The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1903, Page 32

32 POWELL RECITES HONCR T0.60MEZ Cuban Patriot Permitted | to Handle Bones of Columbus. S San Domingo’s Precious Rel- ics Exposed to View for Fifth Time SAN FRANCISCO SETTLEMENT HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING Aseociation Is in Prosperous Condi- tion and Many Pupils Are in Attendance. ¢ B House, 8 Souf Mabel Gra e o WOMEN DENTISTS MEET AT THE BANQUET BOARD Members of Alpha Upsilon Pi Soro:- ity Enjoy Pleasant Evening at Delmonico" s held De {monic thos= raduating | alifornia t of honor Mary L table | € Elect Delegates. mbers > the aanua ter plumbers, which ity on the 19th of next Mg John L. E. Firmin, J. Ahlbach Jr.. G | . Beyreuther, J. B. Butterworth, George Duffy, C. Wethe o Keller, M Hufschmidt, §. Ickelhelmer. F. Koch, ¢. | McCarthy, J. McCusker, & Petersen, R, | Shepard, G. C. Sweeney and W of arrangements | or 3 and entertainment s and their ladles 1 t programme, in tie which t 1 by the out of ssisted - Poker Club Rooms Reided. Seattie Club on Ellis . in the rear of the Baldwin Annex, was raided last night by Lieutenant Burnett and a squad of policemen. About 100 poker play- | ers and spectators were arrested and tuk- | declare that it is too late to settle and [ make a clcan breast of the whole busi- «n 1o the Hall of Justice in patrol wagons. | made so much money out of the ( | thousand o UNDAY, FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE COUNTY CLERK'S CORRUPTION IS PRESENTED Sl seem from the rapi cumulating mass of evidence Count§’ Clerk Mahony's office s aw the record w fuel is ¢ e flame wh — ming his row no effort veil of I condition of afi: all of his cal prospects. e part of any ¢ secrecy or doubt tigatio: s bette s eager! ali sides t = concluded sected on i have He his can then devote bee business ¥ to whom he has t failire to raize {u ke a legal fight for i of retaining his of His which to mises on for four two has knocked the bencath the toppling nd he is being overwhelmed by PUBLIC LAUGHING STOCK. Mahony's amc th w oters of us business egarding hi ned. The disgrace of hav has delved § has people. It fals to see that shed in suth a way as the de. One does not have to Hall' to find instance ompiained of who have had been shown b nced funds for t and it has been brokerage iirm was 1 si in Mahony's off it has e, shertage in aceording to the nk French, has bee: s of the Superior 1wfully engios Mazhony zna the doo 2 cpen to hun The $n quence b sho vioiated his wor umber. Tt is office for fear whom he hat absent from to take with the rusted =aid that he ha: ihe beer busine: beczuse. ft 1 position W seven nights out rent report. And he 18 Clerk of San Francisco MONEY FOR A DIAMOND. The Call the he law library Sacramento rt said ot be nsell had nsible what be h i signed his name in of his shortage. Later he other men in the £ and mad 1 of the to pay Attorne service Thomas ¥ legal uggle the Schmitz to th the Co gaw never at of the fee which he was supposed Lo receive. The climax is | capped by the statemeni which appe in another column of the paper t hat Mahony invited his subordinates I mber to contribute a portion of their salaries for the purchase of a diamond for hiz wife. Such a state of affalrs in a big public office is ridiculous in the extreme. 1t appears that only a very proportion of the deputies, iIf any, aliowed to keep the whole of th. . Payments were made to other e office. to Bier & Regensburge or me to Crimmins Mahony nis agents and to Phil Practically all of the positions by political of them were not sufficient- educated to perform thelr dutl. Their money went to “heelers the who spent it at racetrack or. in saloons. Tom Doran., Mahony's alleged officlal assesement collector, is sald to nd H bad an ambition to become County Clerk Lefore the expose and was Independent nough to refuse an inspection of the publ r of hig chief THOROUGH INVESTIGATION. Mahony is likely to be made to a; or i cuestionable acts. Chief Dey his partner in the beer busine: whose conduct is likely to A! Houston and Pat Pen- . who worked a remunerative graft ot the raturalization desk, also stand an excellent chance of explaining their con- duct. Bier & Regensburger. whc have “ounty Clerk's office, have protected themselves legally in their transactions, apparently, sther | although they may yet be requested to define the cause of thelr love for Mahony, which induced them to put up several dollars to win his election. George Lee, Senator Frank French, J. J. McCarthy, Adolph Mayer and one otier who may pass unnamed, are prepared to appear before the Grand Jury and tell of Mahouy's crookedness. They all court the oppertunity of bring- ing him to justice and their evidence will put him in the worst kind of a position. ma- | jt is said that several others familiar | shave ith Mahony's methods are anxious to be in at the “death.” His finances are even now under investigation by Expert Ac- countant Hassler. He is trying to escape his just punishment by making new prom- ses, but this course s without avall, for all concerned have had a great sufficiency of experience with him before. They all that they are determined to tell the truth, for crime erk to file his s ements 1 the Auditor on of cvery month. Mahony's re- ! ports have been presented regularly from | three or four days to more than two | | weeks later than they should have been. | H been cauticned time and time again, but to no purpose. As is his habit. lho has promised to see that everything ma raight immediately. He has ppearcd to be very indignant that things 'Adolph Mayer Tells of Mahony’s lllegal Compact With Money Lenders and Exposes Manner in Which Deputies | Were Fleeced Out of Salaries Allowed Them by City _LV' TITE ZAW LITBEAXY FUZ AN O L EDCGE A iy 7+ | o ABSTTTAITION .S =3 LEXOIT BIOXRANIS FEE ADDITIONAL [ HONY'S F SOME ICUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF CULIAR METHODS AND THE AUDITOR WHO HAS HAD | EXPERIENCE WITH OFFICIAL'S SHORTCOMINGS. COUNTY LERK MA- g B LRIt e RS pol ¢ no politics. As Mahony has uo political f ey have nothing to fear anywa AUDITOR IS ANNOYED. | Auditor Baeh been naving con- | tinual trouble County Clerk’s office for more than a year. Mahony has not perfo duties in accordance | with the provisions of the charter and a and unneces- on of the city's > difficulty has The law | were not going smoothly and has iaid the fault at the doors of his subordinates. His neglect of duty in this respect has cor ncvertheless, in spite of his protestations of irr isibility. His re- ports to the Auditer had to be straight. iree. but the latter official cannot understand why the trouble ould he chronic. An isolated instance would nat- urally not be given any particular consid- eration, but tnis constant remissness has | attracted - unf. attention. The | work in the annot g9 on | | if the other and municival offi- | clals are dereiict.in thelr duties, and in | consequer Mahony's loose methods | have for many months been a thorn in | the side of Auditor Baehr. In speaking | of the 3 yesterday he sald: REPORTS ALWAYS DELAYED. | i is all straight as far as his | yris go: that is to say, that any shortage in his fund been errors amounting to there { There b from #2 to % at different times, but that |/ might have been the fault of the account- | ants. 1 have, however, had a conslder: ble amount of correspondence with office on unt of hi ay in sub; ting the regular month: ports. T should that it might easily have come about h the carelessness of his #ubordi- There was nothing crooked about | £ [ know. It has caused us a | 2 3 > had occasion to admonizh him several tlmes. | He has always ordered that the matter | be set right at once and has explained that it was the fault of some of the depu- | tles. We have not had any partieular unpleasantness over the matter. I have to have the reports on hand at the time | appointed in order to make my own work go along smoothly. He was fifteen days late in complying with the charter re- quirements on one occasion, snd he was | instructed by letter In the legal phase of | {he matter. His accounts with us have | 10 be correct or there would be trouble at | once. g may have been neglectful, or | quite poRibly it was some of his depu- | tes.” | Adolph Mayer, who recently resigned | nis position in the County Clerk’s office. | has been for many years an agent of ! the money-lending firm of Bler & Re- gensburger. His business has been to warrants and dispose of their | money in election fights. He has acted as a go-between in their transactions in all kinds of emergencies, but has at last Gecided to join the general revolt from | the Mahony-Crimmins gang. He declares | that he iz in the fight to the finish and is ‘Innxlvus to give his testimony before the Grand Jury. Last night he consented to Ha) throi nate o far | | about | gensburger told me that Mahony wanted {me to get out because I was to Inquisi- TR “I have had business déalings with Bler ! & Regensburger for several years. I had no officlal nosition before Mahony took office. 1 handled the brokers’ coin in their election Aghts 2nd went among the city’s employes shaving warrants. 1 was told by Bier & Regensburger that th would get me a place In the County Clerk’s office as a reward for my serv- ices It was arranged that T was to have a %125 poeitfon and that I was to have $75 monthly myself, less the 3 per cent commifsion. Harry 8t. Leger and { B. B. Barman were also Regensburger's appointees and went to work under the same conditions as myeelf, The brokers loaned A ony 34300 for his election ex- penses, e assessments went to pay that. Besitdes that. he gave them thres desks from which they were to get $50 each monthly. Then he agreed to give them the whole warrant shaving of his offico. He has not yet paid them all that he borrowed, [ think. How great his debt is, is something that I cannot state a curately. I know that when he tried to borrow $2600 with which to get into thne beer business he owed them his salary for three months ahead. [ shall suffer from them financially as a result of this interview, buf 1 wili take it and say uoth- ing. They promised me that I should have a chance to make ext money be. sides the 75 that T gol out of my salary, but I never did. 1 pald an assessment of $62 30 in March, 1902, and another for a like amount in April. They heard that [ was kicking about it and returned $73 to me. My custom in paying the brokers was< to assign ray salary of 5125 to them and T would gat back only $75. minus their comnission. we all al stgnd for be agents, Mahony rather distrusted because 1 did not want to :g robbed by him and his HEAVILY ASSESSED. “Once when 1 was clerk in Murasky's cuurt a man came to me in reference to Tiis uralization papers. He told me he had pald Pat Pendergast $4 for common paper—not the imitation hment which thev sold for whatever hey could get. They sometimes soaked a ‘sucker’ for $10 for the best paper, tell- ing Lim that it would keep longer. Well, thiz feliow a poor chap and dldn't have much money. I feit sorry for him. I went to Pendergast about it and he suve me the Jaugh. [ then spoke to Ma- tony about it and he said that it was all right and that I didn’'t have to worry it. A little while after that Re- tive. T was dolng considerable business for the brokers and they said that I must stay. On February 23 T went to the City Hall for the purpose of helping a man ahout taking a deposition. While T was standing in the corridor Mahony and Me- Grath passed and asked me what 1 was doing there on a public holiday. T told them my errand and that 1 was waiting for a Justice of the Peace. Mahony asked why I didn’t give him the chance to take the deposition and I told him that it was becaute he ald not have the necessary authority. The taking of the deposition befere the Justice took almost a whole day. The Justice took $0 for his fee and the stenographer got $43. Out of the pay of the latter I got $10 myself. Mahony was sore because I wouldn’t glve him that chance to make a good fee and next day he sald, ‘You must go back to the judg- ment cCesk.’ 1 sald I would not do so, and 1 :esigned. . “In December Mahony or some of his APRIL 12 GOMPERS SEEKS T0 EAD STRIE Intercedes in War of| Two Rival Labor Unions. 1908. i Sheet Metal Workers in Chi-l - cago Involved in a i Controversy. NEW YORK, Avrll 11 —There was a | conference. in this city to-day hetwesn i i | President Gompers of the Federation qfl. | Lahor and representatives of the Sheet | Metal Chotractors’ Assoclation over the | trouble between the two rival unions of | | sheet metal workers in Cnicago, which ' | has resulted in a strike'in one of them. | The struggle is sald to be between & ! local union of the International Associa- tion of Sheet Metel Workers and a union of the Sheet Metal Workers' ° Alltance. | | «'The members of the latter are on flfllci and their places are being filleé by mem- bers of the rival union, wnich ts affillated | | With the American Federation of Labor. Jobn Kennedy, first vice prestdent of | | the International assoclation, took part in | | the conference, which fs said to have been | an effort on the part of the contractors | to inducc the Federation of Labor to teke up the fight against the National Al- | ance. | At its coneclusien Gompers said that no | settlement had been reached, but that hie | | Would wire instructions to-night to Vice i Presidents Mitchell and Kidd and Secre- tary Lennon in Chicago, directing them to arrange for a conference thers on Mon- | day, at which each of tha contending or- | ganizations would be represented. } | Strikers Board Lake Steamers. | BUFFALO, N. Y., April 11.—Two freight | steamers coming from up the lakes were ! boarded by striking firemen when off the | harbor to-day and the firemen induced to ileave their pests., The steamers were | then towed into the herbor. (PLANS TO ENTERTAIN i PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT | Union League Ci:h Issues Invita- tions to the Banquet on Thurs- | { day Evening, May 14. | According to the plans of the citizens’ | commlittee President Roosevelt will par-| ticipate in a parade In the afternoon and 2 banquet in the evemng of the day of hls {arrival in San Francisco, Tuesday, May {12, He will go to Oakland and Berkeley on Wednesday, May 13, but return in Umis to address a public meeting at the Me- | chanics’ Pavillon that evening. He will | dine with the Union League Club Thur | day evening, May 14, and leave at ruid- | nfght for the Yosemite Valley. The league | has issued to its members an invitation this style: “Dear Sir: The Unfon League Ciub will entertatn President Roosevelt at a ban- quet at the club rooms, Palace Hotel, Thursday evening, May 1, 1903, ai 7 o'clock. The banquet will be confined ¢ clustvely to members of the club. Please sign and return inclosed card of accapt- e at your earliest convenlence and rot later than May 8, 193, as covers will 1aig for those only from whom accsp | ances have been recelved and to whom | | ickets have been issued. Tickets en-| | titiing members to seats at the banquet { will be Issued in the order of receipt of | acceptances and seats at the table will| | cerrespond with the numbers upon tick-| ets. The sum of $19 to pay the expewnses | of the banquet must accompany each ac- l | ceptance. “Tickets may be had by applying to the | secretary at the club rooms.” It is understood that the Pregldent will | speak at the dinner, but it is the comman | impresston that his leading speech on the ! topic “Expansion” will be dellvered at| the Pavilion In the presence of a vast| audlence. | Exercises at Union Square on the occa- | | sion of the dedication of the Victory col- { umn will be under the immediate a | of the committee on monument, of which | Irving M. Scott and James D. Phelan are members. The committee has Invited Ad- | | miral Dewey to attend the dedication. { eary to buy the ring they had spoken of. | McGrath came to me one day and sald that 1 had better hurry up with that & cr he would lay me off for two weeks. | | Of course 1 had to pay. Fel ALWAYS AFTER MONEY. | I “I had to contribute b something every ! { month. It was fivst for tickets; then we ' | must pay Regeusburger for making Ma- | | hony's fight; then we bad to make good ! for Conway's steal. Mahony would run | behind In the beer business and there | | would be an assessment. At last we were | ordered to put up for the cost of a case | |in the courts to see if Mahony's term | could not be made to.last for four vears. | | That constant paying out got monoto- | | nous. There w hardly a man who got | his correct salary. French had to put' up $0 a month for Deane until he hit Mahony in the ncse. Bome of the men were getting next to nothing. It went to Regensburger or Crimmia® or to Mahony and then to Regensburger or Crimmins. Maboney thought he could get all kinds of trade by getting into the beer busi- | ness. He was behind on thet deal, T un- derstand. ! @o not think he has any { meney. George Lee wouid not stand for | but one assessment and he was slated to He hung on until Merch, although I knew he was up against it as far back as November. Mahony was afraid of him. | Al Heudton and Pat Pendergast gave up | a part of their salaries every month. Dick ! Welsh wouldn't stand for it and he is fout. It wae a money-making proposition | all around. You can bet that I wtll stand with French, Welsh, Lee, McCarthy and the others who will talk to the Grand | Jury. There Is a lot of doCuraentary evi- | dence that will be pressuted, too. Tt Is Mahony's finish this time and he deserves | it. He has useé his mea snd the public as® badly as he knew how and doean't ! | deserve any sympeathy. I do mot think «any one ir going to stand with him. He | never was at tha office for fesr of mest- ing peonle to whom he had made prom- | ises, There are a whole lot of men that | have kept quiet who will now come to the front and tell the truth now. We can back up every staiement that we have | made and tell enough more besides. am ' prepared to make afidavit 28 fo what | 1 have stated.” e . | WILL TEST JURISDICTION. Mayor Schmitz Wants to Oust the Clerk. 3 Mayor Schmitz sald vesterday that he would take steps to determine the posi- | tion his office holdé with regard to other | | public offices. He said: “1 shall In all probability call upon the Supreme Court to pass upon the status | of the County Clerk's office, If I find the | office of the County Clerk is within my juriediction and Mahony is responsible to | me 1 shall proceed by means that I do not wish to divuige at present to find out the condition of affairs In that office. “It i rather an anomalous condition, it appears to me, to have an officiai trans. acting the business of the city yet who at the same time is in no way responsible . to the city in any form. I shall certainly | go. fces | & ness and what he said fellows: agents sald we must contribute $5 aplece have the status of the County Clerk for the present for Mrs. Mahony, I did definitely established by-law in order t3 not think much of that and was slow in see if the deplorable conditions now ex- putting up my part of the money neces- isting in the office cannot be remedied.”” EE WITH THE CALL. A Wonderful Series of Colored Art Mastarpieces By the ~ Best Painters in the Worid. THE LADY IN SCARLET 3 By BRYSON. This is the most wonderful colored supplement ever repro- duced by any process. It is Brysc famous picture of a b!l‘l' tiful girl in a clinging gown of flaming red, who combines in her pose all the seductiveness of Cermen with the allusive mys- tery and charm of Faust. When it is given away—FREE— with the SUNDAY CALL it will be more talked about than any ploture ever seen in the West. The darving color and the illn- OO0, Q) sion suggested in every line of the figure are something truly | % extraordinary. L FREE : g o PONY EXPRESS 138 | By HERMAN W. HANSEN. | Never before has the grim reality of the pioneer d‘sy- in | the West been better portrayed than in Hansen's painting of | | the fiying horseman straining every facuity to escape from an ever-narrowing half-circle of redskins, who are trying by every trick of their flendish ingenuity to head him off before he can rsach the comparative safety of the Rocky Mountain foothills, outlined against a flaming sunset sky. The feeling in this picture is so real that one looks at it with bated breath—temse, eager, U DOCH DICTATING A LETTER By HARRY ROSELAND. A bit of the Southland in the old slave days, caught with almost photographic effect by this clever painter and trans- | ferred to canvas in a way that has made him world famous. Did you ever see a picture that made you want to laugh and | cry at the same time? Well, this is ome. There is so much of childish curiosity, such eager expectancy in the attitude of the aged negro couple while they watch the beautiful blonde daugh- ter of their master in the mysteries of writing a letter at their dictation. This is a picture you will find framed in every house- hold as soon as it appears as a supplement to theSUNDAY CALL. EVERY [ KING OF THE FLOCK i By E. R. MAES. | I If you have ever had a leve of nature as expressed in the pride and activity of the barnyard fowl,this remarkable creation | ! of Artist Maes will appeal to you as no other picture of this sub- t ject has ever done before. It is impossible to describe the beau- tiful color effects. the realism and the idealism—that half | || bumorous, half pathetic, paternal quality combined in this pie- | AN+ OO0 || ture. It is a study for young and old alike. = — —- = i PTEE PIELOTS i By HAQUETTE. Among all the world-renowned masterpieces of a life-sav- 1 ing crew heroiczlly battling against a storm, this is easily the | & first. The awe-inspiring color tints of sea and sky are repro- | ’E‘ duced with wonderful fidelity, and in the lilt and fling of the ; & boat itself there is an illusive semething that gives us a clutch- i fi ing at the throat, even though we know that it is only a pie- | & ture. It is only genius that can play with our emotions in that I j}‘ < | way. Everybody who admires Spartan courage will frame th picture. | e ___J OF THE - | ARAB SCOUT ‘ By ADOLPH SCHREYER. In guite a different way the same awe-inspiring Spartan courage is shown in “THE ARAB SCOUT” as in “THE PI- | LOTS,” though there is the added difference of that calm Ori- ental gquality of reserve that makes this proud horseman a marked figure even were not the color of his costume, the trap- pings of his horse and the polished, glistening hue of his skiu such a marked contrast to the wild, sweeping tints of earth and sky. It is a picture that not only arrests the attemntion, but | helds it, for it is a painting that contains something more than hoerse and rider. In it is the wild, untamable spirit of centuries. SERING HER FUTURE By BRYSON. In this picture there is much of the same mystery—the | mystery and the charm so dear to the feminine heart—and so respected of the men, if they would only admit it. It is by the same artist who created “THE LADY IN SCARLET,” and shows an equally beautiful girl seated before a polished table in an attitude of self-introspection and contemplation that is so clearly understood by every woman who has tried to solve the i great enigma of life. In the reflected tints as much as in the grace and originality of the pose itself this picture is a revela- tion of the painter’s art. It is hard to tell which will be ths most talked about—this ov 0 D -~ ~ & & o By FRANZ MORTELMANS. it Nothing meore true to life has ever been painted than this 3 «“gti]l-life” masterpiece. For mural decorations its beauty and 4 appropriateness is unequaled. It is a picture that has been painted and reproduced especially for framing, and in the inter- | & blending of strength and delicacy of the color effects is adapted to.almost any room. It shows a perfect bunch of roses in a large vase, and in style and execution the whole picture is | most pleasing to the eye. 1 This is a Picture to “Reving." A PROUD MOMENT By F. MORTIMER LAMB. One of the very prettiest animal studies ever executed. It shows a magnificent dog, alert with all the pride of accomplish- ment, with a bird in its mouth in the act of delivering it to the huntsman; but the chief charm of the picture lies not alone in the poise and action of the dog so’' much as in the whole ecolor echeme, which shows all the beauty and charm of the forest | in early autumn. However, if you have an ounce of human sentiment, the expression in this dog’s eyes will wring your | very soul. It is something indescribable. That the artist has | succeeded in catching it is nothing short of marvelous. i Everybody wiil wan! this series. “A word to the wise is sufiicient.” ORDER NOW---ALL NEWS-DEALERS.