The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1899, Page 9

THE SAN FRAN JISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1899 SAN FRANCISCO ORTIFICATIONS NOW PERFECTED Government Acts on Call’s Suggestion. et ! A FORT FOR LAKE MERCED| e | CONDEMNATION SUIT TO BE xm-“ GUN AT ONCE. | | oy | Heavy Guns Will Command the Only. Vulnerable Point of the City 1 and We Will Be Fully Protected. ‘ | e The Government has acted upon a | suggestion made in The Call on Sun-| day, May 1, 1898—the day that Admiral Dewey annihilated the Spansh fleet in Manila Bay. It has condemned prop- erty on the ocean beach which The Call stated was the one weak point in the city’s defense, and will shortly strongly fortify and garrison it, thus protecting San Francisco from any hostile ships of war that may gather and threaten it. In the article printed in The Call on the date mentioned occurred the follow- ing: “A couple of fast cruisers armed would bring up one morning ju outside the Golden Gate, opposite the ocean beach. A formal demand would | heavily t | N 70 a2IIIN T FO FORT FOR LAKE MERCED. be made upon the Mayor of the city for indemnity—penalty for non-com- pliance, bomb; ment and destruction of the town. “What of our splendid fortifications, our heavy gu bout the en- trance to the G What about the submarine mine flelds about whict we have hear They are a there and read the harbor against a San Fran- cisco Bay is practically impregnable. But, unfortunately, though the harbor is so well protected, the city is abso- lutely defenseless. Between Point Lo- bos and Lake Merced there {s a space of ocean commanded by no heavy gun. There is nothing to prevent an enemy anchoring there and bombarding the at its leigure; the range of modern eapons is equal to the task.” Attention w then directed in the article to how easily such a danger as ntioned could avoided, in these be terr “A few heavy gun batterles, planted amc bo pre b g the sandhills between Point Lo- nd Lake Merced, would completely ct the city. Their cost would be thousands, while the cost of a bom- bardr San Francisco would run into millions. It is the one weak point | in « system of defense, and it should | en t 1 States District Attorney Coombs by mail vesterday a communica- m the Department of tice at Washingt instructing him to bring sult in the U tates Ci Court to con- demn 45.2 in aguna de la Merced tract near Ingle for the pur- ses of mi ary fortifications and a gar- rison. The property belongs to the Spring Vailey Water Company and was offered to the Government that corporation for $1000 per acre. the price was deemed exce a board of military men was to report upon the site and its Major C. E. G. B Davis made t and it wae indorged by John Wilson of tne D! Secretary Alger signed the report on July 24, Major Davis placed a value of f 2500 to $700 per acre upon the property. After the condemnation of the property the Government will lose no time in for- the place and building the neces- v for the garrison. The north of the tract is a little more than half a mile south of the old Ocean Side House. It is a bluff jutting out into the ic Ocean and 100 feet above the level the water, commanding a fine view of e 'to the harbor, The fortifica- t any hostile war vesse £ land near enough yme months ago Brigadier General t 4 hatteries and rifles will congtitute the armament, and when the fort 11 have been finished San Fran- clsco will be as Impregnable as Gibraitar. | HOPE FOR MRS. BOTKIN. The Decision in the Hoff Case Leaves the Way Open to Her. are considerably exercised | ecision of the Bupreme Court g a new trial to Albert Hoff, erer of Mrs. Marg Clute, and Captain Seym said yesterday that the | decision entirely reversed the same court in th ant case. In the Hoff case Judge Cook, in charg- | ing the jury on the motive point, used | exactly same language as Judge Mur- | phy in arge to the jury in the Dur- rant case, a comparison of the records ! bearing him ocut in that statement. For | the past ten vears Judge Murphy had | used the entical words in every charge made by him to a jury when the gquestion of motive was invoived, and the Hoff | case decision was a surprise to him as well as to the police. i It Is now considered probable that un-| Jess & rehearing is demanded and the de- | cislon of the Bupreme Court reversed| Mrs. Botkin will apply for a new trial, basing her application on the decision In the Hoff case. LABOR'S PROTEST. San Francisco Conncrl Takes Action on Mare Island Wages. Ty == The following resolutions were adopted the executive committee of the San Francisco Labor Council at its meeting last Wednesday: Whereas, the Board on Wages at Mare Island Navy Yard, under instructions to readjust the wages of mechanics employed by the Gavernment, has ordered a reduc- tion, which brings such wages far below | of a tax levs | ent from those c THE MERCHANTS, THE MAYOR AND THE TAK LEVY Politics and Figures Submitted. e BOTH INSIDE THE DOLLAR LESSPEiEY SCHOOLS SUFFER FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. N Supervisors Called Upon to Adjust Figures and Reorganize Some Badly Jumbled Political Ideas. e The Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors held last night what was perhaps the most important meeting in its existence. In an effort to honor a pledge that the tax levy for this fiscal r should be one dollar on every $100 on an assessed valuation of $350,- 000,000 the committee had made a com- plete series of estimated appropria- tions for every municipal office. The announcement of these estimates was met by an outery of protest from a ma jority of ecity and county officers. Fi- nanc disaster, deficiencies and muni- ci discredit predicted. Ap- 1 peals were made on all sides for a re- were visfon of the appropriations, and in justice to the departments concerned the Finance Committee determined to | take counsel with the Mayor and the Merchants’ Association. Mayor Phelan, who is pledged to a dollar limit of taxation on the indi- cated total assessed valuation, promised to submit a series of appropriations for municipal offices which would honor the pledge. The Merchants' Associa- tion agreed to do the same, and last | night the Finance Committee met to consider the various suggestions. For nearly four hours the estimates of the Finance Committee, the Mayor, the Merchants' Association and the Audit- or were discussed. Dr. Perrault, chairman of the Finance Committee, presided and acted as in- | terrogator. The figures of the Auditor were left practically out of considera- tion, as they were made upon a basis of $116. The other figures which were submitted were on a ba of a dollar limit, excluding the proposed appropriation for St. Mary's Park and several small deficiencies. The appro- priations for the different departments, as suggested, considered in de- tail. At the outset estimates of the chants’ 880C) similar and in s were it was seen that the Mayor and of the Mer- tion were singularly gnificant details differ- the Finance Commit- of Super It Phelan had Merchants’ tee of the Board isors. was quite plain that May been advised of what the Association intended to and had acted accordingly, reserving the privi- lege of changing the estimates of the Merchants’ Association to suit political conditions. Where the Merchants’ A sociation had made reductions in de partments which possess political in fluence the Mayor, politically wise, generous. He judiciously increased the appropriations” for departments that represent votes, as the Department of Public Schools for example. the di sion of the different esti- tes progressed another significant fact was discovered. The Mayor and the Merchants' Association, determined to submit a le based absolutely on a dollar limit, found it expedient to re- duce the salaries of municipal em- ploy: This reduction was found necessary in se al departments and the Mayor, in answer to a query of Dr. Perrault, declared that city employes would be well paid after they had suffered the reductions which he suggested. Dr. Perrault replied that while the Finance Committee welcomed the suggestions of the Mayor, an effort would be made to honor the dollar limit pledge with- out reducing salaries. The third and las feature of the estima Mayor Phelan was ealed when the appropriation for the Assessor was a It was then found that the Mayor, ons which probably suggested themselves to him as ade- quate, had discriminated in favor of Democratic officers and against Re- publican officials. He had increased the appropriation of the Assessor and reduced that of the Tax Collector. He attacked the clerical force of the Li- Collector, Justice Clerk and st distinguishing tes submitted by cense Supervisors. He pleaded statutory limitations when he urged reductions and fell back upon the necessities of municipal government when he ‘advo- cated increased. After all the various estimates had been discussed Dr. Perrault declared that the Finance Committee would en- s deavor to equalize all the suggestions and would be glad to meet again with representatives of the Merchants' As- sociation. President Dohrmann of the Mer- | chants’ Association opened the meet- ing with the statement that the levy which he submitted was not considered by its framers a perfect instrument. | Also he unshouldered all responsibility for the success or non-success of the dollar limit. The formulation of the |ley'y, he said, was merely an incident | in’ the movement for better things the Merchants’ Assoclation had started. He emphasized the statement that the association would not be responsible for the non-success of the levy he sub- mitted if it should be adopted by the | Board of Supervisors and made the | permanent schedule. . To this rather startling opening | statement Supervisor Perrault, chair- man of the Finance Committee, did not reply. He merely requested Clerk Russell to proceeed with the reading of the merchants’ schedule. Then it de- veloped that Mayor Phelan had taken advantage of an idle afternoon to make | a little schedule of his own. He had | been provided with a copy of the sched- | ule of the merchants, and with that | Committee before him he had prepared |a levy for submission, for which he | resigned all responsibility, which was | quite within the limit and which made as unique a political parallel as ever | went into print. | In many things his schedule agreed | to the letter with that of the mer- | chants, particularly in the pronounced | inclination that was | the salaries attached to the | ential positions in the gift of the city | the janitors, the firemen, the engineers, | and electriclans and the men guard the prisoners at the branch county jails. His schedule also elim- inated the Park Emergency Hospital. } Over the janitcrs there was some rather heated debate. Chairman Per- lraull asked Mr. Kelley of the associ { tlon if it were a fact that he wished | to reduce the salaries of the janitors and at the same time double their work by reducing their number from Mr. Kelley replied that it was, and hat if the Supervisors advertised for | men they | that price. He said the same thin, with regard to the guards at Branc County Jail No. whose salaries the Merchants and the Mayor's levies re- duced from $556 to $50 per month with subsistence. 5 The fact that the County Clerk had | been awarded a thousand and more less than the amount awarded him by the temporary levy, Supervisor Perrault | said, it would be impossible to operate President the office at that figure. Dohrmann retorted that the County Clerk had been allowed the amount al- lowed by the charter. | _Mr. Phelan’s schedule District Attorney’s appropriatibn mate- rially. When asked plished it he said he had done away schedule the department, and when asked that department. His dropped three men from Collectors those he contemplated dropping he was at some trouble to explain. His figures also did not allow for two | clerks of the seven now engaged by the assistants to Board of Supervisors as Clerk Russell. Mr. Phelan said in ex- planation he did not think the pert v absolute necessities and he had neglected to provide for them. He referred it to Clerk Ru 11 and after that official had made his reply Mr. Phelan took that they be provided for. | When asked how it was that he and the merchants had cut down the Tax Collector, the Park, the County Clerk and a few other of the Republican of- fices to the advantage of the Fire De- partment, essor Dodge and others of their politi faith, he could not ex- plain, except to say that was entitled to a bonus. equally essential strict figure of the statutes while they allowed the Fire Department and fire alarm and police telegraph to ing to sa ave that they were of ab- solute necessity to - and should not be crippled. v should the County Clerk and the Tax Collector be crippied Chairman Perrault. The Merchants' schedule provides for a tax of one dollar on $3,499,349; the Mayor's a tax of one dollar on § - 723, mot counting the St. Mary's Par fund and judgments agairst the city inside the pledge. The St. Mary's Park appropriation, he clatmed, should not be considered inside the pledge and should not count in the levy. The orig- inal levy of the Finance Committee con- templated a tax of one dollar on $3,500,- 000, or ninety-two cents on $3,800,000. Following is a summary of the Mer- chants’ levy and following that a table | of comparisons that will illustrate how | the scaling was done in the schedules | Committee,, the Mer- | of the Finance chants’ and the Mayor: Total Entire Year. Sehool Department . Police Department Fire Department and those of the Auditor and Finance | dent to scale | uninfiu- | who | 32 to| could fill the positions at reduced the how he accom- | with the position ¢f chief clerk, who, | he said, was a mere supernumerary in also License | pointedly by Perrault if the chief clerk, | whose appointment he had, was among man | who wrote the minutes and the bond ex- | it back and was willing Assessor | Dodge had done magnificent work and | Of the fact| that the two schedules agreed in hold- | ing down the County Clerk and other | departments to the | soar profitably above the law, ha had noth- | the protection of asked | +$1,104,620 | HENRY MILLER GIVES "HAMLET" - NEW INTEREST About the last man who knew every- | thing was Dante. Since his time all men, | even actors, have been obligec in a meas- | ure to specialize. Still it is a question | whether an actor’s genius can in this way | | be compelled to yield what it contains. | Mr. Miller we have always looked upon | as the perfect stage lover. equally com- | pelling, no matter what the century, no | | matter how the course of love might run, | | and as it has ever been the care of the | eritic that the interests of the true tra- gedian shall be safeguarded from the en- croachments of the versatile star, Mr.| Miller's Hamlet has from the first been | marked for disapproval. More than a few of us have said aloud: 1 cannot see | Henry Miller in ‘Hamlet.’ It is not possi- | ble. With the memory of Booth still fresh, too; what temerity.” Reverent and | gratetully as we shall ever speak the | | name of Booth, we must remember that | | there were many Hamlets before him and there will probably be many to follow | him. And even Booth's Hamlet grew so | that what began by belng impetuous forceful and full of striking but artificial methods became in later years melan-| choly, intellectual, philosophlical, ideal. If we want new pictures we must have wall space and a kindly light. Room was made | for the frescos of Raphael by sweeping away those of Perugini and a few others. Therefore let us give Mr. Miller's Hamlet room and light and judge it on its own merits. Let every flower blossom on fts own stalk. Mr. Miller's is a Very uneven bloom. Some scenes are excellent, some vassuges | S0 beautitul that thelr expression glyes | a new interest to the character. The | Dlayers' scene and the scene with his Piother are handled with = so much Sirength that whatever flaws there may | Do are unnoticed. The graceful, dignitied, Natural interpretation of the’ interview | with his mother, the struggle between | Anger and tenderness, are almost a com A ary of the character as Mr. Miller sees it. His attitude at the exit of the| ghost convinces us that amazement .’l.'ll! 8 irow overswhelm a solitary man. The fittle action with the sword hilt, forming a cross at the words “For my part I'll go the sudden tenderness of the tone says to Ophelia, “I did, I did love You once,” and again when at’the grave but a breath articulates '“The fair Ophe- lia,” his reading of the line, “He was a man, take him for all in all. I shail nct Jook upon his like again’—these and many other things that for lack of space can- hot be mentioned make us realize that | Mr, Miller's dramatic Hamlet rea retty close touch to nature. The real famlet, the subfective Hamlet, ceen in the soliloquies falls far short of being ideal. He hurries over the lines as though | he would be through with them and de- ctroys the fdea of introspection by cuper fluous gestur: Especially | | | this haste seen in the solil- | oquy on suicide. There is no horror at the | | vealization of “what dreams may come."” | The tongue gives utterances to words and the brain rushes on to other ideas and | there are no reflective pauses. The atti- | tude of the audience throughout the play | | perfectly reflected the unevenness of iur. | Miller's Hamlet—now cold and unemotion- al, now anxious to applaud to the echo. In’ many scenes there i8 too sudden a re. covery from emotions; too little depth of | | feeling—and Hamlet was feeling, not ac- tion, A difficult task, indeed, when the i and bad are so plentifully mixed to report me and my cause aright to the | unsatisfied.” We bow to its strength and | regret its weaknes: The role of Ophelia has never been con- | sidered the ultimate goal of any actress and has more often than not been given to those who have been found wanting and who quickly fell into obscurity. Miss | Anglin is an Ophelia so charming as to be | almost perfect. She reads the lines as they have never heen T before and of the | simplest passages makes an opportunity. | If one ever doubted her artistic sense Ophelia last night | dispelled the doubt. The simple beauty | { of her costumes, made by a local firm, | added not a little to the charm of the | | part. { "4s_nave been so used to poor ghosts | | that Mr. Walcot may be pronounced good. | Mr. Standing_was a pleasant surprise as Laértes and Mr. Brown a disappointmerit as Horatlo. Never have we seen a better Polonius than Mr. Allen. His reading of the Tetter 1o the King and Queen 1s a work of dramatic art to be much ap- | plauded. Another pleasant disappoint- ment was Mrs. Boucicault as the Queen. Her work, especially with Hamlet,” from whom she seemed to take the key, was most artistic. Another good piece of work s Mr. Lamb's first gravedigger. He had the sympathy and attention of the audience throughout the sceme. Miss Dale spoke her few lines with good e fect and Mr. Stevens made an acceptabie | Ki The first player was so poor that | ith Hamlet when he said | nd her great abilit 1 agreed | of his speech, “It is too long.” We, too, | | t he would never ‘‘come to He- | CHARLOTTE THOMPSON. | to a@mit Mrs. Wicke: b Y NEWS. ALAMEDA COUNT’ MARY AND JOHN TO LIVE APART, BUT NO DIVORCE Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 908 Broadway, Aug. 3. Mary and John Gooby will forever here- after walk through life separately and apart, but a decree of divorce based upon any cruelty, desertion or failure to pro- vide that has marred their past thirty years of matrimonial vicissitudes will not be granted. What was supposed to be the last and final chapter in the history, of Mary and John’s tribulations—that have each had their day in courts—has been occupying the attention of Judge Greene the past three days, the case being Mary Gooby | vs. John Gooby, whereln the first named asked for a divorce and possession of property located at Seventh and Linden streets. An important pleading in the | suit was the husband's cross-complaint, wherein he likewise prayed urgently that his promise made at the altar many vears ago be declared null and void. For multi- plicity of grounds alleged, for intricacies of rank perjury and truth and for general legal comedy the case rivals any that has ever been tried in the history of the Su- perjor Court. The wife, who boasts at least ffty pounds avoirdupois over her husband, re- cited on the witness-stand the many acts of cruelty alleged, and how John had wasted his fortune in gambling on_the stock market. She was corroborated by her eldest daughter, who testified that on one occasion she had to drag her father by his ancient whiskers to prevent him from beating the life out of her corpulent mother. Another daughter. Mrs. Maude Boyle, testified on the other hand that the parents had always quarreled and that on one occasion Mrs. Gooby had threat- ened to shoot the father. She said that she had usually collected the rents from her father's houses, but that the mother got every cent for the father's board. To all such testimony Judge Greene for the past three days lent an attentive ear, and at 6 o'clock this evening his Honor simmed_up accounts and decided that neither Mary nor John should take any- thing by their causes of action. CONTESTANT IN THE WICKES ESTATE WINS OAKLAND, Aug. 3.—The contest be- tween Annette P. Clarke of San Fran- cisco and Dr. J. M. Shannon over the es- tate of the late Ollve J. Wickes was de- cided in faver of the former by Judge Hall to-day. The matter came up to- day for the hearing of Dr. Shannon’s petition for the probate of an alleged will in which he was named as executor and under the terms of which Mrs, | Wickes’ property in Fresno County and $5000 on deposit in the Hibernia Bank was bequeathed to the doctor, who alleged that at the time of her death Mrs. Wickes was a resident of Alameda County. Peti- tioner was represented by Attorneys Z. N. Goldsky, B. N Dunne McPike. Contestant Annette P. Clarke appeared by her attorneys, George D. Squires and Otto tum Suden, as executrix of the last will of Alfred M. Wickes, heir at law of Olive Jane Wick and she contended that the latter w a resident of San Grifin and Messrs. | Francisco County, but that just prior to her death had been in Oakland under treatment by Dr. Shannon. Judge Hall decided in favor of contestant by refus- ing to grant Dr. Shannon’'s petition and ruling that his_court has no purisdiction will to probate. 'FEMALE CONFIDENCE OPERATOR IS WANTED OAKLAND, Aug. 3.—The police whose last name was Viola Clinton, but who bas several other names. She has been working on the sympathies of sev- eral people and always ended each ac- quaintance with robbery. A few days azo she told a pitiful tale to Mrs. C. L. Frank of §21 Webster street and was employed as a nursegirl. After three days she di appeared and with her went jewelry va ued at $100. ‘The young woman is no more than 20 years old, but she has successfully worked several families. She has a rec- ord in San Francisco, S8an Leandro and Berkeley. —_— e Mrs. Prescott Her Champion. OAKLAND, Aug. . Nettie Spears of Sanger, Fre . Who Is being sued for dive Morgan C. Spears, who in his complaint pictures the defend- ant wife as an Amazon going gunning for him, has found a champion in Mrs, Lydia Prescott, who asserts that the husband has grossly neglected his family. It ap- pears that Mrs. Spears wrote to the Soci- ety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren, of which Mrs. Prescott is secretary some six weeks ago, asking for rellef. are | | looking for a female confidence operator MRS. KELLY FIRES FACTS AT ENEMIES Oakland Office San Francisco Call. %8 Broadway, Aug. 5. Mrs. Helen Kelly has been made the victim of much whispering since it be- came known that she was tc leave the secrotaryship of the Associated Charities on September 1. | It has been stated that Mrs. Kelly was very discriminating in her administratio that certain churches and influences were | favorad by her more than others. At va- | rious times Mrs. Kelly has been charged with being too inquisitive, and with at- tempting to override the wishes of some of the district visitors. Rumors have also gone around that the secretary lacks business ability and that it is largely due to her incapacity that the Associated | Charities is now a financial wreck with | little prospects of being salved. These and similar insinuations bhave been freely circulated and have come to the knowledge of Mrs. Kelly. To-day | she made public positive denial of all such insinuations and produced facts in justi- fication of her statement that the faliure | of the Charities is in no way due to her mismanagement. After a resume of the actual work of the asscciation since August 1, 1893, when Mrs. Kelly took charge, she proceeds to show that the laundry business in con- nection with the Charities was a failure | from the start, as was also the free bath E)ID\ISE‘. She sa i The laundry was a losing business from the | start. 1 had no control of it, only receiving "he moneys given me from it and paying its | bills by warrant. With regard to the wood- | yard I only received the moneys paid for sales of wood, which moneys I pald out on order of the president. | Last fall the Charities decided that a | | chain letter system would very soon | bring it out of its financial hole, but the | following paragraph from her report shows that the thousands that were ex- | pected from this source did not pour into | | the coffers and the endless chain proved to have a very definite end: Au_Indebtedness of $1000 is before us. The | laundry, woodyard and baths are closed. Thre: «ppeuls have been made to the publie durin the present fiscal year. The Thanksgiving offering gave us $94 35. The chain letter helped 05 and the Joaquin Miller lecture gave us Having_the interest of the poor of the | so much at heart as 1 have, would it| kely that 1 would have placed the asso- | ciation in such financial straits and then lcave it to have its difficulties settled b tranger? — e ——— PROFESSOR RITTER RETURNS. The Distinguished Scientist Satisfied | With the Results of the Har- 1 riman Expedition. 1 BERKELEY, Aug. 3.—Professor W. E. | Ritter of the University of California, | who was chosen as specialist in zoology to accompany the Harriman Alaskan ex- pedition, arrived at his home in Berkeley to-day. Professor Ritter expresses him- self as highly pleased with the results of the trip and praises the skill and care expended on the equipment of the expe- | dition and in the provisions made for its comfort during its absence in the far | north. | “The tour,” he said to-day, “was full | of interest and delight as well as scientific | achievement. The days were cloudless | and warm, and there was light enough for outdoor work at any time during the | | twenty-four hours. The results of our | investigations were most gratifying, many | new species being discovered, and the | distribution of these and observed. “The botanists of the D lighted, as indeed we all were, at the beauty, size and coloring of the wild flowers on the islands along the coast. My own work concerned the marine in- vertebrates, and their variety and num- of them being | ence. The re- sults of the expedition will be chronicled by John Burroughs, the historian of the party, and in bulle to be issued by the | Washington Academy of Sciences. I shall of course embody my ewn observations in lectures before my classes and perhaps | before the San Francisco Academy of | Sclences and other scientific bodies.” —_— ce—— Firemen Are Fined. | The Fire Commissioners at a meeting | yesterday fined W. J. Rodrigues, engin- | eer of engine 30, three days' pay for | using impudent language to his superior | officer, and Joseph Clancy, truckman of truck 3, thrée days' pay for riding on a street car on his official badge when no | | fire was in progress. | | e be i uthers were arty were de- | ber were astonishing, man heretofore unknown to | ——e—————— 1 Rabbi Wise to Preach. | By invitation of Rev. Dr. Voorsanger, | | Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise of New York will occupy the pulpit of the Temple Emanu- | El to-morrow morning. The service is to be at 10 o’clock. The public are invited to | attend. | WITH A [ ] W HOFFHEIZ, a returnad Klo; in Alaska and returned wit | | X About midnight Hoffheiz left his two | Fire Alarm Telegraph.. Street Department Heatth Department .. 483.515 | % araft to the care of the bartender, as Legislative and Executive Depts 806,990 | 201200 Judicial Department .. Parks and public grounds...... Public buildings and inatitutions brartes and reading rooms Gas and electric lighting.. ter and water supply jecellaneous ... I DIVISIONS OF THE FUND. Assessor, extra clerk: Asses nt roll computatl County Clerk District Attorney's Cler “ire Alarm Telegraph Fire Department ed fire ons. Gas Inspe Health Departme shouse, T and County Hospital City and County Hospital, Smallpox Hospital .... Health Board Health Board salaries. City Physiclan Examination insane Justices' Clerks w Librarian and ex 8 Law and Motion Calendar. License Collector and extra c Maintenance feeble-minded Municipal reports . Courts : contingent expenses e station rents . fce patrol nting trankcripts Recorder’s of nt P Follo_clerks, Sherift . R County Jafl subsisténce. Employes Supervisors . Janitors, City Hall . Public buildings” ligl Tax Collector's extra clerks. Water fund ... Street fund . Park fund 8chool fund 35,0008 45.950'§ 12,000/ 71,700/ 24,0001 18,100 539,300 1,0001 750 1,800 75,000 5,000/ 600 | 50000 21,000/ B bd 253338 235,000( 427,028 200,0001 1,104,620 the standard pald by private firms for simtlar work; and Whereas, This reduction by the Govern- ment {s_especially unjust at the present time., when wages pald by private firms are on the increase; therefore be it Tiesolved, By the executive committee of the San Francisco Labor Council, that we emphatically protest against this uncaliéd for reduction and that we urge upon Sec- retary of the Navy Long to mot concur in the report of the Board on Wages, but 1o order a further and fuller investigation, when facts will prove our contention; further Resolved, That a copy of these resolu- tions be sent to Secretary of the Navy Leong, also given to the press. Eimers’ Mysterious Disappearance. The friends in Bakersfield of Anthony Eimers have urged the police to renewed ] him, and Detective Anthony has been de- tailed on the case. Eimers lived with | Mrs. Harter at 331 Eddy street, and on the morning of July 20 last year he left the house, telling her that he would re- turn in a few hours. That was the last seen of him. He had been drinking heav- ily and had squandered about $1400 In two months. It was reported later that he had committed suicide in the Santa Cruz " Mountains, but that was not confirmed. efforts to ascertain what has become of gack. The money consisted of five $100 $20 and a 35. He had a few dollars left cause his money was exhausted. show up, and it was not till yesterday where he and his partners had taken BRI RRRR IR R IR IR TS made to find the saloon where hc left been working on the case, but without remembers nothing more. might be able to throw zome light on | RED MEN PROPOSE ADDITIONAL CHIEFS AN ORGANIZER FOR THE STATE ASKED FOR. At the session of the Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men yester- day several propositions were presented and discussed, but action thereon will not be taken until to-day. Among these were the creation of a new officer to be known as the exemplifier of the ritualistic work 80 that the work may be done uniformiy in every tribe; another was the appoint- ment of a State organizer, who shall de- vote his whole time to the extension of the order, and another the increasing of the advisory board by the addition of five great past sachems. Charters were granted to Carquinez Tribe No. 98, Mohawk No. 99 and to Monadnock No. 100, also to Wanona Council No. 23 of the Degree of Poca- hontas. Minnehaha Council No. 1 was reinstated and a charter issued to it. The awm'dln% of the prize of $100 to Altahomas Tribe for the best rendition of the warrior's degree was officlally made, and on that occasion Great Junior Sagamore Harrison of the Great Council of the United States took occasion to ex- press his admiration of the team and to pay a compliment to Frederick V. North- Yop, the. captain of the team, for the time and labor he expended in bringing his team up to the degree of perfection _that_he did. He also said some kind ‘words for the warriors and braves, who though they had mo speaking parts did LEET HiS ViEAL TH BARTENDER and after walking a block or twou entered a saloon. the money he had in his possession, and a man standing at the bar suggested to him that he would be doing a wise thing to hand over the money and walst, and he handed it over to ihe bartender. This was early Sunday morning. and after wandering around for hours he met a policeman and told him about his troubles. advised him to go to police headquarters and directed him how to get there He succeeded and told his story to Detective George Graham, who made an arrangement with him to be at the City Hall that evening. Hoffheiz did not pened to come across him. He had been wande: for the saloon where he had left his money. some saloon, and he had not partaken of a square meal. headquarters again, but Lis friends took him there the check on the Bank of Victoria has been stopped, and every effort will be ndiker, is a victim of misplaced confi- dence to the extent of 3365 in greenbacks and a draft for $1500 on the Bank of Victoria, B. C. He had been mining for over a year h his two partners on the St. Paul, T which arrived last Saturday. He had never been In this city, and after he ard his partners had taken rooms at Twelfth and Howard streets they started out to take in the sights. friends on Market street, near Fifth, He was talking about it might get stolen from him. Hoff- heiz had the money and draft in a buckskin sack, which was tled round his His name was printed on the greenbacks, six $60 greenbacks, three , and when he staggered out of the saloon he hired a hack and drove around till the hackman put him out be- some The policeman morning that one of his partners hap- ring around the city searching His bed had been a chair in He had forgotten rooms, and did not like to g6 to police sterday. Payment of Graham has remembers that Detective Hoffhelz his money. success. there were two bartenders ih the saloon, but he was so full of liquor that he He will give a liberal reward for the return of the money. The police are anxious to know the name of the hackman, as he the subject. % P e B e B B L e e e e e much to make the exemplification as per- fect as it was, and they were commended for having devoted so much time to learn- ing what they had to do. THE POCAHONTAS. Members of the Great Council Increase the Per Capita Tax. The greater part of the session of the Great Council of the Degree of Poca- hontas yesterday was taken up in the dis- cussion of a new constitution and of bf- laws which are to govern the order in the future. The per capita tax was increased from Tl% cents to 15 cents. ‘A proposition that the Great Council ask for a charter so that it may legislate for itself was lost, but a motion to re- consider was given. It was announced that the judges had decided that the best exemplification of the work by the teams from Alfarata, Pocahontas and Yosemite Councils on last Wednesday night had been done by the team from Yosemite, and that it was awarded the prize of $50. The officers of the team were: Mina Rew, Pocahontas; Mrs. J. Tait, L. Holder, ‘Wenonah; Powhattan; Annie E. Bishop, prophetess Kitty La Fon and Jessie Bell, scouts: Ella Ellis and Alice Cook, runners; Amy You% and Emma La Due, councilors; W, . Coggln% Frank Bima, John Bell and Willlam Burge, warriors; Adeline Gleincaster, guard of the tepee. RED MEN DANCE. The entertainment and ball that were given last night in Odd Fellows’ Hall by the Great Council of California, I. O. R. M., to the representatives to the council and those of the Great Council of the | Degree of Pocahontas drew an audience that packed the hall to its utmost capac- | ity. The decorations were elaborate and | the me of the order was displayed over the stage in letters of gold. Four hundred couples took part in the grand march preliminary to dancing, | which was Kkept up till midnight. —_—e————— The Democrats. A meeting of the Thirty-third District | Democratic Club was held in the rooms of | the California Cycling Club, corner of | Twenty-second and Folsom streets, last night. Delegates to the municipal con- vention were elected. On motion of B. McSwain the following resolutions were | unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the Thirty-third District Democratié Club hereby indorses the ad- ministrations of Mayor Phelan and As- seseor Dodge, and commend them as worthy of the unlimited confidence of the people, frrespective of politics. Resolved, That we deprecate the inter- ference in our political affairs of bosses | and corporations, and we hereby pledge our | delegates to the municipal convention to the | cause of good government and municipal re- form. | A committee was appointed to canvass | the entire district in the interest of pure politics and to place the issues of the day squarely before the people. After timely | speeches by several members the meeting | a%‘uurned to_the call of the chair. ‘Over a hundred Democrats attended the meeting of the Young Men's Democratic Club of the Thirty-ninth Assembly Dis- trict last night in Turner Hall, 323 Turk street. J. J. Flannagan presided. Judge Robert Ferral, Hon. J. J. Barrett, Schwartz, T. Carl Spelling and other Fromlnsn( Democrats addressed the meet- ng. Fhe Regular Democratic Club of the Forty-first Assembly District met last n{,’h( at Pacific avenue and Larkin street. Willtam Donlin presided and introduced the speakers of the evening. The Com- mittee of One Hundred was decried and | the primaries exalted. Among those who | spoke were Patrick J. Smith, F. Cavagna- ro, Samuel Polack, H. H. Lowenthal and Judge Carroll. A meeting of the James D. Phelan Dem- ocratic Club of the Twenty-eighth Assem- bly District was held in Armory Hail, | corner of Second and Folsom streets. last night. M. Rogers presided and D. T. Sul- | livan acted as secretary. The delegates nominated for the municipal convention were pledged to renominate Hon. J. D. Phelan for Mayor and Washington Dodge for Assessor. Speeches were maude by Hon. 8. R. O'Keefe, John Murphy and John Coakley. A rousing meeting of the Thirty-sixth District Democratic Municipal League was_held in Eureka Valley Hall, corner of Bighteenth and Castro streets, last night. Peter J. McCormick presided. The speakers of the evening were Eugene N. Deuprey, Major McKinney, Willlam J. Nixon, Idward J. Coffey, John Prosek | and Judge A. W. Thompson. In his speech Mr. Deuprey said he would rather go down fight HE in the in- terest of good government than have a victorious banner stained with political corruption. Judge Thompson, a member of the Committee of One Hundred, and who assisted in the framing of the new charter, Indorsed the delegates selected by the club and sald he would personally uarantee the yoters of the Thirty-sixth istrict that its delegates would select municipal officers who would carry out the princivles of the charter. ————— Hardened Scoundrel—How'd { fus | coma te N. P. Ry.: | afte | ford (San Luis Obiepo). | Through tickets | aaria 0 make out at robbin’ the train? ¥on Desperate Villain (in disgust)—Done first rate till I got into the Pullman sleeper. Then the porter held me up.— Harlem Life. HORRIBLE DEATH OF AN OAKLAND BABY OAKLAND, Aug. 3.—Little Louisa Silva, the three-year-old child of Manuel Silva, residing at Thirty-third street and Four- teenth avenue, met a horrible death this evening on Hopkins street, near the Cali- fornia College. The child was in the care of an older sister, Annie, at the time and they, together with a dozen other chil- dren, were enjoying a ride on the four- horse hay wagon of Henry Nissen Mil- ler, a rancher from Diamond Canyon, who had just unloaded a ton of hay at Manuel Silv: barn. In some manner the two Silva children lost their balance and feil from the wagon. The rear wheel ran over the baby's forehead, literally scalping her, while Annie escaped with a bruised left arm. Miller, the driver, called at the City Prison late to-night and surrendered himself. On the prison register he was booked for mansiaughter and was subse- quently released on his own recognizance. The authorities regard him as entirely blameless. The dead infant was removed to the home of her parents and Coroner Melirmann has ordered an inquest to be held to-morrow night. —_———————— SHE IS STILL ON HER EX-HUSBAND'S TRAIL OAKLAND, Aug. 3.—William Wat- son has again been cited to appear be- fore Judge Greene on next Monday to show cause why he should not be pun- ished for contempt in failing to pay his former wife, Almira F. Watson, $25 monthly alimony. Wats spent several days in the County Jail last year for re- g to pay alimony nce then he has The former wife has 7‘1"‘1‘” M- s again married, retained ex-State Gowan to press he. — ce——— Oakland’s New Glass Enterprise. OAKLAND, Aug 3.—Articles of incor- poration were filed to-day with the County Clerk by the Corona Glass Com- pany, which is building a factory in West Oakland for the purpose of manufactur- ng and working glass by various meth- hds into useful and ornamental forms. The capital stock is stated at $4100, shares at the par value of $1 each, and of which $ has been actually subscribed. The di- rectors are’ William F. Buttner, Judson M. Davis and Albert G. Gilberg of Oak- land; August Pasquet and Frank Scott of San Francisco. OCEAN TRAVEL. Pacific ‘Coa/;t Steam;mp Co. Steamers leave Broadway wharf, San Franclsco: For ‘Alaskan ports, 10 a. m August 4, 9, 14, 19, 34, 20, Sep: tember 3, change at Seattle. For Victoria, Vancouver (B. C.), Port Townsend, Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, Anacortes and New Whatcom (Wash.), 10 a. m. August 4, 8 14 1 24, 29, Eeptember 3, and every ffth day the after; change at Seattle to thiz company’ n Alaska and G. N. Ry.; at T A at Vancouver to C. P. Ry. 2 p. m., Augus boldt Bay), For Bureka (Hum 9); 1 7, i August 2,7, 12, 17, 22, 27, September 1, ereafter. flquo;hsunm Cruz, Monterey, San Simeon Cayucos, Port Harford (San Luis Obispo Gaviota, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Huenem 'n Pedro, East San Pedro (Los Angeles) and 9 a. m., August 4, 8 12, 16, 20, 2 1, and every fourth day ther at Port Har- Santa Barbars, Fort les and Redondo (Los Angeles), 11 a. rlfi”i; ::;:u 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, September 'and_every fourth day thereafter. For Ensenada, Magdalena Bay, San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan, Altata, La Paz, Santa Rosalia and ‘Guaymas (Mex.), 10 a m. 7th of each onth. T F further information obtain folder. The company reserves the right to change without previous notice steamers, sailing dates s of salling. L ERET OFFT New Montgomery 58 'r?l?ml’};gnlz S & CO.. Gen. Asgts. ALL, PERKI .. Gen. e L 10 Market st., San Francisco. THE 0. B. & N. CO. DISPATCH FAST STEAMERS TO PORTLAND From Spear-street Wharf at 10 a. m. FA“E 12 First Class Including Bertd 8 Second Class and Meals. & F CALIFORNIA sails = T, Aug. 6, 16, 26, Sept. 5. 3TA sails....Aug. 1, 11, 21, 31, Sept. 10. Short line to Walla Walla, ‘Spokane, Bu‘te, Helena and all points in_the Northwest, to all points Fast E. C. WARD, General Agent, §30 Market st. For San Diego, stopping only —4 GOODALL, PERKINS C AMERICAN LINE. NEW YORE, SOUTEAMPTON, LONDON, PARIS. Stopping at_Cherbourg, ‘westbound. From New York Every Wednesday, 10 a. m. New York....August 2| New York....August 23 St. Louls.....August 9| St. Louls.....August 20 St. Paul August 16/ RED STAR LINE. New York and Antwern. From New York Every Wednesda 12 noon. Aug. 18 ..July 26] Kensington Southwark ..August 2| Noordland ......Aug. 23 Westernland ...Aug. 9 EMPIRE LINE. Seattle. St. Michael, Dawson City. For full information regarding freight and passage apply to INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, 30 Montgomery st., or any of its agencies. ‘TOYO KISEN KAISHA. & TEAMERS WILL T TAVE WHARF, COR- ner First and Brannan streets, 1 p. m., for YOKOHAMA and HONGKONG, calllng at Kobe (Hioga), Nagasakl and Shanghal, and connecting at Hongkong with steamers for India, ete. No cargo received on board cn day of sailing. AMERICA MARU. HONGKONG MAR' NIPPON MARU. Round-trip tickets .Wednesday, July 20 .Thursday, August 17 Tuesday, September 12 reduced rat For at freight and passage apply at company’s office, cor. First. W. B. CURTIS, General Agent. 421 Market st. 5. S, Moana sails via Honolulu__and Auckland for Sydney Wednesday, August 8, =\ at 10 p._m. The S. S. Australla ealls for Honolulu @nm Wednesday, August 2 Round the World, via Hawatt Favorite Line Round the World, via Hawall, Samon, New Zealand, Australia, India, Sues, England, etc.; $610 first class. J. D. SPRECKELS & BROS. 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MON., Tues., Wed., Thurs, and Sat. at 9:45 8. m. 8:30 p. m. (ex. Thurs. night), Fri= days, 1 p. m. and §:30; Sundays, 10:30 a. 'm., . m. Landing and office, Mission-street Pier No. 2. Telephone Main 1308. FARE . e eo—————————————————————— Dr.Gibbon’s Dispensary, B25 KEARNY 8T. Established 1n 1854 for the treatment of Private Diseases, Manhood. Debllity or disease wearing on bodyand mindand Skin D 'he doctor cureswhen Sthersfiin Fry him. Charges low, Caresguaranteed. Crliorwrite, ON, Box 1907, San Francisa.