The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1904, Page 14

FRANCISCO CALL ARMORED AIRSHIP IS READY TO FLY ON MISSION OF DEATH British Inventor Offers For Sale to Powers of the World an Engine of War That Could Easily Destrov Forts and Battle Craft by Dropping Dynamite Shells Upon Them Mo 5 st L much difficulty in contracts with the Government as to cause a general dis- inclination to bid for such: work. A An airship for war has been invented and built by Dr. F. A. Barton of Lon- who has offered the sole rights to don - R 2 rge concrete dock is to be buiit at the several Governments for $500,000 or | New York navy yard, bids for which are $50,000 for a gle ship. The airshiP | ghortly to be inivted, but thus far only a comb n of a cylindrical bal-| oon with movable aeroplanes. Thirty rows of ten each one request has been made for the plans by a contractor in that line. The dock is to be 550 feet in length on floor, ninety feet draught over sill of thirty-one feet at high water. Its estimated cost, with pumping plant, is $1,000,000. in three me between the bal-| of the latter are fixed to a n and ca depress or raise the| § feet long and ship. The b ith a cubic ca-l NEW DRY DOCKS. and a N““:‘, The four dry docks building at Ports- It has” an| mouth, Boston, League Island and pervious to| Mare Island, respectively, were author- who is a cant ized by act of Congress, May, 1898. The fifty-horsepgower ; original plan to construct these docks of planes. The crew | timber was abandoned after the con- g - Each motor| tracts had been made, although the e cix-bladed propellers, | builders were made acqueinted with of the aerial war |the fact that concrete and granite was s likely to be substituted, and the in- creased cost be determined by a board <f naval officers. Upon this tacit under- following dates: Mare Island, July 15, 1899; Boston, March 14, 1899; Ports- B e Queen. 15.000 Mouth, October 2, 1399, and League Is- e "B 98 knots | 1and, November 29, 1899, the time of completion being about thirty-two BEh Bier RUEH: W months. At the present time the Mare b i 11' ! Island dock, to be completed by April, asheind "j"(wm 1902, is only 20 per cent advanced; that PPuDES o5 '8 at Pertsmouth, 76 pen cent; Boston, 80 and| ;o cent. and League Island, 30 per PET | cent. The causes which have contrib- Wa% ' uted to these extraordinary delays are 1ald | chiefly due to the dilatoriness and un- do laurithed March | pycinessiike methods of the Bureau of be mak com Yards and Docks, whose finicky an vexatious interference with the con- tractors cause considerable friction and unnecessary expense. The location of the docks is such as to develop engi- neering difficulties as the work pro- gresses, and which were not studied out beforehand. This is notably the case at Mare Island, where it is attempted to build a dock in a bottomless pit; where- as this trouble could have been avoided by locating the dock a couple of hun- dred feet farther inland on solid foun- dation. The same procastination and lack of forethought extends to all other improvements in the several navy s fitted s and the Prince the 1 looked firw the types of water-tube boilers by cham- width of entrance and a | standing contracts were let under the, HORSE FATALLY KICKS VAQUERO James Tunnel Is Thrown From His Mount While Riding on Silver Avenue at Twentiethi L GETS BLOW FROM HOOF | | Wound Is Dressed and Tweh"e, | Hours Later His Dead BodyI Is Found in Room of Saloon | | James Tunnel, a vaquero, was rid- ing along Silver avenue on Saturday DEATH CALLS WELL-KNOWN CARTOON PLAY RESIDENT| - AT C_A_UEORN[A / “Happy Hooligan™ Affords Much Amusement and is En- joyed by a Large Audience s e FUNNY SHOW AT ORPHEUM SRR Clever People Score Big Hits at the Vaudeville House. “Head Waiters’” at the Grand S PEST The second musical cartoon comedy produced here during the season ap- | morning shortly after 10 o'clock and at Twentieth street from his horse. The animal kicked | him on the back of the head as he at- tempted to rise. Tunnel went to Dr. McLaughlin's drug store at Eleventh and Railroad avenues, where a clerk dressed a ound en the back of his head. Tun- ! nel then went to Thomas Kelley's sa- loon at 900 Railroad avenue and re- mained there drinking all day. About 9 o'clock that night he went to a rear room of the saloon and half an hour later his dead body was found. | The South San Francisco Police sta- | tion was notified and Policeman Caughran, after visiting the saloon, telephoned to the Coroner’s office and the body was removed to the Morgue It was thought that Tunnel had died from natural causes, but an autopsy | made by Dr. L. D. Bacigalupi yester- | day morning showed that death was | due to a fracture of the base of the skull, evidently caused by the kick trom the horse. Tunnel was a fine specimen of man- hood, 41 years of age. He was a na- tive son, unmarried, and lived at 600 Railroad avenue. He was accounted one of the most skillful vaqueros on the coast and had no equal as a buyer ( of cattle, : [ ———— A. INAUGURATES NEW ORDER OF SERVICE “Men’s Social Rcligious Hour” to Be | a Feature Every Sabbath | Afternoon. A new order of service was inaugu- rated yesterday afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association, to | he was,thrown | | peared at the Caiifornia last night. “Happy Hooligan” affords an abun- dance of pleasure and is certain to at- tract large audiences for the balance of the week. The leading character is well sustained by E. D. Coe and vicis- situdes and misfortunes are marked during the three acts of the piece. The show opens with a barber shop scene in which many clever specialties {are introduced. An aggregation of vaudeville talent of a high order is included in the cast and before the curtain falls the success of the play is insured. In the second act, a trolley car appear§ and two contributing | comedians, Ned Knox and John Price, |in command of t¥ vehicle, became popular with the anfience. Their work |is full of action and they are the oc- ‘*rassion of many comical diffculties. | | Passengers of all descripfions appear, | are inveigled to ride, and “Happy Hool- | |igans’ while tampering with the lever | —f | of the turntable, winds up the act with | | | much excitement and merriment. | | 1 | ) 5 JOSEPH MU - - PIONEER MARBLE IMPORT- ER WHO DIED IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY. K3 X J. Musto, Honored Pio- neer, Dies After Long Illness. There are many people in the cast | |and all are artists. All join the lead- | | ing character in causing amusing sit- | uations, and the policeman invariably | | appears ana settles all strife. The last | {act is a courtroom scene and is re- | plete with funny. incidents. All intri- | cate matters are straightened out and | “Happy Héoligan” renders account for | all of his offenses. In the cast are: Paul Bordman, George Knox, Charles Saunders, John Bohlman, John B. Wil- | son, Peter Koehl, William O'Sullivan, | | William Badenhop, James H. Murphy, | | M. J. Joyce, Mable Saunders, Norine Joseph Musto, a nionser citizen of San Francisco, died in this city yes- | terday morning after a long and pain- \ful iiliness from pneumonia. The deceased came to California in | Durham, Rose Collins, Mamic Collins, Marie Morgan, Stella Havlin, Tedd | | Ray White, Lillie Burdell, Emma Sie 1851 and the first years of his life on | gel, Dorothy Warr, Virginia Dale, Cor- ADVERTISEMENTS. SPECIAL SALE Embroideries On Monday, January 4th, we will place on SPECIAL SALE about 30,000 yards FINE EMBROIDERIES in Cambric and Nainsook. These come in all the different widths of Edgings and Insertings, are worked on an extra fine quality of cioth and the prices range from 8!3¢ to 50¢ per yard. Note the Following: 121 3000 yards CAMBRIC EMBROIDERY in 2c 35 different patterns from one to two \ Yard inches wide. 15 4200 yards CAMBRIC EMBROIDERY, full c three inches wide in about 40 hand- Yard some pxierns. 20 3000 pards CAMBRIC EMBROIDERY in C about 25 different patterns; will measurs Yard full four inches wide. 50 ‘ 500 pards EMBROIDERED CAMBRIC C | DEMI FLOUNCING, 16 inches 1n widtn; Yard yery handsome patterns. HANDKERCHIEFS. 150 dozen LADIES' LINEN LAWN and LINEN CAM- BRIC HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS.... : .8 100 dozen GENTS' LINEN CAMBRIC HEMSTITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS,in 3 and 1 inch hem........... NOTE Orders by mali recelve prompt attention Al orders for samples or goods filled and shipped same day they are recelved. twenty | vards under the cognizance of the Bu- | be known as the “‘men’s social reli- 1 pontoon | reau of Yards and Docks, which causes | gious hour.’ lifting capacity to | delay in the proper carrying on of work Several hundred were present and er, B. C The | in other departments. A striking in- listened to a powerful address by the t for private owners, | Stance of this “time-Kkilling” procedure Rev. Frank S. Ford, pastor of the Heod the right | 1S Shown in the case of the dock to be Fj “hristian Church, his subject be- e , utilize| Puilt for which appropriation was made {ing “Dead or Alive.” The control of rposes when needed and | 4D 7, 1800, yet no contract for its con- Lone's self over all things that are not | struction has been awarded. 10 feet by §5 ship of war, PROGRESS IN SHIP BUILDING. ps The progress de during the past TERRIBLE ENGINES OF WAR. | Year on ships building for the Unitéd Experiments are being made at | States navy show some improvement Fiume, Austria, with a new pattern of | 0V¢T 1902 The general average of progress on eighteen battleships and e armored cruisers was 23.06 per cent, or - roughly at the rate «f 2 pe nt a nt month. The greatest progr was rpedo ranges total of 154 per cent on six ships at » feet and Newport News, ranging from 19 to 36 per cent; the Union Iron Works made a a distance of 3 i total of 100 per cent on foyr ships; the . re River yard realized 25 per cent on of ite two ships, Cramp's 23 per . were. re- while Neafie & Levy and Bath ceiv rnment for Works reached 21 per cent, and th hip in | Moran Bros,, Seattle, are at the foot of England ¢ wilt be awarded | the list with only 17 per cent progress to to either Vickers & Co. at Barrows, or | their credit. The showing as a whole is S Asiations Hoiatt o o | not.quite satisfactory, as the progress %5 . should have been at least 50 per cent The in Japan will s0on | greater without considering the fact be supply the wants of the| that all the ships were behind contract navy private shipbuiid have | time, and no effort appears to have by the Admiraity to sub- | been made to catch up lost time. As to BelMaE N btisthin the protected cruisers, the advance to- ted dock on the jsi. | Ward completion has been very slow, e Y ™ e A8 | excepting the Tacoma. The default of nd of Mitaunosho-maru, near Onomi- | yeywis Nixon and tk> bankruptcy of the chi, has cost only $75,000. The dock is | Trigg Company will defer the comple- ! th, sixty-five feet in | tion of the Chattanooga and Galveston f entrance and thirty feet over | another twelve months. Five torpedo | craft, among which is the unlucky " accommodate ves! Goldsborough, lack completion within 1 and 7 per cent, and are now five years | overdue on their contract delivery. The following table shows the condition of ock builders have experienced so | ships at the various yards: 400 feet in lengtk It is cut cut of de- composed granite and faced with rough hewn stone Dry | Per Cent | Compl, . | Dec NAME OF SHIP. © Builders. .| Newport -/ Union Iron Works Nebracka . Seattle New Jerser, Rhode Isiand Fore River o | . .{Bath Iron Works | Newport N t n_ lron Cramps ..... Newport News ramps ....... on Iren Wo Newport N Chattenooga o Denver....... >rotectad Cruiser. | Neafie & Tov: Des Moines. . Protected Cruiser. | Fore River. Galveston Protected Cruizer. | Trigg . Compan: Tacoma Protected Crulcer.’ Union Iron Wor i ADVERTISEMENTS. moral was the principal theme, the Rev. Mr. Ford holding that when a man has control of himself he actually lives, but he who has no control is dead and is ruled or directed not by himself but by influences which he has allowed to take hold of and own him. Robson's orchestra, a most capable body of young musicians, and the First Congregational choir and Knicker- bocker Quartet rendered music and vocal selections. | After the “social religious hour” in | the auditorium there was an adjourn ment to the lecture-room, where Henry J. McCoy, general secretary of the & bciation, conducted a Bible clas: The great hody of men joined in singing numerous inspiring hymns. A tea, at which many sat down, fol- lowed the service. ———— OPTICIANS ARE HOLDING | THEIR ANNUAL SESSION Larze Representation From All Parts of the State Present at the | Opening Meeting. | The fourth annual session of the | California Association of Opticians opened at the California Hotel yester- | day, Louis Kuttner, nresident of the organization, presiding. The afte noon was devoted to a lecture by Dr Earl Brown of Chicago on “The Phy- | siology, Anatomy and Histoligy of the | Eye.” { At the evening session ‘he delivered | ja lecture on “The Retina and Its’ Diseases.” The greater part of to-| ds ion will be devoted to ex-| periments with the Geneva retina- | scope and an election of officérs and | in the evening the association will hold | ite annual banquet, at which it is ex- | pected that Governor Pardee, Mayor Schmitz and other prominent State, and municipal officers will be present. | Yesterday’s’ attendance at the ses- 1 sion ircluded a large representation from all over the State. | — e To-Day | The shoe sale makes its debut. Ladies’ ; and men's $3.50 shoes will be sold for | $1.85 at the closing-out sale. 915 Market | street, opposite Mason. 30 ———————————— PERSONAL MENTION.” E Dr. 8. B. Wakefield of New York is | at the Palace. | Dr. Earl Brown of Chicago is regis- | | tered at the California. | R. M. Richardson, a merchant of Sac- | ramento, is at the California. | Arthur G. Levinsky, an attorney of | Stockton, is at the Palace. | James W. W. Brewster of Honolulu | arrived from the East last evening and | is at the Palace. Juan Gallegos, a prominent wine- | maker of Mission San Jose, and wife are at the Palace. State Surveyor General Victor H. ‘Woods is down from Sacramento and registered at the Lick. % Whitney W. Press, who is largely interested in the lumber business at Eureka, is at-the Occidental. Judge Kenneth Jackson and Attor- | ney Willlam H. Metson Teturned yes- terday from a three weeks' visit to Mexico. ———— Knocked Down by Car. Paul Poepel and Pomont Eugenie, sailors of the French ship Nantes, now | in the harbor, were knocked down by an electric car of the cemeteries line at the corner of Mission and Steuart streets last night. - Both were conveyed to the Harbor Hospital in the ambu- lance, where upon examination it was found that Poepel had sustained a com- pound fracture of the left leg in addi- tion to two broken ribs. Eugenie es- oaped with a few minor bruises. F. A. Dinsmore, the motorman in charge of the car, was arrested and charged with battery. ST el ! this coast were spent in mining. | daughters, Mrs. C. E. McQuald c¢f Yuba | York, and one of the most promincait | citizens of Detroit, | - | THREE BOYS CLAIM THEY On | his removal to San Francisco he en- | gaged in the business of importing | Carrara marble. i He ¥stablished a snlendid business | and to-day the firm of Joseph Musto & Sons, marble dealers and manufac- turers, is one of the largest on the Pa- cific Coast. i He was recognized as a man of sterling worth and of great business ! capacity. He lived an honored life | to the rive old age of 74 years. He| leaves a widow and ven children, | Clarence E., Guldo J., Miss Margaret, Miss Laura, Miss Florence, Miss Lotta | and Mme. Emilia Toletti. The funeral will take place of Tues- | day. ’ | | Sutter County Pioneer Dead. | YUBA CITY, Jan. 5—C. E. Wilcoxon, one of the picneer residents of this | county, died here last night. He was a native cf Kentucky and 80 years old. He came to this county by ox team from Missouri in 1853. He served as| County Clerk for fourteen years, and | also was School Superintendent, Under | After serving in the California Legis- | lature he was elected a member of the State Board of Equalization. He leaves | a wife and four sons, J. L., S. E. and L. B. Wilcoxon of this place and Dr. C. R. Wilcoxon of Woodland; also two City and Mrs. C. L. Zeigler of San! Francisco. | Passing of General Moffitt. PLATTSBURG, N. Y., Jan. 3.—Gen- eral Stephen Moffitt, one of the most prominent men in Northern New York, died at his residence near this city to-day, aged 63. In the ¢ war he was brevetted brigadier gen- eral. President Grant appointed him Collector of Customs for the district of Champlain in 1876, to which office he was reappointed by Presidents Hayes and Harrison. Death of Senator Depew's Brother. DETROIT, Mich,, Jan. 3.—Law- rence Depew, brother of United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New fell dead at his home here to-day of heéart disease. —_————————— ‘Trapper’s Oll cures rheuniatism and neuralgia. Druggists, 50c flask. Richard & Co.. 406 Clay.* WERE STABBED BY JAPANESE Albert Elliott, Jack Burns and Carl | Moor, boys about 18 years of age, were treated at the Central'Emergency Hos- pital last night for severe knife wounds onthe arms and shoulders, rzcelved, they | claim, at the hands of several Japanese. The story told by the lads is to the ef- fect that while walking along Kearny | street, near Washington, fcur Japan- ese, without provocation or warning, attacked them with drawn knives and then fled through Portsmouth Square. The young men reported the matter at the Central Station, and were taken to the hospital for treatment. Policemen were detailed. on the case, but were unable to find any trace of the assail- ants of the boys. The police are not inclined to believe the story, as it seems improbable that the assault should have been made without cause. All of the injured boys are ex-apprentices in the navy. Elliott resides at 1111 Sutter street, Burns at 77 Market and Moor at 20 Twelftn street. Rt oA X it o Accidents Near the Park. J. Girman, employed in a downtown cafe, fell from a street car at the cer- ner of Page and Clayton streets yes- terday afternoon and was badly in- jured. He suffered concussion of the brain, and was taken to the Park Re- ceiving Hospital. Albert Enright, 14 years of age, stepped from a street car oh Stanyan street and was struck by an automobile. He was slightly injured. b ot i i Bome swell _invitations paavp sy awsll Woddine, invisiione, oomme | entirely new | sweet and catchy. | concaction called | applause. inne David, Barbara Burns, Ruth Sheppard. ’ e e e The road show has departed and an programme is presented by the Orpheum this week and is well worth seeing. The reappearance of Joan Hadenfeldt, the clever San Fran- cisco girl, who evolved the “Cgcle of Love.” the musical art maze, reproduc- J 4 ing the celebrated masternieces of the | world's famous paigters, was pleasing to the audience. Not only are the pictures portrayed by the tiny cupid and a beautiful model, good to look upon, but the music interspersed is Miss Hadenfeldt was more at home on the stage, and she moved about with that ease and grace that comes with experience. Her singing was somfewhat stronger last night, but her voice needs more culti- vation. - Her gowns are very beautiful and the electric light effects in harmo- ny with the scenes portrayed. Lotta ahd Belle Tobin scored a bhig hit last night by their selections on various musical instruments. They are extremely clever performers and also have a goud stage presence. Prob- ably the best work they do is the rend- ition of Sir Arthur Sullivan's “The Lost Chord,” which they play with great feeling on bamboo beils. Frederick Hallen and Molly Fuller, two favorites, returned from a suc- cessful Australian tour, and opened last night. They presented an absurd “An Election Bet.' It created a gredt deal of laughter and Ernest Hogan and Mattie Wilkes sang new songs and created mirth by their specialties. Charles and Minnie Sa-Van introduced a comedy act that was replete with funny mis- haps. Charlotte Guyer George has a splendid contralto voice. The merry manikins controlled by Mr. and Mrs. Walker Deaves amused the young and old. Probably the best horizontal bar per- formers seen in the theater in months are Dumitrescu, Van Auken and Van- nerson. Van Auken is a marvel and goes over the middle bar from a giant- swing with ease. His forward somer- saults after finishing a trick must be seen to be appreciated. £ on the biograph finish a show. very good The company that opened a week's engagement at the Grand Opera-house vesterday ' afternoon in a production | Bovril—fluid beef extract called “The Head Waiters” is certainly |to be pitied for being called upon to appear in such a hotch potch of non- sense and absurdity. There are lots of pretty girls and clever singers and dancers in the com- pany, who earn applause by hard work, but the principals have but little right to be classed as “stars.” = I Joe Kelly; in the role of an opium smoker, is all very well in a short sketch on the vaudeville stage, but three hours of his antics in “The Head ‘Waiters™ is conducive to somnolence. ‘William Inman and Jack Vincent, as “Percy and Harold,” are absurdities of a pronounced type, and go in for con- siderable ‘“horse play” to raise laugh- ter. Charles Burkhart, in a Hebrew role, ‘was amusing. but that kind of charac- ter has been done to death on the local stage. Dolly de Vyne and Frances Hayford Inman are twe clever women, who would appear to better advantage in a good musical comedy. The chorus of. “The Head Waiters” redeemed the performance yesterday by good ensemble singing and some pretty dancing. Two large audiences witnessed the openihg performances of the company. —_————— Jews Saved by Russian Consul. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 3.—A semi-official dispatch from Urmia, Persia, reports that an attack on the Jews which had been planned by the population was frustrated by the ener- getic intervention of the Russian Vice Consul. ———e—————— . - ADAMS' Irish Moss Cough Balsam helps | trom the first dose, cures in a day, 23c, 50c. * ’ 4982 Crereoty - 111, 118, 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET. 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