The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1896, Page 14

THE SAN FRANCISCO, CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1896. DISTRESSING IRRITAT - OF THE INSTANTLY RELIEVED BY scalp humors, nothing NEW TO-DAY. IONS SKIN / To cleanse, purify, and beautify the skin, scalp, and hair, to allay itching and irritation, to heal chafings, excoriations, and ulcerative weaknesses, and to speedily cure the first symptoms of torturing, disfiguring skin and so pure, so sweet, so wholesome, so speedily effective as warm baths with CUTICURA SOAP, and gentle applications of CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure, fol= lowed in severe cases by mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, new blood purifier. Sold threughout the world. British depot: F. NEWBERY & SONS, 1, King Edward-st.. London. POTTER DRUG AND CHEM. CORP., Sole Props., Boston, U. S. As MISSION HIGH SCHOOL, Statistics Show the Reason Why the Mission Should Be Recognized. REV. E. B. CHURCH'S VIEWS. The Residents Unanimously in Favor of Having a High School in Their Section. It would be difficult to find any person south of Fourteenth street who is opposed to the locating of a high school in that sec- tion of the City. In interviewing the residents of that por- tion mapped out by the originators of the scheme there was only one expression of public opinion found, and this was that such an institution should have been provided for long ago. Judge F. W. Van Reynegom, who has taken more than a passing interest in the Mission section, when spoken to regarding the high school question said: “Why, of course, I am in favor of it We have one-fourth of the population of the City in the section mentioned and more than one-half of the area of the City and County, and yet our children have to 0 about three miles to attend any of the igh schools. This distance and the ex- pense in carfare are matters that appeal to those living south of the line laid down by the proposed boundary.” Ex-School Director Daniel Sewell, whose residence is at 1105 Shotwell street, said : “When I wasa School Director I tried to have this very same subject agitated, but unfortunately I could not obtain any sympathizers, so the mattér dropped for the time being. But Iam glad to see that the Mission people are determined te urge their rightful claims, evenat this late date. 1 hope we of the Mission will get what we are entitled to.” James H. Winter, whose residence and place of business i:sdat Valencia and Twen- | ty-fifth streets, said: “No need asking me regarding my opin- ion. I am in favor of it, ot course, and further, since I read of the proposition in Tue Carr 1 have looked the matter over ana formulated some further reasons why there should be a high school out here. “‘Here isa list of the schools, with the number of classes in each school affected | by the proposition: Horace Mann Grammar School, on Mission street, with eighteen classes. Bernal Heights Primary, six classes. Agassiz Primary, beiween Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets, twelve classes. Buens Vista Primary, Solano and Butte streets, four classes. Columbia Grammar, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, thifteen cinsses. Douglas Primary, corner of Douglas and Eighteenth streets, four classes. Edison Primary, corner of Church and Hill streets, eight classes. Everett Grammar, Sanchez, tecnth and Seventeenth classes. Fairmount Primary, Randall and Church streets, twelve classes. Haight Primary, Mission, between Twenty- fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, ten classes. Hawthorn Primary, Shotwell, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets, nine classes, James Lick Grammar, Noe and Twenty-fifth streets, fifteen classes. Marshall Primary, Mission, between Fif. teenth and Sixteenth streets, twelve classes. Mission Grammar, Mission, teenth and Sixteenth streets, fourteen classes. Ocean House Primary, one class. Potrero Primary, Minnesots a&nd Napa streets, twelve classes. between Six- streets, fourteen between Fif- | Sheridan Primary, Ocean View, five classes. South End Primary, William street, near Henry, four classes. South San Francisco Primary, Fourteenth avenue and L street, twelve classes. West End Primary, San Jose road, near Six- mile House, three classes. “Two evening schools, the Horace Mann and the Potrero, added to this list, and approximating say about fifty pupils to the class, will show thenumber of school child- ren covered by this section. *‘Is not this sufficient to show the neces- sity there exists for a high school?”’ _ The Rev. E. B. Church, principal of Irv- ing Young Ladies’ nstitute, favors having & mixed high school in the Mission, but would consider it good policy to remove the Lowell School from Sutter street,where the present Boys’ High School is located. “This building is old and must be either rebuilt or moved, and inasmuch as this must be done, and that soon, why not erect it out here where thereis an absolute neces- sity for it?”’ said he. ohn H. Dawson, 1117 Valencia street, concurred in the views of the previous speakers, as did B. Cordes of 1200 Valen- cia street, who considers it an outrage on tbhe Mission people, who are compelled to send their children 10 the other end of the City to finish their education. Schnol Director Henderson, ex-School Director Dr. Clinton and Joseph O’Connor, princi})sl of the Horace Mann Grammar School, all fayor the proposition, as does in fact every family living in the Mission. HS DENTH A MISTERY « Percy M. Smith, Druggist at St. Luke’s Hospital, Dies Suddenly. His Family Can Assign No Cause—An Autopsy Will Be Held * To-Day. Percy M. Smith, druggist at St. Luke’s | Hospital, died suddenly at his home, | 201714 Mission street, vesterday afternoon. There is considerable mystery surround- ing his death. The cause can only be de- termined by an autopsy, which will be held to-day. The bedy is still at the home of the deceased. g Smith left St. Luke's Hospital at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning. He visited the Golden Gate Undertaking Parlors at 2429 Mission street and tried to borrow a sum of money from G. W. Keeler, the manager. Keeler wasunable to accommo- date him. He next yisited the office of his father at 22 Californiz street, and later returned to his home, where he had lunch. After the meal he went into the front room, and a littl= later his wife found him breathing heavily. She was very much alarmed, and summoned medical aid from St. Luke's | Hospital. _ Dr. Grey attended Smith in_ his dying hours, and did everything possible to save this life. Smith died shortly before 3 | o'clock. | The relatives and friends of the deceased | are very much shocked over his death, and can assign no cause for it. He had been complaining of a slight cold for several days; otherwise he was in good health. His life was insured quite heavily. ———————— Poolsellers Arrested. I. Goldtrce, James Bowler, B. Messinger, Frank Smith and Hugh Rotuschild, 20 Leides- dorff street, were arrested last evening by Po- licemen Ingham and Hostetter on warrants for selling pools outside the racetrack. They were each released on $100 cash bail. ————————— It is calculated that 21,000,000 gallons of champagne are drunk every year. Eng- land heads the list of countries, wit! America in second place. i l T0 REMOVE THEM ALL N. S. Wirt Petitions the Gov- ernor for New Police Com- missioners, SAYS HE CAN IF HE WILL. Because the New Constitution Re- pealed the Law Under Which They Were Appointed. N. 8. Wirt, acting wholly upon his own motion, so far as appears in the record, has gone to the Governor with a plea for the supplanting of William Alvord, Richard Tobin and M. A. Gunst by some other three, whom he does not name—leaving that matter to the Governor himself—to serve the City and County of San Fran- cisco as Police Commissioners. He seems to assume that the Governor would be pleased to perform this service of his (the Governor's) own motion, if he | saw the way clearly through the mazes of the law to do so. Mr. Wirt, therefore, has accompanied his petition with a long and, as he says, thorough exposition of the law on the matter. Tothe layman, too, it must appear that he makes out a very good case. His petition has been already forwarded to the Governor. He begins by saying that he is himself a lawyer. Two impor- tant legal propositions ‘‘are set out to pro- pound and elucidate®the whole con- troversy.”” The first is power and author- ity to fill a vacancy in office. The new constitution, he says, abrogated all that part of the act of 1878 that directed the *‘three certain District Judges” to appoint the Police Commissioners. Section 16 of article XX of the constitution thus pro- vides: When ‘the term of any officer or Commis. sioner is not provided for in this constitution the term of such officer or Commissioner may be declared by law; and if not so declared such officer or Commissioner shall hold his ositiou as such officer or Commissioner dur- ng the pieasure of the authority making the appointment, but in no case shall such terms exceed four years. ‘Whether the office is held by virtue of an act of the Legislature or by the power of appoint- ment the term must be limited in all such cases to four years. Itisas positive and cer- tain as if the Legislature had provided that all such officers shall be appointed to hold suc h office for the term of four years. That bein the test to govern, then the term of office of such Commissioners expired in 1882, their commissions expired and all their powers and dxulg; by.virtue of the constuitution then ceased. Mr. Wirt relates the history of the ap- pointment of the present Comiaissioners and dcclares thut the Governor made a mistake in trying to remove Gunst while the Legislature was in session. The term prescribed by law for said Gunst to hold office was till the end of the next ses- sion of the Legislature. He was appointed and qualified bejore the session commenced. The appointment was for & definite and cer- tain time, and not for the balance of the un- expired term. No one could remove him until the end of that session except the Legislature in session, in the due exercise of its legislative authority granted by the constitution. The reason it has not done so for years every in. formed man of the State well knows. The constitution and law sets out two separate and aistinet shings, to wit: Filling vacancies and making appointments. Section 8 of article V' provides: “When any office shall, from any cause, become vacant, and no mode is pro- vided by the constitutfon and law for filling such vacancy, the Governor shall have &zwu to fill such vacancy by nting & commission, which shall u&tfle at the end of the next ses- sion of the Legislature or at the next election by the people.” Section 999 of the Political Code provides: “When any office becomes vacantand no mode is provided by law for filling such vacancy the Governor must fill such vacancy by granting s commission, (o expire at the end of the next session of the Legislature or at the next election by the peo- ple.” These provisions need only & plain con- struction. “This construction,”” he says, ‘‘will meet every conceivable emergency which may rise and any other will léad the mind into confusion and perplexity. To fill the vacancy for a certain period of time is the first requirement. By the new constitu- tion the power to_appoint for such office was already in existence and the power to appoint after said act was repealed was substituted from eaid District Judges to the Governor.” “This,” he says, *‘is_just as perfect and complete as if the Legislature had passed an express act at that session for the pur- pose. ‘‘After citing a number of authori- ties he .prays *‘by virtue of the premises that three new Police Commissioners be appointed forthwith and that you take such legal advice and such other action’ in the premises vested in you by the constitu- tion and law in' such cases made and provided.” T0 CONDEMN RANCHES. Board of Health Against Hog- Raising Within the City Limits. The Pens at Bay View Declared to Be a Nuisance Within the Meaning of the Law. The members of the Board of Health are not in a very thankful mood toward the majority in the Health and Police Com- mittee of the Board of Supervisors in consequence of the action taken by the committee on Friday in postponing action regarding the hog ranches at Bay View for six months, and it is more than prob- able that the matter will not be allowed. to stand as it does at present. ‘When the committee decided to recom- mend the postponement, it was divided, Supervisors King, Morgenstern and Dun- ker taking the side of the ranchers, who were before the meeting to argue that their places were not a nulsance and s menace | to health, and Supervisors Dimond and Benjamin inclining to support the Board of Health in its efforts to have the ranches moved to new locations where they will net endanger the public health. This fact has leg the health authorities to hope that when the committee’s report comes up for adoption on Monday next, the matter will be laid over ‘until the property-owners who are interested in the subject can bring such evidence before the board as will induce the members to look favorably on the petition for removal. In case the boara decides that the com- mittee's recommendation 1s to be upheld 1t is quite likely that some of the worst of the nnehes,ifynot all, will ' be declared public nuisances and the owners com- pelled to remove them on pain of arrest and prosecution in the police courts. The Health Inspectors have already gnhered a mass of information regarding the ranches that would be ample to convict the owners in the courts. . Inspector Kinney? has_made several trips through the Bay View hog-ranch region within the past few days, and In- spector Duren is also primed with infor- mation and experience tending to show that such ranches are not a desirable thing to have in a residence district. They said yesterday that there is not the slightest doubt that the ranches consti- ::ue a nuisance within the meaning of the W. 1 THE STRIKE NEARLY OVER Painters Be_lievevThat It Will Be Ended by Monday or Tuesday. MEETING WITH THE BOSSES. Over Two Hundred New Members Joined the Union Last Evening, and More to Come. The painters’ strike is nearly ended. It is expected that by Monday or Tuesday all difficulties will be settled and the men return to the bosses, excepting, of course, a few bosses who are stubbornly deter- mined not to yield, and they will be very few. The last victory won by the strikers was the Master Painters’ Association consent- ing to” discuss the situation with the strikers and officially learn of their de- mands. Committees of the two bodies held a long conference yesterday and each will report to its respective organization. As stated a final ‘meeting and’ agree- ment is expected by Monday or Tuesday. Since the strike began the union has almost doubled its membership. The Painters’ Union started with about 750 members, and at last mght’sinitiation this was increased to about 1300. There are not now over 100 to 150 non-union painters in the City. There were three interesting meetings yesterday. At the meeting of the Master Painters’ Association Friday evening a committee consisting of Messrs. Black, McCord, Eaton, McCauley and Kuss was appointed to .meet the executive committee of the Painters’ Union, consisting of Messrs. Mc- Ivor, Rose, Ames, Hoffman, Coffin and Merrill. At 1 o’clock yesterday the two committees met in a back room out on Mission street, near Tenth, and discussed the situation for over two hours. The master painters made a large number of inquiries and wanted to know if the Painters’ Union is an incorporated body, the attitude of the union on the apprentice system, whether they objected to laborers in the shops, if the shop foremen must belong to the union, the principles of the Building Trades Council, working-card system, etc. All of these questions were answered in full by the journeymen's representatives. The master painters said that they were not authorized to act, but would have to report back to the association. They would probably be able to discuss the terms jor a settlement with the strikers, they said, by Monday night. And thus the meeting ecded. Owing to the conference of the two com- mittees the regular open meeting of the striking painters was delayed. Upon opening the following reports were made: Committees 1 and 7, Danielson chairman, reported that on Rae’s job on Pine street there are two men at work and the foreman stood guard over them. Called on George Smith & Sons, “union backsliders,” who promised not to offend again. There is no work being done in the Latin quarter. ‘The chairman said that his committee is het for more work. He was told to tackle the St. Denis job, that being the toughest in the whole lot. Committee 3, Wilson chairman, reported calling on Jollye at 1106 Eddy. He gave | in_to-all demands and his men fallowed suit. The executive committee reported the result of the conference with the committee from the Master Painters’ Association. Mclvor and Rose expressed the belief that the committeemen were convinced of the justness of the strikers’ demands and pre- flicted a speedy settlement of the troubles. robably know some- The strikers weuld thing definite by Monday evening or Tuesday. Committee 6, Doyle chairman, reported for the Richmond district. Oneof Upbam’s men promised to come in Monday night. Upham only objected to having the fore- man in the union, but the committee told him it was necessary to have the foreman in the union. J. O'Neilon Steuart street said: “Count me in with you.” 3 Committee 7, Jerome chairman, re- ported that A. J. Axe was willing to ac- cede to all demands. On Octavia and Fulton, took two men off a job, A. J. Cline on ‘Hayes, and Varath on Ninth street. 'George McKay favors the union’s “demands. On Clark & Son’s job on Golden Gate avenue, one non-union man was at work. He promised to join the union. The chairman of the Presidio committee reported that Earl Rippling and Harry Richards positively refused to join the union, nm{)nothing could be done with the men. Individual reports were made as follows: 0. Wienholt of 2816 Laguna street has acceded to all demands. X 3 Schaffer on Pacific street has given in. Jamdes Mullen, Keefe's foreman, was re- ported to have quit his job and announced that he will not work again until the strike is over. Another man was taken out of Foley’s shop. Brace’s shop is tied up. Anderson Bros,, 1529 Mission street, have acceded to all demands. : Joe Smith, on O’Farrell street, is now employing all union men. Nagle is'about to start a job on Eddy and Hyde streets. This boss is. reported as being against the union. : Phillips of Geary and Larkin streets is against the union and will not accede. A letter was received from Robert Willis of 926 Washington street, stating that he has always paid the best wages, and advo- cated few hours and unionism. By an oversight his name was omitted from the list published in THE CALL yesterday, A special meeting of the Painters’ and Decorators’ Union was_held last evening for the purpose of initiating those who have desired to join since the strike began last Monday. It was oneof the most re- markable wholesale initiations ever wit- nessed on this coast. The Temple, at 115 Turk strzet, was crowded, main floor and gallery. Candidates for membership were taken'in squads of fifty to the froat where they assumed the obligationsof the union. In all 219 men were initiated and 176 more will be initiated Monday evening. Speeches were made by many of the members and the preatest enthusiasm prevailed on ac- count of the certainty of a victory in this strike. There will be another open Joeet- ing Monday afternoon. ONDRICEK AT THE CLUB Newspaper Men Receive the Violinist and Hold an Evening of Entertaiment. There was a quiet little reception given by the Press Club to Herr Franz Ondricek, thée violinist, last evening. It was anin- formal affair, with pipes and tobacco as an element of entertainment, and the best talent of the club on the programme. Ondricek played, not once but two or three times, and with encores, and the ap- plause grew louder as he played on. He used a violin kindly loaned for the occa- sion by the Bohemian Club. Iridore Luch- stone, the pianist who is traveling with him, also played, and Harry Melville, Frank Coffin, Homer Henley and the Press Club quartet sang, Julius' Kahn recited and others lent their aid to make the even- ing interesting. It was not until quite late that the piano was finally closed and the party broke up. { dence of Mre. J. Merrill, at 318 Van Ness NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. DOMESTIC D EPARTMENT! 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AN OLD-TIME RIRGLIR Jackson McCullum Confesses to Some Twenty Daylight Thefts. Agrees to Help Recover Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Diamonds and Jewelry. Detectives Gibson and Wren have been nursing a rich prize for the past week in the tanks at the City Prison. Friday night they bronght him forth, and as Jackson McCullom he graces the docket with a charge of burglary against his name. McCullum, who is an ex-convict, con- McCullum, Who Confesses to Twenty Burglaries Committed by Him Within the Past Six Weeks. fesses to having committed twenty day- light burglaries within the past six weeks in the Western Addition, and yesterday he agreed to pilot the detectives round to the various caches where his plunder was located. The particular burglary on the charge of which he is detained is that of the resi- avenue, on March 1. When McCullum. who is about 24 years of age, was captured at the corner of Grant avenue and Sutter street; Mrs. Merrill’s jewelry, valued at $2C0, was found on his person. He was brazen | enough to deny having stolen the watch and rings, and the detectives had the daily papers publish the fact that owners were wanted to identify property found on a burglar. Mrs. Merrill was one of the persons who came forth, and when McCullum saw his reticence was of no ayuil he confessed. He is a hardened criminal, who has already served two years in Folsom on a conviction of burclary, and in December last he was liberated, after having served six months in the County Jail on a con- viction of carrying burglars’ tools. Yesterday Detectives Gibson and Wren recovered $2000 worth of diamonds that were stolen by ‘McCullum from the resi- dence of D. W, Earl, 2121 Laguna street, about two weeks ago. EASY ON FIGHTERS. Judge Campbell Dismissed the Case Against Meyers and Moverhill. Sergeant Helms, assisted by Policeman Young, arrested Charles Meyers and Charles Moverhill while they were engaged in a glove-fight in the rear-of the Veranda saloon, on Kearny street, next to the Wew . Western Hotel, earlv yesterday morming, - varhill had inst. tohad ki onm?hc oor ‘r}r‘c:x;\r ?\"fe‘r::fic bl from Meyers when the police appeared on th scene, and the officers declared that the' evidence was complete, yet the prisonersi.. were discharged by Judge Campbell, whe, « said be did not think there was much im, the case. Sergeant Helms said: ““Under the circumstances I don’t see how Judge Campbell could have legally dismissed the charge. When we broke into the room we found the men stripved, to the waist,'with gloves on their hands,; and Meyers bad just knocked down the other man.” CIVIC FEDERATION. A Favorable Report on the Assessor’s Office—To Push the Ash- worth Trial. The executive committee of the central council of the Civic Federation met at the office of President Truman in the Mills, building at 2 p. m. The attendance was large and much interest manifested. Richard Lambert presented a care- fully prepared report on his investigation of the Assessor’s office, which was received and referred to the central council for action at its meeting on Tuesday evening, March 24. The report was a fayorable one. It cone sisted of sixty closely typewritten pages and showed the percentage of increase or decrease of the assessmentof each indi- vidual block in the City. A committee was appointed to make ar« rangements to at once commence propas ganda work on the new charter. The following resolution .was presented and unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the committee on legal action be requested to take immediate steps to urge, expedition in the Ashworth case in order tQ! bring the case to a speedy trial. i — e ’ The Pope is said to be a great lover of, chess. 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