The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1904, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1904. \CRED HEART'S | BRIGHT PUPILS: Fine Musical Programme Is Given at Closing Exerci of Popular Convent School ETORe, OTR QTR ‘R AT ATES | A ringing protest against the action UR GIRL GRADUATES!, ive Boca of Supervisors in refus- - ing the larger appropriations asked for by the Board of Education was filed yesterday with Mayor Schmitz by Fr ent Roncovieri of the latter body. The letter especially attacks the Finance Committee of the Supervisors for what it describes as wanton disregard of the health and even the lives of the pupils. This is declared to lever Operetta Pleases Big Crowd—Honors Conferred 1 Father Prendergast sen- ’ n un- | have been shown by the committee’s of mu- | failure to provide funds for repatrs of the com- | Many old school buildings that have been condemned by the Board of Health as unsanitary. President Roncovieri, speaking for the School Board, says that the Super- the doors visors have reduced the amount of d he entertain- | municipal taxes allowed for school manifested purposes during the coming fiscal year Several in- to $:20,000, or $56,000 less than was given anet the in this year's budget. To cover up this deduction, he avers, they carried for- ward the amount of $108,000 from this income on the ground that on ¥ 28, when the Finance Committee made up its estimate, this amount was still unexpended, although the Finance Committee had notice that it was al- ready contracted for and that the whole sum would be spent before July 1. ATTACK ON THE SCHOOLS. : Roncovierl charges the Supervisors the high acred Heart With a deliberate attack upon the School a .ssed the hope that School Department in thus reducing - . sphere It income in the face of the well- known facts that the number of chil- dren of school age is vastly increasing every year and that the amount of ®mxable property is $43,000,000 larger this vear than last. He asks the Mayor to oppose so much of the budget &pplies to with a view to compelling its revision and the granting of the same percent- age of the city’s income as last vear, namely, .0963 cents out of the dollar limit. This would give $440,000, or $120,000 more from municipal taxation than the budget adopted yesterday al- lows. According to President Ronco- vieri, it would enable the School Board to make the most essential repairs in the older buildings. Finally, the president of the Board of Education emphasizes the need of J school tax and recommends v charter amendment for that pose be submitted to the people. The substance of the letter follows: BAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 1904 aitz, Mayor of the City Sir: The un- he School Department tiee of the Board necessary this report ducation respectfully se %0 much of the » the common school fund, »nsiderate members of ho believe in safe, ngs may have an oppor- he action of the -Finance red by the Utilities tttee of the Supervisors (Supervisor Braunhart, rd of Education submitted a of urgently needed repairs including a complete lumbing and sanitary toilet is. The chairman of this d the whole list, saying on would be called only for utidings, and that il contem- s to existing bulldings would ed for out of the regular annual ap- Katie the common school fund | | | | that | must fealy, Mary pr i —. ACIES OF THE PAST. dated bulldings that need regairing % R e e gacies of the past, monuments 1o the of the graduates were read \dity or lack of foresight of those Wwho s s neglected to provide funds to keep them Miss Mary I Fitz- ition. The cost of painting, repairing | cing all the old buildings and toilet Miss Irene B Ages,” Miss g0od condition has been carefully rical Novel,” fter six months” time spent on the Service Inspector of School J. McSheehy, and will be nearly HAMILTON NIGHT SCHOOL. | Sixty-One Youths Receive Diplomas on Completion of Studies. Ider cked to the | ¢ ids of the improvements to old bufldings must some time, and We propose to meet it now. IH ngs are not improving with age. the last three years the atten- Hall was ps ening with to the disgraceful condition of some of buildings and to the defective tollet and last e : e plumbing systeme, condemned by the Board luating class of the Hamilton of Health as dangerous to the lives of the eninz school, of which Professor | children, always receiving the e e B mathaitias o | “We wiil do ail we can for the School Depart- & de F. Bartlett is prin ipal. Th ment in our next appropriation.” was handsomely decorated with | The Board of Education receives the blame g 1 gree ry. The exer- C improving these conditions when the conducted by William H, | biame should fall properly upon those who de- refuse to furnish the means to bet- the majority of the Board * * In the face of the liberat ter_them, of Superv tendent amme oper of Schools. d with a song namely, McCurda, Deputy Superin- | fact t e present dehcuvpbplumhmg and of Schools, after which School uneant ilet systems have been condemned £ Beh after which School h authorities, and that a_full and one: 11 W. Mark and rt of these conditions has been uperintendent Heaton deliv- ses of encouragement the young men and ar after year to thi tee of the Board of Supervisors, their yndifference and heediessness of the children of the rd people of San Francisco are little short of T out to receive their diplo- | crimin s. A spirited debate followed, the | Whenever I have spoken with members of - “Resolved that the Finance Committee regarding these and S tors LaaiS - T er great necessities of the School Depart- r s ° | I bave always been met with great of the peo-| protestations of friendliness for the School s maintained | Department, but beyond these empty words 1A Arthur | naught ever comes from them. Their stock e aaties rick Menz | €xcuse has always been that the one dollar limit does not provide a sufficlent revenue to run all the departments of the city govern- ment and at the same time allow any money for rehabilitating the old buildings. The ghtest examination of facts will show that this is mot true. Last year .0963 cents out of the one dollar limit of taxation was al- lowed for the school department, producing a revenue of $406,000 of municipal cash. This year in the face of an increased assessment roll of $43,000,000 the same Finance Committes | has the hardihood to reduce our pro rata of the one dollar limit to .0688 cents, which will produce a revenue of only $320,000 of municipal cash; or $85,000 less than last year, and that, 00, in face of the annually expanding needs of the department and its increased enroll- ment of puplls. The State, on the contrary, has increased her appropriation and does so annuaily, not because she loves us any more than she does other countles, but because the | number of children is increasing annually and | the census of children of school age this year Edwards. The judges re Thomas B. Leland, and L P. enstein, in a brief praising the young ora- unced that the judges found akers for the negative had more ably and were en-| award. ndent he Langdon then 3ridge ‘and Denman students having the in the class. The win. ers were cent V. Hardeman and Miss Mabel Goldberg respectively. The, sixty-one g ates who re. | cef vw), diplemas for the completion of | racti f the night ghest heol were ss £o} | Wi “reach over 95,000, as against 91,000 last N'nth grode—Bagar Altred Borchard, | year. Costello, Fug " onn Gar’ . The appropriation from the State is made solaberg, M dwiein, Herman on a basis of $0 per year for each child of Mabe nte school age, and she is doing her duty by allowing enough money. on the basis of the increase in the numbér of children. The Finance Committee in their budget allow ab- rolutely nothing of city taxes toward this increase, but on the contrary they allow this department $85,000 less than they did last year: in other words their programme for The past few years has been & See-saw Dropo- bookkeeping course, Joseph Dunn, Doris ' sition, with the appropriation of municipal David D. Michael, moneys on the lower end, allowing of muni- ' Newbauer, Dasiel pal cash in an inverse ratio from the State %5 as to keep the appropriation of the School M. Appiarius, John D. | Department practically _statignary, —notwith- Hackmeier, Charles Johann- | standing the natural increase of children and the expenss of educating them and notwith- k - “tanding the deterioration of buildings and > ol o By furniture from continue#* use. P “Golaen, Freserick Grietmow, Tt matters mot to this Finance Committes, however, what the increased revenue of the | city may be. Their evident purpose is to hold the School Department in & state of stagnation as far as their power may accomplish this, allowing not one cent for the natural increase -_— POB‘I'U! CEBEAL. COMES NATURAL to any one tolike the de- | Firs, e Cetwe Mol Esvard S - aflly. year—Lilty ¥elice Albini, Betsey Berg, ers, Arthur Lewis, Mary wiowits, Hat- tie Mucha, Selby R. vmulp-. tlliam Alexan- der Suliivan, Lona Wrsnt. | The exercises closed with dancing. | —_—e-—— | BOND ISSUE CASE SUBMITTED. — The case of Law vs. City and County of Ban Fran- cisco, instituted by Dr. Law to determine the validity of the proposed municipal bond issue of approximately $18,000,000, was submitted to the Supreme Court yesterday. The City and County Attorney and the plaintiff’s legal repre- sentatives intended to make oral arguments, but it was finally agreed tc submit the matter cn briefs, The case was advanced on the court.calendar and a decision may be expected in the course of three or four months licious, rich, nourishing food-drink POSTUM after a few days’ use _ in place of coffee. little book, “The Road to in each pkg. Get ¢ Wellviiie, same Finance | | Behoot ue on this question of urgent repairs | orner gepartments. be | o of this same Finance Committes has been | | | visors separately PROTESTS THAT SCHOOL EUND IS INSUFFICIENT{: A5 NMONIH QF <Pre51dent Roncovieri of the Board of Edu- cation Calls Upon Mayor Schmitz to Op- pose the Supervisors’ Budget Allowance in children, repairs and permanent improvem y for the health, aye, in many « y lives of the children. FIRST IN IMPORTANCE. And of all the permanent improvements 8o noisily trumpeted by this Finance Committee as having been provided for in their budget which of them does not drop to Insignifica when compared with the repairs and perm- anent improvements so absolutely required for the preservation of the heaith and, as I have d, even the lives of the children? for the parent increase of the ropriation over that of last year been carefully pre pared by the Finance Committ appear like an increase, but in reality veils their programme covertly to assail and weaken the 00l Department. The apparent appropria- tion made by the Finance Committee is $1,301,- 000, made up as follows: From the State (estimated). Rents (Lincoln School lots, ete.). State school moneys now standing to the credit of this fiscal year arbi- trarily and without precedent car- ried forward into next fiscal year by the Finance Committee of the Supervisors on May (more than one month before the close of the fiscal year) against the earnest pro- test of the Board of Education and notwithstanding that the Board of Education has already expended a large part of it and has entered into actual contract for the balance Municipal taxes (.0688 cents out of 1 Umiy) . .. $875,000 58,000 108,000 Total s $1,361,000 Ostensibly the members of the Finance Cor mittee have made an allowance of $1,361,000, but with full knowledge of conditions they have included in this amount the sum of $108,- 000 which they full well know will not be on hand at the close of this fiscal year, notice having been given to them that the following sums have been either contracted for or al- iy expended State high school tax received last January | and aiready expended, $19,000, Option to_purchase’lot to enlarge and fm- prove Noe Val ol playground, $3900. Contract through Board of Public Works for sheds, and bituminizing yards of Noe , already paid, $3900. Addt cost of census owing to increased requirements of State, $2000. already paid through Board of for repairs to foundation of §. » rtable schoolhouses, materials ontracted and pavable only out d# of this fiscal year, s through Board of Public Works scapes, new foundations and addi- s to Dudley Btone School, Richmond School Lowell High School, $33,000. tal expended or contracted for at time (May 28), $02,375. The Board of Education must purchase and equip fifteen portable schoolhouses in order to give up as many poorly ventilated and un- ary rented rooms for which the School tment is paying over $400 per month in . o $15,000. .\‘l‘Ll'Ll,S A FICTION. It will thus be seen that the members of ks Whittier School, Bills for this rents the Board of Supervisors who have voted in tavor of the budget as submitted by the Finance Committee have erred in assuming this sum of $108,000 will be on hand after July 1 and I believe I have conclusively shown to your Honor and to all fair-minded men that there wiil not be @ surplus of $108,- 000 or any other sum to the credit of the School Department after July 1, 1904, and that the Finance Committee has allowed in reality $108,000 less than they pretend. The contention of the Board of Education in this whole matter is not only that the Supervisors recedent to pursue in carrying over supposed surplus, even it it did t they have not the slightest . legal or equitable right support of an arbitral laration of & sur which does not and will not exist. No attention whatever has been paid by the Finance Committee to our petition 10 provide funds to install for the safety of the children an electric fire alarm system in each public schoolhouse, sald system to be installed by the Department of Electricity. Section 1590 of school law of California makes it mandatory ‘‘that the Board of Education provide suitable fire escapes for each school butlding two or more stories in height undes their jurisdiction.” Should a tragedy occur in any of our overcrowded schools such ntly enacted at the Iroquois Thea- r fire in Chicago, the condemnation and ex- ecration of all the world would fall not on the Board of Education, but on those Super- visors who neglect to provide for these neces- sities. In recent years the annual expenditure of y $20,000 for light and water and $7000 for the playground have been saddled on the Department. Our _appropriation Is further fictitiously swelled by these amounts, which should be appropriated by the Super- and apart as is done with the public buildings of In former years the Board Supervisors inciuded in their annual adver- | tisement for Water and gas to be furnished | | tunds, the municipality, the requirements of the Board ucation in those commodities. The Board of Education recommended that this same system be again pursued in order that a | uniform rate for all municipal buildings be | secured, as the rates charged by the gas and water companies have heretofore been much higher for the School Department than for those obtained by the Supervisors for other municipal bulldings. This would be a sav to the taxpayers, but our recommendation been disrezarded in this matter as in every thing else The policy of the Finance Committee, it would seem, has been to make it appear that the appropriation for school purposes is large, when in reality the amount which is left after the fictitious sums have been deducted {s barely sufficient to keep the department golng | ven in the lamest way and leaving children | ventilated and unsanitary in_poorly rented hey have included in thelr appropriation of $1,361,000: $7000 for playground: $20,000 for light and water; $108,000 which they know will not exist at the end of this fiscal year—a total of $135,000 not available for school purposes durfg next fiscal year. So that If the appropriation made by the Finance Committee is not changed the Board of Education will have $135.000 less than actu- | ally needed for legitimate school purposes, or only $1,226,000—a sum totally inadequate to | carry on the department during the next fiscal | year. FOR A SPECIAL TAX. To resume, the Board of Education petitions that at least as much as was allowed last year be again allowed this year, to wit: .0063 cents out of the $1 limit. This would allow over $440,- 000, and would be a great help toward placing the old buildings in a sanitary condition. If the Supervisors could allow us .0063 cents out of the $1 limit last year, how much easfer can they allow it this year on an increased valuation of $43,000,000. In order to avold & repetition of this per- petual controversy I respectfully suggest that a charter amendment be submitted to a vote of the people, providing for a fixed tax of 12 cents annually for the eupport of the schools, the same as Is now done for the park and for the public library, by providing a special tax an- nually. If a special tax of 7 cent provided for the people’s pleasure ground why | should not a tax of 12 cents be provided for the maintenance of their schools? The schools reach at least as far in their scope as does the park. instruction in this city are a disgrace to a metropolRan city. Our department has re- peatedly called attention to the ratastrophies llable to occur through the co1‘inued 1se of ‘buildings for public school purposes waich are absolutely unfit and unsafe. Such a condition of affalrs would not, I am sure, be permitted to continue for an hour in any other city. The sanitary conditions of many of ou~ scheols are in violation of every hyglenic law. and our duty is imperative that they should be re- stored to a condition where the health of our children shall not be under constant menace of disease and epidemic. Tie Board of Education will do its best with the fuads that are allowed, but with yearly increasing demands upon it, and the 014 build- ings unrepatred, it can barely get along. Im- portant repairs and improvsments inust be made at all cost, and if this boord must run short of fundsé through the blindness of some of the Supervisors It might be com- pelled as a last resort to close the schools for a time in order to save the monay neeled for these urgent repairs. The mambers of the Board of Education assumed thsir dutles with a fixed determination to dedicate every effort to the urlifting of the condidons of the teachers and other employes o. the depart- ment, as well as of the children, and suitable bufldings and rooms and sanitary conditions for the ~hildren are a part of that determins- tion. Respectfully submitted, ALFRED RONCOVIERI, President Board of Hducation. —————— Vice Admiral Togo hag been promoted to the highest rank in .the Japanese navy as a reward for his great services during the present war. Buy a gas range from San Francisco Gas & Electric Co. & plckiimitar e Sede v SAYS COURT WAS DECEIVED.—R. F. Mogan, attorney for the heirs of Frank Mer- rill, yesterday petitioned the Superior Court for’ an_order setting aside a confirmation of the sale of the personal property of the de- ceased, He claims the court was deceived, and unwarranted dec- | from the school | be | The bulldings devoted to the cause of nubllc‘ JUNE FAVORED SMART NUPTIALS By Sally Sharp. No sinecure now is the office of | “Cupid” clerk—whatever it may be at the ebb of affairs of love. But now that the tide is running high, dear Cupid Danforth is threatened with in- | undation. To-morrow ni- ht Miss Charlotte Rix- | on of Los Angeles will become the bride of Dr. Harry Reynolds, the well-known Stanford man, who, during his college days, was a shining light on the varsity football team. The ceremony will be held at the! home of the bride's parents in the ! southern city, where Miss REugenie | Rixon, a er of the bride, will as- | sist as maid of honor, and Mrs. Jack- | son E. Reynolds of New York City as | matron of honor. The bridesmaids will | Include Miss Ella Hartnell of San Fran- | Miss Madeline Edwards of Santa Barbarn Miss Alice R. Dalley of Silver City, N. M., and Miss Gertrude Mc- Kenzie of Los Angeles. Jackson E.| Reynolds of New York City will be best man. | _After an extended trip through the East, the young physician and his bride | will make their home in this city. B i A | To-morrow at noon the wedding of | Miss Genevieve Louise Huntsman and Harry R. Williar will be quietly cele- ! brated at the home of the bride's par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. George Huntsman. The ceremony will be performed by | the Rev. Dr. Clampett of Trinity | Church, Mrs. Charles Kendleberger of Mare Island, a sister of the bride, as- | sisting as matron of honor. The bride is statuesque of figure and | of fine personality, and should fulfill the poul s ideal of a beautiful bride. Miss Huntsman is the third maid of | the family to wed—Mrs. Grayson Dut- ton and Mrs. Kendleberger preceding | her to the altar. | Both the Williars and the Huntsmans are of old families, the bride’s mother | belonging to the Drummonds of Perth, Scotland, and the Williar family for more than a century has been identi- | fled avith the wealth and culture of Baltimore. . . | To-morrow night at St. Mary’s Ca- thedral Miss Edna Haywards, daugh- ter of Captain H. M. Haywards, will | become the bride of Frank Butler, son | of P. F. Butler. Miss Haywards is a young woman of | much charm and culture, having trav- eled abroad extensively with her sister, Miss Cassie. The ceremony will be performed by | Archbishop Montgomery, the bride to be attended by her sister. After the | service a reception will be held at the | Occidental, where the young ladles have lived for many years. TN R i The Sorosis Club will be the scene of | a pretty wedding to-morrow, when the Rev. Father Black will join Miss Edna Maybelle Lee and F. W. Dann | in the bonds of marriage. The bride will be attended by Miss Fdna Richie and Miss Gladys Dann, a sister of the groom. | A reception will follow the ceremony. - g pEird On Wednesday morning at 10:30 the wedding of Miss Margaret Short and Joseph Kane Hawkins will be cele- brated in the quaint little church of St. Raphael in San Rafael. The bride is one of the fairest maids in the little burg over the bay, and Mr. Hawkins is a popular fellow, hav- ing won distinction in the practice of law on both sides of the bay. The marriage ceremony will be pre- ceded by a nuptial mass, a service that in its impressiveness and beauty em- phasizes the solemnity of the bridal | promises. After a post-nuptial trip the young barrister and his bride will set up their household gods in San Rafael. | AMUSEMENTS. OPERA 1 G RA N HOUSE MATINEE SATURDAY—LAST WEEK MELBOURNE MacDOWELL In the New and Successful Romantic Drama | A CAPTAIN OF NAVARRE | PRICES: 13¢, 26c, 50c, 75¢ DAVID BELASCO PRESENTS MRS. LESLIE CARTER | In His New Play DU BARRY For a Limited Engagement, Commencing NEXT MONDAY NIGHT | Regular Mat. Sat. Special Mat. Wed. | SALE OF SEATS COMMENCES | THURSDAY MORNINC Prices: $2.00, $1.50, §1.00, | | | OPERA TIVOLI RS | HOUSE. | ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY. | TO-NIGHT—EVERY NIGHT. The Military Comic Opera Triumph, Book and Lyrics by R. H. Burnside. Music by A. Baldwin Sloane. | Beautiful Production—Splendid Cast. Great Success of || LILLIAN SEFTON, Prima Donna Soprano Usual Tivoll Prices~25c, 50c, T8c. LOOK OUT FOR “ROBIN HOOD.’ | A Succession of Surprises! FORESTERS OF AMERICA Gorgeous Carnival ——AND—— Street, Fair. UNDER AUSPICES OF GENERAL RELIEF 2—TRAIN MADI OP NOVELTIES—2 Magnificent Electrical A Feast of Fun and Frolic. Direction of California Carnival Company. 10c—ADMISSION—10c. OFPEN AFTERNOON AND EVENING, Cor. Market, 11th, Vi d 12th, 'COLUMBI Genuyine Bargains eee]Nee= Jackets, Waists, Dresses, Skirts. We are determined to clear out our Spring and Summer styles. All of our fine all-wool garments, specially selected styles, made by the best tailors, lined with best. silk linings, will be sold during this sale at. extraordinary bargain prices. You will surely find this sale attractive, so prepare to expect a feast of low prices. $1.50 and $1.25 Fine Lawn 50¢ $3 and $4 Fine India Silk $I.75 $6 and $7 Peau de Soie and Taffeta Silk Waists, creams, $3.50 $35 Fancy Etamines, Eton and Blouse, Blouse Dress- es trimmed, black and all $20.00 15¢ and Cheviot Shirt Waists, now....... Waists, now black, light blue, pinks and blacks, now. colors, now.... $1.50 Cotton Summer Petticoats, now. .... $17.50 Black and White Silk Shirt Waist Sais, now. - SI0 $27.50 Fine Embroidered All- Linen Dresses, S|2 50 now $5 Misses’ Covert Jackets, ages 6 to 12 years, BOW 5 5 Lo as? 4 SI 50 $:16 All-Wool Cloth Eton Dresses, black and blue, now... sglfiu $10.00 Black and Dark Ox- fords, Cheviot, All-Wool Jackets; all satin lined; now...... 35-00 in duck et 900 $4 Outing Skirts, in duck and crash, now $| 75 $10 All ‘Wool Black Cloth Blouse Jackets, trimmed and all-silk lined, now 85|00 $16.50 Silk Etons, trimmed and all-satin $|0 uu " lined, now..... $17.50 Fine All-Wool Tan Covert Cloth Jackets, all $2 Outing Skirts, and crash, now.. MAIL ORDERS SATISFACTORILY FILLED. KELLY &LIEBES SUInsS# CLOAKS 12O KEARNEY STREET S.F. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. SAN FRANCISCO'S LEADING THEAVRE LAST FIVE NIGHTS. | Matines Saturday—Charles Frohman Presents MAUDE ADAMS In Her Greatest Triumph, THE LITTLE MINISTER “Refreshing as a dewdrop.’ —Bulletln. “Simply bewitched the audience.”’—Cail. “Proves Irresistible.” —Post. “Possesses divine fire.'—Examiner. “A great artistic success,”—Chronicle. Beginning NEXT MONDAY, i SOTHERN In the Miracle Play, THE PROUD PRINCE. By Justin Huntly MecCarthy, Author of “IF I WERE KIN SEAT SALE THURSDAY. CALIFORNIA A Tremendous Personal Trinmph for AMELIA GARDNER The Stirring War Play of the South “THE CAVALIER" Presented by The Oliver Morosco Company The Greatest Stock Company in Ex- istence. BARGAIN MATINEE THURSDAY, 25¢ and B0c. Next—SECRET SERVICE. ALCAZA ALL EK. AN IJ "SATURDAY. Belasco & Mayer, Propcietons: Price, ('.enernl "Manager. TO-NIGHT- MATINEES THURSDAY OoUIDA’S ROMANCE UNDER 2 FLAGS FIRST ALCAZAR STOCK PERFORMANCE. MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION. SAND STORM SCENE. RIDE FOR LIFE. Eve., 26c to 75c. Mats, Thurs. & Sat., 25¢ to 50c NEXT WEEK—LAUGH LONG AND LOUD! ——CHARLEY'S AUNT- THE COMEDY OF COME! mm To Follow—Clyde Fitch's LOVERS' L. Coming —WHITE W HITTLESEY GENTRAL* Market street, near Eighth., Phone Soulh 583. TO-NIGHT—ALL THIS WEEK. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Hal Reid's Phenomenal Eastern Success, [THE PEDDLER] nating Heart Interest Drama with a W:u't’x:.:g Comedy and the Greatest of all He- brew Characters. lon PRICES Evenings.. Maginees. oo, 100, 395 NMext week—Mammoth Revival of —*THE OCTOROON" NE. LASC MAYEN THE GREAT ALFONS, Europe’s Foremost Equilibrist, And a Splendid Show EHvery Afternoon and Evening in the Theater. TAKE A RIDE'ON THE MINIATURE ELECTRIC X Eemeralda and Her BABY MONKEY in the INSPECT CABARET DE LA MORT. AMATEUR NIGHT THURSDAY. Admission, 10c; Children, Be. —_— If you need help to make that onable rates. 6--BIG NEW ACTS-6 Truly Shattuck; Avon Comedy Four Leah Russell; Brandow and Wiley Burke, La Rue and 'he Inky Boy Gaston and Stone; Powers Brothers; Marcel's Living Art Studies Regular Matines Every Wednesday, Thurs- day. Saturday and Sunday. Prices. 105, Ze an: STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE INDEMNITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY F NEW YORK, IN THE STATE OF m York, on the 3ist day of December, A. D. 1903, and for year ending on that | ag made to the Insurance Commissioner . | the State of Califarnia, pursuant to the pro- | visions of Sections 610 and 611 of th. Pollll“l Code, condensed as per by the ioner, CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Btock, paid up In CasB ..cocnnrnnrennnes $200,000 00 ASSETS. Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company...$385,963 00 Cash in Company’'s Office ........ 25 00 Cash in Banks . 88,182 98 Interest due and accrued on all Stocks and Loans ..... 2,575 00 Premiums in due Course of Collec- tion . . 2,781 43 Due from other Companies for re- insurance on losses already paid. 180 37 Commission on _ Unpaid Return Premiums and Reinsurance Prem- fums Total Assets . LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid....... $15,155 69 Losses in process of Adlunmt‘nl or In SUSPENSE ..vv.tereneees 6,060 52 Losses resisted, Including expenses. 1,125 00 Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less, $211,752 09; reinsurance 50 per_cent . 105,576 05 Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning more than one year. $106.- 747 43; reinsurance pro ... 60,818 70 Due and accrued for ‘sdlaricn, Rente, 3,327 30 Due and m btl:cfl’ll dll' for (m' missions and _Brok 867 90 Returo Premiums and Reinsurance Total Liabilitles INCOME, Net cash actually received for Fire premiums Received for_interest and dividends on Bonds, Stocks, and from all other sources Total Income .. eeeee.$106,201 38 EXPENDITURES. id for Fire Losses uncluainx WI 85, losses of previous_years) sm.au o8 Plld or lllo"ed tor Commission erage 752 83 P-m froe sglmu Fees and other charges for officers, clerks, etc.. 22,118 o7 Paid for State. National and Local seeen. 8,133 53 taxes o An olhcl' umcut. and expendt- Total Expenditures . Losses incurred during the year... Net amount of Risks| written aurlu the)| year ...... Net amoun: Risks '!WM d’l‘lflu the) amount X force| , 1903. . 23,758,870 | 321,338 91 25,028,352 | 320,400 83 D«umhcr A. F LOSEB, President. J. H. BURGER, Secmuy becribed and sworn o befors me, this la day of February, EDWIN F. COREY. Commissioner for California in New York. PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT. 314 California St. W. H. LOWDEN, Manager, J. L. FULLER, Assistant Manager, JOHN . RICHARDS, Mgr., City Dept. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. AMUSEMENTS. They are taking to our wonderful play and company As a duck takes to water. Funny and finished to the end. And these artists. You have heard of them, of course. EDNA AUG, GARRITY SISTERS, YORKE & ADAMS, AL FIELDS, EDWIN CLARK, BEN DILLON, ROY ALTON. A chorus as 1s a chorus, The seneational novelty, Lionel Lawrence's “BEIGHT RADIUM GIRLS." Matinees Saturday and Sunday. SAME POPULAR PRICES. STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY 0' NORWXG!. I'.NULAND. ON THE 38T December, A D. 1903, and for the sour soding on et 42y, 8a made 15 ihe In- surance Commlasioner of the State of Callforn! jursuant to the provisions of sections 610 1 of the Polifical Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Stock, paid n Cash .ocvee 10 PP sas.ce 00 ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Company... $371,837 10 Loans on Bonds and Mortgages 40,000 00 Cain' Market Valte of all Stocks by Company... 5,081,087 Tace. 500 t or In Suspense. n:::- °:nuua. including ex- cent Gross premiums on Fire Risks Total LIabilities weceeseeces—-$3,672,538 37 = INCOME. ly received Zor Fire, Net cash actually Zor 5.048.107 39 lac cived tor in el Bonds, Stocks, Brokerags P Rarges for clerks, etc.. Paid for State, National and Local taxes . Total Expenditures .. Fire. .$3,249,181 07 Losses tncurred during the year. Risks and Pflmiuml ,'lro Risks. | Premiums, Net amount of !u.l:: Jear . '$1,611,379,110/$7.533,323 33 1,508,845.500| 529417591 1,813,558, 6,187,550 77 year Net am December 31, 1908. FRANK A. CUBITT, President. C. A. BATHURST BIGNOLD, Secretary. ma sworn to befors me, this Sth L B. 'T. HALES, Notary Publie. PACIFIC COAST DEPAR'.m. 314 California St. W. H. LOWDEN, Manager. J, L. FULLER, Assistant Manager. JORN D. RICHARDS, Mgr. City Dept., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Subscribed day of April, I e ————————————————————————————— e et o L VTHE. - WEEKLY ™ CALL,- $1 PER. YEAR