The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1896, Page 8

FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1896. HOW FREE TRADE WOULD HURT THE IRON INDUSTRY. It bas been shown in a series of articles in THE CALL that the Democratic free- trade policy, so volubly championed l?y Wiltiam Jennings Bryan,has brought ruin wherever it has touched, pnniculgrly in the wool, lumber and sugar indusu:les. I_t is now proposed to show in a brief and general way how protection aids and how free trade harms the various branches of the iron and steel industries—the heavi- est in the United States. It should be borne in mind at the outset that it may always be assumed as a gen- eral proposition that iron is the 'basis of all manufacturing, and whatever hurts the iron business hurts the entire coun- try. If the cheap iron and steel manufac- tories of pauper labor countries are al- lowed to come into America free of duty the result is to destroy the iron and steel industries of the country, or—almost as bad—to reduce the wages of American workingmen to a mere living basis, as hard and cruel as the iron law of wages announced by Ricardo, where men work by comnpulsion at the lowest sum that will enable them to subsist. Before submitting any evidence from peovle who have engaged in the iron business, it is well to bear in mind the important fact that in nearly every form of iron product the element of human labor constitutes nearly 90 per cent of the value; hence it is not difficult to see that cheap iron, free from foreign countries, is ® direct blow at American workingmen. The policy of William Jennings Bryan, s conclusively shown in his most im- portant Congressional speeches, is one favoring free trade in raw materials, as well as in the manufactured articles of commerce. It requires but a superficial study of the question to show that such a policy is directly in favor of the doctrines of the Cobden Club—one.of the rankest free-traders from the earliest years of the contest between protection and free trade in America—the one a symbol of pros- perity, the other a symabol of ruin. It cannot be denied that England and Germany are great iron and steel produc- ing countries. They furnish a great pro- portion of the world’s finished steel prod- ucts in machinéry andj cutlery.; Every dollar’s worth of such goods imperted into America is a direct blow at American in- dustry and a peril to American labor. Whny? Chiefly because the manufacturer cannot compete with the world’s markets if he pays the standard of wages obtaining in the United States. English wages are more than 60 per cent lower than those in America, then how can American workmen make iron products to compete with those of England unless they accept the wages down to the English scale? What that scale would be under Bryan’s free-trade ideas may be seen to bestadvantage by a glance at the condition of the wage-earners in the great manufacturing centers of England. Here ere a few pictures of those conditions that Bryan's free-trade ideas would bring to America. John Ruskin says: “Tnough England is deafened with American | spinning-wkeels, her ople have not clothes; though she is black with thedig- ging of fuel, they die of cold, and, though she has sold her soul for grain, they die of hunger.” s This is one picture_of ‘the condition of the masses in the rich manufacturing re- gions—in the very heart of the iron indus- try of the British isle. Lest the critic ob- ject to one man’s evidence, let that of another be submitted before it is shown by the testimony of iron-men what is meant when it is stated that free trade would reduce American workmen to the British level. Bennet Burleigh says: “There is no gainsaying the existence, rich and potent as the British empire is, of widespread privation among the work- ing classes of Great Britain. This distress has now become & constant, an aggra- vated quantity. Men, women and chil- dren, by hundreds of thousands, miserably half-clad, have to face the chill English winter, hibernating as best they can in dark, frowzy abodes, from which they emerge but to plead for bread.’ That is a picture of the condition of workmen in free-trade England. It is the contention of Republicans and particu- larly of McKinley that the free-trade panacea poisons the patient, that it ruins industry and impoverishes the working- man. There are signal illustrations of this in the steel and iron business of the country. During the free-trade regime of 1860 the wages of iron and steel workers aver- aged $305 a year, but under the protection of 1880 they went to $390, while the cost of necessaries decreased so greatly as to make a still srenter saving 10 the working- man. According to Edward Atkinson, the well-known statistician, the wages of American workingmen increased from $468 to $720 per year between 1860 and 1880. These figures are enough to make the thoughtful voter hesitate before in- dorsing even a mild form of Bryanism. The iron industry of the United States is already great, but under the influence of a judicious protective tariff it might be made far more important in every brancn. There are hundreds of ramifications of the trades and enterprises that depend for their success on the production of iron un- der favorable conditions. Itenters into nearly every phase of industrial and do- mestic life, from the great steel bridges to the cambric needle, from the scissors o the housewife to the sword of the soldier, and wherever free trade destroysthe en- terprises dependent on this universal ore it reduces the workmen to penury. It was recently shown by the manager of the Los Angeles Rolling Mills that a few Pauperism. A Protective Tariff Is Shown to Be the American Ironworkers’ Safeguard Against simple things might make California & }evidence of C. D. Lucas & Co. of Green- great iron and steel producing center, probahly the headquarters for many thriv- ing manufacturing enterprises. The fac- tors he_ reckoned were protection, cheap coke and cheap transportation. With a railroad leading to the at coking coal regions of Southwest Utah, with iron mountains in Southern Califor- nia, and a tariff to keep out the pauper- made goods of Europe and Canada n, there is scarcelg any limit to the Prou- perity that might comz to California as an iron and steel manufacturing center. But under the policy of Bryanism there would be no futare for such enterprises in California, and nothing but decay and ruin for those already established in Pennsylvania and the populous iron re- gions of the East and South. The Cambria Iron Company of Johns- town, Pa., made a reply to the Tariff Commissioners of 1894, wherein it put forth the following clear statement of the tariff problem as it affects iron: “We wish to enter a protest for our- selves, and on behalf of the manufactur- ing industries of the country, against the theory that the present _depression of industry is caused by delay in_passing the Wilson bill. ‘The bill itself is the cause, and we prefer that the delay shall last forever. The present situation is less in- tolerable than would be our conditionmun- der the Wilson bill as a law. Wedon’t propose to jump into the river to get out of the rain.” The present bill isthe product of an obsolete system of political economy. Its laws, once esteemed to be universal and eternal, are now everywhere discred- ited, ana are most particularly and definitively aisputed and denied by the younger school of English scientists. The alleged natural and divine laws by which the dominant party is endeavoring to_reg- ulate the ipdustries and finances of the United Stafes are as completely obsolete to-day as the Ptolemaic system of astron- omy. No civilized country has adopted free trade. The whole tendency of legis- lation on the continent of Europe and in the English colonies is in the way of strengthening tariff defenses. Generally the affairs of nations have been managed by men of affairs, and no country other than the United States has evergiven con- trol of its fiscal legislation to theorists.” But to band the iron industry over to f | William Jennings Bryan would be surren- dering every principle of business acumen and giving the reins of government toa dreamer pure and simple. Another testimonial in point, showing how the reduction of business to a free- trade level works disasters, is seen in the i ville, Ohio, manufacturers of small engines and boilers. They say: *If the rate of duiy is reduced one-third the cost of production will have to be re- duced nearly as much. As I understand the present tariff on our goods, the foreign prices and ours are very nearly the same at this place. Any reduction in the tariff means a reduction in the selling price of our goods, and which cannot be fully made l'ggby {ree raw materiul.’”” et the pq;icy of Mr. Bryan is to make all these things absolutely free. That policy would absolutely enslave every man engaged in working for another in the iron industry. Here is another opinion, {his time from the sunny South, home of the late free- trade chimera, The Bristol Iron and Steel Co v&m;glof B;i.ml. Tenn"l“t’l?: o e nk the passage o & propos ‘Wilson bill will IB; disastrous to the man- ufacturing interests of this country, par- ticularly to those near the seaboard, A duty of 221 per cent will permit foreign pig iron to'be imported and it will not be possible to reduce wages enough in this country to keep our works in operation. A duty of only 10 per cent. on scrap iron will permit large quantities of it to come in, taking the place of domestic iron, and also open the way to frauds in classing | iron as scrap thac is only broken up for that purpose.” How well this. company foresaw the coming of disaster is seen in the present depressed condition of the country, with millions of workmen idle and a large per- l:en.t;ge of the factories of the country closed. The Lehigh Steel and Iron Company of Allentown, Pa., manufacturers of pig iron, show how the beneficent influences of pro- tection are necessary to prevent the ruin of Americans. They say: “English pi§ 1ron is worth 35 to 36 shill- ings per ton, 1. o. b. vessel, equal to about $8 58“ ton in our money. Add $1 20 to $1 50 per ton for ocean freight, and this foreign iron will cost in New York and all our other Eastern seaport and tidewater towns $9 to §950 per ton, while the cost delivered in these Eastern markets from the furnaces of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, . Tennessee, Virginia Mary- land, . Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey will average from $12 to $13 per ton. There sbould be added to this $125 to $150 per ton for interest on the capital in- vested in the plant. These figures are based on conditions which yield no profit to the miner, quarryman or furnaceman. “When all ~ business enterprise shall bave been quickened by restored confi- dence and stability in values, some of the important items of cost will certainly be increased $150 to §2 per ton. Then we shall have, with only ordinarily saccessful business conditions prevailing, the cost of American pig iron $14 to $15 per ton de- livered in these Kastern markets, and where it must compete witb English pig iron, which its producers can sell at a Emflt at $9 to $10 per ton. And these astern markets are by far the largest and best we have in this country. Why this difference in cost? The answer is simple. Fully 90 per cent of the cost of the ton of pig iron 1s labor or the product oflabor. ‘As'this home labor has during the past ten years or more cost double that paid by the furnaces in England, it follows that this differénce must be equalized by a tariff duty, or wages must be reduced or our furnaces abandoned.” Continuing, they said that a wise pro- tective tariff would cause prosperity. “Repeal the Wilson bill,” tney said, “‘and pass a resolution not to disturb the present tariff for a number of years, and theé country, North and South,will become prosperous. Virginia and other Southern States will become large manufacturers of iron, steel and textile fabrics. The thou- sands of horsepower of water now run- ning to waste will be utilized in spinning and weaving cotton and wool. A reduc- tion in the rate of duties will result in a reduction in wages, and a corresponding injury to the home market; for the labor- ing classes are the great consumers of the country, and a majority of them spend all they earn. The higher their wages the more they buy of the gardener, farmer, manufacturer and merchant. [tisnotthe interest of these to have low wages.” The way the Wilson bill works is shown by the evidence of the American Road achine Company of Kennett square, Pennsylvania. They say: ‘‘Canadian manuiacturers are able to make implements at lower cost than American manufacturerscan. At a recent meeting of agricultural-implement manu- facturers there were presented theexperi- ences of two manufacturers who have branches of their works in Canada. One of them stated that he could manufacture his goods cheaper in Canada than he could in the United States, Another said that he should largely increase his manufac- tures in Canada for the purpose of supply- ing his trade in the United States. Another large American manufacturer, when asked to express his views on this feature of the Wiison bill, stated that he was indifferent, as if it passed he would establish a branch of his works in Canada. Being asked if he would supply his Ameri- can trade therefrom he replied that he certainly should do so.” Thus it is seen shat Bryan’s ideas of free trade are not less disastrous to the Ameri- can iron industry than to the lumber and wool business. Even the cheap labor of Canada—much dearer than that of Eng- land—is a great injury to this country; but under free trade every American workman would soon be compelled to live in a way as meager as the poorest English waee slave—a condition of squalor and suffering that it is the mission of the Re- vublican party to avert. WATER CRESS N CITY SEWAGE An Industry That Thrives Out in the Mis- sion. MAY SOON BE STOPPED. Two Improvement Clubs Will Fight Against the Swamp. MENACE TO PUBLIC HEALTH. " The City Authorities Will Bs Asked to Take Immediate Ac- tion. The Potrero Nuevo Imvprovement Club end the Potrero-avenue Improvement Club are discussing the project of abating what is regarded by their members as the WO nuisance in all San Francisco—the noisome swamps or lakes of sewage in the vicinity of Army street and San Bruno road; Itisthe purpose of these energetic bodies to press the matter persistently in the proper quarters until the nuisance is abated or entirely abolished. Incidentally this action on the part of the improvement clubs will be a fatal stab at a quite remunerative industry that has been carried on in the swamp for some time. The property-owners, however, care notbing for this, all they want is a health- ful neighporhood without a large sunken area full of reeking sewage from munici- pal and private sewers. ' The industry in question is the pecnliar one of gathering baskets of fresh water- cresses for the markets. Early in the mornings men may be seen in the marsh plucking watercress, which they bring to town in baskets to supply restaurants, wegeta ble-venders or reguiar customers. The pungent cress is always green and fresh, and consequently commands a ready sale. And yet the knowledge of its cul- ture in this particular instance prevents many people from touching any water- cress offered for sale 1n town. Throanghout the year the swamp at Twenty-sixth street invariavly looks bet- ter than it smells, for it is covered with a luxuriant green growth that has all tne appearance of & well-kept lawn, and’ the siush beneath is hidder from the eys, At one time there was an extensive frog pond there and it supplied epicures with the delicacy of frogs’ legs. The water-cress, however, spread all over the ooze, and so the frogs were driven to the wall. It was then that the cress- gatherers appeared upon the scene. A physician stated to one of the mem- bers of the Potrero-avenue Improvement Ciub that there was grave danger of dis- ease from germs on the stalks or leaves that touch the sewage. This was strength- ened by the statement that the Pesthouse sewer empties into the bLollow, from which there is no ouilet. The dangerous swamp covers an area of about four blocks, bounded by Army, Twenty-sixth and Alabama streets and Ban Bruno road. Within 100 yards is the Twenty-sixth Street Hospital and a few blocks off on the northeast the City and County Hospital. Many humble dwell- Ings have been buiit almost on the edge of the sewage hole and the block around are lairly well filled with homes. The owners of these places are loudest in their protests against the negligence o: the Supervisors and the Board of Health, in not taking the action which they claim is an absolute necessity to preserve the public health from the menace hanging over the district. President J. D. Horan and L. J. Dwyer of the Potrero-avenue Club are taking the lead in the movement against the swamp. **We shall bring it before the Board of Health,” said Mr. Dwyer, “and demand that something be done in the premisesas a sanitary measure. Our plan is to have Potrero avenue extended to Army street, as by that means a proper sewerage sys- tem would be secured. After that our clubs will fight for a continuance of the large brick sewer in Army street outto the water. Ii this be not done in the course of a year, at least, there is no telling what pestilence may arise from the place. Meanwhile, this water-cress business, I think, should be stopped.” Reduced Kates on Powder. To meet the reduction made in the rate on powder and high explosives from points in the Missouri Valley to Montana, the Southern Pacific will put in a lower rate to the same section. Effective on the 10th inst., it will putin force from San Francisco and powder points in California a rate of §1 30 per hun- dred pounds on these commodities in_carload lots of not less than twelyve tons, to Montana common points, north of and including Silver Bow. This is a reduction of $120 on the ex- isting rate. The rate from the Missouri Val- ley wes $2 95, and was reduced to $1 75. BELL WAS KOT GUILTY, Trial of the Old Gentleman Charged With Altering Transfer Checks. E. Back Ryan and Stephen Gage Testify to the Prisoner’s Very Good Character. Robert Bell, late steward of the City and County Hospital, was tried yesterday afternoon on the charge of altering a transfer ticket of the Market-street Rail- way Company. Bellis an old gentleman, stooped and thin and gray. He was formerly and for many years engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Truckee, Sacramento and this City. He resides on Oak street. He was arrested some months agbon the charge of altering and changing trans- fer checks of the Post-street line, pasting over the punched marks and changing the date and presenting them for passage. When arrested a considerable number of old punched checks were found on his person. J. W. Dubois, the conductor vn the car, who took up the altered check, brought the charge, and was, of course, the chief witness. He testified that Mr. Bell had upon several occasions offered him simi- larly altered checks. J. J. Coleman tes- tified that be was on the car at the time and the conductor called his attention to the man and the check. That wasall the evidence against Bell. For his own part Bell testified in a fiank manner kl‘;at he knew nothing about the alterations; that he got the check from a newsboy as he was in the habit of doing every evening with his newspaper. He explained his having the other checks by saying that his son at school had requested him to save them for nim as a chum of his was making a collection of them. A featare of the hear- ing was the calling of Black Ryan, tax agent of the Southern Pacific Company, to testify to the good character of the de- fendant. He dia so unreservedly; say- ing that previous to this case he never heard a breath of evil against him. Stephen Gage was also to be summoned in the same interest. Ryan said that Gage would testify as he (Ryan) had done, he was sure, as they had talked the matter over. They had both known Bell for the past thirty years. The prosecution con- sented to accept the evidence without summoning the witness, George W. Condee, Isaac M. Baker, J. D. Dufogle and other well-known citizens testified as to the man’s previous good character. The jury was out but a few moments and returned with a verdict of not guilty. There is another case against the old man, growing out of similar circumstan- ces. It may or may not be tried. B The Williams Est: Thomas H. Williams Jr. has petitioned the Probate Court for an order directing George E. Williame, executor of the will of Thomas H. Williams Sr., to allow him to choose property which may be vested for his interest. The will provides that the children of the deceased may 80 choose, by lot or agreement, from the estate. but as all are dead except Thomas H. Williams Jr. and a son of his deceased sister, gllry Bryant Johnson, this has never been one. City and County Hospit: Roinn Bell, Formerly Wholesale Grocer of This City and Late Steward of the , Who Was Tried Yesterday on a Charge of Altering Market-Street Railway Checks and Who Was Found Not Guilty. MANGLED HIS HEAD WITH A SHOTGUN Revolting Suicide of Ches- ter D. Kenison, a Mere Boy. HE WAS JUST EIGHTEEN Placed the Weapon's Muzzlé in His Mouth and Pulled the Trigger: NO CAUSE FOR THE DEED. His Parents Are at a Loss to Under- stand the Reasons Prompting the Rash Act. Chester D. Kenison, 18 years of age, son of Asa H. Kenison, a well-to-do milk- dealer, committed suicide in a most re- volting manner in his home, 2952 Twenty- fifth street, last evening at 9 o’clock. The young man was employed as an apprentice at the Union Iron Works. He always ap- peared to be contented and satisfied with his position. Yesterday was payday at theiron works, and, after drawing his salary, Kenison went home and turned his money over to his parents. During the afternoon he complained of a toothache and declined to eat any supper. His mother tried to cheer her son ‘and to ease the pain in his tooth, but the boy refused to be com- forted. At 8 o’clock the suicide’s parents made preparations to retire, and advised their son todo the same; but he refused, say- *|ing that he could not sieep and would remain up a short time. The parents finally retired for the night, however, and were dozing when they were awakened by a muffled report. Thinking that the noise was that of a slamming door, t:hcy did not get up and investigate. Louis Cahn, who resides just across the street from the Kenison dwelling, also heard the report and concluded that some one bad been shot. He went across the street and roused Mr. Kenison, and to- gether they visited the boy’s apartments, There on the floor he lay dead. It was a fearful scene. The boy's head was blown to atoms. Nothing remained ofit buta portion of the lower jaw and right side of the head. The upper jaw, skull and brains were scattered over the bed and floor. A shotgun of large gauge was lying be- side the body—silent evidence, but telling only 0o truly the manner in which the deed was committed. A string tied to the muzzle of the weapon and from there to the boy’s foot dispelled any possible idea of accident and told the story of a suicide. A Dote reading ‘“Good-by, mamma dear,” was found on the bed. This was all. Nota word that would tend to dis- close the cause of sumicida could be found and in all probability it will never be known. Asa Kenison, the boy's father, is heart- broken at his son’s action. Heoisataloss to understand why he should have taken his life. *‘I wonder what eaused my poor boy to kill himself,” said Mr. Kenison last even- ing, as he looked with streaming eyes on the mangled remains of his son. *'He was never acolded, and always ap- peared to be happy. He had no love af- fairs that [ know of, and nothing in the world to worry him. Itis awful-—awful— but it is too 1ate now to help him.” HIS DIAMOND CROSS. Daniel McCoy Has Been Twice the Vl(;- tim of a Sneakthief Within Four Months. Daniel McCoy, a drayman living at 142 Seventh street, is the owner of a diamond cross valued at several hundred dollars, which has twice been stolen from him. About four mouths ago a sneakthief got into his room and stole the diamond cross and a gold watch and chain. McCoy notified the police, and Detectives Gibson and Wren, who were detailed on the case, found the cross, but the diamonds, eleven in number, were gone. McCoy had new diamonds put in the cross a few days ago, and locked it upin a box along with a quantity of jewelry be- longing to a lady friend. The box was placed for safety in a closet, and McCoy as a further precaution always kept the door of his ro:m locked. i B Last night when he got home he was surprised to find the door of his room open and still more surprised when he saw the box lying in the middle of the floor. He hurriedly picked it up and found that his diamcn;cross and his lady friend’s jewelry had been stolen. He at once notified the police, who will have another hunt for the diamond cross. ——————— CONTESTANTS GAIN A POINT. The Opposition to the Probate of the Will of Mary B. Toland. The contest of the will of Mary B. To- land was before Juage Slack again yester- day on a motion by the contestants to strike out certain portions of the answer of Hugo H. Toland, and on a demurrer to the entire answer. His Honor refused to grant the de- murrer, but the motion to strike out was allowed. It was alleged in the original contest that Mary B. Toland was not of sound mind at the time the alleged will was dated. In the answer to the contest all the allegations of the contestants were denied, and for a further answer it was alleged that the contest had been dis- missed because of failure to file an an]:)eexllgeg gf g;}es:i id, behalf ortridge, on a - liam Gridley Tolnml.z then moved tz‘at‘;viikls out certain portions of the answer, wh! motion Judge Slack granted. i ———— Went Gunning for Whales. How Fish Commissioner ‘Emeric went a-fishing is told entertainingly by the Saunterer in this week’s Town Talk, which has other good stories in its various departments this week well worth your while to read. On the {ront cover appears a porirait of the brilliant young attorney and politician, Samuel M. Shortridge. In the musical department will be found an account of the entertainmentat Belyedere and other topics of interest to peo- ple who are melodiously inclined. There is also something of a chatty nature about the dressers of stage stars and the playsof the week are criticized. Look out for next week’s Town Talk, a _special annive number of forty pages, handsomely prin and illus- trated, and filled with interesting matter. A half-tone supplement will also be ued, and the entire number, of which ten thousand extra copies are to be printed, will be a model of typogravhical beauty. Do mnot fail to read next week’s Town Talk. . After Chinese Lotteries. The new United States Grand Jury was formally organized yesterday. The jury 1s composed of the following gentlemen: A. Arnold, William Beck, Warren D. Clark, Will- iam Cline, Martin F. Cosgriff, Henry C. Decker, Thomas A. Farless, Franklin Heyward, Mans- field Lovel], David L. Munson, G. A. Norton, Freaerick Seller, George L. Underhill, Thomas Wooaruff, Samuel Foster, David H. Porter, George Armstrong, Homer 8. King, F. H. Keyes, Lewis Gerstle, F. W. Dorbmann, S. C. Bucklee, L. A. Gradi. Assistant United States Attorney Schlesinger has 1n hand twelve bills of information which will be filed at the first regular session of the Grapd Jury. One of the most important cases to ?ruenud is that of the Chinese lottery ticket importers. This matter was fully presented in THE CALL & few aays ego, and Collector Wise has accordingly requested a most searching investigation. e e Mrs. Sopher Recovering. Mrs, Frankie Sopher, who was shot in the mouth by her husband in the Brunswick -Hmuln Thu;du morning, was taken from the Recelv] ospital to the City and Coun m“:‘n( yesterday. The olutzu of her r‘o-? What stronges s operasion will'be. Serionmed an o to eitnot !l‘:. bnlre'if‘whlch is lod::d#mer nec! A WEDDING BROKE ~ A WOTHER'S HEART Hermann Braunschweiger Jr. Marries Sadie Nichols. UNITED IN OAKLAND. The Groom Is Said to Have Been Hilarious at the Time. FATHER WILL NOT INTERFERE He Says He Will Have Nothing to Do With the Matter at AllL Hermann Braunschweiger Jr., son of the prosperous wholesale liquor dealer, was married last Wednesday by Justice of the Peace Lawrence, in Oakland, to Sadie Nichols, keeper of the apartment-house at 116 Eddy street. The members of his family are greatly shocked and grieved at the young man’s macrimonial venture. Especially is this the case with his mother, who is almost prostrated. The father, Hermann Braunschweiger Sr. was seen last night at his residence on Mc- Allister street. “I arrived from Santa Cruz this evening,”” said he, ‘‘on the 7 o’clock train. I first heard of the occur- rence to-day. I have not seen Hermann. “It is a terrible misfortune, but what can you do? You may be assured I shall not interfere with the couple at all. If any steys are to be taken toward nullifica- tion of the marriage I suppose my son will take them. I wash my hands of the whole affair. “Hermann has been rather wild for some years, but four or five months ago changed his habits and lived here at the house and attended to his business in a manner that was very gntilflng 1o me. A week ago last Thursday Mrs. Braun- schweiger and myself went on a pleasure wrip to Santa Craz. We asked Hermann to accompany us, but he decided to re- main in tke City, My eldest son tells me that Hermann left the house onthe same day we went to Santa Cruz and has not returned since. This wili prove, I fear, more than a lesson to him."" It was learned that young Braun- schweiger since Thursday a week ago has taken up his quarters at 116 £ddy street, and was there in the company of Sadie Nichols during the whole time, He first met the woman in fact on that Thursday. Thursday he came into the barroom in company with Sadie Nichols and said: “This is my wife, boys, and I want you to tell everybody that she is, too.” 1t ig stated that he was very much ex- cited at the time. Last night neither husband nor wife could be found. The name of S8adie Nichols has been con- nected publicly with several sensational cases. A man by the name of Murphy from San Jose was found dead in this City, death having been caused by gas as- phyxiation. On his breast was the picture of Sadie Nichols and a letter to him written by her. She has also figured in several volice-court cases ol sensational character. She is described as being an attractive woman of about 40 years of age. Braun- schweiger is about 24, tall and popular with his friends. She 1s also said 1o be a woman who has a practical eye for the main chance, and one who could scarcely be accredited with having married for love. Yesterday Hermann Jr. spoke some time with his father across the telephone to San Jose. His mother had also on that day a long interview with the bride, the nature of which could not be ascertained. A TUNNELL CONFESSION, Mattie Overman’s Friend Admits That Her “Call” Statement Was True. A Disputed Interview With Her in Visalia at Last Acknowledged as 1n All Resp:cts Accurate. Mrs. M. F. Tunnell, Mattie Overman’s friend, who carefully remained in hiding during the examination of Rev. C. O. Brown by the Congregational Council, has come out with an admission that THE OALL’s position in the matter was abso- lutely correct. Early in the Brown case Tue CALL obtained an important inter- view with Mrs. Tunnell covering the points of tne present admission. The au- thenticity of the interview was denied in certain quarters, but has now been fully established. There is nothing new in the published statement of Mrs. Tunnell. It merely in- dorses and confirms THE CALL's statement that she was cognizant of Mattie Over- man’s illicit relations with Rev. Dr. Brown, and that she herself had kept out of the way on his behalf and at his ex- pense. She denounces the pastor’s ingrat- 1tude to herself and Miss Overman. She says: Iknew from my own personal knowledge that the Rev. Dr. C. O. Brown had lovea Mattie Overman as it rarely falls to the lot of woman to be loved. Like & man bereft of all he holds dear on earth Dr. Brown has cried ovut in the g(mtc;nugno! his l;plrn ilt:ir gnn ol:. morle look of attie’s face. Hewould have 000, said, for another kiss. Lk hbe > * » > * . When Mattie returned from Tacoma shocked at her changed appearance. Kelr‘:i‘e.- termination to come back to learn the truth from Dr. Brown's own llg was carried out to the letter. If he had been false to her she wanted revenge, for her Christianity was lost, her life blighted and ruined by a'man who should have been the one to build up and pro- tect the pure‘, the true and the holy. ‘He has robbed me of my happiness,” she. would ery, and my heart went out in bitterness against Tl and T went : ai and I wen ther to Dr. Y office. He was cold nx:‘é‘;enueu, -ndmflon'-i‘l; cried out: “God has forgiven me; cannot she?” Mattie was softened by his tears and roturned home with me. She was weeping and broken in spirit. Dr. Brown called to see her the fol- lowing day and said that, as she had wanted in the past to fil«o school, he would now bear the ex; e refused at first ‘to receive & om him, but after much persuasion cent finally consented to attend a business college. - - - . * » When the letters were made was shocked beyond measure, hlvmg“‘i‘oi:;)tun their existence. I saw that the ietter R, Which was understood between Mattie and me to mean Romany—a name she always ad- dressed to Dr. Brown at his request protect m.mbe‘uchnudt:gn. (it . * %o iw -, It was when Mattie wasin Tay reeeived the letters over which n:':r':' !:u":‘ml : ‘Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. controversy. As a matter of course, m‘?fi‘: :‘uvte them ym:d:! received them. The man to whom she referred in her lettérs was the Rev. Dr. Brown. * - * * * ¥ But after the trial Dr. Brown’s manner changed. I came north to look after long- deferred business interests. At Mattie’s re- quest I sought #n interview with Dr. Brown and asked him what he wished Mattie to do, or where_to go, as she had neither means nor friends. He sac'ed like a madman and sald | that he would hold Mattie Overman to her testimony. 1f she expected him to support Her, ne said, she was making & serious mistake. “‘Why don’t you leave her?” he demanded. I replied that I would not doso. I was heronly friend and she wss nearly crazy. Then for the first time my eyes were opened beyond a doubt to the most seifish, unprincipled man I had ever known. » - * 2 he day before Mrs. Davidson’s arrest I came 10Tslln Fr{nciwo with Mattie. We went to the Cosmopolitan_Hotel, and there met Dr. and Mrs. Brown. Mattie had told Dr. Brown that 1 shared all of her confidences. On the follow- ing Sunday Mattie sent for me to €0 to Dr. Brown's house, where she was lying seriously ill. T went there in the morning and re- mained until after dark. When Dr. Brown re- turned from the eveningservice he told me that the newspaper reporters were looking for me. Allof them wanted me toremain there until I informed them that I must ‘tell the truth, and then they wanted me to g0. g When I heard Dr. Brown coaching his wife what tosay in regard to the presents he had given to Mattie, and when they asked me to say nothing of the love between Mattie and the doctor, I decided that it was best for me to go. Dr. Brown said that the reporters were Watching the hounse and were on the front steps. 1 would have to wait, he said, until they went, and then Ishould take a car, sit- timg on the front seat so that no oneshould know me. He asked me where I could goand I wlfl him that T would attend to that part of it. He asked me if I had any money and I replied thatI had some. He asked Maitie it she had any, but she had none. He was in the same condition, but Mrs, Brown had $10 and they gave me that. It wasin this way that I left the home of Dr. Brown on the night of Decem- ber 29. Most of my movements {from that time until I returned are well known.* My expenses were paid by Dr. Brown, for it was to his’in- terest to keep me out of the way. 1 met Mattie at National City after she had testitied at the counciland at the request of Dr. Brown had fled from the City. I returned to Oakland in the latter part of April. I had with me a letter from Mattie to Dr. Brown ask- ing him for assistance. I went to the doctor in her behalf. He said that he would do noth- ing more than to pay her fare to her home and give her living expenses jor a month. Ire- plied that it was cruel to throw her off in that manner to starve. He was going away and he might easily give her his furniture, She could hire a house and keep lodgers. Hereplied angrily that he intended to take his furniture with him. He then asked me to give Mattie up and go to Central America. But I refused and Mattie afterward reminded me that ships sometimes go down 1n the Pacific. The second council was about to convene and I went to Stockton, where no_representatives of the newspapers could find me. Soon after going there I re- ceived a telegraphic message from Dr. Brown. He said he was at Pleasanton and for me to meet him at the Stockton depot. Imet him there and he demanded that I swear to an af fidavit that he was a good man. ‘The affidavit was prepared and I was toswear to it_after returning from Sacramento and be- fore leaving for Central America. Ideclined to do so. because I could not swearto a lie. That was the last Isaw of the Rey. Dr. C. 0. Brown. Some time after that Mattie came morth to San Francisco. She tried to see Dr. Brown, but could not. She made several attempts to have an interview with Deacon Morse and failed. Morse would noi see her and Dr. Brown was very quickly on his way to the East. 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