The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1896 ROLLING-BIILLS SHAKEN 0P, General Manager Keeney Handed in His Res- ignation. ECONOMY THE MOTTO. Several Heads of Departments Chopped Off Suddenly for Consolidation. MANY LEAKS IN MATERIAL. Employes Largely Interested in the At'as Iron Works Next Door. Hash vs. Scrapiron. | Shortly after D. 0. Mills arrived from the East there was a shaking up of the | the Pacific Rolling Mills Company that | set the Potrero agog with excitement. | Heads of departments were chopped off, District. These committees will meet in a few days and formally act upon the re- turns. # The members of the Republican County Commitwee held a brief conference last evening to consider some bills and odds and ends of primary matters. i The next thing before the party is now the State Convention at Sacramento on May 5, and interest is now centering in that important party council. In the Fifth District the returns from the Thirty- seventb District will be contested by Ed Donnelly, who led the defeated opposition faction in that district. Donuelly alleges that fraud was committed in that district, and that the minority delezates are en- titled to recognition. A farcical contest in the Forty-second District, filed by Leon Dennery, is not giv- ing anybody even as much concern as is Donnelly’s little contest. Dennery’s seat in the County Committee was declared va- cant after he had moved to the Twenty- eighth District and lived there some time in the Burlington lodging-house, claiming to be still a member of the County Com- mittee. Dennery got the use of a couple of stalls last Wednesday and ran_a little district rimary of his own, a dozen or so of his $iends casting their votes for the ticket he got up for his own amusement. i Kelly and Mahoney are still shouting about their contesting delegation from the Fourth District and are making great efforts to get & few people to believe that the product of their rump primary, in- flated by 7300 fraudulent votes, has some ossibility of getting recognized by the State Convention to the jextent of being given half the San Francisco vote. The tactics that Kelly and Mahoney are now pursuing and will pursue until the conven- tion meets are the same ones of trickery, fraud and unfounded claims that have marked their course since that midnight meeting in Mahoney’s rooms at which their programme was for- mally started. Yesterday Kelly and Mahoney gave out the absurd news that leaders of the regular party had made cifers of compromise consolidations of departments were made, and expenses were rigorously pruned down. signed last week, and Superintendent Pat- | rick Noble was required to do the General | Manager’s work as well as his own. The | impression prevailed last night that Mr. | regular primary. that few have thus far | made by seiling his papers. Johnnie gave | Noble's head would adorn the waste-basket ‘ of economy in a day or two. | Yesterday morning Master Mechanic | Bedford A. Tinglev and his assistant | Henry Wynne were dropped from the pay- ! roll and given permission to roam over the earth at their own sweet will. The thunderbolt came suddenly upon | these two. Bright and early yesterday morning Edward Coleman, president of the Rolling-mills Company, appeared at the works and turned their pictures to the wall. Messrs. Tingley and Wynne there- upon put on their coats and hats, shed their overalls, drew their pay and walked | out of the place with a bold and manly | front. It is understood that Keeney's resigna- | tion was handed in in pursuance of a hint | loud enough for a blind horse to hear. | Other removals are to follow, and there | is much trepidation on the Potrero clam ‘ flats. | The Pacific Rolling-mills are owned by | D. O. Milis, the Parrott estate, Edward | Coleman ard others. Mr. Coleman is | president and William P. Sullivan Jr.is | secretary. The Parrott estate is repre-| sented on the board of directors by Mr. Payson, who resides in San Mateo. For months past it has been an open secret that things were not going on as | well as they should at the mills. While the work done was of the best quality the | profits were of a very uncertain quality | and, in fact, of unknown quantity. There is much reticence on this point, but it is | on the street that the amount of the| profits, if there were any at all, was not | large enough to please the owners. Most of the iron work—some say all— | that was secured by the Pacific Company was given to the Atlas Iron Works, next door, while the rolling-mills did all the steel work. Patrick Noble is President of the Atlas, and this fact is said to have been a fortunate one for the Atlas; but some of the Pacific Rolling-mills Com- pany people did not think it was a very fortunate thing for the Pacific. It was whispered about that because of the large blocks of shares held by many of the Pacific Rolling-mill’s employes, the Atlas, like Mr. Reilley, proprietor of the famous hotel, was doing quite well indeed, | thank you, sir, but that the Pacific, she were not feeling so well, thank you, sir. The owners were also said to have been dissatisfied with the manner in which the storerooms were kept. There was no sys- tem in them. There were five or six men in charge who seemed to be accountable to no one but themselves. Itisunder- | stood to be the intention to place a general | storekeeper in charge of the storerooms who will be held responsible. It is re- ported also that there have been large leakeages of material, and this matter will | be thoroughly investigated. | It is understood that the downtown ofe | fice will be dispensed with and that thusa | considerable saving will be effected. | Hash as well as scrapiron figures in the | general shakeup. Gateley of the Potrero | Hotel thinks he ought to get the patron- age of the emvloyes, but, on the contrary, it all goes to T. Richards’ boarding-house. Richards is known as the Kerry Datch- man. He has the cream of the business and is said to have an able ally in Foreman Poulson of the laborers’ department. In fact, the Gateley faction says that Poulson commands his men to chew the Kerry Dutchman’s corned beef and cabbage in preference to the luscious belly bacon of the Gateley | establishment. Mr. Gateley is said to have been kicking for quite along while; but he is sadly bandicapped by having only one meat leg, the other being of wood. His friends are jubilant over the shak- ing up and predict that under the wew ad- ministration the Gatcley table will groan with the weight of good things and of | boarders. POLTICS OF THE 7Y, 1 Republican Primary Returnsi Reach the Congressional Committees. Dagg:tt Is Shut Out of the Junta and the Buckley Silver Piay Will Be Met. | | | The returns of the regular Republican primeries were yesterday filed with the | Congressional committees of the Fourth | and Fifth districts and these committees | will meet to formally act upon the returns | in a few days. { Secretary John E. Richaras of the Con- | gressional committee of the Fifth District | received one set of returns from Chairman C. C. Manwarinz and Secretary John Jackson of the Fifth District, members of the County Committee, Chairman John N. Chretien and Secretary Walsh of the Fourth District committeemen filed the returns from that district with Chairman | sense, who will come from all over the | | State to make up the convention, and the | ment has been defeated by the adoption of with them, which offers they had| spurned in the fuliness of their | confidence and power. As ninety- | | nine hundredths of the local Republican | General Manager Charles M. Keeney re- | party is so solidly massed in support of | sells papers to help the family the regularly and legitimately constituted | party authorities, the proceedings they | lm\'e taken and the delegation named and elected by the people of the district at the | thought Kelly and Mahoney worthy of very serious attention, the absurdity of | such a story is evident. Thus an’ opposition movement, headed and controlled by two of the most infa- mous and despicable politicians that have | disgraced and knifed the party in the past, is backed by less than 300 legitimate voters and has for its only goal the acquirement of corrupt boss-power in San Francisco local politics. For these reasons it will not awaken a great wave of sympathy among the Republicans of decency and | prospect of the delegation sent by the Re- publican voters of the Fourth district be- ing knocked out by tius Falstaffian com- pany appears exceedingly remote. Political moves are developing steadily in the ranks of the sundered local Democ- | racy. A new idea has bobbed np in the | Junta now the large Rainey-Daggett ele- a constitution of the cinch kind which se- | curely shuts it out of power in the organi- zation while it remains what itis. The | McNab-Lanigan-Suilivan _combination | now has all the power, and it will name | the delegation to the Democratic State | Convention, though the form of a primary election will be gone through with. John Daggett is now to be shut out| along with Sam Rainey. He will get as many of the 164 delegates to the conven- tion as a stingy and victorious ‘‘1nside” which he has fought may be willing to dole out to him. The Daggett-Rainey ele- ment may be ailowed twenty on a pinch. | Daggett will not have many San Francisco | votes to swing for Carlisle and to make combinations with in the State Conven- tion. McNab, Lanigan and Sullivan are, of | course, looking mainly to the control of the local party. The Buckleyites have declared for silver, and will send a silver delegation to the State convention. This | | is recognized as a strong play, because the | majority of the convention will be for silver and not likely to seat a gold delega- | tion marshaled by the Federal brigade. | Now, with Daggett out of the way,| the Junta can meet this Buckley vlay by mixing in a lot of silver delegates | and perbaps by sending a delegation | which has a majority for silver. The Junta | | leaders do not care particularly, as far as | | they are concerned, whether the delegation | is_for gold, silver or greenbacks, and | with Daggett’s administration influence squeezed out the administration infiuence | wielded by Welburn and one or two others | can be repressed somewhat in the interest | of local expediency. The executive committee of ninety of | the Buckley general committee elected | last Thursday evening will meet for or- | ganization at Pythian Castle this evening. | Ex-Senator M. J. Donovan will be elected chairman and steps will be taken to ac- tively push things along. At a meeting of the Pond Democratic Club, beid at Kaufman’s Hall, southwest corner of Fifth and Mission Streets, last | evening—it also being its twelfth anniver- sary—the following officers were elected for the ensuing term: President, F. Kaufman \re-elected): first vice-pres- ident, F. P. Callundan; second vice- fresident. Michael Conway; secretary, P. H. Gardner (re-elected); financial sec- retary, George W. Davis; treasurer, John Feldmarn; sergeant-at-arms, B. C. Mooney. After the election of officersa repast was partaken of. Quite a number of charter members were present. Short speeches were made and toasts drunk. he club then adjourned to meet next Monday night. TRIED TO END HER LIFE. Mrs. Josephine Oman Throws Herself in Front of a Cable-Ca: Mrs. Josephine Oman, a widow living on South avenue and J street, South San Francisco, has been driven insane through, it is claimed, the persistentannoyance and ‘persecution of her neighbors. Yesterday morning she threw hersetf in front of a cable-car at the ferry and was aragged off the track in time to save her from being crushed under the wheels. She was taken to the Harbor police station and from there to the Receiving Hospital. She was placed in a padded cell. Mrs. Oman’s immediate neighbors are Mrs. Mary Glashen and Mrs. Thorall. A week ago last Monday Mrs. Oman and Mrs. Glashen had some trouble about a ditch and next morning Mrs. Glashen swore out a warrant in Judge Low’s court for Mrs. Oman’s arrest on the charge of battery. The case was heard by Judge Low on Thursday and was dismissed. Mrs. Oman has two grown-up daughters who work in the City. Yesterday after- noon one of them, accompanied by a lady friend, called at the hospital to see her mother. The interview between them was very affecting. ‘‘My mother has been driven insane by the persecution of her neighbors,” said the daughter. ‘‘As my sister and [ work in the City, sbe is left alone at home, and they constantly annoy her. When she ‘was arrested last Tuesday she was nearly out of her mind, and it has so preyed upon her that she is now, [ suppose, insane. “She leit home this morning with the intention of going to Oakland to see some friends, as we thought the change might do her good, and I suppose that was when she threw herself in front of the car. I blame Mrs. Glashen and Mrs. Thoraly for driving my poor mother out ot her mind, but what can we do?"” e e At Hatfield House, in the James I picture gallery, there is preserved the gar- den hat worn by Queen Elizabeth, and a | pitiful story of what his father had done | of 8 months, and Johnnie and walked to | MANGLED BY A FATHER'S HAND, The Inhuman Flogging of Little Johnnie Mec- Cafferty. FURY OF A DRUNKARD. Whipped His Boy With the Buckle End of a Big Leather Strap. POUNDED AND KICKED HIM. Cruelly and Maliciously B:aten Be. cause He Did Not Sell Enough Newspapers. A revolting case of cruelty to a child, one of the worst that has come to the attention of the police for a long time, occurred last night at 335 Broadway. Martin J. Cafferty, a laborer for Grey Bros., contractors, lives there with his wife and four children. The oldest is Johnnie, a bright boy 9 years of age, who along. Last night Cafferty went home in a half- drunken state. He was in an ugly mood | and asked the boy how much he had | him 25 cents, telling him it had been a poor day. Cafferty scowled and sent Mrs. Cafferty | out for 5 cents’ worth of beer to get her} out of the way. Then he took hold of the | boy, threw him on the floor and beat him over the back, legs, arms and head with a | strap having a heavy buckle on the end of | it. Not content with that, he jumped on the boy’s back, kicked him in the ribs and | dashed his head against the hard wooden floor. The boy begged piteously for mercy, but | his cries only enraged the brute the more. When Mrs. Cafferty returned with the beer her busband was standing on the top of the stairs. He saluted her with the re- mark: “I had a good mind to brain you with a hatchet as I saw you coming up the stairs, and I may do it yet.” Suspecting that something was wrong she pushed past him and saw Johnnie ! standing with the tears running down his | cheeks and his face swollen. She took | him in her arms and he sobbed out his to him. Cafferty came into the room, and | after storming around for a few minutes went to bed, where a four-year-old boy was sleeping. As soon as he was sound asleep Mrs. Cafferty took her 7-year-old girl, her baby | the Central police station, arriving there | about 10 o’clock. To Acting Captain Bird- | sall she told of her husband’s cruelty and made the boy take off his clothes. | A horrible sight presented iiself. The | boy’s entire back was covered with big red blisters and stripes. His arms were in the same condition and there were big lumps on his head from contact with the hard floor. He also complained of pains in his left side where his father had kicked him. ‘“After mother left,”” said Johnnie, “father told me to finish my supper quick and he would ‘fix me.” He did not wait till I finished, but threw me on the floor and | ined again. point in connection with the recent public debate between Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper and the rabbi, it is printed in full, as follows: To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The Rabbi Voorsanger, in his debate with Mrs. Cooper and Miss Anthony, stated that: ‘“We know what took place in ancient Rome when ‘women stood at the head of politics and let- ters.” I fear the rabbi is as far off in his Roman his- tory as he was in that of Isabella of Castile. It may be remembered that he described Isabella as “clasping a crucifix to her chfldless breast.” Isabella, to whom it was well known, we chiefly owe the discovery of America, was the disti. guished mother of snch a well-known daugh- ter as Katherine of Aragon,not to speak of her other children. Who were the Roman women that once stood high in letters? The Roman women were barred out from the whole world of letters, and there is not & pen from one to defend her sex against the vile slanders of the corrup writers of that corrupt age. The Roman woman held her very life at the will of father or husband. Her consent was never asked in marriage. She walked from the bondage of her father to the bondage of her husband. There was no law to defend any woman that went out on the streeis nnat- tended. This was the origin of the custom in all Latin countries where respectable giris and women never walk on the streets,even in broad daylight, alone. The Roman women were in complete sub- ordination. If they developed the art of de- ceit, treachery and intrigue, as some did, these vices were the natural outcome of their en- siavement. Nevertheless we know that when their tyrants sought to_fasten on them the uu- just edict thet no daughter could inherit an: part of her father’s wealth, they combined, and headed by Cato’s wife stormed the Senate until the cbnoxious law was repealed. \LOKG THEWATER FRONT Arrival of the Zealandia and Gaelic Made the Mail Dock Busy. The Schooner Prosper Sprang a Leak and Had to Put Back to Port. The mail dock was busy again yester- day. For a couple of days there have been no steamers to work, and in consequence the longshoremen have been disconsolate. The Gaelic, from Hongkong, via Yoko- hama and Honolulu, was behind time, and when shedid get inlast Sunday was placed in quarantine. About noon yesterday she was released, and had not yet left Angel Island when the Zealandia came in from Panama and way ports. Both steamers gotto the dock about the same time, but the Zealandia was the only one to puta full force of men to work. Although the Gaelic was released from quarantine, her stecrage passengers were detained on the island and will not be landed until this morning. The forward | and after hatches were hermetically sealed after the fumigating apparatus had been placed in them. The main hatch, in which was rice and silks, was allowed to remain open, and this was the only one from which any discharging was done vester- day. At8o’clock last night the hatches were removed and this morning a full force of men were at work. The Zealandia will not make another trip under the management of the Pacific Mail and yesterday she was flying the Oceanic Steamship Company’s flag. After discharging her New York freight she wili g0 to Lombard-street wharf to make room for the next Panama steamer. After dis- | charging the remainder of her cargo she | will be turned over to the Spreckels Broth- ers Company and may be put in the sugar trade, or she may be again laid up at Martinez. The Gaelic was caught in the same gale that turned the Rio de Janeiro back. She was threedays late in reaching Yokobama, but nevertheless there was plenty of coal in the bunkers to carry her to Hongkong. The story about the plagne being aboard her has been exaggerated and the oilicers say that the man who died in Yokohama | may never have been a passenger. Chinese come and go in sampans at all hours while the steamers are in port and any one of these may have been the victim.” When the Gaelic left Hongkong all the steerage passengers were examined, and before Yokohama was reached they were exam- In these circumstances the doctor does not think the plague cou!d AT THE CITY PLAYHOUSES Richard Mansfield’s Brilliant Hit in “Rodion” at the Baldwin. REED AT THE CALIFORNIA. Mrs. Hoyte’s Debut at the Alcazar. New Attractions at Other Houses. Never since Irving played here in “The Bells'’ has anything so weird and haunt- ing been seen at a local theater as *‘The Story of Rodion the Student,” which Richard Mansfield prodnced for the first time in San Francisco at the Baldwin Theater last night. As a play “Rodion” is less powerful in construction than “The Bells,” for in the earlier acts it requires a stretch of the im- agination to invest the murderer with a motive for his crime. ‘‘Because 1 was mad at the injustice about me” may be sufficient motive in Russia to make a dreamer on social questions take the life of a heartless usnrer, because there are injustice and oppression enough on all hands to goad on one who broods social wronus, to think that a blow back at one of the oppressors is almost an act of justice. 1t is hard, however, for an Amer- 1can audience to sympathize with such a frame of mina. But if “‘Rodion” is not so strong and compact as “The Bells” of which it strongly smacks, it is nevertheless a play with powerful dramatic scenes and it is built round a story of absorbing interest. As a piece of characterization Manstield’s Rodion 15} superior to Irving’s Matthias. It is as intense and weird, as haunting in its realistic horror and remorse and it is devoic of those toucLes of stilted stagi- ness which Irving’s voice and gait in- flict upon him, in spite of himself. Rodion is a Russian student, a brilliant dreamer, whose high-strung nervous tem- perament has been accentuated by over- study and want. He is brought in contact with a horriole case of desittution and he loves the victim of it, Sonia, a young girl whose honor has been sold to supply her parents with bread. Inflamed by his theories and maddened by the injustice done to Sonia, Rodion conceives the idea that it would be no crime to rid the world of Ivanhoff, the usurer; who was employed by a rich patron to grind Sonia’s parents to poverty and infamy. On his way to pawn a ring at Ivan- hoff’s, Rodion finds an ax lying by the steps, and as he hides in a doorway he overhears Sonia pleading with the usurer for a pittance on a gold cross that was her dead mother’s, in order that she may live honestly and have bread for her sisters till she can earn a living by her needie. The usurer mocks her, and tempts her to return to her old life by offering her jew- els, but she rushes from him sobbing, and Rodion forgets that five minutes before he iiad prayed, “Lead us not into tempta- tion.”” He slinks from the doorway, knocks at the usurer’s door and murders him. The rest of the play is taken up with the student’s horror and remorse—his hor- ror at the fear of discovery and his re- morse that an innocent man is accused. He confesses at last to Sonia and the cur- tain falls on his suicide. Mansfield does not merely portray this role of the wierd nervous dreamer, throug- out the whole play he lives and moves, and has his being, not as Mansfield, | the player, but as Rodion, the stu- {dent. His very face and iform seem to have changed from those of Beau Brum- mell’s. Rodions features are sharp, hag- gard and angular, his eyes have the cold, mystic look of the man who dreams and bruods too much and his motions are lithe | and youthful. It is a pity the play shows the thought and the crime before the motives are fully set before one. After the mur- der, when Rodion comes to Sonia’s ! room, gloomy 2nd distracted, the audience is made to understand kicked me in the ribs. Then he sat on my | have been aboard, more particularly as | 10T the first time that he loves her, and head and beat me all over with the buckle | there were nearly a thousand steerage | that it maddens him to see her stitching of a strap. Then he bumped my head | on the floor till he got tired. I feei | 50 sore all over. He told me when I gave | him the 25 cents that other boys made §1 and $2, and I wasno good at ‘rustling’—but I do the best I can. I generally make | from 45 to 50 cents a day by selling papers | round the ferry, but this was a bad day | and I only made 25 cents profit. “I sell the morning papers in the morn- ings. Then I go to the Irving Primary | School and get out at 2 o'clock, wnichl gives me time to get the evening papers to | sell. I sell more CaLLs than any of the other morning papers.” Mrs. Cafferiy said her husband was al- | ways nagging and slapping Johnnie, He | seemed to have a spite at the boy. He | had also abused her and called her vile | names and she had made up her mind t live apart from him and endeavor to earn | a living for herself and children. | “I could never forgive him for his brutal treatment of our boy,” said the little woman with tears in her eyes as she ! looked at his scarred and disfigured body. | Mrs. Cafferty is a bright little woman | and talented. Inlast Sunday’s CALL on the children’s page there was a short poem, ““Fair Tears,” signed E. J. Cafferty, which was sent in by her to amuse the little folks. She has written other poems for children, and intellectually is far supe- rior to her husband, She was married to Cafferty in Newcastle, Australia, where Johnnie was born. Acting Captain Birdsall sent Policeman Foley with the mother and children to the Receiving Hospital with a request that they should be kept there if possible all ! night, as she was afraid for her life to go home, and she coutd swear out a warrant for her husband’s arrest in the morning. At the hospital Drs. Thompson and Btice and Steward Mogan at once agreed to find quarters for the family and John- nie's wounds were attended to, but later Judge Low was communicated with by tele- phone and he went out at once to the hospital. He was horritied at the boy's appearance, and wrote out a complaint for the husband’s arrest, which was signed by the boy. Policeman Irvine, one of the stalwarts of the force, took the warrant and went with Mrs. Cafferty and her chil- dren to 335 Broadway, and arrested Caf- ferty. AN ECHO OF THE DEBATE Rabbi Voorsanger’s Roman His- tory Called in Ques- tion. Whether Ancient Women Ever Took a Part in Letters and Politi. cal Life. pair of her Majesty’s silken hose. The room is also remarkable for beautiful ala- C. C. Bemis and Secretary Pockwitz of the Congressional committee of the Fourth |of the donor. tograph, to which is added an au 1f the writer of the following communi- baster sculptures, and it is the rule for | Cation cites ancient history correctly, then every royal visitor to leave behind a pho- [ the Rev. Rabbi Voorsanger has—but the tograph | communication itself is its own best pleader, and as it raises an interesting passengers and not another one showed even the slightest symptoms. The disease is very contagious. Tne schooner Prosper returned to port yesterday and went to Oakland Creek direct. She left here on the 6th inst. and two days ago in latitude 37 deg. 38 min. north, longitude 125 deg. 22 min. west, sprang a leak and had to run back. She was loaded with miners and mining implements for Cooks Inlet. After re- pairing she will make another start, but the chances are that many of her present passengers will elect to remain at home. The steam schooner Pomnt Arena that went on the rocks off the Mendocino coast is slowly being towed to San Francisco by the steam schooner South Coast. The un- fortunate vessel has turned turtle and when last seen off Stewarts Point she was bottom up. The South Coast and her tow may be expected this morning. The news by the Gaelic goes to show that Captain Philip Dryer’s slayer did not live to be tried by a legal court. After shooting the skipper and wounding two of the Lyman D. Foster's crew, he set fire to the vessel and jumped overboard. The captain lingered for twelve hours after the fire was put out and the wounded sailors recovered. Ah Lin was the cook and he seems to have taken a dislike to the cap- tain. The telegraphic news said he stabbed CaEtnin Dryer, but the details shows that he used a revolver. SENT TO NAPA. Fate of the Man Who Flourished His Revolver in the ¥irst Unitarian Church. OAKLAND, CAL., April 20.—Louis Por- ter, the man who created the sensation in | the First Unitarian Churcn by interrupt- ing the speaker and demanding to be heard, emphasizing his demand by flour- ishing a loaded revolver, was adjudged in- sane to-day and committed to the Napa asylum. Porter was charged this morning in the Police Court with disturbing the peace and carrying a concealed weapon on a com- vlaint sworn to by Colonel John P. Irish. When asked bis plea Porter aroseI'aslfd said: “Your Honor, I was fighting for what is right. I was not disturbing any one’s peace and Iam not guilty.”” Both charges were passed pending the insanity examination. The prisoner was transferred to the County Jail and at noon he was taken be- fore Judge Frick and Dr. Todd and Dr. Stratton sitting as a lunacy commission. During the examination Porter sat nerv- ously pulling his dark brown mustache. In repiy to of his life. He said: *‘My name is Louis Porter, a native of Maine, age 37; have a wife in Massa- chusetts somewhere, but do not know where, but have no children. Have been in California about two years, coming from Montana. Came to Oakland two or three days ago and am stopping in a lodg- ing-house.” —————— The Great Western is the oldest English railway company, having been so calted in 1835; the Southeastern was so known in 1836; the London and Southwestern re- ceived its present name in 1839; the Mid- land in 1844; the Brighton, Great North- ern, and London and Northwestern in 1846, This does not give the date when the rail- ways were made, but merely when they took their present names. —_———— THE Post-street Edition of the Daily Report is a credit to the City and State. Don’t fail to mail a copy to your friends. . her thin fingers to the bone *‘when a little, a very little money, would save her.” In | & haif-shrinking way he gives her a bank note that he %las taken from the dead usuer, and as the girl’s head fails on the table, in asob of thankfulness at the { sight of the money, he stretches out his hands to caress her blonde head, and then draws them back and wrings them with Lorror, remembering suddenly that they are stained with blood. But it 1s in the scene entitled “The Devil’'s Hour” that the audience thrill most, and that Mansfield rises to the greatest heignt of his power. The remorse and the terror of detection are growing upon him, he is suspicious even of hisown mother, and when a detective comes to sound him he forces himself to answer the questions coldly and automatically, till his prodence is carried away in a gust of passion and de- spair, but even at that supreme moment Mansfield never ‘“‘o’ersteps the modesty of nature,”” he is not acting in the common acceptation of the term, he isas true to the part asif he were living it. The act ends with a piece of panto- snime—Rodion leit alone goes over the scene of the murder—tie usuer's cuckoo clock strikes, the student prays not to be led into temptation and as he does so gfiestions he gave an account feels the ax again in his handsand strikes. It was a marvelous piece of character- ization. The suicide scene is the only one open to_criticism. Rodion was too slow in bringing out his dagger, too slow in strik- ing and the onlookers did not seek to stop him, but that was the one blemish in an otherwise perfect performance. As for the supporting company it was excellent. Miss Beatrice, Cameron as Sonia was second only to Rodion. She was natural, convincing and pathetic without ever overdoing the pathos. The other roles were all secondary, but they were all careful and artistic studies. At the California. Roland Reed, the popular comedian, opened his season at the California last evening in his new comedy, “The Politician.” Needless to say it is an American play. The iitle alone must convey that information. «“The Politician” sparkles with wit, happy repartee and gay badinage. The characters stand out in bold reliefand with marked con- trast. Woolley, and Cleopatra Sturgiss her Anna Woolley. A fetching song and striking dances are neatly dovetailed in the second act, and, taken altogether, the satirical comedy has much to recommend it. The cast is worthy the play. Reed has sur- rounded himself with asplendid company, & rare treat for a play that bvasts astar. Isadore Rush, as the new woman, is capiivating and fetching. Were all “new” women as charming as she, and did all wear such stunning “new” cloihes, the ight for sufiraze would be a (hing of the pact. illiam Bernard as Pelham Perri- winkle, a New York dude—with little mind and gorgeous clothes — by his excellent acting, mngo a hackneyed character, if not new, cer- tainly enjoyable, Of course, Reed is the bright shining light of the play. Inhis hands, grotes- que situations appear natural, if not altogether le—the motive of the play right and logic 'A‘dThs Politician” is handsomely mounted and the ‘‘convention scene” excellently managed. “The Politician” is at the California for two weeks and should draw crowded houses. Mrs, Auzerais Hoyte’s Debut. ‘Miss Nellie Young as Miss Lucy Moorfield—Do you love him very dearly? Mrs. Auzerais Hoyte as Janet Moorfield—Very, very dearly. Are you happy in his love? Very happy. Mrs. Auzerais Hoyte stepped upon the stage for the first time as a’ professional actress at the Alcazar lastevening. Thecurtain rose upon very pretty scene—the country.home of the :uv.r’lv'h‘:rmu Moorfield. J: nnettqmfl Lucy, his two daughters,were seated on the IawD near hix General Josiah Limber has his Peter | doorstep. They were discussing the return from Africa “of Harvey Lene and the affianced lover of Janet and wno_had come back to make her his wife, Lucy, the younger sister, secretly loved Harry and Harry has dis- coverea that he also loves Lucy—that his love for Janet has cooled. Janet is unaware of the change and when Lucy asks the question answers quite earnestly in the words quoted above—almost the first words spoken by the young debutante before a San Francisco audience. And the audience was a very iarge one and drawn from the swell society in which Mrs. Auzerais was latea conspicuous figure. And her friends and acquaintances, who knew the story of her recent divorce from the seulp- tor, Auzerais, and later of her marriage 10 Hereward Hoyte, saw much to interest them in the dialogue and the subse- quent developments in the little one- dct curtain - riser; as Harry _Lane confesses to the old minister that he no longer loves Janet and afterward does the same to Janet herself and Janet gives him up for the sake of her sister; and she says to the old minister, “'do not let Lucy know all,” to which | the old man replies: “No one shall ever know all but the angels who look into this quiet little heart of Eour's and sees the sacrifice you have made. Ah thesun is setting. There is something sad and beautiful in the setting of the sun,’” _The name of the curtain-raiser is “The Set- ting of the Sun,” and the lights were worked in sympathy with it all and made a very ef- fective picture. As the curtain was descend- ing there was & rush of ushers down the aisles | bearing a mountain of flowers in bunches and | banks and various designs, conspicuous among the latter being an immense horseshoe, which is to say, “Good luck 10 you, Mrs. Auzerais- Hoyte.” After the one-act “idyl” followed “‘Every- body’s Friend,” a three-act society comedy, in which Hereward Hoyte makes his sppearance with his wife. Mrs. Hoyte is Mrs. Felix Feath- erby and Mr. Hoyte is Felix—everybody’s iriend. It is an amusing story of a_good- hatured man who undertakes to help his iriends successively out of their several curious scrapes, while he entirely neglects and professes weariness of his young wife of but ten months. This gets him into trouble on his friends’ account and with his wife on his own. | His wife’s friends, however, come to her assistance, and by the old ruse of jealousy bring him'back to his wife. Mrs. Hoyte's was the only part in the comedy thet was not comic. She carried herself through both parts with the ease and grace of a long-time professional, and frequently pro- voked enthusiastic applause. The Grand Opera-House. “Special Delivery” is sure to be & success. | The play, which is a high-class comedy-drama | with a few variety features introduced, is ad- mirably staged and well acted. Some of the | scenic effects are very realistic, the moonlight | scene on Harlem River, with the real 0;121171 and-shut drawbridge, being one of the best; while the view of th terior of the New York City Postoffice is so painfuliy business-like that it would remind people of work were it not for | ialties introduced. These includea the “Plain, Every-Day Girl,” by Flossie ‘The Belle of Poverty Row,” Hugh swer in the Stars,” by C. W. Swain; “Gilligan’s Wedding,” by Julia Blanc; “The Ship I Love,” by Fanny Warren, the gifted and popular soprano; and “Danny Murphy's Daughter Nell,” with banjo ac- companiment, by Helen Hatheway. | A medley dance in the third act, introducing the waltz-clog, straight jig, Irish and Scotch jigs and ‘‘buck and wing,” is interesting though a little bewildering, while the vocal rendering of the “Honeymoon March” by a large chorus is very clever and spirited. Among the actors Darrell Vinton, as a postman of the most | heroic order, was well received, 85 was &lso | Miss Lisle Leigh as Agnes Howard. Miss Blanc, as Mary Mack, did some good work, and the | same may be said of most of the other mem- bers of the cast. The piece will run Guring the week, and perhaps longer, if its success in New York be an augury. At the Columbia. Laughter loud and unconfined greets “A Pair of Kids” and Ezra Kendall, their eccen- tric paps, every time they come upon the stage. The piece is not a new one, being already in its eleventh season, but it seems to take amazingly, end Mr. Kendall seems to | have sense enough not to tinker it up by sand- wiching in any new features. As it is, the piece is perfect in its way, being a mixture of comedy, vaudeville, pentomime and farce, oharmingly combined in & delightful and by no means inartistic ensemble. Plot there is | nome, but smusing situations abound. The | stage settings are fresh and appropriate, and | the piece goes with a snap, & swing and a dash wellpworthy of imitation in more quarters | than one. | Mr. Kendall as_Jiles Button does wonders | with bis part, which in other hends might | seem pointless and forced. Little Roy and | Roxans Fay as the “Kids’ are most clever, | while Helen Sallinger as Daisy, a girl with leanings toward football, is quite a revelation. H. R. Hanlon as Jo Hustler, a typical tough of the lowest order, who afterward becomes a prison warden, makes an interesting study of his thankless part, while as Biddy McSweeney, | a lady in domestic service, he shines. The | other characters are for the most part well sus- | tained, aud the piece bids fair to prove a com- plete suceess. At the Orpheam, The attendance was immense last night at the Orpheum, even for that popular place of | amuscment. By the time the performance commenced money could not purchase & seat and standing room was literally at a pre- mium. The great attraction of the company with the imposing name of the Hopkins Trans- Oceanic Star Specialty Company consists of the Rossand brothers, who ere already known familiarly in this City asthe midgets. They are a wonderful pair of mannikins, scareely higher than an average-sized man's knee, Their manager stretches his arms out and one stanas on each hand. The little fellows, who periorm on a raised platiorm, go through all the tricks of trained acrobats, besides going through a really scientific three-round sparring mateh in & ring with the American flag at one coruer and the British at the other. This is to intimate tnat they represent Corbett and Mitchell. The midiets talk fluently in French, German and English. Among the other “turns” Apollo proved to be a graceful performer on the wire. Clayton and company introduced the trained donkey Jasper. Edward and Josic Evansgave a liitle entertainment as two children, in which Josie proved herself a new woman by making Ed- ward sing small. The Namedo brothers were very clever pantomimists. One of them took the part of & dummy lady, to which the other two made love, and every one thought he was adummy from the way they tossed him about. Until he threw off his disguise he appeared to be nothing but a gown with a race and bonnet. Ford and Francis proved to be a very good show. Ford sang extremely well, Miss Francis danced the skirt dance and they gave quite a }"eflned end tragic little operetta called “The Tyst.” The Tivoli. “Bluebeard,” replete with pretty girls in gorgeous costumes, melody, dsnce, wit and sentiment, is still the bill at the Tivoli. To the host of good things with which the overetta abounds & generous management has added the “Chevaller Medley.” Seven of the noted singer's most popular songs are given by the Tivolians, of course, in coster costumes. Leary gave his version of “Mrs. 'Ennery ’Awkins,” Carrie Roma of “Ola Dutch,” W. H. West the “Little Nipper,” Fer- ris Hartman “Wot Cheer,”” Kate Marchi *“Such a Nice Man,” J. J. Raffael “Coster Serenade,” and Gilbert and Goidie *Jock Jones”” Judg- ing by the way the melodies were received the medley must be counted a ‘“go” and is sure to prove one of the attractions of the clever ex- travaganza now holding the boards at the vopular opera-house. The Sutro Baths. i The Sutro baths ere dsily growing more | popular. Yesterday fully 5000 people visited the great build‘ng. The Chinese troupe is proving a drawing-card, and Mavor Sutro re. grets that their engagement cannot be ex- tended furtner than next Sunday. PICTURE SALE—To make room for our whole- sale Notion Department on our second floor, we shall sell off immediately a large number of ready-framed Pictures athalf.price. This is au opportunity for securing goe géctures at little cost that seldom occurs. rn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. » San! | any road passing through his lan REPAVE. MABKET STREET Wheelmen of This City to Carry the Petition on Their Bikes. The Cycle Board of Trade Adopt a “Blacklist” for Dishonest Pur- chasers. “Repave Market street’” will be the '96 cry and prayer of the wheelmen of San Francisco, and to keep the request con- stantly before the public they will carry a card with those printed words on their machines. This was the idea of Edwin Mohrig at a meeting of the directorsof the Cycle Board of Trade at the Varney Cyclorama, corner Market and Tenth streets, last evening. He also incorporated in his motion to have a great number of small ‘'stickers” with those words printed on them. “My proposition,” said he, “is to paste these little bills on every thing that will hold them. Get all the bicycle riders in this City to bill every square foot of the whole blessed town until we get a bitu- minous pavement on Market street.” The motion was carried unanimously by the board of airectors, and it was ordered that all bicycle-dealers and others be re- quested to use those magic words on their vrinted matter: also to have cuts made of | the same for the newspapers, and endeavor to haye advertisers use them in their space. Under the subject of unfinishedjbusiness before the board was the report of a com- mittee which had been appointed to in- quire into the best means of protecting dealers from dishonest and irresponsible installment buyers. The committee recommended that a ‘blacklist”’ be made out by the secretary of the Cycle Board of Trade and the names furnished to all dealers and proprietors of cycleries as is being done in the East. It was incorporated in the recommendation to add to this the names of those who abused the privilege of the guarantee and attempted by theleverage of influence in the clubs to obtain free concessions from dealers. It was explained in this re- lation that often buyers would come back after months' of use of a wheel and de- mand changes upon threats of blacklisting that make at their respective clubs or among their friends, It was resolved by the board that the wheelmen of this city work in unity for three objects, v (1) Repave Market street; (2) light the park; (3) advocate the adoption of the new city charter. The secretary was ordered to mnotify ali eycle organizations of this proposition and in- vite their co-operation. It was also ordered that all advertising be confined to the daily papers and cycle publications, and that no space would be taken in circulars, programmes or in any of the advertising schemes constantly being suggested to bicycle - dealers. Neither would wheels be donated for gate or other vprizes to picnics or like functions. 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