The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1896, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1896. OR. BORM MAKES IS STATEMENT, Will Not Shield the Slayer of the Abandoned Infant. MRS. BROWNING’S STORY. Association will be joined this year by the Pacific Coast Association of Vermont. The orator of the day will be the Hon. R. B. Carpenter, a member of the Ver- monters’ Association, and also a promi- nent member of the Union League Club. It is expected that at least 2000 people will celebrate the day in the above manner. The Tuolumne Association, the Veteran Firemen and the Ancient Order of Forest- ers will also celebrate this day by a picnic, and have been written to blx; the president of this association asking them to petition the Governor to declare the 17th of June next a legal holiday e e WAGES FOR IEFBEBMEN. The State Labor Bureau Is Sending Large Numbers of Men North. Commussioner Fitzgerald of the Labor Bureau is sending a large number of men to the northern lumber districts, where, he says, exceptionally good wages are The Mother of the Murdered Babe Says Flynn Took It Away. MRS. SHANE PROMISED TO PAY. The Prisoner Charged With Killing the Child—He Refuses to Talk. In this now famc case of the babe that was left to die in a vacant lot on Tweifth street, in which John T. Flynn stands ac- cused of murder, there were two very con- trary and c icting statements made st important of these A. Bohm, who will as a most important witness The second statement was made by Mrs. Browning, at the instance of Detective Gibson. Hitherto Dr. Bohne has kept to himself bis knowledge of the crime, having made up his mind to say nothing until his evi- dence was called for by the Coroner. But yesterday to a CALL man he made the fol- lowing statement. As you related in to-day’s CALLI was called toattend Mrs. Browning on the night of her ,and 1 did not see any of the afterward until the afternoon of the I had been to the Morgue on that date, met the Coroner and told himall T knew ing the case, and was proceeding down et to visit a patient when 1 was ac- e on the sidewalk in front ireet. She approached me 7, I called you by telephone the other tl ed that she had not called me by tele- ut that I had been summoned by the ildren of Mrs. Browning. % i you can say that I called ready made that ready made a state- n said: thing about the case doctor. ow, because the baby d it. They found it He asked me n I had called and I told v doctor, was sent ail out thro what other y him that D for at the s he was called, and I | told him t ad attended the case taere would have bee 0 publieit; 1 don’t see why doctors can’t keep their secrets any- Low.” She said she did not look at the baby, simply wrap| it up in a towel and put it in a draw 1 did not close the drawer. if she remalned with her sister 1 night, and s t then Mrs. McNaughton, the wife of one e up and spoke to me, and Mrs. Shane. Before leav- “Doctor, yoi need not tie papers. These facts as 1 iave told them to you I will tell to-morrow the Coroner’s jury,” concluded the [he name of John T. Flynn, the man charged with the murder of the dead and avandoned infant, was transferred to the big police book yesterday. The awful word murder was at the other end of the line, This transfer may have been due to Chief Crowley’s becoming tired of having the name of such an important prisoner on the petty record, or it may have been the result of the new and additional state- ment made by Mrs. Browning, the mother oi the sacrificed infant. That statement, which 15 printed in full below, was made at the request of De- tective Gibson in Mrs. Browning’s house, at 130}¢ Ninth street, Thursday afternoon. The accused man was seen late yes- terday afterncon, and after being in- formed of the nature of the statement he declined to anything until he bad seen his attorney, George A. Knight. s. Browning’s statement made in the nce of Detective Wren, Mrs. Shane and her daughter Tessie was submitted to Captain Lees by Detective Gibson, as fol- low ening I gave birth to the child Isent boy i & note tc Flynn—this was about 7:30 ». for him to call on me, He came about an hour afterward, and suggested tbat I send for his brother-in-law, Dr. Farnum, and cverything would be all right and he would pey the bill. Itold him that I did not want Dr. Farnum; that I had sent for my sis- ter, and that she would be there in a fow min- utes. Fiynn then said that he would go and get some other docior, and he sent for Dr. Quigley. After the child was born my sister and my daughter went out of the room on an errand Wkile they were gone—this was about 0 to the best of my recollection—Mr. un came in and told me he had been iting downstairs for quite a while. ed me where the baby was 2nd I told him it was in the bureau drawer. The drawer was yartly open. He took the baby out and started to leave the room. 1 asked him where he was going, and he d he would take the baby and putit inan m. He said the baby would be all right. He never called on me again, and 1 have never seen him since. When he took the baby 1expected him to do as he said. He told me he would have to hurry up as there was a friend waiting at the door. Mrs. Shane and my daughter came back shortly afterward and stayed with me the balance of the night. The statement of Mrs. shane thatshe did not know Flynn is correct, es he was in the honse one day when she called and at bis request I introduced him to her as Mr. Jones. He did not go out with my caughter the night the baby was born that I know. He hes walked several times with me being paid. In a few days he will have prepared for distribution copies of his bill, framed for the general alleviation of the laboring men, which he purposes recommending for passage at the next sitting of the State Legislature. “This bill,” said he, “is the result of my year’s investigation concerning the condi- tion of the workingman. s “It is intended to relieve the hardships as they exist. I will distribute these copies to the labor unions and to such persons as are desirous of becoming in- formed on the matter contained in it. T desire the laboring people to study it, and if they do not consider it all that corre- sponds to their needs, why, of course, then Ido not expect it to be passed. “It is a fact that for labor to oppose capital is destructive to the best interests of both. Capital and labor should go hand in hand, and this proposed bill is in- tended to relieve honest capital and honest labor.” THE MAIESTC SIERRIS, Joaquin Miller Addresses an Audience on Mountain Scenes. “Gaze on These ws: Where God Has So Elequently Spoken, What Can Man Add?” After ten year’s meditation on “The Heights” the “Poet of the Sierras’” came down with a message to the people, which was delivered in his lecture in the Metro- politan Temple last evening under the auspices of the California Camera Club. “The Sierras” was the subject of the poet’s message, and the latent fire of po- etic imagination and fervor imbibed dur- ing his sojourn among the masterpieces of nature burst into full flame as he waimed to his description of the beauty and grandeur of the Sierras and the Yosemite Valley. Ah, my friends,” he feelingly said as a view of the Half Dome in the Yosemite was projected upon the canvas, ‘“‘how can mortal man fittingly describe this? The more I say the more ashamed I am of my finite appreciation.” On views of Oregon Mr. Miller dwelt at some length. Evidently he thought their | beauty admitted of more exact word painting than those of the Golden State. After the intermission and a soprano soio, “Thou Art My Life,”” by Miss Millie Flynn, the poet stood very still and said not a word, as though the music had | wafted his mind off to the region where nature reigns supreme. View after view was projected upon the canves, but still he stood wrapped in thought. A member said that she [ of the club stepped upon the platform, | whispered in his ear and then he resumed | s seat. “Ladies and gentlemen,” said the poet, very slowly, “I have been advised to say something. Gazeupon the majestic views: 1 I had the §5 now I| Where God has so wondrously spoken, | what can man add ?”’ When the last view had been flashed upon the canvasthe poet turned to the crowded assemblage and speaking very rapidly said: “‘How 1 love to breathe the perfumed air of the Sierras! The refreshing ozone and the balmy odors of the ]pines and aromatic shrubs infuse new lfe into a man’s worn-out frame. I am told that these pine quills are gatherea and shipped to the far Kast, to the people of Massachu- setts and distant Maine, and there are placed in pillows upon which sick persons recline their weary heads and draw the breath of life into their feeble lungs. *‘My adviceto you is to send your in- valias to the Sierras. It will ampiy repay you for the expense.” 3 “‘Sa's’parilla is cheaper,’’ piped a shrill voice irom the gallery, and there was general laughter from that part of the house, but the poet paid no attention to this unsympathetic and earthly iuterrnr tion. Itisdoubtful if he heard it at all. The lecture was concluded amid generous applause. The club is well pleased over the lecture. "The deep feeling displayed by the speaker, and the gratification of the audience at the mental treat, went far toward making the managers feel amply repaid for their trouble in securing the presence of the gifted poet. A RIDING CLUB. The Members of the Horse Show As- sociation Will Practice Eques- trianship. The members of the Horse Show Asso- ciation will meet in the Mills building ‘Wednesday, April 29, at 4 ». ., for the purpose of forming the San Francisco Riding Club. The object of the organiza- tion is to acquire a greater proficincy in equestrianship and otherwise prepare for the next horse show. Captain J. Delhan of the Riding Academy at the corner of Polk street and Pacific avenue will have charge of the instruction of the members. The following have subscribe to the club up to date: Henry J. Crocker, George A.Newhall, J.J. Moore,” Ward MeAllister, Leon Bocqueraz, W, H. Talbot, Mrs. W. B. Hooper, James A. White, W. B. Chapman, B. B. Somers, Ch. du Parc, Mrs. Fannie Lent, George P. Wetmore, Charles E. Mooser, James ¥, J. Archibald, Charley B. Brigham, B. Minvielle, G. Ouarrie, August Or- tion, E. Polhemus, William Greer Harrison, E. A. Brugiere, 1. W. Hellman Jr., Joseph 8. To- bin, Willism Bourns and Mary N. Farquharson, Sonsn it Carpenters Oppose Shinglers. Carpenters’ Union No. 22 met last night In the 0dd Fellows’ building and voted solidly 10 oppose the request of the shinglers to be allowed to join the Building Trades Council. There are about thirty or forty shinglers in this City known as such, and for some tittle time they have attempted to obtain recogni- tion from the Building Trades Council, but s far have been unsuccessful, ‘The carpenters will_give their big annual picnic at Sunset Park, Santa Cruz Mountains, to-morrow, and the’ president of Union 25 is authority for the assertion {hat every union to my sister’s house on Larkin street, but 1 uever took him in the house. He gave me $25 Lo give to a physician prior to the birth. 1 feel better now that I have told the truth in this metter. GusoN AND WREN, Detective Officers. —_— BUNKER HILL'S MEMORY. It Will Be Celobrated on the 17th of June With Appropriate Exercises. At the lust meeting of the Bunker Hill Association the following items of interest to the public were discussed: The 17tn of June, being the one hundred and twenty-first anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, will be appropriately cele- brated by a picnic and excursion to Glen Ellen, Sonoma County. The Bunker Hill carpenter will be on hand to enteriain the guests of the day. Twenty-three new members were initiated into the Carpenters’ Union last night, a final gathering up of vossibilities that lesves the City vractically without a non-union car- nter. After May 1 it will cost the initiate 10 10 join the union. Resolutions Indorsed. To the Editor of the Call: At a regular meeting held by Council No.1 of the Woman's Ameri- can Protective Association, April 23, 1896, the resolutions snd preamble of the American Women’s Liberal League were read and heart- ily indorsed by all members present. If the secreiary of the American Women's Liberal League will kindly send 500 copies of the resolutions and preamble to Red Men’s bufldlnf, 820 Post street San Francisco, box 26, they will be carefully distributed. Sarah M. Smith, president; Mary C. Lyon, secrelary. STERNBERG IN SAN QUENTIN. He Gets Three Years on One of Two Convic- tions. MAY GET THREE MORE. Proceedings Stayed in the Other Case for the Time Be- ing. A TECHNICAL POINT OF LAW. The Prisoner’s Counsel Believes That Sentence in Both Cases Must Run Concurrently. Shortly after 11 o’clock yesterday morn- ing Judge Wallace called the case of Louis Sternberg, convicted for the third time of stuffing the voting register. Ex-Judge Ferral answered for his client, saying that he was ready to receive sen- tence. This was so unusual a performance in the long line of those called for sen- tence, who uniformly beg for stays or move for a new trial, that it instantly quickened the already tense interest in the case. And Judge Wallace followed it with another unusual move. ‘‘I will announce judgment in this matter at 12:30,” he said, and declared a recess until that time. The crowd that thronged the courtroom all the morning to witness the disposition of this and the other cases on the sentence list did not all return in the afternoon. A comparatively small audience was present to witness the subsequent develop- ments in an odd situation. As Ferral pre- sented it, it wasa Judge who really wanted | to see himself overruled in the Supreme Court, a convicted felon anxious that his conviction might stand and withdrawing his plea for a further hearing. The Supreme Court had affirmed the judgment in the trial of the prisonerin the Newman case and the remittitur had only reached the lower court the day be- fore, and Judge Wallace had not had op- portunity to look it over. It was for this that the recess was taken. There wasa point that was bothering the Judge—the same point that the counsel for Sternberg had hit upon and was giving them pleasure. Sternberg was convicted some months ago of unlawfully stuffing the polling lists in 8enator Mahoney’s Forty-second As- sembly District during the registry period preceding the last general elestion. Judge Wallace sentenced him to three yearsin the penitentiary. The case was taken to the Supreme Court and judgment was reversed and a new trial ordered. Sternberg in the meantime had been tried and convicted on another and sepa- rate charge of stuffing—that of inducing Dave Newman to register as a resident of the district, his local habitation being also cited as at the Baldwin Hotel. He was convicted and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary on this also. While this case was pending before the Supreme Court the first case, the Guttman case, which the Supreme Court had reversed, was tried again before Judge Wallace and again a conviction was secured. i Yesterday the defendant came before the court for sentence, and his counsel declared they were ready, and withdrew their motion for stays of proceedings. Judge Wallace passed sentence of three years in the penitentiary, saying at the same time that he would stay the pro- ceedings in the Newman case for the present. Sternberg appeared in smiling form during the proceedings, and as he was led away by Deputy Sheriffs, he slapped ex- Judge Ferralon the back saying: “Good by, old man, take care of yourself.” Judge Ferral was also in apparent good humor. He said: ‘“Judge Wallace has stayed proceedings in one case, but it amounts to nothing, for sentence has already been passed in that case, and it must run concurrently with this last case. “If he had withheld sentence in the one case until canviction was secured in the second case he then might have passed sentence in the one to take effect or begin to run upon the expiration of the other, and so send the man to prison for six years. As it is he goes over for but three, although convicted in both cases. The situation is a most unusual one. Judge Wallace was really desirous of being re- versed by the Supreme Court in this later ease in order that he might at another conviction impose sentence in that wav, while we, the defendants, were anxious | that the Supreme Court might affirm the judgment. At the same time we with- drew our plea for a stay of proceedings—a convicted prisoner in other words is anxious to go to prison; the trial Judge is anxious to be overruted. 1 do not have this from the Judge but I make a guness in that direction.” Assistant Attorney Black, who was in court, expressed the same opin:on that the two sentences will run concurrently. The belief is based on the reading of section 669 of the Civil Code, as follows: When anv person is convicted of two or more crimes before sentence has been pronounced upcn him for either, the imprisonment to which he is sentenced upon the second or other subsequent conviction must commence at the termination of the first term of his imprison- ment, to which he shall be adjudged, or at the termination of the second term of imprison- ment, as the case may be. The sentences run consecutively when conviction has been secured upon two or more crimes ‘‘before sentence is passed.” Sentence having been passed in this case upon the one conviction before the second conviction was had, they argue that the court cannot now stay the proceedings. Judge Wallace thinks differently. Stern- berg has already suffered seventeen months’ imprisonment in the County Jail. TIRED OF HER HUSBAND. Mary Mooney Thinks Her Spouse Would Be a Better Man in Jail. General McComb of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children hasa very peculiar case on his hands. On Thursday last Mrs. Mary Mooney of 1118 Howard street asked for the arrest of her husband, John Mooney, for failing to support his child. According to the Gen- eral it developed later that her chief am- bition was to get rid of her husband, though she was particularly averse to ap- plying for a divorce. “My husbana has done nothing for me for thirteen years,” she said to General McComb, “:n% I want him locked ug for at least twelve months. I tried to get rid of him once by sending him to his old home in Ireland, but his people didn't ;umh him.r He was sent back..lnd as be- ore has refused to do any work. “Why don’t I get a divorce? Well, T suppose I don't care to, but just the same, Iwould like to have him locked up for a time. I believe if this was done he would go to work as soon as he gained his free- om.’ - General McComb is somewhat perplexed over the peculiar case, but said yesterday that he would probably swear to a warrant for the arrest of the husband on a charge of failure to provide and drunkenness. YOUNG GIRL MISSING. Lulu Marquardt of Benicls, Visiting ¥riends Here, Suddenly Dis- appea: James A. Malone, a deputy Shenff of Benicia, is in the City searching for 15- year-old Lulu Marquardt. He has in- terested General McComb in the case, and now a double quest is being made for the missing girl. Six weeks ago Lulu Marquardt left her home in Benicia on a few days’ visit to iriends in this City. Atthe expiration of the allotted time she failed to returnthome, and inquiry developed the fact thatshe had not been seen py the friends with whom she was supposed to be stopping. For some reason no regular search was in- stituted until yeslert‘fay, when Deputy Sheriff Malone arrived. The missing girl is said to be very pretty, though her beauty isof a very peculiar type. She is described as having very light hair, an olive complexion ana very dark eyes. Mrs. Marquardt is a well-known lady of Benicia. She fears that her daughter has been induced to follow an evil life. wBLINGUM" AFTER GLORY Will Meet Riverside Polo Cracks for the Coast Champion- ship. Swelldom Has an Excellent Team to Oppose the Englishmen of Southern California. What is virtually the polo championship of the Pacific Coast, although not so called, will be deciaed on the 7th and 9th of May, when the heretofore invincible Riverside team of Southern California will again meet the cracks of the Burlingame Club and try to defend the laurels captured from northern swelldom last year. The first game is to be played at San Jose during the Santa Clara County Car- nival of Roses. The managers of the flower fete have made arrangements for the match on the 7th and will pay the traveling expenses of the team from the south, the members of which are the same men who distinguished themselyes in the brilliant contest of last spring, when the score stooa 10 to 7 against Burlingame. Bettner, the star player in that contest, was formerly a resident of Boston, but like his fellow-players, all of whom are English- men, he has been in Riverside for the last five or six years defending season after season the championship of Southern California against the polo team of Santa Monica. The two Maud brothers, Bettner and Waring are the men who will ride for Riverside. The Burlingame Club has six excellent players to choose a team of four from this year, They are Lawson, Baldwin, Hobart, the two Tobins and McCreary. It is the present intention to arrange things so that each of these men may play in at least one of the two matches. Joe Tobin will not play in the match at San Jose, but will content himself with defending his ciub on their own grounds, for the second game isto be played at Burlingame. He said vesterday that the Burlingame team is playing better and harder this season than ever before, and that there are more and better pole ponies for the men to choose from; and as a result, he looked for a very close contest with no advantage now for either side. The rain will benefit rather than injure the polo fields, a spongy, green field being just what the riders want to prevent in- jury to their fleet-footed little horses. It is probable that another polo contest will come off at Burlingame a little later in the season, between the Fourth Cavalry, stationed at Walla Walla, Wash., and the Burlingame team. These two clubs met last year and the visitors from the north were easily defeated. Polo is as yet a new game to Califor- nians, but for those who have once seen a good match the sport has all the intensely exciting features of a closely contested in- tercollegiate football game; and the thou- sands here that have in the last few years learned to appreciate what that means, will know what a royal sport is being rap- idly developed so near home, and bya team that stands an excellent chance of being hailed as the champions of the Pa- cific Coast. HEAVIEST RAINFALL. Official Records Show That the Grate- ful Downpour Was General Throughout the State. According to the Weather Bureau rain- fall for the past twenty-four hours was as follows: Los Angeles .1 inch. San Luis Obispo 1.8 inches, Fresno 1.6 inches, San Francisco 1.88 inches, Red Bluff 0.93 inches. Showery conditions still continue and various showers, it is considered, will oc- cur northward to-day. The heaviest rain fell in Salinas and San Joaquin counties, doing great good as it was much needed. Snow was liberally precipitated in the mountainous districts glving great satis- faction to miners as they had anticipated a lack of water during the coming sum- mer, The storm w and complete from Los Ang as one of the most general of the season, extending ngeles north through Oregon and Washington and eastward into Nevada. Allthe rivers are rising, but no extent to inflict damage. ©" # foan age. ————— MAYOR SUTRO ASKS DELAY. Wants the Pesthouse Matter Deferred Until His Return From His Vacation. Whe{: Mayor Sutro asked the Board of Supervisors for his sixty days’ leave of ab- sence he had apparently forgotten that the Pesthouse matter was about to come up hefore the board, and to insure that the subject would not be decided before his return, he addressed the following letter, through his secretary, to each member of the Board of Supervisors yesterday : My Dear Sir: The Hon. Adolph Sutro has directed me to express to you his gratification at the compliment that the board 78 him in courteously granting his request for leave of absence for & much needed rest. wlix‘; 1‘3‘:‘11- ctg;:lshe interests of the Cif wi}ll e 1ox-mhembm. leration from yo i s he goes simply for recreation it would relieve his mind from anxiety if he carry the consciousness that during his ce the board would kindly postpone action on the Pesthouse until his return. . He does not tnink the public health will be JeDPll’dl‘Bd by such delay, and hopes that you ill find it consistent wiy your sense of duty CTVis, j by hi greatl shoul uch a course on your part would be m&a’rechud as a personal favor. Very g 8 Sap Or to grant nis request for non- respec . TAYLOR ROGERS. ALL THE CLUBS TO UNITE, { Consolidation of All the Improve- ment Organizations in the City. FIRST MEETING NEXT MONTH. Work Commenced on Folsom Street. Outside Sections Demanding Nezded Improvements. The consolidation of all the improve- ment clubs in the City seems to be an es- tablished fact, and tHe 6th of May is the date set for the first meeting of all the delegates, when the permanent organiza- tion will be formed. It is expected that each improvement club in the City will send a full representa- tion to this meeting, and that a central body will thus be organized that will have great weight in the matter of public im- provements all over the City. Since the Mission district made its exist- ence known to the outside world through its improvement clubs, streets heratofore only known to the City at large on the offi- cial map have loomed into actual reality and are beginning to ask through their residents a share of attention and a divi- sion of the distribution of the expenditure of the puablic funds for improvements. Since the Supervisors stretched a trestle bridge across the railroad cut at Charles street with its intersection at French street leading into Mission road on the south side of the cut, Miguel street now desires to be similarly honored by having a street bridge span the railroad crossing at its intersection with 7Thirty-fourth, two blocks further southwest of Charles- street bridge and leading directly into Chenery street, where the San Francisco and Ban Mateo electric ruus. This bridge, if built, would enable teams and pedes- trians to travel directly to and from Col- lege Hill and Fairmount without the danger of being ground to pieces by the trains which pass there at all hours of the day and night. The Charles-street bridge in its present position is almost useless in consequence of that street not being graded through into Chenery street on the north side of the bridge. Again the street being only thirty feet in width is practically unfit for general traffic. To remedy this evil the property-owners are considering the ad- visability of deeding thirty feet to the citv, waich will make the street sixty feet wide. To accomplish all these intended im- provements in the Eleventh Ward, as well as many others, is the end and aim of the Generai Club lately organized in that sec- tion. And if the organization does not realize the highest plans that will not be the fault of the members of the executive committee, A meeting of the park and boulevard committee of the Mission Improvement Union was held at 609 Dolores street Tues- day evening, April 21. Georze Walcom, D. A. Hulse, Daniel Kelly, J. H. Grady, J. D. Daly and F. W. Van Reynegom were resent. The committee appointed Judge Van Reynegom chairman and George Walcom secretary. George Walcom and Daniel Kelly were appointed a committce to prepare a petition to present to the properiy-owners of Dolores street and ob- | tain their signatures to have Dolores street converted into a boulevard. During the discussion upon the boule- vard matter 1t was argued in favor of the proposition that as no part of Dolores | street was yet accepted by the City it | would entail no additional expensé to make it a boulevard, but that on the con- | wrary to do so would be an advantage to | the property-owners on the score of| economy. The plan suggested for improving the street contemplates reducing the sidewalks to fifteen feet, to the same width as Va- lencia and Church streats. As the street is 120 feet wide this would leave room to reserve ten feet in the center of the road- and a half inches of bitumen. Thus the boulevard will be an accomplished fact from Sixth to Nineteenth streets in the course of a few months. The gas company is now raising its sup- ply pipes to the IP}-oper street grade from Thirteenth to Fifteenth streets, prepara- tory to the railroad’s and the City Im- provement Company’s work, which will follow without any interruption. Assurance has been given the promoters of this boulsevard that the work from Sixth street to the water front will be done during this year, and in order that the street may have a uniform width from the water to Nineteenth street, Mr, Maguire and his colaborers have issued the follow- ing circular to the property-owners af- fected : The undersigned owners of property fronting on Folsom street between Third and Ninth respeotfully Pytition your honorable board to reduce the sidewalks from 16:6 feet to 15 feet. inorder that the width of the roadwsy and sidewalks may be uniform with that portion of said street between Ninth and Twenty-sixth streets. This change, if acceded to, will, in the end, save the property-owners money, in- asmuch as they will have so many feet less of sidewalk to keepin repair. ‘When the entire street becomes a boule- vard the Supervisors will be asked to sub- stitute electric light for gas, thus having the entire boulevard brilliantly lighted. Even thiy, it is claimed, will be a saving of $5 a block in the expense of lighting that street, 23 one electric lamp at each crossing does away with six gas lights on Folsom street and the streets intersecting. The notoriety and the beneficial results thus far resulting from the consolidation of the Eleventh Ward clubs have acted as an incentive on other sectional clubs, and a movement is now on foot to have a union of clubs all over the City, this union to hold a meeting on or about the 6th of next month, at which representatives from all organized improvement clubs will be invited to attend. WLBER' STRMIGESTOR He Tells It After Being Arrested for Felony-Embezzle- ment. Says Attorney Collier and His Client Threatened Him With a Knife. E. D. Wilber, an advertising agent, was booked at the Central police station yes- terday afternoon on a charge of embezzle- ment. The charge was preferred by Attorney outgrowth in theé refusal of the accused to deliver up a note for $78 in his possession to his former business partner, Frank Clark. The note was made payable to til Clark agreed to secure his interestin the amount named. Wilber’s statement imparts something like a sensational interest in the case. He says he was decoyed to Attorney Collier’s office yesterday afterncon and there in- sulted and in every way provoked for the purpose of getting him to make some vio- lent demonstration. “It was a vile scheme,” he said, while waiting for bail last evening, “and if I live I will have that man Collier debarred from practicing in the courts. He and Clark got me into the former’s office and tried in every way to induce me to fight. Collier flourished a kaife under my chin in a most threatening manner, and I expected to get badly beaten before I could get out of the office. They locked the door as soon as I enterad. ‘““Clark and I were in the advertising business together, and the note for $78 was as much mine as his, at least our interests were identical. I offered to deposit the | full amount of the note as a token of good faith until the difference between us was adjusted, but instead of listening to me he and his lawyer sought to get me in jail on a charge of battery. Failing in that they had me arrested for embezzlement. 1 do not deny baving the note and never did. But you can rest assured I will have Col- lier disbarred.” HAPPILY WEDDED. Miss Xsabel Nash and Portland G. Hunt United in Marriage at the Occidental Hotel. way for planting ornamental trees and provide a driveway of forty feet on each side of the trees. No changes of grade would be necessary, and the continuous | line of trees from Market street to Thir- | tieth would be a striking and attractive | feature of this important and growing | part of the City. Mr. Hulse remarked that if the City could get the cemetery blocks for park Eurpaseu such a boulevard fronting upon the park would be a most appropriate approach to the park, and would increase the value of property all along its line. The secretary was instructed to com- mnnicate with the trustees of the two Jewish Cemetery blocks at the Mission, asking them to appoint a time and place, before May 1, when they would meet a committee of the Improvement Union, consisting of George Walcom, John Grady and Judge Van Reynegom, for conference upon the matter of securing those blocks for park purposes The followirg circular was, on motion of Judge Van Refnegnm, ordered to be printed and circulated among the prop- | dental Hotel Thursday afternoon. Miss Isabel Nash and Portland G. Hunt were married in the parlors of the Occi- The handsome bride is the daughter of James Nash, formerly of Buffalo, N. Y. The groom is well knownin mercantile | and political circles. Rev. Father Flood of Sacred Heart Church officiated at the ceremony. Miss Lizzie Pohley attended the bride as maid of honor and George Dillon acted as best man. At the con- clusion of the ceremony a repast was served in one of the private dining parlors of the hotel. Mr.and Mrs. Hunt left for | Los Angeles and Southern California on | the evening train, and after a short sojodrn there they will return to this City to reside. MISSION PROPERTY-OWNERS. They Wish a Reduction in Rates of Fare on the Streetcar Lines. There was a good attendance at the last | meeting of the Mission Street and Precita erty-owners on Dolores street : JAMES D. PHELAN, President, Phelan Building. F. W. VAN REYNEGOM, Vice-President. 26 Montgomery st. GEORGE WALCOM, Sec’y ana Treas., 404 Sutter st San The undersigned, each side of said strip reserve Name. The Fairmount Club, which has been in existence for some time, has got the park bee in its bonnet and wants a pleasure ground located at Thirtieth and Douglass streets, consisting of eighty acres. This tract of land, it is said, will be donated by Baldwin & Eammond_ if the Supervisors promise to lay it out in a park and beau- tify it. 'fha Folsom-street boulevard, much to the joy of A. B. Maguire, its originator, has assumed a promising sttitude. The Market-street railway combine has its ties and rails strewn along that street, from Sixteenth to Nineteenth, and would have commenced removing the cobbles last Thursday were it not for ihe heavy down- our of rain. But a start will assuredly e made on Monday, when a gang of workmen will commeuce active operation. Once the track is laid, Superintendent J. W, McDonald of the Street Improve- ment Company will follow and remove the cobbles on each side of the railroad’s work and replace themn by a six-inch layer of concrete, over which will be spread two Mission Improvement Union. For theJAdvancement of the Material Interests To the Hon. Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco: on Dolores street, San Francisco, respectfully request your Honorable Board to constitute Dolores street a bou- levard, and to that end to reduce the width of the side- walks on said street fo fifteen feet, and to reserve a strip of ten feet in the center of the roadway for ornamental trees and grass, thus leaving a driveway of forty feet on Address. e e T Valley Property-owners’ Club. After the Collier ot 14 McAllister street and had its | Clark, but Wilber refused to give it up un- | NEW TO-DAY. 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No. Feet. transaction of the routine business the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That the Mission Street and Precita Valley Property-owners' Improvement Olub thenks the San Fraucisco CaLL for backing the Richmond District Improvement Club and other clubs in laboring to secure a reduction of streetcar fares from 5 to 3 cents, including transfers the same. Resolved, That our president, Peter T.Gem- lovich, be appointed & committée of one to so- licit other ciubs to indorse the aforesaid cause of car fare, or any other public improvements, and ]zrueh‘ At them to the authorities and news journal Resolved, That our said president and com- mittee petition the Board of Supervisors to ac- uire the title to the plaza heretofore peti- oned, and which is situated 283}4 feet on south side of Fair avenue, from Mission street to California_avenue, 180 feet on Californis avenue and 177}4 on Mission street. Favor Case Continued. 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