The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1897, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897. CUBANS SEEK THE MAYOR Colonel Ethan Allen of New York Addresses Him on Liberty. PHELAN TO BE INVITED TO AID. Jones and Mascherini Will Call on the City’s Chief O ficer at Once. f LOCAL PATRIOTS ACCORDED | RECCGNITION. | | The Steam Whalers Thrasher, Balaena and Narwhal Were Towed Out of the Mud b The National League Reaches Out to | Crystalliz> Sentiment in San Francisco. There is joy at the headquarters of the Cuban sympathi 2006 Mason street, for word has at last come from New York toat the aid proffered by Messrs, Mas- cherini and Jones, and their many follow- ers, will be accepted. General Palma has been too tusy to answer the telegrams and letters sent to| him by the enterprising friends of Cuba here, but Colonel Ethan Allen, president | of the Cuban League of the United State: sent them u letter which has inspired re- newed efforts on behalf of the struggling | Cubans. | “General Palma depends largely on our league in this work,” runs Colonel Allen’s letter, and continues thus: ‘‘Before re- ceiving your letter we had written to the Mayor of San Francisco, asking him to apooint a commitiee to organize a Cuban league in your City. We would be pleased 1f you would call upon him at once, tell hiln the progress. you have made, co- operate with him so that he can give to | what you have done the added strength | of his influence.” | Messrs. Jones and Mascherini will call | on Mayor Phelan 10-day and endeavor to get him to act in conjunction with the National League. Thefoilowing are the | vice-presidents of the National League: Hon. Charles A. Dana, Hon. Chauncey M. | Depew, Hon. Roswell P. Fiower, Hon, | Thomas F. Gilroy, Hon. George Hoadly, J. Edward Simmons Esq., Hon. Thomas L. James, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, John R. Dos Passos Esq., Charles H. Denison . The following constitute the exccutive committee: Hon. Paul Dana, Colonel Jobn Jacob Astor, General Daniel Butter- field, John D. Kelley, Frank B. Carpenter, Hon. Jobn C. McGuire, R. C. Alexander, Colonel Frederick D. Grant, Ervin Ward" man, Constant A. Andrews, Hon. Walter §. Logan, Thomas E. Stewart. The address which the league desires Mayor Phelan to aid in circulating states that the object of the league is ‘10 secure for Cuba by all lawful, peaceful and hon- orable means the political independence which her patriots are now endeavoring, by tremendous sacrifice of treasure and life, to gain; to encourage them by our sympathy and moral support and to arouse the whole Nation to demand the end of the campaign of murderand de- struction in that island.’” DENTAL STUDENTS' TRICKS. Secretary Holbrook Complains of Them | as a Source of Annoyance. | A Society for the Prevention of Dental Students. How does that sound? i Secretary Holbrook of the Society for the Prevention oi Cruelty to Animals is convinced that there is pressing need of | such an institution. The boys are accused of breaking out again as they did last vear, and the avenger is again on their | trail. | Holbrook was obliged to write the re- | gents of the university last year and com- | plain of the students’ tricks. This time he has communicated with the agents of the Donohue building. A lease of three rooms on the third floor was recently granted the college. On the | same floor the office of the society is situ- | ated. Since that time Holbrook states the | boys have acted in a manner totally unbe- | fitting gentlemen, and that their presence is especially intolerable to ladies. | The agents are told tuat the boys are generally boisterous and undignified, and | the agents of the building are reanested either to give the college rooms on some ctber floor or cancel the lease altogethe FEW 7O-DAY: AN AWFUL SORE And Mother’s Many ! Sleepless Nights. | and notably the CUTICURA WORKS WONDERS. | 1 herewith write out in full the beginning and end of that terrible disease, Eczema, | h efforts of the Van Ness Avenue Improvement which caused my babe untold suffering, and myself many sleepless nights. | My baby was born seemingly a fair, healthy child, but when she was three weeks old a swellingappeared on the back of her head, and in course of time broke. Every one called it aboil,and, now it had broken, would soon heal, but that was only the beginning of the trouble. | 1t did not heal but grew worse, and the sore | spread from the size of a dime to thatof adol- | Jar. Tused all kinds of remedies that I could | think of but nothing seemed to help, in fact 1t grew worse, her hair fell out where the sore was and I feared it would never grow again. -1t continued until my aged father came on a visit, and when he saw the baby he told me “t0 get CUTICURA SOAP and CUTICURA Oint- ment right away.” To please him I did so, and to my surprise, by their use the sore be- gan to heal over, tho hair grew over it, and | to-day she has a nice head of hair, her skin i8 as fair as a lily, and she has no scar left to recall that awful sore. CUTIOURA 80othes and allays all itching and burning that cause a child to fret and the mother to worry, and gives rest and comfort both to parent and child. . WM. RYER, Elk River, Minn. Brexr 7or Sxn.ToRToRED Basres and Resr rox Treep MOTHERS in & warm bath with CUTICURA Soar, ‘and s single spplication of CoTICURA (cintment), greatest of emollients and skin cures. ‘This treatment will give instant relief, permit rest for parent and sleep for child, and point to & speedy, perma- nent, and economical cure of the most torturing. disfig- wuring, and humilisting of itching, burning, bleeding, sealy, pimply, and crusted ekin and scalp humors with loss of hair, when all elee fails. Sold throughoutthe world. Porrsz DRuG AxD CHEX, Corr., Sole Props., Boston. ‘How to Cure Every Skin and Blood Humor,” free. LUXURIANT HAIR 255 Bt duced by Curicuza SoaP. | avenue. | greatest detriment to this end of our City by | block Still High and Dry in the Mud. y the Tugs Sea Witch and Liberty Yesterday. The Old-Time Steamer Ajax Is All the Whalers Are Now Getting Ready for the Spring Cruise. VAN NESS 70 BF AN IDEAL DRIVE A Progressive Spirit Being Manifested in the Northwest. Large Sums of Money Expended in Beautifying the Boulevard and Adjacent Streets. A Prospective View of the Future | Importance cf This Section by Pres.dent Law. The promoters of the extension of Van Ness avenue from Broadway to the waters of the bay are more than satisfied with the result of the large sum of money expended in cutting, grading and bituminizing that portion of the boulevard The Van Ness Avenue lmprovement Club was among the first organized in this City having for its object the betier pav- ing of the streets, as also urging the Su- pervisors to declare that avenue a boule- vard in connection with Golden Gate avenue. Having accomplished so much, | it proceeded stili further, and by soliciting the military authorities at Fort Mason obtained their co-operation in a promise toopen up a roadway through the reser- vation from its junction with Lombard street to a western point where a continua- tion of the roadway will lead directly into the grounds of the Presidio, and thence into Golden Gate Park by the way of First This was intended to give the still further advantage of tapping the water front at Bay street, and thus open- ingup a more conveniert route to the | business portions of the City over which heavy hauling can be done without en- | croacning on the Van Ness avenue boule- vard ordinance. This partly completed and contemplated line of improvements has’ led to the cut- ting through of the “hog’s back’” on Polk street, on which the work has already begun. The amount of $70,000 has already been expended on the improvements on Van Ness avenue, and there remains $90,000 to be expended on the c@tting, grading and paving of Polk street. fnrther expenditure of $3000 in bringing Lombard sireet into connection with Van Ness avenue at a point joininy the Govern- ment reservation at Fort Mason. outlay of $168,000 distributed among labor- g men has given employment o those | probably in need besides enhancing the value of property in that section of the City. The originators of the Yan Ness avenue improvements were the property-owners on the noerthern end, who, with the co-op- eration of all tve residents on that avenue, assisted in securing the boulevard or- dinance. The officers of the club are: Herbert E. Law, president; P. Ghirardelli, vice-presi- dent; Jobn McGovern, secretary; Val Schmidt, treasurer; with Dr. Hartland Law, Dr. Alexander Warner, Dr. Ghirar- | delliand W. M. Pierson as an executive committee. The future of this section of the City as forecast by President H. E. Law is ex- pressed by bim in an interview with a CALL representative vesterday. He said: Last Week decided the future of one of the most desirable moveinents that has occurre in the last twenty yearsin the northern se tion of the City, viz.: The removal of Polk- street bill. It has had many stumbling bloc direct objection of ex-Supe: visor Denman, representing the Polk-sireet Improvement Club, who protested it last Thursday’s mecting of the board. The obstructions have finally proveu unavailing nrd this work assured. This has been of the Teason of preventing any outlet. That th i1 is now 1o be graded is due to_the splendid Club, on whose pelition and by whose efforts this work was started aua finally brought to & successful termination. It will be remembered that one year ago Van Ness avenue was bituminized for seven a result of the efforts of this orgau tion. The Supervisors, niter the tullest inve tigation and personal review, have granted the petiiion for bituminizing Lombard boulevard from Van Ness avenue to the Pre- sidio, taus making one of the finest drives the City as. . This (nsures a_boulevard system of over three miles and provides the nucleus of the granuest driveway of this future grest City. _There now remain but two blocks on Van Ness avenue 10 be opened, which will give sccess 1o the water front and provide one of the most beautiful views in_the entire City, The Government has agreed to terrace Fort Mason, a park of sixiy acres, to the Van Ness boulevard grade and 1o provide serpentine drives skirting the water front. This gives to the City this beautitul park at no expense, the maintenance thereof being borne by the Government. If this same rate of improve- ment continues for the next five years San Francisco will have made & progress propor- tionately equal o the great city of Chicago. I this spirit can be incuicated in one district it can be inculcated in every aistrict. Development of the City and commercial strength go band in hand. The oue needful element 1o accomplish this 15 10 secure earnest activity on the partof tne businessmen, and especially the rising generation, who ‘have much greater examples and opportunities than was the case with their fathers, who pioneered the establishment of this ' City. When we stop for & moment to reflect over the grand possibilities of this most magnificent City, situated on the great ocean, capabie of enormous traflic, blessed by oneof the best harbors in the world, provided with a climate unsurpassed and backed up by & State capable of producing almost every product and in ereat abundance, we have before us & future which it is reasonable to assert is not con- ceived even by the mostenthusiastic. No sue- cess of business or of & city ever comes by There will be a | This | atd | chance; it is the result of effort, and we can | hope and calculate with certa of ihe | tuture, providing we accompany the calcula- | tions with corresponding effort. Everything | 15 possible to us. We can do what we will. DISPLEASED LITIGANTS. | | L. G. Steele & Co. With Arbitrator Mausfield. The firm known as E. L. ( composed of Georze A. Mooreand E Polhemus, yesterday instituted agninst Lievre, Fricke & Co. to secure a re- vision of award for damages on account | of infringment of trademark. The com- plaint sets forth that W. D. Mansf v selected us one of the arbitratorsin the disputed claim for dumages on the repre- sentation that he was fair and unbiased. Steele & Co. aver that he was a partisan | on behaif of Lievre, Fricke & Co. and that | in_consequence the award was only 3, which is alleged to be insufficient. Not WD, suit | | Death of Miss Julia Spauld- 71 ‘e court )s asked to set aside the decision of the arbitrators and make a new inquiry into the merits of tho case. ST MAY BROADEN THE_ SCOPE. rand Jurors Seek About the City a g More Information County Hospital. When the Grand Jury meets again the | scope of the investigation concerning the City and County Hospital expenditares may be widened. Tbe disclosures co cerning the manner in which money was | wasted which was appropriated for re- vairs and work of aifferent kinds ha | whetted the appetite of the investigators | | for all sorts of information. Yesterday | afternoon, late, the committee of the and Jury conducting the investigation concerning the hospital sent in an in- quiry to the Board of Health asking for | information about the bills. This fact was carefully guarded in the board. but | the information leaged out. The whole subject of supplies may be gone into ex- baustively. UNCLE SAM'S HARD KICK | General Forsyth Says the City | | Has Not Lived to Its | Agreement. | Requests That Conditicns on Which Part of the Presidio Was Ceded Be Fuifilled. Brigadier-General Forsyth of the United | States army, commanding ‘the depart- ment, has called to the attention of the Mayor the conditions under. which the Government of the United States relin- quished certain lands at the Pr-sidio to | the City and County, He shows that the | | conditions have been violated, and he | | takes the occasion to read to the City | authorities a lecture about the con-| dition of certain streets and .to ask that something shall be done. The communication, which was received ye: terday by Mayor Phelan, is in part as “fol- lows: | . Inave the hoor to invite your attention to the condition of the City sireets on th | ern borders of the Presidio reservation | the act of Congress spproved 9, 1876 | tain landx belonging to the Presidio military | reservation were relinquished 1o the City and County of San Francicco, provided that Lyon | street, 8y indicated 1n this act, shall be e tended to the bay of San Francisco, 80 feet | | wide and dedicated for a public highway for- | ever. Provided further that Broaaway, Vallejo, | Green, Uniou, Filbert,- Greenwich, Lombar l Chestnut, Francisco, Bay, North Point, Je | 5 son, Tonquin and Lewls streets, as laid down on the official map of the City and County of San Francisco, be extended westerly 1o inter- sect the easterly line o1 L; i cated as public streets and_ highways fore Accordingly, in the year 1876, the line on tt easterly Jine of the Teservaiion was removed from its then location and placed in its proper line further west, where it now is. Lyon street has not yet been opened by the City authorities, as provided by the act above referred to. 1t is ob-tructed at the north end by several buildings, lences and 8 shooting | gallery. Neither have Green, Chestuuf, Ten- quin and Lewis streets bewn opened, as pro- | vided in the mct. Toese streets uré all ob- | structed. % Boiore the Iate Sendtor Fair commenced to | fill his property at the east of the Presidio | Reservation the natural outlet of the slough on the north side of the reservaiion was easi- wardly across Lyon and Baker streets. Baker street and the property east of 1t has been filled in by the property-owners. The Govern- mant is now filling the marsh on the north- enst of the reservation, but the elevation of the surface after the filling is completed wili be lower than that east of Baker street. There { will be left & depression between Baker street | and the eastside of tne reservation in which water may collect, and. it may overflow on to the reservation. The Baker-street sewer has been filled u with sand for 8 distance abOVe its Gutlet, any instead of having the obstruetion removed, the City authorities bave consiructed n box- drain at the crossiug of Baker and Francisco streets, which furnishes an outlet for the sew- age info the depression reterred to. In view of these facts I request that you do me ghe kindness, it it be within vour power, 10 chuse such measures to be taken as will re- | sult in the opening of the streets referred to and in the grades on Lyon street being re- established, south of Filbert street, in such manner as will make both Lyon street and the reservation accessible along the entire | eastern partof the reservation, snd in Lyon | street being graded. ] Itis espectally important that the portion of | Lyon street, morth of Lombard, shall be opened, and that the box drain Which now forms the outiet for the Baker-sireei sower shall be removed and the sewsge airected in its proper chaunel, which is slong Balser street; as it now constitutes a menace 10 the health of the neighborbood, and, when the drill piain on the reservaion, which is now being graded near this vicinity, shail be com- pieted and used by the troops jor drill pur- poses, the danger to the heaith of the troops will be largely increased. — e ——— THE Artists' Material Department of Sanborn & Vail's is perfect in every detail. Every color, Dbrush or any other article used- by artists or amateurs i stock. Lots of new studies just received. They have nouse and floor paints, wood stains and varnishes put up in small cans for family use. Also gold paints #nd liquid glue, . on street and d | bad loauned MANY OWE R THANKS ing, Who Recovered Fortunes. SHE TRACKED MEIGGS TO | CALLAO. One of the Most Romantic Char- acters in Early San Fran- cisco History. WAS ALMOST ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD. | Her Savings as a Washerwoman En- abled H:r to Die Wealthy at That Advanced Ag:. OAKLAND, CAr, Feb. 3.—One of the most interesting women known years ago to the whole Western coust died at her residence in East Oakland to-night. She is Miss Julia Spaulding, who only lacked three years of completing a century of life. She is woman who followed Honest Harry Meizgs to Mexico in 1855 and succeeded in recovering from him ail the money she Lim with interest and ex- penses. In 1850 Harry Meiggs was in the hey- day of his power in San Francisco. He was building wharves and halls and was known to the young city as *“‘Honest Harry.” Confidence in bim was unlim- ited and everybody held his notes. Among those from whom Meiggs bor- rowed all their earnings was Miss Julia Spaulding. In 1854 she was a washer- woman on Sieuar. street and bhad been | all her life a hard-working industrious woman. Those were the days when a laundry bill was about equal to a week’s salary at this time, Miss Spaulding had implicit confidence in Meiggs and readily loaned him all her savings of a lifetime in return for his note. One night in 1855 Meiggsdisappeared. Hehad busied him- self ior several days borrowing ail the money he could et and when the bark Amer hove up her anchor and sailed | for Callao Henry Meiggs and his victims' money were aboard. Just before leaving he borrowed the last Miss Spauldin, Some time that Meiggs was coining a vast fortune in Peru and she decided to go and try to re- cover her money. as foolish, as she was then 58 years of age, but she was not to be turned from her pur. pose. e Captain Wakeman of San Antonio—now East Oakland—to take her asa passenzer to Callao. He was only goiug to call there for orders, so he could no: wait to hear the result of Miss Spauld- ing's mission. The lady soon found *‘Honest Harry’s” casa and discovered that he was rapidly adding to his riches. He received his old washerwoman with open arms and pro- vided her with sumptuous quarters, and without hesitation he refunded her the amount of her notes with interest and also paid the expense of her voyage. Miss Spaulding returned to California, butneveradmitted to any one thatshe had | met with such marked success, this having been suggested to her by Meigzgs, who did not wabt to sce too mauy friends at his Peruvian casa. Miss Spaulding, however, commenced to make some vainable investments and suspicion wasaroused and Meiggs received many visits. He finally paid every cent he owed and a bill was passed by the Cal- jornia Legislature according him im- munity from all criminal_proceedings be- cause of his actions of 1855. All those who benefited by the trip to Peru used to admit that but for Miss Spaulding’s ven- uresome journey and discovery that Meiggs was rich they would never have received a cent, Miss Spaulding never married and it is not known whether any relatives reside bere or not. She has lived in one of her own houses at Eighth -avenue and East Seventeenth street for several years and it was there she died. COLERKS AND SALESMEN. A Special Night for Them at the Association Building. The Young Men’s Ohristian Association is making extensive preparations to enter- tain clerks and salesmen and other young men engaged in clerical work at the asso- ciation building on Thursday evening, February 11, and his Honor Mayor Phelan has consented to deliver an address on the occasion. A committee of arrangements comprising the following-named gentle- men met in the general secretary’s office lastevening at 5 o'clock: C. J. Auger, C. A. Maydwell, T. C. Dawkins, J. Walker Ames, J. A. Percy, Louis Titus, W. H. Cook, H. F. Lyon, N. B. Frisbie, C. Stew- 1own to early Caitfornians as the | installment from er Miss Spaulding learned | She was locked upon | art, William Balnaves, C. A. Mullin, F. L. Shaw, D. B, Ferguson. | Mr. Auger was appointed chairman of | the committee and J. A. Percy wi!l pre- | side over the exercises on the evening of the 1ith. The Columbian orchestra has been engaged to discourse music_and the Knickerbocker Quartct and Professor Louis Crepaux will also assist in the pro- gramme. There will be special exercises in the | eymnasium under the direction of Dr. | Dietz, pbysical director. Admission will be by invitation, which will be ready any time aiter to-day and may be se- | cured by gentlemen representing the va- | rious hines of business in the City on ap- plication at the association office, | The mechanics’ night, held a few weeks | ago, was a most pronounced success, and | | | itis the ambition of the committee to make this coming reception one of the | finest to young men which has ever taken place in the new building of the sssocia- tion. THE HUDELSON LIBEL ot the Defendant Not Yet Concluded. 1 The crossexamination of Benjamin F. | Hudelson in the suic for libel preferred | against bim oy Attorney D. B. Wood- worth was continued before Judge Camp- bell yesterday afternoon. The questions were chiefly based upon what took place during the investigation before the State Board of the American Protective Association in connection with the hearing of the charges against Rev. Donald M. Ross. After patiently listening for about two | hours to the questions and answers, the Judge remarked that he failed to see how | such evidence could throw any light upon | the case. He was weary of the whole | business, and as Le wanted to go home, he | adjourned court. ! “Ihe case will again come up on Febru | ary 10, when it isexpected that Hudel- son’s long cross-examination will be fin- | isked. MIDWEEK THEATER BOTES Cross - Examinatio. | Modjeska Revives Her Old | Success in “ Mary | | Stuart.” g - Bertha Fo'z Applauded in “A Legal Tangle” at the Alca- zar. The rain did not prevent a large audi- |ence from attending the Baldwin last night to see Modjeska’s second perform- ance of “Mary Stuart. This play has revived the Polish ac- trese’ glory more than anything she has given this season, and the audience again showed its' appreciation by frequent ap- plause. This evening Modjeska will play ber | first San Francisco success, “Adrienne | Lecouvreur,” for the first time in eight years. On Friday evening and at the | matinee on Saturday ‘‘Mary Stuart” will | be repeated tor the last times. *“Mac- | beth” will close the engagement on Saturday night. On Monday Louis James, supported by his own company, will open a season at | the Baldwin. There are only a few more days of *“The Prodigal Father at the Columbia Thea- ter. Or Monday *‘Chimmie Kadden, | with Charles Hopper in the title role, will be the attraction. So great was the suc- cess of this piece in.New York that it run | all last winter and only ended is enzage- ment when the hot weather came in June. Several members of the Alcazar com- pany are a little under the weatherin tne matter of colds, but such afflictions are to be expected at this season. The perform- ances of “A Legal Wreck’” are going very smoothly otherwise. May Buckley 1s still ill, but her part is being very acceptably filled by Miss Bertha Folz, who in the role of Olive Gray is thoroughly natural and effective. Next week William Gilette’'s comedy, “The Professor,” will be played at the Alcazar. The excitement of the stock board and | the enthusiasm incident to “playing the | races” and foliowine baseball continue to pervade Morosco’s Grand Overa-house in ““The Westerner.”” This play has its last | periormance on Sunday night. On Mon- | daye evening a new melodrama, with a strong dash of comedy, will be given its fifst production at the Grand. ‘“‘Aladdin,”” with its many specialties, is filling the Tivoli. Some of the attractive features that are nightiy encored are the dance of the six little tailors, the electric dance of the flowers and Ferris Hartman's a real baliet, in which he is assisted by Master Robinson disguised 88 a youthful Sandow. Hartman and his little collab- orator also provoke plenty of laughter by bobbing up serenely in unexpecied parts of the auditorium and singing *‘Miss Maria Johnson's Going to Marry Me.”” ‘What with the Hungarian orchestra and the Tenor Guilla the Orphieum is well pro- vided with good music this week. The ballets are announced as drawing to the end of their engagement. Interest is growing in the Trebelii con- cert, which takes place at the California Theater next Tuesday. The sale of seats commences this morning. Gustay Hin- rich’s symphony orchestra will assist Trebelli, who.will sing the Cavativa from “Semiramicle,” the Salome air from Mas- sever's “Herodiade” and several other grand arias. The first Hinrichs-Beel symplony con- certof the season of 1897 will take place this afternoon at the Columbia Theater. DL e A Not how cheap, but how good for the money; print or bind. Mysell-Rollins, 22 Clay. b 1 | Barks and Steamers Towed | captain’s home is here and his childr | and their old friends in New Bedford, | | workad like a Trojan, and | irons | from the City of Papeete, the maiiboat, WHALERS FITTING FOR THE NORTH From Their Winter Quarters. | i Wind-Jammers Ready to Saxl; and Steamers Being Over- | hauled. Three Stowaways Disccvered on the | Bark C. D. Bryant From ]i Honoiulu ‘ The whalers are getting ready for next season’s cruise. The bark Andrew Hicks sailed for the southern seas yesterday and | the Horatio will probably follow her to- | day. The most interesting scene on the water front yesterday was the towing of | steam whalers out of the mud flats near the Arctic Oil Works. Yesterday the Thrasher, Balaena and Narwhal were all | bard and fast and the tugs Sea Witch and Liberty were sent to take them to the Union Iron Works. All three vessels are steam whalers and wili require a general | overbauling before they can sail for the Arctic. The three steamers were in the mud alongside the old- aste nd they made a pretty pi 3 gradually moved out of the mud in tow oi | the tugs. The steam whaler Karluk is also going into commission in a iew daysand Cap- | tain McGregor will arrive from the to-morrow to take command of her. re at schocl in Oak o get back to the co have been on a visit nd, so he is an st. He and b to their old wife homes Mass. The fastest trip of the season from Hono- lulu to San Francisco has been made by the brig W. G. Irwin. She made the run in eleven days, beating the C. D. Bryant by at least seventy-five hours. While the | tripisa very smart one for this ume of the year, nevertheless it does not begin to compare with the record of the J. D. Spreckels, which is nine and & balf days. Captain Lee, on the bark C. D. Bryant, bad considerable trouble during the voy- age from Hawaii. When the vessel was well under way three stowaways were dis- covered. Two of them refused to work, and were put in irons, while the third | s finally | rated as an A.B.on the ship’s books The men were dese:ters from the Ameri- can ship Henry B. Hyde, and shipped in | this port for a trip to New York via Hon- | olulu. On the first opportucity they de- serted and left the capiain in the lurch. The two men whom Captan Lee put in were. William . Conroy and Gus Lundquist. ‘The schooner S. Danielson, which got in yesterday, had a very rough experi- ence during the recent southeaster. When forty miles wesi-southwest of Mendocino | City a violent squall struck the vessel, and the waves carried the eatire deck load overboard. The railing of the schoone! was also carried away, but otherwise no | damage was done, | The ship Big Bonanza is getting a thor- oug overhauling on the Oakland ways. New timbers have been put in and sh will be caulked and recoppered and when | she again appears in the bay will be as good as new. From here the Bi: Bo- nanza will 2o to Puget Sound in ballast to load lumber for Australia. Captain Alec | Bergman will go out as master, having bougatout the interest of his brother, Captain Adolph Bergman. Tne flags of the steam schooner North Fork and bark Coiusa and all the other vessels of the Sumpson line were at half mast yesterday. The wite of James Ty- son, general manager of the concern, died at ber home in Alameda yesterday. Her husband is one of the best-known mana- gers of steam and sailing vessels on the water front and when the newsof the | death of his wife became public all the | coasters in port flew their flags at hal mast. Mr. and Mrs. Tyson had only been | aarried about twelve months, so her | ;1euh strikes the husband with double | orce. | The schooner Norma has been puton | the line for Tahiti. So much cargo hus | been offering ‘that there is an overflow | and the Norma wili be loaded to the gun- wales with what 13 left. | The bark Colusa will be an_addition to the fleet that wiil load lumber for Aus- | tralia. She has been overbauled and will | leave for the Sound next Sunday to load lumber for Sydney, N. 8. W. “‘What Las become of the schooner Vine?" is the general inquiry along. the | sront. Six months ago she léft here for a | cruise amone the South Sea Islands. On | September 16 last sne was in Corinto, Cen- tral America, and from that day to this | she bas never been heard from. The J. F. Cunningham Company, agents of the yes- sel, are very anxious for hér safety. The chances are, however, that some news of the schooner will arrive on the steamer City of Peking, due here from Cuina to- morrow. 3 i ! The American ship Sterling, seventy- | four days from Newcastle, N. S. W., gotin | yesterday. The captain reports contrary winds and heavy weather throughout the entire trip. The Swanhilda Was seventy- one days making the run and the Olive- bank is out seventy-six days. No fast voyages have been made from Australia this year. 303 Kearny street. CLWRY WL MOVE WES TWARD! The Corporation Empowers the Trustees to Go Ahead. They Have Decided on North- west Corner of Fillmore and Jackson. A Blanket Mortgage Will Be Put On the Old Powell-Street Site, Calvary Presbyterian Church will lo- cate ou the northwest corner of Fillmore and Jackson streets. This change was finally decided on at a meeting of the church members last night. At the conclusion of the evening ex- ercise the Rev. Dr. John Hemphilt briefly outlined the status of the property about to be purchased for the church. At a previous meeting of the congregation it was decided to purchase 100 feet fronting on Jackson street and 89 feet 41 inches on Fillmore, belonging to the estate of the late Emeline Wallace, at $33,000, sub- ject, however, to a mortgage of $28,000, s0 125:4) on the line of Jackson street from Ida V. Butler for $7500. The question beiore the meeting last night and the one that caused considera- ble discussion was the purchase of 27x100 feet on the north line of Filimore, adjoin- ing the Wallace property and owned by M. J. Cameron, for $3000, which would give forthe new church a site 125 feet uare. On this latter lot there are two tenement dwellings, paying a good rental. Besides there are buildings on all of the property, he rental of which will pay the interest on the mortgage, but it will take from $1000 to $1500 to make necessary repairs on the houses in order to make them hab- itable. There was some discussion on the meth- od of securing the twenty-seven feet on Fillmore street and how to raise the money to pay for it and to provide for the floating debt of the present church. Some of the members were adverse to taking a mortgage on the property on Powell and Gaary streets, while others thought that the elders could give their individual notes for the amount necessary for this proposition. Dr. Hemphill and Thomas Magee vol- unteered to become responsible, but this did not seem to be the way out. Then nnally Dr. Hemphill offered & motion, as a substitute for the whole, that the con- gregation autherize the board of trustees and the elders of tne church to use their best judgment in providing sufficient | money with which the twenty-seven feet on Fillmore street is to be purchased and also to lift the mortgage off the Wallace estate by placing a blanket mortgage on present church property. This sub- stitute weut through on a run, with only one dissenting vote. Thus it was finally decided to purchase 125x125 feet on the corner mentioned and hit all mortgages thereon by placing one on the Powell-street property, which is valued at $250,000, leaving a margin of §$200,000 with_which to erect the church, after paying $48,000 for the land. This action seemed to please all present, as after an adjournment there was a gen- eral hand-suaking and rejoicing over the result, with many compliments extended to Dr.’ Hemphill for his clear and accepta- ble views on the question. . 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