The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1905, Page 12

Outerwear Section Ladics’ Tailor-Made Suits, Dress an Regular $15.00 and $20.00 $20.00 and $25.00 Tailor-Made Suits at Clearance Beginning Tuesday (To-Morrow)and Lasling Until Cleared : WalKing SKirls, Coals and JacKecls Ciearance Tailor-Made Suits at.... . $7.50 $10.00 LU L G OGN d "o Tailor-Made Suits at ... §15,00 | S Silk Shirt Waist Suits at $10,00 $25.00 and $30.00 $1.50 and sso Walking Skirts, Velvet, Suits at. One-Half Original Prices. Mixed/ Materia (SECOND FLOOR) These uniform reductions on odd lots and broken numbers Embroidered Batiste Waists Woolen Waists Will speedily bring about the clearance we intend REGULAR $10.00 EMBROIDERED BATISTE WAISTS at $2.50 to $8.00 WOOLEN WAISTS CHILDREN’S COATS and DRESSES «Reduced to Half Original Prices. Geary and Stockton Streets, & Alterations Charged for on All Reduced Garments. LINGERIE SECTION Child’s Coats and Dresses Silk Shirt Waist Suits at $15.00 of CLEARANCE ---$8.50 $12.50 to $14.00 EMB'D BATISTE WAISTS at....$10.00 ... Half Price Union Square Robbed by a Colored Woman. . Struck on Head With a Cane. arles Johnson reported to Police- A. Hanisin of the Moltrace Hotel, e d Bakulich early yes- | Mason and O'Farrell streets, while in terday m: that a colored woman |an automobile in front of the hotel v < alley had stolen a $30 | early vesterday morning, was struck | 1d piece from his pocket while he |©on the head with a cane by Otto Kohn. The policemen ar- and booked her at |and Wilson Prison on a deadly and booked at charge of assault weapon ———ee i Di Nola’s Asthma Remedy | asthma, leaves no bad after effec Vietim of Robber Dies. Kohn was arrested by Policemen Hurd the City with a cures t. Sold by druggists. Main office, 1605 Market,® —_————— e B. Kimura, the Japanese chicken Owner Wanted for Coin. raiser who was shot by a robber in his 8 1 46 Market street. found | ljttle shack at Millbrae on last Fri- 2n envelope containing $9 15 atEddy and | day night and who was removed from A streets on Saturday night. He the McNutt Hospital to the Central police and sald the owner Emergency Hospital, dled vesterday e the coin by applying to him | morning. The remains were turned over to Coroner Leland I. MAGNIN & CO. A Clearance Sale of Five Hundred LADIES' SILK WAISTS Sale commences to-morrow at 9A M. A remarkable Clearance Sale of all broken sizes—important to all women because the assort- ment is so large—the materials are of the most reliable quality. Note the vast reductions : 1—250 WAISTS, | LOT 2—25 WAISTS, ade of taffeta, messaline, # ! de soie and peau de made of taffeta, messaline, cygne — strictly tailor-made | peau de soie and peau de styles—the proper waists to wear with tailor-made and Eton suits. cygne — tailor-made fancy models. and Former Prices *8 *9.50 °®10 s12 $5.65 Former Prices $7.50 $8.50 3.45 *6 SALE PRICE.. SALE PRICE.. NOTICE—Owing to this important sale, no goods will be exchanged on Tuesday in our waist department. 918-922 Markei Street NO BRAN | ! THE SAN FRANCISCO -CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1905. WOMEN ASSIST N FIST FICHT hree Young Men Arrested on a Charge of Assault With Intent to Commit Robbery DENY BEING FOOTPADS Assert That Alleged Vietim and Blows Were Exchanged Three young men, Fred J. Collins, night | clerk at the Neptune Hotel, 633 Post | street; Eugene G. Smith, a draughtsman living at the Maryland Hotel, and Eu- | gene Band, & bartender at the Maryland | bar, are in the City Prison charged with an assault with intent to commit robbery. | The complaining witness is George J. El- | liott, a real estate dealer, living at Powell street. | Ellott was in an automobile with J. A. McMillen and McMillen's wite and daugh- ter, who also live at 239 Powell street. | Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday morning | the party left the automobile in a garage on Taylor street, at the rear of the Clara Barton Hospital. While walking home Elliott left the others to go to a house at Taylor and Bush streets, and he alleges | he was attacked by two men on Taylor sireet, near Adelaide place. They knocked him down and he shouted for help. Mc- Millen heard his cries and saw him on | the sidewalk scuffling with two men, Who had him down. McMillen ran to his as- sistance and beat the two men off. Bl- | liott's assailants ran away, leaving their hats behind. One of the hats had the| name “E. G. Smith” on a band inside. The police were notified and Smith was | found in the basement of the Maryland Hotel without his hat. Collins-was found at the Neptune Hotel. Both were taken to Elliott and he identified them as the two men who had attacked him. They were taken to the City Prison and booked on the charge of assault to rob. Later Sergeant Mullender and Policemen J. B. | O’Connor, Lanckman, Wratten and | Reavis found a cuff at the scene of the affray and discovered that Band, who was found at the Maryland bar, had only | one cuff. He was arrested, but refused | to make any statement. Later Band made a statement that he | was taking Smith to a drug store to have his face attended to when Elliot bumped into them. One word led to another, and then a fight started. McMillen, he said, and the two women joined in the fight and he and Smith got the worst of it. They both ran away, leaving their hats. There was no thought in their minds of rob- bery. Smith corroborated Band and sald that he and Collins had had a fight with ihree men in front of the Neptune Hotel over a woman, and Band was taking him to a drug store to get his bruised (ace} | dressed. Collins corroborates Smith as to | the fizht with the three menggnd declares | that Elliott is entirely mist"n in identi- | fying him as one of the two men with whom he had the fight. y Both of Smith's eves are puffed an blackened by the fight with the three men, he says. fne of Coilinsg’ eyes is blackened and his nose bruised and swol- | len, and Band has a cut on his nose, which he said was from a blow from the elder of the two women. The three men sald they had all been drinking in a sa- | 1con near the Neptune Hotel, and Smith | admits he was considerably under the in- fluence of liquor. In view of Band’s ad- mission it _is likely that Colline will be discharged. _— BURGLAR CAPTURED WHILE IN WATER FRONT SALOON 'ells Police the Name and Address of His Companion, and He Is Also Arrested. | Two burglars were cleverly cap- tured by the water front police early vesterday morning. Shortly before 1 o'clock a car conductor notified the Harbor station that there was some one in a saloon owned by the Wunder | Brewing npany at East and Clay | streets, wifiech had been closed for the | night. Policemen Hayes and Fontana | and Special Officer Shepston ran to the saloon and saw a man at the cash register behind the bar. Fontana and Shepston covered him with their re- volvers, while Hayes crawled through a broken glass door on the Clay-street side and captured the burglar, who | gave his name as William Bennett. He was booked a charge of burglary. Bennett lat®r confessed that he had a companion with him named Thomas | | Breens, who had a room at 1316 Stock- ton street. Hayes and Fontana went to that E‘ddrasfl and found Breens in a | room With two other men, George Mennard and Daniel Westman. The trio was arrested. Breens was booked for burglary and Mennard and West- man were locked up, pending develop- ments. Two demijohns of liquor were | | found on the sidewalk outside the sa- loon and a_similar one, almost empty, | was found In Breens' room. The demi- | johns were booked as evidence. | R — | JEWISH CHILDREN CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF DEDICATION Parents and Friends Gather in Large Number to Listen to Patriotic Songs and Prayers. The Jewish feast of dedication was | celebrated by the puplls of the free re- ligious school of the Jewish Hduca- tional Soclety yesterday afternoon. The exercises were held in the Emanu El | Sisterhood building, 1248 Folsom street, and many of the parents and | Fifteen Thousand Dollars Is Bumped Into Two of Them | | pointment of Byington friends of the pupils were present to listen to the programme. Patriotic Hebrew songs were sung and ancfent prayers offered. The programme was as follows: Hymn, ‘‘Almighty God”; the Decalogue Hebrew and English; hymn No. 68, 'O Lord Hebrew reading by the second grade; hymn, O Lord, My God"; Kaplan's’ class; hymn class; service; Al Hanissim; Bl Kelohen: | “Kindling the Lights,” Children of Miss Ash. | er's class; Channukoh song: addresses: | of the Free" e ———— Accused of Rolling a Drunk. | Charles Cramer, 10% Cleveland street, notified Policemen Dunne and Hinrichs early yesterday morning that a drunken man was lving in the gutter at Third and Howard streets and that {two men had robbed him. They got a description of the two men and rang | for the patrol wagon. When the wagon arrived the drunken man was put in | it and Dunne and Hinrichs went in search of John TLinehan and Chester Hamilton, the suspected footpads. They soon found them, but when they re- turned to the wagon the drunken man had disappeared. On the way to the City Prison Hamilton was seen to place a watch under jthe seat In the wagon and a watch chain was found in his pocket. In Linehan's pocket $39 40 was found. Linehan and Hamilton were locked up. —————————— Mrs, Peake, ex-Aectress, Lectures. Mrs. Peake, formerly an atcress of some note and now a working evan- gelist, lectured to a large gathering at the Young.Men's Christian Association yesterday afternoon. She told of some of her experiences on the stage. She urged her hearers to accept the Chris- tian faith at once. { ———e New safe deposit vaults. §2 per annum. Citf. =ens’ State Bank, 518 Montgomery street. ¢ COLLINS FREE ON BAIL BOND Judge Lawlor Releases the Accused Attorney on an Authenticated SAME AMOUNT IS FIXED Security | Sum Accepted, to Disap- | Sl A George D. Colilns was admitted to bail last night by Judge Lawlor in the sum of $15,000 on a bond furnished by the Aetna Indemnity Company. He spent his Christmas eve with his latest wife and her mother. From the time the jury disagreed and was discharged Collins has made an energetic attempt to be admitted to bail, and after making an appeal to Chief Justice Beatty of the Supreme Court and Associate Jus- tice Angellotti the recent defendant was liberated by Judge Lawlor on pre- sentation of authenticated security. Judge Lennon has withdrawn entire- ly from the case and it is probable that the contempt proceedings against the Newman brothers will be heard be- fore Judge Lawlor. The principal re: son for Judge Lennon's refusal to ac- cept the bond last Saturday afternoon was the failure of Collins to have the proper certificate from State Insurance Commissioner Wolf vouching for the strength of the indemnity company. The liberation of Collins was hast- ened by the efforts of Special Counsel L. P. Boardman, who was assiduous in securing his client’s release. The sign- ing of the release by Judge Lawlor carries with it an order to Collins to report every morning to the court at 9:80 o'clock. This morning he will re- port at 11 o'clock, but hereafter the earlier hour has been set. Collins was elated over his prospects and happy at his liberation. He talked freely of his plans regarding his busi- ness and said that he has given up the idea of leaving the city and starting a career somewhere else. He intends reopening his office in the Crocker bullding and will continue his practice before the local courts. He is prepar- ing a number of afiidavits charging various offenses against those con- nected with his prosecution and says he will appear before the court Tuesday morning to ask that citation issue com- manding the parties to show cause why they shall not be punished for contempt. In the meantime Byington Is pro- ceeding in the matter of gathering proof that Collins approached members of the venire and that ulterior notives inducéd Jurymen Hartley, Hunter and Hickman to give their votes for ac- quittal. He is also preparing a state- ment to Judge Lawlor requesting that Collins' bail be increased to $40,000. Despite his eager desire to see the con- clusion of Collins’ case before his term expires it is impossible for the cause to be set, as the Minnig Adams trial will interfere. The duty of prosecuting | Collins will devolve upon District At- | torney Langdon, who promises that he | will proceed within legal lines in the direction vequired. | LANP EXPLODES; WONAN- DEAD Mrs. Elizabeth Metzger' Is| the Victim of Fatal Acci-‘ dent in a Lodging-House | —_— | Mrs. Elizabeth Metzger, a widow 35 years old, was fatally burned by the ex- plosion of a eoal oil lamp in her room, 739 Folsom street, yesterday afternoon. The unfortunate creature ran out into the hallway, her clothes on fire. She ‘was unable to make an outery. Albert T. Jones, one of the lodgers, and little Henry Vanseggren, grandson of the land- lady, ran to her assistance. In the mean- time, Patrolmen John Conlon and John McCormack of the Southern station, who Were passing, rushed upstalrs and Conlon succeeded In extinguishing the flames. The woman was sent to' the Central Emergency Hospital, where she died last evening at 9 o'clock. Mrs. Metzger, though frightfully burned on the head and body, and suffering terrible pain, retained consclousness until death came to her relief. She said the lamp exploded after she lit it and her ,vrapper caught fire. She became excited and ran out into the hallway, fanning the flame as she ran. She was one mass of flame when the officers arrived. The woman was a widow and had been doing housework for a living. She sald she had five children living in Stockton, but neighbors and friends as- sert that they all died some years ago. She also sald she was engaged to be married to an Oakland florist and asked that he be sent for. She called for a priest when taken to the hospital, and the Rev. Father Allen of St. Ignatins Church respondei and administered the last rites of the Catholic church to her. Mrs. Metzger was employed in the ill- fated Baldwin Hotel the night it burned down, and lost the sight of one of her eyes. BShe sald that lack of sight was responsible for the explosion as she was unable to see the lamp when the fatal accldent occurred. e —————— Burnett’s Extract of Vanilia is the leader the world over. Use no other. » —————————— TRAVELING MEN ROMP ABOUT THE BASEBALL DIAMOND Pacific Coast As tion Defeats United Organization by the Close Score of 10 to 9. The Pacific Coast Travelers’ Assocla- tion was victorious over the United Travelers' Association in a ball game yesterday afternoon at Recreation Park by tha score of 10 to 9. The game itself was exciting enough, the score being tied In the eighth inning and the “jollying” of the hapby commer- clal men added zest to the players’ ef- forts. “Pop” Van Haltren umpired the game. The line-up of the two teams is as follows: : United Commercial Travelers—Koegh- an, shortstop; Mahoney, right fleld; Hall, second base; Bech, first base; Saf- tig, right field; Middleton, third base; Goldberg, center field; Cohn, catcher; Posner, piteher. Pacific Coast Travelers — Walker, third base; Van Sicklen, right field; ‘Wertheimer, first base; Goslinsky, sec- ond base: Friedlander, center field: Levy. left field: Gelder. right field; A. Wertheimer, catcher; Stockton, pitcher. % —_—ee———— Try the United States Laundry. 100s Market street. Telephone South 420.* S ————— ‘Wise men make hay while the sun shines, but fools make it by gaslight. 4 | Handel's RENDER SONGS - OF JOYOUSNESS Christmas Services Held the Evangelical Churches by Assemblages of Devout HEAR SPLENDID CHOIRS Sweet Yuletide Music Floods Air and. Preachers Tell of “Good Will to All Men” Christmas services were observed yes- terday in the evangelical churches of the city, and in each case. the decorations were in harmony with the season. The congregations were large in every instance |and the sermons all breathed the words, “good will tq men."” Choirs were augmented, and in several churches an drchestra accompanied the voices In the rendition of the sacred music. The First Presbytertan Church present- ed a beautiful appearance, the Christmas decorations being of the choicest floral kind. The pulpit was clad in brakes and poinsettias, and the rest of the church was one mass of evergreens. The Yule- tide music was superbly rendered. The theme of the sermon, by the Rev. Willlam Kirk Guthrie, was a simple Christmas message, breathing the spirit of the time and founded on the third note of the angel's song, ““Good will to men"—God's good will to men, and in consequence of God's good will to men, man’'s good will to man. Mr. Guthrie said in effect: God had been trying for o about Himselt by mercy and by Jodcment. by prophet and by poet, by sorrow and by joy, but the end of it all was that the world by | wisdom knew not God and in the hour of its | deepest darkness He sent His son to give it Heht and leading—to lead it into the better . The Rreatest thing in the world is life, in act, without life the world is not and the fallure of the world's life is that its life is not right. Life, physical or spiritual, depends on the double procese of receiving and giying. Man does not live by bread alone, but by a thousand and one eubtle Influences which re- ceived, consciously or unconsciously, nourish a perfect life, but all reception means re- letion. The end of repletion is corruption, so ife to be continuous must give out as weil as_take in. This common-place of our physical life is absolutely true of our spiritual life, we re- celve it of God that we may give it to men and he who “refuses to give love, sympathy, patience, himself has f-iled of his best possi- bility and is out of harmony with the sairit of Christmas time. Calvary Presbyterian Church presented a handsome appearance with the simple holly and berry decorations which hung from the massive gallery. The Christmas exercises in the morning were by the Sunday School, whose singing of the carols, “Hall Him Your King,’~ “The Blessed Morn,” “Sweet Song of Jo: and “Host of Heaven Singing” was most ef- fective, The choir was heard in anthem and carol also, and the pastor, the Rev. John Hemphill, D. D., recited the prayer and delivered a most impressive Christ- mas greeting. The evening service cénsisted almost wholly of selections from Handel's “Mes- slah,” which were exquisitely rendered. Hother Wismer played as a violin solo ““Largo Miss Louvia Rogers sang the solo, “Glory to God on High,” for the offertory, and Dr. Hemphill made a brief Christmas address. “Bethlehem, 'and After” was the theme | of the Christmas sermon delivered yes- terday morning by the Rev. George E. Burlingame of Chicago at the First Bap- tist Church, 320 Eddy street. The sermon was listened to with intense interest. Mr. Burlingame said in part: The drama of the incarnation is cast in four scenes, which for two millenniums have been the inspiration of poet and preacher and wor- shiper. ‘Fhe figures in_these four scenes are Mary, the Angels, the Shepherds and the Wise Men. These groups have a common center in the manger at Bethlehem. In the return of each group to thelr former life there seems to be an anti-climax, a collapse of all mystery and strangeness. Yet, In fact, the return of Mary to Nazareth, of the Angels to heaven, of ths Shepherds to their flocks and of the Wise Men to the East, reveals a profound principle of the Christian faith. Jesus came into the world not to disrupt natural human relations, nor to disturb the normal life, but to purify and ennoble these re- latfons and to make the commonplace life sacred by his presence and by his influence. ‘We come to Bethlehem to meet our Savior, and as we go back from that vision to the daily round, the common task, he goes with us to transform the old iife and make it for- ever new and sweet aud strong. Special Christmas services were held at the Plymouth Congregational Church, 1760 Post street, yesterday at 11 a. m., and in the evening at 7:45. Rev. I Curtis Meserve, D. D., the pastor of the church, delivered a strong sermon to his congregation at the morning wor- ship, choosing as his text, “Thanks Be Unto God for His Unspeakable Gift,” and also called attention to a yuletide prayer which he was anxious the people should submit to their careful consideration. A choir composed of the regular quartet and a bevy of young ladies from the Sun- day School rendered Christmas selections, accompanied by Professor F. Dellepiane, the church organist. The auditorium was attractively dec- orated with holly and Christmas greens, as was also the Sunday School.in which the young people, prior to the morning church services, rendered their pro- gramme. Dr. Meserve spoke at the morning ser- vice in part as follows: 2 ‘Thanks t for his unspeakabls Thanis be nt Couree, Jemus Christ, Tres: 1y with him also he has given us all things.”” To-day We remember fally that this gift to us in the form of & baby. It is for the Babe of "Bn‘n.l-mpn we ll.:!"n“a: 'fl:'.. -aryahore. Christmas time s children erywhere. :lnfl"mnwcmurhduyfllsn.lnth- of the Father and the divine son. This God en became a man in due - ol'nd d.\fi".ol‘l:n’l work In the world. He brought and t truth. He found it and e it .freely to others. He brought and :;urm lite and gave that also to men. In him, and through him, all good that God could gi his human children has come to them. It real joy and genulne gladness that mark this Christmas time. Yet there are other things in the world to-day. What would Jesus do if he were in Moscow just now? On the one side of a raging conflict is order, backed by the army and the authority of the Czar. On the other side is liberty, backed by the people. The one is used to cruel oppression and thinks it has a right to inflict it. On the other hand there is the victim of oppression who thinks it is time to it. Both are excited, angry, mad. Blood in Rowing. ine: e would- Would do just one thing: he w step g:tyw::n those fi:’huu {;uka;. n;uv one hand ide, the other han lsnlnnlone = e b;l dlence in the home. ang e dyood and EIVIE is the simple, Chrls- tian, human way of celebrating Christmas, us all %0 keep it. The special prayer, which was ad- dressed to the congregation, and copies of which were in the pews, read: People—I exercise herein real, believing, importunate praver. The need of this is so great, as I see it, that no it. Our mem- Our Best Wishes for a. Caloric Swedish Punch Londor Dock Rum Old Stock Whisky Club Coektails Martin Amontiliardo Sherry Segovia Palido Seco Sherry Sexovia Solerofina Sherry London Dock Superior Port Large and Cholce Seleetion of Rhine French Cognaes California Per Bottle Fancy Groceries BIB0O, NEWMAN CO0. POLK STREET AT CALIFORNIA Phone East 1520 (Frivate Exchange) Merry Christmas to All _We Offer You for Your New Year’s Sideboard Cases of Assorted Liqueurs Cremie de Menthe Forbidden Fruit Curacao Yellow or Green Chartrease Anisette French or English Benedictine L t Brandy Marasquin Abricetine Batavia Anae 014 Hermitage Rye and Bourbon Whiskey, 1855 . Private Stock Whiskey, 10 Years Old Manhattan, Vermouth, Whisky., Gim Vermouth All of the Best Brands of California Wines V. O. Operto Port Madelra Imperator nd Chofeest of A ed Clarets, Burzundies and Sauternes and Moselle Wines Oranze Wine altfornia Avricot Brandy or Gallon Best Butter and Eggs We need to ask God for a fresh experiance of | his gra.e and love, and for -a new sharing of hig desire for the salvation of men. To | pray is to begin aright—to pray by ourwelves | alone, at our firesides, with our Intimates and | in our churches. It i3 to this that your guide in spiritual things feels tmpressed to call you. For the sake of your own growth and efficiency | in Christ and for the sake of the souls of | others, I beseech you to heed this call. I The following worship was conducted at | 1 a m: | Organ prelude; anthem, “For Unto Us a Child Is Born' ‘(Roberts), choir and chorus; hymn, ‘Joy to the World, the Iord Is Come” (Watts): anthem, ““I Will Give Thanks" (Bar- naby), choir: solo and chorus, “‘Behoid the Star”’’ (Labadier); anthem, ‘‘Hark. What Mear | Those Holy Voices?' (Usley), choir and cho- | rus; soprano solo, ‘‘Child of Bethiehem' (Wes- | Mrs._ Edna Schaffter; sermo: hymn, | ngels From the Realms of Glory” (Mont- | { gomery); benediction; organ cadence. The evening service consisted principally of | music. The following were rendered: Organ | prelude; hymn, “All My Heart This Night Re- | Joices”” '(Gerhardt); anthem, ‘‘Behold I Bring You Good Tidings'” (Smith); prayer; anthem, ““The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee'" (Barnaby): h; Watching _ Their ymn, ‘“While Shepherds Flocks” (Tate); contralto solo, “In Old Ju- | dea’” . Miss Xena Roberts, violin ob- | vnn, O Lit- | ; bemediction, | organ postlude. { The following young ladles of the Sun-| day School comprised the chorus: The Misses Myrtie Cook, Bessie Fuller, Grace Gay, Gladys Gutcher, Helene Hinsberg. Ethel Krutmeyer, Moldrup, Hilda M. Me- Kean, Metha O. Reese, 1da Sandow, Mfnnle | Seldenburg, Mary Stewart and Catherine L. | Walker. | The following quartet took part: Miss Xena Roberts, contraito; Mrs. Edna Schaffter, soprano; R. B. Kay, basso, and J. K. O'Brien, tenor. Professor F. Dellepiane had charge of the musical part of the services. This morning In all the Protestant Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches will be heard sermons and music appro- | priate to Yuletide. All the great choirs will sing those beautiful numbers which for generations have sounded from choir lofts and organs and which have come from the great masters of composition. Besides the lists of the services which were published fully in The Call Saturday and Sunday the following services will take place: Hieh mass will be sung to-day at St Patrick's church at § o'clock by the Choral Soclety, consisting of the following: Sopranos, Misses Kate Robinson, Lillle Hughes. Norah O'Brien, Stella_Lambert, Agatha @lover, Jose- phine Brandt, Rose Ryah, Nellie Pratt, Lizzie Fuller: altos. Misses Kate Fuller, Gertrude Cronin, Nellle Sheeby: tenors, Messrs. Charles Bullotti, Thomas O’Brien, Andrew Geddis, Jo- seph Keating, Theodore Wiltz; bassos, Messrs. John O’ Brien, William T. Snow, Frank O'Brien, Thomas Leach. Gounod's Convent Mass in C will be sung. At the offertory the Adeste Fideles will be rendered by ninety be “Fhe Sanctuary Choir will sing the proces sional and recessional hymne, Venite Adore- and Holy Nizht. . UT% “the 9 o'clock mase St. Patrick's en- tire Sunday School will sing the Adeste Fi- Qeles and Glory to God in the Highest. At 11 o'clock Haydn's sixteenth mass will be sung with organ accompaniment, assisted by the Tivoll orchestra. The following singers will assist: Sopranos, Misses Julle Cotte, Kate Robinson, Lillie Hughes, Josephine Short, Stella Lambert, Josephine Brandt, Notah ©'Brien. Agatha Glover, Maud Kiicommen, Rose Ryan, Mary Anthony, Margaret An- thony, Nellfe Pratt, Lizzie Fuller: altos, Misses Genevieve Sullivan, Kate Fuller, Gertrude Cronin, ellle Sheehy; tenors, Messrs. Charles Bullotti, Thomas O'Brien, Andrew Geddls, Joseph Keating, Theodore Wiltz, John Griffen: bassos, Messrs. Fugene Bournizeau, Jobn O'Brien, Willlam Show, Thomas Leach. Frank O’Brien. RS Chariés _Bullott! will _sing Adam’s Noel at the offertory, The Sanctuary Chotr will Sing /at this mass also. The music will be under the direction of Orzanist Miss Mary Short and Music_Conductor Curt Davis. The sermon will be delivered by Rev. Michael Horan, the theme being on ‘“The Incarnation.” At the Spanish Church there will be low mass at 6 a. m., with singing by Sun- day school children. At 10:30 Haydn’'s Im- perfal Mass with the following soloists: Sopranos—Mrs. B. Camerena and T. Loaiza. Alto—Miss R. Roylance. Tenor— Mrs. N. Gurman. Bassos—F. Wahlin and G. Schuster. Supporting will be a grand chorus. At the adoration of the In- fant Jesus the full choir will render *Vil- lanciro”’ by S. Arrilaga. At the consecra- by Chopin on the violin. Director and o ganist, 8. Arrilaga. g e i SR Lutherans to Entertain. The Christmas entertainment and festival of the First English Lutheran Sunday-school, Geary street, near Oc- tavia, will take place on Wednesday evening, December 27, commencing at 7:45 promptly. These entertainments have been popular affairs during thg past years and the festival this year promises to be surpassed by none of the previous ones. The programme will be an excellent one. The committee has made arrangements for the accom- modation and entertainment of the large gathering of friends of the English Lutheran Sunday-school that | heat from the beiler of the furnace. tion Miss F. Bufa will render a nqcturnl:i First : man ever elected to Congress. FLAMES DAMACE A NEW CHURCH {Hamilton Methodist Episco- pal Edifice Gutted by Fire Early Yesterday Afternoon The beautiful new Hamilton Methodist Episcopal Church, Waller and Belvedere streets, was gutted yesterday afternooge by a fire which broke out shortly after the close of the morning services. All the woodwork in the ceilings, the sta way, the ladies’ room and the kitchen were destroyed. Water ruined the ecar- peéts, piano and puipit fixtures. The loss is about $3000, fully insured The flames broke out in the engine room. They were caused by excessive For some time the fire slowly burned through the walls of the boiler room unnoticed and not until it had spread into the auditorium of the church was the blaze discovered. Passers-by turned In the alarm and the flames were extinguished in‘a few minutes. Hamilton Church was dedicated only two weeks ago. It is the chapel to a larger structure which is planned. It was to have been used for the church for a number of years. It is of stone, with a plain interior of stone with wooden raft- ers. It was due to this fact that more serious damage was not done. While the fire companies wers working with the fire the trustees of the church met outside with Rev. G. Avery Reeder and decided to make the repairs at omce. | The work will begin on Tuesday. ————— SUSPECTED SHOPLIFTER GOES TO STORE ONCE T0O OFTEN Carmello Gordono Made to Pay for Article He Stole and Then Steals Other Things. Carmello Gordono can be classed as a thief of unusual daring. He entered the store of Pauson & Co., Sutter and Kearny streets, on Saturday evening, and was at once recognized as a cus- tomer who had stolen a smoking ! jacket on December 20. He was threatened with arrest if he did nov | pay $12 50, the value of the jacket. Ha preferred to pay the amount. After he had left it was discovered that he had stolen two pairs of men's gloves, a silk handkerchief and a palr of socks. The police were notified and he was arrested by Detective Matheson and Policeman Ring on Kearny street. When searched the stolen goods were t | tound in his possession. He was taken to the City Prison. The police be- lieve that he is a shoplifter, and there will probably be other charges against him. The police are making every ef- fort to discover where Gordono lives, as they expect to find considerable loot. —_———— WELL-KNOWN WOMAN'S LIFE COMES TO A QUIET CLOSE je E. Jonas Passes Away at lon Hospital as Result of Stroke of Paralysis. Mrs. Fannie E. Jonas passed quietly away at Mount Zion Hospital y morning after a three weeks' resulting from a paralytic stroke. She leaves a son, M. G. Jonas of The Call staff; a brother, Aaron Birdsall ef San Francisco, and a sister, Mrs. Talimadge Delafield of Tacoma. Wash. The deceased was a native of New Orleans, but her life for the most part has been spent in California. She was particularly well known in Sacramento and San Francisco. For many years she was greatly interested in fra nal organizatiens, in which she was a prominent worker. Mrs. Jonas was a member of Call- fornia Lodge No. 1 of the Rebekahs and of Eureka Circle, Companions of the Forest. Her beautiful life was ever an ex- ample of perfect womanhood, and those friends and loved ones she has left behind have suffered an Irrepara- ble loss. ————— John Young Brown was tire youngest He went to the thirty-sixth House at the age of 23 from Kentucky. aits ‘We promise a spiend good cheer. cial Christmas. music Wednesday i condif communlty is gnl:g. as ‘l& :u’hnn- Ty little impression it for begm!. We need to ask God's Fors wiveness being so remiss and so powerless. warLKEA MARKET AND POWELL Entrance Opposite Colmmbin Theuter SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DINNER TO-DAY $1.50 WITH WINE prises, uniquely served, It will be a splend to_entertain your friends or family. Dinner will be served all day after one o'clock; spe- THE ITALIAN COMFOSERS will be the second special concert— ceviber 27th. caf STREETS id dinner full of sur- aecompanied with opportunity after six. Evening, De-