The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1896. THE STRIKE WILL BECOME GENERAL, Building Trades to Fight for the Working- Card System. THE PARROTT BUILDING Contractors Must Come to Terms or a Walkout Will Be Ordered. DECISION OF THE COUNCIL. Every Other Non-Union Job in the City Will Be Struck as Soon as Possible. A general strike of the building trades of this City for a recognition of the principles | of unionism is now on. | The heavy band of organized labor will | strike the first blow at the big Parrott | building on Market street. The smailer | contracts will be attended to one by one | until not one 1s Jeft to fight. | ch is the determination of the build- ‘ trades’ unions through their represent- | atives in the central body, the Building | Trades Council. Such was the edict that | went forth from that body last night after @ long debate that lasted well nigh to the midnight bour. To-day the grievance committee, acting as an arbitration body with the business agents of the council, will call upon the manager of the Parrott estate and the| superintendent of the Parrott building and demand that the union’s working- card be recognized by the discharge of a force of non-union workmen, providing the latter decline to enter the unions of their respective callings. If the workmen will not sena in their applications for membership and the man- agement and contractors will not discharge | the non-union men, the union carpenters, glaziers, painters, woodworkers, finishers, cornice-workers, etc., will be called out. The job will be “‘struck’’ from the base- ment to the roof and from Market street through to Jessie street. It will be one of the largest ‘‘tie-ups” the City has ever experienced. The trouble is all over the working-card of the allied building trades’ unions. Under the card system no union man is permitted to work on a piece of work with | a non-union man. Many weeks ago the | unians decided to protect themselves and ‘the wages of their members by the adoption of the system, because it has proved a success in many of the Eastern | cities. | Notice was sent to all union men and to | all building trades contractors that it | would be put into operation on April 1. Before that date the members of the Painters’ and Decorators’ Union went out | on a strike for $3 a day of eight hours, and | a recognition of the card system. Their | fight continued with more or less success | until Aprit 1, when they expected the promised support of the entire building trades. Efforts were made on the 1st and yester- day by the grievance committee of the council to effect a settlement between the ! striking painters and the employing | painters. Their efforts were successful in | the case of J. 8t. Denis & Co., who have | tlie painting contract upon the Parrott | building. No sooner was this arranged than P, W. | Kuss, one of the most bitter enemies of | ,the union and a member of the Master | Painters’ Association, was found to have a | €ub-contract and a gang of mnon-union | painters ana polishers in the Parrott | building. The union painters were nol | desirous of going to work with the non- | union men. A little later it developed | that the San Francisco Furniture Com- | pany had some kind of a sub-contract and | had a small force of non-union workmen at work in the building. Thus the interest of the allied trades unions was centered upon the big stone | emporium. The business agents or walk- ing delegates for the council, H. M. Saun- ders and R. T. McIvor,were taken to task by many union painters for not calling out the union workmen on Wednesday or yesterday, but they had not received the | uuthority of the council to do so, and they i declined to take upon themselves such a responsibility. Last night at the meeting of the Coun- cil the agents made their reports and | asked for instruction as to future action. | This opened the question, which was ar- gued for several hours and resulted as stated. The result of to-day’s conference be- tween the management of the Parrott es- tate and the representatives of the council will be reported to the council to-night, for & special meeting of that body has been called for a further discussion and consid- eration of the situation. Delegate Rose of the painters stated that at the morning meeting of his union he had been instructed to demand an explan- ation why the working card had not been put into overation. He said the obliga- tion the several unions entered into would not be maintained unless the pnion men ceased working on jobs where on-union men were at work. He was instructed to protest against further delay in the matter. Then followed a long discussion, the conservative element arguing in favor of using all possible measures to settie this trouble without a strike. The delegate from the glaziers said that laborers are being employed in putting in the large glass plates. Another stated | that the Parrott estate management is to a great extent responsible for the compli- cations in the sub-contracting business. Others thought that it was an eoversight in not giving the business agents execu- tive powers at first. Agent Mclvor at last stated the situa- tion by saying: We are losing time by all this talk. The question is, “Is the building trades working card in operation, or is it not ?* It is efther & case of tie-up or retreat without even facing theenemy. We do not care to face this uncer- tainty any longer. We want our instructions here and now. What applies to the Parrott building applies 10 a large number of jobs in he City where “scabs” are at work with union men. i It was proposed that an aftempt be made to arbitrate on all jobs in the City before calling tye men out. At last another delegate went to the front and said: There is but one thing for us &s & council | Painters’ | that body stated that St. Denis & Co. were | Shoy to do, and that 1s to act upon the suggestions of both sides. We came here {from our unions instructed to maintain the working-card system. The public and the contractors are familiar with our demands. We do not desire to be hasty, but we must act with decision. Imake a motion that we send our grievance committee and business agents to the manage- ment of the Parrott estate and endeavor to secure 2 settiement by arbitration. :If they cannot agree, instruct the business agents to call out every union workman afliliated with | this council. Let this order apply to every job in the City. Let us, however, direct our at- tention to the largest job first and conquer | that first Settle by arbitration if you can, butif you cannot strike the Parrott job before night. After a little further discussion the last suggestion prevailed. 1t is possible that the job may be struck before the afternoon is passed, as the grievance committee and the business agents were given that power and re- ceived {heir commissions as agents for the council. This makes the painters’strike a side issue although those craftsmen being on strike will again come prominently to the front. The attitude of the Master Paint- ers' Association in declaring open hostil- ity 10 the working card ‘will bring the members of that body into the thick of the fight sooner or later, and not until then wil! the journeymen painters appear prominently. This strike was not entered into hastily and without great deliberation on the part of those who are interested in trade-union matters. However, no one has attempted to act without the authority of his union and his fellow-delegates. In this they hope and anticipate a victory sooner or | later, because they have acted only upon the wishes and demands of the whole. - T. MACAULEY SPEAKS. J. St. Denlis & Co. State That They Will Not Betray the Unton’s Confidence. The firm of J. St. Denis & Co. has de- fined its position with reference to the Building Trades Council and the Painters’ Union, t the meeting of the Master sociation s certain member of obliged to concede to the union’s demands | in order to finish certain work that had to be done, and that after this work was fin- | ished the firm would cast aside its agree- ment with the union men. words, that J. St. Denis and his partner, | | In other | T. Macauley, made an agreement or con- | tract that thay had no intention of living up to longer than was absolutely necessary or suits their convenience. Mr. St. Denis and Mr. Macauley are not pleased that their sincerity questioned by the members of the Master Painters’ Association or any one-else. Mr. Macauley 1n substance said of the matter: The statement that the firm of J. St. Denis & Co. made an agreement with the union people that we do not intend to live up to or was not in good faith, is unauthorized and unwar- ranted. We, as business men, have asmuch regard for our word of honor as any one eise. We agreed with the representatives of the Building Trades Council to unionize our shop, recognize the working-card system and pay $3 for eight hours’ work. We will live up to our agreement with them as long as they keep faith with us. If we find that the contract is not fulfilled, that union painters are working for other boss painters for less than we agree to pay and will pay, we will lay the matter be- fore the Building Trades Council and ask to be relcascd from the agreement. pected that we will pay our union men $3a day for eight hours’ work when all of the other n{ractors are paying less than that rate. d the union painters break from their agrecment with us they cannot expect that we can compete with other contractors on such unequal conditions. As a fact we made our compact with the representatives of the Build- ing Trades Council and it will be with them that we will deal should any controversy arise. Let it be well understood we made the agree- ment, which is duly signed, in good faith snd we will keep it as long as the other parties keep faith with us. All statements to the con- trary are unwarranted and unjustifiable. J. M. Saunders and J. McCartney of the Building Trades Council stated that this position was fair and that no union man should ask for more. st MASTER PAINTERS’ PLEDGE. WIll Show Thelr Strength as Soon as the List Is Com- plete. E. H. Black, president of the Master Painters’ Association, stated yesterday that the members of that organization have no intention of retreating from the position taken a month ago and renewed at the meeting heid on Wednesday even- ing. It is the purpose of the body to fight the card system to the bitter end, and not to recognize the Painters’ Union. He said: We have been greatly annoyed by the strik. ing painters cleiming that certain of our mem- bers’ snops had been unionized, and that the owners thereof had given in to the union’s de- mands. They aunounced a list of the alieged union shops, and many of the proprietors came at once to me to deny that they had given in to anything. Now that the union men and the public may not be deceived we have de- cided to publish a list of those who have signed s pledge not to give in or unionize their shops. That will settle this matter. All who were present at the meeting Wednes- d-f' evening signed the agreement, and we ap- pointed a committee to see the members of our association who were not present so they conld sign. We are not asking the master painters to sign this. We will cause this list to be pub- lishea as soon as it is completed, A DARING BURGLAR. He Breaks Into the Residence of Police- man Charleston on Fulton Street. It is seldom that burglars are daring enough to pay their attentions to the resi- dence of a policeman, but such a case was reported at police headquarters vesterday. Policeman John B. Charleston lives at 15 Fulton street. He reported off duty at 6 o’clock Wednesday night, and, as he had to report on again at midnight, he lay down to sleep after eating his supper, While he was asleep a burglar forced open one of the rear windows with a ‘jimmy” and crawled through it, He cautiously made his way to where Charles. ton was asleep and secured three gold watches. Then he carried . Charleston’s uniform away with him and searched the ockets thoroughly in the yard. He only lound a dollar, which must have grieved him greatly, as_Charleston received his month’s pay on Wednesday. The uniform was left in the yard, where | Charleston was gratified to find it after a vain search through the house. He found his star in the kitchen, where the burglar had evidently dropped it. Charleston would like to be lgecinlly detailed to find the burglar, as he feels very sore at his impudence. s s JACK MARTIN DYING. He Took a Sudden Turn for the Worse Early This Morning. John F. Martin, the Deputy County Clerk, who was shot in the corridor of the City Hail by his wife lust Monday, was re- ported at 2 o'clock this morning to be dying. About 10 o’clock last night he bezan to rapidly grow weak, and his physicians saw that he could live but a few hours longer. His friends were notified and all preparations have been made for the end. Two Robbers Arrested.’ Jerry Jones and Henry Jacobs, both colored men, were arrested last night by Detective Dillon and Officer Young, on complaint of an- other colored man named Lenord Roach. He states that Wednesday night he was enticed into a Kearny-strect resort by Jones and Jacobs and made drunk. Then they with a white man loaded him into « milk wagon and took nim out to the Western Addition, when they Tobbed him of a gold watch and 2 in coin, should be | It cannot be ex- | | 'THERE WAS BUT | it was all over, declared that never before | the progress of the electric cars. ONE MOURNER, H. 0. Deuss at the Funeral of His Wife and Three Children. THOUSANDS ATTENDED. A Curious Mob Turn the Lugu- brious Occasion Into a Holiday. THREE LITTLE WHITE COFFINS, The Victims of the Recent Dreadful Tragedy Will Be Cremated Next Week. There was but one actual mourner yes- terday afternoon at the funeral of Mrs, Olga Deuss and' her three asphyxiated babies. There were nearly ten thousand people in attendance at and about the Suhr un- dertaking establishment and half that number about the public receiving vault in Oad Fellows’ Cemetery, where the four victims of the late tragedy were received to await the crematory process next week, but they were not mourners in the sad, sentimental sense. H. O. Deuss, the husband and father, who, returning home last Tuesday morn- ing a few hours after kissing his wife and babies a fond good-by, found them all in the cold embrace of death, was alone, broken down in his sorrow and aged a score of years since his sad bereavement. All the other people, or at least the great majority of those crowded about the dead ones, were there out of absolute morbid | curiosity. Women predominated. They | arrived as early as 6:30 in the morning, | before the mother and children were placed in their coffins. Some came with | their lunches tucked under their wraps | and ethers cruelly kept their infant babies in the house of the dead, in the heavy sultry air, laden with the sickly perfume of flowers and the fetid smell of an over- crowded apartment, until the corpses were removed to the hearses, and everything being over, there was nothing more to see. Sergeant Conboy, who had been de- tailea by Chief Crowley to take charge of the crowd, had Policemen Burke, H. H Murphy, John O’Connor and Owen Gor- man to assist him. He and his men, when had they encountered such an unreason- able mass of people. Well dressed and apparently respectable women pushed and shoved, fought, scratched, putled bair and even swore in their efforts to crowd thou- sands into two rooms which, at best, could accommodate but one hundred living peo- ple and tne four dead. The funeral had been advertised for 2 o’clock in the afternoon. At noontime there were 2000 people fighting their way into the establishment. An hour later the housetops all along Mission street between Eighth and Ninth were black with hu- manity. Windows in the different houses and room on the stairways leading to the street were at a premium. The sidewalks no longer could be discerned and the seething mass, jocular here and quarrel- some there, filled the strest and impeded It was a grand holiday for this crowd of veople, but inside, where his four loved ones rested in their coffins, one man's heart was racking with pain. He, H. O. Deuss, the poor husband and father, was the only mourner, and it isa sad commentary on the crowds of people who suffered simple inconvenience through their own massing that they could not wait until the real picnic season for their outing. Mrs. Olga Deuss occupied a black casket in the center of the main parlor. At her feet was the tiny white coffin of little Carl, her 30-months-old boy. Gretchen, the child whose eighth birthday wouid have been yesterday, reposed in another white coffin to the right of her mother, while her sister, little Fredda, only 5} years old, was to the left. Flowers? They were everywhere. Large set pieces sent by various and numerous {raternal lodges in which the heart-broken Mr. Deuss is interested. There were small pieces and cut flowers in profuion. A few moments before 2 o'clock the police drove back the crowd on the side- walk in front of the undertaking estab- lishment. The people did not take well to this, ana many harsh and unseemly words were cast back at the officers. But they had to do it. Mr. Deuss, the only representative of his family, had been driven up in a carriage and a passageway had to be made for him to his darlings. He was accompanied by his friends, Frederick Hauser, W. Gerichten and H. F. Fricke, who supported him physically as well as morally in his affliction. It was found necessary to drive out some of the curiously inclined to make room for the new arrival and to furnish space in which the simple funeral ceremony was to be held. President Gustav Liebold of the German Independent Congregation made a brief address in German prior to the caskets being carried to the hearses. He opened by deprecating the poorness of language that makes it impossible to wordpaint the magnitude of sorrow caused by an occur- rence such as had happened to darken the hfe of his friend, H. 0. Deuss. “The unhappy husband and father," continued the speaker, “went along through life and tasted the joys of a happy home to be found in a good wife and lovely babies. Suddenly, like the awaken- ing from a pleasant dream to the hard realities of life, he was called upon to stand the most dreadful calamity that has befallen any man in many years. Let us hope that he will meet and bear with it in fortitude.” « The closing of the address was quite touching, causing nearly all the women in the room to break out in tears, while the unfortunate father sobbed out aloud. The speaker compared the Deuss family to‘a beautiful rosebush with a full-blown rose and three little buds. While in the height of their beauty and fragrance a terrific storm swept down upon them, blighting their lives and only leaving behind the old stalk to mourn alone for its ones that were fost. At the close of the address the coffins were carried to the two hearses. Mrs. Deuss and Gretchen were placed in a black hearse and Fredda and Carl were white one. The palibearers were John Hauser, Charles Adams, Henry Bach and Joseph Stroecgen, representing the Miszion Turn Verein, and P. Gfe!l and C. Hahn, repre- senting Mission Loage of Hermann’s Sons. The funeral cortege reached Masonic Cemetery at 3:30 o'clock. Already thou- sands of people had gathered there. Among them were hundreds of school children with their books and slates cor- rectly strapped and slung over their shoulders. They, like the grown people, were interested in the interment. To their credit it may be said they behaved in a becoming manner. Their tender hearts seemed to go out to the little ones in the white coffins, and many an armsleeve, in lieu of a handkerchief, wiped away a tear. Emil Leiss, the German philosopher who is the head of the Free-thinkers’ church in this City, delivered a short ad- dress. He was quite ill, and left his bed for the ceremony contrary to the advice of his physician. The address was in German and much on the same lines as that deliv- ered earlier in the day by Gustav Liebold. HANOLED HER OWN CASE put ins Mrs. Cunningham - Gibbons - La Cere in the Justice Court. WAS AS COOL AS A VETERAN. She Instructed a Witness to State Facts and Not Tell His Thoughts. Alice Cunningham—petite, dark-eyed and pretty—whom a complaint recently filed in the Justice Courts alleges to also bear the names of Laura Gibbons and Laura La Cere, conducted her own case before Justice Barry yesterday and did it with the assurance and ingenuity of an ex- perienced practitioner. Mrs, Cunningham-Gibbons-La Cere en- tered into a partnership with Mrs. Alice Quinn in a candy factory at Berkeley, the latter putting in $150 and the former the experience. Merely as a matter of form— Mre. Cunningham claims—she gave Mrs. Quinn a note for the $150 advanced with the understanding thatit was given to protect her from her husband from whom she was getting a divorce, and that if the business did not succeed Mrs. Quinn was to stand the loss of that amount. Shortly after the partnership was entered into Mrs. Quinn became tired of life in a candy factory and the business was dis- solved. Then the partnership was sud- denly dissolved too, and Mrs, Quinn be- gan suit on the note. ‘When the case was called up yesterday Mrs. Cunningham told Judge Barry that she was not able to hire an attorney, and requested that she be allowed to handle her own case, to which the Justice- gra- ciously assented. When Mrs. Quinn was called to the stand to testify regarding the note and the man- ner in which it was made Mrs. Cunning- ham assumed a dramatic attitude before her and propounded question after ques- tion in a manner that seemed to annoy Mrs. Quinn greatly. Her answers grew sharp and Mrs. Cunningham exclaimed: “Mrs. Quinn, remember that you are a witness in this case, and that you can't play hot and cold. Answer yes or no to what I ask you.” When she had finished with Mrs. Quinn she called F. A. Sademan, who had acted as a salesman for the factory and who had drawn up the note on which the suit was based. Sademan, under her searching in- terrogatory, began to testify that he thought that the instrument was made un- der the conditions indicated by the ques- tions. “Never mind what you think,” said the new legal light, ““this is not a place to think; it is a court of law, and you are ex- pected to testify to facts as you know them. Give us facts and don't indulge in hypothesis.” Sademan became even more confused under her crossfire, and she seemed to en- joy his evident embarrassment as com- pletely as any veteran of the bar. ‘When she took the stand to testify on her own behalf Mrs. Cunningham stated that La Cere was her maiden name, Gib- bons her married name and Cunningham the name under which she chose to con. duct a candy factory. She denied owing Mrs. Quinn anything on the note and pro- duced her books to show that the expenses of the business had eaten up the money Mrs, Quinn had put in. She parried all efferts to lead her into damaging admissions as skillfully as she had acted the part of questioner, and left a favorable impression on the Justice as well as those who listened to her efforts. The case was taken under advisement. ‘Wagner was a hifhly practical feeder. He ate very fast, placing his food in his mouth and gulping it down while he talked. NEW TO-DAY. Dining-room Table—g$r0. Solld oak, through and through, polished. Heavy base, carved and ornamented—810. When you buy it go home and sit down and think it all over wel, and if you don’t think you have a great big $10 worth—we’ll send for it. We know the. quality of this table. Two sizes: 6 feet long, 810. 8 feet long, $12. Carpets . Rugs . Mattings CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPANY (N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street. SPEGIALY FOR TO-DAY! NEW TO'DAY—DBLGOODB. In connection with the many other attractions pre= sented throughout our SUPERB DISPLAY OF EASTER NOVELTIES we to-day offer the following ~ EXCEPTIONALLY CHOICE VALUES! LACE DEPARTMENT! At 10 Cents Each. 300 dozen LADIES' SHEER WHITE LAWN SCALLOPED EMBROID- ERED HANDKERCHIEFS, regular value $2 50 a dozen. At $1.00 Each. LACE YOKES, Butter Point Venise Yoke, trimmed with Oriental Lace, regular value $2. At $2.50 Each. NOVELTIES IN BATISTE LACE YOKES, MOUSSELINE DE SOIE AND LACE COLLARS, Butter Lace Collarettes, Embroidered Yokes, etc.: special values. 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CHILDREN’S SUITS, made of English Galatea, in fancy stripes and white ducking, made with sailor blouse and full skirt, will be offered at $225 and $3 each. LADIES WAISTS! At 50 Cents. LADIES' WAISTS, laundried collar and cuffs, made of fancy striped and chelc]ked material, will be offered at 50¢ each. At $1.00. | LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS, made of fancy dimities and lawns, laundried collar and cuffs, made in the latest style, regular price $1 50, will be offered at $1 each. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets, Murphy Building, Market and Jones Stregts. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. PROPOSALS. STUPPLIES FOR THE STATE INSANE ASYLUM AT AGNEWS. Commencing May 1, 1896, and Ending September 30, 1896. | NOTICEIS HEREBY GIVEN THAT SEALED proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the State In- sane Asylum at Agnews, No. 32 East Santa Clara street, San Jose, up to 3 o'clock . M. of TUES- APRIL 21, 1896. and at the Asylum at DAY, Agnews up to 10:80 o'clock A. . of WEDNES- DAY, APRIL 22, 1896 (Asylum time), for furnish- ing supplies for said Asylum for the six months commencing May 1, 1896, and ending September 30, 1898, said proposals consisting of the following scheaule, and to be delivered as ordered: Groceries. 6000 pounds Beans, small white No. 1, last crop. 4 dozen Bath Brick. 1000 pounds Crackers, Sods, net weight. 250 pounds Corn Starch, Kingsford’s, 1-pound papers. 400 pounds Cheese, beat quality; California. 40 pounds Candles, Stearic Wax, 20-pound boxes, 16 ounces. 50 gallons Coal O1l, 150 degrees test. 48 pounds Chocolate, Kagle, 1-pound papers. looudx\unds Germen. 3000 pounds Hominy, large. 16 gross Matches, Diamond Match Co.'s three Does, Safety. 4 aozen bottles Lucca Ofl, quarts, Cross & Black- well. 2 dozen bottles Olive Oll, Quito farm, Goodrich’s large. 800 pounds Pearl Barley, No, 3. 300 gallons Pickles, No. 1 mixed, in barrels. 3 boxes Raisins, 3-crown loose, 50-pound boxes. 5000 pounds Rice, Sandwich Islands, No. 1. 1000 pounds Split Peas. 8000 pounds Sugar, dry granulated, extra fine, 15,000 pounds Sugar, Golden C. 200 pounds Sugar, cube. 200 pounds Sugar, powdered. 1200 gallons Syrup, Golden, 30 gallons to the barrel. - 75 pounds Soda. Blcarbonate, 1-pound papers. 60 pounds Tapioca, flake. 200 gailons Vinegar. wine, 40 deg. test. 3 dozen bottles Worcestershire Sauce, Les & Per- rin’s. pints. 6 cases Oysters, 13 ounces, No. 1, Farren's. Maearoni and Vermicelll, 1000 pounds Macaroni, white, No. 1, 26-pound boxes, net. 1000 pounds Vermicelll, white, No. 1, 25-pound boxes, net. Canned Goods. 10 cases Canned Apricots, standard, gallons. 10 cases Canned Corn, Winslow’s. 10 cases Canned Peaches, standard, gallons. 3 cases Jellies, assorted. Dried Fruit. 2000 pounds Dried Apples, sliced, No. 1, 1000 pounds Dried Apricots, bleached, No. 1. 100 pounds Dried Currants, Zante, No. 1. 1008 pounds Dried Peaches, bleached, No. 1. 3000 pounds Dried Pranes, Califorma French, 60 10 70, Coffee, Tea, Spices, Ete. 1000 pounds Coffee, Java. 4000 potnds Coffee, Guatemala. 1600 pounds Chicory. 500 pounds Tea. A. Schilling & Co's Popular No. 4. hf'm pounds Tea. Diamond M., E. B. Congou, No. 12. ™300 pounds Baking Powder, Ploncer of Golden Gate, b-pound cans. 50 pounds Cinnamon, ground. A. Schilling & C0’s best. 3-pound cans. %0 pounds §1nnr, ground. A. Schilling & Co.’s best. cans. ground. A. Schilling & & 360 pounds Pepper, black, ground. A. Schilling & Co.’s bést. 3-pound cans. 3 doren bottles Extract of Lemon. A, Schilling & Co.’s best triple, $2-oance bottles. 2 dozen bottles Kxiract of Vanilla, A. Schilling & Co.’s best triple, 82-0unce bottles. Fresh Beef, Mutton, Etc. 100.000 pounds, Fresh Beef, No. 1, all steers, from 500 pounds to 700 pofinds, delivered in sides, 5000 pounds. No. 1 Fresh Mutton, delivered whole. sgloo pounds No. 1 Fresh Voal, dressed, delivered ‘whole, Roll Butter. 2500 pounds Fresh Fancy California Butter. Keg Butter, 10,000 pounds First class California Keg Butter. Eggs. 4000 dozen Fresh California Eggs. Potatoes. 110,000 pounds No. 1 Burbank Potatoes. PROPOSALS—Continued. Hams, Bacon, Lard and Pork. 600 pounds Bacon, Light Breakfast, bidders to state brands. 2500 pounds Hams, bldders to state brands. 1000 pounds Lard, Pure Leat, in tierces. 6 barrels Balt Pork, extra clear. Salt Fish, 600 pounds Codfish, Callfornia, selected. 100 pound ‘cases 1o Fun 15 fish or less to case, lnst cate barrels Mackerel, No, 1, 100 pounds net each barret. Fresh Fish. 10,000 pounds Fresh Fish, No. 1 assorted. Salt. 8000 pounds Fine Dairy Salt. Flour, Grain, Ete. 15,000 pounds Ground Barley. 6000 pounds Corn Meal. 6000 pounds Oat Meal, extra. ounds Cracked W heat. 25,000 pounds Bran, 3 barrels Rolled Onts. 600 barrels Flour, bakers' extra. 2400 pounds Graham Flour. 6000 pounds Wheat. Chewing Tobacco. £00 pounds Drummond Tobacco Company'’s Horse Shoe. Smoking Tobacco and Pipes. 850 pounds Plug Cut, in 1-pound packages; bid- ders 10 submit samples. 8 gross Clay Pipes. 1.D. Soap, Lye and Soda. 125 boxes of Star of Kitchen Soap, 20 bars to the box. 20 boxes Ivory Soap, laundry size, 100 bara to the box. 1800 pounds Laundry Soap, Tischer's. 200 cans Concentrated Lye, American, one-pound cans. Laundry Supplies. 1 case Chloride of Lime, 24 ten-pound cans. 4 cases Caustic Soda, 24 ten-pound cans. 1 case Canstic Potash, 12 twenty-pound cans. 5 pounds Blueing, Aniline K. 350 pounds Laundry Starch, Palmetto brand, 200 pounds W heat Starch, fitty-pound boxes. 25 pounds Japan Wax. 2000 pounds Sal Soda. Dry Goods. 400 yards Bed Ticking, Amoskeag, A. C. A., 36 inches wide. 200 yards Crash, linen, 18 inches wide. 1 300 rds Denims, Pearl River Indigo Blue, 28 inches wide. 500 yards Sheeting, Indian Head, 4-4 unbleached. 100 yards Pequot, 5-4 bleached. 800 yards Pequot, 7-4 bleached. 500 yards Pequot, 7-4 unbleached. 300 yards Muslin, Lousdale, 36 inches wide. 200 yards Priuts, 33 inches wide. 100 yards Glnghams, Amoskeag, staple, assorted colors. 2 dozen Coraets, large size. 6 dozen Corset Steels. 2 dozen Steel Thimbles, large sizes. 5 dozen Buttonhole Twist. 25 pounds Cotton Batting, medium, 50 pounds Darning Cotton. 6 dozen Bedspreads, white. 1 dozen Hair Brushes. 10dozen Combs, dress. 6 dozen Combs, fine. 125 dozen Claric's O. N. T. Spool Cotton, assorted nambers and colors. 6 dozen Handkerchie adies’. 20 dozen Handkerchiefs, men's Turkey red, 24 inches. 3 5 dozen Hairpins. K. & B., assorted, No. 100, 46 dozen pair Ladies’ Hose, gray mixed. 1000 dozen Needles, Millward’s assorted sizes. 2 gross Pins, Wallace & Sons, No. F. S, C., 814 20 gross Buttons, pants. gross Buttons, horn, coat and vest. 25 gross Buttons, agate, dress and shirt, No. 40, Clothing. 100 dozen pair gray mixed cotton Socks. 10 dozen Overalls, duck, canton flannel lined, log 80 10 34, waist 34 10 44. 8 dozen pair Suspenders, average and extra lengths. Brushes. 4 dozen Hair Fioor Brushes. 2 dozen Counter Brushes. 6 dozen Scrub Brushes. 1 dozen Shoe Brushes. 8 dozen Combination Mop Handles, Brooms. 16 dozen .California Brooms. The Industrial Home for the Adult Blind, No. 1, Excelsior. 1dozen Whisk Brooms, 3 strings. Crockery and Glassware. 8 dozen Diuner Plates, 8-inch, lates, 8-inch. Dishes, 9-inch. 1 dozen Platters, 12-inch. 8 dozen Sauce Dishes, small. 12 dozen Cups and Saucers, 6 dozen Glass Tumbier: Tinware. 5 dozen Galvanized Iron Buckets. 3 gallons, No. 24 iron. PROPOSALS—Continued. 1 dozen tin Coffee Pots, 3 gallons, XXX tin. 1 dozen Tin Syrup Cans, 2 gallons, XX ti 1 dozen Soup Cany, 3 gallons, XX X 1 dozen Milk Cans, 3 gallo: ‘Wood. 200 cords Pine Wood. Said wood shall not be under 6 inches or over 10 inches in thickness and shall be strictly No. 1. Engine-Room Coal. 150 tous Engine-Room Coal, 2240 pounds to the ton. Bidders specify kind and qoallty. To be detivered In carload lots and weighed on Asylum scales. G oal. 100 tons Gas Coal, 2240 pounids tothe ton. Bid ders specify kind and quality. To be deiivered in carioad lots and weighed on Asylum scales. Range Coal. 40 tons screened coal. 2240 ponnds to the ton. Bidders specity kind and quality. To be delivered in carload lots and weighed on Asylum scales. The above-named articles are all tobe of the best qualities, subject 10 the approval of the Medical Director, and to be delivered at the Asylum at such times and in such guantities as he desire. And it is expressly understood that it & greater Or less quantity of any article than above mentioned shail be required by the Medical Direotor, the same shall be furnished by the con- tractor at the contract price. The contracts will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, and 1o bid will be received or considered unless’ accompanied by . certified Check 10 an amount equal to 10 per cent of the bid or bids presented, which amount._ shall be forfeited £ the people of the State of California as settied, fixed and liquidated damages in case the bidder to whom the sward of contract is made shall fall or Yefuse (0 enter Into such contract and furnish suct bonds for the faithful performance of the same as the Board of Trustees may require within five days after such award. Supplies only 1o be re ‘ed between 8 A. M. and 4 . M. Separate bids Wil e recetved for— GROCERIE: ONTI AND VERMICELLL CANNED GOODS. DRIED FRUIT. COFFEE, TEA, SPICES, ETC, FRESH BEKF, MUTTON, ETC. ROLL BUTTER. KEG BUTTER. POTATOES POTATQES. TN FACON, LARD AND PORK. SALT FISH. FRESH FISH. SALT. FLOUR, GRAIN, ETC. CHEWING TOBACCO. SMOKING TOBACCO AND PIPES, SOAP, LYE AND SODA. LAUNDRY SUPPLIES. DRY GOODS. CLOTHING. BRUSHES. BROOMS. CROUKERY AND GLASSWARE. TINWARE. WOOD. ENGINE-ROOM COAL GAS COAL. RANGE COAL. The Board reserves the right of relocting say ep all bids. Payments o be made monthly, in eash, when thero is money in the Treasury for such pay- ments, aud when there Is 1o money In ' the Tressiiry, payment 10 be made out_of he first money in the Treasury applicable for that pur- pose. Bids to be addressed to T. S. Moutgomery, No. 32 East Santa Clara street, San Jose, Cal, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the State Insane Asy- lum at Agnews, and indorsed on envelope, *Proj sals for furnishing supplies.” Bidders will also mark on envelope the class of supplies bid on. Envelopes and blank bids may be obtained by ap- lyingto the Secretary. A separate envelopé will B required for each bid. Bamples 0f articies, showing the character and quality thereof required. except such as are per- ishable, may be seen at the storeroom of the Asylum. The attention of bidders is called to the followiig section from the Political Code of the State: SEcTioN 3235. “No supplies of any kind or character for the benefit of the State or to be pald by any moneys appropriated, or to be appropri- ated, by the State, manuiactured or grown in this State, which are in whole or in part the product of Mougolian labor, shall be purchased by the officials for this State having conirl of any public institu- tion under the control of the Stais, Or of any councy, city and county, clty or town thereot In order to preserve uniformity and facilitate ard it has beeD resolved (o receive no bids made upon blank forms furnished by the cretary. Parties will please carry out the sum total for each article and add up the same, 80 that the gross’ amount may be seen at a glance; otherwise bid will not be considered. By order of the Board of Trustees 0f the State Insane Asyium at Agnews. Dated San Jose, March 25, 1896. ’ T. 8. MONTGOMERY, Secretary. No. 32 East Santa Clara street, San Jose, Cal. Weak Men andWomen MAC un 5 dozen Galvanized Iron Chambers, 83;-inch top, 7-inch hottom. 644 inches high, No. 26 iron. 6 Gozen Pint Tin Caps, X tn. HOULD USE DAMIANA BITTERS, THE great Mexican Remedy: gives Health aad Strength to the Sexual Organs.