The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1906, Page 16

16 HE SA N FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3 1906 M AND SON NEARS OTHER IS KILLED BY GAS DEATH. - $— Mrs. William Grifith and her Alfred were their street | { | | | | [ profilgate b asphyxiated 930 Guerrero yesterday. The extinet, but mained in the young man, suf- to jusjify a meager hope. The mother had gfiently upbraided her son and surmise that when | home Monday inebriated, he re- found in room st mother’s life wax a spark re- ficient fre- the police he returned night, much murder her and to life by opening solved to end his own two burmers in & gas stove. Mrs. Griffith - an Boy Alfred As- | phyxiated. | Young Man Thought to Have Planned End of Both troubled young | and old | but ail $oraN frHO MET DEATH BY G ING ¥< UND LYING UNCONSCI LY MONOXIDE SON ALFRED BE- OF THE DEAD- ‘P(ll‘l('l-: LIEUTENANT AYRE IS RETIRED ON P! Veteran Who Seven Years Granted Rest Account of Iliness. Pension B Had Served Thirty- Jlora on at 930 Guer- | age: wort- y afternoon | held its when to exception Hogar on the s passed a resolu- | “aptain John | atidn for: a | hat if wo the w 14 mak - . Griffith en | pension they would consider avor- | = - Southe bly, if ‘a proper showing were made, e believing that the veterdn captain’s.| de was accelerated -by. overwork in | = i performance of his ¢ % S - A S ST e It was decided to orde A. Gil- . giate. Maincofice, 1602 Market® »ack for active duty, and after that ———————— is .done a ¢ ge°will probably filed Diverces of the New Year. in 1 for being intoxicated. £ Qivorce granged lin was retired on a pension over | May E.of B two years ago’through disability and ! ty;. Elizabgth J. from | for a year he has been Serving 4 for failure to pro- ; cons t Santa Cruz He came to from H. H. Keene | the about a month-ago for a vidm Suits fof di- . prisoner and it was alleged that he Job appeared at the prison so drunk that the prisoner was not handed over to ] him Sl The Civil Service Commission yesterday If certified to the Police Commission the foi- & Hagedorn towing for appointment:°Lieutenant, John M. Lewis; corporali Duncan Matheson; | policemen, Thomas'A. Kerrigan and Wil- | H The Police Commission - a resquisitiop for a sergeant, but the | list is exhausted and a new ex-| tion ,wAl be ordered shortly. e —e—— Burnett’s Extract of Van | taken gold medals over all other brands. liam Keener for deser- 1a has 0 YEARS FOR H . han Helander, who waé of | . having fory he name of ¢ Bodin 10 a for $%0. was -sentenced westerddy by check Ui trict Juage de Haven to two ment at hard labor in the peni- Quentin and to pay a fine of A Doctor’s Medicine Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is not a simple cough syrup.. It is a strong medi- cine, a doctor’s’ medicine. . It cures | hard cases, severe and desperate cases. Especially good in bronchitis, pleurisy, consumption. Ask your own doctor all about it. ; i We have no secrets! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. i Y Made by the J. Also of c. Manufacturers AYER’S PILLS—For constipation. , 'lmfllll—nlnh_fln-lu-. —For the blood. AYER AYER’S HAIR VIGOR—For the hair. SARSAPARILLA- THINKS ROBBER 15 A MURDERER Louis Avenel Has a Look at James Welch and Says He May Have Shain G. Laurent ———— Louis Avenel, a Rrench man and globe trotter, called at police h yesterday morning with a clipping from a local paper contain- adquarters ing a photograph of Fames Welch, alias | Donald Walsh, one pf the three men arrested on Suriday morning for hold- |ing up Marcelin Cauce, saloon-keeper, 325 Fourth street. Avenel said he be- lieved Welch was the robber who shot and killed his companion, Gustave Laurent, near Redding, in the early j morning of October 31. Avenel and Laurent had met at Port- {larid and had decided to -work their way to this city. They were on a car of.a freight train, and, after the car was about four miles from Redding, two men climbed on the car and or- dered them to throw up their hands. Laurent had a revolver and he fired a shot at the two robbers. One of them fired three or four shots at Laurent, hitting him, and he died in about two hours. After firing the shots the two robbers jumped from the moving train and escaped. Avenel swore thian he would hunt down the murderer of his companion and he has been devoting the last two months to that purpose. He was taken to the City Prison by Detective Cole- mah, who was accompanied by Inter- preter Aguirre. Avenel wanted Aguirre to ask Welch if he-had a quarrel with a woman in Redding the day after the murder and if he replied in-the affirm- ative he would be the man. The ques- tion was asked Welch, but he’said he never had a quarrel with any woman in Redding. Avenel then had a look at him and said he closely.resembled the robber who shot his friend. He said he would lay' the matter before the French consul here, which he did. He promised to return to headquarters, but failed to do so. Welch said he had been working in a lumber camp at Millwood, Shasta County, for some months and left fast July, coming to this city. He could, he sald, easily prove an alibi and did mot worry about Avenel's allegation. ———————— BURGLARS ACCUSED- OF TAKING COIN FROM BUREAU DRAWERS Three Similar Cases Are Reported to Police as Occurrliz in Different . Parts of City, Several reports of the work of burg- lars #nd sneak thieves were made to the police yesterday. Mrs. Annie de Long, 2294 Fulton street, reported that some one entered her house on New Year's day and took from a bureau drawer in-her bedroom 'a chatelairc bag containing $5 in silver. “She was in the house all day. ¥ Joseph Fisher reported that his room at 142 Ninth street was entered, dur- ing his absence on Sunday night and $50 in gold was stolen from a bureau | drawer. Max Merbaum. 1015 Van Ness ave- nue, reported that his room was en- tered on New Year's day and $45 was stolcn from a bureau drawer. fHe nad been out only a few minutes. - N._Lappas, 450 Third street, reported that®a boy about 15 yeéars of age en- tered his candy store on New Year's 'day and stole a glass filled with candy. ———————————— PUBLIC SCHOOLS REOPEN.—The 3 schools reopened after three i classrooms for the pupils of the Washington Grammar School ing -the construction of the new buildings had their full quota of pu- ls. The school annex at Twenty-sixth and Banchbez will open to-day for the ac- commodation of the pupus of that loeality. Schools will close again on January 29 for one newspaper | 10 YOTE. U STREET HOADS Merchants’ Association - Is Arranging to Poll All Its Members on Issue OUT BALLOTS SR e Ideas of Parsons and Also Othiers Are Submitted to Secure an “Expression Ll et The members: of the Merchants' As- sociation will vote on the various prop- ositions contained in the report recent- ly submitted by William Barclay Par- sons, relating to a street railrond sys- tem for San Francisco. The first step toward securing a vote was taken yes- terday, when a circular letter was sent out by Secretary L. M. King to 1480 firms and individuals ipcluded in the association, requesting an expression of their views, g To give the members a clearer idea of what has been said on the street railroad proposition, a special number of the Merchants’ Association Review has been issued, in which are included the Parsons report, the remarks of all the speakers at the recent annual din- { ner of the sciation, and reports sub- mitted at different times by engineers, including C. E. Grunsky and J. C. H Stut. Probably ten days or more will elapse before the votes of all the members INDS of the Merchants' Association are re- { ceived. In the Merchants' Association Review William Barels Parsons has a communication, in which he says: PARSONS WRITES AGAIN. When I arrived in San Francisco I at once became aware of the wishes of the people of San Francisco and of the attitude of the press. { Nothing would have been easier for me than | 10 have written a report that would have been | at oncq warmly accepted. both by your associa- | tion and the public generally and by the press { unanimously. After a full, fair and candid | investigation of the whole question I came to { the conclusion very reluctantly that my views and those of the public generally were not In accord. There was therefore nothing for me | to do but to write an opinion as I saw the question and_to give, you my advice to the best of my ability. This I have done; I took | my time in the preparation of the report; I | nsulted a number of people who were un- biased and fair, and I have made suggestions as to what 1 'would do if 1 were the sole | constituted authority, 1 regret exceedingly | association have been questioned, and your association will persist with people who insist on te.ling the you must always expect the Worst. These questions were submitted on that the motives of your but if vou in_ dealing truth sociation to vote upon: by the railroad upon Sutter street? 2. Do you favor an overhead trolley system throughout the eity, except on Market street? 3. Do you favor the underground conduX system for Market street and for the streéts with cable iines leading into Market street in the central downtown district and in the adjacent residence district, the remainder of the system to be overhead trolley? - 4. Irrespective of what shall be done on which system do you favor (@) an underground conduit or (b) an overhead troiley line if . equipped with ornamental poles and lights furnished free by the raliroad company or lc) an im- proved_cable system? 5. Do you fayor changing the cable lines on Nob Hill to electric lines by tunneling the hill and constructing a winding driveway with parks on California street, as proposed in Mr. Parsons’ report? ASSOCIATION LETTER. These questions were sent out yes- terday on sheets upon which spaces were set apart for the answers to be returned. The members were also in- vited to make remarks about the street railroad proposition. In an accom- panying letter are the folowing state- ments: During the past two years, while the Me chants’ Association, the tter-street Improve- ment Club and others have been making efforts to secure the installation of the underground conduit electric system on Sutter. street, in place of the present cable system, we were brought face to face with the fact that we had, , no generally adopted system for street transit in San Francisco. Are the present cable lines to be continued, or, if not, what system can be adopted for our hill sireets? What is to be done with Market streat? The present situation on Market street cannot be allowed to continue much longer, as the capacity of the cable system is already overtaxed during the .morning and evening. Should we have a subway, or ap underground conduit system or an overhead system? In order to secure the best solution of these problems, the association engaged William Bar. clay Parsons, who is recognized as one of the greatest authorities on street rallway transit, to come here and study the entire situation and furnish the association a report and plan for what, in his judgment, was the best possi- ble systém of street railroads for San Fran- cisco. While My, Parsons’ recommendations as to what system shoyld be used on Market and Sutter streets were not what the directors be- lieved would be recommended, yet. coming from an engineer of Mr. Parsons’ reputation, they deserve careful conslderation. Mr. Par- sons has evidently considered that for San Francisco the question of securing the greatest possible efficiency in the easy and rapid trans- portation of the publie is of greater importance than the possible disfigurement of. the streets 0 a small degrec with such an overhead con- struction as he recommends. Without. accepting, yet, Mr. Parsons’ con- clusion in this matter, we think it proper to point ont to the members that such an over- | head trolley system as Mr, Parsons proposes is a very different thing from that now in use on our streets. The present trolley poles In use here and clsewhere are a disfigurement and an obstruction. Poles for street lights, how- ever, must be maintained and if the same poles can be used for both purposes and, more- over, are of an ornamental character, such as are used in many European cities, they may not be the disfigurement we have feared. The question of Market street is cven more difficult. We have been accustomed to think- ing that this strget should be kept entirely clear. That trolley poles on the sidewalks should not be allcwed on Market street is self- evident. Whether a central line of ornamental poles with a light on each would be as ob- jectionable as many persons believe can hardly be fully decided without an actual demonstra- tion. The whole matter apparently resolves itself into these three propositions: First—To what extent would 'ornamentgl poles, with street lights on ‘them, of the de- slgn *suggested, for streets other than Market street, with their -ncomp.'t g trolley wires, disfigure the streets? i Second—While a_central line of ornamental poles, with lights, between the tracks on Mar- ket street would not obstruct travel, and the long line of lights would improve the appear- ance of the street at night, would ar would not such_poles be objectionable during the day time? Third—Is the most efficlént system of trans— portation for the public the most important thing for the city of San Francisco, or should etfclenty be sacrificed to some extent in order to preserve the esthetic appearance of our streets? In this connection, due consideration should be given to the fact that tter and more rapld transit to our outlying tricts must be speedily provided in order that the people may be induced to bulld homes here, and thus de- velop this city, instead of moving across the bay, as hundreds are doing, particularly, since the opening of the Key Route. —_———————— Arralgnment of School Children.: Mrs. Anna E. U. Hillis, in the course of an address yesterday before mem- bers of the W. C. T. U. and friends at Olivet Congregational Church, said that many teachers grieve over the “dishonesty and lack of truth” among pupils of the public schools. Many, sald Mrs. Hillis, declare that the con- ditions become worse in the higher grades and are still worse in the high schools. One teacher had told her that out of forty or fifty children she could not believe one, all wor cheat. She gave an account of a large ber of boys and. girls that had been held by the Juvenile Court in Los An- geles in a few months. 3 blank balldts to the members of the as- | 1. Do you favor Mr. Parsons’ view of a | uniform system of overhead trolley lines throughout the entire city, including a central line of ornamental trolley poles, with lights | | furnished by the railroad company, between the tracks on Market et and a trolley line with ornamental poles and lights furnished | PRONDTED POLCEMAN LETS UGLY Sergeant (Cills Interferes With Doctor and Hospital Officials in Suicide Case and Charges Will - Follow STOPS ALL EFFORT AT SUCCORING WOMAN Has a Personal Interest in Her and While Trying to Suppress Facts Gravely © Imperils Her Wasted Life - s Ruth Chapman, who has been living sumptuously at the Linda Vista Apart ment House at Turk and Jones street, at- tempted to end her life early yesterday By drinking an_ounce of carbolic acid while much ufider the influence ‘of | liquor. Ignorant of the fact that al- cohol is the chemical antidote for the poison she drank, Ruth is’ wondering why she «did not meet' the end she planned for herself. champagne bottles stretvn rooms of her apartment told of midnight revelry engaged In by her- | self fand a gentleman friend, who made good his escape as soon as the woman swallowed the acid. Dr. J. M. Macdonald of 318 Eddy street, who was summo¥We; | that e woman was drunk. That she did not succumb to about the the | Macdonald, is no fault of Sergeant | Sergeant Cills is charged by the med. ido with having interfered with his Numerous empty | the | d by a Japanese porter, says | effects of the poison, according to Dr. | Cills, the recently promoted policeman. | Ed A NEW KNABE @ The first of the 1906 styles of the Peerless* Knabe Pianoare now on display. The instrument pictured above, designated as | Piano, Style “W,” is beyond question the most artistic creation of this famous factory. Its case, '«“Old English” in design—of the richest ‘ma- hoganies—is considerably smaller in dimen- sions than former models and is finished . without polish, or in the New Art style. Q@ In tone, the new Style “W” is a revelation. Full and powerful, it possesses ali of the charac- ter of that of the grand piano, meeting every requirement of the heaviest fortissimos, re- taining at the same time that purity and liquid sweetness, that living, singing quality so abundantly present in Knabe creations and without which no piano can be truly great. QL The action of the Style “W” is the perfec- tion of elasticity and respensiveness. In its mechanical construction it is the scientific adaption of the Knabe Grand ac!ion applied to the upright piano. The same perfection of touch, rapidity of repetition and delicacy v | | | | | | work and that of the Central Emer- gency Hospital attendants. The ser- Macdonald, to take the woman her wboms until a fictitious name Forty- the | i | landlady and Miss Chapman. five minutes had elansed between time that Dr. Macdonald was called in and the time when Sepgeant |Cills allowed the woman to be taken to the Central Emer- gency Hospital. Dr. Macdonald says that he was brutally and insult- | ingly treated by Sergeant Cills, and | that he will make a written complaint to Chief of Police Dinan at once. | " Complaint will aiso be registered | against the new sergearit by the chief | surgeon of the emergency service for | willfully delaying the Central Emer- | geney Hospital ambulance for an hour when it might have been needed for | other cases, and for interfering with a | hospital case. | LEAVES FAREWELL NOTE. The patient was registered after the attempted suicide as Mrs. Cecilia Eddy | by the arraignment of Cills, the land- | lady and herself. It was in the pres- | ence of a well-known wealthy man that | she drained a bottle of carbolic acid | about 2:30 a. m. She scrawled a brief | note on finely perfumed stationery, | which read, “Good-by, good-by, papa,” | Whom she meant by papa IS not known. When the woman swallowed the potion, her male associate in the midnight rev- | elry fled from the room, only pausing | long enough tg/inform the Jap that the “lady” in rooth 52 was sick. “Run for a doctor,” he called, as he sped out of the front door. By the time the infér- mation had sifted through the Jap's brain the woman was unconscious. Dr. Macdonald, a man of high standingin the medical, profession, responded - to the call, He gave the woman alcohol, the antidote, and Sent for the ambu- lance. ‘Steward Flynn was about to carry FALLIG R Came Out Constantly— Hair Finally * - Had to Be Cut to Save Any—Scalp Now in Good Condition and No More ltching—Another Effective CURE BY THE CUTICURA REMEDIES “I will gladly give you all the infor- mation concerning my case. the Cuticura Soap and Ointment for a di -u.lp, dandruff, and constant falling of hair. Finally I had to cut “my hair to save any at all. Just at that time I read about the Cuticura Remedies. Once every week I sham- my hair with the Cuticura Soa) and I used the Ointment twice a weel In two months’ time my hair was loni enough to do up in French twist. Thal is now five years ago, and I have a lovely head of hair.. The length is six_inches below my waist line, my scalp is in very condition, and no more dan or m-_bmghlof the scalp. I used other remedies that were recommended to me as good, but with no results. If you wish to publish geant refused to allow the hospital of- | ficials, who had been summored by Dr. | trom | had | been agreed upon between himself, the | are present, making it iied in every detail. Q. The Siyle “W?” is particularly adapted, by reason of its size, to small homes and apartments where the question of space is of importance. The elegant simplicity of its architecture,” the satin-like finish of its case, insure a perfect harmony with the sur- roundings of the modern home. @ The price of the Style “W” Knabe is $325.00. Easy payments may be arranged. % \Widey B (llen G, 931-933 Market, Street,, San Francisco, Cal. Branches—Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa, Rosa, Fresno, Reno, Nev.; Phoenix, Ariz 4 who the male consort of the womdn was Sergeant Cills was promoted to sergeant on Monday, and that night was his first street duty for seven years. His actions of yesterday morning will probably resuit in an inquiry before the Police Commis- sion. his patient into the ambulance when Sergeant Cills and Policeman Percy Smith arrived. Recognizing the woman, Cills went into her room, ordered the doctor and steward out and talked with the would-be suickde for forty-five minutes. Dr. Macdonald insisted that she be taken to the hospital, fearing that the poison absorbed might at any time affect the heart and cause death. —_— e Headaches and Neuraigia from Colds Laxative Bromo Quinine, wurld wide Cold and He so told Sergeant Cills, and Was | Grip remedy, removes cause. Call for full nams grufily asked how he came to be |and look for signature of E. W. Grove. 25c. * “mixed in the case.” Dr. Macdonald —_——————— NEW REGISTRATION BEGINS.—New reg- istration for the ‘hext general election of No- vember 8 opened yesterday and will close Seps tember 26. Voters who registered for the last election need not register again to vote at the said that he was the physician called in and Cills said, “Let me see your card” With his face reddened and angry at such treatment Dr. Macdonald left the house. From without the room the newspas | Bumars clection, of ugust 14 uniess. chey permen and hospital attendants heard | —_——————— - Cills, the landlady and ‘the woman -se- | A S lecting a dignified sounding name to be | Solen State [Limited=The Popular given the press. The door opened and Miss Chapman was seen to be demur- | San Francises to St Louis and Chicago, vin ; ¢ | Los Angeles, so and Kansas City. I was toying with a roll of greenbacks. | seenery. Latesc equipment. Courteous seton: The comfort lovers’ train. Intormas TRIES TO “SQUARE” CASE. Sergeant Cills came out and calling The Call reporter to one side informed him that he had better not handle the case, as the woman was ‘“well conneeted.” “T won't do you any good, so you better say nothing about this atteripted suicide,” said Cills. The sergeant was informed that it made no difference who the woman was, but the policéman still persisted in tion. : outhern Pacific agent. ' The Kind You Have Always Bought trying “to square the case.” Bears the After enough time had elapsed for the M, patient to have died Cills ordered the hos- | Sigaature of 2 < pital steward to take her to the hospital “I'll send an officer with you,” he said | to the woman, “to see that you are prop- erly treated.” His solicitude for the wom- | an was great. v Dr. George K. Herzog washed out the woman's stomach and she was then ‘“‘es- corted” home by Policeman Percy Smith at the order of Sergeant Cills. When she arrived at her rooms she hastily packed her things and was spirited away. It was learned through a policeman that Ruth Chapman was enjoyipg the bounty of a well-to-do man in the auditor's of- fice of the Southern Pacific Company. His name the Policeman refused to di- vulge. Ruth Chapman is the name by which the woman has been known in the tender- loin, but it is probably no more her genu- | ine name than the one concocted in the | hour of distress to baffle the press. Ser- geant Cills knows her, for he said she was | ““well connected,” but he refused to say | to whom she was related. ¢+ Dr. Macdonald when interviewed yes- terday was wroth over his treatment at the hands of Sergeant Cills. He said: “I have never had such a humiliation. Ser- geant Cills certainly went beyond his au- thority in not/allowing my advice and the advice of the hospital people to be[ enters’ Loan & Trust Co. accepted. While he was talking with the woman I repeatedly told him that the ef- | fects of the poison might affect her heart | and cause her death. He brutally wanted | to know how I came to be mixed in the | any of what I have written you, you are welcome to_do so. 1 am, respect- fully, #rs. W. F. Griess, Clay Center, Neb., Oct. 23, 1905.” FROM THE HOUR OF BIR Mothers Should Use Cuticura Soap, the World’s Favorite s st sl |4 A icura and Cuticura Ointment, the Skin Cure, in the preservation and an : and s of the toilet, Cutieura case. I told him T was the doctor called in, and he insultingly said, ‘Lemme see your card.” I did not know that police- | men assumed the role of physicians and | worked directly contrary to the well-| meant advice of persons who know some- | thing of medicine. i i H ! DELAY. DANGEROUS. “I wanted the woman to go te the hos- | pital because I could not administer the H stomach pump alene. I feared death' would overtake her before she h!’:-eheat_le & eriod. The woman was an utter stranger | to me, and I was trying to do only what any reputable physician would have done. I am going to. e a written compl 10 the Chief of Police, as I deem Ser 5 Cills’ actions of last night totally uncalled for and criminal. He seems to be in need of a little training on the duties of an