The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1906, Page 7

. A5k EX-SHERIFF CURTIS T0 RETURN AND NEET CHARCES OF CRAFT Succgssor Makes Disclosures | | EAN' FRANCISCO, WHOSH FRIENDS HAVE WIRED "ROM _SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND REFUTH THR MADE BY HIE SUCCESSOR IN OFFICE. — Curtis, who left er last Sunday trip to San for by may re- serious r in office, ty Jail graft- soners per condl- but it return You Won’t cough long if you use Shileh's Consump. | tion Cure, the Lung Tonmic. It cures Colds, Coughs, and all &ritations of the air ges almost instantly. You won't lose uy'thins: it fails to cure you, for then your dealer will give you back what you paid for it. If you use Shiloh = You Will agree that it is the greatest medicine for g sl Colds in fho werld., * We have used Shilsh's Consumption Care fer the twelve yeas, and thiok it enc of the best cough e el e g e G G - SHILOH Z’LEM. Afl&l‘mfli Sold by THE OWL DRUG CO. 1128 Market st. and 80 Geary st Sleep Like a Top Don’t lic awake with the remedy at your elbow. 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It is said that when Curtis assumed office two years ago & similar \condmon prevailed at the jails, but nothing was said about it at the time. | Mayor Schmitz stated yesterday that he is awaiting a written report from Sheriff O'Nefll 1 of the jail.* Upon that report mitz says he will determine what he will take. The alleged short and count in the supplies fur- nished by contractors will also be in- vestigated. The matter will be taken up by the Grand Jury. There is a balance of about $21,000 in the fund for subsistence of prison- ers, as Curtis expended only $22,000 out the appropriation of $43,000. In winter the appropriation is drawn upon | i f of | oners is greater at this time than at any other period during the year. If Curtis can be reached by telegram at Port Hartford, where the steamer 1is scheduled to stop, he will probably return at once to meet the charges. R eV Greif's Work All Complete. An investigation of the allegation that the new administration has found affairs in the office of the County Clerk in an “appalling condition” discloses the fact that the administration is simply seeking to make capital out of & condition far from “appalling.” When ex-County Clerk Greif took office the work there was behind two years, and, among other things, 1000 wills not engrossed. During his administra- tion Grelf caught up with the work of his predecessor, Mahoney, and out of the 1000 wills 400 of the number were engrossed and the other 600 are safely locked in vaults. Whether they were ever engrossed or not will make no difference now, for all have been ad- mitted to probate and property distrib- uted thereunder. Mulcrevy goes into office with all work up to date with the exception of 600 wills to be engrossed, & heritage of Mahony’s administration. —_————————— | JOURNEYMEN BUTCHERS ARE PLANNING FOR ANNUAL BALL Proceeds of Masquerade Wil Go to Help Swell the Fund of the Be- mevolent Association. = Extensive preparations are being made by the Journeymen Butchers’ Be- nevolent Association for its annual . masquerade ball, which will take place at Saratoga Hall on next Saturday evening. The association turned over to the following committee ample power and authority to make final ar- rangements for the entertainment: F. Krauer (chairman), Joe Danz, A. Mc- Cready, James Howard and Charles Weisheimer. The tenth annual celebration of San Francisco Lithographers’ Association No. 17 was held last Saturday night at a downtown restaurant. Seventy mem- bers: assembled. Retiring President Charles M Krieger was presented with an elegant gold watch and chain. F. Coughlin, T. Garrity, F. Dever, G. Buehn, J. Kelly and D. McMillin com- pose the special committee appointed by the Brotherhood of Bookbinders, Union No. 31, to make final arrangements for the midwinter social of this union. The entertainment will be held at Social Hall, Alcazar building, next Saturday evening. At the last meeting of the Waiters’ Union nearly 200 members were admit- mitted either on original or renewal applications, After next month the fee to become a member will be $5 50. It is the intention of this union to submit a new schedule of wages to all of the first-class hotels and restaurants during the month of February. ———— The value of dlamonds as fancy stones can be naturally increased by the action of radium. | | to his servants, at which relative to the condi- | | for large sums, as the number of pris- | were Barrie Pleases in His “Admirable Crichton.” Beautifully Staged Production Is Unique. |George Osbourne Is Funny in Role of Earl. | Just what Barrie is driving at soclolog- | feally in his “The Admirable Crichton,” | done here for the first time last night at | the Alcazar, happens not to matter. It is |to laugh for four acts—that surely is enough. But one suspects Mr. Barrie of meaning things, and you rather want to | know the answer. A morbid curiosity, | perhaps, with all the piquant fun the play | provides, but you do want to know if it is the lady or the tiger—at least you want to know if Mr. Barrie knows which it is. However, whichever it is, “The Admirable Crichton” is excellent entertainment and amazingly well acted by the Alcazar folk. The settings, the Crusoe Island kind of thing, are comically good. “The Admirable Crichton” opens with & soiree—swarry—at the Earl of Loam's, | an English nobleman, who has absorbed | & certain amount of soclalism and water, and who satisfles his newly awakened conscience with giving monthly receptions the kitchen | maid is jntroduced to whatever mnobility | happens to be around. But papa’s daugh- | ters do not pelieve that kind hearts are | more than coronets. Neither does the | butler, the “admirable Crichton.” Indeed, | the butler refuses to meet the upper crust, only In the way of business. There are those that rule, those that serve— | thank God, he knows his position! But | papa has his way. The stable boy swabs his tea out of the saucer, while the kitch- en maid sits on the edge of a chair mak- ing eyes at Lord Brocklehurst once a month regularly, and every one is relig- fously and vastly uncomfortable. But the sociologist is not done. He will go a-yachting, and the Ladles Mary, Agatha and Catherine must put up with one maid among them on the voyage. None of the maids will go— wait on three women, no, sir! The Earl gets it then: his valet will not go yachting with only one maid on whom to lavish his affections. The admirable Crichton steps into the breach. As a king becoming a cook, he offers for the honor of the house to turn valet, and produces a young serving maid who is willing to wait upon the ladies. Lady Agatha puts out her hand to thank him. The admirable Crichton rebukes her, tells her she should be haughty like her sister Mary—‘that disdain is what we love in the servants’ hall.” The tables are turned in the next aoct. The yacht is wrecked, and the aristocrats, in pajamas and kimonos, are discovering their utter uselessness on the desert island. Criohten naturally takes the lead. The curtain goes down on the nobility, that has gone away in a huff at Crich- ton’s leadership, coming back to the soup he 1is cooking—Lady Mary last, It is in the third act that one gets pua- zled. Two years have elapsed. It is still on the desert island. What has Crichton done with his power? The house out, Crusoe’s Crusoe’s in ingenuity. Ernest, | the lazy nephew of Loam, s completely reformed. The haughty Lady Mary, clad in skins, swings llke a Diana through a window with a deer upon her shoulder. The next comes with fish. The little serving maid is plucking a parrot® All speak of the Governor with awe. He comes in. One, the Lady Mary, is to walt on him. In silence, rub- bing servile hands, she walts as he eats, in the intervals of bringing the dishes to him fanning him with a rush fan. It | develops that he loves her. He tells her so, this way. He believes, he says, that there is no chance of getting back to England again, therefore, that in marry- ing her he will do her no injustice. How can he look so low as her, asks “Polly.” He, like a king. ““Ha! a king!"” says Crichton, “why not? It came to me as if I remembered it, it came to me so naturally, that I was once a king in Babylon and you were a Chris- tian slave!” Slow music. Rather bad, Mr. Barrile. Then, says Crichton “There’s some- thing so grand in feeling myself a nman. I've had my chance, I've had my chance.” But why, then, Mr. Barrle, do you make Crichton enslave the aristocrats when his chance comes? To show that the man is as much snob as the mas- ter? Or just why? Of course, the ship comes in and the third act closes with Crichton’s mantle slipping from his shoulders, and a servile “my lady” on his lips. How he settles things the fourth act tells. Mr. Waldron is an excellent Crichton in every way and George Osbourne makes much humorous capital out of the role of ‘the Earl. The three daughters are essayed with conspicuous success by Miss Bvelyn, Juliet Crosby and Lolita Robert- son—who all look adorable in skins. “Johnny” Maher is droll as Ernest and Effie Bond clever as the serviag maid. It is one's own fault, in fact, if “The Admirable Crichton” is not enjoyed. BLANCHE PARTINGTON. Columbia. The Columbia Theater was dark last night, owing to the late arrival of the Modjeska organization. There was quite a lengthy delay on the trip down from Portiand, and instead of arriving Ir the e S ALCAZAR PLAY IS FOUR ACTS OF LAUGHTER. -_—— s forenoon the train did not reach here until late in the evening. Theater- appointed, However, seats have been exchanged for to-night's presentation of “Macbeth” and for the performance on Saturday night. “Much Ado About Nothing” will be played at the special matinee to be given on Wednesday aft- ernoon and will again be the bill on Friday night. “Mary Stuart” is an- nounced for Wednesday and Thursday nights and Saturday matinee. Grand Opera-House, e, cometti’s Queen HElizabeth afford- edG;?nnce O'Neil last night another opportunity of delighting her admirers in her personation of the proud and hot-tempered _ sovereign. So well pleased were they that they compelled the curtain to be raised at the end of each act and showered upon the favor- ite actress applause that was nltugoth:r aneous. Her support were In ;g%‘;‘:; mood and seemed to do their best to keep pace with the example set by the star. John Glendenning, whose role was that of the gallant and high-spir- jted Harl of Essex, shared honors with Miss O'Neil in the great third act in his indignant deflance of the Queen and his resentment of the indignity she had put upon hifn. Andrew Robson infused pathos and dignity into his personation of James of Scotland. Mr. Greenaway’'s Lord Howard and Mr. Griffith’'s Sir Francis Drake were very satisfactory scnations. pe;'“” O'Neil's death scene in the last act was recelved s0 enthusiastically that the curtain was rung up twios. This evening and to-morrow’s matinee the “Fires of St. John” will be pre- sented. Majestic. “A Contented Woman,” at the Majes- tic Theater last evening, proved one of the funniest farces ever staged at that ghow house and the audience ‘was kept in a continual uproar of laughter. The is a take-off on woman's su ghfld}’ the extremes to which Aunt Jim, taken by Mina Crollus Gleason, and her two strong-minded friends went to win their point was an execellent reminder of the new woman of to-day. Poor ‘Aunt Jim was finally conqueted by Un- cle Todie, her better half, who went on & “jag” before he had the courage to compel her to remove her men's trou- sers and don her skirts, Amelia Gardner played the part of Grace Holme, who, owing to a little family trouble, was persuaded by Aunt Jim to run for office against her hus- band, Benton Holme, taken by Frank Underwood, for Mayor. Upon her elec- tion she immediately sees her folly and resigns in favor of her husband and be- comes “A Contented Woman.” Alhambra, Again Mark Twaln's pathetic story of “The Prince and the Pauper” {s por- trayed upon the stage of a local play- house, the Alhambra, closely following upon its successful week at the Alca- zar. At the time of its first production the play was received by press and pub- lic with praise, and Ollie Cooper’s won- derful performance of the pauper- prince places her in the front rank of child actresses in America. Her work has lost none of its finish at the Alham- bra, and her handling of climaxes through the play is excellent. In but one place does she lapse, and that is in not closély following the tirade of Mad Anthony, which, by the way, is well done by George Webster. Mayall is -eminently fitted to the dashing Miles Hendon, and Shumer makes a good John Canty. Edna Ells- mere had little to do as Mrs. Canty, while James Corrigan is also subordi- nated. Pryse Mackaye, as the Earl of Hertford, was acceptable, and with a little less “acting” by Linda de Costa and a little more acting by True Boardman the roles of Princess Eliza- beth and Lord Seymour would be im- proved. California. It was 9:50 last night when the cur- tain at the California Theater rose for the initial performance of *“The Inno- cent Malds,” The cause of the delay was thetardinessof the Portland train which conveyed the company, It was due to arrive at 8:20 yesterday morning, but it was after 9 o'clock in the evening when it reached the mole. “The Inno- cent Maids” is an extravaganza of which Markie and Moran are the head- liners. A bevy of beauties make up the chorus and they can dance and sing. Central, A large Monday night audience at- tended the Central last evening to wit- ness the ‘‘Price of Honor,” which will be staged during the present week. The parts were all well taken, but HElmer Booth carried away the honors in the part of Maxy, the elevator boy. Booth acted the typical tough kid of New York City and used modern slang with a vengeance, much to the delight of the audience. Robert Wayne took the part of Tom Elliott, a private detective in Siegel & Cooper’'s store, and proved a true lover until the end, although he at times doubted the innocence of his sweet- heart, Annie Merville, the part of which was taken by Hdna Archer Crawford. The choir from the Church of the Ad- vent of this city took part in the per- formance and furnished some excellent musie. Tivolt. ' The second week of “Foxy Quiller” opened at the Tivoll last evening. The fun was even greater than last week and the entire work went with spirit and dash. This 18 one of the best offer- ings that the Tivoll has had for some time In several respects. The Chutes, “In Vacation Time,” a one-act musical ocomedietta, was presented by the Galety Girls, ten in number, assisted by Francis Browne, at the Chutes last night and scored an immediate hit. The extrayaganza abounds in catchy songs and clever specialties and dances. Earl and Wilson, a comedy musical duo, proved excellent entertainers. and George Btewart, a whistling monolog- ist, was warmly applauded. Petronella @Arville, a talented violinist, both classical and popular selection: and Nellie Montgomery, the popular | city. The | much older than he had previously been ! tier Schook singer of {llustrated ballads, and the animatoscope, showing he Train Wreckers,” completed a varfed and interesting programme. The amateurs will finish their portion of the perform- ance on Thursday evening with a skat- ing carnival, and there will be a cake Wwalk at the Chutes on Saturday night. Barnes' diving elks give open-afr exhibitions every afternoon and even- ing. ————— Ettinger P;'vu a Bad Youth. Clarence Ettinger will appear & Judge Cook this morning for u:::a:: on a'charge of burglary. He was sent to the Preston School of Industry by Judge Cook and the trustees of the school have furnished the Judge with & set of resolutions passed by them to the effect that Etungqr was an im- proper subject for detention at the school and had threatened the lives of the officers. He escaped lch:ol onhoqobor :ulut and was re- captured in. a gambling house in this | as he seut to Whit- _the | LOLL IN FICHT FOR TERMINALS Railroads Are Keeping Mum ‘While Diligent Attorneys Dig in Musty Legal Tomes BATTLE WILL BE LONG Counsel Foulds of Southern Pacific States That the Struggle Will Be Arduous Of the battle between the Southern Pa- cific and Western Pacific rallroads there ‘were no new outward signs yesterday. But the legal talent of both corporations wers feverighly rooting among law books and documents in preparation of the great le- gal struggle which begins next Monday before United States Circult Court Judge ‘W. W. Morrow. The report of Colonel Heuer of the United States engineer corps on fhe ap- plications of both companies to build out to the harbor pler line is caloulated to have reached Washington yesterday morning. The, War Department there evi- dently considers the report confidential, for not a word or hint of it has yet leaked out. Over on the battieground in West Oak- land no one was working except the guards, and the toll of these consisted mainly in trying to keep warm and dry before the humid and blustering attacks of the southeaster. This morning the hearing of the Injunc- tion brought by the American Dredging Company against the Southern Pacific before the Buperior Court of Alameda County will be resumed, and Judge Waste will give his deolsion. In an interview yesterday John E. Foulds, chief attorney for the Southern Pacific, gave to The Call representative an outline of the case which the Ken- tucky corporation will present to the courts in the legal fight beginning next Monday. Briefly, the contention of the Bouthern Pacific is that it owns the Oak- land water front to the present low water line, including accretions, and that from the terms of the grant by which it holds this at has the right of access from this property to navigable waters. “The grant by which we hold the Oak- land water front,” said Foulds, "is a srant made by the State in 1852 to the city of Oakland, from which we acquired it through a succession of owners. The limit of these holdings, according to the word of the grant, is ‘to ship channel.” The Supreme Court has since ruled that by ‘ship channel’ was meant the low ‘water mark. “So that we will make our fight on two grounds. The first will be on the doctrine of accretions, by which our holdings fol- low the low water mark in its natural re- cession. The second ground will be based on the words ‘ship channel’ in the State grant. We claim that these words show that the Intent of the State was to grant us access to the navigable waters. Access to the navigable waters became, by the terms of the grant, an easement going with the grant, just as a right of way will sometimes be an easement following a farm through all its successive owners. The building by the Western Pacific of tracks and wharves and plers according to its plans would deprive us of this ac- cess to navigable waters, hence of an easement which goes with the land and upon which the value of the land de- pends.” % Foulds said that he expected the legal fight to be a long and interesting one. LSRN T INJUNCTION CASE CONTINUED. Judge Waste Postpones Proceedings and Lawyers Are Disappointed. OAKLAND, Jan. 16.—A notice was sent by Judge W. H. Waste to-day to Attorney A. A. Moore of the Southern Pacific Company stating that the in- Junction proceedings brought by the American Dredging Company, which were to have been resumed before him to-morrow, will be continued to some other day. This action was made necessary by the fact that Judge Ellsworth had in- sisted that arguments begun before him some time ago on a motion for a new trial in the case of Jane Clough against the Spring Valley Water Com- pany be continued untjl they were fin- ished. W. R. Davis, who represents the American Dredging Company, is also engaged In the arguments before Judge Ellsworth, and would not be able to represent his other clients if the case proceeded to-morrow. It was with much reluctance that At- torney Moore agreed to have the in- junetion proceedings continued from Saturday at noon over to Tuesday in- stead of proceeding with the argu- ments this morning, and it is possible that some effort may be made to-mor- row to get Judge Ellsworth to modify his order iIn regard to the arguments in the Spring Valley case. OAKLAND, Jan. 16.—The application of the Western Pacific Railway Com- pany for a franchise for a rallroad along and adjacent to the north train- ing wall of Oakland harbor and for slips, wharv nd other terminal fa- cilities at the west end of tho train- ing wall was referred to the committee of the whole by the City Council this evening, at the request of Charles E. Snook, resident attornéy of the com- ny. It was déecided to hold the committee meeting next Monday night. e e SANTA FE NOT IN FIGHT. Ripley Says His Road Is Not Backing Southern Paclfic. BANTA BARBARA, Jan. 15.—Presi- dent Ripley of the Santa Fe, who ar- rived here to-day for the winter, when asked if his road was interested in the present struggle between the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific raflroads on the Oakland estuary, said: “No, the Banta Fe is not backing the Southern Pacific in its fight with the ‘Western Pacific.. We have no interest in the trouble whatever. The first I in blue, or s not genuine. 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BRANCHES - OAKLAND, SACRAMFNTO, SAN JOSE, SANTA ROSA FRESNO. RENO. N!\L\m ARIZ. The heard of our road being interested was the newspaper which are false.” Ripley was asked if it were true that the transcontinental raliroads were antagonizing the construction of the Panama canal. In a most emphatic manner he declared: “There’s absolutely nothing in the re- ports that the railroads have used or intend to use any Influence to impede or stop the canal construction. Published reports to the effect that the railroads see a menace to business in the com- pletion of that waterway are not so. The canal will not affect our business —in fact, it should improve it.” ‘When asked if he thought a railroad rate bill would be passed at the pres- ent session of Congress President Rip- ley said he was as far away as he could get from Washington and did not know or particularly care whether legislation would result before adjourn- ment or not. reports, Lash’s Kidney and Liver Bitters expel all poisons and impart renewed life and energy to the whole system. . —_ e Policy Payment Record. An old-line life insurance company hav- ing headquarters in Manhattan and well known particularly because of its great volume of industrial policy business scored a new record for itself the other day when it liquidated within eight work- ing hours 806 death clalms, amounting in the aggregate to $91,650 65. This sum rep- résents an average of about $191 pald out every minute fn the eight hours of the busin--~ day. This money reached 263 different cities and towns. Among tne beneficiaries these nationalities were covered: Americans, Irish, Gerr-ans, Canadians, English, Ital- fans, Australians, Bohemians, Swedes, Scotch, Welsh and Russians. In one case the person had been insured only three days.—New York Press. IMPORTERS OPPOSE DUTY ASSESSED ON HATPINS Claim That Custom of Rating Them as Jewelry Is Not Right. The Board of United States General Appraisers recently gave a hearing to Dieckerhoff, Raffloer & Co., of 384 Broadway, relative to the rats of duty applicable to women's hatpins. It has been the custom of the Treas- ury Department for a long time to con- sider all hatpins “jewelry” within the meaning of the Dingley tariff law. As a result the Collectors of Customs at various ports have exacted duty at the rate of 60 per cent. This high rate is deemed exorbitant by importers, who maintain that the articles are properly assessable according to the component material of chief value. General Appraiser Sharretts sented the board at the hearing, while John A. Kemp, the fted States treas- ury counsel, appeared for the Govern- ment. He was assisted by Charles B. Lawrence, the assistant counsel. Mr. Curie of the law firm of Curfe, Smith & Maxwell represented the importers. It developed at the hearing that only a small percentage of the hatpins sold in the American market make any pre- tension to being “Jewelry.” Most of the merchandise is regarded in the trade as useful rather than ornamental, ard therefore cannot be considered to be Jewelry. After several witnesses had been ex- amined the hearing was closed. It was stated that a decision will shortly be made by the board covering the points in dispute. A large number of im- porters’ protests regarding the proper classification of hatpins have been filed with the general board. The decision in the Dieckerhoff, Rafflosr & Co. case will therefore be awaited with much interest.—New York Commercial. repre- “Logical Consequences are the scarecrows of some—but the beacons of wise men.”—HUXLEY. Did a“LogicalConsequence” Ever Rise Up and Hit You? A business enterprise may weather almost any kind of a storm if its executive head has a proper respect for “Logi- cal Consequences”—if he does not imagine that they can i be evaded as easily as City ordinances. But—it’s all over with any business enterprise whose director appears regu- larly as a Losing Defendant in the Court of Cause and Effect The merchant knows that, as to publicity, the size, nature and quality of a store-ad. has a direct, positive and " inevitable effect on the’volume of business done; that this is true on every day of the week—that a dul' business day is a logical consequence of inadequate advertising—that poor business is not a misfortune, but merely a foreseeable result of a weak publicity programme. Thus the laws of cause and effect are beneficent or __ them or try to fout them, -