The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 15, 1906, Page 5

THE ! FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1906. CAFE CHANTANT BRILLIANTLY HONORS ST. VALENTINE. F N—— € HENDY . ., < ARMY OFFICE GIVE A RS WILL )CTAL HOP Twenty-Second Infantry Is- sues Invitations for Dance on Angel Island. by the -second Infan at the discherge car Worth Knowing the others o . ione. Souvenir Valeutine Part Circle of Companions of the Fores of Americ anged for a souvenlr valentine the Assembly Hall of the Al ng on the even- ing of next v e — Try the United States Laundry. 1004 Market street. Telephone South 420, * ccelsior | HUGKSON THE U GANIZATION NION L NArE ooy THB U“WE{@QU? Club Gives Clever Programme, Followed by Danee | ) i 3 THEIR VALENTINE SAGUE CLUB LAST EVE! GAY SPIRIT OF ST. ne presiding at a cafe seer grotesque, but modifying the first er 1 fon, a remarkable air of car araderie was made realistic at the | Union League Club last night. Vith and mural decoration of lems, the Union League | ot & were transformed into a spectacular realm, with side lights and stage sets extending far in front of the drop curtain which partitioned off a small te r those who dining-room chosen for of vaudeville talent, ief attention. and deserved- r a decorator imbued with am- on and a predilection for things of reign essence bedecked his walls eillngs with fantasies gathered from King Edward’s coronation day. | Draperies, rose-hued, striped with | silver, hung in crescent folds from cor- nice to floor, an elaborated pattern in Saint Valentine making a feature at one side of the | arop curtain. Hea ts, in size heroic luttered ubiquitously, 10tional vibration of the atmos- ecause pinioned and opposed s law, the programme failod to hearts. | Garlands, woven of palm leaves, pink and pale yellow peonfes, strung their ettishness rightly attributed lengths along from sides to chande- ind back again, and fioating abc all were fascinating, defiant ‘devil’s darning needles,” pale blue in comy on and scintillating with headlights of purple and red. splendent buzz of . lights and ivified the surroundings to in- he lookers-on at tables partie- In the scenic effect. their vantage ground, a menu to eye and ear was unfolded, Chinese impersopations, L. A, su‘:ii' rolo. FPareppa; maie quariet, from remarks, G. A. Dodge; orig- k R. Hayes: solo, Frank W. Hindu icLaughiin; lian onto, Stealettt; Harnoti oo, nist, K. Fletcher after? “On with the dance’—and | Joy was unconfined, for the library floor { ‘was ‘splendidly conditioned and the music kept apace. In this room the normal at- mosphere of thought and study was last night relegated to the shelves and locked | in—all bowed to the day’s patron saint who ruled with joyous tyranny. In this hall of mirth there glowed great hearts of electrical device, bejeweled settings | from among great bows of pine and ‘bhrnlur and here the merrymakers be-,| ! gulled many an hour, all unsuspicious | that time knew existence under the | scepter of St. Valentine Colonel George H. Pippey, president of | the Union League Club, zaye pleasure to his confreres by presenting a portrait of ‘himself to the club, Judge Carroll Cook making the presentation speech As to attendance, the weather had no | dampening effect upon the ardor of the | invitational list, noteworthy by the fact that fully 700 guests were present and radiant. The evening being designated | as “ladies’ night,” the fair recipients of favor blossomed in fairest raiment. “acted.” | ; to miniature, | whether | But flutter they did with all | 4 PREPARE TO HONOR { THE NATION'S HERO Programme for Washing- ton’s Birthday Parade Fi- ‘ nally Completed. | The plan of parade and line of march for the celebration of Washington's birth- | day, under the auspices of the First Corps Cadets, California Light Infantry, | have been decided upon and are as fol- | lows: } San Francisco Police Department. | Grand marshal and aids, srt—First Corps Cadets, C. L, I 1—Un! T States regulars, TUnited ns d States blue jackets, i on 2—National Guard of Callfornia, First Regiment Infantry, Heavy Artillery, troop A cavalry; companies F, G, E of the Fifth Regiment; Signal Corps. Division 3—Veterans, Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of American Revolution, Span- ish War Veterans, Sons of Veterans Division 4—League of the Cross Cadets, Col- onel James E. Power commanding. Division 5—Bay Counties Cadet Corps, Call- Starr King Cadet Corps, Cav- };l\(-eer\‘c Corps, Alameda Cadets, com- | fornia_Gray alry on € (Independent military organiza- Garibaldi Guard, French Zouaves, Ital- rpshooters, Juarez Guard, Independent | Riftes Division 7 (civic organizations), escort—Re- bekah Drill Corps, Patrlarchs Militant, Fra- ternal Order of Pagles, Red Men, Military Or- | der of Loval Legion. Division 8—Veteran Firemen's Assoclation, Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Assoctation, San Francisco Fire Department (floral decorated | engines and carts). Line of march—Parade forms at Grant avenue and Bush streets’at 10:30 a. m., proceeds down Grant avenue to Market street’ out Market to Golden Gate avenue, out Golden Gate avenue to Jefferson Square, where it will be reviewed by the Mayor, city and military officials and then dismissed —iea WRIT OF ATTACHMENT.—A writ of at- tachment was served by the Bheriff yesterday on the millinery store of Hartzell & Co., 923 Market street, on a claim of $2786 76 held by J. A. Schaertzer, The attachment was re- iéased soon afterward upon a settlement being. THE GENUINE Natural Alkaline . Water Imported only in bottles h!.'ag‘ Croton water charged with | parently impracticable to give the sym- S PROMISIN Preparations for Symphony Work Are Complete and Expectation Runs High LARGE SALE OF SEATS Rain Will Because Will Not Interfere Harmon Hall Hold Thousands Threatenirg weather has made it ap- this _afternoon Greek Theater at Berkeley; therefore, | Harmon Hall, a spacious, comfortable and well appointed structure, will be used | for the purpose. Its acoustics are per- | fect and the seating accommodations first | class. | The sale of seats Indicates that a great | crowd of music-lovers will be in attend- | ance, rain or shine, and these will take | part ‘as auditors in an event that is like- {1y to be regarded as historic in_atter | vears when the university symphony or- { chestra becomes a permanent feature of ‘ the institution | | | | | phony concert in the The following is a list of the subscribers to the symphony concerts: \bbott, Mrs. Hugo Abraham- son, D Addison, Albert 'H. Allen, Mrs. James G. Allen, Arthur C. Alvarez, Mrs.:| Wililam s, F. W. Bach, R.. Bacon, Willlam F. L. H. Balley, H H. Ban- croft, Dr. A. Barkan, Miss Grace E. Barnard, D. Banerc . J._A. Bayley, Miss R. | Robert Helcher,” Miss Marle Burger, Bishop, Mrs. Anson S. Blake, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Edward Booth, Mrs. Boot Professor C. B. Bradley, tha Brehm, Miss Kate Brehm, Miss A. W. Brewer, Miss Edith Bridges, John A. Britton, Elmer I. Brown, Mrs. M. C. Sands 3rown, Mra. Browne, Miss Eva V. Car- ifn, Miss Lydia V. A. Couch, Mrs. Joseph F. Cavagnaro, Miss Emma F. Ceila, Miss Olive L. Chapman, W. H. Chickering, Hugh Craig, Miss ey, Mrs. Charles H. Crocker, Crocker, L. F. Cockroft, M s ltam H Cora E. Curtls, J. L. de Fremery, Miss J Virginia de Fremery, Miss Marle de Guigne, J. Grant de Remer, (Miss Theresa Dahlen, Clinton Day, Donald W. Day, Miss Sarah avis, John W. Dawson, Percy A. R. Dow, C. Derleth Sr., Mrs. F. J. Devlin, C. C. Dick- son, F. B. Dressiar, Miss Eleanor C. Drew, Knight Dunlap, Mrs. Harry Durbrow, Arthur Kakle, Colonel George C. Edwards, Mrs. . Bells, B, Farrington, Mrs. Al- fred C. Fay, Miles B. Fisher, Miss Cora Jane Flood, A Foster, Miss Nettle F. Foster, Miss Alyce Gates, Ambrose Gherini, J. W. Willlam H. Gorrill, Mrs, W. §. Gould, James H. Graham, Arthur W. Gray, Mrs. T, Green, Mrs. D. Greenebaum, Mrs. F. H. Green, Miss Corinne Gyle, Mrs. 'Warren Greg- M. Hall, Mrs. M.' E. Hallidle, Charles Hamlin, Miss Ruth Fam- V. Hathaway, Mrs. Robert ory, H. H. 'Ham, Miss D. 1 merschlag, Mrs. E | W. Harrison, W. M. Hart, M. W. Haskell, Wiillam C. Hi Mise Head, Charles M. | Hecht, I W. Hellman, V. H. Hénderson, Mra. | £. B. Hildreth, Mrs. Francis L. Hobson, Bev- erly L. Hodgehead, Harry M. Holbrook, Miss | M." Holmes, Richard M. Hotaling, Miss Emma | 5. Howard, Professor J. G. Howard, Professor i(;' H. Howlson, Mre. L. Huggins, A. B. | fiyde, Rufus P. Jennings, Mrs. F. G. Jones, Mies Flora J, Jones, Hiram R. Jomes, C. C. | Judson, F. Katzenbach, Miss A. F. Keefer, | Charles Keeler, Walter Y. Kellogg, Mrs. Mark King, Mrs. Frederick L. ) ard_A. Kluegel, Mrs. C. E. Knox, Charles A. Kofoid, Hermann Kower, | Jerome ~B. Landfield, Professor Alexis F. | Lange, Jobn H. Lathrop, Professor A. C. | Lawgon, D. M Lehmer, Professor A. O. Dr. W. B, Lewitt, Louls Lisser, | Leuschner. H. P. Livermore | Conraa Loring, Locb, Mrs. Oscar Long, Miss Ange L. Loeb, §. P. Lovett, Mrs. 1. Lowenberg, Mrs. 1. C. Lynch, Miss R._S. McNair, Duncan McDuffle, Garret W. McEnerney, J. H. McLean, Mrs. 'Virginia K. Maddox, F. E. Magee, Mrs. Henry S. Man- heim. Mrs. Clarence M. Mann, Mrs. S. M. Marks, Oscar Maurer, Jefferson Maury, Samuel | D. Mayer, Mrs. Henry D. Melyin, Mrs. C. 8. | Mendenhall, George D. Metcalf, Herm Meyer, W. E. Miles, Professor ‘A. C. Miller; Mrs. Elizabeth Millg, H. C. Motfitt, James K. Moffitt, A. Moore, Mrs Nathan Moran, W. W. Morrow, Miss Blanche Morse. Professor John T. Nance, Mrs. J. H. Neu- stadter, B. L. Newkirk, Miss E. P. Norwood, Mrs. W. § Warren Olney Jr., Profes— | sor Edmona O'Neill, Professor H. Over- | street, Whitney Palache, Mrs. C. F. H. | Palmér. Governor George' C. Pirdee, Carlton E. Parker, Rev. Bdward L. Parsons, Henry L. Perry, Torsten Peterson, Ralph L. Phelps, | James D, Phelan, Miss Hazel B. Plerce, Mrs. Frank L. Platt, Willlam Popper, J. H. Pratt, Edward K. Putbam, T. M. Putnam, A. J Ralston, Miss Vida Redinston, Z Protessor George F. Reinhardi, E. B. Richardson. L. J. Richardson, Mis Alice Rob- ertson, Mrs. Victor J. Robeitson, Miss J. P. Rogers, Dr. Jullus Rosenstirn, F. . Sadler, Rev. F, G. Sanborn, Mrs. Sigmund B. Schloss. Miss E. M. Scupham, L. A. Schu W. Searby, Mrs. J. L. M M Sherman, Mrs. H. H. St B W. Slack, Mirs. Louis Sloss, Mre, M. C. Slos Mrs. J. Howard Smith, Charles E. Snook,~D: John_Snook, M H._W. Stan ton, Miss Stow, Mrs. 8. H Summerhayes, Dr. Benjamin H. Rudolph Julius Taussig. A. E. S J. Taylor, JohA de P. Teller, E. Thayer, Willlam Thomas, Mrs. rey, Professor Henry Beal Torrey, Mrs. F. J. Trost, George L. Underhill, W. D. Valentine, | Madame Anna von Meyerinck, Jacob Vits, Mrs. A. H. Voorhles, Miss Vrooman, Mrs. Clarence R. Walter, Mrs. H. J. Wardlaw, Miss J. E. Wpteon, A. W. Ward, Professor A. R. John G. Ward, Julius R._Weber, " Weinstook, Chauncey W. Wells, Mrs. Wil- liam Wertsch. F. H. Wh Mrs. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Mrs. C. 8. Wheeler, Mrs. W. R. Wreeler, Rear Admii W. fi ting, Pro- tescor E. Wickson, Trvin J. Well, Mre. B, J. Wilzynski, F. M. A Charles T, Wilkinson, 4 © M. ‘Wright, F. 8. Wrinch, Wilson, Mrs. Kirkham Rev, Peter C. Yorke. The freshmen of the university are re- jolced at the announcement made to-day that Professor Walter E. Magee has ex- cused them from attendance upon the gymnasium work at 4 o’clock on the aft- ernoon when symphony concerts are going on at the university, all the freshmen to present as excuse a season ticket for the symphony concerts. These student tick- ets must be signed by the students hold- ing them and they are not transferable. They can be obtained at the Co-operative store by the students of the universfty at the ‘price of $150, which means only 2 cents for each concert. MAN SAYS HE WAS ROBBED AND THROWN INTO SEWER Fire Department Is Called Out to Take Richard Maguire From a Deep Hole. J Richard Maguire, a blacksmith, working in the Southern Pacific tun- nel at the Six-mile House, fell down a sewer hole, about fifteen feet deep, on Sherwood place and Third street, last evening while n an intoxicated condl- tion. He was discovered later by Po- liceman Logan, who was obliged to call out Truck 1 of the Fire Department to take the man from his prison. He was sent to the Central Emergency Hospi- tal, where he was treated for several contusions of the back. Maguire said he had been robbed of $37 and then thrown down the hole, but the police are inclined to doubt this statement, as it would be almost im- possible for such a thing to happen at that particular place. Besides, the man was still under the influence of liquor when taken from the hole. —_——— Denies He Is Insane. Arthur B. White, who lives at the Sunnybrook, a lodging-house at Gough and Haight streets, was conveyed to the detention Hospital at the City Hall yesterday on the complaint of his wife, Elsi, who swore to a warrant charging him with insanity. The so-called in- sane gnan appared to have all of his rational senses when he arrived at the hospital, where he laughed at the at- tempt of his wife to railroad him into an insane asylum. He threw out very broad hints of “another man” being be- hind the movement to get him out of the way. That he may have an oppor- tunity of telling all he knows, a sub- pena was issued at the request of the accused for W. H. Pettus, the man al- leged to be implicated. Judge Graham will investigate the case. FIRST CONCERT - BEGINS INOUIRY | at $450,000. Supervisor Gallagher named INTO IS AT Board of Supervisors Exam- ines Officials of Local Com- pany to Fix Yearly Tariff INVESTIGATION STRICT Gallagher Conducts Inqu tion and Tries to Learn the Cost of Manufacture With a view to fixing the rate of gas| per thousand cubic feet during the pres- | ent year, the Board of Supervisors met last night at the City Hall as a commit- tee on gas rate investigation and began the inquiry into the affairs of the San Fran- cisco Gas and Electric Company. On= other company, the San Francisco Coke| and Gas Company, presented its state- | ment of assets and liabilities, which will later be inquired into by the Supervisors. | The meeting was called to order by| Mayor Schmitz, who was later succeeded | by Supervisor Samuel Davis. Supervisor | Gallagher conducted the inquiry on be-| half of the board, while Samuel Naphtaly, | general superintendent of the Gas and | Electric Company, testified regarding the | statement submitted by the company, and Garret W. McEnerney acted as attor- ney for the company. In response to questions by Gallagher. Naphtaly said that over two billion cubic feet of gas was sold last year at an av- erage rate of about 97 cents. The cost of gas In the holder was $.31011, the cost of distribution per thousand cubic fest was $.10342, and the cost of administration $.38599, or a total cost at consumer's burner of $.79052. The lowest average of one day’s sale last yedr was eight million cubic feet, while the highest was thirteen million, Supervisor Gallagher then closely inter- rogated the witness about the make-up of the company’s plants at North Beach and the Potrero, with a view to ascertaining what was actually a part of the defunct Independent Company and the values of the improved plants at those places. Mr. Naphtaly was able to testify to the cost of the plant, which was more than nine million dollars, and said that the actual value might exceed that amount, although there was no inventory taken by the company. The witness said that the cost of gas last year was $2,039,122 72, subdivided as follows: Manufacturing gas, $790,908 53; distribution, $263,773 08; administration, $984,441 11. The {tem of administration covered salaries, fees, depreclation, bonds, interest, taxes, advertising, office and le- gal expenses. Two years ago the depreciation esti- mated by the company was $200,000, last vear $400,000, while this year it is placed $250,000 as a fair estimate of depreciation and argued that the items of bad debts| and interest on bonded indebtedness should also be stricken from the list mak- | ing up the cost of gas. This would bring | the cost to $1.466,472 72, but objection was made by the company’s representative to that method of figuring. Supervisor Duffy took a hand in the in-| quiry regarding the laying and charge | for pipes. It was shown that the com- pany laid twenty miles of pipe in the last; vear and that the cuble foot consumption | per capita had increased nearly 500 per cent in the last six year: Following this. the investigation com- | mittee reported to the Board of Super-| visors, which accepted the report and then adjourned to Friday evening at §! o’clock, when the water rate investigation will be resumed. The gas rate inquiry| will be resumed next Tuesday at § o'clock. | Native Daughters’ Dance. Las Tarrosas Parlor, Native Daugh- | ters of the Golden West, will celebrate | the second anniversary of its existence | by a ball in Golden Gate Hall to-night. —_——————— CREDITOR SUED.—Louis Miller as trustes of the estate of Claude James, bankrupt, filed a sult in the United States District Court yes— rge H. Butler to recover X alue of 1037 sacks of wheat, al- leged to have been transferred to Butler by James with intent to give him & preference over the other creditors. lof a high - NEW YORK ACTOR WHO WILL APPEAR AT THE TIVOLI IN | “ISLE OF SPICE.” FANOUS SINCER FOR THE T Bert Young, Prominent East- ern Barytone, to Play Lieu- tenant in “Isle of Spice” sl Selein Among the new people who have been brought from New York for the first San Francisco production of the great Eastern musical comedy success, “Isle of Spice which wul be given at the Tivoli next Monday night, is Bert Young, a clever leading actor and the possessor barytone voice of excellent Mr. Young has won applause in of “The Circus Girl,"™ ‘The Artist’s Model, quality. Eastern production The Greek Slav: “The Three Little Lambs,” “The Yankee Consul,” “ThHe Sho Gun,” “The Yankee Regent’ and the Fritzi Scheff produc- tion of “Babette.” He will have the role of Lieutenant Katchall of the U. S. S. Roosevelt in “Isle of Spice,” which will give him good lyric and dramatic op- portunity for the display of his ability. The most elaborate and expensive pre- parations have been completed for “Isle of Soice.” which will be performed by a practically new company and a chorus of fifty. The production will be under the supervision of Gus Sohlke, who staged the piece when it was originally present- ed In the East. $ e Beats Woman With Shoe. Mrs. Josephine Burendson of 11 Vie- tor place was treated at the Central Emergency Hospital last night for numerous lacerations and contusions of | the head and face. She alleges a drunken woman named Mrs. Gus Cropp beat her with a shoe. No arrests were made. o LSRR ES SRR SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 14.—Water supply systems for Concepcion, Taloatind other cities in Chile are to be established at an aggregate cost of $7,500,000. CHIGO C1S " RATE NOW 85 Price of the Illuminant Re- duced by the City Couneil at an Exciting TOO HIGH SAYS MAYOR Question of the Purchase of the Street Railways to Be Submitted to Voters i i CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—The City Council at a special meeting held to-day took action on three important propositions affecting the city. An order fixing the price to be vaid for gas by consumers at § cents instead of % cents and §I, as heretofore, was passed over the veto of Mayor Dunne by a vote of 57 to 10. An ordinance placing the saloon license at $600 instead of 3500, the present figure, was favored by a vote of 3 to 32, but Mayor Dunne ruled that the measure had failed of passage, because it did not re= ceive 3 votes, the constitutional ma= jority. The $1000 license ordinance was then reintroduced, but it wag refetred to the License Committee to be presented again at the next meeting of the Council | on February 2. It was aiso ordered that the question of voting 75,000,000 for the purchase of the street railways for the city be submitted to the voters of the city at the next election. The importance of the pending meas ures and the excitement which has at- tended their agitation drew an enormous crowd to the City Hall late in the day. Special guards of policemen were sta- tioned around the building and all the doors were guarded in order to prevent a dangerous jam inside the building, but despite these precautions the Counefl chamber and the hallway outside were packed to suffocation. The excitement was such at times that the police were compelled to remove disorderly persons from the halls and one arrest was made. The first matter to be taken up was the gas ordinance, which, it was well understood, would be vetoed by Mayor Dunne. The Mayor based his veto on the declaration that he considered 35 cents toc high a price and 75 cents a proper figure. He also asked that the gas come~ panies be compelled to furnish free of cost to the eity such gas asjt needs for street lighting purposes. The Mayor also asked that time be taken by the Counefl to investigate the operation of the gas companies to determine whether they cannot furnish gas at 75 cents and still make a reasonable profit. The plan to refer the question of pur- chasing the street railways to the people at the next election w taken up. It was settled without debate and on a sing’e vote. The ordinance provides that there shall be printed upon the ballots at the next city election the question of whether or not the city shall lssue cer- tificates to the amount of $75,000,000 for the purchase of the railw , which are then to be operated by the municipal authorities. Nothing will be determined by the vote except the opinion of the ma- jority of the voters of the city regarding municipal ownership. The question of saloon licenses, which came last, was productive of the greatest amount of feeling. The numerocus crimes which have been perpetrated against wo- men In this city of late have aroused much feeling and it was believed by, many people that the raising of saloon licenses from $500 to $1000 would wipe out many of the small saloons in the dis- reputabie sections of the city which have been harboring places for criminals. The saloon men have been ranged solidly against the proposition and the fight has been intensely bitter. The Council committee presented a ma- jority report favoring a license fee of $1000 and a minority report placing It at $600. The latter was favored by a vote of 3 to 32 The result was greeted with great cheering by those who favored the smaller license fee, and the police had much difficulty in restoring order. 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