The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1896, Page 32

32 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, COLLIS TAKES ANOTHER TRICK Galveston Played Against New York for im- migrants. RATES MUCH REDUCED. Fare the Same to the Texas Port as to the Great Metropolis. OCEAN LINES IN THE DEAL. Through Service From Bremen and Hamburg to the Coast to Be Inaugurated. No scheme apparently is too bold and broad for Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Company, to un- dertake. The latest move of the famous author of the statement “‘all the traffic will bear” is to make Galveston an entrepot for European emigration in rivalry to New York. Negotiations are now pending between the Southern Pacific Company and two of the great trans-Atlantic steamship com- panies, by ‘which it is hoped to materially lessen the cost of second-class and steer- age transportation between European ports and the Pacific Coast. So far have these negotiations proceeded that it can now be announced asa fact that the North German Lioyd Company will establish a monthly line of steamers between Bremen and Galveston, with passage rates not higher than for the same classes of business to New York. The steamers it will detail for this new ser- vice are the well-known Halle and the Crefeld, vessels: that have excellent repu- tations and an enviable prestige, acquired in successful traffic with the port of New York. These vessels were designed for steerage passengers, and the ample upper space usually monopolized by cabin passengers in vessels carrying such is, in these, given up to the comfort and convenience of the steerage, and gives safe ana enjoyable ac- commeodations for 1000 people. The steamers Wittekind and Willehad, sisters to the Halle and the Crefeld, and under the same ownership, are also men- tioned in connection with this service. The Halie is bulletined to sail from Bremen for Galveston direct on September 20, and the Crefeld is scheduled to follow her one month later, on the 20th of Octo- ber, and thereafter the 20th of each month is to be the sailing aay for a stecmer from the port of Bremen 10 Galveston. The Hamburg American Company has signified its intention of emulating the en- terprise of the Bremen line, and will put suitable steamers of its fleet in a similar service, with Hambure as a port of depar- ture. 1t is further announced that if the proper encouragement is receivea by these companies they will put into operation a bi-monthly service from each of their respective ports to Galveston direct, greatly to the advantage of the commer- cial world to the westward of the port of Galveston, for the steamers will carry freight as well as passengers. The fare from Bremen to New York is $34, and it will be the same to Galveston by the proposed new line. From Ham- burg to New York the fare is $31 50, and it will be the same from the German port to Galveston. It will thus be seen that the vassenger destined to San Francisco will be able to save the difference between the fare from New York to San Francisco and that from Galveston to San Francisco. ‘There are two generally used routes at present between New York and San Fran- cisco for this class of business. One is by steamer to Norfolk, thence by rail to des- tination. The other is all rail. By the former the fare is $58 25 and by the latter $6325. In the one case the passenger will be able to saye $i675 and in the other $21 75, a most important consideration to people of this class. Another very important advantage that passengers will enjoy who take the pro- posed new route will be the absence of the many transfers from one line of railroad to another. At Galveston, which point they will reach without having been com- pelled co make any change, they will be put aboard the Southern Pacific train and be taken direct to their destination with- out further transfer. For msny years the Bouthern Facific has maintained a large and extensive or- ganization in Europe, wi a view to securing this class of business, and until very recently had its own agent stationed at New York to look after the westbound immigrants. This business has been for a long time and is yet the subject of much controversy between the different trans- continental railroads, and this latest move of the Southern Pacific will make that cor- poration practically master of the situa- tion. It hasits own agents at Hamburg, London, Liverpool, Rotterdam and Ant- werp, and these representatives will un- doubtedly see that ali the passengers they are instrumental in securing for the Pa- cific Coast are routed via Galveston and the Bunset line. Opposition to the plan of the Southern Pacific has already arisen among the roads of the Western Passenger Association, who claim that passengers should not be billed by the steamship people farther than Galyeston, and that they should be left free at the Texas port to choose their own route. This issue remains to be settied. ‘While this ingenious arrangement, con- ceived in the ever fertile brain of the aged and able magnate at the helm of the Southern Pacitic Company, is likely to prove of advantage to the intending emi- grant and to the State of California by saving money for the one and adding to the population of the other, the philan- thropy is of the kind suggested in the maxim, “*Charity begins at home.” This is where the great monopolist will find his recompense: FlIrst—He will be divérting & large percent- age of the emigrant tratfic from the transconti- nental lines, which make up the rail route between New York and the Paclfic Coast, to the Sunset route. Second—He will make his European organi- zation of emigrant-hunters more remuner- stive. Third—He will be taking away addidonal business from the Central Pacific Railroad. and thus be in a position to make a more urgent appeal to Congress for leniency in the matter of the debt of that raiiroad to the United States Government. Fourth—He will be edding to the population of the State and to its productive capsacity, and will thus secure an increased number of vic- tims, to whom the cinch may be applied until they yield up ail the traffic will bear. Fifth—He will be in a position to carry out, to some extent at leest, his idea that this State is in great need of cheap labor, On the whole, this latest scheme of Col- lis P. Huntingtoa is ‘pronounud by rail- road men to be one of the cleverest of the many that he has fathered for the undo- ing of rivals and for the benefit of his own pet properties. Stabbed a French Sailor. Julius Allain, & French sailor 24 years of age, was taken from a ship at Fremontstreet pier last night to the City Prison and detained for the acting Consul of France. Allain fought with a sailor on board a French shio and in- flicted some knife wounds without, however, doing serious injury, He wasput in irons and later surrendered to the police. Probably he will be taken to France for trial. FAVOR THE CHARTER. Meeting to Be Held Under the Direc- tion of the Citizens’ Charter Association. There will be a meeting of the Imperial Bicycle Club at the club’s headquarters, 614 Van Ness avenue, to-morrow evening to consider the new charter. James D. Phelan, president of the Citizens’ Charter Association, Colonel M. H. Hecht and Henry N. Clement, members of the Board of Freeholders who made the charter, will address the club. At the special request of the Panhandle and Ashbury Heights Improvement Club, the president of the Merchants’ Associa- tion, F. W. Dohrmann, and the secretary, J. Richard Freud, will address the mem- bers of the club upon the new charter next Tuesday evening. The club’s headquar- tersare in Columbia Cyclery Hall, 1970 Page street, and it is expected that a large number of the residents of Ashbury Heights will attend the meeting. Rev. William C. Pond has called a meet- ing of the young men of Bethany Church to arrange for a charter meeting next week. He has applied to the Citizens’ Charter Association for speakers, who will announced. be shortly MADE THE LAME WALK. F. A. Krauss Had to March in a Parade Although Physically Incapable. F. A. Krauss, a cigar-dealer, who be- longed to the Deutscher Krieger Verein, has sued that organization for $5000 dam- ages. Krauss is a cripple, one of whose legs, by reason of a wound received during the Franco-Prussian war, is three inches shorter thanthe other. On the last Fourth of July the Deutscher Verein, of which Krauss was then a member, participated in the parade. Krauss marched with his comrades for two miles, when he says he became exhansted and was compelled to withdraw. A wrangle followed, and on August 19, 1896, Krauss was exvelled from the society. He therefore sues for $5000 damages. WINE CROP IS SHORT Output This Year Will Be Nearly Fifty Per Cent Less Than Last Season. Several Large Distilleries, However, Are Aiready Being Erected for the Crop of 1897. Chief Deputy Loupe has just returned from a visit to Fresno and neighboring towns, where he was called to make an official inspeciion of the sweet-wine plants. After a thorough canvass of the field he reached the conclusion that the sweet-wine production of 1896 in this dis- trict will not be within 50 per cent of what it was last year. This means that the sweet-wine output will hardly reach the 2,000,000 galion mark. The same territory last year pro- duced 4,233,000 gallons of sweet wine. Dry-wine making will be subjected to the same proportionate loss. In the Fresno district there are thirty-one sweet-wine distilleries, and sixty in the entire dis- trict. These will not run over half-time. Mr. Lodpe thinks, however, that what is lost in actual production will be largely made up in increased prices. While on the trip he visited some ot the largest distilleries in the State, notably the Swiss-Italian colony and the Eisen estate distilleries. The first named hasa capacity of 14,000 gallons daily and the latter 24,000 gallons. Two and a_balf miles from Fresno the California Wine Association 18 erecting one of the largest wineries in the world. It will nave a capacity of 20,000 tons of grapes per sea- son, which will make 1,500,000 gallons of wine. Mr. Loupe thus describes the new winery: There are two wine-making plants, ex- actly alike, one on each side of the large storage cellar. There are three large buildings; in two of them wine is made, and stored in the third. There are four elevators for lifting grapes to the tops of the buildings, where they are crushed. Two elevators will take the grapes that come in from cars on the railroad switch, and two will take them from wagons. The elevators, presses, crushers and pumps will be operated by a steam engine. The new-made wine will be contained in the buildings wioere it is made, and tanks, tier above tier, have been provided for it. ‘When ready, it will be pumped into the storage cellar, which comprises many large casks, eight of which will contain 50,000 gallons each, and the others from 20,000 to 10,000, and smaller. It has been reported that there is to be a large distillery as well as winery. This is incorrect, except that there will be a dis- tillery of suflicient capacity to make what alcohol is needed in fortifying the wines made by the plant. No distilled liquors will be made for commercial purposes. A brick storehouse is now in course of con- struction, which will contain what alcokol it is found necessary to keep on hand. About sixty men are now at work, with Peter Halfen in chargze. He will be the chief winemaker. Charles Nilhahn is general superintendent for Fresno County. P COLONEL MOSBY BETTER The Ex-Guerrilla Leader Weak and Shaky, but Taking Much Interest in National Polities. Colonel John 8. Mosby, the noted ex- guerrilla Jeader and United States Consul Hongkong, who has been ill for three months past with appendicitis, part of the time seriously, was up and about yester- day, though he is yet weak. He visited the Palace and met several friends. He says he is nervous from his long confine- ment. The colonel has no doubt about the re- sult of the National election, in which he takes much interest. He says he has re- ceived a letter from Judge Richards of Louisville, who has been on the Kentucky Supreme bench and who as a boy was major on his staff. The letter says there is no doubt at all about the Republicans carry- ing Kentucky. Th is no doubt either about West Virginia, Maryland or Dela- ware. “ln fact, Virginia will go for McKinley, as I am assured, and from my own knowl- edge am certain,” said the colonel. “I gota letter from the chairman of the Re- ublican State Central Committee there a ew daysago, Henays there is no doubt about Virginia going Republican. Iam per- suaded McKinley will get all the States I have named. They are all interested in protection, the same as people are here.”’ ——————— A SHORY VACATION. Complaint That the Pupils of Public Schools Have Been Slighted. In reply to frequent complaints that there is to be no autumn vacation for the students of the public schools of Ban Francisco it was explained by the secre- tary of the Board of Education yesterday that the summer vacation this year began on June 19 ana lasted until August 3, be- ing so lute as to prevent the autumn vaca- tion. The summer recess usually bezins in M;}y and lasts until early in July. - Nevertheless, there is much complaint that the vacation was cut and people do not understand it. % DATE ASSORTMENT GARMENTS, NOVEL THEY ARE HERE IN GREATEST ABUND- ANCE FOR YOUR INSPECTION. AN UP-TO- OF LADIES’ OUTER IN STYLE, NEW IN FABRIC, CORRECT IN PRICE. 1896. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. 0 SO e L L R L We Close at 6 P.M. Every Evening’ Saturday Included. To-morrow the cream styles of two hemispheres—direct gathering of Ladies’ Outer Garments and Novelty Dress Goods. Jackets, Capes and Fur Garments, bright, natty styles as ever brought to Over 3000 Ladies’ this coast, all priced so moderate that none need stay away. Separate Skirts in Silk Worsted, etc., plaids, stripes, plain, whatever your taste, here’s for all. In Dress Goods all the new weaves, the billowy blacks «Crepons,” Boucles, knotted elegance, fancy or plain, quiet or gay, take your choice from hundreds—from the largest gathering on this coast. INTROUUCTORY EXHIBIT OF FALL Toveliness. Iatest novelties of fall. the factory threshold. See windows. LADIES' PLUSH CAPES, trimmed with Thibet fur around collar and down froat, silk serge lined, jet trimmed all over, sizes 34 to 42, 21-100 inches sweep; a bargain at §750. lostart the season we offer them at........ LADIES BLACK AN AVY BLUE JACKEIS, boucle effects, double- breasted loose front, 4 large buttons, 24 inches, a novelty that should bring #7 50. Our ness. A REEFE navy blue lurge sailor collar, trim- med with braid, ages 8 10 14. On sale for the first ' time Mond: dy cidedly new. Our starting pric LADIES' CAPES, a novelty called “Freeze cloth,” trimmed down the front with small pearl bu'tons, very high collar and fzll sweep, tan onl bought to sell at $6. On sale Mon: day at an futroduction pri LADIES' PLUSH CAP with jet and braid, 20 inches long, 110-inch sweep, Thibet fur around collar and down front. silk-lined, cheap at $10 50. Opening pric LADI SPARATE SKIRTS, an ad- vance shipment of 50, black figured 1896 WRAPS. Every nook and corner filled with fabric Cloakdom aglow with the very icked from best at price for this bit of vew- gt 500 sgm Each SPECIAL CHANCES IN faction. * The‘e are the inducements we out to dry-goods buyers. BUTTER-COLORED POINT DE VE- NISE LACE, from 3 to 6 ioches wide, assorted patterns. Sale price. .. RUBBER DRESS SHIELDS, good qual- ity, neinsook back; No. 2 are 10c a Ppair and No, 3 are.. LADIE®” FANCY COLORED GAR- TERS, metal buckles and bow of rib- bons, assorted colors. Sale price. FRISCO'S BUSY STORE. HORN BONED DRESSING COMBS, super quality, imported irom Eurove, extra sirong, 6 inches long. A great special at... NEW VEILING are Arriving Daily. SWISS HANDKERCHIEFS, scalloped edge, a special high-zrade quality, & 40c ‘ove. To make tremble at. EVERYTH OUR BAZAAR. mobair, rustie percaline lined, velvet BATH SPONGES, a luxury, s big, soft, bound, bangs beautifully; these area solid fuil sponge, not cut, some wortl decidea bargain at $7. An introduc- @ .00 85c, some 25¢c. All 0n Sile aL......... tion offering.. . PO— = 8 S 38 fnches LITTLE PRICE ERYWHERE. iong, in bla-k, brown or blue, Thibet CREPE TISSUE PAPER, 3 yards long, fur around cotlar and down front, silk- $7:5° tissue paper sale with @ vers {hin lined, sizes 34 to cheap at’ $10.D | — price on & very full assortment of An opening offering Each vVery high-grade paper. The price is.. Notions and Novelties. Better goods for less money ; better quality for less profit; better value with more satis- We are Agents NEW IDEA Paper Patterns. Agents of Genuine JOUVIN KID GLOVES. FXCEPTIONALLY WEE PRICES Ay il DRESS GOODS! ALL-WOOL SUITINGS—Three lines of Noveity Suitings, 37 inches wide, good staple col- hold 5°¢ Yard put DOMESTICS! Now or never. go almost for the asking. The mites of prices ROOM! ROOM! The flood of incoming fail goods is greater than ever. ing yourselvyes. SOME Bi& DOINGS IN Goods you need right now on them are mere formalities. ROOM! not Help us by help- A SPECIAL WEEK'S PRIC N FURNISHINGS. September days are rich with Bargain time is now. The big store full of enthusiasm and excite: ment as the new season approaches. of business never slackens here. interest. Between season pric, The hum Hales’ dull times, Sreililig LADIES' BLACK COTTON HOSE, good heavy stocking, a high-spliced 3 ¢ : Leels and double sole and toes, fast ors. but assortment broken. C | UNBLEACHED: MU c © d 192¢| Worth from 40c to 50c: 25°|© savs atalicr s 5 P T L ‘i | Closing price... A A Yara D weelk. e FAN 3D ¢ v TABLE OILCLOTH, the 20¢ kind, very C | CHILDREN'S BLACK WORSTED ADITING 58 inches. wige: Sistiy damaged, whice and mareie, 120 | HOSE, firm, marsow ribocd, vers o | These are fall creations, nov- Special ... Yard| heavy quality, fast black and 'seam- 5C | elties of the season. strictly 36° less.8i26s 6 io 10, & chance for the Baie |, HEwedks; A whogerial ol Nate BEST LINEN VALUES IN THE CITY. 5 oo kR BOURETTE Black Bourette figure woven over a plain golored ground, 86 inch, a decided novelty. Qur price... SUITING — A 50 Each 40°¢ Yard FANCY STRIPED CHEVIOT SUITING—A fancy mohair ALL-WOOL WHITE BLANKETS, just from the mills. extra 414-1b Blanket. To make Jack Frost sweat. Special.. Pair APRON GINGHAMS, 27-inch, blue and 4° brown checks, a staple quality at a cut price. Special.. Yard THE BEST ALL-WOOL BLANKET MADE. g4 LADIES' WOOL HOSE, In dark gray or 1abt black, wide ribbed, heavy quality, double merino heels and toes. Special this week a ... LADIES' WHITE MERINO UNDER- WEAR, H N LS and H N S §, fancy crochet neck and front, drawers to match, a most desirable garment. Our speciul 2 C| e O oY Ve 48| BLEACHED TURKISH TOWELS, 22x i 9F gronnd. 39 inches wide. ‘Our 20 | BLEACHED TURKISH TOWELS, 31¢ go | BN THCK TIES small know, wed 50 Each 25 the sands of the anara. Twobit L Patterney light clloms, 28 HEL A =0 BOUCLE SUITING — Fancy kind. Special.... Yard P 5 = striped, extra heavy quality. NOTTINGHAM LAC GENTS' WHITE MUSLIN GOWNS, 19°| mveie, sarme Thestipels £QC| 3% varislons, amost desirable Cur’ n].00 | yoke buck, whiie and colored em: b T e e 59 tain, modest designs in white or ecru. et broidery, tHmmed collar, cufts and p()C Each | combination. Ourprice...... Yard Special... os Palr b el o R0 St e Al S WE ARE LACE-CURTA - FRENCH NOVELTY BOUCLE ey om e GENTS' COTTON CHEVIOT OVER- SUITINGS—44 inches wide, BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK, 58 SHIRTS, yoke back, very strongly C | il the siaple colorinzs. Ask 75C| " inch, & magnificently heavy adality 40| made, dack siripes “and checca’a g0 to see or send for samples. and all pure llnen. W@ will sell splendid opportundty for workers or Roll Qur price ceeeeas Yard special this week at... e Yard outers. vur price......... Pt Each HALE BROS., INCORPOR.ATED, . 037 to 9045 Market St., San Francisco. %****************$*$$$**********$%*$****%****$**%%*********$**%*%*§ The New Catalogue Will be ready for mailing out Wed- nesday next. lllustrated—over 100 styles in Ladies’ Capes, Jackets, etc., late styles in Suits and Misses’ and Children’s goods. This handsome book mailed free on application. HALE BROS., INCORPORATED, 937 to 945 Market St., San Francisco. CAILL'S DARING PLA, Will Brave the Dangers and Attempt the Passage of the Golden Gate. To Swim From Fort Point to Lime Point Regardless of Tide and Temperature. Charles Cavill, the famous swimmer from Australia, stands ready to emulate the daring of Leander of old and that of Lord Byron, his modern and not less ven- turesome and successful compeer. Cavill will not essay the passage ot the Helles- pont, but will brave the equally danger- ons currents, counter-currents and eddies of the Golaen Gate. Should he accom- plish the feat he has assigned to himself, it is claimed that he will achieve the proud distinction of being the only man who has ever swum from the shore of San Francisco to that of Marin. He will undertake his great swim on September 20, a week from to-day. The start will pe made from Fort Point at 3 p. M., regardless of tide or temperature, and Lime Point, on the opposite shore, will be made the objective point. Though the distance from shore to shore is estimated to be about one and a half miles, Cavill expects to be not less than an hour in reaching the other side, owing to the strong and adverse currents he will have to encounter. His performance will be under the aus- pices of the California Swimming Club and the Southern Pacific and the North Pacific Coast Railway will place two or more of their best ferry-boats at the serv- 1ice of the public for the purpose of wit- nessing the performance. 'he boats will leave their respective wharves at 2:30 P. M., and after Savill completes his task they will make a tour of the interesting oints on the bay, returning to their start- ing points at about 5:30 p. M. RICHMOND PROSPERITY, The Valley by the Sea Has Its Joys and Sorrows Over Its Domestic Affairs. Sand Drifts, Choked Sewers, Dark Streets and Unus:d Cartracks Caused a “Kick.” The Richmond people, like others, have their joys and sorrows. Their joys are that their district is being rapidly builtup with a desirable class of people who are building their own homes and adding to the population. -~ This can pe seen from the fact that now they have three schoolhouses in the vicinity, whereas a few years ago there was only one and then the attendance was less than fifty children. To- morrow a new class school will be opened on Sixth avenue, between B and C streets, with Mrs. Sarsh B. Jennings as principal and teacher. The Rev. Father Coyle of the church Star of the Sea is about to build a $5000 residence adjoining his church. Mrs, Clara Wiess is building a residence on California street, between kirst and Second avenues. 8. F. Herrguth is building a neat cottage lon Ninth svenue, between Point Lobos CHARLES CAVILL, Who Will To-Morrow Week Attempt to Swim From Fort Point to Lime Point. and Clement street. W. S. Parks is doing likewise on Fourth avenue, between Cali- fornia and Lake streets. Mrs. Anna F. Dixon is building a home on Eleventh avenue, between ke and California. Robert Allen is puttingup a handsome two-story dwelling on Filteenth avenue, between Clement and California streets. To meet” the wants of those residents, the Spring Valley Water Company has put down main pipes on Clement street, be- tween Eixtg and Seventh avenues, and also along Fifteenth avenue, from Clement to Leke street. The gas company has followed in line by putiing down mains on Eleventh ave- nue, from Lake to California street, with a hydrant for the use of the Fire Depart- ment on BSeventh avenue and Clement !“&:& R. dent of orge R. Fletcher, superintendent o the 0dd Fellows' Cemetery, has had the old wooden fence taken away which in- closed his property on. First avenue and has buiit a au&!lll)flll concrete wall from the bend on Poini Lobos avenue round to the southern términation of the cemetery. As per contra to all this the people of the Richmond addition are complaining of the indifference snown them in the matter of no lights through the district except a few electric lamps on Point Lobos avenue and Clement street. Lake street has no light from First to Twenty-fourth avenue and the entire section on the south side of Point Lobos avenue to the park is without a single lamp of any kind. The sewer on S{x:h avenue from the park to A street is suddenly shut up at thelatter place %un at the south line of the French Hospital, where it 1s a menace to the health of that institution. Contractor Felix McHugh finished the contract for this sewer a few weeks ago, and left it there choked up at the place, wh re there should be an opening into the main sewer on Point Lobos avenue. This omission is not the fault of the contractor, but of some of the property-owners, who refused to sign for a continuance of the sewer. Steps are being taken to have the Board of Health look into the matter for the bene- fit of the patients in the hospital. After a tedious delay Fifth avenue, be- tween Lake and California streets, 1s being graded, sewered and macadamized. The question of drifting sand on the streets has been deputed by the improv: - ment club of this district for quite a long time without any apparent relief. Twenty- fourth avenue, beiween A and B streets, is completely choked, but relief in that ?nnrmr is Jooked for soon, as Captain ohn Tuttle, who has the contract to re- movke the sand, is about to put his force to work. Cesspools and sewers are choked with sand. Old unused cartracks on Point Lobos avenue are permitted to remain where they wer: put down twenty vears ago to keep competing roads off that drive and have never been used. A communication was forwarded to School Superintendent Babcock protest- ing against a practice said to prevail in the Richmond and Point Lobos schools whereby children are obliged to be in school at 8:45 o'clock in the morning in place of 9, the pupils being marked a haif day absent in case they arrive at schcol later than the first-named hour. D ———— Mechanics Are A xious. The mechanics about the rolling mills and Union Iron Works are anxiously watching for telegraph news from Washington, D. C., to- morrow, as that is the day upon which the bids for the building of new cruisers will be opened and accepted. Should San Francisco be fortunate in receiving one of the contracts there will be unlimited rejoicing on the Po- trero hills, ———————— ONE million will read “Mechanics' Fair Daily.” Advertise now. Mysell Rollins,22 Clay.* CAR MEN LOST CONTROL New Motormen Create Havoc on the Haywards Elec- tric - Cars. Resu!t of Crowdirg Inexperienced Men Who Work for Low Wages. | The: Oakland, San Leandro and Hay- | wards electric railway is having an experi- ence in practical railroading that is the occasion of a considerable strain to the nerves of the patrons ot the line. It appears that the company has under- taken, in a very methodical manner, cal- culated or intended 1o head off the possi- bility of a sirike on the part of its em- ploves, to reduce the wages account and | the expense for labor by a little less than | 10 per cent. The motormen, for instance, are paid 21 cents an hour at present. The company has undertaken to educate a sufficient number of men willing to work for 19 cents an hour as ‘will be able to supply the vlaces of the 21-cent force. The course of the education is now being prosecuted | with vigor. The most notable part of the transaction is that the experiencea motor- men are required to teach the men who, their education being completed, relieve the form er of their jobs. It appears, however, that the process has been forced beyond the limits of safety, and several accidents have hap- pened within the past few days, resalting from the discharge of the experienced men and tbe placing of new and inexperi- enced men in their places. Thursday, for instance, something like a panic took place on car 17, and a serious casualty was narrowly averted, and that by the presence of mind of a conductor whose place is probably booked for some other man. The car was making the run from Hay- wards to Oakland in charge of Condnctor Lamroux. The motorman was one Gart- land, a new man, woo had been given the place at 19 cents an hour, supplanting a man who had received 21 cdnts. When at a point near Seventeenth avenue and Fif- teenth street the car got beyond the mo- torman’s control. He was working the speed regulator back and forth, as motor- men do, when he caught it at a “‘half- notch” and the controlier was ‘burnt out in an instant. The electric fluid sped the wheels faster and fasier, and Gaitland found himseli un- able to check them, try as he would. He became thorou: ly frightened, lost his head. and turning ran through the car crying to the passengers who crowded 1t: “'Save yourselves; jump for your lives: save yourselves!”’ . ‘Women screamed, and in an instant things would have happened on that car which would have resuited in many suits for large damages had not Conductor Lamroux, divining the trouble, sprung to the front of the car, told the passengers not to be alarmed and at the same time turned the screw that cut off the current from the trolley, thus bringing the car to a standstiil. New men on the Oakland, S8an Leandro and Haywards lLine are required to work the first month without pay, while under- oing their education. ?hin man Gart- and had heen under the instruction of Motorman Zimmerman, who had *‘turned bim in,” as they say, at the risk of the company, he claiming his needed expe- rience must be gained subject thereto. On Thursday another: car got away from a new man named Swansen while speeding on the county road. He PRICE THIS WEEK When you take Into account what you pay at other houses. Pants to Order......$ 3.50 Pauts 10 Order-..... 4.50 Pauts to Order...... 5.00 Suits to Order--.... 10.00 Suits o Order. 13.50 Stuits to Order. . . 15.00 Perfect fit and best of workmanship guaranteed or no sale. Dou’t fail to examine our goods before buying elsewhere. GRAND OPENING Of New Store, 844 and 846 Market St. New Goods at All the Stores. 201 and 203 Montgomery st., cor. Bush. 724 Market and 1110, 1112 Market St. JOE POHEIM, THE TAILOR. LOUIS ZEK, 1330 Market St., Opposite Seventh, CUTRATES N DRUGS, PERFUMERY, PATENT MEDICINES, RUBBER GOODS, TOILET ARTICLES, FINE WINES AND LIQUORS, RIGH-GRADE CIGARS. DO YOU SMOKE? It’s Expensive, But Here's a Snap: Belmonts, 1214¢ size ut to 100 La Rosa, 12%4csize .. Sanchez & Haya, 1214c size. Kl Telegrapho, 1234¢ size. General Arthar, J0c stralght General Burnside, 1gc sraight Figaro. 5c straight King B, 5¢ scraight RETAIL AT WHOLESALE PRICES. RUPTURE. If ruptured. you matarally bope to obtain relief from paja: security from Stranguiated Heruia and a cut to 3 for 26c cut to 3 for 250 cut to 6 for 25¢ cut to 6 for 25¢ e e lsed at what you will learn. ahLvS1y docs thewerk and 18 worih 31000 to any ustment of trusses atour ofice 3<peci AGNETIC ELASTIC TRUSS CO., N cor. Sacramento & hearny Stsw San HADWAY’S PILLS, Purely vegstable, mild and reliable. Secure Com- was unable to stop and the car overtook and collided with another car, causing considerable damage. - d absorption of the food, causa P S Sy soeron s ot o mnnm their operai on without griping