The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1901, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 190l. MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL PROTEST AGAINST . THE PERPETRATION OF RACETRACK GAMBLING AND CHINESE SLAVERY IN THIS MUNICIPALITY Francisco yesterday olest against wice in Chinatowwon and e reopening of the Ingleside race track. In no un~ rgymen told of the terrible state of affairs that . quarter and ealled upon their congregations to ng the vice suppressed. The recent investigations in the v the Legislative Committee gave the preachers am- The unfortunate Chinese girls who bondage by their cruel masters received the sym- ners. neeting was held in the California M. E. Church last Is told of their sad life in these dens of iniquity and Bane, who has made a study of the subject, poured ve against the white men who allow their property to be nmoral purposes. The Rev. Dr. Wilson sugg ted that a " ec should be formed here was sufficient provo- e citizens of San Francisco to take affairs in their own / " who are being held in a rought about a great civil war ROM a score of pulpits ministers of San b forth the: their sermons. 19911 berate the poor wo se than that wh ven w : carnest over the proposed scheme ¢ speakers pointed out the duty of ling tn this communit, and stirring Sheals = o e ( not to wviolate their solemn gatior stituents by throwing the city wide open to the gan 1 " appealed to their congregations to ok F prevent the perpetration of such a terrible 1ion that the reopening of Ingleside homes, create a still larger crim- frering throughout the city. vered a stir- nterpreter 4 as who has r m was called upc Bar tell of her experiences her hearers to scenes wh and the heart of the give to America write @ new the blood e liberator rise to haunt £ made by the reopen Ingleside elling, gambling Board of racetrack shame, theft, suicide. ¥ als work as hard the community as not know that led with all kinds know that aceord- & to the opinion of the Mayor countenance ppressed “To reopen Inkleside racetrack, with its gambling, is te violate an ordinance now on our oity statute books. To reopen Ingle- side i to open the floodgates of erime and disgrace. “Gentlemen of the Board of Su- pervisors, we appeal to you that we elected you to uphold taw and suppress erime. If you regard the ecity’s reputation or your own, vote down this proposition. Every Christian man d every pure mother will be outraged if u open this cesswool of vice. me assure the Mayor and the Supervisors that every man whe votes to reopen Ingleside will dig kis political grave.” DENOUNCES SLAVERY AS * UN-AMERICAN HERBERT N. tor of the Ch BEVIER, pas- Memorial Presbyterian last night delieverd the fol- lowing strong denunciation against slavery in Chinatown: “‘What? Elavery in the land of freedom? e auction block in America less than ty years after the proclamation of eman- cipation? Is it possible that in this fair city the most nefarious®system of bondage and traffic in"human flesh known anywhers is being daily and shamelessly carried on? v possible, but a palpable and fact. Shame on a government in the presence of law and a public ed and aroused portation of Innocent pretext of a home and then o be sold to gratify the pas- e men. It is well the recent has been made. The search- hould penetrate every nook and cor- the infected district and bring to justice any who The one bright e parties to the crime. pot in this sad picture is the glory of the rescue work. Too much cannot be said of the noble women who al- ek thelr 1iv m the me and a hope. The. work of res- rated by Miss Donaldina Cameron ccidental Board Home, Presbyterian, Miss Lake of the Methodist and others, alue, nor should the good ce and the Soctety for the 1 of Vice be overlooked. But the the law should exert its full The evil should be totally abol- SUPERVISOR HAVE A DUTY TO PERFORM N the course of a sermon last night In lmn«.mr«l Congregational Church on Delay in the Enforcement of Divine Law" the pastor, Rev. Phillp Coombe, sald, in part “If the Board of Supervisors at their meeting to-morrow after- noon should vote to reopen the Ingleside racetrack to the gam- blers, and thereby bring upon us such = record of crime as dis- #raced our city before that track was closed against gambling, it is the fault of the citizens, who are either too lazy or too seif- ish to do their duty. Our city officials can be legally compelled to fulfill their obligations, and, failing to do so they may be turned out of office. They dare not snap their fingers in the face of a determined and clean-handed citi- nship, as the Tweed ring did a few years and impudently ask ‘What are you go- to do about it?' F ““The curse of €hinese slavery is upon this free city—the bitter cry of its victims fs in our ears; the blood of slain gamblers crieth to us from the ground; the misery endured by them and caused by them cov- one of us with guilt and renders to retribution if we fail to do rid ourselves of the loath- every liable us what we can to some burden ———— e — GAMBLING ON RACE HORSES BRINGS RUIN v W. E. DU pastor of the Stewart Memorial United Presby- terian Church; preached an eloquent mon against slavery in China- ast evening. He also took oc- himself on the race- In part he said: the noble efforts of the better AN *Through element of this city the Ingleside racetrack was closed a year ago. Now an effort is being made to reopen it. What does the thug this city want? The track was legally closed by our Supervisors and with it went the pool Our people voted selilng of our city. sambling at the elec- tion last fall. These things are enough to show that this city does not want these gamblers and racetrack people. b “Reopen the track at Ingleside and gambling, with all its deadly effects, will be full upon us. As we have driven out the vice, by all means keep it out. “It i& no argument that Oakland has rac- ing. Because John Jones .gets drunk and beats his wife is no reason that I should do the same. Because Oakland has a vice in the form of a racetrack is mo reason that San Francisco should have the same vice. The talk of the Mayor on this sub- ject is extremely illogical and could only come from one steeped With a desire for gambling.” CITY SHOULD NOT BE SOLD TO GAMBLERS EV. F. K. BAKER of the First M. RE. Church last night delivered an able sermon on ‘“Municipal Unclean- ness and Its Remedy. said . ““That our municipal life is unclean is ob- vious. Some of the sources of this unclean- ness are: (1) The gambling evil. Gambling dens and lottery joints bave been moving along with apparent immunity from the law. Our Police Department has either been unable or unwilling to cope with the wide open gambling In our city. “In the face of this gnd of aN the earnest petitions, protests and prayers of the united churches and the better citizens of our city, ix it possible that the nd the Board of Supervis- ors will entertain for & moment In part he + "HOMAN BENGS ame SoLo L CATTLE v earTRR SRR o - the thought of opening Ingleside gambling again? “I cannot believe that these leaders in | our city life will do this thing. This ques- tion of so much import to our city's good | name needs no further argument; it has been settled once for all as far as the senti- ment Of the city is concerned. “If our law-making body deter- mines to sell the ecity into the hands of a compact of gamblers they alone must assume all the terrible responsibility. *(2) The soclal evil among both whites and Chinese is a great source of munteipal corruption. The condition of Chinatown in regard to social impurity makes it the t plague epot in the city. Here a sys- of inhuman slavery Is carried on innocent Chinese girls that this slimy pit of disease and death may continue to pollute our city. These awful evils must stop. To enforce the laws pertaining to the renting of property for either gambling or prostitution purposes would aid *very mate- rially in remedying these evils.” - FAVORS THE USE OF THE NATION ¢AX> N a prelude to his sermon, last even- ing, Rev. E. F. Dinsmore, pastor of the Second Unitartan Church, spoke in part as follaws “The proposition to relicense poolselling at Ingleside race track is n proposition to legaltze | an incentive to crime, to compro | mize with the vicious elements of society, which ought to arouse the indignation of every true man in the city. | ““The testimony before the legislative com- mission relative to human slavery and to | . gambling would indicate a timidity or con- nivance on the part of those sworn to exe- cute our laws which is a reproach upon the courage and honesty of the citizens bf this city, who are shamed through their repre- sentatives. “This spirit of compromise or complicity with acknowledged evil isx apparently back of the proposal to allow racetrack gam- bling in the city: but if the exec- ntive officer of. San Francisco is too weak of arm or heart to sup- press that swhich the laws con- demn let him resign In favor of Mrs. Carrie Nation, and let the sanction of the law be given to her effeciive weapon for the sup- pression of lInwless dens of iniquity. ““Our own police seem to be efficient in the use of the ax In semi-occasional raids upon the outer doors of gambling dens in the Chinese quarter; now let them wield the same weavon in smashing the doors of brothels, gambling tables and the heads of the lawless who shall resist them. A &x is a legal instrument for the suppres of rattlesnakes and mad dogs. e APPEALS TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS EV. E. A. WOODS, the well-known pastor of the First- Baptist Church, spoke at length upon the slave trade in Chinatown and the racetrack evil in a prelude to his regular sermon last evening. In part he said: “The questions on the lips of true men and pure women are: Who is responsible for this crying disgrace? Where are the officers of the law and why are they neglecting their sworn duty? The people are looking to the Mayor of the city, the Chief of Police and the Grand Jury, and their demand is that the laws be enforced and this shameful traffic in human souls be stopped. & “And now the Police Committee has brought to the Supervisors a bill to legal- ize gambling on the Ingleside racetrack thirty-six days of the year. There Is now no law forbidding the races. The true sportsman has an open fleld. The gamblers are the ones who wish legal protection. 1f legalized at Ingleside for thirty-six days, why should not gambling be legalized else- ere and all the time? Wil true sport- ing men, many of whom are gentlemen qt wealth and leisure; ask that to a legitimate eport there shall be attached a dishonest, debauching business, managed by sharpers and criminals, who will invade our city to steal the hard-earned money of the poor, to ruin young men, destroy homes and de- moralize soclety? Gentlerren, who own and love fine horses, will you race them for pleasure at such a cost of life and character 2nd public welfare? “Members of the Board of § pervisors, the honest, law-abid- ing people of this city look teo you for protection from this great source of evil. Will you now reverse your former action and legalize this evil' agemey? The public welfare, the vofce of the churches and the voice of God make their united protest THE REV. A. C. BANE DE- NOUNCING VICE IN CHINA- TOWN. % S against this bill, which is a step backward and downward.” — - INGLESIDE IS A HATCHERY OF CRIMINALS EV. E. R. NELANDER of the First English angelical Lutheran Church preached a strong sermon last evening on the Chinatown and racetrack evils. In part he sald: *“A burning dlsgrace to our boasted Chris- tlan civilization is the traffic in human chattels that obtains in Chinatown. That old legend of a monster to eatisfy whose appetite a city had every yvear to sacrifice & number of its virgins, who were led away trembling to his bloody den, is no fable In San Francisco. O, the unspeakable guilt of whites and Mongolians alike who grow rich on the red revenues of this fnfamy! Was God long-suffering toward the peo- ple of Sodom? How muc more toward us, who sin against a greater light? It is of San Francisco that the Master says, ‘It the mighty works had been done in Sodom that have been done In thee, it would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes; wherefore, it shall be more tolerable in the day of judgment for Sodom than for thee.” Hardly less {niquitous is the proposition to reopen Ingleside. The cultivation of a horse's speed is no more sin than the cul- tivation of 'vegetables. It the Lord made fast harses it was to have them.go fast. The evil begins when the betting begins. “The racetrack as it is conduct- ed to-day, is a training school for vice and defalcation. It has become a synomyn for all that is degrading. The majority of the people of the eity so understand it, and at the polls so expressed their opinion when the poolroom amendment wos submitted to them. It is claimed the race- track ‘should be opened in the interest of the cultivation of the Californis horse. Let the 1 be drawn. It means the ruin of the California boy. Which shall it be, city fathers, the California horse or the California boy? ““The condition of things have made a great many good people pessimistic as to better things for our city; but matters have not gome so far but what there fs hope for reform. The hour is at hand when lovers of order and decency will awake from their trance of indifference and see, as & man sees a landscape illumin- ated by lightning at midnight, the relation of clean government to domestic purity, to personal liberty and whatever is pre- clous in life; and then the day of munfel- pal judgment will draw near,” ' s Bt WILL OF THE PEOPLE MUST BE OBSERVED EV. W. M. WOODWARD, pastor of the Epworth M. E. Church, preached last evening against sla- very in Chinatown and gambling in this city. He took a decided stand agalnst the nefarious practices. In part he sal . “The presentation of this reso- lution to permit gambling and poolselling at Ingleside, against the decided vote of the people last fall, too, shows that the gamblers have strong hold on the Board of Supervisors. or it never would get %0 much as a hearing. It is a dastardly at- tempt to override the will of the people. ““There_is no objection whatever to racing horses on the Ingleside track. Turfmen can use It to their hearts’ content. If they ; e + simply want to face for the pleasure of it the way is now open without an ordinance. This, however, is the slimmest excuse imaginable. It is the gambling they want, and they are willing to defy the will of the people to get it. It this resolution is passed the gamblers will have all they want. It is freely acknowledged that race gambling will not pay for a longer period than ninety days in San Francisco. If they can secure thirty-six days at Ingleside *he balance of the time can be made up at Tanforan and Emeryville. This gives to the gambling fraternity all the time for poolselling they tare for. Keep Ingleside closed so far as poolselling, bookmakiag, etc.. is concerned. “It 18 such deflance’ to the will of the people which encourages mob law. They will not endure very long having their will trampléd under foot. Compel the gamblers to obey the law, as well as every one else.” . DR. SHEPARD . ABHORS THE RACETRACK EV. H. T. SHEPARD of the Olivet Congregational Church has not changed his views as to racetracks. In a communication to this paper the reverend gentleman says: “Lest silence should imply indifferenge or neutrality a word of emphasis may have appropriate place in reference to the re- opening of Ingleside. “My views of March 12 1899, of March 4. 190, and of January 27, 1901, are une changed. ooatd Continuing, he adds: ““An evening dally paper warns the min- istry to avoid the trap that unscrupulous investors in the racetrack across the bay have set for the unwary. Even if this ad- vice might otherwise be sound it can be but useless now, for thus the ministers of this city had been decelved three times al- ready, and to listen at this late day to these warnings confesses previous ignor- ance, which disqualifies fhe pulpit from the right to moral leadership and places it beneath the reformer’s notice. “I hold that the ministers have not been deceived. 1 do not belleve that a single preacher who waxed eloquent in 189 and 1960 in defense of our day of rest and of our homes against the evils of Ingleside would care to retract a single word. “In the mfeantime the gamblers have preached most effectively; their gospel is that of persistence. Why should the friends of morality grow weak and fall by the way? “‘Declarations dq not create facts. To say that the closing of Ingleside has in no way lessened the evils of gambling about the bay in no wise establishes the claim. “I believe that Ingleside's prox- imity to this city, with its quick and inexpensive means of tran- sit, in a fertile source of crime and is prolific of ruined homes nd of blasted characters. ‘The press has furnished the public with long lists of facts to prove that this be- llef is sound. Let the evening paper pro- duce its proof of equal crime and ruln in the life of the Oakland track and we will pause. Yet sin should always be fought In every place and reformers may well rejoice when the house Is divided against itself. “Even agitation against an evil Is not ‘without its own inherent worth, though no immediate results are galned. ““One may admit that the ministers of this city have nothing in common with the managers of the Oakland track,.and that the press which opposes Ingleside is sub- orned to the seifish ends of the pools of Oakiand, and still the minister's duty is plain—he condemns the reopening of Ingle- side.” RESPECT THE " RIGHTS OF THE CITIZEN OLLOWING are extracts from a ser- mon preached by Rev. F. A. Doane at Mizpah Presbyterian Church last evening: “When the immortal Lincoln with stroke of pen signed the emancipation proclamation, and with precious lifeblood of this nation was Indorsed, surely Its in- tended meaning was ‘forever prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude within United States.’ Is there no longer ery in our midst? Lately I saw a weeping Chinese girl led to a carriage by one of her own coun- trywomen, assisted by a white man. What did it mean? Verily that this poor gfrl had been rescued from a slave owner and life of shame in Chinatown to be cared for by Christlan friends. F. “‘Concerning gambling it is absurd to that it does not exist in our.midst. When a young man comes to me as one did re- cently. desiring to be led back to a right-. and said, ‘The Cafe Royal and” fur- thermore when lottery tickets are shown by others who procured them in Chinatown, I.say such evidence is most convincing. “I am agalnst gambling in all forms and In all places, but naturally because I & OLLOWING are a few excerpts from the sermons preached yesterday by the ministers of San Francisco against the re- opening of the Ingleside race track: REV. A.C. BANE—“To reopen Ingleside is to open the flood- gates of crime and disgrace.” REV. H. T. SHEPARD—1 believe that Ingleside’s proximity to this city with its quick and inexpensive means of tramsit, is @ fertile source of crime and is prolific of ruined homes ands of blasted " characters.” REV. E. NELANDER—"The race track as it is conducted to- day is a training school for vice and defalcation.” REV:F.K. BAKER—“If our law making body determine to sell the city into the hands of a compact of gamblers they alone must assume all the terrible responsibility.” REV. J. GEORGE GIBSON—"The races are a curse wher- ever they are held. We who live in the'Mission have seen enough and know enough about Ingleside to dread its reopening.” REV. E. A. WOODS—"“Members of the Board of Supervisors, the honest, law-abiding people of this city look to you for protection from this great evil. Will you now refute your former action and legalize this eyil agency? The public welfare, the voice of the churches and the voice of God make their united protest against this bill, which is a step backward and dotwnward.” REV.E. F. DINSMORE—"The proposition to relicense pool- selling at Ingleside race track is a proposition to legalize an incentive to crime, to compromise with the vicious elements of society, which ought to arouse the indignation of every true man in the city.” L o L e s S S am a resident of this eity T am most con- cerned about its welfare. “Let it be remembered that honest citi- zens of this city voted at the last election NO to the proposition to license pool- selling. Have these citizens changed their minds concerning this matter? Verily we have not. * uch citizens have rights to be recognized, and at this time they demand by law protection for their loved ones and meneral from these evils. fore, let slavery be ntoppe gambling be suppressed keep Ingleside closed forever. B i, care for her husband mor her child. Beth will be neglected sooner or later." —_— TWO BILLS TO PUT END TO SLAVERY Special Dispatch to The Call ALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, Feb. I1.—Assem- blyman Joseph R. Knowland, as chairman of the special com- ALLS FOR mittee appointed to Investigate the c San Francisco Police Department standals, will introduce to-morrow VIGILANCE COMMITTEE T THE Howard-street M. E. Church last night the pastor, Rev. Dr. John A. B. Wiison, in & prelude to his sermon, sald in part: ““Within fitteen minutes’ walk of this church 1000 girls are sold and held In a slavery more abject and hopeless than ever degraded the Southiand. Nearly halt are as yet in domestic slavery, to be grad- uated into immoral life when their more than 500 sisters are degraded for the profit of their heathen masters; and the Christian property holders of Chinatown whose share of the price of degradation and shame to these girls comes to them in larger rentals than any honest business can afford to pay. And protection in their nefarious compact 1s either given or sold to these twin devils, Christlan end pagan, by those empowered by our suffrages and sworn to enforce the laws. And this is under the American flag in the commonwealth of California and in the municipality of San Francisco. “I wonder where is the manhood of our citizenship. In 1854, under a condition of things less dreadful, the vigilance commit- tee organized and got In its work. Was it needed then half so fouch as now? The out- rages against law and order and decency and the personal righis of the helpless are greater every week in this city and furnish a juster occasion for an uprising than every combined wrong for which our fathers waged a war of revolation through elght years. It is time that we had found our Ppatriotism and recovered something of the virle manhood that posseseed the citizens of San Francisco against corrupt officlalism in 1854. “And {t is not Chinatown alome. The gamblers are going to have what they purchased with their suffrages and the racetrack— closed before this era of sub- two bills aimed at the abolition of the slavery of Chinese women. They wers drafted at the Instance of the Chinese missions of San Francisco by their at- torney, Henry E. Monroe, and they have the indorsement of the members of the committee. The first bill is an amendment to section 181 of the Penal Code and makes a felony of the holding of or assisting In any manner to hold any person in involuntary servitude, with a maximum penalty of ten years’ im- prisonment. The law as it now stands makes a felony of the purchase or sale of a person for immoral purposes, but that -gection has been practically a dead letter. The missions which have attempted to protect Chinese and Jap- anese women from slavery have sel- dom been able to prove that they wers sold or purchased for immoral pur- poses. The second bill is designed to obvi- ate another difficulty met by the mis- sions in their rescue work. At present if rescue is attempted by filing a peti- tion for letters of guardianship of a Chinese girl slave the girl is spirited away. If the girl or cHlld is seized by officers In a rald possession of her is regained by her master on habeas cor- pus proceedings, and if letters of guardianship are subsequently granted she cannot be located. The proposed new law is designed to remedy this condition by giving the courts power to grant temporary custody of a minor under certain conditions. It is In the form of an amendment to section of the Civil Code and reads as follows: The Superior Court of each county, when it appears necessary or convenient, may ap- point guardians for the persons and estates, or either of them, of minors who have no guardian legally appointed by will or deed or who are Inhabitants or residents of the limated reform — will yet be county, or who reside without the State opened by those who were and have estate within the county. Such chosen under the eclo pre- text of ‘a reform administra- tion.! The sure-thing gamblers demand the delivery of the goods befooled constituency and. language of their patron appointment may be made on the petition , of a relative or other person on behalf of the minor, or on petition of the minor, if 14 years of age. Before making such ap- pointment the court must cause such notice as such court deems remsonable to be given to any persons having the care of such minor, and to such relatives of the minor residing in the county as the court may exclaim, ‘AND WHAT DO YOU deem proper. In all such proceedings, when PROFPOSE TO DO ABOUT IT it appears to the satisfaction of the court, Thay i either from a verified petition or et ot REAGRR- vice . 15 the minor will be imperfled if S e e such minor is allowed to remain in the Chinatown.’ The question is, are the peo- ple who homor God, who love the flag, who regard the rights of humanity, going to continue In supineness and see God dis- honored, helpless girlhood outraged, the flag disgraced and our city ruined? Sure custody of the person then having the cme of such minor, the court may make an order providing for the temporary custody of such minor until a hearing can be had on such petition; and when it .appears to the court that there is reason to beileve that enough. ‘What are you going to do about s ‘n was Cain who said, ‘T am not my such minor will be carried out of the juris- brother's keeper.” Jesus ssys you wre. diction of the court before which the ap- Which leader shall we follow? Cain or | Plication is made, or will suffer some i Christ? Which? It is time to choose sides under one or the other.” RACETRACKS ARE A CURSE TO OUR BOYS EV. J. GEORGE GIBSON, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, last evening devoted his sermon to a denunclation of the Ingleside race- track and slavery in Chinatown. In speaking of the greater evil, he said in part: “‘Good people in San Francisco might well weep. The condition of things s fitted to make every Christian person sad. Last night and to-day the papers tell us of a other young man ruined by gambling. Un- faithful to his mother, who trained him so that he had the reputation of being honor- able; unfaithful to his bride of three months, and unfaithful to himself. This is only o ne story. There are hundreds lfke it. e & curse wherever We who live in gh they nre hel ; the Mission have seen ‘e d know enough about Ing side to dread its reopening. “The editors may have personal reasons for fighting these races. Our reasons are very personal. Ingleside is bringing ruln to our boys. It is dragging them away from the church and inspiring them to epend money they do mot possess. It is only a question of time. They can hide their doings for a little while, but by and by the outcome Will be crime. The crime cannot be avoided by those who spend thefr money on the races. There will be Mes for those at home, debts for the friends around and poverty In the ehd. That women should patronize these races is the mystery of mysteries. They are simply bringing trouble on themselves. A gambling boy is bad enough, but no home can last long with a gambling mother. A man who goes to the races is an'qyil Influence, but a woman Who goes is to be spunned. She is the most dangerous influence of all. She is mot fit to be a wife or a mother, She will neither reparable injury before compliance with such order providing for the temporary cus- tody of such minor can be enforced, such court may at the time of making such order providing for the temporary custody of such minor cause a warrant to be Issued, recit- ing the facts and directed to the Sheriff, Coroner or Conmstable of the county, com- manding such officer to take such minor from the custody of the person In whose care such minor then is and place such minor in custody in accordance with the order of the court. ENFORCING SUNDAY CLOSING. Officers at Los Angeles Maxe Several 8. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17.—Policemen in citizens’ clothes to-day made the rounds of saloons and restaurants suspected of violating the Sunday-closing ordinance, and, besides many minor arrests, the bar- keeper in the Hollenbeck bar, connected with the hotel of the same name, was ar- rested. The law permits the sale of liquors in original packages and when served at meals, and it is said that many places evade it by a “fake” lunch and by drawing beer into soda-water bottles. In the cases to-day, it is asserted, no cloak ‘was used to cover the violation of the law. Battle With Maya Indians. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 17.—The Federal troops had another engagement with Maya Indians yesterday and the troops turned their flank and drove them from all their fortified places. The new Mauser rifies are found to be extremely effective against the ememy. i LM, :‘: 17.—The condition HOLM, Feb. 17.—The conditio: SESREE Bb St s it is now belleved she will no longer be confined to her bed. —_———————— PENNSYLVANIA SYSTEM railroads. 3 Office, 30 Montgomery street. *