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

APVEBTISEIEN TS. NEW STORE. NEW GOODS. 1126 Market Street, SWEEPING REDUCTIONS GREAT CLEARANCE SALE! Every Article Marked Down. BARGAINS IN TAILOR-MADE SUITS. BARGAINS IN FEATHER BOAS. | should not miss this opportunity to purchase onable goods at low prices. Store open evenings until g o’clock. Call and see the new store this morning for Bargains, J.O’'BRIEN&C ... NEW STORE... 1146 Market Street, Bet. Taylor and Mason. ani AM‘USEMENT& | CALIF(]RNIA THEATER: P-,uu | House, LE | a4 DEC. 21 "FRAWLEY COMPANY | fum Pl dren, TREMENDOUS SUCCESS OF THE GREAT | FOUGERE The Sensation of Two Continents. Hill, y m of ) ad “CLMBE‘RLAND XDAY Thorne and | Hean Har- n ||\(, COLORQ. - n Francis EAR'S DAY : GREAT DIVA, E ’V\MR NE‘VADF\. THE MLSICAL SEMATION YEAR'S DAY. ‘ SALE POPULAR PLAY HOUSE. | PHONE SOUTH 7 TO-NIGH BLACK PATTi Tk POPCLAR PRICES, DAY N AFTERNOON MURRAY AND MACK —IN "FINNIGRI\ BALL.” COLUMBIA s LEPHONE MAIN 522, GRANTD OPERA-HOUSE. Matinee RE Entire Press of RE Discern & RANCISCO, ke Production. ....SINBAD.... rishian. TIVOL!I OPERA-HOUSE. CONCEBTS AND BESORTS. CHUTES AND Z00. itz . NI H‘ Y!“".l’\\l\” n Y, AMATEUR NIGHT. Li Hung Chang’s Chinese Amatzurs | in Rag-Time Specialties. eat PARK 23 3 - CUR LARGE STOCK OF rizne B U IR, And Lonion-Dyed Alaska SEALSKIN GARMENTS ¥ust Be Reduced Within 30 Days, | Ad. thggur & Co, [ashigoatlc, FURRIERS, POST ST., “*BUTTERFLIES.” AND k Ahe ENTS ALCAZAR THEATER. TO-NIGHT &nl Emlre Week. { ALT OF ORIGINALITY, WIT AND HUMOR CHIMMIE FADDEN. THE 8§ 121 Rooms 1 to 11 Phone, Black 3143, AST OF THE SEASON % WE MANUFACTURE ABSOLUTELY THE Reserved lOC 25¢c 85¢ 50c¢ SWELLEST AND HANDSOMEST - IN THE CITT. Y EDDY v REMGDELING AND REPAIRING AP OL COR. SON POFULAR PRICES. v ree +audeville show in the city. i —A REAL CHRISTMAS BILL.— R IES RLT RS LAST WE The luxury, comfort, convenlences, § | e cuisine and moderats charges oave M n givea the a's crobats. PALACE and GRAND hotels reputation that is known wher. | § ever the English language 1s spoken. Connected by a covered passageway— 1% rooms—900 with bath: JOHN C. KIRKPATRICK, teeeeesccccecece v BRUSHES brewers, bockbinders, dyers, flour mills, foundries, hangers, priniers, vainters. orien, stablemen, tar-roofers, tanners. tailors, ete. BUCHANAN m-h Manufacturers, 609 te. ~Overcoats CAFE ROVAL 5572 PR — 1LY WINVER RESORTS. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO VISITORS PASO ROBLES HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS. mtz-l of health resorts; cures all 11l T others Tail. Spectal round-trip reba bate ormatl ek, %:" Eiyl City Asent, The Soubrette Account ALL Vaudeville Host And » Marnazer. . bath- | billiard’ tabies, | akers. RACING! RACING! RACING! ‘mwunmom\u JOCKEY CLUB-1800 | ber 18 to December 31, Corner Fourth and | Market, S. F. Brew cur Epecial Steam and Lager, » at 12 m. and 5 m., connecting Jping 8t the entrance to the ! cars on train reserved for la- arts; Buy your no smoking. Mound. Al trains via ect with San Pablo avenua Onk- all trains via Alameda mole con- San Pablo avenue cars at Fourteenth and Broadway, Oakland. These electric cars o direct to the track in fifteen minu! Returning—Trains leave the track at 4:15 and | 445 p.m_and immediately after the last race. HOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., President. R L. MILPOY, Secretary. ana their ferry ticket to Mole electric cars at Seventh and Broadway. A nd | | | and he THE AN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1899, » 4 e e S S S S S S an S S S @ o ieieiee e o—*o+0—o+~o—o—o+0+o—o—o+o+o+o-o—m. United States Hors.e Transport Westminster. She made a second start for Manlla with 400 head of cattle aboard last night. On her first attempt she only got as far as the bar, when an accident to the machinery caused Captain Petrie to bring his vessel to an anchor alongside the ightship. Large quantities of ashes and cinders got into the bilges, and as it was feared that these would get into the pumps and choke them the vessel came back to port Christmas day. The damage was easily repaired and she got to | WORKINGMEN OF THE EMPIRE HAO *FIRST SHOT HIS FOE, THEN TOOK [t|4-n~ made by Postmaster Montague to! | the Postmaster General, to the effect that | the volume of business in San Francisco | had increased so enormously during lhe past yvear that the present force cot not do the work during the eight hnurs per day scribed by the Federal stat- ute pr newly appointed carriers were | dkn n from the substitute list, and are follows: P Fahrenholz, W. H. Gibson, J. M. John Welch, C. F. :Bull- 3 11, Gnldher& J. | P. Mulhern, H. J. Berr: Scheuter, P. y, H. L. Olson, John Sullivan, | MciIntyre, L. J. Marks, W. J. | sh, W. D. Hicks, J. F. Harney and | S. Dunn n names from the eligible list ided to the substitute list to fill Staging Sent Flying by Revolving Screw. Chinese Quarrel Ends | in a Tragedy. Useful New Year’s Presents. —_—— —_— Traveling sets, valises, bags, pocket- |ONLY CRIME OF ITS KIND | books, Lill books and card cases are nice | ENGINES STARTED BY MISTAKE | = for either lady or gentleman. —_— 1 In gold free of rhurge ‘when S — 1ght from Sanborn, Vall & Co., T4l llm' | CHANGES OF OFFICERS ON MAIL BOAT MARIPOSA. —— A gang of workmen had a narrow | escape on the steam colller Empire the other day. The vessel was on the dry- dock, and the work of overhauling the machinery and gettng her ready for sea | | was going on with a rush. Staging | had been placed around the stern of the vessel and a. number of men were en- AH LIM, WOULD-BE MURDERER, AT THE MORGUE. | L i t. Open evenings this week. ———e A NEW GRAND JURY. Judge Daingerfield Impanels Thirty | Citizens to Appear Next Friday. Next Friday morning at 10 o'clock the | new Grand Jury will be drawn. The names of thirty citizens were drawn from | the box yesterday morning and ordered | to appear on the day named. Those noti- fled to appear are: stre fter an an attempted murder excitement about 4 | afternoon in the Chi- | 8 the case is the first 1 to happen among the Mongo- ts of San Francisco it caused comment in Chinatown. belfeve that a broken out, A\,(,p.] J. Vanderwhite, 2002 Greenwich; xaged in keying up the propelleg shaft. vi réonal | LAt K. ook, 1515 Webster: Conrad | In order that no time should be wasted | ) from % et T eriane I8 Kearny: JOBRLH Bremer, | Steam was being got in the boflers while | JRcurrec y street. 1| 910 Larkin; John A. Stanton, 69 Clay: | the vessel was still on the drydock, the in- William 100 California; Chauncs fon being to start for Coos Bay as 1 are used for officés and sleeping | Winslow, 1801 Van Ness avenue: Sam- | goon as the steamer was put back in the . Bow has been employed as janitor “.‘"‘A"‘,‘\f‘,*‘ e “\",,{‘mg‘l","?fi; water. The first assistant engineer was by the agents of the proper- | ,A y Charles | In the shaft alley and the chief was on | long llr{w]:u'd has h-;-l r!"uu\.n'l L. Field, 11“ 1"1 Hyde; | the staging superintending the repalrs. | Bl OOy Do a s s oo whliam T John' W. | Without a moment's warning the screw | A 4 e g gt e LA 2 11 _»r;\':‘!_: began to revolve and striking the staging | cach other exoept in & business way. - | hul, 5417 | threw the workingmen and their tools iIn | A few o the dead man com- | eor ce H. |.every direction. Some of the men had plained nts that his room was | nforth, | Very narrow escapes, but no one was seri- | e s ee e (0 u.»nrv W hitely. | ously injured. One of the kits of tools | o p T i) . Thompson, 73 | was™ thrown fifty feet into the air and | and | 0 Burnu 6 1N Rtaenin N. Walter, 170 Van Ness avenue. d not reported ell right at the feet of a calker, nearly | A charging him with neglect > complaint fediiln ~ caring him to death. No one seems to of duty. When th s told “rqd\zr‘l(‘klhlf’(;‘l'l:'nlx:\r‘]‘;lg(‘r 0 Fowents secoms: | know filow_(h:- engines came to be turn- i had made complaint Te. 318 Clayton: P. D, Code, | €4 over. When the chief reached the en- he became Pt e A R el d ‘ gine room steam was turned off and not a to Ah Lim's e | man on the ship would acknow wav upbraid.c i n|; een_anywnere near the e} % Taupbraidod | Hoitt’s School. | | was not damaged in any w xplained that the roo Menlo Park, Cal. New buildings, new | VThe American ship . Kennebec " afived : complaint for spite and | jahoratories, one of the best equipped | Nor¢ from Norfolk, Va., with a load of | ould be removed from his quar- | schoots for boys In Callfornia. Nest tarm | C0al in the nick of'time! Her cargo was unt of his filthy mode 0f 1iv- | spene January 15 M | considered u dangerous one, and when the janitor had finished his . » she became a little overdue the under- writers got scared and began reinsuring When the with the agent he ag room and Knocked at th e ort 15 per cent was being paid on her. Riley Heirs Compromise. vessel reached | nt responded by open-| All diffe es between the heirs of the | f few inches s en slum- » ' 3 5.0 rom here she went to Mare Island and e it AL and then slam- |12t Daniel Geodale other than his widow, b.,“,, discharging at the navy-yard. Yes- 'Betore the Janitor had fime to repeat |2OW Ellen G. Stouder, and the present | terday a fire broke out in the coal cargo | s knock the infurfated roomer suddenty | holders of the interest of Ellen E. Stou- [ and considerable trouble was experienced opened the door and pointing a pistol at |der to Maria A. ey, which wis sub- | In extinguishing it Had the vessel been | his enemy fired two shots point blank in | Sequently fcteclosed, ‘whereby the helrs | at sea chances are that there would | & ),A face.” Ah Bow fell to the floor and |Of M: Riley became entitled to one- | 'ml e been another marine d er. hooter started for his room, when, | third of al property, situated in | ,v;w rnmfl steamer Mariposa _sails to- | h,» ring some one running up the stairs, | Contra Costa County. have been adju I‘X:\fi” "r|S\dnv} g s via Honolulu, hie turncd into the hallway and on reach: |and a compromise cffected. By the terms | Apla and Aucklind, Caprain Houdlette, | tohis Fight tempie. s the ‘pistal | OF the comprmhlas thehelrs 6L MaA A | LiouL. (as Gpteln FHaywerd lavie o a ! | “rne polies soen in Contra Costa CoMnty. The e few days for Philadelphia to superintend | | where Ofcer | the estate goes to David Goodale, Elia | the completion of the first of the new squad found Ah Bow leaning a | May Camp and Robert Goodale, share g""'lm“;“( n‘(“‘ building for the Oceanic wall bleeding (rur;: vl §.u|m wound in his | and share alik ml_*:[m:\'yml-g' ?’:‘1&&:\?:)1 ]{;r?:«nr\,\l’l‘l“b;m;'}g:; Jaw, > crouched in a corner at the St — i -/ ¢ end e hal 6. Unconss A in the Mariposa in fifteen years. Before | Uxfn“"r the hall lay the unconsclous form To Spend His Life in Prison. going to l’hll delphia he will visit his old | patrol wagon and ambulance were | T- M. Gleason shot and killed D. M. Cot- | home in Ma ton in Bakersfield, and the crime is safd | Chief Enginee: . Haynes of the | um oned and both Chinamen were sent to the Receiving Hosp An examina- | to have been an unprovoked murder. ‘t‘t‘\“rlk’lh'l.l’u‘:lf‘q"rlll::“:l(r)‘;“:"x'lnnl:;‘xl\m}‘ll i tion showed that Lim had shot himself | Gleason was convicted of murder in the | First Assistant Engineer B Wolte i s through the right temple, the bullet al- | first degree and his punishment was fixed | out aa ehiet this Loy and & new first > most penetrating the skull to the back of | at Imprisonment for life, but he was not | sistant will be appointed to-ds 4 the head. He lived until 7 o'clock without | satisfied with his escape from the gallows | *'The mails are o tmes s tre) Mariposa having regained cons and hi$ | and his vas appealed to the Supreme | will get away promptly at § p. m pfihe body was removed to the Mnrgnv Ah of the points raised being | carries an unus large cargo and a | Bow's wound amounts to a broken jaw The Supreme Court found A number of notable | full passenger list. Hawallans will go home on her, and Cap- tain_McLeod, late of the ship James will recover, sason for reversing th Late last night a police s Jjudgment, and n must spend the rest of his life careful inquiry into the in prison. Nesmith, v i thasie son. goes to Honolulu on her to take po -u’\;mlghlv.\ e !ft}'“ b‘nlp - duvxr-- —_———— command of the Henry B. Hyde. D e the shot DA he g ant. indleate Thomas J. Malley’s Death. The Pacific Mall Company's chartered | that the shot h cen fired from across steamer Algoa was scheduled to arrive the room and the pistol placed in the vie- | The charge of manslaughter against | from the Orient yesterday, but it will tim’s hand Though the sergeant does not give much weight to the theory he has advised the officials to hold Ah Bow until after the autc MORE LETTER CARRIERS. Nineteen New Appointmenu to Keep Pace With the Increase in Business. Nineteen additional letter carrlers have been added to the regular force in the San Francisco Postoffice. The in- crease of the Drs. W. M. Forster ar connection with the death of Thomas J. Malley was dismissed by Judge Trond: esterday. Malley died in Dr. For- office on Market street while belig ated upon. He was under the influ- of chloroform at the time. the _evidence D. Maclean in probably be Friday or Saturday before she makes port. She is an enormous big tramp and makes very little pretensions as to speed. She is tons gross bu den, 455 feet long, 58 feet beam and 23 feet 4 inches deep. Her carrying capacity is about 13,000 tons, and she has nearly that amount of freight abhoard for this This is more than twice as bi, as has ever been brought Into ra cisco In any one ship. An idea of the size of the Algoa can be gained from the f: that she tons gross burden lar than the transport Sheridan, now at Fo! som street wharf. @ Coal is a very scarce commodity in the | market just now, so the advent of the Louis Walsh with 1500 tons from the Ros- | Iyn colliery was halled with delight yes- terday. The Walsh was twenty d making the run from Tacoma, and her | owners were beginning to worry over the long passage. ! The Collector of the Port is about to have erected a new district office on Mi sion street wharf for the custom-house of- ficers. The improvement is being nope too soon, as the old shack in w! the men have been compelled to wo does not deserve the name of “‘office.” The revenue cutter Rush lost one of ker boats last week. The general supposition was that it broke away from the boom and drifted out to sea. Yesterday the | cutter made a short cruise around the bay | and out to sea in search of the missing boat, but no trace of it could be found. The California Sh!w’;!ng Company Las | purchased another salling vessel. ester- day W. E. Mighell secured the ship Will- fam H. Smith, now on her way from New York for Hongkong. The Smith is a first- class ship nnfi will prove a welcome ad- dition to the coast fleet. The Berlin has also_been purchased for the coast trude by George E. Plummer. Both vessels will arrive here during next year, Edward Lewis, a man 70 years of age. attempted suicide on the front yes- terday. He jumped overboard from the Clay street wharf, but was rescued ard taken to the Harbor Hospital, where he was attended to by Dr. Robinson. ! enc Tudge held that there had been no negligence on the part of the defcndants and said their arrest The showed ifiah e — Yesterday’s Insolvent. Willlam Scheuorer, restaurarnt keeper, San Francisco, $6631 63; assets, $4000. was unju. force is due to representa- There is not a country in the world which my appliances have not found their way into, sim- ply because there is a demand for them. If you are suffering from Varicocele, Weak Back, Lumbago, Rheumatism or Sci- atica you need one of my DR. SANDEN ELECTRIC BELTS, which has never yet failed to cure the worse case, and without that dreadful Burningor Blister- ing so objectionable in othet L0 Belts. v\m- for my book. “THREE CLASSES In the Divorce Court. OF M ** which explains the Beits thor- Albina Siemann has been granted a - voce from Gustav A. F. Siemann on the und of desertion. Decrees of divorce ave also been 'granted Theresa Cuche from Frederick H. Cuche on the ground of extreme cruelty and James E. Baker from Lizzie C. Baker on the ground of desertion, Mary Roberts has sued Enms Roberts for a dlvom alleging desertion as a cause cf action. Sagtly, Consaltation and sdvice fece. Of fice hours—3 tq 6; Sundays, 10 to 1. _T. A. SANDEN, "1 spier ~ | | 1shing certain letters. | all, to improve your writing: DESK STUDIE S FOR GIRLS Copyright, 1899, by, Seymour Eaton. IV. THREE LESSONS IN P!‘.N-y-\thn h MANSHIP. BY C. P. ZANER. People write illegibly, not so much from lack of skill as from lack of attention to detalls. The {llustration of *“common er- rors” discloses this. skilled, was carelesg about forming or fin- No more skill w: commMON ERRORS P move Mmoan needed to make the words plain, but a little more attention, care or time. Look over your own hand and see if you will not adiscover similar causes of illegibility or doubtfulness. If, after you have dis- covered them, they do not disappear, it means that you are not in earnest about improving your penmanship. P}:guros are more important than lette They stand alone. They are not relat | one to another like letters in words. 1 cannot therefore be read or decipher ¥y context, as letters sometimes can. A mis- take in figures is usually far more serfous than in spelling. You will do well to cul- LE1NIAT1222222 333333 44u4uULu '5555554."5!.&&»".- A Y ATET Sy A b kg 4999499000000 123457890123 tivate the habit of absolute sureness figures. And, by the way, writing, {s nothing more or 1 {s nearly as much so as ete. Once learned well, it is a plea profitable servant all through life | the opportune time to improve that whick vou have falled to learn as well as you | ghould, “What is worth 3 doing well” is as true of writing as of anything else. in It matters but little which way your writing slopes, whether forward or bac k- ward, much or little, or not at all fmportant question is: Is it legible to ers t the writer? Is it easy and r. in execution? Is it neat and orderly appearance ? A few things you should study In order The writer, though | doing is worth | Proportion (rel- | ht and width), shape (stralght { ana 4 " iines, angles and. turns, re- inclination (slant), tween letters and (distinctness of ir- The accompanying “example,” show | What we are endeavering to explain, PRECEPT. Writing may be * “angular,” ete., as she A Nafurally you will pr. little dif- ferent from that d by other people. see to it that | Whatever that tyle may be, | you write well. | | | 1 | | Round o arcgudar | See to it that it does not reveal cranki- freakishness, et and th al " for if it is too peculiar and que: it will_be difficult to read t poor. Having ch Improve req practice eternal price of excellence. to pls | stead fad among many. | Write best and writo it we ) ill not only te readable at it will also stand as a monum your own Indi- vidual achlevemer 1 be as high or low as you make it Note—This cc aner’s “talks™ on writing. The « dy next woek | will be devoted to personal accounts aud money affairs for girls, SHOP AND TRADE STUDIES FOR BOYS. Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. III. REVIEW ARITHMETIC. \nh»The following exercises are intended as eral review of (1) the le mul-' of the worksho arithmetic of the offi A drawing will be commenced next Week. Review Lesson No. 1. 1. Find the cost of 30 miles of wire at 20 cents a pound if one pound stretches 40 feet. 2. Find the cost of covering a inches by 18 inches with gold le cents a square inch. 3. Find the cost of an inlald floor 17% feet by 16 feet at $2.60 a square foot. 4. A road 1% miles long is to be paved with asphalt. The asphalt s to reach from curb to curb, a distance of one chain Find the expense of paving at $2.10 a square yard. E B A 2 uare f at 5. Find the area In square feet of a four- sided figure having three right angles as shown in the diagram. AB is 12 feet, CD 18 9 feet and AC Is § feet. 6. Find the cost of 24 blocks of marble each 3! feet by 2 feet by 1% feet at §2 a cuble foot. e s ce de 7. An office bullding Is to be built on a corner of the shape shown in the dlagram. AB is 80 feet, CD is 60 feet, AC is 40 feet. The cellar excavations are to » made to a depth of 15 fee of the exca! t. 8. A packing-box manufacturer gives an estimate of $465.50 for 400 packing boxes made of inch lumber, each box being 3 feet by 3 feet by 2% feet. The boxes cost 15 cents each for labor, and lumber is worth $16 per 1060. Allowing $.30 for in- cldental expenses, what is his profit on the job? (In estimating tle lumber in each box take full outside measurement.) | 9. A gully crosses some city is 180 yards long, and the lengt of the cross-sections are as follows roperty. l( and de,{a 90 feet; A feet. How many loads (cublc ;nrds) ot earth will fill the gully? 10. What will it cost to tuckpoint orfe side of a brick wall, 120 feet long by 18 feet high, at 60 cents a square I wall paper is 18 inches w(do and a lln‘le roll is 24 feet long, how many rolls d for the g four walls of & t wide and 21 will bo require hall 60 fe feet high 12 | tual meas- what will of the lumber necessary at $20 ) feet? Review Lesson No. 2. ric lights b & month s of 40 electr a day. Find the accu 145 a; AyS at 8 per cent. 3. A promissory note for $540 terest at 7 per cent has 438 d Reckoning how much is due altoge 1. Find the interes: by the - 80 for 57 days at 7' per cent ant sells 15 catalogued at count of 3 and 10 off; find hours a st at the lights burning 7 ate interest on $2400 for bearing in- n running for accurate interest, method 49 A merct $498.50 at a the net 6. The find the ret count of X W » amount Eross amount amount of a bill is $3984.20; after allowing a dis- cent e betwee a dis- c 41 | count a bill ¢ ) 8. A note drawn March 5 at 8 | months is a ted April 1 at 7 per cent; find the pro 9. A note $20) drawn Sept. 9 at %0 vs is di 1 Sept. 20 at 6 per cent; llml the proceeds. 0. Reatc rate of ex Lesson No. 1—(1) §72 $43.20. (%) §728, 968. 5 63 sq (6) $504. (D (5) $%0.%0, ) ) loads. (10) a (1) § @ ) $4L.06. () $:125.19. (D) (5) $1184.60. (9) $1963.33. (10) $198.08, $41.55. | | COURSES OF INSTBUCTION \ Autumn-Winter Term, 1899-1900, MONDAYS and THURSDAYS: Popular Studies iz Shakespeare. TUESDAYS: The World’s Great Artists. | WEDNESDAYS: Desk Studies for Girls and Skop and Trade Studies for Boys. FRIDAYS: Creat American States- men. SATURDAYS: Home Sclence and Household Economy. These courses will continue until February 15, 1900. Examinaticns will be held at their close as a basis for the granting of certificates. ‘Was Not a Maid of Honor. In the publication last Friday of the article referring to the Jubilee eelebration at San Jose The Call, through an inad- vertence, was made to say that Miss Ruble Howell acted as maid of honor to Miss Alma M. Cutter, who represented California. Thomas C. Howell, father of the young lady and editor of the San Rafael Independent, writes that his daughter did not take part in the parade and requests a_correction of the article in that particular, which is cheerfully made. —_———— Hannan Wants Liberty. A writ of habeas corpus, sworn out te secure the release of H. J. Hannan, who [is wanted at Greensburg, Pa., for murder, | :v!lld.!;e urgued before the Superior Courf 0-