The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1906, Page 31

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1906 3t 17 HOMES Made Happy Yesterday Yesterday was the greatest day in the piano-selling industry of this city, either the old or the new. Just think of seventeen homes being made happy in one day and seventeen brand new pianos being delivered in as many homes in one day! Of course there is reason for this, for such an event was never before heard of in this or any other city. When a dealer will offer a good piano for the small sum of $158 and seventeen people take advan- tage of that offer in one day the pianos must be just as represented. Three (3) more of these pianos are left, and if you want a good, dependable piano at one-half the regular selling price you must come early tomorrow morning. Do not forget that no other dealer dare offer these pianos at less than $300. At any time within two years that you may want any other piano we have in stock we will take these pianos as part payment and full purchase will be allowed. Isn’t that a pretty strong guarantee? If you have not yet collected your insurance we will wait for the money, or will accept small monthly payments in the meantime. CLARK WISE & CO. 1420 VAN NESS AVENUE BETWEEN BUSH AND PINE. CUT-RATE MUSIC DEALERS. PROSPERITY - INREALTY SALES. amy | Reports of Agents Show Active Movement Local Land Market market continues brisk. have been egularities ity of in was ate INSURE Against Fire With 0. 8. BOWLEY, 233 Sanchez St. 16th realty The ses t numerous week and indications district pas downtown restored. Betneen and Market, in the Aetna of Hartford, Atlas of Lon- California Fire- s Fund Ios. Liverpool, and Springfield Marine other taken ection of a ldings w firm stand Ins. Corp., Globe, don Co., large area are identified. ertime, and for an extra ma wh Architec several w London Fire and or any Do! for Dollar Umion com- force o they to be h 3 demand for houses and apart- m is so great that 0. B. BOWLEY, 233 Sanchez St. [ menia.is. e, omems o b, 35emis, SRR G~ R Edmund Marks, formerly a trustee of the Mercantile Libr anks accept our policies. Open évenings for our working people. > city for 54y forty vears has there been in ecfirculation in San Fran- than at the present t All kinds of labor are b nd even begged for. Laborers, plumbers, brick- 3 penters and all trades, if trebled today, would find employment. It is a significant fact that we see laborers and mechanics riding on the even for only a few blocks. They no tin pail—they go to the res- ts. Heretofore, even with good | they more generally walked and their lunch The retail stores were never more crowded, a s for the wholesalers, the railroads c: vouch for the magni- tude of t shipments of the jobbers z Look at the demand for homes. Stran- GET THE BEST Bl e s s IT PAYS never before. San Francisco's future was never brighter.” fio Q In addition to the sales and leases / ) effected during the past week and 4 heretofore published in The Call are Are Fireproof the following e e STRONG LIST OF SALES. RICHARDSON BROS. wdgrebe, MacNevin & Jones report oot s as follows 131 FIFTH STREET $38,000, the property situated at or SO o southwest corner hanan streets of 3 of Fulton and The lot has a front- 6 feet on Buchanan street by niform depth of §4 feet on Fulton improvements consist of nine mod- producing a monthly revenue The seller was W. F. Ambrose purchaser a client of the firm Stock on Hand. age Dr. Lyon’s PERFECT Tooth Powder srner of Eighteenth and 200x100, for $25,000. The 1s Mrs. Mary J. Powell and the pur- a client of the firm. 1 improvements at the north- of Eighteenth and =, 200x100, for $25,000. J. Horn and the pur- Cleanses and beautifies the ent of the firm teeth and purifies the breath, Used by people of refinement for over a quarter cf a century. mprovements on the south- ner of Pine and Lyon streets for $8000. The seller was Mattie Boyd and the purchaser west o 27:6x93, Mrs. Convenient for tourists, M. Horan. 1.0t and improvements on the north PREPARED BY side of Page street, 137:6 feet west of Ashbury, 50x137:6, for $6800. The % .Z"Z'Ji seller was W. S. Martin and the pur- * 0. 2&). |chaser a client of the firm. Lot and impro ments on the south- o £ west corner of Eighteenth and Oak- — e wood streets, 26x100, for $3000. The seller was Mrs. P. J. Cofin and the purchaser a client of the firm. NUMERQUS LEASES EFFECTED. The Burr-Paddon Company reports the following sales: From A. Grantz to Samuel Welnstein, the lot and improvements on the south line of Turk street, 110 feet west of Plerce, 27:6x120, through to Elm ave- nue; terms private. Account of I Kahn, to Robert Dalziel, the lot on the south line of Howard street, 420 feet west of First; $27,500 This firm also reports the sale of thirty-four lots in the Elmwood Park tract. Hornlein Brothers & Estes report that the residence of Samuel Solomon has been leased to Dr. Wanzer for a term of years. A number of other leases by their firm are also reported. Hornlein | Brothers & Estes will soon oocupy the ls!ore at 1221 Golden Gate avenue. MIRRORS Frames, Moldings, Artists’ Materials. SCHUSSLER BROS. 341-343 GROVE STREET. Phone Special 9562. Hyman Bros. AND LITHOGRAPHERS. LABELS AND FOLDING BOXES. 1047 FOLSOM ST., S. F. Are Now Ready for Business. PRINTERS DRUGGISTS MORE DOWNTOWN OFFICES. The Ferrolite Company announces that it will design and construct & two- T0L0 in| is to| y temporary | Scheme Is Exposed by Statements Filed by Officers of Concern § LOCAL LOSERS MEET COOL PROPOSITION HE Milwaukee Mechanics' surance Company has a statement over the tures of its president, Wiiiam L. Jones, and its directors that will surprise and interest the fire |in this city who had policies issued by the company. This statement shows that the company has “$2,397,070.34 assets and a net surplus of $327,915.68, held by the company for the protection of its present and future policy-holders, free and clear of all claims arising out of or caused by the California confla- gration.” The sum thus clalmed as “free and clear” of California losses is $2,794,- 986.02. A friendly suit (by some re- garded as a collusive action) has been | filed by an attorney of the Milwaukee | Mechanics’ Company and another law- yer, in which the court is asked under the Wisconsin law to set aside in round In- | numbers $1,500,000 for the protection | of all prolicy-holders of the company outside of California and about the same amount for the settlement of California losses. These two amounts were supposed to represent the total | assats of the company. | It the statement that has just been |issued by the company be true, then |the company is holding back nearly | 3,000,000 while proposing to settle in San Francisco for $1,500,000. Details given by the officers of the company | show that of the total assets the sum | of $1,330,900 is in stocks and bonds; |$1,290,250 in loans on mortgages, ¥39,- 1000 in loans on collaterals, $872,061.26 |in cash and $253,843.80 in premiums in course of collection. ‘The paid up cap- 1tal is $500,000. The real estate owned | 1s appraised at $121,500. That these figures call for an inves- | tigation and that the policy-holders | were warranted in asking the United iblal‘s court at Milwaukee to deny a | decree setting aside for San Francisco but $1,500,000 is evident. The Milwaukee company has report- ed to the Insurance Commisisoner at New York that its gross losses in San Francisco were $2,647,974 and its net losses $1,362,117. It has also reported to the same official that it has due from | other companies from reinsurance $1,- | 285,857. The sum set apart for the se tlement of San Francisco losses, ex- actly stated, is $1,436,018.97. Not a dollar of the company's losses in Ban Francisco has been paid. The suit has tled up all the assets. The company has appointed Attor- | neys T. C. Coogan, Goodfellow and Eels to meet and confer with the California policy-holders. A preliminary confer- ence between Putnam and the Milwau- kee Mechanics' lawyers took place at Oakland vesterday. It is probable that a representative of the San Francisco losers will have to go to Milwaukee to present the facts and to make the claims of the San | Francisco people clear to Circult Judge Seaman, who has delayed action to give the policy-holders a chance to make known their objections to a decroe | placing all but $1,500,000 of the com- pany’'s assets beyond the reach of San Francisco losers. story-and-basement office building for Alexander D. Keyes on the property situated on Montgomery street, 37:6 from the southerly line of Sutter street. McDougall Brothers, architects, bullding a permanent two-story ffame buflding on the south side of Hayes street, east of Octavia, for F. H. Gar- ‘xllner The structure, which will con- flat and : rear cost of one store, facing on Linden avenue. the building will be $12,000. Immediately joining the Gardiner building the same architects wiil put up a flat and stgre building for Mr. | Martel, which wil¥f also cost $12,000. W. H. Ross, who for twenty years has | been with Madison & Burke as cashier and manager of their insurance depart- ment, has recently resigned and is now | connected with Speck & Co. at 2014 llmore street. The Be Sure to Get What You Ask For. HERE is a Reason— Why the Good F Peop]e of Amer- ica buy Cascarets as Fast as the ‘ Clock Ticks. R | Every second some one, somewhere, is Buying a little Ten-Cent Box of Cascarets. 1,2,3, 4,5 6—60 times to the Minute, 60 Minutes to the Hour, 3600 Boxes an &n Hour, 36,000 Boxes a D Day of Ten Hours, 1,080,000 Boxes a Month, and then some. Think of it—220,000 People take a Cas- caret tablet each day. Millions use Cas- carets when necessary. The Judgment of Millions of Bright Americans is Infallible. They have been Buying and Taking Cascarets at that rate for over Six years. * * * Over Five Millions of Dollars have been Spent to make the merits of Cascarets known, and every cent of it would be lost, did not sound merit claim and hold the constant, and Endorsement of well-pleased people year after year. - * o There is also a Reason— Why there are Parasites who attach themselves to the Healthy Body of Cascar- et’s success—Imitators, Counterfeiters, Sub- stitutors. They are Trade Thieves who would rob Cascarets of the ““Good Will” of the people, and sneak unearned profits, earned and paid for by Cascarets. A Dishonest Purpose means a Dishonest Product and a Disregard of the Purchasers’ Health or Welfare. Beware of the Slick Salesman and his ancient ‘‘Just as Good” story that common sense refutes, Cascarets are made only by the Sterling Remedy Company, and put up In metal box with the ‘‘long-tailed C’’ on the cover. | They are never sold in bulk. Every tablst marked ““CCC." Be sure you get the genuine, issued | signa- | losers | are | continued friendship, Patronage Earthquake Made Sole Plea to Escape the San Francisco Losses WILLIAMSBURGH IS NOW IN THE OPEN XEMPTION from the payment of all its San Francisco insurance policies on two grounds is claimed by ‘the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company. It sets up in an answer filed yesterday the | Airst defense made in the Superior Courts that the earthquake of April 18 was responsible for the fires through the breaking of electrical wires. It | alleges again that San Francisco at the time was provided with a well- | equipped Fire Department and that but for the breaking of the water mains, also due to the earthquake, these fires might readily have been extinguished with comparatively little loss. The company therefore contends that the earthquake is the indirect, if not the direct cause, of the wholesale loss of property, even where the earth- quake itself did no damage, and that even in cases where the fire was sev- eral days in reaching the insured prop- erty no recovery can be had. The answer was flled yesterday In the case of Rosenthal's, Incorporated, against the Willlamsburgh. After setting forth the facts and setting up its defense the company asks that the case be dismissed and that plaintiff be entitled to no recovery. Although this suit with others might have been transferred to the Federal courts it seems to be the desire of Van Ness & Denman, attorneys for the insurance company, to bring the question of re- sponsibility under this oft-mooted clause fairly and squarely before the Judge who may try the sult. The Rosencual sult was flleq July 6. The complaint recites that on April 10 a $2000 policy was taken out to cover a stock of boots and shoes at 107-1156 Kearny street. It is alleged In the sult filed that the loss was by fire direct, and not by earthquake. The total loss was $221,451.82. . In its answer the Willlamsburgh Company says: “In and by the policy of inrgrance in this action sued upon it was provided by and between, the insured under the policy sued uponand the defendant, and it was stipulated and agreed that defendant company should not be held llable for lo caused by earthquake.” The answer then recites that on | April 18 San Francisco was visited by an earthquake that caused the breaking of electric wires by means of which flames were communicated to a number of buildings, and that these fires spread to other buildings. The destruction of the water pipes is also set forth, with the statement that but for this the fires might have been ex- tinguished. BIG FIGHT THREATENED. nd Interests May Combine if Rhin Moselle Refuses Payment. Unless the answer that the Rhine and Moselle Insurance Company has promised to flle tomorrow in response to questions asked by policy-holders is satisfactory there is a chance that a big fight will be waged against the cnmpan) py large interpsts in this Included in the list of those may co-operate to secure fair treatment are! the Pacific Tel- cphone and Telegraph Company, which has a loss written by the company amounting to more than $200,- | 000, and J. Le Breton, W. J. Herrin, | Lewis Bartlett and J. V. de Laveaga, representing claims amounting to more than $300,000 Jjointly. This makes $500,000 insurance at least to back the fight that may be negessary. The Rhine and Moselle Company has losses In San Francisco amounting to $4,500,000. It has not yet made any pay- ments to San Francisco policy-holders, and on the ground of the earthquake clause in its policies has disclaimed all lHability. JURY LOOKS FOR CONSPIRACY. Inquisitorial Body Gives Reason for Insurance Investigation. Criminal conspiracy on the part of certain insurance companies by which they hope to avold responsibility to the | insured of San Francisco Is the charge being examined into by the Grand Jury in its present investi fon of agents and attorneys for a number companies. For the first time since gie | investigation took tangible form it has | been admitted officially that the grand Jjurors are seeking testimony on which | indictments charging criminal conspir- acy may be returned. The admission appears in the papers that were filed yesterday with the County Clerk by which Charles Hendry of the London and Lancashire Company | is formally ordered to appear before Judge Graham at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon for the purpose of showing | cause why he should not answer certain | questions or be punished for contempt. | The return on the subpena reads: “Subpena was served upon Charles Hendry, directing him to abpear before the sald Grand Jury at its jury room the tenth day of August to testify in an investigation of a charge of criminal conspiracy then pending.” AIDING FIREMAN'S FUND. Poliey-Iiolders’ League Considering Plan for Benefit of All Concerned. “.The Policy-Holders' League has agreed to co-operate with the officers of the Firemsn's Fund Insutance Com- pany in the formulation of a plan of re- lief acceptable to the San Francisco policy-holders. This i3 the statement of F. W. Dohrmann for the league. The officers of the Fireman's Fund have had several conferences with the trustees of the Policy-Holders' League. Exclusive information of the plan in view was published in The Call some days ago. In the meantime the policy-holders are urged to walt the result of these negoti- | ations before taking any action that will precipitate complications to the in- jury of all concerned. Another meeting of the polick-hold- ers of the Fireman's Fund Company will be held at 811 Turk street to- norrow. Three Insurance Suits Filed. Three insurance suits were flled yes- terday in the Superior Court. Two of the actions were commenced by M. H. | Levy, one on his own claim of $500 for furniture in a house at 1035 Haight street, insured In the German Fire In- | surance Company, and one on an as- signed claim of $400 against the Ger- man of Freeport. The latter claim was assigned by Sigmund Rosner, who had insurance on household goods at 220% Clara street. Helene Oppenheimer sued the Transatlantic Fire Insurance Com- pany for $500 ®n household furniture at 1020 Van Ness avenue. —_— LoS ANGELLS, Aug 11,8.G. Bitts. a mos (mn of the Los Angeies Railway Com; N recently was ch.l!'fied in the Justice "h | manslaugiiter. tor sving tun down with bis e s clled 10 mouthaold id Mary Taiston on ‘,," 3 last, was toda; toas"by Yasesme 'lots | obtained |on Milwaukee Company Plans to ‘Hold Out $3,000,000. Attachment Placed on Newly Found Assets of the Transatlantic SHERIFF SECURES SUM OF $100,000 N attachment for §100,000 was placed on the assets of the Transatlantic Insurance Com- pany at New Yorl§ yesterday. Up to date tangible assets of the com- pany have been attached in the inter- est of San Francisco policy-holders to the amount of $800,000. Of this $685,000 is deposited with the State Su- perintendent of Insurance of New York and the rest is held in trust by three trustees in New York. The attachment yesterday ‘allowed service on both the Sheriff of New York, who will attach the préperty in New Yo:k, and also on the Sherift of Albany County, who will levy on property in the custody of the State Superintendent of Insurance. A corporation is about to be formed by several attorneys of this city to fight the Transatlantic Insurance Company of Hamburg both in the United States and in the German courts. They say they have sufficient money to carry on the work and will not ask the policy-hold- ers to part with a cent until their claims have been paid in full. More than one hundred policy-holders of the Transatlantic Company gathered yesterday afternoon at the headquarters of the Organized Policy-Holders at 811 Turk street. The proposed plan of ac- tion was outlined to them by several speakers. Attorneys Boynton, Peck and Solin- sky, who are behind the movement to fight the company, say they have suffi- cient capital pledged to carry their cases through the courts of this country and Germany. The policy-holders announced they did not intend to advance that informed them that it would not be necessary. He sald the money was in sight and that the policy-holders would not be called upon to lighten thelr pocketbooks until such time as the suits have been won and the money collected In Germany. Another meeting of the policy-holders will be held on tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'olock. It is expected that the first suits will be flled within the next few weeks. The policy-holders of the Calumet In- surance Company will meet next Thusday afternoon at 811 Turk street to agres upon some plan of action. This company has left the State without set- tling a single loss. It is known to be a rich corporation and the policy-hold- ers have been advised to take legal steps to collect the money dwe them. e Safes Honestly Made. One safe company made a record in the recent great fire which enables them to say that they really have a safe that is fireproof. One can see all over the city the following poster: “Get the bel!——l! pays. Llry safes are flre- roof. Richardson Br: eneral agents. tock on hnnd Bt 1’{1 FI th street, near Mint, San Francisco, Cal.” A notice- able feature is that most all of the prominent concerns are using Cary safes since the fire. —_— ‘Want Mission Park Preserved. Many property owners and residents in the Mission district are opposed to having Mission Park subdivided into for the location of homes the refugees. The park was after considerable effort the part of those who wanted a place for recreation near at home, for any | funds to further the scheme, and Peck | ““The crowning virtue of Pe-ru-na, afier it has cured the catarrh, is as a tonic and restorative of appetite, strength and good spirits.”’—Samuel D. Rhoads. AN INSURANCE MAN TESTIFIES TQ THE GREAT VIRTUES OF PE -RU-NA. Mr. Rhoads holds an important government position in Washington, from which place he writes a very interesting letter concerning Pe-ru-na. What Pe-ru-na Has Done For One Family Pe-ru-na Can Do For Another Family. Mr. Samuel D. Rhoads, a prominent| work, a few doses of Peruna restored insurance man of Lansdowne, P lost strength and Invigorated _one writes from Washington, D. C, as fo quicker and more permanently than lows: anything I know. It gives nerves of iron and muscles of steel, and assists the mental activities together with the physical to a wonderful degree.” Peruna, as a family medicine, is ab- solutely safe and rellable as It cone tains noé narcotics or other drugs lla- ble to produce a drug habit. KEEPS PE-RU-NA IN THE HOUSE. Mr. Chas. S. Many, 12 Water street, Ossining, . writes: “I had catarrh for “I heartily and unreservedly wish to glve my endorsement to Peruna as a catarrh cure that is not approached by any other medicine, at least in my observation and experience, and noting what it has done for members of my family. Its crowning virtue, after ft has cured the catarrh, is as a tonic and restorative of appetite, strength and good spirits.” PE-RU-NA RESTORES STRENGTH. ten years and Mr. G. W. Woodbury, Rogers, O, tried a great many kinds of medicines formerly captain and center of the which cost me a lot of money, but did Hiram ~ College basket ball team,| me no good. Instead of getting better, writes: “There are times In the life of every student when excessive study and too close conflnement and attention to the object in view will tell on his health. “I have found that when body and| when I feel a cold coming on, I take mind allke were weary and refused to| little bit of it and it does me goo B and they want it reserved for that pur- | I seemed to get worse. I read about Peruna_and thought I would give it & trial. I took alj ten bottles and am cured of the ‘I keep Peruna in the house, and Rufus P. Jennings, Fred Vaughn, Albert pose. They state that many offers and | H. Merrill, Joseph Korn, Arthur Bax- suggestions have been made to provide | ter, George H. Halpin, Herbert G. Arm- ground for cottages for the homeless, | strong, C. N. Wolte, T. V. Hagris, John and they belfeve it unnecessary to use the park for that purpose. Rothehild, A. P. Redding, Sidney Liebes, William D. McCann, F. B. Findley, E. £, Bergin, E. G. Buswel, L. Tozer, L. S. Sherman, Henry Michaels. e Jewelers and Opticians. Sorensen Co., 715 Market st. Branches 1255 Fulton Mission. st Full, complete stock of diamonds. Jew elry; cut glass, silverware and optic £00! @ Thinks Brother Was Killed by Car. The man who was killed by a Third- street car last Wednesday apd whose body was buried in the potter's fleld |is supposed to have been Francisco Garcla, who arrived here from Panama recentl Garcia’s sister called at the Morgue yesterday and her description —— iy Federal Grand Jury Organired. United States District Judge de Ha- ven yesterday swore in the following Rufus P. Jennings, Fred Vaughn, Albert ven yesterday swore in the fololwing |of her brother corresponds to that of citizens to Serve as a United States | the dead man. Garcia had given his Grand Jury for the ensuing term sister, who is a refugee at Washing- Willlam H. Crim (foremdn), G. S. {ton Square, $50 on the morning of the Baum, Edward C. Kalben, Arthur Kidd, day he met his death. West can profits. | S 0 St Solid as a 9 to 13 ing new .to $1.00 151 THESE BARGAINS are’ splendid examples of what the largest and best shoe house in the practically unlimited business could afford to sell its shoes at such small Men’s and Women’s Shoes in a great va- riety of styles and in all leathers. shoes sold elsewhere at $3.00 ~-better looking--better fi!tmg—-- better wearing. Our Price Little Gents’ Box Calf Blucher Shoes. serviceable. sold elsewhere at the same prices. “§$l.75 nosg $2.00 Men’s and Women’s Shoes in all the stunn- shapes—all leathers--all sizes-all widths. Not only more elegant in appearance than any other shoes on earth at their price, but actually worth from 50c shoes sold in other stores at - - ROSENTHAL’S INCORPORATED accomplish in the way of value giving—only a store with a SOLE AQENTS for Hanan & Son's world - famous shoes for men and n —and the celo- brated Waterbury shoes for Misses and Children. Better than the $2.50 rock. Dressy in appearence and very Fully 50c a pair better than shoes a pair more than the $3 50 L3 { MAIL ORDERS FILLED THE DAY RECEIVED. San Francisco’s Two Largest and Best Shoe Stores Now Housed Together at 8-1530 FILLMORE ST. NEAR O'FARRELL Our New Store at 1100 Van Ness Avenue, corner Geary Street, is now open for business. The Formal Opening will be announced shortly. THE RIGHTWAY i SUCCESSORS TO NOLAN BROS. SHOE CO.