The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1899, Page 12

r DAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1899 12 TH AN FRANCISCO CALL, T | Hale' “STRICTLY BUSINESS,” SAYS EXPERT WILLIAR Explains His Transactions With Gedge and Conlon. Man Who Boasts of Bribe-Taking Hires a Bodyguard——Secretary Simpson At- tempts to Cover Up School Board Crookedness. HE School Board scandal {8 now up n will be to the Grand Jury, reled to-day by District Attorney he has no official 1 action in the matter asserts that there is no ¢ that the charges published in be among the first matters quisitorial body will take up. t take but but Wi his crookedness, found it con- venient yesterday to seek the protection of a bodyguard to spare him the embar- rassment of answering many pertinent s the newspaper reporters were anxious to put to him. The guard 1- pled the outer apartment of the doctor's The f¥st thing he w d to as- Further than this the certain from every caller v a reporter. An answer in the affirm elicited the information that the School Director, who admits that he pts h was not in. will not admit that he is a he denies that he {s any- the kind. He says that life is too ) T 1y attention to stories pub- apers, and that he has not to worry about to what he is reported e is fairly aching for an r, the expert, whose name connected with the School 1, was seen yesterday at his e street who, Director Gedge states, nd paper con- reeing to r expert for the Supplies Commi the of Education and re- ? d by A aid Mr. t for lon I th Willl e best. Golden a sample o 1d we all wer a drink. I d THE BERTHA ARRIVES FROM THE FAR NORTH LADEN WITH TREASURE FROM CAPE NOME. Miners Speak Most Hopefully of the New Gold Diggings—The Passenger List. arrived last night, s in gold. € aska Commerct: Com. $100,000 of which was from | e sixty-eight pai and thirty- of whom were of the e Nome pas- Jiners who have come to Sau to who intend spring. Tt and xt » winter the north r > Nome t y the body of mer resident of rter Camp, on 1898. The fol- BALDWIN TO BE SOLD OUT. awin Hotel held by its a valuation of $3,000,000, will be hammer by Sheriff Martin ) to satisfy a judgment of and some win succeeds In raising the sh to liquidate the claim of site, necessary Ickelheimer Bros., plumbers, at 20 Geary street, before that date. Legal notice to that effect was published yesterday and :riff must sell Baldwin's interest in : time mentioned. " | the firm that | )¢ Gedge, who so boldly acknowl- | & He denfed that he | hat was pecu- | worth hav- ere was nothing more for | were id | Michael, yia Cape | mer brought | d predict odd dollars, un- | sperty, unless a_settlement is made for I never get business in that treat, | way. I am willing to admit that that partic- ular brand of parer is manufactured by sent on this coast. did not ask me to fur: ish them with thai | could comply with brand, so that they making their bid. Brown & Pow the specifications in do not know efther 1 member of the firm, but had they come to | me it would have done them no good, for | I would not have sold them any of the r called for. We manufacture it as ) nd for ¥ . Upham & Co., ess courtesy for t was going to | bid against our customer. he altered spec being carefully guarded by the sec y of the Board o ucation: r. § n is pre- sumed to be aware of the fact that they are public documents and open to public inspection, but to head off a possible de- nd to scrutinize the tell-tale papers he eniently stays away from his o > statements of Simpson’s t the machinery of his department ches a full stop whenever he passes re | out through the front door. He is the | whole thing, and his deputies can not | even sneeze without he s _the snuff. If Mr. Simpson is the only pebble on the beach it behooves him to stay where he belongs, and give a little of his attention to the business which his deputies are afraid to transact. A demand to see the specifications | terday met with a refusal deput stated that Mr. Simpson,was out and that in his absence they would not dare to al- low the inspection of any public docu- ment. Mr. Simpson may have no interest in keeping from the public information | concerning the latest school board scandal, but, even though he to have told his friends that Gedge was all right, his actions in the matter are ymewhat peculiar, to say the least. The appended c cation has been eived frc evident | nation that Kemp wa: alcoholic trances at per dozen per dozen have, worth o [MIDWIFE ACHARD WAS | NOT TO BLAME AT ALL “ MRS. DE LA FONTAINE DIEDOF A | PAINFUL DISEASE. | First Verdict of the Jury Not Ap- proved, and a Second Verdict of Death From Natural Causes Received. Coroner Hill held an inquest vesterday the bodv of Mrs. R. morning. ttended by Mrs. who had admin 8 1y to re vomiting. autopsy wed ths rrhosis of the had | caused de 1d that there [ of malpractice or of even any ne- v for it Achard of thi ife Mrs. de patient who had died ad suggested that a pt called, but Mrs. de la to allow one to be summoned, ell condition to be The rned a verdict t | | bad be ised by neglect, on the part of some person to summon medical assistance, but the Coroner ed to approve of the case w reopened and dence Introduced. | Autopsy Surge | Jury that death even if a ph few days befl doubtful whether he could have succeeded saving her lifl | The jury returned a verdict of death | from natural causes, and the verdict w: | approved. | MURDE —————— | He Is Instructed as to His Rights by | Judge Mogan and Makes a Rambling Statement. Robert L. Hunt, the slayer of George | | Elliott, appeared before Judge Mogan | | yesterday and wa< instructed as to his rights. He told the Judge that he would | be his own advocate and admitted kill- | ing. Elliott. The defendant began a long rambling statement as to his reasons for committing murder, but was interrupte Judg: and ordered into the doc t ay . has been pro-rating | 7T : ntinued till September 15 all the money he could get hold of among he it of \h:}l1‘0("::)\:‘,;‘5111‘1.- his more sistent creditors ever since the hotel. Ickel-| additional charge of it with i Were not among | jntent to commit booked 1 v could get | against Hunt for Knip- “ eI | penberg, the barkeeper aloon at c 1| Steuart and Howard str here the i murder was committed. There is not the debtor. Anita ranch ten days ago he was waited on by Attorney Bien f the judgment must be s; at the hotel property would be sol win replied that he had no mon expected to be able to liquidate thi upon his return from the south. heimer Bros. were inc 2 in which they had be and the once or ever, ands . how in the h of the Bheriff, with instructions to sell the hotel property under attachment. Attorney Blen Saia last night that the sale would surely take place as advertised unless the claim was paid. —————————— § SUNDAY'S CALL can be pur- chased from all agents and newsdealers at 5c per copy. P ——e———— ath of A. S. Barney. Alfred S. Barney, grandson of the late Colonel J. D. Stevenson, died yesterday at the Waldeck Hospital as the result of an operation for appendicitis. Deceased was 468 years of age and a native of Nan- tucket. He had llved in California since 1875, end for many years had charge of the office business of Colonel Stevenson, When the latter was United States Ship- ping Commissioner. He leaves a widow nm{ one daughter, Miss Marion Barney, who is a member of the Frawley com- pany. ormed that | | sligh doubt that Hunt is inquest will be held this morning. ———— “MAMMY” WAS “ADVISED.” When the case of * against Lu sterday * inion that the hin’ spodi to take the stand said. that s advised not to’ be sworn, and in conse- quence she would obey instructions. She was in court without a lawyer in | order that she might secure th s | of counsel and thereby be better advised | Judge Hunt continued the case until the afternoon. Again a continuance _was | taken until this morning. As Judge Hunt | quietly advised the old colored woman that she had better be sworn there may be some trouble in store for “Mammy” if | #he refuses when the case is again called, | e DD s et | Nickel-in-the-Slot Machines. | The police yester started* another raid upon nickel-in-the-slot machines that are used for paying money over at the bar by cashing the checks. Eight ma- chines were seized by Lieutenant Martin and posse and taken to the City Prison and warrants were obtained for the ar- rest of the saloon-keepers where they were used. Thney were Gobey's, 228 Sutter street; Reception, 206 Sutter! R. Fisch- beck, Powell and Ellis streets; Pete Dor.. sey, 14 Mason street; A. Foster, 423 Bush street; The Oberon, 40 O'Farrell street; A. Bergstrom, 120 O'Farrell street, and the Acme Grotto, 25 Eddy street. e e Ladles’ talor-made suits, fur capes, Credit. M. Rothschild, 334 Post st again expre: op! cloaks, . RER HUNT IN COURT. ise was nothing but a | and when called upon | RELLY 1 STILL IWATING TRIL IV HENCD |Chief Lees Informed of His Crime. — CAPTURED AFTER A CHASE R R A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN BEING SOUGHT FOR. PR N e It Is Claimed That She Assisted in the Now Famous Robbery of the Box of Sovereigns From the Alameda. S sought HE Examiner has lons Chief Lees yesterday received a letter of Larkspur to its existence. from the Chief of Police of the City of Sunday it succeeded. Almost an | Mexieo corroborating the story that Kelly, tire page of its meretriciously alias Kiley, alias Watson, who is wanted colored supplement was given | for complicity in the robbery of the specie | gyver to an account of a so-called room of the Alameda, was under arrest there for snatching $10,000 from a depositor in the National Bank. The letter stated that Kelly’s victim had placed the amount on the counter preparatory to depositing it, when the Australian crook, after dis- tracting his attention, grabbed the bunch | of greenbacks and ran from the bank. He was pursued for three blocks and finally | caught in an unoccupied house, where he | had taken refuge. The stolen bills were the writer, Five hundred drank like Bacchanalian to attract the attention of the people Last en- | “bacchanalian revel” In the redwoods of Baltimore Canyon, in which according to men and women enjoyed themselves, with little or no restraint, many of them behaving | like the creatures of the Nymphia, Satyrs, | danced the can-can and the couchee- found on him. Iis trial will come up next | : month. The writer of the letter informed | N ith bathin, Chief Lee I e oomed {0 | couches, dispensed wit . hgt serve at least six years for the crime. d'smts at the bath, caroused all nig! It is known that Detectives Gibson and | oods Te- B known that Detectlves O eon Sha |and anade’ the ipeacetul redw assenger on the Alameda when the | Sound with their unseemly jests and X Her identity is | wrapped in the deepest mystery, but it is | nown that the police are making every effort to find her. It was first thought that the mysterious woman was the wife of Kelly, but later developments show that theé latter was not aboard the Ala- | meda when the steamer was robbed. Two | | other men, who are said to be Australian crooks and whose true names are not | o being sought for by the It is claimed that they assisted in away with the “swag.” ¢ accompanied Murphy to Australia | and are supposed to be In the Antipodes the present time. Chief Lees admits | at he has placed himself in communica- | tion with the Av {an authorities with L view of apprehending the much-wanted crooks, and_expe to have them in his | was robbed. songs. were not aware that such a state of fairs has existed for three months their midst. They did not know satyrs had become so up-to- dance' the couchee-couchee and the | known, are a police. They did multiplied noticed. Amaryllis, without being imagine that lingerie unfit for publication even in unspeakable Examiner. fairs set forth in the head lines: Until the attention of the dwellers at Larkspur was called to the article they af- in that ate as to un- canny can-can right under their noses not an !humlr('d fold, had recklessly displayed the They were horrified at the state of af- they clutchés within a short tim . e Doline’ Gazeits | = pictures that accompanied the article; | CANDIDATES WANTED. they were absolutely dumfounded when ‘Good Material for Democratic Super- | visors and Republican Mayor in Demand. | The committee of seven appointed by Jasper McDonald, chairman of the Demo- cratic nominating convention, to select candidates for St rvisors, held a secret conference last evening and exchanged regarding the fitness of certain as- ants. The usual throng of statesmen County Committee in Columbian building, but failed to obtain any infor- mation as to the committee’s intentios R, V. ., chairman of the com- that suggestions were | avin McNab, who is | power behind the throne” of | ¢ and county Democracy, walked ket street as far as the Columbian , but did not go upstairs to the e room to refres: the little throng of offics and worse English that followed. voice: why that paper should single oul little paradise, for pollution from slimy presence. them on that point. who has made Larkspur his home seven summers, and who, Immediately to The Call refuting the slander, them into the secret of the attack. “That story was written,” and encouraga | seekers. Mr. camp. | Citizens’ Republican League in the Grand | Hotel. Henry T. Scott and s U. Dodge exchange views occasionally and Sheldon G. Kellogg, chairman of the Re- | publican nominating convention, is ready | | to listen to suggestions, The delegates are looking about for the right man to run against “Suffering Jim” for Mayor. ————————— | The Grand President. Last evening all the local lodges of the Independent Order of B'ne B'rith met in the main hall of the B. B. building, where | th were paid an officlal visit by Grand | nt S. Sichel of Portland, Or., and | Cohen, grand orator. The grand | delivered an address in_which 1e gave the membership a good deal of [ ply. Under their lease from Azevedo | yaluable information in Ielation to the or- | Occldental campers were | der in the jurisdiction. This was followed eR 0 Bt N mddress by the traeq | With water from the spring. orator, 1 At the close of the meeting the visiting | dislike ~the officials_an number of the members | them a letter went to a_cafe, where they enjoyed a | him_$4 for the use of the wi supper. There were a number of im-|send around a plumber to shut off promptu toasts and responses, | supply. He accused them of felony N acters of the women of Larkspur, I not propose to let the matter rest. aminer is as plain as a pikestaff. a residence and a couple of acres About 200 from a spr on who charges Occidental campers, e. “The reason Millard wrote, or had w: ten, and inserted that article in the Ex- He has they read the conglomeration of mixed metaphor, sophomoric striving, bad taste It took them fully twenty-four hours to recover. When they did they exclaimed with one “It's another page of Examiner lies!” That was self evident, but the people of Larkspur were at a loss to understand their its A little inquiry satisfled Robert D. Duke, for on the publication of the story, sent a letter let he said, “by | F. Bailey Millard, the Sunday editor of the Examiner, to vent a personal spite he has against the members of Occldental There is not a word of truth in McNab still insists that he is not giving : much attention to political affairs. it from beginning to end: : It's all lies and uiet reigns at the headquarters of the | fake and even if the Examiner can af- | ford to be used In that manner, to slander good men and defame the char- do rit- ot ground at the head of Baltimore Canyon. ards from him was Occldental camp, the ground for which was leased to the young men by Foster Azevedo. Mil- lard’s premises are supplied with water the Forbes-Coleman tract, controlled under lease by Azevedo, Millard $4 a year for the sup- the also supplied Some time ago Millard, who seems to wrote aying if they did not pay ter he would the in A TALENTED SINGER I dn ot de ot e oion s o 1 ¢ MISS CLARA KALISHER. 188 CLARA KALISHER, a talented singer, who has been studying abroad, returned to this city a few days ago. The young lady is well known in local musical circles, where her voiee has charmed all who have heard her sing. Miss Kalisher is, the possessor of a contralto voice of great depth and purity. She has been in Paris and London during the past four years, cultivating it under M. Jules Granier, G. W. Hen- schel and Henry J. Wood, a well-known orchestra leader. Miss Kalisher won great applause from one of the most critical and se- lect audiences in London when she sang at the concert given in honor of the Queen’s birthday last May in St. James Hall, Regent street. 3 She has received many excellent offers both for operatic and concert work in Europe and New York. She is to appear in the American metropolis this season with Paur's Symphony Orchestra. The following flattering notice was given the young lady by Le Matin, a leading daily of Paris: “Mlle. Kalisher, the young American singer, whose beautiful voice and incomparable diction have been so much admired this wlm"er at the most select musicales, has just left here for the London sea- son. L e e ! RETURNS FROM ABROAD : ! Z ! ¢ } : 3 | i | ; i | | { lars to connect with the Larkspur sys- LARKSPUR CITIZENS DENOUNCE A SLANDER Another Examiner Fake Made From Whole Cloth. Reputable Young Men Reviled and Estima- ble Women Slandered to Gratify a Petty Personal Spite. using it and threatened them with terms in San Quentin. All this, mind you, when he had not the slightest shadow of owner- ship in the spring, for the use of the water of which the campers were paying Aze- vedo, the lessece. The members of the camp laid the matter before Azevedo, | who, having been vexed previously by the | eccentricities of Millard, resolved to shut him off from the spring and gave him no- tice that he would do so on September 1. Now, for the animus of last Sunday's article in the Examiner. Millard, who dis- played such cagerness to O cidental camp for water he did not own found that, as soon as Azevedo cut off his supply from the spring, he would have to 80 to an expense of several hundred dol- tem. He laid it all to the Occidental boys and, if you will notice, he lays it on thick when he refers to them. As a reporter for the Examiner he calls them ‘vandals,’ ‘hoodlums,’ ‘dissi- pated wretches.’ inder the guise of ‘a cottager’. he re- fers to their camp as a place where ‘it seemed as if hades had broken loose.’ 'As ‘a resident of Baltimore Canyon, who lives on the hillside just above the camp grounds,' he calls ~them ‘young fools' and ‘hoodlums rampant.’ ‘As the whole trinity of complainers, the cottager, reporter, resident rolled into one, he says they yawped and bawled and velled and held awful orgies. In every iine he lies. In every line he is trying to get even for the expense his own busy- body methods have Fut him to. To show you part of the falsehood in the story I will give you the names of the members of Occidental camp, WIll he dare come out In print and accuse any one or all of these yuun% men of l)eln% hoodlums ram- pant, or of being participants in such orgles as he describes? Hardly. Here are the names.” Mr. Duke handed over a paper containing the following: ‘Will Moore, business manager of the Monitor. George Hammersmith, with Thomas Magee & Sons. Arthur Baring, with C. Cralg Ernest Furst, with W. W. 0. Wililam Wilson, in the United States engineers’ office. James H. Wheeler, with Brown Bros. Dr. William C. Hopper, former assist- ant police surgeon and captain of Com- pany A, League of the Cross Cadets. Louis 'Haven, with Lilienthal & Co. Harry Hopper, with the Deere Imple- ment Company. Willlam Judge, with Bauer Bros. Chris Bernhard, with Sherwood & Sher- wood. Sdward Moore, with the City of Paris. Philip J, Eisenman, with Dunham, Car- rigan & Hayden. Herbert Ely, secretary of the Yukon Mining and Trading Company. Harry Wood Brown, teacher of vocal culture. Charles Hopkins, with Payot, Upham & Co. & Co. Montague “If these young men are hoodlums,"” continued Mr. Duke, “I'd llke to know where you get your gentlemen? Maybe Millard can explain. they are hoodlums the people of Larkspur will be glad to have thefn next summer, as they had them last, to visit Occidental camp and to entertain the boys at their homes. Do you think that any one reading that list of names would believe for a moment the story written by the spiteful Millard?"" Several members of the Occidental Club also voiced their disgust yesterday at the article. “It's worse than the Police Gazette,” said James H. Wheeler. *He couldn’'t even let our piano alone without maligning it,” said Will Wilson. “‘Called it ‘that old discordant music ma- chine.’ It was brand new, at that.” “ ‘Bacchanalian orgies,’ soundsstrange,” said Will Moore of the Monitor, ‘‘espe- cially when one knows, as 1 know, that the most stringent rule of Occidental camp was the one forbidding the use of liquor. None of the party are drinking men and at no time was there a disposi- tion to violate the rule. As Mr. Duke says, Mr. Millard, or whoever was the writer of that article, is using the Examiner to vent a personal spite. In doing so he has re- viled the characters of gentlemen and de- famed estimable women. “Mr. Millard has taken occasion before to interfere with Occldental camp. We rented the ground, water included, from Mr. Azevedo for the season. We made our connections with the pipe and a week or two later received a lengthy letter from Mr. Millard in which he stated that in using the water we were committing a felony and were, therefore, liable to be sent to San Quéntin. He also said we were not gentiemen in not having con- sulted him. ““As we did not recognize Millard in the premises we ignored his letter. About three nights later he visited our camp d we told him then that we did not want to hav nything to do with him; that we didn’t rent the grounds from him, and that he had a grievance he could go and have it out with Azevedo. 1 do not know whether or not he went to Azevedo, but when 1 saw Azevedo I told him of Millard’s visit. He was very much put out about it. He immediately doubled the price of the watey to Millard and gave him notice that it would be disconnected after the Ist of September. “Millard, who was only paying 34 a year for his water, sent us a bill for $4 for the season for use of water in our camp and told us that unless the bill was paid he would send his plumber to disconnect the : story in the Examiner of the ‘Bacchanalian revels' is concerned, all I can say is that I knew nothing about any such proceedings and never heard of them until my attention was called to the story. I certainly would have known had they taken place, and so would a number of others at Larkspur. So far 1 have been unable to locate any one who saw them. 1 know, however, that the young men of Occidental camp are gentlemen; that they were gladly received in all the homes of Larkspur, and that on one oc- casion during the summer they gave a minstrel performance for a church and raised $325. That does not look like the action_of Bacchanalian revelers.” Mr. Moore referred the reporter for The Call to the residents of Larkspur for a refutation of the Examiner slander on Occidental camp and for certificates of the general character of the members of LT T ““As far as know.” said James Cos- tello of O'Connor, Moffatt & Co., a prom- inent resident of Larkspur, ‘“the young men of Occidental camp are gentlemen. They have that general reputation, at any rate. A§ far as the story In the Exam- iner, of which they complain, all I can say is that I never heard of any such go- ings on. My observation of the young men was that they were neither noisy nor hoodlumish and always conducted them- selves properly.” “It's a rank fake—a pack of fakes,” said Anton Shula, whose handsome resi- dence is_as close to Occidental Camp as that of Millard. “The idea of the whole yarn is preposterous. No better hehaved young men ever camped at Larkspur. The opinfons of a number of others were to the same effect. All accused Millard of a palpable attempt to_use his paper to vent a personal spite. Not one was found who had ever seen the alleged petition which, according to the same story, was being ' circulated for signatures to be presented to the owners of the land ask- ing them to refuse campers permission to occupy grounds in Baltimore Canyon. The suspicion is that Millard, or some one under his direction, manufactured the pe- tition out of the same piece of cloth from which the whole story was cut. They are confldent that, if ever presented, it will be signed by 2 RESIDENT ON THE 1 of o} ILLSIDE,"” ADFEXAMINER REPORTER. > " In support of the suspicion that Millard was moved to publish the story by the unsuccessful issue of his first = deal water, 18 the fact that its coincides with the conclusion or his water lease from Azevedo. According to his own story, the revel had been in progress i ubllc&tlog ¢—+-@ | for the preceding three months. 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And yet he did not print a line in pro- test until his water pipe ran dry. | Men and women, he says, 500 of them, “hehaving like creatures of the Nymphia, | danced the can-can and the couchee- | couchee in utter disregard of prving " and yet he held his peace till his | pipe ran dry. 1 | | “They dispensed with bathing suits at the bath,” he exclaimed. | For three whole months, mind you, and he never saw his way to print till his pipe ran dry. ““Neroites o he calls them, in cam; But not—not Il his pipe ran dry. He not only did that, but to support | their godlike attributes, he mixed a metaphor to sustain his tale. He says they desecrated the sacred shores of | Marin _with ‘“the altogether bathing | siesta.” Men and women may walk in| | their_sleep; swim, never. Only a god or | a goddess, Examinerized, could do that. | And they did it, he exclaimed, but he aidnt exclaim until his pipe ran dry. Yet Larkspur is charitable enough to say tha} probably, since his unsuccessful dip in that spring, the man who wrote the Examiner water pipe dream has wa- ter on the brai | THOMPSON BRIDGE CO. \ SECURES THE CONTRACT | TWO FERRY SLIPS AND WHARF FOR THE VALLEY ROAD f Baltimore canyon,” “Bacchus and Venus ®0P0P0P0PP0L0S0$0®0€0S0E0S$0$0S0 | Resume of the Work in Progress and That Which Remains to Be Accomplished on the New Line. Yesterday the directors of the Valley Road placed the contracts for the ferry structures at Point Richmond with the | Thompson Bridge Company. These contracts call for the construc- tion, within a reasonable time, of two ferry slips and a_wharf which will ex- tend from Point Richmond 800 feet into the waters of the bay. One of the slips will be used for the passenger boat which will run from its Point Richmond termi- nal to the Union ferry slip at the foot of Market street in this city. The second slip will be utilized for freight. There the cars will be loaded on floats which will carry them to the company's depot at _the foot of Bryant street. From Antioch, half way between Stock- ton and Point Richmond, the road is now being pushed toward the Alhambra Val- ley, at the upper end of which will be erected the much talked of 1700 foof, steel viaduct. Between these points are situ- ated the five tunnels which have all been put through and on which the workmen are now busy with the timbering. The rails haye been lald two miles west of Stockton to the San Joaquin River, over which the bridge has already been erected, and is so near completion that another week will see the track laid across it. When this is done the work will, be rushed over the twelve miles that intervene between the stream and the Middle River. Though the bridge across this waterway is well along, it will prob- ably be over a month before it is finished. —_————— Trade Unions Jubilant. Trade unions all over the city are jubilant over the prosperous condition of | the labor market, together with the fact that wages have been kept at the standard rates. Carpenters, painters, bricklayers and stonesetters are finding all they can do in and about the city. The union rates and the eight-hour rules are being obeyed, and as a consequence there are no murmurings at the union meetings. The last of the unions that had a difficulty in getting employers to recog- nize the established rate of wages was the painters, but now they have but very few complaints against bgss employers An active employment market adds num- bers to the roll of initiated members at every night's meeting. As an example of this ‘increase in new members, Painters’ Union No. 73 initiated twenty-three mem- bers at its meeting last night and re- ferred eighteen applications to Investigat- ing committees. A corresponding increase can be noted with the Carpenters’ Union and, in fact, with all other unions. The principal trouble of the organized unions at present is that of getting the United States Government to smooth the way on work on the transport vessels which are being fitted out and undergoing | constant _repairs at the Union Iron ‘Works. Between the contractors and the | Government agents the workmen are un- decided as to who is responsible for vio. lating the eight-hour law as passed by Congress, and they are still trying to solve the' puzzle. _——— JAP STATUE'S last days at Art Saloon. Going East, then to Paris. = Jewels to Commanders. At the meeting of Golden Gate Camp, ‘Woodmen of the World, held last night there was presented to each of the fol- lowing named past consul commanders of the camp a magnificent gold emblematic 1is had come from joyful Arcady, wheraY- ® |0 * o ® badge of his rank in the order: J. L. Geary Jr., Richard Fahey,George H. Will- T. Moses, J. W. 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