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16 THE ‘SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1896. P8 CORWALL WANTED BY THE GRANI]V JURY Departure of the Expected Witness on a Trip North. TO RETURN NEXT WEEK Subpena Issued for Him to Appear on Friday, August 7. UPON ILLEGAL REGISTRATION. Registrar Hinton to Receive As. sistance in Exposing Frauds in His Department. Thursday last a subpena was issued for P. B. Cornwall, president of the Mutual Electric Light Company, to attend a ses- sion of the Grand Jury yesterday. The document demanding Mr. Cornwall’s presence as a witness was placed in the to the District Attornef. -The Grand Jury will then find indictments if the testi- mony-adduced should justify such finding. * Bpeaking for th- Grand Iyury Frank PB. McLennar, thesecr tary, said: * *Weshall render the Kegistrar every: asSistance in our power towaru pringing to puhisnment persons guilty of illegal registration.’”” Registrar Hinton was seen after the ad- journment of the Grand Jury. He said: *‘One of the cases referred to the Grand Jury was.sent there by direction of the Eléction Commissioners. Two more cases were referred. My purpose is to get the Grand “Jury to make an example of per- sons seeking to falsely register. One case clearly involvigg perjury-was laid before the jury: We had a case like this, for example: . A man registered, .giving his residenge at a certain ‘number 1in, the block on Vallejo street. : Inquity established the fact that he lived there and was entitled to vote, Subse- quently he went”into another district, rented a -room in a lodging-house, regis- tered on the house book, was assigned’ to aroom and secured the key to his apart- ment. Then he came to this office with an application to be appointed to-serve on the precinct board of thé precinet in which that lodging-house is situated. In making this application he swears that'he is a resi- dent of ‘the precinet. ; “I do not feel at liberty,” said ‘Registrar Hinton, *‘to say what. I have communi- | cated to the Grand Jury, but.the -purpose {is'to punish persons guilty of pérjury in connection with registration.” Tne Grand Jury yesterday went into Judge Hebbard’s court and presented an indictment against James. Hughes and Patrick Hughes for resisting an efficer. hands of Detective Robert Hogan at the | According to the papers in the case re- District Attorney’s office for service. It | sistance was offered on June 13, and the P.B. Cornwall, Who Has Been Subpenacd by the Grand Jury to Tell What He Enows About the Bribing of Supervisors. was ascertained Thursday afternoon that Mr. Cornwall started for “the State of Washington the evening previous. Yesterday.the Grand Jury, through Dis- trict. Attorney Barnes, directed that an- othér subpena should issue for Mr. Corn- wall to appear before the Grand Jury Fri- day, August 7. It is understood that Mr. Cornwall will hgve returned from. the north by that time. The-failure of Mr. Cornwalt to appear pefore the Grand Jury yesterday caused a little quiet rejoicing among the. solid seven Supervisors and their friends. It was known that the Grand' Jury expected some important revelations from this gentleman. He had not volunteered to testify but was accredited with the state- ment that if the Grand Jury called on him to tell what he knew ‘concerning -the methods of certain members of the Board «of Bupervisors he would tell it. Thursday night the accused seven re- ceived a hint that Mr. Cornwall had left the City, and the hinted intelligence caused a feeling .of relief.” When. Mr. Cornwall went before the Wallace Grand Jury some years ago and told how a cor- poration furnishing light had been com- pelled to put up money in large sums’ for protection, the chief boodlers made a gen- ‘eral break for cover. Mr. Cornwall is sup- posed to know something of the mysterious methods empioyed to tap the corpora- tions, and may also know something of the compenies that are willing to be tapped. The memibers of the Grand Jury are con- fident that Mr., Cornwal] will be in San Francisco again by August?7. They have received information to the-efféct that he can throw some light on several transac- tions. If he remains absent a long time the jury will remain i session a long time. Supervisor Dimond was a witness before the Grand Jury yesterday. Itis notas- serted that his testimony was important. Heisreported to have testified that he did not, of - his own knowledge, know that Buperxisors had been bribed or influenced. He had formed an opinion by general ob- servatipn—an opinion which many others had formed. As he did not train with the accused Superisors he did not know their secrets,” They did not tell him of their lans. Hewas not in their confidence and new nothing of their purposes.beyond what their votes disclosed. The subject of illegal registration en- gaged -the. attention of the Grand Jury -and District Attorney Barnes for’ quite a_ long time yesterday afternoon. Three communications bearing on the matter from Registrar Hinton were considered, and it was resolved to sustain that officer in, his'efforts to prev‘}u fraud and illegal voting. In order td actawith a clear and definite purpose it was arranged that Registrar Hinton and District Attorney . Barnes stould hold a conférence next Monday. The Registrar will then present all the important facts in his pussession- NEW TO-DAY. THE PRIZE Ty the Disfigwing (OTICURA ECZEMA REMEDIES Our baby when three wecks old was badly af- flicted with Eczema. Her head, arms, neck, limbs and nearly every joint in her body Was Taw an: bieeding When we concluded to try CUTICURA REMEDIES. We with CUTICURA (ofnt= ment) and CUTICUEA SOAP, and @ ot application we could see a change. _After we had used them one week some of the sores had healed v has as lovely skin and hair as any child. She was ehown at the Grange Fair, and took a remium as the prettiest baby, over sixteen others . & Mgs. P, 1609 Bellcview Ave., Kan. City. &fi-vwm:%nmh“’fiu?lfi'—’. ‘| the Btate constitution. KANSAS |5 lice officers then resisted were David Koegel and J. N. Beach. These officers, together with Sergeant F. 8. Davis and D. J. Driscoll, were the witnesses- lieard by the Grana Jury. Koegel and -Beach were arresting Mark Hefferan on the charge of grand larceny, when "Patrick and James Hughes locked the door and made a loud talk,” with threats of using a:knife. no blood was shed, but the matter was getting very serious when- assisting police- men forced the doors and completed the arrest of Héfferan. 5 The Grand Jury-sent a communication to the Board of Education protesting against the closing of the-Webster Prinary School. .The communication is publishea elsewhere in THE CaLr. The notior seems to bie entertained that some of’ the School Directors waunt to get the principal of the school, Alice Manning, out of the depart. ment, and that the abandonment of the schoolhouse would virtually. accomplish that purpose. BB e CORNWALL MAY TALK. Mr. Summerhayes Says That the Jury Can Learn Much About Z Street Lighting. 3 William “R. . Summerhayes, vice-presi- dent and general manager of the Mutual Electric Light Company, was found iast evening at his home at 709 Oak street. : “I do not know what Mr. Cornwall may testify to before the Grand-Jury,” he said, “‘He has “been. in.a position to know all about- the ins and outs of street lighting in .8an Francisco. He was:president of the California Electric Lighting Company, then ‘president :of the Edison Electric Light-and Power Company, and now, he is, | with. the Mitual Electric Light Company. ““So-far as 1 know no one has comre from the: Board of Supervisors tq -get money: out. of our’company. No, I understand that the first stage is to subject the cor- poration on the outside to annoyance and to hamper it all that is. possible. We are goingthrough that stage now.. - . “‘We did not put up 1 cent for the Super- visors nor will we put up any money for them. Neither will we be crowded out of existence. We knew that it would not be bssible for us to get a franchise from the Supervisors,and so we are working under I -wiil tell you our experience and you can’judge what the attitude of the Supervisors is toward @ -corporation which affords competition to the Edison Company. . 5 . “The Supervisors are supposed to repre- sent the people.. If they do so they surely ought to’'stand in’ with°any competition whrich will reduce rates for lignhts. When we put up poles in front of the Baldwin, on the Pow¢ll-street side, we asked for the vrivilege ©f establishing hghts there. The Supervisors granted us that privilege, but twenty-four %murl later the privilege was rescinded. g £ *‘We. were ordered by Street Superin- *| tendent Ashworth. who is a stockholdér in the Edison Company, to take down our olés. We refused to do that, and ascrim- mage took place. Mr. Ashworth told me-| that he would arrest any one who at- l.tempted to put’ up lights on thiose poles, and some arrests we e made. . Mr. Ash- worth said that he would not permit the poles to stand, and when I asked him why he said that the-Supervisors were pushing | him and the Edison Company was push- ing the Supervisors. *I sent our solicitor to the members of the Street Committee of the Supervisors, Messrs: Benjamin, Dunker and Hughes, to lmp‘y“c‘nnnnightpn ask why we could not keep our poles standing. They al! said that if the Bald- win Hotel people wanted the poles up they could have them there, but that the Mutual Electric Light Con.pany coula not supply light to the Baldwin The reason given for this by each of the thres men named was that the Bdison Company was Ruhing them so.. The solicitor is named Mills. He has made affidayit to this before a notary. A member of the Mer- chants’ Association called upon’ us con- cerning the street lighting. *The San Francisco Gas Light Compan and the Edison Confpany have combmecl The combination was talked up before the contracts for street lighting were awarded. The Edison Company is obliging the City ht more No |- incisions with theé knife were made, hence | 1 £ 2, than private parties pay. The rate to_the City L 13 neei, on the average is $3 85. The Harbor Light and Power Company, which is really the Edison company under a convenient alias, charges citizens $3 a week for twelve hours’ lighting per night, while the City lights burn only ten hours anight. The City does not get the same candle-power that is furnished to private citizens, The ity gets iess than do the citizens. L : “We put in ‘no bid for lighting the streets. 1t would have done us no good. It looks strange that the contract was made for the term of two years, when it is a well-known fact that machinery will steadily decrease the cost of producing electric light, as new ‘machines are con- tinually ' being invented. We have no privileges® granted to us. We have been assessed $50,000 for our franchise, and we have no iranchise, but are working under the State constitution, as I have already said. Assessor Siebe has told two men ‘that he was urged to make the assessment against our franchise $100,000. - The Super- visors, sittiag as equalizers, would give us no relief. There is some one behind the Supervisors pushing them on. There can be-na question concerping that. ¢ . * “Mr. Cornwall will be back in seven or eight days. I have no doubt that he will be ablé to interest the grand jurors.” ) FENCE CAOSS T NES AVENE :North Point Street “ Crossing. Picturesque Path to the Bay Shore Closed Against the - Public. A PROTECTION T0' FORT MASON. Captain Vogdes:Built: the Obstruction to-Keep Out Undesirable Visitors. ; On the. offieial map of.San Francisco Van Ness avenue bas its northern termin~ ation at a point opposite .the extreme end. of Fort. Mason. Now the broad, avenue | comes to an' abrupt- stop three or four blocks nesrer to town. It has been fenced and pedestrians may not pass the barrier without the .assistance of ladders and at the imminent peril of. becomming eh- tangled in various strands of barbed wire. The fence was almost completed yester- day across Van Negs avenue. Itis asub- stantial affair with supports sunk far down boarding. The boards themselves go be- low the level of the ground, so that rio- body may bore beneath and ‘so defeat the purpose of the barricade, and they aré carried upward fully eight feet. Above them the sustaining posts are continued a distance of four-or five feét. The object of this additional height of railing is to make provision for strands of barbed wire that are to be placed ciose together with a view of making an impassable blockade. _ Permission’ was given by the Board of Supervisors to Captain Vogdes, incom- mand of the Government station at Fort Van Ness avente last- Monday, and im- mediately thereafter lumbe: was hauled to the spot where thé fence now stands. Next day a fofce of workinep from Fort Mason put in an appearance. Some spent the day sinking deep: Holes im thé hard as the preliminary work was finished -actual construction: began. “proach along “Van' Ness avenue, ‘aver hum- mogks of sand: and . through a tangle of sweet shrubs and flowers that have scat- tered themseives along:the way from the Fort Mason gardens, was closed. All that now remains to make the fence absojutely impassaple is to affix the wire topping after the fashion of the Midwirter Fair voarding. : : : “The obstruction is placed on'the avenue close to the crossing of North Point street, on ‘which'the abandbned woolen mills are bailt.” It runs clear from the west wall of the mills, ‘following "the contour of the ground, till it meets the Government res- ervation fence. On the north or bay side, where ttie ungraded avenue drops down- .ward to the shore, there issa wild bit of scenery -that seems to have its greatest at- traction in the contrast with Oity streetsa bloek of two away. It used to afford an intéresting walk to -the” shore, and was largely taken advantage’-of, for at the strand there is a pleasadt stretch of bluffs along Fort Mason, and realiy good views of the. bay. Sheltered there froiu the winds pgople used ‘to ke on Sqnd=zyz.and holidays and watch the passing craft that gave life and movemerrt to the'scene.’ At first.it was thought that the Dolphin Swimming and Rowing Club, which only quite recently erected.s handsome club- house at’ the end of Van Nessavenue, would be shut ont by the Government fence. fo e e The club Was consulted, however, and a door has been put in the fence to allow the Dolphins and their friends to pass through, This door will have a latch lock similar to the lock on the clubhouse, so only members of the rowing club can go beyond the barrier. They are now talking of building a walk all the way to the club- houge that will be a good path in all kinds of weatker. It seems that for a year or more the exsterly slopes of Fort Mason, reaching down to Van Ness avenue, have been in- fested by tramps and loafers. Two of these worthless characters actually made their houes in a sheltered spot under a huge projecting rock and managed to sub- sist on orangesand other fruits that drifted into the cove on their way out from the wharyes. Stalo bread from the Mason- street dumps helped the soldiers’ unde- sirable neighbors to live. Besides on Sun- days crowds would go too far and pull flowers and trespass on the officers’ gar- dens that are not surrounded with fenc- ing. % It was as a matter of self-protection, Captain Vogdes said, that he erected the fence across Van Ness avenue. Princess Henriette’s (of Belgium) wed- ding presents and clothing, sent after her from Brussels to Neuilly, where her hus- band, the Duc de Vendome, has his villa, filled 170 boxes and weighed 11 tons. "LANIGAN and his brother-in-law, Supervisro Hirsch, fla) along with the Solid Seven boodlers in Barry’s Star. % ., BARBED WIRES ON TOP.| into the soil and a stout framework tor the |. Mason, to erect and maintain the fenceon | earth, others made measurements and cut 5 up the timber in juitable lengths, and just | In two days |’ ‘| the fence was up and the picturesque ap- LAST DAY OF _ We close the week and with it final offering of lines specially marked down for clearance to. ~ PRIGES THAT REPRES VEILING! VELLING! At 15 Cents a Yard. THREE-QUARTER WIDTH CHENIL- LETTE DOTTED "TUXEDO VBEIL- , regular price 25¢, will be closed out at 15¢ a yard. At 25 Centsa Yard. DOUBLE AND THREE- QUARTER WIDTH CHENILLE AND CHEF.&IL- LETTE DOTTED TUXEDO VEIL- NG, regular price §0c, Will be' closet - out at 25ca yard. At 50 Cents Each, - ‘BUTTER APPLIQUE BORDERED’ WASHED NET VEILS, regular price 7be, 85¢ and $1, will be clpsed out at 50c each, F s d HANDR ERCHIEFS! *. " "At & Cents Each. . MISSES’ ' W HITE., HEMSTITCHED ahd REVERED HANDKERCHIEFS, « regular prick 90c a dozen, will be closed out at 4c each. ok At 10 Cents Each. LADIES’ WHITE SCALLOPED EM- BROIDERED SHEER LAW N HAND- KERCHIEFS, regular price “.25¢, will be closed out at 10c each 2 At 15 Cents Each. " | LADIES WHITE SCALLOPED. EM- BROIDERED SHEER LAWN HAN KERCHIEFS, regplar ptice $3 50 per dezen, will beclosed out at 16¢ each.’ - BRI EIBONS! S At 7% Cents. FANCY RIBBONS, 3inches wide, assorted colors, value 15¢, will be ‘closed-out at 7%c a yard. i S sl At 15 Cents. 3 FANCY RIBBONS, 3 inches wide, all silk assorted colors, value 25¢, will be closed out.at 15¢ a.yard. CAPES, SUITS AND SKIRTS - At $1.90. LADIES’ CAPES, made of light tan cloth, prettily braided, ruche neck, .lined throughout with light blue, worth $6, . reduced. to $1 90 each. s At $2.50. ° ‘LADIES’ CABES, made of fine material richly embroidered or braided, all Tined _worth §7 50, reduced to $2 50 each. ; At $3.90. . 85 LADIES' SULTS, consisting - black and navy Cheviot, skirt lined out at $399 each. -At $6.90. LADIES’ S8UITS, consisting of Skirts and © Double-breasted Jackets, in black and havy Cheviots, lined throughouit and neatly finished, worth $10, will be cleared’out at $6 90 each. At $2.45. 5 LADIES’ BLACK'AND NAVY CHEVIO’ SKIRTS, all lined, finished with bias . velveteen, wofth $5, will be closed out . at $2 45 each. it . SHIRRED CREPON SEERSUCK- duced, from 124c yard to. || IMPORTED ORGANDIES; wide,) ;. |- . fine and handsome, redaced 100 from"20c to... .THE GOOD - GRADE WIDE:, " " 'WIDTH PERCALES, broken 12}4c yard, reduced to === ¢ our Great Stock-Taking Reduction Sale with a grand selected to meet the requirements of Saturday buyers and ENT A GREAT SACRIFICE! with silk, ruche trimmings at neck, I of Doublg- | ‘breasted Reefer and Skirt, made of | - throughout, worth $7 50, will be closed | - ERS, the real twvoven article, re-% | 50 . 1 3 lots, all desirable, that were} 720_ : NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. OUR GREAT SALE! LADIES' SHIRT WAISTS LADIES’ - SHIRT WAISTS, laundered “collar and cuffs, in fancy checks and stripes, worth 75¢c, will be closed out at, 80c each. ) At 50 Cents. * | 150 dozen LADIES’ SHIRT WAISTS, in heavy percales, stripes .and checks, bishop sleeves, regular price $1, will be closed out at 50c each.” At 75 Cents. 3 | LADIES' SHIRT WAISTS, in all fancy shades, bishop, sleeves, made of good rcale, reyular price $15Q, will be closed out at 75¢ each. UTSLIN UNDERVELR! < At 25 Cents. - 2 LADIES' MUSLIN DRAWERS, made with yoke band, finished with ruffle of _embroidery, will be closed ouf at 25¢. LADES D LOVES! | At 50 Cents. LADIES’ 4BUTTOUN KID GLOVES, in * . white, with black’and self-embroidered batks, regular“value $1, will-be closed out at 50c a pair. . At 55 Cents. > LADIES’ 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, col- ors tan and brown, also black, wofth regular §1, will be closed out'at 55ca pair. L . At 75 Cents, LADIES' 4-BUTTQN, ENGLISH .WALK- ING KID GLOVES, embroidered on back, colors; red, tan, brown, navy and, mode, also black, worth regular $1 25, - will be closed out at 75¢ & pair. At $1.00. LADIES’® 4BUTTON DERBY KID - .GLOVES (large buttens, to match gloves), colors brown; tan, mede and red, regular value $1 50, will be closed © out at $1 a pair. e MEN'S FHfiN [SHINGS! 350 dozen CONSULO TECKS, graduated Four-in-Hands,De Joinville Scarfs, Ad- justab'e Bows and Brym Mawr Hand- covered Shields of colored and black satins, silks and failles, especially de- . signed fof high turned-down collar now in vogue; regular price 50¢,-will be closed out at 25¢. At 35 Cents. N 75 dozen, SA TARY CAMELS’ HAIR WOOLUNDERSHIRTS ANDDRAW- ERS, all sizes, regular price $120 a suiy, will be closed out at 35¢ a_gar- ment, At 50 Cents. 95 dozen MEN'S AND BOYS' LATEST- STYLE OUSTOM-MADE UNLAUN- U DERED SHIRTS, with fast.colored . bosom and detachable cuffs to match, regular price 90c,’ will be closed out . at 50c. At 75 Cents. o 65 dozen BOYS’ FAU 0Y SAILOR SUITS, with Galatea coilar and cuffs, sizes 3 to 8, regular price $1 50, will be closed out at 75¢.” . HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR! . At 25 Cents a Pair. 1%5 dozen CHILDREN’S FINE RIBBED BLACK MACO GOTTON HOSE double knees, high-spliced heels and toes, ‘Hermsdorf black, worth 40c, will® be closed eut at 25¢ a pair. At 25 Cents a Pair. -150 dozen LADIES' “BLACK MA€O COT- TON HOSE, made with unbleached feet, double heels and toes, Hermsdorf " black, worth $5 peedozen, will be closed out at 25¢ a pair. o 4 At 15 Cents. LABIES’ RICHELIEU RIBBED EGYP- TIAN COTTON VESTS, low neck and . sleeveless, silk-trimmgd neck and arm+ ° lets, regwlar price 25¢, will be closed out at 15¢. > CORSETS! . CORSETS! . At $1.00. LADIES’ BLACK SBATEEN CORSETS, ° *‘extra long waist, bigh bust, two side steels each, side patent loop eyelets, handsomely embroidered with colored silk flossing, regular price $1 50, will be closed but at $1.00. 2 /4 4 - Market and Jones Streets. Market and Jones Strets - Mutphy Bullding, Market aud Jones Stregts. . EZ STORE OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streats. THT JIPMESE STEMNSH LI Important - Con_feréncé ' ét - the Chamber of Commerce. THE OUTLOOK BRIGHT. .Refisoi:s'Why the Southern P}# cific Might' Not Oppose the T - “New Line. WOULD L0SE THE LAND HAUL W. B. Curtis Says a Belt- Line -Ex- tension Would Be an.Induce. ment to Both.., An executive conference. between -thi trustees of the Chamber of Commerce and the Japanese representatives of the Toyo Kisen Kobushiki Kaisha, otberwise the Japanese steamship line, now in the City for the special purpose of seeing what the advantages of San Frandisco for making it,the American terminus of t_he line are, was held in ‘the €hamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon. The Japanese officials of the line pres- ent were: President Soishira Osano, Cap- tain Shujiro Tomicka, Diceétor Hiro Ko- bayashi ‘and Director H. Okawa, who acted as. interpreter. Though slightly tedious owing to the necessity of an inter- preter, the conference was quite agreeable to all dpnficip.’ting. The conference con- tinued over an hour. 5 = £ The trustees expressed their wiilingness and desire to appoint committees to act with the Japanese in the matter of wharf, railroad and other facilities. ~The Japanese expressed appreciation of the offer, and will in all probability take ad- 'vantage of it when they return to the City. The party will next visit San Diego, and return to this City'in the course of a week or ten days. o As the party was leaving the chamber President Hugh Craig of the chamber said to President Osano and the others of his party: “We would like you to understand that whatever you want we will get it for you. ‘When this was translated to them by the inurlpreter the party bowed, smil looked pleased and atter & few minutes o further conversation in the secretary’s office, they withdrew. A serious obstacle that the Japanese officials ssem to think they will meet here is«that they would not be able to make the necessary railroad coonec- tions for transporting the cargoes of their ships east, owing to the connection be- m the Pacific Mail and the Southern c. In speaking on this and othw. points afterward, Cn%hin Merry of the chamber said:-*‘We assured them wharf facilities, and there is'no doubt that we can carry it out, We are gomng to co-operate with them to the extent of our ability. We want this steamsnip line and Ido not see any serious objection so far as facilities are concerned wuy we should not have it. *'As to the Bouthern Pacific the Japa- nese officials weére informed that we would appoint committees to zonfer, with them and the Southern Pacific. That railroad would lose the land haul if it refused to make satisfactory transportation arrangé- ments with the new line. If the Japa: nese steamship line went north to Tacoma or Seattle the Northern Pacific or Great Northern railroads would get the addi- tional business.” . . “Do vou-think San Francisco will be the terminus?”’ & “Yes, I thing so.- I do not see why it should not.” . B. Curtis, manager of the Traffic Association, who arrived at the meetin, just as it broke up, said he did not thin. the Southern Pacitic would oppose the Japanese steamship line: He said that if the Southern Pacific were permitted to extend its belt line from its present ter: minus at the Pacific Mail dock to the foot of Steuart stréet it would give it addi- tional facilities for the handling of ocean commerce. This, he thought, would be an inducement to the Japanese steamship line and a greater inducement to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. W.VM.,l.;urcell, After Pay.ing His Fare, Is Refused a- : Ride. He Will Begin an Action for Dam- ages Against the Railroad Company. Yesterday evening, about 6 o’clock, Wil- liam M. Purcell,’a boot and shoe agent, having an office in the Spreckels building on Market street, was dragged off a McAl- lister-street car by several conductors and gripmen, under peculiar circumstances. According 16 Mr. Purcell’s statement he boarded the ‘ar in front of his place of business, and being unable to get inside or even on the dimmy or platform because of the great crowd of passengers, he stood on a rear stép. The conductor took his fare, and aftér -having rung it in ordered Purcell to get off the step. Beingunable to get & foothold on the platform, the pas- : senger did not move. ‘At the intersection of Market and Mc- Allister streets the car was stopped and the conductor,-with the assistance of the gripman, forced Purcell off. When the car started he climbed on and again it was stopped and the passenger thrown off. By this time several cars and a large number of people had collected. Thne latter hissed the railroad men and called to Purcell to resist and they would take his fight off. his hands; but be did not'wish to precipitate an assault on the conductor and gripman by the crowd and only tried to iralsp his place on the car. As the car employes counld not get rid of the passenger pluckily making his fight alone against several burly fellows, they concluded to run up to the City Hall and call the police. . They did so, and two officers came out from the Céntral station. Purcell was still standing on the step, and when the policemen learned that he had paid his they refused to arrest him or interfere in any manner. Toen gripman King, No. 241, stepped off of car 263, and being a large strong man violently dragged Purcell off ‘the car and held him until it had gotton some.dis- tance away. Purcell asked the police offi- cers to arrest the gripman, but they re- fused. Several gentlemen who were on the car and witnessed the entire proceed- ing offered their cards to Purcell and re- mwad him to call them as witnesses. ong them were Dr. Frank Barratt, 1324 Golden Gate avenue; F. McCarthy, 7 Bat- tery street; C. Linaham, 231 Lily avenue, and E. Benedict, 205 in street. Lieutenant Birdsell of the Central police station stated that tne officers did not in- terfere because Purcell was mnot.raising & ,Imd'er the leadership of First Lieutenant d Heran.” The First Itoop was formed trom old ) | Battery A, the oldest oreanization, fn tbe any disturbance, and they did not arrest the gripman at Purcell’s request because the officers had received orders that in cases of this kind the citizen must sweas out a warrant against the railroad employe before an arrest may be made. 2 “Itv was a high-handed dutrage,” said Mr. Benetlict last evening, “The car was filled to overflowing, end there was no place for Purcell except ogthe step. He tried to get on the platiorm, but could not do'so. 'The conductor never ordered him off the step until the nickel was collected. If Purcell had started a fight the crowd would have wiped zbe street up with those griomen and conductors.” i This morning Pnrcell will swear outa warrant against the gripman and begin an action for damages against the Market- street Railroad Comban < 3 e A Cavalry Entertainment, The First Troop Catalry, N. G. -C., will ‘cele- brate its anniversary at the Chutes this even- ing. A salute of forty-seven guns, one for each year of existence; will be fired from one of the twelvespounaers from the old battery, and fheri a saber driil and a ball will consume the remainder of. the evening. Fhe affair wiil be guard. It was rormed July 2, 1849, and hence the forty-seven guns to be fired. The mikitery guests are expected to #ppear in uniform. B A novel prosecution took place in Ade- | lgide a few weeks ago. A bootmaker was fined-a guinea ana costs for encouraging a const.-b?e in idleness. The ‘bootmaker was found in bis shop playing draughts witn the constable, who ought, to have bgen o1. active duty af the time. Boys’ and Girls’ School Shoes . A’ At Clearance Sale Prices! 150—1§§?‘%ng SCHOOL' Sizes 844 to 11........Formerly $1 25 s] 1 ~TAN PEBEBLE GOAT SI [] 1 Extra sofid. _;E:t":unrl.;{:‘:: At eatior Dok Sold rezularly for .#15 -BOYS VE SHOLS, AL CALF Reduced from $2 %CIIOOL SHOES, on&r 1346 and 1348 Market Streect. Opposite 0dd Fellows' Building. Country orders receive promps attention. SATURDAY, August 1, 1896, . SPECIAL - ~ SALE Ladies’ Silk Vests That Were To-day . Only KOHLBERG, STRAUSS & FRORMAN 107-109 Post St., Near Kearny: 1220-1224 Market Street. | THESUocESs O THE SEASON THE LADIES: GRILL ROOH ——O0F THE—— PALAGE HOTEL DIRECT ENTRANCE FROM HARKED SL. OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THE VERY BESI ONE TU EXAMING 8 'lym es and fit tnem w0 Spectacies aud Eye- | ‘gisses with " mssramsnis Of ks own. iaveasioa, | 0 equaled. My sdin Sl oy et 5 St | Ottice kours—12 1o & ». 3% NEW WESTERN HOTEL. EARNY AND WASHINGTON ,STS._RE- ‘modeled and renovaied. KING, WARD & CO. European plan. | Koows 500 10 $1 60 per day, 3 to $30 per mongn: free baths: 10,88 per ek, B8 10 ery room: " fite Graies i @every room: elevaor runs slluight NOTARY PUBLIC: HARLES PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY-AT. ,.,....m‘i’;,, Public, 638 Market st., m Palace Hotal. 'rda&h.gu. 570, Residenge Feliae “Toiephous, ~Fiae" 409k