The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1896, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1896 WEDNESDAY ... AMUSEMENTS. BALpwIN TEEATER.—“Bohemia” CALIFORNTA THEAT Merchaat of Venice” COLUMBIA THEATER—*The Highest Bidder.” Morosco’s UrEra-housk—*Mr. Barnes of New Yorik.* Tivorr OpErA-Housk.—“Carmen.” OrpHEDM—High-Class Vandeville. €UTRO BATHS—Bathing and performances. £3100T THE CHUTES—Dally at Haight street, one biock east of the Park. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. ExcursioN—To Santa Cruz, Sunday. August 2. Thursday, July 30, tarket street, at 11 o'clock. Ibursday, July 30, 11 o'elock. CITY. NEWS IN BRIEF, Thé hotel men seem to favor a spring car- nival and promise SUpporL. The weather bureau predicts cloudy weather, with light winds, for to-day. Market Inspector Ben Davis rendered his re- port to the Board of Health yesterday. The Election Commission finished the work of appointing election officers yesterday. A Jarge number of skeletons have been found #n an old Indian burial mound in Sausalito. Jasephine Neutter has applied for letters of administration on the $3 estate of August Neutter. Retail grocers’ associations dispute about the right to use an old title in connection with - picnic. The trial of the suit of J. J. Rauer against Walier Hobart was begun before Justice Barry yesterday. Mrs. Annie Mitchell, who slashed a horse’s neck with a razor Saturday night, was arrested yesterday. The bill of exceptions in the Durrant case will be filed to-day in the Clerk’s office of the Supreme Court. Woman‘suffrage clubs have been organized in sixteen out of the eighteen Assembly dis- tricts of the City. Charles Monef was_yesterday appointed ex- ecutor of the will of Hannah Wortsmith,whose estate is worth $3500. Oliver Ellsworth has been appointed execu- tor of the will of Seth Bryan, who left personal property valued at $1000. Ellen Maxey’s will has been probated and Meinrad Humm rg appointed executor. The estate is worth §4400. Another McKinley club was organized in the Furty-second Distries, with 146 charter mem- bers, dast Monday evening. " J. E. Behan and W. T. Himes have applied for ‘ietiers of administration on the $5620 esiate of Jereminh O’Connor. The Supreme Court has affirmed the judg- ment in Thompson and Williams vs. Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. The Richmond District is availing. tself of the privilege of using red rock for its side- walks and other improvements. The officers of the Naval Battalion enter- ed Mujor-General James at dinoeron the itor Cameanche last evening. C.W.P m ove of thls City has been elected grand president of the Pacific Coast district of tne Order of the Sons of St. George. The Auditor’s report to the State Controller of the delinquent taxes for the year 1895 was forwarded to Sacramento yesterday. Charles Zang; 813 Jessie street, was yester- dny bound over’ to keep the peace toward his wife Sophie in $500 bonds by Juage Low. Japtain Charles Clark, master of the Colombis, was before the inspector of and boiiers for examination yesterday. :Captain Leonard Gill of the Olympic Club 13 confident that the Olympic athletes will meet the Multnomah athietes in September. * The James G. Blaine Club, with ex-Sheriff Thomas Desmond as president, has been orzanized in the best interests of the Repub- lican party. The unemployed held a meeting yesterday “afternoon at 1159 Mission street to denounce the plan proposed by the Salvation Army for aiding them. ° Anton Bank, baker, Sixteenth avenue, South San Francisco) swore'to s complaint yesteraay charging John Kelly with robbing his till of £1 50 on Monday. -Judge Hebbard yesterday fined R. P. Meril- lion $100 and committed him to jmil for two days for contempt, in having disobeyed am order of the court. Rev. Dr. Eli McClish will be elected presi- dent of the University of the Pacific if he does pot object. The trustees will meet to make the selection August 4. The Ocesnic Steamship Company and the Spreckels Towboat Company will move from Folsom to the Pacific-street wharf about the middle of next month. Judge Sanderson has returned from his vaca- tion and will preside over the naturalization of all who desire in_his courtroom during the remainder of the week. The distillery sites of the whisky trust in 118 City were s0ld yesterday to the secretary he reorganization committee of the trust, who was the only bidder. The ocean race from San Francisco to Hono- Inlu between the Australia and City of Peking was won by the {ormer. The Australia made & splendid run in the circumstances. Otto Brown, 110, Beale street, swore 10 & complaint vesterday charging two ex-convicts with peating him because he testified against them at their trial about two years ago. - w . Cunningham, ex-secretary of the y department of the State University. rday arrested for misdemeanor em- 11, and was released on bonds. The Sausalito poolroom case resulted yester- in a disagreement, helf the jury standing for conviction and half for acquittal. Conse- quently, the poolrooms continue in full blast. The department at Washington has decided thatc the place made vacant by the death of Captain Talbot, formerly Inspector of Hulls and Boilers, comes under the civil service law. The widow of Policeman George Stevens has sped the Board of Police Fund Commissioners « for $1000 because of the death of her husband, $100Q0 for its detention and $500 counsel fees. The plan is outlined for the formation to- night in the rooms of the Union Lesgue Club of a great locar body politic to be known as The National Republican League of San *Francisco.” A littlz daughter of Thomas Minchain of -West Park'street died from injuries sustained through having her clothes catch fire while playing out-of-doors. The origin of the mis- Dhap is & mystery. The James G. Blaine Republican Club pro- poses to hold_public meetings in Metropolitan Temyle, &t which sble speakers will explain ‘the silver bugaboo and its destructive effects upon the masses. The schooner Chetco has returned to the *wreck of the Colombia, where another seventy tons of freight awaits her. Nearly he mer- chandise is in good order, &nd is only slightly damaged by salt water. Democratiapolicy of free trade crushes the wool-growing industries of the country. Prices {all and factories are idle. In San Fran- cisto most of the warehouses have closed, and dealers see no hope save in a protective tariff. Judge Seawell yesterdey decided against the Jordan Rock Company in the review proceed- “ings against the Board of Supervisors for their action in awsrding the Folsom-street paving contract to the City Improvement Company. ‘WoMEN AND WOMEN ONLY are most com- Ppetent to fully appreciate the purity, sweet- ness, and delicacy of CUTICURA BoaP, and to discover new uses for it daily. To cleanse, purify, and beautify the skin, to allay itch- 1ing and irritation, to heal chafings, excoria- tions, and ulcerative weaknesses, nothing so pure, 80 sweet, 6o speedily effective as warm baths with CoTicoRA S0AP, followed, when necessary, by mild applications of CUTICURA (olntment), the great skin eure. Bold throughont the world. Price, COTIOURA, Se.i - Boar. g cl';!l?)l.s'::f Thor and $l. FOTTER DRGG et Core s Braprieioms Hoias: #&* How to Produce Luxurisnt Hair,” mailed fros. HE 1S FIGHTING FOR HIS LICENSE: Captain Clark of the Co- lombia Up for Exami- nation. NO CASTS OF THE LEAD The Pigeon Point Signal Said to Have Been Out of Order. WAS NOT HEARD THAT NIGHT Captains Had Been Instructed to Place No Dependence on Fog Whistles. Captain Clark of the wrecked steamship Colombia was before Cantain Bermingham, United States Inspector of Hulis and Boil- ers, yesterday, to fight for his license. He the box manufacturing business and sold outto H. B. Meyer. It was stipulated at the time that Merillion should not re- engage in the business in this City. He, however, subsequently entered the employ ?f the American Box Comyany as a solic- itor. Therenpon M had an injunction issued commanding Merillion to live up to the terms of Ifil contract. This he promised to do, but recently he has been again soliciting patronage for the Ameri- can Box Company. Consequently Judge Hebbard committed him_ for contempt. The case will in all probability go to the Supreme Court. . ——————— CUNNINGHAM ARRESTED. The Ex-Secretary of the Veterinary De- partment Has Not Settled. A. A. Cunningham, ex-secretary of the veterinary department of the State Uni- versity, was arrested yesterday on a com- plaint charging him with misdemeanor embezzlement. He was immediately re- leased on $300 bonds. The complsint was sworn to yesterday morning in Judge Conlan’s court by Dr. W. F. Egan, treasurer of the department, and the amount alleged to have been em- bezzled is $212. Last Thursday Dr. Egan applied for the warrant but did not swear to it, as he wanted to see if Cunningham would re- fund the money he had misappropriated, which at the lowest calculation was esti- mated at §212. At that time full particu- lars of the affair were published. ————————— Molody at Belvedere. The second open-air water concert of the series will be given at Belvedere this evening. The Angel Island band will play during the early portion of the evening on board the launch Wildwood, moving about the cove, and later from the upper deck of the ark Ala- meda, thus offoraing every one an oppor- tunity of enjoying a night of melody either from the hillsides or on-the water. Captain Clark as He Told His Story to Captain Bermingham and a Stemographer. and some of his officers were examined as to what happened just before the wreck and how it was that the ship came to be hung up on the Pigeon Pcint reef. R. P. Schwerin, vice-president and man- ager of the Pacific Mail Company, came in while the examination was in progress, and he was alloped to question the wit- nesses, and then at the end he took the stand himself. The stories told did not differ much from the accounts of the wreck which have been published, but there was one fact added which had not previousiy been brought to light. itap- peared from the testimony of George T. Bright, who was the lookout at the time the vessel struck, that shortly after the accideni & gray-haired man came aboard from a small boat and said he was the keeper of the lighthouse on Pigeon Point. He said he wanted to clear himself—that sometimes the fog-whistle worked and sometimes it didn’t, and more words leading to the inference that the whistle had not been working properly, or had not been working at all. Later Charles McCarthy, a quartermaster, testi- fied that when he went ashore in the first boat he met twu yonns ladies who told him the fog signal had not been going during the night. Captain Clark’s story failed to explain the disaster. He said he had pever, in all his experience asa master on this coast, passed close enough to Ano Nueva to hear the fog signal there, and so when he heard the signal tbere he at once concluded it was Pigeon Point. He calculated that he ‘was about five miles off Ano Nueva, or, as he thought, Pigeon Point, but had he been that distance off shore the course he laid would haye carried him clear of Pigeon Point. He said he took no soundings, bat the lead was ready on the bridge in case of sudden necessity. When she struck, the captain said, the Colombia was mak- ing thirteen and a half kuots. ohn Thompson, the third officer, told how he and the captain had debated over a fog signal they heard, and concluded that it was the Pigeon Point whistle, and that they were about five miles off shore, by the sound. He said he heard but two or three faint blasts of the signal ahead, the Pigeon Point signal, and these sounded like one blast, not lixe the double blast which is peculiar to that signal. Charles Olsen, the second officer, told a story substantially thesame, 80 far as the run from Point Sur was concerned. He was not on watch when the vessel struck. Pilot George D. Korts was called to tell what he knew of the fog signals on Pigeon Point anda Ano Nueva. Then Bright tes- tified and then McCarthy. Captain Clark was then called once more and Mr. Schwerin began to question him. He had not gone far, however, when Cap- tain Bermingham stopped him, saying that the questions he asked had already been gone over. Mr. Schwerin then said be thought he had a right to question the witness, as the Pacific Mail was a party vitally interested. He said he bad prop- erty at the mercy of captains licensed by the Government and be should have the right to show whether or not these cap- tamns are qualified for their trust. He wanted to show that the Pacific Mail Com- pany’s had positive instructions to place no dependence in fog signals. It was suggested that Mr. Schwerin be sworn, and when this had been dome he told how Captain Clark had come to have command of the Colombia. When the ship came out, he said, Captain Clark was put, in cbarge and told that she was to be made as popular as possible. Schwerin told the captain he had had peculiar ideas- about the lead line, that it ‘was the best friend a captain ever had and that he wished no chances taken, either in running in or out of a port in a fog, or at auy voint in thick weather, and that it was much easier to find bottom with a lead than with the ship’s keel. He said Clark had been in the company’s service for twenty-six years, and that he con- sidered the captain in every way fitted to take comnmand of the Colombia—that is, before she ran on the rocks. JAILED FOR CONTEMPT, R. P. Merillion Hus to Pay the Penalty for Disobeying Judge Hebbard. Judge Hebbard yesterday committed R. P. Meritlion to jail for two days and fined him $100 for contempt of court. Merillion some time ago was engaged in HELP FROM HOTEL MEN, They Favor the Spring Carnival and Promise Financial Support. A Sccond Order for Buitons—Bids on the Programme to Be Re- tarned. Manager Kirkpatrick of the Palace Hotel informed General Warfield yesterday that he was ready to draw his check in favor of the executive committee of the carnival of the Golden Gate for $1500 for the coming carnival. Kirkpatrick stated when the committee first called upon him that he would give thatamount if the carnival was held in the spring and one-third if held in the fall. He says he 13 now ready to carry out his promise. A number of other subscriptions were made to the carnival on the same basis. The hotelmen without exception favored the spring months for the carnival and their subscriptions were based upon the same understanding. They will be seen during tne next few days and announce- ments made of the amounts subscribed. A second order for 25,000 carnival bute tons was placed yesterday. It is expected to have the first lot on sale about Septem- ber 1. They will be retailed at 10 cents and the proceeds applied to meeting the running expenses of the carnival. The chairmanship of the finance com- mittee will be tilled ina few days. Gen- eral Warfield has in view one of the most prominent and energetic business men of the city who has successfully conducted several large enterprises. The position, which is one of considerable responsibility, has been offered him and he hastaken the matter under advisement. 8ix bids for printing the official souvenir grognmme ‘were received or Monday. 'he printing committee has decided to re- turn all bids unopened, and advertise again under the changed conditions. The mlnpfers of the whale hunting ex- Eedmnn wil! orn an office at the carnival eadquarters this week. When the ceta- cean is captured it will be towed ashore and exhibited for the benefit of the car- nival. The members of the executive committee believe it will be a strong at- traction, especially after being out of the water a few days. P e ——— DISSOLVED THE ORDER. Judge Seawell Decides Against the Jor- dan Company. Juage Beawell yesterday dismissed the writ of certiorari issued at the instance of the Jordan Bituminous Rock Company, commanding the Board of Supervisors to explain its action in awarding the Folsom- street paving coniract to tLe City Improve- ment Company. He also dissolved the temporary restraining order which pro- hibited Auditor Broderick issuing a war- rant on the City treasury for payment for the work. Some time ago the Jordan Company filed a suit claiming that the Board of uper- visors had discriminated against it in the matter of letting the Folsom-street con- tract because its %muman was brought to Ean Francisco by water instead of on the cars of the Bouthern Pacific Company. Attorney Garret McEnerney, in behalf of the board, argued the matter before Judge Seawell yesterday, and Charles F. Hanlon represented the Jordan Company. His Honor decided that the bourd had acted in a fair and legal manner throughout and 80 dismissed the writ and dissolved the order restraining partial payment for the work done. ————— Suit on a Mortguge. The Germania Savings and Loan Soclety has begun suit- %o foreclose a mortgage on the pr(;pegy -:rt:a southwest corner of Twentieth an oW streets. The sui; against Fabian Joost et -l.m'l"h.nnmm%: money involved is $16,000, a note 10r $40,000 m'lda Alu:l b‘d‘,‘i‘gsla.“ o ' Horrr's School for Boys, Burlingame. Sixth year begins Aug. 4. Ira G. Hoitt, Ph.D,, Master* THE AUSTRALIN WON THE RACE She Beat the City of Peking in the Run to Honolulu. NOT: A CLOSE CONTEST. Chief Steward James Wants a Dozen Choice Eggs From Fancy Stock. HE HAS TO “SQUARE” HIMSELF Presented a Friend With a Dczen of the Hard Boiled Variety for a Setting. The Oceanic Steamship Company’s Aus- tralia arrived from Honolulu yesterday with a 1ull list of passengers. Those in the cabin were: Colonel F. L. Guenther, Miss Guenther, Colo- nel William Macdonald, Mrs. H. Morrison, Mrs. J. L. Mauverer, F. Horner and wife, R. 1. Lillie and wife, B. T, McCullough, Theodore Richards and wife, Captain W.' B. Godfrey, wife and five children; 0. White, wife and two children; Rev. Brother Joseph, Miss M. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Keech and two children, Mrs. C. M. Shortridge, Miss V. Shortridge, Miss M. Swingley, Dr. W. Anderson and wife, Miss A. Danl, Mrs. J. A. an‘})ex and niece, J. 8. Me- Candless, L. L. McCandless, Miss A. Kingsford, Mrs. M. M. Scott, Miss G. M. Scott, Beott, Rev. Bro. Edward, C. J. Coo Schnack and two children, E. D, Ashley, A. L. Taylor, Mrs, tain “Curtis, Misses Curtis, M: 'sner, . L. Kessler, J. A. Kennedy, 8. J. Smith, W. Horn, Mrs. G. Leibold. Rey. Brother Albert, Miss M. 'S. Denis, Z. R. Pangborn and_wife, P. A. Williams and wife, D. E. Bortree, Miss M. Bortree, Miss K. Ather- ton, Miss 8 Fiaxman, W. O. Atwater, Miss L, Goldstein, T. J. Birch, J. N.Suydam, C, H. Suy- aam, Miss L Roberts, C. E. Rice and H. Pohl- mann. On the 12th inst. the Australia sailed for Honolulu and three hours later the Pacific Mail Company’s City of Peking sailed for the same port. Bets were freely made on the race and in every instance the Peking was the favorite. The Australia won easily, getting into Honolulu at 6:40 ». M. on the 17th, while the Peking did not reach port until 4 o'clock the next morning. Owing to the strike in the Newcastle collieries the Australia had very poor coal in her bunk- ers and Chief Engineer Neiman is of the opinion that with good coal the trip coula easily have been shortened twelve hours, When the Australia leaves port again Chief Steward T. K. James will take along with him a dozen eggs from the best bred chickens in the State. He is procuring them for Ciarence McFarland, brother of the colonel, and they are to be used as a peace offering. McFarland is a chicken fancier, and for months he has been after James to bring bhim down some fancy eggs. James always promised faithfully, but the promise always slipped his memory. When the steamer was passing through the Golden Gate on the 12th inst, he sud- denly remembered the eggs and was in despair. A bright idea struck him, and going into the pantry he selected a dozen of the largest and best-looking eggs in a large box. These he told the cook to boil bard and then wrap neatly in tissue. When the Australia reached Honoluln James handed over the eggs to McFar- land, who, in his {oy at securing them, opened a bottle of wine. Last advices re- ceived before the steamer sailed were to the effect that McFarland’s hen was pa- tiently setting on the hard-boiled eggs. The above is the true reason why genial Tom James is anxious to purchase fancy eggs at any price before the Australia sails again for Honolulu. Chief Officer Lawless asserts that the hen will have hatched out an omelette before the Aus- tralia gets back to Hawaii. The Oceanic Steamship Company and the Spreckels Towboat Company will move from Folsom-street wharf ‘to. the Pacific-street wharf in about a fort- night. It was so decided at a meeting of the Harbor Commissioners yesterday. Commissioner Colnon was very much op- posed to the moving of the towboats and wanted them stationed at Howard No. 2. He insisted that a wharf which had ‘cost $50,000 to build should not be given over to craft of that descrintion. John D. Spreckels argued that the best ‘wharves on the front should be given over to ocean steamers and that inasmuch as the Oceanic was a local concern and spent all its money here, some consideration should be shown. With the Australian and Hawaiian steamers docking at Pacific sireet the whari would have to be bonded and it would be a great hardship to have outside schooners docking there. Chief Wharfinger Root gave it as his opinion that it would give rise to endless trouble to have any small eraft docking at Pacific street and Mr. Spreckels pointed out that only two steamers couid lie along- side the wharf and that then there would just be room for the tugs. “No matter what comes or goes,” said he, “we must have a tug there with steam up night and day in order to put out fires. By putting all'the vessels at one dock you -?u save room and we will save the expense of run- ning two offices.” Commissioners Chadbourne and Cole were in favor of granting Mr. Spreckels’ iss M. per, Mrs, J. Tenney, W. G. B request on the ground that the change was only temporary, and President Coinan finally gave ‘When Folsom street in. wharf is rebuilt it is expected that the ves- sels in question will move back again. Edward R. Swain, the board’s architect, recommended ceriain changes in the new ferry depot. Asit would entail an addi- tional expenditure of $2950 the matter was taken under advisement and the Com- missioners will look into the matter. Some weeks ago the whaleback City of Everett drifted down on a dolphin at Mis- sion 3 and carried it away. A bill for $226 wa3sent in by the Commissioners,but when Superintendent of Construction Patterson said the piles were rotten the bill was re- duced to $113. 7 Captain Bucknam, who was formerly master of the City of Everett, goes out as chief officer of the City of Sydney. The schooner Chetco was towed back to the wreck of the Colombia yesterday. There is about seventy tons of recovered freight awaiting and on its arrival here it will be sold at auction. An immense quantity of fruit came down on the steamers Onward, Aurora amd Re- lief yesterday from the Bacramento. Puget Sound ports partly relieved the glut and the Umatilla was heid half an hour in order to take away some of the surplus to Seattle, Tacoma, Port Townsend and Vie- toria, B. C. Sergeant Tom Mahoney said that it was the busiest day that he has seen on Jackson-street wkharf in fifteen years. SUED 1HE COMMISSIONERS. . The Widow of Policeman Stevens Brings Charges Against City Officials. Theresa M. Stevens, widow of Policeman George Stevens, has sued the Board of Police Pension Fund Commissioners to recover $1000 alleged to be due on a policy on the life of her deceased husband. " In her complaint she alleges that the Commissioners have discriminated against her claim and in favor of other perso: whose claims were not as clear and just hers. She further says that the - ants are persons of great wealth and of exalted standing in the community, and that their open of the fourteenth article of the constitution of the Unitea States in refusing her equal justice with other claimants is a public scandal. A's an instance of the all discrimi- nation against the plaintiff, the case of R. P..Hammond Jr., whose claim of $1000 because of the death of R. P. Hammond Sr. was allowed, is cited. Because of this alleged discrimination, Mrs. Stevens asks, in addition to the $1000 said to be due, to be awarded $1000 dam- ages and $500 counsel fees. POOLMEN HOLD ON. The Celebrated Case in Sausalito Be- fore Recorder Pryor Results in & Disagreement. The continuation of the case involving the poolsellers of Sausalito was resumed last Monday night before Recorder J. H. Pryor. The defendant was J. M. McGee, an employe of Corbett & Co., and the prosecuting witness was Marskal J. E. Green, who stated that defendant had ac- cepted $1 for a ticket on a certain horse in acertain race. The defense mainly rested on the tech- nicality whether McGee, acting only as a commissioner, was responsible or not. The ‘court instructed the jury that it was immaterial whether McGee was the prin- cipal or agent. The prosecution was con- ducted by A. Sylva, the Town Attorney. Thomas P. Boyd, City Attorney of San Rafael, appeared for the defendant. The jury, composed of George Tashieia, Captain William Barrowe, Commodore C. H. Harrison, William N. Ketcham, Con O’Neary, John Thomas, W. H. Harrold, William Getchler, G. 8tahl, John Mason, William Ritchie and Peter Claudianos, retired at 9 ». M., and at 2:30 A. M. yester- day stood six for acquittal and six for con- viction. So the poolrooms continue in full blast. OR, MeCLSH T0 B CHOSEN Will Be President of the University of the Pacific. TRUSTEES ABOUT TO ACT Result of Their Deliberations Is " Already Fully Fore- shadowed. CALL 0UT FOR AN ELECTION. No Other Name Is Mentioned in Con- nection With the Candidacy for the Position. Unless Rev. Dr. Eli McClish interposes objection there is very little doubt that he will be elected next week to the presidency of the University of the Pacific by the R E. McClish, D.D., President-Elect of Pacific Coast »Bl'lnuh C. L. S. C. THE INDUSTRIAL ~ FAIR The Judges Nominated and’to Be Finally Chosen Next Week. A Meeting of Mechanics’ Institute Trustees at Which Progress Was Made. The trustees of the Mechanics’ Institute held a semi-executive meeting last even- ing for the purpose of advancing the progress of the twentyv-ninth industrial exposition of the institute, to be heid in the Mechanics’ Pavilion from September 1 to October 3 next, and considerable progress was made.. The principal business was the sug- gestion of names of men well known to be competent to act as judgesin the multi- farious departments of the exposition in which awards' are to be made tocom- petitive exhibitors. A long list of names were nominated by the members of the board. The nominees will be immediately seen and requested to act, and the result will be reported to another meeting to be held one week from last night. Among the reports of committees it was recommended that the fish tanks be repaired and completed at once; that the glass be put in the windows at once where needed, and that the Pavilion be well cleaned and dusted. It was decided to leave the competition for designs for diplomas open for another week. it. was voted to engage thirty-eight general employes of the exposition, about the same number as the last exposition. The art committee is considering the putting in of new skylights for the art de- partment. The indications are that the space on the exposition floor will be well filled by handsome displays of exhibitors. A special feature of the exposition will be a Roentgen ray department, where it will be ible for the casual spectator in the flesh to see his own skeleton. P. J. Healey was elected to the position of corresponding secretary. BURNED TO DEATH. A Little Girl Catches Fire While Play- ing Around a Vacant Lot. Lizzie Minehan, the - three-year-old daughter of Thomas Minehan, a milkman living at 160 West Park street, died Mon- day night of injuries received several hours before. She had been playing in a vacant lot adjoining the residence of her parents, and it was thought that her cloth- ing caught fire from a pile of hct ashes thrown there by Mrs. Bonn, a neighbor. The little girl ran home with the dames streaming around her, and although the fire was extinguished by her mother the child died that night. Mr. Bohn is much distressed over the report that she was - directly the cause of child’s death, and denies that she threw hot ashes in the lot tuat day. Several hours before the acci- dent, she states, her daughter emptied a | pan of ashes there, but they were cold and harmless. The Fair Case. The attorneys for the executors of the will of James G. Fair yesteraay filed a notice to Mrs. Craven and her legal sdvisers thaton Monday, August 3, they will apply for an or- der of court directing that certain papets be brought into court for inspection, and al fiuz"-lr'l attorneys may, if they wish, take & of them. ringe dombracl i 1o exist, and & CortainIek contrac to exist, and & n le w:'d.nwd December 16, 1894, said to have been 'nt to Mrs. Craven by Jame: s Efforts will also be made fo have Mrs. Eliza- beth Haskins answer certain questions to ‘which she has hitherto refused to reply. trustees of that institution. The notices have been sent out by the secretary of the Board of Trustees for a meeting to be held in the Mills building at 10 A. M. Aucust 4, and the special business mentioned in this call is consideration of the selection of a head for the university. The name of Rev. Dr. McClish, it is set forth in this call, will be presented. The chairman of the Board of Trustees is L. J. Truman. That gentleman says that Rev. Dr. McClish will be elected in all probabil- ity. Rev. Dr. McClish's name has been mentioned repsatedly in connection with the position, and as no word of dissent has been uttered the board expects to fill the :pcmcy, which has existed for some ime. Rev. Dr, McClish has been president of an educational institution at Onarga, IIL, and it was from Onarga, in fact, that he came to the pastorate of Grace M. E. Church in this City about s'x years ago. He served as pastor in San Kranciso five vears and then was transferred to Napa. e entered the ministry in 1871, when he was ordained by the Methodist conference to preach, and he occupied Eastern pas- torates before he accepted the position at Onarga. He is the president of the Chau- tauqua_assembly which meets at Mon- terey. In many directions he has achieved prominence on the Pacific Coast and he is considered to be entirely sligible to fill the vacant presidency at College Park, where the University of the Pacific is lo- NEW TO-DAY. Ideal Blend costs more than the other flavors of Schilling’s Best because it is the product of a few picked gardens. Part of the extra price of Ideal Blend is for rarity, part for extra fineness of flavor. The other flavors of Schilling’s Best grow in larger gardens, and you pay nothing for rarity. Pound Half-pound Japan, s0¢ z25¢ English Breakfast, 6oc 30c¢ Oolong, 75¢ 40c¢ Ceylon, 8c 4oc Ideal Blend, $1.25 65¢ Sold only in packages; your money back if you don’t like it. Lfifl‘l ing & Company IT'S CURES THAT COUNT. Many so-called remedies are on the public attention on account of their claimed large sales. But sales cannot determine values. Salessimply argue good salesmen, shrewd puffery, or enormous advertis- ing. It’s cures that count. It is cures that are counted on by Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Its sales might be boasted. It has the world for its market. But sales prove nothing. We point only to the record of Ayer’s ' Sarsaparilla,” as proof of its merit: 50 YEARS ' OF CURES cated. At present heisout of the City, being up by Mount Shasta enjoying his vacation. There has been no president at_the uni- versity since the resignation of Rev. Dr. Beard, who went abroad with the inten- tion of making his resignation permanent. Rev. M. 8. Cross, the dean of the faculty, has been at the head of affairs during the interim. Rev. Dr. Hirst was president of the university for a term of years. Rev. Dr. Isaac Crook has also occupied the residential chair. Very likely Rev. Dr. cClish will have a larger number of students to look after than have his pre- decessors. The idea is entertaiued by those concerned in the institution that the final closing of the institution at Napa, which will be sold, and the con- solidation of interests at College Grove, will increase the attendance of the Uni- versity of the Pacifi A George half-noble was recently sold for £275, and a double sovereign of the first coinage for £115. NEW TO-LAY—AMUSEMENTS. AL HAYMAN & CO.’S THEATERS. B ~e g ] CHARLES ALDWIN | prommars EMPIRE THEATER CO,, From the Empire Theater, New York, THIS WEEK ONLY-MAT. SATURDAY, Clyde Fitch’s Comedy, “HBOEEMIA' As Presented for Over 100 Nights at the Empire Theater. Next Monday, Aug. 3—Another Great Success, “THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT,” By Pinero. Monday. 4 ‘The Masqueraders.” ATIHE LAST NIGHTS 1 CALIFoRNIA | o' L. R. Stockwell’s C9mpany of Players DE —— 2553 (OGHLAN MR. FREDK. wARD ROSE An Elaborate Scenic Production—THE ““MERCHANT OF VENICE!" Mr. Warde as Shylock Miss Coghlan as Portia —CHAUNCEY OLCOTT in Farewell Week! Monday, Au “MAVOURNEE. Suntio Ghealic, DLANDER GOTTLOD & c LESHES ATD MAMAGERS - WHEN I MAKES UP A WOMAN HER MIND That She Wants 10 See THE FRAWLEY COMPANY Nothing Can Prevent Her. That 1§ Why 1000 Nightly Come to See ====THE HIGHESI BIDDER==== Monday Next—**A Gold Mine.’’" And First Appearance of WILTUN LACKAYE and LOUISE THORNDYKE-BOUCICAULT. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE M s LENESTING ARELING, Propriewor & Manages Season of Italian and English Grand Opera Under the Direction of ME. GUSTAV HINRICHS. —THIS EVENING— Also Friday and Sunday, ‘CARMENY ——TO-MORROW EVENING—— Also Saturday Evening, ‘FrATUSTY Casts! Beautifil Scenery! T Correct Costume: Next Week +PAGLIACCL” Ponul~= Pri~as—25a and 33 MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater In America. WALTER MOROSCO, Sole Lessee and Mauagas THIS EVENING AT EIGHT, Limited Star Engagement of the Romuntic Actor, JAMES M. BROPHY “Qur Calffornia Boy," In the Title Kole of Gunter’s Great Drama, *«MR. BARNES OF NEW YORK I” The Attracti he Season. Evening Pri 5e and 50c. Family « ircl- and Gallery. 10c. Usual watinees Saturday and Sunday. iy O'Farrell Street, Le ween Stockton and Powell Matinee To-Day (Wednesday). July 28, Parquet, any t, 28¢; Balcony, any seat, 10c. Children, 1Uc, sny part. ———S8EE THE NEW SENSATION—— H: RR TECHOW And His Marvelous Performing Cats. LYDIA YEAMANS- (1TUS, Assisted by FRED J. TITUS. BIONDI in New Sketche: LAST WEEK of the MASONS. A Great Vaudeville Company. THE CHUTES, CASINO! And Greatest Scenic Rail way on Earth! EVFRY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Take Advantage of the Weekdays and See TJOmY The Only Living Exponent of the Darwinian ‘Theory in A\ meri ———A Wonderful Bill of Novelties- And Positively Las Week of THE MARLO-DUNHAM FAMILY. DMS~ION— 10 CENTS. Children, inciuding Merry-Go-Round, 5 cents. FAMILY EXCURSION TO—— by the SANTA CRUZ ... Personally conducted by WM. H. MENTON, xcursion Passenger Agent. Will be Given SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1896. NO CROWDING! SEATS FCR ALL! g2 il P2 THE ROUND TRIP Take the 7:45 4. M. boat from ferry landing (narrow gauge), San Francisco, foor of Market street. For further information apply at Grand Hotel Ticket Office. RICHARD G%AY, T H. GOODMAN, Sutve Baths,eae Grounds from 7 A. M. Until 11 . a0 Concert Every Afternoon and Evening, ‘General Aamission—Adults 10c, Children 5S¢,