The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1900, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 27 1900. POLICE SCENT A SCHEME IN'A WOMAN'S FAKE TALE Miss Babcock Tells a Fairy Story That May Result in Explaining Footpad Mystery and Has Already Placed Her in a Peculiar Light. overlooked the southern district of lhe: city. Early yesterday morning the gro- cery store and saloon of H. A. Wuhrmann | on “the corner of Sixth and Harrison | streets was entered by burglars and 30 | taken from the till. The entrance Was | effected through the side door, the lock of | which was picked. | Three burglars visited the residence of HELMS POSES AS A CHAMPION 0t TRACK GAMBLING MAGUIRE'S FARE DRDINANCE NOT A POPULAR ONE RESIDENTS OF ST END ARE BAOLY SCARED Mrs. McLaren, at 726 Stevenson flrpr'nl and two houses adjoining We - midnight. Mrs. McLaren discovere | of the men in the act of opening a back window, while his two pals stood on the | porch, She s med and was warned to remain silent. The criminals evidently be- came frightened after the alarm and made | People in adjoining hou . o . | their escape. ing houses | p : Street Committee and Mayor| Daylight Burglars Ply Their | Per e ey minnnis.” &% Will Submit an Amendmen frightened away. 4 to Reed’s Order Against Offer Several Novel Vocation Without Fear @+ . PP AP SN SN SO WA SO GPP S SP SP S Sa g an as 2o o oo o 2 # : 41 Suggestions. of Police. RIGHT OF SUPERVISORS Pool Selling. ¢ b L V TC REGULATE SPARRING . LS ! —— + Representatives of Santa Fe and Bay | Startling Number of Thefts Reported Ar ent on the Columbia Athletic | Police Committee Recommends a Li . 4| Coast Roads to Draw Up Order From a Resident Section of the Club’s Preliminary Injunction cense Tax of Twenty-Five Dal ) ¢ i | for Franchises on Illinois City—Much Valuable Heard by Judge Murasky. lars Per Quarter on Nickel ° )@ | Street. Property Stolen. Whether or not the preliminary injune- Card Machines. PS | tion heretcfore issued by Judze Murasky | p 2008 T * 4 2 | restraining Chief of Police Sullivan from | . + The Street Committee of the Board of | An organized gang of daylight burglars | interfering with the Columbia At \‘.;.\ Supervisor Helms demonstrated & Supervisors met yesterday ‘afternoon and | has been operating in the West End. Most | Club's proposed exhibition snall be made {is a stanch champion . ¢ listened to representatives of the various jof its work has been done in the section | permanent or dissolved will be, decided | gambling interests w @ car lines of the city declare in no un- | west of Polk street and as far as North | next week. Argument on a motion to dis- | determination - + measured terms why the cent standing | BeacH. The residents are almost in a | solve the writ made by the respondent|the Supervi 7 { fare as proposed by Maguire should not | state of terror, principally on account of | was heard Superv mit an amenc ? become an integral part of the ordinance. | the apparent helplessness of the Police | Who represented respondent, argued "% | mitting horser s 4 Mayor Phelan present and offered | Department to round up the thieves. | the powers of the board to TeEt .l to | days and allow 4 | many suggestions, some of which were| The number of burglaries committed | {3iP businesses or pursuits Fr(S racetrack inel . 4 as bizarre and fantastic as they were im- | within the last few days is alarming. The | board had the same right to limit the | present at the me > © practicable, | thieves continue their depredations appa- | number of prizefights as it has to régu-| The committee 3 i Maguire admitted thdt the purpose of rently without fear of the police and with | late the Hons. 2 bis Club age Reed's c 3 | the ordinance was not so much to force a | total disregard of humiliating the blue- pestomnes Collins for e ;’,‘3;"‘"“ ests poolselling o 3 ) { S ! el s b or ac- | conts. that in relation to bo g c¢ . ¢ DESCRIBED \ B b d““‘fl" of fares as to secure "“{‘1' Sts| Mrs. Petzold's home on Steiner street, | the State law ing to boxing Cc e . iy 1 o commodations for the public during hours | oppogite St. Dominic's Chureh . was. ent | Is paramount. 2 - AS THE OFFILE : when traffic was particularly heavy and | tered about a week ago during her tem- | Assistant istrict Attorney r.au;;(o\! HOLD-UP. SHOULD HAVE the travel congested, The Mayor also | porary absence. Two dlamond rings, a | will argue on behalf of the respondent DONE 1T, & made a confession, not that he was the | 80ld watch, a pair of opera glasses and | Friday. he case will be submitt ; 4 - i o father of his country, but of this new | SOmE money were taken. briefs next Monday for decision. get th . 5 BABCotk | | l streetcar proposition. ' ; “““’ub‘“;{n'"'(‘;fi‘m;‘s"{:g M : SR commi rder a ALIA 5 D | he re ) he street rail- |~ ase” . 5, estn Street, be- i . ng . rac 1 - \f 5’ MR 3. Goodw, way compaies toulg ot see.the necessity | tween Hyde and Larkin. She isft the 85 Vincest de Pacl Soclety: | (el o | RERB i, . B2 Or e utility ot all this.C They claimed | house for a few hours one afterncon and | The second general meeting for the year | | Jor.y . @ e ortebs b ioisbeietg ¢ | that the expense would be greatly in- Then she returned she found that her | 1000 of the San Francisco conferences of | "During x ¢ | creased, especialiy if they had to employ | DOTS had been entersd through a window | the Soctety of Vincent de Paul will be | that the propositio - = giving £ Miss | ¢ & extra men for a few hours during the Kr - J‘mmJ;,P‘;;v"\e\fi“::"»tx he l]lfltrk; held next Sunday morning in the hall of le, since s A K, a as M ® { |day. Then the Mayor came to the front | 07,8 JWMLY WeFe evident A quantity of | gy “jogeph's Church, Tenth and Howard § ¢ | with another choice bit of advice. * He | VA{UADIC syverware was stolen. =~ streets, at a quarter before 8 o'clock. The - P @ wanted to know why the butcher, the ba- | e e Steiner | o embers will thence ma to the church Page ® 6 bz . street the gang varied its methods and | M€ t 8 e h s r and the barber should not be given a ' 2iChited to enter the place ay mighe | to receive holy communion at § o'clock » Civil Service > tie 4 Kond . ¢ | chance to make a few extra dollars per | 3rs™Eook and her daughter: who yocrs |mass. The conferences will assemble |a rule providing for . > fr He : @ | month by handling the extra cars during ' gione in the house, were startled by ihe | a8ain in the same hall at 3 o’clock in the | municipal employe P ga ce o PAD the hours of increased tratfic. To thi8 ropeated shaking of the front door.. The | afternoon to hear the term reports of the | bling. Helms said that si allow B . . THE FOOT ¢ | came the reply that the public might not | Jglghter summoned up courage and wens | conferences and to transact other busi- | racing in Oakland 3 ' r 1 & @n ONCE MORE & | enjoy a ride in an electric car down BteeD o the entrance, but the burglars took 3. Miawise . < o i . NUMEROUS. + Brades when the controller was in the gjgne. & 0 oL IS e il aiae E kles hand of a dough-mixer or tonsorial . B. Kellum's residence on Central ave- Gains in the Savings Banks. r purpose to disc: g . * @ artist. The Mayor looked wise for several | nue was entered one afternoon while the ding to the reports of the savings | Said Mayor, Legis . § e tes, and visions of his high hat fall- | family was downtown. The housebreak. |, ACCOTdIng to the reports Sk € '83 | Jature to pass a law - s : ol 1o 40 & |Ing to the rear of a runaway car brought | ers were scared away by a grocers clerk | PANKS of the State to the Bank Commis- | each county for t E ® him up vith a jump. before they secured any plunder. sloners of the condition of business on | nounced his intent . 4 | The Mayor did not impress the car men | A house at Jackson and Devisadero | March 31 there has been a material in- | resolution » . & & | very favorably yesterday. In a moment | streets was entered through g basement | crease in business since November 30. The | The committe: « of enthuslasm he suggested a tunnel for | window. The thieves were ‘frightened |gain In deposits of the forty-four banks | mend R . 4 | the busy portion of Market street. When | away by the furfous barking of a pet dog. | outside of 'tk city in four mon - ps & he informed that property always de- Thomas E. Dunn home, 1430 Hyde | amounted to about one and a half million A ) o | Preciated on either stde of these tunnels street, was broken into while he and his | dollars. The gain in the deposits of - in big cities his pedal extremities began | wife were absent. A lot of jewelry city and the country savings banks, fifty- | Ve 6 & to fr but he grasped at the straw taken, but large sum of ‘money three in number, during that time was | games of al s . 9§ d that a tunnel would be both | overlooked. $4,742,000. machines t . . { ) |artistic and valuable from Montgomery | Mrs. Maggle Ford, who resides on Fil- —— e open gambl > | street to the ferry. The Phelan property | bert street, is another victim of the hous Dr. Clampstt to Locture To-Night. |Sullivan said . ¢ |is farther up the street. breakers. ' Her residence was turned | |, = 14 & | _Again, when the father of the 2i-cent | “topsy-turvy” during her absence, but Ireland and the Irish™ is the subject ¢ anding fare suggested that the compa- | nothing of value was taken. S of an fllustrated lecture to be delivered i § . would soon be before the Supervisors | And this is by no means a complete lst Rev. Dr, Clampett, rector of Trin ar ween Van | _ & | for renewals of franchises and tha of the burglarie Young Men's Christlan Associat v ] would better beware, he was nd the burglar have not | Auditorium to-night. of abolishing them. . ¢ | that as long as he was Mayor there would © | be little desire on the part of capitalis + | to invest their money in public utilities in | this city. | @ | “Secretary Clayton of the San Mateo | s ¢ | road read a typewritten argument against | o | the ordinance, which he considered to be | . ¢ the order will not remedy | : . & | the evil it proposes to correct,” said Clay- - \ | ton. “We also declare it 1o be. unju 4 | for it reduces fares to a point below cost | 4 & | as a penalty for failure to provide a seat | : Y e + | for every passenger under any emergency e P - - e topography of San Francisco is such ve know = ,SA"‘;“YlUU i & | as n-f;lwvnh:xrl\' lend itself to the t'rn\\'dr; f" en that are known as WV, ing of street cars during the rush hour: P Qe e ) Y ~ ; 8 g« 3| All the tramic centers ‘down the narrow 700d Dressers are wearing s & ez YOUR DuTY 4 | Qistrict bordering on Market street. The i ¢ | first car along always catches the load ; SHOUTED & | and the national characteristic of ‘get =y CAPTAIN ? | there’ will always have a tendency to - WITTMAN ¢ | crowd street cars in spite of ample accom- WOMEN FIGURE IN TWO ROLES WITH THE LONE BANDIT. . ome of the queer; He saw a couple apparently billing and N T i he captain forced | cooing on tie chair, the man with his . . the extent of her 1 'm_around the “woman's”’ waist. He ‘ y gnized Howa 1d confronted the I S i Wittman to them in tones g Y S oliLivhe thund they had been - v was sus- mission, which | ; it promot an who : ed the foot r alive. He : ed them to report off duty Nipped the Stone From Her Ring. Mrs. Laura Wilson, who is stopping at the Commercial Hotel $250 diamond taken from her yeste afternoon while | walking alor ot, near Post. She wore the ring on her left hand. As gathered up her skirts to cross the street the gem attracted the attention of the ng wom, was COPS ATTIRED AS FEMALES. | The Novel Way to Catch a Footpad | rrived home Gets Two Officers Into Serious crook, who slipped up behind her and Trouble. i veis. Eha canght Slgheobs : vel v of capturing the * B b ok Saniiy 4 gl T : r,' ! wa f capt g th pml‘ the man he disa ared in the crowd " t now operating in the | apq gescribes him as be about | : Addition by detailing eral po- | old, fully six feet t ~ ire, accompanied During the p: week two other women 1 es, was | have been robbed in imilar mann : strain | The police believe the fellow is an Eas ern crook. Not the Footpad. an Pt ey o e The detectives who have been on the ough to bite at it. lookout for the lone highwayman ar- p e i hatis rested a German yesterday, who tallied | | with the descriptions given of the trouble- Wilson, ilson me crook. He was taken before Captain | N M Harr; Flem- | Sevmour, and John J. Dean, o < A. At as | victims of the footpad, wa :;r'n:mfnr. ‘11'1':‘ e Sollow s an of | spoke to the man and scrutinized him | e - d and smooth | carefully. He was satisfied that he was S ir " wiy not the highwayman. The man said he | M X them had been in the ty about six months and - we had been attending the racetrack. He was | | | Death of a Redding Merchant. W and the| Lehman Blum. a well-known business | 1.0, §tep three paces | man of Redding, died Tuesday afternoon | 3 8 bead on the footpad | at the Waldeck Sanatorium after an oper- | i ad, 1 e missed his|ation. Deceased was a native of New Or. | il P, “'}“"4\'}{"‘:;‘ leans and came to San Francisco when 4 | oF The Ereat and original sehepoJccess | vears of age. He removed to Portland and 8 a4 not show up. He must have | 2ter to Pendleton, Or., where he engaged clous of the number of talr | Successfully in the commercial and bank- | S females parading oot nimricall: | ing business, finally settling in Redding. | with stalwart, determined loop | Mr. Blum was a member of B'nal B'rith Now that he knowe all abour ji | a0d of the United Workmen. will shy clear of men with tall females, —_——— Cogswell Coll.ge Entertainment. | An ng feature of the flasco oc- | rday. Frank C. Howard had | *“A Family Affair,” by Charles Tow; o female” companion Frank J. Ha- | end, will be presented at the Cogswell acial SIv paaniius their perticn will be: Virgil Tharp, Conrad Christensen, i ) Bk own o —-Lafayette|j. Casper Bovey, Miss Anna C. Meaney. garden chairs under a spreading tres and | Miss 1da C. W an and Albert McGill. had a good time laughing and chatting | Muwjsc O =2 cpherson will be the about the fool busi » engaged ; v ———— in. Captain Witt alked over . 3 their Sistsics Twocs times about 10| Wedding invitations, visiting cards, fine | F clock without seeing them. Becoming | Writing papers, tablets and papeteries at SPECIAL PRICE ON suspicious th: ething was wrong. he | unusually low prices in our stationery de- | block struck into th away from the half partm born, Vail & Co., 741 M. ket stre | | Ptena to Pmalte. aur Yoad the best in tha city and this at a no very distant day " Actfon_on the petitions of the Santa Fe road and the Bay and Coast road to enter the city on Tllinois street was postponed SHE RISKED HER LIFE TO RESCUE HER DOGS, 'Anxious to Save Her Pets, 2 Woman Does Not Notice Her Clothing in Flames. HROUGH her frantic efforts to save her pet dogs from a burning build- Misses Tailor Made Suits... All newest fabrics— cut from newest models—silk lined throughout. Ages 10-16 years. Have been selling for $12.00-$15.00-$18.00 Special this blazing and ton ilu the 80 gues of fire were reaching | upper portion of her body. Her ing Mrs. Sadie Grey of 110 Sussex ms brought some of the neighbors | N week for strect may lose her own life Her | {0, BT, assistance. but too late to Fender | I home was set on fire by the accldental | bogy. — ¢F Clothing was burned off her | ning of a oil heater caused by The unfortunate woman \,—‘—/ $ & a rug through one of the rooms. | bly from her njurice Bhe roraioedt ol 9.50 . MAGNIN & CO. | Mrs. Grey seized the heater and ran |&clousness even while having her injuries | with it into the back yard near the kennel 1‘1’,",’1""‘\'\1 in i‘me‘;"‘;‘:\; THF ltal, where s. W. C. Bailey . E. Sawyer did of her pet pups In her anxiety to save | them from being burned to death she did | not notice that her clothing had become all they could to alleviaté her severity of the burns, sy the lower which bThP ch are about ! Y,”m"" ot the body, leaves but | ignited from the blazing oil. She did not | VEIY little hope for her recovery. 8B40 Market St., Opp. 4th | | sppreciate her danger until she had res | The house a8 totally destroyed. to- cued the dogs and carried them to a place | ot the Fire nepan?ngy':t“‘vvazhfis'e';re:e"ac; | of safety. By this time her skirts were | there are no hydrants near the Pplace. | do: | Maguire, | next meeting T would suggest {hat the car | has never paid and probably never will | eity mgdation. “The propos remedy and rather than allevi ordinance is not a true ild_increase crowding te it, for it offers a pre- mium to crowd People who have ‘no seat’ tickets will wait for a full car in order to use them. There would be great difficulty in determining which of several passengers who boarded a_car at | the same time were obliged to pay 5 cents, and there will be constant disputes as to who shall pay the higher rate of fare by STONE GREY the ‘short distance’ riders on the dum- mies. "I'nder the ordinance the o seat | ticket will entitle the holder to a seat | e on the line to which he transfers. We AND THE pay the 21 cents to the other company for his transfer and we get nothing for carry- ing him on our line. The transfer privi- leges would of ¥ Dbe abolished. they being voluntary on our part and not bound by the franchise. Thus it would | cost 10 cents instead of 5 as at nresent. “If it were practicable to put on three | times the number of cars during the rush hours, from 5 8 6:30 p. m., we could not | obtain men to handle them, as they would be unwilling to work for only two hours | each day.” | At this point the Mayor suggested that | the company might employ many barbers, | butchers, bakers and other craftsmen who | would be willing to earn a little money in | addition to their regular stipends, which rton said was a remarkable statement. | Maguire stated that each passenger who | pays 5 cents s entitled to a seat, but he | s not al “The ordf said | to bring the cnm{vanle! to a se of their duty in operating enough cars to insure the comfort of their customers. Tt is introductory to a great question of the proper transportation of GREY in the rowudh effect in Cheviots—the swell fabrics —the swell shades. realizing The effect of these gar- ments is heightened by the Broad Shoulders! Note it in the picture oppo- site. It adds to the snap- piness of the sarments. the people of this city. T would like you gentlemen to suggest some way out of ‘the difficulty. Will it be remedied by anothe: turntabie at the foot of Market street, by the loop stem at that point, by an ele- vated or an underground system?’ | Clayton sald that the situation might be relleved by operating four tracks on Ma ket streef. Superintendent M. D. Stein said that the acute congestion of traffic would be lessened when the Post street d other lines were operated. He asked for a postponement of the question until | the result could be ascertained. The com- mittee agreed to take the question up at the next meeting. The Mayor went off on another tack and asked what it cost the company to carry a passenger on & streetcar. Clay- ton replied, 4 cents. “Well," dald his Honor, “that opens up a new fleld of investigation and at the companies submit a financial statement of their profits and expenditures. - His Honor was apparently in blissful ignorance of the fact that the companies could not be compelled to answer such questions, except under a call for the ac- quisition of a public utility. Then Phelan pitched into Clayton, saying: “Well, what interest has your road in this proposition anyhow? Tt is a small road running through obscure streets. Tt A whole window full of these new and hidhly de- sirable shades and fabries. and was only acquired for a debt.” “‘We have the same interest,” quickly replied Clayton, “that you would have were a building to be erected near your Market street property that would take sur profits away. Furthermore, we No Suit in touwn at $20 can approach these. We've marked ’em spe- cial for a short period at Bl Wen's Swuit Room. RAPHAEL'S INCORPORATED, THE FRISCO BOYS, Builders of High-class Apparel, Cor. Kearny St. & Union-Square Av, one week after representatives of the two ds had been heard. e have heen allegations.” sald Phe- that the Southern Pacific and Santa have heen consolidated and the ic has become disgusted.” The Santa Fe road is an Independent transcontinental line,” replled its repre- centative. Attorney Preston, and the Mavor subsided. W. T. Baggett said that the Bay and Coast road was willing to let the Santa Fe get the franchise on Tllinois street, the fracks could be used fointlv. The rai road people were requestedto draft an ordinance embodying all the requirements in the matter for presentation at mext Thursday's meeting. Commissioner Manson was reauested to draft an ordinance to regulate the width of wagon tires. At present the law pro- vides that a wagon of 40% pounds capa- shall have a four-inch tire and of 7000 pounds eanacity a five-inch tire. Man. <on stated that these tires are too narrow and cut up the bituminous streets. Biittttsssttsstsssssse Read in next Sunday’s Call : how the brave Oakland bridge- + tender has saved the lives of ¥ thirty people. We have heroes right here at home! § R e e +44+ + % - + + L]