The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN F RANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY AUGUST 25 1900." (TECHNICALITY THAT AFFECTS ALL PENSIONERS Price’s Resignation Will Hardly Be Used Against His Position. arisen in the | tk mplication t} . i |2 { Large Number of Other Police Officers | & Now in Retirement Are in Pre- | ¢ cisely the Same Sit- |3 uation. | & —_— . L d William Price. the| ¢ at not a2 member of the| & t se he tendered his| ¢ 2 last year when he | be put on the pension list, has | nsiderable commotion among drawing a | red pension. improbable that the| L s will Aake advantage of | € »prive a deserving and | ¢ osition as a mem- | o when it has | T . . n adopted the form | ¢ med necessary to | @ s n to the Police | { Boa t on the retired | o t, th g separate and | t f the same| ¢ “1 herewith | @ records ge vester- number who tired | ¢ Whereas, Recently compiled figures show that disabil- | o p ifty per cent of the mill work done po-| 4 in this city fs shipped to other localities, viz. have | ¢ Interior California, H lulu, Mexico, Central . 2 ¥. Among | & and South America, and the Eastern States; r C. Well red January and £ k E. Fleming, Dennis Hay- | $ Whereas, The usual high cost of mill work « es H. Hall, retired October | @ < in this citv, as compared with other localities, r whole batch retired during | ¢ N has driven a iarge volume of lumber business - ay e f th nl'f‘»nl""l b . d‘ . away that turally belonged to the city and | 1 i poidl B 3 WHERE JAckson thus deprived San Francisco workmen of the g t Moran, prop-| ¢ 3TO0D work, the business community of the profits, r v Sener | 3 and the city generally of the advantage of the M “l“v“‘il‘ |® commerce to which it was justly entitled. Full [ Eaga F ‘?"“"fi . proof of this Is turnished by the fact that a 1 £ M Ratntan oTT! large portion of the lumber used in this clty b ¢ DOTTED LINE is worked before it is shipped here; and - - SHows ROUTE Vheyeas, The pla <men, gener- TAKEN BY ° are among s otwml\_q : & tully competent men commanding 33 to ;4 BURGLAR. . \ $4 per day; and , tendered thelr | [ 3 Whereas, San Francisco, from lts natural . piaced on | ¢ ((UAMES cox . J) N geographical situation and_proximity o the r four and | ¢ (LRAYMOND MARIONTY iy best forests in the world, should grow to be are now | 4 | one of the greatest lumber m:\rk«-!shln the " ol e TW T bt T 0 world, but, as a matter of fact (which is eas- o nenriyiam | ¢ TWO SUSPECTED BURGLARS AND THE MURDERED SPECIAL POLICEMAN | 11y proven), has lost ground in recent years: T nearly th y e ; GEORGE F. NICHOLS. Whereas, We belleve the workmen are mis- AMERICAN SEAMEN ON AMERICAN TRANSPORTS D Council Protests Against Em- oyment of Chinese Crews on els Flying Our Flag. yment of Chinese crews on engaged in the trans- AN DALEY, well known to the po- lice, was arrested in Dupont street after midnight by Sergeant of Po- lice Helms on suspicion the burglar who shot and fatally wounded Special Policeman George F. Nich Thursday evening while resisting arrest in the saloon of F. Galli at the corner of betwe the port ot Say Sancome and Merchant streets. Nichol 0 afactupaten and ; ; 3 of our mew posses. Gied at the Harbor Recelving Hospltal | Nichoi » only a partial de- s e c b ght out a loud | 2t 10:20 o'clock yesterday morning. scription of his He s of me- B membecs of the San | Daley was locked up in the tank at the | dium bufld ar short frock coat Labor Cotnell at- § ‘nes | City Prison and will be put through the [2nd soft Alpine hal. = He bad a dart The pre and resolutions, which Seymour this morning. He answers the | Nichols sald that if there had been % unanimous vote, are rather meager description given by Nich- | a light in the saloon he would probably | ols of his slayer in every detail and the police afe confident they bave the right man Two other suspects, W t miafority States of vessels en- army transport 5ast ports and the manned by Chin Ra: being | | city where irred 'mond Marion, | ¢ | y alias McGregor, and James Cox, both of - has al South San Francisco, were taken into | y American sea custody by Detectives Anthony, Graham ng for reasonable bor necessary for ion of the trans- afternoon with and Fitzgerald yesterday on suspicion of being connected murder of Special Nichc put through the weat for two hours at police d at the close of the exa jef stated that he was pre headquarters m: n the the injustice a = etd substitute jsfied that MeGregor and Cox v ing to do with the Sansome-street agedy. Their arrest, ~howeve - given the police light on a small burglaries that have been ted in the city of late, and both will be held for b three different places since Special ols game the press and to the Although he su ed in- up bravely and sub- i tions by Dr entered the ba left side, taken out of the right side of the abdomen. The second builet entered the 1d w at killed the olan Returns for Trial. PO N arged with say ance from the - 2 The Dying Man’s Nefve. Nichols was tonscious while the prob- . .. going on and a'with th N n . Ans attend the midst the me by “Don’t ' 4 | tickle me, he would t he would say as the docto: s flesh wit the sharp instr ter as - s = eri rom yuibles, Nichols’ devotion to wife and fam- D the de setting |1l was manifested several times as he ting ' lay he operating table. Once, when ook his money ar counted it, he that fifty cents be saved out L mes nger whom he desired to . have notify his wife. A patheti the inci- | tomary o NICHOLS DIES AND MURDERER ‘MAY BE BEHIND PRISON BAR Dan Daley Under Arrest on Suspicion of Killing Special Policeman—Two Other Suspects Taken Into Custody. mewwm—moflmflo+w [ MILLOWNER AND S| MILLMAN BOTH STANDING FAST Associated Lumbermen and Retail Lumber Dealers Take Action. e Q@ Controversy Over the Eight-Hour Day Causes an Extension of the Field of Contest on Both Sides. (RS Carpenters were called from work yester- day on three tuildings to which lumber from mills working nine hours per day was traced. The fact was made konwn through the patrol tem the millmen have. There was one other development - @+ 50008000000 0600000 000000 eitdededededededsdsdedsdedsdeie@ dent just before his death was the meet- ing of Nichols and his brother, Bert Nich The two had not spoken to each f years. They had a mis g and although on two oc tried to make up, the eider | to recognize him. W Nichols_ entered the hos. sunded policeman grasped his tionately have been able to get out of range of the burglar's gun. The merchants of that sectfon of the the murder occurred are much affair. For weeks, they quarter has been the scene of burglaries. Among the places e Robert Duff's commission ommercial and Davis streets, butcher. at the corner of b \ ngton and ome streets; J. B. nguglia’'s market 2 Merchant street, the Americn Union Fish Company and G. Ginocchl & Ci t nsome stree 1 that all of these robberies ed by the same person or very case the telephone box ed or tampered with and the cash ster or money drawer pried open. En- gained by forcing the believe: commi door with s Shot at Close Quarters. commeh plece of iron used in ng entrance to Gall aloon. The ing nd it was a matter of ¥ the lock. The upper of ground gl Di- saloon on the Me; a street lamp. From of the saloon an object in front outside is plainly discernible. { the police t the as he approached the o3 ait 14 the side i the 1sh officers that when he the door there was a finally foreed it ar got a builet in his zle of the pistol being )dy that the powder Nichols tu d around hot i aneously policeman 7 naged to o i fire v:\xh'fl 2! mvxv‘fia.\_ ne shot struck the side of the No'trace has been foung of the other shot, and it may have hit the burglar. Chief Seymour thinks the bu vas familiar with the ficteict Ang e habis of the proprietor of the saloon. It is cu Mr. Galli to close the place i 1stant bhe saloon Suit to Recover Railrea A t of ‘New Mexico files e 'flij SAN!Tk\RY DlSTRICTSr : SHORN OF MUCH POWER REGATTA COMMITTEE yesterday in the controversy between the millowners and the Milimen's Union. This was the adoption of a resolution by the Aesociated Lumbermen and the Re- tail Lumber Dealers’ Association pledging “moral and financial support to the mill- owne; On both sides, therefore, the contest was widened somewhat. The Mill- men’s Union did not take any additional action yesterday, nor did the millowners. The resolution adopted by the Associatea Lumbermen and the Retail Lumber Deal- ers’ Association was preceded by several whereases. The full text is as follows: Whereas, Certain of the workmen in the planing mills of this city have inaugurated a strike, demanding of their employers that elght hours shall constitute a day’s work: and Whereas, The mills of all localities with which San Francisco planing mills_compete, viz.: all polnts in California away from Francisco Bay, Oregon, Washington and tl States east of the Rocky Mountains work ten, eleven and twelve hours per day and pay twen- ty-five per cent to fifty per cent less wages per_day; and led and are working against their own best | dnterests by insisting on that which would reatly reduce the volume of work in this vi- cinity, and hence increase the competition among themselves for the positions, and, there- fore, prevent many men finding work at their chosen vocation, or compel what is generally conceded to be a good class of citzens to move om this localit: therefore Resolved, That we believe the millowners are entitled to the favor of the community and we hereby pledge them our moral and If need | be our financlal support to the end that they may fully dictate the management of their { own mills, believing the workmen have little . | at which they can justly complain, and con- noon. They found him in a lodging house | trary to the expectations of the workmen, thav on Folsom street. Half an hour later | could they s the position they have they arrested McGregor in a saloon at |taken, it woul dvantage as well the corner of Fourth and Folsom streets, MeGregor has served a term of two years for burglary. He has been out about five month Both men claimed they were in Sou an Francisco until 10:30 o’clock | Thursday night. Cox’s right hand was | bandaged and he was sent to the Receiv | ing Hospital to have the wound examined. The hospital physicians reported that the {;\)]llxry could not have been caused by a ullet. | Confess to Several Burglaries. | In the course of the examination by Chief Seymour the men confessed to hav- ing robbed a tailorshop at 190 Jesse street three weeks ago, the Union candy works an Fourth street and the residence of Mrs. Valerie at 428 Pacific street two weeks ago. They got away with about $200 worth of jewelry at the latter place. Detectives were busy last night investi- gating the truth of the stories told by ative to their whereabouts SN PP SIS SO S S S SOV S S5 0L 8 e o e G dhh 0 dn i i Jn G g i AR SRR SR S about 7 o'clock Thursday evening, re- opening again at midnight, when the shermen begin to arrive with their Fri- ay’s stock. The thief evidently thought he would find the receipts of the day In | the cash drawer and slot machine. But it happened that Galli emptied his cash | drawer before locking up, so the burglar 8ot nothing. The detect | the station | ves brought James Cox to about 4:30 yesterday after- | as to the disadvantage of their employers and | the community at large. The millmen say that the action men- | tionea in the foregoing does not signity | that the millowners have received any added support, and explain in connection with this assertion that the mills are | really largely owned by the lumber deal | ers. This is the view of the matter taken he expressed it last night. P. H. Goff of the executive committee of the Building Trades Council said last | evening that the watch upon the lumber | turned out by the nine-hour mills is main- | tained by night as well as by"da | that all the members of the trade: kept Informed concerning the destination of all “unfair”’ lumber, and so are enabled to take measures to see that the cause of ance of the plans of the millowners and sympathizers. President McCarthy of the Building | 'Ph(;lsmi; ol a‘t" H!al- | Trades Council says that he knows about | | 8- ] o 29O Mission { the disposition of all the work sent out by street, where the funeral will be held Sun- | on-1 s, v 0~ day. ‘Nichols was a mcmber of the For- | i1ty Bl contenctors who receive any of 1 | tify all contractors who receive any of the material of such origin. If the contracto do not take the desired stand in the mat- ter their employes will be called out in all instances. In this way the “unfair’” lum- | ber will be kept out of local use. Five merchants and others, so Mr. MeCarthy . sent back vesterday materials to esters, Benevolent Order of Elks and the i Police Officers’ Association, being ry of the latter organization. He porn in Lakeville, Sonoma County, , 40 vears ago. He was the son of Nichols, a pioneer carpenter of San 0. He leaves a wife, three chil- drgn and a_brother. When he left his | G U fn % - the hine-hour mills that had been fur- hom, ;:.‘;_;’_I‘z‘.‘n;x")i;m‘?&z,!;xsrr:?‘lmlglul’glm;. | nished for use in making repairs, and' he s said to his wife was SXDACH e, B SEE T e s e Loo me at the bottom of the hill l‘f(»-:r',l:fng: morning and bring the children.” Invay ably the wife and children would meet him on the hillside upon his return from work. | Permission will be granted to the owners of fair mills to run shifts by night as well as by day, as by this means many of the members of the Millmen's Union will be able to get work, and .the capacity of the fair mills will be enlarged sufficiently to aWWhen Nictole PN Sis were searched at | enable them to satisfy all the local de- have contained but two cartridges, both |T2and for materials for building. of which had been fired. This pecniiarity s explained by his wife, who says were out on a tug Wednesday and 'N:cllfls{ fired several shots at a bird and he must haye forgotten to refill the chambers, 1IT i _ SURPRISING Captain Seymour thinks the ’ should result in the passage of an s | How Railroads Can Afford Such nance compelling all stores to keep a light Cheap Excursions. purning at night. The absence of a light | n a store would then warn the police that | One of the most Interesting short excur- something was wrong. = the early autumn jaunt to the Monterey SELECIS OFFICIALS Sver ;;.(Yw. Vi fh of 1..:;(1: of the Supreme Court Punctures the Act| Getting Ready for the Championship n ada Railroad Cc Designed to Suppress Liquor | Events Scheduled for Admis- for tamages. The bon Traffic. | sion Day. Voo Droperty of the estate of Smith The Supreme Court has knocked a big| The regatta committee of the Pacific . hole in an amendatory act of the Legis-| Association of the Amateur Athletic districts. It was in the habeas cor- e of H, C. d of selling liquor in the North Pasa- sanitary district in violation of an ordinance passed by the board prohibiting such traffic without a_license from the board. He was fined $15, with an alterna- tive of fifteen Gays in the County Jail. He appealed to the Superior Court, where POSTUM CEREAL. COFFEE AND HEART DISEASE Slowly and Surely Affects the Heart's A igment was sustained beart seemed to be jumping out | jaj” His attorney secured a_writ of ha- body one morning after I had ‘b corpus and yesterday Werner was v . ordered discharged from custody. f"q‘;"-a;“;3{:"““(‘)}';":;:":1’;‘ In 1891 the Legislature passed an act for for b 4 T the establishment of sanitary distr not hurt me if used that way. wnships, and _in 1885 § slightiy ere all greatly frightened at the ous condition of my heart until I re- 1 som fee w s Ve tion “for the good order and welfare of fe P’ the district.” This gave the prohibition- membered thet it might be from the | ists an opportunity to sit down on the sa- coffee loon men in several parts of the State, and a number of new sanitary districts sprung up at once. Werner attacked the validity of the ordinance under which he was con- victed and the constitutio lit of the when the trouble passed off, I concluded never to use coffee again. It had hurt me greatly, used in the ordi- ran amendment to the act mentioned. In the nary way with cream and sugar, but I/ GrenGE, 0 onged that the Leglslature had hoped that it would be less harmful | had no right nor did it intend to confer < and sugar, but the re- municipal powers upon sanitary districts. e o g - and. second, that the amendatory act did TP S0 RS . mot embrace in the title the subject mat- “Since that time we have been using | ter of the act, as required by law. The +um Cereal Food Coffee and my | Supreme Court upholds these contentions. We | . | MRS. MANGELS, AN OLD ‘ RESIDENT, PASSES AWAY Two Daughters and Many Friends Will Mourn the Work of the Grim Reaper. Friends of Mrs. E. L. 8. Mangels will be shocked to learn of the death of that lady, which occurred yesterday at her ce. Howard ‘street. The de- Iensed was the widow of Claus Mangels and a sister of the late Hermann Zwieg. She was a native of Noerenberg, Ger- many, was 62 years of age. Two dan re, Mrs. F. Tillman Jr. and Agnes , mourn her Joss. Pe heart has never troubled me at all. sre all delighted with the Postum be- couse we know how to make it and know how valuablg it is as a health beverage “In speaking to a friend lately about Postum Cereal, she said she did not like T found the reason was that it had not been made properly. After I told ber to take four heaping teaspoons of tum to the pint of water and let it full fifteen minutes after the real boiling started, she was greatly delight- ed with it and has been using it since nd has been very much better. in health. Yours truly,” Mrs. L. S. McEllimmey. 1218 G sircet, N. W., Washington, D. C. Werner, who Was con- | and he “went to | In | Boating Club: mended, extending the power to reguia- | ure relating to the regulations of sani- | | of the South Union met t night to select officials and transact other business in connection with the champlionship rowing r: to he held on September 9. The following were chosen: R in of the Pioneer Rowing_ Club, . 1. Fitzpatrick ind Rowing Club; marshal . J. Kennedy of the Dol- ssistantmarshal, J. A. es of the Ariel Rowing Club; jhdge: . St. John and F. Rafter of the Ploneer Rowing Club; A. Mellitz and A, J. Fritz of the South End Rowing Club; Fred Woerner and W. O. Patch of the Dolphin E. J. Lynch and B, Mc- Donough of the Ariel Rowing Club; Theo- dore feldt and C. J. Hague of the Alameda Boat Club; Ed Connolly and H. A. Pless of the Olympic Boat Club; George Bium avd D. H. Everett of the Triton Boaiing Club; timers, R. Collopy of the Picneers, E. M. Shortall of the South Ends, F. C taib of the Dolphins, D. J. Shechan of the Ariels, E. M. Hunter of the Alamedas, Leo Pockwitz of the Olym- pics and Frank Hess of the Tritons. Inasmuch as the State of Oregon is out- side the jurisdiction of the Pacific Asso- clation, the regatta at Astorla will not affect the local standing of any of the San Francisco men who may take part in it. If a junior should win a race, he will become a senior at Astoria, but will still retain his standing as a junior here. i S i Austrians Will Hold Picnic. The twenty-second annual picnic of the members of the Austrlan Military and Benevolent Association will be held to- morrow at Germania Gardens, near the Presidio, under the auspices of the mili- tary compan: The annual target shoot will take place under the direction of Cap- tain M. Sabadin, and the championship of the season will be decided. The commit- tee of arrangements will see that all at- tendants have a good tim of the course, Some Russian sgjentists ascertained that _electrified seeds germinated more rapidly and gave better and quicker re- suits than seeds which had not been submitted to preliminary electrification. ASSESSMENTS OF SOME | ok sud - Facic v e RA"..WAY COMPANIES within a sho: & ese | ! The State Board of Equalization Files Figures Thereon With Auditor ¢ Wells. he State Board of Equalization | Auditor Wells yesterday that the e | | ment of the San Francisco and Sa | Electric Railroad Compar o Dietao ern Pacific several years ago, and becau of the extradrdinary pleasures afforded and the absurdly small cost, $2 for the they at once hecame extremely popular. This year the event is scheduled for Sun- day, September 2, and all signs indicate a greater day than usual In the past the citizens of Monterey | per mile of the railway ‘aivpurunnmem of the asse: i iy and county of §: $150,440. b o8 The Board of Equalizatio $7059 90 and the ssment for the Franeisco is n also assessed cent grounds, its fine bathhouse and beach, the famous eighteen-mile drive and the pretty city of Pacific Grove will fur- nish all the entertainment that can be | the, Ce S P | crowded Into five hours. | 15000000, The ‘entira” o Company at | “*Fhe train will leave Third and Townsena track in the State is 746.76 miles ‘:ng‘fllm | streets depot promptly at §a. m. ¢ length in this city is 2.46 miles, The a% NI B SRR | sessed value per mile is §1 | apportionment of the ass Francisco is $12,8%, The assessment on the | Railroad Company is $ | tre length of its main’ track miles in the State and 7.36 miles in §: Er;m’('i;sn. (;l‘h(;\ assessed value per mfi: and t Francisco is str,g0. TP T 1O1Ment for San —_——— Brooks Wants Percentage, Treasurer Brooks claims 5 all moneys collected by him ?m"f,'c.f.f.'.’,i °§ the collateral inheritance tax, but the cl? and cnum;- disputes his claim. An agre: g state of facts was submitted yestegrde to the Superior Court for judgment. Brooks elaims that under the law o 1a he Is entitled to 5 per cent of the first ‘Bonds for Improvements. At the meeting of the directors of the Merchants' Association vesterday the fol- lowing new members were elected, mak- ing the total membership 123: J. Levin & Co., W. C. Price & Co. J. Schmidt & Co. and Albert Wehrli. 7.408 53 and the ssment for San uthern Paci 206; The e 125,21 the municipality to have the questions in volving the validity of the bond issues d termined as speedily as possible. The at- torney of the association was directed to confer with the City Attorney regarding the submission of a petition to the Su- preme Court for advancing the hearing of the eases now pending in that court re- garding the issuance of municipal hords for sewers, schools, hospitals and the pan- handle. $50.000 collected and additional other sum collected. Brooks usol:ll af?:{ L e : judgment for $2530 88, ‘while the city prays | A Decrees of divorce were granted yester- for a decision adjudging that the funds | day to Mary Reid from James D. Reid for are part and portion of the city's revenue, | desertion and Martha J. Darnley from —_— . Darnley on the ground of de- Charles H urilon. Suits for divorce have been filed by Theresa St. Dennis against John B St. Dennis for desertion. Lucy FE. Freeman against Charles E. Freeman for desertion and Franklin J. Hicks against Rose Hicks for cruelty. To-Day’s News Letter. Horace Eghert contributes another turt story to this week’s News Letter. “Plum Puddin’ Tommy" is the central figure, and iy his own inimitable way tells “how he touted himself out of the Ingigside cool- od The Last Day. To-morrow will be the last Sunday ot this season at El Campo. The Ukiah will make her usual three round trips to ac- | commodate all comers. e The Looker On has a number of stories on actors and clupmen. The Crier, in jingle and prose, spects to the unworthy. and deal in keen fashion wit] by W. J. Black of the Millmen's Union as\ | sented by the Building Trades Council are | | the millmen is not jeopardized by ignor- | sions of the vear from San Francisco is| Monte, | excursions were instituted by the South- | round trip, one-third less than half fare, | chis e for its fran- | have contributed to the interest of the | Shice, Sdway, Ieadbed, rails and roll- | day by reviving the old-time Spanish ,“59 (:;;“r{“ 1' L5 lflt‘e aggregates §200,000. | sports, but this year the programme will | 5.0 ‘miles in the s:'.‘m‘fi‘?.d"é?‘ai‘e""if“ 13 be yaried by & sart of g0 as you plea b i s -309 miles in time among the various attractions of | this city and county. The assessed value | the, resorts. Bei Monte and iis magnin. | Tt was deemed for the hest interests of | . XII. (Concluded.) ‘Colonel Higginson, in the book I haye quoted, tells how, one summer day in passing Craigie house, he fell in with a young man who was eager to learn the whereabouts of that chestmut tree. The colonel says: I explained to him that the tree * ¢ * had now vanished altogether. but offered to_show him where it once was and where the black- smith, shop of Dexter Pratt had stood. Walk- ing down the street with him I won his con- fidence by telling him that 1 was one of the Cambricge-bred boys who had “looked in at | the open door™; that the blacksmith's wife, Rowena Pratt, had been my nurse, and that | 1 had in later life heard her daughter sing He told me in return that he was a youn | Irishman, arrived in this country but the day | before; that the first poetry he had ever learned | by heart at school was “‘The Village Black | smith,” and that he had resolved that his first { act on reaching Beston should be to visit the | hestnut tree. “‘Th 1 sald to myself, “is | ame. e | The tree, though no longer to be seen | on Brattle street, flourishes in immortal | &reen in the poem, and the spot where it | stocd will continue to be pointed out from | generation to generation; but, curiously €nough, the name of the blacksmith came near being | Within a year there was a lively discussion in a Bosion newspaper | whether the man was Pratt or anotner | | smith—I forget his name—who was the | | tenant of the shop about the same time | It will be seen that Colonel Higginscen book (published since the discussion ap- | peared) settles the question, which, if I remember right, was not satisfactorily de- cided in the newspaper. If the name of the village smith had been utterly lost his memory would never- theless live in the poet's verse. There is | po record of the name of the “Highland | Girl’" whom Wordsworth saw_near the little waterfall at Inversnaid. Nothing is | known of her history before or after she | caught the poét’s eye, as he was rambling | with his sister on the shores of Loch Lo- mond. BEut the poem has made the water- fall famous, though otherwise one would scarcely notice it when he lands at In- | versnaid to take the coach for Loch | Katrine and the Trossachs. Now every | tourist wants at legst to get a glimpse of | it while the coached are loading, or climbs | the short pathway beside it while they | crawl up the long, steep nighway, and joins them at the top of the hill; and he carries away with him, as the poet did, the vislon of that lovely peasant girl, namele: but enshrined forever in { English verse: For 1, methinks, till T grow old, As fair before me shall behold As I do now cabin small, The lake, the bay, the waterfall, And thee, the spirit of them all! Forty years after ‘“The Village Black- | smith” was written the poet, on his sev- | enty-second birthday (February 27, 1579) | was presented by the children of Cam | bridge with a chair made from the wood of the chestnut tree. The gift was appro- | priately acknowledged by a poem ad- | dressed to the children, which he had | printed on a sheet and 'used to give to | each child who visited him and sat in the | chair, as many of them did. Here the | single line given to the tree in the orig- inal poem is expanded into several stanzas | Well 1 remember it in all its prime, | When in the summer time | The affluent foliage of its branches made | A cavern of cool shade. There by | the blacksmith's forge beside the Its bisoms white and sweet, Enticed the bees, until it seemed alive | And murmured ifke a hive. | | And when the winds of autumn, with a shout, | Tossed its great arms about. The shining chestnuts, bursting from tne sheath, . | Dropped to the ground beneath. PRABT SO Do\ TS R ey e e | 1 see again, as one in vision sees, The blossoms and the bees, And hear the children’s voices shout and call, ‘And the brown chestnuts fall And thus, dear children, have ye made for me This day a_jubilee. And to my more than three-score years and ter Brought back my youth again. ascent of the | A TALK ABOUT LONGFELLOW: BY DR. ROLFE. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. LITERARY TALKS AND REMINISCENCES. —_—— Only your love and your remembrance could Give life to this dead wood, And make these branches, leafless now 8o long, Blossom again in song. Longfellow was fond of Charles River, as seen in ‘the distance from his house, and bought a tract of several acres on the other side of Brattle street that the view might not be cut off if the land should be built upon. After his death land was bought by a public sub- iption and comverted into pleasant K as'a memorial of the po In the poem ‘““To the River Charles after referring to sundry reasons for love ing it, he says: More than this—thy name reminds me Of three friands, ail true and tried: And ‘that name, ljke magic, binds me Closer, closer to thy The three friends sare the biography by his not happen to comment o poem; but they are known “harles. Sumner, Charles ) tes Amory. Lowell has also celebrated the € River in_more than one of his poem: in.“An_Indian Summer Reverie” where fifteen Spenserian stanzas are given to & description of the stream and the marsh: c bordering it—‘‘dear marshes —as see from spring to winter); “An Invitation’ (where again it is dwelt upon lovingly ingeringly), and “Under the Wii- where he says: the siiding Charles, the west, and bluer and curve Ran crinkling sunniness, like Helen's hair stantial gold. end of the poem the must not take space for the entire pass- And so on to 1 age The “Willows” are near the river and not far from Elmwood, marking t course of a streamlet, now filled up covered up, which flowed into the Charle Lowell describes them as six, a willow Pleiades, The seventh fallen, that lean along the brink Where the steep upland dips into the marsh, Their_roots, like molten metal cooled in flow- ing. Stiffened in cofls and runnels down the banic These trees a few years ago were likely to be destroyed, as the ground was want- ed for house lots, but the protests against the vandalism saved them from the that earlier had befallen the chest tree. More recently three of them have been ineluded in the park which is being made on the river bank. The Charles also flows under the ugly old bridge that suggested Longfellow's | poem “The Bridge.” After having been | partially rebuilt several times, with no | material fmprovement in its architecture | it is now undergoing demolition and will be replaced by a more sightly structure. | Nobody is dlsposed to protest against the destruction of this “bridge wit | plers” as against the felling of | nut tree and the willows. It was not ¢ enough to be venerable or to have a toric interest. and its ugliness was picturesque. The poet was not tempted to describe it except in the four words [ | have quoted. and his reflections as | “stood on the bridge at midnight’" are | such as might have occurred to him_on any other bridge at the same place. The | chestnut tree was by no means a fine spec- imen of its species, but the poem Hnking it with a story of humble village life gava it an interest at once human and poetica | The willows were picturesque in their old | age, but that would not have saved them | if a poet had not loved them and described | them_ and thus entwined nemory | with his own. | Lowell, by the way, refers to the bridge | in his ode on the death of Agassiz, but | their | is only the river and its surroundings He alludes to a “home- ward walk” with his friend n which he dweils. | Across the bridge, where on the dimpling t The long red from the windows glide. | And_Boston sh : | In that Arcadian light when roof a | Hard prose by davlight, dream in I | . I wanted to refer to other local allusions {in the verse of Longfellow, Lowell and | Holmes, and to sundry other matters con- inected with their personality, but already | I have exceeded the space ailowed me and | must close this random talk—for such only |t is. W. J. ROLFE. Cambridge, Mass. BANK DEPOSITS NCREASE OVER SEVEN MILLIONS An Astonishing Showing by Nine Saving Institutions of This City. —— Nearly All of This Money Is Owned by the Working Classes—Proof of the Country’s Pros- perity. L |7 | According to the reports of the.nine city avings banks to the State Board of Bank Commissioners, the galn in deposits since | July 31, 1899, was $7,186,71371. This the Commissioners consider is one of the most nvincing signs that the country is gen- ly prosperous. At the close of bu: s hours on July 31 of last year the city s showed that there was due to the itors the total sum of $113,204213 9. A week aga a call was made by the Bank - | € ral | nes bank: at the close of business hours on August |11, In response“the returns show that there is due to depositors the surprisingly large sum of $120.180.527 70, or an increase in deposits of $§7,18671371 in a little over twelve months. While the board knew in a general way that the returns would be large the mem- bers were not prepared for a showing ameunting to over seven million dolla In discussing this matter Secretary Dun moor stated that these deposits were made almost_entirely by the working class and those in_moderate circumsiances. The hanking business of the capitalist is done almost exclusively through the commer- cia! banks. He added: ‘“Notwithstanding the late war with Spain, the trouble in the | Philippines and China and the war taxes | that have to be raised from all classes of | soclety for these great national expenses, the patrons of savings banks in this city have laid aside more money for a rainy day than ever before. Yet Bryan savs that the country is going to the do; The bankers' statements show the fol- lowing condition of the city banks on the it A RESOURCES. Bank premises, §1,656,637 61: real estate taken | for debt, $.358.050 93: miscellaneous bonds and stocks, $53.037,5M 11; loans on real estate, $62,- Toans on stocks. bonds and warrants, $1,645, loans on other securities, $320,200: meney on hand, 47,08 91; due, from banks and. bankers, $2,79,008 07: other assets, §333,- 031 36; total resources, $120,520,016 §8. LIABILITIES. Capital paid in coin, $4,010,000; reserve fund, profit and loss and contingent fund, $,533,459 36; due depositors, $120,480.927 70: other Ifabilities, $304,59 62; total liabilities, $130,529,016 88. Japan Is Expanding. Gigero Yamaoka, Japanese Controller of Customs at Kobe, visited the San Fran- cisco Custom-house yesterday and had a long talk with Port Collector Jackson and First Deputy N. 8. Farley. Mr. Yamaoka is Inquiring Into the Custom-house svstem of all civil countries in the world witgy Commissioners for statements of business | | the view of introductng into the customs em of Japan whatever meritorious | features he migk He custom-houses at yrk, Boston delphia and Mo and Wil then v | the principal European ports |HEALTH DEPARTMENT DEMANDS ARE HELD UP The B oard Tries to Have Them Paid Out of the Wrong Fond. The Board of Health was b e | with a round turn by Audit sy terday morning in | endeav y hew! one of its “honored raids on the ecity tr demands o E prese aggregating $700, whi the Health desired to be paid out of the api tion set aside for emergencies the { smallpox hospital. As the other funds of the depariment have been drawn up to the Hmitati f the ne-twelfth pr vision of th ter the board took th method of ving salaries from a fund | for which it was not intended. The de- mands presented are: F D., physielan Pesthov July, $200; Mrs. E. Blaki August §75; Mrs. Gaffne ugust § peremptorily refused to audit the demands on the ground that the ni fund of $4000 is intended demic should one ever | DETERMINED TO SECURE POSSESSION OF A GIRL ‘Warrant Out for the Arrest of Joha D. Hold for Threats to Kill. George C. Adams. 738 Laurel avenue cured a warrant in Judge Fritz's court esterday for the arrest of John D. Hold on a charge of threats against life. The warrant was given into the hands of Po- liceman McMurray of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, who | has special reasons for serving it Adams’ daughter Eva, 15 years of age, | left her home about teir davs ago. | was found in the Olympia Tuesday nig and taken back home. Since then Holl | has been haunting the house to get the girl to meet him. representing that he | an officer of the Society for the Prote | tion of Children. He declared in the pres- | ence of several witnesses that if he could innt get the girl he would kill her father. | Hlo is known to be a habitue of the Olym. | pla. for an epi- Bowen Is Set at Liberty. Charles N. Bowen, the book agent. ar- rested for obtaining meney from business men to buy a plat in Cypress Lawn Cem- |e(e? for Indigent printers, was discharged | by Judge Fritz yesterdayv. as no one could be got to swear to a complaint against him.” Detective Cody is now searching for Donald Archibald Urquhart, allas Frank Miller, wio is supposed to have been Bowen's accomplice. Urquhart was impli- cated In the kidnaping of the Hawailan planter Campbell, but saved himself by withdrawing before definite action w: en nv O. Winthrop, who is now serv. ing a life sentence. e —e.—— Greenberg Demands Damages. Hyman Greenberg has sued the Western | Turf Association to recover $45000 dam- ages. Plaintiff alleges that he was injur !in the sum sued for by the action of ti defendant corporation in re(u'nx him ad- mittance to Tanforan Park and denying him the right to sell racing guides to the patrons of the track.