The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1896. AMUSEMENTS., BALDWIN THEAT “The Courier of Lyons.” CALIFORNIA TRHE GROVER'S AYCA7A! . 7 5% AUDITORIUM—Corner of Jones and Eddy strcets — Signorina Estrela Bolinfante. AUDITORIUM—Miss Carrie Bowes, pril 16. A. TIALL. corner Mason and Ellis sts.— ral Club in “Gallia,” for the benefit Thursday of the Pre Monday evening, April METROPOLITAN TEMPLE—Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Wednesday, Avril 18, SUTRO CONXY 18LAND—Grand Athletic Exhibi- ticn and Concert. tipiscopal Old Ladies' Home, usle, N GATE PArk—Golden Gate Park Band. H ight street, x—Monday, April ornia st., at 11'o'clock. April 13 Chinaware, 0 o'cloc! BY EASTON & ELDRIDGE—W ednesday, April 15, Oil Palntings, at Maple Hall, Palace Hotel, at 12 o'clock. Barpwix & Haumoxn.—Thursday, April 18, Real Fsta at salesrooms, 10 Montgomery street, 112 o'clo BY BovEE, BY Georer F. 18. urniture, at 2517 ¢ Bascu—Moncay ~~TAG—Tuesday, April 14, s, 19 Montgomery street, Dancing, Boating, Fishing, | | | ALONG THE WATER FRONT Last of the Oldtime United States Revenue Cutter John F. Hartley. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD, Almost a Fatality Owing to a Donkey | Enins Topping Of Lomb-rd- Street Wiarf, The revenue cutter Hartley will proba- bly never again do servi the Cuslom-house of ls. She is now laid up for repairs and the gasoline launch Amy is carrying the inspectors to the vari- ous foreign incoming ships. The cylinder- heads of tie Hartley’s engines are in such condition that it is dangerous to run her. | The plaus for these were burned up in the | Risdon Iron Works fire, about 1ive years | only way of securing dupli- nding to Washington. would entail a long delay and ent work of repairing would run into months. Inthe meantime the [ ter. the Golden Gate (a picture and | ption of which have been published ! The following periormers will assist: e in the bay for | sectlon. day, for violating the pool ordinance, appeared vesterday morning ior sentence. The Judge imposeda fiue of §50, with the alternative of fifty days in the County Jail. Dolan’s attoraey | gave notice of appeal. | SPRING EXHIBITION. Committee of Artists on Rejoction Ap- pointed—Association Prizes An- nounced. The spring exhibition of the 8an Fran- cisco Art Association will be opened at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art next Thursday evening. On this occasion there will be a reception for members only. There will be music and light refresh- ments. Tor five weeks after April 16 the exhibi- tion will be open daily from 9 A. M. until 5 p. M. During this period there will be one free day—tha first Friday in May. Yesterday Artists Latumer, Yelland, Chittenden, Matthews and Pissis were ap- ointed to constitute the committee of re- The exhibition promises to be fully up | to the standard of such displays. The asso- | ciation has offered a prize of "$100 for the | best pictare exhibited and $50 for the sec- | ond best. Lizzie Strong, a well-known painter of animals, has sent from Paris four pictures for the cxhibition. Bhe was formeriy a pupil of the_San Francisco School of De- sign, under Virgil Wiiliams, and has since gained honors in the Salon and elsewhere for the excellence of her work. Gt i Benefit Convert. Miss Edith Scott Waters and Miss Florenco Wyman will be given a benefit concert in Meple Hall, Palace Hotel, on Thursday night. Alired JORDAN ON THE CHARTER The Stanford President Lectures in Favor of Its Adop- tion. CORRUPTION WELL SCORED. | Fe Recommends Some Changes in the Present Form of Municipal Government. Professor Daevid Starr Jordan, president | of the Stanford University, delivered a | very interesting and comprehensive lec- | ture on the proposed new city charter last | night at Golden Gate Hall, under the| | ausnices of the Civic Federation. “Iam not much of a politician,” said Professor Jordan, “‘and I certainly am not before you as a reformer. Nor is it my in- tent to stir up your consciences. Rather would I do something to stir up the public brain, o that it may understand the mat- ters of public interest which most nearly affect us. We must in the first place real- {ize that, while the National system of government is based upon the successful building up of a great people, the govern CITY NEWS IN BRIEF, Olivet Presbyterian Church 1s to be entirely remodeled. The westher predictions for to-day are: brisk southerly winds. A benefit is being planned in the Italian colony for wounded Italian soldiers “hipman of the State Board of Trade ed his sixth annual report. The Latter-day Saints will hold their semi- annual conferen t Pythian Castle to-day. The will of Sims lsaacs, leaving an $8000 estate to relatives, has been filed for probate. Monsignor Nugent spoke 10 a large audience {n Metropolitan Hall last night on waifs of English cities. The deposition of H. C. Chamblin {n favor of “Lucky’ Baldwin in the Ashley-Baldwin case has becn received. Gtto Feudner won the Fay diamond medal at the California ate Sporismen’s Association rday. street Company holds out in- cements 1o passengers on the Solano-street e which it does not fulfill. prominent building contractors are n agreement to support the Building Council's working cards. A clever showing of drawing in the public o ade at the office of the Buperin- of City Schools last week. The State sanitary convention will be held under the auspices of the State Board of Hea eles on the 20th inst. ivileges of the associe- anized Cycle Boara of athletes held a fleld a few school records. ss won the championship lor well High School d brok ssor John D. Siebe is inclined to treat ¥ the statement that the tax-roll for the ciit year is several millions short of that of 1595 Professor David Starr Jordan of Stanford ity spoke last night at Golden Gate in favor of the adoption of the new The California Safe Deposit Company is to have the directors of the Beoplc's Savings Bank removed for mismanage- the bank’s affairs. Cadmus won the Ormonde stake at Ingleside yesterday. Th rer winning horses were: 3. B. Morris, Dungarven, Sir Vassar, nd Adoiph of age, who claims 1 the United helter for Le Almshous of age, a nursegirl, lexas, was booked at 10T gra d larceny, Miller, is in dan- at is thought to be r is the butler who killed a ranklin’s house e tennis lifornia Freeman ¥ sary ant Peet, by a large reception of the h gzton is said to have his plans ase the Atlantic and Pacific to a connection with the § rancisco, and thereby gai General Fitzgerald is reported as at he believes Police Commissioners f. n s he is i sympathy with the them. somewhat worried ndered by a i Market In- 1g the coudition of and County Hospital. Francisco and San Mateo Electric out of the possession of Behe y virtue of a judgment r tgage, and was pur- . Buck and Nicholas Ohlandt o upon a_foreclosu by John A %300,000. p convention at the San Fran. « d in the pestowal n David Kosminsky, Kitty Cham ers, Maggie au, Herbert Shirek, Mrs. Stanford’s representatives voted against C.P. Huntington for president at the Southern Pacific election on Thursdey under her special i ctions. This was the first open opposi- tjon to the Huntington tion to the presidency six years ago, sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock there will ly of men only at_the Christian ng, Maron a when a short, interesting ad livered oy Re i al music and &n interesting admitted. Mrs. M. J. Coleman i§ suing to have the mar- risge of her son, F. W. Davis, to Carrie M Davis annuiled on the ground that he was n. of age at the time of the ceremony. They were married in S8an Diego in September, 1894, The groom will not be 21 until the end of nex month. He lived with his wife bt e few d 93 members of the Mission Defence . tiled answers 1o the suit brought 1 Ellis streets, ress will be de- er ¢ Unlon h Noe heirs. At well-attended meeting o last evening Attorney Duzer claim of the Noe heirs to be worthless, and_ strongly advised ers not 1o be frightened into buying quitclaim deeds. aster Music. ces given on Easter Sun- h of St. Mary the Virgin will ,, the octave of the Easter ' there will be l}m X i he E Tbe musical ser scopal Church the also be repeated at the morning music service. h Street. Burgl he bekery of . H. Mallett, 702 Bush street was bold ed by thieves yesterday and the till ¢ stolen. Mrs. Mal- leit was abs rwas at home at the time and unable to resist the burglars. Asim er theft occurred st the same place four yeurs ago. ——— The Ceutury Club. The members of the Century Club held their annuel reun{on and dinner at the Pa! yesterday_afternoon. There were 185 ladies present. “Many papers were read and the g‘;eccllts wete also nuwmerous, There was an e bundrnee of music and the occasion wa made v Iy pieasant, iace Hotel | sociation bas addressed a | gime since his elec- | | | A | The Old Revenue Cutter John F. Hartle That Has Secn Her Last Year of S:rvice. Her Engines Cans not Be Repaired for a Long Time, and in a Couple of Months the New Golden Gate Will Be Ready. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] | in TuE Carr), will be completed and ready j for service and then the Government will have a launch for sale. The little cutter, that has lived through seven administra- tions and carried the officers of as many | different Collectors of the Port, is now to be placed in rotten row. She will bethe first revenue cutter on the Pacific Coast to be piaced on the retired list, and as such she will go down in history. The John F. Hartley was built in San Francisco over twenty has been in continuous service ever since. During her 1i built half a d last stile. she has been almost re- zen times and this Had the drawing for the led along for a few motnhs, but now her time has_come, and if she is seen on the bay again it wall noc be under | { snot been burned up she might | Ben Davis’ the revenue een two crews of the South ub, stated to be postponed | ue ng to the iliness of | a member of the Blister's crew, will take place at 11 o'clock to-day, weather per- mitting, off the South End’s boathouse, | Ed Scully having consented to row in the place of Harry Smith. The crews are as follows: Ban\;e South End—Henry Bode, bow; Robert McArthur, forward-waist and captain; Gus Carson, after-waist; Duplissea, stroke; George in yesterday’s swain. Barge The Blister—' bow; Ed Scully, forward-waist; { Campbell, after-waist; George Bal stroke; Tommy Gilfeather, coxswain. El Campo witl_be the principal attrac- tion to-day. It is the opening of this fay- sure to be large, as the accommodations are of the best. Steamers will leave at and 4 p. M. The Sportsmen’s Protective Association wi | alzo have an excureion to Schuetzen Park. Boats for that point w at 9:30 and M. and 1: L. ne ferry steamer Oakland broke down on her 8:30 A. . trip vesterday. One of the shafts proke, but the vestel managed | to reach her destination with only one | raddle-wheel. One trip from Oakland was missed and the Piedmont brought | over adouble list of passengers on the 9:45 A.M. trip. Later the Newark took the place of the Oakland and will continue run- | | ning until repairs have been made. The supposition is that a pile got into the wheelfand caused the breakdown. The Pacific Maii Company’s steamer Acapulco arrived from Panama and way | pprts yesterday with a full cargo and quite amumber of passengers. There was a rush | to land the cargo, and in the hurry the | men who had charge of the donkey-engine | forgot to screw it down to the wharf. The company's stevedore had given official in- structions to see that this work was at- | tended to, and because of the failure to do so there was almost a disaster. When the | pull came on the sling the donkey-engine | zave, and when the tide swung the steam- | er's stern out over went the engine, and | took Engineer Gus Franks and Longshore- man John Yietheer with it. The latter was descending the gangplank when the smokestack of the donkey struck him ana cut his scalp in three places. Franks went to the bottom of the bay with the engine, but on reaching the surface caught hold of a rope and reached the deck. He | never said a word 10 any one, but at once went to Mission-street wharf to sécure another engine. In cousequence the rumor was prevalent for balf an hour that he was buried nnder the engine. Among the passengers on the Acapuleo was *. Nye, late purser of the Mail | Company’s steamer Azteg. Allthe Panama steamers bhave been short of coffee as called for by th2 manifest of late, and the pursers and freight clerks are being called jupon to explain. There was a shortage on the City of Sydney, and both the purser and freight clerk were suspended. Both bave been exonerated. The Aztec was six ks short on her last trip, and now Mr. e has to explain. Piper, Aden, Goodall & Co.'s fleet of schooners have more to do than they can accomplish in a fortnight. At the present time they are carrying coal to Siockton for the Corral Hollow Valley road, and to- morrow they will besin transporting 500,- 000 sleepers for the San Joaquin Valley road. Atthe same time they are carrying rails to Alyiso for the Sants Clara Valley 2ailway, so that outsiders Lave to scour th e water front for bay and river schoon- ers. A Poolseller Sentenced. . William Dolan, a poolséller, who was con- victed in Judge Joschimsen’s court on Thurs- Wilkie, tenor; Bernard Mollenhauer, violinist; , ment of cities looks rather to the well- | Fred Maurer, accompanist; the Euterpe Quar- tet and H. B. Pasmore’s chorus. REPORTS THAT DIFERED The Grand Jury Found One Thing and a Market In- spector Amnother. tatements Coatradicted by Commitecmen—N¥ay B2 Investigated. The recently rendered report of the hos- pital committee of the Grand Jury has not as yet been officially submitted to the Board of Health, and therefore no action has been determined on by that body, but some of the findings of the committee have set the board to thinking, and it is not unlikely that an investigation may follow in the near future. One of the things that strike the mem- bers of the board as peculiar is that the Grand Jury members reported that they | had found the meat at the City and Tobin have not a life tenure of | orite picnic resort and the attendance is | | County Hospital to be unfit for the use of the patients, while Chief Market In- spector Ben Davis, in his recently ren- dered monthly statement, reported that he had found all of the supplies of the hos- pital to be in good condition. While declining to express any judg- ment on the matter ;» nding the official notice from the Grand Jury, it is evi- dent that the members of the board are somewbat worried at the discrepancy in the two reports, and that the subject will be given close scrutiny before it is allowed to drop. Davis is supposed, in the course of his duty, to visit regularly all of the public institutions under the control of the Board of Health and to report on the condition of the food supplied to the inmates. Whether ne failed to make his rounds as required by the aepartment regulation s or failed to report matters as#e found them, or whether the three gentlemen who con- stitute the hospital committee of the Grand Jury were entirely mistaken in their esti- mate of the condition of the City and Couny Hospital meat, must be decided by the board on the evidence it can get. It is not long since Davis was under in- vestigation on charges of a serious nature and came near losing his position. It was alleged that he had falsified his records in order 10 COVEr &n error or even worse offense, and that he had been derelict in his duty as Chief Inspector. After the evidence was all in, Dr. Morse, one of the most conservative members of the board, declared himself to be decid- edly of the belief that Davis was guilty and against retaining him longer in the employ of the board. The other membets were inclined to take a more lenient view of the matier, however, and voted to re- tain Davis. He was censured aiter being warned to be more careful in the future, and the matter dropped there. e Branching Out. Will T. Valentine, the well-known all- round athlete, who for years has con- ducted a tailor-shop at 9 Powell street, has removed to larger quarters at 516 Geary street, near Taylor. Here he has branchea out with a complete merchant tailoring establishment by putting in a full stock of the latest spring novelties. Mr. Valentine is one of the young business men of this City who may be congratulated upon bis success, having begun in a small way a few vears ago and gradually built up a lucrative patronage. The secret of his success has been gooa workmanship and strict attention to business. Mr. Valentine is a popular member ot several organiza- tions, among them THE Cary Bicycle Club, e Between Two Lives. At the meeting of the Thecsophical Society this evening in Red Men's Hall, 320 Post street, Dr. Anne J. Patterson will deliver a lecture on the subject of the after death state from the standpoint of theosophy. The ad- dress will be entitied “Between ’F\vv Lives,” being of individual sections and members of the body politic. | “The government of California is well | said to be beneath the level of its people. | Particularly is this the case in the realm of municipal government. Perbaps it would be well for Americans to study the manner in which an English city is raled. | I am an old Californian in the general | sense, having been here fully five years; but in England there is an element of | permanency which we lackin this country. | There we find successive generations liv- ing in one city; here we move from city to i city. Henc:, 1n this country, a certain apathy regarding governmental matters is m or less noticeable. | “The fight for liberty made by our fore- fathers involved a great principle, which | was that the governing power resided of right in the people. | ‘“Tne resu't of this principle v as that we tried to weaken tyranny by weakening government, to make officials harmless b making them powerless. We succeede in displacing individual tyranny by or- ganized tyranny, official tyranny by non- official tyranny. The season is that our | dependence upon these large co-ordinating functions inheres in the situation, not in our constitutions. The relations are there with all the subordination and all the dominati which they naturally in- volve. In failing to adequately recognize | them we have not suppressed them but merely failed to nrovhfi: for their legiti- mate exercise. “The political evolution of the century has taken a different airection in England from that noted in tne United States. | Little effort has been made to weaken or scatter administrative authority. The | idea! bas been not limited authority, but | conditional aathority. Immense power lias been recognized as a condition of ef- ficiency. | sponsipility has been sought asa cond tion of its safe exercise. An Eaglish Prime Minister can do anything, always with this reservation—that if he doesn't do the right thing he may cease to be Prime Minister, and that without notice. There can be no possible doubt as to the relative satisfactoriness of these two prin- ciples. “‘The authority conferred must be com- mensurate with the service required. There must be strict accountability for its proper exercise. To this end, the'author- ity 10r specific acts must be attributable to specitic individuals. It follows that one individual shouid be responsible for ihe whole of one transaction. If the responsi- bility for integral operations is divided be- tween several persons they may prevent efficient action on the one hand, or, ifthey agree on wrong action, they may avoid personal responsibility. fodern municipalities are closely an- alogous to large siness corporations. Their functions are essentially industrial. Their different industrial interests are require specialist superintendents. But on their inancial side they are parts of an organic whole. It is as impossible to separate them as it would be to entrust | different lines of expenditure in a family {to the independent control of different 1 members. The inanagement of the budget— | 1. e., the co-ordination of different lines of receipt and expenditure—is esseatially an indivisible function and should be trusted to an undivided functionary. The manage- ment of great corporations is instructive on this point. The survival of the fittest has put beyond question that the financial (not the technological) management of a railroad company shall be a responsible autocracy as the only possible provision for efliciency and safety. “The collective interests of the City ought to be treated in the same manner as those of a large corporation. "Our law- makers are now looked upon more as attorneys or agents than as rulers. It seems to me that_this involves a tremen- dous responsibility on the part of these lawmakers. Phey are supposed to be the faithful exponents and executors of the popular will, and are bound by a solemn, implicit agréement to fulfill this sacred trust reposed in them by the confidence of the people. But the American people are sometimes a little superficial in their understanding of populur questions, They often confuse thinas. But the mass of the people have level heads and sound hearts. As Lincoln said, you may fool some of people all the timeé and all of the people for a part of the time, but you can't iool all the people ail the time. “The army and navy may be called ina certain sense un-American. In both these Complete and immediate re- | separate on their technologicai side and | important tranches of government abso- lute anthority is the rule. Soldiers and sailors cannot form opposing perties. con- tending for the balance of power. Their only duty is to obey. Hence the American army and navy are a credit to the Repub- lie, though not so lsrge as those of some oiher nations. A similar system of govern- ment ought to rule in cities. Viilages can be raled by the people, but large cities re- quire a governmentzl regime which will force and oblige public servants to do their duty. If we are to have a Mayor, let him be something more than a figure-head at meetings and banquets. “Let us hoid him responsible for the right exercise of the ruling power which the people confide in him. This man, thus keEp before the public eve, would be better than the mysterious political boss. Bosses are well enough, save when their schemes are in danger. There may be honor among thieves, but there is none among rats striving to escape from a sink- ing ship, nor Amon§ politicians in danger of losing their coveted spoils. “In one word, the government of our cities should be un-American. The Nation may be governed by popular representation but in the cities the ruling principle should be submission to authority.” THIEVING NURSEGIRL. Emma Ducos Has Eeen Here Two Months and Robbed Two of Her Employers. Emma Ducos, 21 years of age, was booked at the City Prison last night by Detectives | | Egan and Siivey on a charge of grand lar- | ceny. | Emma came here about two months ago | from Galveston, Texas, and soon after- ward was engaged by Mrs. 8t. Germain, | 2006 Devisadero street, as nursegirl. She | was there a week and left taking with her | a valuable silk waist and other articles be- | longing to Mrs, St. Germain and a hat| and underclothing belonging to the house- maid, 8he procured a situation with Godfrey Fisher, 824 O'Farrell strcet, and in ten | days disappeared, taking with her a dia- | mond ring valued at $125, lot of silk handkerchiefs and other articles. Her next and Jast appearance was at the residence of Mrs. M. Sullivan, 2701 | California street, but she had [not time to | make her usual haul. | The police had been notified of the thefts and Egan and Silvey traced her to M; Sullivan’s residence. They went there ol Friday afternoon and found in her room most of the stolen articles and a pawn ticket for the diamond ring, which she had disposed of for $11. They at once placed | her under arrest. FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS. A Benefit Being Planned in the Itailan | Colony. A dramatic performance is being planned under the direction of Cav. Calegaris and Mrs. Ghibandi for the benefit of the| wounded Italian soldiers in Africa | As soon as the news of the disaster in | Abyssinia was telegraphed 1'Italia opened a subscription list for the benefit of the wounded and the assistance of the widows | and families in Italy left suddenly deswi- | wute by the massacres. La Voce de{PupnIo and the Italian Consul also opened sub- seription lists. Itisto I'ltalia’s fund that the dra-| matic benefit is being planned. That | newspaper has already raised the sum of | $1100 dollar by doliar and cent by cent. | Over a thousand dollars of the amount has come from small country places in this State and from workmen nn(;., in Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho. | Many of the letters which have accompa- nied the amounts have been from people | who could scarcely write, and some of the | bellicose remarks on tne subject 6f the | | Abyssinians contained in the letters have | | been quaint and interesting. | Residents of the Mission Are| Actively Fighting the Noz Claimaats. Attorney Van Duzer Says the Claim Is | | Hopeless and Advises Against | Quitc'aim Deeds. | The Mission Defense Union, organized primarily for the purpose of resisting the | claims of the Noe heirs, had a well-attend- | ed meeting last evening at their hall, cor- | ner of Twentieth and Guerrero streets. John H. Grady presided, and A.P. Van Duzer, attorney for the club, acted as sec- | | retary. It was announced that the club | now had a membership of 551 Attorney Van Duzer feported that dur- | ing the week he had filed answers for sixty-three defendants, making 203 mem- bers of the club who are now in court. He | stated that there were now about thirty | | attorneys interested in the case, and some | | of these put in diiatory motions which | | were materially delaying the suit. It hay- | | ing been reported that some of the de- | fendants had purchased quitclaim deeds, | Mr. Van Duzer said: “If there is any- thing absolutely certain on the face of the | earth it is that this fraudulent claim will be defeated.” He strongly urged mem- | bers of the club no$ to purchase these deeds, as they were absolutely worthiess and could not possibly improve their titles. It was stated that some individual had been fraudulently selling quitciaim deeds. A motion was carried to have the execu- | tive committee wait upon District Attor- ney Barnes and see if this party could be prosecuted. Upon motion of Charles Spader a com- ttee consisting of Judge Van Reynegom, | Captain Young, D. Kelly, H. Nolte and | Charles Spader was appointed by the chair to confer with the club’s attorney in drawing up a bill to be presented to Con- gress, calculated to discourage Such suits as that which is now troubling the resi- dents of the Mission. President Grady regorted for the Mis- sion High School Club that they had pussed a resolution indorsing the prop- osition the club advocated, but this, he de- clured, was only a preliminary step. He urged the necessity of the members agitat- ing the question of a Mission High £chool at every opportunity. The mattér of securing the property formerly known as the Home of Peace Cemetery for a park was informally dis- cussed. "Communications were read from Hebrew congregations interested in the | property, in which they promised to give | their earliest attention to the club’s propo- sition to purchase the land. Judge Van Reynegom suggested that perhaps some of the wealthy Hebrews whose families | had for years used those grounds #s a cemetery would be interested in having their memories perpetnated by naming the proposed park for them. Mr. Waiton said ne had come in contact with a number of the Jewish people and they seemed in- clined to do all they could to help the park project. George Walton spoke enthusiasticaily in favor of having Dolores street declared a boulevard. He expressed the opinion that a boulevard could be made of Dolores street that would put Van Ness avenue to shame. At the conclusion of the meeting all resent signed a petition for a Mission i’ligh School. Mr. Mansfleld Arrives To-Day. Richard Mensfield and his New York Garrick Theater Stock Company will arrive to-day, pre- paratory 10 opening at the Baldwin Theater to-morrow night. During the first week of his engagement he will present the cuarmin, comedy “Beau Brummell.” The second weel will be devoted to his new play, entitled “The Btory of Rodion, the Student,” “Prince Karl” ! | ranch hands | © ORFENDING THEIR HOMES : | California Syrup and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” “The Parisian Romance” will be given during the third week, JUTE AT SAN QUENTIN, Warden Hale Has More Than Four Million Grain Bags on Hand. FITZGERALD MADE PRESIDERT. J. H. Wilkins, a San Rafael Lawyer and Newspaper Man, Scated as a Member of the Beard. The Board of State Prison Directors met in regular monthly session at San Quentin yesterday. J. H. Wilkins of San Rafael, the newly appointed member of the board, took his seat after being introduced by Jacob Neff. Director Fitzgerald was unanimously chosen president of the board for the ensu- ing year. Professor Robinson of the Hamilton Grammar School of this Cily presented a petition in behalf of John McAdoo, who was sent up in 1889 for ten years for assault to murder. Five years ago McAdoo ‘‘wan- dered away” from the prison and thereby forfeited two years’ credits. The petition- ers asked that these be restored, that Me- Adoo may be soon released. Upon Profes- | sor Robinson’s promise to look after the old man and be responsible for him the petition was granted. Applications for pardons for Jose and Francisco Alviso were received and taken under advisement. The two brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment_in 1879 for the murder of Dutch John 1n Chular Can- yon, Monterey County. ‘The petition sets forth the fact that Euladio Martinez, one of the chief wit- nesses against the brothers, died 1n prison in 1887, and that on his death bed he con- fessed to Rev. William Hills of Berkeley, then prison chaplain, that his testimony against the brothers was perjured. Atthe trial he had sworn that hs rode by and saw the brothers burning Dutch John’s body, and his testimony aided materially in their conviction. H. V. Morehous who was District Attorney of Monterey County at the time, has written a letter asking that they be pardoned, as he be- lieves they have been punished enough by | sixteen years’ imprisonment. Ex-Prison Director J. J. Scrivener laid before the board a proposition to buy ihe Gilman patents for bottle coverings made of tules. He stated that, owing to the reduction of the tariff, there was no profit now in the manufacture. If the patents were purchased it would give work for 200 prisoners, yet the product of their labor would not come into competition with free labor. The matter was reterred to a com- mittee composed of Directors Wilkins, De Pue and Fitzgerald. Warden Hale reported 337,000 grain bags sold and orders coming in rapidly. He has 4,250,000 bags on hand and is manufac- turing 15,000 a day. The Warden bas re- ceived an offer from Williams, Dimond & Co. for 25,000 sugar bags at §5 60 a hun- dred; also an offer of $5 a hundred for | 10,000 ore bags. The board will meet at Folsom next Saturday. Mizpah Club Reception. The members of the Mizpah Club and their friends, to the number of probably 150, met | Inst night at the Occidental Hotel. There were papers, speeches and musie, and after- ward 8 sumptnous repast wes served. Many handsome toilets were worn by the ludies. The programme was as follows? Tenor solo, selection, Dr. Hodghead; recitation, selec! Mrs, Alista Shedd Langstroth; duet, selected, Professors cho and Lombardero; alto solo, selected, Mi: arolyn Boyan: recitation, se- lected, John T. Housman; alto solo, Mrs. Olive Reed; selection, Figaro Ciub. = G Released From Custody. Joseph Ott, indicted for signing his name to amoney order and receiving $7 80 on it, was discharged from custody by United States Dis- trict Judge Morrow yesterday on recommenda- tion of District Attorney ~Foote. Ott had been in jail NEW TO-DAY. ROOT’S WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CUT-RATE DRUGGISTS, Sixth and Howard Sts., 8. F., Cal. bottle 15¢: dozen $1 65 can 15¢; case $7 60 perdoz $7 20 dozen $4 00 en $5 00 0z $8 00 zeh $8 00 Citrate Magnesia. Eagle Milk Scott’s Emulsfon. . Roo's Emulsion (same sf 75¢; dozen $9 00 en 3 50 dozen 1 20 dozen $7 00 dozen $4 50 beauty) dozen $1 00 dozen $2 75 500 iginal Root’s Syrup Figs. Drugs, Toilet Articles, Rubber Goods, Syringes, Elastic Stockings, Trusses, etc && Write for 40-page RICE LIST. PHYSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS Dispensed at Wholesale Prices. A regular physi- cian in charge of this department, Parke, Davis Co.’s id Extracts, Merck's Chemicals, s and Granules invariably used. No commissions paid. COUNTRY ORDERS FILLED. April Showers will notinjure our clothing. They are made to wear in rain or shine. No getting out of shape, no shrink- ing, no wrinkling, no fading. For future protection we give awritten guarantee,warranting garments to wear satisfactorily oneyear. Money back, present protection. Samples, Fashion Review, Measuring Guide, ‘Tape, etc., given or mailed to'any address. ‘UNION CLOTHING C° WHOLESALE DEALERS, 112, 114 and 116 KEARNY STREET, Bet. Post and Sutter, NEW TO-DAY. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE MAGGIONI KID GLOVES. ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY! COMMENCING MOXDAY AT 9 A M. SILKS eeaATewe Half Price! Hundreds of Yards of New Silks Almost Given Away. ——XINT —— CHOICE DESIGNS, DESIRABLE COLORINGS, HAGNIFICENT QUALITY, — AT — 50 PER YARD. REGULAR PRICE §1 PER YARD. The Greatest Bargain Ever Offered la This City. New Goods Just Placed on Our Counters, Not Old, Shopworn Silks. [OUR REGULAR PATRONS ARE AD- VISED T0 CALL EARLY. NEWMAN & LEVINSON, ' SPECIAL SALE CAPES! $1.75, $3.00, $4.75, $6.50. Every NEW Style, every Fashionable col- or, all the most worthy ideas of America’s most prominent outer garment makers represented in the great special offerings for this week. The Capes cannot be du- pli‘cated this season at these prices. $4 DOUBLE CAPES—very wide cut— &ll wool—b rows braid trimming— black or new shades—biue or browa $6 50 ALL-WOOL CAPES—Cut extra full—all the popular colors, h. em- broidery to ma: Yours this week for ol $8 FANCY CLOTH CAPES—Cut extra full~plain, embroidered or braided— all popular colors. This week ouly $12 TAILOR-MADE CAPES—Tans, blue or black, lined fancy Dresden silk—trimmed small pearl buttons. .50 A great special at. R - $12 50 VELVET CAPES Fancy silk linings—1ine bead embroidecy—very .50 elegant. Speclal sale price this week PO $1 25 FINE PERCALE SHIRT W AISTS—Solld colors, tans, pink or blue—piped with white—lsundered to periection—all sizes—they fit. Only.. et KE 75° CLOAKS ¢ L) A IEBES 120KEARNY ST. We never fail to suit out-of-town patrons. Mail orders a specialty. = FOR SALE. A GREAT BARGAIN HE HALE RANCH, MOUNTAIN VIEW, Santa Clara County, two miles from Mountafth View Station, five miles from the Stanford Unis versity, Palo Alto, and ten miies from the City of San Jose. 1700 Acres of the Choicest Land in the Santa Clara Valley. Wil be sold at a great sacrifice to close the estate ot J. P. Hale. deceased. Large Vinevard, Three Prune Orchards, Frult Trees of all kinds and abundance of Water from & living creek and numerous springs. large House o eleven rooms, Barns, Stabl Chicken-Houses, Outhouses, etc., etc. etc., and the necessary farming utensils. PRICE $85,000—0XLY $50 PER ACRE. The cheapest land ever offered In California. For all particalars apply to MCGLYNN & MEN: TON, Real Estate Agents, Koom 23. Chroicle hx:udmg. where photographs of the property cam seels