The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1896, Page 12

2 = T THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1896 SUMMER CAMP AT THE PRESIDIO, General Muller’s Brigade of State Troops May Come Here. FOURTH OF JULY WEEK. Column of Regulars, National Guard, Marines and Na- val Reserve. FIGURES OF TRANSPORTATION. The Southern Pacific Agrees to Reduce Round-Trip Rates to Two-Thirds of Single Fare. The National Guard troops of the Third Brigade are anxious to hold their summer camp of instruction at the Presidio of San Francisco and on July 4 join the Second Brigade troops in a grand parade in this City. The subject has received the serious consideration of igadier-General War- field and Brigadier-General Mulier, commanding respectively the Second and Third Brigades of State troops. Permission to encamp the regiments of General Muller's brigade on the Presidio must be obtained from General Graham, the post commander. An interview of the three officers had been appointed an hour or two before General Granam started for Santa Bar- bara on the battleship Oregon, but as General Muller failed to make connec- tions the subject was not then taken up. Saturday last General Graham returned and negotiations will be reopened at or.ce. The interior troops will be able to provide their own subsist the Presidio from Wednesday, July 1, until Monday. July 6. A fund, however, must be raised for trans- portation, but on this point General War- field sees the way clear to carry out the plan of campaign. I. H. Goodman, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific, has agreed to give round-trip transportation for two-thirds of single-trip fare. For example, if the iare from Fresno to San Francisco shouid be §6 the company would carry a guards- man to San Francisco aud return for $4. Ir Fresno, Modesto, Stockton, Visalia Sacramento, Woodland, Auburn, Marys- ville, Cc Oroville, Chico, Nevada City, Grass Valley and other cities where com- panies comprising the Third Brigade are located, there is cal sentiment in favor of home parade of the respective companies on July 4, but this is not thought to be strong enough to weigh aguinst the ad- vantagesin instruction which the troops would g: by six days’ encampment near the United States troops on the Presidio ion. a matter that rests largely with the commanding officers. Should Major- General Dimond direct a division encarmp- ment, or the concentration of two brigades at San Francisco during the first week in the order would be obeyed, but trans- portation would have to be provided. The last Legislature was obliged to ap- propriate so much money to defray the expenses of the strike campaign that no provision was made for transporting troops to the annual encampment this year, hence public enterprise must be re- lied on to provide the necessary funds. Again, it has been a custom long hon- ored among the interior regiments of the National Guard to consult the line officers, and for that matter the enlisted men, as to preference in locating the summer camp of instruction. General Muller, in talking over the proposed camp at the Presidio, finds the desire among his troops almost universal. The commander-in-chief,Governor Budd, and Adjutant-General Barrett recognize that encampments adjacent to the United States troops in garrison would be of great service to the guardsmen. The military dispiay on July 4 should be the finest ever seen on the peninsula. It is true that the garrison of regular troops at the Presidio has been dimin- ished numerically by the detail of four troops of cavairy to patrol the Sierra parks, and there will be further reduction by detailing two light batteries of the Fifth Artillery to participate in the Sloate monument celebration at Monterey. Still seven companies of the Fifth Artillery re- main in the harbor, which, together with nine companies of the First Infantry at Angel Island and Benicia, shou!d form a superb column of regulars. he guard regiments of the Second and Third = brigades, re-enforced by the mounted company of the First Brigade at Salinas and the Second Brigade Signal (7].u-m;, ought to make an effective dis- ay. Ayrmu.\er division composed of the com- panies of the Navai Battalion, re-enforced by marines and sailors from the United States cruisers in the harbor, should con- stitute a superb feature of the grand column. P — An author some time ago received a singular compliment. A burglar broke into his house and found the manuscript of a novel, which he took, leaving the following note: *8ir—I began to read your novel, and I was so deeply interested in it that I wasobliged to carry it away, but it will be faithfully returned when finisbed.” The manuscript was duly sent back, with a really clever critique on i NEW TO-DAY. , NO REST NO SLEEP DAY ORNICHT My hands were completely covered with Ec- zema, and between my fingers the skin was perfoctly raw. I had to sit with both hands held up, and away from the fire. My husband had to dress and undress me like a baby. I tried the bel!?hyl‘dmm, but their medicines gave me no relief, and drove me almost crazy. I was ad. vised 10 try CoTICURA REXEDIES, and did 60, although my husband had o go twenty miles (3 used the got them. As soon - o got back, T use I CuTicura, and in fire minutes after 7 ctly casy, and ilept Before I commenced application I was perfe ‘::md%.all that u Coticura Rexenies I could get no night. ease night orday. I could not bear to get warm, it we t me in a rage of itching. I always keep the 'ICURA REMEDIES in my house now, and recommend them 1o everybody, because of their wonderfal effect. _Yours gratefully, AGNES M. HARRIS, Push, Meckienburg Co. Va prEpY Cvee TREATMENT ¥OR TORTURING, Dis- rm!nma Huuonrs. — Warm baths with CUTICURA SOAP, ntle of CUTICURA (ointment), the it i eare e waiid doscs of ConICURS HasOLvEnT: greatest. 'humor Sold_throughout the world. Priee, Coricuma, Sour, 2ie Rusoverar oo end 1. Forees Daco axp Cuex. Coxr., Props.. ‘s tow to Cure Torturisg Skin Diseases,” fron. “Opium and other drugs may be had at San Quentin at all times,” said Peter Brown, the Ex-Convict. [From a photograph by Levy.) REMOVAL OF THE GAANT MONUMENT, That Convict-Made Granite! Pedestal Was Carted % Away. WILL USE OTHER STONE A Narrow Escape From Drown- ing at the Sutro Baths—A Timely Rescue. FISH AT STRAWBERRY HILL Black Bass and Yellow Perch Placed in Golden Gate Park Waters. More Chryscphore. The Grant monument, the granite ped- estal and the granite foundation in Golden Gate Park, which has been the cause of much talk and newspaper comment, have | disappeared from the place near the museum where it had been erected. Early Saturday forenoon a force of men with trucks and a derrick appeared at the site on which the much objected-to monu- ment had been erected and without delay placea the derrick in position, lowered the bust and placed it on one of the trucks, then the pedestal followed and after that the S | foundatiou stones were also loaded on the trucks and it was not long before the whole outfit was out of the limits of the | park. The Park Commissioners declare that they did not have anything to do with the placing of the statue in position or with its removal. The only thing they had to do was to grant the memorial com- mittee a site on which to erect a monu- ment, and th ey would not have had any- thing to do with it until it was formally turned over to them by the committee. The removai was because the commit- tee, in view of the complaints made, re- fused to accept the work. The committee | will secure other stone upon which the bust will be placed. M. Braverman of Visalia, who owns the recently discovered ledge of chrysophore, the apple-green gem that since the an- nouncement in Tue CaLL of its discovery has attracted universal attention, has do- nated to the Park museum fourteen speci- mens, showing the gem in its crude state, | cut into siabs, cut into small blocks ready for polishing, and gems in the polished state. This collection is said to be the most beautiful and valuable in the world. The ¥ish Commissioners have presented to the park a number of sunfish, black bass and yellow perch. The bass were by Superintendent McLaren placed in one of the large pools on Strawberry Hill, and the other fish were planted in ‘the pool in the western part of the park. The new irack for the cyclers will be tin- ished 1n about six weeks. Despite the cold day, there was an im- mense crowd at the park, and thousands listened to an excellent programme of music, the most attractive number being a symphonic poem illustrative of Burger's ballad *‘Leonora,” which was well rendered and loudly applauded. For some time past some wheelers have made themselves very obnoxious in the vicinity of the band stand. They would yell while the band played, and pelt passers by with elods of earth. A week ago yesterday one of the number was arrested, but upon trizl was acquitted, as the officer was sworn out of court. There was a threat that there would be a renewal of the trouble, and to preveat it, Captain Thomson placed officers in citizen's dress where the turbulent were in the habit of congregating, but they aia not have oc- casion to make any arrests. A. Barihelet, a sculptor and artist, has been at work for some time in the Park Museum repairing a number of exhibits that are intended for the annex, and which in transportation were either damaged or broken. With putty, plaster of paris, cements, paints and varnishes, he makes therepairs, replaces the missing pieces, and the work is so well done that it is im- possible to discover the additions from the original. At Sutro Baths there were at least 12,000 people to witness the burning of the Re- public and the rescue by the crew of the qulywood. During the performance a ship’s boat—manned by Peter Johnson and George Cartlige, who had been sailors on the original Republic—was sent | out to ‘‘save” some of those on the sink- ing vessel. Their boat was surrounded by a number of young swiramers, who shook it and finally capsized it, throwing the two men into the water. One of these could swim but little and the other not at all. The former elux:lg to his companion, and both dinvsene below the surface. Matt Gay and Ed Rosenbaum, of the life- | saving crew of the baths, went to their rescue, and when they brought them to the surface Johnson was unconscious. At tirst this was thought to be a part of the performance, but when it became ap- parent that it was almost a tragedy the vast audience loudly cheered the rescuers. In the endeavor to assist the rescued men when they were taken on the plat- form some one threw a chair to one side WHO PURLOINED "NAH ANGELINE"? Judge McKenna Must Decide the Important Question. RIVAL COLORED SINGERS Charles Sidney O'Brien and Burt Williams Contest For Laurels. | [NO LACK OF AFFIDAVITS, | Opposing Music Companies Will | Storm His Honor With Scores { of Depositions. | i I'll take alongz my razzer, Dat’s for Jimmie Frazer, For he am de coon what's Gwive to steal mah Angeline. That's the way the song runs. The af- fid avits of the Zeno Mauvais Music Com- pany run otherwise. According to the | trend of about thirty of those formidable documents which Judge McKenna will be called upon to hear this morning the party who not only intends to steal “*Mah An- geline,” but actually has stolen it, is the Schlamm & Broder Music Company. | These two organizations are the largest | music publisbers on the coast and the serious aifficulties which have arisen be- tween them are due to the rival conten- | tious of two colorea men as to who wrote | the popular “‘coon’ song, which has out- | rivaled “The New Bully.” Charles Sidney O’Brien is the colored composer whose claims to the authorship of “Mah Angeline” are championed by the Mauvais Company. O’Brienisacomi- cal little man of exceeding blackness. His appearance on the street suggests that he had just stepped from an end chair at a minstrel performance. O'Brien says he wrote *‘Mah Angeline” away back in the | '80’s, and that he sung it with more or less | success at the Midwinter Fair. Among other places, he says, he with two other | colored singers sang the song at the '49 | Camp. This contention is borne out by James H. Love, one of the camp mana- gers, and by a negro known as the Biack | Diamond, who is ncw in jail. This fact | does not particularly prejudice O'Brien’s | | case, Lowever, as the Black Diamond is said to have given the other side an affi- davit also. The Behlam-Broder Company bases its claims to the song on the alleged author- ship of Burt Williams. Williams is a big- ger man than O’'Brien, but not a whit blacker, albeit burned cork would never change his complexion. Williams, ac- cording to affidavits galore, which will be introduced to offset those in support of O’Brien’s contentions, wrote the song while working at the Midway Plaisance, on Market street. The Mauvais people have an affidavit from Edward Homan, proprietor of the Plaisance, that Williams never worked there prior to 1894, and so, if O’Brien sang **Mah Angeline” at the Mid- winter Fair, Willams’ claim crumbles. The Schlamm-Broder company’s attor- ney, John M. Chretien, says they will have no trouble proving that O’Brien did not sing the song at the fair. To prove this he has affidavits of the members of Cassasa’s band, who were constantly on the alert for catchy airs, and also from the three gentlemen who were associated with Love in the management of the '49 Camp. They declare neither O'Brienn or any other colored man ever sang there. There seems to be a serious difference of opinion as to the accomplishments of the rival songwrights. The Mauvais people do not hesitate tosay that Williamsis a black personification of ignorance, who has followed the highly inteiligent and much-traveled O'Brien about until he had succeeded in partially memorizing the words ar:d air of *‘Mah Angeline,” which he has had published as “‘Dora Dean.’’ The publishers of “‘Dora Dean,” for it is under that name the Schlamm-Broder Company produce the song, say that the colored man with the Hibernian name cannot sign his name, mach less could he write such a song as he lays claim to. To these and many more much-sworn-to contentions Judge McKenna must listen patiently to-day. The matter comes up in a motion to dissolve a temporary injunc- tion which the Schlamm-Broder Company obtained some time ago, BShould the moving party be successful the matter will be set for trial, and before the matter is finally settled it will be contempt to whistle ** Angeline’ or “Dora Dean” within possible hearing distance of Judge McKenna's chamber. The total number of United Kingdom, whic ractitioners in the at the beginning 1o make room and in so doing struck and | of the year 1876 was 22,200, has now risen smashed the nose of 2 man named Murtin. to over 30,000, 15 OPIUM SOLD AT SAN QUENTIN® Peter Brown, Ex-Convict, Says Emphatically That It Is. INFORMS THE GOVERNOR The Chief Executive Is Asked to Investigate Alleged Irregularities. REPORT OF INSPECTOR WILKINS Confirms Much That Brown Has Stated. Trouble Is S»id to Be With the Guards. Some days ago Peter Brown, a negro sailor jast released from San Quentin, where he spent five years for killing a shipmate, addressed a letter to Governor Budd alleging many irregularities in the State’s great criminal institution, not the least of which was the free barter and sale of opium. This letter, with the names of the officials directly accused omitted, reads as follows: 8AN FrANCISCO, May 9, 1896. To His Ezcellency James H. Budd, Governor of the State of California—DFAR SIE: As a recent inmate of the State vrison at San Quentin I desire to call your attention toa few of the practices indulged in by some of the men in charge. First allow me to say that I was sent toSan Quentin five years for killing a sailor named Brown. Had I been properly defended I would have been exonerated, as I acted purely in self-defense. Like all convicts, I sppreciate that my word does not go for much, but just the same all that I say is true. 1 will pass over my personal treatment,which was barsh and cruel, from beginning to end, and get down to the facts. Prisoners without friends at San Quentin are subjected to the most inhuman treatment. If they don't happea to stand in with the guards they are forced 10 undergo the tortures of the dungeon on the slightest provocation. Men are butchered there for nothing. I know of one or two men who were killed and nothing wes even sald about it. The favored prisoners are allowed to carry knives, puild fires in their cells and have ali the opium they want. They did not like me because I was not an American. Mr. — and Mr. — are respons ible for all the trouble there. 1 do not think Warden Hale knows anything sboutit. I think,in justice to the prisoners at San Quentin, that this thing should be investigated. If you wantmy per- sonal experience there I will give it to you. My address is 722 Bush street. Yours respect- tully, PETER BROWN. Prison Inspector James Wilkins now comes forwarda with a statemuent which corroborates in a general way the allega- tions made by Brown. At a meeting of the prison directors held last week Mr. Wilkins made a report, of which the fol- lowing is a part: “I have closely questioned the best-in- formed officials and the prisoners addicted to the fatal habit, and from the evidence given no one should deny fora moment that a large supply of opium is constantly on hand within the walls and easily acces- sible to those who wish to use it. I might add that the same unfortunate condition of things has existed under all administra- tions of this prison, as long as I have been acquainted with it. “Strenuous efforts have been made by the Warden and his officers of late to sup- press the traffic. Yet the fact remains that there is still opium 1n the yard, and plenty of it at that. As a resuit of my inquiry I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that there are employes of this institution base enough to sell the drug to the prisoners. When I make this asser- tion I do not wish to appear as castinga general stigma on the reputation of the officials at San Quentin prison. The ma- jority I believe to be honorable men, who would scorn such a rascally transaction as heartily as any one could.” Brown, the ex-convict, in his letter to Governor Budd, eliminated ell the harsher features, but to a CALL reporter he told a horrible story of inside prison life, which, if only true in part, will be sufficient to land some of the very men now doing guard duty behind the bars. *‘It would take whole pages to tell of the inhuman treatment accorded some of the prisoners at San Quentin,” said Brown, “‘and of my own experience there I could tell more than you would care to publish. If a man stands in with the guards he is secure from all harm, but woe unto him if he offends them in any way. I wasnot liked by the keepers and I suffered accord- ingly.” “Two men were killed at San Quentin during the five years I was there and noth- ing was ever said about it. The only pun- ishment meted out to the murderers was thirty days in the dungeon. I came very near being killed myself by a cellmate, who was prompted to do the work by one of the guards. It all came about in this way. 1 hac a friend from this City come and see me, and because I refused to tell what con- versation passed between us the guard be- came angry, He threatened and cajoled by turns and incidentally made my situa- tion more uncomfortable by throwing me in the dungeon on the slightest provoca- tion. ‘‘Finally one night my cellmate, a man named Richardson, attacked me with a knife, and bad I not been the stronger of the two he would have killed me. Asit was I was laid up in the hospital for sev- eral weeks. For his unprovoked attack on me Richardson was sentenced to a few days in the dungeon, while I had six months taken off my good behavior time. “The favored prisoners are allowed to carry knives and build fires in their cells and, in fact, do pretty much as they please. Opium is to be had by any who has the money to purchase, the profits being di- vided between the guards and those who dispose of the drug. I had mnot been in prison a week before this same fellow Richardson offered me some of the opium, saying e could get all he wanted. After that I kept my eyes open, and found that what he said was true. Opium and other drugs may be had at San Quentin atall times. “‘All the trouble there is due to the two men, whose names I have given to Gov- ernor Budd. Iam sure that Warden Hale knows nothing about the rascality going on there, though he has only to keep a close watch and see for himself. A negro bas very little show at San Quentin. One of the men killed shortly after I entered the prison was a negro named Jackson. The murderer was given ten days in the dungeon and there the matter ended. NEW TO-DAY. ’ GOLOBERE BOWEN Are you careful what you eat, and what the family eats? Pure, sound food is of greater value than medicine —keeps you well. The foods listed below are not luxuries but the higher | grades of groceries not kept in ordinary stores; offered at popular prices. SPECIAL SAVING SALE. Monday—Tuesday—Wednesday Pasha Blend Coffee.....30c roast or ground. This_item offered now to please hundreds who purchased it at previous sales and have since urged its repetition. Sublime Lucca Olive Oil— % full quart 50c full pint 30c now is the salad season. Lobsters. . Ses .2 tingi/sc in jelly, 1 Ib. full weight, fine tlavor, Tegularly | Combined with Sublime oil make a delightful salad. Pine-Apple Syrup...bot goc | regularly 50c. | for pine-apple ice—delicious with | syphon soda. 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Bush 724 Market St. 1110 & 1112 Market $t. SAN FRANCISGO. < Baja California { Damiana Bitters 1s & powerful aphrodisiac and specific tonic for the sexual and urinary organs Of both sexes, and a grest remedy for diseases of the kidneys aud blad- der. A greai Restorative, Invigoratorand Nervine Sells on its own Merits—no long-winded testis ¥. monials necessary. d FINE PRINTING, 535 Clay St., San sco, Call DEATH IN AN OPEN DUOR Messenger Boy Harris Walked Darkly to a Fearful Doom. No Light on the Landing at the Mouth of the Elevator Well on the Top Floor. The funeral of Ben Harris, the district messenger boy who fell down an elevator shaft in the Ottinger Houseat 310 Stockton street, took place yesterday afternoon from the residence of the parents, 1413 Jackson street. Wiien the boy was found unconscious with a fractured skull at the bottom of the shaft at half-past 12 o’clock last Saturday morning, it was believed that he had been made the victim of foul play. This belief was strengthened yesterday by a report to the effect that the bov had gone upstairs to visit an attractive young womnan named Gipsy Ashton, and that he might have been thrown down the elevator by a jealous admirer of the fair Gipsy. t was reported also that Dr. Fitzgibbon, one of the surgeons in the City Receiving Hospital, had found signs of asphyxiation, as though the deceased had been choked before he had gone down the shaft. Dr. Fitzgibbon informed a CALL reporter yes- terday that when he examined young Harris he found that his breathing was very much impeded by potato salad and meat which the deceased had eaten a short time before. The shock of the fail had caused nausea and the particles of food had lodged in the larynx of the boy, causing partial strangulation, and Dr. Fitzgibbon was en- gaged about a quarter of an hour in pick- ing out the pieces of food so as to enable the dying boy to breathe freely. George Reed, also a messenger boy and Harris' chum, had just gone off duty at midnight and they were about to take the cars for home when a sporting man, who eats at Marchand’s and is known to the boys as Louis, gave Harris a dollar for the purpose of engaging a room for him at the Ottinger. Harris and Reed thereupon went to the messenger office on Sutert street to get the front door latch key of the Ottinger House, which was kept therein common with the keys of other lodging- houses in the neighborhood for the con- venience of belated guests and transients who might want a room. Reed waited for his friend outside the door of the Ottinger House for about twenty minutes, as near as he could judge, but the time no doubt seemed much longer than it actualiy was, he waiting a little impatiently. His friend not coming out, he went away. Ben Harris, the Messenger Boy Who Walked Through an Open Door to His Death. the house, it appears that young Harris knocked at several doors in quest of the landlord. The landlord not being at home, the boy was directed by a lodger named Babcock to the janitor's room on the top floor. He went upstairs to a small landing and walked across this in the dark through the open door of a freight-elevator, The elevator was used by the Taylor Furmture Company, which has a store- house on the same floor. Harris’ family say that thev may sue the furniture com- pany for damages for having left the ele- vator door unlocked. There were no other rooms on this floor and there was no light burning. The boy probably mistook the open doorway of the shaft for a little hallway and walked into it. _— Shot in the Hip. Jacapio de Santi, living at 634 Bay street, was in & playful mood yesterday morning on Francisco streec and knocked the pipe out of & fellow-countryman’s mouth. He was warned not to do it again, but the warning was un- heeded, and he was shot in the left hip. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where it was found that the wound was merely a flesh one. The police are searching for the man with the gun. e - ——— Cut by His Wife. Martin Mullane, & tailor, went to see his wife at 324 Fourth street yesterday afternoon, when she picked up a knife and cut him on the left wrist. The wound was dressed at the Receiv- ing Hospital. Mullane's wife deserted him From the statement of persons living in some time ago, and he went to try and get her to return. NaGRR, L | 323 Market S | ‘l‘nv:w:_l‘ionq.Am:mnncempnt& s,ef., Engraved David V. Waldron's Story of the Extent of the Sugar failea postpald for 10 cents in Stamy BRUNT, Yield. Wharfs and Railroads Needed Facilitate the Shipments—Going Direct to New York. to David V. Waldron of Los Angeles, who has been on a long trip to the Hawaiian Islands and who has visited all the islands of thegroup, is at the Grand. Mr. Wal- dron has been absent four months. Hesaw the crater of Kilauea, and visit- ing the island of Olaa made arrangements toward starting a coffee plantation. He will return there this fall. Mr. Waldron thinks some of these islands very fascinating. The people he met, too, it seemed to him were the finest he ever saw. “There are big opportunities down there,” he said. “‘There is a fine opening for building a railroad. 1t is expensive to land the sugar. The little boats have a very hard time. Hilo, on the big island of Hawaii, which has 2500 to 3000 inhabi- tants, is soon to have a whaif. If there was a railroad along the coast it would help things amazingly. “The sugar business is far more exten- sive than I ever dreamed it was. The size of the plantations and capacity of the milis filled me with astonishment. T saw 150 tons of clean, white sugar sacked from one mill, it being the result of but one day. The green cane which had been,put in produced this enormous amount in that short time. ‘A great deal of sugar is shipped direct from the islands—that is, from the out-of- the-way piaces—to New York. The big ship Rio zot a large cargo at Hilo while I was there. Ifit was notsuch an expense to handle the sugar, because of the absence of wharves and railroads in these places, more money would be made. “As it is, however, the planation- owners are making a great deal of money this year. This is owing to the great yield there and the fact that there is aimost no crop in Cuba.” Mr. Waldron formerly owned ten acres | in what is now largelg the best part of Los Angeles. He will go home in a few days. Row in a Saloon. Gus Mooney, well known in political circles, and James A. White, a colored janitor, quar- reled in the saloon, 1053 Market street, yester~ | day morning. A rough-and-tumble fight fol. lowed. during which White wascut in the neck and Mooney was wounded in the scalp, Thev were taken to the Receiving Hospital by Policema T. W. Handley, where their wounds were dressed, and then to the City Prison where Mooney was booked on the charge of as. saulf to murder and W hite With aase deadly we spon. eviia A