The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1896, Page 9

THEIR AGONY 15 ALMOST ENDED. Supervisors Must Settle Their Own Fate on ! Monday. INDIGNATION DIED OTUT. The Mass-Meeting to Condemn Them Unheard Was De- clared Off POLICEMEN AND PROTECTION Accorded Freely to Powerful Inter- ests but Denied to Chil- dren. OAxLAND OFFICE SAN FrANcIsco CALY, 908 Broadway, July 19. } Tt would pay the Alameda County Su- pervisors to offer a prize for the best soiu- tion of the value of a street-railroad fran- chise. The question has been raised at each of the annual sessions of the Board of Equalization since Assessor Dalton was | elected, and is still jeopardizing the chances of the present board to succeed itseif. During the past week the public | have been taught many lessons and have | been regaled with many sidelights on the | vexed subject of equalization of railroad | property, Four aistinct methods of | assessing have been shown. Thereis Mr. | Morehouse’s unique method, the details | of which are known ogly to himself, and | which the Supervisors and Assessor do not | yet comprehend, although they have it ‘‘under advisement.” The only man who fully understands and agrees with Mr. Morehouse is E. Black Ryan of the South- ern Pacific. Mr. Morehouse thinks Mr, Ryan’s idea of the law as bearing on as- sessments is perfect; Mr. Ryan shows the utmost respect for the San Leandro banker, and hints that he is a model assessor. Then comes Mr. Dalton's method of valuation. He seems to have arrived at the conclusion that the genuinevalue of railroad property is about three times the smount sent in by the corporation, and acts accordingly. The Supervisors have a method of their own of arriving at values, but so far they have not taken the public into their con- fidence. which were expressly designed to save human life and limbs. 8 The sentiments expressed in this col- umn last week seem to have had weight. There was no meeting held at the Taber- nacle to “stiffen up’’ the Bupervisors in regard to assessments, When they have acted the people who have yoted them to 9mce have a perfect right to hold meet- ings and either commenda or condemn them. To do either prematurely would be as indecens as for the citizens of San Francisco to have held a mass meeting to terrorize the Durrant jury into rendering a verdict of guilty while the trial wasin brogress. Messrs. Friend, Aldrich and Aaron D. Bretz are to be congratulated on changing their minds. Sober second thoughts dre often best for people who ex- pect to go befors the voters at election time, Stuart W. BooTH. A FATAL EXAMPLE. Mollie Traynor Seeks Death by the Same Method as Mrs. Levy. OAKLAND, CaL., July 19.—The suicide of Molliec Traynor, who ended her life early this morning, was caused by the sunicide of Mrs. Levy. When the Traynor girl beard of Mrs. Levy's suicide she said to her companions, “That's the way E shall go,” ; Within a week Mollie had carried out her threat. She was the same age as her example; used the same drug and purchased it at the same store. : Mollie Traynor had a most unenviable record, having been in the County Jail or the City Prison or the Receiving Hospital for several years. In nearly all of her troubles she has appeared with a char- acter known as Eddie Marks, to whom it is believed the was married. The Salva- tion Army took ber in hand once and Mollie behaved herself for a few months, | but outside influence was too strong and | Moliie went from bad to worse. She was only 22 years of age. Eddie Marks, who was the companion of Mollie Traynor in all her trouble, is at resent serving a shortterm in the County ail. When told of the girl's death to-day be was greatly affected, as when the pair were sober they showed much affection for each other. Jailer Lane accompanied Marks to the morgue and allowed him to | take a final look at the suicide. In her room was found some correuimndonce be- tween herself and Marks that plainly showed the girl intended committing sui- cide. She was of the very lowest class of women and her career has been one of the speediest to reach its end that the police can recollect. O, JEFFERSON ARRIVES, He Will Be President of the New Berkeley Bible Seminary. He Is Much Pleased With the Outlook for a Successful Opening of the Term. Lastly, comes the methoed of fixing values as presented by the corporations themseyes. One street railroad company asks that its franchise be assessed for the amount it paid for it, a mere bagatelle. To this Mr. Dalton replied that the best | crfiterion of value was that put upon it by | preparing to complete the preparations | the company when it placed its bonds on the market. To an ordinary individual this seems very reasonable, but to Super- | visor Talcott it wes intolerable, and the.! Assessor was not heard further. The peg- | ple who did not vote for Mr, Talcott made a note of his exvression of protection for the road that runs through his district, and he will have a chance to answer when ke goes before the electors again. For a whole week the Board of Equaliza- tion has heard the views of the various parties and to-morrow it must decide as between Dalton and the figures furnished by corporations. It is not an easy task, nor one to be deyoutly wished for. To re- duce the assessments will be to court the denouncement of an “indignation’ meet- ing: to sustain Dalton will lose them the influence of the push. If the Supervisors believe in the efficacy of prayer, mighty must be their efforts to seek superhuman wisdom this fine Sabbath. As the streetcar lines of Oakland are all running et & loss it is only reasonable to suppose that they would be anxious to avoid damage suits, which oceasionally run into fine figures, They are all losing money, for their representatives before the Board of Equalization said so during the past week. They continue to kill peo- ple through carelessness and to disobey safety ordinances and to pay heavy judg- ments. This is a state of affairs that would be Iudicrous if it were not true. The only reasonable assumption is that the roads are not losing money and that it is cheaper to kill a few people than to obey the law. A matter was being diseussed on Broad- way yesterday that has a direct bearing | on a state of affairs not uncommen in this city. Two messenger boys were approach- ing their head offices, and, when on the corner of the block, they rode their wheels a few yards on the sidewalk so that they could alight at the door. An energetic policeman saw them %nd succeeded in arresting one of the boys. When at the police station he was “induced” to tell who his companion was that had escaped. A minute Jater police headgnarters tele- phoned to the messenger office that if the other boy did not come up and pay $2 fine the natrol wagon would be sent for him. The poor boy went to the City Hall and paid half his week’s salary for a crime that he was not even convicted of. ithin a block of the same office ordi- nances are broken a hundred times a day, and not one arrest has ever been made. The ordinance relates to streetcars stop- ping on crosswalks and passing each other within fifty feet of a crossing, The latter ordinance was passed out of respect to public opinion, after two little girls had been cruelly mangled ope evening through carelessness. The penalty in either case is $200, but not once has such an amount gone into the city treasury. One of the men who were discussing the matter said, “Why should the employes of street magnates Jike ¥. M, Smith and the Southern Pacific Company be pro- tected when a boy is promptly arrested for a paltry little offense that hurts no- body " ‘Why, indeed? The subject has caused much discussion and the public are at a loss to know why the uniformed gentlemen who parade the streets do not know their whole duty, ana it they know it why they do not perform it. Nearly every day there is a serious runaway in the center of the city. It is nearly always caused by an unhitched horse taking fright. Yet scores of lpose BERKEKLEY, Cavr, July 19.—Dr. 8. M. | Jefferson, who is to take charge of the | Berkeley Bible Seminary to be established | by the Disciples or Christians of Cali- | fornia in affiliated relation with the State University, has arrived in Berkeley, and is | necessary for the beginning of the work. j He is stopping for the present with his wife and tbree chiidren at the home of Mra Parknurston the cornerof Channing way and Dana street. The seminary will open in August simultaneously with the opening of the State University. It will bein every sense a strictly theological school when per- fected, and will be patterned largely after the seminary at Bethany College from which Dr. Jefferson comes, “The details respecting the courses of study to be offered,” said Dr. Jefferson to- day, “will be made public within a short time. In the meanwhile ft might be said in general that a critical and complete theological course, such as is usually of- | fered in theological semioaries. "A more | popular gourse will also be offered. | “Forthe present only temporary quarters | for the convenience of students will be se- | cured, awaiting a more complete develop- ment of our plans. *The prospect of the work here is most flattering, About $100,000 endowment has already been secured and it is hoped that | at no distant day we will be able to erect a theological ,hall near the university rounds and in the style of architecture in armony with the university buildings, “Ourdencmination is steadily growing in Californis, and in accordance with the ra- pidity of growth here we will be able to progress with our work. s “‘As a religious body the Disciples num- ber nearly a million in the United States. Accordin%m the last census we are cred- ited with having over 900,000. Their rate of increase during the last ten years has been 82 per cent, or larger thap any other religions body in the United States. In California, however, we have not more than 20,000 adhersnts. *“Berkeley is an ideal site for such an in- stitution as oursis to be, becanse of its be- ing the site of the State University and use of its proximity to the large churchesand libraries and lecture halis of Ban Francisco. We have come to stay and to me the prospects of success are flattering in the extrem Dr. Jefferson is a graduate of the Indi- ana State University, having taken the highest honors of his class, He finished his course in 1874 with the degree A. B. and subsequently received the degrees A. M. and LL. D. from Bethany College, West Virginia. He spent nearly twenty years in the pastorate of the Christian Church. During the last three years he has been Professor of Biblical Literature and Doc- trine in Bethany College, the oldest school of the Disciples, which was founded b; Alexander Campbell. He gave up his position in Bethany College to assume the presidency of the Pacific Coast institution. May Not Go East. BERKELEY, CaL, July 19.—Reports have been current for the past three or four days that Professor Bernard Moses, head of the department of history at the State University, would probably soon give up his position at Berkeley to accept a similar one at the University of Chicago. Interviews with several of his most inti- mate friends at the University to-day failed to establish any foundation for the rumor, further than that he had been asked to accept a position at Chicago. He is now giving a course of lectures in his specialty there, together with twenty or thirty other professors from vamous uni- versities, in ~America and Europe, He will return to Berkeley in time to take up his regular work in August, from all that can be learned. e Took Oil of Tansy. OAKLAND, Cax., July 19,—Eddie Hinds took enough oil of tansy to-night to fatall poison two men, KEddie is a lad about I years c:d ana thie evening he and his brother were discussing the recent sui- cides by poison. The brother dared Eddie to empty the bottle in whioh was about half an ounce of the poison. He also bet 5 cents on his brother’s failure todo se. Eddie drank the oil of tansy and was soon in great pain. He was taken to the Re- ceiving Hospital and Dr. Hamlin worked for two hours before the boy was out of teams are left on the street every day &lthough ihere is an ordinance prohibiting it. 1t is very commendable to arrest Chi- nese gamblers and school obildren who violate the sidewalk ordinance, but it ig slso well not to ignore those measures which are of mych greater importanceand danger. Everything But Gold. OAKLAND, Cax., July i9.—Jobn Mof- fitt, for many years the detective for the Contra Costa Water Company, returned ere . lown on the steamer Doris with sixty-five others . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1896. TRYING HARD TO REPEAT A TRAGEDY. ! 'y | "‘uu‘ltli M' i ‘ \ forced. and they all met the same luck. Thereis very little prospect but starvation for any one who bas not capital to start with. Un- less the Government takes matters n hand and sends some relief there will be many fortune-hunters starve to death this winter.” — CONTRA COSTA ROAD. Interested Parties Will Appear Before the Supervisors. OAKLAND, CaL., July 19.—To-morrow the proposed road over the hills to Contra Costa County will come up before the 8u- pervisors. The report of the viewers has been filed and recommends the payment to the landholders through whose terr- tory the proposed road is to pass of dam- ages in the sum of $1200, which amount is to be applied in the erection of fences on either side of the thoroughfare. The report also _shows that about $3000 more wil?be required to grade at various places along the line. The costof the road will therefore be about $4200, The award for fence purposes has been made | to Medau, the Piedmont Spring. Water and Power Company and W. J. Dingee, who have granted the needed right of way. ————— Unitarian Church Reopened. ALAMEDA, Cav, July 19.—Tbe Uni- tarian Church was reopened this morning after the usuval yearly vacation by the Rev, G. R. Dodzon, who delivered an ad- dress on, "‘The Religious Which Unitarianism Gives. Find It, and Others Fail.” Political Equality Club. The Political Equality Club of Alameda meets to-day at 2 P. M. at the residence of Mrs. E. A, Smith, 1725 Alameda avenue. All are invited. A THIRTEEN YEARS' WAR, It Has Resulted in Many Vic- tories for the Salvation Army. Satisfaction Why Some Celebrating Their Anniversary at the Trestle Glen Camp- Meeting, OAxLAND Orrice BaN Francisco Cavy, 908 Broadway, July 19. } The Salvationists are celebrating the thirteenth anniversary of the inauguration of their work on the Pacific Coast. In tiecity of tents at Trestle Glen there is fust one of the original members of the day, He 1s Epsign “Father” Bovden, who was the hero of a true story in the BuxpAY CALL of three weeks ago, in which he figured as the eater of 10,000 beefsteaks. “In those times the fighting was hard,” said Father Boyden. “We had to fight everybody and everything. The devil was not even the worst of ourenemies. We had to fight the newspapers, the churches end the police. Everybody thought we were cranks and nobody gnd any con- fidence in nus. We had no property, no standing and nothing but grit. I remember the first time we changed our headquarters. It did not take us long or give us much trouble. I carried our transparency, somebody else carried the drum, another the torches and another the remnant of a can of coal oil, During our first year, though, we did some good work and laid the foundation for the great army on the coast to-day.’” Beveral references were made to-day to the progress of the army in thirteen years. AL Sl v A G LOANS on watches, jewelry, silve Harrls', 15 Grant avenue. 4 e e The Persomnel of the Salvation | his life yesterday. AFTER THIRTEEN Army and Iis Eatire Property in -July, S r— THROUGH A SEWER NOT A PICNIC, Councilman Bassett’s Log of a Voyage Under the City. THE LAEE TO THE BAY. Microbes and Side Sewers Add to the Prevailing Dis- comfort. A GREAT MANY DISCOVERIES. “0ld Pard” Is Now Convinced That the Main Lake Sewer Needs Cleaning. OAxrLAND Orrice 8ax FrANcIscO Ou.r..} 908 Broadway, July 19. Councilman Bassett made the voyage of It was two miles in length and through the main lake sewer that carries two-thirds of the sewage of Qakland to the bay. The venerable Councilman’s trip was the result of a bluff. City Engineer Wilson sustained Street Superintendent. Miller's demand for $500 to clean the big sewer. Mr. Bassett was opposed to it. He recom- mended that the Board of Works, of which Wilson is a member, go through the sewer. Wilson said he would go if Bas- sett would join them, As Mr. Bassettis exempt from paying poll tax Wilson thought he was safe. But Mr. Bassett called him down and took him up. The company was afterward increased and the crew that started on the trip were Councilman *“Old Pard” Bassett, City Engineer Wilson, Veterinary Inspector Pierce and Teddy Joost, head of the sewer flushing gang. % Mr. Bassett took copious notes piled the following log of the voyage: We had some difficulty in getting our boat below the flood gate, and only succeeded by filling the boat with water and pushing it under the raised gate. We were pretty well covered with oilcioth coats and ha rul ber boots. We took the disinfectant inter- nally. Our primary idea was that by letting in & full head of water we should move rap- idly along with the rushing current. The plan ‘was not a success. The flood so filled up the sewer as 0 laave no room above for the boat and passengers, We hailed the first man-hole and ‘ordered the flood gaie closed. Soon the water lowered and we moved slower but more comfortably. The connecting sewers from the aifferent sireets threw in sufficient water 10 float our float. Some of*these side pipes enter the main sewer so high as to make shower baths of frequent occurrence to & boating rty. P‘Superlntsndent Miller, with several of his men, haiied us as we passed the different man- holes. For a long distance this main sewer is from twenty to v.hmx-mra. feet below the street grade. Under the piiotage of Teddy we moved along at a speed of about a mils an hour, and two hours and a quarter from the com- e, /) Eu§y| g 0. OAKLAND, Cav., July 19.—Yesterday afternoon at Thirteenth street and Broadway, a lady witn a baby in a buggy narrowly escaped being struck by an electric car. A few months ago two beautifui little girls were killed in West Oakland by a car which was passing another one on a street crossing, An orainance was passed making this a misdemeanor, but it has never been en* The above sketch was made at the place mentioned yesterday afternoon. YEARS OF WARFARE. time of starting we shot out into the bay at West Oakland. The tripis easily made, There is no danger attending it, except from asphyxiatiou or belni drowned like rats in a hole from the possible clogging ot the sewer. When we started from Lake Merritt the air was bad, so bad that I doubted our being able to stand it, but as the drangtt began to reach us from the uncovered man-holes breathing became easier and during the last half of the voyage there was plenty of fresh air. This main lake sewer is a splendid piece of work. From Lake Merritt down to Adeline street it is solid concrete, and though we saw occasional small cracks in the wall it is upon the whole a solid, substantial structure. It has a fall of two féet in two miles. No more fall can be had. From Adeline street to the mouth this sewer is constructed of wood. The planking is auite rotten and in the near future the concrete must be extended from Adeline street to the bay. This is something that should be looked after very soon. City Engineer Wilson says this sewer now carries the sewsge of two- thirds of the city. From the head of the sewer down to Market street there is irom six inches to one foot of obstruction. This is, for the most part, black mud and fine sand which has formed against the base of gravel, rock and pieces of cement thrown into the main sewer {rom the connect- ing sewers. There are seven or eight of these bars of heuvx material. If they are taken out Ithink the fine sand and mud’ can easily be removed by flushing from Lake Merrift. I think Superintendent Mitler can make a good job of it at & cost of $300 to $#400. This sewer was last cleaned aboutsix years ago. From Market street to its mouth the sewer is en- tirely free from mud or sand or grayel ob- struction. REALTY MARKET REVIEW, A Better Demand for Country Lands Looked For This Fall. But Few Transactions Recorded Lm!t~ Week—Building and Other Notes. The market remains very dull in the matter of actual transactions, Dealers report an im- proved inquiry, but it is an inquiry not easy 1o satisfy, the demand being largely for invest- ments yielding 6 per cent or more per annum, net. The tax question still cuts a figure in the market and will until it is definitely settled, Many dealers who make a specialty ot h: ling country property report a considerable in- crease in inquiry for country lands,and as prices on this class of property hava declined materially during the past two or three years it is thought that indications are favorable for A considerable increase in tne sales this fall of farm and fruit lands. REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. The past week bas been another light one in the number and amounts of transactions re- corded. There were but seventy-four transiers recorded during the week. The number of mortgages recorded was sey- enty-five, aggregating $162,258. Onlly one was for a greater sum than $10,000. It was for 312.000. snd was given to Bertha Brittan for five years at 10 rer cent on property on the northwest corner of Bluxome street, 275 feet northeast of Sixth, nortneast 137:6, northwest 125, southeast 112 :6,northwest 125, southwest. 25 and southeast 250, The number of teleases granted was thirty- seven, azgregating $01,002. They were all for small amounts, There were sixteen contracts recorded dur- ing the week, pledging 7,250, The details were as us in THE CALL at the time of filing. The zflnolpal oon- tract of the number was given by the Spring Valiey Water Company to the Raymond Gran- ite Oomllny for $24,000, it beingfor the gran- ite work upon the new building now being erected at the corner of Stockton and Geary streets by the water company. " MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. ° Wooster & Whitton of San Jose have located & branch office with Easton, Eldridge & Co. in this City, while the latter have located with the former & branch office atSan Jose. It is the intention of the two firms to co-operate in handling country lands, particularly those in the Santa Clara Valley. Bhainwald, Buckbee & Co. report that they Synopsis of What the Army Is Doiug and ‘What It Owas in 1896. Auction Jales AUCTION SALE. Monday............July 20, 1898, 2 P. M., 328 VALENCIA STREET. Administrator's Sale of Fine Stock of Hardware. Dealers, take notice, L. H. BURD, Auctioneer. are doing a lively business In their new loan department. They are loaning monéy on real estate in this City, in Oakland and on country lands, and are also making loans on life insur- ance policies and real estate in gmbxu. They find many opportunities for placing money just now to good advantage. Jacob Heyman has just d upon the mar- ket block 722 of outside lands. It islocated 300 feet east of the grand boulevard. Bovee, Toy & Sonntag have had placed in their hands_for sale by W. F. Goad, the well-known Rankin ranch of 1500 acres, lo- cated near Niles. It is the intention to sub- divide it into small tracts and surveyors are already at work preparing & map of the sub- division. It will geoflerad at very reasonable prices, the minimum being $20 per acre. ‘The stone front of the new Hobart building on Post street near Stockton is all up and pre- sents a very handsome appearance. Stone is coming more into favor in this City for build- ing purposes each year and its use in the con- struction of the facades of prominent build- ingsis a vast attraction to the City’s archi- teciure, Of other prominent buildings now under way that are to be built of stone is the building being erected on the site of theold American Exchange hotel, the new ferry depot &nd the new CALL building. The latter is to be faced on all four sides with stoune so that the structure will present the #ame Appearence from whichever side it is viewed. This will be a novel indovation in San Francisco in the construction of commercial buildings. G. H. Umbsen & Co. have nad placed in their hands for sale by Mayor Sutro, block 721, fronting the Oeean Boulevard and Forty- eighth avenue. The lots are 25x120 each, ex- cepting the corpers, which are 37:6x120. They are all graded and ready for building, &nd their location commands a splendid view of the otean. There are forty-six lots in all and they will be sold on easy terms. On Thursday of this week, the 23d 1nst., Shainwald, uckbee & Co. will hold a probate and miscellaneous auction sale, at which some very desirable properties will be offered. The probate list includes the south- east corner of Clay and Leavenworth streets, the northwest corner of Haight and Broder- ick, the southeast cormer of Mission and Twenty-second, No. 62 Shipley stroet, lot 5, block 390, 8. 8. F. H.and R. R. Association, a lot on the south line of Twenty-second street, and lots on Wolfe street, near Figaro, The miscellaneous offerings consist of three lots at the northeast corner of Clay street and Cen- tral avenue; lots in Richmond; the three-story brick bnildlnz at 704 Sansome street; six flats 2t 1812 and 1814 Mason street, and eight flats 44. toma street. A, Bpeck & Co. have made the fol- lowing recent sales: A lot 25x90 on tne south line of Twenty-fourth street, near Sanchez, from Peter Harvey to Frederick Faber, for $1425; a five-room cottage at 116 Collingwood street, lot 19:53¢x125, for $2650, from the Pa- %ficnflmlding and Loan Associstion to Sophia scher. O’Farrell & Co. report the following recent sal Lot and |m?mvemem| on easterly line [3 toma street, 25x75, 105 feet north of Fif- teenth, for $2000; 1ot and improvements, south side of Bryant street, 220 ieet west of Sixth, 50x75, for $4500; lot and improvements, north side of Howard street, 225 feet east of Seventh, 25x90, for §7300; lot 25x90, east side of Valenciastreet, 35 feetnorth of Twenty- fourth, for §4300; lot and improvements, north side of Beventeenth street, from Folsom to Shotwell, 245x140, for $28,400; lot north side of Jessie street, between First and Second, 19x62, for $1800; lot and improvements, east side of Stevenson street, between Eight- eenth and Ninaeteenth, 25x75, for $2900; lot and improvements, south side of Turk street, 109 feet east of Van Ness avenue, for $7100; ot and improvements north line of HBernard street, 183:6 west of Jones street, for $1500; lot and improvements, northeast cor- ner of Filbert and Buchanan streets, for $6250; lot 25x120, north side of Page street, 195 feet east of Buchanan, for $3600; lot and im- provements 23x132:7, south side of Sacra- mento street, 165 feet west of Deyisadero, for ; lot and improvements on the west line of Valencia street, 30x85, 92 feet south of Six- teenth, for $10,000; lat and improvements on the northerly line of Tehamea street, 100 feet east of Fourth, 25x75, tor $3700. H. E. Poehlman reports the sale of lot 50x 120, on southwest corner of Sixth avenue and California street, for $2150; also lot 50x120,0n Forty-sixth avenue, near L street, for $160, on instaliments. WHAT SOCIETY IS DOING. Naptials of Felix I Devlin and Miss MoGuire at St. Mary’s. The nuptials of Felix I. Devlin and Miss An- nie F. McGuire were solemnized on the morn- ing of June 24, at 8t, Mary’s Cathedral, the Rev. P. Mulligan, secretary of the Archbishop, officiating. John MoGuire, & brother, gave away the bride, while John E. Devlin and Miss Alice McGulire acted as groomsman and_bridesmaid. The ushers oy the occasion were Messrs. James Devlin, Jobh I Egan, James McGuire and Frank Moore. An elaborate wedding break- fast at the residence of the briae’s mother, 208 Grove street, followed the ceremony, at which were the iriends and relatives of the nappy couble. During the afternoon an in- formal reception was held, after which Mr. and Mrs. Deviin ieft on a honeymoon trip to Mount Shasta. On their return they will re- side av 235 Oak street, where they will be pleased to meet their friends. A very enjoyable concert was given last Tuesday evening by the musical young ladies of the camp at Rowardenen, Ben Lomond. The following programme was rendered, aiter which dancing was indulged in until'a late hour: Piano solo, “The Palms,” Mrs. J. T. D ocal solo, selection from “Martha,” Mr. Jacobs; violin solo, ‘Legend,” Miss Anna Gibson; trio, “Love’s Dream After the Ball,” Miss Wood and the Misses Anna and Mary Gibson; vocal solo, “He Was a Prince,” Miss Mae Cuilen; violin solo, everte,” Miss Wood; piano solo, “‘Rigoletto,” Miss Anna Gibson. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs, J. T. Dare and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. O'Connor and family, Mr. and Mrs. Backer, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Quinlan, Mr. and Mrs. Brace, Mr. and Mrs. Burton, Mrs, Cross and_daughter, Misses Annie and Mary Gibson, Miss Cartie Wood, Miss Elias, Mr, aud Mrs, Fisher, Will K, Fisner, Misses Louise and Clarissa Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. W, H. High, Mrs. Frank Rockweli and family, Mr. and Mrs. Plummer and family, Mrs. M. E. Holt, Mrs. E. J, Holt, Mrs. E. J, Ten: nant, Mr. and Mrs. Sargeant and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Miss Mae Cullen, Miss Rene Cullen, Miss Jane Cullen, Louis Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. E. Parrish, Mr. and Mrs, H. A Par- rish, Mrs. M. 1. Sanders. C. D. Ladd, Mrs. J. H. Brownell and d T, Mr. and Mrs. John Daisly, Mrs. H Moore, the Misses Good, Mrs. Cameron and family, Al McCuen, Berf McCuen, Frank Mc- Cuen and Jesse Story. Among thehf)u:u at Cypress Lawn fruit farm, Napa, are: Miss E. Lewis, Miss H. Phillips, Mrs. L. P. McCarty and daughter, Miss Amy, the Misses Frankie and Dora Spofford, Mrs. T. . E.+Wilson, the Misses Mary F. and Neilie Lorigan, Miss Harriet Maguire. Miss M. E. Grage, a1 of San Francisco; Mrs, William Bow- ers, Master Dudley Bowers, Miss E. Hopkinson, the Misses Helen M. and Alice E. Swayne, Mrs. R. g Gallego and Miss Mabel Gallego of Ala- meda. The ansuomant is announced of Miss Lillian Holje, oldest daughter of Mr. ana Mrs. Martin zolje of this City, to George Baker of Bakers feld. mong the recent arrivals at Ztna Springs are; Mrs. G. C. Landis, MissS, Landis, Miss E. Tray iss Nora Moynehan, San Fran- cisco; Mrs. Eugene J. Bates. Williom Bates, George Bates, Alamede ; Mrs. D. Marcucie, Miss 8, Gorman, Miss L. Mahony, Miss E, Mabony, James Winterburnr and wite, Miss 8, Winter- burn, Willlam Martin and wife, Miss Alice Mart{n, San Francisco; Mrs. E. Kavanaugh, Miss Helen Bates, Alameda; S. W. Clanssen, Miss Annl Hinds, Miss K. E, Kean, M. Rad- ford, James Bock, P. 8. Hunter, San Francisco, Mr, and Mrs. M.J. Faulkner have reiurned from the East and are at 1217 Sutter street. The Misses Cecilia and Philomena Holom of San Francisco will remain a few days in Seat- tle before leaving for Victoria, B. C. Mrs, Berman and family are spending the summer months at San Lorenzo. Mrs. H. Hirshield, Mrs. Phil Harris and son, and Miss Blanche Hirshfeld of Bakersfield are at 1006 Van Ness avenue. Mr. and Mrs. T. Victor Maxwell and family have gone to Redwood City for the summer. The Misses Friant of San Jose, whom they bave been entertaining receatly, returned home last week. J. E. Hammersmith and family are stopping &t Camp Taylor for a few weeks. Mrs. F. Arata and Miss A. R. Arata returned to town on the 20th after s pleasant stay at San Anselmo, the guests of Mrs, M. Rocca and daughter. Eugenia B, Brizzolara, Mrs, L. Scatena lorence Scatena have been visiting and Miss at Villa Sbarboro in Sonoma County. Mrs. Joseph 8. Hamilton of San Francisco nt last week i San Mateo as the guest of @ Misses Claffey of Lake Cottage. Mrs. C. Gabriel and’ ber daughter Hazel sailed on the steamer Walla Walla for Port Townsend on the 8a inst. They intend visit- ing British Columbia and other Northern pfl{m uu‘ad will return about the latter part of Angust. The first annual family excursion and picnic mbe&venb; the San Francisco Hebrew So- cial Club, mnom-aud. will be held at Schuetzen Park, Raiael, Sunday, August2. PAVILION AUCTION HOUSE. 3819-321 Sutter St., Above Grant Ave. AT SALESROOM THIS DAY, Monday. July 20, 1896, :80 o’clock 4. M., ~——0ON ACCOUNT Of REMOVAL—— EXTRAORDINARY AUCTION SALE OF New and Second-Hand Household Furnishings. Four Grand Bars and Back Bars In different woods, 8 Billlard and Pool Tables. Safes, Cash Register and 40 rooms Furniture and Carpets, re- moved from & lodging-house for convenience of sale. NoTE—Dealers and housekeepers In general in- vited, as these goods will be sold absolutely with- out reserve or limit, as we have received notica to move. THE SHELLS WILL FLY. Light Artillery Target Firing on the Santa Cruz Field. First Infantry Testing the New Army Rifle at the Presidio Range. The summer practice of heavy artillery at the Presidio is not completed. When dummy projectiles are received General Graham will resume practice at the dyna- mite battery, These vrojectiles should correspond in weight and size to the reg- ular dynamite cartridges. Practice with the twelve-inch rifles on the bluff above Fort Point will take place as soon as suitable powder can be pro- vided. Lieutenant Lissak recently vested a lot of powder from the Santa Cruz works. ‘The June practice with the heavy guns at Alcatraz and the Presidio and the ex- periments in firing shells from the mortar battery were highly gratifying. The two light batteries of the Fifth Ar- tillery, commanded respectively by Cap- tain Frank Thorp and Captain Charles Morris, will practice at Santa Cruz this week. Major Edward Field, Second Ar- tillery, who was recently appointed in- spector of artillery, staff of Brigadier- General Forsyth, will superintend the an- nual practice of the Jight batteries. He went to Monterey a few days ago in obedi- ence to orders from department headquar- ters. He was authorized to select the Santa Cruz range if in his judgment it should be found superior to the range at Monterey. Advices have been received saying that he found at the Santa Cruz field superior advantages for long-range practice, and also adaptability for guick maneuvering to fire at short or intermedi- ate distances. Explosive shells are to be used in the target practice. Proper care will be ob- served to keep spectators outside of the zone of dispersion. Major Field is a sym- pathetic man, as well as a gallant soldier, and it would surely grieve him deeply if the fragments of a shell should knock over a summer girl at Santa Cruz. The acceptable range at Santa Cruz is adjacent to the ground occupied by the National Guard in the summer encampment of 1893, It is near the scene of the memorable en- gagement known as Tripe Hill. The companies of the First United States Infantry at Angel Island and Benicia have very mearly finished annual target prac- tice with: the new United States Army rifle. Captain John J. O'Connell, Company B, came over from Angel 1sland last Mon- day. Last Saturday Captain Charles G. Btarr’s Company G went to the range. There is quite a difference of opinion among enlisted men as well as among commissioned officers as to the shooting qualities of the new rifle. Some of the army veterans are not willing to admit that the new gun is the equal of the old Springfield ritle. For accuracy in firing the old-style rifle is highly praised. The experiments with the new rifle (the Krag-Jorgensen), made under the direc- tion of ex-Surgeon-General Grifliths of the Kansas National Guard at Fort Riley, are attracting wide attention. The penetrat- ing power of the jacketed bullet fired from this rifle is almost incredibie. At ten ards from the muzzle of the rifle the bul- et penetrated twenty-four inches of well- seasoned white oak. At 200 yards it went through forty-five poplar planks, each one inch thick and one inch apart. At 2000 yards it perforated a horse’s body at the shoulders, and at the same distance passed through three human bodies. At 2800 yards it perforated four inches of deal plank, and at two miles it retained suffi- cient velocity to penetrate the human body. There yet remains the important ques- tion whether the bullet possesses the ‘“‘stopping” power by which an army is instantly disabled. = What little experi- ence has been had with it would indicate that as at present constructed the small caliber jacketed bullet does not inflicc the temporary ‘‘knock-out” blow that follows even the simple-wound made by bullets of larger diameter. A remedy for this defect is now engaging the attention of ordnance experts, An officer of the Fifth Artillery who ed in several of the great battles il War holds that the facility for rapid firing which the new rifle affords wiil cause the soldiers in baitle to fire a prodigious quantity of ammunition. He cites the fact that it was quite a task to keep the engaged infantry supplied with ammunition when the muzzle-loading guns were used. Now when it is possible for a soldier to fire away in twenty min- utes as much ammunition as he could corveniently use with the muzzle-loader in two hours the waste will be surprising. Leave of absence for one month has been granted to Major A. E. Bates, chief paymaster of the departmeat. Major Bates left the City for the East last Satur- day. He will visit bis family on the Massachusetts seashore. Lieutenant-Colonel William _Sinelair, Fifth Artillery, has gone to Yosemite Valley on fourteen days’ leave of absence. Leave of absence for fifteen days has been granted to First Lieutenant Albert C. Biunt, Fifth Artillery. Among the assignments of this year's graduating class at West Point are several 10 regiments serving in this department, Robert E. Callan, William H. Tschap- pat and George T. Patterson are assigned as_additional second lieutenants to the Fiith Artillery, Presidio of San Francisco, Le Roy Eltinge and Paul Reisinger are to be seeond lieutenants in the Fourth Cavalry. - Robert M. Brookfield is assigned to the First Infantry. Lieutenant Hugh Rodman of the United States navy left Washington, D. C., July 7 with the superintenaent of the coast survey on a_tour of inspection in Alaska in connection with the international boundary line between Alaska and British America. Furloughs have been granted to Thomas Furman, Troop C, Fourth Cavalrv; Arti- ficer James Lennon, Battery C, Fifth Ar- tillery; William Fisher, Company B, First Infantry; Peter Sperdy, B-tterBy F, Fifth Artillery; Robert Culhane, -tterg I, Fifth Artillery; Artificer Joseph R. Hen. nessee, Battery B, Fiith Artillery; John J. Sweeney, Company D, First Infantry, and Jasper Stanford, Company F, First Infantry. Dr. Gibbon’s Dispensary, 625 KEARNY ST. 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