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

_ Dakland THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1896. 9 CITY NEWSBOYS ON A STRIKE They Declare a Boycott on the “Post,” “Bulletin” and “Report.” The Evening Papers Refuse to “Check” the Boys’ Unsold Copies. EDITORS THINK IT A NUISANCE, and Alameda Newsboys Took Part in the Street Parade Last Evening. “Air y’ all wid us?” “On yer life! Hu-ray! matter wid us!"’ “Air all ¥’ fellers a-goin’ to stan’ 1n an’ knock out dem eve-e-ning paipers wot's dowmn’ us dirt?” “Betcher loif!"’ “Weil, den, tear up all de Pos’, Boole- tins and Reports yer has an’ go on er str an’ at de same time hol’ up all yer hans an’ swear ye'll not be scabs!” The excited little chaps obediently sac- rificed every bundle of papers, and soon Dat’s wot's de — 143 poazr BukLNGTOM 45 AN Qe poRT How the Artful Newsboy Worked the Boycott. the pavement around Lotta’s fountain was littered with fragments of their stock in trade. Then every small, grimy pawin the crowd went up in the air, and after this Hannibal oath was taken Dougherty, the boss newsboy, led his 500 strikers out. Never was an industrial revolt so quickly and 0 quietly put into motion. Almost in an instant every small newsdealer all over the City shut up shop. The wagons of the three evening papers went here and there, but not a copy was taken by the boye. The youngsters instead provided themselves with small handbills which they gave to their customers. The printed proclamation read as follows: THE NEWSEOYS' APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. The evening papers of this City, the Post, Bulletin and Report, have combined together 10 beat the newsboys out of their small profits sing to check their papers. We respect- sk the public not to patronize these papers until they give the boys their rights. hese papers are rich, a few nickels do not matter to them—to us it means bread and but- Our mite helps us to support mothers c ones at home. Help_us by not patronizing the Post, Bulle- tin or Report. Respectfully, THE NEWSBOYS. Inquiry among the juvenile strikers brought out the explanation that the three evening papers yesterday reiused to receive back the unsold copies and give return papers of a later edition as they came from the press. This the newsboys consider a hardship, as such a rule would leave numbers of copies of an old edition on their hands and each youngster, if he wisbed to provide himself with a salable stock, would bave to buy wiih cash at the usual rate of three papers for a nickel. “They won’t take our old papers back and give us new edition copies for them,’” said Ardie Johnson, an and one of the officers of the Newsboys’ Union. “They let their carriers have papers at a cent apiece ana give the restaurants all the papers they want at a cheap rate, while they charge us 5 cents for three copies, spot cash. Under their new rule, which went inio effect this afternoon, we simply can’t handle those papers, 30 we are forced to throw them out. Not a single boy will sell 2 Post, Bulletin or Report on the street as long as their proprietors treat us that way, but we are selling the Oakland evening papers, Beveral thousund copies came over on the ferry-boats this afternoon, and. as we get them at three copies for 5 cents and check back to the agents, we do very well. If the Oakland papers run pleniy of San | Francisco news they will go here like hot cakes,” ““There was nothing in it for the Post,”” said Editor Hume yesterday, “and we simply had to stop. vrivilege and would take out more papers than they knew they could sell, and in a saort time would bring them back to ex- change for a new edition. This kept our presses working off thousands of exira copies, which was a loss in white paper as well as the wear on the machinery. And, “BOYLOTTERS AT WOR intelligent boy | The boys abused the | and gather up the papers of the lastedi- tion and bring them to us on the following afternoon for exchange. We don’t desire to put any hardship on the boys, but they must take the evening papers as they do the morning dailies—pay for every copy and only buy_what they know they can dispose of. Personally I don’t care for the street sales, as evervbody who wants a Post will buy it at the news- dealers, and the boys may go on with their boycott. We are only doing what all the newspapers of the country have done and the plan has workea satisfactorily.” Avthe Bulletin and Report offices the same statements were made. Mr. Bunker of the last-named jomrnal said the check system was a nuisance and all three even- ing papers had entered into a compact to abate it. In the meanwhile the torn copies went rustling along the sidewalk and the news- boys bunched together and howled their indignation. The police would get in among the little angry strikersand instead of moving on they would surround the big bluecoats and tell them their troubles. Down nt the ferries ‘‘Chick McCann ulled along the strike in good shape. {”Vith a bundle of Oakland papers under his arm he kept the boys supplied, even checking back what they could not sell. “‘Gabby Jim,” his lieutenant, made a speech, and after swearing in all the bovs within'the sound of his voice warned his audience that he would break the face of the first kid caught with a boycotted paper in his possession. One newsboy interviewed Congressman Magnire at the office door of one of the evening papers, and insisted that the Rep- resentative must stand in with the boys and buy none of the boycotted papers, or he woitld get no votes from the strikers. The Judge promised. Last evening the newsboys were enabled to collect funds and haa a procession with torches and transparencies along the prin- cipal streets. They were joined by a large number of Oakland and Alameda news- boys with panners calling upon the public to boycott the Post, Builetin ana Report. A meeting will pe held to-day and effective measures will be taken to keep up the strike against those journals, Charged With Murder. Chin Kee Sing, alias Ah Wah, and Chin Young, aliss Ah Chung, were yesterday booked st _the City Prison on the charge of murder. They were arrested at the time Gin Lum Chee, the druggist, was shot on Jackson street. He died Wednesday night. GISSP OF THE TURF The Burns & Waterhouse | String Arrives at Oak- land Track. Weights and Entries for the In- augural Handicap—Horses | [ | En Route. | OEAE | Two carloads of horses owned by Burns | & Waterhouse arrived at the Oakland | racetrack vesterday -after a successful campaign the other side of the moun- tains, their principal earnings being made over the Detroit, Milwaukee and St. Lows tracks. Trainer James McCor- mick did not arrive with the horses, being still under the physician’s care in New York City. Sweet Favordale, one of | the stars of the string, who has been on the sick list, was left over at St. Louis, coming on later with Pat Dunne’s stable | of horses. Charlie Thorpe and Eddie Jones will do the riding for the stable | this winter. Clarence Waterhouse, one of | the owners of the stable, stated that the | firm was also negotiating for the services bof Tommy Burns, a clever lad who can ride at 80 pounds. J. B. McEvoy’s stable got in at the Oak- land track on Monday from Denver. Mc- Light, Mary 8 and Captain Rees are the principal bread-winners. N Bookmaker George Rose’s string is now quartered at the Oakland track. Arnette, who won so many races for the Garden | City stable, will hereafter run in the book- | maker’s colors. | William Godfrey will again get out the | programmes for the California Jockey | Club, and Joe Langendorfer has secured | the same privilege tor Ingleside track. | The Baidwin stable of horses at present | racing in the East will not leave for Cali- | fornia before Novem ber 1. | Dave Young, the New York book-- | maker, who has been keeping an eye on | the horses at the Sausalito poolrooms, will Fmbab]y cut in the opening day at Oak- and. |~ Jockey Marty Bergen’s string, consist- | irg of Pecksniff, O’ Fleeta and a promising | two-year-old are among the horses stabled | on the track across the bay. A string of five horses owned by Johnny | McHale came across the continent with { the Burns & Water: ouse stable. The | best of the lot is a colt named after the | owner—Johnny McHale, | . The stable 6f Barney Schreiber will ar- rive at Oakland this forenoon. Rachael, a winner at Latonia yesterday, { 18 & fall sister to J O C, the jumper. Dave Sloan will bring Lakeshore, Agi- | tato and Altonwood to California. The first two named horses are owned by Tod Sioane, it is said. At the coming race meetings horses will have to run under their owner’s names i and not under stable names. This is a recent Turf Congress rule. . Joe Murphy, who will be one of ihe | judges'at the Oakland track will leave St. Louis for San Francisco Saturday evening, October 17, on which date the meeung at the former city will close. The weights for the startersin the In- | audgurll handicap, over a mile, to be de- cided the opening day at Oakland were is- | sued by the handicapper yesterday. They are as follows: Libertine 122, Sweet Favordale 100, Rosebud 98, Candelaria 92, King Street 78, Vinctor 124, Installator 118, Nebuchadnezzar 105, Arnetie 103, Wheel of Fortune 116, Chartreuse 1I 97, Little Cripple 90, Sir Play 95, Lobengula 112, Favory 00, Waltér J 95, ¢, Lee 100, Cmsar 110, All Over 108, Thelma 90, Ruinart 11’ Torsina 107, Tea Rose 77. Entries for the first day’s races will close at the vecretary’s office at the racetrack at 12 o’'clock noon, Saturday, October 17. moreover, the boys would go around among the saloons, offices and restaurants Thereafter in the scaleroom at the same hour of each race day. | DAKLAND WILL BE TABOOED The Southern Pacific Pre- paring to Assume the Aggressive. It Intends to Build Up the Peninsula and to Forget the “Athens.” WITHIN TWO YEARS HENCE. When the Shore Line Is Built Fre. quent Fast Trains Will Do the Businzss. The Southern Pacific Company is very quiet about it, but the powerful corpora- tion is going to have an innings with Oak- land. The story of the game is short enough. Oakland took a hand with the Southern Pacific, and now the game isto be played to a finish. At least that is what a promi- nent official of the Southern Pacific has stated, and he knows ali that is worth knowing in this connection. The railway company is convinced that it has been given the ‘'glgssy eve” in the Athens of the Pacific. Young politicians who get office across the bay faced the railroad as a common enemy. What hap- pened is a matter of history. And now the railroad company intends to retaliate. All of which means that Oakland is to be tabooed in favor of the peninsula, that the company is going to bend its best efforts to building up San Mateo County, part of San Francisco County along its proposed bay-shore line, and part of Santa Clara as far as San Jose on the same road. It has been asserted that the bay-shore line will be built within two years from now. As now projected this line will have a double track from Third and Town- send streets to Seventh street and thence due south through the Potrero and into | San Mateo County mnear the town of | Baden, where the old line is met. Trains are to run out of town at_the rate of sixty wiles an hour to San Jose, and at fre- quent and regular intervals. Besides cheap commutation tickets will be issued to encourage men aoing business in San Francisco to live in San Mateo County, where their homes can be reached in thirty minutes. The railroad company has come to the conclusion that its present ferry system across the bay is large enough to suit all | requirements and at the same time to please the management. It will suffice for the accommodation of trains arriving at Oakland mole, and also for the local business. AM So the railway men say *‘Oakland is big enough now, and we have all the business we want out of there.” <They add that they are tired oi Oakland. C. P. Hunting- ton is tired of it, tired of people riding free on the cars and going into the Su- preme Court to compel the corporation to carry people for nothing; still more weary of paying taxes that appear exorbi- tant when compared with taxes in other counties. ‘When the bartender on a ferry-boat was arrested at the Oakland molefor selling liquor in Alameda County without a li- cense the railroad managers grew hot. One of these things with another have had a cumulative effect, and the company is an adept at fighting back. The old story about removing shops to South San Francisco comes up repeated!y with some new deal, which indicates that there must be some fire to cause all this smoke regarding the workshops. So far as the project to build up a string of towns and suburban residences along the | new line down the p’mnuulu is concerned, it has been vouched for by more than one official. KINDERGARTEN FETE Society Ladies Arrange for a Delight- ful Entertainment in the Residence of Mrs. W. 8. Du Val. The friends of the Pioneer Kindergar- ten Society are invited to an entertain- ment to be given at the residence of Mrs. ‘W. S. Du Val, 1012 Pine street, on Satur- day, October 31. Mrs. Du Val will be the hostess on this pleasant occasion, and it is expected that many of the leading society ladies of San Frangisco will take an active interestin the entertainment. From 3 to 6p. M. and from 8 to 12 . M. there will be a briliiant gathering and all visitors will be given an opportunity of enjoying themseives in a Japanese tea garden, while they will also be enter- tained with delightful music, Halloween games and fortune telling. This pleasurable fete is in the hands of an executive committee composed of the following ladies: Mrs. D). Bixler, Mrs. L. P. Drexler, Mrs, E. J. de Pue, Mrs. W. 8. Du Val, Mrs. R. D. Fry, Mrs. F. George, Mrs. C. M. Gorham, Mrs. A. M. Grim, Mrs. M. 8. Grinbaum, Mrs. M. H. Hecit, Mrs. C. Hansen, Mrs, M. B. Kellogg, Mrs. F. C. Moore, Mrs, C. S. Moses, Mrs. L, £, Monteagle, Mrs. M. Winterberg, Mrs. A, H, Vail, Mrs. 8. Stern, Miss K. M. Atkin- son and Mrs. C. F. Mullins. The tickets, which include tea, cost 50 cents, and can be had irom any member of the commitiee which has interested itself in this deserving work. JOSEPH JUNEA, MR, The Aged Alaska Pioneer Tells of His Great Gold Find. He Founded the Alaskan Town Which B:ars His Nam:—H:re From the ,&ukon. Joseph Juneau, the old miner who founded the town of Juneau, Alaska, is at the Commercial Hotel. He arrived here Sunday in the steamer Bertha from the mouth of the Yukon. This is tne first time in over sixteen years that he has left Alaska. He will remain in this City a few days, and then start for Milwaukee, Wis., his birthplace and the present home of his only remaining relatives, three nephews, also named Juneau, who are in- terested in a savings bank there. Aftervisit- ing them ana viewing the scenes ot his youth, the man whe has spent nearly half his life in Alaska will return to the placer mines about Circle City, where he has been almost ever since he left Juneau nearly two years ago. “How did Juneau get its name? Why,” remarked the old miner as he interjected in an easy, oft-hand way a few figures of lrech characteristic of the mining camp, “I discovered it and the fellows just named the place after me. It was like this. I was the first man that that country a-prospectin’, “That was 'long in'74. Ifound some gold, but not much that trig. 'Long in the summer of '80 I leaves Sitka witha fellow named Harris, an Irishman, ana we strikes into the country about Juneau prospectin’. That was about 200 miles from any settlement; least that’s what they call'it to Fort Wrangel and to Sitka; ’bout same distance to both. “I was a-goin’ ’long down a gulch with my partner when, great God, I looked and 1 said ‘See that’; and right ahead of us, not ten feet away, Was a big hunk of quartz just a-shinin’ with gold. And then we comes across the ledge standing right up ’bout as high as your shoulder, and straight-cut sides right along the nar- row gulch for 1500 feet. I takes a look at the end of that ledge ana my partner takes a look at a strip of what looked like a band of silver three iuches wide runnin’ right through the quariz. I ups with my pick and smashes a corner off the ledge, and, holy gee, if that quartz wasn’t just filled with gold. That's the great Fuller ledge that’s bein’ worked yet. ‘Well, my partner and me ‘did some lookin’ round to see if we had stakea out the best, and then we went after more grub down to Sitka. ’Long in July we made another trip to Sitka with some of the quartz. When the fellows saw it they just went wild and there was a stampede }or that country. On October4,’80, Istruck the richest piece of quartz, I guess, that's ever been found anywhere. It was about three feet long and darn near half gold, and some silver besides. Well, that's the way Juneau got its name. “‘They tell me now I wouldn’t know the piace, it’s grown so—puttin’ in ‘lectric lights and sidewalks’ and a-gettin’ regular streets and property worth three times as much as wasa year ago. Do Iown any- thing in Juneau? No; that’s the way with us old miners that’s got somethin’— we're always a-lookin’ for somethin’ good for some friend of ours. That's the way it was at Juneau. But Circle City ain’t a bad place.”” LEPERS AT THE KOSPITAL T.he Twenty-Sixth-Street Pest- house Has Been Con- demned. went into The Unfortunates Wil Hereaft:r B Quartered at the City and County Hospita!, The long-mooted question regarding the fitness of the Pesthouse to shelter the fif- teen unfortunate lepers who are now lo- cated there was settled by the Board of Health yesterday when the decrepit Twenty-sixth-street structure was con- demnea and the inmates ordered removed to the City and Couuty Hospital until better accommodations can be provided for them. . The meeting was a special one for the purpose of considering the Pesthouse matter, and directly it was called to order Dr. Morse sai “For some time we have been discuss- ing a proposition to abolish the Pest- house. Ithink we have talked about the master long enough and we had better take immediate action. For that reason I move that the Health Officer be instructed to take the requisite steps for the condem- nation of the Pesthouse, and that a por- tion of the City and County Hospital be segregaied for the reception and proper care of the patients,” Mayor Sutro, who presided, at onze ob- jected on the ground that a site for a new hospital should be selected before the old one was abandoned, and that nothing could be gained by being in a hurry. He said that the value of property, wherever the hospital was located, would be de- preciated, and that it would be an injus- tice to change the location except to some isiand in the bay where there was no dan- ger of contagion. : Dr. Morse said that the value of real es- tate_cut no figure in the calculations of the Board of Health. “We are looking at this matter from a humanitarian point of view,’” he said, “and the condition of these poor people must be ameliorated. “The way they are now treated is noth- short of brutal. I think the sooner we make them comfortable the better.” “Is it not possible to repair the build- ing?” asked the Mayor. “Itis beyond that,’ said Dr. Hart.” “But what will become of the patients?” insisted his Honor. **The City will have to take care of them as it has always done,” said Dr. Morse. “‘We can furnish them quarters at the City and County Hospital.” The Mayor wanted the matter laid over until proper accomodations could be pro- { cured for the patients, but the other mem- bers of the board were firm on condemna- tion and the vote was in favor of such a course. The tumble-down structure will pe vacated and torn down at an early date, and the City and County Hospital will shelter the inmates until other quarters are provided. Cnief Market Inspector Ben Davis was instructed to visit the City and County Hospital three times each week for the purpose of inspecting the food furnished that institution. In an executive session held after the meeting the board decided to expend $500 in fitting up a chemical laboratory, and the secretary was instructed to advertise for bids for the construction of two am- bulances. —— KISSED AND MADE UP. Mrs. John Bernsdon Deserts Her Hus- band and Babes for a Day. John Bernsdon, 42 Turk street, called at the Receiving Hospital early yesterday morning. He had a baby about four weeks old in his arms, and a little girl 2 years old was walking beside him. He said he and his wife had anre!ed and she had ieft him, taking with her a boy 4 years of age. She took the little girl and the babe to the stable where he worked and left them there. e wanted the childien cared for at the hospital till he could make arrangements for them. Last night Bernsdon and his wife called at the hospital together. They said they had kissed and made up and she promised never to leave him again. They took the two children away with them. —— Numbered Seals Now Used. At the suggestion of Special Treasury Agent Moore, Collector Wise has provided all the de- partments under him with new seals and in- cidentally formulated certain rules which will reduce the possibility of fraud to a minimum. All the old seals were alike and could be bor- rowed by any inspector of customs. This, of course, opened the door for illegal use, and past events prove that certain inspectors were not slow in taking advantage of the opportu- nity thus offered. The new seals, however, do away with this to a great extent. They are numbered and given to each department as a sortof trust. Wben an inspector or other em- ploye desires to use one it is charged to his account and so remains until returned. By this method the date, hour and name of the inspector, as well as the office from which the seal was obtained, is always iu evidence. Under such a systemn it is hardly possible for & crime like that undertaken by Foss and others to be committed. Mrs. Kreling Takes an Appeal. The suit of Thomas A. McGowan against Er- nestine Kreling, as administrator of William Kreling, deceased, has been appealed to the Supreme Court. The transcript was filed yes- terday. This embodies an aflidavit by H. H. Lowenthal, in whbich it is alleged that while & stipulation existed the plaintiff secured judg- ment for $45 ithout having given mnotice of further hearin| —— TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Alldrug- gists refund the money if it fails to cure, 23c. THE POACHERS AND THE KEEPERS Not a Single Drop of Human Gere Was Spilled Yesterday. The Aristocrat and the Plebeian Sportsman Shot- Side by Side. DUCK-SHOOTING NEAR SUISUN. The Launch of a Pleasure Party Blew Up While the Crew Was Taking a Dip. Those who prognosticated a war on the Buisun marsheson the inangural day of the duck-shooting season were sadly disap- pointed yesterday evening when reports were received that nota single drop of blood was shed, because the so-called poachers were not molested to any ex- tent. The Mallard Club with a full comple- ment of warriors, under the command of Bob Boyer and his lieutenant, Bill Nye, anchored its cruiser Rattlesnake imme- diately outside of a barrier which was erected this year by the Teal Shooting Club in Frank Horn Slough, which body of water empties into the Cordelia Slough and is distant about one and a half miles from the drawbridge. Half a mile south of the Mallard’s head- quarters the McRae and Myrtle gunboat Toothpick is anchored. She had on board twenty-five able-bodied duck-hunters on Wednesday evening, -all of whom ex- pected to return last night with big bags of well-fed game, bat the ducks which they had longed for never came—thatis within range of hard and close shooting breechloaders. With the exception of three old-time duck-punchers who understood the lay of the land and the ponds in which quackers quacked at early morn, the remainder of the would-like-to- be successful sportsmen rewurned early in the forenoon with empty stomachs and empty hunting-coat pockets. The day was entirely 100 fine for good duck-shooting. In the early worning, when hunters could see just sufficiently clear to draw a line of sight, some very lively shooting resulted, but it did not last long, as the birds vacated their feed- ing ponds at the first salute irom the enemy and departed for the Sacramento River. The Mallard Club expected trouble on Thursday morning, as two guards were stationed under orders from fthe Teal Club within fifty yards of the so-cailed poach- ers’ ark with instructions to keep a close watch upon the sportsmen of ‘‘anarch- istic intentions,’”” and to protect them- selves if necessary. The keepers, or gillies, by which name they are better known to the sportsmen of Solano County, carried Winchester rifles, and from all accounts they would have used them if a member of the Mallard Ciub attempted to remove any portion of the blockade which stretches frem bank to bank of aslough that is fifteen feet in depth. The Mallards did not, however, make any attempt (o remove the barrier to navigation; but the boys held quite a good-natured interview with the guards. The president of the Mailards inquired very particularly for the health of his dear old” fri-nd Mr. Whitney, who is presiding otficer of the Teal Club, and was also very desirous of knowing the pond which Mr. ‘Whitney proposed to shoot over on Thurs- day morning, as he fancied that be might join him in the sport. “My only objection to the Teal Club representative,” said the Mallard Club’s president. ‘‘is that he shoots a majority of his birds on the sit,.and according to my old friend Bill Nye this style is obso- lete outside of preserved territory, but friend Whitney is old and consequently excusable.” The guards informed the “‘poachers’ that they would regret their foolishness if they entered upon any of the preserves, but the caution was not obeyed as the ponds in the preserves were surrounded and shot over by ‘‘preserved” men and ‘‘non-pre- served’’ men bright and early yesterday morning. Keepers stood alongside the trespassers and scared the incoming ducks away by firing blank cartridges at them at long range. When a trespasser was an- noyed too much by this kind of play he would seek the pond that was being shot over by some club member and join him in the sport. The ‘poacher” as a rule then finished the day’s shooting with good results. o In an interview with two of the Super- visors of Solano County, who were among the sportsmen who took advantage of the opening day, it was learned that the sea- son for the shooting of wild ducks will be closed positively next month, unless the preserve clubs cease to annoy the hunters who go into the marshes for the purpose of killing a few birds for their families and friends. The peopfe of Solano County are very bitter against those preserve clubs, and trouble will assuredly result this year unless some understanding between the hunters and the clubs be arrived at. The Sheriff of.the county was asked to send constable to the marshes yesterday in order to protect any possible destruction to life ana property, but he refused to do so, stating in answer that the so-called poachers did not require watching by his men. Three pleasure-seekers had a very nar- row escape from death last Wednesday atternoon in Cordelia S8lough. It appears that Frank Happersberger, the sculptor, Charley Barlage and O. Weisman, propri- etor of a restaurant on Market street, journeyed from this City last SBunday In the gasoline launch Comet for a week's shoot in the Suisun ma:shes. When at the head of the Cordelia Slough and northeest of the Cook ponds the hunters decided to take arwim, and while enjoy- ing natatorial sport Barlage noticed a strong smell of gasoline in the air, and be immediately swam toward the lauach. When on board he essayed with a lighted match to discover the whereabouts of the escaping gas, and in doing so the gasoline became ignited and an explosion resuited just as Barlage struck the water in his endeavor to escape. The young man had an extremely close call, but luckily escaped any serious injury. The launch quickly got on fire and sank before the eyes of the crew, leaving them ‘without a stitch of clothes, They fon be- sides their clothes about $300 in money and two valuable diamonds, also two new guns. 3 Tue launch was valued at $3000. In a naked and despondent condition Hap- pers berger, Weisman and Barlage man- aged to reach a farmhouse, where they were given some clothing, and on their journey home they received further as- sistance from Donald McRae, whose hunt- ing ark is in the slough in question. An attempt will be made to-day to save the machinery of the craft and the guns. RENDERED HOMELESS. Jamieson, an Old Lady, Has Her F¥urpiture Taken From Her. Mrs. Jamieson, an old lady who kept a rooming-house on Mason and O’Farrell streets, had her furniture taken from her yesterday afternoon by deputy sheriffs on Mrs. a writ of ejectment and carted to a whre- house on Market street. She wasin arrears for her rentand also in the installments on her furniture. Detective Amhong found her on the porch of the hous2 bewailing her misfoi- tune. She told him she wanted to kill herself, as she was without a home or friends. Anthony took her to police head- quarters, and, as she appeared to bs men- tally unbalanced, she was placed in the Receiving Hospital pending her examina- tion before the Insanity Commissioners this morning. e ‘CLEVERLY CAUGHT. Two Men Charged With Stealing & Diamond Earring. Ed Martin and Thomas Nannery ap- peared before Judge Low yesterday to an- swer a charge of grand larceny. Their cases were continued until to-morrow and their bonds were fixed at $2000. They are accused of stealing a diamond earring, valued at $150, from Hattie Emer- son of 268 Natoma street in the saloon at 116 Eddy, where Martin snatchea the ear- ring from the woman and passed it to Nannery. Martin was arrested by Policemen Me- Auliff and Brophv and Nannery was clev- erly caught by Brophy just as he was leaving his room on Dupont and Lombard streeis to catch the southbound train ‘Wednesday evening. e Charged With Robbery. Alfred Cappola was arrested last night by Detectives Dillon, Crockett and-Ryan and booked st the City Prison on the charge of robbery. On Wednesday Ryan received a let- ter from Linehan, who was senteneed to life imprisonment a_few days ago by Judge Wal- lsce, that Cappola was his companion in rob- bing John Wilcomi of his gold watch in aroom at 17 Fourth street, about a month ago. M0 BEAUTIFUL BONERS Floral Decorations for the Two German Garden Con- certs. Carloads of F:owe.rs. and Evergreens Being Artistically Plac:d in the Pavilion. At the Mechanics’ Payilion preparations are going fcrward for the grand garden concerts to be given by the two leading German benevolent societies, under tne direction of Gustave Hinrichs, on the even- ings of Saturday and Sunday next, Octo- ber 17 and 18. & The idea to be carried out is that of an immense garden, as suggested by the name, and the whole place will be artisti- cally decorated with boughs and drooping branches, while the glare of light will be modulated by graceful palms and orna- mental trees. All kinds of cozy bowers are being constructed in unexpected places, and labyrinthine patkstwine in and out among the beds of beautiful plants and flowers. From Koster’s ranch, down in the Santa Cruz Mountains, has “arrived many car- loads of material for the decoration, pass- ing on its arrival here into the hands of Messrs. Kolofrath, Otto and ‘Ur. Bryant, who are superintending the decorators. The refreshment booth, which will be situated within one of the alcoves, will simply be screened from the concert-room by overhanging flowers and ferns so the music may add to the enjoyment of thé tables. Numerous tables are scattered all around—cozy tete-a-tetes and large family tables, The refreshment booth is under the su- pervision of the following ladies: Mrs. B. Broemmel, Mrs. Charles Bundschu, Mrs. J. 8. Bowman, Mrs. M. Esberg, Mrs. S, Goettig, Mrs. W. C. Hildebrandt, Mrs. I. Hecht, Mrs. F, Hess, Mrs. Dr. Kreutzma rs. J, C. Meussdorffer, Mrs. A. Michalits e, Mrs. J. Popert, Mrs. Oesterreicher, Mrs. Dr.-Regens- burger, Mrs. Spreckels, Mrs. Auna Stadtmuller. These ladies will be ably assisted by the following bevy of California’s most charm- ing daughbters: Miss Olga Adelsdorffer, Miss Adele Aron- stein, Miss Gretchen Bach, Miss Helene ‘Bach, Miss Louise Bundschu, Miss Mathilde Berg- maun, Miss Lucy Bach, Miss Anna Denicke, Miss Amanda Ebbert, Miss Camille Frank, Miss Linda Frank, Miss Lille Fischer, Miss Daisy Hermann, Miss Hattie Hinrichs, Miss' Emma Hoescb, Miss Flora Hart, Miss Ophelia C. Levy, Miss Minnie Lindemann, Miss Josie Lajontaine, Miss J. Lecl.ner, Miss Ottilie Meussdorffer, Miss Alma Michalitsehke, Miss Dora Mohns, Miss Clara Rahrskopff, Miss Emma Regensburger, Miss Hiida Seelig, Miss Belle Seelig, Miss Lilly H. Strauch, Miss Ada uee- line, Miss Amalia Simon, Miss Ottilie Schueck- ing, Miss Anna Spreckels, Miss Ida Schoenan, Miss Josie Hadenleldt, Miss Etta Plagemann, Miss Anna Wendel, Miss Esther Rosencrantz, M! Hulda Sternfeld, Miss Regina Plage- mann, Mi¢s Dora Herbst. 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