The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1896. CALIFORNIA COLCMBIA THEATER—Faust.” 'S OPERA-HOUSE—"The (ross Roads of THEATER-Primross and West's OrEra-Hovsr.—“Fra Diavolo. igh-Class Vaudeville. Song Recital, Tuesday , corner Ninth avenue ar Bloomer Ball, Sat- Mac : HEATER (OAKLAN West's Minstrels, to-morrow night. UTHO CONLY ISLAND—Batning and Perform- CENTRAL PARK.—Bicycle Races. Braie Parx (Oakland).—Balloon Ascension and Parachute Jump, Sunaay, May 1 SHOOT T CHUTES—Daily at Haight street, one Llock emst of the Park. GOLDEN GATE PAEK BAY DISTRICT TRaC Primrose Golden Gate Park Band taces 10-morrow. SANTA CrUZ Mot INS. y Anniversary ) X ursion and Family Picnic Priniters’ Mutual Aid Society will be Thursday, May 21, at Glenwood Park EXCURSION T0 RUSSIAN RIveR—This day. E1 usic, Dancing, Boating, Fishing, AUCTION SALES. BY F. T. KEELER—Mond: May 18, Rare Oriental Curios at 419 Kearn et, at 2 P. M. BY H. LECTHOLTZ ay, May 18, Car- Art Goods, etc., o'clock By at 0 P ¥E & Co.—Wednesday, salesroom, 218 Mont- . Buc Estat at CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. This evening will usher in the Jewish Feast of Weeki he Pa t Park k MeGe 720 A nion will hold its picnic at ay sey is suing W. 0'B. McDonough wages due him. A. R. has nearly completed prepara- Be observance of Memorial day. No. 2 give a rose party in Social Hall, , Tnesday evening, May chtmeister, the noted theosoph- ived here yesterday from Hon cted of robbery, was sen- earsin Folsom prison yes- Mrs. Sara. Wise, died 1 the wife of Coilector { en illness of more ague has made the incipient ate convention to be held in onderup has be; i 000 da suit against the s, alleging he per- ve Association has is- atum to the Brewery Workmen's e Trades Council. cets, Ricardo, Dura, Uncle Belle Boyd and s &t the Bay District weather perhaps ng in s, St. Lee Reinart won vesterday ns for to-day sre: northwesterly winds, race iog oree in the afterno ley and Jo Reynolds ad- Mission Defense Club last night )n to the adoption of the new char- s Society celebrated the dar set emory of its patron saint at El erday with a varied programme of annual picnic of the whole #s held yesterday at Niles Canyon, attended and it was a grand th he Franklin Grammar School king as & part of their educa- wn the school officials how well on attempted to commit g herself at Bay View y escued by & man who wit- the messenger-boy who fell down or sheft in the Ottington House, 310 et, died at the Receiving Hospital morning. hip Oregon arrived from Santa rday. She was decorated with was be- as. , 629 Howard street, quarreled own young man in a saloon on or streets early yesterday morn- and was stabbed three times. ! deliver two lectures on t Metropolitan Tempie er Clere, & laborer, disappeared from his : 5 Pixley place, iast Tuesday. He left five young children destitute and starving, they were taken in hand by the Humane ick Holmes has filed & petition in in- He owes $14,416 94 and his assets ded in his office furniture valued at H s is & ship-broker, doing business 506 Battery street. At the session of the Transcontinental Pas- educe the fare to St. Paul from this 90. Convention rates will be finally orrow. r hes refused to set the charges ent against John W. Flood for the man is in prison aiready tence which might be passed upon s serving. Carroll Cook’s motion to ase for trial was therefore denied. TO HONOR THE DEAD. Grand Army Veterans Are Making Ex- tensive Preparations. The executive committee of the G. A. R. held its seventh meeting last night to complete the arrangements for the ob- servance of Memorial day and memorial Sunday. The chair was occupied by W. H.Wharff, in the absence of Chairman H. W. Mar- tins. The invitation to hold memorial services in St. Mary’s Church, corner of Dupont and California streets, was ac- cepted. Rector H. H-Wyman will be the officiating clergyman. I'bis is the first time in the history of the G. A. R. of San Francisco that me- morial Sunday rervices have beeg,.hcld in a Catholic church. 4 sresolved at last night’s meetin, the church profusely decorate h flowers and to rendezvous on Union ence the veterans will march to h in 2 body. The following bodies have accepted in- vitations t~ take pari in the parade on Merniorial Dav: The Board ot Education, of Supervisors, Union Veteran of Valie Kreiger Verein Regiment ague of the Cross, . C. Mahoney; -Associated Mexican War, Captain 8. J. tar army, battalion First In- fantry and bpand, battery of artillery, National Guards, Signal Corps, cavalry troop, T battalion (invited), Boys’ Brigade (invited). L e Shooting the Chutes. he chutes will be in foll blast to-day from ck in the moruing to 11 at night, and attraction, in addition to the chutes, t v, merry-go-round, donkeys, ete., will be & sensational balloon sscension and parachute drop by E arkeberg, the daring German aeronaut. will go up banging by teeth, end promises some new thrills never a before. improvements under Height-strecet grounds are shape, the outlines of the reflwey bow being clearly defiued. Ground iias been broken for the big pavilion, and the f of July will see the “people’s pleasure 1d” in excellent condition. e Painters’ and Decorators’ Pienic. The excursion end picnic of the Painters and Decorators of California will be held to-day at Park. The train leaves narrow-gauge A. M. Committee of arrange- Merrill, E. H. Windser, J. Tickner, e,J. Dennis and A. Falen; flloor mittee, Charles Doyle (floor manager), D. pe, H.Sullivan, B. Cooney, G. Eisenmen- zer and W. H. Murray way at the rapidly taking grour ociation yesterday, action was taken | on would run concurrently with the | 00-100t _scenie | FOR BERTELEY, J. M. Jefferson of Virginia Accepts the Profes- sorship. THE ENDOWMENT FUND. Will Be the First Bible Sem- inary at the State Uni- versity. TO COMMENCE NEXT AUGUST. The Christian Church Which Opens the Bible Seminery H:s Raised Sixty Thousand Dollars. ‘When the college year of the University of California opens on the 13th of next August there will be a chair of divinity for the first time at Berkeley, and 1t will be filled by Professor J. M. Jefferson of Virginia, who has just signified his will- ingness to accept the Berkeley professor- ship. The opening of a divinity school at Berkeley will be a surprise to a great many peoble, though preparations have been g object in view. Several denominations have had an eye on the State University as an excellent place for opening a divin- Among this number was the Christian church, and about twenty months ago | the State board decided to take active steps toward making the talked of Divinity School an actual fact. needed, and the board resolved to make an active canvass of the Christian churches of the State. H.D. McAnenery was ap- pointed collector, and the Christian | churches from one end of California to the other responded with a liberality which exceeded the most sanguine expectations of the promoters of the Divinity School idea. For nineteen months Mr. McAnenery | canvassed the State, and at the end of that time there was $50,000 in the treasury, all collected for the Berkeley school. During the last month money has come in faster than ever, and the endowment fund is now stated to heve reached the sum of $60,000. With such a goodly amount in hand th. | sidered itself justified in completing ar- rangements for opening the school. Rev. W. A. Gardiner, pastor of the West Side Christian Church, is the president of the | committee, and J. M. Monroe the secre- | tary. They now announce that the Bible Seminary will open on August 15, with the beginning of the collegiate year. Students in the seminary will have all the advantages of the university courses. and the new divinity school will be in a sense affiliated with the State University. For the present one of the university builaings will be utilized for seminary purposes, but later, when funds grow and increase, it is intended to erect a suitable and commodious edifice for the Bible Sem- inary. A large part of the $60,000 will be used to endow the Bible chair, but a por- | tion of it will be used for current expenses and the costs incidental to opening the divinity school. Professor Jefferson is at present princi- pal of tbe Bible department of Bethany College, Virginia, and he was invited to come here at the recon'mendation of lead- ing college and Bible men in the Christian church. He is said to be not only a divinity scholar, but an able preacher, and he is considered to be one of the strongest writers among the men of his de- | nomination. Professor A. M. Elston, pastor | of the Berkeley Christian Church, has | been elected second professor in the semi- | nary, and he will be expected to supple- ment Professor Jefferson’s work by teach- ing the New Testament, Greek and such other studies as may be necessary- It is expected that this Bible professor- ship in connection with Berkeley will at- tract a number of divinity students to Berkeley, and there is great rejoicing among the members of the Ckristian | church that their denomination has been successful in raising funds to found the first Bible chair in connection with the State University. — GY SCOIS AT EL CHMPY They Celebrated St. Andrew’s Day There With High Suc- cess Yesterday. All Kinds of Games for Prizes, Con- cluding With Dancing—Oificers and Committees. The thirty-third grand annual excur- aion, family reunion and games of the St. Andrew’s Society of S8an Francisco were vesterday held at El Campo, the popular transbay resort. ‘The attractive grounds were crowded with merry-making Scots, who enjoyed to the full the varied prgzramme provided by the efficient committee. There were wild-flower exhibitions, a balloon ascen- sion and numerous athletic games, with boat races, Highland fling dancing, tugs- of-war and other diversions agreeably ac- co mpanied by music on the Scottish pipes. The committees in charge were com- posea of : Executive committee — Robert Sutherland (chairman), James S, Webster, William: Wat- , James Rolph Jr., John McLaren, William ol, James McLea, James McNab, John Reid, obie, James Kay; W. C. Cook and McNalr, secretaries; Y. C. Lawson, tressurer, Reception_committee—Willism Nicol, Thos. Auderson, Vernon Campbell, Willium' Dick, Mrs. Agnes Brodie, Mrs. Jennie Segar, John F. Kennedy, James Sullivan, David Dorward, James Dunn, James Spiers, James P. Taylor, John Bain, D. A. Macdonald, John Marshall, James Aitken, William Little, George St. J. Bremner, R. D. Burness, James Mearns, George Davidson, Hila Duncan, Colin M. Boyd, W. P. Davidson, J. H. Smith, Thomas Morton, J. C. | Moffat, Robert Sutherland, Joserh P. Coch- rane, A. Foreman Sr., Angus McLeod, James Patterson, Stewart Menzies. J. C. ilson, David Kerr, James Scouler, James B. Kidd, H. P. Christie, Richard Gratto, James C. Fyfe, William A. McRae, Robert White, Alexander Mackay. Gnneyl committee—George Davidson, James McLea, Thomas Stevenson, Angus Mcleod, R. ing on for over twenty months with this | ity school, the students of which would | & have the privileges of university students. | P { Funds were, of course, the first thing Berkeley Bible Seminary committee con- Merced. buildings at the site on Twenty-fourth to a point three miles southeast of Merced. street. T 1;*‘( MERCED, Cal., May 16.—7he San Joaquin Vailey Railway bridge over the Merced River was completed to-day and the rails were laid to the south bank of the stream, fourieen miles from the company’s depot site in The grading from the river to this city will be compieted on Monday and the entire force will be moved Then the grade will be pushed to the San Joaquin River. 144 feet in length across Bear Creek at the edge of the city limits is now in process of erection and will be ready for the tracklayers to cross by the time they get there, in about ten days. Canal Creek, five miles north of this city, is being pushed to completion as rapidly as men and material can do it. The track will be laid beyond Merccd before the 1st of June, at wiiich date work will be commenced on the depot A bridge Another bridge eighty fect long at b. Colquhoun, David Kerr, Willism Balnaves, James Niven, P. A F. Keith. John D. Robert' son, Arthur McLea, Peter L. Dunn, D. R. Mc- | Neill, J. D. McGilvray, William Z. Nicoll, Don- | ald Ross, G. A. McFarlane, W. R. Eatou, P. D. | McFarlane, John M. Duncan, Richard Gratto, Thomas Mickel, A. C. Ballingali. Floor managers—James Rolph Jr., Joseph M. Cumming. | Floor committee—John D. Robertson, Alex. | Rannie, William Balnaves, P. L. Dunn, Arthur MeLea. Balloon committee—John L. Davidson, Rob- ert Reid, J. J. Ross. The officers of the society are: Andrew Wilkie, president; James S. Webster, James Rolph Jr. vice-presidents; Y. C.Law. | son, treasurer; W. C. Cook, recording secre- | tary; Alexander Rannfe, assistant recording secretary; John D. Robertson, financial secre- George A. McFarlae, assistant finencial | William Dick, librarian; tru Irving, James McLaren, Richard Gratto, James Scobie, James Ka relief—Joseph P. Cochrane, John M. Robert Sutherland; William F. McNutt, M.D., ician; Rey. Donald M. Koss, chaplain; | Lindsay, piver; Donald Ross, Commodore. i The races and prize-winners were as fol- ows: Race for boys under 15 years, 100 yards, first, handicap of three yurds for each’ | football; second, basevall; third, David McCann; second, Eugene Phillip: thira, Elder Webster. Race for girls under 15 years, 100 yards, | | handicap as in No. 1; fir: rge box of candy second, brush and com third, basket—First, Corrine Telior: Webster; third, Nettie Laws. Race for single iaaies over 15 year: yards, no handicap; first, dress patter. arriage paresol; third, one pair gloves. o telescope second, Grace Fir: Potter; second, Ellen McCann; | third Nzl Race for members’ sons under 15 years, 150 | as’ handicap as in No. pants; second, one sweate rod—First, Vernon Camp Ross; third, James Webste Race for members’ danghters under 15 years, 100 vards' handicap, as in No. 1; first, one large bottle perfume} ves—First, Annie Ross third, Grace Webste Race for members’ daughters over 1 100 sards, no handicap: first, silver teapot; second, one bic; 81t; third,’ half-dozen of handkeérchiefs—First, Mildred ‘Rolph; second, | Jennie Duncan; third, Annie Reid. Race for members’ sons over 15 years, 150 | yards, no handicap; first, hat; secon veater; thizd,one folding tamping mattress— | First, .’ A. Wi'kie; second, Walter Davidson; third, Andrew Wilkie Jr. Ladies’ heel-and-toe walking match, 200 yards; one white blanket; second, one | third,one box tea— Elien McCann ; second, Annie Simon; third, A. L. Knipe. Best bouquet of wild flowers, made by iadies | only and picked only about the grounds; bou- guets which have been made by men were be allowed to compte; first, one carved eard- case; second, one carved beit; third, one box Queen Lily soap; fourth. one’ pair eluminum 1; first, one pair | ; third, one fishing ; second, Allister vases—First, Mrs. James Laws; second, Miss | Maggie Nicol; third, Miss E. A. Fisher; fourth, Miss Effie Nicol. | Intermission until arrival of 1:30 p. x. | boat. Three-legged race, 150 y: | ond I, cents—Firs and F. and N.Lunt; | third, Collins. Second race, three-legged—First, A. McGee and George Thomson. ack race for men and lads over 15 years, | flirst $2, sec- A. Tumball 150 yards, no handicap; first, fishing-rod; sec. | ond, one fiybook; third, one pair suspenders— | First, Walter Davidson; second, A. G. Scul ¥ | third, James Webster. Members’ race, yards, handicap of two yards for each year over 45 years; first, one pair of $10 pants; second, one pair shoes; | third, one pocket-knife; fourth. one St. An- | drew’s badge—First, Samuel Irving; second, James Rolph J. third, J. M. Cumming; fourth, A. McNai Four-oared boat race, | first $4. second § and David; second, | Stevenson brothers, Two-oared boatrace, for ships' apprentices two in each boat); first §3, second $1 30, third #1—First, sbip Ellisland, A. Sims and A. Coles; second, ship Killmaney, W. Douglasand W. }}'righl, third, ship Cawdor, 8. Hitch and W. unt. Two-oared boat race (members)—One man | with privilege of steerer in each boat. First, 1 set carvers; second, one-fourth dozen shiris; third, one pair sleeve buttons. First, Jame: Roiph Jr.; second, Y. C. Lawson; third, W. C. | Cook. Tug of war—Between teams of married and single members of society. Captains (married), William (single) James Rolph Jr.” One puil to be decisive, and no one | allowed near the rope but the parties selected for the teams. One case Zinfandel to the win- | ning team. One case wine to the losing team. | First (married team), Willlam Watson, cap- | i s (two men in boat) third $1—First, McLeo , Marsh and Legg; third, Highland fling for lads and lassies—First, second, $2; third, $1. First, Corinne for; second, Lizzie Fairgreive. Grab-bag prizes, for married ladies only: First, one load wood, deliversd; second, one case oysters; third, one casse assorted fruits; fourth, one box candles; fifth, one case break- | fest delight; sixth, one ham: seventh, one | case flavoring extracts; eighth, one box as- sorted crackers; ninth, one sack rolled oats; | tenth, one box macaroni; eleventh, two dressed chickens; twelith, one box assorted crackers. First, Mrs. John Gollan: second, Mrs. Robert Sutherland; third, Mrs. Andrew cNair; fourth, Mrs. Fuller; fifth, Mrs. A. J. McAllister; sixth, Mrs. Tnornton; seventh, ngeter; eighth, Mrs. Sievenscn; ninth, McCann; tenth, Mrs. James Clyde: eleventh, Mrs. S. E. Brown: twelfth, Mrs. Willism Patterson. Grab bag for unmarried ladies over 16 ears—First, one cloak pattern; second, one gwx soap ; third, fifiy-pound sack flour; fourth, one box Cherries; fifth, one sack rolled oats: sixth, one corncob ham; seventh, one box ighth, five pounds coffce; ninth, one ins; tenth, 100 visiting cards. First, Edna Warde; second, E. Wilkie; third, Jennie Finnie; fourth, Alice Taylor; fifth, Nellie Newman; sixth, unclaimed ticket 17; seventh, unciaimed ticket 115; ecighth, M. Paine; ninth, Jeanette Finnie; tenth, Louise Boggan. The society thanks the following-named varties for donations on account of the prizes, etc.: Mrs. Agnes Brodie, Messrs. Donald Ross, Colin M. Boyd, Rgbert White, Henry P. tie, James Scobit, John Center, John Richard Gratto, Jumes Aitken, Robert Ross & Hewlett, J. P. Cochran, McLea Blair Bros, W ol, J. F. Kennedy, Bain, James ab, Miller, Sloss & Scott, | Baker & Hamilton, John MeLaren, George Davidson, Y. C. Lawson, Jomes McLe, Robet | Sutherland, W. P. Davidson, D. K. McNeill, | Walter N. Erunt, Buchanan Bros., S, H. Tyler & Son, Newell & Bro., Parter Bros. & Co.;Kittle & Co., American Biscuit Company, Andrew Wilkie, Raphael Weill & Co., Daniel Wilson, W. R. Eaton, Newman & Levinson, John M. Duncan, R.'P. K. Duff, Louis Saroni & Co., Stevenson & Co., Haas Bros., L. F. Monteagle, Pacific Fruit Pecking Company, Yolo Mills, Pacific Notion Company. T. C. Barry, Fishbeck & Glootz, James 8. Webster, P."’ Beamish, Neustadier Bros, Eagleson & Co., M. Hart, Rods Bros., Arthur McLea, Dalion Bros, Koenig, Phillip 8. g-Paler Mill ing Company, Scott & Gilbert, McLeod Hatje, ii. M. Nagle & Co., Cluff Bros., Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Company, R. D. Col quhoun, D. Roberts, H. Palmer & Co., Moore, Hunt & Co., D. Kerr, J. Rolph Jr., J. D. Robert. son, William Watson, John D. McGilvray, James Young, Wiiliam_Little, Holbrook, Mer- rill & Stetson, Messrs. Dalzell, L. Wagner, Ca tain Sudden, George Hass & Son, Claybrough, Golcher & Co. AGAINST THE NEW CHARTER Big Meeting of the Mission Defense Union Last Night. OPPOSECENTRALIZATION | Thomas J. L. Smiley and John M. Reynolds Address the Assemblage. VARIOUS CRITICISMS MADE, Strong Speeches Against the Proposed New Municipal Charter—De- fects Noted. By special invitation of the Defense Club in the Mission, Thomas J. L. Smiley and at Twentieth and Guerrero streets last | night. Mr. Smiley was decidedly opposed to the charter because it made no provisions for the residence qualification of the municipal officers provided for. To his view an alien or non-resident of the City could be its Mayor. Again, there were no provisions made for the election of the Mayor succeeding the first one elected, This and other ir- regularities would prevent him from vot- ing for its adoption. Mr. Reynolds was more exhaustive in ais criticisim. He in- quired into who constituced the Mer- chants’ Defense Association, which was so earnest in advocating the adoption of the proposed charter. He thought he saw the footprints of the bankers, the rich corporations and monopolies, all of whom are assessed for much less than one-half of the real value of their property. Every section of the charter that is sus- | ceptible to criticism was handled without gloves. Mr. Reynolds said: The most perfect municipal governments of the world are conducted without Mayors as | | we know them. Neither Glasgow, £0 noted for its progress, a city pointed to by the whole civilized worid, nor Birmingham, nor Man- Chester, nor any of the English cities have Mayors who can appoint and remove or exer- cise any power above that of his fellow-Coun- cilmen. Where are the examples of good re- sults from this dictatorial veto power sought to ve inflicted upon us by the new charter? Their points are ali theories, but facts tell us hat the new charter's advocates are wrong. Why should not the sclentific, political and economie results of these admirably governed cities be taken as a useful lesson by Ameri- icans as the valuable results in the mechanical arts, in medicine and in law? We can point to these grand results of municipal governments without Mayors. Where can our oppenents show equally good results by the proposed dic- tation? We have shown that the growth of govern- ment has been toward enlarging the people’s powers. That the reasons given in favor of the new charter are mostly reasons in favor of our pres- ent statutes. That the new charter is a step toward politi- cal bossism. That the centralization of power brings best results where the Supervisors resolve them- selves into executive committees. That corruption is mostly a creature of the privilege and contract system. That the City will be released from its most excessive burdens when the monopolies are owned by the people. That the new charter protects this sort of corruption by limiting the people’s privilege of providing public works. . That the omission of specific provisions for important offices may give the Mayor power to appoint even the Auditor and Treasurer and all officers now elective. That it is wholly inconsistent with American institutions. That the contract system is a detriment, yet it is made mandatory by the new charter. That its length and minuteness of detafl 1s a very serious defect. That the system of a Board of Public Works appointed by the Mayor has been a faflure in Oukland. That the best authorities on municipal gov- ernment advise trusting to the people instead of an irresponsible Mayor. That the taxation provisions are not safe- guards, nor do they promise to decrease ex- penditures. That the proposed government is a discon- nected, irresponsible system, the powers now residing with the Supervisors being divided with the Mayor. That its amendment is not an ensy matter, and many of its provisions of doubtful le. gality. The positive programme he recommends is that the changes of municipal government shall be in the direction of direct legislation, in which the ypeople themselves are able to control their officers and their policy. The tendency and drift of the new charter is in the opposite direction. Let it not be said of us in future years that we assisted in the ttempts being now made to subvert the prin- ciple of government of the people. The club voted thanks to the two speak: ers for the views expressed by them. Organ Recital. The following programme will be performed this afternoon at the Art Institute by Otto Fleissner, organist, and Miss Caroline Boyan, vocalist; Processional in D, Dubois; song, “The Arabian Slave,” Shelly; concerto, Bucii; invocazione, Capocci; song, “Wh here, love,’ Vannah: overture, Flotow tory, Selome; song, I hold my heart so still,”” Funcie; finale, Third Sym- | phony, Mendelssohn. BOGUS OPIUM SEIZED. Deputy Surveyor Sam Ruddell Makes an Important Selzure of a Counterfeit Article. Deputy Surveyor Sam Ruddell located a gang of opium counterfeiters vesterday noon, at 53¢ Washington street, ana last night he made a raid on the establish- ment. He found 605 tins of the spurious article ready for sale or shipment, and an almost unlimited quantity of material for | the manufacture of the home-made arti- | cle. | Just who the proprietors of the plant | areno one seems to know. Tnat large | anantities of molasses and flour have been cold in San Francisco as well as shipped to other ports for opium during the last few months is well krown, but this is the first sexizure. Itis thonght by the Customs | ofticials that the plant 1s one of many scat- | tered throug: the City. | At 534 Washington street is the Occi- | dental saloon owned by P. H. Hink & Co. In the basement of this saloon the 605 tins | were found. Hink & Co. deny all knowl- edge of the plant, regardless of the fact that there is only one entrance to the base- men* and that is through their froat door. In the alley leading from Washing- ton to Jackson street is a grating wkicn can be lifted by a muscular person. Underneath this is a door leading into | the basement where the bogns opium was found, but this door is locked on the in- | side. In the basement were found a number of | John M. Reynolds addressed a full house | Poxes marked lime juice, and in a separate box hundreds of Chinese labels suck as are used on regular stamped opium. —_— ‘COLLECTOR WISE BEREFT His Wife Died Last Night After an Illness of More Than Two Years. | il Sei] | The Funeral Will Take Place From the House on Monday, Rev. Dr. Foute Officiating. | Mrs. Sarah Ann Wise (nee Merker), wife | of Collector J8hn H. Wise, died at her | home at 8:45 o’clock last night after an | iliness from which she suffered for more than two years, and which for the past two months confined her to her bed. The | fatal malady arose from congestion of the liver, which ultimately developed into consumption of the bowels. She was sub- ject of late to sinking spells, ana was at- tacked by one of these early in the even- ing yesterday. This was followed by another at the hour stated, during which she quietly and seemingly painiessly passed away. The ouly living children are Harry E. Wise of the firm of Christy & Wise and George D. Wise, a youth of 17. Deceased was married to Collector Wise about a third of a century ao. She was born in St. Louis on September 27, 1845, and was a _member of the well-known Merker family of Missouri. The funeral will take place Monday at 2 P. M. from the family's residence, 1409 Grace E: opal Church will officiate. She will be iuterred in the family vault in Laurel Hill Cemetery, where already lies | an infant daughter buried seventeen years | ago.- The mother of deceased lives in thi3City and her father died three years ago. R THE HORSE STILL IN IT. m and Electricity Will Ounly Im- prove His Qualities. “We hear a great deal about the horse- less carnage and the advances in elec- tricity and steam, which it is claimed will before long destroy the usefulness of the horse altogether,”” remarked Dr. C. Masoero, the well-known veterinary sur- geon, to a reporter, who has been obtain- ing opinions of leading men of the profes- sion on_this subject. These views have appeared in THE CALL from time to time. *‘People who jump to this conclusion, continued the doctor, ‘‘are very much mis- taken, for there is nothing to warrant it. “It is true that recent invention, and especiallv the application of electricity to machinery, are doing much of the work formerly performed by common and in- ferior horses and that as a result such ani- mals have become much reduced in value. But the vast snms of money still being in- vested in high-bred animais all over the country and the costly equipped infirm- aries for their treatment when diseased show that the thoroughbred will never lose his value or the place he occupies in the effections of mankind. “In fact,” concluded Dr. Masoero, ‘'the more we advance in civilization the more will the horse improve in the qualities of beauty, speed and endurance.” e .. She Attempted Suicide. Much excitement was created on the beach last Wednesday afternoon, when it was seen by some visitors that a Ghinese woman had thrown herself among the breakers sbout 500 yards soutn of the Clif House. Some gentlemen who happened to be standing on the beach at the time fished ber out and conveyed her to the Cliff House, where she was taken care of, and afterward sent to Chinatown in charge of one of her countrymen, who isemployed about the cliff. The woman refused to give her name or the reason why she tried to take her life. Sunday-School Picnic. ALAMEDA, CaL, May 16.—The com- bined Sunday-school picnic to Sunset Park to-day was a great success. Twenty-h.)ur coaches left Park street this morning loaded with the little ones and their teachers and parents, and all returned this evening without any mishap. B NEW TO-DAY. : sz : E y)o Concerts Afterneon and Even ‘o - e = Opens for o ~ 229292992990099,292202920809008 Opens for Inspection Saturday, [lay 23, 1896. Afternoon 2 to 5 o’clock. Evening 7:30 to 11 o’clock. chestra under the Direction of Mr. John Marquardt. = Monday, May 25, 1896, 8 AL M. ng by'\The Emporium Or- Business Leavenworth street, and Rev. Dr. Foute of | SPRING AND UMMER g75L SUITS Made to order. Nobby patterns — Latest styles. Just the thing for the sea= son. Permanent form and dura- bility. Stock of goods bought at 50 Cents on the Dollar. Goods at half price means Suits at half price. Just think of it! ordinarily paid for one. Two Suits for what is UNION CLOTHING (0, 112, 114 and 116 Kearny St., BETWEEN POST AND SUTTER. SILVER'S ADVOCATE. ELOQUENT ADDRESS DELIVERED BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ‘W ASHINGTON. The following address on silver was de- livered hefore the Northwest Mining Asso- ciation at Spokane, Wash., February 22 last by Attorney-General W. C. Jones: In many countries of the world to-day when & peasant chances to see the moon rising over the eastern horizon he lflngles merrily the silver coin in his pocket, if he happens to be so fortunate as to possess any, and it he has none he sighs to think that he has lost an oppor- tunity to invoke the blessing and secure the fayor of night's fair queen. i Just why he practices this mystic rite he robably does not know nor care. 1t is enough R)r him to know that his sire did it bzfore him and his grandsire before his sire. But to his remote Ancestor this was no mean- | ingless form, no idle custom. To him Luna | was the fairest and the most potent of ell the deities that composed the polyusgistic god- head. She was the mistress of the tides: she taught him when to sow his seed, to prune his hedge, to plant his trees. She appoiuted the day when the good housewife should start the leach and boil the mellifiuous softsoap, to set the favorite her or transier the nascent cab- bage from the hotbed to the garden. She filled with plenty the granaries of her devotees | and blasted with mildew the harvests of those who remembered not her law. ! In ancient times the moon was regarded as the most potent of all the influences that gov- | erned the destinies of mankind or should | guide his labor, and to sleep in her presence was an unpardonable crime; the luckless wight who dared thus insult her she smote with madness. Silver was the metal sacred to her honor, and on him who held up to her this emblem of her regal power she smiled benignly; but to him who dared despise it—and until this last generation gave birth to & new breed of sin- ners none dared despise her—sne gave the most dire punishment. Our ancestors jingled their silver at the sight of the rising moon with the same ven- eration and the same religious fervor that in- spires the devotee of the cross to-day when he counts his beads at the sight of that mystic symbol of faith, that promise of a better world. But to-day we haye among us & new set of heretics, who ignore the influence and power and beneficence of the silver goddess of ihe heavens. They are sleeping in her pres- ence, in the presence of her whose mission it is to bring light and joy and happiness to the dark 4 of the earth; but we trust that they will soon be awakened from their sense- less stupor by the voice of reason, which will swell from ocean to ocean, snd when they awaken and see the depth of resentment of silyer's devotees they will be mad enouqh. Until recently Japan, Mexico and India were regarded as the dark piaces of the earth; they were very iar bebind us in the race of civiliza- tion, in the struggle for progress; but to-day the silver shield has risen for them. They are building railroads, factories and inills,” and lighting the fires in furnace and forge; they are founding colleges and erecting palaces, and all this progress atarate which hss no recedence in the world’s history. They are Forch‘.g forward their industrial armies to the music of & quicksiep. Oh, gentlemen, they are overtaking us. Their skirmish line has advanced beyond our gates, and they are invading our markets with the products of their skill and enterprise. Almost we can hear their victorious shout of triumph as the main army approaches our bat- tlements. But we have sinved against the sil- ver goddess—we have slumbered in her pres- ence—and for our temerity we are undergoing the most poignant indnstrial suflerinf: the arms of indust:y are paralyzed, the feet of progress weary, and the head of commercial enterprise, oh, how it aches! 1t will be well for us as a people if we awaken from this sense- less stupor before the silver goddess has smit- ten us beyond recovery. Only a little while ago it was common for us of the Anglo-Saxon race, this great Nation which is pointed to as the great Nation of sound money, to point to Inaia and Mexico and Japan as couniries that were far beneath our notice, but reports come from those coun- tries that, instead of bankruptey and ruin, in- stead of closed factories and incendiary fires, they are coming forward by mighty ieaps and bounds into prosperity. They are paying divi- dends on their railroads and “their bank stock. Their farmers are prosperous and happy, their laborers are getting greater wages than ever before. To be sure we started their lead. They are not of our civilization. We had tremendous advantage over them, but while we are going backward they are coming forward, and no citizen of this eountry to-day with justice or honesty can point the finger of scorn at tnose nations which a little while ago were looked upon as little above savages. Let us pray, gentlemen, thatsome Moses may come down and drive from the tabernacles of the people the political priests and prophets who are to-day worshiping at the shrine of the golden calf. May this new Moses smite the enemies of this country—the Rothschilds, the Clevelands, the Shermans and all the idolators who pro- fane the temples of the people while he was communing with the Lord. It will be well for us, gentlemen, if the remedy that is necessary for the present condition of affairs be not de- layed too long. Gold is an aristocrat. It holds its court in the palaces of kings and ‘dwells in the man- sions of -the millionaire, but silver is the faitnful servant and humble friend of him who toils to make his country greater and the world better. Gold is a spirit of evil that breeds folly and vice and sin and crime, but silver is an angel of mercy that cheers the heart of the hungry and brings consolation to the needy. It cheers the breast of the poor plowboy as he whistles merrily to the jingle of & few dimes in his breecnes pocket, and it brings comfort tothe overworked seamstress, whose comforts in life are measured by the swiftness of her needle. Pure and white like Diana, whose sacred emblem it is, silver is the symbol of purity and benevolence, a minister of love, the cur- rency of honesty. — Warszawiak Coming. Hermann Warszawiak, the noted Jewish evangelist, will arrive in this City on Tuesday to hold a series of revival meetings in connec- tion with the Jewish-Christian mission on Mission sireet. He is 29 years of age, speaks with considerable eloguence, and is said to bear a strange personal likeness to Walt Mason, the Nebraska poet. ————— Dick Williams Is Here. The sensational story published in an after. noon paper yesterday to the effect that “Dick” Williams, the Chinese interpreter, had left the City is utterly without toundation. 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