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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897. HOEFER TS HOME AGAIN A Californian Who Has ‘Won Fame and Fortune Abroad. HE TELLS ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA. His Story of the Growing In- terest in Our Mines in France and in England. EOMETHING ABOUT OLD-TIME RESIDENTS. Hsmilton Smith’s Sudden Return to London—Buying of th: Siiver Bow Basin and Tomboy Mines. | Eugene Hoefer of South Africa, the con- fiden 1 lieutenant of Hamilton Smith in many mining affairs and manager of great properties on the Dark Continent, is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Hoefer. Mr. Hoefer is a Californian by long residence and education. He came here in early | boyhood, attended the Washington Gram- mar School and the Boys’ High School, finally graduating at Berkeley. In 1858 ne left here for South Africaand hasnot been back till now. During nis absence he has acquired a comfortable fortune. He is absent from South Africa on & six months’ leave of absence, and will probably be in California two or three | months. He has not come on mining business, but if there should be any reason | he should visit mine or district here he witl do so. -Mr. Hoefer is general manager of the Transvaal Gold Mining Estates, the Glynns Lyenburg Limised and other companies in the Pilgrims Rest district, 250 miles east of Johannesburg. This property is owned by Wehner, Beit & Co. of London. Mr. Beit issaid to be the wealthiest of all the men who have made investments in South Africa. Mr. Hoefer when he left here went first to Johannesburg and then to Damaraland, where he was connected with some im- | puriant copper properties. Then he went | 1o Johannesburg and finally went on an extended trip of exploration through Matabeleland. He accompanied John | Hays Hammond on part of his trip when he set out for Buluwayo. Altogether, he bas had many interesting experiences. “The excitement over South African mining shares in London and Paris has died down a zood deal,” smd Mr. Hoefer. “Tuey were too high, of course; but Iwas in Paris 1 took occasion to assure some of the stockholders there that &0 far as the investmenis in Pilgrims Rest properties were concerned they were all right. Itold them that they would come out all right on them, and they will. *‘The muin reason why I have been en- abled to get away to California at this time is because of a disease among the caitle wheie I am engaged in mining Pilgrims Rest is about sixty miles from the railroud, and we bave to use buliocks to haul the freizht. As the éattle in trav- eling spread the disease it was deemed best to put a sort of quarantine on them., As we could get no ireight through, and therefore could not do much, we cou- cluded to close down for a little while. *While the interest among London min- ing investors has not changed toward South Africa and Austratia it hus greatly increased as regards California. A few years ago, when I first went over there, almost no attention was paid the Califor- pia mines, but now it is very different. The gold mines hete stana well in Eng. land, and much cavital will be invested hern T have no doubt. “Thomas Mein isthe resident represent- ative here of the poweriul British invest- ors headed by the Rothscnilds. These | people have iutely bought two mining !rvuycrlicn here. One is the Silver Bow Basin property in Alaska, and the other is the Tomboy in Colorado. I have no doubt they will buy other properties whenever they are convinced they are getting zood ones. “Hamilton Smith, who has been in the United Siates for some time—mainly in the East—sailed from New York for Lon- don on Japuary 20. I had expected to come over here in the same boat with him, and we exchanged some dispatches regarding it, but I could not get resdy in time. 1donot know whether he expects to return and come to the Pacitic Coust or not. Mr. Mein, however, has charge of everything bere.” Mr. Hoefer looks on California as a great field for investment, He has mar- ried during his absence, his wife being an English lady, and she is here for the first time. Mr. Hoefer says the improvement in Ban Francisco, especially as regards the erection of wreat buildings, is very marked. He says, 100, that goods are soid here very cheaply, much cheaper tnan he expected, and some even cheaper than in Europe. Mr. Hoefer's relatives reside here and he will spend some time in visiting them, and he will before his return visit d:fferent parts of the State, Wehner, Beit & Co., who own the mines of which Mr. Hoefer has the general man- agement, are part purchasers of the Silver Bow Basin snd Tomboy mines. Mr. Hoefer, though in South Africa during thie famous Jameson raid and all that led up to it, kept clear of it all. He met John Hays Hammond frequently in London, but does not know whea he may come to this country. DANISH B:NEVOLENOE. The Ladies’ Kellof Society Holds Its Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the Danish Ladies' Relief Society of San Francisco was held at Norden’s Hall on January 4. The secretary rendered the foliowing re- port: sh fn the treasury 71; receipts trom du irow entertainments. $13 receipts from donatious, interest, ete, $151 otal, $1284 B1. Puid out 1or aud assistance rendered desutute 1fes, $51 sundiy expenses, , leaving a balance in the treasury uary 1, 1897, of 6. The following officers were instalied for the'ensuing year; President, Mrs, C. M. January 1, 1896, 89 75; receipts Sorenson; first vice-president, = Mrs, Biuhme; ' second vice-president, Mrs. Boge; financial secretary, Miss H. Niel- son; treasure Mikkleson; recording secretary, 8. Federspiel; assistant secre- tary, J. Topp; marsha, J. Peterson; book- keeper, H. Jacob: Ea sl S The Bailing Date of the Monowai. The Postoflice has been advised that the Australian mails for dispatch by the steamer Mouowal, arriving by the Umbris on Sunday lsst, left New York Sunday evening at 9 ck, and are due to arrive In San Francisco on the morning of Friday, February 5. The departure of the steamer, set for Tirarsday ut 2 v'clock ». X.. will therefore be postponed until Fridaj at 2 o'clock P. M. AN Dear Sir : sober mind” is well balanced; free from and honest and impartial in its judg contem ptuous fling at revivals. Itisof a remark you mads w0 Or three years ago State Teachers' Association in this City. that religion is only the debris of the When the time and place and occa revivals are taken into accourt the ut that it was made with malice aforethonght. pour contempt upon the feelings and scoff very lnrge number of excellent people? Or poised judgment and calm kindliness of duige in & learn-d sneer in the presence homes—young men and women to whose vivals is still most precions? To these, sir, Christians in Cahfor and eisewhere tion or excuse, I have been in a good in which “men lose all their reason and scofing critics to employ language in | tain the remotest sugrestion of *the sober If there were any undue excitement ligious matters in this section of the coun point. But when the most marked thing deadness, when revivals on this coast are | needed, we can oniy concinde that you pared to attack just such a religious move land and 1o cast a slur upon all revivals Christians engage. the merit of originality. men are full of new wine."” lies in guiters.” ness went on growi small thin ages. finds its wa; This is not rhetoric but fact. ness which lies in gutters.” every form.”’ which men lose all their rexson and self-control. aud Pharisees, proud, no doubt, of their superior It1s a good deal the fashion for men of your way of thinkine of Paul as being a kind of mental digemper and the resurrec:ion of Jesus as having no other basis than that of hallucination, and to account for the most tremendous effects by pointing to utterly trifling and inadequate causes. How far this accords with a candid and faithful application of the scientific method I leave you to soberly judge. The merest tyro in history knows that the Protestant Reformation was more than anything else a series of revivals, many . than any you have ever witnessed; and yet out of that drunkenness " see what has come. s and literature, with its myriads of benevolent agencies came | of them much more exciting, I venture to s worthy of respect than the drankenuess which shore, with ‘s institutions of learning, with its schools and colle, out of the revivals of the Wesleys and Whitfields something over a century ago. A more sober mind than John Wesley, a man of finer baiance of judgment, of greater learning and imperial strength of character, I may safely challenge you to indicate. From your point of view, however, tnis celebrated Oxonian, tnis man of spiendid power, was temporarily insane when, under God, he produced those revivals which shook Great Britain and rolled their waves of religious enthusiasm over seas and continents. And the great Methodist denomination has continued the drunkenness which its 1mmortal founder communicated to it—*'a drunkenness no more worthy of respect than the dru..kenness which lies in gutters. It is commonly supposed that Jonathan Edwards was a man of some learnine. fessor in any university on the Pacific Coast to say that in intellectual strength, in penetration of thought, in logical acumen, he has still a few rounds in the ladder to climb ere he Princeton College and University he stands at the head, and yet Jonathan Edwards was a revivalist. He sometimes gotdrunk on religion with “‘a drunkenness no more worthy of respect than that which lies in gutte: sionary movement of this age, which has sent its pioneers to every iand and made it possible for men like yourself to study seals in Alaska and fishes in the islands of the sea, and has done so much to enrich the sciences of geography and ethnology and phi- lology and prepared the way for commerce, is the child of revivals. It was born in a great religious awakening and by great re- ligious awakenings its heroisms and sacrifices have been inspired and its wonderfal victories achieved. In stiil further elucidation of the “‘sober mind”’ you sneered at conversion and, if correctly reported, affirmea that “it is an absolute impossibility to undergo the transition from a wicked to an upright life 1n five minutes.”’ that a sober, well-informed mind would neyer have made such a rash and intemperate statement. No evangelical church, no evangelical Christian, teaches such a doctrine. Conversion on the human side is an act of will, a decision, a choice, and is it accordinz to “the sober mind” an “absolute impossibility’” for a man to make a decision in tive minutes, or less? If a man is going east, can he not turn squarely about and face toward the west In the twinkling of an eye? That, so far as man’s agency is concerned, is conversion. It means simply that a man starts upon an upright life; that he enters the school of Christ and begins Christ’s lessons. Butis nota man justas much in school when learning the alphabet as when poring over the mysteries of physical science? Itis astonishing that a man of your supposed caliber could put up such a man of straw as this and then proceed to beat itdown for the edification of the sober minas of Berkeley Unitarianism. For you are aware that there are some excellence in that learned retreat—minds that have *‘taken tinal leave of sup:r; Chameleon. OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT JORDA In your address at Berkeley last Sunday morning you are reported to have said: porary insanity; whisky, cocaine and alcohol bring temporary insanity, and so does a revival of religion—one of those revivals in T'his is simply a form of drunkenness no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness which lies in putters.” That, I submit, is very remarkable language when the man meking it and his subject are | considered. It would be difficult to imagine anything raore full of prejudice and misrepresentation, not to say ignorance. *The | REV.R . F. COYLE. a species of drunkenness “no lies in gutter: reaches the level of Jonathan Edwards. ion, of blank authority, and of So sober, forsooth, that they rush into print with untrutaful introdactions to learned books, and then at the last moment hasten to take back their sweeving and ill-consicered assertions. T am only an obscure pastor, a believer in revivals and in in stantaneous conversions, religious drunkenness which “is no more worthy of respect t han the drunkenness which lies in gutters.” DR. COYLE DEFENDS THE REVIVAL. The Eloquent Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Oakland| Likens the President of Stanford University to a “Stimulants produce tem- beatand extravagance in utterarce, fair ments—qualities wholly wanting in your piece with the superficial and disdainful in the course of your address before the In thatacdress you declared, in substance, dreams of our grandmothers. sion of your latest deliverance as touching most charity finds it hard not to conclude Does it belong to the “sober mind” to at the work and the cherished behiefs of a does it argue the possession of that finely | spirit which characterize sreat souls to in- | of young men and women from Cnristian parents that religion wuich believes in re- and tens of thousands of evangelical | your words are an insult, without pallia- many revivals, and I have yet o see one self-control.” But I have known some condemnation of them which did not con- mind.” “or any loss of reason and self-conrol in re- try your wholesale sneer might have some about religion in this entire region 1s its 50 few and far between and so much went to Berkeley last Sunday mornine pre- ment as the one now in progress in Oak- and all revival effort in which evangelical heir religious earnestness in trying to arrest men in their sins by unusual methods, to reclaim the wander- ing, to woo the drunkard from his caps and turn the straying about with their faces toward God you characterize as “‘a form of drunkenness no more worihy of respect than the drunkenness which lies in gutters.” Words more untrue, more unmanly, more un:cientific, more immoderataand more unbecoming the president of a university it would indeed be difficult to conceive. But, learned sir, permit me to remind you that vour deliverance on revivals is not only void of truth, but lacking even in On a certain memorable occasion long ago, when Christianity was about to launch away on its world- conquering career; when, after ten days of praying and waiting in the upper room, Pentecost came with its baptism of fire, and the disciples “'spake in other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance,” there were scoffers present, self-righteous men, Scribes Jlture and attsinments, intellectually puffed up, who mockingly said, “These You see, therefore, how history repeats itself and the lineage in which you stand. strictures upon revivals agree exactly with what those ancient mockers felt and thought as they beheid that wonderful Pentecostal awakening. They said in effect, “This is simply & form of drunkenness, no more worthy of respect than the arunkenness which How much came out of their mockery to biess mankind you are intelligent enough to know. into oblivion, as the mocker always does sooner or later, but that which in the exercise of *‘the sober mind” they called drunken- in power and beneficence and is to-day immeasurably the most uplifting force among men. You, sir, are a scientific man, thoroughly wedded to the scientific method; and hence I may be allowed to inquire whether in your scientific judgment it is a mark of “the sober mind’’ to attribute great effects 10 unworthy causes. Christianity is no iven by university presidents and learned men in general it is acknowledged to be the grandest movement of the It is doing infinitely more than anything else at this hour to lift and save and purify mankind. Wherever this stream it makes the desert and solitary place rejoice; new fields of love are fertilized by its ! and inspirations take possession of human breasts; new enterprises are inaugurated for the welfare and happiness of the race. And yet with your sober and scientific mind you ask us to believe that this movement had its origin in “‘a form of drunkenness no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness which lios in gutters.” Dr. Philip Schaff, whose learning and sober-mindedness you will hardly question, calls Pentecost “the birthday of the Christian church.” Now if this is historically correct and Pacific Coast Christians are 10 accept the ipse dixit of President Jordan it follows that the Chris- tian church is the is-ue of a sort of temporary insanit Your scornful They went away e-giving waters; new motives more worthy of respect than the drunken- seli-styled sober-minded men—to explain the conversion no more Methodism, with its churches on every Indeed it is no disparagement of any pro- Of all the great presidents of Indeed, sir, the great foreiga mis- Now, sir, lam bound to say “sober minds” par miraculism in a man sometimes given to that kind of But obscure as I am r and unlearned, I am accustomed to think of the *‘sober mind'’ as characteriz:d by firmaess, by force, not one thing to-dey and another to-morrow—a weather vane swinging in the wind. The chameleon, if of its environment; and so, it wouid seem. do certain scientitic men of prominence, are very well acquainted with a man who, as professor in Butler University, Indiana State University was semi-orthodox, tagonism to all orthodoxy. His beliefs, you observe, have changad with nis surroundings; his conv enough to accommodate themseives to circumstances, and all this in the exercise of “ths sober mind.” especially in matters of religion. at Indianapoiis, was evangelically orthudox, in the and to-day au the hea | of Stanford University is ultra-radical and in outspoken an- by staying qualities. It is t is said, taes on the color You, sir, ctions havebeen gelatinous Where the next evolution great epoch-mi men who sneer. Yours, wit « respect, Oakland, Cal., Feb. 3, 1897. will 1and him God only knows, but evidently this man belioves in doing in Rome what ths Romans do. ing men of the world have never been men of that stripe. I need not add that the Men who make history are nefther men who drift nor R. F. COYLE, Pastor First Presbyterian Church. MAHER AAD JEFFRIES The Big Fighters May Be Matched to Ba'tie on Nevada's Soil. How Jack McAuliffe Broke Away From a Schem: Planned to D feat Him. Jeffries, the champion heavy-weight pugilist of Los Angeles, telegraphed to his menaer, Tom McDonald, of this City, yesterday ihat if the Cahfornia Club would have no objection he would train for his fight with Stelzner in the soutbern country. One of the directors of the club who had seen the message said that Jeffries must train at some of the statious near this City, as the committee which was ap- pointed to look sfter the fighters and Teport progress to the club must be within convenient disiance of the men and ihe places where they are located. The club does not feel at all anxious regarding Jeffiiex’ system of traininy, as the officers feel satisfied 1hat he wili be'in verfect con- dition, but they have established a rule which tiiey propose to live up to, and the ruie reads iuat the fighters maiched hy the club must train at some place within easy distance of this City. It was statea vesterday by a nrominent sporting man that Dan Stuart bad his eye on Jeffries aud that if the Los Angeles champion makes a good showing in bis fight against Stelzner he may be selected to meet Peter Maber in a contest e SANBORN, VAIL & Co. have the best Leather Goods Department 1h San Francisco. Always something new in Ladies’ Pocketbooks, Alll- gator Bags, Valises, Card Cases, Bill Books, etce 10 a finish, the battle to be decided in the same ring as that in_which Corbett and Fitzsimmons will do battie for the heavy- weight championship. Maher is, howe very anxious to meet Sharkev for sundry purposes. It appears that the Irisi champion received a letier from a friend in this City some time azo which stated that Sharkey posi tively refused to meet a man of Maher’ standing, who bad been whipped by second-ciass men, and that he would not g2in anything by whipping second-raters, The saiior champion had an idea once upon a time that by touring through the country towns giving exhibitions of box- ing with one Jack McAutiffe money would floiw into his treasury box, us the entire country folk would turn out to see Cham- pion Tom in action. The first exhibition of importance was piven in Sacramento, and the preceeds of the house amounted to something hke $200 clear of expenses. Jack McAuliffe claimed $150 as his share, and the balance, %0 it is said, was divided equally between Sharkey aud his manager—a gentleman known to the sporiing fraternity as “Bright Eyes.” Tom grew disgusted with the exhibition business and refused to journey any further with hix company. On his return to tis City Sharkey held an interview with Lynch and Needham, and a scheme was concocted by which McAuiifie was to get the worstof the play. The story goes that Tom bappened sccidentally. as it were, into Corbett’s emporium of sport, and there he discovered Jack McAuliffe in the act of quenching his thivst. Slapping Jack on the back, Sharkey put on his best smiie and said: Jack, I've got a match for you, and we can make a heap of stuff out of it. What do you think?" *'Weil, I wonld like to know who gave you any authorily to make a match for me?"” retorted McAuliffe, scornfully. Sharkey knew enough to let well enough alone when he saw that McAuliffe wouid not stand any foolishness, so turning quickly on his heels he left the sporting quarters to report to his friend Danny that the scheme would not work ‘“‘jor u cent.”’ Those who are in the pugilistic swim say that it was Needham's intention 1o meet McAubffe in a six-round go “for stuff,”” and that as Jack was in no condi- tion to “‘go” a speedy gait he would fall very easy game tosuch a man as Needham, who was in firsi-class trim and doubtless able 1o put McAuliffe to sleep when the time arrived for the closing scene. But McAuliffe is too old & bird to be caught napping and the scheme fell flat. It is said tnat McAuiiffe intends to r late tne story “‘of his escape” ata benefit entertainment which will be given to bim in New York in the very near future. —————————— OARS NOT RUN TQ SUIT Precita Valley Improvement Club Asks for the Kepeal of a Frauchise. The Precita Valley Improvement Club, by Stephen Byrne, president, has peti- tioned the Board of Supervisors to pass an order to the effect that the Market-street Railway Compauy, as the assignee of the North Beach and Mission Railroad Com- pany, has forfeited the franchise to operate on Folsom street from Twenty-sixth and on California avenue to Coiumbia place, along Columbia place to Precita avenue, along Precita avenue and Army street to Colusa street, on Colusa sireet to San Bruno avenue and along San Bruno ave- nue 1o Cortland. The com munication sets forth that the franchise provided that cars must be run on or over the road every fiiteen minutes between the hoursof 7 A M. and 9P M., but the road has never been operated to a point further south than Army street, excepting during a brief period four years ago, when the North Beach and Mission Kailroad Com- vany, at irregular intervals, ran a horse- car to the southerly line of Precits avenue, e — Knights of Honor Representative. County Clerk C.F.Curry has been elected grand repgesentative from Liberty Lodge of the Grand Lodge of tbe Knignts of Honor, which is to meet in this City next month. At the last meeiing of Liberty Lodge Joseph Goddard was presented with a handsome gold waich-charm emblematic of the orler, for securing the largest number of new membe: fcr the lodge. b £ = FIGHTING FOR MODEL STREETS The Improvement Associa- tion Holds a Lively Session. Motion Regarding Car-Rate Bills ! Provckes a Heated Debate. Subj et of Gr-ades and Assessmant Commission Referred to Two Committees. The San Francisco Association of Im- provement Clubs held a meeting last night in the B'nai B'rith Hall jor the purpose more particularly of considering a recom- mendation of the street committee oppos- ing the enactment of any street law which provides for a commission to assess dam- ages, as proposed in Assembly bills 90 and 151 now before the Legislature. i The entire subject matter of street grades, included in both bills, was referred to the legislative and street committees, with instructions for those committees to report to a special meeting of the asso- ciation next Saturday evening. There wasa large attendance of members, and the discussion occasionally became so ani- mated tbat personal hostilities seemed almost unavoidable. This was especially the case when Vice- President Grady, who presided, declared out of order a resolution proposed by Major McKinne, praying the Legislature not to pass the Assembly and Senate tramcar bills aow being supported by As- semblyman Treacy and Senator Braun- hart, as substitutes for biils 30 and 270, and providing that ‘“no street rail- road within the corporate limits of muni- cipal corporations of the first class, within the State, shall during the hours from 6 o’clock to 8 o’clock of the forenoon and from 5 o'clock to 7 o’clock of the afternoon charge or collect a higher rate of fare than 214 cents for each passenger per trip over any distance in one direction along any part of the whole length of the road and its connections.” The passage of these bills, the resolu- tion asserted, would cause great injustice and injury to the people of San Francisco and the whole State of Californis. Vice-President Graay contended that ! the association had already dealt with the same question at a previous meeting. Major McKinne appealed from his ruling. Dr.’C. D. Salfield took the chair, and on the question of reconsideration of the sub- ject referred to in the resolution a tie vote resulted. The chairman pro tem. gave a casting vote in favor of consideration amid ter- rific uproar. Vice-President Grady de- clared a two-thirds majority was neces- sary to authorize reconsideration, and it was then that a wild scene of disorder and mutual recrimination ensued. The matter ended in the defeat of the motion to re- consider, and_the meeting adjourned in confusion and at midnight. On the reading of the street commit- tee's recommendation, Judge Van Reyne- gom moved that this resolution be laid on the table, because the subject-matter had already been laid before another commit- tee of the association, and the street com- mittee, therefore, had nothing to do with it, and had in dealing with it acted in an ex-parte manner. < This proposition provoked emphatic op- position and was voted down on division. Mr. O'Leary then moved that the report of the committee be adopted. T. F. Heggarty proposed as an amend- ment to the amendment that the bill pro- sed by the Merchants’ Association and ndorsed by the Civic Federation be ap- proved as a substitute. Mr. O'Leary moved that the entire sub- ject-matter of street grades included in both bills be committed to the legislative committee and committee on streets, said comm ittees to render a report at the next meeting. At this juncture Mr. Scheerer rose ex- citedly and addressing Mr. Rosenthal asked that gentlemzn if his complaint of unfair treatment referred to himself, Mr. | Scheerer? Mr. Rosenthal—Youand the street com- tee? Mr. Scheerer then proceedea to roast the bill, which he cuaracterizsd as a measure which neither a layman nor a lawyer could understand. Mr. O'Leary’s motion then carried, to- gether with an additional resolution, re- questing the legislative and sireet com- mittees (0 report to a special meeting next Saturday. A communication received from prop- erty - owners and residents on Poirt Lobos avenue and the Cliff House rond, petitioninz the association to look into the matter of the improvement of the driveway from First avenue to the Cliff House, was Indorsed. The following petition was supported by Judge Van Reynegom and ananimously adopted as the sense of the association: To the Homorable Senate and Assembly of the State of Californio—GENTLEMEN: The under- signea citizens of Califoruis, who are engaged in industrial pursuits, respectfuliy remon- strate against the passage of any law which brings convict labor in competition with free white labor. We respectfully remonstrate against the passage of any measure providing for the crushing of rock at Folsom prison to be used for street or concreting purposes within any town or city of the Stale. We object to this becanse there are a large number of our fellow-citizens now engaged in quarrying stone and preparing it for macad- amizing and concreting purposes in the vari- ous cities of this State, and who thus support their families; and such labor cannot com- pete with conviet lubor in that line. We do not object to the zale of rock by the State for county road purposes. A series of resolutions from the Iroquois Club opposing increase of official expendi- | tures on the part of ihe Legislature except in the case ol the Fire Department was discussed, and a motion finally passed to the effect that the Iroquois Club be com- municated with and informed that the association has already taken action in this matter and is opposed to the increase | of saluries whatsoever, und that the secre- | tary be notified to instruct every member | of the San Francisco delegation in both houses to this effect. A resolution moved by Dr. Salfeld was unanimously adopted ~extending the thanks of the association to the Board of | Supervisors, and particularly to Super- visor Rottanzi, for “‘the stand they have taken in favor of the people in advance- ment of their rights and against the bold and outrageous attempt to rob them of their_rights.” —_— e C. D. Mark, B. Joost, M. F. Taylor and Vice-President Grady were recommended to the Mayor to be piaced on a committee 0f 100 to consider the new charter. 014 Printing House Insolvent, The P. J. Thomas Printing Company yester- day filed a petition in insolvency. The action was taken after a meeling and conference of the creditors. The houce is one of the oldest priuting houses in the City, located in busi- Dess here for tweuty-five years. The liabilities are $10,000, and ths assets somewhat short of that amouut. Mr. Thomas says the long money stringency and sharp competition are the causes of his failure. He hopes 1o be able to pay dollar for dollar. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. { Leavesdalyai5:)0r. u., J ¥, NEW TO-DAY. 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Saturdays—Extrs tips a 30 P. . 3:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.ac; 1:30, 3:30, DAYS—8:18, 7:50, 9:20, 11:10 a. w.: :45, 3:40, 5:10 P. %. _Saturdays—kxtea trips at1:55 r. x. and . 1:40, 3:40, BUNDAYS—S:1u, 9:40, 11:10 A a0 5:00, 6:25 . x. Between San Francisco and Schuetzen Park same schedule as abovs Leave Arrive 6an Franolsco. | 27" | san Francisco Wrrk | Sos- | ? Wk pavs. | Dava. Davs. | 3 40 A 8:40 A Petaluma, 0 P3x(10:25 Ax Santa Rosa. | Fulton, Windsor, | Healdsburg, | Lytton, | Geyserville, 5:30 r3e8:00 x| Cloverdale. | 7:35 px| Fiew, | | opland & | Ukiah, 8:22 Px | & | 7:85 v 6:22ex ‘ 1026 ax |Guernevilte. | 7:35 x| Sonoma and | Glen Eilen. | RAILEOAD TRAVEL. SOUTHERN CAFIC (PACIFIC SYSTE Trains lenve nnd nre COMPANY. ) e 1o arrive at RRIVE 454 en and Kast,. 8:452, Rumsey. Sacra ‘mentd, Oroville and Redding Dais. 6:45p 204 Marti: ‘alistog 615+~ 8OA Niles, San. Jose, St Sacramento, Marysville, Tebama and Red Bloff. *B:30A Peters and ) 9:00 New Orleans Express, Raymond (for Yosemite), Fresno, Bakerafield, hara, 103 Angeles, Dem: g El Paso, New Orleans and 15e 115p Kuiglits Landing, Marysville, Oro- ville and Sacramento .. 11:154 11:454 , Ogilen and Tast. 00 Haywards, Nilea and San Jose. 00+ Valicjo, 00 Oregon 1 vil Dress, Sacra . Reddbug, Portlaud, 110:40 Ax 10:25 ax 6:10 Px| 6:22 Puc connect at Santa Rosa for Mark Wes: ks: at Geyservile for Skages Springs: Cloverdale for the Geysers; at Pieta for Higula Springs, Kelseyville, Soda’ Bay and Lakep opland for Lakeport and Bartiett Spring Ukiah for Vichy Springs, Saratoga Springs, Lakes, Laurel Dell Lake, Upper Lake, Pomo, Potter Valley. John Day’s, Riverside, Lierley’s, Buck- pell’s, Sanhedrin Heights, Hullville, Booneville, Greenwood, Orr's Hot Springs. Mendocino City, Fort Bragg, Westport, Usal, Wiliets. Cahto, Cot velo. Layionvitle, Harrls, Scotia and Kureks. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickets at reduced rates. On Bundays round-trip ticketa 10 all points be- yond San Rafael au half rates. Ticket Offices, 650 Markeuat., Chronicle baflding. A, W.FOSTER, R X. RYAN, Pres. and Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent. | Atl‘z}pt_ic Pacific RAILROAD Trains jeave and ucriva st iR Barkei-Sireet Ferry. bt SANTA FE EXPRESS. To Chicago via A. & P, l.)ll'gct. Line & Drawing-room and Modern Upnolstered Tourist Sieepingcary which run daily throush 10 Chisass ausas Clty. Ai cars e X y. Annex for Denver and St Bosion Fxcursions, via Kensaa Of Montreal and the White Mountains le: Tuesday. The best rallway from Califorma (o the East, Kew rails, new ifes: no dust: interesting scenery, A0a good meals in Harvey's dining-rooms. San Franeisco Ficket Office, 644 Markes | $t.. Chronicle Building. Telephone Main | 1531, Oakland, 1115 sirondway. THE 54N FRANCINGO AN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY RAILWAY COHPANY. F ROM JANUARY 31,1897, passenser tratns southbound. wili run daily e stations see Connecti ng steamboats of the C leave Ban Erancisco and Stoskie P M daily HOUNT TAMALPAIS Trains connecet Coast Railroad. WELK DAYS—iraveS F.9:1%a. s Returning—Arrive . ¢ 3 BUNDAYS—LeaveS.F.8a. ¥ 1 Returning—Arrive 8.F.1:15 “Tickets for sale in Mill THOS. COUK & SONS, with North pa waR x Creek, Santa Cruz and Principal Way Stations 51 Nowarh, St 086 and 1,08 : {11:45p Hunters' Excursion, San Jose and Way Station: IVISION (Third & *11:204 9:504 Jose, Tres s San acific Grove, Paso’ Roblcs, Sam 1.uis Obispo, Guadalupe, Sutf. Trincipal Way Stations . A San Josu aud Way Stations. B0A Palo Alto aud Way Statio Mateo, Menlo Park, San jose, Tres Pinos, Santa C alinas, Monterey uid Pa i Joso and Way Stallo - Sap Jose and Way Stations, 30r Sa _sose and Principal Way v San Jose and Way Stations 5 San Jose and Way Stations. 7:008. 5:00p 3:302 ar, Grove *10:40A Melrose, Seminary Park, Fitehbarg, San Leandro and Haywards. or 3r) i Runs through to Niles. e ¢ From Niles. #12:008 CREEK ROUTE FERRY. | Prom SAX FRANCISCO—Foot of Market Street (Slip $)== 716 200 1100ax. 1100 200 3300 G0 46:00 *6:00r k. | Prom OASLAND—Foot of Brondway.— ;600 800 }E-?;; M. 112:00 *1:00 $3:00 *3:00 $a:00 59 T for Afternoon. i Saturdays only, $ Sundays ovly. 1 Monday, Thursday und Saturday nights only. TTuecdays and Saturdays. § Sundays and Thursdays. BORTH PACIFIC COAST RAILROAD (Via Sausalito Fersy). Fvom San ¥rancisco, Commencing Sept. 13 1893 A for Morning Sundays oxcepted For Mm Vau 11:00 A, M. Extra trips for Ba: days and Saturd: apd_san K 45, 3143, #5115, 130 7.4 iatast on Mondays, Wednes » 11:50 . M. THRROU For Point_Reyes aud WAY stations—7:28 o m. Weokdays, 8:00 o. M. Sundays, 1:45 R M. Saios @ Casudero and way stations—7:35 A i weeld | BaS) A5 B M. Salurdays ~— f astosiei;