The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1899, Page 14

14 HUNTINGTON FINISHES ANEW GIGANTIC DEAL Buys an Enormous Block of Stock From General Hubbard, Financiers and Railway Men Wonder What May Be the Meaning of the Sensational Purchase. The Two Men Who Handled the Sale of the Last Big Block of Southern Pacific Stock to the Huntington Interests. Special Dispatck to The Call. EW YORK, Dec. 4—The Huntington-Speyer syndicate which purchased the Crocker and Stanford holdings of Southern Pacific stock has closed another immense deal. It comes to light that General Thomas H. Hubbard, representing the original Mark ns interest which passed into the possession of Edward Searles, has sold to the syndicate one 1 and forty thousand shares of Southern Pacific Company stock at a price approximating Hopk ir 1dre itions were begun at the time Mrs. Stanford sold her stock, but the transac- with the ntmost secrecy. General Hubbard still represents as many shares as he sold to the syndicate, and will fiot relinquish his position as first vice president of Southern Pa George Crocker will leave here in a few days. He will go to San Francisco via New Or- 1 on the journey inspect the property of the Pacific Improvement Company. s conduct 1C. recelved at rated by Ay 100,000 s York fa tained from Speyver, will be able to main- tain control of the majority of stock, but Diligent digclose ares. N inq the ry in New number of s shares that he individually acquired from | the speculators may gamble to thelr w | th Stanford interest, or the Hubbard | heart: content with the shares on the s stoek block of stock. | market. wction of a dollar from $40. The surprise of the year in the railway | George Crocker's journey west from di- | world may be in reserve. e Operations of syndicate do not point to actual buy- ers other than Huntington and John W. Mackay, but there are others, because from the beginning the syndicate has been | fairs of the company will be closed up underwriting. | by the liquidating process, and no doubt or example Speyer and Huntington | Mr. Crocker, whose interests are merged getting an option on 255,00 shares of | with those of the Crocker Estate Com- Southern Pacific do not close the transac- | pany, will be able when he arrives here tion with the owner until responsible par- | {5 jmpart to his assoclates valuable in- ea t = at S New York will Involve an inspection of the town sites, coal mines, hotels, lands and properties generally owned by the Pacific Improvement Company. The af- v eircles it is s S ARt Ok ties have signified In writing a readiness 5 Ak executing the formation regardin, the worth o doubt it 1 My | to take a stipulated number of shares | proborie s R each at a certaln figure. Names of the Mre. Stanford will probably arrive here in advance of George Crocker. Before the actual “wind-up,” C. P. Huntington, Gen- eral Hubbard and Edward F. Searles will come. | The P. 1. Company s a corporation with 100,000 shares of stock. Mrs. Stanford owns 25,000 shares, the Crocker Estate Company 25,000 shares, C. P. Huntington 25,000 shares, and Edward F. Searles 25,- | 000 shares. Estimates of the value of the entire property of the corporation range al buyers will not be known until Speyer and Huntington elect to disclose 1 When Speyer & Co. choose to make known the names of the capitalists for whom they have been underwriting the surprise may come. The field of conjecture s0 wide that all kinds of surmises are sprung. Despite | denials many leading rallroad men cling to the belief that the Vanderbilts are some way concerned in this vast deal in Southern Pacific Company securities. that the Mrs. rporation | Agaln it is surmised that the public will | from $25.000.000 to $40 0 A t beca us to the popular mind | be invited to purchase Southern Pacific ! o that represent something | as an investment and that+ ** Huntington's personal am- | be on the » STABBED HIMSELF R e e aace R o R S S ] + P & b + + - ® | . + >4 | ¢ | % + . /2 @ ¢ . + + : 4 ‘) >4 ANNIS McCLAREN, a merchant of Crescent City, Del Norte County, & attempted to comm:t sulcide yesterday morning while temporarily in- sane, In the basement of the house at 1433 Oak street, occupled by Mrs. @ + Maurice Windmiller. The lady was startled yesterday morning to And ¢ { & man in the basement lving In & pool of blood and promptly notified the © % Golden Gate Park police station. Policeman Bonner was detailed on the 2ase, $ ¢ and when he entered the premises he saw McClaren steadyinghimselfby hold- ¢ ¢ ing on to a bush. When Bonner spoke to him he sald: + ‘- ““The police are after me and 1 tried to kill mysel ® He was hatless, and Bonner asked him what he had done with his hat # $ and the knife with which he had cut himself, and he replied that they were § @ some biocks away. He had jumpel over a fence ten feet high surrounding g 4 Mrs. Windmille and finding the basement door open entered. . Bonner took McClaren to tue Receiving Hospital, where Dr, Dray found ® $ that ne had stabbed himself ‘wenty times in the region of the heart, but ¢ s the wounds were only superficial. He had also cut his left wrist severly. T o After his wounds were dressed and he was able to talk more rationally he & ¢ sald he had been In financial difficulties and came to the city some days ago ¢ ® to effect a settlement with his creditors and registered at the Grand Ho- @ $ tel. He had suffered from nervousness and worry, and Sunday morning he % ¢ left the hctel and started In to drink. That was all he could remember. Ha g & had no recollection 6f where he had been or what he had been doing. He must 4 ¢ have cut himself while suftering from the effects of the liquor. He has a ¢ & wife and six children in Crescent City. The police telephoned to Mau, Sad- & 4 ler & Co., who among his creditors, and learned that McClare: had se- $ cured an extension of ninety days to put himself financlally straight, and ¢ ! When informed of the fact he was delighted. In the afternoon he was taken to the home of some friends on California street. He had his gold watch, § diamond pin and some money 'n his pockets. + * @eieieisieieieieiei sietel sieiet st ebeteisieieieieieg HORSEFLESH IN PLACE OF BEEF IN THE BOLOGNA Sausage Dealers Are Guilty. TWO MORE IN POLICE COURT e HEALTH BOARD CHEMIST TES- TIFIES AGAINST THEM. —_——— Charles Wachter, a sausage manufac- turer at 247 Third street, and Louls Laub- scher, keeper of a dellcatessen store at | 161 Ninth street, were found guilty yester- | day morning in Police Judge Conlan’s | court, the one for manufacturing sausage out of horseflesh, the other for keeping | such sausage on sale. Wachter and Laubscher are brothers-in- law, and, as was explained on the stand, have a family agreement that all sausages sold in the Ninth-street delicatessen store shall be purchased from the Third-street factory. Both men were arrested last month Officer Butterworth of the | artment, following a seizure r places of business by City Veterinar; urgeon O'Rourke and Health | Inspestor Stewart. | On the stand yesterday O'Rourke and | Stewart testified that they had seized sausage supposed to be bologna and frankfurter ?n Laubscher’s store, and had | taken from Wachter's factory auma“ minced sausage-meat, two pleces of meat ind two sausages in casings. | All these seizures they marked for identi- | ficatipn and turned over for analysis to | Dr. Bothe, chemist to the Board of Health. Dr. Bothe, on taking the stand, sald that he hal analyzed some of the seizures and had found glycogen and was pre- to say that these samples contained “flesh. ~ Glycogen, he explained, was in the livers of all animals, but in esh of only one—the horse. He had cted the meat samples to the only n chemical tests—nitric acid and —and had found it present. He was directly whether he would say posi- that the samples In which he had the glycogen contained horseflesh. s, sir,” he answered; ‘‘they con- 1 horseflesh.” sross-examination the attorneys for »fense tried to shake his testimony «ing him If it was not possible that might have been chopped up in the but he sald again positively that he not be mistaken—it was horseflesh. urther cross-examination, Dr. Bothe Jlycogen was composed of carbon, gén und oxygen, in indeterminate and that under the tests it was de- by a resultant reddish violet hue. s asked if cornstarch was not com- of the same elements. He replied t was, but the proportions were . giving the formula. scher admitted that he worked for :e-maker Dutche, who recently 1 guilty to the substitution of esh for i)eef in sausages, but denled had ever purchased or taken any e from Deutche's factory to sell at re. Wachter denled that he had m\,nufa('lured any sausage from esh. the defense had submitted several s for dismissal of the charges dnd rerruled by Judge Conlan, the cases ubmitted ‘without argument. The ound both defendants guilty, say- t under no circumstances would he » decided had the evidence not been ive to His mind that the charges ‘oved. He sald he would be slow to 1y man's business by such a decl- ut was compelled to do so by in- le proof. Sentence will be passed /ednesd @ y eeplechase Presents an Excel- lent Bill for the Week. hrilling ride on the horses, which led In the price of admission, holds avor as strongly as ever. The ac- 18 from Coney Island are steadily popularity. An especial object of dration and interest of the crowd argest of the three mechanical “hese wonderful pieces of mechan- e secured in Germany at great ————— fiss Bailey to Lecture. Railey, the well-known news- srrespondent, who has just 1e- rom the Philippines after an ex- ay there, is to glve a lecture upon litlon of affairs, the people and bjects appertaining to that far- Miss Bailey's ~ontributions to )us journals in the country have lely read, and she will no daubt plendid word picture of the Phil- 7hen she appears on the platform 7 night, December 7, at the First rian Church, corner Fourteenth aKlin streets, Oakland. The lec- ) be {llustrated by means of mov- :" plctures of scenes secured by | satistactory THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1899. TWENTY-ONE TIMES * Deiededebete@ *ieiei et ede BALDWIN HOTEL SITE BOUGHT BY JAMES L. FLOOD Nearly Million and a Half Paid. | The Baldwin Hotel site, concerning the | | disposal of which there has been so much | talk and speculation during the vast | year, has at last been sold by Thomas | Magee & Sons, representing E. J. Bald- | win, to James L. Flood for $1.4%,000 When Mr. Baldwin refused to ratify the first sale or agreement to sell made some | wecks ago, It wae feared that a long an | vexatious Jawsuit would result. This possibility has been avoided and the sule | Just consmmated was largely the result of the efforts of Judge Tobin of the Hibernia Bank, which institution holds a mortgage on Baldwin's propertie; $1,600,000. Judge Tobin urged a to with the result that an arrangement to all parties interested in the deal has been perfected. By the terms of the sale as finally agreed upon Mr. Flood becomes the pos. sessor of the entire site formerly occupied | by the hotel, having a frontage of 20y fect | on Market and Eddy streets, 275 feet of Powell and 137:6 on Ellis street. v th terms of the first agreement, whicn Mr. | Baldwin refused to sanction, Mr. Wloo1 was to pay $1.100.000 for the Market and | Eddy street frcntage and 175 feet on Powell street, Mr. Baldwin retaining the | Powell and Ellls street corner, with 100-foot frontage on the former and 137 cn the latter. i As the matter stands now, Mr. Baldwin | surrenders all his interests in tbe prop- erty mentioned, but retains the property known as the Baldwin Annex, which he lr(ms all along refused to put on the mar et. Mr. Flood could not be seen last night, but it is stated on the highest authority that he will at once begin the erection of a fine modern building on the site that will be a credit to the city and fully in keeplng with the splendid location he has secured. There have been numerous ru- mors as to the character of the bulld- ing he would erect provided the deal went through, and the one that has received the most credence is that he will put up a.magnificent hotel buiding to cost in the neighborhood of $2,000,000. | ‘Whether the structure that will adorn the site be a hotel or office bullding, how- ever, the fact remains that the unseemly eyesore that at present defaces the corner of Market, Eddy and Powell streets will soon be wiped out of existence. College Men. College men are always to be found at Zin- kand's, especially at lunch and dinner and after the theater. . e A BEGGAR IN LUCK. His Case Dismissed and a Subsecrip- tion Raised for Him. Henry Moore, a gray-haired old man, appeared In Judge Graham's court yes- terday to answer a charge of begging. He was arrested Sunday at Sutter and Polk streets by Policeman Collins. The old man told the Judge that he was at one time wealthy but had been unfor- tunate In lpeculnlnf( in stocks. He had two sons In the Klondike and he pected them home soon with lots of money. The charge against him was Ay missed and a collection was taken up in court_for him. He went away happy, with $1 50 in his pocket. This is not the first time that Moore has been arrested for begging. Policeman Leonard on May 21 last arrested Moore and charged him with vagrancy, and in Judge Mogan’'s court the next day the officer testified that Moore was in the habit of standing in front of the Ocel dental Hotel and the Lick House and so- leiting alms from the j)eflplq passing in and out. Moore told Judge Mogan ‘he same story that he told Judge Graham yesterday, and the Judge dismissed tha case on Moore's promise to keep away from Montgomery street. On the day Moore's case was dismissed Judge Mogan recelved a letter from Frank Van Tassel, 368 Eleventh street, | which sald, “Please send Colonel Moore to me and I will assist him, as I know that he s _telling the truth.” Moors seemed pleased, and got Van Tassel's gd- dress from the Judge and promised to call on him. —_———— Dr. Parker's Cough Cure. One dose will stop @ cough. Never falls. Try it. All druggists. * ——e———— A Defaulting Collector. J. J. Kerrigan, collector for W. M. Wright, city agent for the Pacific Mu- tual Life Insurance Company, was ar- rested yesterday by Detectives Ed Gib- son and Cody and booked at the City Prison on a charge of misdemeanor em- bezzlement. The amount alleged in the complaint is 20 cents embezzled November 'End of the Collins for | m- | promise, and his advice has been listened | | ashore and was provided for at the house | Hale’s. | Hale’s. and what a jolly crowd! Golden Gate ave. to Van Ness to Pacific ave the latest news from Santa’s store, nearly everybody went to Santa's store yesterday—packed to the doors— ] open every evening. VL OREER —_— Santa's automobile route this morning will be (weather permitting) from Hale's to . to Steiner to Jackson to Broderick to Clay to First ave. to Sacramento to Walnut to California to Steiner to Post to Webster to Golden Gate to Hale's. Ness to Golden Gate to Hale's. com fort. a ribbon sale in the nick o’ time ! touch on many an incompleted present. . satin or taffeta. de, satin or taffeta satin or taffeta.$ 1- % In. wide, satin or taffeta.... No. 12, the silverware section. a busy row of counters always CHILD' < for ware department Ly MANICURE SETS—Sterling silver, three pleces, GLASS ATOMIZ good assortment of m STERLING SILVER BACK BRUSH AND CO) MILITARY BRUS] Sterling EBONY gift for anybody GOLD-PLATED BR a lady, put up In the big toy-hazaar, the hobby department of Santa DISSECTED MAP OF CALIFORNIA DOLL BTU GTES—With a 24-inch body, LITTLE REI RS—7i4-inch seat. MAGIC LANTER big lot for ail-size boy Dolls by hun: , horses, sheep, guns, dru wagons, velocipedes, fron toys, tin toys, in fact, Christmas kerchiefs by thousands. od toys 2532 HANDKERCHIEFS—Bought In bulk for eash by Hale's at a big saving. Christmas demands. 935, 937, 939, 941, 943, 945, 947 Market Street. erling silve MIRROR- P h mection cut on county lines, educ no wheelbarrows, tricycles, bicyeles, erything anybody would think of. of dozen left over In the factories. Swiss and cambric handkerchiefs In lace and srmhers Gered edges and lace corners. Some great values among them and ail at one price me i tables beginning to-da < “ AL the largest assortment of handkerchiefs we have ever carried, ready for You save when you pay Hale's prices. ales get your letters ready. if it does not rain his p. m. route will be from Hae's to Taylor to Turk to Leavenworth to Ellis to Hyde to O'Farrell to Larkin to Geary to Polk to Vallejo to Van get your letters ready 4 have you talked with Mrs. Reynolds about Arnold's knit goods ? she is a graduate nurse and is waiting for you with interesting ideas on baby cress: ng and clothing just at the time you need them—to brighten up your fancy work—the finishing but best of all is t > 12,000 YARDS—Hale's second quality all silk ribbon, satin and g moire taffeta, in almost every wanted shade, on the tables in satin-lined box, a ny kinds, from.. M{B SETS-In satin-lin nt for & lady 1 box silver b kabout buggy. cks, 3 Il cabs. baby cabs, 044 fractions Arnold's knit goods give babies a chance to kick and grow NOT STARVED T0 DEATH N THE TRTAR'S CABIN Sensation. INVESTIGATOR'S REPORT IN | DISPOSES OF ALL THE SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. S i The investigation into the treatment of Mrs. Collins upon the transport Tartar is finished. The report of Major Galla- gher, in whose hands the investigation was left, is in, and it punctures the cheap | sensation it was hoped could be built upon the affair. There was no starvation; there were no blows nor bruises; there was no neglect and there was no mis- tre: ent. There was no occasion for charges, and there will be no courts-mar- | tial. The attempt to make a sensation | out of the whole affair has ended as so | many other such attempts hav falled, and for the same reason. There was nothing in it from the start. It was true Mrs. Colling did not eat much on the transport; but neither did any of the other seasick passengers, all of them in much better health than she | was, too. And after Mrs. Collins came | . Brett, she did not eat elther, z;d:[ll:ud had to be forced upon her. It| Wwas true Mrs. Collins did not have the | constant attendance of a trained nurse | while she was on the transport, but it| is also true she refused, in a manner that left no opportunity for further advances, all offers of assistance from the other | ladies on the vessel. She had on her per- | son jewels and money to the value uf‘ many thousands of dollars, but these | were taken in chur%e by the captain of | the tral ort, and by him were turned over to her relatives after she landed. She was not robbed of $300 as was stated. Major Gallagher examined a Miss l\err‘, Mrs. Clay, the stewardess of the Tartar; | Dr. Girard, commandant of the general | pital and the physiclan who attended Mrs. Collins after she arrived here; Dr. Fveretts, Mrs. Funston, who came home on the Tartar; Lieutenant Colonel Bay- Jiss of the Tennessee Regiment, who gave up his statercom to Mrs. Collins, “and others. Thelr testimony was all of the ter. e Charges o complaints dld not come rs. Brett, as people were led to be- {::\f:.h{)ul from a sister of the dead woman. That they were unfounded no one who knows of the conditions obtain- ing on board a crowded transport ever doubted. It was a mistake for the woman to travel on the vessel at all, but if she had been left alone in Hongkong, sick in body and sick in mind, more serious chatges even than those preferred would have probabl ’one on to Washington. She could not be re 't behind, so she was taken along, and the best care possible on a transport designed to carry only well men, not sick women, was accorded her. That the transport itself was not the best was a misfortune, but the result would have been the same. That is the drift of | the report, and that is practically the end | of the affair. The last of the Forty-ninth will leave the Presidio this morning, and with them will end the era of volunteers that has made the Presidio so attractive to the many ever since the war with Spain made the canvas cities spring up. The Forty- elghth, tied up with smallpox on Angel Island, is still to go, but it will not come over to this side agaln. It will be em- barked from the island. Just when this will be is a problem, but one that will be solved within twelve days, for iIn that time, if there are no more cases, the quarantine will be de- | clared off. There are seven cases now, and it is nine days since one has devel- oped, so twelve days more without an- other case will free the men. The situa- tion at the dentention camp at the Pre- sidio remains unchanged. Father McKinnon, now a chaplain In the regular army, has been ordered to proc to Manila by the transport Sher- man, which will sail ln—dng The trial of Chaplain Shields did not proceed vesterday, as was expected, for | | neither side of the case is quite ready. It| will probably go on to-morrow. DANIEL HENARIE'S WILL. The Testator Neglects to Make Pro- vision for His Widow. The will of Daniel V. B. Henarle, the wholesale liquor merchant, who died on November 28, was filed for probate yester- day. The estate of the deceased Is worth about $250,000, although In the petition jt is said that its value is unknown, except that it will exceed $10,000. Tt Is typewrit- ten and bears the date of October 6, but It is sald the total amount is con- glugm K - g. 1896, uddllAwltnmed bywfl.lchlrv\*flc, arrison and Alfred Sutro. No provision Mrs, &Ary A | is made for the widow, Henarle, who s now 77 resides in this city. The Queathes all of his ‘clothes, sther personal ef 0 his D. Radsesky: topether vy ears of age and deceased be- pictures and riend, Louls D together with a pi 14 Tral state at the corner of Haight and sroderick streets. Other bequests foi. AH“K len each of his three sisters, Mary AqiSeztah and Catherine F. Henarfe, re. siding in French Town, New Jersey I:!.‘w;u:: r:-\no‘lh:mw (-::-h of his employes ha serv m three years, $106 due of the estate is .|.\w.‘£‘|”|«'» ’lrh-\' H Radgesky and his three s in sh S. Pillsbury are appoint ADVERTISEMENTS. (ifts for Christmas! The assortment of goods we have or exhibition suitable for Christmas & gifts comprise every desirable article that years of experience couid suggest . An_inspection of the different depart- ments will ald your Christmas buying and at the sameé time prove of Interest We invite your attentlon to the following: Cut-glass Jardinieres it D Isters In equal and Louls D, Art Noveltles Dinner Sets Clocks Glassware Bric-a-brac Cabinets Ornaments Statuary lec: Mirrors French and Engl hina. In the Picture Department we some particularly choice and appropriate suggestions—carbons, water colors, en. gravings, etchings and ofl paintings. the latest styles: in' framing.from the most expensive to the simplest and cheapest We invite you to make your selec now for Christmas delivery. - S. & G. GUMP Co., 113-115 Geary Street. Catarr, Deafness, Diseases Positively Cured by NEW OR. COTTINGHAM'S wevnoo. 632 Market St., opp. Palace Hotsl. Marble stair entrance, Hours—9-12 a. m.; 1-3 and 7-8 p, m, Cut this out, present at once; good for one week FREE TREATMENT and medicine at office, or write for particulars. Do not delay. Elite Chinaware Bargains. 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