The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1896, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1596. 13 FYPLAIRS HIS / WATER-FRONT BILL Assemblyman Leavitt As- serts He Is Acting in Good Faith. The Proposed Measure Consid- ered Unnecessary at the Present Time, It Is Believed It Must Pr judice the City’s Standing i» the U. S Suprem: Court. OAxL OrFIcE OF THE CALy, 908 Broadway, D:c, 22. } No matter what may be the outcome, itis certainly unfortunate that any legis lation affecting the water front should be ! counsidered ne. The case has been argued and is now awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court, and any biil introduced at the coming Legislature must necessarily prejudice it. Assembiyman Frank Leavitt said to-day that it 1s a grave mistake to suppose that e bill is beirig introduced at the instiga. *‘n of any agency of the railroad com. . OQakland has become so used to | interference by the Legslature in water-iront matters, and always to her detriment, that it is a loregone conclusion with her citizens that all such measures | must be instigated by the railroad com- | » It issoin this instance, and it is veculiarly unfortunate that it should have | hapoened at the very outset of the public | career of Mr. Leavitt, Attorney W. R. Davis, who certainly knows as much about the legal status of the water iront as any one in the State, and who with his colleagues has been | vaid a good-sized fortune to carry the water-front case through to the highest court in the land, is, no doubt, the best authority on the subject. When he says that the bill, although, no doubt, weil | meant by Mr. Leavitt, 1s pernicious, the people of this city are bound to accept his | statement, as they have employed him to | give just such advice. Assemblyman Leavitt said to-day: “I had this bill printed so that just what is bappening could ‘take piace, viz., that it might be thoroughly discussea before being presented to the Legislature. The Dilkis my own idea, aided by suggestions from prominent people who have been for vears fighting the railroad. I have never spoken to any railroad attorney on the | tter nor to any one connected with the oad in any way. “If this measure had been a railroad | re I certainly should not have placed it before the public the way I aid this discussion is exactly what 1 want. If the majority of the people of QOakland think that the water front and harbor of Oakland should be in the possession- of the State, I will introduce the bill and work for it all I can. Itseewms to me that if the State obtained possession of the water front and a Board of Harbor Com- | missioners was appointed, such as my bill provides for, that Oakland woula then go abead. The State would spend money for provements, commerce would increase and a move would be made in the right A irection. . “For forty vears the water front has been idle and unimproved, and there is every indication that the present litiga- tion may be extended and kept up for years to come. San Francisco's water front was likewise negiected and unim- proved until the State assumed control of | it; after that money w. pent, wharves were built and the City went ahead. No | doubt Oakland’s experience would be the | same if my bill should pass. ltseemsto | me that it would be better for the State | to handle the matter, for even if the city wins its present suit nothing could be done in the way of permanent improve- menis because of lack of money. My bill is not antagonistic to the city any more than it is to the water front. It simply means the taking of the fight out of the hands of the municipality and placing it in the State, which is properly able to control interests of such vast importance.” - Any attempt to interfere with the water-front legislation 1s of vast import- ance to this community. Up to this time the city has won all the points in the liti- gation. A decree has been obtained in the Superior Court bolding that the title is vested in the city. Under these cir- cumstances the city has no motive for arresting the litigation, and can only be rejudiced by any logislative measure at his time. Even should the biil pass and the Legislature give the property back to the State, the State would then have to again go over all the legal ground which has been covered by the city of Oaklana during the past four years before it could oust the railroad from possession. BSo far as the Btate courts are concerned, a final decision is about to be reached, and the interjection of Assembiyman Leavitt's bill is certainly to be deprecated. Men best acquainted with the methods of ‘the corporation in water-front matters declare openly that this bill would be one of the greatest drawbacks, if passed, to the city’s legal status at this time. It cannot benefit the city, but might benefit the ‘railroad. It is not contended that Assemblyman Frank Leavitt derived his inspiration irom the Southern Pacific Company; it is believed that he drafted the measure be- cause he thought it was in the best in- terests of the early improvement of the water front, most of which is located in his Assembly district. ¥ Should the bill, however, be introduced, it will most certainly receive ail the suvn- yort the railroad can give it, and those best acquainted with the inside history of past Legisiatures fear the result, MINISTERS OONFLIOT. Shall . Unitarians Be Admitted to the Conferences ? OAKLAND, Car, Dsc. 22—A special commitwe of the Oakland Ministerial Usion is at work on the problem of ‘whether Unitarian ministers shall be ad- mitted to its conferences. At itslast meeting Rev. 8. 8. Palmer pro- tested against the principle of admitting Unitarians. He paid a high compliment “t0 Rev. Dr. Wendte, and siated that his only reason for calling attention to the matter was to prevent any breach of the canons of the church. A committee was appointed to see if the admittance of Unitarians to the Ministe- rial Union was in conflict with their rules, .and their report is expected next week. ————— | May Work Prigoners. OAKLAND, CaL, Dec. 22, — Mayor Davie is very anxious to try the “Pingree plan’’ of cultivating the unoccupied land pf the city. He, however, velieves the Tirst step should be to put to work the men confined in the city prison on petty of- fenses, so that they couid do something toward their support. Later, if this| ‘proves successful, he would extend the plan so that the unemployed of the city might be given a chance to support them- selves and their families, For some time the Mayor has been try- ing to sccure a tract belonging to lhel «Coleman estate and another adjoining be- | The director | were competent former tract is 600 by 300 feet, and it is bounded by Telegraph avenue, Grove, Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets. The iatter is bounded by Grove, West, Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets, and is 300 feet square; also a block at Linden and Tbu-}y- third streets, belonging to A. J. Snyder Jr. Itisprobable other property-owners would donate the use of their property. Is It a Hoax? ‘ OAKLAND, Car, Dec. 22.— Coroner Baldwin received a note to-day mailed vesterday, but dated the 18th. and signed Peter McLaugh!in, aged 27, in which the writer savs Le w:il drown bimeelf in the well at the north end of Lake Merritt, where his body can be Jound. The Coro- ner says he will pay no attention to the matter. Father Yorke to Lecture. —Rev, Father y of Oakland at the Macdonough Theater on Monday evening, Decerber 28, His subject will be “Was the American Constituiion Founded Upon Protestant Principles?”’ —— e UNIVERSITY R IREMENTS. School Directors Believe They Exercise Too Much Influence in Oakland. OAKLAND, Car., Dec. Tue request for changes in the course of study made by the teachers last evening to the Board of Education, which provides for addi- tional work in the ninth grade of the Central School, caused some of the Direc- tors to remark that they believed the State University was exercising too much influence in shaping the course of study for the schools of Director a K the only member of the board, said she feared too much work would fall upon the ninth-erade pupils. She was of the opin- ion that the course of study was being ar- ranged to suit only the brightest pupiis. These latter made up only about 1 per nt of all those attending the schools. id that she believed that hers were only comparatively few per- sons connected with the university who to say what shbjects should be taught in a grammer grade, yet on account of the increasing requirements for admission to the university more work was constantly being forced back upon the ninth grade trom the High School. In her opinion a law should be passed prohibiting the university from changing its requirements at less intervals than four years. President Clement and Director Evans indorsed her remarks, and the matter was referred to the classification committee. lady UR, HARRIS" PHILOSOPHY, Debate Before the Philosoph- ical Union at Berke- ley. An Exposition of the Deve cpment of Mind and the Nature of God. BERKELEY, CaL., Dec. 22.—Dr. liam T. Harris, Professor Howison, Wil- Dr. | George M. Stratton and E. B. McGilvray | discussed the nature of the divine person- ality in Stiles Hall to-night before the Philosophical Union. The object of the gathering, was to arrive at an understanding as to the different positions held by Dr. Harris and those who differed with him, and the professor at once proceeded to a state- ment of the difficulties in question. The lower auditorinm of Stiles Hall was well filled with an audience composed - princi- pally of members of the faculty of the uni- versity and of the Philosophical Union. “Philosophy undertakes to explain reasonably the world of being,” said Yro- fessor Howison. ‘‘Some philosophers say that it is impossible to do this, but make an attempt at the task. The first princi- ple is generally in some sense a theism. When the absolute intelligence is re- garded as a benevolent being, it 1s a Christian theism. “Dr. Harris’ philosophy is theistic and Christian. We agree here entirely. We shall ask him to explain why, if the abso- lute being is independent and complete, there should be any creation at all? Dr. Hazrls, more than a philosopher, deals with this question. Dr. Harris accepts the Christian insight inio God and crea- tion, but In meditation upon the gospels there has grown up a vast dogma called the doctrine of the Trinity, In reorganiz- ing this doctrine philosophy cannot be bound by the mere letter of any symbol. The doctrine of the Trinity is essential to an explanation of the nature of God. but if it be extended to any one person, to one man, Jesus of Nazareth, then philosophy has nothing to say, it would not know how to recognize that.”’ Professor Howison then framed for Dr. Harris a question, asking how, by reason- ing, the human mind can get beyond the limit imposed by its own finity. Dr. Harris gave a comprehensive reply, repeating much of his argument for the existence of a personal Goc that was given on last Friday evening. He reviewed the development of “true being” ftom inert matter to man, describing the first as men potential or partial being. *‘Other beings seem to be whole, as a plant, which grows by its own activity,” he said. ‘‘The ani- mal has a still greater development of real life and man rises to a consciousness of his own activity, but still remains an in- complete and dependent being. If we conceive this chain of dependent beings it becomes a logical necessity to affirm the existence of an independent or absolute being on which it rests.” Here Dr. Harris proceeded to discuss the nature of God. e showed how man might get bevond himself by the faculty of idealizing,and closed with an exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity. He de- clared Aristotle’s “De Animus” to be “the most wonderful book of philosophy ever written,"” / Dr. Harris’ address was followed by questions by E. B. McGilvay, assistant to Professor Howison, and Dr. George M. Stratton, instructor in psychology at the university. A zeneral discussion upen }he %umls of the evening’s speeches fol- owed. Richardson Dea BERKELEY, CaL., Dec. 22. —The report from Greece of the death at Athens of Pro- fessor George M. Richardson of Berkeiey has been confirmed, and the professor's friends have given up all hope that the news will prove to be erronecous. Pro- fessor Richardson had held the associate professorship of archzology at the uni- versity for seven years, and was one of the most popular memb:rs of the faculty. His relatives reside in Boston, from which city came the news of his demise. A JAPANESE SOCIAL. Their Three Churches of This City Unite In a Festive Re- union. A union Christmas reception was held last evening by the members of the Japa- nese Presbyterian Church, Rev. K. Ina- zawa pastor; the Protestant Episcopal, Rev. K. Mikami, and the Methodist Epis- copal, Rev. T. Tkeda, at the latter church, About 300 voung Japunese men were pres- ent, and the evening was pas<ed in the en- joyment of the holiday occasion. The re- ception-room was neatly decorated with flowers and bunting, the platform being draped with the American and Japanese flags. Addresses were made by the clergy- men present and several violin solos were rendered by H. Doi, a native of Japap and a fine player on that instrument. —_—————— TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- that | Professor Howison declared, | THE NILES DWARF PLAYED EVEN Arrests the Husband of the Woman Who Says She Was Beaten. The Little Defendant Will Mount a Ladder in the Court- room. Will Argue That He Cou'd Not Pos- sibly Hav: Reached the Woman’s Eye. OARLAND OFFICE SAN FrANcisco CALL, 908 Broadway, Dec. 22. Joseph Machado was arrested to-day by Antone Martin, Mr. Martin is the little man who was arrested last Thursday at the instance of Mrs. Machado for beating her. The trial will come off at Centerville in a few days and the prosecution isan- ticipating a great deal of trouble in prov- ing its case. Antone Martin is 3 feet and as many inches tall and for a long while has been the partner of Machado on a little ranch near Niles, Mrs. Machado is rather a tall woman, consequently when it became known that little Antone Mar- tin, the dwarf, had whipped the portly Mrs. Machudo much doubt was expressed as to the manner in which it was done. Dwarf Martin denles that he did it, but asserts that Mr. Machado did beat him. It was because of the beating the dwart received that to-day’s warrant was served on Mr. Machado. It is easy to conceive that Martin’s story might be true, but it is not easy to see how Martin gave Mrs. ){aphado the black eye of which she com- ains, When the case is called in court there will be a scene. Martin’s attorney will have a ladaer carried into the courtroom, and after arguing on the impossibility of his client striking Mrs. Machado in the eye unless the lady were on her knees in- viting such a blow the attorney for the defense will have the dwarf mount the ladder several sieps to show the court how high he must have been to give Mrs. Machado the beating she claims to have received. Mr. Machado’s grievance against little Antone Martin is that he talks too much to Mrs. Machado. Martin asserts that | Mrs. Machade encouraged the conversa- tion and that her husband became jealous. This allegation of Mr. Martin’s will no doubt need much testimony to prove. Should the District Attorney, rising to his full height, appeal to the court and say, *Is it reasonable, your Honor, to suppose that a well-built man, such as . Machado, should be jealous of this small defendant?'’ it is very probable that the court will think in the negative. certainiy be a furce, and so great is the in- | terest in the result among the neighbors | of the litigants that there will certainly be a full or at least a packed house. WEDDED 1N BERKELE Dr. J. C. Merriam of the State University Married to Miss Ada G. L:ttle. C:eremony Performed at the gregational Church by Rav. Mr. Hatch. Con- BERKELEY, Car, Dec. 22—One of the prettiest weddings that has taken place in Berkeley for many months was that of Dr. John Merriam, instructor of palmon-, tology at the State University, and Miss Ada G. Little, only daughter of Judge J. R. Little, which occurred this evening at the First Conzregational Church. Rev George B. Hatch, pasior of the church, performed the ceremony which united the happy pair. Miss Mabel A. Fisher, who was a member of the class of '86 of the university with Miss Little, acted as bridesmzid, and Dr, Thomas McCleave of San Francisco served as groomsman. The church, which had been beautifully decorated for the occasion with cut flow- ers, evergreens, potted plants and bholly berries, was crowded to the doors with friends of the contracting parties, a large number of whom were members of the faculty and their families. After their honeymoon, which will be spent in the southern part of the State, and which will extend through the holi- days, they will make their home in Berke- ley. FIRE ALARM SYSTEM. Proposed Change Fromn Gravity to Stor- age Batteries in the Encinal City. ALAMEDA, Car, Dec. 22—The City Trustees will consider the proposition submiited to them of changing the fire- alarm system from a gravity battery to stor- age batteries. The City Electrician, Mr. Wiese, asserts that it would mean a sav- ing of $2250 per month to the city. The proposition is that the storage system be installed at a cost of $1000, or it will be leased to the city at $20 per month, the payments of the first year to be applied on the purchase price if the city decides to buy at the expiration of the first yoar. Trustee Leydecker states that the sys- tem is in force in Stockton and gives per- fect satisfaction. It requires little charg- ing current of electricity, and Mr. Rank of the Alameda, Oakland and Piedmont Electric Railway has offered to supply the charging carrent during eightesn hours of the day. The City Attorney will report on the proposed contract at the next meeting of the Board of Trustees, when it is expected that some action will be taken. Football for Christmas. ALAMEDA, CaL,, Dec. 22.—Companies A and C, Second Regiment, Boys' Brig- ade, will vlay football Friday morning on the vacant lot corner Clinton avenue and Paine street. The game is set for 10 o’clock and promises to be very interest- ing. Company A has already defeated Company E, and 1f Company C wins on Christmas they will challenge every com- pany in the brigade. Company A’s team consists of Messrs. Jones, Fielding, Neams, Gale, Will Tay- lor, Al Taglor, Barber, Hughes, Ward, Stark, and McKean substitute, Company C's men are Dinsmore, Lock, Wara, Hop- kins, Orr, Ranalett, Simpson, Deming, Minturn, Hanley. Grove; substitutes— Bruulord, Lanegrove and Groom, The Want of Light. ALAMEDA, CAL., Dec. 22,.—While trans- ferring from the boat to the train last evening at th* narrow-gauge mole, J. M. Bailey of 2145 Central avenue had a nar- row escape from & broken oliractory organ, He was carrying a number of Famels. and in the dark tripped on a railing at the main line track. In falling his face struck a post violently. Ile was severeiy bruis-d longing to the Macdonough estate. The | gists refund the money if it fails 1o cure, 206, lnud at first it was thought that his nose I was broken. | | | | Under these circumstances the trial will | Mr. Bailey asserts that with sufficient light he could have avoided the accident. Alameda Notes. = The Board of Bupervisors visited the Bay Farm Islana bridge yesterday to view the work being done. Additional lights will be placed upon Santa | Clors avenue, 10 make the approaches to the City Hall more legible. The City Trustees refused to increase the city laborers pay from $40 to $50 at its last ;sneoeung. One in the electric works is paid 60, Theo Mitchell and the other city gardeners nave petitioned the Board of Education to re-, voke the appointment of William Nicolson. As property-owners they desire the work di- vided among themselves. FAOM THE BIBRER Rt Dr. H A Ward Arrives, Bring-| ing Coral Specimens for Louis Azassiz Visited Strange Men in N w Guinea Who Are Yet in the Stone Age, He Professor Henry A. Ward, owner of Wara’s Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, N. Y., who has been collecting corals for Professor Agassiz on the Great | Barrier Reef, and who has been on an ex- tended visit to different parts of New Zealand, Fiji, New Guinea, New Caledonia and elsewhere, is at the California. The professor has been away from home about a year, and has shipped to Professor Agassiz about sixty cases of corals. This is by far the largest amount of coral ever sent to one point in America. The pro- fessor also has a lot more which he will forward to his own institute. He collected many other things, too, such as pebbles, weapons and clothing of the natives, but these were inadvertent. Professor Ward was in California first in 1865, when he bought a stampmill from Booth’s Iron Works and shipped it around through Nevada and Utah to a mine in Montana. He was here also in 1882, when he had a large scientific collection on the lower floor of the Mercantile Library. This was bought by Charles Crocker and Leland Stanford and a good part of it went to the Pacitic University at Santa Clara. Later Professor Ward sold a $40,000 col- lection to the Coronado Beach Company at Coronado. He also made the large ex- hibit of articles illustrative of science at the World’s Fair, which was afterward bought by Maryhall Field for $100,000 and made a permanent feature of the Field Columbian Mussum. “On_this coral-hunting trip,’’ said Pro- fessor Ward, who is an elderly zentleman, forme:ly professor of natural sciences in the University of Rochester, ‘‘we had a 24-ton schooner, with the crew, a 7-ton cutter and crew, including a diver, with his dress and all paraphernalia, and dingies, or smali boats for collecting. The TRYING 0 PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE Getting to the Bottom of the Opium Smuggling Cases. P. Pantages’ Attorney Wishes to Prove an Alibi for His Client. | Sam Brown tfie Unfortunate Victim of Circumstances—A Hole in the Fioor. The most important opium case in five years, in fact since the notorious Emerald case, is on trial in the United States Dis- trict Court, before Judge Morrow and a jury. Samuel Brown and P. Pantages are accused of aiding in smuggling., The in- vestigations of the customs officers show that a number of Greeks were engaged in smuggling, and might have been so en- gaged to-day but for some kind of a dis- agreement and quarrel in the gang. While the officers had cause to believe that this unlawful business was being car- ried on, neither John H. Wise nor W. B. English were able to get to the bottom or stop the smugglers’ operations. However, they were not slow to profit by an offer made by one George Peters, who promisea to lead the officers to a big “capture.” Peters evidently considered that his re- ward, the reward offered by the Govern- ment, would be large. His story was that several men had approached him for the purpose of selling to him 100 pounds of opium. The men who were to deliver the drug to him were to meet him on the corner of Tweifth and Mission streets on the evening of November 23ard hand over the stuff. Accordingly Peters, accompanied by Customs Officers E. A. Hoimes and L. E. Beban, went to the ;;lace of meeting. As planned, the two seilers came along laden with 185 tins of the drug. There was a rush made upon the smugglers, Holmes got his man, who turned ouf to be Samu Brown, but the other fellow escaped, althouzh Beban fired three shots to stop the fleeing smuggler. A few days later the officers arrested P. Pantages, the pro- prietor of a small restaurant at 121 Fifth street, for the other, the one who escaped. The officers searched Pantages’ premises and found under the floor of tbe restaur- ant a lot of rope, cloth cases and packing, such as might have been used for wrap- ping up packages of opium. The cache was reached by the means of PROFESSOR H. A, WARD, Who Has Been Collecting Corals on the Great Barren Reef and Elsewhere. |Sketched from life by a *“Cald’ artist.] crews were Malays and South Sea Island- ers, “The corals in many places looked through the water-glass like lettuce or cabbage. They were blue, yellow and crimson and three or four feet across. There are to be found there also corals in the shape of deerhorns, staghorns, clubs, spears and domes, some of them four or five feet 1z diameter. Some of the single great jcoral rings were as much as twenty feet in diameter and of adeep magenta color. G “In many places the corals resembled through the water the most beauttful flower-gardens. They are in tact exquisite submarine gardens. Besides these there were sharks, se2a urchins and the great giant clam, the trida cuagigas, which is the biggest bivalve in the world. This clam we had to look out for. If its great white stone jaws close on vour feet they will break them, This clam is four or five feet long and weighs as much as 1000 pounds. “‘We collacted usually when the water was low on the reef and then started the loaded dingies off for the schooner. We made an excursion to the New Guinea coast and spent two days on the main- land with the villagers. The women, as many as fifty on a side, play ball there with only their hands for bats. Many of the natives have only a sbiny, gre quality of black epidermis for clothes and most of their weapons are of stone, as in the stone age. “I also visited the bingeyes or natives of the coast of Queensland. They are a very low people in the intellectual scale and live on snails, mussels, berries and roots. ‘‘For any civilized food they care little, but they greatly crave our tobacco. In fact, in ‘that part of the world tobacco is the circulating medium. The natives have no fixed huts, but build a covered pile of brush to break the wind and lin in its lee at night. They make a fire by rub- bing two sticks together.”” Mr. Ward will be here only about two days. He has been called the king of mu- seum-builders because of his great muse- ums at Rochester, which constitute the greatest scientificemporiums in the world. ———————— Left for Los Angeles. Howard V. Sutherland, editor of the News- Letter, left yesterday for a flylug trip to Los Angeles, He will take Christmas dinner with his brother, Beymour ¥. Sutherland, and re- J turn to this City Mondsy next, a small hole cut in the floor, which was concealed by matting. They also found an expressman who had worked for the defendants. One night he had carried a Flckuge from East street and the water ront to the Sutter-street market, and then to the rear entrance of Pantawes’ restaurant on Minna street. That was at 20'clock in the morning, and while Pan- tages stated that the package contained fish, he would not let the expressman handle it. More than that, he made a dis- play of a large, ugly looking revolver when giving the expressman his direc- tions. At the tral yesterday the prosecution endeavored to sbow that Pantages was Brown’s companion on the night of the latter’'s arrest and the seizure of the opium. The defense attempted to convince the jury that in the case of Brown he was the unfortunate victim of circumstances; that two men, strangers, asked him to help them carry a sack of something out to the Mission, for which he was to be paid. One man went ahead. Pantages’ attorney wished to prove an alibi for his client and his story was that Pantages is a pugilist and at the time was in training for an ex- hibition; that on the evening when Brown was captured Pantages was sleeping in the house of a Mrs. Costa at 1022 Mission street. Mrs. Cosia and several witnesses testi- fied to this to prove an alibi, but when CQustoms Officer Holmes searched Mrs. Costa’s house for smuggled opium and to find Pantages she denied that she knew the man or that he ever lodged there. Bhortly after his arrest Pantages showed that he hasa large bank account. The officers are curious to know Low the young proprietor of a small restaurant could have accumulated so much money, and also why one with so much money should engage in fistic exhibitions. The case goes on to-day. Embezzlement Charged. Peter Jones, & peddler, was arrested last nightand booked at the Oity Prison on a charge of felony embezzlement. The com- plaining witness is Sam Brown, who was ar- rested some weeks ago for smuggling opium. When searched at the City Prison $95 and a gold watch were found upon him. While in the County Jail he gave Jones an order on the roperty clerk for the money and watch and yonen appropriated them to his own use. L —eialg i Send It to Your Fri 'nds. | Christmas News Letter; 88 pages, Auction alcs THE BASCH AUCTION COMPANY, Ine. 319-321 SUITER STRHET, Bet. Grant ave. ani Stockton St. Tele. Grant 87. CONTINUATION SALE —Spg it Bankrupt Stock of Julius Myers, on Premises, 40 Clay St., Near Dramm, Consisting of Counters, Sho veases, -Guns, Ammu- nition Tools, Harness, Halters, Buggy itobes, ‘Whips. Saddles, Agate Ware, Cutle:y, Saws, etc. NOTFE—Uealers and Mechanics: This is the last chance to obtain such goods at Public Auction. You are respecifully invited Lo attend. S, BASCH, Auctioneer. AUCTION SALE. BICYCLES! BICYCLES! Continuance of Grand Sale of STANDARD AND SNiLL WHEELS A10 A, WEDNESDAY .DECEMBER 28, WILL E; FISHER & CO'S BENGUIAT'S TURKISH RUG _COLLECTION —AND— All Kinds of Oriental Goods at Private Sale, —AT— Golden Gate Hall, 625 Sutter St., UNTIL CHRISTMAS ONLY, From 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. Daily. GENUINE SACRIFIC- SALE. BOYS FOR THE NAVAL SERVICE One Hundred Apprentices to Be Enlisted at Once. The Order Was Made at the Request of the Chamber of Commerce. Application Must Be Made to the Com- mander of the “Independence,” Mare Island. ‘While America is building a new navy Young America 18 packing his kit and getting ready to man it. Every ship that slips from the ways is cheered on her first slide toward the sea by her futurecrew standing on the shore. In every seaport the boys are clamoring for enlistmentin the service, but as only a limited number can be taken, and Congress is slow about increasing the complement, most all of the vessels of the navy are woefully short- handed. A few years ago the cruisers of Uncle Sam were the quarters of seafaring men of all the nations of the earth. Runaway sailors from European navies were to be found at the batteries of the United States war Vvessels. Along the decks all tongues were spoken and a muster was a Babel. Officers grew weary of listening to a jargon of broken English and a quiet change set in. American boys begin to take the places of the foreign crews and the apprentice sys- tem, whereby the natives were enlisted in preference to all others, was tried and found to be successfal. Training stations were established on the upper Atlantic seaboard and one recommended for the Pacific Coast. 8, many applications were made by boys desiring to enter the service that the en- listments were kept up to the limit, At the Mare Island Navy-yard boys have been taken for the new ships by special order of the department, in compliance with the many requests from this locality. Sume time ago 104 naval apprentices were shipped for service om the cruisers lying at the vard, which number was about 20 per cent of the number of appli- cauts. The Chamber of Commerce in this City, at the request of the parents of un- successiul applicants, interested itself in the matter. The Secretary of the Navy was appealed to through Senator Perkins, and a few days ago an order came from Washington to the commandant at Mare Island directing that officer to enlist 100 more boys in tlie service. This will be joyful newsto the young fellows who were too late for enlistment before, and they should avail thcmselves of an immediate a?nlicnlion to the com- manding officer of the United States re- ceiving ship Independence, Mare Island, Cal. Tne would-be tar must be between the ages of 14 and 18, and must be shipped by his parent or lawful guardian, as he cannct enlist himself under any consid- eration. He must pass a careful medical examination, and the least physical or mental defect will stop him at the ship’s gangway, as it were. One of the principal tests is for color- blindness, where the applicant’s sight is tried us to bis ability to distinguish the red and green sidelights on a ship =t sea. If found O. K. he begins his war career as a third-class apprentice, with pay at $9 per month. He is given a complete outfit of clothing, bedding and other needed ar- ticles for his comfort. He is then in- structed in the duties of his calling, and when found proficient promoted to therates of second and first class apprentice, with monthly pay at $15 and $21 respectively. The petty officer rates are oven to him with pay as high as $40 per month. When he has comi)le!ed his 21st year he is given an honorable discharge, if his conduct has been good, and a continuous service cer- tificate, which entitles him toa gift of three months’ pay in his last rating, provided he re-enlists within ninety days of the date of his discharge. Continuous-service men have the preference in the “soft’” or best-paid billets aboard ship. Most of the yeomen or storekeepers, of which there are three on each vessel, are ex-naval ap- prentices. Their pay 1s $60 per month. 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