The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1899, Page 9

7 NEWS ortme \ &n CITIES HAYWARDS COUPLE WED IN SAN FRANCISCO L ARG A S e o o o S S S S S UP AP Pebebeieiede@ 000 i N - on return THEY LEFT WM HER 10 DIE ON THE BARREN FLOOR e Had Been Struck by a Niles Train. LL RENEW PAGE ESTATE Young Mother Expects Lively Times. Oakland Office Sa. Fr: I wr iken new irage | child into this cold bravely 1o secure is the picture and browr d, bring R | ds | had | e | & lively tim | ut I have | w n be testifiec | On December | ipating ‘an transferred his ren, Dr. Solomon arver Visal plaintift $500. s children to fraud on cover n Ja- ounty, old man. , declded for th : Page, doting and senile, | ! adverti a wife in varlous marriage | a3 pavers. & reply from Mrs. L. H >, Bushn Francisco, N e Page was & Cvieers to N vl ex s = Y we Cit emijst Resigns. and Pag AKILANIY 15es, 98 —City Chemist L. M : : cutting @ - with $0 each. Judge Phillips, who suc- ~ | ceeded J pointed by Budd, grant- : X ed just prior to going out of . ge Short, the new incumbent, > b qualified, the case w tra « S Moot RRAIng’ Das Fecom Tulare' County before. Judg red a decision on the that the transfer of | property was valld and legal, and that it | had been conveyed to be heid in trust tll ntment Tnivers! { Chemist Col s the decease of Samuel Page, and w ADVERTISEMENTS. en to be_divided between the four chil- - ~~—~ | dren—Dr. Page, Mary Garver, H. C. and Elias Page—and th elder Page was | included In the transfer of the property s well as the children, and that no fraud n praciced, as had been contend- { ed_when the transfer was made. | Under the decjsion tx helrs of t} Lillian ¥ ghter. A interviewed a leading att f who sald that the cas and fought to ed much attention t_declsion the o the legality of one claiming fraud four children are utting ently presentative 2 before t eirs were divide he original transfer,. n the transaction e — | | Insures Love and Happiness. may ng fr President Wheeler Returns. BERKELEY, Dec. 20.—President Benja- | min Tde Wheeler of the University of urned this morning from quickly cure himself after sexual weakness, lost e ifornia Sac- Ve and viparke el | ramento, where he had been in attendance 2 uddrers to Dp. L. W, | At the convention of the California Teach- address to Dr. L. ers' Association company with him at t. Mich., and | )0 convention were: | sor Elmer I gindly wend ipt with full | Bt Ln " Regent George C. Parde directions #o that any man may easily cure | Jepdrick C. Babcock, Dr. il B. D d Vimself at home. This Is certainly a most gen- | Professor Thomas L. Heaton, Dr. Thomas ervus offer and the fol extracts taken | W. Page and Mrs. Mary L. Cheney, ap- bis daily mail show how men write him: | pointed secretary to the prestdent Sir: Please accept my sincere thanks mdaen e So g for. yours of recent date. I have given your | treatment & thorough test and the benefit has Do Our Society Girls Smoke? boen extraordinary. It has completely braced | Some one says that the charming young va T am Just ws vigorous as when a boy | ladies of San Francisco's'upper set enjoy und you cannot realize how happy 1 am.” | a cigarette on the quict as much as any Dear Sir: Your method worked beautifully. | one; and, further, that it Is only a matter Rew were exactly what 1 needed. Strength | of time when the uropean custom of | und vigor ha mple returned and en- | after-dinner smokin, y men and women | largement tn entirely sntisfa d | alike will be universaliy indulged In. Can Dear Sir: Yours was received and I had no | this be true? Read ail about it in next trouble ia making of the receipt as di- | gunday's Call, and then see what you rected, and after a few days use can truthfully think say It is & bo « ak men. 1 am greatly | . 0 AP NS SUAe a proved in size, strength and vigor.” | . = ke R ATl correspondence 1% strictly " confidential, | 10ts of people would starve if they were B to sit down and wait patiently for the re- paiied 1o plain wealed envelope. The receipt 1s | 3 : ree for the msking und he wants every man |turn of the bread they cast upon the wa- w have It ters. - * I & + B B - ° R IGHT FORTHE |- 'General Movement Across the Bay for Bonds for Public Improve- ALAMEDA COUNTY CITIES ARE | IMITATING SAN FRANCISCO | | | | ments, Particularly Schools. o B o "e have thus got ahead of the large been referred by the Mayor. Dot ot e%e% NEW YVEAR | WILL SEE | BONDS MOVE F. M. Squarely for an Issue of Bonds. RS R R S S AN SN OAKLAND, Dec. 20.—Oakland has been t to some decided moves m by the success The s of the City » of the Whole dule of items th wort the Councll on Tues and it is expected that som steps will be taken at that time minartes have all been arran ¢ Attorney Dow ha lied is necessary for the b yor Snow is ardently in favor of The Council has settled, in the items that it desires to submit ple, with approximately the 1o be fssued for each item. That w year should be opened with a such de ppr of arly move ided importance s par riate ;roperty owners ted in Oakland, se d in the bond i tily in favor of bo it will inc > their eem 1o fear the improvem ct tha do not ed the Smith is probably the larg in Oakland, through and his holding his p throu d the Oakland T | mpany r. Smith is heavily in- ted in ¢ d and he has done much to do mor in favor and stands ready wtter of improving Oakland has got into a shape in_which it is a tter of self-defense. Oakland cannot flord to refrain from establishing those public_improvements which seem to be essities wnen her nearest nelghbors owing so much enterprise and pro- This is 3 ble time for e of money s heaper in C. a than in any other | part of the country. There are large in savings banks and the rates of Interest are so low that the owners of the money would be glad to in- | t it in good municipal bonds H. Gray, one of the leac in im ement and political work in Oakla: also declared himself for bonds. amounts of money He Ays “We will have to issue bonds. There is question out that. We need im- vements and we cannot secure them ar limit allowed in our charter. t expect to have advancement ressive city by using the money | L dollar tax, and the only rem- bonds. I do not say that 1 of all of the propositions that but I certainly am in fa vor of a reasonable bond issue. If O land will take this matter in hand and nd to it vroperly there is a big future d for the city Kahn, one of the leading merchants tavors putting the following the people: 1 Salt or sprinkling_ streets. 2 Wharves, picrs, meles and bulkheads. 3. Intercepting sewers. 4. Sewer extensions to tide water. 5. Storm articu- rly for a _district. = 6. School- yuses and Paving thorough- | S. Raising Twelfth street dam. viring and filling marsh lands for parks. 10. Purchasing and improving parks. 11. Building boulevards. Mr. Kahn opposes the following propositions: 1 General water works, because of the un- certainty of the water supply. 2. Garbage crematory, be e of lack of proper law. 3. City Hall, because the proposition ad- vanced i not good. | M. J. Kell yresident of thq Board of Trad ‘he arguments Used in favor of bon San Francisco will ap- ply fn every w to Oakland. There too much bickering and too much scat- It would be and influential tering of efforts in Oakland. well for the newspap le to stop this if ssible. Political tions and local fiulousks tend to urmotl that is very Injurious to the city. DUNSMUIR-WALLACE WEDDING ANNOUNCED A MARRIAGE THAT WAS LONG KEPT A SECRET. The Bride Was the Mother of Edna Wallace Hopper, the Charming Actress—Why the Matter Was Kept Quiet. OAKLAND, Dec. 20.—A secret marriage of many years' standing, with the princi- s two of the best-known people on the »ast, has finally been announced to the public, and Mrs. Josephine Wallace is now sald to be the wife of Alexander Duns- muir, the coal king. The couple are now in the East and have gone there on a be- lated honeymoon, leaving this announce- ment behind, the secret at last to be given to_the public. he two are so well known that they scarcely need to be Introduced. Alexan- | der Dunsmuir 1s the owner of vast coal | mines on Puget Sound and the family is very weathly, perhaps the most weaithy | family of tha great Northwest. His name is synomymous with the coal industry of that section. | Mrs. Josephine Wallace is the mother of | Edna Wallace Hopper, the charming | little actress. She was the wife of Waller Wallace, the father of baseball on this coast and connected with the old Cali- fornia Theater in e days of Lawrence Barrett and John McCullough. ~She sep- arated from Wallace and since then has | n caring for little Edna Wallace, who has been married to and divorced from De Wolf Hopper of “Wang' fame. It was abot a year ago when the | Souther Stock Farm, near San Leandro | was purchased, it was said by Edna Wal- lace luopp«r for her mother. "The Souther Stock Farm was & very famous and his- | torical place, in which lots of money had | been lost, and its sale created no little | talk, more particularly because of the | parties who purchased the place. jut it is now said that the purchase | was made by Mr. Dunsmuir not for Mr: Wallace. but for his wife, and that they | have gone East leaving the announcement | to be made while they are away. The ex- planation given for not having announced it before is that of business. It is sald that had the marriage been known he | would have forfeited a portion of hlll father's estate and would not have in- herited the coal mines that he now owns. | | to come. and HE fact that the city of San Francisco has so enthusiastically voted bonds for various public im- provements has stimulated the desire for bonds in all of the cities around the bay. The over- whelming success of the issue as raised in San Francisco has caused all of the cities of Ala- meda County to look to that method of raising money for municipal improvements, and each city has some plan of its own for development. Already the little town of Pleasanton has voted bonds for a municipal water supply, and they r cities in the county. Mayor R. W. Snow of Oakland has made theissuanceof bonds for public improvements his great administration measure. The matter in that city is now in the hands of the City Council, to which it has Alameda has a desire to improve its schools and build some new ones by the aid of honds. Berkeley wants a new High School and sees no way of getting the money unless by bonds. S e e e e e ALAMEDANS AGITATING FOR BONDS Offered to Public Im- provement. ALAMEDA, Dec. 29.—Another step toward bonding the city of Alameda for the purp { making numerous public nts made last evening rial mee the Board of vote to 2, adopted rsing the report of th commi al League. The mmended that th raised by an I e of mun the purpose of improvir of the public schoois of A The Municipal Le: appointed commitie i the variou ¢ roment, and » rec- 000 be is for meda. me time ago nvestigate the departments of the in conjunction witn the city officials, make a_careful study of the manner in which improvements should be made and the best method by the amo cessary for obtain- ults could be raised ittees were composed of a lam frer a a’s ni great ¢ t reputable citi- al of work the ¢ s recommended that the sum of $ Id be necessary to carry out the ¢ died in their re the fund to be used as follows: The sum of $35,00 i » purpose of improving the public 325,000 for a library building and - the improvement of roadw the Webster-street t in order 1 w width « rty fr mprov t mdivided inte e to stand rent which public_work prevented the done other than by private the city. As the former i le by recomme: issuance of bonds to the ex- 0 be submitted to the people to be used for elghty i 1d not of nec y the might possibly for work being contract or the com- tion of th tent of $2 for their action, the mon temporarily improving th to bring It in fairly good condition for at least two years to come, - mat issuing bonds for the f erecting a new library bulld- is little doubt but what the p ple ' will vote as a unit for the bonds. The Alameda Free Library has always been an institution of public pride and Alame- Ing, the dans are justly proud of it and their schools. In addition to the $25,000 asked for by the commi there is an_addi- tional $10,000 dons gle. With tt 00 a bullding could be erec at would be ample to the city’s necds for a great many It will not be nee a lot for the buildin sed for this purpose sary to pur- one was some years chase purck ago. Some objections to the report on schools is offered by members of the Board of Education, Directors Brown and Keys be- ing opposed to the transferring of the High School 1o the Porter School building, ter making the necessary alters and additions to the High Sche ng using it for grammar school pur- I tions build poses. Both Mr. Brown and Mr. pose the issuing of bonds, as they they do not believe they are necess In place of making numerous addit and changes they favor the erection of a new High School building, to be con- | structed of brick of sto; The other members of the committee number of scholars to each teacher is too nd that more room is an absolute sity. The léeague has a strong following and e is little doubt that a call for a bond tion will be made by the Trustees, and as there is little opposition offered the bonds will no doubt carr board and the league PATTERSON WILL WAIT TWO YEARS FOR A FORTUNE His Mother Will Wed Rev. Layeon. ———— Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 8 Broadway, Dec. 20 Superior Judge Elisworth this afternoon RS R el el e e a R L AR AN O 1 public schools of the Muni- | : conditions | 1 that the ques- | : roadway so as | re all of the opinion that the | NEW SCHOOLS | . WANTED BY | BERKELEY . \ — : mith Comes Out There Is but Little Oppos'tion | Board of Education Prepares| Plans for a Bond Issue. 05 FO KO KO KED LOLES L0 41 4090 900 @ })ERKELEY, Dec. 20.—The Board of Ed- | ation of w this city has been working slon. There was a large attendanc upon a plan for the imprc ment of the Among the very popular young ladies of the younger set who were pres- schools of Berkeley for some time. A were Miss Jacqueline Moore, Miss Alice Conklin, Miss Lilllan Isaacs, special committee of the board has been ¥ 2 Mis Isabelle and Ada Kenna, Miss Helen Winchester, working out the details of the plans and | Reed, Miss Alice Graham and Miss Kittle Stone. Among the they have at last prepared thelr report.| © young gentlemen present vere: Russell Springer, Wilder Wright, Will Roth, This report pro s bonds as the only | Ben Reed, Frank Kutz, Will Creed, Hart Wilcox, Irving Burrell, James way by which the money necessary can Kenna, John Isaacs, Seymour Phelan and Jack Henshaw. be raised. | The club s planning to make its next meeting, which will bo set for This report will be considered at the|i¥ some date In January, the affair of the early New Year. There will be elab- next meeting of the board, when the| orate decorations, new gowns and an added number of invitations sent out. Town Trustees will be asked to call a | Mrs. George W. Percy entertained a number of friends this evening at bond election. The board will also then | her home on Vernon str The guests included Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Smith, ttle as to whether the proposed High |2 Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Valentine, Mr. and Mrs. H. hool will be brick, stone or wood. | C. Taft, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Trowbridge, Signor Peano and Mr. and Mrs. he report of the commitiee show vhat is proposed, is as follows: | To the Berkeley Board of Education—Gentle- | men: Your committee appointed to consider the needs of the school district in the matter of sites for new school buildings and the e tion thereof and the enlargement of exist bufldings, beg leave to report the following res ommendations st—That the board proceed forthwith bmit to the electors questicn of the | cost of such ext the school factlities by the b to provided by law the | of bonds to cover the nd improvements of 1 be determined upon ard. That a site g shall be purec ttuck Tract determin eting) and that th empowe to secure jtion upon the prop- erty for sum of §5000 In accordance with the t bid submitted by the owner, Mrs. Shattuck. hi 1t the board proceed at once to se- for a new High School | d as follows: (The | upon at the last { the board be the ary plans as provided by law for School building, to be erected upon ab mentioned property, to-wit main bu 8, to consist of a well-constructed frame | structure th Iy high ba u and e storfes in height and with a suit- ement; the ment is to contain ple room for gymnasium purposes, the first second floors together to contain twenty ms of adequate size, a library, an . Ining reception-room, ther w alls and stairways; the third st vide an assembly hail of adequate sea acity and of such other apartments as can | be included in the plan. In addition to this n building the plans shall provide for an Aditlonal building story In helght, whic th to ng urth—That the board provide also the fol- | SCHOONER BURNS LEAD-PENCIL POINT NEARLY CAUSED DEATH AKLAND, Dec. 20.—The sharp point | of a hard lead pencil, carried in the upper left pocket of his rich Dres- den vest, came very near costing County Auditor J. Cal Ewing his life. Successfully by Dr. D. D. Crowley to-day Mr. Ewing’s death would have resulted from blood poisoning in a few days. Mr. Ewing in suddenly reaching for a cigar in his vest pocket several days ago | struck his third finger of the left hand on the pointed lead pencil. The Icad pene- trated quite a distance under the finger | nail and snapped off short. The wound, | though exceedingly painful for the mo- | ment, was regarded as of no consequence | by the popular Auditor and it worried him very little that he was unable to extricate the lead. Later, however, the pain became 8o ex- cruciating and the injured member be- gan assuming such abnormal proportions | that Mr. Ewing realized that blood pols- oning was imminent. His friends advised | immediate attention and it was only with | the fullest exertion of their persuasive powers that Mr. Ewing consented to the | operation, which proved a painful one Dr. Crowley had to slit the nail of the injured finger from one end to the other IN in order to remove the dangerous sub- :CAL BEWINGS stance successfully and has given his pa- But for an operation that was performed | tient the assurance of recovery. POCIETY IN TBE LasT WEEK oF TBE OLb Ur&r AKLAND, Dec. 29—The Friday Night Club gave an assembly In Reed Hall to-night, which was stiil in its holiday dress, as arranged by the you ladies of the Lambda Theta Phi Society for the pleasant occa- O Kimball. The evening was made enjoyable by several short addresses on the progress made in the nineteenth century. There was music and refresh- ments. Mrs. Percy is one of Oakland’s most popular hostesses and always insures nov nd interesting entertainment to her guests. In the present in- stance alled the evening a “fin de slecle” gathering and it was in every way, and above all intellectually, a perfect success. @OLS TILRLS TOL 200N G 0ETO0 PN LVI0O0S DeUI D00 40000 @ MOVING TOWARD A MUNICIPAL WATER PLANT Contract Let for Test- ing Roberts’ Wells. she I0S DI0E 09 08 G0 D0 40 400 4 000 AND CAEW TAKES TO SHALL BOATS Narrow Escape Off Roberts Landing. HAYWARDS, Dec. Flelds .—Jones, Mills & | of the Haywards Lumber Company | Oakland Office San Fran o Call, 93 Broadway, Dec. 29, ”'11‘::;':(;’\“’”::\! uh'y“ \y'.;:‘- Pf“l‘) lrh:rk’l‘ V”r, received word to-night of the burning of The contract for testing the Roberts "d cost of these Lwo buildmgs thall e | One of their schooners a few miles off | wells at San Lorenzo was finally awarded Roberts Landing, on the bay, this even- ing. by the Board of Public Works this morn- ing to W. S. Plers of Centerville. The con- lowing extensions and improvements: The pur. | ‘The schooner was totally destroyed by s A it | thelr @scape In the Small hoats that were | "y piattee of tenting: the wells & ot i . m pri- | towing behind. The men who escaped . — ® has ¥ schoc Aing aste-street front- [ made thelr way to the landing and nnti- | Dung fire in the Board of Works for some of th property in the S by moving bulldings nal rmoms on the Ban- | er for a primary and | grammar sche ove street, and be- | tween Dwight way and Ashby avenueé; (5) the u of land for additlonal school facilties | in the Fifth ward and the purchase of the nec- | essary furniture and equipment. Fifth—That the amount of money for which the aistrict 1l be bonded to secure the extensions and Improvements shall be § the bonds to be issued and sold as provid aw. Dr. Medros Appointed. OAKLAND, Dec. Joseph J | this city. fled Jones, Mills & Fields of the disaster, | sending only the maln facts without the | detalls. The schooner left the landing this after- time, owing to the faflure of City Engi- neer Clement, who was ill, to prepare the necessary specifications, and Its settle- e K x lats th '8 this after- | ment this morning was a relief to the city o AT ety five ,tons of hay con- | ;mcials. A most thorough test by the not good, and the crew found themselves | ir pressure method will be made of all compelled to prepare their evening meal | the wells, and the work will be done un- still many miles from their destination. | der the personal supervision of the City This m; ised the destruction of the | Engineer. The cost of the work was much 1 boat. The sparks from the galley cook- | jont - stove ignited the hay while the crew wers | 'O}T thAn was expected. " below eating their supper. When they o0 Bio amas He-Lhe peostoe of. e municipality see in the awarding of the contract this morning the first step to- ward the establishment of a water plant to be owned and controlled by the city. emerged from the cabin they found the hay in a blaze. They tried to fight the fire | with buckets, but the fire had secured too | good a start, and the crew was forced to Medros, a well-known practitioner, who is | take to the little boats | A provision has been made that any dam- 4 ociated with Dr. D. D. Crowley of the | schooner to become a total loss. age done to the wells by the city's test ate Board of Health, has received word | The schooner was valued at $1500 and uxll be borne by the owner. | from Washington that he has been ap- | the hay at nearly $500 more, all of which —_————————— pointed pension examining surgeon for | will be a complete loss, as it was unin- For More Oakland See Page Eleven. sured. A Few of the Features: The Progress of the Century. By COLONEL JOHN P. IRISH. The Passing of 1899. A Full-Page Drawing by MARY DAVIDSON: Do Our Society Girls Smoke ? The Life Story of John Reed. appointed Mrs. Clara H. Patterson, widow of the late George W. Patterson of Wash- ington Township, as guardian of the per- son and estate of her son, Willlam D. Pat- terson, aged 19 years. The appointment was made on the nomination of the son, the petition of the mother and the consent of other relatives, Under the terms of the will of the late George W. Patterson, the son, Willlam D., holds ‘a one-third interest in his father's estate, his interest representing $200,000 in realty and $2 TMIpPrsnnal prop- erty, and by the terms of guardianship the mother will have charge of his prop- erty until he arrives at the age of 21 years, The property left by the late George W. Patterson includes 2100 acres of valuable land in Washington Township and 2700 acres in Murray Township, besides about $100,000 worth of personal property fin moneys in bank, notes, mortgages,” ete Mrs. Patterson’s bond is fixed in the penal O O OO0 y. if rumors in_ circles of Washington Township soclety are correct, young Patterson Is about to become the stepson of Rev. William Layson of Santa Ana, the announcement having been made that Mrs. Patterson will become the bride of the southern minister on New Year's day. Rev. Layson, who s a few yeuars Mrs. Patterson's junior, is a graduate of the San Anselmo Theological Seminary, and his first charge was at Newark, this county. The big Patterson estate has but re- cently been distributed, and under the de- cree the widow and two sons, William D, and Henry Patterson, each came in for a third. William is attending the State Uni- versity, while his brother is &unulng his studies at Centerville High School. The father died about three years ago. He was famillarly known as the ‘Land Bar- on.” An Oakland Man’s Experience in a Cyclone. The Sunday Call’s Calendar for 1900. Christmas Shopping in Paris. By GENEVIEVE GREEN. Good-Bye, 1899. A Page Drawing by CAHILL. The Prince of Confidence Men. The Use of Indian Clubs as a Health Exercise. The World of Books. By PROFESSOR H. B. LATHROP of Stanford University. Fiction, Fashion, Etc. The Sunday Call's Magazine Section now recognized as surpassing any other Sunday paper published on the Pacific Coast and as rivaling anything in the country.