The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1906, Page 42

ALL VDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1906 ~305-107-109 POST ST. Spring 1906 Dress Goodsand Silks We Are Offering for This Week a Few Selected Items That Have Been Marked at SPECIAL PRICES. These Goods Are All Popular Weaves for Spring Wear. : : : Dress Silks 69c yd. i ays, s, blue: Novelly colorings, 1 bl $1.00 in gr: light-weight quality for tans, etc.; also n, black ©Q¢ 50c Oxiord Check Sviting 25c yd. spring suits, dium size, green and white, black and white, green A white; 40 inches wide. in plain and fancy Spectal price..” 2§a sLOO Saxony l;adics’ Cloth 49c yd. n new green glos: es wide. ce, garnet and nav its, skirts, etc. Sponged and shrunk 4Qg¢ $1.00 English Mohair Sicilians $Zc yd. 1, royal and Ixtures in gray, brown, Alice blue, full 54 inches wide; regular greens and black Sponged and shrunk free. 59¢ New Geods Marked at Cloaks, Suils and Waists SPECIAL PRICES for this Week All in the Latest Styles. ndsome, | Ladics’ Tailored Svils Ve i n Jack- ‘ $1.7S Whilc Cambric Waist $1.25 de of fine white cambric, with Iinen front,’ with we'$1.25 durable walst, e tan covert cloth; also in gray and box effect Special s‘s'oo Ladics’ Tailored Svils The new Eton and Pony Jack- : i SPRimmhm e ”i ets. Fancy mixtures and plain xtures, also red || ; oadcloth. Elegant garments. | 2000 $15.,00 || B350 187, 0 $25.00 Swedenborgian Church Social 1 wires. > board w the fireless box, Sues the Supervisors. a pe v th rs of January so Love e A Fireless Cook Stove. of great economic at Olsen’s market. uel & _complete dinner. pleasures, r the. table, onsumption. ng on behalf of the San Francisco al Messenger Service, Daniel Love tition yesterday asking for a of review by which' he hopes to| action of the Board of Su- The utility ss Cook Stove, now being e Three to ten 2 coal or gas stove suffices to cook It is then put a contrivance which_en- degree of heat n the box at art to attend (o and returning at nd the dinner cooked the pots ree from odors and 90 This means that to-morrow these Ad- vertised Specials are to be sold at . . . DOUBLE-VALUE DAY Half-Price and Less Remember! These Prices for To-Morrow Only MUSLIN DRAWERS Just for a Monday Flier trimmed with clustered tucks and deep ruffle of embroidery. Cut extra full. This Umbrella Drawer, 2ic 10c 19¢ 10c 15¢ 15¢ 25¢ 25¢ 33¢c 58¢ 4 ruffie of lace. 98c 98c All sizes and colors. MARKS BUSY STORE Handkerchiefs. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE Hose. wear. PORTERS. Black only. Trimmed Gowns. An 0dd and End Sale of Children’s Pants and Drawers lsc DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for this lot of Pants and Drawers that are worth upward to soc. A Drummer's Sampla Line of Children’s and Women's Drawers and Pants 25c DOUBLE VALUE C PRICE for this lot 1220-1224 MARKET ST. of Wool Mixed Drawers and Pants that are worth as high as $1.00. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for 5¢ Women’s White Lawn DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for Women’s White Foot Hose. They're the good wearing kind. for Women’s Allover Lace DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for 25c styles in Spring Neck- Your choice of dozens of colors and materials. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for 25¢c Silk CHIFFON PUFFS. Your choice of all the leading colors. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for 25c Satin Belt HOSE SUP- DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for 75¢c Royal Worcester Corsets, Come low.bust and short hips. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for a Drummer’s Sample Line of Buckles, that are worth.upwards to $1.50. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for 65c Women’s Flannelette Ki- monas. Come in dainty Oriental patterns. All sizes. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for $1.00 Muslin Embroidered Cut extra full AND WIDE. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for Petticoats. Flounces are tucked. Others trimmed with deep 75¢ Women’s Flannelette DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for $1.50 Mercerized Seteen Pet- ticoats. Made with extra deep dust ruffie. DOUBLE VALUE PRICE for $1.50 Girls’ Gingham Dress. BROS. BET. TAYL AND JON Egn WOMAN BURCLAR 1S MYSTERIOUS Calmly Refuses to Give Her Name and Baffles Efforts to Get at Her Life Story BE NOTED THIEF MAY Police of Portland, Oregon, Say Method Is Like That of Seattle Hotel Lifter The mystery of the woman burglar caught at the St. Nicholas Hotel Friday night remains a mystery. In the face of all questionings and importunings she has kept a masterly silence as to her identity and past history. Yesterday morning the woman was arraigned before Police Judge Cabaniss. She was as cool and watchful of her tongue there as she had been before. To the Judge's questions she readily admitted that the name she had given to the police when arrested was not her true one, but what this is she refused to say. She said that the burglary was her first offense, that the police would not be able to find anything else against her and that she was determined to keep her {dentity a secret. She claimed to be a seamstress and to have been driven to theft after faillng to find a situation. ‘When seen at the City Prison by a Call representative yesterday afternoon she kept to her story. She is about 30 years old, but aged prematurely, either by hardship or dissipation. She gives at first an impression of being a plain, honest, bard-working woman. Her best features are her eyes, which are blue and gaze frankly when she speaks. Her lunguage is correct and even tinged at times with a certain elegance of ex- pression not to be expected from her general appearance. She talked rather freely, but with a masterly command of what she does not wish to tell, and {all in all she displayed a remarkable | 31 revoking the | mit of the messenger service. I v >d on the ground that had lost its right to oper- of long non-use of its erts that the action of arbitrary and taken to | the interests of the California | Messenger Service, a rival con- | | with any sign of self-pity, | | | the first time in her life. | w —Martin H ealing carpen- ‘ather, was pro- { mixture of calm assurance, frankness and vigilant reserve. She gald that she had been born in a small town of Ohio, that up to a few years ago she had worked as house- keeper and that at this time an injury had forced her to seek the lighter em- ployment of seamstress. In that ca- pacity she worked in Denver, then went to Portland four months ago. She came from there to this city two weeks ago with her uncle. This uncle, she said, is a molder and secured employment, but she failed. Her money gave out Iriday, and, while passing the St. Nicholas Hotel, a “sudden impulse,” she said, caused her to enter and see what she could steal. She did not tell her story of privation but in the collected manner of which she When asked why she had seeming calm, is a master. | not pawned her jacket before taking to stealing, rhe answered, “And go with- out a jacket? Not much. I've never stolen in my life, but I am not ashamed to steal when it becomes necessary. No, I have not gone through life with that theory. I've had no theory about it. The thing happened simply like this: 1 had no money, and upon passing the St. Nicholas Hotel the thought suddenly came to me that T would go in and see 2t 1 could get. I did it, and was caught. Now I mean to keep my iden- tity secret, take what I"get and not worry any further.” At the City Prison the general im- pression is that she Is an old offender, her assurance not being at all the usual or of a woman under arrest for Her picture s taken for the rogues’ gallery yes- terday and wiil be sent throughout the United States. The police authorities of Portland, Or.. report a great re- semblance between her methods and | those of a woman called Hazel Bennett, who committed thefts in Seattle hotels. The “uncle” of whom she speaks is | probably her confederate. PERSONAL. District Attorney A. M. Seymour of Sacramento is at the Grand. H. C. Whitehead, general auditor of the Santa Fe Railroad, is spending a few days in town. H. C. Pearce has been appointed gen- eral storekeeper -of the Southern Pa- cific Company. Mr. Pearce comes from a similar position from the Rock Island company at Moline, Ill. He takes the place of W. R. Ormsley, who has sent in his resignation, to take effect on March 1. State Insurance Commissioner E. Myron Wolf has returned from the na- tional conference of Insurance Commis- sioners that has just closed its labors in Chicago. Captain M. Finnell of the Stockton police force is in San Franclsco in com- pany with his brother, John H. Finnell, a prominent contractor of Niagara, N. Y. Harry Campbell, the Grand Opera- house’s popular treasurer, has returned from Honolulu, much improved In health. £ Lieutenant Governor Alden Anderson is at the Palace Hotel, i J. C. Ralston, a mining man of Spo- kane, is at the Palace Hotel. H. A. Detweiler, capitalist of Toledo, O., is at the St. Francis Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vigus of Los Angeles are at the Falace Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. M. Menases of* Stockton are registered at the Palace Hotel. Among recent arrivals at the Palace Hotel is F. H. Clayton of Philadelphia. R. H. Turner, a prominent hardware merchant of Nevada City, is at the Lick. F. A. West, a well known vineyardist of the San Joaquin Valley, is at the St. Francis with his wife, C. H. Alderber, assistant editor of the Norristown Times, Norristown, Pa., ao- companied by his wife, is at the Palace Hotel. Smith Crowder, manager of the Los Molinos Land Company of Red Bluff, is at the St. Francls, accompanied by his family. Sylvester L. Weaver and wife are at the St. Francis Hotel from Los Angeles.’ George N. Plerce and wife of Buffalo, N. Y., are at the St. Francis. G. . Babcock and wife, who are spending the winter in California, gre at the Hotel St. Francis. They will return shortly to thelr home in Loulsville, Ky. e BT Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—W. Cadillac and H. N. Tracy, at the Imperial; Mrs. S. Elder, at the Victoria;/E. H. Semple, at the Breslin; Miss E. Earl, at the Gerard; M. Lorenz, at the Holland; K. N. Spiro, at the Spalding. From Bacramento—V. 8. McClatchy, at the Park Avenue. - From Los Angeles—M. S. Holmes Jr., at the Manhattan, and Mrs. J. H. Duby, at the Imperial. ———— Attend Veteran’s Funeral. SAN JOSE, Feb. 17.—The G. A. R, Sons of Veterans and other loeal or- ganizations attended the funeral to-day of the late Dr. Thomas XKelley, who served as surgeon throughout the Civil War., LL0YD CVES s Says He Never Took Isabella Levy to Theaters Nor Called on Her Evenings LETTERS INTRODUCED Epistles of Both Mother and Child Breathe Gratitude to Him and Roast Relatives The testimony of Reuben H. Lloyd in the suit of the six cousins of the late Isabella Levy to recover the fortune of half a milllon dollars left him by her, and also received by him under a deed of trust, was taken at the office of Sullivan & Sulllvan yesterday. The attorneys present, besides the defendant, were Sulli- van & Hanlon, for the plaintiffs, ana Charles 8. Wheeler, Charles W. Slack and A. Heyneman, for the defense. Mr. Lloyd’s testimony showed that he had known Isabella Levy from a child. He was her mother's attorney and when the little girl was 10 years old he assisted in her studles, and the child would res cite pleces for him. Her mother at that time lived on Dupont street, near Clay, a fashlonable locality then. The mother's name was Sels, and Mr. Lloyd represented ‘her in divorce proceedings. Isabella went to Mills Seminary for four years, and gduring that time Mr. Lloyd said he was an occasional caller at the home of her mother, who was ill. Mr. Lloyd said that he never went to the = theater or ~any "other place of amusement with Isabella Levy and her mother, or either of them, nor had he gone out driving with either of them. One Saturday afternoon, after her mother’s death, he took Isabella to the Midwinter Fair. That, he sald, was the only occa- slon in his life when he had taken Isa- bella Levy to any place of amusement. He had never taken her riding, he said. He had never gone to luncheon at any but a public place with her. He was never at her house any evening except that upon which her mother died, and during the whole ten years that Isabella lived after her parent he had been to Isabella’s home in the day time but four or five times. Mr. Lloyd testified that Isabella Levy was an educated woman of bright mind and keen at business. She had some lit- erary capacity, he said. She went to his office very often, during business hours, he sald. He declared that there was no “‘private room' there. He had a personal office, and he never saw the woman in question in any other room than that in which he saw his other clients. Mr. Lloyd said he drew the last will and testament of Isabella’s mother and did not see it again until the daughter brought it to his office. She brought at the same time a letter that had been left by the mother which he had never seen until that moment. The letter was introduced. In it the mother tells of her desire that her property shall go to-him after her daughter’s death, and tells him she is under an everlasting debt of grati- tude to him for the manner in which he had served- her interests: and-looked: after her child, Isabella. She explains why she wants none of her relatives to have any of her property, saying that they had maligned and mistreated her. They were her bitterest enemies, she sald, and she h»g been q.nrlnelled to estrange herself . them. ' The only exceptions she made: were in. behalf of her blind sister and #hvalid brother, Ger- trude and Jacob. There was also submitted a letter from Isabella to Mr. Lloyd, dated July 18, 1882, in which she tels-of willing him ~the property and recites ‘the alleged persecu~ tions of the relatives and says: “I shud- der to think what our fate would have been but for you." —e——————— Charges He Was Held Up. While W. H. Coombs of 314 Third street was being - doctored yesterday morning at the Central Emergency Hospital for laceration of the scalp he told Dr. Hill that he was held up by two men at the corner of Fourth and Mission streets a few hours before. He reported the matter to the City Hall station. . E————— ADVERTISEMINTS. (OHPLERION NS A c'(& ( Preserved Purified and Beautified by Glirg K The World’s Davo te Winter Emollient for winter rashes, blemishes, eczemas, itch- TESTINONY NURSERY DEBT styles. tures; also black dispose of same. Velvet Suits Specials in Dress Goods Dreés Nets SPECIAL Ribbon Sale We will con- tinue our spe- cial sale of beautiful high- class Novelty Ribbons in all the staple col- 9 e Eton and Pony Suits Velvet. and Long Coat, Su ment of sizes and colors is broken we make this final reduction to immediately Cloth Syits Reducedto........ Regular prices.. Reduced' to....cccccvicncince... $39, $40, $43, $30. Regulareprices T 22 02 000l e cenins SO0 SO O’Connor, Moffatt @ Co. ...ON ALL... $25.00, 47-inch Imported Etamine, in gray, navy, wine, myrtle, tan and brown. Regularly sold at $1.50 yard. 44-inch Fancy Noppe Etamine, in gray, reseda, helio, navy, royal. Regularly sold at $1.00 yard. 44-inch Fancy Silk Stripe Etamine, in tan, reseda, blue, champagne, cadet, navy. Sold regularly at $1. New Laces A very extensive and elaborate line of this season’s trimming laces has just been received and is now on display in our Lace Department. Included are many different widths of edges, insertions, applique bands, galoons, festoons, medallions, and allovers to match, in black, white, ' cream and ecru, -in Oriental, Point Gaze, Point Venice, Chantilly, Irish Point and Princess Laces. Plain and figured nets, in black, white, cream and ecru, 18 to 45 inches wide, dotted and floral designs, from S0c to $5.00 Yard 1 1 A large consignment of embroideries from St. Gall, con- Embronderles sisting of Nainsook and Swiss sets, edgings, insertions and allovers to match; very latest- designs, from small dainty baby patterns to the large open, and blind, heavy embroidered ones; 2 to 20 inches wide. Embroidery Flouncing—27 to 45 inches wide; yokes with lace edge and inser- tions in Valenciennes, Mechlin and Maltese.........Z5¢ to $4.50 Per Yard Or2220¢ .$12.50, Cloak and Syit Department Advance Spring Styles in Suits, Skirts and Jackets Every day we are in receipt of new and handsome Exceptionally large variety of ready-to-wear garments at popular prices. Dre$sy and pretty styles, with new and hand- some circular skirt, made in plain and fancy mix- cieree......$20.00 to $45.00 Skirts Walking lengths, made of new, lightweight materials, in fancy mixtures, plain colors and white and black. Exceptionally well tailored; in the lateshelrdlapents. o el | L T i sl da s seavain s 00400 80 1300 - FINAL REDUCTIONS jts Owing to the fact that our stock of these suits is small and the assort- $15, $12.50, $20, $25. $30, $40.00, $50. $70, All at. 1 75¢ Yard $75. Corsels We carry a full assoftment of all the lead- ing makes of Corsets, com- prising L’Es- telle, “W. B,” ors at -‘ABL'SH “ » e 0cperva| U 270 : w D . pe Regular val- 86 o R u:d ue 60c. Thompson's B°?,“.e tied - gizve ggfinz: . - 1Cay wonms| 11110121 Post Street |i 2% to order. Waists. IS REDUCED BY CARD PLAYERS Inclement weather to a most ais- couraging degree could not deter the faithful charity folk who held forth in tho beautiful rooms at the Palace Hotel. Those alluring card games, bridge and 0500, were prominent factors in alding the building fund of the San Francisco Nursery for Home- less Children, and as a result it looks as if the $15,000 debt will soon be t. Wl’lp‘::r:“were over 400 players, all in their prettiest gowns, while the even- ing session of card enthusiasts boasted a large percentage of men, who willingly joined the ranks of con- tributors to the comfort of fifty-six babies. Those who made the highest scores recelved respectively a very handsome jewel case and a set of carvers. Soclety was much In evidence and the evening p:ue;i mgn enjoyably. A reception In honor of Miss Eliza- ings, irritations, scalings, chappings. For red, rough, and greasy complexions, for sore, itching, burning hands and feet, for baby rashes, itchings and chafings, as well as for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nurs— ery, Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura Ointment, the great Skin Cure, is pricelfss. plete External and Humor, from to. M-’:-n EEUE RS I beth Strong will be held to-morrow afternoon from 2 to 5 in the Danger- fleld Studio, room 2, 246 Sutter street. Miss Strong recently arrived from Paris, where she exhibited paintings for the past ten years .,in the Paris salon. —_——— D Cuts Off Companion’s Finger. ‘While holding sticks of wood which his companion, Michael! Spimmetti of 858 Union street was chopping at his home, 12-year-old Tony Carbillini placed one of his fingers beneath the descending ax, which severed it at the first joint. The two boys went to the Central Emergency Hospital, where the stump was dress Dr. Decker, Dentist, 808 Market, speclalty Colton gas for paipless extraction of teeth. * Slave Girl Deported. Ngun Que, a Chinese slave girl, was ordered deported to China yesterday by United States Commissioner Heacock. According to her story, she arrived with her brother nine years ago and was fllegally landed with a ald of a lawyer and a broker via the Chinese Bureau. Since that time she had been leading the life of a slave in a Chinatown alley. About a month ago she escaped and took refuge in the Presbyterian Chinese Mission Home, but she proved to be such an incorrigible kleptomaniac that Matron Cameron declined to keep her any louger. —_————— When you want a swell advertising booklet see Edw. Knowles Co., Printers, 24 Second st. * CHARGED WITH BURGLARY. — Thomas McCann, 18 years of age, and Walter Gainey, 17, were booked at the City Prison yesterday by Detectives Regan and O'Connell on a charge of burglary. They are accused of breaking into the saloon of James Creighton, Fifth and Folsom streets, on Sunday morning a keg of beer and two empty me of the empty beer barrels of Gainey's last and steall; beer barrels. was found on the front porch home at 179 Clara street. Ignatian Council Ball. The annual reception and ball by Ignatian Council of the Young Men's Institute last Friday night In Native Sons’ Hall was a most delighttul func- tion, that was enjoyed by several hun- dred persons in the most artistically decorated hall. The council has a mem- bership of nearly 450, including many of the city’s most prominent Cathollc citizens. The affair was a strictly in- vitational one. The grand march was a pretty one, In which the ladies had an opportunity to display thelr pretty gowns. The affair was admirably man aged by J. F. Barry, floor director, ag ¥ sisted by Dr. Joseph A. Carew, W. J. Watson, J. A. Kelly, R. D. Blake, A. F. Spohr, J. J. Walsh, J. W. Pettinger, I D. Dwyer, John E. Cornyon, ¥. L. Smith, F. J. Monahan, J. P. Dufty, W. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. F. Meagher, F. A. McCarthy, P. Lawler, T. H. Fallon, D. J. Coleman, Dr. T. H. Morris, John H. Hughes, M. J. Hynes, T. W. Butcher, C. J. Heggerty, J. F. Dinan, C. B. Fenn, L. T. Cox, J. A. Haderle, Dr. J. H. Seymaour, and Charles Maggin. RUMFORD THE WHOLESOME Baking ' Best of the High Grade Powders. 15 cents half pound can. Powider