The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1896, Page 9

YARDE-BULLER AND GADESDEN, The Co-Respondent Well Known in San Francisco Society Circles AS A MUSIC TEACHER. He Had a Secret Method for the Production of Pure Tones in Others. THE HERO OF A LOVE ROMANCE. Broke His Leg in Santa Cruz, and Made a Miserable Failure in an Amatecur Entertainment. Valentine Gadesden, the singing teacher who has attained world-wide celebrity by figuring as the co- respondent in the divorce case between the Hon, Mrs. Lellah Yarde-Buller and her hustand, tue Hon. Walter Yarde-Buller, is well known in San Franeisco. The Hon. Walter is the eldest brother of Lord Churchston, head of the Devonshire family. Gadesden came to San Francisco ten years ago and blossomed forth as a teacher of music, he being a tenor robusto and well versed in his art. He was then about 28 or 20 years old—a tall, dark handsome Englishman of elegant manners. Being & graduate of an English university, an ac- complished lingunist and a scholar, and belonging to a very respectable family in England, he had no difficulty in gain- ing admission into the best society in San Francisco and in obtaining all the pupils he wanted at high rates. Like a good many other professional men, he had an idea that he was born to be a financier, although his own financial affairs were in a deploradly tangled con- dition. Creditors used tosing to him from early morn until dewy eve, to the accom- | paniment of fluttering bills,but poor Gades- den had no money. He could never get enough of it together at one time, nor could he keep it long enough to settle all claims ss fast as presented. Money was made to spend, and he spent it, thereby keeping it in circulation. He became indebted recently to Duncan & Co. of London to the extent of $1100, which fact shows that his credit was re- markably good in England. Several let- ters from Mrs. Yarde-Buller's hoy were | forwarded to Gadesden’s care at Duncan | & Co.’soffice, but the Duncans refused to dehver her the letters unless she paid Gadesden’s debt. After consultation with her attorney she gave Duncan & Co. her check for $4100 and got her letters. Then she sued for the re- | covery of the money on the ground that | Duncan & Co. had extorted the check from her by hoiding her son’s letters. The case was tried & few days ago, and she recov- ered judgment for the whole amount. Under cross-examination she said that Gadesden had been staying with her at Churchston court and had continually been in her company since he became her agent. While living in San Francisco Gadesden vrofessed to have discovered a secret pro- | cess for developing the pure tones of the | voice, and so jealously guarded was this | secret that he would never sing in public, lest the public might discover it. He had the key of a piano wareroom in the His- tory building on Market street, and often | at 11 o’clock at night he unlocked the | coor, then locked bimself in and sat for | three or four hours at the piano practicing those divine tones which nobody, not even the janitor, ever heard. Only once did he consent to sing in pub- lic, and that was in an amateur operatic performance gotten up for charity by Signor Rosewald, and sung by society peo- vle. Gadesden was so well known among the upper ten, and curiosity to hear those divine tones cultivated in the piano-room at night was so great, that a jam of fash- ionable people attended. | He proved a flat failure. His singing was horrible, and his acting would have disgraced an amateur supernumerary. “He was worse than a stick,” said a young lady yesterday. “His singing was wretched, and his acting was vile. He had to make love to the heroingof the opera, and he seemed to be so much afraid of her that the audience laughed at him through- out the performance. Wien they sat on the sofa together he was as stiff as a hyp- notized poker. and the heroine was obliged to shift ber position so that she could get up close to him, and remind him of the role be was playing. That was the only time be ever sang here in public, and the public was thankiul he never sang again.” So far as known the English tenor lea a pretty exemplary life while here. He never drank intoxicating liguops and was never mixed up in any lnje affair, al- though there isno doubt that he could have beer had he desired, for he was a handsome fellow, a brilliant conversation- | alist and a first-class athlete and 1ootball plaver. The only occasion in which his riame was coupled in gossip with that of a woman was when he began paying marked attentions to Mrs. Yarde-Buller. Abouta year ago Mrs. Buller occupied luxuriously furnished flats on Sacramento street, be- tween Hyde and Larkin, in this City, and Mr. Gadesden was so frequent a visitor that the peighbors remarked that he all but lived there. Many of his friends placed a charitable construction on his liking for ti e Sacramento-street flats and said that no doubt the tenor was thers in his capacity as Mrs. Yarde-Buller's busi- nes<s agent., When the lady left for England Mr. Gadesden went with her, presumabiy to look after her buginess affairs. He was also interested in some kind of iumber speculation, and that was probably the basis of the debt he owed Duncan & Co. Mrs. Yarde-Buller has two sons by her former husband, 14 to 16 years old, the younger of whom was taken sick, and she left him at Dr. Rosenstirn’s hospital. The other was left here to att end school. The tenor was an intimate friend of Lawyer J. R. Jarboe and family, Mr. Jar- boe finding much to admire in Gadesden’s conversational ability and knowledge of books. He accompanied the family on a summer vacation to Santa Cruz, and while there met with an accident wnich re- sulted in the breaking of one of his legs. He was nursed down there by the family, and a similar episode is treated of ina | the faint dawn of a smile. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1896 Jarboe under the nom de plume of “Thomas H. Brainerd.” _The book created a sensation in society circles pere. Everybody knew Gadesden agxd his peculiarities, and they at once picked out “Ned Harlow,” the hero of the book, as Valentine Gadaesden, the hand- some singing teacher. He is thus men- tioned in the first chapter of the story: Later they heard thathe had gone to Nice, then that he haa entered a conservatory of music, was studying the violin and musi- cal composition, and then that he was going on the stage as a tenore robusto. Jack always said that he would rather hear Ned's voice than any other music in the world. §ociezy buds laughed so heartily over this reference to “Ned’s” voice when they thought of the amateur operatic enter- tainment that the tears made little rabbit paths through the powder that hid the Toses in their cheeks. Then the story went on: Again they heard that his life was sadly changeq, that moody and listless he wandered about the world, trying a little of one thing anda another, but accomplishing nothing, Seeming to have no ambition or aim in life. Ned arrives with Jack, the betrothed of Bessie. Here is what Bessie thought of him He was one of those men whom women in- stinctively adore, and who as instinctively dread the adoration to which they are sub- jected. He was, she felt sure, not a woman lover if he was not a woman-hater. Next morning Jack says to Bessie: ‘“Bessie, it seems almost selfish to thank God for having given you to me. Whathave I done to deserve it? You make or mar us, dear. We are all, all in your hands.” “Oh, Jack, don’t say such dreadful things. You terrify me when you put such responsi- bility upon me. What shall Ido?” “Nothing,” he answered, “it is not what you do, but what you are; dear love.” Then, although he said no more, Bessie thought she knew what it was that had warped out of all usefulness the life of his friend. It was evident that Ned had been crossed in love. Helen’s sister, a grass widow deserted by a worthless husband, appears upon the scene. She finds some pages of an opera written by Ned ana she sat down to the piano and sang it, as women always sing in novels. It had its effect. ‘When she began to sing Ned slowly rose and moved like one enchanted down theroom. He stood behind her, and when the storm was ris- ing and the cry ot the wind was like the wail of lost souls his violin took up the strain and joined in the prayer with its indescribaile pleading. When they reached the end Helen rose and looked at Ned. “You,” shesaid. “Is it you who have made this wonderful, fearful, glorious thing?” 0, he said, looking with eyes of flame into hers. It did not live until to-night.” Ned goes exploring a cave on the beach, falls into a hole and breaks his leg. Heis nursed by Bessie and Jack, just as Gades- den with his broken leg was nursed by his friends in Santa Cruz. Helen before this had become frightened because, on wak- ing from an afternoon siesta in a ham- mock, she had found Ned's eyes fastened upon her with an amorous gaze. Where- upon she packed her Saratogasand skipped away on the overland train. She is, how- ever, badly ‘‘gone” on the handsome tenor. This is what she writes to her sister Bessi O God!can it be that this is what is called temptation, ana that I have dared to despise those who have yielded to it? I kneel before the altar and press the sacred crucifix to my lips, and while my lips repeat the prayer jor forgiveness of sin my wicked heart cries with awful exultation, “he loves me; he loves me.” Bessie, my more than sister, I am iallen, fallen £0 low that I know if I should se2 him I would rush to his arms. What shali Tdo? Where shallIgo? Pray for meand pity me. Then Jack tells Bessie that Ned wasa married man. The story was that he took Alice Graham, a minister’s daughter, out for a row on the lake. A fog came up and he couldn’t find the shore until the fog lifted at daylight. Then he took the girl home weeping. Her father was angry and said that his daughter’s good name was gone forever because of the night ana the fog, and so Ned, to make everythingall right, married the girl then and there. Then he gave the old man “a note for £100” for Alice’s ex- penses until he should be heard from again, and without a word or look for the bride be leit the house and wentto Paris. After Ned’s broken leg got well he went to Milan and saw Helen. Although she loved him she treated him coldly because her husband was living, and she beinga Catholic could not be divorced. So Ned departed with a bee in his ear and Helen went to a nunnery. Finally Ned meets Alice, his wife, and this is what occurs: She was indeed “fair as the moon, bright as the sun,” but also ‘“‘terrible as an army with banners.” Presently about her mouth there quivered She came forward and put her hand into his. He bowed low as he took it, saying, “I nope you are quite well.” That is as stiff and as uninteresting as was Tenor Gadesden’s acting and singing in the amateur operatic performance in San Francisco. Soon afterward and in the last chapter he sings his love to Alice, and the novel ends in rapture and in rhapsody as follows: His eyes were fixed on her, and when the last sound ceased she turned and met his gaze with all her texnder soul in ner face. Asthe strong waves ol the sea rush to the shore, so his love surged out to meet the sweet, dear passion in her eyes, ana he knew that tke old heaven and earth had passed away and that all things had become new. Bome San Franciscans doubt that Ned Harlow of the novel and Valentine Gades- den are the same person, because the novel makes Ned Harlow 2 fine singer. But they | should remember that there is such a thing as poetic license. HOW ENGLAND IS FED. Most of the Necessaries of Life Are Imported. In 1894, with only & trifle over 1,900,000 acres under wheat, England produced 7,390,000 quarters at home, importing 16,- 310,000 quarters of wheat grain, besides 19,130,000 hundredweight of flour—that is to say, a total of 21,000,000 quarters, aliow- ing for flour. In 1894, then, three out of every four Englismen lived wholly upen foreign bread. In 1895, owing to the tre- menaous reduction of the area under wheat, not one in every five drow his bread from the country. Our daily bread ‘comes to us from abroad; but thisis not the only necessary which we import. Of foodstuffs, which might conceivably be produced in the country, we purchase from- the foreigner nearly half of our meat, nearly £16,500 worth of butter and margarine, £6,070,000 worth of fruit and hops, £5.400,000 worth of cheese, £3,780,000 worth of ezgs, £1,000,- 000 worth of potatoes, £778.000 of poultry, £1,000,000 worth of vegetables. In addition to these there are the various other kinds of colonial produce, of which sugar alone could be grown in England. A small rise in each of these items would inflict in- numerable hardships upon our working population. A great rise would mean staryation. Generations of peacefnl de- velopment have bred in us a belief that England will never be seriously attacked and that the navy may with safety be starved. We forget that a fresh and even more importunate burden than the safe- uarding of our raw material and manu- fnctuns as been laid upon it in the need to watch over our food supplies.—Nine- novel written a short time ago by Mrs. J. teenta Century. WILL BOYCOTT THE BOSS BAKERS, The Bakers' Union De- clares It Has Many - Grievances. TOO YOUNG TO STRIKE. Claim Is Made That the Bread Served to the Public Is Unwholesome. SECRETARY GRASSMAN TALKS. One Grievance Is Found in the Ap- parent Unwarranted Discharge of Men. There is a fight on between the United Bakers’ Union and the Master Bakers’ Protective Association, better known lo- cally as the ‘“Boss” Bakers. At present the struggle isin a kind of embryo state, but Otto-Grassman, secretary of the firsi- named organization, is responsible for the statement that before the week is half ended war, in the shape of a boycott, will be declared. The trouble between the men who mold flour and water and the other essential in- gredients into rolls, doughnuts, lady-fin- gers and delicate pasiry tidbits, and the “‘bosses’” arises from two causes. The first is found in the sanitary condition of the bakeshops, and the second. in the dis- charge within the last week of several union men. Some weeks ago Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald with the assistance of three or four deputies made a tour of all the big bakeries in the City. Many of the places were in a horribly filthy condition from a sanitary point of view. The floors were damp, the air foul-smelling, and the uten- sils employed in mixing the bread and cakes presented anything but attractive appearances. As a result of this unexpected invasion, under the guidance of Mr. Fitzgerald, a complaint, signed by one Rudoiph, was filed with the Board of Heulth, calling at- tention 1o the unhealthy condition of the bakeries. So far as known, however, the health officers have not as yet taken any steps toward remedying the alleged evils and now the men who work for the bosses will endeavor to see what they can do in the premises. The master bakers, of course, heard of all these things, and they at once set to work to learn if possible who it was that had been telling things which they would like very much to remain unknown. Asa partial result of this investigation three or four union bakers were relieved of their situations, among them being a man named Rudolph. No reason was assigned for the summary discharge of the men, but the men themselves claim thatitis due to a belief on the part of the bosses that they caused the exposures to be made by Fitzgerald. At the headquarters of the Bakers’ Union, on Turk street, everything 1s ap- parently very quiet, but for all thata great deal of work 1s being done. “The Bakers' Union is not sufficiently well organized to order a strike,” said Sec- retary Grassman last night, *‘but there is a weapon within our grasp almost as strong, and that is a boycott. We have a committee of four out at work now, and until they make their final report to-mor- row 1 do not care to discuss the situation in all its phases. “I will say, however, that 1f the people only knew how the bread and cake which they eat every day is prepared they would make these things at home. Of course I do not mean to say that al! the boss estab- lishments are in a filthy condition, be- cause there are some which could not be improved on. But there are bakeries, and many of them, whose product I would not eat. The public is much more interested in this fight for purer food than we are. ‘We, of course, look to them to lend their moral support in the boycott which it is our purpose to declare against certain bosses. This is the only way we can bring them to time. ““We have another grievance, but that is of more recent origin. Several of our men have been discharged unjustly—merely because the bosses entertained a sus- picion that they were responsible for the attention of the Board of Health being di- rected toward their establishments. Here isa sample of the justice dealt out to us: Last week one of the bosses, whose name 1 will not reveal at present, discharged a man named Budolph. The boss thought Rudolph was the man who signed the complaint sent to the Board of Health, and without making any inquiry let him go. I predict that when the fight is fin- ally on, there will be & merry and costly battle for some of the bosses.” The master bakers are inclined to treat lightly the threatened boycott. They say the Bakers’ Union is not strong enough to do them any real harm. —_— The Otner Side of the Story. Concerning the forcible dispossession of George D. Shadburne Jr., which created some little sensation on Market street Saturday afternoon, Mr. Shadburne himseli makes the following statement: “I rented an office of Madison & Burke on the 25th day of November, and held undis- uted possession of the place—room 6, 632 arket street—up to the 25th day of April, 1896, when a party by the name of Wilber foreibly took possession of my office. J have the agency of Dr. Pierce’s electrie belts, which 1sold at 632 Market street. I never offered to sell the place to Mr. McKlaughlin, the agent of the S8anden electric belt, and did not try to sell to customers of Mr. McKlaughhin. ONE HAMMER WAS LIGHT Edgren’s Throw Made With a Missle Seven Ounces Under Weight. Best Tosses in the Field-Day Were With Berkeley's Inaccurate Hammer. Soon after the hammer-throw, the last and decisive event in the intercollegiate field day, was ended Saturday evening, several University of California men de- clared that the 16-pound hammer used by Stanford in the preliminary throws had been mysteriounsly carried away by some of the rapidly diminishing crowd before the judges had officially tested its weight, and grave insinuations were raised as to the probable light weight of the missile. It was openly claimed that the referee should award the contest to California on that account. But Referee Elliott had already leit the grounds with the crowd. The University of California hammer, with which Robert Edgren made his great- est throw, that of 136 feet 6 inches, was then weighed on three different scales near the entrance to the park, and much to the chagrin of the Berkeley men was found light. In order to exact weights of the California hammer and Edgren’s own hammer, with which he made the first three throws, the best being 134 feet 7)¢ inches, Professor Magee, the gymnasium instructor of Berkeley, re- quested witnesses to accompany him to a pair of authentic scales in a well-known grocery store cowntown. There the Cali- fornia hammer was carefully weighed and found to be seven ounces light, while Ed- gren’s hammer was four ounces in excess of sixteen pounds. The witnesses were Professor Magee, Carroll, the professional hammer-thrower; Captain Merwin of the University, and'A. B. Rice of THE CALL. The Stanford hammer was subsequently found as expected with the Stanford ap- paracus, gathered up and carted off after the games, It was then weighed in the resence of Referee Elliott and C. W. etherington, the gymnasium instructor of Stanford University, and just balanced at sixteen pounds. So the weights of the hammers have been determined and the suspicion of base trickery among amateur athletes removed. But Edgren's greatest throw, that of 136 feet 6 inches, does not stand as a record. All the last and best throws of each con- testant, however, were made with the light California hammer, so that while none of the performances are authentic the condi- tions were equal all round for the throw- ers. e “THE CALL” RACING GUIDE. To-day's Entries at Bay District Track. Jn reces where the horses have no record at the distance to be run the records at the next nearss t eistance are given. Abbreviations—F., fast; Fa., falr; H., heavy; m., mile; £, furlong; * about. FIRST RACE—Six furlongs; selling, mr | Best T T Inde x. Loa|recora.| Dist. |Lbs|Tic Owner. Pedigree. 108: codlawn stable...|Ben Ali-Ezza i Wildidle-Blue Bonnet 1078 Verano-Experiment. 1067) Day St+r-Laraminta 1072 by Joe Hooker-Lulu Riggs 1053 |Una Que Amo.. | Torso-Littie Flush 1050 |Marble Rock Hennepia stable...|Imp. Eric-Rocket 030 |Irish Chief. .. cee|..|F. Brown & Co.....| Lobgtellow-Babee SECOND RACE—One mile; selling ; inside course. Best Index. Name. (Lbs|record.| Dist. |Lbs|Tk. Owner. Pedigree. 861 |Sleeping Child.. W. D. Randall......|Child of Mist-Erin-go-Bragh (1053)|Tar & Tartar.... |1 AL Morris Hindoo-Bramboletta * (1085) | Charles A P. Archibal John A-Eariy Rose 1079 | Elmer F. 1 Fioodmore siable .. Portland-Fantasia (1074)|Jack Richelien. . C. Hildreth ......| Imp. Great Tom-Envenom 1074 | Monita. 1 M. Schwurt: - |St. Saviour-Nighthawk 1065 |Miss Ruth. A H. Martin Sobrante-Enth (1036) | Joe Terry Burns £ Waterhouse Flambeau-imp. Teardrop 1076 | Navy siue. . G. Rogers. -|Blue Wing-Bay Betty 1059 |San Luis Rey. I.T. Clifton -|Em. Nrfolk-M McCarty’s L 1076 |Capt. Spencer 3. McCullough. ... | Bramble-Daisy Hoey. THIRD RACE—Five furlongs; er-weights: non-winners since October 1, 1895, Bt Index. Name. Lbs| record. Lba| Tk. Pedigree. 070 | Vernon 1311:09 o1|F - [Powhattun-Verna, 1084 |Rapido 181 /1o rec. Cyclone-Nyanza 569 |De Groat. 1o rec. Grover Cleveland-by Kelple 1059 |Rogation. : *|Surinam-Mistletoe 1038 |Bert.. ‘| Asterlix-Haunah & 1085 [Red ‘Wi *|Red Iron-Minnie G 1052 |Rey alta. “{Aka-Fannie D' 921 | Rosalle -{Imp. Mariner-Rosy 1046 |Boraeau: 5 - |Tmap. Mariner-Eufaula FOURTH RACE—One and a quarter miles; five h Best Index. Name. Record| Dist. |Lbs |Tk. Pedigree. 1082 | Ravine........ {no rec. +{ReveilloMena, 1058 | Y angedene . 1o rec. *|Tmp. Greenback-Victoria 947 |Wag... 100 ree. Imp. Wagner-Leonette 1055 no ree. -|imp. Cheviot-Arethusa 1055 1o rec. -| Axgviey Sir Modred 1072 10 rec. Major Ban-Libbertitibbet 1082 10 rec. Springbok-Astoria 1085 |00 rec. Joe Hooker-Oxilla. FIFTH RACE—One-halt mile; maiden two-year-olds. Entrics close at track 9 a. . Monday. SIXTH RACE—Five furlongs; selling; light welter-weignts: non-winners since Octobsr. 1, 1895. Best record. Lbs) Tk. Owner. Pedizree. .| Wici stabte. | Vicl-Lucy Long J. ‘| Hermese: Unkno k! .| Wildidie Nighthawi Jumbo-Tod, selling, ! mzaceca! Dist. |Lbs|Tk. Owners. Pedigree. +...|Burnse Waterhouse| Hanover-Bles, Hegent-cadte "% Tmp. Mariner-Queen Emma Imp. Brutos-by Kelj Pel ne-leg kox&i: Hyder Ali-Namonia Fresno-sister Jim Douglass C. Humphrey....|Imp. Cheviot-imp. Zara Mrs. E. Siarkey. Major Bu-xenl? BEALTY MARKET REVIEW, Business Light Last Week Ow- ing to Unfavorable Weather. AUCTION SALES ANNOUNCED. Pioneer Woolen Mills to Be Sold. Some Large Building Con- : tracts Let. ‘1he unfavorable weather that prevailed Iast week had a rather depressing effect on the real estate market and very little business was transacted in any quarter. Business thus far this spring has been fair. but not as large &s many anticipated. It is doubtful if-there will ever be another opportunity to buy San Francisco real estate at such low prices as it can be had for to-day. Yet in spite of this fact seles are slow, and until there is a general activity felt in all lines of business it is not likely that there will ‘be any yery marked re- vival in the real esiate market. REPAVING MARKET STREET. A prominent real estate dealer in comment- ing upon the efforts peing made to repave Market streetsaid: *This agitation to secure anew and better pavement on Market street is commendable, but it will not, I fear, be pro- ductive of any good unless conducted upon different lines than such movements have in the past. The cost of laying a bituminous pavement from the ferry to Valencia street would, Iem told by contractors, cost in the neighborhood of $300,000. It is generally conceded that it would be foolish to lay a pavement of that kind and at that expense without first putting in a good sewer and con- duit. The latter would cost as much if not more than the pavement. The question is, Ywhere is the money to come from to pey for all It will never do to think of making a tax levy for this purpose in times like these. and there is but onc other way in which such im- provements can be made and paid for, and that is to bond the City. Let the Cycle Board of Trade and the Merchants’ Association urge the passage of the new charter and the bonding of the C“{'o Let their slogan be, ‘Pass the charter and bond the City,” instead of “Repeve Market sireet.”” When they can ac- complish the former, the latter will be the re- sult. Covering the City with placards reading, “Repave Market street,” won’t produce the coin to foot the bill, and the sooner the agita- tion is directed toward (he passing of the char- ter and bonding the City, the sooner will Market street be paved in the befitting manner that the City’s chief thoroughifure should be paved. TAXING MORTGAGES. The question of taxing mortgages is one tnat will be voted upon at the next State election. It is a subject upon which there has been much discussion pro and con, and 1t is 8 matter that will no doubt receive considerable atten- tion from the people at large before the time 10 vote arrives. The April number of the Santa Clara County Real Estate Review, published by Wooster & Whitten, contains thé following paragraph on the subject: The people will soon be called on to vote on a constitutional amendment for or against the mortgage tax. The constitution of 1879 did much to injure the prosperity of the State of California.” What at that time seemed in the eyes of the short-sighted and incompetent con- stitutional delegate to be & cinch on the capi- talist has proven a boomerang. This is true generally when the poorer classes undertake to legislate against capital. Capital must thrive in order_to make any country prosper- ous. Capital is the basis, the pivot around which everything essential in State develop- ment must turn. Laws to encoursge the in. coming of capital promote thriit and happi- ness. Laws against capital have we contrary ef- feet, and money is unjustly and unwisely kept out of the State. If there were no tax on mort- gages the rete of interest would have uni- form basis which would be presamably fixed at 5} to 6 per cent. This would have the ei- fect Of promoting country loans, as the ardu- ous task of keeping account of all the taxes and special assessments in each county and mnmctmlltg would be removed. The money lender would simply look to the collection of his interest as it became due. While the bor- rower, who is usually the resident and who is therefore responsible in his measure for the taxes of his district, who as a lcgislative = factor thereoi helps to regulate the amount of the tax, is the most interested man and_should pay it direct- ly. By so doing he would be a more careful citizen as regards public expenditures, and be- sides he would save at least 1 per cent annu- ally, which is now charged by the loaner “to meet possible extra assessments and contin- gencies.” REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. There were seventy-seven mortgages re- corded last week, aggregating $631,554. The principal ones were: By the Hibernia Saving and Loan Society for one year at 614 per cent, $10,500 on property on the north line of Broadway, 137:6 foet west of Octavia street, 53X137:6: by the same to Elius J. Baldwin for one_year ai 634 per cent, $315,000 o0 property In Sau Francisco and Los Angeles Connty. and i Los Angeles City at 8 per ceni, including in_this City the southeast corner of Powell and Ellis gireets, “east 137:6 to the morthwest line of ar) . southwest to Eddy, west to Pow- ell, north 275 on the northwest line of Mar- ket street, 141:1014 northeast of kddy, northeast 108:10%5. norihwes: 107:8, north 41, west 2517, south to bezinning: on the southwest corner of Webster and Fell, 100x100: on the south iine of Fell, 130 feet west of \Webster, 30x137:6; on the north line of Oak, 25 feet east of Fillmore, X 87:6; on the south line of Californis, 103:1 4 feet west' of Jones, 103:114x187:6. and on the south- east line of S 75 northeast ot by the Security Savings Bauk $60,000 for three yoars at 7 per cent on property in 60-vara block 37 on the southeast corner of Sansowe and Sacramento streets, 185x124, and by the Mutual Savings Bank $80,000 for two years 4t 7 per cent on property at the northeast corier of Battery and Bush streets, 92:6x80. The releases granted last week numbered thitty-six, aggregating $177,793. The larger ones were: By the Hibernia Sayings and Loan Society, to W. W.and Mary L. D'Arce $14.050, 0n propériy on the south line of California street, 81:5 foe east of Webster, 75x137:6; by the same, to A. L. Ban- croft $18,000. on a 1ot at the northwest corner of Pine and Frauklin streets, 68:9x187:8; by Wil liam Kpabe & Co., manufacturing company of Baltimore, to the seme §15,740, on the northwest corner of Pine and Franklin strests, north 68:9, west 110, north 68:9, west 27:6, south 13716, east 187 (same property subsequently transferred from _ A. Bancroft and wife to John A. Wright for the nominal consideration of $1); by the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society to Charles E. and H. P. Livermore, £15,000 on property in Mission blocks 88 and 59, on the southeast corner of Chattanooga and Twenty-first streets, 125x182; on the west line of Dolores, 234 feet south of Twenty-first, 26x125; on the east ine 0f Chatianooga, 156 feet north of “Twenty-second, 26x125; on the west line of Chattanoogs, 182 fuel north of Twenty-second, 26X125: on the east line of Church, 78 feet south of | wenty-first, 26x125; on the southeast corner of Church and Twentieth, south 228, east 280, north 114, west 55, and on the south line of Twentieth, 155 feet west 0f Dolores, 50x114; by the German Savings and Loan rociety toJonn H. and Mary G. Lynch, $28,000 on property on'the northwest line of arket street, 152:154 foet northeast of Golden Gate avenue, noriheast w5, northwest 101:7%4, north 89:03s, west 29:3, south 137:6, ea t 27:11, southeast 59:9, and by the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society to Benji. min F. Norris, 818,000 on properiy on :ho north- west corner of Ellls and Octavia sireets, 58x120. There were ninety-three transfers recorded last week. ° Thirty-three building contracts, the particu. lars of which were published each day in THE CALL, were filed last week, the aggregate being MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. ‘The Torrens system of land transfers is, ac- cording to the newspapers of that city, meet. ing with unbounded success in Chicago. A commission in Ohio that has been at work for the past three years has recently reporied to the Governor of the State a bill “‘to simplify and facilitate the transfer of real estate and he registration of titles.” It embodies all the principles of the Torrens system and it is expected that the bill will be assed by the next Legislature. Efforts are Eeing made to introduce the system in New York Siate, with good prospects of suceess. The system wherever tried seems to give ex. cellent satisfaction and it is not improbable that it will, like that other.reform imported from Australia—the Australian ballot—in due time beccme the law of every State in the Union for transierring real estate titles, In the splendid exhibit of the State’s prod- uets and resources made by the State Board of Trade at 16 Post street, every county in the Btate is represented except San Francisco County, and there are also pamphlets and other printed matter there regarding nearly every section of the State except this. Many strangers and visitors here oiten desire in- formation regarding this City and County, and in order 10 meet this demand the Chamber of Commerce is going to issue & pamphiet that will contain, in concise form, 8 host of vaiu- able information concerning San Francisco. Cotonel Will E. Fisher, the well-known real- estate man, is chairman of the committee hav- ing the matter in charge, and he is now busily engaged compiling the matter. he pamphlet will consist of six or eight pages. It will not contain any advertising matter whatever, but will be devoted to infor- mation concerning the manufacturing and commercial and various other interests of the City. And it will also contain a_ list of the principal points of interest in und about the town. It will be distributed gratis here end in Eastern cities, and will fill a long felt want. Ou the 21st day of May Shainwald, Buckbee & Co. wili offer for salé st auction, without limit or reserve, the Pioneer Woolen Mills Company. The main_parcel consists of five flng-vnn lots bounded b{INorth Point, Beach and Polk streets and Van Ness avenne. On these premises are two four-story brick buildings and one three-story brick building. The mafn structure is 583 feet by 64 feet in size and cost$142,000. The two fifty-varalotsat the northwest corner of Beach' and Polk streets will also be sold at the same time. This isa peremptory sale and it will positively be 80l to the highest bidder. M. Speck & Co. will hold their first auc- tion sale of real estate Wednesday, May 6. The catalogue includes the following g\mpcr'!es: The store and lodging-house 129 Third street, lot 25x77:6; business property on the north- West corner of Guerrero and SixXteenth streets, 80x86, mostly improved; store and lodging- house on the southeast line of Howard street, between Fourth and Fiftb, lot 25x80; three flats on the south line of Fourteenth street, be- tween Mission and Howard, lot 26x75; an eleven-room house on the north line of Clay street, east of Larkin: a Richmond cottage at 219 Sixth avenue, lot 25x120; lot 25x114 and cottage on the north line of Twenty-eighth street, petween Sanchez and Noe; store and flat on lot 25x100 on the southeast corner of Twenty-third and Hampshire streets, the last three named properties sold by order of a building association; lot 28x114, with dwelling and stable, on the northeast corner of Vicks- burg ard Jersey streets; lot 55x100, on the southeast corner of Ridley and Noe streets; lot 25x90 on the south line of Twenty-fourth street, 25 feet east of Sanchez; French flats at 1231 Union street, lot 26x67:6 feet with two fronts; corner tenement property at 108 Lang- tonstreet, lot 25x80 feet. The Bijou Theater building, on the south side of Market street, near Third, is to be torn down to make room for a three-story structure that will cost about $30,000. The front will be of white brick and terra cotta. The lower floor will be arranged for one large store, and it is expected that the upper floors will be used for office purposes. : O’Farrell & Co. will kold an auction sale of about 100 lots on the Excelsior Homestead, being on the line of the Mission-street cars, on the evening of May 25. ] This firm will aiso offer at auction on Mon- day, the 14th of May, a_choice assortment of miscellaneous properties, including resi- dences, investments and business property. Bovee, Toy & Sonntag have recently made the followiug sales: Residence and lot, 100x 109, on the corper of Mission and Eureka streets, $15,000; store and flat on lot on the sontheast line of Howard street, between Fifth and Sixth, $9200; lot, 20x104, and improve- ments, on the east line of Taylor street, 103 ieet north of Geary, $12,900; house and lot, 22:6x59:3, on the south line of Golden Gate avenue, 137:6 west of Hyde, $8250; lot, 69:3x 107, on the east side of Sanchez street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth, $8900: lot, 25x 100, on the north side of California street, 32:6 east of Eleventh avenue, $900; lot on the north side of California, 57:6 east of Eleventh avenue, $900. The same firm has sold 83 acres, at $115 an_acre, or $0545, in lot 92, Mc- Mahan’s ranch, at Winters, and 61 acres in lot 53 ol the semé ranch, at 385 an acre, making 55185, A. M. Speck & Co. sold last week seven tene- ments on the south line of Stevenson street, 100 feet west of Potter, lot 50x100, for $6700, and a lot 27:6x91 and cottage on the west line of Leavenworth street, 50 feet south of Lom- bard, for $3000. Andrew B. McCreery has purchased, through Baldwin & Hammond, for his son, Richard S. MecCreery, the northeast corner of Pine and Octavia streets. The lotis55: 387:6and the improvements consist of four two-story dwell- ings, that rent for $231 per month. The con- sideration was $25,000. The former owner was S. Wenban. . F. von Rhein & Co. are preparing a cata- logue of properties which they will offer at auction next month. % The sales of the property made by Shain- wald, Buckbee & Co. of the estate of C. H. Strybing, deceased, will come up for confirma- tion to-morrow_morning at 10 o’clock before Judge Coffey. Included in the list are the fol- lowing: The Maison Dore property on Kearny street, the property opposite the Occidental Hotel and a four-story brick building on Market street, near First, lot 40x60. It is thought that some advance bids will be made at the time. A mortgage for $30,000 was given iast week by Isabella D. Clark and others to the Mutual | Savings Bank on the lot 92:6x80 at the north- | east corner of Bush and Battery streets. The money is to be used for the construction of a six-story snd tenement brick and stone build- ing ou the premises named, contracts for which were filed last Thursday. I B The Coungressman Shut Up. The last time Conzressman Bailey of Texas was in New York he had business on lower Broadway. As he went down on a_cable-car the conductor shouted out “Houston!” with the pronunciation given to that name in these parts. Bailey looked at a lamp-post. “You mean ‘Hooston,”” said Bailey, “don’t you?”’ The conductor without fooking at him said: *“I know my busi- ness.” ““If part of your business 1s to call out the streets properly,” said Bailey quietly, “then you don’t know it. The street we just passed is not called ‘Howston,’ as you gave it, but ‘Hooston,” for General Sam Houston, the liberator of Texas. If you ever went to Texas and talked about Sam ‘Howston,” you’d be lucky to escape f Iynehing.” “If I went to Texas,”” said the conductor, who was born on Sixth avenue, and who never was farther away from the city than Coney Island, “I'd deserve anything they gave me.”’ » Bailey said nothing, for he did not know the answer to this discourteous sugges- tion.—New York Journal. —————— Thirteen months ago Mrs. Headler Salt, living near Wilkesbarre, Pa., gave birth to | twins, and the other day she became the | in the nigh | in London and Manchester. mother of triplets. She is 35 years old and | bas had fourteen children. | one by one afterward STUBBS RETURNS HOME, Southern Pacific Non- Committal, THE FREIGHT-RATE PROBLEM Action of the Transcontinental Asso- ciation in Declining to Increase Rates May Be Final. J. C. Btubbs, third vice-president of the Southern Pacitic, is back from the East. He arrived last night direct from Chicago, where he attended the meeting of the executive committee of the Transconti- nental Traffic Association last week. Mr. Stubbs was accompanied by his wife, and they were met at the ferries at 8:45 o’clock by a number of friends and several representatives from that department of the great railroad system over which the third vice-president presides—the freight and traffic interests. Much interest is centered about the re- turn of Mr. Stubbs at this time, since it is generaily known that he failed to have the Tranecontinental Association ratify the action of the representatives of the transcontinental raiiroads, who met in Milwaukee three weeks ago, in increasing the rates on all Eastern and Western bound freight. The transcontinental lines are all those having extensions west of the Missouri River. These lines decided on a general increase of freight rates, not only on through business both ways, but on inter- mediate traffic as well. The scheme had already been cooked and was ready to go into effect when the Milwaukee conven- tion washeld. It was attended by the general freight agents and others high in authority on the lines in question. Gen- eral Freight Agent Smurr of the Southern Pacific was _in_attendance as the repre- sentative of hiscompany. Mr. Stubbs was detained at New York, having important business with Mr. Huntington, and was therefore unable to be prescntat the delib- erations. But Mr. Stubbs attended the meeting of the executive committee of the association at Chicago & week azo, and, despite the ei- forts of those on. the board who were anxious to have the schedule of rates fixed at the Milwaukee conference go into effect, the question was postponed and the repre- sentatives of the different transcontinental lines scattered to their respective homes. Mr. Stubbs declined to discuss the situ- ation last night. He said be was very much fatigued after his long journey across the continent and seemed ardently desirous of getting back again tothe bosom of bis family. ‘Did the action of the "executive com- mittee mean an_indefinite postponement of the rate question ?” he was asked. *‘Yes, that is practically what it means,” replied Mr. Stubbs. ““Then. the executive committee flatly refused to indorse the stand taken by the Milwaukee conference?” *‘Well, now, by boy, replied Mr. Stubbs with a pleasant smile and a wave of the hand, let us not discuss that matter to- night. Bressed for further information, Mr. Stubbs excused himself and disappeared English Railroad Tickets. Last year there was issued in the United Kingdom considerably over 911,000,006 of railway tickets, exclusive of season tickets | and workmen’s weekly tickets. It is not easy to realize such a number. 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