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10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1896. BROWN'S ENEMIES HARD AT WORK. List of Those Seeking to Depose the Unfrocked Pastor. WILL THE TRUSTEES ACT Deacon Isaac H. Morse Talks of Applying to the Civil Courts, THE COUNCIL AGAIN CENSURED It Is Now Contended That Rev. Dr. Freeland of Oak'and Was Not a Member. The forces that have been working to oust Dr. Brown from his pastorate in the First Church have now combined and seem to be overpowering. Following are nearly all the narmnes of those who have signed the petition requesting the trustees of the church to depose the convicted pastor: Adams, Georgiana S. Bacon, Helen T. Bacon, Cornelia M. Baker, Ellen S Barnard, J. H. Barnard, Charlotte E. Carlton, Harriet C. Cariton, Mrs Louie T Adams, Mrs. J. P. Brown, Addie F. Brown, Charlotte B. Chapin, Chapi, Maria K. Chamberiain, Henry L. Chamberlain, Marion W. Childs, Annie M. Daniels, John R. Dean, Francis A. Dutton, Francis C. Flint, Agaes. Flint, Annie G. Fisher. Alice A. Fisher, Annie E. Fisher, Clara L. Fisher, Charles W. Fisher, George A. Fisher, Mrs. George E. Dutton, L. J. Forester, Kate A, Forester. Miss Kittie. a B. Forester, Annie M. Griswold, Green, Miss M Gunn, Mabel Gunn, W. J. Gunn, N Hall, Susle Frances Hall, Hattie May Har!, Kate 5. Hoftmann, Elizabeth C. A. Hoffman, Louis: B¢ Harrington, Emma A. Amelia M. Harrison, Kobert C. Josephine L. Harmon, Fdwin N. nory D. Hunt. Eugema D. heodore H. Hunt. John F 00d, Miss Maud B. Kendall, C. I. King, Charles J. Lagont, Dora. Lincoln, W. F. Lagoni, Ella. Lincoln 3 Litefield, George B. Littlefield. Isabella, Logan, Mary E. Martin, Abbie L. Martin, Hattie V Morcon, M 1 Martin, Annie L. Martin, Mrs. M. L. Muson, Eliza C. Napp. F Napp, M. Palmer, Susan Prichard, Libbie Palmer. May W. Pric Mrs. Annie Palmer, Brooks Putnam, S. O. Painter, E. E. Redington, Lucy C. Smedburg, Fannie M. Statham, Miss Ada Statham, William Stevenson, Charlotte P. S Frank P. Sherift, A. K. Simpson, Dessie June Simpsou, Kirke Simpson, § ter ~impson, Vera M. Simpson, Miss Frances Simpson, Frances M. Simpson, Myrtle Simpson, Ray Simpson, F. W. Smedburg, Miss Cora Wakelee, Charles H. Warren, Emily varren, Annie Wetherbee, Ellen M. Woodworth, Annie B Woodworth, Liva In the above list will be found all but twenty-four of the’ 196 names sald to have been secured to a petition requesting the trustees of the First Congregational Church to depose the Rev. Dr. Charles Oliver Brown. The missing names could not be obtained, but the complete list will be filea with the trustees either to-day or to-morrow. In addition ‘to this formidable list, the opyponents of Dr. Brown claim to have the pledges of 110 other members of the First Church who will vote for the official de- capitation of Dr. Brown if the opportunity is offered. If this be true, there seems little likelihood of the unfrocked pastor remaining any longer in charge of his present position than an official vote can be taken. A committee of five, Deacons Ha tch and Barnard, Dr. J. T. McDonald, Dr. J. H. ‘Warren and Mr. Simpson, has the matter in hand and will on Saturday request Pastor Brown to announce from the pulpit on Bunday a business meeting for the fol- lowing Wednesday night. There are some who profess to think that Brown will refuse to make the an- nouncement, while others contend that he will read anything which might be handed him because of his confidence to defeat any measure prejudicial to his interests. 'he opponents of Brown believe tnat if on a test vote he should be retained as pastor of the church any dissatisfied member could apply fora writ of injunc- tion, and further, that the courts would sustain it. In any event if Brown should attempt to preach next Sunday week an injunction will be asked for, the outcome of which will no doubt be interesting. In the meantime Deacon Morse is also thinking of appealing to the courts. He entertains a vague idea that the Bay Con- erence had no legal right to suspend his riend Brown, whatever that gentleman’s errors of the flesh might have been. “1 am looking into the matter,”" said Deacon Morse yesterday, “‘and if there is any possibility of getting a standing in court the suit will be brought. Soue of my legal friends seem to think that such a suit could not be maintained, though there are some who believe differently. In any event I shall sift the matter to the bot- tom in an attempt to give a minister of the gospel the same recourse in common law open to every other class of citizens.” Deacon Morse will endeavor to get satis- faction from Mrs. Cooper and others who have opposed Dr. Brown, through the new Cooper Congregational Church. His dis- content arises over the fact that the Cooper Church refused to accept the ad- vice of the council concerning the name of the new church. The whole matter will be lzid before the committee on creden- tiaJs av the next meeting of the Bay Con- ference. I well understand that the advice of a eounell need not be taken by a church, but s is the firt instance on tbis coast in which the advice of a council has not been foligwed,” sald Deacon Morse. “It is a &ty serions matter that a young church puss coming into fellowship” should, as its #ist men, reject the advice of a council and , through ity et i m;y representative, say iy ihey would withdraw from the fellow- i &i the churches if such advice :a‘;o v 2 Harry M. Saunders. Alexander McK B. Judge. Frank R. George Bronsoin. John Johnson. Charles W. Page (Captain). Frank Sch THE TUG-OF-WAR TEAM OF CARPENTERS’ | Drawn from a photograph.] Nelson. H. F. Yunker. aadt. Chris Anderson. UNION NO. 22. 1 . nsisted upon. The advice given dis- tinctly by the council was that the name of no person should be used, in the organi- zation of that church. In spite of this the church organized under the name of Cooper and is now known as the Cooper Church. | “Representation was also made by the Rev. L. L. Wirt that the unusual haste displayed by the church for its organiza- tion was not intended at all for the pur- pose of having delegates in the Bay Con- ference to vote against Dr. Brown. The | question was distinctly asked, and the | question was based upon newspaper re- ports. whether such report had any foun- dation in fact, and_the council was solemnly assured by Mr. Wirt that that had nothing whatever to do with it. The Cooper Church would not appear there in any uniriendly attitude toward Dr. Brown. | As a matter of fact the delegates did | appear there and were active in their op- | position to Dr. Brown, so much so that it | seemed quite evident that that was un-| doubtedly the object of the unusual haste | in the organization of that church. | “I also intend to bring before the cre- dential committee the attitude of the | First Church of Oakland toward the First Church of San Francisco. By establishea precedent in Congregational usage no per- | son supplying a pulpit can take a place in a council. It is generally understood that Dr. 8. M. Freeland is now, and has been all the time, unfriendly to Dr. Brown. Presumably this was known to the churc! and in order that Dr. Freeland might sit on that council he was elected acting pas- | tor. This would naturally be considered | an unfriendly act to a sister church, and it | seems to be of sufficient importance to de- | mand a thorough_investigation by the committee on credentials, and the matter will be properly presented to them.” The opponents of Brown will meet in | the Columbia building to-night, when a | final plan of action will be agreed on. It | is thought that many new names will be | added to the petition requesting the trus- | tees to remove Dr. Brown. out Encores. Sims Reeves is haré on what he calls the ‘“‘vicious encore system.” He char- terizes it as a preposterous piece of | disbonesty, of which all honest per- sons should be ashamed. The nuis- ance, he says rightly, seeks to take a shabby advantage of the suffering pro- fessional; and it is to be reeretted that few of our performers possess sufficient courage to return to the platform, bow politely and | indicate firmly No! Your encore-mon, cares nothing about symmetry or balance | or cohesiveness, whether the occasion be the lyric stage, the oratorio performance, the benefit and ordinary concert or the ballad concert. He wants to hear more than be has bar- gained for, and if hisdemand is not yielded to he will hoot and bray and hiss, when an attempt is made to perform the next piece, as if he belonged to the long- eared quadrupeds or feathered bi ped | tribed. And then we have occa- sionally what the newspapers terms *'a scene’'—an_exhibition of *’Arryism” that disgraces our boasted civilization. If manacers, artists and the musical pub- lic would but think this matter over and determine to stamp out the nuisance one great blot on our English musical perform- ances might be effaced. Unfortunately, is not yet quite certain whether encore are more distasteful to the great majo of performers than they are to a large sec- tion of the concert-going public.—Gentle- s | belonging to the unions afiiliated with the | the eate. | powerful | The tug will tnke'lpl:lcc in the pavilion on CARPENTERS' TUG OF WAR One of the Striking Features of Their Picnic Next Sunday. POWERFUL TEAMS SELECTED. Members of Unions 22 and 483 Who Will Pull for a Purse and Other Prizes. The four carpenters’ unions of this City | are preparing for a grand picnic and out- ing at Sunset Park next Sunday, and from | all indications it will be one of the largest ever held by alabor organization in this City. Not only will the wood-butchers and their families attena, but hundreds Building Trades Council, of which the | carpenters are a part. The committee of arrangements have in store several sur- prises for the pleasure-seekers that will be out of the ordinary picnic line. About 150 merchandise prizes will be aistributed at It was suegested that there would be a cake-walk, but a second con- sideration decided the committee upon prize-dancing instead and two beautiful medals have been prepared for the pest and most graceful lady and gentleman waltzers. One of the best attractions, and one that has been talked of in carpentering. circles for some time past, will be a tug-of-war between teams of nine picked from the men of unions 22 and 483, a cleated floor. The winning. team will secure as a prize $30 in cash, a cask of | wine and several boxes of cigars. There has been considerable friendly rivalry between these two unions as to which has the largest and most powerful men. On ger | Sunday the men were selected, and are | The per- now in training for the event. sonnel of these teams shows that they are composed of large, poweriul men. The team from 483 will be captained by R. B. Ingle. R. W. Smith, a_native son weighing 215 pounas and standing 6 feet 3 inches, will be the anchor man. Louis Metter weighs 200 pounds and stands 6 feet 214 inches, He is a native of France. C. Kohler, a native of Germany, weighs 175 pounds and is 6 feet tail. J. Graham, 167 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches, a native of Novia Scotia. 0. M. V. Roberts, 180 £ounds. 5 feet 11 inches, a native of Wales. Frank Carson, 180 pounds, 6 feet, a native of the United States. John Sanderson, 210 pounds, 5 feet 8 inches, a native of Sweden. D. Johnson, 187 pounds, 6 feet,a nativeof Sweden. J. Lawson, 165 pounds, 5 feet 11 inches, a native of Sweden. The heavy-weights of union 21 will be under the captaincy of Charles W. Page. The team will be composed of F. R. Nel- son, 248 pounds, 6:1, a native of Illinois; man’s Magazine. George Bronson, 194 ponnds, 5:11}, a na- tive of Denmark; Frank Schaadt, 228 pounds, 64 feet, a native son; H. F. Yun- ker, 210 pounds, 5:11'4, a native of the United States; Dolph Johnson, 195 pounds, a native sf Sweden; B. Judge, 195 pounds, 614 feet, a native of the United States. Chris Anderson, 197 pounds. 5:10, a native of Norway; A. McKenzie, 187, a native of the United States; H. M. Saunders, 214 pounds, 5:9%, a native of the United States. The picnic and incidentals are under the management of the following committee of arrangements: W. H. Hutchison of 483, chairman; T. Doane of Amalgamated Carpenters, secretary; F. M. Thompson of 92, treasurer; H. M. Saunders of 22, chair- man printing committee; Thomas Saun- ders of 22, Joseph E. Lee of 483, Ira E. Johnsoa of 483, A. A. Zimmerman of 304, Henry Overdike of 304 and Gus Miller of ENGLISH TABLE CUSTOMS. Breakfast a Word Unknown Five Hun- dred Years Ago. The old English had three meals & day, of which the chief meal was taken when the work of the day was finished. The first meal was at 9, dinner was about 3 and supper was taken before bedtime. The Normans dined at the old English break- fast time, or a little later, and supped at 7 P.M. InTudor times the higher classes | dined at il and suppea at 5, but the merchants seldom took their meals before 12 and 6 o’clock. The chief meals, dinner and supper, were taken in the hall, both by the old English and the Normans, for the parlor did not come into use until the reign of Elizabeth. Breakfast did not become a | regular meal until quite lately and Dr. Murray in the Oxford dictionary gave 1643 as the date of the earliest quotation in which the word occurred. 'Fhe meal did not become recognized until late in the seventeenth century, for Fepys habitually took his draught of balf a pint of Rhenish wine or a dram of strong waters in place of a morning meal. Dinner was always the great meal of the day and from the accession of Henry IV to the death of Queen Elizabeth the dinners were as sump- tuous and extravagant as any of those now served. Carving was then a fine art. Each gnest brought his own knife and spoon, for the small fork was not introduced into Eng- ]land until Thomas Coryate of Odcombe | published his *‘Crudities” in 1611. Pepys | took his spoon and fork with him to the Lord Mayor’s feast in 1663. The absence of forks led to muchlstress being laid upon | the act of washing the hands, both before | and after meals, and to the rule that the left hand alone should be dipped into the common dish, the right hand being occu- pied with the knife. The perfect dinner at the best time ot English cookery consisted of three courses, each complete in itself, and terminated by a subtlety or device, the whole being rounded off with ypocras, after which the guests retired into another room, where , sweetmeats and fruits were served with the choicer wines. The English were essentially meat eaters, and it was not un- | til the timne of the commonwealth that | pudding attained its extraordinary popu- | larity; indeed, the first mention of pud- ding in the nienus of the ‘‘Buckfeast” at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital did not occur until 1710, and in 1712 is an item of 5s for | ice.—London Times. Eomain s Glassblowers in Germany receive no more than §155 a year. C. Kohler. John Saunders. Frank Carson. Dolph Johnson. R. W. Smith. R. B. Ingle (Captain). 0. M. Lewis Metter. John Graham. V. Roberts. John Lawson. THE STRONG MEN OF CARPENTERS’ UNION NO. 4s83. [Drawn from a photograph.] AWIFE'S MARITAL WOES, Mrs. D:lia Beratta Wants a Di- vorce and Part of a Rich Property. TALE OF A HUSBAND'S CRUELTY Wife and Mother for Twenty - Six Y:ars Prevented From Seeing Her Children. Mrs. Delia Beratta tells a pitiful tale of | marital woe and wrong, and if it is all true she is certainly a very badly abused woman and the attorney who deceived her a very great rascal. Mrs. Beratta prefaces her remarkable story by the statement that she was mar- ried to Angelo Beratta over twenty-six vears ago and that until May of last year they livea happily together and reared a large family. Now all her family has turned against | her, she says, and the $60,000 or $70,000 that she helped to amass as community property is withheld from her entirely, and she is turned out to dieamong strang- ers like an old horse that has outlived its usefulness. “In the early part of May, 1895, my hus- band wanted to raise $1200 ready money | by placing a mortgage on a valuable piece of property out on Clay street in the 1600 | block,” she says. I disapproved of the measure and refused to sign the necessary | document. “Then his inhuman cruelties began. 1| was turned forcibly out of doors and left to almost starve. My husband secured an order of the court declaring me insane and incompetent, and apoointing himself my ward. Then he secured the money and had the order of court revoked. ‘‘He drove me out of the house atthe | point of a pistol. Later on I began suit for divorce. We lived at 1623 Clay street then. I trusted my case to an attorney. He deceived me. “Instead of prosecuting my suit for di- vorce, he worked with my husband and secured my signature to a paper that re- | leased my husband from all responsibility for my maintenance. Of course I had no idea what the paper coutained when I signed it. Afterward T learned that, and then the lawyer brutally told me that I had no case against my husband and could not sue. .I was deceived—basely so. “‘Since then up to the present timaI have had to look out for myself as best T could. I wasalso prevented from seeing | my children. As 1 said before, I am like the old farm horse turned out to die. I have worked to help my husband amass the $70,000 worth of I}ropeny which he is guarding so closely. I have been married to him twenty-six vears and raised nine children. The oldest one, my daughter, is | 24, Our baby, as we call him, is 9. After all these years of toil to help him in his business and build up a happy home and educate the children he has tried to turn them against their own mother.”” At this point in ner story Mrs. Beratta had a struggle with her tears, Continuing, she said: “Yes, he has tried to turn the children against me and has succeeded with the oldest boy and girl. Two weeks ago I went to the house to see my baby, who, I had been told, was sick. Mrs. Craft, with whom I am staying, was with me. We were refused admit- tance to the house and my daughter in- sulted Mrs. Craft. It almost broke my heart. “Since Mr. Beratta learned that I in- tended to bring suit for maintenance— though, to be sure, he did not know then that I intend also to sue for divorce in a short time—he went to work at his trade. This was done for a blind and also to aid him, if possible, in his contest of my just claims. We have lived handsomely on our income, and for nine years he has never had any occasion to work. The subterfuge is too palpable to have any weight with an honest Judge. ‘‘Before I was kicked from the house he treated me in the most shameful manner. One night when I was in bed, and feeling badly, he came into my bedroom and flourished a pistol in a threatening man- ner, and for a timé I believed he really in- tended to shoot me. **The story is not nearly all told, and be- fore I succeed in getting my rights in the courts I promise to show him up in his true colors. This will prove all the blacker by contrast with the fact that up to this time—last May, I should say—we had always lived happily.” GO0D OLD RIVER DAYS. Captain Reardon’s Experience Extends Over More Than Half a Century. Captain J. E. Reardon of Shawneetown, 111, registered yesterday at the Moser, says the St. Louis Globe.Democrat. The gen- tleman owns and commands the Jessie Wilson, an Obio River boat. His steam- | boating oareer began more than sixty | years ago. *‘It wasin 1835 that I mademy ! first trip down the Wabash in a keelboat,” said the captain. “I was only 14 then, and was cook of the boat. In those days we used to float keelboats and flatboats down the river and pull them back. A crew generally counsisted of twelve men. | and the cook and captain, as well as the | others. had todo agood deal of pulling | sometimes. A stake was driven in the ground on the shore above tae boat if there | was no tree near, and we pulled ourselves up to it with ropes. | “Before my day my father-in-law owned | twelve keelboats that ran from Pittsburg to New Orleans, and it took six months to make a round trip. 1 worked on the Big | Wabash, the little Wabash and the White | River. Sometimes we used oxen in pulling upstream. Nor wasit such an easy matter to go downstream. There were milldams, for example, on_the Little Wabash, af Carmiand New Haven. If the water was very high we jumped them without un. loading, but the rule was to unload, carry | the freight below the dam and jump the | dam with the empty boat, and then reload- | There were no railroads in thosedays, and tne farmers of Illinois and Indiana had no | other way of marketing their produce. | Many of them built boats and floated them to New Orleans loaded with vrain, cattle, | hogs and Yegetables. Deer meat, ioo, was | plentiful in those days. 1 remember one flatboat that was loaded with ninety tons | of freight, and just about half the entire load consisted of venison_hams.”’ Captain Reardon met Lincoln, Clay and other prominent men before the war, some of them frequentlir‘. “In the hard-cider campaign of 1840 Lincoln came down to our country on horseback,” said che cap- tain, ‘“He was candidate for Elector on the Whig ticket, and traveled with a man named Lambert. I heard him speak at Shawneetown, New Haven and Carmi. The meetings were held in log cabins, and the hard cider and the ‘coon were aiways there. Douglass I saw several times in the tifties. Clay was a'frequent visitor at Shawneetown, and Zach Taylor [ metthere also and at Louisville. Clay I first met in. Louisiana. He had a cotton plantation down there and occasionally visited it. On one of these trips the boat he was on, the Andrew Jackson, stopped at Shawneetown and the whole population went aboard to greet the popular statesman. Sam Mar- shall made a speech on behalf of the Shaw- neetowners, and Clay responded ina man- ner that made him ‘still more population that part of the country. When the time for separating came he shook hands with a good many and kissed some of the giris. Nearly all the old ladies of Shawneetown to-da;will tell you that Henry Clay kissed them at that reception halfa century 8g0- Joon A. Logan married in Shawneetown.. “John did most of his courting at my house,” said Captain Reardon. ‘‘Miss Cunningham lived near us and was gener- ally there when Logan came down from Benton, where he was reading law, to see her. Bob Ingersoll spent four years about town, reading law. In those days Bob had the most remarkable memory I ever knew. After reading an article in a news- pap;r 3“’ could repeat it almost word for word.” The captain is 75 years old and looks good for ten years more of active steam- ating. He was born at Mount Vernon, 1iL., about eighty miles from St. Louis. He has owned several steamboats since the war and made a good many trips to St. Louis as well as to points on the Ohio and Lower Misissippi. The boat -he is now running was named in honor of a daugh- ter of General Buford Wilson of Spring- field. One of his sons is general superin- tendent of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad. — - - TO MOORWIN'S SPEECHES. The First One Made in Congress to Win National Renown. The first of his speeches to win National renown was Corwin’s reply to General Crary, like himself a member of the House. Crary was a bumptious general of militia from Michigan, and in the course | of a speech on a bill giving Government | aid to the Cumberland road had taken oc- | casion to attack the military recora of General Harrison, who had already been | nominated as the Whig candidate for the Presidency. The defense of the hero of | Tippecanoe fell upon Mr. Corwin, and the next day he took the floor ana began a speech which for delightful ridicule and | crushing satire. won him instantaneous fame throughout the country. Compli- ments were showered upon the orator from his associates in Congress and news- | papers writers at_the capital. John Bell | of Tennessee said he had never before heard such a speech in Congress. John Quincy Adams referred to the vanquished militia general as ‘the late Mr. Crary of Michigan.” But it was in his famous speech upon the Mexican war that he won his greatest | fame. That was notan humorous speech : it was a classic. It was a magniticent panegyric upon the blessings of peace and the folly of a powerful nation going to war | with a weaker country for no other pur- pose than glory and aggrandizement. This was a speech which not only won the highest_encomiums in this country, but | was copied abroad, wherever the English langnage was printed, as a masterly ex- ample of human eloquence. It was in this speech that the oft-quoted phrase is heard : “8ir, if I were a Mexican I would tell you. ‘Have you no room in your own country to bury your dead? If you come into mine we will greet you with bloody hands and welcome you to hospitable graves.’ ”’ But while this Mexican war speech in the Senate rendered Corwin famous, he made another at his home in Ohio defena- ing this speech in the Senate, in which he is said to have surpassed himself. For the | reason, as stated above, that the art of | stenography was_not in’ such general use in those days, this last wonderful speecih was never preserved to history.—From ‘‘Life and Speeches of Thomas Corwin.’’ ——————— Tunis, the famous black charger of Gen- eral Boulanger, has been accidentally burned to deatn. | | you MINISTER A S, WILLIS He Says There Is Almost g Boom in the Hawaiian Islands. COFFEE LARGELY THE CATUSE, The Minister Has Merely Come Back for a Vacation, After Three Years’ Absence. Hon, Albert S. Willis, United States Minister to the Hawaiian Islands, arrived here yesterday on the steamer Alameda from Honolulu, and is at the Occidental, He is accompanied by Mrs. Willis and Al- bert S. Willis Jr. “] am away merely on the regular sixty. day vacation that the Government _a]lu“-‘ once a year to its representatives in the consular service,” said Mr. Wiliis. “I have no thought of resigning, and the auction sale of some of my goods would have taken place anyway. [ am not atall in poor health. In fact I don’t know when I have been in such good physical form, for I have increased materially in weight. “Though the Government allows & vaca- tion each year, this is the first one I h taken in almost three years thatI have been at Honolulu. We are going to our old home at Louisville, Ky., and will also visit Chicago, Washington, D. C., I think, and other places, beginning at Denver. “‘There has been almgst a regular boom at Honolulu. During the last twc or three years many young men have gone down there and engaged in coffee-growing. A good many men there have also_gone into it and into sugar-growing. The thira vear after planting, coffee matures, so that things are looking well. “‘At Honolulu they have been erecting schools, building roads and reservoirs and putting up electric and pumping plants. &‘he city looks well and over the is! s where there is any settlement there is thrift and prosperity. At the time of the cholera scare, some months since at Hono- lulu, a census of t people was taken there and reputed at 0. “T think this is inside. s that there are 35,000. This will show how it is growing. Honolulu is destined to be a great resort, “I can’t teil you anything politically, for that would touch on my duty as a foroign Minister, but with what I have said you will get a good idea of how things are there.”” } Minister Willis and his family will be here several days. 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