The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1896, Page 10

10 BONIFACES SET N BATTLE ARRAY. Master Spirits of the Hos- telries at Sixes and Sevens. MONEY AT THE BOTTOM. Some of the Local Innkeepers Seem Not to Relish Being Assessed. CONSIDERABLE FEELING RIFE. How Funds Were Raised for the Entertainment of Visiting Eastern Hotel Men. Grumblings of discontent are making thémselves audible in the normally con- vinal ranks of the bonifaces. A good old Book, little read and less understood, says “The love of money 1s the root of all evil,” and it would certainly seem as though the tender passion for the dross of earth had something to do with the present misun- derstanding among the hotel men and others who contributed to the §10,600 or so which was raised by subscription for the entertainment of the visiting hostelry keepers. It appears that some months after the Hotel Men’s Association of California and the Southern California Hotel Men’s Union had agreed to unite in a joint in- vitation to the Eastern hotel men a com- mittee of the first-named organization started out collecting funds for defraying the expenses attendant upon a fitting re- ception to their guests. The news that the Easterners had accented the invitation filled the n.indsof local hotel-keepers with visions of well-filled pocketbooks from Boston and New York, and contributions to the fund were many and, in the esti- mation of the donors at least, generous. The committee consisted of S. F. Thorne, president, and R. H. Warfield, secretary of the Hotel Men’s Association, ex-officio; C. Kirkpatrick, manager of the Palace (chairman); K. B. Soule of the Lick House; Charles Montgomery of the Brooklyn; F. S. Douty of the Hotel del Monte and the Tavern of Castle Crag and president of the Pacific Improvement Company; George | P. Snell of the Hotel Vendome, San Jose, and John R. Chace of the Pacific Ocean House and Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Cruz. These gentlemen are business-like and practical. They are also well versed in the artof doing things “in style.” Hence, when they saw that the donations were not pouring in as thev should a list of hotel proprietors and purveyors was prepared, | and opposite each name was placed the sum which it was thought its bearer should contribute. One fine day Mr. Soule sallied forth with his list in his pocket to rake in the shekels which were to warm the cocklesof Eastern bonifacial hearts. But it wasn't all smooth sailing. “What do you want of me?”’ wrathfully inquired J. C. Young of the Russ House. “What do you mean by assessing me for $150? There’s only one assessor that cen tackle me ana he’s paid by the Govern- ment for doing it. I can’t afford $150 any- how, and T won’t pay it.”” | Others besides the genial Young rebelled against thetribute. Gentle Major Hooper, though he subscribed $200, intrenched his patriarchal form behind the Occidental’s battlements and preseryed inviolable silence whenever the matter of payment was broached. Stanton, likewise, of the Baldwin, who had been assessed for $400, drew about him a mantle of impenetrable hauteur when- ever one of the collectors fell foul of him, and numbers more followed the same tactics. Nor did the tradesmen take more kindly to the thing. The wine and spirit mer- chants, to be sure, donated large quantities of liquor for the entertainment of the visitors, but the butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker formed a sort of triple alliance, fiercely defensive in character. Many were the complaints as to the as- sessments, and the collectors began to find life a burden. Still, plenty of money came in where- with to defray immediate expenses, and a tacit agreement was entered into that grumbling and erowling were to be post- voned until after the visitors from the East should have returnea thither. All would have gone well had not demands been pressed for the payment of subscrip- tions. Duns, however, engendered cool- ness, and in some instances heat as well, and the row which was to have been a strictly family affair of a private nature, now threatens to provide a Wild West show for the sight-seeing Yankees. Most of the local hotel men exhibit an infantile ignorance regarding the exist- ence of the tangle. Mr. Kirkpatrick and Mr. Warren, when seen last night at the Palace, were much surprised to learn that aught beside brotherly love reigned among their confreres. “It is really very peculiar,” observed Mr. Warren. ‘“Perhaps there may be some truth in it, but how can Isay? I know nothing about the whole affair, It the report has any foundation it must, at all events, have been greatly exaggerated.” Major Hooper and Mr. Soule were *‘out,” and their subordinates blissfully un- conscious of trouble. Mr. Stanton was found at the Baldwin, but denied all knowledge of the affair when questioned. Mr. Thorne, however, was more communi- cative, “In January, 1893,” he said, “our organi- zation uuited with the Southern California Assaciation in an invitation to the Eastern hotel men. Their last annual meeting took place in New York City during the ensuing May. We sent four delegates to that meeting with our invitation, which was accepted. Some months later I ap- pointed the general entertainment com- mittee, of which I was ex-officio 2 member. and to which the work of recerving and entertaining the visitors was confided, *Of course, the business could not be carried on without money, so the commit- tee started out to collect. The first dona. tion, amounting to $1000, was from the Palace. The Grand gave $200 and the Del Monte §750. Mr. Douty of the Dei Monte thought he had been ascessed a little too high, and at first sent us his check for $350 The committee, however, soon succeeded in convincing him that he ought to act more handsomely, and he planked down the remaining $400 forthwith. It was arranged that the guests should spend two days in the Coronado, the Hotel del Monte and the Palace respectively, and special rates were made for them in all three hotels. Perhaps some of the local hotel men may have imagined that some of the visitors would patronize their establishments, but they seemed as a rule to prefer the Palace. ‘1t was natural that they should desire to stay at the best hotel in the City. This fact was recognized by many members of the association, Charles Montgomery of the American Kxchange, for instance, donating $100 without any expectction that his house would be selected by many if any of the tourists for their head- quarters. *‘At the Palace I prepared accommoda- tions for eighty-five persons, and eighty- four came. As I said, the rates were very much reduced, and a 2-cent stamp would be a liberal estimate of our gains. “As for the money which was collected every cent of it will be accounted for. Our ‘itineraries’ in their dainty bindings of Mexican embossed leatner cost us $2000. Another big item will be the’ hire of the steamer Bay City for the excursion next Tuesday, $475, besides which the boat will have to be well stocked with wines and food. The wines will cost us nothing, but the fooa will, and we cannot surely offer the poorest sort to our visitors. Every- thing costs, and I don’t see how any mem- ber of the association can grumble at being asked to bear his share of the expense.” Others have a different story to tell. They speak in glowing terms of a special car, fitted up with regal magnificence, and with a buffet stored with all that could delight hungry, and particularly thirsty, humanity. In this moving palace the committeemen are said to’have proceeded in state to Barstow, where the glad hand wasextended in welcome to the Easterners. And yet another tale is rife as to a dele- gation which boarded the train at Fresno, and in the most business-like manner im- aginable booked the visitors for the Palace by wholesale without ceremony. Mutter- ings of strife are also giving a tint of azure to the atmosphere which circumscribes the Pleasanton, where it is related that O. M. Brennan, enveloped in sackcloth and seated in ashes, bewails the untimely taking off of five bright golden eagles. “I don’t know anything about the affair,” answered Mr. Young of the Russ House when asked for light upon these interesting rumors. “I don’t want to say anything that I can’t substantiate. All I know is that they came after me for $150, aud I told ’em I wouldn’t pay it. I couldn’t afford it, really. I'm not going to be assessed out of house and home by anybody. Then, when I found hard feel- ings were being generated, T sent a dona- tion of $25 to the entertainment fund, paid up my dues in the association and re- signed my membership in it. *“When I saw that a few men were run- ning the entire affair and trying to run everybody else to boot I made up my mind that the best thing for me to do was to give the whole thing a wide berth.” Meanwhile doubt and distrust are har- rowing up the tender hearts of those whose noble work in life is to provide “food and lodging for man and beast.” STOLE VALDABLE JEWELS The Wright Residence on| Leavenworth Street Broken Into. Three Pseudo Potato Peddlers Seen in the Locality Are Suspected of the Crime. A daring daylight burglary was commit- ted at the residence of G. H. Wright, 420 Leavenworth street, near O’Farrell, on Tuesday, and since then the police have been hunting for the burglars without success. Tuesday morning Mr. Wright left the house, as usual, after breakfast, and Mrs. Wright followed shortly afterward to do some shopping. The servant girl, also, took advantage of the occasion to go out ior a stroll. The house stands back from the street some yards. It is entirely bidden from O’ Farrell street by the large house on the corner, which is built close up to the side- walk. To the south there 1s a high fence with lattice work on top, which almost hides the lower part from the view of peo- vle going north on Leavenworth street from Ellis. Leading to the rear there1sa gateway, through which a carriage could pass. A few minutes after the servant girl left three men, who looked like peddlers, were seen to stop in front of the house. One went up the long flight of steps to the front door, another went to the gateway and the third stood on the sidewalk, aglpnremly on the lookout. he man at the front door rang the bell several times and, receiving no response, he joined his companion who had been trying to open the pateway to the rear, and that was the last seen of the two. ‘When Mrs. Wright returned bome about noon she was surprised to find the rear door open. She hastily went upstairs, and everything was in confusion. The bed- rooms had been thoroughly ransacked. Bureau drawers had been pulled out and their contents emptied on the floors, Her jewelry box bad been broken open,and her diamond rings and other jewel Ty were miseing. The rear door had beeu forced 0] e.nl vith a *“jimmy,” the marks being plain! Mr. Wright wascommunicated with and he hurried home. What annoyed him most of all was that his diamond stuas had been taken out of a dress shirt in his bureau drawer, and the marks of the burglar’s fingers were plainly visible on the front of the shirt where he had been pressing it to extract the studs. Jewelry and other articles to the value of between $300 and $1000 were stolen. Mr. Wright notified police headquarters, and Detectives Gibson and Wren were de- tailed on the case. The detectives yesterday recovered a portion of the stolen property and they Lave got a clew to the burglars. The grobnblhty is they will be arrested at any ime. The utmost secrecy has been maintained by the polite as to the burglary, and a visit to the Wright residence yesterday afternoon was not productive of any in- formation. Tie servant-girl answered the door-bell, and to the inquiry for details of the burg- lary she replied, ‘I guess you're ahead of time; there hasn’t been a burglary here,” xfmd she closed the dooor in the inquirer’s ace. The police are satisfied it is the same gang of pseudo potato peddlers who have committed several daylight burglaries in that geighborhood within the past three months. ———————— Mrs. Veater's Lecture Postponed. On account of the inclement weather, Mrs. Mabel Jenness Venter decided to postpone her lecture until Tuesday afternoon next, at the Columbia Theater, at 3:30 o’clock. M en- ter received over 100 letters from prominent ladies throughout this City and Oakland ask- ing her for some other day. ——— In 1815 the first asylum for deaf and | 1N¢ Handsome and Substantial $25.000 Buil, dumb children was founded in London. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1896. BOY BURGLARS ARRESTED They Broke Into an Empty House and Stole the Lead Pipe. THE RINGLEADER ESCAPES. William Moy and Eimer Thomas Did Not Think They Were Doing Anything Wrong. Numerous complaints have been re- ceived at police headquarters from real estate agents of empty houses in the West- ern Adaition being broken into and the lead viping cut and carried away. The cost of replacing the pipes throughout the houses was considerable, and there was no guarantee that the new piping would not be destroyed and stolen. Special orders were given to the police in the Western Addition to be on the look- out for the men or boys responsible for such willful destruction of property, and the officers kept their eyes and ears open when passing empty houses. Yesterday afternoon Sergeant Blank saw two boys turning into Van Ness ave- nue from Turk street. Each was carrying a well-filled sack and the sergeant’s suspi- cions were aroused. He went after the boysand when they saw him they dropped their burdens and ran. The sergeant pur- pack it. 1t is the only place where I have done anything of the kind. ““I was arrested about four months ago for stealing four pans, but it was proved that another boy did it, and I was dis- charged. At that time I was a cashboy at Samuels’ Lace House, and I did not go back. Idid not like the job anyhow. *‘My father is a bartender in a saloon on Hayes street and we live on Minna street, | between Seventh and Eighth.” % . Detective Reynolds has a zood descrip- tion of McEwen and expects to have him under arrest soon. Two Thievizg Boys. Abe Leipschuetz, 13 years of age, and Emil Holloway, 9 years of age, were sent by Judge Campbell yesterday to the Boys and Girls’ Aid Society for six months. They were arrested on Friday by Police- man Irvine for stealing twenty meal- tickets from the Newsbovs’ restaurant on Powell street. They had been arrested before for petty larceny. Leipschuetz’ parents live at 23 Stockton street and Hol- loway’s at 307 Linden street. T 5 Father Yorke’s Next Lecture. “Man’s Inhumanity to Man” will be the subject of the next lecture of the course under the auspices of the American Women'’s Liberal League, to be given by Father Yorke, at Metro- politan Temple, to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. Owing to the rapid growth of the membership of the league the executive committee secured larger rooms for headquarters and have moved into room 6, Donohoe building, corner of Mar- ket and Taylor streets, where tickets for the rest of the lectures will (ontinue to be sold. Tickets will also be so:d «t 1019 Van Ness avenue. Admission will be 25 cents and re- served seats 50 cents, ————————— Good News for ‘‘Drunks.”” Captain Robinson of the City Prison re- ceived an order yesterday signed by the Police Judges, that persons arrested for ‘“‘simple drunk” on Saturdays should be released on Sunday imornings instead of being kept in prison till Mondey morning. Judge Low con- sulted with Chief Crowley on the subject and the Chief said it should have been done years 8go. 1IMR) William Moy and Fimer Thomas, the Latest Boy Burglars, Arrested Yesterday for Despoiling Vacant Houses of Lead Water Pipe. sued and overtook them after running sev- eral blocks. The sergeant took them back to where they had dropped the sacks, and on open- ing these he discovered they were full or lead pipe. The boys refused to say where they got the pipe. and the sergeant rang for the patrol wagon and had them and the sacks taken to the City Prison. They boys gave their names as William Moy, 16 years of age, and Elmer Thomas, 11 years of age. Deteciive Harry Rey- nolds was detailed on the case, and he had a talk with the boy Thomas, who said he would show bim where the pive was ob- tained. He took the detective to the empty house, 827 Turk street. All the lead pipe leading from sinks, bathrooms and toilet-rooms had been cut and carried away, and water was pouring into the basement and flooding it. The defective turned the water off and went back to the prison with the boy Thomas, who was booked for burglary, along with Moy, his companion. _Thomas is an'innocent-looking boy with big brown eyes. He did not at all realize the fact that he had committed a crime, and spoke freel¥ of what he had done, “It was a big boy called Bess McEwen,” he said, “that got me to go with him and Moy. I go to the Lincoln Grammar School, and two days ago I met McEwen on the street and he said he knew an easy way to make some money. He told me to meet him this morning and he would tell me what to do. *‘I met him and Moy and we went to the house, 827 Turk street. McEwen opened a window and we got inside. Then he cut away all the lead pipe, and we helped him packit into the sacksand take it to a junk- dealer to be sold. McEwen went one way and we went down Van Ness avenue, and the sergeant chased us and caught us, *‘This is the first time I have done any- thing of the kind, and I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong, as the house was empty. “My mother is a dressmaker, and lives at 15 Folsom street. My father is a car- penter, and lives in S8an Bernardino. He 1s separated frcm my mother.” Moy is an intelligent, fine-looking boy. He also blames McEwen for inducing him to go to the house. ‘I didn’t go inside,” said Moy, “till after McEwen had cut all the leadpipe, and then I POTRERD NPROVEMENTS Southern Heights People Imbued With the Spirit of Progress. | Dr. B. L. Wimple's New Business and Residence Block at Napa and Kentucky Streets. By the use of modern machinery and the expenaiture of money with liberality, the Potrero Land and Improvement Com- pany is bringing the Southern Heights into a condition compatible with the heights of modern civilization. Hollows are being filled in, tons of biue rock dis- lodged and dumped into yawning chasms, and the streets put into good condition. The latest architectural ornament in the shape of a substantial building in the district is in the coarse of construction at | the intersection of Kemtucky and Napa streets, on the site where once stood the renowned “King” McManus' headquar- ters. The old house where so many hard political fights took piace was removed some time ago by its owner, E. L. Wimple, who bhad plans drawn for a handsome, two-story building. When finished it will be an ornament to that part of Kentucky street. It will consist of four flats and six stores. The stores will front on both streets. The corner one will be occupied by the owner as a drugstore, with fine residence quarters in the building. A barber-shop, with several bathrooms attached, will be on the side fronting on Napa street, wiich leads directly toward the Union Iron ‘Works and Rollipg-mills The building has a frontage of sixty feet with a depth of a hundred feet, which givesample room for large stores beneath and residence flats overhead. When finished the building will cost 1ts owner $25,000. A few more such structures on the Southern Heights would tend to helped him to | bring that district into prommence. TWO ROADS T0 BE CONSOLIDATED A Move by the Southern Pacific in the Interest of Economy. EFFECT OF THE CHANGE The South Pacific Coast and the Coast Divisions to Be Under One Regime. L. FILLMORE HAS RESIGNED. Superintendent Frazier to Have Charge of the Combined Divisions—No Change in Service. As a maiter of economy, the South Pa- cific Coast Railroad, the narrow-gauge line operated between this City and Santa Cruz, is to be consolidated on June 1 with the coast division, the broad-gauge line which runs from Third and Townsend streets, and which will soon be the route for the through trains between New Or- leans and this City. This is & matter which has been in con- templation for several years past, and was finally decided upon about three weeks ago, when General Manazer Krutschnitt referred the matter to Manager J. A. Fill- more for the arrangement of all the de- tails. The consolidated roads will be under the superintendency of James L. Frazier, the present superintendent of the Coast division, while L. Fillmore, who is the superintendent of the South Pacific Coast, will retire from railroad work after the first of June for good. All the other of- ficials and office employes of the narrow- gauge road will be provided with employ- ment in some other department of the Southern Pacific Company. When General Manager Kruttschnitt was asked about the matter, he said it had been discussed for some time, owing to the falling off in business that had re- sulted from the general commercial and financial depression, and that the move was entirely induced by motives of economy. “Does the consolidation mean any bet- terments, such, for instance, as the con- version of the narrow gauge road into a standard or broad gauge line?”’ was asked. “Not at ail,” responded Mr. Krutt- schnitt. “We shall do nothing in the way of improvements on any of our lines until money becomes easier. Our work will be confined strictly to matters that are absolutely necessary to maintain the efficiency of our service. We do not look for any great improvement in financial matters until afrer the election. So far as the narrow gauge1s concerned its conversion into a standard gange will be an undertaking of great expense. There are four tunnels between here and Santa Cruz, and none of these are wide enough to allow of the laying of broad- gauge tracks nor the passage of broad- gauge cars. One of these is about a mile long and another is about a mile and a quarter. They are all strongly timbered, and to widen them would not only mean the expense of the additional excavation but that of retimbering. I have fo doubt that this work will have to be done, but at present it is impossible to fix the time.”’ For further details regarding the con- solidation the reporter was referred to Manager J. A. Fillmore, who is_enjoying a vacation at Paso Robles. Telephone communication was opened up with Mr. Fillmore and he made the following state- ment: “The consolidation of the roads will be made on June 1. The move is one in the interests of economy and will place both divisions under one management, thus saving the expense of maintaining two sets of officers, books and employes. The resignation of Superintendent L. Fillmore is now in my hands. He intends to retire altogether trom railroading, and the other attaches of the narrow gauge will be taken care of in other branches of our service. The service on these divisions will be in no particular changed. Superintendent Frazier will assume the management of both di 3 3 Recalliug a story published in the Exam- iner the day after Mr. Fillmore left for Paso Robles to the effect that he was seri- ously ill, the gentleman was asked if his health had improved since his sojourn at the springs. To this came the answer wafted over the wire, with a clearly pre- ceptible trace of humor in it: *Well, I bardly know if I have improved any. Bat the day after my arrival I took an eighteen-mile drive about the country, and if [ can only recover my appetite | will feel more hopeful. I only could take two steaks for breaksast this morning,’’ Then came a gurgle of self-satisfied laughter and “‘Say, I wish you'd break the June 1 will go to Wyoming to spend the | summer. | Mr. Fillmore is an uncle of J. A. Fill- more, manager of the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific lines, and has held the position he is now relinquishing since March, 1884. At that time the line was the property of Fair and Flood. It was sold to the Southern Pacific Company some four years later. The beginning of Mr. Fillmore's rail- roading was a contract he had at the age of 21 to grade a section of the Syracuse and Binghamton road in New York State. From there he went to the Delaware, Lack- awanna and Western Railroad in Penn- sylvania, where he remained fifteen years. e began by laying track, and went up through all “the stages from brakeman, conductor, dispatcher to division superin- tendent. During the latter service the Civil War was at its height, and one Sunday night he went to the Methodist church with two | others, and, cutting the sermon short, raised a company of men to go to the de- | fense of the State capital. He was chosen captain, butan imperative order from the railroad president for him to stay at his post and assist’ his country by keeping the road in such condition that it could rush coal forward for the Govern- ment was sufficient to keep him from ever seeing Harrisburg. In 1869 he came West to Laramie. Wryo., and accepted the position of division superintendent on the Union Pacitic from Cheyenne to Ogden. After three years’ service he resigned and went into the cat- tle business, “This he conducted eight years quite su¢cessfully. The last three years he came to San Francisco to spend the summers. The last year just as he was ready to return he | Wwas met by Mr. Davis, who made him the tender of the position he is now leaving. He agreed to take it if allowed until March to settle his Wyoming business, which was agreed to. *I have found,” said he to-night, “that I must give up business or give up my life. My head has bothered me a great deal since my sickness a year ago and L believe it will be good for me to go back to ‘Wyoming this summerand get a complete change of climate.” WATCHING COPYISTS. Auditor Broderick Is Keeping Track of the Employes in County Clerk Curry’s Office. When the copyists in County Clerk Cur- ry's office appear in Auditor Broderick’s office for their warrants for May they will probably be asked some questions which they have not previously been called upon to answer. The law as interpreted by Mr. Curry says that he may employ three copyists for each of the Superior Courts, making thirty-six in all, and that they shall be paid for the actual time engaged in copy- ing at the rate of $3 per day. Auditor Broderick for the past two or three months has been auditing bills for each of the thirty-six men which Mr. Curry keeps on the payroll at the rate of $73 each per month, or the full twenty-six working days of each month. While not having any definite information that the men are not working full time Mr. Broderick wishes to be convinced that they are, and will ask that Mr. Curry certify under oath, as is required from_other municipal offi- cers, that the employes have earned the amount of money they demand. e ‘Weather and the Chutes. The weather and the chutes had a lively contest during the week and the weather by far got the best of it, it being neceseary to close the popular Jleasure grounds five days out of the six. his afternoon if tbe rain does not come down in torrents and the wind is not too high, ie Viola. the daring lMttle aeronaut, will make a balloon ascension and parachute drop dressed in a bloomer costume. Though but a girl of 17 she does not seem to know what fear is, and & year ago yesterday when her balloou caught fire in Gympie, Queensland, and burned until she reachied an altitude of 3000 feet when she cut loose and landed safely, she was the only seli-possessed person within a radius of ten miles. The chutes will be opened at 10 o’clock this morning and will not be closed until 11 at night. Three Up-=to=-D NEW TO ate Garm 7= ents. we've nundreds of other stvles just as new and correct as these are. Only the latest and best here—at the iargest exclusive Cloak and Suit hcuse on the Pacific Coast. 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OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FrANCISCO CALL,| 908 Broadway, April 25. } Luther Fillmore, superintendent of the South Pacific Coast Railway, has resigned his position owing to ill healtn, and about ding Now B:ing Erceted by Dr. E. L. We nple at the Corner of Kentucky and Napa ¢ticets in the Southcra Heights Liirc . . Gloves, Housefurnishing Goods, GRAND SPECIAL SALE! Best of All the Bargains Will Be Sold in This Relay. To Be Sold at 50c on the Dollar ——CONSISTING OF—— T0YS, FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, TOILET ARTICLES, Stationery, Fans, Albums, Purses, Bags, Soaps, Perfumery, Platedware, Clocks, Jewelry, Watches, Handkerchiefs, Hosiery, Men’s Furnishings, Hats, Trunks, Valises Doils, Baby Carriages, Vases, : Flower Pots, Etc. DAVIS BROS., 718 Market Street.