The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1897, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCI SCO CALL, MONDAY. 25, OCTOBER 1897, WORDS THAT WILL RING ALL OVER THE STATE OME of the gravest charges ever S uttered concerning the Governor of a State or the management of a public institution fell from the lips or Rev, C. W, Wendte and John P. Irish at the Oak- land Unitaria Church last night. Before an audience of thoughtful and prom:inent men and women, most ot them members of the Starr Kin Fraternity, the speakers alleged that the Whittier and lone reform schools for boys and girls are conducted in such a way as to debauch and corrupt the cirls and forever wipe out the benefits of the institution for boys. &#ii”ii‘”i‘i@"*’ ryy CORRUPT INSTITUTIOAMS, REV. C. W. WENDTE—I am worry that investigation shows that the Whittier avd Tone reform schools ought to be closed. Ihave a letter from L. H. Brown, Secretary of State, who has made an investigation of these institutions, and gives it as his deliberate opin- jon that both ought to be cleansed or closed at once. At Whittier it is shown that girls are corrupted and that they are not watched or cared for when they &re sen: away from the piace. Both these schools are in theirpresent base and shame- ful condition bscause the them wholly seifish Gov- ernor has made subservient to his and ignoble purposes. f"\’fi AEAEEAASESERN 6 S8 Sk K *1 charge that Governor Budd’s crimi- nally corrupt administraiion has put back these schcois a decade,” said John P Irish, “and that all the benefits of these institutions bave been subverted for the basest and most corrupt political pur- poses. I charge that, in spite of the fact that statistics show that California cares own PRV RPR RV PPV PR VIRV RP IRV PEP AAAAAAASAAAARREA i(QQifiQQQQQQ§ Grave Charges Regarding Reform Schoo for its delinquent and dependent classes for less per capita than any other Siate, Governor Budd has sought 1o malizn the State, to lie zbout conditions, so as to set a faise and infamous pretext to justify his criminal career in overthrowing all order and giving places 1o the lowest &nd most brutal politicians that ever infested the commonwealth. “The management of the reform schools was once good, but under Budd’s reign boys have been stood up in platoons and whipped until they fainted, blood ranning into their shoes. Some of the grest insti- tutions have been practically destroyed by bands of thieves jut in control by a corrupt and selfishly designing Gov- ernor.” The audience which heard this speech hsd assembled to hear a discussion of penological questions and prison reform along the line hereiofore mapoed out by fuE Carn Oneof the principal speakers R v. C.W. Wendie snd his state- ments were even more startling, for he quoted the pre-ent Secretary of State as authority for his grave and f r-reaching charges. Among other things he said: “I am sorry that investiga ion shows that the Whittier and Ione reform schools ought to be closed. I havea letter from L. H. Brown, Secretary of State, who has mede an investigation of these institu- tions, and he gives it as his deliberate opinion that both ought to be cleansed closed at once. At Whittier it is shown that girls are corrupied and that they are not watched or cared for when they are sent away from the place. Both these schools are in their present bYase and shameful condition because the Governor has made them whelly subservient to his own selfish and ignobie yurposes. “It 1s the same witn prisons and asylums all over the Siate, They are all subservient to peiitics of the lowest ana most shameful character. What is said Methods. about these things applies in another way to the penitentiaries, as THE CAtL has shown anu is showing day after day in many columns of interesting reading. I shall do all in my power to help that paper in its fizht for reform.” John P. Irish related how he had failed some months ago to be able to get facts into ceriain mewspapers because they re- flecied on the conduct of the Governor. He found that some of the editors had been asking to bave friends put in office. He then went to a magazine, but the editor would not print atything about the debauching of puolic institutions because he wantea the Governor’s aid to get his magazine adopted in the schools asa text- book on morals and manners, [Laughter.] Miss Mollie Connors, the well-known educator, made a speech on reform, with particular reference to childhood. Among other things she held that there was some hope that public prisons for men, women and children would be taken out of poli- tics and reformed, because the scandal was now becoming so great that the peo- ple could no longer forgive the offenders. She said there was a kind feeling for little children that would cause people to de- mand an investigatiou. “The cnething that I can never forget and forgive,” she said, “is the brutal way they treated the littie boys at Ione. When they protested against ill-treatmen, they were not ressoned with or treatei better, but they were flogged shamefuily until they fainted. You must remember that these homes are bad at best. The day of their end cannot be far away. Men, women and children were not made to live in congregations and do things by concert. The congregate svstem and its evils are doomed, but we must tolerate tlem so loag as we have these places as aids to the children during the pericd when the State is tinding them homes. Under the coming system and its more humane remedies we must see to it that they are not run in a way that i« brutal and shocking to all ideas of justice and decency. I am glad, in a way, that the abuses are so bad as to have attracted attention, for that is the only way we can ever reach reform.” Charles A. Murdock read & paper on the prevention of crime. Incidentally heex pressed himself as in favor of the system of reform in prisons advocated by THE CALL. Hesaia it was a sad fact that the coudition of mo:t of the 2000 prisoners of the State penitentiary was quite hope- less. “'The present system is so conducted,” be said, “‘as (0o make the vast mass of the convicts more dangerous to society when they come out than when they enter the vrisons. We need a State Board of Chari- ties to have general supervision over all such matters and to see that all these abuses are held in check.” Mr. Irish cautioned the speaker that there was a scheme on hand already, fos- tered by the Governor, ty which it was scught ‘o est: biih a different brard than the lecturer had in view—a sort of cor- rupt board of charities, clothed with power .o control vast expenditures and pitronage. He said such a board would be worse than none at all, “and would vive a cunning and designing man like udd a chan to further exiend his vower shameluliy, along familiur lines ¢f corruption ”’ Before the meeting adjourned a motion was carried '0 recommend to the next Legisiature the establishment of a boara to supervise prisons and charities, said board to be freed from the control of money or patronage, After this the meeting adjourned, all present feeling that tuey had been in- structed in the ways of reform as outlined ?i’iiii)i’i rre ey 93’% < IRISH MAKES GRAVE CHARGES, JOHN P. IRISH—T charge that Governor Budd’s criminal and base political administration tas net back the work of prog- Tess ten years ut Whittier and Tone. I charge that boys have been stood up iu pintoons and whipped until they fainted, while blood ran down to their shoes, and I charge that in the presence of these iniquities the political press of the State has stood with a dumb tongue in its mouth. I charge, further, that a criminally corrupt and politicaliy base adminictration has maligned the State by say- ing that the cost of maintai ing our delinquents and defec- tives is excessive, in face of the fact that statistics show that wemaintain them more cheaply than any of the great States of the Union. All these lies have been circulated as a pretext to enable the Governor to put low and infamous politicians in charge, bands of thieves being at the helm in many cases that I can name. G ThAREA AR SR AAY SELEEERTL by the Starr King Fraternity and that the fraternity’s stock of lecturers will need no srecial drill in the art of forcible and clear expres-ion of hopes, opinions and de- m nds. | PRV PVRR RN R VRPPRR VR RER R RPN PY AAAAAEE SR RS SRR AR A ARR R AR AAAEEE A S AR FERRrrrvrry i) x This will give it the stamp | I of authority, and the proclama- EUNHUERS ’ felder’s oxytuberculin is a suc- | | tion will be a medical as well as a THE WHITE PLAGUE Cooper Medical College Will | Proclaim Victory Over Consumption. ‘ DR. EIRSCHFELD S TRIUMPH. A Committee of the Faculty| Investigates Actual Results With Oxytuberculin, e | SAW SEVENTEEN (URED N’HEKTS.} £ [ The Committee's Report, Soon to Be Given, Promises to Startle the World of Medicine. B The first successful remecdy for | consumption, the great “white | plague” which kills nuc-sc\'.:nth:v of the human beings born into | the world, has at last been pro-: | have acquired much faith | berculin, its preparation, use and effscts, popular sensation throughout the | world. | There was a meeting of physicians at Cooper Medical College yesterday that | was of world-wide significance. As a result of the meeting it will be | prociaimed to the worid, with all the | weight of authority that a medical college | of recognized high rank can give, that the oxytubercu.in treatment of consumption | originated by Dr. J. O. Hirsch.eider of | this city and by him patentiy experi-| mented with for two years is a success, | The medical pro‘ession and to some de- | gree the public have known more or less | of Dr Hirschfelder's treatment for several | months and favorable reports of it huve | recent!y appeared in leading medica! jour- nals, but few, either physicians or laymen, | in i, as is natural with such a thing in the experi- mental stage. | But Dr. Hirschfelder's individual pub- | lishied reports are one thing and a report signed by eminent phys.cians represent- ing such an institution is another thing. | The latter will project oxytub:rculin up to the notice ot the entire world, command attention for it and produce eitner cong- dence in it or & readiress to try it at ance. At the meeting of the State Medical As- sociation here in May Dr. Hirschisider read a paper describing fully his oxytu- reciting definite resuits in cases described and sayiog: “I believe I have proved be- yond a reasonable doubt that consump- iion may be cured with oxytuberculin if administerea before the later stagesof the di ease.” This was practically the first definite re- port Dr. Hirschfelder had made on the patient experiments he had been pursuing for nearly two years. The paper at- tracted considerable attention. Dr. Hirsch- feider i« professor of clinical medicine in | Cooper Medical College, and a number of his associatesin the faculiy watched closely the progress of his work. Recently it was thought the time had come when the efficacy or failure of oxytuberculin should be determined and made known to the medical world in a de- cisive way. A committee was appointed to investigate and prepare a report whicn should eo forth to tte world of science. DR. J. O. EIRSCHFELDER. duced by medical science, and here in San Francisco. Yesterday the faculty of Cooper Medical College, through a com- mittee, formally investigated the results of Dr. J. O. Hirschfelder’s oxytuberculin, examining seven- teen patients who had been wholly cured, some of the cases having been of the last stage and pro- nounced hopeless before Dr. Hirschfelder’s treatment began. This treatment has been known by report before, but it has not before passed the experimental stage, and it has been regarded as but an experiment. Now the fac- ulty of Cooper College will for- mally proclaim to the world of medical science that Dr. Hirsch- The committee consisted of Dr. Lane, president of the coilege; Dr. H-nry Gibbons Jr., dean of the faculty, and Drs. C. N. Ellinwood, A. Barkan and . H. Plummer. This committee invited Dr. Hirsch- felder to appear with such patients as he could produce, and he came with seven- teen hale and hearty people who were, a few months before, in the clutches of the dread disease. There were al:o present quite a large number of other physicians, who were greatly inierested. It was testified bv physicians familiar L C Wwith the ca: that some of the cases classified ‘much improved,” could justly have been reckoned as “*cured.” It was stated that by cured was meant that the zerms of tuberculosis had been ubsent rom the soputum fora long period afier repeated examinations; that the patient had ceased coughing and looked and felt well, aud that the most careful examina- tion of the lungs did not reveal the slight- est symptoms of the disease. Wkal was being investigated was actual resuits, and in the course of his statement to the committee Dr. Hirschfelder submit- mitted a table showing the resuits of his | life six months by goins to Arizona. {1 had deciined to treat as being too far ad- | | treatment in the seventy cases if which | he has used it. He stated that in the | classification of the cases according to the | four stages of the disease the later ones were aways given the benefit of any | doubt and that in all ways the statement The table is was mcre than conservative. as follow STAGE OF DisEssE Fouith | Third.. ... 0o | Second First... | . e e | Total... (R i The seventeen patients were surprising | evidences of the efficacy of tubercuiin | according to puysiciins present. Tom | Williams, the wideiy-known horseman, had come from Los Angeles to present | himself in behalf 6f the remedy that had | saved his life. | He testitied that be bad been told by | eminent physicians in the East that the | best he could hope for was to prolong ll:{n | e bad said that he gu-ssed he would prefer three weeks of pleasurs in Paris, and faced | death. Hearing of oxytuberculin, he ! came to Dr. Hirschfelder here in October | last. He was cured 1n six months oy the | injections of oxytuberculin. When he | began the treatment he would pant for breath at the slightest exertion; now he | walks miles a day, and aeclares himself | ready for a race to San Jose. He has been examined and pronoanced perfectiy cured by six physicians. | Miss Norma Rolfe of Stockton was an- other of the patients, She was in the second stage of the disease in October last, | when she began the treatmeut, and | coughed constantly. Her cough ceased | in three weeks and she has been perlectly | well for six months past. Another one was a farmer who had come up from Soauel to be present. In November, 1805, he was in the last stages of the aisease and his case was hopeless, but he went home wholly cured. These are typical of the seventeen cases, and each individual was thumped and thorougnly examined for traces of the disease, while the record of each case was fully taken. | The committee will not formulate its re- port for several days, and none of the members are wiliin - to say anything| about it until it is ready, but the informa- | tion comes from several physicians inhat | the evidence of the eflicacy of the oxyiu- | berculin is considerea amule -anda reliable | by the commitiee, and that the report | will be to that effect. | This new remedy differs frcm Koch's tuberculin, which 'is now generally re- jected, largely in its being oxydized tubercalin, and so free from and fortified against the effects which have condemued | Koch’s discovery. In his paper of last | April, Dr, Hirsch:eider said: | Of the very advanced cases many have shown marked improvement, aud many whom var.ced,but who pleaded so hard ior the treat- ment that Icould not refu-e, bave surprised | me by the wonde:ful improvement they have | shown. | A RESTAURANT BURNED, Fire Causes Two Alarms From Davis | and Washington Streets, but Not Much Damnge. A line of onme and two-story tumble- down frame buildings fronting on Davis and Jackson streets narrowly escaped total destruction by fire early this morn- Ing. %he bl aze originated in the rearof Jacks & Blass’ restaurant, 104 Jackson streer, and owing to the flimsy and inflammable character of the building, soon commu- nicated to adjoining proverties. Special Officer George T. Nicliols was the first to see the blaze and he turned in an alarm from box 10. A jew minutes later, as the fire assumed quite formidable pro- portions, a second call was turned in. The department soon bad several streams playing on the flames and in half an hour they were extinguishea. It is es- timated that the total damage will notex- ceed $:500. The loss is about evenly divided be- tween the owner of the buildines, J. G. Gibson, and the occupants—Guerra & Bacigalapi, proprietors of the Healdsbure wine depot. 507 Davis street; J. Simpeon, druggist, 505 Davis street; George von Sta- | den, owner oi ““George's” salon, 501 Da vis | street; Punnelli & Co., wegon-makers, 511 | Davis street, and Jacks and Blass, restau- | rant-keeper: | BITTEN BY A SPIDER, | Fainful Experience of Thomas McCall While Walking on Sixth Street Thomas McCall, living on Twenty-first street, near Kentucky, bad a psiniul ex- perience yesterday alternoon. He was walking along Sixth street and while crossing Brannan he teit a sharp pain in his left srm as if a larcs had been thrust into it. He hastily pulied up the sleeve of his cost and a larse biack spider jumped from his arm to the ground. The bite was a severe one, an1 McCall’s arm began rapidly to swell. He hurried to the Receiving Hospital, and by that time th: arm was aimost twice 1ts natural size. Dr. Thompson applied the usual reme- dies, but it will be some days betore Mc- Call will have the proper use of his arm again, | RUSHING 10 AID AN HEIRESS and in Lawyers, Financiers Friends Interested Grace Elliott. CONGRATULATIONS POURING IN. The Heir to Australian Millions Goes to Church but Has a Busy Sabbath, AWAITING THE VEIL'S LIFTING. | Romantic Mystery of Imblay Clarke’s Life, Death and Fortune Will Be Uncovered. Grace Elliott, the little heiress to a prospective $25,000,000, went to church with her foster mother as usual vesterday from the Etliott flat on O’Farrell street 'lil:hl on the mysterious story of Imblay | Clarke and his vast estate and his famil’ history, which is a blank to Grace Eliott | and all who know her. i, This young lady has never known more i than that a probably rica man named | Imbiay Clarke left her in_an orphan asy- lum when her mother died a week after lLier birth, and then sailed away to Aus- tralia with ber mother's remuins never to | be heard of again, | | There must be those in California who | knew Imblay Clarke a generation ago, ‘anfl those who knew Mrs. Griswold and her home for friendless children, and the story will bring torth some of these and a steady accumulation of scraps of the mys- terious story, but none came yesterday To this natural process there wiil this week be added an active ferreting out of a buried romance of thy¢ cays of gold, when an attorney is secured and the case actively taken up. Imbiay Clarke 1s sup- posed to have been an eccentric man and | likely one that largely buried his life as | he went along, but now while his bones | are turning to dust in the Antipodes his | buried life will ail be dug up and shown | to a curious world. | Something, too, will soon be heard from [ the East and it will be spliced to what is | uncovered here. *“Imblay’ is an uncom- | mon name and it is regarded as unlikely thattwo such men should appear nere at the same iime, grow rich and go to Aus- tralia to die. W .iliam Elliott, the foster father of the young heiress, has seen bisown ups and downs in life, and p-rhaps he will not al- ways manage the saloon to where people trotted vesierday with all sorts of kind ad- vice. H has had two or three little for- tunes himself in his time ana the last one went glimmering shortly after ne bad the luck totake little Grace 1o his beart and home. He played at ths stock board with the others those days, but Yel- low Jacket went down ana $50,000 went up. | It is interesting to know all about what life has brought to an heiress of $25,000, 000, especiaily when she was born to shame the novelist’s imaginaticn, and so itis gratifving to know that when she was adopted, a little while before that | Yelliow Jacket deal, har proud foster pa- rents took the liitle orphan to Freud’s and baught her an outfit of soft laces and silks and pretty things that cost §170. She was a wee, delicate, pretty thing, they say, and there is a pretty liitle story about her first teething. The baby grew iretful, then sick, and then one day went into convulsions and seemed likely to die right there. The nurse grew hysterical and ran out of the front door of the home The Heiress, Grace Elliott, and He, Foster Fathe: and Mother. and otherwise tried to pursue the usual course of daily affairs; but the great double romance of her life would not dov{n and it filled her Sunday witn bustle, excitement and flutterings, whica left lit- tle room for quiet peace and meditation. They began to appear yesterday—the people itching to get into a $25,000,000 case. Several inwyers and frien is of law- yers tried to find a path to a clutch on her claims, calling at the home or on Mr. Elliott, who manages the saloon at 141 Montgomery street, corner of Bush. Even S0 earlv as yesterday morning people rushed up to offer financial aid on a con- tingent interest. There were three offers of this kind—two from strangers—that came with the day. But more p'easing was the disp! of friends that came with the first day after the publication of the romantic ana glit- tering story. Miss Grace has won a host of friends in her large circle of church and other acquaintances, and they kept dropping ia at 628 O’ Farrell street to ten- der congratulations and express delighted surprise. A number of telegrams of con- gratulation came also from Fresno and elsewhere where the family bas lived and won friends. But the aay brought the Elliotts no new 3. 3%q .. P o e o ‘o 5 o ° ) o o & ° 2 * H 2 ° 9 ° e ° 5 o o o T 9 o o ”’)"aq )\a( ;,/a“’ : ot ot on Eilis street, making a fuss, with the vague id2a of getting help somewhere. . Dr. J. I Staliard pappened to be rid- ing past on horseback wich bis tools and pillbox in his pockets and he saw whal was the matter witn the baby and in two minutes had lanced the gum where the first tooth was strugeling out, and Dr. ‘TREATED WITH BQUISINE, Stallard remained the orphan’s physi- cian ever singe, If Grace Margaret Elliott gets miliions of dollars, the first thipg she will do with TO-DAY 'DRESS - GOODS! — - DRY GOODS. A Magnificent line of New Goods, just opened. The following three lines are special and will be on sale this week : 2 cases FRENCH AND GE RMAN NOVELTY PLAIDS, twenty different designs— 1 case 44-INCH TWO-TONED ETAMINE, in the fol- Brown and Green, Black and Red, lowing colors: 50c Yard. Purple znd Blue, Red and Green, Blue and Black and Heliotrope and Green— 75c¢ Yard. : 1 case FANCY FRENCH WOOL GRANITE," 44 inches wide, in all the new colorings— $1.00 Yard. Full line of FUR TRIMMINGS received and will be on sale this week. Clernois ORPORA, s <0 e 111, 113, i13, 117, 119, 121 POST SIhecd, some of it will be to bandsomely endow a | home for orphans and friendless children here in San Francisc), she savs. And| another pleasure wili be to gratify every wish which her foster pazents can crowd into their beart | Boys Are to Bs Made Secure Against Drunkenness by Inoculation, Dr. d’Evelyn Thinks All Youths Should Take the Treatment as a Preventive. The boys of the Youths’ Directory who have been recently inoculated with equi- sine in order to render them proof against the desire for strong drink are getting along nicely and were no more incon- venienced by the operation than if they had been vaccinated. Father Crowley, when seen last night about them, said he was not taking much interest in the matter himself, as he bad | given the subject no study and had no ! opinion as to the adequacy of the overa- tion. However, as Superintendent Frank Kane thought it wou.d be zood for the youths, he made no objection to having some of them taken down to the office and huve Dx @’ Evelyn pus into their blood his ‘‘rrevention of (runkenes-..”’ Father Crowley was sa.i.fied that it could do the boys no harm at any rate. and if there shou d be any benefit in it he would be glad for his charges to profit by it. He thought about half a| dozen of the boys had been inoculated, | and of these there were three whose parents were victims of alcohol. Only a ! very small proportion of the boys at the directory are the children of drunken parents. Dr. ¢’Evelyn says that the number of boys from the Youths’ -Directory whom be has inoculated now rzach tw lve or thirteen, and that he will continue to work on them a few at a time until all of the inmates have been made secure against iurking germs of alcoholism. He cays the parentage of all these thirteen had been inquired into and found to be such that the cuildren were liable to inherit the thirst for liquor. B sides this evidence of their need of trestment, the boys’ biood was carefullv examined and found to contain strong iraces of sleceyt- ism. The docior«o s not think the treat- ment should be confined to boys of such parentage and such dis ased Dblood, but that, as a preventive, all should be in- oculated. Perbaps every one, said he, has a taint of the thirst for liquor handed down from some mcre or less distant ancestry, and this ig liable to vreak out at any time by | the power of atavism. TS Criminal Assault. William Bontham, nn agent for nickel-in- the-slot machines, liviig on Twenty-fifth street, was arrested carly yesterday morning by Frank Holbrook, secretary of the Eureka Society jor tne Suporession of Vice, on the charge of criminally ssswulti; i sister-in- iaw, Lyca Bergman, a pretiy zirl 14 years of age Bontham claims itisa case of persecu- | 0 on the part of nis Inther-t compelled nis wife to leave ni A borse always ge.s up on its forelegs first, and a cow dire~t!v ‘he opposite. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. o - e o8 MOBERG OWEN &CO. 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