The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1906, Page 34

FACTORY SURPLUS STOCK SALE OF ENAMEL BEDS There are fourteen thousand metal beds a month sold to the people of California. The factory competition has been so keen that this year, like last year, the manufacturers have overdone the supply, and for the second time we have been successful in bidding in the surplus stock. We Have Ten Thousand Metal Beds Secured at Fact.ory Cost. ng a home? need another crib? This will be the event of the year. WHITE METAL BED—There are le who want simply a durable Are you going to furnish one soon? - Have you a home, and do you need another bed? Have you Cash or credit terms as always. APPLE OR CREAM—We have this | | | | and Furnishings to Ap- proximate Fourteen Million | PLANS Striking Features in an Up-to-Date Caravansary CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—All the plans for the addition to the Auditorium Annex have been finished and the completed structure, in point of size, elegance and new and striking features, will be the peer of any hotel in the world. The new hostelry will be known as the Congress Hotel and annex. The new features will comprise a handsome English lounging-room or conyention hall, treated in the Eliza- bethan style; a magnificent banquet hall n Louts XIV style and a Japaness tearoom designed by Japanese artists. An addition of fifty-two feet will be made to the Pompeiian room, while the | present marble corridor on the first floor will be extended the entire length of the new building. The new structure will be fourteen stories high and to harmonize with it two stories will be added to the last addition to the annex. The new Congress altogether K willd) have more than 1000 rooms and will in its buflding cost alone represent an In- ILL BE PEER (BANKERS FORM OF ANY HOTEL, WO FACTIONS - Cost of Chicago Hostelry One Supports and the Other Opposes the Views of Jacob Schiff of New York ARE COMPLETED{WALL STREET DIVIDED |Provide for Many New and|James J. Hill Coterie Ob- jeets to the Government Assisting the Speculators NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—As a sequel %@ Jacob H. Schiff's panic speech at the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, I which ho said that he had tried in vain to induce Secretary Shaw to come U e aid of the financial situation here, it developed yesterday that the Secretary was advised in opposite directions DY two powerful sets of financiers here. One group, headed by the National City Bank, of which James Stillman is presi- dent and which has close financial rela- tions with the Rockefellers, Kuhn, Loed & Co. and E. H. Harrtman, tried many means to have the Secretary deposit Gov- ernment funds there. The other, including the First National, of which George Baker is president and which has James J. Hill in its directorate; the Chase National, whose president I8 A. B. Hepburn; the Liberty National and the Rock Island group of capitalists, eame out squarely for home rule. The First National group had the back- ing of bankers in other large citles, who said that the commercial interests were BLUE, WHITE AND GOLD—Combi- n colored; 4-4 size; high head foot. This one, like all shown, is exactly like the picture, and ctly as repre- one in_both colors, and in full size. ‘It hus the most elegant of scroll work and is finished with a brass rod at the head and foot. worth $18. f’hu without regard to style. This is a full-sized Bed, with upright posts and eolid es. You would not believe | vestment of approximately $5,500,000. The hotel under the present owner- ship and management of the Congress Hotel Company will contain fully 2000 not suffering. and the Government should not feel called upon to help out a lot of Wall-street speculators. Secretary Shaw took this course, and in APPLE, WHITE AND GOLD—One of the prettiest combination colored Beds we secured. In 4-4 size, with t a good Bed couid $1 80 heavy posts and of a $6 85 of 0 nice design. Regular e value for .... e made so cheaply, A value for... This is of osts and of lacquer. It $16.75 urnishel neat and A good $28 T . The Prices Are From $14.50 to $68.00 The Terms: As Low as $1.00 : and $1.00 a Week. SEND FOR CATALOGUE N $11.00 value for. SOLID BRASS BED—With great 1%-inch posts, immense brass rolls and double brass top ralls. Here is one of the best Brass Be]ds we lhs.ve ever %u'x'lefl for the price of a gO0O tima one “a S $29,75 ular $45 value ...... 2 sented. en x fce . We have the proudest as well as the largest carpet stock on the Pa- ci ti fic Coast. Our display is beau- ful. BRUSSELS—Good, strong tapestries, SOLID BRASS BED- posts and the continuous round top that is so much the rago If you want an especially large Brass Bed for very little money, Just take a look at this one. A good $55 $38 50 value for ... . g BRUSSELS RUGS—9 by 12 with dainty floral and curious, two-toned Oriental designs. Your choice of many patterns. Regular 90¢ the yard values this week, sewed and laid, per Q€ yard foot Rugs, room size, in a good range of colors and designs. If you want a Rug that will wear for years, try one of these. They are easily $22.50 value: This week for AXMINSTERS—Axminster Carpets are more deceiving than any other. The price is de- pendent upon the weight and the weave as well as th that we guarantee. values, this week, sewed and laid, per yard COUCH COVE! week. 50 ental colorings Regular $1.50 values. while they last, Axminsters $1.50 RS—Our Drapery Fiter. Second inches wide; 8 yards long. Ori- of quaint design. 75c e design. Here are Regular 32 said that he always traveled s on that line because the compartments were dirty. Just | de Cardiff, he declared, his umbrella | i as he was picking it up the train | swerved, throwing him against which swung open and he was the line. He lost consclous- the fall, he said, and recovered just in time to see another r aring down on him. Its wheels passed over its legs some distance above the ankle JURY DECIDES ACAINST HiM Briton I ’ Accused of Having N 4 for help and a railway por- me to his assistance. He (May) had Placed Legs on Railway e of lessons in first aid to f a na i\ ts, Track to Get, Damages e BanuerAnise wWhle i pockets, and then directed the | wist it around his thighs to | eding. not have had my feet cut off,” | “for the wealth of the rail- | and all its shareholders. I who could always do a day’s it I could not obtain work at| thing I could always turn my hands other.” | May was asked whether he had told| £ri ral days before the train 4 him that he was going to meet | with an accident and that he would lose | his legs below the knees. “I ne: he said, “that I met with a serious accident to my legs, and I told andlady and some other people about ie dream. I believe it was a foreshadow- ing of what happer~d to me. My land- dy’s mother once dreamed of a terrible ter that came irue. All sorts of| have been foretold in dreams.” HIS DREAM DISBELIEVED. | Probably many members of the| Psychic Research Society would have | agreed with that last statement, but | e of them were summoned to give e of the several lost. All that veir views on premonitions and pre—1 sentiments, and the defense made much | of he improbability of May's vision the far greater lkelihood that, | aving concocted a plan to get money y company, his ex- him to make in-| utious statements. There is no doubt | May's dream story weighed against him with the jury. The bulk of the defense consisted | LLS STRANGE ¥'s story STORY. | in February a second-class le Rallway e sole oceu- ectations had le TREATMENT HOME | | The Electro-Chemic H remistry, is quickly curati e Treatment, 3 combination of Electricity and The patient is the apparatus free of It is belng used with results by patients all through the West. Those living at | a distance should endeavor to come to the Institute for a personal ex- amipation, so there may be no po sibility of a mistake in diagnosis and pothing overlooked. Specialties. The home treatment is especially recommended for the cure of Ca=- tarrh, Dealness. Asthma, Bronchi- Consumption (early stages), umatism, Weak Back; Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels; Special Diseases of Wo- men — Irregularities, Displace- ments, Tumors, Cancers, Abscesses, Ovariaa Inflammation, Btec., Ete.; Special Diseases of Men—Weak- ness, Prostatitis, Varicoeele, Stric- ture, Specific Blood Poison, Skin Diseases, Plles, Etc., Etc. Consultaticn and examination in all cases is free. Patients busy during the day time can call at night from 7 to 8 o'clock. ELECTRO - CHEMIC INSTITUTE Rooms 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 3rd ¥loor Emma Spreckels Building, 927 Market Streeil, Sam Office Hours: $a. m. to 5 p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m. Daily. Sundays, 9 2. m. to 1. Beparate Apartments for Ladies and Gem.lem’:n. iy e, just like the office treatment. loaned h ) O ANDERSON, Petaluma, Cal ceding tumor of the bladder by c Home Treatment. PETER C. Cured of Ele | icies against rallway accidents, in the cumulative evidence of small improbabilities arrayed against the ex- ceeding improbability that a man would voluntarily place his legs on a railway track to get his feet cut off by a train for the sake of what com- pensation he might obtaln. May weighed more than 210 pounds. The train from which he alleged that he had fallen was going at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Yet the only injury he could show as proof that he had really pitched headlong out of a train moving at that speed was a slight scratch on the cheek. It was argued that it was well nigh impos- sible that the door of the compart- ment would have given way even had he been thrown against it. Several witnesses swore that there was no swerve of the train such as would have caused him to be thrown against the door. It was improbable that a man occupying hfs position would have traveled second class. On the other hand, it was contended it was natural he should have pretended that he had ridden in a second class carriage, as had he alleged that he rode in a third class carriage he might have been con- fronted with proof that all such car- riages on that particular train had several passengers. It was shown that his total stock of handkerchiefs con- sisted of only four and it was main- tained it was improbable that he would have taken three of them with him unless he had in mind some such device as he resorted to to prevent the mutilation proving fatal. Both feet had been severed at the same distance | groped their way hither through below the knees and it was declared it was highly improbable that would have happened had he fallen upon the track from a moving train. PLAINTIFF NEEDED MONEY. It was shown that May was a poor man, and for a poor, man heavily in debt. Hence, it was argued, he had strong motives for seeking to ralse money, even at the cost of being crippled for the rest of his life. Short- ly before his legs were cut off he had purchased several coples of weekly publications which issue insurance pol- and this was referred to to strengthen tae rajilway company’s theory that the { loss of his legs had been delilberately planned. All things considered, the case was one of the most puszzling which a jury { has ever been called upon to decide. It is small wonder that the jury before whom it was first brought disagreed. It is surprising that another jury has | agreed upon a verdict and one which many people will continue to think is hardly justified by the evidence. Self- mutilation is common enough. There are religious fanatics who do it for the good of their souls, and there are sane people wko do it—though naver in such a frightful fashion as May is convicted of doing—to escape conscrip- tion. But that a man—no matter of what iron nerves he may Le com- posed—should decide to part witn his legs to see what price they would fatch from a railway company and a few en- terprising publishers, must down as one of the strangest freaks to which-the thirst for gold has ever yet compelled mortal man. —— . MOFFAT TO EXTEND HIS RAILROAD TO PORTLAND DENVER, Jan. §.—David H. Moftat, who is building a railroad through Northern Colorado and Utah to Salt Lake City, to-day made the following statement: “I intend to extend the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Rallroad to Portland. I want to get up in that sec- tion for the timber, as well as for an outlet on the Pacific Ocean. I will be- gin this extension when I am through to Utah.” The construction of the road to Port- land would put Denver on a divect Pa- cific Coast-Gulf of Mexico Iine - THREE WOMEN PERISH IN FIRE Unable to Find Their Way Through Smoke That Fills a Burning Boarding-House LSRR ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6.—The boarding-house conducted by Erskine Reed, at 1611 Mis- souri avenue, caught fire to-day from the furnace, and three women boarders per- ished, a fourth breaking a leg in jump- ing from an upper window. The dead: MRS. PAULINE HERMANN, aged 4 years, MISS JEWEL REED, aged 17, daughter of the proprietor. MRS PULVERMACKER, aged 35 years, of St. Charles, Mo. Injured: Mrs. Hjiger, aged 70 years. Miss Jewel Reed lost her life in trying to save others. She was seen to rush into the street and cry for help when the flames broke out and back into the house to alarm the occupants. The three bodies were found in the bathroom, the women apparently having the smoke in trying to find an avenue of escape. All three bodles were badly charred. Aged Mrs. Hilger was lying in her room when the flames broke out and in desperation jumped from her window, breaking a leg. She was partially caught by a spectator, breaking the full force of her fall, and was picked up uncon- scious. SEES DARK FUTURE FOR THE MALE SEX Educator Believes Women Will Eventually Out- class Men. PITTSBURG, Jan. 6.—Chancellor 8. B. McCormick of the Western University of Pennsylvania believes that eventually the women will outdistance the men in all walks of life. He addressed the Cur- rent Topic Club in the Bighth Street Temple last night. Most of the members are women. “It 35 my prediction that in fifty years from now the women of this gountry will outclass’ the men, both in busipess and in the public affairs of the country,” he said. “I base my assertion on the fact that at present in the high schools throughout the United States the girls outnumber the boys four to one. A num- ber of universities have placed a limit be set|on the number of young women thsy will receive.” FORGED CERTIFICATES OF RAILROAD SHARES Bogus Common Stock Paper of the Nor- folk and Western Being Circulated. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6.—A number of forged certificates of the common stock of the Norfolk and Western Rail- road have recently been detected. It is not known how many of these cer- tificates are in ecirculation, but eight certificates of 100 shares each have been discovered. Detectives have been at wark on the case for uv:n! days and they are re- ported to have learned that a New York brokerage firm is involved. E. H. Alder, secr -and assistant treasurer of the Norfolk and Western, to-day went to New York to make a personal investigation of the matter. -will be sent to S8an Francisco for eade. WA, ROOSEVELT FICES HUTIN Republican Faction in House Joins Democrats to De- feat Administration Bills CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The indications are to-night that chaos is about to break loose in the House of Representatives and that a probably successful effort is to be made to defeat the Philippine tariff bill and the joint' feature of the statehood bill, so far as it applies to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona. If this should ocour it would mean open war with the administration all along the line. There is & combination of Republican “insurgent” Republicans, led by Repre- sentative Babcock of Wisconsin, and of the Democrats. The Republicans assert that they have sixty-seven votes against the Philippine tariff, and they have en- tered into a bargain with the Democrats whereby the Democratic views will be met. There are 240 Republican votes ‘in the House. If sixty-seven desert the par- ty strength will drop to 173. On the other hand, the Democrats have 137 votes, which, added to the sixty-seven Repub- lican bolters, will make to 204. These rebels against the authority of the House are willing to support an amendment to the bill which will take off the differential on refined sugar. This was the way in which the Cuban reciprocity bill was defeated by Littlefleld of Maine and Tawney of Minnesota, and it is In accordance with the Democratic position. 3 Many Republicans have agreed to stand with the Democrats in defeating that feature of the Statehood bill which admits Arizona and New Mexico as one State. Speaker Cannon and his lieutenants have made up their minds to bring in a rule for the consideration of the Philippine tarift bill on Monday. They are not so sure about it. From the standpoint of regular party men the situation is very alarming. All the in- fluence that Speaker Cannon can mus- ter is being brought to bear. STnalss e 2 A ERT ISR ARMY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Army or- ders: Colonel John L. Clem, assistant quartermaster general, is relieved in the Philippines and will proceed to San Francisco about January 25 and report to the commanding general of the Department of California for duty, to relieve Colonel William 8. Patten, assistant quartermaster &eneral. Colonel Clem will also assume charge of the construction of the public build- ings and other improvements at the posts in the vicinity of San Francisco. Colonel Patten will proceed about Feb- ruary 15 to Manila for duty as chief quartermaster of the Philippines di- vision. Major Wood, quartermaster, is re- lieved from duty in the quartermaster general's office and will proceed to Se- attle and relleve Captain Jesse M. Baker, quartermaster. g Major Alfred M. Palmer, quarter- master, now on leave, is relieved in the Philippines and will proceed to Port- land, Or., and relleve Captain Jesse M. Baker, quartermaster, who will re- lieve Captain Frank A. Grant. tem- porarily. Captain Grant will proceed to Schuylkill Arsenal, Pennsylvania, for duty. Sergeant George Reynolds, hospital corps, now at Vancouver Barracks, duty aboard the transport M rooms, making it not only the largest hotel enterprise in the world, but prob- ably representing the largest invest- ment ever known in any hotel property. The entire cost of the bullding and fur- nishings, together with the land upoa which they are erected, is approxi- mately $14,000,000. INSANE WOMAN TRIES TO BURN A TENEMENT Man Who Was Directing Her How to Apply Torch Makes Escape. NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—A naked and in- sane woman, directed by a man warmly clad and wearing an overcoat, was de- tected applying a toreh to the hallway of a five-story tenement-house in Eldridge street about daybreak to-day. The strange pair fled when discovered, but the woman was captured. She gave the name of Helen Bauer, and said that she is housekeeper of the bullding she was trying to set on fire, but no one there knew her. A tenant of the building was awakened by a noise made by the pair, and discov- eged them in the hall. She aroused the other occupants and the man and woman ran on the roof. The man got away, but one of the ten- ants tripped the woman. When she was questioned she returned a blank stare, but finally gave the name of Helen Bauer. She looked very old and was cov- ered with flith. She was taken to Belle- vue Hospital. She did not disclose the name of the man, but.it is suspected that they bave been connected with other incendiary fires. They had not succeeded in setting fire to the hall. TWO BANK WRECKERS GO TO PENITENTIARY Imboden and Hill Are Sen- tenced to Long Term at Hard Labor. DENVER, Jan. 6.—Leonard B. Im- boden and James A. Hill, convicted of conspiracy to wreck the Denver Sav- ings Bank and divert its funds to their own use, were sentenced by Judge Peter L. Palmer in the District Court to-day to be confined in the State penitentiary from nine to ten years at hard labor. Judge Palmer denied the motion for a new trial, but granted a stay of thirty days to enable the attorneys of the convicted men to appeal to the State Supreme Court for a supersedeas. view of the easler rates yesterday repre- sentatives of the First Natlonal party said they thought they had been entirely vindicated. POLITICS TOO SWIFT FOR FRANK 8. BLACK Former Governor of New York Will Not Re-enter the Arena. NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Former Governor Frank S. Black, while in town yesterday put a quietus on the various stories cerning his political future by sayt positive terms that he would not the chairmanship of the Republican State Committes under any conditions. Black said: ““There are no conceivable circumstances under which I would accept the State chairmanship, assuming that it were of- fered to me. I am not In politics, and I don't talk politics, uniess people come to my office and introduce the subject. In fact, these political times are too rapid for me. They saver of the period when you can ride to Chicago in five minutes or get to Liverpool in a quarter of an hour. They are too swift for any man who still has an abiding respect for old- fashioned things. You can’t make it too strong that 1 am out of it all MRS. YERKES WILL BUILD THE HOSPITAL Beginning Is to Be Made as Soon as Big Estate Is Settled. NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—The great hospital provided for in the will of the late Charles T. Yerkes, the traction promoter who died in this city Jast week, w be bullt at once. It will be located U Borough of the Bronx. This announce- ment was made to-day by Dr. J. E. Janvrin, speaking for Mrs. Yerkes: Dr. Janvrin sald that a Dbeginning would be made just as soon as the es- tate of Mr. Yerkes i» settled, instead of waiting until after Mrs. Yerkes' death, as provided in the will. He said that the projected hospital was entirely Mrs. Yerkes' idea, and that Yerkes, in making provision for the hospital in his will, was only carrying out Mrs. Yerkes' idea and destre. ——e— SHOP AND HOUSE BURNED.. — A which started in the paint shop of Wiilia: Bell at 80 Norfolk street yesterday eve: destroyed the shop and dwelling befors Fire Department succeeded In extinguish: The total damage does not exceed $1000, p covered by Insurance. | REAT medicine,—the Saw- buck. Two hours a day sawing wood will keep anyone's Bowels regular. need of pills, Cathartics, Castor No Ot nor “Physie," if you'll only work the Sawbuck regularly. | Exercise is Nature’s Cure for Consti- pation and, —Ten-Mile walk will do, if you haven’t got a wood pile. s e But, if you will take your Exercise in an Easy Chair, there's only one way to do that, and make a Success of it. Because,—there's only one kind of Artficial Exercise for the Bowels and its name is “CASCARETS." Cascarets are the only means to exer- cise the Bowel Muscles, without work. They don't Purge, Gripe, nor “upset your Stomach,” because they don't act like Cathartics. 8 They don’t flush out your Bowels and ADVERTISEMENTS, Grandfather’s Cure for Constipation Intestines with a costly wasts of Digestive Juice, as Salts, Castor Qil, Calcmel, Jalap, or Aperient Waters, always do. No,—Cascarets strengthen and stimu~ late the Bowel Muscles instead. These are the Muscles that Ene the Food passages and that tighten up when Food touches them, thus driving that Food on to its finish. They are the Muscles that turn Food into Strength through Nutrition. > Well,—a Cascaret acts on your Bowel Muscles as if you had just Sawed a cord of wood, or walked ten miles. That's why Cascarets are safe to taks continuously In health; and out of health. Because they move the Food Naturally, d‘mlnz it without waste of tomorrow’s ‘They thus work all the Nutrition out of it before it decays. The thin, flat, Ten Cent box is made “to fit your Vest Pocket, or “My Lady's™ Purse. Carry it constantly with you and take a Cascaret whemever you suspect you need one. Thus you will ward off Appendicitis Constipation, Indigestion, — and other things besides. Druggists—10 Cuats a Box. ’ Be very careful to get the e, made only by the Starling Remed‘%mj pany and never sold in bulk. Every tab- SR e A