The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1900, SERVICES AT THE HUNTINGTON FU Many Noted Men in the“ World of Finance At-i; tend the Solen)n'; Exercises at the Fifth | + : ® Avenue Residence of | + |e the Deceased. |+ A P S 1 13 Local Memorial Services @re | ¢ : o Held in the First Pres- |+ [ byterian Church, and Dr, | Mackenzie Pays a Touch- |+ [ : | & ng Tribute to the Mem- |+ | ory of the “Great General | f | . | | of Industry,” | ® { |+ ‘W YORK, Aug. —The services | ¢ t at venue | ¢ nce to-day, were ked | ® simplici They we . A. Woodruft Ha ps an Board of Missions, in . The palibearers were D. ward King, Frederick P. Ol- | ¥ Hawley, Charles H. Tweed, | ¥ ann, R. P. Schwerin and C. | ¢ * cises were concluded the | ¢ the hearse and the | { ES + =, % River, which | ¢ . e and + g were draped | ¢ < K ral were: | = Platt, Henry | ¢ - president of the | ¢ \ Virg ning School at| & Broag Va., which was heavily | ¢ - ed by gton; Horace See, [ ¢ port News ship- | Dr. and Willlam the b James sail on the Oceanic August 22. will on cess Hatzfel from Liverpoc and mus serfes and they m folds ferns and and the doc voic - LOCAL MEMORIAL EXERCISES. Impressive Services Held in the First avy church eld were many who knew or were bound to him was then gi e the services o ng around the walls Presbyterian Church. o'clock. In ten minu that could done to honor the | Déen filled and be ory of their chief was done by the v i 11 ¢ whe: oyes of Southern Pacific Com- 'a fu 1 m nd yesterday, who had assembled |the clergymen as he First sbyterian Church, cor- | the platform. Then Van Ness avenue and Sac- [Shadpwr was sung by the street, and with them at the A hymn, “My +i e ot e ebei b e @ ir of mourning and the sounds of , but there were where under other | ight have hung in | flowers brightened TWAays. e church was opened at half-past 10 | had ened tes the ats n the organ st Dr. Mackenzie and ting him stepped upon ur s Are as a the double quartet, ed with the in- th Looks Up ven, and Rev. Dr. ome passages from . They lis- | th res. Then fol:u“pd ““Jesus, es 1 s W Lover of My Soul, by the quartet, a ~emcd tened to the remarks upon his ltfe by the | , iy gor by Rev. Dr. Hudson ~Miller, a w Rev. Dr. Macke e, they owed their | .}, the One Hundred and Twenty most k ds in the vers that were offered for | oig Psalm, ‘“‘Blessed Are They Who t his soul, and as the hymns and anthems by the quartet, and the jent Tweed of the | filled the church they sent their thoughts Dr. Mackenzie. st, where in fact and In e body of the dead man back to the E: ournful sta < being It was the de charge of the servic gloom, and in this they | was all the respectful ed, re ffect_upon his time C. P. the officials in to rob them of all succeeded. Thera silence, the sub- | industry. TWO WITNESSES TELL OF DIED FROM A DOSE CHARLES ADAMS’ FLIGHT OF CARBOLIC ACID Conductor Watson Says Kepner's | After Quarreling With Her Lover | Slayer Made an Attempt to Mary Perres, a Middle-Aged | Conceal His F Woman, Commits Suicide. identified with many o h Mary Perres, a middle-aged woman, while despondent last night, swallowed a interests of the Pacifi denly sterday aftern ‘ace. one of the most engineers of Ca carbolic acid and died a short time afterward In the Receiving Hospital -4 was committed in a room in a Fourth street | Perres left her hus- hous: time a ne band and went to live with Alfred Gross, ath takes on 4 actors in the early deve e loon-keeper. Yesterday morning | pia. For years his actl 1w > it is claimed, struck her, after ac- arious b e s her of being too friendly with t » other men. Determined to separate from | €arly ' hepsagon - gt im Mrs. Perres visited the City Hall|in San Francisco, e, ¥ rer < 1 endeavored to obtain a searc war- Kellpgg, “i’\ ?&*c\rw ks w 0 of her clothes, which "'Hl“;" e sy nat was claimed v ng unlawfully held SRy irried visit she | by Gross. Warrant Clerk Peery, after DO 5° Dty TR C8 him refused to i : and saw listeni r a note to Gros P warrant end th . form unless he allowed her | Superintond £ ;,.;a:;;nt~)upnl & he would be arrested | tion of the first tnited & Mrs. Perres delivered the note, but was et her clothing. After brood- | his attention to priva troubles the unfortunate man went to a drug-store in the vicin- jty and purchased a_ two-ounce phial of able to commiftee, which in active in the work of th e's address was not a eu- nor was it a life an analysis of the *. P. Huntington and of his | the Huntington, said Dr. Mackenzie, | Woo: stood in the front rank of the generals of | the chant He was a man of indomitable | quartet, a benediction by the Right Rev. PROMINENT CALIFORNIA CALLED BY GRIM DEATH ENERAL JOHN HEUSTON JR., @ +® 400 +0+5 40 +0e@ prominent mining lifornia, a_ pioneer of this State and for many years f the great mining c Coast, died sud- woon of heart dis- his ranch near Mills College. His away e of the principal slopment of Califor- vities were devoted s of mining, his first field having been in the Iy after his arrival ounded the firm of mining engineers, on was born in Philadel- ago. At the age of in 1832, he was sent to San Fran- o by the United States Government to construction and Installa- United States Mint built fter that work had been completed General Heuston devoted te enterprises, and both as an owner and an engineer of min- ing properties he became eminent. He was e econd vigilance rid San Fran- P acl B P eturned to her o arbolic acld. She then returned 10 et cisco of its disreputabl: element. He was & . dow, but | Toom and e R e Grose, | at one time_brigadier general, command- = ETORMS- - something Wrong, ing the old Second Brigade, N. G. C., and Who, suspecting tened to her room and found the woma lying on the floor in a semi-unconscious as Wrong | peveral years ago was nd see State politics. n lican a leader in Repub- As a clubman his r roll of the Bohe- s one of the early 1 years ago General Heuston was which com- 'om active busine: lor s o - | name on the charte f condition. He at once summoned Police- | T te . | = O omarnck, “who - had the woman | mian Club and he wai - W DO AT nsferred to the Recelving ‘Hnsplla!. { members of the Union League. saw some Tquar 5=t | The husband » woman is at present v glass. As she could not | ';“ h‘:- ‘g',‘l'r‘]‘;a"r(.‘r"‘b“ o ¥ rwcked by heart trouble, re » go to | Jiving at Ba = i ed him to retire fr: r she then de on OF ——————————— n affairs. Since that ti quietly in retirement af where he died. ar o go sh and went tal, where her dy- n taken A wife and fou SCOTT ANNIVERSARY H. Interesting Lecture by Professor W. Heuston, Anna He had been for {under ‘the care of Dr. J. H. Todd of ! land. | him. V. me he had lived t his country place, a ak- ur children survive The latter are John E. Heuston, E kllis Heuston and W, 7 =z D BY SIMPLICITY 7a. . L\ Nl 4 $ | @ REV. DR. ROBERT MACKENZIE ADDRESSING THE AUDI- | ENCE AT THE HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL SERVICES. b § Goivsisiodrsieioieiesieteisisiedebedesel® will and untiring energy, and uninfluenced by the ordinary temptations that affect men. He made his plan and he followed it and in whatever he did he showed a mas- ter hand. Dr. Mackenzie referred to the | venturesome four who, with Huntington at their head, connected the East with the West by the two narrow threads of steel which afterward developed into the | great Central Pacific system. is gen- | eration, he said, has not elsewhere pro- | duced such a company as that four who | spanned the continent | Following Dr. Mackenzie's address was hymn, ‘“Jerusalem, the Golden,” by | the q er by the Rev. D. 1 “Abide With Me,” and | Will Be Done”’ by_the | 1 N D e THE LATE GENERAL JOHN HEUSTON JR. L O R O R R S S - Rowley Heuston. The funeral arrange- ments will be made to-morrow. PeP ebe b e e b | | | | | H. Hudson on the Wizard of | Thos Mo TURNS ON THE St. Andrew’s Society celebrated the one hundred and twenty-ninth anniversary of the birthday of Sir Walter Scott in Scot- tish Hall last night. There was a large mud on hiz wa uctor’s attention was )y his peculiar nat Adams had his col- . his hat low ring his chin handkerchief, leaving e H on of his face exposed attendance. - The principal event of the William Green, an : ["Will be continued Monday. | evening was a lecture by W. H. Hudson, s Suicide . “ professor of English literature in Stanford Commit: y, on “The Making of a Poet.” Hous GAS AND ENDS HIS LIFE Aged Stranger, in a Lodging- e, Battered a Boy. The lecture was most intensely interest- | yjlliam Green, whose history is un- ¥ Ramsey, conductor on the Mis- inx.usmd Ml nsd(»] ‘lusion the lecturer was | .,,,wn to the Mcrgue officlals, committed € 1 e vho was convicted of | loudly applauded. 3 1 v rxia v ' e A moncert followed, which was thor- | suieidle by asphyxiation by gas in a K h own and kicking James Rty- | jop)v enjoyed. A quartet, “Hail to the | room in the Hancock House, 781 Mission r was sentenced by Judge Ca- | Chief’ was sung by M Isclla Van Pelt, | street, erd morning & rda > v a fine of $80. No- | nfjss Mary Chester llams, Alfred Wil. | Green registered at the house on Thurs- o « s glven and the bonds | ki and Alexander Mennie. It was fol- | day evening and went to bed. He did not ), which was promptly forth-|jowed by a song, “Hush Thee, My Baby respond to call yvesterday afternoon and | when_the door of his open he was found on was flowing from the the room was stifling. The crevices about t comir by Mrs. Van Pelt: songs, “The Macgre ors’ Gathering” and Pretty Jane. by Alfred Wilkie; “Within a Mile o' Edinboro’ Town,” Miss Wiillams, {and duet, “When Ye Gang Awa’, Jamie,” { by Mr. Wilkie and Miss Willlams. The entertainment concluded with a number of Views thrown on a screen, chiefly of Scot- | tish scenery referred to in Scott’s works. ———— He Used a Pitchfork. Richard Long, an eleven-year-old boy, | while playing in a planing mill at 514 Fifth street yesterday afternoon, was viclousi attacked by Charles Muranti, the watch | man. After severely beating him Muranti | picked up a wooden pitchfork and hurled | it at the boy, one of the prongs striking him in the left eye, cutting the lid and in- | juring the sight. The boy was immedi ately removed to the Recelving Hospital, where the injury was temporai even the drain pipe i | basin had been closed. | the man was about s He had but 20 cents in Pears’ the world is used so much; or so little of it goes so far. All sorts of people use Pears® soap, a. sorts capecially druggists. Railroad Company for t Third and Silver st last. Eva and Irene sued the Market-street i | | P a 9 | iy dressed’ Muranti was afterward arrested by Police | Officer Eskew and charged with an as- | sault with a deadly weapon. o cover 350,00 damages Alphonse Zuckerman, March 31 in a collision the first named and a named corporation. «f stores sell it, 4 room was broken the bed dead. Gas jet and the air in he doors and win- dows had been plugged with paper and n _the stationary From appearances Ixty years of age. coin in his pockets. P e — Two Suits Against Railroad. J. W. Martin has sued the Market-street $5000 damages for ersonal injuries sustained in an accident reets on February Zuckerman have Rallway Company and the People’'s Express Company to re; o for the death who was killed on between a car of wagon of the last TROCADERO GULCH WILL SOON BE FILLED IN Board of Public Works Invites Bids | for the Proposed Im- | provement. } Another very important improvement | will shortly be commenced in the filling in of what is known as Trocadero Gulch. | The Board of Public Works at a meeting yesterday directed the secretary to invite proposals for the work, the contract for which will be awarded to the lowest bid- der. The property owrers in the vicinity of the proposcd improvement have already expended over $10,000 in putting the adjoin- ing property in good condition. The sum of $10,000 has been appropriated by the Su- pervisors to make the gulch passable. The board denied the protest of property owners on Francisco Street against the recommendation of the Board of Health that a twelve-inch stone pipe sewer be placed in one block on the thoroughfare #s a sanitary measure. Bids will be in- vited immediately after the Board of Su- pervisors has passed the necessary ordi- nance. ——————————— 0ld Friends’ New President. At a meeting of tbe Old Friends on Thursday night Melville Hermann was elected president, vice H. C. Tremont, ri signed. The society will observe Admis- sion day with a picnic and ball at Sausa | infor | PEREZ—In this city, August 17, lito, J. E. Slinkey, Dr. F. F, Lord and L, @ Schord were appointed & committee of arrangements. Bishop Nichols and an organ postlude by Otto Fleisner, the organist of the church. During the day the general offices of the company and the shops were closed and during the hours of the services the ticket office under the Grand Hotel and all the transcontinental offices were closed. PG S In Memory of the Magnate. Special Dispatch to The Call. DEL MONTE, Aug. 17.—At 10:30 this morning Bennett’s band gave a sacred concert in memory of the dead railroad magnate, Coilis P. Huntington, which was listened to by a large number of the hotel guests. i % : i | PROVISIN FUR ANNUITIES OF THE TEACHERS Association Organized Take the Place of 0ld Society. I Articles of Incorporation Adopted. By-Laws Which Provide for Per- manent Fund of $50,000 to Be Voted On. e e S to TROOPS WILL BE RUSHED THROUGH ON THE SHERMAN {Big Transport Will Carry More Thaun 1600 Sol- diers to Taku. i Soldiers En Route Will Be Sent Aboard on Their Arrival Here To-Morrow and Ship Will Sail Monday. ot e The Public School Teachers’ Annuity | and Retirément Assoclation of San Fran- cisco was organized yesterday in the as- sembly room of the Board of Education. Deputy Superintendent of Schools Kings- bury presided and Deputy L. A. Jordan was secretary. | A large number of school teachers were present to take part in the pro- ceedings. The articles cf assoclation were read by Louis de F. Bartlett and were | signed by the following directors, who were elected earlier in the meeting: A. ann, Miss Laura T. Fowler, T. H. | McCarthy, Mrs. May Prag, Selden Stur-| gu, L. A. Jordan, Mrs. E. North, Miss | ‘mma Stincen and Miss T. C. Stohr. The directors will crganize In a few | days by electing officers to serve for the ensuing term. | The articies of the association show | that the purposes for which it is formed re to procure the passage of legislation | roviding for assisting in the reuremsm‘ utapuhllc school teachers upon annuities | and to create funds therefor. | The by-laws of the organization were | read by Secretary Jordan and provide that it shall be composed of the members of the unincorporated ‘“the Public School | Teachers’ Annuity and Retirement So- | clety.” A fund of $00 is to be set aside for the puripose of obtaining or preventing State legislation on the subject of public | school teachers’ annuities. All other | moneys except the income of the per- manent fund shall be placed in a fund that shall be known as the permanent fund until such fund shall reach the sum of $50,000. The income from the perma- nent fund and all the income of the as- socfation less the amount of current ex- penses shall be applicable to the payment | of beneficiaries. These shall be such an- nuitants retired under the act of March | 29, 1897, as were In good standing in the | unincorporated soclety and all persons | | retired from the San Francisco School | Department who shall be members in | B00d standing of the assoclation. It was decided to meet on Friday after- : noon, August 31, for the purpose of dis- cussing the by-laws and taking a vote on_their adoption. | The financial report of S. Sturgis, treas- | urer of the Mavday celebration, showed | ! the sum of $8949 22 as the net receipts of the celebration and of the tournament | $130 10, making a total of $9079 32. UGLY STREET SIGNS [ TO BE REMOVED SOON Merchants’ Association Providing for | Public Playgrounds for the Children of the City. At the monthly meeting of the directors of the Merchants’ Association yesterday President Dohrmann presided and Direct- ors Baldwin, Benedict, Bundschu, Cole, Davis, Kell, Rothschild and Symmes were | present. The following were elected as members of the association, making the present to- tal membership 1233: Edward N. Ayers, George E. Dow Pumping Engine Gom: any, Electrical' Engineering Company, I . Langstadter, A. M. Macpherson, Mitsui 0., Morrison Lumber Company, St. Nicholas Pharmacy and W. A. Strohmeler | | | | | o. | It was decided to hold the annual din- | ner of the assoclation during the latter | part of November. | _ The committee on public playgrounds re- ported progress in arrangements for the | establishment of a successful playground | in a populous section of the city. A report was received from the commit- signs st the various corners of the public streeis An experiment was authorized by the board to ascertain the most feasi- ble and economical method of placing and constracting these street signs. SANTA CRUZ ATTORNEY IN SERIOUS TROUBLE Warren B. Josselyn Arrested for Ob- taining Money From a Girl by False Pretenses. Warren B. Josselyn, an attorney from Santa Cruz, is accused of trifling with the affections of Nina Cadoman, a hard-work- ing girl, and obtaining from her $250 by false representations. The girl used to live at 427 O'Farrell street, but is now | emplo\"rd at 2111 Pine street. 08 elyn was arrested about a week ago on complaint of the girl. He was accused of stealing her silver watch on January 23 last and _pawning ®. called before Judge Ca- banis terday afternoon, but was not concluded, and will be heard again to-day. After the girl had given her evidence she swore to a complaint charging Josselyn with a felony in obtalning the $250 her by false pretenses. Josselyn had left the courtroom before the complaint was sworn to, but he was overhauled on Mec- Allister street by McMahon and was locked up in the City Prison. The girl said she was introduced to Jos- selyn about a year ago in this city by a lady friend. He often visited her and daz- zled her with the tale that he owned land in Santa Cruz and Fresno countles and | Finally, on the | was an unmarried man. promise that he would marry her, she . she gave him the money to, as he | said, pay off the taxes on his land, and | holds his notes for the amount. not kept company since last January. She now alleges that Josselyn has a wife and four children in Santa Cruz, and is not the owner of any land either in Santa Cruz or Fresno County. Josselyn gives a general denfal to the girl’s allegations, and says he did some business for her for which he was paid. Josselyn has been a practicing attorney in Santa Cruz for about eight years and is at present a member of the law firm of Josselyn & Houch. He was a candidate for District Attorney last election on the middle-of-the-road Populist ticket. has a wife and family in Santa Cruz. T e Bequest to the City Goes Begging. Louis Kaiser, Consul of Mazatlan, vis- | ited the chambers of the Board of Super- visors yesterday and desired to turn over to the city the sum of $3%4 73 which was bequeathed to the city of San Francisco by Mrs. Antonio Verdugo de Verdugo, who recently died in Culiacan, Mazatlan. The | tion regarding the bequest was conveyed to the Consul by Jorge Tellaeche, the administrator of the estate, but for what purpose it was made by Mrs. de Verdugo was not stated in the communi- cation. authority to receive the money on the part of the city, Kaiser left the chamber, promising to call again, as he says he | wants to get rid of the money. s Sy SR sk Thrown From His Buggy. John Offerman, an old man living at 1004 | Weshington street, was thrown from his | buggy on Mission street yesterday after- ncon. He was in the act of turning off the track when a car struck the rear of the | buggy. His right collarbone was frac- tured and his scalp and eyebrow lacerated. He was taken to the Receiving Hospilal. ——————— People Still Pay War Taxes. To the disappointment of the Attorney General, who is representing the people in the case against Wells, Fargo & Co., Supreme Court continued the war tax case yesterday to September 5. s DIED. Wite of John Peres of Santa Chus, & native of San Juan, San Benito County, Cal., aged 23 vears. from | Detectives Dillon and | He | As no one claimed to have the | —— Tried to End Her Life. Jilted in love, Nellle Marrion, a young | woman, tried to end her existence last night by swallowing a quantity of lauda- | num at her home, 28 Sixth street. She | was discovered by one of her relativ. who had her sent to tne Receiving Hc pital, where she was relieved of the poison with the aild of a stomach pump. The | woman refused to tell why she tried to kill herself, except to say that she had X tee on the introduction of desirable street | | States Mars The troops now en rov not tarry long in this dred men will arrive here will sail on the Sherman, which is sched- uled to leave Monday at noon. Ce to the usual custom, the Sherman carry any freight for Manila. She will proceed to Nagasaki, where further orders will await her arrival. Instead of landing the troops at Nagasaki, as has been the custom, it is evidently the intention of the department to land them at Taku. Companies E, F, G and H of the Second Infantry and Companies I, K, L and M of the Eighth Infantry, due here to-mor- row, will sail on the Sherman. Companies L and M of the Fifth Infantry, now | in camp at the Presidio, are also booked | for passage on this vessel. The 1600 men |in these three battalions, with the sev- enty-five recruits, 50 Signal Corps men and a number of civilian employes, will test the capacity of the big transport. A fire was discovered on the roof of one of the wooden barracks at the Presidio yesterday afternoon. The alarm brought a large number of soldlers to the spot, but it required some time to subdue what was but an insignificant blaze. Private Willlam J. Prendergast, while running with the fire apparatus, stumbled and fell and the wheels passed over his back, inflicting severe injuries. He will be confined to his bed for some time. A. W. Dumm, D. W. Overton, J. W. A. Dale, G. E. Henson, J. Pease, H. Peddicord, T. W. Perkins, M. Wells, J. M. Feeney and J. Pinguard, acting assistant surgeons, Will take passage on the Gaellc for Naga- ak!, and from there take passage on an army transport to Manila The man Herzog, in whose store near the Presidio Government blankets were found, when taken befors Colonel Rawies e.to China will n | yesterday made a remark about knowing “where plenty more blankets could be foun which has caused a »ve toward | a strict investigation. If necessary stores near the entrance to the reserva- tion will be searched. | PHYSICAL STANDARD FOR POLICEMEN IS ADOPTED Civil Service Commission Adopts a Schedule of Measurements for Future Examination. The Police Commissioners and the Civil Service Comm eTs av prepared a tabulated statement of physical standard for policemen which will govern a k the Police Department. schedule follow: GHT. Six | The Commissioners to be the The sma! and a | pound: | New Y pol nt twenty-t the examir prese: mongk | | Getting Late In the season and before long you wiil wish you had started earlier to frequent El Campo.® Eve ¢ has a good tim accounts which ev ody going | as: The big steamer Ukiah makes | three round trips every Sunday, giving ivfl’.‘ a choice of hours. —— e | Ex-Mayor Clark Arrested. W. R. Clark, ex-Mayor of Stockton, was arrested yesterday by Deputy United al Morse on a warrant issued by ates Court Commissioner Heacock charging him_ with having vio- lated a Federal statute by causing his em- ployes k more than eight hours per day \-;Trm-n( contract near Fruit- United with cloth and satin folds Sleak i tra value for $5.00, will be LADIES' TAILOR - MAD LADIES will do well to their selections before the size: POSITIVE BARGAINS. 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