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10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1896. SUDDEN ALARM OF THE REGENTS, Time Limit of Sautro’s Deed of Land Has | Expired. AFFILIATED COLLEGES. First Fiscal Year's Allowance| of $125,000 Must Also Lapse. BOARD SURPRISED IN SESSION. A Committee Appointed to Unravel Complications and Reopen ! e i Negotiations. The regents of the State University sterday and drowsily awoke to a knowledge of the fact that one- | half of the sum of § 000 allowed for | building the Affiliated Colleges must lapse to the Stats treasury, because building operations cannot be commenced during | the present fiscal year. There remains the riscal year be, remaining half (§1 will go on if nothir rubbed their ves v 000), and so the work forbids and the Leg- jslature be requested to reappropriate the | sum lapsed. When the regents thought themselves clear of the woods in this direction and were consoli themselves with ances of the Gove lature which shall convene next winter 1d do the right thing it was inciden- discovered that the gift of land which Sutro made to the college had also apsed or would ls nder the aliowance for | ing July 1, 1896, the | assur- | r that the good Legis- | cause a condition of the deed requiring work of construction io begin within six months had not been fu ed. This lapse was discovered by Governor Budd, who was culling records to ascertain what Sutro had really eed to de in the matter of building a ibrary on land adjoining the General Houghton, est Mart nd Attor- z that Mr. Sutro act concerning the ned it. approved the cont ry, had not s ussion was nmittee see the Ma ule were sent tc S: sche some papers, exclaimed: 1 yvour deed of r the colieges has lapsed. The six months pired.” ons ensued. > deed made the date of s nifested that ents arose to their feet to , and the body of learned . hitherto slower in movement than ier of Alaska, was in per- ceptible motion. cretary Bonte looked the gift deed in the face and replied that the date of the | instrument was October 8, 1895, and the date by the board Novem- ber The date of acknowledg- ment was notentered. The laymen on the board looked at Judge ace and Judge Wallace looked at the frescoed ceiling. The Governor, who had been reiterating the assertion that he would not as Gov- ernor, acting with the I'rea retary of Sate proposition, evidently perceived Meyor, under the sudden turn of uffai leaving the regents landless. Something bad to be done, so it was resolved to direct the law committee and | attorner Mhoon to see Mayor Sutro at once. Thelaw committee was re-enforced by the addition to it of Judge Slack and | J. B. Reinstei Judge Walli announced that the com- mittee would meet at the Mavor's office at 1 o'clock to-day. Presumably the whole ground will be retraced at to-day’s meet- | ing. The Mayor may make a new gift or exiend the time on the old deed. He may increase the acr of the library land from six to thirtaen acres, as he has been | talking about some eniargement of the | library donation. On the other hand he | may decide to wat. Architect Krafts attended the meeting yesterday and estimates of the aggre- | Eate cost of constracting the college build- ings was presented by J. West Martin, The estimates, including commissions, ad- | vertising and sundries, amounted to §: 980, but the amonnt for the construction proper 1s 390, Regents Martin, Phelps, Houghton and Hallidie were convinced that the bids would come ancer the sum. The Governor directed that the estimates should be reduced before they were sent to Sacramento for approval. He could not approve for a larger amount than $250,000 —the sum named in the law. A long discussion ensued to discover some wa | for the first fiscal year availabie. Supreme Court decisions were cited, precedents mentioned, and - the advice of Attorney » data and | While a | to have the law | r and get his sig- | re before the plans, specifcations and | Sacramento | Governor Budd, who had | land from | tcknowledg- | | serious apprenension. . held the position of advantage, | to make the allowance of $125,000 | Mhoon was frequently solicited. Under the peculiar wording and restric- in payment for work actuaily dore. All'the regents were assured that the | bids would be very low if contractor: could be assured of getting their money without delay. 2 In summing up the situation Attorney | taking | Mhoon said the State officers cognizance of the situation might take | some plans nuknown to him to make the first year's allowance of $i25.000 available. The discnssion disclosed the fact that the attorney prior to last December had | written to Governor Budd asking for the withdrawal of the money from the State | treasury, aud before Christmas the Gover. | nor reniied that it could not be done. It was resolved atter long discussion to approve the plans on estimates reduced to | 0,000 and forward them to Sacramento for the approval of the Governor, Secretary and Treasurer. As u final effort to get this fiscal vear's Law Committee, re-enforced by Slack and Reinstein and led by Judge Wallace and | orney Mhoon, are to see Attorney | erald. : The Governor said if the Attorney General would consent to have the money | drawn from the treasury on a guarantee | of the regents that it should be used to pay for work contracted for he would not tions of the law the attorney could not see | how the money could be drawn from the | treasury except on Controller's warrants | s | | allowance of $125,000 the members of the | oppose the withdrawal. About this time in the proceedings the | lapse of the Sutro deed was discovered, and so the whole matter of conferring | with the Attornev-General is to be de- | ferred until the Sutro again reopened and finally closed. The regents attending the session vesterduy were: Governor Budd, Hal- idie, Martin, Houghton, Walluce, Way- negotiations are | baaly burned. | Chase, Black, Foote, Slack, Reinstein and Denicke. DEED STILL GOOD. Mayor Sutro Will Give the Regents All the Time They Want. Mayor Sutro was interviewed last even- iog on the subject of his deed of land for the Affiliated Colleges. He said: “I will give the Regents all the time they want to erect the buildings. It makes no differ- ence about the failure to begin work within six months. The land given to the University for this purpose is the finest spot on the peninsula of San Francisco. 1 understand now that the appropriation of $125,000 for the first year is lost by the de- v. I do not believe that the college buildings will be erected.” “What will prevent their erection ?” in- quired the reporter. “Why, the octopus,” replied Mayor Sutro. WILLIAMS INDICTED. The Chinese Inspector Fares Badly With the Federal Grand Jury. Out on Bonds. As was expected, the United States Grand Jury yesterday indicted Richard Williams, the Custom-house inspector, on four different counts. He atonce furnished bonds for $2000, and was reieased. His bondsmen were George W. Duffield, Joseph Goetz and O. 8. Peck. Williams is charged with receiving $100 from Tong Chee on November 13, 1895, for the landing of a Chinese woman named Ah Moy; $85 from Chan Ying for the land- i of Chin See Hung on November 6 1%95; $100 from Wong Sam for landi Wong Sing Choy on September 1, 1 $90 from “oung Jim. for landing Wing Quock Floo on September 19, 1895. Wiliiams declares that he will be able to clear himself before a jury, and says he is anxious for a speedy trial. NEW PRISON DIRECTOR, James H. Wilkens Will Succeed Robert T. Devlin on the Board. The News Is Not Reczived With Unalloyed Delight by All Parties Concerned. Governor Budd has given the Board of | State Prison Directors a little surprise by | appointing James H. Wilkens a director in place of Robert T. Devlin, whose term expired last January. The appointment was announced yesterday, and the news of it was not received with unalloyed delight. Mr. Devlin had been making quite a sturdy fight to keep his place, and was for a time beiieved to be certain of reappoint- ment. Warden Hale, also, is said to regard the appointment with little favor. But the Governor bad control, and was evidently determined that he should show his power. Itis understood that he is far irom satisfied with the present admini tion at San Quentin, and that his app nt- i | ees ledged to do their b to brin ime for beginning work has ex- | €3 are pledged to d est g about the Democratic idea of prison man- | agement. As now constituted the Board of Prison Directors consists of Mr. Wilkens and Robert Fitzgerald, Democrats, and E. J. de Pue, J. H. Neff and D. E. Hayes, Re- jublicans. The prevailing idea is that if Warden Hale loses one of the three Re- publican votes his removal will be assured, iu which event B, P. Hammond is named a2 his probable successor. Rumor says at Messrs. ae Pue and Hayes have been given to understand that their resigna- tions would be accepted with thanks, but the resignations are not forthcoming. On the contrary both directors cling 10 their posts with a tenacity apparently born of in case one of them goes, the Governor | 1s said to have announced his intentioh to appoint Charles Sonntag on the board. So mucn mystery surrounds the entire matter that little of a definite character can be affirmatively stated. All parties O%- | concerned are very reticent, but something er and Sec- | approve the plans while | Sutro’s name was unsigned to the library | that | 1s evidently brewing. Meanwhile the board is to be congratu- lated upon the accession of Mr. Wilkens. He is a Baltimorean, perbaps 35 years of age, and bas resided at San Rafael fora number of years. Upon his graduation from the State University he adopted civil engineering as a profession, though he has also been editor and proprietor of the San Rafael Tocsin. Last year he was elected Assemblyman from his district, while he has already had some experience as a State Prison Director, having been on the board during the incumbency of Gov- ernor Waterman. - WOMEN FRANCHISE DAY Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Institutes a New I'ay of Observance Which Is Strictly Californian. The State Executive Board of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union held its twenty-fourth quarterly meeting yesterday. Much of the time was expended undoing | the work of the last meeting, during which were made extensive preparations for the National convention, which at that time it was believed would be held in this City. The contingent of this coast regrets ex- ceedingly that a change of plan has been made in the matter of a convention city. The members feel without the impetus which they expected the convention would give the movement on this coast—that the work for the eleventh amendment cam- paign will be far more arduous. Preparations were made for the proper observance of a day to occur henceforth, on April 27, and to be known as “Fran- chise Day.” Public meetings will be held all over the State. The programmes are to consist of suitable exercises, speeches and debates on the subject of woman’s suffrage. The idea originated with Miss Sarah M. Severanceand is purely Californian. April was chosen to honor the State Presi- ';em. Mrs. Peat, who was born on that day, Arrangements also were made for the annual school of methods, to be held at Pacific Grove next June. Bt was stated during the meeting that an ensign tea and scissors party would be given by the Westminster Churecn Union at 339 Oak street on Friday, April 10. ————— DIED FROM HER BURNS. Emma Mayer, the Victim of an Un- fortunate Accident, Succumbs to Her Injuries. Fmma Mayer died yesterday morning from the effects of burns, She was lighting a fire at her home, 708 Lombard street, Friday last, when her apron caught the flames, which soon en- veloped her clothing. She rushed into her mother’s bedroom in a blaze of fire. Her mother was in bed at the time, but with another daughter went to the girl's rescue. Before they succeeded in exti guishing the flames the victim of the acei- dent was badly burneu. Every effort was made to save her life by Dr. Mufe, but she nassed away yester- day. Her limbs and arms and body were The Coroner iook charge of the body and an inquest will be held. - The manufacture of razors by machinery | | bas become an important industry in Ger- mire, Kellogg, Marye, Crocker, Phelps,‘muny. A UNITED. WORKMEN N CONVENTION. Nineteenth Session of the Grand Lodge of Cali- fornia. ROLL OF MEMBERSHIP. Grand Master Toohy’s Report Replete With Interesting Facts. AGE LIMIT MAY BE RAISED. Over One Hundred Delegates Receive the Grand Lodge Degree in the Afternoon. The Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of California held iis nineteenth annual session in B'nai B'rith, of the A. 0. U. W. every opportunity that presents itself.” The report then dwelt on the condition of the order. It seems that there is a slight decrease this year in membership, but the speaker predicted that the gain of next year will strike the note of the ‘“‘for- ward march,” and in the triumphant in- crease in numbers and prosperity make all forget that the past ever contained any trifling accidents. ‘The great political parties have their off years,” added the speaker. “Why shouldn’t benevolent organizations?' Judge Toohy. in his peroration, warmly thanked the officers of the Grand Lodge and the district deputies for the good and timely aid given him during his term of office. The next report filed was that of Grand Recorder D. 8. Hirshberg. Itshowed that during 1895 $550,000 had been paid in death claims, whicn numbered 268. The total expenditure for the year was $590,242, or an average of over $49,000 per month. For the year there were 470 initiations, 276 transfers and admissions by card and | 23 reinstatements to the order. The losses by death were 268. There were 785 suspen- sions, 277 transfers and withdrawals and 3 expulsions. The total membership De- cember 31 was 16,050; the meinbership at the beginning of the year was 16,614; a loss of 564. The grand medical examiner recom- mended that the age of limit be raised to fifty years, and said that he thought this a better class of rigks than many young men. He also advised that some grand officer be empowered to inquire into the intemper- ance of members, and that those who vio- late the rule of temperance should be re- jected. The committee on finance] reported un- favorably against moving from the Flood building on the score of economy. All the reports of the various officers and committees having been filed, the de- gree of Past Master was, conferred on the 150 entitled to ir. At 2P. M. the Grand Lodge held its aft- William Vinter, Grand Foreman A. 0. U. W., Who Will Be the Next Grand Master Workman. [Reproduced from a photograph.) Hall yesterday morning, evening. The session was called for 10 . »., but long before this time delegates came pour- ing in as fast as Mecca pilgrims, and soon the main floor of the large building was crowded to its fullest capacity. After attending to routine business, Grand Master Workman D. J. Toohy presented his annual report, in which the members of the Grand Lodge were con- gratulated on the flourishing state of the organization. The report also dwelt at length on the immense good that had been accomplished 1n aiding the widows and children of deceased members. A high tribute was paid to the Degree of Honor, or ladies’ branch of tbe order. Said the speaker: afternoon and l ernoon session. Over une hundred dele- gates from all parts of the State received | the Grand Lodge degree. Many new amendments had been | drafted, and at this session were given | into the bands of the proper committee. | It is not expected hat they will be ready | to report before to-morrow. | Atthe evening session the two degrees | of the order were conferred by what is called the Oakland drill team upon six candidates. At the close a series of fancy | evolutions were given by the team, elicit- | ing great applause. The attendance was | larger than either of the two preceding sessions, filling the hall and the galleries | to suffocation. | To-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock sharp | the election of Grand Lodge officers for the ensuing year will begin, and what is called the conclave of mogullians will con- | fer that knightly degree upon a large num- SAMUEL “It is unnecessary to commend your favorable attention to this important factor of our order. It is worthy of all the assistance in your power to giveand every effort, official or non-official, that will be tent in promoting its interests ana en- larging its scope for good. & “The Degree ot Honor operates under its own grand jurisdictional government, but this offers no excuse for members of this order to be slow in extending the helping hand to our noble, self-sacrificing sisters in their attempt to make their organization familiar to every hearthstone in this great country. You let a Degree of Honor lodge gain a footing in any community, and it won’t be long before a Workman lodge casts its banner to the breeze in that same community. Hence, we cater not only to our chivalric sentiments but our material interests as well when we add a timber to the foundation of our co-ordinate branch I\ Y BOOTH. ber of candidates, so Mr. Barnes says, in the evening in the hall of Valley Lodge, at 32 O'Farrell street. 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(We recommend the Haif-Russia I | i LYy gy gy gy Yy Yy Yy Y Yy Yy Yy P A YTy Y YT YT YT T TR YTV YT VYT T YTV TTOTIVETNS AT BATI BTG TATR R b s RELIGIOUS THOUGHT AND PROGRESS An Epitome of Sermons of the Week Throughout the Land. Following is a summary of the principal | sermons recently delivered in the United | Btates and Canada by the leading clergy- men, priests, prelates, religious teachers and professors of the Christian faith. Io every instance the full text has been care- fully read and abbreviated. - BROTHERHOOD. True brotherhood is the cure for all evils, both individual and national, social and po- litical.—Rev. F. C. Gift, Lutheran, Scranton, Pa. GAMBLING, The growing American vice is gambling. It vervades all society. It is formed in child- hood—the boy playing marbles for keeps or shooting craps. Nearly every tobacco, store has some gambling device, which plainly is prohibited by law.—Rev. C. B. Mitchell, Meth- odist, Kansas City, Mo. | R. W. EMERSON. The first article of Emerson’s religion was the existence of mind in the universe, and his second article was the fact of man’s relation- ship to the original mind, from whom man | derives all heroisms, character, virtues, as- | pirations. A more devout believer in God never breathed. His God-consciousness was the foundation of his faith and of his life. —Rev. A. W. Martin, Independent, Tacoma, Wash. CHRISTIANTTY WEALTH. | The atheist of to-day is indebted to Christian | ideas for the great comforts of his home and | children. It has been said that the difference | in value between the real estate in the heart of | Africa and the heart of America is just Chris- tianity. Christianity is preservative of the wealth of the wo in counteracting the forces which destroy it.—Rev. J. A. Story, Meti- odist, Springfield, Ohio. CARE OF THE SOUL. In the midst of our business affairs we areapt to forget the eternal interests of the soul. We are justified in laboring for the body to keep it | in proper health, and we do this to accomplish | a temporal end. Why not lay aside some of our time in putting on garments for the soul, | which is eternal and lives forever?—Rev. M. H. Dunn, Catholic, Wilkesbarre, Pa. REFORMS OF SLOW GROWTH. Growth is a siow thing. Trees look the same from day to day, almost. the same from year to You measure your child’s height to- It is the same to-morrow. There are few inches differences in twelve months. | Causes and principles grow more slowly than trees and children. Expansion is not an in- stantaneous process. Reforms are not yet run by electricity.—Rev. W. H. Moore, Presbyter- ian, Doylesville, Pa. RELIGIOUS IGNORANCE. I have no patience with the Christian igno- ramus. A man has no excuse for being ig- norantof the Bible. If he can read he can know the Bible and not be humbugged by every sort of silly doctrine that may be preached. It is a shame that every doctrine under the sun has its followers and all because of the ignorance of its disciples.—Rev. Paul ‘Whitehead, Methoaist, Richmond, Va. AGNOSTICISM. Agniosticism isa Greek word, meaning not knowing, ana strictly might be applied to a state of mind relating to all manner of sub- jects of which we are ignorant; but is used solely with reference to objects which we call spintual—God, immortality and so on. There is very little pure agnosticism in the worid. Many who eall themselves agnostics are not gro rly such.—Rev. W. R. Lord, Unitarian, t. aul, Minn. THE CONFESSIONAL. Confession may be said to be the safety valve of conscience. The priest in the confessional | and a fitting monument to his memory is the | | thousands of Irish hearts that keep ever green can keep a secret. When any person has told his sins to the priests those sins are as though they had been buried ip the very depths of lge ocean. A priest will stana any torture before he will reveal anything told him in the con- | fessional. There is not & single authentic | instance in all the hundreds of yesrs of the history of the church of the violation of the | secrecy of the confessional.—Rev. Father Power, Catholic, Montgomery, Ala. ST. PATRICK. St. Patrick taugnt Christianity in the spirit | of love and the brotherhood of man. We | should think of him because he belongs not to asectbut to the people. He takes a place in the history of Luther and all great reformers, | the remembrance of his work for God and hu. manity.—Rev. Dr. Long, Congregationalist, Waukegan, I1i. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT. Every city wants good streets and good sew- erage and suitable school buildings and public works ot various kinds. The affairs to at- tended to in & city are not political, but finan- cial. A city is Jike a great business firm. Poli- tics ought mnot to have anything to do with | city elections. The very best men to manage important &ublic enterprises ought to be chosen to office.—Rev. Cyrus Richardson, Con- gregationalist, Nashua, N. H. CUBA LIBRE. Let us sympathize with Cuba. Let us plead | for her rights and the liberties in the name of religion of the brotherhood of man in the | name of the love note that speaks so clear and | high amid the splendor of our nineteenth century civilization. If this fails then let us wrap around Cubs the Stars and Stripes—Old Glory—and say_to Spain and all the world, “Fire if you dare.’—Rev. Francis Marston, Presbyterian, Columbus, Ohto. EDITORS AND PREACHERS. The fact that journalists differ among them- selves and from the preachers on religion and social questions should not surprise anybody who knows how much the preachers differ | themselves on the same questions. The | preacners seem “to want the whole earth” of journalism s little too soon, while the editors, whose outlook upon the world is wider, are obliged to be economical with thelr preaching in order that their newspapers fulfill their | reat distinctive mission — publicity.—Rey. | ohn Grtfliths, Presbyterian, Scranton, Pa. HELL. To send a sinner to endless hell is no more a victory over sin than 1o corral the social evil within certain plague spots is a victory over that vice, or to banish all the Hawaiian lepers to Molokai is & victory over leprosy. The only victory over sin, as over physical disease, is to cure it—not to shut it up in any kind of nether world, there to propagate and fester and put- refy to the end of infinite time.—Rey. C. F. Henry, Universalist, Cleveland, Ohio. INGERSOLL. Colonel Ingersoll is a glorious champion of human liberty. There is 1o one on the plat- form who has done as much or is doing so much tofree the individual from kingly or Erluu tyranny. He has genius, he has a great eart, he loves humanity. No man of this gen- eration has such power to stage his thoughts, His audience never wearies of his word-paint ing or fails to respond in _joyous appreciation, Ten years ago, in a public address, I thanked God for the French Revolution and Colonel ll;gfl;:l‘} Lie ethe\{ are both precursors of & better age.—Rev. W. B. Craig, Christi Chureh, San Antonio, Tex. Sl THEN AND NOW. We have no right to conclude that the ante- diluvians were worse than mankind at other epochs of the earth’s history. We do not read that they were guilty of idolatry, and they were far irom being o deep in the slough of iniquity as the Sodomites and some of our | modern Babylonians. There cannot be much doubt that the earth wasas thickly populated then as now. The sun pursues the same path in the heavens, and the moon presents the same phases, and the nights distill the same rains, and the seasons come ana go, and. day and night alternate, and the winds blow and the zephyrs sigh, and the flowers exude their {ragrance, and all things are as they ever were.—Rev. R. Duffy. Episcopalian, Laramie, Wyo. ——— Seareity of Corks, “It may seem & trivial thing to you,’ said a well-known druggist, “‘but one of our greatest annoyances is about corks. I have been in the drug business for nearly fifteen years and I feel sure that my expe- rience is no different from that of every other druggist. The trouble I complain of isthatof almost ninet nine out of every 100 persons when presenting a bottle for medi- cine will invariably retain the cork until you have filled the bottle, put a cork in and tied it up, when they will say: ‘I have the cork.” This may seem a trifle to kick about, but corks cost money, and then there is trouble occasionally to find one to fit a bottle properly. The amount | of money we lay out annually for corks might be cut down fully 50 per cent if our customers would only think.””—Philadel- phia Record ——— A Faithful Dog Postman. Heis a faithful, cautious official, the hero of the East Sullivan dog story. Don, the dog postman, has been taught to carry the mail daily across the field to the home of G. E. Simpson, a distance of about one- fourth of a mile, where he makes known the arrival of the mail by barking at the door, and, although not a Government employe. exacts his pay in the form of something to eat, angwiu bark until his demand is granted. One day last week he carried the mail as usual, but on arriving at the house could not gain admittance, as Mr. and Mrs. Simpson were away and, as it was about noon, he was anxious to de- liver the bundle of papers to get bis com- mission. As the only person about the place was a young man hauling wood (a stra..ger to the dog), he would not give up the mail, but with a crestfallen counten- ance brought it back to his master. The Bar Harbor Record thinks there are emptier heads than Don's.—Lewiston Journal. NEW TO-DAY. ARGONAUT 0K WHISKEY Is Five Years In Wood Before Bottling, E, MARTIN <% Co., 411 Market St. San Francisco.