The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY., MAY 17 1899. REC] ”JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. " hddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address Al C i PUBLICATION OFF Market and Third Sts. S. Fu ephone Main 1868. 217 to 221 Stevenson Streel 1874, ding Postage: Call), one year. . 6 months Call), $ months. @ H 4 to recsive subscriptiona. ded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE .- c.0..oeunccnneinnanens ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Corrcspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ...Marquette Building ' C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES 27 Montgomery streat, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. l 387 Hayes street, open untll [ clock. 621 McAlilister street, open until 9:30 c 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clocky lon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2891 Markel . corner Sixteenth, cpen untll 9 o'clock. 251§ cet, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh ntil 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and tucky streats. open until 9 o'clocks. and ‘“Cavalleria Rusti- afore" —Vaudeville every afternoon and Fllis street 0., Market stree Specialties. . near Eighth—Bat- t mg R RS AUCTION SALES. May 19, at 11 2. m., at 220 Valen- Friday PR ———— THE WAY TO FIGHT- MONOPCLIES. from he State tb save their indust! l" YROM the efforts now being made by the fruit- ned cinch of a refrigerator car com- is evident the directors of the he nature of the foe they overcoming it. rize a comprehensive system. of fruit-growers and to meet the S of situation is one of tle danger to the fruit \ great combination of capital controlled 1 do ting men seemingly hicago to acquire in the marketing | equal to that which similar com- ve over the beef market and the oil | lan of the combination be car- owers of California will have a ipon their hands than ever, for it in the Southern Pacific Rail- management Huntington, will se power on the side of the Chicago sistance in crushing the Califor- has of 1t promises security for the fruit- hippers of the State is to organize association as will be able to con- trol a large proportion of the fruit output and thus be n to compel the railroad to make terms. ties transportation to the Eastern'| be obtained from railways, 1 of ets competing the growers a aller shippers will be in a position to contend with the refrigerator car combine with f s of success, but otherwise the contest will be almost a hopeless one. | In a conversation with a representative of The Call, | Mr. R. D. Stephens of Sacramento, who has been ror e first one of the most active promoters of the proposed co-operation, expressed himself as quite that if the growers succeed in forming the ation they would be masters of quoted as saying that under the mtemplated system of co-operative transportation shippers will be able to send their fruit to markets v Be- ey will have a hold on the various railroad ce they will be able to say upon which lines b Since the business of gerator cars is profitable to the growers will have no difficulty in obtaining fair treatment and the most favorable trans- portation rospect e the fruit men have had considerable experience in or- co-operative enterprises. iations and fruit hanges of a greater or exist in every county in the State, and owers there are therefore many men ng the proposed movement to ey know it will meet with ready sales. prefer to send ir cars. rying these ref: Iroad lines rates, is the brighter becau conducting among the e of direc 1 issue. Sooner or later the Government will have to deal drast y with the ice of railways in granting exceptional advantages to such combines as those now control the oil and the beef ):\\amc.x. and dustr Untit that happens the people must guard themselves, and fortunately for California the men who carry on her rural ‘industries seem quite capable of doing so. threatening the fruit i of A young fiend Howard City who killed his grandmother, uncle and wife says he wanted to die d did not wish to leave his wife behind. That kind of affection seems to be finding a rather too frequent expression. The authorities of Howard City have an excellent opportunity to choke it out of one of its citizens at least. Russia and Great Britain seem to have met with a stumbling-block in their very evident purpose to do as they please in China. The Chinese have awakened to the fact that they have something to say in the matter and intend to say.it. There is naturally an ex- pression of horrified Russian and British indignation. Secretary of War Alger wants to be elected to the United States Senate as a mark of vindication. It begins to look as if the upper house of Congress is to be made a home of refuge for the repair of dam- aged reputations. Ex-President Grover Cleveland denies emphatically that he is dead. The ex-President always did enter- tain pronounced opinions which did not as a rule meet the acceptance of the people. William F. Herrin, hiding behind a Blackstock mask, has given another example of the extravagance to which the Southern Pacific Company will resort in criminal politics, | tc be a republican; | our pledges, our. purposes, our history; | board the chart of the Declaration of Independence A MILITARY REPl{BLIC. | Y F ‘we have truly reached the point of imperialism and become that most faulty of all forms of govern- ment, a military republic, our history at least is | not wanting in noble declarations of a IngherA pur- pose. Just what we are doing now, or that w}_uch it |is claimed we must do because fate and Providence | order it, has been consistently reprehended by Ameri- | can patriots from the beginning. : | In 1811 Henry Clay, in a speech upon the coming | war with Great Britain and its alternative of an al- liance, said: ' “Efgland is said to be fighting in behalf of the | world, and shall we, it is asked, attempt to weaken her exertions? If, indeed, the aim of the French Em- peror be universal dominion, how nobler is the cause presented to British valor! But how is her philan- thropic purpose to be achieved? Is it by a scrupulous observance of the rights of others, by respecting that code of public morals which she professes to vindicate, and by abstaining from self-aggrandizement? Then, in- deed, would she command the sympathies of the world. What are we called upon to do by those who would engage our feelings and our wishes in her be- half? To bear the actual cuffs of her arrogance that we may escape a chimerical French subjugation! We are invited, conjured, to drink the potion of British poison, actually presented to our lips, that we may avoid the imperial dose prepared by perturbed imag- inations. We are called upon to submit to debase- ment, dishonor and disgrace; to bow the neck to royal insolence as a course of preparation for manly resistance to Gallic invasion! Let us come home to our own histor; it was not by submission that our fathers achieved our independence.” In his speech on the Greek revolution of 1824 Mr. Clay said: “If it were possible for republicans to cease to be the champions of human freedom, and if Federalists became its only supporters, I would cease I would become a Federalist.” In his speech at Baltimore in 1828, on “Enthusiasm for Military Renown,” he said: “Cromwell and Caesar have recently found apologists. The judgment of centuries is reversed; long established maxims are overthrown, and the only genuine lovers of liberty were the Philips, the Caesars, the Cromwells, the Mariuses and the Syllas of former ages! It is time for slumbering patriotism to awake when such doc- trines as these are put forth from the Capitol and from popular assemblies. Regardless of all imputations, and proud of the opportunity of free and unrestrained intercourse with my fellow citizens, I would address every man in the Union and entreat them by their love of country, by their love of liberty, for the sake of themselves and their posterity—in the name of their venerated ancestors, in the name of the human family deeply interested in the fulfiliment of the trust committed to their hands, to pause. I would prostrate myself before Divinity and implore him, if it be neces- | sary to chastise this people with the rod of his venge- ance, to visit our beloved land with pestilence, with famine, with any scourge other than military rule, or a blind and heedless enthusiasm for mere military re- nown.” After four score and eight years the situation of 1811 is repeated. Now England is urging us to repudiate to cast over- and the compass of the constitution, to silence the pleadings of conscience and jeer at our past profes- sions, because if we do not the Continental nations of Europe will combine against us! Appeals are made to our cupidity, to our commer- cial instincts, to our lust of power and hunger for conquest, when there should be a simple measure and a plain way to test our course and determine our policy. If it require the turning of the Declaration of Independence to the wall and the assumption by the Government of duties for which the constitution de- to it the needed authority, no argument of ex- pediency nor temptations of glory ambition should lure us to such a monstrous crime as the re- pudiation of our history and rejection of the prin- ciples which have made us great. We can live with- cut the applause of nations given to departure from our traditions, and we can go on up the high path marked out by the fathers, though the world in arms stand against us. But our institutions cannot survive the repudiation of their foundation, nor can liberty be turned into a taskmaster nor long exist among a people who claim it for themselves w’ they snatch it frgm others who, moved by our example, have as- | pired to imitate it and be free. C military lockjaw, is using his submaxillary free: dom in keeping himself in the public ear. The small band of third-rate politicians who promoted his candidacy in 1896, and whose nostrils sniffed the odors of the political fleshpots which were stewing and bubbling in the mirage of that year of dreams, rainbows and illusions, are still at it. Ex-Governog Stone of Missouri is the leader of these apostles, and | though it is suspected that Bryan was originally an acquired taste with him, it is now a habit as con- firmed a$ smoking in-a Filipino. Stone counts on silver Republicans and Populists to pull ! through, and announces that there is no room at any | dollar dinner for a gold Democrat, and that such shall not even have access to the crumbs when the tablecloth is shaken. It is expected that those who used to be Democrats will be kept in the panorama | by eating dollar dinners dedicated to Jefferson. Mr. Jefferson has been a long time dead and has not even an administrator to defend him. Under the | newspaper signature law of California a penalty could be collected for ascribing to him the financial ideas of Colonel Bryan unless the article were signed by the writer and confessed to be defamatory of the dead and defenseless. R | In his “Notes on the Establishment of a Money | Unit and of a Coinage for the United States” (Works | of Jefferson, pages 162-174) he says: “The proportion | between the values of gold and silver is a mercantile | problem altogether. The legal proportion in Spain lis 16 to 1, in England 15% to 1, in France 15 to 1. | Just principles will lead us to disregatd legal ratios ialtogcthcr and to inquire mto the market price of ! gold in the several countries with which we shall be | principally connected in commerce and to take an average from them. It is not impossible that 15 to 1 may be found an eligible ratio. I state it, however, as a conjecture only.” On page 170 he proposed that Congress instruct the Committee of the States | “to appoint proper persons to inquire what are the proportions between the values of fine gold and fine silver in the markets of the several countries with which we are, or probably may be, connected in com- merce, and what would be a proper ratio here, hav- ing regard to the average of their value at those mar- kets and to other circumstances, and to,report the same to the committee, by them to be laid ‘before Congress.” In 1792 he wrote to Hamilton, approving his “re- port on the establishment of a mint, what ought to be the nature of the money unit of the United States and what the ratio between gold and silver, if coins ni s and BRYANARCHY PROI?ESSIONS. OLONEL BRYAN, having recovered from Bryan | | | | lof both metals are to be established.” - (See Hamil-{iust. ton’s Works, volume 3, pages 149-188). Hamilton’s conclusion was: “That in establishing a ratio be- tween the metals, the mean or average ratio in what may be called the commercial world is the proper one. There can hardly be a better rule in any country for the legal than the market ratio, if this can be sup- posed to have been produced by the full and steady course of commercial principles. The presumption in such case is that each metal finds its true level ac- | vording to its intrinsic utility in the general system of money operations.” Of this Jefferson says in his letter to Hamilton: “I return your report on the mint, which I have read over with a great deal of satisfaction. I concur with you in thinking that the mint must stand on both metals, and also in the ratio you establish between the two metals.” In another place (volume 1, page 171) Jefferson says: “I would still incline to give a little more than the market price for gold, because of its superior con- venience in transportation.” Just how these views of Jefferson are to be recon- ciled with the financial planks of the Chicago plat- form remains for Colonel Bryan to say. One thing is clear, however, that the bolters of 1896, the gold Democrats who stood on the Indianapolis platform, are still the representatives of the financial principles. of Jefferson. And it is equally clear that the silver Republicans do not represent the principles of Hamil- ton, to whom may be finally traced the .political philosophy of the Republican party. It is difficult to reconcile the dollar-a-plate dinner declarations of fidelity to the principles. of Jefferson with the honesty of those who make them, provided they have ever read Jefferson’s views. A TRANS-MISSISSIPPI PROBLEM. NDISMAYED by the defeat of his efforts to U procure the enactment by the last Congress of legislation directed toward the upbuilding of our merchant marine, Senator Hanna is reported to be working as actively as ever in that direction. It is an- nounced that he has started a movement to have the subject taken up by the Trans-Mississippi Congress at its coming session and supported as a measure of public good without regard to party politics. In order to bring the matter before the congress the Senator has sent out a circular letter to the Gov- ernors of the States to be represented there request- ing them to exert their influence in its support. Ac- cording to a telegraphic summary of the circular, the Senator says: “You will find among the Pacific Coast and Gulf States particularly and in a number of interior States a strong and growing desire to see American ships replace foreign ships engaged in carrying our imports and exports, and to which the people of this country are paying $200,000,000 every year, every dollar of which goes to enrich foreigners at our expense. This is by no means a political and least of all a partisan question. It is wholly an indus- trial question, just so much so as the improvement of our rivers and harbors is an industrial and commercial subject.” . Whether the issue can be kept out of party politics remains to be seen. The promotion of the American merchant marine is a necessary adjunct tp the Repub- lican system of protection, and as such is not likely to receive Democratic support. That, however, is a minor matter. The main thing is to make the im- portance of the issue known to the people, and to that end Senator Hanna has acted wisely in calling to it the attention of the Trans-Mississippi Congress. | It i a subject which should be studied on this side of the continent with more than ordinary interest and care.: £ The circumstances are such that the promotion of our merchant marine is essentially a trans-Mississippi problem. The commerce between Europe and the United States is well supplied with shipping, and there is not likely to be much immediate increase in the traffic. The trade of the Pacific, on the other hand, scems well assured of an enormous expansion. It is teward the Orient the great manufacturing nations of carth are turning for markets. No other part of the civilized world holds a position more advantageous for that trade than the Western States of our Union. Our interests in the upbuilding of a merchant ma. rine are therefore greater even than those of the East, and it certainly should receive earnest consideration | by any congress called to consider the welfare of the West. The policy of protection has now built up our manu- facturing industries to such power that they produce riore than the needs of our people require, and: con- sequently we are now exporting large quantities of manufactured goods. The next step to be taken is to provide American ships to carry American goods abroad. Legislation to that end is therefore the im- | perative need of the time, and whether done as a par- tisan or non-partisan measure it should certainly be provided at the next session of Congress. At a banquet given at Manila by Professor Schur- man in honor of Admiral Dewey the health of the American army was drunk ‘“with the utmost cor- Ii reports from the battlefields of the Phil- ippines be true, it will take more than a toast and the clinking of glasses in good fellowship to preserve the health of American soldiers. Aguinaldo seems now inclined to talk rather than fight, and General Otis has promised Washington that he will soon have the rebel leader in a condition where he will not even be able to talk. Spain talked enough with the Filipinos to teach Uncle Sam that there is sometimes no eloquence so persuasive as the sting of a bullet. SEE A e General Gomez and his “army” are fighting over the enormous sum of money which the United States Government has ordered to be distributed among the Cubans. It is a consolation to know that the Cuban army could be induced to fight over something. Since the Police Commissioners can, if they choose, refuse a license to any saloon proprietor who permits gambling games on his premises, the contintiance of such”places may be justly considered as having the open sanction of the Commissioners. A dispatch announces that one of a set of Ameri- cans engaged in a ferocious bullfight at Durango for- tunately escaped death from one of the infuriated, baited animals. It would have been better news if the dispatch read “unfortunately.” Four hundred Porto Ricans are now, by the au- thority of Secretary of War Alger, wearing the uni- forms of American soldiers. If the Spanish war be a precedent for opinion, the new garb will be found to be rather large. While Huntington cannot be put on the list of those who talk too much, he has a right to head the roll of those who say it wrong whenever they say it at all. If it were possible to have the Baldwin Hotel ruins moved off along with the fence the improvement of the corner would be notable. Winc suppers at the Herrin home come high. Two Railroad Commissioners paid their reputations for a GROELINGER COMES DOWN T0 PERSONALITIES e Makes a Bitter Attack on Judge Graham. (g GRAHAM’S DIGNIFIED REPLY iy (e ACTING JUDGE WILL ASSERT HIS RIGHTS AND STAY ON. —e+— Only Solution Out of the Difficulty Is for Judge Treadwell to Return to Duty. P Acting Police Judge Groezinger opened up the vials of his wrath yesterday at the criticisms of the press, the pulpit and his brother Judges on the absurd deci- sions he rendered in the racetrack and nickel-in-the-slot machine cases. When he took his seat on the bench yesterday morning he said in a dramatic manner to Howard Vernon, the stenogra- pher of the court: “I want you to take down word for word what I am about to say.” The courtroom was crowded in the expectation that something would develop in view of the expressed determination of Presiding Judge Graham to have no more cases asslgneg to Groezinger's court. Groezinger, after clearing his throat, dictated the following statement to the stenographer: Seelng the attacks on me in the newspapers this Torning by & certain Judge of this court, I desire to state right here that I am going to sit on this bench as long as Judge Tread- well is absent. I am going to insist on the cases being assigned to me, and the first man, Judge or officer, that attempts to interfere with the calendar of this court will be here for contempt of court. I desire to say that 1 am giad that I am fortunate enough that of this court is. I do not refer to Judge Mo- an, but I refer to a certain Judge whose name will not mention. 1 took these Ingleside race- track cases and tried them fairly and hon- estly as a man, and I have decided the cases according ‘to my convictions. I do mot think it is right for a Judge of this court to be S0 discourteous as to make the remarks behind another’s back as Judge Graham has. - I would have been willing ot first, if the Judges of this court came to me in a gentlemanly and proper way, to retire without anything further being said; but in view of the stand taken this morn- ing in the daily press I am going to stay here and cannot be put out by any such actions as these. The law is too plain and requires the Chief of Police to assign the cases alternately to the several departments of the Police Court. 1 will give Judge Graham a chance to show his purity and will assign all nickel-in-the-slot cases to his department to-morrow. The news of the bitter personal and brutal attack made upon Judge Graham quickly spread around the hall and Groe- zinger was generally denounced for at- tacking 2 man who had carved out for himself an honorable name in the commu- nity. Judge Mogan waited upon Groe- zinger and wanted to know distinetly if any reference was made to him in regard to a picture of a Judge being in the rogues’ gallery. Groezinger said that he referred to Judge Graham and later as- serted that he had seen the picture. Detective Bainbridge positively assert- ed that no such picture was or ever had | been in the rogues’ gallery and comment- | ed harshly on Groezinger making such a statement from the bench about another Judge, even though it were true. Chief Lees refused to_ discuss the matter, say- ing he had no desire to be drawn into a controversy between two Judges. Judge Graham at first felt keenly the unwarranted slander, but later treated the matter in a dignified manner. spoken to he said: “I feel more sorry than angry that Judge Groezinger should have found it necessary to make such an uncalled for and untruthful attack upon my good name, as 1 have refrained from personal- 1y attacking him. when he said my picture adorned rogues’ gallery he was not truth. The_facts are that when 1 was a 7 s of age 1 was guilty of | more the act of a thought- | less boy anything else, the punish | ment for which ‘is, as a rule, a repri- | mand from the bench or chastisement at | home. Tt s to be regretted that at this Jate day the act of a thoughtless boy i the controve: manly terms.” The position taken by Groezinger as to holding court is said to be u ailable. He was regularl to dispense justice ‘n Department 4 dur- ing the absence of Judge Treadwell and as, according to the constitution, the Chief of Police Is instructed*to assign the cases alternately in the different courts, the Chief, even if armed with a written request spread on the minutes of courts not to assign cases to Department 4, could not obey any such order. The only solution out of the difficulty is to get Judge Treadwell back as soon as Eossihle and every effort will be made to ring about his return. AROUND THE CORRIDORS T. H. Buckingham, a fruit grower of Vacaville, is at the Palace. Joe D. Biddle, a wealthy banker Hanford, is at the Grand. W. D. Tillotson, a prominent. attorney of Redding, is registered at the Grand. George W. Freeman, a merchant of Portland, is among the guests at the Oc- cidental, Frank W. Hazen and wife of Healds- burg, arrived yesterday and are guests at the Occidental. C. M. Root, a prominent mining man of Placerville, was among yesterday's ar- rivals at the Grand. L. W. Borger of Jackson anl J. E. Satler of Sutter Creek, two prominent mining men, are registered at the Lick. Mrs. William M. Eddy, wife of a wealthy banker of Santa Barbara, is —_——————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 16.—Congressman de Vries arrived here from New York to- night and will leave for Stockton, Cal., to-morrow night. W. I Wilson of San Francisco is at the Shoreham. —_——ee——— NEW YORK, May 16—W. H. Hallett of Los Angeles is at the Gilsey. J. J. Pratt of Yuba is at the Tmperial. R. Plu- yer and R. Leventritt of San Francisco are in Par; —_——————————— “MAMMY” HAD SYNCOPE. Failed to Appear Yesterday When Her Case Was Called. “Mammy" Pleasant did not appear yes- terday morning when the insolvency pro- ceedings against here were taken up by Judge Troutt. “Mammy” is suffering, ac- cording to the certificate of Dr. Peter A. Kearney, with a severe attack of ‘“syn- cope.” The statement of the physician was accepted and the case proceeded. During the day Lucius Solomons, who at one time_was attorney for Mrs. Bell; George R. Eaton, Fisher Ames, J. D. Peters, Conrad A. Brown testified. for Mrs. Pleasant and all gave material testimony to the effect that the aged col- ored woman never had any money and all_the funds she expended were those of Mrs. Bell, for whom “Mammy" acted as agent. But few matters that will af- fect the final determination of the case came to light during the day. If possible “Mammy' will be brought into court this morning when the case is again called. my. picture s not in the rogues' gallery for a | certain crime as the picture of a certain Judge | ‘When | He should know that | telling the | should be brought up against him in a | ¢ that should be conducted on appointed by the Mator | the | of | spending a few days at the Grand Hotel. | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. ermann and J. E, | The last four appeared | MANY NEEDS OF THE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT deto Mayor and Other Offi- cials Investigate. THE WiDow 0F FRANK £, BECK WINS HER SUIT ST \ Endowment Case De- cided in Her Favor. e \FORMAL TOUR OF INSPECTION | — | | PROVISION WILL BE MADE IN | THE TAX LEVY. | e | School Department Authorities Give | an Object Lesson to Those Who Must Provide Funds for New Buildings. e A committee consisting of Mayor Phe- lan, city officials, members of the Board | of Education and representative mer- | chants made a tour of inspection of the | public school buildings yesterday for the | purpose of ascertaining the needs of [he‘ department, so that ample provision may be made for the same in the next tax | levy, or in the bond election proposed for | obtaining the money for needed public | improvements. Those who comprised the party were: Mayor Phelan, _Auditor | Weils, President Bergerot of thé Board of Education, Superintendent of Schools | Webster, W. R. Sherwood, C. A. Mur- | dock, James Barry, Charles Armstrong, | chairman of the 'Building Committee; Harry Holbrook, chairman of the Finance | | Committee; Inspector George Walk Head Carpenter W. A. Commary, Archi- | tect Welch and School Directors W. A. Kemp, H. E. Gedge, John J. Conlon and Henry U. Brandenstein. The start was made from the Mayor’s office at 10 o'clock in the morning, and | calls were made at the Richmond, Sunny- | | side and Sutro Primary schools, where | new buildings are needed for the accom- | modation of the children of school age in | the rapidly growing districts in which the schools are situated. Members of the School Department explained the needs of the districts and gave estimates of the cost of new buildings and the proposed details of _their construction. At noon the members of the commit- | tee of inspectlon were the guests of Mr. Holbrook at lunch at the Bohemian Club In the afternoon the committee again set forth and visited the Hamilton Grammar School and other school buildings in va- | rious districts of the city. It was found that the Hamilton school is in a bad state of decay and wholly inadequate to the | needs of the district. It is proposed to | | Tepair the present building and -make such additions to it as are deemed. neces- | sary to accommodate the scholars. | To-day the committee will continue the tour of inspection, and will inspect all of | the school buildings in the city not vis- ited yesterday | OLYMPIA’S DOCTOR | - IS A BENEDICT Nuptials of Miss Mamic| Burling and Dr. | Page, U.S. N, @ Standing in a bower of evergreens, Miss | Mamie Burling and Dr. Page plighted | their troth. The teremony was performed | at 9 o'clock last evening, Father Varsi, a lifelong friend of the faix bride, officiating. | Only the immediate friends of the young couple witnessed the unjon. Miss Hazel King officiated as maid of honor and the Misses Lolita and Norma Burling, the little nieces of the bride, acted as brides maids. Dr. Victor C. B. Means, U. S. N., was | | best man and Burling Tucker, Dr. Philip | Brown, Louis Bruguiere and Frank King | the ribbon beargrs. The home of the bride at 2020 Buchanan street was bright with many flowers, that mingled their splendid foliage with the tars and stripes. The decoration of the home was the work of a few of the many | devoted friends of the popular bride. The | bride of the gallant doctor of the Olympia is the daughter of the late William Bur- ling, whose name is prominently identi- fied with the early history of the State. In the select circlé in which Miss Burling moved she has been an _acknowledge belle, captivating and holding her many admirers by her charming manners, at- tractive personality and rare tact. The happy doctor is the son of a prominent Southern family, and was with Dewe during the Manila Bay naval achieve- ments. H The gown of the bride was a marvel of | the dressmaker’s art. It was of white| | satin, made en train and trimmed with deep flounces of point lace that had orna- | mented the bridal gown of her mother. | Miss King wore an exquisite gown of | white mull over pink silk. Miss Lolita | Burling was attired in_a frock of white silk, trimmed with pink roses, and Miss Norma Burling wore white’ organdie, | trimmed with pink roses. | Dr. and Mrs, Page leave this afternoon for Washington, where the doctor goes to report. Dr. Page has been granted shore leave for three years, and hopes to be | stationed here. —————— | POKER PLAYERS IN COURT. | | Cases of Hansen of the Metropole and Wilson of the Palace Called. | of the Metropole saloon, 773 Market | | street, charged with permitting a per- | centage game of poker to be played in| | his saloon, was again called in acting Po- | lice Judge Groezinger's court yesterday afternoon. The ten jurors selected the previous day were in attendance, and af- | ter they had taken their seats in the box Attorney Sanderson, for the defencant, | objected to the additional venire of fif- teen jurors on the ground that the date was wrong and an error had been made in the department The objections were considered well taken, and by consent the case ‘was continued until May 24, and meantime another venire will be issued. In Judge Graham's court the case of George Wilson, one of the men arrested for playing a percentage game of poker in the Palace saloon, Market street, was called. Attorney Ach, for the deféndant, made his usual number of technical ob- | jections to the venire, which were ail | swept aside by the Judge, and the exam- | ination of the jurors was commenced. Only five had ‘been examined up to 5 o'clock, when court adjourned, and none | had been accepted. The further examin- ation of the jurors will be continued this afternoon. —————— To Remain Px"ofesisori of Chemistry at Cooper’s College. William T. Wenzell, who recently re- tired as emeritus professor of chemistry at the College of Pharmacy, has decided | not to retire to private life. but to retain | the chair of chemistry at the Cooper | Medical College. While he is over 70 yea: of age, he is still hale and heart | expects to pursue his profession for many years to come. B To Mortgage the Church. The board of trustees of the Emanuel | Baptist Church, the scene of the Durrant murders, petitioned the Superior Court | yesterday for permission to mortgage the church, which is located on Bartlett| street, near Twenty-second, to secure a | loan of $3000 to be advanced by the Hiber- nia Savings and Loan Society. ———— Nellie Le Plam Convicted. | Nellie Le Plam, charged with having | relieved Carl Herberger of $20, was con- vieted of grand larceny by a jury in Judge Dunne’s court yesterday afternoon. The prisoner will be sentenced Saturday. The case of L. H. Hansen, proprietor | WENZELL WILL NOT RETIRE. AP SUICIDE WAS NOT PROVED e LAW LEANS IN FAVOR OF THE DEAD MAN’S HEIRS. e Insurance Companies Must Establish by Evidence Violations of Con- tract by Decedent or Must Pay. Sy g United States Judges Gilbert, Ross and Morrow, sitting as a Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, handed down an opin- ion that will be of interest to fraternal and beneficiary societies and other or- ganizations in which life insurance is a feature. The case was that of Lillian H. Beck vs. the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias of the World. The plaintiff is the widow of Frank E. Beck, a member of the endowment rank. Beck blew out his brains with a shotgun and the Coro- ner’s jury returned a verdict to the ef- fect that he had committed suicide while temporarily insane. The life of the de- ceased was insured in the endowment rank for $3000. A clause in the by-laws provides that if death results from sui- cide, or cau superinduced by intoxi- cating liquors, narcotics, etc., the amount to be paid I be the sum only ir pro- portion to the whole amount as ‘‘the ma- tured life expectancy” is to_ the entire expectancy at the date of admission of the deceased into the endowment rank. In conformity with the by-laws just quoted the sum of $138 was tendered to the widow in full payment of the obli- gations of the society. She refused to accept that sum_and brought suit for the whole of the $3000. She won the case and the Supreme Lodge appealed. In the course of a very elaborate and profound decision the Courf of Appeals says that the defendant should have proved that the deceased came to his » | death with suicidal intent, and it did not devolve upon the widow o prove by a preponderance of evidence that his death resulted from the accidental discharge of is gun. The Supreme Lodge claimed also t the trial court should have directed jury to return a verdict for the de- fendant on the ground that the death of the deceased should be treated as ‘‘one in violation, or attempted violation of the criminal law” (Beck having previously threatened to kill -his w and then him- 1f). On this point the Court of Appeals 1y that the evidenee aid not show that > was engaged in unlawful acts at the time he met his death. The judgment of the lower court was affirmed and the widow will get the $3000. ANSWERS TO CORRESIONDENTS. SOUSA’S ADDRESS—F. C. E., City. The addr of John P. Sousa, the march king, is W. ington, D. C. BANJO HEADS—W. W,, City. As you do not tell in what manner the banjo head was soiled it is impossible to tell you how to clean it. TIN WHISTLES—W. W., City. In mu- sic stores you can obtain for a very small sum a book of instruction which will tell you all about playing on tin whistles. MUSICAL GLASSES—W. W., City. Some who perform on what is known as musical glasses use chalk on their hands and others use a small quantity of pow- i | dered rosin. —_— e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* e Specfal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepnone Main 1042 * e Sues His Accuser. Suit was filed yesterday by J. H. Her- old against L. H. Scharrer to recover £10,000 damages for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. _Scharrer caused the arrest of Herold a short time ago on a charge of misdemeanor embez- zlement, but on the motion of the District Attorney the case was dismissed. Hence the suit. - e Y. m. C. A. Excursion via Burlington Route. Leaving San Francisco Thursday, May 18, 8 a. m., the, Burlington route will run through tourist cars to Chicago, in charge of a manager for those desiring to attend the Biennial Con- vention, Y. M. C. A, to be held at Grand Raplds, Mich., May 24. Tourist cars will also run from Chicago to Boston for those desiring to extend their jour- ney to Eastern points. 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