The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1903, Page 28

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1903 Anvmxsmm ve planned a sale for every department in ve us the best that he comment. A collection that mean for you. $1.50 Camel's Hair Zibeline, 79¢ Dress Goods t fabric for Ic ne finish. The e per yard for shrinking done fier Peau d a large ran P card $3000 Tallor va[ $24 50 blue. Price veek $6.75 Sl(n'[ $5 00 Tweed W 7v\-\~.u~, ncy $2 50‘ Pettt Wa targe butt LADIES® CHILDRE\ ack 35 se, w at ZSc Rlbbon 75c Glovcs, 25c s week 100 They were ¢ ket. Specia 33c Dlack Tuxcdo this inclu ted anm On sa 25¢ Loop re at present an $4 00 Arablan d heavy bieached n not be overlooked. A BIG BARGAIN SALE| For This Week e price-making. ¢ Each item speaks for itself. ydes and porcela this $1.00 Silks, 59¢ thi 65c Hcmstnchc_(_l men Tray Clolhs 48c 1 price lezc lelow‘ Cases. 9¢ this week which includes offer- the store. Each manager was had and that cost would not be We submit the Iist to you It is of bargains money saved Department. ng coat suits, the stylish long hair re is a full range of Fall colorings, in blues. The width is 56 week...... G T free e Soie, P atin Duch- ge of colorings, black, inal, navy, brown, tan and €cru. Not or $1.00 a It is trim- blouse style de in seven gores, and the 1 rs are black and navy $24 50 ed throughout. pouch sleeve, seven gores, ' $5.00 coal $1 60 ;.,rdmn plaited and full pouch Special $1.50 c _I'Iosc, 19c dren's iron-clad heels; both 19C 15¢ Yard has been sc popular this sea- white, black; lavender, d light blue. This rib- inches widg. ............ . 15¢ dozen lace lisle gloves, in black, nsidered a splendid value 25C week at inch hcm and drawn work is stamped one and one-half as 1 ¢ nickel case. and gun i purse and card We have nd 03 week Vcdmg, lSc Yard moder G plain me: is week Pins, ll;c the popular th for hair 1d medium sizes and come week orna- I4c Curtams $Z 90 the new ‘rabu'\ shade. It musl Tt in, e full size, 45x36. price each for A big spe- this 9C Rheumatlsm Bright's bed- disease, brick dust deposit, ting. gravel, dropsy, diabetes, Cured with One Bottle McBurney's Kidney and Bladder 0ure Los Angeles. Sold VVVVV VDD | visit DR. JORDAN'S grear MUSEUM OF ANATONY .ammmlz Dot GrhATE, 8.7 00, years. DR. JORDAN—DISEASES OF MEN Consultation free and strictly private. Treamment persenally or by jeter. & Porisive. Cure 1o cvery case underiaken. adway’s Pills Purely vegetable. mild and reliable. Causes terfect difestion, complete absorption and thul regularity. or the cure of ail disorders of the Stomach, Jver. Bowels, Kidneys. Bladder, Female Ir- egularities. Sick JHeaduche, Biliousness, Con- tipation, Piles abd all derangements of the pternal Viscers. 25c a_box. At druggists or § v RADWAY & CO., New York. | at | street. PIANO DISAPPEARS IN A MYSTERIOUS MANNER Warrants Are Secured for the Arrest of a Woman and Two Men. Fred G. W. Paige, who has a piano store at Post and Stockton streets, swore to a complaint before Police Judge Ca- baniss yvesterday charging “Jane Doe,” “John Doe” and “Richard Roe” with grand larceny. The articles alleged to have been stolen are a piano, piano stool and scarf of the value of $330. It is alleged that Miss Jenmsen, who is employed in Robert Wallace's fur store 219 Grant avenua, rented the articies from Paige about four months ago and they were taken to her room at 617 Ellis Since then she had paid $15 on the instrument. About two weeks ago she reported to the police that during her ab- | sence in the country the articles had been stolen from her rom. Detectives Dinan and Wren were detafled on the case and they reported to Paige that they were satisfied Miss Jensen knew who had taken the articles from her room, but they de- clined to make any arrests unless a war- rant was secured. The detectives believe from thelr inves- tigation that two men who were living | on the same floor as Miss Jensen and who disappeared ‘the day previous to her re- porting the theft of the articles, took them. They say there are two warrants out for one of the men’s arrest on charges of misdemeanor embezzlement. e i Erwin Examination Postponed. By stipulation of United States District | Attorney Marshall B. Woodworth, repre- senting the postal authorities, and Sam- uel Knight, counsel for James W. Erwin, under indictment for fraudulently fur- thering the postal letter box device scheme of Daniel S. Richardson and oth- ers, the taking of additional testimony on the extradition proceedings was post- poned yesterday by United States Court Commissioner Heacock until October 30. SHP THLST | PLAYTHING FOR SEHWAB | Receiver Emith Files Answer in Foreclos- ure Suit. il Repeats Story of Inflation and Manipulation of Stocks | and Bonds. e hgre iy Steel Magnate Alleged to Have Planned to Wreck the Com- bine for His Personal Benefit. — Charges of extensive and deliberate fraud are freely made In the answer of the United States Shipbuilding Company and James Smith Jr. as receiver of the United States Shipbuilding Company and others, flled yesterday in the United States Circuit Court in the foreclosure suit brought By the Mercantile Trust Company. Charles M. Schwab and his associates, the promoters of the shipbuilding. trust, are accused of having defrauded the trust out of more than $2,000,000, of having elected dummy directors and of having | confed ed to wreck the trust for their own s¢lfieh ends. The answer den s that the bonds which | the complainant alleges were authorized to be issued under the mortgage or deed | mounting in the aggregate to $18,000,000, duly executed by the de. fendant or were duly certified by the com- | plainant or are now lawfully outstand. | ing, but, on the contrary, it is alleged that no portion of sald bonds has been | were lawfully issued or 1 awfully outstand- ing. The averment is denied that on July |1, 1903, there became due and payable upon | the bonds the semi-annual int to the | | amount of $400,000, or that default was | made on the coupons by the defendant in | | the payment of the interest. It is denied that the complainant is entitled to the | | appointment of a recelver of any of the | | mortgaged premises or property referred | to by of any act done by the de- fendants or either of them. l | CONFEDERATION ALLEGED. It is alleged that Henry T. Scott, Lewis | Nixon, John S. Hyde, E. W. Hyde, Charles R. Hanscom, Irving M. Scott, Charles J. Canda and Horace W. Gause, the promoters of the enterprise, had the several companies under control that were afterward blended into the trust, and that on June 14, 1902, they, acting with | the complainant and Daniel Le Roy Dresser, president of the Trust Company the Republic, combined and confeder- | ated for the purpose of transferring the | property of the varions corporations to | the defendant for a consideration Ihich! they knew to be largely in exeess of the | market value of the properties of lhone‘ corporations, and for the purpose of causing to be issued to themselves and their assoclates for the stock and proper- tieg of the several corporations stock and bonds to which they were not justly en- titled, in fraud of the public and the cred- itors, actual and prospective, of the de- fendant. It is further averred that the promoters named and their assoclates represented to the defendant that the properties owned by those corporations were of the aggre- gate value of $41,000,000; that the plants were worth more than $20,000,000; that they had on hand contracts for work showing a profit of over $5,000,000; that the busines of each was prosperous and | profitable, and that each of them pos-| sessed current assets largely In excess of its current liabilitles and had an adequate working capital, and that all of the fore- going statements and representations were untrue. | DUMMY DIRECTORS CHOSEN. Tt is also set forth that for the purpose ' of carrying into effect the fraudulent | plan the promoters and thelr assoclates caused to be selected as directors of the defendant a number of irresponsfble per- | ho were under their influence and who acted merely as dum- | mies for them, and thereupon caused John ! W. Young to offer to sell to the defendant | these properties in consideration of the Is- | nce by the defendant to Young of $16,- | 000 of bonds of the defendant, its pre- ferred stock to the amount of $10,000,000 and its common stock to the amount of $15,000.000, making in the aggregate $41,000,- | 0. The promoters and their assoclates thereupon caused the directors of the de- | fendant who were under their control to accept said offer and to issue the afore- said bonds and stock, in form, to John W. | Young, but in reality to the promoters and their associates, and for the purpose of securing the bonds caused the directors to make, execute and deliver to the com- plainant the mortgage or deed of trust referred to in the bill of complaint, and to deliver thereupon to the promoters .and | their associates $16,000,000 of bonds, $15,000, 000 of preferred stock and $10,000000 of | common stock of the defendant. There- | upon the promoters returned to the de- | ———— { ADVERTISEMENTS. THT VALUE OF CHARCOAL. Few People Know How Useful It Is in Preserving Health and Beauty. Nearly everybody knows that charcoal is the | safest and most efficlent distnfectant and pur- ifier in nature but few realize its value when taken into the human system for the same cleansing purpose. Charcoal is a remedy that the more you take of it the better; it is not a drug at all, but | simply absorbs the gases and tmpurities always | present in the stomach and intestines and car- ries them out of the system, Charcoal sweetens the breath after smoking, arinking or after eating onlons and other odor. ous vegetables, Charcoal effectually clears and Improves the complexion, it whitens the teeth and further acts as & natural and eminently safe cathartic, It absorbs the injurious gases which collect in the stomach and bowels; it disinfects the | mouth and throat from the polson of catarrh. All @ruggists ell charcoal in one form or an. other, but probably the best charcoal and the most for the money is In Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges; they are composed of the finest pow. dered Willow charcoal, and other harmless an. tiseptics In tablet form or rather in the form of large. pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal being mixed with honey, The dally use of these lozenges will soon tell 1n & much improved condition of the gen- eral health, better complexion, sweeter breath and purer blood, and the beauty of it is that no possible harm can result from their con- tinued use, but on the contrary, great benmefit. A Buffalo physiclan in speaking of the bene- fits of charcoa) says: “I advise Stuart's Ab- sorbent Lozenges to all patients suffering from gas in stomach and bowels, and to clear the comgplexion and purify the breath, mouth and throat; 1 also belleve the liver is greatly bene. fited by the daily use of them; they cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stors, and al- ihough In some sense a patent preparation, yet 1 believe I get more and better charcoal in Stuart's Absorbent Lounm than in aay -z the ordinary charcoal tablets.’ £DVERTISEMENTS. o “THE CREDIT HOUSE,” CIAL EVER OFFERED IN A SITY. SOLD SINGLY OR IN SETS. backed Dining Chair. Well- turned spindies, cane seat and broad back. Made of solid oak, golden finish. A chair that sells regularly at $1.35. Special this week, THESE STRONG SPECIALS IN THE GREATEST SPE- HOUSEHOLD NECES- A firmly made, high DINING CHAIR 95+ PARLORYABIE 4% YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FURNITURE TILL YOU HAVE SEEN OUR BIG LINE OF SOLID MA- HOGANY and CARVED OAK SETS. This mas- sive, hand carved piece with chiffon- ier to match. Special for IN LINES. THEY REPRESENT OUR QUALITIES AND OUR VALUES IN THE NECESSITIES AND THE LUXURIES OF THE HOUSEHOLD. THREE MORE BIG FLOORS ARE TO BE TURNED INTO FURNI- TURE SALESROOMS, AND THE SDECIALS OF- FERED WILL RE EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG DUR- ING THIS REMOVAL PERIOD. TWENTY GREAT RO- MAN ' CHAIRS ON SPE- CIAL AT PRICES FROM $8.00 to $30.00. This one with broad, carved back and legs, up- rights ending in old Roman carved heads. Made of solid oak and finished in Mahogany or Golden Oak. Regular price, Special for the week, the week, WE SHALL TAKE PLEASURE IN SHOWING YOU OUR EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS IN PAR- LOR SETS AND IN- DIVIDUAL PIECES. An exceptionally large Parlor Table ular price $7.50. For this week, AN EXTENSIVE LINE OF FOLDING BEDS IN PRICES RANGING FROM $10 TO $150. Folding Bed as shown in-cut; made this week only. FOIDING BED#15% ____ “THECREDITHOUSE” ~ 233-235-237 Post Street. The Biggest Furniture House on the Pacific Coast PRESENTS SINGLE PIECES AND $27.50. A SIDE- BOARDTHAT HAS RE- QUIRED THE FINEST ART OF THE 20th CENTURY FURNITURE MAKER TO PRODUCE. A $125side- board of solid Weathered Oak; claw feet, leaded glass and farge French panel mirror. { Our biggest special in more costly & lines. This week only, in Golden Oak or | of solid oak, golden Wi Matogany, WIth|einisn patent KA gracefully turned \flt\‘ fegs and hand pol- frame, heavy ished top with|springs. Regular curved edges. Reg- $2250. Special fendant $1,500,000 ot the aforesaid issue of bonds, which they placed in the treasury of said company, all of which was done with the full knowledge and co-operation of the complainant. GOLD BRICK AVERRED. The averment is made that in pretend- ed consideration of the said bonds and stock the promoters caused to be trans- ferred to the defendant stocks of the cor- porations and conveyances of their prop- erty, or a part thereof, and no other or turther consideration was received for the aforesald bonds and preferred com- mon stock by the defendant than the said properties, and the properties so con- veyed were not at the time worth to ex- ceed $10,000,000. According to the answer the promoters are still holders of upward of $10,000,000 of bonds, $9,000,000 of preferred stock and $9,000,000 of common stock. The preferred and common stock recelved by the pro- moters represented an amount greatly exceeding the value of the stock and properties so transferred and conveyed and considered as full payment for the Properties. It is averred also thdt the ,000 of bonds issued to the promot- ern were without any conslderation, and were illegal and void, and the mortgage executed to secure the bonds became null and void. It is alleged that the holders of the $25,000,000 of preferred and com- mon stock became indebted to the defend- ant in that amount, and that James Smith Jr., as receiver, is entitied to enforce the same as an offset, by reason whereof the bonds of upward of $10,000,000 held by the promoters have been fully paid. DEAL IS CRITICIZED. The qualifications of the directors are attacked in the answer and the promot- ers are charged with having conspis with Charles M. Schwab to acquire at an excessive and fraudulent valuation 300,000 shares of the capital stock of the Beth- lehem Steel Company. It is alleged that that stock was owned by Schwab and was issued about April, 1809, and was of the par value of $50 per share, of which the stockholders had not pald to exceed $1 per share, or $300,000 in the aggregate. The 300,000 shares were acquired of Schwab on July 1, 1901, for $7,200,000, and were not worth to exceed, in August, 1902, $7,500,000. It is charged that the promot- ers fraudulently represented to the de- fendant that these shares were worth $30,- 000,000 and that the Bethlehem Steel Com- pany had, during the fiscal year ending July 31, 1902, made a net profit of $1,441,208; that it had surplus current assets on July 81, 192, of $4,00L018, ail of wifich state- ments were false, said stock not being worth more than $7,700,000, the annual net earnings ending July 31 not exceeding $1,000,000 and the surplus current assets not exceeding $3,500,000. SCHWAB VOTES THE STOCK. It is further alleged that by an amend- ment to the charter of the defendaat Schwab acquired a_voting power equiva- lent' to 330,000,000 out of a total of 3$55,- 000,000 at all meetings of the defendant and was thus enabled to elect as directors those persons whom he had selected. It is charged that the complaingnt, the directors of the defendant and the Beth- lehem Steel Company, Schwab and the promoters already mamed, acted fraudu- lently and in bad fith for the sole purpose of destroying and wrecking the property of the defendant in the interest of Schwab, and that this action is hrought by the comphlnnnt at the instance of the reorganization committee, Schwab and the others for the purpose of carrying out the fraudulent scheme outlined in the an- swer. It is contended that the complaint is defective In that the New York Security and Trust Company is not joined as a de- fenadnt therein, and that the mortgage has not followed the law, because it was of California, nor is it accompanied by the affidavits of all the parties thereto to the effect that it was made In good faith, etc. It is also contended that it has not followed the laws of Delaware, Maine, Connecticut or California and the mortgage is not a lien upon letters pat- ent, good will, trade marks, books of ac- count, bills and accounts receivable, con- Has Only by Q‘llell! Stricture, venient Home ‘Troatme: and induces a SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 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Hew.th Appliance Co., ® 0Tl Sty near Markee tracts, promissory notes, checks, drafts, money, claims, demands and choses i ac- not recorded in conformity with the laws | tion belonging to the defendant. —_———————— Even the jaded taste of the Parisians is responding to the sensation of seein ‘ child llon tamer in the person of Tilly Bebe, a frail 17-year-old girl. She dom- inates the savage beasts by affection, and, although she bears ugly scratches, says that none was given with malice. This modern Una is sald to sleep with her lions frequently, ADVERTISEMENTS. W[AK MEN CUI DR. LAWRENCE'S WONDERFUL NEW IMPROVED ¢/ VACUUM DEVELOPER AND INVIGORATOR Nn- h-nna Perfect Diaphragm and Other Improvements. Sold Restores Lost Strength, Permanent Prehn\u.rtnm and Prostatic Troubles by ly Cures Varicocels, Draine, by a Simple and Com- 2es the nerve force Sent p. m.