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Heavy Voting Ex- pected in Con- test Today the quietest n th stants do not hold the votes they to swell t to make a e Sunday Call. Last relp as elr ntestants will govern them- the little Ital- Mont e of yesterday Swiss gir f Blance, was the heroin registered from Iversen ter went each account of Miss Potter almost caught up on ivan e. er 8000 to S: Jose or Miss Bresch ping the bumps next. a2 windfall 2500 n vester w ini ¥ ceive of néd 3300, and will place her hurch aletic pies elever gure 1 the re NDITIONS OF THE L CONTEST Little Swiss Girl Sets Her Eye on the Leading Money Prize + e gold prize con- | THE SAN ¥ TODAY’S SCORES FOR SECOND SERIES OF PRIZES 1—Miss Norma Merani, 5613 Vallejo street, Oakland, Cal... 2—Mrs. J. F. Doherty, 920 Fourteenth street, Sacramento, Oal.. 3—Sacred Heart College, Fell street, near Fillmore, Sen Francisco . . 145,000 . 141,950 122,950 | 12—Miss Lols B. Pfitzer, Newman, Stanislaus County, Cal (-—M_hl Emilie Hayward, Martinez, Contra Costa County, Cal . 74,000 5—William Emerson (“Jack the Newsboy”), San Jose, Cal <rae. 61,560 g—-)flll Rose Breschini, Blanco, Monterey County, Cal. - . 50,800 7—Emile Iversen, Sausalito, Marin County, Cal.. . e 43,250 | S—Miss Tillle Harts, Danville, Contra Costa County, Cal. veee. 41,550 | s—m Ethel Potter, Newman, Stanislaus County, Cal weee. 39,250 10—Miss Mollye Sheridan, 39 Sutter street, Stockton, Cal <eu.. 28,850 11—Cbrist Church Athletic Club, Sausalito, Cal......... . . 23,750 ay as any other, | | voting power of subscriptions for any San Francisco | 13—Miss Gladys Adcock, 13 Franklin Square, 14—Miss Irma Klaumanzn, Pacific Grove, Monterey County, Cal | 15—James Anis Quinn, 730 Fell street, Sam Francisco...... ven.. 14,700 | 16—Mrs. Rosa E. Tracy and son, San Rafael, Marin County, Cal........ 14,300 17—Tobin and Winchester, 67th Coast Artillery, Presidio, S, F....... 14,200 | 18—George H. Angove, Sonoma, Sonoma County, Cal. 5 ..... 13,500 19—Niss Theresa Coleman, Point Richmond, Contra Costa County, Cal. 12,950 20—Mrs. Mary C. Deasy, box 128, Napa, Cal......... ceee. 12,700 21—Hattie M. Hoppock, Fresno, Cal. 22—Miss Effic Vaughn, Merced, Cal. 23—Miss Elizabeth Bockerman, 1628 24—Henry Pope, 1416 Valencia street, Sun Francisco. .. | 25—Mrs. Ellen Smith, Walnut Creek, Cal............ 26—Walter Hamshaw, 1320 Oxford street, Berkeley, Cal FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, | | EDITED BY the council was that the grade of high school. The principal discussion at last night's meeting of the Labor Council was upon | constitutional amendment No. 11, npw | 0'clock in the morning and to close at | pending before the Legislature, provid- | 6 in the evening, except on Saturday | ing for the supplying of free textbooks to the public schools. The opinion of privilege should be extended to the parochial and | private schools in the State up to the| Father Mulli- | FEBRUARY 16, '1907. O. M. BOYLE [ Resolutions passed by the clerks ask 1the merchants not to open before 7| nights. A schedule has been prepared by the clerks. and been presented to the merchants, which, it is believed, will be acceptable to them. . . . Three unions formed recently in Eu- NERRLY SIX HUNORED BESTALRANTS IN CITY San Francisco Rehabilitated as Far as Its Grills Are Concerned Always remarkable for the number and variety of its restaurants, San | Francisco has been completely rehabili- tated as far as its grill accommodations are concerned. In a report issued yes- terday by W. V. Stafford, State Labor Commissioner, it is pointed out that 599 public eating houses, exclusive of hotels and boarding-houses, are now in| operation imiithe city. In these estab- | lishments 4888 persons find employment | and seating room {s afforded for 39,463 | | patrgns. Far more than this number, however, are regular patrons of restau- i rants, for several establishments feed | | A Chickering Quarter Grand Where Your Upright Now Stands Both take up the same room— but the tone of the Quarter Grand has a richness and depth pianoforte. For the Chickering Quarter Grand s simply a Chickering an average of twice their seating ca- pacity three times daily. There are at present fifty-one Japan- ese and ten Chinese restaurants in San | 27—Bud Benjamin (“Buster Brown”), 28—Miss Pearl Van Meter, Lafayette, 29-—Miss Hattie Eden, 23 Ritch street, 30—Earl E. Gifford, Alamo, Contra Cost: 31—Miss Anna Skinwer, 14 A street, W 82—Joseph Fassler, 340 Chapultepec st Angel Isl Contra Costa County, Cal San Francisco a County, Cal. hington Square, S. F reet, San Frauelsco. reka—Bartenders' League, the Ship Calkers and the Federal Union—have not vet affiliateti with the central body | in that city. The organizing commit- | tee of the council was instructed at| the last meeting to visit these organ- izations and urge affillation. gan's opinion was quoted to the effect | that between 50,000 and 100,000 chil- | dren were being educated in Catholic | and other private schools, which is a | |direct saving to taxpayers in the cost of { their education, and that the money saved could be applied to the furnishing Francisco. hours. In the Japanese cafes it aver ages twelve hours and in some cases | extends to fifteen. “The general sanitation and cleanli- In the Caucasian restau- | rants the time of labor averages ten | Concert Grand on a smaller scale. The tone of the Chick- ering Concert Grand stands un- rivaled. The Quarter Grand re- 33—Miss Magna Steinkamp, Rescue, El Dorado County, Cal. 34—Edward A. Cornell, Porterville, Tulare County, Cal 35—Miss Gertrude Briody, 38 Park street, Santa Crus L Use this coupon in remilting price of a subscription in favor some coniesiant: Contest Editor, San Francisco Call: Find inclosed §.......... «ssse...CALL for 190. ................ .. Credit votes in GOLD PRIZE CONTEST in favor of the following No. of VOTES DUE named contestant Address Name of Subscriber NEW or OLD Subscription Address ALL, Suhsc INCLUDING iption Rates SUNDAY n Time. By Carrier. By Mail. Votes. )f selecting the winners P o prizes preparing their sub- ““'“i:;_ ;‘:‘,23 ions for any length of time that 2 e g all pard sub. |10 Months 2000 g for a certain number | © Months . be o in favor of 8 Memthn 1500 whom the subscriber | . Months 1360 ssist in getting a share | o Months ot the money. The contestant receiv- | 5 Months 09 & the highest number of such voges | 4 Months 90 ing any contest period will receive | 3 Yonths ot largest purse; the one receiving the | 3 r““' " i highest number of votes the RO g -~ se, and so on until the SUNDAY CALL izes allotted for that pe- |One Year ......$2.50 $2.50 500 ed. The same rule will | Six Months .... 135 125 200 final distribution of the ST zes given for the highest ag- ; MWHEELE CALL e €regate scores. One Year . 5 i * $1.00 Six Months 50 50 VOTING POWER OF SUBSCRIPTIONS The following table shows the sub- scription rates of The Call and the For periods of more than one year the voting power of the subscriptions will be as follows: Dalily Call, 3000 votes for each year; Sunday Call, 750; period paid’ for: Weekly Call, 500. WOMEN TRIGED UP FOR~ GAAND JURY TO CLOSE AGTIVE WORK TO BEGIN HOURS BY BRUTAL THUG inds Her Hands and Feet and Imprisons Her in Clothes Closet out o'clock, gate and inq: nd sacks; how he had g closer r, and a she nd had zed the " to b im w he er by dra to her her and and er her hand thrust ¥ then tied wall several her head. In this positi found three hours € er-in-law, E. H. Co- ze car conductor on the line, and when released il in a swoon on the sband was imm telephone, and, after extent of wife's in- that she prop- set out in search of _answer the descrip- wife Jeremia who keeps & grocery on the cormer near the Cozeau home and which place the man visited jately before attacking the R S - e I Going to Europe Call or write (Limited), 42 San Frlncilc.o. Set of Stations of the Cross to Be Blessed new set of Stations of the Cross will » biessed in St u\ ctreet. by Very Rev. Maximilian, “¥. M., St. Boniface Church. This is the first set of stations onically erected in the north end, jeast of the burned district, since @re. It is expected that a large concourse of worshipers will be pres- | ent at the ceremony. ——————— De You Carry a Knife? all kinds. Stoltz's, 1835 We ocarry Sutten . Francis Church, Val- | |Investigates Violation of|Son of Promoter of Vast| . Laws by Sam Davis Enterprise Pays Visit and Others to San Francisco |of works and Commissioners Bd Aigel- | | fire I have not taken my wife to a thea- | | ter, knowing the constant danger to the THE FIRETRAP THEATERS ON BERING SEA ROAD crThe indifterence to the Jafety of pa- | Rene de Lobel, a French mining en- 4 deflance of the building ordi- | gineer, has been in San Francisco the fagrantly by the last few days partly for his health agement of the Davis Theater, in and partly to promote the project of Allister street, near Fillmore, and in (a Siberian-Alaskan railway, for which sser degree by the managements of | his father, Count de Lobel, has re- other playhouses in the city, were | ceived a commission from the Russian cts yesterday of an investiga- | Government. bi r.fi}:je Grfll?«:‘ Jury. )That body is | business in the city yesterday and left determined to make the theaters either | for Los Angeles, where e will make hn;' B L 5 qdu rements n{ the | a brief stay before departing for Paris. 3 ard of Public Works | As explained yesterday by De Lobel 5. 5ibis Fhieh at the Hotel Savoy, the proposed rail- eloped that Mayor Schmitz was |T0ad wiil connect with the Trans- v responsible for the existence of | Siberlan line at Irkutsk. The main ch firetraps as the Davis Theater and | line Will extend north of Lake Baikal the other places maintained in violation | to East Cape, in Siberla. At this point of the building ordinances. Supervisor it will run tl)rough tunnels to be con- Sam Davis, owner of the Davis Theater, structed under Bering Strait to, Cape helped to enact the very laws that he | Prince of Wales Island, thence through BeS 5 Doty Vikiatatt. | Alaska and a portion’ of Canada to The ordinances require that all thea- | POrt Simpson, where it will connect ter buildings shall be fireproof, class A | With the Grang Trunk, making an all- structures, and it is expected that the | rail route from any of the principal jury will recommend that the Board of | cities of the Dominion or the United Works exert its prerogatives and close | States to Paris. all the houses that are dangerous. The| The concession obtained from the only theaters In town which contorm | Russian Government includes a right to the ordinances are the American, the | 0f Way across Siberia, with a_ stretch Orpheum and the Colonial. The Colo-'|Of 1and five miles wide on either side nial fails in a few particulars to meet | Of the track. The sale of these lands, the requirements of the ordinances. |t is figured, will bring In a sufficient The representatives of the Board of |'éVenue to carry the project to com- Works, who testified yesterday, put the | Pletion. blame for the deathtraps on Mayor| The most interesting feature of the Schmitz, who, it was explained, had is- | Plan is the proposed tube under Ber- sued special permits for them. It was|iPS Sca. As outlined yesterday by also_asserted that the policeman on the | D¢ Lobel, three tunnels will be con- beat in each instance had been derelict |Structed. The first will rulf from East in his duty in falling to report viola- | C8pe in Siberia to Little Diemede tions of the building laws. The wit- |Island, the second to Big Diomede nesses examined were Fire Marsnal | 1sland and the third to Cape Prince Charles Towe; Louls Levy, secretary of (0f Wales. None of these tunnels will the Board of rfublic Works; John P.|De more than eleven miles long, and Horgan, chief of the bureau of inspec- | the total distance across the channel tion of the Board of Works, and Chiet Will not exceed twenty-eight miles. P. Shaughnessy of the Fire Department. | According to the terms of the con- President George Duffey of the Board ce®slon, work must be begun not later than May 1 of this year. A force of surveyors, under Captain Healy, left tinger and Thomas Egan were in at-| De Lobel completed his | of textbooks. from the Police Commission and other corporations for the appoint- ment of their employes as special po- I licemen. The matter of seating Alexander Di- | referred to ine executive committee. The vacancy on the executive board | was filled by the election of M. E. | Decker. George A. Tracy was elected a di- | rector of the Labor Clarion. | Wwalter | is to hold a mass meeting on Sunday, Macarthur will be one of the | oned in Idaho. ers’ Union was indorsed. A declaration of intentlon to levy a boycott against B. E. Kraft's carriage shop at Twenty third and Bartlett streets was sent to the executive com- | mittee for investigation. . . . Steam Laundry Workers' Union No. 26 has sent a dispatch to Mayor Schmitz, now in Washington, urging a total exclusion of the Japanese from this country. . . Blacksmiths' and Oakland No. 100 met Wednesday night with A. L. Wind in the chalr. Seven | candidates were obligated. It was re- | ported that 98 per cent of the craft in | Oakland were in the union. The local has decided to affiliate with the Iron | Trades Council of San Francisco and will send delegates to the next meeting of the council, which will be held on Monday night, February 25. Rty | Butchers’ Union No. 115 was in regu- lar session Wednesday night presiding. Ten candidates were initlated and fourteen applications for member- ship received. pointed to the executive committee. local. at 306 Fourteenth street and can be found there dally from 9 a. m. to 12 m. and the international will be trans- acted there. mass-meeting in San Jose tomorrow will be addressed by a brother of Presi- dent Moyer. G. W. Moyer is a resi- the story of the arrest and Imprison- ment. She, too, is City. the anguish and humiliation she en- dured during the long months her son was imprisoned. Another speaker will be N. S. Griest, whose newspaper at Cripple Creek, Colo., was confiscated by the militia. a resident of . . . | Clerks’ Association for a shorter work |day is gaining headway. Many mer- chants in that city are willing to close earlier if it can be made universal | Half Day The council received a communication | stating | that ciose scrutiny would be given to the application of the United Railroads | jeau;” from the Stablemen’'s Union, was | Macarthur was appointed a | delegate to the Defense League, which | March 1 chell, Thomas Kelleher, M. Schaff, M. speakers. The purpose of the league is | Geary, George Roe, D. H. Leavitt, L. to raise money for the defense of Moyer, | Brennan, M. Manning and Rufus Stowe. | Hayward and Pettibone, now impris- . . . The wage scale of the Cemetery Work- Helpers' Union of in the | Labor Council Temple, President Wenk | Joseph M. Lyons, Louis | A. Noonan and Henry Cobbert were ap- | Plaps are to be laid to strengthen the | .41 pe enlisted. Secretary Murray has his office All local business relating to the union The Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone dent of San Jose and he will relate Another speaker who will claim |the earnest attention of the hearers| will be gthe mother of Vincent St. John. the Garden She will convey as best she can The movement of the Grass Valley| | LA TR Plumbers’ Union of Vallejo gave a| banquet the other evening to cele-| brate the progress and success which | it has attained during its short ex- istance. Five hours were spent at the banquet board. Frank H. Lee was toastmaster. All the speeches were| timely and many were mirth-provoking. | | Among those present were: President {F. C. Streeter, Frank H. Lee, J. F. | Cunningham, J. R. Clark, H. Rolichick, | August Hellerman, Henry Hellerman, Daniel Grimes, Louis Farrell, Clem Schwartz, Charles Ortlieb, Charles Me- Keown, George Glover, J. F. Galvin, George Cassidy, Henry Wunnenberg, Frank Taylor, Frank Donovan, Harold | Hanson, C. L. Wisecarver, Wayne Win- At the last meeeting of the Santa Rosa Labor Council the following offi- cers were elected: President, Henry A. Muegge vof Brewery Workman Union No. 8; vice president, J. A. Reynolds of Federal Laborers’ Union No. 10,185; secretary-treasurer, John J. Murphy of Painters’ Union No. 364; trustees—Albert P. Head of Teamsters’ Union No. 589, Emil Bunlman of Mu- sicians’ Union No. 293 and J. Smith of Bartenders’ League No. 826; warden, A. Erinson of the Santa Rosa Branch of Bakers' Union. . . . Cooks’ and Waiters' Union of Vallejo is making a determined fight against the non-union restaurants and hotels of that city. At the last meeting of the Vallejo Trades and Labor Council the plan of the cooks and waiters was laid before that body and the executive committee was instructed to give all the aid possible to unionize the restau- rants and hotels of that city. . . . The Contra Costa Labor Council will entertain its friends Thursday even- ing, February 21, in Maple Hall, Point | Richmond, with a musical and literary | entertainment, to be followed by a| dance. The committees in charge prom- ise an enjoyable time to all who at- tend. The programme is being prepared | with much care and the best talent A delegation from this city will attend the entertainment. . . . The Building Trades Council of Monterey County at’ its last meeting | installed the following officers: Pres- ident, F. Wymer; first vice president, H. R. Hall; second vice president, C. P. Carmody; financial secretary and busi- ness agent, C. L. Utter; treasurer, J. H. Ashby. . . . The executive council of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Teamsters has | decided that Alexander Dijeau is a| member of Stablemen's Union, notwith- | standing the expulsion from the Milk | Wagon Drivers' Union. It was con-| tended that Dijeau could not join an| affiliated union until he had made his peace with his former local. According| to the executive council of the parent body this is not necessary. Some time ago Dijeau was sent as delegate to the| Labor Council from the stablemen’s union, but’that body refused to seat| him. | G 9000 Western grocers return dissat- isfled customers’ money for coffee and | tea—Schilling’s Best. . 1 Saturday ness of the restaurants of San. Fran- cisco as & whole,” says the report,| “compare favorably with conditions be- fore the fire. produces its superb “tome quality,” but with lesser volume. ws CURTAZ* = 1615 VAN NESS NEAR CALIFORNI A MA THEATRE OAKLAND Chas. P. Hall, Sole Prop. and Managem All Next, Week MATINEES FRIDAY (Washington's Birthday), SATURDAY | | | | | | { CDONOUGH Only enghgement in this this attraction d net m‘u:t cisco this se: . KLAW & ERLANGER Present the Biggest Musical Play Sue= \ cess of Recent Years, Geo. M. Cohan’s Best Play, a Comedy with Musie, = Three Screaming Acts. 1 . WITH 45 Minutes o BY [From e s | A Made by a scientific blend- | Bmadway . ing of the best Cocoa beans grown in the tropics—the result of 126 years of suc- cessful endeavor. A new and handsomely illustrated Recipe Book sent free WALTER BAKER & €0, Lid Established 1780 DORGHESTER, MASS. 30 Ghickeo 20 \Ew Yo COHAN’S Best Song Hits “So Long, Mary. “45 Minutes From B-way. “Mary Is a Grand Old Name.” “A Popular Millionaire.” PRICES—350¢, 7S¢, $1.00, $1.50. TEA Fine tea is so daintily fine that a man (or even a | woman) Imay down without i 151‘%:“. the world, and PA it. Prices—Evenings, 10e, 23c. 50c box seats, A Schilling & Company, San Franeisco 8 Matines (s3cept Sunder)- 10e. 0 aud 30e. ELLIS STREET, NEAR FILLMORE. Absolutely Class ‘A’ Theater Building. MATINEE TODAY AND EVERY DAY 'AVaudeville Conste'ation! .. | LASKY.ROLFE QUINTETTE: NELLIE gobble Itlno%:&m COMPANY: THE GREA Tlllv. £ | S; ELEANOR snx!g suspecting | 5% .};xnlgggsz HEUX e FALKZ ORP] MOTION ITTLE HIP. the smallest BRANCH OFFICES Subscriptions and Advertise- | MATINEE TODAY Tonight. Sunday Night and Al SPECIAL MAT. “UN/ MATINEE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. * DUSTIN FARNUM In Owen Wister's Romance of the West, THE [ e st VIRGINIAN ! ments will be received in San | Francisco at following offices: 1651 FILLMORE STREST Open until 10 o'clock every n. ht. NESS AVENUB PRICES—$1.50. Stationery Store, $1, 50¢ Coming—CRESTON CLARKE. SIXTEENTH AND MARKET Rt S ™ | COLONIAL THEATER 533 HAIGHT STREET | ristian’s Branch i " | MeAlltster st., near Market. ne Market 920, Martin F. Kurtzig, Pres. and Mgl 1096 VALENCIA STREET Rothschild’s Branch. | LAST FOUR PERFORMANCES. Matinees Today and Tomorrow. 1581 CHURCH STREBT ‘ THE HALF BREED George Prewitt's Branch. Beginning M Feb. 18, GRAND 3200 FILLMORE STREET N DOUB! BILL. Oscar Wilde's Great Tragedy. ‘Woodward's Branch. SALOME | Preceded by the Delighttul Comedy. LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS STS. THEATER | 555 50, Toe. $1._ Sw aad | Market and 7th | Sunday Matiness, e and S0c. Bagain boue Macket 33! | RIeE0Re(s e wonler & o Gutter aad Every car lne fa the city tramaters to 818 | Frankity streets. estern Kmusement Co.. Propa. et ALTER SANFORD, Mir MATINEE AND TONIGHT. TOMORROW MATINEE AND NIGHT. LAST TIMES. Frank W, Healy Presents The San Francisco Opera Company | nance. Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock a | Chief Shaughnessy strongly condemned tendance at the meeting, but were not | called upon to testify. The Grand Jury will hear their explanations next Tues- day. Towe testified to the many violations of the building ordinances in the mat- | ter of wooden buildin within the fire Jmits, as well as in the construction of | theaters that are firetraps. “Since the | lives of those who attend,” the Fire Marshal Levy and Horgan both testified that the Board of Pubiic Works had paid no attention to the comstruction of build- ings erected in violation of the ordi- There was no record of the fire- trap theaters in the files of the board. declared the theater bulldings of the city. He| was commended by the jurors for the work that he has done in re-establish- ing the efficiency of the Fire Depart- ment. The Grand Jury adopted a resolution to be transmitted to the Board of Su- pervisors asking for the repeal of the ordinance prohibiting passengers on the | United Railroads system from riding on the outside of cars. The jurors agreed that the ordinance was solely to the advantage of the car company, which might use it as & defense In case San Francisco for Alaska in Decem- ber of last year and has begun pre- liminary operations on the Alaska side. Active work is about to begin in Si- beria. ' The American branch of the com- pany was recently incorporated in New Jersey. The engineering work ' has been placed under the control of P. Waddell of Chicago. “American meth- ods,” sald De Lobel yesterday, “will prevail throughout the enterprise.” —— PRAGERS PURCHASE STOCK The entire stock of women's wearing apparel of the Ideal Cloak and Suit Company, formerly located at 2356 Mis- sion street, has been purchased by the firm of Pragers at Market and Jones streets and shortly will be put on sale. The purchase was made from the trus- tées of the Mission company. The stock secured for the Market-street house is large and makes a considerable addi- tion to the selection of suits and cloaks already carried by the buyers. A A A A A A A A AN of suits for damages ‘brought by per- sons hurt. Police Captain Maoney, Foreman Oli- ver and Assistant District Attorney He- ney had an informal conference on the SPECIAL From 1 to 5 o’clock this afternoon ounly. A solid quarter-sawed oak Library Table, which would ac- tually cost you about $12.50 if sold at its regular price. Popular “Mission” style and in rich weathered finish. Heavy square gosta and securely put together. The picture above is a faith- ul representation in every detail. ‘We have been now we want to introduce our furniture s with our new store. known as a carpet store for forty years— acquaint you BT IRPELS, FURITIRE DRERES— In the Romantie Comic Opers, ThePrincess Chic Book by Kirke La Shelle. Musie by 73 Now SELLTNG AT BOX OFF SEATS NOW SELLING AT OFFICB and Kobler & Sutter CENTRAL THEATE VAot Sod st mex. Baons Starket 19 Matinee Today - Sunday Matinee, " FRA junday e Night, “LA GI "4 ek Jullan Bdwards. and Franklia m"u—m SINGING Gla R Skating Rink Now Open DN i Ses SROtNDS AND F00 BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW IN CHUTES THEATER RACING NEW CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB