The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1898, Page 14

e MAJOR MODRE ORDERED T0 INVESTIGATE Light on Fong Suey Won’s Escape. . CHIEF MEREDITH IS BLAMED INQUIRY WILL BE PROCEEDED WITH WITHOUT DELAY. Becretary of the Treasury Is Sur- prised at Meredith’s Fail- ure to Prosecuts | Thorough in- | . WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. the Treasury vestigation will be made L | Department into the case of Fong Suey | . ‘Won, the Chinese woman, who, as alleged, -was permitted to escape prosecution for € dence was before of San Franci d imported Chinese purposes. The or Moore, ch inspectors that she b showing women for immoral liminary report of M ury D . .the “Trez t T s received at the Treas- ..8an Frar ury ‘Department to- Major Moore hat he will immediately institute an | i as been directed | t to proceed with such invest ithout delay. | Major Moore In does not seek to locate blame fc »ng Suey Won's escape from the le clutches, but it is | conversation with thej Department officials that Chief | of the Chinese bureau is con- | jefly to blame in the matter. | anding of the | ,artment officials Fong Suey sidered c Accord! ‘Treas ‘Won was only one of twenty-eight women arrested in the raid by the San Fran- cisco police in the se quarter of San | Francisco. This raid was made in an en- deavor to locate and arrest some twenty- five or thirty Chinese women who were allowed to enter American ports for the Betensible purpose of taking part in the Omaha Exposition. But other Chinese’ who ke re ad- | ir and ted to the Chicago World's lanta and Nashville expositions, did not return to China, but re- hed here to lead immoral lives. Fong among others, d with beir fully in_ this y, but when ed her cer as required by th released, although ready placed in pc showing that she wa o wit, importing wome: in violation of the o5 This e ; imprisonment not 10,000 fine, or both, in the ¢ court. “hi sb: se women Pr. an mis- o positively identi- »n as the woman who m to the United States. ! e it is alleged, was in pos- of Chief Meredith at the time the d E Ithouy, 1t various C on $0 be to understa he should | en held and ecuted for | the graver charge. | Chiet Meredith of the Chinese Bureau] made & peculiar break” vesterday. He was in Collector Jackson's office engaged s omveroation. with the Collector and a reporter, ani the conversation turned | on the article in The Call of yesterday | and particularly to the episode Jayment of money in a certain | office to a Chinese Inspector de- lawyer” aving the ends of his mus- scribed tache curled. | “I never was in Lawyer —'s office In | my life,” said Meredith { As the lawyer's name had not been mentic n the published story, nor by | the repo r in the interview, both the Collector and'the reporter expressed sur- prise that Chief Meredith should know the name of the WYy who, it was al- leged, had paid money to a Chinese In- | spector who tightly curled the ends of | bis_mustache. ow did you know who the lawyer if you knew nothing of the circum- | asked the reporter. how did you know it?” inquired ilector. Meredith explained that he had known | that the lawyer had been Interested in landing Chinese some time back, and that he bad seen his name in papers and other documents and that he had presumed that the lawyer he had named was the person meant in The Call’s article. The peculiarity of the incident les in the fact that the attorney mentioned by Chief Meredith went out of the Chinese Dbusiness some time ago, although he was the identical attorney of the story. ick of substitution has been fre- rted to by the Chinese and their brokers when all other means fail. Tt consists in substituting for a valuable Flave who -has been orderéd deported some cheap old woman who wants to re- turn to China free of expense. One of these cases was discovered by Miss Lake, Thatron of the Methodist Chinese Mission “Home at 916 Washington street. She told “the following story yesterday: A Chineso slave girl who recoiled in horror from the life to which s was destined by urchaser confessed to a missionary on oard the steamer that she was about to be landed on false representations. The missionary had her brought before Col- - Jector Wise, to whom, in the presence of Chinese Inspector Meredith, she repeated - the confession. is happened within a week of Collector Wise’s retirement from office to make way for Colonel Jackson, his succ or. Of course there was noth- ing to be done under the circumstances and the publicity given to the girl's story but to deport her. She had, however, confided to the missionaries that there ‘was on board the same steamer a Chinese woman who had led the abandoned life of @ slave and who desired to be rescued. 8he had friends in China and she wanted to be sent back to them. Two mission- aries who spoke the Chinese language were sent to the steamer to talk with the woman, but whenever they approached her a Chinaman lounged up to her side, 80 that she was afraild to converse with them. They turned to interview other women on board, and wh they looked again for the slave she disappeared. Glancing to the upper deck where there were no other Chinese, they saw her hanging up clothes on a line. In response to & sign made by her they approached her and she told them her story. The ADVERTISEMENTS. FROM ECZEMA 1 suffered with Eczema of the worst kind, my face and neck down to my shoulders wero one {nflammation, was not able to see out of my eyes for quite a while, and was unable toslecp for weeks, on account of thesevero pain, which nearly drove me insane. My face and neck were swollen and made me look hideous. Had three doctors at differenttimes, and not one of them could relieve me of my pain, swelling, and blotches. I used three ‘bottles of CUTICURA RESOLVENT, four boxes CuTicURA (ointment), three cakes of CUTI CURA B0AP, and my friends and one of the doctors aré surprised, and asked, * Who cured you?” and I tell them v‘cuy, * COTIOURA REMEDIES.” J.V.E. 3 March 4, 1897. 83 Schole St., Brooklyn, N. ¥. ke SR R S matter was laid before Collector Wise and the woman was ordered deported. Pending the sailing of the steamer for China she was confined in the Methodist Mission Home, and when the day arrived on which the steamer was to sail the woman was taken from the home to be placed on board the steamer. Three days after the steamer had sailed Miss Lake was informed by three reputable Chi- nese women that the slave who had been ordered deported had been taken to a bagnio in Chinatown and that another woman who wanted to return to China had been placed on the steamer in her stead. Much surprise has been expressed that Collector ‘ackson _allows jarry Huff to be employed by the bureau from time to time as Chinese _inspector. Mr. Huff was an official interpreter at the time that the boodling Schemes of Interpreter Dick Wil- osed, and he was so_close at the department found | it necesary to compel him to resign. Un- | der the Jackson-Meredith administration of the bureau Huff obtains employment very often as_interpreter, in spite of the distrust which had been entertained by h department. When Major Moore, pecial Agent of the Treasury, was plan- ning the recent raid to capture a score or liams were ex | to Williams t t Tore of Chinese women slaves who had escaped from the Omaha Exposition he urgently requested Collector Jackson not | to acquaint Huff with the fact that a raid was contemplated or allow him to hccompany the raiders. In spite of his | protest Huff was sent with the raiders, | and when the customs officers, after hav- ing been kept waiting in the "Appraiser’'s building an hour after the time designated for the start, arrfved in Chinatown they found the police, who had been notified by e tor Jackson, in full uniform in pos- | gesston. The raid had been ‘‘tipped off” | by some unknown person. Meredith has T in certain quarters son assumed the O Chinese bureau Ww: ed to him for the pos had a well-establis honorable, capable, ous 'inspector. °C political “pull" ‘When Collector Jack- | ohn Lynch of the strongly recommend- fon of chief. Lynch reputation as an incorruptible and in Yt is true,’ added. the official who recommended _him, ‘“that Lynch Is a| Democrat and a_ Catholic, but there | | should be no prejudice against him on | that account.” Collector Jackson selec The lawyer vh ted Meredith. w office it was al- ? was pajd for the land- | ing of a Chinese girl denies that he paid anybo dollar for such a purpose. He added, however, that the bureau had a feputdtion among the knowing ones of “‘crooked.” “When 1 in_the Chinese business under Mr. Wise's administration,” he said, +] used to bring clients and papers to Wise, and he refused to land them. When, however, my clients employed another at- torney they were landed upon the same papers without any delay.” | —_— PENNSYLVANIA SATLS. | city of Puebla Goes To-Morrow and the Newport Will Sail for Manila Next Tuesday. The Fifty-first Io Regiment broke | camp at the Presidio vesterday morning | and went on board the transport Penn- sylvania. It was after 10 ock when Colonel Loper marched his command from the reservation. The troops got ‘[The THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1898 COLLISION OF THE PETERS AND CZARINA An Inquiry to Be Held Next Week. MORE TRANSPORTS ARRIVE FOUR PRISONERS CAME UP ON| THE ST. PAUL. The Schooners Mary Gilbert and W. S. Phelps Sold to a Los An- geles Party to Pay Their Debts. It will Le a long time before either the Czarina or J. D. Peters go into commis- sion again after their collision of Wednes-1| ment. The story of Captain Seman of The Crarina has' aiready’ been printed. The following dispatch has been re- celved from Stockton: STOCKTON, Nov. 3.—A_variety of opinions have been expressed here by passengers of the ill-fated steamer J D Peters, who returned here this morning on the Captain Weber as to Where rests the blame for the accident. Alexander Cohen, ome of the Peters' pas- sengers, says he saw a man jump overboard and heard him cry for help: he is of the opin- fon that the man was drowned. It s also belleved that some Chinamen were buried be- neath heavy piles of merchandise knocked over in the hold by the shock of the collision, and being unable to extricate themselves, 'were drowned. So far as known, no one i missing, however. The Navigation Company, owners of the Pe- ters, will take steps to raise the sunken ves- sel. The transports St. Paul and Morgan City, from Manila, docked yesterday. The Morgan City brought only one passenger, while the St. Paul brought twenty-six, four of whom were officers, eighteen pri- vates and four prisoners. The latter were all saflors from the cruiser Charlestonand are under sentence for desertion and drunkennéss. They are James Conlan, J. P. Hathaway, J. H. Savage and John Wetherby. They were removed to_the Harbor Police Station by Sergeant Bun- ner and later in the day were sent to the Mare Island prison on the Unadilla. The officers who came up on the St. Paul were Dr. F. W. Harrell of the vol- unteers and Major S. C. Kellog, Major F. J. Kernan and Dr. Louis L. Young of the regulars. ‘aptain Hays of the St. Paul says the stories of sickness at Manila are greatly exaggerated. The majority of those on the sick list are not very bad, and there are not any more of them than there was at the Presjdio when all the troops were there. “Even as it is, there would not he nearly so many of the boys sick,” said Captain Hays, “if they would only take cslnre"or themselves and regulate their diet. The following extracts are from a letter AEFETER "BEiR her port side through which the workmen can walk. COLLISION. J. D. Peters lies in twenty feet of water on the Belvedere shore, off Richardsons Bay, with her bows stove in. The Czarina lies at Howard-Street Wharf with a hole in aboard the vessel shortly before noon, but did not sail until some time after 4 o'clock. The City of Puebla will sail to- morrow. She is to carry Companies D, G, H, 1 and K of the First Tennessee Reg- iment, Troop A, Nevada Cavalry, a de- tachment of récruits for the Twenty- third Infantry and several hospital stew- ards with two actlng ~ assistant surgeons. It may be, owing to the| surplus of room on the City | of Puebla, that her assignment will be | increased by the addition of the Wyo-| ming Battery, which has only about ninety men, and is assigned to the New- port. The salling of the Newpert has been fixed for Tuesday. She will be the last transport sent to Manila. —_——————— A FOOLISH WOMAN. | Mrs. Emma Le&wd Quarrels With | Her Husband and Swal- | lows Strychnine. | Mrs. Emma Leonard, who lives in the | Soto House, 80 Fourth street, attempted | to commit suicide yesterday afternoon by | swallowing a dose of strychnine and now | she is sorry she did it. | “She had been on a visit to Sonora, and | returned Wednesday. Yesterday morning She and her husband, George Leonard, & Waiter in the Olympia, had a quarrel and She went to a drug store on Grant ave- nue and purchased elght ounces of strych- hine. She returned to her room and after chatting with her husband for a few mo- ments he turned to leave. Then he hap- | pened to look around and saw her put | the potgon fn her mouth, He grabbed the | bottle from her and summoned the am- bulance. At the Receiving Hospital Dr. Hartley { applled the usual remedies and she was pronounced out of danger. Leonard ac- | Companied her to the hospital, where she became very penitent. ——e——————— In the Divorce Courts. Catherine Stanquist was granted a di- vorce from Antone Stanculst yesterday on the ground of cruelty. Lilllan Burke has been granted a divorce from Daniel Burke on the ground of habitual intem- perance. Decrees of divorce on the ground of neglect have been granted Har- ry A. Odell from Mary L, Odell and Ce- cile Bourda from Peter Bourda. Louilse Lawton asks for a divorce from Augus- tus Lawton on the ground of failure to provide, Suits for divorce on the ground of crueity have been filed by Mary Bau- mann against Michael Baumann and by | Mary Frey against John F. Frey. Lillie Linden was granted a divorce from Au- gust J. Linden on the ground of infidelity. Charlotte Philliph has been granted a divorce from arry Philliph on the Bround of failure to provide. Judge unne has granted Harriet V. McGinnis 2 divorce from James S. McGinnis on the ground of crueity. Mary T. Savage was granted a divorce from Jeremiuh Savage on the ground of willful neglect. Suits for divorce have been filed Lulu M. Sailors against Charles H. Sailors for failure to provide; Lizzie C. Becht against George J. Becht for infidelity; Jesse No- land inst Edward F. Noland for cruel- ty, and Fred D. Everts against Carrie E. lsverts for desertion. —_——————— Launching of the Wisconsin. The people of Wisconsin are much inter- ested in the launching of the battle-ship Wisconsin, to take place here on Satur- day, November 26, and the State is now making active preparations to present the ship with an elaborate silver table serv- ice, The State Commissioners already have plans in detail for dispatching a battle-ship excursion train for the Golden Gate. The christening will be done by a Miss Stephenson. A train of Puliman pal- ace cars will leave Mariette and Milwau- kee on Saturday, November 19, and return on Sunday, December 4, muklnfiaan en- n | women got into a boat and were landed joyable excursion of sixtee ys. A Special rate of $22 covers expenses at an exeellent hotel in this city, admission to the launching, ete, and there is every in- dication that the excursion will be well patronized. The greatest problem of the church, discussed by leading local | divines, in next Sunday’s Call, .. day night. Both vessels are very badly damaged, and it will be at least a month before either of them will begin to look shipshape. The Peters still lles on the Belvedere shore of Richardson Bay. Her lower deck is submerged at high water, and in consequence nearly all her cargo is de- stroyed. Her entire stem is stove in, but otherwise she is, not much damaged. H. J. Corcoran, superintendent of the California Navigation and Improvement Company, came down from Stockton yes- terday, and at once went over to the wreck of the Peters. She is lying in about twenty feet of water, but there will be no difficulty in raising her by means of pon- toons. The chances are that she will be patched up where she is and then be towed to Stockton for an overhauling. Pilot McNeil was in charge of the Peters when the collision took place, it being Captain Hollisworth’s watch below. The purser, four of the crew and six at Angel Island. All the women were without hats, and one of them was in her night clothes, as she had undressed as soon as the steamer left the whart. One of the crew was cut by the falling jackstaff and his injurfes were dressed at the post hospital on-the island. Both men and women came over on _the McDowell on her first trip to San Francisco, and will start for Stockton again to-night on the Mary Garratt. One of the women left her hand satchel with all her money in_ it on the Peters, and when she got ashore from the McDowell had to borrow money with which to get home. The Czarina i8 now at Howard-street wharf with a hole in her port bow through which a coach and four could be driven. There is another hole below the water which ~would undoubtedly have sunk the collier had it not been for her water tight compartments. The big hole was plugged Up With a portion of the Peters' bow, and when it was removed the full extent of the Czarina's damage could be seen. An Investigation will be held by the in- spectors of hulls and boliers early next week and until that is concluded 1t will not be known for certain who wsa to ame for the collision, Both Capta Yo wortn " ana Pllot McNell of ” the Peters positively refuse to make a state- of the| written by Frank Nunan at Kotzebue Sound on September 16: Mr. Percival has come up from the Buckland River. He says he has located eleven clatms down there. He is on his way to San Fran- cisco by the schooner Laurel. He says he found coarse gold from the grass roots down, bu!( could not get to bedrock because of the water. The river steamer John Riley ran aground six miles above Squirrel River and the men who came down say they think her back is broken. The Arctfc Bird {s going up with sup- plies for her crew. Nothing has been found on the Nootak, Sclawack or Kubuck but flour gold in traces, but expect to hear good reports in the spring, as the country has not been prospected. There isn't one miner out of every ten men up here, and nearly all of them have cold feet. The schooners Mary Gilbert and W. 8. Phelps were sold by the United States Marshal at San Pedro yesterday for $4000 to W. J. Kerckhoff of s Angeles. Both vessels were fitted out here for a voyage to St. Michael. On the return trip they loaded coal at Puget Sound for San Pe- dro. On arriving at the latter place they were libeled by the crew for wages. The Gilbert brought $1850 and the Phelps $2150. The whaling bark John and Winthrop returned from the Arctic yesterday. She only brought in 285 barrels of ofl. The steamer Mariposa got away for Australia last night. She was crowded with passengers and freight. Among those who went away on her were the Nance O'Nefll company, Captain Thomas G. Taylor, Hermann Schussler and wife and 8. T. Alexander, wife and daughter. Slashed With a Knife. Alfred Smith, a sailor on the ship Pelous, swore to a complaint in Judge Conlan’s court yesterday for the arrest of Henry Wilson, a shipmate, on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. n Wednesday night the two were drinking in a saloon on Drumm street, when Wil- son attacked Smith with a jackknife and cut his cheek open. Wilson was arrested. —_———————— Friedlander Convicted. A. A. Friedlander, charged with embez- zlement, has been convicted in Judge Cook’s court. The prisoner was employed as a clerk by Washington Irwin, and on July 25 last embezzled $133 70 of his em- ployer’s mone: Ninety-five per cent of all cases of piles are positively cured by “Anakesis.” * PPOOPOPCPPIPP90P P00 0000000000060 060600 1 served as cellar man. He was at order and the Knights of Pythias. It 2000000000000 90 909000000 000000000090000090900000000060 BAY GIVES UP ANOTHER OF ITS DEAD HE dead body of Frank W. Oatman, at o for the San Trasiciace;ant- North' Bapio: abas ineas e found floating in the bay yesterday morning at the foot of Powell street. The discovery of the floating corpse was made by a young man named Ed Veale, who, with the assistance of I. Anthon and L. Hartman. his brother-in-law took his own life, and pawn tickets found in the cloth- ing of the deceased would seem to bear out this idea. Oatman was a native of Massachusetts and 50 years of age. 9999000000000 was towed the body ashore and noti- fled the Morgue. From papers found in his clothing the dead man was identified, and his brother-in-law, J. H. DeWitt, of the Breeder and Sportsman, was at once notified. Mr. DeWitt took charge of the body and will see to its burial, % Oatman at one time stood high in rafiroad circles, both here and 4n the East, but the love of hard liquor got the better of him and downed him. Prior to his con- nection with the North Pacific -people he had held positions of trust with the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy at Chicago and with the Union Pacific. His last employment in this city was with the Johnson Creamerie on Market street, where he one time a member of the Masonic is the opinion of Mr. DeWitt that 9900000000000 000000000000000060000000000 NEW TELEPHONE COMPANY ASKS FOR MORE TIME People’s Mutual and the Supervisors. THE DECISION DELAYED PUBLIC PRINTING BIDS ARE THROWN OUT. New Proposals for the City’s Werk to Be Sought From the Reputabte Newspapers of San Francisco. The Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors met y.sterday and considered an application made by the People’s Mu- tual Telephone Company asking for one year's extension of the terms under which their franchise was granted. The attor- ney for the company, who was present, stated that one provision of the agree- ment had not been fulfilled, viz., that the People’s Mutual was to expend $100,000 during the first twelve months following the acquirement of its franchise. He ex- | plained that the franchise had been con- tested in the courts, and for that reason the company had delayed making invest- ments of money in a plant, etc. Now that there was no longer a legal question as | to the rights of the Mutual to operate in | the city the company stood ready and willing to invest the $100,000 as contemplat- ed when the franchise was granted, pro- vided that an additional twelve months were granted for that purpose. Herman Laguna, who has in the past persistently fought the Mutual Company, was present, and at once made objectious. He declared that the telephone people had not lived up to the terms of their agree- ment with the city and that they were | not entitled to a further extension of | \Ime. Laguna’s peculfar interest in thwart- ing the plans of the new company have for some time subjected him to the sus- picion of being in the employ of rival in- terests, and _the question was put to him after he had finished his speech i sl!wer ay as to whom he represented. My deigned to give. The committee, after hearing all of the | pleas for and against the extension of | time, decided to take the matter under consideration for one week. | The Printing Committee of the Super- visors also held a meeting yesterday mornlng. and decided to reject all three | of the ids which had been made for the public printing for the next two years. These_bids came from the Evening Re- | port, Evening Post and Daily Journal of ‘ommerce. Each of the papers offered to do the city’s printing for nothing and the Journal of Commerce, in addition, made a bonus offer of $500. Supervisor Britt, in discussing the matter, said: ‘“We don’t quite understand these 'bids. There IS a remarkable amount of pulling and haul- ing going on to secure the printing. T never saw more leg-pulling over any mat- ter since I have been a Supervisor. There must be some ‘graft’ in fhe contract, or these people would not be flEhllng so hard. The committee will look into the matter thoroughly before any final action | is taken.” | The action of the Printing Committee in | rejecting the three bids was supplemented | by an order directing the clerk to readver- | tise for proposals for the public printing in accordance with the provisions of the plank in the Non-Partisan platform in re- gard to the award of the printing. Asthma, bronchitis, catarrh cureguarant’d. Dr. Gordin, Sanitarium, 514 Pine, nr. Kearny, S.F. Cal. —_—————————— PROGRESSIVE SUNSET VALLEY. Electric Lights at Last Placed in Po- sition South of the Park. The section south of Golden Gate Park | has at last been provided with eleven | electric lamps, distributed at such places as are most thickly inhabited. This is a boon the residents are very grateful for from the fact that heretofore it was nec- essary to have a lantern at night te guide persons on their way. In addition to this there are other permanent improvements continually going on throughout the en- tire sectfon. The contemplated improve- ments on I street have received a temém- rary setback by the decision of Judge Seawell in the protest of the Sutro heirs against improvements on that street. Nineteenth avenue is recsi'l‘lng some at- tention now at the hands of the graders. Promises have been received from the Board of Supervisors to use a portion of the street funds for the purpose of ex- tending the main intercepting sewer from Fourteenth avenue to H street. Through the similarity of the names of streets (alrb&betlcnll)’) and the avenues (numerical y;l considerable complaint has been made that mail matter intended for one or the other of the sections is as often miscarried as not. To avoid this the secretary of the improvement club was instructed to address a letter to the Postmaster to have the word ‘‘south” prefixed in future. THE PRIEST AND THE POLITIGIAN By ALICE RIX In Next Sunday’s Gall. The L. C. C. Entertainment. Metropolitan Temple was well filled last evening, the occasion being a grand musi- cal and literary entertainment given by Company H of the League of the Cross Cadets, to assist in raising a fund for the erection of an armory. The pro- gramme included a sentimental solo—an Irish song—by James Donohue (who for animperative recall gave & humorous coon gong); a cornet duet, Messrs. Cadigan and Murray; contralto solo, Miss Tessie Needham; vocal selections, Messrs. Kelly, Marlow and Hansen; banjo selection: Messrs. E. W. Piguet and G. F. Hahn; vocal solo, Mrs. Ed W. Burns; specialties, John Cathcart, and the presentation, by steregpticon, of numerous views of Cuba, the Philippines, United States warships, etc. The many engagements of Mayor Phelan preventing him from being pres- ent, the handsome trophy—a marble clock—donated by him, and won by Com- pany H at the September fleld day, was presented by Attorney Waiter . Dorn, and accepted by Captain James E. Powers of the victorious company. A medal was also presented to Thomas F. Phelan for the greatest number of tickets sold. The entertainment netted the armory fund about $500. —_— e The Australian Ballot. The supreme virtue of the Australian ballot will receive one of its best illus- trations in the candidacy of Capain Freese for Public Administrator. If Freese should win it will demonstrate most forcibly that the boss is no longer necessary in politics. A popular man can go straight to the voters. The peo- ple seem to be with Freese. —_————————— Dr. Nieto’s Lecture. This evening Dr. J. Nieto will lecture in the synagogue Sherith Israel, corner Post and Taylor streets, at 8 o'clock. Subject, “The Influence of Education Upon Religion.” —_— e Smith’s Dandruff Pomade Cures eczema, itching scalp, dandruff and falling hair. Guaranteed to give satisfac- tion or money refunded. At all drug _lema cen: :Cd.-mpl.. sent free ::y stores; price, . was the only answer that he | =AY Marx of Chicago. Headquarters for boys’ clothes Watch for the animals.a~ d pri-es Elephants are the largest land animals now exist- ing. The weight of a large elephant is about five tons. They are more sure-footed than either horses or mules. Elephants’ lives sometimes extend to nearly 200 years. <2k Boys’ suits marlmen to bring you here. Special sale to-day, Saturday and Monday. A Boys' suit blue cheviot, all wool. coat pants made to our order heavy for winter short especially strong square cut not lined of good, serviceable double breasted side pockets cheviot to sell at $5 three buttons hip pocket wort'h it farmers' satin lining for waist won't fade three pockets outside or suspenders ought not tear two pockets inside double knes look well for boys 9 to 16 years double seat feel warm same suits reefer style sailor collar braided not double knee for boys 6 to 10 years $3.79 For men we have the fashionable clothes of Brokaw Bros and Rogers Peet & Co of New York as well as those made by Hart Schaffner and The latter are now advertised in the magazines. O0OS BROS 25-27-29-31-33-35-37 Kearny Cor. Post. NEWS OF THE ACTOR WORLD The Blanche Bates-Frawley company performance of “A Doll's House” at the Baldwin this afternoon at 3 o'clock promises to be the event of the season. Of all the Ibsen plays, this one has been the most frequently presented. It deals with fewer philosophical complexities, and portrays home life without the ultra-mor- bidness of “Ghosts” or “Hedda Gabler.” The story is simple. Nora Helmer, ‘who from her earliest childhood has been petted and indulged, is married to a grave man of business, Torvald Helmer. She has never been allowed to know of or share in her husband’s anxieties. His health breaks down, and a continental trip is advised by the doctors. Nora, act- ing under the best of impulses, and know- ing Torvald's strong objections to incur- ring debts, secretly borrows money to pay the expenses of the journey. As se- curity is demanded, she forges her father’s name to the note, her education having failed to teach her the gravity of her act. Torvaid regains his health and is promoted to a position of trust in the bank, and among his first acts in his ot- ficlal capacity dismisses a clerk by the name of Krogstad. It is this Krogstad who has loaned the money to Nora, and | now, to hold his position, he threatens tDI expose her. Through the agency of friend of hers, a Mrs. Linden, and| through her own efforts, Nora manages to put off the evil day. The exposure comes, however, and with it indignation and rage from Helmer, who thinks only of what the world will say. Krogstad is influenced, however, to write to say that he will not make the exposure public. it is at this moment of Torvald's relief | that Ibsen asserts his style; for Nora, in- stead of accepting Torvald's protestations of forgiveness now that reputations are safe, declares her intention of leaving him. She has expected ‘“the miracle of miracles”—that Torvald would take her own guilt upon himself. His fear of the world's criticisms, and the fact that he has thought of the world, and not of her, convinces her that though married in law they are not man and wife in spirit. Meantime the regular Frawley season is coming to an end. “The Transit of Leo” will play up to Sunday night, when the farewell will be celebrated in a re- quest_repetition of “An Enemy to the King.” The regular Baldwin season | commences Monday with ‘“‘Mistakes Will Happen,” a plece by Grant Stewart, who describes it as a “farcical study.” At the Comedy last night “A Scra Paper” gave way to “The Crust of Soci- ety,” an adaptation of Dumas’ “The Démimonde,” which has been seen here before. Edward Bell and the Hendqn;ls_%n “The of Company contributed to the cast. Crust of Soclety”” will be the bill for the rest of the week. “The Heart of Chi- cago,” a turbulent melodrama, follows. The popular hit of the week is “‘Hogan's Alley,” which continues to crowd the Call},nrnia at every performance. Mur- ray and Mack, Irish comedians, follow Sunday in “Finnigan's Ball.” “Sowing the Wind" has only the week to run at the Columbia. Kellar, the ma- gician, comes Monday. William Armstrong, the eminent music critic, will lecture on American compos- ers at the Columbia Theater next Thurs- day afternoon. Fritz Scheel and a sym- hony orchestra will furnish the muslcal lustrations. A benefit will be given Frank Mathieu of the Frawley company next Wednes- day evening in the Native Sons’ Hall. ““Ambition” drawing well at the Alca- zar. “Dr. Bill"” follow Morrison’s melodrama, “The Indian,” is making out a good week at Morosco’s. At the Tivoli “The Grand Duchess” fin- ishes with the Sunday night performance. The new week will be devoted to revivals le “Girofle-Girofla” and ‘“The Circus ueen.” heum is attracting the usual th an excellent vaudeville bill. Orpheum Symphonies. The Orpheum will house the Symphony Soclety’s new series of concerts, which | commences November 17. 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