The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1903, Page 16

THRILLING SCENES SHOWN BY FIRE DEPARTMENT MEN Battles With Flames and Saving Life Are Vividly Por-| trayed at:Grand Opera-House Rehearsal of Drama to Be Given in Aid of Firemen’s Widows and Orphans FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1903. _— R R ST s nent is sure to run high at the | w1 ws’ and Orphans’ the Fire Departmen: nC -morrow afternoon Crznd Opera-house and contin- | performance in the com- | afterncon the members of | artment that are to take| - enes at the theater, | fotiow the regular attraction, “The | . gave a private re- > press and a few invited s so realisiic that some of the and police officers that took tre fire drama forgot their went to work as if in every th drama showed engine house, with sliding poles, tele- | and sleeping quar- | th ters for the men. Mi; ellie E. Waters, daughter of Battalion Chief Waters, first refidered the overture to “Willizm Tell” on the sleigh bells and proved herself a tal- ented manivulator of the pleasing mu- sical instrument. A fine quartet of ‘firemen sang some pleasing songs and then the men re- tired for the might. Iy the watch- | man was on duty, and Policeman Har- ry Book made a hit in some comedy lines when hey visited the firé engine quarters. MIDNIGHTYALARM RINGS IN. Sudderly the. midnight alarm rang| | . 2 1 SCENE IN THE THRILLING DRAMA TO BE PRESENTED | AT FIREMEN'S BENEFIT. i - out. Clang' Clang! went the gongs and all was excitement. In an instant the sleeping men were out of their| bunks. Down the sliding poles they went. The prancing horses, Bell and Buck, of chemical engine 4, dashed for the pole beneath the hanging harness In less than four seconds the hitch-up was made and the engine was out of | the house, amid the cheers of the spec- | tators. The next scene showed a street with the crowd hurrying to the fire. It was perfectly real, for there were Police Sergeant Dan Sylvester and Patrolmen J. P. Hightower, J. H. Sullivan, J. B. Cavanaugh, John Attridge, Jack Till- men and Harry Hook hurrying to the conflagration. The stage swarmed with men, women and children, and in the distance could be heard the sound of the whistles of the approaching fire apparatus. Presto! the lights went out and up went the curtain, showing a three- story house in flames. Men and women in night attire were calling for aid from the winfows. It was Do were 50 att city to get tive tha! bryes a dollar as m: Our prices for to-day are evel give you ouble stamps. be. Mixed Candies New Mixed Nuts. Lerge Navel Oranges. 1 Creamery Butter Ranch Eggs Lunch Herring 4 Peanuts, Jar 17y & nanas_ Candies Angeli®m Wine G bottle Malt Whisky 04 Tom Gin gal Blackberry Brand: Peach Brandy S $1.25 O_P. § Whisky, bottle Most_ail Bitters, per bpttle . All California Beers, per dozen Free delivery to Orders sent us by mail during ININGE UNTIL AFTER H! ARKET ET., OPP. JONES OR McA TH N 1049 M. £0! DOUBLE Two Green*Trading Stamps for One To-Day rise yesterday to <ee this store jammed full of customers. Our could well afford to come in the rain from all parts ol the groceries s a dollar and a half would buy elsewhere. more attractive than last Saturday’'s were, besides we & Turkey or Poultry of ‘any ) Apples, Cranberries or Canned -Goods. of any kind. come e will save you at least 20 per cent ased Green Trading Stamps 1 t Wines or Liquors of any all parts of city end suburbs. including all pi E these six days will be filled u.'a”-‘fi;’ui"“‘“ i 7 the advantage of our great buving BT for this wesk OLIDAYS. LLISTER. OR HIEERNIA BANK. PHONE ces Finest Queen Olives. es Preserves or Jams. pail 3 Ibs Mince Meat. Finest Eastern Hams, 1b. 51b can Home-made Lard. per pail. Finest Eastern Bacon, Ib. kind, or Also remember we give on every article kind come here to-day and buy at the fol- Imported Vermouth, gal $5 Irish Whisky, gal 5-year-old_ Maryland %1 bottle Rock and Rye . $5 to $6 Bourbon or Rye Whisky . %4 to 35 Bourbon or Rye Whisky. :1 Mfll;fl-’:‘mllcl Rum - vear-ol cBrayer Whisk: bott! 38c bottle Port or Bherry ...\ 6 $1 bottle Silver Crescent Whisky . $1 ‘Fine Ol4 Gin £1.25 full ouart Fernet . 25c_bottle Claret .... 16 $1.25 bottle Vermouth 5oc Imported Holland Gin, gal . 2.50 $1.50 Port_or Sherry ..... aGe Imported Benedictine, per bottle . 50e prompily. We WE WILL BE { pany No. 16; Lieutenant F. A. Elleng- With a clang and a dash, up came the | fire engine, truck, chemical engine and | then' Assistant Chief O’Brien in his| buggy. The engine was in complete | working order and pumped as if the| very theater was threatened. The firemen ran up their truck ladders and | scaled the heights with the scaling lad- | ders. While men and women cried for | help, the firemen crawled like cats| ver the building. Down they came with men and women clinging to them, sliding down the life lines with light- ning rapidity. CITEMENT REIGNS. When the flames became too fierce | for the firemen to use the life lines, the jumping net was brought into play. From the fifty-foot height of the build- ing men and women were thrown into the net held by the gallant men of the fire department. The police squad preserved order, just as they do at real fires, and the ex- citement for half an hour was at fever point. As Manager Ackerman of the Grand Opera-house said to Assistant Chief Dougherty, afier the rehearsal: “It is the greatest thing ever scen on any stage. Talk about ‘Ben Hur.' If the New York managers ever see this, they would want it and could coin a fortune out of it. It beats anything I have ever seen for excitement.” Chief Sullivan of the Fire Depart- ment and Assistant Chief John Dough- erty were present at the rehearsal and helped the men in the work. As both officials sald, after the display, “the boys did just as they do when answer- ing a genuine alarm.” The display by the firemen will be given at every performance at the Grand Opera-house during the coming week. The men of the department who gave the exhibition yesterday of the life-saving work were as follows: Lieutenant M. Duddy, engine com- berger, truck 9; Hoseman P. Brady, gine 11; Hoseman W. J. Shields, en- gine 23; Hoseman E. J. Sheddy, en- gine 26; Captain E. Skelly, engine 24. MEN WHO TAKE PART IN SCENE. The men of the Fire Department who took part in the display yesterday and who will be seen during the week’s benefit at the Grand Opera-house are as follows: M. O'Brien, captain, engine, company No. 2; Charles Dakin, captain, engine mnl‘nn:ny No. 9; Henry Mitchell, captain, engine company No. 34; Bdward Kehoe, lleutenant, truck com. pany No, 3; Jullus de Meyer, Meutenant, truck company No. 7; Walter Boyaton, lieutenant, truck company No. 8; Fugene Valente, hose. man, engine company No. 1; James McNamara, bosewwan, engine company No. 8: Joseph Con: lon, hoséman, engine company No. 4 Charles Gailatin, boseman, engine compuny No. O William Hart, driver, engine company No. 6 John Kenney. hoseman, engine company No. 10; G. Linchan, hoseman, engine corpany No. 12; Joseph Woods, hoseman, engine company No. 13; E. Linderbers, hoseman, cngine com. pany No. 14; J. Koopman, hoseman, engine Company No. 15; Claude Brownell. driver en: gine compeny No. 17; Willlam Murphy. hose: man, engine company No. 18; J. F. Meacham, hoseman, engine company No. 31; Edward Doherty, hoseman, engine company No, 26; Willlam Siebert, hoseman, engins company No, man, engine company [Gowan, driver, chemical No. §; J. Coleman, truckman, truck No. 1: Willlam Conniff, , truck No. 2; F. J. Bowlan, truck® truck No. 4; Henry McMahon, truck- truck No. 5;' G. M. Boyson, truckman, man, truck No..6: Charles Uhte, truckman, truck No. 10; Frank Miskel, truckman, truck No. 10; Charles Claveau and J. H, Blakeley, vperators. —_———— A Open To-Night And every night until Christmas. Vogue Cloak and Fur Co., millinery and waists. 217 Grant avenue. L ———— BUTLER, Pa., Dec. 18.—One death resulted from typhold fever to-day and one new case The fever cases now being treated number 1050. e e— A beautiful framed picture makes a good Christmas prese; The only large assortment of good things is at finbgrn | | the department if he was quoted cor- | { ality. The general was asked to make | | stands—Eastern or Western—containing | | such | tures as does the holiday | Town Talk. { nell, | has been operating in this city, with lafter banking hours and desired the ROOT DEMANDS EXPLANATION Remarks About Leonard Wood Attributed to General Mer- riam Arouse War Department DENIAL MADE IN DENVER Retired = Officer Declares His Statement Relative to Presi- dent’s Friend Was Distorted | WASHINGTON, Dec. lS.‘Se(‘retary' Root to-day requested Brigadier Gen»‘ eral H. C. Merriam, retired, to lnrorm‘ rectly in an alleged interview in-Den- ver yesterday in which he is made to say that the President's appointment | of Leonard Wood to be major general is generally unpopular with army men | and that sach appointments tend to| unsettle the army and injure its mor- he deem | such explanation proper. as may DENVER; Colo., Dec. 18.—General H. | C. Merriam to-day denied ever having | said that the appointment of General Wood would lower the moral standard | of the army. | “I can only say,” added the general, | “that in the published interview my | words were greatly enlarged upon, | and that I have been credited with' making an uncalled-for remark, which | cannot only be detrimental to myself | but to the army.” =i SN The Premier Magazine. There is no magazine on the news | a large variety of brilllant fea- | number of It is a publication that will | be read from cover to cover. In both | artistic and literary merit it is an excep- | tionally high -class magazine. | is of chaste design in colors, and | there are reproductions of some of the | best paintings by California artists, and | also of the famous Madonna of Edelfelt, | Its cover | from the only copy in this country. Ae- | companying this illustration is an adap- | tation of the Legend of the Finnish Ma- donna, from the pen of Anna Cox Ste- phens. Among the other contributors to this superb magazine are Harry Cowell, Herman Scheffauer, lyn Hoffman, Louis A. Robertson, John Roberts. Paul Clark, E. D. Price, Louis J. Stellman, Arthur Dutton, Mabel Porter Pit Irene Con- | Beatrice Hastings, Sarah William- | son, Bessie Russell and Ellen Donovan. ! The paper abounds in fiction. verse and | witticisms having the true holiday savor, and all its features are unique in con- ception and novel in treatment. And not- | withstanding the many special features, the regular departments of this breezy | paper have not been neglected. The | Saunterer has the usual supply of social, poiitical and club gossip, znd the timely comment is as sprightly as ever. The holiday number of Town Talk is a paper that will be read from cover to cover. * ——e— ———— Fomger Victimizes Two Merchants. SAN MATEO, Dec. 18.—A forger the result that two local merchants were victimized to the extent of $25 each. They were called on in turn by a man who said he was employed on the ranch of Peter.Casey, a wealthy resident of this city, who had paid him with a check. He arrived in town checks cashed. As the checKs bore Casey’s name they were readily taken by two merchants, but refused by others. When the checks were re- turned from San Francisco they were found to be bogus. MARKS HOLIDAY SALE OF RIBBONS f RIBBON NOVELTIES TIED FREE OF CHARGE. Every kind of Ribbon for making or adorning Christmas gifts, or to be given as | presents in themselves, at remarkably low Christmas Neckwear I Commencing at 15¢, Ascending Upwards to $3.00 l Dainty Boxes Also go With all Purchases. Handkerchiefs for Everybody’s Christmas ALWAYS WELCOME AND ALWAYS NEEDED. Some are embroidered-and lace edged, some are plain hemstitched and some are All handkerchiefs sold now are packed in neat Large variety to select from. 25¢ embroidered with ecalloped edges. boxes if you desire (no extra charge). 10¢c 15¢ 20¢ Corsets-—-Are You: Perplexed What to Give? COME TO OUR CORSET DEPARTMENT. $1.25 Corset $2.00 Corset At 31.00 At $1.50 At $2.00 At $2.50 HOLIDAY Priced much below its real value. At 25¢ Women's Utopla_black drop stitch HOSIERY, elik finish. Reg. 3bc quality. . Women's HOSE; extra fine quality Sold all other days for LEATHER 600DS MAKE SUITABLE GIFTS. CARRIAGE AND AUTOMOBILE BAGS Are Appropriate Girts for Any Woman. 75c Bag $1.00 Bag At 50c At 75¢ | 25¢ $1.25 Bag At $1.00 $2.00 Collars $2.50 Collars $3.00 At 8145 At §1.95 75¢ Women's wool VESTS: to long sleeves, pants il g for 75c. match; colors gray or white.” $1 quality. OPEN EVENINGS GREEN MARKS BROS. It's suitable for oractical Christmas gifts. e Dut in a fancy box if you desire. Taren's WRIST BAGS of swal and alligator; in all the leading e pecial to:day at 20, Sold regularly for 50c. HOLIDAY BELTS---25¢ Upwards to $3.00. An endless variety of newest styles in braid, elastic and silk, RARE BARGAINS IN POINT VENISE LACE COLLARS. At $2.45 - SPLENDID VALUES IN KNIT UNDERWEAR. 50¢ Women's sleevel VESTS; silk and 1 Sold UNTIL CHRISTMAS. TRADING STAMPS WITH ALL PURCHASES. HALE'S. 1 HALE'S. HALE'S. Last Christmas Saturday for the Children IE——— ] Open To-Night - And Every Business Evening Till Christmas. — Christmas Gloves At Hale’s. The pretty styles are here. If it's a dress glove let it be the Hte Jouvin. $1.30. It’s the Paris favorite. g Our 3-clasp Blanche Suede is $1.50 and our 2-clasp Tanforan Dent glove is $1.50. ; Then we have five leading styles at $1.00. * the 2-clasp glove, the 1-clasp cape lasp mocha glove and & The H. B. Overseam glove, pluue walkir glove, the misses’ 2-clasp lambskin, 5 Turn to Hale's for your Christmas gloves. Or if you would rather have “her” pick out her own gloves after Christmas Give “Her” a Hale Glove Order. It's good at any of Hale’s stores in the State. Sacramento. San Jose. Stockton. Salinas. Petaluma. Los Angeles. San Francisco. It's as much a gift as a money or- der would be and even more so than a pair of gloves. In this way she may do her own selecting and per- haps be better suited. Umbrellas. Some special holiday ones at $3.85 and $4.50 that vou would think for all the world \\'crc_$6.oo and $7.00. They're exceptional. Take a look at them. Then if you want one for quick use e Buy Tnese at 7oc A little special lot we ijust got hold of—worth 8sc to $1.50—of English Gloria cloth with 26-inch paragon frame; pretty line of han- dles in gold, silver, horn, Dresden and pearl; button, ball and erook shapes. Christmas Candies. Buy at Hale's. You get good candies. - You get them fresh. You pay as little as it's possible to pay; in many cases less than is usuallv asked. To-day it's A Special “‘Dixie’” Taffy. Each mouthful comes rolled up in tissue paper and then all thes wrapped chunks enclosed in a tight box. 10c. It's a delicious chewing candy, flavored with nuts. WORKMAN FALLS FROM TOP OF EIGHT-STORY BUILDING Alights on His Fect and Escapes With Two Broken Legs and a Severe Shaking Up. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.—Lawrence Baumgartner, a cement worker, fell from the top of the eight-story Hunt- ington building, at the corner of Sixth and Main streets, to-day, alighting on his feet and escaping with two broken legs and a severe shaking up. Baum- gartner was at work on the top floor of the building, which is under course of construction, and missing his foot- ing, fell, striking the iron girders of each successive floor, which turned him over and over and served to break BROS. | prices. A variety of new dainty ideas so appropriate for gifts, and so reason- ably priced. f 35¢ Upwards $2.50 Corset $3.00 Corset HOSIERY At 35¢ Women's imported Maco thread HOSI- ERY; Hermsdorft dye. A good 50c value of cotton. $2.00 Bag $2.50 Bag $3.00 Bag At $1.45 At $1.98 At $2.45 each in a neat box. Collars $3.50 Collars $4.00 Collars At $2.95 At $3.45 95¢ ‘Women's imported wool VESTS; long sleeves; all colors: _pants to mateh.. $1.25 value. less isle regularly HONEST VALUES I220-I222-I234 MARKET STREET Between Tayior and Jones. ings at the fireplace. See that glimpse of Toyland in the Santa Claus goes whisking across See Sal you 130k into one of those caves a Claus' ice palace up there ih the court, as real as life. Let them -t all the Christmas fun out of it they can. Let them see Santa Claus come down out of the clouds to-night. go along the top of the building and down the chimney. and see him fll the stock- window, where every now it in his sleigh. and then M to-night you can see the old f work. See Santa Claus’' Art Gallery on the second floor, where there are more than 6000 Santa Claus pictures on display. See the toys and dolls and playthings on the third floor. are looking you may buy While they $1.50 Children’s Writing Desks for 95¢ Good strong ones in hard wood, mentioned them in the paper. Fancy trumpets. 35¢ Jointed D at 10c. That's less than they can be mad finer by far Look at the There is lar and the Look at the will be with and $3.05. larette. House Coats, Buy one to-day. And at Hale’s. & Here's a splendid one at $4.45 We might be sold out of them by . They're being picked up . & ought they would faster than we th be Then at $4.03, $5.85, $6.45, $6.75, n up to $10.00. Le: there is a blackboard in which is a place to keep the just like the desks they have at school. Shoofly, with two mottled horses. wooden 5c. 10c. 15¢, 25¢ and 50c. Doll oak folding tables. 1214x19 inches long It's another new offer to-day expect to have one of the dolls on hand at closing time to-night 11 have pretty bisque heads, curly hair, composit o Beautiful kerseys in blues silky, pure wool material look at the stvles, at the f inlaid velvet trimmings. box backs, large puff sleeves The $6.75 ones have capes. size, 34 to 52. or four times this year and had every time by express. enough to go around now? The cutest ones you can for the little girl. neck and her hands in_a pretty muff. set as low as $1.50. lamb; the collarette trimmed with Other two-piece sets, $5 for a two-piece set of Astrakhan collarette and round muff ; $6.75 for a two-piece set, Angora and white imitation ermine, small round muff and long col- highly polished. I uo the lid a books and pe first time we This is t seat. 5ic. | 3 so extra we don't Thesy inches tali dies e for to-day in than: goes into $3 The Mackintoshes, 32.2 the large cape, the fancv plaided lining We have sold out to T! Wonder if Children's Fur S<is. get for And how proud the one of these collarettes_ abe The muff loo Angora fur, § Talking Machine Dept. Investigate our machines and records before purchasing here for Christmas. You save money by doing so. For clearness tinctness of sound and d and d bility in wear they canr equaled demonstrations e enin n't get around in the daytime Records guaranteed to fit any machine made. Ask for our exchange system. State when writing whether machine uses flat & cylinder records. Catalogues supplied upon application. Buy Your Calendars To-Day the force of the fall. Baumgartner is i 59 years of age.. He will recover. | ————— LAKE CITIZENS 2 WILL FIGHT UNIONS SALT Business Men Will Organize for the | Purpose of Preventing Strikes | and Lockouts. i SALT LAKE, Dec. 18.—At a meet- | ing of 200 prominent business men of | this city held last night it was de-| cided to organize a citizens’ alliance for the purpose of combating labor | unions and discouraging strikes and lockouts. | J. S. Craig, president of the Citizens’ Alliance of Colorado, was the princi- pal speaker. He severely scored la- bor unions, saying they are so strong that they stop at nothing to attain their ends. —————— Give Him a Camera. Nothing could prove a more acceptable Christmas present. Kirk, Geary & (:O..< 112 Geary street. —_——— Dispute Is Followed by Stabbing. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 18.—Walter | Wheatland, a white man, whose home is-in’ Los Gatos, was stabbed +in the | abdomen by a colored man named Al J. Miller on a downtown street at an early hour this morning. Wheatland visited Sacramento about a year ago and secured a loan from Miller, gi\'-; ing him a watch as security. The | men met this morning and in an alter- | cation about the loan and the value | of the watch Wheatland was stabbed | by Miller. - The wound is serious, but | it is believed Wheatland will recover. | —_—————————— | Do you wear glasses? Properly fitting | glasses and Murine Eye Remedy promote Eye comfort. Murine makes weak eyes | strong. Drugsgists and opticlans. — e | Stage Struck Youth Lands in Jail. | SACRAMENTO, Dec. 18.—Rene | Thorsch, a stage struck youth of 18, | whose home is in San Francisco, is under arrest on a charge of vagrancy. | Thorsch told the court to-day that he joined the Olympic Opera Company in San Francisco and started on the road with it, but at Redding his voice gave | out and he wandered back to Sacra- mento. The case was passed on the | calendar in order to permit Thorsch | to communicate with his parents in | San Francisco and ascertain if they will take him back to their home. . — All leather goods lettered in gold free of charge. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 x.l - ket st. ————————— Despondent Carpenter Kills Himself. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.—E. H. Prince, a carpenter, whose home is in Carbondale, Colo., where he has a wife and four small children, committed suicide in his room on South Los An- geles street to-day by inhaling illumi- nating gas. Despondency over his separation from his family is supposed to be the cause. He left a note ad- dressed to his wife, saying: “Dear Bertha—Don't let the kids know how papa quit."” e e— Some very swell wedding imvitations come from Knowles, 24 Second street. Main 508. * ——— Boer Prisoners Become Britons. BOMBAY, Dec. 18.—General de la Rey made a speech to the Boer pris- oners at Admadnagar to-day and suc- ceeded in persuading all but ten of them to sign the oath of allegiance to Great Britain. General de la Rey spoke for five hours. —— ey, Try Piso's Cure for astbma. It often lteves at once. All druggists. 25c. ——— e SYDNEY, N. §. W., Dec. 18.—The official estimate of the wheat yieid of New South Wales is 28,570,000 bushels, an increase of 12,500,000 bushels, compared with the record of the year 1901. ~About 15,390,000 bushels are avnilable for export. ADAMS' Irish Moss Cough Balsam from the first dose, cures in a day. 25¢, 50c. * re- . M AND CREATE A SCENE THEATRICAL WIFE ‘Woman Visits Room Unannounced and Husband Jumps From Second- Story Window. WICHITA, Kans., Dec. 13.—Jeffer- | son de Angelis, head of the Toreador Company, jumped from a window of the second-story of the Hamilton Ho- tel in this city last night while his wife pounded at the door of the room and demanded admittance. He struck the roof of a small shed, bursting through it. Inmates of the hotel were at- tracted to the scene by the screaming | of Mrs. de Angelis, who declared that her husband was in the room of a woman member of the company. Later she met her husband on the stairway of the hotel and there was a scene, which ended by threats of the hotel manager to call the police. ———— GERMANY'S RULER SLAYS ANIMALS IN ROYAL HUNT Nine Stags and Three Boars Fall to the Emperor Within Two Hours at Goehrde. BERLIN, Dec. 18.—Emperor Wil- liam shot nine stags and three wild boars at Goehrde to-day. The for- esters beat up the game past stations where the Emperor and his guests stood partially concealed behind pines and firs stuck in the ground. The sport lasted two hours. ADVERTISENENTS. Weathered 0ak ‘ Flemish 0ak Golden 0ak FURNITURE 20% DISCOUNT ALWAYS RELIABLE PIANOS FROM — Curtaz 16, O'FARRELL ST.S. F