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16 FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY FEBRUUARY 23, 1904. T0 INVESTICATE [RREGULARITIES Grand Jury Committee to Begin Inquiry Into Alleged Jobbery in the Almshouse Supplies BSErete i | INDICTMENTS MAY FOLLOW BT I'estimony Will Be Taken as to Why the Legal Specifications Were Not Strictly Adhered To Committee begin to-day relation to the furnishing of i County Alms- stration for lan is responsible. which the latest ffairs was re- with its regular tions of the va- | under the juris- e Board of Health, is com- posed of Ira B. Dalziel (chairman), Her- bert Law J. H. Mundy. The com- mittee has mapped out the lines upon which the inquiry will be pursued, and if the evidence shows any wrongdoing on the part of contractors or employes at the Almshouse indictments are sure to follow. The scope and powers of the Grand Jury committees are limited to the gathering of testimony regarding any dereliction on the part of the officials of the municipal departments. After their report has been prepared it is submitted to the Grand Jury proper, and on the findings of the committee will depend the bringing of true bills egainst the offending parties. WILL TAKE EVIDENCE. The first part of the inquiry wili be @irected to the examination of the spec- | 1fications upon which the various ‘con- tractors furnished their supplies. After this is defi eettled in the minds of the men committee evi- be taken both from the em- pioyes of the Almshouse and the con- tractors themselves as to the kind of goods supplied to the institution, which in the and bers of the dence w were pronounced of ior quality lack in quanti the com- Health Board which first he irregularities. tors that will be called r transactions with include F Uri & Co. n yan. The Health Board « ported that cow's meat the city’s poor in- at, as the specifica- As the latter is much mer and costs less it one profited by the , and on this point 1 the meat contract, stioned. | shed the blankets, | Bogrd Committee rweight. The gpecifi- for five-pound blankets, rnished only weighed is claimed, and did not | me of the Almshousel\ in them alleged by the of ¥ irregularities to be committee include the -barrels of pork and barrels; the purchase ch cows; syrup that rd with the specifications, the purchase of a horse at double e of the animal. | the manner in which irregularities were carried the general opinion that there lusion among some employes at | mshouse, and in that event those » offended will certainly lose their positions, even if something of a graver character does t happen to them. | —_———————— MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE TO HOLD ANNUAL ELECTION The annual election of the Me-| chanics’ Institute will take place to- day. Polls will be open at the library buflding from 11 a. m. to 9 p. m. | Seven trustees are to be elected from the following list of candidates: George Beaneton, aesistant suditor Pacific States Telegraph and Telephone Company; Ed- ward A Gallaghe: consulting _engineer with the Bank of Californ!; . auditor Risdon Iron Work: Charles Sonntag. f‘n-.i:sonnm‘ & Co., cor mlesion merchants; Ja: Spiers, genera! ma; ager Fulton Iron Works; Rudolph J. Taussig, | merchant; O. A. Tveitmoe editor; George Wallie, superintendent cable department. wir worke Claims His Son Beat Him. Jerry Dowd, en old man residing at 288 Harriet street, was treated at the | Emergency Hospital yesterday for a severe scalp wound and a broken bone in his wrist. The wounds were in-| flicted, he stated, by his 16-year-old | son, Edward. The old man also said ’ i that because he owns some property, which his wife and children wish to get away from him, they have been abusing and assaulting him at inter- | vals until yesterday, when the climax | was reached by the son striking him | on the head with a stick, while his | wife looked on. SCOTT’S EMULSION. FEED the babies and children on | Scott’s | Emulsion 'PHYSICIANS DISCUSS THE DEPLORABLE STATE OF CITY AND COUNTY HOSPITAL Second Day’s Session of the Third Annual State Conference of Charities and Corrections Is Prolific of Valuable Papers on Subjects of General Interest Pertaining to Public Institations you have read, you have no doubt concluded and County Hospital is the daskest hospital and the darkest managed hos- pital in the world The Board of Health has its face se: toward a betterment. While itd existence is provided by the charter, it is not a board of political doctors. If the charter forces the medical man into a life on the Board of Health, that man should not be ridiculed when he is trying to do what the charter prescribes. The policy of the present ‘board is to do away with committze rule at the City and County Hospital., We have established new rules and regulations for the government of the hospital patients and employes. The new regulations have been taken from the best hospitals in Chicago and New York. The Board of Health cannot give you a new hospitsl at once, but we can give you a cleaner and more saniiary one than you now have. The condition of cleanliness shall extend as far as possible in an old buflding, and shall extend to every department in the building. 4 78 /) S DS 772z 7572 7 AERE s 3 The second day of the third annual session of the State Conference of Charitles and Corrections was com- pleted yesterday. Quite a large crowd was present and it listened to several papers, all of them dealing with med- icine and the treatment of disease. The City and County Hospital was the subject of much discussion at the morning session. Papers on this in- stitution were read by Dr. Emmet Rix- | ford and Dr. Willlam Watt Kerr. subject was discussed by Dr. James Ward, president of the city Board of Health, and Dr. A. W. Clark of the Alameda County Hospital. Dr. Rixford said: To answer the question of whether the ser- vice to the sick poor is what it should be is a elmple matter, for every one who knows any- | thing at all abont the City and County Hospi- tal knows that it is not, but to put the thing in such a manner that it wiil bear frult in stimu- lating effort to better the institution is not so eimple. To those who live in San Francisco and vicinity I can tell nothing about the insti- tution or its management—there is mothing new to tell or to tell of. I was going to say that there is nothing new in the City and County Hospital, nor has there been for the last thirty years. San Francisco has never had reason to be proud of her municipal hospital, and she has done but mighty little to_better things since the days when the present building was erected as a temporary structure to house the patients while a proper permanent building was being | constructed. She lain apathetic while other cities of her size and Importance have all striven to keep pace with the march of sclence and art in the care of the sick. She has been left far in the rear by all the great American citles, till to-day she can bogst if ehe would of the poorest bullt, equipped and the most niggardly supported municipal hospital of any city of her size in America. And the condition of things is not likely to be materially improved till the public appreciates the facts in the case and demands ® better gtate of things, and just here it seems to me iz one of the flelds in which this confer- ence can be of great assistance to the institu- tion in helping to mold public opinion in its favor. NEED NEW BUILDING. That the general public is beginning to ap- preciate the needs of the City and County Hos- pital is shown by the fact that In a recent The | the poorest | SPEAKERS AT THE SECOND DAY'S SESSION OF STATE CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS. { | | | | | We have formerly had no reception room at the hospital. Of late we have arranged to have a room where patients applying for admission can be examined without the publicity exist- ing before. SEGREGATING CONS Tubercular patients are now scattered throughout the hospital, We are arranging to put them outside in another bullding, that they may be givenu the benefit of the latest and most successful methods of treating the dread disease. This will be better for the consump- tive and better for the other patients. The new Health Board has decided to run the hospital for the good of the city. Certalnly the board has no ulterior motive. The staff of nurses was formerly totally inadequate, but it has been increased so that now we have two nurses to each ward during the day and one in each at night. The force has been i creased to sixty, giving us latitude for sick- ness among nurses and allowing for nurses to attend the operations. The visiting physicians are allowed to prac- tically govern the hospital. There are five staffs, and each staff is allowed to appoint a director. Each of the directors is appointed from the physicians of the hospital. The di- rectors meet once a month and discuss the welfare_of the hospital and make suggestions to the Board of Health, so that the public can now reach. the government of the institution. The attitude of the board toward the attaches of the hospital is as broad as it can be made. Dr. Kerr said: In the surgical department of the City and v Hospital the patients were compelled nd on the convalescent patients and jcal students for assistance. The nursing MPTIVES. me equally bad. Medicines were not properly attended to or administered, nor regularly given. With the advent of the new nurses, things have been changed. We now have a cleaner, better cervice. We have not now arly enough nurses. Some of them are com- pelled to do & thirty-six or forty-hour watch. The nureing staff is not adequate for the work. EXPENSES NOW GREATER. The medical requirements are not adequate. The expenses to-day are greater than they were tive years ago. Surgery has advanced so that where an appendicitis patient was al- lowed to die, he is now operated on and suc- cessfully cured. Diphtheria is now treated with anti-toxins, so that the disease has been robbed of its danger. The anti-toxin is expensive and, i we are going to practice modern surgery, we must hive funds. The bacteriological laboratories in use at the hospital are not run at the expense of the city. the hospital are run at the expense of the city. The medical colleges installed them for the benefit of their students and have maintained them ever since. The colleges are doing a great deal for the city in this respect., The present building is totally inddequate number of patients confined in it. are overtaxed. Wards built for twenty- five patients are compelled to house forty. Then some one makes a howl that a patient has been refused almiscion to the hospital. The forty beds In one ward are given but 850 cubic feet of alr. It should not be less than 1500 cublc feet, ard I do not know of any modern buflding that does not give to each forty beds from 1800 to 2000 cubic feet. The site of the hospital Is the best that can be obtained. A city and county hospital should be centrally located to be of the greatest . There is 2 feeling that the management should be entirely diverced from politics (applause). Two of the trustees should be of the staff of ‘ieiting physicians and be elected by members v thes ctalt. The trouble with the City and County Hospital is that its management has election the city voted to issue bonds to the amount of & million dollars for the erection of & new building. Another speaker will present to you a state- ment of how munificently our thrifty eity sup- ports its charity hospital and will compare it with similar institutions in other cities. Suf. fice it for me to say that San Francisco ap- propriates less per patient than any other hos- pital with which we would like to compare | our inetitution. The appropriation varies from 60 to 70 cents a day per patient, including sal- aries. Of thirty similar hospitals in Ameri- can cities fifteen epend more than twice as | much and generally their salary list is smaller in proportion. Have we a right to expect our Board of Health to give service comparable to that in these hospitals on less than half the amount of money to do it with? You will see figures which will show that the cost of raw food is less than in nearly all such institu- tions. It is 17 and 18 cents a day per person fed—but a large proportion of the persons fed are officers and employes, whose fare—none | 100 good—is more expensive than that given to_the patients. have said that the salary list is some- what larger than in Eastern hospitals, but, considering the higher wages in San Fran- clsco, It is not dispropertionately so. But the individual ‘salaries are in some instances ri- dicuolously low, which simply means that the | institution has a larger number of employes You will see an improve- ment in their little thin bodies at once. They can take it when they even refuse their mothers’ milk. | It is essentially a babies’ food, surprising in its re. sults. Always the same. | and that these employes are incompetent and cannot if they would give proper service. As you will see. the large number of employes contains a ridiculously small number of nurses —which means that there is a still greater predominance of the inefficient help. The influence of a lot of conscientious young women in such an institution is not to be ex- aggerated. A physician who visited our city from Massachusetts not long since, and who is deeply interested in the problems of hospital management, spent most of his time while here in visiting the various public and private hospitals. He found much to commend, but also much to criticize. His attention was par- ticularly attracted to the character of the nursing service in the City and County Hospital and the relatively small number of nurses as mpared with similar institutions in the East. So convinced was be of the beneficent influence of women in the hospital that he was wont to sum up the situation in the statement that a bospital is clean. the food well served, the comfort of the patients assured in proportion to the umount of control in the ent of the affairs of the institution put in the hands of the women, Dr. Ward said: From all that you bave heard and all that been left too much to an executive head, who knows nothing of the wants or needs of the patient. The management should be given to {he men who associate dally with the patients and are in a position to know their wants. SHARP CONTRAST MADE. Dr. Clark of Alameda read a paper on the improvements made in the Public Hospital of Alameda County. A vivid contrast with the condition of the Public Hospital of this city was shown. Charles A. Murdock, representing the Merchants' Association, gave a brief talk, comparing the San Francisco hospital with those of other cities. He said: A man from the Faet, unprejudiced, investi- gated our hospital ang ‘said it was the worst institution of its kind in the entire world. The dangers from disease in Chinatown, in' his opinion, are not in it with those of the City and County Hospital. The city pours out money lavishly for the eecuring of a convention of the Knights of Pythias and for the building of a monument to Dewey, who destroyed a bunch of tin ships at Manila, but when it comes to carige for our sick, what have we done? In the beet hospital In the United States the average cosf per patient per day is $1 96. In San Francisco the amount provided is but 8 cents. Hospitals in the East have one purse to every three patients, while in San Francisco we have but one to every ten pa- tients. We have no detention ward for pa- tients with infectious diseases. In other eit- ies the amount spent for raw food per day per Satient is 30 cents; in this city it fs but 17 cents. These are the things we have to think of most. John Chetwood made an address on the legal aspect of the “Hospital Site Question.” He said: Some time prior to last fall's bond election the Board of Supervisors sclecting the Almshouse Tract as the new City and County Hospital. fore the election information as to th provements to be voted for, their cost, char- acter, etc., was published in the press, and in_ contemplation of law all voters were ap- ised of the facts and figures thus published. This publication did not, however, directly Os&ooz PorNArT s AT, S R NI TS | designate the Almshouse Tract as the hospital site, but only referred by number and title to the resolution by which it had been se- I The charter does not require the Su- rs to select a elte in advance or to y Information to the voters on this point. Under the circumstances, and the authorities, it does not seem clear whether the board is or is not bound to adhere to the site selected. And if public welfare requires a change a proper application can be made to the board | to make one. If the board accedes to the de- mand for a change, an appropriate action on its part looking to one can be made the basis of an injunction to test its power in the matter. But such injunction proceeding should not be allowed to embarrass, impede or affect the | suit to test the validity of the entire bond ue, which has just been brought In the uperior Court, and on which it is most im- portant to have a ruling as soon as possible. TREATMENT OF INSANE. F. W. Hatch, M. D., General Super- intendent of State Hospitals, read an | ADVERTISEMENTS. PSORIASIS AND EGZEMA Milk Crust, Scalled Head, | Tetter, Ringworm and Pimples COMPLETE TREATMENT, $1.00 - [} For Torturing, Disfiguring Humours, From Pimples to Scrofula, From Infancy to Age. The agonizing itching and burning of the skin, as in eczema; the frightful scaling, as in psoriasis; the loss of hair and crusting of the scalp, as in scalled head; the facial disfigurement,. as in pimples and ringworm; the awfui suf- fering of infants, and anxiety of worn- out parents, as in milk crust, tetter and galt rheum —all demand a remedy of almost superhuman virtues to success- . fully cope with them. That Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills are such stands proven beyond all doubt. No statement is made regarding them that is mot justified by the strongest evi- dence. The purity and sweetness, the power to afford immediate relief, the certainty of speedy and permanent cure, the absolute safety and great economy have made them the standard skin cures and humour remedies of the civilized world. Complete treatment for every humour, consisting of Cuticura Soap to cleanse thre skin, Cuticura Ointment to heal the skin, and Cuticura Resclvent Pills to cool and cleanse the blood may now be had for one dollar. A single set is often sufficient to cure the most torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning and scaly humours, eczemas, rashes and irrita- tlons, from infancy to age, when all eise fails. St s e, o o Mvery Humour.® - LOTE AND RU CAUSE NTRDER Barkeeper Evans Is Suffocated and His Consort Half Dead After a Drunken Quarrel CURES ROOM IS FILLED WITH GAS Woman Mad With Liquor and Jealousy Is Believed to Have Turned On the Deadly Fluid | Love, jealousy and intemperance in- | Judiciously mingled caused a murder and an attempted suicide last Sunday | night in the lodging-house at 624 Kear- | ny street. As the result of a slighted | woman’s rage William Henry Evans| lies on a slab in the Morgue and Annie i Newton, a dive waitress, is in the hos- pital being treated for carbon monoxide | | poisoning. i Evans was 25 years old and was em- | {ployed as a bartender at 911 Kearny | street. He and the woman had been consorting together for several months. | On Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock they | arrived at their lodgings drunk and ! quarrelsome, One of the inmates named | | Florence Bell informed Deputy Coroner | | Charles Meehan that Evans threw the Newton woman out'of the room and | threatened to have nothing further to do with her. After the woman had | pleaded for a while he relented and al- lowed her to re-enter. It was then that ' she declared that if Evans should at- tempt to cast her off she would commit suicide or turn on the gas on both of | them. F. A. Emerson, a friend of Evans, called at midnight, and receiving no re- sponse to his knocks notified Lnnd]ord. Siersted and suggested that he should force an entrance, but the landlord said that they were in a drunken sleep {and he did not wish them to be dis- turbed. Emerson called again at 8:30 o'clock | yesterday morning and knocked again at ‘the door of the room occupied by Evans ‘and the Newton woman. Not obtaining a reply and detecting the | odor of illuminating gas, BEmerson | forcea the door leading from the ad- | joining room to Evans' and found | Evans lying dead across the bed, fully dressed except his shoes. The woman was in her nightgown, unconscious. The keyhole was plugged with the end of a towel. Two burners feeding a gas cook- ing stove were open. The woman was taken to the Harbor Hospital for medi- | cal treatment and the body of the man sent to the Morgue. The hospital sur- geon says the woman will die. = = *| interesting paper on “Modern )lelhnd.s in the Care and Treatment of Insane.” | Dr. Hatch said in part: The best way to treat insane people is to care for their morals. . We should have a hos- | pital for the keeping and treating of the slightly affected Insane, so that they might be kept from the asylums. There are many cases of alcoholic imsanity that would mnever go farther than this hospital. If there was such a hospital these cases might be easily studied and better treat If the cases are incurable or acute, then the subjects can be assizned to an asylum X The hospital should be equipped with build | ings for the holding of subjects for observa- | tion. Many cases of insanity, if quickly treated, can be readily cured. There should be wards where the escents can be placed. The insane not con- sidered hopeless cases be provided with work. established, where they could be put to work and get plenty of exercise. 1 think that the State should do away with the legal process in com- mitting subjects to the asylums: do away with any semblance of criminality or courts in the committing of weak-minded people. | Discussion of Dr. Hatch's paper was | opened by Dr. A. W. Hoisholt of the | Stockton State Hospital. He said: | | | The State hospitals of California are up with | any In the world, as far as housing and feed- ing are concerned. But in the treatment, the insane do not fare as well as they do_in some of the European countries, such as Germany Our hospitals are not equipped for treatment of the subjects. The person committed for weak-mindedness Is as much a sick patient and | deserves treatment as much as any sick per- | son. We need -more means for treating the insanie. Merely housing and feeding them does nothing toward their recove: T should advise a State i conval- should be colony might fitution where the It should be located near the Bay | AS A CAUSE. | ‘We have three prime causes of insanity, which help to fill our asylums. Much of the correction of these causes can be done by char- itable institutions and cannot be donme at th asylums, where it is too late. I refer mainly | to alcobolism. In a certain part of Germany 1 visited an asylum where 90 per cent of the inmates were victims of drink. In others the | percentage was 43 per cent. Another cause of insanity is that dread disease syphilis. Twen. ty-five per cent of all the cases I know o ve resulted {rom this terrible disease. The cause is intermarriage of persons afflicted with eeme disease, causips the offspring to be affected by heredity. The task of correcting these enumerated causes Is utopian, I know, but much can be done by a body like this which undertakes the work in the right way. W. A. Gates, secretary of the State Board of Charities and Correction: also spoke on the subject introduced by Dr. Hatch. He said: We should get over the idea that when a | person shows signs of mental derangement or | brain disease he must be dragged into court by the Sheriff. They say that it is the law that no man shall be deprived of his liberty without due process of law. “A person found to have contracted smallpox is not given a trial, but is hustled out to the pesthouse. NEEDS OF STATE HOME. There is too much tendency to fix a_stigma on a person who is weak minded. The only Way to get at the seat of the trouble is to re- move everything that savors of courts and criminality. “The Needs of the State Home for Feeble-minded Children” was the sub- ject of a paper read by Dr. William J. G. Dawson, Medical Superintendent of the Home for the Feeble-minded at Glen Ellen, Sonoma County. Dr. Daw- son told of the needs of the home in the way of finances and new buildings. He said that the institution was totally inadequate for the nurhber of persons in it. A waiting list has to be main- tained, he says, so that the place does not become overcrowded. Many fami- ltes have been waiting for three or four years to get some one in the home. At the night session Andrew M. Da- vis, president of the Charities Indorse- ment Committee of San read a paper on “The Charities In- dorsement Committee and Its Aims.” Davis told of the work of the investi- gating committee in the matter of reg- ulating the donations tc charitable in- situtions. ““What the Assoclated Charities Stand For” was the subject of a talk given by Dr. Samuel G. Smith of St. Paul. The discussion of the subject was introduced by Ossood Putnam, president of the Associated Charities of San Francisco. The last session of the conference begins this morning at the First Uni- tarjan Church. An excellent pro- gramme has been prepared and some fine papers will be read | made an impassioned speech, and at|and I insane in cases not pronounced {ncurable might \Russia. be treated. The men’s coats this spring will be very smart afiairs. Deep concave shoulders— giving the wearer a broad and distinguished air. Fits snug around the collar. Elongated lapel—gives the shirt and cravat a chance. Of course you know Brown’s for vaiues. MILL TO MAN. BROWN 516'SI8 MARKET ST.noxicomeny PASTOR LAUDS Dr. M. C. Harris Says That Rus- ™ i sia’s Plots Have Been in Prog- | v ss More Than Thirty Years | W S PC “War in the Far East” was one of the subjects discussed at the Congrega- | day that the p st the co will be he torium Monday, the tional Ministers’ Association meeting yesterday. The Rev. William Rader, Dies Duri president, was in the chair, and the, Clinton J Rev. Dr. M. C. Harrls, whose knowl seks old, a his mother earthquake edge of the peoples and geography ¢ the East is extensive, delivered the ad- dress. Dr. Harris in speaking to his brother ministers of the outbreak of hostilitles between Japan and R ja | in ily Mrs. ck infant side her. hippano sa the mor the close of his remarks a great volley | Soon aft 1 there was a shock of applause showed conclusively upon Of earth 1 nother saw which side the sympathy leaned. that the t was g g for breath. Dr. Harris in championing the course | She tool her arms and ex- Japan has taken said that if a nation | pired imme A s WSt Teatasuin. S ever went to war in a holy cause Japap | (e earthquake frightened the infant | to deat is doing that now. He spoke from the standpoint of personal experience and | observation, which led him to advotate it as a righteous war. For more than thirty years, said | (g thing to Dr. Harris, Russia had plotted against Japan, which, though patient | for a length of time, had grown worn Pri out, and failing to effect any satisfac- | tory relations had gone at last to war. | Frivate Dr. Harris said that he not only | Tlpiie® was drown wharf 3 ing. 'he body red two I had b —_———————— » Expositica Special. One of our $5.00 nks will be fust u to the Expo- price of ti a Ce., ate French Drowned. K. States Island gton-street sterday morn- led for and 1 If later. Angel yashi deemed it a righteous war, but, more- | over, he advocated that the so-called “bogie yellow peril” should receive no serious consideration, for the war was being prosecuted to preserve the na- not 10 o'clock y was tiona! integrity of Japan, and > h Priva through any desire to array the E gt s Ungdsbd i B ¢ o s s e on board ti rry-boat Grace Barton WOULD FIGHT THE RUSSIANS. 1o be tak Island. French In view of the provocation to Japa yecame go= Dr. Harris declared that he himself |ing on board would like to shoulder the gun against | Adv by Eaw. The address was not down on the 1 programme, and while it came in the | Einouli's Linp Teor Fasty. nature of a surprise the remarks of DI. | ywednesday evening next Lincoln Harris elicited loud and long-continued | cirele of th applause. An able paper entitled “Rise of Cove- Comp: Order s of the For- For will | est, Ancient sters give a leap year party in n Gate nant Theology’’ was read before the as-“ Hall for the pl ure of its I mibeors sociation by Dean Hiram Van Kirk. in |anq their fr gy oo which he traced the origin of a SyStem | i} pe the floor manager and Tenni which began in the Netherlands in the | pitzmaurice her assistant. Leap vear seventeenth century with Coceejus. | yjes will prevail, and, as a strong Dean Van Kirk showed the influence | gorce of fair pe of the system on modern thought. B ot b ook that e has been appointed derable sport the Bishop Hamilton left the city last|gentlemen s sl 4 | night for the East to attend his spring | cenferences of the Methodist Episcopal | PLREEE P e T 3 church. The Bishop will hold a confer- | Trachoma is Granulated Eyelids. win, Kans., Man-h»lfi; Wichita, Kans., | A-favorite in the home. March 24; Salina, Kans., March 31, and | will return to San Francisco April 10. | Does Not Get the Draft. Bishop Hamilton will then begin| Fiorentine Nogato, 740 Vallejo Francisco,” preparations for the semi-annual gata- ering of the Bishops in April, which will mark their first meeting in con- | ference in San Francisco. Prelates of the Methodist Episcopal, | church from all parts of the world will arrive to take part in the delib- | erations. “Is Suicide a Sin?” will be the sub- ject of a sermon by Rev. William | Rader at the Third Congregational | Church, Fifteenth and Mission streets, next Sunday night. Rev. Mr. Rader intends to procure statistics from Coro- ner Leland relative to the number and causes of suicide. Rev. W. B. Berry, editor of the Pa- cific Christian and a member of tha | Christian Church Ministers’ Associa- tion, suggested that inasmuch as the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington | come so near together and as America has produced so many illustrious men a day be set apart to be designated “great men's day,” allowing each com- munity to divide the honors according | to local sentiment. { Rev. Mr. Berry adds to the sugges- | tion that as Washington is first in the | history of his country and first in the hearts of the people his birthday be | appointed for the observance of “great | men’s day” throughout the land. i A PASTOR'S SOUVENIR. | A souvenir showing the Mariners’ Church pulpit, which is modeled after the stern of the clipper ship Youns | America, together with a portrait of | | street, reported to the police yester- | day that he gave Camille Rodriguez, a friend, $120 on Saturday to get a bank draft for the amount and that was the last Nogato had seen or heard of Rodriguez. Rodriguez is a Mexican, 28 years of age and of stout build. No= gato thinks he has left the city. N e — Hills Bros.' Arabian Roast is !ol’ everywhere. - ADVERTISEMENTS. Chocolates Bonbons Given Away Free With Teas, Coffees, Spice Baking Powder It Pays to Trade at Gireat American Importing Tea Co’s Stores Rev. Joseph Rowell, who has been 261 Market 210 Grant av. 1419 Polk pastor of the Mariners’ Church for mt&m :-u:_am 705 Larkin forty-five years, was received by the Mission m‘_.:,"“:t‘ :5,:“": Congregational Ministers’ Association 2008 Fillmore 2516 Mission 146 Ninth < yesterday. 366 Third 2732 24th 489 Fourt: The fifteenth meeting of the San