The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1906, Page 13

: : THE SAN PRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY W, 1908 : 13 SEEK REFORMATION OF MARRIAGE LAW OF FRENCH- REPUBLIC Mo and Women of Prominence Op- posed to System Which Makes Woedding Matter of Difficulty. League Together for Purpose of End- Ing Red-Tapeism In Connection With Matrimeny. Plan With Object of Making Bcth. Parties to Cererony Equal In Eyes of the State. success does not t is now on foot ting married in ch unconscionable | BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH ABBEY OF CROWLAND GRUMBLING TO PIECES Magnificent Structure Going to Ruin | Because of Lack of Funds to ' Keep It in Repair. Founded In 706, and Was Once a Mon- astery Possessing _a Yearly income of $500,000. Rulng of the Nave and North Side Are Now Being Used as a Par- ish Church. Special Dispatch to The Call The Mutual LifelNorth British and : Mercantile Insur- Insurance Company of New York| ance Company OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH. Combined Assets Over Eighty-Seven Millien. To the Public and Our Patrons: The North British will pay all losses just as soon as adfusted. THE... Gitizens’ National Bank of San Francisco & HAS REOPENED FOR BUSINESS At its former Location, under Clearing House Rules, 1221 POLK STREET, Between Sutter and Bush sts. Has temporary headquarters at 1864 Pine st, San Francisco, and for convenience of transbay ‘oddmtl at Room $14, Union Savings Building, Oakland. d A large force of workmen is engaged in refitting quarters at our former location in Companmy’s own bullding, corner Californis and Sansome sts, and we expeot to be the first Life Imsurance Company resuming business at old stand. We are granting ¢0 dayy extension In paymeént of premfums LONDON, May 13.—What remains of} | the famous Crowland Abbey in Lincoln- | chire, one of the sights of the Fen coun- | visited by bun- | is threatened | funds can be g to the sub- | which are north wall | of the Abbey Church has eracked, and extepsive underpining will nt it from falling. eminertly repre- intellect and the ] of the el Pro- sed d Bataille and | matists, Mademe owned fem- dress of the ‘‘Ouvre Liber- . ,come. i pile of buildings, | orth-western “used as the parish church, these remnants are of singular beauty rai , ‘which is 1 1 worth freserfln if | ic associations which | The Abbey was| ing Ethelbald, | lly. For would be on , e were only thres monks left there when Thurkety] set about his great work ration. Thurketyl restored the| han its former eondi- | d left a large com- there provided with an ample in- | o His successor added a chime of bells, and from them, it is sald, were rung the first peal ever heard in England. 91 the ebbey was burned downm, built in 1118 by Abbot Joffrid, | whose begging appeals in those old days met with much more generous ruponaes} than heve been scoorded those of the| present rector. This Joffrid was a scholar as well as something of a finan- cler, and with his monks, set up ‘‘houses falling due within next 60 days following April 18, 1908, Safe Deposit and Storage Vaults Vanit space available for safe keeping of account books of firms occupying temporary quarters. W. L. HATHAWAY, Manager Balfour, Guthrie & Co. ot San Francisco 710 Market Street NOTIOR is herehy given that our veults and records are Intact and un- DATR of pesumption of bust: will Do publisfing ag Soen s “—l:d_'-mhfllh&u-mmm-. DEPOSITORS are cautioned against assigning their acoounts at a dis- BORROWERS are requestsd to MAIL their present addresses to t onoe. M»‘dlfl.b’flrymdhmmc;r:p:< by the assured, when possible. Proper blanks will be furnished for purpess, upon Fequest, as soon ag We resume. Mutual Savings Bank of San Francisco By GEORGE A. STORY, Cashicr. The First National Bank of San Francisco TEMPORARY OFFICE 2010 Washington St., San Francisco Cement, Structural Steel. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT is located temporarily at 714 BROADWAY Stockholders and Depositors ‘Who have lost their books in the Wworry ,about same, &3 We bave MARINE OAKLAND Albert M. Bender Insurance recerds of earning’’ st Cantabridge, which |cates will be lssued on regmest. - d the foundations of Cambridge Berteaux-Seguin, the |of ' ter and e litress, and | Prove: Safe Deposit Vaults y men and wemen who bave ab-| age of twentyone and eighteen | arry without the consent hing the vatem of | dom witich et so sovere & trial Acsording to the | € w, of course, young mes undez | e and girls under twenty-one, vy without the pa eon- he result, as everyone knows rectically every girl -is married dot,”” that the detalls of the that sourtsbip’’ as bossed by the relstives 2 &mbwgeum!kyyumd\hui sltogether. Moreover, in France, ns and iamumerable umnesessary bave to be drawn wp snd even an elderly fiamces of { gain the consent of the head 'y before be is abls to appear of Ms meighborhood with $ % s brite. re, for example s & list of the| bch two young people mmust | they marry. The young | His birth certificate. The oconsent of his fathen The consent of his mother. His military eertificate. A ocertifiate of the banns with the | me of the place of publication. i, The mames of the places where his| rih ecertificate. b certificate of her father. | ertificate of her mother. | e of residence in Paris. | of her grandmother. ¢ the formality of the wedding | y, rafher than go to the emermous | ble of collesting all the various doen- nts which are now necessary to sstisfy ialdom ¢ ie hoped to amend the present Mar-! gummer, ge Law in many other respects—to 2lse punishment for sdultery, for in- tance, and to make wives the sole mis- esses of thelr own poo) bt these and other technieal need mot be Buffice it to say thet i s proposed Ml for the Mar- ringe Oode will pass that body, and that ts .oonsequences are to be so far- eaching thet it would mext to im- possible to fobecast them. Canada Muore Than Kin. When the President decided wisely bat, for warious _reasoms, the States would decline foreign aid Franeiseo, being in a position | of ‘their own, people in w disappinted, says the ork Sun. The Dominion Govera- netead of accepting the decision sent word that they would put gt the appropriation, so that if it ied it would be available im- that both the Government > whether or mot they come terms of the prohibition. wa this message was sent: Marrisge | where all these e of the dominion are in| within comparatively recent years, moth- | bas been done to check the ravages of time and decay. The Rev. T. B. LeBouf was installed as rector in 1884 with the ma, lcent salary of $750 a year. His life there bas been ome long, pathetic struggle to ke the old ruins standing. In that rzd he has written no less than 17,410 etters Aypnhng for money for that pur- Now, aged and i such work r‘hyudhh'trmgm,ndmlmrdief comes from sources which he is umable to reach , the remmants of the grand old edifice will soon tumble down. ————eee PEOPLE OF LABRADOR GET ALONG WITHOUT POLICEMEN Only Ome Oriminal Charge Is Becorded Thete the Last Fifty dependenay, s report of & selentifis and off which he mads to that remote seaboard tast summer, snd among other of the subject he treais of the absence of orime in that region. Labrador, Sir Willlam says, has = resident population of 10,000, of whom 8,500 ave white, settled along its south | const. Many of the Indians are half- breeds, and there are 3,000 Eskimos the northern water ers, who engage in ing, which is the ehief pursuit of thess people. Yet thers is no court mor jail, magistrate nor liceman, mor sny other officer of the law on this 1,000 miles of seaboard, mp)e are wresting & ocean. For thirtys there been no session of In the was & s O] Sk sioei's P m to reduce it. attep- the last L) mede now & is gt Newfoun&land to attend to B of the Osar. RTfh' from the correspon: of the Assoclated Press thmghomh- ern Russia and the Oaucasus, says the Wnshiniton Evening Btar, show in gen- eral & thoroughly favorable outlook for crop conditions and the prospect of a od yleld of graia for the coming ough in the far south little snow there was sufficient moisture, and the fallsown wheat wintered well. Only in s few localities was the grain killed by the winter weather or destroyed by ver- min, and where this was the case it be- eame apparent in ample time to yesow the fields. The early bas fl the young grain a d and £ ess dispatehes state inten- Staets Government to de- subseriptions. Will de- Canada?’’ uld be more gratifying to n than to have our grest ble. that they are a little more Jess than kind. We ought ot qu fiat they bave. had the op- #=nity to demonstrate our soli y capted, darity, e 8 Sy of damage from a Iste frost have nmow 4. Government reports alse rate the eondition of winter wheat in the the ol French Ei h Priestess | University. The Abl suffersd from an mw%l’-c- term, e e b oame | earthquake in 1114 and was burned down The CO! AL, BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION stands ~embers of | again in 1148, butmuncnmcrewtoduunhfimdmmm.n--d and profit e ‘bufllonn.uleoflfingreawmm giu%:ma mm':m. | ntficance. It is matter of record that in | have not beea earthquake They ook intemti.a bo bring | 1830, the income of the Abbey amounted | are first mostgages en fmproved real ewints, s pralciimaii. Sl i g for Business Monday’ Mfly 14th. tiss immed. |t0 uoo,ooo.ru. The Fhf' came u‘g;;::mnm > |for a share of Oremwell's iconoclastis | TCH SAN FRANCISCO BUILD BUTTER-THEE CONTINENTAL attentions in 1648, and since thes, until | GROW GREATER. Cor. 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Call Engraving Bept. 1916 BROADWAY California Wing ASSOCIatONTEEEE0R ik e o E thirteen southern and ten Polish gov- ernments as thoroughly good. TUr‘faver- able reports, ex in isolated cases, Bave not been rpose of establishing further -branch g:nm for the sale of American agricultural implements, the trade in which, already extensive, will, materially The usual dividend chedks, in the absence of definite(wia be mede fewegs Wetws Wo- ARE NOW LOCATED AT addresses of our stockholders, will be left with the Union |Some' ook 2500 pow tof = ooy 998 Washington Strect, San Prancisco ; Trust Company for distribution on demsnd hy the stook- et o yume ayeewns with i r holders on and after the 25th day.of May, 1000. * By erder Bk s, S T T s S0 S e ke st o gy o o of the Directors. 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