The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1898, Page 7

THEE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1898. REPUBLICANS OPEN THE CAMPAIGN Plans for First Con- vention of League Clubs. It Will Be Held in This City on the Last Day of May. Delegates From Every County in the State Will Be Present. TWO COMMITTEES NAMED San Francisco and Alameda County Stalwarts Perfect Plans for the Gathering. A meeting of representative Republi- cans of San Francisco and Alameda counties was held in the rooms of the Union League Club in the Palace Hotel last evening for the purpose of perfect- ing arrangements for the first biennial convention of the California League of Republican Clubs, to be held in this city May 31 Colonel George B. Stone was ap- pointed chairman. After stating the object of the meeting he called upon those present to offer suggestions as to the best plan to be pu the success of the convention, as well ted to insure | POSES AS ~ A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR Uncle Collis Tells of Past Deeds and Conquests. Says He Has Earned a Monument, but Does Not Want It. His Memory Fails Him When Asked as to the Cost of Railroads. REFERS TO THE BIG FOUR. The Railroad Commission Spends Another Day in a Fruitless Search for Facts and Figures. “Uncle Collls” Huntington unloaded an- other batch of anecdotes and reminis- cences on the Railroad Commission ye: terday afternoon. He also took advantage of the occasion to again call attention to his own great worth, not only as father protector of Californians, but also as the benefactor of the entire human race. To be sure, the Commissioners asked some pertinent and unpleasant questions concerning the operations of the Contract and Finance Company, thus giving edi- dence of an unnatural desire to learn | something regarding the cost of construc- tion of the lines of the Southern Pacific system, but these things only temporarily | disturbed the flow of soul with which the LABOR COUNCIL Harrfson G. Otis will not be appo! he working people of the wroughout the State as t organization are not wi ng for an opportunity to s has at t arrived. were cisco Labor Council held its the Typographical Union There was little time ould have tingled. fon was pertinent and decisive. ident and California’s nt of Harrison G. Otis to ¥ s and scabs” placed in FTHE 444444444444 04 444044444444 R e R T R DR R Py ces between Colonel Otis and the T trike a blow, and it looks as though ting of the Building Trades Council Thursday night strong adopted and telegraphed to the President. les been present and the arraignment of his character and the quotation of his against the working people and National Guard, it is probable Referring to the warrior-editor, one of < red he “contaminated with his presence.” Labor Council had no elaborate set of resolutions provided, but its The secretary was instructed to at once honor or trust would be odious to organized d by all who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. ken without a dissenting voice, but one of the mem- council suggested that it would nce of being killed at the first have condemned Otis jointly represent over 20,000 voters. DENOUNCES OTIS. inted to any position of prominence State have anvthing to say about it. ypographical Union are so to need little comment, but the mem- 1ling to bury the hatchet. They have Last night the weekly meeting, and the representa- lost no time in bringing the matter be- wasted in speech-making, but had the heard the outburst of stinging, representatives in Congress that the the position of brigadier general or any labor, as be a good plan to have ‘“the some position where he would stand a fire. The two organizations which R S S R SR S SRS as anything that might be offered in the way of plk sful con- duct of the algn. Many responses were made. and it was finally decided to authorize the chairman to apnoint a committes of seven to take charge of the a perfect all arrangements for convention. A reception committee, to be composed of the presidents of all the district clubs in San Francisco and A eda counties, will have charge of th delegates to the convention. Both committees will meet in the rooms of an e accor the Unlon League Club next Wednes- evening the purpose of per- g organization and mapping out work that is before them. Follow- al call for the conven- S ANGELES, Cal., April 20, 188, hort of the Natio Republi- gue Conventlon of 1897 and under ection of the California State g a convention of delegates from all the Republican clubs of thi ate s ereby called to meet in the city of San co on_Tuesday W its s n u the alled is com d h Republican club in California, in- ding those of the American Republi- can College League, shall be entitled to one delega large and one delegate additional twenty-five members pon its rol n veterar si business for which it a 3 s of Republi- pecially invited to par- 1 be entitled to p- ate League Conven- n_organized and in days prior to the date of the convention. No person shall e counted for representation in more than one club. All delegates shall fil with the secretary of the convention ce: tificates of election signed by the pres dent and secretary of their clubs. Thi will be accepted as proper credentials at San Francisco. In addition, each club shall furnish its | delegates with a certified list of its mem- bers for the use of the committee on credentials, The following are ex-officio delegates, Viz.: President, secretary and treasurer of the State League; the presi- dent and secretary of each Congressional | District League, the vice-president for California of the National League, the members of the National League ex utive committee for California and ch - man of American College League of Cali- | fornia. The business of the convention will in- clude reports from the officers of the league, the election of State -fficers for the ensuing year, the designation of time | and place for holding the next conven- tion, the adoption of a constitution and discussion of plans for league The latter will include the m of a _vigorous h permanent headquarters, the ac- t distribusion of Republi- 1 local clubs and the arrange- n f thorough canvass of the State by Republican speakers. An evening mass-meeting, to be ad- dressed by speakers of national repute, will be one of the events of the occasion. The various rallroads and steamsbip lines will make reduced rates for round trip ticke and the citlzens of San Francisco cordially invite the patriotic Republicans of the State, whether dele- gates or not, to attend this gathering. We cannot over estimate the value of this convention to our part of 1896 does not guarante Ivr-wor. We shall vote thi ear for mem- vers of Congress, members of Legisla- ture, which will ‘elect a United States Senator, and for State and county offi- cers. It becomes the mission of our grand old party to meet the emergency with the highest patriotism, and our league should be well equipped for the coming contest. Let us therefore come together in San Francisco in large numbers, Let us revive and enlarge our enthusiasm for the party of Lincoln, Grant and Blaine and in ‘permanency o 80 doing so strengthén and build up our le¢ ue thfi,{] in the cnxrr:ing conflict it will o Invincible, unwavering and victorious. A. W. KINNEY, ® President. GEORGE FRANCIS, Secretary. GEORGE STONE Member National League. Executive Committee, LUTHER G BROW (b - ation: Vibiptestaent for Caittoraie. odation and reception of all | May 31, 1898, at 1| convention will continue | campaign | the organization of county | The victory | | aged raflroad magnate sought to enter- | tain those who were within the sound of | his vols He related with much particu- | larity the incidents of a meeting of Bo: ton bankers that occurred away back in the early sixties, when he and the other | members of the Big Four had nothing be- | | tween them and starvation save a cash | loan from the Government of $60,000,000 and a land grant that might have con- stituted a king's domain. The bankers, | he said, wished to buy his bonds for 60 cents on the dollar, but he, fired with the spirit of his own great worth as a finan- cler, told them that he would “see th?m‘ | further in hell than they were out” before he would take less than 75 cents on the | dollar. Thereupon the bankers immedi- | ately capitulated and the future magnate | was soon on his way back to his clates with a million and a half dollar jingling merrily in his inside pocket. Strange Huntington could not rememter how this money so bravely won been invested, but he remembered | perfectly the name of each and every one | of the twelve bankers who had weakened at his furious onslaught. He even sought to relate a few personal reminiscences of | each of the gentlemen, but was prevented | from doing So In time to save the offic \l‘ stenographer from a stroke of pen | n La Rue wanted to know what | paid for the construction of Central Pacific Railroad. Hunting- | the | ton was willing to tell all that he know | about the matter, though he warned the commission in advance that the transac- tion had occurred so many years ago | that his memory was liable to play him | false. | “It 18 my recollection,” he said, “that | the contractors undertook to build the road for all of the bonds and about $60 000,000 worth of stock. 1 think there was also some slight cash consideration also, but just what it was has slipped my memory."” Commissioner Hinton waunted to kncw if it was not a fact that the men who composed the Western Development Cora- pany were also the incocporators of the Contract and Finance Company. Hunt- ington admitted that this might be true, | but contended that even If it were so the fact could not be seized apon io furnish ce of any illegal acts on he part of ganizers of either corporation. not unlawful for men to con- tract with themselves,” he sald, “provid- ed they be organized into two separate and distinct corporations, as was the case in this instance. It was the only way In which the road could be built, a fact| that of itself would justify the means if any justification were needed. I am sat- isfied with the part I took in the matter, and that goes.” This sentiment, though somewhat slang- ily expressed, seemed to afford the old gentleman no small amount of satisfac- tion, for he immediately settled back into another reminiscent period that only end- ed when he had relieved himself of an- other chapter of self-pralise. | “In those days,” he said, *“the people | | thought we had accomplished a °great | undertaking, and that we were great | men. They would almost have erected | a monument in commemoration of our acts—not that I wanted any monument or have ever wanted one for anything that I have done. I am very well satis- | filed with myself and my work.” During the course of the afternoon the Commissioners propounded innumerable | questions intended to elicit some informa- | tion regarding the cost of construction | of the various lines of the Bouthern Pa- cific system, but were unable to gain any definite information on the subject. Hunt- | ington had either forgotten or had never | known. The session proved as fruitless of results as others that have preceded it. An adjournment was taken until next ‘Wednesday afl Demanded a Jury. The two cases of battery against Louls and Aaron Siminoff, cloak manufactur- ers, on complaint of their brother Morris and Toby Roberts, their brother-in-law, were calied in Judge Low's court yeste: day, when the defendants demanded a ury trial. Monday afternoon was fixed or the trial. Bible Study. The subject for the Bible class lessons at the Young Men's Christian Association, Mason and Ellis streets, to-day at 12 o’'clock, will be “The e Feast.” 'he lesson i8 conducted by Rev. Dr. or. All are welcome. | Parker of New York. | story LUNING HUNTS FOR WHITTELL A Hot Chase for the Man- ager of a Millionaire’s Estate. He Is Either Hiding at Home or Fishing—For His Health. Sleuths Lis in Ambush Around the Residence of the Mil- lionaire. There is a merry chase for George Whittell, president of the Luning Com- pany. Officers and detectives who have been searching the city to serve papers in the million-dollar suit of Oscar Lun- ing, who avers that Whittell has withheld vast sums of money, have been disap- pointed in finding the defendant, whose whereabouts is a mystery. At the law office of Attorney Lang- horne and at the office of the Luning Company it is announced that Whittell has gone fishing, but prominent sports and anglers are positive that he knows nothing about fishing. In sporting circles his angling proclivities were never heard the men who keep books on these s and who, as a rule, know where and when prominent men do their fish- ing. After digesting the whole affair At- torney Parker of the New York bar, who has much to do with the case, has con- cluded that Whittell is not fishing, but that he is cutting bait somewhere in hid- ing. ‘The search for tne millionalre manager of milionaires’ estates is_growing very warm. It is said that if Whittell is hiding in the sacred preeincts of his domicile out on California street he will be obliged to remain in hibernation for a long time, because sleuths lie in ambush all around the place. Should the defendant try to make a hasty flight he will have a serious time trying to run the blockade. It is supposed that Whittell has been in consultation with Mrs. Cunningham, one of the heirs, who made a hasty trip from Los Angel ter the publication of the account of the suit in The Call. He has also been in consultation with his brother s brother's wife, or so the detec- e said to believe. e brigade that has gone forth armed with process papers of the court in sex- tuple form has full faith that the de- fendant will be dragged or forced from his hiding place within a few days. Wherever the Luning manager turns, if he leaves the fishing camp, or his home, or wherever he is, he will find men with due processes of the Superior Court. And wherever he goes, unless the case is com- promised, he will see fighting Attorney At his office the v is given out that Mr. Whittell will have exhausted the fishing business and cured his face of poison oak by Monday. TUntil then there will not be an open rupture, unless the defendant should, so officers 'say, attempt to leave his house under the apprehension that the path is clear. BO;—(;VEB. A BILL. Officer Gillen and Butcher O’Brien Get Things Badly Mixed. A general row which led to an arrest and a visit to the City and County Hos- pital occurred yesterday afternoon at the residence of Police Officer Pete Gillen, at 2760 Twenty-third street. From the slate- ment made by James O'Brien, who keeps a_butcher shop at Twenty-fourth and Hampshire streets, it appears he went to the residence of the officer for the purpose of collecting a bill due him for meat supplied. On making his business known Gillen is accused of having used rough language and to have knocked the butcher down and at the same time called to his wife to bring him his gun. This, it is sald, she did, and when she arrived upon the scene she proceeded to use the butt end of it on the head of O'Brien, who by this time was lying on the floor. What followed is not recorded _until Gillen and his brother officer, L. Harri- on, appeared at the Seventéenth-street station with O'Brien in charge. O'Brien was booked on two charges—one for dis- turbink the peace and the other for bat- tery. He promptly put up $2 bail on each charge and immediately went to the City and County.Hospital, where he had five stitches put in his scalp on the back por- tion of his head, besides having his nose, which was turned to one side, made straight. In addition to these injuries both his eyes were discolored. All of | these discomforts he claimed he received at the hands of the officer and his wife, who aided him in the chastisement of the butcher who went to collect his bill. From the friends of the injured man it is claimed that this is not the end of the trouble. O'Brien has a host of acquaint- ances among the politicians of the Mis- sfon district, and it is more than probable that they will urge him to follow the matter up. —_————— Men Who Are Going To Alaska should see to-day's News Letter. cerning the mining laws of that coun- try. A character sketch of Claus Spreckels makes a handsome frontis- piece. The theatrical critics of other papers are wittily taken off; Dr. E. R. Hill, Ed Stone, John D. Spreckel Judge Hunt, Fletcher Tilton, Dr. Har Tevis and others figure on the Looker- On Page; Amedee Joullin, Frank Unger, a Market-street merchant, etc., ete.,, get into “Sparks”; editorials on the Park Commissioners, the Widber case, Deputy Clerk Piper, and other current topics; paragraphs, society and stories, make an interesting paper for your Sunday reading. Ten cents of all newsdealers. ———— St. Andrew’s at Fairfax. To-day there will be held at Fairfax the thirty-fifth family re- union of the members and friends of Bt Andrew's Soclety. In the afternoon there will be a programme of games for young and old. There will be dancing In the pavilion, where Scottish music for the Scotch dances will be fur- nished by Neil Lindsay, the Highland piper. This vear the reunion will be managed entirely by the younger mem- bers of the society, and they expect to equal if not surpass the efforts of the older members, who in such affairs have been in the fore in the past. William Bal- naves, J. Cumming and J. D. Rob- ertson constitute the picnic committee. AL O L The Widber Bond. In relation to the case to settle the liability for the defalcation of ex-Treas- urer Widber as between the. Guarantee Company and the city officials, Mayor Phelan yesterday recelved the following telegram from Insurance Commissioner Clunie, who has expressed an intention of forcing the Guarantee Company to make good its bond: BALTIMORE, Md., May 5, 1598 James D. Phelan, Mayor of San Francisco: Surety company have agreed to try case in Su- Court within thirty daye.” Not to aj mr Mail their letter fo-morrow. 27 ANDREW J. CLUNIE. —_——————— Catholics and the apes compared in a strong article by Editor James H. Barry in The Star to-day. . — e St. Patrick’s Alliance. At a meeting of a joint committee of representatives of Alliances Nos. 11, 12, 14 and 15 of St. Patrick’s Alliance of America, held at K. R. B. Hall, it was decided that the third picnic given under the auspices of these alllances will be on the 2ith of July in Shell Mound Park. In the past the cutings by this organi- zation have all been of the most pleasant character, and it will be the alm of the committee on entertainment to make this as pleasant as any yet held. —_————— No one will use a fountain pen after It contains valuable facts con- | : evens, J. S. Tru: 2 | Louis, M. Domingo, J. Cappelletti, E. H. Stevs | | Leuddke, EXODUS T0 THE “GOLD FIELDS All Kinds of Craft Being Got Ready for the Journey, The Bark Northern Light to Take Away a Big Party to Kotzebue. All the Members of the Shipwrights’ Association Willing to Go to Manila. Quite a fleet of vessels is being got ready for the spring rush to the gold fields. The schooner Falcon sailed yes- terday for St. Michael. She took away about sixty mechanics, who had put to- gether the river steamer which was shipped by the schooner in sections. The stern-wheeler is to be called the Gold Star and will be used on the Yukon. The schooner Luisa D is being fitted out at Howard-street wharf and the barken- tines Jane A. Falkinburg and Catherine Sudden are to sail in & few days for Kot- zebue Sound, while the bark Northern Light is ready to leave for the same re- glon with the following pasengers. T. McManus, W. Bremmer, W. P. Thompson, J. E. Sinclair, George C. Sinclalr, W. E. Sin- clair, M. Tohy, Mike Tohy, W. G. Youngs, W. Oschlin, J. McDonald, T. Btzel, 8. W. Butler, A. R. Ludlow, G. Gull, James Clark, A. K. | McLeod, Thomas Fearson, J. A. Moore, W. A. Hayne Jr. and party, J. G. Williams, J. W. North, C. Mund, C. Hophy, E. M. Steele, G. ‘W. Pickett, M. Lattin, T. Johnstone, E. Hen J. Avald, Cl Struva, J.. Ebela, G. Smith, J. W. Williamson, Jacoh Foster, J. Trickle, F. E. Smith, L. J. Ray, W. J. Clark, Domingo Francisco, M. Rodge M. de Mello, Foster Ramos, J. Ackema, J. W. Johnson, G. B. Allen, J. Bugquist, Irving Thomas, C. Leav- itt ‘and party, J. Mever, J. Strout, R. Becker, O. Ekland, S. Price, . E. Plummer, F. J. McCan, Major H. Muckersie, R. A.; W. J. McKillop, C. Lgmarre, G. W. Breed, A. C. Breed, J. L. Evans, T. A. Powell, K. A. - M. Lane, A Bridgman, W. i. Pike, Parsons, George Connolly, nberg, ben Merrlll, G, ¢ Van Dyke, Thomas Russell, A. Kettner, George | Fonderer, R. Poole, A. C. Courtiss, P. Oralssi, nzo Grumelll, F. Stelzner, C. eane, W. L. Hanna, W. H. | Steotte, James Bourger, . Blanchard and party. S slow, M. | H. E. Webb, ens. Captaln _Whiteside will command the Northern Light, and he is taking his wife | with him. Part of the bark's freight will | be a large safe and a year's supply of | provisions for John D. Tallant, the bank- er, who went to Kotzebue on the bark Alaska | a. The bark Forest Queen, which was written up some time ago in The Call as being long overdue at San Pedro from Tacoma, has been posted as missing. The general supposition is that she was caught in a storm and the deck load of piles proved too much for the old vessel, and she went down with all hands. The American ship Shenandoah had to ay $1500 to be towed from the cecast of reland to her_ destination. Her cargo was valued at $155,000, and Captain Mur- phy was not taking any chances after the scare about his vessel having been captured by a Spanish cruiser. Chief Wharfinger Root has found it im- ossible to plant a danger signal on Mile ock, so practicing from Fort Point bat- tery will go on without it. A party head- ed by Assistant Chief Wharfinger Scott went out on the tug Governor Irwin with the intention of doing the job, but owing to the gale that was blowing the tug could not get near the rock. Yesterday morning Chief Wharfinger Root went out | on the tug Governor Markham, but a very heavy sea was running and it was found dangerous to launch the boat. The | fishermen and ¢oasters will therefore have | to take their chances with the Fort Point marksmen without the warning flag. Captain Matson of the bark Annie John- son has another great grievance against Quarantine Officer Rosenau. The bark came in with a fair wind Thursday after- noon, but was compelled to come to anchor off Meiggs wharf by the quaran- tine officer. In consequence Captain Mat- | son lost the tide, and vesterday had to up anchor and sall to the sugar refinery. The San Francisco Shipwrights' Ass ciation are ready to £o to the Philippines | in a body to repair the United States and Spanish cruisers if Uncle Sam wants it. They stand prepared to leave on the ary, and are will- sted men or in any capacity required. The steamer Point Arena, after receiv- ing a thorough overhauling and having a new electric light plant put in, went back on_ her old run to Point Arena a | few weeks ago. In honor of the addi-| tional comforts provided for them, the | traveling public of Mendocino gave Cap- | tain Hansen and his officers a surprise | party last trip. When the steamer reached Point Arena the whole popula- | tion, headed by the Mendocino brass band, took possession of the vessel and a regular good time followed. In spite of the surprise the men on the Point Arena | were equal to the occasion and everybody voted after it was all over that it was | the most enjoyable evening they had ever spent. The latest wonder in electricity; new and marvelous applications in the mechanical arts; told in next Sunday’s Call. B — HERMANN’S SONS. The Grand Lodge Will Meet in This City on Monday Next—May Festival on Sunday. The annual session of the Grand Lodge of the Order of Hermann's Sons of Cali- fornia will be held in Druids’ Hall on Monday next. | The grand officers of the order are: J. P. Krempel, past grand president; W.| grand president; E. Brugge, grand vice president; P. N. E. Lampe, | grand secretary; C. Trautner, grand | treasurer; L. M. Fabry, A. Beldenbach | and C. F. Kamman, grand trustees; D. Vogt, grand guide; N. Kirsch, grand in- side watchman, and J. R. Seifert, grand outside watchman. The delegates to the Grand Lodge are: | Lodge No. 1, A. Schoembs, M. Haar, P.| Fortmann, A. Beidenbach; Lodge No. 2, D. Vogt, J. Tiliman, Schneider; Lodge No. 3, J. F, Stromberg, W. Crom, G. Guenthner, P. Kruckel; Lodge No. 4, P. Warkentin, J. F. Jung, A. Liebenthal; Lodge No. 6§, O. Simon,. P. Hellman, W. Rekker, C.’ Leidecker, H. Will, A. Hoffman, J. Lippert; Lodge No. 7, L. M. Fabry, Loderhose, H. H. Bosch; Lodge No. 9, J. Jahn, P. Eikhoff, F. L. Mattow; Lodge No. 10, C. Kahn, D. Brune, G. Keidlin; Lodge No. 11, J. M. Gastman; Lodge No. 12, J. Finckh, H. Luke; Lodge No. 13, T. Goerner, J. Mat. sen; Lodge No. 14 J. Obermulier, H. Friedrichsen; Leodge No. 18, F. Paatsch, H. Johansen; Lodge No. 19, J. A. Roth; Lodge No. 20, W. Kuhn, H. Hachmann; | Lodge No. 21, H. Petersen,J. Liebermann; | Lodge No. 22, J. R. Seifert, C. Kelssing: Lodge No. 23, R. H. Klempp, J. Rotn Lodge No. 24, V. C. Petersen, A. Hansen' Ladies’ Lodge No. 1, F. Eggerling, F. Hermann. The reports show that on the first of April, there were nineteen lodges un- | = der the jurisdiction of the grand body, & these having an aggregate membership of | 1861, with cash on hand $63,29242, and it also has in its charge two ladies’ lodges having a membership of 181, with $1721 27 on hand. During the twelve months pre- ceding the date given there was paid out by the order for sick benefits, 257 60; for funeral benefits, $4621; suspended or during that &erkzd were 288, suspended or | withdrawn, 153; died, 24: net gain, 101. The session will last three days and dur- ing that time, when not in session, the | visiting del:gatel Will be entertained wy | the local lodges. The annual May fes- tival of the order will be held on Sunday next at Schutzen Park, near San Rafael. The committee having charge of the af- fair has made arrangements for a pleas- ant outing. Failed for a Small Amount. Mder:d enr“';; !’.v“z;ln'ot a machinist, has fails ‘his credl ll'.: small storekeepers, o, .\ e month—depending in a measure on emer- | @octor will offer prayers for the protec- | $15,000 rendered in May, 1893, against Rob- [NCENDIARISM IS SUSPECTED The Fire atthe Old Union Hall Under Inves- tigation. Fire Marshal Towe Is Acnvelj Searching for a Motive. rtain Circumstances Have De- veloped That Require to Be Cleared Up. Fire Marshal Towe has been making & quiet investigation into the cause of the fire Monday night which destroyed the old Union Hall on Howard street, near Third. From the results so far he is strongly of the opinion that the fire was not due to an accident, but was the work of an incendiary. He is now searching for a motive, and although he sees difficulties staring him in the face he does not lose hope of surmounting them. ‘What first aroused suspicion was the fact that the flames had gained consid- erable headway before the “alarm was turned in. The flames were in the rear portion of the building, where the stage was situated, and were burning fiercely when the firemen reached the scene. An- other suspicious circumstance was the fact that the place, which had been used as a skating rink and dance hall, had been closed that night. In the course of his investigations the Fire Marshal ascertained that Nels A. Lybeck, the lessee of the premises, had a few days before the fire rented a vacant store at 606 Fourth street for the purpose of starting a mucilage factory. Further than that he discovered that a number of valuable articles had been removed from Union Hall to the vacant store the day previous to the fire and a large num- ber of skates had been sent to San Jose. Lybeck had the skates, furniture and other effects in the building insured for $2000, and he made a statement to the Fire Marshal that their value the neighborhood of $3500. g The Fire Marshal had an interview yes- terday. with Lybeck, and he stated that on the night of the fire he and his wife, who occupied three rooms in the build- ing, left the place about half-past 7 o’clock. They returned about 10 o’clock and remained about fifteen minutes. His wife thought she smelled something burning and he examined the stage and rear portion, but could find no trace of fire. They left the place about 10:15 o'clock, locking it up, and nouced the flames later while they were on a How- ard street car. He sald he was at a loss to account for the fire unless it had arisen from one of the matches which he used in making his examination of the stage when his wife thought she smelled fire. *“1 am not nearly through with my in- X * said the Fire Marshal v. ““There are a number of sus- picious circumstances which 1 have not had time to thoroughly investigate and at present I am not in a position to state what they are. I ascertained that before coming here Lybeck was in Paso Robles, and his place was burned down there in October last about 1 o’clock in the morn- ing and he does not know how the fire originated. He has been running the Union Hall as a skating rink and dance hall since last December, having leased the premises from the Market Street Railway Company. 1 am strongly of opinion that the fire was the work of an incendiary, but I have nothing definite as yet to point to the guilty person.” NOSPITAL CORPS 10 CHANGE ABOUT All the City Surgeons Must Do Duty at the Branch in Golden Gate Park. in was Why the Board of Health Ordered Drs. Hartley and Stafford to Shift Their Stations. Dr. Morse, chairman of the Hospital Committee of the Board of Health, has inaugurated a plan he has had under con- sideration for some time whereby e sur- | geons in charge of the Harbor and Park | Receiving hospitals shall alternate at the two stations. Whether the surgeons at the central hospital will be shifted about has not been decided yet, but it is likely that they, too. will have to take their turn at the branch stations. 1 The object of this change is to give all the surgeons an equal chance, or the two park surgeons a chance harbor doctors. The corps of cit geons are paid a nominal salary—$75 a gency patients who retain the services of | the city doctors after they are able to be removed to their homes. A great many patients are treated at the Harbor branch | and the doctors there Secure many pay patients, while cases at the park branch are rare. As the surgeons at that station are required to be on duty twelve hours a day they have little time to devote to private practice, and are practically lim- ited to their salary. ‘At present Drs. Stafford and Wymore are stationed at the park, while Drs. Hartley, Hill and Deas are at the har- bor. But Dr. Morse has ordered Hart- ley and Stafford to change stations as the first move toward carrying out his plan. Dr. Hartley's friends were surprised when the order was lssued and could not understand its meaning, but Dr. Willlam- son of the Board of Health, in the ab- sence of Dr. Morse, explained the matter Jast night. He said that Dr. Hartley was one of the most competent surgeons in the service, and the change in no way reflected upon him. After three months’ sorvice at the park he would be brought back, either to the harbor or central hos- pital, and might not 3-&“ to serve there for many months. Bglktfllr; expected that either Dr. Hill or Dr. Deas will be ordered to change with Dr. [ Wymore in a few days. The surgeons at the central hospital are making a strong fight against being disturbed, but it is ex- pected that they, too, will have to take their turn at the park. R R R R IR 2B «Patriotism of the Jews.” This afternoon at 5 o'clock, at the Chevrah Thilim Congregation, 1036- Fol- som street, Rev. Dr. N. Mosessohn, editor of the Light, will deliver two lectures, English and the other in pure °B'1‘§u‘c'x;l Tiebrew, on “The Patriotism of the Jews.” Between the lectures the tion of the President of the United States nd the United States army and navy, and will also hold memorial services for those who were killed on the United States men-of-war. It Is announced that all will be welcome, regardless of creed. e e——— To Renew an Old Judgment. Frances E. Pope commenced suit yes- terday to renew an old judgment for ert A. Laurin, who is now out of the State. Bad Pay and Hard Work. The bad pay and hard work of trained ‘nurses has often been made the, subject of be- nevolent remonstrance by emMent medical men and non-professional philanthropists. 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