The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 10, 1896, Page 5

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, WED DAY, JUNE 10, 1896. 5 L GROWING BOOM FOR W, W, FOOTE, His Friends Hustling to Force the Chairmanship on Him. LOS ANGELES FOR HIM Daggett's Enemies Are Gouid's and the Fight Acquires the Proper Bitterness. SENATOR WHITE IS COMING. The Go'd Forces Surrender and Hcp: Only to Save a Little for the A:ministration. As the Democrats advance to the field where the battle over the State Convention chairmanship is to be fought, the prospect that <h ehs will be freely used and that ion in which he rested from the time of the Stockton convention until Senator Stanford got him the Mint is natural if not even laudable. Heis a strong character; the patronage power he has acquired he wields with vigor as a elub, and he is fighting his way boldly and ruthlessly to the top. If he should prove a dominantforce at the State Convention and win a controlling power in party affairs there would be written a striking and wonderful story of political fortune. So the opposition to Daggett masses it- self, and so this opposition goes to Dag- gett’s candidate for the chairmanship. lishes, Motfitt and Laymance, Alameda County, are naturaliy fearful of Gould, because they have on hand con- tests involving five votes in the Alameda delegation. The Foote-Laymance faction have twenty-one delerates and the Fitzger- ald-Daggett faction has fourteen, accord- ing to the credentials issued. If acom- mittee on credentials favorable to Daggett is appointed they are afraid that the con- testants would be seated, giving a major- ity to the Fitzgerald-Daggett end. X It was said last night by several promi- nent Democrats that before leaving for Los Angeles John T. Gaffey declared him- self against Gould and in favor of Foote. It appears certain that the whole Los Angeles delegation will be against Gould. McNub and Daggett's lieutenants de- clare that there 1s not the slightest danger of Gould’s defeat and tnat enough votes are pledged t> him now to elect him. But yesterday and last nignt Foote’s boom was being worked up with snhrewd industry. Gould, it is said, will to-day or to-mor- row make a strong statement declaring the fairness and impartiality of his inten- tions, his silver creed, his hostility to the railroad and the A. P. A.and especially his complete independence of JoLn Dag- geit and Gavin McNab. A. J. Clunie declared yesterday that | Gould could not escape the fact that he is | Duggett’s own candidate. T saw Mr. Gould two weeks ago,’” said Clunie, 1 asked him what he wanted gore will lay the dust become stronger. The chairmanship was much about yesterday. The opposition to Gould ared plainer and stronger. The latent | 8¢ nt of the party became more ac- | become for The chairmanship time tt come of the convention and the.course of its events depend so largely on it. T boom for Foote waxed stronger. He repeated during the day that he w neither a candidate nor a hog, and that any way b Democrat talked it gardless his « hes; about tne rising demand for him, which they assert comes irom all quarters of the State, and the grease leit of Frank Gould after the vote. “It Foote’s name is presented in the convention, d one of his friends yes- terday, “‘he would be elected with a whirl and a whoop. Los Angeles would go to him almost to 2 man, Alameda would give him nearly thirty votes, as some Fitzger- ald delegates would go to him, and so it would go down the list of delegations. Foote will be forced into it.” White is recarded everywhere as also a nan who could have the chairmanship inst 1ld on the slightest hint that he would accept it. White and his friends have not expressed themselves openly, his friends convention, but T ence and in nereased cor th d numbers about running him re- reas and the possibilities of his candidacy will | not be apt to be definitely seitled until about the end of the wee! vhen e is e pected home. White will be at the co: vention. Daggett and McNab, it is said, will in the hard efforts they will make to keep White out of the fight urge the wiscom of not imperiling bis Senatorial chances in the next Legislature by getting into fights unnece rily. The opponents of Daggett and his well- known ambition to secure a controling interest in the State machine are generaliy opponents of Gould, for the reason that Gould personifies the Daggett-McNab pro- gramme. Gouid is an absolute necessity to Daggett and McNab, for the chairman will appoint the committees on credentials and o platform and reso and will undoubtedly appoint the xecutive Committee. The anti-Gould people are recounting some of the evidences of Gould’s political partnership with Daggett and McNab, which enerally said to have included an agreement that Gould should be made chairman of the next State Convention tat and Speaker of the next Assembly, and | that otherwise the machinery to be cap- tured shculd grind a grist for him as well us for his pariners. have an eye on the Governorship. Gould called a meetine of the State Cen- tral Committee last April in accordance with _arrangements, and cracked through the Junta programme with such virulent partizanship, it is recalled that W. W. Foote told him during the session that he | was a disgrace to the party. Before this meeting and after the reso- lution recognizing the Junta was adopted McNab and other Junta laaders jubi- lantly proclaimed that victory was sure, because Gould would put their 161 dele. gates on the temporary roll and see that they voted for a chairman who would ap- point a friendly committee on crecentials. The Daggett-McNab-Rainey people de- clared freely those days that they ‘had Gould.” At that meeting of the Suate Central Committee McNab sat close to the chairman, giving suggestions that were followed ana opponents of the Junta were vigorously declared out of order. When Joseph Rothschild, while speaking, tried to proceed after an interruption de- claring that he had not finished Chairmian ht down his gavel and said: iles that yon had finisied.” The anti-Gould people ask if this is the sort of man to rule a Democratic State Convention, especially when a continua- tion of the programme he is interested in is one of thechief convention issues. Gould was first put forth as a candidate for the cheirmansnip by McNab and Dag- gett. Both lauded him at once,and his election has been one of the chief aims of Duggett and McNab, as they have scoured the State in their political labors, pledg- ing delegates and engaging proxies. Gould hae been given Mint patronage, and the anti-Daggett people say that he is especially close to Daggett, and is in- fluenced by him more than by McNabb. Not lon¢ ago one feature of the Daggett- McNab programme came out. It was that the local party wasto bereorganized under the direction of the State executive com- mittee which Gould was to appoint when he became chairmun. It was to be named largely by Daggett and McNab, and thus McNab to secure a controlling in in the new local machine. Jiver since last fall, when Daggett threw all his political energy and all his Mint patronage power into the fight for thelocal machine, Daggett has been declarine that he was interested in nothing lower than Siate politics. He has taken a keen per- sonal interest in the Assembly District politics of the Junta, and his friends have all along explained that what he was after was the convention delegations, and the State Central Committee men the district delegates would elect One distriet, the Thirty-ninth, serves to show Daggett’s piay. When thecampaign committee of the Junta was appointed some weeks ago it was generally known that Daggett made an especially bard fight to have J. A. Fenton of the Mint appointed as ti.e representative of that districtin the committee. For some reason Dr. W. J. Gavigan was named. Then asthe nomi- | nation of delegates came up McNab took up the cause of Daggett and proposed to recognize the Fenton faction nominees and to turn down Gavigan. It was well understood that McNab was carrying out a contract with Daggett, and what Daggett was after was the State Cen- tral Committeeman from that district, and that he wanted Fenton re-elected. Dageett’s programme won out. : With other districts it has been simi- larly well understood among the Junta people that Daggett wanted the State Con- vention votes and the State Central Com- mitteemen, and that Rainey was to have the purely local power. Daggett’s ambition to rise in triumph above his enemies from the political obliv- talked | V e leading issue, because the! health was not adapted toa | spot which they say would be | And Gould is said to | to get He sgid that he I said, ‘Well, Dag- vou are,’and he re- ht between the gold and silver . which showed up so strongly with prospects that the silverites would be in he minority, has faded from sight since ndslide to silver in the party has 1 oce! | The gold men have surrendered. of them are coming out for silver to be | with the majority. The platform will con- ver plank, but its character is Many of thesilver men say that 1d appoints the platform committee its report will contain a money plank that | will be either weak or a struddle. This and the indorsement of Cleveland to the full- est extent attainable is all that the Fed- ‘er:\l brigade now hopes to accomplish for the administration. BURIED PALACES EXHUMED. Remains of Roman Grandeur Found in England. The discoveries and results of the last year’s explorations in the ancient Roma- no-British city of Silchester, which are now on view at the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House, are far more impor- tant than those of any previcus year’s labor The area of the site—about acres—is for exploration purposes divided into a number of equal squares or insulw, and in the Insula XIV, near the west gate | of the city, two unusually fine large res dences have been exhumed trom the foun- principal rooms. The two houses are situated between the main streer runninz west and east from the western gate and another road parallel with it on the south, the entrances to both being from the souih street re- | ferred to and not from the main street, | toward which are the stables and ether | outhouses. The westerly honse presents the re- markable feature of being built completely round a central court, instead of on three sides of if, or with, as in some cazes, a wall on the fourth side. The area of the building is practically a square of 150 feet. On the sides of the centrai open-air court are two broad wings, with the principal | rooms placed between an outer and an |inner corridor—the grand entrance and | vestibules being central on the south front and the rear on the north being closed by | two large rooms within corridors as at the | sides of the edifice. | The inner court, or garden, is also partea from the vestibules by a corridor. By | these corridors access is freely afforaea ail over the ground floor of the building.” In the five vrincipal rooms of the eastern wing were five magnificent tesselated | pavements, three of which, each twenty | feet square, have been wholly removed and put together again in sections—the | balf of each pavement being as much as can be displayed in the society’s rooms hese are now on view with the rest of i this year’s collection. To give some idea of the extent of this Roman residence, we may note that this western wing of the edifice alone is as la as the whole of the Duke oi Devon- shire’s grand town house in Piccadilly. We may also observe that there have never before been tesselated pavements of such magnitude deposited for inspection in any temporary exhibition. The second or easternmost mansion is not quite a parallelogram in form, being 160 feet in length, but broader at the north than at the south end, the breadth aver- aging about 100 feet. This also has some | remarkable features, It is two stor:es in height, the principal rooms being on the west from abount the midlength to the south extremity, a hand- some tesselated gallery passing at the north across to a central block of rooms on the east side. The court 1s large and in the southern area, there being a gate in the eastern wall. In the southeast angle of the area is the entrance to the resi- dence, all the ground-floor rooms being accessible by a corridor, in the course of which are iraces of two stairs, which gave access to the upper rooms. There is also on the ground floor, entered from the cor- dor, an interior temple for domestic wor- sln:lp and a square altar for the household gods. This residence had, like the western house, an outer court on the north, with a wide gate leading into the main street. The eastern wall of the one house and the western side of the other abutted on streets running north and south, and the two houses together occupy the whole of one insula. It is singular to notice in their designs and construction the modifications of the typical Roman house of southern climes | to the exigencies of our northern region. | The Roman house in Pompeii has its windows opening to the ground, toward the central court with its fountain, and the sunshine which enters the court is re- flected from its paving to the ceilings of the rooms, and every device is a defense against heat and light. In these two | Silchester mansions everything is done to | shelter and to screen from draughts and winds; and the salons of the western house, sandwiched as they are by cor- ridors on each side of them, must have been lighted by some sort of clerestory ar- rangement from above. The western house has yielded further a most notable relic—a Roman pump, repre- senting completely, with its four lead pipes, their valves, and a central cistern in a iarge piece of timber, the foree pump de- seribed in Vitruvius as the machina Ctesi- bica. it is of exceptional interest, as being the first example of Roman hydraulic ms- chinery that has been met with in Britain. Our notice would be incomplete 1n even the most interesting points 1f we omitted the high praise due to the restoration of the wall-painted dado—the floral and still- life designs of wnich are singularly beauti- ful. Of pottery, glass and coins there are many examples, which, in ordinary collec- tions, would be noticeable; but the two grand residences absorb present atten- tion.—London Standard, —————— From some figures just issued it appears that the coal shipped from the Tyne— foreign, coastwise and for ships’ use—last year amounted to 11,011,110 tons, a de- Most | HOW NG H, SING WEDDED WONG A Maiden Who Was Sought by the Flower of Chinatown. ALMOST A “NEW” WOMAN The Bride is One of the Best- Known Interpreters in the City AND THE GROOM IS WEALTHY. The Most Gorgeous Ceremony Ever Witnessed at the Presbyterian Mission Home. There was a wedding at 920 Sacramento street last night which stirred the bon-ton of Chinatown to its center. Everything was conducted in the most sumptuous | scale, as befitted the position of the con- tracting parties, and the invitations, though numerous, were limited to ladies sion, which entered to the strains of the wedding march from '‘Lohengrin.” Dr. Condit performed tie ceremony, partly in Chinese ana fnrtly in English, but the “With this ring I do thee wed’’ was spoken so that all the American visitors understood. Congratulations from friends followed the completion of the ceremony, and then the entire bridal party, in con- formity with Chinese etiquette, sat facing the guests, the brideand xroom not daring to steal even a side-glance one at the other. Refreshments were served to all the guests, but it would have been the height of bad form for the wedding party to par- take of them, though the little brides- maids finally forgot their manners to the extent of just tasting some ice-cream. When the feast was over, the happy pair drove to their flat, a block away, in separate hacks, amid a shower of rice. According to Cliinese custom, the groom had paid the whole expenses of the wed- ding, including the bride’s gown, and some of the young ladies were heard to observe that if the custom prevailed in American circles there migit be more weddings. JUDGE CJFFEY’S RULE. Septimus De Greayer Wants Very Badly to Break It. The action of Judge Coffey in refusing to give control of the estate of young Harry de Greayer to his uncle, Septimus de Greayer, bas been made the subject of a writ of certiorari,which has been granted to the Supreme Court. Harry de Greayer is the son of the man of the same name, who was killed by Po- liceman Harper in the park some vears ago. Harry is now in England and bis uncle has made frequent attempts to get hold of the money belonging to his ward, amounting to about §12,000. Judge Coffey has always thwarted this desire and has held the mounev in bank subjectto the order of courr, according to a rale estab- lished by Judge (‘uffey.h s e r senior holds that Judge yfirre‘:l‘;eprevuutiug'a guardian pn\‘ifig control of his ward's estate is illegal. | and an anti-Rainey constitution, BANEY 15 BISS OF THE JONTA Ed Lanigan Flops and Forms a Partnership With Him. WILL SHAKE THINGS UP. Reorganization of the Party by Some Plan Becomes a Certainty. THE JUNTA TURNS TO SILVER. Buckleyites Are Certaia That Victory ‘Will Foliow the Hot Open- ing Battle. Sam Rainey has captured the local Junta organization by taking Ed Lanigan into camp. This deal gives the Rainey-Daggett ele- ment the control of the General Commit- tee, which they thought they had secured a few weeks ago, just before their defeat at the last meeting of the General Committee. At that time the anti-Rainey element won the organization by securing Lanigan, | with his sixty or more votes. Lanigan stayed on the fence between | the factions until the last minute, holding the balance of power. Then McNab and Sullivan made a combination with him anti- Rainey committees and a concentration of anti-Rainey strength followed. | Lanigan grew sore very early. He did | not get the recognition he claimed from McNab and Sullivan, and he grew weary of their ways of doing politics. A week or more ago he and Rainey patched up their differences and became partners again as of old, after being apart for a year and a half. Lanigan is shrewd, experienced and strong in local politics, and the combination is ready todo politics as they ought to be done. Some anti-Raineyites assert that they still have a majority, but there are quiet smiles at thaton the other side. Rainey and Daggett have been busy since the bat- tlea few weeks ago and Lanigan substracts 100 | dation to the height of the dado of the | crease of 842,023 tons compared with 1894. | == ) G Picturesque Scene at the Fashiomable Wedding Last Night in Chinatown. and gentlemen of the Christian persua- sion. This caused not a little heartburn- ing among the fashionable heathens, many of whom were almost willing to fore- swear their gods and abjure punk forever, on condition-that they could secure one of the courted cards, requesting “Your presence at the marriage of Miss Wong Cheng and Mr. Ng H. Sing.” | Every one who knows anything about Chinatown has heard of Miss Wong Cheng. She is the official interpreter of the Presbyterian Mission Home, where she has lived and endeared herself to the in- mates for the last eighteen years. Miss Wong Cheng was just four years old when Mr. Hunter of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children rescued her from slavery and handed her over to the mission. Since then she has gone in for the higher education, and has become known all over Chinatown as Miss Cul- bertson’s interpreter. She is also well known in the courts where she has quite a reputation for her veracity. Miss Wong Cheng’s frienas used to boast that there was nota girlin San Fran- cisco who had had more offers. Christians and heathens sought her hand, but all in vaia, till Ng H. Sing saw her going to church one day, proposed and was ac- cepted. It was not ail done in a minute. Mr. Ng H.’s case at first seemed as hope- less as that of the other suitors who had preceded him, but Mrs. Lun Tung, a girl who had married from the home and was a friend of bath parties, undertook to doa Beatrice-and-Benedict act. She pointed out to Miss Wong Cheng that the gentleman’s initials of N. G. bhad Dot any sinister significance at all; on the contrary he was president of a Christian Endeavor Society in Dr. Pond’s church and that he was making money as part- ner in a wicker-ware furtor{, all of which he was ready to lay at her feec. Mr. Ng H. Sing was in turn fortified by Miss fnng Tun, who assured him that a young lady who was president of the Mission Home Christian Endeavor Society could never be so cruel as to give him the marble heart forever. It turned out as she predicted and yesterday’'s wedding was the result. The guests were bidden for 8 o’clock and before that time there was scarcely room to walk about on the parlor floors of the Mission. The rooms had been beautifully decorated with natural flowers and ivy, and all the lights were shrouded in pink. Over the spot where the bride was to stand hung a large bell of pink sweet peas sus- pended on crossed ropes, garlanded with sweet peas and ivy. One side of the large boardroom was crowded with Chinese friends of the bride and groom; the other side was occupied bfi their white friends and by the !adies of the board,all of whom expressed regret at losing their interpreter. he Chinese who were not bidden to the feast which followed it sought distraction from their chagrin by inspecting tne ele- gant little flat at 920 Clay street waich the groom had prepared for his bride, and which was illuminated and thrown open to visitors. The wedding procession entered the par- lors at 8 . M. headed by Rev. Dr. Condit, pastor of the First Chinese Church, The " groom, a pleasant-looking - little | man, beautifully gowned in blue and white silk, followed. Then came the ' best man, then Sun,and after him were two gorgeous little pages, Chu Wing and Andrew Wing. Ah Ching, the maid of honor, was more resé)lendant than Solomon in all his glory, and as for the bride’s dress, words pale before the magnificence of the blue and pink silk and the massive embroideries of which it was composed. At the back of her head, encircling her chignon, was a tasteful coronet of pearls, and she carried a big bouquet of white roses. Two little six-year old bridesmaids, Ah Lon and Lai Iuen completed the procese WANT A NIGHT SCHCOL, Point Lobos Improvement Club Seeking to Benefit Rich- mond District. Resolution Passed Indorsing the Police Departmeni{—Board of Health Also Praised. One of the pressing needs of Richmond district, as told at a meeting of the Point Lobos Improvement Club at Croswaithe Hall last evening,is a night school. It was determined to send a communication to the Associated Clubs asking their co- operation in the matter. The executive committee was also instructed to make a personal appeal to the Board of Education for the establishment ot the school. Presi- dent Fletcher contended that Richmond was well thought of by a majority of the board, and if the proper effort was put forward zood results would follow. The meeting was called to order by Pres- ident Fletcher at 9 o’clock. A communi- cation from the Merchants’ Association was read asking the club to appoint a committee of two to attend a convention of the Associated Clubs,to be held at a later date, for the purpose of considering the new charter. On motion final considera- tion of the matter was postponed for two weeks. The following resolution was then read by Secretary Johnson and passed without a dissenting vote: 3 We have before us a copy of the Examiner of May 29, 1896, in which we learn that the Rich- mond District Imrrflvcmenl Club held a meet- ing on the 27th of thut month and adopted & resolution protesting against the npgliclngn of the Police Department for fifty additional officers. The resolution said that ‘‘the depart- ment s incompetently managed and that no new officers shouid be selected until the service is reorganized.”’ « The Point Lobos Improvement Club takes issue with the foregoing statement. Their ex- perience is that_the Police Department has aiways evinced the liveliest interest in the welfare of the Richmound district, We have a much higher ratio per capita of police protec- tion than any other part of the City, as far as we can judge, and chalienge the production of figures to the contrary. We consider the resolution a slur upon the management of the police force in this City, and we respectfully eall npon the Richmond District Improvement Club to present the fact orfacts upon which such sweeping charges have been made. I. 8. Green, Luke Bettles, Joseph Preston, R. M. Wood, F. T. Newberry (secretary), executive committee. The proposed night school was then dis- cussed at length, after which the meeting adjourned. Preparing to Ratify. At the meeting of the Howard Ciub last evening at Pythian Castle Hall a commit- tee of four, consisiing of Messrs, Blattner, Dougherty, Ezezers, Kincaid and Dunn, was appointed by t‘m chair to arrange for a ratification meeting and parade by the club as soon as the news of the nomination of a Regublicnn candidate for President is received. ‘The club expects to turn oat 500 strong. After the regular business of the club had been transacted the members were enter- tained by Messrs. Durand, Silver, Wyatt, Johanson and others wiith songs, music and recitations. 3 ——————— The Argentine Republic is going to send a team of polo-players to England next summer, and much interest is expressed to see their ponies, which are said to com- prise specimens of every kind bred in South America. sixty votes from one side and adds them to the other. As the State Convention is the thing of overshadowing importance and as policy directs that family troubles be suppressed until the convention is over there is not much noise being made about the revolu- tion. The Rainey - Daggett - Lanigan pro- ramme is to call a meeting of the General Jommittee soon after the State Conven- tion, amend the constitution to suit and revolutionize the committees, etc. It is freely said that when the State Con- vention is over, and_time to go to work comes, Sullivan, McNab, Braunhart, | Popper and that crowd will be promptly “dumped.” But this revolution is not so important as it might seem, because there will be a reorganization of the local party in some way aiter the State Convention. This fact is evident on every hand. There is a recognition on both sides of the fact that the party must unite to have a ghost of a show of winning anything in the muni pal fight. The Buckleyites have urged reorganiza- tion and compromise from the start. Last fall they wanted Judge Maguire to ap- point & committee to superintend a pri- mary for the election of a new General Committee for the whole party. They offered to let the Junta people name haif of such committee ard they offered to submit to a primary run by the Deuprey committee, but the Junta would touch nothing in the nature of compromise, shouted that they were the party and would be to the end. But McNab, Sullivan et al. on the other side haye had a reorganization scheme in view. They recognized the heterogeneous nature of their own organization, full of warring elements, impossible to hold to- gether,and the fact that their organization represented a small minority of the party. They declared that no ‘‘compromise’ with the Buckleyites would ever come, but Elanned a new organization, which might e recognized by the partv while they still retained control. McNab's scheme’ is to have the reorzanization carried out by the new State Executive Committee, which they expect Frank Gould to appoint when he is elected chairman of the State Con- vention. Leading Buckleyites say that they will cheerfully submit to a new General County Committee elected at a primary for the whole party if such a primary can be con- ducted under guarantees thay it will be fairly conducted and the votes nonestly counted. Some of them put forth the vlan yesterday that Congressman Maguire, W. W. Foote and Senator White be made a_ non-factional commission to devise a plan of reorganization and boss it. Seeing that reorganization is bound to occur before long and that both the pres ent rival central committees will likely go out of power many of the members of the Junta committee are alarmed at what is likely to occur under McNab’s operations. In a new scramble for place on even terms with the Buckleyites district politicians who bave achieved some rank in the or- anization for which they have fought so ong might find themselves on the little end of everything. There are plenty of people in the Junta who declare that the organization will go right ahead and put up a_ticket anyhow, but the politically wise know that when the time comes an overwhelming party sentiment will demand unification in the party interest, and that opposition to the results of a reorganization approved by the weightiest party influences would be like butting heads against a stone wall. The reorganization will, of course, be ac- complished with much pain and noise of battle. The Junta 1s flopping from gold to silver. Two weeks ago there were not 20 of the 161 State Convention delegates who were not voluntarily or by force of patronage firm for gold. But the gold forces bave abandoned the fight and silver is the pop- ular side. s Chairman Sullivan is feeling the dele- gates on the proposition of holdine another meeting and declaring for silyer. This, 1t is thought, would help them up at the State Convention. Whether this is done or not a majority of the delegates | will likely take a silver stand at Sacra- | mento, if they get a chance to vote. i The local factions are nervously wonder- ing how the contest will come out at Sac- ramento. It now appears certain ti:at the Buckleyites will be given ut least half -a vote in the interest of party success, if they are not seated asa whole, through the merit of their cause and the fact that they represent so mauy times greater an element in the party. | This contest will afford an awful row at Sacramento, according to indications. The first question is, will the Junta suc- ceed in staying on the temporary roll and voting for the temporary chairman? Mec- Nab says that is sure. The Buckleyites say that the sun may fall, but the Junia delegation will never vote until the con- test is settled. They declare with perfect confidence that the delegates from the State gener- i- ally will never for a moment submit to the carrying out of the McNab-Daggett- Gould programme in this respect. An at- tempt will undoubtedly be miade to force throuzh this programme of letting the Junta delegation vote on its contest, but bloody war will follow. If the contest were of the ordinary sort this would go, because it is usual for dele- gations bearing credentials from the re- turning board to be seated and participate in temporary organization. But in this case both delegations have credentials, They proceed from rival and independent organizations which held in- dependent elections. 'he question is not which delegation, but which orgauization is the rignful one. The Buckleyites make the ciaim that they represent the regular party organization of continuous history; that the others rep- resent bolters and that the recognition of the Junta by the State Central Committee was illegai, unwarranted and wholiy with- out the power and duty of the State Cen- tral Committee, which had no power to bind a fature convention which is the sole judge of the qualifications of its members. Tue situation bas few precedents, but the precedents are all in favor of the re- tirement of both sides until the contest is settled by the convention. The Buckleyites assert that the country delegates are by a majority either for them or for a fair hearing and that they willksund none of Gould and McNab's tricks. FRESH DISPLAY NEEDED Manager Filcher of the State Board of Trade Desirous of Replenishing the ¥ruit Exhibit. Manager Filcher of the State Board of Trade is sending out requests to all por- tions of the State for the receipt of fresh fruit exhibits. He is especiaily desirous of replenishing the display of cherries. Mr. Filcher has been invited by the League of Progress of the Livermore Vai- ley to make an address in Livermore on ;June 16 for the purpose of injecting a little enthusiasm, as the latter states, into agricultural and horticultural affeirs. The Viticulturist Association has voted to aid in making the meeting on that day a par- ticularly good one. ABOUT SNAKE OHARMING. A Theory That the Optic Nerve Is the Part Affected. Allen Chamberlain tells, in the Forest | and Stream, about a Georgia man who saw a little whip snake coiled on some leaves. He stopped to look at the reptile and as he did so there was a rustle of the leaves as the snake wagged its tail. After a few moments it seemed as 1f & little blne vapor was coming from the snake. A suffoca- ting sensation seized the man. Then he suddenly realized that he was being charmed, but with considerable effort he managed to break the spell and seize the snake in his hands and kill it. Mr. Cham- berlain says that “‘no man who kuew the subject of his experience would for a mo- ment question its truthiulness, and yet it must be admitted that it is well calculated to arouse the stranger’s suspi In the issue of March 28, 187 same paper a writer said: “‘One April morning in the woods I heard a rustle in the leaves and saw a five or six foot blacksnake. inches of bhis tail was in rapid vibration. Ilooked at it interested for a while, and the vibrating portions began to show all the prismatic colors with such beauty of comgmatiun as to be indescribable. My eyes blurred, and there was a pleasant sensation of dizziness. The first I knew I was falling to the ground frigntened. [ turned away. My muscles and nerves were unsteady. The snake raised at me several times. The same summer I made experiments on the same kinds of snakes, none less than five or six fect long.”’ In the October (1880) issue of Nature an article on the subject of “Snake Fascina- tion’” told of the action of a bird that watched a viper, “At the distance of ten yards I sawa snake whose body, the head of which was lifted from the ground about three feet, was swaying to and fro. A plaintive shriek attracted my attention to a green finch in a branch of a young pine over- | hanging the snake; its feathers were ruf- fled, following with a nod of his head on each side of the branch the motions of the snake. He tottered, spread out his wings, alighted on a lower branch and so on un- til the last branch was reached. stick at the snake, and like an arrow it dis- appeared. On approaching I saw the green | finch on the ground agitated by convulsive | and spasmodic_motions: he clutched my finger spasmodically. He eagerly drank water, and after a while flew away. While | watching the snake I felt a peculiar giddi- I mess, a squeezinz like an iron hoop | pressed in my temples, and the ground seemed to heave, quite like seasickness. I think snake fascination is the result of fa- tigue of the optic nerve.” Every work of natural history dealing with snakes and their ways has reference to “snake charming.” The Smithsonian itution report for 1893 said in part: “The popular belief in the power of the oisonous snake to ‘charm’ its victims is no means exterminated. I'rustworthy ogservers have related how birds and small animals have been seen to approach the coilad snake, drawn toward it as by a magic spell,”” yet “in spite of all that has been argued for and against it there are people who profess to have ocular proof of this power. “Professor Brehm once made a series of experiments in a well-lighted room,”” says the report, “and in every case except one the victim at first made its escape, but was captured in articulo mortis after betraying its waning strength by curious symp- toms.” The birds and animals were spar- rows, gophers, rats, weasels, quails, wood- peckersand meadow larks.—Pittsburg Dis- patch. —_———— The Berries He Had to Sell. A young Italian was calling his wares in the streets of Boston. He was appar- ently a new arrival in this land of the free and had forgotten the name of the strawberries he had for sale.” And so he was calling cheerfully in his pleasant voice: *Lit'l red berries, feefteen centa box. Lit’l red berries, berr-ics!”—Boston Transcript. Four hundred human beings were sacri- ficed in Ashantee after the King’s acces- sion in 1891, NEW TO-DAY. BICYCLES. STANDARD OF THE WORLD. $100 ALIKE 0 ALL IF YOU CAN'T BUY A. COLUMBIA THEN BUY A.... HARTFORD. $65.00. $50.00. $45.00. Bargains in Second-hand Bicycles of other makes. 5 CALL AND SEE THEM. POPE MANUFACTURING COMPAXY, 844 POST STREET. COLUMBIA CYCLERY, 1974 PAGE, NEAR STANYAN. Two or three | Iflunga | I.G‘! CENSURED JUDGE BAHAS Cycle Board of Trade Takes Exception to a R cent Trial. More Directors Elected and Many Committees Appcinted for the B.g Night Parade. The San Francisco Bicyele Board of Trade met last night in Varney’s biclo- rama, on Market street, appointed com- mittees to prepare for the big bicycle night parade next month, officially cen« sured Judge Bahrs for his conductina recent trial of an alleged bicycle thief, and listened to and discussed the proposition of taking hold of the Centrat Park cycle track as an advertisement for the general bicycle trade, and incidentally as an accommodation to the racing men who want the track nghintained. _Tiisis the way Judge Bahrs was criti- cized: WHEREAS, The Hon. George H. Bahrs of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco upon the recent irial of one Harry Hafford npon a charge of telony for tho embezzlement of & bicycle refused to listen to testimony bearing upon the value of said bicycle and tending to prove said charge, but arbitrarily reduced said charge to misde. meanor on ' the assériion of & personal knowledge of the value of said bicycle; Eesolved, That we, the members of the San Francisco Cycle Board of Trade in regular meeting assembled, condomn the action of said Judge as autocratic, unwarranted and tending to defeat the ends of justice. Then the members turned to one of the chief purposes for which they are striving and drafted the following resolution favor- ing the new charter: Be it resolved by the Cycle Board of Trade that we recommend the sdoption of the pro- posed new charter for the government of this City, and that we pledge our best efforts to ac- complish the ratific on of said charter by the people on November 3 and its subsequent ap- proval by the Legislature of this S A committee was also appointed to visit the Draymen and Teamsters’ Union on June 13 and convert the members of that organization to advocates of a bitumen pavement. The monthly dues were increased from 50 cents to $1, and the number of directors of the Bicy Board of Trade from thir- teen to eizhteen, the following five new directors being elected; Messrs. Watts, Marwedel, Brand, Crawford§ and Plum- mer. During the long discussion over the Central Park racetrack proposition C. Michener of the California Cveling Club, Radke of the Imperial Cycling Club, Peiser of the San Francisco Road Club, the lessees of the park, and several of the cycle dealers spoke in favor of having the Cycle Board of Trade undertake the man- | agement. | “I'he following committee was appointed to look 1nto the matter more carefully and report at a special general meeting of the board, to be held at Varney's next Friday evening, June 12: Messts. Plummer, Bryan jand Varney. At that time it is expected the following committees, appointed last | night, will be ready to report: | To arrang: (chairman), J. Bryan and E. C. C, Watts parade for July 25 E. d Brand, W, Buckleton, F s J. Kenney (chairmav), c . E. Wheeler, chairman ; H. B. Varney and W. Marwedel. To wait on Park Commissioners and request the buildiug of a cycle path—R. C. Leanie, chairman; J. H. Brunings and L. Devaney. Broke Her Ankle. 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