The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1899, Page 12

yard work s have been t o will go toward t m Oakland Andrew Carnegle Mr umma- s and hopes mpleted to-n! i ' the site tion of $3600 n president mpar Yesterda ked nearly $3000 ts face, nd the possi ges not being e with a cold, yke upon be- 14 In part ettled here to- the site e e tie et etiet i et e Nietie NO PARK TO 4 to know that the library is not to be placed in a public park. © 100 few parks now and those we have were given with the they were to remain parks, and not be covered with bufld- Already Oakland has used three of her squares up. The County is on one, the Hall of Records on another and the Chabot Observatory g on & third. The city has been spared the using of a fourth. Qrletietie Netiotion otietie e tie Hotiotiotie oot etie el oti o255 e@ | quence spoke lt(on the r‘.'dm for a few = * etieti et e e N atie et i e et et eti et etie g well that ticular rdly exj donatic do_someth: ch wanted to do. It w above the amount site, and Mr. Huntington's g will enable us to ry out a children’s room in the librs 1 to build a rocm 1 » they © hairs and tables and pleas: ndings. We have a _fund « the chil in dimes even In one case a penny eat many little gifts f the Ebell will d 82 for this room. " This like Soclety that 1600 without ladies them- EBELL SOCIETY MOVEMENT WAS BORN IN A WHISPER been gman is this means that iven to make indeed. As to the resulted in Mrs. Gin the commitiee . that library wedge, ro comments need be I togeth -3 b mlIm;(e-, Dr. 0X. ng called for b opinions. - SACRl FlCES HAVE BEEN MADE é Dr. Buckel protested against the use of N of s | a city park for the site. The parks were * §% | too few already, she declared. When she ] ¢ | sat down the chalrman called for a vote . gz | that would express park or anti-park. \ the fund for the site many have sacrific Contributors 4’| The vote was unanimous against the use + gladly to the c who made real denfals in doing so. ge! of a city 2 ome to the knowledge of Ebell and makes each and e % | At once, with such a spontaneous dem- ry SAAIRONL. 5 THa ot vt ptisr ool g * | onstration, action of some sort was de- wig . . i v iy . & cided upon, and before Dr. Brown 8p- 8 they could not pledge as much as they wished, they have ¢ | peared to discuss ‘‘Fads,” Chalrman Dr. ‘. me of them for the entire month. 8% Myra Knox had appointed a committce | uring the money, however, has been a pleasant one. The ¢ | -4 wn has been exceedingly gratifving. Th who could 8| S a thelr contribution to those who could give eas- & R s d been a public movement * . MRS, R. P. GLEASON. P o o Miss Maria R.BABsON . to “look into the library site matter.” That committee had Mrs. Frederick B. Ginn as its chairman. And it “looked,” appy nomination that | being selected for erted the first nde r all Oakland knows of the sut- ins—{rom site detalls to press that made an auspiclous be- e with Mrs. Ginn co-0pe! Dr. Buckel, Dr. Knox, Mrs d Mrs. R. P. Gleason, prest fternoon late the committee came r, only for a few- moments, how- and named an early hour next day neeting and the unfolding of plans. following morning, November 10, the committee met again, each having al- Ay Inquired as to sites, prices and the | 1k d iaid out mentally, Napoleon like, he ‘campaign. The first thing to decide upon seemed | very properly the site. With none in view the best work could not be done, The ladies saw this and secured an option on he lot at Fourteenth and Grove streets at o an agreeing proposition if not in every respect and to every one an agree- HE monument by the Ebell Soclety |able one. By the following Monday night Ilibrary site had its birth in a s That whisper grew to a suggestion, then to a vigorous protest And the recult is such a successful fhe ut of the weak beginning that it will go down In municipal anr to future g f troubled citizens with good ne but little faith Club one afternoon, when © under discus ker, the of the Firét Cong Charles R gational Church, had not arrived, th was a gap In the programme that had o be filled for the waiting audience C. Annette Buckel, who was pre w hispered to Mrs. Frederick B. Ginn, who sat next her, that the library site matter might be discussed. Mrs. Ginn gave tk suggestion to the chairman of the afie Dr. Myr: And then Dr. arose vigor and el TeTie et et i et e i e ti e it 0 tie, BE SPOILED. : P . to_work. : The option, definitely settled upon Tues- day, November 12, seemed _satisfacto and the work wen the Ebell Soclety knew what its commit- tee deemed best, concurred, and the fight began. With this sketch of the beginning must be considered the shortness of time, to realize with what perfectness and dis- patch the matter was handled. Then the little committee resolved itself into a committee that included the board and later a committee of one hundred This was done Monday and hastily in or- der that a request to the that body to defer a dec! might have as much weight as need be. Then the committee embraced the Ebell's four hundred members, and with a gen- Council asking fon as to parks sral feeling in their favor against the using of a park for a site the ladles ret y t on with no noticeable lissension. Indeed, with se atever within the soclety. proposition as put forward by the committee of gentlemen who had some fore made a move in the direction e had been of this character: The money was to be subscribed toward a ES % site (unselected), no one to make a yment until all of the $30,000 had been ¥ | subscribed. This had not met with pop- ular favor. The advantage of organization must & first be considered In reviewing the o . DR. C. ANNETTE BUCKEL. @ o - o, 0 ag0 3 * @t B tie e et e 4N tie Hetie Nt et et e et e tie e e 424 %4Q % | Ebell's success. Then came the freedom from political jealousies and ambitions. Not a.part of the constituency, the ladies were able to solicit voluntary lubficrl?- | tions where the men could not. And with a named, located, definite lot In view do- nations began to come in steadily and en- | couragingly. Of the original list of subscribers as se- cured by the committee of gentlemen, W. J. Dingee was the first to pay in his ladies of recognized ability | | the societ§ coll | without thé men? And they eagerly di- pledge. This was the signal for many other payments and new pledges and gifts from old and young, until, it will be remembered, that “Thanksgiving day, a short time only after the start, the ladies were rejoicing with Oakland in the pos- session of almost $15,009. Much of the readine of Oaklaod resi- arose from the opposition to taking one of the parks and In view of the fact that Mr. it quite.as charitable to add to the parks of a city as to its library accommodations. The history of the vays of work and waiting. that the Ebell has experienced is too well know ppreciated to need reviewing. Praise from all sides 1s given ctively and Individually. operly added that the sclaim a super- But it may b jadies are they argue, what could have been dor vide the honors showered upon them. THE WOMEN THROUGH WHOM THE FUND WAS COLLETED 'HIS 1s a list of the members of the Ebell Soclety, every one of whom did her share in the work of collecting the money for the library site: LIFE MEMBERS, Mrs. M. P. Benton, 533 Sixteenth street: Miss M. F. Benton, 533 Sixteenth street; Mrs. J. C. Campbe! 1084 Twelfth streer; C. M. Cook, Honolulu, Hawalilan 1sl. ands; Miss M. K. Culbertson, Genesco Y.; Mrs. D. W. Gelwicks, 1009 Mas street; Mrs. Eugene ( street, San Franel: Watson, Revere, Mass. HONORARY MEMBERS. Mrs. P. D. Browne, 801 Powell street, San Francisco; Miss Ina_D. Coolbrith, 1267 Webster street; N Sutter street, San Francisco; Mrs. J, G. Lemmon, 598 Teleg: h avenue, post officeAlden, Cal.; Mrs. J. B. McChesney, 1364 Franklin street; Mrs. J. B. Richard- rs. M. D. P. son, Pledmont; Mrs. William Sherman, 728 Seventeenth street; Mrs. Charles ., %’end(e. 226 Huntington avenue, Boston, Mass. ! MEMBERS, 1899-1900. * Mrs. N. A. Acker, Miss Carrie Adams, Mrs. Frank L. Adams, Mrs. C, L. Adsit, Mrs. J. C. 8. Akerly, Miss Mary Alex’ ander, Mrs. Frederick "A. Allardt, Mrs. James G. Allen, Mrs. R. H. Allen, Mrs. J.P. Ames, Miss Stelia Ames, Mrs. R. M Anthony, Mrs. Charles Willlam Armes, Mre. C. . Armes Jr.. Mrs. Irving Ayers, Miss M. K. Babson, Mrs. Allen H. Bab: cock, Mrs. W. H, Balley, Mrs. George W. Baker, Mrs. J. E. Baker, Mrs. Lloyd Bald- win, Dr. L. L. Ballard, Mrs. Franklin Bangs, Miss Mabel Barber, Mrs. E. T. . $ C. Beatle, Mrs. A. . Benham, Mrs. E. H. Benjamin, Mrs. Miss Lizzie Betancue, op, Mrs. Otto Blankart, Adeline L. Blood, 8§, _C. Borland, Thomas Bennet, Mrs. A. W. B Mrs. Edward Booth, Mrs. Archibald Borland, Mrs. Howard C. A. Braun, Mrs. Mrs. Samuel Breck Jr., Mrs. Arthur Breed, Mre. G. Erwin Brinkerhoff, Miss Martha Brier, Mrs. Frank E. i Mrs. Albert Brown, Miss Alma Brown, Branthaver, A. P. Brayton, JoHN RuUss Mrs. Frank L. Brown, Miss Eliza P. ed contributed generously and gladi mother came from her home on bution of her four-year-old daughter, Teetee BNetietietieti et o, Mrs. John L. Howard, Mrs. J. G. Hoyt, | Mrs. Samuel Hubbard, Mrs. Socrates | Huff, Miss Jennie Huff, Miss Mamie Huff, Mrs. K. A. Hughson, Mrs. James B. Hume, Mrs. D. 1:. Hunter, Mrs. Marcus D. Hyde, Mrs. Cresby O. Hyde, Mrs. Mary | 8. Jackson, Miss Leontine C. L. Janssen, _.James 8. Jenks, Mrs. E. B. Jerome, | Mrs. Murrey L. Johnson, Mrs. James A’ Johnson, Mrs. M. F. Jordan, Mrs. C. C. Judson, Mrs. M. W. Kales, Miss Mary S| Mrs. George W. Kelley, Miss Har- | riot Eugenie Kelley, Miss Edith Gere Kel- y " 1. Kendall, Mrs. I N. Kie-| Kinney, Mrs. G, L. King, Mrs. C. H. King, Mrs. C. W. Kin- sev, Mrs. K. H. Kittredge, Mrs. B. A Kiuegel, Mrs. Robert Knight, Dr. Myra Knox, Miss Mary Lambert, Mrs. William Landers, Mrs. W. F. Lewis, Mrs. W. Fris- ble Lewis, Mrs. Irving C. Lewis, Mrs Fleissner-Lewis, Mrs. Paul Lobse, Mrn.’ ley, Mrs. F. rulff, Mrs. Ri = Richard Morris Lyman. Mrs. T, N. Machin, Miss Eleanor Machin, Mrs. Seth Mann, M Walter | Manuel, Mrs. Henry, J. Marti W. Marston,"Mrs. R. Martens, E. Matha . Walter J. Mrs. C. F. Mrs. Mae Mauvais, J. L. Mayon, Mrs. J. W. McCly {Mrs. J. W. McClure, Miss Beatrice Mec- Wonald, Mrs. Horry Meek. Mrs. William | Meck, Mrs. J. M. Merrill, Mrs. F. A. Mer- | ritt, Mrs. A. J. Mervy, Mrs. Victor H. Metealf, Mrs. C. O. G. Miller, Dr. Annie | L. Miller, Miss A. E. Miner, Mrs. James | Moffitt, Mrs. Erank J. Moffitt, Mrs. W. E. Montgomery, Mrs. Henry- C. Morris, Mrs. Henry 8. Morris, Mrs. W. H. Morrison, Mrs. James Munsell, Mrs. E. F, Murdock, Mrs. J. W. Musser, Mrs. Francls R. Musser. Miss Carrle Nicholson, Mrs. J. M. Nosler, Mrs. G. L. Nusbaumer, Mrs. Emil baumer, Mrs. A. B. Nye. Brown, Mrs. Arthur P, Brown, Mrs. Rob- | ert Stuart Browne, Dr. C. A, Buckel, Mrs, Miss Ella Bullock, Mrs. Ge: L. S. Burchard, Mrs. A. W. Burrell, Miss Grace Burreil. Mrs. Edward Hale Campbell, Mrs. H. P. Carlton, Mrs. J. T. rge Woodbury | Burdick, Mrs. to sign their names for amounts | : has in the past considered | Chapman, Mrs. Chubbuck, M Charlotte Collin . 'Coleman, Mrs. I .’ Coogan, Mrs. G. W. Cope, Mrs. C. E. Cotton, Mrs. E Van Horn Coole: Cotton, Mrs. E. J. L. Courtian, Mrs. Homer A. Craig, Dr. Marion W. Craig. William W. s. Thomas Crellin, Miss Laura Crellin, Mrs. T. Arthur Crellin, alse as Oakland is to give They do not feel that they have dona | something that the men could not do. For, . Gilbert L. Curti llam Bostwick Curtls. Mrs. Merritt iolla, Mrs. A. A. Day, Mrs. George E. de Dick, Mrs. J. T. Dille, Miss Mary R Donaldson, Mrs. E. L. Dow, Mrs. O. P. Dunwoody, Mrs. W, Mrs. A. F. E: irs. Edward Engs, Mrs. James Evans, Miss Augusta E Mrs., Wallace Everson, Miss Mrs. Park Fellow: Fillmore, Mrs. J. W. Fisher, Mrs. J. W. Foster, Miss Julla Fraser, Miss Hen- | rietta Frear, Mrs. W. H. Friend. David Gage. Miss Ethe]l Gage, Miss | Mabel T. Gage, Mrs. J. P. Garlick, Mrs. Miss Mabel G M Charles H. Gilman, Mrs, Z. John Gilerest, M;’ F olger, Mrs. Lee 13,1713 M .dslulm a_ 1713 McAllis- M g , Mrs. T. Gllpin, Mrs. A 11 P.. Gleason, iss F. A. Dean, 1215 D. Miss Janet C. Jr., Mrs. Fred W. g iey, Miss A. M. Hambly Mrs. E. M. Hall M. deL. Had- Mrs. William T. Hamilton, Mrs. George Hammer, ) C. Hampton, Mrs. F. M. Hathaway, Mrs. Wickham 8. Hayv. Mrs. John C. H J Mt Head, Mrs. Tyler Henshaw, Mrs. W. G. | F. W. Henshaw, Mrs. E. Harrison, Mrs. Henshaw, Mrs. ildebrand. Mrs. Harry Hinck- iss Bertha E. Holbrook, Miss Grace Mls’l Florence Hooper, V. Sarah W. Horton, Mrs. C . Horn, Miss Mrs. Frank B. Ogden, Mrs. Warren Olney, Mrs. Oliver 8. Orrick, Mrs. 8. R. | Osgood, Mrs. E. W. Owen. Miss Elizabeth Packard, Mrs. F. V. Paget, Mrs. W. G. Palmanteer, Mrs, Charles E. Palmer, Mrs. J. C. Palmer, Miss Caroline B. Palmer, Mrs. George C. | Pardee, G. W. Patterson, Mrs. R. . Paull iss Etta B. Penniman, Mrs. G. W, Mrs. W. S. Phelan, Mrs, John ‘'W. Phillips. Mrs. Charles Dexter Plerce, Mrs. W. Frank Plerce, Mrs. H. B. | Pinney. Miss Charlotte 8. Piayter, Mrs. | John N. Pomeroy, Mrs. T. Edward Pope, | Miss Maud E. Pope, Mrs. Katherine Pot- ter, Mrs. J. H. Potter. Mrs. H. A. Powell, | Mrs. A. H. Pratt, Mrs. F. C. Preble, Mrs. D. Archibald Proctor, Mrs. Eleanor | W. Purinton. Mrs. W. H. Quinn, Mrs. A. J. Ralston, | Mrs. E. W. Ranlett, Mrs. W. I. Reed, Mrs. | . Reed, Mrs. P. N. Remillard, Mrs. | | Renz, Mrs. J. 'C. Richards, Mrs. | | Charles T."Rodoiph, Mrs. A. M. Rosbor- | ough, Mrs. Alfred von der Ropp, Mrs. H. | D. Rowe, Mrs. Hubert N. Rowell, Mrs John Russ, Miss Irene Rutherford, Miss E. B. Banborn, Mrs. Pedar Sather, Mrs. | August Schilling, Miss Leonie Schlund, | Mrs. J. C. Schneider, Mrs. J. Walter Scott, Mrs. A. L. Scott, Mrs. J. R. Scup- | ham, Mrs. Prentiss Selby, Mrs. E. B. Se: sions, Miss Bertha Shafter, Mrs. P. J. | | Shatter, Mrs. J. W. Shanklin, Mrs. W. E | 8haron,’ Mrs. George M. Shaw, Mrs. David | Shoemaker, Mrs. Edward R. Sill, Miss | Louise Simmons, Mrs. A. M. Simpson, | Miss Mary Simpson, Miss Henrietta Simp- | son, Mrs. H. B. Smith, Mrs. F. M. Smith, Mrs. Albert L. Smith, Mrs. John F. Smith, Mrs. 8. G. Smythe, Mrs. Clare 0. South- ard. Mrs. Miles Standish, Mrs. Gordon M. Stoip. Mre. Egbert Stone, Miss Jennie | | Stone, Mrs. H. E. Stone, Miss Florence | Stone, Mrs. Edgar Stone, Miss Georgla Strong, Mrs. D. D. Stubbs, Mrs. Henry Sturtevant, Miss Annle Sutherland, M Albert_Sufton, Miss Emma Swain, Mr: | H. C. Taft Louis Tashelra, Mrs. Ed win_Taylor, A Henry R. Taylor, Mrs. 8. J. Taylor, Mrs. H. G. Thomas, Mrs. | Daniel Ttus, Mrs. J. H. Todd, Mrs. J. B Trembly, Mrs. W. G. Tripp. Mrs. H. O. Trowbridge, Miss Jessie Tuttle, Mrs. John 1. Valentine, Dr. H. P. Van Kirk, Mrs. @olio oo Nk eNeN s eNe NI N eNe NN Ne e Nee NN RN WHAT THE CHILDREN DID. NE of the most gratifying and beautiful phases of this work for the site has been the interest manif Christmas money for the library fund. This Is only one instance of enthu- slasm out of scores. The children may not realize now what their Interest means to them. They will realize it in the years to come. @ofie tietieieti e eN o NN NN 0&0&0&0“’?5‘5090%50’3050‘ | #ite fund. Over $10 was netted by the | by the children of the city. They have y. One day In the pouring rain a Linden street to hand in the contri- who had taken 25 cents out' of her RABIR IR NN GNNO MRS. ADA VAN PELT. Ada Van Pelt, Mrs. Mary C. B. Varney, Mrs. C. D. Vincent, Mrs. E. C. von Helms, Mrs. Henry Vrooman, Mrs. Henry Wads- worth, Miss Loulse C. X eld, Mrs. Vernon Waldron, Mrs. E. Ish, Mrs. M. A. Ward, Mrs. F. C atson, Mrs. H H. Watson, Mrs. E. F. Wethe, M ar Welle, Mrs. F. W. Welle, Mrs. H Wheaton, Mrs. Willlam R. Wheeler, Mrs. James Lawrence Wheeler, Mrs. J. W White, Mrs. W. Whitmore, M E. Whitney, Mrs. F. E. Whitney, C. Wilson, Mrs. G. A. Willard, Mrs. Wil lard F. Willlamson, Mrs. R. R. Winter, Mrs. W. V. Witcher, Mrs. E. A. Wettig, Mrs. Charles Yates, Elizabeth Dow Yorker, Mrs. John Yul A e B mlC PRIMARY PUPILS AUGMENT THE FUND HE primary pupils of Miss Horton's school, Twelfth and Filbert streets, in an entertainment this afternoon made = | & neat sum for the benefit of the library tle people and they earned this contri- bution by a very entertalning programme presented to a large audlence. Among those who deserve especial no- tice were Jefferson Grant Moffitt, who | gave a voeal number; Marjorie Mhoon, who gave a German song, and nk Plerce, who recited In German. The others on the programme were: Chorus ‘“The Bright Rosy Morning” and “Beauti- ful Springtime’’; recitation, “Baby's Gone to School,” Editn Mildred Abbott; recita- tion, “Days and Nights,” Robert Edward Stewart; recitation, “Polly Washes Dishes,” Edith Lillan Orth; recitation, “The Squirrel,” Faith and Mary Mills: chorus, “Weinachtslied”; recitation, * Abend,” Frank W. Plerce; Wollt ich war ein Englein,™ Marjorie Mhoon; recitation, “Des Knaben Berglied,” George Osborne Wilson; recita- tion, “A Talk in the Honey Market,” Helen Rae Lowden: recitation, “The Con- ceited Coins,” Theodore Scott Flint; song, “The Little Bird," Kenneth Gray Hc t recitation, “The Dream of a Toy,"” Hor: Billings Cadman; recitation, “Quoth tho Hood to the Hat" Maud Bafley Bishop: choruses, “In_the Tall Boughi 1 “Sweet the Voice of the Breeze™; rec tation, *“Dorothy’s Theory,” Moseley; recitation, “Aunt n Thomas Dale Henshaw: recitation, Phow:raq_h," Irene Isabel Colli tion, “The Eversomuches,’ Merrill; lano _solo minuet thoven), Helen H. Cadman; recitation, “Which Loved Bes recitation, “Lucindy Listens,” Helen Ge true Bannan, song. “‘Beware ni Stanley Baxter, Jefferson Grant Moffitt and Albert Leslie Ollver; recitation, “FPut Down One and Carry One,” Kathryn L Bennison; recitation, “A Grievous Com- plaint,” Richard Morris La'mdn Jr.; reci- tation, “A Surprise.” Sarah Wandeo Cheek; recitation, “Hesitation,” El Engs; song, “Je chanterai,”” Vida Col Florence Adams Henshaw and ( Wilson: recitgtion, “The Trees'™ [ McDanlel; recitation, “Hard to Bea Kenneth Gray Hobart; recitation, Tommy's Monday Morning,” Prat chorus, “Hark, Thro' th Hou’h recitation, “Partnership, H. H. llams; recitation, ““Th: Priest of Austerity,” Dudley Blanc Valentine: itation, “A 'Real San Claus,” Willlam Grandin Calkins; recita- tion, “Christmas Bells,” Dorothy Tay! recitation, “‘Listen, Lordlings. Unto Me Gladys Wilson; recitation, “That [ Christmas Tree,” Marian Miller; tion, “Gifts in Sleep,” Harriette Maud Maxson; chorus, “Fly Away to My Na- tive Land, Sweet Bird.” " [ R A A A R a2t R RS DR AR O RSN Y ; & 3 GRATITUDE TO THE PRESS. 8 * HE papers deserve generous pralse. They have given space unstint- e ingly during this month of hard work and uncertainty. Every day the financial situation has been presented with its brightest side out. En- @ couragement and glowing accounts have helped the ladies to work and é helped the public to give. The end shows what co-operation and organ- % Ized effort can do. And just as much gratitude is due the men of Oak- @ land as the women. For what could the ladies have accomplished without ¢ the ald of the men? DR. MYRA KNOX. = &5.g.g.mom‘wowsoummmmm. CONTRACTORS. ENY CARTER'S ALLEGATIONS Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 8 Broadway, Dec. 14 Cotton Bros. & Co., principal defendants in the sensational suit brought a few days Carter, in which the Board e also named as defendants, contract for the con- Webster-street bridge, filed answer late this afternoon, Willlam a thelr attorney. also deny & su mitting that they furnished the Supervisors Wwith certain blue prints, but claiming no knowledge as to what plans or blue prints were furnished to the San Francisco Bridge Company. The fact of the award of the bric atract to them for the sum of % on November 22, 189, according to pians and specifications flled Sune 13, 1898, is admitted, but they “deny ihat any change in sheet No.'10 of the plans filed and upon which bids were so- {icited and received by the Board of Su- pervisors has ever been made, or any part Thireof is now or ever has been changed ince the same was adopted by #aid board filed.” Continuing, the answer recites: Detend mit and allege that, to accom- " poard, and without charge, Cotton e "Co. oonditionally furnished, as & loan & bosrd, wnd mot otherwise, 'four extra 0 £ the blue prints for the tses and ac- e otation of said board, in connection With e Jetting of said contract, and not otherwise; that the conditions of said loaning of said bie Tints are those wtated in the E Pleation of Cotton Bros. & Co. to said board. D e to whether one of said four copies or vets of blue prints was delivered to San Fran- Hieeo Bridge Company, to bid by, these defend- ub fctent to enable them to answer; e iaring their denial thereto upon that round, they eny that aniy COpy or set of said floe prints was ever delivered to the San Fran- 00 Ce . s tast Yoxnivit A, annexed to the com- _phdlurwh copy, or any , of -3 2 B = a ] 5 & 4 bo y EF records, or that any sheet of which Exhibit A is & copy ever was part of the plans or specifica- rvisors, County Auditor and | or solicited by said board; and, In this bebalf, the same make, style and size worn 4n ry di the men are Inexperienced, and he cites defendants aliege that the sheet of which sal Exhibit A 1s a cOpy !s not now and never was any rart of the p or specifications upon which said bridge was to be or is to be built Deny that Sheet 10, or any sheet which was ever a part of sald plans, has ever disap- peared, or anything whatever substituted thers in, or ‘that any substitution, or anything else, ever did make 150,000 pounds, or any weight, less of steel to be used in the construction of sald bridge, or %0 as to make, or that there was ever made $7000, or any difference, in the cost thereof. In conclusion, defendants’ answer re- cites: hat they, or any or either interest or motive, in any , changes of substitution al or that any such pre bstitution took place or other person had or has an interest or motive in such alleged proceedings, 5k place or not; or that sald or 4 places or plan as to said or any Bheet No. 10 was dope by or through the con- nivance, fraud or decelt of Cotton Bros. & Co., or otherwise: or that ghere is Or ever Was any changed or substitute: heet, word, figure or thing in, In reference to, concerning or connect- ed with, the pians o cifications, or any part thereof. f. in relation to the construction of sald Webster-street bridge. Cotton Bros. & Co. ask that plaintift take nothing by his action and that they be dismissed with their costs. CHARLTON EDHOLM ON THE TRAFFIC IN GIRLS OAKLAND, Dec. 14.—Mrs. Charlton Ed- holm of Chicago, the well-known lecturer and newspaper woman, whose worthy ef- forts toward the uplifting of young womanhood have attracted the admira- tion of Christian people throughout the United States, has just published an In- teresting and instructive volume entitled “Trafic in Girls, and Work of Rescue Missions.” The little book is a compen- dium replete with startling narratives touching upon the causes that have led- many girls astray. The false hopes and bitter consequences of deviating from the path of righteousness; the false em- ployment snare; the snare of drugs, of mock marriage and seduction, the evils of the dance and the Ignorance of chil- dren that flll the brothels, are very minutely explained and a remedy given. Rescue work and Its methods are elab- orately dwelt upon, and altogether the volume is a revelation of an evil that has existed, and for which a4 remedy is of- fered, Mrs. Edhcolm has, during the t few weeks, delivered several of her ectures in leading churches of this city. —————————— Gler's Tonic Port, a valuable combination of the best known tonics and diuretice. n:o. tions upon which any bids were advertised for | Gler Co. Oakland. that thought that he knew who WINGENT STILL AREAT LARCE Police Investigation Is Unavailing. B Oakland Ofice San Francisco Call, 908 Broadway, Dec. 14. The shooting of Robert Vincent on Sut- urday night by footpads has caused the usual crop of wild storles about robberies, attempted robberies, hold-ups, burglaries and the like. Excited people imagine that behind every tree is a highwayman, and the slamming of a door at night is trans- formed into a burglary. Asfde from the shooting of Vincent on Saturday night Oakland has been free from even the average burglary for at least thirty days. This leads to the be- lief that either the Vincent shooting was the work of a local gang or it was the work of the same gang that killed Thomas, the West Oakland saloon keeper, and which had left Oakland until the ¢x- citement of the kl]hnT of Thomas shouid blow over. If it is a lo very inexperienced men, an eign ggng that is working Oakland they are very the least provocation. They certainly are not men who go about robbing rooms in lodging houses and burglnrlllni houses, cal tf:nfl they are f it i= & Lor- desperate men, who shoot upon The story of the attempted hold-up of Manuel Courant, the employe of the Oak- land Parcel Delivery stables, is not cred- ited by the police, and is believed to have been the result of an overwrought im- %nnunon. The reported robbery of Fran! 01 urant’s saloon was not a robbery al all, for Courant told the rollce himself it was an ‘“inside job,” and he took th But while these minor cases are of not the slightest importance, the shooting of Vincent wi falr, and t little exercised over it. Nothing found since the first two days of the search. The two hat the men, for there is nothing about (ne hats to give any clew as to the pur- chasers. There are thousands of hats of a particularly dangerous af- e Police rtment {8 not a flord no trace of Oakland and San Francisco eve: ay. Chief of Police Hodgkins thinks that the fact that they shot at a man who was trying to escape and who could probably not have recognized them. That the men escaped after they had fired a shot in such a populous neighborhood i{s what is provoking comment from both the public and the Chief. ““The city has been in good condition this winter aside from the killing of Thomas and the shooting of Vincent,” sald Mayor Snow to-day. “The great trouble with this town is its nearness to San Francisco. Men can come to Oakland, do their work and escape to the city on the next train. Our police force is small and our detectives few. Oakland has 75,000 population and but sixty policemen, Los Angeles, with 100,000 population, h: 284 policemen." ATTORNEY GETS INTO JAIL AND OUT AGAIN OAKLAND, Dec. 14.—Attorney R. E. Hewitt still refuses to pay the $20 fine im- posed upon him by Police Judge Smith on conviction of having violated the bicycle ordinance. Hls appeal from the Police Court was dismissed by Buserlor Judge Hall last Tuesday owing to defective pers, and to-day the remittitur was han ed down, when the young attorney was promptly placed under arrest to serve the alternative ten dnrs in the City Prison. He remained in jail nnlg fifteen minutes, for he immediately through Attorneys Chapman and Clift’ made application be- fore Judfe Greene for a writ of habeas corpus, which was !rumcd and made re- turnable before Judge Ogden next Mon- day afternoon at 2 o clock. Hewitt in the meantime is out on $20 bail. He contends that the original complaint is defective in that it alleges “he did not have a bell or whistle on his bicycle' when the ordi- nance regards either sufficient. Dr. Easton’s Funeral. BERKELEY, Dec. 14.—The funeral serv- jces of the late Rev. Giles A. Easton, .D., rector emeritus of St. Mark’'s Epis- coj Church on Bancroft way, will be held from the church at noon to-morrow. Bishop W. F. Nichols of the Californ! diocese s to be present to officlate, assi: ed by Rev. George E. Swan of Berkeley. The interment will be In Cypress Lawn Ceemtery, San Francisco. ————— New Choirmaster. OAKLAND, Dec. 14—The First Congre- E\und Church has selected Willlam B. ing, the organist of the church, as choir- master to sutceed A. M. Benham, 0 resigned some wecks ugo. Mr. l':":lt hoomulled to retire because of {ll e L DESERTED Hi WIEE ON THER MAIVERSHRY L. E. G.odwin Tired of Matrimony. Aty Oakland Office San Francisco Call, Instead of celebrating the cizghth anni- of his marriage night like a good, dutiful h Goodwin, a brakeman in the the Southern Pacific Compa: inent in railway unions, brazenly told his wife that she was not keeping up her end of the marriage contract, and that he had decided that he could not live with her. He declared that he had each month given her every cent of his $80 wages, and yet she refused to stay at home and attend to her housework. mise, for his total loss of patience, to take three children—the cldest x Mrs. Goodwin might take the turniture and do as she plessed and go where she desired. Mrs. Goodwin was horrified at the pro- posal, and refused to accept the condi- tons, and the brakeman has gone his way, awaiting developments that in all probability will materialize in the divorce He has, moreover, caured to ublished a notice to. merchants that after o-day he will no longer consider himsel!f ebts contracted by ties were In San Fran- n 1865, He offered as responsible for any cisco away bac! Another sensational story of desertion and a husband's duplicity will deveiop at the _trial of the divorce suit of M A. Foye against George F. mercial traveler who resides In Alameda. Aside from the Mrs. Foye avers over a year ago her husband introduced household”a young woman whom ed was his recently discovered she accepted his he one day made ange sister was ce In her husband’s at- This occurred in August, 1898, ublic scandal was narrowly avert- the husband and al- sister soon took their leave, and the Foye, a com- lon of desertion, compiaint that tory with grace ui he time, and Mrs, Foye secks $35 mont ut mor of the commercial traveler's monthly sal- ary of $175. GREATER FREEDOM IN UNIVERSITY STUDIES Students Given an Option for Less Mathematics and Fewer Hours of Prescribed Work. BERKELEY, Dec. 14—An important change In the courses of study at the Uni- versity of California is being made by the faculty at the close of the present term. The change goes into effect after August 1, 1900, and its general tendency is to lighten the academic work by doing away with a great deal of prescribed study, which for a long time has been the bane of students. The first alteration comes in the old bug- bear of mathematics. According to pres- ent regulations the academic courses given in the colleges of letters, social sciences and natural sciences require ten hours of mathematics before the aca- demic degrees can be conferred. This re- quirement the faculty has slashed almost by one-half, cutting the number of hours down to a minimum of six. The reason for this is given that the standard of mathematics in preparatory schools has so far improved as to warrant the deduc- tion. A second slash has been made in the number of units for work’ in the group elective. The present requirements of thirty hours have been cut to twenty-four for the three colleges mentioned above, The last change lessens the amount of pedagogy required for State high school | » to this time twelve units of work have b:ees xeceunry. Now but eight will be neede In adopting this new method the Uni- versity. of California follows the lead of Harvard University, which has been the ploneer in the matter of freedom of choice to its students. It is thought that the in- fluence of President enjamin Ide Wheeler has been largely Instrumental in inducing the faculty to take this forward step. On account of the time neces- sary in the preparation of. the Christmas edition of THE CALL, to be issued Sunday, December 17, NO ADVERTISE- MENTS for that issue will be received AFTER 9:30 P. M. SATURDAY. THREATENED Hi SISTER' L Oakland OflceBSlndFrnnchcn Call, roadway, Des Mrs. E. Volquarlsen told a ;’:mrulc m“. y in Judge Ellsworth’'s court to-day of a brother's extreme cruelty. It was at the trial of the sult of the Stewart Collection Agency against J. H. Rempe for the re- covery of 3360 on an assigned claim of Mrs. Volquarisen for services rendercd her brother as housekeeper at wages of ll§ pehr‘ month. . n his answer Rempe set up a counter- claim for boarding and Imixln: his Aln:t»r: three children, who have been stopping at his home on Twenty-fourth street for """Jem- The testimony went to show that during the first four years Rempe bad pald his sister §15 monthly for acting as his housekeeper. Then, 160, her chil- dren found employment part of the time and out of their earnings Rempe pald himself for their board and lodging. Mrs. Volquarlsen went on the stand this afternoon and testified that three y lfo she sustained a broken leg in an ac- cident and had been unable to work for about eleven months, but during the last two years she had been doing the house- work as before, yet her brother has re- fused to pay her as before. In answer to a question. she replied: “When I asked him for my wages he said he would yet pay me with a bullet and then he usually beat me besides. He used to abuse me and during the last few ars has not treated me at all as a ther should treat his sister. My chil- dren worked and ""3 Pa him for their mfl nd lodging and [ had to work very The entire afterncon was occupled In taking testimony and at adjournment of court the trial was continued Rempe, the defendant, Is a palnter by :ccuplllon and Is sald to be quite well-to- 0. S——— ONE MORE CHANCE To Get the Famous PAINTING OF THE AN- GELUS FREE IN TURKISH TAPESTRY, BUY $2.50 OR OVER AT J. COHN & CO'’S, 9 6-58 WASHING10 ST, And Get a 2022 TURKISH TAPESTRY FREE, SATURDAY, Dec. 16th Only,