The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 21 1904. o« NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF BIG MEETING OF “BOOSTERS” Organization Plans Bond Rally at Which Promi- nent Citizens Will Speak REALTY MARKET QUIET Board of Trade to Cele- brate Arrival of First santa Fe Passenger Train Oakland Office San Franvisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, March 20. The “Oakland plans for Boc now will com- held Tty meeting ning at are be Li held after the close ITIBANC which will » accommodate gather in the Presbyterian 1 enter the theater by on Franklin street ct of the play is being among whom Fath Elliott ax their places on the rear and immedi- | curtain’ the ned, bringing the with the audi- campaign of the} the proposed bond Tuesday evening the t out the great bene- to the city of Oak- s are authorized. s of the Oakland Real Association are also e, as they re- ed public im- ished propert demand. Twen- sociation en- f the Press Club y afternoon, and lutions of thanks lub on behalf of Taylor. Henry port little busi- p ctive npleted It will f 40 feet er and freight e commit- ival of LY & FFERING OF MRS. OAKLAND, March 20.—Mrs. Aby- € wife of Thomas Nuttall of who ame violently apa Insane died very sud- that institution as . d mental ex- had been ceks before haustior mildly he ment to the asylum and on Mar e became exceedingly vio- lent, it being necessary to confine her at thé Receiving Hospital. Mrs. Nuttall's confinement her violence had continued sed. Death came an unusually vio- h, in her weak- ened condition, ient was unable to rally ———— New Church Nea ALAMEDA, March 20.—Rev. E. Baker of the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland will preach the dedicatory sermon on Easter Sunday, w_edifice of the First Church on Santa Clara Christnut_street will be worship. The building is nearly completed and within the next ten days the furnishings will be in- stalled. The structure still lacks the fi it of paint and the colored glass windows that will be a feature of the church —————— Unitarian Club Events. ALAMEDA, March 20.—Rev. C. C. Bateman, chaplain of the Twenty- eighth United States Infantry, will ad- dress the Unitarian Club dnesday night on “The Philippines, Their Peo- ple. Products and Prospects.” On the night of the thirtieth Professor Milton B. Vail will lécture at th me place on “Russo-Japanese War” and Henry Payot will deliver an illustrated talk on “The Land of the Rising Sun.” La- dies will be invited on that occasion. —_——— Dies at Sixteen. ALAMEDA, March 20.—Miss Edith E. Saxton, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and M William Saxton of 1517 Railroad avenue, died at 10 o'clock this morning at the family residence. Death was due to a pulmonary com- plaint. The funeral will take place Tuesday afternoon from the late home of the dec al ¢ RULERS INTERNATIONAL ROME, March 20.—King Victor Emmanuel has ordered the royal yacht to be sent to Naples on March 26 for his meeting with Emperor Wil- liam of Germany, who will remain there four days. The press is semi- officially assured that the meeting of the monarchs will have no political significance, although the sovereigns wish to have a verbal exchange of views concerning pending inter- national questions. \ The North German Lloyd steam- ship Koenig Albert, with Emperor Willilam on board, sailed at midnight, amid salutes from the fleet in the har- bor and batteries on the rock. —————— Bank President Dies. SPARTA, Wis, March 20.—A tele- gram from Los Angeles to-day an- nouncing the sudden death of Ira Hill, aged 64, president of the Bank of Sparta. Hill and his wife were spend- ing the winter in California. TOPICS the next rally of the| nd at the same | tee has been ap- | veek, the almost |, ADVISES LABOR 0 FORM TRUST ! A | {Cornelius Says Union Men Should Open Co-operative Stores to Fight Alliance OSSR o ADDRESSES SOCIALISTS Carmen’s Leader Declares Business Once Started Will Endure and Extend Oakland Office 8an Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, March 20. Richard Cornelius, president of the Street Railway Men's Union of San Francisco, delivered an address this evening at the socialist headquarters on the subject of “The Citizens’ Alli- ance vs. the Trades Unions.” pre- | sentatives from nearly all the labor or- ganizations in this city were present, a large number of the members of Car- penters’ Union No. 26 having attended | the lecture in a body. Mr. Cornelius | contended that the only way for the labor unions to meet the issue which the organizing of the Citizens' Alliance | had brought about was to go into busi- ness on the co-operative plan. He said: | We are living in an age of organization, land in order to live we must perfect our own er before in the history of riety so thoroughly organ- 4 by an organization of pro- dealers in shod ~ workingman abie t buy anything but and lastly, if some chance a | workingman Js abi¢ to bufld a home of his | own, he is confronted by the lumber trust. All that now remains is for the laboring man | t he may meet the other terms_ and now. when the workingman begins to organize for self-pro- he is confronted the Cltizens’ Al- which says, ““We out to destroy ess you lie down and be good dogs.” e are only t own or fight > fight back. n a circle, but with every revelution the wider, and more workingmen are is getting eing brought | into the ranks of organized labor. Now the Citizens’ Alllance has come just about the right time. N rns’ a o mu ing the | himsel? 1 Citizens’ Alliance would conduct their my n stores, and the power of Alliance. my opinic liance but bluff and t enough union men their principles to, allow d the business man fo win stand together the hem and they will have Alliance, sperative store st men at the Citizens the support and when the laboring t be long before they will be b, possibly from the very men whonr they wouwld now force to the wall by means of the Citizens' Alliance. ot S DI p el g THREATS MADE 70 CLERCTIA ~!The Rev. William Rader Re- | eceives Anonymous Note | Telling of Desire to Injure BRI “May you have a long life and a hard death; 1 would like to give you the contents of a revolver,” is the threat against the Rev. William Rader in an anonymous Jetter recently received by him. ‘ It was in a sermon at the Third Con- gregational Church last night that the | Rev. Mr. Rader mentioned the fact of his having received a threatening let- ter which was the outcome of a sermon he preached Sundav night, March 13, in which he scored agitators and bluntly asserted that San Francisco is full of anarchists; is full of people that | do not love this country, nor this coun- try’s government. On that occasion the Rev. Mr. Rader declared that those that insult the Government of the United States and those that insult the flag of this country should be deported, and he continued by saying that men that in- sult the Stars and Stripes are not worthy its protection. Anarchy, he also declared, was in disguise in the city under a ‘“‘sweeter name,” a ‘“more sugary guise,” and he pictured the mourning that had over- taken the nation through the assas- sination of three Presidents. The subject of the sermon preached last night was “The Leavening of the Nation.” Rev. Mr. Rader said in part: A man sins against the Holy Ghost when he becomes impervious to truth, by prejudice and bigotry. One is appalied sometimes at the attitude of men toward the gospel. How frequently I receive letters of condemnation for speaking the simple truth. These letters, of course, are unsizned and are consequently from men who are bad A man who would write an anonymous let- ter is capable of murder; is capable, I say, of any crime of the calendar. For the sermon I preached last Sunday I have received one letter which flpstrates the hard mind. In this letter the writer politely exoresses the desire to give me a ‘“lead pill” and wished me a “‘Jong life and a hard death.” 1 hope he is here to-nignt. If I were called jup at any hour of the night to help him, or any other man, I would give my strength to serve him. That is what I am in the world to do, but these threats sre anarchy, not against me per- sonally, but against God, against the church, against the truth and against the Government. How shall the church make ftself felt against such dreadful threats in this beautiful eity, in this beavtiful land of the free? —_————— “PROGRESSIVE POLYGAMY” NEW NAME FOR DIVORCE Dr. McKim in Lenten Sermon Com- pares Legal Separations With Mormon Methods. WASHINGTON, March 20.—“Some Ugly TFeatures of Our National Life, and What to Do About Them,"” was the subject of a Lenten sermon delivered to-night by the Rev. Dr. McKim of the Epiphany Church. He made a direct and forcible attack on the “almost conscienceless extravagance and pas- sion for display” that' “has spread downward among the people.” Dr. Mc- Kim drew a vivid picture of the “pro- gressive polygamy” of society divorces as compared with the polygamy of the Mormons and made a caustic reference to the “graft from top to bottom of society” and “even the dark and por- tentious shadow of the betrayal of public trust lying across the legislative balls of the nation.” nee River, | primary girls. RAIN MAY NECESSITATE DEFERRING OF CONCERT L agers of the concert to be given by 500 school children for the benefit of the fund to furnish the juvenile room in the new Carnegie Library are in doubt as to whether or not they will let the concert go on next Saturday, the day fixed for the big festival of music. S0 much rain has fallen that the grounds leading to the Greek Thea- ter of the University of California are in a deplorable state, and unless the rain ceases for the rest of the week it will be necessary to wait. A postpone- ment is a thing the managers wish to avoid, as it will demoralize the sing- ers and the singing, too. Mrs. L. V. Sweesy, who is training the voices, said to-day that not until the middle of the week could she say what would be done in this emergency. The children have been carefully trained for this concert. First they were practiced in their various schools and then as a whole. The initial re- hearsal of the 500 children was held vesterday and was entirely successful. The programme for the day will be as | follows: “‘Columbus, Glorious Nation,” chorus: songs of the sea: An Apple “Orchard in the Spring rit of Summer Time,” *“The Golden Rod, McKinley Glee Ciub. ““The. Finland Song’; sacred songs, “Cast Thy Burden.” “‘Christmas S for the songs, Lol School ‘Froggies’ ming Sch: songs, chorus—'‘Blue Bells of Scotlan: My Heart's in the High- Whittter . Boy “‘Lallaby,”” “‘Cradle Song": chorus—"Star Spangled Banner,” ‘‘America.” One of the features of the concert will be the motion songs by some fifty They will be dressed in costumes of white canvas and blue ties and trimmings, and dance and motion to the singing of their friends of the higher classes. CLUB TO TEACH HOME BUILDING Hillside Association Founds a Special Library for Benefit of Townspeople SRR Berkeley Office 8an Francisco Call, 2148 Center street; March 20. A course in architecture will soon be ae necessary to the future home builder ir Berkeley as a building permit, if the plans that are now being developed by the Hillside Club are carried to their fruition. The club, which is an organ- ization that would have tickled the heart of John Ruskin or Matthew Arnold, has resolved to found a library on home building so that the good peo- ple of Berkeley will know what's what in_architecture. . The club is native to the environs about the north gate of the university and social ostracism awaits the one that will be anarchistic enough to build according to his own barbaric tastes and not consult all the nicely colored drawings that will ind a resting place in the new library. The Berkeley ‘‘renascence” will prob- ably date from the day that the new Hillside Library of Architecture gets in full working order. As a kind of a forerunner of what's to come the Hill- side Club has caused to be published and widely distributed a little pam- phlet by Charles Keeler on “Artistic Home Building.” This book probably will be the death warrant of the Berkeley ‘‘decadent,” and the birth certificate of the Berkeley “‘renascence’ in things architectural. EVENTS IN SOCIETY ALAMEDA, March 20.—Miss Anne Louise Danlels will leave on the 2d of next month for Baltimore, from where she will take passage for Bremerhaven, Germany, on the steamgr Chemnitz. She goes abroad to resume her musical studies in Berlin. / .5 ey Joseph Durney of 2249 San Antonio avenue has gone East on a business trip and expects to he uway from Alameda for six weeks. e e C. P. Whitcomb will address the members of the decorative art section of the Adelphian Club pext Friday on '‘Baskets and Basket Makers of the Pacific Coast.” He will {llus- trate his talk with charts and samples of basketry. . . Mr. and Mrs. I C. Bateman have returned from San Francisco, where they lived for the teen months, and are now residing at 934 Taylor avenue, 5 The Pennsylvania Railway, east of Pittsburg, handles 75,000 tons of freight daily for each mile of its length, its annual earnings being $165,000 a mile. BERKELEY, March 20.—The man- | Grounds Leading to Greek Theater at University Are in Deplorable State and Managers of Ju- venile Singers Are Contemplating Postponement 3 OF BERKELEY WHO -F NG AT CONCERT IN TER. RENDER MISIC FROM MOZART Large Chorus Choir Heard CHILDREN WILL GREEK THEA .| past years and participate in the cere. .| Stanford will speak on “The New Inter- at First Congregational Church in-the “Requiem” S B Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 20. The First Congregational Church choir sang Mozart's oratorio “Requiem” this evening, the large chorus being un- der the direction of Alexander Stewart. The organist, Willlam B. King, played two additional numbers from Mozart. The soloists were Mrs. Grace Davis Northrup, Mrs. Carroll Nicholson, Ar- thur Macurda and Harry L. Perry. The annual meeting of the First Uni- tarian Church will be held Wednesday evening at the church parlors. Reports from the various church societies will be presented, and an address will be delivered by the Rev. George W. Stone, the minister. John A. Britton, general manager of the California Gas and Electric Cor- poration, delivered an address this aft- ernoon at the Young Men’s Christian Assoclation on “Character and Ability or Pull—Which?" Forty hours’ devotion was commenced this morning at St. Columba’s Church, Golden Gate. The Rev. Father Keane of St. Joseph's Church, San Francisco, preached this morning. Monday even- ing the Rev. John Canteville of St. Jo- seph’s Church, Berkeley, will officiate. The West Oakland evangelical churches will unite during passion week in the evening services, which will be held at the Union-street Pres- byterian Church. Passion week services will be held in East Oakland by the united congrega- tions of the Brooklyn Presbyterian Church, the Eighth-avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, the Pilgrim Congre- gational Church and the Tenth-avenue Baptist Church. The programme of services is as follows: Tuesday even- ing, March 29, Eighth-avenue Metho- dist Church, “The Day of Conflict,” by the Rev. H. W. Fraser; Wednesday evening, March 30, Pilgrim Congrega- tional Churc Y by the Rev. C. ing, March 31, Tenth-avenue Baptist Church, “He That Serveth,” by the Rev. C. K. Jenness; Friday evening, April 1, Brooklyn Presbyterian Church, “The Place of Sacrifice,” by the Rev. R. C. Brooks. “The Holy Land” was the subject of an address delivered this evening at the Eighth-avenue Methodist Church by the Rev. Dr. Heacock. Home missionary services were held this evening at the Chester-street Methodist Church. The speakers were Mrs. L. P. Williams and Mrs. C. G. Davis. ‘The First Baptist Church will occupy the chapel of its new place of worship, Telegraph avenue and Twenty-first street, Easter Sunday. The Rev. A. I. Goodfriend of Valona preached to-day at the Union-street Presbyterian Church, B The Rev. R. C. Stone of the Centen- nial Presbyterian Church, preached his fifth anniversary sermon to-day. The Rev. S.H. Wingfield-Digby, chap- lain of the Seamen’s Institute of San Francisco, preached to-night at St. John’s Episcopal Church. The Carnegie Institution has $10,- 101,500 assets and a cash balance of | $445,472. AL AMEDA HERE T0 SPEAK |FINDS NEW WAY ON CHARTER DAY/ 10 Dr. James B. Angell, Pres- ident of Michigan, Will Address California Men - —— MARKS AN ANNIVERSARY Faeculty and Students of Uni- versity Will Fall in Line and Go to Greek Theater| LIS s 2 . Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, March 20. Charter day will come on Wednesday, marking the forty-fourth year since ! the foundation of the University of California and the thirty-sixth since the ; present charter was granted. The stu- | dents and faculty will assemble as in monies that will distinguish the occa- | sion. The students will assemble by classes, freshmen first, on the road leading from the library to the Greek Theater at 9:45 o’clock. The regents, guests of the uni- versity, faculty members and officers of the alumni bodies will assemble at the | library at 10 o'clock, In case of rain the procession will assemble in the armory and march upstairs into Har- mon gymnasium. The Charter day address will be de- livered by Dr. James B. Angell, presi- dent of the University of Michigan, who has become distinguished in the United States both as a scholar and diplomat. The postponed lecture of Samuel Adelstein on “The Temple of the Holy City” will be delivered to-morrow even- ing in Hearst Hall. The lecture is un- | der the guspices of the Art Associa- tion. The championship field day will be held on Wednesday on the oval. The | four classes will be the competitors. Horace Davis, a former president of the university, will address the Agri- cultural Club Friday morning at 11 o’clock in the agricultural building. His subject will be “California Wheat From the Miller's Standpoint.” The Art Association concert will be held in Hearst Hall on Friday evening. The musicians for the evening will be | Mrs. Lachmund and Mr. Manchester. The Association of Collegiate Alum- nae will meet in Sorosis Hall, 1620 Cali- fornia street, San Francisco, next Sat- urday at 2:15 o'clock. Dr. Farrand of pretation of American History and Its Importance for California.” —_———— News of the Labor Unions. OAKLAND, March 20.—The Labor- ers’ Union held an all-day banquet on St. Patrick’s day, a general invitation having been extended to members of all unions affiliated with the Buflding Trades Council to attend. During the | day addresses were made by J. T. Kerns, J. P. Burke, F. H. Pratt and J. B. Bowen. The members of the committee of arrangements were F. Carlson, E. Baker, L. Swasey and J. Austin. The following officers have been elected by the Amalgamated Car- penters to serve for the ensuing quar- ter: President, T. M. Latimer; vice president, J. C. McCoy; sick steward, | D. Jimeson; auditors—John Hood, J. Germain, W. Young: delegate to Dis- trict Council of Carpenters, E. C. Dickson, vice T. M. Latimer. Carpenters’ Union No. 36 has ap- pointed a committee to confer with the executive committee of the Build- ing Trades Council relative to the set- tlement of the differences between the carpenters and the council. The mem- bers of the committee are R. Harlan, W. Rambo and R. P. Scanlan. EVANGELISTS WILL SPEAK Two Days’ Conference Be- gins With Soul-Saving Methods as the Subject ———e Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 20. “Evangelism” is the theme of a two- days’ conference which will be held Monday and Tuesday at Union-straet Presbyterian Church. Twenty-five pastors and laymen will present vari- ous phases of the subject. Evangel- istic workers from foreign lands and fiem State localities will take part. The conference arrangements have been largely furthered by the Rev. Dwight E. Potter, pastor of Union- street church. Provision has been meade for the entertainment of mauy guests. The conference will open to- moerrow morning, the session being dc- voted to discussion of “the present sit- uation.” The complete conference pro- gramme follows: Monday morning session, 9:30—Topic. ‘The Present Situation.” Ezekiel, chapter XXXVII, Rev. S ; “Present Needs and Con’ to Soulwinning,’” Rev. Rev. Rev. =, Afternoon session, 1:30 “Evangel- ‘The Great Commission.” Rev c_Moveément,'’ | V. Tour," rmon to School Every Pastor Chiidren,” Rev. T an_Evangelist,” Rev. A. C. Bane; “Revivals and Soulsaving,” Rev. M. Slaughter; ‘‘The Essentials of a True Revival,” Rev. H. M. Gilcrist; supper for delegates. Evening session, 7 Children.” Scriptui DRAIN TOWN Engineer C. L, Huggins Sug- gests Four Storm Sewers for Bottom of the Creeks RAIN OVERTAXES PIPES e System Will Cost $200,000 and People Will Pay Ae- cording to the District ———— Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, March 20. City Engineer C. L. Huggins has hit upon a new plan for draining Berkeley of its surplus waters and diverting them so that they will not repeat the immense damage to property that was inflicted this year. In substance, the plan consists in four big storm sewers that will be built in the bottcm of the natural waterways of the town, on the lead of nature than it is to create new of the natural drainage systems, as there is no system adequate for the purpose in one of the sections—Secuth Berkeley. One of the three sewers will be laid in School House Creek in North Berkeley, another in Strawberry Creek in Central Berkeley and still another in Derby Creek in South Berkeley. The fourth will be laid in an artificial bed along either Tyler or Woolsey street. off the surplus no matter how thick the population or how heavy the rain will feet in diameter. | All this is to cost $200,000, that is, if the Town Trustees decide that it must be done. Engineer Huggins suggests that the best way to pay for it is by | the district plan, each district being as- sessed for the benefit that will be con- ferred upon it. The rains c¢f the last month have demonstrated that the sewers ought to be laid, for whenever there was a heavy rain the sewers overflowed throughou West Berkeley, making it disagreeable |and unhealthful for the people living | in that s~ction of the tawn. The sew ers were uuilt for a town much smaller than Berkcley and naturally the in- creasing growth of the city has finally | resulted in the overtaxing of the pipes. | — *| THE DAY’S DEAD. ——— DEATH CALLS THOMPSON. | +* Representative From Alabama Suc- cumbs t0 Attack of Pneumonia. WASHINGTON, March 20.—Repre- sentative Charles W. Thompson of the Fifth Alabama District died in this city this afternoon of pneumonia. He has been sick just one week, having been attacked first last Sunday night. Toward the end he suffered intensely. The body will be taken to Tuskege Ala., for burial. —— Death of Well-Known Merchant. David Dustin Shattuck, a well- known commission merchant of this city, died yesterday at his home on Sixth avenue. He was for a num- | ber of years engaged in business on | Front street and was highly regarded in the commercial world. Deceased | was a native of New Hampshire, 75 years of age, and is survived by a widow and four children, Frank B.| Shattuck, Mrs. W. F. Holmes, Mrs. B. | B. Kellogg and Mrs. Robert H. Rene- bome. The funeral will take place to- morrow afternoon at 2 o'cleck from the Richmond Congregational Church. Interment will be private. oo, = by ‘Wealthy Soapman Drops Dead. PASADENA, March 20.—A. W. soap manufacturer, aged sixty-five years, dropped dead as he was about to enter the residence of a friend on Orange Grove avenue late this after- noon. Death was due to heart failure. ‘olgate had been staying at the Hotel C R the moment he fell dead. His wife and sister, Mrs. Stone, were with him. The body will be taken East to-morrow if Mrs. Colgate is able to travel. Commission Merchant Is Dead. CHICAGO, March 20.—Charles L. Counselman, head of the commission house of Counselman & Co. of Chicago, died to-day at Hot Springs, Va., of Bright's disease. Four months ago Counselman went to California in gearch of health, and when he left for Virginia two weeks ago it was believed he had completely recovered. Counsel- man, who was 55 years of age, was one of the most prominent brokers in Chi- cago. —_—— Bank Teller Passes Away. Herman F. Muller, for many years receiving teller of the German Sav- ings and Loan Society, passed away Saturday at his home on Lyon street. He was a| native of New York, 50 years of age, and leaves a widow. The funeral service will be held to-day at 2 p. m. at Masonic Temple under the auspices of California Lodge No. 1, F. and A. M. Interment will be pri- vate. S S T R New Yorker Dies in San Diego. SAN DIEGO, March 20.—George Merritt Clark of Buffalo, N. Y., a well- known member of the American Water Color Society of New York, died at his California home, the Bo- hemian Bungalow, near Bostonia, in this county, early this morning. . £ Well-Known Wool Buyer Dies. PRESCOTT, A. T., March 20.—James {Home Ipstruction.” Rey. “Sunday School Evangell: sion and Training of Childre: ‘White, Evangelism,’” Holy Spirit_and Sherman: M. White Rev. E. R. Diile; open parliament; luncheon. Afternoon session, 1:0 — Topic, ‘‘Personal Acts, chapter XX, Rev. 'W. ersonal Prayer Habits,"" Rev. W. 21 orr Membership,"” Conviction of xperfence of a g bot] i “The Brooks: supper L. J. Sawyer; “'P Rev, Richard Hardl zondl Worker " ‘Workers A broac Soulwinner's Joy, Lo Vening young people's session—Edward Mc vening young p epairman. Personal workers texta: Winning”; _ “The ~ Bvangelistic the You! .. J. Miss Esther ecting,"" Distributes Garbage Cans. OAKLAND, March 30.—The Pacific Incinerating Company has commenced to distribute cans through- :;l! th: city, tlmw.u: to m‘obofl“:; of operations at the crema Wne:t Oakland. X F. Salter, a well known wool buyer of Denver, died at the Mercy Hospital principle that it is easier to follow the | ble to use but three | Immense pipes, large enough to carry | be laid. These will probably be three | | the committee declares, | company i | Col- | gate of Morristown, Mass., a wealthy | aymond since December 19 and was | apparently in the best of health up to | » 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. R ———— SATS. FIGURES ARE 00 HIGH Improvement Club Rejects Proposal Made to Assign Fourth-Avenue Franchise SP— GOES TO THE COUNCIL Attacks FLegality of Pro- | ceedings by Which Mae- -donald Bid Was Accepted | | Oakland Office San Franeisco Call, 1118 Broadway, March 20. | The Peralta Heights and Boulevard | Improvement Club has failed in its move to get an assignment to the Oak- land Transit Consolidated of the Fourth avenue cut-off franchise, which was in- cluded in a blanket purchase of fran- chises by J. H. Macdonald, representing principals who have not made public their identity. Macdonald has demand- ed for the Fourth avenue franchise one- third of the 38500, the total amount at which he bid in these and the College avenue privileges. This offer is considered a prohibitive one by the club’s committee which had he' negoyations in hand. Macdonald, has admitted that the cut-off franchise is of no use | to his principals—that they dould not utilize it. On the other hand, the Tran- sit Company desired it simply to im- prove the Fourth avenue service into Peralta Heights and the econtiguous territory. The two franchises invoived »nnections between anch and the main No other are merely new the Fourth avenu line on East Twelfth street. could under any conditions find the slightest practical value in these franchises except for speculative purposes. | Macdonald’s offer to make the assign- ment is considered by the club as evi- dence that the priv not of service to his prineipals r struction purposes. The College avenue franchise might be made valuable as feeder for the “corkscre franc e out Webster street, which is in Mac- donald’s nam | Having failed to negotiate, the clut | has abandoned that plan of campaign and will attack the legality of the pro- ceedings under which t franchises were granted, and John Yule, the at- | torney and president of the club, ha | made a report on that phase which ¢ | clares that there are three fatal errc | which invalid the franchises. This report, with a petition from the inter- | ested property owners to postpone final | action on the franchise ordinance, will be presented | morrow night. —_——————— WORK OF AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY IS RE EWED te to the City Council to- WASHINGTON, March 20.—The an- nual meeting of the American Tract Society was held to-day in the. Church of the Covenant. Justice Brewer pre- sided and made a brief address, setting forth the general work of the tract society, both in the home and foreign field. He emphasized the necessity of this work as well as showing that there | was no other agency so well equipped | to furnish Christian literature in_the many languages and dialects. Rev. | Judson Swift reported the year's work and William H. Taft, Secretary of War, delivered an address which gave |an account of the progress in the Phil- | ippines relating particularly to educa- |tion and Christianity. The secretary of the society said that eighty-nine new publications had been added to the list during the year. These were In English, Polish, Bohemian, German, Hungarian, Spanish, Swedish and Ital- jan, and the total number of distinct | periodicals added was 130, making the grand total of publicgtions iskued since the organization of the society, in- ;'cludln volumes, tracts and periodicals, 749,315, | The tract society furnishes all or | nearly all of the Christian literature in the Spanish language, and during the year has distributed in the American colonies upward of 1,000,000 pages, and | the total for the year in the Spanish- speaking countries is 5,312,000 pages. The soclety has expended a total of | three-fourths of a million dollars in | creating and circulating Christian vernacular literature at the foreign | mission stations. " -+ | !here to-day after: ten days’ illness of | peritonitis and abscess of the liver. An | operation was performed Friday, but did not give relief. Salter, who was 52 | years old, was at one time a prominent and wealthy wool merchant of Boston and New York. e Poisoned by Pencil. Sala Morris, a 12-year-old girl re- siding with her parents at 410 Franklin street, was poisoned yesterday after- noon by eating canned salmon which containing a small portion of an indeli- ble pencil. The child was taken to the Central Emergency Hospital, where timely treatment saved her life. ORDER FOR THE GREAT - TWENTIETH GENTURY GOOK BOOK. Mail This Order to The San Prancisco Call With 78a. The San Francisco Call, San Francisco, Cal.: Inclosed herewith please find Great copy of The Call’s Twentis Cents is The Call's Premium rate to all its six-month subscrib- ers to the daily and Sunda to prepay shipping . STREET ... paper, and the additional 25¢ is cessessscsscascanane terastseste siessssssssnsssnnue.