The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISC BUYERS HAVE LOME T0 TOWN * Wholesale Houses Rejoicing Over the Success of Their New Movement, The Merchants’ and Importers’ League Gladly Met by the Interior. Bome Benefits That Have Accrued. Prospects of Even Greater Sue San Francisco wholesale houses have seen more buy in the than ever before atsuch atime. They have ne from and near, and their pres e has been the source of much rejoic- rms, hotels and kindred were he ergy and management nd Importers’ Lea, t of the Manufactu Association, in the brought is now seitling up the affairs ment so satisfactorily com- inz plans for a broader and movement in the com ar It has been demonstrated bey » ad t the retail merchants of this r States, accustomed to buy from es, may be persuaded to deal the f commerc i al San F a savin firms o offer of n- a ju ous the res some of d the e ies anc nd Pro- ciation n what to ulate the c its w w York. The ciation, of wk is cc of over ¢ a cers in thi t erested beiore in the E ting the m bbers of ke city, except s berance e good of the mer owed its of a commit- Allen, presi- ttsburg Coal Mining Com- Bowers, resident of the r Company, and Edward rdage Company, pecial representa- > has conducted eague in an able made last September, c sent out toath s ot s and wholesalers of the ¥ the scueme for their at- > 4 asking their co-operation. It een aec fifty members ght be obta ague would be are on otment of tom as fa He must steamship agent 1 purchasin ass one; to tie leagu ed for nis re- he the amount ases from 1e members, 2 st have bought t ty times the c ticket f 1 members. Upon 1 San F cisco he must register address, business, etc., with the nd of these offers were ap- members, and when sent out s accompanied by a letter from g firm, expl ing the methods e and as th- patronage oi The area covered by these isements of San Francisco’s tages was ouly limited by the trans- on facilities of the le . had beer made, after discussion, with the Southern c and all its branches west of Ogden, the San Francisco and Valiey Railway Company and 0ast steamship line to allow by adva port Arrangements muc 3 Yas0 and Ban Joaquin the Pacific C he ieague excursion rates for the buyers brought here throngh its efforts. This made the burden upon the members much lighter than if full fare had to be paid, anu allowed the railroad and steam- ship companies a fair division. Their courtesy and promptness in forwarding movenmn: spec taided greatly. | representative of the asso- Keeler, who has been in the league offices, found it a task to persuade merchants to members, many areuing that it b was purely experimenial, and that they erred to let others prove the value of come the plan. However, the minimum of fifty simed at was s00n reached and a score of others iollowed, ten more coming in as the matter progressed and the benefits be- cawe more plain, The time of the purchasing of the ticket to San Francisco was nmited to the five weeks botween October 23 and November 25, and the latest date of leaving this city homeward was set ax November 30. The 1ime chosen w¥as not ausvicious for 8 strong showing, as the majority of mer- chants in the smaller cities had made their larger purchazes weeks ago, ana came only to fill out broken stocks and to buy the smalier and cheaper sorts of Clristmas goods and other special lines jor the holiday and early spring trade. The buyers began to come into the offices of the leazue on the Arst day on which the offer took effect. Few grasped exactly the idea of the offer,but all were unanimous in their praise for the enterprise of the members making it, and many gave ex- celient reasons for its continuance. 3 The register upon which each one in- dexed his name, place of living, business, time of arrival and departure, date of last visit and purchases is a valuable ref:nrd of atatistical information for future guidance. A number of buyers had never been in Ean Francisco before, and their coming e bad opened their eyes to the magni- of the city's business and the ability its firms to compete in pr.ce and qual- vith Eastern houses. [ I?ln..‘ Jordan, a jeweler of Sanger, 1 miles away, had never of though only 2 e ret rL ¢ in the greates! city on the Pacific Const. The brothers Vucovich came to buy an entire stock of liquors for their establishment in Hanford, and confessed ¢ it was their first visit. Cliff Cramer, 1o has a barness-shop in Reno, Nevada, ailed himself of the chance to see the cears of expectation. The &7 after thirt (\ ‘<olidated Tiger and Poorman Manug 2 Company, of Burke, Idaho, sent fiere, it being his initiation into iiies of the tOW Puett, dealer in genersl merchan- arlin, Nev., had bought entirely from Eastern firms, and had not been hers for three vears, until ten days ago. He gsid that be found he could do better here i would give his orders here in future. ne Farmers’ Market ol.Merred had pot bad a buver here for five years, and jts representative stated that he had per- fected arrangements by his trip here that would bring him much closer in touch witn the provision dealers. dise in last few weeks | it It of a desire | leading | | 5. D. Magnus of Marsufield, Or., jou neyed to San Francisco and bought a - | stock of general merchandise, because he was given a free return ticket. Moorehead & Co. of Nancotta, Was general merchants, renewed an i e with San Frap co, made teen years ago, and incidenzally left a good sum here'in payment for extensive pur- chrses made. S. B. Conen of Carson City, a large ar goods dealer, spent a week and & round sum, after half a year's absence. 1 not been in Si- Tue toilowing buyers had this city for the length of time stated mon Cohen, El Rio, general merchandi | twoyears; M. Moy=e, Chiro, general me chandise, two years; J. P. Neison, Sange shoes, two years; F. M. Ordwa stationery, two years; poc, general merchardise, three years Y. Klemmer, Willows, general merchan- dise, one and a hali years; C. A. Brew, San’ Luis Obispo, furniture, four years: Joseph Stephens, Etna Milis, zeneral mer- chandise, two years; Hutz & Cowden, Hollister, general merch Thnese names are mere iom, as out of the: | tered, the majority A. Lehman, Lom- J | chases. Some humorous ened the work of the clerks under Mr. Keeler, who looked after t e comfort of and gave in.ormation to the visiting mer- ants. Simon Cohen, one of the heaviest buj ers who came, and who h seen Mar- kel street for over two y ear idence as Jerusalem, but town was now known as E es- said that the Rio. Mr. Cohen, “when there was no house nor person within miles. I built the first cabin and began busines: vlace Jerusalem, after the Holy C1 1 k it -a prettier name than El | When other people came, and others than | Hebrews became inhabitants, there wasa lamor for a change of name. A river]be- | ing there the lovers of Span:sh titles made it B! Rio, and so itis. IUs a pity, for own haif the place, and I do so iike the name of Jerusalem.” and 2io. where he sells books and stationery. His name was not allowed to pass without comment. “Poor Bill Nye,’ said the merchant. “'1 knew him well back Kast and lived across the road from him, He's dead now, and I, his namesake, keep his funny writings in_stock. laugh often when living and now I can’t Lelp smiling when | see bis bald-headed caricature 0 familiar to his readers.” L. Cerf of Ventura, seller of liquors, came to buy acarioad of beer. He came offer when he started. league office. But he wanted to go home by rail, and though he had not complied with the regulations, and though the league literature expressly states that trayelers must return the same Way they came, Mr. Cerf thought he bad a griev- ance. He expressed himself openly as to his belief in the league being a fake and retired in disgust. Many buyers failed to do what is put down as part of the requirements on their part to obtain transportation gratis. The plan being entirely new, they did not understand it fully. Great allowances were made for this condition, and every- thing was done to enable them to receive the advantages of the league. There was not as much enthusiasm at the outset on the part of the members as might have been expected, though when the work was once under way they en- tered into1t wuole-heartedly. Many mer- chants here thought that there would be an unwillingness on the part of buyers to register and conform with other regula- tions. This proved erroneous, for the visitors manifested every desire to do so. They were unanimous in their appre- ciation of the generosity of the league members, and the eighty-four tirms in the directory furnished buyers profited lurgely by their liberal spirit. . tative ihat the league and its parent, the | Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion, were thoroughly satisfied with re- sults. 1t was through the powerful influ- ence of the association that rates had been secured from the railroad and steam- ship company, as no private or less weighty concern could have been success- ful in this vital part of the plan. It had taken solicitation and many efforts to bring about the measure of success ob- tained. Some large Eastern houses have dent salesmen bLere wno take up their bomes ut hotels and avoid expense though practically running a branch store in their rooms. A prompt and radical remedy must be tound for this siate of affairs. Mr. Keeler aid that the league would undoubteuly institute another movement to bring buyers to the city in the spring, probably irom the middle of Kebruary to the 1st of April. 1 would be on a broader and more extended basis, and various de- tails were under consideration. Buyers might have their fares paid both ways, or sleepers might be given to those coming long distances, Possibly stage fares might be paid to those who live off the railroad and steamship lines. It was hored to induce the Oregon Navi- gation and Improvement Company and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to grani excursion rates, und these priv. leges would largely expand the territory now covered by the league offer. The directory of members will be multi- plied, as already there are signs of a wish to partake of the profits by many not now in the league. | The Schooner Glendale, Bound Up the Coast, Started for Se Breaking Bar He Changed H the Attempt and Failed, While Orders for Tugs for the Brig W. G. Ir 2 | STORM-BODND Gerson, a jeweler of Los Angeles, | made his first visit in seven years, and left $2000 bebind him. erced, | O CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1897 Yes Bacl Mind and Was Towed SHE HAD TO P GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS CRIMES Harvey H. M. Allender, the San Jose Murderer, Led to the Gallows at San Quentin. His Courage Gave Way at the Last Moment, and He Had to Be Supported as the Noose Was Adjusted. = > & Harvey Allender, the murderer of Miss Wally Fielner and Venaz Crosatti, walked | up the thirteen sters leading to the gallows at San Quentin prison yesterday at ex- | actly 1 and a minute later he was dangling at the end of the hangman’s rope. Nine minutes afterward he was pronounced dead. Tue long delayed sentence of the | law had been carried out and there was one less murderer in the lonz row of cells oc- | cupied by condemned men in the strong stone building within the prison walls. The | body was cut down a few minutes after the physicians decided that the law had been 3 satisfied and it was placed in a plain pine coflin by two of the murderer’s fellow prise | oners. Half an hour afterward the body was on its way to San Jose in charge of the | expr:ss company to the parents of the dead ma | Allender scarcely slept during the night. imes he retired to his cot and | pulled the blankets over his face as if to sleep, but he'would be upin a few minutes; all | night long he contented himself with cigarettes. Toward daylight he slept for a few minutes, but his sleep was troubled. He had little appetite for bre st, and after he | bad finished his meal he was given a suit of black cloth After he had | dressed he was visited by Warden Hale, who carried a letter to him from his sister. | The Warden prepared to read the death warrant to him. lender said it was not | necessary and that formality was dispensed with. The W hen handed him the - - = letter. It contained a few carnations, and these the murderer pressad to his breast | for a moment and then placed them in the lapel of his coat. BACK | Abeut an hour before the time set for the execution Rev. Drahms, the prison . chaplain, called and remained with him to the last. A few minutes before the har man went to his cell to lead him to the gallows, Dr. Lawlor, the prison phy U 1cian, terday in Tow cf the Tug lda W. When the Captain Saw the |Wwenttohim and offered him a stiulant. ““I do not need it,” he replied, *‘but I - ; s £ | will take it as a friendly and parting drink with you.” k Into Port Again. The Schooner La Gironde Also Made The murderer was led out of his cell prozaptly at 10:30. He walked with a firm step up the stairway of the scaffo!d, but the moment | | noose was slippod over his neck his courage gave stood upon the trap and the and he had to be supported. vin and the Ship Chile Were Countermanded FLEET IN PORT Several Vessels Attempted | to Cross Out Yesterday, | but Failed. | The City of Peking to Leave on | tow of the tuz Ida W, went outside “] settied there thirty years ago,” said | lerday, but when the captain of the sail- I named the | Bill Nye registered from Santa Rosa, | He made me | bia River. by steamer, and knew nothing of tue leagae | Waen he became | aware of tbe possibilities of returning | could be made. home free, he hastened to register at the | E. W. Keeler stated to a CALL represen- | resi- | Her One Hundredth Consec- utive Round Trip. Folsom-8treet Wharf No. 2 Settled a Foot and a Half in One Cor- ner Yesterday. A fleet of coasters is tied up in port awaiting a change in the weather ia smooth bar. The schooner Glendale, in yes- ing vessel saw the condition of affairs, he signalea the tug to put about and bring him to an anchorage in port. The | schooner La Gironde, the briz W. G Irwin and the ship Chile were also to have sailed, but the orders for tusboats were countermanded. The Irwin bas a deck- | load of livestock, and her captain does not want to take any chances of shipping a | heavy sea. ! The overdue colliers Washtenaw reached port v former was 118 hours making the run from Seattle, and the Washtenaw 132 hours from Tacoma. Both of them got the full force of the sterm of the Colum- | The Progreso was swept again and again by the waves, and had three of her boats smashed into kindling wood. | The Washtenaw also lost some of her | boats and had considerable damage done about her decks. Both vess Progreso terday. The | and and for over thirty hours no headway The storm carried away vart of the i wharfat Usal and vessels for that point | | have had to put back to San Frnucmco‘ to discharge their cargo. On the 18th inst. the Pacific Mail Com- ‘ | pany’s steamer City of Pekine will start | on her one bundredth consecutive round | trip to Japan and Chins. During all that | time she has met with only one serious | | mishap and that was when uer shaft broke and she was thirteen days overdue | here. Smce her arrival the Peking has | been overhauled and experts say tha to- day her machinery and hull are as sound | as the day the vessel left Philadelphia. From the day the City of Peking left New | York for San Francisco to the present | | her engines have made 306,107,379 revolu- | tions, her furnaces have burnt up 276,692 | tons of coal and the vessel has traveled 1,306,010 miles. O1 her original crew only one is left. Cmsar Christan left New York in ber as quartermaster and he he is stull with the vessel in the capacity of steer- | age steward. i The commanders of the City of Peking | bave been 8. Griffin, H. G. Morse, Z. Tan- | ner, J. Maury, G. G. Berry, J. M. Caverly, | W. B. Seabury, D. Friele, H. C. Dear- born, R. R. Searle, Wilham Ward and f the last eleven voyages Captain J. Smith. The chief engineers bhave been George Douglas, T. Barratt, 8. W. Haux- hurst (the present superintendent of ti company), J. C. Fraser, Frank Gough, J Lynch, J. Stevenson, R. Forsyth ana for the last seventy-nine vovages Chief En- | gineer William McClure has been in { charge of affairs. It is now in order for the Peking to celebrate her centennial by making a record- breaking round trip. The Harbor Commissioners will build a new freight shed between piers 3 and 5 for the use of the river steamers. It will be | @ boon to the Sacramento and Stockton | steamers, They will also in the near future have to rebuild Folsom 2 wharf. One corner of it sank a foot and a half yes- terday, and the portion on which Dan muir’s bunkers are built is gradually set- tling. Long wharf at Oakland is also to be rebuiit, and the Southern Pacific is to do the work with creosoted piles. “The settling of Folsom-street wharf,” sald Presigent Colnon yesterday, “shows that none of the wharves south of Market street, save, of course, Foisom 1, are | stable structures. The troubls that faces | us is the teredo, and we must get some- thing that will check irs ravages before we can expect permanent wharves.” The yacht Aggie will be towed over | sausalito by Peterson’s launch Amy | | \ | \' Reputations Made in a Day Are precious scarce. Time tries the worth of a man or medicine. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a forty-five years' growth, and like those hardy | lichens that garnish the crevices of Alaska’s rocks | it flourishes perennially, aud its reputation has as | firm a base as the rocks themselves. No medic ne | 13 more highly resarded ss a r-medy for fever an | | ague. bilious remiitent, constipalion. liver and kidney disorders. Dervousness aud rheumaiism. | | it took about twenty seconds to strap the murler t, tighten the rope about his neck and draw the black cap over his face. Then the signal was given that all was ready, and the trap was sprung. The drop was about six feet and death was almost instantaneous. Dr. Lawlor, Dr. W. J. Wickman and Dr. W. F. Jones of San Rafael = to-day and will be puton the drydock. On her run from Seattle to =an Francisco ‘} PIONEER WOMAN'S DEATH. she lost her center-board. A new one will | R | and Dr. F. Stevens Cook of San Francisco stood by the suspended body and after ni 2 e = L F. 8 s Cook of § y the susp body and after nine be put in and other minor repairs made. White, Who Came to Cali-| pjnyes pronounced life extinct. At the end of the sixth minute respiration ceased, The lighthouse tender Madrone is to re- a in 1852, Died at Her Home | and three minutes later the pulse stopped. ceive s thorouzh overhauiing before agan | Last Thursday. | The execution was witnessed by about fifty persons. Tha brother and cousin of going into commission. Work on her e ; Crosetti, one of the victims of the murderer, and several of his friends from San Jos ; .. White, who came to Califor- \ . ) T, om San Jose will begin to-da S 2 x"'w'n b asked for permission to witness the death, but at the request of Allender the Warden The bark Theobald has been sold to |DNia in 1852, died in this city at her home | /oy5eq to give them admission to the de th chamoer. The execution of Allender has caused consternation in murderers’ row, as the cells are called where the murderers under sentence of death are confined. There John Rosenfeld's mantled aud t at 1311 Unicn street, last Thursday. The funeral services will be held to-morrow at | Sons. She is t, 0 be dis- ed into a co: 1 hul the Powe!l-sireet Methodist Erpiscopal | were nine of them who had been granted stays of execution on the same grounds by This Week’s Wasp. Church. The interment will be private. | Which Allender kept away from the gallows for <o long. They have now no expecta- Hawalian annexation is the subject of some Mrs. White was born in Caroline, Tomp- | tion but that their appeals will be decided the re way, and that they will soon go rigorous comment this to the scaffold. Eight of them now remain, the chief of whom is Durrant, and the 2 = - vrison cfficials expect to have the row depopulated inside of the next three months. Wasp, and kins County, N. Y., in 1810. She traveled | :“"(‘"“"“:I\ 'f“[’:)"“.""‘_ f © from there to Oregon as a missionary in SAN JOSE. Dec. 10.—The remains of Harvay Allender, who was executed at San [ Sarnoon ng | 1836, and afterward she taught the white | Quentin to-duy for the murder of Walburzo Feiiner and Venanz Crosetti, were e ure ou | children of Honolulu and also the King’s | brought to this city late this afternoon for interment. Only the immediate relatives :r[xe “\‘\:;h-fl L o § uCisco, | won, For ten years she was at the old | of the deceased were permitted to view the remains. The interment will be held bright and snappy es. while the {llustra- | husband, who was a physician, often | = R ST i B Affairs in Orezon and Washington dur- ing Harrison’s admin'stration. Ezg s U PICKPOCKETS IN JAIL, | The ** Black Prince " asked her for a-sistance, which causea her he G | to become proficient in the profession. s At one time she visited Mrs. Dr. Whit- The charges of misdemeanor pending against | man on the Columbia River, and on her retall dealers, who were accused of sell- | return the canoe in which she was riding mpure vlive oil in violation of the pure | wa3 wrecked at The Dalles and her infant food law, were dismissed yesterday by Judge | son was arowned. Unfortunately another three well-known pickpockets, who were caught “working” a crowd on Market street. Their names are James Green, T. Coleman and Alfred Watson. The latter is a colored m and is known as the *‘Black Prince.” He is regarded by tha iy | Caught Working b b o P A S g viy b | cuild was drowned in the Sacramenio s Crondlon Mot police as one of the cleverest pickpock- in drawing up the com- | River in 1871, and an adopted son met a | PR | ets in the country. similar fate in the Willamette. Her husband was the agent of Indian ert the date on which | e men were locked up in the tanks commited. | Detective Graham last night arrested ! pending an investigation. NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. We Make a Winning Argument When we say an all-wool suit in a single or double breasted sack or 3-button cutaway for $8.85. We are close upon stocktaking—got more than we want—these suits are honestly worth $15, hundreds said so last week!!! These suits, understand, are ALL-WOOL, cut well, made by white labor, where you can see how made—made to fit and to keep your trade. 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