The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1903, Page 27

® D e e e e e e e e e oy ) Pages 27030 Preve e [ e ] AL, 1) @ All, [ e e e e e e e o e o a as ] Pages 2710 36 L R e SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1903. e e N et X o2 FRED W. LEES oty WELL KON e || OFHUEN IN TROUBLE Humane quests W. T. Hooper to Resign. Anonymous Letter Is Cause of Turmoil in Charity Organization. S Official Conduct of Secretary Hol- brook and His Assistant Meet With Very Severe Criti- cism. L=t turmofl in the So- of Cruelty to ymous letter and Secretary been charged with thea- Secretary e and accused s and tuning pianos he should have nte of cruel been Assist ttacked. se proa fr VEGLECT IS CHARGED. - t n the ter that Secre- > be found ging in t Fellows' POLITICS. McCurrie is during the sang at fi time lost by tiy the eque e admitted at once t Cole. But there was enough e accusations to inake angry d been criticized. In twc of hors of Officer Hooper y mentioned. OLYMPIC CLUB MAN. the identity of society was acts mention- ent that this person could ok had seen the wife of Of- ser In the after-theater restau- e officers of the rrie’s increase in salary at er had been written. Fin- was openly charged with urbance and an of- was ordered. at the society’s offices ident Cole, t ri¢ ees James and Martin Stevens, Secre- k, Assistant Secretary Mec- , Officer Hooper and his wife and a , who lives with the latter, The facts in the case d. Officer Hooper, his wife riend denied all knowledge of of the communication in Holbrook and McCurrie inti- at some one of the three was re- the Citrus Fair at Cloverdale. | donday California N d paid fr visi s to the Hoopers that Mrs. Holbrook’s conduct in the office had been discussed at such times. e outcome of the meeting was that the police officer was requested to resign, It was suggested also that the whole matter | ve forgotten, but Secretary Holbrook, it | ts said, declined to make any such set- tiement. Hooper asserted | Police and that he couldn’t resign it he 1d so choose. | The matter was again brought up at the regular monthly meeting of the so- clety held last Thursday. It had not been blesome letter and the trustees were in $IX nething of a quandary. k ally introduced documentary proof that ¥ | the officer had been going wrong in his reports, the & IS ASKED TO EXPLAIN. to th Captain e and took a long sea om which he ha€ just returned —_————— The great masses—the buying public—should meeng read The Owl's advertisement on B It was shown that Hooper had inves- tigated the cruelty of drivers to horses attached to wagon No. 11,836 thirty-eight times during the last two years. It wag thought” that this was a remarkable co- incidence and on inquiry at the license of- fice it was found that 11,836 was the num- after his bonds arraj; ent Society Re-| proved that Hooper had written the trou- | McCurrie fin- | | varieties of | 128t regul | away from headquarters. | CLOVERDALE CITRUS FAIR WINS ENCOMIUMS FROM THE STATE'S BOARD OF TRADE Orchards and Exhibits Alike Submitted to Critical Examination of Experts Who Return Verdict That Show Sustains Prestige of North. 21.—The te Board - to-day attended the Clo- citrus fair, th by ac- nowledgi its significance and complimenting the people P. Chipman With him ncisco and A. Filcher and Mrs. LOVERDALE, Feb Californ and M Cragie S 2 Spaulding and Spauldin; M. D. Sweetser and Mrs. Sweetser, Mark L. Mc- Ronald and Luther Burb The last named, the fa s propagator of many is an honorary member of the State Board of T The visit of to an invitation extended some days ago, which L egetables, acce r meeting. The invitation in- cluded the wives and daughters of the members of the board. Saturday was fixed as the date of the visit for the rea- son that Mendocino and.Lake counties were to make this their day at the fair The people of the first named county n by hundreds, filling several | special ca: put on the re ar south— bound afternoon tran. It was supposed society | 5 that he was | detailed with the society by the Chief of | in Cloverdale that the members of the State board would remain all night, but engagements prevented this. Consequent- 1y the board did not take any part in any formal exercises. The board members did what may prove more value to this sectlon than speechmaking would be. They devoted their time in Cloverdale to viewing critically the exhibits in the fair and visiting the places in Cloverdale where citrus fruits are raised. EXHIBITS ARE PRAISED. Admiration was generally expressed for the fair. Cloverdale, probably the small- est community on earth that has ever at- 1e board was In re spon.fle\ of | the board-at its | exhibits, said that the greater part of them represented Cloverdale directly. There are in the show olives and olive oil from Santa Rosa, a few oranges from So- noma, a bo John Lovie in Sonoma James Shaw of Kenwood thousands of oranges on exhibition, so that Cloverdale is the most largely repre- sented. The Itallan-Swiss Colony at Asti is represented. That there are size in this vic statement: ector Wilson. The Cloverdale Or pany has twenty 'res of orange orchard in bearing about one and a half miles from Cloverdale. Captain John Field has four acres in 1ge inter made clear ts of some exhibition hall. The orange company ana Captain Field had exhibits in the show. H. H. Hubbard and Mrs. Preston of Preston exhibited oranges. J. A. Klelser, H. F. Snyder, Willlam Colwell, W. Brush, H. J. Crocker, A M. Coomes, the Yordi Mercantile Company, Mrs. G. Cam- eron, B. F. Green, Mrs. Jane Whittaker, M. Minehan, T. J. D. Hay, John Turner, Levi Shelford and Mrs. H. F. Gerkhardt also are exhibitors. To secure new and attractive designs young ladi are annually employed at a nominal price. To them the general ap- pearance of the show is largely due. It is saic here that on one large exhibition de- sign an entire month of labor was ex- pended. W Brush is the president of th ciation; C. E. Humbert, George B. Baer, secretary George W. Hoyle, C. E. Mitchell and B. Welson, directors. VISITING ORCHARDS. Just off the main street back of Clover- | dale’s hotel is a small orange and lemon tempted to maintain an annual exhibition | of citrus fruits, having a population of less than 1000, made a show which in variety and skillful and artistic arrange- ment would be noteworthy in a city of many times its size. Temples, pagoda: villas, a bridge and many elaborate de- vices, thatched and covered with oranges, lemons and other citrus fruits, manifested the enthusiasm and hard work of the men and women of the Cloverdale Citrus Falr Association. Tos is the eleventh annual citrus exhi- bition held by the assm-lqéon. Beginning v/ith a show which Includel very few ex- hibits, the association has now its own exhibition hall and ground, procured at a cost of several thousand dollars. hall is a permanent attraction in Clover- dale, and annually is thronged during the citrus fair season with visitors from all the surrounding country. The adjoining towns supply exhibits, and Sonoma Coun- ty annually points with pride to the show. > Director T. B. Wilson of the Cloverdale itrus Fair Assoclation, summarizing the i \ The | orchard, owned by Mr. Minehan. On one | of the grafted trees lemons and oranges are growing. One of the first of the self- imposed tasks of the State Board of Trade members was to vlew the orange bearing trees in the Minehan lot. They next went in a body to Captain Field's orchard. The Cloverdale people drew the atten- tlon of their visitors to the exhibit of to- bacco grown in Cloverdale. Experiments in curing tobacco have proceeded here for some time. Finally, so say the grow- ers, success has been achieved in this direction. Fully 100 acres are planted in tobacco. The leading producer is a com- pany, of which John_H. Pein of San Francisco is the president. Several farm- ers have become interested {n the ven- ture. W. Bruning prdicts that the to- bacco growing industry in this section will reach very large proportions in the next few years. When the members of the State board finished their examination of the exhib- its in the hall and the growing citrus frults in the orchards they returned to /San Francisco. CHIPMAN’'S OPINION. President N. P. Chipman expresses his views concerning the Cloverdale citrus 2 the | bearing orange orchard in Cloverdale, not | |° much more than a stone’s throw from the | *¥ i {08 \‘\ O\ VA \‘* : /’ | { SETATE BOARD OF TRADE | PARTY AT CLOVERDALE CITRUS FAIR. falr as follows: There are as fine specimens of oranke the exhibition as can be grown. The les of the fair is plain. Oranges can ably grown in this county. The noti feature of orange growing in this valley that the fruit ripens about the same time as in Southern California, while in the Sacra- mento and San Joaquin valleys oranges ripen from a month to six weeks earller. These valleys—the Sacramento and San Joaquil made their annual exhibit in November at San Francisco, while this fair is three months later. espondingly longer than in Southern Califor- nia. The great citrus belt of the Sacramento an Joaquin valleys oduces _oranges reads vails and the bulk of the crip is gathered and sold before we have our usual cold weather in January or February. This fair imparts no new lesson except to show that the coast valleys are adapted to the Production of later ripening oranges. The in- d Y generally supposed. in Northern California has been known ¢o_be possible, by orchardists, for many years. We have held successful citrus fairs since 1887, at which oranges from all parts of the north: ern valleys have been exhibited. But culture did not impress its importance nor were the right people here to develop the in- dustry. Besides this the general bellef deciduous fruits were their production was within our range of practical knowledge. It is mot easy to change ¢o radically from. the one culture to the other and the result has been that the north has produced nearly all the deciduous fruits and the south nearly all the citrus fruits. A rapid change is now going on and I predict that in ten years the State, north of YWehachapi, will be producing as many oranges as Southern California now produces and they will be marketed before the Southern anges are matured ready for shipment. In 1870 the south sent out about the quan- tity now produced in the north. Since 1870 the south has increased her output more than 30,000 carloads. I see no reason why a lke was that increase may not result in Northern Califor- | nia. We now ship out of the State.about 2000 carioads and _exclusively supply the home market for early oranges. Over production is not probable. The orange is more universally consumed than any other iyuit. It is in no sense a luxury any longer. We are extesding Sur market to forelgn countries, and Florida is Dot & serious competitor. # Oranges now bring to $400 per acre on the irees and yet the frult is sold so cheap that all classes can buy it. The consumption will greatly increase when growers are content with $100 per acre. With rich soil. & climate Inviting the orange grower, an abundant rainfell and cheap and Dlentiful supply of water for irrigation, the northern valleys of this State present the most attractive field for diversified agriculture anywhere to be found on the globe. L e A B i e e o T A R e I i e e o ) ber of a wagon which had not been in use for more than two -years. Hooper ex- plained that he occasionally forgot the number of a wagon and very likely used the one in question at such times. By a unanimous resolution of the trus- tees he was again requested to resign, but he again refused. Chief of Police Wittman said yesterday that Hooper would " have to stay with the society where he had been detailed or answer to a charge of {nsubordination: The latter was still at work for the charity last night. Officer Hooper has been attached to the society for nearly twenty-five years and his labors have been frequently given of- ficial commendation during that time. He is heart-broken at the thought of having to leave the work to which he has given the most important part of his life. He Qur orange season ia the north is cor- | for market when the highest price pre- | ry is spreading much more rapidly than is | Profitable crange culture | the | equally profitable and | California or- | MASKED MEN ROB SALOON AND ESGAPE Loot Cash Registers in Presence of Seven Persons. Saloon Man and Patrons Are Held Powerless to Interfere. o Bk Customers Give Chase to the Daring Thieves, but They Get Away and Leave No Clew as to Their Identity. it | One of the most daring robberies which has been perpetrated in this city for many | months occurred at 11 o'clock last night | when three masked men entered the gro- cery and saloon kept by H C. | Melsel at the corner of Eighth and Minna | streets and robbed the two cash registers. | There were six customers besides the pro- | prietor in the saloon at the time that the | three robbers entered. The thieves were | perfectly cool and seif-possessed and evi- | dently were desperate characters. They covered the men in the saloon with re- volvers and ordered them to throw up their hands. After the order had been complied with two of the robbers kept the proprietor and the customers covered, while the third slipped behind the bar counter and took what money there was in the cash register. After securing the contents of the register in the saloon he went into the grocery and got the money which was in the register there. The robbery occurred not more than | two blocks from the City Hall, and at a time of the evening when Eighth street was filled with peopie going to th homes. The robbers, from the skillful manner in which they plied their work must be old hand: the game. They planned the rob- | bery before they entered saloon, and not a single break occurred in their plans HOLD UP CUSTOMERS. | When the three robbers entered H. C. Meisel, th oprietor, was behind the counter in the saloon waiting on his cus- tom: There were six other men in at had evidently carefully the barroom. The men were: Jo- seph McDonald of 144 Eighth street, J. Hackett of Natoma street, Rober Glen Park avenue, Wil- lam Byron, Henry Luxinger and a sixth whose name could not be learned. Two of the robbers, who were rather tall and of slender bulld, entered through the gro- Blakinson of cer: which opens out on street. The proprietor from bis position behind the bar was able to see them en- | tering. They wore masks of faces and completely concealed their fea- tures. While these two masked men were walking through the grocery | ward the barroom a third robber, who was very short in stature and wore black mask, entered the saloon through the side entrance on Minna street. He was in a crouching position, with his pis tol drawn, but concealed. As soon as he was well inside the door he t ick- Iy and covered the proprietor s d his customers with his gun, ordering them at the same time to throw up their hands. By this time the two masked men who were entering from Eighth street stepped into the barrcom with drawn revolvers and also covered the seven men who were in" the room. THREATEN TO SHOOT. sudden entrance of the masked robbers and the ease with which they conducted their daring game took the seven men who were in the saloon com- pletely off their gua Practically > tance was made. thieves who covered the proprietor and his cus- tomers did not lower their guns for a 1 single instant. One of the robbers threat. ! ened to shoot J. Hackett because he wa slow In elevating his hands. Regarding | the robbery Mr. Hackett had the follow {ing to say: “When the three masked men entered the barroom and covered us with their | pistols they took us complete: rawares. We were not able to do a single thing. | When we were ordered to throw up our hands, I refused to do so. One of the robbers, who wore a white mask, in- structed the short fellow in the black mask to shoot me if I gave any trouble. He certainly looked as if he would like to carry out the order. The fellow in the black mask stood guard at the side ! door leading into Minna street, through which he had entered. One of the men The The two fn the white masks walked up to the bar | |and leisurely rested himself against it | while he covered the proprietor with his gun. I never saw any sessed and cool under such strenuous cir- cumstances. The man with the white mask, who robbed the cash registers, made an attempt to snatch a watch from one of the customers, but he was ordered by his comrades to leave the | watch alone and devote his attentions to | the cash registers.” MAKE THEIR ESCAPE. As soon as all the money had been se- cured from both the cash registers the | robbers backed their way toward the side entrance leading into Minna street and ran in the direction of Ninth street. Jo- seph McDonald and J. Hackett gave chase | as soon as they had got outside the sa- loon. They followed them up toward | Ninth street crying “Stop thieves!” Their cries attracted the attention of Police- man James A. Cook, whose beat is on Eighth street, and Policeman R. A. Cur- tin, whose beat is on Ninth street. Both of the policemen ran immediately to the scene of the robbery, but the thieves were | gome. The: L ] |feels that he should be given another { chance in view of the fact that the in- | accuracies in the records form the sub- him. { of Mrs. Holbrook, she was presented with a handsome gold medal by them on Thursday. She has worked early and late in the schools teaching the city’s youth the humane way to treat animals and in | consequence there are more than 30,90 of Mercy. The anonymous charges against the secretary and his assistant have been disregarded. The work of the office has been altered somewhat since the receipt of the accusing letter, however, and Hol- brook eats and drinks at home, while Mc- Currle has sworn off attending funerals. Eighth | white silk | handkerchiefs which fitted closely to the to- one so self-pos- | searched about the neighbor- | stance of all that has been proven against | To show how highly the trustees think | | Fames of children on the rolls of the Band | GEN. WHEATON STILL HOVERS NEAR DEATH VETERAN SOLDIER WHO IS SICK AT A HOTEL IN THIS CITY. of uneasiness among his many friend: was ported last night to be holding his own. While the news from his sick chamber In the Occldental Hotel is not as reassuring to his friends as they hoped for, nevertheless it gives them hope for a still better turg. The best the doc tors can say for theif patient is that the high fever is abating. That the general's son in Denver had a premonition of his father's illness was evidenced in a message sent by the former several days ago to friends in th city announcing the presence here of his father and requesting that in the event of the gemeral being taken {ll they ses that he was attended by the best physi- cians in San Francisco. Dr. George F. Shisls, who is present at the general's bedside, was the latter's fleld surgeon during the Philippine cam- }paign, and since then has been a warm | friend of the old war veteran. ENERAL LLOYD WHEATO: whose illness during the last few days has caused no small amoun g | MASCAGNT WILL GIVE TWO CONCERTS TO-DAY Alhambra Theater and Mechanics’ Pavilion Will Be Scenes of Un- usual Performances. at 2:30 o'clock Pletre Mascag his magnificent orchestra will give a grand sacred concert at the Al. hambra Theater. Rossini's abat Mater’” will be complete h a quartet constst Da orthrop, so- pranc Blanchard, contralto; J. F. r, and G. Wanrell, and choru a ces consisting of the ngers of this city, with der Mascagn! rec- be a performance such 0 has never before heard rchestral cagni's now famous from the opera ular Intermezzo | ca 0t concert poser’s own w : t the Mechanics’ s expected tt the Pavi >wded, especially with the cour the great maes tro. The programmes follow for the two concerts pecial 'patriotic mu: | be rendered in the park | — e — | Colonist Rates to Califormia. The new signs in the window of the South- { ern Pacific Ticket Office, 613 Market street show that you can deposit the money hers and tickets will be furnished to th Eas! enab! e reduced tllustrated literatw cific Office to send —_————— Man Reported Missing. | Patrick O'Relly of 1813 Clay street was reported at the Morgue yesterday as ha icg been missing since February 17. Hen- ry O'Relly, who reported the absence of his father, described him as 70 years of age, five feet six inches tall of 19 pounds weight. When last seen the mi ing man wore a black overcoat, black knitted jumper and light colored trousers o reason for his disappearance ean b3 hood, but could no trace of the rob- bers. Because of the masks which the thieves | wore the men in the saloon were un ble to give the police descriptions of them | that might a in their capture. One overcoat, olly e white |of the robbers wore a light while another was dressed w | black. The tall ones who wore t silk handkerchiefs masks were of | slender bufld. The third one was very short and stocky. All were quite weil dressed. H. C. Meisel, the proprietor of the store, was unable to state the exact amount that they secured, but he does not think that it will amount to more | than $100. Sunny Suburban Homes. trains daily to Ross Valley, San Rafael, etc.; 50c round trip, or $5 per month com- mutation. 13 trains daily to Mill Valley. etc.; 40c round trip, or $4 monthly commutation, Via North Shore R, R. (Sausalito TFerry). Ticket office and Information Bureaw, 629 Market st .