The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1896, Page 7

APRIL 19, 1886 AMUSEMENTS, BALDWIN THEATER.—“Beau Brummell.” CALIFORNTA THEATER—"The Night Clerk.” Corvamia TREATER—“Pudd’nhead Wilson.” rosco's OrERa-HoUsE—Michael Strogoff.” 731vo1r OrERa-HousE.—“Blue Beard.' CRPAEUM.—High-Class Vandeville. GEOVER'S AICAZAR.—“Cad the Tombo; METREOPOLITAN TEMPLE—Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Mark HOPK INSTITUTE OF ART.—Spring exhibition of Paintings. <OUGH THEATKR (OAKLAND)—*Pudd'n- to-morrow night. SUTEO CONEY ISLAND—Grand Athletic kxhibi- tion and Concert. £H00T THE CrvTes—Daily at Haight street, tlock east of the Park. SOLDEN GATE PARK—Golden Gate Park Band. Eay DieTRICT TRACK.—Races to-mOITOW. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. E1 Caxro—Music, Dancing, Boating, Fishing, every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. BY E. 8. SPEAR & Co.—Monday, April 30, Un- claimied Merchandise, at 31 and 33 Butter street, at 10 o'clock. By Eastox & ELDRIDGE—Tuesday, April 21 Real Estate, at 638 Market st., at 12 0'clock noon. PROBATE SALE—Tuesday, April 21, San Pablo Rancho, Contra Costa Co., at 10 o'clock. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF, Rev. R. M. Campbell has accepted s call to Glasgow, Ky. The bloomer girl is slowly but surely passing away in San Franecisco. The Episcopal Church conference will be held in this City on May 5. The last secular concert of the Mormon choir was given last night in Metropolitan Temple. Rev. Dr. F. J. Masters makes@lartling revela- tions concerning the wle ot Chinese slaves in tais City. The Grand Lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor of California will meet on Tuesday in the Alcazar building. Mattio Drobas, one of the best-known old- timers on the water front, was married tos handsome young widow last Friday. The Mission Defense Union met last night reported 597 property-owners organized ainst the claims of the Noe heirs. Jobn Keefe, gripman of the Jackson-street line, who was discharged two weeks ago for at- tending the races, has been reinstated. At the second annual meeting of the local lodge of the Travelers’ Protective Association officers for the ensuing year were elected. ‘‘Partly cloudy Sunday; brisk westerly wind"—iorecast for San Francisco and vicinity Issued last night by Official W. H. Harmon. Captain Caw of the British ship Blairmore, lost during & gale in Mission Bay April9, was held blame y the Consular Court of In- quiry yester: Dick McDonald is free. He has been allowed 0 g0 on his own recognizance, pending a set- tlement of the remaining charges. They will Pprobabiy be dismissed. Severai reputable citizens state that the late J. C. Wilmerding intended that the Wilmer- ding Art School should be established in this City and nowhere else. A fire on San Jose avenue was caused vester- day evening by a defective oil lamp used in an incubator, and the whole of the upper story of the house was destroyed. The winning horses at Bay District yesterday were: Big Chiei, Daylight, Chartreuse II, Duchess of Milpita erance, Mount Me- Gregor 11 and Heartsea: The new advanced transcontinental freight rates may not be put into effect until the mid- dic of May, owing todelay in getting out the printed schiedules at Chicago. Joint committees from the Mechanics’ Insti- tute and Manufacturers’ AssoCiation to-mor- row will bave a conference relative to holding & home industry fair next fall. The San Francisco and North Pacific Rail- roed Company complain that the Harbor Com- ioners are dumping reiuse right under windows of their waiting-room. Edward chant, dri 3 . nearly killed his wife yesterdsy, and last night was locked up in & padded cell in the Recciving Hospital. Grorge W. Simpson, locksmith, 612 Shrager street, was arrested yesterday on a warrant £worn to by & neighbor, charging him with in- £xnily, but was released by Judge Slack. Delegates to the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, to be held in San Luis Obispo in the latter part of the month, are ar- 1iving in this city en route for the south. Robert Bright sued his sister, Mrs. Mary Craig, for money and land transferred to her recently by him, when he believed death was near. Mrs. Craig is wealthy now, and he is a poor invalid. Mrs, Alired W. Smith, assistant professor of gociology at Stanford University, accompanied by twelve of her class, visited the City Prison and Police courts yesterday morning during a tonr of inspection. The Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company’s steamer Gaelic was due from Yoko- hama via Honolulu last Friday, but as she had a case of the black plague aboard she was probebly quarantined at the latter port. Frank Thompson,a boy living at 431 Na- toma _street, fell from the topof the fence round St. Ienatius School on Grove street yes- terday and broke both bones of his right leg. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital. The jury in the case of Martin against the Southern Pacific Company awarded Martin yesterday afternoon, for hav- ly put off & train and robbed of his ticket by & train agent of the company. John Moss, the recently appointed traffic manager of the Valley road, was last evening ented with & Carrara bust of himself by late essociates, the employes in the local t agency of the Sonthern Pacific Com- t A. Wire Works, was caught in the belting_yester- day and slightly injured, and James King, an Bucher, an employe in the California employe in the shoe factory at7 Battery street, had the fingers of both his hands crushed by a roller. Felix Bush, from Vancouver, and Timothy H. Terwilliger, from Petaluma, both farmers, claim that they were robbed by women in dives on the Barbary Coast Friaay night and swore out warrants in the Police Court yesterday. Superintendent Stahle and Steward Robin- son of the City and County Hospital are pre- paring charges against Joseph King, chairman of the Hospital Committee of the ganrrl of Bu- rvisors, for refusing or neglecting to sign requisitions for supplies for patients, The Eleventh Werd Sectional Club will con- eolidate with the new organization known as “The Mission Improvement Union,” the ob- ject being to make their influence felt with the Superyisors and other co-ordinate branches of the municipal government for the benefit of the ward. The steam schooner Excelsior arrived from Cooks Inlet witha numberof returned miners eboard. They say that the mines are frozen over, and_that the prospectors are suffering great hardships. Nevertheless the Albion was to sail this morning with 105 men who will tempt fortune at the same point. The defondunt in the suit for the annul- t of marriage brought by the guardian of Fred Stuart Adams yesterday filed & volumin- ous answer. She denies that she beguiled her youthful husband to marry ner, and_declares that he is well versed in the ways of the world. She indignantly denjes charges of immorality, and brings counter-charges against the plain. tiff. WILL SEND AN EMBLEM. Board of Health Will Honor the Mem- ory of Attorney Dennis Spencer. The Board of Health heid a special meet- ing vesterday afternoon out of respect to the memory of Dennis Spencer, the late at- torney of the board, and_took appropriate action in the matter. Drs. Hart, Fitzgib- bon and Williams were appointed 8 com- mittee to draft appropriate resolutions to the memory of the late attorney. The beard decided to be represented at the funeral, and appointed Quarantine Officer Chalmers and Secretary Godchanx to pro- ceed to Napa and attend the funeral. An elaborate floral piece, consisting of a broken column, surinounted by a laurel wreath, will go with the 8an Francisco delegation to be laid on the bier of the deceased law- yer. e m.——— Brought From Los Angeles. Detective Ross Whittaker returned from Los Angeles last night with G. W. Persons and J. A.McClure and locked them up in the City Prison. Persons is charged with obtaining £25 from John Benuett, Sansome street, 3 ” means of a bogus check, McClure is charg with forging the name of A. E. Brook Ridley to a check for %190, which he passed on the Donohoe-Kelly Bank. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. APRIL i9. 1896. McDONALD'S CELL IS NOW EMPTY, He Has Been Released on His Own Recogniz- ances. HIS TRIALS AT AN END. Judge Bahrs Has Ordered the Cases to Be Settled Next Saturday. WILL PROBABLY BE DISMISSED. Two Defective Indictments and a Charge of Perjury Are All That Remain. R. H. McDonald’s cell in the County Jail will know him no more. He is free. There are charges still pending against him, but he has been allowed to go on his night and gazing of our child. *‘Don’t ask me what I intend todo. I want to enjoy my liberty. I want to stretch the limbs so long restrained; to breathe the glad, free air. I want to bathe my cramped and mildewed body in a flood of God’s free sunlight, while 1 watch the birds fly through the air, and cry to them, ‘At last I am asfreeas you.’” ‘Whether by reason of his wife's unre- mitting attentions or his own vigorous constitution, Mr. McDonald looks younger than he did when first he was introduced to the somber interior of a prison cell. The former hollows in his finely chiseled face are rounded out with healthy, firm flesh, while his cheeks bear a tinge of ruddiness which did not lighten them dur- ing the long, tedious days passed in the courtroom. His hair and beard are slightly streaked with gray, but so slightly that a stranger seeing him for the first time would call him a young man. z “Friends have advised me to leave town for a few days,” he continued; “but why should I go? My name alone indicates the brave, sturdy Scotch blood which is my heritage. I will not even appear to | fly from observation, though I have the right to go wherever I may please. If any one wishes to watch me here I am, and here I will remain. Here in this City I have been defamed and traduced; here I | have felt the iron clutch of the law; here I have endured the humiliation of im- prisonmeat, and here 1 will appear again before the public in the role which is mine by right—that of an honest business upon the sleeping beauty man. | “I hardly feel like talking business for | the present, but, of course, { must socn think of some means whereby I may pay my way and give my dear faithful wife | some little recompense for her loving and R. H. McDonald Jr., Who Is Now Free After Standing Four Felony Trials. own recognizance and it will not be long before the charges will be dropped. McDonald had been in jeil for nearly two years, and during that time he was tried four times. Once the jury disagreed and three times he was acquitted. His first trial was for perjury for having sworn to a false statement of the Pacific Bank’s finances. It wascontended that he did not actually swear to the statement, and this was proved by the testimony. He also alleged insanity as a defense. He was next tried for embezzling $20,000 from the Pacific Bank, but he was promptly acquit- ted. Then hewas tried for falsifying the acquitted. The charge of falsifying the records and that of perjury were closely related, for the much- talked-of Waterhouse checks were the cause of both. The checks were for sev- eral hundred thousana dollars and it was claimed they were put on the beoks to swell the assets of the bank. They were in the annual statement, and hence the charge of perjury for swearing to itand the charge of faisifying the record forearry- ing them on. When, therefore, McDonald was acquitted on the charge of falsifying the record it practically destroyed the per- jury charge. The last charge was one of embezzlement, for returning a note for $40,- 000 made by Henry Westphal and indorsed by C. O. Swanberg to the indorser. It was shown that the note had been deposited in security for a letter of credit on the Pacific Bank, but the Pacific Bank failed before the letter of credit was drawn upon and so the note was returned. An acquittal, therefore, ended the trial of the charge which was based on that transaction. After the tnird acquittal, which was only a few days ago, McDonald's bail was reduced to $2000 and the remaining cases against him were put over until yester- day. Cook had wanted the District At- torney to dismiss them right away, but he demurred. and he demurred again when they came up yesterday, so the cases were put over for another week and McDonald’s bail was all set aside. Judge Bahrs has intimated that the District Attorney must take some definite action then. The perjury charge will never amount to much, and the other charges against him aremade by defective indictments. Sub- stitutes for these indictments were filed and McDonald was tried upon them, while the defective ones were never dismissed. They can never harm him, however, for if he is ever brought to trial on them be can plead his former acquittals and so zet free at once. ‘There was no commotion in court when the prisoner was told he could go. He expected it, aud so did his friends. He said nothing, but with his wife and little i;ughusr walked quietly outof the City all. S P HIS FIRST FREE DAY. McDonald Spends Itin Resting and In Receiving the Congratula- tlons of His Friends. ““Only a man who has been deprived of his liberty can imagine the joy there is in getting it back again.” So said Richara H. McDonald last night. The man who has spent so many weary days behind the cold merciless portals of the County Jail was seated in the cozy front parlor of his comfortable elegant home on Page street. Close behind him sat his young wife. Day after day during the long term of his imprisonment had she gone to the grim stone jail, morning, noon and night, bearing dainty viands to the lonely prisoner. Durfhg all the time he was incarcerated never once did prison fare pass Richard McDonald’s lips. Never a sun rose or set but 1v brought him a gay “good morning” or a parting kiss from the wife of his bosom. “And now,” he went on, “I am here alone with her and our little ome. No cruel bars can part us; no turnkey can order her from her husband’s presence; no power can prevent me from rising at records of the bank and again he was | constant ministrations to me in my hour of direst need. Before I do anythingina business way I will write to my father. When I last heard from him. which was a | few weeks ago, he was in England. Since | he wrote I believe he i3 somewhere on the | Continent. [ know the springs at Carls- bad agree with him, and he may be there. At all events I can soon find out where he is,and when he learns that I am out he | will surely give me some assistance. To be sure he is hard pushed for money, but I know he will do his best to set me on my feet. “‘All day I have been kept busy receiving the congratulations of dear friends. Many of them were frequent visitors at my gloomy gquarters in the Broadway hostelry, while others knew me when I was a power in the world of finance. Some also have come whom I aided in my brief day of prosperity. “Never can I express the exquisite de- light with which I welcome these manifes- tations of a regard which can subsist through evil and good report. Never can I form into words the torrents of gratitude which well forth from my inmost heart in view of the noble, faithful friendship with which I have been so singularly blessed. “And now I stand at the threshold of a new life. Iopen wide my arms to give a welcome to my future. 1t cannot be aarker than my past, and if its first day be an augury my coming forth from bondage will be like the passing of a soul from pur- gatory into paradise.” JOHN MO0SS HONORED. Presented With a Carrara Bust by His Late Associates. John Moss, recently appointed traffic manager of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway, was very agree- ably surprised on reaching his residence last evening to find awaiting his arrival a most gratifying testimonial of the esteem in which he is held by his late associates, the employes of the local freight ugency of the Southern Pacitic Company in this City. The testimonial consists of a very hand- some Carrara marble bust, chiseled by C. Lopini, standing on a fine Corinthian column of dark green marble. — o An Incubator Caused a Fire. A fire broke out in the upper story of a frame dwelling-house on 8an Jose avenue, near Bond street, shortly before 5 o’clock yesterday even- ing, but .lmou);h the firemen were on the scene in & very few moments, having discov- ered the flames just a5 the engine team was returning from exercise, some $300 or $400 worth of property was destroyed before the flames were subdued. The house is owned by Mr. Jenkins, and was occupied by J. Hanson. There was a small insurance on the house, but none on its con- tents. The fire was caused by a defective oil lamp in usess 8 part of the heating apparatus of a large incubator, in which were several hun- dred eggs. The incubator and its unhatched brood ~were destroyed, together with the greater part of the upper story of the building. ——————————— Major Hooper Gets Back. Major W. B. Hooper, commander of the Loyal Legion of California, s returned from Los | Angeles and San Diego, where he attended the annual banquets of the local organizations of the Loyal Legion. There are about 100 of the members, who being elderly, find it difficult to attend the general annual meeting in San Francisco; and so the commander, s & courtesy to them, met them there. Major Hooper, dur- ing his absence, caughta heavy cold, but is re- cuperating. e Turned on the Gas. A Japanese, who could not speak English, was taken to the Receiving Hospital yesterday morning suffering from gas asphyxiation. He had oniy been in this country for a week and was employed as a servant at 1305 Leaven- worth street. It is supposed he was not fa- miliar with the gas fixtures and either blew out the light or ;ceidanullr turned the gas on again. He baa almost fully recovered last night. e The Hotelmen’s Live Time. George W. Kingsbury, chief clerk of the Lick House, has received telegrams from K. B. | Boule at Barstow, San Bernardino, Santa Bar- bara and other places, saying the hotelmen of the National association were enjoying themselves in the most splendid way. Resides Mr. Sonle of the Lick, General Warfield of the California, S. F. Thorn of the Grand and John W. Kirkpatrick of the Palace are with the Eastern hotelmen. | FLNN DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE, The Accused Man Says He Is a Victim of Cir- cumstances. NO FURTHER EVIDENCE. The Police Rest Their Case on the Testimony of the Child’s Mother. FITZGERALD MAKES DENIAL. Preliminary Hearing To-Morrow Pro- vided Mrs. Erowning Is Able to Be Present. J. T.Flynn, the alleged destroyer of a child born to a Mrs. Browning last Mon- day morning, and of which he is said to be the father, continues to protest his absolute ienorance and innocence of the crime. The accused man now goes a little fur- ther than this by declaring that if a erime was committed in the Browning house- | hold that lady’s sister is ejther entirely responsible or has some guilty knowledge of it. Fiynn further says that he defies any one to prove that he wasin the remotest way instrumental in causing the death of the chiid found in the vacant lot on Market street, near Twellth. He admits that the circumstances are against him, but con- tends that in time everything will be made clear. The police have so far ifailed to discover any additional evidence against Flynn. They endeavored yesterday, but without | success, to find the owner of the satchel, which the unnatural murderer, whoever it may be, sought to convert into a coffin for the new-born child of sin. There was nothing to show that it be- longed to Flynn,and there was equally little to connect the ownership with either Mrs. Browning or her sister, Mrs. Shane, and Captain Lees relies solely upon the statement of Mrs. Browning that Fiynn | was the father of the child, and that he | took it from the house for the avowed pur- | pose of committing it to the care of some | foundling asylum. | “As I have before stated,” said Flynn | vesterday, “I am the victim of a most pe- culiar combination of circumstances. It is difficult, of course, for people to under- stand that 1 only entertained a platomc friendship for the woman because I as- sisted her financially at various times. I first met Mrs. Browning about twelve months ago. We kept company for quite a while, and then oneday she told me that she was not physically able to be more T to procure a meusl for a hungry mother and her children. ‘I know of hundreds of instances when he has exhibited sufficient human sympathy to convince me that he could not commit the crime with which heis charged. “He is a brave man in the cause of jus- tice, able with his pen and in debate; could not be induced to commit an in- discretion, much less a crime. “He is an author, an able editorial writer, the father of two bright children, of excellent family connection, and num- bers damong his personal acquaintances many of the leading citizens of Oregon, ‘Washington and California. “In view of what I know to be true I am justified in asking a suspension of public judgment. There is a mistake somewhere and the cause of justice wili not be injured by a short delay. John T. Flynn is not an idiot and those, who temporarily condemn him will have to reverse their opinion later on. *Ican cite instances,'when the proper time arrives, when he condemned crimes of a heinous nature—notably the Holmes, Hayward and Durrant cases. His pen has been used particularly against that class of criminals and at all times has he been a stanch supporter of law and human rights. George Knight will look after Flynn’s interests in a legal way. The attorney held a long consultation with the accused man yes'erday, and at its conclusion ex- pressed the opinion that Fiynn will have but little difficulty in establishing his in- nocence. The preliminary hearing will take place to-morrow, provided Mrs. Browning is able to be present in court. It aeveloped yesterday that Dr. Quigley furnished the clew whicn finally led to the arrest oi Flynn. He calied on Cap- tain Lees Wednesday and informed him of the prisoner’s visit to his office on Mon- day night. Detective Gibson was detailed to look into the case, and he was not long in fixing on Flynn as tbhe guilty party. Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald sends a communication to THE CALL correcting the erroneous statement that John T. Flynn was an attache of the Labor Bureau. 1t seems that his only connection with the bureaun was, as Fitzgerald declares, as fol- lows: Mr. Flynn was assoclated with W, G. C. Pitt of the Voice of Labor, at the instance of thelatter in a canvass relative to the removal of the headquarters of the bureau, which canvass was closed some time ago, and subsequently he was connected with the reporiorial staff of the Examiner. He has never been in my employ as deputy, clerk oragent, and the only connection with this department was through Mr. Pitt, who called in Mr, Flynn as an associate. Now that Captain Lees has solved the ery in this case he will at once turn his attention to finding the parents of the baby girl left nude on the doorstep of Mrs. Stewart, 31)¢ Oak Grove avenue, last ‘Wednesday. BRIGHT SUES HIS SISTER The Aged Capitalist Alleges She Has His Money and Land. Mrs. Mary Craig Charged With In- ordinate S> fishacss in Dealicg With Her Brother. than afriend. 1 wanted to marry her, not | that I entertained any particularly strong two children, and needed some one to care for them. Then 1t was that she told me of her condition. *Knowing that she was the mother of two children, one a girl of 16 and the other a boy some years younger, and believing that she needed help, I assisted her when- | ever Icould. At various times I have given her money—$10, $15 or $20, accord- ing to the size of my own purse. I did this solely because I felt sorry for her, though it is evident now that my kindness was misplaced. “On the night the child was born I called on Mrs. Browning and found her ill. She =aid that she had been sick since Fri- day and [ immediately went in search of a physician. I found Dr. Quigley and | giving him my card requested that he go | immediately to _see Mrs. Browning. The | story of how he visited the house and deliv- | ered the mother of the child has already | been *old and, of course, need not be gone over now. I can only repeat what I said | last night, that I know absolutely nothing of any child being born to her, except | what hasbeen told me. If the child aban- | doned was hers then the responsibility rests with her. “To me it is very plain. The child was left in the vacant lot and then traced to her by the laundry mark on the towel, or | else the at'ending physician reported the | matter to the police. In any event she and her sister saw that they were in for it and at once concluded to skift the whole responsibility on me. How successfully they have done this is readily seen. ‘‘Some comment has been indulged in, so I understand, over the fact that I re- cently changed lodging-houses, It is true that I did change my lodging-place, and I was forced to, on account of not being able to pay the rent. This isan embarrassing thing to say, I know, but it is none the less true. Now about the satchel or,valise in which the baby was found. On the night I visited Mrs. Browning I had just $1, and I got it on pawning my two satchels. “I owed my former landlady, on Third street, §2, and she kept my mail as a sort of guarantee, I expected some important letters and the only way that I could get them was by paying the balance of the rent. I pawned my valise for §3, paid my landlady $2 and started for Mrs. Brown- ing’s with the balance in my pocket. As T only owned two valises it is impossible for the one containing the baby to belong to me. Of course, I can’t see how I am to getout of this at the present time, but I am sure that in the end all will be made clear.” A Cavn man visited a gentleman yester- day who has known Flynn for several vears and been clearly identified with him in several enterprises. His name, by his request, is suppressed until the prelimi- nary hearingz, Monday or Tuesday next. He said: “I have known John T. Flynn inti- mately. I regarded him and he me as a brother. Yet were he guiltj of the offense charged I would not shield him. I would not shield my own son were he guilty of a similar crime. “I know him to be charitable, even when he needed the small sum which his limited means would permit him to con- tribute to a worthy cause. I know him to be of a kind and cheerful nature, making life a pleasure rather than a hardship. I have known him to protect & boy of ten- der years who was being abused by a burly ruffian. He did notonly protect the child, but volunteered to prosecute the man and convicted him. “I remember an instance when he called on me and asked me to give him 50 cents | Only last summer a stroke of paralysis ! fell upon Robert Bright, the old capitalist. passion, but that 1 was a widower with | To his mind this meant the end, so he | t-ansferred all his money and property to | #2d rooms for the clerks and for the rec- his sister. But the aged financier cheated death. With returning healih came a de- i sire to regain yossession of the weaith that | | was his a few months before. | “I wantthe money and property back | again,” he wrote in making his request. | “They are mine, and mine they shall re- main,” was the only answer he received. | The situation continued unchanged until Friday afternoon, when a complaint was filed by Attorney James H. McKnight in the Superior Court against Mrs. Mary Crzig, who is Bright's sister. The com- plaint alleged that on June 7, 1895, Bright | thought he was dying, and prompted by | a desire to save expenses of various kinds he gave Mrs. Craig $16,981 37 and a valu- able lot at the northeast corner of Polk and Broadway streets. Bright did not die, however, and his sister would not return either the money or property. The suit, according to the complaint, will be fought out on the declaration that | the money and property were only trans- ferred in trust, and for that reason the court will be asked to decree that Mrs. Craig has held it in trust for her brother. The request is made that she be compelled to give back the coin and property. Bright was a capitalist for thirty or forty years in San Francisco. He first amassed considerable wealth in the steam- boat business on the Sacramento River, and was once very wealthy. Much of his money was made in dealing in San Fran- cisco real estate. He is a widower with children, grandchildren and great-grand- children in San Francisco, but through his unfortunate transfer is now in strait- ened circumstances. A friend of his said last night that the old man was an in- valid, aeprived of comforts and attendance which he sadly needed. : Mrs. Craig is an old woman who lives in this City. She is a widow, possessed of large wealth, and dia not need a dollar of ber brother's money. Like her brother she has not many years to live, and can- not spend her fortune in the remainder of her lifetime. The case is considered an extraordinary one and may bring outa strange story when tried in court. ———————— It is intended by German doctors to cele. brate, on May, 14, the one hundredth an- niversary of Dr. Jenner’s first experiment in vaccination NEW TO-DAY. ROOT’S WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CUT-RATE DRUGGISTS, Sixth and Howard | Sts., 8. K., Cal. bottle 15¢: dozen $1 65 Citrate Magnesia KEagle Milk. ..can ase §7 60 Paine's Celery Compound. bottie 60c: per doz 87 20 Williams’ Pink Pills. -box B5¢; dozen $4 LO o tle 65c; dozen &5 00 rilla.bot. 85¢; doz $6 00 Hood's Sarsaparilla. Dr. J. C. Browne’s Sa Scott's Emulsio Rool’s Kmalsion Duffy’s Miait Whisky. La Blache Powder. £ to original beauty) bortle 35c: dozen 81 00 bottle 26¢; dozen $2 76 Drugs, Toilet Articles, Rubber Goods, Syringes, Elastic Stockings, Trusses, etc. B~ Write for 40-page CUT-PRICE LIST. PHYSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS Dispensed at Wholesale Prices. A regular physi- clan in charge of this depariment. Parke, Davis & Co’s Fluid. Extracts, slerck’s Chemicals, Wyeth’s Pills and Granulés invarisbly used. No commissions paid. COUNTRY ORDERS FILLED. FEDERAL JUDGES NOT T0 BLAME, Promptly Returned the Post- office Plans to Wash- ington. OFFERED MANY CHANGES Insufficient Floor Space Allowed for the United States Courts. DELAY IN BEGINNING WORK. The Respopsibility Rests With the Treasury Department at Washington. The dispatch from Washington to the effect that the Postmaster of San Fran- cisco and the Judges of the United States courts were delaying the commencement of work on the new Federal building has been amply refuted by the head of the postal department. But now the Federal Judges come forward with the additional testimony that the statements given out by the chief architect’s office at Washing- ton and published at length in THE CALL are entirely without foundation. The Judges are charitable enough to believe, however, that Mr. Aiken, the supervising architect, did not himself inspire the as- sertions attributed to his department, but that they were made by a subcrdinate in | the seryice. There 1s every reason to believe that no United States officer in this City has in any way interfered with the progress of the enterprise, has unnecessarily withheld the plans submitted for change by the architect, or in any way delayed the com- mencement of work on the proposed build- ing. “The plans submitted to me were re- turned to Mr. Aiken a month ago,” said Judge McKenna of the United States Cir- cuit Court yesterday, *‘and I have had no further communication with him regard- | ing the matter. I made what changesin the plans T thought necessary, as they were not entirely eatisfactory. Consid- erable room is needed for the transaction of the business of the court and the space needed was outlined in the plans as re- turned to the architect. “Ido not believe, however,” continued Judge McKenna, “that Mr. Aiken himself made the statement that the delay in the comimencement of work on the new build- ing was because of the tardiness of the | Postmaster and the Judges of these courts. | There must be some mistake about it, or probably it was given out by some subord- inate of the architect’s office.” The rooms now occupied by the Circuit Court in the building at Washington and Sansome streets, apart from the court chamber, included the Judges’ chambers ords of the court, six in all. At the very lowest calculation a like number of rooms will be required for the Circuit Court in the new building at Mission and Eighth streets. “*Mr. Aiken submitted the floor plans for the accommodation of the United States courts in the new Postoffice build- ing to me for any changes that I might deem advisable,” said Judge Morrow of the United States District Court yester- day, “and after examining them and making some necessary alterations I re- turned them to the architect’s office at Washington on February 27 last.. Now it is highly important that the United States courts shall have plenty of room for their convenience and accommodation. Mr. O'Rourke’s plans were only outlines and could not be considered as definite. He went out of office and Mr. Aiken suc- ceeded him. His plans were somewhat more in detail, and when submitted to me I went over them carefully and returned them without delay. I have a letter from Mr. Aiken acknowledging their receipt and thanking me for the suggestions which I offered. ‘“It is not altogether within the dis- cretion of the Judge as to how these apartments shall pe arranged,’” continued Judge Morrow, “‘since the law makes the court the custodian of the Spanish archives, which require a separate room, and the patents issued by the Government another. Thess records are kept for the accommodation of the public. The clerk of court requires at least two rooms and the Judge two. These were not provided for in the plans submitted. If I remember right the District Attorney only had two rooms (he has four now) and the Marshal one. The clerk of the Court of Appeals only had one room. Now, when the plans were subaitted the idea at once suggested itseif that I should rather increase than cut down the space limit. ““On March 3, 1887,” continued Judge Morrow, as he became interested in the subject, ““Congress appropriated $350,000 for the purchase of a site in San Francisco for a new postoflice and United States court building. The sum was not consid- ered sufficient to purchase a site for a building that would serve the purposes of the Government for all time. Therefore, | on March 21, 1889, the amount was in- creased to $800,000. Even then the Com- missioners said that the sum was insuffi- cient to purchase the required site, and on April 4, 1890, the appropriation was in- creased to $1,250,000 for the purposes named. The original act distinctly speci- 1i€s that the proposed building shall be large enough to sufliciently accommodate the different offices in connection with the postal department and the United States courts.” Judge Morrow was in Congress when the appropriations for the new Federal building were from time to time enlarged, and he labored assiduously to secure the enactment of the law providing for the structure. Therefore he takes more than a passing interest in the contemplated enterprise, and is anxious to see the work on the foundation begun. Since Judges McKenna and Morrow and Postmaster McCoppin have absolutely contradicted the statement sent out from Washington that they have withheld the plans, and therefore delayed the com- mencement of work on the new Postoflice building, it will be necessary for the au- thorities at Washington to devise other and more substantial excuses for their tardiness and neglect. ‘W. 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