The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1900, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCIS( ‘0 CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 1900. BURNED IN RIS D WHILE ASLEEP Tragic Death of Charles Gensler, an Aged Barber. TIVOLI WILL CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF VERDI i | ———————— COUNCILMEN WILL BE PUT ON RACK Certain Signed Statements to Be the Subject of Inquiry. Water Company’s Attorneys Try to Show City’s Legislators Did Not™ Properly Investigate Value of Plant. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Oct. 12. All of the members of the Oakland City | Couneil have been summoned as witnesses | in the water rate sult. and all were pres- | ent in court to-day | with trepidation the time when they will be called upon to tell what they know of the passing of the now famous water rate ordinance. No doubt much of their con- cern is occasioned by the fact that they | may have to explain certain signed state- ments alleged to have been made by them after the present suit was com- “the apparently awalting | | CHARLES DANA GIBSON FINDS A NEW “GIRL” Tl | | | 11 ASKS HELP FROM UNIVERSITY MEN | President Jordan Explains Financial Difficulties of Stanford. Calls Attention to Proposed Constitu- tional Amendment Which Will Relieve Palo Alto of Its Embarassment. St i BERKELEY, Oct 12—The first of the student gatherings which will be held évery two weeks at the University of C: ifornia took place to-da Tde Wheeler ¢ £ Cal meeting. B s the studen there was a large number of Dr. Jordan was pres port of the university nal elat Stanford Jr. University, voted on at the next He ex- dents President V o the good old o hapel. 1 believe that come together and But_since we g we m y week or two, so that w. mas kuow good to together I every morn Jordan There s some one here glad is going to speak to you ) with trouble on_ h 1 It ¥ h tel educa here at the mother university. It a pleasure to hear from our good & Dr. Jordan.” about President Jordan sald in part: “T have come to speak to you about a difficulty Stanford is in, which can be helped only by an amendment to the State constitution. at_constitution called the worst docu civilized people lived has been improved hv some sixty amf-’n'nant: It makes gooed business for lfie lawyes The endowment grant made Lo Stanford was drawn manner. to receive any property by bequest or to hold any outside the State. There several valuable pleces of property wh we shall recefve should this amendmen pass. Mr. Stanford’s brother wishes leave his property in Ub In & ver y It does not allow the university give the Legistat: the power to free the property held 1 t for the support of the universit e ENEEEEESEIS—————— 4 the work partiall troved, es for clers and oce American supplied Chines r a dozen d. The Chi- them in ded manner, This is not| one man_ to a man in the who has not 3 | barbarism of | vewitness. Some excruciatingly re- | elieve them. | n the river| sing your boat. xers killed in action, for no other he blood thirsti- | of some soldier, ace, which is the river port | 2 two coolies who had been tow- | 1 esian boat, lay down to rnlJ etion of their task and were ur Russian soldiers, thrown | er and while swimming were | and we shot to death. and hogs along the river bank | iving off human flesh. ana along the d rivers horrible sights are wit- d the stench of putrid flesh is are buried and there are > such as are found in most rier rtries, conseque: the dogs and hogs are the only scavengers. fo amps, as the | me | up more hey have been tired feciing at harvest and to take to the uperate, generously allowing folk to pore over the cuisine, This year it is to be different. That is there is such a steady demand for < books. the word among the tice. There will | ed for each depart- and these will hoid medicine dances in_the kitchens residences. Extra tons of nightly of the various coal and ext being orde As faet as these are used w be ordered, as the idea Is | to guard against interruption of any sort. The head man of each group will be | known as the “chef.” From a pedestal he will shout passages out of the rec volumes. and his assistants, who will officially designated as “cooks,” will carry out his orders. For instance, If a cake needs shortening. eggs, butter, lard, flour and other ingredients. there will be a *cook”” taining these articles, and it will be his duty to throw them accurately into the mixer. A little good judge of distance. It may be a lit- tle confusing at first, but constant prac- tice will bring order and victuais out of chaos This unique dinner is belng arranged by an entertainment committee. It is the desire of the committee to present a din- ner that will ee with all the *“har- vesters.” They do not want to hear any regrets after it is all over. For that rea- son the committee has conducted a secret inquiry to ascertain to what department in the science of each “farmer” Be | stationed at each receptacie con- | ractice will make him a | a supplies for the larders are | Roast committee—Dr. Smith, Charles C. Hu Dessert committee—W. O. Henn. Charles N. Feck, Herman Krusi, Henry Landsberger The waiters for this dinner will be among the swellest things that have hap- ened to date. They will wear claw- ammer coats, trousers with pronounced creases in them and white aprons. Amon, those who will twirl the trays on the end Lo McCormick, Van Orden, Harper | hes. George T. Wright. of thelr fingers are: A. W. Pattiani, W. M. Rank, E. D. Rue, Henry Sevening, R. H. Swayne, P. 8. Teller and W. B. Wellman. -IOSHUA TEVIS OF OAKLAND IS DEAD OAKLAND, Oct. 12.—Joshua Tevis, aged 79 years, a brother of the late Lloyd Tevis, died to-day at his residence, 1257 East Twelfth street. 0ld age was the cause of death. The deceased retired from active life many Years ago. ——— No Damages for Deadhead. OAKLAND, Oct. 12—The Oakland Rafl- road Company has demurred to the com- plaint of ex-Policeman Henry McCloy, who asks for $20.000 damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained In a col- lision at Shattuck and Alcatraz avenues. The company sets forth that Mcuioy fails to state wh!tl:wrh he was a passenger v hire or whether h for, hire or whother Do e, ciaing free | rubbed hard when Attorney Hayvne again brought up the subject of the twelve wells at Alvarado, which were drilled, it is claimed, to tap the former Oakland Water Company's source of supply. Watkinson testified that he was present at certain meetings of the Council when the fixing of the water rates was dis- cussed last spring, but could not remem- ber whether he stated at any of these meetings that the twelve wells could pro- duce 3500000 gailons of water a day. How- ever, he would not_deny that he made such a statement. fled yesterday that the flow was at the most but 100,000 gallons a day. Figeen Fanciers Organize. OAKLAND, Oct. —The American Runt Club, an organization of runt pigeon fanciers, has been formed with the fol- lowing officers: Dr. M. Seltridge; vice prest- M d; secretary and treae- (‘hlfler members: W, . Fawett, Judgs President. dent, J. T, ompson. M. Selfridge, ala. ‘George H. ——————— Married a Clergyman, OAKLAND, Oct. 12.—Mrs. Louise Sophie Nordhausen and Rev. T. J. Jatho, former- ly of Oakland, were married yesterday afternoon at the Hotel Metropole, Rev. Hermann Gehrcke officiating. After the ceremony there was a reception and a Rev. and Mrs. Jatho will resido Sco. % Mr. Watkinson testi- | . | into a shapeless mass. bound and loaded with passengers came booming down the avenue. The child saw the car and waited for 1t to pass. Then he started to cross the track behind the car. Just then a fire en- gine out for exercise came out of Mead avenue. The engine and car were almost in collision, when the motorman, to prevent the impending crash, reversed the current and sent the car backward as fast ahead. The boy was ¢ and struck on the head by a projecting iron rod. As he fell the automatic fender catch was sprung ands the wheel guard caught the boy's body. He was con- scious of his rerll and in his struggle to save himself from being ground to death, shoved one arm through the glass front of the headlight lantern. grabbing the iron brake ratchet inside. The chiid clung there until the motorman, who had beeln signaled, brought the car to a stand- t A score of pedestrians and shopkeep- ers in the vicinity witnessed the oceur- rence, expecting to see the child (‘mshe(] ut as soon the car stopped he relen.led his hold a.nd aggered to his. feet. The child was uickly removed to his home, where Dr. %udle attended him. There is a degmled fracture of the !ku"‘ with high ever and delirium to- day from the shock. e arm that saved this ‘herolc voungster's lifs Is torn and cut from wrist to elbow by the glass that he smashed. The phvsician sees some danger in his condition. ““The car backed down on me,” said Al- bert to Mrs. A. Burroughs, who cares for it had been running | caught unawares | | | air by the sudden stopping Ife. bhis fall as he was huried through the of his fright- ened horse, the boy's skull would have been crushed on a cement sidewalk. As it was the lad sustained a severe concussion of the brain, a cut over the right eye and other lacerations about the face. About 11 o'clock this morning voung Evers borrowed a cart from a friend at Eleventh and Broadway and started for his home at 424 San Pablo avenue. The horse soon became unmanageabl and dashed out the avenue. finally runming into the sidewalk at Nineteenth street. Young Evers was hurled from the cart, striking the bale of hay and then fl"-i ing to the sidewnalk. he injured lad was attended at the Re- ceiving Hospital by Drs. Stratton and Ewer and later removed to his home. Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Oct. 12.—Marriage licenses were issued to-day to John Henry Still, 27 years of a!: and Nellie Eleanor Fowey, both of San Francisco: John August Hendricka: 36 Alameda. and. Matids Do tersen, 38, Oakland; Frank Thomas Bar- low, over 21, Oakland, and Mary Clair Ruppert, over 15, Alameda. PRt RS o o WIS ‘Will Address Yamg Men. ‘The service for young men at the Young Men's Christian Association, Mason and Ellis streets, to-morrow afternoon will be addr by Rev. John A. B. Wiiso: D.D. The hour of the service is 3 o' cm | | on the open board. Among them were Charles The | . | water company's attorneys| | | mined to bring out the fact| | 2 s were made was | | shown by the method with which the ex- | | 2 amination of Councilman Anson Barstow | | . was commenced this afternoon. After a| | preliminary question or two the Counefi- | | | was asked if I ad made a personal 3 {1 of the Co! a Costa Water | | Company’s plant before voting in favor | | | | of the present water ordinance. | | | _Before the witness could reply Robert| | Y. Hayne objected, on the ground that | | the Question involved the secret thoughts | of the witness. He quoted authorities to prove his conten He held that no or-| | = M dinance ever prepared would be worth a | | cent if a Councilman could be compelled - | to_state secret mental processes. doCH heon claimed that secret . | s were not involved, but that the | | v Council disregarded the testimony of | P & plaintiff's employves regarding the | a £ " | 8'\1; of the water Arn\i‘rln;'!‘n '\I:’;fll‘ B | PR - HE - -y We {1l show e saic ‘t | PE VERDL, THE GRAND OLD MAN OF ITALIAN OPERA, | |Councll was contralled by information re- | | AS HE APPEARED SIX WEEKS AGO AT HIS PALACE IN BUSSETO, | N,l;“d without the P"‘"Pl"@m“ ‘{:“ P)‘:“fllfi | ITALY. tiff's repres and at but little # 5 H | As n by - ME CONTEST 2T | ant or the proper return MISS GEORGIE HOWARD OF PHILADELPHIA, WHOSE STRIKING @ * pessmans Ao BEAUTY HAS TAKEN THE FANCY OF THE CREATOR OF THE at the : considered the point | - honoring me as a son of art, which 1s a link and wanted s ol ULTRA TYPICAL GIBSON GIRL. = 5 Snoies her sons far away horities. He accory ;5 . o o i 2 Jeserved his deciston until the case : 3 and 1 gain called, on Tuesday morning at 10 | v N f H : T have the | 5iolock, HARLES DANA GIBSON, ac-|with “the Gibson face” but with differ- New i e G. VERDL If ‘the corporation its point each cording to report, is about to be- | ent figure, will be required for the new 3 g Gaen £0r: tha Gelohia- | oceir) e pay s Sle Coun i Nt gin a new serfes of pictures for | series, and Mr. Gibson has decided that and most 1 - | Jout hat. be. Toveit wies b ShE one of the big magazines. These Miss Georgle Howard of Philadelphia is s e fine | a statement that he had not gm-u} plctures are to be somewhat dif- | best suited for the work before him e Thr\h Wil be f valuation ferent from the society sketches which | Miss a well-known model | e P3 voting for the | hrought the artist world renown highly valued in the ¥ 3 the ‘statements wil | PoTtraver of the Ame t « r to an embarrass- 1552 > vs Moore and Me. | @ deieisisiosfefrrferioreriosit ot Board of Trade Officers. - p l BERKELEY, Oct. Berkeley | presiden — not vote ro- (b i rate | Board of Trade has elected the following J. Mason; treasurer, First National Bank. | tn L FARMER HOLT FARMFR. VOOGT FARMER SMITH FARMER PLUMMER FARMERS WRIGHT AND MAURER. CALL CARICATURIST'S IDEA AS TO THE FIGURES CERTAIN WELL-KNOWN MEN OF ALAMEDA WILL CUT AT THE FORTHCOMING ANNUAL HARVEST DINNER " £t s ordinance that is being attacked In this £ present case?” & s After Judge Hart had overruled Mr. | Hayne's objection the witness replied that | . °y he did. i shing (11 What property did the Contra Costa | I Water Company have at the time the or- b dinance was passed?” | - After an argument lasting over a half- | ~ - | hour Judge Hart ruled that the question - hshing . h H F t d Th | was not a proper one. During his argu- | 3 g e P | ment Mr, McCutcheon took occasion to P f M d f EI ht Y Uld : <= WIll Prepare the Harvest Feast and There | wmds s ok Sz 2 Rare Presence of Mind o ear- - 4 el | Counciiman, He concluded by saying | e that the witness was about as competent A]h et A - | 2 Councilman as a schoolboy when he [ e g .y LSy Is Already a Big Run on Cuising |iemndass e & ert J. Rasch ‘Prevents Him Bein g William - . . It was here that m»l pxznn;‘l:'s al'o)l;- s Adams, §1. Wilam I3 | neys wanted to know about the Council- h El t C 11 £ eadep A Literature in Consequence. e e S e e | Crushed by Electric Car. . . 4 5 2 plant, and the examination was pnst-i e poned - President Watkinson occupied the stand | AL A“ry,,. Oct. 12.—There has been a |is best adapted, and a partial list of the | this morning again. examination | OAKLAND, Oct. 12—Quick action with | him, “and 1 smashed the glass to get a great on cook books in Alameda since | Sub-committees has been prepared. There WAs along practically the same lines as ' g gtreet-car fender and the display of 1 hold. for my hand. It was so quick that it 2t th may be some changes in the sub-commit- | the two previous davs. Watkinson testl- | 0" ool FUe 08 Py T rd of | T didn’t know what to do, but I just tried A < A that the male members when the enfertainment comitice | fed that be owned hares of stock in b i the | 35 n.rd as I could to save myself.” he 1'nit urch are expected to | 1562 FHeR, the eniertainment committee | the Contra. Costa: Water Compa His | elght-year-old Albert J. Rasch saved the | “ry, parents are separated, the ! ate the for the annual | they are as the: are arranged at present, | Wife's brother had five shares, his wife's | child from being mangled to death last | moxher T mu{ in Germany and the nner which is scheduled to take | according to oné of the members: '| cousin five shares and his wife's uncle, | night by the wheels of a swiftly moving | father lives in Mendocino County. Octobe: E year aboul’ ¢,1.q committee—Prainard C. Brown, R R e nn'\lmg‘ ! Hext Pailn Wesnus electrla eat. St o : the Unitarian church | rrank Clark. & W. Masiin, W. B. Kollmyer. | dealings. with {hé. City Councll for the | , The, accident, which nearly resulted In | SERIOUSLY INJURED IN N g commemor- committee—F. W, Voogt, Dr. W. 0. t 'the boy's frightful death, was surrounded & v | Smith, William D. Rogers, Willlam Baurhyte, | WAL°T company. - sually pecular circumstances. A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT T hay { by unusually pecuba miles r Fish committea—W. G. Tibbetts, Fraderick | Watkinson was called upon to give & trai Bifs : - o . been | Maurer, Frank D. Colburn, George C. Mur- | technical description of certain portions | The child had been sent from his home at| .0 (1 Oce 12 _Carl Evers, the 14- = But never before | dcek. of the company’s plant, but his testimony | 706 Twenty-seventh street on a household s nlri ¥ W on (:om"_ nsin e iven an impetus lF'M;f: rv‘om}[fl"{g—s:g Pfll;‘“ P1ur3m-r Ed- | was frequently interrupted by objections. | errand. As he was crossing San Pablo ‘V\‘M‘-(he.\'k‘txm ,\-{ - rr:];“fl:r)flw.l‘dn:r:; jles on | ¥in Orrett, F. W. cklen, James W.| The old sore the company was | gy B 5, > 3 g e g D ner hage S0on | Farrington. e ST S > avenue, above Mead, car S5 south-| .7, iing which nearly cost him his But for a bale of hay which broke | | — from State taxation, and all ¥ personal perty held and uséd by the university m county and municipal taxation. We are the only university in the | world,” he satd, “which pays State taxes. |Itisa nique but not altogether pleasant position.”™ ' TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES, HHUNTINGTON, W. Va., Oct. in this city went on strike to-day, demanding $1 more on'a car. NEW YORK. Oet. 12 th convicted of m .'c years of age, was to-d: preme Court of Hudson years' t tmprisonment Wis., Oct v rendered a waukee Street Railway case, reversing ruling of the lower court and upholding the extension by the Common Counell of the street railway company’s PH satt, of the Penn: to-day awarded dect LADELPHIA, Oot —President Cas- vania Rallroad Company, tracts for 130,000 tons steel rails for which the company will pay of $1.900,000 for the entirs The contract, it is understood. is di among the Federal, Carnegle. Cambria, ania and National Steel companies. CHICAGO, Oct. 12 —Twelve prominent lators on the Chicags open Hoard of Trade wer $26 a ton, or a total order. arrested to-day in a rald made by the poll Albertson, president of the open board. general charge made is It is stated that eighty more warras been ismued in connection with the atiempt to suppress the alleged gambling in grain and orovisions. SANTA BARBARA, Oct. 12—Ome of the 10« ton girders being put In place on the steel tres- tle across Hollister avenue, about five miles west of this city, fell this afternoon, seriousiy injuring one of the workmen. The accldent was caused by the breaking of a tackle hauling up one end of the girder. The big plece of steel will be put Into place to-morrow. —_——- For the Imperial Treasury. BERLIN. Oct. 12—A Shanghal dispatch dated October 11 says the Chinese Cus- toms Bank has remitted 300.000 taels to the Imperial Treasury and is preparing to send more. mu Fever Raging. BERLIN, Oct. 12—Typhus fever is rag- ing in the Sixty-eighth infantry at Cob- lentz, and also in the garrisons at Saar- cken. @it e i RO 1 Look out for the story of i San Rafael’s “House of Mys- tery” that will be printed in the Sunday Call of October 14. If you have not seen the house already you will wish to pay it a visit after you have read this article. I L o “‘gambling tn grai