The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1896, Page 8

"PROTECTION” “The Call” Canvasses This City to Glean Local Opinion. ONE LIFE-LONG DEMOCRAT NOW FOR Cogent, Concise and This Grave Subject by Irving M. Scott, President of the Union Iron Works. «Protection” is the battle cry of the Re- publican party in California for the com- ing campa! The contest is on in real earnest, and this State has fallen into line with those numerous Eastern States that have that of protection to American labor and American industry. From hill and vale, metropolis and vil- lage, farmer and manufacturer, comes a shout for protection. “We must have it says the fruit- “the Wilson bill hasbeen our grower; ruin.” The cry is echoed by all—wool-raisers, tobacco-growers, iron foundrymen, car- riage builders, shoe manufacturers, cutlery manvfacturers, and all who are looking forward to the inauguration of McKinley as the beginning of a brighter era, from the closing years of which the country can Jook back with a shudder at the calamities and misfortunes incident to the Cleveland administration. TrE CALL has just made a canvass of the Jeading manufacturers and producers of this City, and the results may be briefly summarized in one paragraph. The opinion is almost unanimously prevalent that so far as the fortunes of the Golden State are concerned there is only one e on which the stanch Republi- can man-of-war should sail forth to con- quer the foe, and that is protection. Pro- tection is both her defensive armor and her weapon of attack, the “Big Betsy’ of | the campaign. The money question, it will be found by reading the following thoughts of those who were seen on the subject, men who are extensively enzaged in the manufac- ture and production of Californian ar- ticles and should certainly know whereof they speak, is generally regarded as vital, but in few instances is it considered ihe living, breathing issue of the coming campaign, That honor is accorded wholly and solely to the doctrine of a pro- tective tariff. “What matters it,” said an extensive manufacturer, “whether monometallism or bimetallism prevails when a man’s pockets are a stranger to both gold and silver? Let us revive Californian industries, and with plenty of money n circulation we ghall soon find the question easy of solu- tion.” . The whole situation in a nutshell is given by Irving M. Scott in an able and scholarly review. Though the language varies with the man, it will be found that the general consensus of opinion may be discerned in that article. Porter Brothers. A.W. Porter of the well-known frmt- shippers and packers was as enthusiastic in his indorsement of THE CALL’s policy as he was emphaticin hisdenunciation of the pernicious Wilson tariff. ‘First, last and for always is protection the issue for Cali- fornians,” he said. “What will become of our orchards and vineyards unless we can shut off the inflowing of foreign fruits from the cheap-labor countries? “Trg CaLy has sounded the battle-cry for the Republicans of the State. We must have protection. If we don’t we will have devilish little use or care for the money question. Yes, [can see a great difference in our business since the Wilson bill be- came a law. To any oneof at least a mod- erate degree of intelligence it must be ob- vious that the present depression and the tight-bound times of the last three years are due to the pernicious Democratic tariff. Look at the depreciation jn our real-estate values! It can be traced directly to the | commercial gloom spread over the country by the Wilson bill. I think we need gono further. Protection should be the issue throughout the Union, but_particularly is it the paramount question here.” Hunt Bros. & Co. One of the largest fruit-packing estab- lishments in Central California is that of Hunt Bros. & Co. in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. The company employs between 700 and 800 hands, and its business aggre- gates hundreds of thousands of dollars. J. H. Hunt, the founder and head of the company, was in the city yesterday and expressed himself strongly. He has been a Democrat from the casting of his initial vote. ‘“Yes, I have been a Democrat all my life, and am a Demoerat still, but I fear I shall have to vote for McKinley. Of course, as a Democrat who came from a race of Democrats, I hesitate about an- nouncing such a decision, but it is a solemn fact nevertheless. There has been & gradual decline amonyg the manufactur- ing industries under the late tariff—or during the last two years and a bhalfi—and it amounts to the same thing, whoever considers the situation. I concur most beartily that the tariff is the issue in Cali- fornia above all others. Silver can take care of itself until after we place our in- dustries on a prosperous and permanent basis. Itisnot alone the manufacturers and those engaged in the various depart- ments of commerce who are affected. The farmers feel the pressure. Their products are worth less to them during such times, and in our business we hear their com- blaints on every hand. California must {)aule for a protective tariff.” 8. Koshland. “Speaking as & wool merchant I must confess that the Wilson bill was not as harmful in its effect on the wool industry as we all expected it would be. But there is no cause for gratulation in that. An evil is an evil, whether it is small or large. 1 believe in the early adjustment of this money question, bus I think the leading issue in California is the tariff. By way of illustration, here is a sample of cloth which I received from a tailor friend this morning. It emphasizes the pernicions effects of the Wilson tariff.” Stripping the edges between his fingers, he con- tinued: “It is apparently a piece of gray striped woolen goods, and the average person would accept it for what it appears 10 be. Now, look at this, A few threads MANUFACTURERS" SLOGAN, subordinated every other issue to | b T McKINLEY. Scholarly Article on of wool on the face and the rest is all shoddy. Yes, that % one of the effects of | the tariff. As to California? Yes, I think | the money question is of secondary im- | portance. ~ Protection is first. To be sure, we want good money, but what use will any money be to us if the industries are | not fostered? We want a market, and we | can’t get our goods into any market with a fair show unless we have protection.” J. H. Davis. The San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works are operated by a firm of three. Every member of the firm is unqualifiedly for protection. This is what J. H. Davis has to say: “I presume that our indtistry, more par- ticularly than any other, needs -protec- tion. There is a great amount of ware imported here; beer and wine bottles, and demijohns, for instance. “With the proper protection these canall be made on this coast, and we are at this | time making evtensive preparations to put up a larze concern for the manufac- ture of these various products. We fully believe that we are going to have protec- tion, and if we believed otherwise would not dare to embark upon this enterprise. { Our hope of success lies with the Repub- lican party and protection. *‘There is no question in thls matter; we simply find it impossible to compete with the pauper labor of Europe in our line. Under the McKinley bill we were extremely prosperous, there was no lost time and the men worked all the year round. Assoon as the Wilson bill came into operation all the glass works in the United States were forced to shut down at some period or another, and some were | forced to ehat down entirely. *‘Some of the members of our firm have | been East several times during the last | year to look up the latest improvements in order to perfect the plant we intend putting in. We are entering on these ex- tensive improvements with the full confi- | dence that the Republican party will be victorious November next.” G. H. Newman. Newman, another member of the firm that operates the San Francisco and Paci- fic Glass Works, is equally emphatic in his advocacy of protection. “Four years ago,” he said, ‘‘glass-blow- ers in this establishment, as a rule, were Dermocrats, but out of the 160 men em- | ployed here 1t would be difficult—nay, im- possible—to find anything but a Republi- can now. The men are whooping it up | for McKinley. No more Democratic glass- blowers. “You see, when the Wilson tariff bill went into operation the most of them thought that as the price of beer bottles | would be cheaper beer would be cheaper. | But there they made a sad mistake. The beer remained the same in price, but the money to buy it with is missing. “The money question is a_ secondary issue. So far as we are concerned we are wiiling to take either gold or silver in the payment of biils, but mainly, we want our | — o & Chiznatnr =) June 26, 1896. Editor of the "Call," San Francisco—Dear Sir: In reply to your inquiry as to which I consider to be the) paramount issue in the coming Presidential contest I unhesitatingly Protective tariff. ! say, There never has been any trouble in obtaining money for all the needed purposes of carrying on a manufacturing establishment provided the establishment has business, and there has always been a difficulty in raising money of any kind where the establishment had but little business; not enough to keep itself fully occupied. The relations between gold and silver now existing country are as much a benefit to the workingman as they are to the capitalist, and the relations of gold and silver are of no value! whatever to a workingman who is out of employment. to obtain either gold or silver is by working, and there is no con- dition of affairs that can be brought about by any political party whatever that will enable a man to obtain money without giving its But the direst distress ®ccurs all over the country where the industries are not in a healthy condition. piness, enterprise, expansijon and advancement follow the 1line of equivalent in labor. prosperity. From the beginning of the settlement of America in 1620 up to the present date, every period of protection to American industries| has resulted in prosperous times, and every period of the absence of protection or low protection has always resulted in a depressed condition of affairs with much suffering and trouble. As the Government is for all the people, it seems to me that to have the entire population profitably and permanently employed importance than any other presented, and I earnestly believe that {will vote straight for McKinley and protection, upon the platform |adopted at St. Louis, all the results wished for will be realized before his administration is ended. will be the spur to greater expansion, more confidence with capi-| tal, greater chances of employment for all kinds of labor, and will start such an era which all have devoutly wished for during the last four years, and which will bring prosperity and the oppor- tunity of occupation to more people in the United States than any other issue named by any party of any shade of political opinion. must be of greater Yours respectfully, if our fellow-citizens The very fact of his election in the The only way Hap- issue that can be %m/w tobacco was grown in the South, I supplied the Eastern market with smoking and chewing tobacco and cigars. If necessary, 1 could do vastly better than that. “I am of the opinion that even the Mc- Kinley tariff was not high enough. We are anxiously looking to the Republican party for assistance as a dmowning man clutching at a straw, and if it gives the necessary aid by enacting a high pro- tective tariff Caliiornia 1s all right so far as tobacco is concerned.” Jncob Brandt. All the tobacco raised by Culp is manu- factured into cigars by Jacob Brandt at his factory on Battery street, near Merchant. Brandt is strong in his advocacy of protec- tion, and would subordinate every other | issue to it. “I am a manufacturer, a California man- ufacturer,” he said, “and from the stand- point of experience in my business I can say that we need protection, and need it badly. “I don’t believe the money question should cut any figure in the coming cam- paign as compared with protection. I re- gard this especially true of California. “I am obliged every year to import many thousands of pounds of Havana to- bacco to satisiy the wants of consumers, and it sends a large sum of money away from the coast annually. If we could keep men to work all the year round and we cannot employ them without protection. *“Under the McKinley tariff we were working all the time, but under the Wil- son tariff we have been able to work only about two-thirds the time. This is the general experience of glass manufaciurers all over the country.” George Palmer. Palmer is another membersof the firm which controls the San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works. Like bis colleagues, he was ready and willing to express him- self fully on the question of protection. “The laboring men in this line,” he said, “have suffered a reduction of 14 per cent in wages since the inauguration of the Wilson tariff bill. This is true of the country at large. “*Since that time beer bottles have been imported, both into this State and the East, at prices less than they can be manu- | factured in either place. ‘L don’t think the money question { should be taken into consideration at all. | There is nothing the matter with money. What trouble we are having can be amicably settled in due time by inter- national agreement, but protection is a living, breathing issue, especially for Cali- fornia, and we must have it. “‘Manufacturers all over the country are now thinking more of protection than of anything else, and we look to the Repub- lican party for our salvation. If we are disappointed, farewell to Pacific Coast in- dustries.” George W. McNear. ““It is protection before silver in Califor- i nia, by all means,” said the great shipper | and now flour manufacturer, when asked for an opinion. *Our industries are cer- | tainly of the first importance and must be protected. After that we can regulate the money. But first we must have some- thinieto sell and something with which to buy before we can consider the medium of barter and exchange. Our industries, largely developed though they are, can be considered only in their infancy. They need protection and THE CaLL is right in assuming that tariff protection is the par- amount issue in the coming campaign so far as California is concerned. It would be difficult to draw a forcible local com- parison between the effect of the McKinley and Wilson bills. We import no flour, as you know, but in other lines of trade one must close one’s eyes to fail to see the cause of the depression. We are all natu- rally anxious to have a sound money basis, but Cahfornia is less interested in the two metals than she is in a tariff law which shall enable us to do business with the worla on an equal footing.” J. D, Culp. The largest amount of land owned by one person and used for tobacco-raising in Cahiornia is that of J. D. Culp, Santa Clara County. “With proper protection,” said Culp, “I would have 500 acres devoted to the raising of tobacco. All that is necessary is to pro- tect us growers of tobacco from foreign competition. With that safeguard Cali- fornia could supply the world. “During the civil war, when very little that money in circulation in this State we would have so much of it that the parity or disparity in the valua of silver and :old would make little difference. “Since the Wilson bill reduced the duty on tobacco we have been forced to compete with the coolie labor of the island of Sa- matra. What can a manufacturer do ina case like that? Those coolies work for 8 and 10 cents a day and purchase all their supplies from their employers. “The only way we stand any chance at | all is in being properly protected. We are hoping for the day to come when the Re- publicans will give it to us.” Sperry Milling Company. Horace Davis, president of this promi- nent flour firm, said: “THE CALL is indi putably right. Where will our orchard, vineyards and other departments of agr culiture be if they are not protected? The tariff is by far a more important issue to Californians thau silver. What do we care about money if we have to use it only to pay debts? Look at our orchards. They are in their infancy comparatively. They mast be protected, and I shouid think that every man in California who has any conneciion with her industries must see that protection is infinitely more important than the settlement of the money question. Tariff, and not silver, is our issue.” Fulton Iron Works. James Spiers, the president of the Ful- ton Iron Works, proved a strong aavocate of protection. “It 13 certainly the lead- ing issue for California,” he said, “and the money question must take a second place. Our industries are in the fostering stage, and protection should be the watch- word of all loyal Californians. Of course we cannot ignore the importance of the financial question. We want sound money, but the fight between gold and silver is secondary in importance to the people of this State. Some time when I am at leisure I would like to give you a few facts bearing on the subject of a protective tariff for California.” Joshua Hendy, Joshua Hendy, president and manager of the Joshua Hendy Machine Works, is unqualifiedly for the protective issue as 1aking precedence over the money ques- tion. “What would this State be without the farmer?” he asked. “Yet we are fast driving them to the wall. Look at the wool and raisin indus- tries—what they used to be. What are they now? I tell you the Wilson bill is what broke California’s back. “Protection is what California needs, and the monetary question can be con- sidered later. “Then there is the Nicaraguacanal. It will give an outlet for all our produects to England and other European countries. Why, the amount of lumber exported would be enormous. I think San Fran- cisco should be the main harbor for all the trade of the Pacific Coast. “The farmers to-day are bankrupt. ‘What [ mean by farmer is not only &e farmer proper but the fruit-grower, the wool-raiser and all tillers of the soil. “Nearly all the farms to-day are mort- gaged to banks, and the interest not being paid, the banks will not foreclose on them, because if they did they would find the property a useless incumbrance on their hands. ““I have just returned from the East, and Ifind that all the people I have met, especially in my business, talk tariff as much as anything else.” Hawley Bros. This firm is extensively engaged in the wholesale and importing hardware busi- ness. The senior member of the firm spoke intelligently of the business de- pression of the last two or three years, and agreed with the CALL that to this State the prime issue is protection. “We cannot gloss over the fact that there has been a | great business depression during the last three years,” he said, “‘and the Demo- cratic tariff must bear the blame. The finance issue does not affect us. That is, it is not near so important—vitatly im- ortant—as that of a protective tanff. n those lines the campaign should be made by the Republican party in this State. After the adoption of a policy | which will promote the prosperity of our manufactories and build np our com- mercial interests, it will be time enough to consider the money question. I could almost say that 1t” would then regulate itself. THE CALL'S theory is sound. the out prospering industries we would have little care or bother about money.” ‘Wellman, Peck & Co. This firm of wholesale grocers deals largely in imported articles and should be in a position to judge of the effect of dif- ferent tariffs on the business of the coun- try, and particularly California, Mr, Wellman said: “Tre CALy has mapped out the only safe policy for the Republi- can party in California. The tariff and protection to our industries and commer- cial interests is certainly paramount to all other issues. At the East the money ques- ton will probably gva the impetus to pop- ular political enthusiasm in all the parties with iree silver as the jimcrack catchword. But let them shout. The tariff I believe ab- solutely is of far greater importance to the business—to all interests in this State and ‘on the Pacific Coast.” Columbus Carriage Company. Mr. Glenn of this one of the leading car- riage manufacturing firms of the United States was very frank to admit that he could not grasp all the intricacies and subtleties of the iariff and finance ques- tions. ‘“But,”” hecontinued, ““I agree with Tre CALL that the first and foremost issue for this State is tariff and protection to our industries, Our company does a large foreign trade, and naturally the tariff cuts a large figure. I havealwaysthought my- self a McKinley man, but I am free to confess 1 do not kunow just how I shall vote untit I see what the other part; We all seem to be so badiy mixed up on the problem that it 1s difficult for one to get one’s bearing. But as to California her chief need is the fostering of her in- dustries. After that is accomplished to the satisfaction of all concerned it will be time enough to think about money."” W. T. Garratt & Co. Benjamin Garratt expressed himself strongly on the subject of protection. “Itis certainly the paramount 1ssue in California. I would like to see a sound money, and I think silver should be a legal tender, but for California protection should be the first consideration. Unless we have a protective tariff I cannot place my goods on the market in competition with the product of foreign manufac- tarers. We are still in the embryonie state so far as our manufactures are con- cerned, and we should have the fullest protection. As to the comparison between the McKinley and Wilson bills, or tariff laws, I think it must he obvious to the most casual observer that the country has suffered great loss under the present tariff laws, California has beena great sufferer, and our great need is pro m.'’ W. W. Montague. ‘W. W. Montague of the firm of W. W. Montague and Co. spoke very strongly in favor of the protective tariff as being paramount to all other issues. “The main issue in this campaign,”” he unild, “is the protective tariff, and that only. 4 3 “In the first place silver should not be made a subject of discussion, asit is of | coin to us unless we can fizger some of it | .silver muy come afterward. Local indus- does. | too much importance to be understood thoroughly and voted upon inteiligently | by the masses without an educational cam- | paign, } “Personally I believe that if the Repub- | lican party should be successful at the | coming election—which it undoubtedly | will—it would be only one or two years | before an international agreement would | finally xettle the money question. | “Protection is the great issue in this campaign and the only one of singular 1m- | portance to California at present. I do not admit the existence of any side issues nlliall. Upon protection we either stand or fall.” W. Hinckley. “I don’t speak for the Fulton Iron | Works or as a member of the firm,” said Mr. Hinckley, “but individually [ must | say that all the silver men and money | alarmists are away cff so far as Caiifornia | is concerned. The issue here is not coin— silver or gold—but protection to our man- ufactures. We cannot hope to cope with the foreign vroducer under the Wilson tariff. and of what good is gold or silver} and get an even toss up on the value of our goods? Protection we must have, and tries are the first consideration in the coming campaign.” ‘W. ¥. Litzius. The cutlery side of the question is ably presented by W. F. Litzius of the Will & | Finck Company, . “I think,” he said, *that protection is first and the money question can follow. ‘We want to keep 8s much of our money at home as we can. Entirely too much of it goes to Europe now. “Let the tariff be as high as it can be. It will compel us to keep our money at home and start our own manufactories, which will put men into employment. | *‘Wkat good does it do us when goods | are cheap if we have nothing in our pockets to buy them with? For the last three years we have found that there has been a reduction of 25 per cent in our sales, I think this stagnation is due en- tirely to the Wilson bill. Under the Mc- Kinley bill we had an exceilent trade, and thouzh everything perhaps was a trifle higher everybody had money. ““As regards the money question I be- lieve it will find a solution for itself in good time, but what California needs now | worse than anything else is protection.” Risdon Iron Works. “The issue is protection and nothing else in California,” said Mr. Howard. “For example, say our gold output is §25.- 000,000 & year, It may be less and it may be more and silver may cut a figure. But, however that may be, it does not cut a figure in contrast with the great problem of protection. If the 6 or 8 centsaday that our people spend for goods and arti- cles of foreign manufacture were kept at home and devoted to the development of home manufacture—right here in Califor- nia, to localize the illustration—the money saved the country would equal the output of our gold and silver mines. It is not dif- ficult to comprehend the eloguent mean- ing of these. figures. California of all States is in need of protection. Our posi- tion is suck. that we are more in need than almost any other State of the Union of those equalizing breastworks thrown up between us and foreign cheap-labor com- petition by protection. Thatis the issue— money can come afterwards. To be sure, we want aill we can get, but devilish little good it will give us until we have something to sell at a profit.” ‘Wales Patmer. “I do not see how any one can confound the political issues in this State,”’ said President Palmer of the Golden State Iron ‘Works. ‘“California is surely in need of protection. We are brought into constant competition with foreign producers, and there are only two ways in which we can meet that comnpetition with any possible chance of selling our goods in open mar- ket at a profit. Yes, there are absolutely but two ways. We must reduce the wages of our laboring men, artisans and skiled mechanics to a level with those of the for- eign countries, or else placea tariff on the manufactured articie equivalent to the extra cost of labor, freight ex- pense on raw material, ete. have asked many prominent Democrats, many of them my close iriends, to tell me ‘o SN IRVING M. SCOTT, PRESIDENT A OF THE UNION IRON WORKS. checking importations by a protective tariff. None of them could answer. Grover himself had to acknowledge that the alter- native was a reduction in labor hire. That was a nice statement to go before the la- boring classes. THE CaLL is certainly right in its conclusion. Protection is the primal issue in this State. Money will take care of itseif, but under a Wilson tarift our industries are defenseless. Apart from what the issue may be in the East, there can be but one vital question in Cali- fornia. Silver or gold money cuts no figure until we have secured a profitable market for our products. Protection is most de- cidedly the issue in Caliiornis.” H. T. Scott. My views may be put in a nutshell, so to speak. The Pacific Coast wants protec- tion, and after that the coin can take care of itself. I believe in protection and a tariff that shall be sufficient to meet the revenue requirements, The money ques- tion in all of its phases appeals to the best intelligence of the country, but I do not think it is the issue in California. We | have to look to our home industries; and | a squabble over silver and gold cannot protect them. I do not wish to pose as an advocate of any political policy, but I have no hesitancy in announcing myself as a protectionist —a protection just enough to meet the just expenses of the country. Iain not extreme in my vpro- tection ideas asyou may surmise, though I believe tbe tariff rather than silveris the issue in California. Albert Derham. The shoe manufacturers’ side of the problem is presented by Albert Derham of the firm of Buckingham & Hecnt. He said: “I believe the question of protection to be of vital importance to California, where all our industries are in need of it, what we produce as well as what we manufac- ture. *‘Protection is the keynote and backbone of the interests of this coast. If the rest of the industries prosper we find that we prosper accordingly, and vice versa. L "Fhen the farmers, the lumber and the wool men have money it is soon in active circulation and everybody gets his share, we along with the rest. ‘Protection’ should be the battle-ery of the Pacific Coast.” Patriek Barrett. Barrett has been employed in the San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works for years and years. Asa reformed Democrat he may properly be said to reflect the sen- timent of the mass of laboring men to- day. 1n his ownquaint and characteristic fashion he gives his ideas as follows: ‘‘Heretofore I have been a Democrat and a strong Cleveland man. Nobody ever wore a redder Cleveland and Thurman bandana then aid Pat. I voted for him the last time he ran, too, and am kicking myself for it now. ““You can bet that in November I am going to vote for Major McKinley. Why? Because before Cleveland’s term of office T had money in my pocket and now I havea deal less, yet find the prices of things just as high as they were formerly. “You can’t fcol me. Maybe I can’tan- swer the free-trade arguments of these learned philosophers, but T know when I have a good thing and when I haven’t.”” New Incorporations. The Mount Disblo Gold Mining Company was yesterday incorporated by Philip Diedes- heimer, W. J. Sutherland, P. A. Finnegan, Jobhn P. O'Brien and Herman Zadig, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, all of waich has been paid up. The Wiloer Springs Development Company was incorporated by E. G. Lukens, Alfrea Ab- bey and E. C. Hutehinson. The capital stock 153103,000. of which $50,000 has been sub- scribed. A Natural Curiosity. In the yard of William Ede of this City thereis a pear tree which, remarkable as it may seem, has on it a pear of Iast year's crop still in good condition. The tree also is bear- ing pears this year. ENNEDY, THE MARKSMAN Startling Allegations Contained in His Wife’s Divorce Complaint. Why the Lumber - Dealer Tried to Throw His Batter Half Out of a Winiow. Albert W. Kennedy, son of John F. Kennedy, of the lumber firm of Kennedy & Shaw, and himself an official and stock- holder of the S8an Francisco Lumber Com- pany, is being sued for divorce by his wife, Hattie E. Kennedy. The Kennedys were married about seven years ago, but of late have not gotten along as well as could be desire_d. In fact, judging from the complaint nlgd yester- day, Mrs. Kennedy is fortunate in having escaped death at the hands of him who promised to love and protect her. The complaint is a long one and includes many specific charges of cruelty. Among others, there is one telling how a warm, palatable, recently-purcnased oyster-loaf, which Mr, Kennedy had probably brought home as a peace offering, was hurled at the unprotected head of his spouse. As might be inferred from the foregoing, Mr. Kennedy was not at all particular in his choice of missiles, and is accused of throwing almost every sort of liftable household implement at his wife. Shoes, hats and various other articles of wearing apparel are included in the list. On one exciting occasion the lumber- dealer, presumably tired of throwing things at Mrs. Kennedy, reversed the or- der of business. He tried to throw Mrs. Kennedy at a hard, rocky piece of ground, visible to him through an open window. The distance the lady would have had to fall before becoming a part »f this bit of landscape is not mentioned in the com- plaint, but, however, that is unimportant, tor, owing to his lack of training in the- | casting of heavy weights, the versatile | gentleman failed in his design. | © Once and again he changed his marks- | manship practices and, so the complaint | says, lent more or less variety to his | cruelty by beating her. Occasions when Mrs. Kennedy found it necessary to flee to | the protecting arms of other ladies are | mentioned. A A certain Trixey Marshall’sname is also dragged into the case, Mr. Keunedy being charged with being too fond of her com- pany. Others besides Trixey are accused but hers is the only name given. Mrs. Kennedy asks for an absolute di- vorce and the custody of her child. - DEATH OF MRS. PYNE. A Pioneer Resident of the Mission and Highly Respected. Mrs. Mary Lynch Pyne, wifé of the con- tractor, Robert Pyne, died yesterday morning at her home, 2720 Folsom street. She had been ill for some time with an affection of the heart, and while her de- mise was not unlooked for it was a shock to relatives and friends. The deceased was one of the best known women in the Mission. She came to this City with her husband thirty-six years ago and in that section reared her family, She was to the fore in church and char- itable work. Mrs. Pyne was a native of Ireland, aged 54 years. Sutro Baths. Judging from the appearance of the pro- gramme, there should be & large attendance at the Sutro Baths this afternoon and evening. R. B. Cornell, the champion amateur long-dis- tance swimmer of California, will appear in his wonderful drowning act, remaining under the water for a lun‘{ peried of time. Professor E. Vilber will ride a bicycle on a tightrope fifty feet above the water, and Ma- jor ioblmon will also appear on the tightrope. The store is full-of Ba 50 Jflecss FRENCH PICCORDY LOTH, 40 inches wide, strictly all wool. * Any shade imaginable. worth 50¢ a yard. This week only 25c a Yard. Excellent for outing suits. It's a dust-resister, and makes a stylish garment. 107-109 POST STREET: ] =ande= how we could compete with the foreign cheap labor without reducing wages or Dress Goods Event! KOHLBERG, STRAUSS NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. rgains in Dress Goods; but here are two that stand out above the heads of all others—more particularly so be- cause such goods are seldom cut in price. But we thought you would appreciate them. MARKET=-ST. STORE ONLY. ILLUMINATED CHANGEANT SUITINGS, wool and mohair, 42 inches wide. A full suit length worth §4. For this week only $2.50 a Suit Length. Comes_in stylish spring and sum- mer shades—tans, grays, browns, etc. ‘Will not wrinkle and resists the dust. ’ & FROHMAN, =1220-1224 MARKET STREET.