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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1900. ¢ SOLENH SERVICE 10 HONOR "0UR LADY OF HELP" St. Brendan's Church Filled With a Great Throng of Faithful. b i Father MacCorry, With Elo- Words, Exhorted Them Draw Near to the Saviour as to a Friend. i1 Iy Rev et atholic Church was ast evening, the oec- n of a triduum of Perpetual” Help. the Devotions > B P, : Unto g of the people be.” of all g Rev. THREE OIL CLAIMS ON OCEAN BEACH RECORDED on Sites Near Life Saving led in the Recorder’s Office. will be developed was shown ye! ope 1 1500 feet morth to be known g k's claim was filed by S Maybell. It runs north HONORED FOR WORK IN THE PHILIPPINES Given by Young Men’s Association to Secre- 3lunz and i a week nz and workers ary; i 1 H. Jacks, and Associa- secretary of and Jackson responded nds and co- s a general many old friends cretaries. Hotel Insolvency. 4 creditors of the United States yesterday is- to prohibit the property of the Brooklyn he the ue of any proceedings In POSTUM CEREAL. INTERESTED LADIES. Working in a Good Cause. ¢ Institution where I am em- s nurse (The Home for Aged we find many ladies suffering ¢ trouble caused by coffee. personal experience is that i I have been a moderate but most of the latter from acidity of the h liver and nervousness. gave up coffee entirely, vears ago, using hot wat Of course, after removing -med to need a beverage more ng than hot water, as my oc- nurse required considerable began to look about for a 1 r fast beverage and under e result was far from ally I came across Pos- , on a visit at my home J., and found it exactly I e been using it regularly and in- luced wur institution. When it i it was not satisfactory, nto the matter and in- ving it boiled fully fifteen the actual boiling had counting the time that it e stove before boiling began. t it appeared you would t was the same article; it was mproved. Several of the pa- ed to use it to the exclusion i 1 found that its use re- number of cases of indiges- result s been very gratify- two years now Postum od Coffee has been in daily use at the Seaver and Miss Anna ous that their names be elp forward the good cause. v has been greatly helped by uance of coffee. She was ct to cramps, but they b rely disappeared since she has fF r r:t.? rfic;% and ta{kfin up Postum ood Coffee espectful Miss Stryker, Elizabeth, X. J, " 3 | | Attended a Picnic on the Fourth, Had | | | to the Supreme Court and last January Mrs. Danner. | | | DY FAO CLOT OFBLORL ON THE B Mysterious Case of Bartley Lee, a Laborer of Na- toma Street. | e SO | Fickle Joseph Made a French Dinner, Was Arrested and Is Now Near to H Death. | S | Bartley Lee, a laborer, i8 lying at the nt of death at his home, 1005% N. street, and Dr. Connelly, who is at- tending him, says that a clot of blood on his brain has paralyzed him and will cause his death nic at Schuetzen Park J n P. Dignan, J. C. heerin. When they re- they went to a restau- rect and had a French urant about 10 ng home. From :30 next morning is movements. into the bar- Hotel, Fifth ing to be very fallen, as his rant on O'F: Lee rr tim nothing is that time R e R S RS SRR e S S Y a few ell_asicep. minutes. About STYERS, who de- He w AR B8 ROSE / clares she has the right to sign her name Clements, is preparing to make trouble for Coachman men Who we Joseph Clements and the lady who e n“mkm‘x;»:-rxf.-, Eakew cently became his bride. Mrs. Styer: roi Ago C € Clements s e ) 0 vagon and sent Lim | Clements has carried ber troubles to kel mateh, u|an attorney and there is likely to be were found Something interesting happening when n his pockets. the hack drive: his new love and his old About 10 o'clock he was found uncon- ious in his cell and was sent to the Receiving Hosptal, where Dr. Dorr found that he was suffer from paralysis of Clements is living alone in a little room at Seventh street. She is e and wan from the effects of a brain He was n to his home in 1t P Connelly was sum- | 10 brought on, she says, by yned police were notified yester- | Clements’ néglect and broken faith. day morning that he was dying, and an On the 18th of January, 1894, she investigation was started. d, “Joseph Clements and myself en- What caused the clot of blood on his i into a verbal agreement of mar- brain is far a mystery, There was riage. He was then and still is in the no mark on his head or face to show employ of the United Carriage Company, that he had been struck by any instru. and I'was keeping a lodging house. After ment with t 3esides we entered into this agreement of mar- e object of robber; w and keys e in his ken to the prison. Po- ey, who took him to the patrol wagon, says that he in the wagon, and he ap- e Clements introduced me to all his ds as his wife and I conducted my under the name of Mrs. Clem- “Many times,” Mrs. Styers-Clements be all right when booked, ex- on, “Clements asked that I have our feeling sick at the stomach. He on legally solemnized, but I refused k four by of wine at the French | He is a man t is in the habit of going that might have PrheloefeNoeNoNeNeReReRoeReNeR IR eReR+UeQ JOSEPE CLEMENTS AND THE WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO BE HIS TRUE WIFE. Qe 0000000000000t P et tbe0e0-00+0+54@Q valued at $30 and three small “buttons” of Toid TROUBLE IN STORE FOR HACK DRIVER CLEMENTS ‘Contract Wife “Laying Low” for the and His New- Bride. | | | | | | | D GRCI SICRR SR R Y . e | periodically on protracted sprees, and I| thought that by threatening never to | marr him until he gave up drinking 1 had a strong hold over him that I might use to his advantage. i v last February Clements, at ggestion, 0ok a room in town. He med that my lo(igin%’ house was too noisy He worked nights and conse- ! quently had to sleep during the day. So 1 advised him to take a room whére he | would not be disturbed. While he was rooming out he used to come up to sea | me at my home, 219 Jessie street, and we used to go out together for our meals. | About three months ago we went up to a |little chophouse at 35 Eighth street and | there my husband met Inez Dott, a wait- ress. After that I saw him no more. | Friends used to come to me and tell me | that they saw Joseph and Inez together, but I paid no attention to thelr tales un- $til T heard that they had been married. | | *“He is my husband,” concluded Mrs. | Styers-Clements, “and I am going to call upon the law to protect me and separate | Joseph from that woman.” | According to Mrs. Styers-Clements, Inez | | Dott was formerly the wife of Thad Bowles, who is serving a ten years' sen- tence in San Quentin for the murder of | the Dott woman's brother, Clarence de | | Spain, at Comptche, Mendocino County. nner and GOLDER JUBILEE ~OF MASONS T0 BE CELEBRATED San Francisco Chapter, the Pioneer of California, Will Entertain e | There Will Be an Elaborate Pro- gramme and a Banquet After- ward—Those Who Will Be in Charge. GRSt 28 San Francisco Royal Arch Chapter No. Free and Accepted Masons, this after- caused the trouble. BLYTHE CASE TO GO THE HIGHEST TRIBUNAL Kentucky Contestant Wants a De- cision by the United States Supreme Court. | It seems as though the Blythe estate case would never be settled, although the maiter in many forms has been before the courts for the past seventeen years. 08 Iythe of Kentucky, known as psy Blythe about to car- ry the case to the United States Supreme Court, After Probate Judge Coffey passed judgment and made an order of distribu- tion of the estate of the late Thomas H Elythe to Florence Bly the-Hinckley (now Mre. Moore), Boswell M. Blythe attempt- ed to have the order and judgment set aside, but without success, He appealed | that tribunal handed down a decision which sustained the lower court. Yesterday Attorneys S. W. and E. B. | Holladay petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of error in order to remove the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, with the object of upsetting the final judgment of the State courts. The alleged errors and grounds upon which the case goes to the highest court in the country are that Florence Blythe was an g alien and under common law an alien noon and evening will celebrate the not inherit property unless specially per- g 2 B e roaty. The Siate has no rignt, | £olden jubllee of the Institution of the he contends, to make statutes providing ' chapter. that aliens may inherit, a right that his chapter was organized on July 7, exercised by the Federal 180, the fourth anniversary of the raising and then only in the form of of the American flag at Monterey by The Supreme Court of Califor- ' Commodore Sloat, U. 8. N., and two nia has upheld the State statute, Which ponths and elghteen days after the or- is now being attacked by the attorneys ganization of the Most Worthy Grand for Boswell M. Blythe. The writ was al- [odge of Free and Accepted Masons of lowed by Chief Justice Bealty. California, upon a dispensation granted is feared that this last litigation may | to John W. Geary, the first Mayor of San ay the erection of the Mutual Savings Jerancisco, who was designated as high Bank’s projected b priest, A C. Labatt as king; Captain Abram ~Bartol, who commanded the Washington Guard, scribe, and Compan- fons John H. Gihon, Willlam P. Burdick, Muriei D. Schwartz, Gregory Yale, Al- bert A. Nunes, James Knowles, Joseph C. Barnam and Abram Waters. The first convocation was held in the Masonic Halil on_Kearny street. The celebration this afternoon will con- sist of an entertainment at Golden Gate Fiall, on Sutter street, and in the evening there will be an elaborate banquet in the Palace Hotel. The present officers of the chapter are: M. E. high priest, James M. Troutt; B king. Charles W. I\X'Y; lf. ;‘cr;l'n,"n}""r(l!n;::dué‘: tain of the host, = E. Gor- The United States Grand Jury, through | aon: ‘urincipal sojourner, Charles C, McDou- Samuel Polack, foreman, and Robert C. | gall; roy rl ndrrh flapnux}. T\I}gn;lnl L. }z:nd;r.g:‘i Mitchell, secretary, made its final report | master third vail, 1. J. Vogel: nester, seo yesterday to United States District Judge | YAl Brnst A Buchse: master Aot 2 oo de Haven, and was discharged with the | 'G. Prince; organist, Theodors thanks of the court. Since April 23 the Edward Gilberts, Choir— jury has returned true bills in ten cases | and ignored the charge against Frederick | block, on the corner of Market and Geary streefs, although the title to the property was favorably passed upon by a number of the most reliable title insurance men before belng sold for 25,000. FEDERAL GRAND JURY TURNS DOWN HIGGINS His Charges Against the Manage- ment of the Navy Yard Are | Declared Frivolous. E LS. Clarence T. Wendeil and Daniel M. Lawrence, first tenors; Alfred Wilkie and James 1. Gor- Lagomarsino of opening and destroying a | don. second tenors: Batkin and C. letter mddressed to a person other than | Gage first bassos; Edward G. McHain and himself, The report ds: . Walter C. Campbell, secon 808, sodn gddition to the foregoing the Grand ury stigated a petition of one John | ngglll lnldtpe(nion relating IlO lndlEx-GOVERNOR BUDD AND complaining of treatment of employes at Mare Island Navy Yard, and alleging cer- WITNESS HAVE A TIFF | fain actions of various officers and em- ST symptoms disappeared, | on of one by brown- | berries and using that | ployes thereat. Five witnesses were ex- amined and after careful consideration the Grand Jury deemed the charges friv- olous and supported only by hearsay evi- dence and ignored the same.” Higgins is a veteran of the Civil War and pronounced opponent of the present administration. His charges were that Former Accused of Ungentlemanly Conduct, Latter of Being Secre- tary of a Fraud. Ex-Governor James H. Budd was ac- | cused of ungentlemanly conduct yesterday men were allowed to spend considerable | by a witness who In turn was referred to time in “loafing”’ at the Mare Island Navy | g5 the secretary of a fraud. This ended Yard; that employes were in the habi | the trouble, however, as the curt inter- mha‘klflf P{;:gmfi ot Cilkam flgd!fi" "';‘“- | Yened. The action by which the Pacific ables to r superiors an al mater- 5 ny seeks to enjoin In- {al and labor were being wasted. T . ; s e Tracing Moody’s Actions. Mrs. Leon Roylance, who was shot by | her lover, Al Moody, the jockey, Wednes- day morning, continues to hold her own at the Receiving Hospital. She was re- l’mnc.l as somewhat improved yesterday, ut it will be some days yet before the worst or best is known. Detective Cody, who is working on the | pelling it to pay a license, as 1is re- | quired of insurance companies under the State law, was cn trial. Alfred Yordi, sec- retary of the ccmpany, was on the stand | the transfer of bonds from one series to | another or the consolidation of the so- | o led $400 and $500 debenture bonds. Yordi | Was evasive in his answers, whereupon | Budd exclaimed: “He is the secre ot case, reported ~yesterday that Moody | this fraud, and he has got to testify.” called on Edward Rolkin, propgietor of | “If the counsel representing the defend- the Winchester House, about 12:10 of the | ant would be more gentlemanly in his | morning of the Fourth. He wanted to see Roylance, but Rolkin refused. He ot the number of Roylance's room and eft. He called again about 8 o'clock, but 4id tnot see Roylance. He seemed very much excited. After leaving the Win- chester shortly after midnight he hired a room at Eddy street, but did_not occupy it. Instead he called upon Mrs. Upton. Mrs. Rovlance's mother, at 423 Eddy street, and wanted to see her daugh- ter She told him she had gone out with her nur:t,']b:lnlhaf;alddlo (ell, h!‘zm she had ne with her husband, as he had threat- £7ea 1o shoot them both. e Advertising Bwindle. The examination of J. R. Hay, the ex- messenger boy, charged with obtaining money by false pretenses from the Duns- muir Coal Company ‘\17 representing that he was an agent for different papers, wi commenced before Judge Mogan yester- day. Attorney Joseph Dunne specially rosecuted and Hay was defended by ex- udge_Ferral. The witnesses examined were John A. S. Low. manager, and Wal- ter A. Gompertz, cashier for the com- Stephen_Glll, a saloonkeeper at rell and Jones streets, who cashed a check for $40 for Hay, and W. H. L. Corran of Langley's directory, testified that_to his knowledge no su mer as Mercantile Gazette was published in The case will be continued to- the % city. sired Information,” said Yordi in answer. “Read the witnees' statement, Mr. Re- porter.” shouted Budd as e stepped through the railing in_ the direction of the witness. “That will do, gentiemen. Con- tinue with the examination,” said the Court, and the disturbers resumed their stations. dered until Monday morning. Strange Woman Arrested. Mrs. May Palmer of 328 Third street was arrested yesterday by Officer McMur- ry of the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for cruelty to her two little ones. It is probable that the wo- man’s mental condition will be investi- gated before the charge is pressed. Sev- eral weeks a%o while she was living on Eilis street, Officer McMurry had ocea- sion to visit Mrs. Palmer. She told him a strange story of being branded with a figure 8 and some Masonic characters on various parts of her body when she was a child In the Alps. n_ examination showed that the scars might have been roduced from something other than a randing iron. The woman has been m?lkm ?r chn‘?renin 11 and 8 years, sell chewing gum papers on eTeets at all Nours of the night. 5 —_—————— We save money for amateurs. ‘We loan you a kodak. Backus Studio, 11 Geary st.; supplies, * surance Commissioner Clunie from com- and ex-Governor Budd was endeavoring | fo elieit information from him regarding | conduct toward me he would get the de- | An adjournment was then or- | LONG LIST OF ELIGIBLES FOR ORDINARY CLERKS Civil Service Commissioners f Announce Names of the | Lucky Ones. i SR Of Four Hundred and Thirty-Six ‘Who Took the Examination One Hundred and Fifty-Two Are Successful. P~ o | The Civil Service Commissioners have | completed the list of successful appli- | cants for positions as ordinary clerks who were examined at the Girls’ High School on June 16, There were 436 contestants in | this examination, of whom 152 obtained | the necessary i per cent, and thereby gained places on the eligible list. Not- withstanding the directions printed at| |the head of each examination sheet, warning applicants not to affix their signatures to the papers, a number signed | their names to the letters written as part of the examination. Applicants that thus disobeyed the rule of the commission will not be given a place upon the eligible list, | but those who would have been eligible except for their disobedience of the rules | will be permitted to take another exami- | nation within six months. & | The eligible list was adopted at a spe- cial meeting of the Civil Service Commis- | sioners yesterday afternoon. Immediately after its adoption the Election Commis- | | sioners made requisitions for fourteen clerks to be emplo&ed during the next four months in the Registrar's office. The | clerks were certified to the Election Com- | missioners and will go to work next Mon- | day mornlni. The salary attached to | these clerkships is $100 per month. The | | Auditor will employ fifty clerks from the | eligible list, beginning Monday, July 16. | The eligible list of ordinary crerkl fl as | follows: | Standing.; Name— Stan 9.5 | Phillp McAnany. g 5 |C. H. Squires. 35| Willlam J. Riley. 7.6 T. Pouitney. M. Kane. Name— T. Philip O'Brien. | Frederick Head. Erland Gje: Alex D, & -8L.7 81.16 5 i 3 & B! 8 . Wi Rudd 3 Miss Van Nostrand 9. | P. H. BRrrett......9, F2B5R228 SeTgRt Mies F. James B. Cowden.93. D. E. Williamson. ! = g o -4 i g 4 o nE EQ 3 38 Thomas_Kenney . George W. Nickell 1877 975 3 ¢ ‘Alexander Dijeau. 8.3 | Philip T. O'Brien. 552 |A L Morgenstern Cnanies. 8. Moy arles S, % Hugh H. .78, .77, e | A. W. Meyer. §7.9 | | James A. Douglas.87.6 | Charles H. W. G. 7. is E. Kan 57| George Albert E. Wheeler.84§ Jas. T. Donahue...84.7 |J. Wwilliam 6. Karpe: . Karpe. John Hannan... e 4 Allen A. Garnel ¥ Frank Rittigstein..83.1 Dunn. To Command at Norfolk. Y WASHINGTON, July 6—Rear Admiral oououmsmwnedu andant f the Norfolk nay , K o 3 vy yard, vice Rear Ad: ! new police station on property owned | only_§10, MELTER TATLOR DISCHARGED BY JUDGE HEACOCK Mint Employe Charged With BY COLONEL HIGGINSON. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. Stealing Gold Is Given | e A‘ i, His Freedom. ND REMINISCENCES. e G Miss Brooks, the Government’s Prin- cipal Witness, Repudiates Her Statement Implicating the Accused. e V. 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne. | The many young writers who are now dazzled at the thought of selling by the hundred thousand the coples of their un- written novels may well turn back In memory to the mage of Thoreau carry- {Ing upstairs to his attic the 706 unsold | coples of the original edition—1000—of | his first published book. *I believe,” he ! says “that this result is more inspiring and better than if a thousand had bought | Miss Etta M. Brooks, principal witness for the Government in the case of Fred- erick A. Taylor, charged with stealing gold from the Mint, gave testimony so much in favor of the defendant at the pre. | MY Wares. It affects my privacy less and Mminary examination vesterday that leaves me freer.” But more remarkable | United States Court Commissioner Hea- | than this, as a matter of literary his- tory, is the slow development of Haw cock ordered the case dismissed on motion Assistant U y Ban- of Ag United States Attorney Ban- |y, pe own statement, “the obscurest lit- ning. rary fea." she Taylor was employed as melter in the et e i s “?";“ ‘"“}1‘ O Sreantell. (ks S“‘“';"{" Hawthorne and Willis began to write to- night as he was going Into his house after ' geiner in the Token in 1527, and that Wil- leaving the Mint. Secret Service Agent ' yio wrose rapidly to fame.” while Haw- Hazen found in the prisoner’s purse threée thorne’s writings “did not attract the small beads of pure gold, and in the room slightest attention.” Even ten years later, of Miss Etta M. Brooks, the nouse servant Goodrich testifies, n 157, it was almost at the prisoner’s home, a nugget of gold Impossible to find ‘a publisher for “Twice Tales.” Poe wrote of Hawthorne in 1846: “It was never the fashion until lately to speak of him in any summary of our best authors.” Hawthorne him: said to Whittier in 1847, when one of hi roductions was accepted by the Nationa Gra: “There is not much market for my wares.” Yet it was ultimately, the prose | | thorne's fame. For twenty years he was In a locked trunk be- Agent Hazen and covered three cru- cibles, some text books on assaying, and a plush casket containing old jew and a slip of paper on which had been written in pencil in the prisoner’s handwriting the words: “My dear mothe jewels; in memory of her. F, A. Taylor.” Taylor made a statement to his captors to the effect that he had made the nugget out of his mother's jewelry and some | @ small pleces of virgin gold that he had ohtained when engaged in mining many years ago, and gave them to M Brooks as a gift in lieu of pocket money, she be- | ing at liberty to sell them whenever she | o chose. Miss Brooks made a staterdent to Agent | 1 Hazen in_the presence and hearing of | & Operator Browne and Assistant United States Attorney Banning to the effect | ¢ that ever since she accepted employment | & in the Taylor household, Taylor had “‘per- | secuted” her with amatory attentions; | that his wife took all his money every pay-day; that he gave her the gold in order that she might convert it into| ¥ pocket money with which she and Tayior might go out and have a good time, he telling her that if he went to sell it him- self he might be asked questions about it ¢ because of his employment in the Mint. | ¢ She accepted the gold, but did not sell it because she feared that Taylor would take ali the proceeds. This statement was taken down in writing by Agent Hazen. In the preliminary examination before Commissioner Heacock, Taylor was de- fended by D. J. Murphy and Henry E. Highton, and it was mainly owing to their skill and stubbornness that Taylor es- caped. the same me longing to Taylor, Operator Browne | + b + Brooks was the first witness for ? While admitting that | 9 the Government. Taylor gave her the gold for pocket 4 money, she refused to remember the J statement she had made to Hazen, Browne and Banning, and Mr. Banning ' ¢ Sy reason of the vigorous objections of .ounsel was prevented from cross-examin- ing her or attempting to impeach the % credibility of her testimony, she being his | & own witness. B Agent Hazen was placed on the stand | and asked to state what Miss Brooks had | ¢ told him, but the testimony was objected \ \ to as irrelevant, hearsay and incompetent | ., \ \ and the objection was sustained. 4 N \ Mr. Banning thereupon moved to dis- ¢ N miss the case and Judge Heacock granted & the motion. 3 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. After Agent Hazen had turned over the | ¥ L e e e e old to Miss Brooks and the crucibles and foweiry to Taylor, that ?nllemm ap- | roached Superintendent each of lhe“ int and extended his hand, with the re- of Hawthorne quite as much as that of | Emerson which tardily convinced Euro- pean readers that America was to develop now | a literature of its own. Two American writers had undoubtedly, in point of purely original creation, pre-| ceded Hawthorne — Charles Brockden Brown in Philadelphia (17%5) and “illlum’ Austin in Boston (1824). Under Brown's | turgid style and endless complication we can now recognize a genuine power of original creation, and though he often reminds us of the tales of Willlam God- win and of Mrs. Shelley, Godwin's daugh- | ter, there Is yet evidence that he, on the | whole, influenced them at least as much | as they modified him. Willlam Austin’s two stories—‘Peter Rugg, the Missing Man,” and “The Man With the Cloak: | showed him distinctly as a pioneer in the path of Hawthorne. His style is less ex- | quisitely finished, but his method of crea- | | tion_is essentially the same, and he re-!| | sembles Hawthorne, even in one of the latter's finest gifts—that penumbra of | The Board of Police Commissioners pe- e ‘1o which Hawthorne |nvnl\'es[ titioned the Board of Supervisors yester- | 21 I s purely Imaginative creations, leaving ! day asking that $26,000 of the excess rev- | you in doubt at the end whether Arthur | enue to be received from the increased as- Dimmesdale really had a flery scar on sessment be set aside for the bullding of & | nis breast or what became of Mirlam and bY | her lover. the city on the northwest corner of | \ye notice this the more because Ed- | Fourth and Clara streets. The Southern ' warq Bellamy, who in his early writings | Police Station on Folsom street was gave more promise of reproducing Haw- burned out some years ago and the head- | thorne than any other young American | ircors have since been located in the | hao siven could never quite master this Dasement of the City Hall. " The board | portion of his art. His two early books— gays that this branch of the department | “Dr, Heidenhoff's Process” and “Miss has been seriously handicapped because | Ludington’s Sister”—have much that 1s the station is not located in its district as | Hawthornesque in their conception and | it should be. The Board of Education ' even in thelr execution, but when the having been interviewed in regard to this | magician approaches the end his wand | matter will by resolution give consent to | falls from Eu hand and he has to dis- | the use of the property for the described | miss his pupglets with the commonplace | purpose. explanation that it was all a case of | somnambulism in the one tale and of plain lying in the other. If the examples of Brown and Austin in- dicated that there was in the American | | mind some tendency toward the ideal, the | style of Hawthorne at least was so abso- | Tutely his own as to still lack historic ex- lanation as to what influence produced &. Growing up beside Emerson’s, it had} little in common with Emerson: nor was mark: ““Well, Mr. Leach, I hope you are satisfled as to my {nnocence, and I want to shake hands with you.” “I am not satisfied that you are inno- cent,” responded Mr, Leach, “but T have no_objection to shaking hands with you.” The handshake, however, was very frigid and the men separated without further | conversation. | PETITION FILED FOR NEW POLICE STATION Board of Police Commissioners Asks Supervisors to Build One in Southern District. —_————————— Market-Street Numbers. The Board of Public Works will not re- commend to the Board of Supervisors that the numbers ot buildings on the south side of Market street be changed so as to conform to those on the north side. Street Deputy Donovan, to whom the pe- N ‘entral I e N o o ;%‘fi':’fi:l there any’ English author of the day to < | whom its c: o made in order to put an end to the con-; o i Satms to Lave Been borm full fusion resulting from the present system, filed his report yesterday in which he recommends that the petition be denied. Donovan states that the proposed change has raised such a storm of protests from interested property owners and storekeep- ers that he believes it would be nst public policy to put it into effect. —_————————— ‘Want Assessments Reduced. grown, for it was e!unlls"‘v‘ the same | when he began to write for the Token, at | | 23, "as at any later perlod—as simple, as | clear, as pellucid. e wrote at a perfod | when' the Johnsonian traditions still lin- gered; when men used polysyllables; When writers made a statement in the first half of a sentence and then said it over again, In different words, in the last half; when there were labored parenthe- ses and astounding personifications, as of A number of appeals against the As-| 8 SN SEONECR LV Maidlh * How atd sessor's estimate of property valuation | "happen that Hawthorne, unalded, was flled by property owners y dropped_all this literary lumber behind | him? His early tales and sketches were | Isaac Kahn, 309 California street, swears always short, except in the case of the that he has been erroneously assessed in | “Gentle Boy,” which was doubtless too the sum of $100,000, whereas he is worth ' long drawn. Sometimes too chaste and ,000. Mrs. Rosalie Dusenbury of | cold, perhaps, they yet escaped “the heat | that ofttimes breeds excess.” Observe the entire absence of ltalics, though It perfod when those weeds flourished best trimmed gardens of litera- the Hotel Pleasanton, assessed for $18.408, / states that she does not own any Sutter- | street rallway bonds nor San Luis Obispo | a railway stoc! Ludwig Altschul, 2417 | in the Sutter street, assessed for $50.000, claims | ture. Even in his “Note Books” we see that he owns but $155 worth of furniture. | not merely the germs of many thoughts, G. Podesta, 242 Sutter street, assessed for | but often also of this delicate and dis- $3800, swears that he owns nothing, as his | criminating utterance. property was destroyed by fire. 8o far as the sound of his physical P — voice went, he was the one habituaily si- | Hall of Justice Muddle. lent author of his ecircle, this ~_en- hanced the dignity of his commanding | That the Hall of Justice muddle is far from being settled was shown yesterday was presence, dark skin, fine eyes and somber | forehead. Emerson said once to George when Acting Auditor Wells refused to | SUrtis, after an evening assemblage in recognize the authority of Shea & Shea, | of the night.” Though I never exchanged | architects, to certify to the bills of 1abor- | o ‘word with him, I shall always be grate- o ] “','l‘d'k';" ' A’,‘:fi"fi;’ f":‘”.l“m ful to have sat in his presence and to have mands amounting to__over $13,000 were ::::a_m“‘ A BIREHANE. O T TNy accordingly held up. Wells bases his re- fusal on the charter stipulation that plr VI. ments on any public buildings shall onl es Oliver Wendell Hol be made when the Auditor is satisfl that the certification of demands has been done by those authorized. Patience Is a Virtue. My earllest recollection of Dr. Holmes is as a quaint little elderly man, for such he | seemed to me, owing to the difference of fousteen vears at & , time when he still de- S The combined stock of the Boston Shoe | Jon and had attained the ripe abe of Company, this city and Fresno, Cal., con- | 27. 'His nephew was my favorite play- sisting of $35,000 worth of the best shoes | mate, an orphan boy of my own age, who made, 1 will place on sale, r less of Iived with his grandparents in “t | Cost. mext, Mopday ‘st 105 ‘Market street, | hrelrooted house” mext door to my near Fourth. F. C. Kelly, assignee. * a source of great father's. It is all Cantabrigians that this house, intrin- sically more ue and quaint than | Luts Bracho, the student from Mexico, | 1aat, O o ® proserved e the s Bt = been who scratched a number of store win- | Holmes himself often described it, - | dows on Market and Kearny streets with | merating its details and its contents, and | pibt ot L St ‘Window Scratcher Convicted. diamond ring, was convicted § 1s scarcel: seri) $oritz yesterday on the ‘&mbthg'.: T e AL IR boy- Et:u he ik and 016 Bot know what | but ‘Nifle there, but T knew hie. Art vor: | Cflfik 3 W] ul e ew rst vol- mm o%ummm ume of -l\honbyhnn:hnlyu' day. 12 years and remember vividly when | | was called upon to stand in his e | from within. on my first meeting with the Phi Beta Kappa soclety, four or five years later, he hair—by reason of smallness—and to sing & song not yet, I think, included in his print poems, to the air of “Thou, Thou Reign- est in This Bosom.” as follows: Where, where are the visions of morning, Fresh in our early prime? Gone like tenants that flit without warning Down the back entry of time. Where are the Marys and Anns and Elizas, Beaming so brightly of yore? Look in the columns of oid Advertisers— Married and dead by the score. Alas! the odes of Horace 1 then knew by heart have vanished, the hundred lines of Homer's “Iliad™ are forgotten; but this delicious doggerel still lingers in memory as fresh and recent as if the little man on the chair had been Apollo chanting to his was this quality of perennial youth the charm of Holmes’ wholas and which lasted him—instead v substitute, dignity—until his fth year. Dignified. in the striet he never was. In the early days sen: of his professional practice he strove con- stantly to seem older than he was, and was fond of hinting in his poetry at gray airs and wrinkles. This was with rea- ause his youthful appearance was first a serious hindrance to his pro- fessional practice, a thing which many young physicians have reason to discover. As he grew older there never was a mo= ! % z : i [ i R R R S R ment when his temperament did not keep him substantially young for all practical purposes. There is little doubt, however, of his having begun to feel after the age of % some of that latent depression hard- Iy to be escaped by a man who has dis- tinetly outlived his contemporaries. It is ‘doubtless their narrowing circle which l(‘flmmnnl)‘ makes men willing to die at ast. Charles Sumner used to say of himself with great truth that he was by nature a cistern, not a fountain, and Holmes might have made of himself the opposite state- ment. Though he had read much in var- ious directions and had a quick and avail- able memory, yet the best part of his talk was always that which bubbled up Few wits have made less premeditated and deliberate use of their own witticisms. One of these might in- deed pop into his head and be reissued, but there was no deliberate housing or husbanding. I knew in Newport a good talker of Dr. Holmes' generation who one day at a dinner table gave off-hand. hav- ing led up to it, a list of the successive queens of England, with their birthday It seemed to the hosts miraculous unti there was picked up under the chair of the guest after his _ departure a little condensed manual of knowledge con- taining among other things precise- ly such a list. Nothing could be more remote from Holmes’ temperament or habit than any such artificial structure. He was not so good on the whole in re- partee as in soliloquy, but he surnassed most men in both. Holmes differed from most of his con- temporaries in this—that his life had dis- tinctly two periods, and the scene of his final fame was not that in which his first laurels were won. If he had died in No- vember, 1857, in the forty-ninth year of his age, he wouid have been remembered sim- ply as an amusing companion and a good rofessor of anatomy. The foundation of Eis actual fame was laid at a time when most people have passed the climax of theirs. This Is not. of course. to be called an accident; all his previous life had been unconsciously preparing for this; but it Is startling to think how trivial an accident might have utterly transformed his po- sition in the history of letters. In t! he was as unlike as possible to his neigh- bors, Longfellow and Lowell, who had marked out their own destinies from early years. T. W. HIGGINSON. Cambridge, Mass. SHEEPSKINS ATTEST ) THEIR PROFICIENCY Class of 1900 Has Been Graduated From Van der Naillen School of Engineering. The A. Van der Naillen School of Engi- neering has just graduated the following students: 3 Mining department—I. C. L. Thomas, G. E. Colbert, 3. W. Woodford, L. Everett, J. D. Heim, E. Schmidt, J. F. McDonald and A. Mui: ;‘H:ttrk‘ll department—Guy A. Dunn, H. K. Zeimar, H. C. Hasselbach, E. J. Bowen, E. Mielenz, J. F. Endert, J. Levansaler, R. E. Morgan, E. J. Blake, T. P. Doughty, R. E. Cranley, J. Hayne. B. Dougall, H. E. Lowrle, C. E. Howard, J. Mercer, J. Dorgan, A R. Smith, H. Jesser, F. Bottcher, Levi, R. Rasserusson, M. Loken, W. Eipper, . Adair. Surveying department—J. E. A H E. Gawthorne, H. H. Cardwell, G. F. Wheeler, C. gle. F. Watt, H. H. Glass, B. Tiedeman, F. C. ivis, E. B. Olney, E. E. Petty, H. A. Kuns, C. 8. Winter. ‘Assay department—H. G. Siskron, J. C. Riggs, E. E. McWayne, P. L. Sheiford, C. Far- rel, F. Lueas, D. Haberbosch, A. Wrightson, H.'F. Lyons, A. E. Foster, F. C. Schilke, H. Norman, E. B. James H. T. Coffin, W. D. Davidson, N. Wrinkle, R. Wrightson. Marine department—Ray H. Craig, J. P. Nis- sen, 8. Cris R. H. Moore, F. J. Wailsh, R. Christensen, W fivan, M. D. Suliivan. ——— Sunnyside Club Officers. Sunnyside Improvement Club at a meet- ing last night elected the following offi- cers: President, Gustave Schnee; vice president, W. B. Peel; secretary, R. T. Hansen; treasurer, W. Hottum; delegates to Federation Club, G. Schnee, W. A. Hicks and W. B. Peel. The club will seck to obtain a portion of the surplus money for a school building, which the residents claim is an absolute necessity. A ition ‘will be presented to the Board Publie Works for the cutting of a tunnel under &he railroad track of the Southern Pacific ‘ompany which would connect the Sunny- side directly with the Mission