The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1902, Page 29

Pages 040 ¢ @all, [ 2 e aaaas e e e ad Pages 2010 40 L e s s et e e s e e e e s e et PLszassns SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1902. OUTWITS NEIGHBOR AT NIGHT Capt. Anderson Has Fence Erected in Hurry. | Structure Grows Like a Mushroom After Sunset. ‘ Claims Closed Win=% dows Overlooked | His Bedroom. ! ADORED ACTRESSES BUT ROBBED THEM Evelyn Mars, the “Flower Girl,” Steals to Buy Her Favorites Bouquets. , g0 into your own back | on your own side of the | * sang Captain John F. | of the dock of the Pa- » Company about mid- | n Anderson, with | evedores, had pro- | board fence,” behind “might play,” and to go and have a was doing the honors e coufd in a Mission or reached him that his ering his cohorts the newly erected t man was glad the because he lelt ter, when paying erson was soon to and with a ride a seagull, stoed on the nether side has @ handsome home street, between Twen- Twenty-fourth. There rs and has made ible for his fam- M. Tarpey, a sa- lot to the south nce and proceeded eon. Adjoining the h is the re secretary Company. Against has set his line all light from the one, « en Tarpey’s house and the Ander- ace is a space of twelve feet. On - by accident or design, the Tarpey house have been they overlook all the e Anderson family. An- that his privacy has been e does not want to have to the annoyanees of g neighbors, he has er rd fence. { duty was completed he got a crowd of his t of rough lum- all had arrived, pro- fence. an hour and a half o and 1 guess no Mission said Captain ed his night's windows effectually of the nderson has not as yet com- ion of his fence, which from one end of as it stands to- shuis out the lignt his neighbor's hou er there o provisio is that fence,” d see what he JUDGE SLOSS RECOGNIZES CLAIM OF JOEN ABROOX Appoints Him Administrator of the Estate of the Late Mary Kilroy. ss appointed John Abrook ad- f the estate of his wife, Abrook, yesterday, relieving ughter, M Ellis, and fe Deposit and t care of the estate, which the neighborhood of $20,000. was appointed administratrix te upon the death of her mother J Abrook, who worked for her Kearny-street saloon, pon the estate, claim- husband of his employer. litigation. which occuplied the trust company was nistrator of the estate. t he had been twice Kilroy, the second mar- divorce she had pro- Secks Permission to Mortgage. The Pacific Unlon Club petitioned the Superior Court yesterday for permission 10 mortgage property owned by the club at the corner of Post and Stockton streets | $450,000 and for permission to issue ds for that amount. The petitioners at part of the purchase price of s advanced by the Mercantile pany of San Francisco, and e sum of $450.000 is necessary to ff the indebtedness to the trust com- i to pay for the erection of a new £. The petition will be heard by | Murasky Tuesday, May 6, at 10 —_—————————— Administrator Makes Report. report filed yesterday by W. G. aw, special administrator of the es- f the iate Caroline E. Cogswell, who here February 6, 1902, he acknowi- receipt of the following real belonging to the estate: Cash, jewelry worth $962; notes of Company, $75,00; stock Bank of Oakland, $11,000; ontra Costa Water Com- ds of Oakland Transit bonds of Oakland Water and furniture of smail $ 00, value —_————— Mejor Pope Leaves Insurance. n Temple Pope, son of the late B. F. Pope, filed a peti- letters of administration ate of his mother yesterday. avers in his petition, does rot exceed in value $16,000. It consists of an interest in three life insurance poli- es on the life of Major Pope. who died in Manila recently. .wo of the policies are for $6000 each and one is for $3000. A3 jor Pope and his wife died intestate 1 g0 to the seven children of Mr. J. B. Neill, for ten years head sales- 1 in the piano department of Sherman, Ciay & Co., has resigned to accept a posi- tion with the Wiley B. Allen Co., 931-833 Market st., where he will be glad to meet ali friends. > tered her adoration upon the bright particular stars of th Alcazar and the Central thea- | languishes in | \ pros- | ters. Now she the City Prison, with pect of prosecution for ‘burglar: she robbed the objects -of her affection in order to buy huge bouguets for them She was arrested vesterday afternoon in iss Agnes Ranken’s dressing room at the Alcazar, where she took refuge when she saw the detectives following her. The girl confesses having stolen a seal- skin coat, three silk waists, an alarm clock, part of a toilet set and two phot graphs of Agnes Ranken from Miss An- nette Marshall's flat at 531 Golden Gate | avenue last Sunday night. These were all found in her room. She denies having stolen other articles, and with tears in her eyes says she does not know why she commttted the crime—that it was the re- sult of a sudden impulse at a time when she needed money. Miss Mars is ybung. probably nd statuesque. ue eves as guileless as a fawn’s, and her face is free from the marks of crimc or dissipation. She has not yet been charged with the crime, and she may es cape punishment through the heartedness of the actresses from whose dressing rooms she is supposed to have | plifered many trinkets of more or less value. Annette Marshall, at the Central declares she will not help to send the poor | Birl to jall—that she only hopes it will be | a lesson to stage-struck girls who are not | willing to win their way by grit. *“I | couldn’t be so cruel.” says Agnes Ranken. | “She’s a woman,” is Olga Waldrop's rea- | son for not wanting to see her punished, and Georgie Cooper puts her chin in the | air and ends the matter with a decisive “Not on your life.” HAUNTS THE THEATERS. Evelyn Mars' name probably dragged | her firresistibly into the limelight belt. | Certain it is that for two months she has | haunted the Central and Alcazar, scarce- 1y missing a performance at either.’ and hastening from one to the other so that | she might not miss seeing any of the actresses she admired so much. Often ‘she was behind the scenes and in the dressing-rooms, getting past the dragons | that are set to keep chapples away by saying that she had a message from Miss | Waldrop to Miss Ranken or the reverse. Once past the barriers, she would rush to a dressing-room with a great bouquet of | violets or lilacs or American Beauty rosés. She knew the maids and often confided to | them that she adored Miss Waldrop and | Miss Ranken. She showered her floral irrlhutes upon Miss Marshall and Miss | Cooper as well, and kept them all in as- | tonishment that a rather shabbily dressed | €rl could afford to spend so much money | for flowers. | Al of these actresses missed articles and money from their dressing-rooms at times. After the burglary of Miss Mar- shall's flat, suspicion was directed to the “flower girl,” as Evelyn Mars had come to be known. Detectives Reynolds and Dinan were put on the case, and yester- day they searched a room at 607 Ellis street, where the Mars girl had been liv- ing for two weeks, and found hidden in her trunk the sealskin coat and other | valuables which Annette Marshall - had lost. Hurrying to the Alcazar, they found the girl at the matinee and placed her under arrest. DIDN’T ASPIRE TO STAGE. Miss Mars says that until a month ago she worked for the telephone company. She lately left her home, on Seventeenth street, she says, because her mother ob- Jected to her running to the theaters and knowing actresses and their maids. She - because 2, 20, tall tender- | She is a brunette, with | L & | | ‘ | [ | ‘ ‘ { <+ g e STAGESTRUCK GIRL WHO CONFESSES THAT SHE IS THE BOLD BURGLAR WHO ROBBED THE FLAT OF MISS ANNETTE MAR- SHALL, LEADING LADY AT E CENTRAL. | 5 e b VELYN MARS just adored]indignantly denies that she aspired to be actresses. In fact, she cen-|an actre: The unfinished letter was found in the girl's m: Dear Miss Waldrop: T guess you will not ba d. when you get this letter, but I ould not help it. We have met two nights n¢ we have not even looked at one another. I would have spoken but I thought you would v if 1 did. The day 1 saw you at the theater o would not take the flowers and aid you did not want me to bring any wore; in other words you did not wish to have anything m to do with me. I am very sorry, Miss Waldrop, for T love you very dearly. You have heard stories that have turned you against me, but you will see in days to come I &m not what 1 am said to be. Give a per- fon a bad name and it is very hard to get rid of but T will get rid of mine just to show t 1 am not what they think. Al [ for the landlady is that maybe by time the people get through with her-that he has been blackmaliiing she will learn to tell the truth. She has parted me from my home, turned my motker against her own child and parted me from vou, that I thought the very world of. T will make her pav dear for it, My turp is yet to come to deal with her and she won't get off as easy as she thinks. I am not the only one. The gentleman that she has been APPOINT TEACHERS AT WILL School Directors Say They Proceeded Legally. Claim Made That Pre- vious Acts Do Not Bind. Recent Vote of Board Is Freely Com- mented On. “We have the right to elect teachers in any way we see fit,” was the state- ment made yesterday by School Directors Thomas P. Woodward and C. W. Mark, “and we are mot bound by any resolu- tions of previous boards.' This information will prove a surprise to the citizens of San Francisco, who have calmly rested in the belief that the Board of Education was working under a plan of rules that was akin to civil service, where merit alone counts. School Director Woodward strongly ob- jectzd yesterday to any criticism of his recent vote, by which a teacher was re- instated on the eligible list, though the teacher was one of the 125 pedagogues dropped from the rolls in January, 1899. School Director Roncovieri admitted that he knew very little of the merits of the case, but had accepted the arguments | of two of his colleagues and had voted for the reinstatement. School Director Mark said that his vote was based on a legal proposition, and that he wanted justice done to the teacher for whom he had voted. ; School Director Denman positively says that his colleagues were in error. He voted against reinstatement on the ground that the teacher in question had been legally dropped from the department and had no claim to be put back. DEFEND RECENT VOTE. The exclusive story published in The | Call yesterday that some of the teachers | dismissed in January, 189, had been put | back in the department without being | asked to take any examination caused a | considerable amount of comment, in schol- astic and business circles. Directors Waodward and Mark defend their recent vote of reinstating a dis- missed teacher by saying that the lady in cuestion had been clected a ‘regular teacher” by the board of 1898 at a meet- | ing on D];ceuber 28 of that year,, . ;‘"!‘gi' ady ahd twelye others,” Woddward and Mark, ‘‘were elected at a regular meéting of the board, and the board of 189 had no power to remove a regularly elected teacher.’ ] When asked why other teachers who | had been dismissed at the-same time were not also entitled to be reinstated, the Di- | | rectors answered that the elections mak- ing them regular teachers were ‘“special | meetings, and therefore were illegal.” The acts of the board of 1898 in electing | a big batch of regular teachers were so notorious that its successor, known as the “Bergerot board,” made a clean sweep | | of the appointees by an f‘omnibus resolu- | tion,” adopted January 25, 1899. | The question is being asked why the | present board recently voted to reinstate | one cf the teachers elected in the closing days of the board of 1888 and dropped a | few days later by resolution and yet | | stoutly takes the attitude that more than | 1100 other teachers dismissed at the same | 1 time are not entitled to reinstatement. | POINT OF LAW IS CLEAR. Although each Board of Education has formulated its own plan of electing teach. | ers. 21l boards for many yvears have fol ! lowed a stipulated mode of election. It has been customary for boards to elect an applicant as a regular substitute teacher. Then the annlicant would have | to serve as a regular teacher on probation before receiving final standing as a regu- lar teacher. talking about is doing the main part of it. It is my turn to laugh at her. manr that she speaks of {s nothing more than a brother {0 me. She has parted me from my mother, for I did indeed mean to stay te home, for your words tock a great hold of me when you ‘said you did not think I tried hard enough and that 1 was driving her crazy. Well, I don’t care now what happens, who goes crazy, o- anything elre. All I intend to do Is to deal with the landlady as she has been doing with me.. 1 was very sick when I first went home and I wizh that I had died then, not because I wae disg) ed In any way. No, I can hold my head as high as anybody in the land. TAKES KEY FROM ROOM. The girl took the key to Miss Marshall's flat Sunday night from the actress’ dress- ing-room, to which she had gone with her usual floral offéring. Friday afternoon she talked by telephone with Miss Mar- shall’s maid and asked if any clew had been discovered, and if the police were working on the case, and was told no. She also inquired in like manner of Georgie Cooper. None of those who saw her about the theaters could believe that 'she was guilty of theft or burglary. She continued visiting the dressing-rooms with the Inevitable bouquets even as late as Friday night. The detectives may charge the girl with burglary on information and belief, par- ticularly if her record is found to be bad prior to the crime to which she con- fesses. Monticello Club Installs Officers, The newly clected officers of the Monti- cello Club were installed ‘last night by the retiring president, James P. Booth. Those installed were: President, B. D. Murphy; vice president, W. W. MeNair; secretary, Willlam M. Maguire; financial secretary, H. C. Wilber; treasurer, Lewis H. Mooser; directors—8. V. Costello, P. Boland, R. V. Whiting and F. J. Teggart. President-elect Murphy was unable to at- tend. Before retiring President Booth presented his report and said that among many other gratifying things he could re- port that the membership had doubled during the vear. —————— Red Men’s Anniversary. The eighth anniversary of the institu- tion of Oshonee Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men was celebrated last night by, a pleasing entertainment and dance in the Shiels bullding. There was a large attendance and an enjoyable even- ing was passed. This gentle- | The State laws distinctly stipulate that the probationary term shall not date from the time the apvlicant was appointed as a. substitute teacher, but from the day on which the teacher was assigned to a school as a regular teacher. Directors Woodward and Mark showed that they are adepts in splitting halrs when asked to explain their recent vote of reinstating Miss Dorothy F. Moran. They both insisted that the voung lady was elected a regular teacher December 28, 1898, and that her removal a few days later was not legal. The Directors also apply the same reasoning to the teachers who were clected that day and dismissed later. The one hundred and more teachers dropped from the departmenti in January, 1899, took thelr case into the courts. A decision was rendered that they had no claim to be reinstated because they had not served for a nrobationary term’ fol- lowing their election as regular teachers. NOT ON PROBATION. This decision applies exactly to the teachers elected December 28, 1898, and dismissed the next month. They did not serve for a probationary term following their election, having no opportunity to do so, yet Directors Woodward and Mark claim that this batch of teachers have the legal right to be reinstated, and in some cases have taken such steps. Director Roncovieri said yesterday that if any of the teachers who had been dis- missed would come before the board and show that they were legally entitled to be reinstated that he would vote on that lina, The arguments put forward by Wood- ward and Mark on the recent reinstate- ment of a certain teacher are of such a “hafr-splitting” nature that the assump- tion arises that fthere were other reasons than “justice ‘in the case” causing them to vote as they did. & Roncovieri undoubtedly was won over to cast his vote for reinstatement by the eloquence of Woodward and Mark. It is safe to assume that many of the teachers dropped in January, 1899, and who had been connected with the depart- ment for many years, will have to bring as “strong reasons’’ for reinstatement as those which induced Directors Woodward and Mark to vote as they did a few days i | | | | | | o. “i&unmlerl says that he is new to the work of a School Director and wants to do right and be just, and he means what he says. He says he will not vote in fu- ture for reinstating a dismissed teacher —_—— Your First Duty to Yourself s to look after your own comfort. The com- fortable trains of the Nickel Plate Road, Chi- cago to New York and Boston, carrying Nickel in which are served Ameri- from c , G, B A, cisco, Cal. without being absolutely satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be reinstated. As for Director Denman, he abides by his former decision that none of the teachers dismissed in January, 1899, have any claim to be reinstated, and he so in- formed the teacher who was recently put on the eligible list by his assoclate Di. rectors. l daid | | of the’ city converging on Seventh and | A goodly representation of the California | Club, PLAYGROUND IS GIVEN USES’ SEARCHING TEST Wonderland of Swings, Rings and Ladders Is Formally Opened to Children. — By, N AND HARRISON STREETS. THE SwiNeS DId A RuUSHING ISINESS. .. W HUTTON SOME OF THE SIGHTS AND INCIDENTS THAT MARKED THE FORMAL OPEN OF THE NEW CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND, ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY AT THE CORNER OF SEVENTH NG YESTERDAY AFTERNOON B o HE biggest of all big shows tnat the boys-and girls south of Market street ever saw was that yesterday afternoon when the children’s playground was opened. It was better than a 3 menagerie and three-ring cir- cus combined, and the boys did not have to carry water to the elephant in order to see the fun. The juvenile population of the section Harrison streets was gathered within the Loard and wire fences that inclose this new child's paradise. The youngsters were there by thousands, cager and anx- | fous to try every piece of apparatus on the ground and jostling each other good- naturedly in the desire to put evervihing to the test of use. On the streets of the district not a child could be seen. Polize- men on their beats and teamsters on thefr trucks jcined with tired mothers in bless- ing the day that saw this new heritage come into the hands of the children. Grown-up people were there in num- bhers. Some of the smallest tots were m charge of their mothers—mothers, for nurse maids were not at all in evidence. the band of good fairies that did most to create the wonderland. was on hand. to revel in the delight of the young- sters and in contemplation of the infinite possibilities for good -in the movement. The Board of Education and the School Department, the Supervisors and even the City Hall “crowd” were all well repre- | surpassed for noise and enthusiasm by | children, whether in public or private sented, and the face bf every man and | the fathers themselves. He said he | schools. BOLD THIEVES ROB A SALOON Rifle Safe and Cash Reg- ister While Bartender Is Away. - The *“City of Stockholm,” a large sa- loon at 901 Kearny street, was robbed early yesterday morning by three men, who are believed by the detectives to be Eastern erooks. The deed was committed shortly after 2 o'clock, while the place was still open and while many people were passing along the street. According to the story told by the bar- tender, Nels Peterson, shortly after the affair happened, three men entered the saloon and ordered a drink known as “coffee royal.”” Peterson Informed his customers that he kept no coffee in the house. The men insisted upon him filling the order and offered him a “tip” if he would go to a neighbornig restaurant and get the coffee. Suspecting nothing crimi- nal, Peterson took three glasses and left the place. As he was returning from the restaurant one of the men met him on the sidewalk and said that a fourth customer had come in and desired the same kind of a drink. Peterson returned to the res- taurant and was thus further delayed in getting back to the saloon. ‘When Peterson finally got back to the saloon he was surprised to find his cus- tomers gone. He set the glasses on the bar and commenced an investigation. He found the door of the safe open and that a sack containing ‘was missing. The safe had not been locked by the combina- tlon and it required but a twist of the knob to open it. .The cash register had also been opened and nearly. 350 taken from its compartments. The police think the work was done by Eastern thieves, who came to the coast recently. One week ago they smeared |dis woman there beamed with the reflected joy-of the children. TIDAL WAVE OF CHILDREN. The gates were closed to the multitude of children until after 2 o’clock, when the invited guests had mostly assembled. Mayor Schmitz, Superviso School Di- | rectors and California Club women sat | on the platform erected for the opening exercises, and in front of them School Director Roncovieri waved the baton for his band, playing the most gingery of | quicksteps. Then School Director Mark | ordered the bars to be let down, and in | another minute an inundation of wild, young humanity swept across the sand of the playground, beat against the musi- cians and threatened the foundations of the platform. It required the strenuous exertions of Captain Spillane, Sergecant | Duke and a squad of patrolmen to rescue the band from the human tidal wave. | School Director Denman presided dur-‘ ing the formal opening, Cecil W. Mark of the Board of Education, who had im- mediate supervision of the preparation. of | the playground, spoke briefly of the his- tory of the local movement, originating | with the California Club’s experiment four years ago on Bush street. He con- cluded by formally declaring the play- ground open to the children of the city. Mayor Schmitz upon his .introduction by Mr. Denman was given such an ova- tion by the sons of the men who elected | | | | 1 him to office as could scarcely have been { soap on the.window of a Market-street store and robbed the place while the pro- prietor was outside washing off the soap. | ———— FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY SUED ON BONDS United States Seeks to Obtain Ten Thousand -Dollars on Alviso Dredging Contract. United States District Attorney Mar- shall B. Woodworth instituted an action yesterday in the United States Circuit Court against the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company and Edward V. McCann to recover $10,000 on the bonds of McCann as a Government contractor. The complaint .recites that on September 8§, 1809, Major W. H. Heuer of the Corps of Engineers, United States army, awarded to McCann, as. the lowest bidder, a con- tract for dredging Alviso harbor, the con- tract price being 6 cents per cubic yard. The defendant guaranty company went on McCann’s bonds in the sum of $10,000 fer the faithful performance of the con- tract. It is alleged that McCann failed to-do any dredging, and on April 3, 1900, proposais were readvertised for, and the centract let to A. C. ‘Alken, the lowest | bidder, ‘at 1448 cents per cublc yard. Alken performed his contract by dreds- ing 166,263 cubic vards at a cost to the Government of $23488 22, an excess of $13,512 4 over the price of the McCann contract. McCann is bombproof against execution, his total assessment on the property roll being $100 worth of furni- N Eiotney. Wooawhitll sayk:that e has demanded of the United States Fidelity and ‘Guaranty Company that it make 3 the bonds, and that the company as refused to do so. Hence the suit. ————————— Homan Appeal Dismissed. The decision of Judges Cook, Lawlor and Dunne on the appeal of Edward Ho- man of the Midway Plalsance against the judgment of Judge Cabaniss sentencing him ‘to pay a fine of $180 for selling liquor without a license was renderéd by Judge Cook yesterday. The judgment of the lower court was affirmed and the appeal | and ladders to give thought to what was . came up for trial and she was sentenced | —— wished he were a boy again that he might get out and play with them and enjoy the opportunities offered them there. He hoped that in the near future many other such grounds would be opened, and prom- ised his support to the movement. He paid a compliment to the zeal of the Cali- fornia Club, and said that so long as this playground exists it will stand as a monu- ment to the good work done by the club, Mrs. Alexander Sharon spoke as a rep= resentative of the California Club, H. U. Brandenstein for the Board of Supervis- ors and Albert Currlin for the Pacific Turn Bezirk. The adults and the children who could not withstand the alluTements of the band listened to the speeches. The rest of them were too busy with the swings and rings occurring on the flag-bedecked platform. The great center of attraction was the “monkey cage,” a framéwork that looks like a skeleton gas works and Is equipped with enough ladders, bars, poles, rings and other simple apparatus to entertaim several hundred boys. The surface be- neath is covered with tanbark as a safe- guard against mishap. Every corner of the ground is an El Dorado for the boy with an excess of animal spirit to work off. A section of the ground is inclosed by a wire fence, inside of which the girls can play, safe from molestation. The playground is to be open from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. to children under § years of age, and from 3 to § p. m. to all school THIRTY YEARS FOR FOOTPAD Judge Dunne Imposes a Heavy Sentence on Antone VYellick. Antone Yellick, who was convicted by a jury in Judge Dunne's court on a ¢harge of robbery, appeared for sentence yesterday.. There were two prior com= victions against him, one for grand lar- ceny and the other for attempt to com- * mit grand larceny. Judge Dugne sen- tenced him to.thirty years’ imprisonment in Folsom penitentiary. Yellick did not say anything when sentence was passed, but bis brow contracted and he looked as if murder was in his heart. When Yel~ lick was convicted he told Policeman H, C. Clancy, who 'arrested him, that he would kill him as soon as he served his & sentence. wait. On the night of November 13 last Yel- ' lick and a colored woman, Mary Holman, - held up and robbed Johm Strom in a lane in the rear of the Cafe Royal, ‘tak-" ing §13 %5 from him. The woman pleaded | gullty to grand larceny when her case - to dve years in San Quentin. William De: W to three charges of burg! was sen- . | tenced yesterday by Judge Dunne to years’ imprisonment in San Quentin, th: years on the first charge and one year o each of the other two'charges. He broke into the planing mills on. Bedle and Mis- sion streets and on Er it street on | January 4, 27 and 28, and stole tools which he sold to second-hand dealers. Gugirimo.. Wada, -a Japanese, ch with felony embezzlement by a firm, failed to answer in Judge court yesterday and his bail of $150 was declared forfeited. 'n;.:om £ notified that the defendant m Victoria, B. é - ey