The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1896, Page 14

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1896 The New Postoffice Building—Seventh-Street Side. From a Photograph Sent to “ The Call” S ST P\ % > Greenebaum’sauction-house to fill the vacan- cies: Joseph Brandenstein, Jules Cerf, J. H, Neustadter, Jacob Stern and Samuel Wormser, The votes cast re-eiected these gentlemen. They will at thelr first meeting in December with their fellow-tru~tees elect the officers of the board for the ensuing term. — e .. George I. Drucker, C. E. Fredericks, J. L. Halsted, P. Hammond, E. L. Head, William A. Kemp, W. T. Kib- bler, G. A. Kohn, E. H. Mattoer, Wil- liam H. Powers, Dr. J. H. Soper and F. L. Turpin are the men who ought to be voted for for School Directors. —_———— An Impossible Acrobatic Feat. Ben Fehnemann, the Liquor Dealer's candidate for the Assembly from the Forty-first District, as such is pleaged to oppose the charter. He is also on the Non-Partisian ticket and as such is pledged to support the charter. How he can do both 1s a puzzle. e — See to it fthat a Republican Assembly 18 elected, for a United States Senator is to be elected. Do not vote for a Dem« ocrat. Iy d .‘//////,’ \ £ pul N - : o >\ DS . LT (3 From the Office of the Supervising Architect. FAMOUS COLORED SERVANTS T0 GO The Picturesque Force at the Palace to Be Changed for White Men, Old Jerry, General Burnsides and Other Noted Characters to Step Oyt. FXPECTED FOR SEVERAL DAYS Many of Them There for Years and When Senator Sharon Opened the Great Hotel. The twenty-eight colored men, consti- tuting those on the various floors, in the main office and at the doors of the Palace Hotel, a number of whom have been with the great caravansary since it opened, wilt go forth probably to-day to seek new positions. Their places have been filled by white men from the Baldwin, California and other hotels. The blue uniforms, span- gled with golden braid and gold and silver buttons, have already been made for them. The change has been on the cards for some time. It has been supngsed that it would take place on November 1, and several confer- | ences were had by some of the colored men, as committees of the whole, with Manager Kirkpatrick ann Assistant Man- ager Warren. They could, so they tell, get no definite information about it till yes- terday, when it was admitied that the change would take place. Among the colored men are some whose names are as well known among the wealthy and influential as any men, white or black,in the Clty. Old Jerry, otherwise Jerry Peterson, is one of these. Ee has long carried cards to the ladies in the parlor, and his white hair and long white moustache have made him a strik- ing figure in the hotel. John Brodie, up on one of the upper floors, whose tremen- - dous Dundreary whiskers have been re- sponsible for the pseudonym of General -Burnsides, which has been thrust on him, and Al Frazier are among the men. . Brodie came from New York, and has “been twenty-eight vears at the hotel. Jerry Peterson has been there twenty- eight vears. He also came from New " York. Al Frazier has been at the hotel twenty-one years. He came from Kansas. Then there is Charley Tinsley, Joseph and Eb Saunders, John Randolph, James Longstreet, George Mitchell and others equally’ well known. These and the others are known to_tens of thousands of people over the globe, who have at one time or auother been guests at the Palace. Some of the colored men have been in the employ of famons men previous to their coming here. Others served in the great caravansaries of Boston, New York, Baratoga, Chicago, and St. Louis at one time or another. Then Ralston, Sharon, Benator Newton Booth and others, now passed from these scenes, were at the Palace. Some of these colored men waited upon them. The two watches who are to be replaced are as follows: Watch No. 1—Captain George Mitchell, Wil liam Godair, Theodore Jackson, Samuel Wright, Charles Santacruz, James Brodie, Al- exander Averv, Charles Tinclev, Robert NEW TO-DAY. —————— Champ, Jerry Peterson, Joe Lopez, William urner, William Jones and William Hane. ] Watch No. 2—Captain _John Randolph, George Clarke, William MacAuston, James Longstreet, William Frazer, B. F. Terryal, Abanger Saunders, Alexandra Brown, Tully MacDanels, Julian Johnson, Henry Ran- dolph, Joseph Saunders, Jerry Marshall and Leo Leavy. The jstory of one of the colored men yesterday was that for some time past ar- ticles had been missed from the rooms, and that, without direct charges being made, it had been decided to get a new force. *‘The guests are for us.” he said, *“but that don’t make any difference. You see, there are a lpt of skeleton keys in the vos- session of different people, and they go and come as they please. The laun- dry-man has them; the housekeeper, of course, as that is to be expected, and is all right; the vplumber, the locksmith and others. Then there have been some little disagreements. So the result is that we are alltogo. Idon’t know what we will do. None of us know. Weexpected we would go on November 1, but we were not noti- | fled, and now the general understanding is that we won’t go t1ll after the election. A notice has been put up that hereafter all employes are to be paid by the day, so we think 1t applies to our case. It was settied to-day that the change is to take place soon. The uniforms of the white boys and men who are to sycceed us have been finished and ready for them for several days.” Probably no colored men throughout the Union are better known than those of the Palace Hotel. At one time among them was a very eloquent colored man, who won celebrity as a speaker through several political campalens. The colored men say they were getting $30 a month, but that their successors get a little less, or from $20 to §$25. James A. Campbell, H. L, Joachimsen, Charles A. Low and A. B. Treadwell ought to be elected Police Judges. They have all had experience as Police Judges, and all are good lawyers and men of character. ————— Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The board of trastees of the Pacific Hebrew | Orphan Asylum and Home Society consists of fifteen members, five of which retire every three years. Yesterday the term of the follow- 1ng named expired and an election was heldat | with all her skill she interested more than AT THE CITY THEATERS, Mrs. Taber Makes Her Appear- ance in Two Very Diverse Roles. A Good Performance of “Drifting Apart” at th: Grand—* Ten- nessee’s Pardner.” e » Mrs. Julia Marlowe Taber showed her remarkable versatility last night by ap- pearing in the one-act little tragedy of “Chatterton” and afterward playing the comedy role of Constance in “The Love Chase.” **Chatterton” was not the version of the voet’s death which is associated with Wilson Barrett's name. It is a play in blenk verse written by Ernest Lacy es- pecially for Mrs. Taber. She acted it with intense earnestness and feeling, the scene where the starving poet tears up his be- loved manuscript before dying being es- pecially touching. In spite of the boy’s dress, “the boy’s sentiments, however, there was more of the woman than of the stripling in Mrs. Taber’s emotion, and she convinced her audience. “‘The Love Chase'” was acted in a very finished manner and the greatest atten- tion had been given to its staging. Mr. and_ Mrs. Taber divided honors for the spiritea way in which they entered into the comedy roles of Constance and Wild- rake. Their touch was feathery in its lightness; Mr. Taber especially never bur- lesqued or was anything but natural, though his attempts to play the man of fashion aroused hearty laughter. That clever comedian G. W. Anson was excellent as Sir William Fondlove, Bassett Roe was good as Master Waller, Eugenia Woodward made a patketic little Lydia, and Mrs. Sol Smith’s Widow Green added considerably to the success of the performance. Grand Opera-House, “Drifting Apart” at Morosco's is an even and well divided drams, giving all the actors & g0od opportunity of showing themselves at their best, and it is fair to say they took ad- vantage of the occasion last night. ~Miss Lot- tie Williams as the stage-siruck girl wanting patronage was excellent, and Miss Bateman Was charmingly natural as Mary Miller, the sailorssweetneart. “Drifting Apart” is a play without a villain, but it is doubtful whether a fool is not as bad. Jack, with a charming wife and child, cannot Tesist the alluring glass, and causes more misery than the most accomplished viliain. Howard Kyle might have been better suited, but he made the, best of the weak-minded hero. Mrs. Sew ard must surely have taken the beauty cure. She looked many years younger than her son, Although the theme of “Drilting Apart” sad one there is no lack of fun. EdwardJ. Heron made the part of Silas very amusing. His specialties with Miss Williams had to be repeated many times. Walter Fessler and Julfil Blanc had good parts and filled them well. The costumes and staging were most effect- ive, particularly the house of the Sewards in Boston. Columbia Theater. The pretty Bret Hartian drama, *Tennes- see's Pardner,” began its second and last week at the Columbia Theater last night. Tivoli Opera-House. The last week of “The Babes in the Wood” began at the Tivolli Opera-house last night. On Thursday evening a complimentary testi- monial will be tendered Ferris Hartman at the opera-house by his many friends, ad- mirers and various clubs and fraternal orga izations of this City. On this occasion a special edition of “The Babes in the Wood” will be given in which each member of the cast will do s new specialty or song. At the Orpheum. Of the three new acts on the Orpheum bill last night tne Quaker City Quartet and How- ard, the “Rube.”” made marked successes. The Quaker quartetists are both vocalists and instrumentalists. The two vocal soloists both showed themselves to be the possessors of fine barytone voices, and the ensemble work of the quartet was exceilent. Howard, the ‘“Rube,” ingratiated himself into popular favor by his comic pianoforte playing. He gave exhibitions of such feats as “Ta Ra Ra” with one hand and “Home, Sweet Home” with the other, and the gallery to its joy recognized both tunes and insisted on so many encores that it was only after the orchestra had played down the popular de- monstration that the “Rube” was permitted to depart. Howard’s collaborator, Miss Bland, sang without & voice a ditty which was chiefly remarkable for its coarseness. Fortunately, warblers of the Miss Bland varlety are rare at the Orpheum. Miss Amanda d’Australie has not the styie of vocalization which prevails in music halls, On Sunday night she made the mistake of playing her own accompaniment, but yester- duy she was accompanied by the orchestra and made a very favorable impression. ‘‘Darkest Russia” will come to the California Theater next week. Professor T. A. Kennedy, the hypnotic won- der d king laugh-maker, will open at the Bush-street Theater next Saturday. t7 ‘‘A Knight of the Lost Cause, ‘Wheatly of this City, ” by George S. Was written expressly for the pupils of the Columbia Theater School of Dramatic Art. It will be played for the first time at the Columbia next Thursday after- noon, with the following cast: Aunt Phaebe, Miss ‘Freda Gallick; Anna Trowbridge, Miss Loretta Grace; Colonel Philip Farley, Simon Simons; Mejor Bunker, R. W. Travers; Lieuten- ant Revere, Albert Morrison; Walter Trow- bridge, Miss Pearl Durell; orderly, Stephen Andrews. ————— Joseph E. Barry, G. W. F. Cook, G. C. Groezinger, Frank H. Kerrigan and O. K. McMurray ought to be elected Justices of tne Peace. H. K. ASHER’S POSITION. He Denies All Complicity in the Issu- ing ot a Slanderous Pamphlet. Hugo K. Asher, the Republican candi- date for Senator from the Twenty-first Senatorial District, has forwarded to Tae CAvLL the following self-explanatory letter relative to slanders cast upon a political rival: SAN FrANCISCO, Nov. 1, 1896. To the Editor of The Call: There has been cir- culated an anonymous leafletcasting discredit upon one of the Senatorial candidates of the Twenty-first Senatorial District. I do not know whose interests were in- tended to be adyanced by this unjust accusa- tion; butIdo not believe any of the candi- dates indorse this action. For myself, I am heartily opposed to polities of this sort, and will not give tnis slander any further pub- Jicity by mentioning here the gentleman attacked. To those in whose hands it has been placed I desire to say that I earnestly hope that not one of them will put any reliance in the same or give me a single vote on the strength of it not otherwise intended for me. Very truly, HUGo K. ASHER, Candidate for Senator from the Twenty-first Senatorial District. For Treasurer you cannot make a mis- take if you vote for Augustus C. Wid- ber. WHERE THE ELECTION RETURNS WILL BE SHOWN TO-NIGHT. \TMENT.— For red, m:nhlp or dis- o B IR A B S K e THE RETURNS TO-NIGHT. % i b Ll e MURDER IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN First Mate Bowen of the Balaena Brought Here in Iroms. He Shot and Killed Second Mate Frank Jones in a Quarrel Over a Squaw. KILLING NOT PREMEDITATED. Wheat Is Coming in and the Wheat Fleet Is Loading as Rapidly as Possible. Trouble seems to follow the whaling fleet. Never bave there been as many disasters and never has there been as much trouble in any one season. Yester- day the Balaena got in with the first mate, H. P. Bowen, in irons. He is charged with the murder of Frank Jones, the ves- sel’s former second mate. Bowen was taken off the ship by Sergeant Bunner and Officar Ferguson, who delivered their prisoner into the custody of the United States Marshal. The crime with which Bowen stands charged was committed Soptember 1 last at Herschel Island. He killed Jones after a desperate rough and tumble fight, in which the second officer had all the worst of it. The accused man declined to discuss the affair yesterday, saying that he was acting under instructions from his attorneys. He declared, however, that he had kilied Jones in seli-defense. Bowen is the man who five years ago saved the crew of the American ship Ken- nebeck in San Pedro harbor. There came up & terrible storm and the Kennebeck went down. Bowen witnessed the event, and securing two or three brave fellows went to the rescue of the shipwrecked sail- ors. The entire crew was saved. Among the passengers on the Balaena was John E. Mapes, boat-steerer on the Beluga. He and Captain Williams were the only witnesses of the killing. Both were great friends of Jones, and both say the killing was not premeditated. The dead man persisted in bringing a squaw into the room where he and Bowen had had their bunks. Many a time Bowen put the woman out and just as oftén Jones brouszht her back. Finaliy a quarrel en- sued and Bowen pulled his gun and killea his friend. Captain Williams refuses to discuss the matter, but the members of the crew assert that Jones pulled his rifle from the bracket and was ready to shoot when Bowen fired his revolver. Bowen is now charg d with murder. The only movement among vesselsalong the front is in tlie wheat fleet. The Wil- lamette got in iusterdny with 40,000 sacks ot wheat and the City of Benares, Forest Hall and Valkyrie got away with full loads for Europ alf a dozen other vessels are loadin: and at leasta dozen are in the stream awaiting a chance to dock and get rid of their cargoes. Many of them are chartered, but otbers are here on the chanca of getting a high rate when wheat goes up. ‘Captain Fardetius of the schooner Arza- lea reports that on October 24 at 11 A. . he passed a dead whale. It was in latitude 84.54 north, longitude 122.50 west and looked like a ship’s bottom. This was in the vicinity of Point Conception and the pilots assert that it was probably the whale that was captured by the Wills’ hunters and exhibited at Sausalito last month. There will be very little done on the front to-day. All the State offices will be closed and sll the voters will be uplown iooking out for election returns. There will not be a ship discharging or receiving cargo and in consequence the British cap- tains will have a grievance. All's well that ends well, however, and the Britishers will leave port with sound money in their pockets and the fact that protection to American industries is once more in force firmly grounded in their memories. George W. Elder is an eficient and hounest man. He ought to be elected Superintendent of Streets. T e CALIFORNIA FOR McKINLEY Utmost Oonfidence Expressed by Re- publican Leaders. Republicans are earnestly enjoined by the State Central Committee to vote to- day for nine electors. Care should be taken to stamp the cross on t!.e square op- posite the name of each of the nine elec- tors. Do not, in haste, only stamp once in the middle of the nine or at the first name at the top, but take time to affix the cross to each of the nine McKinley and Hobart electors. The precincts are many, and so voters should not become appre- hensive that too much time is being taken to stamp the ticket. Take the time neces- sary to vote for all the Republican elec- tors. This is the earnest advice of the Republican State Central Committee. There is every assurance that the vote cast in San Francisco to-day will be fairly counted. The most effeetive measures to detect and prevent fraud in the counting of the ballots have been adopted. Watch- ers specially appointed to watch the read- ing and the tally of the ballots wili report at their respective stations ior duty one bour before the close of the polls 10-day. Many speakers who have just finished their tour of campaign duty in the inte- rior reported at heaaquarters yesterday. Confidence that McKinley will carry the State is universal. The campaign man- agers (Major Frank McLaughlin, John D. Spreckeis and M. R. Hi:gins) do not en- tertaln the slightest doubt as to the result. In making calculations on which the es- timate of a maiority for McKinley is based the committee took the lowest fig- ures for McKinley and the highest for Bryan. For example: If the canvassers made returns to the committee that a county would give McKinley from 200 1o 400 majority the commiitee figured on 200. ‘When the returns came that another ounty would ive Bryan from 200 to 500 majority the 500 was accredited as Bryan’s majority. On a careful revise of figures the commiitee is confident that the Re- publicans will carry the State. —_————— At the meeting of the Wheelmen’s Municipal Leacue, held at the rooms of the Olvympic Club on Wednesday evening, Fred W. El'.nn was unnuimousl{' indorsed as their candidate for Supervisor of the Sixth Ward. 5 e S N S, Senator Wililams Arrives. Senator A. P. Williams snd wife re- turned yesterday from a six months’ sojourn in the East and reoccupied their aparuments at the Palace Hotel. —————— Judge Sanderson’s Success. Judge A. A. Sanderson has made a very successful campai n. —_——————— Thomas B. ’Brien is running for Con- gress against Judge Maguire, a rank free-trader. 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