The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1896, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1896. FATHER YORKE | ON MARRIAGE The Catholic Champicn De- fines and Defends the Rite. THE CHURCH GUARDS IT Deciares Catholics Look Upon Protestant Nuptials as Valid. DIVORCE SAPPING SOCIETY. Praise for the Editor of “The Call.” Rabbi Levy’s Vigorous Words. Kev. Father Peter C. Yorke traveled all | over the subject of marriage last night at Metropolitan Temple, and covered consid- erable more ground of current local inter- est. It was the first of a series of lectures to be delivered by him under the auspices of the American Women’s Liberal League. The name of the league was hung in let- ters of red and gold across the front of the pipe organ. There was nota vacant seat in the temple, from the topmost row in the gallery to the front row on the main floor. Applause greeted Father Yorke's ap-| pearance on the platform. When he arose | to speak repeated bursts of appleuse pre- | vented him beginning his address for | nearly a minute. | Seated on the platform with the speaker | were Rev. Fathers P. E. Mulligan, P.| Scanlan, P. J. Cummins, T. Carraher, | Gannon, Emile Gente, I. Cuelen, Egan, | McKinnon, O'Connor, J. F. Nugent, Do- herty, Harrington, Barrigan, Lamb, Dris- | coll, O'Ryan, McGuirs, Lyons, P. Curry, | M. Slattery of Napa and Hughes of Port- | land, Or. ~The Star Spangled Banner’’ was im- ressively sung by Miss Catharine Black. | Rabbi M Levy introduced the speaker. | In his introductory remarks he paid a | high tribute to the aims and work of thelo- cal American Women’s Liberal League and said these women had ‘‘made it possible for the rabbi and the priest to join hands for the common good of humanity and | the community in which they live.”” [Ap- | piause.] He referred to the same plat- | form and house having been occupied by | “‘organized bands which would put father | against son and brother against brother.” He said those organized bands which plotted in secret were now almost swept away. As ‘‘eternal vigilance is the price of liberty” he admonished all liberal- minded men and women to watch, ‘‘that | freedom must be preserved, guaranteeing | to you and me the right of serving God as | we understand him.” He saia the estab- lishment of the independence of this na- tion was bathed in the blood of martyrs, and that thedenomination to which Father | Yorke belongs had given its full quota of soldiers for the honor and perpetuity of the flag * which we have just sung,” The rabbi said the organized bands had been taught a lesson they were not likely to forzet. Out of their ranks had come | mischief, and more than mischief. Saying he needea little introduction, Rabbi vy introduced Father Yorke. His subject was, “The Catholic Church | znd Protestant Marriages.” | “Ladies and gentlemen,”” said the | speaker, “the chairman of the evening has | kindly reminded us of the last time we were together in this hall under the auspices of the American Woman’s Lib- eral League. He was chairman of the last meeting of the first series, and he is chairman of the first meeting of the sec- ond series, ana it 18 significant to those | who believe this: the bond that was then | shown to exist between men of all creeds in favor of religious liberty, even between rabbiand priest, still remains unbroken, and, please God, will remain unbroken to the end. *‘He has done me the honor—doubtful honor—of referring to the broom and to my words concerning the same,and he | has proved thatl am not a prophet nor the son of a prophet by asserting that that same broom swept a certain organization into the graveyard of impossibilities. “I have great respect for the rabbi’s judgment, and I am very sorry to differ irom him even in this, for I am forced to | say that the weapon that accomplised this was mot a broom but aclub. [Laughter and applause.] “And in the beginning as a kind of prelude I might say that these meetings have been instrumental in putting that club into our hands. You understand that a campaign such as has been carried on_tor the last three or four months re- quires what are called the sinews ot war, and the fund which came from the | American Women’s Liberal League meet- ing has been well and wisely expended in the end which bhas been so signally ac- | complished. And I am proud that-to them we owe the means by which we have been able to split that organization up the back; by means of which we have been able to throw its secret council chambers wide open to the public; by which we have been able to cast upon it, notan X ray, but a searchlight showing the scoundrels quarreling over the chickens before they were hatched. “‘There is, ladies and gentlemen, 2 great difference in the public mind concerning | this society which has been organized to save the country from the Pope since the Jast time we met here. Then, as a very vigorous writer said, that society appeared to have the world by the tail on a down grade. There was nothing that was im- possible to it, and its voice was lifted up, even as the wild ass’s, proclaiming ‘the world 1s ours.” he different political conventions had their meelings, and the Republican con- vention snubbed them, and worse than all on the strength of a telegram from Arch- bishop Ireland. ‘rhen the Democrats met and they also are saia to have snubbed them, and so it went on. They were like Japhet looking for a father, but as we know no one wished to father either. “‘And after they had conspired to sell out their votes for the sum of $50,000—it is wonderful what hankerings they bave for 50 000—their secretary also had a liking jor $50,000, and the gentleman who lost his front teet also values them at.$50,000. After they had conspired from the end of last year to effect this sale for this sum of money, which would have enabled them tolive in happiness and comfort in the South fea Islands, and after they had madea great pretense of having made a deal with a prominent politician and of having put a padlock on a great news- paper, the cold silence was broken. The proprietor of that paper spoke out like a man and proclaimed that he was in favor of religious freedom and opposed to such organizations as these scoundrels repre- sented and tried to sell. “And further than that, the editor of TaE CALL bas come out in the columns of his paper to proclaim that elementa: principle, that he is in favor of the consti- tution. This, I consider, is one of the most encouraging signs of the times. It tells us that the peopie are awake on this subject; that the people are no longer to be bamboozled ; that the men who claim to be public men must put themselves tairly and squarly on record in regara to the constitution if they hope for public suf- frage. “This is prelude No. 1. Prelude No. 2, as the story papers say, 18 to be continued in our next. “Yesterday this hall was filled to the extent of seventy-five seats, and the gen- tleman from Seattle—all the way—by the name of Fleenor, held out on the public schools as the palladium of American liberties. As my next lecture will be de- voted to the little red schoolhouse, I do not mean to take up your time by a prelude on that subject. “When a society whose head is a man whose name is not fit to be mentioned among decent people, whose record is to be found in the under world, whose past life is a bideous and black shadow— when a society can stand a man like that at its head; when a meeting which is organized for the purpose of good citizenshin can have as one of its most prominent members a man who within two years has been in jeopardy before the courts of this City, a man who bas been accused twice in twelve months of ‘swind- ling a client—when an organization with such a record as that can come before the public, it does not deserve that the public should note what its orators say. And so what Fleenor or Goodwin or Case or Dille or the rest of them say, would not be answered it it were not that we have made it our policy to answer every charge made against us. No matter whence it comes, the charge receives a certain dignity because it is made against a great church. “At my next lecture I will take great pleasure and great satisfaction in replying to Rev. Mr. Fleenor, who has come all the way from Seattle to preserve San Fran- cisco from the Jesuits and the Pope. The subject of the lecture this evening is ‘The Catholic Church on Protestaut Marriages.’ About a month ago I happened to be go- ing north by water and I met a physician of this City who began to speak about the controversy. I must confess he did not have a good opinion of the controversy. He said he did not believe in this contro- versy, but added that a number of people had spoken to him about it. Now among the statements that have been given cur- rency is one that Archbishop Riordan had declared that the lives of Protestant | wives were those of concubines. This statement was first invented and first made public by the late unlamented Frack Pixley. His cinders are now stowed away in their own place, but the tie which he started, like John Brown’ssoul, keeps still marching on. And so, from time to time from this platform and from other places in the newspapers and peri- odicals we find it stated as Catholic teach- ings that no Protestant can be properly married unless he gets the priest’s hands above him and the priest’s hands in his pockets. “This calumny is one which I am afraid is believed. The gentleman of whom I spoke to you was a physician and a man of education, yet when the matter was put to him he could not deny that he believed it. It is a calumny which strikes at the heari of our Protestant fellow-citizens. It | is a calumny which grieves them and em- | bitters them. You remember that in the | old times the controversy between the | Catholic and the Protestant was confined to such subjects as transubstantiation, validity of orders, auricular confession and such subjects. They cannot raise hatred and cannot raise prejudice by confining themselves to these dry matters, so instead of that doctrines have been brought forth which, if true, will excite men’s minds against people of a certain denomination and embitter their hearts, You know in this country the people, like those of other countries, are patriotic and proud of the land of their birth, and so these men who would stir up hatred and rejudice try to make it appear that the Samulic church is opposed to that patri- otic sentiment, is opposed to the best in- | terests of the country, and then by mis-| representing the Catholic church it turns against her all the patriotism and love of | country in the human breast. “They take up the supremacy of the Pope, the relations of church and state, and try to make it appear to the world | that the Catholics cannot be good citizens, | and because they are not good citizens | they should be deprived of the rights of citizens. They try to enlist against the | Catholic church that beautiful spirit that | makes a man proud of his wife and chil- dren, that love which lifts him up to be | almost godlike, and to makeit appear that | the Catholic church comes to the door of his home and hoots down his wife aslower than a woman of the town. “You know how we felt when these | scoundrels spoke of Catholic women—you | know the feelings that were in our breasts and|the breastsof all decent men. The same feeling that is intended to affect in the | breasts of Protestant men when they re- peat this calumny. “I say, ladies and gentlemen, that if we | Catholics approve such a doctrine, if we | talk it behind locked doors, behind closed | windows, in secret chambers, and 1f we even thought 1t, we would not be fit to be | citizens of this great republic. | “In order that you may be able not only to deny the calumny, but to give the rea- sons why it is not so, I intend to devote this evening to explanations, to the law of the church concerning marriages in gen- eral and Protestant marriages in particu- lar. You will excuse me if this explana- | tion is dry, for it will treat of the legal | aspects from the canon law side, as this is | the only side I wish to talk upon to-night. “I remember once asking a small boy in | the catechism class, “What are the effects of the sacrament of marriage?’ and he answered me without moving a muscle, ‘The effects of the sacrament of marriage are to darken the understanding, 2 weak- nelsls, of will and a great inclination to evil. “I have no doubt that he heard all about it at home, so 1 never questioned his ac- curacy, and I don’t intend to question it now. I merelyintend to confine myself to the legal question to show what the Catholic church holds in regard to mar- riage. In the first place, the Catholic church believes that marriage is a con- After the speaker had explained that a contract is an agreement between two or more parties to do a certain thing for a certain compénsation, he continued sub- stantially as follows: “The Catholic church regards marriage as a contract. Perhaps there is no con- tract thatis of more importance to the community than the contract of marriage. Each nation hasits form of marriage, from the savage who courts with a cudgel and carries his wife off on horseback, to the modern ceremony of courtesying before a Justice of the Peace and the thing is done. “If two persons agree to Iive together as husband and wife there is nothing to pre- vent it being binding. This was so in this State up to two years ago,and it was the case in the Catholic church between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. But it became here almost unsafe for a man who had any regard for his cbaracter to die. Tnree or four widows were likely to dispute the right of weeping over his re- mains, The Catholic church in the six- teenth century had to do what California did in the nineteenth century. The law was abolished. Then all legislation on marriage was in the hands of the church. “The council of Trent,” contin- ued Father Yorke, ‘‘was petitioned to compel marriage in the presence of witnesses, and the Council of nt maae it so that marriage should be celebrated before the parish priest and at least two witnesses. The State of California now requires that it shall be public and 1n the presence of witnesses. But the action of the Council of Trent was accepted by the people only with the understanding that the decision should be promulgated by the priests a certain numbger of times in each parish before it went into_effect, and that it should not have any effect in parishes where it was not so promulgated. *‘The question arises, Does the law of the Council ‘of Trent bind in this count In France and Spain and other Catholic countries the law was gexnerally promul- gated. The Spanish settled this State, and the law of Trent binds here for that teason; but outside, for instance, in the BSiate of Oregon, which was not settled by the Spanish, it does not bind. *Po; Benedict X1V modified th law,” g‘enflur Yorke continued, “:: tn:t §: applied to Catholics and not to Protest- l A} ants; that in mixed marriages, where one party was a Catholic and the other a Protestant, it did not apply; and he re- stored contract marriage. If Catholics marry in secret, or a Protestant and a Catholic marry, the church feels that it is sinful, but that does notaffect the validity of the marriage. If Protesiants get married the Catholic church looks on the marriage as valid if the marriage contract is valid. The Catholic church does not consider that Protestants are bound by the Council of Trent. & “Butyou will not find a Catholic saying anything against being married by a priest and getting the blessing of God on the union. Protestants do not belieye that marriage is a sacrament; Catholics do. Whren two persons agree to marry they are the ministers of the sacrament. We give them an honor higher than which it is not in our power to bestow. “We look upon them as one of theseven seals from which flows the fountain of life. I do not think Protestants have any particular grievance on the way we look on their marriages. We look upon them as valid, and as the Protestants them- selves'do not as a sacrament.” The speaker gave what he declared was the true story of the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, in this country to Miss Patterson of Philadelphia, to refute the charge that goid and high position found & way for divorce in the Catholic church. He read a letter written by Napoleon to Pope Pius asking an annulment of the mar- riage, and read the refusal of the Pope to do so, saying that the American girl had a champion at Rome for her wpmanhood and the legitimacy of her children, for “what God hath joined together let no man put asunder.” Thougn‘dmappmved of by the church, the marriage was ac- knowledged as valid. He read a letter from Martin Luther to the Landerave of Hesse approving polyg- amy by the Landgrave and sugeesting the greatest secrecy in the matter of the Princelet taking a second _wife, ard made a pointed reference to Revs. Dille, Case and Goodwin in this connection, 4 He said also: *“Luther was the origin- ator of that famous saying, which has been appropriated by the Southern Pacific Company, ‘The public be 2 He begged the blessing of God on polygamy, and this reminds me of the preachers get- ting down on this platform and asking the blessing of God on religious strife.” i He said polvgamy was not permitted in the marriage contract, and that the church believed that divorce was permissible only on Scriptural grounds, where a Protestant husband refuses to live with a Catholic wife or vice versa, by reason of hatred of her religion. Chiidren, were not able {o provide for themselves until parents were well along in years, and this was a reason from nature against divorce. 3 He declared 1t a shame that divorce could be secured in this and many other States for almost any cause, and he hoped that a public sentiment would grow up that would put an end to such divorce mills as South Dakota and Oklahoma. Replying to John 8. Etell, he said the Catholic Church looks upon Jewish mar- riages as real, true marriages. He said in this connection that the Argonant re- spects the truth just as the good house- wife respects hex front room—she seldom uses it. Other denominations, particularly the Episcopalian, did not approve divorce except for Scriptural cause, and the speaker said he did not see why they were not inciuded in the same anathemas as the Catholics. “Divorce is sapping the foundation of society,” he said. “If it goes on as it has, I fear the time will come when the family will become extinct. Upon the home and marriage tie depend the future of this country. Within the home is set the tree of life. To be the daughter of an Ameri- can citizen is greater than to be called a queen. If we cannot raise good children we cannot raise good citizens.” Ina few closing remarks Rabbi Levy said that during the last twenty-five years he bad performed 1200 marriage cere- monies, and that not one in 100 of this number bad sought divorce. This was because the domestic tie was regarded by the Jews as sacred, and marriage as founded in the doctrines of the Bib?e isa divine institution. THE PEBBLE BEACH WAR District Attorney Walker of San Mateo County to Be Cited for Contempt of Court. A skirmish of the famous Pescadero Pebble Beach war, which has been going on for years, recently took place at .that town before a Justice Court. The widow of the late Matthias Gray of this City having been ordered off the beach, where she had been discovered picking up jasper, agaie and cornelian stones by Lorin Coburn, the owner, drew a revolver on him with a threat that if he opened his mouth she wou!d put a bullet through him. Coburn had herarrested for trespass and also for the pistol exploit. Ex-Senator John L. Boone of this City conducted the prosecution, and Attorney Noyes, also of San Francisco, defended Mrs. Gray. Dis- trict Attorney Walker of San Mateo County moved to dismiss the case upon the ground that the defendant had used the qualifying word “i1” in her threat and also that the public bad a right to go upon (l;ebble Beach whenever they choose to 0 so. The Justice immediately dismissed the case, and the entire courtroom not only cheered the decision, but the people in the street came near mobbing Coburn and Bocne. As the motion of District Attorney Walker is in opposition to Judge Morrow's recent injunction regarding the case, Mr. Boone will have the San Mateo official and Justice Maxey of Pescadero cited to appear before the Fed- eral court and show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court. A suit will also be commenced against Joseph Levy of Pescadero, one of the prime movers againsi Coburn, charg- ing bim with inciting the community against the owner of Pebble Beach. HOTEL SNEAKTHIEVES, The Marechal Niel and the Berkshire Are the Latest on the List. Sneakthieves and burglars are paying particular attention to hotels and re- ports have been coming to police heaa- quarters recently with painful regularity. About a week ago a stranger was dis- covered In the room of Chief Justice Field at the Palace Hotel. Then it was reported that a sneakthief had been operating in the servants’ quarters at the Baldwin Hotel and a burglar climbed up the fire escape at the St. Nicholas Hotel and stole two gold watches and some papers from the roown of C. F. Capp. A few nights ago a sneakthief got into the room of J. Whiteley, a salesman for W. P. Fuller & Co., in the Marechal Niel Hotel, 404 Ellis street, and stole a few dol- lars out of his pocket while he was asleep. Another curious case was reported as having occurred at the Berkshire, 711 Jones street. Miss Martin of Stockton is boarding there and she, her sister, a nurse and child all slept in the same suite of rooms. Barly yesterday morning Miss Martin re escape and says a man climbed up the entered her room by the window. She was theonly one awake. He presented a revol- ver at her head and demanded her money. She gave him her purse containing $4, and was taking off her rings, when lie man said he did not want jewelry and backed out of the window again. The police look upon her story with suspicion and say that she i3 troubled with ~hallucinations, as it would be impussible to reach the win- dow of her room from the fire escape. —————— Destitute Englishmen abroad canfjde- mand to be sent home. They apply to their Consul, who gives notice accordingly to captains of ships about to sail R e — Bormow on sealskius, sllks ad Jewels at Uncle Harrls', 16 Grant avenue, A UNIVERSAL SEAMEN'S STRIKE, Report That the Sailors of the World Will Walk Out. COMMERCE AT ANCHOR. The Pacific Coast Union Secre- tary Denies the State- ment. NO STRIKE IN AMERICAN PORTS Mr. Furuseth Claims That the Move- ment Will Surely Take Place in Europe. A telegraphic dispatch yesterday morn- ing from New York stated that prepara- tions had been made for a strike of seamen and longshoremen all over the world for better wages and better treatment in deep- water ships. It was also stated that An- drew Furuseth, secretary of the Pacific Coast Seamen’s Union, had been in con- sultation with the secretaries of the Atlantic and European seamen’s and longshoremen’s unions, and & universal strike the first of next year was agreed upon. Mr. Furuseth, when interviewed yester- day by a CaLn reporter, stated that the dispatches were incorrect as far as the United States was concerned, but a great movement of that character was contem- plated in Great Britain and in Continental maritime countries. “‘Not that Jack is any better off or more eatisfied with his lot in this country,” said tho secretary, “but there are other things to be attempted fifst before the men of American ships join a universal strike. ‘“We are trying legislation, and I think much will be done in Congress for the sailor, and his condition made less unbear- able.”” ‘“‘Are European seamen worse treated 2"’ was asked Mr. Farusett. . “No; but American vessels have th monopoly of belaying-pin soup, boot- heel stew and handspike liniment for bruises. The British and Continental ships overwork and starve their crews, but they do not club them to death with the frequency of the Yankee ship. In regard to the robbing of sailors by captains, crimps, boarding-mastersana shipping-masters, the crime goes on just the same in every porton earth. Inthe United States ‘the Maguire act has | knocked out the advance system, but they manage to get around the poor sailor ail the same.” ‘‘Should the movement in Europe be successful will it not spread to this coun- tre 2" ““I think not; that is, not in the sense of | a general strike here. You see there are 1 so few American ships compared to the great fleets of Great Britain and the Conti- nent. Every English, German or French vessel is manned by natives, and they sail in and outof the same port for years. The{ belong to their home unions and gen- erally keep ng their membership with the institution. On the other hahd, every- body sails in our ships, and in such a cos- mopolitan crowd there can be no union nor agreement, I refer to the deep- water people, mnot the coasters. If the bucko ~American first mate could be suppressed and some of the crimps choked out of existence so that the sailor could have a fighting chance for life more Americans would go to sea, and then we would have a different class of men aboard our vessels. “A sailor strike under any conditions is a safe proposition, because if it succeeds Jack’s_chances are a little improved, and if it fails he can’t be ‘any worse off. He | won't be robbed any more ashore nor | abused any more at sea for his blunders, Well, a universal strike is not far out of the bounds of possibility. The sailor is var taking of the advancement of the ages and, notwithstanding his hard, brutaliz- ing and unfavorable surroundings, he is gaining a little knowledge and beginning to contrast his wretched life with the better conditions of other toilers. The crushed worm is commencing to turn. A | great strike would tie many a ship up | at the dock or at her anchor. Ship-own- ers might man their vessels with coolies | and creatures low down in the scale of humanity. TMK do it now when the sailor proper asks for living wages; but what 1f the longshoremen all over the globe would strike? Take Liverpool, where the great merchant fleets go in and out. Suppose the aock people there should refuse to touch a pound of cargo. Such may soon be the case there, for the British seamen are coming to that point. *‘Their principal grievance is the system of robbery practiced by the shipping com- missioners and English Consuls on the Continent, by whom thousands and thou- | sands of English seamen are worked out of their vessels annually that cheaper men may be shipped in their places. In the Seamen’s Chronicle, the principal mari- ners’ journal published in Great Britain, I recently saw the statement that Ant- werp has three shipping masters who make from £3000 to £4000 yearly apiece in fees. At Rotterdam there are four who earn the same. In Hamrburg there are two shipping-masters who charge trom 10 shillings to £1 each for nh;gplng aman in an English vessel, and as 20,000 sailors are engaged in that port yearly it is left for the reader to calculate how enormous are the sums squeezed out of poor Jack. The same journal openly accuses the English Consuls on the Continent of assisting 1n the’Flundariu{ of their countrymen. *“Lhe result is that the unions are grow- ing in membership every day, and the day may not be far' distant when an inter- national union of seamen will be in ex- istence and in activity all over the world. The deep-water sailor in Great Britain mast have more than §14 per month as wlges for his hard and dangerous calling, and his brother in America must have more than $1750. Legislation must step inand protect him from the banditti of the water front or the fleets of tbe world will rust at their anchors. ““How did this all come about? Once men from all classes went to sea. It wasan honorable calling. It was so regarded by men ashare, and boys sought 1t as a means of adventure or travel and of promotion— sought 1t and were proud of it. The laws that governed the seamen sat lightly on them; the harsh features of the law were seldoin called into execution and existed more in tradition than in reality. The crew and officers hailed from the same town or village, and, being equa! ome, there was discipline without cruelty and obedience without fear. As the profits rew smaller through competition it was und that the existing law lent itself easily to lowering the standard of living, and to extract from the sailor the largest portion of his wages as he had - contracted for, either by compelling him to become a deserter or by overcharges on goods needed by the men and kept by thrifty masters for sale on board. As natives ob- jected and refused to accept the lower standard, the crimyinT system came into operation. Some ob! lp{ng lodging or boarding-house keeper undertook to fur- hish men for outgoing vessels on condi- tion that a certwin amount of the sea- man’s wages shoula be turned over to him for his ‘sgzrvices to the seamen.’ Men were sent to sea without any previous training; able seamen had to do their work. The officers could not get thesame amount of labor out of a smaller number of men that could previously be per- formed by a greater number, better skilied, and so ‘driving’ and brutality came into use to make the conditions still worse. 1 “Finally arose the present customs un“ habits, which the law was but too wel adapted to nourish, the courts too wil'hng to sustain and the sailor himself too wea to resist, except by desertion, which, after all, meant bnt going from one bad vessel to another, leaving his wages and his clothing behind him. When men could not be found in any other way to man the ves- vels the press gang was used and men were drugged to be placed on board, or simply forced on board. To siop this the so-called Shipping Commissioner’s act was enacted. But the Commissioners’ salary was made dependent on the number of men shipped, thus giving to ship-owners the power to cut the Commissioners’ salary in two and placing them under the thumb of the very men whose previous conduct had caused their appointment. The sailor, starved, overworked and beaten on board and robbed while on shore, graduaily went into other employment, until the standard of effi- ciency got so low that the lack of skill and discipline was used as an argument in fa- vor of continuing the system which had produced the existing conditions. *‘And this is the answer.” WILLIAM BOSTWICK CURTIS. s days he made a fortune, although his daily expenditures ran from $500 to $1000. 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TAINTE BLOOD—Impure blood, due to serious private disorders, carries myriads of gore-producing germs. Then come sore throat, pimples, copper-colored spots, ulcers in mouth, ©ld sores and fa'ling hair. You can save s trip to hot springs by using the great 30-day cure. Call or write for 30-day circulars. HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, Stockton, Market and Ellis Sts., San Francisco, Cal. due to the meriw :‘Qw WG Vilice Hours—12 (0 & ¥ M. JRON BEDS, MR, CURTIS WILL AESIH His Resignation to Be Presented to the Traffic Association To-Morrow. Some of the Things He Accomplished for the Extemsion of Commerce. W. B. Curtis will tender his resignation as traffic manager of the Traftic Associ- ation of California at the meeting of that body to-morrow. Mr. Curtis has occupied this position less than a year, and left the employ of the Souther . Pacific Company to accept it. The reason of his severing his connec- tion with the Tratlic Association is that he is to form a partnership with another gentleman, weil and favorably known in this City, for tne purpose of reprerenting a number of the largest and best firms of San Francisco in Japan, in order to extend the commercial relations be- tween this City and the Land of the Ris- ing Sun. Negotiations with the various local firms to be represented by Mr. Curtis, who will make Yokohama his headquarters, while his partner will remain here, are not vet completed, bug are sutficiently advanced to warrant Mr. Curtis in taking the pro- posed action mentioned. Overtures to this effect were made to Mr. Curtis some time ago. He took Lhe matter under careful consideration, and it is now learned from one of the firms which he will represent that he is ready to enter upon the new departure. Among the lines of goods that the new firm of international brokers will under- take to handle are lumber, paints and oils, provisions, hardware, agricultural imple- ments, rubber goods and wines and liquors. r. Gurtis' administration of his office hzs been most successful and has resulted in considerably extending the business of the local merchants. His policy was one that brought the railroad and the mer- chants together for the common good of both, instead of antagonizing them to one another. His idea was that by inducing shipper and transportation company to co-operate in the efforts to extend the commerce of San Francisco better and prompter results would be achieved, and the historv of the past nine months denonstrated the value of his work car- ried out on this line. Among the thingsaccomplished through anis efforts were reductions over the Cen- tral Pacific Railroad, which made compe- tition possible in Utah for local merchants where it had not been so before; the re- duction of the tea rate outof San Fran- cisco; the reduction on lumber and shin- gles from Eureka, Cal., t ints west of the Rockies, so that the H‘;ombnld: Bay section could compete on equal terms with the Puget Sound country; and he has also taken a prominent and energetic E"" in endeavoring to secure for San rancisco a competing line of steamers to Japan and other Oriental ports. None of the board of directors have yet been officially informed of the purpose of Mr. Curtis. The position of traffic man- ager is worth a tempting salary, and there are likely'to be quite a number of applica- tions for the vacancy soon as it occurs. It is believed that matters will be ar- ranged so that Mr Curtis can leave for Yokohamaabout the middle of September. TETLOW’S MANY WOES. The Last Link That Bound Him to Barth Broken by the Death of His Nephew. The last link that bound Sam Tetlow to this world was snapped on Sunday even- ing when Emil Kuenecke, his nephew, died suddenly at 502 Washington street at the age of 19. The boy was a cripple from his birth and a hunchback, and as he grew up he was a sufferer from epile and consumption. : Tetlow is best known as the founder of BRASS BEDS, FOLDING BEDS' Wire and Halr Ma:- tresses, Reclininz Chairs, Wheel Chairs, Commodes, Back Rests W. A, scfllnocx. New Montgomer. St., under Gran Hotel, 5. F. affair was presided over by A. J. Vining, 0 and the evening was passed in an enjoy- able manner with speeches by the different Woodmen present and with sele ctions of songs by the Knickerbocker Quartette. The Grand Camp was composed of ab out 2000 delegates, representing the Pacific Division of over 2000 members. 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