The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1903, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 'PATRON SAINT OF IRELAND TO BE HONORED TO-MORROW Convention of Erin’s Sons Plan Splendid Programme to Take Place at Mechanics’ Pavilion, Preceded in After- noon by Various Athletic' Contests at Presidio Grounds | OF ONITED | , ILAOADS' DEAL - Dbt s Involving Sale of =2 r r |8 o — Francisco Bonds v ot <t | | | PROMINENT CITIZEN WHO PRE RDAY ‘AT CONVEN- | & ki ] TION WHICH MET TO FORMU FOR THE CELEBRA- | Write ax 1 Letter Wherein | | TION OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY'IN THIS CIT | They C He Overstepped | His Authority. £ 3 ¥+ 1 on HE St. P: Convention | granting of a half-holiday by business g stud e met vester ternoon in K. R. | houses was adopted: zh 8 B street and | St. Patrick’'s day is Treland’s o e hollday. which the P very. Da « s for thej} elebrate with public exercises: and . » « trick’s ras, For special reasons the Irish peo. The greatest enth r whi s presided. . The various | oyt refatis (Ol t ¥ ted their reports re- their Trish employes a half halida 5 e e « day. March 17, 1903, and afford | er in which the day will | (h2- Tatricks Say. March Ll he he choen. edly over- | pe wored. was decided that in_ the | ton. apd that such an act om thelr part would afternoon a programme of athletic events | Mony, Withthe grateful recogaition~of this} & n at the Pres etic ity be en at the Presidio Athletic | G e 3 o his st yunds. In the evening there will be R Gl A mme Mechanics’ P hund Pearl H grand march b will participa at the Presidio will inclu y one class of Miss Allen nts &a boys and girls to be preceded Hail, Unlon and Stockton streets, under an address of welcome by Jeremiah |th uspices of the St. Francis Gentle- | is here will also be a 20-yard | men’s ality, of which P. A. Buck- e one-half mile race, two mile |18y is president. The proceeds will be g hop, step and jump, thro: are desirous this year of celebrating their ational anniversary with more than usual im- ch | Ppe was appointed to draft resolutions of confidence in the Rev. Peter C. Yorke, who ppointed pastor of St. An- thony’s Church, East Oakland. The delegates will gather at St. Pat- rick’'s Church to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock to hear mass. The convention ad- journed. to meet Sunday, April 5, 1903. | - St. Patrick's Eve Celebration. This evening at 8 o'clock an entertain- ment will be given in Washington Square Kk in te de d for the building of a new residence for Father w- w sound . hammer, twelve and | Caraher and his assistants. six-pound wel | Mayor Schmitz will preside and make the g Between the events there will be an ex- | introductory remarks and Thomas W. t hibition of Gaelic . a hurling match | Hickey will deliver the oration. The pro- the school | and Gaelic football match will conclude | 8Tamme contains a number of musical the afternoon celebration. The teams will | 2nd literary selections that cannot fail to M S i GRG0 55 be picked from the Emerald, Parnell, | Please the audience. The harp, which is half a million the Shamrock and Wolfe Tone football clubs, the natlonal Irish instrument, wiil be a prominent figure on the stage this even- pers where wages | and the Emmet and Geraldine hurling Ll £ £2 weekly for | clubs . The general admission is 5 cents vd w Colonel Thomas F. Barry delivered a |and the reserved seat tickets are 25 cents | briet speech under “good of the conven- |€Xtra. The tickets can be had at the | tion,” in which he commented favorably | Parochial residence up to 6 o'clock this | on the action of the convention in voting | €Vening. the proceeds of the celebration to go in the fund for the building of an Irish ha i | This action accounts for the unusual terest manifested in the celebration , . r Cala- | 811 the delegates. 'S Napies The following resolutions urging t THE THIRTEENTH DISTRICT The novel that shows the vampire- like influence of Washington society on love and politics begins in the ext Sunday Ca ..READ., Girls Who Have Good Times || Tricks of The Stingy Man By ““Colonel Kate.” See San Francisco Beautiful Homes of Crystal to 1n. n- by @ i-iimiviioieleeei el it @ ILLNESS GRS b FATL FALL Jacob Mursch, a machinist 55 years of age, who lived at Alta street, was found dead at the foot of the steps that lead over Telegraph Hill from Montgom- ery street between Union and Green, | shortly before 2 o'clock yesterday morning. Beside the body was a demijohn | containing half a gallon of whisky and s he | | John Figoni, 1255 Montgomery street, was on his way home when h% heard groans coming from the direction of the | foot of the steps and saw the body of a man lying there. He notified Policeman W. J. Cavanaugh, who hurried to the place and found Mursch in 2n unconscious condition. He rang for the ambulance, but before it arrived Mursch had breathed his last and the Morgue was notified Mursch was lying on his back when Cava- | naugh reached him and the demijohn and parcel of groceries were beside him. Deputy Coroner Brown communicated with police headquarters and Detectives vestigation. They saw Mursch’s wife, who informed them that he had left the house | about 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon to go to Charles Heinicke's grocery, 29 Clemen. i she tried to prevent him going. They saw Helnicke and he told them that Mursch had visited the grocery about § o'clock and had remained there till a few minutes after midnight, when he left for home, taking with him the demijohn of whisky and the parcel of groceries. Mursch was complaining of feeling very {ll. The detectives and Deputy Coroner Brown came to the conclusion that Mursch, in his sickly condition, had falien down the steps and it ‘was at first thought | his neck was broken. There was a slight cut over the left eye which he had re- ceived in falling. The autopsy by Dr. | Bacigalupi showed that the neck was not | broken, but that death was due to frac- tured ribs and internal hemorrhage caused Dby the fall Lots of people but few succeed fursue a literary career, n catchipg up with it, | parcel containing bacon, butter and nuts. | | Reynolds and T. B. Gibson made an in- | | tina street, but as he was not feeling well | MINSTRELS MAK ~ HIT AT REPUBLIC Legitimate, Comedy Welcomed at the California. New Features at Orpheum Keep Bill Up to High = Standard. Three weeks ago Mascagni picked up | an orchestra here that he said he should be proud to rest his fame on anywhere. Last night—to leap from the sublfme ta the minstrels—the Republic exhibited a | band of bones and tambo men, without a penny of freight upon them, that W. H. West would have given most of his ears for. To greet them every seat of the 1250 the Republic holds was filled, | with standees to the tune of a couple of hundred more. Their part of the pro- | gramme, scheduled for an hour, was en | | cored until two would Rardly hold it, 10 there wasn't a dull second in the | time. | Something there isi of the rich, old { minstrel flavor about the Republic's har- monious fifteen. They sing right hand somely to begin with, and there is plenty of the right sort of fun, with the new | joke not ostracised. The curtain goes up | on theedome of the City Hall, with Peurl Wilkerson and a white chrysanthemum | in the interlocutor’s chair, a white quar- | tet and four burnt-cork artists on either | side. Richara J. Jose, who used to be “Dick.” looking more like an escaped cherub than ever, adorned Mr. Wilker- son’s right and the other vocal star of the | tribe, William McDonald, loomed up at the left. Conlon and Ryder, lately in view as the front and hind quarters of Johanna, the Tivoll's milch Jersey, *sat on the end” for the first half of the pro- | gramme, with William K. Mack and | Charles J. Stine end men for the rest. The company warmed Up on a sm: medley, and then Sidney A. Harris, pleas- the local ; ort| i { antly barytone, set the house stamping | with “Tessle, You Are the Only, Only, | Only.” Harry Sylvester followed him | | manfully with “Tell Me Who You Love" | |and “The Same Old Crowd,” and hauled | in bouguets by the bunch. Conlon and | Ryder then handed out a “La Paloma' ‘lhal warnts only a little tinkering to be | of the funniest. “I'm a Jonah Man" in- | troduced Mack, who made a ten-strike with his zippy singing and coon imita- | tions. McDonald, who did “The Song the An- | vil Sings,” was in fine voice, and came | out with he Armorer's Song” in ex- cellent style as encore. “‘Buffalg Willie" | was furnished by Stine, but didn’t count | compared with his jokes. Here is one of | them. The interlocutor says: ‘“Music | soothes the savage beast.” The Stine reply: “Yes; that will be why you put a brass band around a bulldog's neck.” Jose's was the last minstrel's lay, and in three songs, one of them “Dolly Gray,' the famous contra tenor achieved his ual triumphs. He seemed to be very | glad to be within hail of the bones and tambos again, and with a ponderou and festive pas seul afier his second encore indicated as much to a hilarfous audience. Theé minstrel programme ended with a howling Sousa imitation by the whole company Waliace Irwin, well known as a local poet, made his appea writer last night with “Chop Sue “Padlock Holmes."” ‘Shopsiuey’s” music |is furnished by Leo Bruck, who also di- rects the orchestra. “Chop Suey” was un- fortunate in coming rather late on the programme, and also in going rather slowly in itself. There seem to be pos- sibilitles about the burlestjue, but as it went last night the effect was labored and | heavy The s about the highbinder busines: some good songs and a fe genuinely funny situations in the sk h, notably [ the introduction of Mayor Schmitz, who proposes to punish the warring tongs by fiddling at them. The chorus girls are [ pretty and the piece is well dressed and prettily staged. Not much can be said for the acting, Joe Kane, Mack, Stine, Con- { lon contributing hat i= best in the cast. | | “Padlock Homes” came out of press | liours, so must go unchronicled. But the | minstrels are more than all there. GUISARD. 1ce as a burlesque ' and rene is laid in Chinatown, the plot There are . . e The enthusiastic reception accorded to | ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at the Cali- | fornia last night was ample evidence that | the legitimate is not yet the kind of a pro- | duction that fails to interest San Fran- | cisco theater-goers. The acting through- | out was superb, and tBe interpretation of quaint but ever new comedy was all that | the average audience could ask. There | was a storm of applause at the close of | every act. The hearers were holding their | sides with mirth, too, during the greater | part of the performance Charles Hanford as Petruchio was an unqualified success. His natural humor is infectious to begin with and his pro- | ficiency in the art adds luster to his oth- erwise excellent work. Marie Drofnah carries the part of Katherine admirably. Furthermore, she is exceedingly pretty. Rose Curry, who ably handles the role of Bianca, is another stunner. Robert TLee Allen as Grumio makes all manner |of fun. His make-up and carriage are | separate jokes. Ferd Hight as Baptista, | George Yielding as Vincentio, Irving Knight as Lucentio, Paul Anderson as Gremio and Frederick Forrester as Hor- | | tension all made individual hits. The oth- | | ers of the cast supported the leaders in | worthy manner. | A little one-act drama, “The Old | Guard,” is presented before the comedy. | It also was well received by the audience. | The California has one of the greatest attractions of the week, and will undoubt- edly receive a deservediy large patronage. On Friday night only will be presented “Much Ado About Nothing.” o e Julius Tannen was one of the surprises at the Orpheum last night. He appeared |on the bills as an impersonator and is | certainly a star in his line. His imitation | of eminent actors in curtain speeches | made the hit of the evening and his dia- | lect speeches were strikingly clever. Lil- |lian Burkhardt appears in new sketch, “A Strenuous Daisy,” as Mabel Marven Butler, fresh from a Ne- vada mining camp and unversed in East- She has strong support and the act is all that it is advertised, a good | comedy of sentiment and slang. Foy and | Clarke introduce originality in their sketch, “The Spring of Youth,” and the dience s quite unprepared for the ;:ale. The Six Glinserritis, Euro- ypean acrobatic artists, excel in their | line. Pepita Aragon introduces Spanish dancing and is well received. Dave Now- | lin scores applause as a mimic and he is encored on his “Oh, My!" song. Musical Dale, The Salambos and Rice and Wal- ters still hold the boards and give more than satisfaction. The entire bill affords excellent amusement and the house will be well patronized during the remainder of the week. K . . “Sherlock Holmes,” with William Gil- lette and an admirable company, is crowding the Columbia Theater to its ca- pacity at every performance. Its last performance will be given on Saturday evening next. The Alcazar has a new play to-night, said to be on the “Secret Service’ arder, in Charles Klein's “The Cipher Code,” Ll 1908, C DEATH PUTS END TO HONORED CAREER OF GEN. STRATTON Man Who Was Closely Identified With Upbuilding of State and Battled With Nature in Pioneer Days of California, | Passes Away at Oakland Home, Where He Lived So Long SANTA FE PLNS T0 GET BUSINESS Vice President Morton EX -+ | 11 | -+ | | UNITED STATES SUR- VEYOR GENERAL FOR CALIFOR- NIA, WHO DIED YESTERDAY. * AKLAND, March 15.—General James I. Stratton, former United States Surveyor General for Cali- fornia, a ‘pioneer of this state, the man who surveyed the rail- road line out of Oakland that became the route of the Central , Pacific Railroad, passed away at 5 at his residence, 461 East Twelfth street. He had been a sufféfer from heart disease for two years. With the development of California there are few names moré closely cop- nected than that of General Stratton. He came from Revolutionary stock, and his family was represented by men high in the early history of the country Born October 9, 1830, at Thompsonville, N. Y., General Stratton was of distin- guished ancestry. His father was Jonathan Stratton, a prominent merchant, lumber and leather manufacturer of Sulli- van County, New York, and for several terms a member of the New York State Legislature. On the maternal side, Gen- eral Stratton’s grandfather was the Hon. William A. Thompson, the first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Ulster and Sullivan counties. He was a scientist, writer and a member of the Royal Geo- logical Society of France. EDUC..ED IN COLUMBIA. Educated at the grammar school of Co- lumbia College, General Stratton left home in 1847, working in the Hudson River Railroad Company's engineering corps. He developed much ability as a mathema- ticlan. Three years later he came to Cali- fornia, arriving at San Francisco June 6, 1850, on the steamer Columbus, via F ama. Taking up his profession as a s veyor, he assisted in laying out the town- site of Benecia. Going to the mines, he prospected on the American River at Rat- tlesnake Bar, later at Lowell Hill, near PERRRRERERRRRRRRI R R YOUNG VANDALS MAKE TROUBLE Youthful vandals did much damage at the ocean beach about midnight Satur- day. They were of the hoodlum order, and it required the attention of two po- licemen from the Park station to make them desist. Windows were broken, tenis cut down and benches on the footpath demolished. A The proprietors of resorts in the vicin- ity say that gangs of hoodlums are in the habit of coming to the beach late at night and running things in a manner cempatible with their idea of fun. Many ccme out on trolley rides, and cars loaaed with hoodlums from 14 to 3 years of age put in an appearance, and for a time c:ti- zens as well as property suffer. Late Sat- urday night just such a mob of boys were out for a lark, and their conduct was so destructive that policemen were sent out to disperse them. The hoodlum element first smashed windows in the depot of the United Rail- roads Company, then stanted in the direc- tion of the boulevard. Sevéral tents, the property of palmists, peanut venders and waffle men, claimed their attention for a time, and they cut the guy ropes and dropped the canvases to the ground. Benches and shrubbery along the footway were then thrown about and destroyed, and visitors at the resorts were annoyed by violence and boisterous conduct @ inbriniiminiieiei - O lately produced successfully in New York. Miss Maude Odell is joined this week by Emmett Corrigan at the Grand Opera- house. The play will be “The Sixth Com- mandment.’” The Tivoli will have a delightful attrac- tion this week in “H. M. S, Pinafore,” third in the Gilbert and Sullivan series of revivals. “Ten Nights in a Barroom” will hold down the Central boards this week. Farmer Jones and his educated pigs are still the star features at the Chutes. “Hoity Toity's” tale of success still con- tinues at Fischer’s. Koclan, the wonderful boy violinist, will be heard here for the last time to-night at the Alhambra. There is much excitement over the fare- well Mascagnl concerts, to be given at the Alhambra on the Tuesday and Thursday afternoons of this week, o'clock this morning, | XX Beal River, but unsuccessfully. One tun- nel,"abandoned by the discouraged miner was subsequently run two feet farther b a newcomer, and an enormously rich de posit was uncovered. Abandoning the mines in 1853, General Stratton went to Alameda where he made the first official survey of the Encinal, then a wilderness. A year later, return- ing East, he wedded Cornelia A. Smith at Sing Sing, N. and brought his bride to Caltfornia, settling in 1556 in that por- tion of East Oakland, then known as the town of Clinton, where he resided until his death. He was elected County Surveyor in 1858 serving Alameda County two years in that position and making many of the most important surveys of that early period. He then became identified with the sur- g of large grants of land made by the Spanish and Mexican authorities, and from the knowledge he thus gained he be- came an acknowledged expert on such {land grants, their titles and surveyed | lines. He subdivided more of the big land grants than. anysother surveyor ever in California y FIRST RAILROAD SURVEY. | To General Stratton is also due the dis tinetion of ing made the first su for a railway out of Oakland, via Niles, Livermore Pass to Stockton, for an Eng- lish syndicates The surveys were extended | to Folsom, Pladerville being the objective but the project was abandoned because of the Civil War. Later the road was built by Leland Stanford, Crocker, Huntington and Hopkins, as the Western Pacific Ra road Company merged later into the Cen- tral Pacific Railroad Company. President Grant in 1573 appointed Gen- eral Stratton to be United States Surveyvor General for California, but because of ill- health he abandoned the practice of his profession three years later. From 1880 to 1883, he was Chief Deputy under State Surveyor General J. W. Shanklin. Until | 1899, he was engaged as a land attorney, but retired permanently at that time. A wife and four children survive him. | The latter are Mrs. Walter C. Good, Fred- erick S. Stratton, Collector of the Port at San Francisco, at present traveling in the Orient; Dr. Robert I Stratton of jhis City and Professor George M. Stratton of the University of California. The funeral | will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:3 clock from East Oakland. | DENTH CLOSES ISEFUL CAREER ALAMEDA, March Adrian J. Merle, one of San Francisco's wealthy | pioneer merchants, and & man of prom- inence in the French-Itallan-Swiss col- ony of that city, died this morning at his home on Alameda avenue and Wal- | nut street. His death, which was unex- pected, was due to pneumonia and fol- lowed an {liness of but three days. Ar- rangements had been made by the de- ceased and his wife to leave next Satur- day for a six months’ tour of Europe. While on a recent trip to Placerville, where he went to testify in a lawsuit, | Merle contracted a cold that caused him some annoyance, but which he did not regard as serious. Tuesday last he vis- ited his son, Isador Merle, in Monterey County. After returning home he com- | plained of feeling greatly distressed and Thursday took to his bed, from which he never arpse again. Deceased is survived by a wife, Mrs. Mary Merle, and three children, Alfred J. Merle, Mrs. W. H. L. Hynes and Isa- | dor Merle. The family has resided in this city eight years, coming here from Oakland. 15. | REV. FATHER YORKE BIDS FAREWELL TO ST. PETER'S Will Leave at Once for Oakland to Take Charge of St. An- thony’s Parish. Rev Father Peter C. Yorke sald goodby | to the pgrishioners of St. Peter's Church yesterday and in a few days he will leave for Oakland to take charge of the parish of St. Anthony, where the late Father | Gleeson was for many years. Father | Yorke was appointed to fill the vacancy | at St. Anthony's after a competitive ex- amination, which was entered into by | many priests. The parish is a large one, comprising the entire portion of the East Oakland district. ——————— The latest invention is a combined um. brella and fan for the cycle. The canopy is made In the form of an ordinary um- the Stratton residence in | \8].0 Prinee Street, o Talks of Recent Pur- chases. Company May Extend Lines Into Sacramento and San Jose. RPN Paul Morton, vice president of the Santa Fe Railroad, arrived from Santa | Barb vesterday and is registered at | the Palace Hotel. It was understood that President Ripley and Mr. Morton would | come north together, but the latter gen- tleman last evening stated that Mr. Rip- ley would not visit San Francisco untll the middle of April, his plans having been changed by a business engagement in New York, for which place he will | leave Santa Barbara in a few days. peaking of the nt purchase by the Santa Fe Eel River road and its extens n Humboldt County Morton said ompany has bought those roads them as a nucleus future date.. It the Santa Fe is not that has pur ifornia Northwest- ern road be a time, and it is not far off, wi nta Fe will flad | it necessary to ex lines to the north to meet the uirements of busi ness. There is a grand lot of timber in that particular’ section of California and there is a great demand for the material t the eastern end of our road, conse- quently we have good reasons for avall- | ing ourselves of the supply and meeting the demand Mr. Morton admitted that a syndicate, o infortunately, he said, he is 2 member, had made the purchase for the company an ve been acquiring 1 timb on the coast side of California. Among those in the syndi- cate are Mr. Che one of the directors of the road, and ral close friends of the Santa Fe Comp: Asked if were any prospects of the Santa e ng Sacramento and San Jose in the near future, Mr. Morton answered “Well, 1 cannot say as to the near fu- ture, but [ am satisfied that we will eventuall those cities. At preser using all our mone; stock. 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