20. A great many of the cyclers are going to Fresno the latter part of this week to take part in a min- strel entertainment for the benefit of the Fresno Athletic Club, and for this reason the postponement was decided desirable. KEENE PLAYS LOUIS XI Warm Reception Given the Favorite ‘Actor at the California. An Artistic Impersonation of the French King—Miss Belgarde’s Marie. Thomas Keene was welcomed back to San Francisco last night by a large and appreciative audience, which almost filled the California Theater. Hearty applause en the actor on his first appearance and at the end of the third act a deter- mined effort was made to induce him to break forth into a speech, but, Mr. Keene modestly refused to comply. The play was *‘Louis XL” It was played by the supporting company ina way that seldom rose above mediocrity, but Keene, himself, in the title role more than atoned for the somewhat monotonous character of his support. “I am France,” says Lounis XI, and the actor who played the title-role last night might have paraphrased these lines and said: * Iam the play.” There are few living actors who can play the crafty, hypocritical french King as Keene can. Two of the greatest are Irving and Novelli. The former is only known slightly in San Francisco, the latter not at all, and were these ac- tors’ interpretations familiar here the Louis XI tuat Keene presented last night could well challenge comparison with them. Keene’s was a senile Louis XI, even from the first act, but he always conveyed skillfully to his hearers through the senility the cunning of the craity, un- scrupulous olé diplomat. There was a touch of grimness in the laughter that Louis’ apish religious antics aroused. In the scene in the king’s bedchamber, the magnificent intensity of Keene’s acting, which was free from all tinge of staginess, sent a genuine thrill of horror through his hearers. All through the play bhis char- acterization of the king was even consist- ent and artistic to the minutest detail. The samnze praise cannot be lavished upon the supporting company. For the most part they were neither strikingly good nor remarkably bad. Mr. Eagleson was sin- cere and dignified as Jaques Coitier, and the same may be said in an even higher degree of Mr. Carleton as the BSieur de | Commines. Mr. Lowell was a passable | Dauphin, and Mr. Hennig as the Duc de Nemours showed betier intentions than execution in his acting. Miss Adele Relgarde is well known to San Francisco audiences, but her imper- sonation of Marie of Commines showed | an advance on her previous work, thougn | she still has too much tendency to be spasmodic. The peasants were well rep- resented and the minor characters in the cast were not unsatisfactorily sustained, but beside the splendidly artistic work of the star effulgence of his satilitesappeared pale. B — Finger-nails grow about one inch in nine months. NEW TO-DAY. WHAT IT COSTS TO GET HEALTH To a Sufferer From Nervous Debility. 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