The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 23, 1906, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY. JUNE 23, 1906. “ERECT BUILDING THAT ADDS MOTHER WANTS MUCH TO THOROUGHFARE Roos Bros.” Clothing House and Rosenthal’s Shoe Store Have Made Their stand for several ST. THERESA'S PARISH IS : L ¢ | known for twenty-eight vears as the TO HOLD A BIG REUNION |p,cin: Coast manager of the Thames oy . and Mersey Marine Insurance Com- Committee Is Arramging fer Enjoyable ,any Harrison has resigned this re- Time at New Sunset Park sponsible position end will grow up | ok Balhar W5 with "the new city as an operator in e Su the Potins | eal entate » Harrison brings to his new vocation ROSENTHAL'S SHOE STORE. > 'CTURE WHICH HAS BEEN NOW HOU S THE FIRMS HAL'S §HOE STORE. ST W GREER RSN PRI OROINES INSURMNGE Too Alluring to Marine Agent. turbances in this city changes among the n identified with elopment of" the cit arter of a century. e prominent men who will energies hereafter to a are William Greer the name of Mr. linked with the 1 institution he and distinguished and de T e last q Among t the is always Club, to wk long he structure vears. & On California street he has been eunie; ess energy and an es eve of prominence In the city. He is hed speaker and has been heard antage at the Bohemian Club important public gatherings for ce for all of the and West Mis- made a new record for himself as a doer of -things in the rehabilitation Arrangen of the Olympic Club since the fire. This Weiss; was the first organization to be com- Rev. P. ¢ housed and the directors with L rd give all the credit to Har- 3 € it was his initiative which made this possible Harrison has never lost falith in the city, but on the contrary has repeated- Iy expressed the opinfon that a future of unexampled prosperity is in store for the Queen City of the Pacific. Printing—P. Brosnin Games—D Casey. G. H. UMBSEN & C0. Will Remove to 0 MONTGOMERY ST June 25, 1906 A. K. DAGGETT, Notary Public, with us 14 years, will also return to old stand. Headquarters on Uptown Business Street. s T0 60 INTO REALTY = Opportunities of the Field Prove TORRENS LAND O ICTISABOON Neglected LawCan Now Be Employed to Advantage. Robert T. Devlin, formerly State Sen- rom Sacranmiento and at present States District Attorney, has favored simple methods in the of title to real estate. The ture in 1897 passed the Torrens land and Elliott McAllister, Frank Miller and R. Bulla were appointed commissioners to carry into effect the purposes of the act. In an interview yesterday Mr. Devlin had this to y regarding the merits of the new system: The property owners of San Francls- | co have now an opportunity of nmpg- fying the transfer of land titles y {availing themselves of the so-calléd Torrens land act. passed in 1897. The | object of this act is to make the trans- | fer of land as simple and as inexpen- |sive as the transfer of shares of stock | in a_corporation. the If you desire, under present system, to buy a lot worth 500 it is necessary to have an abstract or a bond from a’ title insurance com- pany, and if you wish to sell or mort- gage the process must be repeated, and no matter how perfect a title may be 2s a matter of fact, there is scarcely an | abstract which does not disclose some | irregularity. Although this may be of trivial importance—"a fly-!rel‘k"—vit gives rise to endless quibbling and contention. Under the Torrens act, a_proceeding is commenced in court and the court iasues a certificate of title. This cer- tificate is conclusive of the title which it states, and all subsequent transfers and incumbrances are noted upon it. This system has been in operation for man ars In Australla and is in use in some of the Eastern States. Although this law has been in force in California for/more than nine years, I do not know' of a single case yet brought under f{ts provisions. One of the reasons for this is that the law re- quires an abstract to be furnished by some give a bond in & sum not less than $10,- 000, which may be increased from time to time by the court. The adoption of the Torrens system would destroy the business of search- ers of records, 8o if any one desired to take advantage of the law he could not, prior to the recent fire, obtain any searcher of records who would give the necessary bond. But any one can call himself a searcher of records and give the bond required. A number of property own- ers in a block can make a transfer of | their titles to a single Individual, er to a trust company, and suit can be |brought under this law to have the court settle the title to all the property involved. Any one of the owners can call himself & searcher of records and glve the bond required, and the suilt would proceed, much as does now an action to quiet title. While he would have to furnish an abstract to satisfy the court of his title, he would have to do no more than he would in any suit to quiet title, and any one willing to give the bond could set himself up as a searcher If those in the business refuse to qul"({, At the conclusion the plaintiff would obtain a certificate of titie, which he could subdivide by having issued to each owner whe had assigned to him a certificate for his property. There- after the certificate could be sold or mortgaged as is a certificate of stock in a corporation. If an owner wanted a loan from a bank, instead of going through the tedious process of having an abstract made and submitting the same to an attorney for examination, he would simply have the fact of mort. gage noted upon his certificate and entered in the books of the recorder. The proceeding to place the title to Iand’unde{' this system is not more ex- pensive than the ordinary action t quiet title. If this system was put in operation in San Francisco it would make the sale of real estate as easy of bonds or —_— UNDESIRABLE TENANTS NOT ALLOWED AMONG HOMES Citizens Talk of Applying Tar and Feathers 10 n Grasping Prop- erty-Owner. The way in which enterprising and fearless citizens resent the leasing of dwellings to undesirable tenants causes much comment.” Thére was quite a scene on Devisadero street, near Eddy, a few days ago. The story goes that a'saloon man, who is well known in the city, decided that it would be profitable to himself to lease his own dwelling- house to a tenant of doubtful charac- ter who was. willing to pay $200 au month for an upper and lower flat which would ordinarily rent for $80 or $100. Some of the leading citizens of the locality fancied that the transaction would be very unprofitable to the neighborhood. They talked for a while of. applying a coat of tar and feathers to the owner of the property. Calm and conservative treatment of the subject was, however, adopted. The. parish priest, a well- known physician, 2 prominent mer- chant and a few others submitted the facts of the case to Captain Gleason of the Police Department. The result of the interview with ‘the police was.a cancellation of the lease. The flats at last accounts were vacant. P S £ person or company that shail | (IDNPED SN Mrs. Jean Rowell Begs | for the Custody of = | Her Child. 1 'Matrimonial Diffcrences; Lead Many Couples | to Court. ;’ | “I want m¥ boy" . criea Mrs. Jean| | Rowell as she sat in Judge Graham’s courtropm yesterddy morning, pleading | for the custody of her 1l-year-old son | Leonard, who was kidnaped on Thurs- | day last by his father. . | With tears streaming down her face .| Mrs. Rowell, who is a pretty brunette | about 30 years of age, told how her | husband, who is the son of L. F. Row-{ lell, formerly the local manager of | Wells, Fargo & Co., had about a year ago forsaken the straight and narrow path to follow the devious one of the | red-light district. Through dissipation, | | according to her statement, he was | | finally discharged from an influential | position with Wells, Fargo & Co. | For some months past the Rowells | have not been living together, so it was | with sprprise that Mrs. Rowell received |a telephone message from her refrac- tory spouse on last Thursday asking for permission to take thelr young son | to the Cliff House to spend the day. | Mrs. Rowell let the boy' go upon the father agreeing that he would bring | him home by 7:30 o'clock that evening. This he agreed to do, but at the time | mentioned a. message was delivertd to | Mrs. Rowell by the porter of a grocery | store, who stated that the message had | | been left but fifteen minutes before. It | was found later, however, that the mes- | sage had been left six hours before. MOTHER IS FRANTIC. Mrs. Rowell was frantic, and on the witness stand yesterday morning told of her fruitless efforts to find her child. The Rowells have always occupied a prominent position in society In this city, and it is sald that Mrs. Rowell has supported her husband with money | she received from her mother. Now, according to her statement, utterly dis- | gusted with the actions of her husband, | | she has appealed fer a divorce and the custody of her child. | The boy was located in Santa Cruz | vesterday morning, and will doubtless be in his mother's arms this morning. | The Rowells reside at 3650 Washington street. “THe soldier must go,” was the de- | cision of Presiding Judge Graham yes terday morning in a suit for malnte- | nance instituted by Mrs. Delia Thomp- | | son against Hiram Thompson. Mrs. | Thompson appeared in court this morn- | ing to press her claim for support for | herself and five small children. Hiram created a furore in the court when he stated in a timid voice that he had no objections to supporting his family, but ilhfll he did object to supporting an able-bodied man, even though he was one of the heroes of the Spanish-Amer- jcan war. Judge Graham was aghast at the allegation, and by dint of a few questions brought out the story of how the Thompson matrimonial differences had arisen. SOLDIER TAKES ROOM. Everything, he sald, had been peace- ful in the family up to a year ago, | when Mrs. Thompson suddenly became | quite mercenary and squght, as she said, to increase her allowance by renting a |room to John Barthel, an ex-soldier. Feeling that this was an intrusion upon the peace and sanctity of his home cir- | cle, Thompson packed his grip and wan- | dered to the woodshed, which he made his habitation until the proceedings against him by his wife. When the Judge asked Mrs. Thomp- | son why she did not send the soldler | away when she knew that his presence was obnoxious to her husband, she re- plied, “He has been good to me.” “If that man does not leave your home by Tuesday,” said the indignant Judge, “you can expect- no clemency from this court. Now go!” And Mrs. Thompson went. Maud Estelle Simpson has brought suit for divorce against Walter Scott Simpson. The complaint, which was filed yesterday, alleges that Simpson, since the marriage in 1901, has treated his wife with the utmost cruelty, com- pelling her to live with his mother, who, it is alleged, slapped the plain- tiff's face many times. Since the fire, says Mrs. Simpson, she has been com- pelled to live in a tent in Golden Gate Park with her motHer-in-law and a star boarder, who, despite the earth- quake, refuses to be shaken from what has proved to him to be a pleasant home. | SUITS FOR DIVORCE. | Elste Luella Perry yesterday filed a complaint for a divorce from Henry Perry on the ground of desertion. Jacob L. Frank seeks a divorce from Lillian E. Frank on the ground of deseértion. Josephine A. Brady, in a complaint for a divorce filed yvesterday, alleges that Richard Brady treated her with ex- treme cruelty. A. S. Hughs filed a com- plaint for a divorce against Mary Hughs. The ground alleged is extreme cruelty. Mamie B. Mulrane is suing Lawrence F. Mulrane for a divorce on the ground of desertion. Judge Hebbard ~yesterday granted Mary Wolfe a divorce from E. M. Wolfe on the ground of willful neglect. —_————— L. Krelas & Sons 3 ‘Will soon be in their new store at 1219- 1221 Post st. A fine selection of office desks are now on sale at above number.* —_— Advertiser 1n Trouble. W. C. Huey of San Jose advértised recently for a housekeeper, and the ad- vertisement was answered by a respect- able widow, the mother of two little boys. Huey wrote to the applicant and made an improper proposal to her. She laid the matter before United States District Attorney Robert T. Devlin, and a warrant for Huey's arrest was issued by United States Commissioner Hea- cock. Huey was brought before the Commissioner yesterday, and his bail was fixed at $500. Pending the gtving of bonds he was sent to jail. His pre- liminary examination was set for next Tuesday. _————— Arrested for Cruelty to Animals.’ Acting Secretary McCurrie of the to Animals yesterday arrested John Rodgers and charged him at the Mi sfon station with cruelty to animal Rodgers, it is asserted, beat one of his horses unmercifully with a short scan- tiing and only stopped when the offi- cer arrested him. McCurrie also took a horse, worn out and covered with sores, from M. Caccallate, driver for a fruit store at 1377 Halght street. Upon the owner’s consent to have the horse killed the driver was releazed from custody. . —_—_— The San_Francisco ticket offices of Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Notice to Travelers, Tourlats and Pleas- || ure Seekers. the Santa Fe are located in the Fe: Bullding, foot of Market street. > Write to or call upon the ticket nt for information about the Back ast excursion tickets, to be sold for July 2d and 3d, or ask him about a trip to the Yosemlte Valley, by the new raflway. He will also be pleased to ‘tell you of ttéeflfixo;:l!’:lhm da- tions on ¥ s or. of. Bl ourist cars geler e Tl MAIN OFFICE —Corner Montgomery and California Sts. i When You Build Your iome you want it so situated that you will derive from it the maximum of pleasure and comfort —don’t you? \ ‘You want it to be artistic in exterior; restful and comfortable in interior. You want its outlook to be pleasant; its sur- * roundings to be beautiful, so tKat your children mal}: grow up in good health and carry away with them into the world pleasant memories of home. You want your home situated within easy reach of your business; to be furnished with all modern improvements; to be reasonabie in cost and obtainable at small initial expense with moderate monthly payments. Such a home you can have in Beautiful Piedmont Why not let us talk to you about your new home in the most attractive resi- dence district in the West? All the attractions of the county with every advantage of the city. No fog, no dust, no smoke, no smells. g In the earthquake not a chimney fell in Piedmont. WICKHAM HAVENS Real Estate 1212 BROADWAY OAKLAND, CAL. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS CONDUCTED. California Safe Deposit and Trust Company CAPITAL, FULLY PAID- - TOTAL ASSETS - $2,000,000 10,000,000 SAVINGS AND CHECKING ACCOUNTS RECEIVED. INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS. BRANCHES: WEST END BRANCH-—1531 Devisadero St., Near Post. MISSION BRANCH-—927 Valencia St., near Twenty-first. UPTOWN BRANCH-— 1850 Geary St., West of Fillmore. DAVID F. WALKER, President. J. DALZELL BROWN, Manager. THE SAN FRANCISCO * REAL ESTATE BOARD Hereby Gives Notice That it Will Prosecute Criminally All persons who shall remove, destroy or mutilate any bills or signs of any member of the San Francisco Real Estate Board without proper author- ity so to do. : - S - T S it NOTICE! TO POLICY-HOLDERS OF FIREMAN’S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY All record of the San Francisco policies of this Company having been destroyed in the recent conflagration, policy-holders are fequested, for the purpose of enabling the company to reconstruct its records of unburned business, and also for their own protection in case of their property being subsequently damaged by fire, to file at the office of the company, 1271 Turk street, San Francisco, the particulars of any policles now held by them in the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company and covering upon amy property in the City and County of San Fran- cisco which was not destroyed in the recent conflagration. LOUIS WEINMANN, Secretary. FULL 4'NE OF AR FLui AMUSEMEN Natinee Every Day Except Momday. TONIGHT'S TIME TABLE. Yiarvelous Frank and Little Bob Si8e—Pro Evening pric 2 Matinees, except Saturday a 10c and 2se. Downtown office | Drug Store box Donlon's Fillmore and Sutter streets. Phone West 6000 at CHUTES Open dal Prayer Books Engraving Stationery Cutlery Typewriter Supplies Trunks and Traveling Bags BE'S A HUSTLER THAT MAN PITTS 1123 Fillmore Street Near Golden Gatz Ave. Murphy, Grant&Co. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS 8th and Frankin Sts., OAKLAND, CAL. New goods constantly arriving and on sale at our temporary quarters, Eighth and Franklin Sts., Oak- land, Cal. Parcells Safe Co. | COR. 14h and WEBSTER STS. OAKLAND 1 (Temperary Only) SAF Will Occupy Our New Bailding on MARKET ST., NEAR FIRST, S;F. W.R.GRACE & (0. IMPORTERS TEMPORARY OFFICES | New Tribune Building OAKLAND Phone Oakland 7429 ALSO 628 Montgomery St. Montgomery Block. Room 224, SAN FRANCISCO. o e PORTLAND CEMENT ! STRUCTURAL STEEL, ETC. Now on Hand ... Josson and H v