The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 2, 1903, Page 14

14 THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1903 TEARS THE MASK FAOM A ROBBER Henry Elmers Mistakes Holdup Men for Jokers. Sacramento Street Grocery Raided by Pair of Des- perate Criminals. » two weeks two walked into a night was one present have ess ked to and fro brazen thieves »mprehension of r wonder- d calm angerous p them as ¥ Pedestrians we last even- learned °d his at- customers, while st the wall was taken re, but this robbers to the he pro- ed down Leaven- vercame the alarm was given for fully five Skelly Charles Mahnke scene and made a neighborhood, but h advantage in out ‘of " sight ————— DEATH CLAIMS PIONEER WOMAN OF THE STATE Mrs. Mary J. Gerberding Succumbs to an Attack of Heart Failure. In the Ae of Mrs. Mary J. Gerbera- g Sdn-Francisco ioses oné of the plo- - b T of State. While her was not unexpected, it was never- t great shock to the'many friends 1 kr loved her during Her health had the death of her March, e seemed to gra nday she succumbed lure and quietly California ¥y identified d weifare of O. Gerberd- one of the Bulletin of the stestant fond of d possessed tion_and had for facts and ¢ 5 f the old ploneer s d two daughters, s California. Mrs. ing in Europe Mrs aneral * will take . i0:30. o’clock from « t will be < rlynn Stow, « - Thomas Richardson, I Be ey end C. 0. G, Miller t Company vs. Doilie ff brought suit an, ‘'who was sub- rix for James M. > recover, the balance certain negottable The lower court ept. 1.—General Wade War Department from retired, who He was HaNEy escape with their | ngest daughter, | ing the death of Colonel | MISS BESS VIRGINIA TAYLOR T0O BE A BRIDE THIS EVENING Will Wed H. L. E. Meyer at the Home of Her Parents on Pine Street, Where Prep- arations Have Been Made for the Event - — | 3 — CHARMING AND POPULAR YOUNG WOMAN AND WELL KNOWN BUSINESS MAN OF THIS CITY WHO WILL BE THE PRINCIPALS IN A PRETTY WEDDING CEREMONY TO-NIGH | 4 = J WEDDING of special interest to! Miss Laura Taylor and Miss Anita Meyer, society will take place this cven- | bridesmaids. ing. The principals are Miss Bess hTTP groom’s brother, W. H. Meyer, will Virginia Taylor and H. L s s Bt R X 3 Meyer Jr., both of whom -have | ,After 2 w g trip to Southern Cali- many friends in this city. The wedding is to be a quiet affair at the residence of the bride's parents, Cap- tain and Mrs. Thomas G. Taylor, 1911 Pine street. The invitations have been limited to relatives and a few intimate friends. Rev. F. W. Clampett will tie the nuptial | knot. The bride's attendants will be Miss | Elizabeth Taylor, d of honor, and | Loots a Barber Shop. | W. 0. Gillette, a barber at 751 Mission | street secured a warrant from Police Judge Mogan vesterday for the arrest of | Will Murphy on a charge of petty lar- ceny. He said he engaged Murphy as as- | sistant in his shop on Monday morning | and left him in charge that night. When he opened the shop yesterday morning ail the razors, clippers and other utensils had | aisappeared and Murphy could not be found. ——————— Buy your watches at Lundy's, 4 Third street and 752 Market street. . —_—e————— Sues Former Partner. H. U. Jaudin sued C. W. Gould yester- | day to recover 4 per cent of the net com- missions on cherry contracts, which he claims he is entitled to under an agree- ment made with Gould when they dis- solved partnership last January. They were in the commission business under the firm name of Gould & Jaudin. ROOS announce the arrival of Men’s and Children’s high-grade Wearing Ap- A display of these parel for Fall, attractive goods at their store and in their show windows, to which the attention of the public is directed. KEARNY, BROS. is made this week at POST. fornia, Mr. Pagtific avenue in this city, where the groom has business interests, being a member of the firm of Meyer, Wilson & Mr. Meyer enjoys great popularity in the social and business world. He is a | member of the Cosmos Club and resides with his parents, Captain and Mrs. H. L. E. Meyer, at 2124 ! Pacific avenue. MOTHER'S LOVE TRUE TILL DEATH Mrs. McArthur Thinks of Her Children to the Last. ‘With her head resting on the tear- stained photographs .of her three little daughters, Mrs. Ada McArthur was found lying on the flgor of her room at 446 Eddy street yesterday morning, cold in death, a victim of gas asphyxigtion. The unfortunate woman had been very much admired for her beauty of face and form. She had been separated from her husband' for the last six years and had been_ living for some time at 446 Eddy street with Misses Mamie and Julia De- mones. She often said that all she cared to live for was her three daughters, the youngest of whom is 7 years old, and who are in an Oakland seminary. For three or four days preceding her death Mrs. McArthur had been despond- ent, and told the Demones girls that she intended to commit sulcide. At half-past 10 o'clock Monday night she retired, and yesterday morning when the door of her room was broken open her body, attired only in a nightggwn, was found lying on the floor in a coMer of the room with the photographs of her children un- der her head. The crevices in the doors and the keyholes were stuffed with rags and two gas burners were open. Mrs. McArthur's mother lives in Ukiah. —_———— ‘Will Shoot for National Trophy. The national trophy shooting match will begin on September § at Seagirt, N. J. The competitors are teams of twelve men selected from the United 3tates. army, from the United States marine corps, from the United States navy and from the National Guard. ———— The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths has presented to the University of London the whole of the valuable library of eco- nomic literature which it purchased some ten years ago from Professor Foxwell. | and worn donk | the vicinity. | recently | engine, | ace Lee, { Lec, a | plant FOUR ARE HURT IN AN EXPLOSION Donkey Engine Blows Up on Dunes Near Ocean Beach. Engineer Is Badly Burned and Perhaps Fatally Injured. —_— Criminal carelessness in allowing an old ; engine to be used in work that was fa too much for its weak- ened parts was the cause of an accident in the sand dunes ou. near the Ocean boulevard yesterday afternoon that will probabiy result in at least one fatality. At Forty-seventh avenue and I street Kreisel &«Patterson have had a gang of men working on a contract sublet to them by Edward Malley to level the lands in A donkey engine that was in use for a few days proved too light for the scraper work that it was intended for yesterday and the contractors had a heavier cne substituted for it. The second engine, one that had been converted from a coal into an ofl burner, proved a ramshackle affair and the engineer in charge, after firing up, quit his position, giving as an excuse that it was too dangerous to work with such an antiquated machine. In the afternoon Wesley Heflinger was substituted as engineer. IHe started the but in a few minutes it com- menced to “buck.” Heflinger went to in- vestigate and had reached the back of the engine when suddenly there was a heavy explosion. The unforunate engin- eer was thrown into the air many feet and when his fellow workers went to his assistance they found him in an uncon- ccious condition and badly injurad. The force of the explosion tcve the en- gine from its bed, hurled it at least thirty feet and completely wrecked it. The engineer was carried to a saloon at Forty-ninth and I street and cared for until the Park emergency ambulance took him to the hospital. Edward Kreisel, ¢ was wa'king toward time of the explosion rendered unconscious and jured. At the hospital Dr. Harvey after an ex amination found that Heflinger was suf- fering from extensive burns on the body and from shock. His right arm, neck and his entire facc were badly scalded, be- sides his back and both legs and teet. His condition considered seri- ous and he may die. Kicfsel's injuries consist of third de- gree burns. His face and neck, both arms ana hands and both legs and feet were scalded. At the time of the accident a dozen or miore childien were playing near the on- ¢ine and haidly any of them escaped ing covered with the ofl that was sc tered about. Cl Cole, a boy living at 1362 Fort h avenue, was burned on the hands an e and John McMul- len received sev similar injuries. Hor- the 5-year-old son of George butcher Forty-ninth and I street, a former deputy county clerk, was thrown to the ground by the force of the explosion. Kreisel, t e of the contractors, the engine at the and he, too, was severely in- is desvite his severe burns ani 1¢ advice of Dr. Harvey, refused to remaip ot the hospital and took a car for his home at 1606 Howard street. His wife is just convaleseing after a protract- e Wness. ——————————— The New Overland Limited Via Chi- cago ara Northwestern Railway. Each train in the Overland Limited daily service between San Francisco and Chicago is provided with a separate and complete electrical | cach berth, compartment and drawing- own reading lamp. Each table in is adorned by a dainty lamp a soft glow of light. The Book- ¢ Philadelphia provides the which, with the current maga- evening hours delight- n where one can read at ease brilliant light. Electric fans | the air. Electric heaters are room has its the dinfng. provided for the ladies” curling irons. Flec- | tric buttons bring quick service and a telephone | servation parlor connects the passen- side worfd while the train is the Overland _Limited leaves jcisco daily at 10 a. m., reaching Chi- cago in less For ticzets, | sleeping car reservations and full information, {apply to R. R. Ritchle, general agent Pacific Coast, Chicazo and Northwestern Railway, 617 nd Mrs. Meyer will reside at | Pacific-Union Club and | san Francisco, Cal. Market street, ———————————— Owner of Vicious Dog Sued. Gerhome Ostrander, a traveling sales- man, who was bitten by a dog at Warm Springs, Alameda County, August 24, brought a suit for. $2200 damages against Anton Pinheiro Gularte, owner of the vesterday. He says that Gularte, knowing the vicious tendencies of the animal, was guilty of carelessness in | allowing it to roam at large. e The big insurance companes are our custom- ers. Mysell-Rollins,22 Clay,first-class printers. * AIPLEY MIAKES b QUET MOVE Completes His Plans for Yosemite Connec- tions at Oakdale. Santa Fe to Build a Line From Claus to End of Sierra Railway. ey The Santa Fe Company is quietly pre- paring to reach the Yosemite Valley by way of Big Oak Flat and thereby place itself on an equal footing with the South- ern Pacific Company in the competition for the valley traffic. It has been learned that its egents have been at work for nearly a year and have formed alllances and combinations which will permit the achievement of this project at a compar- tively small expenditure of money. A company composed of men in no way {dentified with the Santa Fe road wiil be Incorporated in a short time for the pur- pose of constructing a new line from Oak- dale, the southern terminus of the Sterra Rallway Company, where it meets the | Southern Pacific line to Claus, a small station on the San Joaquin Valley road, above Merced. With this small stretch of track, less than thirty miles, the Santa Fe's western system will be brought in direct connection with the Sierra Rail- way's main line and over the latter p: sengers will be transported to the Yo- semite Valley by way of Big Oak Flat, which is admitted to be one of the best avallable routes into the great scenic re- | sort. | Great efforts have been made by the | Santa Fc officlals to keep their plans a secret, but like the majority of railroad undertakings this one was soon discov- | ered. It has been known for several weeks by the officials of the Southern | Pacific, who have already begun to mmw[ obstacles in the way of its accomplish- ment. RIPLEY ON THE GROUND. A year ago President Ripley and his as- sociates in the management of the Santa | Fe system foresaw the necessity of gain- ing a firmer foothold in the nity of the Yosemite Park. Vice President Ken- | na, the general solicitor of the road, and Vice President Kendrick joined with Vice President Paul Morton In suggesting to President Ripley the idea of negotiating with Prince Poniatowski and the Crock- | ers, who control the Sierra Railway, for the purchase outright of that line and | connecting it with tile San Joaquin Val- ley road and It was with that purpose in | view that President Ripley on the oc sion of his last trip to California quietly slipped into the Yosemite Valley, coming out on the Big Oak Flat side, where he was met by S. D. Freshman, assistant | general man a asurer of the Sierra Railway shman, by an ap- | pointment iged between his brother- | in-law, T. S. Bullock, the manager of that road, and President Ripley, through Paul Morton, who was then in this city, had a special car in waiting for Ripley at| Jamestown and in it he piloted the head of the Santa Fe Company over the entire | tem of the Sierra Rallway Company, finally landing the president at Oakdal where he boarded the Southern Pacific | Company’s train and came to this city. BIDS FOR THE ROAD. | | For several days thereafter Ripley and the representatives of the Slerra Rail- way held conferences In this city, but the negotiations for the sale of the road were never effected. Although Ripley was willing to make the bargain an invit- ing one to the owners of the road, it was explained by them that they were not in a position to sell, owing to traffic and other entanglements with the Southern Pacific, which were of a very binding ctaracter. When the Sierra Railway Company first undertook the comstruction of its road from Oakdale to Jamestown it seems | that C. P. Huntington, then president of the Southern Pacific Company con- ceived the idea that the Crockers and | Prince Ponlatowski were planning a dan- gerous opposition to his line in that sec- | tion of the State and in his peculiarly shrewd manner the famous railroad man made an open threat that he would par- allel the pew line with one of his own by extending the branch line from Milton to the terminal point coptemplated by the Crockers and Poniatowski. As a result of this threat the heads of the two roads got together and entered into an under- standing in which it was agreed that the Huntington corporation would let the in- fant corperation have the use of rolling. stock and otherwise foster the enterprise provided its projectors did not at- tempt .to interfere with Southern Pacific | business or give aid to a rival corpora- tien. OBSTACLES IN THE WAY. | Eventually the agreement between the two roads broadened into a general traf- | fic alliance and finally resulted in the ADVERTISEMENTS. is made. sider cost. it on their merits and Good pianos cost enough ¥ to demand careful consid- eration before the final selection Shrewd buyers con- They want quality, and are willing to pay a fair price for We have a line of pianos that sell | | are commended by | has in view the absorption of the smaller ADVERTISEMENTS. Black Dress “Fabrics ——FALL 1903——— We have just opened a most complete assortment of NEW BLACK DRESS FABRICS. The assortment will in= clude Silk Finish Zibelines, Boucle Cheviots, Noppe Canvas Cloths, Box Cloths, Crepe Etamines, Venetian Poplins, Silk Camel’s Hair, Broad- cloths, Unfinished Worsteds -and Venetians. We invite our patrons goods at their ear -to inspect theAabovvo'- iest opportunity. B - SiK Sp_'ecials;..’_":_» 50-INCH SILK FINISH ZIBELINE $1.50 Yd 54-INCH BOUCLE CHEVIOT...... $1.50 Yd" 48-INCH NOPPE CANVAS CLOTH $1.25 Yd - 47-INCH CAMEL'S HAIR BOUCLE $1.25Yd . 45-INCH FRENCH ETAMINE..... $1.00 Yd~ - - MISTRAL 44-INCH BOURETTE CLOTH:-+--. - $1.00 Yd NOTE—Our customers in the interiar are PB!IUES[EQ II} write for samples of above goods. 9 Cr22208S GORPORA Teo W a2 Z . {11, 113, 5, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. " - on of the joint freight :nd pas | depot at Oakdale, which has since nothing in the agreement with Hunting- fon that would prevent the Sferra Rail- way from receiving traffic from another | road at another point on the line. In| fact, at that time the proposition of the Santa Fe getting that far north was nol; dreamed of. | When - these facts were laid before President Ripley at the conferences in this city, he carefully weighed them and. finally left the city for the East, m(m" promising to give the matters his consideration. Later Ripley sent a rep- resentative to the coast and the latter quietly went over the entire ground lying within that section of the State bounded by the Santa Fe line, that of the Sierra Railway and the National reservation. | Reports of the feasibility of various plans for getting to the Yosemite by way of Big Oak Flat were carefully consider- ed by President Ripley and his asso- clates and finally a scheme to bufld a branch line from some point on the San Joaquin Valley road to a convenient point on the Sierra Railway resulted in the selection of the route from Claus to Oakdale. Claus is a small station in Stanislaus County, on the Valley road, about 28 miles south of Stockton. The lay of the land between it and Oakdale constructi | is well adapted for railroad building pur- | | poses, a fact which the Santa Fe people were quick to learn. NEW COMPANY IS READY. The officials had hardly seldetdd the | route before their agents were at work | getting the necessary men in Tuolumne | and Stanislaus Counties, that is; the | right kind of men to promote a railroad | enterprise, and they. were not ing thém. As stated before, the company is ready to organize and will probably| file its papers in a few weéks. The rights of way have already been secured and all that remains is for the Santa Fe peo- ple to give the word and the. initiatory work on the proposed new line will be inaugurated. The new route and its connections, aside from the Yosemite Valley traffic that is guaranteed it, furnishes the Santa Fe Company an entrance Into a rich | mountain territory, which it will expend | a great deal of money to develop. The fact that it was prevented from buying the Slerra Railway Company’s | property has not lessened the desire of the Santa Fe te. acquire it in the least and the report now is that the line is destined to eventually pass into the con- trol of the transcontinental road. A meet- ing of the directors o. the Sierra Rall- way Company is to be held in a few days, when it is said that they will vote to| issue another big blick of bonds for fur- ther improvements of the road and rumor has it that the Santa Fe people have given thelr assurance that they will take the greater portion of these securi- ties. This story is common property among the brokers about town and is construed as meaning that the larger line slow in find- |- .music lov.ers for their sweet tone and sing- ing qualities. Steck, Hardman, Packard, Ludwig or Con- over and you are sure to get an instrument that will give permanent satisfaction. will have no cause for regret. Easy terms 1f you want credit. “ Wil BAlen, 931933 Market St., 951 Broadway, Choose either an Everett, a You San Francisco. Oakland. «iher Stores—Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno and 1.os Angeles. one. | Whether or not it takes the Sierra | Raflway, the Santa Fe project between ! Claus and Oakdale will not be 'abandon- | ed. Yesterday officials of the Southern | Pacific Company were carefully studying maps of the country through which the Santa Fe's contemplated road is-to ex- tend, a fact that is suggestive of a pos- | sible move on the part of the former road to build an opposition line from Oakdale or Milton to the Big Oak Flat. —_——— To Visit San Francisco Without seeing the DIAMOND PALACE would be like visiting Europe without seeing Paris. It is a leading feature of San Francisco. A marvel of beauty and e]e‘t!;ge. and unquestionably the most magnificent jew SOt the. “dplendla “mporum in the master mind, a controlling genius. A tistic taste and skill challenge competi- tion here. 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