The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1906, Page 6

o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1906. NEWS OF° BER! AKL AND AL AMEDA KELEY THE BA MARIN SAN MATEO ' CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES Berkeley Ladies De- mur to Plan of Reformer, Declare Against His Ante - Nuptial Agreement. WILL ENDEAVOR TO MAKE GARDENERS OF TRUANTS Unruly Boys of the Parental School of Alameda Will Be Given Turn at Manual Labor. Aug. 15.—Weed pu and ling, raking bad boys have to per- 1 school that is to Board of Education in the City Hall of Superintendent that if isinclination to y to play be interested in the manual crafts great good will come to the ju- Personals. 16.—C. D. Hubbard Athens. e Crellin, regis- d wife of Santa etropol wif 3 e at ing from Tonopah. h nimit e BT arents With Carve —Julia Paulme, 5 Ninth y e last ather and mother a carving knife. » McCoy attempted to subdue d was forced to use all his her to the station. is a taflor who was Sa sco, by the fire. vents attending the fire are sup- ed the Call Branch Offices SUBSCRIPTIONS AND ADVERTISEMENTS Wil be received in San Franciseo at the following offices: the th from 1651 FILLMORE STRERT Open until 10 o'clock every night | FERRY DEPOT Adjoining S. P. Ticket Office, foot of Market Street. AT THE SIGN OF THE LANP 647 Turk Street | SIXTEENTH AND MARKET STS Jackson’s Branch. 553 HAIGHT STREET Stationery Store 1006 VALINCIA STREET Rothchild’s Branch. 1531 CHURCH STREET. George Prewitt's Branch. 2200 FILLMORE STREET Woodward's Branch. il Wives Would Rather Search Hubby’s P | | ockets: | i [ | YOUTH HELD FO BEACH MURDER. BISE FIRE RATES N OAKCAND. Insurers Warn Business Men Their Premiums Will Be Much Higher HAZARDS GREATER OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—Fire insurance rates in this city are rising. Many merchants are in receipt of notices from the companies of which they are patrons that they must pay 50 per cent more premium than heretofore on some buildings, and a general increase of not less than 25 per cent {s expected throughout the central business dis- trict. This" action i{s due to the reports of the surveyors of the Pacific Board of Underwriters to that organization, which fixes insurance rates, to the ef- fect that the fire hazards in certain portions of the city have Increased be- cause of varfous conditions. It has been found, so the surveyors ort, that in the central business dis- t numerous alterations and addi- s to wooden Bhildings have been made; that the regulations governing structures within the fire limits have in many cases been practically ig- nored; that factories and warehouses have been erected on sites where fire ains are inadequate, as at Sixteenth- street station and Twenty-third ave- | ne; that there has been no Strength- | ening of the fire department by the idition of men br apparatus since April 18 and that at present hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock | stored in combustible buildings, | any of the structures nét even being | fitted with fire walls. This .city was formerly rated as one of good risks by the insurance com- panies, but with the rush to erect| cheap buildings for ready occupancy | the fire hazard has increased, and with it the rates of insurance. e e e Y D STOCK EXCHANGE OCCUPIES NEW QUARTERS OAKLAN President Miller in His Address to His | Associates Bids Them Look to the Future. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—Commodious and centrally located quarters weres #* opened by the Oakland Stock and Bond | Exchange today on the second floor of the bullding at 462 Twelfth street, between Broadway and Washington. The call room is 60 by 80 feet and is equipped with fifty chairs. There are ninety seats in the lobby and the offices | for the governing body and clerical force are comfortably appointed. President Bernard P. opened the exercises. He address to the economic nd the formation of the declared that Oakland exchange and Miller of !he1 waiter, early yesterday | g £ on suspicion of being one of |was not the place today for a person ur thugs who ered Fred Mul- | With the looking-backward intellect. ach on Sunday “We belong to the future,” said Pres- stoutly protests |ident Miller, “and the future belongs Foundation of the Magnificent at Berkeley Will Soon Be Completed. Hotel Claremont B REGISTRATION AT STANFORD Ten Per Cent Increase| in Applications Over| Those of Last Year, SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Aug. 15. Dr. O. L. Elliott, registrar of Sanford | University, said today that the en-| £ {14 s bt TR AR T e W, ERKELEY, Aug. 15.—Within ten new Claremont Hotel, 2 days the concrete foundations of the which, when completed, will be the most mag- nificent structure of its kind in the vicinity of San Francisco Bay, will LINS TERMINALS FOR REDWOUD. {W. H. H. Hart Makes Great Proposition to Trustees of the Suburb have been completed and the work of erecting the building begun. In accordance with the original plans, the new hotel will be of old English ar- chitecture, and the furnishings throughout will correspond with the building. > police are convinced a participant in the edge of the identity ors. | ry that Wilson is one of | the police have fixed | to his three assoclates, | as have as yet not gathered suf- e to warrant further ar- suspi but they b hy, Riordan, | d Policeman Dow worked | y vesterday on the case, and | t Chief Dinan assisted in the| sweating” adminis- e result of the rigid on was such that it convinced that they were on the right eman Black, who is on duty at ch. was responsible for the cap- The patrolman had no- | 1 waiter about the and in the vicinity young criminals After Sun- ppeared and the led, on investi- . to strong suspicion. All Tues- s night Mulcahy, O'Connell, Riordan | and Dow s hed for Wilson and early | terday morning their quest was suc- | cessful | son is unable to give an explana- | whereabouts of his on Sunday | hang together. He but his appear- e is not more than ed Ralph was taken to esterday, it being be- s one of Wilson’s in- on establishing an alibi| was taken into | custody 1 nht in the park, was also rel day. When he taken before s Norma Plisa | \e young woman who was with Mul nix when 10t down, she de- | a at he was not one of | our desperate robbers. { P lisa ie slowly recovering from of the tragedy. that is laid at the door bandits “ who Kkilled hold-up of Charles Ano of the Mulinix Barron youthful was_the etween Fourteenth and Fif- Barron is a merchant g at 1539 Turk street. While ing on Bryant street with the in- on of taking a car at Sixteenth nd Bryant streets he noticed four voung men standing in the shadow of bankment close to the sidewalk. ted in a suspiclous manner and Barron, becoming alarmed, took from his pocket a revolver which he carried *and proceeded with the weapon in his hand. He paces of the quartet when one of the party, suddenly stepped out upon the sidewalk and going directly up to Bar- ron quickly produced commanded him to throw up his hands. Barron claims that while in the act of complying with the command he suddenly pressed his weapon against the highwayman's breast, remarking that if there was going to be any | shooting both of them would die. Bar- ron says further that he proposed to the hold-up man that they both put their revolvers in their pockets and that Barron would return down Bryvant street the way he had come. Without answering the thug quietly replaced his revolver in his hip pocket, and re- joining his partners the three walked slowly up Bryant street to Fifteenth. e T B What's In a Name, Anyway? BERKELELY, Aug. 15.—Students who took the examination in English today { applicants for admission’ to the university were surprised when their | question papers showed that each ap- plicant was required to pass a test in physics, algebra, geometry and chemis- try, besides the examination in English, all of the subjects being grouped un- | der the head of English. This is the first time that “English” has been made to cover so great a variety of subjects. e Whites First, Japanese Afterward. BERKELEY, Aug. 16.—Report has | been made to the Board of Education | by Superintendent Waterman that it has been found necessary to deny ad- ! mittance to a dozen young Japanese | students. The buildings are over- crowded and preference has been given |te white children. ast Saturday night on Bryant | haq arrived within a few | a revolver and | to us. You may question my belief that the region about'the bay has the potentiality of becoming ene of the world's greatest communities, but look at the existing conditions and the facts and you will question no more. All we need {s men to live in the belief that a greater Oakland is not only possible, but an assured fact—to Iive it every day and to make no con- .cessions to that prehistoric fossil, the man with the doubt.” After President Mlller's address M. J. Laymance took charge of the meet- ing. Short talks were made by Mayor Frank K. Mott, former Mayor William | R. Davis, Sol Kahn, Frank Bilger, Wil- bur Walker, A. Jonas, W. J. Downey and R. H. Chamberlain. % The Oakland Stock and Bond Ex- change was organized four months ago and now has a membership of 127. The officers are: President, Bernard P. Miller; vice president, E. H. Kramer; treasurer, Charles D. Bates; secretar: D. Davies; assistant secretary, A. E. Gray. e CHARGES AGAINST POLICEMAN ARE DISMISSED BY BOARD Commissioners Free One Patrolman and Fix Date for Trial of Another. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—The Board of Police and Fire Commissioners this morning dismissed the charges against Policeman James J. Fenton by |C. O. Olivier, a West Oakland saloon- keeper. The hearing of the charges preferred by Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin against Policeman J. P. Scanlan, whom she charges with having brutally mistreat- ed her on Augupt 1 while placing her |under arrest on a charge of drunken- ness, will be heard by the board at a special session to be held Saturday, August 18. A petition signed by forty residents of North Oakland, asking that the name of Racine street be changed to “Bush- | rod boulevard,” in honor of Dr. Bushrod |James, who donated Bushrod Park to the city of Oakland, was presented to the Board, of Public Works this morn- |ing. —_— League of Cross Vaudeville Show. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—Company N, League of the Cross Cadets will give a minstrel and vaudeville show tomor- row evening at St. Mary’s Hall, Seventh and Grove streets. The proceeds are to go to the uniform fund. Sergeant Charles M. Herkenham, chairman; Lieu- tenant James V. Fitzsimmons, Sergeant George Courtney, Corporal J. G. Pre- vost, Privates J. B. Doling, J. P. Mar- tin, J. P. Flannery and J. Sheehan are the committee of arrangements, and Sergeant H. J. Fazakerley, Private J. P. Callaghan, Musical Director Walter | J. Herkenham are the press committee. St e No Cruelty at Fineh Orphanage. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—The directors of the Finch Orphanage say that the story published in a San Francisco newspaper of cruelty to children is a gross exaggeration. There was no | eruelty in the punishment Imposed for | violations of the rules of the institu- tion. Mrs. Martha E. Larkey says the boys were spanked soundly—nothing mare, Miss Webb, against whom the charges were made, is a woman of high character and has a splendid reputation as a teacher of children. Tne directors wili demand a retrac- tion. | | | { | | | | | e T Verdicts in Mahon-Reed Case. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—The last act in the tragedy which ended the lives of John T. Mahon, manager of the Ideal Yeast and Baking Company, and Mrs. Lola Reed, wife of John Reed, for- merly a San Francisco newspaper man, was enacted tonight, when the Coro- ner's jury returned a verdict that Ma- | hon had come to his death from a gun- shotwound inflicted by Lola Reed, and that Mrs. Reed had taken her own life. | —— | Street Employes Ask for Raise. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—Fifty-one em- ployes of the Street Department of Oakland filed this morning with the | Board of Public Works a petition ask- ing that the wages of the employes be increased from $2.25 to $2.50 a day. After some discussion the petition was referred to the committee of the whole. filed | trance registration is 10 per cent larger | | than the number at this time last year. | Last August, 330 matriculated, against a total of 360 filed so far, making this year's registration the largest on record. A slight drop in the number of older students is expected by Dr.. Elllott, as‘ many have been affected by the new order of things, but this will not offset the increase in new students. “It is rather perplexing,” said Dr. Elliott, “to see the attendance increas- | ed to diminish, but from my observa- | tions this morning on the work of re-| Professor C. D. Mard of the engi-| neering commission, saild this noon:| “The plastering and work on the build- | ings which will be occupied by classes | 28, if not before.” HFTY ARE KILLED BY EXPLOGION. EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 15.—It is re- ported here that between thirty-and fifty Mexican laborers and bystanders were killed this afternoon at 4:30 in Chihauhau, Mexico, by the explosion of a carload of dynamite on the Mexican Central Rallroad. The car was being transferred for transportation to the Robinson mine at Santa Eulalia. Bodies and pleces of human flesh were hurled into the air and picked up a mile dis- tant. Windows were broken in almost every house in town, and many walls were cracked. Several American fore- men are reported among the killed. HEANY SENTENCES GIVEN SOLDIERS The officers at the Presidio have de- termined to give heavy sentences to all soldiers who create disturbances either on the reservation or near the gates. In consequence Private Abner E. Rus- sell of the Twenty-seventh Company of Coast Artillery, who was found guilty of an attempt to stab a com- tade, was yesterday sentenced to five years on Alcatraz Island. Several other privates were found guilty of having created disturbances near the Lom- bard-street gate and each was sen- tenced to six months in the guard- house and a $60 fine. ¢ Private Russell was reduced from the rank of corporal some time ago and also served a term in the guardhouse for disorderly conduct. Private Earl W. Ralston was found guilty of assault with intent to kill and sentenced to one year on Alcatraz. Private Willlam H, Stratton was given six months and a $60 fine for flourish- ing a loaded revolver and threatening to kill the guard which was sent to arrest him. Should Private Hyde of the Artillery Corps be found guilty of stabbing two infantrymen and given a heavy sen- tence all the disorderly soldiers, with one or two exceptions, will be serving long sentences. Hyde is being held pending the result of the injuries to one of his victims, who is still in a critical condition. LRt R Would Carve His Debtor. BERKELEY, Aug. 15.—S. Ura, a Jap- anese who conducts an employment agency at 2128 Center street, last night attempted to kill J. Hirsch, proprietor of a restaurant on Center street. The Japanese had an argument with the restaurant man over a bill for services rendered, and when denied the money he believed was due him started a fight. Windows were broxen and fur- niture smashed before he was thrown out. He returned prepared for car- nage armed with a Japanese sword. Chief Volmer, who was on the spot, disarmed him and put him under ar- rest. The grounds of the new hotel comprise twenty-five acres of the most beautiful landscape in Alameda County, and are perfectly suited for the site of a tourist hotel. These grounds have been carefully kept up for more than a quarter of a century, and are already thickly planted with rare flowers and shrubs. In addition to the hotel proper there will be erected a modern clubhouse and a garage for the aceommodation of visiting motorists. These will be located directly to the west and close to the terminus of the new Claremont line of the Key Route ferry system, 300 feet of the hostelry. Between the Key Route depot and the entrance to the hotel will ing when it would naturally be expect-| orecteq an artificial tunnel, brilllantly lighted by electricity, which will fur- nish a covered passageway from the station to the hotel pair I think we will be amply able to| garage will also be reached by covered passages. supply the needs of a full registration.” | puildipg will extend a promenade porch, nearly an eighth of a mile in length, which will be within about be The clubhouse and Along the front of the and from which may be obtained a magnificent view of the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay. Located to the north of the hotel, and concealed from view by a grove of will all be done shortly after August|irees, will be located the power-house and outbuildings, while to the east | will be a backsground of gigantic eucalyptus trees. The grounds, to corre- spond with the architecture of the building, will be laid out in old English style. Already about $40,000 has been spent In grading and foundation work, and when completed it is estimated by Dickey & Reed, the architects of the struc- ture, the hotel will have cost, with the clubhouse, garage and outbuildings, half a million dollars. = S WOMAN GROPES WAY THROUGH BLINDING SMOKE TO SAFETY Ocenpant of Room in Burning Building Nearly Loses Life Because of Jammed Door. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—Mrs. J. E. Cardoza, residing in a lodging-house at Second and Market streets, faced death this afternoon in a fire which for a time threatened the destruction of the building. The fire originated in the factory of F. Kuehne & Son, while Mrs. Cardoza was in her room on the floor above. When she found the building on fire the woman rushed to the door, only to find it immovable. Frantic with terror, she threw her- self again and again against the door. ‘When she was almost suffocated by the smoke, which poured into the room from below, the barrier to her escape gave way. Mrs. Cardoza groped her way to the stairs and made her way to the street, where, overcome by ex- citement and fright, she fell fainting to the ground. She was carried into the house of a nelghbor, where restora- tives were applied, and after some diffi- culty she was revived. The fire was extinguished. SIS R Abandon Hope of Recovering Body. BERKELEY, Aug. 15.—All hope of recovering the body of Russell Colby, the seventeen-year-old son of Professor George E. Colby, who disappeared somewhere along the banks of the Truckee River last Saturday, has been abandoned. Waldo Colby, a brother of the missing boy, returned home today from the scene of the search. Profes- sor Colby will remain in the mountain country for several days longer. The dead boy was spending his vacation in the Sierra with Waldo Colby, and be- came lost while fishing in the Truckee. He is believed to have been druwned.. SR B R i R M e ‘Wants More Policemen. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—The finance committee of the City Council will hold a special meeting tomorrow evening to consider the application of Chief of Police Wilson for fifty more patrol- men. He declares this increase to be necessary owing to the growth of the city's population. The finance commit- tee will probably recommend that thirty mere patrolmen be appointed, which will mean an increase of $36,000 a year to pay the city's statutory salaries. —_— San Mateo County Bonds Carry. REDWOOD CITY, Aug. 15.—THhe citi- zens of San Mateo County voted today by a large majority the bonds for re- pairing and refurnishing the County Court house—$125,000 for the repair | work and $25,000 for the furniture. —_— Berkeley Citizen Loses Wife. BERKELEY, Aug. 15—Mrs. A. R. Frame, wife of A. R. Frame, a former Town Trustee, died today at her resi- dence at 2158 Ashby avenue. She was 55 years old. Her death was not un- expected. S Y STENOGRAPHER IS VICTIM OF A COOL SNEAKTHIEF Young Woman Finds Purse Is Missing When Visitor to Lawyer's Office Takes Departure. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—Miss Lillian in the law office of Oliver Elsworth, in the Macdonough building, this after- ncon confronted a sneakthief in the of- of the crook she allowed bhim to es- cape without giving an alarm, only to find a moment later that he had stolen her purse, which had been left on her desk. A few minutes before the thief had broken open a desk in the office of Mrs. Helen L. Kelly, a notnryl.7 th‘o occupies room 71, in the same building, from which about $10 in coin. it —_— Goes Back to Agnews. ALAMEDA, Aug. 15.—Chris Silva, Wwho was a patient at the State Asy- lum for the Insane at Agnews and who escaped from that institution at the time of the earthquake, was arrested here today at the request of brother and will be turned over te the asylum officials. Silva has been living in Oakland and this city since his es cape. —_— Quarry Company at Point Richmond. MARTINEZ, Aug. 15—The San Pablo Quarry Company, of which Anson Blake, the Oakland banker, isthe head, is preparing to handle an {mmense vol- ume of business at the plant now un- der construction at Point Richmond. A crew of fifty men is employed prepar- ing the site for the machinery, some of which is on its way from the East. ———a Long Term for Chinese Footpad. MARTINEZ, Aug. 16.—Ham Tonsg, one of a quartet of Chinese who held up four of their countrymen at Byron on September 9 of last year and secured $1100 in cash, was sentenced to twenty- five years at Folsom yesterday by Judge Wells. A companion, Louie Poi, was recently convicted, but has not yet been sentenced. Roark, employed as a stenographer | fice, but deceived by the cool demeanor | his | Trustees of Redwood C and revealed an alleged inals here for t t lines. Hart represented Terminal Compa is allezed to Bros. back The magn P ed be of New York the plans startled the Although heartily in fa osition, the Board of Tru matter under advisement and will attempt to-give an answer for several weeks. The proposed rallroad, Hart, will be an electric on is to run trains from San F far south as Monterey at firet, later run through overlands into Utah | ana Nevada to Denver, connecting with and several of the big tramnscontinental lines. Hart declared he was not ap- plying for the right of way in the in- terests of the Western Pacific. but would be glad to allow that railroad to use his right of way to reach San Francisco. If the Trustees grant the right te traverse several of the town thorough- | fares Hart sald he will seek a similar | privilege at San Mateo. He has al- | ready secured a franchise in Palo Alto. Work, he sald, will be started upon the {line mext spring and will be finished | and trains running the following Janu- ary. To insure this the company wiil place bonds to any amount required. A canvass of the property owners will | be imstituted and an answer given to | the representative of the alleged road |as soon as the decision of the Trustees has been reached. —_— ASK COURT TO UNTIE KNOT | THAT DID NOT EXIST | San Mateo Couple Secking Diverce Learn That They Were Never Legally Married. REDWOOD CITY, Aug. 15.—Judge Buck yesterday annulled the marriage of Manuel V. Mancebo to Marie F. 8 B. Mancebo. The marriage was illegal becauss Mrs. Mancebo, who had been married before, had failed to have made final the interlocutory decree of di- | vorce she obtained from her first hus- | bpand. Mancebo’s two children were legitimatized by the court. b Qe Trustees Settle Grade Row. SAN MATEO, Aug. 15.—The grade quarrel between the property-owners of San Mateo Helights and the Board | of Trustees has béen settled by the | town officials. The property-owners | protested at the grade of the street | and held a mass-meeting to secure an | adjustment. They had a split among | themselves and to settle the question | amicably the Trustees decided to estab- lish the gradeas it stands at the present time. This stand will leave the tracks of the United Rallroads in thelr present | condition. —_— Road to San Mateo Beach. | SAN MATEO, Aug. 15.—Millionaire | Charles W. Clark. son of Senator Clark, and Henry P. Bowle, capitalist, have been granted ninetys days by the Board of Trustees of San Mateo to fin- ish their electric road through the town. They applied for the franchise some time ago, but as yet have not made any headway. They have a $5000 bond up and assure the officials that within the required time they will have the rails laid to the ocean beach, two | miles distant, where a summer resort lis\ to be established. 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