The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1897, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1S97. GUNST HAY BE REMOVED CHIEE EXECUTIVE Rumor Bas It That the Governor Will Take a Hand: in the Row Now on Between the Com- missioner PLENTY OF LAW TO WARRANT IT. The ““ Call’s* Diagnosis of the " Upper Office”” Pronounced Correct. OBSOLETE METHODS SHOULD GO, Gunst, the Fighting Member of the Police Board, Is Reported to Be Very Ill at His Home. Predictions are made at the City Hall | that Governor Budd will enter the fight between Gurst und Lees by revcking the commission of Gunst and appointing a well-known citizen to the office of Police Commission: This caused the talkers to examine the opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of Menzies against Gunst, wherein it was hel | that the Gov- rnor couid only appoint to fill a vacancy. No matter what that decision is,’" re- marked one of the talkers, ‘‘the Governor can oust Gunst any day that he desires. I know a man who can produce the law for the proceeding in twenty minutes. No difference if the old McCoppin act, under which Alvord and Tobin were appointed, did not specity any term of office, the Gov- ernor can appoint for only four years. Markham appointed Burns for four years and when Burns resigned Mar m ap- vointed Gunst to fill the vaca unexpired term. “The term of four vears for which Burns | was originally appointed has expired and Governor Budd can appoint a man to suc- ceed Gunst, and I understand that he in- tends to do so, and bas his man picked out. Tobin and Alvord may hold ior iife, but in the face of tie decision in the Men- | zies case, and in the Hammond-Hinton case, I maintain that the Supreme Court would now sustain the Governor in ap- pointing a Police Commissioner for four years. When Budd removed Gunst and appoin ed Menzies the term of four years for whicn Burns was appointed had not expired. It is a different question now, and the court might change the doctrine advanced in the Hiaton-Hammond case.” The d agnosis of the “upper office” of the Police Department in vesterday’s CALL i: pronmounced correct by the ex- perts. It is said that Mose Gunst has scored one point against L-es in the con- troversy. The place of all plac-s mn the department that needs overbauling and readjustment is the *‘upper office.”” The metuods employed by the old school of detectives are pronounced obsolete and anything but modern and uv to date. It is said to be no wonder that murderers and perpetrators of crimes other than murder have managed to escape the vigi- | lance of the police, for the simple reason that offenders understand the old system of detection which the department uses. An expert detective was asked yester day to explain wherein the “upper office’ is inefficient. He remarked: “I cannot go into details, but [ can tell youina general way that the office is behind the times. His business throws him in contact with men of the world—men who are alive and know that they are not dead. You take the city merci.ant and as a rale you find | vhat is going | him up to date. He knows on here and in other cities, Commis- sioner Gunst is a good »¥ pe of the success- ful basiness man. He has gained a gooa position in the world by square dealing and close atiention to his business. He knows vastly more about what the Police Department needs, also its faults and its weaknesses, than his associates on the board. He hasseen the world within the last thirty years and taken notes of many things. He has not told me that the ‘up- r office’ is behina the times, but he nows that the brightest men on the force are ignored.”’ “'Is there one really capable and thor- oughlv efficient man in the detective force?” was asked. “Yes,’ replied the expert. *I can name one. Beeis a first-class man.”’ “Can you name another?” After some hesitation the expert replied : *I cannot mention another now on duty in the *upper office.” Ask any one toin- form vou what Seymour has ever done, Ask what the others heve ever done. Yes, the sysiem on which thev work is be- hind the times. Of course stool-pigeons can be used with success occasionally in peity cases. One thief will give away an- other now just as thieves iniormed on each other in former times. “The point 1 want to make is this, that criminals are bringing more skill and ed- | ucation into the pursuit of crim= than they formerly brought. They travel more, study harder, zet voung men of gooa fam- ilies interested with them. Bonsof clergy- men,bankers, merchants and professional wen may go crooked sometimes,and seek, under cover, to do a turn with a regular crook. If adetective 18 not a man oi the world, alert, fuli of tact and sound judg- ment, he will be joshed to his face by the clever crooks.”” “What value woull vou place on the | . —— NEW TO-DAY. SALT RHEUM Most torturing and disfiguring of itching, burning, scaly skin and scalp humors is stantly relieved by 8 warm bath with Curi- CURA SOAP, a single application of CUTICURA (ointment), the great skin cure,and a full dose of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures, when all else fails. (uticura oughoutthe worid. Drvo axp Cazx. Tasold throng RO W e SaltKneum, free. Dot imply Faces. Baby Blemishes, EALLING HAIR iy y for the Gunst is aead right in his criti- | cism. Hespeaks from actual knowledge, | el and Lees. was the next question asked of the eapert. “Ishould say that it had ne, as priv. ST ] criticism of a private detective agency?'" | littie or no ale detectives work on dif- It is their business to get \oiey out of every case. When a young | man in a bauk ur mercantile house goes | crooked the private detective telis the | father, sisters and motner of the erring | one’s guilt. They are brought to the presence of the weeping and distressed voungster and induced to money to make good the embezz ement and pay the aetectives for the work of investigation. Yes, it might be to the advantage of pri- | vate detective agencies to have weak and inexperienced men employed on the regu- lar force.” An o!d-time citizen who has known the ins and outs of San Francisco for many | years told a CALL reporter yes'erday that | the fight on the “unper office’” was a new | move on the part of Commissioner Gunst { to get some friends on the inside before the racing season opens. The situation was explained in this tashion: “Gunst now sees that he cannot get Wittman 1n as chief, o he has resolved to get invide by the district system of de- | tectives. With a man on the inside of the tenderloin district who would not be obliged 10 report everything to Lses, Gunst could do busine: As matters stand now Lees hogs everything in sight. | He will let 1he detectives take charge of the petty cases—the stealing of a diamond | ring from a sport or something of that kind, but when it comes to a big case of forgery or embezzlement, in wh ¢t a bank or prominent merchant is concerned Lees takes charge of the affair himself. These big cases are the kind that Gunst would like to have inside knowledge of, ana he cannot get 11 unless there is a new deal in the ‘upver office.’ In an open fight Lees can always make Gunst quit, bacause the ! Chief has points trom away back to help him. Gunst is right about the weakness and old-fashioned, out-of-date metnods of the ‘upper oflice,” but there will be no | change as loug as Lees is permitted to run tie department. *Gunst made a horrible | ing up the tight on Lees at this time. break in open- We would have had an open town this winier | if Gunst had kent his mouth closed. the sports ars kicking now and ming unst forthe break. Everything promised a great season at the opening ol the Ingle- side races, but now Gunst will make noth- ngand bis friends will not be permitted to doany business.”” The opening of the controversy between | Chief Lees aud Commissioner Gunst is the talk of the hour at the new City Hall. | The assertion of the police that there is no faro in San Francisco is challenged. | A well-known office-noiaer, in the Grand Jury ante-room, said yesterda : | *Idonotwant to be quoted, but if you will stake me with $20 I will take you to- | worrow evening to a ame of faro in this | town. I do not mean 1o say that I can | take you to an open, public game, but faro will ‘be dealt if several persons desire to | | make up the game. We wonid have had | faro all winter if Gunst and Lees hat not got into this squabble. Joe Harvey and Billy Dormer, who are square sporis and rich men, ran a game at the Palace durin the last racing season, and thev exvected to open out again on t e 1st of Noveniber. | All the spoit: were looking forward to a good season, but now the prospect is any- thing but brignt. The gamblers are curs- ing the town.” A CaLn_ representative called at tae Gunst residence last evening and upon usking to see Mr. Gunst was asked 1o wait a few moments. Snorlly after a message came from Mrs. Gunst saying that the | Commissioner was very ill and could see nobody. SHORT-LIVED LIBERTY. C. Lee Stone, an Insane Patient, Walks Unobserved Out of the Keceiving Hospital, C. Lee Stone of 713 Post street was | arrested yesterday afternoon . on the com- | plaint of his brother, who charged him | with being insane. | He was placed in a padded cell in the | Receiving Hospital, but through an over- | sight the padlock on the bar across the | door was not locked. | About 4 o'clock Stone put his arm | through the wicket in the door and | forced the bar off. Opening the aoor he walked along the corridor and out of the hospital unobserved. Halt an hour afterward. before his ab- sence haa been discovered, Steward Bucher happened to go into the Good Feilows’ Grotto, and was surprised to see Stone sft- ting at one of the tables eating a sand- :u:n and with a glass of beer in front of im. Bucher sat down beside him and kept him in conversation till he had finished his sandwich and beer. Then he took him by the arm and led him pack to the hos- pital. where he was securely locked up, Stone is a victim of the cocaine habit, { and has been in an insane asylum before, UNDERWRITERS ARE SERENE. They Say Incurance Commissioner Clunie Is Not Worrying Them. The declaration of Insurance Commis- sioner Ciunie that the Board of Under- writers of the Pacific Coast s an in- iquitous compact, which should be made to feel the weight of cariain adver-e sec- tions of the code, is not causing the in- surance men to lose any sleep if William | J. Dution, chairman of the executive | committee of the board, is to be believed. He ¢ he has not read wbat Mr. Clunie has said concerning his organization, but that the compact is a benefit to the in- sured, as it permits the underwriters to save expense and thus write policies cheaper. “With the compaci,” be said, “we are abie to fix a rate that we know | will yield a certaic amount. With the compact ve are underwriters, not gam- blers.” ——— Special Musical Service. At the Church of the Advent, Eleventh street, near Market, there will be a special musical service lo-morrow evening at 7:45 o'clock sharp. Among the special numbers will be the processional hymn, ‘‘Whene'er the Sweet Church Beli” (Baraby), the famous chorus from “Naamnn” (Costa); a bass solo by Mozart, sung by W. W. Erskine and chorus, and “ihe Heavens Are Teiling,” from *“The Creation” (Haydn). 7The benediction bymn will be sung by the full choir of fifty meu snd boys, in full vestmen's, in _the form of a cross, beiore the mitar. The entire music will be under the direction of Professor ienry Kirke | Whoite Jr. George R. King, organist. ———————— Y. W. C. A. Mesting. Mrs. Carrie Judd Montgomery of the Salva- tion Army will deliver an sddress at the Young Women’s Christian Assoctation, 1221 O'Farrell street to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'ciock. 1hese meetings sre open to all. The managers of the association have arranged for & number of prominent speakers and sing- ers for the Sunday aiternoon meetings. Y 1. JOHN W. HENDRIE, Who Has Given $25,000 to the Mercantile | o HINTR ™ HENTA The Mercantile Library to, Show; Appreciationfof: | F5r e 0 s net = I in mercantile pursuits in tbis city and in Its Benefactor. ! branch stores in oiher parts of tie State. He formed a partnersuip with H. M. Lock- his excellent nealth to the fact that in his youth he was employed ,in building stone walls, blasting rccks and doing ordinary farmwork. When ne was 22 years old he secured a | position as texcner at a district school, re- | cervine the compensation of $17 a month, This income he was able to augment very | considerably by enga in the lobster in | indastry and net-tishing. | The income from his fisheries would | sometimes go as hieh as $60 pec month. | He afierward taught a: the Hopkins { Grammar Scuool 1 New Haven, Conn.. and {rom that place entered Yale. For| three vears afiter graduation he took charge of amford University, but the gold fever seized him and he came to { Caltiornia. He had collected about $100) with which to start to th.s State. With this begin- ning, and with bis own industry an« zeal and business ability for his principal capi- tal, he succeeded so well that in nine years he was able 10 permanently retire with no smal! une. wood in New York, the latter gentleman | paying aitention to the manufacturing of { ihe goods. AIDED IN TIME OF DINTRESS. Mr. Hendrie spends his winters in this State, and though a man of 76, could ea-ily pass for 50. He could not bear 10 see an | organization iike ¢he Mercantile Library | o out of existence for the lack of funds; Property Given to Help Clear | bence his donation, which he gave in the hopes that others wou:d do likewise. the Debt on the Pres- ‘Ihe reception 15 to ve held at the Mer- ent Building. | cantile Library building on November 3. | The mext issue of the book | page of * he nnday Call L'FE 0F A ClLll"OR 1 HO‘EER | will be of especial interest, g T % g ‘('unlnlningnnlon.'; other things {2 review of Mark ‘Twain's | latest work, said by many of | his admirers 1o be the n. | miest. e article will be ac- companied by copious extracts. —————— The Veteran Vote. | Editor San Francisco Call: Your Los Angeles correspondent, in special dispatch of date Oc- tover 16, states as follows (referring to the old so.diers): “Their voting strength, including the inmates of the Soidiers’ Home at Santa John W. Hendrie, who, when the institu- | Monica, is close 10 2000.” Let the correction be made, please, that at the home there are tion was in financial distress last June, o g o i ; - i A 5 | over 15 nmates. In the seventy county bestowed upon it $25,000 worth of prop- | preciners antside of ihe home we have up- erty. ward of 1500 more, and in tne seventy-iour The indebtedness at first amounted to | City pie :'l‘nflx;“'«"rlé:\;;l"}em; HO0UNR $75.000, the most of which was -incurred | (Jiimaced ai 5000 16 G000 voters. R by moving the library from Bash street, | (ullly)mr ; M. FAIRBA e § | Peast colo { Los Angeles Camp No. 8, several years ago, to its present location, el ‘; glouel o ol | Army and Navy Republican League. Golden Gate and Van Ness avenues. e il 4 St o hl\lr. Henkdne, whor fi“m:edwh::: ‘c'ulye Bobies s oa et thisee hW“l ol st s Harry Rogers, the Canadian high roller, was with Miswiim ot Df, aad et Muy wob- | it sie oneingy yauledin atiinces s sented to the building fund of the college | 3200 bonds accepted by Judge Joachimsen, i P $50,000. He wired to his friends in Toronto for enough He was born in November, 1821, at | Sound Beach, Conn., on a farm on which be now spends his summers. He credits Made His Great Fortnne in This State and Remembered Its Institutions. The board of trustees and the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Mercantile Library are mak ng preparations for a reception to mouey to pay off his iudebtedness to the Ho- tel Pieasanton and Faiace Hotel, and the probability is that the City Prison will see him no more. TO-MORROW’S GREAT GAME. Nothing can break tbe hoodoo which floats over Central Park like a December fog over a California iandscave. You can’t puncture that hoodoo. A hsrveyized = steel piate or one of our modern warships might be penetrated by a pea shot from the blowgun of a boy, but as for that hoo- doo—well, how futile are words and com- parisons! To-morrow at Recreation Park a great big live game of baseball will be played. Nothing can stop it, not even unpropi- tious skies, the storm and rage of ele- ments. There is no hcodoo on to-morrow’s game at Recreation Park. Good ball- playing never permits of a hoodoo being on the grounds. Sometimes it allows a bias and unjust umpire, but his time is fleeting Jike an iridescent dream. With a hoodoo it is differeni. Like Banquo's ghost it will not down. Now, who wants to see a game where a boodoo g'bberingly stalks forth and casts 2 pall over all? People want to see a live game wity a live ball and between live players. They want no hoodoo in theirs and what's more they won’t have it. Stockton and Reliance are to meet at Recreation Park, Harper in the box for the former and Van Haitren, the great league player, for the latter. Is it nec- essary to add more? Stockton is coming down 700 strong. Ailof Oakland that takes an interest in the national game will be present. Ma- roon and white,the clubcolors of Reliance, will evervwhere appear, ana wave and ncd in the gentle breez» which fioats in from the sea, like waving fields of grain, kissed by the wayward wind of opulent summer. Bull playin ? Well, go and see the game. Stockion has got a great team; Reli- George Van Ha'tren. ance, a great team. They will putup a great game. While Harper and Van Haltren will be the opposing pitchers, the contest will not ve confined to their prowess. There wiil be hitting and fielding galore. The following is the make-up of the nines: Relianze. Positions. S(OCkao‘?i .Billings "Harper .Selna mith M. White .Monoban . Walters To-day and to-morrow Fresuo and the Alerts are scheduled to play at Sacramento. Tt is extremely doubtfu' if they will draw much of a crowd to-day; and as for to- morrow, few if any will attend. Sacramento thinks it has the greatest baseball team in the State—Gi.t Edze. To-morrow Git Elge und the Olympies cross bats at Snowflake Park in tie capital city. Every baseball enthusiast in Sacramento will attend thegame. They are on to the curves, in and out, of wty Fresno and the Alerts play in that city. The game between the Olympics and Gilt Edge that city than Hubbard’s candidacy for Mayor. creating more interest in CRIMINALS HOME, MINUS PENALTIES San Quentin a Typical Penal Colony Where 01d Offend- ers Revel, A BOWER OF BEAUTY AXD EASE. Many Criminals Find Life So Easy There That They Hasten to Return, HOW OTHER P:ISONS ARE RULED. Systems Where Rational Punishment Reforms the Best and Alarms the Worst Convicts. The further one studies the prison sys- tem of California the mors glaring do its defacts appear. Nobody biamss the wardens of either penitentiary for the fuct that both prisons are conducted in an an- tiquated and unscientific way, and no- body is more keenly aware of the defects of the system than the men who bave to combat daiiy with their evils. So long ago as the administration of Governor Perkins there was a penological inquiry by a commission of prominent citizens, of wnich W. H. Miils was chair- man, and their recommendations were scientific and far-reaching, but they were vigeon-holed slong with other data of a character not pleasing 10 the politician-. The commission soon discovered that many of the evils of the system were due to perverted politics, and that some of the men in power were as wicked as the con- victs in their charge. Several national conventions of chari- ties and corrections have discussed the prevalence of crime and marveled at the | extent of the defective, deiinquent and dependent classes in California. It was shown so long aga as the national con- vention of that body in 1888 that while there is one such derelict to each 130 rer- sons i the United States at large (here 1+ one to each seventy-one in this State. It has been estimated by conservative authorities since that time tkat the num- ber is now much greater than in the past, so that the last decade would make afar | wor-e showing, especialily in the criminai classes. Sneriff Cunningham of Stockton and Detective Hume of the Weils-Far. o sy:- tem say they can see the handiwork of the graduates of California penitentiaries in many of the more recent crimes, such as robbery, burglary and stage-robbing. There have been numerous cascs where criminals bave escaped from San Quentin and hastened to comm:t a cr.me again to be returned, preferring tie food, con- veniences and protection of that sheiter- ing home to the trials and tribulations of life on the outside. In well-conducted penal institutions the criminals grow so weary of tne discipline and monotony that the memory of their incarceration is sufficiently deterrent to work benefits in retormati One of the creat prisons of the United States is at Eimir: Y., where the dis- cipline is so firm, vet gentle, that it works great benefits. 1t dors not follow the harsh Culvinistic torture of the great Mili- bank prison in London, nor is 1. as severe as the Pentonville regime, nor as the Eng- lish Brixion penitentiary, yei its effects are most salutary. Tbe punishmentis in the monoiony and repularity of the dis- cipline ra her than in its severity and keen anguish. It has been found that the crimiual mina suffers under the restraints of law and discipline, heuce nothing curbs and diszusts rcbeilious spirits witk prison life so much as the continuity of fixed discipline. At Elmira there is plenty of goed food and exercise, but there is also & vast amount of work, miiitary drill, gym- nastics and general discipline. Some such isolation of prisoners as is seen in a miniature way in the Froebel system of punishment in kindergartens has always proved successiul in a sevarer form in prisons. Iirecogznizesthe growth of the race from the era of primitive pun- ishment, with retributive just'ce and tor- ture in harsh forms, to tha present period of reformatory penology, with punish- ment no severer than necessary to arouse the prisoners’ desire to escape a sim.iar experience, and 1o deter otners from crime by the awiul example of conse- quences. It has been the experience of nearly all students of penology that the system of Sir William Crawiord and that of Sir Wal- ter Crofton, the Irish authority, are two of the best ever invented. They are alike in many of theiressential details. Many of their points could be adooted with much benefit at San Quentin. Among other features, convicts are allowed to see their friends from the outside world but twice a year. There are distinciions in diet for prisoners, according to their con- duct. Added to this, some of them are restricied much more than others in their exercise, correspondence and general privileges. The worst bhave quite bleak rooms, and sieep on a hard board, while each grade has a separate prison garb, according to the infamy of the crime and the conduct of the prisoner wituin the penitentiary. The Crofton, or Irish, system, is seen in its perfeciion and full development in but one great prison in the world, and that is at Lepoglava, Hungary, under the super- vision of Tauffer. The gradation of prisoners there is specific and very scien- ufic. The first siage embraces a strict cellular regime, with isolation under strict rules for about nine months, subject to a shortening oi the time by good con- duct. From this stage the prisoner is ailowed association with his fellows, with more rules to obey. The third stage em- braces life in cotiages within the prison district, while the fourth and last stage embrace conditional lJiberation. Tuis plan has been very strongly indorsed by uch American venolozists” as Theodore Dwight, the well-known law writer, and F. B. Sanborn of Boston, but the influence of politics has been 50 corrupting in neariy all the Siates that it has been 1mpossible to have all the features of the plan adopted in any American penitentiary. The Elmira system isa littie hke 1. At Elmira the prisoners edit u paper and jon in a weekly debate aiter they ha reached & certain degree of advance- ment. The great defect of the California sys- tem is that tnere is far too much liveriy for all the conv.cts and an entire absence of systematic clasafication, sysiematic “‘punishment to fit the crime,” as se: forth in the “Mikadc.”” Prisoners are treated, dressed, exercised ana disciplined sub- stantially in the same way, regardless of the fact that some are hardened criminals guilty of heinous crimes. Without some } { § STy NEW TG-DAY—DRY (%DODi MACKINTOSHES —AND— UMBRELLAS —_— AT — Special Prices To-day ! of UMBRELLAS AND MACKIN',I'OSHES, which comprises the BEST PRODUCTS qf the MOST RELIABLE MANUFACTURERS, we quote the following lines TO-DAY at prices that e LA (L0 (UL ALALLLL T4 make them At §2.00- wiil be offered at §: QE = ()—LADIES' APE At $6.50" 15 ks i will be offerel & $1.25 SL5( oxid { bandles —GENTLEMEN assorted ha pars G Lt adles, wiil LADIES’ 75¢ rand:es, will be of QX —LADIES’ GLORIA U &%) dea Landles, w 7 s{ =~ —LADIES’ I At Sl-l') hanal s, stesl rods B¥ STORE OPE Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. | LAAEAHANAUAUAUAATAHAHAUAAANAMANATANAURUAHATANAHANAUALAANANAVRNAHAHA R A AAHANAASHAVATANANRT A AUAANAN AN ARV 24 Bargains Non Can Afford to Miss! MACKINTOSHES! SSES' MACKINTOSHES, in navy and mixed colors, JAPE MACKINTOSHE: "DOUBLE TEXTURE MACKINTOSHES, in double texture, with will be offered at $8. 2 S()—LADIES’ SILK-L —GENTLEMEN'S 7(;L61(1A UMBRELLAS, in UMBRELLAS! —LADIES’ COTTON GLORIA UMBRELLAS, with Dresden red at 75¢. il e offered at $1 SILK GLORIA UMBRELLAS, in natural will 3 fim1u&&sAsszuAsssfsxs;tss4L§ugwm»gmummmmuuumm n navy and black, MACKIN- . in navy and biack, 150-inch sweep, 1+ YTV R VPRV R R T TR B VO e, 15.-1nch sweep, in navy and black, NED MACKINTOSHES, will be offere t at $12 50. in navy - 28-inch, agon frames, will Le offered at $1 25. ORIA UMBRELLAS, 28-inch, in ve offered at $L MBRELLAS. in natural and Dres- be offered at $1 OCK SATURDAY EVENING. ey Murphy Building, Market and Joues Strests, SUORIUDRTILALO UM ARV B ARIURTAE JRRTULRMIIR AR AR AR AEM MG LRI ML AAM UG = I scientific treatment of the subject itis not | likely that the prison sysiem of this State will ever get out of the hands of the wo:st | class ot political bosses. | Meantime, word woes to cr'minals ali | over the world that San Quentin is the | paradi-e of the Paicific for tue snady ele- | ment of the worid. This isthe reason so | many of the convicts ask as a special favor | j 10 be semnt to er tian o Folsom. That is tte reason, also, why so | many who bave been to San'Quentin once | | basten there again. It 1s a pleasure | sround seldom equaled in the beauty and | diversity of its surroundings. The food | | | | and discipiine are congenial, while there are not enourh harsu features to annoy the criminai class, A VIOLET LONGHEON. Mrs. Colton Entertains Honor of Mrs. Phebe Hearst. s 1n | | Debutantes Who Will Receive at the Ames Tea—Mrs. Tevis to Give a Ball Mrs. Puebe Hearst was the guest of | honor at the Iuvcheon given by Mrs. Colton yeaterday af ernoon in tne privaie | dining-room at the University Ciub. The round table, at which covers were laid for twenty, was exquisitely decorated | with maidenbair and violets. In the| center of the table was a large vase filled | with the dainty airy fern, while the fra- grant purple blossoms were strewn with artisiic negligence over the snowy | damask. A border of maidenbair out-| lined the decorations. Among Mrs. Coiton’s zuests were Mrs. Hearst, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Salisbnry, Mrs. Boardman, Mrs. Keeney, Mrz, Thornton, Mrs. Girvin, Mrs. McGavin, Mrs. Gwin, Mrs. McMonagte and Mrs. Hali. T he first tea of the <eason will be given this afterncon by Mrs. Pelham Ames, complimentary to ber debutante daughter, Miss Bessie Ames. The spacious parlors of the Ames resi- | dence, on Taylor street, will be placed at the disposal of the guests, two hundred | in number and all young iolks. Miss Ames will be as-istea 1in receiving by Miss Mamie Po hemu Davidson, M ss Ewnel Pait une Biakeman, Miss Ethel Keeney, Miss | Marie Welis, Miss Chariotte Eilinwood, Miss Helen Thornton, Miss Liliie Fo and Miss Harriet Allen. The Lours of the tea are from 5 uili 7. | although tne promise of the season is | unusuaily bright and gay, stiil ali the | affairs arranged for wiil be probably oui- | deme in the point of elezance and br liaucy by the bali to be by Mrs. { Lloyd Tevis on the 8tu of December, com- plimentary to her debutante wrand- daughter,” Miss Susie Blanding, ant 10| the Misses Kate and Margaret Salisburv. | This w.ll be the first time in many years | that tue Tevis home will te thrown oven to the worid of fashion and much pleasure is anticipated. On Wednesday, at her hom> on Pacific avenue, Miss Florence Josselvn enter- tained eighteen vonnz= ladies at luncneon. —— — I LOST HIS JEWELRY, George Dixon, the Colored Tagil Makes » Complaint to the Police. George D xon, the colared pagil re- poried to the police Wednesduy night trat his room in the Devon House on Market sireet had been entered and his Della | Miss Leon-| diamond cuff buttons and other articles of jewelry had been stolen. Georgze admitted tnat he had some frisnds in his room and was generousiy playing the host, He conceded that one of them might have taken the articles, as it was shortly afier they bad gone that he missed them. Datectives Gibson and Wren will endeavor to eiucidate the mys- tery. REESE = Last Night of the Fair. ladies’ tair, now open in St. h's Hall, corner of Tenth and Howard streets, will close to-nignt. All artieles not disposed of will be soid atauction promytly at 9 o'clock, immediately after which the uraw- ing will take place. 50,000, Webster street, this s filed a petition in insolvency owes 50,322 97 aud has nominal asse!s. con- SiSting of shares in the Japanese Tea Importe ing Company aund other corporations. pati e Sl Insolvent I-Estate Agent. F. Gilmore, real-estate agent, has filed'a 1 in_insoivency, with debts amounting with nominal asset Faiiure f.r Ove Rober: W. Burtis of 813 aty, try a new thing - simply because it is new, but it pays to try ready-to-wear clothes —when yqu buy of us Get “stuck ”? Can’t; buy a suit, ¢ like it, keep it Don'’t like it—re- turn it and we'll re- turn your money A few specials : men’s suits over-coats aud ulsters $10 . Boys’ middy suits in solid blues and browns, also some mixed tweeds for ages 3-8 $3.50 Boys’ reefer suits, solid blue, collars and cuffs braid- ed, for ages 3-10 $2.50 Boys’ long pants suits all wool in blues and blacks round and square corners, also in mixed chesiots $7.50 ROOS BROS 27-37 Kearny corner Post 4 is on every wrapper _of CASTORIA.