The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1896. BUNDAY...............c...c.ooJULY 36, 1896 AMUSEMENTS. CALIFORNIA THEATER— ‘Carmen” BarpwiN Tsearsr.—Bohemis” evening, CoLuMBIA TEEATER— Moths” 4 MOROSCO'S i xRa-4:0UN —~ Irish Inspiration. Trvor: OrExra-Houss.—* Mignon.” Orrurun—High-Class Vaudeville. SUTRO BaTHs—Bathing and performauces. SEHooT THE CEuTES—Dally at Halght street, one biock east of the Park. PRESIDIO ATHLETIC G nousu—nuewl"m-d-y. BASERALL—Sixteenth and Folsom streets. GoLBEN GaTe Pank—Golden Gate Park Band. it s to-morrow AUCTION * ALES. . Burp—Monday, July 27, Furniture, at By L. 211 Larkln street, at 11 o'clock. OITY NEWS IN BRIEF Lottie Cashman, a 15-year-old girl, is run- ning wild at Ocean View. Tiburon is angry at Sausalito over the gate receipis of & tug-of-war maten. “Repave Marset sireet” was the slogan of the monster parade of wheelmen last night The transcript on appesl in the Durrant case goes to the tu)‘-‘lemv Court next Wednesday. There is s stir of activity noticeable about the Potrero in new burildings and street work. The Supreme Court has reversed the decision in the A‘;}ptfll of the San Diego Water Com- pany. The Californias beat the Oaklands at the Fol- som-street ball park yesterday by a score of 11 t0 10. Cloudy and threatening Sunday morning, followed by rain—A. G. McAdie, Local Forecast Offictal. 3 Mrs. Naomi Anderson will jecture on woman suffrage to-morrow night in the Third Baptist Church. Mrs. Laura Cunningham, who was arrested on Thursday last for cruelty to her children, it & woman with a history. Haunsh Marshall has petitioned for letters of administration on the £3000 estate of her deceased husband, Thomas Marshall. The managerof the State Board of Trade is preparing a circular of general information concerning California for distribution in the East. H. W. Quitzow says that the suit brought against him by J. E. Clune was previousiy de- eided in his favor and that it presents no new issue. It is estimated that s hundred thousand spectators thronged Van Ness aveaue last night upon the vccasion of the wheelmen’s parade. Thousands of wheelmen, with bicycles dec- orsted in every conceivable fashion, turned out last night in the monster demonstration of cyclists. The overdue British ship Wilhelm Tell ar- rived in port yesterday. Forty per cent rein- suranoe was paid ou her. She was 158 days out from Swanses. The line-of-battle ship Oregon will not be fuily open to visitors to-day. Only a limited number will be allowed aboard. Sunday next she wiil be open to all. Daniel Belcher, a laborer, was badly injured by the falling of a wall when he was at work yesterday, raising a house, at the corner of Powell and O'Farrell streets. News was received yesterday from New York that the American ship City of Philadelphis was a total 10ss on the Falkiand Islapds. The entire crew is supposed to be lost. Thomss R. Bannerman entertained Frank M at supper last night on the occasion 11 to the young attorney, who goes New York to study for the stage. Ernest Ringpat, a small boy living with his parents at 3b1 Jessie street, was bitien by a dog vesterdsy on Geary street, necessitating his being taken to the Receiving Hospital. Adeline Gigdenkrantz, living with ber pa- rents at 922 Battery street, had her leg broken by falling off & truck in the street yesterday. She was treated at the Receiving Hospital. Mrs. Charles Mitchell, living in 8 alley, saw her child knocked over by s and oart last cvening. She rushed to the rescue with a razor and cut the horse’s throat. A. Quade & Co., the grocers of 636 Market street, have assigned to the Crocker-Woolworth Bank, with liabilities at $20,000 and assets resumsbly amply sufficient to cover the lia- fiisies. 3 Colonel W-D, Sanborn and wije were made the recipients of a handsome solid silver salad set last evening, & present rom the California Republican delegation to the St. Louis Con- vention. Louis S. Kast has applied for letters of guardianship over the persons and estate of Agatha, Alice and _ Lilian Nelson, minor chil- dren of Sophie A. Nelson, deceased. The estate is wortn about $1500. : The Howard Church will occug‘{ the old chapel on Misslon street, near Third, this morning for the last time. Next Sunday they will dedicate the handsome new edifice at Baker and Oak streets. Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Currier has made & report of hisinvestigation of the re- orgsuized National Guara of California. He states that the guard is in much better con- dition thsn & year €go. The third year of the California School of Mechanical Arts will begin to-morrow. The machine-shop is now fully equi&ped and Pro- fessor William H. Hollis, late of the University of California, has been engaged to teach chem- istry and food analysis. The annual State thoot of the companies of the First Regiment, N. G. C., was held on Fri- day snd yesterday at the Shell Mound range. The sttendance was poor and the scores not up 10 the average, on account of the order pro- g&bmng Btate contests on other than week- ays. HER DISMAL VOYAGE. The Ship William Tell Arrived Yes- terday After a Hard Struggle Around Cape Horn. The ship William Tell arrived from Swarnsea last evening, having sailed from that port February 18. Off the Falkland Islands, April 20, she met a fierce souther which carried away her foresail, fore- topmast staysail and a portion of the mainsail biown out of the furling gaskets. Next day the ship was struck by a gigantic wave which threw her ou her beamends, shifting the cargo fore and aft. The vessel lay in this perilous position for four days, while the crew was below reshifting the cargo.. Over seventy feet of the port bulwarks were stove in and the stanchions were more or less broken. The deckhouses were smashed, the gi and cutter stove and the lifeboat platform washed away. From tbis point to 50 degrees of south latitude in the Pacific was a continuance of hard westerly gales. On the night of May 11, while a furious storm from the west-southwest was rag- ing, the darkness was suddenly dispelied by the most briiliant globes of St. Eimo’s fire at each yardarm and mastheads. Sud- denly a glaring thunderboit darted through the maintopsail, making a round hole about 10 inches n diameter. Thls phenomenon was followed by an increase in the gale, which contiaued till the equator was crossed, June 22. The ship bad much sickness aboard during the last three months, having as many as six men down at the same time, from injuries and exposure in the bad weather. One man of the crew was attended in thecabin for three weeks. The steward was ill with pnuemonia for several months, and often during that time was not expected to live. ———————— Fell From a Truck. Adeline Gigderskrantz, a-little girl living with her parents at 922 Battery street, feli off & truck yesierday near her home and suffered a fracture of her left leg. The dray was one belonging to Case Strauss, and was glu(ng wlong the street when several children mounted it. In sport one of them pushed Adeline, and she fell off with the resuitstated. 8he was taken to the Receiving Hospital, and the fracture reduced, after which she was taken to her home. ' - R A. R, McFarlane’s Long Faint. A. R. McFarlane, who was taken to the Re- ceiving Hospital last Wednesday in an uncon- scious condition, has been discharged per- {ectly cured and in & normal state of health. It seems that Mr. McFarlane had been suffer- ing from insomnia superinduced by worry over certain losses of jewelry, to such an ex- tent that he fainted away. His uncontcious condition lasted thirty hnzn. when he wus re- stored to heaith, His{riends are congratu- lating him on his recovery. | turned from Oakland yesterday, refusing, and at the Columbia Cafe, and I went home, as stated, escorted by Mr. Hug.” “1 have every reason to belieyve that Stetson never crossed the threshold of ‘Webster’s rooms before the fime he killed ~ GAINS STRENGTH, Albert Stetson Probably - Fired the Fatal Shot. NO PROOF OF SUICIDE. Evidence That- the Dead Man Did. Not Know His Revolver Was Loaded. THE FUNERAL WILL BE T0-DAY Frederick Webster Arrives From the East—Miss Head Tells Her Story to the Police. It was decided yesterday that the funeral of the late Albert Stetson will take place from the Stetson residence, 1801 Van Ness avenue, at 1 o’clock to-day, and the inter- ment will be at Odd Fellows' Cemetery. Rev. Dr. Robert Mackenzie will conduct the services. The Coroner’s inguest will take place at 9 A. M. to-mOITOW. Miss Amy Head, sole witness of the tragedy, admits, after thinking the matter over, that Stetson may have believed “the revolver was empty when he pulled the trigger that ended his life. y Miss Head, much distressed over the notoriety incident to the iragedy, re- however, to talk further on the matter for publication. Sbe said the story of the affair as printed in yesterday’s CALL was correct and she had no further statements to make. Autopsy Surgeon Barrett investigated the case further yesterday, and said: “‘Dr. Morse was correct in his diagnosis oro- nouncing -cirrhosis of the liver one of Btetson’sailments. Ifoundsomeevidences of cirrhosis, also evidences of dilatation of the heart. Cirrhosis would probably have produced mental depression. I have con- cluded, after. considerable study and in- vestigation, that the absence of powder marks does not show whether the shot was fired from a distance or close at hand. be- cause the powder was evidently smokeless. I shall make furtherinvestigations to-mor- row by firing at various distances at human hair and tissue-paper.” The story that Miss Head said she took the cartridges from Stetson's revolver at the Orpheum, published in several news- papers, was denied by her yesterday; also the statement attributed to her that she had not seen any reporver. She was inter- viewed by THE Carn at 2:30 p. M. Frid. after which she went to Oakland and mained in seclusion from the police until yesterday. Shedid not vesterday change a single statement of her original story as printed in THE CALL. Detective R. J. Whittaker spent the en- tire day yesterday in running down clews in the Stetson lragedy‘ He found Miss Head and obtained her official statement of the events that occurred in Fred Web- ster's rooms, 235 Post street. Her state- ment corroborates every point covered in her prior account given to THE CALL yes- terday. The onanew feature in the story told by Miss Head is that she makes it em- n{;luc that she and Mr. Stetson were in the Post-street rooms not to exceed five or ten minutes and that the shooting occurred” about 1 o’clock, fully two hours earlier than at first reported. The follow- ing is a verbatim copy of Miss Head’s re- port made to Detective Whittaker and submitted to Captain Lees last night: On Thursday evening, in company with my lady friend, I attended the Orshe\lm, oceupy- ing = box on the right-hand side of the house. While seated there my friend, Mrs. Summer- field, called my attention to Mr. Stetson and Charley Hug, who were seated in the body of the audience. We saw and bowed to the gen- tlemen, and shortly "thereafter Mr. Stetson came over and asked us if we wanted a little bite aiter the show. Later on Mr. Stetson came over to the box where we were seated. Isaid, “Mr. EM!!Dn‘ how are you?” Hesaid, “l1 am feeling bad.” I said, “What's the matter with you? You are looking bad,” and he replied that he had been drinking hard for the past week—drinking absinthe. While talking to us he had hisleft arm on the box railing and his right hand on his hip, show- ing his pistol. Seeing that he wasvery nervous and drinking hard I said, “Mr. Steison, give me that pietol,” and he said, “No, 1 wHl not give it to you; you can't have it.” I then reached over, however, and took the pistol out of his pants hlf pocket, after which he asked us if we would take a little lunch after the theater. We consented, and he told us to meet him 8t the Columbia Cafe after the show. This we did and Mr, Hug ana Mr. Stetson and Mr. Samuels met us there, the latter gentle- man remaining but a short time. During our lunch Mr. Steison ordered several drinks. each time taking absinthe. Mrs. Summerfield told him that that drink sets Frenchmen crazy and she told him it would have the same effect on him if he drank it. Then he wanted to buy a bottle of wine, but we declined to change our drinks. During our stay in the cafe I gave Al his pistol, ing to him, “What do you want to carry t for?” He did not reply, but took the pistol, which was a fiveshooter. ana removed four cart- ridges. I said, “Mr. Stetson, here are only four,”” and he said, “That's all right,” and put the pistol in his coat pocket, after which we left the cafe. Mr. Hug accompanied Mrs. Bummerfield and Mr. Stetson went with me. The former couple took the Geary-street car, corner Geary and Powell, going west. Mr. Stetson and I started down Geary street. I told him I was going to Mr. Webster's rooms to get my dog and then I would ring for a coupe and could leave me at my home and he ther could go home. He sa1d he was not going home, 8s his folks were 81l away, and I told him that was just the rea- son why he should go home. We took the elevator in the building at 235 Post street and went to Mr. Webster's apartments. He, Mr. Slz:uon, then laid his coat and hat on the table. Ithen went into an adjoining room and he came back and stood in ‘the bedroom, facing the Post-street side. 1said: “Mr. Stetson, this is not got he raised his hand to his hes time saying, ““This is the way I am goingdiome, Amg',“ and fired the sbot which killed him. He fell face down, and the pistol dropped on the floor. 1ran down to Mr. Quay's room, in the same building, got him out of bed and told him that Al Stetson haa shot himself. He came upstairs with me, and, looking into the room, saw Mr, Stetson lying there. Hesaid: “This i no place for me. "You had better send for some of his personal friends.” Ithen took a hack at the corner ot Post and Grant avenue and rode out to Mr. Hug's house and told him what had happened. He came down to the rooms with me, and on our ar- rival Al was still alive, and Mr. Hug went down stairs and called Dr. Farrell. The doctor teleplioned for Dr. Tyrrell and Mr. Hug tele- phoned for Dr. Morse, Mr. Stetson’s family physician. Before they arrived I went down- stairs and laid down on the lounge in Dr. Fare rell’s room, and later on Dr. Farrell came down and told me that Al was dead and that the un- dertaker was removing his remeainstoan un- dertaking parlor. Mr. Stetson’s condition was very bad. Heap- peared very nervous and told me he had had some trouble with his_railroad; that Mr. Bul- lock had sold cut for .000. This, he said, had started him drinking, and he had been bster’s rooms at 12:30 o' shot himself only & few minutes lnlhherk‘ £ ““I haye seen enough ple,”” said De- tective Whittaker last night, “to convince me that Miss Head told the entire truth about most of the main features of her account. I say mostof the main features, because no one was there during the shoet- ing bat herself. Mrs. Summerfield cor- roborates Miss Head’s story, and says, ‘Let no one suppress facts to shield me. Tell it all freely. I was at the Orpheum home,” and , nt the same improper in his conduct with the himself there, and that there was nothing oung lady at any time. They were not in the room to exceed five -minutes, - Her story is straightforward, probaole and altogether in kea‘ping with the circumstances. “It is probable that Stetson had many drinks when he was out in the coupe alone, and then he was irresponsible when he puhod the trigger, though there was many things to show that he did not think the revolver was loaded when he pulled the trigger.” - y Coroner Hawkins yesterday said that he did not see the revolver and other prop- erty of the deceased as they lay in the room of death. “The revolver was handed to me,”” he said, “‘and it struck me as a strange thing thayv there were no pavers, letters, books or other datain the dead man’s pockets, Of course, I know of no one wko couid have removed the things, but most men of his standing carry more papers than I found in his pockets.’ The more closely the factssin the case are studied by the police the more firmly are they convinced that the fatal shot was fired by Stetson, either suicidally or under the belief that the revolver was not loaded. Miss Head shuns notoriety. She re- fuses to allow artists to sketch her or to give her pictures to any one. *‘Of course the newspapers will sketch me at the inquest,” she said last night, “but I don’t care so much for what I can- not help; but they won’t get my picture with my consent.” Fred Webster arrived from the East on the 8:45 train last night and evaaed all re- porters. A rumor gained circulation that he drove directly to the Baldwin Hotel and went in the Arcade entrance. The manager of the hotel positively denied this rumor at midnight. Soon thereafter Captain Lees came down in the elevator. To a CaLL reporter he said: “Webster is in town. He arrived to- ACOME, SHE 15" WIS THER CR, The Ship City of Philadel- phia Lost on Billy Rock. “| visitors HER CREW DROWNED. They Could Be Seen From the Shore, but No Assistance Could Be Given. HEARTRENDING CRIES FOR AID After Rounding the Horn the Vessel Was Driven B ck and Went on the Rocks. All doubt as to the fate of the American ship City of Philadelphia has been set at rest. The vessel was wrecked near Port Stanley and thejchances are that all hands as the skipper was down to'a dime, he at first refused. Finally he borrowed a quarter from a friend and bought a coupon. Two hours later he pick ?gu paper and found to his astonishment that he bad won $67 50. Rugg is more than pleased over his fortune. The sweamer Sunol, which got in last night, reports that the schooner Haleyon wasclose in shore near Point Reyes when last seen. The captain of the Sunol of- fered assistance, but the proffer was de- clined. The Haleyon left here last Friday and is becalmed within half a mile of the point. As soon asa wind springs up she will have no difficuity in getting off shore. Excursion to the Oregon. The commending officer of the line-of- battle-ship states that no large body of ill be allowed on board to-day. The Oregon is not ready, as there is a large quantity of stores, including tor- pedoes, about the decks awaiting a chance to get stowed away. Itis hoped that by Sunday next the battle-ship will be ready to receive all and sundry and on that oc- casion everybody will be shown over the fastest vessel of her class in Uncle Sam’s navy. DURRANT'S LONG APPEAL. LN ke It Covers 2421 Pages and Will Go to the Supreme Court Next Wednesday. The transcript on appeal to the Supreme Court, in the case of W. H. Theodore Dur- rant, convicted in Judge Murphy’s court of murdering Blanche Lamont, in Novem- ber last, was yesterday completed by the printers and returned to the County Clerk’s office. It is the largest transcript on appeal in & criminal case ever filed in the Supreme Court of this State, and con- sists of 2421 pages. County Clerk Curry took much interest in the work and detailed two of his depu- ties most experienced in handling papers pertaining to the criminal counts to sup- The American Ship City of Philadelphia From New York for San Frarcisco Is a Total Loss on the Falkland Islands and All Her Crew Are Supposed to Be Drowned. The Above Sketch Is Drawn From a Description Furnished by the Officers of the British Ship Brenda, - Which Spoke the Lost Vessel in Latitude 57 South, Longitude 68 West. night, but I decline to say where he is or whether I have seen him. All I will say is that he is here. JIMNIY CARROLLS JOKE At the St. George Club’s Jinks He Uses It With Telling Effect. Excellent Musical and Athletic En- tertainment to Aid in Build- ing a Gymunasium. The members of the St. George Club gave a musical and athletic entertairment in their rooms at 317 Mason street, last evening, the proceeds of which will go toward the erectivn of the gymnasium planned.by the directors. The programme was carefully arranged to avoid monotony, wrestling and fistic bouts and fencing being interspersed with vocal and instrumental music. From first to last number the large audience was kept in thorough good humor. The musical selections were a concert solo by George W. Loyde; song, “Gal- lants of England,” by J. F. Fleming; song, “Death of mapoleon,” by Alfred Wilkie; vocal duet by J. F.-Fleming and Alfred Wilkie. The first athletic event was a wrestling- match between Joe Acton and Otto Eicholtz. Joe managed to win both falis hiy climbing upon Eicholtz's shoulders and sitting down, .A second wrestling-match between W. Bartlett and C. Kreling re- sulted in each man scoring one fall. Several lively boxing bouts were exe- cuted by Jack Zelmar and George Purcell, F. Rl})hlel and Al Lawton and Charley Carroll, son of the veteran Jimmy, and Australiamw Arthur Walker. Captain’ J. Martin, late of the Olympic Club, and L. P. Ward, gave an exhibition of fencing. Captain Martin managed to score a few more points than his adversary and ended by breaking Ward’s foil. Jimmy Carroll acted as master of cere- monies and kept his hearers delighted with his funny quips and jokes, During the interitn between one of the fistic contests, a boxer leaned back in his chair and breathed heavily as if nearly exhausted. Jimmy surveyed him quietly for a moment, and then turning to the crowd @nmly remarked, “There have been others.” Next Wednesday evening the Sons of St. George will give a literary entertainment and dance to the delegates to the Grand Lodge at the 8t. George Club rooms. The committee on last night’s entertain- ment was composed of F. Winterburn, Alfred Wilkie, Archibald Turnbull, syimmy Carroll, Joe Acton, ¥. Kemp, H. Rae Brown, E. C. Weatherly, Al Kent, W, Witsts. An Ex-Policeman ““Touched.’” Nellie Carter was arrested and taken to the Central station last evening ona charge of petty larceny. An ex-policeman, J. Watkins, makes the complaint, alieging thdt Nellle ap- propriated belonging to him, and which e nad in his trouser's pocket when he met her last Wednesday evening, and which was missing when he left her Thursday morning. Watkins has not been on the force for some five years. —————— Policeman Daley’s Estate. Mary A. Daley, widow of Policeman John C. Daley, who died November 2, 1894, has filed pefillon| in 3':’;’",‘ asking that Alfred Clars be appointes ministrator of the estate of hi dcceased husband. The appointment %l :l: administrator is desired because of the inten- lt‘mn“ll:) lisrin. a ofi:l:“lhl:ugt the police life and ealth insuran r money claimi bé due because of Daley’s deceue.y L ——————— Do not fail to read Thomas Kiater's advertise- ment on page 28 for men. were drowned. = Yesterday Williams, Di- mond ‘& Co. received the following dis- patch from Dearborn & Co. of New York: ‘Information from Port Sianley confirms the loss of the City of Philadelphia.” The vessel was bound from New York for San Francisco with a general cargoand at one time'90 per cent reinsurance was paid on her. When ‘the British ship Brenda arrived a few days ago Captain Tullock reported having spoken the City of Philadelphia on May 1 in latitude 57 south, longitude 68 west. At that time she was under six lower topsails and making heavy weather of it. The Philadelphia must have been driven back during the storm that came up and finally went on Billy Rock near Port Stanley. A private letter from Port Stanley, dated May 17, reads as follows: Four days previously a three-masted shy was seen under topsails making for Port Wil- lifm entrance to Port Stanley, and flyiug the jack for & pilot. The piloi-boat Victoria went out and tried to get near the ship, but owing to a heavy sea did noteven get near enough to signal her. Dark- ness came on and the Victoria returned to port, the ship standing offshore. Next evening a man rode in from the lig ht- house at Cape Pembroke with news that the ship was on Billy Rock. We hastened to the scene, but everybody on board had been washed overboard and drowned. Had a pow- erful tug been available all hands could have been saved. Willing hands were within & short distance of the doomed ship—so near, in fact, that the crew could be seen clinging 1o, the mizzen rig- ging. They were heard calling, “Come and save us.” but owing to the heavy sea and lack of facilities nothing could be done. George C. Gordon, British shipSt. Enoch; W. Tooar, British ship Pass of Balmaka; P. Mc- Plerson, bark Bankville; David Reese, bark Thetis; Peter Noble, engineer,Falkland Islands. The United States Consul at Falkland Islands also wrote, stating that a full- rigged ship had been driven ashore on Billy BocE, and that all hands had been lost. The letters were mailed on board the mail steamer for Montevideo, and irom that point came to San Francisco. The captain reported having - passed through a large quantity of coal oil and lumber, and as the City of Philadelphia was laden with coal oil and general mer- chandise, there can be no doubt but what she was the unfortunate ship that went on Billy Rock. The City of Philadelphia was an old- timer, and was on her first voyage to San Francisco. She was built at Bath, Me., in 1875, and was 1384.45 tons net burden, Her length was 202 feet 3 inches, breadth 40 feet 2 inches and depth 24 feet 3 inches. She was in command of Captain John- son, who was well known in ¢ port as an able and efficient master. The American ship Santa Clara from New York for San Francisco, is also over- due, she being now out 162days. Heavy reinsurance has been paid on ner. The British ship Wilhelm Tell, on which 40 per cent reinsurance was paid, reached part last night, however, 80 there may be achance for the Santa Clara. The Wil- helm Tell was 158 days making the run from Swansea. The ferry steamer Bay City is to be laid up for inspection and a thorough over- hauling. -Her place on the narrow-guage route will be taken by the El Capitan. The latter has had new boil ut in and has been thoroughly renoval She is now one of the smurtest boats belonging to the Southern Pacific. The ticket agents at the Tiburon ferry will be kept busy to-day. There will be the usual excursions to El Campo, the favorite picnic-grounds, and the '49rs will hold their third lnnullonungatschue(un There will be valuable gate prizes Eet away, a tug-of-war and music by the ter-carriers’ band. 2 The Pacific Coast Steamship Company’s Orizaba arrived from Mexican ports yester- day with twenty-three cabin and eleven steerage ngers. It wasafair-weather passage all the way and nothing of interest occurred. i Captain W. Rugg, the well-known master of sailing vessels and more lately of the steam schooner Newsboy, had a stroke of good luck last Friday. A lottery peddler pestered im to buy a ticket, bu, d erintend the work of preparation. They are Ben F. Jones and Thomas L. Doran. It bas taken four weeks to print the trans- cript, which consists of three bound vol- umes. On Wednesday, July 29, the books will be filed in the Supreme Court, after which date the people’s interests in the case will be in the hands of Attorney-General W. F. Fitzgerald. IN THE EVENING SCHOOLS The Chamber of Commerce Wants a Navigation Class Established. A Letter Addressed to the Local Board of Educati-n on This Subject. The Chamber of Commerce has for some time been advocating the establish- ing of an evening class in navigation in connection with the public evening schools of this City and has formulated a plan by which the scheme may be made feasible. In order to interest the School Depart- ment in the matter Hugh Craig, president of the chamber, addressed the followin, Lener to the Board of Education on Fri- 2y : % The Chamber of Commerce of California re- specttully calls your attention to the desirabil- 1ty of establishin, gation as an a 8, an evening school of navi. junct to the public school tem of our City, The success that has tended the establishment of the United States Naval School at this port indicates the interest of young men in a sea career. San Francisco must depend upon her posi- tion as a great seaport for her permanent prosperity, and her youth should be given the opportunity to acquire the science.of naviga- tion as an encouragement to follow the Na. tional ensign aficat, poth in the naval and merchant marine. We are pleased to note that the California Naval Reserve, established through the agency of this chamber, is now the popular branch of the armed forces of our State—a further proof of public interest 1n maritime affairs. Conse- quently, we tupeemflw urge upon your hon- orable board the establishment of & class in navigation at as early a date as ble. HueH CralG, President. The matter will be considered at the next meeting of the board. e Beheaded by the Spaniards. E. N. Smith, connected with the United States Life-saving Department in this City, re- ceived information yesterday that his step- brother, George B. Rea, had been beheaded by the Spaniards in Cuba. Of the details of the crime Mr. Smith knows nothing, but he is sat- isfied that Rea was butchered merely to gratify Spanish malice. He does not think that the oun¢ men had joined the Cubans, because iu business would not sdmit it. Youug Rea went to Mantanzas, Cuba, irom New York, about five years ago, to take charge of the city electric El“" He was 28 years old, and is de- :u‘rlbed y Mr. Smith as & quiet, inoffensive ellow. NEW TO-DAY. ONE WOMAN’S OPINION Of the great bargains at the Sheriff’s sale of the Dry-Goods stock of Jas. M. Moran - & Co., 1009-1015 Market st., is the opinion of every woman. These prices tell why : B50-cent 46-Inch Storm Serge. 100 Velvets 100 Plaid Sk 5-cent Biack Figi +25 cls per yard 5 ots per yard 25 c1s per yard * 2: ver yard The Same y Old Sarsaparilla. That’s Ayer’s. The same old sarsaparilla as it was made and sold 50 years ago. In the laboratory it is different. There modern appliances lend speed to skill and experience. But the sarsaparilla is the same old sarsaparilla that made the record—50 Wh; bette: same old Spaniards. ears of cures. - don’t_we better it? Well, wevre much in the condition of the Bishop and the raspberry: less,” he said, “God might have ma«f b But doubtless, also, He never did.” “Doubt- e a better berry. Why don’t we r the sarsaparilla? We can’t. We are usin‘f the }flaM that cured the Indians and the ¢ has not been bettered. And since we make sarsaparilla compound out of sarsaparilla plant, we see no way of improvement. Of course, if we were makmg' some secret chemical compound, we might.... But we’'re not. We're making the same old sarsaparilla to cure the same old diseases. You can tell it’s the same old sarsaparilla because it works the same old cures. —it’s dyer’s, THE MECHANICAL ARTS, Opening of the Third Successful Year of the California School. A Well-Equipped Mod>rn Machine- Shop and Foundry—The Alad- d'n Oven, Bte. The third year of the California School ! (the James Lick) of Mechanical Arts will | begin to-morrow. Already there is an en- rollment of some 300 students, 200 boys and 100 girls and the sixty students who have completed the two-year preliminary | course will enter upon their apprentice- | ship in the various trades comprised in the course of study. All of the depart- ments are now thoroughly organized and ‘ equipped and the faculty has been strengthened by the appointment of Wil- | liam H. Hollis, B. 8., a specially trained | chemist and food analyst from the Univer- sity of California. A leading feature of the school is its ma- | chine shop, under the able supervision of Matthew Arnold, formerly of the Union Iron Works. 1t is equipped with lathes, | a Pond planer, a Woicester drill-grinder, an Aurora drill press,a Stow center-grind- er, diamond wet and dry grind vised, | bench tools, lockers, benches, lathe | chucks, shafting, belting, etc. The esti- | mated cost of the shop and its equipments | i« $7000. It is the most complete of any- | thing of its class on the Pacific Coast, ‘W uile the machine-shops and the foun- dry are leading attractions for the boys, | the girls are equally interested in the cookery department. This is practically | equipped with cupboards, benches, gas | ranges, steam pipe facilities, ete. Its chief feature, though, is an Aladdin oven, into which food for a breakfast can be put the night before and taken out and eaten the next morning. The oven consists of a tin box, and vhe heat is suppiied by a lamp. It is one of the latesi and most successful of modern culinary inventions. The furnace-house has lately been fin- ished, and the students of the schoo! are now turning out very creditable bronze | castings. The class of beginners will be admitted next Wednesday, and will be limited to seventy-five boys and fifty girls. Only thirty-eight boys will be admitted from this City, the remaining thirty-seven places being reserved for country boys. During the past year twenty-four counties of the State were represented in the enroli- ment. Graduates of manual training schools are admitted directly to the apprentice course, but all other students are required, before entering, to complete a preliminary course of two years or less, depending upon their previous training. The 1ndustrial studies taucht at the e e Some one said to us the other day: “I see you are trying to popularize tea. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. It is noth- ing but poison, and it wrecks the stomach and upsets the nerves.” Is that so? Who are the greatest tea-drinkers in the world? The Chi- nese and ‘the Japanese. And can you think of any nation more even-spirited, more un-nervous than they? : “But,” said our friend, “they drink different kind of tea.” Yes, that is exactly what we are saying. They drink a different kind of tea; pure tea, fresh tea, fine tea— like Sckilling's Best —and they don’t boil it. Your money back if you don’t like Sc/illing's Best. A Schilling & Comy San Fi I’I:C‘llco ek makes the whole fam- ily happy. Send five two-cent stamps for ‘WoMANKIND three months and receive FREE the Woman- kind Cook Book, filled with tested recipes of practical housekeepers. You'll like the paper. It's able, bright and clean. Address, WOMANKIND, Springfield, Ohio. 1$3.50. 1 $6.00. It’s the sovereign blood purifier, and school include carpentry, pattern-make- ing, forging, molding, machine-shop prac- tice and drawing, architectural drawing, technical designing, modeling, wood-carv- ing, cookling, dressmaking, miliinery, ete. It is due to the proverbial generosity of California that her boys and girls ere per- mitted to enjoy, without cost, the benefits of such a practical school. For similar in- struction in tbe Eastern States a liberal tuition fee is exacted from the students. st = Under a Falling Wall. Daniel Belcher, a laborer, was employed at building an abusment for supporttos housa being raised at the cormer of Powell and O’Farrell streets yesterday when the retaining wall fell upon him. Belcher was badfv hurt, suffering a dislocation of the claviele. He wa$ removed to the Receiving Hospital and his wounds dressed, but 1t is doubtful if he will ever fully recover. JOE POHEIM, THE TAILOR, MAEES THE BEST-FITTING CLOTHES IN iniio e State st 26 per cent less than any other ailor. PRICES LOWER THAN EVER. Pants to Order. “Suits to Order, $10.00. $13.50. $15.00. $117.50, $20.00. $25.00. $4.50. $5.00. §7.00. $8.00. 201 and 203 Montgomery st., cor. Busha 724, 8idand 846 .arkef st. 1110 and 1112 Market, San Francisca. 485 Fourteenth st,, Oakland, Cal. 603 and 605 K st., Sacramento, Cal. 143 S, Spring st., Los Augeles. JOE POHZIM, THE TAILOR. HEALD’S USINESS COLLEGE, 24 POST ST., SAN Francisco—Bookkeeping, penmanship, busie ness practics, shorthana (Piiman), typewriting, telegraphy, modern languages, Enzlish branches and everything pertaining to a business education rapialy taught. Departmen: of Electrical fin- gineerins i operation. Individual instruction. 20 teachers. Nigh sessions. Students can commence at any time. Thousands of graduates in positious. Wrto for catalogue. THE LYCEUrL REPARATORY SCHOOL FOR THE UNI- versity, Law und Medical Colleges. = Admission on recommendation. Many students bave been successtully prepared at this school. Day and evening sesstons. References, President Jordan or any Stanford professor. Phelan building, Nos. 355-585. PROF. L H. GRAU, Priraipal, late of Stanford University. . ST. MATTHEW’S SCHOOL FOR BOYS. WO MILES FROM SAN MATEO; THIRTY- first year. For catalogue address REV. AL- FRED LEE BREWER, D.D.. Rector, San Mateo, MISS ELIZABETH = MOORE'S RENCH AND FENGLISH SCHOOL RE- moved from 515 Haight st. to 250 Haight; iimited number of bourders recelved; pupfls pre- pared for college; term bpens August S TRINITY SCHOOL (FOUNDED 1876). PBOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOE BOYS and young men. Prepares for university and collece.” Boarders limited to 35. Accredited school with the unlversities. Easier term opens Mouday, Angusv'S. REV. DR. E. B. SPALDING, Rector. MISS BOLTE’S SCHOOL, 9907 SACRAMENTO ST.— BOARD, LNG- lish. perfect mastery of Franch and Ger- man, thorough musical training, aancing; $30 per month: new term July 27; coach. k. MILLS COLLEGE AND SEMINARY EOPENS AUGUST 5. FULL COLLEGIATE, \seminary and academic courses; unequaled musical and elocuuonary advantages: terms moderate. Address MRS. C. T. MILLS, Mills College P. O., Cal. SNELL SEMINARY, 19213 MADISON ST, OAKLAND: A BOARD- ing and vuy School fur Girls: pupils pre- pared for college and university; next term ovens MONDAY, August 3. 1896 MARY E SNELL, Principal. IRVING INSTITUTE. Po.\nbnm AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG I" Iadies. Primary and Kindergarten for Children. A Carringe will call. Next session will begin on Monday, Augost 3. Adaress REV. E. B CHURCH, A.)M., 1036 Valencia st. RADCLIFFE HALL, A PREPAXATOWY SUHOOL for GIRLS, For Illustrated Catalogue address MRs. ALPHEUS BULL, Belmont, California. TTHE THIRD SCHOOLYEAR OF THE CALL fornia School of Mechanical Arts (Lick School) will begin Monday, July 27. Applicants for aa- mission should be present Wednesday, July 29, as 9.4, 3. Any boy or girl uf Ca {fornia Who has com- pleied ail but one of the grammar grades, or an equivalent, Is qualified to enter. Tultion iree, Places reserved for country papils. TSS HAMLIN'S SCHOOL AND VAN NESS Seminary. a boarding and day school for rls_under ihe direction of MISS SARAH D, HAMIIY ind MRS, EDNA SNELL POULSON. Fall term opens Wed., Aug. 5. All departments, Kkindergarten (o coilege preparatory. <all or write for particulars. 1849 Jackson st., San Francisco. TSKA INSTITUTE, 1606 VAN NESS AVE.— Day and boarding school for girls; from pri- mary through collegiste depariment: thorough course of English, French and German: (hoss Wishing to join the graduating ciass shouid be rescnt on day Of opening, August 3. MM, ZISKA, AM., Principal.