The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1896. WARDALL 1§ 0UT FOR FUSION The Populist State Leader Is Ready for Any Fair Dicker. ALL WAITING EVENTS. The People’s Party Will Stick to Watson Through Thick and Thin. SEWALL A CORPORATION MAN. Populist Lead:rs Return From St Louis and Are Open to Demo- cratic Propositions. The Populists and Democrats of Califor- nia are making sheeps’ eyes at each other 88 the fusion proposition daily rises into higher view, and this interesting political problem is daily being laid hold of by the | leaders of both parties with a firmer grip. ! State Chairman Wardall and other lead- i ers of the Populist party in California got | back yesterday morning from St. Louis. -They were ail tired out from the trip, and hothing of political importance resuited { from their return beyond the fact that the | Populist leaders are ripe and eager for | Bome proposition for fusion from the Dem- | ocrats in this State, first on Presidential | electors, second on Congressmen, and third on the State legislative ticket. | Chairman Alford of the Democratic Btate Central Committee displayed his eagerness for party fusion in an interview | published in yesterday’s CALL and yester- day Chairman Wardall of the Populist State Central Committee, who had just re- turned from St. Louis, stated that he was in favor of tusion if it could be brought about without a sacrifice of Watson and with a fair recognition of the claims of the Populist party in California. The political problem of fusion between the Democrats and Populists in this Stats depends_mainly on the following two | things: First, theunderstanding that may be arrived at within the next few days by Benator Jones and Marvis Butler and the two National committees, and, second, on the understanding that may be arrived at within the next week or two as a result of the informal connubiating between Btate leaders that is already going on and which will remain in operation for a short time. The Democratic and Populist parties in this State are waiting to see what the Na- tional party authorities are going to do ebout Sewall and Watson, and they stand at attention awaiting orders from the Na- tional party authorities. The leaders of ¥ to go to discussing equities or to_shaking dice, as the | y leaders did in North Dakota, as soon as any proceeding declares the fusion game oven. E. M. Wardall, chairman of the Popu- list State Central Committee, returned to San Francisco from St. Louis yesterday, in company with Taylor Rogers, John C. Gore, James A. Johnson, John 8. Dore of Fresno, and other members of the delega- 1. V. Cator arrived on the morning 1 train. The attitude of the Populist party of California in the present was fairly well expressed in the following interview with State Chairman E. M. Wardall: *I don’t like to say much about the sit- vation in advance. Our peopleare straight middie-of-the-road people and I cannot k for them, but I can say that I be- hat some satisiactory arrangement W be made with the Democrats in this State. Our State executive committee will meet next Tuesday and then the im- portant matters about the party policy will be decided. “We are waiting to see what the Na- al committees will do. We expect Sewall will resign. That is what should be done to clear the way for fusion. I don’t believe that anything authentic as to what Sewall will do has transpired. I recognize the gravity of the situation, and I also realize that it is unlikely that we will get together unless Mr. Sewall with- draws. We know that Tom Watson will get three votes in this State to Sewall’s one, and we feel that if we keep our man in the field the silver Republicans and the workingmen wiil support our ticket. “We are willing to meet the Democrats | on a fair proposition concerning both electors and Congressmen. It must be re- membered that Sewall hasnothingin com- mon with the laboring people—the masses. He is a banker, a railroad president, a memnber of a number of corporations and ashipowner, and one who is very unpopu- lar with seamen. “His presence on the ticket is found to antagonize the labor element and to en- danger the interests of Bryan. I think that the outcome will be that Sewall will be withdrawn. That is what ought to be done. “I will not, however, throw a straw in the way of fusion. We will either agree or disagree.. But we will elect Bryan any- way.” REALTY MARKET REVIEW, Marked Falling Of in Trans- actions for the Month of July. SMALL PROPERTIES SELLING. Handsome Pamphlet Descriptive of the City and Port of San Francisco. i 1f the Board of Supervisors adopts the report of the Kinance Committee fixing the tex levy &t $1 05 then this years tax rate will be a very reasonable one. The State rate has been fixed at 46 cents thus making the total rate $1 51, a reduction of 3 per cent from that of 1895. The effect on the real estate market should be beneficial and perhaps it will. The market is certainly inneed of astimu- 1ant of some kind, for although now and then = dealer is jound who says that business is good, or improving, or has some similar state- ment to make, yet the records, which are the only real guide to the condition of the market, ghow that transfers are steadily decliningin both number ard amount. Magee’s Real Estate Circular for last month shows that during the month of July there were 267 trausfers of the aggregate value §758,214. In July, 1895, there were 36 transiers of the aggregate value of $1,188,958. This is & falling off of 36 per cent in the aggre- gate value of transfers irom 8 year 8go. In June of the present year the number of trans- fers was 241, a smaller number by thirty-six than in July, yet the aggregate value was of 07 | Fourteenth stree $916,236, or $158,022 (about 15 per cent) more than the aggregate value of July's transfers. This indicates that there is more business being doxne in the sale of smell properties than in large ones. In the nature of things, values, enerally speaking, will not probably go ower, o matter whether the country is placed ‘:'lpq“ a silver basis or remains as it is. The wisdom o1 those who invest now must be apparent, and the owner of a few hundred or a jew thousand dollars who judiciously in- vests his money in real estaté affords an ex- ample to timid capitalists that the latter with all their credited shrewdness might perhaps emulate to advantage. 5 The building record for July is 1n keeping with the real esiate record, as the following figures, taken from Woife's Builaing Review, will show Number of contracts and value of same filed during the month 6f July during the past ten years: 5 No. Valne. 7 Totals for the first seven months of each year for ten years are as follows: Value. 55t Advance sheets of Magee's Real Estate Cir- cular for July contain the following in regard te the money market: The demand for money was not strong last month. The banks prefer small to large loans. Some of them, With the object of keeping & large surplus on hand, will not now grant large loans. Indeed, some oi them are DOt NOW lending at all. There was a time not long since when, as we then stated, there was hope that our savings banks would resume loans in the country. There is not now the slightest hope of that, and borrowers there must pay the country bank rates of 9 to 11 per cent. The rates here are 614 to 7 per cent, the say- ings banks paying the mortgage tax. The total number of City real estate mortgages re- corded last month was 369, of the total value of $933,120, while there were 199 releases of mortgages, of the value of $469,496. Of the total mortgages last month 132 were given to private individuals; they bad a value of 105. REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. Last week was a light one all around in the matter of transactions recorded. There were ninety-one transfers filed. The number of mortgagesrecorded was sixty. three, aggregating $116,995. The principal ones, together with the security given, were: By the Hibernia Savings and Loan Soeiety, for one year at 614 per cent, $10,000,0n prob- rty at the soutneast corner of Mission and ‘ourteenth streets, east 160 by south 170; and the same, for one yesr &t 65 per cent, roperty at the southwest corner th and Harrison streets, north 197, , north 33, west 53, north 164, re only nineteen releases recorded last week, aggregating $93,225. The only large ones were: By Amanda C. Harris to Elizabeth I. Ryer, $20,100 on property on the south line of Mar- ket street, 100 feet west of Third, west 25 by south 100; and by Laura Hirshfeid to Gustay Harsball, $43,000 on property on the north- west line of Howard street, 275 feet northeast ol th, northeast 31:3 by northwest 80; also roperty at the southeastcorner of Market and northeast 131, southeast 100, southwest 14:07¢,west 158:103%, and prop- erty at the east corner of Sherwood place and Third street, southeast 70 by northeast 80. Eight building contracts calling for an out- iay of $30,800 were filed last week. The par- ticulars were, as usual, published in THE CALL at the time of filing. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. O'Farrell & Co. are preparing a catalogue of miscellaneous properties, which they will offer at auction August 20. A. M. Speck & Co. revort the sale of a lot, 110, and three flats on Waller street, near ner, for $6500; of & house and lot on Haight street, near Webster, for $3500; of the lot, 22:6x8: and house at 1826 O'Farreli street, for $4500, and of a house and lot, 20x 75, on Tehama street, near Eighth, for $2500. Tne same firm has rented the building on the southeast corner of Van Ness avenue and Grove street to Mrs. F. N. Cook as an apart- ment house at $200 a month. Charles J. Campbell, who has for several years been employed by Will E. Fisher & Co., has opened a general real-estate office at 224 Montgomery street, next to the Mills building, ‘\;nder the firm name of CharlesJ. Campbell ¢ Co. Easton, Eldridge & Co. will hold an auction sale the 18th of this month, at which a miscel- laneous list ot properties will be offered. They will elso on the 22d bold au auction sale on the Murphy ranch, in Santa Clara County, at which about 350 ecres of this very desirable land wili be offered. A special excursion train will be run from here on the day of the sale and there will no doubt be a large crowd taken down. There were over 1200 people in attendance at the last sale and the lands sola for good prices. The portion to be sold will be offered in parcels of ten acres and upward. J. N. Kinney recently purchased the entire real-estate holdings in this City of what was once known as the Distilling and Cattle Feed- ing Company, better known as the “whisky trust.” TheTollowing is a list of the proper- ties and the prices they were disposed of: A lot, 126x275, on the northwest corner of Seott and Lombard streets, sold for $6000. Six 50- vara lots in block 415 of the Western Addition brought $21,000. For two pleces on Eigh- teenth avenue south and H street south, 75x 200 and 200x400, respectively, $4100 was realized. A loton Eighteenth streetsouth and G sold for $1800. Lot, 138x174, on Nineteenth avenue south, near H street, went for $450, making 1n all $33,500. Sol Getz & Bro. have made the following sales recently: Lot and improvements 25x100 on north line of Fell street, 25 feet west of Scott for $7000; & lot 50x120 on east line of Twelfth avenue, 255 feet south of Californias street for $1500; a lot 25x100 on south line of California street, 82:6 east of Fifth avenue for $900; a lot 75x120 on west line of Nineteenth avenue, 225 feet north of Point Lobos avenue for §1800; a 1ot 50x120 on west line of Forty- second avenue and T street for $200; a lot 57:6x100 on northeast corner of Thirty-eighth avenue and V street for $300; a lot 50X100 on north line of A street, 82:6 feet east of Nine- teenth avenue for $800. Edwin K. Alsip & Co.sold and exchanged last week a house and lot at Belmont, owned by Mr. Osborne, to C. E. Dugan for $6000;lotsof W. A, Brown to same, $7100: A. Lepk Jose, 22 acres of land in Napa County, to A. E. Potter, $5500; lots in San Jose, $2000. The San Francisco Chambér of Commerce and the Board of Trade have just issued a very handsome illustrated pamphlet descri tive of the interesting features of this City in particular and of the State in general. Itis in- tended for free distribution among visitors to this City, and is for the purpose of calling to the attention of strangers the various points and places of interest in and around San Fran- cisco, as well as to guide them in spending their time to the best advantage when sight- seeing here. One page in front is devoted to condensed statistical information concerning California. Following are three pages of statistical matter in regard to thisCity,following which is several pages of reading matter descriptive of the points of interest about the City. Scattered through the book are about thirty hali-tone engravings of the scénic peauties of San Fran- cisco. The cover is handsomely designed, and on tane front page, worked in the design, is “The City and Port of San Francisco, Califor- nia,”” The work s an excellent specimen of the F“"‘"’“ art, while the matter it contains is of inealculabie bgnefit to strangers. There isno advertising of any dsscription in the book. It is intended to disiribute the book free through the rooms of the State Board of Trade as well as other suitable chan- neis. The credit of compiling and superintending the printing of the work belougs to a com- mitiee consisting of Colonel Will E. Fisher, the well-known real estate man, chairman, and Hugo D. Keil and A. G. Towne. If well distributed it should prove.instrumental in adding to the City’s population LOVE'S 3 XPERIENCE. He Was Swindled Out of His Money at Studhorse Poker. John Campbell, a bunco-steerer, was booked at the City Prison yesterday by De- tective Graham on the charge of grand larceny. About six weeks ago Thomas Love, a visitor from the country, was steered by Campbell and a companion to a house on Geary street, between Powell and Mason and he was victimized out of $80 at stud- horse poker. Love notified the police, but Campbell and his friend had left the City. Detec- tive Graham arrested Campbell, who had returned, on Friday nicht, and yesterday morning Love picked him out from other prisoners at the City Prison. ————— ScrooL supplies, including slates, penciis, aper, pens, ink, tablets, composition-books, unch baskets, etc., at current prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. o IR G S Twenty-one per cent of men employed in our ‘merchant service are unable to swim., COUNCIL OF THE GREAT CHIEFS, Red Men Will. Assemble in This City on Tues- day Next. INCREASE TO BE SHOWN A Contest Will Be Made for the Office of Great Junior Sagamore. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORDER Entertainment for the Representa- tives—Annual Sessions of the Councils of Pocahontas. The Great Council of California of the Improved Order of Red Men will meet in thirty-first session on the fourth sun, sturgeon moon, G. 8. D, 405, which in or- country which finally forced the colonists into the struggle for independence, result- ing later in the establishment of the United States of America—the naviga- tion. act, which effectually ruined the shipbuilding industry of the colonies; the acts which made the manufacture of home praducts impossible; the quartering act and stamp act, which sncpessively called forth the fiercest indignation and resent- ment among the colonies—and societies were formed to create a powerful resist- ance against these injurious aggressions. Among these siood prominently the St. Tamina Society, previously known as the Sons of Liberty. The various branches of this society, in carrying out the active scheme of their propaganda, adopted the guise of Indians, to which the occurrences of December 16, 1773, in Boston, known as the ‘Boston Tea-pariy,” and repeated in one or two instances during the early part of 1774, bear witness. After the close of the Revolutionary War these societies, having accomplished their object, namely: the freedom of their country from monarchical rule, became | less prominent in public affairs as organ- ized bodies, and it was not until the agita- tion among the people arising from the difference of opinion in regard to adopting a permanent form of government became the all-absorbing topic among all classes made it necessary, in their opinion, for their consolidating their ranks, that they again assumed a2 commanding influence. Principally to prevent the vlans formu- lated by a society of distinctly aristocratic tendencies and regarded as harmful to the liberty and welfare of the people known as the “‘Boclety of Cincinnati.” The first constitution of the Sons of 8t. Tamina (or Tamanend), a famous Indian chief, de- clared it was formed to ‘‘connect in in- hospitality, their devotion to those who had been kina to them; to extend a help- ing hand to the needy; to care for the sick and distressed; to bury the dead and assist the widow and orphan.” The Improved Order of Red Men in Cali- fornia was organized by the institution of California Tribe No.1 at San.Francisco, November 9, 1863; Manhattan Tribe No. 2 at Somersville, Contra Costa County, Feb- ruary 4, 1866; Hiawatha Tribe No. 3, Sep- tember 30, 1867, in San Francisco. Then followed in rapid succession, in 1868, the institution of Manzanita No. 4, St. Tam- many No. 5, Iritaba No. 6, Yo Semite No. 7, Willamette No. 8 and Miantonomah No. 9. DEGREE OF POCAHONTAS. The Session of the Ladies’ Branch of the Order of Red Men, The fourth annual session of the Grand Council of the Degree of Pocahontas will meet in Red Men’s Hall on Tuesday. The Degree of Pocahontas was estab- lished as a branch of the [inproved Order of Red Men in 1886, and numbers at present 27,000 members, established in twenty- eight States in the Union. Its ritualistic work is intensely dramatic and very beau- tiful, and, like that of the Improved Order of Red Men, is derived from the aboriginal inhabitants of the American continent. It therefore possesses additional charms and attractions to all who love country and | feel an interest in its early history. The great chiefs, Degree of Pocahontas, are: Miss Mabel Curtis, great Poca- hontas, Nevada City; Mrs. E. T. Cruse, great Wenonah, Stockton; Mrs. Jennie Crase, great keeper of records, Grass Val- ley; Mrs. A. E. Gil, great keeper of TR 20220 eI GREAT COUNCILOF THE UNITED STATES ey A\ : GREAT CHIEFS OF THE IMPROVED ORDER constbo e A « O \ N ‘q ¢ ' £ ~ s < S —— o ¥ < OF RED MEN. dinary English means, Tuesday, the 4th of August, in Council Hall, Red Men’s building, on Post street, opposite Union square. The council will be 1n session several days. The chiefs and representatives com- menced to arrive in this City yesterday and the indications are that there will be a large representation of the order. The reports will show that since the iast Grand Council there were adopted 736 pale faces, 27 members were admitted by card and 40 were reinstated. The loss by death was 27 and by suspension 380. A new tribe composed exclusively of the order of Foresters of America and se- lected from among the very best class of Foresters, has been formed. This will number fifty and make the net gain 361 Red Men during the year. During the year the expenditures were: For benefits, $15,000; burial, $31,000, and for other purposes $33,000. The tribal in- vestments amount in the aggregate to $125,000,000. The increase in the great reservation was, during the year, 200 tribes and 12,000 members. The Rev, Josiah Sims of Nevada will be the next great sachem, F. A. Whipple will be great senior sagamore and the re-elec- tion of qharles F. Burgman, great chier of records, "who has held the office three years, is practically conceded. The great contest will be for the office of great junior sagamore. For this office the following candidates are in the field: James Hagan of Winnemucca No. 61, George W. Collins of Montezama No. 77, F. D. Brandon of Pocahontas No. 11, Samuel Berrell of Osh- onee No. 78 and A. K. Robinson of Miami No. 55. The following is the programme of en- | tertainment during the session: Tuesday, 10 A. m.—Kindling of the Great Sun Council fire; address of welcame to the representatives by PastSachem F. D. Brandon, chairman of committee of arrangements; re- sponse by Great Sachem A. Jackson; rendition of adoption degree by the competitive mem- bers of Modoc Tribe No, 57, Arapahoe Tribe No. 76 and Montezuma Tribe No. 77, at 8 . M., Union-square Hall. Wednesday—Grand reception and ball at Native Sons’ Hall. Thursday—Grand banquet, Union-square Hall. The great chief of records being asked why the name of Red Men was assumed, answered: “To answer this question we have to call to mind a bit of history con- neoted with the early struggle of the American colonies. Every one is familiar with the injurious acts of the mother dissoluble bonds of friendship, American brethren of attachment to the political rights of human nature and the liberty of the country.” During the war of 1812-14 the members of the Tammeny Society, under which name it had been incorporated in New York in 1805, offered their services in de- fense of the city of New York, and re- paired in a body to the forts, and there performed patriotic service in defense of the country. In other cities, notably Philadelphia, similar acts of patriotism were performed in the manning of Fort Mifflin by the junior artilleries. Here the reorganization of the society upon a fra- ternal and benevolent basis was effected, while 8t. Tammany of New York lapsed into a distinct political party organization. It wiil be noticed that the title of Red Men bad not entered into the nomencia- ture of the famous Tamina (or Tammany) societies. When reorganization was de- sired along the lines of original affiliation, and to add to patriotic principles the prac- tices of charity and benevolence, to make the perpetuity of the society more endur- ing, and to bring under its protective shel- ter members from all classes of popula- tion, it was natural that a nmew name shouid be selected. ¥he desire to main- tain the features taken from the manners and cnstoms of tne Indians during the revolutionary struggles suggested the name of “Red Men,”’ and this name the organization, formed at Fort Mifflin, adopted. Pranches of the Society of Red Men were established in Maryland, Pennsylva- nia and New York and scattered over an extensive territory, as far south as Charles- ton and New Orleans. In 1834 a concen- tration of all these different branches was effucted; they were brought under a cen- tral governing body and the name changea to Improved Order of Red Men. As adis- tinctively American order, whose origin and history were closely identified with the birth, traditions and development of the United States, it is but natural thatits ritualistic features, as well as its teachings and principles, should be originally and distinctively American. The distinctive aims of the. order are: “To strengthen in the minds of our feliow- citizens love of country and due regard for its Jaws; to keep alive the principles that animated the founders of the Republic during the struggie for liberty; to perpetu- ate the memory of that great race of abo- rigines destined to soon pass away, and emulate their nobler traits of character, their love of freedom, their unbounded wampum, Sacramento; Mrs. E. Brocking- ton, great Minnehaha, Grass Valley; Miss Carrie Johnson, great prophetess, San Francisco. During the year the Degree of Poca- hontas adopted 300 members. WITH THE PLAYERS. Attractions That Are Announced on the Programmes for This Evening at the Theaters. To-night at the Baldwin Frohman’s Em- pire Theater Company zives the comedy- drama, “The Benefit of the Doubt,” which is from the pen of the author of “Sweet Lavender.”” This has been a great London and Eastern success. Chauncey Olcott, the young Irish come- dian, is to appear in the idyl, ‘‘Mavour- neen,’” at the California Theater. It will be put on the stage with fine scenery and a good cast, and during the evening Mr. Olcott will sing several Irish songs. Wilton Lackaye, having shelved Sven- gali for a time, will appear at the Colum- bia this evening in the character of Coionel Wolcott in “A Gold Mine.” He will be supported by Louise Thorndyke Bouci- gq&l‘t, who will appear as Hon. Mrs. Mere- ith. The programme of the Grand Opera- house announces the presentation of the well-known success, ‘“The Danites,”” with James M. Brophy in the leading role, Alexander McKee. May Nannary has been specially engaged for this produc- tion. The attraction at the Tivoli Opera-house is the opera of ‘‘Paghacci,”’ which will be resented with a stronz company. Miss ina Bertini Humphreys is cast for the part of Nedda and Signor Michelini 1s to appear as Canio. The fonr Nelson sisters from South America will be the leading aitraction at the Orpheum Music Hall to-night. The musicai blacksmiths and the ‘‘Black Patti’’ and & number of others who are artistg in their line will appear. There will be an entertainment at the Haight-street grounds this evening. San- dow, the strong boy, will show his won- derful strength, and then there will be a seance by Joe, the educated orang- outang. There will also be a concert. ———— A French autograph collector says the signature of Christopher Columbus can always tind a buyer at £800. ————— BOEROW on sealskins, silks and jewels at Uncle Harrls, 16 Graat avenue. - THEIR FUN OVER ALL T0O SOON, Why the Lady School- teachers are Feeling Sorrowful OPENING OF THE YEAR, Parents Are Jubilant—Children Are Resigned to Their Fate. CONFECTIONERS ALSO GLAD. Incidents of the First Day of the Term—Some Classification Changes, Etc. To thousands of parents and pupils and hundreds of teachers to-day is a red-letter day. It isthe opening day of the school year in the public schools of San Fran- cisco. The teachers, married and single, young and old, male and female, who during the last six weeks have been making the most of their vacation ai the springs, in the mountains and by the sea- side, have all returned to the City and will to-day, reluctantly in many instances, resume their professional duties. If, though, the teachers are sorry that the midsummer vacation is ended, the parents of thousandsof poor children are sincerely glad. Many tired mothers are relieved of a great responsibility, or, rather, it is shifted from their shoulders to that of the teachers. So far as the children themselves are concerned, they are like their teachers. Those of them who are bright and studi- ous are only too willing to return to their school studies and 1o nurse their ambi- tions. The idle, lazy and dull pupils, on the contrary, detest their books and stud- ies even more, if possible, at the opening of the term than at its closing. The opening of a term isa time when the nervous system of principals are sub- jected to a severe strain. Classes must be graded and organized and teachers are clamorous for a change of grade or a more desirable classroom. There are pupils to be enrolled and others to be transferred. In schools which were not graded on the last day of the term there is great bustle and activity and on the opening day the last thing anybody thinks of doing is teaching. Now that it is finally determined not to disturb the Webster Primary School a brisk contest is under way for the princi- palship of the Le Conte Primary on Powell street, between Washington and J ackson. It was the original intention to give the appointment. to Miss Mary M. Murphy, principal of the Jefferson Primary, but now the conditions are changed. Miss Murphy is still anxious to be transferred from Te- hama street to Powell, but it is now un- certain if she will be. Miss Daisy Crowley, the daughter of the Chief of Police and the resent principal of the Stanford rimary, would aiso lige to go to the Le Conte. 8o, too, would Miss Minnie G, Stebbins, the acting principal. Miss Josephine Saunders, a_teacher in the Redding Pri- mary ; Miss Martha M. Galloway, a teacher in the Cooper Primary, and Miss Eliza- beth M. Graham, a teacher in the Horace Mann~ Grammar, are also candidates for the position. Who will get it remains to be seen, but the battle is believed to be be- tween Miss Crowley and Miss Stebbins. In the event of Miss Crowley’s succes there would be a vacant principalship at the Stanford Primary. ‘With its appropriation of only $1,000,000 the school sages will be compelled to be economical during the ensuing vear. The idea of reducing teachers’ salaries is not entertained by any of the Directors, who ‘realize the unpopularity of such an action. Retrenchment must come, though, in some direction, and just where is the point which is now bothering the brains of the Board of Education. It has been suggested that a lot of spec- ial teachers be dropped from the payroll of the department and that the manual training at the Polytechnic High School be curtailed or temporarily suspended. The principalship of the San Francisco Normal 8chool is vacant, it having been successfully conducted since the death of the late James G. Kennedy by Miss Laura T. Fowler, the vice-principal. It may be filled and it may not, but the name of Mrs. Mary W. Kincaid, who ih former years was at the head of this school, has already been suggested as a candidate for the principalship. Several of tue direc- tors, while personally favorable to the claims of Mrs. Kinecaid, hold tbat under the existing stringent financial conditions it would be folly to fill the vacancy and thus increase the salary expense by some $2400 a year. It is claimed that it would be both wise and economical to continue the school for at least another term under the adminis- tration of Miss Fowler, who, as has been said, has given general satisfaction. Miss Elizabeth E. Crowley, a teacher in the Hamilton Grammar School, is ambi- tious to become a principal and has her eye upon the Mission Grammar School 1n case Mrs. Nettie R. Craven, the principal, should take a notion to resign. The opening of the term is marked by the introduction of a few new features in the line of instruction. A high school class has been established at the Business Evening School, E. C. Kilpatrick, princis pal, and evening classes will be formed, if possible, in the Franklin Grammar and the Mission Grammar. These will be temporarily under the tuition of Richard D. Faulkner, principal of the Franklin, and Selden Sturges, vice-principal of the Horace Mann. For their services they receive only $10% month extra pay, and the idea is to keep the evening schools, so far as possible, under the tuition of trained day school teachers. Two of the classes of the Horace Mann Grammar are to be transferred to the Haight Primary and three high school day classes will be established in the up- per story of the Horace Mann. Miss Ada Goldsmith of the Broadway Grammar has been appointed as one of the teachers. The other two have not yet been selected. It is expected that the new rules, lately adopted by the Board of Education, will soon be in print and in the hands of the teachers, who will then get a chance to study them. Two teachers at least will return to their re?ecuve class rooms with light hearts and peaceful minds. term they were singie ladies, now they are married, and despite the rule to the con- trary, they are generously permitted b: the "Board of Education to retain bot! their positions and husbands, The names of these ladies are Mrs. Marquis, formerly Miss Metcalf of the Haight Primary, and Mrs. Wallace, formerly, Mi: Mission Grammar. ’s D Au Irish mvausgelist Speaks. Thomes A. Bailey of Cork, the Insh Evan- gelist, who arrived in New York three weexs 8g0 on his first vist to America, spoke in the Y. M. C. A. building yesterday afternoon. His subject was “True Liberty,” which he defined as spiritual liberty, freedom from sin and trom bad habits. He is charmed with his reception in this country. Soon after his arrival e was At the close of the | made an honorary member of the Y. M. C. A, of this country. Mr. Bailey is & man past dle life and was once & soldier in the British army. He is accompanied by his wife. To- night he will speak again in Y. M. C. A. Hall. SCARED BY A BAND. Dr. A. P. McCarthy’s Horse Bolts and He and His Collector Are Thrown Out of the Buggy. Dr. J. P. McCarthy, dentist, 1104 Market street, and William Burnhams, bis col- lector, were thrown from a buggy at Market and Powell street yesterday after- noon, and both were injured. Dr. McCarthy had just started off from his office in a rig which he had procured from the Foxhall stables, when the horse got frightened at a passing band of music and bolted. The doctor clung to the reins with all his strength, but the frightened animal continued in its mad flight. At Market and Powell streets the wheels of the buggy struck a telegraph pole and the doctor and Burnhams were thrown out. The horse ran on and collided with a cable-car, which had the effect of throw- ing it upon its haunches, and Policeman Royston, who was close at hand, seized it by the bridle and kept it in subjection. The doctor was taken to the Receivi Hospital, where Dr. Bunnell stitched an dressed a slight wound in his forehead. He also appeared to be suffering consider- ably from the shock to his system. Burn- hams was able to walk to the drugstore on the corner, where two or three cuts on his hands wer dressed. The dashboard of the buggy was broken and one of the horse’s legs was cut. ATCHISON RECREANIZED Are Reduced Money Is Barned. Fixed Charges and California Connections Through the Atlantic and Pacific May B2 erpetuated, W. H. Rossington of Topeka, Kas., Western atiorney of the Union Trust Company of New York in the reorganiza- tion of‘the Atchisony Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, has been in San Francisco during the past week. In the great scheme of readjustment, which involved the transfer of stocks, bonds and securities representing $250,000,000, the Atlantic and Pacific was not joined with the Atchison, although it does not follow in the final settlement of affairs that the iaterests of these companies shall be separated. The fixed charges of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe have been so reduced that the road is now earning money. Leading railroad men and attorneys re- gard the success of the reorganization as a remarkable achievement. Much credit is said to be due to United States Judge ° Caldwell. If he had not displayed great firmness as well as judicial wisdom the professional railroad wreckers of Wall street would have made sad havoc with the vast properties. According to Mr. Rossington’s view the Atlantic and Pacific Company is in a po- sition to defend its California connections. ‘The company is not compelled to sell its road from Mojave to the Colorado River orsell the line from the river to Albu- querque. It is possible to re-establish and perpetuate close relations with the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe. In the negotiations for control of the Atlantic and Pacific the Huntington in- terests may be shrewd enough to shut out the Atchison from the Southern California field. In that event the Atchison would be forced to establish an independent line to the Pacitic Coast. The old original romoters of the Atchison system always ooked forward to a line from Chicago to San Francisco. 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