The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1901, Page 29

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29 1901. " SPHALT TRUST 15 INSOLVENT Receivers Are Named for the National Company. Unable to Meet Obligations Due on the First of January. J., Dec. 25.—John M. Tatnall of Philadelphia / eppointed receivers of the Uonal Asphalt Company by Judge Na- ourt. v for this information. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28.—The Record will say to-morrow: “In anticipation of a defaailt in the payment of fixed charges due on January 1 arrangements have been made for the appointment of receiv- | ers of the Asphalt Company of America and the National Asphait Company. It is understood that Henry Tatnall, president of the American National Bank, and John Company, will be named as the re- celvers by Vice Chancellors Emery and Stevens, sitting at Newark. It was an- nounced that formal application for the appointment of the receivers was made yesterday. ““The investigeting committee formed by Thomas de Witt Cuyler some weeks ago is friendly This committee now controls $20,000,000 of the $30,000,000 of bonds issued by the As- | phalt Company of America, and a major- ity of gjl the obligations issued by the National Asphalt Company through a similar committee, in which Willlam F. Harrity is the moving spirit. “Fixed charges amounting to $500,000, including the semi-annual interest on asphalt §'s, are due on Thursday next. Wide circulation was given to a report that the two asphalt companies would default these payments, and the climax came last night, when it was announced that both corporations are insolvent and “There is an issue of $30,000,000 Asphalt Company of America 5 per.cent bonds &nd $5,000,00 National 5 per cent bonds, besides the common and preferred stock. of the National Company, amounting to $18,875,000, making the total amount $54,- £75,000. The bonds of the company have depreciated rapidly within a few months, and the Asphalt Company of America 5's sold yesterday at 33, one-third of their par value, which was the lowest price they ever brought. About two years ago they sold at 97.” WORK CEASES ON THE POSTOFFICE BUILDING Delay in Shipmentsof Steel and Stone Retard th> Course of Construction. in shipments of stee stone quarries in Utah work has street and Broadway. 3arrett sees no possibility of se- til May. He explains that not be operated in win- her cracking the stone. r a penalty of $40 a day building by December 8, Contractor Barrett, “but hing until steel The steel to they have not yet left mills. If I had the material or eighty men would now be at The Government officials selected ah stone, but they must have over- oked the fact that climatic conditions ere might retard shipment.” —_——— To Excavate Shell Mounds. BERKELEY, Dec. 28.—Several of the shell mounds about the bay erected by dians years ago as burying grounds will be excavated by University of Cali- fornia students under the direction of Professor W. C. Merriam of the palaeon- tology and geology departments and Vance C. Osmont, a graduate student. Three mounds will be visited—one at | hell Mound Park in Oakland, one in seventy work he Indians threw up the mounds in g their dead as they covered each 3 h sh Beads, implements of ar snd camp utensils were buried with dead. These, with the skeletons, will be dug up in the interest of science. R T T 1 THE DAY’S DEAD. el PACIFIC GROVE, Dec. 28.—Adrian C. Rosendale, one of the oldest and best nown commercial travelers on the Ps- fic Coast, dled suddenly at his home in city this morning. His death was aused by an affection of the heart. He leaves & wife and one son, Charles B Rosendale of Salinas. He was 58 years old end had been a traveling agent for the Nonotuck Silk Company of New York and San Francisco for the past twenty years. Rear Admiral Francis Asbury Roe. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—Rear Admiral | Francis Asbury Roe, U. 8. N, retired, died here to-night He was born in New York. He was placed on the retired list in October, 1885, after thirty-four years of active service. AT L Mrs. Elmer Dakan. SANTA CRUZ, Dec. 25.—Mrs. Elmer Dakan died to-day at her home in Soquel. She was & native of Ohlo, aged 73 years. She came across the plains in early days | and bas resided in this county since 1859. sttt Our Stock of Gold. On August 1 the stock of gold in the United Btates Treasury amounted to $504,854,207. This is the largest sum ever held by our Government. ™y bares with the amounts held by the other kecreat depositaries is shown by the follow- ing table: Bank of France. Imperijal Bank of 345,408,144 Bank of Austria-Hungary 190,814,126 Bank of England X Bank of Germany 383 United States Tre: ; 504, But great as s the sum of gold in the 'nited States Treasury it is less by over 000,000 than the amount of gold in lation in the banks and in the hands he people. This on July 1 last was $620,4¢ , making a grand total for the United Btates at that time of $1,124,729,261, i ago Record-Hetald. What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every iay. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-0, deliciots and healthful dessert. Pre- ared in two minutes. No boiling! no baking! add boiling water and set to cool. Blarors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasi berry and Strawberry. Get a package at your grécers to-day. 10 cts. Shanley of New York were | An- | drew Kirkpatrick of the United States | Judge Kirkpatrick is au- | Mack, a director of the National As- | to the Mack-Widener-Elkins | interests in control of the two concerns. | will be turned over to friendly receivers. | OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Because of delay | structural material | st and the shutting down: for | w postoffice building at | Con- | t Berkeley and the other in Sausalito. ‘ How it com- | OF COMPETITION Automobiles May Be Put in Use if Fares Are Raised. | Protest in a Mass-Meeting [ Against an Obnoxious ! Order. | { { ! ELMHURST, Dec. 28.—Elmhurst resi- | dents held a mass meeting in Red Men's Hall to-night to protest against the action of the Oakland Transit Company, which has given notice that after the first of the new year no more commutation tick- ets will be issued from any point on the line to Oakland and that all fares will be | collected in cash. Under the proposed schedule of rates Elmhurst people will be required to pay $6 per month for traveling to and from Oakliand, where they have heretofore paid but $3 per month. San Leandro passengers will have to pay .he same and patrons of the road who go | back and forward dally from Haywards | and pay $6 for a commutation ticket will after the change goes into effect have to pay $12 in cash for the same privilege and service. Frank Storer acted as temporary chalr- man of to-night's meeting. About 150 citizens of Elmhurst with a number of others who reside along the Haywards line were present. Storer remarked that it was not necessary to give any detailed reasons as to why the citizens of Elm- hurst had convened. It was the universal | sentiment, he said, that Elmhurst was being harshly dealt with as regarded the coming raise in car fares, and that some- thing should be done to offset or nullify the handicap if possible. R. D. Myers was chosen permanent chairman. He said: Every resident of Elmhurst, whether he be | & commuter or not, is financially affected by the last_mandate of the Oakland Transit Com- pany. We came here and bullt up this com- munity with the ussurance that we would have the privilege of going to and from our busi- nees in Oskland or to points in Oakland, where we could board the ferry trains, at an expense | mot to exceed §3 per month. *We have made this town all it is. Since the Haywards road has changed ownership and management we have been gradually deprived of conveniences and now a raise in rates is coming. First the tick- et-book costing $1 was dispensed with; next the carrying of bicycles on the cars was pro- hibited, and then the electric heater was taken out of the cars. If we do not take some means to protect ourselves in this matter, many peo- ple who now own and others who rent homes here will remove. I do not think we can gain anything by supplicating the officlals of the Oskland Transit Company. Those of us Who have already gone to them have received noth- ing but insults. T believe it would be practi- cable to run g line of automobiles into Oak- land for a flat fare of 5 cents, and aiso think that we could secure a commutation rate from | Elmhurst to San Francisco on the Southern | Pacific for $4 50 per month. J. M. Moore, who acted as secretary of the mass meeting, sald that the people of Elmhurst should act quickly if any- thing was to be accomplished. Charles D. Kelly said that two years ago Passenger Agent Goodman of the | Southern Pacific informed a committee of | Elmhurst residents that the company would estabiish a $3 50 commutation rate | to San Francisco if twelve regular com- | muters could be secured. R. B. Matson ennounced that E. B. Stone was willing | to operate a number of automobiles be- | tween Elmhurst and the Southern Pacific station, which is about a quarter of a mile from the center of town, if the Transit Company put the high rates into effect. At the conclusion of the meeting Chair- | man Myers appointed the following com- mitte to fonfer with the Transit Com- pany and request that the commutation | schedule be not changed, and also to see | what arrangements could be made with | the Southern Pacific passenger depart- | ment: | _ Andrew Jones, { E. Clark, R. B. Myers, J. M. Moore, | Elmhurst; B. C. Hawes and W. J. resenting San Leandro; H Morris, bankers of Oakland, who have heavy property interests in Elmhurst. The committee will report at an ad- journed meeting to be held Thursday night. Dudley Kinsell, the Rev. E. all of McCoy, rep- W. G. Palmanteer and IDEHANDS CLOSER UNION p OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS | President Rogers of State Federation | Points Out Important Work by National Convention. OAKLAND, _Dec. 28.—Charles D. Rogers, president of the State Federation of Labor, has returned from Scranton, Pa., where he was a delegate to the na- | tional convention of'the American Fede- | ration of Labor. Mr. Rogers brings the news that in April the executive commit- tee of the national body will hold a meet- ing id San Francisco for consideration of | 1abor conditions on the Pacific Coast. The most important- work done by the convention, Mr. Rogers, says, was the adoption of resolutions calling for the closer affiliation of labor organizations. Individual unions are instructed to affili- ate with the local central organizations. | “This move has a most important bear- | ing upon the somewhat mixed conditions existing in San Franclsco,” said Mr. Rogers. “It was decided to uphold the | formation of Building Trades Councils, provided that all of the unions affillated with such councils be members of their international associations and likewise affiliated with the local organization of the American Federation of Labor.” —_——————— | HOTEL ARRIVALS. NEW WESTERN HOTEL. B Abrams, San Jose |W Wagner, Oakland Houghton & w, N Y/Capt J R McIntosh,Cal Galvin, San Rafael |T Sullivan, Pinole § Cleaver, Sta Monic|S E Farmer, Pt Arena L Meigs, N Orleans | B Campbell, Pt Arena Miller, Dayton |C Bradley, Kansas Cty E Estes & w, Il H C Whitmore, Kans ‘W Fresh, Port Costa| K E Todd. N Orleans Johnson, Port Costa| A Barr, Rochester | C Braay, Benicia |3 Davis, Angel Islana C Doud, Fresno IW'J Eckert & RUES HOUSE. H T Archibald, L Ang R Owens, Yreka R Ot > w, Pa G H Kraft, Red Bluff L E Kilkenny, Salinas X Brage, Park | C Martin, Holllster | W H Parker, Stockton' E B Willls, Sacto ‘W B Webber & w, Okl|C Kirkpatrick, Chgo | J O Harrison, Berkeley| A H Buhne, Eureka | G Faucett, Berkeley | Mary Gibson, Victorla | € L Darn, Berkeley '|Mrs's Blair, Victoria | ¥ Boos, Tuolumne |Maria Blair, Victoria | G Bronson, Sonoma = |F Blalr, Victoria | W A Cox & w, Stktn' H Dubben, Victoria G Streib, L Ang |Mrs G Zeller, 11 B F Laughlin, Or Mrs M C_Reynolds, Miss White, Portland | Walla Walla J W Cusic,’ Albany |G Mitchell , Wash Miss E Elden, Cloverdl |T ¥ Walsh, Cal Miss D Elden, Cloverdl| R McKinzie, Eureka Mrs J M Anderson & J B Mecker, § Rosa d, Sacramento E L Phillips & w, Fres Pailine M. Eilers, S8ac C F Wilkins, Cal May Healy, Sacto {R A Craig, Pa L McDonald, Cal | M J Hughs, Pa ———e——— COURT GIVES MENDONCA CHILD TO HER MOTHER | Mrs. Marian Joseph Declines to Con- test for Possession of the Young Girl. OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Mary Mendoca, the 12-year-old child whose mother, Mrs. Julia L. Maze, sued out a writ of habeas corpus in order to wrest her prom the | possession of the Joseph family of Liver- | more, was to-day awarded to the posses- | sion of the mother by Judge Hall. Mrs | Mariana Joseph, in whose custody the | child has been for four years, informed | the court that she was perfectly willing | that the mother should have her, and de- | | clined to make any contest. The child was reluctant at first to leave the Josephs, put after a private talk with | Judge Hall @nd the mother she decided to go with her maternal relative. She | | | | | ana this afternoon’s se: jwm be taken to the home of Mrs. Maze, 4n Hollister. TLMHURST HINTS |KRIS KRINGLE MAKES ARRANGEMENTS TO MEET CHILDREN OF ALAMEDA He Will Hold Forth at Harmonie Hall and Be the Central Attraction of the Little People’s Festival, Which Is an Annual Event Looked Forward to With Eagerness LAMEDA, Dec. 28.—Every child’s favorite, old Kris Kringle, will hold forth to-morrow afternoon in Harmonie Hall from 2 to 6 o'clock, during which hours the little people’s festival, or kinderfest, of the Harmonie Club will be in progress. Elaborate preparations have been made for the annual event, that is always re- garded by the youns folks of the local German colony as the merriest and most important of each year. Among the attractive features of the entertaining programme to be given by the juveniles to-morrow afternoon are a minuet dance in costume by a number of clever children, who have been trained under the direction of Miss Rosine d’En- nery, and a fairy play, in which twenty- two young people will apear. - The par- ticipants in the play have been prepared and rehearsed in their vaflous roles by Joaquin Luth. German will be spoken by the tiny actors and actresses in the drama of fairyland. All of the music and ac- DISCUSS TRADE AND UNIONISM Noted Economists Re- view Existing Condi- tions in America. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The American Economic Association devoted its morn- ing session to-day to a discussion of trade fon to economic theories. Brooks Adams of Quincy, Mass., in interpreting the recent expansion of the foreign trade of the United States entered a plea of justification for com- mercial and even military warfare to maintain the commercial supremacy of a country. He reviewed the economic con- ditlons of the United States and sur- veyed the rise and fall of governments in the past. Worthington C. Ford, chief of the De- partment of Statistics of the Boston Pub- lic Library, gave a succinct review of the commercial policy of Europe, in which he contended that free trade would be the outcome of a threatened breakdown of the “superstructure of the general tariff condition” of Europe. Charles A. Tuttle of Crawfordsville, Ind., described the workingmen's position the light of economic progress and con- tended that trades unionism and collec- tive bargaining, profit sharing and indus- trial arbitration all signified that the workman has a quasl property right in the business in which he is employed. At the afternoon sesslon a paper by Thomas N. Carver of Harvard University discussed “Some Theoretical Possibilities of a Protective Tariff,” and sought to show that a tariff duty is not necessarily paid by the home consumer; also that a protective tariff may be so framed as to raise wages as well as to attract labor and capital from the less productive into the. more productive industries—judged from the standpoint of the community rather than from that of the individual business man. The third session was held this evening and two papers, “The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippl Delta,” by Alfred H. Stone of Greenville, Miss., and ‘‘Concen. tration and Arbitration Among Miners,” by Herman Justin, commissioner of the Illinois Coal Operators’ Association, were listened to with much interest. Justin described the methods pursued with respect to the coal mining industry of Illinois in the settlement of disputes and the prevention of strikes by friendly council, where self-control is the govern- ing factor. New View of Parental Kinship, A little miss of five, living in Washing- ton, conspired with her brother, age four, to save enough pennles to buy papa and mamma presents. A friend of the family noticed that mamma’s present was much finer and more expensive than papa's, end was impelled by curlosity to inquire why the bulk of the savings had been ex- pended for the mother. The little miss replied: “Well, you see, papa is only re- lated to we children by marriage, while mamma is our relative by bornation.” | e - o CHILDREN WHO WILL BE PROMINENT IN THE LITTLE PEOPLE'S FESTIVAL. SHYS THE BODKS IR UNBELIBLE Attack Made on School Study of Scientific Temperance, SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 28.—Professor O. W. Atwater of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., read a paper before the State Sclence Teachers’ Association here to-day on ‘“Aleohol Psychology in the County Sehools.”” He sald in sub- stance: A body of temperance reformers by extenstve organized effort has secured in almost every State in the Unlon legislation requiring text- book Instruction in temperance psychology in public schools. Unfortunately for science, pedagogy and morality, a considerable part of this teaching is not in accord with the views of specialists or the result of the latest scien- tific investigation, Thus it comes about that in the United States a great educational movement is at- tempting to bulld up moral reform upon & basis of doctrine which sclentific authority dis- approves, In explaining what in his judgment constitutes rational teaching of the sub- ject Professor Atwater sald he belleved the instruction should be only in the higher and not in the lower grades of schools, and that both the kind and amount of instruct should be left to the great body of capable, conservative and earnest educators to declde. In the afternoon just before adjourn- ment Mrs. Mary A. Hunt of Boston, na- tional superintendent of sclentific temper- arice of the world’s Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the State Woman's Christian Temperance Union, disputed statements made by Professor Atwater relatlve to alcohol in food. Mrs. Boole sald that it was a reflection on teachefs hat they, were opposing temperance leg- islation ahd teaching of text books. The great stumbling block in teachers’ ‘insti- tutes and normal schools, she saild, was due to the fact that there was not an in- telligent presentation of the effects of al- cohol. Calendars and Diaries For 1%02. Also Daily Journals, Memoran- dum Books, BIM Books, Card Cases and | Blank Books of every description. Best | service and best values et Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . —_—— ‘Wife Charges Desertion. OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Mrs. Mary Luclen began suit to-day against Peter Lucien tor divorce, charging desertion. —_——— Mrs. Lucinda Powers, who dled recent- ly in Georgetown, Ohlo, was said to be the sweetheart of General Grant's boy- hood, and when Grant became President | he made her Postmistress of George- town. —% companiments will be rendered by the children. Mr. Luth is to officiate as stage manager. In the minuet dance these graceful little people will take part: Reta M. Golinsky, Carolyn Furth, Vallere Foveaux, Gladys May Coates and Herbert D. Langhorne. Presents will be distributed by Santa Claus to every little boy and girl in at- tendance at the kinderfest. In the even- ing there will be a reunion of the fami- lies of the members of the Harmonie Club, Harmonie Club, under the management of which the children’s festival will be held, is' the oldest social organization in Alameda, and has numbered among Its members nearly all of the prominent Ger- man residents of this city. It has been the yearly custom of the club to set aside a day during the Christmas season to be given over to the younger people. The present officers of the Harmonie Club are: President, Henry Epstein; vice president, Martin Lemcke; treasurer H. H. Danker; secretary, Herman Heinsohn. @ il @ ohY5 SCRIPTURE GAN BE STUDIED Chancellor Andrews Not of Belief That Inquiry Shakes Faith. Oakland Office San Franclsco Call 1118 Broadway, Dec. 28. Professor E. Benjamin Andrews, chan- cellor of the Nebraska State University, and President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California were guests of honor last night at a well attended banquet given under the auspices of the Baptist Social Union of the First Baptist Church. John G. Hoyt, president of the union, who presided, drew the attention of the guests to the fact that the two college presidents are the sons of Bap- tist ministers and were reared in the Baptist falth. Professor Andrews addressed himself to the subject of the Christian religion, de- claring his faith in its mission and assert- ing his belief that evolution is not an- tagonistic to its progress. He said in par Fear 1s expressed by some people that the belief in the Scriptures is in of being shaken by study and investigation. I find In contact With students from Christian homes that they have the idea that they must not indulge in too much investigation and thought 0 along theological lines. There seems to be fear that If they attempt to Investigate Scriptures they are almost certain to bring ug against disbelief. This is a false theory. don't think there s any danger to religion in the investigation of its grand principles. The trouble is that there are too many people who regard science as something mechanical. There are many Wwho belleve Darwinism, in particular, to be a terrible thing. And they think that if the doctrine of evolution is taken as true it destroys all theols I have met many students who think there is a great con- -tradiction between evolution and/ religion. . T do not_think that there is anything of the kind. It is quite true that If one maintains Darwinism as & strictly materialistic theory, that out of nothing something comes, that lite finally makes Its appearance in matter, such person has no need of a God, but he has con- siderable need of philosophy and common sense, Another bogle man that scares people s the so-called higher eriticism. A few of us re- member the early criticism of the New Testa. ment. But this criticism h: urance in the “divinity of Christ. We know that Christ spoke With an assurance as never man spake before, Criticism has shown us more and more that this 18 so. Instead of the Christian religion belng injured 1 belleve that the net result of criticism will be that the faith will be estab- lished more and more strongly. President Wheeler's address was a hu- morous dissertation on the life of him- self as a Baptist preacher’'s son and his assoclation with Professor Andrews, also the son of a Baptist preacher, at Cornell and Heidelberg universities. He said he took no stock in the libel that all minis- ters! sons are scapegoats. ————e———— Steals Diamond and Confesses. OAKLAND, Dec. 25.—L. A. Clemens, a solicitor, has confessed to the police that he stole a $75 dlamond ring from Mrs. L. Klose, residing at 860% Filbert street. The gem was found in a pawnshop. Clemens is in Jail. —_———— WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—President Roose- velt has accepted the resignation of First Kepynent Hermy H. Btow ortnance depast- | The Von Mohl Co.,493 B, »eetomrerarisiaied, Cincinnati, 0. C 29 BELINES DAV *SAN FUBIIES Sheriff Satisfled That Conductor’s Story Is Correct. Prisoners Escape Six Hours Sooner Than Officers First Thought. LS Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Dec. 28. Sheriff Rogers and his jallers are sat- isfled that Frank Case and William Kelly | escaped from the County Jail between the hours of 9 and 11 o'clock on Christmas ht. On the strength of Conductor Willlam Davis’ statement to The Call that he saw them on the 11:45 narrow gauge train to the city that night Sheriff Rogers inter- viewed Davis to-day and ascertained that the story is true in every respect. The | Sheriff i{s convinced now that the men escaped some six or seven hours sooner than was at first thought and under cover of darkness instead of in broad daylight. “There is no doubt that Davis saw the men,” sald Jaller George Taylor to- day. ‘“He knows Case well and could not have been mistaken as to his identity. We wish he had told us about them sooner, but, of course, he is not to blame, because he honestly thought they had got out of their troubles with the police. “He described their appearance just as he did to The Call. They were dirty and dusty from climbing about in their effort to get free. “I think they got out between 9 and 11 o’clock Christmas night. We lock the prisoners up at 6 o’clock at night, but these two men were not locked in thelr cells Christmas night, because they hid in the bathroom. Their cellmates de- celved us as to their presence and their absence was not noted. They must have crawled through the place where the bars were sawed off and stayed there until after 9 o'clock, when they got away by means of the rope ladder. ‘“We think the men are in San Francisco and that they will be caught very soon. Neither had more than twenty-five cents gnd I don’t think they would have skipped.” Sheriff Rogers has shut down on visits to all prisoners. He will not permit the promiscuous calling that has been going on for a long time. Some of these visi- tors, he says, are responsible for the presence of saws in the jail. — DEWEY THEATER CLOSES A SUCCESSFUL YEAR Manager Stevens Receives Splendid Return for His Efforts to Please His Patrons. OAKLAND, Dee. 28.—“Captain Swif! a melodrama of high colors, will be given New Year's week, commencing Monday evening, at the Dewey Theater. The plot is strong and the full cast of the stock company will be employed to present the drama. Manager Stevens closes the year with a record of successes quite unpar- alleled in the theatrical history of this city. By earnest effort to meet his patrons’ tastes he has realized a hand- some and prosperous twelve months. The new year dawns brightly upon Mr. Stev- ens d@nd his popular playhouse. —_——— Mrs. Aldrich Appeals. OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Mrs. Minnis C. Aldrich filed an appeal to-day from the decision recently recorded against her in her suit for an accounting from Mrs. Annfe Aldrich Barton and Mrs. Alice Dunning, trustees of her husband’'s es- tate. She claimed that certain moneys from the sale of stock should have been given to her, but the court decided that they belong to the trust. —_—— Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Dec. 28—Licenses to marry were issued to-day to Nels P. Johnson, 28 years old, and Grace S. Godwin, 21, both of Oakland; James H. Collins, 27, and Dolly Strolzwald, 22, both of Oakland; Frank F. Lewis, 23, and Mary R. Reba, 18, both of Haywards; Philip J. McGrath, 37, Nevada, and Mary E. Roberts, 30, Oak- land. —_—————— Contestants Ask for New Trial. OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—A motlon for a new trial was made to-day by Mrs. Eliza M. Miller, Mrs. Cordelia A. Baldwin and Mrs. Martha Duval, the recently defeated contestants of the will of Miss Eleanor H. More. Errors in the trial and insuffi- clency of evidence to justify the nonsuit granted by Judge Melvin are the grounds. —_——— Postoffice Promised Alameda. ALAMEDA, Dec. 28.—Congressman Vie- tor H. Metcalf has written to a friend here stating that after the holidays he will introduce and work to put through a bill in Congress to provide a Federal post- office building for this city, to cost, with the site, $100,000. —_———— Butcher Surprises Burglar. ALAMEDA, Dec. 28.—A burglar was surprised last night by W. H. Noy while trying to rob the latter's meat marker, at Bay statlon. Before Noy could cap- ture the intruder he had jumped over a fence and escaped. DISASTER COMES 10 SANTA GLADG Carl Whitmore Typifles Him and Receives Injuries. ‘Whiskers Catch Afire and His Face Is Severely Burned. it Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1113 Broadway, Dec. 28. Santa Claus, personified by Carl Whit- more, son of Attorney Welles Whitmore |and a student at the Oakland High | School, was severely burned last night { While amusing a gathering of children at | the family residence, 1215 Jefferson street. His face and hands were scorched so bad- ly that it is feared he will be marked for life. | Regaled in flowing red robes touched with snowy cotton, and with a beard that came down to his knees, Santa Claus was | distributing’ gifts to the little ones from | the tree in one of the drawing-rooms. | Suddenly an accident caused the merry- makers to utter exclamations of terror. | While Santa Claus was reaching within the tree his whiskers swept over a light- ed candle and in a moment were convert- ed into a sheet of flame. The fire burst | upward into the face of the young man, |and to escape them he threw himself | prostrate upon the floor. There he rolled over and over in the frantic effort to blot out the burning cloth and cotton. | Finding that the fire could not be crushed out and mad with pain, he then | arose and rushed Into another room, spreading the flames as he hurried along. He was followed thither by his father, who caught up a rug as he went and wrapped it around his suffering son. Soon the flames were completely smothered. Miss Helen Lethem while playing about a Christmas tree at the residence of Dr. Colestock, at Pleasanton, was severely burned on the hands last night. Her | dress caught fire from a candle and be- fore the flames could be stamped out she had received a number of wounds. CONSUL ROOTH-TUCKER WILL HOLD MEETINGS Salvationists Prepare for a Large Demonstration in Honor of Their Leader. OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Mrs. Booth- Tucker, consul of the Salvation Army, ar- rived to-day on a special car from Port- land, Or. She is the guest of Colonel French at Eighth avenue and East Twen- tieth street. e consul is accompanied by Colonel Ed Higgins, chief secretary for the United States; Staff Captain Trumbell, leader of the staff band of fifteen pleces, which is with the party; Staff Captain Wright, secretary for the consul; Captain Mec~ Kenzie, and a staff of women singers. The consul. will conduct a meeting to- morrow morning at 11 o’clock at Hamil- ton Hall, Thirteenth and Jefferson streeta, There will be a meeting in the afternoon at the Macdonough Theater at 3 o'clock and an evening meeting at the same place at 8 o'clock. Salvationists have arranged a number of open-alr demonstrations in honor of the consul. On Monday evening the consul will de- liver a lecture at the Alhambra Theater, San Francisco. This is her first visit to the coast since last March. —_——— BOXERS BEGIN TO TRAIN FOR ACME CLUB MATCH O’Brien and Gibbs Contest Promises to Be an Interesting Light- weight Affair. OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—Jack O'Brien, the clever lightweight, who has been matched against young Gibbs for a fifteen-round contest at the Acme Club on January 14, began training to-day at San Rafael. As a lightweight contest the match is one of the best that has been miade about the bay. O'Brien is a New Yorker, who has an almost clean record of victories. His draw with Erne about a year ago was a notable ring event. Young Gibbs, the Cleveland lad, Is working at the Acme Club gymnasium in Oakland. He has already shown to the followers of the sport a shifty and handy style. The contest i3 expected to be as inter- ,esting as the Hawkins-McFadden event of a year ago. It is ®ire that men as evenly matched as O'Brien and Gibbs can be brought together. The Acme Club is making extra preparation for the even- ing. —_—— Plumber Expects Fortune. BERKELEY, Dec. 28.—J. W. Delaney, a local plumber, is one of the five children of Mrs. Laura G. Delaney, who died re- cently in San Jose, leaving an estate valued at $180,000. Delaney expects to get some 330,000 out of the estate after the will is probated. The property consists of real estate in San Jose and San Fran- clsco. —_— Teachers’ Certificates Granted. OAKLAND, Dec. 28.—The County Board of Education has taken the following ac- tion regarding teachers’ certificates: High School certificate granted to Miss Anna Wilder: grammar grade, Miss Evelyn Gallagher; recommendations for grammar grade life diplomas, A. Le Kuhls, Carrie Parrish. PERFECT who is & sufferer from nervous dissases shouid weine the Von Mohi Gar Cincinnatt, Ohio, at once, and accept their offer of a five days’ trial treat- ment free of charge. This is no C. 0. 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