The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1899, Page 7

THI AN FRASCUISC O "CALL. MONDAY, DISKPPEARMNCE OF & STUDENT FAOM HOLLISTER Tebbetts Was Behind in Studies. as the presumal a sister SPREAD RAILS DELAY OWL-CAR PASSENGERS OAKLAND, Nov. e rapld transit t Oakland e Alameda BLACKMAILING SCHEME NIPPED IN THE BUD AMES WEST, A PLAYS BUNKO MAN, BOLD GAME. A Records of the Rec- will fet fifty be the re- > hospital ordered West Was not neces- st oh ¢. The order as when West w th he beat a hasty retreat, seemed (nclined to to the police and was arrested and ymplaint olulu, who lled him out rneys were postponed left for the igh for want osed that West's ar on the records ckle was badly Hinckle EVISITED.” Will Lecture Next Sun- —— et “IRELAND R Father Yorke day on “0Old Land.” Rev. Peter O will re next Sunda Peter's Church on 1 The proceeds of the to defray the expense ments made on the r Yorke's racent trip spent several months in the and what he has to say of jts present conditions and Its prospects for the future will doubfiess be ex- tremely interesting. Tickets for the lec. ture wili be §1, and will be on sale at ah of the leading stores the city, . Man for the Times. Rev. W. 8. Isases, chaplain of the training ship Pensacols, & lec- ture yOung men afternoon at Y. 3 C. A F He togk for his theme “The Man for the Times,” and held Caleb to his hearers as a shining ex- ple of what the man for the times uld be. There were four essentials, ared, and they were a clean lif rity and truth. The lecture ely interesting and much en- he large audience which gath- it. The Rev. Mr, Inaacs was f the battieship Massachusetts at Santiago and will another lecture upon his ex. ng that trying period. ALAM‘F;‘[)A COUNTY 'NEWS. ‘THE STANFORD AX | WILL BE DUG U yoters .ast & ., f] a ot The harmony Murph RO RE FER THE LIFE OF A LONELY BACHELOR Opposed to Matrimony, but Believe That in Union There Is Strength. v Sixty young men Alameda gave their a rganization and prepa. n. highes! dy son t 8.—The monster s will gather to yell an speeches given. a to the ax on and spirit 1 an aggrava ation of the team th ORORORFOLRORFONGO, BRYAN AND DEFEAT A RECENT VIEW OF THE PO- HE DREW A REVOLVER ON A Puget Sound Lumbermen Now Real-| Trinity River Rising Rapidly “‘fli LITICAL SITUATION. Well-Known Attorney Cannot See How the Democracy Can Hope to Beat McKinley's Re- election. ney George W. Monteith, who has of Te McKinl it for the Presidenc 1 again be defeated sKinley,” he said, “will again, and I fear the obtain. I cani see how Bryan will carry a single State Me- Kinley carrfed in 15%, saving Maryland He lose Missouri, in all probability, and possibly Kansas. 'Bryan might won by forcing the fight uj P ownership—a gquestion that would the Republican vote in New York, Penn- sylvania, Ohlo and Illinois—but he has declared himeelf against it_and that will ose him a million votes. Where can he ke up that loss much less make any Democratic party s a party of lion: by asses. McKinley cou'd never get vote, but I can’t see how we can beat uniess Dewey will run, and he will —— - A Brutal Party. W. C. Leesen, a fisherman, and E4 Ahl- gren, a clerk, were arrested on Kearny last evening for brutal treatment administered to a pair of horses they had been driving all day yesterday. With the fellows were two women, Minnie Larsen and Nellle Mitchell. was charged with ““drunk” and the latter had a charge of disturbing cruelty to animals. Both of the men were booked for cruelty to animals. The four people were all drunk and were driving two horses nearly dead from the exertion they wer 33 Officers Nelson he Mitchell woms an additional char, her. abusive and g was placed against -——— Working for the Convention. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 26.—The general committee which has in charge the move- ment to bring the riext national Demo- convention to nsas City last 0,000 should be added ady subscribed, and of the subscriptions once. A motion was carried to Instruct the Ways and | Means Committee to begin immediately to raise the additional subscriptions. 10 per should be collected at cent _____ iesutecs Lieutenant Williams Dead. WASHINGTON, Nov —Information has b received the Medico-Chirur here of the death In cal Hospital in Phila- | delphia of pneumonia of First Lieutenant | Willlam H. Willlams of the Twelfth In- fantry. He was born In Missouri in 1§78 | and appointed a second lieutenant in the | army from North Carolina in 15%. He | Was severely wounded in the eye in tion near Angeles in the Philippine | lands. ac Is- —_——— Blew Oren a Safe. BLUFF CITY, Kans, Nov. 26 —~Robbers last night touched off a quantity of dyna- | mite that wrecked the safe and the front end of the State Bank here, escaping with $100 in gold besides some sllver and blils, This is the eighth Kansas bank robbed by safecrackers within three weeks. The safe of the State Bank of Clearwater, Kans., was blown open Friday night and L cash and a number of notes taken. | Railway Man Drops Dead. ST. PAUL, Nov. 26.—Captain Willlam Holcomb, superintendent of the dining and sleeping car service of the Great North- ern Rallway, dropged dead on the street here to-day from heart diseass. Captain iHolcomb was well known in the Miss sipp! River service In the early days as captain and pllot. He was born In Cincin- | nat! In 1834, P ———— ‘ Dr. McGlynn IIL | NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—Rev. Dr. Ea- | ward McGlynn is sertously 11l at his home |In Newburg, N. Y., suffering from con- ‘funon of the lungs, | Beart trouble. As was cnce sald of the English army, | | The former | he peace and | l [ | | a drink and began to talk disturbance as | p captured Stanford ax which was ing, and which has be fes, s to be bro (>3 - ng football ron heroes of the Blue and Gold their last practices. On the d cheer for the team i g A new cu wits OR3P CIRSDRORIOE TN <4 all prospe g ! ¢quad has taken has had ?: of player. The injury to 3% ts cleverest quarterback, and to an O ! be a serious loss. There {® no §2 The team play of the backs Q b cimer and 8 ac Is cause for & tf tself in the & 0 230 1ford campus on Tuesday tart cityward. With the & are to face, the ord men & of p. ler Coacn go | 8| & | [ 2=1 SONONRININON DRSO | T. Scolard. H. Walker, B. Fake, J | Roact P, Berry, 8. Short, W W gart, D. Haley, R. Harvey, R. Lee. | R tty. L. Frazer, H. Wit Arnold, J an, D. Rlley, S. Derby, G.| Lam deers, Joe Deers, J. Nu Stone Petty, J. Cross, L. Cor G. R veland, T. Johnson, J. H} G. Bowers, G. Harding and Dr.’ . —_——— CAPTAI N PETERSON'S TEAM IN HIGH HOPES OAKLAND, No —The San Francis- co police team and Captain Peterson’s ten men of the local force w test their prowess at the Shell Mound Park range rrow afternoon. 1 o'clock h the scores we here was some shc —_——— Assault With Deadly Weap OAKLAND, N Fred nfliarly known as a mem gang, was arreste Powers A w on. and In he barte ke a rou Kohler is TROUBLE AHEAD FOR | PATROLMAN PHELAN SALOON MAN. Officer, Presumably Intoxicated, En- tered the Richelieu Saloon and Created a Disturbance. Charles Newman, proprietor of the Richelleu saioon, Market and Geary | streets, will file charges this morning with he Police Com oners agal Police er John Phelan, who, he claims, threatened him early y, with a revolver. Phelan entered Newman's saloon short- ly after midnight and began asking al- most immediate what had caused the disturbance he claimed to have heard. He | was told there had been no disturbance, | but he Insisted there was. The result was that Phelan and Newman got into an argument, during the course of which the aloon man ordered the officer out of the Phelan refused to go, and New- man then insisted that he either arres somebody or get out. As Phelan con tinued to talk, Newman crowded him to the door, where the officer drew his re- volver and threatened the saloon man. ble was averted by the inter- | erday morning > and tried to “squa: ewman. He took a d went on his way rejoicing me of the first trouble it is that Phelan was slightly Intoxi and came into the saloon for no other pur- pose than to take a drink. When he found | strangers In the place he feared to order | cuse for his presence | an has often heen noted for lack of tact. and evidently is not able to distin- guish between his rights and those of a citizen. He is regarded as a trrmhle-| breeder along his beat, where he has fra- quently entered saloons and drank at| their cxpense, —_———— Caroline Deal Denied. BERLIN, Nov. 26.—Nothing is known here of any demands by the United States In regard to the Caroline Islands | as set off against Tutulla. The negotl: tions at present being carried on between Berlin and Washington refer less to the material interests than to the assuring of | acceptance by the United States of the conditions of the Anglo-German treaty. ALLEGED CONTRACT BRIDE IS iN JAIL| OAKLAND, Nov. 26.—Annfe Bridgman, the 13-year-old girl who poses as a con- | tract bride, and who just one week ago mysteriously disappeared from the home of Mrs. J. E. Barrows, at Berkeley. where Superior Judge Hall had placed her In the hope of keeping her out of a reformatory, was again in the County Jail this afte noon. Deputy Sheriff Quinlan found the rl near Frultvale. She claimed she ha een working for a family In East Ouk- land, and declared she was just coming from a visit to an aunt, Mrs. Sherman, residing in Frultvale. To-morrow morn- ing she will be taken before Judge Hall, and there Is no doubt that she will be | ordered committed to some reform school. | = ————— | Justice. “You are charged with ustng language | calculated to provoke a breach of the peace,” sald the magistrate; “do you wish | complicated with | public at any bhazar | cup an ‘POh. | We were merely chattin, | the good feeling between | lumb to make a statement? “Yes, vour Honor,” replied the prison “1 am entirely lunocent. What I—" “The complainant says 70U attempted to perpetrate some kind of joke or gag interrupted the about the vacht race,’” maglstrate sternly. *I trust you did not try to make a pun on the word ‘sail.’ or | say thet there is many a slip ‘twixt the | d ship.” no, your Honor,” protested the prisoner, warmly, “nothing of the kind. about the race that he hoped ng !;‘) dl;nlll!x: the [njte es and England. ‘It was a f..lrnhm says he, ‘and a clean victory,” ‘Yes, s 1, ‘but i can’t deny that 'the Co- truck the first blow,’ and at that h%_“l’ and had me arrested” or a moment there was sflence court. *“The prisoner Is found guil sald the magistrate at length, “and sen- tenced to thirt vs in the Parish Prison with a capy of London Punch. T trust he may emerge In a serious frame of mind. The court has been looking for this first blow gag. and proposes to protect the Call the next case.” ~New Orleans Times-Democrat. when this man remarkes the result would dd nothy; Stat, th ELECTRI O VTALLY INJURES M, W MY Victim Dies at Receiv- ing Hospital. Slied i lather by trade, v a Mission electric car at the corner of Twenty-thir fon streets, and re- ceived injuries which resulted in his death shortly afte street | MoV MBER Deceased, who was 68 vears of age, was | crossing the at the time of the acct- de when car M 1183, in charge of Mo- n T. J. Amock, came a and the old man. who was evidentl approach of the car, | st his hurts were as he seemed to r e a constdered fatal vive and gave no evidence of being badly injured. The raflroad company had him placed on a car and to the he finally expired Motorma ployed by ek Market who has been em- Street Rallroad 1ys that the accident Deceased resided at th for eighteen ye could not be avoided. 2016 Mission street. VATICAN WORRIED OVER ATTITUDE OF FRANCE Since the Time of Jules Ferry There Has Not Been So Much Hostil- ity to the Church. Spectal Cable tc The Call and the New York | Herald. Copyright, 1 by James Gor- don Bennett, ROME, Nov. 26.—The chief preoccupa- the present mo- its relations with Palace there is rench Chamber ssy to the Holy tion at the Vatican at ment is a question ¢ France. At the Apostc a firm belief that the will maintain an emba ! See, for it Is to the interest of France to do 0, but there is much anxiety in regard o o r matters. “You see to w the prelate to o; we have come,” sald e who Is in touch with sses iis anxieties. e has reported for seven bishoprics and W vicars. cparing a bl the Vatican and exjp T e budget commi The Govern- associations, the objective of which 1s especially a’ religlous congregation. "It has adopted a bill almost entirely ing free education in- als of state to months in officlal sec- Since the tme of Jules Ferry, there has not b such an outbreak of hostil- ity to the church.” fu ns Grand Penitencier, whose office bas vacant since the ca la Vallietra, ) ardinal Serafino cave the convocation who will be this congre- . one of the best ard e conti who wi and reg ¥ him into promi- were to meet at al Gotti would, , be the most tiara. One can that this 1g, other- ar itself out, » those of Car- telli and Capoce- t wish h ent may not be his candic as others have dinals Parrochi, latro. IR UEE TIMBER LAND WITHDRAWN FROM THE MARKET Vanu! ize That Washington’s Fir For- ests Are Not Inexhaustible. TACOMA, Nov bermen now realize for the first time that Washington's fir forests are not inex- haustible. reat tracts of timber have been withdrawn from the market during the past few da All unsold tracts on the market are being rapidly purchased by lumbermen from Minnesota, Wiscon- sin and Michigan, who have only from two to five years' cuttings left in their present locations. “:l"lw Northern Pacific Railroad has with- drawn all its lands in Western Washing- ton from sale pending transfer to the Weyerhaeuser syndicate of a million acres in Southwestern Washington. Wisconsin lumbermen have just purchased 7500 acres in Skagit and Snohomish counties. An- other syndicate has purchased 7000 acres in Whatcom County. Over a half million acres of good timber lands are Included in the Mount Rainier and Olympic forest reservations. The Northern Pacific has ust discovered that it cannot secure l’nndn in the timber belt of this State, and has commenced making locations in Ore- on and Idaho. One result of these facts 25 Decn to send the prices of both logs and fir timber land bounding upward. From this time forward more attention will be paid to the development of the State's immense forests of hemlock and cedar. The Weyerhaeuser syndicate s planning to erect a number of mills here and at Grays Harbor and Willipa Harbor. TRAIN WRECKED BY A LANDSLIDE Fireman Thrown Under the Wreck and Killed and the Engineer Badly Injured. PORTLAND, Nov. 2%.—The eastbound passtnger train on the Oregon Rallroad and Navigation was wrecked at 10:30 to- night one mile from Rooster Rock, thigty miles east of this city, by a landslide. The engine and tender went over an embankment fifteen feet high and the mail and baggage cars were overturned. Fireman Milor was thrown under the wreck and killed. Engineer Robert Hun- ter was caught under the cab, but was | rescued,” though he was severely injured. { No other persons were injured. - SHEEPMEN TO CONSOLIDATE. Efforts Being Made to Unite With a Capital of $10,000,000. BILLINGS, Mont., Nov. 2.—Represen- tatives of the American-English syndi- cate have been in this State all summer and fall, traveling all over the large sheep-ralsing sections, securing options on the bLest sheep ranches and best watered land for the purpose of consoli- dating them Into one large company. Al- ready options on nearly 500,000 head of sheep and 600,000 acres of the finest and most fertile sheep-raising land in the State have been obtained. The representatives of the syndicate in Montana are Colonel E. C. Waters and Edward J. Morrison of Billings, both old experienced and _successful Montan; sheepmen. Bert Relss of New York I counsel and m{l.nlzer of the compony w will be known as the Montan Consolidated Sheep and Lamb Company, with a capital of $10,000,000. islis L gaiid MRS. McCORMICK DEAD. Could Trace Her Ancestry Back to William the Conqueror. CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-Mrs. Henrfetta Hamilton McCormick, & ploneer resident of Chicago, and the wife of Leander J. | McCormick. one of the founders of tha McCormick Reaper Works, died to-night. She was a victim of cerebral apoplexy at the advanced age of T7_years Hamiiton was born in_Rockbridge Coun- ty ,Virginia, May 25, 1822. On her father's side she traced her lineage to Robert, Earl of Lelcester, brother of Willlam the Conquerer, one of whose descendants married Tsabelle, a daughter of Robert Bruce. —_—— Lost Valuable Jewels, CHICAGO, Nov. %.—Danlel Earl, a dia- mond importer, lost a leather pouch econ- taining $73 worth of diamonds. rubies, sapphires and other precious stones while carrying it from his oflice to safety e posit vaults last night. He mmX the ouch in his Inside coat-pocket and missed t while on the street. hospital, but | | | | | | g { | | | 26.—Puget Sound lum- | | was hung with American fla | 1 9= Sy 9 . 1 AMERICAN VOCALIST TO TEACH IN ITALY { [ e e T e e . ] B S T e e i § 1 : MADAME GENEVRA JOHNSTONE BISHOP, ME. GENEVRA JOHNSTONE BISHOP, who only last week appeared In a concert here and proved to be & singer of extraordinary talent, has been appointed to the chalr of Instructress of oratorio at the Con- servatory of Music at Florence, Italy. This is the first time that this honor has been conferred upon an American teacher, and this must be quite flattering to Mme. Bishop. Once more the argument is supported that it 1s not necessary for American students to go abroad as long as there are teachers in this country capable enough to be sent for from Europe. Mme. Bishop was brought here two years ago by James Hamilton Howe for the purpose of singing In oratorio, but a slight indisposition caused her fallure. Last week she came back once more to prove that she was fully entitled to the reputa- tlon of being the foremost oratorio singer in America. She will now leave for a broader fleld, where her ability will be more recognized than it has been here for the past few years and where her position will be an envious one. 040404040 404040+@ .000000000000000000000000’000‘000'000‘0‘00000’0000 UNDERTAKING PARLORS | TIMES WILL BURY WRECKED BY DYNAMITE SERGEANT ANTHON Police on the Trail of the Perpetra- Editor Chambers Says That Croker's | tors of the Crime and Arrests Are Looked For. | TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 2%.—Farm- Interference Will Be Utterly Disregarded. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. ©0+0404000¢04040+® @ *P ¢ 0 4.: 90006808000 etePeiteirsiebedereisdedbedeiae Y 26.—The Phila- burg, just across the county line, was the | delphia Times will to-morrow publish the scene of a terrific explosion this evening | following statement relative about 9 o'clock. Some unknown person or | to of the bat its de- clared intention to bury “Bill” Anthony | morrow. MY FOR THE FELD BEFORE FGHTING DS Forty-Second to Sail To-Morrow. —— ONE OFFICER ON THE RACK it BOARD OF INQUIRY ENGAGED IN SITTING ON HIM. i Last Regiments in Fear That the Trouble in the Islands Will Be Over When They Get There. —— The Forty-second Infantry will have another day of grace. It was scheduled | to leave to-day, but the date of its sail- iny has been put off twenty-four hcurs 1 it will not be embarked before to The only thing the regiment fears s that it will not arrive In time to heip in the fighting. With the going away of the Forty-second the last of the white regiments under the extension of the army will have started for the scene of action in the Philippines. There w.ll be left but the two colored regiments, | the Forty-elghth, now In quarantine at Angel Island, and the Forty-ninth, await- ing orders to sail, and in the meantime camped next the car line and in the old volunteer camp. The Forty-second will sall short a few men and at least one officer, unless the board of Inquiry now sitting upon his military capabilities should fin‘sh its wo.k in time to let him. There has been out one officer of the Forty-second ordered up for examination, a record rather more | creditable than that of other regimeats, who at one time or another have had a 800d part cf their official line on the car- pet. There are now at the Prestdio several officers from regiments of volunteers that have passed through the Presidio In ‘he past few weeks who are being delayed on their way to the firing line until they have been put through the m!ll and their military usefulness has been accurately determined. The board is not a hard one, however, but that does not mean that it will pass incompetent officers. There are some who make good officers In the fleld to whom the task of keeping their com- pany records straight Is one of herculcan | magnitude, and there are others w records are correct in every way, b whose . men are total strangers to d'sci- pline. It is such officers, as well as the who can neither command discipline n keep their records properly, who are be Ing brought before the board, and | question uriges are they good enou way to overbalance their shor in another. It is a question that lies w the board. | _ Reports from the quarantined soldiers the smallp detention camp at the Pre- &re similar to those of Saturday. There has been no change in the situation out at 'nldh’!, and “no change” is the report from | Angel Island. It will be at least ten days persons placed dynamite beneath the un- | §% 1he hattlesbip Maine, who died in New | before the Forty-elghth will gain freedom. dertaking establishment of W. J. Wood | * “’Tha Philadeiphia Times will bury Ser- ;‘.','.?1!fl:r".:Ir?x'y'T:;'k:an:fx:x:\m;:f'lk."’Ty\'l"} of that place, and the explosion wrecked geant William Anthony of the Maine. and | {fiora two weeks anyway. It i oe e the bulldings and broke window glass | has not withdrawn its offer or canceled last to leave unless the Forty-ninth should throughout the town. Wood promptly | the contract with the Merritt Burlal Com- | foitoto its example and develop . applied to police headquarters in this city ‘mn_\' despite the urgent solicitation of | cages o I e Carieits e for a detective and it is thought the per- | Mr. Croker. JULIUS CHABERS ek - s etrators of the deed will be run down he buflding and its contents are a com plete wreck and the loss will be heavy. st o FLOODS IN TEXAS. “Editor The Times."” S g WILL SUPPORT BANKHEAD. Choice of Bailey for Minority Leade ship of Congress. AUSTIN, Tex.. Congress Hon. John W. Baile, sald, support Bankhead the ‘minority leadership so long as th gentleman remains in the race. He inclined to the bellef that there will be deadlock betweep candida Much Damage Already Don FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. rapid rise in the Trinity River has as- | sumed serious proportions. Much damage to property and cattle has been reported, and to-night word comes from the coun- | after Bankhead withdraw try north of Fort Worth that several | event he will prop families are hemmed in by the high water, who Is his second cholc will, 1t f Alabama f 26.—The with no immediate hope of rescue. The | the gentleman from the Eighth Texas river is thirty feet p and s rising rap- | District will prove aeceptable to the dif- | idly. The police have notified families ferent factio Mr. Lanham and Mr. | living along the river bottom of the dan- ger from the waters. and preparations are being made for a hurried scramble for safety. Bailey are political view: ST Fan-Makers Unite. g Steamer Bonavista Overdue. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Nov. 2.—The British steamer Bonavista, Captain Fraser, from | Montreal for this port, Is three days over- due. It is feared she has been damaged by the recent gales In the Gulf of St, Law- rence. ings of the electric fan manufacturers the coumr{ held here has resulted In determinatio: can Assoclation of Electric Fan Manufa turers, with a view uniform prices. The electrical fan indu: Thanksgiving in Berlin. BERLIN, Nov. 26--Rev. Mr. Dickle, | pastor of the American Church tn Rerlin, delivered to-day a Thanksgiving discourse before a large congregation. The church | fourteen firms, and the capital e the leading firms have been reg at the meetings, and it is sald that the facturers. . believing_tha r- Nov. 26.—In the coming | 1s or at is a at ry close together in their NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—A serfes of meet- of a n to establish a permanent organization under the title of the Ameri- c- to securing better, more stable and so far as Is practicable try of the country is in the hands of about mployed in the business is more than $25,000,000. "All resented re is practical unanimity among the manu- : N Ingenious device to enable the shoplifter to ply his trade fell yes- terday Into the hands of the police. It consisted of what appeared to be a large package, carfully wrapped and corded. but really was an empty box, one side of which opened on a hinge. and Into which the operator would place whatever wares he might be able to grab. Saturday night a rather elderly, well-dressed man entered a liquor store on Geary street and placed & large box he carried near to a case of liquor on one side of the barroom. It appeared as if he simply wished to deposit the box on the floor while he transacted some business. The man leisurely strolled about the room examining the bottles in the case near which he had placed the box. The proprietor of the saloon finally noticed him reach to pick up the package and place it under his arm. At the same time he saw him open the side of the box nearest the wall and slip a bottle of gin Into the repository. He was stopped as he was passing out of the door, but succeeded in making his escape. The box, however, was lost to him In the scuffle. . The police believe that the fellow is a professional shoplifter, and that his device has assisted him in victimizing many tradespeople. @+04040 904040 +0+ 04040404040 0404040404040+ 0404040 0 +040404040404040 ¢04040404040404040404040404040404040404040404040404040404040+@ ? @ 40404040404040404040404040 2040404040404 0404040404040404040404040404040404040 men of the Forty-ninth regard this m to be feared as a means of delay than any personal danger to themselves. [h. feel if they can only get away they w not care much, but they don’t want cases untll they have started—a | diametrically opposite to that of ficers of the command and of the , both regimental and department 'here 18 no fear entertained on their be- half, however, for although the colore regiments were both recruited over ve much the same territory, while they ren- dezvoused at different points, still Forty-ninth has been long enough in *n service to develop any latent case that it might have brought out here with it. All it wants now is to get to the islands In time to “‘do something."” The Forty-second gave a farewell parads on the post drill ground yesterday after- noon. It is a fine body of men, well of- | ficered and well drilled, and its appear- | ance on the parade ground did credit to the command. Thomas Jones, a private of Company K of the Forty-ninth Regiment. died at the general hospital yesterday. He was taken to the hospital as soon as the regiment arrived here, he having contracted pneu- monia while on his way to this coast. A game of football enlivened matters at the Presidio Athletic Grounds yesterday afternoon. It was between a team from the Hancock School and one from the Brookiyn Athletic Club. The Brooklyn Athletic Club won by a score of 3 to 0, 'FRAWLEY COMPANY IN ENGLISH MELODRAMA “The Sporting Duchess” Heartily p- planded by a Delighted Audience at the California Theater. In these days of dramatic mediocrity it is quite refreshing to be entertained with a genuine melodrama, the briskness of which regulates the emotions of the spec tator. It was Indeed like the good old times to hear the hero applauded and the | villain hissed and to follow the action of the plot, which terminated in the downfall of the bad and the survival of the good It is the same old story, but a story ever pleasing to hear. ““The Sportin Duchess” Is not exactly of the same caliber as the general run of melodramas. It is true the villain lays his plans to destroy the man who thinks him his best friend and these very plans | are frustrated just at the time when they seem about to prove successful. beauty of this play is that it does not b come coarse or beisterous. It is a clean play, wherein brisk situations follow each other rapidly, intermingled with good humor that never approaches the danger- ous ground of burlesque. Mr. Frawley has an exceptionally well balanced company with him this time. His women are particularly clever. M Hampton, in the leading role, was | cessful in bringing out the clmracter o the part. There was no mistaking the fact that the sporting Duchess was a “thorougt bred,” that she had a will of her own that beneath a somewhat rough exter there was hidden a white soul which the right time never failed to Yes, realism and a quick conception sra the ‘main charactecistics of Miss Harap- ton's work. The same may ve sald { Mary Van Buren, whose villalnousne: although despicable in her actions, was not to _be condemned. but rather pitied Marion Barney essayed the role of the Countess of Desborough with acceptatls facility. Her dramatic climaxes were per- | haps not quite strongly enough brought out, but she appeared to better advantags in the quleter emotional scenes A valuable addition to the compans Pearl Landers, who proved very sa tory in ingenue parts, She has a fine " . and mever fals ‘to extract all the humor from the lines allotted to her She, together with J. R. Armory, brougnt out the humor of the piece in a decidediy laudatory manner. It was the work of artls Harrington Reynolds seemed to understand the importance of a villain's | role. He sald his lines calmly, without unnecessary noise and without resortirg | to ranting. | The scenery is | Ing scene very realistic. that is to say as | far as the excitement is concerned. Tae | stage is somewhat too small to make it | otherwise very inspiring. In happy con- trast to other melodramas. there is no “hallelujah™ about the villain's downfal) at the end, but he walks quietly off the stage, with the villainess by the arm, “THe i rtin l'r(m-m---"l-t’ll[l,I pr;:v» very rofitable to the California Theater. P ALFRED METZGER. —_—————— A bicyecle geared to 240 will be sent to the Paris Exposition. The front sprocxet contains rillthflh and the rear sprock- et seven teet Ty 4 1 t A ssert {tsolf. tasteful and the rac