The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1896, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1896. LEVIN BROS,, RETAIL GROCERS, HAVE FAILED FOR §13,000 List of Liabilities and Estimate of Assets Placed Before a Stormy Meeting of Numerous Creditors. Board of Trade Appoints a Com- mittee of Merchants to Investigate. ASSETS ESTIMATED AT $110.000 Failure Ascribed to Dull Times, Com- petition and Slow Collections. List of Chief Credilors. Levin Bros., retail grocers, have failed. The failure was announced yesterday, and created quite a stir in commercial circles. The liabilities of tbe firm, according to the list presented to creditors yesterday afternoon at the Board of Trade meeting, amount to $139,000. The assets of the firm were placed at $110000. Creditors who have had experience in realizing on assets say that $55,000 may be realized. The failure is ascribed to dull times, difficulty in making collections and the dishonesty of clerks. Levin Bros. had five stores—two in San Francisco, two in Oakland and cne in Berkeley, The main store isat1324 and 1326 Market street. at the Board of Trade rooms at 2 o'clock yesterday, was one of tie largest and | stormiest ever held in San Francisco. A member of a leading house on Front street described the scene as a *‘mob of creditors.” He said: “I never saw such a long list of creditors. It was something amusing as well as startling. I thought when 1 saw the list that the firm owed every concern in California, from the Sonoma Pickle Factory to the Imperial Cocktail Com- any.’’ P'¥hen the meeting was called to order Jacob Levy of H. Levy & Co. was nomi- nated for chairman. He was chosen with- out delay. A well-known merchant who was present said: “It was evidently a pre- concerted plan that Jake Levy should pre- side, for be had the committee names al- ready prepared. The programme was smoothly carried out.” 1sadore Levin made the statements for the firm in trouble. He described the difficulty of making collections, saying that was the chiefcause of the failure. He also remarked that the dishonesty of clerks was another'cause. Hard times, be said, also tended to embarrass them. Replying to questions as to the amount of business which the firm had transacted, Mr. Levy said that the main store and the . branches ¢id a business of $250,000 a year. He made the announcement that the firm had paid $30,000 to creditors between No- vember 23 and December 26 of this year. Soms-questions were asked about the Jack of coin in the safe yesteraay morning when E. Martin & Co.’s attachment for $300 was placed on thestore. The ettorney Jor Levin Bros., Mr. Napthaly, could not give F. W. Van Sickien the information desired. Finatly Isadore Levin was asked about the coin, and he said that hearing of the attachment he had put the comn in H. Levy & Co.’s safe. itors were surprised that Jacob Levy, the presiding officer of the meeting, who must have known of the coin deposit, did not promptly give the desired information. After a cross fire, the questions lasting for an hotir or more, the creditors resolved 1o place their interests in the hands of the following committee, which was ap- pointed by the chairman cf the meeting: H, Levy & Co., C. E. Whitney & Co, Anglo-California Bank, Getz Bros. & Co., Haas Bros., Dallemand & Co. and Samuel Bros. & C A proposition was made to the debtors to trarsfer their assets to a commitieec-of three for the benefit of all the creditors. the committee to make a comnplete inves- tigation and submit a report showing what the debtors can do toward paying their debts. It was acknowledged that the debtors could not make a statement at present as many accounts had to be ex- | amined. The principal creditors to Leyin Bros. are: Anglo-Californial . 5.000 00 3,000 00 E. Whitney & Bank. 2y Getz Broe. Haas Bros. Samuels Bros. & Co. Frigham, Hi Dodge, Sween: Helmer, Bredhoff & Hills Bros.. huiz. fonoma Presarve and ¥ S H. Tyler & Son. tandard Soap Company. = 7’700 00 The creditors, all told, number more than eighty. The Anglo-Californian Bank Lolds some real estate as security and also Some of the cred- | { | | | the note of Mrs. Levin, mother of the Levin brothers, for $10,000. A leading representative of one of the oldest and wealthiest firms on Market street said, vesterday afternoon, that his house had not scld goods to Leyin Bros. for a vear. The manner iu- which the Levins conducted business dia not invite his confidence. Y The representative of a leading house on Kront street said his transactions with the Levin Brothers were limited. He did not desire their trade on a cash basis even, because he kncw as a matter of fact that they were selling articles such as pickles, preserves and jellies under wholesale prices. Complaints had come from hon- orable merchants in this City and Qak- land that Lavin Brothers were selling groceries for less than the articles cost in the whulesale market, and as a result of such competition those merchants who were doing an bonest and legitimate busi- ness lost their customers. The two houses of the Leyvin Brothers in San Francisco are located repectively at 1324 Market street and 134 Sixth street. There are two houses of the firm in Oak- land—one at Tenth and Washington streets and* the other at 1734 Seventh street. Recently a branch store was established at Dwight Way station, Berkeley. The business was started in 1878 by Tsadore Levin. He began in a small way on Turk street and carried on the business alone until 1883, when Julius Levin was admitted. A few yearslater David Levin was aamitted to partnershin. There is a large family of Levins in San Francisco. | The vi i th The meeting of creditors, called to order | Tiis Lewis of Gk oomiigtivm Sanrl Shie Getzsof the firm of Getz Brothers & Co. are related by marriage. Two attachmenis were levied on the firm yesterday. The Standard Soap Company attached the Sixth-street store for $700 and W. Rigby laid an attachment on the Market-street branch for $497. The meeting of creditors yesterday was prolonged until late in the afternoon. Secretary Smith of the Board of Trade was not in position to state definitely how serious the failure was and neitber could hs give an estimate of the amount of money that may be realized from the ass2ts. He thought that each store of the | firm wonld be placed in the hands of a representative of the Board of Trade and then an accurate inventory of the goods on hand and an examination of the ac- counts of the firm would be at once made. It wasincidentaliy stated at the meeting of creditors that the dishonesty of cierks contributed to toe embarrassment of the firm, but no names or amounts were men- | tioned. Some of the creditors have resoived not to settle for a cent less than one hundred cents on thedollar. A Front-street mer- chant said last evening: ‘I am suspic- ious of these large amounts which the Levin Brothers represent that they owe to certain firms. It is easy enough to say that they owe to a certain house $15,000 when the actual indebtedness may not exceed §5000. Again, Levin said he paid to creditors between November 23 and December 26, $30,000. Hedid not produce vouchers to verify this statement, butsaid the checks could pe produced. The pro- duction of these checks may hava some bearing on the final settlement.’” After the'se:sion of the Board of Trade the creditors went to their respective vlaces of business. The expressions con- cerning the firm were not friendly, and a determination was expressed to have a most thorough and searching investiga- tion made. The brothers Levin themselves acsert that the-competition put up by the Em- porium, Lebenbaum and others, has de- moralized the retail grocery busines In order to meet that competition extra- ordinary efforts to sell zoods at the small- est margin of profif had to be employed. D. Levin, who is the outside manager of the market street house (Isadore being the office and financial man)seid yesterday that he'did not know whatsteps the credi- tors wouid take. Heexpressed confidence in the ability of the firm to weather the storm, if the cred- itors did not press too hard. He sail the failure was brought about hy by the com- petition in the grocery business, which compelled the firm to sell at’ ruinous igures. *If we had not advertised exten- sively, put our prices down to the lowest figure and employed all the enterprise we possess to sell goods, we would have been here idle, while customers were going in | droves to the Emporium.” S LR LEVIN TALKS. The Head of the Firm Explains the Situation and His Hopes. Julius Levin, who is the moving spirit in the firm, while apparently much exer- cised over the trouble into which the es- tablishment has become invoived, ap- peared confident that when the creditors became ti:oroughly familiar with the sitn- tion they would show him and his brothers every consideration. His princi- pal worry when seen last evening in his place of business was that his stores might M. HENSEL. fes be closed and his business crippled to such an extent that recovery would be extremely difficult. All his energies were directed toward preventing this yester- day, and with every promise of success. In speaking. of the past experience of the firm and the present embarrassment he was frank and outspoken, and maude no attempt either to evade questions or conceal any information. In the course of an interview he made the following statement: “The only way that I can account for this trouble is the business depression that has been prevalent everywhere in the country for the past few years. As a re- sult of this we were driven to keener com- petition than usual, and profits were cut to a very tow notch. At the same time our expsnses were' heavy and accounts were difficult to collect. There were also other sources of loss which I do not, care to make public, but which were a serious drain, considering that we had five stores and employed from forty to fifty hands. “‘We have been in_business in this City for twenty vears and always paid every- body doliar for dollar. This is our first trouble. We have always been con- siCered by the general trade as Al, and our credit was of the best. *We have bought in this market on an verage $30,000 to $35,000 worth of goods per month for the last two years, and have until very recently met all our obligations promptly, as any of our creditors will tell vou. Even within the last thirty days we have paid out in the neighborhood of $28,000 to our creditors, and as recently as the 26th of the present month we paid to one of our creditors our check for $2600. My principal anxiety now is to re- open regularly for business as quickly as possible. We have done everything possible to protect our credit. We saw the storm coming & few daysago, and thought the best thing to do was to adopt the plan we carried out. We notified our creditors and asked that theyat once call a meeting to act on our affairs. This was done on Tuesday, 8nd notwithstanding this straightforward course that we pursued, one of our creditors, E. Martin & Co., liguor dealers, attached our Market-street place for a ciaim of $400 to-day. “This was iollowed later by an attach- ment by the Standard Soap Company on our Sixth-street store for a claim of §670. We expect to have both attachments re- leased to-morrow, when our affairs will be placed entirely in the hands of the as. signees selected by the Board of Trade committees. The assignees are J. P. Edoifs of the firm of Dallemand & Co., A, L. Whitney of C. E. Whitney & Co. and Jacob Levy of H. Levy & Co. ¥rank F. Strelzer is now in charge of affairs as the representative of the assignees. “Weshall use every effort to prepare ‘a complete statement of our business be- tween now and Monday, and’ shall work every day and night until then without intermission so as to have it -ready for the next meeting of the creditors which is to be held on Monday at 10 A. M. 3 “I am confident that our assets will reach between 70 and 80 per cent of our liabilities. ““We have always bought in this market and always gave home productions the preference. Ido not think that we have bought more than $4000 worth of goods East and that only within the last two years.”” THE FARALLON- SCHOOL What Miss Daisy Doud, Ap- pointee of the School Board, May Exp:ct to Encounter. An Interesting S ory, Teid in Letters, of Life on the Rockbound Haunts of the Seagull. Misg Daisy Doud, the pretty young teacher appointed 2t the last session of the Board of Education to teach the young idea at the [Farallon Islands how to shoot, will not, it seems, have everything her cwn way. % When school facilities at the islands be- ceme imperative last fall Lighthouse- keeper Beeman, who it appears 1s mon- arch of the romantie, rockbound demesne, applied for the establishment of a school and the appointment of a teacher. He was toid in so many words that the City of San Francisco could not afford to pay the teachers it had, much less provide new ones for ten pupiis on an ocean ex- crescence. Nothing daunted Mr. Beeman deter- mined to engage a first-class teacher in his own capecity as a private citizen and applied to Principal Roberison of the Hamilton Grammar School for advice. Mr.' Robertson, after due consideration, selected Miss Ellen M. Hensel, who had proved of the highest rank in the Girls' High School and the third highest in Miss Fowler's Normal School. An at- tempt was made to have Miss Hensel ap- pointed by the board, but she was in- formed privately that her influence to that end was inadequate, g Anyway, Miss Hensel was engaged by Mr. Beeman to teach the young Farallon- ites. She signed a contract on November 15 for six months at $10 a month and board, and on November 17 last was taken by Principal Robertson to the island, where she has remained ever since. Her mother, Mrs. M. J. Payne of this City, was wondering yesterday what would be the result of the board’s appointment. “There are less than ten pupils on the island,” said she, ‘'and how is Miss Daisv ioinz to divide them up with my Elien? Of course, nrv daughter stands very high— higher than Miss Doud—in her profession, and it seems unjust that the latter shouid receive $60 a month for what my daughter does, or hali of what siie does, for $10. I do not wish to say anything against Miss Doud, who is doubtiess a nice girl and perfectly innocent in the matter. The fault and the burden seem to lie with the oppressive political system. “But I fear that Miss Doud will not find everything to her taste on the Farallones, Judging by letters irom my daughter she is a complete exile, not able to visit her mother during her six months’ service, and only able to communicate irregzularly by mail. The reguiar letters go every three months, but by arrangement with kinaly pilots I manage 10 get word to and from her about every two weeks. My Christmas present of books to lighten her banishment has not yet reached her, and in stormy weather communication is com- pietely cut off.” Nevertheless Miss Heusel seems quite happy. Following are some interesting extracts discreetly made from recent let- ters received by Mrs. Payne from her bright daughter on the island : Don’t be worrying about me falling off the rocks; I can climb iike s goat. * * * Write often. T'll get your letters some time and they are just as welcome old as new. * * * Your letter mailed on the 15th (this is the 224 of December) ceme on Sunday, you see the pilot-boal is the quickest way. * * * There is no piano on the island. * * * I will have but three scholars for several months, * * * Isball stay until May 17; then if I want to stay longer I can do so, which is & great com- iori, for then I cau take my vacation and find out about other schools in Jnue or July. * * * 1 must have a sunbonnei—it is the only thing Ican kéepon my head. * * * You see mai and things only come through the lighthouse office every three months. * * * \e had greens for dinner last Sunday. They are the only green things that grow here naturally, Itis something between a grass and a weed. The greens are splendid I think. * * * Mrs, Beeman is very much disappointed that the things for the children’s GErllunu have not come ‘yet. They believe firmly in Santa Claus “aad will be much dirappointed if they have no tree. * * * Mrs Beeman is very, very nice to me, in fact everybody on the island 'is very kind. The schoolhouse is about halia block from Mr. Beeman’s house. Ihave a folding iounge in the front rcom, and when I shut the door I can be alone. I am at the schoolhouse now. It has four rooms and was used as a dweliing-house when the light- house was first built. The house ‘is plas. tered and is very nice and warm. Ihave three windows in the schooiroom, so th s plenty of light there. Ihuve nine desks, so Jou see 1 have room for five more scholars. * * 1 wish you could look out of my window now l,nd see the breakers dashing upon Saddle SCHOOL DIRECTORS N & SOUMBBLE Messrs. Henderson and Knox Nearly Come to Blows.. The Rae Building Company Will Build the Mission High School. G. C. Sweeney G:ts the Contract for the Plumbing and Gas- F.tting. Two school directors were painfaily volite to each other at the meeting of the Board of Education last evening and for good reasons. They nearly cameto blows during a meeting of the committee of the whole that preceeded the regular meeting. A disgraceful scene was only averted by the intervention of cooler-headed mem- bers. The contract for heating and ventilating the new Mission High School was under discussion and Director Henderson took up the cudgels for one contractor and Di- rector Knox for another. When the discussion grew heated the latter remarked that it seemed very much as though Director Henderson had given his friends points on how much to bid. The excitable Henderson was on his feet in an instant and applying an ephithet to Director Knox made a rush at him with clenched fists. The latter did not rise to meet the threatened attack and other members prevented further hostilities. The contract for the erection of the new Mission High Schocl building on the plans of Ar hitect Charles J. Havens was awarded to the Rae Building and Con- tracting Company for the sum of $123,908, the company being considered the lowest responsible bidder. % The resolution awarding the contract specified that Roman buff brick and steel laths should be used in the building and that the award was contingent on the pond of the company in the sum of $30,977 being satisfactory to the board. The plumbing and gasfitting contract was let to G. C. Bweeny for the sum of $4134, and his bond was fixed at, $1033 50. Miss May E. Strauss, a member of the day substitute class, was transferred from tbe Hamilton Evening School to the posi- tion of regular teacher in the school. Miss Beile Levingston was elected a Modjeska’s leaging man, who happened to be in this City when Howard Kyle abruptly terminated his engagement, and who consented to stepinto his part. Lon- ergan acts the lover in ‘‘Across the Pot mac”’ in an earnest and impassioned man- ner, and has made quite a hit as the Fed- eral officer. Adele Belgarde is still play- ing Edith, and is doing it to every one’s complete satisfaction, but Victory Bate- man is expected to take the role before the end of the week. Next week “In the Name of the Czar’’ will be produced, with Mortimer Snow and Leslie Morosco in the leading roles. *Niobe' has made a deserved hit at the Alcazar. Large and laughing audiences are the rule nightly and the applause is bearty and continuous. “Jack and the Beanstalk” continues its successful course at the Tivoli and will do s0 until further notice. The Orpheum, with its many good “turns,” is drawing crowded houses, The ballets remain the chief attraction. Loie Fuller will begin an entertainment consisting of two nights and one matinee at the California Theater this evening. A feature of the performance will be the first presentation an any stage, by Miss Fuller, of the one-act pantomime entitled “A Paris Tragedy.” This will be given in conjunction with a series of her old and new dances. Chief among the Iatter is the dance called “The Chinese Lady.” There wil. be New Year's matinees at most of the theaters, —————— Watch Service To-Night. Special revival meetings will be inaugurated atthe Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Twenty-sixth and Church streets, this evening. There will be a regular ola- time watch-meeting. These meetings will continue for several weeks. Rev. H. W. Baker will assist the pastor, Rev. Frank K. Baker, during the first week or ten days. Bishop Newman, D.D., L.L.D., will preach Sunday morning, January, 3, 1897, at 11 . . ) LEGISLATORS DOUBLE Assemblyman Wright of Ala- meda Has a Twin Brother. He Uses Him to Help Clear His Office of Place-Hunters and Cranks. “Excuse me, you must be thinking of my brother,” says Howard E. Wright, when approached on subjects relating to the coming session of the Legislature. “Oh, I think you must want to see my brother, Assemblyman Wright,” says the .brother when like matters are broached to him. Howard E. Wright was elected to the State Assembly from the Fifty-first Dis- THE TWIN BROTHERS WRIGHT. } regular teacher of stenography and tvpe- writing in the Mission High School class connected with the Horace Mann Gram- mar School. Mrs. E. M. North, Mrs. F. Haynes and Mrs. L. A. Sbaw, probationary teachers of ten or more years' experience, were elected regular teachers. An attempt was made to elect a superin- tendent of construction for the new High School building, Joseph Curlett, I. P. Kineaid and D. O'Sullivan being nomi- nated for the place. but after several bal- lots had been taken without result the matter was put over until Saturday after- noon, when another meeting is to be held. The following recommendations of the City Board of Examiners were adopted: That John B. Clarke be granted a Hign Bchool certificate on__his diploma of graduation from ths University of Cali- fornia and letter of recommendation from the facunity; that Miss Louise McEiroy be recommended to the State Boaird of Ex- amination for a State educstional diploma of the grammar grade; that the primary grade certificate of Mrs. Margaret Dwyer be renewed; that Franz Manasse be granted a grammar grade certificate on his California life diploma of the grammar grade. MIDWEEK THEATER NOTES, The Pacific Coast Commercial Travel- ers’ Association Takes a Successful Benefit at the Columbia. A very successful benefit was given last nightatthe Columbia Theater for the bene- ficiary fund of the Pacific Coast Commer- cial Travelers’ Association. Every seat in the house was occupied by the commercial travelers and their {riends, and the per- formance of ‘'His Wife’s Father” by the Frawley Company was received with warm applause. At the close of the second'act the presi- dent of the association, J. C. Eubanks, was introduced by the ex-president, W. J. Barrett, and in a few brief and well-chosen remarks he welcomed the large audience and explained the objects of the beneficiary fund. “The entertainment given you by the Frawley Company is well worth your dollars,” he said, *‘but it will be an added pleasure to you to think that your money will bring a little sunshine into the be- reaved homes of commercial men who have packed their grips for the last time and who have made their last journey.” The president's remarks were received with warm applause. Elezant New Year souvenir programmes were given, each shaped in the form of a circle and bearing in gilt_letters on a pale gray ground the initials P. C. C. T. A., the initials of the organization. To-night the bill at the Columbia The- ater will be “The Great Unknown.” On Monaay the well-known Irish comedian, Joseph Murphy, will open at the Colnm- bia Theater. “Palmer Cox’s Brownies” have but four nights ‘and ‘two more matinees at the Baldwin Theater. There will be a grand holiday matinee to-morrow—New Year's Day—and a regalar matinee on Saturday. The last performunce will take place on Bunday evening. Next Monday ening will come the 'ne Old Homestead.” ever popular pla; The Grand Opera-house has an excellent leading man this week in Tod Lonergzan, trict, which is in Alameda County, at the late election, and with in a week he wasbe- sieged by anxious coustituents who wanted offices or desired hiin to father measures that would work to their interests. They talked to him on the boats and on the cars and on the streets, and they even followed him home and poured their as- pirations into his ears, Now, Mr. Wright has a twin brother, D. C. Wrignt, who is as like him as ore pea in a pod is like ancther. Their features are very similar, both wear Vandyke beards and both aia their vision by the use of giasses. Moreover, they dress very much alike, ana it is a keen observer who can distinguish them apart. _Indeed, their near friends often mistake Howard E. for the brother, and vice versa. So it happened that tne twin Wright who is not an Assemblyman-elect was also besieged by office-hunters and the like, who thonght they were talking to a statesman and a man of might in the conncils of the Legislature. The man who is not a Solon told his brother of the wav he was badgered, and a happy thought struck the latter. “When they tackle you,” he said, *“‘you ! can truthfully say that it is a mistake, and 1 will tell them to go and see you, Of course I will not prevaricate and say I am not Assemblyman-elect Wright, but I can give S,he impression easy enough without that. So it was arranged, and the aforesaid constituents have grown weary of asking men who resemble Assemblyman Wright for lemslative favors. It is shrewdly suspected that the man who was elected to the Assembly made good use of his brother auring the cam- paign that closed on November 3, for it was remarked at the time that the insur- ance raan was numerous about Alameda County during the few weeks preceding election and that his energy must have been great to have kept up under the strain. There were several other candi- dates in the Fifty-first, but Wright wore them all out and was elected by acom- fortable majority. Those who are hoging for favors at the hands of the Assemblyman-elect are won- dering if the brotber will be in evidence at Sacramento when the Legislature meets and be also as resdy to remark, “Am I my brother’s keeper?’ or words to that effect. Assemblyman-elect Wright resides on East Twenty-eighth street, East Oakland, %nd is in the insurance business in this ity. The Chess Tournament. Arrangements are now complete for the chess match by telegraph between the Vie- toria, (B.C.) Chess Clubland the Mechanies’ | Institute Chess Players on New Year's night. The team playing for the Mechanics’ Institute will be Rodney Kendrick, Walter Franklin, Oscar Samuels and Valentine Huber. They will play in the Mechanies' I room, and a speclal wire from the room will communicate the moves here and receive the moves from Victoria. ~ The next lecture in the Mechanics’ Institute | course will be given by Frona Eunice Waite, on “Cuba and the Cubans,’’ illustrated, on next Saturday night. The leciure will be free to members and thelr friends. ———— Dismissed From the Force. The Police Commissioners met last night and dismissea Poticeman Thomas W. Stevens of Captain Spillane’s division from. the force. Stevens’ offense was being in a saloon while o1 duty on December 22. 0 -31/9 B o e ——— . Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. FIGHTING 08 ASSEMBLY SEATS Joseph Morani Files a . Contest in the Forty- Fourth District. Taking of Testimony in the Hozy - Powers Case Began Yesterday. Witnesses Who Saw Ballots Put in the Box Without the Numbers Being First Torn Off. Edward 8. Ryan, who was declared by the Election Commissioners to be the suc- cessful candidate for the Forty-fourth As- sembly District, will not be allowed to take his seat in the Legislature without a contest. Jameés Morani, who was defeated by a few votes, has filed notice that he will ask the Legislature to declare him elected. He charges that there Was fraud in every precinct of the district, and that Ryan not only used money to gain votes but promised political preferment to a large number of men, who will so testify. In addition to these charges Morani says that Ryan was not a resident of the Forty-fourth Assembly District for a year prior to the election, and is, therefore, in- eligible to hold the seat. The contest of Hoey vs. Powers for the seat in the Assembly from the Thirty- second Assembly District began yesterday when Justices Kerrigan and Groezinger, sitting as referees in the former’s court- room, heard testimony on the matter. Powers was eiected by 2 narrow margin and deciared the successful candidate by the Election Commissicners. The con- testani charges gross irregularities in the counting and handling of the ballots, and the testimony taken yesterday will be presented to the Legislature, which will decide which is entitled to the seat. Policeman Murphy, who was on watch in the booih of the First Precinct of the Thirty-second, testified that he had seen a number of ballots—six or seven, perhaps —put into the ballot-box without tne numbers having first been torn off. He had called the attention of the election officers to tue matter and told them that the proceeding was against the law, but no attention was paid to him. Frank Darragh, a watcher for the Citi- zens' Republican ticket, testified to a like state of aftairs. He stated that he had scen over fifty ballots go into the box with the numbters still attached. Like the policeman he had called the attention of the election officers to the irregularity and had even read the law to them, bat it made no difference. Thenumbers were on the ballots when taken from the box and were torn off as they were being counted. John Reilly, also a watcher, stated that he had seen a number of ballots that should have been counted for Hoey thrown out. The crosses were evidently intended for the name ot the contestant but had been placed either directly after the name or on the line separating 1t from the square intended to hold the cross. When he asked why the votes were not. given to Hoey he was told that it was none of his business and that the cross was not in the proper place to be counted. 2 e fiy s PHILIP CODE CONTESTS. Assemblyman-Elect Mahoney Must Defend His Rght to the Office. Philip D. Code Jr, has filed notice that he contests the right of F. E. Mahoney to | a seat in the Logislature from the Thirty- | fourth Assembly District. Mr. Code alleges many acts of neglect and miscon- duct on the part of the election officers. Also that watchers legally appointed were excluded from the voting booths. It is further averred ‘in the complaint that 250 voters were illegally induced to vote for Mr. Mahoney by the payment of money, and that such itlegal votes were cast and counted for Mr. Mahoney. It is believed by Mr. Code that if the votes had been properly canvassed he would have been elected and in view of this state of facts Mr. Code asks that Mr. Mahoney be excluded from the office ana that he be declared entitled to the seat. Justices of the Peace Barry and Groezinger have been appointed commis- sioners to take testimony and report the same to the Legislature. John R. Aitken is attorney for the contestant. THE LABOR QUESTION, A Profilable Visit Paid the Labor Bureau by an Assembly Committee of Six. That the next Legislature of this State will pay more attention to the labor ques- tion than hitberto was evidenced yester- day by the visit of an Assembly com- mittee of six paid the Labor Bureaun on Sutter street. The committee consisted cf Assemblymen Strain of Del Norte, Cano- | van of Marin and Kelly, Mahoney, God- frey and Powers of San Francisco. The various luws proposed by the buresu and placed in the form of bills for presentation to the Legislature were dis- cussed with Mr. Fitzgerald for ahout two hours. The commiitee was eminently gatisfied with the proposed laws. Two, one relating to the reorganization of the bureau and the other regulating employment agents, came in for special commendation. Mr. Fitzgerald was well pleased at the comments made. —_——— There are 1,700,000 more men in the United States than women. KEW TO-DAY! 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