The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1904, Page 9

/ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY APRIL 6, 1904. MILK SUBJECT BUILDING LAWS |DECLARES WAR [POISON ENDS ARE DEFECTIVE| AGAINST CERMS| WOMAN'S LIFE OF DISCUSSION Arguments For and Against Raising the Percentage of Buiter Fat Are Heard PRODUCERS' OPPOSITION Interesting Information Is Elicited at Health and;, Police Committee Meeting| R as the one absorbing toplc at | meeting of the Health and e Committees of the Board of Su- ay afternoon, and ything appertaining to the subject was thoroughly discusse ing had been called to consider the re- he Board of Health that the g milk ordinance t mended 8o th f but- ter fat be The meet- necessary p ntage raised pervisors D'Ancone Health, and Police Committe the meet- ing and D’Ancona pre A number milk produce neighboring were pre dition to esentatives of the local milk L Levy alth ha the percentage 1 Officer recom- said and that of that nment hat the public received good milk PEED IMPORTANT FACTOR. ef food inspector, n that the stand- d to 35 butter gove to see fat hemist » nce lz hat the butter fat was 3.5 standard Major that the nd- to add water | tende es submitted of sample run of the use in Bay Ce of the Commercial f the told of the fat dur out- He butte sducers rcentage of the spring s fed t ing months, when th soft green feed the stock the ssible tc Mr w's Poorm milk rich be ared that skim growing children, | fed ik was as well as hogs and HOTALING'S SAGE engthy from Alves ADVICE. unication on Ex-Supe R Hotaling, who is much interested ing, was read. He advised rd to inquire into al al subject | hn D. Daley o the n's Association the be absolutely m and declared the organization he! the M. A visor preside milk the pure f { of the year and at eight months. P h, Local Architects Petition Board of Works to Recom- mend Needed Amendments e i OBJECT TO ORDINANCE Think Measure Regulating Theater Construction Is Too Radical in Its Terms The Board of Public Works held a conference yesterday with a commit- tee from the Ban Francisco Chapter of Architects relative to proposed amend- ments to the building and theater ordi- The committee consisted of Mooser, Lionel Deane, 8. H. A. Schulze and City nances. wW. H. Schnalttacher, Architect Shea. The committee informed the board that there are many defects in the ex- isting ordinances governing the erec- ion and construction of buildings and that these defects should be remedied. The theater ordinance was character- ized as being prohibitory in its terms. It wag deemed advisable dy the com- mittee that the measure be so modified as to exempt churches, schoolhouses and theaters having a capacity of less than a designated number of specta- tors and employing not more than three musicians from its provisions. When asked to specify other defects | in the building ordinance the commit- | could only answer as to general isions, and this showing did not satisfy the Board of Works. Before this board makes any recom- mendations to amend the building ordi nance,” said Commissioner Schmitz, “it will have to be satisfied that the modi- fications are warranted by the facts in the case. The mistakes in the ordi- nance, if such there are, are not clear, and before taking any action I would ask this committee to submit in writ- ing a list of the particular changes it desires made. This is an important matter and should not be acted on hastily, as once the ordinances are amended it will be for all time. I un- de nd that the local architects were sulted before the ordinances were passed and the errors should have been ticed at that time.” The committee promised to submit a de nc Board Works will consider before making any recofomendations to Board of Supervisors. B —— Green Must Go fo San Quentin. The Supreme Court decided yester- day that George Green must go to San Quentin for stealing “a brindle cow™ and “‘a big bald-faced steer” in Monte- County Green was caught in sno County and claimed that he should have been tried there. The court left yesterday for Los Angeles to hear suits instituted in that part of the State. rey . —_—————— to have the four months represented was standard fixed at willing for w. Ran A. D. T. Daley of the Dairymen’s E tion, R. D. Hatch of the Ba Counties Commercial Company, tin Johnson of Sacramento, N. Lynn Jose and E | subject Upon motion of Supervisor Eggers e matter went over for one week, for rther investigation. | | | | germs to the pupils. Health Board Would Prevent Spread of Tubercular Dis- eases by the Telephones ik STIMATE OF EXPENSES W & v Asks. Supervisors to Make Appropriation for the Em- ployment of an Attorney S The Board of Health yesterday be- gan a crusade against the presence of disease germs and bacteria By secur- ing “swabs” from a dozen or more public telephone transmitters. The swabs were obtained by Dr. Frank J. Tillman, District Health Officer, and were turned over to the city bacterio- logist, who will make cultures of them to determine the presence of disease germs, Should he find that tubercular or other germs are present in the cul- tures the Health Board will endeavor to secure the passage of an ordinance requiring the telephone company to install antiseptic contrivances on the transmitters. As a further instance of the Health | Board's policy to prevent the spread of tubercular and contagious diseases Health Officer Ragan yesterday order- ed the lung-testing machines to be taken out of penny arcades. These machines are regarded as extremely dangerous in transmitting diseases by contact. The Heaith Board has sent a letter to the Board of Education requesting it to have the sweeping and cleaning of schoolrooms done by the janitors | after the close of school hours, so that the dust may not carry any disease The schoolrooms are to be cleaned every three weeks with antiseptic preparations. The Board of Health yesterday filed | with the Board of Supervisors its esti- mate for the appropriation required for the Health Department during the next fiscal year. For the Health Of- fice the sum of $63,720 is asked, in- cluding provision for two city physi- cians, one assistant city physician, four plumbing inspectors, chief inspecting physician, four inspecting physicians, three district health officers, two fac- | tory inspectors, two disinfectors, four the | | | for the remaining | Almshouse, of which § Brewer of the San Mateo | $3 lallows only fifty. | market inspectors, one dairy inspec- ed amendments, which the | tor; one bakery, bath and laundry in- spector; one cemetery inspector, a chief food inspector ahd ten food in- spectors. An appropriation is also wanted for an attorney, a new office, to be paid a salary of $1200 a year. For other ex- penses the sum of $12,750 is wanted, including $2500 for a portable steri- lizer and $250 for its maintenance. For the City and County Hospital the sum of $118,750 is wanted for sub- sistence and miscellaneous expenses; $55,000 for salaries, $4000 for addi- tion to nurses’ home, $5000 for con- struction of employes’ quarters, $3000 for addition to laundry and $10,000 for construction of tubercular wards, mak- ing a grand total of $19 0. The sum of $92,100 is asked for the ,000 is for salaries; for the Emergency Hospital, ,820 for salaries and $11,500 for subsistence; for the Twenty-sixth- street Hospital $10.260 and for the Mar- | #mallpox hospital $10,800. District Health Officer Tillman filed sides of the | of Santa Clara, F. L. Coddle of San|a report stating that the sanitary con- A. Green also spoke on the | ditions in the Broadway Jail are bad. Four men occupy a cell 6x8 feet, and in another place eighty-six prisoners are confined, where the cubic air law -Lill_v Moore, a Professional Nurse, Passes Away Under Peculiar Circumstances FRIENDS ARE MYSTIFIED Deceased Supposed to Have Taken an Overdose of Mor- phine to Relieve Headache Lilly Moore, a professional nurse, came to her death yesterday from the effects of poison administered by her- self, but whether by accident or sui- cidal intent remains for a Coroner’s jury to decide. She came to this city about five years ago from New York, where her relatives reside, but their whereabouts is not known to her ac- quaintances here. Since her arrival she had spent most of her time at dfiferent asylums in the interior of the State, acting as a nurse. When in the city she had resided at | 1926 Market street. When she returned to town two weeks ago, after belng ab- sent for a time, she registered as “Mrs. Devine.” Mrs. Alice Straub, the land- lady where she stopped, said: “Mrs. De- vine, or Lilly Moore, as she previously called herself, was always very qulet | about the hcuse. She spent most of her time nursing in the country. | “Monday morning she told me she had been suffering from aheadache, but | felt better and was golng nursing in the afternoon. About 12 o'clock she | came rushing down the stairs, scream- | ing and crying and highly hysterical. | She cried: ‘I have taken morphine and I have taken too much.’ My husband rushed around the neighborhood and finally succeeded in getting Dr. A. J. Minaker. When the doctor came she was unconscious and remained so un- til she died yesterday at 2p. m. I don't | know what caused her to take the mor- | phine, and I don’t know of any trouble | that she had with anybody. Occasion- | ally a gentleman used to come and see her, but I don’t know his name.” Dr. Minaker said: ‘““When I arrived at the room of the woman who had taken the morphine 1 found her partly unconscious and evidently in great agony. From the first symptoms I could not tell whether it was alcohol- ism, hysteria or poisoning. I decided from her bulging eyes and light con- vulsions that it must be poisoning, and applied the usual remedies, which re- lfeved the stomach of its contents. ‘“‘She had no_friends in the house, | and I happened to glance at the bu- | reau and saw the name of H. C. Devighne, so I immediately telephoned to him to come. He did so, and re- mained and took care of her till she died. It certainly is a peculiar case. In the room 1 found a small empty | phial labeled ‘Morphine and atropine.’ She may have taken a dose of this, but I cannot say. She never was con- scious after T arrived. I remained in constant attendance until midnight on Monday, when I saw that she was =inking and was past medical aid; { but under my instructions stimulants were administered in the possible hope of reviving her.” H. C. Devighne, the young man who was called at Dr. Minaker's sugges- tion, states that he knew the deceased in New York five years ago, and that they had kept up an acquaintance after her arrival here till about two and a half years ago, when she visit- ed the country in her professional ca- pacity, and he had only seen her oc- casionally during that period. He added that she had always been CHIEF LEAVES OCEANIC MAIL KAISER SENDS POLICE FORCE| PACT RENEWED) FELICITATIONS Stormy Meeting Occurs When Elton’s Resignation Is Pre- sented in Los Angeles DEMAND FOR INQUIRY Deposed Official Wants™ an Investigation of His Con- duet in the Department Special Dispateh to The Cail. LOS ANGELES, April b—After a stormy session, in which there were liberal exchanges of bitter personali- ties, the Board of Police Commissioners to-day accepted the resignation of Charles Elton as Chief of Police of Los Angeles and appointed former Sheriff Will A. Hammel to succeed him. In the resignation which he present- ed Elton referred to the adverse criti- clsm of him and his department and demanded a complete Investigation. After he had been relieved of his posi- tion he was told that his demand for investigation would be granted If he desired, and two weeks from to-day was set for the hearing. Hammel will take charge of the Pollce Department to-morrow. The change in the head of the de- partment does not mean a wholesale change In the subordinate positions, the members of the department being under civil service rules. The Mayor, however, under the provisions of the city charter, dominates the department and is practically its head. This means that there will be no change of policy in ‘the police administration. B —— i ELECTRICITY CAUSES DEATH OF A WORKMAN Employe of the Siskiyou Power Com- pany Found Dead Near the Machinery. YREKA, April 5.—A young man named W. E. Spencer met death to- day from electricity. He was em- ployed by the Siskiyou Electric Power Company at the Fort Jones station. He went into the powerhouse for some wire and in some way came in contact with the machinery. He was found dead a short time after. —_——— Garden City Belle Weds. SAN JOSE, April 5.—Miss Ethel Jam- ison, popular society belie of this city, was married this evening to Frank ‘Webber, assistant superintendent of the Almaden quicksilver mines. The wed- ding occurred at the home of Judge Hyland, the bride being a sister of Mrs. Hyland. The home was handsomely decorated and the D’Ablaing Orchestra rendered music. The ceremony was performed by Judge Hyland. 3 = subject to headaches and had taken morphine for relief, but that she had never been incapacitated from attend- ing to her professional duties. He had not seen her for more than a year. ‘When she came to town, two weeks ago, he had called upon her, but did not see her, as she was not at home. He expressed himself as greatly sur- prised, and could only think that her death was due to accidental poisoning. He had never heard that she had been married, and had no idea why she took the name of “Mrs. Devine.” Lilly Moore was her right name. As soon as she died he notified the Coroner, who removed the body to the Morgue. The post-mortem examination will be held on the remains this morning at 10 o'clock, and an inquest wiil follow, Senate Votes to Continue the Government’s Contract With Steamship Company TELLER OPPOSES ITEM Need of an Efficient Postal Service to Island of Ta- hiti Is Shown by Perkins EAEs G S S WASHINGTON, April 5.—The Senate to-day listened to a two hours’ speech | by Morgan on the Panama canal ques- tion and then again took up the post- office appropriation bill, but adjourned without completing its consideration. Some important amendments aside from those suggested by the commit- tee were agreed to, among them one increasing from two to four ounces the size of franked- letters, and another addqu twenty-five members to the force of the rural free delivery agents. Morgan’s speech was In especial ad- vocacy of his resolution requesting in- ‘formation from the Attorney General concerning concessions to the orlginai Panama Canal Company, and was in the main an arraignment of the new Panama Canal Company. ‘When the postoffice appropriation bill was lald before the Senate amendments were adopted without objection, until the Benate committee provision comn- tinuing the contract with the Oceanic | Steamship Company and appropriating | $45,000 for transporting the malils by its steamships sailing from San Fran- cisco to Tahiti was reached. Perkins explained the item and sald it was impossible to operate the Ta- hiti steamship line without the aid of the United States, and there was no other way in which an efficlent mail service could be maintained at the pres- ent time. 3 Objection to the renewal of the con- tract was made by Teller on the ground that it was a “plain subsidy.” He ob- | Jected to the payment of $45,000 for the conveyance of mails to islands where | “the interests of the United States are inconsequential.” pe The Senate amendmept renewing the contract was agreed to. —_——— WILL PLANT HISTORIO OAK AT WHITE HOUSE Secretary Hitchcock Will Supply Sap- ling That Has an Interesting History. WASHINGTON, April 5—A historic ocak sapling will be planted in the White House grounds next Thursday. Secretary Hitchcock will supply the tree and in connection therewith, to- day told the President a pretty story. Many years ago, Charles Sumner sent to the Czar of Russia some acorns from a stately oak which overbangs the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon. The Czar caused the acorns to be planted in the grounds of the Peterhof palace, in St. Petersburg. One of the acorns grew into a mag- nificent oak which stands in the palace grounds. ‘While in St. Petersburg in 1898 as the Tnited States Embossador to Russia Hitchcock collected a handful of acorns from the historical offspring of the Mount Vernon oak, sent them to this country and had them planted in the grounds at his Missouri home. Some of them developed into fine sap- lings and it is one of them that is to i be planted in the White House grounds on Thursday. The planting, which is to be done at the instance of President Roosevelt, will be without ceremony. Crown Prince to Carry Em- peror’s Message to King Christian on 86th Birthday WILL RESENT SLIGHT Royal Messenger InsistsThat Daughter of Duke of Cum- berland Shall Be Absent e e BERLIN, April 5—Crown Prince Frederick Willlam {8 going to Copen~ hagen, in behalf of Emperor Willim, to congratulate King Christian o his $6th birthday, April 8. The Voissche Zeitung learns from the best scurce that the visit occurs only upon the condition that net one of the Cumberland Princesses is pres ent at Copenhagen. It was announced March 23 from Ber- lin that the engagement of the Crown Prince Frederick William to Princess’ Alexandra of BPBrunswick and Lune- burg, the Duke of Cumberiand’s sec~ ond daughter, which was rumored to be under negotiations last year, at the time Emperor William visited Copen< hagen, and which was then denied, ap~ parently had some basis In fact, but was frustrated by the Duke of Cum~ berland’s sudden departure from Cop~ enhagen just before the Emperor's ar« rival. According to the Brunswick Landes Zeitung, the Emperor resented the Duke’s departure, and character- ized it as an affront, adding to a high' military personage in his entourage that he would not again run after the Duke. The Landes Zeitung vouches for this story In such a way as to war~ rant the conclusion that it emanated from the Brunswick Ministry. s CANADIAN PACIFIO ROAD BREAKS LUMBER TRUSH Threat to Establish Independent Mills Brings the Monopoly to Time. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Aprfl 5.—1 am able to state,” sald Second Vica President Whyte, of the Canadian Pa- cific Railway, “that the lumber com- bine which has existed In Manitoba and the Territories for some time, is a thing of the past, and that in the future lumber will sold fn the open market. This open market is the di- rect result of the announcement which I made a short time ago that if it was necessary to do so, our company would install its own mills on the tim- ber limits in British Columbia and seil lumber through its agents. That an- nouncement was followed by meetings with the coast and mountain mill owners and agreements were entered into with them.” ————— ARRIVES AT CAPITAL Joseph Fanning Presides Over Exer- cises at Sacramento and Will Visit San Francisco. SACRAMENTO, April 5.—Joseph Fanning, grand ewalted ruler of the Order of Elks, arrived in this city from Portland, Or., this morning. He in- stalled the officers of the local lodge of Elks this evening. He intends to visit San Francisco and the cities in the southern part of the State, e Gt Labor Exchange at Vilna. VILNA, Russia, April 5—The Town Council of Vilna has instituted a labor exchange. ELKS’ GRAPE-NUTS. 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