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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1896 AMUSEMENTS. BALDWIN THEATER.—“The Masqueraders” CALIFoRNTA THEATER.~“The Irish Artist™ CoLUMBIA TWEATER—*The Great Unknown." MoRosco's OPERA-HOUSKE—+The Two Orphans” T1vorr Orema-Hopse.—*The Huguenots” OrrPuEUM—High-Class Vaudeville. EUTRO BATHS—Bathing and performances. Moo THr CHUTES—Dally & Haight street, one biock east of the Park. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS. Excurstox—To the Martin Murphy Homestead Tract, near Mountsin View, Saturday and Sun- , August 15 and 16. N—To Cazaders, Sunday, August 18 UCTION SALES. By Cmas. LEVY & Co.—This day (Friday), Farniture a: sslesroom, 1185 Market street, st 10 o'clock. By L H. Bump—Saturday, August 15, Hard- ware, at 1828 Valencia street, at 11 0’clock. sToN & ELDRIDGE —Tuesday. August 18, ate, at salesroom, 688 Market sireet, st By EafToN & Fromrper.—Saturday, August 23, Real Estate, at Mountaln View, Santa Clara Co., at 1 0'c OITY NEWS IN BRIEF. A Mr, Gallagher accuses s boy named Mad- den of great cruelty to a horse. The weather offico prediots for to-day partly cloudy, fresh to brisk westerly winds. Republicans of the First Congressional Dis- trict are actively organizing for the ocam- paign. Superintendent of Schools Babcock says that more funds must be provided or the schools Maloney and Patrick Harrington ted while conveying disessed meat to Chinatown. Health Officer Lovelace is investigating charges against the City and County Hospital sgcommodstions. C. E. Buckman, the contractor, has refused 0 move his grading camp at the order of the Boara of Health. On Monday next the Fourth-street cars will resume operstions, and many changes in transfers will result. Reports at the Woman Suffrage Buresu note rapid progress in the precinet club work throughout the State. A financial stringency has already come to pass because of the free coinage agitation. Gold is beginning to disappesr. Attorney Frank T. Hoburg will not oppose the efforts of his wife to get a divorce. He has allowed the suit to go by default. The Supervisors yesterday filed demurrers to the petition of George R. Fletcher in the Geary-street Railroad franchise matter. The Civic Federation will meet to-night in the Mills building and decide if it will put an independent political ticket in the field. Thirteen horses belonging to Charles A. Worth died yesterdsy from the effects of arsenicadministered by some unknown persox. The Supreme Court has reinstated Attorney W. B. Treadwell, who was disbarred eleven years ago for misappropriating a client’s funds. It is not thought likely that Li Hung Cnang, the aged Chinese Viceroy, will come to San Francisco owing to an alleged plot to take his e The snakes in the window of a Butter-street gstore, at present in charge of & Sheriff’s heve been without food for several & Fourth of July Committee has a surplus $500. A proposition is pending to divide sum among the Grand Army Posts of San the industries of Japan shows ive tariff-is necessary to enable o compete with the cheap goods of warrant was sworn out yesterday of Frank Quinlan, 13 years of id to be the toughest boy on Te ts. Jury will meet this afternoon he illegal registration cases re- at body by the Registrar and Elec- ssioners. Peddlers’ Protective Association was las night to fight for peddlers’ rights s the ordinsuce recently passed by the Board of Supervisors: v, 8 typewritist, has sued Cath er of a Turk-stréet lodging: 000 demages for being ejected e late at night. m Kaas of 137 Clara street, an employe thern Pacite Company, had his neck and right cheek badly torn by the hook in the hein of a derrick yesterday. The W. A. Vandercook Company threatens A. D. Childress, formerly secretary of poration, for criminal libel on the basis letters written to its Eastern agents. Msnuiacturers’ and Produeers’ Asso- " forwarded a letter yesterday to the Board of Education suggesting it home-made desks for sehools. C. A. Smith’s fiying machine is to be t in San Francisco. Letters patent were ed on it a few days ago and the company that will build it are confident of its success, against Winthrop is to come up this etore Judge Wallace. The defend- that hecan prove his innocence Lees is as sure that he can prove Owing to Billy Gallagher’s lack of training on account of the i'Iness of his wife his match with ( has been postponed till September k Stenzler ana Frank Purcell will be substituted Pr fessor Albert Van der Naillen has re- m_ Paris with the most powerful apparatus in the State, and he lous exhibition yesterday to a s m W Spectators. Devid Neagle was yesterday fined $50 for his assault last week upon the peddler Col- ins, but during the trial & most dramatic e was enacted and a remarkable story of 1-o8d sbuse told. he Democratic Etate Central Commit- ve Joseph P. Kelly removed as the ice for Congressman of the district conven- n in the Fifth District. It is the announced policy of the savings banks of this City to pay all depositors in gold irrespective of what may be the result of the ection or what may be done in the way of nenclal legisiation by the next Congress. Albert Hamilton. known as “Little Sandow,” went into & pretended fit in Judge Low’s court yesterday and would have escaped purish- ment for cnmm!tungldl!l’e?ulable act if it nmdnot been for an old gentieman from Oak- land. While & Sutter-street cable dummy, with car artached, was running between Kearny street and Grant avenue yesterday afternoon, a span of frightened horses ran against the dummy, The passengers were considerably frightened, but no one was much hurt. Lee D. Craig, notary, made his deposition yegterday concerning 'the contract of mar. riage between Senator Fair and Mrs. Nettie R. Craven, and also deposed that Senator Fair told him that he was going to make. deeds to certain property to Mrs. Craven. The Lunning Company s building & large business structure on the block bounded by Montgomery avenue, Vallejo and Stockton streets, P. Alfritz wanted $25,000 for & little triangular lot on on= corner large enough for a cigar-store, and P. Marsicano demanded a fabu pricé for Bl inter¥ening lot on Stoc! ton street. The offer was refnsed, however. fi NEW TO-DAY. 'VERY bumor, whether itching, burning, bleeding, scaly, crusted, pimply, or blotchy, Whether simple, scrofulous, or bereditary, from infancy to age, are now speedily cured by (Uticura Resolvent A BKIN and blood purifier of incomparable purity and curative power. Purely vegeta- ble, safe, innocent, and palatable. It appeals to all, and especially mothers, nurses, and children, Sold throughout the world. Price. CUTICURA, e.§ FnAré;.‘.‘»c.;nCfiv.snl.vzvri’r?m snd $1. Porrax ‘DEve 4x Girew. Corr., Sole Props., Boston. oa~" How to Cure Blood and Skin Humors,” fres. An ‘flffor! will be made to-night at the meet- | AN EX-BANKER A. D. Childress May Be Tried for Criminal Libel. LOS ANGELES TROUBLES The W. A. Vandercook Company Accuses Him of Embezzle- ment. HE OVERDREW HIS ACCOUNT. Letters Written to Eastern Agents of the Corporation the Basis of the Libel Charge. Criminal libel is a charge that A. D. Childrass, formerly president and man- ager of the now defunct City Bank of Los Angeles will probably be called upon to answer in addition to the accusations of fraud and embezzlement that were re- cently brought against him by the W. A. Vandercook Wine Company in a suit for $1200 filed in the County Clerk’s office. | Certain letters that have just come to light will be made the basis of the libel charge. Coming as they do on the trail of the charges that were made against Childress in connection with the City Bank, the matter is of more than passing interest. After the failure of the Los Angeles cor- poration and the subsequent legal difficul- ties In which Childress and his associates became involved over the transaction he came to Ban Francisco, and 1n January, | 1895, became identified with the W. A. Vandercook Wine Company in the ca- pacity of secretary. The ex-bank president had influential connections, through whom the drafts of the company on its many Eastern agents could be cashed without the delay ot waiting for remittances from the East, and such accommodations were just what the company needed at that time. So | Childress was made secretary and book- keeper. Up to August of last year Mrs. W. A. | Vandercook, who was one of the nrinciénl | shareholders in the company,was satisfied with the manner in which Childress’ end of the business was conducted, believing im- | plicitly that his reports of the tiourishing | condition of affairs were correct. “‘One day when I asked to see the books, however,” says Mrs, Vandercook, “Child- ress refused me any information and I | began to be suspicious. I insisted on a | dotailed statement, telling him that I | thought he had drawn more money than | he was entitled to. This he admitted, | promising, however, not to take more until profits had accrued, so that he could | do so under the terms of his agreement. | About a month after that he violated this | promise and I censured him for doing so. | “Then he threatened to wreck the busi- ! ness if I made any further complaint, | saying that he could and would do so. A few days later, seeing that he eould not continue taking money that did not be- long to him, he left the company, taking with him lists and addresses of our numer- | ous Eastern customers. He took covies | of all our printed forms, originated and | nsed by Mr. Vandercook in the business, | and entered Harris, Kingston & Co.’s, a | competing house on a small scale, getting into that firm through his knowledge of | the Vandercook Company. “Lacking the ‘power to originate he copied all our business forms, order blanks, etc., which are entirely different from those of any other company, even | | going so far as to use the same kind of paper and wording them similarly. ""'Then he wrote to our agents through- out the country on the stationery and over the signature of Harris, Kingston & Co. in | sueh & vindictive and libelous manner that | several of our agents sent the letters to us, advising us to prosecute him for crim- inal libel. “I thought until the latter part of his | connection with the company that he was'| | an honest man, as he was plausible and | was always talking of his own henesty and | the dishonesty of Southern California peo- | | ple in general. Atany rate, he mustsettie | with the courts for taking money that did | | not belong to him, for we don’t propose that the money that he took from this | company shall be used to pay for the house furniture and lawnsof such a man.” A. D. Childress and his brother, W. T. Childress, owned 494 of the 500 shares in the City Bank of Los Angeles. They bor- | rowed $25,000 from the First National Bank of this City on an unsecured note | shortly after forming the Pacific Invest- | ment Company and deeding their prop- i er;ly to that corporation. e | he First National Bank in its suit arainst tie Childresses alleged that these deeds were not genuine nor placed on rec- ord, but merely heid to be produced in the event of attachments by creditors of the bank. The complaint further alleged ‘that the | bank magnates were insolvent when the | deeds were made. | _ Since coming north A. D. Childress has been in minor as well as major legal diffi- culties, being fined recently for assaulting a boy who came to his home to claim a dog he had lost. George H. Perry is the | attorney for the Vandercook Company in | the suit now pending. REGULARS OUT CAMPING Seven Companies of the First United States Infantry Start for Santa Cruz. | Seven companies of the First United | States Infantry, four from Angel Island | and three from Benicia, started yesterday morning on a march of instruction to | S8anta Cruz. There a camp of instruction will be held for two weeks. The column is divided into two bat- | talions, commanded by Captains Manse and O’Connell. On the march the men will be restricted exclusively to army rations and every de- tail of camp life will be precisely the same { as though in actual campaign. The ex- | pedition will be under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Miles, Colonel Shafter being temporarily in command of the Cali- fornia’ department in the absence of General Forsythe. ';‘nmb was pitched last night near Ingle- side. —_————— Died From a Fall. William G. Gannett, Town Treasnrer of Sand- wich, N. H., died yesterday at the City and CountyHospital of pneumonia broughton by an accldent. On Sunday last Mr. Gannott was out driving with a friend when the horse became {frightened, resulting in throwing the deceased out of the buggy l'n fracturing two ribs. The exposure and excitement brought nin, irom the cffects of which he dled: Mo Gannett was on a visit to his daughter, 2208 Twenty-fourth street, and expected to return home next week. Sl gl Sued for Damages. George 0. Perry hassued the Viking Brew- ing Company for $850 damages, becruse of the latter’s refusal to transfer to his name on the The Halibut Schooners Freia and Norman Sund That Arrived With Full Cargoes From the Fishing Banks Yesterday. The Catch Was Made in a Remarkably Short Space of Time. HALIBUT WILL NOW BE CHEAP. Two Schooners Arrived Yesterday With Full Cargoes. MORE ARE ON THE WAY. The Occidental and Oriental’s Steamer Coptic Arrived Ahead of Time. BROUGHT THE FIRST NEW TEAS. Beat the (anadian Pacific’s Empress of Japan by Nearly Twenty- Four Hours. Halibut will be cheap to-day. Two schooners, the first of the fleet, got in from the banks yesterday, and in conse- quence the supply will be greater than the demand. Fish will be a drug in the mar- ket for several days to come and the poor people will benefit in consequence. The little schooners Freia and Norman Sund both got in from the banks yester- day after a smart run., They are loaded down with halibut and as the fish are preserved in ice they will keep for weeks. After leaving the fishing banks the schooners had a hard time and heavy weather of it, but nevertheless the cap- tains were determined to make time. Double reefs were taken in the mainsails and head sail was shortened. The little schooners arrived in good time for to-day’s market and doubtless both will do a rush- ing business. There are over a dozen ves- sels in the halibut fleet and all of them are doing well. Harbor Commissioners Colnon and Cole will to-day visit the Mail dock and its vicinity in order to ascertain where a new wharf can be erected for the convenience of the corporation. 1t was decided to build the wharf and charge full rates, but just where it will be put up has not been decided upon. Vice-President Schwerin of the corporation was present at the meeting of the board, and asked that special rates be made for the company he Tepresented, because it was a purely American venture. President Colnon did not agree with him and said that any and all competing roads would receive the same consideration. The Mail Company will get its wharf, but no concessions in the way of tolls will be made. The new Japanese line wrote asking if it could have the use of Lombard-street wharf. The secretarv was instructed to inform the manager that the wharf would be kept open for them for a reasonable time. In answer to other questions the Commissioners said that a double-track line connecting with the belt railroad would be laid and that electric lights to load and unload at night would be put in. The steamship company asked for space sufficient to accommodate fifty cars opposite the landing, but as there is no room there belonging to the State the re- quest could not be granted. Accommoda- tion further north can be provided it necessary. In answer to another question the Com- missioners said that the rental woula be $250 a month and the regular rates as charged the Pacific Coast Steamship Com- pany, the Oceanic SBteamship Company, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company. Work on the waiting-room of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s steamers at Spear-street wharf will begin next week. The Commissioners ordered the work done yesterday. Pier 12 will be rebuilt with creosoted piles and lumber. Yesterday the Harbor Commissioners let the contract for the job to P. F. Dundon of the North Beach Creosoting Works. The whaleback City of Everett has been laid up at Sausalito. There is a big sup- ply of Australian coal in the market at present, 30 the Rosenfelds will not want any Nanaimo coal for some weeks to come. The Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company’s Coptic got in yesterday a day ahead of time. She beat the Doric's time by ten hours, but is nevertheless behind the record. It was a race between the Coptic and the Canadian Pacific’s Em- press of Japan. Both had the first con- signments of new teas from Amny and the first into New York would carry the day. The Coptic wins easily and her tea will be in the metropolis twenty-four hours ahead of that on the Empress of Japan. “The Coptic brought the following cabin passengers: D. G. Bruce, Lieutenant R. R books of the company jorty shares of capital stoek of the corporation. Belknap, U. 8. N., Miss Bullock, Miss Griffin, Samuel Montague, C. B. Platt, A. | passage, landed A. Thomas, Professor F. Wendt, Rev. Hugh Taylor, wife and three children, C. E. Finlayson, Charles R. Gazan, Mrs. Ga- gan, Dr. J. A. Hart, A. Michaelson, W. T. Morris, H. C. von Glahn, Lou Fonkah, Mrs. Quan Yuen and daughter. She had also three Europeans in the steerage and 182 Chinese and 22 Japanese. The battleship Oregon began coaling yesterdsy and will probably start on a cruise early next week. Itissaid thatshe will be open for inspection next Monday and the launch Amy will run excursions 10 her from Folsom-street wharf. The abandoned British ship Gowenbank has twice been reported off the Horn by vessels bound to San Francisco. Captain Puxley arrived at Plymouth, Eng., on July 27 and made the following report: The Gowanbank left Barry late in January with a cargo of coals for Iquique, and was ac- companied to the southward by the Ceda: bank, which sailed about the same time from | Antwerp for San Francisco. The weather waus very bad. They were fourteen days fruitlessly endeavoring to weather Cape Horn. On the morning of April 21 & gale blew from the north-northeast, gradually increasing to hur- ricane strength. Every thread of canvas on the Gowanbank was blown away and high seas swept the decks and smashed the boats and bulwarks. At this time the Cedarbank parted company and fears were entertained for her fate. Asthe wind veered round to the west northwest its strength increased until, on the morning of the 22d, amid a storm ofsnow and rain, the masts of the Gowanbank went over the ship's side, ripping open the decks and placing the crew in a terrible plight, Worn out with the labors of the previous fourteen days,and with their sleeping and living quarters flooded, the crew had to keep entirely on deck, while the ship drifted at the mercy of the wind and waves. The gale still prevailed on April 23, when the bark Lathom of Liverpool bore down on the dis- tressed ship, and with much difficulty took offt the crew and, after a further rough them, at Valperaiso. The Gowanbank wes still afloat when abandoned, but was not expected to remain above water very long. The Cedarbank arrived here on July 22, and the Lathom got in August 3. Both vessels made unusually long passages and had hard experiences rounding the Horn. MUST HAVE MORE MONEY Schools May Be Closed for Lack of an Adequate Appro- priation. Superintendent Babcock S1ys That the Warning Sounded Was in Earnest. Superintendent of Schools Babcock said yesterday that the warning to the Board of Supervisors regarding the closing of schools sounded on Wedanesday evening in the report of the Finance Committee of the Board of Education would certainly be carried into effect unless the appropria- tion was increased. “We need more than $1,000,000,” said Mr. Babcock, ‘‘for many reasons. “Po begin with, the repeated criticisms passed by the Board of Health upon the | condition of our schools have necessitated repairs in all directions. We have addea expenses sadd!ed upon us which will cost us $100,000 at least over and above what we are allowed. We have been com pelled to have all our schools thoroughly white- washed and cleansed, a thing which has not been done for ten years and was badly needed. ““Then, again, the board has been obliged to extend the privileges of night schools. Boys at work all day cannot attend school; therefore we must give them a chance when their work is done. To that end we have established twelve extra classes, each containing four hundred or so children, all unable to attend night school before owin, to the distance required to travel. An this alone has increased our salary roll 6,000. Y “The Board of Health demands that we thoroughly reorganize oursanitary system in schools and &m in all the modern im- provements. ow can we do that without money ? “We need $100,000 more at least, and if we get it every dollar will be honestly spent in improvements badly needed. The truth is that the Board of Supervisors don’t go into details when they consider appropriations; they just hit upon a lump sum and dJecide that there is sufficient, without practical investization. We are trying our best to run the department upon as economical a basis as possible, but we wish to do things properly, and we must have money to do them with. “We shall be sorry to end the work of the department before its proper time, but we regret that it will haveto be done. While it is true that complaints have arisen in other years, things are different this year; we are confronted with many needs that have not been emphasized un- til this year. Teachers want to be paid, and if we can’t pay them we must close the schools.” Willlams Wants Money. Judge Slack yesterday ordered Mrs. Isabella M. Williams, wife of Richard S. Williams, the ex-customs inspector, to appear in court to- day and show cause why $1 of the funds be- longing to the Williams’, now in the hands of the court, should not be paid to Richard S. Williams. + There are several thousand dollars held at the order of the court pending the decision of » divorce suit fiied by Mrs. Williams, Tne hus- band claims this moneiyah community property and that he is penniless and needs J‘looo 10 ay hix expenses in the trial of his case in the Fezsnl court on August 19. An Insolvent Saloonman. P. H. Norton, a saloon-keeper, doing business at 128 Ninth street, has filed a petition in in- solvency. He owes $2,395 70, and has no as- sets. ARSENIC POISONS THIRTEEN HORSES, Dastardly Outrage Com- mitted by an Unknown Ruffian. AGONIZING TORTURES. Efforts of the Best Veterinary Surgeons Prove of No Avail HEAVY L0SS TO THE CWRNER. Endeavors Will Be Made to Bring the Perpetrator of the Crime to Punishment. It looks as though Charles A. Worth, who carries on an extensive draying busi- ness in this City, has been markea as the victim of a plotter as cruel as he is re- vengeful. Thirteen at least out of six- teen powerful high-bred draught horses which Mr. Worth kept in the Golden Gate stables died yesterday from the ef- fects of arsenical poisoning. On Wednesday night the horses were stalled after their day’s work, all ap- parently in fine condition. Yesterday morning they were taken out as usual, and, one by one, horse after horse died in his tracks. The first fell at the intersection of First and Mission streets, his body immediately swelling and becoming most offensive, Hardly had the carcass been removed, when another horse, which was standing in New Montgomery street, near the Palace Hotel, was taken with what scemed to be a fit. In his fall the horse struck the iron door of a pavement elevator, which ripped open his flank to a depth of thrce inches. The symptoms in both cases appeared so full ot suspicious indications that the matter was reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and an investigation set on foot for the purpose of ascertaining the facts in the case. | Meanwhile the horses kept on dying. Veterinary surgeons were called into re- quisition, and with much ado the horses remaining alive were parceled out among them, some being placed in charge of Dr. E. J. Creely, others with Dr. Masoero, and still others at Dr, Egan’s veterinary hos- pital near the Golden Gate stables. The animals displayed every evidence of extreme suffering. Sweating profusely, their heads drooping and their bodies swollen, the poor creatures pawed the ground 1n agony. The remedies em- ployed, though the best that could be pro- cured, seemed to be of no avail he poison had evidently penetrated into the vitals of the doomed brutes, and by night- fall thirteen were dead. Dr. Creely removed the stomach from one of the horses which died in bis estab- lishment, and Professor Cunningham, the well-known chemist, made a searching analysis of it. Large quantities of arsenic were found mingled with traces of par- tially digested food. The horses are esti- mated to have been worth about $150 apiece, and Mr. Worth’s loss is hence no small one. “I am at a loss to imagine who can be at the bottom of this affair,” he remarked yesterday svenimi. “as I have no enemies that I know of. cannot suspect any one of deliberately scheming to injure me in so dastard!y o “achion, Btili I shall use all diligence 10 di. ~over the author of the erime, and ii I suc.ced he will be punished as severely as the law will allow.” Mr. Worth ordered the man, and food bins to be cleaned out and thoroughly scalded. The stalls, watering troughs and buckets were also deluged with boiling water. What remains of the food of which the horses had partaken has been given to Mr. Cunningbam, who is making tests with the object of ascertaining if possible whether the food itseli was poisoned or the arsenic placed in the bins and troughs. “If there is anything I hate," said Dr. Creely, “it is to see a fine horse die. How any man could be cruel enough to visit so terrible a death as arsenical poisoning upon one of these noble beasts is more than I can conceive. Five trucks and a wagon passed by here to-day, chained to- gether and with the harnesses of the dead horses heaped up on oneof them. The trucks were chained together one after the other, and when I thought of the fine animals who had drawn them the lumber- ing cavalcade reminded me of a faneral procession. I hove the perpetrator of the outrage will soon fall beneath the vengeance of the law.” == Magee Will Investigate. Bank Commissioner Magee leaves to-day to make an investigation of the Bank of Na- tional City, which closed its doors dhy before yesterday. The directors of the bank stated that its closing was not owing to insolvency, but for the purpose of liquidation. The true state of affairs will be looked into by Mr. Magee. ——————— McCullough as Inspector. Through the soticitation of the Southside Club, the engineer of the Merchants’ Associa- tion, Ernest McCullough, will superintend the repairing of Folsom street, between Third and Sixth, and see that the contractor lives up to the specifications of his contract. THE SAD PLIGHT OF A PHYSICIAN Broken in Health ~He Cannot Stand the Hospital. CHARGES LACK OF CARE Stayed One Night in the County Institution and Then Leit. AN INVESTIGATION ON FOOT. Health Officer Lovelace Wil! Look Into the Matter—The Doctor’s’ Story. Health Officer Lovelace began an inves- tigation yesterday into charges that have been made against the accommodations and food at the City and County Hospital by Dr. G. W. Day, an aged physician whom poverty and ill health have forced to seek a public institution for the care that his case demands. Dr. Day, after fighting illness and lack of even the necessaries of life for a long time, applied with his wife for public as- sistance and was sent to the hospital to be cared for. His wife, who was broken down in health from privaiion and caring for her sick husband, was sent with him o recuperate and receive proper medical attention. The Days remained one night in the hospital and then left, stating that they would rather return to their obscure lodg- ings and suffer there than take advantage of the accommodations at the hospital. “Iam a physician,”” said Dr. Day yes- terday, “though in my present pitiable condition I may not appear like one, ind I know what care, food and attention stould be given the sick. There is noth- ing like tnedproper accommodations at the hospital and the food is not fit for well and hearty people, much less sick per- sons. ” 4 *‘The attendants are careless and worse, and 1 left because I could not stand the treatment I recerved For years I have been a sufferer from the poison of ivy, contracted in the East. hen it breaks out anew it causes me great pain and I am unable to help myself. At those times I must have care and 1 went to the hospi- tal supposing that I would get it there, but I was mistaken. “No one seemed to understand my case or to care anything about it, except to get through with me as_quickly as possible and get sway. So I took my cane and hobbled out, glad to be free from such a place. I have been told that the proper thing to do is to prefer charges against the managment of the hospital, but I know that the health authorities have heard of NEW TO-DAY. We don't want you to {use Schilling’s Best merely |because it can'’t hurt you; but we want you to stop using some other teas be- cause they do hurt you. No; the reason for using Schilling's Bestis: itis nice. Your money back if you don’t like it—you see we have faith in our tea and faith in your honor and palate. | A Schilling & Company Ban Francisco 348 NEW TO-DAY—AMUSEMENTS. MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater in America. WALTER MOROSCO, Sole Lessee and Manage: A Revelation of Histrionie Art! “THE TWO ORPHANS” Presented on the Most Elaborate Scale Ever Given in This City. Third Week of JAMES M. BROPHY. Prot. Chas. F. Graeber's Mandolin and Guitar Club. “The full depth of the mammoth stage used for the first time in 10 years. Evening Prices—25¢ and 50c. Family « ircle and Gallery, 1 Usual Matinees Saturday and Sunday: THE CHUTES. AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS. EVE .Y EVENING THIS WEEK —AND SUNDAY AFTERNOON— CONN FREDERICKS, THE DEMON CYCLIST, WILL COAST THE CHUTES ON A SAFETY BICYCLE SATURDAY NIGHT, Pacific Parlor, No. 10. N. 8. G. W, Night MAGNIFICENT FIREWORKS! Sunday Afternoon—Balloon Ascension By EMIL MARKEBERG, ADMISSION—10 CENTS, Children, including Merry-Go-Round Ride, 5 cents. %] RAND PAVILION DIS PIIEY. LECTRICMOTIVE O:ISE“I?d CASSASA’S . %P0 S DON'T FALL TS 2Eir EXCURSION RATES. Pilgarlic, there is no need for you to contempiate a wig when you can enjoy the pleasure of sitting again under your own ‘‘thatch.” You can begin to get your hair back as soon as you begin to use Ayer’s Hair Vigor. the matter and will take any steps that are necessary.’’ The matter was reported to Secretary Godchaux of the Board of Health yester- day afternoon. and later Dr. Lovelace of the Health Office was notified. The latter intends to look into the truth of Dr. Day’s statements, with a view to such improve- ments in the hospital service as are necese sary. Dr. Day and his wife, who is scarcely better off than her husband, are now quartered at the People’s Lod~ing-house on Fourth and Howard streefs, but as their funds are about exhausted they do ;IOI expect to be allowed to remain there ong. - Only one person in four in London earns over £1 a week. NEW TO-LAY—AMUSEMENTS. AL HAYMAN & CO.’S THEATERS. I—ml LAST NIGHTS! LAST Mat. Saturday. CHARLES FROHMAN'S —~EMPIRE THEATER COMPANY !— From the Empire Theater, New York. ‘The Great Drama by Henry Arthur Jones, THE MASQUERADERS A Play of Tntense Interest, with Brilliant Situge tions, including the THRILLING CARD SCENE! NEXT MONDAY ——LAUGHING EVENT1 A Maelstrom of Merriment ! THE GAY PARISIANS! Best Comedy Company Seen Here in Years! W. J. FERGUSON, SADIE MARTINOT, James O. Barrows, Chas. B. Wells, W. R. Shirley, Mrs. E. J. Phillips, Miss Marzaret Gordon and the Original Great Cast. &5 Seats Now Selling Fast and Furious! SECOND Al week AT THE CALiForN THE SWEET SINGER, CEAUNCEY OL.COTT In the Successful Comedy Drams, THE IRISH ARTIST. By Augustus Pitou and George H. Jessop. MONDAY, August 17, “THE MINSTREL OF CLARE.” TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE MES. LENKSTINE KRELING, Proprieior & slauages Sixth Week of the Season of Grand Opera Under the Direction of MR, GUSTAV HINRICHS TO-NIGIT, ——And Sunday Evening— MEYERBEER'S CLASSIC WORK, THE HUGUENOTS ! ——To-morrow Evening —THE BOHEMIAN GIRL!— ——NEXT WEEK— VERDI'S EVER POPULAR OPERA, “IL TROVATORE.” First Appearance of MISS FLORA FINLAYSON, Prima Donna Contralto. Popular Prices—25c¢ and 50c. ICDLANDER GOTTLOD & co- LE3SES ATDMAMAGERS -+ PERFECT AND VENTILATION A Most Exhilarating Performance Continue to Crowd Our House. THE FRAWLEY COMPANY In Augustin Daly's THE GREAT UNKNOWN A Simply Delightfol Comedy. ——SEATS ON SALE rOR NEXT WEEK—— iy ©O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and PowsalL. Week Commencing Monday, Aui. 10. THE ROARING SUCCESS ofthe SEASON . . FEENINEDY ! The Hypnotist, in & Seance of Fun and Merriment. THE FOUR NELSON SISTEKS. BIONDI————————BLACK PATTIL ——TECHOW’S CAT CIRCUS—— Only 2 Nights More of Staley & Bisbeck. And a Great Vaudeville Company. Reserved seats, 25¢; Balcony, 10c; Opera-chairg and box-seats, 50c. Get your seats in advance. SUTRO BATHS. Open Daily from 7 A. & Until 11 ». 3. rt Every Afternoon and Evenin, O narsl A asmission—Aduits 100, Children 06 & FREDERICK WARDE Association Auditorium, Mason and Ellis streets, THURSDAY EVENING, August 20. With Shakespeare—Character Sketches.” Tickets 50c, on sale at Sherman, Clay & Co.’s and the Association Office. EXCURSIONS. EXCURSIONS S T —T0 THE— MARTIN MURPHY HOMESTEAD TRACT, SUBDIVISION NO. g, Half Mils from the Flourisbing lown of MOUNTAIN VIEW SATURDAY, AUG. 15, 1896, ATS0- SUNDAY, AUG. 16, 1896. Leavinz Third and Townsend Street Depot sh 10:40 o'clock A. M., Teturning leave Mountain View at 3:17 and 5:24 o'clock P. x. Our land surveyor will be upon the train snd ses that all_excursionists upon arrival ac Mountain View are comfortably seated in «arriages and ac- company them to the land, Visiting each sub- division and explaining any points desired. $150—Round-Trip Tickets—$150 For catalogues and further particulars inquire of EASTON, KLDRIDGE & CO., 638 Market st. Auctioneers,