The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1896. BULLETS FLY ON ~ SUISUN- MARSHES Party of Hunters Attacked While Shooting on the Preserves. ,'__f-Fired Upon Seven Times by a Gamekeeper Armed With a Rfl~, "ESCAPE BY MERE CHANCE. Sportsmen Swear Vengeance if Mankilling Is Again At tompted. SUISUN, Car., Oct. 26.—George Rocks- | berry of Benicia can biess his stars that - ‘he is now in the land of the living. * -eral ¥ men - Rocksbury and several friends who re- -gide in Benicia conciuded recently that a few weeks' outing in the marshes of Solano County west of Suisun wotld ma- -ferially improve their health, and after procuring s and ammunition they et 1l in a pleasure-yacht for the ‘great duck-shooting swamps. The sports- anchored in Cordelia Slough, 100 y s of the barricade hat w un C Ho the f at the mouth of the Frank Rocksberry was aware of gamekeepers were detailed - =on the marshes to prevent all persons ex- cepting members of the ‘‘preserve” clabs from shooting thereon, but as the courts have not a: t permanently decided the right of clubs to debar so-called poachers from shooting wild ducks ipon the swamp and overflowed lands in the ricinity of Suisun he and his companions concluded that they had a perfect right to ment of a pastime that the Su- perior Court of Solano County adjndged should be free to all American citizens. evenings ago Rocksberry, Tobelman and J. Unger of S8an Franciséo voting over what is commonly known as the Taylor pond, distant about 300 yards from the railroad track, near : Station, when a bullet splashed the water within a foot of where Tobelman standing. Rocksberry was in his at the time he hearcd the crackofa 1 lookiug in the direction whence ame he saw a man standing bad track with a rifle to his sportsman shouted to the was evidently bent on z somebody, and the echo of his scarcely died away when a crashing through the craft in Rocksberry was seated. Seven were fired by the alleged Teal Clab’s faithful officer, but fortunately the only damage done was the pancturing of the -boat and the cutting of a small piece of rubber from the top of one of Mr. Rocks- | berry’s bo The hunters quickly concluded that it was about time for them to decamp, as 1ey were not prepared to return the sa- < being armed with rifles. rageous means of keeping so- “has been ommented upon by the sports- \d residents of Solano County, and been openly siated by the hunters ess the keepers discontinue the of rifles somebody will get hurt. Threats have been made by the so- j oachers that they will return the the enemy in case another attemp: m Hling is made.” It must be said with all due respect to keepers,” said Mr. Myrtle, who was of the party of hunters shooting on the Taytor pond at the time of the unex- ack, *‘that with a few excep- ns they are fair-minded fellows, who se, obey instructions, but, as the case is at present, the clubs have no lezal right or authority to prevent by threat or from shooting wild game on the Suisun lard, widgeon, spr on the Teal Club ‘grounds. John K. Orr, who was for sev- years a noted ional quail- nunter, bagged a fairly good mess of ducks ou the Ibis Club grounds. Messrs. Hamil- ton, McAllister and_Tubbs had tolerably ood success. Mr. Gerber of Sacramento teal—last " shot over the Taylor pondsand scored a ice bag of birds. The present orm will very materially improve the sport of duck and quail shooting, aad the - hunters expect excellent results on Satur- -Vallejo and Benicia © L0S ANGELES' .- him, pinioning his arms to his sides. ~ ‘counle “morrow for -an accomplic ¢ .day and Sunday next g Sportsmen Will Profest. "A mass-meeting of sportsmen will be * heid at the Alcazar building on Thursday night to pro Solano Cou “clubs. Ma: st_against the closing of y tide lands by privileged portsmen from Siisun, attend. FAIR FOOTPAD. FPasadena Citizens Are Boldly Held Up and Robbed by a Woman. LOSANGELES, CAL., Oct. 26.—A woman pad is a rarity in these parts, but 1 stery told to the local authorities by upon there 1s one such interesting person- age in Los Angeles—or, rather, she was *here last nizht. The “lady footpad” had in the person of a horria The Pasadenan lost $60, but he isa man. ~ .wiser if a less moneyed man. The foodpadery occurred at the corner of Beyd and Omar streets. Thompson says he was standing on the sidewalk when a handsome, well-dressed woman .stepped up and engaged him in conversa- tion. Suddenly she threw her arms around At ihis her companion appeared, and while "Thompson struggied with the woman he searched the Pasadena man’s pockets. ‘IThe female crook seemed possessed of pro- gious strength, and Thompson could not ee bimself. After the robbery Thompson says the backed off and dodged behind some castor-bean bushes near the walk. * The vietim then went to a friend’s e, reported the hold-up and a party was organized to hunt for the footpads, but after an hour's search the chase was abandoned, The sffair was then reported to the police. During this time the two Lad ample opportunity to escape. Ren e e Convicted of Eattery. LES, CAL., Oct. 26.—S8am Adams was found guilty of battery to-day by Justice Rossiter and will appear to- sentence. Adams attacked Rev. C. McLean at_a Republican conven- ‘@on last month, He wanted the 900 dele- tes and spectators subpenaed as wit- <:es, but when the court refused he :d not testif — . Wanted for Stealing Catils. LOS ANGELES, Caw., Oct. 26.—Moses J?oderick or Ross was taken to Calaveras County to-night, where he will have to as erected this year by the Cordelia | off the lands,” saia Vie- | force of arms any sportsman | rain- | B. Thompson of Pasadena can be relied | L l answer to a number of charges of stealing cattle. Police Orficer Sparks arrested him on.-the street to-day. Roderick tried to regain his liberty through habeas corpus procaedings, but the writ was denied. ST Murder in the First Degree. 10S ANGELES, CaL, Oct. 26.—A jury returned a verdict to-night of murder in the first degree against Wing Chew Gow, who killel Wong Chee several months ago, and recommended l1fe im prisonment. Gong Ong Chong, an accomplice of Gow, will be tried soon for murder. S RS Barker Must Serve Time. LOS ANGELES, Cav., Oct. 26.—The Su- preme Court to-day affirmed the jud'gmant of the lower court of San Bernardino re- sentencing Thomas Barker to the peniten- THETHG LEPERS BETHEEN Bindt Brothers Seen on Market Street and Placed Under Arrest. They Declare That on No Account Will Taey Be Removed to the City and County Hospital. Ernest Bindtand Frank Bindt, the fwo lepers who escaped from the Pesthouse last Thursday night, were captured yes- terday afternoon and are now back in their old quarters. Since their escape the police have been accurate descriptions of them had been stations. Yesterday afternoon, between 3 and 4 o’clock, Watchman Popper of the Pest- house was walking aiong the south side of Market street, between Fifth and Sixth, when he saw the two broihers ieaving the building, 927 Market street. Popper followed behind tkem till he | met Policemen Morrissey and Murphy. He pointed out the two lepers to the offi- cars, and they were promptly placed under arrest and taken to the Keceivinz Hos- pital. {found on each. The Pesthouse was at | once notified, and the brothers were taken i out in the van. | After escaping from the Pesthouse they | made their way downtown and engaged | a room at 455 Tehama street. The occu- | pants of the house did not know that they | were harboring lepers, and as they paid a - | week’s rent in advance, were well dressed {and appeared to have plenty of money no | made about | | particular inquiries were | them. Both brothers are intelligent men. | When dressed*they do not have much the appearance of lepers, except in their |nnnd.~. which are contracted and cannot | be closed. { “We have been in the Pesthouse for ten | years,” said Hrnest, “and were perfectly happy and contented there. We had a brother there, also, but some years ago he discharged as cured. | ‘We have our separate rooms there, | ! have good food and plenty of space for | recreation, and are perfectly willing to re- | main there. We are practically consigned | to a living death, and common humanity | shouid plead for us to make our lives as | pleasant as possible, which is done at the Pesthouse. “We will not go to the City and County | Hospital upon any consideration. The | food is bad there and we would all be con- { fined in one ward without the opportunity | | of exercising ourseives. It is bad enough | | at the Pesthouse with some of the Chinese | ! there, but it would be a thousand times | worse at the City and County Hospital, | | where we would be in one ward. All the | lepers are just as much opposed as we are | to being removed to the hospital, and | | those who are able will make their escape { if our removal is insisted upon. Another | {leper was to go with us last Thursday | evening, but he drank too much wine and | was unable to leave. | “The revolvers we had with ns were | these we used in amusing ourselves at the :Prblhn‘.}se by firing at a target, and we | took them -with us, not for any deadly | purpose, but just to have them. “The Goto remedy has done us gooa, but if we are cooped upin a ward atthe | hospatal it will be of no benefit."” /A MONSTER ENGINE. | The “Pride of the System’ Now in Operation at the Bryant- Avenue Carhouse. | An engine has just been placed in posi- i tion at the Bryant-avenue carhouse, cor- I ner of Eleventh and Shannon streets, that | is called the “pride of the Market-street i system.” It has been 1n process of con- | struction at the Union Iron Works for the | last six months, and about one month | was required to place it in its present posi- | tion. The engine is considered one of the | finest pieces of mechanical work ever turned out by the Unior: Iron Works. { The big engine is used for driving two i railway generators of 400 kilowatts each, | and is itself of 1400 horsepower. One of | | its peculiarities marking the improvement | of the time in mechanics is that the en- | gine possesses no fly-wheels, but governs | from the higa-pressure cvlinder alone. It | is pronounced by C. J. Kaiglin, chief su- | | perintendent engineer of motive power of | | the Market-street system, to be a marvel. TAKEN LITERALLY. | She Went and *‘ Sonked Her Head ’ as Toid. “‘Apropos of slang,” said the man from the Hub to the Detroit Free Press re- porter, *‘you all know, for it is a matter of { history, that we, the people of Boston, | i speak a purely classic language, and much fun is made at dur expense by would-be { wits on that account. But when I lived West with my family for a few yearsI acquired the pernicious habit of using slang. Strange to say, I learned it from hearing my own boys, who were so capti- vated by it that years of Harvard have not eradicated it.” | Everybody looked sufficiently impressed {and he resumed: “We had a new hired girl, a child of | nature if there ever was one, and my wife | was much distressed by her antics, * 1 did { not interfere, as it was an unwritten law | in the family that none of its male mem- bers should give orders to the help. And it was seldom that I ever knew the name of the reizning goddess of the kitchen. “But the bovs were proof against the | simplicity of this one. They poked fun at her, sent her fool's errands and ex- plained things backward until the poor girl’s scant allowance of brains became completely befuddled. So I was not sur- prised when I found ber waiting in the hall for me to ask me what time the 7 o'clock train left for Mills village. I knew the boys had been guying her. I looked at ber simple, moonlike face, her shock of wild hair, and quoting the latest phrase I had heard on the lips of my boys, I motioned her away. ‘Goand soak your head,” I remarked. ““When I came home that night my wife informed me that the cellar was flooded and the girl half-drowned. She had taken me literally, but I assure you, gentlemen, she has cured me of using slang.” . e e He Was Given a Mud Bath And a few weeks’ rest at Paso Robles Hot Springs, and it made a new man of him. His experience is the experience of every sojourner at these famoussprings. A perlectly appointed hotel and charming surroundings at $10, $12 50 and $15 per w . e Some of the French railway com panies employ women ngt only as clerks, but in the signal-box, keeping a careful lookout for them, and | read to the watches at the different police | When searched a revolver was | l CANADAS FLOOD OF BOGLS CO Officials Alarmed by the Activity of Chinese Counterfeiters. Thousands of Half-Dollars Put Into Circulation at Vancouver. ALMOST PERFECT IN DESIGN. Detected Only When Examincd Through Powerful Magnify- ing Glasses. VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 26.—Since the discovery was made recently that Chinese counterfeiters were shipping’ bogus Cana- dian half dollars to Wancouver, where me_v were put into circulation, the Do- nion authorities have discovered that the Mongolians have been operating on so extensive ascale as to cause the gravest alarm. An attempt is evidently being made to dump upon the Canadian market | immense consignments of counterfeit | coin made by these Oriental counterfeiters, | who are adepts in their production. It ‘l has been ascertained that 20,000 bogus half | dallars errived on a recent Oriental steamer and were passed by the portau- thorities under the impression that they were genuine coin of the realm. It ap- | pears that as yet no information can be obtained as to the whereabouts of the real cousignor or consignees. The false circu- lating medium, once obtained by the coun- terfeiter's agents, was launched indiscrim- inately upon the Vancouver market and received by every one in trade until it reached the banks. Iere the date of the coin (1894) was noticed by the teller of the Bank of British Columbia and, as the Dominion Government had is- sued no coin bearing that date, a miuute examination wes made with a powerful magnifying in comparison with a genuine coin, It was found that the interstices of the milling in the false coin are wider than those of thereal. The lettering about the Queen’s head is not so clearly defined in the Chinesé as in the Canadian coin. The bogus coin is a shade heavier in weight; in other respects there is practically no noticeable difference. It is estimated by assayers that the | Chinese production contains 48 per cent | pure silver. With so handsome a margin and such an excellent imitation the coun- feiters will not likely restcontent with the profit on one issue of their goods. This consignment from the Orient re- ceives special significance when taken in conjunction with the following recently | nublished statement of Edward Atkinson, the eminent writer on economic and tinan- cial questions, who says: When I was in London & few years ago I heard & rumor that measures ware being taken to make dies exactly corresponding to the stamp of our standard United States dollars, which were 1o be sent to Clina to be used in converting United States trade dollars and Mexican dollars into standard dollars. 1. was said that this could done only at the expense of colnin the silver being already assayed.and alioyed, and each dollar weighing 82 grains more | then our standerd dollar. It was said that { these coins could be sent through Mexico, British Columbia and the Sandwich Islands from China in sufficiently large quantities to make it a very profitable business. I was un- able to trace this rumor to its source and have /Rcver seen any evidence that it had been car- ried into effect. But how could that evidence be obtained? We know that there are only about 60,000,000 standard dollars of our own coinage in circulation. How do we know that there are notany more of exactly the same { weight and_quality, carrying tne same identi- cal stamp, which have been made for us in | China and Japan, or in Mexieo, where the profit would be nearly 50 per cent? How lon, will it be before such a plan is worked on very extensive scale, even if it has not yet been worked? AT THE CITY THEATERS Julia Marlowe Taber Makes a Success as Juliet at the Baldwin. Second Edition of ‘“Babs:s in the Wood"—Programms of the Press C ub Benefit, A large audience braved the weather last night and showed its appreciation for the Tabers and for William Shakespeare, by attending the performance of ‘“Romeo and Juliet” at the Baldwin Theater. En- thusiasm met its reward, for in many respects the performance wasas ideal a, one as a blase critic or a hardened first- nighter could wish to see. It is hard to speak in calm terms of Julia Marlowe Taher’s Juliet. She seemed to enter into the very core of the lovesick Capulet girl’s personality. The intense vouthful passion, the honesty, the win- someness, the agony and the despair of Juliet were all portrayed with a fidelity to life which was almost startling. 8o few actresses arrive at the maturity of gowers necessary for acting Juliet while they are young enough to lfook the part; but Julia Marlowe Taber, a slim, girlish figure, 1n her loose, flowing robes, showed the full maturity of a finishea artist in her acting. - Another point where she scored heavily was that she showed herself capable of touching every phase of Juliet’s emotion with equal ease and nicety. So often actresses who succeed in the tenderness of the balcony ecene fail in the tragedy of the potion scene. Ellen Terry, for instance, altogether fascinating as she is in the earlier portions of the play. invariably falis short of her previous efforts when it comes to the potion scene. This was where Julia Marlowe Taber, in her alternations be- tween girlish courage ana horror, was strongest. At tie end of this scene she was called again and again betore the cur- tain. Robert Taber's Romeo deserves much more than a passing notice. He was the ardent, youthful lover to the life, and he looked as well as acted his part. Mrs. Sol Smith was excellent as the nurse and Bassett Rae was a good Mercutio. For some reason best known to himself H. A. Langdon chose to play Friar Lawrence 8s a toothle: senile old fellow, who was almost in- audible. Dodson L. Mitchell came but strong as the heavy Capulet father. He rated his daughter in the vigorous fashion which characterizes nineteenth century family rows in the lower ranks of society. If Juiiet nad stanged him back he wou.d probably have given her a black eye; but althongh his brutal style was scarcely con- sistent with the majesty of the bead of the house of Capulet, it was effective and telling and brought T him a reund of applause. The rest of the cast was satisfactory and the play was staged and costumed 1n an ideal mannef. The Grand Opera-House. There was an enthusiastic audience at the Grand Opera-house last night to witness the first performance of “The Captain’s Mate.” This melodrama, like the one given at this house last week, is fullof action and striking sensational scenes. The heroine is a young woman who, when & mere child, had been kid- naped from her wealthy parents. She grows up to womanhood in the care of a lighthouse-keeper, and there falls in love witn the master of the ship Albatross, and she, wishing to follow the fortunes of the man she loves, puts on the habili- ments of a boy and smuggles herseif on her lover’s vessel. She succeeds in quelling a mutiny on the vessel, saves the captain from assassination, and the captain, not knowing that his preserver is a woman, calls her “his mate.” Finally the truth comes out, the cap- tain makes love to her, marries her, and suc- ceeds in restoring to her the property and fortune that awalis her. Miss Florence Bindley, the chief character, had & part which enabied her to introduce some of her specialties, and she acquitted her- selt well, E. J. Herron hasa good comedy art and so has Julia Blanc, while Howard Kyle was exceedingly good as the master of the Albatross. There are in the play a nwin- ber of very startling incidents that are brought out with good effect. The plaudits of the upper audience was an evidence of the sat- isfaction the performance gave. The Columbia Theater. “Tennessee’s Pardner,” the comedy-drama . that has been praised by the Eastern critics, was produced at the Columbia last night in the presence of a fairly good house. The play, suggested by Bret Harte’s charm- ing romance of mountain and mining life, is one that will prove attractive when the majority of the male members of the cast more fully apprecinte the character of people ivho inhabited a Nevada mining camp in the palmy days of that State, and lexrn that long boots with a high polish on them are not the rule in such a place nor even in Sand Hill. Jane vorcoran, in the character of Ten- nessee, gave a good conception of the part, in which girlish innocence among rough and ready people is preaominant. Charies B. Hawkins, as Geew hiliker Hay, a magnificent liar, was the lile of the piece, and his acting was excellent, and he bad o good support i Annie Mortimer, who appeared as his wife. Harry Mainhall as Caleb Swan and Oliver H. Barr as Asa Bice, his side-partner, did_their share to make the play interesting. Esther Williams as the bride gave a very studied giecc of acting. A great feature was the songs y & quartet, that was encored five times. At the Orpheum. Another strong bill is being presented at the Orpheum this week, some of it consisting of new performers and the rest of the best of last week’s holdovers. Tne Detroit brothers, one of the new acts, made quite a hit with their acrobatic perform- ance. Their work, which is done on the stage, is graceful as well as remarkably skilliul. Mays and Hunter are a clever banjo team, who won repeated encores last night. Among other selections laszt’s second “Hungarian Rhap- sodie” wus played by the two performers with remarkable color and effect. Hunter also played part of the overture to ‘‘Wiliiam Tell’’ as & banjo solo very skillfully. Mays’ jibe at preachers in the imitation of a church ser- non might with advantage be suppressed. If there is a fault to found with this week’s programme, it is that it contains a plethors o1 comic acrobatic work, It is all good of its kind, bnt there is a good deal of 1t. The new grotesque comiques, Nelsou, Glin- seretti and Demounio, do such startling acro- batic work that one forgives the weird make- upof the man who is supposed to portray a Chinaman. The holdovers include the three brothers Horn and Miss Joe R-eves, who made such a hit last week; Herr Grais and his trick donkey and baboon; Gparies Coiby and Allie Way, ths ventriloguist and dancing doll; as well as Clayton, Jenkins and Jasper; ller, Burk and Beimar; and E.dora and Norine. Alcazar Theater., The second week of the ‘'Ugly Duckling’ opened yesterday at the Alcazar Theater. The performance is far the best that has yet been | given by the company. John T. Sullivan and Miss May Buckiey are doing especially excel- lent work, though the other performers are not very fas behind. - The piay is one that well merits seeing, and the staging is much more artistic than one has | A right 10 expect in a house that plays at pov- ular prices. Altogether the Alcazar merits the success it is beginning to meet with. Tivoll Opera-House, A number of clever new acts bave been added to the second edition of Ferris Hart- man’s “Babes {n the Wood,” which opened at the Tivoli Opera-house last night. The most amusing new feature was the grand opera quartet. in which Miss Seabrook cleverly parodied Natali. Hartman gave the public his | version of De Vries, while Darcy parodied | Michelina, and West took off Abramoff. periormance was excruciatingly funny. 1'wo new songs that were warmly received were the negro ditty Hartman sang, “I Want | Those Presents Back,” and Miss Seabrook’s new ‘Baby” song. At the Chutes. The Chutes had & damp, wet day of it yester- day and consequently did not oven. On every pleasant afternoon and evening, however, they will continue in full operation. “Arion,” the new attraction, is certainly the most wonderful wire-waiker ever seen here, and his night illuminated bicycle ride over u | live trolley wire, sixty feet above the lake and 200 feet 10ng, must be seen to be appreciated. Press Club Benefit. A brilliant programme has been prepared for the Press Club benefit, which will take place at the Grand Opera-house next Thurs- day afternoon. The full list of attractions is as follows: Overture by the Grand Opera-house or- chestra. Fourth actof the comedy drama “Tennes- see's Parduer,’’ from the Columbia Theater. ‘Violin soi0, Mr, Bernard Mollenhauer. Julia Marlowe Taber, Mr. Robert Taber and company irom the Baldwin Theater in the fourth act of *Much Ado About Nothing.” ‘The Press Club Quartet. Zanzibar trio irom Ferris Hartman’s bur- lesque, ““‘Babes in the Wood,” from the Tivoli Opera-house; Miss Victory Bateman, Howard Kyle and company from Morosco’s Grand Opera-house, in W. S. Gilbers dramatic contrast in {wo acts, entitied “Sweethearts"; Frank Lincoln, the humorist; Clayton, Jenkins and Jasper, from the Orpheum; Sig. Abramoff, Italian operatic basso; Miss Julia Gassman, comedienne. A Golden Jubilee. The Franciscan Father, the Very Rev. Kilian Schloesser of Fruitvale, will celebrate by spe- clal ceremony the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into the order to-morrow at St. Eliza- beth’s Church in Fruitvale. Solemn high mass will be celebrated at 10 o'clock in tne morning, after which the ceremonies of the jubilee will take place. The festivities will be continued by the members of the congrega- tion atter dinner. The The Cycle Industry in Great Britain, The Times of a late date has an interest- ing article dealing with the cycle industry, from which it may readily be gathered how great has been the development in this direction of late months. It iscom- puted from trustworthy sources that the output for the British trade at the present rate of production may be stated at about 750,000 cycles per annum, which mazay roughly valued at between £11,000,000 and £12,000,000. Theexports of cycles iast vear were of the valne of £1,393,810, against £1,200,913 of the previous year, and the in- crease has _been of larger volume this year. For the first three months the exporis were valued at £444509, against £329.096 in the first quarter of 1895 and £329,535 in the same period of 1894; while for the month of March last the figures were £178,377, against £144,397 in 1895 and £142,184 in 1894. Since then the increase must have been even still greater. Thus in the export trade as well as in the home trade there has been a remarkable advance. Up to the end of 1895, accord- ing to the “Cyclist Year Book,”’ the returns of the limited companies repre- sented a capital nearly approaching £6,000,000. Since then there have been a number of large developments, and it may be taken that the amount of capital repre- sented by limited cycle companies makes a grand total of over £17,000,000.—West- minster Gazett In Old Madrid. “‘Waiter, I hope this sfeak isn’t a piece of the bull from the bull-fight yesterday ?" “No, senor; I thinkitis a piece of the horse from the bull-fight yesterday.”— 7 Truth. ——— ‘When a tree ck by lightning it is torn, not by el city, but by the ex- plosion. .of water suddenly converted into | said Mr. Phelan. steam by the heat of the arrésted current. | CONTRACTOR FAY FROM SAN JOSE Deserts Santa Clara’s Me- tropolis to Fight for Phelan. Men Who Do Business With the Street Department Apprehensive. THEY FEAR HIS INFLUENCE. P Arrival of a Shrewd Man Who Al ways Gets a Contract When He Goes for It Street contractors, graders, dealers in crushed rock (red or blue), asphaltum cookers, and all who hope to make a live- Jihood out of the prospective improve- ment of San Francisco thoroughfares, are feeling uneasy because they scent danger to their interests in the event of James D. Pnelan being elected Mayor of this City. Tue cause of this apprehension lies in the fact that a very shrewd young man has come all the way from San Jose to help make Mr. Phelan’s fight for the may- oralty. The name of this new champion in local politics is Charles W. Fay, and he is known in the metropolis of Santa Clara County as the smoothest catcher and manager of municipal contracts to be found in the State. To illustrate his abil- ity in this direction it may be recalled that he has paved all the streets of San Jose that have been paved in the last three years. He never went for a job but that hegot it, and all his opponents in tbe street contracting business soon learned that he possessed some mysterious but most potent influence that invariably gave nim a pull with the officials who had the letting of contracts for that work. There was no guesswork, no ckance- taking with Mr. Fay. He gathered in all that .-was in sight, and whatever profits accrued from the business of smoothing the thoroughfares of San Jose were added to his bank account. Like Richelieu he could exclaim, “Rivals! I have none!” for he drove them from the field discom- fited if ever they dared to show their ven- turesome heads. Frequently those on the outside won- dered how Fay could accumulate any profit at the rate which he charged, butall the time he appeared to prosper while other contractors were absolutely left in the cola. Now local contractors are fearing that Mr. Fay is seeking other worlds to con- quer and that he has cast his baleful glances upon the plethoric Street Depart- ment fund of the City and County of San Francisco. They augur the most disas- trous results to themselves from the fact that he is so close to Mr. Phelan, who has heen nominated for Mayor by the Junta Democrats, and imagine that Mr. Fay would have a *‘puli’’ with Mr. Phelan in the event of his election to the mayoralty. Mr. Poelan, when informed of this state of feeling among “San Francisco contract- ors, smiled indulgently and remarked that this supposed menace to the coniractors has no foundation in fact. “Mr. Fay is agood friend of mine,” “He read of my nomi- nation and at once came to this City and offered his services in the campeign be- cause business is slack with him in San Jose just now. “Tney have a committee at work over in the Flood building, I understand, though I am supposed to finow nothing about it.” “Is there any truth in the suggestion that you and Mr. Fay are partners in the | street paving business and that he i« con- templating a removal to this City ("’ was asked. Mr. Phelan replied: “Mr. Fay and I are not partners and never have been. His father was einployed by my father years ago, and when he wanted 1o go into the sireet-paving business in San Jose I backed him in his undertaking. He has been successful, I am pleased to say, and is showing his appreciation of my friend- ship by doing what he can to forward my canvass. I do not know whether he in- tends to move from San Jose to San Fran- cisco or not, but don’t think he has any such plan in contemplation.” Mr. Phelan smiled again when asked his opinion in regard to Mr. Fay as a po- litical manipulator. *I never heard of Mr. Fay as an organizer of voters,” he re- plied, “and I suppose I might have a much shrewder political manager; but I am sure that he will do his best to help me win, and I am satisfied with that.” No words seem to reassure the San Francisco contractors, however. They can- not help thinking that the friendship which Mr. Phelan has for Mr. Fay will insensibly sway him it he should be called on to perform tne duties of Mayor, and so they look askance at the prospect of having a “‘pet of the administration” in the field against them when competing for municipal contracts. They shudder | atthe power that could be wielded in favor of such & pet, and in the event of the adoption of the propesed new charter they realize that such well nigh irresistible. —_—— JOY IN SAN JOSE. Contractors of That City Glad to Sz2e Charles W. Fay Move Out. BAN JOSE, Car., Oct. 26.—The report that Charley Fay, the well-known street contractor, is likely to move from this city to San Francisco has caused unfeigned satisfaction among the contractors of San Jose. For several years Mr. Fay has been able to control munictpal contracts in a most remarkable manner. By some kind. of mind-reading or hypnotic influence known only to himself and his confiden- tial associates, he looks into the minds of those who have control of street-paving contracts and figures to a fraction just how much they will grant in the way of extra allowances and rebates, after the awarding of contracts. and he can also guess just how low to put the liguresin his bid in order to obtain the contract. Mr. Pay has been associated with some of the largest bituminous rock corpora- tions of the country, and his acquaintance with their methods of doing business has undoubtedly been of practical service to him in the business of securing and carry- ing out street-paving contracts. The departure of Mr. Fay would cause no unhappiness among other contractors here, for tney consider his system of over- ations to be =0 well developed that rivals are ‘‘not in it”’ when he enters the lists as a competitor. MUD-WAY N RICHMOND Yesterday’s Rain Had the Effect of Testing the Sewer Capacity. power would be First Avenue and Point Lobos Tkor- oughfare Made Uninviting to Drivers. The Richmond district has been made to take cognizance of the fact that it rained yesterday. Evidence to the fact was produced in the form of choked cul- verts on the street corners, which caused the impeded waters to overflow the streets and occasioned numerous inconveniences to pedestrians, who had to wade through the muddy overflow on the crossings or get out on the center of the streets, where the mud and slush were inches in depth. First avenue; that much-neglected thor- ougniare which leads from the Golden Gate Park to tne Presidio reservation, was in such deplorable condition that two teams got stuck in the mud and wet sand and required the joint efforts of both men and horses to relieve each other by first uniting in removing one of the stranded wagons to a place of safety and then ap- plying the same remedy to the other. The blind sewer which has been partly put down on Sixth avenue, but which re- mains closed by reason of the objections of the authorities of the French Hospital, has been filled by the heavy rain until the water backed out on the low levels along its course. This sewer would have a good outlet if connected with the Point Lobos main sewer, one block from where it re- mains closed. The neglected condition of Point Lobos avenue was made more than apparent by the storm of yesterday, which had the effect of turning the accumulation of dust and dirt which has been permitted to re- main there for the past year intoa mass of red, sticky mud, uninviting to those whose businese compelled them to drive through it. The filing in of old Bay District race- course has had the effect of making the bald sandhills that were so perceptible to the vision disappear from view. The con- tinuous sand-eater which has been at work there for the past two months has re- moved thousands of tons of this material, which has been carted into the racecourse and there dumped to fill 1n the large hol- low which stood in the center. This plain will, when filled in, be offered for xale in building lots, which will have the effect of increasing the popula- tion and adding more wealth to the Rich- mond district. — .. -————— BERKELEY NEWS ITEMS. BERKELEY, CaAL., Oct. 26.—The Oakland High School iootball team will play the | Boone’s Academy eleven to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock on the Berkeley field. The game will be one of the A. A. L. series. The midterm vacation of the Berkeley public schools, lasting for one week, began this morn- ing. Final examinations for senior standing at the university will be held on next Friday and Saturday. Rev. Anna Shaw will address the university students on the suffcage question next Wednes- day afternoon at Stiles Hall. A meeting of the geological section of the Sclence Association ut the State University wiil take place to-morrow evening. The suffragists of Berkeley will hold a final grand_raily at Lorin on next Thursday even- ing. Miss Sarah Severance will address the meeting. William B. Wells, whose spine was dislocated by a fall last week in San Francisco, is reported to b2 on the improve and hopes of hisre- covery are entertained. The formal opening of the west Berkeley Athletic Ciub took place to-nighi. Tumbling, boxing and wrestling were the features of the evening. Several Oakland athletes were present and perticipated. S e - A bicyclist in Marquette, Mich., saw a small animal in his path, and, as it made no effort to move, he ran over it. It proved to be a porcupine, as his collapsed t.res quickly demonstrated. NEW TO-DAY. 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