The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1903, Page 9

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, C PRESIDENT WILL V3IT BERKELE One Day of His Stay to Be Spent in Ala- meda County. 18.—Telegrams e le - Oakland Board It k R. W. Church r United States Senator George C, President tinerary m. May 12 FLANS TO RECEIVE ’ PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Joint Co ittee of the California Legislature Me and Com- letes Organization. two houses recel ¥ e % P . M e Jange—8 ar s 1 e Roosevelt. as Flores s for t % A Greet Roosevelt. = < w this cit AG ing s PACIFIC _1AIL PURCHASES TWO IMMENSE VESSELS Wew Ste ps Will Ply Between S sco and the o sory the marine r. they were f ship Com - vance of laat sport vessels . ’ 500,000 ’ y » 5 i Yaines, ¥ 2, and Mamie wil W erson P Mre, M G ve £ - In the Divorce Court. h Wiedman: GRAPE-NUTS. DOCTOR LEARNEDV The Power of Pure Food. Sometir hysician who has Gunted “me skill on his own look to pure food to e and homely yet case prineiples. physician and surgeon of = spent a great many | s profession. “The services of w e says, “have been to try nd; to help them preserve - possession of it and to egain it when lost. So it is ith great sure 1 recall my first in- Nuts. 1 had never in- " food until 1 came to use se. 1 had suffered all frer from dyspepsia, yself and had had the r prominent physt tched at Grape-Nuts as utches at a straw agd astonishment and gratifica- a t 1 had discovered some- besides a broken reed to lean upon, food began to recuperate me im- nd it has now entirely cured ich an extent that 1 have return- old habit of eating everything I desire and can do so without dis- whing mar my I have mot only found a good in sickness, but a most delicious well. It is the most nutritious ar- of diet T have ever found and I no- ts splendid effects more particularly ghit time, for a saucer of Grape-Nuts « milk is always followed by a most re- % sleep and perfect awakening. My egret 1= that 1 was so slow to look © scientific merits of this wonderful Name furmshed by Postum Co., cck, Mich, ex- | NS 70 NOLLIFY | TIDE LAND LAW i AssemblyBill901 Found | to Contain Serious Imperfection. Philip M. Walsh, Its Author, Claims Measure Has Been Juggled. Ozkland Office San Franci 1118 Br March 18 ident before Governor Pardee for r intent Assembly now xe action, has opened the way for J by corporation interests upon ol c control of all of the water front lands in California within municipal are owned by the State and protected from private invasion and code. e interested Inquiry of chief counsel for imits cor t was through t lam R. Davis, the cit of Oakland in suits and subsequent investigation ch was uncovered. It all hinges tting out of the law covering f rights of way for public which covered tide and that are | de corporate Wi the he bre such lands owned by the to bay bottom, have been pro ted from the operation of the law of lemnation. As the amended section of ne' title of Assembly bill railroad corporations de der reads to-d o the lea: but Assembly who is chief Dist: nty it there has been juggling done He ists that the biil as he ed it made absolutely no c present law on the subject, t t0 add an amendment compelling new ads cach other's tracks man Philip ict Attorney declares that if the that to cross wherever practicable either under or over | exist tracks, and to provide for the installation of protective signals and de- ing switches at crossings lev SAYS BILL WAS CHANGED. If there has been any other change as been accomplished without nowledge,” sald Assem. night. *I made a car of the old section with the d there was no change when hands, except the addition crossings payagraph. My was to provide a law for protec allroad travel. There was no ir provsi- fron me that made 8 t my »d law of this Sta I shall made an immed! n of this matter and shal inter r what he trouble.” 0, Code of Civil Procedure, as n the book, provides in the items ‘ property which may®be taken I ts of way for public us ! “Lands belonging to this State, including tide and submerged lands not within the corporate limits of any city or city and county, or to any county, incorporated city or city and county, village or town not appro- priated to some public use. W amended bill ‘“Lands belonging to this State or to any county, incorporated city or city and county, village or town not appropriated to some public use.” DAVIS EXPLAINS. ution of this reads nig! 1 distance the spirit of way in corporation can bring a suit across water front submerged lands to the State to accept his land over forever in p: mber this is the same land t expressly withheld from oper strip between high tide from grant or sale was fundamen importance ated in the constitution how the submerged and ps land should never ip or control all of this submerged tected and reserved ds are pro by the Code of Civil Pro- a mile limit by the constitu- within the corporate limits of a city 7 amendment would tear all of that protection. The ne extreme to Oakland. » quite =0 far as the so-called i by the Governor, ed to It to ted be a first Attorney take Davis intimated that he wouid to make a fight against bill becoming a law. steps at one | PRESIDENT JORDAN WILL | LECTURE IN THE EAST He Will Also Deliver an Address Be- fore the Michigan State Teach- | ers’ Association. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March 1. | President David Starr Jordan will leave the university March 27 for a trip that will take him to New York. He will at- ! tend the session of the Michigan State | Teachers’ Association at Detroit. In addition to making an address before that body Dr. Jordan will make a number | of addresses before college audiences in | the East. i While in New York Dr. Jordan will look | after the publication of his' large two- { volume work on the history of the study | of fishes, . -— ‘Whitaker Wright Is Ill. NEW YORK, March 18 —Whitaker Wright, the London promoter, who was | arrested in connection with the alleged | swindling of English capitalists out of | millions, to-day was reported ill in bed at the Ludlow-street jail, where he is a pris- oner. He is suffering from insompia. aasriiedf s Sell School Property. BERKELEY, March 18—At its meet- ing last night the Board of Education de- cided to sell two lots out of “the old High School property on Center street for the purpose of devoting the funds thus ac- quired to needed improvements upoa the various school buildings. The Town (lerk was therefore authorized to receive bids for two lots of eighty foot and iwenty- five foot frontage respectively, no bid of less than 3200 per front foot to be re- ceived. —_——— TOLEDO, Ohio, March 18.—On the first bal. Jot in the Republican City Convention John W. Dowd was momi for Mayor to-day. Samuel Jones will be an independent cand date for his fourth term. ,The Democratic wuminee is Charles M, Edson, - N D co Call, | water front | that | nds submerged from | securing rights of way across | would have an opening wedge, | s none of his doing | ange | ex- | UNDERGRADUATE EDITOR LETS LOOSE HIS WRATH ON COLLEGE FRATERNITY Stigmatizes the Members of the Theta Nu Epsilon Society as Drunkards, Thieves and Cheats, Because He Believed Them Guilty of Decorating Theta Delta Chi House With Emblem - known. The society initiates sophomores, but their membership is not known until the beginning of thelr third year at col- lege. SOCIETY MEN INDIGNANT. ‘The Theta Nu Epsilon is considered one of the high honors of undergraduate life by a large part of the college men. Among its members are numbered the most prom- inent athletes and men of affairs in the student body. The invective of the sty- "7 " dent paper has aroused a vigorous,repfy on the part of the soclety men. ERKELEY, March 18—The st dents of the University of Cali- fornla are all agog over a sensa- tional editorial appearing in the daily college paper this morning ries the exciusive Theta Nu erfraternal f(:r a e prank which is sttributed members. The Californian, of which William ley is editor, brands ts and thieves members society ma- its e £ I - | | dress suit case in his right hand. | Patrick | time the mys do Under the amended section | law condemnation. This t puts the port or shipping front on the wa footing for all time as| cndemning an ordinary righ way miles of such lands | to | but it is | | tations, e secret order whose pin is worn by | STUDENTS WHO TAKE EX- some of the best known athletes and rep- | CEPTION TO ATTACK OF CaSHE MOPe e bR R the oriey e college. | , CALIFORNIAN EDITORIAL. | {riumphant basebail team, s strong i his | The occasion which served to uncork | i | denumciation of the editorial. He said: the vials of the ( rnian's wrath arose * ““This attack is utterly unwarranted and | through an act buted to the Theta * based upon suspicion which has not been Nu 1 on S At that Epsil turday night letters of the orga daubed in glaring white sides of the Theta Deita Chi, a were upon ternity houses. The fact that the Theta Nu Epsilon Society was known to have had a meeting on the same night was proof conclusive to the mind of the dougty college editor that were the vandals Consequently in to-day's issue of student paper a stinging philippic launched against the exclusive orde: prompts tinues: COLLEGIANS BLOODED THUGS. Now, we know respec- table & th t his way a not_believe the editorial, the article con- of one or two good. 1 who have been inveigled into join- Epsilon was found Theta Nu An angel in hades, 1 prophecy, but 135 i u can judge 80 for the nature of Theta Nu Epsilon their friends in college, despite mud sling- We have an idea student body d h that only the past members are ing," said Hudson. HARGES SPOUSE. WITH PLOTTING Wife Makes Imprison- ment in Hospital Ba- sis of Divorce. li Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 8. A suit for divorce is the aftefmath of the alleged fllegal confinement of Mrs. Eliza A. Barrie against her will in a sanitarium at Livermore for a perlod of four months. In the divorce complaint, filed to-day, the wife charges her husband, Alexander C. Barrie, Pacific Coast agent of the Sim- mons Hardware Company of St. Louis, with acts of cruelty and makes her in- earceration in the hospital the basis of the suit Through the intervention of I. J. Tru- man, president of the Columbian Bank, and Mrs. F. L. Turpin, wife of the vice president of the same Institution, Mrs. Barrie secured her release from the sani- tarium on Febrsary 7 t through habeas corpus proceedings. heard by Judge Og- den. While she was compelled to remain at the sanitarfum, Mrs. Barrie alleges, | her husband made her enforced confine- ment difficult to bear by giving orders that all visitors be denied her and that her 15-year-old daughter, Adelaide, was not even allowed to send letters to her. Mrs. Barrie charges that on the night of September 29, 1902, she' was forcibly taken from her home, Channing way, Berkeley, thrust into a closed carriage and conveyed to the hospital, the doors | of which remained closed on er until the power of tae law was invoked, The couple were married in Canada in 187. Their life, according to the com- plaint, was comparatively uneventful un- ! til & nephew, Frederick Wade, made his advent at their home in Berkeley. As soon as Wade became secprely In- trenched, Mrs. Barrie aileges, he became domineering and took many liberties, | which she resented. Among his offenses recited by the complaift was Kkiss- ing his young cousin, Mrs. Bar- rie’s 15-year-old daughter, Adelaide, and making violent love to her. The wife says she protested against such manifes- but was young Wade and her husband. The an- tipathy of Wade toward her, as recited by the complaint, found expression in the following language, when she was forc- ibly taken to the hospital: “I am so glad that you are going that I could jump up and down.”” Mrs. Barrie says her nephew then added, with the air of a conqueror, “I] am Frederick the Great.” After she secured her release by order of the court, Mrs. Barrie became the guest of Mrs. Turpin. The wife asks for an absolute decree of divorce, the custody of her daughter and a division of the community property. Builders Will Raise Wages. OAKLAND, Mareh 18—The on the the Delta | Tau Deita and Kappa Kappa Gamma fra- its members the was fraternal After reciting the occasion which laughed at by both* Master Builders' Association has decided to raise carpenters’ wages from $350 to $4 a day after. May 1, but objects to the proposed haif holiday on Saturdays. # not err a' great of the above-named sc have off ¢ gt ! in its judgment ty oMd its’ members. wished that there might be 5 together the worst of the ed element in the uni- ommunity of it, and we do know but the Theta Nu Epsilon con- ins the very cream of what we want. We guarantee tha would-“not furnish a bad subject for fac to assert that the maraudin investigation. We venture ity will find out who ung vandals were, bout da who £ paint on private proy Saturday night, we can show them some of the people Who ‘steal signboards from the merchants, who lie and pheat fn every examination they are compelled to take ish the t of thelr fraternit: the siivers sorte. e will show Juals who #re sent he th an_abundant suppiv of weash but w0 ns, who carouse and gamble and rarely y their bills, and who have what they con sider a royal good time at the expense of the student body and at the expense of the uni- versity The college paper does not seek to fix the blame for the painting of the frater- nity houses upon any specific offende; re of San Franeiseo hem a class of indi- by indulgent parents DEPUTIES PASS LAW AGAINST CONGREGATIONS Premier Combes Addresses the Chamber and the Government Policy Is Upheld. PARIS, March 18.—The Chamber to-day | devoted its entire sitting to finishing the debate on the law refusing to make re- | liglous congregations the authorization required under the law of assoclations. The house finally adopted the report of the committee against the authorization | by 4 small majority. The announcement that Premier Combes would speak caused every seat on the floor and in the galleries to be occupied. | The Premier argued that the suppression of the congregations was not a suppres- sion of the liberty of teaching. The con- gregations, he said, were doing all in their power to destroy republican doc- trine and to show any weakness toward them would be unpardonable. “There is nothing in the law,” con- tinued the Premier, “which restricts you to a separate dise on and vote on each of these demands for authorizatipn. There is a principle at stake. The Gov- ernment has done its whole duty. The majority cannot disavow it, for by so do- ing it will render it impossible for the Government to continue its task.” This declaration that the Ministry made the passage of the report a question of confidence drew great applause from the Government supporters. The Premier re- tired from the tribune amid a prolonged ovation by the Republican members and much hissing on the part of the Conser- vatives and Nationalists. After a brief'reply by M. Ribot, the Chamber voted the adoption of the\com- mission’s report by 300 votes to 257. This vote implied that the Chamber refused to discuss the articles of the report, but adopted the conclusion of the report in favor of rejecting the applications for au- thorization by all teaching congregations. Db FREIGHT HANDLERS ASK AN INCREASE IN WAGES NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 18.—The Freight Handlers’ Union of this city, numbering about 300 men and including truckmen and stevedores, has addressed to the management of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallroad a re- quest for an increase of 15 per cent in pay, “double time” for Sunday and one and a half time for overtime work. The request names next Tuesday as the time limit for ;jreturn of an answer by the company. About a year ago the seamen struck for an increase, but the strike failed. Since that strike the freight handlers at other points in the New York, New Haven and Hartford system have been organized and it is said that if a strike occurs it may involve the entire system, as other local unions are expected to make demands also. —_— Death Follows Concussil ALAMEDA, March 18.—As a result of the inquest held in the case of Albert Helmstein, the 14-year-old boy, who fell from his bicycle Saturday night and who died twenty-four hours later, the Cor- oner’'s jury to-day returned a verdict that death was due to “cerebral hemorrhage, following acute concussion of the brain. The funeral of the deceased was held this afternoon from a local undertaking par- Jor and was largely attended by the young fricnds and playmates-of the dead lad. proved. TIts sweeping condemnation in- cludes men who thus hear of the occur- rence for the first time and were in no to have been committed by Theta Nu Ep- silon men'” More's protest. He said: “If the act attributed to the Theta Nu Epstlon was done by some of its younger | and irresponsible members, it S no oc- caslon for calling some of the best men in the college drunkards and thieves. The Callfornjan: has made the society the scapegoat for all lawlessness which is done by college students. This attack was prompted by malicious spite.” Harry Hudscn, end on last season's var- sity eleven, is equally incensed. He stig- matizes the editorial as a ‘‘play to the grandstand,” and one unwarranted by facts. “The members of Theta Nu Epsi- lon leave judgment on their character to OFFIGERS HOLD FIGHTING BIRDS Owners Are Backward in Asserting Claims to Fowl. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 18. The cases of the score of sports who were captured last night while prepar- ing for a big game cock. fight at Fitch- burg were before Justice of the Peace Geary to-day, but a continuance until Saturday was granted to give the raid- ing officers of the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals qlme in which to file complaints. Despite the fact that the raid was ac- complished before the actual battling had commenced, the society’s representatives claim they have all of the necessary evi- dence and the law on thelr side as well to convict the gamesters. But the surface indications are that the officers will have a- fight in court. At- torneys B. F. Woolner and W. 8. O'Brien appeared this morning as representatives of some of the arrested sports, and their request for a continuance gave evidence that a contest would follow the filing of the complaints. Ownership of the twenty or thirty fancy fighting birds that were seized is some- what clouded at -present. It is current about town that most of the fowls belong to some of the horsemen who fell into the clutches of the society’s raiding forces last night. Dr. Thomas Carpenter, who seized the birds at the Fitchburg rendez- vous, purposes to retain possession of them until the court has disposed of the cases. Warns Against Rushing. BERKELEY, March 18.—At a meeting of the executive committee of the Asso- ciated Students of the University of Cali- fornia, held last night, resolutions were passed warning the students against hold- ing a rush on the eve of Charter day. The committee voiced the wishés of President Wheeler, often repeated, against any of the old-time demonstra- tions such as used to be indulged in by the students. Expulsion is held as the penalty for violation of the rule against rushing. ———————— Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. ‘Wednesda; Stmr Chas Nelson, Andresen, Seattle. - » Stmr Montara, Reilly, 70 hotits from Seattle. Schr Ida A, Campbell, 5 hours from Point Reyes. OUTSIDE, BOUND IN, 12 MIDNIGHT, Brig W G Irwin. DOMESTIC PORTS, CASPAR—Sailed March 18—Stmr South Coast, for San Francisco, Arrived March 18—Stmr Greenw hence March 17. SEATTLE—Arrived March 18—Stmr Spo- kane, from Skagway. J PORTLAND—Sailed March 18—Stmr Colum- bia, for San Franciseo. ASTORIA—Sailed March 18--Stmr Ruth, for San Francisco. March 18. hours from | ehanged SV DIMMICK HAD SUIT GAGE Mint Employes Assert They \Saw One in His Office. That Walter N. Dimmick had a dress suit case in his office in the Mint in the early part of 1901, when the $30,000 myste- riously disappeared from the vault, was proved yesterday apparently beyond the possibility of a doubt. On the previous day Silas P. Ellis, watchman at the Mint, testified that he saw Dimmick shortly b fore the hour of midnight of Math 18, 1901, going out of the Mint varrym,;h statement to this effect was corroborated yesterday by six reputable witnesses, all of whom were employed in tige Mint while DimmicK was holding the po: clerk. Scarcely any new evidence was introduced, but a vast amount of cumu- lative testimony was given which mat ® | rially adds to the strength of the prose- cution’s case. § | When the trial was commenced in the| mworning Silas P. Ellis was again called to the stand for cross-examination. He ! tails to the testimony which he gave on [ contributed the-following interesting d:- | | the previous day: | n able to remember that it was on the evening of March 18 that I saw Dimmick lea ing the Mint with the dress suit case. I told my wife of the occurrence and she helped me fix the date, and also because Mr. Healey, one of the watchmén, was telling & story on | that night regarding the celebration of St. day. o out of the recelving room. 1 think that Dimmick saw me | when he - Ditemick was leaving the Mint my attention | ¢ was particularly attracted to him because the | Gress suit case seemed very heavy and his right | | shoulder was drooping as if it ht had money | was being dragged down 2 I supposed at that time that in the dress suit case, but I also thought that he had a rfght to take it from the Mint. I had no right to question the action of one of my superiors. If I had told the Superintendent of What 1 had seen Dimmick would have denied it and T would have lost my position. It would have been my word against his, and his would probably have been taken. For this reason I kept still. The circumstances looked suspicious, but the thought of stealing did not enter my mind, Dimmick and several other officers of the Mint had the privilege of entering the Min- at any hour of the night Thomas M. Bickford, the outside watch- man, stated that he saw Dimmick coming down the Mint steps shortly before mid- night on March 18 carrying what he sup- posed to be a dress suit case. The witness was not positive as to the suit case. He said that he was almost certain that it was one, but he wavered a little bit. C. L. Metcalf, also a watchman, saw Di mick leaving the Mint with a package | his hand, but could ndt say that'it was @l dress suit case. The witness recalled an occasion in the month of February when Dimmick changed his clothes at the Mint and had a dress suit case in his office. | Thomas E. Healey also saw the defend- ant leaving the chief clerk’s office, carry- i dress sult case. ing | clerk; Edwin A. Clark, bank messenger, land Louis M. Slater, Superintendent Leach’s secretary, all testified that they | saw a dress suit case in the chief clerk’'s wise responsible for the misdeeds alleged | | office. George W. Hazen, who is in charge of | the San Francisco district of the secret Alfred Plaw, the champion heavy weight | thrower of the university, supplemented | gervice of the Treasury Department, gave important testimony. He sald tbat he had a number of conversations with Dimmick and that the defendant had jn- formed him that he had made a study of locks while he was employed in the Bank of Santa Barbara. Dimmick told him that he fixed the locks in the Mint or the needed changing. CHARGES DISMISSED. M. H. H. Lambert, one of the jurors who was shadowed by J. W. Chadwick, a private dectective, and got into a fight with him Tuesday afternoon, appeared before Police Judge Cabaniss yesterday on a charge of disturbing Chadwick was also charged with the sanm® offense. After hearing their state- ments the Judge dismissed both cases. Yesterday afternoon United States Dis- trict Attorney Woodworth telephoned to District Attorney Byington asking what disposition had been made of Lambert's case, and intimating that he intended making an investigation as to why Le bert was being shadowed. Attorney Woodworth declares that Juror Lambert is not the only one connected with the Dimmick trial who is heing fol- lowed. He says that the attorneys for the prosecution and all their witnesses are being shadowed. an investigation and will be assisted by Detective Burns of the secret service. No | mention of the Lambert case was made yesterday at the Dimmick trial. FIXING THE AUDIENCE TO GET APPLAUSE American audiences are strangely alike in some things, and strangely dissimilar in others. A good committee will take as much pains In the audience as of its speakers. An audience eated without crowding is seldom enthu- siastic. Neither is an audience whose hands are occupled with bundles or um- brellas, an audience largely composed of women or an audience in a cold room. The easlest audiences to address, the most responsive and Inspiring are those composed of men crowded and packed to- gether and warm. ‘Women naturally do not applaud or cheer. They are by instinct more self-re- strained in the public expression of their emotions than men. is complimented by their presence, know- ing that their quiet word at home fs oft- entimes more effective in resplts than the most enthusiastic shouting the street corners by the other sex. In a public meeting, however, the audience gets its cue from those nearest the speaker. T re- | member well two audiences, both from the same social class, both crowded, both in large theaters and both largely attend- ed by women. One happened-to be in Colorado; one in Massachusetts. In one meeting the orchestra was reserved for women In the other meeting the men had the orchestra and the women had the lower gallery and all the boxes. In both cases the audiences were entirely friendly | to the speakzrs. The second meeting was | tion of enier | E. F. Sim$, office | combinations when they | the peace. | He intends to make | arrangement of its | Every public speaker | INSANE SHILOR JUMPS INTO BAY | Ernest Dam Strenuously Resists Efforts to ‘ Save Him. | Swims Like Duck and Evades Would-Be Rescuers for an Hour. Oakland Office San Franecisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 18. Dam, a the lumber schooner Emma Claudine, this morning jumped overboard. He sald he was | afraid some one ould kill him. The cap- 1 tain of the schooner sald the demented | man displayed all the skill of a duck in | the water, evading efforts to get him | aboara again for tully an houf. | The sailor was sent to the Marine Hos- | | | arn sailor on pital in Sgn Francisco this afternoon! THE MAYOR'S DUTIES IN BRITISH CITIES Who says that all romance and amuse- | ment were banished out of our country > |during the latter half of the nineteenth century? Look at the curious customs | that await the new mayors of many of | our towns and cities. At High Wycombe | the Mayor has to be weighed by the cor- peration officials each 9th of November, cept when'that day falls on a Sunday The ceremony has been performed for some 60 years, and is likely to go on The members of the Council meet at the house of the retiring Mayor at a given hour. Thither also repair the beadls of | Wycombe and the mace bearer, in cos- tumes—cocked hats, silk stockings, blue coats and knee breechegs®They form a procession, with the newly elected Mayor at its head, and walk to the Towm Hall 1 Here the head Constable of the borough has been waiting patiently, and when the Mayor appears at the head of the group the official places him gently on a weigh | ing machire, ascertains his exact welgh | and enters the record of it in a special | book. At Limerick the Mayor receives a ton of coal from colliers entering the port on the 9th. The Mayor of Cork has to cast a dart {into the harbor as a sign of the corpora- tlon's sovereignty over its waters. This custom. is owing to a dispute that arose long ago from a warship refusing to ac knowledge the power of the Cork authori- ties. At Cardiff each Mayor has to award a marriage dowry to a domestic servant | who, having been in her situation for at {least eight years, wishes to marry. She has to declare that the momey will be | of use to her and has to possess an ex- | cellent character. The money itself is the interest of a gift of £1000 by the Marquis of Bute, himseif a former Mayor of the town. Last year the interest amounted to £28—surely a nice present for a servant about to marry When the Mayor is presenting the gift | to the intending bride she must be accom- panied by the intending bridegroomg, and his worship has to read a passage from the gospel appropriate to the occasion and to deliver a short sermon to the two on the solemnity of matrimony. The Mayor of Ripon has to undergo a performanc which many Mayors would doubtless pre- ‘ftr to have omitted after the first novelty | cf it has worn off. Each night the old hornblower or wake. | man, as he is called, has to repair at 9 | c’clock to the residence of the Mayor and | blow his horn three times before he pro- | ceeds to the market cross to perform the ame duty. Of course, in olden times the sound of the horn could easily be heard | by all the inhabitants of the minster town of Ure, but to-day ome may well questicn if a quarter of the folks in Ripon hear the nightly blast of the wakeman. But the Mayor's household hears it every night of the year, and after the first month it pecomes monotonous, | The lot ¥ some Mayors of St. Ives, in “ornwall. Is hardly likely to bé envied by | their civie dignitaries. Every five years ne gentleman who is then in the mayor- ally of the Cornish town has to take the leading part in the celebration of the | “Knfll” ceremonies, which include walk- ing in procession with “ten virgins dress- ed in white and ten old widows,” and end- ing up the affair with a dance with them | known as Knill's Steeple. The inevitable | supper, of course, brings this affair to a | close, or else it is difficult to understand how the Mayor of St. Ives would ever get through it all, even with the help of the { town fiddler, who plays the dance music | on this historie occasion. The Mayor must be a singer, too, for the *Old Hundredth” has to be sung at the steeple, and he is expected to give the lead.—Washington Star. | Dismisses Election Contest. OAKLAND, March 18.—J. J. White, the defeated Union Labor nominee for Pub- | lic Administrator in the last county elec tion, to-day dismissed his contest to the | election of Géorge M. Gray, the Repub- | lican candidate. Gray's majority was a little more than 100, ADVERTISEMENTS. We Want a BRIGHTBOY 1o work afterx ScEnolHours marked by wild enthusiasm; the | first one. by respectful attention. In the second case the mass of 5 Saturday men in the orchestra wurged on venii Post the speakers. by continued applause. In ng the first case the men in the galleries who started to applaud were checked be- cause between them and the speakers was a mass of absolutely silent femininity in the orchestra. I do not say that one meet- ing was less effective than the other, but | the difference in the strain on the speaker was marked.—Scribner’ —— e CONTRA COSTA COMPANY’S ' WATER BILLS HELD UP OAKLAND, March 18. — Twenty-two bills of thg Contra Costda Water Com- pany against the city of Oakland, amounting to $24,671 32, were held up by the Board of Public Works to-day. No action was taken toward passing the claims for payment, because of the con- test now pending in the courts between the city and the water company over former bills against the municipality, . ————— PARIS, March 18.—The Opera Comique suc- cessfully produced to-night ‘Muguett ot four-act_lyric dramatization of Ouida’s ““Two Little Weoden Shoes,’" by George S. Hartmar and el Care. The music was composed by Edmubd Missa, No money re- quired. 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