The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1896, Page 16

16 - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, THEY WILL G0 ON THE STAGE William . Dailey Will En- gage Mattie Overman as a Heroine. THE PLAY OF A CENTURY In Which Mrs. Tunnell Will Also Appear as Dr. Brown’s Friend. CONTRACTS TO BE SIGNED. Richard C. White Writing a Play That Will Eclipse the Interdicted Durrant Case. A play is now being written in which Mattie Overman and Mrs. Tunnell are to have the star parts. dramatic incidents of the recent careers of the Rey. Charles O. Brown and Mrs. Mary A. Davidson. Richard C. White is the author of the play. He says it will eclipse even the fa- mous Durrant play. Billy Dailey has gone to Mexico to bring back .Mattie Overman and Mrs. Tunnell. They will be the ieroines of the play. The hero will pose as Dr. Brown, the wronged pastor, while Mrs. Davidson will be the arch villain of the plot. 1tis only the otber day that the Su- preme Court, in its own legal way of ex- pressing things, said, practically, that Su- perior Court Judge Murpby had no right 1o go and interdict the production of that great play, “The Crime of a Century,” a iyric gem, based on the murders of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams by Theo- dore Durrant. The play, written by Richard C. White, the veteran actor, and promoted by Billy Dailey, who tried to produce it on a stock- company basis, was staged at the Alcazar on Monday night, July 19, 1895. The house was crowded with veople, whose morbid curiosity had been aroused by newspaper reports of the Durrant trial, then in progress. Hundreds of people were unable to secure seats or even stand- | ing room, and a season of unusual pros- perity was promised. White, the rising playwright, saw him- self as a Hoyt, and Dailey, why—well, | Abbey or any of the greatest would not be in it with him. Dailey felt assured of this because he had once managed the great James J. Corbett in the latter’s initial stage venture, and he knew what was what. It was at this juncture that Judge Murphy did what the Supreme Court has | said he should not have done and caused the Sheriff to step on the stage during the second act and stop the performance. Manager Dailey was angered, that goes without saying. For montis he fumed over his and his friends’ arrest and threat- ened all kinds of suits for damages, which he claimed had been caused by the un- timely interference. Still, when T CaLL correspondent in- terviewed Mr. Dailey in Los Angeles the day the decision was rendered, he was in a most pacific mood. Judge Murphy had done him a wrong, he said, but he rose above that; he soared, in fact, and said he forgave the man who had prevented him from making a fortune. “I am sorry,” he said, “that I ever went into a venture calling upon me the disapproval of the public. I do not want to engage in anything more of the kind, hence I will not attempt to again stage ‘The Crime of a Century.” Anyhow it is too late now, and the public are no longer interested.” “Dailey is all right,”” asserted one of his friends in Morosco’s Theater last night. “He’s just pulling somebody’s leg. He doesn’t want it to be known that he is bhaving Richard C. White writing a play on the evidence and story from the case of Dr. Brown and Mattie Overman. “Dailey has been in communication with Mattie Overman ever since she dis- appeared from this City for fear of having to testify at the Davidson trial. She went to Tia Juana, across the border into Mex- ico, and then she went to Ensenada, where Mrs. Tunnell jomned her by steamer from San Diego. “The last T heard from Billy he had ar- ranged to meet the ladies in San Diego a day or two after Mrs. Davidson would be acquitted, and they were to arrange then on what terms the two stars would con- sent to an engagement. **Miss Overman especially, Dailey writes, isanxious for the engagement, and she has won over Mrs. Tunnell, who was diffident at first. They are both clever women, with much self-control, good voices and they are intelligent. There is no reason why Dailey should not have trump cardsin that kind of material. *Dailey vroposed that Mrs. Davidson should also be engaged, but it did not meet with the approval of the other ladies. It seems they are at outs. I did not follow the Brown scandal very closely, so I can- not tell exactly where the hitch comes in. It 1s too bad, however. Mrs. Davidson, and in fact Dr. Brown himself, could not be brought into the cast with Overman | and Tunnell. Mrs. Davidson, I hear, wil i on her own account. She is going t Jectuire and 110 Aogts whe WilT G0 Wil NEW TO-DAY. (Uticura WORKS Wonders in curing torturing, disfiguring, hu- miliating humours of the Skin, Scalp, and Blood when all else fails. Boid throughout the world. British Depot: F. Nyw. weay & Sows, 1, King Etwardet, Londos. Porres D3v0 axp Cuzu. COnr., Buie Prope, Bostos, U. 5. A Of course the | play will follow very closely the rather | don’t know what Brown intends doing after this. But if he wants a job 1 know Dailey will treat him right. “No, I do not know exactly the plot of the play. I heard some of it the other day, but it has slipped my memory. There are some strong sitnations. There is the meeting of Brown and Miss Overman in a Pullman north bound. He,a very sick man, is tenderly nursed by the young girl, who, as a result of her nightly vigil, falls quite ill. The déctor, having recovered, is recalled to this City by a clamoring congregation and, although his heart is almost breaking, he must leave the young woman in a pub- lic hospital. Reaching this City he sends Mrs. Tunnell north to care for Miss Overman. The two form quite an attach- ment for each other, and -likewise both nurse in each other a worship for Dr. Brown. Jealousy follows when they dis- cover this. At this time Mrs. Davidson, tbe villain of the plot, steps in. Kind and good natured from outward appearance, but dark as night wiihin, she learns the love secret of the two other women and decides to take advantage of the situation. She joins the pastor’s congregation and causes herself to be liked by him for her good work as a Christian teacher. ' this way she has three unsus- | nirious people under her thumb. She has her entree everywhere and manages to abstract letters and shift them to suit her villainous purpose from one household to another, and then she drops her mask and demandsa king’s ransom for her silence. “In the meantime the pastor’s wife, who | knows a thing or two herself, has been | playing a bit of diplomatic detective work on her own account. She unravels the whole scheme of the Davidson woman and when the ransom is to be paid over she steps in and causes the woman'’s arrest. *“Of course I mention all these names because they are familiar, but the people playing the parts will be called something else. It will be a great show, won’t it?” HONORS FOR MRS, PEET, Her Birthday to Be Celebrated by All Temperance Unions. The President of the State Woman’s Christian Temperance Union an Active Philanthropist. All the Women’s Christian Temperance unions of the State will celebrate the an- niversary of Mrs. B. Sturtevant Peet's birthday, April 27, as Franchise day. They are preparing for all-day sessions, and the programmes will relate to woman suffrage and incidentally the life and : work of their esteemed president. Mrs. Peet has been the president of the | Caiifornia Woman’s Christian Temper- ance, Union for several years. She has done yeoman service in woman suffrage ranks for a still longer period, and during the last three sessions of the Legislature | was active in her efforts for legislation favorable to her sex and in the interest of reform. Her home is at San Jose, but she spends SOURCE OF THE ROBNTGEN A, Berkeley Professors Still Guarded in Their Statements. THEIR GREAT DISCOVERY X-Rays May Come From the Anode or Glass of the Tube. ALL THE WORLD INTERESTED. Experiments of Cory and Le Conte Sustain the Theories of the English Physicists. Although nothing further was done yes- terday by the university experimenters at Berkeley toward advancing the discoveries as to the source of the wonder- ful X, or Roentgen, rays the state- ment of Professor Cory published in THE CaLL yesterday has awakened great inter- est in scientific circles, not only in this City and State, but all over the world. It is no exaggeration to say, in fact, that the eyes of the whole world are now turned to Berkeley and scientific men of almost every complexion are awaiting with keen interest the further results of Professor Cory’s and Mr. Le Conte’s experiments. The discovery of the real source of the Roentgen ray, often miscalled the cathode ray, is of almost as much importance, or at least second in importance only to the primary discovery of Professor Roentgen itself. For when the source of the strange ray has been laid bare such experiments as those already made by the Wizard Edison —that of seeing through a solid substance for instance—will no longer be mysterious and occult, but will take their places in regular order as an established science. To-day the experiments will be resumed, when, it is confidently expected, the re- sults already obtained will be still further corroborated by additional proof. Professor C. L. Cory and Instructor Joseph Le Conte of the department of me- chanics at the university received many congratulations yesterday because of their success in tracing the source of the X-ray farther than has been done by any other experimenters, either on this coast or in the East. 4 7 Dr. Joseph Le Conte, the veteran geolo- gist at the university, has been almost as deeply 1nterested in the work of the expe- rimenters as they.are themselves. At the first experiments with the ray at Berkeley /% Z 20 _ 7 Union, Whose Birthday much of her time in this City in confer- ence with other State officers of the ‘Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and in assisting in philanthropic work. She was one of the promoters of the move- ment that resulted in the organization of the Woman’s Federation for Public Good. THE BLACK PLAGUE. It Is Again Causing = Great Many Deaths in Different Citles of China. Musin, the violinist, returned here last night from Hongkong on the Coptic, en route to his home in Chicago. He says the black plague is again infest- There have been a o2 before the steamer sailed from " he said last night at the srand, “there were forty deaths, and prior | to that for a good while deaths had be as great on the average, The disease ks the poorer class of natives more n any other. an except a little, when it s shown at the stomach. ty patients in the Loy pital at the time left. Of course aniy rather the better classes get there. The poorer people die where they are. Theremns good deal of interest in the black plague and considerable fear of it. Of course it is very dangerous to the natives, so many of whom live in fiith and poverty.” g Mr. Edminster will only be herea few ays. ——————— Verein Concordia Election. Last evening the following officers of the Verein Concordia were elected and installed for the ensuing term: President, Heary | Baack; viee-president, Pan! Mail: secre- tary, Adolph Asmann; finkacial secratary, Con- rad Wuestefeld; tremsurer, H. Erede: qod . J. Mink, Josep! n- | dit, F. Kayser, Ed Wrede. After the instaliation the Verein sat down to & collation, which was | gOtten up with the same good taste that char- acterizes all their undertakings. foumnsaratetia ssean Y Ladies’ Southern ties, $1 45, all shades, every Ltee. Eyem & Fyen, 10 Mopgomery avenue, R ) fi\\‘ QN A AN AN W7, A / ) ’/,, W. B. Edminster, manager for Ovide hima, especially the | It does not bother the | Mrs. B, Sturtevant Peet, President of the State Woman’s Christian Temperance ‘Will Soon Be Celebrated. when photographs were taken of coins in & leather purse, Dr. Le Conte was present and offered suggestions as to how the methods might be simplified. In the re- cent partial discovery he has been equally interested, and seems to believe that the two young men who have been develop- ing the new theory are on the right track. Professor Christy has also been an inter- ested party and has rendered service in the matter of developing the photographic impressions. In the first work which was begun at Berkeley about six weeks ago, Professor Freaerick Slate and Mr. Drew of the de- partment of physics were in constant at- tendance and consultation with Professor Cory and the others at the Mechanics’ building, but they have been so com- | pletely ovenpied witis sther wurk recentiy | that they have been able to give but little | time to the Roentgen ray and its possibili- ties. The work of tracing its source or origin, which is of such wide impertance, has been conducted wholly by Professor Cory and Mr. Le Conte, "1 V. Lange, a local photographer, bas rendered invaluabie services in the matter of briuging «ut the photographic impres. « s wnde wie the plates,” said Professor © ¢ tosdpr, “snd to him much credit is Vs Hie kss & compiete photographic | mpmaingan set up in the Mechanics’ build- | ing for the apecial purpose of developing | the negatives produced by the Roentgen ray. As was stated in this morning's CaLt no one has yet made or, at least, is re| to bave made the toward the solution of the origin of the wonderful ray equal to that of the Rerke- ley experimenters. The results which they have atiained thus far verify the theories | advanced by Lodge, Hicks, Porter and | other Engiish physicists that the origin of the ray is where the negative stream first impinges against the solid and gives up the negative charge. The experimenters did nothing yesterday -but to make some mathematical computa- tions ana get the bulbs and mechanical 1836. devices into condition for further.develop- ments. The apparatus for making tests is much more complete now than at first, so that their work has been greatly facili- tated. *“‘What we can yetdo,” said Professor Cory, in the way of arriving at an abso- lute solution of the problem of tne source of the cathode ray, we are unable to say, but we intend to keep on trying until we either find it out or prove to our- selves that it cannot be deter- nined. We are rather carefui about giving out any extended reports as to our developments for fear that our fabric will fall before we have it fully complete. Scientific men should use much precaution in the matter of making statements before they are absolutely sure of their ground.” WANT A WRIT. The Supreme Court Asked to Interfere in Judge Troutt’s Recent De- cision, The Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company has petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition restraining Judge Troutt from enforcing the decision he recently rendered in the suit of Claus Spreckels against the company. Spreckels sued to have the company re- strained from bringing an action against bim in the courts of Honolulu, and Judge Troutt decided the case in his favor. A temporary injunction was issued and a stay of execution was granted pending an appeal. The appeal has taken the form of an application for a writ of prohibition *| restraining Judge Troutt from making the temporary injunction permanent, and re- straining the plaintiff in the suit from taking advantage of the decision reudered. e — The Body Identified. The body of the man who shot himself in Golden Gate Park on the 26th inst. was iden- tified at the Morgue yesterday as that of Henry Monferran, a window-cleaner, aged 42 years, and formerly a resident at 1002 Pacific_street. F!ethnd been despondent over the death’ of a sister. AWAR AMONG THE ROSES Choicest of Cut Flowers Offered at Fifteen Cents Per Dozen. Violets and Lilacs as Cheap as Ordi- nary Cabbages —Some Florists May Become Bankrupt. There is a merry war among the San Francisco roses. Florists have piled their shops full to the ceiling with the choicest flowers of the season, and are offering them at prices which would make a London, New York or Paris dealer drop dead with amaze- ment. The war is being fought with roses. The fragrance of the queen of flowers is the odor of battle, and the only blood that is shed flows from the pocketbooks of the dealers pricked with the thorns of undue competition. Too many people are in the business; too many flowers are grown in and around San Francisco, say the dealers, and the end must come soon. Many must lie down in the bed of bankruptcy on a mat- tress of rose leaves, mixed with caterpil- lars and thorns. Early in the season several dealers pla- carded their shops with the announcement that the choicest cut roses would be sold in quantities to suit for 65 cents per dozen. The other dealers saw the cut and put out bigger signboards, offering roses at 50 cents. Violets were put to the front also, and were offered at 10 cents per bunch, and finally down te two buncnes for 5 cents in some places. Each bunch contained as many violets as a man could cover with a NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. BARGAIN-DAY SPECIALS! ~=O- O This week our regulai‘ Saturday bargain offering comprises a variety of NEW AND SEASONABLE GOODS, all oifered for this special occasion at Prices That Will Command Attention! LACE NECKWEAR! At $1.00 Each. YOKE COLLARETTE, Butter Point Ven- ise Yoke, trimmed with Oriental Lace, value for $2. At $1.25 Each. BATISTE LACE COLLARS, linen shade, sailor back, regular value $2 25. At $1.50 Each. ESCURIAL LACE COLLAR, in black and batter, regular value $2 50. At $2.50 Each. BATISTE LACE COLLARS, linen shade; MOUSSELINE DE SOIE AND LACE COLLARS, Butter Vandyke Lace, trimmed with Oriental Lace, Collar- ettes, White Embroidered Yokes and othsr novelties; special value at $250 each. LADIES’ AND CHILDREN’S HUSIERY ! At 25 Cents a Pair. MISSES’ FINE RIBBED BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, full finished, double knees, heels and toes, Hermsdorf black, regular value 35¢ and 40c. At 25 Cents a Pair. LADIES’ FINE MACO COTTON HOSE, double heels and toes, Hermsdorf dye, black and assorted tan shades, good value at 35¢. At 33} Cents a Pair. LADIES’' RICHELIEU RIBBED LISLE- THREAD HOSE, high-spiiced heels and toes, Hermsdorf dye, black boot and colored top combinations, also all black, extra good value at 50c. At 25 Cents Each. CHILDREN’S JERSEY RIBBED EGYP- TIAN FLEECED COTTON VESTS, high neck, long sleeves; pants to match; regular value 40c. GLOVES! GLOVES! At 45 Cents. 2000 pairs 5-HOOK UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, in mode, tan and slate shades, regular value $1, will be offered at 45¢ a pair. At 50 Cents. 1000 pairs BIARRITZ KID GLOVES, col- ors mode and slate, regular value 85c, will be offered at 50c a pair. At 65 Cents. 1000 pairs 6-BUTTON LENGTH MOUS- QUETAIRE CHAMOIS SKIN GLOVES, in natural color and white, regular value $1, will be offered at 65¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. 950 pairs 5-HOOK KID GLOVES, colors and black, regular value $1 25, will be offered at 75¢ a pair. MEN' 2 BOYS FURNISHINGS! At 15 Cents. | 200dozen ALL-SILK WINDSOR SCARFS, in assorted opera shades, navy and whate figured, black, light, fancies, etc., extra value for 25¢, will be offered at 15¢ each. At 60 Cents. 52dozen MEN‘S LAUNDRIED “STAN- LEY"” SHIRTS, with collars and cuffs attached, in a choicé variety of new &xgterns, worth $1, wiil be offered at each. At 25 Cents. 150 dozen BOYS’ CALICO AND CHEV- I0T WAISTS, made with two pleats in back and front, in a variety of hand- some patterns, worth 50c, will be of- fered at 25¢c each. At $1.00. dozen M EN’S FULL- FINISHED TWELVE-THREAD BALBRIGGAN UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS, ‘“Norfolk and New Brunswick manu- facture,” regular price $150, will be offered at $1 each. LADIES WAISTS! At 50 Cents. LADIES' WAISTS, laundried collar and cuffs, made of fancy striped and chegked material, will be offered at 500 each. At $1.00. | LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS, made of fancy dimities and lawns, laundried collar and cuffs, made in the latest style, regular price $1 50, will be offered at §1 each. CHILIREN'S DUCK SUIES! At $1.50. CHILDREN’S SUITS, of fancy striped ducking, full skirt, blouse finished with deep sailor collar, sizes 4 to 10 years, will be offered at $1 50 each. At $2.25 and $3.00. CHILDREN’S SUITS, made of English Gallatea, in fancy stripes and white ducking, made with sailor blouse and full skirt, will be offered at $2 25 and $3 each. NEW RIBBONS! At 50 Cents. FANCY DRESDEN RIBBONS, elsgant designs, 34 inzhes wide, value 70c, will be offered at 50c a yard. At 65 Cents. FANCY DRESDEN RIBBONS, in any number of designs, value 90c, will be offered at 65¢ a yard. At 25 Cents. 314-INCH ALL-SILK, BLACK SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBONS, will be offered at 25¢ a yard. At 35-Cents. 4%-INCH ALL-SILK, BLACK SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBONS, will be offered at 3¢ a yard. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts, e . Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strests. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts. RULED OFF THE TURF, The Sentence Meted Out to Plunger “ Little Pete” and Two Jockeys. large-sized hand opened to its fullest ex- tent. ‘When lilacs came in they also were en- listed in' the war, and vesterday they were being offered in the florists’ shops on Sut- ter, Post and Geary streets at 10 cents per bunch, each bunch being as big as a flat Dutch cabbage of adult growth. Hotter and hotter raged the battle, and lower and lower fell the prices until roses were offered yesterday at 25 cents per dozen and in two or three shops at 15 cents. Nor were they stale or wilted specimens, or of the common varieties. They com- prised all shades of tint, perfume and ele- gance. Among them were la France, Jacqueminot, Gloire de Dijon, Marecha! Niel and the gorgeous deep velvet blush rose, whose perfume is so rich and gener- ous that it renders the air almost burden- some, tea and moss roses, and yellow, and white, and pink, and crimson and purple were massed in the general slaughter of prices. The war was a revelation for the tourist from abroad. At this time of year he would cheerfully pay a guinea, or five solid dollars, for a boutonniere in London or Paris, butin San Francisco to-day he may have his pick of the choicest flowers with maidenhair fern and tinfoil thrown in for 5 cents. Around Lotta’s fountain the air is sweet with the fragrance of roses, lilacs and vio- lets, the boys selling them to the passers- by at 5 and 10 cents a bunch. Whatlovely woman with the instinct of her sex for the beautiful things on earth could refuse to provide herself with a corsage bouquet of violets margined with mountain fern when she can get it for a nickel! And she doesn’t refuse, either,” as the absent- minded man learns to his confusion when he bumps his nose into a bunch of violets and scatters perfume and bad temper all over the indignant woman who wears them. “This war of eut rates on cut flowers can’t last long,” remarked a florist yester- day. “The big dealers are lodnf money -Jm-muirynn barely making a liv- ing. Something will have to urvp?m Souis id n prices wil go up toa living point. The trouble is that there are too many peopls in the business and too many flowers are grown, In this climate they may be raised out of doors sll winter, and that's what knocks the business.” THE NEW HOG LIMITS. Ran Willi Be Allowed Six Months Before Being Removed From Their Places. The Health and Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors took definite action regarding the hog limits yesterday, though the reguiations that will be recommended to the board will not take effect for six months, giving the ranchers practicaliy seven months in which to find other quarters, A majority of the bosrd was in favor of | moving the ranches within three mnonths when the board last met, but it was de- cided to give the committes another chance to consider the matter, and the result was the six months’ extension. When that time has expired, no bm can be raised or kept in any part of City, except in the district south of Gelden Gate Park and west of Si::‘vn. Fowler and Hamburg streets, south of Spreckels, Havelock and Onondaga streets, Amazon avenue and Dwight street. 7 | met by Lit I racing rard was snteriainad, After lhoral | A CHINESE CONFEDERACY. Jerry Chorn, Chevalier and Hinrichs Pulled Horses and the Wily Celestial Cashed Tickets. After a reverie lasting over a period of months the officials of - the . California Jockey Club finally concluded that some element stronger than luck figured in the phenomenal successes met with by the Celestiat plunger, Fong Ching, or as he is more familiarly known, ‘“Little Pete,” in landing on winners at the Bay District track. Detectives were detailed to solve the system, and as a result Jerry Chorn, the very capable colored rider under contract to ride for Bookmaker Barney Schreiber, and Hippolyte Chevalier, a .clever lightweight, also colored, find them- selves ruled off the turf for life. The same sentence was meted out to the cunning Chinaman who caused their fall, but to him that matters but little, Jockey Hinrichs, the *‘St. Louis Garrison,” who during the summer months was the Cninese plunger’s right bower, was treated most consider- ately; the board of stewards directing that a refusal to again ride a horse uver the Bay District course would about fix his case. Dan Williams, the colored trainer, and owner of the horses Venus, Midas and Sport McAllister as well as being the guardian of Chevalier, and who it is claimed was pre‘ty cognizant of the lad’s wrong-doing has, together with his racers, been warned off the track: By many 1t is claimed that the Chinese confederacy has been operating with suc- cess for a period of many months, but that it is only of late, when some of the asso- ciation books at the Bay District track were gettin, hard hit, that the officials decided to probe the mat- ter. Then it was found that certain iackeys were in the habitof visiting China- town at night and at a rendezvous were Pete, where the next day's decoctions of China gin, & highbinder cigar and a few broiled rats, horses were picked out to play and the riders received their instructions. The following day the pub- lic played ‘the Lorse in a certain race that figured to win, the plungers had their choice, but after the race Little Pete was found in line. Finally, the stewards claim, one of those in on the “know,” and whose name they refuse to divulge, let the cat out of the bag, and the whole scheme was laiu bare, It was corroborated by Heinrichs, who admitted pulling horses to the gain of the Chinese punrr. Others are aiso under suspicion, and may be compelled to quit :.I’n turf before the stewards complete their | ment of the whole matter would probably vestiga Coady, who rede the favorite, Cabrillo, in the run won by Sir on March 25, has aiso earned a rest, the stewards suspending him indefinitely for failing to ride the according to the orders issned from the judges’ cepiochase ider Andy Blakeiey inte stee| T ¥ el nto difficuities. The first tiine ont the horse ran last and st his second a| rance won handily, so it was decided by the stewards to refuse more entries from Mr. y's name merely to esea Blakele, & “‘run- up' in event of bis winning a the entries of Griffin will also be rejected in future. ! It is a strange fact that the Bay District track was chosen by the jobbers for exe- cuting their schemes. The investigation pointed to the fact, it is claimed, that but one job was attempted at Ingleside, and that failed. The conspirators’ coin went on Ed Nearny in a seven-furlong run, ana | Derfargilla captured the race. In this| event Thelma, ridden by Chevalier, was left at the post. THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S SON. L. G. Stevenson on His Way Home From an Asiatic Trip. | L. G. Stevenson, son of Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson; arrived on the Coptic from Japan last evening. He will start East to-night. Mr. Stevenson has been visiting Oriental countries for the past five months, but has spent most of his time in Japan. He likes Japan, he says, better than any of the Asiatic countries, and he does not see why more people from California do not go there. Everything is cheap, the peo- ple are industrious and enterprising and the country is growing fast. Korea, the seene of the late war, is quiet again, and except ior the humiliation of having Russia step in and destroy. the fruits of her victory, Japan is entirely satisfied with the resuits of the war. Mr. Stevenison was in_poor health dur- ing part of his stay in Japan, but he has uite recovered and will arrive home much improved by his Asiatic trip. MISSON CLUSS COMBNE One General Improvement Club to Work for High School and Park. sition, said: ‘“We want our just dues and no more. The City and County is not so poor but it can give usthe site. And in such a matter we should be particular about the location. It is necessary that our high school be centrally located.” CONGREGATION BETH_ ISRAEL. Rabbl Levy Closes the Fifth Series of Friday Evening Lectures. The fifth annual series of Friday even- ing lectures was brought to a close last evening at the Geary-street Temple by Rabbi Levy of the Congregation Beth Is- rael, who lectured on the “Aftermath.’” Five years ago, the rabbi said, Congrega- tion Beth Israel had.thrown open its doors to ail classes and instituted the Fri- day evening lectures to counterbalance a seeming lack of interest in Jewish religious circles. The result had been beneficial in the extreme. Interest had revived at once, and since that time he had delivered over 100 lectures and addressed between 40,000 and 50,000 people. And so manifest were the results thaithe example set by Beth Israel had been followed by every coneregation in the City. Judaism stands for what is positive in religion, not for the negative. Therefore, it would survive only by clinging to con- servative orthodoxy, and it could not afford to approve of the reformed Judaism which sanctioned the marriage of persons of different religious faiths and the burial of Jews in non-Jewish cemeteries. So also must be preserved the Jewish Sabbath. If the men, for business reasons beyond their control, could not observe it the women must observye it in their homes. The rabbi closed by thanking his people for their uniform hearty co-operation and support of the Friday evening services and by wishing them health and happiness during the year to begin with the Passover holidays. - United States Grand Jury. The United States Grand Jury yesterday in. dicted Tom Sing, Hong Joung and Lee Yoonp for having unstamped opium in their posses The Proposition Fully Discussed at a Meeting of the Mission High School Club. Before the regular meeting of the Mis- sion High Schoo! Club last night in the Native Sons’ Hall, on Seventeenth street, the executive committees of this club and of the Mission Defense Union discussed the proposition of consolidating the Mis- sion Park and the High School clubs. It was discovered that there was no Park Club in existence, the efforts to obtain a rk in that part of town being simply a eature o the Missior Deferse Union, ! therefore the consotivation of the ciub | witn another which has never been | created was oyt of the gquestion. i | "A. B. Maguire, member of both the | High School Club and the Defense Union, advocated a union of the two interests. After much animated discussion it was resolved to defer the question of de- | ciding until after the mass-meeting to be | held on Fighteénth street a week from to- | | night.” The matter will then have received | the attention of all the members of both ‘rluh: and something definite can be re- | solved upon. EJ‘ H. O'Grady, president of the High hool Club, stated that the final settie- be the divorcement of the park proposi- tion from the Mission Defense Union and the consolidation of the Park and Mission high school clubs. motion of W.J. Hardy a resolution was expressing thanks to the Board of Education for the resolution said to have been passed by that body promising a high-school class the Mis- sion at the commencement of the next school term. A resolution of thanks was also tendered the press. A member introduced a resolution to ask Wc spirited and landed citizens of the n to donate a site for a bigh school. This resolution was passed, but afterward expunged from the minutes. George Walcom, speaking on this propo- sion. Isaac B. Hounsh was indicted for raising United States notes. NEW TO-DAY. Say! 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