The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1898, Page 8

THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1898 ~TRGINIA CITY, April s the same, it's the best its size on the coast.” The Virginia and Truckee Railroad—which, by the way, pays the best wages of any railroad in | urves up through rson River, and, the United State the vall of the with mar the moun maj ery C turn, winds its way up | quantities of gold here waiting for the | days can be bought for $5000, and one ns to Virginia Ci The ; of the mountain scen- ada is sufficient most famous of its ng country known the worl but the two d imers who sat in the rear of the car were blind to the suc- on of wonderful views the bare mountains, topped by glistening apped Sierras behind present. ity of utility was the only at appealed to them. And the town which called forth such an encomium from the tongue of shrewd experience? Is Virginia City. For yvears now, since the early glories of the ( stock departed, it has been condoled with and pitied. In fact, with all its might it has had to resist being buried alive. So dead have those un- , the financlers, declared the ock to be. The beau Com De- hard times it has passed it still conserves energy to round the corner of its ad- n now it is on the But the Comstock is not dead. spite throug the this gre: of mining camps is to be. The miili which it has poured into the wor treasury are only half of at lies hidd up there in those won- wha ' the cleverest of old " said the cautious 1 in Virginia City the other most conservative 1t he is one of esisted the torrent , in consequence, “if T had three mil- lions I would invest two-thirds of what in the American Flat and Silver y country There isn’t so safe, so table y the th d the Comstock the Tunnel Company the Sutro Tunnel various mining at present active have 1e, the Comstock’s pros- nctly brighter. The Con- fornia and Virginia has s of its waste rock, and to the tunnel company e time past. This, the natural, t economical course, will now be by six of the greatest mining ties, and prospecting on the wick lode with the development o unopened ground will fol- ncrease of work on the on which Expert Ire- rable a report a few s not the most important eace pipe smoked week by repre- the seven mining compa- Leonard for the tunnel am Sharon, delegate good understanding at n the powers ack's destinv en- ity will be ine e hai- » be a Comstocker of finamce—present or country lying to the City and Gold Hill is ountry, upon which o fmining men look longingly. “If our silver doesn’t please you,” | gold. 4 Nevada jauntily, “here's gold for sa; you. | The two arms of the Comstock lode reach out to inclose the Silver City country. Mining experts look upon this vast territory as destined to build up the Interests of Nevada more than old | Comstock mines ever did. There are | Judicious investment of capital, and | when once develcpment is begun there ill be employment for all the miners n the country. The Sutro tunnel will v an important part in the develop- [ | pla; d over; | ment of this section. Its extension into 'tions that will be called into service ers of shaft No. 1 work in a light as ' over two years now, and in that time ' But the result was highly satisfactory. | | 3 [ = o | the Silver City country is only a mat- | ter of time, a question of the degree of enterprise and farsightedness of the present company. The erection of a mill at the mouth of the tunnel will, of course, follow. These things® must come. Eastern capitalists have been looking into the possibilities of this vast gold-bearing region, and its develop- ment in time is as sure as that Mount Davidson looks across to Sugar Loaf| and the desert—a view of unsurpassed beauty. Even within the past six months overtures have been made to mine own- ers on American Flat for the reopen- ing of the mines there. 1In ’89 ore was found on the flat that assayed from $50 to $5000 a ton. In the upper levels of one mine assays of $80 a ton were made. In a ton and a half of rock $900 worth lof ore was found. The thing that | 5.— | Every small prospecting party develops | stopped development of mines which | prospected so favorably was the diffi- | culty of getting supplies of wood out | to the mines, that hard winter when rginia was blockaded three weeks by the snow. The mines became flood- | edy covering up those rich deposits of |ore which some day are bound to be | again uncovered. For one thing, the | German pumps manufactured nowa- of these will do more work than all the old-style pumps used on the Comstock |can do together. In the Union mine | there’s a pump that cost $100,000. It is inferior to any of the modern inven- much praised in the newspapers, in ex- })etrts' and superintepdents’ reports of ate. THE FUTURE OF THE FAMOUS 0000000000000 0000000000000 0600080006008000000000000000000400000000000000000000060000000000060000000000006000006000000000606 660000000000 000000000000000000000020000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000 00000000¢00000000000000000000000000060006000006 uncovered at the end of that drift on | Sutro tunnel must be begun immedi- |stead of the the 600-foot level, which has been so | ately, that the tunnel's contract with the minir~ companies may be carried out. The company’s cars, each of ‘Within the past week a general | which will contain two tons of rock, | 500D PPOPOEE0 0000000000000 000000000000000000000000900000000000000006040000000000000000000309000000900900000000000000000000000600000S PP 000000000CP0PPVPPPOPOV0PPPIIPVVPECPOPPPPIPVPPP0P0090000000 0000000000000 0090000009090000CPP0PPP0PPVP0P9PPPP9000000000OOCPO®POOPOY® OMSTOCK. sixty horsepower that | made milling so expensive an opera- | tion in the old days and rendered val- | ueless vast quantities of low grade ore. The Harris-Blood Company is work- electric dynamo of sixteen and a half | are to be used in carrying out the rock, | ing on the same lines down in Six-mile horsepower, and two general electric|and when thirty carloads have been | Canyon. electric motors of five horsepower each have been put in for the purpose of | through a drift, which at present is not “ is mechanical. ventilating ar {lluminating the mine. The old air pipes have been done awav with and blowers have been erectea { down on the 500-foot level; | stock mine. ~Wires have been strung | for a distance of 1300 feet and the min- accumulated these must be hauled wide enough to admit of their passage. During the nast few years most of the work on the Comstock has been a days. The Kinkead mill, “The Poor Man's mill,” has been in operation for VIEW OF VIRGINIA CITY, NEVADA. - when this mineral belt shall be tapped once more and by hands and heads tu- tored by experience and the advance made in mining lore and modern inven- tions. But Virginia City’s hope is not all in the future. In the Occidental mine, one of the largest, on the 630-foot level, ore has been found within the past few days that assays $50 a ton, and the ledge is thirty feet wide. In Sierra Nevada, at the opposite end of the great lode, equally good prospects have been uncovered, which made the stock jump from 30 cents to $2 25 a share. On | the Brunswick lode, east of Virginia | City, in shaft No. 1—a mine so clea so dry that it seems almost too good to be true, a perfect pattern of well- behaved, tidy earth boring—work is go- ing on that proves the confidence the owners of the mine have 1 the rock | brilliant as that required in the office ! | of a metropolitan newspaper. It's a striking picture this, men down in the drifts and crosscuts, their muscular fig- ures standing out against the gray- green wall of rock under the intense glare of incandescent lights. Besides the “=gular work on the Com- | stock work is ®eing carriea on all about Virginia City by siagle mine owners |and small pre-~actors. ‘The Yost mine is working steadily. Out in what has | been known as Como, ten or fifteen | miles from town, there is a mine with | 200,000 tons of rock in sight which as- | ays $8 a ton, gold and silver. There |is probably more money per capita in | Virginia City and Gold HIll to-day |than in any ot} town in the West. | The mining companies pay out $60,000 | |a month, and there are but 5000 people lon the Comstock. Extra work on the | has proved its Their process is chemical, | though, where the Kinkead mill's work Thirty years ago the tailings from the mines were carried lain ever since, an immense pile known the only | gathering up of threads left loose by | as the Parks’ tailings, 200,000 tons in | electric blowers ever put into a Com- |the thriftless expenditure of the olden |all. But one test of the new method of working these tailings has been | made, and that was in September, 1897. down to the canyon, where they have | 990000000 ¢2o0000000 Here is the place for the great- | est astronomical observatory of the world. Nowhere else, so scientists who have visited the Comstock say, are the conditions so favorable. On Mount Da- vidsen's top, the observer's eye, un- troubled by atmospheric variation, by town exhalations, could seek out ce- lestial mysteries, hidden elsewhere. Some day a wise man, who is also a | rich man—that beautiful combination— will become aware of this fact, and as- tronomical science will rise up and call him blessed. Still, the future of the Comstock 18 bound to be a mining future. A new generation, cured—if such a thing be possible—of the gambling mania, ready to develop the mines for the mineral that lies within them, desirous of work- ing the rich ledges of ore whose exist- ence is undoubted, with the assistance of new inventions and riper experience and business habits will yet be the so- lution of the Comstock’s troubles. Interest in the Comstock is not dead. This is the land of surprises, of the unexpected, of unlimited possibilities. Its be-burrowed land is still fought over as desperately—though legally and in a more civilized fashion—its boun- daries are defined as jealously as in the days when its stock sold for a thous sand times as much per share as it does to-day. As to the Comstocker himself, he’s a born bull. His optimism is practically unquenchable. The longer he lives up in this wonderful, interesting town, | whose houses have their back yards a block above their front entrance, the longer his pathway daily is about the hem of Mount Davidson’s skirts, the more thoroughly Providence’s especial interest in it. He refuses -to believe that what e been cannot again be. He will never be con- verted from the belief he holds with | such intensity that the Comstock is an exception to mining countries in gen- eral; that there are fully as good fish, silver and gold, in the mineral sea of majestically beautiful mountains around here as ever were caught by such expert fishermen as the bonanza kings; that far down, hiding snugly be- neath a subterranean ocean that covers the deeper levels, or above the Sutro Tunnel level where the spendthrift mil- lionaire prospector of early days dis- dained to seek, or in the new lode, or behind stately Mount Davidson, or in American Flat, or the comparatively unexplored region of the Silver City country the precious metals are still to be found in such profusion as generous Nevada bestowsupon sagebrusherswho trust in her. It is-the miner of fullest experience, he who came to Virginia City or Gold | Hill in ’59 or thereabouts, who is the greatest bigot, where faith in the Com- stock lode is concerned. All his bitterly gained experience, he will tell you, all his intuition of the peculiarities of min- | eral belts on the Comstock—and they’re | as strongly individual as Comstockers | themselves—all his knowledge regard- | ing winzes and crosscuts, upraises and | inclines, only <o to prove more conclu- sively the fact that Queen Comstock is still or will again be the belle of Amer- ican mining towns; that she has not abdicated in favor of any upstart Klon- inventor’s statement | It is not possible to get good results | dike, and that time will confound unbe- that Jow grade ore which the old bo- | when the tailings are wet. Consequent- |lievers and confirm her supremacy. nanza kings threw away, leaving it in !ly the company is waiting for the great heaped up dumps all over town | spring weather and Washoe zephyrs to at the mouths of the shafts, s valuable | dry the mass before beginning work. and ma* be made to pay when worked | It is only a matter of a few days now {against inertia and And perhaps he is right. Poli;:e Changes. by this process. Since the erection of | before the canyon will resound with _Jl-eutenant Anderson took command the Kinkead mills these great dumps | the whirr of machinery and the men Yesterday of the Potrero district in suc- of waste rock in _Virginia City are|employed by the company will work | cession to G. W. Bennett. retired. Ser- wasting away. But there are still | 200 tons of tailings daily. So that the geant Brophy was assigned to the South- 16,000,000 tons to be disposed of by the| old extravagance of the Comstock is ern District to take Anderson’s plaee. clever inventor, who pays 10 per cent being turned to account, now that times | Both officers were warmly congratulated of his gross vield to the mining com- | pany whose waste rock he feeds to his mill, and still finds it profitable to con- tinue the work. This inventor, like all | others, has ad to make his way skepticism. But | he is continually increasing the extent of his operations, and expects to crush | 200 tons of rock daily before long, and | to do it with fifteen are harder. If the people of Virginia City could live on air and water alone they would | be giants of strength. There is no other water like this. Nowhere in the world is the air so pure, the sky so clear, the stars so bright. The purity of the atmosphere deceives one as to distances, and the mountains stand out yesterday on their deserved promotion. e Richards’ New Position. John E. Richards, stenographer for Mayor Phelan, has been appointed clerk and stenographer for the chief engineer of the United States army for this divis- ion, at a salary of $840 a year. Mr. Rich- ards, who is ill at presént, will assume horsepower in- | sharply, picturesquely, impossibly near. { his new duties upon his recovery. CROWDING REA 10 THE WALL Reform Forces Have the San Jose Boss in Trouble. T to Come Out in the Open and Fight for His Ticket. >reed Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, April 5.—Judging from the latest tactics adopted by the . it has abandoned hope of g its ticket, and is now concen- all its efforts to save the ty out of the wréck. Anybody and everybody is being sacrificed for a vote for Martin. n and promis:s having ing to the boss the necessary r of votes to elect his candidates, are being used and terrorism 1 in a confidential manner ipport of the New Charter that t Ciub ticket is likely to injure them in th future in their business. n of terror 1d in San Jose. His unprincipled tools must conjure with other means. Fear of the boss has flown. The citizens see the opportunity to be free themselves from ihe bonds that he has woven about them for nearly two decades. They have met the and united fr strength d confidence ue with a bold have seen their ing, and their in greater with each succeeding day. They have seen the boss forced to > ‘the spider-like retreat of his in- - office, where he has in the past| wving his politi- n him forced to take to the cur o openly acknowl- edge the pate v of the ticket that eve > knows stands for continued cor e nce in the put y: they have n him work suecess of this It is common remark that the “gang” ge z tooth and nail for the ticket. is making a fight before been witne: such as has never ed in the political history of San Jo It has seen friend after friend, influence after influence, ation s Anization desert andard and take their place be- New it has been made to rea- s a_campaign of principle and not of candidates. In order to blind the issue as much as he most strenuous efforts de by the hoss to induce good 0 go on the ‘‘gang” ticket. Special care was exercised in selecting the can- didate for Mayor. Two gentlemen were first favorably considered to be used as the chief decoy on the ‘“‘gang” ticket, | but they declined to permit the use of | their names. The third choice was | more successful, and Charles J. Martin | was slated for the questionable honor of heading the ticket of the “gang” in the present campaign. | Mr. Martin made his record years |ago, when he took a position in local | politics that was opposed to the boss |and his pernicious methods. Since Mr. Martin was last in power the political wheel has made a number of revolu- tions, which have produced important changes. Within the past few years the boss has seen fit to turn patronage |in the furniture and carpet line into the | hands of the Lions. This has been a source of considerable profit to the Lion firm, the head of which is a brother-in-law of Charies J. | Martin. It was only a few weeks ago that a contract f,r school ~'sks was awarded to the Lions at prices that were extortionate. It is generally accepted as a fact that Martin could never have been induced to re-enter the political arena and par- ticularly as a “‘gang” candidate. had it | not been through the infiu ‘nce brought | to bear upon him by the Lions. be further stated that nohe is more active in behalf of the "gang” ticket | to-day than tkese same Lions. No one | who knows these circumstances doubts | for a moment that the boss and the | “gang” will completely control Martin should he by any possibility be elected | to the Mayoralty. | On the other hand, at the head of the New Charter Club ticket stands the name of Sanford E. Smith, a man against whom no one—not even the most rabid of the *gangsters’—has criticism. The only fact sought to be brought up against him is that he is | not known as a politician or one promi- | nent in public affairs. cumstances require for the high duties | of the Mayoralty. Mr. Smith has been | in business in this city on cne of its most prominent streets for many years, |and has made a marked success. He |is & man of established integrity and | endowed with a firmness of character | that has been tested and never found | wanting. He was one of the fathers of | the new charter and also one of its | most energetic supporters. It | this commendable | the organic law of San Jose. | In every contest that has been under- | train they would take no seat but the | taken in the past to overthrow the rule of corruption Mr. Smith has taken part and has always been found on the side of the people and working in their in- terests. He has never been allied di- | rectly or indirectly with the ‘“gang.” | He is one of the v few men who can truthfu..r say that they Lave never served, consciously or unconsciously, the purposes of the “gang.” He has never held a public office in this city | and has never sought one. His selec- | tion at the present time was due solely | to ‘his fitness for the office and the | nomination was tendered as a reward | for his past services in behalf of honest land legiti ate reform. He was, in other words. the logical candidate. His election will assure te the peopie of San Jose a Mayor who will look after their | interests as conscientiously, as ener- getically anpd as successfully as he has looked after his own private affairs. If the people wish to continue to be governed b . oss Rea and his “gang” they will elect Charles J. Martin. 1f they wish to govern themselves in the E. Smith. It can | true~t sense they will vote for Sanford | MADE INSANE BY SUFFERING Half-Starved Family Fed | in Stockton’s City Prison. Parents of Three Prattling Children Lose Their Reason. Special Dispatch to The Call. STOCKTON, April 5.—Prattling at the knee of a listless father, clinging to | skirts of a mother whose mind is | blighted, were three small children in | the office of the Chief of Police this aft- ernoon. The careworn features of the | poor mother and the vacant stare of | the father told of dire ffering. | The unfortunate man was A. F. von by disconnected explanations, he and ' his wife came from Orange County, Business men are called upon | ventured to utter one word of adverse;starllng on Thursday for Portland,. | with the hope of bettering their finan- | cial condition. They first went to San Francisco and then Sacramento, where It is this very | they changed their minds andconcluded | But the | fact that makes him such a candidate |to return to Los Angeles. the boss is at cn | as the people under the present cir-|still has a ticket for Portland on his | Von Eida | person. From S.cramento the family went to Galt on Sunday, where it wasgiven food and shelter by some citizens. This morning Von Eida applied to Rev. Mr. Blankenship, a South Methodist min- ister there, and asked him to accom- pany them as far as Stockton. They | appeared to be afraid of every one |about them, and on the way to the 3 was | railway station Von Eida asked the | te victory grows |largely through his personal efforts that | clercyman whether a group of Galt instrument became | people which they chanced to pass did | | not have designs upon them. In the |last one in the rear coach. | Upon arriving at Stockton Rev. Mr. | Blankenship invited them to take din- | ner at the Commercial Hotel | learned they had had no breakfast. | they started to_enter an omnibus the | woman sprang back, crying she would {not go. The family wandered about E. Hall, where they asked for protec- tion. * They were cared for there for IV ht mentally. a tele- | phone messace wps sent to the nolice | office and the little group of wanderers | taken to the police headquarters and | subsequently to the Shoviff's, ~ffice. | ination of Mrs. von Eida lady passenzer attempted to on the t. “in bv offering her on into which she had poured c from -~ bottie. The husband es in this belief. Tt is honght that he two are suifering f.om want of rest and lack of food, their inszne con- dition mav not h» rarmarent e podt che Quickly Cured. ' Dr. Davis' Anti Heudache never fails. 25c.* is that <hay | Eida, and, as far as could be learned | having | As | and finally entered the residence of J. ! | the time beire, but as it was seen that | WANT T0 RUN THE VETERANS" HOME | Candidates for the Place on the { National Board to Be Made by Barrett. His Term Will Expire in May, and | There Are Three Candidates for the Position. The term of General A. W. Barrett as | national commissioner for the Veterans' | Home at Santa Monica is drawing to a | close, and candidates for the vacancy to | be caused by his withdrawal from the board are already beginning to appear. It is conceded by a good many that| | Major W. H. Bonsall of Los Angeles has | the best chance so far, for he claims | | the support of a majority of the Repub- | lcans of the California delegation at | Washington, and as Hull, chairman of | the military committee of the House, will | do the appointing, it is considered that | he will get it. { General Warfield is out for the place, however, and there are as many more of his friends who say he will get it to a | | certainty. He has powerful infiluence at work, but as Bonsall has been recom- | mended to Hull by Perkins, Hilborn and | Barham, it must be more than powerful to get him the place. | Colonel W. R. Smedberg was after the place at one time; he made application | as soon as he heard that a Republican | would succeed General Barrett, but when | his application reached Washington his | friends wrote'back that he was just three | days too late; Bonsall had already been | recommended for the place by the Re- publican members of the delegation men- | tioned, and then Colonel Smedberg rested | | his fight, and he has done nothing in the matter since then. He believes there is now no doubt that Bonsall will get the | office. | _Smedberg is personally acquainted with | the members of the delegation and Bon- | sall is not, and Smedberg was given to understand that it was malnly because ne | was too iate in putting in his applica- | tion that he was not the one recommend- | ed. His candidacy, although not an ac- tive one, is a strong one, and in the clash | among his friends and those of Bonsull | at Washington, Warfield draws not a lit- | tie of his own strength. General Barrett’'s term will expire in May, and the appointment of his succes- sor will be made this month. It was ex- pected that it would be settled within | the first week, but the serious questions ! arising over the controversy with Spain has taken so much of -the time of the | committee that it is probable the ap-| | pointment will not be made until the lat- | | ter, part of the month. The position is an honorary one. The 1 only emoluments accruing to the incum- ! bent is a fare East every vear to the session of the entire board at Washing- | ton. and passage to and from the home | “‘Y:m) the needs of the institution re-| | quire. The Jocal commissioner has control of | he home in his own State. and for that reason one who lives near by, has one recommendation in_ his favor ‘which is bard to overcome when he'is found to be | As a rule the attorney for the defense | otherwise qualified, and this recommes ation Bonsa!! nas had from the start. Bonsall is really a lieutenant, and held, | during the war, the rank of second lieu- terart of the First Ohio Heavy Artiilery. He i= now. agent for ‘Southern California HAYNES HAS A NEW DEFENSE Will Attempt to Show That | He Did Not Fire the Fatal Shot. Chief Lees Speaks of Officers’ Brav- ery, and Sweeney Thinks They Shot Wild. The Haynes case, otherwise known as the trial of the man who| is alleged to have murdered Licu- | tenant Burke in cold blood, was re-| sumed before Judge Conlan yesterday morning, and during the examination of witnesses it was plainly seen to be a | Christian PLAN & REFUGE FOR RAILWAY MEN Endeavorers Will Establish a Depot on Mission Street. Reading-Rooms Will Be Frovided as & Means of lnstructive Pastime. The third meeting of the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavorers for the | purpose of agitating the institution of a | place of refuge at the Mission street cax- | house, for the railway employes of the| Market street system, was held last even- | police examination of the citizens for the purpose of placing blame or credit upon | the officers who were with Burke at the | time of the fatal shooting. For the first | time since the case has come before the | court the attorneys have laid out their | line of defense, and as the moments, or rather days, go by they believe from the testimony given that the case becomes stronger and yet stronger for the defend- ant in the case. Attorney Sweeney stated yesterday that he had arrived at the conclusion that if his client shot Lieutenant Burke it was done on the spur of the moment from the fear that some one was endeavoring to take his property from him, and that if Haynes did the shooting it was in self- defense or in the interests of his prop- erty. But the attorney went still further, and stated that he believed that a shot other than that from the gun of the de- fendant produced the fatal wound. Many witnesses were called to the stand to tes- | tify that Burke had been shot by Haynes after he had fallen to the ground, and as some stated that he had been shot at least three times there were others who were of the opinion that their vision was impaired on the fatal day. Chief Lees states that from all the tes- timony given the officers who were pres- | ent at the time showed all the bravery expected from any man, whether citizen or officer, and he believes the lieutenant’s life was protected to the best of the offi- cers’ ability. It was at first supposed that the defense would be insanity, but future development will show seif-defense for a line on which it is expected to clear the accused. Many witnesses were examined during the day on the question as to whether or not Haynes had fired shots into the body of Lieutenant Burke after he had fallen, and in the general course of events the witnesses were not sure as to wheth- er or not the shots had been fired as stated. The prosecuting attorney for the court, Attorney Mogan, thinks that the officers did all in their power and the be- lief is borne out by the Chief of Police. Witnesses Martin_Johnson, John Ryan, Harry Fee, F. C. Peters, F. W. Peters, Joseph Conroy. John Waters, John Me- Grath and Cornelius Ryan all testified as to whether or not the defendant fired shots into the lieutenant after he had fallen from the first shot, but there was a slight disagreement as to the facts. did not cross-examine the witnesses, as he stated that he was waiting for a bet- ter opportunity and was positive that his client would be held over before the Su- perior Court on the charges. The case will be continued this morning at 11 for the Phoenix and Home Insurance Company. o'clock, when it is thought the officers who were with Lieutenant Burke will be '] ing in Trinity Presbyterian Church. | The object of establishing this depot, as | it is called, is to provide a suitable place | where the car men of the city generally | may meet both for religious and frater | nal purposes, and spend their leisure time there instead of in more vicious re. sorts. A reading-room and library will be provided, and entertainments, socials | and musicales will be given from time to | time by the members of the church so- ciety. Fhe society maintains that the men em- | ploved on raiiroads have not, as a rule, | a place of this character to resort to in their Jeisure moments, and, in conse | quence, they are compelled to accept more | viclous and degrading amusements which | th wouid undoubtedly forsake if a suit- | jabie place could be provided for them. | Superintendent Vining of ghe Mark?t‘ street railway system has granted and | | set aside a portion of the carhouse on | Mission street; and this accomplished it | | remains with "the church peopie simply | o provide and equip it with the neces- | sary attractions. | As ‘the desired work will necessarily | | entail considerable expense before it is | i placed on the desired basis. the society | | Lopes to obtain this money from its mem bers and those of the congregation -will- | ing to donate small sums for the success | ol the refuge. | The meeting last evening was well rep- | resented and unusual enthusiasm and in- | terest were manifested in the proposed | scheme by hundreds of young people of | the church. ¢ | Dr. Gilbert of Calvary Presbyterian | Church briefly outlined the purpose of | the institution of the depot, and spoke of | the good work accomplisned in other large cities where such a system had been in- augurated. hev. C. A. Brown acted as | the meeling in the absence of { of Trinity. Church. An interesting programme Was rendered { In conjunction with the meeting, and the | young' ladies who helped to make it an | | enjoyable success were Miss Wilson and | Miss Edith Mills, both of Trinity Church. | —_— I resident of | the pastor | The, City and County Hospital Filled | to Overflowing With | . Patients. 1 The old ramshackle building known as the City and County Hospital is filled to | overflowing with patients. The last of | the 414 beds in the building was occupied | last night by Leonard D. Hanley, a young man who fell on Alabama and Twenty- seventh streets yesterday afternoon and broke his left leg between the knee joint and the ankle. ‘was conveyed to the hospm ‘where Dr. Curl set the limb and put ‘to bed. The old bullding, in its rotten condition, | from work. a puiniess, sure and pe: is capable of holding no more patients, The next and best provision that can be made for the reception of patients is ta set cots in the hallways unless those who may be convalsecent turned out to make room for others. This is the first time in the history of the old building that every bed was occu- pied with no more room left. ———————— Spoke of the Heaven wWorld. An interesting lecture was delivered by | D. A. Anderson before the Theosophical | Society at the Academy of Science Hall | last_evening on the subject of “The Heav- en World."”” The lecture was unusually well attended, and much enthusiasm and interest was manifested in the eloquent arguments advanced by the lecturer. ———— “THE RED FRONT,” street, sells “STANDARD" 859 Market shirts. * e e Channing Auxiliary Lecture. The last of the series of lectures being delivered by Professor Grigzs under the auspices of the Channing Auxiliary was given yesterday. His subject was the “Beatific Vision,” and was one of the | best of his talks on Dante. It was an- nounced that another series would be given at an early date. ADVERTISEMENTS. GOOD EALTH JSTHE WORKING CAPITAL OF HUMANITY He who loses that s wrecked indeed. s yous health falling you? Your strength, ambition vigor, vitality wasting away ? od DOCTOR SWEANY 737 MARKET STREET SAaN FRANCISCO, CAL. For the speedy, safe and permanent cure of afy NERVOUS, CHRONIC ANDSPECIAL Diseases of Men and Women. Ymma 'E". Unnatural drains caused through errors of youth or excesses, quickly and He restores lost vigor and vitalipta ) SIoPPed- / r and vitality to WEAK MEN. Organs of the body why through disease, overl:v:r'ke o iy ak il 'da through disease, , excesses or indiscre - tarough his new andor. to full power, strengthand vigor iginal system of treatment RE cured by his new method, without knife, truss or detention Tihanent cure, VARIGOGELE, mas's mveiion i treated with unfailing succees. . ¢ 8:ands CONTAGIOUS BLOGD POIsOl any of its stages th g the ststem. 5> | POTOURBlY eradicated hydrocele, will recefve speci EE iooe E_if <all. A'valuable bas - . ¢ luable book '(?uide to Hum free F. L. SWEANY, M.D., St, op. Grant Av., San Francisco, Cal, convinced he is of4 4