The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1896. 5 DIAMONDS FROM A CEILING, They Are Falling Rapidly in the Palace of a Gentleman Who Believes in the Great Home Remedy. FROM EVERY QUARTER. A Day Spent Among Some of the City’s Big Men on Various Streets. ‘“You say that you are interviewing the big merchants of the City,” remarked a friend of mine this morning as I was com- ingover on the boat. Like a scoreor more of other people I have the fortune, good or bad, to live in @akland, and recognizing in me the individual who had been searching for information as to the merits of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla he thought fit to continue his query with this: “There is no man better known'in town than Colonel Andrews; why don’t you go and see him?” 1 replied. “T should be delighted to, if I could happen to catch the genial colonel.” “You would not wait for him, I sup- pose?” Isaid: “No; my business is to get at haphazard the opinions of people whom I may find. and to make an appointment with a man would possibly give him time to prepare a speech. I have found that off-hand a man generally teils the tyuth, and that happens to be just exactly what is looked for in this inquiry—nothing else.” ““Well, I think it would be a satisfaction to me at any rate,” said my friend, “if you could quote so well known a man as Colonel Andrews.” And so I decided to see him if T could. In no instance, excepting this one, have 1 gone back for an appointment. Time is money, and it might savor a trifle of in- tention if I were to make arrangements to meet any one at any specified time for a articular purpose, and the plain aim has geen to make these interviews the genuine gist of popular opinion about Joy's Vege- table Sarsaparilla. For the sake of varietv 1 trotted from one street to another, and took the following interviews absolutely at random: THE OLDEST OPTICTAN. 1 got off the car just above the Examiner office and wandered in a sort of aimless way into the store—one might almost call it & pala of Mr. C. Muller, 824 Market A man of my years feelsifnota sense of awe at any rite a sense of deep respect when interviewing a man like Mr. Muller. No one who knows anything of Jocal hist: is not aware that he has been foremost in promoting in San Francisco the oculist’s science. He has not been backward in advancine moi-y for that purpose. and since 1863 (just a mere mat- fer of thirty-three years) he has been recognized as our best optician. Mr. Mul- ler is enthusiastically a Californian. Itis scarcely necessary to say that he wis not born here, but he could hardly be more “‘gripped with hooks of steel”” to California than he is. Tasked Mr. Muller if he had s Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. He said: “Yes: I have used, I think, a number of bottles.” Then was question and answer for about ten minutes, and the gist of what Mr. Muller saia was this: ““Some five vears ago I was verv much ron down. T feit that change of life which man sometimes feels; my health was fairly good, but my energy was lacking. I could attend to my business. but not in the same way as I had been accustomed to—it was a little bit of a labor. T tried to overcome the feeling, but could not, and some one suggested to me that I should try Joy’'s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I did. and its effects were so satisfactory from the first bottle that I thoucht it best to take anotber, and T can assure you that for five years I have never been withoutit. Don’t imagine from this that I have taken it continuously, or that I have taken the dose prescribed of it rezularly. I found it did me good and then I brought my com- mon sense to bear on the matter, and eventually I found that a thimbleful was enough to make me feel well enongh to go to business and to attend to it withont worry. Ina word, it made a new man of me. Should any one ask me as to the benefits that T have derived from its use, whv of course I should be more than pleased to add my word of praise to the score of people who have testified to vou aboutit. I have no hesitation in saying that in my opinion it is the best pro- prietary remedy that we have, and I say this simply and solely because it has done me personally so much good.” Mr. Muiler has done a good deal for science and for humanity in confining himself exclusively or almost exclusively to correcting errors of refraction in eve- sight. The oculist seems to have a d tinet objection to the optician going out- side of his given position of fitting glasses to weak eyes, and so Mr. Muller has been a little bit handicapped in his professional investigations. Many of us remember well (when he examined the eve with in- struments especially prepared by himself) that he was able to detect Bright’s disease as ciearly as Professor Barnard can see the spots on the sun. But for some reason or other he evoked, the jealousy of some rominent oculists, and now Mr. Muller is evoting his life to perfecting the business or profession of an optician. That he stands at the head of the men who follow him can scarcely be doubted. DIAMONDS DROPPING LIKE RAIN. Faithful to the promise made, Colonel Andrews was visited at his Diamond Palace on Montgomery street, close to Pine. He was in a somewhat reminiscent mood, but was willing to talk of every- thing from the Mexican war to the Mec- Kinley tariff. “I believe,’ said the colonel, “in everytbing Californian. I have my clothes made here; I have my shoes made here; I have my hats made here, and my wife gets her things made here. I do think that once I bought a dress for my better half in Boston, because jt was particularlv beautiful. but so far as I know there is nothing that can be had in Caiifornia that 1 do not buy here. I have made my money here, and I intend to spend it here.” e Then, asked as to his opinion as to Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, he said: ‘‘Of course I have heard of it, who has not, tut I have not had occasion to use it. I never spent two dotlars in medicine in my life, but yon may quote me as saying that if I wanted a sarsaparilla I certainly wounld use Joy's, for itis a home product. You may further state that I say that I have heird it spoken of enthusiastically, and [ am really glad to know that any home pro- duct is thought so highly of as o{)‘es Veget- able Sarsaparilla apvears to be.” The colonel said a whole lot more, but be wished to be quoted shortly, and there is no giod reason for ignoring his request. ¥B. BENEDICT OF ‘‘THE HASTINGS.” wisling round_on my heel 1 siarted ,(,?;n,‘, hséing an_intention to go to lunch, and as the north side of Market street offers :ome inducements to the hung man I had that point in view, but when reached the corner of Sutter street the attractive - display “in “The Hastings” clothing-store ‘‘brought me up with a round turm,” as the sailors put it. I dropped in and met Mr. C. 8. Benedict, one of the proprietors who has been associated with the house since 1862. ‘“The Hast- ings” occupies a vosition in the clothing world of fan Francisco which no other house does. They have a factory in New York at 24 snd 26 West Fourth street and they sell herein the wild and woolly West all the clothes that are made in the hard and frosty East. They sell nothing that they do not make themselves, and if any one wants to wear for general business use a better suit of clothes than Mr. Benedict showed me yesterday, and which by the by he sells for §10, I think that individual must be slightly hard to please. 1t was really a suit of a nice modest pattern, woolen goods and tailored as well as one i could expect an ordinary work-a-day suit to be. We are not all leaders of fashion and most of us want serviceable clothes. “Have you ever heard of Joy’s Vege- table Sarsaparilla?” I asked Mr. Benedict. 1 have certainly heard of it. and I have used it,” said Mr. Benedict, *‘but I think probably if you want to know anything about it, if I give yeu a living exhibit, it will be much more to the point.” Then he stated in anticipation: *I have a son who is in the store at this moment who was weak and & littie bit run down, and nothing that we did for him seemed to help him at all. A couple of years ago, however, he took Joy’s Vegetable Sarsa- parilla, and when you see him you will be able to judge better from his appearance than from anything I could tell you as to what it has done for him. He weighed about eighty-five or nicety-five pounds when he commenced to_take it.”” Then Mr. Benedict beckoned his son, Mr. Bert Benedict. 3 “‘What the pater says is true,”’ said the voung gentleman. The frank, blue eyes and stalwart frame and the altogether healthy looking face, betokened a constitu- tion which nine out of ten of us would be mighty glad ‘o have. To saytnat Mr. Bert Benedict has a military air would be incor- rect. He walks with that easy grace which characterizes a man who has been born and knows that he has been born with good blood in his veins, and he talks with the confidence of a man who knows that Le has ability. **Yes,” he said, *‘I have quite agood deal to thank Joy’s Vegetable Sar- saparilla for, I suppose. At any rate it did me a whole lot of good. It produced no boils, it produced no sores on my face, and in a word it did me unmixed good.” And his father added, “We had this sat- isfaction, we knew from what we had been told that there were no iodides nor mineral poisons in the remedy, and our experience has provea that our friends did not mis- lead us.” Ttis a little bit of pleasure to quote gen- tlemen of this type. They are few and far between. They would no more indorse a patent medicine or a remedy of any nature for money than they would indorse or support an_ordinary bunko-man game. They are clean, bright, horest, business men. They have the confidence of the community, and while I cannot assert it asan actual fact, for I do not know, I should be willing to gamktle about fifty to one that no man ever got anything from “The Hastings’’ under misrepresentation, and I will gamble one hundred to one that every man who goes there gets as good value for his money as he can- get any- where. THE INSURANCE SIDE OF IT. After leaving Mr. Benedict I went to Iunch, and I confess to a rather satisfied feeling atter the particular waiter whom I chose to fee in the Palace grillroom had finished bowing his thanks. I started across Montgomery street azain, and just asIreached the western sidewalk 1 met Mr. Harry Baehr, the well-known city agent of the Pheenix Insurance Company of Company of Washington. Mr. Baehr hap- pens to be one of the handsome men about town, and his Maker provided him with as sunny a disposition: as one finds in known Mason. He is secreta: Solomon’s Lodge, F. and A also is'a member of the California Chap- ter of the Royal Arch Masons. Shaking him by the hand, I asked him how busi- ness was. “Not very good,” he said, “although it is picking up, and I have -no doubt that insurance circles very soon will feel a great deal brighter than they do at this moment. What are you writing about now ?'” he queried. *“Wey) »» I replied, “I have been detailed to find gyt from the chalts what they thin Sarsaparilla.” i “Want_to know What I think?’ he asked, briskly. “Why, surely, I had no idea that you knew thing about it.” “No? Well,” he continueq, “six months ago my stomach was all outof order. I had no appetite and I got up of a morning with a bad taste in my mouth. Tt seemed as though T had a bad case of the blues. There wasn’t anything for me to get blue about, but I always felt a little bit de- pressed. Somebody suggested to me that I take Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. At first I thought the proposition was absurd, but eventually I tried it—and how do I look to-day ?”’ It must be confessed that Mr. Baehr was the picture of health. “Why,” he continued, “I took one bot- tle ana it did me so much good that if the second one had cost me a thousard dollars Tam perfectly certain I should have found the money one way or an- other to get it. T have taken three bottles in all, and my wife takes it now, too. It is an excellent remedy for any man who is run down. whose work is of a sedentary nature, or for any one whose liver or stomach is affected. Just say that I said this, please. Whoever the people are who put it up, I consider that they do a pub- lic service, and I am neither “afraid nor ashamed to say s0.” And with that this healthy, hapopy insurance man went on his way to hunt for big premiums which he would probably get. The Pheenix In- surance Company is one of the largest fire insurance companies in the world, and as a City representative it could have no bet- ter man than Mr. Baehr. And why? Be- cause he is known as a dependable man. Thisis not on my hearsay alone. Any business man will indorse that. THE LADIES TAKE A HAND. There is a_shoestore at 129 Montgomery street that is noted for the excellence of its styles. It, too, has the reputation of producing shoes of home manufacture, and while the prices one pays there are not the highest in the world the shoes that one gets are not surpassed for wear or forfit. Itisowned by Mr.James Gutberlet. Mr. Gutberlet has been in the business in San Francisco for the last twenty-five years, and during that time he has ‘done all that he could to support California and her industries. He is an enthusiastic ‘be- liever in home industry. Asked as to his opinion of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla he said, “T have none.” “Did you ever hear of it?"’ I asked. “Did_those young ladies who recom- mended it to me tell you they had done 50?” he queried. I said, *‘Certainly not. opinion.” “Well,”” he replied, “I have been under the weather for (iuile a little while and my wife, who uses Joy’s Vegetable Sarsapa- rilla, I believe, said, *You had better use it but I declined. I dont want medicine if can avoid it. The next day I wasout and happened to be thrown into the com- any of four young ladies. We talked fora ittle while, and one of them was solicitous as tomy welfare. I felt down and blue, and you know when & man feels that way he invariably shows it. One of them said, ‘Why, Mr. Gutberlet, why don’t you take some Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla? Iam certain it would brace you up and make you feel an altogether different man.’ “Are fou sure?” I asked her. She said, ‘Yes, I know.’ She spoke so very strongly inits favor that I almost made up my mind to take it, and probably I would have been better off if 1 did. Please say for me that if I ever use a sarsaparilla I shall certainly use Joy’s, and Joy’sonly. Itis not entirely because it is ‘a Californian remedy that I say this, but when my wife and intimate friends of mine recom- mend it to me as an excelient thing it ap- pears to me that there is no choice left in the matter.” And so it does not seem fo matter as to what street one chooses, Joy's Vegetable I?rin(‘ipal City mer- k of Joy's Vegetable I want your London and_the Providence Insurance | a month’s walk. Mr. Baehr is a well- | Sarsaparilla is spoken of : highly every- where. Some people are more impressed with its merits than others, it is true, but in no case do you find any one who is will- ing to say that they have found it do them harm. That sarsaparilla is good is un- doubtedly true if it is what it pretends to be, but a preparation of iodides put up under the name of sarsaparilla_seems to me 10 be somewhat of a fraud. ldon’t know of my own knowledge that there is any such sarsaparilla, but I do know that with most of the people I have inter- viewed that seems to be the prevailing opinion, and one of the reasons why they indorse Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla so heartily, so uniformly, and so clearly and so distinctly is that nine out of every ten people seem to know that it is a pure vegetable product, and from its use they need fear no bad after effects. WirLLiaM CHENHALLS, OUT OF CIRCLE CITY. The 600 Persons There Expect to Find Much Gold This Year—Four New Districts. Casper Ellingen and Joseph Cooper of Circle City, Alaska, who made the long trip down the Yukon River on foot, arrived here yesterday. Mr. Ellingen isa young man formerly from Wisconsin. He has been in Alaska for several. years, but only about a year ago went up to the far Yukon diggings. He said at the Russ yesterday, where he is staying: “There is a big rush to Alaska now, but they are not all going to the Yukon. Many are settling along the coast, where they expect to get gold. I don’t know where they will find it, but that is their intention. *“This winter 560 men and eleven women are in Circle City, and they were all well and happy when I left. They all expect an active summer, and are lpoking forward to making a good deal of money. I have been mming, but don’'t know whether I will continue it or go into some kind of business there. “Four new creeks have been opened contiguous to Circle City. They are from fifty to sixty-five miles off and head close tugether. The four creeks are Harrison, Eagle, Bonanza and Greenhorn. The two former empty into Birch Creek and the latter in Crooked Creek. Allof the new gulches ?romise well as faras prospected.’ Mr. Ellingen will remain here for prob- ably two weeks. SAGS M LIST SDRG Sankey’s Farewell to Young Men at the Y. M. C, A, Hall. The Story of “Ninety and Nine” and the Last Rendering of the Famous Song. Mr. Sankey had sung his last song at his last meeting of the long series in this City at the hall of the Y. M. C. A. last evening. He was saying that perhaps this was the last time that he would ever have the pleasure of meeting the young men who were gathered before him. There was a pause for an impressive instinct, and then, picking up his little morocco- covered hymnbook, he said: “I have been asked to sing just one more—that old-time favorite, ‘Ninety and Nine,’ " The audience broke into applause. Mr. Sankey then held the audience for another ten minutes with a very pretty story about the song; how he had sung it at a Quaker meeting, in the very heart of Quakerdom in Engfnnd. an organ havin, been introduced into that unaccustome: place for the first time for the especial pur- pose. After the song the Quakers had asked him to ‘‘keep on singing all even- ing.” Then he told how an energetic Quaker woman had become interested in the work of Mr, Moody and himself and followed them around to their several meeting places in London and, finally, be- ing compelled to go to Southern France for her iealth, had taken a. great number of the tittle song books with™ ner, distrib- uting them in public vlaces, and how this same woman sat at a public meeting and heard told the story of a young man who had been saved by finding a copy of the little book where she had p]nceg it and reading the beautiful “Ninety and Nine.'’ Then he went over to the organ and, himself playing the accompaniment, thrilled the audience with his familiar and beautiful rendering of the song. While his last notes still trembled through the hall he rose and asked all w0 “bow their heads for a moment,” and straightway began asking for a blessing upon his hearers. A benediction was said and the campaign of Sankey and Stebbins that has been in progress for some weeks came to aclose. The evangelists go East at once. ————— FORREST'S RING. How James O’Neill Came to Wear This Noted Finger Ornament. James O’Neill, the actor, who is soon to apvear in this City, and James Connor Roach are fast friends. Some time ago they met in Clark’s Cafe in Boston, to- gether with a number of other theatrical people. After a while the talk naturally led to Mr. O'Neill’s forthcoming appear- ance in “Virginius.” Reminiscences of Forrest and McCullough were in order, when Mr. Roach sulled a big seal ring off his finger, handed it to Mr. O'Neill, say- ing: “There, Jim, is the ring Forrest al- ways wore; I want you to. wear it next Monday night when you play ‘Virginius’ for the first time in Boston. May it bring ou the luck you deserve, and which fol- owed Forrest winen he wore it. I have had it for many years, and for a long time it has been my intention to give it to you. Your reappearance in tragedy is a fit oc- casion for the gift. Ido not consider it proper for me, a comedian, to wear a ring that should grace the finger of a tra- gedian.” The ring consists of a solid] gold band with a large stone of cornelia. The head of Forrest is engraved in bas relief, with “Edwin’’ and “Forrest” on either side. The ring was first bonght at an aue- tion sale of Forrest’s effects in Philadel- phia about twent)iflyenrs ago by Mr. Ryer, who sold itto a Mrs. Lynch. She after- ward parted with it for a considerable sum to Louis Louthier, a famous collector of antiquities. He in turn presented it to Mr. Roach as a token of his esteem for the author of “‘Rory of the Hili.” Mr. O'Neill feels'pleased over being the owner of Forrest’s ring not only because it was a gift from his friend Roach but also because it recalls to him dear mem- ories of the Jupiter Tenans of the profes- sion, in whose company O’Neill served so long and honorably when he was the youngest leading man in the country. In this connection it may also be of in- terest to note that James O’Neill played “Icilius” to Edwin Forrest’s “*Virginius’ for quite a long time. This may also ac- count for the fact that ‘‘old timers'’ de- clare O'Neill's “Virginius” to be nearer that of Forrest’s than any other actor who has played the part since the demise of t phfier. Mr. O’'Neill commences a two weeks’ en- gagement at the Baldwin Theater next Monday night. He will present durin the first week of his stay a repertoire made up as follows: Monday ‘‘Monte Christo,” Tuesday “Virginius,”" Wednesday “The Courier of Lyons,” Thursday *‘Monte Cristo,” Friday “Hamlet,” Saturday mati- nee “Virginius” and Saturday and Sunday nights “Monte Cristo.” — o A Chicago thief recently stole a soda- RAINEY'S POLITICAL TRIP He Will Do Politics by Going Away andiGiving Himself a Chance. : A NEW DEAL IN DELEGATES. The Buckleyites Will Recognize South-of-Market in a Revised Apportionment. Sam Rainey is going to a health resort in San Bernardino County next week and leave his oyster, the Junta, to his lieu- tenants, who will guard it until he gets back to open it. Rainey has mixed health and vpolitics in his journeys before. He is going away to give himself a better chance. Uf he is down in the San Bernardino mountains his workers can do better in some directions and the opposition to him will not be so vigorous or so concentrated. The selection of delegates to the State Conven- tion is probably several weeks off, and he will be back before time for the show- down. He has his fences in good condi- tion now, and the pulling and the holding to be done in the general committee is well mapped out. 3 Chairman W. P. Sullivan says that he will announce the committees on griev- ances and on constitution and by-laws to- day. These committees will be apt to peg along for some time before they produce anvthing definite. The last-mentioned committee will be closely watched by the Raineyites because it is expected "that from this committee will come the expected coup in the shape of an arrangement to appoint delegates. 1t appears certain that this will be attempted. as the hopelessness of winning a delegate at a primary elec- tion is recognized by - the ‘“‘decent ele- ment,”’ as the anti-Raineyites loudly call themselves. The Buckleyites are taking a rest for a few days, and Buckley is again at Ravens. wood. Since the meeting of the general committee the other night the leaders have figured out a new distribution of State Convention delegates among the eighteen Assembly disiricts. The distribution of the 161 delegates appor- tioned to San Francisco by the State Cen- tral Committee,according to the resolution adopted Monday evening, was eight to each district, leaving seventeen at large. At the meeting a minority, representing streng Democratic districts south of Market street, contended that thedelegates should be apportioned among the districts ac- cording to the Budd vote. The plan now is to n;zrortion the delegates on the basis of one delegate to every 200 Budd votes, taking no notice of fractions. This will give several districts nine votes, and will leave ten delegates at large. e Sl . MARTIN KELLY’S MEETING. A Weak Effort to Organize a Fac- tion in the Forty- Fifth. It was a picturesque crowd tbhat com- posed the “Republican’’ meeting at Gari- baldi Hall on Broadway last evening. The affair was the weak effort of Martin Kelly and Jerry Mahoney to organize a dissent- ing faction in the Forty-fifth District, and a more typical Martin Kelly political meeting has not been seen for many a dsy. 2 Kelly and Mahoney have put forward Joe King and J. B. O'Brien as district manipulators of an opposttion in that dis- trict to the regular party organization, and last night’s meeting was to organize a club, with King as its boss. In order to create a crowd several kegs of ‘“steam” were placed in the barroom at King's ex- pense, the magic %oclumntion, *‘Beer!" was put forth, and Martin Kelly herded a lot of his south-of-Market ‘‘push’ and sent them across the City, under the leadership of Jimmy Lennon, Kelly's old junkshop partner, Jack Hoey of Brannan street, Denny Coleman, the bruiser, and others. There were toughs from the Mission, and City Hall janitors and Police Court habitues from all over the City. The rest belonged mainly to | the neighborhood, and there was a slight sprinkling of respectability. With these egiarts the hall was not filled. T. B. O’Brien was made president of the club, W. Engram secretary and Joe King treasurer. O’Brien made a speech amid the uproar from the barroom, during which he lauded Martin Kelly and Joseph King, tatked of the A. P. A. and declared that the Republicans of the district needed a gewneral. A resolution was read and adopted appointing Joseph King the “Jeader,”’ “‘to whom should be.intrusted all negotiations appertaining to the guidance of Republican policy in the Forty-tifth District.,” After a signingof theroll the proceedings consisted of ribald songs and obscene stories. MISSION REPUBLICANS. The Thirty-Fifth Assembly District Entertain Their Friends Socially. The Republicans of the Thirty-fifth As- sembly. District held a verv enjoyable social gathering of their members and friends at 1339 Valencia street last nicht. The officers of the club—President V. T. Northup, Vice-President C. M. Depew, Secretary R. H. Stafford, Treasnrer C. L. Hedemark and the twenty-seven members of the executive committee — resolved themselves into useful members in seeing that all visitors were properly provided with light refreshments during the recess in the musical and literary programme. Short speeches were made by John T. Dare, who dwelt on the tariff guestion, citing the example of England, by which Japan, seeing the opening made in this country and the countenance given the importation of manufactured goods by the Democratic party, started to improve its labor condition by shipping ready-made articles into our market mn competition with our industries. He said that England would forfeit her colonial territories rather than lose the commercial trade of the United States. C. W. Kyle, the eloquent speaker, gave a glowing account of the history of the Republican party during_its existence in power in_this country. He compared it with the destructive policy of the Demo- cratic party for the brief period in which it has been intrusted with the manage- ment of public affairs. The Cobden Club of England, he said, formed the com- mercial policy of England for the last fifty years, but after next November this club” would cease to form the commercial or moneyed policy of these United States. JApplause.] & Major John A. Whiteside and W. ‘D. Kingsoury followed with short but cut- ting remarks upon the mismanagement of the Democratic party under Cleveland’s administration. The Hawaii quartet rendered some choice selections. These, with an excel- lent band, made the evening's entertain- ment very enjoyable. . D ———————— INSTALLATION BANQUET. A Band of Happy Elks Assembled at Delmonico’s Last Night. The annual installation banquet of Gold~ en Gate Lodge of Elks last night as- sembled 175 members and guests. The | water fountain. . He ‘worked two hours in | banquet tables, richly decorated, were taking it apart. Sk spread in the large hall on the fifth floor of Delmonico’s. At the head of the feast sat J. O. Reis, past exalted ruler, to whom was presented a beautiful set of silverware. The address of presentation was made b the incoming exalted ruler, J. H. Howell. The newly elected officers aside from Mr. Howell are: William Jones. esteemed leading knight; Dr. Bachman, loyal knight; Thomas Dunn, lecturing knight, and Alired Perrier, trusgee. B Among thedguens last evening were: Sheriff Richard I. Whelan, Tim Murphy, Carroll Johnson, Professor McKenzie, Thomas Scott, Moscow Idaba, Colonel Marceau and %uiu a number of actors from the Sinbad company and other dra- matic organizations. An orchestra of stringed instruments and the talented Pgmouth Quartet of the Press Club provided agreeable music. At 1 o'clock all the cares of the previous day and the day coming had vanished. VAN NESS BOULEVARD. John McGovern Thinks the Plan Will Be Successful—Mr. Law’s Departure. Herbert Law, president of the Van Ness- avenue Improvement Club, left for Chi- cago last evening. Prior to his departure Mr. Law said: ‘“We can do nothing in the boulevard question until we learn what the property-owners are in favor of, and this will probably not be until my return about ten days hence. No definite action in the matter will be taken until that time. “‘Mr. Spreckels informs me that there will, in all probability, be some op- position, as some of the property-owners appear to think the street will not be given proper attention and kept in decent con- dition after it is turned into a boulevard.” John McGovern, who has taken an ac- tive part in the proceedings, said: “Mr. Law and I have been strenuous in our endeavors to get the avenue turned into a boulevard, and I think we will finally be successful. *I bought my gcperty January 10, 1853, when Fremont, Haskell and others lived right over.there on Black Point. Emile Grizar, a Frenchman, bought a lot of property in this region in 1859 or 1860, and would not part with a foot of it for zny consideration. “In 1863 the Government took all his property, butafterwarda relinquished that art south of Bay street and East of an Ness avenue. When this occurred the matter of streets—and, in fact, of any real estate improvements whatever—was lost sight of for some time, because along with the confiscation of so much of Grizar's property that of all men of ambition was seized at the same time. ““About’ six years ago we got a bill through the Legisiature to pay property- owners for the land required to extend streets throiigh the 100-vara lots known as the Lagoon Survey. Things once more be- gdn to brighten. “Two years ago Senator Fair purchased the water lots and swampsand graded much property free of charge. Interest has been steadily reviving ever since. “The contract was let to pave the avenue from Union street to Bay with bitumen several months ago, and the contractors are simply awaiting propitious weather. The property-owners will bear the whole expense of this. “Some of those residing south of Union street may not regard it as feasible to run a2l-foot lawn through the center of the avenue. The properiy-owners from Union street to Bay have unanimously signed the petition for the lawn in the center of the street, but wish the Board of Supervisors | to guarantee that it will be kept in order by the City. If it will guarantee thatsuch will be done the owners of these six blocks will place the lawn in from Union street to Bay, and those south of Union can follow their own inclination in the matter.” WISE AND FODTE CONFER, Hot Words Are Followed by Compliments From Both Sides. The District Attorney Refused to Pre- sent Evidence Favorable to Williams. Collector Wise and United States Dis- trict Attorney Foote had some hot words in the office of the latter yesterday after- noon over the. manner in which the Wil- liams investigation is being conducted be- fore the United States Grand Jury. Though they are brother Democrats and friends of many years’ standing there has been a coolness between these two func- tionaries for the Government for some time. Ithasallgrown out of the indignities which the District Attorney declares the Collector of the Port has heaped upon his branch of the service. Collector Wise has warmly championed the cause of Inspector Richard Williams through all of his troubles and will prob- ably stand by him {o theend. It was therefore quite natural for the Collector to become irritated when Judge Foote re- fused to regard the virtues of the inspec- tor with any large degree of favor. The former wanted the Districi Attorney to present to the Grand Jury certain docu- ments in support of the splendid character which_the writers declared Williams in- harited from a long line of uncorrupted ancestry and of which he himself 1s a shining example. Foote remarked with some warmth that the virtues of the ac- cused Customs Inspeetor could not be found with the Roentgen cathode ray. The Collector took exception to what the District Attorney said of his favorite in- spector, and the office-boy cleared the deck for action. Bat there were no hostilities. The Col- lector, however, was unable to swerve the District Attorney from his purpose to do anything that would in any way lighten the burden under which ‘the unhappy Williams is now struggling, So the con- ference, which lasted from 4 o’clock until after 6, witt Foote telling the Collector that he was the foremost Democrat in the State and should get the nomination on the Democratic ticket for Governor two years hence. Then they went over tc lime-juice corner and made astronomical observations through the glassware. It isssaid tbat Collector Wise did not attempt to play his tattoo—on which he has a patent—on the breast of Judge Foote, sain the case of the now famous interview with Major Moore. Coliector Wise was before the United States Grand Jury yesterday. He went over the whole fight between "himself and Major Moore, Special Agent of the Treas- ury Department. He said that Moore's hatred of Williams had gone beyona all reason, and amounted to persecution. In Lis opinion Wiiliams had violated no regulation® of the department nor com- mitted any wrong. He had investigated the charges made by Moore, but was un- able to find any evidence, except the irresponsible evidence of Chinese high- binders, against the accused. For that reason he believed in the ‘innocence of Williams and would continue to do so until he had been proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. ———————— Charged With Maunslaughter. The case of Charles Gerken, charged with manslaughter, came up before Judge Campbell yesterday. He was held to answer in the sum of $10,000. On March 15 Gerken mét John Buckley on Mason and Green streets and, without the siightest provocation, pushed him ‘v;ol::zl to the ground, causing & fracture of e skul Writ of Habeas Corpus. George T. Bohen, president of one of the local cemetery associations, arrested a few days ago for violating the ordinance restricting the sale ‘of cemet Iots, was convicted and fined $20, with an alternative, in Judge Low’s court ggutudny. He surrendered himself to a uty eriff, and will to-day sue out a writ of hal BROWN SENT A DISPATCH, He Informed Kalamazoo Friends That He Had Been Acquitted. HIS NAME WAS SIGNED TO IT. Meeting of Members of the Congrega- tion to Request Him to Tender His Resignation. There was a large meeting of anti- Brown members of the First Congrega- tional Church in Dr. McDonald’s office last evening for the purpose of considering fur- ther measures to protest against Dr. Charles Oliver Brown’s continuance as pastor of the church. Reporters were excluded, Dr. McDonald explaining as the reason that nothing of public interest was about to take place, the meeting being simply advisory. He re- ported that considerable progress had been made 1n the matter of getting signa- tures to the request for Pastor Brown's resignation, and that everything looked favorable for the rolling up of the number | to 200 or more. The Kslamazoo Daily Telegraph of March 18 contains the following dispatch: SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 8, 1896. L. M. Gates and Others—DEAR FRIENDs: Iam acquitted on every charge. . 0. BROWN. In another part of the same paper is a verbatim report of the findings of the ecclesiastical council. Certain persons -in Kalamazoo have written to persons in this City giving the purported details of Dr. Brown’s record in that city. The testimony taken before the ecclesi- astical council, together with a synopsis of that in the Police Court and in the Superior Court at the Davidson trial, have been furnished the District Attorney. This matter will be condensed and properiy arranged, after which it will be presented to the Grand Jury, which is ready to undertake the investigation. At the meeting in the rooms of Dr. Mc- Donald last evening a communication was received which stated that the Christian Endeavor Society had left the First Con- regational Church in a body. Until Dr. Bron's iwithidtawal | o theipuivie of that church the society will hold their _regular meetings in Native Sons’ Hall, on Mason street. near Geary. This may be considered a movement that the faithful adherents of the pastor must certainly deplore and view asan indica- tion that the breach between the two fac- tions of the First Congregational Church is growing wider. At the meeting last night it was re- ported that the pew-holders were getting up a petition with the same object in view as that of the church members. It was agreed that the names of the signers would not be made public, as many of them ob- jected to any publicity. ' A vote of thanks | was extended to the press for its fair and clear statements of the great trial. Another meeting will be held in the lumbia building in the near future. FLEISHMAN PLAYS. A Concert by the Symphony Orchestra, ‘With Four Soloists. One of the features of the Symphony Orchestra concert in Golden Gate Hall, yesterday afternoon, was the number of soloists. 8. Fleishman, a well-known local pianist, played a concerto, Miss Nellie Guisti sang, C. W. Loyde played ‘a cornet solo and Gustav Rowan rendered a vocal solo of his own composition, Fleishman's playing was one of the most attractive features of the concert. He gave the Chopin-Nicade “Concert Al- legro,” for orchestra and piano-forte, and rendered his score with breadth and artistic feeling, as well as with excellent technique. The orchestra, on the whole, did good work in this concerto, though more familiarity with the score on the part of the conductor would probably have made the passages written In syncopated time go more crisply and tersely. ghere is slways a danger, in such passages, of the soloist appearing to pull one way and the orchestra another. Mr. Fleishman was most enthusiastically encored for his work in the ‘‘Concert Allegro,” and the audience would not be satistied till he had played an encore. Gustav Rowan, a local musician, ap- peared both as composer and vocalist. Co- NEW TO-DAY. A Dainty Pair. The lady who is proud of her shapely feet will find their beauty well displayed " BUCKINGHAM & HECHT'S Fine shoes, the very perfection of Fit and Elegance. Name stamped on every shoe. 1f your dealer don’t keep them ask for them at’ Kast's 738-740 Narket t. David Manlloyd was to have sung Rowan'’s ‘0 Salutaris,” but asa telegram was re- ceived from him stating his inability to be prey,ntpne eomgoaer sang the “O Salue taris” himself. The number was written with violin obligato, which N. Lands- berger played very well. The impression made by Rowan asa composer was very favorable, and would undoubtedly have been more so if Manlloyd had sung, for Mr. Rowan, although the possessor of & fine voice, has not yet learned how to use it. Miss Nellie Guisti sang the grand scene and. aria from Ambroise Thomas’ “Ham- let.”” - The scena is a display of 2vocal fire- works which is usually supposed to tax the ability of a Calve and was a very am- bitious piece of work for a debutante. It served, however, to show that Miss Guisti has a sweet, flexible voice, which she uses easily and well, having too much tendency to indulge in the tremolo. C. W. Loyde played “The Lost Chord” very well as a cornet solo, and the orches- tra performed three selections under the direction of James Hamilton Howe, the overture to ‘‘Tannhauser,”” which went very well with the exception of some un- ceriainty in the bass during the opening bars, and Waldteufel’s “‘Summer Even- ing'! waltz, which was charmingly played. Crespi Sentenced. Judge Wallace, after denying a motion for & new trisl made by Cesare Crespi, who was convicted of libeling G. Almagia, sentenced him to three months in the County Jail. His Honor sald if he levied a fine Crespi’s friends would raily round the editor and_pay it for him, so he would imprison the libeler, so as to ensure a genuine punishment. Illicit Brandy Seized. United States Revenue Officers Caber, Crom- well and Thomas captured three barrels of {l- licit brandy belonging to S. Lohengersila, who lives two miles from Modesto, and also seized the plaut of the offender. NEW TO-DAY. ““ Red Letter Days. To-day (Saturday) ends the ‘‘Red Letter Sale.” . Every red tag comes off to-night. A trio of little pictures— just for examples : We've sold about three score of these tables al- ready. But that's mot enough: 4o more for to- day’s selling. $4 60 each. Some Siren. One tiny mite of a pic- ture to repre- sent an even 103 different hallstands. But it'll give you an idea. 350, regular. $35'to-day. Polished an- tique oak, Dressing- tables at $10 are scarce— even during ‘““Red Letter T Days.” This is the only one we ever saw at fsthat price— f $10. Quartered oak. Solid mahogany. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street. AT AUCTION TO-DAY! TURKISH RUGS! THE LAST SALE OF THE— PILLIBOS COLLECTION At 2 o’clock P. M. AT SALESROOM, 236 SUTTER ST. Speclal Sales at 8 O’clock To=night, Sale Peremptory. WILL E. FISHER £ CO. 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