The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1897, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANC J0 CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 1897 SHE WAS KISSED BY A CHINAMAN Mrs. H. B. Holmes Perse-| cuted for Weeks by Ah Jim. Every Morning H> Met Her and Bestowed a Kiss on Her Cheek. She Finally Ccmpiained to the Police and He Was Arrested Yester- day Morning. Ah Jim, a repulsive-looking Ch about 45 years of age, has earned the dis tinction of being a kisser, and propensity w land County Jail. s amorous him in the He was arrested yesterday Policemen Ryan and O'Dea on street, near Market, and booked Southern station on a charge of b Soon afterward he was released on §200 bonds. The complaining witness against him is Mrs. H. B. Holmes, a quiet-spoken little woman about 2 vears of age, living at 1123 Market street. She is employed at the Baldwin Hotel laundry. Ab Jim has been annoying her for the past three or four weeks by j expectedly in front of her every morning morning by Sixth at the ery. at Taylor and Market streets while on her way to work, and kissing her on the | cheek. 1 was spoken, and after Aul snatched the kiss he walked hur: et street and down Mrs. H ing edly across Mar her home eve ™ 6 o'clock, so th pirations. He did not step boldly up to the lady, throw his arms i her and her, but he glided out of 1% 10w D . 1 the costume of wears a sack coat, m s He queue is wound 1e back of head inaknot. At first Mrs. Holmes did not know who had insulted her, and it was ree or four mornings that she of the fact 1t was a Chinese. rkers in the laundr r 10 take a club with on her i She P g such woula bring unbearable, she adc ther tion, and informed Pol » John M n, who reporied the case to Captain Spilla Ryan and O'Dea_were detailed on the case, ana Friday night they °d upon Mrs. Holmes. 1t wus ar ed that they uld meet her at Ninth and Market streets vester: v morning and she was to point Ah Jim out to them. Tor two or three mornings Mrs. Holmes had walked along the south side of Mar- ket street instead of the north thinking that h Jim would not discover the change,s0 Ryan and 0’Dea walked swiftly ong ' the north side and stationed ing un- d discovered to | 2 good look at the man my horror that he was an ugly-looking old Chinaman. I told some of the girls at the laundry, and they advised me to strike bim. la'so told a gentieman who lives in this house, and he wanted to thrash him, but I woild not let him, as I was afraid of the notoriety. Then I was advised to tell a policema was his arrest this morning. { “I never saw or heard of him in my | life, and I don’t know why he shouid bave singled me out for his disgusting at- | tentions.’” 1t’s bad enough to te kissed by |a white man ageinst your will, but a { Chinaman is horrible. | I have no hard ieelings against the old | man and I do not care to prosecute him, | as he might do something dreadful to me, | but my friends sav I must, as it would | make fim worse if 1 aidn’t. 8o T suppose {1 wiil have to sppear in court against | bim.” Mrs. Holntes did not have her husband | to protect her from Ah Jim, us they are living apart. A TWIN-SCREW STEAMER. Colonel Crocker's Proposed Craft to Cross the Fay in 1wenty Minutes. st Vice-President C. ¥. Crocker of the | | Southern Pacific -aid yesterday that he il t know whether a8 new twin-screw Juwer to cross the bav in twenty win- utes wouid be built. It was under con- templation and bad been for some time, | but before anything was done the plans | would first have to be submitted to the board of director “[ rather think we will build such a boat,”” _he continued, *'but it is in the fu- ture. | e we todo so we would h to make a good many changes at tue Oak- land mol At present all the trains come in on the south side and then switch arou to the north. With a new steamer changes would bave to be made to suit e travel. But all thisis in the air. It rly to say what will be done, d the plans of the ot yet been submitied to steawer the directors. It is probable that the built, but it is & question of when. steamer will be The Union Iron Works, it is stated, will at the mi nght time su a bid on it. ST OSES 15 ENRICHED A Magnificent Painting of the “D.vine Savior” in the Sanctuary. The Work of Ar:t Has Excited the Most Favorabie Comment Among Local Connoisseurs. | St. Rose’s Church, on Brannan street, was enriched during the week by a mag- nificent work of art—a of ““The Divine Savior,’ religious ter, Joseph A. Harrington. As,the inting is to be hung within the sanctu- ary and to be viewed from all parts of the caurch Mr. Harringlon painted the figure | of Christ of heroic proporiions. Viewed from near or far its beauties are | most striking. On one of his superb | translucent backgrounds the artist has | placed bis subject £0 that the figure seems almost in relief. He has given the Savior an appeatance truly ideal—perf-ct manli- ting ness without any baser admixiuie il- | lumined in every feature by the divine. | It is just such a hesd as one would ex- pect to find on the canvas of an Italian artist of the period of supremacy. The | eves, tender, earnest, solicitous, without MRS. H. B. HOLMES, Who Was Insulted by a Chinese on Market Street. themseives at the Donohoe bnilding, while Mrs. Holmes walked at her usual gait along the south side. Just as she reached the southeast corner | of Sixth and Market AhJim glided out of the door of a millinery store. Mrs. Holmes maae a signal to the two officers and they rushed acrass the street. She had jumped aside as Ah Jim made a lurch for her cheek. He evidently thought something was wrong, us he turned and walked hurriedly down Rixth street. The officers soon overtpok him and piaced him under arrest. They took him back to whera Mrs, Holmes was standing and she identified him asghe kisser. To her indignant ques- tions as to why he nad insulied her, he only replied **No sabbs.”” On the way to the Southern station Ah Jim offered to give the officers $20 to let him go. The officers think that he works in a junk store on Howard street and he had prob- ably met Mrs. Holmes while going to his work, as he always went down BSixth street. Mrs. Holmes was seen last night. She disiikes the notoriety caused by Ah Jim’s arrest, but did not hesitate to talk on the subject. ‘“The first occasion,” she said, “the re- pulsive-iooking creature kissed me was a little over thres weeks ago. I had got to the corner of Taylorand Market strests, Xxhen some man kissed me on the cheek. There were two or three men passing at the time and 1 did not know which one kissed me. I was annoyed, but did not Ppay much attention to it. “Next morning the same thing hap- mened, and 50 it went on till I finally took | the taint of weakness, are fitting lamps | forsuch a sublime face, and the wavy | hairand beard of a beautiful brownish | tint serve 10 complete a head which has, perhaps, never been surpassed by the art | of California. The drapery of the tunic is natural, yer siriking 1n its beautiful sim- plicity. ‘Mr. Herrington has illuminated the breast inside the outer garment with the efftigence from the divine heart, and this conception has enabled nim to do | some magnificent work in light and | shade. The right hand especially is wor- thy of notice in this regard. The longer the picture is beheld the more its many beauties become manifest. The grand posing and rich coloring com- bine to make ons of the vest religious works ever painted on this coast. Mr. Harrington is facile princeps in this line in California. Religious subjects have always been his successes. At the time Le painted the altar piece and four panels in St. Francis Church that work was pro- nounced the best of its kind in America. He has continued to uphold his fame in ihis field. The present picture caused much comment among our San Francisco artists, who all visited the studio to view the painting before being removed to St. Rose’s. The universal verdict of those who have seen the picture isthat Harring- ton has surpassed himself. e It is said that e Irish language is dyingout. Ten years azo 64,000 people spoke Irish oniy. In 1891 there were 38,000. In 1881 there were 885,000 who could speak Irish and English, and last year there were only 642,000, n, and the result | IN AID OF LITTLE ORPHAN BOYS. Miss Rose Hooper, one of this season’s debutantes, will appear on the stage at the California Theater on March 1. She will take the part of a dancing gir/, loved by a plumber, in the comedy of **Caste,” to be presented on that occasion for the benefit jointly of the Children’s Hospital and the Bishop Armitage Church Or- phanage, two most worthy charities caring for the sick and parentless little chal- dren of San Francisco. It will be remembered by those familiar with society events that Miss Hooper made her debut on the amateur stage lust year at Mrs. Hager's private theatricals, a novel and unique depariure from the usual list of social gayeties. The success of that affair inspired several of the participants with a particular longing to appear again before the footlights, and Miss Hooper as one of that number easily entered into the spirit of the coming entertainment with its motif of charity combined with social enjoyment. The Children’s Hospital and its aims are well known to the public. But the Orphanage is in a way a new charity in this City. Oaly within the past week has it become strictly a San Francisco i ution. Highty little orphan boys have been transferred from the original home at San Mateo to the new quarters now being put in order at the corner of Folsom and Second streets. Soon other little parentless boys will follow. The home, a large, old-fashioned boarding- Louse on Rincon Hill, is barren of any furnishings other than the beds, ana furthermore the institution is greatly in need of funds to carry on its work, particulariy in the San Mzteo home, where many cases of sickness are reported. The Bishop Armitage Church Orphanage in establishi much the same conditions that maintained when titution began its work ten years ago at San Mateo. There is a large b with only the most meager furnishings. The convenient loc of the new quarters compared with those at the country place, where over & hundred children are still sheltered and cared for, should make ita much easier matter tor the simp ic home to be added to by small contributions of old furniture from kindiy disvosed persons. Of the sixty-two rooms in the house two, thus far, are furnished with earpeting. e rooms in wnich the eighty little boys 8 city for itself is met by io! But eep have no furnishings whatever but the rips of old carpet in pieces suitable for the bedside rugs as protection from the bare floors would be mostacceptable and very useful. Anold chair of any kind, a small, old table, & chest of drawers, an 0ld bookcase, or any such bit of furniture that may be of little or no further use to the present ow would help out very much in making the rooms more cheeriul and home-like for the little orphan boys Any kind of clothing is always acceptable. It can be cut up and made over for the little bo; Persons having any of these things or articles of similar nsefulness to contribute to the Orphanage, may send them to the new home &t the corner of Folsom and Second streets, where they will be very thankiully received Mns. FRANCIS C. BREWER, President Bishop Armitage Church Orphanage. | | | I did our own cooking when we were to- gether, and I did it the next year, butnow RS bourd. When I was baching I Froma Callboy He Becomes | _'1amdo hire how to s [ rent and 20 | there ie 20 ce figures $3000. Ltuings considered, I am very well satisfied with tve fruit business. I am glad I got out of the City and into some- thing where I am independent. I had it pretty rouch for a while. My partnerand cents as the cost ot growing, ts left as profit, or in round m down here now to see some of the | commission bouses in regard to_market- =g ing my crop. I think San Francisco a Prosperous Fruit ought to be the direc: market for tbe | fruit. I take four inches of water and vay Grower. | for Mr. Gorton will be here for several days. He is at the Girand. He has grown brown as= berry and says be is hard as iron from the healthful work in the open air. the water monthly during tae fruit His Crop This Year at Fenryn Will Net Him at Least | —— e \ LUG-0E-WAR. | A Challenge ¥, British Columbia, ictures of Anchormen. The members of tne ten local teams Didn’t Know Anything About Ranch- | orzanized for the big tug-of-war tourna- ing When He Beran- His Three | ment next Saturday are much wrought > | up over a bold challenge of a team of rope- Y :ars’ Experience. | pullers of Victoria, B. C., which received | general notoriety through the press. It | surprises the local ceiebrities in the robust | sport, who marvel at the audacity of this claim for championship emanating from a team never betore heard of. The ten anchormen of the teams to com- pete at the Mechanics dPuvilion were | lotographed in up and their pictares from Penryn, having made a handrome | Will be foand el Hier i this fasnasi Tho sum in the fruit business. What he |illustration offers a poor opportumity, has Gone should cause many young men | however, by which to judge the men as to in this City to do a little thinking. | physique amil[ mu;cle. Tluey !hulli!d be o 5 seen personal en a wlanca will con- BT e L Samng ) [ ¥itico thelmoN sHticalior st ermtsent he bad no knowledge Wwhatever of the | fitness for the tremendous tests of strength fruit business or of farm life. He went to | they are required to withstand. work on a fruit ranch lor §1 25 a day fora | The indications all point to the success year, with the idea of learning the busi- | Of the comine tournament, comment on ness. The second year he and a pariner which is heard throughout the City, not- : ich | Withstanding the intensity of interest in rented twenty acres, about half of which . 8 =3 y % 3 ) e L the big fisiic event at ; besides il wasin bearing fruit of different kinds, E oventasOaton i and paid $175 rent for it. Besides the | expected that a large contingent of Easi- rent, they paid $122 50 for water and some ern sports will enjoy the novelty of wit- $40 for feed for a borse thev had, besides nessing the tournament. | Judgs James A, Campbell’s willingness living expenses. It wasa poor year, but | they kept out of debt. | to officiate as reteree pleases all the teams. i SAEAS - GoT TR The second year Mr. Gorton rented ten | §200. It was not a good year, put he| g S e e L gathered about 800 boxes of mixed fruits | " oo " Jx-fonvict: 1s Agaln in and got along. i s This year he has branched out and James pee,-n ex-ton\uc‘l. was arrested leased thirty-one acres. Tha ranch is | lastevening by Detective Cody and booked about one mile from Penryn, and he pays | at the City Prison on the charge of burg- as rent 10 cents for every box of fruit he | lary. Other charges will be preferred gets. The owner of tue ranch furnishes | gogingt him, the necessary implements and horses and 3 Gorton pays for all the labor that is neces- (= 1/€¢ Was released a sbort time ago from sary to assist him and foots all the living | the House of Correction after serving a expenses, as weil as the bill for water, | $iX monihs’ term for petty larceny, and a which in this case will be $180. few nights later he broke into the residence This is a crackerjack year for fruit in | of Benjamin Hughes, Stevenson and the Penryn district, and itisestimated the | Ninetcenth streets, and stole a lot of jewelry. He also broke into the residence product on_this ranch will be fully 1500 boxes. 1f it turnsout that way, and 1t | of John Sullivan, Chapultepec street and look: though it could not fail, Mr. Gor- | Cortland avenue, and stole a gold waich and chain, several rings and a locket. ton will net fully $3000 for the year’s work. The stolen property was sold by Lee to “The fruit consists of cherries, pears and peaches,” said Mr. Gorton, *and I esti- | a pawnbroker on Market street. The chain mate ihe yield wiil be fully 1500 boxer. A | was sohd gold, and Cody found yesterday box of fruit can be raised for 20 cents, an | that it had been melted. He intends to | proceed azainst the pawnbroker. average box. 1t would be a hard vear, in- Lee is a painter, and was engaged at his deed, that fruit would not bring 40 cents a box. Fifty cents is low enough, and I es- | trade on the Girls’ High School building timate that as the average of this year's| when a lot of articles belonging to the price. pupils and teachers were stolen, and Cody thinks Lee was the thief. om Thomas Gorton, a young man who five | years ago left his native town of Liver- | pool, England, and who was for several months up to three years ago one of the callboys at the Grand Hotel here, is down ‘“‘At that, after paying 10 cenis a box as OLD CLOTHES AND OLD CARPETS VERY ACCEPTABLE | | had begun to despa CURNING WORK A Woman in a Carriage Disposed of Stolen I Property. An Organized Gang Thought '.o; Be Working Stores in | This City. Gloves Stolen From Hil: Bros. Ident fied by the Owners—“Mrs. Wein:r” Sells the Stolen Gocds. | The Police Department is quietly but | earnestly searching for an organized gang | of shoplifters, who are believed to be oper- ating in this City on an extensive scale. Several montns ago the big fancy-goods | stores of this City began missing goods to a larger extent than is ordinarily the case, | and several establishments, including the Emporium and Hale Brothers, put com- peteut men on the watch snd also notified the police. In spite of these precautions the losses of gloves, hosiery and other articies con- tinued, and a search was then made for the ‘“tence’” that disposed of the stoien goods. { This was also unsuccessful and the merchants, who were the largest losers, r of getting at the bottom of the matter when au accident re- vealed the scheme by which the thieves | gotrid of their plunder. The discovery | wus made by Jacob Wand of Michaels & Wand, the Kearny-street fancy-goods dealers. In the boarding-honse where he lives there also resides the mother of Police Commissioner Gunst. Several days ago a handsomely dressed woman stepped out ot a carriage in front | | of the house and, entering, a<ked 10 see | some of the ladies who were boarding | there. When they came she confided that | she had just come from Australia and that | she had & lot of fancy goods, gloves, laces | and the like that she would dispose ot at a | very low price, i . She said tbat they had been smuggled | into the country, ‘and that the ladies | could have them for about half of what they could be purchased in local estab- lisiments. She pleaded the immediate need of a cousiderable amount of ready | money as an excuse for seiling them. | A few articies were purchased by ladies in the house, and Mrs. Gunst mentioned the visit to Mr. Wand. The latter’s cur osity was aroused, and he asked to see the gloves that had been bought of the | woman, An examination confirmed his suspicion for he saw tue marks of several firms who | | be knew had lost artici Later Hale | | Bros. identified sowe of the gloves by the | marks on them. They were goods that | ad been purchased at about $9 per dozen, | and the seller had parted with them at | the rate of 50 cents per pair. | The woman who had sold the goods gave her name as Mrs. Weiner, but when asked for heraddress in case oth T articles were wanted later declined to give it. She was of medium height and rather stout and wore a profusion of jewelry. Several ladies on Van Ness avenue, in | the vicinity of Sutter street, received calls from the woman, and a number bought from her to a greater or less excent. As far as the police can judge from the descriptions of her that Lave been fur- | nished them, she is a newcomer in this City and #n experienced worker in her particular Iine. The theory that a regular gang is at work is based oun the extent of the losses | and the manner which the theives have adopted to zet rid of their plunder. The Dry-goods Men’s Protective Asso- | ciation has taken the matter up and will do all in its power to aid the police in rounding up the shoplifters. RED MEN TO CELEBRATE. There Will Be a Gathering of the Tribes of This City in Odd Fellows’ Hall To-Morrow Night. The Improved Order of Red Men being a patriotic as well as a beneficiary or- ganization, will do its share to-morrow in the matter of observing the anniversary of | the birth of George Washington. The | celebration will be in the nature of a grand ball in Odd Fellows' Hail, given by the tribes in this City under the auspices of Modoc Tribe No. The committee of arrangements has been at work for some time to make this one of the finest events ever given by the order in this Cit Itis expected that Great Sachem J. Sims of Nevada City will be present and deliver a short address of a pairiotic character. All the great chiefs and past chiefs, resident in this City, have signitied their intention to be present. XEW TO-DAY: The advantage of a policeman over a burglar is that the of- ficer has the law on | his side. Heaith bas | the same advantage over disease. The | Law of Nature is for people to be healthy. When they are sick, Nature helps to cure \ them. Nature’s law is the guide for cur- ing sick people. There is no way but Nature’s way, What the doctors call many different diseases Nature cures in one way; by nourishing the whole body with | £ good, pure, rich, red blood. That is Nature's way of curing scrofula, erysipelas, kidney and *liver com- plaint,” consumption and every form of eruptive and wasting_disease. When yot want to help Nature with medicine the med- icine must work the same way as Nature works, then it has the ature on its side to make it powerful. That the secret of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis- covery’s wonderful cures. It assists Ni according to her own laws ; it is on Nature’s | side and Nature helps it; it imparts new power to the nutritive and blood making or- | gans to create a large 2uanmy of fresh, red, healthy blood which drives every germ of disease out of the system and builds up strong healthy tissues and solid flesh. The | “Discovery "’ completely clears away every form of blood-disease from the system; It even cures consumption. 1tis the only true radical cure for that disease; facts and testi- mony to prove it. *I would like to tell the whole world what your ‘Golden Medical Discovery' has done for me. The doctor, who is cousidered an expert on lung troubles, told me I had consumption. He sai both my lungs were diseased and I could not live long. I felt down-hearted for I have dear little children to live for. 1 just went to him to get his opinion. I am glad I'did for now I know what your medicine will do. When I started on the second bottle I was beiter in every way and was able to take a walk on every fine day. 1 enjoyed my sleep, myappetite was good, and by the time ad finished the second bottle I began to feel like a new woman. 1 still had @ cough, so I got 2 third bottle and by the time it was haif gone I was completely cured.” WSHAITES NQVELTY NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS, BLACK SPRING 1897. Our importations of NEW BLACK DRESS FABRICS are now ready for inspection. The styles are the most elegant we have ever shown and are the production of the best manuiacturers. 50 pieces 44=Inch BLACK FIGURED DRESS FABRICS, in an elegant variety of designs, 75c a Yard. 75 pieces BLACK PIREOLA CLOTH, in a good assortment of styles (both figured and striped), full 44 inches in width, $1.00 a Yard. 12 pieces 44=Inch BLACK PIREOLA CLOTH, all elegant designs, $1.50 a Yard. Samples of above goods sent free to any address. TELEFHONE GRANT 124, 111, 113, 115, 117, 113, 121 POST STKEEL{. S |SATISFACTIO Prices ] S T Qualities Varieties | Sof Chiffoniers, J. NOON.AN,| TANDARD QUALITI:S. : STYLES UNSURPASSED. | SQUARE DEALING. gLPENRY don’t buy a thing till you see us. | GUARANTEED. tock erms Are Prices and goods that carry the conviction of their cor- rectness. . Silver-plated ‘Ware Is what we are talking about this week. i Quadruple plfle Cake Baskets, B. C | | fa Beds, from... per y Bed ~ets, 11 piece: Parlor Sets. CASH OR EASY TIME PAYMENTS. 1617-1019-1021-1023 Mission Street. 516-518-520-522 Minna Stree . Above Sixth. Jessie 41, Open « Pickle Casters Phone, Fruit Stands s Persian gi quadruple plate .. Little Prices and Big Values. 4-piece Tea Philadelphia 5-Bottle Dinner l"&lk‘r% a SLo00 #-Rottle binhor Casters, ‘quadrugie pisis, , U, v | kmbossed Butier Dishes, xiass stand. ... > Shgn | Quadruple plate Butter Dishes...... o o . with STAMPED ON A SHOE MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT | Tavle Spoots. set of 8 n! 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