The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1898, Page 14

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 189S. LED TO DEATH ~ BY HOPELESS LOVE Leopold Nathan Feldman, a Physician, Ends His Life With an Unknown Poison. 142 GREEN SAYS HE SCRATCHED ALVARADO for Instancfe, ha !3::: for suckers. In the creation of the ye€/ -, low joy in quest of whlch_lhousand: are invading the Klondike, it does ng convince the mind of sane investigat- ors that it has a part to play. ' Thomas Price, assayer, analyflcad chemist and mining engineer, had rea in The Call of yesterday the announce- ment. “There is no merit whatever in it,” sald Mr. Price. “Such statements have been made from time immemorial, and the process was described in the antique times of Egypt. Transmuta- tion of*metals is a dream, and the only redeeming feature of it has been that it led to the foundation of true chemistry.” Auswering the question as to whether he had ever made attempts in the direction of discovering the process, Mr. Price replied that he would as soon “If by the Bryce school houses, this branch being con- some purposes, as, signed to the Board of Public Works. In addition to these three directors the superintendent is authorized to ap- point four deputy superintendents, who must have had ten years’ experience as teachers. Their term of office runs for four years, with a similar provis- ion to that governing the appointment of the directors, that the appointments shall run, two for two years, and two for four years, after the first appoint- ments are made, but the directors shall hold for only three years. Full com- pensation is to be paid the directors and they are commanded to devote thelr entire time to their duties. Delegate McCarthy fought long and hard for five directors, but the odds were against him, and he had to con- tent himself with changing his vote and giving notice of reconsideration at the next meeting. GOLD MADE AS YOU WAIT Bryce’s Method of Trans- mutation as Old as the Hills. He Comes to the Aid of Corrigan, Who Was Charged With the Doing of It. ¢ Sink’s Horses Are Cheap,”” Says the Director, The Dream of Ancients Never ‘e and They Are All Bad 5 think of trying to fly. Y 2 He Was the Son of Wealthy Parents in England, but/| By a provision of the article, an ad- Realized :Nor Likely method gold could be made,” he con- Actors. 1 m;al deputy superintendent is to be to Be. tinued, ** it would be much easier -to | appointed when the number of school stay at home and manufacture it than Was Left to His Own | Resources. The announced withdrawal of W. B. | nothing of the kind. I saw his horse | Sink from the local turf has caused a | do some very creditable work before | ripple of excitement among the race- | the race, and I sajd I thought 'hel_‘ e il e el kT Gakloa goers and the horsemen. Corrigan | might do well. T never sald he Was| g mpgt ghould anything happen to me does not care to talk about it—he only | eligible to enter.” 4 I request that everything I possess takes time to say he knows nothing Mr. Corrigan also took occasion to | 4 in America and also in England about the affair. say that not since he had any control | 4 shall be handed over to Miss Re- reen, secretary of the Jockey Club, | of the track had there been any races 4 gina Levy of 2222 Pine street, San come to the rescue of his superior | fixed for some one particular horse to | 4 Francisco, without reserve or con- £ Win, or had there been any fixing to | ¥ dition. She will also place herself Ke it easter for some men and harder |} |7 commugicstion with 1. Raphael, children reaches 45,000, and for ever: 10,000 thereafter, an additional depu& must be appointed. All supplies must be furnished the department by contract, the same to be advertised for and bids received. The salaries of all teachers must be paid on or before the 5th of each and every month and the Supervisors are compelled to make appropriations in the yearly levy in accordance with the schedule furnished them by the direc- tors for this purpose. The same statutory provisions that now exist regarding the dismissal of teachers were made a part of the char- to climb the Chilcoot Pass and brave the arctic winter. It is simply hum>ug of the first water.” Professor Price then followed the Bryce scheme through in detail, show- ing that the outcome would not be a button of gold but of lead; and a but- ton of lead may be procured at'less trouble and expense. Professor Wil- lfam T. Wenzell entirely supported thig view. Yet there were many who believed in Cagliostro, and there will be discipleg of Bryce. So be that he shower them with gold buttons is it for them ta cavil at the source? Shall they bru- Science Laughs at the Modern Cagli- ostro and Carlyle Would Doubt- less Roast Him if Here. the rooms where he took his own life. Mr. Brachmann said last evening that | he had known Feldman for the past | | elght ‘months, and that he had ap-| peared to be rather erratic at times, | | and without doubt was fond of the so- | clety of women. “For the past few weeks,” he said, “Feldman has been addicted to hard drink, and even smoked opium at times. For fear that somebody who wants gold lost the recipe for making it as printed yesterday, the directions are reprinted. They seem simple enough: ha and has announced that it was he and while Mr. Green maintains that there 1& no one In the club who has the right to scratch a horse outside of himself, still he is not willing to admit, except Ly inference, that he did really take Alvaredo from among the starters on minds. There are many, too, who have felt | the disciplining arm of the track stew- | ards who attribute their sufferings | directly to the fact that they had | beaten out a Corrigan herse. w. J. S PP 444 to carry him through life in a suitable manner, led the unfortunate man to commit the deed. The body now lies at the Morgue and the distorted features are proof of the means by which he ended his life. prepared for shipment and sent to his parents, who are as yet ignorant of the death of their only son. Miss Regina Levy, the young lady whose affections Feldman tried to win, was seen at her residence, at 2222 Pine | street, last evening. She said that the | at the Palace Hotel Before the Board Came to a Cholce. The trustees of the State Library met last evening and of lead, five parts, and caustic soda, four parts. Fuse the whole until a metallic button is ob- tained. Scarify and cupola this metallic mass, and the resulting bead will be gold and silver. ducements to McCoy if he will .agres to fight me within the middle-weight limit, which is 154 pounds,” said Ryan, “but for some reason best known to himself he avolds me and pretends to fly to higher game. He has not the remotest idea of fighting Choynski nor any other good man in the heavy-weight class, .- Ha ot Mr. Corrigan who scratched the |ma lawyer, of M te street, | Toklost Alvarado last Baturday, just |for others. 3 don who will watch over her in- 4 |1 Was surprised to hear that he had | ter. e bedo e L b G d s AT L L B L s everything seemed to augur well | “Everybody knows 1 n;:verlhn_;i”any | 4 terests. I leave all to Miss Regina fi‘;"“:g‘et:g :ul)clide.“s:\l ‘idsgflél‘;imrxm\ —_— 8 HOW TO MAKE GOLD. b ;2n{r'%fil?e; ool b i g for a winnins. hand fn futh, work and (hat T Willinoth Lavy Deouse the Repulent tinesin o liins Sctbit & /o wacks ago OTmaiier \ . + 8 | Clence went into the pot? It would ba Mr. Corrigan was not pleased with | countenance It, g l; r"‘ - self and 1|+ LEOPOLD AT AN PR ceedingly sorry, as his parents are very Al & 1 8 | positive ingratitude. The Count of old the remarks made about him by Sink, | Wanted a race fixed for myself an (o Poiraasy 1 10 " R respectable and wealthy people.” % Pure antimony, five parts. 3| fooled people a little and there s noth< 1 he said as much in language for- “’0““1‘ not allow one to be fixed for ““Y‘ 2 i dOn the body was found a Temr & Sulphur, ten parts. & | Ing to show people have grown wiser. 1bl ough to do duty in any emer- | One else. 3 | um book of poems, speaking of love, STATE IB | & Iron, one part. &8 Comer“e 'said, too, that he had| Despite the denial, however, horse- | Leopold Nathan Feldman, a physi- and all addressed fo “Resinat = - & Caustic soda, four parts. % TOMMY H¥ A7 9 MoCOY. et g g | T, s venin, at he < = “vormry never any idea of why and how Sink’s | TeR &re Bot acoepuss !h;;::g;:f:; clan of London, England, and a son of | 3 rreqfiinff’;da},?:é Sty o & Place these ingredients in a % |The Welter-Weight Will Fight #The horse scratched, but he thought it | " o/ 1 oty o 24 Detorenn | wealthy parents, committed suiclde | qnancial way, and he belleved he was : 8 graphite crucible and expose to % Kid” or Will Take on Demon was because the animal was a bad | W ‘d E Dt‘ alacrity which beto! eflsha" yesterday afternoon in his apartments | a good and hard-working young man. | Chosen at a Session of the % a white heat of 5000 degrees & Walcott. Setor at the barrier and was apt to | @blding faith in its truth. But what | gt 528 Eddy street. He took poison, the | It is admitted that Feldman is a grad- Trustees F161d Cact & from eight to forty-eight hours. % v i SR e spoil. the field. Corrigan says is pretty near the law character of which is at present un- |uate of Cambridge. No money was dis- | as! % Powder the resulting mass and % | _ LommY R.‘G“-f :he o ‘]’;"‘;‘;’; b e e i hing | 0Ut on the track, and the smaller own- | known. Despondency, caused by his un- [ covered on the body, and it is supposed | Night. 88 et well. tosincarporstai the - 8 | FOIRLS DUshitst of the Worlcy JEC R (Th;- Eesp stbility f”Tl“"’d15~“rd“‘dC % | ers must stand in or be willing to take | requited affection, and the fact that he | h¢ had sent what little capital he pos- 9% hictali withisisg it e e ¥ soiteiday anen he ,:‘Pa‘i Kia” McCoy's the horse seems to be divided, fo 2 y B —_— - hallenge to Choynski. = o . the consequences of speaking _their | was unable to collect sufficlent funds | Sesscd £0 s parents in Pngland, Jtls), SO0 p I8 with charcoal, one part; oxide 8| ““hy: T have offered all manner of fns ¥ . % & 8 & <] &8 8 % % % % % =® &8 Saturday. . He also denies that he ever told Sink that Alvarado could run in the race. He declares, however, that ‘orrigan has no such power. nk's horses are cheap, anyway,” sald Mr. Corrigan- yesterday, as he grew talkative over Sink and his do- “He buys cheap horses—horses « ings. that are bad actors and have mean tempers—and then. he wants to run them without schooling them to the starting gate. He ought to take to nething else.” Mr. Green explains that he | scratched Alvarado because the horse did not act well at the barrier. There is a rule, he said, that all horses must be ‘schooled at the barrier before being allowed to enter in a race, and he says Alvarada has been at the school- ing gate but once and that was yes- terday morning. “All of Sink’s horses are unruly,” he said; “and we have had a great deal Gf trouble with them. Lucky Dog was a particularly ugly horse while he was under ‘Sink’s management, but now he gives but little trouble. Alvarado gave us.so much trouble delay that it was decided to refuse his entry, and of course there was bitterness at onic “I don’t see how Sink can say I told him his entry of Alvarado was accept- able,” . said Mr. Green, “for I said| Spiers, owner of the great O'Connell, | was suspended for sixty days for the | erratic running of his two-year-old | Santello. He was beaten out in one of his early races and later, when he | ran again, he beat Milt Young, a Cor- rigan colt, and his suspension followed. This was afterward reduced to thirty days. Splers assigns the beating of | the Corrigan colt as a more direct cause for his suspension than any ques- | tion of off running. | Nolan & Thall of Texas had. a sim- | ilar experience, following on the run- | ning of Also Ran, and J. H. Shields was given a similar vacation for the reversal of form shown in the running of Joe Terry. These men all declare that they received the best of treat- ment at the Oakland track, and they blame Corrigan for most of the trou- ble that comes to them on this side. The betting of the owners in each case showed poor faith. Among the horsemen themselves and among the betting men Corrigan is not liked; and since his breach with S. N. | Androus, the president of the club, the | disesteem threatens to invade the de- liberations of the directors. The trou- | ble with Androus arose from a sug- | gestion made by Androus and received | by Corrigan very much as he would | have received a blow. Androus would not stand his language, and so the two have not spoken since. | TO JOIN ALICE NEILSEN. Jennie Hawley, the Understudy of Jessie Bartlett Davis, Will Be Alice Neilsen’s new company, which is | going to open next season under the | management of Mr. Perly. | Miss Hawley has been offered and | has accepted the leading contralto part | who are at present in London. His history, as told by acquaintances, | is a sad one. Through fast living he had been left in this city by his parents The de- ceased has resided in this city for about two years and after a few months here he met and courted Miss Regina Levy, an estimable young lady who lives with her parents at 2222 Pine street. time his affections seemed to be re- turned, but later it was learned that Feldman had been previously betrothed and through troubles had broken the engagement, and Miss Levy no longer accepted the attentions of her former lover. Feldman spent money rapidly for a time, but recently he has been unable to make his own livelihood, and it is thought this was one of the reasons which ‘induced him to take his own life. He left a will and several letters. It seems to be the oft-told story of a young man who was blessed with op- portunities rarely gained, but who, through his desire to enjoy life, had | separated himself from his family and former friends and gone into the world with a determination to gain enjoy- ment or lose both name and life. From reports, he has succeeded in doing both, and as his parents are stated to be exceedingly respectable people, the case seems to be the more regrettable. At first he lost the respect of his family, then his honor, recently his valuables, and lastly his life, through his own actions. For the past eight months- he had been employed in the pawnshop owned by Mr. Coleman at 41 Third street, and. while there gained many friends in the neighborhood. He was a frequent visitor at the house of J. Brachmann, a pawnbroker. About five weeks ago he entered Brachmann's place of business and asked for a re- volver for the purpose of taking his For a | el first news of his death was brought to | her by some one from the Coroner’s of- fice. “I have only known Dr. Feldman a few months, he being a casual visitor | to my home,” she added. "I was nev- er engaged to him, and showed him no | affection. Why he should have picked | me out in this manner, I cannot under- | stand. I deplore the notoriety, and feel sorry for his death as much as I would feel for any friend.” LEGISLATING FOR SCHOOLS. Freeholders P;;&ing a System by Which -the Board of Education Will Be Out of Politics. The. Board of Education and the management of the public schools was the question that occupied the atten- tion of the Freeholders last night. The joint committee on education and | law reported for the action of the con- vention a system by which the public schools of this city will be taken away for all time to come from the control of the politicians. . The report, which was adopted at the meeting last night, pro- vides for the appointment by the Mayor of three directors, who shall have full and complete control of the schools, the teachers, the pupils and the fixing of the salary of every teach- er and emplaye. They have nothing to do with the buflding or repairing of the B Al Fi M di Republican State Committee. trustees are: mento, Jacob Neff of Placer. A. B. Lem- | mon of Sonoma, Dr. Thomas Flint of San of Librarian were: James Gillls and J. H. Wallis of Sacra- mento, W. didate on the regular ballotin more than one vote. | been in session for mearly two hours a | recess was taken. was resumed, but no_choice resulting a | %eneral last Assembly. States Harrison to succeed John F. Swift and has been frequently mentloned as a can- mento March ected Frank L. Coombs State Librarian. 'he session was held in the rooms of the The new Frank D. Ryan of Sacra- enito and B. W. Lee of Los Angeles. | 11 attended the session last night. The names mentioned for the position Ex-Senator Fraser, | . H. Seaman. of Los Angeles, rank L. Coombs of Napa, Horace Wil- son of San Francisco, ex-Assemblyman rice of Santa Rosa, and Mr. Numerous ballots were cast, but no cai After the %oflrd had After recess balloting | exchange of views followed. | inally all the trustees came around to the support of Mr. Coombs. brarian-elect was speaker of the He was appointed United | to Japan by President | The Minister date for Governor. | The board m;ljflurned to meet in Sacra- | 28 —_———— In the Divorce Courts. Emma Konlg was granted a divorce | from her husband, Viggo Konig, yester- day Arnnfe C. Hubbell was granted a divorce | from George A. Hubbell on the ground of desertion. granted a divorce from Charles C. Gar- neau on the ground of extreme cruelty. on_the ground of wiliful neglect Florence Garneau has been | HRUIUERIVIRIRIYRR There is a firmly rooted belief in the inutility of attempting to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Another be- lief equally strong is that the baser | metals cannot be transmuted into gold. Of these two somewhat analogous be- llefs the latter is based on the results of experiments extending over many years, their beginning lost in the van- ished fumes of the alchemists’ furnace, whose mystic glow was a terror to the ancients, a token that science and the devil were in league. Count Cagliostro was once described by an irascible old gentleman named Carlyle as a “quack of quacks,” as ‘a king of liars,” as a “gold cook.” The count was supposed to manufacture the precious metal. In cold truth, he had a habit of extracting it ready minted from the adjacent pocket of the credu- | lous, and Carlyle, having had to earn | his own money, and having besides a touch of dyspepsia, was displeased at the pretense. born reasonably early in the last cen- | tury, is dead now, but his memory has | been kept green, and here and there an imitator has arisen. Perhaps E. C. Bryce of Chicago is one of these; per- haps the effort to attain the unattain- able has turned the Bryce head. At any rate, Mr. Bryce announces that he can make gold with the ease that one less gifted can make bricks. He even glves to the world the formula he em- ploys. It may be a good formula for The count having been | makes his own matches and always se- lects men who are classified among the dubs. Look at his record; it is composed principally of names of men who have never amounted to anything. He whip- ped me once when I was a light welter- welght; he then had about fifteen pounds the better of me in weight. ““The last time we met I was putting it all over him when the pelice stopped the game. I will fight him for money of mar- bles at 154 pounds, which is the middle- weight limit, and I will bet that after our contest the ‘Kid’ will have good reason to quit talking through the papers. In fact, you cannot get him to fight outside of one or two clubs, where he can have a fight stopped at any time he pleases. “He has as much idea of fighting Choynski_as he has of fighting Fitzsim- mons. All he wants is cheap newspaper notoriety. “I am opposed to fighting colored men, but if I cannot drag McCoy into a ring [ suppose 1 will have to take on Walcott, as he is looked upon as being the great- est welter-weight in the country—that Is, barring myself, of course. He did up Green in the same round that he (Green) went down before me, but the Californian was at his best fighting weight when he entered the ring with me, and, if 1 un- derstand rightly, Green was weak when be fought Walcott. However, I will fight Walcott at catch weights, but I prefer to take on McCoy, as I am more than anx- fous to knock a chunk of coneeit out of Mr. Norman Selbey, alias the ‘Kid.’ " Although the Sharkey-Choynski fight is near at hand, there is very little interest taken In the match. —_——————— Low's Horehound Cough Syrup bronchitis; price 10c. 417 Sansome st. cures ADVERTISEMENTS. Leading Contralto. Miss Jennie Hawley, the understudy |in the organization, and those compe- tent to judge of ‘the merits of her : voice say her good fortune is bu of Jessie Bartlett Davis in the Bos- | JO1°e 82¥ et E00 Jortunc 19 Dut the tonians, will soon emerge from the |gyture. comparative obscurity of that position, \ and instead of shining by reflection will | emit light of her own as a star in Miss | own life, but he was refused and per- suaded to fight the battle which seemed to him to be an uphill one. It is stated that for the past six weeks Feldman has been determined to commit suicide, * and last evening his determination was carried to a successful issue. A letter written to his parents was found under his pillow. It said: My, Dear Parents: This is the last let- ter you will receive from me. All the hap- Y‘inoss I looked forward to is over. Miss evy, after six months’ courting, has parted from me. T have tried for the last few days to overcome thedisappointment, but I cannot. It is driving me crazy, and I would rather die than be crazy. : tried very hard to do all that is good, and 1 believed that she loved me. But it is all over now. I loved her with my life, but now life is not worth living without her. Good-by and God bless you. For- glt\'e me and do not think too harshly of me. Another letter was addressed to Dr. M. S. Levy as follows: When a man is down to a certain level he had better give up sooner than go lower. So it is with me. Everything is against me, and I am tired of the strug- gle. No hope, no love. I cannot write this to my parents, but as soon as I write a couple of letters I am going to kill my- self. You will write and teil them all about it. That is all I ask you to do for me, You might have done more. I leave further instructions in my pocket-book, which will be found upon me. I am tired of it all, so wish you {ogg-l;‘y-ELDMAN Feldman had previously resided for some time at 508 Larkin street, but about three months ago he moved to We opened our show= rooms in this city, Oak=- land and Sacramento. This week we open at San Jose and Portland, and so the work goes on! 3 Months Ago Over 1000 Homes in this city have now elegant furniture and household articles obtained through saving green trading stamps. Wehave stood the insults and misrepresentations of many; we have been denounced by those who know nothing about our system, and attacked by those to whom we would not pay hush money ; in fact, no man who has used trading stamps has said one word against them, but over 100 merchants have joined during the past thirty days. trong as the Rock of Gibraltar and Hereto Stay! Many a home has been made brighter, many a corner more cozy, many a purse made longer, many a wife has obtained a pleasing article to 31 prove her economy. Many a husband can recline in one of our rockers, weary after a hard day’s toil ; he knows that Most Torturing, Disfiguring, | Humiliating | Of itching, burning, bleeding, scaly skin and scalp humors is instantly relieved by a warm bath with CuTicura Soar, & single application of CuTicuRA (oint- ment), the great skin cure, and a full dose of OuTicura RESOLVENT, greatest of blood purifiers and humor cures. (Uticura Remepies speedily, permanently, and economically cure, when all else fails. axp Cmgw, Cosr. Sole Props., Bostem. free. Porten Drvs €7 How 1o Cuse Every Skin and Blood Humor, PIMPLY FAWMM a5d_Beautified by CUTICURA SOAP. Trading Stamps Did Prove a Benefit. The greater number of merchants who are now giving trading .stamps are doing so not only to increase their cash trade, but to fight that MODERN OCTOPUS, THE DEPARTMENT STORE ; they are fighting for exist- ence against a merciless concentration of capital whose sole object is to live by freezing out the little fellows. The green trading stamp is the GREATEST FOE THE DEPARTMENT STORE EVER HAD. Have you not noticed how they squeal and fight it? Trading stamps draw trade TO the 3-Day Specials'! Economical housewives who want to live | et il é%ia",‘;’.f«"&&"éfi?:é&‘,?&i‘:, smaller stores, and FROM the blood-sucking claws of the department store. CREAMERY BUTTER, square - - - 40c | CORFES, XL B, b - - - - 20c Ask for green trading stamps; see our goods at 42 Geary C RS ST street; get a book free. DOVER EGG-BEATER - - - - - 10c Best known brand. . oe S GIVEN AWAY BY : MeBRAYER WHISKEY, ot. bot.- - - THA l WI L MAKE TflE D A oy ORATER VSERY, ¢ - - -90c TLITIL 671 L EPART Regular price §1 25. MUSCATEL WINE, qt. bot. - - 40c GALLON $1.25 Of rare old vintage, unsurpassed for quality. Regular price 65c_and $2 | RATHJEN BROS. 21 STOCKTON ST., | 3253 FILLMORE ST., Near Market. & pliear Marker. Gorner Lombard Telopheny Tolephens MERCHANTS In San Francisco GREEN STAMP MENT STORE HUSTLE. / Dr. Leopold Nathan Feldman, Who Committed Suicide L;lt Even- ing, and Miss Regina Levy, Whose Affections He Sought,