The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 17, 1903, Page 9

+ .1. + BHREITLIY THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 17. OAKLAND 1903, CHAPEL THAT GREW WITHIN A WEEK FINALLY DEDICATED TO HOLY USE rowd That Almost Threatens Frail Walls of Structure Gathers in New Trinity Sunday School Roorh and Hears Jubilant Serv- ices, the Right Rev. John W. Hamilton Delivering Sermon MANY MOURNERS ATTEND FUNERAL Throng of Friends Gath- | ers William D. English’s Bier. | at Aug. cmmerc ial, i regard gh place State and persons crowded and many vices were compelied s and the entrance an could not Rev. Michael f the Churce conducted borne of the Con- was which Mr. | e president and gen- ployes were Ed Broderick, W Casey, S. Bartholo- Ibearers, selected from triends of Mr. Eng- §. D. Barstow, nd Wallace, Rudolph Dingee, Robert Me- Louis Kempff, and Frank J. n the fami r emetery —_—————— REPORTS IN FAVOR OF BOYS’ RETREAT J. C. Astredo, Who Investigated the Institution, Says Mummert Deserves Great Credit. AKLAND, A -J. C. Astredto, was ap by the committee rep- 3 Charities and Retreat investigate the nd its management, has filed g report with the committee: piat ciated A ed by the Asso- | —Acting_under 1903, to “inves a character,”- 1 Mum- e members of your committee, been added such names sug- | es to me. s 1 have seen or heard from. the Retreat & number of times | lks with Mr Mummert. accounts of the Retreat. | charges brought against | all haracter Mummert's work for the | at 48 helpful to the boys, | rk, gymnasium and games | ihe street and its tempta- | | smmert conscientious in his much credit for the gym tructed, for the selection of for_the condition. regard- « e Retreat. Mr conscientious in_his d find ¥ gainst his moral char- respecivi¥: 5. ¢ asTrEDO. committce is composed of B. H. cton, M. J. Keller and Katherine elton representing the Associated Char- and Benjamin Fay Mills and Frank representing the Boys' Retreat. —_———— Young Men Will Entertain. B DA, Aug. 16.—California Council he Young Men's Institute will hold an rtainment and banquet in Lafayette Tuesday night. President Frank N. 1 and the officers of the council have neged a first-class programme and invitations have been sent out to members of the councils of Oakland &0 elsewhere to attend the event. Very * PASTOR OF TRINITY METH- ODIST CHURCH AND CHAPEL ICATED YESTERDAY. | | | d— ERKELEY, Aug. 16.—Trinity Sun- day-school Chapel, born and reared within a week, was dedi- cated to the cause of religion to- day with appropriate exercises, in the presence of such an audience as threatened to burst out the sides of the little buiflding. The dedicatory sermon was preached by the Right Rev. John W. Hamilton, resident Bishop for the Metho- dist churches of California. With his us- ual eloquence Bishop Hamilton stirred his auditors to enthusiasm and before the day was over $1585 had been subscribed toward paying off the indebtedness on the chapel, besides that for an organ, chalrs and li- brary. The chapel was unheard of, unthought of, a week ago. Then Ernest F. Barry presented a petition to the Rev. C. Jenness, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, in which the residents in the neighborhood of College avenue and Rus- sell street agreed to send thelr fifty chil- dren to Sunday-school if a chapel was built. That was enough for Mr. Jenness, | and on Monday he purchased a lot at Col- lege avenue and Russell street for $3000 and made arrangements to buy a ready- made chapel for $500. It seems there is a firm in Oakland that builds portable houses. It cuts them qut in much the same way that dresses are | cut out, according to pattern, and In a little while a house grows up, fitted with doors and windows and hinges and all. If the owners get tired of the site at ady time they can fold it up and cart it away to some other place. Such a structure was used in this case, and now Trinity Chapel stands where a few days ago there was nothing. It is a little redwood bullding, 16 feet wide and 40 feet long and seats 100 people. It stands on a lot 120x120 feet. a portion of which the church people propose to sell. At the morning service at the Trinity Methodist Church $1591 was pledged by the congregation to pay for the thirty- foot Jot that the church has just pur- chased on Fulton street, adjoining the parsonage. With this addition the church now has a lot 130x130 feet, upon which it proposes to soon build a $50,000 church. @ il @ FOUND ON THE TRACK WITH SKULL CRUSHED Aged Laborer Thrown From Train Sufters a Fracture of Bones of Head. OAKLAND, Aug. 16.—The body of an old man was found beside the Alameda local track this morning by the tower man at the foot of Harrison street. It is sup- posed to be that of F. Morrissey. He had apparently been thrown from the Alameda local train and had suffered a fracture of the skull that resulted in his death. There was nothing to identity the body, except @ receipt found in the pocket that showed that F. Morrissey had worked for Erickson & Petterson of Sacramento in July, 1902 The dead man was about 60 vears of age and had evidently been working with different contracting firms. e WATER SUPPLY REPOAT READY Mayor Will Submit Doc- uments to Council To-Night. — Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 16. Mayor Warren Olney has completed his message to the City Council, covering in most exhaustive manner the subject of a | proposed municipal water supply for the | eity of Oakland. The document, together | with a voluminous report on the subject | from Desmond Fitzgerald, the eminent hydraulic engineer of Boston, and other |@ata will be presented at the regular meeting of the City Council to-morrow | evening. | These teports and documents covér a | record of long and labortous investigation | of the subject of a municipal water sup- | ply. They are the result of the work of | the citizens’ committee of five reor- ganized a year ago by popular appeal after former Mayor Anson Barstow had dissolved the committee he named. The quintet, composed of R. H. Chamberlain, Sol Kahn, John L. Howard and Warren | Olney, submitted its report in January. The money, $4300, required to pay the ex- | penses of the expert engineering work re- | quired by tne committee in securing data, was raised by popular subscription. In its report the committee unanimous- ly recommended: “That under existing conditions the city | of Oakland should own and distribute the | water supply to its citizens.” The committee also reviewed existing { conditions touching available sources of | supply and recommended the establish- ment of pumping stations in the Niles cone or gravel beds contiguous to Ala- meda Creek, with pipe lines and all other equipment necessary for supplying the city from that source | “Bince the report was presented two members of the committee have become members of the officlal governing bodies of the city. Mr. Olney was elected Mayor and John L. Howard was chosen to be a City Councilman. In their official capac- {ity both have continued the work of in- | quiry and investigation. To gain further light on the vast subject, Mayor Olney and Councllman Howard recently em- ployed Expert Engineer Fitzgerald to make an independent examination of available sources of water supply, in- | cluding the Contra Costa Water Com- | pany’s properties, and to submit a report. Other investigation along Independent | lines has been in progress since January. All of the information thus collected has | been carefully compiled and prepared for | public consideration. And it is the result of all of this effort that is embodied in the message and other documents now ready for submission to the City Council. Through all of the preliminary work since | the citizens’ committee report was pub- lished the Mayor has closely guarded the facts obtained, in order that no undue ad- vantage might be taken of the effort (o gain an impartial knowledge of the ex- act conditions touching the best interests of the city with relation to a municipal water supply —————— TELLS FRIEND THAT HE HAD TAKEN POISON OAKLAND, Aug. 16.—Irwin C. Rhodes, 57 vears of age, formerly a commercial ‘traveler, died to-day at the County In- firmary under circumstances which in- duced the hospital officers to turn the case over to Coroner Mehrmann. Late Friday night Rhodes was taken to the infirmary from a cabin on the Thornhill road, back of Pledmont, where he had been living in indigent circum- stances. The patient was suffering from severe hemorrhages of the stomach and poisoning was suspected. As reported to the Coroner, Rhodes told a friend that he had taken poison. i Mrs. Anna R. Dietz, residing at 128 Twenty-eighth street, San Franeisco, called at the infirmary yesterday and to- day. She said he had formerly lived at her house. According to her story Rhodes was a widower and a native of Ohlo. He had po relatives in this State. An au- topsy will be held to-morrow. The date for the inquest has not been set. MARRIES BARNES AND JAIL OPENS Mrs. A. Hughes Makes Husband of Man That Robbed Her. Daughter of the Bride Sues for All Her Mother’s Realty. Nl L Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 16. Wiliiam E. Barnes has secured his re- lease from jail by marrying Mrs. Anna Hughes, but he has not secured posses- sion of Mrs. Hughes' property by that act. Mrs. Hu daughter, Mrs. Julia 4. Hayes, has retained attorneys to pto- tect her inter and there will be a sult flled to-morrow to secure possession of all of Mrs. HHughes-Barnes' property by Mrs. Hayes on the ground that it was ail deeaded to her before the marriage wiin Barnes. The Hughes-Barnes litigation has be- ests, come one of the -important cases that have fallen into the criminal courts of the county, William E. Barnes was a drummer and he boarded with Mrs. Anna Hughes, a widow, who lived on the cor- ner of Twelfth and Jefferson streets. Barnes was of an ardent disposition, and Mrs. Hughes reciprocated. But Barnes cooled in his affections and it was charged that he finally “lifted” & watch and some property owned by Mrs. Hughes and pro- ceeded to “blow” the proceeds in a lively time in San ncisco. Mrs. Hughes hau him arrested for grand larceny, but when she called upon him in the County Jali she relented. On Iriday last she put op $1000 bail for him, and then proceeded to marry the man whom she had had ar- rested. The marriage will prevent her from testifying against her husband, and the authorities of the county saw nothing to ‘do when the case came up for twiai but to dismiss it But at this juncture Mrs. Julia Z. Hayes, a daughter of Mrs. Hughes, made her appearance, and she has determined to make a fight for her mother’s prop- erty. Mrs. Hayes claims that her mother deeded ,all of her property to her, as her only heir, many months ago; that the deeds were made out and delivered through J, 8. Meyers, a real estate agent of Oakland, and she has retained At- torney J. J. McDonald to protect her in- terests. Mr. McDonald will to-morrow bring suit to recover for Mrs. Hayes all of the property of Mrs. Hughes-Barnes. There has also been some talk of try- ing to secure a guardian for Mrs. Hughes- Barnes, but it is probable that the daugh- ter will rely upon the civil suit to recover the property. The property in question is worth some 25,000, and it is claimed by Mrs. Hayes that her mother ired the $1000 neces- sary to bail Ba out of jail by mort- gaging the real « —_———— CHURCH OF GOOD SHEPHERD CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY Little West Berkeley Mission Passes Twenty-Fifth Milestone in Its Career. BERKELEY, Aug. 16.—The Church of the Good Shepherd, which has stood for twenty-five years at the r of Ninth and Bristol streets in West Berkeley, celebrated {ts silver anniversary this morning. The services were not elab- orate, consisting simply of singing by an augmented choir, led by A. L. Har- rison. The sermon was preached by the Rev. C. J. Marshall. The Right Rev. William Ford Nichols was to have been present, but he was detained at the last minute. The Church of the Good founded on August 14, 1578, and has had a long career in Christian work. The church buiflding was conseorated on the day it was bullt and it has never been hepherd was in debt. It is a mission church and its management is directed by a council, consisting of A. L. Harrison, derick Heard, Dr. A. F. Gillihan and E. F. Pas- coe. L e R e ] ) MASONS HONOR JOSIM P. AMES Last Respects Paid to the Memory of Well Known Pioneer. Oakland Office San Francidco Call, 1118 Broadway. Aug. 16. The funeral of Josiah P. Ames, who died suddenly on his farm near Mactinez last Friday, was held from the late residence, 1132 Adeline street, at 2 thix afternoon. The services at the residence were con- Gucted by Rev. E. R. Diile, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and special music was furnished by the Masonic quartet. The coffin was covered with a beautiful pall of violets and maidenhair forns, seut by members of the family. Delegations from Oakland Lodge No. 188, F. and A. M., and the Suciety of Cali- fornia Ploneers attended the funeral, and two members of each organization were appcinted honorary pallbearars, At the conclusion of the family service the remains were rem,2d to the cnapel of the Oakland Crematory, where the fu- neral rites of the Masonic fraternity were exemplified by the officers and members of Oakland lodge. The remains were then incinerated. The henorary pallbearers were: Fred M. Campbell and J. C. C. Bruns from Oak- land Lodge, F. and A. M.; J. M. Garoutte and W. T. Galway from the Society of California Pioneers, Judge Charles N. Fox, John Edgar, E. C. Chapman and H. 8. Weaver. The active pallbearers, all of whom were old employees of the firm of Ames & Harris, were: Joseph McDevitt, Mark Col- lins, F. L. Willlamson, E. P. Duffy, J. A. Scriven and Charles Miller. —_—————— Hurt in a Collision. OAKLAND, Aug. 16.—Elmer Tobey, a cigar dealer, residing at 2554 Shattuck avenue, Berkeley, was thrown out of his buggy at 8:30 o'clock to-night through a collision with a San Pablo-avenue elec- tric car at Thirty-first street and San Pablo avenue and badly injured. Tobey was removed to the Receiving Hospital. He sustained a fracture of the frontal bone, had a splinter driven into his head and was cut and bruised on the head. The hospital surgeons say the injuries ‘will not prove fatal. PION Alexander Hay, Senior vivor of the Firm Passes AL AMEDA EER SHIPBUILDER CALLED TO LAST REST Away After WILL CONSIDER THE FRANCHISES Alameda’s City Trustees Again to Discuss the Privileges. Member and Last Sur- of Hay & Wright, a Short lllness Referendum Petition Is Ready to Be Filed With the Municipal Board. ———— ALAMEDA, Aug. l16.—Rallroad fran- chises, applications and ordinances will occupy the attention of the City Trustees at their regular meeting to-morrow night. 1t is expected that the City Attorney will submit two ordinances containing the stip- ulations upon which the Citizens’ Commit- tee of Fifty recommended that the South- ern Pacific be offered the two local fran- chises it seeks. One of these, however— | that for the north side of Rallroad avenue | —may not be necessary, for the Southern Pacific management has intimated that it will file a withdrawal of the application | for a franchise on that road. The com- | pany ‘has always operated the Railroad avenue branch without a franchise and | has concluded that it is as easy to con- tinue to do so as to worry over additional trouble before the application now on file is acted upon. Howard K. James, who refuses to say who he represents, has been circulating a petition to have the matter of the fran- chises referred to the people to vote upon. Some of the City Trustees hold that under the provisions of the referendum ordi- nance that measure cannot be invoked at the present time. Hermann Eppinger Jr. and Robert B. Mott, who apolied for the two local fran- chises, saying that they would pay the city a bonus of $10,000 for the same after they had been given the privileges free of any incumbrance, have not made any move lately since the Citizens’ Committee of Fifty investigated the financial stand- ing of Eppinger. It is said that Eppinger and Mott have had a falling out with the principals of the American Surface Elec- tric Railway and Supply Company, which corporation owns the patent and rights of a third-rail electric system, said to be a mechanical and safe success. Eppinger and Mott implied in their statements to the City Trustees that if they secured the - SENIOR MEMEER AND LAST PARTNER OF THE SHIPBUILDING FIRM OF HAY & WRIGHT, WHO PASSED AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY AT HIS | = <% | tranchises they would install the third- | | rall electric system of the American Com- pany. —_————————— | | UNITARIANS PLAN BIG 3 EXCURSION TO MOUNTAINS ALAMEDA HOME YESTERDAY. LAMEDA, Aug. 16. — Alexander | Hay, senior member and the last A survivor of the shipbuilding firm of Hay & Wright, passed away unexpectedly at his home, 1530 Railroad avenue, at 10:15 o'clock this morning, after an iliness of less than elghteen hours. An autopsy showed the cause of death to have been stricture of the bowels. Hay was one of the pioneer and best known builders of wooden vessels on the | Pagific Coast. Born in Nova Scotia sixty- | eight years ago of rugged stock, he came to Californfa in 1858 and for a time fol- | lowed his trade as a shipwright in San Francisco, later going to British Colum- bia, where for ten years he followed the | fortunes of a miner. He then returned to | San Francisco and established shipbuild- | ing yards at the foot of Sixth street, | where many of the famous vessels of the | Pacific Coast, notably the Handy type of | steam schooners, were constructed. In | 1890 Hay formed a partnership with the late Elisha B. Wright, who died here six- | teen months ago, and moved the plant in | San Francisco to Alameda Point. There the firm bullt a large fleet of vessels of | various classes, including barks, barken- tines, steamers, schooners, dredgers and | smaller craft. The oil-carrying barken- tine Fullerton, launched from the yards at Alameda Point about fifteen months ago, was the largest vessel constructed under the supervision of Hay. | Hay was a warm personal friend of the | late Irving M. Scott, the two having been roommates and workmen together when Hay first came to this State. Hay was a | past master in the art of constructing @iriiriiii el R @ | BREAT CHEMIST 15 GOMING WEST Dr. Wilhelm " Ostwald Will Dedicate Lioeb Laboratory. Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center street, Aug. 16. The new Loeb physiological laboratory, which has just been completed, will be dedicated to the uses of the Umiversity of California next Thursday afternoon, August 20, the ceremonies for this occa- sion having been arranged. The dedicatory address will be delivered by Professo Wilhelm Ostwald of the University of Leipzig, who is accounted the world's greatest chemist. It was altogether through the interest of Professor Jacques Loeb, for whom the laboratory was built, and Professor’ F. G. Cottrell, both former personal friends and former pupils of Dr. COstwald, that the distinguished German was prevailed upon to come to America and his visit will be made for the special purpose of making this dedicatory ad- dress. In addition to Dr. Ostwald’'s address, there will be speaking by President Wheeler and Professor Loeb. The ceremonies will begin at 2:40 o’clock with a procession that will form in front of the library building under the direc- tion of Professor Frank Soule. It will consist of graduate assistants, instruct- ors, professors, alumni officers, regents and newspaper representative in the order named. These will move in double file to Harmon Gymnasium, where_the ex- etcises will be held. The Loeb laboratory is the gift of Rudolph Spreckels, by whom it was par- tially equipped. Dr. Herzstein also furnished equipment, the library was given by Mrs. William H, Crocker and an anonomous friend of the university provided the salary of the chair of physiology for two years. —_———————— Physician Turns Fireman. OAKLAND, Aug. 16.—Boys playing in a new apartment house at 1372 Franklin street set fire to the place. Dr. W. O. Buckland, residing next door, saved the partly completed dwelling by prompt work with a garden hose. | to aid the sufferer failed and he dfed in Committees Are Appointed to Care for the Arrangements on | August 29. OAKLAND, Aug. A social excur- sion and picnic will be given at Sunset Park on August 29 by the members of the First Unitarfan Church. Arrangements for a special train have been made with the Southern Pacific and the number of tickets sold will be limited, so that every one will be sure of a seat. The train will leave First and Broadway at 8:30 a. m. and stops will be made at East Oakland and Twenty-third avenue. The following committees have been ap- pointed to complete arrangements for the outing Dancing—E. H. Benjamin, W. H. Gor- rill, Bert Quayle, Percy Hall, F. M. Till- son, Henry H. Mills and Rollins Fitch. wooden ships, having learned the trade | when he was a lad in Nova Scotfa. It is sald of him that he would not retain a man in his employ who would put into a vessel an unsound plece of timber, or who evinced a tendency to be careless in | his work. For this reason all of the ves- sels turned out under the supervision of | Hay were generally considered to be as | | good as first-class material and workman- ship could make them. Hay was a man of large stature, retiring disposition and kindly manner. He never took an active interest in political affairs, although he had been requested several times to al- low his name to be used as a candidate for City Trustee. He was a member of a Masonic lodge in Nova Scotia, but had never affiliated with any fraternity here. When Hay left his office at the Alameda Point shipyards last evening he was feel- ing as well as usual, but before he = Caw boarded a car near the Webster-street | _Games and races—B. C. Cuvelller, Jo A- bridge he was taken with violent pains, | Bliss. R. E. Plight. D. yon, k which increased upon his arrival home., | Courtier, Mrs. Bennison, Mrs. Tillson anc A doctor was summoned, but all attempts | Mrs. Anna Wilson. Amusements _for children—Mrs. J. F. great agony. Hay was a widower, his | Willard, Miss Ida Fox, Miss Winifred wife having died in 1802. He Is survived | Warner, Miss Ethelwyn Mills, 8. C. B. by a son, Warren B. Hay, and a daugh- [ King and S. G. Whittsley. ¥ ter, 12 years old. Florence Hay. Opera-| Transportation—A. H. Elliott, W. H. Gorrill, H. L. Piersol and Jesse Dibert. Announcement—D. L. Lyon, A. A. Den- for one week. Arrangements for the fu- on and E. Fritsch. tions at the shipyard will be suspended neral have not yet been completed. ' New Novels of This Moncy-Mad World HE world is money mad. That statement looks absolutely start- | ling in cold type, but when you realize that it is a sentiment em- H anating from the foremost political and financial economists of the | world it is time to begin to sit up and take notice. If you doubt its truth just take a casual glance at the popular literature of the hour. You will invariably find that the theme is wealth, and more wealth, and yet again more wealth—wealth in the spending even as much as wealth in the making. Not the fairy tale lore of wealth of bygone ages, but | modern wealth that has to do wit/® empire building, the destiny of na- tions, the struggle for commercial dominance and aristocratic social su- premacy of the men and women of the hour, yea, almost of the very minute, so vast and so rapid is the rise and fall of the bureauocracy of wealth. No more the tales of buried treasure of pictugesque pirates or lost mines and enchanted palaces stored with riches, but the gold that glitters before our very eyes—rich, yellow gold that we watch in the making—gold that is accumulated while you wait by men we all know, and spent with greater ease and facility by women who are better known. 2 . Of such a dozen books that everybody is reading right now might be mentioned at random. To begin with there is “The Spenders.” which is concluded in the Sunday Call to-day, and which not only shows the excitement of modern money making, but the more subtle art of spending it. Then there is “The Octopus.” Frank Norris' famous tale of the building of vast wealth, and his later book, “The Pit.” which tells of the awful struggle to corner that same vast wealth. Then there are “The Autocrat,” “The Thirteenth District,” “Tainted Gold.” “The Mis- sissippi Bubble,” etc.. etc. Indeed the list might be swelled indefinitely. ut of all these novels none are quite like unto that verv latest creation, ‘‘Brewster’s Millions.” In peint of fact “Brewster’s Millions™ is absclutely unlike anything that has ever been written before. for in it a perfectly adorable young fellow has to spend a million a vear. get his money’s worth and yet have absolutely nothing to show for it at the « d of that time in order that he may inherit six million more. Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it? Well, it is more than that. Now you may think it is the easiest thing in the world to spend a million. Never tried it. of course. But wait until you have read “Brewster's Millions,” which begins in the next Sunday Call, and you will see what a stupendous task it is to spend a million a vear—actually spend it—not dissipate it or give it away or lose it in false speculation, ., but get your money’s worth as you would if you had only a hundred in- stead of a cool million. But the popular craze of literature of the bright. snappy. un-to-date sort goes even further than this. Never bhefore was there such a tre- mendous demand for short stories of the best sort. And what better reading could you get? A good short story is a complete novel in con- densed form, and it is just such excellent reading as this that is pro- vided ik the Sunday Call's new “Half Hour Storiettes.” of which. next Sunday, you will get two full pages. Here are some of the titles: “Mysterious Leofric.” “In the Flash of Strined Death.” “The Secret of the” Jamaica Sink Hole.” “The Beautiful Miss Marriam.” “Fahles for the Foolish,” “Shorty Mahan’s Passing.” _“Love’s Golden Tether,” “While the Train' Waited.” “What Tiny Peter Did,” etc.. ete. Best of all there is a new short story by A. Conan Deoyle. “The Shadow Be- fore”; “Millions in His Dreams.” by Mark Twain: “Me-ows of 2 Kitty,” by Kate' Thyson Marr; “The Oracle of Mulberry Center.” by S. E. Kiser, etc., efe. And besides all this there is the regular Sunday Magazine section. giving you the very latest in everything that is going on in the world to-day. The Sunday Call can’t be beat.