The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1897, Page 10

R—— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY JANUARY 17, 1897 A MONSTER STREET GOES ON A WILD RAMPAGE! ROLLER Tt Rushes Furiously Down the Steep Baker- Street Hill and Does Damage in All { Directions. BRAEKES OUT OF ORDER. A Lamp Post, Electric Wire |site direct Pole and a Store Front Demolished. roller. The whole machine went over the obstacle with a bound and resumed its course for Rhodes' plate-glass front. Suddenly the reverse brake gave way and the steam moved the piston in the oppo- % The momentum of he roller, however, was so great that it cleared the sidewalk with a rush and car- ried away the wooden column on the cor- | ner of the building with a crash. Half of | the entrance to the store was also ripped |out and hurled across the sidewalk on Fulton street. It wasa narrow escape for BRAVERY OF THE ENGINEER. |the plate-glass front. Narrow Escape of George Heinemann's Store From Being Totally Destroyed. Contractor Michasl Loftus’ huge eight- ton steam street roller or traction locomo- tive got away from the control of the operator yesterday torenoon on the steep block of Baker street between Fulton and McAllist t was stopped it de- molished a np, cut a large elec- tric-light wire pole in two and tore out the o Rhodes’ new er of Fulton and It wa: Having done all the damage it could, within a space of not over a minute, the | 1arge iron mass yielded to the hand of the master and stood still, while the donkey | engine snorted defianily through the team satety-valve. Previous to the runa- | way there were a goodly gathering of peo- ple 5n the sidewalks, but they all beat a and steam monster had gone on the ram- page. Besides demolishing the lamp post, | electric-light pole and the column at the store entrance, the roller tore up a part of | the new pavement and smashed down several sections of street curbings on both sides of the street. | The engineer afterward explained that the runaway was cansed by the slippery pavement and the brake controlling the movements of the machine getting out of order in consequence of the great strain to which it had to be subjected. A little later he put on steam and took the big dangerous locomotive down town. | “Thank goodness that it is gone,” ex- | claimed grocer Heinemann. **If 1t had not | 0% Y e The People at Baker ani Fulton Strzets Fled in Terror When Runaway Traction Steam Street - Rol'er Mike Loftus’ Crashed Into E. Rhodes’ Gr ocery Store. done the monster run- hine. It will be remembered \ese machines consist of very large | ers surmounted by a donke that furnishes the motive power. smaller roller is used to guide the = For several days the street contractors have be: aying the concrete foundation of the block mentioned. After them came the men who placed the basalt pa u the concrete, and last of all roller, the mission of which was to firmly pack, by itsgreat weight, the basalt pav me The block from Kulton to M lister streets is very steep, probably an 8 per cent grade. ‘When the men with the roller appeared for work yesterday morning a controversy the basalt was too slippery for the ma- chine to work well, particularly as a-driz- At Jast it was decided to go ahead with the work, rain or no rain. Back and forth the huge roller apged across the street as it worked its yup the hill. George 2 eps a small grocery- ) the northeast corner of Fulton at the foot of the hill was besiie himeelf with fear. *“If that thing should get loose,” he exclaimed, “it would crush my little store into kindling wood.” For fifteen minutes he hurried around the neighborhood to get half adozen bales of hay to place against his wall as a barri- cade against the monster, but he failed to secure even a straw. At last the huge engine reached the top of the hill, and the tillerman threw the tiller to port, and the roller answered handsomely and started on its way down the hill. An exclamation from the en- gineer showed that there was something wrone. The ponderous machine had started slowly enough, but at every second its speed increased alarmingly. The eng neer and tillerman stood by their posts like heroes. When near the east sidewal a turn was made and the roller started to the west. Midway of the street it made another sharp turn and headed east again. Meanwhile the engineer was siruggling with the lever to reverse the motion, but it would not reverse. Thetiller, too, failed 10 answer, and with a rush the eight-ton machine started on destruction bent. It was headed for Heinemann's little grocery- i e. The latter by good fortune was saved. Midway of the block stood an iron street lamppost, and close to it was an electric light wire pole, 18 inches square at the base. On flew the huge monster. The street - lamp fell first and glass and broken iron were scattered all over the sidewalk. A second later and the roller struck the electric light pole. To the surprise of a dozen or more spectators, the force of the blow broke the large tim- ber off close to the ground, and again about twenty feet from the ground. The shock threw the engineer and tillerman high into the air, but they landed on the ground unirjured. The big rotler was checked for a moment, but only for a mo- ment. ‘With almost a human cussedness that sometimes animates inanimate things the locomotive turned and made for the cor- ner diagonally opposite. There E. Rhodes has recently completed a fine new gro- cery-store with large glass windows and a large wooden column that supported the verhanging stories above. For this new creation of man the wild roller rushed with a sullen rumble that meant mischief. The engineer started after the runaway and with a bound landed on the platform, and the tillerman seized a large block of . wopd, which he threw in front of the| ‘“He counted on the conditions bein ¢ A £ ing the opinion that | [ been for the electric wire pole the roller | would have mashed my little store as flat asa Sunday school pienic sandwich.' ’ VRS, DIMOND HAS - SMLED FOR HOME Vows That She Will Make Trouble for Her Husband. Will Also Bring Several Suits for Defamation of Her Character. When She His Done All This She Will N xt Enter Upon a Theatrical Career. The steamer Coptic, which set sail for Honolulu yesterday, bore the persons of Mrs. W. W. Dimond and A. J. Moore, for the past two years press agent for the Or- pheum. There were half a hundred friends at the wharf to see Mrs. Dimond cff, among them Consul-General Wilder, who waved a good-by and was wafted a kiss in return. Prior to her departure Mrs. Dimond spent some time in conversation with Mrs. Anderson, the costumer, who will give | | her imagination full sway in evolving fairy and dazzling creations for the lady during the five weeks required to fight her busband in the divorce courts before she can return and take the theatrical world by storm. “‘Stage fever has been a constant afflic- tion with me for a good while,” she said, “and though I care not to place myself in the position of throwing bouquets at a looking-glass, must state that 1 have in- tended to make use of my voice for a long time and have studied assiduously with that purpose in view. *‘Mr. Moore has signed me for twenty weeks, the contract to be fulfilled here in San Francisco. It will be either burlesque or light opera, and announcements w.ll be made in due time. 22"Oh, by the way, let me state that I paid my own bill at this hotel, that I registered in my own name, and that most positively I have not seen Mr. Wil- son since yesterday morning—have I, Mr. Moore ?” appealing at this juncture to her theatrical manager, who nodded assent. _Mrs. Dimond denied for the twentieth time in strong terms the charge made against her by Ler husband. She also reiterated her statements as regards his conduct. “Mr. Dimond is going to receive the surprise of his life,” said_Mrs. Dimond, setting her teeth hard. *Pride has kept me silent during years of harsh treatment, Eul}fhll s the straw that broke the camel’s ack. ). rapid retreat when they saw tlat the iron | | renewing the on | Trenton and sue in the Supreme Court.” Th = servant — *how heavy was the fish | I took vesterday?” ~Donald neither spoke nor moved. The laird repeated the | question. “Weel,” repliea Donald, *at such tha charge himself badly fooled. 0 quish neither my child nor any of his prop- erty, but I think he will be disappointed. Moreover, I intend bringing charges for defamstion of character against one or two prominent residents of Honolulu. What I intend to prove will give the scandal- mongers over there something else to roll their tongues around for a while.” OLDEST LITIGANT IN THE WORLD This Is Probably the Distinction a New Jersey Woman Enjoys. Mrs. Christin# French of Chester Town- ship, Burlington County, 102 years 4 months and 22 deys old, bas just won a suit in the New Jersey Supreme Court, which she instituted in November last. Mrs. French is probably the oldest litigant in the world, and tue favorable termina- tion of her action speaks volumes for her present clearness of mind. She isa New Jersey woman, and one who has probably seen less of the outside world than many city children eighty or ninety yearsher junior. Mrs. French was born in Chester Town- ship on August 1, 1794, and during her life of almost 103 years she says she has never lived a single day in any other place. Since the death of her parents, about seventy-five years ago, she has practically stood at the head of her family, although once married, and up to the present day ¢ T wuld be unable to reply to his this time, but he is going to find He hopes to relin- which may require a long journey. The maiden name of the aged litigant was Christina Slim, and early in the cen- tury she married Louis C. French. Five children were born to the couple, one of whom, a 0 Il lives. Since her earliest ollection Mrs. French says she recalls | o one day's sickness, and that was about four weeks ago. While seated in her parlor she was suddenly stricken with palsy, but in a few days she had com- pletely recovered and to-day Is in the best of health. Mrs. French attributes her remarkable age and health to her mode o living. Since childhood her evening meal has al- ways been of mush and miik, and under no’ circumstances would she partake of any other food before retiring. She has little faith in the curative powers of medi- she transacts all her business, except that | ALL ATHLETES 10 B NUMBERED Amateur Union of United States Issues a Decree. W. F. Humphrey of This City P.aced on Registration Cemmittee. Hereafter a Man Must Be Recorded as an Amateur to Be So Recogniz:d. At the latest meeting of the Amateur days since a new scheme was adopted for controlling and identifying all the bona- fide amateur athletes in the United States. Hereafter every person who would be corsidered an amateur athlete must be properly registered and numbered. Wherever he may go or compete in ath- letic contest his registration number and ceriificate will be taken as proof of his amateur standing. will be registered until his amatenr stand- ing shall have been clearly proved. A careful record will then be kept of athletes by numbers, and by a simple sys- tem of frequent notification among the different branches of the Amateur Union the exact standing of individuals may be readily ascertained. There will be no cines, and when ailing her only remedy is a dram of whisky. | Mrs, French has some means, and upon | nterest she isenabled to live com- In April, 1882, she loaned $200 | on a promissory note made by Joseph Benable and Lewis Fowler, and was to re- | ceive annually interest at 6 per cent. Her | business judgment toid her that an in- | dorser of means would make the loan more | | secure, and, although 90 years old when | the loan was contracted, Mrs. cured the proper indorser in Joseph R. | Ha The makers of the note paid $12 regularly each year for ten vears, properly year note each time, but failed (o pay the interestin 1891.1894, 1 and 1896, After due warning Mrs. French | placed the note in the hands of her coun- | sel, Aaron E. Burrof Mornstown, with in- | structions to bring suitagainst Mr. Harris. | “Don’t bother with any of the small county courts,” was Mrs. French’s injunc- tion to her counsel, “but go straight to | French se- Lawyer Burr did, with the result that judgment was obiained for $256 44, | betng the amount of the note with inte est and costs to date. The amount was assess:4d by Benjamin F. Lee, clerk of the | court, on the clear statement of the trans- action made to the court by Mrs. French. The actval costs of the suit amounted to | $30 93, and by adding this with the inter- est it was found that Mrs, French’s in- vestment has netted her $206 37 profit since 1882, The aged litigant has advised her coun- sel to give her debtor a reasonable time in which to settle the judgment. She says she ‘“‘never got to lawing in her young days, and never was to law before, but she always told her folks that when she did £0 to law sie would carry it clean through to the end.” She threafens to levy upon Mr.Harris' worldly effects unless he set- | tles the judgment within a reasonable time.—Trenton cor. New York Tribune. ——— Where He Drew the Line. Among the first s . F ories recorded by T. >ritt in his 1g'ers’ Basket,” is one t a Scottish laird who was relating | story of a fine fish he had caught one | to his friends at the dinner table, said he to the servact be- day “Donald,” hind his chair—an old man, but a new was twal’ pund at breakfast, it had gotten to achleen at dinner time, and it was sux- | York, the treasurer J. duplicate numbers. Registration wiil take place every year and ata charge of $1, hulf of which will go to the union and half to the association making the regi tration. If a person be guilty of profes- sional conduct, or, generally speaking, if he fails to compete for a year, his number will be withdrawn. This registration scheme will be in effect for all amateur contests after March 1, 1897. The Amateur Athletic Union of the United States is the main organization for the control of amateur athletic matters in this country. It has its regular officers, | its board of governors, its standing and special committees, all made up of chosen | men in various parts of the country. The president is H. McMillan of Philadelphia, | the secretary James E. Sullivan of New W. Kelly of Wood- bury, N. J. For convenience the territory is divided up into seven associations, embracing a total of 180 amateur athletic organiza- tions. There is the New England Asso- ciation with its twenty-five athletic ciub: the Metropolitan Association with i s | forty-two clubs, the Atlantic Association with its sixty-five clubs, the Central Asso ciation with its eleven clubs, the Paci Association with its eighteen clubs in Cal- ifornia, tire Pacific Northwest Association with its ten clubs and the Southern Asso- ciation with its nine clubs. The Pacific Association, of which W. ¥. Humphrey of this City is president, is made up of the following club members: Stanford University, Reliance Club, Olyme pic Club, South End Rowing Club, Acme Club, San Francisco Y. M. C. A., Oakland Y. M. C. A., Sacramento Athletic Club, | 8t. Mary’s College, Fresno Athletic Club, | Stockton Athletic Club, Oakland Athletic Club, Dolphin Rowing Clab, Pioneer Row- | ing Club, Ariel Rowicg Club, San Fran- cisco Athletic Club, Lurline Swimmirg and Polo Club, University of California. When the announcement of the new registration scheme was communicated to the heeds of the different associations a registrar of amateur athletes was also ap- | & pointed for each aistrict. For the Pacitic Association, embracing California, Ne- vada and Arizona, William F. Humphrey of San Fraacisco was commissioned 1o ex amine and record athletes. At the same time Mr. Humphrey was further honored by being made a member of the Board of Governors of the general organization. He is now president of the Pacific Asso- \ PRESIDENT WILLIAM F. HUMPHREY of the Pacific Associa- tion of the Amateur Athletic Union, Who Has Been Appointed Registrar of All Amateur Athletes in California. and-twenty when ye sat down to supper with the captain.”” Then after a pause he added: “'I've been tellin’ lees &’ my life to please the shooters, but I'll be blowed if 1’m going to tell lees noo, throuzh my old age, 10 please the fushers.” —_——— Revived Him, An editor was one day confronted by a gentleman, who exclaimed : *In your paper you report that Iam dead.” ““You may rely,’” said the editor, “‘on the truth of everything you®read in our jeurnal.” But his visitor was not comforted by this assurance, and asked that a contra- diction should be published in the next issue. To this the editor firmly declined to assent; but, being pressed to make some amends, he finally offerea to insert the gentleman’s name in the following day’s list of births.—Tit-Bits. ESE G S e A prominent doctor says tennis is thei | most healthful of all recreations. ciation and has held the office for the past two vears, having been unanimously re- elected last year. Before his election to the presidency of the Pacitic Association he was vice-pfesident for six months while a member of the board of managers, His term of office expires on the first of next May, and though it is understood that he may be re-elected simoly by con- senting to be a candidate, he has declared positivelv tuat he will not accept re-elec- tion under any circumstances. He will, however, act on the new regis- tration committee until the expiration, on November 16. 1897, of the first term. Then he purposes to sever his connection with athleti Mr. Humphrey is not an athlete him- self, but during his connection with the Pacific Association he has been a tireless worker in the interest of pure amateur sports. His efforts alone, like thoss of John Elliott of the O'ympic Club, stana out conspicuously. They have accom- plished much for the good and for the en- 1 Athletic Union held in New York a few | No person without a | | number will be recognized, and no person OUR GREAT AND BONA FIDE UNLOADING SALE FINE GL Has caused a panic among the Clothiers OF" of this City. THING | i | | ends now RUN RIOT B | | | | | | THE PUBLIC OUR HIGH- CLASS GO0DS THE BARGAIN CRY It has also brought out in the race for patronage those old and spavined horses called *Reduction,” “Clearance,” “Sweep” and fake “Removal” Sales, backed up by lies, baits of shoddy and odds and All over town, from the Baldwin Hotel Tenderloin clear down to the slums of Barbary Coast. Fine and Reliable Clothing which we are now sac= rificing at paltry prices has knocked these FAKERS higher than ‘‘Gilderoy’s Kkite.”’ Have for years past daily read of tons of ‘‘cleverly tailored’”’ goods which would be donated to the people at large at half cost, but which upon inspec= tion only turned out to be Prison and Chinese made trash or odds and ends of shoddy marked at a big profit to help pay the fabulous expenses of shops whose main ‘‘drawing cards” were dime museum attractions gotten up to catch unwary and verdant victims. And honest prices, coupled with upright and consci= entious business methods, throughout this and neighboring States, and when we sound The people turn out en masse, as we have their confidence, which we prize too highly to betray. Our present great and phenomenal values will be continued during this month, and it will pay you to come hundreds of miles to partici- pate in this great SLAUGHTER SALE of Men’s and Boys’ Fine and Reliable Clothing now going on at full blast at the old established stores well known to you all as i THE BIRTHPLACE OF GREAT AND HONEST BARGAINS, 200-208 KEARNY STREET, CORNER SUTTER W Satisfaction guaranteed and your money @i back if you want it. But the have made us famous massacre of e couragement of amateur athletics on this “ft was Humphrey who undertook the récent inquiry into the status of the Butte football team, and it was he who brought about the investigation of lax amateur methods that {euul\ed in the suspension f the Acme Club. o He with his fellow-officers hopes now to arouse an interest in amateur athletics in this State greater than ever before by ar- ranging a great coast championship field day to be held in this City next Apri, and the gate receipts to be devoted to sending the winning university athletic team East as a worthy representative of California. Lot Napoleon Learns His Business. “A few days after the thirteenth Vende- maire I bappencd to be at the office of the general staff in the Rue Neuve des Ca- pucins, when General Bonaparte, who was lodging in the house, came in. I can still see his hittle hat, surmounted by a chance plume badly fastened on, his tricolor sash more than carelessly tied, hiscoatcutany- how, and a sword which in truth did not seem the sort of weapon to make his for- tune. Flinging his hat on a large table in the middle of the room, he went up to an old general named Krieg, a man with a wonderful knowledge of detail and the author of a very good soldier’s manual. He made him take a seat beside him at the table, and began questioning him, pen in hand, about a host of facts connected with the service and discipline. Some of his questions showed such a complete ignor- ance of the most ordinary things that sev- eral of my companious smiled. I was myself struck by the number of his_questions, their order and their rapidity. * But . what struck me siill more was the spectacle of a commander in chief perfectly indifferent about showing his subordinates how completely ignoraut he was of various points of the business which the junior of them was supposed to know per- fectly, and this raised him a hundred cubits in my eyes.”—From the Memoirs of Baron Thiebault. B Very few of the Scotch peasantry now wear the kilt. Most of the peasants dress after the manner of Englishmen, SCIENTISTS EVE A MURDERER'S BRAIN William M. Roe's Body Now Being Prepared for Dissection. The Organ of Thought Will Be Removed and Closely Examined. It Will Probably Then Fe Placed Beside Jocquin Murietta’s Pickled Head. Murderer William M. Roe’s brain stilt remains in its bony bed, for the present hidden from the eye of science. The body of the assassin who died on the scaf- fold at Napa is, however, being prepared for dissection and in a few days the organ in which was concocted many a criminal scheme will be removed. It will then be vlaced among the State’s anatomical mu- seum curiosities, probably beside the pickled head of Joaquin Murietta. The brain will, no doubt, be found af- fected. Its owner committed several mur- ders, it is known. He confessed to having slain twenty-six persons. This later state- ment is not believed to be true. Consider- Ing this the physicians are of the belief that the brain of a man who murdered several people and then when caught ae. sumed an air of bravado and lied abont the number, must certainly be abnormal. His achievements as a murd however, have placed him on an unenyia: ble pedestal in California criminal bis- ory. Eoe's body was taken to the College ot Physicians “and Surgeons, 818 Howard street, yesterday morning. 1t was handled with unusaal care by the under. taker of the institutior, and will be thore oughly prepared for the knife. The st dents of the college are wearing an air of expectancy, but whether they are to have the benefit of the murderer’s bequest to science or not remains to be seen, A Gavel for Campbell. Police Judge Campbell was presented with & beautiful silver ornamented gavel last Thurs- day evening by the members of the California Social Club, which meets in Scottish Hall every week. When he entered the hall he was met by a bevy of young lady friends, who escorted him to the stage, After sace Hon of the routine affairs of the club the president delivered the emblem of & tothe Judge, who in a very pre pressed his gratitude for the pr NEW TO-DAY. A-NAQDMANY. Have the Most Bexpert staff of opticians on the PacificCoast and fit eyes skill-§ fully and properly. 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