The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 4, 1906, Page 16

18 INSTRUCTS NEW CRAND JURY Graham Swears In Nine- | teen Members and Makes | John E. Brannan Foreman —_— (CERF CHOSEN SECRETARY His Qualification Is Ques- tioned and Fairfax Whee- lan Barely Gets a Place Bl LR of & new Grand Jury ¢ was conducted yester- ding Superior of the fore Pr selectio - ring which t ructed in their rennan, a retired was appointed fore- retired to ot the| Cerf, an | of Public Ac-| adjournment Wi ock next Friday Myrtile Cerf for jury- me discussion at | d there was & hasty | part of District Attor- 3 to con- of the Civil Code to bee officeholder is eligible for | law was construed by hat should an officeholder e Grand Ju pri of wit d that he holds mu- eads that such serving, officebolder is :h(—ref(\'fl who is & drug- may also the , affect b was se- for the ng the re- releases of reconveya accept- marriage eceipts for ADVERTISEMENTS. [TCHING SCALP ALLING HAIR Came Out Constantly—Hair Finally Had to Be Cut to Save Any—Scalp Now in Good Condition and No More ltching—Another Effective — CURE BY THE CUTICURA REMEDIES “T will 1lsd!v give you sll the infor- mation eoncerning my case. I used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment for a diseased scalp, dandruff, and constant falling of hair. Finally I had to cut hair to save any at all. Just at that time I read about the Cuticura Remedies. Once every week I sham- pooed my hair with the Cuticura Soap, and I used the Ointment twice a weel In two months’ time my hair was long enough to do up in French twist. That is now five years ago, and I havea Jovely head of hair. The length is six inches below my waist line, my scalp is in' very good condition, and ne more dandri or itching of the scalp. T used other remedies that were recommended to me as good, but with no results. If you wish to publish any of what I have written you, you are “elcome to do . I am, respect- fully, ®rs. W. F. Griess, Clnv Center, Neb., Oct. 23, 1905.” YROM THE HOUR OF BIRTH Mothers Should Use Cutitura Soap, the World’s Favorite Mothers are assured of the absolute purity and unfailing efficacy of Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, the great Skin Cure, in the preserunon and puri- fication of the skin,scalp, hair, and hands of infants and children. ~For baby ecze- mas, rashes, itchi and chafings, well as for annoying irritations md ulcérative weaknesses, mimmny‘udn-mf tive antiseptic purposes s :uhcmsehu to % we(vi lor the purposes toilet, h and nursery, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are £0ld throughout the v.dt lm)vm-u(l B e per vias o 6y, Potier Drug and Chem. Malled Free, « rna:-.o.a_ Ot CALL MEETING AT SALT LAKE Contmental Directors Ask for General Gathering of Parties in Interest TlREE MAY BE THERE S Closes Some )[c(iillicuddy Offices in This City| and Doors Are Bolted A meeting of the directors of the Continental Life Insurance and Invest- ment Company will be held at Salt Lake City next Saturday if a quorum can be secured. policy and personal matters that have engaged the attention of the directors recently will come up for consideration and possibly for final settlement. The status of President Tyree and the rela- tions of the Western Securities Com- | pany to the Continental Life and Invest- | ment Company are of the first interest, according to the statements that have been made in this city. Two unsuccessful attempts were made in San Francisco yesterday to assem- ble seven directors of the Continental. | As there are but five California direc- tors and as none others were present a decision was reached to send notices to all directors to meet at Salt Lake. Vice President McGlllicuddy and other directors were of opinion that the by- laws of the Continetal enabled five di- | rectors to authorize a call for a gen- erel meeting of directors. Vice Presi- dent McGillicuddy has issued the ecall, which was sent out to directors last evening. A warm time is expected at Salt Lake City. President Tyree, who recently )\D(lflid Vice President that he was dismissed from office, probably be at the Salt that McGillicuddy has called, the understood purposes of which is to secure harmony by causing the retire- ment of Tyree. Some of the five Calt- fornia directors of the Continental will journey to Salt Lake in the mext few take part in the proceedings. 15 understood to have a following in Salt Lake There are directors also in Montana Idaho and elsewhere who may be the meeting at_Salt Lake. McGillicuddy yesterday surprised the opposition in the James Flood building | by a sudden move. He caused the doo: of certain offices of the Continental Company to be locked and bolted on the inside so that parties employed by the Continental Company and representing | the Tyree interest were shut out for the entire day. One of these was the woman stenographer in Tyree's office, who was instructed by Tyree some days ago to take charge of all letters and telegrarms addressed to the com- icuddy’s move prevented the on of this plan The vice posted notices on the doors of rooms that he caused to be closed to the effect that all mail and all tele- grams should be delivered at his of- fice. The flurry of excitement that this caused lasted all day. The barred-out | ts of rooms held consultations may lead to further develop- Dispatches were sent to Tyree, & him what had been done. —————— MAN BADLY BEATEN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT| John Torris known Assailants on I'hird Street. § ea 1 was caused on T d street, near Stevenson, yesterday | afternoon by a blood-thirsty attack made upon John Torris by unknown as- r.‘m\ was felled to the sidewalk a terrible blow—dealt, it is pposed, by a sharp weapon. When the attack took place it was in broad daylight and the street was crowded with people. Torris was walking up | Third street from Mission. on his way to Market street. People homeward | bound were surging ‘in all directions. Suddenly a crowd was startled by great cry for help. The big crowd stopped to see what the excitement was, and the mass, of people became 80 great that they’filled the sidewalk and the street and stopped the pro- | gress of the cars bound up and down that thoroughfare. On thé sidewalk lay Torris, sweltering in his own blood, which flowed from a deep, long cut in the top of his head. Dr. I 5 Keegan of 21 Powell street happened to be passing at the time and when he saw the condition that rris was | in he rushed across the street to the Owl drug store and came back with antiseptics and bandages. Torris still lay ingensible on the sidewalk and the unusual scene of seeing the bloody head of a smashed-up being dressed in full display of a great crowd was witnessed yesterday throng of curiosity sightseers. Mean- time the police arrived and it required the efforts of half a dozen officers to keep the great mass of people in check. From all the buildings in the vielnity | there were Breat numbers of on- lookers, who added to the general ex- | citement of the occasion. | Torris has been by the morbid employed more or less of the time for five years at the Olympic Club stables, cor- ner of Powell and Sutter streets, {He 1s reported to be an excellent workman, but occasionally he gets drunk and then there is apt to be trouble. Rumors floated wildly | around the street yesterday that he was a “scab” and that he was mixed | up in the strike that is going on now. Inquiry at the Olymplc Club | dispelled all these reports and from what could be learned the attack seems to have been of his own bringing on. —_———— People Reported Missing. The police have been notified of the disappearance of' the followingspeople: Charles Laplanch, 15 vears of age, and Valley Andrews, aged 16, missing sirce March 31 from 4115 Seventeenth street; | Frank Arrousez, 12 years of age, miss- | ing since March 31 from 1017 Powell street; Louis Bowen, 14 yvears of age, missing since March 31 from 497 Gold- | | en Gate avenue: John Olney, 35 years | of age, missing since April 1 from the | Hotel Leavenworth; Ernest Kocher, 13 years of age, missing since April 1 | from 669 Golden Gate avenue. ——— In the Divorce Court. Decrees of divorce were granted yes- terday to Anna from Henry Meincke | for failure to provide; Vittoria from | Pasquale Glustl for habitual intemper- | ance, and Sophie from Willlam F. Chip- man for cruelty. Suits for divorce were | filed by Elvira against H. Parent for Icrue!!y: Maud M. against Arthur C. Parsons for failure to provide; Edith E. against James Scott for desertion; Mary E. against John F. Glover for cruelty; David J. against Annie Barry for desertion, and Ida against William P. Casella for cruelty. Various questions of | the individual | McGillicuddy | will | Lake meeting | | ane of | at Attacked by Un-| et ol stables | | Two Matronly Prisoners | Obtain. Attire From ! Girl in Cell. | Incongruty of Make-Up Causes Judge and Aids to Gasp. One Dame Is Compelled to Doff Auto Coat 3‘ Ere She Goes. BY JAMES C. CRAWFORD. There was covetousness in the tone { with which Miss Grace Morgan's cell companions, the Mesdames Mary Mec- Donald and Laura Benzinl, ‘cosfly and stylish raiment. “With clothes like them o' yours,” said Mrs. McDonald, “T'd be sure t' git dismissed by th' Judge.” “It'd be a cinch,” quoth | zin Mrs. Ben- ‘Well, Miss girls,” responded 5 3 =5 | gan, “as we're all t' appear In court | together 1 can't lend ye any o th’' things I'm wearin’, but I've got a trunkful o' glad rags, an’ if the plice let me gei it T'll fit ye out.” The police did let her get at it, and that was how Judge Conlan and | his official aids came to gape in won- derment at the three women as a bail- iff escorted them into the tribunal. For a more incongruously appareled duo than the Mesdames McDonald and Ben- | zini had never appeared in any temple of justice. Miss Morgan, faultlessly who was garbed in dark blue silken skirt and white satin waist and snowy picture | hat, had evidently found her “‘trunk- ful of glad rags” inadequate to entirely conceal the, sartorial dinginess of her sisters in incarceration, but had done | the best she could with the material The result was that Mrs. ! available. McDonald wore a stunning brown au- tomobile coat of insufficient length to | conceal the frayed bottom of her black alpaca gown, which in turn was so short as to afford full display of shoes | down at heel and striped hoslery in palpable need of laundering. And her black straw headgear, of a shape long obsolcte, was decorated with a strag- gling bunch of feathers, of which a barnyard rooster once was pardonably proud, but which looked quite disrep- utable as they lolled over the brim of Mrs. McDonald's hat. Mrs. Benzini's flight at fashion was onfined solely to her head, and the wiae and towering mass of vari-colored millinery there supported wouild not have appeared out of place if it were perched atop of a $10,000 prize stage The remainder of Mrs. Ben- attire was housewifely in mate- , cut and color. the court had overcome its isur]’vrlsc Mrs. McDonald was called to the front, and after hearing the peace | disturbance accusation against her the | Judge issued an order of dismissal, at |the same time assuring her that it was the weakness of the prosecution and not her external ensemble that re- stored her to freedom. She bowed cknowledgment of the implied warn- ing and was turning away to depart the | courtroom when Miss Morgan sprang | forward, grasped a sleeve of the auto coat and exclaimed: imme that coat before you go.” With evident reluctance Mrs. Mec- Donald surrendered the garment to its owner and continued her way door- ward. The charge against Mrs. Benzini was that of having neglected to properly provide for her young child, and she was remanded for further hearing, Miss Morgan thus being relieved of necessity of immediately recovering her big hat. Miss Morgan herself denied that she had stolen $92 from a Chinese cooks with whom she was alleged to have | eioped from Fort Bragg to this town, and her case, too, was continued. It was predicted that Mrs. Benzini | will wear the auto coat as well as the | tremendous hat when she next appears in court. | When *‘I want four warrants,” said Harris So- | lineky, stunted of figure, heavily whis- | kered and greatly excited. “For whose arrest and for what of- | fense?” his Honor asked. | “I want one for my boy, Louls, who | licked me; one for my eldest son, who also | licked me; one for my wife, for helping | the boys fo lick me, and one for Joe La- | | cari, for stealing my wife.” { “Dear me!” was the Judge's startied ex- clamation. “Can I get 'em?” inquired Mr. Sonlin- “I must refer you to the bond and war- rant clerk,” was the answer. “But may I inquire why you object to your wife being stolen after she had ‘licked’ you?” Mr. Solinsky was in the corridor ere the query was finished. He sald his alleged assallants dwell at 1786 Union street. o e e John Wonzod’'s waffle wagon might have been obstructive of the thoroughfare at Market and Second streets if he had not | attracted to it many people by his deft manner of handling his wares. It was his wont, the arresting officer said, to toss several waffles and a turning spoon up- ward and juggle the edibles and the in- strument in a way that compelled the at- tention of passing pedestrians and tempt- ed many of them to stop and admiringly watch the totally unnecessary perform- ance. Judge Mogan will hear Mr. Won- zod's defense todl!. i ‘When the dusk! Gflfllth sisters, Emma’| and Mabel, were arraigned before Judge Mogan on a mrn of vagrancy Miss m- admired her ! Mor- | = bel dabbed her eyes with a fluffy little handkerchief and asked permission to “'splain’’ Then she spake somewhat as follows: |, . “Me an’ mah sistah am vowdeville . ahtists en wuks fo' our libbin, wha-fo' we kain't be no vags.” “‘Ah, you're old performers, I presume?” his Honor ventured. ‘‘Yissah, en sich we've bin fo' many yeahs,” sobbed Miss Mabel. “Fo™ twelb yeahs, t' be izzack,” pered Miss Emma. “But you were arrested at 4 o'clock a. m. on Glasgow street,” said the Judge, “and 1 doubt that your professional du- ties necessitated your appearance at that time at that place.” E ‘‘We libs on Glasgow street,” responded Miss Mabel, “en a cupple ob ouah gem- man friends wuz a-seein’ uz home w'en de p’leecem’n 'rested uz. Yissah, de gem- men wuz w'ite, en dey hed spent de eben- in’ at de music hall whah me en 'sis’ sing dooets.” “Oh, you are employed professionally, then? “Well, not wot ye'd call reglahly. Wese gwine on de Umpiah sucuit w'en de man’- gah gets well, en pendin’ den wese jist a-jobbin' 'roun’.” After they were dismissed from custody both Miss Emma and Miss Mabel an- nounced in the corridor that they were victims of a conspiracy, in which the prime mover was a saloonist, whom they once had arrested for ejecting them from his place of business. PR whim- 5 . Joe Morton and Tom Murphy, stalwart linemen, were arrested while fiercely bat- tering each other at 10 o'clock last Mon- day night in the center of Portsmouth square, and to Judge Conlan it was stated that the cause of combat was a dispute as to the style of the bronze boat sur- mounting the Robert Louis Stevenson monument, Mr. Morton contending that it was a Chinese junk, while Mr. Murphy maintained, and rightly, that it was illus- trative of the treasure-laden galleons that once upon a time made piracy a profitable vocation on the Pacific Ocean. Having en- lightened the defendants on that point his Honor pronounced them guilty of peace disturbance. “I have been serving in this court ever since January 8, said Assistant District Attorney Iduke to Judge Mo- gan, “and I have yet to encounter an unqualified confession of guilt.” “And 1 have been here several years,” responded his Honor, “without having heard a plea such as you mention.” Mr. Duke's remark was provoked by the reply of a female defendant to his question to whether she was guilty of having disturbed the peace. “Well,” she sald very deliberatel: am and I ain't.” But the Judge dpcided that she was. . . v 3 Miss Gertrude Sparrow of 805 York street was visiting Mrs. A. W. Martin at 317 O'Farrell street, and while Miss Sparrow was starting on an errand for Mrs, Martin she was seized by Thomas Lewis, a restaurant waiter, who ad- dressed to her an insulting remark. Mrs. Martin’s husband, whose under- taking establishment is underneath his family residence, overheard the offen- sive words uttered by Mr. Lewis and demanded explanation and apology, but instead of receiving either he was oral- ly abused by Mr. Lewls, whose arrest immediately followed. Judge Conlan will sentence Mr. Lewis for battery. ARG Four of them—David T. McDaniel, Oscar R. Johnson, Richard Bellew and George F. Quatman—were arrested by Patrolman Parquet for having dis- turbed the peace by singing loudly and discordantly in Young's saloon at Turk and Larkin streets. but when Mr. Young informed Judge Cabaniss that never again would he permit the muse to be ill-treated in his place of busi- ness the case was dismissed. —_———————————— Petitions in’ Insolvency. B. Della Santini, general merchant, San Francisco, filed a petition in in- solvency yesterday In the United States District Court. He owes 82645 and has $1150 assets. Willilam M. McDermott, S. N. Norton and E. Lenoir, constitut- ing the South Side Lumber Company, otherwise the Bryant-street ¢Planing Mill, filed their schedule in involun- tary Insolvenc Their liabilitles are $26,728 and assets $30,512. Their larg- est creditors are the Hammond Lum- ber Company, $11,983; French-Ameri- can Bank, $5000; Hobbs, Wall & Co., $3125; Albion Lumber Company, $2417; Pacific Lumber Company, $1071, and Builders' Supply Department, $1005. All these credits are unsecured. The remaining creditors represent sums of less than $1000 each. ——————— Do You Like Opais? Most ,of ours are from Queretaro, sceme of Maximilian's .dea(h. Special train to Mexicz stops here several hours. Reserye berth quickly, 613 Market st. Low rates. —_——————————— Convicted of Manslaughter. Fred C. Jaiser, a Grand Army veter- an, was convicted by a jury in Judge Dunne’s court yesterday on a charge of manslaughter. The jury was out about twenty minutes. On the night of June 14 Jaiser had a fight with Charles” Buelna in a nloo? at Ninth and Misslon streets.” Jalser left the sa- loon and, after procuring a revolver, returned and shot Buelna dead. He will 'be sentenced on April 7. ——— : V{.hnt i!i‘nuuruly g n the week” a ur store may be turn- ed into simply fi‘tyl:e least pronglble day"” —which may be quite another thing— | by effective store-advertising. Assaults a Little Girl. Meyer Steen, 50 years of age, was ar- rested on a watrrant from Police’Judge Cabaniss' court yesterday and booked at the City Prison. The complaining witness against him is D. Glaser, 215 Eddy street, who charges him with criminally an@ulun,ohh little daugh- ter, Jennie Glaser, four years of age, on March 25. TR o A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY \POLICE COURT DAZED . BY WOMEN'S GARB. TALE OF BORRO WED.F]NERI APRIL 1906. POSTMASTER WANTS HELP OF CITIZENS e Fisk Requests Business Men to Co-operate in Efforts to Secure Adequate Mail Service. for This City SAYS THEIR AID IS NECESSARY FACTOR Merchants’ Exchange Sends a Telegram to Perkins Asking Him to.Do All He Can for Pneumatic b‘ystem4 “SAN FRANCISCO, April 3, 1906. “Hon. George C. Chamber, Washington: Our commercial commnunity suffering from delays mail deliveries caused by lack of proper | facilities. With pneumatie tube service comnecting main Postoffice with St tion K and ferry station mail deliveries, both loeal and national, would be great- 1y bastened and much of present delay obviated. Request your best efforts to have House postal appropriation bill amended to include pucumatic tube ser- vice for San Francisco, as recommended | ! by Postmaster General.” — Telegram Sent yesterday by Merchants’ Exchange. A large crowa of prominent business men listened attentively at the Mer- chants’ Exchange yesterday afternoon to an address on the condition and the needs of the San Francisco Postoffice by Arthur G. Fisk, Postmaster. He was Introduced by E. R. Lilienthal, who said that there should be co-operation for the welfare of the service and that mr. Fisk was ready to show the way for improvement that he alone could not bring about. Postmaster Fisk said that whatever inadequacy there was in the servics was due to the seeming inability of the authorities at Washington to come to a realization of San ¥rancisco's phen- | omenal growth and make an annual in- crease in appropriation suffizient to meet the necessities of the local Post- office. Mr. Fisk said he kept at his desk from early till*late and had spent two months in Washington and other large Eastern cities seeking further Govern- ment ald and gathering ideas to be ap- plied here. He said that the help of the San Francisco business community was ab- solutely necessary in the matter of se- curing larger appropriations and sanc- tion for the extensive improvements needed to bring the service up to the demands of the city. He especially urged the installation of the pneumatic tube system, saying that under the present conditions, when it took mail cars twenty minutes each way to make the trip between the main Postoffice and the ferry postoffice, much time was lost in the distribution of mail. The carrier service, too, he said, was inadequate and sometimes when a-car- rier had worked the eight hours pre- scribed by law he still had letters that were delivered next day with a stencil mark showing there had not been time to deliver the day before. The growth of the outlying sections of the city was particularly harassing to the carriers, as much time was consumed in visiting isolated houses. MAILS FROM SHIPS, If the merchants would have the cus- toms regulation that mails cannot be taken from ships arriving after sunset until after sunrise changed they would get their letters from foreign ports the morning after their arrival here, the Postmaster said. The Postmaster announced an in- crease in the appropriation that would permit- of enlarging the force of car- riers and clerks after July 1. Mr. Fisk made the following sugges- | tions of how the business men could assist in facilitating the work of the Postoffice: 1st. Mail should not be allowed! to accuniu— late during the day to be all deposited late in the afternoon, but, where possible, mailed as soon as prepared, in a letter box or the Degrest station; tion your messengers against plac- ing letters in boxes on the streets which are intended for packages or newspapers. These Teceptacles are not collected as often as letter boxes. Large mallings should be brought to the general postoffice. I have asked that a wagon be allowed this office for that pur- pose. and if it is obtained we would then call for your mail; but at the present time, when you huve large mailings, you should Semd it to_the main postoffice. 3d. Letters for local dellvery should be kept separate {rom other mail. If you will do this, T Will establish letter boxes intended for tern mail, that they will be collected e-last moment before dispatch. 4th. Circulars quantities should be malled in the forenoon, and where practicable faced one way and fied up in bundles for large citler or States. Oth. When unsealed advertising matter is mailed in number of not less than 2000 at a time, -the permit privilege should be taken ad- vantage of. This allows the matter to be taken witzout postage stamps, the demomin tion of the stamp which would have been re- quired being printed on each plece. This privilege can be had by simply appiving to the postmaster. * GREAT GROWTH OF BUSINESS. Mr. Fisk spoke of the tremendous growth in the business of the postoffice and of the Interruption in the service caused by the romoval from the old building to the new. It took time for the employes to adjust themselves to the new conditions, he said. The removal necessitated the most radical changes in handling the mails ever undergone in this city. San Francisco’s population was now fully 500,000, the speaker sald. In addition to the increased local business was a tremendous increase in the foreign mails, making this office second to that of New York. Prior to 1888 it was an exception to see a steamer leave this port with more than 300 sacks of mail. It is a com- mon occurrence now to see 1500 sacks of mail on a vessel. For the handling of this ocean mail no credit was given the local office in mak- ing the appropriations. There was an abnormal increase in the general dellvery there being 5000 callers a day at the ne as against 1000 daily at the old bundlns Fisk talked of closing the night windows, as people who could just as well transact their business in the day were calling at nighty with the result that a large force of clerks was needed for the after dark | business. Regarding proposed hnprovenenh‘ Mr. Fisk sald: - For the pur tention to work in- nvhu\ time it {s mx the stations m’llll from m . This I ~do .;g‘:e-n‘m m“!‘wmmwfio Perkins, Senate | analysis of the Wash latest patterns and colors. -White and colored ground inches wide. Best quality imported mad: Checked children’s frocks. Many new and pretty waistings. white, tan, navy, Khaki Waist Department We are offéring a very fine assortment of the latest underwear ; are also showing a splendid va SPECIAL A white figured Net Wai $6.00 ’ 1866 Connor, Moffau & Co 110121 Dost Strcct Goods We are displaying several new shxpments of wash nfa- tenals received during the past week, which include all the Scoteh Cheviots s, in stripes and figures. 3 25¢c yard Embroidered Madras ras, embroidered in dainty de- signs, white and colored grounds. 35c yard Voiles Sheer lustrous fabric, in dainty checks and colorings, for 25¢ yard W hite Waistings patterns in mercerized white 25c yard Embroidered Etamines For street and evening wear, nile and black. 25¢ yard shades of blue, pink, cream, Cloth Good quality Khaki Cloths, 29 inches wide, suitable for ladies’ traveling suits and children’s wear. 25¢ yard styles in Waists, Skirts and embroidery and lace trimmed all new goods and very moderately priced. We riety of handsome bridal sets. st with Battenberg yoke and collar; deep cuff, lined with India silk. Extra value. each (5TABLISHE, ZE a ually the entire city will be covered. WAGON SERVICE PROMISED. 1 am able to do much of this on July 1 be- cause of the new crosstown wagon servica. Under new screen wagon contract, effective July 1 next, an improved service will be given to the northern and western portions of the city, served through Station A, Saera- mento and Polk streets; Station F, Sacramento and Fillmore streets, and Station M, on Cle- ment street, Richmond District. Mail for these points as at present arranged has -to.be transported by the Mission-street postal cars to the ferry and thence transshipped by the Sacramento-street line. Under new contract the service will be performed between the ‘main office and Station A direct,.making that & transfer point, saving at least one hour to the mails. Wagon service will also run from the main postoffice to Station B by way of Station O (Emporfum) and Station 36, in the Mills build- ing, soon. It Is my purpose to comsolidate Station O, located in the Emporium, with S other stations from time to time, so that event- IE tion 386, point near California and Montgomery streets, and operate the station as a carrier and dis- tributing and dispatching station. Contemplated improvements in the car- rier systems were also announced, the residence section to receive three and-the business section at least six deliveries a day. »Fruit and market men are to be given an early morning delivery, the car- riers to begin at midnight and serve the hotels, clubs and newspapers. Mr. Fisk made this appeal in con- clusion: 1 No matter whether you like the postmaster, his assoclates or his politics, get behind him and back up his recommendations with ail your influence. When you hear that he is try- ing to get this or that for the service, get your people at work to help him obtain it. Other | cities do it, and I find that the greatest help | Fastern postmasters have in getting results fs | the support and backing of the business men. Telegrams from Senator Perkins asking the co-operation of San Francisco com- mercial bodies in efforts to secure a pneu- matic system and suggesting that they furnish needed statistical data were reld by the postmaster: The telegram at the opening of lhh article was sent after Mr. Fisk had closed. A second telegram forwarded to Senator Perkins yesterday by the Merchants’ As- soclation read as'follows: George C. Perkins, United States Sen- Hon. Please exert your ate, Washington. D. C.: best efforts to have House posfal appropriation Dill amended to include pneumatic tube service for San Francisco, as recommended by Post- master General. Ninety per cent of mall to and from San Francieco passes through Union depot. Pneu- matic tube service connecting station with station K and main moflc' ‘would ob- viate present delay. Commercial community insists upon speedy relief and hopes vnfllmll’lc tube system will Le granted this session of Congress. THE‘; MERCHANTS' ASSOCTATION OF SAN FRANCISCO. FRANK J. SYMMES, President. WASHINGTON, April 3.—Effort will be made by Senators Perkins and Flint to secure provision for a pneumatic tube service in San Francisco when the post- office appropriation bill comes up in the Senate. Meanwhile these Senators will urge the postoffice committee to incorpo- rate an amendment of this character in the bill. The House has refused to make any appropriation for this service, but members of the California delegation be- lieve that if the Senate will take the initiative the House will concuf in its action. _——————— . MR. GUTHRIE SPEAKS ON «suumsmnn AND OUR TIMES” Gives Interesting Anclysis of the | Bard’s Motives in the Treatment of His Characters. “t kespeare and Our Times” was lhesg:b]ect of a lecture by the Rev. William Norman Guthrie, lecturer, in general literature at the University of Chiecago, at Trinity Parish-house, Bush and Gough streets, yesterday after- noon. There was a large attandance, including the Bishop of ifornia, the Right Rev. William Ford Nichols, the Rev. David Evans and the Rev. Mr. Brewer. The lecture was one of a se- ries in aid of missions. Mr. Guthrie showed evidence of deep knowledge of the works of Shakes- peare and gave a most !nt!rcnhlg tist's purpose in characters, . the treatment o TO DISCUSS SUNDAY SCHOOL STS.—Tle convention of the San Franc Sunday School Association = will Hiarrow evening and continus Priday and evening at Hamilton Church, Post street, above speakers at the first assembly Loulse Ewalt, Rev. Dwight . - land, Rev. W. F. Harper of San Jose an C, K. 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