The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1898, Page 12

12 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1898. WILL QUIT AS BELCHER HAS ASKEE The Grand Jurors Had | Many LivelyInter- necine Wars. Could Not Agree on the Indictment of Many Accused Persons. Some Roundly Denounced byi Others as a Band of Use- less Inquisitors. NEW JURY TO BE CALLED. Judges Hope That the Next Body Will | Proceed to Business With- out Delay. Foreman Gerberding has decided that he will not accept Judge Belcher’s suggestion that the Grand Jury meet between now and Thursday, and indict | such persons as it had on the list. In spite of Judge Belcher’s caustic criticism of the jury for its failure to indict men high in power there are many members of the jury who refuse | to resent the aspersions of the wearer of the ermine. | A number of jurors refused to dis- cuss Grand Jury matters yesterday, and most of them were glad Judge Belcher notified them to come into court and be discharged. The language which some of the prominent Grand Jurors are reported to have used concerning others of the same august body is decidedly unfit for publication. From the outset of the jury’s investigations it became ap- parent, so some of the members say, that there would be frequent disagree- ments in matters that concerned prom- inent offenders in the School Board and | the Harbor Commission. In spite of | that fact the jury succeeded on Mon- | day night in getting an admission | from a prominent man that he had 7o | account of the lumber sold to the) School Department. Some of the ju- rors say they would have succeeded in | getting out a true bill had they been | allowed to proceed, but when the Judge’s summary order came to them Monday night they resolved to adjourn without delay and give up the work in disgust. Their original programme will | not be v Anothe deliberat interesting feature of the| ns he indicting body that did not indi s the fact that they es- tablished a sort of trial court early in their proceedings. Whenever a man was charged with some grave offense | they not only heard all that was to be said against him, but they extended to | him the benign influence and protec- tion of the doctrine that gives every- body a hearing. This resulted in parti- sanship in the jury room, for all cases have some phase that will win friends | in a panel of jurors. | It is Judge Belcher’s intention to call | another Grand Jury at an early date, | and it is the general hope of the public | that the new jury will be able to agree on several important matters now be- fore the attention of the authorities. USED CUPID AS L HANDY BAIT Matrimonial Agent Fecker Must Answer a Crimi- nal Charge. Joseph Neumsan Thinks He Was Bunkoed Into Buylng a Bad Business. The interesting sult wherein Joseph | Neuman charges C. Fecker with obtaining money by a bunko scheme will be heard by Judge Low to-day. It is a suit that will throw some light on the way mar- riage bureaus are conducted in this city by some of those who serve Cupid in the capacity of agents. Fecker sold Neuman a half interest in his business for $200. He represented, so Neuman says, that he was making a great deal of money out of psychology and matrimony. Neuman was caught by & drag-net business card, which con- tained the following conglomerate an- nouncements: C. Fecker, principal of the California In- stitute of Psychology; also professor of the Principles and Practice of Human Magnetism, Hypnotism and Suggestive Therapeutics. Lec- turer at the California Psychic Club. Editor of the California Hypnotic Journal. Eleven years active practice in San Francisco. Office hours from 10 to 12 a. m.; $ to 5 p. m., and 7 to 8 p. m. Instructions private or in classes. Free clinic for the needy from 10 to 1 a m. daily. Real estate and general business brok- ers. Patents of all kinds handled and put on the market. Businesses of all kinds sold and exchanged. Insurance solicited. Lodging houses a specialty. Loans negotiated. Our motto—square dealings. Partners and mort- gages secured. Correspondence in English, Ger- man and Scandinavian languages. All pu chasers are held responsible Zor our commi sion if money is not pald through this office. Neuman says that he was soon dis- gusted by the small returns and by the fact that Fecker wanted his wife to act for the bureau. He asked her to meet men who advertised for wives and pre- tend that she was anxious to get mar- ried. He will claim that the business was a bunuko affair and that he swallowed a bait in the form of a half-interest swindle. —_——————— “SPUDS” FOR THE BALDWIN. Mrs. Mahoney Tells How the Million- aire Came to Borrow Money From Her. Justice of the Peace Carroll yesterday heard testimony in the suit brought by the widow of the late Senator Mahoney to recover $65 from E. J. Baldwin. Mrs. Mahoney testified that in 18% F. B. Dex- ter, Baldwin’s brother-in-law, borrowed $100 from Mahoney and from her to pay a vegetable bill for the Baldwin Ho- tel. Baldwin had since repaid $55, but all her efforts to collect the balance were fruitless. Dexter testified that he bor- rowed the mone{ on his own account and not for the hotel. Baldwin swore the money was mnot for hotel purposes, but that he had agreed to pay $60. Of this he had paid #&nd still owed $5, which he was willing to pay. The attorneys will submit briefs, each be- ing allowed five days to do so. Father Yorke to Lecture. The Rev. Father Yorke will lecture at St. Teresa’s Church at 7:30 o’'clock on Sunday evening, May 15. The subject wiil be “Catholic and Protestant fio I~ tries Compared.” The proceeds wi T. ?evoted to liquidating the expense of rescoing the church of St. Teresa - <! TOTAL LOSS OF STEAMER AMARAPOORA Went Ashore on the Shan Tung Penin- sula in a Gale. End of the Most Unfortu- nate Vessel Ever on This Coast. Had Been in Trouble in Every Port From Panama to Vancouver. IN YOKOHAMA IN DISTRESS. After Having Been Repaired She Sailed to Her Doom on China’s Coast. The British tramp steamer Amara- poora, which was in such a peck of trouble when she was on this coast, has | price paid by Uncle Sam was $160,000. She is 1344 tons net burden, 285 feet long, 39 feet 1 inch broad, 22 feet 8 inches deep and was built in England in 1896. Upon recelpt of telegraphic instructions she followed the fleet to Manila and after discharging her coal would probably return to Hongkong for further supplies. The name of the second vessel purchased by Admiral Dewey as a storeship was not brought over by the Peking. The gold hunters who came from the East on the schooner Levi Woodbury received a letter from Boston yester- day which gave some of them a scare. It contained news to the effect that the schooner Julia E. Whalen, which left Boston 145 days ago with another party of fortune seekers, had been captured by a Spanish cruiser. When they came to think it over, however, the men re- membered that the Whalen, Concord and Woodbury had passed out of the Straits of Magellan in company, and as there have been no Spanish cruisers heard of in the Pacific since Dewey captured the Manila fleet they came to the conclusion that the story was with- out foundation. The chances are that both the Whalen and Concord have been delayed by strong headwinds which have prevailed along the coast for some weeks past. The steamer Gaelic sailed for Hong- kong via Honolulu and Yokohama yes- terday. She took away an unusually large cargo and a considerable quan- tity of treasure which the Chinese mer- chants here were afraid to ship in an American bottom on account of the war. Boys broke into the Tiburon ferry depot last Monday night and raided the fruit stand. They broke a pane of glass and passed the smallest of their number through. When he got inside he passed out nearly all of the cigars, cigarettes, chewing gum and candy in the place and made his escape. Ser- geant Tom Mahoney is on the trail of the culprits and expects to make some arrests to-day. The most impatient man on the water front yesterday was Captain White- | side of the bark Northern Light. He fully expected to get away for Kotze~ peEs ¢ THE She was the most unlucky tramp luck followed her from Panama to Puget Sound, and when she was libeled in the courts she was in trou After being in the repalr shop at Yokohama for six months she sailed for China only to become a total wreck Hard not with the customs authorities. that ever came to this coast. ble in the Shan Tung Peninsula. I been wrecked on the Shan Tung Penin- | sula, China, and will be a total loss. | The fate of her crew is as yet unknown. | The news came in & cable to the Mer- chants’ Exchange yesterday, and was | the one topic among shipping men on | the water front. | The Amarapoora came to this coast about two years ago, and from the time she dropped anchor in San Francisco Bay up to her wreck she was almost constantly in trouble. There is hardly a port from Panama to Vancouver but what she has been libeled in. In San Jose de Guatemala Captain Cameron was in trouble over his cargo of coal. In Mexico he was at outs with the cus- tom house authorities, and his vessel was seized on two occasions in this port, the crew libeling her for their wages. In Tacoma and Seattle she was held for weeks at a time on different occasions because the meney was not forthcoming with which to pay the merchants who fitted her out. In Octo- ber last the Amarapoora left S8an Fran- cisco, after satisfying a judgment in the United States District Court, and went to Puget Sound to load lumber for Tientsin, China. She was in trouble | there again on account of money due | the crew, but finally got away, and on | November 20 put into Yokohama in | distress. That was the beginning of the end. Things went from bad to worse, and on January 19 last the sur- veyors refused to give her a certificate of seaworthiness. Finally her cargo of lumber was discharged and another sarvey was held, which resulted in her bollers being ordered overhauled and considerable work being done on the hull. While the repairs were being made the men in the engineers’ de- partment were constantly fighting among themselves, and the result was several cases in the British Admiralty Court in Yokohama. ‘When the Peking sailed from Yoko- hama on April 18 last the Amarapoora ‘was still in that port, but she was ex- pected to get away in a short time. The surveyors must therefore have given her a certificate of seaworthiness, and she must have made another start for Tientsin. The chances are that she must have been caught in a typhoon in the Yellow Sea and driven on the rocky shore of Shan Tung. The Amarapoora was bullt in 1874 at Greenock, England, and was owned by J. W. Adamson. She was 1619 tons net burden, 350 feet 2 inches long, 36 feet 3 Inches beam and 27 feet deep. She had been an unfor- tunate ship from the start and has ended her career just about in the man- ner that every shipping man in this city predicted she would. e steamer purchased by Admiral Dewey in Hongkong to act as a ten- der to his fleet was the Hongkong- Bangkok liner Nashan. She had 3000 tons of coal bue Sound early in the morning, but there was such a continuous rush of freight throughout the day that he had to postpone sailing until this morning. POLICEMAN MURPHY IN DEEP DISGRACE When Caught in a Saloon He Threatened to Assault Sergeant Brophy. Lieutenant Hanna Allowed Him to Patrol His Beat, Knowing He Was Intoxicated. Policeman Joseph F. Murphy of the southern station will have to answer to a charge of drunkenness at the next meeting of the Police Commissioners. Several nights ago Sergeant Brophy met Murphy and concluding that hs was un- der the influence of liquor he requested him to accompany him to the Southern station. Lieutenant Hanna was in charge, and notwithstanding, it is claimed, that he at once detected that Murphy had been drinking, he sent him back to his beat with the admonition not to *‘touch another drop.” A short time afterward Sergeant Bro- phy discovered Murphy in a saloon on Brannan street. He was under the in- fluence of liquor, and when Brophy called him to account Murphy became belliger- ently indignant and defied his superior officer to prefer charges against him. As Murphy was in an ugly mood and rather than cause a scene Brophy again visited the Southern station and reported the facts to Lieutenant Hanna. As the lat- ter showed a disposition to protect the erring officer Brophy waited until Mur- phy reported off duty. Shortly after 6 o’'clock he staggered into the assembly room of the Southern sta- tion. Captain Spillane happened to be present and he at once ordered Brophy to prefer charges against him. It is not unlikely that Lieutenant Han- na will be called upon by the Commis- sioners to explain his action in sending Murphy back to his beat knowing at the {‘lme that he was under the influence of quor. Captain Spillane was indignant when he heard of Hanna's error, and severely “roasted” him for what he termed his blundering methods. e —— Widber’s Bondsmen Sued. An attempt will be made to recover on the $100,000 bond given by the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland to guarantee the faithful performance of his duties by A. C. Widber, City Treasurer, who is $117,000 short in his accounts. The guarantee company has refused to THIEVES VISIT THE PRESIDI0 The Soldiers Robbed ‘While They Are Asleep. The Sentinels Unable to Discover the Cul- prits. Indignant Over the Numerous Thefts, the Officers Consult Chief Lees. VALUABLES ARE TAKEN. One of the Men Relieved of a Diamond Ring and His Watch. The soldiers at the Presidio are indig- nant over the loss of many valuable arti- cles which were stolen from them by some clever thieves. A private named Carlson was robbed of a gold watch-and his papers while he was asleep in his tent. Several other privates were robbed in a similar manner, and as they are anxious to catch the thieves they decided | to enlist the services of the police. Last | night one of the officers of the garrison | visited police headquarters and invoked | the aid of Chief Lees fn finding the cul- prits. He gave a description of the property taken as far as he knew, and requested the Chief to do all in his power to arrest the thieves. Since the militla went to camp at the Presidio the members have been syste- matically robbed of their valuables. Sev- | eral suspicious characters were arrested, | but as nothing of an incriminating nature was found on them they were released. READY FOR RED CROSS BENEFIT Tickets on Sale To- Day at the Orpheum Theater. Great Performance Prom- ised by the Volunteer Acrtists. Business Men to Meet To-Day at the Chamber of Com- merce. FUNDS ARE BADLY NEEDED Much Encouragement Is Being Given the Ladies With Subscription Lists. The sale of tickets for the benefit per- formance to be given at the Orpheum for the Red Cross Society on Thursday after- noon commences this morning at the box office of the theater. Seats in all parts of the house on the main floor will be 50 cents and in the gallery the seats will be sold at 25 cents. The managers are pre- paring for a rush, and they believe more than half the house will be disposed of during the first day. The performance as arranged will be one of the best that the house has offered for many weeks. Every one of the performers is immensely in- terested in the work of the Red Cross So- clety, and many of them have friends who are now in the tents at the Presidio waiting for the order to move to Manila, and they do not propose to let them go without doing at least some little act that will bring them comfort should they be- come ill or wounded while in the distant islands. Every cent that will be taken in at the In view of the frequent losses of the soi- dlers the officer in charge has issued o ders not to allow any person to pass the gates unless he is known. A private named Riley mourns the loss of & diamond ring. a purse containing $ié and a silver watch, He was asleep in his | tent, when the thief cleverly relieved nim of the valuables. Suspecting that one of his bedfellow soldlers had taken the valuables, ‘‘just as a joke,” as he ex- pressed it, Riley questioned them; but as they professed ignorance of the where- | abouts of the money and jewelry, he be- came alarmed, and potified the captain of | the regiment. ' The Tollowing day another private, named Becker, was robbed of a | watch and a small amount In money. As | he thefts continued, the men in camp grew justly indignant, and informed thefr superior officer. Instructions were issued | to the sentinels not to allow any person | to enter the tents unless they had the | password. Despite the vigilance of the | sentinels, the soldiers continued to lose | thelr valiables. As the last extreme, the | commanding officer decided to inform the | police, with the hope of locating the oul- t. After learning of the numerous thefts Chief at once detalled = De- tectives Sflvey and Graham to make an | investigation and, {f possible, arrest_the thieves. Last night they recovered a por- | tion of the stolen property in several | pawnshops, where it had been disposed of by the pilferers. | As they have a good description of the men, they confidently expect to arrest them. EXCITEMENT IN THE WHEAT PIT Harry Wise Buys BOOO Tons of Decemberin a Single Trans- action. A Prediction That Prices Will Rule Still Higher—No Friends for Barley. Yesterday’'s wheat market was one of extreme excitement from the opening un- til the gong sounded closing the day's trading. The local market acted In keeping with | that of Chicago. Early Liverpool cabies | quoted wheat futures 6 cents higher. Parls showed an advance of 1 franc. Forelgn markets were less excited than traders generally had anticipated, and this caused an easy opening. July started at $1 17@1 18, against $1 27 on the curb the afternoon previous. At the opening, commission houses bought freely. Much of the trading was said to be for foreign account. The price | jumped 1 cent at a time until $1 25 was | reached. May sold at $1 87. Armour’s brokers sold avout 2,000,000 of July over $1 20. The local market was presented with all kinds of news—bearish, builish and otherwise—before the opening. Prices at the start were only fractionally lower than those at the close Monday. The weakness in closing English cables caused long holders and shorts to sell freely. By noon December wheat had sold down to $1 72%, with one or two faint rallies. The Government report issued at noon est ‘was regarded as bearish by the {rad& e report makes winter wheat acreage 6 per cent and the condition 7 per cent greater than on May 1 last year. The effect of this report gave an easler feeling to wheat in Eastern markets, the weak- ness belng reflected in the local trading. During the afternoon session December sold at $1 71 at the opening to $1 72% at the close. The late strength was caused by Harry Wise bidding for wheat. After he left thé pits shorts began hammering th](‘aK éun.rkeh On the curb $1 71% was asked. Prices may temporarily work somewhat lower, but everything points to much hifiher prices before many weeks pass by. ariey appears to have no friends. Few buyers were to be seen. December found no buyers at $1 31, against $1 33 yester- day. The demand for spot has fallen off to comparatively nothing, heavy imports of corn from the East 'being the chief cause. The largest single transaction executed on the call board In the past year was the selling of 5000 tons of December wheat at $1 79 by E. A. Bresse to Harry Wise. —_——————— Sugar in Abundance. The annual meeting and election of offi- cers of the Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Company was held yesterday afternoon, and the yearly report of President Burke on the condition of the company for the past year, including the assets and lia- bilities and the prospects for the future, was presented. The total amount of sugar received from the plantation for the fls- cal year ending March 81, 1898, was 7839 tons, which was disposed of at an aver- age net price of $6224 a ton, ylelding in 34 56. About half of the two miles of railroad between Houapo and Hilea was reported completed, the esti- mated cost of the completion of the work being about $3000. The total assets of the company during t,heflpm ear were $1,955,~ 429 53 and the liabflities 3 Those elected to govern the ounl:,pln for the coming year are as follows: reli- the bond, and suit was commenced yester- day in the name of the peoplj:( dent, John A. Buck; olas Ohlandt; directors—Willlam Clift, Albqrtfim&wer and C. P. Overton; secre- tary, Sheldon. | %ry our 1 Breinnses, 210 Masket & 11 Geary, | Betor | volunteered to assist the members of the | result of their wor.. | independentl; ; vice-president, lélch- they said, had sold the box office will go to the fund of the Red Cross Society. The managers of the the- ater have placed the house at the disposal of the organization, and the performers, the members of the orchestra and the mechanics and stage hands have gladly volunteered their services. Many persons talented in the art of entertaining have company of vaudeville artists now billed at the theater, and a most unique and in- teresting performance will be given. The collecting committee of the Red Cross Society were hard at work yester- day, and when the rooms of the Sccletyi in the Claus Spreckels building were | closed for the day the bank account of | the organization had been doubled as a The Bank of Cali- fornia gave a check for $250 and Anton Borel added a like sum to the fund. Louls Sloss, G. Niebaum, Lewis Gerstle, J. Downey Harvey and L. E. Johnson each gave $100. Daniel Meyer sent a check for 350 and Mrs. Henry L. Dodge and Mrs. Cyrus Walker gave $25 each. Fred S. Johnson and E. H. Horton each gave a big twenty-dollar gold piece. The chil- dren of the Washington Grammar School added $40 to the fund and the Philomath Club sent a check for $53 that its members hal contributed to the work of the so- ciety. The London, Paris and American Bank, the Anglo-California Bank and the | London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company swelled the fund by $100 each. The Manual Training Club and the kin- dergarten school of the French Christian TUnion sent $10 as their union subscription to_the work of the soclety. Mrs. J. G. Clark, who attended a meet- ing of the Red Cross Society that was organized in Vallejo on Monday, reported to her associate workers that much sub- stautial support could be expected from them. Mrs. Newcomb was the president of the organization, with Mrs. George H. Peabody financial secretary, Mrs. Alice Holt recording secretary and Rev. Mr. Williams vice-president. | Word was received during the day that | Colonel Otis of Los Angeles would take the initiative to organize a Red Cross so- ciety in the lower part of the State, and he promised that the people of Los An- geles would respond handsomely to the| call to as: among the scldiers w. from this State. A special meeting of the Chamber of | Commerce has been called for this after-| noon, at 2:30, to take some action to assist the work of the society. All the busi-| ness men of the city are invited and are expected to be present. Persons familiar wi the work of the Red Cross on the field of battle will address the meeting. The ladies of Seven Pines Circle, an | auxiliary to the G. A. R., have made a | cash donation to the Red Cross League. | When the trouble with Spain began they forwarded a set of resolutions to the President, expressing confidence in the; administration, and received a very | pleasing answer. The ladies of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church met in St. Stephen’s Hall yester- day afternoon to discuss plans for aiding the Red Cross Society in its work. The rector, Rev. E. Lion, presided at the | meeting, and suggested that ladies work v of and in concert with the | Red Cross organization. His suggestion | was taken up by the ladies present, and | they decided to appoint & committee to visit the headquarters of the league an ascertain in what manner they could give the most assistance. A lhist will be procured of the articles of which there is the greatest need and each of the ladies will endeavor to procure as large a quan- tity of these as possible. Supplies will be received by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the church, WKD will send them to the head- uarters of the soclety for distribution. %ho ladles have entered into the work with spirit and zest, and are confident of their ability to render valuable assist- ance. Gave Official Permission. At a meeting of the executive board of the Theatrical Employes’ Union Local No. 16, held yesterday, permission was grant- ed to the following members of t..s union employed at the Orpheum Theater to vol- unteer their services at the benefit of the Red Cross Society of California to be held at the Orpheum Theater on Thursday aft- ernoon, fiav 12: _George Holden, Frank Damon, William J. McCarty, G. Garraud, John Victor, Charies Larsemier, 8. Bost- Wick, William T. Quinn and George Whit- taker. Organizing in Alameda. ALAMEDA, May 9.—The mass meeting which is to be called to discuss the organ- jzation of a branch of the Red Cross Lei e will be held at the council rooms in the City Hall on Sunday next, at 4 p. m. Mrs. Otis, Mrs. Colburn and Mrs. O'Neil have been appointed to assist Mrs. Mastick, president of the league, In ar- ranging the preliminaries for the meeting. Twenty vice-presidents will also be ap- pointed for the same purpose. ho have been called | — They Want Their Pay. An indignant delegation of workmen who had been employe% upon the onstruction of the benches for_ the Sharkey-Jeffries fight_called upon State Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald on Mon- day, before whom they laid the complaint that they had not been paid for their work by Contractor Doran. They stated that the contractor had hired a large force to get the seats up in time for the fight, anlf although the benches fell with a crash, injuring many of the spectators, the workmen were not responsible, for they had constructed as directed. ey mXum: they worked from 98 to 100 hours at 20 cents an_ hour, making their bills between $18 and $20 to the man. Doran, old lumber, and now states that he has no money to The Commissioner will do w] he can with Groom and bs, who st the work of the Red Cross |* the work done, to have them pay the men ray! ADVERTISEMENTS. ELEGANT BLACK FABRICS v AT VERY LOW PRICES! $12 'OOPattern. 24 BLACK FRENCH NOVELTY CREPON DRESS PATTERNS in the very newest designs. . .50 $lo Pattern. 40 BLACK FRENCH NOVELTY CREPON DRESS PATTERNS, 9 different designs. 9.00 Pattern. 40 BLACK ENGLISH NOVELTY CREPON DRESS PATTERNS, in the very latest styles. RE/MNMNANTS. During the present week we will place on our center counters, MARKED DOWN TO LESS THAN HALF PRICE, all REMNANTS and SHORT LENGTHS of PLAIN and FANCY SILKS, PLAIN and FANCY RIBBONS, PRINTED LAWNS and ORGANDIES, FLANNELETTES and GINGHAMS, and a very large lot of REMNANTS of FINE EMBROIDERIES. @f;::“’ez é % . u, 13, 1us, 17, 19, 121 POST STREET. TS SHOW PATRIOTISM Decide to Allow a Professor Full Pay During His Enlistment. REGED Adaitional Compensation to Be Paid Attaches of the State University. The Regents of the University of Cali- fornia paused in their arduous labors of discussing the report of the committee on finance and audit yesterday to give vent to their patriotism. The departure was brought about by Judge Wallace moving that Lieutenant A. P. Hayne, an assist- ant professor in the department of agri- culture, be allowed half pay during his absence as a volunteer soldier. Regent Halllday forgot the scarcity of funds and enthusiastically amended the motion by making it full pay. Regent J. E. Budd added his voice by saying that if any stu- dent or professor in the university de- sired to enlist in their country’s defense he should be given leave of absence and full pay. At another time during the session the spark of patriotism was again fanned into flame. Regent Budd was speaking in favor of raising the salary of Professor Syle of the department of English to $1800. This was discussed at a previous meeting, at which time Regent Houghton opposed the raise on tae ground that the professor had uttered unpatriotic senti- ments in a lecture at Berkeley. Budd read letters of professors who had attend- ed the lecture, in which they declared Professor E‘lo had been grossly mis- quoted by the press. He then defended the latter and spoke in glowing terms of his ability and worth. In defending him- self Mr. Houghton said that the remarks he had made were based on reports he had read in the morning papers, in which the professor compared the United States with _the Roman empire, and that Syle had been reported as saying that the vices of the Roman empire were preva- lent in the United States, and the end of_this country would be like Rome. Regent Black indorsed the lecture as one of the most patriotic he had ever heard, saying i{ was along the line of Kipling’s great poem, “Lest We Forget.” Judge Foote eloquently defended Berke- ley’s representative, saying that one brought u% under the shades of Berkeley could not be disloyal. After the wave had passed the members agreed to advance Professor Syle’s salary if Professor W. D. Armes of the same de- partment received the same treatment. A compromise was easily effected and both professors will receive $1800 per annum. Herman Schussler, Colonel Walker and Gustav Gutch were appointed emeritus professors at the university without sal- ary. ?he following attaches of the university will receive additional compensation for their services: E. W. Davis, Rebecca Meyerstein, May L. Cheney, R. H. Jones, J. D. Layman, C. K. Jones, J. Gillick, F. T. Bloletti, E. Kellner, A. O. Leuschne ._B. Rising, E. O'Neill, H. 1. Randall L. D. Syle, . Armes, G. T. Winter- burn, J. H, er, J. T. Allen, H. M. a.rg Moses, C. Babcock, Hopkins, Bern K. ‘Wright, M. W. L. J. Richardson, W. H. K Haskell, L. E. Dickson, C. L. Cory, Ira Currier, W. H. Lozier, T. P. Bn.\lfl. F. P. Dressler, G. M. Stratton, E. B. McGll- vray, W. J. Raymond, M. Margolis, W. E. Ritter and H. B. Torrey. Professor George Davidson will recéive $4000 per annum . instead of ), HL T ‘Ardley’s petition to the board for addi- CASTORIA tional compensation will be taken up a$ the next meeting. THE SEWER EVIL. Board of Health Takes Steps to Les- sen the Imminent Danger Caused by Deadly Gases. A conference was held yesterday be- tween the Board of Health and the mem- bers of the former Sewer Commission for the purpose of abating, if possible, the danger of contagion arising from thi present defective sewer system. There were present Drs. Morse, Fitzgibbon, Hart and Williamson and Professor George Davidson, Marsden Manson, Her- man_Schussler and George F. Allardt of the former Sewer Commission. Professor Davidson said the chief danger was fro diphtheria caused by sewer gas. He sal the sewers were ventilated chiefly through connections with residences, and he ad- vised that all vent holes be closed to prevent the escape of gas. The sewers should also be thoroughly flushed from llr\nie tg ;{mei al Mr. Schussler said the flushing sh be done under the personal Supervision o8 the Board of Health, and even the most thorough flushing would not entirely eradicate the evil, owing to the faulty construction of the sewers. Mr. Manson said that of 240 miles of sewers inspected by the commission less than five miles were properly constructed. It would cost $4,000,000 to build an effi- cient sewer system for the city. It was finally decided to ask the Super- visors to take some action toward abate ing the evil, and that the two boards co- operate for the improvement of the sewer system. e — ADVERTISEMENTS. FUROPE HAS TROUBLES ENOUGH OF HER OWN, washing her soiled linen, without in terfering in our little scrap. You will find you have troubles enough of your own, too, if you take yoursoiledlinen to a poor laundry. Be on the safe side and bring it here, where we take special pains to render it beautiful in oolor and perfect in finish. United States Laundry Office, 1004 Market street. Telephone South 420 el by all Local Druggiste. ELIXIR OF o S L