The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1896, Page 16

pis 4 THE SAN FRANCiSCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1896. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SZANIK BABY, The Infant a Daughter of a Merchant in Hayes Valley. THE MOTHER A DOMESTIC Born at the City Hospital and Christened at St. Peter’s. HOW A HUSBAND WAS DUPED. Mrs. Szanik’s Clever Plan That the Babe Should Be Carried to Her Doorstep. age of the much-talked- hat was left on the discovered. The true parent: of red-haired in 8zanik doorstep he The giri baby, v s on her way to Australia with her ‘oster mother, Mrs. Annie E. Dooley-Szanik, is the daughter of a young domestic and a prominent mer- chant of Hayes Valley. About a year ago a pale girl with anburn hair presented herself at the City and County Hospital and told the ola story of a weak woman’s wrongs. Beyond the fact that she was poor and ill and friendless, she declined to give the information re- quired for the register of the institution. Sbe hesitated when asked her name, and finally gave it with that air that the hos- pital attaches have come to recognize as marking an alias. When asked the name of the father of her child she was silent, and the register shows a blank where the pame shoula appear. She was reticent to all but one person during her st n the hospital, and that person.her nurse. Soon after the birth of ber buby she confided her troubles to her attendant. She was an orphan with practically no relatives except an uncle who lives in Oakland. The greater part of her child- hood was spent at St. Joseph’s Home and when she was old enough she went out 1o service. For a year or more prior to her appearance at the hospital she had worked in the family of three young men and their sister, who were engaged in the mercantile business in Hayes Valley. One of the brothers accomplished her down fall, but when disgrace threatened them both he turned her adrift. The story aroused the sympathies of the nurse and she toid several visitors of her | special interest in the mother and desire to | see the child in the care of a suitable family. Among the visitors to the| maternity ward was Mrs.Annie E. Dooley- Szanik, a professional.nurse, who had done considerable charitable work among the siums. She became interested in the mother sire to adopt the little one. There was on obstacle—her husband. Should she pro- pose the plan he would, in all prebability, veto it. But he would not be cruel enough to send away an infant that found its way to his doorstep, she reasoned. A wel meant conspiracy on the parv of herself and two hospital nurses, one of whom was her niece, was the result. Mrs. Szanik dictated a mournful little note, in which a heartbroken motbher, re- cently widowed, who claimed to be Mrs. Szanik’s friend and former patient, com- mitted the little oue to her care. The note was attached to the infant’s ciothing, and one night the two nurses st to the doorstep of Mrs. an home, at 808 Bush street, and de- posited a basket on the doorstep. The parlor was lighted according to a previ- ously arranged signal, which showed that Mrs. Szanik was waiting for her charge. From the corner of Bush and Mason streets they watched Mrs. Szanik as she opened the door and witnessed her affected surprise at the sight of the contents of the basket. Then they hurried back to the hospital. The mother had signed a document re- linquishing all right to the child, and her uncle had attached his name to the same. ‘When she was well enough she left the hospital and found work in a home where lurked less danger. She is still at work at that place and in ignorance of the where- abouts of the child. Only once has the nurse seen her since, and that was when the young mother came to tell her of a dream she had had that her young infant was ill and her mother heart was wrung in fearful appre- hension. She was soothed by the assur- ance that the child was safe and well and went away comforted. A few days after the ckild was found and Mrs. Szanix bad gained a reluctant consent from her husband to keep the child, it was baptized at St. Peter's Church, the nurse who had befriended the mother acting as godmother. The little one was christened Hazel Meade. Mrs. Szanik was not satisfied, however, and had the child rebaptized at the First Con- gregational Church, which she joined at about the same time. This time the name was changed to Ruth Dean. The child grew to bea favorite with pas- tor and people, and her bright little face was missed when it was set toward Aus- tralia. Mr. Tk and Mrs. Szanik have separated. former is living in this City and the | NEW TO-DAY. 'DISTRESSING DISEASES Instantly Relieved and Speedily Cured by ticura C SPEEDY CURE TREATMENT. — ‘Warm baths with CUTICURA S0AP, gentle appli- eations of CUTICURA (ointment), and mild doses ©of CUTICURA RESOLVENT (the new blood purifier) B i rlsh depot: ¥ New. g g Yt X o, King Bdwardat Diva Cark. Coxr., Sols Frope, Baston, U-B.Ar o latter has gone to Evansville, Australia, it is said, to claim a legacy of $170,000 Jeft her by an aged aunt. : — ® MISS FRANK’'S LECTURE. She Speaks to a Large ‘Audience and Gives Her Ideas Concerning Moses. Miss Ray Frank lectured on “Moses” at 1820 Clay street yesterday afternoon. She was introduced by Rabbi Nieto. ‘I have been asked,”” began the lecturer, “to say what kind of Moses I intend to picture, what I shall have to say about him and from what standpoint. My only answer to this has been: I will just give a picture of my Moses. He is gleaned from many booksand manuscripts, but for all thatIam pleased to call him my Moses. *‘The account, as you know, comes from the first five books of tne Bible, classified under the generic term Pentateuch. He was a prince, & metaphysician, a philoso- pher, a priest, a prophet, a martyr anda | Every one holds within | universal genius. himself to-day a fraction of all the various qualities of Moses.” Then followed a lengthy discourse on the qualities manifest in the great charac- ter of each of these roles. Miss Frank said Moses was destined to give to the world something, and that | something was law. Said the speaker: “Law in the natural thing—simple in its operations, simple in its aspects, if we un- derstand it. It is a moving principle, itself going on and on. Whatever gets in front of that law. is molded by it. That is the working of law in the natural world. | It bas no reverence for what seemingly is | good and for what seemingly is bad.” In other words, we have out of this law the survival of the fittest. In the days of | Moses men were molded by their environ- | ments quite as well as they are to-day. During patriarchal times men had a very faint idea of God, but in Moses’ day they hm‘lj come to look upon him as a jealous God.” The lecture referred to the pre-eminent genius of Moses, as illustrated by his| diplomacy in leading the children of Israel out of the land of bondage, and across the Red Sea into the wilderness, which was followed by a vivid word picture of the glories of Sinai, and the effect pro- duced on the Israelites at the sight of Moses desecending thence amidst thunder and lieghtning, bearing the tables of the law, that have molded thz policy of na- tions, in his arms. Coming to the human side of his nature. she graphically por- trayed the results of his peevish eagerness to supply the demand of the people, and | the credit taken to himself in smiting the rock to produce water instead of calling upon it in the name of Yahveh, or Jeho- | vah. For this,’”’ said Miss Frank, “he was denied the happy culmination of his hopes—entering the promised land; but there is something sublime in the forti- | tude with which he resgned himself to the | will of God, trusting that he wouid in | some way be rewarded for his lahors.”’ As a political economist Miss Frank de- nominates the great man rescued from the | bulrushes by Pharaoh’s daughter a mas- | ter. She thinks that no Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, nor Hanry George ever suggested anything tenaing to the relief of the poorer classes more than Moses’ agra- rian law by which the rich were compelled to sow in the corners of their land as well as in more accessible parts, but were or- dered<to let the poor reap in them. This | tendeds, she thinks, to do away with the self-debasement accompanying the accept- ance of al IS GOING TO GERMANY, Claus Spreckels Will Leave Soon | to Investigate the Sugar I Industry. WILL BE ABSENT SOME TIME. He Intends to Foster Growing of Beets in the San Joaquin—It Is a Gigantic Business. | Claus Spreckels, who has many enter- | prises on foot for the development of California, will some time next month leave for Europe. He is especially inter- ested in bringing more Caiifornia land under the production of sugar-beets. He believes that a large part of the San Joaquin Valley.to be tapped by the Valley road is especially adapted to raising sugar- beets, and that farmers, if they planted them, would make a great deal of money. Largely because of his convictions re- | garding the ultimate future of the sugar industry he is going to Germany to inves- tigate further regarding sugar-beets and their proauct. It is his purpose to make tbe industry one of the greatest, not only in California, but in the whole of the United States. Mr. Spreckels has never failed in any of his enterprises. He has made such a’sig- | nal success of the sugar business already tbat it would scem that he had reached | the height of information concerning it. | He thinks, however, his trip abroad will | be productive of results in this line that | will be of great_value to the State. Ho | will stay abroad some time. On his return he will begin work on his | sugar enterprises in the San Joaquin. Beet- growing and sugar-making are expected to vie with the fruit and grain industry and contribute vast wealth to that lertilei region of California. e Ladies’ Southern ties, $1 45, all shades, every oe. Ryan& Ryan, 10 Mongomery avenue, * | a cent since he has been gone,” continued | The widow. who had been connected with EVANGEL BARTON LEAVES HIS WIFE, She Was Abandoned With- out Money and With- out Price. NOW HE SAVES SOULS. ‘Preaching in a Tent in Santa <Rosa for the Des- titute. ¥ MRS. BARTON'S QUEER STORY. The Robber Killed at the Franklin House Identified—New Light on the Brown Scandal. The wife of Evangelist J. D. Barton, in telling the story of her wrongs last night toa CaLL reporter, incidentally threw some light on the identity of the burglar who was killed in the Franklin residence some weeks ago. While the body was lying in the Morgue with detectives in plain clothes on the threshold watching ail visitors for any signs of recognition, Evangelist Barton and his 16-year-old-daughter Lizzie, who had identified the dead man by the por- traits and descriptions in the newspa- pers, visited the Morgue, and were con- vinced beyond all doubt that the burglar on the slab wes an acquaintance named Bowditch or Bowdish, a Chinatown gambler. *‘When my husband left me the first time three years ago he placed his daugh- | ter with Bowditch and the woman who was called his wife, on Union street, and that’s why they were able to identify him,” said Mrs. Barton. ‘“Bowditch left a wife and five children in Topeka, Kansas.” This was the most sensational episode in Mrs. Barton’s story. Next in point of interest is ber statement that her husband | remarked to her, after the First Congrega- tionai Church sc: 1 got into the news- papers, that she could make $500 by repre- senting herself to be Jane Elizabeth Bad- din, the woman for whom Mrs. Davidson claimed to be acting as agent when she received §500 from Dr. C. O. Brown. Mrs. Barton continued : “I told him that if there was $5000 or $50,000 in it I would not swear falsels. “After having left me three yearsago and remaining away in Fresno for seven months he came back to me, and things went along smoothly for few weeks. I | bought him a shirt, an overcoat and some other things. 1don’t think the overcoat is paid for vet.” Evangelist Barton skipped from home the last time on the lst of March, justa month ago, for the purpose of spreading the gospel among the heathen in the inte- rior. His wife said that when he left she had two cents, two sacks of potatoes, one can of corn and acan of tomatoes. Heltold the lanalady that he was well fixed for the campaizgn, with two suits of clothes and 260 acres of land. “Fe has not written to me nor given me his wife, “and I have been obliged to go out and do housework to support myself. 1t’s nothing new, becanse I had to work the same way when he was with me.” Barton is a Swedish Woman, and s as though she had worked hard all her life. She was a Salvation Army lassie | in San Diego five years ago, and being | ordered to Los Angeles there met John D. | Barton, who was leading a checkered ex- | istence between carpentering and preach- | ing. The Salvation Army lassie married the carpenter-evangeiist and all went well for about two years when he left bis wife and took his 13-year-old daughter Lizzie with him. Some time last year Barton made the acquaintance of a pious widow named Minnie Soule, who had received $2000 in- surance money by the death of her hus- band. the Salyation Army, was a frequent visitor and took great interest in evangelical work. She left the City at about the same time that Mr. Barton did. Mrs. Barton is very much worried over the fact that Barton left several unpaid grocery and other bills. Thereisalso a $12 clock missing, for which Mrs. Barton paid installments of 50 cents per week. Rev. W. N. Meserve, pastorof the Union- square Free Baptist Church, told what he knew about Mr. Barton. He was employed by a certain number of the congregation for street work, Barton being a lusty shouter of hymns, ana a kind of collar-and- elbow open-air exhorter of the unregener- ate. He got out flaming circulars and had *John D. Barton, evangelist,”” painted in big letters on a white cloth tacked up on the church wall. The following is a copy of the circulars: REVIVAL MEETINGS. UN10N-SQUARE FREE BAPTIST CHURCH, Bush Street, Between Hydeand Larkin. Commencing Sunday Evening, August 11, 7:485 o'clock. | Meetings Every Evening During the Week. Grand Open-Air Meetings Every Night at 7 o'clock on the Corner of Bush and Larkin Streets, Are You Saved? Are You Ready to Meet Your God? God Loves You and Will Save You Now! Give Him a Chance! Come to the Meetings and Bring Your Friends. > Services Conducted by Evangelists J, D. BARTON and F. L. GAUTHIER. Jesus Died for You F. L. Gauthier, the partner of Barton, was elevator man in the Murphy build- ing,” said Pastor Meserve. “‘The two of them got a contract for shingling this church and putting in new wooden foun- dations. The work was not at all satisfac- tory, but the church paid the money rather than have any trouble or fuss about = That was all that the pastor knew of John D. Barton. The evangelist is still engaged in feeding sinners with the bread of eternal life and earping hisg@wn bread and butter by the music of his pious chin, while his wife has to goout early every mcerning cleaning windows, scrubbipg floors and tending children to earn her living. s BARTON’S TALE. He Accuses His Wife of Conspiring Agalnst Dr. Brown—HIis Santa Rosa Reception. SANTA ROSA, Caw., March 30.—Several weeks ago John D. Barton, accompanied by two men and one or two women, came to Santa Rosa and began a revival service. They occupied a tent at the corner of Washington and Fourth streets. Yester- day the tent was removed, and the re- vivalists are holding nightly services in a building on B street. In an interview wi_tdh a CarL correspondent Mr. Barton said: The attack upon us by this man Lemmon of the Republican is unwarranted and unjust. Thqre 18 no truth in the statement that we are trying to obtain money under the pretense of aiding destitute people. We have nided many yeapie here, but respect their natural scruples of having their names published to the world. For this reason Lemimon saw fit to attack us in his sheet. As for the woman who ealls herself my wife in San Francisco, I no longer own her for & wife. We were married land, Or., in 1891, v Justice Wood in Port- nd two hours afterward my newly wedded wife went to General George Williams, borrowed §36 and leit town Tam a carpenter and builder by trade, but was engaged in Portland in detective work. I closed up my cflice and came 1o San Francisco to find my wife. Ifound her at Mrs. Miller's at 3300 Clay street, or near there. For five years she spent every cent I earned and made my life miserable. She beat my 16-year-old daughter and kept me in hot water continu- ally. Oneday a man came to the house and demanded $50 of her. She had him put out of the house and they ended the fight in the street. Ifound thai this man was one of her former husbands. ferent husbands. Shortly after this I was told by Emma Mitch- elerof 1807 Mission street some of my wife's former history. She used to work for a man named Redwine on Jackson and Sansome streets. They kept a lodging-house snd she beat him out of it. She went to Los Angeles, where she married a man named Perry. Then she married a man at Fort Douglass named Hyman. After this she married & man named Jordson and I think they lived at 1807 Mission street with Mrs. Murphy. My wife was thick with Mrs. Tunnell when we lived at 15)¢ Oak Grove avenue and it was there that the job was put up on the Rev. C. 0. Brown. Mrs. Tunnell gave my wife a house and lot, which I suppose was her share of the plunder. She left my house at 16 Fell place about January 1, 1896, aud about a week after Ifollowed. I'only took a few bedclothes and my personal effects. I made her a present of all of the household goods and am willing to support her, but not to live with her, provided | of course that she can prove to me that some of these stories are false and that she will live a decent life. As for me running away with Minnie Soule, that is untrue. I met Minnie Soule shortly after her husband, Mr. Andrews, killed him- | self last Christmas, and she requested that I should assist her in getting a life insurance pol- icy cash 1 took her to my lawyer, Mr. Coll- | yer, whose office is at 14 McAllister street, and he will bear me out in all I say. My wife thought she could get some of my roperty in Portland, but I was too smart for er and the detectives she hounded me with. Being a detective myself they found it very hard to shadow me. Minnie Soule has never been in Santa Rosa. The lady who has been with us is Mrs. Harriet Ayers, 8 noble woman, who is backing our efforts to raise the fallen and establish a rescue home. We have saved twenty souls already, and with God’s help will save many more. My uncle, Barton,is now at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, and I have sent Mrs. Ayers to him for mooey to keep up the good work. We bave purchased a piece of property,and one of Santa Rosa’s noble citizens has donated a six-room house. Gbd will show us a way to furnich it eed fallen women cans find as | cordial & welcome there as any Christian woman in the land. = 1f my ex-wife stirs me up I will send her to ——tocool off. 1am a veryquiet man till you ruffie my feathers the wrong way, then I put up the bars. : » Before the meeting was over the preacher informed his audience that he had just received news from San Francisco which compelled him to bid them all a farewell orever. Thathe would take the first train for San Francisco in the morning and asked the prayers of all of his hearers, He said that he had hoped to make Santa Rosa bhis home, but that business of im- portance called him away. He promised to send a good man in his place. WINDOWS TO SHOW AT NIGHT. Arc Lights Will Be Placed in St. Igna- tius Church. A prominent electric light and power firm has recently been making prepera- tions to place arc’ lights behind the windows of St. Ignatius Church in order to show the’ figures thereon at night Preparations were completed last evening, and the lights were turned on, throwing the coloring and figures of the windows into bold relief. - 2 There are twenty-four windows in the church, aggregating in cost $30,000. Four of these are 1 front. The others extend along the sides, and are bounded on the outward side by small chapels. At night thebeauty of these windows has been obscured by the feeble light. Eight arc lights were placed in each of these chapels and two in each of the small rooms containing the windows which are oyer the altar. Large pieces of tin were used as reflectors. ~ Powerful reflectors will be used instead ot the tin, and the current, which is now attached to the regular 12 o’clock wires, will be supplied with a switch, making the arrangement compiete. e - Charged With Burglary. Charles Gross, a butcher, was arrested yester- day by Policeman T. L. Ryan on the charge of burglary. He broke Into the house of John Holy, 430 Tehama street, & few nights lfo and stole $10. Entrance was effected by forcing ‘Why, she has had six aif- HALF A BLOCK FALLS IN FLAMES Oakland Is Visited by Fire in the Stormy + Night, % MILLS AND HOUSES LOST Two Firemen Seriously Injured While Fighting the Blazes. BURNING BRANDS TAKE WING. Only With Great Difficulty Was the Fire Confined to a Water- Front Block. OAxLAND OErICE 8AN FRANCISCO CALL, 908 Broadway, March 30. } The easfy half of the block bounded by First and Water, Broadway and Wash- ington streets was destroyed by fire to- night. The flames were first discovered near the engine-room of the Pioneer Plan- ing-mill owned by T. L. Hierlihy. The first alarm was not turned in five minutes before it was seen that the high wind prevailing had made certain the de- struction of all property east to Broad- way. A general alarm was sounded and by tbe time the whole department was on hand the flames had spread to an adjoin- ing lumber-vard. Large pieces of burning wood were carried across to the west side of Broadway, and two chemical engines were detailed to put out the fires there as fast as buildines began to blaze. Twenty minutes after the alarm was given the flames were mounting high in the air and the fresh breeze spread them with fearful rapidity. It was evident that nothing could be done by fighting the fire from the windward side, so Chief Fair drew all his men to the Water-street and Broaaway sides of the doomed block and prevented the fire from crossing either street, and confined it to the block where it started. After sweeping through the Pioneer Planing-mills the flames enveloped Spencer’'s Feedmill and in ten minutes it was a mass of flame. The wind carried the flames southward and the American Boiler Works were soon a blazing mass. Next to feed the hungry flames was the Cottage Restaurant, This frame building did not stop the progress of the fire long and the adjoining saloon and cigar-store were soon absorbed. At the back of these small structures is Taylor's lumber-yard. The lumber is stacked high across Water street and it was not till the fire reached the solid piles of lumber that its progress was stayed. The ferry steamer Alameda that plies on the creek route was in her slip just on the south side of the lumber, and she was 1N uANger uf @KIE NIc UWing W thy showers of sparks that fell on her decks. A siream was played on’the decks and the watchman pulled the steam-whistle, and did not cease till the engineer arrived and the boat was moved to a place of safety. By half-past 8 thefire was under control. The destroyed buildings were ' two-story frame structures and very old. T. J. Sheehan, a fireman, fell off a lum- ber pile and hurt his head, causing slight concussion of the brain, and ke also sprained his left hand. H. C. Yorke, an- other fireman, was badly injured on one foot by a glass insulator that fell from a burning telegraph pole. No other acci- dents were reported. The Cottage Restaurant was conducted by Mrs. Eliza Dubois, who lostall her fur- niture. The saloon was the joint property of H. Coppers and Joe Cooper, and the cigar-store was run by Henry Branton, ail of whom lost all the stock and furniture. The whole of the destroyed property was insured, and it is estimated that the dam- age will not exceed $15,000, The property was all classed as high risks and the premium was as high as 9 and 10 per cent. ‘Lhere were two other small fires during the day and early this morning. The old Reinhardt place on Lake Shore avenue, near the boulevard, now owned by Mrs. Sarah Coiners, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is a mystery, but it is supposed that tramps caused it by the careless use of matches. J. J. Mulgrew of the Brooklyn engine company was se- verely burned about the head and hands by an explosion of gas when the water was turned on the coal in the cellar. Fire- man Stokes was slightly burned at the same time. Held for Murder. Lang Quong was yesterday held to answer before the Superior Court by Judge Conlan without bopds on the charge of murder. Some months ago during the trouble among the Six Companies Quong fatally shot unother Chinese cpen & windows in Sullivan alley. PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE BEAUTIFUL IONIC STRUCTURE PROPOSED BY JAMES W. DUNCAN OF THIS CITY AS THE M BUILDING FOR THE UNIV. ERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Mr. Duncan was superintendent of construction of the present university buildings, and when these were being erected a large open space in the center of the grounds was left for a handsome main hall or executive building. It is now Mr. Duncan’s hope to superintend the construction of this new building, and to this end he hashad these plans prepared. The total length of the proposed building is 420 feet, with a depth, in the center, of 205 feet. Mr. Duncan’s plan is to have the funds raised by private donations, and to use Folsom granite in the construction. Should these plans be carried through successfully the University of Californis would undoubtedly have the most magnificent college executive building in the world. DTG Brid] NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS, BIGHT GREAT-LEADERS IN PARASOLS, RIBBONS, GLOVES, HANDKERCHIGFS £ BELTS! | | | For the purpose of attracting the attentia of every lady in the city to OUR PEERLESS DISPLAY OF NEW sSkRiNG STYLES AND NOVELTIES we offer the following seasonable lyeg At Special Prices To-day ! CARRIAGE PARASOLS! At 81.00. BLACK CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in gloria silk, lined, value §1 50, will be oifered of $1. ¢ At 81.50. ; BLACK CARRIAGE PARASOLS, in gloria silk, 2 and 3 ruffles, value $2, will be of- fered at $1 50. i DRESDEN RIBBONS! At 25 Centss. . 22 ALL-SILK DRESDEN RIBBOX, in assorted colors, will be offered at 25¢ a yard, LADIES’ KID GLOVES! At 78 Cents. 300 pairs BLACK AND COLORED KID GLOVES, five hooks, every pair guaranteed. regular value $1 25, will be offered at 75¢ a pair. > ' LAt 9O Cents. % 250 pairs MOUSQUETAIRE KID'GLOVES, every pair guaranteed, régular value $1 50, will be offered at 90c a pair. LADIES’ HANDKERCHIEFS! At 10 Cents Each. 200 dozen LADIES’ SHEER WHITE SCALLOPED EMBROIDERED LAWN HAND- KERCHIEFS, regular value $2 50 a dozen, will be offered at 10c each. » LADIES’ BELTSH At 25 Cents. . LADIES’ SILK BELTS, Silvered Buckles, in hlack and navy blue, extra valte. At 78 Cents. LATIES' SPANGLE BELTS, on elastic web foundation, 8-row spangles, extra ¥alue, iy » . Market Stoeet, corner of Jongs, SAN FRANOISCO. T0 BASE THE MORTGIGE LEVIN BR §; Y. M Mc. t.A. Diéecltorst Hold LEADING GROCERS. a eeting an nvite : ety = Special for This Week! Subscriptions. . Y [z N | t l Chauncey M. Depew to Be Requested to Lecture Under Associa- tion Auspices. HAMS Order in advance for Easter. Extra ‘ Choice Eastern Sugar-Cured Hams, | 1le; A. & C. Dupee, Gilt Edge, Our | Taste, 12¢. The board of trustess and directors of the Y. M. C. A. hcld a very enthusiastic meeting at the Y. M. C. A. building, cor- ner of Mason and Ellis streets, last even- ing, C. 8. Wright, vice-president of the as- sociation, in the chair. The amount of $5000 in new subscrip- SWEET WINES— Vintage of 18%0. Peare Vineyard, Napa County. Port, Sherry, Angelica, Tokay, Muscatel, Madera, Malaga— three bottles $1; regular price, 50c a tions was reported, which brought the | hotties W total up to $38,000, leaving a balance of | JAMS— $12,000 to be raised in order to reach the Crosse & Blackwell’s Best—Black $100,000 mark started for six months ago. Currant, Raspberry, Strawberry, Blackberry, Red Currant, Damson, Green Gage, Pineapple, Googeberry, 20c a jar; $225 a dozem; regular price, 25¢. b3 1 PRESERVED GINGER— New Arrival from China. Extra Quality, Large Size, 35c jar; regula- The committee unanimously decided to put forth a special effort immediately to secure the balance of the subscriptions this week if possible, and several of the leading merchants will be called upon to make up this amount. The following gentlemen were uppointed a committee on the canvass: W. F. Whit- tier, John F. Merrill, Edward Coleman, Tice, 500 Thomas Mahr{z(-e, J. Démpst,er Ichae,é\'. }i; L * ® o A Romaine, Monroe Greenwood and C. R. \ Bishop. | BUTTER 4 Every pledge is made on condition that | Point Reyes, 30c squa Cheic ¢ $100,000 Ee subscribed, and of the $88,000 | _ Point Reyes Creamery, 35¢4°3 square ! already subscribed the trustees themselves for $L. [ hayve listed their names for over $40,000. The largest amount subscribed so far by one person is $6000. There are eleven $5000 subscriptions and several in the sum of $1000. 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