The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER HLKS I HONOR A DEPARTED { Next Sunday Set Aside for a Ceremonial Ob- servance. GRAND EXALTED RULER'S ORDERS. Lodges Throughout the Country Will Observe the Day Sa- cred to the Order. ELABORATE SERVICES IN THIS CITY. An Appropriate Programme Will Be Rendergd at the California Theater. **l*ifiti*t*tilt*tlfititifi:‘k | x “Let the brothers in every city emonial observ- X | S0 impressive and appropriate that it will de 3l justice to our reputation for fratornalism, arrange for a ance of the day warm; undying while it in an aftractive manner before the citizens of this nation who also places our record are not yet members of our or- 22020 00 2 2 24 24 o 0 % K ganization."” bbbttt bod-g *k | FRAAKK AR F KR ERRAARTA KKK AR With" these words Meade D. Detweiler, | grand exalted rulerof the Benevolentana has called upon | Protective Order of y; eulory, | Hon. James' D. Phelan; orchestra, intermezz { from *Cavelieria Rusticanna” ‘(Mascagni most favorable comment and deep interest on the part of the vest elements of society. It is within the bounds of moderation to say that the manner in which the services of Eik memorial day are conducted will indicate protiy sceurately the vitalily end progressive- | ness of each lodge, and that the growth of each lodee will be ‘very nearly in proportion {0 the effectiveness of this day’s ceremonies. When men observe a brotherhood that holds in grateful and affectionate remembrance the memories and virtues of their departed asso- ciates they cannot_help but feel that such an organization has merit, justice and pure ira- ternalism for its foundstion bulwarks. We have viewed with sincere gratification our phenomenal growth during the year re- cently closed, which was more than twice that of any preceding ome. The grand exslied ruler firmly believes that this success can be traced more largely tothe favorable impres- sions made by the memorial-day ceremonies than to sny other one cause, berhaps more | than to all others combined. It is the most fervent wish and request of the grand exalted ruler that, in every lodge of the order, the dey be observed ina suitabie manner, and that the preparations for its ob- servance be made as complete and elaborate as circumstances will permit. No oratory thatyou can secure wi'l be too glowing; no music toosublime; no external | surroundings too brilliant and elaborate; no services 100 pathetic and tender, to commem- orate those with whom we once fook fraternal counsel that feoiing years of time have ush- ered into immortality. Let the brothers in every city arrange for a ceremonial observance of the day so impres- sive and appropriate that it will do full justice to our- reputation for warm, undying iratern- alism, whilst it also pisces our record in an at- tractive manner beiore the citizens of this na- tion who are Dot yet membors of our organi- zation. From the ranks of San Francisco Lodge | three have been taken by death during | the past year. Thney are Alexander E. Marchand, Dr. A. 8. Lovelace and W. P. | McEvoy, Sheriff of San Mateo County, who was shot down by Thomas Flannely, the murderer of his father, not many weeks ago. In memoriam the Elks of this city will hold their services on the day set aside by the grand exalted ruler at the Catifornia Tneater at 1 o'cloek. S. B Carieton, F. E. Beck, H. H. Sherwood, Rhys Thomas and J. H. Wood, who con- stitute the memorial committee, have prepured an eleborate and appropriate vrogramme for the observance ot the day. 1t is as follows* +Dead Maren from Saul” (Handel),orchestra, James Hamilton Howe, director; organ vol. untary, Walter A. Sabin; Harmony Choral Club, Robert Lioyd, direcior; opening cere- J. R. Howell, exalted ruler; soprano e Maria” (Louis Berge), Miss Ti responses, officers_of the lodge e; invocation, Rev.J. A. B. Wilson “Funeral March” (Chopin), A. General W. H. L. Barnes; Asionata” (Beethoven), orchestra} nor solo, “Come Unto Me” Rhys mas; violin solo, Bernnard Mollenhauer; Memoriam’' (Tennyson), Mr. he Last Muster” (Pontet), c; s0l0, Mr. Homer Hen ing od solo, oration. s erine B closing ceremonies, by the lodge; Harmo Choral Club; benediction, Rev. J. A. Emery nestra, Grand March irom ‘“‘Tanuhasuser’ (Waguer). J. R. Howell, exaited ruler of the San Francisco Lodge, and J. O. Reis, past ex- alted ruler, h determined that the “aay of sorrow” to the memory of the IMPENDING -~ DISTRESY AT DAWSON Food Supply Is Only Suffi- " cient for Thirty-Five Hundred People. | STIMATE OF THE POPULATION. Provisions Discharged by the | Bella and Weare Amounted i to 141 Tons, ALY A COMMERCIAL COMPANY FiGURES J. E. Hansen, Assistant Superintend- | ent at Dawson, Says 4500 People Are in the Distriot. The Alaska Commercial Company re- ceived yesterday expected letters from J. E. Hansen, the assistant superintendent of Dawson district of the Yukon region. | His accounts of the situation there sup- plement the intelligence supplied by the newpaper correspondents. He writes that | the steamer Bella discharged at Dawson seventy-eight tons of general provisions and the Weare discharged sixty-three tons. At Circle City the Bella left twenty- six tons, which went into the warehouse of the Alaska Commercial Company at that point. The miners by force of arms compelled the Weare to unload forty tons at the same port. The rumor that the Bella's cargo, dise | ebarged at Dawson, consisted of billiarde PROMINENT ELKS WHO WILL HONOR THE MEMORY OF THEIR DEAD. CJR i [ 1 | | i | those joined with him in fraternal fellow- ship to commemorate the lives of those tbat have received their summons and have *‘taken their chambers in the -silént halls of death.” Aseachyear passes “the reaper’ plucks from the ranks many men who in life were jolly good fellows, always benevolent, always ready to protect those in need. When they leave this world, however, they are not forgoften and their memory always livesin the minds of those with whom they were associated. . Next Bunday has been selected by the grand ex- alted ruler of the Eiks for the ceremoniat observance in mamory of those gone be- lore. .In greeting to all Elks Meade D. Detweiler has issued from his home in Harrisburg, Pa., a proclamation that tells the story of the motive that prompts the observance. - 1t reads as follows: The day is rapidiy approaching which, of all others, is specifically and characieristically sucred to our order. On the first Sunday of December of each year the Elks, loyel to the memories and virtues of their absent brothers who have completed life's feverish sirife, give » fitting public expression to their love for the departed. Not only has this beautiful tribute taken a deep bold among our membership, but it has atiracted the widespread and favorable atten- tion of the various communities in which our lodges are located. In calling the attention of the order to the approach of this memorial day the grand exalted ruler desires to impress upon the membership the importance of the ogcasion and_ its distinctively. Elk character. Qur memorial services are uniquely different {rom that of any other order, and when prop- @rlr carried out have never iailed to produce O HOWELL. J.0.REIS. | deaa will be as imvressive and appropri- ate as circumstances will permit. In this event the Elks’ ambition—to make the merriest of life ss ibey find it—w:ll, for the time, be forgotten. DRAWING THE LINES TIGHTER. A Move to Have the Two Durrant Ap- penls Dismissod. The legal representatives of the people are not losing any time in handling the matter of Theodore Durrant, the con- victed murderer of Bianche Lamont. Yes- terday afternoon acting Aitorney-General Carter filed in the State Supreme Court a notice of & motion that he will make to dismiss the appeals of Durrant from the respective orders of the Superior Court, directing his execution on April 10, and again on November 10. His purpose in this is 10 clear legally the ground so that Durrant can be again brought from San Quentin and besentenced without further delay. In such cases itis customary to give ten days’ notice, but in this instance Chief Justice Beatty made the following order: Good cause appearing, therefore, it is hereby ordered that the time within which to serve and file this notice of motion beshortened four days. The motion will be made on the grounds that Durrant was not and has not been executed and the judgment and order of the Superior Courtof this county, from which appeal was taken, was not executed on june 11, 1897, and that he is now alive, and the judgment and order appealed from has not been executed and is no longer in force or effect, and that there now ramains no involved question which may be litigated. The motion will be based upon the records and papers in said the certificate of W. E. Hale, San Quentin State priton, aud further upon a certified copy of ibe mandate of the Suprema Court of the United Staies. ——————— The Coakley Murder. The preliminary examination of Dr. Samuel H. Hall and John Coakley on the charge of murder in connection with the death of Coak- ley’s wife was commenced before Judge Con- lan yesterday atternoon. Dr. Galagher, who made the autopsy en the bady, was examined, but his cross-examination was not concluded when court adjourned. Attorney McPike made snother application for the release of Hall on bonds, bui the Judge refused. | very gay, 2, 1897, mercial Company in this city say that the Government of the United States or the Canadian Government can, if so minded, send in supplies over the land route suffi- cient to provide all the reople of Dawson with food. Jack Dalton, who understands the business, would readily undertake to iand the goods in Dawson in ample time to avert distress if the Government would pay the cost of transportation. It is merely a questiop of money. Dalton could send in one thousand tons if the United States or Canada would put up cash to yay the men for the work of packing in the goods. Superiutendent Hansen poled up the river from ¥ort Yukon to Dawson and had a hard trip. It required twenty-one days to make the journey. DR. HAWKINS PROTESTS. Says That the Business of the Morgue Cannot Be Done With Less Than Four Depatie Coroner Hawkins protests vigorously both in German and English against the decision of the charter committee of one Lundred that the numberof the Coroner's deputies should be reduced one-half. He says: “If the committee had been aware of the fact that the Morgue does not keep banking hours, that faial accidenis take place even after the close of wholesale houses on Front street, and that suicides turn up at all hours of the day ana night, it would not have arrived at the de- cision that the Coroner’s vffice could be conducted with two deputies. The office is open and ready for business every day in the year—Sundays and holidays—as well as twenty-four hours in the aay. “The head deputy is on duty twelve hours aday. He takes charge of all val- uables and papers, pays the bills, de- l:vers the valuables of the deceased to their relatives, hunts evidence, attends the murder trials at the courts, and per- forms a thousand and one other duties, many of them of the most disagreeable character.” In reply to the statement that the Coroner’s office was conducted with only two deputies sevaral years ago, Coroner Hawkins says that at that time the Morgue was in an undertaker's rooms and the undertaker’s wagon went out for the bodies, the Coroner’s messenger being assisted by one of the undertaker's em= ployes. The consequence was that there was s0o much scandal the city was obliged to wake up and get a Morgue of its own. Cuief Deputy McCormick calls attention to the fact that in 1883 the total number of cases brougkt into the Morgue was 139. That was when there were only two deputies. In the year 1892 four deputies | were employed and there were 674 cases. In the vear ending June, 1896, there were 919 cases, and during the year ending June, 1897, there were 945 cas i ——————— GRIFF0 IN TRAINING. The Clever Pugilist Celebrated Yester- day by Pouring Spirits Down. Griffo, with young Mitchell of the Occi- dental Club, took a drive yesterday to Golden Gate Park. When they returned Gniffo sought his old friend Johu Barley - corn, and before Mitchell realized that the fighter was at his old game again Griffo had poured into his stomach seveial “horns’’ of red liquid and was feeling when the direciorgencral of the Occidental Club shipped him to Sausae lito, at_which place le will train for his tight with Lavigne. Jack Mills, **Circus’’ Jack, accompanied ’)!fll‘;i ]ml i il ball and whisky 1s not verified. The goods consisted of general provisions. Mr. Hansen, in his letter to the com- pany, estimates that the supplies at Daw- son are sufficient to sustain 3500 persons until the opening of the season next year. He pases his estimates on the quantity of provisions brought up the river by the first boat of the present season and the Enzmily brought in over the passes. wing to the scarcity ot provisions he ad- vised as many men to leave as could get away from Dawson, and following his ad- vice about 500 departed, some going down the river io Fort Yukon and others going out by the way of the passes to Dyea. According to the figures given to the company by Mr. Hansen there will still remain in Dawson 4500 persons, while the supplies are on'y suflicient to subsist 3500. The inference is conveyed that the 1000 persons who are likely to have a desperate time to escape actual starvation are not miners or producers, but are idlers and dissolute people who have no business in the country. Mr. Hansen thinks it is possible that he has underestimated the quantity of pro- visions in the district, fancying that some of the parties may have more supplies cached than they are willing to admit. It is noted that his estimate of the number of people in thedistrict is below the num- ber reported by the press correspondents, There is a possibility that the season may vermit the Weare to return from Fort Yukon with another cargo of pro- visions, but the chances are ten to one against such a trip being made so late in e season. The fact that Mr. Hansen counseled everybody that could get away to leave Dawson City as speedily as possible 1s proof that he regards the situation as ex- tremely critical. No doubt he gives the company which he serves the most reliabie intellizence available, but the best face he can puton the situation is that 3500 saintly miners and producers may get through without suffering for the want of food, but that the sinnersand ungodly of all grades, numbering some 1000, are wholly unpro- vided for. Hansen confirms the story that fiour is selling at from $2to $3 per pound. The sell- ing 1s confined to iandividual swappings. The company is not charging that price for flour. The fact is that the company bas no provisions to sell. When Hansen wrote everything had been sold. The other company was in the same fix, having noth. ing to sell. he representatives of the Alaska Com- Griffo to the training quarters and in his pocket he carried a *‘blacksnake’” which De intends to use on the fighter each time he finds him “indulging” after to-day. Danny Holloran, who is Griffo’s mana- ger, will also remain at Sausalito while the pugilistisin training. Jim McGrath has been seiected as one of Griffo’s train- ers. Lavigne will train at the Six-Mile House. Tne pugilists nave agreed to fight at catch-weights on the evening of the 20th inst. Griffo carries as a souvenir of some battle as pretty a ‘‘caulifiower ear” as decorates the head of any pugiiist. CHIC DESIGNS I CHINA Many New Ideas Will Be Dem- onstrated at the Keramic Club Exhibit. Among Them Will Be the Persian Patterns Which Are Exciting New York Society. The members of the California Keramic Club are looking forward with eager ex- pectation to the opening of the annual ex- hibit, which will be held on the 7th and 8thin the maple room of the Palace Ho- tel. The club was formed in 1891 for the purpose of studying and developing the art of painting on china, end the annual exhibits have always taken a high rank among the events of the season. The first exhibition was given in April, 1891, and the second in the fall of the same year, since that time it has been customary to hold it early in December. It is never safe to say beforehand what will be exhibited, for the dread secret committee of three, appointed by the president, must pass on the china before itis allowed to reach the tablesin the maple room, and the locked closet, called “‘The Chamber of Horrors,” is not opened until the close of the exhibition, when re- jected pieces are again at their owner's disposal. | ————— ADVANCES made on_furaiiure ana pianos, with _or without removal, J. Noonan, 1017-1028 Mission FINE ART AND FAIR WOMEN Fashionable Crush at the Bohemian Club Exhibi- tion of Paintings. THE PICTURES ON THE WALLS. Society Critically Inspects a Most Creditable Dis- play. APPRECIATION ~ EVENLY DIVIDED. Magnificent Collection of the Best and Latest Work of Local Artists, Art and fashion met on neutral ground at the Bohemian Clubexhibition of paint- iuga yesterday. Art extended a kindl; hand to fashion,. and fashion, forgetting for once to simper and be frivolous, in deepest gratitude re- turned the pressure. Everybody who has any claim to being somebody heiped to throng the rooms of the hospitable Bohemian Ciub yesterday afternoon. It was like a crush at a fash. ionable tea, only the thoughtless, sense- less chatter was missing. Gossip was for- gotten and the pictures were very much remembered. Admirable tact and taste were shown in the hanging of the pictures, and, strange to record, all exhibitors are pleased and satisfied, The vast multitude of fashionables in- vaded all the rooms held sacred to Bo- | hemia. It appeared to be a ubiquitous crowd, Ifone turned into the library the crowd was there admiring the pictures and inspecting the valuable collection of books. In the red room there it stood watching the construction of the table for Mr. Greenway's dinner party. In the card- room, in the reception-room, in the grill- room, where a dainty collation was served, everywhere was that fashionable throng, curiously inspecting and respectfully ad- miring. There were apparently no favorites. Each and every artist received his share of praise. Of course there were prefer- ences, but they were more based on per- sonal tastes than artistic reasos One of the chief charms of the exhibit is that none of the painiings on exhibi- tion has been shown before. Admirers of the Bohemian artists have thus been afforded the rare treat of seeing the latest and by some considered quite the best of their efforts. Only a few of the exhibitors are repre- Shore, Landscape, La Poterie. Harry Stuart Fonda—A an Day, Worcester, Mass. ; Sunset, Grand Cansl, Venice. Robert Howe Fletcher—A Mountain Pasture, Twilight, The Pilot Boat, The Old Trail. H. R. Bloomer—The Cookham Marshes, Thames, England; Sunrise on the McClond, Northern Sierras, Cal.; The Smugg ers’ Cove, Coast of England; A Highland Koad, Scot- land; Barnyard, Chalfant Valley, England; Storm Clouds, Berksaire Hills. Solly Walter—Chinatown Scenes. Charles Rollo Peters—Twilight on the Seine, Sunset 1n Brittany; Old Friends, a study in gray; Le Pont St. Michel, Peris; A Breton Farm, Souvenir of Mouteriy, Gray Moonlight, After’ the Gringo Came, Moonlight Impres- sion. Joseph D. Strong—Portrait in Pastel, Miss Cool; portrait in Pastel, R. B. Eider; Portrait in Oil, Judge Low; General Howell} Portrait in Oil, J. R, Howell; Portrait in Oil, George Gow; Portrait in Oil, & M. Greenway; Berual Flace, Robert Louis Stevenson, Apia Har- bor, Samoan Coral Reef, Glimpse Through the Trees. A C. von Perbrandt—April Weather, Twilight 1n the Redwoods, Moonrise near Fort Ross. Henry Raschen—Girl Watering Flowers, Monastic Garden; Stll Life, Rock Fish; Head Studies, Indian Camp. Ernest C. Peixotto—A Gray Day, Garden in German: WILSON TEA ON TUESDAY. Mrs. Mountford Wilson gave a tea at her Pine-street home Tuesday afternoon, be- tween the hours of 5 and 7. This is the first time in many years that Mrs, Wilson has opened her home for a big function, and many guests enjoyed the hospitality of the generous hoste:s. Tne home was prettily decorated for the occasion with a wealth of choice blossoms, palms and ferns that had been arranged with taste and discretion. Mrs. Wilson received her guests, assisted by a number of society matrons and buds. THE BOSS PARROT. 1t Scandalized People in the City Hall and Was Locked Up in Prison, The boss parrot, as it is called, made things lively in Property Clerk Moran‘s oftice yesteraay and so scandalized the attaches of the office and visitors that it had to be removed to a secluded place in the City Prison. “It hollered, swore and whistled to such a frigntful extent,” said Captain Moran, *‘that I was glad to get rid of it. Its whistling was loud and shrill, like a policeman’s whistle, and the language it used was awful.” The parrot belongs to Mrs. Wilomath, 817 Minna street, whose husband is cap- tain of a schooner. It was stolen from her on October 20, and she offered a reward of $100 for its return. The police were also notified and yes- terday morning Detectives Ryan and O’'Dea discovered tue parrot at a houss on Howard street. The lady of the house had purchased it from a man and as she was able to give a good description of him, Ryan and O’'Dea expect to have him in the City Prison soon. HIS EYE IN MOURNING. Colonel T. P. Robinson Has W. H. Daly Arrested for Battery. The little unpleasantness that occurred between Colonel T. P. Robinson and W. H. Daly last Saturday over Recreation Park affairs will be umpired by Judge Bay Farm Island; Giverny, w. . Colonel Robinson, with one of his eyes in deep mourning, appeared in Judge Low’'s court Tuesday and swore to com- plaints chnrfiing Daly with battery and using vulgar language. Daly surrendered himself at the Seventeenth-street station Tuesday night and was released on bail. Yesterday morning the cases were called in court and by consent were continued for a week. THROWN OFF AN ELECTRIC-0AR. Serious Accident to a Woman Named Mary Basse. Mrs. Mary Basse, a middle-aged woman, living at 1018 Mission street, was cut about the head last night by being thrown from car 1020 of the Mission-street line. Mrs. Basse and her two children were passengers on the car, and when between Islais Creek and St. Mary’s College the sented by but one study. Many have five nr_nixiplmtings Lo their credit, and Fred- eric Yates shows eight, Charles Rollo Peters seven, H. J. Breuer and Ch: gensen each ten, William Keith and John A. Stanton thirteen. The following artists bave paintings af the exhibition: > ek M. Strauss — Contented, Evening on the Meadow, Matea in Death, A foefl Lot, Penned Up Friends. C. D. Robinson—Yosemite, Thunder Shower Over Half Dome, The Surge of the Pacific, Sunset on the Pacific. Thomss Hill—After the Storm An Impression of the Yosemite Valley. _Thaddeus Welch — On the ks of the feine, Creek in Steep Ravine (Marin County). Frederic Yates — Portrait of Irving M). Scott, Portrait of Raphael Weill, Mother and Child, Portrait ot Mrs. Solly Walter, Land- scape, Landscape, Portrait of L. F. Rowell, Portrait of J. J. Crawford. . Brouer—Sonora, Cal ; Foothills Sierra Nevadas, Oaks and Willows, After the Storm, Near Point Lobos (San Francisco), Edge of the | Marsh, Sunset, Sand Dunes, Live Osak Ala- meda, Evening (water color). C. Chapel Judson—The Road to Joaquin Miller's, On the Maas Near Dordrecht, Dimond Canyon, Autumn, Winter Eve (Hol- 1and), Sunshine and Shadow, Sands Near Pa, cific Grove, Blue Weather at the Golden Gate, Chris Jorgensen—An Early Breakfast at Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinese Fishing Boats, Misty Morning on the Bay, A Bit of Country Road, A Happy New Year, A Peaceiul Spot, Sketch, Skeich, Sketch. J. W. Clawson—Portrait of Miss C.; Abbazio iln 2Gregm-m. Venice; Study No. 1, Study No.2. Joun A. Stanton—Street Scene, Monterey; Holy Water Font, Brittany; Reverie, Head (study); On the Beach, Briitany; A Bretonne Girl, Marine, Low Tide; Stormy Day, Brittany; The New Moon, Still Life; Clarenton, near Paris; Springtime: Evening, Brittany. Theodore Wores—On the Downs, England. Gordon Ross—Getting Ready to Go ’'bout Jor- even Yosemite), Ship, Light Winds. L. P. Layimer—Early Morning in_the Red- woods, A*Cloudy Day, Hayfield, Sunset, I D mond Canyou, Pastoral, Alameda Ouks; Cloudy Day, Napa Valiey. William Keith—Moonlight,) Floating Ice; Alaska; Cooks Inlet, near Juneau, Alssks; Prince of Wales Sound, Alasxa; Misty Morn- ing, Alaska; Sitke, A Dream of Alaska; Morne fuse burned out, bringing the cartos sudden stand still. The unfortunate woman was thrown off, sustaining a deep scalp wound. Her children at once summoned & hack and had her removed to their home. THE UL, AMOUNT SECURED A Suitable Site for the Wilmerding School Wanted Now. IT WILL BE IN THE POTRERO. Title to Be Examined and Prop- erty Conveyed to Regents of the University. WAITING FOR OFFICIAL ACTION. Original Bequest of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars Largely In- creased by Interest Thereon. The committee appointed to raise money in San Francisco to purchase a block of land on the Pocrero for the site of the Wilmerding School has sncceeded in securing the amount required to buy the land. The next step preliminary to the transfer of the site to the Regents of the University will be the examination of the title. Everything will be ready for tender- ing the site to the Regents by the time the board meets, on tne second Tuesday of this month. The late J. C. Wilmerding, in his last will and testament, gave to the Regents of the State University the sum of $400,000 to be expended in the establishment ani maintenance of a trades school for boys. | He had intended to leave this sum to the Art Association of San Francisco to main- tain a school of drawing, painting and sculpture, but learning that Mr. Searles had endowed the Art Association with a zift of the magnificent Mark Hopkins residence he changed his will, and pro- vided for the institution to teach trades. The original sum bequeathed by Mr. Wilmerding has bsen largely increased by interest thereon until the amount must approximate $450,000. Some of the re- gents seem to regard it as a noble stroke of policy to hold large sums of money in trust and have the same draw interest and increase, hence extra measures of agitation had to be employed to induce the board to take steps toward fixing a location for the Wilmerding school. Much time was taken in the discussion of the merits of the various locations, Available sites near the university were tendered and Oakland promised to buy all the iand needed. Stockton putin astrong claim for the school and the cause of San Joaquin County was ably sustained in the board by Governor Budd. For a time it seemed doubtful whether San Francisco would secure the sci ool which one of her leading merchants had given 80 much money to create and main- tain. William Alvord, the Mayor and other citizens argued the case so intelli- gently befor: the board that the decision on the question of location was cast in favor of this city. Further time was consumed in discuss- ing the various sites within the limits of this city, but finally it was determined to place the institution in the Potrero. Now the land has been obtained, and the re- gents can go about the work of putting up buildings and providing the necessary machinery. A vast deal of work remains to be done, and if the lagging policy of the past is not changed the boys Mr. Wilmerding PHYS THOMADS, SOLD COANDY FOR OHARITY. Ladles of Altruistic Cirdle of King’s Daughters Clear a Neat Sum. In the parlors of the. Occiaental Hotel yesterday afternoon and evening the Altruistic Circle of the King's Daughters conducted a candy sale to raise funds for two worthy charitable enterprises.. Mrs. W. A. Richardson, Miss Mollie E. Hind, Miss Helen Spaiding, Miss Ethel Haoks and Mre. Estee Balcom were in charge of the affair. The aggregate of small sales was suffi- clent to net a clear profit of $50. This money will be used partly to buy little Christmas presents for the childran in Maria Kip Orphanage and partly to im- prove the condiiion of the o.d people n the Home for Incurables. The ladies are well satisfied with the re- sult of the sale and enthusiastically at- tribute a large part of their success to the assistance and gourtesies of Major Hoovper. ———————— hildren and Matches. An unwise combiuation of children end matches set fire to the residence, 1235 Mis- sion street, yesterday atternoon, and did $500 ing, Kilcinoo. Amedee Joullin—Alameda Sand Dunes, | worth of damage. The house was the prop- erty of w-mr‘&‘ufl. It was 1nsured for $200. had In mind when he made the gift will have attained the age of manhood and entered the struggle for existence without the advantage of mechanical education. The mouney to buy the land on the Po- trero was raised by private subscription among the leading citizens of San Fran- cisco. CHRIST'S RESCUE HOME, A Report of the Work for the Past Year, Major and Mrs. Frank Robinson of Chn!tts Re:cue Home, 648 Mission street, have just issued a report wherein they state that th- work of the nome of 1897 has been very encoura:ing. ‘‘This year sixty-eight girls have been ih our home,”- says the report, “fifty situations have been secured and many a wandering girl has been restored to her mother.” Donations for the year have amounted 10 $1,009 65. All work at tle home isdone by the girls and expenses are very low. The home is in need of food and clothing, however. L Dr. Dawson Tonk Office. Dr. J. H. Dawson, the newly appointed Ex- aminer of Drugs and Chemicals in the United States Appraiser’s Departmen duties of his office :uruduy. i e