The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN WEBSTER HURTS FEELINGS OF SUPERVISORS uperintendent Denies the Right of Board to Put Questions. | — Members Pronounce His Strictures Discourteous—City Engineer Files Report on the Lake Mer- ced Water Sheds. calls the board to account for directing | m to reply to & question which he con- siders is not the board's business. | The letter, which is self-explanatory, | toliows: | the Homorable Board of Supervisors: I nformed that your homorable board adopt- & resolution in the foliowing words: Resoived. Mr R H. Webster, Super. % | approve said thereof to Mr eer made e report that Lake Me: ol Appeal Cases. GRAPE-NUTS. DID NOT LEAVE HIS JOB. Down Awy Amount of When Properly Fed. clerk in a large store in give up my position at once and g e watering place for my I d not it would only be a question of 2 short time until death would claim me. 1 did not feel able to give up my position, ¥ condition kept getting worse, and v my skin turned to a sort of green- , appetite left and I was ughly discouraged. About this time our grocer, by istake, sent up a package of Grape-Nuts instead of some other goods ordered. I thought I would try it, baving no idea that it id in any way bemefit my health, but he first day after using the food I no- ticed a decided change in my condition. My severe headache did not appear as| al, and I began to have an appetite. ought at first it was the effect of a | medicire I was taking, but one of the | family suggested that it might be Grape- ts. for Grape-Nuts had the reputation being a great merve buflder. In order be sure, T quit taking any imedicine ver, but continued the use of Grape- or- wou - eighth day the dizzincss en- disappeared and the headaches were very slight. I felt almost like a new | man, and in three weeks after I began using the food was entirely well, and am now in better health than I have ever been. My own case proves the truth of the claim that Grape-Nuts food is a great lizer and brain food."—Wm. J. Weeds, 1717 Holmes street, Kansas City, Mo. People are graduaily jearming that hezlth depends on food, and the wiser the seiection of food the more perfect the condition of heaith. Grape-Nuts food is the most scientifically made food in exist- ence, and Is perfectly cooked and ready for instant use. l" { @ horse and buggy belonging to Al Dodge | | street. =ai | what action | sumed that the attorneys would prepare | m e terday afternoon as arranged. When the Judges had taken their seats on the bench an affidavit was ted by D. Collins. the defendant’s attorney, that he was engaged in Judge Hunt's court and could not be present. District Attorney Byington was ready, but after consuita- tion the Judges decided to hear the argu- ments to-morrow afternoon, provided the off murder trial did not interfere and if it A4 the arguments would be_per- | emptorily heard Saturday morning. Seven | cases in Judge Mogan's court were con- tinued till Saturday pending the decision on the appeal cases. e ——— Charged With Grand Larceny. Peter Morrison was booked at the City Hall Police Station yesterday on the charge of grand larceny. Morrison stole of the San Francisco Theatrical Guide, and after driving it away stripped the ani- | mal of its harness and undertook to sell the same. He was caught in the act and placed behind the bars. —— For Damaging a Cable. | The Western Union Telegraph Company | ibel in the United States District yesterday against the schooner | iide to recover $8000 for damages to a submarine cable belonging to the plaintiff. ———— | A Victim of Alecohol. W. H. Cawdell, a colored man, was found dead yesterday morning on the| steps of the lodging house, 184 Jessis | He had heen on a spres for more | than a month and was going to his room | when death overtook him. Pty S NO CIVIL SERVICE IN COUNTY OFFICES Continued From Page One. In the | Service | to the Supreme Court. however, the Civil n n_is powerless to act against iversaries. | Garber of counsel for the plain- | t he had no comments to make case. He was satisfied, said, ciient's position was the cor- | and that he wouid remain in the tiff sald either rmed or reversed by the | Appeliate Court. s | missioners Richard Freud and John ad no comment to make. Mr. he had not decided as yet he would advise, but pre- Fre of future action. Mr. Quinn had | e decision. He had not | ith the purport of the de- | uld retain his views until later. Out at the City Hall there is an air of | uiet satisfaction. Those who have not faced the ordeal of examination mow | feel more certain of their ground, while who have and who passed, and who hat for life they were provided for, | e to see the soundness of the court's However, the end is not yet ose-alierr Rimiiety | PHEELAN BLAMES SPOILSMEN.| Declares Suit Never Should Have | Been Brought. | Mayor Phelan gave out the foilowing statement on Judge Hebbard's decision: yDvery reform has & hard rosd to the Republican platform ces are pledged to strictly and fm- the provistons of article XITT nation as to their | e the literal and narrow 4 of article XI of the I belleve the Supreme ? the civil serviee provi- s to take t men thus and are thrown out on the street, bhow faithfully they serve, administration. In fact, t is no « whatever to faithful service of the | on of course affects only the so- | y officers and leaves civil service | in the Board of Public Works, Board of Election, Fire and Police commissions. | k decided that there was nothing in T constitution to prevent examina- | s for these departments being beid. The | bject of the people in adopting section | t5 bring all the offices in a consolidated | ty government under the civil | ons. The people voted for this | ., the charter-makers provided for ith and now by technical construc. | n an attempt ia made to destroy it. We will ®90d fight and hope to recover the lost i on our appeal | JAMES D. PHELAN, Mayor. A Spanish Bunko Game. Spanish bunko game, which has| been exposed frequently during the last | ¥ vears, lost a victim in this city | week by mere chance. The usual pre- liminary letter from the Spanish officer who was In prison, offering one-quarter of | a fortune of $250,000 to the recipient If he uld take care of his daughter, now In a was received by a well-known | m The Spanish ! officer, as | explained that his mother had been | elative of this New York man, | he appealed to him. He asked t »w Yorker to cable to his daughter at an address in Spain if he would take | care of her. The New Yorker had never | heard of this bunko game and decided to nd the dispatch and see what came of He went to the cable office and asked the manager if {here was such a place in Spain as that mentioned in the letter. The manager told him that there was, and the New Vorker pulled out his lettér to make sure of the address. Is that letter from a S prison who wants you to daughter and his manager. | | | | nish officer in ke care of his fortune?” asked the “How aid sald the New Yorker. know that? A man came in here last week with a lar letter and sent a cable dispatch. It looks & bit queer. I think that I would inyestigate if [ were you* The New Yorker brought the letter fo the Sun office, and when he was informed that it was part of a Spanish bunko game he was disgusted and surprised. From all over the United States have come storles of victims of this fraud, but it is evidently stil a new story to many people. ————— A Religion of Lazinss. Kieff papers give particulars of an ex- traordinary religious community in that city, whose chief tenet is idleness. They are known as the Melevantchina, from the name of their founder, Corrado Mal ing. who was from a lunatie asy- lum in 1872 and bes pagate his strange sect. 5’3"— upon the parable of the lilles which “10fl not, neither do they spin,” the Male- vantchina reject all work except that of the oid, wear coarse, som ments gnd restrict themselves to a of bread and cheap fruits—London —————————— Last year thirty-nine millions sterling ‘Wm'ufihum. mnnl-uflz o hem- diet Ex- and thir- e same, he said, and not belng | py 600D PAVEMENT 10 BE LAID ON SOME STREETS Supervisors Order Improve- ments in Downtown District. | Grant Avenue the First to Be Paved. Ordinance Illegally Disposing of Old Material Adopted. St The desire of the Board of Supervisors office is bearing fruit, and it is possible that the present municipal administration will have at least threes blocks covered with a modern pavement as a monument to its energy in the management of mu- nicipal affairs. The board yesterday directed the Board of Public Works to pave Grant avenue from O'Farrell street to Bush with as- phalt on a basalt and cobblestone foun- dation, at an estimated cost of $7087, less the sum of $250 to be contributed by prop- erty owners. Supervisor Reed, who evidently desires to keep up the good work, Introduced the following resolution providing for the pav- ing of the block on Market street from d to Sansome, which was referred to | the Street Committee: Whereas, An undue amount of traffic from the business portions of that part of the city east of Montgomery s and north of Mar- dtv i to Montgomery street on ause of the smooth pave- ¥ street, thus often con- h travel not natural to ntinuation of the pave- from Second to Sutter will largely relieve the \ pavemest from the business portions to Markst strest via Sansoms street, , ¢ re, be it Resolved, That the Board of Public Works hersby requested to pave Market street from d to Sutter and e streets with a . modern pavement, In order to pro- an entrance to Markst street from the s centers of the over a smooth and street pavement other than by way of Montgomery street. The ordinance diractin blic Works to pave Cla. the Board of v, Sacramento 8 om- to Sansome and Pine street from San- ne to Battery with asphalt on a con- crets foundation was laid over for one week. The Board of Public Works had recommended an inferior pavement of bitumen on a besalt base instead of on a concrete base, as recommended by the Street Committee. As the charter pro- vides that the Board of Public Works must make the recommendation, the pav- ing of the streets named may be indefi- nitely tied up. The Board of Public Works submitted and Washington streets from Mon er y_opening up another route | | | | { | | | | | | | taking morphine for the alleviation of | | quested him to write her a prescription | | | refused to do so, to pave a faw streets before retiring from | FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, MATTERS OF INTEREST TO TAXPAYERS. | 1900. % held to be a wise and salutary latlon, but it was unreasonable to clk that ugr, corn husks, potato peelings and an infinitestmally small proportion ot ashes could not be burned as fuel in a furnace. That was not the class of refuse aimed at by the ordinance. AURELIA B. GARDNER ENDS HER SUFFERINGS Aged Widow, After Years of Sick-| ness, Commits Suicide by Swal- | lowing Morphine. | Mrs. Aurelia B. Gardner, a widow 6 years old residing at 3410 Sixteenth street, dled yesterday morning from the effects of morphine taken by herself with sul- cidal intent. She had been in the habit for years of | ited Dr. Miller at 1044 Valen- | pain. She v Saturday night and re- | cia street last for a palliative mixture, the chief ingre- | dient in which was morphine. Dr. Miller | did so, and Mrs. Gardner had the pre- | ufl%}lnn filled. The directions given her | by Dr. Miller were to take onlv a tea-| spoonful of the mixture every two hours, | Mrs. Gardner took half the contents of | the vial at one dose and wrote a note to Dr. Miller to refill the prescription, but he | knowing that sufficient time had not elapsed for Mrs_ Gardner to have consumed the contents of the vial. Immediately after the note had been dispatched, the poison began to take ef- | fect, and Dr. Soper was called in. He was unable to get Mrs. Gardner out of the | comatose condition into_ which she had | sunk, and she died at 2 o'clock in the | morning. —_— HAPPEIGS I LODGE AEOMS Ancient Order of Workmen. Deputy Grand Master Danforth, Grand | Recorder Spencer and Grand Recorder Miss Loretta Donnelly of the Degree of Honer pald a visit last week to Uklah, where there was an enthusiastic meeting in behalf of both branches of the order. After the meeting the visitors were the guests of honor at a banquet tendered by | the members of the lodge at Ukiah. | The visit to Valleyr Lodze last Wednes- day night by the membership of the San | Francisco extension committes was an| exceedingly interesting one to the large | number of members and visitors who were | present. The meeting was addressed by Past Grand Master Workman Barnes, | Colonel Walter Molloy, secretary of the f | 3 | committee; William ~Broderick, 8. G. | Whitney, P. L. Archibald, Will J. Beatty, | E. F. Joy, J. J. Hayes, H. Grimshaw and Deputy J.'J. Cunningham. he grand recorder’s office is getting a | lot ot literature ready for distribution | during the early part of the coming year. | At a meeting of the corporate directors last week the issuing of the officlal organ of the order was turned over to the former | publisher, W. H. Barnes. During the g;sz two weeks Los Gatos | Lodge No. 75 has initiated sixteen candl dates. On the night of the 10th inst. Har. mony Lodge initiated eleven candi Division No. 5, A. 0. H. At the meeting of Division No. 5, A. O. the following table, showing the cost of | paving the various streets pamed with | H, 1ast week, there was a’ large| various pavements: attendan Among the visitors were STREETS. Pine street The ordinance au | Public Works to di terfal removed ose of all street ma- the public streets further use thereon to £ the city government desiring pass standing that the charter ovides that such material * | must be removed to the corporation yard. The Board of Public Works was directed for proposals and to enter 2 contract for the comstruction of ers on the city lot at Eleventh and Bryant streets for street sweepings, at an estimated cost of $5005. Th rney was requested to to whether or not the may be charged with any of the expense incurred in resetting the corner cesspools and curbings of unaccepted streets or for the performance of any other street work on such streets; also what if any portion of the expense must be borne by the prop- | erty owners. The resolution the Presidio and ranting permission to erries kaflroad Com- o7 14,357 | horizing the Board of.| Z | Irish _jig dancing, Messrs. 2 | Lynch 5.297 | ing, Jose) | | % ihe materfal was finally | at the last held meetin | § B | entertaining programme Courty J. Donohue, Judge | Michael Coone: v. Father Barry and | Lynch. the initiation of | twe! strangers, the good of the order | committee took charge and presented an | composed of | Introductory, | the following numbers: Prestdent Frank S. Drady; plano solo John M. Miller; address, Judge M. Cooney; remarks, Thomas A. Kerrigan; R. and J. tenor solo, John M. Glennon; ad- | J. Donohue; selections, Emerald rge Lyneh; re- | . Father Barry; irish jig danc- | h_Kelieher; vocal duet, R. G.| Drady, S. Colman; tenor solo, E. P. Hogan; vocal solo, Frank C. Sulilvan: song, P. J. Heney; remarks, T. P. O'Dowd. | el auiig i Ancient Order of Foresters. I T. J. Johnston of Court Justice presided | at g of the board of | Chief Rangers of the Ancient Order o Foresters, held in Foresters” Hall, and W, | C. Roberts of Court Eureka performed | pany to set back temporarily four feet the | south curb of Union street between Hyde and Larkin was finally adopted. The res- olution provides that before the exercist of the privilege the company must file a bond for $10.000 that it wiil within five years reconstruct its cable system and will lay its tracks in the center of the| street named. Supervisor Wilson called attention to the fact that the board had no legal right to grant permission for spur track privi- leges, though many such privileges have been granted In the past. Wilson quoted the charter to show that the selling of a franchise to the highest bidder was the | only manner in which the privilege could be properly granted. The question was referred to the City At dinance granting permission to the Cit; ‘Warehouse Company to build a spur tracl connecting with the belt road was de- feated. The Board of Public Works was author- 1zed to receive proposals and enter into a contract for sweeping the public streets from January, 1901, to June 30, 1901, at a | cost of $50,000. SUPERVISOR D’ANCONA 1S SUED FOR DIVORCE Wife Charges Him With Technical Desertion—Other Actions Insti- tuted and Decrees Granted. Dr. Arnold A. D’'Ancona, a member of the present Board of Supervisors, was meade the defendant in an action for di- vcrce filed yesterday by Lillian M. D’An- ccna. Mrs. D'Ancona alleges technical desertion as cause of action. Dr. D'An- cons was murried at St. Helena, Napa County, on September 29, 18%. Since the marriage husband and wife have resided i1 this city. Their home life was alway:s strposed to be.amicable. The suit now dissipates this supposition. Suits for diverce were also filed yester- day by Dalsy V. Keeney against Frank W. Keeney for desertion, Mary J. Booth against George H. Booth for failure to prcvide and Julla M. Graham agalnst James H. Graham for crueity. Decrees of divorce have been granted Victor E. Oisen from Bernardina Olsen for desertion, Mina J. de Berna from Car. los F. de Berna for cruelty and Georgs E. Luce from Geraldine Luce for deser- tion. — e GARBAGE ORDINANCE UPHELD ON APPEAL The Conviction of G. Valents Is Re- versed on Appeal for Lack of Evidence. A decision was handed down by Judges Cook and Dunne and Judge Burnett of So- noma County yesterday in the appeal case of G. Valente, a scavenger, convicted in the Police Court of violating ordinance 12 regulating the disposal of “garbage by sending it to the crematory. The defendant appealed against his con- viction on the grounds that the ordinance was an unreasonabl- exercise of lice power; that it was vold because it ‘did not provide a_ maximum charge to he made by the Sanitary Reduction Works, and for lack of evidence. The judgment, which was written by Judge Burnett and con: in by the other Judges, was that the conviction of the lower court be reversed on the ground of lack of evidence. The ordinance was torney after an or- | | | the duties of secretary. Deputies of courts Robin Hood, Eureka, §tar of the Mission | Twin_Peaks, Apollo, Bournemouth, Jus tice, Sherwood Forest, Santa Amanda Garfleld and America presented interest- | ing reports of the conditions of their re- | spective courts and spoke of the increase in the order during the month of October. | The work of the board of deputies has been quite effective, as the visits of the members of the courts have attracted a larger attendance and have resuited 1n 2 subtantial gain In the number of mem- ers Court Star ,of the Mission on last | Wednesday night had a smoker in its hall, which was attended by a larze number of | friends of the members. Samuel Sever- | ance, sub-chief, was the sire of the even- | ing, and under his direction there was a | good programme of musical and literary | numbers. There was plenty of smoking | material and light refreshments. Knights of Honor. The late Thomas H. Caswell, who was | the foremost Masonic cfficer of the world, | was a member of Saxony Lodge of tha | Knights of Honor, having Held his mem- | bership in the lodge for twenty-one y. L'} The late S8ven Gumbinner, who was a | past great sachem of the Improved Ozder | of Red Men and whose funeral took place last Wednesday, was also a Knight of | Honor, holding membership In Ivy ge. | At the meeting of Yerba Buena Lodgs, | on the 12th inst.. one candidate was ini- | tiated by the officers, who did the work fn a very creditable manner. There were 146 deaths during the month of October, six having occurred in this State. All these claims have been paid. —— e HOTEL ARRIVALS. GRAND HOTEL. |€ F Foster, Coronads Pa |3 C Monk, & w. Selma | J Greesba. : . Dutch Flat |J W Glenn, Stockton Mrs. R. Eiliott, Cal C Swain, W_Armstrong. I M Roberts, Potter Vy H D ercheval, Courtld D J Stubbs, Reno D K { T O P Dildock, Stanford | L Ricl Carson € Koberg, Healdsbg | W B Sherman & w,| F Gunley, Sonora | Miss Mitchell, Ione L Moore, Sonora R C Lawrencs, Boston W Dunlap, Mich J S Rowan, Crockett M O'Haloran, J T Grace,'S Rosa [~} . Sacramento F 14 Jacobs, Sacramento | W H Vaientine, Cal § Plerce, Fresno |G H Foster & w, Cal B Wood & w, TlI J M McClung, Ukiah Pascholly, Ariz (L J McFall, NevadaCy E Anturn L Angeles T “al =4 pl ockton Sholes, Topeka mith, L les ’ Rafael H Spring, w & child, | P C McCleary, Sacto Arcata |E Sweeney, Reno Christiensen, Alaska | W ¥ Knox,Sacramento Meyers. N Mexico | F C Hatch, N ¥ O McGlil, Woodland L O Stephéns, Fresno M Goldsmith, Stockton 0RO WRESMECHQANEAS O ! i agN qgarnnig4R / EEE..E i ERLE R Pk Oroviils | ed to fit up and furnish rooms and offices | needs. | A-Cig i 1ty llg ::l:fe%tylmlt in the exempiification of |- | will be the first company so OPPOSES DELAY N TELEPHONE LICENSE CASES Board Direets Tax Collector to Bring Them to a Conclusion. ? Committee Will Consider Mayor's | Veto of Exorbitant Demand for Ballot Paper—Morgue Build- ing Ordered Completed. AT e Supervisor McCarthy called attention at | yesterday’s meeting of the board to the | fact that persistent delays have marked the actions brought by the city against| the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for the payment of some $200,000 | in license taxes remaining due and un- | pald on its nickel telephone machines. | McCarthy explained that he was in court | last Friday when the case was called, | and though the telephone company’s at- | torney was ready to proceed the Tax Col- | lector’s attorney was not present and the | case was again postponed. The resolu- tion was adopted. It directs the Tax Collector to see that the action is brought | to a speedy conclusion. It says: | Whereas, The Tax Collector was instructed by resolution No. 357, dated April 33, 180, to collect the moneys due this caty and county for certain licenses from the telephome com- pany, then and now delinquent; an . Whereas, The said Tax Coilector pursuanat to ' #aid instruction did, on May 2 last, flle two complaints against the said telephone company in_the Superior Court: and Whereas, Many months have elapsed since then, and no further progress has been made, the cases having been postponed from time to time; and i Whereas, The lissues involved in the said actions are matters of hundreds of thousands of dollars to this city, the total amount of i | which 1s getting greater every day by reason ” of the telephone company’s continuous refusal | to pay any of the amounts due or any portions of them; therefore be it Resolved, That this Board of Supervisors is not satisfed with the manner in which the city’s_interests are being cared for, and the Tax Coilector is herbby instructed to see that | the above actions are brought to a conelusion and final judgment without one day of unneces- | sary delay. The Mayor's veto of the demand of the Secretary of State for $i25, peing for 2% reams of ballot paper used in the last election, was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Mayor's reason for his non-approval of the demand was that the price charged, 12 cents per pound, was exorbitant, certain paper houses having offered to furnish the same paper for 3 and 6 cents per pound. The Board of blic Works was direct- for various boards and officers in the City viz.: Board of Public Works, Jus- tice’s clerk, Board of Health, Election Commission, Civil Service Commission, Tax Collector and Justices of the Peace. The Auditor and Treasurer were direct- | ed to set aside out of the appropriation for urgent necessity the sum of $5500 for the purpose of moving and furnishing the rooms mentioned. { On motion of Reed the Board of Public | Works was directed to furnish fuller de-/ tails of what furniture the Sheriff’s office The Board of Public Works was author- | ized to complets and furnish the Morgue building; aiso to inclose the elevator | shaft in the Hall of Justice building at a | cost not to exceed $1600, to be paid out of | any moneys that may be remaining to | complete the building. The ordinance providing funds for the acquisition of land for St. Mary's square in two installments of $50,000 each was postponed for one week. An ordinance was passed to print order- ing the construction of sewers in dover, Crescent and East avenues, and providing for the creation of an assess- | ment district to pay the expense. An ordinance providing for placing a | roof over the photograph gallery on the Hall of Justice at a cost not to exceed $1600 was indefinitely postponed. | The Board of Public Works was direct- d to secure for the use of the city eleven ronze lamps, such as were formerly used to light the streets surrounding the City Hall, and which are now m!ssinfi, and to| replace the lamps that canrot be found | with others of similar pattern, the ex- | ense to be paid out of the surplus of 745 89 in the street lighting fund. The Quong Chow Chinese Benevolent Association was granted permission to lay, music in its building at 413 Pine | stredt in the mornings from November 25 to 29 till 2 a. m., and on November 30 till | § a. m. The period covers certain re- | ligious services. | A resolution was passed to_ print in which the Independent Electric Light and | Power Company was granted permission to install a tank with a capacity not ex- ceeding 10,000 barrels in which to store crude petroleum to be used as fuel under its boilers in block 465 of the Potrero. The Mayor was authorized to seil at ublic auction seven horses of the Fire partment. The Board of Public Works was author- | 1zed to explode blasts within the ecity Im- | its for grading purposes or for the pur- | pose of performing any street work. | Attorney Lane reported that the | ‘Widber property in Santa Clara County had been purchased at Sheriff's sale by the city of Francisco for 52000, or $350 less than the valuation set upon it by the board’s expert. The costs sale amount to 75, and taxes amounting to $4 30 are due upon the prop- " Fhe ordinance submittad by the Board of Public Works and intended to resulate the maintenance of automatic sprinklers in buildings and manufacturing plants was referred to the Fire Committee. The Federation of Mission Improve- ment Clubs petitioned for the placing of | fifteen I htsfiln various localities in the ssion district. M’ll’he Board of Public Works was au- thort: to make arrangements to have the street lamps lighted earlier in the evening and extinguished earlier in the morning than they are at the present ime. : %he National Athletic Club was granted rmission to give a boxing exhibition In | November. Tobin opposed the permit on the ground that the vileges been abused in the past. stated that the club had paid a license of $1000 at the be- ginning of the vear and was entitled to give one more entertainment before its expiration. Pythian Enights. The effect of the selection of San Fran- cisco as the place for the convocation of the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias in 1902 has aroused enthusiasm in the membership in the domain of Cali- fornia. Under the direction of Sir Knight Colonel Albert Richmond, a new degree team has been o d in Unity Lodge This organization proposes as to be able to present it in e b parfect manner before the su- me body. A new company of the Phiform Rank has also been organized in that lodge. It will be equipped according to the eral order recently issued, namely, United States ca regulation, with the ex of the emblems of will be armed On th ixhteq}nl l‘sn ain. e ni of e 1st s‘-:-li ‘3%'." new degree team, for the first time, gave the knight rank in Pythian Castie In the presence of as many mem- bers as could crowd into the hall. esquires % lhe( Lnxtrucu«l):- neees—d itle them to wear “the en e was assiatid by Dt the i Rank, Ca members in uni- gl'endor of the scene always Charl ‘yant; (ormlea'ndiu to the and making the wo been it the members of San cim"'i“e:: wof ethe Rathbone !hurs." Past Grand Chancellor S. W. Powell pre- sided and after a short address to the new knights bid all -Joym:h and soeakers. The of ovinion was | expression that it is “right | things? | “speakers or writers whom NIGHT SCHOOL: HOW TO DO THINGS. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton, NIGHT SCHOOL COURSE, —_— e XII. HOW TO WRITE GOOD ENG-| LISH. | — | G. BUEHLER. The general object of this course is to | present in simple and practical form some fundamental facts and principles regarding the use of our mother tongue and the appreciation of its literature which every intelligent person ought to know. The special object of the first pa- | pers will be to draw attention to some | common blunders, "and to show how to | avold them. Before approaching, how- ever, the subject of blunders, it will be well to define what Is meant by “good English,” and to make clear the standard | | by which the “correctness” or “incorrect- ness” of language should be judged. By what authority do we say of a certain * or “‘wrong’ Is it because the makers of grammar say it ought to be so, in the nature of Or because the makers of dic- tloraries say it ought to be so, from the history of the expression? Or'should we look for the final decision to some other tribunal? Good English is the English used by the best speakers and writers. Nothing more | and nothing less. And ‘‘bad English” is simply English unitke that used by the best speakers and writers. You observe that nothing is said in this definition about grammars or dictionaries. Thesa much-quoted books, though they may record good usage, have little or no in- fiuence in determining it. Our language was spoken and written according to cer- taln fixed laws long before we had any English mmars or dictionaries, and it would continue to be so spoken and writ- ten If all our grammars and dictionaries should be destroyed. These books in their way are extremely useful, but they have little more influence in establishing the character of ‘good English™ than books about the tides have in ordering the majestic rise and fall of the ocean. Grammar {s merely an accourt of the re- lations which words bear to one another when they are put together in sentences. A dictionary is merely an account of the aceepted forms and meanings of words, considersd by themselves, often with some account of their history. Each ¢ these books must get its information by observing the usage of the best speakers 2nd writers. And if, as has often hap- pered, the usage of the best speakers and writers changes, grammars and diction- aries must be changed, too. For the fundamental thing is usage, grammars gnd dictionaries being only convenient handbooks, recording for ready reference what professional investigators have been able to learn about the words and sen- terce structure used by the best speakers and writers. If we find a grammar out of accord with the usage of the best speakers and writers we should revise the grammar, and not criticize the writers and speakers. But who are the best speakers and writ- ers, whose manner of using the mother tongue makes law in language? Not nec- essarily the best speakers and writers among our acquaintances and friends; for the chances are that the conversation of even the best of our assoclates contains many local expressions, some slang, and possibly some blunders. “You often hear it" is not proof that an expression is good English. Nor can we with certainty learn good use by observing the practice of Writers in newspapers. Newspapers of high rank contain from time to time, especially in their editorial columns, some of the best modern prose, and much literature that Ims become standard was first printed in periodicals; most of the prose in news- papers is written negessarily by contri- butors who do not belong to the class of the world deems the best.” As the newspaper in its news records the life of every day, so in its style it too frequently records the slang of daily life and the faults of ordi- nary conversation. A newspaper con bits of English prose from hundreds of different pens, some skilled, some un-l | like them. etermi ood use. Nor is good use to be learned from our favorite author, jported by other au- thority: not even from the English Bible. when it stands alome. The fact Shakespeare uses a_word, or Sir Walter Scott or Burke or Washington Irving, or whoever happens to be writing earnestly in Melbourne or Sydney, does not make it reputable. The fact that all five of these authorities use the word in the same sense would go very far to establish the usage. The practice of mo one writer, however high he may stand in the public estimation, is enough to settle a point: but the uniform or nearly uniform prac- tice of those whom the world deems the best speakers or writers is decisiva. The use of English approved by this standard fs. as Professor Wendell says. “only a phase of good manners.” Bad English—that {s, English unitke that which is used by well-informed and careful writers—produces in the mind o a well-informed reader an impression of vulgarity or igmorance similar te that which we get from seeing a person eat with his knife. It is with language as with clothes and conduct. Persons who wish to be classed as cultivated people must not only dre== and act like cul ed people, they must also speak an skilled, and this jumble of styles does nct g Here. it 1s necessary to Interpose a cau- tion for the benefit of those persons who are quick to condemn an expression as bad English because ‘t is either illogical or different from what they have been taught. In language the law of good use is superior to the law of logle. F ample, “She was handed a chair” (in stead of “A chair was handed her”) is an fllogieal expression, condemned for that reason by some grammarians, but since it is found in the writings of writers whom the world considers among the best, it is now recognized by many of the best judges as “good English.” Again, si “good English™ is determt by ths usage of the best writers and speaker who sometimes disagree in their practl especially if th the English-speaking w that some expressi nounced absolutely “right” or “wrong since usage regarding them is divided For example, some locutions used gene: or ex cannot are never used by the o the North; demn these expre: be hasty dogmatism. ing for the general publie expressions that are not sense in every part there is no reason wh particuiar in familiar AV loquial English (i. e.. the Englis nary conversation) s as “‘good s literary English (1. e exact Engiish of standard litera- ture). In general the best way to become f: millar with good English and to form t! habit of using it is to read the best liter ture. Languasge . is learned for the most pa: son who is famillar with the far ieople genera. has good nowing it. Good reading In reading ‘writers it is interesting to of them were great readers when ‘were young; and teachers can testify th the best writers among their pupils ar those who have read good literature ¢ who have been accustomed to b English at home. e student of expres- sion should begin at once to make the ac- quaintance of/good lteratu: To become acquainted wit' ture, however, takes a long time. over, the use of correct English is not a together a matter of imit. The ai thor’s little boy, two and one-half years old, often uses atrocious English from mere ignorance of the distincti tween certain words and wor: when, for inst. ing to get th tion in the therefore necessary: an will treat of how to avr blunders. following papers d some common volced by Colonel Richmond, who sald that the events of the past month, which culminated with the feast at which they were, marked the sunrise of a new day for Pythianism in this city and vicinity. Some time ago, when the master of the exchequer of Rathbone Lodge of Jackson, Amador County, died, it was discovered that there was $1400 of the lodge funds which could not be found His bondsmen were asked to make the amount good to the lodge, and, as they re- fused to do so, an action at law was com- menced against them and judgment was rendered in favor of the lodge. lomas A. Nerney, colonel and assist- ant inspector general of the California Brigade, Uniform Rank of Pythias, has been promoted chief of staff,” with the k., that of colonel. Monday night Brigadier Generale an_ mustered in University Com- pany No. 13, Uniform Rank, at Berkeley. Charles R. Bryant is the captain, George W. Gunn first and Elmer Harms second lieutenant. Among the prominent mem- bers of the rank present were: Coloncl W. J. Kidd and Lieutenant Colonel F. W. Morosco of the First Regiment, retired Brigadler Generals F. A. Merguire and Herman Schaffner, Colonel Nearny, chief of staff, and Colonels J. P. Abbott a: George Samuels. Colonel Kidd has been re-elected for the | term of four years and W. A. Fish has been elected colonel of the Second Regi- ment. A joint meeting of the lodges of Solano County was held in the casile hall of Sui- sun Lodge last Thursday night and ways and means were devised to have Solano County well represented at the session of the Supreme Lodge in San Francisco in Degree of Homnor. On the night of the i5th inst., the lodges of the Degree of Honor of Oakland ‘ten- | dered a reception to Grand Chief of Honor Mrs. Flora J. Nay. Evelyn Fay Mayon, P. G. C. of H., was chairman of the com mittee. On the night of the 3ist inst., there will be a reception to the grand offi- cers by Silver Star Lodge. The grand chief of honor and other grand officers will visit lodges in this city on the E Ivy Lodge has arranged for an enter- tainment to be given on the 5th of De- cember. It is entitled “In Our_School | Days.” and is to be a purlesque. Dancing | will follow. fhr Improved Order Red Men. The funeral of the mortal remains of Sven Gumbrinner, past great sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, was held last Wednesday afternoon. Great Sachem Prandon cfficlated at the service in the hall and A. Dawson at the grave. During the semi-centennial celebration El Dorado Parlor of the Native Sons and Orinda Parlor of the Native Daughters | bad headquarters in the Red Men's build- ing. The two parlors, in appreciation of | the many kindnesses shown by H. S. Winn, then the superintendent of the building, presented him a few days since | 2 pair of fine gold cuff buttons. | i odoc Tribe had a smoker last week | after conferring the chief's degree on ten | candidates. £ Toka Council was instituted at Vallejo | last week by great Pocahontas, Mrs. | It starts with Jennie Weisel. thirty-five | charter members. ! Ramona, the new local council, will adopt ten strangers on the 28th inst. | There is a_“kick” among_the old sol diers at their home near Leavenworth, Kans. The cause of the growl is because, as they ulofe‘ of an i of salt and pepper in their food. | i i | UNITED STATES BRANCH. STATEMENT —OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS INSURANCE COMPANY F LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND. ON THE 1ST day of December, A. D. 189, and for the year enging cn that day, as made to ¢ Insurance Commissioner of the State of Cali- fornia, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 610 and 11 of the Political Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. ASSETS. Real estate owned by compan: 2,143,080 5 230,000 ) < danks......... = Interest due and accrued om stocks and loans... 5 Interest due and scerued on bonds Total assets .. LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid.... .. N Losses in process of adjustment or | Losees resisted, inciue 52538 ing expenses . Gross premiums on fire risks running one year or less, $2.777.2%5 88; refn- retnsurance pr Amount reciaimal on perpetual fire insurance policies Liability under life department... Due and accrued for salaries, rent All other demands Total labilities INCOME. Net cash actually received for fire premiums ... g s ... 34,008,000 01 Received for interest on bonds and mortgages ... - 10,537 38 Received for interest dividends ‘Bonds, stocks, loans, and from Total income . EXPENDITURES. Net amount oaid for fire losses (in- cluding $459,i9 35, losses of pre- vious ) Paid or allowes brokerage Paid for harges for officers. cierks. etc Paid for State. national and local and Losses ineurred durieg the year (fire) 2305 Risks and Premiums. | Fire Risks. | Premiums. Net amount of risks! ' written during thel | | $630,356,062 | 35,338,131 13 1 E. F. BEDDALL, U. S. Manager. Subseribed and sworn to before me, this 24 day of Jamuary. EDMUN] ROLLA V. WATT, Managr, PACIFIC DEPARTMENT, ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING, arwl'-n_n_l_msu Weakly Call $1.00 por Year 1900 D HARVEY, Notary Pubiie.