The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1903, Page 7

RECULARS SHOOT |© AT BENICIA RANGE Infantrymen Engage in Exciting Contest for Medals. Team to Go to Fort Sheridan Will Be Selected From Among Winners OR— CREDIT Many people have been pleased to find that they can pur- chase here by either plan. Hair Mat- 5_0 tress, Amos- keag ticking, | 30-pound weight; regularly $15; thi $9.50 Nationai Carpet Sweeper Roller bearing; Guaranteed ; Regularly $4.00; This week $2.25 Extension Table 6 feet; reduced from ...$5.25 Chifionier Solid cak; 36 inches wide; five drawers and hat box; reduced from 87.00 12.00 to Music Cabinet Mabogany, highly polisheds Suned o S1E00 107 - BH0, Carpet Remnants 1 to 7 yards; per yard. ..... - home furnishers—hotels. or country houses. Estimates given. delivery w 100 milee. T. BRILLIANT FURNITURE CO., 338 to 342 Post Street. re- oo we flu are comple rporal | the principal factors in the successes pre- | | | | { ! | | chanies® THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12 LYMPIC CLUB FETE MATERIALLY. AIDS THE GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT FUND Benefit at Pavilion Entertains Many Delighted Specta- tors---Increasing Arrivals at Hotels Tell City That Annual Gathering of Civil Wa r Veterans Is at Hand HE reception fund of the G. A. R. encampment received a goodly boost as the results of the ladies’ night benefit which was given by the Olympic Club the Me- Pavilion last night, though the crowd was not as large as was hoped It wa amme fit to satisfy varied pro the most diversified tastes which the club * members offered. Opera singing, national airs and sparring by ex-champion Bob Fitzsimmons were the specialties among the attractions offer k it was an aria from “Le Cid” or a strangle hold in catch-as-catch-ca the spectators paid their warmes to the efforts f the performers Out of compliment to the great patri- reception the was given, the 3% =% & opened by the <mginz| s ed chorus of | Third | from the nance wa MRS. FITZSIMMONS APPEARS. asSe. ns the n encore. i 1 wriggled over of the small doorkeepers ng clubs in led 3anner” ng the | Robert | ghis the the kipping over he ex-ck fon ga pugilis actic ss and fina to cause some of the audience to hunt for their closed with Lov nd Oc A § entertainment ¢ nging Th 16 Henle rt bre of the horus Mr cone: L REAR ADMIRAL TERRY EN ROUTE TO HONOLULU | High Naval O?fic;r Arrives Here on | His Way to His New Post of Duty. Rear Admiral Silas Terry, U. §. N, re- cently assigned to the command cf the naval station at Honolylu reached here from the East last evening guest at the Palace Hotel. Since his de- | tachment from the command of the Wash- ington navy yard two months ago up to h ignment to Honolulu the ad- miral had been on waiting orders, while | his friends were hard at work trying to re for him the apvoiptment to the chairmanship of the Lighthouse Board, for which Admiral Evans was also striv- By the pla iral Terry in the much in sy, who was chair- Board, retired ry chairman will Evans, who 1s | the Aslatic squadron, returns to this country. Admiral Terry will reach the age of re- tirement in December, 1904. On his pres- ent trip to the islands he is accompanied by his wife and Is expected to sail on the | next steamer. | —_————————— i STAGE DIRECTOR JONES TO LEAVE FOR EAST Members of G;:nd Op;u-Bcu!e Com- pany Present Him With Hand- some Souvenir of Regard. Charles H. Jones, the stage director at the Grand Opera-house, will leave for New York City on Saturday to join one of the prominent managers for the com- ing season The popular stage director was the re- cipient of a handsome silver cigarette case last evening at the hands of some of the ladies of the Grand Opera-house the gift being suitably en- sented at the Grand Opera-house during the last three months and his resigna- tion from the company was received with general regret by all his assoclates and the legion of friends he has in S8an Fran- cisco. e —————— ‘Whelan Returns East. After a very successful engagement at| “Fischer's Chris Whelan, the clever bary- tone singer, left last night for New York to accept a more lucrative position with one of the leading opera companies of the East. Whelan was formerly with the “Happy Hooligan” company and won ‘considerable fame throughout the Bast through his remarkable voice. He in- tends to return to this city by the first of next year. T FBIRGI -+ v akota, Ohlo, Vermont, New Jerses, Rt st At the Palace; Michi: gan and Tennessee, at the Grand: Minnesota, Washington and Alaska, at the Lick; Maine, at the Manhattan. The committee has also secured am- ple accommodations for the holding of receptions, and has already assigned the following halls to the Woman's Re- lief Corps for social purposes: National officers, at Golden Gate Hall, Wednesday evening, August 19; Department of California and Nevada, Golden Gate Hall, Thursday evening, August 20; Department of Ohio, Palace Hotel, Tucsday ‘evening, August 18; Department of illinois. Palace Hotel, Tues- day evening, August 18; Department of Minne- sota, Tuesday evening, August 18, Palace Ho- tel; Department of Massachusetfs, Thursday | evening, August 20, parlors of Golden Gate Hall: Bepariment of Washington and Alaska, paricrs of Lick House, Wednesday evening, Au- gust 19; Department of Connecticut, on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 18, at the Palace Hotel; Lincoln Relief Corps No. 3, San Fran- cisco, will hold a reception in Asseinbly Hall, Pioneer Building, Friday evening, August 21. - i MEN WHO WILL ASSIST IN MAKING ENCAMPMENT A BUCCESS. successful affairs which the Olympic Club has ever given. HOTELS ARE FILLING UP. [hat the encampm: slose at hand evidenced in vari about the but nowhere ct more em- zed than at e downtown hotels, where the pressure of business is rap- idly increasing and to h an extent it eps the managers and clerks how to meet the de- mmodations. ~ For the s all th large hotels d to their and hundreds of people 10st capacity, riving on the ay affect the chances of the delegates to the encampment getting accom- modations, for their rooms have been ar- ranged for by the local committee, and the people wWho now oceupy them do so with the understanding that they will | vacate when the old soldiers arrive. Those who are attracted to the city by the cheap transportation rate will have to find accommodations in the smaller hotels, of which, however, there are plenty to meet all requirements. HEADQUARTERS ARE LOCATED. The general committee has arranged for headquarters for the national officers | of the Woman's Relief Corps as follows: ational President Mrs. Lodusky J. Taylor, onal Treasurer Mrs. Sarah Phillips, N £ it the Palace; national patri- : ional Senior Vice Geraidine B. Frisbie, Occiden- President Mrs. Emma Stark Hampton, Occidental; Past National Presi- dent and President Andersonville Prison Board Mrs. L. Turner, Grand; Past National | President Mrs. Harriet J. Bodge, at The Rooe- velt ast National President Mrs. Emma R. Wallace, Pelace. The headquarters for the national of- ficers and the official headquarters of the various departments of the G. A. R. will e oo s G N ; National Guard to act as aids to the grand | partsaeat of ¢ nd” Nevada. Palsce; | marshal, and Captain Fred Pabst, who partment of Tndiana, Town wessce’ | has so generously contributed to the pen| Massachuseits, Nebraska, New Hampahire, | eral fund. | ing encampment in opp | motjon of General Leos | not mention the name of General Wood, it is plainly evident that the e direct- ed to his case. The matter, if brought before the sessions of the encampment, is expected to provoke a fierc debate, for there Is a difference of opinion to the real purpose of the resolutions, | some contending that politics is involved in the affalr and others that the attempi to defeat the promotion of Wood is a scheme in which a numbey of his enemies | late trains have been denied lodgings at these hostelries, for no other reason | than no rooms were to be had. of | course this condition does not in any — 1903, HURRICANE NEARS SHORES OF CUBH Warnings Are Sent to Points on Florida Coast. Reports of Great Damage on Martinique Island Con- firmed. RS TR WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The hurri- cane which yesterday passed over San Domingo and Martinique probably is ap- | proaching the south Cuban coast, with | indicaticns of recurving, but at what an- | gle the weather bureau officials are un- able to state. A report from Havana at | 7 o’clock to-night said that the wind was blowing thirty-six miles an hour and was | from the northwest. The hurricane proba- | bly will continue in its course northward | somewhere close to the Faraday Penin- | sula. Hurricane warnings have been sent to points from Port Eads on the Gulf coast around the Florida coast up as far as Jupiter, The storm was central | this morning at Kingston, Jamaica. | The State Department to-day received a dispatch from Consul Jewett dt Fort de France, Martinique, dated yesterday, confirming the press report of the disas- | trous storm on that island. The dispatch | says: i “Terrific cyclone visited entire Island midnight Saturda; Greai damage to crops and fruits. Many houses in Fort de France unroofed. Trees two Teet thick uprooted. One man killed. Consu- late intact. At Trinite seven kiiled; many houses destroyed. Smaller towns dam- | aged. New villages Tivoli, Fond La Haye, Fourneols and Reculee destroyed, | xendering 5000 homeless.” l§ ————— CARELESS NAVAL OFFICER WILL BE REPRIMANDED Lieutenant Commander Carter Earns the Censure of President Roosevelt. 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—By order of the President a letter of reprimand will | be sent to Lieutenant Commander Fidelio 8. Carter, U. 8. N,, for negligence in nav- igation in failing to have casts of the lead taken frequently while under way on soundings. Carter was tried by general court-mar- tial on the Asiatic station last winter on gl § § | WIALIAM EDwWA CaBmAienr BweTE 4 The local Spanish War Veterans, who | have recently organized themselves under | the name of General Nelson A. Miles Command, are making elaborate prepa- rations for entertaining tne distinguished commander of the army, who has just re- tired, and the several thousand veterans of the Spanish war who are expected here next week. According to the dispatches from Omaha, General Miles received a great ovation there erday. He shook hands with over 2000 persons who had as- | sembled to greet him and later, when | asked if he would be a candidate for the | position er in chief of the| G. A. R.. he replied T am not seeking it. General Jobn C, Black is a good man for the place. I know him well | and regard him highly. For my part, I am | going just as a visitor. I have always been greatly interested in the Grand Army and was ope of its organizers and fore consider myself entitied to attend the en the boys, Prominent members of the G. A. R.| in this city and elsewhere are agitating a meovement to bring about an expression of opinion from the delegates at the o ition to the pro- aru Wood to the position of major general of the army, It has been learned that sets of resolu- tions bearing on this subject already: have been placed in circulation among G. A. R. men. Although the resolutions do | in the army are cogcerned. BOARD OF TRADE IS ACTIVE. The State Board of Trade yesterday delegated Mrs. Bancroft, one of the mem- bers of the board, to meet the ladies who will come to California In connection with the Grand Army Encampment and to seek to induce them to visit the exhibition rooms of the board. Craigic Sharp was also requested to persuade Grand Army veterans and other visitors to see what the State Board of Trade has to show, illustrative of the resources of California. It has been decided to set apa as Santa Clara County da dies, of the Grand Army Jose and Santa Clara are making great preparations to entertain the visitors, since a great many of the Eastern people will visit the valley, which is known throughout the United Stat dise of California. appointed and its members are busy mak. ing arrangements in order to give the vis. s as the para- itors the most hospitable reception in the | history of the organization As the date for the opening of the en- campment approaches and the general committee begins to realize that its pre- liminary labors are rapldly drawing to a clore, the more they are enabled to appre- clate the ald received from certain en- thusiastic gentlemen, none of whom are entitled to more credit than William F1. Whorff, one of the most active of veter. ans; Colonels J. F. Burgin and Willlam Edwards, who have been chosen from the THE MAN WITH THE BIG HEAD—-Go 'way! Git out! I'm sick! I want to die! THE MAN WITH THE LEVEL HEAD—Ah, you old sinner! Norest for the wicked! You will go on a bat while your wife's in the country, will you? You ought to suf- fer! But why didn't you do as I told you when I left you last night, and as I aid myself: take a CASCARET Candy Cathartic before going to bed? You'd feel good like I do. They work while you sleep, fix up your stomach and bowels, cool your feverish liver, and make you feel fine and dandy the morning after. mpment with | m- | Committees have been five charges in connection with the grounding of the United States tug Pisca- taqua on December 28 last near Sublg Bay, Philippine Islands. The court found him guilty on all charges and sentenced him to dismissal from the service. After a careful review of the testimony Acting Secretary Darling, who has spent months of study on the case, prepared a brief review of the findings for submission to the President. The acting Secretar expressed the opinion that Carter wa: guilty only of neglect in navigation and not guilty on the other four charges. He recommended that he be reprimanded. | This recommendation the President adopted. | —_—————— | MOUNT ETNA THE CENTER OF EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS ROME, Aug. 11.—An earthquake having the region u. Mount Etna as a center was felt to-day throughout Sicily and South- ern Ttaly and to a smaller degree in Cen- | tral Italy. Little damage was done, al-| though in the zone of greatest intensity the movement lasted two minutes. The | | Fiume Caldo, a stream near Mount Etna, | became turbid and the temperature of the | water rose to 72 degrees. Mount Vesu- vius is again in eruption, its present ac- tivity being considered to be connected with the earthquake shocks, | LONDON, Aug. 1l.—A dispatch from | | Candia, Island of Crete, says that an earthquake occurred there at § o'clock | { this morning and that its duration was thirty-two seconds, but that there was no | Greece, Aug. 1L.—Three | arthquakes occurred here at 6 this morning. Three villages on | the isle of Cinthera were almost entirely destroyed. The earthquake was general throughout Greece, but no fatalities have been reported [ —____ADVERTISEMENTS. | | A FRESK SKIN For half a century Heiskell's Ointment has been used by careful mothers every- where for purifylng and preserving the |l skin in beauty. Helskell's Ointment | fl cures red, rough skin, Pimples, Blotches, | B Burns, Scalds,, Tetter, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Scald” Head, ' Itch, Ringworm, Uleers, Sore Nose, Sore Evellds. HEISKELL’'S Ointment cocls all frritation; makes the skin beau- tifully fair and smooth. Helskell's Soap | [l and eiskell's Ointmen: make a complete |l treatment and sure cure for any skin trouble. At druggists’, soap, 25c; oint- ment, 60c. Send for book of testi- monials. JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY & CO. Philadelphia. Pfl'«'lce DON'T FAIL TO ESults e a nd room, the E:fl“;fl:g PARLOR, the Grand | Topss0uE ran LOR, and the LA- DIES” WRITING ROOM. Hotels FOR BARBERS, BA- kers, bootblacks, bath- BRUSHE houses, billiard ‘tables, brewers, bookbinders, candy-makers, canners, dyers, flour mills, foundries, laundries, paper hangers, printers, painters, shoe ' factorles, stablemen, tar-roofers, tanners, tailors, etc. BUCHANAN Brush Inntmtnm-.mlu:--uu W. T. HESS, NOTARY PUBLIC AND ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tenth Floor, Room 1015, Chu;&'i Spreckels bldg bone n 983. Residence, 821 fornia st., below Powsil 1501.. Residence Telephone James c H I IP Beds, chairs, Stoves, erc. Jois ‘Tents for rent and for sale. Guns, Rifles, Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. Send for Catalogue. Shreve & Barber Co., 739 Market st. and 621 Kearny st. i THEATRE Mayer, i Propri ALCAZA 33,200 CASH GIVEN AWAY To Test Advertising Value of the Various San Francisco Papers. =——=——oCUT THIS OUT: To-morrow morning we commence our second newspaper advertising test, and we will give away the sum of three thousand two hundred dol- lars for this purpose, as against two thousand four hundred dollars, which ‘We appropriated last year. In publishing this progoll(lon we have a two-fold purpose. The first to see which paper is entitled to the largest share of our advertising:; and second, to crowd a heavy business intoc an otherwise dull month. Pommer-Ellers Music Co.’s methods permit of no midswnmer dullness. Each #ucceeding month ‘so far has shown a marked Increase in sales over each preceding month. August is considered the dullest month In the piano business. Plano buying, ys readily postponed, is easily overlooked and put off until later in the yea: August with us must be the banner month. Before next Wed: night we propose to sell 135 strictly new, standard, fully warranted planos, and_we propose to pay you handsomely to do businees with us now. ‘We have set aside 33200 in cash for this purpose. ‘We publish here a coupon. Cut this out and bring it with you. After you have selected your piano our cashier will give you the monmey for it, enough to pay for one-tenth the amount of any plano you select out of our regular stock. If you live out of town send the coupon in by registered mail, and ask for prices and catalogues. If received before Saturday night it will be ac- cepted and applied on any plano you may decide to purchase. Cut this out. 8/9/08. Call $3200. POMMER-EILERS MUSIC CO. (Inc ADVERTISING TEST COUPON This Coupon will be accepted by Pommer-Eilers Music Co. our San FPrancisco retail salesrooms if presented befors 10 o’clock Saturday evening, A 15th, 1903, and is good for m‘::; equal to one-tenth of the purchase price of o Note: We agree to accept this coupon exactly the same as cash on a piano or organ, and monthly or weekly payments for the balance may be arranged to suit the convenience of any reasonable buye: Dellvery or :nstrument will be made immediately, or at any time in the futur PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THE CUT PRICES Remember this is a stralghtforward proposition, made for the of making August the biggest month In Doint of sales; also to enable us to ascertain which is the most widely read paper. The low special prices that have proven such a revelation to California piano buyers, prices that are practically what dealers or agents pay whole- sale for their pianos, will prevall during this sale. THE FINEST PIANOS INCLUDED The foremost and very best of American planos, such as the now fa- mous Kimball, the old reifable Decker. the beautiful and exclusive Hasei- mT, the Crown Orchestral, and 22 other various mak sale. Every piano is marked in plain figures;: no more !s asked, no less ac- cepted. A child is able to buy of us as advantageously as can the shrewd- est shopper. LOOK AT THESE PRICES: Here are a few of the prices: Planos for which you are ex; from $32%5 to $375 elsewhere can be secured now at Pommer-Eilers’ for 3215 and $238. These Instruments are first class , fully warranted in every respect. Payments of $8 a month bu,u them. nstruments that are usually sold for 3250 and $275 are retailed now by us for $186, and some plainer, yet Very desirable styles, go now for $i48 and $157. Others as low as $133. yments of $§ a month buys them. Beautiful hand-carved exquisitely cased Orchestral Grand upright piancs that cannot be bought elsewhere for less than 3600 and 3650, the most costly and most valuable planos made in America, finer than which no dealer can supply them, are now 3336 and $418. Payments of $12 a month buys them. Organs range in price from $5 to $118. according to works style and design. Payments of $5 a month for the most expensive styles and $4 a month for the cheaper styles buyg them. THE COUPON PAYS ONE-TENTH Remember that the above coupon pays 10 per cent or one-tenth of the total amount of any instrument you select, and the remainder may be paid in cash or in monthly payments, as above described. Do not fail to look at the line of planos that are now offered on pay- ments of 31.50 a week. Why rent a piano? warranted piano. are inciuded in this ted to pay Make small weekly payments and own a fine new, Remember, too, that you are dealing with a thoroughly egtablished, financlally responsible concern. We have now three thousand satisfled cus- tomers who have bought planos of us during the past fifteen montha. We guarantee absolute satisfaction in every instance, or no sale, COME EARLY—STORE TO BE OPEN EVENINGS These coupons are good for next week only. Come early to-morrow morning 1f you can and secure the choicest of the 135 pianos included in this_sale. Call in the evening if you cannot come in the daytime. BStore is to be kept open every evening until 10 o’elock during this advertising test. Remember the number. 653 Mar ket street. POMMER-EILERS MUSIC CO., California’s busiest and best stors. Op- posite Lotta's Fountain. AMUSEMENTS. GRAND 82532 ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY. HARVARD 1S UNDOUBTEDLY THE E PRESENT L ANUERIER Y, IN BEST PERFORMANCE OF TH! | MATINEE TO-DAY, WEDNESDAY, Aus. 12. | SEASON AND MADE AN IMMEDIATE Parquet, any seat, 25c; Balcony, 10c; Chil- | HIT.—Examiner. dren, any part except reserved, l0c. TO-NIGHT: EVERY NIGHT. RAYMOND AND CAVERLY And Our Superb Eastern Company, in In Harvard PRICES—25c, 50c, T8e. GELFIG FAY, “The Crazlest Soubrette on the American Stage.” Lew Hawkins; Sidney Wilmer and Company; Miss Wynne Winslow; | The Great Kaufmann Troupe; | Dooley and Tenbrooke; Roberts, Hayes and Roberts; George Austin and Macart’s Dogs and Monkeys. I I‘ l LEADING THEATRE r B2 d B Powell street, near Market. TO-NIGHT—AIl This Week. 3 TS ot i giris g i MATINEE SATURDAT. of its kind in America. NEILL-MOROSCO CO. Presenting the Comedy Ro- mance, A ROYAL FAMILY Bargain Matinee To-morrow, and 50c. Sunday—To Greet the Na- tion's Heroes, SHENANDOAH Greatest of all War Dramas. Seats Now Selling. EZRA KENDALL In the Immense Comeédy Hit, THE VINEGAR BUYER Last Time Next Sunday Night. rst week of the L N0TE~ Henry Miller-Margaret Anglin season will open NEXT MONDAY NIGH and will be devoted to George Bernard Shaw’ four-act pla: 'THE DEVIL'S DISCTPLE. The ADVAN SALE OF SEATS WILL COM- MENCE THURSDAY AT 0 o'clock. Positively no orders accepted In advance of that date. TIVOLISE. TO-NIGHT and Every Night This Week. SATURDAY MATANEE. CAMILLE D’ARVILLE As LADY CONSTANCE SINCLAIR in the Great DeKoven Opera, “THE HIGHWAYMAN.” ‘With the Special Tivolli Cast Throughout. EDWIN STEVENS AS FOXY QUILLER. Arthur Cunningham, Annle Myers, Edward Webb. Bertha Davis, Aimee Leicester, Farris Hartman and the big Tivoll company, with the orchestra under Paul Steindorff. The Next Attraction Will Be “THE FORTUNE TELLER.” POPULAR PRICES—23e, S0c, Te. Telephone—Bush 9. Market st., near Eighth .Phone South 533. TO-NIGHT—ONE WEEK , ONLY, Matinees Saturday and Sunday. Magnificent Production of the New York and London Success, n’s Enemy”’ Sensational Melo- “Ma The Greatest of Scenic Dealing With the PRICES Eycnines Grand Army Week, Aug. 17, Matine , The Famous Civil War Drama, “CUMBERLAND ’61” Belasco & Mayer, BB E. D. Prica, . Mgr. Pleckiry WILL BE THE TALK OF THE TOWN. THE BIGGEST HIT EVER MADE BY US. TO-NIGHT—FAREWELL WEEK OF WHITE WHITTLESEY As D'Artagnan in a Fine Production of THE THREE MUSKETEERS. Evg., 25¢ to T¢; Mat. Thur. & Sat., 15¢ to 50c. NEXT MONDAY—Belasco & Mayer's great special presentation of the quaint rural comedy, THE DAIRY FARM. As Given 1200 Times in the East. ~——First Time in San Francisco—— SEATS NOW ON SALE. Symphony Concerts. FRITZ SGHEEL, haecron. Auspices S. F. Symphony Society. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. ORCHESTRA OF 70 MUSICIANS. Concerts at 3:15 p. m. FRIDAY, August 14, THURSDAY, August 27, and every THURS- DAY following up to and including October 8. LE OF SINGLE SEATS NOW ON AT AN & CLAY'S MUBIC STORE. PRICES OF SEATS. Orchest $1 50; Dress Circle, $1 50, first four rows; §1 25, last four row: ‘amily Circle, &L""‘ two rows; 50c, last four rows; Gallery, Would fill this whole column to enumerate all the great things. Our ““All Star” Cast, Including: KOLB_AND DILL. BARNEY BERNARD WINFIELD BLAKE. HARRY HERMSEN. MAUDE AMBER. ELEANOR JENKINS, ETC., ETC., ETC. RESERVED SEATS—Nights, 20c, 80c and 75¢; Saturday and Sunday Matinees, 25c and S0c: Children at Matinees, 10c and 25c. NOON AND EVENING IN THE THEATER. Inspect “CABARET DE LA MORT.™ VISIT THE POUND AND ONE-HALF BABY IN THE INFANT INCUBATOR. THREE BABY TIGERS IN THE 200. AMATEUR NIGHT THURSDAY. ———ADMISSION, 10c; CHILDREN, Sc—— Visit the “Mystic Mirror Maze.” i