The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1897, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1897 WILL BEAR ANY TRAFFIC Unusual Activity Displayed by the Southern Pacific Company: THE HEAVIEST SPECIFI- CATIONSIN THE WORLD Six New Steel Bridges Built During the Past Year Within the State. MANY OTHER BIG PLANS OF IMPRCVEMENT. Twenty New Locomotives Purchased and Everything on Wheels B:ing Repaired. California within the past year acquired thedistinction of baving within its borders 2 number of bridges built from the heav- iest specifications ever used. in the United States, and this means in the world. Toey were put up at various points on one at the first crossine and another at the fourth crossing. Each of these is a single span of 208 feet. Prosser Creek, between Truckee and Reno, is crossed with a viaduct 200 feet in length, consisting of four spans. One of the most picturesque structures may be seen i Niles Canyon, about four miles from Niles, stretched across Ala- meda Creek, Itiscomposedof two spans, | one 200 feet lon: and the other 100 feet. The longest of the entire number may be viewed near McConnell station, on the road- between Stockton and Sacramento. It crosses the Cosumnes River, consists of eight spans of fifty feet each, and rests ou iron‘cylinder piers. 1n the latter par- ticular this bridge differs from all the others, which reston cut granite piers. _ The estimated cost of bridges of this character is about §20 a foot. As the ag- gregate number of feet in the siructures specified is 1476, it will be seen t.at an expenditure of nearly $120.000 was ‘in- volved in their construction. Between Los Angeles and Indio, sev- enty miles of track were relaid with sev- enty-five-pound steel rails, in place of fifty- pound and sixty-pound riils, and this sec- tion of the line was also thoroughly bal- lasted. The cost of this work was in tue neighborhood of $3v0,000. In the company’s shops at Sacramento the working force is now at high tide, the | pavroll for March showing more than | 2000 names upon it. as General Manager Krutischnitt puts it, repairing everything on wheelsin expecta- tion of a heavy wheat crop to be moved the coming season. Among other things some 150 boxcsrs that have suffered in wrecks at various times and places are being rebuilt. G The most important addition to the equipment will be twenty very large new locomotives, with 20x20° cylinders, each locomotive with tender weighing 112 tons and having 63-inch driving-wheels. They will be used for both passenger and freight business, and will be distributed over the i tem of the Southern Pacific Company. Ten of these have practically been delivered, and the entire number will be ready for service by July. These cost an average of about $10,000 each. General Manager Krutischnitt states that this activity is dispiayed in anticipa- tion of a very heavy freight movement during the coming fall, as the result of | increa‘ed prosperily under the new Re- | publican regime. In Niles Canyon, Over Alameda Creek. the Soutnern Pacific Company’s lines, in pursuance of the policy of each year replacing a certain number of wooden bridges with the best modern mild steel siructures. This course is taken not only with refer- ence to this State, but along all its lines. Between Los Angeles and New Orleans, .a distance of 2008 miles, there are to-day but three wooden spang, though there are on the Soutbern Pacific Railroad, between the points named, ot less than two kun- dred briages. Other big plans of improvement have also been carried out during the past year in the matter of equipment, both as to lo- comotives and cars. No less than six modern and expensive steel bridges were constructed during 1896, The material for these 1s what is known as mild steel in contradistinetion to toal steel. ‘Mild steel has the greater ductile property, and will bend ra‘her than break undergreat weight. All of these struc- tures are designed to carry locomotives | weighing 260 tons each, followed by a | train weighing two tons to the linear foot. All the work of putting up the structures was done by the men employed in the miaintenance of wav department under the supervision of W. G. Curtis, engineer of that department. The material was shaped on specitications furnished by the Southern Pacific Company. One of tbe new bridges crosses Cache Creek ' on the west side line near Wood- land. This is a span of 160 feet. Two of them bridge the Truckee River— NEW TO-DAY. 'BLOOD AND SKIN HUMORS Afflicting a Whole Family. Speedily Cured by CUTICURA. Statements Sworn to Before the Clerk ‘of the Supreme Court. 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We tried several remedies which only aggravated them, before we the use of the CUTICURA remedies, in which case there was a complete cure with no return of the disease. - A.A.MCLARTY, J.P., Winn, Ga. Sworn to and subscribed before me this twenty-sixth day of November, 16%. (L.8] RB.E.JAMES, Clerk Supr. Court. SrExbY CorE TaE£TuENT for Every Kind of Blood ‘and Bkin Humor. — Warm baths with Coricuxa SoAr, gentle spplications of CUTICURA (ointment), the grest skin cure, and mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures, cure when l eise fuils. p Sold throughout the world. PorrzeD. &C.Cour.,Sols Prope., Boston. &~ How to Cure Skin Humors,” free. BABY'S SKIN *e25:a B Eusset god pose tiied by CUTICURA BoAF. [ | MIKING MEN ARE ALERT Looking Sharply After the Min- eral Land Bill Pending in Congress. An Agent Appointed to Stir the Miners to the Necessity of Sub- scr b ng to Em-rgency Fund. A called meeting of the execntive com- mittee of the California Miners’ Associa- tion was held last evening at the Union League Club to talkiover the mineral land bill. Julian Sonntag withdrew his resig- nation ae secretary upon the earnest.re quest of President Neff. The president and secretary were by motion added to | the committee appointed by the last con- | vention to confer with the United States Dabris Commissioner and the secretary was‘instructed to write to the commission that such committee had been appointed. 8. K. Thornton was appointed to visit all the mining counties of the State and to urge upon the miners the necessity of subscrtbing toward the fund for the carry- ing on of the work of the association. | Tirey L. Ford, in speaking of the min- eral land bill, said he had reason to hope that it would 'pass, but that our Senatars and representatives should be instructed to devote their attention toward securing its passage In behall of California alone, as otherwise the opposition 10 it would be strengthened. The motion was adopted. Mr. Ford paid an earnest -iribute to the members of- the late Legislature.. He said that body had .favored more wholesome mining legislation than any other two or three legislatures. He said this, the first mining State in the country, had laborea under more bad laws than any other State and was the last to adopt reasonable regu- lations, and the present Legisiature at { the session just closed had seen the errors and corrected many of them. ‘“They did all we asked of them acd did it witha zest,” d Mr. Ford. He mentioned Judge Boward, chairman of the Committee on s ines, as conspicuous in the good work, . ——————— The only living person who has written overa librettos in four ianguages 1s the Queen of Koumania. She has produced librettos in French, German, Swedish and Roumarian. e ———— JEWELRY store, 5-7 Third. removed to 208 Keaurny, Large stock of diamonds, watches, otc. The men-are busy, | ALSIP WAS VICTIMIL Why Attorney E. M. Mor- gan May Have Fled in Such Haste. CONCERNED IN AN UGLY SCHEME. Alsip - Thought Himself Father of a Nameless Child. the SOME DOCTORS MIXED UP IN THE AFFAIR. | The Capitalist Bled to the Extent of Thousands—The Foundling in the Case. Over Cache Creek, Near Woodland. { When Attorney Edward M. Morgan | shook the dust. of this City from nis feet | the cause of his action was unknown. | But a story has now leaked out in which |itis allezed that Morgan took to flight | because Edwin K. Alsip, real estatedealer | and capitalist, a victim, assumed the role | of avenger. Alsip’s story is theold one of a man who strayed into forbidden paths. He was made to believe that he was the father of | Eugenie Flora Howell's child, and it is | stated that the belief cost him nearly | $15,000. | Astold by Mrs. Margaret Morgan, the | diverced wife of the man accused of the | conspiracy and biackmail,. who lives at 1617 Tay!lor street, the story is as follows: Eugenie Flora Howell, fresh from an Eastern college, came to San Francisco in ‘MIIL‘!L 1894. She was only 21 years of age, and a beautiful girl. TUufortunately for nerself and him she met Edwin K. Alsip waile attending a church in the Mission. He became vio- lently infatuated, and the resuit was Miss Howell’s downfall. Fearing that she was in a condition which would soon betray her, in Septem- ber, 1894, the unfortunate girl called on a doctor who resides on O'Farrell street for medical advice. He was told the girl's tory and passed it on to Morgan, who was an intimate friend. Morgan offered the girl a refuge in his house until her troubie was a thing of the past. She gladly consented and went to live under his roof. “In due time,” said Mrs. Morgan ‘*‘the girl discovered that her condition was not what she thought, but Morgan persuaded her that her future devended entirely upon making Alsip pay for her support anvhow. “Her doctor and Morgan;then induced another doctor to go to the City and County Hospital and select a ten days’ old iniant resembling Alsip in the color of — its hair and eyes. The baby was taken from the hospital by a woman to her home on Hayes street. It was then taken to Morgan’s home by himself in a closed carriage. “‘One of the doctors then assisted in the operrtion of injecting strychnine into Miss Howell’s veins, the purpose being to make her look vpale and ill. The baby was placed by her'side and Alsip ent Tor. “Alsip fell Teadily into the meshes of the plal. He suggested that the little one be given the name of Eugene Jorgen- | sen, the surname beine tbat of his mother before her marriage. From tbat time on Morgan bled him continuousiy, and of the large sum he got it is said that Miss Howell received onlv about $400.” In August, 1896, Mrs. Morgan, who had procured a divorce from her 'husbani went to Alsip and told him all. He vestigated tbe tale, fouhd it true, 2nd im- mediately descended upon Morgan with fire in Lis eye. g _Being short of ready cash, he had given his notes for $7000 dyring the year 1896, and the return of tnese was first de- manded. They had been discounted, and it was in order to redeem them that Mor- gan was forced to extremitie not procure enough, and as Alsip was im- rtunate in nis demands he 1s said to ‘e sought safety in fight. - He could |- | In December, 1854, iss -Howell re- turned to her Eastern -home, where it is said she is now married and leading a re- spectable life. The foundhng child is in ths care of . Carberry, Morgan's cousin, who has grown to love it dearly. The 'doctor chiefly involved was seen at his office yesterday, but he bad no com- ment whatever to make. The matter, he said, was one of a professional character, and he would not discuss it at all unles: ordered to do so in court, & e g MR. ALSIP’S VERSION. He Admits That He Was Vic- timized. SACRAMENTO, Car., March 31.—Ed- win K. Alsip admitted to a Bes reporter to-day that the story that he had been a victim of blackmail t the hands of Attor- ney Edward M. Morgan was in the main true, He admitted having had guilty relations with Eugenie Flora Howell, and that he bad promised to care for her child. Morgan, he said, demanded $50,000 from him. Herefused to give it, and the laywer threatened to bring suit. £ He then told his ‘wife of his troubles, and she advised him not to be ‘black- mailed. In all he admits having paid out $2350. He discovered that he was the victim of a conspiracy first through AZtorney Reel Terry. He says further that his mother's maiden name was Janell and that he did not suggest the name Jorgen- sen for the child. Some of his notes are yet out, but with them and the money already paid he wouid not have suffered to the extent of much more than $6000. The woman in the case has made an affidavit to him, he says, that Morgan induced her toenter the conspiracy. AMONG THE ATHLETES, Pacific Coast Amateurs Wili Stand by Union Rules. Amateur Clubs Must Not Encourage Professionalism of Any Kind The Pacific Coast Amateur Athletic As- sociation held a very interesting meeting last evening in one of the compartments of the Olympic Club. The first matter discussed was the cham- pionship swimming tournament, which will be held at the Lurline Swimming Baths April 20 and 21. It was stated that in all events lLandsome medals will be given, viz., a old medsl for first, a gold and silver for second and asilver for third, provided three or more contestants will participate in the contest. No eptry will be received after April 14.and all entries wust conform to the amateur rules as re- gards registration. An entrance -fee of §1 for each event wiil be charged, but this sum will be re- funded to all bona-fide siarters. All com- munications should be addressed to O. L. Sweet, the swimming commissioner of she Lurline baths. Mr. Humphrey, president of the asso- ciation, stated thiat there was not aniota of factin the published article that the Pacific Association was seriously thinking of withdrawing from the Amateur Ath- latic Union. Mr. Humphrey also thought that the registration rule as imposed by the A. A. U. was an excelient move in the right direction, as by registration a card of identification would be given to every bona-fide amateur athlete, admitting hi: into any game held by any club which is a member of the union. It was rumored tbatthe University of California bad conciuded to resign from the P. A. A., but its representative who attended the meeting evening said that there was no truik in the report. The members of the P. A. A. did not deny the fact that they were in favor of the establishment of a Western union or association, provided it cou!d be governed by strictly amateur ruling, as then the moneys accruing from the clubs would assist very materially to support the games held west of the b: The championship g on May 1, and the annual convention will | be heid on May 14, at the Reliance Club in Oaxland. According to a letter that was received vesterday at the Olympic Club from the secretary of the Multnomah Ciub of Port- land, Or., Charles F. Kreling of the Olympic has been matched to wrestie F. Greenland of the Multnomahs in Port- land on the evening of April 15, best two in three falls cateh ch-can. e e Did Not Faver the Bill, The central committee of Section San Fran- cisco, Soctalist Labor party, at a meeting on Tuesday evening passed resolutions repudiat- ing any interest in or advocacy of Assembly bill No. 385, entitled “A bill for an act to give employment to the unemployed and for the punishment of vagrants.” Where the Central Pacific Railroad Makes Its Fourth Crossing of . the Truckee River. FIRST OF THE MONTH IN DRESSs GOODS! Some typleal “Halo Values” here to-day. All new. 21°¢ BLACK FRENCH SERGE, new, a1l pure wool, 34 inch, for vaca- tion skirts. Hale's price. . Yard SPECIAL SALE_We ‘ofter two 300 lines of our 50c suitings lu new < spring coloriugs for e Yand SPECTAL SALE—The immense popularity of our 75¢, Hbc and 90c Spring Suitings bas lets many broken colorlines. A sale 50° of these . Yard BLACK _FI - DINES, largo gesigns and sl Qo new 44-inich, a fad at a reason- 2 able price. At Hale Yard NEW FOULARD '&—)c Yara NEWGROSDE LONDRE SILKS, ()0 “all colors. for waists, 19 Inches O¢ wide. Hale's price. . . Yacd NEW FOULARD the lat- esttad for wals, some very 4QC stylish patterns’ on dark grounds. Hale's price. .. Yara WRAP DEPARTMENT. SEPARATE SKIRTS, the new college checks,thoronghly lined with percadne and velyet d elsewhere at §5, @350 alterations free. = Each * $a50 utifully. Hale'sprice. Each L. OUR 85 JACKET—A leader at Hales, tan covert cloth, 3 silk lined, ‘an_excep.10nal1 ‘1iobby facket, the most popular jacke: wesell. Hale's price $5:%0 Eacn LADIES' TAN COV¥RT CLOTH SUITS, fly front jacket, skirt (u/7.50 lined and bound, perfect fit, O § — sizes 34 to 4U. Hale's price.... 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Made on this Coast of the best wool in the world— “once-a-year ciip’ of se:ected superior quality— Absolutely perfect in bound in heavy ribbon silk detail. ards by 88 inches, § pound.. 39 yards by 88 inches. 10-pound. $10.00 pair All pur: white, beautifu! fleece, rich borders and white siik tape bound. PART WOOL BLANKE TS—Our Celebrated 65x 78 inch Wool Blanxet, actual scale weight 433 | lbs. Hale's price— $3.45 Pair. HALE'S LEADER—Could be soid as an Allwool Bianket, but It is a little loss than 10 per cent cotton, the balance pure wool, good ‘size and welght. Hale's price— $3.90 Pair. WHITE WOOL BLANKE 90 per cent wool, 5-1b_weight, s, a beautiful blanket. for the money Hale’s price— $4 50 Pair. DOMESTICS. 1374 yards of BLEACHED PILLOWCASE MUS- LIN, all short ends, 54 inches wide. It is & better muslin than any sold at 12%sc. Very special— 9c Yard. INDIGO BLUE CALICOES. 34 wide. A special e ai— 4c Yard. (Notover 20 yards to & customer.) TWO SNAPS IN NOTIONS. HANDKERCHIE cards, no two alike, retali pi Your pick from the Lot to-day ai— 1625c Each. (Fine Swiss-embroldered, solid and open work.) LADIES' WHITE K1D BELTS, 114 inches wide, new harness buckle, for shirl waists. A DOY- eity at Hale's for— 25¢c Each. 000000000000 'S, 200 1mporters’ ~ | FIRST OF THE MONTH_IN | HOSIERY! Hale's California Stores import Hosiers dircct. Only one profic between.you and the maxer. MISSES BL SCHOOL neod darn- double toe, At Hale's Hoster. i [ BLACK CORDUROY R D STOUKINGS, an excep: tonally extra heav ki t r le: At Hae's Hosier) Patr ote Wil main Good SUNDAY” e 6o » beantirel A i | 20 1 Hoslery Sale fo. - Pair | BLACK COTTON HOS| Che Kind tha wear, & b faiole tee and donbls neel 123 s Tatr LADIES BIACK imported 1rom Hermsdort _dye. heels, doubte sole and Lo 25c. At Hale's Hoslery S worth LADIES FRENCH LISLE oz sold Hale's Hosiery 3 : | e call pacticuiar attoption to this stock- ng. ler LADIES' BLACK COMTON HOS. white foot, LADIFS' COTTON IO! will sell our 50c stock lizht or heavy welghts at the saie (nis week 6Y2x9 figure itout. At Hale’s for 4 BROOMS—Fine for cracks and corner-. Al Hale’s, HUED TOLAND'S TIHTS He Must Expose the Contour of His Limbs Next Week. And Like Cissy Fitzgerald He Remon. strated With His Manager, Who Proved Hard-Hearted. Hugo Toland has discovered that the lot of an actor 1s by no means a state of per- petual bliss. His agony is caused by a pair of tights—of course, his own tights— which Manager Belasco -insists he must wear next week in the new play, “Wild QOats,’”’ which calls for the Directoire cos- tume of the French Revolution. It is not that the good-looking actor is fearful lest he might not be able to fill any air of tights that might be brought to im, but be fears that he may not fill them beantlfully, or, rather, too well, after the manner of the plump garlic sausages which delight theeye in the pork- shops of the Latin quarter. Hence the sensitive embonpoint of his nether limbs shrank from the publicity to be given to their adiposity. So he went to Manager Belasco in the hurry-me-up-quick style and without any preliminaries bluntly refused to aliow his legs to play the role of ‘mammoth bo- lognas, Directoire or no Directoire. Man- ager Belasco insisced that the play would be spoiled without Toland in tights, and insisted that the proper costume should be worn. The actor persisted in his refusal. His contract contained no provision requiring him to wear tights and he would see Mr. Belasco in the gallery or elsewlere .before he woula make an exhibition of himself. Mr. Belasco declined to ~o there, and informed Mr. Toland that he would cease to be s member of the company and that his contract would terminate in case his stabbormmess continued. Then To- land threatened to resign. This nad no - effect, and the actor saw that the manager was determined, and that he would: have to give in or walk out into that gloomy place where unem- ployed actors lounge and where the ghost never walks. He could not hold out like Cissy Fitzgerald when she refused to wear thosethin things, because he hadn’t ihe same reason that she had. . Th n be tried cajolery and promised the mansager that he would treat him to the | Iron-Pier Bridge Across the Cosumnes—Eight Spans of 50 Feet Each, best dinner in town every day fora month if he would only let him wear anything but those French bolsters. But it was of no use, although the promise of the din- ners hit the manager below the belt and the actor finally surrendered. The man- ager suggested, for the same reason thata condemned prisoner is fed well before be- ing led to the scaffold, that Mr. Toland might mitigate the severity of his punish- ment by wearing jet black tights, which would minimize the obtrusiveness of his embonpoint. But Toland was desperate and swore Lrlm he would wear fleshings of turquoise ue. Bets are even that he won’t. KILLED BY A TRUCK. The Life Crushed Out of a Four-Year- 01d Boy on Folsom Street Yesterday. James tiolmes, a bright-faced boy of 4 years, was run over and killed yesterday afternoon by a truck driven by James Myers, who lives at 1381 Silver street. The littlé boy and a companion of about the same age stole a ride on the trick, and Myers tried to drive them off by.cracking his whip. One of the children jumped off the rear end of the vehicle, but tne Holmes boy fell in front of a hind wheel and the life was crushed out of him. The driver was arrested by Officer Gal- loway on a charge of manslaughter, and was released on his own recognizance by Justice of the Peace Kerrigan. Mrs. B. T. Schell of 119 Langton street is the boy's mother. The body was re- moved to.the Morgue. ———————————— Nor how cheap, but how good for the money; Pprinting and binding. Mysell-Rollins, 22 Clay* ——————— Jesus Christ Army. There was a great time last night at the new headquarters of the Jesus Christ Army, 870 Howard street, near Fifth. rousing meeting was held and addresses were made by General Spurgeon Duggan, Captain Friedlander, Evangelist Percy Betley of Engiand and Major Langiey. Alter. the meeting a free supper was spread, consisting of bread, cheese, coffce and sandwiches, and 250 hungry men dis- posed of the feast in short order. _In the new heudquarters.are a aormitory containing fifty-five bsds and a large hail where meetings widl be held from 8 to 10°| o’clock every evenin hereafter. NEW TO-DAY. 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