The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1907, Page 16

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1907 O AL fi'&king?owder Absolutely Pure A wholesome’ cream of tartar baking powder. Makes the finest, lightest, best flavored biscuit, hot- breads, cake and pastry. Royal Baking Powder is free from alum and phosphatic acids ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORKs NARROW ESCAPE OF MAN BARBERS IN A HOTEL WHO MADE WRONG COUNT WIELD RAZORS IN FIGHT Tiscalculates the Number of One Will Lose Arms, Other Loads in Revolver and Arrested for Assault to Shoots Self Commit Murder H. employed in the Hotel argument Tuesday, and lies to death , while his assails Miller and the ton- Majestic, barbers, C. oF close treet station, held tim's fir the The e between to shave the heat of seized a razor who had begun pending jurles. »me of trouble arose e two over e argumen attac Lux bl e fight the razor wlelder es- rested yesterday by nner. Miller will > if not both his arms and may s life. —_— BONDS OF NEW PHONE CONCERN ARE LISTED Issue of $3,000,000 Is About All Dis- tributed Among Investors on the Pacific Coast Five per cent bonds of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company to the amount of $3,000,000 were listed yester » bonds, according to N. W. ¥ ho have financed the deal, & all distributed Preferred investors. the amount of Ladies of Hber'nan Order Honor Memory of Late Archb\shop stock $18,000,000 and also $18,000,000 of com- n stock. to to be exchanged for the old Pacific States Tele- Telegraph Company, will be e the D. A. Curtiz (Collection Agency) mnadnock build! Accounts collected every- X merchants. ¢ “FRAM” TO The Norweglan Club Fram will give squerade ball tonight in Walton's Golden Gate avenue near an street. The patriotic Norse- will try to revive in their cos- the manners old Norwa of Norwegian strated, end the picturesque nt costumes which are now rele- to the mountain districts ived. Substantial prizes The president of the club is O. 'veitmoe IVE BALL on Works Board Sponsor - for the Firetraps Grand Jury Places Responsibility and Commissioners May Be Indicted ' Responsibility for the mnnmrnonlthe witness room. Davis amused him- self by sitting in the lobby and explain- place of | Innd operation of firetrap theaters ln“ng thiat: 4o "antrons B violation of city ordinances is to be amusement were in the lea placed with the Board of Public Works | cremation, because the Da a e, days before b the Grand Jury and indictments | Was erected in June, fifteen day | : 1 1 16 Bropk kel b the building ordinance went into effect. SRRSO N The jury took a recess in the after- may be brought against the three | noon and went to Judge Coffey’s court Commissioners, Presicent George Duf- | | fey, Baward Aigeltinger and Thomas MeNt 2gainst Parsc to return an indictment for embezzle- Kelville, the one- time cashier of Livingston Bros., who is | Egan. accused of having taken $755 belonging | At the hour when the Grand Jury | to the firm. He is under arrest in was determining the culpability of the | Brooklyn. | Works Board yesterday afternoon that| On its return to the jury room, Louls | body with great unction and solemnity | Levy was examined. He said that he | mdopted a comprehensive resolution | had issued permits for the Colonial, freeing itself of all blame and crown- ing Secretary Louls Levy and Mayor | Schmitz with the obloquy of having | ident Duffey. Heney and Levy had a permitted playhouses to be comstructed | tilt over the legal right of the latter svhich are a menace to patroms. | to issue such permits without an order The opinion of the Grand Jury was|from the entire board sitting at a reached after a long investigation and | meeting. Levy maintained that he had | was expressed by Foreman B. P. Oliver | When the body adjourned last evening | and had no power to exercise discrimi- | to meet again on Tuesday next. | nation. THEATERS MAY BE CLOSED MAY SUE COMMISSIONERS As a result of the jury’s decision and | “If any such permit is issued in the Mission, Wigwam and Van Ness thea- ters on the recommendation of Pres- | the dodging of responsibility by the | future,” warned Heney, “I shall bring | Board of Public Works the dangerous|a sult against the commissioners to | theaters may be closed. The board, |forfeit their bonds for misconduct in suddenly grown cautious, adopted a | office. resolution instructing the Tax Collec-| Levy was instructed by the jury to | tor that certain theaters were existing | prepare a report on the chimney in- without permit. President Duffey took | spection bureau, which flourished so | water like a duck, admitting that he |extensively after the day of tumbling {had ordered Secretary Levy to issue | chimneys. He said that the fees re- permits for the places which were | ceived for the inspection of chimneys | violating the ordinanc but agreeing | went into the general fund, and the | with his colleagues that only Levy and | inspectors were pald out of that ac- | Mayor Schmitz should be held respon- | count. sible for disguised firetraps. The find- | Chester Keogh, assistant secretary of ing of tk d of Works was that|the Board of Works, a civil service permits for the deadly Davis and the | appointee, identified records of the the Novelty w and that Secret me for the existence of the Mission, Wigwam and Van and the Mayor was to b Colonial, tssued Tax Collector Miller 11 records of his de- board gnd Deputy | pr t‘\»‘n&wn partment. L N While the Gram\ ury was meeting in e S | Native Sons’ Hall the Board of Public The chief bullding inspector was In- ! Works was busily applylng a coat of structed to stop work on .any theater (caleimine to ifs official personnel. When building on which the ordinance Was | it nad finished it simulated a clear con- being violated—a ruling which may | science. prevent the opening:of the Van Ness.| pregident Duffey had the grace to ad- ALLEGED CONTRACT DODGING | mit that he had instructed Levy to In addition to the theater problem | 188ue permits to Wigwam and Van Ness the Grand Jury commenced an inquiry | theaters, but the board absolved him vesterday into the actlon of the Board |and Itself by passing the resolution to of Works in having ailowed the Bar- | the effect that the Tax Collector be ber Asphalt Company to withdraw |notified that the records of the board from an unprofitable contract on | did not show that permits were ever Montgomery street and continue an | iSsued to those places, or to the Empire, easy job on Sixteenth street. The |L¥ric, Novelty, Colonial, Mission, Na- corporation is working under two | tional and Central. contracts with the board, one to re»; TEXT OF THE RESOLUTION place pavements removed where sewer | s work is being done, the conslderation| The resolution of the board follows: being § 00, and the other to repalr streets at a cost of $4500. Payments Whereas, The Grand Jury has officially di- rected the attention of this board to the ex- are made progressively. ~The Grand | lstence of certaln buildings constructed sobse. 3 . ~ | guent to the calamity of April 18, 1 and now Jury is investigating the relatlons be- | aing yeed for theatrical and operatic’ purposes, tween the company and the clty, on| the construction of which for such purposes be the suspicion that the Barber Asphalt men have a sub rosa agreement with the Board of Works that they shall not | be forced to perform any work at a ing held violative of t No. 31 governing the thereafter constructed: Whereas, No permits as required by such or- provisions of ordinance | loss. The subject was taken up while | or by its authorlty for the construction of said Secretary Louis Levy was on the | buildiogs; sl Whereas, No approval in writing of the con- | | struction of sad buildings was at any time | John Horgan, chief building inspector | offeially declared by this board: therefore be. it of the Board of Works, was the first| Resolved, That the chief buflding inspector be witness examined by Assistant District g;rfi:dh;?‘dfinufl; £ r}fl ls'om‘»;d Ih; (;onn'l;lnclloln Attorney Francis J. Heney. He said| ng intended vo be used for theatri. et he had made mo report o the | il Purposes which violates the provisions of said ordinance. board or to Secretary Levy on the Van| Resolved, That the secretary of this board he Ness Theater, a permit for which was | directed to notifs the Tax Collector that at no me did the Board of Public Works anthorize zed by Levy at the inspiration of it ~ ng the constructron of the foll President Duffey. Horgan explained 1dings now being used or intended (ouh::‘s:s atrical he Empire, lie Coloni ‘The New Columbia,” that reports were made only on build- ings which complied with ordinances and those whose owners made no pre urposes known and designated as “The_Lyric,”” “The Novelty,” ‘The Mission,”” “The Wigwam," ““The National” and ““The tention to legal construction were not | Central.” considered by the inspectors. —_ DAVIS' IDEA OF SAFETY TO WIDEN OCEAN BOULEVARD E. E. Howell, proprietor of the Cen-| A corporation is being formed, with tral Theater, testified that he had pro- | John Tait as the head, for the purpose| cured a proper permit from the Board |of taking over the old CLff House and of Works for his theater and a license | making it a fashionable resort. The from the Tax Collector's office. place belongs to the Sutro estate, and Melville Marx of the Van Ness The-|the promoters of the mew scheme ater, or New Columbia, as it is some- | negotiating with the manager, Dr. times called, had been subpenaed, but|smma Merritt, for a lease. The plan did not testify; neither did Martin|includes the widening of Ocean Boule- Kurtzig of the Colonlal Theater. Super- | \nrd from Seal Rock House to the Cliff visor Sam Davis, whose theater is con- | House from thirty to fifty feet for the| sidered the worst of the*firetrap play- | use of automobiles. houses, was allowed to awalt the pleas- —_—— lure of the jury before appearing in| Schilling’s Best is the coffee and tea.* to take. orders from the Commissioners | oustruction of all theaters | dinance were at any time issued by this board | are | APPRAISER DARE MUST RESIGN IS POSITION WITHIN FOUR MONTHS |Customs Official to Be Ousted With Deputy John |ACCOUNTS ILLY KEPT| Other Heads May Fall as| Result of the Recent Investigation The fact that Appraiser John T. Dare of the custom house would be asked to | resign, as told exclusively in Tuesday’s | Call, was verified yesterday on the floor of the custom house, when it was | learned that Senator Perkins had writ- ten to Dare that his retirement was de sired and must not be later than July 1 | Those who are on the inside of cus- | tom house affairs state also that with this letter, sent to Dare by Perkins, was enclosed one to Senator Perkins from the Treasury Department contain- ing data gathered at the local port of- This letter is said to criticise se- the clerical and accounting methods employed in the appraiser’s of- fice. Confirmation of these facts yesterday on the floor of the custom house only | added to the consternation rife in the varlous departments of the Federal im- post business in San Francisco. With the resignation of Appraiser | Dare and that of Deputy Surveyor | Chauncey M. St. John asked for, many | other officials feel like dodging the mails, particularly large, official-look- ing envelopes franked from Washing- ton. LEASE. MADE BY BARD REPUDIATED BY SISTER Mrs. Sproule Cause of Suit| Instituted by Real Estate Firm David J. Baird is being sued in the {sum of $850 by the real estate firm of Brown & Holllway for breach of contract for the lease to the building which the Baird estate intends to erect in Mission street near New Montgom- ery. It is to be a five-story and base- ment building. | Brown and Holliway allege that they | | secured a tenant at the sum agreed | upon and that Baird signed the lease. | Bverything proved satisfactory till Mrs. William Sproule, a sister of Baird, | arrived. She repudiated the lease, de- | | claring that the rental was not high enough. | _When Brown & Holllway went to | Baird and told him that they had his | signed eontract and that the estate | would have to live up to its lease, he| |is alleged to have replied: “Well, you see, I had no authority to| sign the contract and so it ‘will not hold good.” Brown & Holliway wish to learn through. the medium of the courts | whether David J. Baird can make con- | tracts in behalf of the Baird estate |and then abrogate them because his sister does not like the terms. sl dmshais i SAYS PRICES WERE T0O HIGH A suit for the discharge of a re-| celvership, brought by M. Abraham | against Charles Zeno, his former part- | ner in an art store at 1539 Bush street, was tried and taken under advisement |in Judge Mogan’s court yesterday. The | partnership was dissolved on Decem- ber 4 last year, with an agreement that | Zeno was to act as a receiver and dis- pose of the stock, valued at $5000. | Abraham claims that Zeno lowered ‘prlces to such an extent that losses resulted, and Zeno, while admitting | that he made reductions, declares that the former prices wer so high that no one would purchase the goods. New Spring Top Coats for Women $7.95 Stylish models, made”of tan covert cloth, tailor collar, with handker- chief pocket; well lined and care- fully tailored. We have many other new coats for Spring; some are long fitted models, others are long loose silk coats; attractively priced Long black tight-fitting Broadcloth Coats and short black fitted Jackets in Broad- cloth and imported doeskin; very stylish and handsome. Silk Eton Jackets, $5 and $6.75. Back Combs 10c, 15¢, 25¢ 10c—Fancy gilt mounted Back Combs, plain and fancy effects. 15c—Varied assortment of plain shell Back Combs; highly polished; elas- tic; firm teeth; shell or amber. 25¢c—Plain and fancifully mounted Combs; some set with jewels, others in dainty knob effects. Women's 16-Button Double-Tip, Stlk Gloves—Shades of corn, malze, brown, tan, pongee, navy, pink, sky, black and white; sizes 5 to 7. $1.50 pair. Women’s 16-Buttom Double-Tipped Kayser Silk Gloves—Black, white or gray; sizes § to 7. $1.25 palr. Womep's 2-Clasp Silk Gloves—Dou- ble-fipped; black, white, brown, tan, mode and gray. and 75e pair. Wi 50¢ at remarkably 10c Fancy _lustrous; Dresden and 4 inches wic llan!lv colored milline and 50 envelopes for 19c. Plain White Paper Napkins; velopes, 25c. Letter Seal, imitation ebony handles, Sealing Wax, assorted colors, 5¢ stick. Playing Cards, tickle the palate of the husband, c Armour’, be taken. Cafe and Tea Room Third Floor STEAL POSTOFFICE RAIL Thieves Boldly Carry Off Bronze From Government Structure | Owing to the fact that the Treasury | Department has provided but one night watchman for the postofiice and Gov- | ernment building at Seventh and Mis- sion streets, junk thieves have been | given an opportunity. Several weeks ago they stole the top of a bronze | railing from the steps leading to the | basement on the Stevenson street side. The piece of bronze weighed about| 100 pounds and was worth $30. | Last Tuesday evening the ‘ made another visit and wrenched off| a twenty-five pound plece of the re-’ mainder of the railing, valued at ;7.50,] thieves They also loosened a bronze newel post at the bottom of the steps, but it was too heavy to add to the load, and the thieves left it for another night. 'Store Closed Friday—Washington’s Birthday New Silk Gloves for Spring Women’s 16-Button L navy, | Misses’ 14 Excellent Rlbbon Values 3000 yards of fine high-class Ribbo 25c Fine rich Broche Ribbon, 15¢ yard newest coloings; new jumper ribbon waist; Roman-striped '[nle a yard; rich colorings Black Taffeta, 3% inches wide; a ribbon for misse Stationery at Saving Prices Hale’s Victoria Linen Box Paper; 50 sheets for picnic or res- taurant use; 100 for 15¢c; 1000 for $1.25. Linen Initial Box Paper; 25 sheets and 25 en- 10c and 15¢ packages. It you don’t know how to cook delicious and appetizing dls Extract of Beef Exhibit in our store this week, and th tion will teach you without charge. Measuring spoon free with order. le Gloves— Extra value; black o sizes to 7. $100 pair. ‘om 3-Clasp Douhle< I‘ipped 5”k Gloves—Extra quali point embroidery on ba black, white, gray, br. maize and tan; sizes to $1.00 pair. znwu h Do-bh,-npw«l K n w low prices. just the ribbon to 134 White Taffeta Ribbon le; dainty floral cdges an ideal ri 15¢. all at e lady conducting No goods sold, Soh.mer. Stemway, Weber and Others Open_Evenings During S: BYRON MAUZY 1165185 O'FARRELL Bet. Franklin and Ge Own Buflding. TOMORROW EXCURSION Feb. 22 TO DECOTO WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY TAKE YOUR FAMILY FOR A PLEASANT OUTING AND GET A HOME!! GET A HOME! Band of music in attendance. GET A HOME The 9:20 boat from San Francisco connects with our special train leaving Oakland Pier at 10 a. m., First and Broadway at 10:08 2. m.; RETURNING, leaves Decoto at 5 p. m. SPECIAL ONE-RATE FARE--65¢ FOR THE ROUND TRIP Light refreshments will be served on the site. Purchasers of lots wilk be allowed railroad fare off purchase price. 1200 LARGE LOTS, AVERAGING 50x100 FEET; RESIDENCE LOTS AVERAGE $100; BUSINESS LOTS AVERAGE $200. SAVE THIS COUPON By presenting same with the railroad coupon, price of ticket free to lot- If you cannot go with us, mail this coupon with your name and ad- dress and you will receive free of cost a beautifully illustrated pamphlet of buyers. Decoto. (CALL) NUMBER and STREET CITY and TOWN HOLCOMB REALTY COMPANY! TERMS-- INSURANCE FEATURE Should a made heirs wxlIPrecelve a clear deed to property. TICKETS ON SALE AT FIRST ALSO AT THE TRAIN Exclusive Handlers of This Great, Property urchaser of any lot die before all payments are 306 SAN PABLO AVENUE, OAKLAND 583 EAST TWELFTH STREET, EAST OAKLAND ROOM 412, NATIONAL, BANK; BERKELEY 10 Per Cent Only Down; Balance 5 Per Cent Per Month. water easily ol 306 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland No Interest, No Taxes RAILROAD CENTER S. P. and Western Pacific go through Decoto. Two electric lines will soon be opened to the town. CHURCH AND SCHOOL Facilities already established; man { homes already - built; good