The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 18, 1896, Page 9

— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1896. NAMES WRITTEN ON THE SLATE Colonel W. P, Sullivan Jr. to Be Mayor Phelan’s Secretary. Sam Rainey and the County Committeemen Will Divide Big Patronage. Frank L. Coombs and the Assembly Committees — Three-Cornered Fight for Chief Clerk. W. P, Sullivan Jr., formerly colonel of the First Infantry Regiment, N. G. C., and latterly an active exponent of Demo- .cratic doctrines 1n the municipal election, has his name on tbe slate for secretary ot Mayor Pbelan. The name is said to have been written with an indelible pencil and cannot be easily erased. The office isa gobd one. The duties are not arduous and the compensation is §250 a month. Colonel Sullivan was a popular colonel, 4nd his friends assert that he will become a popular secretary. One of the duties of the position is to explain to the aged and mfhgem the easiest way to get to the A_nmshouse. and another important func- tion is to bring into play the influence of the Mayor to effect the release of pet dogs from the Pound. Mayor Paelan, it is assumed, will have _another place to bestow. Courtesy accords to him the naming of one janitor—pre- sumabiy the one that takes care of the Mayor's office. In an aggravated contest for the spoils Sam Rainey might take this little plum by force, but there is no indi- cation that he intends to violate cour- tesies honored by precedent. _ The hundred or more places, such as janitors, watchmen, Prosecuting Attor- neys, Police Court clerks, etc., which the Supervisors appoint, will be divided eqnally iween Sam Rainey and the Democratic County Committeemen of the respective Assembly districts. For exam- ple, Sam wiil name one and then the Assembly ~district representative w name the second, and so on along theline, This arrangement may give fifty places to Rainey and fifty to the Assembiy distsicts. What the Supervisors will get themselves is not now clearly shown. _ Current rumor goes that Mayor Phelan is not in the deal. He will have the honor of presiding at the meetings of the board and the pleasure of signing warrants per- mitting Rainey’s men and others to draw money from the treasary. Just before Mayor Phelan’s term of office expires he will have an opportunity 10 appoint a Gas Inspector to succeed Colonel Taylor, who was recently ap- pointec. Frank L. Coombs, ex-United States M.nister to Japan, was in the City yester- aay. It seems to be conceded all around that he will be elected Speaker of the As- sembly. Judge Waymire is on the siate for chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Tze chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee is unsettled. Judge Henry C. Dibble was at the head of that committee during the first session of the Legislature under Governor Markham’s administra- tion. Mr. Coombs was then Speaker of the Assembly. Now itis rumored that the prospective Speaker has in mind for the place an Assemblyman from Sounthern California, Mr. Guy. Judge Dibble has a strong following in the Grand Army, which he may not invoke for so small an affair as the chairmanship oi an Assem- bly committee. It 1s said that he would prefer to use such influence with his com- rade Major McKinley to obtain an agreea- ble appointment in the diplomaticservice. There will be a tnree-cornered fight for chief clerk of the Assembly. The an- nounced candidates are: T. E. Atkinson of San, Francisco, S.J. Duckworth of Mon- terey and W. Hawxkett of Alameda. times past the Southern Pacific lobby managed to cut quite a figure in the se- lection of chief clerk of the Assembly, but word has now come from headquarters in the yellow building tbat the corporation will not help or hinder any candidate. Each man will stand on his merits and the most capabie clerk may win out. CON MOONEY’S WILDCAT. The Beast Has Leen Knocked Out by Brawny ‘Brick’” McPherson. Con Mooney’s wildcat is becoming a terrible nuisance around the City Prison. The ferocious feline stands fourteen inches high in the rear and is over a yard long from stem to stern. There is some lynx in him, as can be seen in his power- ful head and jaws. All these qualifica- tions go to make him an-object of admira- tion to the visitors at the jail, but it is the undeniable wild odor that accompanies the cat thatthe prison-keepers object to. The cat in bis cage has been in the cor- ridor between the main office and the trustees’ dormitory since Monday morn- ing, and the place smells like the lowest- grade circus menagerie at early morning. Last Sunday Con Mooney, the old-time cock-and-dog-fight promoter, invited a score of friends, at so much a head, to witness a fight he was going to pull off between a Calaveras wildcat weighing ap- proximately twenty-eizht pounds and a brindle bull terrier from Barney Riley’s kennel, weighing twenty-five pounds. The scene of conflict was to be at Cassidy’s Seven-mile House, just beyond the San Mateo County boundary line. The police” and other officers were on hand as early as any one else and started out to capture the principals in the affair. After several hours’ chasing and dodging Sheriff Kenney of San Mateo drove the crowd back over the line to the old Mis- sion road, where Con Mooney’s horse ‘balked and permitted Officer Holbrook to reach him. Mooney was placed under arrest, and the cage and wildcat in the wagon were taken as evidence. It is this same cat that is creating all the distress about the City Prison, the regular prop- erty clerk having refused to accept him. Mooney’s case will come up _belore Judge Low this morning. If heis con- victed the police fear that they will still remain custodians of the cat, but if he is Jiberated he may take the animal and be welcome to it. A ‘Th’ire is but one man besides Louis Ohnimus, formerly with Woodward’s Gardens, who can handle this cat, and tbat is A. W. McPherson, better known as “Brick.” Obnimus’ tire is taken up at the park lake and McPherson may be called upon to hundle the vicious beast if necessary. Last Sunday when the cat was ‘taken in charge and placed in the Seventeenth- streel station no one could approach nearer than ten feet from the ca e until McPherson, passing the place, stepped in to see what was going on. 3 “That cat’s starved,”’ he said, and pro- curing a piece of liver, he volunteered to feed it. The cat made a few vicious Junges and then quieted down. Having eaten everything in sight thecat leaped at the netting of his cageas if to sieze the hand that had fed bim. He almast broke througb. As he made another lunge Mc- Pherson smote the brute with his fist with such force the snarling animal retired to the furthest corner. After that when McPherson called on the cat at the City Prison it snarled as In | usual, but remained away from the bars or grating. RICHMOND'S STEADY GAIN, Exchange of Real Estate and New Buildings Indicite Confidence in This Section. The Richmond residents are not indulg- ing just now in the luxury of electric lights on their streets, but yet the section i3 advancing along the line of steady progress and iinprovements. Day by day lots are bought and sold and new buildings are being contracted for. John Wilson, the boatswain of the reve- nue cutter Corwin, has just finished a neat new cottage on Third avenue, and as a proof of his intention of making good use of his new home he notified his neigh- bors of that fact on last Wednesday night by hiring a band of music to enliven the occasion and to celebrate his marriage to Miss Kitty Fennigan, one of the Richmona society belles. In addition to this new cottage, B. I. Taylor has contracted with E. . Forst for a $5000 residence on Twentieth avenue, between Clement street and Point Lobos avenue. T. G. Parker, the Richmond real estate agent, has, during the past week, trans- terred a lot on Clement street and Fourth ue to L. Levy for $1200, and to Mrs. Crosseut one on Twenty-tourth avenue and Point Lobos avenue for $1800, T. La- massey also sought the same agent to purchase a lot on Second avenue, between Clement and California streets. In the same locality Mrs. Mary Muller purchased a lot for $1200 through the same source. These figures, Mr. Parker states, are con- siderable of an advance on prices offered 10r corresponding properties one year ago. The old racecourse is uow one level body of ground, with streets and avenues marked over its surface, and sewers are being put in. Sixth avenue, between Lake and Clement streets, is graded and macadamized. The same sort of improve- ment is being applied to Laks street, ! between Fiith and Sixth avenues. Twelith avenue, between Clement and California, is also improyed. Polnt Lobos avenue is one sheet of red mud and dirt, the accumulation of refuse and sweepings for years, asthis thorough- fare has never had the benefit of being scratched by the street-sweeper going over ts surface. This neglect will be obviated fthe Richmond Improvemeni Club can induce the next Legislature to take Point Lobos avenue from the care of the Park Commissioners and place it under the control of the Supervisors, where, the resi- dents say, it justly belongs. Additional hall and lodgeroom ftcom- modation will be provided for clubs and societies by improvements about to be done by F. M. Flugger, proprietor of the Boulevard, on the corner of First and Point Lobos avenues, by certain altera- tions on the second story of his building. . FUNDS TO BE RAISED. The Committee of Fifty After Money to Fight the Funding Bill at Washington. it was decided yesterday at the meeting of the Committee of Fifty to begin at once toraise funds to fight the funding bill in Washington. Those present were Mayor Sutro, Messrs. Monteith, Coward, Thompson, Fitch, Doyle, Truman, Pop- ver, Barry, Leggett, Menzies, Phelan, Brittain and Scott. The meeting was held behind closed doors. The matter of finances was broached and Max Popper said that the sinews of war were absolutely necessary. He offered to subscribe $100 and James D. Phelan at once added $500 to start the fund. Each member was appointed a separate com- mictee to raise money within the next five duys. George K. Fitch reported that.he had conferred with Senator White about the coming battie before Congress and bhad been told that literary ammunition wouta do good work, and that gome kind of a the railroad should be sent to each member. - Mayor Sutro was appointed a commitee of one to formulatea plan of campaign to be submitted at the next meeting. - FAIR ESTATE FEES. Judge Slack Has Been Asked to Allow Them. Judge Slack was yesterday asked to sllow some Christmas money to the special administrators and attorneys in the James G. Fair estate, which is esti- mated to be worth $17,300,000. The special administrators were modest and asked the court to fix their fees, | Likewise the lawyers felt backward | about coming forward, but at last Judge Siack drew out of them a suggestion that 1 per cent all around would be about right. The idea was mentioned by ex- Judge Paterson, attorney for Herman Qelrich’s minor son. Considerable sums have alreaay been distributed among the special adminis- trators. They think they are entitled to §100,000 each. This will allow a balance of not less than $50,000 each to W. 8. Good- fellow, James Angus and Tnomas G. Crothers. As for the lawyers, the firm of Pierson & Mitebell, composed of W. M. Pierson and R. B. Mitchell, will receive $100,000, and Garret McEnerney is to have $50,000. L. C. Bresse, who was appointed one of the special administrators, died some time ago. His estate will receive a sum commensurate with his term of service. Judge Siack took the matter under ad- visement. It is believed that he will allow ihe fees for the'{ull sum suggested, | as there appears to be no opposition, and the claims are by some of the heirs re- garded as reasonable. e CHINAWARE GIVEN AWAY. A Liberal Offering of the Great Ameri- can Importiig Tea Company. The big sale recently inaugurated by the Great American Importing Tea Com- pany is creating a general rush at the various branches of this large concern. Tne sale in question will extend through- out the holidays, and offers some rare in ducements to purchasers in china, crock- ery and glassware. With each 50-cent purchase of tea, coffee, spices or baking-powder, 2 hand- | some award of some useful household article in chinaware, crockery or glass- ware is given each customer. Aside from the prizes given purchasers a big cut in the regular prize of plain and fancy china and glassware has been made, and some great bargains in tea sets and dinner sets are to be had at the stores of the Great American Itaporting Tea Com- pany. —————— Rule as to hibits. Judge Belcher yesterday made the following order: “Hercafterin this department of the Su- perior Court, at the conclusion of & tris whether the verdici be one of acquittal orcon- | viction, the clerk of the court is ordered to | send all the exhibits in the case to the prop- erty clerk of (he Police Department of this City and County to abide the further order of the court or till needed in the trial of tho cause. This order is made applicable to all cases pending or concluded. In each instance the clerk of the court will take from the prop- erty clerk his receipt and file the same with the papers in the case.” Iii1s understood that the order has originated from the disappéar- ance of & photograph which was an exbibit in the Carl von Tiedemann case in one of the Saperior cou ————— Mary Tarpey'’s Death. Autopsy Physician Dr. Charles L. Morgan, attached to the Morgue, nas held an autopsy upon the body of Mary Theresa Tarpey of 2820 Greenwich street, end found that death was due to_consumption. Hence no inguest will be beid. This was the unfortunate girl who_just before her death made a confession in which she charged Nicholas Brennan with havine causea her disgrace. Brennan is now under arre: e TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take latative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- gists refund the money if it fails to cure, 23¢. warning.against the nefarions schemes of | FOUNDER OF A GREAT JOURNAL General C. H. Taylor of the Boston Globe on a Visit Here. Always a Field for a Paper, He Says, if the Right Man Is in the Office. Color Pictures Are the Coming Thing. Indications cf Great Prosperity by Spring. General Charles H. Taylor, proprietor of the Boston Globe, the great morning daily of New England, arrived here yes- terday, accompaniea by Mrs. Taylor and his two daughters, Miss Elizabeth Taylor vote in Massachusetts in the recent elec- tion that was ever known. During the war at one period, when the vote was practically unanimous, we polled for a ‘war Governor 71,000 votes. But this year McKinley got 172,000 vyotes. Curiously enough, too, Bryan got his biggest audi- ence 1n Boston—an audience of 50,000 at. Faneuil Hall. “In coming through the South I was im- | pressed with the openings offered there. The country is just being opened up, com- paratively speaking, and I would not be surprised if there was twenty or thirty years of great prosperity there.’ General Taylor is a young-looking man, considering the great paper te has founded and the wealth he hasazquired. If it were not for his frosted beard he would readily be taken for a man of 40. HANLEY IS A TRUE HERO, A Policeman Stopped a Runaway Team From Killing School- children. Foreman Scholm of the *“Shooting the Chutes” drives well enough on four wheels, but when his buggy casis one of them it is different. This occurred yesterday, shortly before noon, when the schoolchildren were about to leave their classes for lunch, and if it had not been for Officer W, H. Hanley it is Iikely that there would have been heart- rending scenes.. The foreman and another employe, be- hind two spirited horses, were on their way into town when, on Stanyan street, an off hind wheel slipped and threw both men out. The horses became unmanage- GENERAL CHARLES H. TAYLOR, Editor and Proptietor of the =) Boston Globe. |Sketched from life by a *Call” artist.] and Miss Grace Taylor. The family will remain in California during the winter. General Taylor will be here about two weeks. 1tis nis first visit to the State. He was never before west of Chicago, and the size of the land toward the sunset, he says, has made a vivid impression on him. He reached here by way of New Orleans and Texas, General Taylor has for nearly twenty years been at the front of journalism in Boston. He tcok the paper when it had been run only about a year and began to put life into it. He was soon a great factor in all the affairs of New England. At the present time his paper circulates something over 200,000 copies daily and reaches to almost 250,000 on Sunaay. General Taylor holds that it is always the inside of the office that kills it, never the outside. He thinks there is room for any paper anywhere that hasa good man in its office. There may be better papers there, he says, but this one will make money and have influence 'and be an abiding thing. Itis his opinion, too, that illustrated papers have come to stay and that pretty soon every daily in the country of any im- portance will have colored pictures. “More artists will also be employed,” said he. **Where there is one artist now there will be two in two or three years. Illustrated papers have come to stay. Pictures are a feature. The people want them, and 1t is astonishing how the daily papers have improved in making pictures, 1 picked up the other day a copy of Harper's Monthly thirty years old. Why, tue pictures are better by far in the dailies now than in the periodical of that time. 1 remember seventeen or eighteen years ago we had pictures of the Beard of Al- dermen and tiey were s bad that they made the Aldermen look like a lotof thieves and thugs. Newspaper art has ['improved greatly since then and it will keep improving.” Regarding the condition of business in the East, General Taylor says itisim- proving, but slowly. In a little while, in his opihion, it will be good. ““There were some,” he said, “who ex- cied that prosperity would come with a g;nnd simultaneously with McKinley’s election, but of course this could not be. We wili have to make progress gradually. It could not be expected that after such an extraordinary period of dullness we could reach a’ prosperous condition im- mediately. “But there never was another time in the history of our country when one day was to setile whether we should have ood times or bad times. My opinion is that we will move along pretty much as now till spring and then things will open out and we will have three or four years of the greatest prosperity the country has ever known., That is, unless thereisan extra session of Congress, as has been talked of, it will start that time. If there should be an extra session to re- model the tariff it might be around mid- summer before they get it settled. This would delay the prosperity that otherwise would reach us in the spring. *In New Eugland enormous sums were held back from investment and made conditional on the election of McKinley. One man in Boston proposed to build four big houses at a cost of $1,000,000 if Me- Kinley were elected. 1f not he would not invest anything. Since then the contracts have been given, and pretty soon this money will be paying for grading, cement, lumber, labor and tinding its way to all classes. Itistruein thousands of other cases there and over the count: “We polied the greatest rEapv blican l 20 able and tore down through the park pan- ! handle, dragging the vehicle on three wheels between obstacles better than it could be steered at the horse show. At Fell street they turned out north into Baker street, where Officer Hanley, mount- ed. patrols. Fortunately there were not mmfi vehi- cles on the street at this time, but Hanley | 1n true cowboy style chased after the run- away for acouple of blocks unti! Fulton street was reached. At that juncture he seized the horses by the bridles and steered them around sud- dexly, causing them to fall. Had the horses continued to McAllister street they would have crashed into the children irom the Fremont Primary School. The Chutes lost their buggy, that’s all, for the horses were handled so well they were little injured. The other losers in this affair was the policeman, whose horse ran away while he was disentangling the team that had run into and smashed George Heineman’s wagon at Fulton and Baker streets, —— Going to the Citrus Fair. The excursionistsfrom this City to the San Josquin Citrus Fair at Fresno will leave this afiernoon, starting from the footof Market street at 4:30 o'clock. Headquarters_for excursionists have been opened ut the State Board of Trade, 16 Post street, and all those who contemplate going will report there before 3 o’clock. THE BIG DINNER GETTING READ! The School Children Rally to the Support of the Army. They Prove a Very Successful Skirmishing Corps in the Emergency, Adjutant McFee’s Oifice the Hea” quar- ters for Donations of All Sorts, Coming In Thick. The Salvation Army Christmas dinner fund is growing apace. The school children can nearly always be depended upon in a case of this kind. Their sympathies are quick and warm. They know what Christmas really is much better than their elders, and the idea of anybody not having a good warm dinner on that day is something entirely too ter- rible to be thought of. So they have turned in to serve the army as a skirmish corps, and the result is a very brightening prospect for the outcasts. After school hours yesterday the little people called in numbers at Adjutant Mec- Fee's office reporting progress, and the stockroom at 862 Folsom street is assum- ing the appearance of a very ttrifty store. The call for contributions is being an- swered with all sorts of things and there will not only be a big dinner, but a distri- bation of warm clothes. Following is a list of contributions up to date: Washington Primary School 39 packages clothing, 48 packages groceries; Spring Val- ley Grammar School—12 sacks coal, 6 sacks guufl.oes, 2 sacks flour, 135 packages groceries, packages clotiing; Merton Manulacturing Company—35 pounds coffee; H. W. Burmeister, 5 pounds coffec; J. Herzog, 1 package clothing: Railrosd Bakery, bread and cakes; Marshall Primary School—5 sacks clothing, 13 sacks 2 boxes groceries; Douglas School—31 parcels clothing, 28 parcels groceries, cash 20 cents; Sheridan Primary School—31 parcels grocer- ies, 43 parcels clothing, 6 sacks potatoes, 3 sacks flour, 2 sacks conl, 1 sack wood, cash 75 cents; Harrison Primary Schooi — 15 parcels clothing, 14 parceis groceries; 330 Hyade street, 1 package clothes; J. F. Harland, 7 cloaks; Pacific Lumber Company, 500 feet redwood Jumbper; Te:uth-street lPlain- ing Mill, 250 feet redwood lumber; a lady, | Green sireet, 3 bundles clothing; Schloss & Co., cash, $2 50; Commercial Union Insurance Compuny, ¥5: Horace Davis, $5; Pacific Bank- ing Company, $2 50; Balfour, Guthrie &Co., $10; Nenstadter Bros., $5; Iriends, $23 50; Alvinza Hayward, $10; 518 Fell street, 1 sack otatoes; Redding Senool—55 parcels clothing, 98 parcels groceries, cash $6 60; J. A. Pattér- con, 6 sacks flour; Lester Howell, 1 sack pota- toes, 8. Marcus, 1 sack flour; Mrs. J. A, Salts, Ppackaze clothing. Denman School—11 sacks coal, 2 sacks pota- toes, 58 packages groceries, 79 packeages cloth- ing; James Lick School—4 sacks potatoes, 2 sacks beans, 21 packages clothing, 47 pack- ages grocerfes; Miss Martin's Kindergarten— 8 packages groceries, 4 packages clothing; Halght-street Primary — 170 packages gro- ceries, 5 secks potatoes, 30 packages clothing; Irving Primary—15 packages groceries, 1 pack- age clothing; Rincon Grammar—43 packages groceries, 1 sack potatoes, 3 packages clothing; Longfellow Primary—Cash !{4 50, 72 packages groceries, 7 packages clothiug; Hearst Gram- mar—37 packages groceries, 41 packages eloth- ing: Richmond Primary—30 packages cloth- ing, 45 packages groceries, 1 sack potatoes, 1 sack flour, 1 sack wood, 1 sack coal; Bheridan Primary—34 packeges elothing, 24 packages groceries, 3 sacks flour, 14 sack beans, 1 sack Tice; Hamilton Grammai—Cash 50 ceuts, 50 ‘packages clothing. 2 sacks potatoes, 20 pack- ages groceries; Goiden Gate Primary—27 pack- ages clothing, 97 packages groceries, 2 sacks poiatoes, 4 sacks wood, 2 sacks coal. BOWMAN NOT RESPONSIBLE. No Agency in Causing the Death of Henry Peters’ Son. It has been determined by the Sapreme Court that C. E. Bowman was not respon- sible for the death of Henry Peters’ 11- year-old son. This lad -was rafting on railroad ties on a pond on Ashbury Heights which bad been artificially cre- ated by the City, which, prior to 1889, threw up an embankment there during the grading of the street. He fell off and was drowned. Bowman owned the lot on which the pond was. The Supreme Court yesterday handed down a decision, in which it was set Jorth that Bowman did nothing to create the pond, and that the deceased boy wasa trespasser, and that the verdict in favor of Bowman in the lower court was right. Therefore the judgment of the lower court was affirmed. S ——-——— ,STRANGE OASE. J. L. Tisdale Sued for a Secret That He Never Heard. Judge Seawell yesterday granted a non- suit in the case of Thomas Curtis against J. L. Tisdale. Mr. Curtis invented an illuminating compound which he called the “Stanford Light,” and alleges that he sold to Mr. Tisdale for §750 the right to make and sell the oil outside of S8an Fran- cisco, the plaintiff agreeing to deliver the formula on payment of the purchase rice. As the money was never produced r. Curtis sued for it. The court reasuns that as the thing to be delivered is a se- cret formula, it could not be treated as an ordinary chattel. 1 There may be Then ¥ ou Cheaper Belts, Duy &£ avpic but there are Store Health you don’t None as Good. want a toy. known remeay fails. DR. A. T. SANDEN—Dear Sir: ten usinj 4 South Broadway; Portland, Or., 253 NEW TO-DAY. IT'S NO HUMBUG. ul HAVE BEEN READING ABOUT your Electric Belt for a long time, but I alwayslooked upon it as a humbug until Imet an old friend to-day and he told me it was no humbug, that it had cured him. ‘When he says it cured him I know he wouldn’t lieaboutitand I want to try one.”” This is the statement made to Dr. Sanden a few davs ago by a man who had been suffering for years from a complaint which will be guickly cured by Dr. Sanden’s Electric Belt. There are thousands of others who hold the same view of it that he did, and they wouid all be converted to the truth if they would investigate the good'that this famous health-giving ap- pliance has done and is doing. It is a vositive cure for all forms of Nervousor Muscle troubles, Weakness of any kind, Rheumatism, Lame Back, Kidney and Liver troubles. 1t will cure after every other Ten Years of Stomach Trouble. Fresno, €Cal., November 25, 1896. I was troutled with my stomach for more than with terrible pains and vomiting. besides other general weakness. Since 'y'nur Belt, which L got last February, I have been iree from all those troubles. I consider it & grand thing for those in need of health. Yours ;-;(r;ggnlu, . BECKWITH. 1f you do not know any one who has been cured by Dr. Slndenf.s Electric Beit send for the book, “Three Classes of Men.” It will give you the names of people in every city in the West, and you must know some of them. This book is valuabie to any weak man or woman. Dr. Sanden’s Belt is good for both. Dr. Sanden will examine und advise you free of charge. Call or address SANDEN BLECTRIO CO., 632 MARKET ST., OPPOSITE PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO. Office hours—8 A. M. t0 6 P. M. ; evenings, 7 to 8:30; Sundays;10 to 1.° Los Angeles Office ‘ashington street. Consultation free aud invited. NOTE,—Meke no mistake in the number—E& 3 & Market sireeh FEW TO-DAY—DRY GOQDs === THIS NORNINGS SALE, O TO 12 M., AT B LSS E MA ! stop at that. to come early. SiElesis We only do it to fill our store with morning shoppers. We are busy enough now during the holidays, but we do not Our morning sales are a fixture. They have come to stay. Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday you will find extraordinary values to tempt you They were splendid sellers at 50c. for the time mentioned. heard of. bargain suit at $12 50, special sale bargain. they won’t Jast the sale out. TO-DAY o TO 12 M. 50: FANCY WEAVE SILKS FOR 29 Our ‘only fear is there will not be enough to last the three hours of sale. TO-DAY o TO 12 M.— 50¢ AND 75¢ NOVELTY DRESS GOODS, 35¢. These are the newest and best Dress Goods that have ever been sold at 50c and 75¢, but to encourage morning trading with us they will be 35c Right here we want to state that we have opened 10 cases of foreign and domestic Dress Goods that at from 25¢ to 75c a yard will excel in quality and value anything you have ever TO-DAY 9 TO LADIES' TAILOR-MADE SUITS, $6.98. These are brand new, have never been on sale before, arrived from the maker Wednesday; perfect fitting; jackets are ail silk-linea; rustle percaline lined; made of mixed cheviots in the latest style, and a TO-DAY 9 TO 12 M.— MIXED PLAID DRESS GOODS, 6. These are Wednesday arrivals, double foid, and at 127{c would be a Come early. There are two cases of them, but We duplicated them several times. 12 M— skirts TOYS AND HOLIDAY GOODS! ‘We are ahead of our last year's sales in Toys and Christmas Wares. That means people realize the truth of our statements. them into coin regardless of cost, and desvite the fact that there are more Richmonds in the field this year than ever beiore. We are converting BUY NOW, DON'T WAIT TILL NEXT WEEK. We Won't Be Able to Half Wait_on You Then. 3OO OOLE0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 EZE=SS{=ZE=:=0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0 POCOOSVOVL0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0EZEIFIZTEIET 0-0-0-0-0-:0-00-0000 3 MARKET AND %z“’f/’fimfimyer ) ores o SHe Mevxe TAYLOR 'STS. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE HELVETIA SWISS FIRE INSURANGE COMPANY, F ST. GALL, SWITZERLAND,ON THE 31ST . D, 1895, and for the year as made 10 the Insurance ending on that d Commissioner of the State of Calitornia, pursuant to the provisions ot sections 610 £nd 611 of the Po- Jitical C: de, condensed as per blank iurnished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. . $2,000,000 00 n 400,000 00 ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Company. 41,000 00 Loaps on Bonds and Mortgages..... 591,295 21 ‘Lash Market Value of a!l Stocks and Bonas owned by Company...... 855,259 39 i Company’s Office and in L":} l“I( Sl 272,386 57 anks. .. Interest due and accrued on Bonds and Mortgazes, 22,027 10 1 in due b 162,122 60 Total assets. . $1,944,080 87 LIABILIYIES. Losses Adjusted and_ Unpaid Losses in_Process of Adjust or in Suspense. .. Losses Resisted, inciuding EX penses ... BRs Tl SR Gross Preminms on Fire Risks rin- ning one year or less, $636,- 960 55 reiusurance 50 per cent Gross Premiums on Fire itisks run- ning more than one year, $160), 1 1' $97,205 27 818,480 28 799 71: relnsurance pro rata. 128,639 77 Due and accrued'for Salaries, Ke 11,600 00 nds against the Com- . 191,293 81 Total Liablilities. $747.309 INCOME, Net_Cash actually received for Fire Premiums. hasaesas . $710,980 52 Recelved for interest on Bonds snd Mortgages. . 24,926 68 Received 10r interest and dividends on Bonds, N ocks, Leans, and trom all other sources 82730 73 Total Income. $768,637 93 EXPENDITURES. Net amount paid for Fire Losses.... Dividends to Stockholders. .. Paid or allowed for Commission or $369,460 49 96,000 00 + Brokerag 101,538 80 Paid_for Saiaries, keesa: charges for officers, clerks, ets 47,300 83 Pald for State, National and 'axes.. . 17,142 97 All other payments and expendi- tures. .. 47,501 90 Total Expenditures STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE BALOISE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY F BASLE, SWITZERLAND, ON THE 31ST day of December, A. D. 1895, and_for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California. pursvant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed as per Llauk furnisted by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. $2,000,000 00 P 400.000 00 ASSETS. Real Estaté ownad by Company.... § 299,752 22 Loans on Bonds and Morigage: 377,600 00 Cash Market Value of all Stoc! d Bonds owned by, 215,776 13 Cash in Company’s Office and in BRARS Vol 128,677 36 Interest due and accrued on all Stocks and Loans 6,932.82 #remiums In due Course of Collec (L e 4 44,998 77 Total Assets....... LIABILITIES. Iosses Adjusted and Unpaid........ $46,158 40 Losses in Process of Adjustment or in Suspense . 4118220 Gross Premiums on Fire Risks ruo- Ding one year or lass, §485, 482 28; reinsurance 50 per cent. 242,741 11 Gross Premiums on Fire Risks run mng more than one year, $8; 036 98 reinsurance pro rata.... 50,862 89 Cash Dividends remaining unpaid.. 258 00 Total Liabilities. 381,197 60 INCOME. Net Cash actually received for Fire Premiums B ... $567,61817 Recelved for Interest and Dividends on Bends, Stocks, Loans and from all other sources.. . 33,810 67 Received for Rents.... - 11,22046 Total Income. $612,570 30 EXPENDITURES, Net Amount paid for Fire Losses... $350,029 15 Dividends to Stockholders. .......... 24,000 00 Paid or Allowed for Commission or. Brokerage.... ... 105,155 40 Paid for ~alarles, Fees ani other Charges for Officers, Clerks, etc. 52,095 23 Pald for State, National and Local Taxes . 8.507 80 AlL other tures. 24,717 10 Total Expenditures . _$764,504 68 RISKES AND PREMIUMS. RISKS AND PREMIUMS. Fire Risks Premiums. iy | Net amountof Risks | Writtenduring ihe| ©| 8807,956,565| §1,448,155 01 Netam: s ‘expired during the 534,072,021 441,133,585 792,108 11 767,760 27 Net emount 1o force December 31,1895 £ HALTMAYER, President, M. J. GROSSMAN, Secreiary. Subscribed and sworn to bfore_me, this_31st day of March, 1896. IRVING B. RICHMAN. U.’S. Consul-General. SYZ & CO, “ GENERAL AGENTS, 410 California Street, San Francisco. | Fire Risks. | Premiums. Net amount of risks | written during| the year......... | $194,873,643) 526500 43 Netamount of risks expired during the year......... 87,456,346 67,598 32 Net amount in force December | 381, 1895. | 325,073,194 567,519 17 R. ISELIN, President. AL TROXLER, Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of April, 1896. GEORGE GIFFORD, United Stales Consul. SYZ & CO, GENERAL AGENTS, 410 Californla St., San Francisco. REMOVAL NOTICE. IERCE & (O, GENERAL WESTERN National Cash Register Co., have re- bldg. to rooms 313 und 313. Parroit bldg., opp. Balawin Hotel. Tel.southl08. - ; | movolitan Hoiel COSMOFOLITAIV. Opposite U. 8. Mint, 100 and 102 Fifth st., Saa Francisco, Cal.—The moat select family hotel ia the city. Board and room $1, $1 25 and $1 50 poe day, according 1o room. Meals 25c. Rooms 503 #nd'76¢ & day. Free coach 10 aad from ihe hotei 100K for the coach bearing the name Of the oy Wik ¥ALEY) Froprieios