The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1899, Page 10

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1899. ADPVERTISEMENTS. It Happens Low-Priced Eye-Glasses. | Ours are as inexpen wish to b and ha extra co k repair- 0 tory Main 10, . J w2 Hor Rafereii) i H T SHIC APPARATUS, OPTICIANS /5, orAPHL PPARATS 642 MARKET ST. INSTRUMENTS wndtR CHONIC T A BRUSHES FOR BARBERS, BA! ers rs, factortes, stublemen, to , tanners. tallors, eta, BUCHANAN BRO acturers, 609 Sacramento St Brush Man RAILROAD CANDIDATE FOR A HIGH PLACE onday. That smart Reefer you see pictured opposite. in a pretty Tan Shade, Velvet Collar—just as smart and cute a little Winier Coat jor little chaps between the ades of 3 and 8 as one couldimadinea $3 60 coat. Monday it will be SHADE TN SEAL BROWWN, ROYAL BLUE. RAPHAEL (INCORPORATED), CORNER KEARNY STREET AND UNION SQUARE AVENUE. Elite Chinaware for ELite PeopLE. | GreaT Lert Over SaLe | Prices Away Down. Youw’ll Say So, | | When You See Prices. American fmporting Tea Go. | Stores Everywhere. | X00 Stores. Gen. N. P. Chipman for Inter- state Commerce Commissioner. Petitions in His B ehalf Circulated by Herrin of the Southern Pacific. L R SRR SO < L O S S S 2 GENERAL N. P. CHIP cific Company’s Candidate for Interstate Commerce Commis HERE s a vacant place in the Interstate Commerce Commission, | c d by the resignation of Will- iam J. Calhoun of Illlnois, and the sentiment In California is pro- nounced that President McKinley should fill the vacancy by the appointment of a capable, independent &nd broad-minded resident of the Pacific Coast. The States and Territories west of the Missouri River | are not represented in the commission, al- outh, New England, New Middle West have represen- s a matter of fairness, from a , the demands : Coast cannot be set aside. s do not contend that ent should appoint & citizen of this but they do advance the contention oue member of the commission Among yminent public men of Oregon an commissioner may be found, on_may present a candidate of | fitness, California could pre- n fitted in eve: ission. The man—mea; on that the commiss » from rai resid that sug- ioner should be he Southern Pacific Company e for Commissioner. Herrin is ed for signatures requesting the President to appoint General N. P. Chipman of Red Bluft. eral Chipman is regarded as an ¢ gentieman, but he Is the candi- of the Southern Pacific, and there- 1is eppointment wouid produce wide- a fore b epread discontent if not outspoken indig- nation. One of the main purposes for the crea- tion of the c every person all that pert: mmission was to secure to ust and eflual treatment in ns to public transportation. R an e S O e e o e e S ) e e e e S OSSN ) the | sense to serve | road alllance and affiliation, | e to the knowledge of The | ng petitions to be circujat- | 0o rie b ei e e 0D & 990 208000000990 D e o R S %p, o ool Qo © MAN, the Southern Pa- sioner. It must be obvious, therefore, that a man closely allied to the powers that manage and control railway transportation ought | not to be selected for service on the Com- | mission. The great body of consumers and producers on the Pacific Coast, whose interests are so vitally affected by the cost of transportation, could not be prop- erly served by General Chipman: He could not maintain an independent and fearless attitude in the Commission. At all times he would be confronted with the fact that | the Southern Pacific_influence had becn enrolled to secure his appointment. He | would be Impelled by a sense of common gratitude to protect the interests of his benefactors, |, Californians have learned by long and | bitter experience that State Rallroad Commissioners brought forward and sup- gor!ad by Southern Pacific agencies have een unfalithful to the interests of the people. In a measure the Interstate Com- merce Cofnmission bears the same rela- tion to the Btates that the State Commis- elon bears to the counties. The Commissioner to fill the Calhoun vacancy should represent the producers and consumers—the people who pay the cost of transportation. If General Chip- man bad all the business qualities of a first-class Commissioner the fact that the Southern Pacific had selected him for special preference should be deemed suffi- clent to exclude him from the list of the desirable. A aid A railroad candidate ought not to be chosen. The Southern Pacific has an un- doubted right to produce a candidate. The same right is enjoyed by the Santa Fe and the Union Pacific, but the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the Pacific Coast should carefully study the wishes of the ple before ‘they recom- mend any applicant to the President. If the President desires to gratify the people of the Paclfic Coast he will not ap- roint General Chipman. If he desires to | m in DPlease the Southern Pacific and offend the beople he will appoint General Chipman. CONLON BURIED BILLS TO ESCAPE EXPOSURE Accused of Filing Many Claims for Unde- livered Goods. |School Board Demanded His Resignation, but Crimmins Saved Him From Degradation—Gedge and Armstrong T is due solely to the intercession of Philip Crimmins that School Direc- tors Conlon and Gedge have not been deprived of their profitable posi- tions on the Supplies and Building and Grounds Committee of the Board of Education. The same influence has been exerted these past few weeks to save them from {nevitable disgrace and to pre- serve their commercial value as School Directors, but to that end it has not proved potent. Director Conlon stands not only accused but convicted of about every time-worn, crooked graft that ever swelled the income of an acquisitive member of the School Department; and the lady-like Dr. Gedge, who has sworn loudly and long to his honesty, and found much difficulty in proving it, is with him. Director Arm- strong, chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee, 18 running not over a length behind, although the Finance Committee of the board has not yet com- pleted its investigation of his official ca- reer. It is due to this same investigation by the Finance Committee, and the evident anxiety of that body to keep the truth it discovered from the public, that every fact and phase of the charges which The Call made against Conlon and Gedge have been given to the public. For a month past the committee has been rigidly in- specting every account of the two com- | mittees, but fearing that it might suffer by association, facts, has, that all was well. Not until the last meeting, wnen it deprived Conlon, Arm- stro; nd Gedge of all power in their respective committees, was there an ink- ling to be had of the things that were under the surface. The first irregularity which came under by a revelation of the | the notice of Chairman Harry Holbrook of the F' nce Committee was that Conlon and Armstrong had expended in a little over thirty days §23,000 without authoriza- tion by the board. The fact that that amount had been burned up at a time when the department was working under a reduced appropriation and when = the schools were nished condition was so remarkable that more than & casual investigation was be- gun and the startling fact uncovered that a generous lump of that amount was claimed by Weber & Co., dealers in school firm of long and oftentimes connection with the School De- In fact, Weber & Co. were rep- d by claims aggregating $8000. made the largest item in r Gedge, who signed most showu buy at that time ns, ks to refurnish half the schools in the department was not a svlf—e}'ldf‘l!l fact, so Chairman Holbrook sent George Walker, inspector of buildings, out hrough the schools to check off every Kk that had been put in. r returned with his list and he »lbrook went at once to Weber & where they demanded the firm %, that_they might make a compari som. The Webers, however, had ness with the schoc too long in the bus : T to be guilty of a break like that. te: they refused, and promptly informed C lon” that the department was onto hi: peculiar work. Conlon then proved gratefulness by throwing Weber & Co. down. Instead of standing for an inspection of h sitions, he hurried to the secretar: requi- office and pulled both requisitions and bills off | the file thereby preventing Holbrook rom making any comparisons at that end and ctively concealing any dis- might_exist. g that Conlon’s act had prevente om proving it, Holbrook got up n open meeting and accused him of contracting bills in excess of his allowance without the nec ary authori- zation by the board. R ing upon the t that he had destroyed all ev ( lon coolly denied that he had don such thing, and there the matter re- mained. The Finance Committee, however, was convinced that Conlon was grafting and resumed its investigation even gre or vigor than ever. Ged, 3 signed with Conlon ail of quisitions, got nervous, and as chair- an of the Elementary Committee the principals of the different and attempted to get them to support Conlon by vouching for old requisiions and standing for new ones. At the same time the Finance Committee was making od use of Walker. Through him it came Into possession of many of its most important facts. Gedge counted him a friend and poured into his ear most of his intentions and all of his troubles. Walker played both ends against the middle and promptly car- ried the result of these little heart-to- heart talks to Holbrook. “Crooked George,” as Walker is called by his political assoclates, was, however, not all Holbrook's; anything he could get lled *hools ADVERTISEMENTS. HALF BLIND FROM ECZEMA Three Children Afflicted. Whole Bodies and Faces Sore, Raw Tried Doctor after Doctor for 20 Months Without Slightest Relief. Crying Constantly. Couldn’t Sleep. Tried CUTICURA. First Application Gave Relief. Cured in Fourteen Days. *y second child got eczema when seven nonths old. Three months later my first child 20t it, and following him, the last one, two years old, fell a victim. For twenty months they suffered fearful agony. Their whole bod- cs, especially their faces, were €0 sore and raw that tho littie ones were blind half the tiu . No words can describe the suffering of my second child, whose whole body was one bloody mass. He was constantly erying, could get no sleep, and he actually did not look hu- n. I tried doctor after doctor, but gone af- forded the slightest relief. I decided to try CUTICURA. The first application brought re- lief in each case, and after fourteen days’ treatment with CUTIOURA S80AP and CuTl- cURA (ointment), the worst case was cured, and the whole neighborhood is surnrised at the wonderful effect of CuTICURA. Icontinue ' the use of CUTIOURA S80AP for the children, because it makes the little ones look splendid. Nov. 28, 1898. Mgis. ANNIE RING, 515 E. 13th 8t., New York City. In all the world there is no other treatment so speedily effective for distressing fants and children sa CUTICURA, greatest of skin cures, blood purifiers, and humor remedies. A warm bath with CUTIOURA Soap, and asingle anolnting with CUTICURA (olntment), parest of emollient skin cures, will afford ipstant Telief, permit rest and sleep to both parent and child, and point to a speedy, permaneat, and economical cure, when all elss falls. t id. Porrer D. axp C. Corrs s B ot How to Curs Baby Rammors: T FACE HUMORS *= “isoiir St ™ from time to time reported | nown to be in a well-fur-| Just why Chairman Con- | As a Crimmins man, | Implicated. hold of concerning committes matters he as promptly carried to Gedge, and it was the simultaneous discovery of his du- licity by both ends that led him to offer Pis resignation two meetings ago. Both sides of the board having tumbled to his game, his resignation was refused and he was then whipped Into line by Crimmins and forsook Holbrook for Conlon and Gedge. Upon the resumption of the investiga- tion other facts not bearing directly upon the point at issue but tending to confirm the general suspicion were discovered. The committee could not quite understand | how Payot, Upham & Co. could afford to pay Gedge $2000 to secure an $5000 paper and ink contract, as charged in The Call, but a little investigation led to the dis- covery that the Payot-Upham people were also the actual owners of the Prang sys- tem of drawing, which Gedge worked siduously to have accepted, and when that firm desired to accomplish any- £ in the line of a general contract it usually pooled issues with the agent of Gunn & Co., the American Book Company, who has his offices over their stores. Coupling these facts with the discovery that Gunn & Co. had succeeded through Gedge in keeping in use in the schools the greater number of their books, the com- mittee quit wondering at a small thing like a $2000 commission and got back to the main point. They were interrupted af:ln by the in- | formation from Freeman Lewis, who had been getting from Armstrong all con- | tracts for repairing school bufldings, was | acting as agent for Conlon, who, with his cousin, Charles H. Shipman, ' owns a profitable paint business at 1032 Golden Gate avenue. 1t was further learned that Shipman was the assistant storekeepcr of the School Department, and as such exercised supervision over the supplies bought by his partner and cousin, Con- lon. Weber & Co. played the next hand when they discovered that Conlon had | surreptitiously withdrawn their bills from | the files in order to jmpede the commit- | tee’s Investigation. In doing so he had | left them without any security for over $3000 worth of goods. They promptly pre- pared duplicates of his requisitions and their agent handed them to Secretary Simpson with the request that he file them regularly. The Finance Committes heard of the Webers’ action and called a meeting for tions a few of the things it has proved on {ts accusers. Meantime the investi- gation progresses and there is some good stuff being furnished the Grand Jury, de- spite Gedge’s oft-repeated boast that his fbr!(elnds have already “fixed” that worthy ody. LOVE TURNED TO HATRED. Miss Annie M. Forbes, a dressmaker at 611 Ellis street, secured a warrant from Judge Mogan yesterday for the arrest of O. C. Shaw, a clerk in the office of the Pennsylvania Oil Company, 306 Market street, on the charge of felony embezzle- ment. She Is 30 years of age and he is 45. For the past ten months he has been courting her and they were engaged to be married On the strength of their engagement Shaw got $64 from her. She has now learned that Shaw has a wife and children In Oakland, and as he refuses to return the money she wants him arrested and punished for his duplicity. ———— A MALE IMPERSONATOR. A Dr. Jekyll and Hyde Business. It s an old saying and a true one that self-praise is no recommendation; but when people think that the way to win public favor is to deceive by pretend- ing to be another man the other feilow has to speak out and sound a note of warning in behalf of the public, as well as_himself. Surely Charles Lyons must have the public favor or new men would not open stores near him, their only hope being tuo try and do business on Lyons’ reputa- on. Charles Lyons, the London Tallor, has but one store on Market street, at No. 721, In the History building, and a branch store at 122 Kearny street . —————— SINGULAR CAUSE OF FIRE. Employes of a lodging-house at 66414 Howard' street started a fire in a novel manner yesterday afternoon. They were engaged in exterminating parasites and used a lighted candle for that purpose. The blaze they applied to the backs of the little pests, causing them to sizzle and shuffle off this mortal coil. The can- last Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of comparing the figures gathered by Hol- | brook and Walker with the bills as pre- | sented. Information d been coming in | that, although the bilis footed up $5000 and odd, goods to that amount had not | been delivered and that, with the con- nivance of Conlon, the Webers were at- tempting to get even on the $23.000 they lost by the old Board of Education, and the committee was determined that lhe; comparison should be made in order substantiate that belief. Conlon W equally determined that they should not, and when the Finance Committee met on ‘Tuesday and called for them Simpson had | forgotten to file them and himself w nowhere to be found. He turned up a d. later and claimed to have lost them, but Holbrook found them somewhere in the etary’s office. That Tuesday afternoon meeting of the to Finance Committee was nothing If not | stormy. There was already a plan on ! foot to force Conlon’s resignation from the chairmanship of the Supplies Com- mitted 1 ten votes had been Only Gedge and Conlon % it up. himself were not on the list and they hai not been consulted. Armstrong had been forced to stand with some difficulty, but the fact that ne con- | was suspected of letting printing tracts to his own firm, under an assumed | name, and that on this account H Ibrook | | had refused to audit the priniing bills, | was used on him for all it was worth, and | | he_finally came to time. During the afternoon Gedge was called in and_some pointed questions put to him. He was asked flatly for a history of his connection with Conlon’s financial { manipulations and why he had plunged into Conlon’s defense every time the probe of the committee came close to the mat- ter It was after. He was asked to ex- plain why he had called in the principals of the school and forced them to back | up Conlon’s requisitions whether they Lad ever signed them or not. He asked also as to his $2000 connection with the Gunrs, Payot, Upham and__the Prang drawing books and other things. | He could not answer with any satisfac- | tion to himself—or Conlon. His reply was startling and convincing. 5 a member of the committee said after- ‘He immediately went into hys- B and opened a senseless attack on poor Holbrook.” Turning on Holbrook, his voice choked with tears, Gedge yelled dramatically: | “I have disco you at last! You have | | decefved me. Far a wear past you have been taking me out to champagne sup- pers but cnly to get me drunk and make me tell what I kn o “‘Quite £0,” cool retorted Mr., Hol- brook, and then Gedge was permitted to shed his tears and his hysterics in the cuter corridor. It was not over an hour before Conlan was informed of the board’'s Intention to { force his resignation and he hastened to S with the news. Crimmins pulled President Bergerot down and forced him to promise that he would not vote to take Conlon's scalp. He also called Cole and “Billy” Kemp off. Con- lon himself took the contract to quiet Armstrong and Ed Head. He approached the former and asked him If it were true that he was standing in to give him a dose. Armstrong replied | that he had to do it, whereupon Conlon wanted to fight and blazed out, “If you do, Armstrong, I'll tell everything I know and we will all go up for it. I've got no family connections I care a d— for and would just as soon go across the bay for a while as not.” Armstrong was looking for no exposures and he followed Bergerot ond the rest over to Conlon's end of the argument. Conlon did not see Head until the next evening before the regular meeting. The Finance Committee was holding a dark- lantern session in Superintendent Web- ster’s office, and called Conlon in to de- mand his resignation. Conlon came, ail right enough, and upon seeing Head got fighting mad and called him several, to say the least, uncomplimentary names. He informed him that if he voted to de- throne him he would prove him a thief of the first water. Head got as mad as Con- lon and handed over a few warm packages of his own. Conlon was then asked tor his resignation, and, knowing that not enough votes were left to force him, he r?mrm.nly refused to write it. Bergerot elped him to the extent of getting Head out of the way by complaining of ‘liness and asking him to take the chair for the night, and then the committee went down- stairs into open meeting. Head, as per Bergerot's suggestion, was in the chair, and all danger to Conlon was at an end. The Finance Committee, however, in- sisted that he, Gedge and Armstrong be put in a position to do no more gragting and to at end adopted a resolution ‘which rovided that all committees should thereafter have thelr requisitions indorsed by the president of the board and chairman of the Finance Committee. On motion of Holbrook all of the bills except $1600, which Conlon had contracted with Weber & Co., were repudiated. Gedge and Conlon claim they are being persecuted by the “Club Five.” While loudly shou(lng their Innocence of all the charges proved against them they claim the reason for it all is that the five are attempting to force them to stand in on a deal to copsolidate the Polytechnic High School with the Mission High School, in order to throw Joseph O'Con- nor, the principal, out of his job. They assert that the scheme is fostered by former School Director Hyde, who de- sires O'Connor’s place for his favorite, ‘Walter Bush. The club_ faction laughs at the story and in reply simply men- | A | age had been done. | honor of the grand Italian compo; dle in some manner ignited the bedding in one of the rooms, and for a time there were prospects, of a serious conflagra- tion, as the structures in the neighbor- hood are all wooden concerns. An alarm was turned In from box 61 and the fire- men subdued the flames after some dam- The building is the H. Swayne and was occu- sen, who conducted property pied by N the lodgin —————e Verdi Day at the Park. The following special programme of music will be given to-day in Golden Gate Park in , on of R. the oc n of his 8Sth Ballet from Chorus from Scenes from ‘“‘Ernan Overture from ‘‘La E Flute golo, fantasia from *I (Performed by A. Lombardo.) Quartet and storm scene froin “‘Rigoletto ... Veral “Ii Tro- Verdi Mr. Paul De Los After returning from a trip in South- ern California will be connected with Koenig's, 123 Kearny street. ——— Died From His Injuries. Fritz Dorr, a carpenter, who was in- jured by falling three storfes in the Crocker_ building last Wednesday after- noon, died_at the German Hospital vesterday. Deceased was at work on the Dbanisters ‘when he slipped and fell, frac- turing his skull and leg and sustaining internal injuries. He was 33 years of age, unmarried and resided at 517 Howard street. —_———— Ladles’ tallor-made suits, fur capes, cloaks, M. Rothschild, 334 Post st. —_——— Hit With a Brick. J. M. Teal, a capltalist, living at 2721 Pine street, was passing a_building in course of construction at O'Farrell and Credit. . ADVERTISEMENTS. - LAGE CURTAIN DEPARTMENT. During the past week we re- ceived six cases of FINE LACE CURTAINS and CURTAIN NETS, and on Mondagy, October 16th, we will exhibit an elegant assortment of these goods. 500 pairs FINE LACE CURTAINS, White and Ecru, in imitation of BATTENBERG, IRISH . POINT and FISH NET. > $3.00 Pair, 500 pairs FINE LACE CURTAINS, White and Ecru, in imitation of MARIE ANTOINETTE . * $4.00 Pair, RENAISSANCE and PARIS POINT.. 500 pairs FINE LACE CURTAINS, White and Ecru, 1n imitation of BRUSSELS LACE, POINT : de CALAIS and SPANISH LACE...... $5.00 Pair, The ahove Curtains come in ahout 40 different designs at each price, and are the best values we have ever offered. u, 13, 15, 17, 19, 121 POST STREET. WWWWWWW Painless! Painless! Painless! Painless! Dentistry! EVENINGS until 9. all day. Full Set of Teeth, pain- Sundays “VAN VROOM?” ‘_l(-ss ex(rm‘llozns free.. 3.28 up Gold Crowns, 150 up Fillings Z5cup | 997 Market St., Corner Sixth. Teeth Without Plates Our GEO. W. ELEISER, D.D.S. Specialty. We give gas. Mason streets yesterday afternoon when and struck him on the head, Inflicti a wound on his scalp and another behl:g the left ear. He was taken to the Re- a brick descended from an upper story Special electric elevator and will be found: Wool now at the special price of Linen m wool waists, toilet sets and towels We give this sale during the coming week in order to introduce to the public our new second and third floors where these goods Ladies’ all wool flannel waists trimmed with white and black braid; in the latest fall styles, really worth $3.50, $2. Damask figured huckaback hemstitched all-linen towels, size 24x48 inches, worth 75¢, now 50C each Toilet sets Ecru tambour lace toilet sets consisting of four pieces to the set worth $1.50, a special for 7 5C a set. 129 Kearny St. celving Hospital in the ambulan had his wounds.attended to. g —_——— Eureka Valley Lodge. Last evening Eureka Valley Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen celebrated its eleventh anniversary by an entertainment and dance in Twin Peaks Hall. There was a large attendance of gentlemen and ladies who appreciated the {Jrogmmme of songs, music and recita- lons, the participants being L. W. Isaacs, Walter Malloy, P. M. W.; Sam Booth, G. 'R.; Mrs. Walter Malloy; Master Ar- thur Parent, Miss M. McDonald and Miss Henning, Miss O'Connor, T F. e M ast Supreme Master Workman W. H. Jordan and District Deputy Jonn T Kid delivered addresses, after which there ‘was dancing. —_————— Divorce Suits Filed. John Foster has sued Thomasia Foster for a divorce, alleging desertion as cause of complaint. Emily McKenzie asks for a divorce from John A. McKenzie on the ound of failure to provide. Lucy Bear . as been granted a divorce from her hus- band, Soloman Bear, on the ground of desertion. Judge Daingerfield awarded Mrs. Bear $15,000 as her share of the com- munity property and $400 counsel fees. Values beautifully equipped waists CASH OR LITTLE-AT-A-TIME, i towels At all prices and eve price the lowest in the city Our low prices on office desks are famous. We have received another carload this week. THE J. NOONAN E COMPANY (Inc.), 1017-1023 MISSION STREET, Above Sixth. Phone South 14. Open Evenings.