The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 22, 1903, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1908. BRINGS COSTLY COLLECTION TO ENRICH THE UNIVERSITY Professor Aifred Emerson Returns From the Classical Fields of Europe, Whither He Went to Gather Works of Art and Hus- bandry Wrought Thousands of Years Before the Christian Era eater part from Antwerp in a I be installed in | r the benefit of the pub- INTERESTING RELIC. teresting relic in the collec- | reserved piece of Egyptian 7, which Dr. Emerson than anybody or 0 to-day. Itisa | to hold a pint, that was Egypt before the estab- f rst dynasty of native | , which carries it back to a time 5000 Christ. It is fashioned of | imitation of stone vessels | th perforated lugs on | gh which cords for han- | 1. There are dark scenes | ight red background suf- | for the observer to | war rigged with | g banks of dars with m. The remainder of | animals, antelopes | thro ended to represent flocks of er banks. ! i= a Greek sepul- | clay marked with red, to a category that is now highly esteemed among The figures In red are wn and represent them | the tombs of their fami- s mourn. One of these fig- t of a young girl in the spirit | form sitting on the steps of her tomb- who is being visited by a young rrying a spear and a young woman : a casket containing offerings of me and a funeral libation. Just a t sralism is carried into the of a heron, which in days wandered about the cemeteries and was petted by the visitors. AN ANCIENT FLASK. a still older type shows fig- k on a red background. The mythological, showing the Attic eus throwing the wild bull of M n. This flask is supposed to antedate the sepulchral flask 150 years. rare type of drinking cup, such as was used by the ancients at banquets, is s large as @ basin. The cups were made | rge in those days because of the prac- tice of dfluting the wine with water. Still e cups contained much more wine than & temperate man of these days could or- dinar stand, even with the water. The i figures on this cup show a processional | dance of young and old men walking in regular alternation, the young men with hands raised and singing. In the center | of this cup, as in almost all others, are | painted a patr of eyes, which are intend- ed to charm away the evil spirits. On another cup of this type is imprinted the picture of & young man preparing to throw the remnants of his drinking cup at a target. This represents a favorite pastime with the ancients, in which was required considerable skill to hit the tar- get, which was always a gong, that sounded when struck. The archaeologists bave discovered that this game brought about an immense destruction of cups, as the practice of throwing them wag uni- versal One flask of white clay with black lines by the picture ne is » T | { | CALIFORNIA PROFESSOR WHO RETURNS WITH RAREARCH- AEOLOGICAL COLLECTION. | is cemented in a mass of calcareous rock , in which are aiso the bon being, showing that th the dead. : ch of pottery 1 the terra cotta “figur- s,” which are nothing more than stat- uettes cleverly modeled into figures rep- resenting ladies, youths, cupids and chil- dren. They are va chiefly because her clearer idea of the fe and his costume mental figures usu- Greek in everyday than the large m ally do. SUPPLY EXHAUSTED. They were manufactured in the fourth, third and second centuries before Christ, chiefly in Tanagra, whose people buried large numbers of them with ‘:lr dead. They were discovered in 1870 %and five years later the supply was exhausted, so that now they can only be acquired from existing collections. There is a lady’s toilet case that is ex- tremely rare. It contains a black back- ground, with figures in red showing the lady in question receiving offerings from Cupid and Winged Victories. The neck- lace, bracelets and diadems on these fig- ures are in relief, with traces of the orig- | inal gilding. An Etruscan vase is of very high an- tiquity. The Etruscans were fond of manufacturing vases in black, the black being secured by painting the wes clay with soot before firing. These people never painted their pottery, but adorned it with leaves similar to those on sdme Grecian jars. The ancients, like ourselves, delighted to decorate their walls with plates, which they adorned with fantastic designs and then hung with strings through holes made for the purpose. Of these Dr. Em- erson has a number. One of the most valuable relics is an Etruscan fork of ten prongs, with which the Etruscans roasted their meats. In the Homeric poems frequent mention is made of the sacrificial feasts in which the Greeks indulged, and this tool, which is made of bronze, is supposed to have been used at these orgles. Another bronze relic is a ring hoop with forty-five smaller rings upon it. The archaeologists have been unable to give a correct interpreta- tion of it, but it is believed to be a jug- gler's contrivance for performing tricks, though it may have been a contrivance designed to hold the smaller rings, which were used by the ladies to pin thelir gowns. COLLECTION OF GLASS. Then there is a large collection of an- clent glass, chiefly from Assyria. The Assyriars and Phoeniclans made as free use of glass as the Greeks did of earthen- ware, both for use in dally life and as mementoes for the dead. It seems to have | been the custom of the ancients to offer perfumery to their dead, and sometimes as many as fifty pleces of unbroken glass- | ware are found in a single tomb.~The | glass is generally much lighter than the | glass of this day. | “I spent my first year in London, Paris | and Brussels,” said Dr. Emerson to-day. | “These places are the headquarters for | the export trade in antiquities. Fortu- nately at that time the Somzee collection | was being sold at auction in Brussels, and |1 was enabled to secure many valuable | antiquities. Of the 400 Greek numbers I purchased thirty-eight, which amounted |0 one tenth of the value of the whole. I did not go to Greece, mainly because I had been there two years and also be- d Sevzoow moro — , cause of the heavy tax upon the exporta- antiquities. I did some excavatin but in the main acquired most e collection by purchase. ras enabled to gecure some excellent iles of art works I could not buy. 1 spent one-fourth of the appropriation T ts, and for the purpose of instruc- tion these will be quite as valuable as the SHOWN GREAT CIVILITY. “I was shown unusual civility by the archaeolagists of Europe, and I attribute is to the estimable standing the Univer- sity of California has acquired by reason | of the competition for the Hearst plans. vas especially noticeable in France, Iy because Benard won the first At the Louvre I was allowed to se- cure a mold of a bronze statue which had never been cast before and which would have been refused had it been for a less conspicuous university than our own. I tried to get it for another university of America on my last visit to Europe, but failed. The statue I refer to is an early Greek Apollo, which was found at Piom. bi Italy, on the coast of Etruria. An- other copy I was allowed to make was of | riginals. | THKE CHILD AND WOMAN FRONEA FIRE Heroic Men Rescue In- valid Mother and Her Daughter. Girl Dies Afterward From Burns and Physician May Not Live. —— Desperate Work Done by a Husband and Medical Men During Blaze in a Washington Home. e Special Dispatch to The Call. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 21.—At the risk of their own lives and sustaining burns which may prove fatal in one case, John Higgs and Dr. Angus of Pine City, Wash., saved the Invalid wife of Mr. Higgs and his little daughter from the flames of & burning house last night. Despite the brave work of Dr. Angus, who carried the little girl out in his arms, the child was so badly burned that she dted early this morning. Dr. Angus also received such serious burns that his con- | dition is critical. The fire started from a gasoline explo- sion. Mrs. Higgs is in delicate health | and her husband and the family physi- clan were giving her a vapor bath, using | gasoline. The substance exploded and in | a moment the room was a mass of | flames. The doctor called upon Higgs | to save his wife and then made a dash | | for an upstalrs room where two little | children were sleeping. Hastily rousing | the boy the doctor assisted him to wrap himself up and flee down the stairs and from the burning building. Dr. Angus then picked up the little girl and started out. | By this time the whole house was in flames and with great difficulty the man | made his escape, bearing his human bur- | den. Mrs. Higgs received severe burns | and this with her terrible fright and ill- | ness makes her recovery most doubtful. | @ il @ | OFFIERS HOLD ) NEW WARRANT 'File Additional Charge | Against Stern in To- ronto Court. ML Sept. 2L.—Leopold J. wanted in Washing- conspiracy to fraud the United States Government, appeared in court this afternoon. Two officers from Washington were present with a new warrant certifying a charge different from that first served and in order to give the prosecution time to prepare their case on the new charge an adjournment was taken until to-morrow. The warrant upon which the case against Stern is based charges him with having wrongfully obtained two money warrants from the United States Post-| office Department, one for $5029 in De- | TORONTO, Ont Stern of Baltimore ton on a charge « cember, 1902, and one for $5927 in October, 1902. A deposition made by Walter J. Meyer, | postoffice inspector, also sets forth a| number of particulars in the United States Government's case against Stern. | The deposition states that in June of 1848 a bronze charioteer found at Florence by | a contract was made by the United | the French, a remarkable feature of | States Government Postal Department which are the eyeballs, inlaid with quartz | with Stern for the supply of four differ- | and onyx, which give it a most lifelike appearance.” Dr. Emerson said that the building at the Affiliated Colleges would be entirely inadequate to contain the collection he had purchased, and that the best he could | do would be to exhibit only the originals | of the collection. | @ cimimimimiieietef el @ GOES ON MISSION T0 KING MENELIK Marine Guard Will Ac- company American Consul. WASHINGTON, Sept. structions from 21.—Under in- the State Department wilds of Abyssinia, guarded by a detach- ment of American marines from the Eu- ropean squadron. He goes to negotiate treaty, which, it is hoped, will give im- was in Canton to-day and sald that he his special mission to Abyssinia. Skinper expects to sail for France on Octoker 8. | e e e Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, Sept. 2L—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: W. A. Richardson, 42 years old, and M. E. McRice, 23, both of ‘San Francisco; J. Harry Blohme, 2, ‘Washington, D. C., and Tillie Richter, 23, Oakland; Leon Cook, 28, and Kate Kear- ney, 23, both of San Francisco; Charles F. Hell, over 21, Los Angeles, and Helen J. Backus, over 18, Oakland; Manuel Le: is, 37, and Belle Bettencourt, 35, both Haywards; Manuel Lewis, 26, and Annie Silva, 19, both of Oakland; Walter 8. Cheeney, 27, and Marje C. Ousten, 24, both of San Francisco; John H. Helmsteln, over Z1, Alameda, and Florence E. Dunn, over 18, Newark: Ray E. Gilson, 30, and Harrle E. Borland, 21, both of Oakland; Frank Stoddard, 34, and Elizabeth Wii- liamson, 35, both of San Francisco. ——————— Death of a Michigan Journalist, JACKSON, Mich., Sept. 2L.—Colonel C. V. Deland, one of the oldest and best known newspaper men in the State, dil at bis residence here early to-day after long illness. Colonel Deland served through the Civil War and was made a general of the United States volunteers in 1865 for bravery and meritorious services. Robert P. Skinner, the American Consul | General at Marsellles, will penetrate the | ‘with the King of Abyssinia a commercial | portant advantages to American trade. | CANTON, O., Sept. 21.—Consul Skinner | would leave for Washington early next | week to recelve instructions relative to | ent varieties of letter uarrler"z' satchels. Some of these were to be equipped with straps. - The allegation is that Stern, | after being supplied at the instance of | the department with these straps by an- | other contractor, charged their cost to | the department, which had already paid | | the other contractor for them. PRISONER JUNPS " FROM GARWINDOW Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 21.—Rather than face disgrace W. E. Hambrook, a prisoner in charge of Policeman L. G. Carpenter, leaped out of a train window near the | Portland depot this evening and was in- stantly killed. Hambrook was a drummer who came from San Francisco last winter, while there selling encyclopedias for a book He was “arrested in North Yakima Saturday on a charge of grand larceny preferred by a Portland adver- | tising firm. After he had been arrested he made a desperate attempt to escape by jumping from a hotel window, but was later captured 1n & hay loft, As the train neared Portland Hambrook obtained permission to go to the toilet- room and jumped from the small window feet first. Policeman Carpenter jumped off the train, and running back along the track found Hambrook's mangled body between the rails. His position in sliding feet first made him fall close to the side of the car and the entire train had passed over his body. e — ‘Ends Life With a Bullet. NEW YORK, Sept. 2L.—James D. Kil- patrick of Beatrice, Nebr., committed sui- cide here to-day by shooting. He had been in New York since July and was a member of the firm of Kilpatrick Bros. & Co. and a director of the New York Exporting and Importing Company. e b Missing Boy Located. OAKLAND, Sept. 2L.—Frank Powers, the 16-year-old son of Mrs. L. M. Betan’ cue, who ran away from home on Au- gust 16, was found at Pleasanton about a week ago by his brother, George. He is working in the hopflelds and says he in. tends to remain until the hop-picking sea- son is over, as he is making more money there than he could in Oakland, | concern. Cc CUPID SPREADS HIS NET FOR VETERAN DETECTIV E “Denny” Holland, Famous as a Sleuth, Will Take as Wife Mrs. Catherine Boogar, Relict of the Late P. Boogar, the Couple’s Engagement Being Outcome of Police Romance | Chip Still Adorns the 1and, the veteran detective of the Oakland Police Department, him- self the catcher of many a bold miscreant, has landed In the tolls. It isn't the stern arm of the law that has reached out for the grizsled thief-taker, but & wily and clever youth in the person of one “Dan” Cupid, who has enmeshed the supposedly hardened police detective. “Denny” has capitulated to Mrs. Cath- erine Boogar, relict of the late Phillp Boogar, who was shot by her father, Michael Collins, ten years ago, and there- in lies a bit of romance that does not often fall to the lot of the stern men whose labor in life is to protect society from the evildoer. It was in the line of his work as a regular detective of the Oakland depart- ment that Holland was detalled, and did much investigation in the days when the Boogar case was one of the sensations of the day. During that period he was thrown much into contact with the old capitalist’s buxom widow. Though sev- eral years have passed since those days, the gallant detective had not forgotten the pleasant memories awakened long ago, and when he thought the time was ripe the question was ‘“popped.” Announcement was made to-day that the wedding would take place in October at St. Francis de Sales Church. All of the arranggments have been made. Mrs. Boogar will be attended by Mrs. M. Am- brose, her sister, and former Sheriff Oscar Rogers will assist the groom as best man. + o WELL EKNOWN WOMAN OF OAKLAND WHO WILL WED VETERAN DETECTIVE. + +* Miss Gertrude Ambrose afid Miss Theresa Collins will be flower girls. After the wedding the couple expect to take a tour through Southern California and wisit relatives of Mrs. Boogar in Arizona. Detective Holland is bullding a new home on Telegraph ave- nue, near Thirty-fourth street, for his bride. For twenty-five Years Holland has been a member of the Oakland Police Depart- ment. After five years of service as spe- clal and regular patrolman, he was ap- pointed to the detective force, a position he has held continuously since that time. His wide acquaintance with the criminal element in California has rendered Hol- land a valuable member of the depart- ment. L o e e e e e Y ) [TALIANG 9TART A SERIOUS RIOT On~ of Their Number Is Killed and Several . Are Arrested. COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 2L.—A riot by Itallan laborers on the Oneonta, Cooperstown and Richfield Springs Trol- ley Road to-day resulted in the death of one Italian and the injury of General Manager Tilton and a deputy sheriff. The Itallans are quartered in shanties a little helow the power house at Hartwick. Last night they built an obstruction on the track and the first car that started south to-day was halted. A telephone message to Oneonta brought Receiver Jenkins, General Manager Tilton and sev- eral deputies. When they set about re- moving the obstruction the Italians at- tacked them, firing pistols and throwing stones. Tilton was struck on the right temple with a stone and his face was badly cut. A deputy sheriff received a bullet wound in the head and was also gashed with a stone. Deputies and em- ployes of the road returned the fire of the Italidns and one laborer was killed. The rest was then quelled and traffic on the road was resumed. Seven of the rioters were arrested and held for examination. The trouble grew out of the fact that there is due the Itallans two months’ wages for work done before the road went into a receivership, but which cannot be paid while the road is in litigation. The laborers have been pald for all work done since the recelvership began. —————————— TRUXTUN BEALE PURCHASES A SUMMER HOME IN MAINE ‘Well-Enown San Franciscan Invests in a Handsome Estate in Kennebec County. AUGUSTA, Maine, Sept. 2L—Truxtun Beale of San Francisco, who has been ex- citing the wonder and envy of the natives here with his “red devil” automobile and other paraphernalia, has just purchased for a summer home a handsome estate of 140 acres, owned since 1775 by the Mar- Jowe family, and situated in Lake Cab- bossecouter, Kennebec County. He has also purchased a summer camp surround- ed by twenty-five acres and will use an electric launch, which he brought with him, on the lake. The lake is stocked with landlocked salmon, black bass, white Lperch and pickerel and there is much game in the vicinity. On the 10-acre property is a roomy old-fashioned farm house and part of the land s well culti- vated. The balance is heavily timbered, affording cover for game. ——————— CAMPERS HAVE FIGHT WITHE A BIG DEVILFISH . TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 21.—A fight with a big devilfish is reported by a party of campers who left McKims Camp on Van- couver Island yesterday ing to hunt crabs with spears. A party of six, includ- ing two young women, were attacked by the octopus when a mile off shore. The boat was in eight feet of water. Dicken- sen, a member of the party, assumed the offensive by striking the devilfish with a spear between its eyes. " ‘A severe fight followed, during which the octopus threw his feelers around a body of kelp and vigorously endeavored to overturn the boat. Two of its tentacles were thrown over the gunwale, while with a third it struck at an occupant of the boat- By hard work the boat was slowly pulled away from the kelp bed into more shallow wal Later the devilfish was killed. It was sixteen feet from tip to tip and weighed 200 pounds. REDWODD MEN REACHING OUT To Form Million-Dollar Company to Handle Product. A company, incorporated for a million dollars and including among its members the heads of all the leading redwood lum- ber corporations in California, notably C. A. Hooper & Co., Pacific Lumber Com- pany, Union Lumber Company, Hammond Lumber Company and other big concerns, which have vast timber noldings in the northern timber belts, will be launched in a few days In this city. Its main purposes are to give greater impetus to the steadily increasing demand for California redwood in the East. One of the first moves to be made by the new company will be the erection of sawing and planing mills, sash and door factories and a manufactory of wooden water pipe and a big drying plant, a site for all of which has been secured near Antioch, ad- joining the drying plant of the California redwood shingle combine. It is purposed to maintain a supply of between twenty and thirty million feet of redwood lumber for shipment to the Eastern markets. Up to a few months ago the supply of California redwood had not passed be- yond the local markets, the consumption in the State being almost equal to the supply of the mills. With the sudden de- mand for the wood in the East the pro- ducers here realized the necessity of an organization that would be able to prop- erly foster this new trade and act as a distributor in foreign markets. ‘With these plans in view the larger members of the redwood association got together several weeks ago and have since been quietly conferring at their exchange at 6 California street. On Saturday -the plans for the new company were fully arranged and the entire matter turned over to the association’s lawyers, who are now drawing up the articles of incarpora- tion. It has been estimajed that nearly one million dollars will be necessary to start the new enterprise, and the greater part of this sum has already been sub- scribed. In the drying of its redwood lum- ber and planing it before shipment the dealers will save a large sum of money in freight charges. The company practically is an adjunet of the redwood assoclation. Its agencles for disbursing purposes will be established in all the principal cities of the East. Through this medium the price of Cali- fornia redwood will be controlled by the' association which aims to maintain a monopoly of the timbgr business in this State. —_———— DUKE OF MANCHESTER Becomes the Owmer of One of the Most Picturesque Estates in Ireland. chester, who married in 190 Helen, daugh- ter of Eugene Zimmerman of Cincinnati, has purchased for $315,000 Kylemore Castle and estate, comprising 13,000 acres, situ- ated on Lough Kylemore, Connemara. The place formerly belonged to the late Mitchell Henry, M. P., who built the cas- tle, which is one of the noblest and most | romantically situated residences in Ire- jland. It has often been assigned by ru- mor as a probable royal residence. It is estimated Henry spent $2,000,000 in build- ing the castle and improving the estate. —_———————— NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Mrs. to-day deeded over certain to a charitable is mow writidg a play pear the HEAPING INGULT UPON FOREIGNERS Shoulder of President Castro. Caracas Press Launches a Tirade of Abuse at All Aliens. e e WILLEMSTAD, Sept. 21.—The steamer Maracalbo has just arrived from Vene- zuela with a number of foreign notabili- ties on board. They report that the Car- acas press Is still flercely attacking the foreign and mixed tribunals and the for- eign umpires. Yesterday it was Beigium. To-day It is Mexico. Obeying, it Is sald, President Castro's ers, the papers, having learned that Senor Otero, who umpires the Mexican claims, Senor Duret, the commissioner, and Senor Guzman, the agent, all of the Mexican tribunal and leading figures In Mexican society, will on the Mexican In- dependence day give a dinner and ball to friends in house belonging to a citizen of the United States, printed violent ar- ticles threatening to publish the names of sixteen leaders of Caracas society, who had accepted Invitations to be present as patriots” and as “gulity of an act of les patrie” In going to a ball given by foreigners “claiming money from Vene- zuela.” Besides this, menacing letters were sent to the members of the Mexican commis- slon, and, a popular demonstration against the commissioners having been premeditated, the Mexican commission withdrew invitations to the ball, so as not to cause a conflict. Some idea of the tone of the press against foreigners may be gathered from El Combate of Caracas, which, after criticizing all the umpires, | said: Yes, let them take our gold. but let them not celebrate at a soc! gathering the com= | summation of their infa: | Let them feel our banknotes but let mot o e Bk ety o i walsts Of our queens of the drawing-rooms. Let them drink champagne and drown them- selves in the foam of liquor, but let them Bot clink their cups with those of the victims Whom they have come to sacrifice It is reported in Caracas’ that Bl Na- clonalista, classed as the organ of General Fernandes, the Venezuelan Minister, is the most bitter of all the papers in the campaign. The umpires have not been paid by Venesuela. CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 21.—The Venezuelan Government has declared a quarantine of thirty days against vessels from French Mediterranean ports, where cases, of the bubonic plague have occurred. @ ieimimirimiminieii i @ MARBLE WORKERS KRE LOCKED OUT Dealers Close Shops as First Move in the Struggle. CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—Four hundred men employed in five shops in this city controlled by the International Associa- tion of Marble Workess found the doors of their shops closed to-day and a notice informing them that Thursday morn- ing work would be resumed with a force. composed of both union and non-union | men. It is expected that members of the | union will be ordered to refuse to return | to work and that the local trades unions will be asked to refuse to handle marble employipg non-union handled in shops men. PITTSBURG, Sept. 21.—The lockout of the National Association of Marble Deal- ers took effect in the Pittsburg district to- day. It is estimated here that 6000 men throughout the country are idle. The dealers have posted notices in all shops that they will be closed for three days and at the end of that time they will re- | sume operations as open shops. The men | say they will not return to work in open | shops. | —_————————— | Harmon’s Will Filed. OAKLAND, Sept. 2L—A petition was ; filed to-day for the probate of the will | of the late Edward D. Harmon of Berke- ley. He leaves an estate valued at about | 50,000 to his wife and three children, share and share alike. | ADVERTISEMENTS. STOMACH ITTERS Food that remains undigested soon ferments, causing pain and distress. A dose of the Bitters before meals will insure perfect digestion and prevent Belching, Flatulency, Heartburn, Dyspepsia {and Indigestion. Try a All druggists. : LONDON, Sept. 21.—The Duke of Man- | wh Tobacco Heart may be cured. Don’t neglect r symptoms. 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