The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 12, 1897, Page 14

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1897 DLW ORTHE HALL OF JUSTICE Property-Owners Grow In- censed at the Dilatory Tactics. The Cohn Family Blamed for Neglecting to Underpin i a Building. i Contractors Want Extra Pay on Ac-! count of a Cesspool Discovered | by Excavating. Indignation over the delay in the con struction of the new Hall of Justice at the | intersection of Kearny and Washington streets has reached a point where it is likely thata meeting of property-owners and shopkeepers in the vicinity will be held to determine the cause of such dila- | to tactics. ’ sterday seven men were at work, part throwing dirt out of holes in the earth and | only two men engaged in the bricklaying. | And this in the face of the fact that an approoriation of $300,000 minus architect’s | fees and incidental expenses, lies now in | the City treasury, whence it will be forth- coming in lumps ss fast as the work reaches certain stages, while the deserv- ing poor and unemployed are clamoring | ior work. Everybody concerned in the delay see inclined to shift the blame to somebody else’s shoulders. Thus Bateman Bros., the contractors, assert that certain Cohn | Bros., who own the buildings on the north- | east corner of the lot, are entirely re- | sponsibie in the matter, while Abe Cohn, | who transacts the family business, denies all blame and refers it back to the con- tractors, ‘*A sub-basement for elevator machinery | must be dug under that building,” eaid M. | C. Bateman, “and in order to do this the walls will have to be underpinned. The | west wall of the structure rests upon the soil. We notified the Cohus over two | months ago of this and have kept at them b ¢ REMNANT SALE, Crockery,China, Glassware, AT ACTUAL WHOLESALE COST! ! set about to have it done. You are cordially invited to inspect the | QUALITIES and PRICES of our Crockery, | Chinaware and Glassware. During this g'gantic sale you will find MANY RICH BAR- GAINS, such that no housekeeper wants to miss. Many articles are worth double the price. We are selling to close out these remnant lots. Very Best Quality Semi-Porcelain. Harvest, Light Blue Spray Decoration. ¥ Each ach 5cts | Tea iates, Dinner sizos 8 cts Plates, > ach 7 cts | Cups and sch 8 ety Vegetable Dish, 8 Inch . Cach 20 cts Large Water P Fach 38 cts Tea Pors...... Each 40 cts Bohen Chinaware. Very Pretty Decoration. Tcothpick’ Holder Cream Fitcher. : Aster-Dinner Cup and Saue “lea kot Stands. e an ‘and Plate. Cream Set Cuspidores. Cup and Saucer, mustacne. Chocolate Put.. Cubarats Tea Set Toy Tea Sets... Genuine Delft China. Toothpick Hoiders 2 Cieam Pitcner. ... Cups and Savcers. .. Plates. besser: Pluques s | Places, Broux ast Piats, Cake 2 Plaques.... 65 cts Mujolica and Fancy Earthenware. assoried colors. sp.dores 3 maple, 4-inch cts cts | cts Glassware. | | Table Tumblers Each 23 Bud Va n 2% e Lemonad, 5cs Handled 6 cis Spooh Trays 7 c:s Tea det 25 cis Tea Sets, 44 Pieces. Best Quality - Semi-Porce.ain, Handsomely Decorated, with Gold Hand'es and. Trim- mings. Harvest, Piain Spray Xoia, Wiidflower. Windflower, Gold e Golu llluminated. Gold Trimmings... Set $2 76 ~e. 325 Dinner Set, 60 Pleces. Best Quality Semi-Porcelain, Handsome'y Decorated, with Gold Handles and Trum- mings. Harvest, Plnin Spray Dinner Set, 100 Pieces. Best Quality Semi-Porcelain, Handsomely Decorated, with Gold Handles and Trim- mings. Harvest, Plai 01 1 Tim mings Windtiower, “Set '8 50 ¥ola Wildflower, Gold Trimming: -Set 8 50 Gold Tluminated, Go'd Trimmings......Set 9 25 Bijou, Beliflower, Gold Trimmings. . et 9 60 The 'hina, App e Bioysom, Gold T mings...... 2% 5 t 9 90 Great Amemamnrfina'l'ea (o MONEY SAVING STORES: 140 Sixth st. 325 Hayes st. 965 Market st. 2008 Fillmore st. _146 Ninth st. 3005 Sixteenth st. 617 Kearny st. 2510 Mission st. 1419 Polk st. 521 Montgomery ave. 218 Third st. 1819 Devisadero st. 3285 Mission st. 1130 Kentucky st., Potrero. OAKLAND STORES. 1053 Washington st. 1510 Seventh st. 917 Broadway, 616 E. Twelfth st. 131 San Pablo ave. ALAMEDA—1355 Park st. Headquarters, 52 Market St., S. F. Every Article bears the name of the Maker, which is proof of the Superior Quality of | enable them to dispose of their property | | anyw | wielder. o ® e~ This Cut Iilustrates the Progress Made So Far on the New Hall of Justice. Only Seven Men Werz at Werk Yesterday. incessantly ever since. They seem to have | lona nothing. | “We cannot put a large force of men at work until we can go to work on all the | walls. Then there is another cause for delay. “In the southeast corner oi the lot, where we have made excavations for a foundation, an old cesspool was dis- covered, filled with water. The soil wiil have to be taken out toa considerable depth in order to secure a solid base. “The specifications call for no such work as this, and we have made an es- timate of the cost and submitted it to the Building Committee_of the Board of Supervisors to-day. We will meet in con- ference with the architects on this matter immediately.” | A. Cohn denies that owners of the prop- | erty adjoining have delayed the woik of | comstruction by refusing to underpin their buildings. The matter, he admits, was called o the family’s attention as early as the latter part of January, and he | at once, so he says, consuited with an at- | torney, whose advice was to waif, as a bill was before the Legislature which might to the State. This bill was defeated in | March. “We were again notified by Bateman Bros.,” be said, “‘and finding that the ex- pense of underpinning devolved on us, We wanted the Hall of Justice to zo up as rapidly as possible, because it would enhance the value of our property, but we also wanted to be secured against the building falling while being underpinned. “We have now secured the services of E. J. Vogel, and he has consented to give | good and sufficient bonds. By next week the work of underpinning will be well | under way.” That is bow the matter stands. Every- | body professes to be eager to bave the | work proceed, on the ground that it means | cash in hana, ana yet nobody seems to be | doing anything. The spectacle of three | or four men at work on the foundation of | such a building is enough to make a| wooden sfatue of jusiice shed tears, | But J. E. Buckley, the superintendent | of copstruction for the City, still draws | down his $250 a month to seea few shovel- fuls of dirt thrown out and two men lay- ing brick. That the Cohns at present | afford a good opportunity for the con- tractors to plead necessity in delay can | hardly be denied, but as they have | promised to have their building under-| pinned at once the building should be | rushed forward in a couple of weeks more | That is what proverty-owners | and business men ir. the vicinity demand, | at least, and will take steps to see why it | is not t0 if a much longer delay is per- | mitted. A FIREMAN SERIOUSLY OUT. Edward Walsh Stabbed in the Neck by Charles Nealson. Edward Walsh, a stoker on engine 1, | was severely cut on the neck by Charles | Nealson, a carpenter, in front of the en- gine-house, Pacific street, near Montgom- ery, last evening. Walsh was conversing with a young woman when-the trouble that cuiminated in the cutting began, Nealson crowded up against the young w.man and Walsh, | believing his action uncalled for, pushed him inio the street. Nealson then drew a knife and, rushing up to Walsh, stabbed him in the neck. Several persons who witnessed the cat- ting hurried out and secured the knife- Walsh was taken to the Receiv- ing Hospital, whera his wound, wh ch ex- tends from the back of his head to his chin, was dressed. His assailant was taken to the California-street police sta- tion and booked on a charge of assault to maurder. BLANTH MARR NTHS 7Y A Communication to Sheriff Whelan Reveals the Story. ANOTHER LINK IN THE MYSTERY. Portions of the Murderer’s His- tory That Captain Lees Missed. BRIPE WAS IRENE E CAMPEILL, HIS The Ceremony Took P:ace in 1887 and Mrs. Blanther Now Waais His Eff cts One of the greatest mysteries in the life of Joseph E. Blanther, the brutal mur- first marriage in this country, and pre- sumably bis only legal one, wasall the time within a few feet of Captain Lees. It also seems that Bianther was, for some time early in 1887, a resident of this City | beiore going to Chicago and stopped ata vrominent hotel. Moreover, the true wife of the murderous nobleman, Irene E. Blanther, has com- municated with Sheriff Whelan through her lawyer, demanding possession of her husband’s effects. The letter was re- ceived a few days ago and reads as follows: J. L. HUDSOY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSE) OFFI 3 AND 5, 50815 MAT ; HoUSTON, TEX., May 3, 1897 Sheriff of San Francisco County, San Francisco, Cal.—DEAR SiR: I hereby make a formal de- | mand on you for any and all possessions that | you may have in your custody belonging to | Jos. E. Blanther. I muke such demand as the legal reprasenta- tive and attorney of Mrs. Irene E. Blanther, | the oniy lawful wife of Jos. E. Blanther, and whose marriage ceremony wns consummated | in your City in the year 1887. I understand from Mrs. Blanther that there are some pos- sessions, which the officers hold, which are contained in a large tin box, as well as some minor possessions. 1 make this only as a formal demand and I trust that you will give me no trouble in re- gaining possession of this property and I will appreciate your kind attention in the matter. | Yours truly, J. L. HUDSON. | Through a portion of the letter referring | to the marriage in this City is drawn a line, apparently to conceal the fact, though the typewritten letters show plainiy. An ‘investigation of the books of the marriage license office shows that on March 22, 1887, Josef E. R. Blanther took out a licente 10 marry Irene E. Campbell. He signed the affidavit required by the office, *Jos. E. Ritter von Blanther,” giving his age as 28 and that of his in- tended as 27. The residencs of both was given as the Lick House. In index 9 of the records of marriages in the Recorder’s office is an entry that shows that on the following day, March 23, 1887, Josef E. R. Blanther was mar. ried by Rey. J. E. Cotile to Irene E. Campbell. Rev. John E. Cottle is now rector of St. Brigid’s Church. Captain Lees learned that Joseph E. Blanther fled from Siam in 1885 to this countrv to escape extradition by the Aus- trian Government, but the first trace he was able to find of him in America was in June, 1887, when Biantber went to work in Chicago for Rand, McNaliy & Co. Whether he was a resident ot this City e % @W@b Blanther’s Signature to the Affidavit He Made to Secure a License to Marry Irene E. Campbell derer of Mrs. Philopena Langfeld, who died by his own hand in a Texas prison, bhas been solved. ¢ During all of his fruitless and somewhat erratic chase of Blanther, during which he attempted to gain a knowledge of the murderer’s career, Captain Lees was un- abla to find out anything that would tend to show which of the women with whom Blanther consorted was bis true wife or whether he really had one. The period between his flight from Siam and his going into the employ of Rand. McNally & Co. of Chicazo was also a closed book to the chief of detectives. It now develops that the evidence of hi from the time he landed here from Siam in 1885 until March, 1887, is stiil a mys- tery, thougn Mrs. Blanther can provably solve it. Blanther must bave been in funds to have stopped at the Lick House. Sheriff Whelan has written to Mrs. Blantber teiling her that the effects of ner husband are not in his possession and advising her to apply to the police. An_extraordinary find of French and English_armor, dating from the time of the Crusades, has just been made at Constantinople. —_——————— In Italy there are more theaters in pro- portion to the population than in any sother country. Vllornoy and Goansellre ot Lo, Offices 1. 3amd 5 - 508 12 MAIN STREET Dear Siri:— only lawful wife of matter. Qur Wares. other minor possessions Sheriff of San Francisco Counuy, ° San Francisco, Cal. or Jos. E. Blanther, from Mrs. Blanther that there are some possessions cers hold which are contained in a large tin box, as well as some I make this only as a formal demand, and I trust that you will give me no trouble in regaining possession of this property, and I will appreciate your kind attention in the 1 make OFFICE PHONE 508 RES/DENCE. WUTCHINS HUUSE May 3, 1897 . : I hereby make formal demand on you for any and all posses- sions that you may have in your custody,. tody, belonging to Jos. E. Blanther legal representative and attorney of Mrs. Irene E. Blanther, the have had in your ous- such demand as the « I understand which the offie. Yours truly, Effects. i/ MRS, JOS. E. BLANTHER’S Attorney’s Letter to Sheriff Whelan Demanding Her Husband’s ON THE WINGS OF KEROSENE A Grocery on Bryant Street Scattered to the Winds. Pools of Oil in the Basement Emit Gas as Strong as Dynamite, A $150,000 Blaz> Destroys Patrick’s Tannery in South San Francisco. A veritable oil well which had been auietly resting under Dominick Bolderl’s grocery-store, corner of Bryant and Con- verse streets, for a decade exploded with terrific force last evening at 6:15 o’clock. The interior of the building was com- pletely wrecked by the force of the explo- sion. A few minutes later flames burst out among tbe torn and twisted timbers and completed the work of demolition. An alarm of fire was sounded through box 187, and after an hour’s fighting the | lames were extinguished. Several people were painiully injured. Bolderl, the groceryman, was severely burned about the face and hands. He was standing behind the counter when the floor crashed upward with the force of a caapult. He was hurled through a sheet of flaming pas, and fell into the sheet in a half-stunned, half-smothered condition. John Paul Cint, who, with his seven- year-old son, was standing in front of the store, was painfully cut about the head by flying bits of glass. His son was also shghtly injured i1n the same manner. Gus Swanson, a carpenter living at 94 Converse place, also suffered a severe scrlp wound. Henry Newman and John J. Donohoe were knocked down by the force of the explosion, but outside of a few bruises es- caped injury. Police Officer £. J. Thomp- son, who resided in a flat above the stove, was thrown out of bed and his wife was pamnfully bruised about the head and shoulders by falling plaster. The explosion was unexpected. For over ten years the liquid that caused the explosion had been accumulating in the cellar under the store. Two large coal-oil tanks, one holding 190 gallons and the other 60 gallens, rested in the rear of the store. Tron pipes conveyed the liquid to the front part of the store, where the turning of o faucet was all tbat was necessary to fill an order. The joints in the pipe refused to hold the rust-eating oil, and drop by drop it fell into the cellar and prepared a mine dangerous as one of dynamite. Last evening the proprietor of the store struck a mateh intending to light the gas and passed the bit of flaming wood past a crack through which flowed a stream of gas emitted from the oii below. In anin- stant the explosion occurred, and it was by the merest chance that no death re- sulted. The building was owned by Dr.J. C. Donohue, who occupied one of the upper flats. The loss on the building and its contents amounts to about $3000. A two-story frame building adjoining the store at 88 Converse street, which is owned by J. C. Donohue and occupied by Dominick Bolderl, was also damaged to the extent of $200. A two-srory dwelling, 1022 and 1022} Bryant street, occupied by E. Kinnee and Hetry Kempf, was badly scorched, the Jamage probably amotnting to $750. Fire Marshal Towe was informed of the explosion last evening. After a careful investigation he arrived at the conclusion that no one was responsible for the ac- cident. Gl e A GREAT TANNERY BURNED A. B. Patrick & Co.’s South San Franclsco Establishment Destroyed. A. B. Patrick & Co.’s great tanning plant on Sixth avenue, betwcen Qand R streets, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. The buildings composing the plant cov- ered an area of over six acres, and includ- ing machinery, fittings and stock were valued at $150,000. The fire was discovered shortly after midnight by A. Calmis, night watchman at the tannery, on the rocf of the hide- house. An alarm was sounded from box 534, but owing to the inflammable nature of the buildings, twelve in number, the flames spread with such rapidity that it seemed useless labor to attempt to save them. But two buildings of the entire plant were saved—a small stable and a store- nouse. Among the buildings destroyea was a five-story frame, 45x200 feet, and four four-story buildings of the same dimen- sions. During the progress of the fire it looked as though the California_Glue Works on the west and Legallit & Helwig’s tannery 10 the east of the burning buildings would catch_fire, so a second alarm was order:d sounded. Itis thought that the fire started from sparks from the glue works chimney. Mr. Patrick estimates his loss on the plant at $30,000, $50.000 on the atock and $12,000 on tne buiiding. The entire estab- lishment was insured for but $7000, i e beiin FOUR HOMES Potrero Residence District Visited by an $8000 Fire Last Evening. Owing to scarcity of water four pretty homes were burned to the ground in South San Francisco last evening. The fire started, it is presumed, from the care- less use of a benzine lamp by some painters in the rear of George Malani's residence, 547 Wisconsin street. In ten minuies the building, a one-story frame cottage, was enveloped in flames. An alarm was sounded from box 518 at 5:50 o’clock, but when the department arrived it found but little water with which to fight the fire. After a lengthy delay a small stream was tarned on the burning building, but it had no effect. The fire finally communicated to the residence of Robert Scott, 549 Wisconsin sireet, and that building was soon burn- ing briskly. At this time the wind car- ried the flames to the dwellings owned by John Young and David Rodgers, 545 and 543 Wisconsin street. As the department had no water the fire had full swing, and in an hour nothing re- mained but a huge mass of glowing ra. Malani places ihe loss on his building and furniture at $1500, Robert Scott at IN ASHES. $2800. and John Young and David Rodg- ers $1£00 and $2300 respectively. g Quite a quantizy of furniture was saved by the owners of the buildings, but none in comparison to that lost in the fire. All of the buildings were insured, it is sad, for their full value. —_— I{hl pianoforte is about a nundred years o NEW TC-DAY —DRY GOODS. NOVELTY IMPORTED CHEVIOTS. SPECIAL SALE. Our customers are informed that commencing Wednesday, May 12, we will place on sale an elegant variety of NEW NOVELTY PATTERNS CHEVIOT DRESS 00 [ At $3 Dress Pattern. These Cheviots are full 52 inches wide; are all in the newest colorings. They are entirely NEW GOODS, and are in 42 DIFFERENT STYLES. The former price of these goods was 62w §72.. SEE OUR SHOW WINDOWS. TELEPHONE GRANT 124, b 1892, 111, 118, 115, 117, 119, > RPOHAT‘»O %% 121 POST STREET. BURNED ALL THE Rol. Six Wooden Buildings on Tele- graph Hill Destroyed This Morning. Fire Started White All Were Asleep, and so Little Was Savad. Box 7 called the departmens to Tele- graph Hill early this morning to quench a fire in the row of buildings on the west side of Kearny and endingon Greenwich street, The whole row was ablaze, and men, women and children were rushing out of | the doors carrying honsehold effects and clothes, when the firemen arrived. The fire started in the house farthest toward the south. family of the name of Seville. Mrs. Seville smelt the fire, and, rising from her bed, she gave the alarm. lna minute the whole row was alive with the unfortunate victims flying here and there and the hill was ablaze with light. The second house was vacant. The third was occupied by a Mrs. Lumsden, the fourth was vacant, and the fiith was occupied by a Mrs. Clark and her family. The row was owned by a Mr. Bowen, and but three of the houses were in use. They were wooden dwellings and burned like tinder, and with them went all of the effects of those who dwelt there. The value of the houses wiil not reach over §5000, so far as is known. 1t was occupied by % The residence of J. Chapman of 403 Greenwich was also badly burned, and the houses of Mrs. Eliza Phelan, residing at 1569, and J. F. Furley, 1361 Kearny, also sustained severe losses. ———————— VON TIEDEMAN ON TRIAL For the Third Time He Must Make His Defense Before a Jury. A jury was yesterdsy secared in Judge ‘Wallace’s court for the trial of Carl W. von Tiedeman, charged with perjury. Oscar Tolle, clerk of Judge Belcher's court, in which the perjury charged was committed, testified as to the facts sur- Tounding the case, as already published. Judge Wallace was called away to at- tend a meeling of the Regents of the State University yesterday afternoon and so further hearing of testimony was post- poned until to-day. The trial wiil occupy about a month. HORSEMEAT FOR HOLLAND. A Carload Shipped From Chicago to Rotterdam. Car 8483, Erie line, is now in transit be- tween Chicago and New York loaded with horsemeat, shipped by Richard Martin and Charles Beagles, who operate a slaughtering-house in the town of Lyons, about half a mile west of the city limits, on the Archer road. The contents of the car are consigned to meat-dealers in Rot- terdam, Hotland, where, according to shippers, it is sold for domestic use. ““We ship a car of horse meat to Rotter- dam every three weeks,” said Charles Martin. “We usually ship it corned, 1n which condition it is almost impossible to tell it from beef.’” Martin said he slaughtered from fifty to 140 horses a week, and paid $2 75 for all horses uffered | for sale, taking them just as they came, making no distinction between young bealthy horses and the old crippled ones. Government Inspector de Voe was asked if the Government would - take any action on the ease, and in answer produced a printed copy of a circular issued by the Agricultural Department postoning the certification of export beef until March 15, 1897. He gave it as his opinion that the Government would take no action, al- though he has notified the authorities at Washington of the shipment.—Chicago Record. e The Bank of France hus a camera o ar- ranged that the picture of any suspicious visitor may be secured without the sus- pected individual knowing that he has been “causht.’” ®EW TO-DAT. EEMS sometimes ag if the world were all wrong. Seems as if all the things we like disagree witn us, and all the things we don’t like, agree with us. Dyspepsia lurks in most of the good things we eat, and indigestion fol- ~lows the gratifica- tion of appetite. OF course, it isn’t Na- ture’s fault. Nature does the best she can, and if 2 man will only help her a little bit at the right time, he may eat what he likes and as much as he likes. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are for gzonle who are troubled with indigestion. articularly for those in whom it manifests itself in the form of constipation. The {‘Pellets” are quick and easy in their action. They are in perfect harmony with Nature, They effect 2 permanent cure. You necd take them regularly only a little whilc. After that, use them occasionally when you need them—when you have eaten some- thing that disagrees with you. Theyare not violent in their effect, do not derange the system at all, and may be taken just as freely as you would take water or any other necessity of life. Once used they are always in favor, You can get the ““Pellets ” at any drug store. If you are careless enough to let an unscrupulous druggist sell you something on which he makes more money, it is your own fault ¥ you do not get well. RE Ao AGREAT BOOK qrven awav: Few books printed in the English lan- guage have reached so great a sale as has Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. It is a book of 1008 large pages and_contains over 300 illustrations—some of them in colors. ‘It is a complete family doctor book. It is written simply and con- cisely, and is indexed so that reference to it is made easily and quickly. Over 680,000 copies have been sold at the regular price of $1.50. The profits on this enormous sale enable the rublishem to distribute 500,000 copies absolutely FREE. A copy bound in strong paper covers, will, therefore be sent FREE to any one who will send 21 one-cent stamps to cover cost of mailing only. Address, WORLD’S DISPENSARY MED- ICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y. JOE POHEIM, THE TAILOR. Fine Tailoring AT CUT-RATE PRIGES. Business Suits made to order %$10.01 Chevio:s. in al 10 order from. Clay Weave shades, from. 15.50 Fine French Pique, from.$ < 0. 00 Pants to order from. $3.50 to $10.00 Fine uits to orde - $17.50 to The very best of Trim- mings. Workmanshin and stylish cut. Perfect fit guaranteod or no sale N\ Rules for self-measure- ment and samples of cloth sent free. g 201 and 203 Montgomery st., cor. Bush. 844 and 846 Market st., opp. Fourth. 1110 and 1112 Market st.. San Francisco, 485 14th st., Oakland, Cal. }v\