The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1901, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1901. WANT QUARTERS FOR LEAGUERS All Available Accommo- dations in City to Be Engaged. Number of Visitors to Coast During the Convention Will Be Great. The ger for working committee on arrangemcnrts worth League Convention is i to be able to secure ample | for the 50,000 visitors who | July. It has learned ation that every avail- in the hotels of San | on the American en engaged for the period over ion extends by advance companies, s have ations be for the of great importance. t i ca o will visit eve rooms ry house wherever that in this way | ommodated in | well as in ho- | being_can- | the visitors will be Alameda and Oak- s that the attend: from ¢ ckies will far the rmation is received ons which rc being caguers. | delphia the | guests York, | ois and | se as large will be | firms will ors through nd to this nt is said to be | the convention out the coun- “INDIAN” LUCY HITE EFFECTS COMPROMISE Celebrated Case Is Dismissed by Su- preme Court on Request of In- | terested Parties. Indian™ Lucy Hite in gainst John Hite, | in effec their opponents a terday ur: d | in the m. Hite brought Hite in 18 irt upheld her made further n consent and J. >ucher were en- ay Festival. idsummer D >pointed from the societies of San g cities, have pe gements for their sbration, to Park to-morrov lipse all pr d judging from The pr commi ! ises, Ma des, tableaus, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Parasites Cause All Hair Troubles ths of the diseases of the scalp are caused by parasitic germs. of tt ¥ by Pr sor Charity Hosp Hamt cannot be overe why ordinary hair expensi be: kill a the burrow up the rf or dandruff, addition to its m, Herpic ful hair’dressing. making soft as silk. This Great Train runs but twice per weok during the summer. AND THURSDAY THE Leaving at 9 am, it arrives in Chicago at 2.15 pm on Thursdays and Sundays. Its high standard of service is fully maintained. CALIFORNIA LIKITED ON SINTA FE visir DR. JORDAN'S arear MUSEUM OF ANATOMY 1061 KAREET T. bet. G:b&Ted, 8.7.Cal, The Largest Anatomical Museum in the World. Weaknesses or any contracted discace ponbtively cmred by the oldest Specialics on the Coast Est. 36 years. DR. JORDAN—DISEASES OF MEN Consultation free and strictly private. Treatment persomally or by letter. A Positive Ourt in every case undertaken. W rite for Book. PEILOSOPRY of MARRIAGE, MAILED FREE. (A valuable book for men) DR JORDAN & CO.. 105 Market St..S. F. -—e VeV DR. CROSSMAN’S SPECIFIC MIXTURE ) For the Cure of Gomorrhoea, Gloots, Strictures and analogous complainte of the Organs of Generation. Price §1 & botte. For sale by druggists. el |- to the Supreme ore action was | y signified that a League, | ENGINE-ROOM CREW OF THE SHERMAN THINK THE TRANSPORT IS HAUNTED Strange Noises Heard in the Icehouse and an Electrician Vows He Saw the Ghost-—--Many of the Men Have Bruised Shins to Show That the Cry of *‘Spook’ Was Not Without Its Effect 3 e the groans of a person dying in great agony. All kinds of attempts have been WELLS-FARED ESAPES TAXES ¢ Bank Accumulates Vast ; Surplus at City’s Expense. | | From investigations now going on in the Assessor's office it has been ascertained | that Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Bank has been accumulating 2n immense surplus by shirking the payment of its taxes during the past forty years. This is made pos- | sible by a queer fiction of the law, and As- | sessor Dodge is powerless to compel the | corporation to pay its just share of the | expenses of the municipal government, al- though it receives abundant protection | therefrom. otwithstanding the law’s | defects Assessor Dodge has levied a fran- | chise assessment of $1,000,000 on the con- cern, which has taken the matter to court. In discussing the subject Dodge savs: The report of Wells, Fargo & Co. to the Bank Commissioners shows the paid-up capital of the company to be $500,000. The surplus and profits amount to $8,598,532 and the amount due de- positers $7,193,836. he report further states that Wells. Fargo & Co.’s branch banks in New | X 'ortland owe the San | Franciseo branch $7, 127. To the Assessor it says that sum is its capital apportioned to its pranch banks to do business on and is there- | fore not taxable in San Francisco. Under the laws of California the company is allowed to deduct the amount owing to de- positors from the amounts owing to the cor- | poration, and thus a large assessment Is saved | to the dlien corporation. Notwithstanding it has accumulated an immense surplus, malinly from the patronage of the people of California, it sees fit to incorporate in the State of Colo- rado, where it has little or no business. Of its capital and surplus amounting to 9,09 it reports §1,115,249 invested in real estate, two million more in wagons, fixtures, etc., of the many express offices and branches, making 2 total of 33,118,249 of its capital used for its buildings, safes and fixtures, and leav- net working capital for banking business 980,283, As it tells the Assessor the 47,875,127 in its branch banks is the working capital of the branch banks outside of Califor- nia and not taxable here, it must follow that $1,894,844 of the money deposited in this bank by the people of California is sent out of the State, and thus $3,989,65% escapes taxation. The tax on four million dollars at present vear's rate is $65,000. This amount put out at interest at 6 per cent would amount to $3%00 a year and, Compounding the interest, the principal sum of $65,000 would reach $13),000. As the saving goes on each year the immense surplus of $9,088,532 i= mainly accumulated taxes that it = escaped in years gone by. Sixty-five thou- sand dollars a year spent in paving streets for the last forty years would have been $§2,600,000, a respectable monument to Wells, Fargo & Co. Beautiful Picture Book of Yosemite. Send ten cents to the Southern Pacific Passenger Department, 4 Montgomery street, San Francisco. ¥For full inforr-ation about establishea high class service, via Biggest ees, apply to nearest agent 613 Market street, San Francisco. routet — e Unknown Drowned Man Found. The body of an unidentified drowned man was found yesterday morning float- ing in the bay near the foot of Folsom- street pier. It was taken to the Morgue. ——————————— On your way to picnic or ferry call on Mohns & Mohns, 29 Market st., for finest wines end liquors; biggest house; open Sundays. * T is not safe to talk about ice-houses | made to locate ‘@here they come from, before any of the engineer's crew on | but so far without avail. Some one Sug- CHIEF ENGINEER koL B the army transport Sherman. The | gested that a cat might have got into the LISTENED FoR ~ FEww \romos spook of a departed soldier is said to | hrine-tanks, so the manhole covers were OF prYE eI have made the freezing portion of the | taken off and a search was made, but (FRoN steamship its headquarters, and the men | neither cat nor spirit could be found. DrooKERIPS are worried over the matter. In broad | Then a special hunt with electric lights | daylight they laugh over the affair and | was made. Every nook and cranny in the | say the noise heard about 1:30 p. m. dally | jce-house and refrigerating rooms was \ is only a coincidence and the ethereal | searched and every pipe and joint gone \ forms seen by one or two of the gang are | gver without result. Nevertheless prompt- only the result-of a vivid imagination. | 1y at 1:30 p. m. the next day the groans Nevertheless when it comes to the mak- | hegan again. ing of an investigation not one of Chief| Then the big iron doors that shut off Engineer Kob's men will go into the ice- | the ice-house were closed and the men house alone. kept watch through a small opening. (T % | Jim HammeLD 7 AnaTEcR W SPIRITUALIST, AISED ouy THE "Higw- DIGN . | ? “ THou: THE "SPook." 'MADE Bt ol | Goo-Goe E>E> AT WaS MADL , o e | SHermAne] | o2 34 J 4 PRACTICING | FOR THE BACKZEENCE CHORUS o i e | £ 1 i AS SEEN BY THE CALL'S CARTOON- ! IST, WHEN DOING THEIR STUNTS ABOUT THE TIME THE SHIP'S SPOOK IS DUE. MANY BELIEVE THE BIG TRANSPORT IS HAUNTED. | | | 5 — { Nothing wa® seen, but the noises went on. | the body of the prisoner. The latter was Now Twoof Tha inshieny thay: hive fet slctkl_when taken aboard at Manila, and # 5 - getting worse at sea, managed to reach | ; the spook, and one of them fainted in tell- | " Rocplial when nobods oes wateiisg _ ing his story. Many ludicrous incidents | and got into one of the cots. He was at- | SHERMAN have happened during the spook hunt and | tended by the ship’s surgeon and cared \z?nxs.me more than one of the men. has barked | for as‘i‘l.hslckhsogllexr rand not as a pris- ICE mAan oy : 2 vhen | On€r. When he died from dysentery the | ENDEAVORED i:'"s' Sietvan. dekng adarrLee When | poqy’ was embalmed and put away under | | ¢ T e he cry of “ghost” was raised. the name of another man. Only when { gl On the Sherman’s last trip from Manila | the prisoner was missed was the mistake | THE (CE CHEST: one of the prisoners was lost. For days | discovered. The boys on the Sherman now no trace of him could be found and the | &ssert that it is the ghdst of this soldier | oo wore almoct ready to mark him | that is haunting the ship, because even s almost ready 2 |in death he could not get an “honorable { down as a suicide. Then the hospital | discharge.” | steward discovered that one of the pa- | Among those on the transport who have 3 *| tients he had returned as dead was still :‘f‘flffl the blood-curdling nofses .are 8. The sounds, so the men say, are like | alive. The box in which the supposcd | Crisp, third assistant = engineer; Vall dead man had been put away was brought out of the ice-house and in it was found B o e e e DOUB'S LETTER -~ UNGATISFACTORY State’s Allowcnce for Kern County May Be Canceled. More trouble is brewing for the Board of Education of Kern County. Charges have been preferred against that body to the effect that they were not fulfilling their duties in failing to use the series of books laid down by the State Board of Educa- tion. Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintend- ent of Public Instruction, was interviewed last evening on the subject at the Palace Hotel. Mr. Kirk says that his attention was first attracted to the trouble through the columns of the press. He immediately wrote to Superintendent Doub of the Kern County Board of Education and informed him that his attention had been drawn to the reports that the board was not using the series of books laid down by law and that he would like a report at once as to what books were being used. | A letter was received in _reply by Superintendent Kirk from Doub, but the letter was not explicit. Kirk immed:- ately wired to the Board of Education of Kern County that it at once forward him at Sacramento a complete list of the books used in the public schools of Kern County and. also the instructions that are dellv- ered to both the teachers and the pupils directing how the books are to be used. Kirk said last evening that if this list which he has ordered forwarded is not up to the requirements of the law he will or- der a representation of the Board of Edu- cation of Kern County to appear before him personally at Sacramento and show cause why the State appropriatoin should not be withheld To-Day’s News Letter. A varlety of topics fascinatingly han- dled is the characteristic feature of this week’s News Letter. Aside from tne regu.ar department devoted to things and people of the smart set, there is a fund of soclety chat and gossip. Betsie Bird has contributed a budget of stories on notables the coast, and Mrs, Chauncey de Wit’s critique on ciothes and those who wear them is as unconven- tional and as fascinating as usual. The Looker-Or is still a feature, and no one can afford to miss the tales he has gleaned about town tLis week. Robert McTavish's original rketches continue, and the satirical prose and verse of Town Crier are flush with the times. Ella ‘Willer Wheelcox is good for a laugh, and the editorial 2nd dramatic selections are as usual authoritative discussions for thinking people. . FAS S Preparing Sanitary Code. Secretary Emery of the Board of Health is at present preparing a sanitary code for this city and county on lines similar to the one now in force in the city of New k. The code provides that no person shall manufacture, produce, compound, offer for sale or sell any drug or article of food which is adulterated. e “The Missouri Pacific Limited” ‘The only route having through sleeping car service between San Francisco and St. Louis daily. Stop-overs allowed at Salt Lake City. For full information ask L. M. Fletcher, 212 California street. ” Cooney, electrician; Jack Orr and Tom Dittman, water tenders; Sherman Sparks, iceman, and Jim Harold. Wednesday last while the men were all below Cooney came staggering into their midst and ex- claimed, ““Boys, I've seen it!”" He was as white a sheet and in a few seconds fainted. Jim Harold says he saw and talked with the spook, but he refuses positively to give out the message he re- ceived. 'S. Crisp heard the noise and in- vestigated, but could find no plausible rea- son for the sounds. All in all, they are a puzzled crowd on the transport, and the laugh will be on some of them when the real cause of the noises is discovered. In their sober senses not one of the men will admit a belief in ghosts, but when it comes to a question of going below many of them rub their injured shins and re- mark that the decks are not in good con- dition for sprinting. BUTGHERS PLAN ALARMS GOOKS Fear That Meat Supply May Be Cut Off Next Monday. Ironworkers Have Reports of Most Favorable Character. = A rumor to the effect that the retail butchers had notified the proprietors of restaurants’ displaying union cards that no meat would be supplied them after Monday, unless the card was removed, caused President Lane of the Cooks’ and ‘Walters’ Alliance to ask the San Fran- cisco Labor Council, at its meeting last night, to suspend its constitutional pro- visions and declare its intention to levy a boycott on butchers so doing. An hour or more was spent in the discussion of the question and then it was decided to leave the matter in the hands of the executive committee, with instructions to call a special meeting of the Labor Council on Tuesday night if it was deemed neces- sary. New delegates to the Labor Council were named as follows: Picture Frame | Workers, Herman _Gebel; Packers, Porters and Warehousemen, J. E. O’Neill, T. F. Dolan; Journeymen Horse- shoers, E. J. McGlade and William Storey; Laundry Drivers, Thomas Mor- row; Cooks’ and Waiters' Alliance, Charles F. Fleischman and J. J. Johnson. Two new unions were admitted. The Retail Delivery Drivers’ Union sent ' as their delegates J. T. O'Brien, F. Dunbar and George Shepston. The Shipwrights’ and Calkers’ Union sent as delegates Adam Stuart and A. D. McLeod. Owing to the increase in the number of delegates attending the council at present, the regular weekly meeting place will be transferred from Pythian Castle to Pio- neer Hall, commencing with the first meeting in July. A Baseball nines from the Glassblowers Union and the Retail Clerks’ Association | will meet on Sunday, June 30, at Sixteenth | and Folsom streets, for the benefit of the Iron Trades Council. Painters’, Decorators’ and Paper-hang- ers’ Unjon No. 136 announces an entertain- ment and ball at Teutonia Hall to-mor- row night. Great preparations have been.made for the ball to be given by the Teamsters Union to-night, at Mechanics’ Pavilion, for the benefit of the striking machinists and ironworkers. The Musicians’ Union has contributed a band of twenty pieces, and the reports of the delegates from the various unions indicate an immense at- tendance and a grand financial success. Sailors’ Union Indorses Strike. The following resolutions have been adopted by the Sailors’ Union and ac- cepted by the executive committee of the Labor Council: Whereas, In the past six months thousands of wage earners on the Pacific Coast have im- proved their conditions and thousands more are struggling to fmprove theirs, through the efficient services of the San Francisco Labor Council, assisted by Organizer Jefferson D. Pierce of the American Federation of Labor; and whereas, influences have been at work do- ing their best to prevent the wage earners | from obtaining the best results and have tried to instill in the minds of the public that there cannot be any betterment of these conditions without attendant violence and riot; and whereas, the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, be- ing one of the oldest trades unions on _the Pacific Coast chartered by the American Fed- eration_of Labor, and clearly foreseeing that when thousands of wage earners on this coast move to better their conditions there is likely to be more or less friction where so many men are on the move at once; therefore be it Resolved, By the Saflors’ Union of the Pa- cific, in regular meeting assembled, that we heartily approve of the methods used and tender a vote of thanks to the San Francisco Labor Council, and extend to Organizer Jeffer- ¥on D. Plerte our appreciation of the able and efficient manner in which the present lahor gIprules have been conducted, and further e it Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be submitied to the press of the city of San Francisco and_vicinity and that they be pre- sented. to the San Francisco Labor Council. FURUSETH, Secretary. Secretary May = of the Journeymen Butchers’ Union reported that about fifty mer;. who went on strike were still out and could get no employment. The porters, packers and warehouse- | men reported that for the present they had decided to withhold the schedule of wages adopted some weeks ago and had left the matter in the hands of the ex- ecutive committee. George Sauler, a member of the Metal Polishers’ Union, a recent arrival from the East, has been expelled from the | union. He is accused of telling tales out of school. Secretary Wisler of the Machinists’ Union is in receipt of telegrams from the 100 SKIRTS, in blac satin; value for $ fered at. BLACK SATEEN PETT marked down fro MISSES’ JACKETS, marked down from LADIES’ JACKETS, tai martked down from LADIES’ BLACK CHEVI trimmed with gold b [ .: 0000000000000000006000! BARGAINS WILL BE PLACED ON SALE THIS DAY. flare flounce, trimmed with m vet; marked down from $8.00 to LADIES’ COLORED SILK WAISTS, marked down from $5.00 J. O'BRIEN & CO., 1146 MAPRKET STREET. k and gray; seven- $4.50 $1.40 3 $1.50 $3.00 00 $3 6.50. Of- ICOATS, $2.00 $5.00 lor-made, $5.00 OT SKIRTS, raid and vel- cesee ADVERTT! COPYAIGHT 1900 8Y THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. CINGINNATH SEMENTS. INSURED. U insure your house against fire. You know what Ipeople would say # it burned down without insurance. were wanting in They would say you business sagacity, that you should have provided for this. Now leave house insur- ance and consider clothing is even greater—not from insurance. Here the danger fire, but from the chemicals and strong soaps used in the laundry. Wise women insure their finer, more delicate and perishable things against this risk, and the premium they pay is the trifling cost of Ivory Soap. IVORY SOAP—IT FLOATS. That guarantees protection. -3 Eastern States notifying him of a large number of concessions by Eastern iron- workers. One received late last night ‘rom the American Federation of Labor, he said, was highly satisfactory, but he declined to divulge its contents. As far as the local situation is concerned, no appreciabie change can be noted. Some small concerns are likely to agree to the terms within a few days. The executive committee of the Labor Council and the members of the Iron Trades Council will meet this morning at 1heir respective headquarters to appor- n the strike funds contributed by the various unions. The division will be on a pro rata basis, and the funds will be stributed by the executive officers of tae various unions. The State Board of Barber Commission- ers will commence the examination of ap- plicants on Monday morning in their rooms in the Emma Spreckels building” After a short sojourn in San Franecisco they will proceed to interior points. The law makes the qualifications very strict. A large number of applications have al- ready been filed. SACRAMENTO BUTCHERS ISSUE AN ULTIMATUM SACRAMENTO, June 21.—The trouble between the local journeymen butchers | and their employers has reached a culmin- | ation by an ultimatum issued by the em- | ployers to the employes that they shall in twenty-four hours leave the union or leave the shops. At a meeting of the employes a large majority of those present demanded their withdrawal cards from the union and with this action the difficulty is practical- ly at an end. The presidenc of the union, J. C. Stokes, was dismissed from his place of employment this morning, while the secretary, R. 8. Douglas, quit of his own accord. These are the only members of the union who are not at work to-day. The trouble originated over the demand of the journeymen that the employers union- ize their shops. Nine-Hour Watch Not Favored. | The new order issued by Chie® Sullivan changing the hours of duty of the polica officers is not meefing with the favor of the patrolmen. The officers claim that changing the watch at 10 p. m. deprives them of an entire evening off, which they | occasionally enjoy under the present sys- tem. The officers think the commission | should enforce the municipal law which provides that eight hours shall constitute a day’s labor for all city employes. This, they claim, could be easily done, as the taxpayers have never objected to an in- | crease of the fund allowed for police pro- tection and would not grumble at a re- quest_for the number of men the enforc- ing of the law would require. AMUSEMENTS. MATINEE TO-DAY, SATURDAY, Parquet, 25c, any seat; Balcony, dren, 10c, any part except reserved. Fatma and Smaun, the Pygmies, will hold a reception to children after the matinee and after all matinees during their engagement. BEST BILL IN YEARS. ODELL, WILLIAMS AND CO., EZRA KEN- DALL, COLE AND DELOSSE, ED LATELL, LESTER REEVES, GARDNER AND MAD- DERN, DOHERTY SISTERS, THE BIO- GRAPH. THE WONDERFUL EAST INDIA PYGMIES, MOROSCO’S GRAND OPERA HOUSE MATINEES TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW. LAST TWO NIGHTS OF JuU 10c; Chil- [ ER ] GISMONDA. MELBOURNE MaecDOWELL DORA.” POPULAR PRICES—10c, LU ME' LEADING THEATRE HENRY MILLER “HEARTSEASE.” By Arrangement With DAVID BELASCO. ;rur;lemliu BLANCHE BATES as *Cigarctte” BEFORE S*N FRANCISTD ATHLETIC CLUB OF CHICAGO OF BOSTON. AL NEILL of San Fraacisco VS BASEBALL. SUNDAY AT 2:30 P. M. FISCHER’S ©ONGERT M3 Gillens, Ed B. Adams, the Samayoas, Alice Commencing MONDAY EVENING NEXT, FAREWELL WEEK OF Supported by FLORENCE STONE, in SARDOU'S MASTERPIECE, “FE 15¢, 25¢, 350c, Good Orchestra Seat at All Matinees Dranch T. E’_- am co SAN FRANCISCO'S MATINEE TO-DAY! TO-NIGHT—FAREWELL PERFORMANCE SEASON Last Time Here of the Great Success, Beginning Next MONDAY NIGHT, CHAS FROEMAN'S, e e INDER 2 FLAGS Theater, N. T. Paul 8 Potter's 5-Act Drama on Ouida‘s Novel tire N. Y. Scenery and Co.—120 People. SEAT SALE NOW IN PROGRESS. JULY 4, SIXTEENTH AND FOLSOM STS, 2 P. M., vs. —_FOR MIDDLE-WEIGHT— CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. CHARLES (Dutch) THUSSTON. TWENTY ROUNDS EACH. O04KLAND vs. SAN FRANCISC). TO-DAY AT 3:15 P. M, RECREATION PARK, Efghth and Harrison streets. NCERT HOUS:=. CHARITY MARTIN, Sig. Abramoff, Paras- kova Sandoline, Erma Wing, the Juggling Barnum and Stanley and Walton. Reserved Seats, %c. Matinee Sunday. AMUSEMENTS. BELASCO ~»oTHALLS ENTRAP=: SHITE CITY Masy MATINEE TO-DAY and To-morrow (Sunday). TO-NIGHT and Sunday Ev'gs—Last Times. Nellle McHenry's Great Farce Comedy, ANIGHTAT |\ THE CIRCUS Introducirg up-to-date Speciaities. YOU'LL SHOUT, SCREAM AND ROAR. PKICES Erenines 10c, 15¢, e, 33c, 500 S Matinees. 2 : 10e, 15c, 250 NEXT MONDAY—Mammoth Revival of “UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.” Produced on a Scale of Magnificence Never Before Approached on This Coas EXTRA MATINEE NEXT WED) DAY. “NEXT WEEK POSITIVELY THE LAST* EVENINGS AT 5. ANOTHER TOY SOUVENIR MATINEE TO-DAY, June 22d, at 2. TU THE 0Y MAKER! ESDAY. JUN SOUVENIR NIGHT. EVERYBODY GETS A *© RKER." SUNDAY, JUNE 30— ‘HAT‘»E‘ IN THE WOODS."" Popular Prices..... e and e Telephone—Bush 9. BESGRSEAR LAST TWO NIGHTS ONLY MATINEE, SATURDAY. FLORENCE ROBERTS, Supported by WHITE WHITTLESEY. JULIA MARLOWE'S Latest Triumph. COUNTESS VALESKA ORCHESTRA, FI SIX ROWS, SEATS NOW READY FOR NEXT WEEK! FLORENCE ROBERTS, SAPHO. CHUTES a» ZOO BIG VAUDEVILLE BILL. Special To Night. MONSTER CHAMPIONSHIP CAKEWALK! Telephone for Seats, Park 2. SUTRO BATHS. OPEN NIGHTS, Open Daily from 7 a. m. to 11 p. m. Bathing from 7 to 10:30 p. m. Te. Visitors to San Franeisco who make their headquarters at these hotels en- joy comforts and conveniences not to Desirable loca- be obtained elsewhere. tion, courteous attaches and unequaled cjisine. American and Eurcpean plans