The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 19, 1897, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1897 STREETCAR FARES WILL NOT Bt CUT Braunhart's Bill Fails of Final Passage in the Senate. The Measure Provokes One of the Most Interesting Debates of the Session. S.x Members Favor and Thirty-Three Record Their Votes Against Its Passage. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Feb. 18.—Street- car fares in San Francisco will not be re- duced at this session of the Legislature. Braunhart's much-discussed and equally much-amended bill failed of final passage in the Senate this morning by an over- whelming vote, and none of its friends saw even enough hope ah change of vote and a notic ation. Soit isasdead as Dickens’ doo: nail. It provoked ome of the warmest and most 1nteresting debates of the s and evoked what was one of the highest individual oratorical displays since the disposition of the United States Senatorial question. To Senator Wolfe of San Fran- cisco fell the honor of speaker eloquent. He took up the gauge of battle against the measure im: on the close of Braunbert's opening srgument, and though he occupied but a fraction of the sion, time of his predecessor be had the sym- | pathy of house and 1 he resumed his seat. Withington, Mahoney, Smith and Bert came to Wolfe's support, while Braunbart had the distinction of being the sole chgmpion of the ili-fated measure, The measure, which provides for a re- obby with him when duction of streetcar fares from 5 cents h to eight for 25 cents, was the first on the third-reading file this morning. It had passed the scrutiny of the Committee | on Corporations and the San Francisco delegation, and the adverse report of the Committee on Rules and Revision, sub- mitted this morning, was therefors in the nature of a bombsbell to the author of he measure. The bill was declared by s report 10 be unconstitutional. Braunhart saw all his hopes and ambi- tions shattered in this new turn of affairs, | and his bitter disappointment found v in strong denunciation, though on strictly parliamentary | of the members of the offending With gton, the chairman that committee, d singled out by severely criticized of Dickinson were especiall the irate Senator. H the action of Withington in withholding an adverse report until the last moment, and declared that the opinion of two or- dinary lawyers (referring to the Senators from “Marin_and San Diego, respectively) had little weight with him as to the con- stitutionality of a bill. He charged that similar measures had been passed by the Senate and had been voted for by the Senators mentioned. Braunhart cited facts and figures which he claimed showed that the street rail- ways, and especially the Market-street Compuny, couid stand the reduction con- templated. Pretended iriends of the measure, he charged, had stabbed it in the back, and efforts had been made to kill it in committee. He declared that while not oneof the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who wou!d be benefited by the passage of this bill bad | been -ent here to champion their cause, the couy per, the stock-jobber and the beneri f watered stock had been | here to “‘browbeat and intimidate,” and hat fake petitions and meetings of clubs | had been called 10 the attention of com- mittees to influence them against the measure. He made light of the opposi- tion of the railroad employes, and asserted that their fears of reductions in salaries were unfounded, judging from past ex- periments of this Kind in other cities. Senator Wollfe be ¢ stating tnat he would ref. rom sing the matter from & constituiional s tinued: “I shall not attempt torey and sneers of my colieague. be honest in our views upon questions presented to us. I want to say that noi- withstanding all the gentleman bas said, I rise in opposition tu this measure. “The gentleman bas magnified the im- poriance of this proposition. You would think alter listening to him that San Francisco had risen en masse in favor of s bill—that the men and women and children were standing upon the ways and byways waiting lor this Senate to come 10 their relief and pass the Braunhart 2)4-cent bill. “L have no telegrams in my possession asking for the passage of this measure. I have not been even spoken to by any one in reference to this measure, except by those men who are here to-day—those men to whom the Senator sneeringly al- luded to as ‘these gripmen and c ors.’ 1 have been spoken to by these men, and I say that L will submit to their judg- ment. I will place their intelligence side by side with that of the gentieman who has just taken his seat. 1 will take their juigment and word in preference to his pported statement on the floor of the te. These ‘few gripmen and conductors’ who recsive the’ ‘high wages' of $2 50 per day represent 4000 or 5000 in San Fran- cisco, who by thelr earnin pon the streetcars raise families and educate their children. These few men represent as in- telligent ana hard-working a class of la- boring men as can be found in any city of the world. bey came here in opposition to that y to the slurs We ought to bill, and 1he only message that has been | sent to me is the message that the gentle- man also received. That was a petition, signed by over 3000 of these men, protest- ing against the measure. In the district which I have the honor 1o represent there reside between 600 and 700 of these men, | ana four or five railways termini in my district. have their Tpon the petition here to-day are the signatures of 500 or | 600 of my constituents asking me to op- pose this measure, and I support their views without fear of the danger of being misconstrued in San Francisco. “My belief is that tuis bill is in the direct interest of the Market-street rail- road and that no other railroad will bene- fit from it. The remaining street railroads in Ban Francisco that are now indepen- dent and competing lines will be wiped out. These wiil be absorbed by the Mar- Ket-street Railway Company. It means further than that, and I base my asser- tions upon the judgment of these men who represent organized labor. I think that the result of this will be to reduce | their wages. They believe it and I believe it with tuem, and’ therefore I am opposed to this measure. “I bhave spoken lately, while in San Francisco, to all classes of people, and they were not people who Lold stock in any of the street railroad corporations, and I found the almost unanimous senti- ment awmong the laboring men and the business men to be opposed to this meas- ure, and I am going to take their judg- ment aad view upon this matter without considering those of the distinguished Senator who has just preceded me.” He declared that the Sutro and Presidio roads would be compelled to go out of business, and that t! Morehouse, | ndpoint and con- | high- | uct- | | stap at the Market-street road et it hurt | whomever it may. In conclusion he said: “I hope the Senators will not be carried away by the style of argument indulged | by the gentieman. The measure is not one thatis in demand by the people of | San Francisco. Those who live in the | erowded districts of San Francisco are not the ones’ who use the streetcars. The crowded districts are where the laporing classes reside, and these crowded districts are easy of access to the places where these people are employed. 1 hope this | measure will be defeated.” | Withington attempted to point out the unconstitutionality of the measure, de- claring it was special legislation in favor of the people of San Francisco. Mahoney presented the petition of the San Francisco streetcar employes protest- ing against the passage of the bill. Morehouse denounced th measure as an attempt to regulate fares without an effort having been mad: to determine whether they would be just and fair. “This legisiation,” he sai4, “‘is intended to break down the streetcar *ystem of San Francisco and injure the suburban resi- dents by compelling the railroads which they now patronize (o go out of busine | “Whatis this bil!!” he exclaimed. to enabl portunity to hear the gallery b he attacks the railroad corporations. stands here against the signed petitin of thousands of railrosd employes. “I am sanstied,” he concluded, with great vehemence, “‘that the intelligence, { the honesty, the uprigntuess of this Sen- ate cannot indorse so infamous and con- | temptible a piece of legis.ation as intro- | duced Ly tue gentleman from San Fran- cisco.” Smith said be thought the bill wasa | proper one and that ke would be pleased 10 vote for it, but there was notbingin dence to show tbat the proposed re- ion was fair and justified. Bert stated that he coincided with the views of Wolfe and would vote against the biii. Braunhart in closing denied that tbe measure was directed against the Market- t Company in any spirit of vindic- tiveness. In conclusion be eaid: “The battie has just begun. This is but a mere skirmish on behalf of th- people and the ma: The day will come when the | corporations will be made to bow to the will of the people.” | Wolfe, in a sort of “amen’’ tone, arose | “I hope that day will | s0on come,” and the debate was over. The bill was defeated by a vote of G aves to 33 noes, Linder alone being ausent. Those with Braunbart were: eawell and Toner. heartbroken over ; 4SSEMBLY KOUZINE. iumw,-». Passed Upon in the Upper House at Macramento. | SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 15.—In the A this morning North’s conc Tent resolution, appointing a joint com- | mittee consisting of three Senators and three Assemblym to 1nvestigate the public printing office, came back from the Senate amended so as to strike out the | clause appointing experts and accouni- ants. The House unanimously refused to concur in the amendment, and insisted upon the experis and accountants, two to be named by the majority and the others by the minority. The resolation, in this shape, was sent back to the Senate. Tie Assembly agreed to the Senate amendments to Assembly bill No. Tne bill appropriating $20,000 for con- tingent expenses of the Assembly came up and afier Caminetti had presented a state- ment of figures tending to show that this session was the most extravagantin the history of the State the bill was passed by a party vote. The Aseembly passed Bulla’s Senate bill prohibiting the marriage of divorced per- sons within a year aiter the decree of di- | vorce was granted. | . Dryden’s constitutional amendment No. 1 was laid before the Assembly. and after some debate, and without disposing of the bill, the Assembly passed the following bills: Flint’s bill concerning the distribu- tion of estates, Seawell's3oiil relating to judgments, Stratton’s Senate bill regulat- ing the interest charges to be made by mutual loan and building associations and Seawell’s bill 1o legalize certain ac- | knowledgements. The Assembiy this afterndon passad Senate bills protecting carrier pigeons, regulating and controliing the sale, rental or distribution of appropriated water, and securing right of way for conveyance of such water 10 the place of use. |~ Bet'man introdu¢ed a resolution pro- viding for a junketing committee con- sisting of three members of the Way and | Means Committee and tnree of the Com- mittee of Public Buildings to visit San Luis_Obispo and_Agnews asylums and the Santa Clara Normal School. It was carried. The Assembly bill providine for the or- atiun and goveranment of irrigation istricts passed. The following Assembly bills on the urg- ency file were read a second and third time and passed by the Assemblv to-night Making an appropriation of $11,000 to fur- nish the office of tie cierk of the Supreme Court; making an approvriation of $1158 10 pay the funeral expenses of Lieutenant- overnor Millard; aporopriating $46 to v the claim of Gorge E. Lawrence for services at Millard’s funeral; apuropriat- | ing $5000 to pay the deficiency in the ap- propriation for repairs to the Capitol build- | 1Inz and for furniture, etc.; appropriating | $4787 to the Examiner for publishing con- | stitutional amendments; prescribing the | manner of locating mining ciaims; pro- | viding the filing of boundaries within sixty days after locating; providing for | recording notices of the location of mining claims; relating to the duties of the boards | of supervisors respecting roads. s USts FULGARITY, DENNERY Engages in a Brirf Passage at Arms | Wik Shanahan. SACRA) 0, CaL., Feb. 18.— The | usual fight over the State printing appro- priation came up to-day on Assembly | concurrent resolution No. 6, which had | been returned from the Senate with the | clause knocked out which allowed the minority of the Investigation Committee | the appointment of a printing expert and an accountant. Dennery and Price favored | the Senate amendment. Thereupon Shan- ahan charged them with being biased | against the mirority, they being members | of mg Investigation Committee. *Tfe remarks made by the gentleman from Shasta are false as —, shouted Dennery, shaking a loaded and cocked | forefinger at Shanahan, who physicaliy would make two of Dennery. Shanahan arose to his full height and bravely thun- dered back his willingness to meet Den- jlery on any proposition that he might se- ect. The Assembly refused to concur in the | Senate’s amendment. SR | To Settte the Printing Office Strife. SACRAMENTO, Car, Feb. 18.—The joint judiciary committee this evening | appointed & committee consisting of Sen- | ators Morehouse, Gillette and Seawell | and Assemblymen Dibble, Waymire and | Caminetti to draft a bill for an appropria. | tion of $75,000 for the State printing office, which bill will be expressed in sucn terms as to meet with the approval of the majority and the minority and insure the signature of the Governor. N S Assnult Upon Emil Neyy. SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 18. — Emil Ney, an attache of Assemuly, the reputed descendent of Marshal Ney and the sup- posed heir to $13,000,000, was assaulted by two men in the corridor of the State capi. tol this evening, but succeeded in putting them to flight by drawing his revolver. Ney claims that the two men have been following him for some time, and have repeatedly attempted personal violence against him. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, Take laxatiye BromoQuinine Tablets. All drug Wis an attempt v | gisis reiund the money 1 it Iailsto cure, 20¢ ADDED ReVERUE FOR BERKELEY Senate Passes the Bill Im- posing a Tax of One Cent. Its Supporters Confident That It Will Be Signed by the Governor, Blue and Goid Adcrn the Capitol in Henor of the University’s V.ctory. SACRAMENTO, Car, Feb. 18.—Sena- tors, Assemblymen, State officers, news- paper men, legislative attaches, pages lobbyists, and in fact nearly every one— ladies included—about the spacious Capi- tol buiiding, sported the colors of the Uni- versity of California to-day in honor of the passage through the Senate of the bill giving that institution the increased rev- enue to be derived from an additional 1- cent taxation. The bill has alreadv passed the Assembly, and is said to be certain of the aporoval of the Governor. Blueand gold not only hung from the lapels of nearly every individual, but the desks of the President of the Senate and of the Speaker of the House were decorated with ribbons of the same hue. So jubilant were the representatives of the university who are here, and who aided in gaining the victory for the insti- tution, that tbey exhausted the local market of its supply of blue and yellow ribbons in the desire to spread in their unique way the good news. It is a matter of deepest gratification to the university tbat this measure has been passed, and the news probably came with added welcome to Professor Le Conte, who to-day celebrated his golden wedding an- niversary at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. It will forever obviate the un- pleasant necessity of the regents and the faculty of the institution going before the Legislature as supplicants or muintaining e lobby at the Capitol. Among the strongest supporters of the measure were Senator Stratton and Assemblymar Wright, both of Alameda County. At the present time the annual income of the untversity is about $175,000. OF this §50,000 comes from private endowments, and the aaditional 1 cent wiil increase this total to $300,000 per annum. Of this amount about $60,000 will be set aside for ten years as a builaing fand, and there will, therefore, at the end of that period be $600,000 at the disposal of the university for the construction of new buildings. The remainder of the extra appropriation will be applied to improving the present accommodations of the students and in increasing the number of instructors. - AT BERKELEY. REJOICING Faculty and Students Welcome the News From Sacramento. BERKELEY, CaL., Feb. 18.—There was great rejoicing at the State University this afternoon when the news came that the measure known as the Wright bill had passed the Senato and was in readiness for the signature of the Governor. Great reason had they to be glad, for when the bill is once sizned and becomes a law it will mean that the revenue from the State will be just doubled. Two dis- patches bringing the glad tidings came simultaneously from Senator Stration and ssemblyman Wright. These missives of joy tothe faculty and students read as Toliows: ., Feb tin Kellogy, Berke university bii) passed the mous vote. 1 SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. ent Me tin Keliog reley. Seuate repeated the ex co ived by university in Assembly and passed bill by unanimous vote. I bave blue and gold pen for Governor to sign with, HOWARD E. WEIGHT. ‘When thev were posted on tne bulletin- board a great crowd gathered to read the golaen words and soon the news began spreading like wildfire. At once Presi- cent Eiston of the Associated Siudents sent out the announcement that the stu- dent body would give a big celebration next week in honor of the Governor and legislators. A grand review of the cadet companies will fie held and exercises will be carried on in the gymnasium, at which speeches from the Governor, President Kellogg and prominent alumni will be made. ‘When the bill becomes a law the income of the university from the State will be in the neighborhood of $250,000 a year, in- stead of anout $125,000, as at present. This doubling of the State revenue is to be per- vetual, although balf of the increased amount will go toward buildings and gen- eral improvements for the first ten vears. The professors and students look upon the passage of the bill as the dawn of a mnew era for the universit INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. Reforms Proposed by the Populists Are Discussed by the Members of the Assembly. SACRAMENTO, Car., Feb. 18,—FPopu- lism, socialism and the little Swiss Repub- lic had their field day in the Assembly this morning. Danton Dryden, Marat McClellan and Robespierre Landsborough, assisted by Citizens Cartwrightand Toland and the Chevalier Cutter from the historic dam of the Yuba, concentrated their forces upon Louis Philippe D.bble, and for an hour the Assembly Chamber re- sounded with debate on a matter, not of partisans ip, but on an issue overturning tbe corner-stene of the State Government. The subject was three constitutional amendmenis—Nos. 1, 2 and 3—introduced by Dryden of San Diego, their purpose be- ing to introduce into the governmental system the initiative and referendum. Awmendment No. 1 provides that when- ever 20 per cent of the voters of the State shall petition the Governor to submit to the people any amendment to the consti- tution of the State the Governor must ad- vertise the same at least 40 days beiore a general election, and the umendment must be voted on by the people. After ratification by the people no power can reverse their judgment or doaway with the amendment, unless by the same means by which it was adopted, namely, a vote of the people. Constitutional amendment No. 2 pre- cries a 20 per cent petition to the Legis- lature on laws and statutes wbich the petitioners desire submitted to the peo- ple. No.3 provides that ordinances, or- ders, etc., of Boards of County Sup r- visors and City Councilmen must be sub- nitted to the people in like manner on a 20 per cent petition, ryden made a lengthy speech on the amendments. Their adoption, he said, would purify politics and be a relief to the geople, ‘who were t00 o!ten misrepresented v tbeir representatives and tco often at the mercy of powerful and unscrupulous corporations. Dibble of San Francisco characterized the amendments as a proposal to revolu tionize ihe present sysiem or government l and wipe out the constitution. The meas- ure was a condemnation of the men who had framed constitutions in every State in the Union, and was a condemnation also of constitutional governmeni &s it DOW existed iu all parts ot the world except in one of the cantons of Switzerland. It was one of the most revolutionary and dangerous proposals that could be brought to the attention of a legislative body. Dibbie added that he did not believe that a democracy was capable of govern- ing itself except by a representative sys- tem, and that noi even the wisest people on the face of the earth have the power to frame laws in assemblages except by the Tepresentative system, He could not con- ceive how those three amendments could result in anything less thun confusion and disaster. Nothing less could come from the adoption into the governmental sys- tem of the initiative and referendum. During the present session the members bad had one of the most striking illustra- tions of the worthlessness of government by petition. Every member of the Assem- bly had signed pefition after petition un- til the thing had become nauseating. He cou!d go into any district in_the State to-morrow and could get a petition signed by 20 per cent of the voters to hang any man in California. He could go into the saloons, the slums and the byways and ge ver cent of the voters 10 sign petitions for anything. The assertion of ‘Mr. Dryden that after the Legislature adjourned the people con- demned the siaintes that had been adopted, Mr. Dibble termea unfounded. On the contrary, no really bad laws had been passed by'the Legislature of the State of California.” It was really wonderful to find how few bad measures had slipped through the Legislature. I know that our politics need reforma- tion,” added Mr. Dibble. *“I know that many men elected s representatives aro not just to the people; I know that there is corruption 1n our politics; but the remedy is not to destroy the work of Washington, Jefferson and Adams, but to reform our politics by beginning at the primary elec- tions and building up and sustaining tie American system of government by politi- cal parties. It is to give to the people a good primary election law. Our present system is the best system of government that the sun has ever shone upon McClellan (Populist) from Kings County arose to reply. He is a tall, well-buiit man, with a dark beard and a good voice, and displayed himself to more advantage than he bad ever ¢one before during the present session. He began in a sarcastic vein, woen he remarked that it seemed to him from the argument by Mr. Dibble that all the intelligence and morality in the State of California were to be found within the four walls of tais Legislature. Without intending to make any personal r flections upon his fellow-members of the Assembly he said they must admit that the hisiory of the last four weeks' session made Mr. Dibble’s statement a very severe reflection upon the people of California. He wenton: “I believe that any government that has ever met with success, or ever will meet with success, will derive its powers from the governed. Whenever the people have been given the privilege of making known their choice upon any question, that choice has been wise and well taken, as in the case of the adoption of the new con- stitution. That is one way in which 1m- portant matters may be brought before the people devoid of partisanship. Under caucus rule the man placed before the peo- vle for their suffrage is not—four times out of five—the choice of the peopie.”” Toland of Ventura made a speech which demonstrated that when a man is talking upon some broad principle, whica he be- lieves in, he can do much better than when_helping place-hunting Democrats to filibuster and obstruct legislation. He began by asking why the people could make constitutions and not unmake them. *‘When we consider the candidates put forth as the choice of the people,” be said, *and the means by which they become the so-called choice of the people—some- times by false pretenses—we find that they come to the balls of legizlation represeni- ing their own private interests. In the making of statutes they represent other interests than those of the peoble 3t large. When we look over the whale field and see how legislation is done, when we see how that hash callea law is compounded, I think that the remark of Mr, Dibble that this substituting the individual will for the will of the people making laws isa rigiculous vroposition. How do you yet 10 the masses of the people except by ask- ing the individuals of the people to vote upon the proposition? No harm can ever come from the direct submis-ion of these Iaws of general operation and letting the ycolyle pass upon them. ‘I believe also that when once the peo- ple bave passed upon & law no Legisla- ture—no power on earth—sbould be allowed to reverse that solemn verdict of the people unless by the same means by which it had been made—namely, the vote of the people.” Cartwright (Fusionist) from Kresno ad- vanced some radical ideas. He said that Wasbington, Jefferson and Adams lived a long time azo, and it was now proposed to improve upon their plans. The plan was not revolutionary. *“We will still continua to elect men to represent us in the Senaie and Assembiy, but we reserve the rigut to compel them to refer their acts back to us for our deci- sion. I believe that the adoption of this resolution wou!d absolutely prevent all corrupt influences in legislative mattes. No man would be willing to lobby any measure throueh this Assembly when he would afterward have to go back to the people and lobby it there also. “The gentleman from San Francisco says it will revolutionize this Government, I hope to God it will, for there is not a Gov- ernment on the face of the earth where misery and want are more prevalent than under this. The gentleman classes the men who advocate this measure as dema- gogues, but I say that there never was u man in the world who was nota dema- gogue on first presenting & reform. The heterodoxy of to-day becomes the ortho- doxv of to-morrow.” 1 despise that con- servatism which clings to the oid things until the old things become rotten. “‘Wendell Phillips sald that no reform ever came from the upper classes of the people. Thisis an age of progress, of in- ventions in mechanics aad discoveries in science that revolutionizs all our indus- tries, and those changes have brought changes 1n the people, and the<e demand as radical changes in government.” Landsborough of Sacramento followed in a simtlar vein. On motion of Cart- wright, seconded by Cutter, the amend- ments were amended by requiring the pe- titions to be signed by 30 per cent of the voters instead of 20 percent. The amend- ments were read aeecond time and sent to the printer. g IREACEY’'S BILL PASSED. Creates @ Paid Fire Department én San Francisco. SACRAMEXTO, CaL., Feb. 18.—Trea- cey’s bill to create a paid fire department 1n San Francisco, placing its control with the Board of Supervisors, which was de. feated last Thursday, and subsequently reconsidered, was taken up and finally passed in the Senate this afiernoon, and immediately sent to the Governor. The fish and game law bill passed the Senate as amended. Assembly bills 456 to.458 inclusive were refused a second reading. The Senate bill relating to th foreclosure of delinguent purchasers of State lands passed. Senate bills providing for the distribution of community prop- erty estales of deceased persons to the widow, and also the bill making the ex- pense of securing bonds by administrators or executors payable as expensesof ad- ministration were lost, ————— MRS. CONEY DEAD. Wife of the Mexican Consul Expires Afrer an Operation. Mrs. Rosalia L. de Couey, wife of Alex- ander K. Coney, the Mexican Consul, died at her residence in this City last evening. She had undergone a dangerous opera- tion, and the sirain upon her system was too great. The deceased was a native of Guadala- jars, Mexico, and Was 52 years of age, SOCIETY'S HELPING HAND TO REACH TOWARD ORPHAN BOYS Theatrical Entertainment to Be Given March 1 in Aid of the New Armitage Home in This City. Sickness in the San Mateo Home Sadly Taxing Funds. ACTORS REHEARSING “CASTE.” Fanny Rice Will Sell at Auction the Boxes for the Comedy at the California. Society is to appear on tie stage at the California Theater fora worthy cause, and the public is to be looked to for the sup- port that the movement merits. Over 100 parentless little boys must be sheltered and properly reared. Organized charity has not the funds to carry on the work unaided. The Bishop Armitage Church Orphan- age, in order not to lose any more legacies | Napa Bank. by reason of beiug situnated without the legal bounds of San Francisco, lished permanent headquarters in this City at the corner of Folsom and Second |} pinined here. streets. With but $800 in the treasury, and a | with locomotor ataxia, and last Sunday has estab- | came to this City so that their boys coula | | death history of Julien Mathieu, aged 73, pervisors decided yesterday to recommend that no permits for street work by private con- tract shall be issued later than March 1. The committee has also decided to recommend the paving of First avenue with bitumen, from Fulton to Washington street; also the con- struction of stone sidewalks on Guerrero street, from Nineteenth to Twentieth; on Eighteenth street, from Valencia to Guerrero; also p unk sidewalks on Sanchez street, from Army to Twenty-ninth, and sewers in Clem- ent streel, from Twenty-fourth to Twenty- sixth. 3 e NOT PARTED IN DEATH. Julien Mathieu and His Wife Marianne Were Baried 1ogether. In life they were tender and true to each other ana as if loath to leave ome to mourn the other’s departure the dread reaper's sickle severed their cords of life at nearly the same time. That expresses succinctly the life and and his wife, Marianne, aged 69, Julien Mathienand his wife lived at 2425 Buchanan street. They were English by birth and had been married for thirty-five years. Many years ago they came to Napa City, where Mathieu was cashier of the Abouteighteen or twenty years ago they enjoy better facilities for securing an edu- cation. Since that time they have re- Four years ago the husband was stricken The New City Headquarters of the Bishop Armitage Orphanage, at the Corner of Second and Folsom Streets. borough It Was a Very Fashionable Boarding-House a It Will Be the Home of Over a Hundred Parentless Little Boys. Quarter of a Century Ago. As the Marl- Jarge number of sick children to be cared | evening the old man died. Marianne, the for at the San Mateo home, the present situation is one that appeals to thoss who know the facts. There are eighty boys now living in the new quarters. They were transierred a week aco from the orphanage at San Mateo. Workmen are still busily en- gaged in adapting the house to its new occupants, but by the end of another week the necessary fire escapes and the additional stairways and partitions will | Rev. have been completed and the exterior of | the building repainted. The house was built many years ago for a fashionable boarding- place. It was first called The Marlborough, and by that me was the synonym & quarter of a century ago for gentility among the higher class boardine-houses of the Oity. In later years it was known as The Belve- dere, and latterly was used as a cheap rooming-house. Itis well adapted to the use to which it is henceforth to be put. With sixty-two rooms and many outside windows open- ing on two streets, it can accommodate as many as 150 boys. Tke building is to be used as a home for the little ones and as an Orphanage Home for those boys who have attained the age of 14 and are at work in the City. The Orphanage Home will bave its en- trance on Second streat and will be & dis- tinet institution, kept so by means bf par- titions dividing the puildings into two parts. For some little time past the home for these older boys has been at 831 Fulton street. When it was first organized in November, 1805, it was situated at 700 Powell street. The idea of such a home is to care for the young boys and to help them along on their meager wages until tuey are better able to struggle alone for a livelihood. The State allows $75 a year for the maintenance of a half orphan and $100 a year for that of a full orphan. This State aid in the aggregate pays a large part of the running expenses of the iastitution. But there would be a big annual deflcit were nothing forthcoming from churches and individuals. There are 178 orphans in the Armitage to-day, not including the nineteen work- ing boys past the age of 14, who are liv- ing at the Orphanage Home. From the Siate the Armitage gets about §10,000 a year; from private and church subscriptions about $8000 more. All of this is required for expenses. Last year through s decision of the Su- preme Court the orphanage, because it was situated in San Mateo, was declared ineligible to a legacy of $10,000 as a San Francisco charitable institution, though its offices are here and 75 per cent of the orphans are from San Fraucisco. The children in the new home go to the neighboring public schools and the kinder- garten during the day. In the early morn- Ing they help about the housework and in the evening they prepare their lessons for the next day. Otherwize they have noth- ing to do. To aid this worthy work a theatrical en- tertainment will be given at the California on Monday evening, March 1. The play will be “‘Caste,” Tom Robert- son’s charming comedy. The principal actors will be Miss Leila Burton, daughter of Captain Burton of the Presidio; s Rose Hooper, daughter of Major Hooger of the Occidental; Miss Robeson, and C. Wilron Jr., Seiden Stuart,Charles Dick- man and Frank Norris, familiar facesin society circles. On February 27,at 11 .M., the boxes will be :old at auction atthe California Theater by Miss Fanny Rice. No More Frivate Coutracts. The Btreet Committeo of the Board of Su- | which | She had joined her husband while the wife, who had been constantly by his bed- side up toa few days prior to his death, had fallen ill with pneumonia. When her husband died the news was carefully kept from her. Tuesday morning the relatives and friends of the deceased husband and father gathered &t St. Luke's Episcopal Church to hear the burial service read by Dr. W. H. Moreland. When the service was over the casket was returned to Gray Bros.’ undertaking establishment. The first news that greeted those cross- ing the threshold on their way home from the funeral was that the mother had died. burial service was in progress. Wednes- day morning service over her remains was performed at St. Luke's, and the cortere proceeded to Cypress Lawn Cemetery on the electric cars, where the husband’s body had been taken and laid in the chapel. Then they were tenderly carried by the pallbearers and reposed in the grave side by side. INTERSTATE COURSING Hounds From East and West Will Contest for Handsome Prize The Drawing I; by Far Much the Largest That Has Ever Taken Place in Thiy City, The Interstate Cquysing Club will give a two days’ meeting at Ingleside park, com- mencing on Sunday and ending on Mon- day, The owners of fast running grey- bounds in parts of the State where cours- ing is indulged in as a means of sport have promised to be represented at the meeting, in person or by proxy. Several dogs from the kennels of Stockton, Mer- ced, San Jose, Sacramento, Petaluma, Vallejo and Los Angeies will be included among the entries, and it goes witeout saying that the wise gnessers will have a merry time calling the winner of the cup in the old dog stake. The drawing took place last ovening at Delta Hall, oy Mar- ket street, and a most enthusiastic gather- ing of spor tsmen was present. . This will be the second annual contest for the John Grace cup and first prize, which amounts to $300 in cash. Last year the cup was won by Robinson and Pay- ton’s dog Fearnot, and, as the same canine Is entered again, 1ts owners seemingly 1o not fear the result notwithstanding that the speedy animal will face the warmest kind of company on this occasion, Some of the Eastern dogs that will enter the slips are said to bs fiyers, and it would not surprise the talent to see an Lastern sprinter cuttng down the Shamrocks on the Ingleside coursing sward in the final round oi the ?l’eut aanual meeting. . Tommy Hall, prince of the Merced cours- ing fraternity, 'will have three “lightning strikers” in the old dog stake, and as Tommy is a keen observer his judgment on coursing matters is always sought after by those who fancy having a littie of the long green on the general result. Be- des Fearnot, Robinson and Peyton will have Royal Buck, Flying Buck and .Mas- ter Glenkirk represented in the racé for the cup. Rosseter and Baxtel will enter Emin Pasha, Wayfarer, Ben Hur and Brandon Bell, all of which' dogs represent the pur- est blood of greyhound stock. Devine of Sacramenio will have a first- class dog in the all age stake, also one in the sapling and puppy siakes. Spring of San Jose is of the opinion that tne cup will go to the Garden City this time, as he has a cracker-jack which he says cannot be defeated by any stock. Curtis of San Jose has also a good dog in tne field, Healy of Petaluma bas two grand dogs areinthe pink of condition; he | | the committee—Directors will be a most aisappointed 1aan if one ot the number is not in Wittithe “flyers” in nal ties. m&r’;‘w: and Dean will bave two grass cutters in the big stake from whom much is expected. In fact, only dogs that have been thoroughly tried outand found to be top notchers, will run in the big stake, consequently the coursing should be the best that has been witnessec at Ingleside park in many day: The all-age stake cup was presented to the club last year by the well-k judge John Grace, and th: con that will govern the contesis of Sunday and Monday are the same as (hose of last year. The cup will remain the property of the club until it is won three ‘imes by a dog or dogs representing the sane kennel. A gentleman who is well and favorably known to the coursing people of this City has presented the club with a aandsome cup, valued at $150, which will be com- peted for by the saplines only and under the same conditions as govern tke all-age cup. The cup is to be named after the winning dog at the comin : meeting. If the hares will prove to beas good runners as tbe managers of the park states then the sportsmen can coung upon seeing the grass fly on Sunday and Monday. SED 3 The Interstate Club will give a dinner to the coursing people of this City and State on Saturday evening. The invita- tions read as follows: The annual dinner of the Interstate Cours- fng Club will be held at 317 Pine street, next Saturday evening, commencing st 8:30 o'clock You are expected to be present and essist the committee in making this a MOSt suCcess- ful and epjoyeble affair, “We waniyou me honey, ves, we do.” Don’t miss it or you'll be sorry by-and-by. = e There'll_be fessting, toasting, singing and «doggie talk’” tono end. If you can assistin any way you must come prepared, for “we’ll call you.” : After the card has been cailed you will have an opportunity of “saying” who'll win the cup—a Ia “long shot. 1. F. HALTON, Secretary. The drawing took place last evening and resuited as follows: The following is the draw for the Int state Club meeting at Ingleside for Sun- day and Monda; Said Pasha vs cosfa, S, Eclipss, Valley Maid vs. Sare oondyne, Bed of Stone vs Laurelwood, Beatrice va. yiarer vs. Blackstone, Royal . Mohawk, Arapahoe vs. Flashlight, imin Pasha, Commodore va. Lawrenoe vs. Skyball, Master Glen. 0id Glory vs. Seniorita, Fly: race Darling, Kitty Scott vs. v Conroy vs. Busy Bee, Sinalos de, Granuale v $300, $150, $37 50. azel Glen vs. Lord Lurgen, Nelly 1 Doredo vs. Tessio Fair, Connemara, Myrile vs. Miss Sadler’ vs. Salvator, t-me-not vs. Charming Widow, Doncster vs. Mountaineer. Prizes $60, $30, $15, X pling—North Pol Prospero, Occidental Paste!, Chile Pepper vs. Colonel North, Zoe vs. Gallant F Brandon Belle Prizes §: e, Perfecto vs. Prince Ananias, Nelife B, Portia vs. Cavalier. 50, §8 75, §8 e CONVICT LABOR BILL. Manufacturers’ A Abolish Mach A majority of the directors of the Manu- facturers’ and Producers’ Association on Tuesday came to the conclusion that the use of power machinery in the State prisons is a curse rather than a benefit to bumanity, as;by its use many worthy free men are deprived of the means of making a living. It was decided to frame a bill to prohibit the use of power machin- ery in the prisons of the State and ask the Legislature to make it a law. Wednesday Kerr, Jacobs and Keller—met ana framed the following bill, which Manager Lewis took to Sacra- mento In the evening: The people of the State of California, repre- sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. On and after the 31st day of De- cember, A.'D. 1898, it shall be unlawful to manufseture in any prison in this State any thing whatever by machinery driven power produced or generated by any means except human labor. -Any person in charge of or em- ployed in any prisod violating this act shall e guilty of n felosy. COURSEN-ROEOKEL OONCERT, Many Musicians Entertained a Large Audience at Native sons’ Hall. A concert, followed by a aance, was given in Native Sons’ Hall last night by a number of local musicians as a benefit to Mme. Ellen Coursen-Roeckel of this City. ‘he affair was well attended, notwith- standing the storm. About 800 persons were present, and a hundred couples stayed for the dance, which began shortly before 11 o’clock and continued for over two hours. The vocal quartet, Mlle. Alice De- courtieux, Mrs. Cathie Coursen-Campbell and Herr G. Berger, and the Lombardero Mandolin Club came in for special fayors from tbe audience. A reception committee, consisting of Miss Ida R. 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