The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 2, 1896, Page 8

8 FRANC CO DAGGETT REACHES FOR STATE POWER, He Wants to Control the - New State Central Committee. MAKING COMBINATIONS. The Buckleyites Are After the New Junta Campaign Committee. SWELLING THEIR ENROLLMENT Joseph P. Kelly Begins His Blackthorn Campaijgn for ‘a Congressional Nomination. John Daggett “is ‘reaching out for the next Democratic State Central Committee. He wants as.much power in that com- mittee as he.can possibly gain and to that -'end is himself, and through his lieuten- | ants, things about finding how some and endeavoring to make stan combinations -by. which he may coatrol | the action of a8 many as possible of the local Junta Assembly District delegations to the State Convention when they come to.name their appointments of State Cen- tral Committeemen. Daggett wants- to be a commanding power in ‘Democratic ‘State politics. He also looks as much as ever for all the local power hecan get in partnership with Sam | Rainey. Since the Rainey-Daggett faction of the Junta was beaten .out -at the last meeting | Committee and- absolute | 's_vested 1n a campaign b Chairman- Sullivan has ng to save-as of - the. General much-&s po Daggett is kicking hard on'the inside of Junta affairs. He insists .on " being recog- nized. ~‘The eternal - friction that has marked: ‘the course. of Junta affairs| keeps-up. { Any power that Daggett may get in the State .Central Committee will, of course, become -part of the power of the political | firm of Rainey and Daggett. ‘Sam Rainey | has not returnied from Southern California | vet, but_he wiil be back in good time and | his activity will begin as'soon as.the State | Convention is over. Colonel Sullivan’s campaigni_committee | has not met yet.- It has merely been the | subject of busy ‘anal among Demo- cratic politicians, bie pulls on the twenty members z studied up by those. who_need the committee. The will-nieet next week and do somet.‘ing about the:primaries it will hold as’its- method of appointing delegates to ;| the State”convention.. McNab, Sullivan and Lanigan bave not decided just what the committee shall do. The appointment of the campaizn com- mittee, with absolute power, provides the path by which the compromise. with the | Buckleyites after the State Convention is | sure to be reached. - The Buckleyites are | after the committee now. They need eleven of its members and expect to get them—that -is, get them for the compro- | mise amalgamation they will persistently | seek. Nothing will, of course, be really | done in this line until after the State Con- vention. There -are individual members who are | Anditing committee—Charles W. Pope, H. J. Donovan, James Ivory. Registration committee—James J, Flynn, M. | J. Kelly, M. G. Sears, James Meagher, George | McElroy Resolution committee—F, J. Fallor, R. B. | ;I-E“’)'. A. M. Armstrong, Peter Garrity, Stephen Potter. | XNaturalization committee—Edward J. Rey- | nolds, Patrick H. Shanly, P. J. McElroy, R. C. | Scott, Edward McNamura. | W. W. Foote is -out as a candidate as | delegate at large to the National Conven- | tion.” E. B. Pond would like to go in the | same way, it is understood, and George T. | Marye would not mind representing the Fourth District. { Joseph P. Kelly has now fully launched |-his campaign for the Democraiic nomina- | tion for Congress from the Fifth District. | He is shoving out the blackthorn canes, | of which he brought back quite a cargo | from Ireland a few months ago. The one he gave Buckley is a ““lalla,” the boys say. 1t has three little vines twining among | the thorns and is ornately jeweled. The | one bestowed on Boss James H. O'Brien | isn’t, of course, in it with Buckley’s, but it his a pretty silver shamrock leaf to | help out its beauty. Tne district bosses | get just plain blackthorns, 3 LABOR BUREAU WANTED | Eabor - GommiEnionar ik perata Ha- ceives a Letter From the Sacramento Federated Trades. Labor Commissioner ritzgerald has re- ceived the followingletter from Sacramento | showing the increasing recognition of a | State labor bureau’s importance: | _E. L. Fitzgerald Esq., Labor Commissioner— i DEar S1r: We wish to call your attention to the fact that this city is a great labor center | and that there are meny deserving men and | women out of employment who are unable to | pay the fee demanded by employment agents. \ This council 1s desirous of establishing a free | employment bureau and has the matter under | consideration by the Board of Trustees of Sac- | ramento. While the board appears to favor the propo- sition_the members entertsin different ideas as to the method of establishing it. There is some talk of putting the bureau in the hands | of the Salvation Army, but our council objects to this method. We would like to know if you can appoint & | deputy to reside here and attend to labor mat- ters in general. Have you the funds to pay & deputy here, or, if not, what amount can you afford for this purpose? We can furnish an office rent free during the daytime. We believe that with the ald of your office | we can_establish a free employment bureau, and through a resident deputy great good can be accomplished. | We askasa special favor that you send a reply to this at once, as our reguiar meeting nd the meeting of the board of trustees ison | Monday, May 4. Very respectfully you: FRANK COOKE, Secretary Federated Trades Council. “T will advise the Sacramento Trades Council,” said Mr. Fitzgerald, “to wait until they can have a bureau with the right fund and authority. I thoroughly appreciate the fact that Sacramento should have a bureau, but we have not a dollar to spare for founding or maintaining such an insttutio GUSTAVUS SPEAR DEAD. m i he Well-Known Auctioneer Succumbs to a Tumor on the Brain. Cime to California When a Mere Boy. Was a Member of Many Secret Orders, Gustavus Langford Spear, for many years a member of the well-known auction firm of Edward Spear & Co. of this City, died Thursday night at Santa Rosa, and to-morrow aiternoon the funeral services wiil be held here with all the observances of the Masonic order, of which he wasa prominent member. Mr. Spear was born in Boston, Mass., April 24, 1849, and at the age of 14 came to this State, which he made his permanent home. In later years- he lived at 1715 Broadway, still the family residence. A vear ago he moved to Santa Rosa in THE LATE GUSTAVUS L. SPEAR, now.counted “as -sure. for a compromise when.the time comes; Nobody doubts that - Ed Lanigah, with h will reject any bargain:.that seems to his political advantage. Colone! Sullivan him- self is acandidate for Sheriff and not many believe that he will.figure on.winning on a ticket fought by a majority.of his party. M: C. Hassett wants 10 be Superior Judge and most of the Junta leaders are looking for political jobs. The wisdom of reco, nizing ‘the.existence of the bulk of the party is generally connted-on. ls~bex_n§ ‘something. which the Junta bosses wil - clearly perceive when -the - right. time comes. ST s The question of how the fierce contest’ between the Junta and the Buckleyites will come out at Sacramento will not get much light’ thrown on- it until the dele- gates beein to .beannounced through the State. The Buckleyites are quietly doing all sorts of missionary work™ through the State, and they will get their work in on the delegates as fast as they are chosen. The Buckleyites are going busily.and confidently niead. Their additional en- rollment in the districts.will end to- night, and will add about 2000 names to the 11,806 row on the rolis.of the Buckley faction.* The enrollment on Wednesday evening in the eighteen districts was 581, that of Thursday night was 501, and there was acorresponding enrollment last night. Delegates to the State Convention will be nominated on the 16th inst. and the pri- mary will be held on the 28th. Joseph Rothschild, chairman of the Buckiey general committee, bas announced the following committees: Finance commitiee—sfaurice Schmidt, John MeCarthy, James C. Nealon, Thomas Ashworth, T.J, Ford, Sam Newman, William Clack. our orfive votes, | search of health. His death was not un- expected, as he had been long. ailing, the fatal complaint- being an ante-cranal tumor. . 2 To those best acquainted with him Mr. Spear. was esteemed asa man of fascinat- ing personality and quiet, kindly disposi- tion. . 5 | _He was a_past master | Lodge No. 1, F. and A. M.; a_member of California Chapter No. 5, Royal Arch - Masons; - 8 member of- Golden Gate Com- mandery No. 16, - Knights' Templar; a member of ‘Islam Temple, A. A. d’ M. 8., and-a member of the Grangd Consistory of California, a tnirty-second degree Mason. In'1895 he was elected a knight commander of the Court of Honor. 2 - A widow and three children survive him., The funeral will be from the Masonic Temple at 1:30 P. ., and the interment will take place in the family plat in the Masonic Cemetery, 3 f Califarnia . ‘Wus Not Robbed. When N. Diers, saloon-keeper at Fifth and Folsom streets, woke up yesterday morning -he discovered he had made a mistake. The prev- ious evening he hed charged an umknown woman with having robbed him of his jewelry at Carr’s saloon, on McAlister and Larkin streets. He recalled, however, that he bad left his watch and other valuables at an. other saloon, where herecovered them. He hastened to withdraw his charge and to apologize to the keeper of the maligned saloon. e Ix addition to the large line of ready-framed Pictures closing out at half price we have manquw Pictures in the sheet coming in and new Moldings; beautiful designs for framin; at moderate prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 74; Marketstreet. = THE ACCUSED STRANGLER Says He Was Accosted by the Negress on Kearny Street. DENIES TOUCHING HER THROAT He Was Held by Judge Campbell as Louis Pritchard for Vagrancy. Louis Pritchard, alias John Lewis, the alleged strangler, is Prichard the vagrant. It was by ruling of Judge Campbell that the charge against him was transformed | to the low oifense. When Pritchard appeared in Judge | Campbell’s court yesterday morning to ve ‘arraigned on a charge of attempting to strangle a woman of the half-world he in- formed the court that he had been out of | work for several weeks and that he did no | choking. i This statement of the prisoner, in the ! now plain Louis | zen of the State is interested in_and will be benelited by the success of our efforts, we feel satisfied it 1s but necessary to call your atteq- tion to this matter to have our request granted. Yours very truly, L. R, MEAD, Secretary. e S FIREWORES TO-NIGHT. Weather Permitting, the Chutes Will Look Like Daylight. The wind was so high at the chutes yes- terday afternoon' that it was impossible to inflate the balloon, and after an hour’s ull of hot smoke, was flopped on its siae, and an apology was made to the large audience assembled. To-night, it it does not rain, there will be a grand display of fireworks at the Haight-street grounds, Some of the piro- technic novelties will be a kicking dorkey, a reproduction of the Niagara Falls anda couple of luminous trolley-trippers. The exhibition wiil begin at a quarter past9, and will last for h: %‘f an hour. - ————————— Charter Mass Meeting. This evening F. W. Dohrmann, president, end J. Richard Freud, secretary of the Mer- chants' Assoclation, will address the citizens of the Mission upon the new charter. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Mission Improvement Association at its hall, corner Twentieth and Guerrero streets. The main provisions of the charter will be ex- plained aud the results that will follow its adoption will be made cl ———————— Minister Willis Improving. Hon. Albert 8. Willis, United States Minister to Hawali, who arrived here overa week ago and has since been sick because of & severe cold which resulted in a touch of fineumonh, was much improved yesterday. He wasable tosit up for & time and wes quite cheerful, LEWIS PRITCHARD, ALIAS JOHN LEWIS, face of the Morris woman'’s assertion, cor- | roborated by that of Policeman Robl, to the effect that she had been choked and threatened with death, satisfied the Judge, | apparently, and he held the supposed | strangler for vagrancy. Isabella Morris, the complaining wit- | ness, is nearly 1f not quite a full-blooded negress. In her story in court yesterday morning she adhered to her first state- ment that Lewis, alias Pritchard, at- tempted to throttle her and also threat- ened to choke her to death, as he declared he had done with several women of her class within the last five months. The arresting officer, F. Robl, also overheard the dire threat ascribed to the prisoner. Pritchard denied emphatically tkat he had touched the negress near the throat. He said: ‘“When was walking down | Kearny street early this morning I met | the woman near the entrance to Merchant | street. She called to me. I had been drinking beer ana took up with the invi- tation to walk with her. After walking | half-way down the street (Merchant | street) she said she was going to the drug- | store to get some medicine and asked it [ had any money. “I said, as best I can remember, that there was nothing said about money when I met her. We then got to talkingand I noticed a big nigger standing on the oppo- site side of the street. I had no soouer seen him than he started toward us. thought he was most, iikely the woman's friend, and feared trouble. I took the woman by the arm rather roughly, per- haps, and she fell on the steps leading to an upper floor along there somewheres. She ‘hollered_blue muder,’ and the next I knew an officer was onto me. He took me and the woman, but for some reason did not look after the other man. “I am a peddler by trade and have worked in the Pacific Rolling-mills and also in Oakland. The last work Idid was on the Mount Tamalpais Railway. I have been broke for some time and when I was arrested I had just 10 cents in my pocket. “I must have been very much under the influence of liquor, because I faiied to rec- ognize the woman when she went on the stand to testify against me this morning.” It waslearned during the afternoon that Judge Campbell’s act in holding Pritchard for vagrancy was in_compliance with the request of Detective Bohen. t is evident that the case is considered serious by Captain Lees, but the evidence is not strong enough so far to warranta vigorous prosecution, hence the holding of the alleged strangler for. vagrancy -until the detectives can look up his record. CALIFORNIA TOBACCO. The Marufacturers’ and Producers’ As- sociation Asks the Prison Directors tu Patronize Home Industry. The fuilowing communication was for- warded yesterday to each member of the State Board of Prison Directors by the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion, asking that California tobacco be supplied to the prisoners in the State prisons: May 1. 1896, Hon. R. M. Fitzgerald, President State Board of Prison Directors, 8544 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. DEAR SIR: We are advised that it has been the custom of the Board of State Prison Directors in the past to award contracts for the supply of plug and cut tobacco to houses or firms that in 1illing their contracts have supplied the San Quentin and Folsom State prisons with tobacco manufactured by convict labor in the Eastern and Southern States. 3 We wouid state that we have in Caiifornia numerous tobacco manufacturers who import the leaf tobacco from the South and make it into plug and cut tobacco in this State, thereby giving employient to a great many people,: and in their business use boxes, labels, etc., made by other California mechanics. Itisa well- known fact that free labor cannot compete with conviet labor, and in giving orders for tobacco from Southern or Eastern prisous citizens of this State are deprived of empioy- ment and our manufacturers of business that l{iey are entitled to receive from State institu- tions, 3 are advised that a schedule for sup- El s for the State prisous for the coming vear ave not yet been printed, but will be placed in the hands of the State Printer in a few days, on behalf of the manufecturers and produces of Culifornia, we ask that a clause be printed at the foot of each schedule, as follows: *‘No goods will be accepted that are made by convict labor outside of the State of California. Preference will be given to goods manufac- tured in Californis, price and quality to be cousidered.” The object of the Manufacturers’ and Pro- ducers’ Association of California is to foster and encourage the manufacture and consump- tien of California“products. and as every citi e and both he and his friends think he will now soon be able to be out. There has been much interest in Mr. Willis’ condition since his sick- ness was announced. FORESTERS OF AMERICA, Programme for the Week of the Grand Court at Wat- sonville. Reception, Parade, Business Sessions of the Grand Body, Concert and Ball. The California Grand Court of the Foresters of America will be in session in ‘Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, during the week commencing next Monda; The people of that city have made great pre- parations for the event, and the following | programme bLas been arranged for the week: Monday evening, May 4—Reception at depot; | housing delegates; concert on the plazaat§ the Watsonville City band. ay, May 5—Grand Court se A.M.; parade forms at 1 P. )., shar] on the plaza. The following is the order of the parade: First division will form on Main street, right resting north of First strect, opposite the Lewis | House. Chief of Police and force Grand marshal—William M. White. Chief aids—P. J. Thompson, Lawrence Struve Watsonville City band, Marshal to drill corps, W. F. D.—Bergeant O. 8. Tuttle. Watsonville Drill Corps, W. F. D.—Colonel J. Koster, commander; J. T. Stone, first sergeant. Wetsonville Fire- Department. £econd division will'form on Maple avenue, right resting on Main street. arshal—J. L. Mathews of Salinas, Alds—Herman Werner, George Riley and John Thompson. Pajaro Valley Band. Monterey County delegation of Foresters. Visiting delegates. . Fraternal societies of Watsonville. Third division will form on north side of Third street, rightresting on Main street. Marshel—Frank Mattison of Santa Cruz. ames Struve, Dave Clough and Peter |~ Santa Cruz City Band. Visiting courts. ‘fioun Pajaro Valley Rose No. 44 cf Watson- ville. Grand officers in c-rrhfu. 2 Mayor and City Council in carriages. : Grand Court committee of arrangements carringe. 3 Officers of the day, R. P. Quinn (chairman) and . C. Rodgers (president) in carrisge. - Companions of the Forest in carriages. Citizens in carriages. on at 10 exercises countermarch down Main to Front, down Front. to Rodrigues, up Rodriguez 10 First; down First to Main, up Main to Third, out Third to Marchant, doivn Marchant to Maple avenue, down Maple avenue to Main street, up Main o the plaza. The following exercises will be held at the plaza: L5 Music by Watsonville City Band. Introduction, Chairman R. P. Quinn, Presi- dent 8. C. Rodgers. Address of welcome and presentation of the key of the city by.Mayor A. B. Chalmers. - Musie by the band. . The programme for the rest of the week is as follows: Tuesday evening May 5—A grand public en- tertainment - at the Opera-house; the pro- ramme is under the direction of J. A. McCal- um and is as follows: Overture, “Ocean to Ocean,” band; male quartet, ‘*Arion Waltz,” Arion D.; remarks, Grand Chief Ranger Orfila; com wnf‘. It ther MeCal- Will Be Mine Bye and Bye,” Bfo Jum; recitation, * Naughty Zell,” Miss Meme Brockway; vocal solo, Mrs. J. Burbeck ; original sketeh, “ A Fellow Affliction,” Lot Goldie, & onville girl, Mis Charlie Grey, a Forester del McCallum. Pl Watsonville; time, one week after Grand Court meeting. -, Wednesday, May 6—Grand Court session at 9A M andIP M. Wednesday evening, May 6—Concert on the Lewis House balcony by the Pajaro Valiey band at8p. M. Thursday, May 7—Grand Court session at 9 A3 and 1p. Thursday evening, May- 7—Concert on the })lm at 8P M. by the Watsonville City ban by Drill_Corps, W. F. jancy exhihmnn'drul Colonel J. A. Koster commanding, at 9 p. banquet at 10:15 P. M. Friday, May S—Grand Court session at D and 1p. . AN 3 Friday evening, May 8—Grand compliment- ary ball, tendsn.d lll.’ Grand Court by Court Psjaro Valley Rose No. 44, at the Opera-house; grand march at 9:15 . 3. sharp. CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 2, Line of march—Up Main street to Ford, | 1896. ALL QUIET N POLITICS Donnelly and Donavan Start on a Pilgrimage in the Thirty- Seventh. BLAINE LEGION IS ACTIVE. The Forces Marshaling in Readiness for the State Conven'ion on Tuesday Next. Edward Donnelly was doing politics yes- terday. | In company with M. Donavan and | John G. Leidert he had secured a copy of the poll list of the Thirty-seventh District | and started out early in the afternoon to make a house-to-house canvass of the 970 names for the purpose of ascertaining whether the voters on the list resided at the given address or not. It isexpected that the Donnelly committee of investiga- tion will complete their labor in about ninety days if they work eight hours a day. Mr. Donnelly said that he was in favor of pure politics and always had been so. He expressed his belief that ‘‘raw work’ had been done in the recent primaries, but he was confident that John D. Spreckels neither inspired nor knew of it. “I believe that Mr. Spreckels is honest and sincere in his professions of political purity,” added Mr. Donnelly, “and I am confident that whatever crooked work was done was without his knowledge.”” The Fifth Congressional District com- mittee will render its decision in- the Thirty-seventh Assembly District contest to-morrow at 11 o’clock. " J. E. Richard de- clined to intimate what the degision would be, but the consensus of opinion on the outside is that Messrs. Donnelly, Donahue, Donavan and Johnson_bave not made out anything like a plausible case, and that they will be thrust into exterior darkness where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. They have shown tnat | five voters were debarred from casting their ballots at the primary because their names had been already voted, and they proved that A. W. Johnson’s name was not on the poll lis though he says tiat he voted. They have not attempted to show, however, that his vote was not counted. | In view of the fas: that Mr. Donnelly and his friends were wiped out by about 500 majority it would seem to be rather up- | hill work fer them to show that that quan- | tity of votes was cast fraudulently. resident McIntyre has called a meeting | of the Biaine Legion of the Pacific for 2 | o’clock tnis afternoon in the Baldwin Ho- | tel for the purpose of electing & new board | of directors. The present directors are: William MelIntyre, president; L. M. Per- alta, vice-president; Edward Lande, secre- tary; A. G. Booth, secretary; John D. | Spreckels and Daniel M. Burns. At this election there will be no changes save the appointment of a successor to | D. M. Burps. Carroll Cook and Henry Martin, treasurer of the Native Sons of the Golden West, are named for the place. Cook’s friends are contident that they will succeed in getting their man in, The Kelly-Rainey Republicans assem- bled in two small rooms in the t'lood building last night for the purpose of | devising ways and means in getting to Sacramento and of making other arrange- ments for breaking into the State Conven- tion. Bome of the patriots present believed that there ought to be room in the Fire Department for some good workers and they were also of the opinion that the | principle of rotation in office should be more widely extended. The meeting was called for the purpose of getting together the chairmen of the Assembly District delegations in order | that not one member should escape in the | political rodeo. The caucus was held in secret. Martin Kelly allowed the light of bis countenance to shine at the gathering and gave the | faithful few the benefit of his political | wisdom. Sam Rainey was absent for the sake of npfenr:m:es, but his spirit was there in full bloom. Much apprehension existed on the trans- gortamm question. The distance from an Francisco to Sacramento on the ties, by way of Stockton, is about 138 miles. It is considerably shorter by way of Benecia, but the fare isn’t much cheaper. Some re- lief was ufforded by the suggestion that the trip could be made economically by steamboat, provided that the passengers camped on deck. The suggestion that Mr. Rainey should furnish a barge with a tug to tow it up the river was considered lack- inf in dlsnuy. t was decided to go to Sacramento any- how. There would be no trouble about getting back to this City, because there would be plenty of room on the hog train for all hands. The majority of the delegates will start to-morrow afternoon, 0 as to be on the field early to buttonhole the country dele- gations as they enter the Capital City. Cutside of the Kelly-Rainey meeting politics were flat, stale and insipid last night. Everything is in readiness for the State Convention, which bids fair to be one of the most lively and interesting in the history of the State. —_— LABORERS [N POLITICS, The Question Again Discussed at the Labor Council Last Night. It Was Passed Without Action—The Weekly Reports of the Trades Unions. The irritating subject of theSan Fran- cisco Trades Council joining the Trades and Labor Alliance in a political ‘move again came up in the meeting of the ‘former body last evening. It was brought up by Delegate Phillips, who delivered a short address, in which he suggested that the best thing for the workingman to do to better his condition is to look well to his acts at the coming election. @i he ever expects to be benefited by the laws of the land he should act with judgmnent in the ]man he selects to create and maintain the aws, Delegate Milne said that he had come to the conclusion that it was not a wise act for the council to refuse to join hands with the San Francisco Trades and Labor Alliance. At present there are several bodies of organized labor, but all are at 8i. nd sevens in small matters when they should all be pulling together to one common _end. e believed that the! matter of affiliating with' the Alliance’ should be reconsidered by the Labor Council, 1f it is necessary, he said, even the Trades Council might ‘be merged into another larger and stronger labor body. He saw no hope for labor unless it takes up the ballot and stands for its rights, Strikes and boycotts are a failure and usvally result in those who participate therein being put behind n bars. If organizea labor expects to have beneficiary laws passed the workingmen must elect the men to make the desired laws. tary Thurman was of the opinion that politics and trades unions should be kept .apart. The trades unions people should work in politics, but outside of &o unions, Delegate McArthur took soms of the pre- vious speakers to task for daring to voice sentiments not authorized by their unions and he spoke with much emphasis upon the subject of the ability or inability of the masses to govern themselves, as in this country. g The subject was at last dropped without action. Several other matters interested the council. - HE CANNOT RECOVER. Dupont-Street Assessment Taxes Paid Under Protest Cannot Be Returned. D. F. Easterbrook has lost his case against the City. He paid taxes for Du- pont-street assessments under protest, and the Supreme Court has decided that bhe cannot recover the amount of his pay- ments. % The Supreme Court holds that the lia- bility of the City was guarded against in section 22 of the act, and under the act the taxes, when collected, are to be paid over to the City Treasurer, to ‘‘constitute a part of the ‘Dupont-street fund,’ and. to be paid out by the Treasurer only in pay- ment of the coupons attached to the bonds.” The court eoncluded that “‘what is termed the tax is a special assessment levied for a specific purpose upon a desig- nated district, to be collected in proportion to benefits; that when collected it is placed in a special fund, and can only be used in payment of the principal and interest of the bonds provided for in the statute; that the City and County is not liable for the payment of the bonds, and has no con- trol over the specific fund raised for their liquidation; the City and County cannot be held liable in the action.” A HOME FOR NEWSBOYS, Little Fellows May Now Live in Cleanliness and Com- fort, It Was Begun as a Club, but Has Now Developed Inio a Permanent Institution. The seed sown by Mr.and Mrs. A. C. Stevens some three months ago when they founded a home at 113 Powell street,where newsboys might get their meals and have a clean, comfortable place.to sleep, has 1apidly developed into a well-organized undertaking to make a permanent home not only for newsboys, but all other ‘boys whose parents cannot or will not .provide for them. An organization meeting was recently held to definitely outline plans for the good work. A board of trustees was formed, consisting of the following gentlemen: Isaac Upham, J. Dalzell .Brown, J. J. Troman, . W. . M. Bunker 'and A. C, Stevens. - Among others pres- ent at this meeting who will actively inter- est themselves in. the work were: E.A. Girvin, J. W . Ball, H. E. Snook, T. B. Peterson, J. A. Wiles, Mrs. Martin Jones, Mrs. Judge Campbell, Miss Goodall, Judge Troutt, H. E. Wilkinson and D. M. Car- man. The trustees have arranged to give a grand concert for the benefit of the home at the Y. M. .C. A. Auditorium' Tuesday evening. The vocal music, which is promised ‘to be of a particularly high order, will' be furnished by the San Francisco Mixed Quartet, consisting of Millié Flynn, Lena Carrol Nicholson, Willis E. Bacheller, Thomas, Rickard and Constance Jordan, accompanist. There are also on the programme: V. A. H. Hoffmeir, pianist; Louis Finiger, hu- morist; Pearl Koble, cornet; Maud Noble, tromoone; and Lillian Featherstow, ac- companist. *“We have a ten-roomed house on Powell street,” said Mr. Stevens, ‘‘where we ac- commodate already twelve boys with beds and between fifty and one hundred with meals. We intend to make this not an- other charitable institution to be supported by the City. We will make it seif-support- ing. Weconduct a public restanrant, now on the lower floor, in connection with the eating-room for the boys, the proceeds of which go to defray the expenses of the work. The boys pay 5 cents for a meal and 10 cents for a bath and a bed. In this way they are made to feel independent. “‘When we began the undertaking we expected only to form a club and a place where the boys might come after their work and find amusement to keep them off - the street. Now we contemplate making a permanent home somewhat similar to the Waifs’ Mission in Chicago. There the boys contribute to the support of the home and have also a savings bank where their. earnings are kept and re- turned to them when the boys are 18 years of age. “We propose to introduce an industrial school and thus extend the work into lines that will be productive of the highest prac- tical good. “The following ladies have undertaken to contribute toward furnishing sleeping accommodations for the boys: Miss Susie Logan, Miss Galer, Miss Dorn, Miss Cip- rico, Miss Gilson, Mrs. Umbsen, Mrs. Mar- tin 3ones. Mrs. J. 8. Young, Miss D, Bare and Mrs. Hoefler. “We give weekly literary-musical and literary entertainments- at the home and shall give one grand annual entertain- ment. “The feature of making the home de- pendent on the uulpport of the boys them- selves has in itselt a good influence. It makes them manly amf increases their re- gard for the place. ' Already they seem to consider it as their particular property, and several of them have started bank ac- counts. - The hoi: come of their own free will, and when they come théy stay. “‘We will al=o take in the boys from the street as the Girls' Training School does with girls, and provide a temporary shel- ter for them until they can be sent to the home at Santa Ciara. From there they are put in good, comfortable homes. 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