The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1899, Page 2

(&) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 BY WIRELESS {11.0L.THEY'RE OFF™ MARCON ure of ind rebellec s and h might be kid hung Market when e behaved at Western 1 Tnlt VICTORY PERCHES OF THE SPEEDY COLUNBIA rked be mo he drew abeam of e laggard Shamrock still reaching for the ter mark. Dropping a courtesy to her 1 e so pronounced that it almost a er bellying b 1 jib aback, the Yankee cutter then flirte heels at the Shamrock and sped int k of mist T ne rolling 1 as if to her's defez To tho were eager to follow t smbia in her run to the light- ship the wait for the rock to round the outer mark seemed a long and tiresome one. The Columbia had vanished in a drift of vapor and to » excursionists it seemed as though the amrock would never get to the mark round it. Eager they all were to fol- the American boat jn her homeward ver was a finer picture pre- low flight, for n sented than that she showed as she drove nto that bank of mist, her sails looking hostlike as they faded into indistinctness and finally disappeared. It was all imagi- atlon, of course, but it looked to the watchers as though some of the lead- colored atmosphere, some of the weight of that dense fog, had got into the Sham- rock’s keel. Slowly she drew toward the bobbing mark, and a bit sluggishly, half- 1 she rounded it, and it seemec with booms a-swing and bellying aker and bailoon jib added to her other salls, took the trail of the van- ished leader. That she had many admir- ers the excursion fleet, or that the ex- cursfonists felt m mity toward the shown by the nolsy, whistles which greet t Gelayed performance of ind the turntng mark. before the leading yacht Long reached the finish line it was a foregone had conclusion th lumbia’s. the victory was the Even the most extreme of the Shamrock's advocates admitted that, and none of those hesitated to say that the reason of it was that the Shamrock had been outsailed. The Irish boat was hopelessly beate work to windward, beaten so badly even her mc optimistic followers had iittle or no hope of her being able to over- come the lead which the Columbia gained on the first leg. There were some who for a_few minutes held to the belief that the Shamrock might overcome that ad- vantage on the homeward run, but these Gid not hold that view long. And still fewer, if any there were, who believed that the Shamrock would be o cleanly, so overwhelmingly defeated as she was In to-day's struggle. Despite the weather conditions it was magnificent and to the few who saw it, it made up for tiie re- peated disappointments of the past. The excursion crowd was a small one, for the day was anything but promising, and [e in t there had been =0 many failures in the past that comparatively few took chanc with the weather, | his E with a new one. | oods with such an to believe none of He ws tter TELEGRAPH 11 44 BRISKNIND FROM EAST- NoethES S awc o To @A 12:80.. SnAnKocn{coNrmuEs' MARCONI . KINETOSCOPIC RECORD OF THE BIG CROWD RE 2 PM. COLUMBIA TURNS. 3t~ CoLUMBIA IN ZONE OF CALM WHILE SHAMROCK CAME ALONS \WITH EVERY S Al FILLED MARCONI .. MARCO M.~ <17 55 COLUMBIA CROSSES LINE COLUMBIA WINS. MARCONI. ADING MARCONI'S YACHT-RACE BULLETINS TO THE CALL. And so it went. Those reading The Call bulletins were kept fully informed of the movements of the racer: to see boats through heavy =Y bla still gaining, | depend on the yellaw kid got an insight mrock ‘‘appears’ to be pointing | into the old buf interesiing game of per- haps. A Marconi bulletin on The Call's nbia to windward and | board announced the turning of the stake- ahead boat by Columbia seven minutes before sign om the | the Examiner posted that event. That 1t this shore, says the Columbla Sematng Uall for ho yeliow S0, Bbic was motiing A ng as she could d nguish the two yachts. | At 1 p. m., San rancisco time, SgEn ophan Ay = rt beach life | myxaminer posted this bulletin: saving station that they e heard whistles, € minutes apart, and they “‘sup NEW YORK, 3:15 p. m.—Colum- pose” that the yachts have turned the stake- | bia more than half way home. boat at about those | Shamrock gaining, but Columbia It would car from the date lines of | ¢i1) leads by a mile. (Delayed in these r vellow kid bulletins that | o = o 3 he aught in another lie. With a great | (YansImission.) ey owing of tin whistles he lingered a I Delayed in trans lon | Nof axperk S 2 il 4 ment, like wireless telegraph mind v several davs on the announcement | vi..only delayed in transmission. How | tha the Mackay-Benne cable-boat | much, do you think? Let the next two | would follow the vachts over t bulletins tell 1 send out bulletins in the Less than ten seconds later The Call | fashioned way experin threw the stars and stripes to the breeze llow kid; no, siree. If he ind posted truth, then Columbia Wins. nderful The big wd in front of The Call its faculty of board gave one great yell and started to to wanst . A number of people who all way and Long "n comparing the Marconi the “perhap: vstem Examiner board to read erhaps ere w ¥ in_transmission” bullet mes hat the Columbia was more tra ssiom, T home. padding, to tell the e on you th some one the great yacht race waiti e vellc kid's bulletin com- owds in front of the tice Wha the matter with is paper. They w velled others. “Don't yvou know ay ahead of any t vel ce is o ? lumbia win kid r four awful minutes the poor fellow 1cisco stood the jibes, then he caved in, It was ti too much for mortal man to stand. Sor body ran to him out of the crowd & anciseo time—the | spoke. Grabbing his brush, without hax 1 bulletin, “Race is on,” | ing received message from the vello n the tin whistle. kid's er agent he wrote “Columbia isco_time, The Call| w A minute later the little yellow m.—First four miles | boy blew his tin whistle. ed half Columbia | Delayed in transmission! Worse than k every way." that slegrams received by The C: me. just twenty- | during the progress of the race tell why the Examiner yellow Here are three of them from fits 1 10 a. m.—C York correspondent: ia leads by Four mi .. 1 p. m—Nothing en b: :ee * been covered e same t Other papers are copying Marcoul vui kid took a long stick and letirs, N Y., 1:03 p. m.—Herald wires Grand Duch- poked Shamrock ahe is, Sir'| d been Like the true sportsman that he Thomas Lipton, after the race I won and 10 dmitted that he had been fairly 1 squarely beaten. He had no | apologies to make for his yacht, no ex i cuses to offer surrendering but he has no thought until the series is run. TECHNICAL STORY OF COLUMBI@'S GREAT VICTORY NEW YORK, Oc chts ha When a cor- Michaels after with Mrs. Iselin had just arrived were gathered W YORK, Oct. 16 | respondent visited the St | the race C. Oliver Iselin and a party of frien: from the Columbia aft of the little pilot house. There was ticular sign of exultation on the the managing owner of the cup ugh he did look extremely 16.—The crews of both d breakfast early and when th 10" soon after 8 o'clock It was a will, for, in spite of the rather | azy weather, there was a good breeze from the eastward, which promised to in- he said, “that I have rment to make. We we had the better particular co to-day becaus n crease and give the vachts a good race at | hoat. I have felt that all along. Now st. Jibs and staysails were sent up in | othersy I think, will admit it. We aro on the stays, racing hatches put u.ull_v lulrm-a to-morrow, :m:l‘ tw“v.hl? fair, s lasl ol ade | wind and sea we are prepared to take our St Gl Con ffmfm.m?-',l_ | chances with both. The boats _sailed i e e °~ | well to-day During the race we did not cast off from her moorings and | have a hitch or accident of any sort. 2 in tow by a tug. The Sham- | arted in tow a few minutes later. were on the mainsails and club verything stood the strain in a perfect he crew of the Columbia were board- Covers topsails to keep them dry until the last | ing Hulr l{-nd‘nr fur““'\ll r_rasl lh?mc.“r\xl’- sas just enough fine | respondent drew aw. enthu- i t, as there was just enough fine | SETRCHS (il “more apparent than rain to dampen them. that of the Iselin group, and Captain At 10 o'clock both had reached | Barr, who sat in the stern of his boat, the east end of Gedney's channel and at 10:10 the Columbia’s crew began hofsting insail. It was set in five minutes. mrock’s mainsail began to go up ame time, but it was fully fifteen inutes before the sail was set. At 10:25 both yachts cast off their tow 1 broke out their jibs and mastheaded ieir No. 2 club topsail. The Columbia | smiled in his own quiet way. able to outfoot the Columbia sufficiently | to tack across her bow, a little later gave her a good rap full. The gre yonded nobly, and to some it appe Bat <he wa sing the Columbin ve st. So she but she was losing out- ward ground every minute. When the t T also sent up her baby jib topsail on the | ghamrock tacked to port at 1L:15 and the stay. At the same time the committee- | Columbia thirty seconds later it was seen boat Walter Luckenbach anchored due | that Barr had so placed his boat on the | weather bow of the Shamrock as to spil & the back wind into the Shamrock's salls, It was east, | pilearth was obliged to keep broad off about thirty seconds to get out from Under the Columbla's lee. By 11:20 the Bristol boat was quite an eighth of a mile to winaward and outfooting and out- south of the Sandy Hook lightship and sent up the course signal. making it a beat dead to windward of fif: 1 miles and a run back if the wind held from the same quarter. The regatta committee meant business | this morning, for a few minutes later | pointing her rival all the l.lme' they started the tug to log off the course | Captain Hogarth, finding that the and at 10:45 the preparatory signal was | Shamrock would not point as high as the made. Both yachts then began maneuver- | Columbia, flattened down his sheets as ing for positions, and at 10:35, when the | hard as he dared and had to be contented warning signal was given, they were with giving her a good full and letting hamrock went about to starboard at 11:33:30 and the Columbla five seconds later. At 11:45:30, when the Shamrock again tacked to port, the Colum- bia was fully a quarter of a mile to wind- ard of her. The latter tacked five sec- onds later. Captain Hogarth was getting desperate now, and he resorted to his short tacking tacties, in the hope that his boat would forereach sufficiently. to playing for a weather berth to the north- ward of the line, the Shamrock breaking | cut her staysail at this time. | When two minutes were left before the starting signal both yachts were head- g, a couple of lengths apart, to the westward, with booms to port, the Co- lumbia to windward. The Shamrock be- gan to head for the committee boat, which was lying at the south end of the her go at that. The line, Captain Togarth's intention ap- make a material gain to windward. At parently peing to stop the Columbia, then | the conclusion of the struggle Hogarth a length or so astern, from getting the | found himself farther to leeward than ever, the Columbia having been, if any- thing, quicker in stays and a better fore reacher. At 12:50:15, when the Shamrock settled down again to business on the ort tack and the Columbla, after stand- ng on two minutes longer, came about to the same tack, it was found that the Bristol boat was half a mile dead to windward of her rival. In three more tacks the Columbia still increased her windward lead. The Shamrock people at 12:25 took in her baby jib topsail, hoping that she might point better, but it was in vain, for in ten minutes they set the sail again. It was taken in twenty minutes later for a few minutes. Bach yacht | made twelve tacks in the windward work |and in all these the Shamrock took the initiative. Captain Barr waited for Ho- garth to tack, and with but one or two eptions he put the Columbia about within thirty seconds of the other boat. The last half-dozen tacks made were longer than the others. The outer mark, which had been obscured by fog, was vis- ible to the yachts soon after 1:3). The wind became lighter as they approached | it, but it increased a little in force as the | Columbia made her last tack. She looked very handsome as she approached the mark on the port before she had fairly made the turn and as she squared away on her homeward course the great sail was broken out from stops. The same moment the main hoom swung far off to starboard. They were exactly eighty-five scconds setting the spinnaker. The Sham- rock's men beat them only five seconds in than the latter boat, but her sails were | this work. all full and she was pointing higher from | The official time at the turn was: Co- | the moment she started. | garth, thinking that his boat would be| This shows that the Columbia was 9:49 weather berth. When' the starting gun was fired the Shamrock had run parallel with the line to nearly the center of north. Shie still held her course until nearly over to the lightship before she began to luff to cross the line. Captain Barr, on the | Columbia, held his yacht well in hand, | being at this time a good length astern, with sheets flat aft. He began to luff the moment Hogarth did and, shooting the Columbia across the Shamrock’s wake, he sent her across the line more than fifty yvards to the windwargy of the chal- lenger, and with such a go8d owerlap on her that, according to the official time, she was only three seconds astern, The officlal time of the start was Shamrock, 11:01:03; Columbla, 11:01:06, Both yachts now were close hauled on | the starboard .tack and were carrying | exactly the same sail—mainsail, club top- | =ail, jib, foresail’and baby jib topsail. As soon as the sheets were trimmed all | hands except the men stationed at the head sheets jumped for the weather side :lmd ‘);uddlhe"rl! close down to the star- | board rail, while the skippers watcl each other like hawk o Fateheg There were not many yachts or excur- slon steamers out in time to see the start. | Those on board the small fleet had a splendid view of the start. The first ten minutes were anxious ones for the friends of both yachts. After that time it was all over but the shouting. In five minutos | the Columbia had widened the distance to windward between herself and the Sham- rock fully a length. She heeled more Captain Ho- | lumbia, 1:48:19; Shamrock, 1:58:08. those forced to | i | pears to be.” Just to show what isyit. Then he turned and, reading|erse: ‘We are all alone with bulletins; other nt by this, read a few ples of the | one of his own misleading bulletins, began | papers copying." bulletins posted by ®he yellow fellow. proddin ;{1)\ t'r]vlnm'm;\ 5:\,»{ ll\a(l th ri“l‘ ‘gv; \m; 1:06 p. m.—-Other papers copying or 3 : J % were neck and neck. How he e | Here they are taken verbatim from his|peart tg give the Columbia the worst of it | In the fact of this severe lesson will illetin board, quotations calling atten- | for half B BB o eenlaln WA R e e S e o T | tion to the perhapses: he flaunts a sign that he is “an American | fake and guess and play perhaps? Will | wrock gains @ little, “Al | Paper for the American people. | he ever become a little gentleman, admit his mistake and apologize to Marconi and The Call and admit_what little liar he has been? Or will he brazen it out, with his tongue in his cheek and his thumb and fingers distended and ex- tended from his nose, and try to make the people of San Francisco believe that black is whit s are news? Who knows? Probably! To-day he will, may- | be. have another try at perhaps. The Call is prepared for him and promises, in addition, to give the readers of its bul- leting the best story of the race fresh | of from the air waves generated by Marcont. There is every prospect for the race, which will be over the triangular course. To {llustrate it clearly, The Call has built a triangular cou in front of its busi- ness office, and over this the vachts will be moved in the relative manner they move over the real course. You cannot afford to miss it. The yellow kid will be tanned as a side show in full view of the audience. MARCONI'S MARVELOUS | a_shameless | by mist, rain or distance from the re-!end of the fifteen-mile beat it ceiving #tation at the Highlands. Pa promptly announced and the fact that sengers on the Grand Duches who had | the Columbia-led by a mile and a half as flz she approached the shed watched the operation of wireless teleg- turn _was a | raphy on clear days, agreed that it hore when the thick fog made it impos- it that the quired a fog to emphasize its value. Bet- | sible for the news to be communicated to A was oL snFHE by ter conditions than those of to-day fore the waiting thousands in any other way, boards of e newspape a demonstration of its practicability and | \When the Columbia swept down toward le these sensational paper i usefulness are not possible. the lightship under a_mountain of can- ofaloek swere ANHGURGHE. N1 The fog zave a horizon of about four | Vi nd crossed‘the finish line, winning | iype that the Columbia had won (neir miles, making it impossible for the yachts | the t race of the series for the Amer- |latest news from wce bore th me to be'seen except from the boats that ica’s_cup, Marconi alone was enabled to | mark of 1:43 an nnour lowed them over the thirty-mile course. announce the result before the smoke of | that a returning This done by the Grand Duches the ;:u‘n of the committee boat had disap- | 1:35 o'clock the C¢ and Marconi coulc es keep peared. quarters of a mile ak A ol BRI dmes Teeen sThe reception that the winner recelved | S DO EID vachts was fully described in the bulletins | from the attendant excursion boats an = io the Herald and The 1'.2”,‘ When the | yachts was reported, and the fact that| ADVERTICEMENTS. WORK IN SENDING NEWST’ NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Tt was a race in a fog, and Signor Marconi rose to the occasion as did the gallant Columbia Standing calmly at the key of his in- | strument on hoard the Grand Duchesse, the inventor of the wireless telegraphy em flashed the news of the Ameri- other agencies were silent. The elements themselves seemed to have conspired to | defeat the old methods of reporting yacht The course was from the Sandy Hook | lightship straight out to sea, taking the ntesting yachts many miles away from Navesink Highlands and other observa- tion points on the Jersey shore. From the moment the yachts left their anchor- 1ge and moved outside the Hook, they t to vision from the land. Car- | ons released from the excursion | through the haze and perched on | boats. Balloons sent aloft from | tugs within view of the racers could not be distinguished two miles away, and | they were useless signals. With all other »ms failing, Marco- ni's wonderful invention was unaffected | can victory to a walting world, while all | | he dropped her head sazils and took a Columbia and Shamrock engaged in a luff- 3 line from her tugboat before the Sham- ing match, one following the other’s lead and tacking with searcely thirty rock finished was glven. At the time of BeTh e e e the finish the fog shut in the yachts and Known in San Francisco before it had | €xcursionboatsso that no glimpse of them could be seen from the land, and the quickest time in which the result of the race could be taken ashore and delivered been repeated. Those on board the Grand Duchesse were all_wide awake to what was going on, and when word was passed 1 ¢ a from the shore that the Marconi bul- ifl' n[ ;e‘ligx:\xph 0 :Lcco’t;}cfl!;g“a\lbgmg\‘; m}\é e e iRe nly ones promptly glv- | i ea’to San Francisco the news of the ing events of the race a hearty cheer was given by the excursiohists for the invent- or of wireless telegraphy. It at once be- came apparent that all other agencies for reporting the race would prove unable to cope with weather conditions which p vide both wind and fog. No glass was powerful enough to pierce the mist which every now and then dropped close to the water. | Columbia’s defeat of the Shamroc In Herald square was a big crowd before the bulletin board. Although Marconi's messages showed that the Columbfa soon after noon was a mile ahead of her rival, one newspaper was announcing that up to that time the race had been “marvelously even” and that the Columbia ‘‘could not be said to have any considerable lead over the Shamrock.” Herald square resounded The Grand Duchesse took its position | the > outside the western patrol line and as gith cheering when at four minutes of 4 nearly as was possible on line with the Signor Marconi sent a message announc- leading yacht. ~Signor Marconi, imbued {Ng that the Columbia had crossed the with the enthusiasm of the occasion and line a winner at This was the only convinced that in a way he had the world Teliable news of the result received for at his mercy, pushed his assistants aside Several mintites and the crowd became and himself stood by the sending ap. highly enthusiastic. From Signor = Mar- paratus rea to catch the bulletins as | cOni they learned a moment later a point they were handed him and flash them |2bout which they were next most anx-| through the fog to the receiving station | 10us. that was the extent of the Colum- on the Jersey coast. It was soen that the Dia's lead. Within a minute from the time Columbia, in tacking to port at 17 minutes | the Columbia’s victory was »\m‘.nynud after 11 o'clock, had taken a slight lead, there came by wireless telegraphy _the which the Shamrock was vallantly striv- Dews that the Shamrock was nearly a i me. This was know mile behind when the Columbia crossed the Herald office just one | theline. To this was added the news that hutes is from the the excursion fleet was cheering the vic- time it tchers on the | tor and that the whistles on all the boats bridge of the Grand T were screeching in joy over the cup de- The first four miles of the race carried fender's success. The enthustasm of tho: that of those ore immediately joined who had witnessed the race. Five minutes after the result had been announced through messages from Mar- coni the bulletin was posttd ty other parers. It was their first actual news of the result, although “dummy” editions of the Journal and the World had then been the yvachts so far from the stations that it was imposs any of the news agencies to even make a rea- sonable conjecture as to what was going on. In the meantime Marconi had in- formed the public that the Columbia was still outpointing the Shamrock and had made a gain of nearly half a mile in vindward work. Eath successive in le by the Columbia was reported an relative positions of the yachts were given from time to time. When the mark boat placed the buoy for the turn at the graph I inouncing the victory of the Columbi These ‘“‘dumm editions, bearing in red and blue ink the announcement ‘‘Colum- bia wins,” were on sale in the streete at [ISELIN AND LIPTON TELL HOW [T WAS DONE. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Sir Thomas | Lipton took his defeat with the spirit of | a true sportsman. “It was a fair and | square race,” said he, when interviewed | on hoard the Erin. “We were beaten fairly. No two boats ever sailed a better race and they were equally well handled, as far as 1 could see " Speaking of the Columbia he said: “She is a fine, fast boat and she was splendidly safled. We gave ber three rousing cheers nd her people responded right heartil Mr. Iselin and those assoclated with him on board ar ind I wish to say that it is s to sall | against such competitors Asked if wished to bout the Shamrock, Sir honoratle gentlem Dl asur something Thomas sai |COLUMBIA AGAIN My beat was well sailed and the sails were well handled. I have no complaint to make at all I sald before, it was a square race and we were beaten We shall have another morrow. I hope, and I think ths will be plenty of wind for both vacl ! All those on board the [ who saw | the race agreed that there were no flukes, but both yachts were satled on their merits. Columbia < 3; of 37:05, showing the Columbi actual start had been 9 ahead. The elapse for the fift Shamrock, 2 n from th the (his was a great victory for the Co- lumbia. for both yachts had covered the distance in a steady bree and at no time were they fit by any puff: The Columt 2 s of wind. s balloon jib topsail was set immeciately after the spinnaker, and the headsails hauled down. She her fifteen mile run to the finish at about eight knots an hour. The Shamrock's balloon jib topsail was set seven minutes after rounding the outer mark, and for a tme it seemed as though she was over- bauling the Columbia. At the time that appeared to be a reasonable conclusion, because she, being the stern boat, was in position to take advantage of any squalls that might come along. It soon became evident, however, that her ap- parent gain was only imaginary, and that the Columbia was not only holding her own, but, as the figures showed later, she, was really gaining. The firish line, marked by the commit- tee boat and the Sandy Hook light, was not visible until the yachts were within a couple of miles of it. Then there was a rush of steamers to reach the goal ahead of the yachts. It could not be called an exciting finish, | nor was it a tame one altogether. boats were present to witness it and the weather was so depressing that as a spec- tacle the finish might be called a poor one from a picturesque standpoint. Both in time and distance the yachts were so far apart that it was a rather poor finish from a sportsman’s view. When the Columbia, her great yellow mainsail abroad off to starboard, swept across the finish line the Shamrock was scarcely visible astern, only the outlines of her sails being seen. Ten minutes and eleven seconds in time elapsed between the finishing of the Columbia and the Shamrock, which means In distance about a mile and a half. The official time was: Columblia, 3:5¢ Shamrock, 4:05:10. Elapsed time: Columbia, 4:53:53; Sham- rock, 07, Corrected time: Columbla, 4:53:53; Sham- rock, 5:04:01. Thus the Columbia wins by 10 minutes 14 seconds actual and 10 minutes 8 seconds corrected time. The elapsed time of the Columbia from the outer mark to the finish was 2 hours 6 minutes 40 seconds; Shamrock, 2 hours 7 minutes 2 seconds, showing that in the fifteen miles before the wind the Columbia had gained seconds. After the race while the yachts were be- ing towed back to their moorings, Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht Erin ranged up alongside the Columbia. The Erin's offi- cers and men, led by Sir Thomas, gave three hearty cheers. They were quickly responded to with cheers from the Co- lumbia’s men, led by C. Oliver Iselin. A number of vachts fired guns as salutes to both yachts at the finish. The flagship Corsair was among them, and as soon as the American yacht had crossed the line So few nough apart to bene- | began | | their foresight at one of the larger hotels. It s reported to-night at another hotel that a_prominent member of Sir Thomas J. Pierpont Morgan ordered nd ensigns to be hoisted at X the Americ: each masth, Every steamer saluted with her whistle ' Lipton’s party had sold a bet for' $1100 and the Shamrock’s welcome was quite as on the Shamrock for $50 just before the as the Columbia’s. The yachts and race thig morning. xcursion fleet soon vanished in the | Several backers of the Columbia at the homeward bound hotels announced to-night that their side | bets on the first race would clear all their expenses. In several ca their winnings mounted to more than $1000. LIBEL SUIT AGAINST MRS. EDDY HEARD FAVORITE IN BETTING | NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Betting on the | again changed to-night. Money had | even when the excursion boats | 5 been steamed down the bay through the fog. It had been 10 to 6 In favor of the Co- Woodbury agalnst Mrs. Mary Baker Ed- lumbia when the racers began their | Y, head of the Christian Sclence Church, course of failurs Then orly even money | in Which the plaintiff seeks to recover as given. Now betting again favors the | $150,000 for alleged libel, came up in the slumbia. Several bets to-night were equity session of the Superior Court to- day, the hearing being upon a demurrer to the plaintiff's declaration. After a discus- sion by the counsel the court took the pa- pers under consideration. > cup -defender at odds of 10 of Wall street brokers who fon wager of $i000 made merry over | made on tt The Famous Hawes Hats. Hawes Hats have not solely a local repu- tation. They are made in New York and are sold from one end of thisland to the other. Therearz agencies in all large towns and cities. We have the San Francisco agency. If you wear a Hawes Hat once you will always wear them. They cost Same price everywhere they are sold. They come in stiff and soft shapes: Derbys Two shapes Three colors—cedar, wal- nut, black. Fedoras Two shapss Four colors—pearl, cedar, walnut, black. If you don’t like the way a Hawes. Hat wears, we do either of two things—give you a new hat free or return your OLEs. 30 2V 2y Out-of-town orders filled—write us. on the streets more than thirty minutes | BOSTON, Oct. 16.—The suit of Josephine | | Gives | Weak Men | Strength. A radical cure without drugs for weaknesses, the result of youthful indiscretions, for lame back, varicocele, etec. Dr. Sanden presents in his ap- pliance a scientific treatment. It performs no miracles, but it will do what he has demonstrated that drugs and medicines cannot. It | adds strength to the glands, nérves and organs, whi i cines only stimulate. Sanden Electric Belt w sory is simply th~ pr tion of the prc rent. You put the Dr. Sanden Elec- tric Belt on when r g for the night and take it off next morn- ing. Seven to nine hours of the gentle, strengthening current a day for two or three months does the work. Dr. Sanden publishes a book explaining all, which will be sent free by mail in plain sealed envelope, or he may be consulted free of charge at his offices daily. DR. T. A. SANBEN, 18 Third 8t., Ban Franeisco, Cal. Office Hours—9 to 6. little Sundays 11 to 1. VAt Auction. TUESDAY. TUESDAY ... OCTOBER 24, 1899, AT 12 O'CLOCK NOON, At Our Salesroom, 638 Market Strect, BUSINESS PROPERTY. North_side (No. 626) Sacramento st. 216:10 east of Kearny; 2-story brick and iron butlding, store and flat; lot 20x59:9. " ASHBURY HEIGHTS FLATS. North side (Nos. 14) Frederick st., 13§ feet west of Ashbury; 2 elegant flats of 5 and § ° rooms and bath; all modern improvements; lot 25x116:6, SOUTH-OF-MARKET INVESTMENT. South side (Nos. €51, 681%, 6513%) Clementina st., 100 feet east of Eighth; lot 25x77; 3 flats of 4 rooms; rents $21; near new Postoffice, GUARDIANSHIP SALE, side (Nos. 427 to 431) O'Farrell st t of Taylow: 2 large, elegant houses c 14 and 10 rooms eacl d 2 rear houses of ; | rooms each: lot PA RESIDENC South sfde ( oderick; elegant m and bath,laundry, e | wEesTER | Southeast | ave.; lot lern residence o lot ADDITION BUILDING LOT. of Laguna st sunny corner; ALAMO-SQUARE INVESTMENT. | West side (Nos, si-s13) 2 | north of Fulton: lot houses of 12 rooms e 2 laree, : Tent $%0 per | PRESIDIO HEIGHTS R | _North side (No. 3340) Clay st of Walnut; large, magnificent residence 2 rooms and bath, bill | detall; lot 27:6x13 HAIGHT-STRE South side of rd-room, etc.: = for fla 5x120; 1 block from Park FORCED SALE South line Point I First ave.; large s ave., 60 feet east of usiness lot, %9x LDRIDG SIDR. HALL'S REINVIGORATOR Five hundred reward for any case we cannot cure. This secrs remedy stops all losses ln 24 | hou: cures Emis: J ten Varicocele, Gleet, Fits, Stric { - self-abuse or exce | Bealed, $2 bottle; 3 bottles, guaranteed t | cure any case. Address HALL'S MEDICAL IN- ETITUTE, 863 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. Also | ¢ sale at 1073% Market 'st., S. F. All private | diseases quickiy cured. Send for free book.