The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 14, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1900. y TRANSPORT SOLACE BRINGS HOI'E WOUNDED MARINES, HURT IN THE FIGHTING AROUND TIENTSIN Colonel Meade Gives‘i a Fine Description| of the Taking of the| Walled City. General Dorward Paid a High Tribute to the Courage of the American Troops. evening the navy ce, bearing some of bluejackets who king of and 2 nister lawali Harold M wall W. B. Dunning, a retired Micer, steamed into the harbor and red in the stream off Folsom-st Immediately after the tran chored Mr. Sewall came ashore, A to his he &rag his rrival ved fam! He lea the Flowery Ki Meade, Ce mmand onel Robert gdom. who w. on board, having home, much ag: his wi er He Hosp! recovered t Ma from The Wounded. wound E - 4 T CORPORAL B.J, JOHNSON { | : P 1 iy goF M...,.;g,‘:flrz W) R t“"4\ FusSILIERS BEN o COLOANEL 3 REGIMEBNT ROBERT L. . AARINES | ANEADE. IN COMMAND OF QUR, { TROOPS AT Tr;!EA'I;.I;'\E OF THE N 3 TIEN | ROR TIRGT8) PLAN OF TIEN TSIN BATTLE “AFTER SKETCH BY COL. MEADE g = — & —— 1 entery and ls now at Yoko-]ISth and fought all day. We started in were st attest to th Thoma Meade Colo: R of & told an Tientsin, merica e Wi £ the city night “sick bay.” v a slight at- X w € ly re nth Regiment ckets who the enemy Taku on the 14 red to_ rep . He a geon in the red for at the Im- which_was con- after the bat Dr. Stepp, retu h the wounded officers. nem in & Chinese junk. ight that the result of the g to_the climate. Wound. and the men were soon to recovery. During the after his arrival on the d were brought aboard P ed to Nagasaki, where flicers and men were tran e United Btates army tran. The marines and blu nded came home. ’s Story of the Fight. obert L. Meade, with the aid in his possession, story of the battle of took no credit for the splen- iid the taking of the bo he throw bouquets >s of which he is a ymmanding officer of n forces at Tientsin. In ac- th orders he landed in Tien- ut 450 members of his re r of his comn 1 ributed over Manila. arrived on the morning of the 11th,” said. “It was 1 o'clock when .we ched the reservation on the ou t We went into AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA 2 NEW DOMINION n Hohenstauffen » T"BLE BILL. MENT ) AT THIAS, # One Act Drama, S GUARD.” “NA: OLEON GREAT “ADMISSION WEEK™ BILL. - The Wo Renowned Contralto, TT DAVIS QUERITA N, HOWE SERTRUDE WILBUR. 5 FRANCES ICAN BIO- VL KEPPLEF SRAPH od weate opera chairs 80c. os Wednesday, 8 arday and Sunda: +TIVOLI* EEK FVERY EVENING TH. AND SATURDAY MATIN THE GREAT DOUBLE OPERATIC BILL, “Cavalleria _Rusticana" “I Pagliacc TIRE COMPANY ALTER- LY APPRARING. : 9 1. WITH TH NATE POPULAR PRICES Teleghone Bush 9. | ALF ELLIN The Biggest MATINEE TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) | FERR The nautica! Lessee ERY EVENING and Manager i AND SUNDAY. IS HARTMAN WITH SHIP AHOY 1 farcical success. Fifty people on the stage. Pretty girls, handsome costumes, magaific stage rettings. 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Addrese ‘‘Books, 141 Herald 234 st., New York. on the soldiers was | aken to the Naval Hospital | okohama and the ship with its re- | two lumns from the reservation about k in the morning. The Japaness on the right and the English and | ricans on the left. We reached the | ith gate of the walled city about 4:30 o'clock just as de English batte Bayley of b and wn was breaking. The in command of Captain royal navy, took up its began to bombard the cit, n while we waited under the mud wali, On the da or to the battle General Dorward asked for a consultation of the commanding officers and I notified Colonel Liscum, who was my junior, to go with | me. A'plan of action was determined on by the commanding officer and Colonel Liscum and myself thoroughly understooG it. On account of the few English in thac engagement Colonel Liscum's forces were put on the right, while I, with the Royal usileers, was on the left. About | ) o'clock on the morning of the we ~deploved skirmishers and ad- | by rushes to_the front. | country there are a great many 1d dykes and we used the latter s. The Chinese fire was par- accurate and rapid, and they | e armed with the best modern_rifles. | A Long Day’s Battle, “I reached my advanced position about 8 o'clock and we remained there until 8 o'clock in the evening. I had 180 rounds of ammunition with me, which was all we could carry because the ground was | too poor for transportation. I also had three three-inch rapid fire guns and three Colt automatic guns. We remained in | the trenches until 8 c'clock, when we were withdrawn to the mud walls, down by the arsenal. We were twelve hours in e che and our losses were pretty . 1 had five killed and twenty-two wounded out of two companies. Captain Davis was killed while standing between Dr, Norton and myself. He was killed by a ‘jingall’ bullet, fired by & two-man gun. Captain Davis was the only officer | killed, but a number were wounded. gap- | tain Long was struck and my adjutant, Lieutenant Leonard, was shot. Quarter- master Lemly and Lieutenant Butler were both severely hit. Leonard lost his arm and at one time his life was despaired of. Butler returned to duty and I heard he was t. again. “F shot while trying to bring s wounded men who had gone trenches. Leonard seeing his other officer’s critical condition rushed his rescue and was himself wounded br & Butler in. It was a very liant thing for both men to do, and de- ved the high mention they afterward ived 2 o'clock on the morning of the e ble in the south gate There were very few fighting men in the place and we en- ered no oppositi The city was | literally strewn with dead. The fire from t 3 of Captain Bayley wrought ter- rible execution. When we took posses- valled city it was divided into | gion of t four The Americans guarded the | J SCENE OF THE FIRST FIGHTING AROUND TIENTSIN AND SOME OF THE CRIPPLED SURVIVORS. Sad Tidings for Ex- Minister to Hawaii Harold I'l. Sewall on His Return Home. Young Naval Surgeon Saved Many Lives by His Skilland Care of the Wounded. DRESSING * A WOUNDED MARINE southeast, the Japanese the northeast, the English the northwest and the French the southwest. Each nation had to clear out the dead. Coolies vice and burled the killed. They must have numbered fully two thousand, and the retreating forces carried the same number of wounded away with them. I do not know how many Chinamen were engaged in the fight. I know the allies had 6450 men in the field and their cas- ualty list was 750. Another battalion of the Ninth Infantry arrived in time to re- lieve us and we were able to take a need- ed rest, British Words of Praise. Brigadier General A. R. F. Dorward o* the English army sent a letter to Colonel Meade in which he commended the brav- ery of the American soldiers. He said he blamed himself for allowing the Ninth Regiment, which was rushed to the scene on a moment’s notice, to take an exposed position, but he commended the regiment for its great work. He sald it was were pressed Into ser- | + thelr sticking to their position that pre- | ing the right of the line of battle. The writer also offered his sympathy for the heavy losses sustained by the Ninth, and on the death of Colonel Liscum and Captain Davis, who he said met death in front of the foe. He also spoke of the bravery of Lieutenant Smedley D. But- ler of the United States Marine Corps in bringing in a wounded man from the front under a heavy and accurate He commended Lieutenant Leonard for a similar deed of daring. According to Colonel Meade, after the | battle the various commanders came to- gether and drew up laws for a civil gov- crnment. A Russian, an Englishman and a Japanese were appointed to carry out the laws laid down. There were 6150 aliies engaged in the fight and the following dead and _wounded were reported: Americans. 24 killed, 98 wounded: English, 17 killed, §7 wounded: Japanese, 320 killed and wounded; French, 13 killed and fifty wounded; Russians and Germans, 140 killed and wounded. | | | EW MUSEUM OF COMMERCEWILL 00K BEAFACT Promotion Committee Is to Neminate a Board of Governors. Keynote of the Meeting Sounded in a General Desire to Forward the Arrangements at Ex- press Speed. — | i | | As a result of yesterday's meeting of | | the promotion committee of the Pacific | | Commercial Museum the work which yet |iies before that body will be rushed | through as rapidly as possibie, ‘n orde: | that the museum, which is declared on| all sides to be one of the most necessary and best alds to the merchants of the | city, may speedily become an assured fact. | Enthusiasm was the keynote of the pro- | ceedings and unity the spirit in which the members aid under the gavel of Presi-! dent Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the Univer- sity of California. ) President Wheeler opened the proceed- ings with a few pointed remarks on the neecessity of going through the final steps | of organization as rapidly as possible. H | then statec that the cbject of the meet. | ing was to consider the best means of electing the board of governors, to con- sist of twenty-one members. This he thought could best be accomplished by a nominating committee composed of Saul | | Sussman, F. W. Dohrmann, Lippman | | Sachs, Arthur Rodgers and P. C. Rossl. | irving M. Scott then presented the | report drawn up by the executive com- | mittee of the finance committee, of which he is chairman. The report states that up to date 178 firms hayve contributed to the membership roll. This assures the museum an income of $23,4% during the | first year of its existence. Of this amount | $9662 77 has been placed to the credit of | the museum in the Bank of California, representing 167 initiation fees of $60 each, less the expenditures incurred by the ex- ecutive committee In its work. These ex- penditures have been kept as small as possible and were incurred for printing, | | postage, stationery, _typewriting, etc.. | amounting in all to 3357 2. Eleven mem- | bers owe in unpaid initiation fees $660. The committee has sent out over 4000 let- | ters and in addition has distributed a large quantity of literature devoted to making known the objects of the museum | and its importance to the mercantile fu- ture of San Francisco. The members of the committee say that while several firms in the ¢, have not vet joined, it is their Lelief that a large proportion’ of them will eventually join, especially as soon as the museum is or- ganized and gives dpru:tlul demonstration of the widespread character of its use- fulness. The committee also adds that the work of obtaining members has reached a point where progress commen- surate with the worthiness of the project and consideration of the future of the muscum demands the early or n of the body and commencement of actual work. The report being accepted, Samuel Sussmann moved that ine committee meet and receive the report of the ing committee. A. A. Wat kins thereupon called on the chair to ask if it would he proper to permit the entire committee to vote on the nominations of the board of governors. He said that he thought they were entitled to a say in the matter, ’ “We will elect the ticket nominated by the committee anyhow.” cried several. “I'm not so sure of that.” replied E. A Denicke. After some further discussion it was decided by Wheeler that the entire promotion committee had a right to vote at the electfon and 1t was so_ordered. The committee afer asking President Wheeler to set the next meeting at an early date then adjourned to the call of the chalr. New Book on Advertising. The Advertiser's Hand-book just issued by the Mahin Advertising Company of | Chicago, It is safe to say, presents more information bofled down Into forty pages than anything of the kind ever before published. It contains a classified list of all the important maguzines and new papers in the country, glving rates and sworn statements of circulation. It also gives tabulated statement of covering all classes, and another state- ment showing how this money is spent. The Mahin Advertising Company is be- coming _known the “‘Follow-up” Agency, because of the stress laid upon the manner of handling inquiries, and its remarkable growth, requiring in its sec- ond year 3600 square feet of floor space for offices, would seem to indicate that it is on the right track. Thig¢ company has been unusually successful in creating new business, which fact secures for it the co- operation of publishers—an_exceedingly important item in an enterprise of this kind, and one which has perhaps contrib- uted largely to the company's success, At any rate, this agency has shown that it knows how to push Fusiness for other | people by the manner in which it has faunched its own upon the public. SR e Deserted Five Children. Officer McMurray of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Is searching for Robert and Rose Strong of 23, Folsom avenue. The mother has been in an asylum, and since her release, it Is said, she endeavored to have Strong' mother piaced in the same institution in order that she might get possession of the old woman's property. Failing in this, the couple disappeared, leaving thelr five small children in the keeping of the old woman, who is past 70 years of age, plcitefit oo APty The Original Little Louisiana Company of San Francisco. Drawing Septem- ber 8 1900 Nb. 4969% wins $7500, gold in San Francisco, Cal.; No. 55362 wins $2000, sold in San Francisco, wins $1000, %old in San Fran- No. 60892 wins $500. sold in San Francisco, Cal.; Nos. 65578 and 75842 each wins §250, sold in San Franclsco, Cal.; Nos. 6040, 13449, 42493, 74165 and 97396 each wins in 8an Francisco and San Diego, Cal. —_————— Judge Conlan Tries Shoplifter. Leonora Stewart, alias Ruby Smith, a notorious pickpocket and shoplifter charged with “lifting” goods from the Emporium and Hale Brothers last Fri- day, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. She exonerated Minnie Munson, alias Mary Edwards, was arrested at the same time. She claimed the latter was a member of the Salvation Army and in her endeavor to do good was compelled to assoclate with sucl le as herseif. The Judge took Minnie's case under advisement. incomes | $106, sold | s CLANDERS ONCE MORE ATTACKS Veterinarians Kill Seven- teen Animals Afflicted With Disease. | Every Effort Made to Prevent the Spread of Contagion—Captain Shaw Ordered to the Philippines. S S Glanders has again broken out among the horses at the Presidio, and yesterday seventeen of the diseased animals were shot. Some weeks ago the dread disease attacked the horses of the Ninth Cavalry, and to prevent its spread 130 fine animals were ghot and their bodies buried. The stalls they occupied were torn down ‘and every stick of timber likely to carry the germs burned. Veterinaries andgtheir as- sistants worked night and day and finally announced a complete eradication of the disease. Scveral animals, however, were held for observation, the number gradually in- creasing,, The suspicious cases were dur- ing the Jast day or two submitted to a final tes€, with the result that they were ordered to be shot, having been found hopelessly atfiicted.” Dr. Hunter, veteri- narian of the Sixth Cavalry, now has charge of the remaining animals and hopes togprevent any further spread. “he foflowing namied female nurses have been assigned quarters on the Thomas for M. Gertsch, Henrietta L. Redecker, Helen G. Fairbanks, Eva Treuholm, Hefen M. Pickel and Eagenle M. Ward. Captain_Henry A. Shaw, assistant sur- geon U. 8. A., has been detached from | duty at the general hospital and will pro- ceed to the Philippines on the Thomas. He will command & detachment consist- ing of a hospital steward, nine acting stewards and thirty privates assigned to duty in the islands. Captain Shaw has beer: connected with the hospital at the sidio for some time and his departure eply regretted by the patients. Major Charles L. Hodges, Seventeenth Infantry, reported at h gumm vester- day eand was assigned to duty in connec- tion with the recruits at the Presidio awaiting transportation abroad. James J. Eelis, a hospital corps private, died at the genéral hospital yesterday of dysentery. "The remains of Private Elsen, Thirty- pinth Infantry, were buried in the national cemetery vesterday. The deceased solaier had_many friends in this city, who at tended the funeral of the di hero. A detachment of 100 recruits was ex- cted at the Presidio last night from ‘ort Columbus, Obio. They are to fill vacancies in the Eighteenth Infantry and Light Battery C, Third Artillery. Are You Registered? If not, go at once to City Hall. Regis- tration closes September 2. You cannot iownlen you registered since .hmu.gy vented a large body of Chinese from turn- | re. | JRMY HORSES transportation to the Philippines: Bertha | COMPARATIVE STUDIE At the turn of the last century life among the nobility was as brilliant and ceremonious as it was unutterably wretched among the peasantry. Then too, the soecialistic instinct, the introduction of machinery consequent advancement of the m a power worthy of consideration | the classes, began to make itself | throughout Europe and America. In | land embers from the burned into the minds of the people, mak- and the ses as mong felt | tice and a need of political Passion for progress seethed beneath the high tory ministries, breaking forth au- thoritatively upon the death of Lord Cas- | | made him a conspicuous if pot popular | figure in England's history until 1822. The { revolutionary infection spread even to the Spanish colonies in Mexico and South America, to which infant republics many looked for redress from the irregularities of the Old World. Bonaparte took up his residence in the Tuileries in 1800. After his downfall the holy alllance—undoubtedly formed for the | purpose of stamping out the principles of | liberty universally aroused<by the French | revolution—began_ the parceling out of | e and so changed its map that it| | Euro(? | would scarcely have been recognizable to | the politicians of the late seventeenth cen- . In France emigre and bourgeois touched elbows In their efforts to restore what each chose to denominate the old | regime. Spain's tendencies toward liber alism, as evinced in her frantic efforts t | secure a constitution, were to be nipped in® the bud by an invasion of French | troops. Prussia, still | traditions of Frederick the Great, was | most insignificant in the family of na- i}lnns which had struggled against Napo- eon. | cessions to' the “man of destiny,” was | placed under the hated domination of Austria. England, which wad not recog- | nized among the great European powers | until the treaty of Paris in 1763, entered about 1322 upon the policy of progress for which she has since become so distin- guished. In America, whose customs and usages were frequently but pale reflec- calism fell upon unusually fertile soil There were but few class distinctions left i to abolish, but America did what she | could. The customary burlesque upon the English way of ranking by pedigree, which during the early coloni: | days_had been such a serious rule of caste at Har- vard College, was straightway done away { with. The title of “mister,” originally an honorary term. was applied so indiscrimi- nately that great men were only to be dis- tinguished by the absence of all title. Ap. prentices thenceforth discarded their leather aprons and breeches in favor of second-hand of their employers, while the maid s spurned the short owns and petticoats of domestic manu- | tacture, by which clumsy livery they had | been readily recognized whenever they went abroad. As a result of this equaliz- ing tendency all the early Republicans med to live upon the same general plane of prosperity, so that when Laf. ette paid us one of his triumphant visits he exclaimed in bewilderment, “But where are the people!’ The political and socfal movements which became such noteworthy features of the nineteenth century necessarily ut scted society in all its branches. In Eng- and the various commercial, manufactur- ing and philanthropic reforms incident to the early part of the century ameliorated social conditions, sandwiching the - creasingly substantial tween the bruti conservative classes. Prominent the overturning forces of the new cent was the invention of the cotton gin by American, Eli Whitney. England { previously invented the { an ingenious machine for - spinning and | was anxious to divert to her markets the }cnwm from our Southern planta The crops. however, were most unprofi able because of the tenacity with whic the cotton adhered to the fiber. Afier many experiments Eli Whitney, encour- aged by Mrs. reen of Revolutionary memory, devised a clumsy machine which could perform the work of hundreds of men. In it the planicrs foresaw tho possibilities of untold wealth which the eventually realized. “In that rude log hut of Georgia,” says Barnes, ‘“cotton was crowned king and a new era was opened for America and the world.” In England this invention brought about a state of affairs not essily comprehended by the conservative manufacturers. Re- senting the abolition cf the hand looms worked by weavers in_their cottages as described in George Eliot's “Silas Ma ner.,” the people bitterly opposed the inno- vations of machinery, succumbing even- tually because compelled to do so by their employers. and perceiving dimly that tha new contrivances wouli give employment to thousands where one would have for- merly made a living. The masses were next ground hetween the wheels of com- petition. Early in the century manufa turers desirous of makirg large profits by means of cheap labor threw men out of employment and took on women and children to tend their looms. For a lon time the public conscience was hardened middle masses 3 fostered by | French revolution | ing them restless with a sense of injus-’ privileges. | tlereagh, whose blind conservatism had | resting_upon the | Italy, as punishment for her con- | tions of foreign thought, the new radi-1{ team engine and | A CENTURY OF SOCIAL LIFE AND INFLUENCES Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. PR S OF TWO CENTURIES. | to the £ hat pauper children were sent by the bargeiul > the manufact g towns, where they died rapidiy or were | crippled for life. 1 employment of | weary hours in a to_pernicious re- | p of the homs, in 1 d in dead- ry most iabor mutuai impr mendous spread of sc ng under- current toward ¢ n of capi- | t= r which ing out iato ams of the twen- naged mighty How grav tury. th hall be mai is one of st D | th Lhe st pu ympathy was | turned upon the piteousness of child labor by Lord ., who_did for the littie ones of what Wilberforce did for acks breaking stories ear-old worker: the gsing on all heir_ waists by reperts of nd Ashley’s e ment finally aroused t although it < that sy ression philan- children, es in bring- more than forbidding the dark pl y the boys of the workhous: chimneysweep, { factory and Yorksti led th cramped and painful lives. It is interes ing to i that the chain of benevolence in which iames of Wilberforce, A ley, Mrs. Southey, Mrs. Brown i Dickens form such’ important lin | has been continued in our days by Lady Burdett-Coutts, whcse sympathies Dick- ens enlisted 1 e work. In America of moderat nfortabl iren of the family 1800 led far more i in t newly Tive d count 3 pm drew eavily upon all its re es was held t a higher valuation. From this has de- veioped the “Young America” of 1900, whose manifest y is to both the promise and des of the thoughtful. Dressed in colonial days like goodwife and goodman cut short, these children vived the dangers and hardships dent to the pioneer life beguiling its t 8004 ¢ mes w in the modern curric oversunp the the new ot s s wonder if we are rob hardihood and manhood bing the of our race by supplying its youth with bicycle and_baseball and by smoothing away the ob: < whose surmountings brought out the best in the old-time chil- dren, With all the inereased valuation put wupon child life In America compare« wih that of Tope, h In our forefathers’ day wa 1 ker well in the background, seldom seen and never heard, consequently lack- ing in that onsciousness which only foo prominent in his juvenile suc- cessors. At the portals of the eighteenth century glants in literat were imperfously knocking. clearing t for the horde of writers, gra ay. prolific a poetic, humorou jrie, w < to-day in easy occt v. On th ._ went great authors at this time con picuous b absence. In France the keptic or a time hel viable and transient sw < living, but his writings belong, with Schil- ler's, to the elose of the preceding cen- tury he powerful influence of t ypedist and the and stam rma the physician: power ig plainly traceable in the writings f Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Se Moore, Shelley : arly in the century S d with his minstrelsy, : ‘his way out o At the beginnir tury American li r he wrote of the nineteenth cen- ature was but an an- nex to that of drawing from Sydney Smith the contemptuous query. “In_the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?’ Washington Irving first received recog on abroad, then James Fenimore Coop , and to-day even the witty canon of St. Paul's would be ybliged to admit the Americ m to uthorship stands abrea he Eng- lish in the four quarter the globe Literature both affec soclety of the d many of the evi tury have become prac at its close. and e and reflected the Through literature at the dawn of the cen- ally nonexistent rn. society has largely influenced uraged literature. Note—This study, by Mrs. Charlotte Brewster Jordan, will be concluded om | next Friday. BIG ELEPHANTS THAT DO EVERYTHING BUT TALK One of the Features of the Big Men- agerie of Ringling Brothers’ Circus. Profassor Lockhardt's elephants are one of the great features of the Ringling Bros.' circus, announced to show in San Francisco for a week, beginning Septem- ber 19. These bulky animals are put through a course of tricks truly nmazinr, They play musical instruments, hoarsely sing. heavily dance, stand on their head: form pyramids—in fact, do pretty near! everything but thread a needle and rcad Shakespeare. Professor Lockhardt ha settled once for all the claim made by some animal students that the elephant is the most intelligent of all the wil cles. There are twenty-five elephants in this The quickness of their movements in spite of their mountainous burden of flesh is quite as puzzling as the almost hum ture of their performance. The Ringling Bros. are justly proud of this item in their Jist of circus values. In faect, the menag- erfe part of the Ringling Bres.' show is the remarkably rare and fine collection of wild beasts in this department of the circus. The lions, tigers, deer. camels, bears, buffaloes. yaks, gnus, a giant hip- popotamus, a zebra, an ostrich, monkey perrots, cockatoos, ete., justify this di. tinetion. 'he horses are a show in themselves on account of their fina quality, ood keeping and evident contentment. 'All lovers of the animal kingdom, domestic or other- wise, will find cllanly of enjoyment and in- struction in the menagerie tent of the Ringling big shows. Mary Walsh, a2 widow, 69 years old, was accidentally killed at 11 o'clock last Wed- nesday night in her residence at 1328 Scott street by falling downstairs. The old lady had been subject to fainting spells, and it is supposed that she was seized with ore of these while turning out the hall light at the head of the_ stairs. er grown daughter, Miss Rose Waish, resided with her. 3 Body Identified. The body which was picked up in the bay Monday has been identified as that of Bert D. Weldon, a resident of East Oakland. Weldon jumped from the ferry- boat Bay City on August 20. He had been suffering from disease for some time and ‘was despondent. g < staEB = SIS Highbinder Heavily Fined. Chung Ging, a Chinese highbinder, was convicted by Judge Fritz yesterday of rrying a revolver and ordered to pay a :ll of $125, with the alternative of 125 days in the County Jail. spe- | herd, making it the largest in captivity. | na- | proudly rated abo®c all others beceuse of | Mrs. Mary Walsh Accidentally Killed, | | ST. BRIGID'S CHURCH DEBT TO BE LIQUIDATED Grand Bazaar to Be Held in Mechan- ics’ Pawilion for That o0se. 8t. Brigid's parisfl contemplates holding a grand bazaar in the Mechanics’ Pavilion | from October 6 to 20 for the purpose of | raising funds for building its new church. | When completed the edifice will be one of the finest in the city. A meeting was held vesterday in St. Brigid's Convent Hall and a large number of members of the | church attended. Rev. John Cottle, pas- | tor of the parish, outlined the work and arrangements were definitely made for holding the fair, which promises to sur- pass anything of its kind held in this city in years. Each booth will be arranged within an | apartment of pretty architectural design | ana artistic finish. The refreshment booth will have at its disposal a garden spof where amid palms, | ferns and flowers the tables will be ar- ranged. Mrs. Frank Tillman, Mrs. George Barron, Mrs. H. A. Hornlein and a: ants will preside over the booth. A castle with an arbor will be under the | direetion of Mrs W. Shannon, Miss | Mary MeKew, Mi gxle Gorevan and aids An Alhambra and Mikado booth will be attended by Mrs. LuKe Robinson, Mrs. Titurcio Parrott, Mrs. J. N. Wilson, M Louise Gaillard and attendants. A fortress will be ruled by the graduates of St. Brigid's Convent president; Mr: B M. Desmond, vice president; rs. F. Enright, secre- M. Cooper, treasurer; Miss L. M. Power, Galvin, s W. er, Miss A Mrs. J. Kentzel, Miss L. English, J. Duff; Miss 8. Healey, Mrs. McGurren, Miss D, | Jennings. Miss Toohey, Miss J. A. Smith, Miss B Kenvedy, Miss T. Brown, assiat: ants. ‘The Palestine booth will be attended Mrs. M. £hea, Mrs. T. R. Turner, Miss T. Brown, assistants. The Arctic palace will be looked after | by Mrs. John Allen, Mrs. John Gilmartin, Mrs. William J. Clasby, Mrs. A. E. Hen- ricks and aids. To ‘“The Abbe Mrs. J. F. Sullivan, Mrs. J. Ivancovich, Mrs. P. J. Thomas, Mrs. J. T. McCormick and Mrs. C. Al Kenniff will devote their time. The positions of the booths in the Pa- vilion will be selected by the ladies at a meeting to be called by the pastor for the | purpose. An effort will be made at the Pazhar to materially diminish the debt of $43,900 at present resting on the church. —_——————— McGrew Appointed Messenger. N Port Collector Jackson vesterday ap- pointed H. G. McGrew from the eligible list as messenger in the department of First Dnmui*( ollector Farley, In place Lof Thomas Kernan.