The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1896 EL GRITO DE LA INDEPENDENCIA Mexicans Celebrate the Birthday of Their Coun- try’s Liberty. ORATORY AND MUSIC, Banquet of the Porfirio Diaz Club at the Maison St. Germain. ORDER OF TO0-DAY'S FETE, Grand Musical Eulertainment.and Ball at Union-Square Hall—Other Features of Interest. The first vespers, so to speak, of the an- niversary of Mexican independence were celebrated last night by the Porfirio Diaz Club with a sumptuous banquet at the Maison St. Germain, Among those pres- ent were: Francisco B. Romo, the presi- dent of the club; Hon. Lyman Mowry, Chancellor Jose V. Dosal of the Mexican Consulate, Francisco Carranza, Professor Martin Onlmeyer, Professor jose Andone- gui, Carlos Mesa, Secretary Federico Gillespie, Professor Em Cruells, Daniel Gillick and Professor William Van Brunt. The table was elaborately yet tasteinlly adorned with flowers and graceful ferns, the Mexican colors, red, white and green, vredominating. The menu was abundant and well chosen, a number of character- istic Mexican dishes forming a conspicu- ous portion of the bill of fare. The 15th of Eeptember happens to be the nameday of the President, the feast of St. Porphyrius, and hence the celebration took the character in a certain degree of a personal tribute to the great chief magistrate of the Mexican nation. The Consui-General, who is at present in Calaveras, was unable to be present, but sent a letter of regrets, Mr. Romo delivered the first after-din- ner_speech. He dwelt upon the advance which had characterized the admiuistra- tion of President Diaz, and proposed his Exrellency’s jealth. Mr. Mowry responded in an eloquent tribute to the great ruler, whose history, he said, was yet to be writlen in the an- nals of the worid. “The President of the United States” was the toast responded to by Mr. Car- ranza. Mr. Dosal spoke for the well- being of the club, and otber speeches and toasts followed in rapid succession, Aol et s THE SPANISH SCHOOL. Delightful Musical and Literary Programms Presented by the Pupiis and Friends. The President's name-day was honored by the pupils ana friends of the Spanish school last night at the school hall, 1415 Powell street, by a fine literary and mu- sical programme. After the overture to Von Suppe’s “Bog- caccio,” played by Professor and Mrs, Botts and the pupils of the music class, the Declaration of Mexican Independence was read by F. Arteche, being followed by Miss Celsa Rivero in a plano solo. Andres Gonzales made a masterly ad- dress in Spanish, contrasting the condi- tion of Mexico under Spanish rule with its present flourishing status, after which the *Magnetic Waltz,'”” by Mrs. L. George and H.D. Pelle, and an andante and xaltz by Mr. and Mrs, Botts were given. Miss Maria Pretegave a “Poem 1n Honor of Hidalgo,”’ an original composition by H. Sanchez, in which the work of the heroic patriot priest was eloguently por- trayed. Several more musical selections were rendered in excellent style, and K. Cer- vantes made a most elognent oration, taking for his text Father Hidalgo’s cry for independence from Spain. The enjoy- able affair closed with the singing of ‘the inimitable National hymn of Mexico, the verses being sung by Mrs. L. de Moran, Mrs. M. de Sepulveda, Mrs. L. de George, Miss B. Gallardo, Miss Concepcion Bar- neche and F. Arteche. e TO-DAY’S CELEBRATION. Eighty-Sixth Annlversary of Mexi- can Independence to Be Commemorated. To-day being the eighty-sixth anniver- sary of the independence of Mexico the local Mexican colony, which numbers nearly 4000, will celebrate the occasion in enthusiastic fashion. One of the celebrations will take place at California Hall, 620 Bush street, under the auspices of the Mexican celebration committee which was appointed by the popular vote of the colony, and which is headed by Consul-Gereral A, K. Coney. Great care has been exercised in the prepa- ration of an excellent programme, which is long and patriotic. The committee in charge promises to make this one of the greatest celebrations ever held in honor of Mexican liberty in tais City. This evening there will be a grand parade through the principal streets. The Juarez Guard, under command of Captain A. de la Torre and Lieutenants A. Rojo and A. de la Torre Jr., will act as escort of honor to the executive committee and Hou. A. K. Coney, Cousul-General of Mexico, who is president of the day. 'he Mexican Mutual Benevolent Society and a thousand Mexican citizens will also join the parade. There will be & number of carriages containing members of the celebration committee and distinguished Mexican citizens. The.parade wiil start at 7:30 o’clock from Stockton and Pacific streets, and will march to California Hall on Bush street, where the literary exercises and grand bali will be held. The hall has been profuseiy decorated with American and Mexican colors. ; Foliowing is the musical and literary the orchestra; programme: {!naependfnce by d f the e Star-spangled Banner,” by 3 oration by the h 0! ou! i Oraior of Ahe day, Professor Ricardo A. Mar. tinez; piano solo, Miss Josie Duseuberry; patriotic poem by the poet of the day, Bny; mond Gercia; trombone solo, “‘Evening Star,” by Professor Max Schultz; pianosolo, *Porfirio Diaz mareh,” by Professor Jose Fernandez; Mexican national hymn, by & chorus of fifty voung ladies under the diréetion of Professor William Van Brunt, and the following soloists: Miss J. Ambrosio, Miss Herlinda Verdugo, Miss Maria Pautojo, Anita Gonzalez, G. F. Jimenez. The entertainment will conclude with a grand ball which will last all night.. Fol- lowing is the committee in charge of the affair: Hon. A. K. Coney, Consul-General of Mexigo, Nosotis resident; president, C. Monduvlis‘i vice-president, A. Te, ejdjn: treulln;r,“!l.‘(je.ed: D3 , C. Jimenez; assistan: re- Puiacio; secreiary, C. Jimenez; assistant se . Nuvarro, C. Tor- a, F.Calderon end In the evening the Porfirio Diaz Club will give & grand mu: tertainment at Un) admission will be baul will terminnte sical and literary en- on-square Hall. The by invitation oniy. A the celebration. A GRAND OUTING. A Popular %5-Cent Rate for a Most Attractive Ride to Marin’s Redwoods. *“Two special trains for Camp Taylor next Sunday, one at 8 A. a. and the other at 10 A. M., with a popular rate of 75 cents for the round trip and a 40-cent rate for children under 12, and seats guaranteed on both trains and reserved seats for parties on the first train.” This is the announce- ment for Locke's excursion for the coming Sunday. There will be no music or dancing. It will be just a delightiul outing in & beau- tiful section of redwood country, and Joseph Bertrand, the genial proprietor, will provide a good dinner for those who wish to avoid taking a basket lunch. Among the attractions of the outing wiil be coaching parties to Bear Valley, for which arrangements should be made with Mr. Locke not later than to-morrow even- ing, so that teams may be provided. The excursion tickets were in demand yesterday at 333 O’Farrell street, where the sale will continue daily until 9 ». M. Tickets will also be so'd at the ferry Sun- day morning before the departure of each steamer. Returning, botb trains will leave Camp Taylor at 4 P. M., arriving in the City at 6 o’clock. This will give either six or four hoars in the country, according to the train taken in the morn- ing. GRAND JURY'S REPORT, An Elaborate Document Will Bs Presented to Judge: Slack. R:view of the Work—Many Instances of Extravagance in the Local Government. The Grand Jury which was impaneled last December wi!l meet Thursday or Fri- day of this week and presentits final re- port to the presiding Judge of the Superior Court. Beveral of the members met downtown yesterday afternoon and de- voted several hours to a consideration of the report, and incidentally discussed some business which may be transacted at the next regular session. Frank Maskey, foreman of the jury, re- cently returned from an outing in the high Sierras of the Lake Tahoe- region. The altitude. was too much for him and he hada narrow escape from a severe at- tack of pneumonia. He was obliged to re- treat to lower levels, and so came home to Ban Francisco almost exhausted by his trip for recreation. John Landers, one of the members of the Grana Jury, is in Hawaii, baving been called there to adjust agency business of the Manhattan Liie Insurance Company. The final report, which 1s now very nearly completed, is an elaboraie aocu- ment, embracing 12,000 words. Much space is devoted to a discussion on muni- cipal extravagance, showing the reckless waste of public money at the City Hall and in other institntions maintained by the taxpayers. ‘While the jury has indicted several notorious felons, some of whom have been tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, the members are in- clined to regard the accusation lodged against the Supervisors as the most im- portant work of the term. The ruling of Judge Seawell holding that the Supervisors must respond and explain why the assess- ment of lightand transportation compa- nies was reduced is regarded with satis- faction. It is believed that the District Attorney will be able to convince the trial jury that the accused Supervisors betrayed the tax- pay ers, especially the owners of real es- tate, and by favors granted to the corpo- rations forced one class of citizens to sus- tain an increased burden of taxes. The list of reduced municipal estimates which was prepared by the Grand Jary’'s expert for submission to the Board of Bu- pervisors will be set forth in the final re- port. About the time that the jury had this list ready to submit to the Super- visors, the latter exhibited such surprising and basty action on the assessments, that the members of the jury became con- vincea that the board wasnot disposed to listen to recommendations. The estimates prepared by the expert will specially de- signate the departments that are extrava- gantly concucted. ‘When this Grand Jury was organizad a plan of action was adopted which had in view a reduction in the expenses of the local government in order that the taxes on merchants and home-owners should be lessened. Karly investigations ton- vinced the members of the jury that in- stitutions supported by the City, yet gov- erned by the Board of Health, were not only badly managed, but were unneces- sarily expensive. An unexpected visit was made to the Almshouse and City and County Hospital, and the result was an overhauling of the latter institution. The Grand Jury gave a great deal of attention to the subi‘ect of supplying chips with water. It was found that the monop- oly or special privileze which the Soring Valley Water Company had granted to Goodall, Perkins & Co. for supplying ships with water was the cause of many griev- ous comp'aints from ship masters and owners. Theoaore F. Payne took the sub- jectin hand, and after patient investiga- tion an arrangement was effected whereby the special privilege was revoked. Ships are now supplied directiy by the water company at a cost slightly in excess of meter rates, and so commerce has been relieved of one unjust exaction. RIZAL ESTATE DZIAL. Charles Pscherhofer Arrested for Ob- taining Money by False Pretenses. Charles Pscherhofer, a real estate agent at 238 Montgzomery street, was arrested yesterday afternoon on a warrant charg- ing him with obtaining money by faise pretenses. The complaining witness is Mrs. Anna Swissig, who alleges that Pscherhofer by misrepresentations induced her to pur- chase two lots in the Sutroville Addition, near Stockion, last month. She claims that when sbe went to examine the lots Pscherbofer showed ber lots in Liberty Park, which is close to the city, whereas Sutroville is much farther distant. Pscherhofer denies the atlegations, and says the lots shown Mrs. Swissig were in Sairoville, and he Las a witness to prove it. He hints that his arrest has been in- stigated by a rival real estate agent, ————— COUNCIL ANWIVER3ARY. No. 1 of the A. P. A. Celebrates the Third Year of Its Life. The third anniversary of Council No. 1, A.P. A, was held 1n Metropolitan Tem- ple last night. This is the first council organized on the Pacific Coast, and it is claimed that it conprises 2000 members. Tuere were a large number of sprakers, who were well received. They included: B. ¥. Hudelson, State president of the order in California; Hon. H.N. Baggs, Maycr of Stockton; Hon. C. H. Hubbard, Mayor of Sacramento; Major T. O, Ryan of Columbus, Ohio, and others, ——————— Ancther Will Case. Sarah J. Brown, Walter E. Brown, et al., have begun the cantestof the will of William Brown, who left his Deoperty to Caroline C. Talford. They aliege undue influence and insanity. s e : LOANS on watches, jewelry, siverware, ai Uucle Harris', 16 Grani avenue. e T e St NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. e N N N UL S S [ A TREMENDOUS SACRIFIGE THIS WEEK ! COLORED DRESS GOODS. At 25 Cents. | 72 pieces 40-inch FANCY FIGURED SUITING, latest fall colorings, will be offered at 25¢ a yard. 1 At 40 Cents. 55 pieces 88-inch ALL-WOOL TUFTED DRESS GOODS, in Plaids and Checks, elezant assortment of colorings, will pe offered at 40c a yard. At 50 Cents. 43 pieces 40-inch ALL-WOOL NOVELTY FRENCH SUITING, two-toned color- ings, worth 75¢, will be offered at 50c a yard, SILKS! SILKS! SILKSI1 At 75 Cents a Yard. 20 rieces of BLACK FIGURED GROS GRAIN BILK, neat desgns, regular value du, will be placed on sale ai 75¢ a yard. At 75 Cents a Yard. pieces CHANGEABLE TAFFETA SILK, in all the very latest shadings, regular value §1, will be placed on sale at 75¢c a yard. At 75 Cents a Yard. pieces of FANCY STRIPED AND FIGURED TAFFETA SILK, regular value $1 will be placed on sale at 75¢ ayard. At $1.00 a Yard. pieces BLACK BROCADED SILK, on Satin and Gros Grain grounds, me- dium and large designs, regular value $L 50, will be placea on sale at§la yard. BLACK DRESS GOODS. At 50 Cents. pieces EXTRA HEAVY ALL-WOOL ENGLISH STORM SERGE, reduced from 75¢ to 50c a yard. At 75 Cents. pieces 52-inch ALL PURE WOOL FRENCH BOURETTE, reduced trom $125 1o 75¢ a yard. At $1.00., rieces 54-inch L PURE WOOL ENGLISH CHEVIOT, reduced from $1 50 to $1 a yard. At $1.00. pieces 54-inch ALL-WOOL CREPON CHEVIOT, reduced from $150 to $1 a yard. 40 8 25 In presenting a few samples of the ALMOST INCREDIBLE REDUCTIONS with which our GREAT CLOSING-OUT SALE OF $300,000 WORTH OF FINE DRY GOODS AND CLOAKS continues we deem it superfluous to enlarge on the importance of this sale to any one who will require anything in the Dry Goods line for a long time to come, as it will be readily apparent on glancing through this REMARKABLE LIST OF CUT PRICES that AN EQUALLY FAVORABLE BARGAIN OPPORTUNITY NAY 0T 0CCUR AGAIN IV YEARS! CAPES AND SUITS. At $3.50. BLACK VELVET RIPPLE CAPES, handsomeiy . beaded, lined with sk, neck trimmed with lace and ribbon or chiffon, regular price §8, re- duced for this sale to $3 50. LADIE® At $4.90. LADIES' MIXED CHEVIOT SUITS, box Jackets, lived throughout, wide gored skirts, lined with canvas, worin $9, reduced for this sale to $4 90. RIBBONS! At 5 Cents. No. 7 ALL-SILK, SATIN AND GROS- GRAIN RIBBON, assorted colors, value 10c, will be closed outatdca Yyard. RIBBONS! At 7% Cents, No. 12 2INCH ALL-SILK, SBATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, in assorted colors, value 15¢, will be closed out at T)%4c a yard. LADIES’ WAISTS. At 75 Cents. LADIES' WAISTS, laundered collar and cuffs, “Stanley waist.’ all fancy shades, regular price $1 25 and $1 50, will be closed out at 75¢ each. At $1.00. 60 dozen LADIES' LAUNDERED SHIRT WAISTS, in dimities, lawns and slriped and figured percales, this sea- son's goods, regular price $2 and $2 50, will be closed out at §1 each. BLANKETS! BLANKETS! Another week’s sale of the FINE WHITE BLANKETS at less than miil cost. These goods are slichtly imperfect. The imperfection consists of an oil spot in their manufacture, or irregularity in the weave. For practical purposes they are perfect, first-class goods. 10-4 FINE WHITE OREGON BLANKLTS, a fine fabric, beautifully made, mill cost $4 35. Onsaleat........... $3.65 114 EXTRA GRADE FINE EXHIBITION BLAN- KETS, a large double-bed widtn and first clll“s in every respect, mil cost 4 $6 124, On salea % $4~7O 12-4 SUPER QUALITY LAMB’S-WOOL BLAN- KETS, alrmost finest weave produced, mill cost $8 10. On saleat................... §6.00 11-4 WHITE EASTERN BLANKETS, very heavy and fully 66 inches wide, value for $2. On saleat.... S1.25 10-4 WHITE EASTERN BLANKETS, a nicely made article, regular value 90¢ a pair. On sale at EZ SPECIAL! About 50 pairs 13-4 Mission Mill’s finest grade LAMB’S- WOOL WHITE BLANK- ETS3, bound in deep silk ribbon, value $15 a pair. On sale at. 10.00 ‘ MEN’S FURNISHINGS. At 25 Cents. 129 dozen EXTRA FINE ALL-SILK SCARFS, in Tecks, Four-in-Hands, Bows and Club Ties, a very large as- sortment of colorings, usual price 50c and 75c, will be closed out at 25¢ each. At 50 Cents. 75 dozen MEN'S AND BOYS' FANCY TRIMMED NIGHTSHIRTS, made extra Jarge of good, heavy muslin, and trimmed with “Cash’s” fast color trimmangs, regular price 85¢, will be closed out at 50c each. At 10 Cents. dozen MEN'S MEDIUM-WEIGHT FULL-FINISHED COTTON SOCKS, with double-spliced heels and toes, in tan and brown shades, manufacturer’s price $2 dozen, will be closed out at 10c Ppair. 98 At $1.00. 42 dozen MEN’'S. CAMEL'S HAIR UN- DERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS, war- ranted thoroughly shrunk, extra value for §1 50, will be closed out at $1 each. OSTRICH FEATHER BOAS. BLACK REAL OSTRICH FEATHER COLLARETTES, finest selected feath ers and best made goods, from $3 25 to §$8 50 eachi. BLACK, GRAY AND WHITE OSTRICH FEATHER BOAS, finest qualities, in £6, 45 and 54 inch, all at the lowest prices. COQUE FEATHER BOAS, 54-inch, at 31, $1 50 and $1 75 each. o HOSIERY! HOSIERY! At 10 Cents. 175 dozen CHILDREN’S FINE RIBBED BLACK COTTON HOSE, seamless, | double heels and toes, fast black, worth i 2 per dozen, will be closed out at 10¢ a pair. At 15 Cents. 150 dozen LADIES' FINE BLACK MACO | COTTON HOSE, bigh-spiiced heels, { double soles and toes, guaranteed fast | black, worth 25¢, will be closed out at | 15¢ a pair. | At 25 Cents. 200 dozen LADIES' 4-THREAD BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, extra high- spliced heels and toes, Hermsdorf dye, unbleached and black feet, regu- lar value 40c, reduced to 25¢ a pair. At 35 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES’ IMPORTED BLACK CASHMERE WOOL HOSE, high- spliced heels, double soles and toes, regular price 50c, reduced to 35¢a pair. MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. At 25 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES' DRAWERS, made of heavy muslin, yoke band, finished with insertion cluster of tucks and ruffle of embroidery, r-gular price 50c, will be closed out at 25¢. At 35 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES' CHEMISES, made of heavy muslin, yoke of tucks and em- broidery, will be closed out at 35¢c. LADIES’ KID GLOVES. At 35 Cents. 500 dozen 5-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in black only, regular value $1, will be closed out at 85¢c a pair. At 75 Cents. 250 dozen 4-BUTTON ENGLISH WALK- ING KID GLOVES, embroidered backs, colors and black, regzular value $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. 245 dozen 5-HOOK KID GLOVES, black only, regular value $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. At 90 Cents. 190 dozen 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES (large buttons). colors and black, regu- lar value $150, will be closed out at 90c a pair. Murphy Building, Harket and Jomes Streets Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strests. MARTIN KELLY'S PHANTOM VOTERS His “Primary” ~ Counted Before Boxes Were Opened. CLERES WERE LONELY. But They Turned in Boxes Full of Paper in Every’ Instance. A FUNNY POLITICAL FAKE. Ballots| ballot-box was opened. In no instance dia the clerks wait until the box was opened to count the ballots. They simply marked up the tally they thought it sbould contain—enough to look well. The polls (?) wers at 518 Un ion street in the Second Ward. There the same per- formance took place. At 3:30in the after- noon 295 votes had been recorded. In the Fourth Ward at the same time 103 votes had been recorded. At polling-place 2 of the Twelfth Ward, at Green and Larkin streets, at the same time, no less thaa 408 votes were counted in the books. Throughout the Third Ward Martin Kelly flitted in his buggy, and cast anchor at all the polling-places and went in be- hind the ballot-box. He was. there to survey and superintend. What he saw may not have occasioned surprise in his mind, and probably did not, for whatever the game was he made it. His henchmen were in all the polling-places and in the adjoining saloons, whenever there was any money in sight with which to buy drinks and cigars. In polling-places which no one approached for a long pe- riod the votes for the Kelly delegates dropped in or were stuffed in.” The num- ber of votes was enough to prove the fact to the proverbial blind horse, to whom a nod is as good as a wink. In certain cor- ner saloons stuffers were rounded up and mildly drunk, fully inebriated and up toa vote-repeating jag. The “primary election” was joshed in At the Flood Build ng They Went Througa the Forms of Receiving the Bogus Returns. If Mr. Kelly and Mr. Mahoney really enjoy going through the pantomime of bolding primary elections of course there i3 no good reason why they should not do so. Iudeed, solong as they pay the com- paratively slight cost involved not even the Sheriff is aisposed to interfere. But the marvel of it is that they do en- joy such an entirely flaccil and inane thing as the alleged primary election$ of yesterday aiternoon. Twenty-one different places were open in different parts of the Cily in all the wards and in some of the wards in several places where men were posted with big books and big ballots and in eacha ballot- box. The box wasearly filled up with the ballots in some mysterious way and for the rest of the day the men wrote up the books, that is, wrote the names of the alleged voters in them: and then checked up in the books such number of votes against the names on the ballots as they thougnt necessary. in only a few instances enough care was taken in ti:e matter to make the number of the papers in the box representing ballots tally with the votes credited-on the books. During the whole day in most of the al- leged polling-places the two men, some- times three, having charze of the absurd pantomime, together with a policeman, were undisturbed by a visitor, but in some of the most drowsy of these the reports of the nuraber of ballots cast ran up toward half a thousand. No such absurd bit of political faking has ever before been witnessed in San Fran. cisco. » In the evening at headquarters no less than 10,686 votes were reported to have been cast for these alleged ‘“‘delegates to the convention.” The fact is that not more than as mdny hundred votes were cast as thousands were r-ported, and these were drummed up in the precincts of the few individuals interested—Kelly, Ma- honey and Ruef. * In the First Ward there was a drowsy time all day at the polling-place at Wash- ington and Kearny streets for the police- man on guard. The clerks, however, were quite busy. The box was filled with ballois in the mysterious manner ted, and the two men were employed ail the afternoon in checking up in the books the .ally for eacli of the delegates beiore the this ward and in other wards as some- thing so perfect in the line of a “iake' as not to deserve serious consideration. When there were no voters or repeaters in sight the pencils flew over the names, and there may have been a correspondence, in some cases, between the number of bal- lots picked out of the box when the time came to call the farce off and tie number of names checked on the list; but if such correspondence and agreement occurred in any case it must have surprised the men in the booth. At the polling-place on Drumm street, near the corner of Sacramento, 187 votes were reported to be in the box at 3 o’clock. Noione was in sight for a long time, but finaliy five exactly showed up and threw in their votes, and then went off together, presumably to muke the circuit. A broad grin overspread the facesof the men in the booth as they ‘‘checked.” At 203 Te- hama street, just off Third, the gang gath- ered steam in a saloon and came in with a rush, and at 4 o'clock the men in the booth gave out the astonishing total of 620 votes polled there. At the polling- place near the corner of Natoma and First streets 600 votes were in at 3 o’clock. Out in the Western Addition the work was ‘raw.”’ At Octavia and Grove streets, where hardly a dozen persons went after noon, the box fitled up quite steadily. At Laguna, off Post, theré were 405 votes when the hour came for calling it a day, and this neighborhood did not know, ac- cording 1o good and reliavle testimony, that an election was really under way. In the polling-piaces south of Market street and out in the Mission everything was as still and baimy as a June morn. On the sidewalk the solitary policeman detailed to see that no nrronnoul person disturbed the serenity within the booth nodded in the warm afternoon sunshine, The passers-by stopved and looked in, saw a box with glass sides full of folded paper and tiree or four men siting around it penciling down four horizontal marks, with a fifth running diagonally across them. Occasionally a man would come up, get a ticket from the tally-sheet manipulators and drop it in the box. Frequently a buggy would roll up to the poumi. lace uns an individual woula spring skly out and enter the room. There wasa wholesome air of industry about the busi- ness even if there were no voters. And the votes were taliied all the same. A rerorler looked long and patiently for the baliot depository advertised as locatea at 927 Mission street. Nobody in the im- mediate vicinity could give any informa- tion regarding its whereabouts and even the storekeeper next door was in the dark, “Primary?” he queried in turn, “‘what primary? Wh primary?'’ - Finally he s enlightened and went back into his shop to digest the piecs of news. Yet, according to the carefully went through the various gradations of’ Murphy Building, Market and Jones Strests. Murphy Building, Market and Jomes Stregts, Murphy Bullding, Market and Jones Sireets. written tally-sheets, 330 voters had within shree hours exercised the right of suf- traze. P Near the corner of Tenth and Folsom streets, in a litue room adjoining a sa- loon, was a pallot-box that scon held a goodly aarvest of folded papers—503 of them within & short time affer the Kellys ana Mahoneys got at it. The police officer there said it was the quietest election he | had ever seen. The groceryman on the corner, who said he was for McKinley, | thought there was a Buckley function going on the other side of the xaloon. Four cr tive *‘vote-oftens” would rendez- vous in the barroom and at intervals they would swarm out of their hive and add to the load in the box. Then tue four hori- zontal marks and the one diagonal mark would go down on the tally-shest. Bond street is a small pocket of a thor- oughfare running south from Mission, and there 384 ballots were deposited. At the corner of Twenty-fourth and Cuurch streets, up among the Mission hills, 280 ballots went into the box, and then the election inspectors so-called shut up shop. At 3003 Mission street the work went on indusiriously and 219 ballots were written down on the sheets, and at the poiling- booth corner of Twenty-first and Florida streets but few persons appeared, but 198 votes were gathered in. But it was at 727 Brannan street where the Keilys and Mahoneys covered them- selves with glory. They worked in 540 tallies and voted "till they got tired. But the barkeeper said it was a dull day with not a single row. Occasionally a stranger came up to the polls and put in his ticket, but the same monotonous old gang did the work of the absent citizens, It was a great day at 727 Brannan. The Eighth Ward polled an enormous vote and yet very few peopie were seen during the day about the little room at 514 Geary street where the ener -etic tally- men were busy checking up whole pages of the record 1n advance of a fifal count that would be only a matter of form any- way, At4:12 p. M. this particular station bad recorded 437 votes cast. The appre- hensive but genial and rotund outpost who stood conveniently on the sidewalk iniormed an inquiring visitor as he led him into the place that ““things is kind of quiet now, but vou ought to have been earlier.” At 4:38, after an absence of no more than twenty minutes during part of which the polling-place was kept in sight and no one observed to enier, the same vis- itor wasthen informed that 641 votes had been cast. And they doubtless had been, for the piles of carefully fola-d ballos in- side the box appeared to have materially decreased in size. l It a dull day in the suloon at the corner of Pine and Dupont streets, the volling-place for the Sixt: Ward, and yet the ballot-box contained untold records of men who bad been there and deposited a vote. The proprietor of the place said that he had not noticed more men thah usual | come into his place, but he thought “may ve twenty or thirly went over into the back corner where those fellows were writing at one of the tabies ali day,” but there was a short time during the day when he was not in the place and perhaps some more had been thers, The Fifth Wara polling-place, with com- mendable commercial forethought, was located at 31 Sutter street, adjacent to Mr. Spear’s auction-rooms. At 3:45 o’clock the clerks announced that the records, over which they were then’ busily at work showed that 189 votes had been cast; and they had an hour and a quarteryet! The Twelith Ward, with headquarters in a little rear adjunct to a sajoon at the corner of Larkin and Pine streets, had its uota of overworked clerks with tired ngers and aching backs, for up to 20 minutes after 4 o’ciock they had there in the stilly privacy of that tittle room written dyowu the names of 291 voters that had presumaply come there sometime during the day and exercised the right of a free American citizen. Held to Answer. Joseph Kelly was yesterday held to answer before the Superior Court by Judge Conlan on charges of robbery and assault w0 murder in $2000 bonds on each charge. Kelly, about three weeks ago, robbed E. Cashin,’s visitor from the country in a loafln:-honu on How- ard street, and when Casnin pursued him he fired a snot a1 him,wounding gln in the leg. DO YOU Want Manhood ? 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