The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1899, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL T DD 00000 000 0 008 008 00 0 0 00 0 106 0 00 40 00 0 0 06 106 06 30K 06 400 01 4040k 40K 0% 10K oK 1010 08 100X 10 X 0 0% 30 X0 100 0% 10K 0K 101 % 10 08 30V 0% 0 0K 100X 400 O N KO OH KL M N N X ¥ MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1899, ‘Alameda i o OAKLAND i, xive.| Berkeley § 55 10060 0600 0 0 0 0 00 10 10 0 207 107 0 0 2060610206 06 10 610K 2 20 1610 0206 63010 X6 55 X0 10 508 30 151 10 06 1 K X030 06 00 0 10 N 0 0 00 RN R N E BN X R I CHARLES EMLAY SAVES TWO MEN FROM CROWNING Adds to a List of| Heroic Deeds. ‘ BERKELEY WILL PLAY CARLISLE INDIANS' TEAM Christmas the Day of the Match. Ukl i Al | VICTIMS FALL OFF THE BRIDGE The big footbal to come. Before R I% ious takn Fithe GASPING FOR LIFE WHEN RES- e up against one of East and the grid- CUED. | irc a will measure —_— all heroes of the Guardian of the Alice-Street Draw Acts Promptly and Lives Up to His Title. T S angements were con- r a match to be Indians in San Carlis on Christmas I Oakland O, ™8 ¥ San Francisco Call ¥, Oakland ~Another long Cal life was of those rlh rk_of the hran anksgl o et bridge w: “Hero of S 1 fact, b e past n will be « ection, ) help with men wer Th Aing Alice | ¥ Webster within be now pr until after nig ) the team which Berkeley will put . all one of the men who followe af, will keep_thelr Harrd wiil be Captain James sle, who will not be a regularly en- d student at the university until after the € first of next month. Clay, who has he i akon on the prowess, the stead w his hu- to leave the - anding plac » in San Francisco . 1 method fc th Christmas. re , sent the man ey will be 2 foi cen stror cular eleven r wever, was so much | With utes. The 1 or that he could ground } Y MUSICAL TREAT IN STORE FOR BERKELEY nd had | as not | Mrs. Hearst Arranging for Concerts to Be Given Under the Direction of WILL TEST THE LAW. Henry Holmes. ¢ 10.—Through the ef- 1e be & Green, the at whom the passed by going and | i January up-' —_—————————— rdi- MELROSE PEOPLE OBJECT. They Complain of Neglect on the Part of the Southern Pacific. MELROS Dec. 10. vicinity me ti them e e people resid- twice petitic ¥ to extend A large rai months ¥ are not al-| the winter boards erected | thing but a ple tramp. | e from the F' depot to —_——————— ther is only and there § abl ici » to nd run e i et same SC ent. The regular NOVATO, Dec. 10.—Paul J. Morini, a| commute ) would be for a Ly G. Mattoni, died | the financlal Interes to . tances polnting to | make this ex sngers ¥ ained of feel. | through to ancisco at the rates ! what was | which are n charged from Fruitvale. anion came to town | They argue that it would not work any ¥ ning found | detriment to Fruitvale and way stations despond- | 10 make this change, but on the other * me and is thought to have | hand would serve to materially increase the number of subruban residents around the neighborhood of Sather. Several very fine tracts of land have re- ent change in o been subdivided and placed upon the market, and were a regular train - service established to that point many Adventure Wrecked. familles would locate upon lots which they have purchased there. SEATTLE, Deec Indians have ar- —_—e————— rived at Junean with news the wreck . Hathaway. on the east r Admiralty Tsland, Denthiot Dr K BERKELEY, Dec. 10—Dr. Bdmund Valentine Hathaway passed away shortly A he | hefore 11 o'clock this morning at his resf- tearing a hole | dence, 2427 Channing way. Dr. Hatha- Tt side of the | way was £ years of age. He was a na- er line. There | tive of Freetown, Mass., and moved to the 3 e men and one| university town about two years ago to oard the schooner, all of whom | stay with relatives here. An announce- | ment of the funeral will be made later. schooner Ad- ove her on the ONE FINAL EFFORT OF EBELL LADIES Oakland Office San Francisco Call, %8 Broadway, Dec. 10. The ladies of the Ebell Boclety annou: ial effort to com- piete library site fund and it will on Thursdav even- ing at t Presbyterian Church and not Hamiiton Hall, as at first an- noun when Librarian Greene will give an illustrated lecture on libra- an excellent mu- a few adcresscs ders. The pro- devoted to the site fund. an $9000 1s needed ard that the ladies will achieve er their earnest efforts. be be While efforts are being made to raise the money necessary for the site ~ured from Mr C fon to Oakland hae kept modestly in the background, sim- ply doing what he could to advance the interests of the fund. The man ‘s Henry A. Chittenden, for many years a New York newspaper man, who je the acquaintance of Andrew Car- and who conceived the thought of writing and placing the needs of Oakland for a publiclibrary before him. For the first time since the arrival of Mr. Carnegie’s letter Mr, Chitten- den has made a statement. Gow that Oakland’s Four Hundred of the Ebell Soclety are assured of success in their undertaking to raise twenty thousand dollars by popular sub Jijon for the Free Public Library site,” he says, “there 18 hope of a speedy t of that vexed question What is wanted now, before all things—may I be pardoned for calling it 1ang-felt want?—is a proper housing of Oaxland's library and the speedy That devoutly wished consummation i# offered by the Ebell ladies’ fair hands, upheld by a popular demonstration that is creditable alike to Oakland, to the Ebell and to Mr. Carnegie. “Ome word more. This determination of the site question is far more be- coming to Oakland, as it must be more grateful to Oakland’s benefactor than would have been any scheme to procure a costlier site Involving the indeltl- cate asking of Mr. Carnegie 10 o partners in a tax levy or a bond ,::hama or even in a people’s subscription for the erection of a statelier library. +040404040404040404040404040404040 +0+ 04040+ 000000‘ HENRY A. CHITTENDE! serd our materialization of Mr. Carnegie's gift. L4 . o + o . o + o - ° . o . 0 . o . o * [ . [ + o . o « [} . () * ° + & . 14 i o . o . o . o . o + o . 3 + - VINCENT MAY DIE FROM THE HOLD-UPS' BULLETS R ] . & . 3 * + * e e e i e P eded el 0 eIededeieirededetdtitieiedsiedetedei-ed POLICE CHOOSE GUARDIANS FOR Saguisntzesy ] PV TSV & Do LHoLH O SOHDITILANB0S T & DOTSOITOLION THE FRAWLEYS IN Oakland Office S8an Francisco Call, %8 Broadway, Dec. 10. HE carefully planned hold-up and attempted cold-blooded murder of Robert Vincent last uight in front of his residence, 562 Sixth street, to- gether with all of its sensational details, added one more chapter to the startling serles of rob- beries that have been attempted in Oakland of late. That this was not another chapter of murder is due only to a miracle. The men who fired at Vincent last night fired to kill, and they only missed their de- mgn by one-sixteenth of an inch. Had they struck that distance to the right they would have cut Vincent's spinal cord and caused instant death. The general opinion is that the work Is that of the same gang that on the night of November 12 last mur- dered John Thomas in his saloon at Campbell and Pa- cific streets, when he refused to comply with the order “Hands up!” Oakland had scarcely recovered from the recent epi- demic of midnight hold-ups which started with the job at Peter Christianson's saloon, corner of Second and Washington streets, on the night of October 31 last, until it was followed on November 4 by the bold if un- suc ful attempt to loot the safe and cash box at the power house of the Alameda Electric Railway. On the me night there was the more successful hold-up at Coyne’s saloon at Fifth and Peralta street, culminating m the cold-blooded murder of John Thomas. Then the startling discovery ‘was made four days later of several sticks of dynamite In the rear of the Standard Oil Com- plant at Ninth and Campbell streets, imperiling \dl property in a large resident district in West and. The signal success of the Police Department in frus- trating this last attempt at crime was marked by a wudden ce fon of operations on the part of the crimi- als, and since then, in the vernacular of the street, have been *“lying low” until last midnight, when Robert Vincent was stood up and shot while fleeing from the thugs. Vincent is the proprietor of a market at 83 Washing- ton street, near Seventh. His place of business, as well as his residence, 562 Sixth street, only three blocks from his shop, are located in the very heart and business cen- ter of Oakland. As was customarv on Saturday nights, Vincent's market remained open very late, and when he left he had in his possession the receipts of the day's sales, some $50. As usual, Mr. Vincent walked down Washington to Sixth street, thence along the north side of Sixth to Clay, but one block west. It was just after he had crossed Clay street, and being perhaps seventy- five feet from his own home, when two masked men, heavily armed, who had been lying In walt in a yard in the rear of a vacant two-story house, corner of Clay 1 Sixth streets, sprang out in front of him and ordered n to throw up his hands. The proximity of his home and the belief that he could reach it before the thugs could inflict any injury, prompt- ed Vincent to take to his heels and yell at the top of his voice. As he left the sidewalk to reach the street, one of the masked men leveled his revolver, took steady aim and fired. The accuracy of the aim is evidenced by the fact that the bullet penetrated Vincent's neck, and, as he fell moaning, his assatlants took to their heels, run- ning along Clay street to take refuge along the water front. They made no further attempt to secure Vincent's money. B It 1s evident that the hold-up was carefully planned, 2s have been all the recent hold-ups, for the thugs must have known that Vincent carried his day's receipts home, and the vacant house near his residence afforded them an excellent hiling-place wherein to waylay their vietim. They had, moreover, figured out the time of Vincent's arrival and the time that Officer Flynn usually reaches Sixth and Jefferson streets on his patrol, which was not many minutes prior to the shooting. The shooting aroused the neighborhood. Lee Gilbert, Mr. Vincent's next-door neighbor, was just retiring when he heard the one shot fired. He peered out through his front bedroom window, and says he saw two men of medium height run toward Clay street and turn the corner. “I did not kndw what the shootin~ was about,” he said to-day. “but I saw Mr. Vincent staggering toward his gate next door, and I instantly realized that he must have been shot.” At the Recelving Hospital, whither John Rohan and W. H. Houghton, who were attracted by the shooting, immediately carried the infured man, Dr. W. 8. Porter extracted the bullet. Vincent's escape from death was of such narrow margin that the extraction of the bullet required a most careful and delicate operation. The bullet had penetrated just one-sixteenth of an inch to the left of the spinal cord, and taking an upward course, imbedded {tself in the left jaw. Mr. Vincent has been removed to his home and Dr. Porter continues in attend- ance. The injured man is not out of danger by any means, the fear of blood poison setting in being the most impending. The police have been at work on the case all day. Just 88 s00n as the affair was reported to headquarters squads of officers and specials were detafled to scour the whole district below Seventh street, including the entire south water front, and every belated pedestrian was halted and had to give a satisfactory account of himself. The open boldness of the hold-ups strikes terror not only to the citizens, but to the police, for notwithstanding the utmost dlligence the criminals Implicated have evaded every avenue that might lead to their capture. It is apparent, too, that the murder of John Thomas and his murderer's successful concealment of identification has tended to embolden the criminals in their work. One clew—and only one, though It may prove invalua- ble—was found to-day. The police have In their posses- sfon two hats that no doubt were worn by the foot- fads Just prior to the hold-up. ~Mr. Vincent has stated is belief that his assailants were young men, and the hats found are such as would most likely be worn by young men. The hats, one an ordinary black derby d the other a plain F were found in the yard at the rear of the vacant hous Clay street, where the footpads had been lying in for their victim. These hats had been left lying in the corner of the yard near- est Bixth street, and the footpads during thelr actual work had substituted ordinary black slouch hats, which could be pulled ‘down well over the eyes to hold thelr masks perhaps. The appearance of neighbors on the scene 20 soon after the shooting no doubt hastened the footpads in taking to their heels and prevented them from reclaiming their original head covering. Chief of Police Hodgkins expresses the belief that the assaflants of Vincent are new at the business. “1 really believe that these two fellows are novices. No professional crook would have found any reason to shoot at a man under the circumstances in Vincent's case. Ile was running away from them and was yelling and one istol shot would instantly arouse the whole neighbor- 00od. I moreover belleve that the assallants were young men and, if a strong effort will land them where they belong, we certainly have hopes. - B e e L S o S SR S SR S o e o S o S e S s THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS™ FUND f e DETECTINE WREN LOOKED s R. CROOKED Eaniied ORI .. LINDHEIMER. \WON N A SLOW wWwALK e LT MARTIN ‘&3 VOTED BUT ONCE - L e EX~-CHIEF KIRKPATRICK KEPT WATCH OVER. THE BALLO ‘ocoTTY " s CAMPBELL DID'N'T COMPLETE HIS TOILET INTIME e« > CORPORAL_SILLS . @ SMOKED AN ELECTION DUNK' PROMINENT BOBBIES PUT THEIR BALLOTS IN THE BOX. Q‘q ERGEANT LINDHEIMER may be an orphan, al- though he certainly is not a widow, but he was chosen last evening to support the dignity and wear the title of president of the Widows' and Orphans’ Association of the San Francisco Police Department for one year. The annual election of the assoclation was held In Judge Mogan's courtroom between the hours of 5:30 and 7 p. m. Sergeant Lindheimer had been an avowed candidate for the presidency from the time the subject was broached some weeks ago, and he was on hand as soon as the voting began, to see that he got all that was coming to him. Among the first batch of ballots drawn from the box were several containing the name of Sergeant Pat Shea for president. Cold shivers began to play tag up and down Lindheimer's spinal column, but Shea was not making any contest for the place, in fact he was not even present, and as the count proceeded Lindheimer gradually recovered his composure and toward the close, when his election was assured, his chest began to ex: pand to the imminent danger of his waistcoat buttons. There were really no contests for any of the other offices, with the exception of financial secretary, and shallow nd WEAK MELODRAMA R. FRAWLEY knows his public; 80 does Hadden Chambe; the eynolds as George Forrester, an T e ewindler, a5 man with an actor's face—petrified. remarkably Francls Byrne is allotted the part of Ger- ald Austin, the hero, but he I8 too creamy for the part and, In what is probably the worst love-making scene ever by a playwright, he is pitiful that was a contest in name only, ex-Sergeant Willlam L. Coles having made a fight for the place against B. Rankin, the {ncumbent, who has held the office for five years. Rankin roceived 163 votes, the highest of any can- didate on the ticket, while Coles was absolutely ignored. Sergeant John Duncan, who has been treasurer of the association for the last eight years, was re-elected without opposition. 'The balloting passed off without in- cident, the members coming singly and in twos and de- perting as soon as they deposited their ballots. Sergeant Michael Joseph Conboy, one of the out- going trustees, who was present in full uniform for the urpose of lending proper dignity to the occasion and see- ng that the returns were properly canvassed, overlooked the count from the judge's bench. Ex-Chief Kirkpatrick was a silent but inferested spectator. The result was announced by Lieutenant “Johnnie” Martin as follows: President, M. Lindheimer, 136; vice president, J. T. Fitzhenry, 159; treasurer, Sergeant John Duncan, 161; financial secretary, S. Rankin, 163; recording secretary, Corporal H. Clils. ' 154; _trustces—John : Rainsbury, 151; Jonn Cronin, 146; John J. Coughlin, 132; L. Clark, P. J. Tracy, 85. The total number of votes cast was 169, The assoclation is in a flourishing condition with a mem- bership of 600. SLPOOLPDE LS T & TOOP0OTIOCH0 SO0 L TN 110 oD e ol 2 ARRESTED. Deputy Sheriff Howell Captures Them HIGHWAYMEN He is pt‘zisla) and indiffersnt. After a Desperate Fight. PORTLAND, Dec. 10.—A special to Oregonian from The Dalles says: perpetrated y inane. I GOTSDSUSTIL & 0 & DTS Ds Lo @ the Deputy Sheriff Howell of Pasco County THERE WILL B SOLDIERS FOR A YEAR TO COME Thousands Still for the Islands. WHERE THE TROOPS ARE NOW NOT ENOUGH ARTILLERYMEN TO MAN THE GUNS. sy L Army of 100.000 Renewed Within Twelve Months — Congress Expected to Increase the Force. el As soon as the weather permits the tents at the Presidio will be taken down and everything movable will be carted from the camps and wiil be stored aw to be in readiness for another emergen. such as caused their first occupation. The buildings, the piping and the sewer- ing will be left, but everything else will be cleared away. It will nat be for very long, however, for within a few months the tents will again have to be put into use, for until the muster out of the volunteers now in the islands the Presidio will be as big a military post as ever It has been, By July 1, 1901, twenty-four regiments of infantry and one regiment of cavalry will have to be mustered out, and every one of them will have to be brought back to this country. ‘fhere will be no trars- ports to speak of on the Atlantle coart at that time, and as a_consequence thoy will all have to come back through thi Besides thut, of the y e thousand regulars In the Philippines, two- thirds of them will have been musterad out within the next eighteen months, and they, too,will have to be brought back through the Presidio. In all the t moving eastward through San Franc from now until July of 1901 wili amoun to more than forty-five thousand. In the meantime, however, the force in the Philippines must be kept up, and con- servative estimates put five hundred men a month as the very smallest possihle number with which the present force can be recruited. It is believed that the Gov- ernment will not attempt to malintain the volunteer commands at thelr original strength, for it would not be worth while term. As a consequence, the volunteer to enlist men for the remainder of their regiments will probably be left to fill up their own ranks by talions and companies, perhaps, until the time comes for them all to go. Five hundred men a month means twenty-five hundred applicants a month for enlistment, but the recruiting offices can get that number easily. As a matter of fact, nearly the entire strength of the present army of the United States, prac- tically a hundred thousand men, has been recruited since the beginning of January, 1898. Before the Spanish war the comp nies of the regular army rarely numb: more than sixty men, and the regiments were of only two battalions. When the war opened the companies were recruit- ed up to one hundred and six men, and another battalion, four companies, was added to each regiment. Nearly all the new recruits were men enlisted under an order that allowed them thelr discharges | u{mn application ar soon as the war closed. As soon as peace was declared they commenced to apply for their dis- charges, and_since then they have all been Jet go. Yet the regular army is still at its full strength, more than a hundred men to a company and twelve companies to a regiment of infantry. In addition to that, the State volunteers have all been discharged and In their places there are now in the field twenty-four full regi- ments of volunteer infantry, making alone a force of more than thirty thou- sand men. All these have been raised since last June, and all but seven of these r;flmdnm have gone to Marila through this port. There is a force in Manila now of close to sixty thousand men. Including forry. seven organizations, both regular and volunteer. Twenty-four regiments of in- fantry and one of cavalry are volunteers, The regular establishment consists of twenty-five regiments of infantry, ten of cavalry and seven of artillery. The First, Becond. Third, Sixth and Ninth Cavalry are in this country; the Fourth is in M nila, the Fifth {n Porto Rico and the Seventh, Eighth and Tenth In Cuba. Of the artillery, the First and the Seventh are at home; ten batteries of the Second | are in Cuba and four at home; of the Third, ten batteries are at home and four in Manila; of the Fourth, thirteen bat- teries are at home and one in Manila; of the Fifth. twelve batteries are at home and two in Manil batteries are in Manila and two at Ho- nolulu. The full artillery regiment Is composed of twelve heavy or foot batter- | fes and two light or mounted batteries. Of the infantry arm, the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Four- teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eight- eenth,” Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty- | first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third are in Manila; the Eleventh is in Porto Rico; four companies of the First are at home and eight in Cuba; the Second, Fifth, Eighth, Tenth and Fifteenth are divided in the same way; the Twenty- fourth and Twenty-fifth have four com- panies home and elght each In Manila, and the Seventh is all home, with three of its companies in Alaska. The Eleventh Cavalry Volunteer and the Infantry vol- unteer regiments from the Twenty-sixth to the Forty-ninth are all in Manila, with the exception of the Forty-ninth, which is on its way there, and the Forty-eighth, now in quarantine at Angel Island, which will start for there as soon as it is freed from detention. It can be seen from this that practi- cally all the Infantry and a good part of the artillery is used In garrisoning for- elgn possessions that two years ago this country had no idea it would ever own. It will be seen, too, that all the troops at home are no more t enough to keep thorocu regularly manned, and there is hardly enough artillerymen to keep the ns clean and free from rust, let alone eeping them in proper condition. For this reason it fs becoming more evident that there will be no Increase of garri- sons at the Presidio or anywhere else. It 1s this condition of affairs which leads army officers to hold the opinfon that there will be a great deal doing in the military line at the present Congress. If the volunteers now in the Philippires are let go without something to supply their places there will hardly be I-fe a soldier in this country. It will take 25,000 men to garrison properly the Philippines for some years to come, and there s n« much more infantry than that in the army now. As to artillery, there is not enough In the whole corps to man the guns now mounted for coast defense. Tt 1s expected that, In view of these facts, Congress will increase the lrmY. but by how much is still a nroblem. If it does not, and by July 1, 1%1. the army in the Philippines has not quelled the in- surrection, there will be a pecullar staie of affairs. The volunteers fust sent over will have to be returned to their homes and there will be nothing for the Gov- ernment to do but to provide for more. Sooner than do this, and In view of the consolidating bat- | of the Sixth, twelve | (¢ "DRIENTAL TRADE A MYTH" SAYS COLONEL IRISH e { Burning Denunciation | of Expansionists. e WORTH HE CANDLE | GAME NOT | EXYZNSE OF PHILIPPINE WAR WILL SWAMP PROFIT. - Five Great Nations Are Jompeting | for the Asiatic Trade of $2 25 Per | Capita—America's Share ! 13 Cents Per Day. | ST 1T Notwithsts the drt weather last night the Turk-street Tem was omfortably filled early in the evening with the frie and members of the Social Democra ty. The announce- ment that Colonel John P. Irish was to address the party on “Orie om- merce’ the magget. The speaker in introducing his subject t ed briefly on the platform of the party he was about to_addre “I'he reading of sor principles s disclosed the he, that You are thinking c after lofty id down in have clos humanity low creatures th. point 1d ; >t us wish led away. know the facts have the benefit biased public led uncorrupted by sophistic: have their attent things by monarche, k canker t th their power, divert populace 1t oy | specious delusions be day is the pageant of ¢ the nation to= Oriental come= ‘rade {s a great thing Trade is one of the means of brin % all human so- clety together and p it on the same plane. Trade consists exchange of the surplus products And to obtain this surplus nation must have peac: s turbed by war or internal tumults It ‘s a mistake that le can be induced by war. War destroys. “We are told that to induce Orfen trade we must Invade the Orient w | fire and sword; we m bring the b rors of war to the fires people. What 18 the Our trade with ( capita per us $17 p vith the 25 per capita pe wanted to see why the buy ity of Asia was so low. I consulte tics; I corresponded with A misis and I found that in India the average annual income per head is the average Ile t Britain per b incoma § The av- erage annual Income of the people of Eu- rope is an immense per cent ahead of the Asiatie nesples anr of There five geat nations— Germany, France. Russia and States—competing for that 32 25 per cap- ita of Asiatic trade. We are getting a fwr share, not our full share, but are secur- | ing 13 cents annual income per ecapita when we should get 2) cents per annum | T hope we will get it The Oriental trade is being used as a | pageant 10 divert attention rufnous expenditure on the Philtp Wherever a feeble volce is ruised this awful waste a great roar answers it with the sophism that ‘Without war we cannot get the trade of the Orient. I have not Leard any of the rulers of Asf any of the Indian rajahs, and among the men there are numbered the most bril- liant diplom i shrewd statesmen of the world, t in order to get Amer- fcan trade I8 necessary to seize tecri- ¢ in the United St They have mu- tual trade and the mutual trade with us, price of b wit wd and gold. Before our ats over a peace that has indr | of bright yourg lives and | the flower of our youth we spent so many millions that w discount Canada, and we cut a throat to do We sell $13 per capita to the British Isles, and we own not an inch of ground, t a few rocks east of our Atlantic seaboard, and we have not found it necessary to in- vade Britain. Is it possible that thers is any truth In the statement that, in order to gain trade, we must Invade the land with which we wish to enter Into commercial relations? “I belleve no wrong was ever commit- | ted In this world that did not bring retribution swift on its heals. bellove every nation that commits wrong n | another s bound to feel the effects. I came here this evening only to say that the price we are asked to Orfental trade is not worth the tage that may accrue from It You have a trade that will gild this e Inen from Maine to California, but if It be bought with blood it wili prove not a blessing, but a curse. We could get that Orfental trade by fhe same neans as | we do_civilized trade—by producing a | cheaper article better than any one o and whoever does that gets the trad and gets it unstained Ly blood.™ Prolonged applause demonstrated the deep impression the address had made on the audience, and in the debate which followad the questions asked showed Colonc! Irish’s burning words had been appreciated. DIRECTORY Catalogues and Price Lists Mallad on Applieation. BOOKS AND S‘;;I’IOVEPY. THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS COMPANY, L.reet. Above Powell. KS AND STATIO! 342 to 350 PERIODICALS. COAL. COKP AND P10 IRON. 3G WILSON & C0., 5%, Potigy sire phone Main 1864 FRESH AND SALT MEATS. JAS: BOYES & C0., &5 "5, " St ™ FURS. 4 Kearmy s, . LR LOPSTAD, & vt e e IRON FOUNDERS. WESTERN FOUNDRY, ¥ories .8 Jioder . of Every ™ Castings Description Order. Tel, Black 1505, ¥ I‘ 0404040 4040404040404 04040404040 4040404040404040404040+9 author of “The Fatal Card.” Mr. Frawley began by giving us good plays with good companies, resorting oc- casionally to melodrama as a spice to the season; now he gives us melodrama with an occasional good play as a sop to Cer- berus and the company—well it is not good. “The Fatal Card,” by C. Hadden Chambers, is unblushing in its appeal to the gallery. It begins with an aborted lynching and ends with an explosion of dynamite and possesses throughout the crass characteristics of a “penny-dread- ful.” No element of the true melodrama is omitted. There is the gentleman- Togue, the confederate sleek and slick, the adventuress, the hero and the heroine and the boy and the girl, the wily detec- tive, the injured innocent, the comedy re- lief and the slow music—the slow mu: we have always with us. The dial s as Impossible as George Meredith’s, but in another way, It is sententious or sen- timental, coy or c‘mmn" as the case de- mands, and always bustling with lighten- Inf rods to catch applause. do not see how actors of intelligence can be at any pains to perfect themselves in such a play and that is pernaps one reason why Mr. Frawley's players are 8o ineffective. The other reason is that most of them don’t know how to act. Har- est to hlm as a man of intetll- ::r:]clg That he reconmstruct that scene on and in other and better lines. In the subsequent and serlous scenes— love-making l:’ sfldom lm-rln:u—)‘fi is dmi-‘l'e table an can ne him doing "fnf‘in a part that sults ‘!fim. Ml.rr Van uren 1s beautiful and that is all. The maturescent Mary Hampton no \doubt finds the part of a melodramatic heroine irksome and yells her sentiments into the teeth of her lover in resentment of her ate. \ Mr. Frawley is in the cast. Next week we are to be offered Pinero's “The Princess and the Butterfly,” an ex- cellent play, which I hope will help us to forget a fearful fortnight. It will be ifying indeed to say something good of the rawley b‘e’e‘m%.n{'d. pleasure that has herto n denled me. e PETER GARNETY. ——— Benefit for the Managers. The sale of seats for the benefit for the “charity fund” of the Assoclated Theatri- eal Managers of San Francisco will ogan to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock at the Orpheum. All the theaters are to contrib- ute talent and a highly Interesting pro- gramme is promised. On: tables, lamps, framed pictures and statuary cheap. Sanborn,vail & Co.e had an exciting experlence to-day with two men, Brown and Wilson, whom he had arrested on the Canyon City road on charges of horsestealing in this county and highway robbery in Portland. Deputy Howell arrested the men, who were on horseback, near the top of the Deschutes grades, and having only one pair of hand- cuffs put them on Brown. He tied the horses’ bridles together and started his prisoners ahead of him. Wilson, with his pocketknife, cut the bridle, and both men started down the grade at full speed, Howell In pursuit. After a chase of a mile he shot Wilson's horse from under him and without further difficulty recaptured his prisoners. Wilson has a gunshot wound in the back, which he is supposed to have recelved in a fight with of in Portland a few days ago. —— Supplies for Philippines. SBEATTLE, Dec. 10.—The quartermas- ter's office here states that the War De- partment has ordered the transports BSheridan and Grant to this city to load supplies for the Phlllpfilne-. Assistant Quartermaster Robinson has already con- t;ml:tedbf:r mg tons of l;-ln‘y u;d 500, l'::‘l of umber and a quan! of corrugal iron. One lrlnlp:l’l wuf probably ioad at Tacoma. increased territory to be guarded, it is PAPER DFALERS. expected a substantial Increase In the PULP AND P -rreney will be made. At any rate, for an-| WILLAMETTE . ‘&D.flfifififi?h other year and a half San Francisco will hold J.. new and suddenly attained posi- tion of the foremost military post In the PRINTING. country, and soldlers will continue to hrong {he streets of this city for & long time yet. Thinks Herron Safe. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash, Dee. 10.—When Captain E. F. Glenn, Twenty- fourth Infantry, was shown the Seattle dispatch expressing fear for the safety of Lieutenant Herron, Eighth Cavairy, in Alaska, he sald: “I have not the ieast anxlety as to the lleutenant's safety; he unquestionably s at Fort Gibbon, at tne mouth of the Tanana River, which was his objective point. Nothing can be heard from him until ice forms in the Yukon, when he will probably come out by w-y'g‘ H Skaguay.” l s Examinations at Stanford. Purely vegetable, mild and rellable. Cause STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Dec. 10— et digestion. complete absorption aad The univeraity will close for the semester mmu. r'-“::l.nr‘u.yfl ks i & E. C. HUGHES. PRINTER, 511 Bansome st.. 3. V. STATIONER AND PRINTES g PARTRIDGE ™ ez MINED BY THE BLACK WHITE ASH STEAM COAL. nmw&mu MINING CO.. at g:do'l‘.‘fl RIVER COLLIERIES, is the market. Office and Yards—460 Ma: wtreet. December 21 Entrance examinations for | , FOF e 3 the following semester will be"held trom | Lirers ot e TRcne. iisanoss: ot Janu: 5 to 9, inclusive. uni: 4 wml?r)?n for the next semester 's?n?- ary th sipation. nternal or by mail Piles snd el derangements of the Vi e & box. Rinta, RADWAY & CO., New ?ul