The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1898, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 189S. SHOTINT HEAD HE BY A RIVAL SUITOR Ed E. Halsey of South Ber- keley Killed by Stacey Rogers of Lorin. The Murderer Afterward Surren-= ders Himself at Golden Gate. Berkeley’s First Homicide. BERKELEY, March 29.—Ed E. Hal- | sey, a young carpenter of South Berke- le was shot and almost instantly killed th's evening by Stacey Rogers, a sign pa‘nter of Lorin, at the residence of Charles D. Haines, corner of Prince and Iton streets, th Berkele: Halsey and Rogers had quarreled early in the day, and this evening when Rog- ers called at Haines’ house Halsey started to throw him from the porch down stairs. Rogers drew a revolver and shot Halsey, the ball penetrating the breast and piercinx the aorta. Hal- sey staggered back from the porch to one of the rooms of the ho where he died i s than five minutes after receiving fatal wound. Dr. Allen of A Y e, who had been summoned, arrived after i his t. rear the ave the ma Jealous: T Fenton Harrison, who the household of Ha been at the bottom of tween Halsey and Rog a frequent caller at a woman, Mrs. Eva is employed in , seems to have tr trouble be- Halsey was the Haines resi- dence, whither he came to see Mrs. Harrison, or Miss Fenton, as she is known In the neighborhood. He also came to often had busine: penter and buil see Haines, with whom he . Halsey being a car- d Haines being a d painter. Halsey rms of close dship with son, with whom he had been acquainted as Miss Fenton, before she ma ed Harr n. Mrs. Robert | below Grove | e called at the Halnes | sitting in a room in e resided with when Rogers came to the r and inquired for H heard him and| r 1t porch, ording to ment of Halnes, who was standing by, he grappled with Rogers and atte to force him down t tairs. gers ew a revolver and fired point blank He then hurriedly ion who stood on the waiting for him. im: after being shot, | staggered back into the house. When wher he reached the sitting room he fell and died almost iately in the pre: ence of Haines, who stood powerless o | help him. | Deputy Coroner Streightif and Mar- shal Lloyd of Berkeley were quickly | notified. The former made arrance- ments to have the body removed to the Berkeley Branch Morgte. The Marshal | started out after Rodgers. { Halsey had been in Berkelev for some | me and had recently opened a carpen- | ter shop on Ashby avenue. He seems | to have borne the reputation of being a sober and industrious workman. His | sister, Mrs. Rcbert Hunter, with whom he resided, was nearly prostrated when she heard of his tragic death. She de- clared that the aged mother of the deceased, who lives in New York. shock would kill the | Stacey Rogers, the murderer, Is| hardly 22 years of age and does not | bear the best of reputations in his | {ghborhood | While a sign painter by trade he Is sald to have spent a large part of his v of a gang of Lorin S have fre- B and Halsey had | threatened to thrash him if he came near the Hain e, where Mrs. Har. rison was sta > Haines believes | that Rogers came to the house this evening r the purpose of bothering | Halsey, and that when Halsey started | for him he b 1 he would thrash him, and accordingly pulled 2 gun on Halsey. Mrs. Harrison was rendered hysteri- cal as a result of the tragic death of Halsey and could give no statement in regard with her relations with Halsey or with her husband, M. Harrison, from | whom she has been separated for some | time and of whose whereabouts noth- | ing is known. Mrs. Harrison a rather prepossessing young blonde and is well known in South Berkeley, where she has resided for a number of vears. | At 10 o’clock to-night Stacey Rogers | surrendered himself to Officer Jack | Sherry at Golden Gate, and an hour | later he was in the Oakland City | Prison. He was very nervous and ex- | “For some time past,” said Rozors,ll “there has been some feeling of jeal ousy between Halsey and myself over | Mrs. Eva Harrison. We never had any | open quarrel, but I knew he did not | citable, and at once sent for his broth- like my calling at the house of Mr. and | er, Leo Rogers, who is_employed at Taylor's lumber yard in Berkeley. He i a very respectable looking young fellow and gives his age as just 21 Rogers required but little persuasion to teil his story of the trouble which originated over a young married woman. Mrs. Haines, where Mrs. Harrison | stays. This afternoon we met and had | a few words. Halsey said I s not wanted at the Haines house, and that he would see that I kept away. He said if he could not do it one way he wouil | another. I knew what this meant, be- cause I have heard that once he used a knife when in a scrape. I told him I would go to see Mrs. Harrison if I chose, and he defied me. “He told me he was going to the house to-night gnd I decided to go there too. When I met Mr. Haines, who opened the door, 1 asked him if he wanted me to keep away from lhe‘ house. He said he did and just then I | saw Halsey come out Of a door at the | head of the stairs. I looked at him and | saw that he had his hand raised. TI| fancled I saw something shining in it and knowing what he had said this | afterr~on about doing me up I drew | my gun and fired. I remember seeing | the flash and seeing him fall and then | I ran off. I wandered around for about | an hour and then I was cooled off and | dectded to give myself up. I met Of- | ficer Sherry, told him of what I had done, and he brought me here. “I am a newspaper man and three | weeks ago was doing some work for | the Stockton Independent. I have also[ worked for the Illustrated World. I/ have mostly done canvassing. I have | no relatives on the coast except my | brother.- I met Mrs. Harrlson before | ghe was married. She did not live with her husban¢ long and they have beenl eeparated for some time. I should | ful animals, not have gone to the Haines house to- night sol. on my own account, but I have a friend named Charley McGreer who was anxious to meet Mrs. Harri- son. He knew I was acquainted with her and he asked me to_ arrange a meeting between them. I went there to-night for that purpose. ‘“‘Halsey is a married man, but does not live with his wife. Hé had trou- ble with her and ran off to Mexico till it blew ove: I have known him for a long time, but we never quarreled till to-day. I never met his wife and do not know where she is. Halsey has on no occasion told me to keep away from his wife. “I consider that I did the shooting in self-defense, because I really be- lieved that Halsey had & gunp in his hand when he raised it. I have never been in trouble in my life before, and although I was prepared to defend my- f if need be, I did not go to Haines house with any intention of shooting. I am sorry I have killed my friend, and very sorry that I have been forced to bring a lady’s name into this unpleasant affair.” The killing of Halsey is the first murder that has occurred in Berkeley since the branch morgue was estab- ished there about six years ago. A Berkeleyan who has resided in the col- lege town for twenty years declares that it is the first case of homicide that has occurred in the history of the town. MASTERS OF AfiT. A New Board of Directors Is Ap- pointed to Govern the Art Association. aTh- annual meeting and election of of- | ficers of the Hopkins Institute of Art was held yesterday afternoon and the follow ing officers elected for the coming year: Joseph D. Grant, L. P. Latimer, Edward Bosqui, Horace G. Platt, rge Whit- tell, Arthur Rogers, Henry Heyman, Ir- ving M. Scott and William G. Stafford. All these candidates were on the regular ticket, which was unanimously carried, with the exception of two members, James D. Phelan and James W. Byrne. In the evening at the annual meeting Secretary Martin forwarded his yearly port relating to the condition of the Q k rn'hes of instruction during the past rear. Professor Mathews advanced a proposi- tion to have the price of tuition of tne antique drawing class and the life model- ing class fixed at $7 for each. At present those attending the antique class pay but $. while the life class pays $7 a quarter | for instruction. The motion was placed on file and will be discussed at the next regul of the institute. e e ————— BIGGY TO MAKE CHANGES. The New Registrar Wants All Elec- tion Officers Chosen by Lot. Registrar Biggy, who has already taken possession of his office, has decided to make several changes in the personnel of | his staff, and at least five men will be relieved and others placed in their posi- tions. tion have not yet been given out. At least two of them will be put on special work for some time to come. Mr. Biggy has taken hold of the work of his office with a will, and has already decided that registration for the charter election shall begin April Slips designating the ing places will be mailed to voters as s as the corps of clerks can get them out The new Registrar is in favor of drawing | the names of election clerks by lot from among the 4000 names that have been sent into the office by political parties. It is probable that he will adopt | this course. —_————— GRIGG’S LECTURE. The Speaker Will Close His Course Next Tuesday. Professor Grigg of Stanford delivere a most interesting lecture on “Da Paradise” before the members of Channing Auxiliary yesterday. e's the Xt N Tuesday will be the last in the course which he is delivering, and will be en- titled ““The Beatific Vision.” It is an- nounced that Professor Grigg will most likely give another course under the aus- pices of the Channing Auxiliary. the | airs of the association and its various | The names of those who will be | uperseded by men of Mr. Biggy's selec- | ® P00 0, road sent her home in a carriage. WEPOO® ® = cur was too badly damaged to ins [OJOJOJOJOJO} ®® A northbound electric car on the Fillmore street line collided with an inbound Hayes-street cable car at Hayes and Fillmore streets early last night. Several passengers were injured by the broken panes of glass, but none of them seriously. One old lady, living at 610 Mission street, suffered considerably from the shock, and the officials of the The blame for the accident is laid to the gripman of the Hayes-street car. of way, and it was the duty of the gripman of the cable road to stop before reaching the crossing and make sure that the line was clear be- fore attempting to cross the tracks of the electric road. He failed to do, and his car was squarely on the tracks of the Fillmore line when the electric car came down the steep grade, and before the mo- torman could get his brakes set the wreck was complete. of the cable car was smashed in and the front of the Fillmore-street car was badly damaged. The forward truck of the cable car was dis- abled and the grip refused to work. The damaged car Wwas pushed down Hayes street with the intention of taking it to the turn table at the foot of Market street and on back to the power house. The dam- aged car went all right on the straight track on Hayes street, but when it struck the curve at Market street the wheel of the damaged truck left the track, and it went bouncing over the cobbles toward the b. An effort was ruade to put it back on the tracks, but the car ure it running as far as the turn table, and as & matter of expediency it was run clear of the tracks and left until traffic had stopped, when a wrecking gang placed new trucks un- der it and hauled it to the car house. C-)@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ClororeIeroteIoTorotoTeYototorolotototelolotolelolelelololClelolofo STREET CARS IN COLLISION. The electric car line has the right The side COPEEPPEPPIPPICICHPNOPPOIPNOOPIPNECOO® REORGANIZATION Tangled Affairs of the Oregon Improvement Com- pany. | Eastern Capitalists Took Charge of the Business on This Coast. The tangled affairs of the Oregon Im- provement Company, which got into a bad way some years ago through mis- management and unfortunate invest- ments, was straightened up by means of a number of deeds that were filed in the Recorder’s office yesterday. The reorganization of the company, which had been in the hands of a re- was made possible by the deed- Special Commissioner Eben Smith Waterbury and T. Jefferson ing by to John L 1 Coolidge Jr. of the immense interests of the concern. These gentlemen represent the Pacific Coast Company, a concern made up of Eastern capitalists, whose aggregate wealth amounts to many mil- The Farmer's Trust Company also lions. filed quitclaim deeds releasing the old concern from its obligations. The property transferred consists of vast mining and shipping interests, and also the coal bunkers and the land on | which they stand in this city. The new company will entirely reorganize the concern and endeavor to place it on a paying basi — e EXCELLENT BASKET-BALL. | Second Game in the Finals of the Big Tournament. The second game in the finals of basket ball tournament was played 1 Thursday evening at the gymnasium of the Y. M. C. A. of this city, when the Business Men of San Francisco defeated hens of Oakland in a very lively th the contest by the close score of 12 to 10 points. Both teams entered the gymnasium with a determination to win the honors of the day and the golden trophy of the coast championship. The players lined | up as follows: Business Men. Athens. . Boek ncaster F. BEdwards H. Muller . E. Rode In the first half the play was consider- | ably broken up by the rulings of the offi- cers, who applied the rules as strictly as possible in order to avoid any roughness and to control the excitement which pre- vailed all during the great game. Points were made during the first twenty min- utes by Titusand Wilson for the local team and by Boek and Lancaster for the Oak- | landers. The score stood 6 to 4 in favor of the Business Men when the whistle blew for the intermission, and it was this lead that saved the game for the local Position. | players, as both teams secured 6 points each in the second half. The Athens played the game under a protest against the disqualification of one of their players at the game played last week. The ruling was made for one year without appeal, but the Athens will bring the matter up before the league commit- tee and make also a legal fight for championship honors. t| EARLY MAIL CLOSING. ness Men to Deposit Their Mail Early and Often. Postmaster Montague has issued a cir- | cular to business men on the importance of getting in their mail earlier than usual | during the present month while the mail is being weighed. The circular states | that at the present time a large propor- tion of the mail emanating from the busi- ness houses is not deposited in the boxes until late in the evening. The postmas- ter requests business men that all mail matter b ent to the postoffice or mailed in the street boxes frequently during the This is specially important at the pres- ent time while the mails are weighed and extra labor is thrown upon | the dispatching force at Station D at the foot of Market street. As mail deposited OF 4 CORPORATION the | being | there at the last moment 18 apt to be held over from twelve to twenty-four hours, due to the extra labor involved in taking the weights, all the suggestions of the postmaster. Boxes in the business sections of the city are collected nineteen times per day, so that all that is needed is to' deposit mail in these boxes as fast as it accumulates. —_— OUR DEFENSES.: Major Field of the United States Artillery Talked About Them to Grand Army Men. George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., gave its first quarterly entertainment of the year to its friends in the assembly hall of the audlence that assembled crowded the hall, which was tastefully decorated with battle flags and corps badges. There was presented a fine programme, which in- cluded vocal music by the Philomels and by H. A. Friedlander, a recitation by Miss Virginia Cranne, and contributions by the gramophone. The feature of the evening, however, was a concise, interest- ing add on’ “The Defensé of San Francisco,” by Major Edward Field, Sec- ond United States Artlllery, Inspector of Artillery for the Department of Callfor- nia. The major, in the outset, drew attention to an article on coast defenses that ap- peared in a local paper, which set forth that the defenses erected at this point was a useless w £ my from Point not only San Francisco, but the cities across the bay. The speaker said that was a case of an individual writing on a subject with which he was not familiar, and demonstrated tempted to shell point named the miles short of the cit miles from the cities across the bay. He told of the manner in which the fortifications have been erected, and how the fire of the varic batteries can be concentrated on the approaching ships of an enemy, and described the difficulty a vessel or ‘a fleet would encounter in an endeavor to pass through the Golden Gate. He explained the first line of de- fense outside of the Gate, the second within it, and the third, which includes Sausalito Heights, Alcatraz, Angel Island and Point San Jose. He also explained the working of the big_guns and mortars, and told that by pure mathe- matical calculation It is pogsible to tanse batteries of sixteen mortars throwing 1000-pound projectiles, which can be fired simultaneously at a vessel, and so accu- rate is the aim that a vessel cannot es- cape being struck. The only chance of entering the harbor, he said, would be in a fog. JIn his opinfon, San Francisco is the best protected city in the United States. He said that each gun put in position was an international policeman, and that all nations understanding that they will not only think twice, but twenty times before engaging in war. He be- lieved in peace, and declared that it must not be purchased at the sacrifice of those principles for which the soldiers of the War of the Rebellion shed their blood. The entertainment closed with the sing- ing of “America.” Francisco from the Is would fall four and would be many the ————— Justice Carroll’s Wife Dead. Mrs. John A. Carroll, wife of the well- known Justice of the Peace, died sud- denly yesterday at her residence, 2524 Clay street. Mrs. Carroll had been suffering from pneumonta, but was thought to_be on the falr way to recovery when the dis- ease took a sudden turp for the worse and carried her awrv. Mrs. Carroll was an estimable lad; leaves a host of friends to mnurg ?\i‘z‘!i' los: Justice Carroll is almost prostrated by his wife’s death, having spent several ys and nights nursing her continually. T e Mrs. Clunie’s Condition. There was no change for the better in the condition of Mrs. A. J. Clunie, wife of the Insurance Commissioner, at a late hour last nigal. Her friends have very little nope of her recovery. Yesteraay Drs. Gardner and MaoMonagle were called in as consulting physicians with Dr. Spencer, the family physician, but nothing, seemingly, could be done to give the family hope that she would get well. —— San Blas Arrived. The steamer San Blas arrived in port from Panama last evening and anchored off the barge office. The quarantine offi- cers will go aboard this morning, and the | vessel will then be alowed to dock. Cap- tain Russell made the run to this city in twenty days, arriving on schedule time. GUS GARSON, 238 Kearny street, Bush, sells “STANDARD"” shirts. , near . BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS WERE THERE. Society Turns Out in Force to Witness the Evolutlons of the San Francisco Riding Club. USIEEK!” commanded the French instructor with the Celtic sound- ing name; the band struck up “All Coons Look Alike to Me,™ and nineteen ladles and gentle- men trotted, galloped, walked, loped, pranced, wheeled and slid around the tan- bark ring of the Pacific avenue armory, while fully three hundred and nineteen of San Francisco's four hundred—the other eighty-one being either sick abed or trav- eling—looked on and applauded the ‘Mu- sical Ride” of the second annual exhibi- tion of the San Francisco Riding Club, a swell organization of alleged lovers of horseflesh, which sprang into existence about three years ago through the exer- tions of Mrs. Major W. B. Hooper, a true devotee of outdoor sport, who rides like a female centaur and who really enjoys a pastime that requires a courage and knowledge of technique that few women possess. “Musieek!” again shouted the peculiar looking individuai from La Belle France, who, attired in a pair of pajamas and a coat much too large for him, led the pro- cession; and the band changed to some- thing that sounded like a tarantella from Meussdorffer, while the horses in the ring, under the skillful guidance of their riders, turned this way and that, form- ing innumerable figures and different groupings while keening almost perfect time to the rhythmic cadence of the music. It was a pretty sight to see the beauti- their well-groomed coats shining like satin, obeying each touch of the gentle hands that guided them, pass around the ring, evincing a pride in their graco and Rpower which Was almost human. It was a pretty sight to see the confldence which existed between them- selves and their mistresses. It was a wonderful sight to turn from the contem- plation of the ladies and the horses and look at full-grown men solemnly wander- ing around the inclosed space without even one little smile to show they were conscious of the humor of the spectacle they were voluntarily creating. Follow- ing the musical ride, which was partici- pated in by the following ladies and gentlemen—Mrs. W. B. Hooper, Mrs. Fannie Lent, Miss Kohler, Miss Rose Hooper, Miss Elsie Lilienthal, Miss Far- quharson, Webster Jones, Charles de Young, E. N. Bee, S. H. Boardman, W. B. Chapman and G. C. B. Anderson—came tilting at the rings. This consisted of three gentlemen, W. B. Chapman, Donzell Brown and H. T. Bothin, trying to poke a stick through an iron ring, a la merry-go-round. Mr. Chap- man, a corpulent gentleman with a sandy mustache, proved the winner, as he poked five times and got five rings. He was contested hard for his place by Brown, who in five pokes only missed once by a fraction of an inch. ‘L he next feature on the programme was tandem driving by Mrs. Fannfe Lent, Miss Farquharson, Webster Jones and Charles de Young. This was really a clever exhibition and was deservedly ap- plauded. Following the tandems came somerough riding, consisting of vaulting over and occasionally on a stationary horse, which was afterward put in motion, attached to a string, when the pastime was diversi- fied by the addition of a little ground and lofty tumbling, ia Which latter competl~ tion E. N. Bee proved an easy winner over S. H. Boardman, G. C. B. Anderson H. Sawyer, Charles de Young and J. Boequeraz, the other competitors, who occasionally managed to stay on. The next two features, “UnicornTeam,” driven by Miss Rose Hooper, and “High School,” in which lirs. Hooper's beautiful Caprice was made to dance and waltz around the ring to music, were excsed- ingly pretty exhibitions of clever riding, and the pyramid team driving of Count de Bauvier, which followed, was about as skillful an exhibition of handling as one could wish to see. Hurdle jumping, the most exciting part of the whole programme, showed some excellent riding by all who took part, and wound up the equine part of the enter- tainment, after which refreshments were served and a little informal dancing in- dulged in. The exhibition taken as a whole was an exceedingly pretty and for this city a novel one. It showed that among so- ciety’s butterflies there are some who have both the energy and courage to be- come perfectly accomplished horsewomen, who can Wwell afford to stand comparison with any in the world. The part of the programme executed by the men, however, was not so satis- factory, as it did not, excepting the tan- dem and pyramid driving perhaps, show any degree of excellence that could not be surpassed by the average fifteen-year- old Californian who never knew what a riding teacher was in his life. The decorations caught fire twice from their proximity to the gas jets., but the flames - were promptly extinguished, though they caused some little excite- business men will ap- | preciate the importance of acting _upon | the Red Men's Bullding last night, and | by Carlton W. Seely, Instrumental music | that if an enemy at- | W0 JOBS | ON ALAMO SQUARE: | | Bids Received by the .Board for Work Already Done. Calculations of the Com- bine Upset by Rank Outsider. a The Handley Scheme Which Caused a Breeze Among the Supervisors. HISTORY OF THE WORK. High Prices Paid by the Department for Repairs on Accepted Streets. The Superintendent of Sireets fis pursuing a line of official conduct that may involve himself and bondsmen in serious trouble. He is permitting con- tractors to charge an excessive sum for street repairs and authorizing the acceptance of inferior work. Examples of his neglect or indifference can be cited. He has made a private ar- rangement with the City Street Im- | provement Company, of which J. H.| | MeDonald is president, to do repair work here and there on accepted streets. The contractor charges about what he pleases. McDonald’s bills for | the month of December amounted to | $3285. A charge of 12 cents a square | foot has been allowed for repairing bi- | tumen where the old material belong- ing to the city was used in the repair. | There are items showing that the con- | tractor has been allowed 20 cents a square foot for repairing accepted streets. New work can be done for a lower price than 20 cents a square foot. The facts coming to light concern- | ing so-called improvements adjacent to | | Street Committee of Supervisors, told | | curbing and grading of the sidewalk on 11 Alamo square do not reflect credit on the department. As there are two jobs known as Alamo square work, and as both are pending in the Board of Supervisors, it is necessary for The Cail to describe each: n the board last Monday there was | a little breeze over a proposition to pay J. M. Handley $900 for sidewalk on Ful- ton street from Scott to Steiner. This work was done in December, 1896, and | an authorization was then passed for its payment. The Mayor, who was then young in office and zealous, went out on the job and punched a hole in the artificial sidewalk with his cane. Then he came back to the City Hall and punched the authorization with a veto message. The contractor there- upon did some more work on the job. He put in 380 square feet of new work and then Deputy Strest Superintendent Hoffman and Expert Sulivan of the | the committee that the work was alt| right, and so at the last meeting of | the board Supervisor Britt introduced | another authorization for payment | which did not pass. A motion to reconsider the vote by | which it failed to pass is now pending. | There is quite a history connected with the job which the courts may unravel. After Handley got the contract he as- signed the original-demand to J. O'Bri- en, and on that demand O'Brien ob- tained quite a sum of money from the | cashier of Nathan, Dohrmann & Co. It | is a question now who would get the money should the board allow the de- | mand. An examination of the work made by The Call's expert yesterday shows noor workmanship on the job. There are many cracks and checks in the pave- ment. A hollow sound is given when one steps on the sidewalk, indicating that the foundation has settled away from the top finish. The other, or second. Alamo Square Job relates to a contract of a different style. The Superintendent of Streets simply entered into a private arrange- ment with J. J. Dowling for granite Scott street from Fulton to Hayes and on Hayes street from Scott to Pierce. | Dowling charged $1495 for the work. | The board passed the authorization, | but it was vetoed by the Mayor. Then it was passed over the Mayor's veto | and reached the Auditor’s office on its | way to the treasury. The Auditor held | up the demand, as the authorization was contrary to law. The Supervisors, | in order to clear the record, proceeded to pass a resolution for inviting bids and performing the work as the law di- rected. Bids were opened last Monday, | | although the work was done so long | ago that the grass is growing over the | curb. It was the plan for Dowling to | bid, at the sham bidding, the same price that he was allowed to charge on‘[ | his private arrangement with the Su- | perintendent of Streets, and therefore | his bid was $1495 85. P. McCarty put in a bid for $1565. McCarty’'s offering must | have been a sympathetic proposal, as it | was a higher bid than that presented by Dowling. Surprise, however, was | | manifested when a rank outsider in the | person of L. D. Windrem intervened | and bid to do the work for $1399. | The bids were all referred to the Street Committee. It transpires that| Dowling brought all the pressure at his command to keep other contractors | off and Windrem was offered $25 by one who gave the name of W. H. Brown to | pull out his bid before it was opened. ‘When Windrem came out of his office and asked a friend to point out Dow= | ling, who was standing near by in a group of men, Windrem was struck with the remarkable resemblance which Dowling bore to the man who had just called and offered him $25 to pull out the bid. Brown and Dowling are so much alike that Windrem cannot tell one from the other. The little story that the contractors are circulating among themselves that The Call put up the job to have a lower bid than Dowling’s introduced is the rankest kind of nonsense. The Call simply exposed the scheme because it was irregular and discreditable. It should have been exposed by the Mayor, the Supervisors and the Street Department. L. D. Windrem, a young lawyer in the office of Rodgers & Pater- son, put in the low bid. He expects to do the work and make a fair profit on the job. When interviewed on the topia vesterday, Mr. Windrem said: “A man who gave his name as W. H. Brown called on me last Monday and stated that he was one of the unfortunate con- tractors who had his money tied up in the job, and said that he had made ar« rangements with other contractors not to bid against him. He asked me not to bid and I told him that I had an es- timate made and that I put in a bid because I could make a profit of $300, Brown offered me $25 to withdraw my bid and I declined to listen to him. The same man that gave me his name as Brown was pointed out on the streeg to me as Dowling.” ———— MELBA TO APPEAR HERE. The Famous Prima Donna and the Metropolitan Opera Company to Tour the Coast. Tovers of grand opera have a treat in a store for them. Friedlander, Gottlob Co. after a lengthy correspondence ha succeeded In_getting the Damrosch-Ellis Company, which has appeared at the Metropolitan _Opera-house during the E,resnnt season, to extend its tour to the acific Slope. ‘At the head of the organization is Melba, the foremost prima donna now bes fore the public, and supporting her ars such well-known singers as Gadskl, Sey- gard, Campanarl and Ibos, and a full chorus. Walter Damrosch will conduct the Metropolitan orchestra, which will ac- company the singers, and music-lovers will have an opportunity of listening to his interpretation of Wagner. Damrosch has attained ,a high standing in music circles as thé youngest and brightest of conductors. A speclal train of palace cars, includin Melba's private car, will transport the organization across the continent. Tn speaking about the coming of the well-known company, Mr. Friedlander said last evening that it was only_after long negotiations that Manager ~Frank Damrosch could be induced to extend the tour. About two years ago the latter visited this coast to look the ground over, and since then numerous letters have been written by both partles. As the Metropolitan season of opera closed early this year, the well-known theatrical man= agers were successful. This will be Melba's first visit to Call« fornia. | | | £ S ) time, aiso falling of the womb, trembl: £ ing your Vegetable Compound, Blood %W\ I began to feel better, and have been i are sick to write to you. ) - - —— ) = %#) their story to a woman, S L st ) - >n) - d 4 £3 - 2 1 ADVERTISEMENTS. 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