The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WED DAY, FEBRUARY 12 189 e e L N e e s e e STRANGLERS ON MORTON STREET, Terror Caused by Several Attacks on Young Women. AS MAY SMITH DIED, Attempts to Choke and Rob Other Hibitues of the Region Reported. NOT A CLEW YET DISCOVERED. A Condition of Affairs That Suggests the Presence of a Morbid Maniac. The police are inclined to think that there 1s a strangler in this City whose am- bition, or mania, i1s to equal, or possibly sense, were not observed, and the cortege was formed in a matter-of-fact way, such as the carting away of some incumbrance from one’s household. Jack Smith, the man who has been re- garded for a couple of years as the hus- band of the woman, dropped in to view her remawns and then went his way. In the evening he wasagain about his haunts, Where, in the lifetime of the girl, he earned by gambling enough to lighten her burden of his keeping. _Curiosity, as much as anything else, ex- citing the taste of the women of the half world, attracted many of them to the Morgue during the early hours of the day. They were disappointed not to find the body there. They pursued their quest as far as the undertaker’s, to the latter's very great dissatisfaction. Now that the poor murdered girl is buried there is nothing left behind but the remembrance of how she was killed. The public will soon forget that, and it is likely, too, that the police will have to inscribe the assassination on their archives asone of the mysterious cases presented to them. A Coroner's jury has been impaneled, after having viewed the corpse, and its verdict, if it is ever deemed necessary to ask it for one, must be that May Smith came to her death at the hands of some person unknown. The police, however, are not resting be- cause they are in the dark as to the prob- able murderer. Captain Lees has bgen working twenty hours out of twenty-four catechizing every person who might have a possible connection with the case. He has found the cook from San Diego whose letters to May Smith were signed “Billy.” The fellow is W. R. Neuman. eclipse, the record of London’s notorious | He accounts for his movements ever since JEWELRY AND PURSE OF THE MURDERED GIRL. Jack the Ripper, who in the course of a trict of that great metropolis. It seems as though such were the case, | for within the last few days a young girl | on Morton street has been strangled to death by an unknown assassin and several | other women in the same region have been | beaten, stabbed and strangled, in each of | the latter cases the assailant escaping without leaving a trace by which he could | be detected. The night prior to the murder of “little Jday Smith,” a man bearing the appear- bnce of a thugentered the room of a young girl who had assumed the name of Lulu Taber on Morton street. After inquiring as to the amount of money the girl had on her person and receiving a raply favorable to him, he became exceedingly rough, tear- ing the girl's clothes from her person in an endeavor, it is presumed, to rob her. The girl ordered him out into the street, but he refused to go, and again assailed her, but her cries and her tnreats {o call the police attracted the attention of the girls in rooms adjoining her, which e dently frightened him, as he made a hasty exit and joined a man waiting on the side- walk, who is supposed to have been his ac- complice. Both rapidly disappeared down the street before the officers arrived. A few bours after this occurrence loud cries were heard coming from the rooms at 163¢ Berry street, occupied by a girl who is known as Carrie Thomas. Upon their arrival the | police found the girl Iying on the floor in an almost insensible condition, badly bruised and with deep red finger marks on ner neck showing that she had been stran- 1 A man, who proved to be John , alias Williams, was endeavoring to escape through the back door, but throuch the interference of 2 man who happened to hear the cries, ran into the room and intercepted him, he was banded over to the police. Standing on the curb outside of the room was the accomplice, who fled upon hearing the cries of the girl, but was seen, and his description answers that given by Lulu Taber as the man who had a short while before assailed her. Night before | last another girl was nearly strangled to death on Berry street, her assailant being unknown, but it is thought 1o be the con- federate of the man now in custody. Al- though the police searched high and low, they were aiterward unable to again lo- cate the girl who had been choked. The girls across the streer from the house heard the screaming, and after learning that ancther attempt had been made upon the life of one of their associates, they im- mediately left their places for their other rooms. A number of them have de- termined not to return to their old haunts until this unknown and dangerous thug shall have been taken into custody. The agents of the houses occupied by these girls are very reticent about the matter, it being evident that they are in danger of losing their tenants if they be- come aware of the attempts made on the lives of other girls. Although a nvmber of girls living on that sireet heard the disturbance, but few of them know the truth concerning the matter, SEg MAY SMITH’S BURIAL. There Was Only a Heart-Broken Mother to Weép for the Girl. Forsaken by every one but her sorrow- ing mother, Mamie McDermott was buried yesterday in Cypress Lawn Cemetery. The unfortunate young woman who was killed by a strangler on Monday morning was given as decert and conventional an interment as money could purchase, but there lacked all those tender and senti- mental adjuncts seemingly so natural, although so sad, in like ceremonies under different circumstances. The woman was only a trifle over 20 years of age when death overtook her. Yet around her casket there were no chil- dren nor young people in the moral ac- ceptance of the term. There were women there, to be sure, whose lives were still young, but whose painted faces ana bard lines told the story of the pathe they, like the dead one, have followed. The funeral ceremonies, in a religious T or two murdered many fallen women | terrorized the entire Whitechapel dis- | he arrived in this City last Friday. He acknowledges the interest he feli in May Smith at one time, but that was some months ago, and since then, since he visited San Jose, he has transferred his ephemeral love to anotber. He has been allowed to depart in peace, and so has Charles Lemarrer, the logua- cious barber whose drunken volubility got him into trouble. Lemarrer declared that he had bad trouble with a denizen of the tenderloin and had choked her late Mon- day morning. It was over a 50-cent piece she had abstracted from his pocket. This turned out to be true, but Captain Lees has learned that the woman in ques- tion was not the murdered one. The latest development in the case s the discovery of some long black hairs caught in the vestment ubon the woman after she was taken to the morgue. This slight clue is accepted in the sense that her murderer was not one of the blonde men who was last seen with her at 10:55 o’clock Sunday night. The girl was known to always have a | little money about her or her room, as | well as considerable jewelry, and it is be- | lieved thst the murderer was well ac- | quainted with these facts, which prompted him to do the killing. TENOR GUILLE. Something About the Great Tenor With the Tavary Company. Among the distinguished members of the Tavary Opera Company is Albert L. | Guille, the celebrated tenor of the Patti concerts of America. Guille was born in Avignon, France, in 1854 and studied with the great tenor, Audran, father of the famous composer of *The Mascot’” and “‘Olivette.” He has had a most remarkable -and interesting career, one that would read like a romance more than a history of real life. M. Guille has sung in all the leading theaters of Europe, including those of the Russian empire, with all the greatest artists of the age. For six seasons he was with Patti, and for three years he was court singer for the King of Portugal, Dom Luis I, by whom he was created ‘‘Chevalier of the Legion of Cbrist,”” a Portuguese military order, a favor conferred only upon the most dis- tinguished personages, and which Mons, Guille received under_the most flattering and complimentary circumstances. From his profits'on the stage Guille has built a castle near Geneva, Switzerland, with all the latest American improvements. and at a cost of $30,000. He has a family of three children, and four years ago he engaged an American governess and sent her to Europe to educate them in the language and ways of “Uncle Sam.” Guille is a great admirer of America, where he made many friends, and he says frankly that of all the andiences he has ever sung for, the Americans are the most intelligent and appreciative. His greatest operas are “The Huguenots,” “Faust,” ‘‘Aida,” “Pagliacci,”” “L’'Afri- caine,” and the great production, “The Jewess,” in which as the old Jew he en- trances everybody. Even his associates on the stage tremble at the dramatic inten- sity of his interpretation. —————— Science in Kissing. The reason kissing is so pleasant, says an osculatory expert of scientific tenden- cies, is because the teeth, jawbones and lifps are full of nerves, #nd when the lips of persons meet an electric current is generated, and, to put it facetiously, you don’t have to have a dynamo machine nor a battery in the house, nor a call-box nora button to touch to ring up tbe central office, and there is no patent on it, and the poorest person 1n the world can enjoy the electric current better than the millionaire, and it never gets out of order. If Edison had invented kissing it would cost $100 a year, like the telephone, and then extra issing would be c! arg_e& up extra, and 1f youdid not pay for it they would come and disconnect you from the central office. Built a House in a Bottle. A few years ago the writer saw a genu- ine curiosit; wi?ch had been made by a Jittle blind boy in Chicago. It was noth- ing more or less than a miniature house, made up of forty odd pieces of wood, which was placed on the inside of a very common- looking four-ounce medicine bottle. Tue general verdict of all who examined the wonder was that it would puzzle a man with two good eyes to put the pieces in the bottle, to say nothing of the task of glu- ing them together so as to make them re- semble a house.—St. Paul Dispatch. CATHOLIC LITERATURE, 1 Rev. James McDonald Lectures Before the Reading Circles. HIS PLEA FOR GOOD BOOKS. In the Course of an Able Essay the Lecturer Points Out a Way in Reading. Metropolitan Hall was crowded last night when the Rev. James McDonald of St. Peter’s Church delivered a lecture be- fore the Catholic reading circles on “Catholic English Literature.” Father McDonald read his lecture, which was distinguished for its smooth, agreeable style and an undercurrent of humor. He quoted extensively to illustrate his dis- course. He said that there never was a time when so much writing was done, so much indiiferent if not indeed bad writing was inflicted upon the people. None of this writing was great. The present century opened in a blaze of literary glory. The French revolution had an influence upon the thought of the period. Religion, mor- ality, reverence, virtue were cast aside and large promises were made in the name of liberty and equality. All" Europe caught the fever of the thought. The movement crossed the English Channel. Tke English literature of the time is crowned with many great names, begining it might be sald with Burns. The last half of the century has only one name to boast of—Tennyson—after whom there has appeared no great poet. Writers of perfect style may to-day be counted by the thousands, and yet few who are the equal of Hall Caine for instance can be found. He continued: Modern hiterature is decidedly unhealthy, breaking out here and there into fits of nastiness and indecency. The modern story- teller delights in such, and the reader has to accept it in the neme of art. ‘What wonder is 1t that Yea le who believe in justice, truth and old-fashioned virtye should be satisfied with nothing higher, ani should not ery out against such a rising tide of filth. What can be done about it? Some people say read Catholic literature. What iy this literature? It was Cardinal Newman’s. The phrese does not mean religious literature treating exclusively of Catholic matters or Catholic doctrine, but consists of literature as a Catholic would trest it. The Catholic church is full of its own literature. The most startiing disclosure of modern times is the ig- norance of Catholic doctrinal works on the partof Protestant men of pretended literary reputation. When Catholic literature is men- tioned it should be understood that it is not necessarily a pious literature. People who think so are a little bigoted and wanta Catho- lic hallmark on everything. The speaker said he wished to refrain from hurting the feelings of any person or any aggregation of persons, and he hoped that no offense {{ou‘d be taken where none was intended. He held that the sodality Catholicssbould study English literature from the Protestant masters. Protestants are not ashamed to study the paimtings of Catholic masters in Europe. The lecturer, speaking of how the work might be done— the worfi of building up a Catholic English literature—saidjbe would have a school of Catholic writers, and in it once 1n a while a Catholic genius would surely be found. Thomas Moore, an Irishman and a Cath- olic, never had nor never will bave an equal in lyric poetry. He will remain the sweetest singer in English literature. Next in order of merit 1n the Irish school comes James Clarence Mangan. Had Mangan first seen the light of day in England his name would be familiar everywhere now. All his songs are sad as_the sigh of the | the winter’s winds—like his life, that saw but few gleams of the sun of summer. Morgan’s beautiful though sorrowful poem “Twenty Golden Years Ago,” was recited as an example of his genius. The following verse conveys an idea of its feel- ing: gom how plaintive you would ween I was; Yet I won't—albeit I have a deal More to wall about than Werner has, Did { paint a fifth of what I feel. Werner's tears were wept for withered flowers; Mine for withered hopes my scroll of woe Dates alas! from youth’s deserted bowers, Twenty golden Years ago. And the poem ‘‘Soggarth Aroon” was iven by the speaker, who then turned to <r}glish writers. There are two poets who, were they not Catholic, would have been laureates—New- man and Faher. Newman’s prose, for beauty, elegance and power, is surpassed by few writers. Alfred Austin, the present poet laureate, is a Catholic who was educated in Catholic schools exclusively. In America there are no penal laws to enslave Cathglics, no critics t6 damn Catholic literary eiforts with faint praise. There are many Catholic writers of emi- nence in America, and among them Futher Ryan and John Boyle O'Reilly will be remembered through the ages by men of culture. Father Ryan’s poem, “The Warrior Banner,” was recited as a specimen of the poet priest’s poetry. John Boyle O'Reilly, an Irishman, a political felon driven from his native land, came among strangers and through his genius commanded respect. Among writers of] America the speaker said he could without cavil give a very high place to Charles Warren Stoddard. If any man in America has written imper- ishable English that man is Stoddard. Few boogs in American literature excel his *‘South Se® Idyls.” Another writer worth knowing is James Jefferies Roache, editor of the Boston Pilot, the aathor of two books, which Father McDonald r commended to the Catholic reading cir- cles. One of Mr. Roache’s poems read by the speaker gave a good idea of the edi- tor’s humor and ability. The outlook of Catholic literature is bright and there is very good reason to look for great improvement. Catholics may hope for literary victories in years to come—years which the generation of to- day may not hope to see. That glory Catholics of now cannot participate in, but the seeds of it they may sow. Rev. Joseph Byrne announced that tickets for the Archbishop’s lecture would be ready at Metropolitan Hall to-day from 9 A. w. to 5 P. M., and at Sherman & Clay’s, Kearny and Sutter streets, Thursday and Friday, from 9 A. M. to 5 2. M.; also at the hall every evenmr CHARGES AGAINST LANE. Carroll Cook Moves to Dismiss the In- dictment. Carroll Cook, counsel for Peter F. Lane, 'LIGHT DRAUGHT FIGHTERS. GUNBOATS FOR THE NAVY, Union Iron Works Begin Con- struction of -Two Com- posites. Speed, Sail Area, Armament and Gen- eral Description of the Craft. The Union Iron Works of this City was the successful bidder for the construction of light draught composite gunboats Nos. 14 and 15 of the United States navy. The contract cost is $223,000 and $219,000, re- spectively. They are to be completed within fifteen months. A few days ago Senior Lieutenant Capps, TU. 8. N., arrived from Washington, and is now on duty at the Union Iron Works. He will superintend the hull construction of the new craft. Active work in the building of the boats will begin soon, and it is expected that the construction of the vessels will enable the contractors to enlarge the force of work- men. The new gunboats are of a type wholly different from the Bennington and Con- cord. ‘The exterior design of gunboat 15— and 14 is exactly the same—is shown in the itlustration accompanying. The naval architecture of the craft is greatly ad- mired, and surely service aboard one of these light-draught steamers will be de- sired by reason of the comforts offered. The gunboats are not designed for de- stroyers of commerce, but they are equipped nevertheless to fight, and will attain a speed of twelve knots an hour, For navigation of rivers, bays and estuaries where the water is shallow they will render the best service, as they will be able to ascend streams where cruisers and pattle-ships would not dare venture. Boats of thisdescription will prove excentionally useful in Asiatic waters. By the terms of the recent treaty between Japan and China many of the Chinese rivers will be open to the commerce of the world. Boats drawing only twelve feet of water—the draught of Nos. 14 and 15—can navigate these rivers a long distance from the sea. Therefore, in the event of insurrection or tumult inland, requiring the presence of United States forces to protect American citizens, the gunboats couid land troops near the scene of disturbance, while the cruisers would be compelled to remain at a distance of 100 miles or more from the danger point. Each of the new gunboats is to carry six four-inch rapid-fire guns. There is one gun forward and one aft on the main deck and two on either broadside of the gun- deck. There are also four six-pounders and four one-pounders. “With the rapid- fire four-inch guns some effective work in open fighting against other craft could be done, while the six-pounders might make things lively for bodies of troops on the who is now under indictment for felonious shore. For their size, Nos. 14 and 15 of the COMPOSITE GUNBOAT FOR THE NAVY BEING BUILT AT tyrannized over Catholics in regard to Catholic literature; it was the chief ob- struction to a Catholic literary movement. And yet sodalities were good in them- selves—when they kept out of Catholic literature. Father McDonald cited one instance of an English writer whose book, “The New Antigone,” was not kindly re- ceived by Catholic critics, one of whom wrote that it “‘was not a book fit for the shelyes of a young ladies’ sodality library.” One is inclined nowadays, while hear- ing so much ot education, to look back with longing to olden times. There are untold bfeasmgs in the ignorance of the alphablet. Persons weary of civilization of the schoolmaster and the tons of mod- ern literature, magazine and otherwise; and then they well may long for “a lodge- in some vast wilderness,” with only one weapon—the jawbone of an ass to kill the first schoolmaster that comes along. Still the speaker said he did not wish his audience to think that he was opposed to education. On the contrary, he believed in it. But if education be wanted, a large latitude must be given the reader and the writer. The Catholic church has always fostered education, and whatever civiliza- tion men now possess is due to the church. She has never obstructed the light of learning or scholarship. At the same time there have beenand aresome few members of the church who have a distrust and sus- picion of profanelearning, The history of it bezan in the early days of monasticism, when monk gave up everything the world held dear to save his own soul. The monk did not teach, butdid penance and_wept for his sins. But in time the monks became priests, and at first taucht sacred literature. Very soon, history tells, “heathenish books” were smuggled into monasteries, ‘The smugglers, if found out, were pun- ished; but withal the love of profane lit- erature spread in these monasteries. A story to exemplify the state of literature in monasteries of these early days was told hg the speaker. It was abouta monk named Altsmann who disobeyed his su- periors to gain profane learning which men are now told was unknown in mon- astic institutions. Returning to the sodality the lecturer said it had very good reasons for classify- ing books; although the new command- ment—thou shalt not read novels—is pre- posterous. Teach people the beauty of yirtue and the ugliness and deformity of vice and every decent person can distin- guish between a good and a bad book, Catholic literature-is badly wanted, but how is it to be obtained? The classic En, lish literature is Protestant, for, with onF; three or four uxmmiom;il the great Eng- lish writers are not Catholics. And yet Catholics should have no reason to be ashamed of this fact, for the English penat laws absclutely debarred Catholics from prominence in English literature. It was, | woman.”” though, no fault of theirs, assault, bas filed with Judge Belcher a motion to dismiss the indictment against his client. In his motion Cook aileges that-the in- dictment was not found by the concurring voices of twelve of the members of the Grand Jury; that the names of all the witnesses against Lane were not indorsed in the indictment. He also contended that the evidence taken before the Grand Jury was incompetent, irrelevant, insuffi- cient and illegal. Further, Mr. Cook claims that the Grand Jury itself was im- properly and illegally drawn; some of its members are aliens, he says, and preju- diced. He therefore asked that the in- dictment be dismissed. The motion will come up for a hearing later. The trial of the information against Lane, for a similar- offense, will come before Judge Bahrs on February 14, —————— GALLANT GENERAL HARRISON. The President’s Delicate Regard for the Feminine Part of Humanity. The approaching marriage of ex-Presi- dent Benjamin Harrison recalls to mind the extreme deference with which the gen- eral has always regarded the gentler sex. No more striking illustration of this char- acteristic could be desired than the manner in which he conducted himself toward the defendant jn the case of Nancy E. Clem, chargzed with murder, in which he wasone of the attorneys for the prosecution, The time intervening between her arrest and final discharge was a littie over eight years. She was chnrfiad with havin killed JacobYonng and wifeat Indianapolis September 12, 1868,and was tried four times. Twice the jury hung and twice she was convicted and sentenced to life imprison- ment, but each time the Supreme Court came to her rescue and reversed the case. After the second trial the case came here on a change of venue. Marion County spent ovar%.‘)o,noo in the prosecution, but refused to contribute further after the verdict of guilty rendered at the fourth trial had been reversed by the Supreme Court, and the case was dismissed, . . General Harrison made the closing argu- ment for the State, and continuaily re- ferred to Mrs. Clem, ‘‘the unfortunate NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. TWELVE GREAT BARGAINS CLEARANCE TO-DAY! In comnection with the numberless other attractions with ‘| which eur GREAT MIDWINTER CLEARANCE SALE continues the following lines have been SPECIALLY SELECTED FOR CLEAR- ANCE TO-DAY and are therefore offered at A Sacrifice That Will Force Them Ont Immediately ! FANCY NOVELTIES! O Cent At 1 S, PIN CUSHIONS, METAL FRAMES, INKSTANDS, FANCY BOXES AND BOOKS, worth 25¢ te 50¢, will be closed out at 10c. £ At 25 Cents. FANCY GLOVE AND HANDKERCHIEF BOXES, FRAMES, PLAQUES, TRAYS, etc., value from 50c to $1 25, will be closed out at 25¢. GLOVES! GLOVES! At 45 Cents. 150 dozen 5-HOOK UNDRESSED KID GLOVES (genuine Foster hooks), in mode, tan and slate shades, regular value $1, will be closed out at 45¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. 130 dozen 5-HOOK KID GLOVES, in tan, trown and slaie shades, also black, regular value $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. At 920 Cents. 75 dozen 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES (large buttons to match gloves), in all shades and black, regular value $1 50, will be closed out at 90c a pair. At S1 Eg 60 dozen 8-BUTTON LENGTH MOUSQUETAIRE UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, in tan, mode, brown and slate shades, also black, regular value $2, will be closed out at $1 25 a pair. LADIES’ JACKETS! At $1.50. 60 LADIES’ DOUBLE AND SINGLE BREASTED THREE-QUARTER LENGTH JACKETS, regular price $6 and $7, will be closed out at $1 50 each. EMBROIDERIES! At 5 Cents a Yard. 50,000 yards CAMBRIC EMBROIDERY, regular price 10c, 12}4c and 15c, will be placed on sale at 5¢ a yard. HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR! At 182 Cents a Pair. 98 dozen CHILDREN’S FINE RIBBED BLACK COTTON HOSE, double knees, heels, soles and toes, warranted fast black, extra good value at;$3 a dozen, will be closed out at 3 pairs for 50c. At 85 Cents Hach. 47 dozen LADIES’ HYGIENIC VESTS, high neck, long sleeves, natural colors, guaranteed non-shrinkable, regular price 75¢, will be closed out at 85¢ each. MEN’S FURNISHINGS! t 15 Cents. 85 dozen MEN’S JAPANESE SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, with white or fancy hem- THE UNION IRON WORKS. United States navy should be splendid fighters. In point of maintenance they should not be expensive. The consump- tion of coal ought not to be great, as each boat has sail area of 4000 feet. A Frank- lin life preserver is part of the e(éuipment. The principal dimensions and general features are: Length on load water line, 174 feet; beam extreme at load water line,34 feet; draught normal to bottom of wooden keel, 12 Teet; dis- placement, 1000 tons; indicated horsepower, 800; speed estimated, 12 knots; coal suppl bunker capacity, 250 fons; comploment of St cers, seamen and marines, 146, The rapid accumulation of marine vege- tation and barnacles on the bottoms of steel-plated warships, the reduction of speed, increased consumption of coal, the great expense of semi-annual docking have troubled the Nayy Department ever since the new navy began. In the com- posite vessel—a mixed structure of wood and metal, with its bottom of planking coppered without, or, where the greater strength required it, plated first with steel as above water, then sheathed with wood also coppered, and the whole so fasten to the metal frames and plating by com- position bolts that galvanic action should be averted, a system long urged by Chief Constructor Hichborn, is found a means of avoiding these evils, while addin, greatly to the efficiency of the craft at all times. STATE DEVELOPMENT, The State Committee’s Plans for En- larging Upon the Work Now in Hand. The State Development Committee met yesterday. W. M. Bunker, chairman of the executive, was elected chairman of the local committee and D. M. Carman was selected as secretary. Mr. Bunker stated that as the result of recent efforts the State was now working in harmony as never before. This is evinced by the fact that when San Fran- cisco wanted the Republican convention all California was ready to subsecribe to- ward the fund for securing it, and in the vresent effort to improve the harbors and defendant.”” ~ After he closed Senator Voorhees, who was associated with the defense, asked him why he had been so easy in his remarks against the defendant. ‘‘Dan,” he replied, “no matter what she may have done, she is still a woman, and Iwon’t abuse her.” When the jury haa retired he went over to Mrs, Clem, who was crying, and asked her forgiveness for auything he said which might have in- jured her feelings. As he turned away he said to Judge Paimer, who was trying the case: ‘‘Judge, I'll never prosecute another © has kept his word,—Cincin- nati Commercial Gazette. rivers all sections of the State are show- ing an interest, but in nothing is this unity | of feeling so apparent as in the expressions of indorsement of the State Development Committee. They bave come from prom- inent men in every county of the State. The general committee is now ready to push its plans to ultimate success and to utilize the advantage gained by the work at the Atlanta Exposition. San Francisco should do her share, and it will be the work of this local committee to see that she does. The drawings for the topographical-cli- J matic map that the general committee is 3y stitched borders, large size, regular price 35c and 50¢, will be closed out at 15¢ each At L About 150 odd garments of ess Than Half Price. MEN’S WOOL, MERINO AND BALBRIGGAN UNDER~ ‘WEAR, sold at 50c, 75¢, $1 to $3, will be closed out at less than half price, / Market Stroet, corner of Jones, SAIN FRANCISCO. having prepared bwere on exhibition, and the chairman called attention to the fact that it would be ready within two weeks, and that every county in the State would be asked to subscribe for as many copies as there are people in the county, the price being 3 cents each, 2 cents additional being asked in the form of a subscription for the general work of the committee, including the mailing of the maps. He said that the committee occupied a unique vosition in that it is the first effort of the kind for the advancement of the interests of the entire State. Heretofore some of the sections have worked together, but usually to the detriment of others. Now all sections are co-gperating. Chairman Bunker said: Wehave the largest and most representative committee that has ever been formed in the State, probably in any State, for that purpose. There is no political bias, no one has anax to grind, and no member of the committee re- ceives any compensation, directly or indi- rectly. San Francisco is more directly inter- .ested in the work of the general committee than any other section, in that it has more money fn\'esled all over the State and more money loaned on country prop erty than any. other county. Oakland, representing Alameda County, is in the vanguard of this movement. The Mer- chants’ Exchange has taken up the matter en- thusiastica!ly. They called a meeting two weeks ago, which was largely attended, and they now ask us to send representatives to attend another meeting, called for 3 o’clook Tuesday afternoon, at the Merchants' Ex- change rooms, Oakland. A representative at their former meeting told of the enthusiasm displayed, and sai that the Alameda County Commilttee, com- sed of the following gentlemen, ex-Mayor | . R. Davis, W. V. Witcher, George L. Fish, resident Merchants’ Exchange, J. W. Weilbye, R. Yates, George W. Arperand J. R. Remmel, had promised to make a personal canvass for subscriptions to the fund for the general pur- poses of the State development committee, and 10 have solicitors secure subscriptions for the maps, of which their committee wou!d take at least 100, One member promised to take his team and drive to Livermore, stopping en :oute to enlist the co-operation of outside owns. The chairntan added that it would be necessary to prepare descriptive matter of the City ana County ol San ¥Francisco to be placed on the backs of 300,000 maps, and on the motion of Mr. Rich he was author- ized to appoint a commitiee for the pnr- pose. He appointed Wendell Easton and David Rich for such committee. Mr. Truman moved that a circular letter be preparcd and sifined by each member of the committee, asking the business com- munity to co-operate in this important movement by subscribing $1 per month and ordering maps. Messrs. Truman and Buckingham were appointed. Contribu- tions are coming in ireely from the City, and assurances are pouring in from the counties. e Realized the Injustice of It. “Do you know,"” said Representative Al- drich of Chieago, *‘meeting General Greely recenily reminds me of a day at the ‘World’s Fair, when weall stood with open- mouth wonderment and interest lookin, upon that scene so graphically illnstutag of Greely and his little band of surviving explorers siruggling with death and worse. At the some time we were listening with sadness to the cloguent recital which was’ given to groups of visitors every few mo- ments by the attendants, when suddeul{d during a pause in the proceedings, an ol granger—that was his appearance—broke out feelingly: ‘I allus thought it was a shame that Greeley wan’t elected Presi- dent, and said so to the Grantcrowd to Lum at the tims,’ "=Washingtoa Posi J 2 pe ¢ Z i ) AL s = ). DOCTOR SWEANY, San Francisco’s Leading Specialist, QUCCESSFULLY TREATS ALL CHRONIO diseases of the head, throat, lungs, heart, stom- ach, liver and bowels; kidney' troubles, disorders ot the bladder and urinary organs, rupture, ples, varicocele, hydrocele and’ swelllng of the glands. Loss or partial 10ss of sexual power in either men or women, emissions, sleeplessness. mental worry, Dbashfulness, failing memory and ail the d! ing 1ls resuiting from nervous debllty positively an permanently cured. Gonorrhea, Gleet. Stric- ture and that terrible and loathsome digesse, Syph- 11is, thoroughly and forever cured, WRITE your troubles if living away from the eity and advice will be given you free of charge, Address ook B (o L. BE\'BAl‘vY. %Lfll}’; 737 Market St. (opposite Examinex 3 " » San Francisco, O D-DOISON; A remedy used exclusively by a physician of 30 years’ experience. A positive and unfailin guaranteed cure for primary, secondary an tertiary cases of blood disease. No case curable. New cases cured in two weeks. Cone sultation and full information free, MOFFAT CHEMICAL €O, Room 1, 632 Market St., San Franecisca. DR.WOXG W00 Chinese Drugs and Tea and Herb Sanitarium, 776 CLAY STREET, Bet. Kearny and Du San l‘yl‘lncimwn" I, the undersigned, have been cured frog NOTICE T0 MILK DEALERS OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PER- sons dealing in milic that will beissued 1 the Board of Health on and after February 13, 8. A. S. LOVELACE, M.D,, Health Officer.