The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 24, 1896, Page 8

8 RATES NOT T0 BE: ADVANCED. Action on the New Tariffs Has Been Indefinitely Postponed. THE HITCH AT CHICAGO. May Mean the Disruption Again of the Transcontinental Traffic Association. THE NEWS A GREAT SURPRISE. Conditions That May Have Blocked the P.an to Stifle Railroad Competition. Actlon on the proposed new rates has been indefinitely postponed. This was the substance of a message re- ceived yesterday from Chicago by General Freight Agent Charles F. Smurr of the Southern Pacific Company and the local THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1896. indisposition to hazard a surmise. This muct?u was learned, however, that the hitch arose from one of three causes: One or more of the roads east of Chicago had failed to give its concurrence; one or more of the trunk or New England lines had failed to agree upon the division of the through rates, or there had been a dis- agreement among one or more of the Transcontinental %‘umc Association roads as to how the Panama route subsidy should | be apportioned. It was also asserted yesterday by a well- vosted railroad man that one of the roads east of the Missouri River, which is in the hands of a receiver, may have witheld its concurrence under the apprehension that its action in indorsing the work and plans of the association might not meet with the approval of the courts, particularly that feature involving the payment of a subsidy to the Panama route lines in order to stifle competition. 6 One of the old-time contentions between the Western lines and the trunk lines was the rate to be allowed the latter on business destined for New York. The trunk lines have insisted on 25 cents be- ing the minimum they should receive, and it is believed that this old bogie may have again caused serions trouble. On some of the lower grades of freight the through rate is 75 cents from San Fran- cisco to New York, and were the trunk lines to demand 25 cents for their haul from Chicago to New York it would leave but 50 cents to be divided among the roads between the Pacific Coast and Chicago, which would notleave a fair compensation, it has been claimed, to these carriers. Further and more definite news of the situation is anxiously awaited from Chi- cago by merchants and railroad men alike. WOULD NOT ANSWER. James A. Gibson Will Jnvoke the Aid of the Federal Constitu- tion. James A. Gibson has been committed to jail for contempt of court, but he has brought his case before the Federal courts, freight agents of the other transconti- neutal railroads. It was sent in each case by Chairman Countiss of the recently re- organized Transcontinental Traffic Asso- ciation. Just what the full import of this omin- ous-sounding telegram is remains a mat- ter of conjecture, but one thing that it de- termines is that there are to be no new rates putinto effect on the 1st of June or any other date in the near future; and the wires were kept busy yesterday afternoon ng this information to the numer- 1s freight agents in the interior. It is not yet two months since the reor- ganization of the Transcontinental Traffic Association was announced from the East, and with this news came the naturally expected further information that an ad- vance in through freight rates was to be effected. There followed a long session of the transcontinental freight-rate commit- tee, an auxiliary of the Transcontinental Traffic Association, at Mllwankee, and then came the definite announcement that rates had been decided upon by the | ,and that all that was necessary to | te them operative was the concurrence he roads east of the Missouri River, the between Chicago snd New | York and the New England roads, none of | which were members of the association. | : n of the transcontinental freight- committee held at Milwaukee came to an end about ten days ago, and | since that time it is believed that the chairman of t association, whose head- | isat Chicago, had been endeav- | oring to secure ti required consent of ihe other roads interested. When the Milwaukee meeting came to a e it was stated that the new rates | 1ld probably go into effect by the 1st of May. Then, as d went by and there 1o new tariff schedule put into circu- | lation, it was en out that it would | probably not be until May 15 that the ad- vanced rates would become operative; and but a few days ago the opinion was ex- pressed by the local representatives of the railroads interested that it would be at least a month before the revised schedule clc known that all the proposed o ad been decided npon, for the full list of them has been in the hands of the local railroad people for about a week, and when all the delays occurred and re- curred those oursiders who were familiar with the workings of these great railroad combinations began to suggsst that there {URGED BY MERCHANTS. so the order committing him was merely a formal proceeding. Gibson was asked Wednesday to tell what he knew of the sudden disappear- ance of $22,000 from his brother’s room just before that brother died. J. A. Gibson and his mother, Mrs. Emma Yorke, left sud- denly for Denver. Gibson was stopped at Sacramento and charged with grand lar- ceny, and his mother was ordered brought back from Denver on a similar churie. Mrs. Yorke has been released, however, by the Federal courts. ‘When asked what he knew of the disap- pearance of the money Gibson refused to answer, on the ground that his testimony might lay him open to a conviction for felony. He was given until yesterday to fortify his position by authoricies, but the cases he cited did not satisfy Judge Coffey, and he was ordered to answer. e again refused and the order committing him for contempt was made. He will invoke the aid of the constitution of the United States to release him, There is a family dispute in regard to the money. Mrs, Yorke says the money was given to her by herdying son. The dead man’s widow dissents, and naturally desires to secure part of the estate, A Change of Street Sweeping and Sprinkling Specifications Asked by the Association. The Merchants’ Association, represented by President Dohrmann, M. 8. Kohlberg, A. 8. Baldwin, J. W. Carmany, W.G. Doane, H. D. Keil, A. Fusenot, K. Mel- rose, A. Roos and Charles Keilus, ap- peared before the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors yesterday to urge that the specifications for sweeping and sprinkling the streets of this City be changed soas to give better satisfaction at a less expenditure than formerly, President Dohrmann spoke at length on the matter, but as the specifications were lengtny and the committee desired time to look the matter over carefuliy be- fore coming to any decision, the request was laid over for a week. WANTS TO BURN GARBAGE L. V. Merle Applies for a Writ was possibly a hitch in the deal some- where. When such a contingency was mentioned to the railroad people inter- ested they had only looks of pitying con- tempt for the daring doubter. In conse- quence the portentous news that came over the wires yesterday was a great sur- prise to evervbody concerned in this City, n anticipation of the higher rates that have thus been threatening the mercantile community for the past six weeksor more orders from the East have been hurried to shipment, and in some cases orders have been placed considerably in advance of the usual time, in order to take advantage of the prevailing low rates. Had the new rates become operative they would have entailed an increase of at per cent on the importers of the t, es the rates eastbound would bave zone littie or no change. In fact, in some cases slight reduction would have resulted for California products, and the the general resuit of the new tariffs would have been to encourage local enterprise by making low eastbound and high wesi- bound rates. Among the measures to be taken by the reorecamzed Transcontinental Association, to make possible the advance of rates as proposed, was the subsidizing of the car- Tiers engaged in the transportation busi- ness via the Isthmus of Panama, viz.: the Pzcific Mail Steamship Company and the Pansma Railroad Company. The proposi tion was to divide $72,500 each month be- tween these two companies in the propor- tion ef 55 per cent to the latter and 45 per cent to the former. In this manner it was expected to eliminate from the sitnation the powerful competition of these compa- nies, but more particularly that of the Panama road, which bad always posed as the friend of the people as against the Southern Pacific Company and its allies. The prompt manner in which the Panama road fell into the plans of the combination after its strong public protes- tations of intending to always remain an independent factor in_transcontinental business created surprise and disgust among the local shippers who had, when- ever they could consistently, favored the Panama line. It is now likely that the Panama line will be again in the field as a genuine competitor of the rail lines; but irom the expre s heard among the local merchants it will hardly receive that consideration which it did before it showed so eager a disposition to join its former rivals in their plans to increase the cost of goods to the consumers of the Pa- cific Coast by increasing the cost of trans- portation. The greatest significance of thisindefinite rostponement of action on the proposed rates is that it may mean the complete disruption again of the Transcontinental Traffic Association, as the principle, if not the sole, ubject of that body is the main- tenance of rates at figures that will assure & good profit to the carriers interested in transcontinental business. When 1t was announced that the ex- ecutive committee of the Transcontinental Association was in session at Chicago last ‘Wednesday it was considered only a matter of hours when the date for the new rates being made effective would be fixed. The day passed, however, without bringing eny news, and it was then hoped that the matier would be decided early yesterday. But the hours went by,and when hope was nearly again abandoned by the anx- ious railroad men of receiving definite in- formation, the news was flashed to them that all the Jabors of the past six weeks had probably been for naught, and that the old rates would be left unchanged for some time to come, at least. Exactly what caused the indefinite post- ponement no one here seemed to be in-a Pposition to state; or rather there was an of Mandate Against the Supervisors. He Is Trying to Force His Bid of $5500 and No Percentage to an Acceptance. ® L. V. Merle has applied to the Superior Court for a writ of mandate compelling the Board of Supervisors to award him the contract for burning the garbage of the City for the next fifty yeara. Merle claims he was the hichest cash bidder for the franchise, and he demanded the privilege on that ground. Merle’s bid was $5500 with no percentage. F. S. Sharon’s bid was $2510 and a graduated percentage of the gross receipts, and A. M. Shelly’s bid was $1150 and a graduated percentage, but not so large a oae as Sharon’s. The Merle bid was recom- mended by the committee in charge, but the board awarded the contract to Sharon. Sharon’s bid, 1t was fizured, weuld before the franchise ran out be worth over $1,000,000, while Merle’s bid amounted to no more than $5500 in any event. Merle evidently relies on a recent deci- sion of the Supreme Court in which it was announced that a percentage of receipts was in no sense a cash bid. The decision ‘was rendered in a fight over a street rail- road franchise in Alameda. The court said that & road might be established for the purpose of stopping competition, and under those circumstances a verv large percentage of the receipts could easily be offered, thereby insuring the possession of the franchise -for an offer which would eventually prove very small. The court ruled the bid out because it was uncer- tain. It is claimed, however, that this case is no parallel to the garbage franchise. There is no uncertainty in the prospect of a percentage of the receipts of the garbage crematory, for the franchise allows the owner to charge 25 cents a load for burning garbage, and the ordinance requires that all the garbage in the City be taken to the crematory for burning. Asthe percentage is of the gross receipts, the franchise itself provides for an income, which cannot but be a zood one. GOING TO ALASKA. Louis Sloss Jr. and Rudolpn Neumann Leave for the North To-Day. Louis Sloss Jr. and Rudolph Neumann leave to-day for Alaska. They will pro- ceed by rail to Puget Sound. Mr. Neu- mann, as the resident represeniative of the Alaska Commercial Company in the north, makes the trip every year and passes much of his time in Alaska. This time Louis Sloss Jr. goes along, and will stay there six months. He expects to visit all of the island and coast stations, and extend his explorations inland for a great distance. He expects some hard- ships, but anticipates some pleasures dur- ing his vacation. —————— Threw Rocks at Her. Mrs. Catherine Keller, an old lady over 60 years of age, living at 411 Filbert street, went to the Receiving Hospital yesterday afternoon. Her left leg was very much swollen and bruised. She said she had been for months asunoyed by men, women and boys, and Wednesday right acrowd of boys threw rocks At her, some of which struck her on the leg. The police were notified and will see that the ©0ld lady is kept from harm in future, i 7 SOME FAMOUS BONIFACES They Came Among the Throngs of Hotel Men Touring the State. COMMENTS ON THEIR VISIT. Are to See Chinatown, Lunch at the Ciiff, Sail on the Bay and Be Banqueted. The 400 people of the Hotel Men’s Mu- tual Benefit Association who have been I with flowera. Somebody brought fruit and Wwine, too, and everything else you could think of. The Western Union Company { has been very good to usall. It has given | us all the free use of its wires for any day | We are out, and asked us not to be afraid to tele.,'mfih our friends at any length.” _E. L. Merrifield, proprietor of the Con- tinenal Hotel, Twentieth and Broadway, New York, is also along. He opened the Continental in 1876 and has run it ever since. He has been a hotel man nearly all M f the Ash. + H. Brockway, proprietor of the Ash- lartd Hotel, New Y‘O!Pk, Fs another conspic- uous hotel man. ~ He'is an ex-president of the association. W. J. Akers, president of the Ohio State Association, and proprietor of the Forest City House, Cleveland, said: “We can’t say enough. We aidn’t realize the trip could be 5o enjoyable. We have had one of the committee always at our eibow.” George W. Lynch of the Hotel Fiorence, San Diego, the newly elected president of the association which has just held its seventeenth annual session at Los Angeles, told the story of the hotel men’s arrival and what they were now going to do. He wore a yellow ribbon, duplicated by many Ky.; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Reed, Hotel Hays, War- saw, Ind.; Messrs. J. G. Bennett and J.D. W. Case, Doolittle House, Oswego, N. Y.: J. E. Hahn, Livingston Hotel, Rochester; L. H. Crowley, Man- sion House, Troy, N. Y.,and three ladles: Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Sweeney, Grand Hotel, Janes- ville, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Pember, Janes- Yyille, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Bennett and Miss Bennett, Detroit, Mich.: Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hoyt, Chicago; Dr. Walter B.' Stewart, Joliet, TIl. George A. Partridge, Tampa Bay Hotel, Tamp Fla.: Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Udell, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Neathing, New York City. New York delegation—B. H. Yard, Monmouth House, Spring Lake Beach, N. J., president of the ussociation, and Mrs. Yard; John T. Devine, the Shoreham, Washington, D. D. £2 Cook and Wwite, Nassau Iiotel, Princeton, N. . M. Tler- Dey and wife, the Arlington, Binghamton, N. Y.; Judge F. W. Downs, Bingbamton, N. Y.: H.J. Rockwell and two asughters, the' Kenmore, Al- bany, N. Y. J. M. Loughead and wite, Philadel- Phia. New York City: F. Draz; W. E. Mason, late of the Grand Union Hotel: F. Jennett: John Hers- dorfer; E.N. Higgins; Dr. C. T. Ryan and wite; Mrs. Thomas Maddock; Tilly Haynes, Broudway Central Hotel, and two' sisters; H. H. Brockway and wife, Charles Brockway and wife. Horace Brockwag Jr., Ashland House: Charles Reed; K. J. O'Brien: John O’Neill and wife; J. E. EKeogh: A. L Ashman, wife and niece, Sin- clair House; W. J. Fanning aud wife; Dr. Willlam McKay: R. Duniap, wife and daughter; Merrifield and daughter and Silas Merrifield, Con- tinental Hotel; C. F. Burnett and wife. Santa Fe Railroad; W. L. Jaques and wife, Murray Hill Hotel; James Wheelock: John Burke; Simeon ALVIN HUL}ERT— Geo W Lynen - JEWETT £ WiLeoXs Here are five notable hotel men: Mr. Hulbert is proprietor of the Tremont and Great Northern, Chicago; Mr. Yard is proprietor of the Monmouth House, Spring Lake Beach, N. J, and president of the association ; Mr. Merrifield is proprietor of the Continental, New York; Mr. Wilcox superintends 2600 miles of hotels on the Illinois Central, and Mr. Lynch is of the Hotel Florence, San Diego, and is the newly elected president. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] visiting the southern part of the State for some two weeks past arrived here yester- day afternoon. Among them are some of the leading hotel men of the couniry. They are known all over the world. With the hotel men are about 200 ladies and children,as many of the gentlemen brought their families along. The visitors arrived by three special trains of five cars each. There was one train from New England, another from New York and another from Chicago. These brought many people hundreds of miles away from the starting point. The trains carried the best chefs the country affords, so that there was no stint in the supplies while en route. Each train also carried a skilled physician. No one has been sick during the trip, however, and there has not been mishap or accident of any kind. Every station, on the trip, moreover, has been reached on time. All the hotel men are united in their praises of California and their hospitable reception. They say they never dreamed there was such a fair land, nor that their trip would be so pleasant. Among the visitors are such eminent hotel men as Tilley Haynes, proprietor of the Broadway Central Hotel, New York, and the United States Hotel, Boston; Alvin Hulbert, proprietor of the Tremont and Great Northern, Chicago; W. H. La Poin te, one of the proprietors of Young's Hotel, Boston; Simeon Ford of the Grand Union Hotel, New York, and Jewell ‘Wilcox of Chicago, superintendent of all the hotels of the Illinois Central Railroad. The latter gentleman is an ex-president of the association. The hotels and eating- houses over which he has charge exten {rom Chicago and Sioux City to New Or- seans, or along 2600 miles of road. *‘Qur reception and what we have seen has been a_continual surprise,” said Mr. Wilcox. ‘*‘From the time we reached Bar- stow we have had a continual ovation. Words won’t express It. There is no other country that could do it. And think of it! No hiteh, no accident and right on time for over three weeks. “With us are delegates from as far east as Maine, from the north as far as St. Paul and south to Tampa, Fla., and trom all between. The entire trip requires thirty days. We pay $1a mile for each of our trains, and raised the money by subsecrip- tion. ‘Some subscribed as much as $250 each. Each train has a dining-car and a doctor. ‘‘Since leaving Barstow the Southern California Hotel Men’s Association has kept all the diners stocked with everything we desired. The association 1s keeping it stocked now. Such generosity is almost unheard of.” Alvin Hulbert, the veteran proprietor of the old Tremont and new Great Northern hotels at Chicago, had a similar compli- ment tocpay to the Californians. He has been in Chicago since 1859. He has been in California before, the last time being in March. The Great Northern has about 700 rooms. The Tremont, though old and famous, is comfgnfively small, having but 250 rooms. The Democratic Conven- tion is expected to make things vs;‘y livel, in Chicago for the hotel men, so Mr. Hul- bert nilf incidentally. ‘“About this trip and reception,” con- tinued the long-experienced boniface. “There is nothing like it—an ovation from first to last. I wouldn’t know how to describe it, and the weather has been superb all the way. This is the first rain. Our people are rather glad it has come, for we need a little rest. The courtesy ex- tended us, the kindly consideration every- where, has made us marvel.” Benjamin H. Yard, the president of the organization, whose full rame is Hotel Men’s Mutual Benefit Association of the United States and_Canada, spoke briefly in the same vein. He is proprietor of the Monmouth House, Spring Lake Beach, N. J., alittle overan hour and a half's ride from Philadelphia. “We bhave been deluged with courtesies rom the time we entered the State,” he said. “Then a committee of ladies met us | in the throng of hotel men at the Palace. On it was this: ARRANGEMENTS, H.M.M.B. A. Seventeeth Annual Meeting, apriltornia, % pril 13th to 28 1896, in sixteen hours “We came in to-da; and twenty minutes from Los Angeles,” he said. “The three trains were not a half hour apart. After dinner to-night 200 of the visitors are to leave under a conyoy of officers for Chinatown; 200 more will g0 to the Tivoli. “To-merrow they will visit the park and Cliff, lunching at the Cliff House. In the evening they will be banqueted at tLe Palace. Friday at 9 A. M. they will leave on avisit to Palo Alto. They will be re- ceived at Stanford by President Jordan, and will reach San Jose at noon. They will lunch at the Vendome, and will then be driven about the city till 4 o’clock, when they will get aboard the train for Del Monte. There they will take the seyenteen-mile drive and enjoy the hospi- talities of the great hotel. ‘‘Monday morning they will go to Santa Cruz, and thence to the Big Trees, returning to San Francisco Monday m_%m: Then tie second 200 guests will visit Chinatown. Tuesday at 8 A. . they will go on a steamer, accompa- nied by music, on a trip around the bay. They will return at 4 o’clock, and at 8 the three trains will pull out via Salt Lakeand Denver.”” The badge of the National Associatidh represents a California bear on a shield above the word ‘‘California.’’ The initials “H. M. M. B. A.” sprinkle the badge like stars, and over the bear is a book repre- senting a hotel register, across whicn are two clasped hands, A headquarters has been opened at the Palace for the hotel men and their friends in the Marble Room. Almost all the vis- itors are at the Palace and Grand hotels. The banquet at the Palace will be a very elaborate affair, The full list of the hotel visitors is as follows: Chicago and Western train—S. T. Douthirt and daugnter, Occldental Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind Wilson, Centralia House, Centralia, TiL; and Mrs. E. Winter, Pitisburg; Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Dillenbach, Hotel Schiosser, Pittsburg; Mr. Mrs T. A. ‘Barker, Metropoiitan Hotel, St. Paul, Minu.; Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Ewins, The Savoy, Kansas City: Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Heinsohn an daughter, Kirby House, Munecle, Ind.; W. V. Torpen and “daughter, the Bearss, Peru, Ind.: Mr. and Mrs R’ N. Watson, Stubbins’® Furopean Totel, Indianapolis; Mr. and Mrs. George B. Stoddard, Chicago; Charles W. Denike, New Amsterdam Hotel, and friend, New York City: J. 8. Sweet, Hotel Straubel, Green Bay: Mr. and Mrs. John B. Schiosser, Sch:osser Hotel, Pitts- burg; Mr. and rs, F. G. ‘Warden, the Warden, Newark, Ohio; Mrs. William J. Friday, Pittsburg; Fred J. Balley, the Jackson, Chicago: Mrs. ¥. i. Taylor and Miss Maud Reed. Hotel Euclid, Su- perior, Wis.: Dr. and Mrs. C. A, Willlams, Chicago; em Northam, wife and Mrs. W. R. Judd, Joliet, IL: A. B. Lewis, Hotel Doxey, Anderson, Ind.; H. W. Van Orman, Hotel Doxey, Anderso Ind.; W. H. Worth, Hofel Worth, Chicago: C. C! Horton_and wite, ‘Clarendon Hotel, Zanesvill Obio; Harry W. and Charles M. Sommers, Kim- ball House, Davenport, Iowa; Fred Hotop and Wife, the American Kouse, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Fred 8. Averv, Avery House, Mount Clemens, Mich.: R. J. Tousley, wife and_daughter, Hotel Jullen, Belyidere, IiL.; Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Hum- thy Jr, Humphrey House, Jamestown. N. 3 Mr. C. _Manchester and 1’ House, Ottumwa, wite, Richmo:d, Ind. Livingston Ho:el, Rochester, and Frazier, rs. Towa: T. 1. Githens an : T. H. Githens ant George W. Sweenty. 'Li N. Y.; Mr. and W. M. Wormley, Hozel El- don, “Eidon, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. A: W. Heinly, Zuna House, Danville, IiL.; Robert Rennert and Miss Rennert, Hotel Rennert, Baliimore; Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Miller, Geneseo Hotel, Geneseo. 11! Mr. and Mrs. H. F.'Badger, Burdick House, Kala- mazoo. Mich.; Mr. and 3rs. E. S. Munroe. Hotel Munroe, Joliet, 1il.; Messrs. Kernohan, Ogden and Speer, Pittsburg; Wallace Mller, Mrs. E. M. Palmer, Miss Marle Welling, Bancrott House, ich.; Mr. and Mrs. 8. Murry Micchell, Philadelphia; Dwight L. Fuller, Dickinson House, Corning, N. Y.: Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Holley, Riddell House, Bradford, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Selibach, Selibach’s Hotel, Louisville; Charles \V. Webb of J., Hotel Hamilton, Hagers- town, Md.: Mr. and Mrs. Kemp and Mastér Kemp, Tremont House, Wabash, Ind.: A. W. White, Phanix Hotel. 'Peoria, 1il.: Mr. and Mrs, B. L. McLure, Wheeling, W.'Va.: Mr. and Mrs. tlmer E. Almy, New Osborn Mouse, Rochester, N. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Biiss, the Buckingham, Washiugton, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bohn, Mas’ ter Harold Jay Bohu, Hotel World, Chicago; H. Birdsall, wife and aaughter, Grace, St. Jam Hotel, Davenport, Iowa; Messrs. J. C. Fox and Frank J. Collins, §t. James Hotel, Bradford, Pa.; George G. Corzelius, Hotel Glyndon, Richmond, v ohn Hear- George F. otel Marl- borongh; S. P. Hes o:el Devonshire; John Bradshaw and wife; Henry F. Wood and wife. Boston and New ringland train—George H. Bow- ker, Hotel Hamilton, Holyoke; Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Pelren, Eagle Hotel, 3 : Mr. and Mrs. A, T. Browneil, Parker House, New Bedford: Mr. and ‘Mrs. Foster £. Swift, Wilson House, North Adams; Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Gassett, Melrose; Tnomas H. Johnson, Russell House, alem: G, W, Morse, Pemigewassett Hou Plymouih, N. H.: Mr. and_Mrs. Charles Ballard, ' thé ~ ilmwood, Watersille, M. James 'H. EBowker, Winthrop Hotel, Meriden, Conn.: ~ John Conway, ~ Winthrop Hotel, Meriden, Conn.: Mr. and Mrs. George W. Clark, American House, Pittsfield, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Pettingill, Melrose: Mr. and Mrs. George A. Devnell, Ocean’ Bluff Hotel, Kennebunkport; Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Marsh, Cooley House, Springfield Orra Paige, the Hesperus, Magno'la; Mr. and drs. E. C. Stimpson, Ocean Bluff Hotel, Kennebunk- port, Me.: A. H. Whipple, Rockland House, tasker Beach: Mr. and Mrs, H. C. Cbapmar, Ba for House, Bangor. Me.: 0. B. Rand, Hotel ‘Ham: iton, Holyoke; Mr. per Berry and Miss’ Beriy, Hotel Worthley, rerhill; George E. sherman, Hotel Dinsmore, Walpole, N. Ho: 2. Mayo, Windsor Hotel, Folyoke: and the following from Boston: W. H. La Bointe, Young's Hotel; George A. Keeier, American House; J. W. Smith, Hotel Bellevue: Mr. and Mrs. J.' L. Damon and Miss Damon, the Thorndike: Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Davis, Norfoik House: Mrs. Charles A. Jones, Norfolk 'House: Mrs. Steila O. Libbey. the Trauscrip:: Mr. and Mra. S, J. Moul: ton; Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Thaver, Revers House: Noble; Charles W. Parker, New England Mr. and Mrs. F. 8. Ristesn and Miss Ris- teen, Copley-square Hotel; S. B. Newton, Quincy Market; 8 A. Davis _and Miss Davis, Norfolk House: Mr. and Mrs. . Smith. the Boylston: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Robinson, Coolidge House: M and Mrs. Henry W. Patterson; Mr. and Mrs, J. W, Halbert, E. P. A, Fitchburg' Railroad; Mr. and Mrs. James G. Hickey, United Staces Hotel; A . and Mra. Charles F. Proctor: Mr. and Mrs. Sifas P, Fales; Mr. and Mrs. Asher Heyneman; Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Damon, the Thorndfke: Mrs. George Hosea: Mr. and Mrs. J, R, Clarke, Parker House: €. L. Slecper and Miss Sleeper; Géorse R. Rimbach, Crawford House; Heber Bishop, M. D.. Copiey- square Hotel: G. S. Blalsdeli; Thomas W. Henry, cornetist. Ohio and Indiana Delegation — Mr. and Mrs. William Akers, Forest City House, Cleve. land; Mr, Mrs. Samuel Pentland and daughter, Neil House, Columbus, Oblo; Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Shears, Grand Hotel; Mr. and Mrs. J. Stacy Hill, Miss McKennell, Miss Hoberts, G. G. Lippincott, Cincinnatl; Mr.and Mrs. Charles Baur- Terre House, Terra Haute, Ind.: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Watson, Vincennes, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Van Orman and Son, the Wescott, Rich- mond, Ind.: Mr. and Mrs.'D. A. Coultér and daugtiter, Frankfort, Ind’; Miss' Kuill, Filni, ich. ¥ ACTUATED BY JEALOUSY. Christol Hartman Beats His Wife Adele With His Fis There is & divorce suit pending between Christol Hartman, a restaurant-keeper on ‘Washington street, and his wife Adele, who keeps a lodging-house at 309 Sutter street. Yesterday morning Mrs. Hartman ap- peared in Judge Campbe!ll's court with her face swollen. She was in a highly nervous condition and_poured into the ears of Warrant Clerk Jackson a tale that roused his indignation. “My husband is insanely jealous of me,” shesaid, “and I have had a terrible time with him. This morning he came to mfi lodging-house, and after abusing me wit his tongue he struck me on the face and body with hisfists. I screamed for Lelp and ran away. I am afraid of him and want him arrested.” Jackson wrote out a complaint charging Hartman with battery, which Mrs. Hart- man swore to before Judge Campbell, and expressed the hope that no time would be lost in having him arrested. —————— Steuart Not at the Prescott. Harry Steuart, the man arrested on & war- rant Wednesday and charged with conspiring ‘with a woman to rob W. H. Palmer of $100, is not, as was erroneously stated, night clerk of the Prescott House, but acts in that capacity at the lodging-house at 807 Kearny street. R e A New Rabbi Here. .The Rev. M. Berliant has arrived from Chi cago and will officiate at the Congregation Beth Menachem Stireisand, on Minna street, between Fourth and Fifth, thisevening and Saturday morning. POKER CHIPs, playing-cards, cribbage boards, game counters, checkers, chess, pocket-knives, seissors, pocket-books, purses, satchels, valises, eu.;an ‘;ety hw:::‘ prices ‘Nl.n.i crb.r g‘u goods, our s loner; lepariment B0~ born, Vail & Co. AL Market st ¢ £{CARS O BE WITHDRAWN Devisadero-Street Line Will be Abandoned on the First of May. IT WAS NOT PROFITABLE, Part of a Western Addition Service That Has Been in Operation for About Two Months. On and after May 1, the people living in the immediate vicinity of Devisadero and Jackson streets who desire to reach the southern part of the Western Addition, or the western portion of the Hayes Valley distriet, will either have to do considerable walking or resort to carriage and bicycle. On the date mentioned, it is the inten- tion of the Market-street Railway Com- pany to discontinue the service on Devisa- dero street, from Jackson to Oak. This extension, with the rectangular loop, bounded by Devisadero, Oak, Fill- more and Page streets, was put into‘opera- tion about two months ago, in the expecta- tion that there would be sufficient through traffic to and from the Jackson-street ter- minus to make it a paying proposition. Experience, however, General Manager Vining said yesterday, demonstrated that there was not a sufficient demand for this accommodation to warrant the company in continuing the service—that is, tte road along Devisadero, from Oak to Jackson. As now operated the cars run from Jack- son street along Devisadero to Page, east on Page for four blocks to Fillmore, rorth on Fillmore for one block to Oak, along the latter westward to Devisadero and back to the point of starting. ‘When the service on the long Devisa- dero-street arm is taken off the loop bounded by Page, Fillmore, Oak and De- visadero will be kept 1n operation by run- ning one car around its ten blocks, which service will continue to form the connect- ing link between the Page-street line to the park and the rillmore-street line to the northern and southern sections of the City. In fact, no change will be made in the transfer situation at the points where this loop connects with other lines of the Market-street Railway Company. A FAMILY FEUD, Walter B, Forsyth Swears Out a War- rant for His Father-in-Law’s Arrest for Perjury. Walter Bailentine Forsyth, 106 Golden Gate avenue, has been revenged on his | father-in-law, Bernard Connama, 914 North | Point street. Connama swore out a war- rant on Wednesday for Forsyth’s arrest on the charge of perjury in falsely swear- ing that Mary Connama, whom he mar- ried, was 18 years of age, whereas she was not more than 17. Forsyth went to Judge Low’s court yes- terday morning and swore out a warrant for Connama’s arrest on the charge of per- jury in swearing to a complaint that For- syth was a vagrant from April 1 to 18, and testifying in court that he only met For- syth once, and that was on March 25. The charge of Vagrancy was dismissed by Judge Juaciimsen on Tuesday. Forsyth says he has been working for his father, who is a_plumber, and ‘was so employed from April 1 to 18. " Afterswear- ing to tie warrant for the arrest of his father-in-law he went to the City prison and surrendered himself on the perjury charge. He was released on $2000 bonds. COMPETING ELECTACITY Franchise for the People’s Mutual Telephone Company Recom- mended. A Promise Given to Reduce Rates to Three Dollars a Month for Each Machine. The Street Committes of the Board of Supervisors decided yesterday to recom- mend that the franchise asked by the People’s Mutual Telephone Company be granted. The company was represented by Robert A, Friedrich, who stated solicitors were already out getting subscribers and that several thousand had been obtained. The company did not want to go any further until the franchise was granted, but as soon as it got a favorable answer from the Supervisors work on the plant would be begun at once. He thought that the proposed competing system could be finished 1n about six months. Supervisor Benjamin asked an explana- tion of the clause permitting the company to charge $5 Eer hone, which is the same figure now asked by the old com!g;lny. This was explained by Mr. Friedrich, by stating that sometimes people in out of the way places wanted telephones, and in order to accommodate them at a profit the company would be compelled to charge them a little more than the regular price. He assured the committee, however, that $3 was the rate to be generall charged, and said that the company couls not very well raise rates on their sub- scribers after they had contracted to fur- nish phones at $3 a month. The committee was unanimously in favor of yranting the franchise, and the order will be presented on Monday next. The company will be permitugta lay conduits for tha protection of wires to transmit electricity for telephones and telegraph service. —————— NEED NOT BE BALD, Sheriff Whelan Sued to Recover the Contents of a Hairstore. Mrs. E. L. Lewis is trying to get from the grasp of the Sneriff a miscellaneous assortment of wigs, switches, curls, bangs and toupees large enough to do away with the prevaiiing feature of every front row in the City’s theaters, give the Sheriff a new frontpiece and put whiskers on every one of his deputies. The store of Mrs. Harriet Nusworth, the plaintiff’s mother, was at- tached just after Mrs. Nusworth failed, about two weeks ago, and the Sheriff and his more elderly deputies plunged greedily into the stock and secured enough fine warranted genuine tresses to last them a lifetime. Mrs. Nusworth has now brought suit to recover the ringlets from the meshes of the law, and she nll:ges that the Sneriff has secured $8584 worth of genuine hair and has converted the entire lot to his own use. What the Sheriff is going to o with it all is not suggested, but he ma: explain in his answer. Anyway, bhe will not give up a lock, and she has been forced to bring suit for the whole outfit. The list covers two typewritten pages. There are switches, loose, in bundles, in drawers and in showcases; there are bangs without number, enough for all Market street and some to spare; a few chea toupees at $70 50 for the lot are mentione: and then there is one toupee, evidentl 'is valued at $415. There are cmrls and false fronts and frontpieces, raw hair and netting, and then the list closes with men- tion of a whole lot of powder, paint, enamel, dandruff eradicator and other toilet accessories, and all of these the Sheriff is supposed to be converting to his own use. 2 FOUND HI5 WIFE DEAD. David Finnie Returned From His Day’s ‘Work Only to View a Sad Scene. When David Finnie returned to his home at 1034 Nineteenth street at 6 o’clock yesterday evening he found his wife degd in bed and his pretty litile 2-year-old girl lying wide awake by her mother’s side. Finnie had left the house at 6 o’clock in the morning, after cooking his own early breakfast, as was his custom. There was no evidence when death had come, except the presence of the child’s clothing in the bed, showing that the mother had been vreparing to dress her little one. Mrs. Mary Ellen Finnie was 31 years of age and a native of California. For some time ste had complained of a pain about the heart, but there had been no intimation of her sudden death. The neighbors had heard no sound, not even a cry from the little child that had remained by its dead mother’s side all through the day, amusing itself with its doll and waiting uncomplainingly until its papa should come home. or nearly twenty years Finnie has been a teamster in the employ of the Hobbs, Wall & Co. box factory. MARKET STREET COBBLES The Cycling Clubs Vigorously Advocate a Change to Bitumen. The Moral and Political Influence of 15,000 Voters to Assist in the Project. It any influence, moral or political, can accomplish the paving of Market street from Valencia to the ferry landing with some other material than the present rough and unsightly cobblest ones, it will be done if the cycling clubs of San Fran- cisco can work the change. To accomplish this desirable end, T. H. B. Varney of the cycle brotherhood will do all that in bis power lies to induce the Bupervisors, property-owners and all others interested in the welfare of the City to have the principal business street of the City look decentand modern. To do this, the ancient cobblestones must be taken up and a durable, noiseless, smooth- surface pavement put down. “We will urge this question late and early until we accomplish our object,* said Mr. Varney. “We have as a starter 15,000 voters belonging to the various ey cling clubs in this City. I mean by this business men who ride the bicycle from their homes to their business places. These will assist the organized clubs in this movement. *‘Then, stablemen and owners of teams devoted to carriage-driving willalso assist, and I am sure tue storekeepers will most heartily co-operate with us. “How much more pleasant it will be to have a noiseless pavement in front of their stores than the tumultuous racket now made by wagons rolling over the rough cobbles, deafening everybody within a block of the street. ‘““We will urge it 1n circulars, we will urge 1t in dodgers, we will urge it in every conceivable but respectable manner until we accomplish it. And when it is done the people will wonder why it had not been done years ago. “It is_said that the teamsters, for some unexplained reasons, are not in favor of the present bituminous pavement, but would gladly hail a smooth, durable road- bed in preferehce to the present cobble- paved-streets.” ———— The Rallroad Answers Johns.} The railroad hasanswered the suit of William E. Johns, who brought suit:to recover $20,000 damages for battery and false imprisonment. Johns was the man who offered & Hayes and Polk street transfer at Grove and Polk streets and who was refused a ride upon it. A row ensued and Johnsand the conductor got into fight. Johns was locked up for battery. The answer of the company alleges that the trans- fer was not good unless presented at the point of transfer, Hayes and Polk streets, and that the plaintiff’s trouble was brought on him b; hl:gwn acts, C.W. Cross appears for the nlf'- road. —_— Bunker Hill monument is 220 feet in height. NEW TO-DAY. In Spring Time take that which will build up the tissues and supply force to the muscular, digestive and nervous systems. If you are thin, without appetite, pale because of thin blood, or easily exhausted, why further weaken the body by using tonics? Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-lives Oil with Hypophos.- phites is what you need. Cod-liver Oil is a food. It produces force and builds up the system in a substantial way, The H phites give str to the nerves. Better appe- tite, richer blood and healthy flesh come to stay. There’s only one metal bed for “looks,” and only one for service; Adams & Westlake’s, both. CavrroryiA FurNITURE COMPANT . P. CoLE & Co.) almost an improvement on nature, which | 47 Geary Strees,