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16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23 1904. LETTER CLEARS THE COVERNOR Attempt to Involve Him in Pharmacy Board Scandal Results in Total Failure CORRESPONDENCE TELLS | — He Asks No Favors and Ad-| Excellent Arrangements Are sun wrote him asking him what he did monishes Commission to MEET KNIGHTS ON THE TRAINS Squads of Citizens and Del- egates to Go Forth and Board All the Specials —_— NOT BE CONFUSED WILL Made_by Reception Com- Adhere Strictly to Law| : | The alleged veiled Intimidations mittee of the Templars The reception committee of local /\SHAW’'S COMEDY “CANDIDA” PROVES VAS TLY HUMOROUS Brilliant Drama by Irish Author Is Presented for First Time at Columbia by Arnold Daly and Clever Company—Wi ns Praise of Audience | C——— | Brilliantly conceiving that her author | might know something of that very much-explained lady, Candida—intro- | duced last night to us at the Columbia | by Arnold Daly—the gifted critic of the know. In his paper on “The Truth | About Candida” in the current Metro- | politan Mr. Huneker gives Mr. Shaw’s | reply. Here it is, "Shaw on Shaw,” in- | dubitably the most fitting preface to innylhing one may have to say about | l egainst Governor Pardee that came up A Knights Templar was busy last night. | “Candida.” He says: st meeting of the commission | of inv ation appointed to look into the irs of the State Board of Phar- macy took up most of the proceedings | of the commission vesterday. The ner- vous Professor H. C. Finger at the last session, after asking that the question, “Has the Governor or any high State, official ever tried to Influence the be withdrawn, finally drew a | of letters from his pocket and | on the table before Senator the 1 it flung Lukens. “Lock at these,” sald Finger, and the | meeting was adjourned, for all sorts of imputations. After the commission had toured the rooms in the College of Physicians and | Surgeons yesterday afternoon, where the pharmacy examinations were held, they cross-questioned Finger. That gentleman hesitated, hemmed, forgot and thought he remembered. i { He heard Professor C. H. Rowley, | able assistants are: Sir Knights A. F. | president of the State Board of Phar- macy, say that he had heard from the Governor-in regard to H. S. Flanders, whose application to be made a licen- tiate was rejected. He couldn’t re- member when he heard it or just what words Rowley used. He was sure that he ant no insinuation against Gov- ernor Pardee when he flung the papers of companies and squadrons, in full :cosseling of big baby Morell. in front of Senator Lukens. FEARS FOR HIMSELF. “] suppose that the commission will get after me next. It's been after everybody else on the board. More got out than I thought,” said the stammer- ing Finger. C. H. Rowley was then called and the correspondence between him and Governor Pardee was given out in full. ollowing are the letters that passed. note was written at the end of A. C. Congdon’s indorsement of H. applicant to be ate without examination: nders eseional standing or capabili- those who have such e believe it to be true effic and worthy of C. PARDEE, M Pardee, October 23, 1903, was M. D.—Eeteemed Sir. to practice phar- just_been filed by tate Board of Phar- ommendation by your- ant is not personally known er two physicians, being m a good fellow: special stress upon indorsed by the is endeavoring by impartially all dispense jus- respect 1o . fans (un- B proficient tiale are mot alone 0 accord every cour- andards of regula- f pharmacy and the (See the inclosed cir- and eince no one can his Excellency than < y now be in order to what extent the Governor of Cali- h iower his established stand- ustion not heretofore pre- | H. ROWLEY, Pharmaciet. | The copy of this letter read at the | investigation is indorsed by Governor Pardee thus Letter from Rowley to Pardee. In re, Flan- @ers In reply to George C. Pardee, M. D, in- | dorsement of Flanders' indorsements. i GOVERNOR'S REPLY. ! Reply of Governor Pardes to the | foregoing was as follows: | In answer to yours of October 28, the Gov- | erzor of California would not have the Board of Pharmacy nor any other board lower its standards to meet a situation mot heretofors | presented. And the Governor would feel like censuring any board that would do so. | I am especiaily glad to note that the Board | of Pharmacy is endeavoring by every method | 1o treat impartially all epplicants without fear or. ¢ Mr. Flanders hae not. as you say, the | mecersary requirements, I can mee but ene thing for the Boerd of Pharmacy to éo, that is to | follow the law and not break its cath of office, | ¥ cannot nor will not ask any officer or board to do anything but that, and any official or board that @oes other:than this is open te | ecensure. The copy of this letter read at the investigation was indorsed by the Gov- ernor in the presence of Eenator Lu- kens. Judge Davis end Senator Lukens | pointed out the fact that these letters passed between C. H. Rowley, pharma- cist, and George C. Pardee, M. D., not between the Governor and the Board of Pharmacy. It was also shown that the application of Flanders, though in- | dorsed by Dr. Pardee, was rejected. The early part of the session was de- voted to an investigation of the ex- | amining room and the skylight through | which Miss Ruby Devoto Fisher is said | to have peered in search of informa- tion. W. M. Bearby testified that when he was a member of the Board of Phar- macy he thought his fellow members | held star chamber sessions on him. | “The investigation will be resumed this morning at the College of Physicians | and Surgeons —_———— i Willing to Marry Lula. As Lulu Lockwood, the woman who | attempted suicide ten days ago by drinking lysol, was leaving the Central | Emergency Hospital after being ad- | judged capable of taking care of her- | self, Fred Averill of 222 Mason street offered to lead her upstairs and be mar- ried if she would only consent. Lulu| has two ex-husbands and a checkered career, but Averill is willing to thke a chance. | —————————— | We give you the real thing in printing. Ea.l ward Knowles Company. 24 Second street e i Denies He Speculated. William J. Smith, who invested and ' jost money belonging to the Improved Order of Red Men and the Knights of Pythias, denies that he gambled with To the most minute details everything has been arranged to make their fra- ters from the East comfortable and perfectly at home before they reach San Francisco. The committee has been subdivided into squads of Sir Knights containing from three to seven Templars. Members of these squads in fatigue will proceed to Stockton, San Jose and Tracy to meet trains carrying brethren of the conclave. A hotel clerk will ac- company each of these delegations. | Visitors will be assigned to their rooms | before they reach the city. All con- jeaving room | fusion and discomfort are avoided by | this forethought. These reception squads will begin their work Saturday, September 3, and continue until the day of the parade. Part of the reception committee will remain in this city, distributed around the various hotels and depots. Sir Knight George G. Clark is chair- man of this committee. Among his Burns, Judge Kerrigan, Judge Troutt, Frank Sherman and B. C. Langley. Escorts in full dress uniforms, with banners and bands of music, will be on duty to meet all trains and boats arriving for the conclave from Satur- day morning, September 6. One of the features of this escort, composed dress uniform, is a special mounted squadron formed of Sir, Knights of Oakland Commandery No. 11 and Gold- en Gate Commandery No. 16, consisting two troops of twenty-seven Sir Knights each, under command of Major C. G. Toohey of Golden Gate Com- mandery. Troop A is composed of members of Golden Gate Commandery under command of Captain A. Wood- side. Troop B is composed of mem- bers of Oakland Commandery, under command of M. E. Gaines. These com- mands are fully equipped with all made & requisites and accouterments similar to| those of the regular army and Tem- ve mo personal knowledge of plar regulations. Longer than a month | Major Toohey has been assiduously drilling the Sir Knights as wéll as their horses. California Commandery No. 1, through Captain General R. P. Hurl- but, has offered for escort duty three troops consisting of twenty-seven Sir An Knights each, one the drill corps of vation where the ‘“heartless Hibern- California Commandery, under com- mand of Captain R. P. Hurlbut, an- other to be commanded by Sir Knight G. A. Clark and a third commanded by Sir Knight R. L. Hathorn, thus making five troops of mounted Sir Knights for escort duty alone. In ad- dition to this, Oakland Commandery will furnish one company of infantry composed of its drill corps and com- manded by Sir Knight U. G. Richards. This commandery will cross the bay from Oakland each morning, taking the first boat. The Grand Commandery of Pennsyl- vania, together with Sir Knights of Pennsylvania, will hold a reception tendered to all Knights Templar and their ladies attending the Twenty- ninth Triennial Conclave, in the marble and maple rooms of the Palace Hotel on Monday evening, September §, from 8 until 10 o'clock. The advance guard of the Tennessee Enights arrived ‘in this city yesterday afternoon and headquarters will be es- tablished at the Palace Hotel. The party, which consists of about fifty-five Sir Knights and their families, traveled in two special cars, which left Nash- ville on August 15. The first stop was made at Colorado Springs and later the party stopped at Manitou and made a trip to Pike's Peak. At Salt Lake City another stop was made and the party enjoyed a specially arranged organ re- cital in the Mormon Tabernacle and a trip around the city on observation cars. Prominent among the members of the party are John B. Garrett of Nashville, recording secretary of the Tennessee Commandery, and A. N. Sloan of Chattanooga. The majority of the members are registered at the Grand Hotel. e e TEAMSTER IS MANGLED BY LUMBER FALLING ON HIM Joseph Grace Meets Horrible Death When His Wagon Strikes Rut and Is Overturned. Joseph Grace, teamster, met a horri- ble death yesterday by being crushed beneath a $ad of lumber. The unfor- tunate man was hastily removed to the Potrero Hospital, but he was beyond medical ald and died shortly after ar- riving. { Grace was employed by the Excelsior Lumber Company and was driving a six-horse team, which was loaded with lumber bound for the pesthouse. As the team was going along Thirty-sec- ond avenue South one of the forward wheels struck a deep rut, which over- turned the wagon. The unfortunate man fell beneath the pile of lumber and was frightfully mangled. Pedestrians ran to his assfstance and extricated him from the mass of wood. Grace was 41 vears old and lived at 405 Fifth street. ———— ‘We Do It AlL Engraving, Printing. Electrotyping, Bookbinding. The best work at reason- Sanborn, Vail & Co., le et. Wants Goldman Put Away. Ex-Mayor Snow of Oakland called at the Central Emergency Hospital yester- day and requested Dr. Lustig to com- mit Adolph Goldman, the man who fired a shot at him several months ago, {to the insane asylum. Snow pleaded | that his life was not safe while this | man was loose. Dr. Lustig informed . him that the Police Department is the | proper place to lodge such complaints. the funds in the so-called salt trust. - Smith says he placed the money in legitmate investments. “I've been everywhere, I've seen everything worth seeing. I've tasted worth tast- ips, and Old Giit o8 the best man started an_egotist, but he lika & sond tndee of whiskes L) conundrums about that very immoral female, Candida. Observe the entry of W. Burgess: ‘You're the lady as hused to typrite for him. No, naaow, she was younger.’ And therefore Candida sacked her—| Prossy is a very select person, indeed, | devoted to Morell to the extent of help- | ing in the kitchen, but to him the: merest pet rabbit, unable to get the slightest hold on him. Candida is as unscrupulous as Siegfried—Morell him- self sees that no law will bind her. She seduces Eugene just exactly as far as it is worth while for her to seduce him. | She is a woman without ‘character’ in the conventional sense. Without braing and strength of mind she would be a useblied slattern or voluptuary. She is straight for natural reasons, not for conventional ones. Nothing can be more coldbloodedly reasonable than her farewell to Bugene. ‘All will be well, | my lad; but I don’t quite see myself at fifty with a husband of thirty-five." It is just this freedom from emotional slop, this unerring wisdom on the emo- tional plane, that makes her so com- pletely mistress of the situatian. “Then consider the poet. She makes a man of him finally by showing him his own strength—that David must do without poor Uriah’s wife. And then she pitches in her picture of the home, the onions and the tradesmen and the The | New York hausfrau thinks it a little | Paradise, but the poet rises up and s ‘Out then into the night with ! me—Tristan’s holy night. If this | greasy fool's Paradise is happiness, | then I give it to you with both hands; | life is nobler than that’ That is the | ‘poet’s secret’ The young things in | front weep to see the poor boy going {out lonely and broken-hearted into | the cold night to save the proprieties | of New England Puritanism, but he is really a god going back to his heaven, proud, unspeakably contemptuous of the ‘happiness’ he envied in the days of his blindness, clearly seeing that he has higher business o nhand than | Candida. She has a little quaint in- | tuition of the completeness of his cure; | she says, ‘he has learned to do with- | out happiness.” ” | WAS SHAW JOKING? With a wise instinct of self-preser- “Don’t ask me | ian” is concerned, Mr. Huneker plants |a dart of doubt as to his seriousness | here. “If in this letter he is playing fair in the game- " he says. Is he? | Or is it that with what Dr. Daly | stigmatizes as our shocking looseness iol language even Mr. Huneker has failed to read him aright? To Mr. lHuneker, by implication, Candida is {a woman “who has gone through the | Venusberg and still reached the | heights.” For this he has Shaw's | “immoral female,” and ‘‘she seduces Fugene just exactly as far as it is | worth her while to seduce him,” be- | sides the lady’s own famous “shawl” | speech, about which, however, Mr. Huneker says he has “never deceived himself.” But the “sense immoral” is much wider than its narowed modern sig- nificance. Does not Shaw, who uses words with exquisite exactness, mean here a general immorality of inter- course, Candida’s pretense of belief in her husband as a great man, for ex- ample, her apparent deference and real dominance in the domestic relation, her “tact” generally, In short? And the “seduction” of the poet. The phrase has been everywhere pounced upon as evidence of ‘“immoral” relations be- tween the poet and Candida. Yet all the evidence in the play points to the contrary conclusion. Is it not here again in the use of words that misun- derstanding comes? “As far as it is worth her while she has seduced Eu- gene”—that she has stopped at a psychical liaison does not concern Mr. Shaw, with whom thought and motive alone count. AS REGARDS THE PLAYERS. And now with the {lluminative aid of the players, headed by Arnold Daly, to whose five years’ long crusade we owe last night's production. As humorously as a musical comedy—heaven save the mark! It is Mr. Daly’s, not mine!—goes “‘Candida!” Again it thrills with the po- tent pulse of a ‘“Hedda Gabler.” As playmaking it is the best of Shaw's work, the half-dozen characters posed with life-likeness, the magnificent sense of contrast of the consummate artist. The drama is inevitable from their juxtaposition. Candida 1is the hundredth woman, the poet the thou- sandth—perhaps the millionth—man, and the rest of the ninety and nine. Things must happen. True, the situa- tion, as the chief characters, is uncom- mon, but it does not strike one as im- possible. Very cleverly Mr. Shaw has captured your sympathy for all his people. Par- son Morell, “windbag and orator,” hugely in love with himsel, and “his” wife; Poet Eugene, in love with him- self also, but with a high self as altar, and with Candida; Candida, mothering and sistering both of them; that emi- nent bourgeois, Papa Burgess; Lexy Mills, the adoring curate, and last, | that admirable female, ‘“Prossy.” Mr. Daly is, of course, the poet—an infinitely more difficult part than that | of Poet Lonboy. A ‘“‘wretched, little, nervous disease” he calls himself, boy- j voiced, 18 years old, a ‘“sponge” on at ] least the domestic sympathies of Can-) dida and her husband, but the far-vis- joned part needs the most exquisite sympathy in its portrayal. This Mr. Daly brings to it. Possibly his make- up is slightly morbid, but the portrait is otherwise sheerly convincing. He might be a youthful Keats, a Shelley flinging back impatient locks, for thus Shaw—elsewhere, as I remember, with- out the faintest poetic gleam—has pic- tured him. One feels with him his pet- ulant torture at the everyday common- ness—the onions, “little red ones,” the coal ofl, the scrubbing brush. One sees the flash of his poet's insight into the Morell morality, into poor Prossy's love secret, into Candida’s own limita- tions, and the great light—let in by Candida’s sane, kind hand—of the truth that it is in his work he must find his happiness. Every phase of the character is illumined by Mr. Daly. He carries one with him in his every scene, unto the last, when with white, terrible, shining face, the boy goes ‘out into the holy night.” MISS DONNELLY’S CANDIDA. Candida in Miss Donnelly’s hands I find not wholly compelling, yet with much charm. To me she needs breadth and her self-conviction. The famous | ‘“‘shawl” speech—that we heard breath- lessly last night—comes without any particular force lent by Miss Donnelly. In the vernacular, Candida is talking a little “through her hat” here, but there was no sense of exaggeration expressed, or again, if it were seri- ously taken, of the tremendous altru- ism implied. But she is on the whole graceful and sufficient and possessed of a most charming voice and enuncia- tion. Every person in the cast is compe- tent. Morell, substantial, self-suf- ficient, conventionality incarnate, {is capitally handled by Dodson Mitchell. Our old friend Herbert Carr, stouter than ever, is deliciously sufficient as the bourgeois Burgess. Thomas Thorne does all that is necessary as the curate. But next to Mr. Daly Miss Louise Clgsser as Prossy, the type- writer, contributes illusion. As the snappy, pert, flat-bosomed maiden Miss Closser is the funniest thing I have seen for some time. There is one scene—Ibsen fashion, and not a particularly beautiful one, being a middle class clergyman's “work-sitting-room,” but you will not remember that while you are seeing “Candida.” BLANCHE PARTINGTON. Fischer’s, It was like old times at Fischer’'s Theater last night when what prom- ises to be the best production ever given at this playhouse, “The Anheu- ser Push,” was given its first presen- tation. The flowers were there in abundance and the applause came in shouts and roars as each member of the company scored his or her indi- vidual triumph. The first act had so many good things rolled into it that it could have ended there to the satis- faction of the audience, and as soon as the second and third acts are whipped into as good shape as the first there will be nothing left toTz desired in the entire production. success of the piece is when it is considered that former Stage Manager Jones eloped with all the typewritten stage business, the property map and other accessories of the piece when he took his sudden de- parture two weeks ago. The new stage manager, J. J. Jayson, only ar- rived a few days ago, but with the able assistance of Fred Conger, who has the distinction of being Dorothy Morton’s husband, the production is one of which the management may feel proud. Of course it was late when the last curtain fell, but this was due to the many encores which the audience in- sisted upon and also to the return of Georgie O'Ramey, who received a wel- come. back that must have warmed the cockles of her heart. gle responded by giving a specialty in which, while singing a ‘“Teasing” song, she sits on the rails of the boxes and indulges in byplay with some: male auditors, which caused laughter that set the rafters to ring- ing. She fairly divided the honors with Dorothy Mor'ton and that is not e detracting one whit from the latter’s | success. Dorothy never sang better than she did in her rendition of “Wil- helmina” and the “Flower of Kildare,” which will be sung by all the town in a few days. Dorothy worked so hard to please that one could well forgive her taking a sip of the real beer, which is one of the features of the second act. In fact, the entire com- pany worked hard and the new musi- cal conductor, George Towle, is to be congratulated upon the marked im- provement he has encompased in the chorus singing. Rice and Cady and Bobby North made herculean efforts to tickle the risibles of the audience. In point of fact, their efforts might be tempered somewhat by cutting out some of their lines, which fail to get the desired laugh. No doubt the prun- ing knife can be used to advantage throughout here and there. North was funny as one of the burlesque trio. Edwin Clarke ‘“was there” with his magnificent voice and his “Song of the Toreador” and “Stein Song” were two of the hits of the plece. Ben Dillon is an all around funny man and has added an exceedingly comical Irish woman to his long list of suc- cessful characters. Flossie Hope has a new partner in Pearl Hickman, who proved herself a graceful dancer. Flossie was quite overcome with her exertions and fell from exhaustion at one stage of the performance. Much can be said of the scenic effects, two of which were very pleasing, one being the St. Louis Exposition ground at night and the other a Chinese pagoda at midnight, where Miss O'Ramey sings a pretty ditty entitled “Chinese Twins.” The opening chorus, ‘“The Dawn of Peace,” was a pretentious affair and showed the various nations in their prevailing costumes. The scene was most effective and the singing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” roused the audience to an enthusiasm which was not diminished during the entire per- formance. Central. The Central Theater enthused and delighted a big audience last night with the new up-to-date drama found- ed on thrilling incidents of the Russo- Japanese War and entitled “A Spy at Port Arthur.” The titular hero is a Japanese officer who, in the secret ser- vice of his country, enters the Russian stronghold in disguise just before the outbreak of hostilities. The spy is sen- tenced to be shot, but is rescued in a highly sensational manner. The Jap- anese spy is cleverly impersonated by Herschel Mayall. Ethel Clifton, as a remarkable | And Geor- | VOICE HUSHED IN LAST SLEEP Colonel D. Lynch Pringle's| Death at a Hospital Fol-| lows Serious Operation \ SOLDIER AND DIPLOMAT After Serving in the Civil War Acts Twice as Minis- ter to Foreign Countries Colonel D. Lynch Pringle, well! known throughout the United States as a politician, good liver and in his younger days a society beau, died in the Clara Barton Hospital yesterday morning as the result of an operation for hernia. Colonel Pringle was born in South Carolina about sixty years ago. As a young man at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion he enlisted in the Southern army and fought to the end. After the war he went North and was for many years one of the most pop- ular men in the swellest clubs of New York City. He was also one of the favorites in the hpper set at New- port, where all doors were open to him. For a time he was connected with one of the railroads of the Mid- dle West. When Grover Cleveland | was elected President Colonel Pringle was appointed Minister to Guatemala. He filled the post with honor to him- self and his country and was trans- ferred to Constantinople. When Cleveland was re-elected Colonel Pringle was again stationed at Guate- | mala. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish- American War the colonel was given an important position in the transport service, which he filled satisfactorily. For the last two years he had been connected with the Palace Hotel in {this city, where his genial manner and frank courtesy won him the friendship of all with whom he came in contact. A linguist, a traveler and a raconteur, he was always welcome in any gathering and he will be missed by thousands of friends both at home and abroad. Colonel Pringle’s last illness was of short duration. But two weeks ago he was apparently in good health and vowed that he was getting younger | every day. He was finally forced to glve up the struggle, however, ana submitted to the operation which ended in death. Arrangements for the funeral will probably not be completed until his kinsmen, some of whom are abroaa, have been heard from. —_———— HEALTH BOARD WILL ACT ON MATERNITY HOSPITALS ! Private Places Caring for Mothers and Children Will Be Carefully In- spected and Licensed. Louis Levy, Deputy Health Officer, | says the Board of Health is now pre- pared to take up the enforcement of the ordinance relating to the estab- lishment and management of private maternity hospitals and of private homes where children are boarded. The managers of these places will be required to call at the Health Office and make application for permits. A | number of applications have already | been made. | Two months ago Dr. A. S. Adler of the Health Department and M. J. White, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, ex- amined many of the private maternity hospitals. Some were found in good sanitary and moral condition. In others desirable conditions were brought about at the suggestion of the officers. A number of places were so undesirable as to make it necessary to take action at once. Several man- agers were informed that unless they gave the children to the parents or guardians they would be prosecuted for cruelty. brave and {impulsive American girl who loves adventure, shared honors with Mr. Mayall. Danfel Halifax, the Central’s new light comedian, made his first appearance in the cast, and scored a hit in the role of an English attache. Ernest Howell, George Nicholls and Henry Shumer were all at their best and James Corrigan, as a darky, cre- ated a lot of amusement. Verne Cas- tro is pleasing in a comedy part, and Julia Blanc appears as the fond mother of the heroine. I Alcazar. Considerable difference of opinion prevailed among the audience last evening as to whether fifteen or only twelve ruffians were slain during the sanguinary progress of the four acts of “The Pride of Jennico.” There was also a doubt as to whether at least six of them were not killed twice—once in the third act and once in the last. Basil | Jennico, who is White Whittlesey in | disguise, gives the stomachache to seven with his trusty sword; Sir John | Beddoes, his friend, finishes four or five in as many seconds, and true love trilumphs in the fourth act, as against Jealousy and several varieties of vil- lain.. ! There’s not a dull sword thrust in the whole play. The crowded house ' testified its delight in a hand-élapping that drowned the noise of the mimic tempest behind the scenes. 3 f As usual with the excellent com- | pany, the play went off like greased , fireworks. Eugenia Thais Lawton as ' Princess Ottille played the charajter | charmingly and she and Whittlesey ' made a handsome couple. Harry Hil- | liard was the Sir John Beddoes of the cast and when he made his initial en- try the welcome was so boisterous as to interrupt a love dialogue between the hero and the heroine. Miss Annie Mifflin’s “Michel” was a good person- ation and played with all of the ear- nestness that marks all the work of that promising young woman. George Osbourne’s nose was a wonderful cre- ation and carried the house with it wherever he went. The play has caught on, beyond a doubt. WILL INVESTIGATE MINES.—D. H. Jack- | mer, had WAITER LESLIE ONLY 4 TO0L Witnesses in the Sheridan Scandal Say the Steward Engaged in the Grafting A SR BOASTS OF INFLUENCE Captain Young Declares He Could Obtain No Evi- dence Against Hannmer PR D N John Leslie, a waiter on board the Government transport Sheridan, was held to answer yesterday by United States Commissioner Heacock to the charge of selling army stores and pocketing the proceeds. His bonds were fixed at $500. Frank W. Arnold testified that he | was entitled to quarters on the troop deck and to mess with the troops, but that he enjoyed life for a period of nine days in the second-class cabin mess. Second Cabin Steward Hann- mer, he said, had pointed out Leslie to him as the steward, and the witness applied to Leslie for better quarters. Leslie gave him the accommodations and the witness paid Leslie fifteen dollars. Captain H. P. Young, the quarter- master in charge, told how he had learned several days after leaving Manila that several men who were not entitled to do so were eating in the special mess. He room Sergeant Lees of the Signal Corps, Frank W. Arnold and Carswell | and they admitted that they had paid | money to Leslie for the accommoda- tions. Leslie also admitted that he had received the money. Captain Young testified further that he had been in- formed that . Steward Hannmer had sold beds. No man could eat in the mess, he said, without the knowledge of the steward. When asked why he had not taken Hannmer into custody he replied that he had not sufficient evidence to convict him. Leslie testified that he had acted un- der the orders of Steward Hannmer and that he had given to Hannmer all the money he had collected. He testi- fled further that Hannmer had re- quested him not to mention the fact that the witness had turned over the | money to Hannmer and that when they arrived at San Francisco the matter would be dropped because he, Hann- “lots of influence.” Leslie testified further that he had been obliged to work sixteen hours per day. _——— Robs His Father. Fred Staus of 2212 Fillmore street was arrested Sunday night and his name placed on the “small book.” He is accused by his father with having stolen a quantity of silverware from | his home and pawned it. He will prob- | ably be charged to-day. ———— RECEIVES GUNSHOT WOUND IN HAND. J. E. Miller of 417 Stevenson street was treated the Central Emergency Hospital for a bullet und of the right hand. Miller, who is a watchman at the barns of the Unifed Carriage Company on Natoma street, carelessly lald the gun down with the hammer cocked, when it exploded. subsistence | summoned to his | MANAGER HOLDS OUT RECORDS British Assurance Company Applies to Judge Morrow to Enjoin Two Employes WANTS THEIR ACCOUNTS Discharged Officials Refuse to Furnish Information to a Rival Corporation KLl i | The Manchester Assurance Company, ia British corporation, filed a bill in equity yesterday in the United St Cireuit Ccurt asking that Thomas J Conroy and George W. Brooks be en- | joined from mutilating, destre transferring to any other person the records of fire insurance business done by them while acting as manager and assistant manager of the complainant. The complainant prays also that Con- roy and Brooks. be required to sur- render all records connected with the business of the complainant. Judge Morrow issued a temporary re- | straining order and a command for the | defendants to appear IR court next | Monday and show cause, if any they have, why the injunction and order as prayed for should not issue. The complaint recites that on July 1 of this year the complainant entered into an agreement by which its busi- ness was thereafter to be conducted in this territory by the manager of the Atlas Assurance Company. Limited; that the complainant demanded of the defendants that they turn over the records and all other information in their possession to the new manager and that they refused to do so. Tha complainant thereupon revoked the au- | tharity of Conroy and Brooks. | The complainant avers that by rea- | son of the refusal of the defendants to surrender the records and the required | information it is powerless to cancel | insurance which might prove undesir- | able, or to protect itself by reinsurance 'or to remew insurance that was ex- | piring. D S —— | OFFICIAL NOTICE GIVEN | OF NORTH SHORE CHANGES New Men Are Now at Their Desks and Offices Removed to Sansome Street. The change in the management of the North Shore Road, as foretold in Sunday’s Call, took place yesterday when the office of the company was | moved from Market street to the Mu- tual Life building and the new ap- pointees began their duties. The of- | ficial circular notifying employes of | the change is as follo { freight atd | has been appo senger agent W, ints ted assistant genaral freight and passenger agent. H. C. Whiting has been appointed purchas- ing agent ‘The general offices of the North Shore Rail- road Company have been removed to Mutual Life building, 222 Sansome street. ARTHUR W. FOSTER, President. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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