The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1899, Page 14

14 WEBSTER SLIPS A JOKER PAST THE DIRECTORS Secret of the Plot by Which'the Commercial Departments of the Mission High School Were Abolished. ADVERTISEMENTS. Ryl CUSSUUS UEUTTT SECURG EEEEESEEEEEENNEEEENNENSENEEENENER Hale's open at eight: close every night at 6, Saturdays included. see Sunday's papers—different advertisements appear in the Call, Examiner and Bulletin. all these sales start directly our doors open, and the goods remain on sale u_n!xl sold clean out: first come, first choice. these garments are in our window here’s the price: part of the final clecan-up in our cloak dept.: the buyer is now in New York: spring stock is being prepared for: room cuts a very essential figurc: Members of the Board of Education Will Do All in Their Power to Reconsider the Vote of Abolition — Stow’s Part in the Scheme—Indig- nant Citizens. Public s irs are engrossing general attentign. The department is nec- | essarily in a state of confusion and = remain so until the work of consoli- dation by the Board of Education is fin- | ished. When the list of teachers who | have been removed or suspended has | been published and the host of vice principals have been degraded, - the de- | partment will in be in an orderly con- dition. Protests will then be taken to the courts, and the dismissed teachers will ve comp to fight their way legally back into the schools. There is now absolutely no question tuat the revolutionary measures of the board | are prompted in some instances by petty politics and in others for the advantage | of certain favorites who have, for the time, the ear of those in power. Certain members of the board accuse Superintend- ent of Schools Webster of subserving private, selfish schemes under the mask of proposing public reforms. The scheme Webster, Stow and Bush to juggle of M ha n exposed. The Superin- tende sociates fortunately did not succeed in this affair and exposure has made any further effort futile. The Superintendent, Director Vandeér- Iyn Stow and Principal Walter N. Bush are now accused, however, of having gineered to success another job at meeting last Wednesday night. ation is made b, d, and inter ve expected. 8. W. McPherson out of her position be b: already the This ac- several members of sting developments The job to which ref- nce is made was the abolition of the iness and commercial departments of on High School. It is claimed resolution abolishing these de- neaked through the board under unquestionably itations. If it is possible to matter, which is agitating the | e Mission, will be reconsidered | g of the board next Monday | affair is timely and | ic importance. The direction of the of special departments—High | hools and Normal Schools—is left to the | committee on secondary education. The abolition of the Norm chool, the modi- fication of th of study in the Mis- on High School and the dismissal of clal teachers, indicate sufficiently the . al Committee on Vanderlyn Stow is e. For some 4 ned Director ated his power Committee on Secondary Edu- ntendent Webster. rd of Education met last night Director Stow had no ation. ‘Wedne: report of the Committee on Secondary Education to submit. As a matter of fact Director Stow had not taken the trouble to call a meeting of that committee, which should e thoroughly discussed | the revolutic changes_ proposed for the Mission F School. Superintendent Webster placed in his report, however, a resolution of most pecullar and signifi- cant wording. This resolution provided that the Mission High School shall have the sam. e of study as the Lowell High School Nothing was said directly about the ex- istence of th departments of nd it was not The joker of e Superintendent tly innocent words. d for the resolutio sion and they -wish he Mission High ary to say anythi under a 2 e now to reconsider their action. They be- lleved the standard of the schools was to be made identical and that noth- ing else was intended. ly indignant and will, if pr the evil accomplished by the Superintend- ent’s resolution. “irector E. L. Head is one of the Di- rectors who declare that they voted for the resolution under the false impression ed by the Superintendent. *I never would have voted for the resolution,” sald Director Head yesterday, “if I had known its true import. 1 did not know that we Were legislating the commercial depart- . Mission High School out of t and were depll\'lx;‘g a class over 100 students of the right to in- z!truu(i(m. I was explicitly told that the resolution was intended simply to make the course of study in the Lowell High School and the Mission High School uni- form. 1 am heartily in favor now of re- considering the resolution.” It is perhaps interesting to know in con- nection with this affair of which the Di- rector speaks that Walter N. Bush, a cousin of Superintendent Webster, is prin- cipal of the Polytechnic High School. The abolition of the commercial department of the Mission High School would mean the strengthening of the FPolytechnic School. A great deal of interest was caused yes- terday by the announcements that the gpecial department of physical culture had been abolished in the schools. This is a mistake, caused in the confusion of the board’s action on Wednesday night. Physical culture will be retainéd in the department under the direction of the present instructors. The department Is considered to be one of the most essential in_the public schools Teachers whose great shuffle of pupils whose tea asses were lost in the t Wednesday night and hers have passed from the payrolls are waiting in the ante-room of the School Superintendent. Heading the line of complainants is Principal ©'Connor of the Mission High School, who nds hims without his commercial class, numbering about eighty pupils. O'Connor alleges that this measure is the result of the Superintendent’s partiality toward Principal Bush of the Polytechnic * High School, which will probably catch the Mission institution’s late commercial department. Bush has always been jeal- ous of the ‘Mission High School, says O'Connor, and wants to deplete its enroll- ment. Superintendent Webster Is a rela- tive of Bush, and blood is thicker than the board’'s economical policy, continues the jrate O’Connor. Mr. Webster, when asked for informa- tion on the subject, stated that he did not wish to discuss the Mission School prin- cipal or his complaint. He, however, stat- ed that those classes were abolished be- . cause of the desire of the board to con- dense in some measure the business por- tion of the School Department. The classes have become scattered all over the city, sald the Superintendent. This is a part of the scheme to get some regularity into the educational department of the city. o "}.\'ntwflhslmdlng Mr. O'Connor’s pub- lications I have the best of feeling for the Mission High School, and I want to see it side by side in academic equality with the Lowell School. Therefore the book- keeping and the commercial law classes were eliminated. The Board of Educa- tion wishes that school to be what it should be, to wit, an academy, and that is all there is to the story. ofessor L. A, Jordan, the head of the science depart- ment of the Polytechnio, was granted | Phelan bullding, three months' leave of absence from that institution and will act as a deputy in this office during the rush of work in rev- olutionizing the School Department. He was chosen because of his fitness for this work. Only because of that and nothing more."” The legality of the diplomas of the pres- ent normal class is another irritating question. The opinion has been advanced that after this month the city normal will be a private school, supported by the pri- vate contributious of the pupils.” Will the diplomas of the graduates be %ccepted by the City School Department as teach- | | ers’ certificates? If the two normal teach- | ers are employed by the pupils of that school between the ‘dates of February 1 and June 30, 1809, will they lose their | standing as paid teachers of the depart- ment? is another vexing query. However, Miss Fowler and Mrs. Fitzgerald may ob- tain a five months’ leave of absence with- out pay and teach in their old positions. The stenographic class of the Business Evening School on Bush street, near Stockton, are up in _arms protesting against the proposed dismissal of their teacher, H. A. Byrnes. his instruction they have made rapid ad- vancement, The proposition to_put an- other teacher, Miss O'Mally, in his place of the class will visit Superintendent Web- ster with their protest to-day. It was stated in the report of the Wed- nesday night meeting that the board had withdrawn its appeal in the Kirkpatrick case. Such is not the case, as the ques- tion was argued in the committee meeting of the board and it was decided to let the case go ahead. It has been decided that three High School ¢ es will be abolished. One of these will be closed in the boys” and two in the girls’ school. There is one teacher on record who does not complain. This philosophical educator is M. Doyle, draw- ing teacher of the Lincoin School. He says it is all right, even if he does lose his position, and believes in the greatest 800d for the greatest number. Director Armstrong of the Building and Grounds Committee, has submitted a 30- page report on the di school- houses in the city. He and yards are in a Roofs are leaking, walls are shedding | S 1 plaster and the plumbing is unhealthy, He states that it {s imperative on the part of the board to have repairs made on the school property, that it may fitted for occupancy. After being deprived of their salaries for three months, the teachers in the public schools have become desperate, and yesterday their attorneys, arber, Creswell & Garber and Olney & Olney, went before Judge Seawell "and asked that the court modify the injunction here- tofore igsued at the instance of Oscar Moses, on behalf of the merchants and other creditors of the School Depart- ment, and allow them to draw their salaries for the month of January. They did not ask that the salaries due them for the months of November and De- cember be paid, but nevertheless the peti- tion to modify the injunction met with opposition at the hands of Attorneys Powers, Cushing and Robeson, who are retained by the merchants and other creditors to prosecute their claims. On behalf of the teachers it was claimed that the teachers’ demands are preferred claims, and that they were suffering great injury by reason of the injunction. It was contended on behalf of the mer- chants, however, that there is still in the treasury to the credit of the School De- partment, the contention being supported be y affidavit, the sum of $248,717 67, which is not even sufficient to pay the demands of the teachers, and aver that in the event this amount is paid out the law will prevent them from recovering after another appropriation has been made, as all obligations arising out of contracts must be paid out of the funds of the fiscal year in which the, contracts were entered into. The contehtion that the teachers stand in the light of preferred creditors is resisted by the merchants’ attorneys, and they quote from a recent decision: ‘“‘Salaries are not liabilities against the treasury which rest upon any authoriza- tion or contract by the Board of Super- visors or any other officer. They are fixed by law, and are not subject to the control of such officers. They are payable out of the general fund, and are not limited to any {;arllr‘ulnr part of that fund which the board may choose to set apart for their payment. The argument on the various intricate questions of law arising occupied the en- tire day, and the case was then sub- mitted.” A decision will be handed down in a few days. A mass-meeting under the auspices of the Mission High_School Society was held last evering in Native Sons’ Hall. Seven- teenth and Valencia streets, for the pur- pose_of protesting against the action of the Board of Education in closing the commercial ‘clasges in that school. * Dr. C. A. Clinton presided over the gathering. which was composed of many of the most prominent citizens of the Mission district. A resolution was adopted asking the board to reconsider its action in the mat- ter of the abolition of the business depart- ment of the High .School and that a com- mittee from the society be granted a hear- ing at the next meeting of the board, 1V\'hi(:l’z will take place next Monday even- ng. Notice was given by Dr. C. A. Clinton that the executive committee of the Mis- slon High School Society would meet in Native Scns’ Hall this afternoon at 2 o’clock, and also at 822 Guerrero street in the evening. The committee will attend U’\ehBoard of Education meeting Monday night. There Was No Foul Play. Coroner Hill yesterday examined into the case of Mrs. E. J. Tyrrell, who died at her home, 528% Alabama street, last Wednesday. Mrs. Tyrrell had been alling for a long while. Wednesday she acci- dentally fell downstairs and sustained a contusion of the head. Dr. Born was called in and found her suffering from pneumonia. She died a few hours later, and he signed a certificate to the effect that death was due to pneumonia. Yes- terday Coroner Hill received a letter from Minnie McDermott, a cousin of the de- ceased, who claimed that Mrs. Tyrrell never 'had pneumonia and she thought the case should be investigated. The Cor- oner and Dr. Zabala accordingly per- formed an autopsy yvesterday and found that the groman had been suffering from pneumonfa in both lungs. ! —_—— ‘The Hardtmuth pencil is the best in world. Try the Koh-I-Noor. —————— ‘Would Not Grant Boxing Permits The applications of various athletic clubs for boxing permits went over for one week at the Supervisors’ meeting yesterday. The clubs petitioning were the Palace, which has the match Ee(weon Frank Erne ‘and Dal Hawkins, and the Excelslor, Occldental and Alpine. The National Club has a permit for February. e the . Dr. D'Bvelyn, returned from the East. Office, 3 » They claim that | he s a ‘practical stenographer, and under | has stirred them up and they threaten to4 | leave the school in a body. A committee | SEEN FROM THE LIGHTSHIP. Thursday night on the the ocean was perfect. The sea was like glass and there was hardly a motion to | the guardian of the bar. The Scandia was speeding on her way to Manila, the ship Two Brothers with a load of coal from Departure Bay was taking every advantage of the light wind, a number of coasters had barely steer- age way, while over all sailed a glorious moon. The Scandia is now well on her way to Honolulu, the coasters made port during the day and the Two Brothers got in Friday evening, but those who saw the picture made up of those vessels will never forget it. HAS THE NEW CHARTER GONE - INTO EFFECT? Tax Collector Asks the Question. RAISES A FINE LEGAL POINT CLAUSE IN THE CONSTITUTION BEARING ON THE CASE. | Mayor Phelan Affirms That the Char- | ter, Approved by the Legisla- ture, Fixes the Date on January 1 Next. Has the new charter already gone into effect? This startling question was raised by Tax Collector Sheehan yesterday at a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors. The subjoined let- | ter started the discussion, the outcome of which means so much to the persons hold- ing office under the present administra- | tion. The letter reads: | Office of Edward I. Sheehan, City and | County Tax_Collector. | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 189. | To the Honorable the Board of Supervi- sors—Gentlemen: Owing to the insufficlent appropriation made by the late Board of Supervisors for the maintenance of the Tax Collector's office, I am obliged to peti- tion your honorable body for a special ap- proprlation, amounting to $12,000. I also ask for an appropriation sufficient to conduct the affairs of my office in conformity with the new charter, as I am advised by my attorney that said charter took effect upon its approval by both branches of the Leg- islature. See State constitution, section 8, article XI. Yours respectfully, EDWARD 1. SHEEHAN, Tax Collector. The constitutional enactment, upon which the Tax Collector bases his claim that the charter is already in force, is: Any city containing a population of mors than three thousand five hundred inhabi- tants may form a charter for its own gov- ernment, consistent with and subject to the constitution and laws of this State, by causing a board of fifteen freeholders, who shall have been for at least five years quali- fied electors thereof, to be elected by the quallified voters of sald city at any general or special election, whose duty it shall be within ninety days after such election to prepare and propose a charter for such city, * * @ "It shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said city at a gen- eral or special election, and If a majority of such qualified electors voting thereat shall.ratify the same, it shall thereafter be submitted to the Legislature for its ap- proval or rejection as a whole, without power of alteration or amendment. Such approval may be made by concurrent resolution, and if approved by a majority vote of the members elected to each house, IT SHALL BECOME THE CHARTER OF SUCH CITY, or if such city be consolidated with a county, then of such city and county, and shall become the organic law thereof, and all laws inconsistent with such charter are thereby repealed. Mayor Phelan said, when_asked for his interpretation of the mattef: “The char- ter approved by the Legislature was the charter of the Freeholders. It expressly states that it goes into effect on January 1 next. The Legislature by approving the charter submitted to it fixed the date. Any contention otherwise will not hold.” The clause in the charter fixing the date reads . in.part as follows: . * ® e 4 the Legislature shall ap- prove the same it shall take effect and be in force, except as herelnafter otherwise pro- vided, on.and after the hour of moon on the first of - January, .in. - the * year | 1900, and ~ shall théreupon ~ be- come “the charter and organic _law of the city and county ofSan Fran- | Town Talk of this city, and editor and clsco, and shall' supersede the existing charter of said city and county and all amendments thereof and all laws inconsist- ent with this charter * ¢ ¢ The Finance Committee referred the matter to the City and County Attorney for an opinion as to the date upon which the charter takes effect and its provisions 80 into operation. S. B. CARLETON IS SUMMONED Death Claims the Founder of Town Talk. 8. B. Carleton, editor and proprietor of manager of the official organ of the | Knights and Ladies of Honor, the Chroni- | cle (Sentinel) of Indianapolls, died in | San Jose last night. Mr. Carleton re- | turned from the East a few months ago, seriously ill. He had been in San Jose for some weeks, hoping to regain his health, but his disease was too far seated for him to obtain more than temporary relief h)" the change. 5 Mr. Cdrleton was born in Cumberland, S. B. Carleton. Md., and was of revolutionary ancestry. In 1867 he joined the staff of the Denver | Gazette. Later on he became one of the Cheyenne Star staff, and still later joined the “only Gentile newspaper at Salt Lake. From Utah Mr. Carleton came to Califor- nia, settling for a_ while in Sacramento and remaining in the field of journalism. He went to Brazll in 1870; also took a fiying trip to Cape Town, Africa. In 1872 Mr. Carleton returned here, en- gaging in various newspaper_enterprises until the establishment of Town Talk, about seven years ago. Mr. Carleton was a _member of San Francisco Lodge No. 3, B. P. O. E.; Doric Lodge No. 216, F. and _A. M.; Damon Lodge No. 2, K. of P.; West End Lodge No. 1102, K. of H.,, and Grand Lodge, American Foresters, besides being a member of the Supreme Lodge, K. Ig, of H. He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Woodward of Oroville, and two brothers in St. Louis and another brother in Texas. —_——e——— Bishop Moreland. The Century Club, the Lord Bishop of Columbia, Baron von Bolveren, Lan- sing Mizner, in Looker On; J. W.Daniell, Supervisor Perrault and many others appear in to-day's News Letter. The Board-of Education is commended for its good ‘work; a ridiculous Supreme Court decision and the Senatorial fight: weddings, criticisms, sparks, stories and book-reviews make a fine magazine for' Saturdays and Sundays. Ten cents at all news stands. OWNERS CANNOT J rent of the premises-in di: creased to $25. ° ; } erty. § % s § ; WOM#'WOWWM?I TO FORCE A TENANT TO MOVE USTICE GROEZINGER decided a case yesterday which isdestined to at- tract widespread attention' among property owners, real.estate agents and rent collectors. It is in effect that an owner cannot increase the rent of a piece of property to an exorbitant’ amount ‘merely to terminate . a tenancy and obtain possession of the property. He must resort to the legal remedy, which is that one month's notice- must be given the tenant. does not prevent ‘a landlord from increasing’a tenant's rent where he is en- titled to a larger return on the money he has invested.” The decision was ren- dered in the case of Ellen Connolly ‘against-Lily ~Waterbury.. ~The -original spute at 724 Laguna - street was $10 and was - in- The agent for the landlord testifled that the only reason for increasing the rent was for the purpose of obtaining possession. decided that the notice was not made In good faith. He held that If a landlord wants to terminate a tenant’'s lease for the purpose of obtaining possession he must give one month’s notice prior. to the beginning of the new: month, and not resort to the subterfuge of crowding out'a‘tenant by a fifteen days’ notice, increasing his rent to an outrageous sum. A In the past it has been the general custom of rent collectors and landlords, in order to obtain possession of property, to Increase the rent to a prohibi- tive sum, thereby frightening the tenant into surrendering or suffer-a judg- ment for treble the amount of the exorbitant holds that the spirit and intention of the law-makers in authorizing a land- lord to change a monthly lease by increasing rent was not for the purpose of effecting a termination of a tenancy,. thereby securing possession of the property, ‘but merely for the purpose of changing the terms of a-lease good faith where the return is inadequate to the rental value of ’ RAISE RENT This Justice Groezinger rent. Justice Groezinger in the prop- HEyO+ 040404 04+04+04+040+040454 0404004+ 04040404 | with them.” SHIPWRIGHTS AT OUTS WITH SHIPBUILDERS Having Trouble With Hay & Wright. ALL A QUESTION OF WAGES “AN ADDRESS TO SHIPOWNERS” OUT ON THE SUBJECT. Reward of $50 Each Offered for the Bodies of William Seabury and E. J. Finn, the Missing Duck Hunters. The Journeymen Shipwrights’ Associa- tion and the shipbuilding firm of Hay & Wright are at outs. The trouble has been brewing for a long time, but the fat is now in the fire and the shipwrights are going to fight the firm to the bitter end. It is all @ question of wages—of course, the matter of union and non-union men comes in, but the wage proposition is the principal stumbling block. The ship- wrights charge that Hay & Wright pose as a union shop, but pay “scab” wages. in “An address to ship owners” they state that members of their own union swore that they got $5 a day from the firm, when for over a year, their pay was only $3 and $4 a day. ‘““And,” says the ship- wrights in their address, “all the time that this state of affairs existed the ship- wright firm of Hay & Wright was run under false pretenses as a union yard, run under union principles, by union men at union wages.” After citing a number of instances bear- ing on the firm's methods of dealing with the men, the shipwrights close their “‘ad- dress to ship owners” as follows: Now, gentlemen, the Shipwrights' Association of San Francisco {s one of the oldest landmarks on the city front. It has been in existence for over forty years, and with two exceptions every boss shipwright in San Francisco and very many on the coast graduated from its ranks, including Messrs. Hay and Wright, who were ‘among its most steadfast and etanchest members for years and the greatest advocates of its principles, rules and wages. Mr. Wright was a member for close to thirty years, and during all that time he never missed an oppor- tunity of advocating the maintenance of the highest standard of wages. When our associa- tion adopted a standard it thought was fair and honest—and that standard is maintained to the present day—Mr. Wright was not sat- isfled. He took advantage of every opportunity offered and demanded more pay, more than the established rules that our association called for, and got more pay In many cases. A few weeks ago the few shipwrights that were decoyed out of our assoclation told him that they were disgusted with the way he was destroying their trade, and If he did not change his methods they would come back into the union. Mr. Wright fold the men that he had been working with almost all his life—the men to whom he had been holding up the great ad- vantages of the association, its rules and its wages—the men whose trade he 1s now seeking to destroy, depriving.them of their only means of making a living—he told those men that if they went back Into the association he would 80 deeper into the valley and get more tramps. The members of our associatipn are well known to the ship owners of San Francisco as a_sober, industrious, hard-working class of first-class mechanics and respectable citizens, and many of them are the personal friends and assoclates of captains and owners of ves- sels and have been for years, and quite a number of our members in years gone by, when ‘the work at our trade was good and they were able to save some money, without the slightest hesitation, bought interests in the veisels of - the ship owners of San Franclsco and are assoclated with them in business at the present time; but of late vears the work at our trade has been very dull, and -a large majority of our members would consider.them.- eclves Very fortunate if they could makehalf time all the year around: and when consider- ing that they are compeiled to have, at all times, about $200 worth of tools, which' we are constantly losing, breaking, and, we are sorry to say, fn many cases they are stolen from us— when 'you come to consider those things you will readily see that it requires the greatest economy on the part of our members to be able to support thelr familles. ‘With this address the shipwrights are going to every ship owner in San Fran- cisco to try to persuade them to give their work to any other firm but Hay & ‘Wright. Alexander Hay, senior member of the shipbuilding firm, is not bothering his head very much about the address. ‘“The shipwrights think they know.as much about our business as we do ourselves,’” said he. “In fact they-think they could run the yard and marine ways better than we can. Now, I think we know our own business best and we are running it to suit our interests and the interests of our-patrons. That is all there is to the matter.” | _ Morton’s Special Delivery men had a clash, with the customs authorities yes- terday morning. At one time the Pacific Transfer Company had the exclusive right by an arrangement with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company to handle bae- gage on the Broadway wharves. ‘h Arrangement was knocked out by the ‘courts, and now all_transfer men go and come at pleasure. The Pacific men held on to one privilege, however. They were allowed to follow their calling In the corral set apart for the customs in- spectors to_examine bags:se. Yesterday when_the Umatilla arrive from Puget Sound, Morton ordered his men inside of the roped space. They were ordered out by the .inspector in charge, but . Morton said *‘No; they stay there unless the Pa- cific Fransfer men come out also. The Surveyor of the Port told me there was to be no favoritism, so if you allow those fellows to remain my men will stay right ‘There was a wordy-warfare [y ‘ up: jackets jackets. a lot of jackets (as shown in window to sell at $18.00, $15.00 and $12.50 call in and look them over. - 7 dozen walking hats and sail few of a kind: end-of-the-season remains of big lots: sizes broken tans: formerly sold at $12.50, $10.00 and $7.50 : it all depends upon having your size among them. below the average bust measurement: you will do well to also—11 dozen children’s tam o’ shanters (see window). .. San Francisco’s greatest mail-order house, 937, 939, 941, 943, 945, 947 Market street. EENEEEENNESEEENENOENN NN ENEENENE in blacks, browns and $3.85 . display) which used : if you're above or 0.75 15¢ e 2BC ors on sale, . ... ., for a_few minutes, and at one time it looked as if there would be a fight, but Morton won his point and his men re- mained in the corral. Bix vessels from or to American ports are overdue, and the following rates of reinsurance ' are being paid on them: Lindley, 191 days from New York _for Java, %0 per cent; Celtic Bard, 123 days from Hongkong for Victoria, B. C., 90 per cent; Prince Edward, 192 days from Phila- delphia_for Honolulu, 75 per cent; May Flint, 166 days from Hiogo for New York, 20 per cent; Columbus, 156 days from Java for Philadelphia, 45 per cent, and the steamer Almida, 38 days from Hamburg for New York, 75_per cent. The Almida left Hamburg on December 15 and passed Dunnet Head, on_the north of Scotland, six days later. She has not been heard from since. She is a tramp steamer of 1542 tons burden, and was in command of Captain McGregor. A reward of each is offered for the bodies of William Seabury and Edward J. Finn, the two boys lost while out duck hunting a week ago. The steamer Centennial arrived from Puget Sound yesterday. She has been chartered as a transport by the Govern- ment and_will take a load of supplies to Manila. She will go out in company with the Ohio and Senator. MRS. STANFORD AND THE CENTRAL PACIFIC A RUMOR REVIVED THAT SHE | She Left Last Evening for New York. Her Arrival Awaited With Interest. Railroad people and stock speculators are on the anxious seat regarding the Central Pacific. The departure of Vice President Crocker for the East, followed by the announcement yesterday that Mrs. Leland Stanford would leave last even- ing for New York, revived the rumor the Stanford block of Central Pacific stock was to be unloaded at once. The sudden and mysterious rise in Central Pacific, which increased Mrs. Stanford’s fortune by several figures, has been a constant topic for discussion and prophecy among railroad men for several weeks. Before Vice President Crocker departed he held a.long conference with Mrs. Stan- ford, and as their interests are closely allied, it is expected something mo- mentous, will happen when they reach New York. Mrs. Stanford’s energies are, as is well known, all devoted to per- petuating Stanford University, and she is endeavoring to so arrange the property which is to go to the institution that the trustees will have comparatively little trouble in managing it. Instead of leav- ing an immense fortune in unstable and fluctuating railroad stocks, the income from which would always be uncertain, it is her evident intention to convert the stocks into cash or gilt-edged interest- bearing_bonds. For these reasons it is now belleved she will dispose of her en- tire holdings in Central Pacific. Mrs. , Stanford left for tne East last evening. Her friends knew of her de- parture, but she did not disclose the pur- hose of her trip nor how long she would e gone. ————————————— SLOAN AND COLEMAN AGAIN. The Noted Turfman Will Shoot a Match Race of 100 Birds at Ingleside. The “only” Tcd Sloan and Bookmaker Coleman will meet again at the traps on Sunday morning. Coleman was defeated by Sloan in their last contest by one bird, and since then he has been badgering the crack jockey for a return metch, with the result that Sloan’s kindness of heart asserted itseif and he consented on Friday last to give his unsuccessful competitor another chance to redeem himselLJ > A st evening Tod and Johnny met af ll\léarooms of gthe Olympic Gun Club and deposited with Secretary Scovern the sum of $250 a side, subject to the following conditions, viz.: The race to take place at the Olympic Gun Club’s trap shooting grounds near Ingleside on Sunday morn- ing at 10 o’clock; Hurlingham _rules to govern. Each man to shoot at 100 live birds (blue rocks), and the one who gcores the greater number of kills to be declared the champion trap shooter of the turf and the winner of the coin at stake. Stanley Scovern has been selected trapper and official scorer. Betting on the contest has commenced. The racing friends of both men are looking forward to a forenoon of great sport. Coleman is a slight favorite in the betting, from the fact that he is considered a great stayer and a_very cool performer. Still, Sloan is confident of winning, and he will have several admirers on the grounds who will back him liberally, against the book- maker. Tod will use a beautiful twelve-gauge gun, which is a present from the Prince of/ Wales. He says that it will be im- possible for him to miss a bird with the royal weapon. —_————————— For a Change Try any two 15c dishes, with small coffee, 25c, at Campf's, 106-108 O'Farrell st. opposite Orpheum, and you'll not be disappointed. ¢ e e Took Diamonds for Fun. There is a possibility that Mortimer L. Meyer, the young clerk charged with grand larceny for stealing diamonds from Miss Florence Gladding, may not be pun- ished. The preliminary examination was held before Acting Police Judge Barry yesterday afternoon. Miss Glading testi- fled that Meyer's conduct previous to stealing the diamonds, was that of a per- fect gentleman. Meyer, in his own behalf, for fun to take money out of Miss Glad- ding’s purse and then hand it back to her. He admitted taking the diamonds, but it was for fun. He had no intention of stealing them. The case will be argued this morni —_————— Fell From Top of a Pole. Charles S. Lisenby, a lineman in the employ of the telephone company, while working on top of a-pole at Clay and Broderick streets yesterday morning, miss_"d his hold and fell, sustaining seri- ous injuries. Just how the accident hap- pened no one knows. Other linemen saw Lisenby slldln%' down the pole a few feet and then he fell forward and struck the ground with both hands. Lisenby was taken to the: Receiving Hospital in the patrol wagon, and Drs. Weil and Rinne found that both wrists were broken. There was a deep wound in his scalp and he was suffering from concussion of the brain and possible internal injuries. He lives at 716 Fourteenth street. —_——— W. A. Strohmeler & Co.’s candy kitchen, pure home-made candies, caramels, taf- fles, etc. Our celebrated cough candy best in the world. 1006 Market street. - —————— Convicted of Fast Driving. “White-hat McCartys was convicted by Judge Mogan vesterday of fast driv- ing. He was showing off the fine points of a trotter on Market street Thursday, when Policeman Farley arrested him. McCarty_sald_that Farley had a grudge against him, but Farley indignantly de nied it, saying he only did his duty. 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