The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1896, Page 8

8 MILK COMBINE UN THE TAPISI | thém in consequence of typesetting | that have come to take the brea Dairymen Pool Interests Hoping to Increase the Profits. i CONSUMERNOTAFFECTED Biggest Expense Now Encoun tered Is Found in Deliv- ering the Milk. TO INCORPORATE THIS WEEK. The Company Will Have Its Own Blacksmith and Work Shops, Effecting Large Saving. Before the end of the present week the dairies of San Francisco and adjoining counties will pool their interests in a cor- poration to be known as the Milkmen’s Union. The object of the new association is not | o increase the price of milk to the con- sumer, but to augment their own profits by decreasing the expenses incident to the business. Itis claimed by those at the head of the movement that through con- solidation of the various dairies the cost of delivering mitk, which is the biggest item milkmen are called upon to shoul- | aer, will be decreased from 25 to 50 per cent. The plan as proposed means nothing less than a gigantic trust, without the ob- jectionable features attached to such a concern. In fact, under the system as devised by H. A. Clifford, such a thing as increasing the price beyond the figures named by the dairymen at the time of joining the corporation is out of the ques- tion. ““The articles of incorporation are now being drawn up.” said Mr. Clifford yester- av, “and in a very few days the company will be formally launched on the milk world. The main cbject to be attained is the reduction of expenses and the doing away with any cut-throat business. Every man joining the union will go in on his own merits. That is to say, his interest in the corporation will be governed by the paying ability of his business. His stock, route, wagons and harness will be taken by the company at their market value, stock in the corporation being given in pavment. This proposition can be better 1llustrated as follows: 40 cans, wholesale trade, at 50 cents per can per month 7 Steieizs 8800 17 cans one-quart trade at $2 50 each per month i 7 1 horse valued 100 1 e $1580 *This $1580,” continued Mr. Chfford, “‘would represent the amount of stock re- ceived by the milkman. Now, in order to be sare that the value of the trade which I will say has been turned in by the would- | be stockholder at 50 cents per can is really not less than that, the company accepts the business with a sixty-day saving clause. If at the end of that time the | trade holds up to 50 cents per can the stock isissued. Should it fall below that sum the dairyman is offered exactly what his route pays, with the privilege of refusing if be o desires. “‘Contracts will be made with each man owning cows, and turning his route into the company, each contract being made | for a number of years with permission to the dairyman to sublet his contract if he so desires. “Eyery dairy will of course be under the control of the company, the latter fixing a time for milking and imposing such other | conditions as the business might warrant. | There is to be an inspector, whose only oc- cupation will be to visit twice each montk dairy belonging to the corporation, paying particular aitention to the quality of the food and water given the stock, and | 1o see if each ranch is in a perfectly sani- | tary condition. Milk received from 2 d: sours before a reasonable time, will be charged to the dairy delivering it. “Dairymen not owning routes in the City will be approached with a view of se- curing, if possible, the control of the entire milk supply, thus establishing a uniform price, with a reasonable certainty of ulti- mately decreasing the cost to the con- sumer. Under this plan two men with one horse and wagon will be able to put out 100 cans of milk between the hours of 3and 7A. ». The City will be figuratively cutupin sections, doing away with fifty same building. In other words three wagons will be able to do the work of ten. “With only a few hours’ work each day a | horse will last for years, his shoeing cost- | ing less than 50 cents, instead of $2 asnow. The company will haveitsown blacksmith and general work shops. where all this can be done, as well as wagons paiuted and cans manufactured. *‘It can be readily seen whata bandsome’ ividend all this will yield to the stock- holders, in addition to the regular profit | on the milk. It is also our purpose to | handle the hutter of all dairies wishing to | send to this market. This butter will be | sold on the milk routes, thus bringing a | new and paying industry into the business. | “The largest dairies in San Francisco | have joined the corporation, and I venture the assertion that in less than thirty da; every milkman of importance wiil be seek- iug admission. The milkmen need just suck an institution as this to doaway with the present expensive manner of con- ducting the business.”” DE. YORK'S LECTURE. Declares Our System of Education In- competent to Cure Growing Evils. Dr. J. L. York was tendered a benefit by the San Frencisco Liberal Union and | friends of liberalism at Scottish Hall last evening. The doctor lectured on *Edunea- tion, Marriage and the Family.” He said: In a certain se thing thatwe hear, see and feel helps cate us. In a broad sense education means the drawing out by cul- | ture and discipline that which is germinal in | human nature, We find that man is dual in | his nature, and in the constitution of his fagul- | ties he is a physical, mental and moral being. And any system of ‘education, 10 be a tr 16 s tem, must educate the whole man and brit out this trinity of human powers into harmo- tion, and_ thus develop well-balanced | ter. And the great object of education should be to produee true, seli-sustaining man- hood and womanhood. Or, in other words, salvation for body, mind and moral being, | The physical and morai culture of the young | is‘the foundation upon which depends the suc. cess of human life.” We believe that ail crime | is a disease and needs social remedies. Jai prisous and the hangman’s rope do not stay the tide of vice, misery and crime which s to keep pace with our civilization, To expect good mental and morel results from a rickety body and a badly formed skull wou!d be to reap withoutsowing and to gather where we had not strewn. And the idea of driving poor feeble children into a schoolroom 10 get them out of the way of the overtaxed mother is simply absurd and cruel. Some peo- ple act as though the schoolhouse were & tank where knowledge is stored up, atd that the children, like so many empty jugs, are sent there 10 be filled; and the teacher, snpposed to be the boss of the tank, 15 expected, with little or no help from the parents’ at home, To put the same quautity in each jug regard- | | Mi ry not up to the standard, or which | v wagons_delivering milk on the | same street, and in many instances in the | result of such pushing methods of education we have intellectual dyspeptics and educated fools without common sense enough to care for their own bodies and utterly unfit to fight the batile of life. We were pained this week by the appeal of lethe 400 typesetters of this Ciiy, men, women, {"hoys and girls out of empioyment, many of machines from the Artand 1 ess of constitution and capacity. And as a | mouths of the hung S0 it fs. invention lends its cruel hand in creating idle- ness, poverty and misery among the people. And with our present system of financial ruin Poor. only augment their misery by rendering them more susceptibie to the unfavorable conditions vhich surround them. What we need is better ndustrial conditions and technical schools for our young peopie. The school training which does not fit both mind and body for useful citi- zenship falls short of a true education. g e It Was Collusion. Judge Sanderson has sustained the demur- rer of Sofre Alexander to the suit of his ex- phie Alexander, to set aside a decree of divorce. nce the divorce was granted the lady has found that Alexander has more money than she thought, so she wanted a chance for alimony. But Judge Sanderson found that the divorce had been granted to Alexander by the collusion of his wife, and so 1e held that she could not profit by her own wrong and have it set aside. He therefore sus- tained a demurrer to her complaint without leave to answer. pets B I e Miss Culbertson’s Return. There is general rejoicing at the Presbyterian Chinese Home, 920 Sacramento street, that Miss Culbertson, who has been away for months on sick leave, has recovered suffi- |und depression_of iabor our school facilities ciently to resume her duties as matron of the home. The twenty-third annual meeting of the Woman’s Occidental Board of Foreign ions will be held at 920 Saeramento street | on 1st, 2d and 3d of April. A number of mis- sionaries will speak and the year’s reports will be read. The opening day will be occupied with & reception to Miss Wombold, the board’s outgoing missionary to Korea. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1896. ALONG THE WATER FRONT The Strong Gale of Yesterday Did Very Little Damage to Shipping. SOME VESSELS BROKE ADRIFT. A New Patent Screw Will Be Tried in the Tug Reliance Next Week. There was quite a storm on the bay yes- terday and a number of vessels were | slightly injured, while the ferry-boats found it difficult to leave their landings. The bark Coryphene was at anchor off Lom- bard-street wharf and was exposed to the full force of the wind and tide. About noon she began to drift, and her anchor only held when she was within a few feet of the British ship Walden Abbey. The tug Sea King of the Merchants’ and Ship- owners’ line stood by her for over two hours, and finally towed the Coryphene to Mission Bay. With the turn of the tide both vessels came together, but no damage | was done. B | When the Umatilla was leaving for Puget Sound ports the wind and tidi caught her and she was carried from Yates did some notable work on portrait painting, and the Bohemian Club is par- ticularly fortunate in owning some of the best pictures that he painted. His success in London was not gained in a month ora year, but he has been gaining steadily un- til he now ranks as one of the foremost portrait painters of the day. The Sketch of March 24 contains a full-page represen- tation of one of his latest pictures, *‘sa- dame Ia Comtesse.’” The St. James Budget of December 6 reproduces his portrait of George Allen. Speaking of his visit to Newark on Trent to paint Mr. Allen’s pic- ture the artist says in nis letter to Doxey: I came down here to paint one grand old fellow which led to nine other commis- sions and no end of work waiting to be done in London.” Mr. Yates was in New York two years ago and then expected to continue the fi;\rney to California, but had to return to | London to paint the Bishop of Ports- | mouth, ! R | Brothers at Law. Judge Coffey has refused the application of Adolpn Soher to have his brother removed | from the position of administrator of the estate of Lewis Soher, father of the litigants. | The men are administrators of the estate. For years the eight children of Lewis Soher have been fighting over his estate, and the end is not yet. Adolfih charged mismanagement of | the estate in all its phases, but Judge Coffey decided that no mismanagement had been | I»roved. and so refused to remove the distaste- | ful officer. Thrown From His Wagon. Henry Hart, 1604 Pacific avenue, an em- | ploye of the quartermaster’s department of | the ‘United States army, was driving a wagon | with locked wheels down Pine street yester- day afternoon. When between Stockton and 'Durunt streets the wagon switched around nd Hart was thrown to the ground. He was aken to the Receiving Hospital, where it was ound that his right collar-bone was broken. | | | | ‘The Bark Coryphene and the British Ship Walden Abbey as They Appeared When in Collision Off Clay-Street Wharf Yesterday. [Sketched by a * Cail " artist. | THE ART ASSGCIATION Annual Election for Directors and President Takes Place To- Day. Joseph D. Grant Placed on the Regu- lar Ticket—No Opposition in Sight. The annual election for directors of the place to-day at the Mark Hopkins Insti- tute of Art. The polls will open at 1 o’clock . M. and close at 6 p. M. The an- nual meeting and election of president will be held in the evening, the board con- vening at 8 o’clock. So far there is only the regular ticket in the field. In order to attract as many members of | the association as can attend the mew paintings recently received have been placed on exhibition. Tne annua! report, ready for submission | to the directors, shows a loss in member- ship during the past year of thirty. "In cash on hand the institute holds its own. -About twelve years ago, when Colonel A. G. Hawes was elected president of the association, the institute was in debt and the ymembership slight. He took hold of affairs with a good deal ot vigor and | recruited the membership. When he handed the scepter to Joseph D. Redding there was a good membership and no debt. Under Mr. Redding’s administration the association prospered. He held the new members secured by Hawes and added to the cash reserve. There was a lucky fire during Redding’s career and $2000 insur- ance money was collected. The enter- | tainments during his terms brought in | nearly $3000. Under the presidency. of the late L. L. Baker there was not an active canvass made for new recruits and the member- ship declined. Fred Zeile was inaugurated president. | He devoted great personal effort to increas- ing the membership, and success crowned his work. James D. Phelan during his.two terms of office as president has not increased the number of members, but his career has been distinguished by liberality to the in- stitution and generous help to deserving artists. Since the regular ticket for to-day’s elec- tion was printed and sent out to members Joseph 15. Crockett declined to serve and Joseph D. Grant has been placed on the ticket to fill the vacancy. CHARGED WITH MURDER Michael Costello, Grocer, Arrested on the Complaint of His Father- in-Law. Michael Costello, grocer on the corner of Brannan and Gilbert streets, was charged at the City Prison yesterday with murder. On March 9, last year, Costello’s wife died suddenly. An inquest was held and a verdict rendered of death from natural causes. The inquest was held at the re- quest of John Lynch, Costello’s father-in- law, who expressed his suspicions that his daughter had been poisoned. The body was interred, and now, after the lapse of over a year, Mr. Lynch has orn to a complaint charging Costello with murder, alleging that he has pro- ured evidence to show that the death of his daughter was not from natural causes. Costello said yesterday that the charge was absurd. On_the day before her death his wife appeared i her usual health, and that morning, between 5 and 6 o'clock, when be left the house, she was asleep. When he was notified that she bad been taken seriously ill he called in three physi- cians, but they were unable to save her life. The records in the Coroner's office, he said, would show the real cause of his wife's death, e e An Idle Scavenger. The bowels act the part of a scavenger, inasmuch as they remove much of the debris, the waste, effete matter of the system. When they grow idle, neglectful of duty, it is of the utmost importance that they should be impelled to activity. Hos- tetter's Stomach Bitters effects this desirable ob- Ject without griping them like a drastic purgative. The Bltters is also eflicacious for malaris, bilious, dyspepiic and kidney trouble. 1 Broadway wharf to the ferries before Cap- |tnin Hunter could get her straightened | out and on her course. The San Rafael, | in backing out from her slip, had her stern i slewed around by the wina and she went broadside on across the opening. Captain McKenzie got a breast-line out, and after some skillful manuvering got the steamer | head on_to the breeze and then all was plain sailing. i One of the State dredgers was badly bumped at the north end and had to be moved by the tug Governor Markham. lThe vacht Hurricane was driven agamnst the piles when passing through the Oak- land drawbridee and had about twelve feet of her sail carried away. At the south end no damage at all was done. { The delegation of municipal officers | from Minneapolis mnow visiing San San Francisco Art Association will take | Francisco will be treated to a sail on | | the bay to-morrow. They will be the | guests of Supervisor A. B. Spreckels and | Will leave Mission-street wharf at 1 1 A. M. _All the points of interest, such as | the Union Iron Works, Hunters Point | drydock, the rolling-mills, Presidio, Fort | Point and others, will be visited. The Willamette Vallev, which is sched- uled to arrive from Mexican ports, will have her name changed as soon as she gets |in. When she sails again she will be | called the Orizaba. | The steamer George W. Elder, which =) | broke her rudder-post some months ago, | | is now almost repaired and will resume | her running to Portland next Saturday The Willamette and Columb a, which also broke their rudder-posts when attempting | to bring down the Elder’s cargo, are now | nearly repaired and will gtart running | again some time next month. | _ The steamer Coptic brought a very valu- | ble consignment of opium from Hongkon, this last trip. The duty on it alone wil net Uncle Sam $125,000. When the Peru | sailed the customs authorities thought there was opium aboard, and in conse: | quence the cutter Hartley followed he | down the bay in order to'see that no at- | tempt was made to throw it overboard. | Chief Engineer Fred Helland did not go | out on_the Peru, his place being taken by | | John Stevenson. It was given out that | Helland was sick, but he was down to see | the vessel away nevertheless. The Peru had no cabin passengers and only a thou- sand tons of cargo. Peter McQuilan, a fireman on the tug Reliance, had his foot badly crushed yes- terday. He was taking a bucket of water {and got his foot between the tug’s fender and a pile. The Reliance is to have her new screw put in this week. It isauger shaped, will be made of composite gun metal and will weigh- two tons. There will be a six-inch flange on the outer rim to keep the water from being thrown against the outer edge. The new serew is not altogether an experimerit, as the Messrs. Spreckels have tried it on their San Dlefio ferry-boat, where it has proved a splendid success. A vessel equipped with one of these augers can go ahead or astern on the instant, and there 15 slso less slip than with the ordinary propeller. It is expected that the speed and towin, power of the Reliance will be considerably G andcabls o ey onsiderable work has been done on Reliance in order to fit her for the n?t: and in about four davs she will go on drydock to have the wheel fitlgzd. Th‘e‘: by about Monday next she will be ready for her trial trip. Steamship men are loud in their praise of John D. Spreckels’ public spirit in giving the new screw a thorough test at his own expense. The schooner Del Norte is expected to- morrow from Coquille River with a cargo of coal from a new mine just opened. %‘ W. Kronenberg of Oakland has developed the mine and he is about to put the prod- uct on the Oakland market. Should it turn out as fiood as expected a regular line of vessels will be put on the route. FRED YATES COMING. The Distinguished Artist Expects to Be in San Francisco This Summer. William Doxey has just received a letter from the distinguished artist Freaeric Yates, in which the latter states that he will probably make a flying visit to San | Francisco this year. In the letter Mr. Yates refers modestly but frankly to his success in England, and speaks of the pleasure he anticipates in meeting General Barnes, Dr. Stebbins, Arthur Scrivener, Dr. Barkan and many good Bohemians who were so helpful to him in the beginning of his career in San Francisco. He mentions the late Tiburcio Parrott as.one of his stanchest friends. During his career in S8an Francisco Fred g | Nels and Andy Field, Bixley. George Gan, screw. A new stern-post has been put in | OLO-TINERS HAE J0FLL They Are Laughing at the Trouncing Received by This l City’s Police. !Other Police Sharpshooters Would Like to Compete With the Oak- land Force. It is advisable to know just at this par- ticular time that there are two very dis- | tinet divisions in Company A of the Po- | lice Department. It was divis | got the walloping on Saturday in the rifle | match against the Oakland team. Its members ure sore and are chafing under the jibes of their fellow ofticers of the | force. As a matter of fact, it might be ad- | visable not to seek information or favors from members of division 1 of Company ! A just at this particular time, | On the other hand, any officer wearing a broad grin and » particularly charming manner may be called upon atany mo- ment for almost any service, for he’surely belongs to division 2, the members of which have been giving the members of division 1 the grand ha! ha! There 1s a bit of a story in this situation. ‘When the Oakland policemen began toot- ng their own horn as to their clever | marksmanship, Captain Wittman, com- | manding division 1 of Company A, de- clared he had material enough to plug a bullseye full of holes, while the Oakland ‘cops’’ would be shooting all around the | target. A mateh was made and instead of select- | ing the crack shots from both divisions to represent the police force of thus City, | Wittman selected ten men of his own com- | mand. They were al! novices excepting Harry Hook and Sergeant Nash, who were members of the old unbeaten team. They went to the butts and were givep a mostin- glorious beating.. But the Oakland locust wielders must not run away with the idea that they are the crackajack marksmen of this State, for there are seven other divi- sions yet to pick men from and each of the seven thinks its men the best. There is one thinF certain, division 1 is no longer in the field, at least until its members can do better than average 40.90 out of a pos- sible 50. Iiis %gzblble that the recent match will bring about a series of shooting matches between the various divisions, and uiti- mately the best men in all the divisions will be picked out as a team to compete against all comers. It will be as-in the good old days when P. D. Linville, Charley Nash, Harry Hook, Caiilean, E. C. Wells, J. C. Lane, Bodwell, «Hiram A. Robinson, John Glanz, Bailey, Clark, Oaks Erskine and the old Veteran Captain Douglass, held out against the world both at pistol and rifle shooting. These _men were never beaten at the range. But, in turn they defeated teams from the Presidio, the 8an Francisco and Oakland militia, a citizens' picked team and the celebrated Carson Guards. It was nothing for the old-timers to average 43 or 44, and they were never hard pressed either. An amusing incident in Saturday’s de- feat is the fact that four of the Oakland i team’s best shots were in the Carson Guards at the time the Jatter were so badly trounced by the old-timers. SAN JOAQUIN BANKS. The Commissioners Report That They Found Them All in Good Condition. 5 Messrs, Magee and Fuller of the Board of Bank Commissioners have just re- turned frgm an official tour through the San Joaquin Valley. During their absence from the City, which was over three weeks in duration, the Commissioners visited all the banks in the section lying between Bakerstield and Modesto. They found all the banking-houses of the district covered in good condition financially, indications being that the “hard times,” so far as the San Joaquin Valley is concerned, are a thing of the past. 'WONDERFUL cure Mitchell’s Magic Lotion is for sore throat, all pain and accidents, * | BENEATH THE PIE CRUST The Labor Commission Is Inves- tigating the City’s Bake- ' Shops. PASTRY COOKS IN FLAGRANTE Two ‘Special Deputies Inaugurate the Practical Work of Inspection. A day of reckoning for the beings who preside over the kneading-trouzh has | come. The Augean bakeshops of the City are to be cleansed, and the Hercules who | is to undertake the job is none other than Hon. E. L. Fitzgerald, the genial Labor | Commissioner. 1 Since he assumed charge of the Labor Bureau Mr. Fitzgeraid has had in view a | sweeping reform in the present manner of conducting many of the smaller City bakeries. In his last official report he uses | the followlng language: 1 detailed my agents to investigate this par- ticular industry carefully, instructing them to | 1ake cognizance of every detail of the work, | making a thorough and careful report of every place visited. They began with the larger | Lakeries. whose business is strictly wholesale; | they were found to be in a good condition. One in particular I deem worthy of especial notice. Upon entering the factory and pre- senting their credentlals they were taken by the manager and shown every nook and corner | of the establishment. 'The factory, from the ground floor to the top, every floor, machine and other appurtenances showed n studied care and neatness. In the packing-rooms were bevies of young ladies at the tables, chatting gayly over the events of the day, packing in the various boxes the crisp crackers, nicnacs or macaroons. The &ir Was pure and refreshing, the tloors were white &s & man-of-war deck, and everything had an air of | wholesomeness. Z | The scene prescnted a pleasing spectacle to the eye and one felt_reluctant in leaving. In conversation with the manager it was learned that for the many years he had been in the manufacturing busiress it had always been a study with him as to what more he could do for the -convenience of his operatives, thor- oughly believing that attention and care in this regard insured better results from & bu ness standpoint. I understand that this es tablishment is about to open a_hospital annex | for its operati He complained that the | product of the biscnit and cracker companies of this State is subjected to & competition with goods of Oregon, which is damaging to the business, s the goods imported were of & very much inferior quality, and consequently bring & less vrice, to the injury of our home institu- tions. R e e e The work of .investigation covered the in- spection of about 150 bakeries, whose opera- tives numbered variously {rom two to ten ench, which said places were found to be in in- different conditions. Some were good, many fair and muny in bad condition. Inmany places where improvements Were Decessary | the respective proprietors promised faithtully to make the needed changes, hence I will not particularize or call by name any of these per- sons, who are inclined to do right and have confessed to carelessness in the past. However, it may be well to describe one or twoof the places where the breadstuffs con- sumed by the thousands of San Franciscans | internally. are prepared. Entering by a grflclpilou\ stair- | tl way from the sidewalk to cellar, over which the fat and grease for years were allowed to accumulate, you proceed to the tables where the bread is made. operative is a sickly looking man, e foul-smelling The | ale_and | thin, whose features bear the result of the | 1abor from day to day In_this place. which is not fit for the abode of the despicable rodent. Here he toils, breathing the odors of the de- | cayed fruit, which was too bad to use, and the neglected eggs, which some time before had outlived their nsefulness, all thrown into a | barrel near by, whose effluvia vied with the | few remaining atoms of oxygen for supremacy. On the right stood_san open tierce of lard half | once identitied him. used, which showed the fingernailsof the hand | City Prison, where that had used the spoon, which marks showed | Frederick Broshard. quite & contrast to_the dust which had settled | upon the rest. While there I watched the dough neatly rounded and cutupon the top, and afterward saw it come from ihe oven, weil browned, and fine, giving forth the -odor | Eastern men ¢ which reminded us of our mother's kitchen. | Broshard brought a team with him. They | Postier of the Bakers’' Unfon were sworn in as deputy commissioners for the work. Last night they commenced a searching personal investigation into the conditions of the bakeshops. No resistance was of avail, since the new deputies, besides being men of muscle, were further re-enforced by a written authorization from Mr. Fitz- gerald, in which all persons guilty of i terfering with them in the discharge of their official duties were threatened with prosecution to the full extent of the law.§§ G- Postler and 0. Grassman last night began an investigation of the condition of the bakeries. They will visit all the baker- ies of the City. and report to the State Labor Commissioners as to the number of men employed in each, the number of working hours and also as to sanitary con- ditions. The object is to secure informa- tion, with a view of having the laws changed for the benefit of the journeyman and the protection of the consimer. TANDEM ACCIDENT. Serious Injury to S. ¥. Thorn of the Grand Hotel and E. H. Breiden- bach of St. Louis. As 8. F. Thorn of the Grand Hotel and H. Breidenbach of St. Louis were rid- ing on a tandem bicycle near Stow Loke in the park yesterday they were the vic- tims of a painful accident. They were going quite rapidly down the precipitous grade when suddenly they be- came aware of an obstruction in the road. | It was too late to stop, do as they would. The obstruction consisted of a couple of heavy planks that had been *put on each side of a hose to protect it from the wheels | of heavy vehicles. It meant destruction to run into it, but there was no way to avoid it. Mr. Breiden- | bach was ahead on the tandem. When the front wheel struck it was literally smashed to pieces. Mr. Briedenbach was thrown several feet in tne air and came down violently, injvring one knee and badly bruising himself over different parts of the body. Mr. Thorn was thrown completely over Mr. Briedenbach and sustained very pain- ful injuries. He came down on his left shoulder and was so crippled that he could scarcely get about. The body of the bicycle was completely bent and broken. The injured gentlemen managed to get back to tue City, and Mr. Thorn at once called a physician and went to bed. He is unable to tell yet whether he isinjured Mr. Breidenbach is a business man of St. Louis, a guest of the Grand. THKT BOGUS. FOOTRACE Frederick Broshard, Another Party to the Scheme, Arrested. Flynn and Ryan Identified by a Man From Cleveland, Ohio, Who Was Tricked by Them. James W. Flynn and James Ryan, the sprinters, appeared in Judge Low’s court yesterday morning to answer the charge of grand larceny, and their preliminary examination was fixed for April 2. Flynn and Ryan are the men accused of swindling A. H. Steil of $1000 last Thurs- day in Golden Gate Park by the old con- fidence game of a ‘‘fake” footrace. Detectives Bee and Harper have been working on the case and yesterday morn- ing succeeded in locating the old man who was with Fiynn and Ryan in the park last Thursday. They found him with bis wife in their room on Sutter street. He denied being the person wanted, | but the detectives sent for Stei! and he at he gave his name as He was charged with grand larceny. 3 i Between two and three years ago, when the proposition was made to bring some here to revive baseball, He was taken tothe MAY LOSE THEIR HEADS, A Warm Reception Awaiting the Captain and Officers of the Rio. AN INVESTIGATION ORDERED. The Master Blamed for Not Heaving To and for Burning Up the Staterooms. There is trouble brewing for the officers | of the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro of | the Pacific Mail line, and the chances are that Captain Russell and his subordinates will get a warm reception on their arrival. In fact, it is openly stated on the Mail dock that all the heads of departments will be told that their services are no | longer required and a new set of men will take the vessel out. The whole trouble is over the long run of the Rio from this port to Yokohama and the burning of the deck staterooms and spars in order to get steam on the | boilers. When within 1300 miles of Yoko- hama the vessel was put about and made | for Honolulu. In his official log Chief Officer J. T. Robinson says: We were just 1300 miles from Yokohama when the captain decided to return. We had experienced bad weather for 8 number of days, and the force of the wind registered six, seven, ecight and as high as nine. When yon consider that a hurricane is reckoned as ten, you will understand the kind of weather we had. Sixteen days out from San Francisco, the day we were actually due in Yokohama, we cor sumed fifty-six tonsof coal and made sixty. twomiles.” At this rate every particle of onr fuel would have been exhausted had we con- | tinued, and we would have been miles away from the port with winds and currents agai: | us, while in going toward Honclulu we would have had both in our favor. It was afier | mature deliberation and after a thorough | canvass of the situation that the steamer was turned about. The result was satisfactory to every one, as we had wind and currents with us and made 200 miles on the consumption of fourteen tons of coal. Ii the current had not been with us we could not have done this. ‘What the officials of the Mail Company are anxious tohave explained is why Cap- taih Russell kept “‘buckinginto” a head | sea and a beavy gale instead of heaving his ship to and waiting for the storm to subside. Then, again, they cannot under- stand why the deckhouses and spars were burnt up when there were twenty tons of coal left in the bunkerswhen the vessel reached Honolulu. The wood burned up | could not at the outside have kept steam ! on the hoilers for more than two hours, and.as it cost more than $2000 to replace them, the managers of the concern are mad clean through. S Those who will be called upon for'an ex- | planation will be Captain W. J. Russell, Chiei Officer J. T. Robinson, Chief En- gineer J. H. Matthews, and Second Officer J. C. Johnson. It will have to be-a thor- | oughly satisfactory explanation, or all four will lose their official heads. In talking over the matter yesterday a well-known steamship captain said: “I know of my own knowledge that all the Mail Company’s steamers carry extra coal during the winter months, and that the Rio de Janeiro had the usual winter sup- ply aboard that she has been carrying for months, The fact that he held on instead of heaving to will not tell so much against Captain Russell and his men as the burn- ing of the staterooms for fuel. The wood would not hold the steam, anda in any | event it should not have been used until the last pinch. With twenty tons' of coal | in the bunkers there was no necessity at tall for tearing down the mast and deck- | houses. Of course there may be circum- | stances in the case that we have not heard | of, and Captain Russell may have bzen | perfectly justified in his course. The Rio de Janeirois now out six days It looked decidediy out of place and inhar- | played here and then went to Los Angeles, | from Yokohama, and may be expected monious with its filthy environments. Proceeding ashort distance further, kicking here and there the molded crusts and decayed fruits, one felt Jike rolling up wearing gum-boots for protection. his trousers or | having proved a failure. Sinc I came to | hard has been living in this Uity. afterward returning here. They played for a time and disbanded, the venture Since then Bro: He told the pastry department, where ihe lady finger, | the detectives he was Flynn’s backer and macaroon creamcake and the different varieties of ple are manufactured. Here und there were the open and partly used cans of pie fruit, here drawers of berries of different ages and more pale and sickly bakers, who, when interrogated, said they were compelled to work in this grimy place for twelve to six- teen nours per day. Passing on from this de- partment to examine the sanitary condition of the plumbing we find & broken door partially hiding a closet of ancient deaan,whh'h had | 0 refused some time since to perform the work for which it’ was intended. not materially improve the already existing model filth, and in disgust and a nauseated feeling I leit the hovel. A A visit to aniother place disclosed the follow- ing: Entering & cellar that from a sanitary point of view quite excelled the former, the Totten boards in places bearing down under the weight of the body, permitted the filthy water to exude, which resembled in color the contents of & sewer. Passing on from one operative to another, the same pallid expres- sion was noted, until one was encountered whose physique denoted the ravages of scrofula, a sickening sight, busl)?‘ engaged in compounding the ingredients of sponge cake or some other like substance. I was astounded, not at finding thls individual, as nothing would have surprised me in_this place of rot- tenness, but I was astounded at the manner in which thousands of the residents of San Fran- cisco kept their blood pure after the consump- tion of this life-destroying, germ-carrying produce. x et Beiv . This investigation has developed a singular and surprising fact. The above recited con- ditions of filth are not only found in the cheaper and remote bakeries, as inspection re- veals that some of those centrally locatd, taost elaborately decorated and patronized by the most exclusive class, while not the worst are far from being the best, and it is to the interest of the patronsof these high-priced and so-called first-class establishments to give this matter the consideration that their condition justifies and co-operate with me in remedying this un- fortunate state of affairs. Now for the remedy. After a careful con- sideration of the maiter I am satisfied that While the enactment of a law requiring a perfect condition of sanitation with a penal clause for its violation might prompt pro- prietors to its observance, there still remains the difficulty of its proper execution by sala- tied officers, who are apt to slight the same, as other laws are now allowed to slumber un- heeded, so in order to eftectually remedy this matter 1 have had printed a certificate, which reads as follows: STATE OF CALIFORNTA, BoREsy o Lago Sitirics | SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. This is to cert'ty that I have examined the premises at No.— ——— street, used ly a8 8- , anu find the said premises in a clean, wholesomé and saritary conlition. The aperators are apparently healthy and free from any disease or condition which would «ffec: the g6oi* manufactursd by said . Given under my hand thi A.D. 189 day of ) Commissioner Bureau Labor Statistics. Deputv Commissioner. This_certificate will be iss. ~d to applicant when I have investigated his peemises. These certificates will be hung in & conspicuous place in the bakery, and in.public view. This will enable the. patrons of the place to know whether or not the bakery is conducted in the proper manner. In the issuance of this certificate, I shall take into consideration not only the sanitary an bygienic conditions, but the treatment of tne operatives. There is a State law which ‘re- quires that the operatives shall have one day’'s rest in_seven. This law apparently has no more effect than though it was never written. The American bakers are worked six daysin the seven. I have been informed that the Ger- man bakers work the full seven. It is in this regard that Isball withhold the issuance of a certificate to lnx proprietor who violates any law governing the condition of labor. The want of sufficient fuhds will my carrying this investigation to the interior cities and towns, but I sineerely hope that the effect of this report will cause a like effect in the different localities of the State, and that until such time as the State Legisiature sees fit to arm with the proper means with which to prosecute this work the residents of the various cities will constitute themselves examining boards for the inspection of such places. Mr. Fitzgerald, however, is not eonduct- ing the cleansing o) rations in person. Yesterday afternoon 5 }:revent , This feature did | was related to him by marriage. John Fafter of Cleveland, Ohio, who is in the City on a visit, called at the City Prison yesterday and had a look at Flynn and Ryan. He recognized them at once and said they had played the same con- fidence game on him about a year ago in Cleveland and swindled him out of $1000. The detectives are still hunting for Kerr, the stakeholder, but he is believed to have left the City. The Engine’s Work. The suit ot the husband and children of Mrs. Nannie Strobel against the Southern Pacific Company came before Judge Daingerfield yes- terday. Mrs. Schobel was killed by the Southern Pacific cars near Baden on July 13, 1890. The family were crossing the track in a wagon when the train struck it. Mrs. Strobel was killed, the wagon smashed and_the horses had to be shot, and the other people in the wagon were more or less injured. NEW TO-DAY. FPEPPRRRPRPRPRRRR SRR SPECIAL SAVING SALE. HAVILAND CHINA, With beautifal v PREPERPPPRER B Wednes- @ day only & —are oie- 7 third less ‘g than & regular values. L Dinner Coffes Cups and Saucers, 20 cents: # Dessert plates, 20 cents: Larce Plates, 25 e them in the window. cents. » :THAT BIG CHINA STORE— ® 4 Quarter of a Block Below Shreve's. % WANGENHEIM, STERNHEIM & €O, # 528 and 530 Market St., %27 and 29 Sutter St., L BELOW MONTGOMERY. & FEVRPRRRRVIIY FRRP PP IESY COUGHS AND COLDS EL)’S OLA BALSAM is & sure Rem- edy for conghs, colds, sore throat and for asthma. It soothes, quickly ‘abaten the cough snd renders ra- tion easy. CONSUMPTIVES Will invariably de- rive benefit from its prse their cases to be ‘consumption are only suffering from @ chronic cold or deep- seated cough, ofcen aggravated by ca- N aag tarrh. For catarrh use Ely’s Cream Baim. Hoth remedies are pleasant £0c per bottle; Pineola Bal- 8ts. . Grassmann and G. { - e e BAAALERRAAEA S EAARAA AR SR RRAARL A ERR L AR SRR i | here about April 8 next. Up in hington they tell a certain story when they want to illustrate what they think of a mean or stingy man. Old man Bills was a rancher who had a lot of sheep that were tended by his son Jim. One night the sheep camp was attacked by three wolves.. Jim killed two of them with his double-barreled shotgun, and then clubbing the piece, knocked out the brains of the third wolf. In doing so he broke the gun stock, but saved his own life and the sheep. His father refused to listen to argument, but after deducting from the boy’s wages the cost of repairing the gun stock, discharged him, with the remark that he couldn’t afford to encourage ex- travagance, no matter what were the cir- cumstances. NEW TO-DAY. Easter 'Novelties. Fresh from the Easte:'n {and foreign fashion cen= ters. We hold the top I place for style-producing —the bottom place for price=-making. NEW TAN JACKETS—iatest shades lined all through with Dresden silk snould be $2250. Our opening @] 508 price . 5 3 J— NEW 4-BUTTON BOX COATS—22- inch (they're worn short now) Iatest light shades fine Kersey—all Dresden lined. 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