The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1900. ADVERTISEMENTS. RO SRR RROR 1 0 0 ROHCRCORCRORORCRORCRC OROROROROMCRCROROROROS 106 08 X KORORCROROSORORCRO I, D'BRIEN & CO. WIL THIS DAY SPECIAL BARGAIN ACK AND w 1l be LADIES’ 2-CLASP KID GLOVES, odd sizes; reg- price $1; will be BLACK AND COLORED value for $6.50; will be closed out at.. SERGE SKIRTS, tailor-made; L PLACE ON SALE $3.50 $5.00 $5.00 $12.50 50c COLORED SILK AND SATIN WAISTS, value for $5; will be closed SILK offered at S’ PLUSH CAPES, 30 inches long; former e $25; marked down to. closed out at. Pair J. O’'BRIEN & CO. 1146 Market Street, Bet. Taylor and Mason. R Ry L5 0 T R RO A ORR RO RO RCROF SRR RO o 0 K EORCROSORORORAORORORSS o b4 2 < g pe o o 8 AMUSEMENTS. Sun) Matinee Sut. Bvery Night € T K JAMES KiD! and & TO-NIGHT SPBCIAL ) DER any of 37 People. day Mas! ANDAL. THE RI “MAC] MATINEES, CHARLBS B. HANFORD BOSTONTANS. | Bail for Bernard Ward. Bernard Ward was convicted last seven vears In the State prison.at Quentin. From this ed to the Supreme the ba * a writ of habeas corpus, Jall was injurious to his health. The preme Co upon ascertaining that condition of Ward’'s health was such a few result in his death made an order terday that he be released in $7000 bal De- cember of embezzlement and sentenced to San Judgment he appeal- ourt and requested Judge of the Superior Court to fix >nding appeal. This was refused, | creating the position. Some argument re- ard applied to the Supreme Court & g setting up the plea that confinement in the County Su- the that months’ confinement there might es- g ADVERTISEMENTS. VALE" BETH" n | AND WILL THEY | COME! DING 19 DEEP LAST NIGHT. :2YBODY WANTS TO SBE PARADISE” ¥ CCACCIO! NEXT—-David Henderson's Fa- “ALADDIN JR.” 'LAR PRICES n Orchestra, Saturday 07 MON, Every One Is Langhing!” THIRD WEEK Of the Bnormous Comie Opera Triumph, THE IDOL'S EVE. rv Evening st £ Matines Baturday at 3. THE BEST PERIX CE EVER SEEN FRISCO This Is What Press a: Publie Eay!! POPULAR PRICES .28c AND Bie Telephone Bush A SHOW WITHOUT A FLAW ! BEST THIS POPULAR HOUSE HAS EVER PFFEBED. THE HOLLOWAYS: BRUET and RIVIERE; PARTIE TRIO; SOHLKE'S ARCHIPELA- NE FRANKLIN; PAPINTA; JOHN A. LANCASTER . EDNA BASSETT MAR- PANY; J. NEWMAN, Balcony l0c; Opera Chatrs nd Box ené F Matinees W "HE PEOPLE'S POPULAR PLAY HOUSE.) ‘ PHONE SOUTH 770. EVBRY EVENING THIS WEEK. MATINEE BATURDAY. HIS BETTER HALF. Presented by BOYLE and GRAHAM and Company of Comedians. POPULAR PRICES. e, 3o, 60c and The 18c,’ 25e, 3c and Soc Fxtra Coming—The Real JEFFRIES-SHAR- CONTEST PICTURES. A Card—Mana. nehouse and Mott pledge their <c are the ONLY GENUINE )F THE JEFFRIES-SHARKEY SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. HALL, 2% SUTTER STREET. word PiC- Co! THE ILLUSTRIOUS BOPRANO, MLLE. ANTOINETTE TREBELLI WILL GIVE A SONG RECITAL THIS EVENING —And— BATURDAY AFTERNOON NEXT. “"TENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMMES™ Reserved Seats, §1 and §1 60, At Bberman, Clay & Co.’s Music Store, \4ay Afternoon, “LONDON LIFE" | You can put my improved Electric || Belt around your waist when you go to ed, set the regulator so as to give ile rce of the current that you like, and an go to sleep with the soothing vital- Z influence pouring through your brings you health and ngt RHEUMATISM, McLAUGHLIN, 12 Market St., cor. Kearny, 8. F.: Burdick Block, cor. Spring and Second Sts., Los Angeles. CAPE NOME! Al SHIP COLUMBIA, CAPACITY 210 | tons, eailing_on or about April 10. Ap- ply Alaska Navigation and Commercial | Co., ‘office with LEWIS. ANDERSON CO., 2 East street. LOWEST RATES. — | | DO NOT DESPAIR ! DonotSut. | fer Longer! The ]fl{v and ambitions of life can be resto: to you. The very | worst cases of Nervous bility are absolutely cured by ERF TABL. 'S. Give prompt relief to somnia failing memory and the waste and drain of vital powers, incurred by | b {ndiscretions or excesses ly years. | Impart vigor and potency to every func- | tion. Brace upthe system. Give bloom to the | cheeks and lustre to the eves of goune or oid. One Boe box renews vital energy | boxes at .50 complete guaranteed cure or money re * funded. Can be carried in vest pocket. Sold | cveryyhere or maiied fn lain wrapper bn receipt of | Price by THE " carion Bidg.. Cutcags, 11 $0ld by Owl Drug Co., 8. F. and Oskland. | DRHALL’S REINVIGORATOR RIS | | Five hundred reward for any | ease we canuot cure. This secret remedy etope all losses in 24 bours, c‘urw E‘m!-m&u,, Im, 1 tency, Varicocele, onorrhoea, Gleet, Fits, Strictures, Lost FOR You, | Manhood and all wasting effects | pay such rates with one except! | tween Sacramento and California; MAYOR PHELAN -~ WINS HIS FIGHT OR PATRONAGE Supervisors Remove } Five Clerks. | The Board of Bupervisors yesterday | finally submitted to the dictates of Mayor Phelan regarding patronage in the office of the clerk of the board, and as a con- | sequence five employes felt the keen edge 3 | of the ax In order to make room for Phe- The board met in secret before the regular | lan’s favorites. caucus immediately block No. §0, owned by petitioners and by Seventeenth, Harrison, Elghteenth and vision streets Improvement Club, for the repai cased by rains on Sunnyside avenue and Edna and Baden streets; same, for_electric lights at Flood and Circular avenues, lood @ h tween Congo and Detrolt streets, Joost avenue, near Acadia street, Sunnyside avenue at Congo, | Edna and Foester streets, Foester street, be- tween Melrose and Mangels avenues; Mrs. Cas- sie Reyslinger, for permission to suspend a transparent sign over entrance to 82 Clay | street. e PROTESTS RECEIVED. The following protests were recefved and re- | terred to the proper committees: | F. L. Turpin, against granting permission to | Maurice Casey to construct an additional story on the six-story building at 130 Ellis street. REFERRED TO BOARD OF WORKS. The Board of Public Works was directed to investigate the following matters and report | back its recommendations: | “Union Paving and Constructing Company’s private contract for the paving, etc., of wood street, south of Eighteenth, to ascertain if same is a valid contract, i{ contractors have authority to pave sald portion of Oakwood street by private contract and it they are mak- ing satistactory progress with the work; J. J. Dowling & Co.'s petition for pave, ete., by private contract McAllister street, | between Baker and Broderick streets, and the petition of the Pacific Paving Compas Mission to do the same work by private con- session and Charles Fay, who represents | fraet: petition of J. K. C. Hobbs for the sweep- Phelan in affairs political, was busy |ing of Liberty street, bfldlvl'flél‘;”’xr\vvn;l—n"i n‘nd handing out 2 rpew! ip con- | Twenty-first, and the advisability of placing WAE SNt 4 Wit ArSoes it die w other streets in the Misston on the street- taining the names of those slated for the official plums. The slate was broken, however, in one instance, that of Jam Donahue, who was selected to succeed F. | 3. SBilvey as requisition clerk. There was some hitch on this name and Bilvey was | permitted to remain temporarily. Several Supervisors held out for the re- | tention of the old office force in its en- | tirety on the ground of efficiency, but they were overruled by a majority of their brethren. The resolution providing for the official decapitation does away with the services of John Hamill J. S. Thompson, George Phelps, John Eillott and J. R. Kirby. It is as follows: Resolved, That all positions in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors be de- clared vacant, and that the following perso be appointed ‘at the salaries named: John A. Russell, clerk, $300 per month; C. E. Willlams, expert,’ $175; assistant clerks—John H. Ryan, Jobn S.” Bannermann, Thomas B. McGinniss | and John E. Behan, at $150 per month each; P. H. McKenna, Jobn Linehan and F. J. Slivey 2t §125 per month each; sergeant-at-arms, W. Anderson, $100 per month. Stephen Potter was also slated for the | lucrative position of stenographer for the investigations to be pursued by the |in regard to water and gas rates, but | there was a legal defect in the ordinance sulted and erk Russell inadvertentl read the name of the slated individual, which somewhat embarrassed the Mayor, though he‘smiled feebly at Russell's slip of the tongue. The Finance Committes was directed to report to the board at the next meeting regarding the issuance of bonds voted for | | | | at the recent elections, so that the issu- | ance may be hastened. At Supervisor ‘ Reed’'s suggestion it was decid to re- quest the City Attorney to bring a test | euit_condemning one lot on the proposed | panhandle, ecide the valldity of the | bond issue. The board adopted a resolution request | ing the City Attorney to prepare an ord! | nance repealing the first division of sub- to division 45, sectlon 10, order 13%9, relating | to nickel-fh-the-slot machines and impos. | ing licenses thereon. The specific_clause recommended for repeal by the License and Order Committee s that which orovides for a license on card machines. he committee holds that these machines are games of chance and should be sup- | | pressed. | Resolutions authorizing the purchase of | four horses for the Almshouse and two | for the Coroner by the chairman of the Health Committee provoked considerable discussion. Supervisor Reed held that the theory of the charter was to separate leg- islative and executive functions. He said | that the resolution was in direct conflict with section 1, chapter 111, providing that all contracts for supplies not otherwise specifically provided for must be made by the Supervisors with the lowest bidder. The adoption of the resolution was post- oned until after the Health Committee as considered it. The following resolutions were adopted and provide That the clerk of the board be directed to tpsert in all advertisements for proposals a clause requiring every person to whom a com- tract is awarded to pay the cost of advertising. That the City Attorney be authorized to pub- lish the summons in the sult of the city against Victor Albouze et al. for the condemna- tion of property to be acquired for the pro- posed St. Marys Square. That the Committee on Printing and Salaries be directed not to approve any demands for | stationery or printing that contain the name of the head of the department. That the Judiclary Committes consult with the Mayor for the purpose of selecting styles of seals for the several departments and of- fices as provided In the charter. The following petitions were referred to committees: From the Bookbinders' Protective and Bene- ficlal Association, submitting & copy of a res lution adopted by it requesting that no bids or on supplies in which book- do not pay union or fair rates of wages, stating that at present all the employing bookbinders fon. merchants requesting that the ordin- ng a license of 50 cents a quarter on ie instruments be so constructed that ot impose & tax upon private telephone uments. & From the Gas Consumers’ Assoclation for per- misston to reattach its automatic gas regula- tor to all city meters. PETITIONS RECEIVED. The following petitions were received and re- terred to the proper committees: Property owners, requesting that an electric 1ight suspended over the middle of the crossing of Twenty-sixth and Folsom streets be substi- tuted for the present light on the southwest corner of those streats: J. Anderson, for permi sion to extend show window In front of prem ises at 155 Market street; Holly Park and Mis- #ion street Improvement Club on behalf of prop- erty owners for the opening of Richland avenus and East Park street to lus S. Godeau, for permission to maintain a portico and marble steps extending 2 11-12 feet over the street line In front of premises at 305 Montgomery avenue; property owners, calling attention to the condition of Webb street, be- merchants and property owners, for the placing of an eleo- tric light at the crossing of Sansome and Wash- ington streets; property owners, for an electrio light at the crossing of Sixteenth and Bryant streets; City Street Improvement Company, for permission to construct and maintain a spur From track from tracks of the Southern Pacific Com- | pany Into and upon that portion of Mission of self-abuse or excesses. Sen = sealed, $2 bottle; 3 bottles, $5: Tflflnifld 0 case. Address HALL'S MEDICAL IN- Broadway, Oakland, Cal. Aiso Sor snle ai 1S Market ot €. 7. AN Seives 4 AMUSEMENTS. ‘{ ALCAZAR THEATER. | “Just Dropped in on Mother.” ESOL SMITH RUSSELL'S Beautiful Pastoral Play, Peaceful Valley MATINEE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. ADVERTISEMENTS. Free to the Ruptured. r. W. S. Rice, the Well-Known Authcrity, Sends a Trial of His Famous Method Free to All Anyone Can Now Cure Themselves at Home Without Pain, Danger, Operation or an Hour’s Loss of Time From Work, To the thousands upon thousands of ruptured pecple Who are torturing themselves with trusees and in momentary danger of death from strangulation Dr. W. S. Rice, 418 L. n street, Ac N. i aead” tra to'all a trial of his famous method that has saved so lives men, women and children well and ndover avenue; Ju- | Sweeping schedule; petition of the Precita Val- ley Improvement Club, requesting that the City Street Tmprovement Company be compelled to | fulfill its contract to grade Bernal Park and | that contractors who have the contract for eon- structing sewers in Bryant street, between Twenty-sixth and Army, be compelled to con- struct said sewers (with instructions to see that the work is done without further delay); peti- tion of the San Francisco Brick Company for permission to blast on block 14, Map A of the Castro-street addition and the petition of Quim- by & Harrelson for permission to blast on block §of the Flint Tract; petition of property owners for the laying of artificial stone sidewalks on Waller street, between Fillmore and Steiner. The Board of Public Works was also instruct- ed to examine and recommend for acceptance, it roperly constructed, the roadway of the fol- Fowing strasts: Thirteenth, from Valenola, to Guerrero; Army, from Valencla street to San Jose avenue; Market, to center line thereof in front of the Phelan building; also to examine and report on the so-called expanded metal for street paving. —_———— RETRENCHMENT NECESSARY IN ALL DEPARTMENTS MAYOR ADVISES CITY OFFI- CIALS TO ECONOMIZE. At a conference held yesterday be- tween the Mayor and the city officials, in the Mayor's office, his Honor made the startling announcement that the mu- nicipal government would come to a | standstill before the end of the fiscal year unless the various departments reduced their expenses. “We are confronted with a deficit of | $139,000 for the first slx months of the | present fiscal year,” said the Mayor, “and | it 1s Incumbent upon all officials so to reg- ulate their expenditures as to make up that deficit. This meeting has been called for the purpose of impressing | upon you gentlemen the necessity of with- drawing all requests for extra help, as the finances will not admit of those requests | being granted.” Upon the Mayor inviting the officials to express their desires, Dr. Willlamson, president of the Board of Health, stated that his department could not get along with less than $50,000 for the next six months. The Mayor looked blank at this announcement and remarked that the usefulness of the department might have | to be curtailed. Assessor Dodge complained that he had to get along with $15,000 less than last year, and that he absolutely needs at least seventy-five extra clerks for his of- fice from March 1. He deplored the fact that the $18,000 for commissions on poll tax collections has been taken away from him, and thf)ufihl that the salaries of ex- tra deputies should be paid out of those moneys. Chief Sulllivan said the Fire Depart- ment had become demoralized owing to the uncertainty of its reorganization, as provided by the charter. The Mayor said it would cost $40.000 to place the depart- ment on a paying basis, and the money was not in sight. It was a question whether the number of fire houses should be cut down or reorganization postponed, but Chief Sullivan declined to express an opinion. He sald the force in the truck companies had already been cut from twelve to ten men and the engine houses from five to three. County Clerk Deane declared that the lowest he could run his office for was $7050 a month. The charter allowed him forty-five men and he had applied for eleven more. To a question of the Mayor whether the charter framers had consult- ed him with regard to the needs of the of- fice, Deane sald they had not and had probably studied the conditions as they existed twenty years ago. It developed that former County Cler] | and he held the office fifteen years ago. |~ Recorder Godchaux wanted extra clerks, | for five or six men during April, when the busy time is on. Scott suggested that ef- forts be made for the State to pay the | expense of the collection of the taxes by | the city and it was decided to hold a con- suitation with tne State Controller. Sheriff Lackmann asked for two extra | guards, so that the prisoners could culti- vate the thirt; city near the branch jails. he had only $20 65 with which to feed ju- rors in criminal cases and that he must | decline to assume any personal responsi- bility in the matter. Lackmann suggested a relief in the $200,000 appropriated for street sweeping. The matter will be in- quired into. The best report came from the School Board. It showed that the old board had left a surplus of $10.000 and this would be increased to $30,000 by the end of the fis- | cal year. It was decided to postpone the con- tracts for stationery and supplies until | the next fiscal year, and the provision of | the charter regarding the expenditure of | 8200 for those purposes with the consent of the Mayor will be invoked. Assessor Dodge stated that the estl- mated revenue of the city might fall short on account of protested taxes and the necessity for retrenchment in all depart- flems was again strongly urged by the ayor. — CITY ATTORNEY’S OPINION. Board of Supervisors Enlight- ened as to Its Powers. A number of opinions were flled with | the Board of Supervisors yesterday by | City Attorney Lane: In regard to the power of the board to grant privileges for alterations and repairs to build- ings, the supervision of which is conferred on the Board of Public Works, and for granting permits to erect engines and boilers, the City Attorney holds that the Board of Supervisors under the ordinances now in force has the power to grant such permits and that it is within the power of said to pass an or- dinance under which the power of issuing per. | mits may be placed in the hands of the Board | gt Public Works under certain general restric- tions. As to the valldity of all contraots entered | into by former boards, the time of which has | not exoired, there I8 no Qquestion whatever | that the city and county is liable for all debts | legitimately contracted under its previous form of_government. i e provisions of the charter authorize the Board of Supervisors to DAy fines collested on conviction of persons charged with crueity to animals In whole or In part to any soglety that efficiently aids in such convictions. But this was not the law prior to the taking effect of | the charter, and the moneys now held under the old act of 1574 must be paid to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, tiai strong and | which 'was organized under the act i ‘henever the step which is in- 1Sc aso ond Atthoutt i | tended to bind the city And county or to be 2SS RESERVED SEATS 23s Tures. Do mot be | expressive of its Ia; ng or Judicial powers, Sl backward' "about | the ajes and noes must be calied whether tne J— It} O] lon voted upon form Next Week—FRIENDS e By Pestiution or & bill. we Engagement of MARY HAMPTON. RACING! RACING! RACING! 1900—0ALIFORNIA JOOKEY CLUB-1900 January 22 to Feb: 10, Inclusive. CAKLAND RACE THEACK. Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wedn - | Oskland mole connect with San Pablo avenue electric_cars at Seventh and Broadway, Oak: land. Also all trains via Alameda mole con- nect with San Pablo avenue cars at Fourteenth | and Broadway, d. _These electric cars track in fifteen minutes, ve 4:45 p. m. and immediately after the last race. q'HOI‘Al H. WILLIAMS JR., President. R. B. Y, Secretary. the free trial. It will cost you nothing and ‘will enable M. K. LYMAN. losing an hour from work. Dr. Rice is deter- mined that every suffering man or woman shall know the wonderful truth that rupture can be | cured and he therefore generously sends, pre. his tel . Friday and Saturday. Raln or absolutely {res, and jve or more races each day. of it. Write to-day | Races start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. afford to miss this | _Ferry-boats leave San Francisco at 12 m. and 9 12:30, 1, 1:3, 2, 2:30 and 3 p. m., conneecting Lymen, a highl e | with trains stopping at the en: to the says: ‘“The ice method 1s | track. Last two cars on train reserved for la- cure. I had an old rupture that | dies and their escorts: no . Buy your ree ere was | | ferry tickets to Shell Mound. All trains via rusion and 1 have remained sound and As to the valldity of the contract for public advertising now existing between the city and the Evening Post newspaper, the City Attor- ney holds that & comparison of the contract with the terms of the charter discloses such radical differences between the two as to pre- | vent any possibility of utilizing the contract | to serve the purposes of the charter provisions. It seems Incumbent on the board to adopt an | official newspaper in accordance with the char- ter provision. Ordinances published in the present officlal paper would be of doubtful va- fidity, and no_important legislation should be attempted in that manner. It will, however, be proper and valid jo make publicaions for Dbids to secure @ city official paper in the Bvening Post. New Timetable. The Sierra Raflway Company has lesued time table No. 11, to take effect Febru- ary 1. A train is scheduled to leave Dak- dale daily at l:lfia m., arriving at Car- ters, the present nus, at 6: The down train leaves Carters at 6:13 a. m., arriving at Oakdale at 9:50 a, m. The | entire distance covered is 56% miles. permission to | or per- | Flynn, now de- | ceased, had advised the charter framers, | and Tax Collector Scott made an appeal | acres of land owned by the | He stated that | DYNAMITE ENDS HARRELSON'S LIFE Local Contractor Killed at Millbrae. e Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | MILLBRAE, Jan. 20.—Claude E. Har- | relson, a member of the firm of Quimby & Harrelson of San Francisco, which has the contract to crush rock for the county | | roads in this supervisorial district, was | instantly killed at 9 o'clock this morning | by an explosion of dynamite. Harrelson, who has been acting as en- | gineer at the quarry here, was seen work- ing at a forge but a few moments before | the explosion. The presumption is he was | thawing out a stick of dynamite. The body was horribly disfigured, parts be- ing found a considerable distance from the scene of the accident. The building near by, which has been occupied as a bunk. house by the men emgloyed at the quarry, was badly demolished. CGoroner Crowe has taken charge of the | remains and brought them to Redwood | City, where an inquest will be held to- morrow. Deceased was a native of Cali- fornia, aged ars and unmarried. CATHOLICISM THE CHURCH OF AGES | ADDRESS BY THE REV. FATHER YORKE. Y. M. I Lecture Series Draws Large Crowd to Metropolitan Temple. Hundreds Turned Away From the Doors. Rev. Peter C. Yorke deltvered the first of the new series of Y. M. L lectures last evening at the Metropolitan Temple. The hall was crowded to its greatest capacity and hundreds were turned away from the doors. Theodore J. Savage, president of the lecturs bureau, introduced Father Yorke, who was hatled with cheers and long prolonged applause. He character- istically remarked that the people were putting the encore at the wrong end of the lecture. Then he paid a compliment to the Young Men’s Institute for provid- ing the lectures. The institute had orig- inated the idea of the lectures, he said, when there were people who were willing to proscribe a large portion of the com- munity because of their conscientious ad- herence to their ancient faith. That time had passed but the lectures still had their uses. Bigotry was not ended. A storm had passed, but any breath might again waken anothér, even as the surface of the ocean was stirred by any gale. The lec- | tures had the useful g)urwse of instruct- ing the great body of non-Catholics con- cerning the real facts of Cathollcism. Father Yorke then spoke on the subject “Catholicism, the Church of the Ages.” He was frequently interrupted as he be- came more eloquent. He said the church came to the civilization of Rome and Greece and said to them that it had a message they must hear; one upon which all clvilization must depend. They laughed in scorn, proud of their legions, of their government, of their learning. They had passed away. All that now remained of what then existed was the then despised church. At various times in the history of the world the nations, Germanic and French, had become proud and had derided the church. What was | known as Protestantism had survived | about 300 years; but from its 1000 sects came discordant voices. The church had | been the same. It was adapted to anclent times; it was adapted to the present; it was the church of the ages. On the stage were many ciergymen and officers of the Y. M. I. Professor Harri- son played the organ at the beginning and end of the exercises. DESPONDENT GRIPMAN ASPHYXIATED BY GAS I e et e e e e St o D P P S S S S S S S Sy B R e e S 3 MARTIN H MPRRI® L R R R e e e ARTIN H. MORRIS, a gripman em- ployed on the Cliff and Ferries road, residing with his family at 2750A Bush street, committed suicide Sun- day night by asphyxiating himself with {lluminating gas. Before he came to this city he was engaged in farming near Benicia, and when he left to engage in | the more monotonous occupation of a gripman, a friend of his was Indebted to | him for a large sum of money. The de- ceased was very despondent over financial matters, and was very much disappointed because of his failure to collect the sum due him. At 11 o'clock on Sunday night he told his wife that he was going out for a walk. That was the last she saw of him alive. i At 8 o'clock yesterday morning his wife detected a strong odor of gas coming from the direction of the parlor, and found the dead body of her husband there. Both gas jets were turned on full force. 1t is believed that Morris had a suicidal taint in his blood, a brother of his having committed suicide several years ago. The deceased was a native of California, 32 years old. He left a widow and a two and a half year old baby. ——————— Phroso for the complexion—healing, harm- less and efficient. Sold by all druggists. * e —— WONZOD IS ACQUITTED. His Waffles. John F. Wonzod, a Cliff House mer- chant, has been exonerated by a jury In Judge Cook's court for his alleged offense in pulling a gun and tremblingly present- ing it in defense of his honor when Jen- nie Cohen said he put sand in his waffles. After pulling the gun to defend the repu- tation of his waffles Wonzod was arrested and charged with an assault with a dead- 1y wea] After various witnesses had testified to the facts of the alleged as- sault, none of whom could swear that the weapon was loaded, Judge Cook sald it was strange that the defendant had been held to answer and ordered the jury to acquit the defendant, which was done. ———————— Large Custom-House Receipts. The largest single day’s collection on record was made yesterday In the San m-house, the receipts be- Francisco i 832 The usual daily average is t?gm“'fi),m to $25,000. | up a biography. R e e e e e e L e R R e e 2 2 Jury Recognizes His Right to Defend |1, FIRST GREA T AMERICAN PORTRAIT PAINTER. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTISTS. Contributors to this course: Dr. John C. Van Dvke, Frank Fowler and others. Frothingham Jr., XIV—GILBERT STUART. Detalls of the life of Gilbert Stuart, the greatest of the early American painters and surely one of the most remarkable of the art products of this country, are singularly lacking. He left behind him al- most no papers but a few letters and practically no data upon which to build One is obliged to turn to personal anecdotes from some of his old friends and patrons, and the memo- ries of his daughter Jane, to get an idea of the man. This daughter was an estl- mable lady In every respect, but she had only a limited notion of the larger side of her father’s l!fe and no sense of humor, and with her the commonplaces took on a proportion quite beyond their value. So Arthur Hoeber, it is after all by his works alone that Stu- | Dr. Russell Sturgis, Dr. A. L | him famous. Fairly overrun with com- nissions, so great was his popularity, in rder to’ work with something like tran- quillity he subsequently moved out to Germantown. However, he had found time in_Philadelphia’ for social gayety, contributing self with his _sprightiy taik and his small measure to the succes entertainments. and he painted s nt personages as Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Hingham, the Marchioness d Yrujo, Mrs. Madison, Mrs Lawrence Lewis and many others From Philadeiphia _Stuart went to ‘Washington in 1803, and after three years’ residence there he removed to Boston, where he remained until his death Through all these later years he was still as improvident as eve- and careless in all matters relating to his personal affal When the Pennsylvania Academy of F' Arts wrote offering him $1500 for a ful length of Washington he never even swered the letter; and to a request from [ R e R e et . ] L art’s memory will always be kept green— and what more could an artist ask? His name ever will be assoclated primarily with the Washington portraits he painted —thelr name was legion—and his canvases command great respect everywhere, for he was a portrait painter of a high order. unquestionably the best of all Americans. Gilbert Stuart was born on December 3, 1755, near Newport, in Narragansett Coun- ty, Rhode Island. His father kept a mili for grinding snuff, which he gave up later, moving with his family to Newport, where his son went to school and received a fair education. Like most great artists, Gil- bert had at an early age an intuition for drawing; he covered barn doors and walls with his sketches. These were subse- quently seen by an English physiclan, who tock a lively interest in the lad and fur- nished him with his first paints and brushes. At 13, without having had ar instruction, Stuart was painting portrait: his earliest commission being for Joaa Bannister and wife of Newport, persons who were prominent socially. The can- vases are still preserved. In IT70 for the first time in his life he had the help of some one more or less qualified to advise him intelligently—a Scotch artist named Cosmo Alexander, who settled for two years in Newport. On Alexander’s return to England Stuart accompanied him. Unfortunately, the trip was not a suc- cess. Stuart painted a few portraits and found a patron who sent him for a while to the University of Glasgow. The pa- tron dled shortly after befriending the artist, and Stuart, finding it difficult to make a lvelihood, took passage back to America, happily to find instant encour- | agement, particularly among the waalthy Jews of Rhode Island. Realizing his lack of preliminary training, together with a friend named Waterhouse he secured mod els and studied in the evening, drawing from the nude. With the troublous times of 1775 sitters ceased to come to his studio, business was at a standstill and Stuart made up his mind to return to England, there to ,become a pupil of Benjamin West. That old Pennsylvanian was set- tled in London enjoying the favor of the King and the pllmn:sa of the nobility. In 1 West succeed Sir Joshua Rey- nolds as president of the Royal Academy. West was one of the kindliest of men, with gracious manner and much personal charm, and although he was an indiffer- ent painter it is probable that he- e an excellent teacher. At any rate Stuart at the age of 22 was domiciled in his fam- ily and, under his tuition, studying hard. ‘A musician as well as an artist, Stuart in his odd moments had learned to play on several instruments. He was an ex- cellent performer on the organ, and he helped himself out in a financial way by playing that instrument in a London church. About this time he painted a portrait of the Duke of Northumberland, and he assisted his master on many of his large compositions, for West had a way of enormous historical and mythological pictures, covering many square yards of canvas, the value of which, unfortunately for the memory of West, has not increased with time. He was also attending the discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds, studying anatomy with the famous Dr. Cruikshank and drawing during the evening at the life school, for he was uwsi- a man with great capacity for work. Nathaniel Dance, well- known portrait painter, became interested in Stuart's work, and noting its excel- lence strongly advised him to take a studio and set up for himself. This he did, and among his first sitters were Ben- jamin West and Sir Joshua Reynolds, who hels him into immediate note, for at once he became successful. He entered at once on a life of extravagance, and, although the money flowed in rapidly, it disappeared quite as fast. He not_infre- quently had six sitters in a . In 1736 e married a Miss Coates and later took her to Ireland, where he had many por- trait engagements, and was no less suc- cessful than he had been in London. It had been his strong desire for many years to paint an important portrait of George ‘Washington, so now, unable to resist this inclination, in the midst of a highly pros- perous career in Dublin he packed up his effects and sailed for America, landing in New York in 1792 He who had gone away a poor lad to seek his fortune had mow come back a tion, and immediately he was bes! th patrons. He entertained il H he was foolishly extravagant: he had no idea of business, and again the money went out perhaps even more quickly than e e i Meanwhile he had taken case to obtain a letter of introduction to ‘Washington from John Jay, and Congress then being in session he went to %{u;— delphia to meet the house was on Chestnut and there inted the first of his series ashington portraits, destined it was he of to make GILBERT STUART. man: sij 0|7 R I Sk S L A L B 2 2 TP Pee e o eredeiec edetese® | the Academy of Florence for his own por- trait—a great distinction, by the way—he paid no attention. In 1525 his heaith began to fail, but he worked on intermittir completing a portrait Sa ward, his last work, in the sp ¢ year 1828. He died on July 27 of this yea at the age of 72. He had a curious disp sition; at times he was of men; at others 18 He made many enendes and even alienat- ed friends who knew the real warmth of his heart; without the slightest cause he would abandon a picture, and nothing, not even a woman's tears, could induce hi to continue; although a wonderful money maker, he died poor, leaving his family | entirely unprovided for. Stuart’s first portrait of Washington ere- { ated a genuine sensation in Philadelphia. It was followed by the celebrated full- length, a commission from the Marquis of Lensdowne, which is known as the “Lans- downe portrait.”” It is now owned by a Mr. Lewis in London; it was exhibited at the Centennial in Philadeiphia in 15 courtesy of the owner. Of this, as of many other of his Washington portraits, Stu: made numerous replicas. The greatest of Stuart’s portraits s known as the Gibbs- Chanring portrait, origivally painted in 5 for Colonel George Gibbs; it was sold his sister, Mrs. William Ellery Chan ning, and is now owned by her som, Channing. Still another famous work is known as the “Athenaeum portrait.” of which the artist made about rfity replicas. The canvas was purchased of Stuart's widow and presented with its pendant of Mrs. Washington to the Athenaeum, Bos- ton, hence its title. It is now in the Bos- ton Museum of Fine Arts. In Stuart's day the standard for the American gumer was practically that set by Sir Joshua Reynolds; his was the pre- vailing style of work in London, and Sir Joshua's manner was a good one to fol- low, or at least,-by which to be influenced, for he was a man with a fine color sense, a portrait painter of the first class, and generally well ‘1)mpped in all the tech- nique of his profession. Ruskin, calling him the “prince of portrait painters,™ places him among the seven great color- ists of the world; his work may be de- scribed as that of the older masters seen through a fine personality and interpreted in an individual way. ere is no such thing as originality pure and simple in art, for if the inspiration be not directly traced to some previous master, then it {s nature that has given the hint, or_in some way directed the channel of thought. In the style of most men, if the search is continued long and carefully enough, one may find the mainspring of the fl’h fluence, and this holds true in the history of all races; the one took from the other, improving possibly, perfecting, or amai- gamating. until the original was very nearly lost; but the source to the studens is discoverable all the same. we may the same qualities that permeated t e of Re nolds, seen through a sturdy, vigorous dividuality. PR el New York City. Note—This concludes “The World's Great Artl * series. 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