The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1897, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1897. RAISES A STANDARD OF REVOLT Rev. Mr. Bliss Explains the Union Reform League Movement. AGAINST CORRUPTION. Thinks People Are Too Patiently Robbed by Corporations and Politicians, WARRIMG THE PEOPLE BUT He Discovers in His Scheme of General Brotherhood a Remedy for Pending Evils. The Union Reform League, organized in this City, has, as 2 matter of fact, under & Mo, title, really raiced the standard of re The league is or- ganized to proclaim a revolution, and a revolution against w. is at present the orzanized govarnment of the land. ARE DLAMED. | found a university or a church. 1 i | | | I l l | | | v | by the fireside. A large majority of our people own no home. Girls work in our stores for 50 cents or 25 cents by day and walk our streets by night. These are unpleasant facts, but no honest man in California or in Massa- cliusetts can say they are not true, Money rules our colleges. = Bribery of education is rarely direct. Expuision of teachers opposed to capitalism happens rarely. But the simple fact is that not a single universi'y can exizt without en- dowment, and that endowment can only come from those who have weaith. State universitie: are only a partial c¢Xception. Therefore the pro'e sor who occupies a chair founded by wealth musteither teach economics which wealtis will support and whichk will support wealth or not teach at all. Most of our collegiate professors are honest; they honestly believe in capi- talism, because tney have been bred in that atmosphere. But no one can ques- tion the air that breathes in the bails of Harvard and Yale and the University of Chicago. Recently a railroad president carried round in his private car 1wo “‘eminent’” teachers of political economy in America in order that they might undcers:and 2nd lecture on the beauties of the American railay system. Plutocracy rules our chuiches. Many churches are not plutocratic; many pulpits are perfectly free. But the bravest clergyman and the most Christian church can do little but talk about brotheriood and ap: the benefactions of the wealthy. To act, the church must have mon and money comes from those who money have. The mos: charitable churches are usually the most plutocratic. There seems a secret bond and a necessary tond between associatel charities and associa- ted villainies. A Rockefeller makes many millions by crushing all competitors 1n selling oil ana givesa mullion or two to A Wanamaker runs out small stores, lowers prices, pays wages too low for girls | to live in respectability and clears hismil- recently | lions, and gives a litue portion of it fc the support of Sunday-schools and mis- We are again not condemning Rockefeller or Mr. Wanamaker. They are not worse, but perhaps petter, than most of their fellows. We are not condemning any one, but staiing facts. Small yarishes and churches may not al- ways be dependent on the very wealthy, but they all depend on the somewhai wealihy, and there are few tyrants worse than those who rule a small purse. Re- cently in San Francisco the labor unions se=nt out 150 appeals to clereymen to aid | or call the attention of their people to the What is the real governing power to-day | in California? ing, disorgani ot the band of quarrel- d politicians who wrangle occasionally at Sacramento, but the very quiet, highly organized, shrewdly aged, “ably edited Southern Pacitic Rail road.” The capitol (and capital) of Cal fornia to-day is near the corner of Market and Montgomery stree: It is the South- Pacific Railroad and kindrea institu- tions, which are represented by Califor- nians at Washington. As for San Fran- cisco, her own Mayar has recently, in a magazine article, declared that the City is in tbe hands of what he euphoniously entitles the **Associated Villainies.”” Who exerts the taxing power San Fran- cisco? The authorities at the City Hall, who make the people pay §5,00),000 for allow- them notto e, or companies like the gas company, which, on a plant capabie of "being reduplicated for $5000,000, is making the citizens pay 6 per cent on $10,- 000,000, and the street of which, as a system costing less tnan §9,- 000,000, issues stock for $18,000,000 and collects annuaily $3.250,000 in farcs? {it strange man- | cause of the starving miners. Onecler- yman replied, but he sent no money. s that the churches are out of touch with the working masses? - But this leads to, if nota m serious, at least a more immediate and a more burning wrong. One hundred and seventy | thousand miners in our land have been railroad company, Where is the really taxing power in'San | Francis Of course, the $5,000,000 paid at the City Hall is necessary to the cor- porations.. That sum is for Supervisors to furnish amusement and the police to keep the people quiet while the corpora- tions go throug h the people’s pockets. A small sum is spent for sewers, education | force the rich mea’s will. and other minor matters, else the peopie | might die and not be able to make any money for the corporations to tax. Now, we are not particulafly denounc- ing the corporations. The corporations and the wealthy men, we distinctly = are not particularly blame. They are but carrying out the chosen policy of the American people. blame the masters whom we have chosen. The American people do not—or until re- cently did noti—believe in nationalized railroads or municipalized street railways, gas service, etc. The American people believed in letting private iniuative nish and control those great public sery: ices. Private initiative bas doue so. has made money and has attracted 10 We bave no right to! o iis! service the smartest men, the keenest in- | tellects and usually the most respectable elemen's of the community. hand, to the municipal and State govern ments, which Americans have minimized both in theory and in fact, have been al- tracted, generally speaking, the worst eie- ments of the community—pothouse poii- | ticians and statesmen for revenue only. The writer ot this arsi is a stranger to the personnel of San Francisco's legis- lators, and therefore he makes no personal charges; but zenerally speaking in Amer ican cities our municipal prominent as dive-keepers and jailbirds, or as outwardly respectable men _elected by rings of dive-keepers and jailbirds and who dare not resist the will of the ward politicians who elected them. It is usual to-day to denounce both piu- tocratic corporations and municipal Supervisors. It is unjust. The corporations are but doing what most poor men would like to do, and our govern- ments are in the hands of interior men because we have had an inferior concep- tion of government. It may be said, however, that while the American public does believe in private conduct of railroads, gas and electric light- ing, etc., it woula have these competitive and notin the nands of combinaiions; but there issuch a thing as the logic or On e other | | or to destroy. struggling to get wages upon which they can live. A commission in Pennsyivania before the strike found miners’ wives in destitution and miners’ children living on garbage heaps. Naked child:en were un- able to go to school. At last the miners struck. They tried to raise their voicesin appeal. They tried to induce heir fellow- miners also o strike. No ome, not even the empioyers, denied the facts. They could not ¢t these miners, destitute, nunery, starving, committed scarcely one act of petty violence ana indulged in not one public wrong. Yet corporations have found Judges to issus injunctions iorbid- aing tne miners to walk the public roads or 10 bold pubiic meetings. For ignoring such injunctionslaborers can be commitied without a jury and punished without ap- veal. ; Do we wonder to-day that workmen laugh at American courts, and that there is a talk of appeal to force? Do the merican people know what they are do- ing? Do our corporations know the forces with which they toy? ‘I'he most sucred rights of Araerican manhood are being vi- olated, and that in the name of law. Our corporations are practicing anarchy, fora unundred cautious mindas will teil you that the great viclators of our land are the cor- porations. The corporations practice an- archy, the courts issue writs to defend them and the militia is calied outtoen- We wonaer to- day not at the violence nor tne igeorance, but at the patience, the self-restraint of the American workingman. But itcan- not last. *“There is a blind old Samson in our lund grown old with labor and bowed down with toil.” Bat that Samson is feeling for the pil- lars of our commonwealth. He is grow- ing conscious of his stren:th. This coun- try has, we fear, not seen the last o! Pitts- burg and Homestead and Pullman and Chicago. The strikes of our lund grow rious in a geometric progression. What are wetodo? We find the real b.ame not with the rich corporation, but with the system which prodaces it. Against this system the Union Reform League raises the standard of revolt. The league strikes a new note in polit- ical reform. Itis of the peop e and for the people, yet it speaks not in wraih, but 1n thought. Itappeals not to rancor, but to brotherhood. Itindulige- notin rant, but in sermons. The Union Retorm League is not orsanized to oppose, or to denounce, It is organized to aid, to | explain, to construct. ne great trouble in America to-day is that we have conducted business each man for himsel’, Hence competition, | hence the surv.val of the si:rewdest, hence politicians are | these corrupt | events, and the logic of events is superior | to the logic oi paper constitutions. If great corporations are to rule and conduct the monster business transactions of 1his land 1tis almost impossible by legislation to compel these corporations to cut off their own noser. Neither is it fair. 1f the corporations are to make money by their conduct of public services, and this is or bas baen the theory of the American people, it is impossible to compel them to goon fighting between themselves and reducing rates till there is no profit. Itis especially impossible when there is such a simple way out as combination, allow- ing the combined corporations to charge wuat they will and say, ““I'he people be damned.’” _ It ought to be clear to every one, and it is growine clear to most, that the street “‘combine’’ is but the natural and inevit- able logic of the American theory. of busi- ness. Therefore, when the corporaiions y “The people be damned,” it isidle, it 1s folly, it 1s even unjust for the people to retort, ‘‘T'he cornorations be damned.” We repeat that.the average corporation. even in a combine, is but shrewdly e in <z out the ordinary theory of the A: can public, and is composed, usuaily, of the best and ablest American citizens. Yet see the result. California is con- trolled by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Ohio is dominated by the Standard Oil monopoly. The Legislature of Pennsyl- vania adjourns when the Pennsvivania Railroad has no more business for it to enact. Chicago is ruled by Mr. Yerkes. Boston is in the hands of the West Ena | Raiiway. New York City earns money for Mr. and Mrs. Astor and J. Pierrepont Morgan. Aud so on through the list. Nor ie this all, nor the worst. He who owns the purse owns the man. He who rules the market rules the country. Piu- tocracy, triumphant in Wall street’ and by the Golden Gate, rules our homes, our schools, our judges and our churches. It foliows from the pretent monopoly of wealth in the United States that many oi our young men cannot afford to marry and the married cannot afford to have offspring. Mouey rules at the altar and the dominance of the strong, hencecom- vinations, hence monopolies, hence plu- tocracy, hence corruption of the Govern- ment, of the conscience. In place of this 1deal of each man for himself the league would place the new ideal of co-operation, practically applied 1n measures whose success has been tested in Europe, in Australia, even occasionally and very partially in America. This is socialism, we are told. There are in this country various societies and schemes and movements for bringing in socialism. But usually these are either wholiy materialistic or po.itical or they strive to set up some partial co-oper- ative colony or scheme which, after all,will have to compete with other industrial in- stitutions. Now, in such co-operative colonies and schemes the Union Reform League does not believe; nor does it have faith in any merely political or material- istic movement. Politicians who stand | on self-interest alone will, if their party grow large, inevitably become corrupt. It would pay the millionaires to buy out the leaders of any Socialist party which threatened to grow large. If they stood tor self-interest alone it would pay the leaders 10 sell out the pariy. A material- istic socialism 1s a Inirage, co-operative colonies, generally speaking, cannct suc- ceed. It only remains to appeal not to materialistic interests but to the socialis- tic conscience. Conscience alone can produce a movement that will induce lead- ers whom money cannot buy. This is the distinctive aim of the Union Reform League. Committed to no sec- | tarian views or religious yogma, it weuld uppeal to the religious element of the American people. Most reformers, im pa- tient of results, forgetting that large vodies move slowly, leave the churches. The Union Reform League would not do so. Rightin the churcbes it would raise the flag of brotherhood. It would neither siand without the churches and throw stones, nor stay within the churches and call names. In the churches is faith in God and love of man. It would demand that Christians apply the golden rule. Nor would it preach a new sentimental doctrine of human brotherhood. It is not enough to talk about the fatherbood of God and the brotherhood of man. It is sin tocry *‘Peace, peace, when there is no peace.”” The Union Reform League out- lines a programme of definite practical measures. It proposes definitely to sup- port those parties and those candidates which will favor its measures. It pro- voses to stand for deeds and not word It'would do away witn corruption of lez- islation by having all important bills re- ferred to the whole people, It would have the unemyloyed given work, not by the creation of degrading labor colonies, but by the prosecution of necessary public/ works and tbe absorption of the unem- ployed in natural activities. It would look for the money fer such works in the sale of public franchises and later by the conduct of public enterprises. | Iv would tax not business corporations, but land. synaicates, which make money not by enterprise, but by speculation. I would tax extreme incomes, making the very rich aid the very poor- C\{rnncy it would t’;ust not in the hands of favored banks, but in the sovereign power of Government. It would demand the restriction of illiterate immigration. It would forbid child labor and rrotect women employes. It believes that every one, man or woman, who is interested in government should have a vote. It be- lieves in a rigid civil service and trades- union pav for trades-union hours. By this and similar metheds uvwould press toward a comparative civilization. In other words, the Union Reform League unfurls a new banner to the breeze. 1ts groundwork is red—symbol, not of an- archy and destruction, but of society, of fraternity, of that common humanity which makes of one blood all nations upon the esrth; yet on that crimson it would emblszon a white cross, symbol ol peace, of love, of Christ, of sacrifice. It would mean brotherhcod realized through sacrifice, humanity made one in love. The league appeals to the churches, to the thinkers, to the men, to the women of California. The trouble is not with the Southern Pacific Railroad; it is with the voters of California. The trouble is not wiih the politicians alone; it is with the church. A corrupt city means a weak church. 3 Are the free men of America going to submit to government by injunction? Are the voters of California content 10 be the subjectsof the Southern Pacific Rail- way? Are the churches of our land con- tent to be the clubhouses of the wealihy and the almoners of speculators? These are the questions which the league would press home to the heart and mind and conscience of the Ameri- can people. The league has raised the standard of God against Mammon, of love against hate, of conscience against greed, of justice a ainst anarchy. The issue i not'in doubt. Those who are with uscan join the league at its public meetings or write its secretary, the Rev. J. E. Scott, 14 Grant avenue, but the battle is before us, and though it may be long, anew divine light is on the question, and: Since God is God, and right is right The truth the day shall win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To taiter would be sin. W. D. P. Briss. CHARGED WITH ARSON, S. J. Riley, a Drunken Laborer, Saved by a Girl From Being Buraed to Death. J. Riley, alaborer out of work, was arrested last night by Policeman R. J. McGrayan on a charge of arson. A subsequent investigation by Me- Grayan led him to believe there was no foundation for the charge, but as Riley had been booked he will have 10 remain in prison till Fire Marshal Towe makes him- self conversant with the facts. Riley lives in a small house, 93314 Fol- som street, owned bv Captain Duunlevy. It is in tne rear of 933. About 7 o’clock last night a still alarm was sent to Engine Company 6 that there was a fire in Riley’s house, and at the same time Policeman McGravan was notified oy a small boy that Riley had set fire to his house. When the engine company and McGrayan arrived they found that the incipient blaze had been extinguished by Belle Largue, a gir! 18 years of age, who lives in the house in front, thereby saving the hougse from being destroyed and Riley from being burned to death. The young girl saw the fire ana promptly broke in the door, seized a quiitand grab- ving aburning coaloil lamp from the floor she threw it ouiside and then threw the quilt on the flames on the floor and stamped them out. McGrayan learned from Riiey’s wife that he went home helplessly drunk and fell on the floor. There was a rickely ta- vle near his head, and unthinkingly she placed 1he coaloil lamp on the table while she ;ocked the front door and went to the butcher’s snop. [t is supposed that after she ieft Riley atiempted to rise from the fl jor, and in doing so knocked over the lamp, which exploded. .- NEARLY ASPHYXIATED, Dan Marks of Rosenthal’'s Shoe Com- pany Had a Narrow Escape Yesterday. Dan Marks, buyer for the Rosenthal Shoe Company on Kearny street, and brother-in-law of Isaac L. Rosenthal, one of the proprietors of the big shoe house, narrowly escaped being asphyxiated early yesterday morning in his room at the Rosenthal residence, 2321 Devisadero street. He was missed from his place at the breakfast table. Mr. Rosenthal hastened upstairs to learn tue cause of the unusuai delay, but received no answer to his knocks, and upon opening the bedroom door noticed & powerful odor of gas. Mr. Marks was lying unconscicus. Quickly turning off the gas to one of the jets of the chandelier Mr. Rosenthal rushed to the window and opened it ana then hurriedly and by main force dragged the unconscious man to the window and thrust his head and half his body out into the open air. ‘Ihe family physician was summoned with all possible nuste and soon after his arrival had Mr. Marks fairly out of danger. It seems that some time in the night Mr. Marks had arisen to prosecute a search lor a troublesome flea and had before pull- ing the electric gus-lighter turned on by mistake another jet unfurnished with an electric attachment. The patient was re- covering rapidly yesterday from the ill effects of the gas he had inhaled and will probably be able to resume his business auties (0-MOIrow. 8. A SAILOR KILLS HIMSELF. William Schnittke Ends His Life With Carbolic Acid While Despondent. William Schnittke, a sailor lately em- ployed on the United States revenue cut- ter Corwin, committed suicide last ever- ing by swallowing a dose ot carbolic acid at the tureshold of Miss Wegener’s room in Peat’s lodging-house, 304 Third street. For the past few months tne suicide had veen without employment and was finan- claily assistea by Miss Wegener. A short time ago the young woman was taken ill and in consequence was unable to divide her meager income with nim. The sailor, according to Miss Wegener, at her sugges- tion endeavored to obtain employment on land, and failing became despondent. Last evening ue called at the young woman’s room, and finding she had no money for him excused . himself from the room, *aying that be would return in a few minutes. This he did, but the sound of a falling body in the hallway beralued his return. Miss Wezenar, on hearing the unoise, hurried 1rom her room and found the sailor full length on the floor in an unconscious condition. She immedi- ately summoned help and it was then found that the dying man had taken car- bolic acid. An emetic was administered but the corrosive poison bad taken too strong a hold on the tissues of the de- spondent man and he soon died. The body was removed to the Morgue. Itis nct known whether or not the deceased had any relatives in this couniry. — .. A Good Move. Now that J. J. O'Brien & Co. have satis- factorily adjusted their business affairs, the association with them of Mr. T. R. Bannerman as their financial and con- fidential man gives strength to the con- cern. While Mr. Bennerman has filied several important positions in San Fran- cisco, bis reputation is not merely a local one, having acted as private secretary to Postmaster-General James, and been prominently identified with several busi- ness enterprises in the East. Here he served for a time with the Hivernia Bank, was for many years cashier of the firm of O’Connor, Moifatt & Co. and later was one of the execuiors of Mr. O'Connor’s estate. He is popular ke with the public and the employes of the establishment. NORTH END RESIDENT PROTESTING Are Indignant That the Contractor Still Dallies OVER THE UALL OF JUSTiCE. Dr. Pescia Says That Cheap Sub-Contracts Are Being Sought. SUPERVISORS RECEIVE THE BLAME. Fugasi Says Property Is Ruined and Grass Grows on Washington Street. Indignation continues to grow apace among the people who dwell in the neigh- borhood of where the Palace of Justice ought to be. As theiy business takes them past the boarding on Kearny and Wash- ington streets, they daily grow more dis- gusted that no walls are rising within, and the Italians, who are among the largest property-holders, are scathing in their denunciations of the Supervisors’ in- difference to the interests of their part of town. “It is simply a shame that the building should be kept back in this way,” said Mr. Calegaris, president of the Italian Chamber of Commerce, yesterday. ‘““fam surprised that the San Francisco com- munity will tolerate such an outrage. The palace ought to be up by now. Be- vond a doubt the present state of things retards the bettering of business. “The Board of Supervisors ought to look after the matter ani see that the contractor keeps his obligstioas, just as any other business man would have to keep his agreements. The fact is that the Supervisors ireat this part of the City as if 1t had no existence.”” Mr. Calegaris added that in his opinion there must be something under the delay, and that he was sure he voiced the opin- ion of all the business men in the neigh- borhood by expressing his indignation. John A. Fugazi, president of the Italian Bank, remarked that at the rate things | are going on, he expreted to die of old age before the Palace of Justice reared its root to the sky. "I suppose the contractor will pass the contract on to his children as an heirloom, so as to keep tie job just as long as he can in thefamily. 1f he had any desire 10 get on he would put a few men to work. The present condition of the block injures the whole neighbor- hood. Business is pretty nearly dead and gone, and if they keep on at the same rate we shall soon see the grass growing in Washington street. Half the otiices there are to let already, and it is the same way on Clay street. As long as ihe tax- pavers have to go on paying up, I sse no reason why this part of town sbouid be allowed to die outright, as it will if we do not get the Palace of Justice pretty soon. E. C. Palmieri, president of the Bersag- lieri Society and vice-president of the Italian Bank, is a large property-holder in the neighborhood and resents the present snail-like progress of the palace acutely. “ldon’t understand whny they should de- iay. They bave money on hand, and al: that needs to be done is for the Boarl of Supervisors to push the coniractor. There seems to me absolutely no reason why he should be allowed to daily on in this way G. Almagia, editor of L'Italia, has his pluce of business close to the side of the palace and watches more notices *to lei’’ going up in the houses named from day to day. He said ‘The contractor took the work at a much lower tigure than any of the other bids, and it seems to me that he is delaying now in order to lind cheaper materials, and possibly cheaper workmen. The present state of the site is a great ire jury to the neighborhood, and 1t is an outrage that the Supervisors should utter- Iy neglect this part of North Bzach,which pays taxes just as much as the more aristocratic quariers of the City. “The fact is toat North Beach 1s en- tirely ignored. The streets are worse kept than in the poorest Italian village. ‘Lhe greater part of the Latin race are fatalisis and do not make what Americans call a ‘kick’ easily, but there 1s abs - lutely no reason why this part of the Uity should be ailowed to run down. Many of the old property-holders tock an active share in the City’s development, and now tney are made to feel that the City Fatners have turned their backs on this part of town entirely. Look at the street round the proposed Palace of Justice! It 1s in such a neglected state that to piss along it is a penance. I think if the Board of Supervisors looked into the question of taxes it would find tnat this forzotten and neglected quarter gives more revenue than any other to the City.” Dr. Pescia, president of the Montgomery Block Association, has pondered long and deeply over the cause of the delay, and the only reasonable ground he can find for the way in which the contractor lets the days and weeks dailly on is that he is seeking cheap.sub-contracts, and failing to vet them at his own figures is waiting until they come to him. *While tbe contractor is taking hisown sweet ease about the sub-contracts,’” said the docter, “great injusiice 1s peing done to the property-holders. When they pur- chased the property it was scme of he | most valuabie 1 the City, but since tie removal of all the public vuildings it has gone down and down. rents have de. creasea and half the offices are empty. The district i« thickly settled, and prop- erty 13 taxed higher in proportion than anywhere else in town.”’ “The people ai this end of town are anxious to see that building completed just as soon as possible, so as to bring back the activity which the presence o. the Hall of Justice would certainly attract. There seems no reasonabte cause for tne deiay. Toree hundred thousand collars are in the treasury for the purpose, and labor is cheap and plentiful.’ George Cavalli, editor cf I'Elvezia, says he has joined the army of grumblers und growlers, whose name is legion aboat where the buiiding ougnt to be. Hecame to this City a young man, and he prew gray before the City Hall was finished, and he supposes tuat in the Hall of Jus- ice history is goin: to repeat itsell. ‘“*Every one in this part of town is deep'y interested 1n seeing the building com- pleted, for our business depends to a great extentonit. Idonot see why they can- not put up a public building a8 quickly as a private buiiding. Of course there nmiust be a ‘why.' I was in there the other day, and saw three men at work, for all the world as if they were putting up a miner’s cabin instead of a costly municipal struc- ture. At thatrate we shall die of old agc before it is completed. And in the mean- time our business is daily suffering.” NARROWLY ESCAPED A BULLET Close Call for William H. Crocker, the Bank President, CONSTERNATION ON A TRAIN. Glass From a Shattered Win- dow Scattered Over the Banker. THE CAR CROWDED AT THE TIME. No Clew as Yet to the Identity of the Person Who Caused the Accident. William - H. Crocker, the president of the Crocker-Woolworth Bank, had a nar- row escape from a bullet fired into a train in which he was traveling to his summer residence at Burlingame on Friday after- noon. ‘With his wife he had taken the 5 o’clock train from the Third and Townsend street depot. The car in which he sat was crowded with society veople on their way home to their country residences near Burlingame and San Mateo. Just before the train reached the station at Twenty- tifth and Valencia streets the passengers were suddenly alarmed by the crashing of one of the car windows by a missile thrown or fired from the outside. Mr. Crocker was busy reading a paper at the time and the small particles of glass from the shattered window were scattered over himself and Mrs. Crocker. For ashort time great excitement pre- vailed in the car. Investigation failed to reveal any missile that might have caused he damage. The appearance of the hole in the glass and the absence of any trace of astone indicated almost conclusively that the giass had been broken by a bul- let. Mr. Crocker last night was inclined to make light of the matter. He readily gave an account of the accident, but he added that the police had not_ been noti- tied of the occurrence nor had any eftort been made to investigate the matier. “I nad really almost forgotten about the af- air,” he said, ‘“until you called 1t to my mind. Of course many of the passengers were frightened, but nobody was injured. “Immediately after the crash we made an atlempt to discover just what had caused the mischief. Although we searched very carefully we were unable to discover any stone or other missile that might have been thrown by hand. The fine glass had been scattered about, but no trace was to be found of the object that had broken the window. The train was crowded with Burlingame and society people, and it was a very fortunate thing wndeed that none of the passengers re- ceived any injury.”’ The local officiuls of the Southern Pa- cific Company were reticent about ibe matter. 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Thousands of people who seamed to have Jost their youth by disease and suffering have found it again through the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, the most perfectly natural and scientific rejuve- nator of the physical forces ever known to medical science. It gives the blood-making organs power to make new blood, full of the life-giving red corpuscles which drive ont disease, build up fresh tissue, solid muscular flesh and healthy nerve force. [t gives constitutional power, deep and full and strong; rounds out hollow checks and emaciated forms: gives plumpness, color and auimation. It does not make flabby fat like cod liver oil. On this account, it is a perfect tonic for corpulent people. It aids digestion and the natural action of the liver, and by feeding the nerves with highly vitalized blood banishes nervous- ness, neuralgia and insomn ‘Where a constipated condition exists, the Discovery " should be used in conjunction with Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, which are the most perfect, mild and natural laxative in the world. There is nothing else “just as good.” There is nothing that will do the work so thoroughly, surely and comfortably DR TOM SHE BIN, ChineseTea & Hei b Nanitarium 615 KEAKNY ST, Bet. Sacramento and Commercial, SAN Fraxcisco, Ca . Georze Osgoodby, author of the world-famou Murchison ietier (o Lord Sackville Wes. the English nmbassato-, in 1884, writes concesning Dr. tom ~he Bin. now se ling Chinese .cas and Herbs at the ~aniarini, 615 Kesrny s.. San Francisco, Ca ., and s iys: POMONA, Li's . ngelest 0, Cal , Mar_h 7, 1897. Jor th- benefit of these who are suffering with chronic diseascs, I wil siy that many years o severe suffering and fuii e irea ment eaded in Bright's disease of the kidneys, of which rr. Tom She Ein completely curea me, after correctlv and minute ¥ descriving my maindy from the puise without askng a question e Is 4 medical mir ve ‘and without a peer in his profession. _especi tully. GO 03GO0OLBY. NEW TO-DAY French [Ladies’ Cloths For Fall Wear. We have just opened our NEW IMPORTATIO N of FRENCH AMAZON CLOTHS in all the choice shades for present season. These cloths are full 52 inches in width, and will be sold at (25t §1 Per Yard. SAMPLES SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS. Largest Stock of Counters, Show- cases and Bar Outfits in Town. ll Fancy Rocker $2.50. Furniture, Carpets, OAK STAND Bedding. °g.25. EASY T[RMS_—;ECIAL RATES ON J. NOONAN 1017-1019-1021-1023 Mission St. 516-518-520-522 Minna S Above Sixth, Telephone, South 14. DEERE PLOWS ARE ALL RIGHT! NEW DEALS SINGLE. 2-GANG. 3-GANG. 4-GANG. 5-GANG. DEERE IMPLEMENT COMPA 209 and 211 Market St. In Our Repository You can find any kind of vehicle, suitable for park drives, country or mountain roads. PRICES the lowest QUALITY considered Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co., San Francisco, Cal. Ba_ja California Damiana Bitters S i POWELFUL APHIODISIAC AN apecific tonic for the sexual and urinary o&:n‘: ©of both seXes, and u greac remedy for diseases of the kidneys and bladder. A grea cative, invigorator and Nervine. ~Sells on its ows Merice: 80 jong-winded tesumonials necessary. NAbno, ALES & BEKUNE, Agents 838 Mackeb Si., 5, F.—(Send i Ciroular.) Open Eventngs. Biz & is_a non-poisonouy remedy for G cones Nl Ginct, s permators o a; 9 ] in 1t 5 days. unnatural di Guaranuel W charges, Or any infammn. tion, irritation or ulcera- tion of mucous mem- THEEVANS CEmirar Cp, branes. Non-astringent. Sold by ts, or sent in plain wrapper. by express, prepaid, fof OF 3 hobtlen, §5.75. T 820t on request. We have “1010@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@? 3 ® ® ® @® O] ® ® ® A SNAP. FIVE THOUSAND BOXES EXTRA QUALITY Paper and Envelopes Ruled and plain, white, tinted or em- bossed, in linen. satin-wove and glove finish, good values for 25 cents, ON SALE THIS WEEK AT 10 Cents. ALSO An Extra Quality White-wove five- quire package of Commercial Note- paper a; 15 CENTS PER PACKAGE. We have s COMPLETE ASSORTMENT of WRITING PAPERS AND ENVEL- OPES In great variety of shapes and colors. 35¢ and 45¢line of HURD 5 NE'S goods are WONDERFUL ® ® ® ® ® @ ® ® ® ® {00 000000 @ VALUES. Agents for the WATERMAN IDEAL FOUNTAIN PEN. EUGENE € DAVIS FORMER BRANCH STORE GOLDEN RULE BAZAAR, 1234 MARKET ST. [0000000000000000I00000 0000000000000 CIO000C00CI0C0000. [COO0ODOCIO000000CI00000000, [Q0000000000000CO0COCCUOCE AUCTION — BY VON RHEIN & CO0.,, TUESDAY TUESDAY - - - SEPTEMBER 7, 1807, At 12 M. Sharp, at Salesroom, 513 CALIFORN'A ST. “Stevenson Block” SW. Corner of Montgomery and California Streets. LOT 59120, WITH L 6160. 12 STORES AND 70 OFFICES. ELECTRIC ELEVATOR. Under present depressing conditions of busi- ness, after deducting taxes, repairs and expenses of every kind and naturs, the property ylelds A Stirictly Net.Income INOWr!t of $12,000 per Year The Undersigned are Prepared to OPEN THEIR BOOKS intending purchasers, showing the o ome i outgo for the last 10 vears. ‘Al other particulars on application to O. F. VON RHEIN & CO,, Auctioneers,