The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY "« NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA® - PREFERS DEATH [0 BLINDNENS Aged Inmate of the German 0ld People’s Home Takes a Draught of Strychnine LOSS OF SIGHT Martin Hamann Ends Exist- ence After Much Worry Fate DREADS Over His Impending A S i s s ca - o L MARTIN hELINY OSES SUIT IN OAKRLAND COURT £350.000 Piece of F Action Involves Property f Blake and M Fstat A AN M M Kelly the San F st his s s ; nd M s 50,0 ¥ asse < " N w wie . = —— = FORMER BELLIGERENTS MEET PEACEFULLY City Engineer Turner and Councilman Aitken Appear Before Improvement Club. but Are Not Hostile. Wives Mar Unhappy AND. M g in New ADVERTISEMENTS. HA £ Don't attempt to cure it with any of the so-called toothache cures. Better let the DENTISTS Examine the tooth, locate the and remove the cause. EXAMINATIONS MADE FREE. All our work is high grade. made in our laboratery are perfect in appearance and action. Plates, Full Set, §3. Bridge Woik, $5. POST-GRADUATE DENTAL COLLEGE 3 TAYLOR ST. SAN FRANCISCO. #73 Washington St. Oakland. Ban Jose. - - - Sacramento. trouble | The teeth ‘ FIND MAN THAT - KICKED WOMA | Berkeley Police Think They Have Caught the Thug Who Attacked Mrs. Curtis MRSt OLD OFFENDER [ I Charles Hampion Is Ar- raigned on the Charge of Drunkenness and Battery . IS AN keley Office Street, May 25. Hampton the police the an that brutally Mrs. Mary Curti in at 1123 University evening. Deputy ed Hamp- unkenness and to- have aged ) st him eved to be Mrs. ampton i8 an old offender € ore arrested for ¢ failing to provide little child. positive in his s ampton is the thug in front R guile is one | be summoned as a The assault persons who at t Hampton Curtis residence eace office ice, they think n of Hampton. Mrs. d from the the drunken the police that time the affair baving taken uit with which he EVENTS | By Radcliffe. Zoe Green h Rosborough is for mext Saturday and lightls ida Voorman, » Arthur interest to East Oak- 4, when Miss bride W parents’ daugh- of Metcalf's 1 at Maple She will I of Chi- fine mezzo was one. trs. E Prentiss will at Reed Hall to-morrow evening, as- Mrs. Louise Rugs. soprano. The pro- ¢ and among those Laura Prentiss, s Jennie Morgan, Miss Hazel Johnson and Mr. JOSEPH BETTE MAY NCOURT KEEP Judge Decides Property Given Him By George Ennis Was Bona | Fide Gift. | ©OAKLAND, ay 25.—The gift of a | $2000 home to Joseph Bettencourt in West Berkeley by George Ehnis was confirmed by Judge Ellsworth to-day, and the suit brought by s to get { back property he had given away was denied, and he was ordered to pay the | costs of court. It was shown that Ennis had deeded | about $10,600 worth of property to 13 ph Bettencourt. For property valued at about $8000 Ennis was given a “back deed,” which he could place on file at any time. The piece valued at about $2000; however, Ennis says he thought was also included in the “back deed.” Bettencourt on the | other hand claimed that this was given him and his wife for care they gave Ennis during a long fliness. ——————— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, May 25.—The following | marriage licenses were issued by the ; County Clerk to-day: Harold H. Har- | vey, 27, and Edith Goodfellow, 24, both | of Oakland; Petrus Lundstedt, 21, and Edith Larson, 19, both of Oakland; John Storry, 54, and Catherine Murray, 27, both of San Francisco; Eugene Q. Dannenbaum, 29, Vallejo, and Mary L. | Pollitt, 20, Oakland; John J. Silva, 21, and Virginia Jacinto, 18, both of Hay- wards; Tom N. Way, 54, and Augusta Grange, 52, both of London, Ontario. —_———— Cutting remarks prove that the pen 1 is mightier than the sword. i San Francisco Call. addition- |* be- | Curtis’ | IN SOCIETY| Wil- home ‘ 1 ABSENTEES SEND REGRETS. | The only entee in the list of in- give | HIS HOME | Possibilities, OAKLAND’'S BOARD OF TRADE BANQUET STIRS CIVIC PRIDE Distinguished Guests, Among Whom Are Governor Pardee and Sen- ator Perkins, Predict Great Future for the City of Commercial With Beautiful Homes and Cemmodious Harbor — | | | \ | | | ] | *> | | Tengror GEorGE ‘ GOvERNOR. 7 FPERHINGS. | GrorGE C. H iAol Cfiim.é E. | i1 | | | 1 | | 4+ 5 l OAKLAND, May 25.—Oakland, | spelled in capitals, was the keynote | to-night of a splendid outpouring of | men ais uished in national, State and municipal affairs, who gathered at the annual banquet of the Oakland Board of Trade in Maple Hall. In point of numbers and enthusiastic in- terest it one of the most notable assemblages that has ever been re- corded in the civic history of Oak- land. Leaders al life met in touch with mer- with with capt chants, ba men, professional all imbued with | hearty, whole-souled desire to ance the interests of the Speeches glowed with a prophecy of | great things for the future and the efforts of those who have started the | new era along the eastern shores of | the bay were not forgotten. Peculiar- | | Iv noteworthy was the fact that at'the guest table sat Governor George C.| Pardee, an Oaklander, and United | States Senator George C. Perkins, an | Oaklander. With them were the | president of the Board of Trade, H. C. | al ad- | city. | | Capwell; Charles E. Snook. the to. :l»f master of the evening; the Rev. Wil- liam Carson Shaw, Harmon Bell, Judge Henry A. Melvin, C. R. Smith, representing the sister city of Ala- meda; John A. Britton, general man- ager of the California Gas and Elec- tric Corporation; City Councilman A. | H. Elliott, Joseph Baker, A. Jonas, | president of the Merchants’ Exchange: Dr. H. B. Mehrmann, N. P. Chipman }and Arthur R. Briggs of the Califor- nia State Board of Trade. Thomas Rickard, whose regrets an- nounced an illn which prevented | his attendance. Two interesting in- | terpolations to the lengthy programme lent pleasant color to the unusually successful gathering. First was the presentation of a chest ofsmagnificent table silver to Edwin Stearns, the in- defatigable secretary of the Board of Trade; second was the launching of a $500,000 tourist hotel project by C. H. King, the Bast Oakland capitalist. He announced that the hotel committee | of the Board of Trade had secured an option on the block of land bounded | | by Jackson, Madison, Twelfth and Thirteenth streets and he started the subscription list for stock with $10,000, | following with the names of Frank M. Smith, Dr. E. H. Woolsey, William G. Henshaw and the Realty Syndicate for $10,000 each. Additional subscribers at the banquet were E. Lehnhardt, $1000; Henry Butters, $2500, and the was s Mayor of Berkele: vited gu Laymance Real Estate Company, | $2500. In his welcome to the 300 guests at the table President Capwell presented Toastmaster Snook, who said the feast | was strictly an Oakland affair. Fol- lowing cathe President Capwell, who ! gave eloquent expression to the pur. poses of the Board of Trade, saying: The Bourd of Trade has outgrown itself. It | give to Oakiand the meed of praise that is reeds mew members to carry out the projects which it has in hand for the growth and de- velopment of Oakland's splendid resources. Al- though ws have grown and never have been more united or determined, we want still to increase. We are beyond the one-man propo- | sition. A PROUD ROLL. We have a Governor of the State and & United States Senator on our membership rolls, and it these gentlemen can afford to earoll them- selves in our work there are many more who Stould join hands with them and us in this great_movement. A city prospcrs to the extent that her citi- | zens are willing to bear tl re of the burden. Any man who falls to associate him- gelf_with such an institution as this Board of Trade fails to display those qualities of good citizenship that make for advancement. What the Merchants' Assoclation of San Fran- cisco is doing for San Francisco, what the California Promotion Committee and the State Board of Trad for California. that we, the Oakland Beard of Trade, can do and have been doing for Oakiand. Toastmaster Snook presented United States Senator George C. Perkins, who s BUsrmELL ProYO . ‘ | 1 + + ‘ OF TATE ‘ | 5 LAS E 0CC THE | | N BY THE OAKLAND BOARD OF TRAD | b 4 - spoke to the theme *“The Interest of S~ the National Government in Oakland.” Senator Perkins said: I feel clated that I am privileged to be a member of the Oakland Board of Trade, be- cause it ganizativn that is working for Oakland nd is sharing In that which is Oakl the national Government is doing for the whole | Pacific Coast. Our shores arée the great right hand of the nation. The great motto of Cali- | fornia. “‘Eureka,” should be the manual | of Oakland.. Alameda County has 740 square All of Rhode Island has only 1250 fles, yet there are more possibilities wealth a.d development in Alameda County than in all of Rhode Isiand. And when think of California with 156,000 square miles we cannot conceive what is our heritage. | BAY IS THE KEY. i The national Government by wise and lib- | eral appropriation is making a great harbor | for the city of Oakland. In helping to make | Oakland a great commercial port, remember that the bay of San Francisco is the best fortified port in the United States, New York not excepted. Our fortifications are perfect, and this is the way to insure peace—to be | fortified against war. Oakland, with her best | of schools, best homes, churches and librarie: with a fine harbor, has a magnificent future. Governor George C. Pardee was in- troduced, being welcomed with much cheering. The Governor, at the outset, reverted to a mass meeting he, as a boy in 1868, had attended in Oakland, then a town of only 3000 population. He said: At that meeting I heard John .B, Felton, magnificent orator that he was, predict that Oakiand would have 75,000 people in her midst the within lifetime of some of those who heard ak. Oakland, Indeed. fulfilled the eloquent prophecy of that matchless orator. | She has thrown off her swaddling clothes and | ar beyond the limit of that ut- y-six years ago. To-day along » bay there are nearer 75,000 which were | the State” was Oakiand has given Her homes, her “Oakland a Necessity to the subject assigned to me. many things to California. sciiools, her churches, are items in & long lst. There, is not a loyal Californian that does not hers, Oakland commands the situation. She hos- within her grasp the possibilities of the future. The State of California looks with loving eye upon this fair city, and in the name of the people of Culifornia 1 bear to you the best wishes of the State. MINISTER SPEAKS. “The Civic Pride of the Clergy of Oakland” was responded to by Rev.! William Carson Shaw, rector of the Church of the Advent. Dr. Shaw was felicitous and witty in his address, making pleasant reference to the place of the clergyman in the civic life, and declaring strongly his| own personal views of what a citizen | of Oakland should be proud. He said scenic beauty, climate and schools ap- pealed to him strongly. He urged bonds for public improvements and concluded: “What we need in the city, State and nation is the loyalty of the citizen.” To the toast “Greater Oakland” Har- mon Bell responded, saying: We want men who will welcome every new enterprise, who will see to it that every dol- 1ar invested in Oakland is protected, for where Eraft grows cities rot. We want men who will build our sea basins, our factories and docks; men who will rejoice in prosperity of their neighbors, who will not sneer or belittle him who invests a dollar. Judge Henry A. Melvin responded to the toast “Social Influence in the Growth of Oakland,” saying, “Adopt the motto of Dumas’ three guardsmen, ‘One for all and all for one,’ and you make for development.” C. R. Smith extended Alameda’s con- gratulations. John A. Britton talked about the in- dustrial future of Oakland, declaring he was glad that the spirit of “knock- ing” every corporation that had in- | ered that Professor Spinello had no vested money in Oakland to her indu trial advancement I ased. | The other speakers and toasts were ‘The Best Government for Oakland, City Councilman A. H. Elliott; “The Relation of the Press to Greater Oak- land,” Joseph E. Baker; “The Interest of the Merchants’ Exchange in Oak- land,” A. Jona s There a Place for Knockers Oakland?” Dr. H. B. Mehrmann. . The banquet was handied by a com- mittee, composed of Charles E. Snook, chairman, E. P. Vandercook, Frank K. Mott, Emil Lehnhardt, Charles J. Heeseman. —_————— GAP | INCH DEPARTMENT Death of Marius Spinello, Following That af Professor Paget, Is Great Loss to State University. BERKELEY, May 25.—The French department of the University of Cali- fornia is crippled by the death of two of its foremost instructors, Professor | Felicien Paget, who died suddenly last | December, and Marius Spinello, who died vesterday afternoon as the result of having his legs crushed off by the electric ferry train. The death of | Professor Spinelio will necessitate a | change in the summer school schedule of studies, in which he was to have | conducted courses in both French and | Ttalian, In a postmortem examination yes- ! terday by the surgeon it was discov-| chance for recovery. Besides the loss | of his legs he sustained a fracture of the skull and internal injuries. Mrs. | Spinello will send the body East for | interment. No funeral services will be held in Berkeley —_————— Wil Sing in Oratorio. | OAKLAND, May 25.—Mendelssohn's | oratorio, “Elijah,” will be sung Thurs- day evening at St. Paul's Episcopal Church By a vested choir of eighty voices, under direction of Edwin Dun- | bar Crandall. ‘The soloists will be | Lowell Redfield, Mrs. Carrie Brown Dexter, Mrs. Mollie Melvin Dewing, | Miss Mary Chester Williams, Miss Minnie G. Smith, Mrs. A. E. Nagh, Mrs. George Lowell, Mrs. Blanche Youhg, J. F. Veaco, Ernest H. McCandlish and C. E Lioyd Jr., with Arthur Ficken- | scher organist. No admission fee will | be charged. ’ —_——— Adds Warning to Sentence. OAKLAND, May 25.—Police Judge ' Mortimer Smith to-day accompanied a ' fine of $10 he imposed upon Mrs. Lucy E. Moore for using vulgar language in presence of Miss May Morrissey, a tel- | ephone girl, with a warning that fur- ther difficulties might involve imprla-! onment. - —_—— ‘Water Ordinance Not Ready. OAKLAND, May 25.—The City Coun- cil meét in executive session for the purpose of fixing the water rates for the ensuing year. Nothing definite wa. arrived at and it was announced that the ordinance would not be ready for to-morrow night's meeting. | F. Benton C 'SHE HAS i(ha[ will probat RICHARDS DIVORCE COMPROMISED | DEMANDS SICK WOMAN'S ARREST aims That He| Was Robbed of Ninety Cents by Hospital Patient NO DMONEY| | | | | | | Gertrude Howell Falls at] His Doorstep and Is T]u-n" Taken Into His House | Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, May For 90 cents F. Benton to-day would have had Mrs. Gertrude Howell a rested, although she was lying near Yi dead in the Receiving Hospital. Hu y accused her of stealing this amount, from his home at 1053 Fifth a\’:'\:le; yesterday afternoon and came to tue 5. | 1| hospital to-day to demand his money. | ox had | to There was no evidence that she taken the money and his request have her searched met with a refusal at the hands of Steward Borchert. According to the story told by Ben ton, the woman fell on his doorstep | yesterday affernoon while asking for| money to get to the ci He took her | into his home and sent in a call for the police patrol. After she had gon he missed 90 cents hWe had left on | mantel and immediately came to the| conclusion she had taken it. The w an was searched by the matron when taken into the hospital, but nothing was found in her clothes and further search was denied unless he swore (O a | a warrant charging her with larceny She was sent to the County Infirmar to-day, as she has an internal disea —_—ee———— MAY BE Adjournment of the Case Taken Until | Next Week to Permit a | Conference. | OAKLAND, "May 25.—An effort to ar- | rive at a promise in the suit of Florence Richards against Harry Rich- | ards, the basso and actor, caused the postponement of the further trial of the case until next week It is claimed for Rich that he has such proof of his wife’s infidelity that he can defeat her suit, but that he does not wish to bring it to light unless compelled to do so. With th in view there was a consult tween t journme e attorneys to-day and an ad then asked for u | auitel m- | e ; cause her death. |} | s10. -— - —_—— || BRANCH OFFICES OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY OAKLAND. 1118 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083. BERKELEY. 2148 Center Street. Telephone North 7 ALAMEDA. 1435 Park Street. Telephone Alameda 4592 e CALL AGENCY REMOVAL | NOTICE. | On June 1st the Oakland agency and news headquarters of this paper will be removed | from 1118 Broadway to 1018 Broadway, Oakland, Cal. % | - REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. + punty. Alameda Cc £l MAY WEDN AY, * m Mack corded e-half of Thirtieth streets, N . map Rowland Tract, recorded 1904, Oakland: $10. Katie L. and G. L. attorney) la men H Build Pa 3 by Lan to German Savings ) H Hackett Twenty-secorn by H. next Tuesday. In the mean time i believed that a separation without a divorce will be agreed upon. o i i Old Actions Dismissed. OAKLAND, May 25.—Suits that have littered the court calendars for a quarter of a century were dismissed | har by Judge Ogden to-day for want of prosecution. They were over the t. to water front property, but their is sues had been determined by dec sions in other cases. The suit di were: John Caperton vs. Lefever, J. P. Dameron vs. W. e scock, John Caperton vs. John Holding, Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Com ve. John Holding, Edson F. D. Nearny et al., the peo i Water Front Dameron et al —_——— vs. ( Doane V. Alameda Teachers to Leave. ALAMEDA, May . — Principal William W. Kemp of the Longfellow School will not teach in the local d partment next vear. He will be gra ed a vear's leave of absence, during which time he will study in the East and at Stanford University. Horatio Cogswell, instructor in Latin at the Alameda High School, will resign to enter Columbia College, and Professor Arthur Ellis, teacher of history in the Alameda High School, will take up the practice of law in Los Angeles. The annual election for teachers and principals will be held by the Board of Education Friday, June 3 . ———————— Veterans Conduct Matheny Funeral. BERK e May Funeral services were held this afternoon over the remains of Colonel John M. Math- | eny, an ex-Federal soldier and resident for many years of Berkeley. The obsequies were attended by the entire membership of Lookout Mountain Post and the local Relief Corps. Ser- vices were held at both the residence, | 1924 Berkeley way, and Mountain View Cemetery. « ———————— Expressman’s Leg Crushed. | ALAMEDA, May 25.—Fred Clark, an expressman, had his left leg badly crushed last evening between the tail board of a wagon and a flat car at the Park-street station of the south- side railroad. He was sitting on the rear end of the vehicle when the team backed the wagon against the ecar. ‘The injured man was conveyed to the home of William Patton for treatment. ———— Waiter Drops Dead. OAKLAND, May 25. — Nicholas Hirsch, a waiter, member of the Wait- ers’ Alliance of San Francisco, dropped dead this afternoon at Orange and Per- ry streets. Coroner Mehrmann took charge of the body. Hirsch’'s mother resides at 918 Sixteenth street. —_———————— Thumb Torn Off. OAKLAND, May 25.—While leading a cow to pasture Mrs. A: Furtardo, of 251 Louise street, fell and the rope winding about her thumb tore it off at the knuckle. She was taken to the Receiving Hospital, where her hand was dressed by Dr. Stratton. ————— Accuses Former Constable. OAKLAND, May 2%.—H. tum Suden of FEast Oakland has sworn to a complaint before Police Judge Samuels charging Former Constable 33d Weldler with the embezzlement of $150. Weidler, it is said, has gone to British Columbia. ——— ‘Will Observe Anniversary. A meeting of the board of managers of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution was held last evening at 411 California street, Colonel A. D. Cutler, the president of the soclety, in the chair. Arrange- men:- were mJndo for an informal din- ner to occur June 17, the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill. ' | hall ALA DA, May 25 son and his wife, Na were arres g woman's fathe charged with ba when their Just for of ¢ leged that his d had thrown him ove beaten him while h Maccabee efs Recetved. The Knights of the Maccabees 1 the Ladies of the Ma Fra t0. together Battalion, Thirteenth Re Uniform Rank of a reception la of P ward Young, &r the Great T T. Hegerman for that Sta en West Ten Great Comma at Ohio, Macc ¥ " . E§ - (=) X 3 weg [pesuny 9 ' 0 o 2 [ = D > - o 2