The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1904, Page 16

16 S ATURDAY, JANUARY 190%. REPRESENTATAVE CITIZENS DISCUSS | PLANS TO BEAUTIFY SAN FRANCISCO |Suggest the Construction of Boulevards to Golden Gate Park. Well-Known Architect Volunteers His Services and Eminent Sculptors May Be Induced to Lend the City a Helping Hand AL X3 LIBRARY WORK IS PROSPERING dars Sk Reports Many (Cities on Pacific Coast Indicate In- creased and Growing Interest | From SPOKANE'S NEW BUILDING 2 Proposed Exhibit by State In- stitution at World’s Fair Is Considered by the Trustees e over the coast indi- and in- conditions public library work. | | reading are be- already r facilities. | | nine competitive | | nted for the Car- which the library board r W. R. author- ew York, the most ithin 1blic opinic hoard rofessional s building land, Or., r provid- public Trustees of mthly ed the propo-| | - an exhibit | | s Exposition je, will con- and its in- able works the libra- sample travel- w being circu- | | Cali- meet- Hsts S brary LIBRARIES. th efforts made a strong TRAVELING | nal ad- | | horities for early deci- 1 will be authority to prepare for libraries at Ba- in the works. building, library ready for occu- application to for a library ful, the Chico gift CITIZENS WHO WOULD BEAUTIFY SAN FRANCISCO, AND MARKET STREET AS THEY WANT IT. an excellent site, business and resi- their hoped for li- deed for the site has has reason to be proud which was estab- months ago. The i its support 1s d valuation of 000. This is the s support most in proportion to| | the wealth given to any public library | | RAISE MONEY. 1 The i money with which | ,, 1 building for | * library, and are MANY NEW FIRMS ARE larger accommoda- GRANTED MEMBERSHIP ation to Andrew —_— Trustees of Manufacturers’ and Pro- ducers’ Association Hold Im- portant Meeting, At the meeting of the trustees of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Asso- trustees have not i held yesterday in the Mills g corner- | , it was decided to attempt to | devise some means of making citrous oils to compete with the imported pro- ducts. Resolutions were adopted fa- voring the extension of the consular service, the installation of a pneumatic tube system for transporting mails in San Fi co, the formal acceptance by Congress of the metric system and the holding of a World's Fair in this city in 1913 or on the completion of the isthmian canal. The named firms were unanimously elected to membership in the association: ) Sugar contract for the building is to substitute brick basement cost will be about »osal s public library in- time clock, such as is ge libraries and in s. It will accurately h of the fifty-five at- rarian, goes to >s and when each ncrease in the department in the o longer be con- 'm. Only the at- ’ handle books s is dope in the fiction de- le after Company, N. Phar- > Tron Works, ty Engincering and Supply Compary, Bosqui Engraving and Printing Company, By~ ron Jackson Machine Works, Byron Mauzy, California Manufacturing Company, California Paper Box Company, California Rug Com- pany Machinery Company, Benja Empire Redwood Com ADVERTISEMENTS. and Paper Company, | & Stetson: 1 X L Packing | Company Isiand Packing Company, W. A. Milier & Co., Napa and Sonoma Wine paay, Northwestern Redwood Company, pany Holbrook. om- Otis Elevator Company, . Pacific Envelope Company, Pacific nix R Refinine and Roofing. Company, Phoe Raisin Be«ding and Packing Company; Iron Works, Ranid Economy Stamp ., The Reese Wateroroof Manu- & Company, G. Rischmuller, Somers & Co., . Hubert Tonic Port Corporation, The Union Ladder Company, West Coast Manufac- turing Company; The Best Manufacturing Company, San California Citrus Products Compan: 3 (Kiamath Springs), Beswick; M. P. Hender- son & Son. Stockton: Hercules Oil Refining Company, Los Angeles: Hoyt's Tree Support Compan; ‘Watsonviile; Petaluma Incubator Company, Petaluma: Routzahn Seed Company, Arroyo Grande; The Stockton Paint Company, Stockton; 'Simpson-Pirnie Granite Company, San JDiego; Frank Walker, Los Angeles;. Ju- bilee Incubator C < —_——— Postoffice Appointments. Look at the Brand ! WalterBaker's Cocoa and pointments yesterday, the most im- portant of whichiwas that of William C. Dougherty to be assistant superin- tendent. of the money order depart- ment, vice Martin, deceased. Mr. Dougherty has been connected with the postoffice for the last forty years and is familiar with every detail of the ‘business. His appointment gives pleasure to a host of friends. George E. Perkins was appointed finance clerk in place of Dougherty; W. J. Phillips, superintendent of Station E, vice Frank D. Griffin, deceased; W. S. Morrison, assistant superintendent of city delivery, vice Phillips; Jacob Gor- | finkel, foreman of the city delivery | department at the Ferry station; Gar- | mett Calkin and Frank Page, laborers, vice H. P. Jackson and Alexander | Averett. ——tme | Hostler Loses a Finger. } John Clancy, a hostler, had one of | his fingers severed in a hay chopper while at work at 127 Silver street "yesxeraay. He was treated . at the | Emergency Hospital. ——— e o ALBANY, N, Y., Jan. 15.—Governor Odell has called ‘a special election to be held in the Twelflth Congressional District on Febru- ary 23 to fill the vacancy caused by the | restgnation of _George B. McClellan, now or ew York. following ! y, American | N Postmaster Fisk made several ap- | Representative men of the city as- sembled at the Merchants' Exchange yesterday afternoon in response to an invitation issued by J. W. Byrne, James D. Phelan and Willis E. Davis to con- sider the beautifying of San Francisco. There was a good gathering of men well known for their interest in the city’s welfare. James D. Phelan was voted to the chair and explained the scheme in view. Mr. Phela said that as there were many organizations looking to the mer- cantile and business improvements that the new association would take up the artistic side of the city,s life | and provide plans by which this object might be provided. Improvements, he sald, in the past had been done in a haphazard manner and without plan. D. H. Burnham, Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens and Frederick Olmstead, said Mr. Phelan, had made plans for the adornment of Washington, D. C,, and Cleveland, Ohio, and it had been suggested that such services might be secured for San Fran- cisco. Mr. Burnham of Chicago, architect of the new Merchants” Exchange, now under construction in this city, had volunteered to undertake such work as was necessary toward the beautifying of the city as a labor of love. EUROPEAN CITIES MODELS. Mr. Phelan sald that the expenses would have to be provided for a trip for the study of the sea and hill cities of Europe, and especially those cities resembling San Francisco, and then artists and architects here would be consulted in the matter. Mr. Burnham estimates that preparations will take rully a year. Mr. Phelan explained that among the improvements suggested were a town hall or auditorium where large gather- ings. conventions, concerts and fairs could be beld. ¥ After the matters were discussed a committee on the special subject of improvements was appointed, consist- ing of Williamr Greer Harrison, W. A, Bissell and Allan Poliok. It was re- solved to name the organization ‘‘The Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco.” The ex- ecutive committee appointed by Mr. Phelan consists of W. A. Irwin, Wil- llam Greer Harrison, Allan Pollok, F. W. Dohrmann and Herbert E. Law. BOULEVARD SUGGESTED. The committee will report at the next meeting a programme of procedure, in- cluding the methods which the asso- ciation has adopted for the furtherance of its purposes. Among the most important improve- ments suggested are wide boulevards running from Market street, the Mis- gion and Van Ness avenue direct te Golden Gate Park and a road around the bay shore. The proper adornment of Telegraph Hill will also be a matter to be considered. There were a number of communi- cations received from citizens advising on the form of improvement. One sug- gested an opera-house, another the construction of ‘an outdoor amphithea- ter and another the extension of Market street to the ocean, while another sug- gested and sent in the design for an ornamental hotel for Asbury Heights. Those present were: s ). Phelan, William Greer Harrison, W Hropkine: Heney 3. Crocker, Leon Slon Charles_E.-Green, - Allan Pollok, Thomas Mc- Caleb, R. J. Taussig, A. H. Payson, L. M. King, Fred Patek, John Partridge, T. " Friedlander, W. A. Bissell, W. C. Irwin, Ff!nk J. Symmes, Herbert E.- Law, E. O. McCor- mick, Phil Lilienthal, Willis E. Davis, M. B. Greensfelder, Walter §. Martin, Dr. E. lor, Mark Gerstle, M. J. Kellar, F. W. mann and W. B. Bourn. the 1 Tay- Dohr- P — STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan. 15.—An election was held to-day to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of two of the officers of the Students’ Guild, the organization which took charge of the relfef work during the typhoid epidemic last year and the diphtheria scare this year. J. P. Mitchell, * presidert and Miss Ruth Kimball, wresident. L 'GROUNDING OF STEAMER SPOKANE INVESTIGATED Local Inspectors Find Vessel's Hull Was Damaged to Extent of Nearly Forty Thousand Dollars. United States Local Bolles and Bulger held an invest'ga- tion yesterday into the matter of the grounding of the steamer Spokane on Humboldt Bar. on January 9. The vessel was entering the harbor at noon, the tide being at ebb. The force of the blow on the steamer’s -keel broke and twisted the plates, thereby inflicting damage estimated at from $30,000 to $40,000. “Captain Matt C. Johnson, master of the Spokane, tes- tified that the steamer took the usual course on entering the harbor and had both leads going, having deep water up to’ the moment of striking. He found when he arrived at Eureka that the spar buoy had been removed 300 feet farther out. C. M. Petterson and William Bur- rill, the men in charge of the life-sav- was coming in through the old chan- nel, her regular route, when she struck. Three days prior they had made soundings to mark the place where the black spar buoy had been washed away and found twenty-one feet of water. The buoy was replaced 300 feet farther out. The case was taken under advise- ment. —_— Not Reserved as Public Squares. City Attorney Long yesterday ad- vised the Park Commissioner that the so-called Market place lots lying south of Second street were dedicated to and reserved for market places or other public uses and not as public squares. The Park Commissioners therefore have no jurisdiction over the lots and the Board of Supervisors has power to lease them to the South- ern Pacific Company in the grant of the franchise for the bay shore line. B SNBSS ADVERTISEMENTS. Ull Soap Qintment and Pills Are worth their weight in gold to every sufferer from Torturing, Dis- figuring Humors of the Skin, Scalp, and Blood, with loss of Hair, and yet a set, often sufficient to cure the se- verest cases, may mow be had of all druggists for One Dollar. | Inspectors | ing station, testified that the Spokane | LEAVES ESTATE T0 SHERW0ODS Will of “Mammy” Pleasant Is, a Recognition of Kindness of | the Lawyer and His Family | DOCUMENT IS FILED LR | Eccentric Colored Woman Exe- | cutes Last Testament Sev- en Days Before Her Death s s { Just seven days before death ended the eventful life of Mafry E. (“Mam- | my”) Pleasant she made a will be- queathing to Lyman M. and Olive E. | E. Sherwood, who cared for her during | the last days of her life and at whose | home she died, all her property, and the aged colored woman in the will | | gives as her reasons for so disposing of ! | her estate the fact that the Sherwoods 1 had taken such good care of her !ni the winter of her life and that she had promised them that when she died her property would go to them in} equal shares. The document was filed | | for probate yesterday and with it was filed by Sherwood a petition for the admission of the will to probate. | | The will bears date of January 4, |1904. The aged colored woman | died on January 11. The opening | clause of the will contains the state- ment that “Mary E. Pleasant, being of sound and disposing mind and mem- ory, declares the document to be her {last will and testament.” The second ! clause declares that ‘“she is unmar- ried and has no known living relative | who has any claim upon her estate.” The fourth clausé states that the testa- tor in making her will bears in mind | the fact that Lyman Sherwood, the | lawyer, and Olive E. E. Sherwood, his | wife, had rendered her great service | during the last days of her life and | also the fact that she had promised them to leave them her property. In | | the fifth clause she devises to the Sher- | woods all that she dies possessed of, | share and share alike, and in the sixth | and final clause of the document she | 'appotms the devisees executor anrli executrix of the will,>to serve without bonds, and gives them power to dis- | pose of the estate as they see fit. with- | out asking the consent of any court. { The will is a written document and bears the signatures of Thomas S. Scott and August Roehncke as wit- nesses. —————— $200,000 Gold Nuggets From Alaska, including the largest nug- | gets in existence in the world to-day, are | now on exhibition at 1009 Market st. * —_———————— Officials to Arrive. William P. Armstrong and Joseph S. McCoy, .commissioners appointed | | by the President on the Chinese in- | demnity commission, will arrive here on the Korea, which is due on Janu- | ary 23. { { _———————— Trachoma is Granulated Eyelids. Mu- | rine Eye Remedy cures this and other | Eye troubles, makes wea’x eyes strong. Druggists and opticians. : & 1 | 1 | Insolvent Jeweler. James H. Porter, a jeweler and op- tician of Colusa, filed a petition in in- solvency yesterday in the United | States District Court. He owes $853 | | and has no assets. | ——eeeeee e MARKS BROS. Clearance Sale of . Winter Underwear.. For Women and Children Prices cut from one-third to one- half their regular values. 25c Women's Fleece Lined Vests in cream. 65¢c Women's Fleece Lined Vests, extra heavy quality, spe- cial to-day . ... 2 g ,/400 75¢c Women's Mixed Wool Vests, pants fo mateh, colors pink, blue or gray. Special to-0ay........ooionin 500 $1.00 Women's Vests, lisle and wool/ mixed, colors gray or white, pants to match. 75c Special to-day $1.25 Women's All-Wool Vests, pants and tights to match, all colors, special to-day '95 c CHILDREN'S VESTS i9c 79 Ciearance Sale Frice for C Children’s Form Fitting Vests, pants to match, sizes 18 to 26. Good 35c¢ values. | 75¢ L‘hilcdll'-an’t m;al r;om, ponts | io match, special to-day e 50¢c CHILDREN'S SCHOOL HOSE 10c Bought by chance, 1000 dozen cgildnn‘l Bicycle and Narrow Ribbed Hose, double heel, toe and kne A splendid 20c quality. Spec. t9-day Big Bargains n Women's Onerta Union Suits 65¢c Women's Fleece Lined 400 $1.00 Women's Extra Heav, Quality Union Suits at. ’70¢ $1.25 and $1.50 Women's Mixed Sone g 95¢ana $1.20 $2 and $2.25 Women's All Wool Union Suits, special at $1.45 av $1.70 Green Trading Stamps With All Purchases. MARKS BROS. HONEST VALUES 1220-1222-1224 MARKET STREET Between Taylor and Jones. HALE'S. | HALE'S. | Flannelette Wrappers 79c¢ Not one of them worth less than $1.25. New, dressy and well made—right up to the mark in every way even to the fullness of the skirts. Wrappers, too, remarkable for their fit and proportions, even if they are at a saving. All made with new bishop sleeves, deep flounces; most of them have braid trimming, ruffles and yokes; all are in the best colors. Other wrappers are spread out to-day. 95c—Dark Flannelette, wide skirt flounces standing collars. bishop sieeves, yoke in the back, fancy yoke in front, edged with ruff trimmed with braid. $1.25—Dark Flannelette, with fitted vest lining, skirt with flounce trimmed with braid ruffle, ' $1.75—Kimona Wrappers, yoke backs and fronts, bell siceves, shawl collars. $1.05—Heavy Dressy Flannel Wrappers, yoked, edged with ruffles of goods to match | will entertain in honor of two brides- | | to-be, ! tainment to their friends on Monday. | Miss Pomeroy is a leader among the trimmeg with braid. New Drop Veils (Just in by express.) s0c and 75c. g They're the popular mesh veils women are so anxious for now— plain but for the chenille dots. Sometimes they are in rows on the slant, sometimes as borders. It's these bordered ones draped around the edge of the hat that give it that stylish effect. 174 vards long: black, navy and brown. Toilet Articles Many will be thinking of to- day. A Dandruff Cure, Hale's “Spe- | cial.” It. does its work, too. 45c | bottle. s & Bay Rum, 15c. Strong quality, large bottle. Pinaud’s Loria Face Powder. large box 23c. Velva Combination Toilet. Mani cure and Complexion Soap. I5c | cake. Men’s Golf Shirts '$1.00 Ones at 75c Of madras, cheviots and ox- fords; in medium, light and dark effects; quite a variety of patterns, stripes and figures. All sizes yet, 14 to 17. Men's sox 12%4¢, worth 20c. Blacks and tans; fine French lisle with | silk finish; all sizes, 9% to*11%. | oflo’ Satin Taffeta Ribbons Wider than ever. Better than ever. Cheaper than ever. 15¢ Yard A No. 50 (3% inch) ribbon with a fine finish. It looks like a joc one and in a fine line of colors—not a bad shade It’s the kind of an offer that does not come often and when it does it does not last long Children’s Stockings Next thought—Hale's. Here where the good stock- mgs are—good values, too. Three special ones to-day. 16 2-3¢: Value 25c. Children’'s and misses’ extra fine gauge aco Cotton Stockings; black, full fashioned et; 5% to 10, 15¢: Value 20c. Children’s Seamiess Stockin, black, very heavy, very elastic. knees, heels and toes are double; 6s to 10s. i & 1-3¢ Infants’ : Value 15c. Only about 100 pairs and only in sizes 4 4% and 3%. Yet they are likely the sizes Mot mothers will want. Black; seamiess. How many pairs? Fine Maco cotton, French Mixed Candies 25c Ib Creams and chocolates, hand made. Some very choice confec- tions and a very choice price. Cream panoche with walhuts. 23¢ pound. “AT HOMES” HOLD ATTENTION OFSOCIETYFOLK By Sallie Sharp. I | | Yesterday was essentially an “at home” day—exeept for those that were | calling. Cabs darted about the dis-| tinctive districts with rare abandon, | and those who were cabless skipped | lively over the slippery Western Addi- tion crossings to escape an embarrass- ing collision. But it serves them right | if they did meet with mishap — they | who would fain to call without the dis- | tinction of stalling a cab on the curb- ing. It is such a compensation to a hostess! Yesterday was also a day of “teas,” for witness the following affairs: Mrs. Thomas Morffew entertained over two hundred friends—wholly in-| formally, however, and not a note oti weariness crept into the long gray | afternoon. To entertain a continually | recurring coterie of guests is a tax| upon the resources of the cleverest | hostess. Mrs. Morffew has acquired | that art. [ In the receiving party were her sis- ters, Mrs. California Newton and Mrs.’ Hodgson, who were gowned smartly in imported white robes, as also was | the hostess. | Roses, pink and white, garlands of green and dainty shades made a charming setting for the stunningly gowned women who thgonged the rooms during the.fashionable hours. e & @ Mrs. H. P. Pinney held an informal | reception yesterday at her home in| honor of Mrs. Mary Hart, the clever | club woman from the land of the m|d-: night suh Mrs. Hart was presented to the members of the Women's Paecific Coast Press Association at the func-| tion, and a heart-to-heart talk ensued about the mysterious land in the north. Mrs. Hart goes on next week to the exposition at St. Louis as a Commis- sioner from Alaska. . A rarely pleasant “at home™ was given yesterday at the home of Mrs. W. E. F. Deal and the Misses Deal, on Sacramento street, when the following ladies assisted in receiving the large number of callers: Mrs. Thomas H. Nichols, Mrs. C. H. Hilbert, Miss Clo- tilde Mason, Mrs. John R. Wilson, Miss Emma Moffat, Miss Henrietta Moffat and Miss Marie Bull. . On Morday next Miss Alice Treanor Miss Katherine Miss Mabel Donaldson. . Selfridge and The Daughters of the California Pio- neers will give an afternoon’s enter- B The Gayety Clib has announced its | next dance for Wednesday, the 20th, | at the home-of Miss Christine Pomeroy. dainty debutantes and the dance at her home should materialize as a real “gayety” dance. | & e e ‘Wedaesday brings the two large luncheons of the ‘week, Mrs. Ritehie Dunn’s, at the University Club, and Mrs. M. Kirkpatrick's at the Palace. e e On Friday the Fortnightlies will gather in their stunniest frocks—the feminine faction, and the men are al- ready engaged for the choice dances. ‘What joys this leap year bringeth forth. —_———— ADAMS' Irish Moss Cough Balsam helps from the first dose, cures in a day. 25c, S0c. * —————— Reports Against Petition. The Board of Works yesterday re- turned to the Supervisors the petit'on of W. J. Lyon, an architect, that the building ordinance be amended so that walks of brick supported by iron or steel girders shall be not less than thirteen inches for the entire height of the building with the recommenda- tion_that the petition be not granted. —_—— It is S0 easy to take Piso's Cure for a cough, and be relieved and cured. 25c. ¢ School Overcrowded. School Director Boyle visited the Lafayette Schoel yesterday morning and found it to be overcrowded. One class of forty puplls has been meeting in the hallway. «On his recommenda- tion a portable schoolroom will be added to the building. —_—————————— Some very swell wedding invitations come from Knowles, 24 S street. Main 398. * AR 3 008 M Says Husband Threatened Her. Mrs. John Nation, 1300 Sanchez street, caused the arrest of her hus- band yesterday afternoon on a charge of threats to kill. The accused man stated that all the troubie grew out of a dispute over some property. —_———— COPENHAGEN, Jan. i5.—It is announced that King Christian, who is at Weisbaden, has sufficiently recovered from his attack of gout to return to Copenhagen next Week. FORCED SALE OF SHOES BECAUSE WE ARE FORCED TO VACATE IN A FEW DAYS. GREATEST SHOE VALUES EVER OFFERED IN THIS CITY....... Kast’s Removal Sale 104-110 GEARY STREET STUDEBAKER BROS: (OMPANY We are again in our build- ing at Market and 10th Streets with a clean, up-to-date stock of vehicles. Everything old was de- stroyed by fire 308 MISSION ST, § William Hatteroth (La .)..224 Sutter Cnion Drus Cor 214 Kearny & Von Nos & sbr ood Bros. . . Tth & Broadway, Oakland Baldwin Phare:ac 119 Eils i