The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1900, Page 9

*HCCEPTANCE OF AE NEW HALL RECOMMENDED | Contractors Must Release All Claims for Work on the Building. i ik pervisors’ Joint Committee Decides | to Settle the Vexing Matter Fin- ally and as Speedily as Possible. s mmittee on ju- | cided yes- recommend a4 by the a proper release eir bondsmen of e erection of € out of tk contracts mpany in- ims of the Shea ar- uld have no rfeited con- rized to em; ¥ building at is finaily ac- Board re- | e criminal de- rts be al- t quarters | erred to ed that great d that it was depart- rate and riminal AL BY PUPILS OF 11SS MAMIE C. BARRETT Most Noteworthy Events e Season of Music at Sacramento. - T A\ v BrteP 000009000045 00000000000debe0® 5 One the of the present the reci- | Hall by year's Berlin, but pl difficult t's Dream | | | ded in ex- lows wh a | i | Tschaikowsky opin erria Brahms Dvorak Thome Moszkowski Brahme Miss Jost Godard ¢ Borowski Saint-Saens Bedee. Liszt | sttschalk Schumann | ; Gries | Re g De Kontski | Miss I ins, Miss Shelley , 1 Mre. Dunster. | r de Bz Chaminade | ifford. | & - Linzt | Bedee. | - . Chopin | ge op Chopin | 4 Shelley. Brilliant ................Lavignac Miss Bedee, Miss Jost, Mrs. ng. Miss Curtls, Miss WILL HOLD A FAIR. Action Taken by Monterey County Agricultural Association. Diepatch to The Call June 8.—The Monterey Assoclation held its sion on Wednesday last t officers and -discuss the | ning the custom of | fair and races agricultu president; J. B. s 4. 3. Kelly, secret d 10 hold a fair this year fm- v after the coming racing meet | San Jose 1 the following commit- | ere appointed to take the prelim- steps toward that end: Premium —H. S. Ball, J. A." Trescony. N. Mathews: speed committee—T. J. . Z. Hebert, A. Widemann. s am i sl Jumped Into the Bay. Aspatck to The Call TEREY, June 8.—Ignacio Silva, a sc resident of this place, at- to commit suicide vesterday by into the bay from the deck of a iving alongside the wharf, He | 1 at once, however. by the oc- | a near-by rowboat. It Is be- | was suffering from temporary produced by a protracted spree. Fistt's Chlorides, the Best Disinfecteat,” Gesiroys disease-breeding matter. ’3 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1900. HIBERNIANS WILL COME TOGETHER FROM EVERY PORTION OF THE D 1000000000000 ede0 e ebec e Annual Convention Will Begin Next| Monday and Last Several Days. | | Chosen Delegates| Preparing for a Busy Gathering and Heavy Worki ® AL SR S e e e R R R g R e HE State Convention of the Anclent’ Order of Hiberians will hold its es—i sions in Oakland this year, begin- ning next Monday. The ses open at 1 p. m. at California ¥ n the evening an entertainment and ball will be given at Reid Hall by the Ala- meda divisions, Tuesday and Wednesday the sessions will be tinued and a ban- quet will be given Tuesday evening. The | State officers for the term, two will elected and a very active vass i= being made. Many new ideas will be brought up and this promises to be | a very important convention for the or- der. The Ladies’ Auxiliary convention will o meet Monday, at 1 p. m., at Hiber- nia Hall, 120 Ninth street, this city. This | will be the first convention of the ladies and they have considerable work before them. State officers will be elected for the first time and a State organization | petfected. A banquet will close their convention | Foliowing are the delegates to the Oak- | land convention: Rev. D. O. Crowley, | State chaplain; J. J. Donovan, State pres- | e o o M. MECAFFERTY. EXECUTIVE. JorHN OGARA ORATO R . JULY 411 | | | | | . I Mor ary. ExEcuTIE > M.‘cooNEy, EXecuTIVE, EbwA;a j SREER N STATE. SEcRETAR > TREASOR R ident; Edward I Sheehan, State secre- tary,” and John P. Henry, State treas urer. 2—Bart Charl Moran, es. J. H. Magini Ryan, James ( Boland, Michael . George n. J Lowe. John Donohoe. No. i1—Daniel n Brennan, E. D. Sullivan, B. Callopy. D 12—John Thomas Searey, Charles Hurley J. F. Renault.’ No. 14 | 30 S.” ‘Banperman, ' Dr. P. J. Kelleher, P. 5 O Mahoney, . §. Shepston. Patrick Maloney W BE. McEvoy, John o' Los Angeles County J. McCarthy, M. J. McGarry, P. J. O'Connor, T. J. Cunningham, J. McGonigle, D. M. McGarry. Monterey County: Thomas Conley, John H. Cunan, James F. Riordan, Martin Wallace. Nevada County: J. icliff, O. C. Conlan, John B Byrne, Rev. P. J. Cline, T. H. Carr, M. “Oaklana: Division No. 1-M. H. McGuire, Con B e B O L R R O S O T o o S SO 1 | tiey Lee, | 5 M Officers of the Ancient Order of Hibernians., Nolan, Thomas Walsh, George Shields, B. Duf- fey. No. 2-D. S. McCarthy, R. Heaney, A. nam, Edmond J. Murphy 3. Lynn, J. 3—T. J. Cruz County: P. Dorsey, Michael | Jobn Rooney, Edward Griffith, William y. : Division No. 1—Michael 1. Thomas MoNall. James Mullally, John 2—James Farrell, hil McoNaily Guerin, Martin Daiton. Patrick Tenaban, James Logue, Thomas Car- ney, Matthew Crowe. No. 3—T. R. Dougherty, | R. ¥ McMahon, John W. Clute, H. J. Dough’ | erty. William Call P acramento County: W. O'Brien, Willlam | , Michael Butler, George Rippon, Owen Michael Egan. laro County: P, Dineen, F. J. Ferguson, J. | Brosnahan, J. J. Dolan, J.' Cavanaugh, T. V.| Coltine. The Ladies’ Auxiliary Convention will | consist of the following named delegates, as algo the delegates from Los Angeles, not yet named: County officers—Mrs. E. Butters, county pres tdent. rtha Washington Circle No. 1—Mrs. J. Donovan, Miss Dillon, Miss H. Fitzpatrick, M T wWwRAN EXECUTIVE] STATE Affairs of the Or- der Will Be Con- sidered and Dis- cussed. — Interesting Meeting Is Anticipated by the Representa-| tives. | J. J. Moran, Mrs. H. Mulvihill, Mrs. C. B. Flanagan. Columbia Circle No. 2—Mrs. Theo. Richards, Miss Mary F Mrs, B, F. Kraut, Mrs. Lena O'Donnell. . 1. San Jose a Higgins, Mrs. C, ss L. Chavernay Grath. The great order on July 4, at Schuetzen Park, San Rafael, is attracting great attention in Irish circies as well as among the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Tt will surpass anything of the kind heretofore given. The patriotic exercises will em- brace reading the Declaration of Inde- pendence, oration by John O'Gara, poem by Charles D. Smith and a fine literary and musical programme. For the games $500 has been set aside and a cash prize will be given to winner and second in each event. The games will | be a revival of the old Irish athletic con- rizes will also be given ;"30 lha jig and reel dancing amounting to as judge. A full military band has been engaged for the dancing, and the literary exercises will be held in the open air so as_not to interfere. CTY EMPLOYES | WHO MAY DRAW WACKTION PAY Good News for the Firemen and the Public School Teachers. R Paid Holidays Occur Only When Al- lowed by Law, So City Officers Must Pay for Their Recreation. Scsasood Auditor Wells recelved yesterday from his attorneys, Lioyd & Wood, an opinion in reply to his inquiry “Can any of the deputies, clerks or other employes of the city and county be allowed pay for time of absence from duty when on vacation jeave?’ In their opiion the "attorneys hold that the charter provides that no employe of the city and county shall be g4 for a greater time than that covered - B his actual service, and that it would be a violation of the charter to allow com- pensation for time of absence from official Quty. The opinion continues: sion reads that no demand shall Ty T hy the Auditor In favor of any oty employe for the time he shall have absented himseif without lcgal cause during office hours, Jt is then apparent that at least legal cause must exist as an excuse for absence. We recog- Pize that “legal cause’ exists whenever by rea- e of holidays the public offices are closed, Bt we fail to find in the charter any authority given to any department to grant leave of ab sence except in the case of the Fire Depart- ment. Without & grant of power it must be held that its exercise cannot be rightfully clat The absence of teachers from the public schoois during the ordinary vacation arises from legal cause and does not take away the right to collect salaries for auch period: We agree also with the conclusion of City Attor- ney Lane holding that the Board of Fire Com- missioners may grant leaves of absence to members of the Fire Department, but we do not find anything similar to it in the chapters on other depurtments. As to the County Clerk, Sheriff, Recorder, District Attorney and Coroner, it may be claimed that they are officers Whose powers and duties are given by the county government act or other general laws, and for that rea- scn cannot be controlled by the provisions of The charter to which reference has been made. For these reasons we advise that you are not authorized to audit any demand for the salary of any employe of the city and county, except as we have stated, accruing while such em- ploye is absent from duty on leave from the head of his department and not in the actual performance of said duties. COURT NOTES. The dispute between Tax Collector Scott and the National Athletic Club over the revocation of the former's:license to con- duct npam‘ exhibitions was submitted to Judge Murasky for decision yesterday. The application of E. C. Kilpatrick, the late principal of the Business Evening School, for a judicial review of the action of the Board of Education @ismissing him from his_position was argued before Judge Murasky yesterday. General Barnes, who represented Kilpatrick, con- tended that the board lacked jurisdiction to dismise his client, as the charges of misconduct against him were not formally filed by Superintendent Webster. Assist- ant City Attorney Brobeck filed a demurr- er to Kilpatrick's petition and the gourt took the matter under advisement. The application of Samuel Rehfisch, do- ing business under the firm name of G. M. Kutz & Co., for a writ of injunction re- straining James Galway and others from boycotting his shoe manufacturing estab- lishment or otherwise injuring him, was submitted for decision to Judge Seawell yesterday. —— Crushed by a Train. WHEATLAND, June 8—~While attempt- ing to beat a southbound freight train this mornlnf John L. Ross, a transient la- borer, fell beneath the cars and both his legs were cut off. He will die. —_————————— Camerag, photographic supplies, books, on photography and books for unmounted hotograph! Prlnt{ngsand developing done n the latest styles. Sanborn, Vail & Ci 741 Market street. CIRCUIT COURT'S JURISDICTION 15 T0 BE EXTENDED Ninth Appeal District Soon to Embrace Hawaiian Islands. L gees Decisions of This Tribunal Not Re- viewable in 411 Cases Even by United States Supreme Justices. —_— The United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals for the Ninth Judicial Circuit will have the islands of Hawail added to its already extensive domain on June 14, in conformity with the provisions of the act providing for the government of the ter- ritory formed by them. All writs of error, writs and appeuls taken from the action of the District Court of Hawaii will be under the jurisdiction of the United States Circult Court of Appeals for the Ninth Judicial District, now composed of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Montana,. Arizona and Alaska. It is not generally known to the,laity that the Court of Appeals is a court of last resort; in other words, a Supreme Court, from whose decisions there can be no appeal except on issues affecting treaties between the United States and foreign powers and the constitutionality of laws. Its decislons are not reviewable b{l the Supreme Court of the United States except by writ of certiorari in cases where two Courts of Appeals render conflicting and _contradictory opinions upon the same issue. Then the United States Supreme Court steps in as umpire and renders the final decision. In the Ninth Circuit some of the most | notable decisions in the law books have been rendered, particular' those by Jus- tice Stephen J. Field o0:. personal rights in the Chinese cases and in matters of constitutional law. It is a court of great dignity because of the learning and high standing of the Judges composing. it. At certain times a Justice of the United States Supreme Court sits as a member, hears cases and hands down _opinions, which become part of the legal history of the country. The members of the Court of Appeals hold office for life, and the sal- aries they receive from the Government are claimed to be much too small for tha character and caliber of the men who oc- cupy the bench. Because of the life ten- ure they are beyond the reach of the po. litical vengeance of disappointed litigants, and they are removed from and indepen- dent of the powerful influerces which sometimes contaminite the ermine under the political system. ALAMEDA COUNTY WANTS MONEY FROM THE STATE OAKLAND, June 8.—District Attorney Allen and Supervisors Willlam H. Chuwch and George Roeth left this morning for Sacramento, where they will appear be- fore the State Board of Examiners as a committee from Alameda County to as- certain why the State has not allowed a number of indigent claims presented by the Board of Superyisors of this county. Under the laws of the State governing indigents, each county is ailowed a cer- ain amount per capita for the support of aged upers and half orphans under the age of 14 years. The claims are presented yearly to the Board of Examiners. No money has been received by Alameda County for the last fiscal year, and there is now due about $17,500. According to Expert Bullock the Coun- ty Infirmary fund, if replenished with the money due from the State, would prave amrle to meet all accumulated claims on which payment has been s!ngp d because of the fear that their liquidalion would exhaust the fund. —_— e ——— To Extend Harrison Street. OAKLAND, June $—The street com- mittee of the City Council has decided to Harrison strect north of Twentieth to Boulevard terrace. It is propesed to have the extension form a portion of the Lake Merritt boulevard. Bt 0000080006000 60006006000 000000 d0t0e06500e60000000006000060sd>e0sd e festival to be given by the| O'Conner_has consented to act | XVII. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. (1832-1888.) | BY CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN Those who would thoroughly | have but to read “Little Women,” “Little | Men,” “Jo’s Boys” and the other juvenile books wherein the joys, work, romps and sorrows of the Alcott family are faith- boy, strong in will, awkward in body, im- | pulsive in thought, moody, high-spirited and noble-hearted, she has charmed, amused and interested the children of two generations, and as long as frank and | natural childhood, with its struggles and victories, is rightly estimated so long will succeeding generations continue to enjoy | her original books. From her mother, Abba May, Louisa { May Alcott inherited her keen sense of { humor, her passionate devotion to her | family and her brave tendency to make | the best of things; from her father she | inherited her uncommon mind, her pure- | mindedness and love of philanthropy. A. Bronson Aicott, the devoted friend of Em- erson, who called him “the American Plato,” was a man of singular upright- | ness of character, gentleness and piatonic wisdom, who apparently understood the tenets of transcendentalism far better than the mulplication table. So serenely unpractical was this charming man that during the greater part of his life he was B e = S SRS S S A S A Not that he did not to do his part, but dreamy, easily im- lacking in the port to his family. struggle continuously he was overgenero posed upon and utte t sense of proportion. Wherever you find his type in a family you invariably find his antithesis, trained in necessit to oppose an tlcal. Mrs. Aleott and Louisa represented | this contrary tendency, the mother brave- supporting her husband’s theories even | when not entirely in sympathy with them. | Louisa mildly _satirizing her father's | views in her story, “‘Transcendental Wild Qats,” and giving her youth, her strength and her life to meet the harvest of debts { which these impractical theories reaped. During the financial panics which as- | sailed this happy family Emerson was the Stanch financial friend, leaving his gifts | unostentatiously under a candlestick, ll“ t the leaves of a book or on a table. always hurt Louisa’s pride that the fa ily were obliged to take this kindly prof- fered help, and had it not been that she knew how much Emerson honored good father she could hardly have brought herself to accept it. It took her nearly twenty-five years to pay off all the family debts, but s e | canceling evéry one, even those that were outlawed. Emerson was her idol, and during what she terms her sentimental age she wrote him long letters after ths rer of the Bettina-Goethe correspond- but could never screw up her cour- enc h age to send them and finally destroyed | 1 them all | "The vegetarian diet upon which the | tamily subsisted was at feast an econom- jcal one, and although the family often | wearied of the plain boiled rice and gra- ham bread without milk or butter, Louisa | and her older sister thrived on the plain fare; neither of the younger sisters, im- | mortalized in “Little Women" as Beth and Amy, gained strength from the mo- | hotonous 'alet. Had Louisa not been o | phenomenally strong _she never could | have accomplished what she did even | with the best intentions in the world. Taught by their kind father, encouraged | ana heiped by their warm-hearted mother, | the Alcott children led a perfectly joyous existence at Concord, unmindful of the impending financial storm. With plenty of housework, doll's dressmaking and play-acting in_the barn, they lived in the Phchanted land of make-believe or romped | With the little Emersons, Channings and | Hawthornes, “Pilgrims’ journeyed over | the hill,” writes Louisa, the ringleader, | “with serip and staff and cockleshells in their hats; fairies held their pretty revels among the whispering birches, and straw- b y parties in bred By poets and philosophers. who fed us on their wit and wisdom while the lit- tle maids served more mortal food. In 2 poem written when 11 years old to her mother, Louisa Alcott forecasts the impetus which kept her working so many years: 1 hope that soon, dear mother, You and I may be In the quiet rcom my fancy Has_so often made for thee. ‘While 1 sit close beside you, Content at last to see That you can rest, dear mother, And'I can cherish thee. From the time she was 15 she launched forth on an independent career, full of trials and privations. Teaching school, sewing, nursing invalids and going out to gervice were a few of the many occupa- tions at which she tried her hand. Several times 'she came very near going on the stage; arrangements were made and the parts assigned, but some unforeseen ac- cident always blocked the fulfillment of her cherished ambitions. her subsequent career as an author, pos- terity must rejoice that her histrionic hopes were nipped in the bud. At the age of 22 her first little book, “Flower Fables,” written when she was only 16, to amuse Emerson's daughter, found ifs way into print. It brought hut into “thé Alcott sinking fund,” but was regarded as a sign of promise. She sent it to the well belov this characteristic note: “Dear Mother— Into vour Christmas stocking I have pus | my ‘first born,’ knowing that you will ac- Cept it with all its faults (for grandmoth- ers are always kind), and look upon it merely as an earnest of what I may yet do.” “In the following February she re- \ceivea $5 for her first story, and for soma years after wrote these 'exciting little Ipot-boilers” supplementing her routine sewing with these really inferior tales. It was not until two years afterward that she could write in her journal, “The insids of my head can at leasti cover the out- S In a letter to her father she says: can't do much with my hands, so I “r will under- | stand the childhood of Louisa M. Alcott | | fully portrayed. As Jo, the lovable tom- | a distinct financial drag, rather than sup- | TOUISA MAY '@o+ 0060000000000 e0edesdeisdedesisiesiel® he finally succeeded in | the rustic,arbor were hon- | In the light of | mother with | i Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. make a battering ram of my head and through th rough tumble world.” That sh able all parts of her body | her records of a day’ the family housework followed by a twenty-mile walk; afternoon more housework and two stories written for the Youth's Compan- ion, and a ball in the evening. To th duties she added that of nurs She gave up her work care for the invalid sister who ai arms. Mother, father and were coaxed through many her tender ministrations. It fore, but natural that at the Civii War Louisa’s smolderis should find expression in an to devote her knack at nu wounded countrymen. For six weeks she tended the sick and dying and then she succumbed fihmd pneumonia. Home nursing b er back from the delirium had raged for a mc really well again. He: was of B there- time of the made up largely of home letters, an immense sale; so that the vou thor, then 30 ye: found th though she had struggled back to a w of unceasing invalidism it held out the goiden promise which her sacred mission to her s to be fulfilled. The success of her “Hospital Sketehes' led Roberts Brothers to ask Miss Aleott to write a story for gir This she was so sure that she could not that she wrote them a book to prove it. In this work she drew largely on the r of “The Pat ic amily as she hum ously called home people it dubiously to the pwblisher, * ® - ® . & B ALCOTT. | really lived most of it and if it succeeds that will be the reason of it. No one was more surprised than the author at | the phenomenal success of the book; the sweet fam spirit, the delights and | romps, the blessedness of sacrifice and the genuine wholesomeness of “Little | Women™ proved that the literary disci- pline of the last ten years had not been in vain and that the extreme naturalness | of her characters entitled them to the warm welcome given them by tha child- hood of Americs ance, England, Ger- many and Holland With_the family finally out of debt, the beloved “Marmee” surrounded with every comfort, “to cherished and helped tenderly down the long hill she h: climbed so bravely with her many bur- dens,” and the younger sister studying art in Europe, it would seem as if the overworked author might at last rest on her oars. But no, the habit of self-abne- gation, of drividg work, had become a necessity to her and she complied as far as sible with the steadily increasing | demands of the publishers. Consequently she records: “Write three pages at once on impression paper, as Beecher, Roberts be and Low of London all wan copy at And then the telitale footnote added some years ls “This was the cause of the paralysis of my thumb, which disabled me for the rest of my life.,” The funny side of everything ap. pealed to Rer just as In her heydey years, and we find her 1 her for first year writing to her mother this account of a grave meeting: “Had a very transcen- dental day yesterday and at night my head was ‘swelling visibly’ with the ideas cast into The club was a funny mix- ture of rabbis and needy old ladies, the ‘oversoul’ and oysters. Papa and B.'flew clean out of sight like a pair of platonic | balicons and we tried to follow, but “d";‘:’r’: ‘fler cherished purpose of support- |ing the family always in view she | seemed in love with her lot and among | the delicious outbursts in her journal there are no complainings or envious com- parisons with the more fortunate career of the sister whom she was educat'ng abroad. O sionally there is an eloquer.t | sentence like this: “She (Anna) is a happy woman! I sell my children and, though they feed me, they don’t love me as hers do.” In the midst of her work she took a vear's vacation abroad. visiting with | May and relaxing a little until she heard in Italy of the death of John, Meg's hus- | band in “Little Women.” She was greal | 1y shocked, for she loved and honored this | noble brother, and she immediately set .o | work upon a new book which should put his wife and children beyond the clutches of poverty. “Little Men” was the resuit; | 50,000 copies were sold before its publica- | tion and this sequel to “Little Women™ | was as eagerly awaited as war or stock | bulletine. Although she declared by this time that her brain was squeezed dry, she wrote “Eight C s” and its sequel, “Rose in Bloom,” “Under the Lilacs” and numberless short stories for the leading juvenile magazines. When the artist sis- ter died abroad a short time after her marriage her little girl baby came across the ocean to make her home with the loving Aunt Louisa, for whom she was named. For eight vears this little one was a heart-gladdener to the faithful over- worked woman who was Now ajmost at the finish of her life work. Mrs. Alcott had died in her daughter's arms; her father was nearing his ninetieth year. happy and appreciative of her poem | to him beginning: | Dear Pilgrim, waiting patiently | The long, long journey nearly done. She was tenderly devoted to him m his declining_years, proud of his fine mind | and proud ‘of his pride in her, as evidenced | in the sonnet which he wrote to her when { she started out “to nurse the wounded soldier, swathe the dead,” closing with the words ‘I press thee §o my heart as Duty’'s faitaful child.” She died unconscious that he had gone to his rest three days ore. In spite of the sadness of this life so | shortened by overcare and overwork there | is comfort in the thought that the heroic | self-sacrifice was not in vain: that she | accomplished her lofty ideals, lived to see | her loved ones enjoy the comfort she had wrought, and died, after molding wisely the youthful minds of two generations, truly’ loved by more children than any writer hefore or since. Surely she has a clear title to be classed among those whom George MacDonald beautifully calls “God’s mothers!” Note—This concludes the “Blographical Studies for Girls.”" An examination as a | basie for the grapting of certificates will be published on Thur:zday next.