The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1904, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY FEBRUARY 8, 19 « NEWS OF T SPECIAL TRAIN FOR SOUTHLAND Many Oaklanders Leave for Los Insight | Booming | MIGHTY CHOIR SINGS GAULS' COMPOSITION +* | A Gets an Art of ARRANGED | Angeles Into the EXCURSIONS Municipal Bodies Lose Majority of Members and Will Have Meetings : . | I'heir Adjourn to GIVES SURPLU 0 CHARITIES |, Directors of Oakland Street Fair Issue a Statement and Close Their Aecounts S s ITS INCOME DISAPPOINTING S But Nine Hundred Dollars Re- main for Distribution After All the Expenses Are Paid —_— Oakiand Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Feb. 7. The Oakland Street Fair and Carni- val Association has closed its accounts and the directors of the association | ! | i | | of Commerce spe devoted | { TED HOLY CITY.” Clement Rowlands Di- rects Rendition of “The Holy City.” A Feb. —Alfred Gaul The Holy City” was sung this | |evening at the First Presbyterian Church, the rendition of this superb | composition being a noteworthy musi- cal event in the history of choir work | ir Oakland aration for the production | the choir master, al effort. The full choir | and a quartet of soloists, Rowlands, took part. | This was the second time that the work | had been given in its entirety in this During the first part the magnificent | A New Heaven and a was sung with splendid | had of fifty vo besides Leader S Rowlands, with the ac- mpaniment of an invisible choru 1% | The solo gave the choir leader oppe . M. | tunity to use his resonant barytone in| ullness. and fine technique. | strong and were| of its The choru - |ably handled. In the solo numbers were heard Mrs. | ams, | all were | Carrie Brown Dexter and Miss Louise | Stubbs, sopranos; Mrs. Gussie Berg- e man, contralto, and F. D. Ames, tenor. | s The organist was Miss Virginia s | de Fremery. | - 4. | RHUBARB GROWERS WILL | FORM AN ASSOCIATION | Producers Wish to Prevent Annual Glutting of the Market and Con- sequent Drop in Prices. OAKLAND, Feb. 7.—The rhubarb growers of San Leandro, Mount Eden | and San Lorenzo have decided to or- | ganize an association that will handle | all or nearly all of the rhubarb grown | in Alameda County, the object being to ann overcome, as far as possible, the | al glutting of the market and the quent depreciation of prices. | A committee has been appointed to | make a canvass among the growers and learn the number that will be- come members of the association and the result will be reported at a meet- | ing to be held to-morrow evening at | the Town Hall in San Lorenzo. The | producers that are in favor of form- | ing the association are: Meek Estate, O J. Cal- B. and A. S. Stone M Buicao, A . Dutra Correa. A B. Cary, Rodgers, J. Olvera, J. J. era, J. Sullivan, J. Smith, £ Collins, T. McCauley, M. Dutra, ims and D. McCarthy e JUST LIKE VICTOR HUGO'S JEAN VALJEAN | Arene DESERTING SAILORS SURRENDER THEMSELVES | Convict in Nebraska Takes the Hero of “Les Miserables” for a Model. William Nation, a convict in the Ne- braska penitentiary, read Victor Hugo's Miserables” from the , and in the solitude of Blucjackets From Cruiser Tacoma Weary of Liberty After Less Than Week of Freedom. OAKI Four days of ell resolved that what Jean Val- tiberty ner aund P. had dene he could do. Perata nesday His opportunity came. He gained his liberty under the parole law, and, from e like Jean Valjean, he broke his parole | and disappeared. A month after the peritentiary doors n surrendered themselves . tthe County Jail, saying they |t Lnicoln had opened to William Na- Buners and willing to re. |tion, William Ritchie appeared at Grand Island, a big town on the Union Pacific, 250 miles west of Omaha. Ritchie was well dressed, affable, business-like. He did not make jet beads and ornaments, for the peuple of Grand Island scorn all ‘such. Being more practical, he opened a restaurant, and so conducted it that it was quite the thing for Grand Island culture and fashion to dine at Ritchie's. Ritchie paid his bills promptly and his word as well as his note was good at the bank. He married a pretty young widow, Mrs. Gustave Ehlers, and his popularity grew. . But the Javerts of the Lincoln peni- tentiary were as persistently on the track of Willlam Nation as was the | Javert of “Les Miserables” in pursuit of Jean Valjean. And just as Javert found Valjean behind the barricade in the red days of a Paris revolt, just so the Javerts of Lincoln found William Ritchie in his restaurant at Grand Isl- and. And when they had found him they placed him under arrest and car- ried him back to the penitentiary be- cause he had broken his parole. Mrs. Ritchie, or Mrs. Nation, as she must now be called, accompanied her husband to prison and then went to the Statehouse to intercede with Governor Mickey. The Governor, it is believed, will either grant Convict Nation a new parole, which will enable him to return to Grand Island, or will pardon him unconditionally. e sheltering arms of their muel. The men traded their bluejacket uniforms for the dunga- rees they wore and got decidedly the worst of the bargain. As an excuse for the desertion the disgusted sailors said they thought they were tired of the monotony of discipline on a man-o’-war, but: that tired feeling was cured 2 few days of hustling for meals ashor>. he naval authorities were notified cf the men’s arrest. _———————— Whist Tourney in City Hall. ALAMEDA, Feb. 7.—There will be big whist tournament held in the y Hall next Saturday evening for he benefit of Thompson Hose Com- pany of the volunteer firemen. One aundred prizes have been donated by ocal and San Francisco firms and ac- ~ommodations are to be provided for 500 players. It will be the first card tourney given in the City Hall and “as received the sanction and assist- ince of the City Trustees. —_—e———————— Native Sons Install Officers. OAKLAND, Feb. 7.—The officers elected by Oakland Parlor No. 50, Na- tive Sons of the Golden West, for the ensuing term have been installed. They are: President, L N. Cobbledick: first vice presi gent. R & Falimer. second vice prosident. ¥ e P. Cook; third vice president, ter Brod: b wi ne: oy ler. ation was sentenced to prison for recording secretary. three years and his term had nearly o R ,,{,’_,_{,‘,‘,f’z’,";,' “m""";' mq""“'f expired when he was paroled for the hC first hicago Inter Ocean, | appreciated | Schlueter in making the fair the suc- | done, have prepared a statement to the pub- lic, showing the reasons why the last street fair was not as successful as the one given by the Elks during the pre- vicus year. The statement is supported by an expert who was put to work upcn the books and an auditing committee that | passed upon the work of both. This | statement shows that the expense of preparing the grounds for the carnival was much greater than was anticipat- ed in the beginning, as the price Ofl labor and materfal had greatly in- creased, and as the area was much larger than at the Elks’ fair, the out- lay in building, fencing and decorating was increased accordingly. The electric display was one of the | finest ever seen on the Pacific Coast and this also added greatly to the ex- pense of the fair. Altogether, the total cost of the last street fair was about $30,000. The attendance at the first street fair was 130,000, while that at the second | was but 112,000, and while the Elks’ fair was only kept open for one week the second fair ran for eleven days. The expense of the extra four days added materially to the total enpense of the carnival In spite of all these adverse circum- stances there was a surplus of $900 after all accounts had been closed, and this will be distributed among charita- ble organizations of this city. The charities that will be benefited by this | donation are the Ladies’ Relief Society, the Fred Finch Orphanage, the Colored People’s Home, the Social Settlement, St. Joseph's Home and the German Ladies’ Relief Society. The executive committee voted $2500 to Director General Max Schlueter and this action was fully approved by the board of directors, which thoroughly the work done by Mr. cess it was. ‘When the second street fair was first planned the matter was in the hands of the local lodge of Elks, which had so successfully conducted the carnival of the previous year, but before the ar- rangements were completed the Grand Lodge had issued an order forbidding any subordinate lodge to conduct a street fair. So much had already been however, that the directors felt that they could not abandon the enter- prise, so the Oakland Street Fair and Carnival Association was organized and incorporated and the stock was sold to citizens and members of the Elks as individuals. That the second fair was not as great a financial suc- [ as the first was through no fault of the members of the association, but rather because public interest had | partly died cut and the expense of con- ducting the enterprise was much great- er than anticipated. PO 8 il 8 O SR LR AERIE OF EAGLES IS INSTALLED AT LIVERMORE Oakland Organization, Accompanied by Drum Corps, Makes Trip to Conduct Ceremony. LIVERMORE, Feb. 7.—A new aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, sev- enty-eight strong, was installed at Liv- ermore to-day, the ceremonies of in- stallation being conducted by State Deputy Grand President Charles D. Nagle of San Francisco and Dr. H. B. Mehrmann, worthy president of Oak-* land Aerie No. 7, and 175 members of Oakland Aerie, accompanied by the famous drum corps of the aerie. went to Livermore on a special train ‘this morning and after a reception by the members of the newly organized aerié lunch was served in the hall, after which the new aerie and its officers were installed. During the ceremony the stations were occubied by the officers of Oak- land Aerie. They are: Past president, J. F. Heaney; president, Dr. H. B. Mehrmann; vice president. Harry Pul- cifer; chaplain, Judge Mortimer Smith; secretary, R. C. Blake; recording secre- tary, Howard Prentice; treasurer, Wil- liam McDonald; conductor, Al Poulter; inside guardian, C. W. Denny; outside guardian, O. R. Pritchard; trustees, John Bishop, M. J. Hallahan and 0. A. Smith. The officers of Livermore Aerie who were installed to-day are: Past presi- dent, G. W. Mally; president, Fred Mally; first vice president, G. W. Beck; chaplain, Willis E. Wempling; secre- tary, William Kaiser; treasurer, George Ipswitch: conductor, H. B. Bus- rend; inside guardian, J. Leal; outside guardian. Carl Grainitz; physician, Dr. Thomas D. Quinn; trustees, Norman McLeod, W. Thomas, F. S. Fennin. The members of the drum corps of Oakland Aerie, which made“the hit of the day, are: Drum major, O. A. Smith; sergeant leader, H. K. Smith; sergeants, Jack Callahan and Ernie Cardinet; corporals, J. H. Martin, Ed- die Fitzpatrick and Howard Prentice; manager, E. A. Peck; mascot, Frankie Brown; Charles Ohme, William Duchrau, A. S: Abernethy, William McDonald, William Raffetto, William Gray. James Dunn, James Otey and Harry Kirkaldie, NEW Very Easy for Her. A “woman’s reason,” with all its traditional lack of logic, came out in an amusing fashion at a recent dinmer party in Brooklyn. In the course of the evening the con- versation drifted around to those odd little mathematical bits of the How- old-is-Ann variety, when one of the company, with explanations that the next problem would not be a very diffi- cult one, questioned as follows: “If a bottle and a cork together cost $1 10, and the bottle costs a dollar more than the cork, how much did the cork cost?” Almost instantly one of the ladies was ready with the answer: “Why, the cork cost 5 gents and the bottle $1 05. That's too leasy.” The lady’s husband, familiar thro years of experience with her woeful lack of skill in figures, looked up in astonishment. / “Heavens!” he exclaimed. “How'did you come to get that so soon?"” “Why, my dear,” was the reply, ‘“corks always cost 5 cents, don't' they?”—New York Times. COUNTY OF AL AMEDA = A TRAVELER WHO AIDS THEM - H. Hill of Colorado Invites William L. Greene and Richard C. Clark, Army Recruits, to Share His Room and They Depart With H is Property N RICHARS = CLARY — : - AND A WATCH FROM A g PRIVATES IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY WHO STOLE MONEY TRAVELER FROM COLORADO WHO HAD BEFRIENDED THEM IN OAKLAND. + OAKLAND, Feb. 7.—Because they wore the blue of the United States army and were out of money, D. H. Hill, a traveler from Colorado, played benefactor last night to . William L. Greene and Richard C. Clark, recruits in the army, and gave the penniless soldiers shelter in his rooms. The pair of ungrateful infantrymen rewarded Hill by stealing his watch. $42 in mon- ey and some small articles. Quick work by the police landed Privates Greene and Clark in the City Prison this morning ‘at 8 o'clock, where they were charged with grand larceny. Hill came in on last night's overland. Carmates were Greene and Clark, who were en route under orders from Den- ver to report at Angel Island. 'The three became acquainted. The train was very late and Hill decided to re- main in Oakland. His soldier friends confided to him the ct . that they were both without money and that they would be compelled to walk the streets until to-day. Hill invited them to be his guests at the Pullman House, Seventh and Pine streets, where they took rooms. ‘When the host awoke early this morning he found the soldiers had gonc, so had his watch, trinkets and money. Quickly the police were noti- fled. Patrolmen Sill and Ahern, with Sergeant Clark, headed for Oakland pier. There they arrested the soldiers and sent them to the City Prison. The pair had walked to the pier and were about to take the first boat to San Francisco. ) The money and watch were recov- ered. Greene confessed that Clark and himself had stolen the property. Hill was on his way to Los Angeles, where his wife is very fli, and the in- terruption to his journey caused him much inconvenience. MUSIC SOUNDS FROM CHOIRS it Special Programmes Are Fea- ture of Services in Many of the Sanctuaries of Oakland —l Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Feb. 7. The chorus choir and solo quartet of the First Baptist Church gave their monthly musical service this evening at Masonic Hall, the piace of worship. Among the numbers was an anthem composed by John W. Metcalf of this city. Mrs. Margaret Best, J. W. Garth- walte and Miss Grace Hipkins of San Francisco sang solos. W. W. Ellls was organist and Miss Gertrude Hibberd violinist. P. A. R. Dow was director of music. ¥ The Right Rev. William Ford Nich- ols, Bishop of California, yill officiate at confirmation Sunday, February 14, at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Church of the Advent will give a party Febru- ary 12 during the afternoon and even- ing. The Norwegian-Danish church, 54 Twentieth street, will give an entertain- ment Friday evening. ‘Wallace A. Sabin, organist and choir- master of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of San Francisco, played to-night at the First Congregational Church. The music was from Sabin's compositions. The soloists were Mrs. Grace Davis Northrup, Mrs. Carroll Nicholson, James F. Veaco and Walter E. Nichol- son. Alexander Stewart conducted, with a chorus choir of sixty voices. Gaul's oratorio “The Holy City” was sung to-night at the First Presbyterian Church. % The Rev. A. 8. Coats, D. D., of Buf- falo, N. Y. preached to-day at the Tenth-avenue Baptist Church. Miss Minnie Smith was the soloist this evening at the services at St Paul's Episcopal Church. Dr. O. 8. Dean conducted a musical service this evening at the First Chris- tian Church. Union evangelistic. services for the churches of West Oakland will be held this week at Calvary Baptist Church, West street, near Twelfth, beglnnln! to-morrow evening. —_—e————— A recent bulletin of the Department of Agriculture says: “It appears that practically all soils contain sufficient plant food for good crop yield; that this supply will be indefinitely main- tained, and that this actual vield of plants adapted to the soll depends mainly, under favorable conditions, upon the cultural methods and suitable crop rotation.” MUSIC T0 FILL (OLLEGE BREAST Orchestra of the University of (California Prepares to Give First Sunday Concert —_— Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, Feb. 7. Weather permitting, the first concert of the series recently arranged to be given on Sundays in the new Greek Theater will take place next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The unlversity orchestra will play four or five selec- tions, the whole programme not to oc- cupy more than a half-hour. On the subsequent Sunday afternoons the oth- er musical organizations of the univer- sity will contribute programmes, and then in turn the orchestra will play | again, each organization playing in turn indefinitely. These affairs are de- signed to attra®t people to the theater and show off its advantages. The pub- lic is invited to attend the concerts. Founder's day wil Ibe celebrated at the Wilmerding School, Sixteenth and Utah streets, to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock by the dedication of a new building that was recently erected by the students. The bids for the structural steel work of California Hall will close at 12 o’clock on Wednesday. They must be handed in at the secretary's office before the noon hour. Work on the excavating for the hall has been temporarily stopped by the rain. The next university meeting will be held Friday morning in Harmon Gym- nasium. President Wheeler will an- nounce the names of the speakers later in the week. The universal day of prayer for the colleges and their students will be noted by a special meeting in Stiles Hall on Sunday next at 3 o’clock. —_——————— Buys Two Papers. OAKLAND, Feb. 7.—Fred E. Adams, editor and proprietor of theé Pleasanton Times, has gone into the paper business wholesale. He has purchased the Washington Press, published by E. B. Thompson at Ir- vington, and the Niles Herald. pio- lished by the Waters Bros. at Niles, and will consolidate the two papers into one to be published by him at Niles, which is becoming the great center of Washington Township. He will not relinquish his control of his Pleasanton paper, which is in the cen- ter of the great horse industry of Ala- meda Countv. —_————————— Many a man is more afraid of his typewriter than he is of his wife. 574 LEAVES BRIDE SECOND TIVE Dr. Gardner Howell Forsakes Wife and She Begins Earn- ing Her *Living in a Store | QeSS S DRUGGIST IS AFTER HIM - It Is Said That Fear of Ar- rest Caused the Physician to Flee the College Town L Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, Feb. 7. Dr. Gardner Howell, the man that wooed and won Miss Bessie Bash of 2134 Woolsey street in three days, has | forsaken his wife and even his parents- in-law. His wife, Bo longer hoping for his return, has taken to earning her own living by clerking in a South Berkeley dry goods store. The incentive for Dr. Howell's dis- appearance is said to be his fear of Edward Noble, who keeps a pharmacy at 3027 Adeline street. Noble accuses the doctor of stealing from him a bot- tle of cocaine worth $1 50 and he has applied to the Justice's Court for a warrant for his arrest. The druggist's only ground for the accusation is that the cocaine disappeared at the same time the doctor did. As this appeared to Justice Edgar a little flimsy, he re- fused to issue a warrant, but Noble vows he will not let up in his prose- cution of Dr. Howell. Mrs. Howell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bash of Woolsey street. She had no thought of marry- ing until three days after she met [ Howell. Her mother had introduced them. Mrs. Bash, it seems, met Dr. Howell on the Overland train coming across the continent. He told her he was a New York physiciar traveling around the world and made such an impression that she invited him to her Berkeley home. Miss Bash and from all accounts it was a case of love at first sight. It was announced then that Dr. Howell would take his wife with with him for the rest of the way around world. They were to start on Decem- ber 27, but they did not. Instead, Dr. Howell disappeared for two days while they were staying at the Touraine Hotel in Oakland and his wife thought he had deserted her. But he bobbea up a day or so later at the Bash home. He explained that a message he haa sent from San Francisco informing his wife that he had been suddenly taken ill had miscarried. ————— SHOOTS HIS BROTHER WHILE OUT HUNTING Charles Telemene Wounds Fred Tele- mene in the Ankle With a Bullet From Small Rifle. OAKLAND, Feb. 7.—Fred Tele- mene, a boy, residing at 2905 Lin- coln street, Alameda, was accidentally shot in the right ankle to-day by a bullet from a small rifle discharged by his brother, Charles, while the pair were hunting in Redwood Canyon. The wounded hoy was taken to the Receiving Hospital and later | placed under an X-ray examination by | Dr. A. S. Kelly, who located the bullet. The missile was of small caliber and caused a wound that is not serious. —— e Coal constituted nearly 40 per cent of { the total tonnage of American railways | last year. It cost $1 87 to carry a ton | from Yorkshire coal fields, in England, | to London, a distance of 158 miles, or 1.18 cents a ten a mile, while coal is brought from the Carbondale coal re- | gion, in Illinois, to Chicago, 276 miles. for 75 cents a ton ——— In Siam some of the women intrust | their children to the care of elephant nurses, and it is said that the trust is | never betrayéd. The babies play about the huge feet of the elephants, who are [ very careful never to hurt their little | charges. There the doctor met | was | - BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1118 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083. BERKELEY 2148 Center Street. | Telephone North 77. ALAMEDA. ! 1435 Park Street. Telephone Eagle 502 L el ALLSEITS WILL SURVIVE WOUND | l -s | Berkeley Lad That Was Vie- | tim of Otto Simon’s Bul- let Is on Road to Recovery BB 5 ele PRISONER MAY BE okt | Friends of Injured Youth Say That if He Does Not Die There Will Be No Prosecution FREED Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Feb. 7 | Miner Allseits. the Berkeley lad that | was shot on the morning of New Year's | day at the South Berkeley flre house | by Otto Simon, is still alive, and it is | asserted that he will recover. ;| The fact that Allseits has lived for | more than a month is in itself remark- able, owing to the character of the | wound. The bullet went through the | right lobe of the liver and lodged in | the back, just under the skin. It has | been extrac and the external wounds are healing nicely. Simon, who shot Allseits, is still in | the County Jail, awaiting the result of | Allseits’ wound. It was expected for |a long time that the wounded man would die, in which case Simon would | have been charged with murder, but it is said by the friends of the injured man that if he recovers there will be no prosecution. ———e————— Organize Improvement Club. Seventy property holders in the Fair- | mount district held a meeting in Ro- lando’s Hall, . Twenty-eighth and Church streets, yesterday afternoon and organized the Fairmount Valley | Defensive ,and Improvement Associa- tion. The fcliowing officers were elect ed: Daniel Ward, president; Charles | Mey vice president; P. J. Healey, | secretary: John Lyman, treasurer: L. Larsen, sergeant at arms. An execu- tive comm of six was also elected. | The association has been primarily or- ganized to combat the efforts of Gray | Brothers to continue blasting im the vicinity of Thirtieth and Castro streets. ! There was considerable comment upon | the delay of Mayor Schmitz In not | signing the ordinance. passed by the upervisors extending the limits in ‘\\l hich blasting can be done. e Weighing Machine Rifled. The nickel-in-the-slot weighing ma- | chine in front of the Cafe Zinkand has | been robbed: twice within the last | week. The theft was reported to the | police yesterday, but no clew to the | thief has been secured 1 ——— Visitor—You haven't got half as nice a cemetery here as we have in Elm- | ville. | Prominent Citizen (of Hawville) | I've always heard that the cemetery is | the only part of your town that holds out any inducements for permanent residents.—Chicago Tribune —_————— There is a great deal of pleasure in | helping a man to get on his feet,” said | the optimist Yes, provided he doesn't | turn arcund and kick you.” replied the | pessimist Then Let “The Two “Her Leap Year Inspiration. “Concerning a Vowel. “One of the Family.” | “Pike’s Peak or Bust.” By EDWIN LEFEVRE. 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