The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898. e TH% FAIR HEIRS ARE VICTORTOUS dge Hebbard Says! They Are Entitled | to the Lots. | Court Finds That the State Legally Disposed of the Property. Harbor Commissioners and the | Pacific Gas Improvement | Company Also Lose. INJUNCTIONS 'i‘O BE ISSUED All the Claimants to the Land Wil Now Have to Cease From Interfering. | atternoon, BIG FIRE IN THE PHELAN BLOGK. A Two Hours’ Fight Which Saved the Building From Destruction. Crossed electric wires in the top story | of the Phelan building, at the corner | of O'Farrell and Market strests, were the cause of a fire at 2 o'clock yesterday which royed Marceau's photograph vy, and did serious damage to the west end of the building from top to bottom. For al- most two hours dense smoke rose in clouds from the top of the building, de- | spite every effort of the firemen to sup- press it. From dozens of nozzles wa- ter poured into' the upper stor ran down in torrents to the lowe ruining hundreds of dollars’ worth furniture in the offic out avail, and {t was not until great holes had been cut through the roof and into the burning rooms that thej spread of the fire could be checked. For a time it looked as if the estire bullding was doomed, but the work of the firemen eonfined the blaze to the western section of the upper story, and while it was a difficult fire to overcome the damage was comparatively slight, the total reaching but $2 which was fully covered by i The salvage corps did pro- | tecting the goods in the lower room but the extent of mat al to be cov- of seemingly with- State has lost its suit agalnst , executor of the last »f James G. Fair; Charles G Fair, . Oelrichs and Virginia Fa nstigated some tim2 ago tc e lots B. C. Hebbard on in the s declering the claim of the decided against the State Board the Pa- anent inj raining the claimant with the rightful owners rest erty in litdgation. In part, {ebbard’s de: f tle, but claim * lands in con- acquired title there- held the same at , and that, as ow, ring permi ervisors, they ha proceed h the work of re- A _improving the blocks and | n involves the two main ques- | —Did the State have power to con- se lands? Did the State grantors? e court on these points decides— ecision being ba: on numerous nts—that the State had the v the lands in question, eponderance of evidence it convey these ece ower and by a ¢ s proved th his life did a through a quire the title to the lands al transfer on the part of uch being the facts of the court continues: remaining question is as to f the streets involved and all of such adopted id, e map ct. ation of these streets is by the sale of blocks and lots ac- to the map, delineating theblock: bounded by streets laid dow uniform with t gh the uplands ter- pinfon of the court, dering the rights of of the State of California, as f the State's grantees v. that the State, as sove ght to convey into private 1s of its submerged lan in be done without de and that the Legis- of fraud, has the to that fact. patent to a portion uently a water-line was established, and through its officers, nd under acts of the Legislature passed for the purpose, exe- s to the property lying within e fron nveying that por- for in the patent, - title to the portion the patent. parted with its title to the same mmerce cit State and rep- ntitled to a n quie 1 title as State, and dissolving the tem- ynction issued herein at the in- work of re- operty from the waters of he inlet, under their lawful authority so to do. It is likewise the opinion of the court, in the case of Angus et al., executors of he last will of James G. Fair, deceased, inst Colnon et al., constituting the rd of State Harbor Commissioners 1 the Pacific Gag Improvement Com- v, submitted to the court for decisfon this case, that the preliminary in- issued, restraining defendants terfering with plaintiffs in the | n of this property, or from in- with Warren & Malley, their | . be made perpetual, and that | junctions, {ssued in either of at varfance or inconsistent conclusions above stated, be the prevalling opinion among lawyers who read the decision that Judge Hebbard's interpretation of the law involved in the case is the correct one, and that the decision will stand in the higher courts. Poolrooms Raided. police have Introduced a new e against the keepers of poolrooms | varrant was sworn out enator William Dunn room at 204 Stevenson to be used for making bets on races. The warrant was served Dunn gave bail for his appearance in | The police also colleced evidence | rooms to prove their case. | permitting t James G. Fair during | | firemen could reach it with the great- | pour tons of water into the building ered necessitated sending twice for more rubber covers. The s W filled with thousands of sight who completely blocked the side while the parapherr a of the fire d partment closed th eet to all traffi The cars of the -street ne | | were blocked for n an hour, | | while th : streets were | | held back to run at snail" immen thror rge squad of p lice wa - busy guardin the fire 1 1 sts were individuals, who ough ere heavily handicapped < ich completely the building, assostifling Captain ief Dough- he work in the galler: nt Chief Shaughnessy was on the roof. The pipes were of muc it was impossible to s from the ground nt buildings to any ad- After the fire Marshal Tow ayor Phelan’s attention to the | ore stand pipes might be| ving the building in fu- | they will probably be | erected at once. It was at first supposed that the fire originated from ch als used in the otograph gallery, but Mr. Marceau | sured Mayor Phelan that he had no dangerous chemicals. Owing to im- proved methods of photography the in- surance companies do not look upon photograph galleries as extra hazard- ous risks. p Notwithstanding the fact that smoke was pouring from the roof in dense | volumes, there was little blaze seen, | and this was quickly quenched, and the thousands of spectators were treat- | ed to nothing more thrilling than a | view of a smoke-crowned building and | several unexpected shower baths. | When the cornice crumbled under the fire and from the pressure of the heav) | streams of water there was a sudden scattering of the people below, \\'h(yf were thoroughly drenched by the flood. | 1 The fire was in such position that the est difficulty, and it was necessary to before the flames could be suppressed. | This vast quantity of water damaged | the lower portion of the building and | the contents of the rooms more than the fire. During the delay in getting water on the fire the flames ran down the ele- vator shaft and burst out in the cigar store of Sam Dannebaum, completely® destroying the stock with the excep- | tion of a few boxes of cigars which | were carried away by the salvage corps. The most serious loss was in the photograph gallery, where 120,000 negatives were destroyed. These neg- atives cannot be replaced and the value is impossible of calculation, as many of them date back as far as 1850, when Mr. Morse was in the business. As soon as the gravity of the situa- | tion became apparent a second alarm | was sent in, but while ten engines, a | chemical engine, three hook and ladder | trucks, one water tower and a bmteryi were on the grounds, but seven engines were in use. The fire extended sixty feet toward O’Farrell street and fort feet to the east under the roof, but did‘ not get below the mansard floor except down the western elevator shaft. | water destroyed them all. From the stand pipes on O’Farrell and Market streets heavy streams were thrown through the windows, yet with a constant flood of water pouring into the smoking mass the fire was not | under control until half-past 3, having burned for an hour and a half without bursting through the roof. After the fire was subdued it was found that tons of water flooded the upper fioor, and in order to remove this holes were punched through the ceiling of the reception room and the water poured down in torrents and was swept into the elevator shaft. This water destroyed the stock of frames, mounts, envelopes and every- thing used in photography which was stored above the blind floor over the gallery. 'THE BLAZE AS SEEN FROM MARKET STREET. ROOFS. Edward Broze, an employe of Mar- ceau's gallery, was the first to discover the fire, and he immediately notified the girls working below to get out, and then fought the fire with hand gren- ades until the department arrived. The books and other valfiable matters in | the gallery were carried to a place of safety, and the fire patrol stripped the rooms of pictures and furnishing and covered the counters to protect them from the deluge of water, but the neg- atives were in such a‘position that the | i 452. WHAT THE FIRE LOOKED LIKE FROM THE SURROUNDING Mayor Phelan estimates the damage to the building at $6000, which is fully insured. Captain Comstock of the un- derwriters’ places the loises to 'the tenants as follows: Marceau photo- graph gallery, $6000; Lucke, shoe store, $500; Sam Dannebaum, cigars, $500; Goldstein & Cohen. $6000; Will & Finck, $1000; Muller, optician, $500; offices flooded with water, $2500. A total of §17,000, fully insured. The value of the negatives cannot be com- puted. R Dalton Will Contest. Dalton, J. W. Dalton and Mary F filed a contest to the will of k Dalton. It is alleged by stants that the widow of the tes- herine Dalton, exercised an nce over her husband and d possession of a larger | ¢ estate than she was enti- ——————————— ™M, Vail & Co. have the only 8tock of screens, parlor lamps, onyx framed pictures and easels in the at moderate prices. Their low-priced € £0 good that it is a waste of TO BE DEPORTED. Cheong Ah Bing Told a Lie, Then the Truth, Then a Lie, and Must Go | Back to China. The hearing of the case of Cheong Ah | Bing, who was refused a landing by the | Collector of the Port, was had yester- day on habeas corpus United smtes" Commissioner Heacock. Bing claimed to be a native of San Francisco, but he told Inspector Lynch of the Chinese Bureau | that he was born in a certain province in | China. When asked on the hearing ves- | © buy extravagant things in lhe.se terday why he had made such a state- | ment he replied that he had done so be: cause he was young, only 23 years old, | | missioner thought and that it was a mistake. The Com- that ‘Bing was old enough not to tell lies by wholesale, and will recommend his deportation. S - Will Lay the Cornerstone. The cornerstone of Park Congregational Church, on Hayes street, between Lyon and Central avenue, will be laid at 230 | o'clock to-morrow afternoon with befit- ting ceremonles. There will be addresses by Rev. George C. Adams, D.D., and Rev. Willlam Rader. The cornerstone will be laid under the auspices of the bailding committee, of .which_ Frederick A. Hatch is the chairman. The greet- ngs will be made by Rev. F. R. Farrand and Rev. 8. 8. Cryor, D.D. The Lord's prayer will be read by Rev. F. B. Cher- rington, D.D., and the pastor, Rev. James B. Orr, will invoke the divine blessing. An appropriate musical programme will be rendered. _——————— Rottanzi’s Resolution Indorsed. The Potrero and Mission Improvement Club has sent a communication to the Board .of Supervisers indorsing Super- visor Rottanzi's resolution that $40,000 be appropriated to building a new City and County Hospital on the Almshouse tract. —_—————— Landaus, wagonettes, traps and drags of the latest designs at O'Brien & Sons’, Golden Gate avenue and Polk street. * CATTLE KING 10 WED AGAIN George White Told by the Spirits That He Must Marry. On Wednesday He Will Lead Miss Louise Bogan to the Altar. Eccentric Millionaire Looks for Domestic Comfort in His De- The clining Years. George E. White, the wealthy cattle king of Round Valley, is to marry again. The cattle king is a believer in spiritualism, and the spirits have told him that he should wed. Soon after the message was delivered to him from the spirit world, he met, wooed and won a pretty young lady, Miss Louise Bogan, who resides in the southern part of the city. | The wedding is set for Wednesday next. Madame Young, who Is pre- ing the wedding trousseau, was in-| structed to have the gowns prepared | by that day and the friends of the cattle king believe that is the day set | for the ceremony. | ‘White does not deny that Wednesday | is the time set when he will again tempt matrimony, and he smiles when | he discusses the subject, though he tries to throw a web of secrecy about the coming affair. The wedding will be private, and after the ceremony the | couple will take a short honeymoon trip to the southern part of the State. George E. White is well known in California. ests in Humboldt County, and most of the fertile acres of Round Valley are counted among his possessions. He is an extensive stock raiser, and he is re- puted to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. He is extremely ec- centric and of late years most of his business dealings have been done at the recommendation of the spirits. He is constantly in communication with sev- eral of the “mediums” of the city, and whenever he contemplates a big busi- ness deal he asks the advice of the spirits and acts upon it. The spirits, it is claimed, told him to marry, and the wedding will take place in conse- quence of their advice. lives with her. his salary, and, including Mrs. Butler’s 5 FICTINS OF ~ ASWINDLER _ Ida Pelton, a Prepossess- ing Domestic, Again in Prison. Charged With Stealing Money From Mrs. Butler of Folsom Street. She Has Also Been Victimizing a Large Number of Storekeepers in the City. A young woman who is looked upon by the police as one of the cleverest confldence operators in the city was booked at the City Prison yesterday by Detective Cody on a charge of grand larceny. She has been known as Ida Pelton, Sarah Dixon and Genevieve Lynhan. Some months ago she was employed in the house of Daniel O'Day, on Four- teenth street, between Sanchez and Church, and left suddenly, taking with her $280. O’Day notified the police and she was arrested. She was held to an- swer before the Superior Court, but by some means or other the case was dis- missed. Since then she has been victimizing a number of storekeepers, who have been complaining to the police. Her mode of operation was to ascertain the names of some of the customers, and then go to the stores and repre- | sent that she had been sent by one of them to purchase certain articles, which would be handed.to her. When the account was sent to the customer He has large land inter- | the fraud was discovered. Among the stores victimized were the White House, Newman & Levinson and Ros- enthal Brothers. The charge on which she has been booked is for stealing $167 50 from the residence of Mrs. Butler, 2568 Folsom street. She went there as a domestic on January 2. Mrs. Butier's nephew, Thomas Lappin, a marine engineer, Last Saturday he drew own money there was $167 50 in the house. Mrs. Butler had occasion to go down town Monday, and when she returned her domestic had disappeared, taking with her the $167 50 and her personal effects. Mrs. Butler and her nephew called at police headquarters Monday night, and reported the case. Detec- tive Cody was detailed to find Ida, and he soon ascertained that she was liv- ing on Mission street, near Seventh. He arrested her, and on being searched, $93 35 was found in her pocket, tied up in a handkerchief. She acknowledged taking the money, and sald she had spent the balance in buying dresses and other articles. Ida is 24 years of age and prepos- sessing in appearance. She has stolen money and jewelry from other people besides O'Day and Mrs. Butler in the same way, and the police are deter- mined that she shall not escape punish- ment this time. The Wasp This Week. Always meritorious, The Wasp this week is extraordinarly bright and well writ- ANOTIER TEST OF CAR-FENDERS ‘Will Take Place This Morning at Mission and Twelfth Streets. This Time It Is Expected That Some Pattern Will Be Adopted. To-day at 1 o'clock there will be more testsof fenders for the purpose of deciding | upon an appliance for the cars of the | Market street system. The tests will not | be in the nature of a vaudeville show, as some former exhibitions have been. There | is a serious purpose this time. The trials | will occur at Mission and Twelfth streets, in the presence of the Supervisors and such citizens as may choose to look on. ‘There is no doubt but a fender. will be recommended to the Supervisors and that they will authorize the adoption ef the pattern favored by the company. All this is simple and could as well have been done long ago. That it has not been done and that there should have been so much fuss about it and so many needless casualties are matters of regret. Of course there will be some expense, but only a comparative trifle. The Market street system will be obliged to equip 260 | cars, and the cost for each will be about $36, a total of something over $9000. Added to this will be the $4000 required to induce the adoption, making a grand total of less than $14,000, really an inconsiderable item for a concern of its magnitude. In the past there have been trials with- out number, but some of them were de- signed to do nothing but demonstrate the inutility of whatever fender was being tried. In instances the dummy used to | take the place of the prostrate citizen supposed to be snatched from death or maiming was filled with cobblestones. The result was that the fender went to smash, as had been expected, and until somebody with the interest of a fender enough at heart to pay the price of offi- cial approval should appear it was a safe proposition that dummies would continue to be indestructible and the experimental fender to have its nose broken. But despite the fruitless tests which have marked the past and strewn Mission street with debris, it is believed that those of to-day will be final and that the Market street system will cheerfully pay the price. . P — DARING ATTEMPT AT ARSON. An Unknown Man Fails in an Effort to Destroy an Unfinished Building. A daring act of incendlarism was com- mitted at 6:35 last night by an unknown man on a building in the course of con- struction at 15 Cedar avenue. The man was seen to leave the place hurriedly,and almost immediately flames began to ag- ear in the interior. While some neigh- Bors gave chase after the man others at- tempted to put the flames out. As there was a danger of their not succeeding, an alarm was turned in from box 137. Before the engines arrived, however, the fire was extinguished. An investigation showed that coal ofl had been.spilled among the shavings with the evident intent of de- stroying the building. The firebug es- caped in the darkness. ADVERTISEMENTS. Condensed Milk- HAs No EQUAL, AS AN INFANT 'FOOD. “INFANT HEALTH" SENT FREE ' ON APRLICATION. NEW YOR CONDENSED MiLK Co.x ten and splendidly illustrated. The Har- bor Commission scandal and those of the School Board and Supervisors are the subject of a clever cartoon, as is the star confessors, ex-Reverend Brown and Mur- derer Belew. The modern United States Senator is portrayed in colors and Con- gressman Maguire is pictured by The ‘Wasp's new process, “Photo Phrenolc7y.” There are also a number of good tones of celebrities. The editorials, al- ways vlgorous. are this week especially 00d, and the various departments scinaii- ate with bright paragraphs. The ad- ministration’s stand on Hawalian annex- ation is criticized and an able article gives some well-founded objecuons to the ideas of the annexationists. The Zola incident in France is also thoroughly discussed and the high class of reading in The Wasp is particularly noticeable. Medical frauds and other imposters are unmercifully flayed in the "X-ray” department. Pro- fessor. Lucches{ shows up some musical fakers and the society gossip and finan- cial reviews are up-to-date and extreme- 1y interesting. The Wasp is without ques- tion the leader in the weekly newspaper fleld. —_———— The Tunnel Rebuilt. A telegram received at the Santa Fe office in this city this morning gives the news that the tunncl on that line near Williams has been entirely rebuilt, and that commencing to-day trains will run through without any detaching or trans- fer. The accident to the tunnel has cost the Santa Fe a great deal of money, but the rebuilding has been of the most sub- stantial character, and there is no possi- ble danger of any delays in future. —_—— Phelan Will Urge Action. Mayor Phelan intends making a re- quest to the Board of Supervisors that action be taken at once to remove the lampless lampposts that are scattered about the city. He has ascertained that posts for the mail boxes which were re- cently ordered from Washington have ar- rived, and that there is no ionger use for the unsightly posts to which some thirty- six boxes are now attached. ————— Town Talk . This week bears out its reputation for being the brightest and best of the week- lies. Among its contents are: Portraits of Rev. Louis Sanford and his bride, with stage and musical favorites; editorials upon late events of national importance; satirical aftermath by Phil Garlic; society and club life, treated from The Saunter- er’'s point of view; original valentines to prominent men; a storiette from real life; musical, book and dramatic criticisms; newsy political chat by The Parson; stor- ies and poems. . — - COMMEMORATION DAY. Observed by the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States. A meeting of California- Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States was held last evening in the Occidental Hotel, when the fol- lowing named were elected officers for the current term: Robert Y. Hayne, commander; D. Henshaw Ward, vice= commander; Geor-e Whitney Reed, sec= retary; Franklin B. Washington, deputy secretary; Charles Samuel Greene, trease urer; Colonel A. S. Hubbard, _register, and Brander Wells Lee, judge advocate. It being commemoration day, the come panions of the commandery and several gentlemen invited to become companions of the order, who were invited as special ruests, partook of an excellent nner ' at which there was shown much pat- riotic spirit in the toasts and the re- sponses. ADVERTISEMENTS. ELECTRICITY and medicine as combined and adminis- tered by the Physicians and Surgeons of the State Electro-Medical Institute, cor=; ner Market, Powell and Eddy streets, has proved a wonderful success, exercising over diseases a curative power never be- fore known to the medical world. The Doctors of this Institute are curing all manner of diseases so quickly that those, who had lost all hope of ‘health are amazed at the wonderful results obtained through this new system of Electricity and Medicine combined. ITmmediate relief is given and a perfect cure speedily fol- lows. The Educated Physician concedes the fact that Electricity alone fails to cure; also that MEDICINE alone in many ailments exerts but little, if any, curative properties, but our Com=~ bination of Electricity and Medicine ac- . complishes results which cannot be ob-, tained by either alone. Is it not evident | to your mind, if you are a sufferer, that the Doctors of the Electro-Medical Insti- tute offer you a surer and quicker cure by their COMBINED application of Electricity and Medicine at { the same time, the one acting from with= in and the other from without, thus they ! find the most remote lurking places of | disease and exterminate it from the sys-| tem, effecting positive and permanent CURES. 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For all those ails that come from indigestion, dyspepsia and a lazy liver there is no remedy so certain as RIPANS TABULES.