The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1900, Page 12

a 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1900. HOLDS HENRY H. LYNCH'S CONTRACT TO WED HER WHEN HE WAS FREE Miss Marian Green Protects Her- self From Man’s Possible Du- plicity by Securing From Her Fiance a Signed Promise of Marriage. LYNCH and Miss Ma- are the hero and e of an absolutely new deal engagement contract. Lynch PPIDIIIPIPIPIVPIVDIPIDIDIDIDITIPIEIPOPPPOIeD0000e0 it Miss Green drew the f marry Miss Green as to do so, the engage- 2 annulled. Lynch ago. He is will not place a plain on Miss Green's third finger, a. y co has had its Sharon mar- n d its Fair ts and s very latest in ession of the that there are prospects jons arising from the a matter of en has already ascertain the claim against the ratiroad y he admitted , told the cir- was executed ne superintendent of Market Btreet Rail- and won Miss Ma- than three years ago. At cre was one SErious obstacle f the fond couple—a wife, dding day was, perforce, W a time as r be brought to & h will nnd that awn his promise to Il his betrothed t in getting an en- was simply & matter men finally awaited 1g lady had by the e gave a firm, low & her hand for Mr. 1 be free 1o cl | ~ &40 @+ e eo0 . = nd Miss Green decided to publish the an- nouncement of her engagement to the widower. Lynch did not look favorably upon the | idea of the world sharing his secret, and forbade Miss Green to make their engage- ment public. Matters went on in the old | secret way for some few more weeks, un- til Monday of 1 week, when Miss | Green informed the society editor of this yaper of her engagement to Henry H. ynch. When Lynch heard that his b trothed had given the secret of their at- | tachment to the world he was furious. He clared that after only two months of widowerhood it was unseemly to announce | his betrothal to the lady who for nearly | three years held his contract to wed. The result of it all was that Miss Green wrote | another note to The Call's soclety editor | in which she declared the engagement of | herself and Mr. Lynch was off. | | Miss Green has carefully guarded the secret of her engagement contract and with the exception of her mother, a awyer who was consulted in the matter and, of course, Mr. Lynch, who signed it, no one knew of its existence. Miss Green herself was not inclined to discuss the matter. She answered questions as to the engagement contract in the most evasive manner, and neither positively de- nied nor admitted that she was a party to it. She claims to still have a warm place in her heart for Mr. Lynch, and hopes against hope that the clouds between them will pass away and that he will make good his bond. Mrs. Green, the astute young lady’s mother, was not as discreet as her daugh- ter and freely discussed the contract which she hopes will result in Miss Green leading Lynch to the altar. « “It is this way,” she said. “I don't see how the engagement can be broken off. Lynch has signed a contract which my BEaae oo e e a e ool PRINCIPALS TO THE ENGAGEMENT CONTRACT. COPY OF MISS GREEN'S ACKNOWL-~ EDGMENT OF HER ENGAGEMENT WITH MR. LYNCH AND HER SUBSE- QUENT NOTICE THAT BROKEN OFF. L o o S B e e e ] : 3 - ! ; : ; : : i i . I ! MARIAN iy ) IT WAS daughter holds in which he promised to wed her just as soon as he is free to do | so. He is free now, and I do not under- stand how he Is going to get around that contract. Miss Green took that engage- ment contract to a prominent attorney, and when he read it he’ whistled, threw up his hands and said he did not see how any man could beat that. “If Mr. Lynch had secured a dlvorce from his wife there would have been none of this trouble. As a divorced man he could not have his pick of a bride, but as a widower with position and means he | | probably considers himself a prize in the matrimonial market.” Miss Green, to whom belongs the honor of being the originator of an engage- ment_contract, is a handsome, stylish blonde, attractive and accomgushed She is the daughter of the late Edward Green of the O. and O. 8. 8. Co.,and resides with her mother at 9 Devisadero street. TRAIL OF THE BANK ROBBERS | two of the men were making vigorous ef- | forts to reach the bank vault the third | remained outside to warn them in case Chief Sullivan Confident of | Landing the Desperate } Crooks. w Said to Be Eastern Safe Crackers | and Are Stopping at One of the Leading Hotels. R | Chief of Police Sullivan is hopeful of | captur t en who attempted to 1 the French banks. Their B ackaches | | of i Women | at work and | bers while trying to reach the vault in S identity is known, and if the plans of the police do not fail they will be in custody within a very short time. Both jobs were done by three men, who have traveled all over the country, robbing safes and in- cidentally holding up belated citizens. They are Eastern crooks, ané are said to be expert safe crackers. It has been learned by the police that the reason the desperate trio did not suc- ceed in boring into ine vault of the ¥'rench bank was due to a policeman who hap- pened to be standing in front of the Cali- fornia-street station at the time. While their operations were discovered. Seeing & “‘copper” standing in front of the police station, and suspecting that he was awa ing an opportunity to arrest his confe erates, he gave a warning whistle and- df appeared down the street. Shortly aft ward he was joined by the safe crackers, who had left the bank on hearing the whistle After the job had been discovered the ‘“‘wise” policeman who stood in front of the station recalled seeing the third rob- ber and hearing him whistle the warning to his companions. He explained that he did not know that the safe crackers were | aid no attention to the| stranger and his queer whistle. He de- | scribed him as being well dressed, about | 35 years of age, and as clean shaven. The officer is positive that he wore a light box overcoat of expensive material. As the “‘copper” worked in a talloring establish- ment prior to his being appointed a mem- ber of the police force the description he gave of the overcoat that the robber wore has not been questioned. The same methods were used by the rob- tro’s Bank. he man with the “box ove: coat” remained outside while his compan- ions vainly endeavored to dig Into the bank. While they were at work a citizen happened to pass by, and thinking he was & policeman in citizen's clothes the look- out hurriedly gave the alarm. As his con- federates emerged from the bank they saw a man standing on the corner, and taking him for the third robber they crossed over 10 where he was standing. To their surprise the man was a police- man, and after realizing their mistake they quickened their pace and disappeared down the street. After the attempted robbery was dis- CITY IS OFFERED NEW WATER SUPPLY Hot Rival of Spring Valley Proposes to Tap Lake Tahoe and Fur- nish a Fine Article to the Municipality for Twenty-Five Million Dollars. AN FRANCISCO may yet own its water works. The call issued by the Board of Supervisors for a water supply has borne fruit, as a number of Eastern and local capitalists have offered to supply this mu- nicipality with water from Lake Tahoe, by means of canals and pipe lines, and furnish the inhabitants of this city with double the supply they are now recelving from the Spring Valley Water Company. They offer to construct the works and turn it over to the city when completed for $25,000,000, and they will not ask for a penny until the city’s engineers have ac- cepted the plant. The foregoing was developed at a meet- ing held in the offices of Colonel von Schmidt, in the Pioneer bullding, yester- day morning. The members of the Com- mittee on Public Utilitles, composed of Bupervisors Reed, Hotaling and Maguire, and City Engineer Grunsky, Commissioner Marsden Manson of the Board of Public Works were present at the meeting, which was held at the invitation of Colenel von Schmidt, There were also present En- gineers A. M. Hunt and Dillman, who rep- resented the capitallsts who propose to surface of the lake represented 147,000,000 gafions a day for a year, and five feet | represented a five years’ supply. As the | water in the lake is filled up every winter | by violent storms and the melting of the perpetual snows of the Sierras, it was im- possible to conceive of any state less than a full lake once a year, while the over- flow goes into the Truckee at the rate of over 100,000,000 gallons a day, and can be used by any’of the riparian owners on the | Truckee River without Interfering in the | slightest degree with the rights of the | Von Schmidt Company. + Messrs. Dillman and Hunt stated that they and the people they represented were satisfied that the scheme was a feas- ible one; that there is 147,000,000 gallons of | water a day at the disposal of any com. 1:;!1;!){ that will take up Von Schmidt's rights. “We will offer in reuronu to the call issued by the Bupervisors,” said T. Hunt, “to sell to this city and county our rights to 147,000,000 gallons a day for five years; will construct dams, dltches, tun- nelwd ipe lines necetsa.rwo bring 60,- 000,000 gallons a day to San Francisco and discharge it 300 feet above the sea at any point in this city; guarantee the volume of water and do the work according to the plans and specifications of the Board of Public Works and guarantee the title, | | 11060, on the Fillmore-street line, the pub- | PRINCE CUPID FOUL PLAY MAY HAVE CAUSED HER BISAjflAHANEEI Robbery and Mystery Fol- low Soon Toy’s Depart- ure From Her Home. Detectives Attempt to Locate Money and Wife of a Prominent Shos Merchant in the Chinese Quarter. L Rt Soon Toy, the pretty wife of Hang Hop, one of the most prominent merchants in Chinatown, has disappeared and uad.r clrcumstances which have led the police to suspect that foul play has been re- sorted to. A mysterious letter received by her husband yesterday and placed In the hands of the police caused the officers to work energetically last night in an effort to clear up the mystery and gain some clew as to the whereabouts of the woman. Two years ago Hang Hop gurchued his now missing wife from a Chinese slave dealer. The woman passed into his pos- session under a ban, due to much trouble she had had with previous owners, and Hop's marital state did not afford much in the way of fellcity. Several times at- tempts were made to kidnap her, and her husband had always to fear evil from Jealous lovers. On Thursday, March 17, the woman dis- appeared from her home at 919 Stockton street. She left the place early in the evening and was not seen again, Her ab- sence became suspicious when she did not appear on the following morning, and an investigation disclosed the fact that dur- ing the lflgh! a private safe had been opened and robbed of an amount of money approximating nearly $1000. The safe had been secured with keys which were last in the possession of the woman. The case was immediately reported to the California street police station and Detec- tive Ed Gibson was detailed to recover woman and money. The officer has been unable to strike-anything in the nature of a clew. Yesterday a peculiar letter was recelved by the merchant. It purported to have been written by his missing wife, but was not in her handwriting. It assured her friends that she was all right and in one of the interfor towns, but the missive had been mailed in Lus city. The letter was immediately handed over to the po- lice and a diligent search to discover its author was made last night. ‘The Chinese are of the opinion that the woman was waylaid by some of her for- mer enemies and disposed of in some manner. The keys of the safe were taken from her and the robbery committea. Her captors, learning that the police were making an investigation, sent the letter yes!ergay to mislead the police. If the woman is allve it is believed that she is a prisoner in some of the dens in the Chi- nese quarter. A reward of §100 has been | offered for her return or for information | leading to her whereabouts. There is a chance that the woman may have eloped and herself committed the | robbery, but the husband claims that such | a thing'is not probable. | MORGUE WAGON STRUCK ‘ BY AN ELECTRIC CAR Deputy Flanagan, Unwarned by the Bell, Resorts to His Wit to Prevent Disaster. As a result of what appears to be erim- inal neglect on the part of motorman No. lice morgue wagon was struck by a car, badly wrecked and Deputies Brown and Flanagan had a narrow escape from death yesterday afternoon at the corner of Post and Filimore streets. The Morgue deputies were answering a call to the French Hospital and drove | along Post street until they reached Fill- more. Hardly had they started to cross the latter street when they saw that electric car No. 1022, which was dashin, along at a high rate of speed, was almos upon them. No warning had been sounded by the motorman and for a minute a col- lision semed unavoidable. Deputy Flana- agan, who held the reins, with presence of mind suddenly cramped the w: n and swung the horse off the track. The car, however, struck the left side of the wagon, Injuring a horse and bri g & shaft and wheel. The deputies are positive that the mo- torman, who refused to give his name, did not warn them of his approach by ringing his bell. In this statement they have the corroboration of the passengers on the car, among whom were Miss E. Lahey, 1028 Treat avenue; Miss Mary Rhodes, 1333 Eddy street; M. Quirk, 17% Mission street, and Miss Downs, 13 Eliza- beth street. The firemen of engine No. 22 were also ‘witnesses to the affair, and Driver O’'Con- nor made the statement that accidents frequently hapgen from the failure of the motormen on the electric line to ring their bells when they pass by at a high rate of speed. The firemen say that they ex- pect their apparatus to be demolished some day when they are responding to an alarm of fire and only two nizhts ago a car narrowly missed striking one of the trucks. —_—ee————— Killed by a Wagon. Virginio A. Machado, a laborer residing at 65 Jackson street, died in the French Hospital yesterday afternoon as a result of injuries he received earlier in the day. Machado was brought to the City Re- ceiving Hospital at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon suffering from a wound in the | side, which it is claimed he received from | the shaft of a wagon. He was immedi- ately transferred to the French Hospital, where he expired. Deputies Brown an Flanagan removed the body to the Morgue. An inquest will be held. Names of Denmark’s Kings. Denmark’s Kings for 384 years have all boon mamed Christian or Frederick. = This is not the result of accident. law of Denmark that Christian must be succeeded by Frederick and Frederick by Christian. To attain this, and without the changing of names, in case of death o other reason, every 2lmsll;ll’flnee‘ no tter what other nam fl:uy- includes Christian and recelve, erick ADVERTISEMENTS. BUY BLANKETS NOW. Commencing . FRIDAY, MARCH 30th, we will place on sale 950 PAIRS BEST QUALITY WOOL BLANKETS (in whites onlu)- These Blankets we secured from the GOLDEN GATE WOOLEN MILLS fully 25 per cent less than they could be manufactured for to-dau, and then will be sold bu us from $2.50 to $5.00 per pair lower than similar goods in the future. The prices range from $S4.00 to $14.00 per pair, and we will have all sizes from 5 feet to 7 feet 6 inches in width. Our customers are asked to take advantage of this special offering. NOTE. Fine Lace Curtains, White Bedspreads, Snowflake Comforters and Best Brands Sheets and Sheetings at very low prices. u, u3, u5, uT, u9, 121 POST STREET. WILL MAKE HIS HOME IN LONDON His Hawaiian Home Has Lost All Atftraction for Him. Prince Kuluo Kalanianaole, better known as Prince “Cupid,” the younger and better looking of the two surviving Princes of the Hawallan house of Kala- kaua, arrived from Honolulu on the Aus- tralia yesterday. His wife accompanies him, and they have taken apartments at the Palace hotel, where they will remain during a stay of a fortnight or more in San Francisco. Prince Cupid is setting out on a long deferred tour of the world that will ex- tend over an indefinite périod of time. It is now about two years since the Dow- lfer Queen Kapiol: made over the bulk of her property to her nephews, Princes David and Cupid. It was a big fortune then, but since it has increased many fold and both young men are very rich. nce David is well known here, having spent the greater portion of the present winter in this city. He made his mark as a swell dresser and dignified man of the world, and spent money like a Prince. It has been ten years since Cupid visit- ed this city. He was last here while on his way from London, where he had been at school, to Honolulu. Now, with money to burp, good looks, good health and a host of friends, he is going out to see the world. And he may never return to his native land. His people are broken.up and scattered, he says, and Hawail -has no longer l-ng charm for him. On the other d, his recollections of London are so pleasant that he seriously contem- filnm uyi a fine place Iggt down for e there and set- e. Just now Cupid is going sight-see- MUNYON’'S 4-Room Furniture ror $08, 4 Wire Spriag. 1 good Top Mattress, i r Pillows. PMML—L‘ pleces Oak or Mahogany Up NG-ROOM — 1 Hardwood Extensios 6§ Oak Chairs. KITCHEN—1 Patent Table, 1 No. 7 Stove, | rs. e No extra charge on credit. MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS. EASTERN OUTFITTING CO, 1310-1312 Stockton St., Near Broadway. Open E STEINWAY Pianzs USED AT ALL PADEREWSKI BED] RECITALS. SHERMAN, CLAY & CO., for $25,000000, no money to be paid until the work is completed.’ The plan which these engineers out- line is to build a new and more ‘ma- | covered the police officer remembered see- among them. | ing the two men in the vicinity of the | bank, but as they were well dressed and carry out the gigantic scheme. The meeting was brought about through a statement made by Colonel von Schmidt e £ e e R e e W e World's ‘' New Tree. hod then travel through Burope, contimu: Tanning t has been discovered that the bark of are wearying beyond des | i rot iook like crooks he paid no atten- | Ghile s witness in the water compan 3 fos on_ around the world, visiting India, | tion to them. He, however, has furnished i nent plant on the site of Von Schmidt's| T cription and they indicate ll)!:)e detectives with & meager description e e ) e e R D A 0n e ke e Hiieron | e T or materiat Cun‘“é“‘m‘t‘ e e T N . | of_them. g supplied by the Spring Valley Water | peg of " " real trouble somewhere. | ycsicriay the sieuths of the “upper of- | Sohtpany—thirty million gallons—-could be | hed Of the e ] | ey HAY.FEVE Efforts to bear the dull pain are heroic, but they do mot overcome It and the backaches ocontinue until the cause Is re- | moved. | | ficlaries under the will of their sister, fice” were engaged In examining the reg- isters of the various hotels in the hope of getting a clew to the daring robbers. As they patronize only the best hostelries Captain of Detectives Bohen is satisfled that they are stopping at one of the lead- ing hotels. The trio of robbers is known to the Pinkertons, and they are doing everything in thelr power to assist the po- lice in apprehending them. WANTS MONEY FROM HIS SISTER’S ESTATE Because He Cannot Get It Michael Hawkins Attacks His Brother- in-Law. Lawrence McNally, & retired plumber, living at 620 Greenwich street, swore to a complaint in Judge Mogan’'s court yester- day for the arrest of Michael Hawkins, his brother-in-law, on a charge of battery committed upon him at his residence last Thursday. The Hawkins family are bene- Mrs. Sarah A. English, with the exeemon of Michael. The estate i{s worth about ,000. Michael tried to break the will ut failed, and since then he been annoying the heirs by demanding a share, which led to the attack upon McNally, who is married to his sister. Michael has been in trouble over the same thing before. He thought he -hguldr o have a beneficlary under the wil the late Peter Donahue and he constantly pestered the widow. Finally he fired two shots at her on Montgomery street five or six years ago and was arrested for as- sault to murder. The charge was reduced to assault with a deadly weapon an received a sentence of one year. d he | had brought down from Lake Tahoe for fif- teen or sixteen million dollars. This state- ment in the face of the testimony given by the engincers of the water company that their plant was worth thirty million dollars was deeply considered by the Su- ervisors. At at time Echmldt was Invited b; of the Committee on Public Utilities to appear before the committee and give a further explanation of what he stated on the witness stand. He therefore invited the members of the committee to his of- fice, as he could better submit his data and maps on the subject. When the members of the committee arrived at the office they found Mr. Dil man and A. M. Hunt, engineer of the Independent ght and Power Com- any, who apj d before the board on onday last in the Interests of that cor- oration. In a conversation with Mr. d and others at that time Mr. Hunt took occasion to discuss the Von Schmidt scheme and said that th oposition to bring water from Lake 0e was feas- ible; that he had gone over the project and was perfectly famillar with it and had made estimates of the cost, and that himself and another engineer named Dill- man had been instructed to look into the matter and make their estimates and see whether the scheme was a Pmth:u one, what the cost would be Wwhether the fl‘}‘:“ was reserved In Colonel von Schmidt's company. 4 The meeting was an informal one and fru:tlculy developed into a discussion of he proposition. Colonel von Schmidt stated that he had the backing of capitalists, who were ready to put up their money to ahead immediately, if the c!? ve 'm en- couragement. He tol w__he and Colonel Simpson, at the outlet of Lake Tah raised the entire surface five feet; that every foot Sierra Nevadas in a tunnel five miles long, thence in another canal to one of the up- per channels of the American River and to carry the water in the bed of the river for some miles and take it out by another canal to Auburn and from Auburn to San Francisco in pipe lines. The full 147 million gallons a day will be broufht to Auburn by this system of and tunnels. From Auburn to San Francisco the water will be brought in elther by one or two pi million gallons a dlg will be twice the total capacity of the Spring Valley Water Company as it {s at present constituted. The total consumption of water in thi city at the present time is about twent: five million gallons a day, so that this gropoumon is to supply the city with more han double its actual dally needs, an wle:g‘n right to almost six times its act: n When this city doubles in pgnlsfion. 80 that it will need more than 60,000,000 gal- lons a day, it will only have to bulld an- other pipe line and draw upon its tre- mendous reserve force, amounting to near- 1{ 97,000,000 gallons a day. In other words, the proposition of Engineers Diliman and Hunt is to sell to this city practically a :\a&ply of water adequate for a city of 2,000,000 inhabitants, and actually dellver within the city limits, at 300 feet above the ulasl:vel enough for lt city twice the @ O n cf his to be com- pleted before it is accepted by the city. Healthiest Town. atour The healthiest spot In the world seems to be a little hamlet in France named Au- mone. 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