The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1896, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1896. GEORGE W, WADE TRIED SUICIDE The Assistant Secretary of the School Board in Trouble. He Was Suspended Pending an Investigation Into Irregu- lar Acts. Found by a Friend He Was Taken Home Last Night in a Dazed and Low Condition. The mystery with which George W. ‘Wade, assistant secretary of the Board of Education, has enveloped his queer ac- tions of the past few aays was in a meas- ure cleared away yesterday afternoon when he returned dazed and asked to see | his family. His return was a great relief to his wife, | who bad almost mourned him dead since | Baturday morning, when Mrs. Wade re- | < ceived a letter in which he bade her good- and threatened to commit suicide. | Wade twice attempted in his absence from home to carry his threat into execu- tion, but either by the intervention of people about him or errors in preparation he was not successful. Now, however, he | will be closely watched lest a third at- tempt be made. It will be some time, though. before Wade’s condition is such that he can be examined by the Board of Education in connection with irreguiar acts for which he was suspended by Henry T. Scott, president of the board. Mean- while the greatest curiosity exists among public school teachers and acquaintances | of Wade as to how he had fallen to pieces all of a sudden. For Wade was popularly supposed to be a quiet, sensible sellow, with no expensive )1;3 ana bow he could have borrowed something like $ and spent it, in addi- tion to a salary of $175 a month, while living modestly remains to be explained. Tuesday last Wade took sick and had to | go to bed. His health seemed utterly | shattere Dr. McNutt was called in next day, and he gave instructions to keep the patient quiet, »s it was apparent to him that Wade had som= nervous mental de- | rangement in addition to a severe attack | of Dright's disease. Thursday morning | Mrs. Wade was surprised to find him in the hall ready to go out. *‘You must not | leave the house against the doctor’s or- ders,” she urgea. +:Oh, that will be al: right,” he replied, with an air of unconcern. *“‘I've some S very important busimigss down at the hail | and will be back in an'hour.” | So Wade left his home at Jackson and Jones streeis, and, to all intents, disap- | peared. The wife, as time wore on, be- | racted, but no friend could bring | comiort. | y passed without a word from the ‘ issing man, but next morning brought ihe letter with the threat of suicide. This, | with the fact that he paid up his dues in the Legion of Honor Friday night to cover ! a death certificate was taken as conclusive that:Wade contemplated taking his life. A search was instituted at once here and in Oakland, and yesterday the description of Wade was read to the policemen going out on duty. Toward evening W. H. Haight of 402 Geary street, a friend of the missing man, notified Wade's friends that he had been found, and soon after Wade was taken | home by his brother-in-law. He was so | weak that he could not undressand the | family physician was summoned. The doctor reinained some time with his | atient and refused to let anyone but Mrs. | Wade enter the room. He stated that | Wade’s condition was serious arnd it de- manded extreme care to effect a cure. | “I found him on Geary street, between Mason and Powell, this “afternoon,” said | Haight. ‘“He was walking toward Powell | street and looked like he had been drinl *ing. Ilearned to-day that he was miss- | ing, and started out to find him. Iknew | where to find him. He could not give an account of himself. Then I took him to my room and held bim here till his brother-in-law took him home. He at- tempted to commit suicide twice by as- yxiati vas too weak.” Haight would not say where Wade tried to though he admitted it was in a lodging-notuse. The supposition is that Wade was among some ot his downtown friends and they saved his life and at last prevailed on him to go home. He spent some time in the house at 402 Geary street, the landlady of which said that he had been broughnt over from Oaklana yester- day. T vo orders signed by Wade fifor his salary warrant for November were pre- | sented Saturday to the secretary of the | Boara of Education by different brokers. The orders were returned, as the demand had been handed to another broker. They . were taken up, however, by a'friend. Besides, it was charged that Wade had borrowed freely from school teachers. President Scott of the board made an in- | vestigation which resulted in the assistant secretary’s suspension. Secretary Beanston said that Wade’s books were correct, and friends of the sus- pended assistant secretary asserted that there was positively nothing wrong in a legal sense. Only Wade had allowed him- selfto become involved financially and bor- rowed nearly $2000. This debt, coupled with the fear that the new Democratic | Board of Education might remove him to give a Democrat the position, is said to have so preyed upon Wade's mind that the troubles turned his head. Wanted for Forgery. A warrant wa The greatest of all the baking pow- ‘ders for strength and healthfulness. Makesdaintycake and rolls. | William Fanning, a member of the South | leased on furnishing bail to the amount of vorn out in Judge Low's | a | reached & conclusion that Shea’s death A Corner of the Mechanics’ Pavilion, Showing the Pioneer Equines in the Ring Prepating It for Their Aristocratic Relations. court Saturday for the arrestof Gus Holland { on the charge of forgery. He was formerly agent for the Olympic paper and is accused of passing a forged check for $5 on Hildreth Brothers, corner of Ellis and Powell streets. EXAMPLE TO BE MADE, The South San Francisco Gun Club’s Traps Raided by the S. P. C. A. Yesterday. The Society for the Prevention of Cru- elty to Animals gave another practical demonstration yesterday of the fact that it is something more than ornamental. One result of this demonstration is that i San Francisco Gun Club, will have to an- swer to -a double charge in the Police Court this morning. Charles Holbrook, a prominent officer | of the Society for the Prevention of Cru- | elty to Animals, accompanied by five oth- | ers, went to the Five-Mile House, South | 8an Francisco, yesterday afternoon, where the South San Francisco Gun Club, an organization composed of enthusiastic sporting characters, was nolding a clay pigeon shoot. Later in the day, however, a sack was produced containing a dozen bona fide pigeons, two of which were al- ready dead—evidently smothered—while the remainder were in a horrible condi- tion. William Fanning, a member of the club, wad preparing to shoot the birds when Officer Cochrane, one of Mr. Holbrook’s companions, interfered to prevent him, | and in doing so narrowly escaped receiv- | | ing the charge of shot ‘intended for the | | birds in his head. Fanning was not al- | | lowed to fire another shot, but was atonce | arrested and to *‘base durance and conta- gious prison” conveyed with all possible | dispatch—or in other words, to the South- | ern Police station, where two charges | | were booked against his name, viz., | cruelty to animais and the shooting of live pigeons within the County limits The fir-t charge is justified by the fact that two of the birds, as previously stated, died from suffocation. Fanning was re- $40—$20 for either charge. AL PLIY SUSPECTED Patrick Driscoll of the Opinion That Daniel Shea Was Murdered The Dead Man's Body Found Floating in the Bay—Police Sc:ff at the Theory. Patrick Driscoll, 420 Clementina street reported to the Coroner yesterday that he believed his nephew, Daniel Shea, who was found drowned near the Fourth-street bridge Friday afternoon, had met with foul play. Driscoll based his suspicions upon the fact that there was a long deep cut on the dead man’s forshead. Hhe thought his nephew had probably been struck on the | fore head with some instrument, then 10b bed and thrown into the water. Shea belongs to Mendocino County, and came here on a visit two or three weeks ago. He stopped at the Cosmopolitan otel on Mission and Fifth streets for a few days, but left on November 23. Since then very little is known about his move- ments. The body is now in an undertaker’s establishment on Fifth street, but will not be interred till an investigation is made as to the nature of the wound on the fore- head. The Coroner notified the "police of Dris- | coll’s suspicions of foul play, and De- tectives Dillon and Crockett were detailed on the case. | So far the thzory of foul play does not seem to be supported. Itis supposed that the wound on the forehead was caused by Shea striking against one of the piles of | the bridge when he fell into the water, the police theory being that he had been drinking anda fell off the bridge in the | darkness. The detectives also learned that the last time he was seen alive he borrowed a quarier from a friend. Detective Dillon, after making a | thorough investigation of the case, has | was due solcly to accident, and he will so report to Captain Lees, ‘ “The drowned man had been drinking heaviiy during his stay in my hotel,” said | William Fauey, proprietor of the Cosmo- | politan, last evening. ““When Shea was intoxicated,” he con- | tinued, *‘he lost all control of himself. He | would fall down without provocation or | cause and at any place and would wander | around in search of his room and would | sometimes get into the wrong one. He | was keeping company with a young lady, | Miss Reilly, who resides on Illinois street. He frequently called on her and would return, over the Fourth-street bridre, to the hotel late at night. Considering these facts I am confident that Shea was on his way to Miss Reilly’s home when he be- came bewildered in the darkness and fell over the bridge.” An examination of the wounds on the body disclosed the fact that the skull was sligntly fractured over the left eye. It was nota fracture such as would be: produced by a slungshot or club, however, and the autopsy physician is of the opinion that the wound was caused by the body strik- ing against a pile while floating “in the water. B ‘WarcHEs, Diamonds, Jewelry, at greatly reduced ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO, NEW-YORK. § | prices; building 10 be removed. 5 and 7 Third st. INT0 AN EQUINE AMPHITHEATER The Mechanics’ Pavilion Has Been Completely Transformed. Workmen Toiled Through the Sabbath Day for the Horse Show. Boxes Will Be Lower Than Before and the Fair Occupants Cin Talk to Promenaders. There was no rest yesterday for the men who are making all the necessary prepara- tions for the horse show, which will open Wednesdey in the Mechanics’ Pavilion. The management has gone into the work this year with a determination to make the show a grand success, not alone in the tyle and variety of stock exhibited, but also in its numerous appointments, and having done so, no detail is tet pass with- out receiving its due share of attention. This concern for the coming exhibition was apparent yesterday iu the Pavilion, where a crowd of mechanics and laborers were busy from morning until night, set- ting the place in readiness for the grand event. The large interior has undergone a sur- prising change since the prize-fight took place, and instead of rows upon rows of chairs surrounding a roped arena, the scene yesterday in the Pavilion was sug- gestive of an amphitheater in course of construction, with a spacious oval or “ring’’ in the middle, and here and there a group of workmen. The clatter of hammer and saw mingled with the cries of team- sters to their horses and words of instruc- tion from the men superintending the dif- ferent departments of construction. This year the ring fence is back almost on aline with the gallery balustrades, and it is bailt with double railings, evidently to stand the severest shock that may be given. Outside is the usual promenade, extending clear around the oval. Here the male element of society, in evening dress or horsey costumes and smiles, will parade before the gentler sex in the poxes, and here, too, the fashionable world of San Francisco will hold an open reception for the horse show season. There will be an agreeabie surprise for the swell set, or for all these who will occupy boxes and do the promenade, for on this occasion the boxes are much lower than at the former shows. So the ladies shall not be compellea to look down upon their friends and hold conversations under difficulties with the gentlemen ou the floor. Under the new arrangement a man standing in the circular walk will be on an equal height with ladies and their es- corts in the boxes—a really nice thing for all eoncerned, There seems to be another consideration for lowering the height of the boxes, which was explained yesterday by the superintendent. “*You know,”’ said he, ‘‘large hats are fashionable this year, and for that reason the ladies will all be out in the largest hats. That is why the boxes are low down. It was necessary to make the con- cession, especially as ‘the people in the reserved seats behind the boxes would want to see tke ring. But there will be no difficulty on_ that score, because the tiers of seats in back are raised. higher than usual and everybody can have a good, unobstructed view of the ring.” The boxes extend along two sides of the ring and are continued around the western end, between the gates or entrance and exit to the enclosure. The east end is oc- cupied by a gallery and the grand stand, which is also divided into private boxes. Nearly all these compartments were fin- ished yesterday, except for the tops of the dividing rails. In the rear the rows of | reserved seats were up. reasching backward from the floor of the boxstalls to the gallery ceiling along the sides. . Thering floor, it is believed, will be as fine a one this season as the most exacting horseman could desire. Its foundation gave evidence of that expectation. First of all a floor of stout timber was laid upon cartloads of yellow clay were spread upon it Saturday and yesterday. This clay was carted from the neighborhood of the Ger- man Hospital, having been selected for its peculipr elastic quality. When spread yesterday it was fully six inches deep, ris- ing to twelve inches around the rails. To puck it into a solid, springy mass = pon- derous iron roller was hauled over it by two horses all day long. This roliing wiil be continued to-day, and when the surface be scattered over 1t and rolled firmly, Then the ring will be ready for the equine exhibition of jumping, running, riding, ete. While the ringand seating arrangement have been put into shape, accommoda- tions for the aristocratic steeds of ail de- grees have not been forgotten. On the contrary, the wings and annexes and other outside portions of the big building have been tuined into a series of immense On every side are rows of stalls, them provided with air-tight lin- ing and doors, and wherever a draft was suspected it has been blocked with parti- tions, Those stalls have already been reserved by exhibitors, and were in" readiness yes- terday to receive their occupants. To-day fodder and food will be moved into these stalls, and also the first lot of horse trappings, livery and vehicles, so that the place will have everything needed ior the horses on their arrival, Captain Thomson and six of his men will enter the vontestat the horse show for horsemanship. Besides the captain there will he Officers Compher, Harper, Arellanes, Norlin, Dow and Kavanagh. In addition to norsemansuip they will enter in a countest for lariat-throwing. e captain will dispiay his silver-mountea saddle, which was awarded the first prize at the Columbian World’s Fair and at the Milwaukee Fair. CHINATOWN BATTLE, Sabbath Amusement Over the Sale of a Chinese Laundry Where the Iron Bar Figured. The highbinders of the Wong and the Lee families held a pitched battle on Washington street, betwéen Dupont and Stcckton, yesterdav afternoon, at which Lee Hing, a vicious-looking highbinder, wielded an iron bar with good effect over the head of Ah Yee, inflicting several scalp wounds, which had the eff:ct of slitting the cranium of Yee as ‘though he were a chopping-block. A commotion in front of the store 842 ‘Washineton street attracted the attention of Officer 8. V. Bonuer, who was on duty at Dupont and Washington streeta. On his arrival at the place he observed a general pitched battle going on in the store. He blew his whistle, which brought Sergeant Mooney’s posse to the scene. Officer Martin F. Fanunian, who was in charge of the squad in the absence of Sergeant Mooney, blockaded the exits and bagged twenty-three full-fledged high- binders. The patrol wagon was called intoreq‘nis- ition and carted the entire lot to the Cali- fornia-street station, where charges were preferred against them of disturbing the peace except Lee Hing, who was charged with an assault with a deadly weapon. He was identified by Ah Lee as the one who wielded theiron bar with such great effect. The cause of the Sunday row arose over the sale of a laundry at 1409 Devisadero street, which had lately changed hands and in the transfer one of the laundry hands claimed he was being cheated out of $57 due him. ) It was in the attempt to collect this amount that the row took vlace between the members of the See Yip and the Wong Yee companies. The latter gang belonging to the Wong family undertook to clean out the See Yips, but the timely interference of the officers saved the Cor- oner from a job. Immediately preceding this fight Ah Ming was founa on the street with a 44- caliber Colt’s revolver siowed away in his blouse. He was arrested and bailed out just as the row was goingz on. One of G. A. Pope’s Favorite H rses That Is Extcd to Create a Sensation at the Coming Horse Show. the Pavilion boards and several hundred | is as even asa floor of bituminous rock | -| about two or three inches of tanbark will August Knoff, DECLARES AGAINST CONVICT GO0D§ The Labor Convention Is Very Decided on the Subject. Will Try to Obtain Appropri- ate Legislation Favoring Its Views. Delegates From an Unemp'oyed Meet- ing Fail to Obtain Admittance to the Gathering. Delegates from the trades unions of the City met vesterday in the California Labor Convention Hall, 9154 Market street, under the instructions of the convention for the purpose of discussing as a central labor body questions of vital importance to all the unions. The meeting was called to order by President James Rose, and Recording Secretary Guy Lathrop read the creden- tials of the delegates from the following orzanizations: Labor Council, Pattern and Model Maker:, United Green-glass Workers’ Association, Coast Seamen’s Union, Alameda Federation of Trades, Cigar-makers’ Union, International Furni- ture-workers, Iron-molders’ Union, Bar- bers’ Local Union, Typographical Union, Journeymen Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters and Bricklayers’ Union. The credentials of a delegation from the unemployed now meeting at 1159 Mission street created considerable warm discus- sion. Objection was made regarding the admission of these representatives on the ground that the body from which they came did not represent organized labor. President Rose said he had just come from the meeting at 1159 Mission street and he had heard sentiments uttered at that gathering such as no trade union could for a moment advocate. They had unenimously adopted a motion, he said, to send a committee to all einployers in the City and request to be given work be- low urion rates, Andrew Furuseth of the Coast Seamen’s Union called attention to the communica- tion bearing the signature of John N. Lee, chairman of the ways and means commit- tee, asking that tae labor convention send a delegation to 1159 Mission street, etc., and he wanted to know who JohnN. Lee was, that the organized laborers of San Francisco should waiton him. He would advise that these unemployed get into their unions and organize 1nto bodies that could berecognized. These floating boaies of laborers were a menace to organized la- por everywhere and at all times. It was finally concluded by the conven- tion not to admit the delegates, and the committec on credentials so informed them 1n the anteroom. After the reading of the minutes the subject of prison labor was taken up, and the report of the committee having that matter in hand considered. Secretary Lathrop stated that he had attended a meeting of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association when the con- vict-labor question had bheen discussed. At that meeting the following draftofa bill to be presented to the next Legisla- ture was offered: Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any per- son confined or employed in any penalinstitu- tion in the State of California to engage or be employed in the manufacture of anything whatever that is anartiele of commerce except jute bags and jute cloth (and articles made of natural stone.) Sec. 2. This act will not'apply to the manu- facture of any erticle consumed in the penal institution where manufactured. Secretary Lathrop explained that the words ‘‘and articies made of natural stone,” were in effect left out at his earnest request. He also said that he thonght that the association was inclined to favor prison-dressed stone. Several proposed amendments’' from i Code Commissioner Shields were read and referred to the proper committee, one regarding the imposing of licenses upon persons soliciting for articles produced or manufactured in this State; another regarding the placing of labels upon prison-made goods and a heavy penalty of fine or imprisonment for the removal of said signs or labels. The convention indoised the anti- pricon-labor bill of Representative South- wick now pending in Congress. The following resolution commending | the action of Labor Commissioner Fitz- gerald was unanimously adovted: WHEREAS, The Labor Commissioner has ren- derea estimable and valusble assistance in the matter of compiling laws for the benefit of Iabor and industrial reform in this State, and has in addition to that given hisaid and coun- sel for the good of the labor movement in general and this convention especialiy dur- ing his administration as an officer; whereas, | we deem It proper and jusi that honest effort should at all times merit and receive due recognition and reward; therefore, be it Resolved, That we in convention’ assembled, severally and coilectively, tender him our thanks and offer our encouragement and in. dorsement to the end that the office may be made all that it is calculatetl to be in the affairs for which it was instituted, with a view that the greatest possible amount of good may be experienced by the world of laborers at large. Resolved, That the acts of the present incum- bent of thatposition have, in our judgment, stamped’ him as & fit and proper, as well as gompelem person to perform its many trying luties. Resolved, That a copy of these articles be spread upon the records of this convention and a.copy be presented to E. L. Fitzgerald end also to the press, signed by the president and secretary. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. a Newspaper Carrier, Injured by the Discharge of His Gun. August Knoff, a newspaper carrier on the Evening Post and Guide, was accicen- tally shot in the left hand and side at Novato, Marin County, yesterday after- noon. . Knoff and another young man, John M. Sauter,who resides at 1408 Stockton street, had been out hunting in Marin County during the past two days, and on their return employed a man named John Brown, who keeps a ranch near Novato, to drive them to the railroad station. Brown hitched up his horse and the two boys jumped into the tail end of the spring wagon. Knoff, in order to make more room, shoved the double-barrel shot- gun from bim, and in doing so one of the bammers came in contact with the side of the wagon and the gun was discharged, the full charge going into Knoff's left hand alongsiie the tbumb, leaving an ugly hole in the back of his hand. A physician was found who bound up the wound and advised his companion to tuke him to the Receiving Hos:pital in this City, which was done on the arrival of the Tiburon boat at the wharf. The thumb was amputated. The mnjured boy resides with his parents at 11 Scott_place, off Broadway, between Powell and Mason sireets. His father is a butcher at Wilson’s shop. ———————— WE HAVE a world of pretty things on our second floor. Piano and banquetlamps, beau- tiful medallion pictures, both piain and colored, mounted on glass panels, water colors frameéd in go'd, oil paintinzs, photographs, engravings and etchings either in sheet or appropriately framed, all at reasonable prices, Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . NEW TO-DAY- RY GOODSs. e I \ HOLIDAY 6OODS! On to-morrow and following days we will exhibit an elegant stock of Choice NEW GOODS, specially imported for the HOLI= DAY TRADE. Ladies” and Gents’ Silk Umbrellas. Ladies’ and Gents’ Silk Handkerchiefs, Ladies’ and Gents’ Fine Neckwear, Ladies’ and Gents’ Silk Hosiery. Ladies’ and Gents’ Fine Undezwear. Ladies’ & Gents’ Initialed Handkerchiefs, Ladies’ and Gents’ Kid Gloves. NOTE—We are also offering an elegant assortment of IMPORTED NOVELTY DRESS PATTERNS, in both colored and black, at $5.25 and $6 each. TELEPHONE GRANT 124, C@rmets GOR PORAY, ¢ “1882. o 111, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. DLOBERG BOWEN &CO. have finer displays of cigars for holiday trade than any exclusive dealer in the city. - Imported and Xey West Usual low prices | | The prompt delivery of all orders means satisfaction of every customer; that’s what you may expect here. Our facilities for the prompt and proper delivery of orders, large and small, cannot be well improved upon. SPECIAL SAVING SALE. Monday—Tuesday— Wednesday F. Lecourt Mushrooms tin 20¢ reularly here 25¢, elsewhere 30c. i You can’t buy them cheaper in 25-case lots in this eity. 1b. 10c Macaroni regularly 15c. Macaroni, Vermicelli, Spachetti and Letters and Numbers (paste), the famous La Favorita brand, which we import for the army and navy and for fine family trade. Scotch and Irish Whiskies bottle 75¢ burgh, makers regularly $1. Distillers Co.,Itd.,Edin and botllenA(lurzaudlmllsry in the world). This is the time of year for hot drinks. No better goods, and at wholesale prices. French String Beans tin 20c regularly 30c. (Haricots Verts.) Oniy reason for this price, we have too many. Claret x:;zularly 75¢. gallon o Our guaranty for purity. We'll bottle it if you wish. Florida Relish = bottle 25¢ regularly 35c. Made of celery. All doctors recom- mend celery as food and medicine. Popcorn 6 1bs. 25¢ regularly 3 Ibs. 25c. Shelled. Hotscotch and popeorn! A combination of mirth,fun and frolic Matches pkge. ozle Vulcan paraffine, our direct impor tation from Sweden. Freo froni sul- Goldberg, Bowen & Co.’s Speeial Sale—Continued. g e o phuric odor. case. Regular Prices Reduced: Cbristmas-tree candles, any size, 10c. Suchard’s vanilla chocolate, 1b. 8Jc. Suchard’s bonne chocolate, 1b. 65¢. Suchard’s economique chocolate, 1b. 50¢c. Household soap, laundry, box of 20 cakes $1 10. 40 cakes §2. Assorted nuts, No. 2, 2 Ibs. for 25¢. Cranterries, No. 2, quart 10c. Christmas tree ornaments and bone bons now displayed OPEN NIGHTS Same price in 50 gross until Christmas ‘Ssignature is printed in BLUE diagonally across the ~ OUTSIDE wrappet/ of everi bottle of (the Original and Genuline) (Worcestershire SAUCE all imitations. r Agents for the United States, \\ JOHN DUNCAN’S SONS. N. Y. THE SUCCESS i THE SEASON The GRILL or . ROOM PALACE HOTEL. Direct Entrance from Market St. _ OPEN UMTIL MIDNIGHT. BLECTRIC BELTS 7 Are good things if prop- ¢ % erly made: but thera v no sense in paviog a hizh price for & poor articls simply because soms ad- vertising “quack” ae- mands it. tuy no Beis tll_you see Ur. Plerce's. B Book Free. Call or address DE. PIE<CE & SUN, 704 Sacramenta s, cor. Kearny, S R, Branch Office 640 Market st., 8 F. NOTARY PUBLIC. WARLES H. PRILLIPS. ATTORNEY-AT Law and Notary Public, 638 Market st., ite Palace Hotel. Telephone 570. Residence sireek Telophoue * Fine ” 269k A