The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1903, Page 16

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1903. PUSUSSSUSURPT TR At prices that you would never time of the year. not get some and lay them aside 23 inches,square, cov- red silkoline o Those Who Make mfl Made Bmenberg Lace. nine fnches E FRENCH two clasps, with three overseam:. stit tan, also black hite. Sizes, 5% to 8. More Y even exchange for 69¢ |9c Instsad M 25¢ and 35¢. . JOE RUSENBERG S 816 Market Street and 11 0’ JOE ROSENBERG'S. expect to get them, especially this 1f you do not want them for yourself now, why for holiday gifts for your friends? LOT 3. . TURKISH CUSHION COVERS AND BACK—The genuine kind, full inches square. Made in bright, - colored stripes, with large Y. ssel in each corner. The quantity will not last long at this low pré(‘iu COVERS— m, 25 _inches square. Beautiful heads and other designs, such as fencing girls, the thing girls, Lady Leslie, Alecina, ¢+ Queen ‘of "Roses, also Mabeline and others. When you see them ¥ou won't buy one, but you will buy Al 'stor zs Cry Bargams. but Wnén We Say Bargains You Czn Depend Upon It The proof of the pudding is in the eating. 00 vards of NORMANDY or DE_PARIS LACE or IN- RTION. From one to five inches de, in bowknot, coral, tulip, rose a The good wash- ing kind that can be used for under- wear or fancy work. While on dis- rrl v at the Price Cutter's . Be a yard On_the Bargain Counter at the Market-Street Enfrance We will put on sale 200 bolts of RIBBON—The imported kind. Made of all-silk taffeta; widths 40, 60 and ee, four and five inches wide; d leaf designs Dresden, stri dotted colors, such cream, white and black. If you for neckwear or fancy gq vour opportunity 5c Ribbons for.... 15¢ a yard The Home of Good Goods. Farrell Street, Phelan Building, PROMOTION .COMMITTEE DESIRES INFORMATION Knowledge Is Sought Relative to In- dustrial Enterprises That Are of General Interest. The fornia Promotion Committee announces nformation is* desired rel e to all important industrial de- this State. ~ A’ circular ed in which it he committee does formdtion which will data that tells nplished, or being done, is desired. Those who der way.are: requested mmittee when arrange- in that way jects Millinery Sale. E. Connor, 138 Geary iels at greatl ts, $25.00; $25.00 $5.00. Sale be- and contipues for ion Imprme. s tioned .the Board of o cause to'be laid a ten- commenctng at Mission, Crescent avenue to An- BLOW AT JURISDICTION OF }'EDEEA.L CO'URTS Judge Whnler of Vermont Writes an Opinien on Status of Chinese Citizens. TUnited States District Attorney Wood- worth received a communication yester- @uy. from Acting Attorney General Hoyt t the Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor has jurisdiction in all Chinese cases in which the applicant claims to be a native-bornicitizen of the United States, and that the United States courts do not have jurisdiction in s cases. In conformity with the suggestion of Attorney Hoyt, Mr. Wood- worth instructed Assistant United Stafes Attorney Duncan E. McKinley to com- municate with United States Immigrant sioner Hart North and arrangs submiseion of a test case. for the It is the opinion of lawyers versed in Federal law that Judge Wheeler's decis- is in contravention of the constitu- tion and that the Federal courts have jurisdiction to determine the rights of all persons who apply for habeas corpus writs and set forth that they are citi- zens of the United States. SR R s g | : | . BANGOR, Me., Dec. 1.—The plant of the Hancock Leather Company at Amherst, Me., | was destroyed by fire to-day. Loss $100,000. ADVERTISEMENTS. up no more room.. ) SN S looks like, or rather, what like. We have by far the “The Credit House "’ A compact Range—costs no more than a castiron stove and takes for good cooking and quick heating. Special for the Week, $26.75. The regular price of this range is $40. this wzek only to-induce you to see what a good stove stoves and steel ranges in the West. M T edmon Um R 5 {housht (0 have been criminally neg- | Scientifically made Not merely an iron box in which to put a fire. It is- speclal a hundred good stoves look biggest department of cast 233-235-237 ,BH![[I SUFFERS -~ HWFUL AGONIES |Lottie Gernandt Is Cut and Hammered by Mother. | Charitable Society Likely to Have ths Father Arrested. IS M One of the most shocking cases of parental cruelty in the annals of the San Francisco police authorities was brought to light yesterday in the home of W. F. Gernandt, a fireman, at 1565 Kearny street. A slender little girl of | 12 years had been slashed with a knife, probably permanently injured by a blow from a hatchet on the back af her head, stabbed with a pair of scis- sors and beaten with a potato masher. ‘Worst of all, the mother of the suffer- ing child is alleged to be responsible for all this brutality. Secretary White of the Soclety for the Prevention of Crueity to Children, to whom the case was brought, says, however, that he is almost sure that Mrs. Gernandt is not right mentally. The father is said to have visited his home daily and must have known of the abuse which has been carried on for months. White says that he will| probably arrest Gernandt and let him | tell to a Judge how he allowed such a | state of affairs to exist at his home. | Lottie, the little sufferer, presented a horrible appearance yesterday. One | ear had been partly torn from her head. On her nose was a scar which is al- | leged to have resulted from a Kknife | wound inflicted several weeks ago. One | hand is swollen to twice its normal | size as the result of a bite. The other hand shows a cut alleged to have been made by the mother with ‘the| The child's neck shows the| marks of fingers, where an attempt | | had been made to choke her. On the| side of her head was a bruise from a | potato masher. Her hair was matted | | with blood, which flowed from the | wound made by the hatchet. Her !plns‘ | has been injured so that she cannot hold her head up. She told in a dazed | | way how it all happened. and the | neighbors are sald by White to have| { corroborated her story. Last night she { was taken to the Emergency Hospital temporarily. The child has been enduring tortures | rosumng from her injuries for weeks, 2nd it is feared that her health is ruin- ed forever. The mother is said to be near death from consumption. There are seven other children in the family, | but Lottie is said to be the only one who has been mistreated. She had | been commissioned by the sick mother | to look after six younger children. Mrs. Gernandt is said to have an un- | governable temper. When Lottie would | be found at fault the mother, it is said, would strike her with anything | | that might come handy. Some weeks | ago the child’s spine was injured by a | blow from the potato masher, it is al- | leged, ‘and since then she has been un- able to remain awake very long at a time. The child says that the mother | would be very angry to see her asleep, | and would awaken her by a blow from | the hatchet, a knife or the sgissors. | The neighbors became worked up | over the matter, and finally reported | the case to the Society for the Preven- | tion of Cruelty to Children. Officer | McMurray made an immediate investi- | gation, and removed the little sufferer | from the Gernandt home. She tDldl | again what the neighbors had told be- | fore, and added numerous sad details. | Her head hung low, and she was cold | and drowsy. The mother would have been arrest- | @4, White says, had it not been for the | fact of her serious {llness. The father scissors. ligent in the matter, and an attempt will probably be made by White to have him punished. —_————— | ANNUAL MEETING OF THE | CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES | San Francisco Association to Con- vene at Bethlehem House of Wor- ship on December 10. The San Francisco Assoclation of Congregational Churches and Ministers will hold its fifth annual meeting at| | Bethlehem Church, Vermont street, | near Twenty-fourth, on Thursday, De- | cember 10, at 2:30 p. m. | The programme is as follows: 2:15 | p. m., meeting of the membership com- mittee; 2:30 p. m., organization, etc.; 2:45 p. m., “Going to Church,” Willlam Rader, discussion: 3:25 p. m., “Pro- | posed Union or Federation of Three De- | nominations,” W. C. Day; 8:45 p. m., | discussion; 4:25 p. m., devotional ser- [ vices, with brief written reports of our | cburches, Huber Burr, leader; 5 p. m., business, elections, etc.; 5:30 p. m., re- cess; 6 p. m., supper; 6:30 p. m., after supper talks, Pastor Hollars presiding; 7 p. m., recess; 7:15 p. m., prayer and song; 7:30 p. m., topic for the evening, "'Deepenlng of the Spiritual Life”; (a) “Secret Prayer,” James K. Harrison; (b) “Consecration,” Carl Sinclair; gen- | eral discussion; adjournment. —_———— ABRMY PRISONERS MAKE A DASH AND GAIN FREEDOM During a Heavy Fog Two Men Suc- ceed in Breaking Away From Captivity. Privates Toch and Sarnham, prison- ers on Alcatraz Island, succeeded in making their escape from Fort Mason yesterday morning despite the shots fired at them by the guards. The prisoners were brought over to this side on the army steamer General Mc- Dowell, where they were put to work on the roads of the post. Ahout 10 o’clock in the morning the fog | settled and became so dense that when | the men broke and ran they were lost to sight. Warrants have been issued for their ar- imt. but as yet they have not been ap- | prehended. —_——— Sustains Injuries by Fall. W. H, Davis, who resides at 737 Mis- sion street, fell from a ladder yesterday | morning a distance of twenty feet while | washing a window of a corner building | on Seventh and Folsom streets. Both . his arms were broken below the elbows. | The injured man was conveyed to the { Central Emergency Hospital, where he was treated by Dr. Murphy. He was | later removed to the City and County Hospital, { lain; land W. THOMAS POST ELECTS TURPIN ¥ » 1 ;" F. L. TURPIN, THE NEW COMMANDER OF GEORGE H. THOMAS POST, G. A. R. x3 Active Contest for Honors of Leadership Calls Out Big Vote. AR The contest between F. L. Turpin |and Selden Sturges for the honor of commanding George H. Thomas Post, Grand Army | ensuing year was settied last night by | the election of the first named. The number of ballots cast was 150. Commander-elect Turpin enlisted in the Union army in 1864, serving first in a Pennsylvania infantry regiment. He | re-enlisted in the Twenty-first Penn- sylvania Cavalry and served in that| regiment until the close of the war. | He came to California vears ago and is a man of affairs. He is the proprietor of the Royal House, a director of the Columbian Bank and president of the Point Richmond De- | velopment Company. In- the work of raising money for the Thirty-seventh National Encampment of the Grand Army he was remarkably energetic | and was himself a generous contributor to the fund collected by George H. Thomas Post. His generosity and energy attracted the notice of com- | rades and suggested his promotion to | the first place in the post. Other officers chosen last night were: C. W. Gordon, senior vice commander; B. F. Hobart, junior vice commander; | C. H. Blinn, quartermaster; H. McG. ‘Wilson, surgeon; R. A. Bigelow, chap- A. J. Vining, officer of the day, R. Parnell, C. E. Wilson and Phil 1. Fisher, trustees. Several days before the election ef-| forts were made to induce one or the other of the candidates for commander to relinquish the fight in order that complete harmony in the post might prevail, aspirant were confident of success. Comrade Sturges was promoted to post commander several months ago, having | been selected in regular order to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation | of Colonel A. D. Cutler. The fight that | was settled by the election of Mr. Tur- | pin will have no bearing on the contest for department commander to succeed | General Shafter. The department encampment will be held in Los Angeles next April. Gen- eral A. W. Barrett of this city and Col- | onel Rice of Los Angeles are in the race for leadership in the department. — e WELL EKNOWN FIREMAN ANSWERS THE LAST CALL Captain William M. Holmes of En- gine Company 37 Dies After Long Illness. ‘William M. Holmes, captain of Engine Company 37, on Utah street, near Twen- ty-fifth, died yesterday morning at his home, 2764 Twenty-fourth street, after a long and painful illness. He had been confined to bed for several months and death was not unexpected. He never fully recovered from the-ef- fects of injuries received in a collision a year ago last August while responding to an alarm of fire. An electric car of the Twenty-fourth street line crashed into the engine at the crossing of Potrero avenue, and Holmes and Engineer Ed- ward Dougherty were so badly crushed and bruised that they were incapacitated for work for several weeks. Captain Holmes was one of the best known and most popular members of the Fire Department. He was connected with the fire-fighting service of the city for many years, and prior to the time the department became a fully paild or- ganization was captain of Engine Com- pany 13, on Valencia street, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets. He leaves a wife and two young daughters. The funeral will take place Thursday afternoon from the family residence. S —_—————— . Judge Morrow Departs. United States Circuit Judge W. W. Morrow left this city yesterday for ‘Washington, D. C., to attend the annual meeting of the trustees of the Carnegie Institution. Mrs. Morrow accompanies him. They will also visit New York, re- turning in.about one month. —_————————— Everything that is new, good and mod- erate priced in trunks, valises, dress suit cases, traveling sets, pocketbooks and wrist bags for the holldlf trade now e on sale. All leather goods lettered in zold free of charge. Sanborn, Vail Co. L3852 ¢ —_————— Deeds Filed for Laundry Combine. Four deeds were placed on record yes- terday covering the conveyance of the properties of the Empire Laundry Com- pany, Eureka Laundry Company, St Nicholas Laundry Company and the Pa- cific Laundry Company to the Metropoli- tan Laundry Company, a new corporation which will handle the business of the four concerns in the future. Reduced rates on household goods to & from ihe East & South. Bekin's, 11 Montgomery st. * g 2 TO HIGH PLACE| L of the Republic, for the | twenty-nine | but the supporters of each | RIPLEY WANTS MARTIN'S ROAD Santa Fe Is Said to Be Again Dealing With Coast Line. Mysterious Movements That May End in Absorption of North Shore. — Btorfes of an alllance between the San Francisco and Northwestern Rail- way, the corporation under whose title the Banta Fe Company purposes to build a road down the coast from the north, and the North Shore road, Whereby the terminal facilities of ‘the latter concern will eventually be shared | by the former, are going the rounds of railroad and local financial circles. In fact, the story has been considered of sufficient importance to the officials of the Southern Pacific Company to war- rant a thorough investigation, but whether the inquiries made by the agents of President Harriman have re- sulted in the development of confirma- tory results is a matter that lies within the Bounds of General Manager Krutt- schnitt's office. This much is known, however: The Southern Pacific man- agement is satisfled that the Santa Fe Company has recently effected some kind of arrangement with the North Shore road representatives by which, if it 1s so iInclined, it can merge its proposed new coast line with that of the North Shore, connecting the two at Cazadero, and thereby give the Santa Fe a quick route from Eureka to the bay and advantageous connections with San Francisco. MORE WORKING CAPITAL. Following closely upon this story is another that the coffers of the North Shore road have been lately enriched to the extent of $1,000,000, and that dur- ing the coming season, as soon as con- struction gangs can be engaged in out- | door work, important extensions are to | be made on the road. President John Martin of the North Shore road, who has just returned from a hurried trip to New York, admitted this much last evening. In reply to a question as to | whether this money had been secured | | by a further issuance of bonds he said | { that no bonds had been issued, but that | | the money had been raised without any | great trouble and that the greater part | of it would be used during the coming year in work along the coast, the na- ture of which, he said, he was not at this time prepared to state. | Just what caused President Martin's | visit to the East is not xnown beyond those assoclated with him in the rail- road. It was given out at the time of | his departure that he was going to be gone for several months, but he had been in the East only a few weeks when the news reached here that he was on | his way back, and hardly had he | reached town before the story of the | acquirement of a new working capital | was a matter of comment. ‘ SIGNIFICANT REPORT. | That some big corporation is now | ‘behlnd the North Shore road is a sus- picion that is general, and of all the large rallroad concerns that V\ould' | likely seek business affiliation with | the coast road, the Santa Fe Company | is regarded as the only one that would | be advantageously benefited by such| {a move. In his recent annual report, | | President E. P. Ripley of the Santa Fe | | Company, in referring to the purchase v the corporation of the two Small | out of Eureka, made | | | roads running this statement: “These properties have been vested in the San Francisco and Northwestern ‘Railway Company, a corporation of | which your company, through the | santa Fe Land and Improvement Company, owns all the securities. This line ultimately is to be extended south- | ward to San Francisco Bay, or to a connection with some existing road over which connections can be made with your main line. It is believed that these lines will not only be self-sus- taining, but that they will contribute a large and profitable tonnage to your existing lines.” SURVEY PARTIES AT WORK. At the time this report was made to the directors of the Santa Fe road, | it was positively known to President| Ripley and the directors of the com- | pany that Harriman, through Henry E. Huntington, had acquired a firm| hold on the California Northwestern Rallroad and that the only rail con- nection that could be hoped for would be the North Shore road. Several surveys had also been made by the company in a southeasterly direction from Eureka, apparently with a view of finding a route down the forks of the Eel River and through the territory claimed by the California Northwest- ern. Suddenly, however, the prelim- inary work on the contemplated lines ceased and the statement was given out that nothing further would be e e e ADVERTISEMENTS. DEASY BROS.’ ENTIRE SHOE STOCK Must Be Sold REGARDLESS OF GOST SALE PRICES: & PACKARD'S “KORRECT SHAPE" $¢ SHODS, naw. ... o #1585 BUCKINGHAM & HECHT'S NOVA SEAL, cork soles, r-ml-:m SCOTIA regular $5 shoes, now....... LADIES’ FELT ROMEOS, fu in all colors, regular $1.35, llh Dflu Ofic MEN'S ALLIGATOR AND VELVET BLIPPERS, in all colors, re‘\lllr price $1, £ale price . .. 45¢ BOYS' KABT IRON BCHOOL SHDES, rogulen price §5, pow. ... $1.20 Famous “LA FRANCESCA' 50 LADIEE' mon 16 ditterent ”le-. now 45 MANTS' 5S¢ BHOEE. now . $40,000 Vlorli tf Shoe larnlns Deasy Bros. Shoe Sale 20 6th STREET, COR. STEVENSON. ID‘ATI.P ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTEND- | other than those ADVERTISEMENTS. SPECIAL VALUES HOUSEKEEPING B00DS This week we will have on sale "EXTRA . VALUES in Lace Curtains, Down and Wool Comforters, Lace Bed Cluny Tidies, Scarfs Tapestry arnd Velour seilles Bed Spreads. Sets, Battenberg and and. Center Pieces, Table Covers, Couch Covers, Portieres, White Blankets and -Mar= designs..$3.00, $3.50, .$3.50, est colorings EIDERDOWN COMFORTERS ing.. SILK and SATIN COVERED FINE WHITE CALIFORNIA FULL SIZE WHI NOT Ali orders SPECIALS ARABIAN and RENAISSANCE LACE CURTAINS, new TAPESTR_Y PORTIERES, figured and p!aln cofors. (OMFORTERS, both plaln and figured -.$10.00 to $25.00 Each very handsome designs ........ . 4 $4.50 and $6.00 Pair g » $4.50 and $5.00 Palr TAPESTRY TABLE COVERS, full 2 uards square, lat- $38.50 Bach with French sateen:cover- .. $4.50, $5.00, $6.00 and $7.50 Each EIDER DOWN and WDOL BLANKETS, full size .. $5.00, $6.00, $7.50 and $8.50 Each MARSEILLES BED SPREADS in $2.765. Each Orders by mall receive prompt attention. for samples or goods fllled and shipped same day they are received \ 892 111, 118, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREEL. done until the new year, it being ad- mitted by Chief Engineer Storey, however, that serious obstacles had | been encountered and a great deal of | calculating would be necessary before | the surveying could be proceeded with. | Later reports of the Santa Fe having surveyors at work nearer the coast| aroused much speculation. Their pres- | ence so far out of the proposed course of the new road created comment and | | this was followed by storles to the ef- | fect that the representatives of Presi- | dent Ripley were again dealing with| the owners of the North Shore road. | with which the Santa Fe had an | agreement at the beginning of the struggle for supremacy between it and | | the Southern Pacific in the Humboldt country. TWO ROUTES AVAILABLE. Yesterday it was learned that three | different surveying parties, all sup- posed to be working indirectly for the Santa Fe, recently completed a number | of surveys from Cazadero northward | toward Pepperwood, the present south- | ern terminal of the San Francisco and | Northwestern Railway s holdingsg, and | | that their supplies, such as stakes and | other implements necessary on a sur- veying trip, were manufactured in the Sausalito shops of the North Shore road and forwarded by that company to vthe men in the field. The reports of | | these surveys are now in possession of | | Chief Engineer Storey of the Santa Fe Company and show that two routes | originally contem- | plated by way of the Fel River forks | are available to the plans of the Santa | Fe to connect Humboldt County “l:h the bay of San Francisco. TAPPING TIMBER TRACTS. QOne, by way of Cazadero, the north- ern terminus of the North Shore road, extends north to Fort Ross on the coast, a distance of eight miles, thence along the south fork of the Gualala River to its junction, thence over a di- vide into the Garcla Valley and then to Point Arena and up the coast fifty miles to Mendocino, leaving 112 miles between the latter port and FEureka, twenty-five of which are already cov- ered by the branch road of the Santa Fe Company. Although this route is a difficult one, requiring much tunneling and bridging, to the engineers who have examined it it is regarded as a practical one, as it takes in all of the more important towns along the coast and passes through a very valuable timber section of Northern California. Although many have contended that a rail route along the coast proper could not be constructed, the engineers who have been working so mysteriously for several months in that section of the State have submitted rough plans for one that can be extended northward from Cazadero to the Navarro River Valley and then along the lower ridges, through sparsely populated dis- tricts to a point near the terminus of the Eureka line. With the construction of one of these lines and the merging of the North Shore road with its valuable terminal facilities, the Santa Fe would soon find jtself on a fair footing with the South- ern Pacific Company, in so far as traffic in the new fleld is concerned, and would soon be able by the means of branch roads to reach out for the inter- mediate traffic that would rapidly de- velop with the advent of new railroad facilities in that section of the State. —_—————— PARIS, Dec. 1 —In spite of the criticlem ¢ nistration o the naval admi: M. Peletan, & 4 Minister of Marine, on part of the oppe- sition, the ber of D.Mlfl- to-day, by & vote of 292 to I‘flll-l the policy of the Child Reported Dead Lives. The little seven-year-old child of Eu- gene O'Hare, who was reported dead, is now convalescing and the condition of the child points to a speedy recovery: The report that the parents were too poor to procure proper medical attend- ance for their chitdren, five of whom died of pneumonia superinduced by whooping . is also erroneous.. Mr. O'Hare is Anvxnnszuznm 'Y Real Easy a we'l known marine engineer or this coast. Save lots o Money Evurytlling that’s Beautiful Chinaware, Crockery QGlassware Fancy Holiday Ornaments and Novelties Dolls, Lamps, Clecks Rich Cut Glass * Dinner Sets Come before Parting with your Money [ d Get our prices y Gireat American Importiag Tea Co. 100 Steres That’s the Reason. 8561 Market. 1419 Polk. 1819 Devisadero. 210 Grant av. 705 Larkin. 3006 Sixteenth. 140 Sixth. 475 Halght. 521 Montg’y av. 355 Hayes, 2518 Mission. 3285 Mission. . 146 Ninth. 52 Market. 366 Third. | 2008 Fillmore. 2732 24th. 460 Fourth, - {‘. _ | Lundstrom | Hats Are deservedly popular, because they're right. They're an honest ex-hange for your money. They're made In two grades only. $2.50 and $3.50 But they're made in 40 styles of soft hats and 35 styles of derbles. All the newest blocks. Union made and home-made. Made to fit your head, too. Try one of Lundstrom’s popular hats. Pacific Coast Hat Works, “Makers of Hats that are Right.” 1458 Market Street, Opp. Central Thealter. and 605 Kearny Street. 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