The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 CAUGHT BY THE CATHODE RAY, A Bullet That Is Embedded in a Mission Boy's Hand. TWO GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS Con- the Successful Experiments ducted Yesterday at State University. THE SUBJECT SAW HIS BONES. Little Justin Lee Gunnison’s Remarks About His Own Anatomy—How the Work Was Done. ‘When vou have your photograph taken under the cathode ray you must sit down for two hours and a half and look pleasant. Before the process it is necessary for you to shoot yourself, though not fatally, and let the doctors probe for the bullet with- out success. There should also be a pre- liminary clearing of the conscience, for nobody knows just where the limit will be in the new photography, nor just how much of the innermost parts of man may be revealed. According to the scientific experiment- | ers the cathode ray isinvisible. Its ex- istence can only be detected by its results, just asitis with a first-class lobbyist in Sacramento. Beingin ble, it is used to photograph unseen thing The ray is not exactly a ray of light. More strictly, it is a wave of ether or something of that sort. The scientists say that the whole thing is as plain as day, a process that is simplicity itself, and so far as can be ascertained there is no evi- dence to the contrary. Anybody who has the proper apparatus, and who knows how to use it, can photo- graph his own bones. He can determine how he will look when he is dead. He | | Marked in the Drawing. | [Sketched from the negativ The Bomes in the Boy's Hand as They Were Shown by the Cathode Ray Process | of Photography. On account of Under ure the Bones of the Lower Por- tion of the Hand Were Not Well Brought Out in the First Negative, but the Ex- | perimenters Were Satisfied That They Had Located the Bulletat the Point | e by @ “Call” staff artist.] hour later a surgeon was takingcare of the | boy. | Probing for the bullet was unsuccessful. Yesterday, by suggestion of the Examiner, Justin was taken to Berkeley and the mu- | tilated hand was photographed under the | cathode ray. Two tained and the experiments were regarded | as successful_ the bullet being located near the outer portion of the hand. Justin started for Berkeley on the 2 o’clock boat, accompanied by his father. Two hours later the experiment was be- gun in the electrical department of the | Mechanical Building. It was the first negatives were ob- | enough to give a perfect negative of the entire hand. Dr. Jones examined the hand afterward, and he concluded that the loca- tion of the bullet was exactly as indicated | by the photographers, though the hand | was too swollen and sore to permit of a thorough examination. 5 The negative was held up to the light so that young Gunnison could see the picture of his finger-bones. “‘Oh, yes, I can see!” be exclaimed. “Look at that finger! Its crooked.” “The bones are justas plain as a skele- | ton’s.” I The boy was proud of the picture, and Photographing Through the Hand of the Boy. Justin Gunnison, With the Apparatus Arranged by Pro- fessor Cory, to Determine the Location of a Bullet. |From a sketch by a “Call” staff artist.] can examine the interior of himself and save doctor bills, or study the secrets of his heart without the assistance of a cler- gyman. There is no end to the list of in- teresting experiments that can be con- ducted with the cathode ray, but it is not expected that the new-fangled pictures will be produced in the ordinary gaileries just yet, or that it will be the fad for the whole families or groups of friends to bave themselves photographed in the ca- thode-ray style. 1t would be too much work to stand motionless for half a day. Justin Lee Gunnison, a 13-year-old boy who resides at 932 Twenty-first street, 18 probably the first boy to be experimented upon in this new scientific style. Heis the son of Albert R. Gunnison, the insur- ance solicitor. Young Justin became the possessor of 22-caliber pistol about a week ago, and his parents being onposed to the juvenile use of firearms he secreted the weapon in the back yard. A board fence against a neighboring building afforded the hiding- place. Last Thursday the boy went to get his pistol, and while drawing it through a knothole in the fence the weapon was dis- charged. The boy was shot in the right hand. It was a painful wound, but the boy was afraid to tell about it at the time. Justin went to supper with his hand done up in a nandkerchief and hand and bandkerchief concealed in his pocket. His mother nat- urally made an investigation, and half an NEW TO-DAY. 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The press- ure of the electrical current, however, was not so powerful as that used in the former experiments, having been only fifty-seven volts while the other was 100 volts. On Saturday the Westinghouse alterna- tor was used, while yesterday the small motor was put in service. Justin, the boy, was seated on the side of the photographic apparatus with his wounded hand upon the plate. Above his hand was suspended the Crooke’s tube, re- sembling a large incandescent lamp. As the room was darkened, not of necessity, but to better observe the workings of the apparatus, the tube glowed with a sort of greenish light, and the center was a violet streak, extending from top to bottom. That violet streak, however, was not the cathode ray, and the professors explained that the display of color was mercly inci- dental and had nothing to do with the cathodography. It was a weird sort of a scene—the long room, almost dark, but with occasional electrical flashes and sputterings here and there, and in the center of the group of watching, grave professors a boy, with his wounded hand under the luminous green and violet tube. The photographic process required an exposure of an hour and thirty-five min- utes, and durine the long period the boy could only amuse himself by talking to coilege professors and consulting his watch to see how much longer he bad to wait. But Justin was bright and patient, and he even declared that he was glad he had shot himselt, as the accident had afforded a subject for the experiment. The plate was carefully developed by Professor 8. B. Christy, and the operation was witnessed by several of the other pro- fessors. All in the dark room were con- vinced that a spot indicating the location | of the bullet appeared when the negative was partially developed, but it had dis- appeared when the process was completed. According to their assertions the bullet is1n the fleshy part of the hand, near the *. joutside, but there had not been exposure when asked whether he could pose two hours for a second experiment he shouted out: ’ ““Yes—for three hours!” Describing the development of the nega- | tive, Professor Christy said: [ “It was perfectly ghastly to see the out- | lines of the bones appear on that plate. | | At first it was like a hand, and gradually | | the outlines changed into those of a skele- | ) ton hand.” | The seeond experiment was made in the | evening. | The boy’s hand was exposed to the rays { for two and a half hours, with only slight interruptions to change the pressure of the electricity. Justin was at the experi- ment table from 8 o’ctock to 10:30 o’clock. The same apparatus was used and the same conditions surrounded this experi- ment asin the afternoon, when the hand was exposed for only an hour and a half. When the plate wasdeveloped it showed an object which Professor Christy said looked exaotly like a bullet, but whether it was or not he could not state definitely. The round object discovered was in pre- cisely the same place as the one 1n the photograph taken in the afternoon. Pro- fessor Christy said that an anatomist could soon tell whether the object was really a bullet. On account of the lateness of the hour, it being 11:40 o'clock when the'work was finished, he could make no definite deter- wmination. The flesh was infiltrated and swollen, and was consequently less trans- parent to the rays than usual. Political Equality Club. There will be a public meeting of the Politi- cal Equality Club at St. George's Hall, 3i7 Market street, Tuesday evening, the 25th, at 8 o'clock. Suffragists and non-suffragists are urged to be present and all are cordially in- vited, Rev.J: a-Cruzan will give an addresson: “Shall Women Keep Silent, or the Bible on the Subjection of Women.” To be followed by general discussion. Proved an Alibi. William McDonald of Bernal Heights, charged with being one of two men who held up and robbed Mrs. C. J. Marble of $25, on the | San Bruno road, had his preliminary examina- | tion before Judge Campbell vesterday. Mrs, Marble positively identified him, but several young men sworé he wes in their company dismissed the case. A THEATRICAL - DNORCE Mrs. Macdonald, or Lillian Bed- dard, Wishes to be | Free. |She Is the Wife of Hereward Hoyt, and She Says He ! Neglected Her. | Mrs. Lilhan Macdonald, better known to | theater-goers as Lillian Beddard, is suing for a divorce from Hereward Macdonald. | Hereward Macdonald is also a theatrical person. He is known on the stage as Here- ward Hoyt, and until recently was stage manager at the Alcazar Theater under | Grover. His wife has not been on the | stage for some time. She was recently in | Ness avenue. | of neglecy and failure to provide. She al- | leges that her husband has done nothing to support her for along time, although he has been receiving a good salary right along. She says that in his position at the Alcazar he was making $100 & week. She attributes his neglect to dissipation, and | also does not hesitate to charge in her | complaint that he drank more than was good for him. She does not ask for any | fixed amount of alimony, as she intends to take to her profession again. “She is a bright woman,” said her attor- ney, A. C. Firebaugh, yesterday. *She has earned a great deal of money upon the stage and can easily support herself again. Her husband has been only a drag on her | for a long time, and she will find no trouble in earning her own living if she is freed from him.” The Macdonalds came here from Aus- tralia three years ago. They have becn married about four years and have no chil- dren. A year ago they separated, and now Mrs. Macdonald is suing for a divorce. Among theatrical men it i believed that Macdonald’s neglect was more active than passive. They say he was a most ar- dent admirer of what was fair in the pro- fession, and he frequently lavished the af- fections he should have kept at home upon the ladies who were with hila on the stage. OLYMPIC CLUB AFFAIRS. Directors Will Handle the Handball Question on Wednesday Evening. The handball committee met at the Olympic Club last evening, but after some desultory talk it conciuded to leave the matter of the proposed construction of a new court with the directors, who will de- cide at their meeting on Wednesday even- ing what course is best to pursuein the premises. The players are in hopes that | the club will well consider the fact thata | large percentage of the members are pas- | sionately fond of handball, and that in- | terest in the zame is rapidly growing. i | | | vestigate the charges of professionalism which are pending against some of the boxing fraternity met again last evening, but accomplished nothing of any particular importance. It is presumed that those | athletes who are still under the fire of in- | vestigation will be allowed to go free under a heavy reprimand and a caution to be more careful in the future, e d i All Agree. GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA CO. Sells Crockery, Chinaware, Glassware and Tinware CHEAPEST OF ALL. TRY THEM, y Pretty Dishes. Very Cheap Prices. 62 Market street , Headquarters. BRANCH STORES EVERY\WHERE. B A i Once in broad daylight & panther seized a goat. Itwas the work of an instant. The panther rushed in, made a complete somersault with the goat in his jaws, then sprang up, dropping the goat, which lay still with a brofien neck. [Sketched from life o T Justin Lee Gunuison, the Boy Subjected to the Cathode Ray Process of Photography. by a “Call” artist.] when the robbery took place, and the Judge ; charge of a school of elocution on \'uni | Mrs. Macdonald is suingon the grounds | The athletic committee appointed to in- | COLONEL IRISH ~ SCORCHES BuDD, Politicians Have Long Lusted to Loot the In- dustrial Home ARE AT LAST SUCCEEDING The Governor's Course “Pep- pered With Falsehood and Bad Faith.” COLONEL JACK HAYS' RECORD. “Made Superintendent Over the Blind to Keep Him Out of the Poorhouse.” Colonel John P. Irish does not mince matters in his discussion of Governor Budd and his motive for removing him (Irish) from the Board of Directors of the | Industrial Home for the Blind. “My father was blind—became blind when I was a child,” said Colonel Irish. “I have been in constant contact with the blind all my life. What I have done as director of the home I have aone as I would for my own. My sympathies were enlisted and alive. I have studied them, I know their literature. I know some- thing of what men may do in the absence of this capital sense. It is with this knowledge that I have wrought among them at this institution for nine years, and I have the satisfaction of knowing | that it is one of the best institutions of the kind in the country. This man Sanders, the superintendent, whose removal I re- fused to sanction, and for which refusal 1 | was myself removed, is a perfectly compe- | tent man. He knew by the intuition of verfect sympathy how to deal with these men, and he placed the institution in the | tirst class of its kind. “Now I will give you the inside history of this business—my removal and what led up to it—provided you will print it as | Lgiveit. I wishto speak plainly, and to be understood as being personally respon- | sible for what T say.” | From this point in the interview the language of Colonel Irish was taken word for word. He said: *‘While the Legislature was in session in 1895, Governor Budd requesied the | presence of Jacob Greenhood in his office, | saying that if Greenhood would state to him, the Governor, what he had heard Fred A. Campbell, a director of the home, had provosed to Greenhood to make money | for him (Campbell) out of his office as director, he would dismiss Campbell at once and appoint a director in his place. Mr. Greenhood waited uvon the Governor and repeated to him Campbell’s proposi- tion in my presence. The Governor said, ‘I believe every word of it, by —.' But he did not remove Campbell. | “Subsequently, in February or March, | 1895, Governor Budd told me personally ;thnt when the Legislature adjourned he | proposed to visit the blind home, in- | quire thoroughly into its affairs, and in- form himself fully about it before he made up his mind about any change. “When the Legislature adjourned hedid not visit the home nor in any way directly or indirectly make inquiry into its affairs, “In the summer of 1895 I met on Market street, San Francisco, at a point near the intersection of California street, one Fleming of Alameda. He approached me in a boisterous and bullying manner, which I concluded he had recently ac- quired in a neighboring saloon, and said, ‘See here, by —, do you know that the Hon. Frank Moffitt, the Hon. Bill English, General Dick Hammond and I held a meeting in Jerry Hannifin’s saloon in Oakland and decided to kick out that — —— blind man from the blind home and give Colonel Jack Hays that place, | and if you don’t do it we will turn you | down,by —. The Democracy of Ala- meda County demands it.” I told him if that were so the Democracy of Alameda County might be in better busiuess than pothousing a State institution and perse- cuting a competent blind man. “In August, 1895, upon return from a summer outing with my family I found at my office a request from Governor Budd to see him. Icalled on him at the Cali- fornia Hotel in San Francisco. To get alone with me and away from the people | who were in the room he entered a closet and closed the door. In that privacy he said to me: ‘“ ‘See here, I want you to turn out that blind fellow Sanders and give the superin- tendency to Jack Hays.’ I snswered, ‘Why do you wish such a ckange? He replied, ‘Because Hays is a pauper and in- capable of self-support; by ——; his rela- tives have to feed and clothe him and his family, and I must find a place for him or let him go to the poorhouse.” I said, ‘Gov- ernor, indigence and incapacity for self- support are two-thirds of the legal qualifi- cations for admission to the home asan inmate, add blindness and you complete the list. I think the superintendent should not be within one-third the condi- tion of the inmates. Sanders is two- thirds removed, for he has only blindness. You and I will have no misunderstanding about this matter. I won’t make the change.’ “In further conversation I recited some- what the history of the effort made to im- prove the condition of the adult blind and the success of men blind from childhood in superintending these institutions, and finally we left the closet and parted, each adhering to his opinion in the matter. The Governor said he would make a $100 place in the shop and let Sanders stay and run the business on that salary. I said that he would not have any control of the men after being degraded from the super- intendency. “I reflected that the Governor had made up his mind to thischange without visit- ing the home and making inquiry into its affairs, as he had promised. Thereafter I sought the reason which moved him toa course which in my judgment would prove injurious to the institution. I waited upon Harbor Commissioner Colnon, who had been the Governor’s secretary and was be- lieved to be in the possession of his con- fidence. “Mr. Colnon told me that the effort to get the superintendency for Hays and to dispiace Sanders began with men whom the Governor believed to be his enemies; that Bill English’s brother had called him (the Governor) a ‘stinker,” and he did not like any recommendation from that | i side; but that finally the original promo- ters of Hays’ candidacy had secured the services of Colonel Chadbourne, Harbor Commissioner and member of the Gov- | ernor’s staff, who had put the Governor | under obligations to him by voting on the | Harbor Commission to give offices to the | Governor’s relatives and help him out in | placing Martin Kelley’s men in office, ard | Chadbourne had secured the Governcr's promise that Hays should have the place. | ‘“Subsequently I received many requests | from Hays’ friends to help him to the | place. Adjutant - General Barrett, in a long conversation on the subject, told me that he had joined in urging Hays upon the Governor, and that he had done it to help Dick Hammond, who had clothed and fed Hays and his family as long as he could stand it. “Blood kin of Hays’ also wrote me in his behalf at the request of Mr. Weller, the brother-in-law of Hays, asking my support of him on the ground that it was, to keep his family from starving and his mother from being turned into the street, becanse his relatives neither would nor could sup- port him any longer, and that he had never earned & dollar in his life, “I met such appeals with the statement that the blind superintendert, Mr. San- ders, was the only working mechanic at the head of a State institution; that his | management had redeemed it and made it successful, and while I pitied Mr. Hays | and would be willing to add to a contribu- | tion for his support L protested against giving him such a place for such reasons, “In October or November I learned that the Governor had determined to change a majority of the board to effect the election | of Hays, and thereafter he visited the | home for about an hour, the first time he | ever saw it. Ilearned subsequently that | at a meeting at the Palace Hotel the ap- pointment of the three new directors had been arranged with the Governor through a third party, with the express under- standing that they elect Hays, this method being adopted in order that the Governor might say he had never spoken to them on the subject. “Messrs. James, Coogan and Glascock have as far as possible taken the institu- | tion off its former lines, and time must test their wisdom. From the lirst great personal virulence has been shown toward me, and for several months official inter- views have appeared in the press reflect- ing upon me. I can only say that from the beginning the Governor's course in the matter is peppered with falsehood, bad faith and disregard of decency. “A few months after the Governor's inaunguration Mr. Coogan said Budd was | too small a man for office, and his appoint- ment by Budd ie an impressive confirma- tion of his judgment. | *‘Colonel James, who is one of Budd's | uniformed chambermaids, does not agree with the Governor as to the cause of my complimentary dismissal. The Governor says it was because of a report made by a reprobate committee of the Legis'ature. Colonel James say: ‘There are as man factions in the Democratic politics of Oa! land as there are Democrats. I know that Colonel Irish has provoked the bitter | enmity of several of the more influential | of these, and they have brought the strong- est kind of pressure to bear upon the Gov- ernor to effect his removal.’ *“Now, there are 4000 Democrats in Oak- land, therefore 4000 factions in the party, | according to Colonel James, and he says | the Governor removed me for not agree- | ing with all of them. How kind of Colonel | James to aid in settling the Democratic | situation in Oakland and making 4000 factions dwell together in amity. But| would it not be well for the Governor and | his he-harem to get together when they | assign reasons for these high adminis- | trative acts? “The fact is that a blind man, a mechanic skilled in the blind trades, a business man | of the finest commercial capacity, had | superintended the home and made it a credit to the State and to humanity. The | policy that put him there was favored and maintained by my colleagues on the board, the late Captain Ainsworth, Warren Olney, F. M. Smith, Frank Leach, Jacob Green- | hood, George P. Morrow and N. W. Spauld- | ing, all estimable citizens and business men of the best repute. “Politicians have long lusted to loot the | institution, and one was found with so little self-respect as to crowd out’ a blind | man to get a place for himself. The Gov- ernor, who boasts of his charity and sym- pathy and chews soap in a public and spectacular way over his chronic kindness | of heart, ordered this outrage and was | obeyed. I stood by the blind man and the | policy which made the institution a suc- | cess. For this I was dismissed and for nothing else. *I ask nothing further, except that the incident be inscribed : ‘Appointed by Bart- lett, removed by Budd.” “‘People will read the legend and say, ‘That man had a full measure of good luck.” CRITICISED THE BOARD, Supervisor Dimond Talks Strongly : of the Water Rate Question. Nickle-in-the-Slot Machine Ordinance Passed to Print—Protests Received. Supervisor Dimond criticized the board | severely yesterday on the manner in which water rates were fixed a week aco, saying that the action taken was altogether irreg- ular and that he wanted to be placed on record as opposed to it. As a means of getting hisremarks before the board, he introduced a resolution abolishing the Committee on Water and Water Supply as entirely unnecessary after the manner in which the rate ques- tion had been handled. light,” he said, “for I told many people wbo wanted to protest against rates to come_before the board and that they would be heard. The matter was rushed through with unseemly haste and now I am being asked why no one was heard on | the matter. The committee is useless | when the board as a committee on the | whole can thus usurp its powers and | should beabolished.” Of course the motion | was Jost. | The; board passed the nickel-in-the-slot license ordinance to print by a unanimous vote, and one more vote of approval will | send the measure to the Mayor for his sig- nature. Supervisor Dimond wanted the matter laid over to investigate as to whether the voker machines, which pay drinksand cigars when winning hands are devel- oped, are not operated in violation of the law, but the advocates of the order said that they had satisfied themselves on that point and he withdrew his motion. The matter of settling on a location for the Pesthouse went over for two weeks. A petition from property-owners asking for better protection from fire in the dis- trict bounded by Cole, Carl and Willard streets, Parnassus avenue and Eighteenth and Stanyan streets, was referred to the Fire Department Committee. | | Cold Rolled “This matter has placed me in a lfllse! F Ihyine of artificial stone sidewalks on Page street, between Cole and Shrader streets, was referred to the Street Committee, 3 Jike action also being taken in the matter of the protest of property-owners against the paving of Federal street, near Second. A protest was received from a number of property-owners on Ninth avenue, protest- ing against the paving of that thorough- fare, as proposed by a recently adopted resolution., The petition of a number of property- owners west of First avenue, both north and south of the park, requesting the pas- sage of an ordinance permitting the use of red rock for the macadum on streets in the district mentioned was referred to the Street Committee. A hike course was pursued with the pro- test of the Point Lobos Im!prnvement Club ugainst the construction of curbs and bituminous pavement on Ninth aveuue, from Fuiton to Lake streets. J. C. Farnum’s protest against the pav- ing with bituminous rock of Maple street, between Clay and California streets, was referred to the Street Committee. s Nash’s Suits. The trial of the second snit of John E. Nash, ex-stage manager of the Tivoli, against Mrs, Ernestine Kreling for 1100 due him upon an alleged contr, 31160 ADATOTe: STaRD yesterday. N , 88 he did before , thar he had a that he was dischare: before its e 1 He first sued for part that was due him under the contr cf, ana ne won. Now he is suing for the remainder. NEW TO-DAY. “Red Letter Days.” nple of what prices = out of e taken this CHIFFONIER. $5.00. Made of Eastern hardwood six drawers—enough room for the whole family’scloth- ing—$5. Make anything? Ofcourse we don’t; ‘‘Red Letter” sales are not to make money— they’re to make new friends for us. We've just 12 of these— that means 12 new friends— 12 steady customers. You had better come early —in the forenoon—if you want one. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. BUY DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER. REFINED BAR IRO ANGLE IRON... BAND IRON. Round Edge Toe Plow German Hammered *¢ Pick Machinery Spring -81.75 base 2.25 2.10 flat Finished Shafting. Terms :—Cash. F. 0. B. Cars or Steamer. JUDSON W’F'G. CO. City Offico:—Cor. Howard & Beale Sts., SAN FRANCISCO. LL Dress Shirts must be flaw- less. The STANDARD Evening Shirts are perfec- tion in Shirts, and are worn by all pa fornians. 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