The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1899, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1899 SEASE AMONG THE M A Case of Suspected Smalilpox. it IT DEVELOPED IN THE CAMP;MORE TROOPS OFF TO MANILA LI A USUAL PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO PREVENT INFECTION. A e The Thirty-Third Ordered Away on the Sheridan and the Thirty- Second to Go the Same Day. B TRMNSPORT AN | LEELANAN VERY . SOUTH DAKOTA — There are reports of among the volunteer case having more regiments, the last developed among the men of the South Dakota regiment now awalt- muster ou The case {s that Larrabee of Company M of He was taken to general hospi ssterday mc g fering from a high fever. H the hospital more than fore he began to show & pox, and t cated to ( charge of tt to Colonel Forwoo departm at once of the spread mptomn communi been placed in d erty belong tent and the te also be destroyed. bee has not yet been s ntion for w wn undoubte of the & to risk ¢ lated in t has hose who at- d him have also been detain S0 m in keeping him yment. Should the will be sent out n the ot 1 the South in the the the d camp of ‘detentio for ed the to Man with ry; Hughes, Thirteenth Aeutenant Charles E, 1 v;_Second In ry Fuller, ond cobson, who cut Michael on the steamer to Stock nber 13, was vesterda Jail for three month . the charge having be ADVERTISEMENTS. The fond mother dreams great dreams of baby’s future as she holds the sleeping little one in her arms. But the dreams will never come true unless she has iven him a strong body and a healthy mind. Children d}e in hosts, or live to struggle through life feeble of body and dull of mind because the mother was unfit physically and mentally for moth- erhood. - Women who use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription endow their chil- dren with strong bodies and bright minds. It is every mother’s duty to give her child the advantages of a healthy body and mind. A weak or sickly woman cannot do this. *Favorite Prescription” makes weak women strong and sick women well. Mrs. Orrin Stiles, of Downing, Dunn Co., Wis. writes: "1 have been intending to write to you since my baby was born in regard to what * Favorite Prescription has done for me. 1 t praise it enough, for I have not been as carsas I now am. Injuly last T had veight 11 pounds, and T was only sick me, and since 1 got up have not had day. 1 have not had any womb trouble since I got up. 1 was not only surprised myself but all of my friends here are surprised to see e 50 well. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure biliousness. Pierce’s Prescription EOWL Cut-Rate Druggists 75c Drug Co. 1128 Market Street. . F. 816% GEARY ST., bet, Hyde and Larkin. Painless Extraction.. Joints) our first” prizes for specialty this _branch of No students. 16 years' experlence. | Corner Fourth and | Market, 8. F. Try our Special Brew Steam and Lager, be. Overcoats -.nd’ Valises checked free. bad sickness | | son of Willlam D. are that another gang will go to work on the Valencia to-day. The men say that_all they ask is a \t-hour day on Government work, an they will get it. They have no desire to driv trade away from the port, and e confident | that they will not do'so. . bosses are afraid that If an eight-hour day is granted on Gov i} w the demand will then extend to the shops. This, the boil- ermakers y, is not a and they are willlr to bind B s not to am- | | did not know | tract, 0000000000000000OOOODOOOOQO00000OOO000000006000OOOOOUQOOOOOC‘OGOC’OOOO GOOOOOO00000000 BADLY DAMAGED It Will Take Weeks to Repair Her. A - BOILERMAKERS ARE WORKING ON THE GLENOGLE. LG Three Sailors on the Port Patrick Injured in a Storm—Battleship Iowa Off on a Practice Cruise. ST Two more sports got away vester- | day. The Centennial with a load of horses went into the stream Tuesd ight and anchored. At § a. m. yesterday she sailed | nolulu. The Centennial will not anila this trip, but will land her at Honolulu and come back here | for another load. On her return to the islands she will aboard the horses nd cargo be- st and get ac- left for Portland two hours Centennial. She will take on r Manila, and n imbia River the transport dispatch. Among ay y on the £ enant §. glish of the Infantry. was formerly of the Eighth California, but commission to the Thirty- He is a sh, secretary of the Harbor Commission. A host of friend: were down to see him off and wish him a safe return. Half a dozen boilermakers are at work on the transport Glenogle and the chances offic received fifth Regiment a few days ago. an 1v make any direction for demand in that six months. 5 is the only } re is any trou- Iron Works has the con: of the steamer’s furnac The boiler- and one has been removed to the shop. makers say that they will have to be em- ployed to put it back a , but the con- tractors assert that they can do the work themselves. Both sides are firm at pres- ent, but there seems to be an undercur- rent setting in the direction of an amica- ble settiement. The L aw went on the drydock yes- terd She was ashore at Montara while trying to m . fog and came in An examination showed - seriously dam- There 1ged t as 2 cipate re several big de n the port . a »uple of plate 1, 4 large num- of rivets are gone and several holes were punched in her bilge. As soon as the extent of i was seen it was_decided to her off the vdock in or m for the Duguesclin. T I had_the right of wa lanaw_pa lege of doc weeks to repair Duguesclin_ will have : were temporar aunched ags sStowaway s ne trans- went to the battleship will prob- ain Saturday, as nly going out for target practice. The Tahiti mail boat ‘dropic Bird docked at the sea wall yeste Cap- tain Jackson says that duri entire na ever biew str round trip it a1t breeze and the sea was like glass nearly all the way. Mrs. d'Ancona, wife of Dr. Arnold A. d’Ancona, was a passen- ger for the round trip. She made the age for her health and had a me 4 hightful time. She in love with I and thinks it _rivals the paradise of the Pacific. The Tropic Bird is another ves- ' sel that suffered through the lightship not being in position. She had been 400 miles oft shore since the 10th inst. and when Captain Jackson did make the place where the lightship should have been he what to think. Luckily a lot-boat came along and one of the pi- fots brought him in. ship N Port Patrick arrived S. W., and the Castle < yeste al- Rock from Swan: day, both ¢ hi left here in a sailing ship for some time. The steam barge Fruto, built for th Sacramento Ri carried all the Eastern =id plendid time. San Frane well. ! MAUSER BULLET LIES DEEP IN HIS BRAIN =3 T is séldom a bullet plows nearly through a man’s brain and leaves him life enough to complain about it, but that is what happened to John Gret- zer, of the First Nebraska Volunteers, who is now at his home enjoying health and strength with a steel-jacketed Mauser comfortably resting in- side his skull. It is one of the most interesting cases the war has provided for the edification of the army surgeons and when the forthcoming medical history of the war is published, Gretzer and his bullet will be found the chapter of greatest importance. The man was shot in the forehead in one of the battles of the Filipino insurrection last March; the bullet entered his brain and remained there and after being unconscious for a little over a day and spending four weeks of ease in the hospital, Gretzer joined his command and served the remainder of the time his regiment was at the front. Gretzer returned to this city when his regiment came home to be mustered out. He was feeling no evil effects from the forelgn substance in his brain, but he was worried over its presence for he knew it was in there and he feared the consequences. He had no idea where it was and he was anxious to find out, so while his regiment was walting to be discharged he called upon Colonel Forwood, the chief surgeon of this department, and asked his advice. Colonel Forwood told him the only thing for him to do was to have an X.-r: photograph of his head taken, and he save Gretzer the address of Miss Fleischman, of this city. Gretzer went to her and the result was an- other interesting thing in surgery—the finest X-ray photograph of a skull that has ever been taken. The sides of the skull are so thick and the texture of the skull so dense that It has heretofore baffled the skill of the radiograph experts and there has been no picture extant of a foreign body inside the skull: but the picture of Gretzer's head was a triumph in more ways than one, for it not only s a marvelous specimen of the work and value of X-ray photography, but it gave Gretzer all the information he was look- ing for. It showed the skull perfectly and near the back of the head, about an inch and a half or two inches from the skull, is the shadow of the Mauser, There is no mistaking it. The bullet has not been distorted in the least, and it shows clear and plain almost in the middle of the brain. It has been turned down a little in its passage through the tissues, and the point of the bullet is directed toward the back of the neck, but it lies in plain sight in the photograph, and there no doubt of its presence. ng been so successful with the photograph from the side, Miss n tried one from in front. but the patient was restless and ner- and she did not expose the plate long enough to secure a good shadow, but the print of the bullet can be discerned deep in the brain and just a lit- tle below the level of the left eye. The history of the case is a most wonderful one, even from a standpoint not medical. When Gretzer was shot he dropped Insensible instantly. He still inzensfble when he was taken to the hospital, and it was supposed hie would not recover, but after a little more than twenty-four hours he gave signs of returning consciousness, and before long he was awake again and on the road to recovery. At first there was a slight paralysis of the right side. It is well known to the medical profession that an injury to the left side of the brain will show its effect on the right side of the body, and vice versa, except in the organs of the head. It caused no surprise, therefore, when the pa s appeared on the right side, nor when the sense of taste in the left side of the mouth was lost. The wound healed rapidly and without complica- tions, and besides the paralysis and the loss of taste there were no other symptoms traceable to the Imbedded bullet. The bullet entered the forehead about an inch over the inside of the left eye, and for a time it was believed the eye was affected, but as it grew better immediately and after a few days gave no further signs of weakness, the trouble was charged to the shock of the striking missiie and not to the result of its presence inside the skull. There was then no effect on the man's mental powers or upon his speech, and although the surgeons here watched closely for any effect upon his memory or his mind or upon any of his senses, they have had only their wonder for their pains, for the man is suffering in no way from his souvenir of the war. Within a month the paralysis that affected Gretzer's right side had dis- appeared, and the only remaining reminder was the dulled sense of taste, for even that was growing better, and by the time he left here for his home his taste was again normal. He was wounded in March; before the middie of May he was again on duty with his regiment. There is no way of getting at the bullet except by an operation which would in all probability prove fatal, but there is no necessity for getting at it. It is being taken care of by nature. By this time there has been formed around it a little membranous sac or “cyst,” and in this it will prob- ably lie until the man dies from some other cause. Unless an abscess forms within this cyst there can be no trouble, and if an abscess was one of the results of the wound, it would have appeared before now. Of the wound itself there is scarcely a trace. About the time Gretzer reported to Colonel Forwood, there was on this coast a Dr. Parkhill of Denver, a noted specialist of the brain, and Colonel srwood called him in consultation as to the location of the bullet. From his examinations of the man, the information he received of the wound and its results, and particularly from the radiographs, he came to the same con- clusion that had been reached by Colonel Forwood and his surgeons. Ac- cording to them all the bullet lles just at the bottom of the left lobe of the cerebrum or large brain, and resting on the “tenorium,” the membrane that separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum, or small brain. Had the bullet entered the small brain it would probably have proved fatal, but even as it was, it was never supposed the man would survive. Gretzer was at the hospital most of the time he was out here, not as a patient, but consulting with the surgeons; for the man was much worried over the presence of the bullet. He was assured there was a probability that there would be no more danger, but to make sure he was given a let- ter to a noted surgeon near his home, and at the first sign of trouble he will go to this man to be operated upon. In the meantime the surgeon has been given a full history of the case and has been furnished with copies of the radiographs. The symptoms the surgeons fear most are convulsions and epileptic fits, for to them the most wonderful thing about the case, next to the man's complete recovery, is the fact that he has shown no signs of convulsions or epilepsy even from the first. The man is well; if it were not for the little leaden pellet in his brain he would be as if no Filipino bullet had ever marked him for its own. The radiographs are the property of the Government. As soon as she how far the results of her experiments had exceeded her expectations Miss Flelschman took the plates to Colonel Forwood. He declared he would buy them, and he telegraphed to Washington to the surgeon general for permission, giving an outline of the case. The answer prompt. Col- Forwood bought the plates and they will be the best part of the medi- cal history of the war. f=ReR=ReReReRuFeFuFuRuFeRaFeicFeFePePeFaFeRoRoRuRaFaFeFaPayai e b=3 COOOOVVOOVLOVVO O VLOCL OV OUVVRVOVUAVIOVIROVVLVOVCY ard canned fruit to the value of $162,- nd canned salmon valued at $103,2 is the most valuable cargo that has housed, where formerly they were de- | graded and ignorant. Captain Charles Nelson, the well-known shipowner and lumberman, is now in the | East. He went to Washington on a visit with Senator Foster and will be in New trade, has proved her- f a great suc fruit for shipment to the yacht race. market to Sacramento and be- |~ The B: carrying a very large load made | Mare Island and will discharge her cargo She is now, that the rush | of coal into the collier Seindia. carrying potatoes and grain to, Adolph Anderson, a sailor the o and is doing remarkably | schooner Jennie, on over, btain Peter Anderson, formerly of | loon. He was arrested yesterday by De- the tug Transit, has returned from the | tective Dillon and locked up in the Harbor Nome gold flelds. He expects to| Police Station on a charge of grand lar- laden. During the last twenty-four hours | Cape 3 rensty 21000 tons of coal camé In through taMe command of the tug Walter Hack- | ceny. and of this only 6600 tons | ett in a few days and go lnl.d lh? tow- | = — —_— - from Puget Sound ports. Tk boat busini on the bay. Captain An- | @e33e25e25e2%e%5+5%+ 2% +%50%450%+@ s from Cardiff, Sw derson says that Cape Nome is richer | ¢ ) Newcastle, Australia than the Klondike and that provisions are | g The Shak ) The Port Patrick hlentiful and not dear. L . however, 5 weather during the fi P 5200 a thousand and “conl 36 ton, K3 le Shakespearean plays to | age. A suc Steamers are lying a » ¥ | At z hfih, confused & ga Ry of them without owners. | & be read'during The Call’s Au- age to the deck it two o cis that cost 40,000 were sold for $1250. | & S 2 ports, carried three of the saflors into_the | and others went for enough to carry thelr | 4 tumn-Winter Home Study Circle fcuppers and severely infured them. They | owners back to San Francisco. Captain | & Series will Consi 3 had their legs and arms broken and were | Anderson knows the Yukon country well, ) 4 o L bruised about the body. They will be sent | as he tramped from ?'v»%‘?‘”rlr‘{;"gl#)nri"{:: .'y eries will Consist of- o the Marine Hospital. Son on snowshoes and was mas | « . o o e ation <hip Aristomene, which | steamer §t. Michael, the first vessel to g8 The Tammg of the Shreyw. R O R OB O S R g ] At s A S SR el SUR SUR S SO RO br. R. L. Walsh, [ na .’\‘rl(rs have done wonders with the Indiams | g8 are now well educated and well | esterday for Liverpool. took a ed y alued at nearly $£300,000. Besides cargo wheat, honey, cascara and wine, she had | and the VANKEE SAILORS WILL MAN OUR overland, which, as usual, was a mander John M. Hawley, who has the Hartford, which ha hip. Commander Hawl gation at Washington for the I tlonship into which he he was glven charge of the Hartford of making shel and % years. MONG those who arrived at the Occidental on Tuesday evening on the n converted Into a Government training 3 been in charge of the Bureau of Navi- ast three years, and owing to the close rela- has been brought with the enlisted men of the nmavy and intrusted with the difficult task acks out of about 39 land lubbers between the ages of 18 This idea of a naval training ship is something entirely new, and owes its origin to the suggestion and unremitting work of Commander He says the mission- | ¢ igate the Yukon. “Love’s Labor Lost.” “Comedy of Errors.” “King Richard I1L.” “As You Like It.” “Coriolanus.” “King Lear.” “Othello.” P ICTCFCICIIC I PO S gihtaatindht e Babies are always blessings, But they YANKEE SHIPS few hours behind time, was Com- come out here to take command of SRS RN Re RN R R wasn’t for their persistence in keeping awake when other folks want to sleep. itish ship Dunsdale has gone to | 202025080 NN N NN NG RNINRR & | was therefore In % | emphatically denies that any favors were i | or are being shown, but he declares that © | the steel cylinders called for in the speci- | missioners at the regular meeting of the | board_yesterday afternoon, when ‘Secre- | bor Commissioners—Gentlemen: ~ We, the undersigned, having learned that your hon- orable board Is about to give considera- | tion to some changes in the plans for the | construction of the ferry slips at Main | street, on which we recently tendered you bids, | | Just advantage to those persons who were in- | vited on the second bidding to complete for this | tle reason to doubt that their bids would be | | peat, that the changes that are now recom- | mended to be made will be a very decided ad- vantage to the persons to whom the contract | was awarded and a great injustice to all other | fore, we earnestly solicit your honorable board | make no changes at this time, unless it becomes | however, the secretary read the following | letter from the chief engineer, in which | | written a week ago: | the Harbor Commissioners a rebate of $1200 1f SO00OVOVOVVVVOCIVOVLUVVOVOVUVVOTAVOLGY| During the rush she | York for the Dewey celebration and the | is accused of robbing | Harry Johnson of $45 in an East-street srfi { would be considered doubly blessed if it | farence in the award of the contract. | mitted their bids that the desirability of | o | that to be the case DISIPPOINTED BIDDERS FIGHT OVER CHARGES Criticise Ferry Slip Specifications. S e PROTEST AGAINST CHANGES T FAVORITISM CHARGED AND FLATLY DENIED. st Chief Engineer Holmes Declares That the Kickers Have Only Them- selves to Blame for Losing the Contract. gt i The unsuccessful bidders for the con- tract for the construction of the new ferry slips at Main street, which are to be used by the Santa Fe, are making a strong fight against the proposed changes in the specifications, which they claim will materially benefit the successful bid- der, the City Street Improvement Com- pany. They also hint that the latter firm knew before putting in its bid that the changes referred to would be made, and a position to underbid Chief Engineer Holmes | PIRVIVPRRPRRPP VOV RVRVRVP VPP RV C IR BV VR VSRR PR NNV INPRPOPRERTR RPNV RSP D;’ PPV PP PVR PRIV P LRV VIV PP PR P R R RR VR DO P RRRRE RN its competitors. all the contractors knew before they sub- substituting wooden stave cylinders for fications was under consideration. The matter came up before the Harbor Com- tary English read a letter from the ag- grieved contractors, of even date, voicing ther protest. The letter Is as follows: To the Honorabie, the Board of State Har- do mcst respectfully protest against same, be- lieving that at this time before any of the work is executed, it is giving a decidedly un- | work. If either of the undersigned had been aware that they could sucteed in having ad- vantagzous arrangements made after the con- tract was awarded to them, there is very lit- very materfally reduced, but on the contrary, all of us bid cn the supposition that the usual custom of your engineering department would be adhered to In this case, viz.: “'A rigid de- ¢ ipliance with the speci- varticular,” and believing we were obliged to base qur estimates accordingly. And again we re- competitors who bid on the work, believing as above stated, that they would be obliged to comply strictly’ with the specifications; there- to adhere to the original specifications and clearly evident the changes would be necessary | to make the work more perfect in some particu- | lar than the specifications outlined. Very re- | spectfully yours, DUNDON BRIDGE “ONSTRUCTION CO., LAYDON, A. McMAHAN. Previous to the reading of this letter, the proposed changes are recommended, | To the Honorable Board of Harbor Commis- | sioners—Gentlemen: In the matter of the pro posal of the City Street Improvement Com- pany (contractors for building the freight slip for the Santa Fe Terminal Company) to allow wooden stave cylinders are substituted for the inders mentioned In the specifications and which was referred to me, I desire to re- port as follows: Just before the receipt of the second pro- posals for this ferry slip I sent to each of the original bidders an amended specification, ask- | ing for bids on the aforesaid wooden cylinders | | | in lieu of the steel ones, and on the advice of the attorney of the board the same was with- drawn for legal reasons. This I mention for the reason that I desire to call the board's at- THE EMPOLIUM. - | THE "EMPORIUM. PRSP EORP SRBRRPRIRRERTTY PIFPER SR FERR BRI Al Hazzard, best! 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We offer to-| Gold Band China 75c Dress [ @ o i 6 Dessert oyt Fabric, 52¢; oine: o Plates for 38¢. pi:.., nove ty suitings—iancy checks, faney|having sizht manufacturer’s imper- chaviot diagonals ani curlel mohair, | fections, which rangirg in width from 44 to 50 inches,|do not detract, in colorings suitable for ta:l aad winter however, from wear, our reguar 7be per yard qua'i- their good ap- ties —for. ..82¢ pearanca, reg- ular price $1.75 | per dozen—on H Big special of-|special sale this Groceries- (5N LGy oy, st of Liggeaorss thuriuy, Friday md|6 for.....38¢ Saturday. | £ acon - Fastern sugar cured—spe- We ol ; i place on sale caal, per lo.. 12:.c For Sash [* v o o Bird Seed P ain or mixed, ;é“' Curtains: i s o nce ;xr\y;'c'l"*’ 1bs ffif,‘;‘ Sgre fi‘Laca Curtains, svitable for short cur- Eemo .04'..9,._'{0 e tains and sash curtains, at about one- e | half regular prices—each Salt—Pure Eigish, 10-1b bags, regu- Tar y 20c—fo- the three days.....12¢ 15¢, 206, 25¢ fo 50c. is day only, 2 Eourbon Whiskey— "0l Crow,”| spring 91, 107 proo’, 1ull quirts, oz Wi pe@a s g For th only, cases of high- grade Printed warly $1 35 each—for..........$1.00 - Zinfzndel—A choic: table wine, Fabrics, 7c. a galon—for the three| F annclettes, about 30 new styles and &3¢ colorings, mdium and dark colors, good reg! regularl. 7 L T L e L e L L L L e L L e e e L L L L T T L L L L L L T eI T LTI T LY days os Ginger Ale—Imported (Cantrel & fabric for house dresses and wrappers, a Cochran’s)—special, per dozen.$7a4 &' 10c per yard value for..........cco.c..... 7€ b3 Qfi AEBBEEEAELBESIRNS S44 SEAASHAESSS “ii‘(‘.i§§ A e e v e —— tentlon to the fact that all parties bidding on this work were aware that when the same was finally awarded, the successful bidder would be asked for a proposition on the above-men- tioned wooden cylinders. T_think the allowance proposed by the City Stréet Improvement Companv is a reasonable one, and that the change is for the better. I, therefore, recommend ite acceptance by the board. _Respectfully submitted HOWARD C. HOLMES, Chlef Engineer. Mr. Dundon and Mr. Healy were present and addressed the board. but their remarks were simply a reiteration of the protest. Chief Engineer Holmes sald the chang- ing of the specifications was not without of and 2 was let to Healy, Tibbetts & Co. | for 3823 The petition of A. W. Foster of the Cal- ifornia Northwestern Rallway for the construction of a covering over ferry slips 1 and 2 wa chief engin Presldent J. cific Coast Railroad for a change location of the Belt railroad tracks ive his com | &\ communication from Henry Peterson complaining of the unscrupulous action | tors in taking passengers out many, T. O. Heydenfeldt, Frank Sime, H. | S. Manning and Herman Kohn, there will | be ‘another delighttul “ladies’ night” in | the lodge’s e¢legant quarters in Central | block. 'he affair is to be strictly invita- Teferred o the | tional and there will be a first-class en- s 'was the petition of | tertainment for the guests of the mem- Stetson of the North Pa- | bers. in the to | Company pany more room. IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL 4 Jaunch M. Harcourt Clarke's Great Yachting I certain_boatmen and proprie- to war- 3 4 his, float and & N G precedent and cited the case of a ferry ships in the harbor from Song, “To the Winner of the Cup.” 3 4 ealy, ' ) B av! them to get back as best Wherein the specifications were changed | Wharfinger. after the letting of the contract. W. E. Dennison of the City Street Im- | provement Company said his firm had been furnished no exclusive information. | his report. The first set of bids for the construction | of the ferry slip was rejected because | they were consldered too high, the lowest | being over $33,000. The second time the bids were opened it was found that the teel cylinders is estimated at about $2700 and the board is saved $1200 by the sub- stitution of wooden stave cylinders, Chief Engineer Holmes says he cannot see where the bids of the protestants could be pared enough to make any material dif- The contract for repairing the bulk- heads between Folsom-street wharves 1 A communicat of Alameda offering to furnish eucalyp- | tus piles for 122 cents to the Chief Engineer. These plles June of next year, when it that the wharf will be completed. | information was board order for another steamer, a sister ship to the Californian, the American and the transacted and the board and means com Lodge, Protectiv Elks, composed o ion from Herman Cordes DEATH OF MRS. BROWN. a foot was referred e Mrs. Susanna Brown, the well-to-do have substitute for pine “We offered to make the change at Mr. hflm found a good | widow of Richard Brown, pioneer and e el Sl e e A P etter was recelved from Willlams, | capitalist, died suddenly yesterday in her Uk whether or not the board accepts tins | Dimond & Co. thanking the board for |rooms at 1824 Sutter street. The case was | offer. We stand ready to carry out our |assigning to the use of the American-Ha- | reported to Coroner Hill, who found on contract” The whole matter was re-|wailan Steamship Compamy Howard- | nyestigation that Dr. Carney had been ferred to the attorney for the board and | street wharf 3 at a rental Of ¥20 DOU|,onding Mrs. Brownfor several yearsand an informal meeting of the Commission- | month, and announcing that the com- | 08 q s L et the aflment that finall ers will be held this afternoon to receive |pany's new steamer, the Californiap, | arid heraway. = y would be ready to recel She had risen at the usual hour and is expected The conveyed fo the had placed an before she had fully dressed was seized | with an_apoplectic stroke and fell to the | floor. Her housekeeper and the maid_at- | tempted to administer the usual remedies, | but she was dead before they had reached also that the company original bidders, including those whose ! ¢ 5 Signatures are appended to the protest, | Hawailan, {0 be called the Orekonian. | Mhe deceased lady was born in England R;{:rp:al&o‘dnf"fififi err'itge ’Zfi’é”éflm.‘l‘.\if retary was instructed to inform the wri 7!; years flfgml.l&'rsh:}é%flf! e wealthy D Company, whose bla wab niext to thed ers that they. were Iaboring under.a mis; | ploncer and diec 52 years ago. one submitted by the City Street Improve- | apprehension, inasmuch ag no assignment e S ment Company, offering to do the work |of Howard-street wharf 0o tofax Has an Insane Streak. for something over $34000. The contract | made untl Hhe A me TOther | A. C. Lawless, a soldier who was ar- s O e o v e iiisinesaiof minorimontance twsl| reatedi Septembers [§ (orscuttnm -Mrk A, LR IS vabtad s sl o] adjourned. Sparrow in the Montgomery avenue thea- ter with a razor and was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, took an oo s ot Elks’ Ladies’ Night. insane streak in his cell at the City Prison On the night of Friday, the 6th of Oc-|yesterday morning by tearing off his tober, under the direction of the ways |clothes and shouting. He was sent to the : mittee of San Francisco |insane ward in the Recelving Hospital {and will be examined by the 5 3 Insanity Commissioners this morning. e and Benevolent Order of f J. P. Dunne, A. J. Car- B R S S R S A e e S R S S S A aRs P s a s e e SRR Hawley. who has long been a strong advocate of such an institution for mak- ing American sailors for an American na’ 23 When seen vesterday Commander Hawley sald: “Yes, I am out here to 4+ take charge of the old Hartford, and expect to leave about the first week % in November for a crulse to Hampton Roads. Whether we will go around & the Horn or westward via China remain: et to be determined. The Hart- 4 ford is now at the yard, but will go into commission about the 2d of next '; month, and in about five weeks from that time will start on her long trip to the waters of the Atlantic. 300 boys with us, and before we get to our journey’s end we expect to have 300 first-class seamen to turn over to the Government. Most of these men come from § Paul, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland and Cincinnati. They are of the best stock in the country. They are young— the Government will only ept men between the ages of 18 and 25—of good character and they are all American born. There is no reason in the world why they should not turn out to be an honor to the country whose battles they may be called upon to fight. Most of them have heen receiving instruc- tion at the vard for some time past and consequently will not go to sea en- tirely ignorant of the duties they will be made to perform. “Phis idea of a training ship Is something new. The Government has had apprentice boys for many vears, but this is the first time it has devoted a vessel to the work of making sallors out of grown men. “The idea that the American navy is full of foreigners is a mistake, The percentage of American-born men now in the service is about 87, and this will be rapidly increased under the present system until the whole service will contain nothing but Yankees. We want all the good men we can get. The Eastern coast is about worked out for the present and we want to get a fey men from the West. The quota of enlisted men allowed by Uncle Sam is still about 1700 short, and I see no reason why it cannot be made complete with the young blood from this end of the world.” The Hartford is the same vessel which won such glory as the flagship of Admiral Farragut. Her upper works are all new, but her hull {s of stout liveoak and is the same hull that plowed the shot-churned waters of Mobile Bay. 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