The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1896, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1896. Alice P. Bas- ar 0f the late sachuseris, oh_ G. Baston, 821 65 vears 4 il ol ace respect- [HIs DAY nis_late Inter- San ends 1:30 o'clock Limoad mvenue, Mogntam View Ceiav ciseo friends ta I—Io tots cl sa10? ancaini, a nacive of ¥ sed 33 years 6 moatk I Frait . Uak Anna Aeauaintances ara respect- the fuveral THIS DAY . 3. from 11 Lannan on, stockton BAXDIHOLDI—In K| Mala:, aged 41 ember 26, 1596, Irving aud Mary A. Coliins. uged 1 yearand 4 December 23, 1896, brother of Ameiia 0 0f are respoct. reral THIS DAY from the par- gomery avenue. ances fends are respectf 1S DAY P. 3 e intérmen: privaie at Cypra e City and_Cou Hosp! 1896, Edward I 1898, Modesta a pative of Califorma, ars resnact 5 | T, hicGREGOR I . | under foot at Oa : | probability, have been troubte. Of the | ST, LEE DUTROOTED { — | The Bay Colt Captured the Stake Event at 0Oakiand. Martin on Little Cripple Out- rode Sicaa on Major | Cook. | Judge Denny Was First in the M:le and a Halt Ruc—Enthusiasts | Braved a Driving Ruin. | It was just a trifle damp and nasty and track yesterday | | and only the more enthusiastic race-goers, | snugly enveloped in muckintoshes and | ing umbrelias, dared the elements | | and ventured the trip across the bay. It was shoe-string bank-roll day,and the one | cay cutin saw twenty-three Lookmakers' is on the line. : rain which tell in ts at ted intervais throughout | fternoon kept the “innocent’’ coin at | 1y of these embryo pencii- | enced a chilly fros [ | Tne track on the other side kept up its | record for slaughtering favorites, Cola | | and Judge Denny and this pair of wortuies | not of tha pronounced order being | the only ones tosplash in first. Tod Sloan ! sported lsitk again, but did nothing to en | title him to any extended press notices. | Of the ing talent Eddie Jones and H. Martin carried off the honors, each riding | two winners. Handicapper Brooks wore a disgusted | | look when the Baldwin Hotel bandicap, over a mile, was called, and bad the| prophet who flaw the wet weather signals | appeared on the scene there would, in all | | torre the judgment, came on in the stretch and took the purse. McNaughton & Muir gathered in the mile and a haif run, decided under seliing conaitions, with Judge Denny. The Judge was a 7 to 5 favorite around post time, and heading Articus the last quarter won clev- erly by three parts of a iength in 2:43%4. Rey del Bandidos, ridden by Slean, open- ing equezl favorite with the winner, was third. ; The closing race of the day was a six- furlong sprint, with a fieic ¢t six going to the post. At the close oi tbe betting Ko- walsky, at 21 to 1, was a slight favorite over Perseus.” The first choice looked a winner to the paddcck, when Perseus came fast and 1n a drive suaiched the purse by a head. Fetrarch was a close third. OHANGED RECEIVERS ON HIM. Montana Farmer He'd Up a Train and Gave Vent to His Feelings. Not long ago, according to . Boston papers, a man from that city who was rid- g on an express train in Montana, was, with the other passengers, almost thrown out of his seac by the suaden stopping of the train at the application of the air- brake. There was a great raitling of lamps and otker noisy material in and about the car, and then silence, and finally the sound of voices raised in angry altercation. The Boston man rushed to the door to see what might be the matter. The noise came from tbe front of tne train. He went out ther» and saw, standing in the middle of the track, a farmer wit.: a spade on his shoulder who was shaking his fist at the conductor and engineer and calling the railroad company many hard names. “‘Get off the track,” the conductor was saying, *‘or we'll run over you!” “No, you won't run over me, and you know it,”’ answered the farmer. *‘You railroad folks are pretty mean, butyou know better than to deliberately run over and killa man.” “What do you get on the track for?"” “‘Because I want this railroad to know that I've got a grievance against it. I teil you, this receiver Lusiness isall a scheme to beat the people. Yirst they have one set of 'em, and then when a man sues the road for what he is entitled to he finds there’s been a change. Then he tries again to get justice, and you switch re- ceivers again; but I tell you, youcan't fool me any more!” Jy this time the man had a crowd around him and was haranguing it and gesticulating wildly. 'he engineer said that he had seen, as he bore down on a long, straight stretch of track, 2 man between the raiis brand- ishing a spade, and as the track was evi- dently ail right he whistled for the man al entries to the §1500 stake, of amount the winner was entitled to but five faced the starter. Mount this wh cltz, $1100, G McGregor II, with top weight—115 | nd rounds—up, was chalked up an even- | meney choice at the opening of the bet- starters were called 11 Undouttedly est play was on Sir - 3 m Dosgeit and carry- g 1 vounds. rom fours ( ris horse was backed down to 214 to 1, and be displayed about as much speed as down carhor t McGregor 11 showed in front to head of the stretch when St. Lee, well ked is stable at 4 and 5 to 1, gradu- ly over.auled him and won hanaily by a couple of lengths in 1:43, a very clever performance. The favorite i oad, nearly ten lengths ahead of Ruinart ridden by Sloan. T latier horse had the b to attend 1 been ailing, 2and was in no condition for a ra spectfully invited nard e. The winner was excellently ridden by *‘Skeets’’ Martin, Nagiee Burks’ Coda, which opened a 7105 choice for the opening six-turlong run, receded to 9 to 5, and then won easiiy latter mare was heavily backed to win at | odds of 5to 1. Don Gara, with Coady up, was a fair third. Coaoy rides some very peculiar races these days. the Cambridge stable, boc the nom de piume of Wallace & Co. has bis racers trained by William ed Draughtin the five and a dash for two-year-olds. nces are respect | al THIS DAY | and he didn’t show. In a drive D. J. Tobin, a 6 to 1 chance, beat Sweet Wiiliam a nead afier the latter bad siruck the | stretch four lengths in the lead. In the event iollowing, a seven and a nalf furlong jaunt, T. Sloan had the leg Major Cook, the 710 5 ch ana Martin uad the pleasure of beating the celebrated pride of New York a neck with tle Cripple, against whici 5t0 1 was laid ¥, Ofti_ers anl Fion_ Bre ab)ve funeral. m <95, Eddy HIS DAY | heads off, and Martin, using rare good from Blue Bell the last fiity yards. The | cle. Barr thought he was bargaining in r, who runs his horses under P The Major and Palmerston raced their | pint. Half a pint wiil convert a peaceful | to get off supposing that he would do so | before the train came near him. But he did not do so, and in order to save the | man’s life he had to put on the airorake with all pos ible force. The train stopped just in time. After the man had tinished the speech just | given, the conductor called out: |~ “Now that you've haa your say I sup- i pose vou'll let the train go on?” | “I don’t know whether I wiltor not!” vou will! All aboard!” called tor. “Oh, ye the conilu The passengers scrambled aboard the | traiu. The engineer rang the bell and | pulied the throttie. The engine moved s.owly—so tlowly that no donbt it could | have been stoppe! in time if the man with | the grievance had not budged. But ue did bud.e. He leit the track, his spade, and the train went on its way. sEe g o A Novelisi’s Error. | Robert Barr, the novelist, has had a | tussle with Continental jurisprudence and | suffered a brief period of incarceration in | a Swiss jail on a charge of stealing a bicy- | excellent French for the hire of the wheel | for the afternoon, and he understcod the price to be five francs. The native thought Barr was expressing his adm ration of the ¢ bicycle in very bad Frencn, and lad re- | sponded potitely that it had cost him 500 | francs. He was so dumfounded when | Barr suddenly mounted and spun off that | he had 1ot even breath enough to cail him | to stop. Two or three hours later, while | the country was being scoured by ihe po- { lice, Barr calmly rode up, handed the | owner of the wheel a five-franc piece, re- | marked that it was a good machine and | walked away. Barr, however, was ar- | rested, and it required a pood deal of ar- | gument and corroborative evidence to con- nce the mavistrate of the innocence of | Lis mistake.—Baltimore N | T e | The only cheas thing in Liberia is a low grade of whisky, which sells for 8 cents a | clergyman intos bullying pugilist. “THE CALL” interme Dece: beloved ber 25, 1333, Mr; 4 Charies seventh day of the winter meeting. ALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB. Ozkland Racetrack. Saturday, December 26, 1896. at! RACING GUIDE. Twenty= her wet. Track sloppy. respeci- | MORROW | i H24l Three-quariers of a mile; 903, FIRST RACE three-year-olds and upward: purse $300. m 4 Law .t Cemes ] Betting, Index. | Horse, aze, weight. 2% Str. O Cl. 1 |Coda, 3.... 34 By | 5 951 3 ue Bell, 5 i 2 i S ¥ 6 5 Don Gara 6l3 | 43 4 10 25 22 6 10 iy | 510 0 15 127 |1 6 |Spencer. 1 6 b 7 [McDonald 50 109 9 | 9 8 Golden 10 15 0111 |9 [G.Wien {20 30 82 |7 |10 [Ciawson 3 a0 721518 |1 Docgett. o 10 11 i 13 12 | ¥ era d b5 100 1 {12 1 10 90, EECOND Rac T ex. | Horse, age,f welzht.| St. " % | % | s | P Jocke. G 2n | 21 | Tones . SF 11 i3 | H. 79 3 a:ie 5 S4 | 36 | 12 4n 62 | 15 515 | a3 | 20 87| 8 10 9 ligie el 52 12 | 8% 420> as 10 10 das a0 ge, K. ot H. { Goed start. Won driving. Wi ner, D. J. Tobin’s b. g., by imp. Cyrus-imp. Getaway, Time, 1:11%45. . Decemb-r 26, 1893, Altred | ©';7, THIKD RACK—Fifteen-sixtecuths of a mile; selling; purse 3400, et husuana s ol Faizabeth Chapin | &4 'O« ‘ | str, Jockey. Op. CL December 25 338 |H. Martin TR 134 | IT. S10an 65 175 2h Thompson. L] 7 a4 IDoss 1t 4 54 Iaugnter. 8. Say 6 Melonatd 100 200 d start. Won dri br. g., by imp. Pirate of Peuzancs-Lady Stanhope. Time, 3 tel Landicap; purse 81500, 1% % | ste | P Jockay. WMCAVOY & CALLAGNER, F . Martin. FUNERAL DIRECTORS & ALMERY, 20 Fifth St., Opp. Lincoin Scheol, Telephone S080. T AS. MCM EN OM JA e Denny, Artiens, b 2y di Band Fred Gardner, § | JAS ENGLISH T. R CAREW | | CAREW & ENGLISH, LAD: ZRS AND LMEA&S AL DIREC near Mard 20 van Frawley... Winner, McNaoghton & Muir'; blk. c., by Fonso-BEells of Naotura )], SIXTH &4 GANTNER & GUNTZ, he hrec quariers of a mile: purse §500. Funerai Directors and Embai ers. i ] I Teuting, 410 CITY HALL SQUARE, nacx | Home age, welzht. | St. x,‘[ w | % ‘ str l Fin. Jockay. op. . Telephone South 432 9l 2| TR R 2 3 NT GLIVET CEMETERY e A e e e ot ok ok ' Joun b ] 23-1:33 l 31 | 510 4 § 0 (OUNT EAREST CEM% v s [ 6 6 le 30 ON-3OCTATIAN S 1% L0 5650 0= clusive: excelled Udow 990 umrke Wireel, BOULLLASE LOILES 07 Dikil {up SUTRO SAID TO BE INCONSISTENT John C. Bateman Speaks of the Hall of Justice Centract. Believes That the Mayor or the City Is Liabie :or Damages. Contends That There Is N> Serious Def ct in the Instrument Uader Controversy. In his refusal to sign the contract for the construction of the new Hall of Justice Mayor Sutro has placed himself and pos- sibly the City in an embarrassing position. The contraciors, Bateman Bros., have deposited a check for $27,5C0 as a guarantee of good faith on their part with the Board of Supervisors, and it is alsv claimed by them that the prices of building material have advanced and are still ad- vancing. It is the opinion of their attorneys, Suilivan & Sullivan, that an action for damages based on these two facts will Ilte either against the Mayor personally, for faiture to perform a purely ministerial function, such as they claim the signing of the contract would be, or against the City. The amount of damages, it is held, will be made up of in- terest claimed on the tied-up check and the difference in the prices of materials at the daie when the contract should have been signed and prices when the cuntract is ultimately sicned. John C. Bateman, one of the members of the contracting firm, in speaking of the entanglement yesterday, did not ap- pear to be at all disturbed over the atti- tude of the Mayor, but seemed confident that the objections of his Honor to the legality of the contract would ali beswept away when it came to a full and impar- ial investigation of the subject. The Mayor does not scem to be con- said Mr. Bateman. “Ii you will 5,363, awording the contract, and passed oy the Board of Sup- ervisors, and approved by the Mavor, De- cember 3, 1896, you wi!l see that that pro- vides that the City and County Atiorney is authorized as the proper person to draw this contract. The 1instrument in question was drawn up by him, still the Mayor sees nt to review it. And th t00, in the face of the fact that on De- cembor & 1596, the Mayor approved and signed aathorization No. 5292, which pro- vides for the pavment of $7638 to the architects, this being 3 per cent of the contract price. Now if there 1s no con- tract, it is singular how the Mayor could have approved that authorization. Tsim- ply mention thess two matters to si that te is not consistent. “I would also mention that the strong- est objection by the Mayor and Mr. Rogers, who seems to be actinz as his attorney, is that no resoiution in their judement was passed declaring that the public pood required the construction of a suitable building such as that described in the contract. In point of fact such a reso- lution was adopted July 22, 1895. It reads as foliows Resolved, That this board deems it expedient and hereby declares that in its judgment the pubiic good requires the construction of a suitable building on the old City Hell lot for the accommodation of criminal departments of the Superior Courts, police courts, stations, prison, Morgue, Coroner's office and other muuicipal uses. “When this was drawn to the Mayor’s attention last Friday he said that this resoiution had certainly done away with the main objection to the maiter, and that toe other points were only technical. Yect at our last meeting ho said he would | Dot sign the contract, as his lawyer said it was illega By ma day, aiter signing the two resolutions re- ferred to, he has placed the City in some- what of a peculiar sitnation. “*We have intormed nim that under the circumstances we feel we are entitled to damages, eicher from himse!f or the City, owing to the delay in the matter. We have & richt to claim interest on the check for ,500 which has been deposited with the Board of Supervisors, and the prices of material have advanced, and are yetadvancing, “If we thought there was anything radi- cally wrong with the contract we wou!d not enter into it, and would be grateful to the Mayor for pointing out any defect. “It is now a question of expediency whether we shall apply to the courts in protection of our rights or await further action until the incoming administration is in power.” SHE WAS MISREPRZSENTED. The Reporter Meant Well, But He Failed to Please. Even when her speech was obscured by sobs there was something about her voice that showed she could sing high Cand assert her right to the center of tha stage. It was pathetic to see a strong womau so utterly dejected, says the Washington Star. *I want to see the horrid reporter who wrote the contemptible piece about my miserable divorce,”” she said, alter her paroxysm of weeping had abated. “He's out,”” was the prompt and positive answer of the editor, who is 8 humare man. Can't [ see him Iater?” “No. He took = week’s salary and went on a vacation. He said he wasn’t coming back t1ll his money was all spent, and we don’t look for him in any time less than +ix months. *‘Perhaps somebody else could atten:| to what I want, although I don’t suppose there is any use in my asking for justice. It must have been pure malice.”” it seems to me that youn are ex- ceedingly unfair to the reporter. Why, he did his best to be complimentary. No less than thre times he aliuded to you as the ‘fair plaintiff.” " “Yes; that was very nice of him. But read on.”’ “f don’t find anything that is not in the same vein. He say: “Tue lady’s toilet Lad evidently been an object of much care. It was a triumph oi the milliner's art and a monument of her elegant taste in such matters.” ” “That’s the sentence!”’ she exclaimed, rising 1o her feet. Her indignation dried her tears, and shaking herclenched finzers at the newspaper she said: “What did he mean by trying to humiliate me in the eyes of all those spectators? How dared he insinuate that the common oid things I wore to that courtroom are the best clothes I have.” ——————— Where Hotel Men Draw a Line. Among annoyances to which hotels are subjected 1s one which means material los¢ at busy times. This is when a person telegraphs or writes for rooms to be re- served. and upon arriving in town dec:des th go to another hotel. Very irequentiy rooms which conid have been given to Ruests are vacant on account of this, ana _the careiess hotel patrons appear to be unaware that they have inflicted an injury on the house. Sometimes, however, when alis upon them with a bill for the 2 his objections at this late | rooms that they didn’t occupy they are open to conviction of wrongdoing and settle the bill. The matter has rarely been one of litigation, but the hotel man has the best end of it, and the Proprietors’ National Association intends to make it so nnderstood whenever it is necessary.— Hotel Gazatte. ————— TWO0 KEEN-WITTED COONS. One Lost to the Hunters in a Ledge and the Other in a Mill. The Bucksjort Coon Club held its last hunt for the season in the woods back of Blocks Mountain, and while the two coons which the dogs started escaped from the hunters, and ail the sportsmen got wet and stayed wet for hours, the members learned several interesting facts about natural history, and are better informed about the ways of coons than they were before ‘they took their long tramp. The hunt took place on Friday night, having been postponed from Thanksgiving on ac- countof therzin. The first coon was treed in a hollow hemlock stub after a haif hour's brisk chase by the dogs. As the man who ascended the tree with climbers jound the coon was lodged in a hollow near the top, the services of an axman were needed. No sooner had the tree fallen then the coon shot out of the top like a cannon ball, and went off to hide himself in the creyices of a ledge, where a ton of powder could not distodge” him. In tramping home three members of the club passed through the orchard of ““Shab’ Hawimson and found a big coon upin a tree making his supper on frozen apples. Before a man could think of shooting the coon had leaped from the tree to the grouna and was off across lots with six of the best dogs in Hancock County in close pursuit. The Lunters were hizhly eiated, knowing that an old coon would not take toatree, but will fight the dozs upon terra firma until be or t..e dogs or bath contend- ing parties are dead or disabled. It wasa siow, hard hunt from thestart. The coon, fully conscious of his own powers, struck out throuch a wide swamp at the head of | Long Pond, leaping from logs to tree roots when he could, and swimming cheerfully whenever he could find nothing to stana upon. At the end of an hour, when the coon emerged from the lowlands and struck out for a warming-up run sacross the hilis of Strumblow, sll but the be t dogs had lost the trail and given up the chase in disgust, so that out of twenty- two dogs that had started only nine had threaded their way across the bogs. These came trailing alongz throu:h the under- brush, led by Carlo, a brindle hound, owned by an Orland man, who was highly elated to know that his dog led the pack. instead of quickening his pace on gain- ing hard ground, the coon continued at a jog trot, so that Carlo soon overtook him. he hunters coming up the ghily heard Carlo give a sharp, ugly bark, followed by a wild, prolonged “ti yi,” which told of Cario’s defeat. While Carlo was scooting through the brush and telling his woes 0 two counties, and Carlo’s owner was fran- tic with chug.—in and grief because of bis dog’s defeat; another hound tackled the coon and confessed he was sorry for itin agonizing yells. The other dogs coming up soon after this, the coon broke into a run, and, doubling on his tracks, went down to Long Pond stream and swam down toward the milldam. The keen- scented dogs, skirting the shore, had no trouble in following the coon until it reached the sawmill. The water having been drained off for winter enabled the dogs to go down on the bank to the entrance to the flume, where they stood velling until the ruen arrived. The dogs saw the ccon had gone into tce upper end of the flume. As the box was too small to-allow a dog to go in a pole was cut and pushed throug: the flume severai times. Finding the flume empty of coons the men led the dogs about the dam and raill for an hour or more, hoping to pick up the lost track. The dozs worked faithiully, but gave no | sign of having a suspicion about the coon, so the hunters were compelled to give up the chase, harnessing np and starting for home about 3 o'cieck Friday morning. Four hours after all the hunters had left ¥red Smith, who saws shingles in the mill, ran down to the store for a gun, say- ing there was a loup cervier hiding on the top of the frame of tne muley saw. When the animal had been shot and brought down 1t proved to be a fat oid coon that weighed forty-eight younds on the store scales. It bad passed clear through the flume and climbed the dripping shait of the waterwheel until it reached the roo: ot the mill. There were scratcnes and hairs all along the shaft to show how the coon went up. From here it had leaped to the wide upper frame of the saw and settled down for a nap. As the shaft was boxed in for ten feet above the mill flume and as the coon t.ad gone up inside, the dogs were unable to foliow the scent bevond the entrance to the flume.—New York San. ——————— WAKED BY TELEPHONE. Substitute for Alarm Clocks Introduced at Johnstown. The Johnstown Telephone Company has | all-night service at its central oftice, and, according to the Johnstowu Tribune, has ettablished in connection therewith a unique method of helping out those of its subscribers who do noi care to trust themscelves to get up at a certain desired bour without some ou:side assistance. It is a call system, something on the style of that in vogue at the hoteis. The subscriber who wishes to wake at a certain hour calls up central and tells the operator, who ‘‘makes a note of it” When the set hour arrives the operator rings up the subscriber who made ihe re- quest. Ii he turns over and fondly 1m- agines it’s only an alarm clock he’s tondly fooled, as the telephone bell will keep jingling until an a2nswer is turned in tu central, giving assurance thau the sleeper is awake. In the same manner if a physician is called for and cannot be reached, if re- quested he will be notified of the call as soon as he can be reached and told wnence it came. ——————— HOIEL AKRIVALS. GRAND HOTEL. W i Seamans & .w, Cal J S avery, Cal J H laylor, Navarro J Arthur, Cal R A Broadbent, Douglas B F Hart ey, Aubairn U AWick shouse,Boston Mirs Gaies, La. 1T ¥ It Jr & w, San Juan R A Kay, Chicago O Simons, Redding W L Burkeit, seattle N Wines & w, Cal F Hayes, Sacto H siock, Los Angeles E E Holbrook, Hotlister € Tu loch, Knighis J ¥ Duczeit, o~ Y [ A beerine, Ei Paso Mrs M A arnold, Cal J W Oatman, Keno R S Kaw, Placervile G W Wiisht, Wil ows Miss Howuid, Woodland S D Ballou. Cal G W Garre:t, Stanford V H Wizmors, Cul W H Hubuara, Vallejo A G Scholl, E¥ere.t J T Coweil, Dorg ay T Tukogi, Phituue phils P B James, Philndeiphia M AHooxson, N ¥ Mana Boswell, Los Ang DrJ S Juckson. Cal L Stilson, Chico R F Penuell & w, Chico LIHeauy & w, Helena H C kelding, Stock on Mrs C © Jackson, Cal ¥ B Jones, Oakland I3 Souoma T Rickard, Berkeley G ¥ Drake, Ouk and E W Arnold, Oakland G W Plerce,’ Cal B M Leioug, Sacto Miss Carlisie, Woodland P 3 Suilivan, Boston W R Radcliffé, C. W T Mead, Uai W b Armes, Uakiand L W Eberts, Lal W A Siichell, Berkeley W J V Osteihout, Cal NEW WESTERN HOTEL. " “hicago M A Cook & w, Portland 3 H Ca pler, Gr.dley J snv % J F Robiuson, ko.som ¥ M Heuid & w, Foisom H Somme st, Alcairaz G H W st, Portland I iacobs, Angos K L Smith, Anzos J Wadde, Angel Island D Ha pin, ‘Angel Island K Bages, Los Angeles G H \: oodruft, stanfora W C Moore, Valiejo T Scott, Valiejo J Brown, Los Angsles J ki Williams, Los Ang S Adams, Chicago E Bulkiev & f, Victoria F F Ames &f, And, C I Rossbade, Cal e A S Shea, Cincinua W G Jauca, Cal D Morrison. Sacramento J W kuswor.a, Cal Miss ogan, Peialuma PALACE HOTEL. G Carr & w1, Sacramento W H Carpenter, Chicago H C lolmes, Boston J S Grab'e, eo © B Hurris. Deadwood L D Rua ivbush, Denver J H tiazeltine, Denver W C Peyion, Santa Cruz Wi'ter Mcintosk, Cel M C Ne:son, Engiand F E Lonvet, Cnicago F Johnson, Chicago G E M rrat,Chicugo T F Burgdoiff, U » Navy BALDWIN HOTEL @ Williams, San Jose J Miller & w, N P J Connelly, SPRR A Rutner. Fresno G C Fremana Fresno W J ruliand & w, Or i Yiamon, N Y J Lewelly'r, Los Ang Bussiag, ~anJose T R Pritchard, Sausalito ) Gillis, butte WDDavis NY E Scnnabei & w, 8 Jose 3P Seymour, Chicago S Newell, Stockion A C Brotton, Marysville T J Lord, Denver o\ T0 GO RIGHT ON WITH THE WAR Civic Federation Reorgan- ganized to Do Battle for Reforms. Will Watch the New Adminis- tration From the Vantags of Experience. Tenure of Office and Police Court Reforms to Bs Urged at Sacramento. The Civic Federation is reorganized for a new campaign against a new set of con- ditions; or, rather, the campaign will be against old conditions as they may be played upon by a new set of men—the newly elected City and County adminis- tration. The organization has Jopped off the dead wood to a considerable exient and left the federation in a much beiter fighting shape than before, sav the members, especially as the places of those dropped from the roll have been taken by other and young men, who are ready to join heartily in an agzressive movement. Members of the federation generally place the highest confidence in Mayor- elect Phelan, declaring their belief that he will stand for honesty and economy and progress in municipal affairs. As for the rest, they preier to wait and see, hoping, of course, for the best. “The federation,” said George T. Gaden yesterday, “is older than it was. It has learned much in the past year or so and is very mucu better prepared to meet whatever of crookedness it may discover 1n the conduct of the government. *It has bzen shown that the Mayor can do littie with the Supervisors or the other arms of the City government against him. This last year the lederation was lacking in experience—did not know just how to proceed or how to take Lhe most advan- tage of its opportunities. A certain amount of experience is necessary in these tnings and the federation has not forgot- ten its lessons. Itis much strenger than he federation will also appear at Sac- ramento during the session of the Legis- lature in an active endeavor to improve upon the Jaws under which this great City tries to operate. Mr. Gaden deciared that several buls would pe prepared, but just what they wouid be directed at had not : been decided upon. He said the matter was discu-sed in executive session, but nothing definite arrivea at. Itis understood, however, that a bill to be introduced will regulate the tenure of office of City officials, to correct lack of uni- formity now exisiing. While, under the present laws, as recently decided by the Supreme Court, some offiziais hold for two and some for four years, the terms all will be fixed at two years. A =effort will be made to reorganize the metPods or procedure in the poiice courts so that there suali be some 1ndividual re- sponsibie for the pros:cution and conduct oi cases there. 'Under the bill to be pre- sented the District Attorney will be 1hat one. He will have the appo.ntment of the several prosecuting attorneys in the courts and will be held responsible for their acts. This reform is deemed of first impor- tance, as it is in the police courts that most | of the criminal prosecution has its incep- | tion aud whoere “‘case fixing’’ has become | too common to make a goou scandal. The | prosecucing attorneys are appointed by | the Board of Supervisors and are responsi- ble to no one. v Other reforms will be attempted in the Legisisture that are macde necessary by the failure of the proposed charter at the last election. FACTS ABOUT BUITONS. No Buttons Were Made Here Until 1848, and Some Cost $100 Apiece. Everybody is aware of the button craze | now sweeping over the country, but few know that buttons are a comparatively modern invention. This is the age of but- tons, says the New York Journal. We are slaves of buttons. Buttons ot high and low degree, ornamental buttons, useful buttons, campaign bu tons, bicycle buttons, club buttons, official battons, military buttons, navy buttons, police- men’s buttons, firemen’s buttons, all kinds of buttons, not forgetting the evasive, elusive collar button, furnish proof of the assertion. ‘The people of the United States unbut- ton 1,400,000,000 buttons every night, when they get ready to go to bed, and the next morning they rebutton the same 1,400,- 000,000 buttons, unless a few million have been lost in thestruggle. Then other mil- lions of buttons must be sewed on. In the fourteenth century there were buttons—but no buttonholes—and there wasn't a button factory in Eagiand until the close ot the seventeertn century. This button was purely ornamental, for, lacking a buitonhole, it couldn’t make itself useful, and the question arises, how | our ancestors managed to keep respeciably covered. Oi course, when a knight appeared in mail, there could have been no apprehen- | sion as to the stability of his covering, ior it was riveted on, but howdid a_High- | lander keep nis kiits in place? Was it firmly skewered with a bog-thorn for a ! safety-pin? The Romans were circum- spect in thns rezard. Yards and yards of material employed in their togas were wrapped and entwined about the wearars. Two hundred years ago there wasnot as many buttons in the whoie wor.d as | one will find to-day in the smallest “no- | tion’ store. Each one of these buttons was made by hand. It was not until 1745 that any considerable manufaciory was establisned. In that year the famous Scho works were opened at Rirmingham, Eng., where steel buttons were made of such beauty and finish as to command a price of $700 a gross or $5 each. On the accession ol George III gilt but- tons became fashionable, and the price varied irom a few shillings a dozen to $100 apiece, depending on the character of the work and the depth of the purchaser's pocket. The first button factory in the United States was established in 1848, QUEENS WHO SMOKE. The Use of Cigarettes Extending Among ‘Women All Over Europe. According to Les Annales the Empress of Austria smokes from thirty to forty | cigareties a day. The dowager Kmpress of Russia is a confirmed smoker, but con- fines her induigence to her own private apartments, apparently in deference to the feelings of the young Czarina, who is op- posed to the use of cigarettes, which has become ‘prevalent among women in the best society in St. Petersburg. The Queen of Roumania, the Queen Re- gent of Spain, Queen Amelia of Portugal, who in this respect follows the example of her mother, the wife of the Comte de Paris, and the Queen of Italy are all smokers, “In France,” Les Annales continues, he association of men and women in ali brouszht us to accept the cigareite, whose use is extending among young women of the most exclusive circles. Eveu the most critical no longer protest when two rosy lips send cut a few puffs of smoke be- tween a couple of games of tennis. Be- siages, our grandmothers loved tohaceo. The Duchess of Chartres and the Duchess of Bourbon under Louis XIV even went so far as to smoke pipes, yes, pipes. 1y dears! And in the ‘Letters of a Trav- eler’ we read that Georgp Sand always kept tobacco on hand for her own personal use. “In all times Spanish women have smoked; and not only cigarettes, but cigars. Marbot in his ‘Memoirs’ tells us this without mincing matters. And they smoke in Engiand and in the United States, although in the latter country it isonly recentiy tha: women have b-gun to use tobacco. Trere was a story in Gil Blas not long ago to the effect that three young girls in Louisvilie, Ky.. were seen smoking by a policeman and were ar- rested. The Judre, although recognizing that the accused were not conformine to the proprieties, felt bound to release them because they were violating no law.” e One Hot December Day. “This is the anniversary of the hottest day I ever knew in winter,” said the old meteorological member, as the clubmen came in this morning blowing their cold fingers and stamping their chilled feet. “In what year?”’ asked a young member. *In the year 1859. The murniu:(opened cloudy and it looked like rain. Then at about poon it cleared off, and the ther- mometer, which had indicated a tempera- ture of 70 degress, suddenly rose to about 80 degrees, at which iv remained all the rest ot theday. Even the night failed to bring relier, and during the evening it was carious to note the citizens of Utica sit- ting by their open windows vainly strive ing for a breath of fresh air.” “But how do you remember so exactly what took place =o long ago?”’ 5y connecting it with an event of his- torical interest wiich is not likely ever to pass from my mind."” *‘And what is 1t 2" “The hanging of old Jobn Brown, which took place at Charleston, Va. (it 15 now West Virzinia), on_the second day of De- cember, 1859.”’—Utica Observer. ———————— Nearly 400.000 cigars are sold in London every weekday, besides 1,000,000 cigarettes. 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