The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1897, Page 9

| | fi ‘being completed within & _— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1897. SiN LEANDRO'S 600D INVESTMENT The Pretty Town Well Boomed by a Very Small Outlay, Too Big a Price Was Pad to Break Up a Political Ring. The Harbor May Be Imprcv:d If Z:a Does Not Again Get the B tter of D:scretion. OARLAND OrFrice SAN Fraxcisco CALL,) 908 Broaaway, March 21, § The people of Alameda County never really understood the value of a *“loca! cel- ebration” until last week, when they held a flag-raising. They are now convinced that a litile display of energy and local pride is & good 1nvestment. To be very blunt, they realized a return of over $1000 on an expenditure of exagtly $38 50. A patriotic citizen donated a flag and flag- le for the public plaza. The Trustees nned a celebration, and all the town t the spirit of the affair, and a pub- holiduy was declared. The exhibition ise was, of course, good news, the papers devoted considerable space to San Leandro. An inguisitive genius has fizured up ali the free advertising that the town ob- tained, and as near as can be asceriained the space was worth over $1000. Flatter- ing and of necessity truthiul notices of the pleasant situation of the town and of its many advantages were woven into the published stories, and all the world knows ibat there is a flourishing town in Ala- meda County named San 2 eandro; that it is connected with Oakland by a speedy electr.c railroad; that it is a modet place 1olive in, and that the climate permits of open-air celebrations in the warm sun- shine of ear:y March, The following extract from the San Le- andro paper tells the rest: The conimittee for the Hastings flag-raising Celebration held their final meeting on Wednesday evening and settle The & subscribed was S 30 were prese inting, ¥8 50; flags, Herrscher cheer- 5 cents, the bills vaid and the committee ad- d siue die. ticiaus of Oakland now realize that a great m' ke was made when the charter was amended so as to make the City En- gineer and Uity Attorney ex officio mem- bers of thé Board of Public Works. change was made in good faith, but tnat does not in any way qualify its failure. At the recent election it was the direct cause of the defeat of & leading Republi- can candidate. The change in the charter made two years ago was undertaken for the pur- pose of breaking up an alleged ring at the City Hall. It was evidently neessary that some change be made, because the necessary two-thirds vote was given the | measure by the voters. But thc price pa:d was too dear, and the remedy is_in every respect as bad as the di-ease. In- stead of taking the main branch of tne vernment out of politics it has ced the members of the Board of Pub- ic Works 1o be politicians, even against their witl. There is no practical sense in making be City Atiorney a dispenser of patron- be Fire Department, or in giving v Engineer the patronage of the Department. This, however, is the Present system, and it hampers both offi- cials, who should devote their time to their respective auties without having to be worried by an army of place-hunters, who are already clamoring for reward for political service. In a city growing as fast as Oakland it s an sbsurdity 10 make a change every two years in the office of City Engineer. Such procedure must inure to the detri- ment of the city, because there are many suvbordinate sewer systems and street grdes that need to be determined on some common basis, but as things now stand, no man is in office long enough to carry’ out his idess, and existing con- fusion becomes worse confounded every two years. A Superintendent of Schoois is appointed to hoid office for four years, and there is no rcason why a City En- gineer shonld not be trusted in the same manner. A. R. Wilson, the defeated Republican candidate, is acknowledged, by everybody 10 be & competent, scientific eagineer, but he is the veriest tyro in politics, d as the fiznt over the office is made with the main eye on the patronage end Wilson | was defeated. The same principle of reasoning will apply with equal aptness 10 the office of Ciiy Attorney. Wiih all the pending litigation in which the city is interested the City Atlorney should not be forcéd to make a political campaign every two years, as at present. ‘There have now been two elections un- der the amended charter, but it is not Lkely that there will be a third. The next Legislature will doubless be asked to pass upon another amenament. The present diseatisfaction is but an- other argument in favor of a consolidated city-and county government. 1f the people of Ozkland and Alameda sre wiso they will not medal any further | with the progress of the harbor improve- ments. The question is now being asked if it is not/better to let the Government experts mind their own business ihan to sive the War Department details based on préjudice rather than on practice. over a year prominent officials, merchants and cabitalists have been interfering with the Washington end of the harvor im- provement with the result that ali work was deldyed for nearly two years, and it is 10t yet certain that theapprovriation will pa<s the -Senate. All the delay and anxiety have been caused because of the complicated state of affairsthat the War iepartment has been advised exists in Oakland and Alameda. Tuis all perfectly right and proper for the citizens to agitate for a public im provement, but when the improvement is promised and money appropriated it is time 1o stop. Government ofiicials do not tuke kind!v to all kinds of fatherly ad- vice, especially when they have experts on the spot whose duty it is to carry out the improvements. Coionel Suter is weil scquainted with his work, and when Ala- meda and Oakland sent all kinds of con- trad.ctory and amateur reports to Wash- ington it is not to be wondered at if he advised that the whole matter lie over 1ill tae people come to their senses. Men of experience, such as have inter- ested themselves in the barbor, should know that beyond a cerfain point con- | flicting petitions fail to enlighten. That point was reached regarding the harbor months ago, and if tnat fact can_cnly be realized the harbor wiil stand a chance ot reasonable period. The War Department has recog- nizea the need of the improvement, fully understands the situation and has clearly intimated that any further importunities will be injurious. Ervart W. BootH. Booth-Tucker ins) OAKLAND, Car., March 2L — Com- mander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation ‘Aimy visited this city to-day, This morn- ing he conducted a meeting at the bar- racks and ia the afternoon he gave an dress on the social work of ihe army at c.8 His Troops. the First Congregational Church., This| ughtfu! citizens and honest poli- | The | For | ALAMEDA COUNTY NEWS. evening he spoke at the First Presbyterian Church. The processions on the street during the day were the larvest ever seen in Oakland. All the corps from Berkeley and Alameda attended. Jumped on a Bottle. OAKLAND, Can, March 2L—Annie O'Leary, a Central Grammar Sc ool girl 15 years of age residing at 2101 Market Street, went out to the cemetery this after- noon to gather popries. She jumped a fence, alighting upon a giass botile, which cut through her thin shoe and made a fearful gash into the bottom of her f.ot. It was dressed at the Receiving Hospital and the young lady sent home. It will be ‘several days before she is able to use her oot. The Musical World. OQAKLAND, CAr, March 21.—The eyes of the musical world are on the concert aad dramatio recital to take placeat Reed’s Hall Tnursday evening of this week. The San Francisco Press Club Quartet, the California Mandohin Club and Mrs. Olive Reed will furnish the musical numbers. Mrs. Sylvia Chapman-Martin, who leaves for the East soon, will make her last ap- Pearance as a reader. Rabbi Levy to Lecture: OAKLAND, CaL, March 2L.—Dr. M. 8. Levy of San Francisco lecture at Covenant Hall on Tuesday evening. The affair is under the auspices of Montefiore Auxiliary Lodge No. 3, L 0. B. B. Dr. Levy was the former pastor of the First Hebrew Congregation of this city. SEEKING HARMONY. The University Class of '99 Preparing ificulties in the Pub- lication of Their Year Book. BERKE! CavL., March 2L — The difficuities which the last two or three | junior classes at th: State University have met, both as regards finances and the publication of liquor *ads,” have taught the coming junior class a lesson, Hitherto the condit.ons surrounding the election of officers have been so lax that when any trouble hus arisen there was no one who could be held to account. The executive committee of the class devised a plan by whici they believe that no faction can elect a candidate and thus control the policy of the publication, but that through it the best men will be chosen, expense | witl be reduced, harmony will be assured and responsibility can be traced. The committee has submitted the fol- lowing plan, which-will be considered by the class next Wednesday atiernoon : Instead of chooing an editor-in-chief and business manager, & board of editors, consist- ing of seven members, shall be elected. This board shall in turn elect from their 6wn num- | ber an eait hicf and business manager. | ors shall assume the entire | bility of the publication. 1f there be any .0ss or any profit they shall share it among themselves as tney agree. The cinss shall guatantee to the board of s an assessment, to be raised as follows: berof the class shsll pay an assess- aent of $2 50, or, 1f 1t is preferred, §3, which shall entitle the payer to a eopy of the Blue and Gold. Briefly stated, the advantages of the pro- | posed plan are these: First, there will be har- mony among the class in support of the book. No one fsction-can elect its candidates. Every element will be represented and the book will | have undivided support. Second, the best men will b: chosen editors. There will be a { larger number of candidates from which to | choose, and each man will have to run on his own meritand special fitness. | best a 081 represeniative men will be | to obviate | eiected. Third, tne book will be the best that could po: be priduced. Each man will feel an inaividusl finaucisl re-ponsibility; each man will have a loss to work against and a profit to work for, and each man will | put forth his best efforts to make the book the | mos: successiui ever published. Fourth, at | the sause time the assessment will be greatiy recuced; on the ove hand from §3 50 t0 $2 50; on the olhe; | $3 50 to §1 | A RACETRACK FRACAS One Horseman Plunges n Koife Into the Head of His Companion, OAKLAND, CaL, March 21.—Dan God- frey and Charles Robinson, two racetrack followers, arein the County Jail. God- v has the side of his face nearly cut off, vhile Robinzon is charged with doing the deed. ‘About 6:30 o’clock this morning Deputy Constable D-nny Cronin brought the two to the Receiving Hospital so much the worse for drink that neither was able to walk straight. Neither was willing to talk, but by degrees the story was told. A’ party’ was playing pool in the new saloon ai the entrance of the racetrack known as the Brutus. Godlrey was away in the lead at 12o'clock and wanted to quit. Robinson was loser and wanted to continue the game. A few words were | passed and Robinson is said to have struck at Godfrey with a knife as sharp as a razor and a biade three inches in length. On arrivinz at the hospital Steward ‘fobin found Godfrey’s right ear cut through and a deep cut following the lower jaw. He took fourteen or filteen stitches to close it and both men were teken to the jail. Tobin says Robinson attempted several times to escape from the hospiial while he was d ing Godfrey’s wounds. When seen this afternoon in the jail Godirey said: “1 am unable to tell just how the affair started or wnat happened, for we had | been playing pool o G stuapind | taken a quantity of drinks, Iknow thatI was badly cat. I do not know whether the man arrested is the one who did it or not. I bave not seen him to-day.” RACING AT INGLESIDE. A Two-Year-Old Stace the Feature of the Card. Ingleside track will reopen again to-day for a two weeks' siege of racing. The card, while not above mediocrity, should fur- | nish some good sport. | The entries are as follows: First race, six fariongs, vurse. s B. and G. is purchased, from || 725 Sate cHoquor 165, 73 Gola Bug. || 728 fate,Cowoor 108 738 Gola Bes. | 475 Manchester 113| 710 » s Bell: | (681)Gutta Percha. 125 703 Logan .. | 880 Yankes Locaié 11| 719 L r-ppeat. 526 Satsuma 121 721 Miss 1 058 Necond race, 0ua and a s xteenth mi.es, selling, | three year olds. | 724 Scarvorough.._.107( 725 Rey del Tierra..107 .. Twinkle Twiak 102/ 652 Harold Lindsay 107 | 7ol Atdeus.. ... 10| 719 & 652 George Paimer.104| 714 Third race, three-f 700 Edgen our 848 Doubtful 729 Tiom Murphy €89 Ciaries A ... 713 Roadrunnier Suniise..... .. 653 Meadow Lark 78 bou Pio Pico. Fourth race, four and & haif furiongs, drous stake. valué $1300, (wo-year-olds. 1o Bianco ... 1157 648 Ct. of Fianders.113 121 726 Ch 18| 587 10 Free Ludy | 'Finth race, one and an eighth miles, se ling. +.....107| 683 Douvlé Quick. 106 106/ (711)Pers us. . 07 = 528 boyle 11 McLight. Six:h race, seven-elghths of a mile, purse. 08 Jack Hichelien.108( 710 Bellicoso. | 137 Ao 84| 727 True Blue. | 490 Wawona-. 05| 606 Aquinas. 1| 666 Grevhur: 99| (T1v)Cash Day 602 Presion. (727) Hoheuzollero. | (896)David .. L —— SELECIL:ONS FOX TO-DAY. First race—Santu bolla, Sallle Cliquot, Yankee Doodle. Second race—Rey del Tierra, George Paimer, St. Distaff, Third race—Mobal light. Fourth race—B, & W. & Niton. Fifth race—Joe Terry, Porsous, Morte ka, Thelms, Day- ble, Martha, Fonse. Sixth race—Hohenzollern, Preston, | cash Day ————————— TO CUKE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Jayative BromoQuinine Tablets. Alldrug- ists retund the woney i 3¢ falls to cute, 206 As a result the | GAGGED AND TIED WHILE IN BED Daring Robbery of Woman by Black and White Burglars. a Three Sleeping Children Not Disturbed by the Desper- ate Visitors. While the Ro' b rs Ransacked Mrs. Bost Was Bound Four Hours, Her House. OaxLAND OFrFicE S8AN FrANcisco CALy,) 908 Broadway, March 21. § Mrs. Lucy Bost, a colored woman, was found in her bed ibis morning with her bhanas and feet tied and her mouth gagged. Shé had been roughly treated, and was nearly dead with fright and ex- | haustion whnen discovered by her children. Last evening Mrs. Bost went to San Francisco with some friends. They re- turned early in the evening, and Mrs. Bost got off the train at West Oakland and visited there. She came on to Broadway late and met a gentleman friena named Turner. He offered to escort her home, and she accepted. Turner and Mrs. Bost went to her house, which is at 616 Sixth street, and as they approached they noticed a man leaving the gate. He ran off before he could be a-ked his business. -Mrs. Bost asked Turner to search the house, and he did so, but nothing suspicious was found, and he went away. “I do not know how long I had been asleep,” said Mrs, Bost when telling her story to-day, “but I t ink it was about 2 o’clock when I was awoke by a tap on the shoulder. I awoke suddenly end could see two men in the room. One of thein placed a handkercLief over my mouth and tled it tightly, and I could not utter a sound. T ey then tied my hands and feet and proceeded to rob tne house. “They found my purse and took from it all the money amountine to sixteen dol- lars and a few little pieces of jewelry, and then they searched the bureau, but evi- den:ly did not sec anything they wanted, for they took nothing but the money. While they were tying me they gave me several slaps with their hands. *My three children were asleep in the house, but they were not disturbed. After sati-fying themselves that there was nothing else left to take they went off leaving me bound and gagged.”” Mrs. Bost says that one of the men was colored and the other white. She has farnished quite 8 complete description to the police and a good clew is being fol- lowed that will probabiy result in the capture of the black ma; SAYS IT IS FALSE Richard Lloyd, Berkeley’s Marshal clares That O’'Nelll’s Afidavit Is & Lie. BERKELEY, CArL.,, March 21.—Richard Lioy., Berkeley’s Marshal, denies in toio the charges of malfeasance in office pre- ferred against him by Hugh O'Neill of the West End, as told in this morning’s CALL. He said t v that the affidavit from the hana of O'Neil! charging him with per- mitting certain_ liquor-houses to remain open after midnight contrary to law and of himself drinking a:ter midnizht with the alieged_violators is a lie from begin- ning to end. ‘he whole thing was concocted,”” said Lloyd, “with a view to having me iurned down in the coming election. It is simply a campaign lie. “The word of O'Neill is not worth the snap of your finger. He has been arrested twice recently for drunkenness and disor- derly conduct and begged for clemency both times. “The people of Berkeley know my De- record as marshal and I don’t believe this statement of O'Neil’s will bave any effect. Iam not ashamed of anything I have done while marshai, and cons quently have no apologies to make to any- one.”” Interscholastic Debate. BERKELEY, CaAn, March 21.—Ar- rangements areé being perfected for the Berkeley-Oakland interscholastic debats which is to take place in May at the Oak- land High. The question which they will discuss is the adoption of the “in- itiative and referendum’ in Califoraia. For Berkeley there have already entered in the preliminaries, which will take place April 2, G. B. Bell, Joseph Wilson, Harry Johnson, Fied Bartow, Al Matthew, Charles Finn, H. MacDonald, William_ Downer, John Beatty, W. Rich- ardson, Fred Grubb, O. Baxter, R. Meally, Fred Nelson, O. Peterson and Wallace Turner. —————— SANKEY SANG OF SUNLIGHT. The Evangelist Spoke and Introduced Some New Hymns ut the Y M. C. A, Ira D. Sankey of Moody and Sankey, evangelist and hymn writer, spoke and sang yesterday afternoon before an aundi- ence that more than filled the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. He sat much of the time at a little organ at tne front of the platform. Part of the overflow audience, occupying extra chairs, was crowded close behind him. In aloud but rather husky bass voice, im- possible of finer modulations, he led the singing, afier instructing his hearers in the music and words of several hymns new fo this coast. Among them was one just from the ven of Fanny Crosby, the aged blind hymn composer of Brooklyn, who has not seen the light of day for sevenly years. It wassomething about *Let the blessed sunlight enter,” and Mr. Sankey with a readiness for dramatic effect paused ap- propriately and had the western shades raised, letting broad bands of dazzling sunlight into a previously and pernaps purposely darkened room.~ Later, in tell- in: the story of the conversion from d runk- enness filieen years ago in his presence of the man who is to-day one of the best- known Presbyterian ministersin the Siate of Illinois—the Rev. W. O. Latimer—he insured the desired effect upon hundreds of his auditors by removing his glasses and applying ais hanckerchief to his eyes. The speaker struck a responsive chord in that assemblage as he has in thousands of others during the twenty-six years that he and Mr. Moody have traveled and spoken in the cause of Christ. He hopes during his present and last visit to California to learn of the pla where Mary Lee Demorest, hymn.wri is buried, that he may visit that srave- yard and resu the inscription on the head- stone. During his remarks Mr. Sankey said: Persons Ifke to-day to raise the question, Is the word of the Bible 10 be trusied] The mine isters ot the G.spel are sentto preach God's word, not to question its truih. There are a great many things thatwe don’t know, but there are things that we do know, and let us dwell upou those things. Your conscience knows that the word of God in 1he Book of Genesis is true. It isonly your owa stubbornness that preveats your ackuow'- edging it. How can s youne man be cleansed of h sius? The Bible says, By taking heed of Goa! word. Referring to the recent controversy over the effects of conv: r-ion Mr. Sankey said that he had not read anything that had appeared in the papers, but that he wished | to introduce a leiter lately received from a young man who had experienced imme- diate conversion in this City. In part the letter he read was as follows: When you and Mr. Moody were in San Fran- cisco in '79 or 'S0 1 was a young man in the City of San Francisco leading a wicked life. I nad twenty-five young men companions and before I left ‘there fourteen of them were in their graves, the result of riotous and fmmoral ¥ving late at night Ore night, geiting up from the gam- bling table, 1 passed aiong the in iront of the Congregational Church, and while just opposite the door I heard from the preacher within the one word, “Stop!” It i pressed me at that time and I turned and en- tered and took a back seat, & dissipated, wrecked young man. I went from thatenurch without speaking to a soul, but I was a changed mun, and now I am preacher of the gospel. 1 just mention this to show that there is such & tning as immediate conversion. Mr. Sankey will speak in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium again this evening, and to. morrow evening he will be the principal attraction at a ‘‘students’ night” to be beld at the same place, and for the pur- pose of gathering together and entertain- ing all college or school students in this City. He will be in_this part of the State several weeks and will then visit Southern California. \&F2, GeEre’ HMAIRST %, wo®er S, o AETTR T 2 - ERIC BOEGLE s s, WF T BIOLETTE @O 2600 BERKELEY, Car., March 21.—On next Tuesday the State University will cele- brate its tweniy-ninth birthday. The date of the founding of the institution will be commemorated with fitting exercises. It will be a day of rejoicing—perhaps the hap- piest of all its birthdays, because the university now stands at the dawn of its era of The golden prosperity. t year has furnishea vastly moreground for rejoicing than any other three or four years of its entire history. In the morping, beginning at 10:30, exercices will be conducted in Harmon gym- nasium; the afternoon will be given over to visiting the buildings and places f in- terest about the campus, and in the evening Professor Louis Du Pont Syle's new play, “The Chaplain’s Reveng Hall. During the morning the freshmen and sophomores will " will be presented for the first time at Shattuck 50 celebrate by hold- ing their last “rush” of tbe year somewhere on the slopes east of the campus. At the morning exerci s President Kelloge will speak for the university at large, Dr. Josepl Le Conte for the tacuity, Hon. William R. Davis for thealumniand J. O. Elston for the student body. No special invitations have been issued to the celebration, but a general one has been exterded to the public by President Kellogg. In the piay to be give niin the evening, eighteen students and instructors will be cast, prominent among whom are Instructor Frank Dunn, F. G. Bioletti, Harry H. Eric Boegle has had charge of the busine: Hirst, G. D. Kieru!ff and J. 0. Elston. management and hes succeeded in making a large sale of seats. The proceeds of the play will go the Students’ Aid Society and to the English department library, sidewalk | | REAL ESTATE MARKET REVEW No Sales of Any Great Im- ‘portance Reported Dur- ing the Week. Building Still Continues Active, Especially in the Sub- urban Districts. The Torrens Land Bill Has Bccome a Law, and Wil Take Effect in a Few Mont2s. While large sales and transfers of property are not particularly lively at the momeat, still 1tis gratifylug to note that there are enough sales of lesser magnitude being made to keep matters going and that bullaing operations are quite lively. There is no delay in work on the larger buildings now in course of construction, and these, With the new contracts now being en- tered into daily, mean employment for the skilled mechanic and the laborer and ihe placing of money where it is most needed. It looks as if San Francisco would before long become as noted as Philade!phia as a city of homes. As THE CALL has frequently re- marked, nothing conducis more o the stabil- ity and prosperity of a ciiy than the owner- ship of homes by a majority of the citizens. snarchists and rioters and boycotters are seldom found among the class of home-own- ers—among those who Liave some stake in the community, who bave something to lose. It is the other fellows, who own nothing, that re- semble Artemus Ward;, who was wiliing to sacrifice all bis wife's relatives on the altar of his country. For this, among other reasons, the man who makes it easy for his fellow citi- zens of small means fo acquire homes of their own is a public benefactor and should be en- couraged. It 15 noted that there are a good many more houses offered for rent than there have been for a number of months past, On_tne face of it this looks as if the building business had been somewhat overdone, but such does not seem 10 be the case, as the demand for desira- ble nouses keeps up very well, in_spite Of the iact that the summer is close upon us. The trutb is, as any one can ascertain who takes the troub.e to {uvestigate, that a good many of those houses which are oftered for rent are not whit mey be termed first-class. Either on ac- count of theix location or because they are old- fashioned and do not contain what are known as “‘modern improvemeuts’ they do not._come uuder the category of thoroughly desirable modern residences. REVIEW OF THE RECORDS. There were 119 deeds recorded durlng the past week. The mortgages during the same time num- bered eighiv-one and were for an aggregate of 793,612, The following were among the iring pal ones: By John Center to John Kelso, $26,612 ior one year at 7 per cent, secured by ©eight pieces of San_ Francisco_realty; by the Hibernia Bank to Moritz and Soph.e Ettinger, $5000 for one year ai6 per centon property on tne south side of Sutier street, 137:6 teet west of Webster, 52x137:6 feet; by the Mutual Saviugs Bank 10 Wiliam W. and carrle F. Redneli, £3000 for one year at 7 per cent_on property ou the north line of Hayes sireet, 125 eet east of Broaerick, 25x137:6 ieet; by the Calilornia Safe Deposit and 1rust Company to the San Franeisco and San Joaquin Coal Com- pany, $500,000 ior tweniy years at 6 per cent per annum on certain personai property and Tealty in Alameds and San Joaquin counties by the Mutual éavings Bank to Elizabeth W. Sackman, $12,000, for three years at 8 per cent, on property on the northwest corner of Sutter and Ta lor 8 treets, west 137:6 by north 1 by the Humboidi Bank to Bar lay Hen- . #6000, (0 February 6, 1898, a7 per cent, rty on the south (ine of Green street, Fillmore, east 85:9 by south y Charles Carpy io J. H.and Annie 500, for three yearsai 6 per cent, on projeriy ou’the northwest corner of Sacra- 0 and Webster streets, north 28 by west E by the Hibernia Bank to John H. Bruns, $23,000, for one year at 6 per cent, on_ properly on the southeast corner of Mission and Sixleenth streets, east 105 by south 45; by the Brickel. Estate 10 Samuei F. and Adele Le C. Adams. $25,000 for one year at7 per centou pruperiy or the south line of Calilornia, 39:2 west of Kearny, west 20, south 93:6, ¢ast 59:2, north 30:: west 392, north 63:3: from Christiau Hoff- man to M. H. Logan, $15,000 to D.cember 1899, at 6 per cent, on property on the south- west corner of Caselli avenue and Doaglass street, west 206:8 by couth 228, excepting north’ Nineteenth 151:4 west of Douglass, west 51:4 by north 114, und on the north liug ot Seward, 128:8 west of Douglass, north 89.70, west 72.37, south 55.85, easi 80:6; by the Humboldt k 10 Welraven E. J. Van Baivareen, $10,500 for one year 7 per cent on property on the southeast corner _of Sutter and Buchanan_streets, south 87:6 by east 187:6; by thé¢ Hibernis Bank 10 Caroline A. Nixon, $25,000 for one year at 6} per cent, on property on the south line of Eddy sireet, 87:6 east of Hyde, east 50 by south 137:6, and on the north 34:41¢ by west 60: by oine Borel to Adoiphe Schueider and Jules V. Breionnel, §30,000, for one year at 714 per cent, on property on the north line of Jackson, 103:134 west of Du- pont, west 34:41¢ by north 68:9,and in 100- vara block 876, on the west cornerof Freelon ani Fourth, uorthwest 30 by southwest 8 by Charles F. Crocker to Wiliam F. McNu $20,000 for 1wo years five monihs and nin teen days, from March 17, 1897, at 7 per cent, on_property on the nor:h liue of Sutter, 120 eastof Van Ness avenue, enst 86 by north 120, The releases were fourteen in number and were for & total of §223.350. Among them were the following: From John Center and George S, Crim to Anne McMenamin and John J. and Bernard A. Tracy, $12.500 on property atthe southwest corner of Harrison and Sev. enteenth streets, south 285:1% west 184:6, west 21:4, northwest 293, east 123:13(; trom the Hibernia Bank to Hurry M. Heinaman, 86000 on yroperty on the morih line of Elild street, 84 feet west of Polk, 33 by 120 feet irom the Pacific Loan Asociation to A. Kron- berg, $6000 on property in Western Addition block 432, 0n the north line of Turk street, 2106 west of Pierce, west 38 by north 137: irom the Crocker Estate Companv to the Cas. tro-street Land Company, $151,875 ou 166.40 acres in the San Miguel ranch. NEWS ITENS. The Torrens land biil hus become a law of the State: Fiith avenue from California street to Point Lobos avenue is being graded and macada- wized. Clay street between Montgomery and San- some, is to be paved with bitumen. The Supervisors will soon take action for the establishing of a schoolhouse west of Castro street. The members of the School Committee of the Board of Supervisors recentiy visited the district for the purpose of considering the advisability of the exact location of the new scuool. Tlie site, however, his not yet been decided upon, but the Supervisors ha pressed _their ' intention of giving t! their eatly consideration, On Sixth ayenue, between Californin and Clement streeis, a cotiage house to cost $1600 isshortly to be built by Mrs. Georgeson. . B. de Pus Intends building a $2000 dwell- ing on Fis lot on Seventh avenue, between Point Lobos avenue and Clement street. During the next few weeks Miss Sophia Swancon will commence the buiiding of $2500 house on Fifth avenue, between Cali- jornia and Clement streets. A two-story brick and terra-cotta building is to be erected by Joseph Getz on Stockion street, between Ciay and Sacramento, and ad- joining the Chinese consulaie. The structure will cover the whole lot, 55x69 feet, and will contain four stores with rooms above. Thomas J. Welsh is the architect. . P. Riordan intends building & two-story and bisement residence, to cust §9500, on the west 1ine of C.ayton street, between Frederick and Walier. The designs are by W.J. Cuth- bertson. F. Endrich is having plans compiled for & pretty cottage-houre on Van News avenue, be- tween Bay aud Francisco streets. Joseph Hoene has let & contract for the buiding of 1wo flats on the west lins of La- guna streef. 112:6 feet south of Page. They will cost 50 to complete. James M Hugh s to put up a two-story frame buiiding o0a the east line of Kentucky street, between Solano. and Butte, to cost 8125¢ Some aiterations and additions are to be H. W. Tacker. ou the made in the premises of The Soft Glow of the Tea Rese is acquired by ladies who use Poszonr’s CompLExION PowpER. Try it. 9 north line of Green street, 175 feet west of Buchanan. Charies F. Mueller isabout to erect & two- story building {0 cost $2400 on the west line of Tenth avenue, 244 :6 feet north of Clement. Plans haye beeu compiled for a two-story {rame buiiding, arranged in dlats. to be built by Mrs, L. Sirauss on the north line of Green street, 78:8 feet west of Montgomery avenue. Contracts have been let ior the painting of the new building ou the northwest corzer of Sansome and Halleek streets. A one-story brick building is to be built by T. D. Herzog ou the east line of Parkeravenue, ninety feet north of Ciay street, to cost $1275. Plaus for & new hospital building .or St Luke's huve been prepared. The site will® be the present one—Valencia near Twenty-fifth, but time for the beginning of work has not yet been decided upou. The plans show & group of four buildings, with two in the rear, in_ail occup:ing an aréa of 250 feet square. The buildings will be three stories high, except the main building, which wils be four stories high. They are 1o be of brick, with terra cotta roofs and stone foundations. Richmond district 18 to have a new school- house on Seventh avenue, between Clement and California streets. Three new houses are in course of construc- tion in the Mission five-mile district. They are to be the homes of some of those house- holders whose property was recently de- stroyed by fire. On_the north side of Francis street near Mission, Fred Munk is having a five-room cot- tage erected. M. Wetter is rebuiiding oo his lot on the uorth side of Franeis, near Mission. Louis Wetter is rebuilding on Cook strect near Mission. Work on the grading for the site of the new Mission High School at Eightesnth and Do- 1ores strects was resumed last week. A committee from the Sunuyside Improve- ment C.ub wiil appear before the Board of Ed- ucation next Wednesdy nignt to_urge the erection of a schoolhouse in the Sunnyside distriet. Fous [ots at the corncr of Ford avenue and Edna street were dovated to the City about WO years ago in cousideration of the erection thereon of & schooihouse before July 1, 1896. This proved im possible, nowever, as the Board of Education did not have sufficfent mouey in the fund, Ty enable the purchase of the property at the corner of Jeckson and rillmore sireets the tiustees of the Cuivary Church bave applied for permission o morigege their present Premises on Geary street, near Powell A petition is at present being circulated among the property-owners on the south of the park district requesting the Supervisors to order Nineteenth avenue opened from K street to the Ocean House road. Charles M. Pope, M. J. Keller and Mr. Conklin of the Sunset Heights Improvement Club are obtaining sig- natures to the petition, aud already prop-rts- owners representing a frontage of about 80,000 feet throughout the district have signed the roil. In the petition it is asked thatthe ave- nue be graded to the official line and the monumeuts at the street crossings long the route put in, all of which work suall be paid for by the Cit; They claim’that they pay s big percentage of the City’s taxes and ihat the opening of this avenue at tue expense of the City is fustly due ‘their dlstrict, a8 it will greatly nefit the entire section south of the garh Were this work completed in all probability the Market-street Railwey Company would continue its tracks from Ingleside along Nine- teenth avenue (o the park or extend,the J- street road to Ingleside. The proparty at the southaast corner of Mnson and Broadway has been sold for $10,- 000. The lot is 53:6368:9 feet. The impiove- ments consist of the old Miles Sweeney place. Cnristian Branagan end Joseph Kluber are the purchasers. The Liberty Improvement Club was organ- ized during the past week. The prime object of this new association is to formulate a plan of action to raise funds for the coming iight for the present Sanchez-street grade betore the Supervisors. A petition circular is now being prepared by the club to b: sent to all the projerty-owners in_the district snowing that the cutiiug of the Sanchez-street grade would necessitate lowering the grades of all other streets in that section. The Excelsior, College, Spring Valley and Homestead tracts have asked the Associated Improvement Clubs to co-operate in an en- deavor to have tue pound limits extened. The Fairmount Club hus petitioned the Associated Improvement Clubs for assistance in huviog street work done in the Fairmount district. The Sixth-street merchaats decided at a re- cent meeting 1o request the Market-street Ruiroad Company to issue transfers from the Post-street line at Tenth and Howard streets, permitting passengers to ride east-or west on the Howard-street system. In the course of [wo months more the work of leveling, sewering and sidewalking the streets througiout the tract of land in Rich- moud until recentiy occupied by tne Bay Dis- trict racetrack will be completed. The prop- erty will then, probably, be put on the market for sale. Seventh avenue, from California to Lake street, is being graded. When the grading operationsare compieted the street will be macadamized and si.ewalks laid thereon. The Supervisors are to be petitioned to have the official grades established 1n the disirict east of Fol:om sireet to the San Bruno road, and from Army south to Cortland avenue, jons will also be filed for the grading of Alabama street irom Ripley to Caliiornia ave- nue; California avenue from Aiabama to Rosencranz; Rosencranz from California Powhattan; Powhattan from Rosencrauz to Ne- braska, and for the sewer and grading of Nur- wich ifom Foisom to_Alabama as well as for the sewering and grading of Wolf street from Powhattan 1o Isubell: The recent rains e placed many of the sidewalks in the Presidio Heights section in almost impassable condition. The lack of bulkheads in various localities has occasioned the damage and the Presidio Helghts Improve- ment Club ata meeting during the past week appointed & committes from their organiza- tion to call upon the Superintendent of Streets atan early dateand report to him the need of bulkheads throughout the district. The residents of Suanyside are anxious for an outlet from their district to the Mission road. At present there is no means of reach- ing either the San Jose or tue Mission road ex- cept Ly a roundubout journey of over two miles.” The vegetable gardens at present block tue route of & more direct line of travel be- tween the points, and a committee, consist:ng of members of the Sunnyside Improvement Club, has been appoin ted to lonk over the land with a view of estublishing some more direct route. Their suggestions wili then be offered to the Supervisors, who will be requested to condemn the old right-of-way for a_shorter route between Sunnysiae and the San Jose and the Mission roads. The Board of Supervisors has been petitioned by tne Draymeu and Teamsters' Upion to rescind the order declaring Van Ness avenue a public boulevard. The petitioners state that the avenue is the only highway upon which heavy traffic can be carried on between the water front & oug East street, the Presidio, Fulton Iron Works, Lombard-street gas works and Black Point. ‘Owing to the steep grade of the other streets leading to the northwest por- tion of the Cily, tuey declare that they are impassable. Several ladies in the southwest Misslon dis- trict organized during the past week an im- provement ciub which will have for its objects and purposes tne tame end as all other im- provement clubs—the advancement of realty and buiiding interests. The new organization will be known as the West of Castro Street Fortuightly Club, and the membership will be confined to residents of Noe Valley. Mrs. C. E. Osgood has been elected president. Residents of the southwest Mission district are anxions to have the San Mateo Electric Ratlway extend its track from Thirteenth and Mission _streets to Cortiand svenue, and thence on Cortland svenue to the San Bruno road. A committee from the Holly Park and Mission-strcet Improvement Club recently calied upon the officers of the reilroad, and as the right of redemption of the old corporation will expire next month, no definile arranige- ments will be mace by the company for tue exiension of its lines until after that time. Residents of the Fairmount disirict want the grade of certain streets in their territory modified. At a recent meeting of the Fair- mount Improvement Club a committee was chosen to formulate plans for street work in the disirict. The grada of Dismond street. from S.uthern Pacific to Chenery, is claimed 1o demand lessening and the Palmer-street sewer property counected. The Assoc.ated Improvement Clubs are to be requestea by the residents of the Fair- mount district 1o take up the matter of graa- ing, macadamizing snd curbing Chemery street. GATHERED FROM BROKERS. Two hunared and fifty acres of tbe Murphy- Colombat rauch at Perry's station, twelve miles below 8an Jose, have been placed in the hands of Shamwald, Buckbee & Co. for sale in five and ten acre lots. Charles J. Campbell & Co. will hold an suc- tion sale on March 29. A lot of speculative or improvement prop- erty will be offered at auction on Tuesday, March 80, by Easton, Eldridge & Co. It will iuc.ude the foliowing pieces: On the north- west line of Howard street, 100 feet northeast of Sixih, a lof having 100 ‘feet iront and ex- tending’ back 160 feet to Natoma sireet, Auction Sales RESTAURANT. THIS DAY (MONDAY) AT 2 P. Msy 21 NINTH ST,. NEAE MARKET. FRANK W. BUTTERFIELD. Auctioneer. 602 Market Street. owned by Emil Kehrlein; a filty-vara lot on the soutbeast corner of Van Ness #venue and Francisco street, as an entirety or in five iots of 27:6 by 123 ‘each; the_triangle on Moni~ gomery avenue, Taylor and Houston streeis; & fot, 32:6 by 100, on_the southwest_cormer of Pofnt Lobos and Ninth avenues; a iot, 108 by 132, 0n tie northwest corner of C street and Teuth ayenue; a iot,,70 by 120, 0n_the west line of Tweniy-seventh avenue, 265 south of Poiut Lobos avenue; a lot, 32:6 by 100, on the souibeast corner of Point Lobos ad Tenth avenues, and a lot on the ocesn bonlevard, 100 feet south of R street, facing 100 feet on the east line of Forty-eighth avenue and ex- t=nding 240 feet to Forty-seventh avenue. A. M. tpeck & Co. will offer the following properties at public auction on the 25th inst.s Lot and improvements on_the south line of Hayos street, %7 :6x120 to_ Linden avenue, be~ ing 165 west o Lupuna ntreet; 10:50x80 and two stores and four flats at 858 to 864 Folsom street, near Fifth, rents $126; northeast cor- ner o! Twenty-fourth anu Suotwell streets. lot 50x90, three stores, two flats and four houses, lot 75x137:6 aud thirteen flats at 7 sireet, near Buchanan, rents $184; iot 20x120 and w0 flats and cot- ge at 1625 Pine and 220 Austin street, near Van Ness avenue; lot 54:2x120 to rear sireet and two flats & 410 Page sireet, near Buchanan; lot 20x114 and five-room cottage #t 535 Jersey street, near Castro; lot 25x 137:6 and improvements at 919 Goiden Gate avenue, near Octavia street; ot 62:6x90 on vest line o1 Valenc a street, 107 west « f Twen- 0t 18:9x60 on south line of Bre . 16716 east of Taylor street; lot 25x13' on horth line of Union street, 112 eastof Plorce. On Monday, 20th instant, G. H. Umbren & Co. will offer &t public auction & ot of choice property tor the ececount of several estates, be- sides & 1w pieces ior private acconnt. Belopg- g to the estate oif B, F. Tibbeits are house of 8 rooms und ot 25x87:6, at 2 Fiibert street; also lot 25x112:6 on Filber: eastof Steiner. There hree pieces belong- ing to the estate ol Greeuham, including two-siory house et 916 Harrison street. with lot 2180; also iot adjoining, 28:11x80 and two-story house; lot 25x80 aud ihree- story house a1 215 Ciara street. Belonging to the estate of Daniel Mullen are two houses of 9 rooms each, and lot 34:4x137:6 ot 315317 Goiden Gate ave'e; also double house of 6 rooms each and lot 26:6x70, at_ 457-459 Sievenson; also lot 25x137:6, on Ouk, west of Devisadero; also lot in Ocesun View. Be- longing to the estate of A. W. Bode are three iront flats and a rear house and lot 27x110, at 175) Howard; slso lot 2570 on Braunan, Southwest o, Fourth. Otaer parceis 10 be offered are: Southwest corner «f Market and Tweufth, store and flats, 10t 25:11x90; north- west corner Twelfth and Stcyen on; coitage And iwo-story house, lot 75x75:11; 10t 137 :6x 120 and seven {wo'story nouses at 815-827 Turk, near Gough. Von Rhein & to. will hola an_suction sale of clty property-on the Gth of next month. G. L. Bresse & Co. report the foliowing re- cent sales: A 100 25x100 on the sou: b line of HIl} street, between Noe and Sanchez, for $900, and & lot 25x120 and flais on the —outh side of Pine streei, between Webster and Fili- moe, or $7500. J. J. Rhorbach was the seller aud George Braun the purchaser in the latter instance. ‘The following sales hove recently been cf- fected by Bovee, Toy & Sonntag: A house of eleven rooms and a lot, 35 by 122 at 1309 Waller street, near Masonic avenue, for §7500; alotoa the north side of Page street. 122, west of Devisadero, 26 by 110, for $3300; a int, 84 by 137:6, on the west line of Fi imore street, 192:6 north of Lombard, for 8620 house of niue rooms a:nd a lot, 47:6 by 127:6, on the south line of § cramenio_street, 92:6 Wwest of Lyon, for §3850; & lot, 24 by 60, on the south line of Giuver street, 6 west of Jones, for $2200; a lot, 35 by 137:6, on the south'line o Valiejo street, 160 ens' of Frank- lin, for §3000; & house and a lot, 40 by 137:6, on the soutn fine of Green sireli, 137:6 west of Buchanan, for $7200; & lot, 25 by 120, on the west xide'of Tentn uvenue, 50 leet north of California street, for $800. Jacob Heyman will begin the erection of & four-room and* bath cottage in & few days on Nevada avenue, near Co-tiand avenue. He has disposed of & lot 30x114 feet ou the north side of Duncan streei, 240 ive. west of Sancnez, and of three 1018 on the souch side of Alvarado Street, 175 feet westof Hoffman avenue, in the Heyman tract. The other buildings now in progress in the Heyman iract are us follows: A neat five-room cottage on the west of line o Dougiass street, 5016 feetsouth ot Aivarado; & five-room houss on’ the north side of Twenty-third street, 175 teet west of Douglass, aud & cottage on the north side of Alvarado street, 300 feet west of Douglass. COULDN'T FIND The PEA, How a San Frarccisco ¢ port Was Swindled at Carson by a Faker. There is one man—and a well-known one—of this City who will fight shy of the suave and biand sure-thing gambler the next time he attends a prizefight, and will run as the deer when a pea-and-shell game heaves in sight. George F. Khrenpfort of Rothehild & Ehrenpfort, the candy manufacturers, is a good sport, aud he never misses a fight that is worth seeing. So it was that he journeyed to Carson with a portly wallet and many anticipations of a royal battle between the aspirants for the fistic championship. He did not contemplate an encounter with ‘the tiger himself, but he had one, and his friends are making merry at his expense. Ehrenpfort landed in Carson the day before the fight, and, alter engag- ing quarters at many good hard doilars per hour, staried out to see the sights. He had not gone far before the festive pea- and-shell faker met his eye, and the meet- ing was fatefui for Ehrenpfort. He had never seen the game becaus: its day had waned in San Francisco befors the candyman’'s appetite for pugilism awoke, and he tarried to witness the lay. D Aymnn who looked as though he hailed from Pumpkinville, but who, of conrse, was the “capper,” bet the faker $20 that the pea was under a certain shell. It goes without saying that he lost. Ebrenpfort was sure that he had seen where the elusive vegetable had gone and quickly ptacing bis hand over another shell to make certain that the pea wasnot spirited away, he dug up a double eagle and wagered the gambler that he was right. Of course the pea was not there, but Ehrenpfort was sure he could *'gu again’’ and bet $50 the next throw. This followed the first contribution to the iaker's ‘'roll,” but the sport’s bood was up and he did not stop hunting that pea at $50 a hunt umtil he was cleaned out and $400 had been transferred to the gambler's pocket. Then Ehrenpfort was sorry, but it did not help him any, for while he was con- sidering whether to thrash the faker or call the police the man who stole his money emulated tbe Arapand stole away. Luckily Eurenpfor’s commercial was well known to a large number of th in the prize-fight town, and he was easily able to raise enough funds to get home, & sadder and wiser man. And it is said that “there were others.” Dr.Gibbon’s Dispensary, 625 KEARNY ST. Established 11 1854 foF the treatment of Privats Disexses, Lost Maohood, Debility or disease wearing on bodyand mind and Skin Diseases. I'he doctor cureswhen Carengsiaruntcsd. Calorvrie: ranteed. Callorw P: GABBON. Bex 1957 Saa Francisoa nfitness to Marry, Exhaust ipation. Tt staps all losses ness dl!chnt: o PIDENE strength d restos 'hmfleu?n:"ukmmn. cu ens an: o o mot oured by Doclors is beciuse Hine BEFORE ano AFTER 1ljthehor ‘The reason ol t h—-’llll-. cfv{ifim:fimy tee given and maney return e 4.0, by mall "Bend for FATE circuldr and testimoniaLs 2 box, six TLBIcE ifnot b “CUPIDENE" e ner- t Mauhood, 5 ricoc-le and g revents quick. CUREDENE oleanses thollver, thd all imparities. per cent are troubled to cure without un operation. 5000 testimont ed {f six boxes does not L & permanent cure. mpotency. Address DAVOL MEDIVINE CO,, 1170 Market street, San Francisco, Cal. For sal KY PHARMACY, 119 l’v'dlfi'fl'"