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AFFECTS THE LOTTERIES
The New Law Is Cutting Into
the Traffic in This
City.
ITS GENERAL APPLICATION.
A Question as to Whether or Not It
Includes the Telegraph
Companies.
That the recent laws passed by Congress
and the local agitation of the subject are
seriously damaging the lottery traffic in
this city is plainly apparent. Those who
engage in the business of selling tickets
acknowledge this to be the fact ; those
who cash the tickets have marked a de
crease of the business which they did be
fore, and people themselves who bought
regularly of the delusive bit of paper rind
fewer friends who join them in the risky
enterprise.
The law recently passed by Congress has
a good deal to do with this growing feeling
UNCLE SAH'S ANTI-LOTTERY LAW.
An Act for the suppression of lottery traffic through national
and interstate commerce and the postal service subject to the juris
diction and laws of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled: That any
person who shall cause to be brought within the United States from
abroad, for the purpose of disposing of the same, or deposited in or
carried by the mails of the United States, or carried from one State
to another in the United States, any paper, certificate, or instru
ment purporting to be or represent a ticket, chance, share, or inter
est in or dependent upon the event of a lottery, so-called gift con
cert, or similar enterprise, offering prizes dependent upon lot or
chance, or shall cause any advertisement of such lottery, so-called
gift concert, or similar enterprise, offering prizes dependent upon
lot or chance, to be brought into the United States, or deposited in
or carried by the mails of the United States, or transferred from one
State to another in the same, shall be punishable in the first
offense by imprisonment for not more than two years or by a fine
of not more than one thousand dollars, or both, and in the second
and after offenses by such imprisonment only.
against this species of gambling, but more
is, perhaps, due to the changing aspect
from which the evil is being viewed. The
traffic heretofore has been carried on so
openly that its sheer publicity gave it an
air of demi-respectability, but the stricter
laws and the agitation against the trade
has put the stigma of criminality on the
traffic and drawn it deeper under the sur
face, and made it more difficult for the un
initiated to secure tickets.
Dealers now sell only to their friends.
They dare not deal freely with strangers,
and as a result many who would otherwise
buy are kept from doing so by ignorance
or through fear of the consequences.
The new law passed by Congress is entitled
"An act for the suppression of lottery
traffic through national and interstate
commerce and the postal service subject to
the jurisdiction and laws of the United
States." Its terms prohibit the carrying
or transmitting, or in any way assisting
the transmission of lottery notices, in any
way or within the boundaries of the United
States. Already this law is having its ef
fect here in San Francisco.
The great express concern of Wells,
Fargo & Co. has applied its terms to them-
Belves and a circular order has been sent
out to all employes directing that here
after no package or paper which in any
way relates to lotteries will be accepted by
the company, and if such contraband mat
ter is submitted and accepted the employe
so accepting the matter must be person
ally responsible.
Those who ply the questionable trade of
Belling lottery tickets are looking for loop
holes in the law. The telegraph com
panies give the ticket-dealers some com
fort.
L. W. Storror, superintendent of the
Pacific Postal Telegraph Company, yester
day said: "Our company would not re
fuse a lottery messase, even though the
message showed on its face that it related
to the drawings of a lottery company.
"That law does not apply to us at all.
We do not send papers, nor instruments,
nor lottery tickets, nor advertisements.
We send only their contents, and the law
says nothing about that at all. The tele
graph companies are peculiarly situated.
"We are, in a great measure, common car
riers, and as such we have no right to re
fuse any message which is submitted. Of
course, there is a rule against messages of
an obscene or profane character, but those
messages show their character on the face
of them. What do we do when it is plainly
apparent that a message refers to a lottery?
Well, that's another matter. Obscene mes
sages are against the law. Of course, lot
tery messages are, too, so far as the mails
are concerned, but then we sond only the
contents; we don't send the 'message
itself," and Superintendent Storror again
peered at a copy of the law which was
handed to him in order to better explain
just where an illegal obscene message and
an illegal lottery message, when the na
ture of both is apparent, differed, particu
larly when being offered for transmission.
Frank H. Lamb, assistant superinten
dent of the Western Union, was not so
sure the law did not apply to his com
pany. "The question is one which should
be submitted to a lawyer," he said, "but
there is one thing, we are governed by the
laws relating to interstate commerce."
That was all Mr. Lamb would say.
As to telegraph companies it is believed
that the title, which includes all common
carriers under the interstate commerce
law, must of necessity include the trans
mission of lottery news by telegraph as
well as by express.
The greatest blow which could be struck
at the traffic in this city would be to forci
bly suspend the transmission of the lists of
winning numbers. At present the lists
come by telegraph, and are sent as news
and at press rates. Should they be
stopped no one would buy tickets, as there
would then be no easy method of learning
whether or not the tickets had won.
Aside from compulsion, however, the
better class of citizens is beginning to real
ize the disreputable character of the busi
neßS. They have not only stopped buying
themselves, but are using their influence
to prevent others from doing so, and are,
in this way, making the first step toward
finally suppressing the vice-promoting
traffic.
Two "Wills Filed for Probate.
The will of Calvin W. Kellogu, dated March
7, 1895, has been filed for probate. One-half of
the property ie bequeathed to his wife, Mary E.
Kellogg, and the balance to Ella F. Gilroy, his
daughter, of Cambridge Hall, Hastings, Eng
land. Thomas Coles, Joseph M. Loewe and
Mary E. Kellogg are named as executors, with
out bonds. The estate is approximately valued
at $100,000.
"Patrick M. Walsh's will has been filed for pro
bate. It was dated August 8, 1894, and be
queathed all of his estate to his wife, Mary
Walsh, except $100, which, in the words of the
will, is to be paid "to the pastor of St. Bridget's
Church for tne purpose of paying for masses
for the repose of the souls of myself and fam
ily." Benjamin Healey was named as executor
without bonds.
Thomas P. Kussick petitioned for the probate
of the will of Patrick McCoy. The estate is
valued at $10,000, ami is left to the sisters of
decedant, Margaret Kussick and Ann McCoy,
his nephews, Matthew J. and Thomas P. Kus
sick, and his niece, Kate M. Kussick, in equal
proportions.
TO-DAY'S AUCTION.
The Historic Haight - Street Baseball
Grounds Are to Be Sold at 12
O'clock.
Baldwin & Hammond report everything
in readiness for the auction sale of the old
Haight-street baseball grounds to-day. The
Crocker Estate Company, which owns the
property, intend that the highest bidders
shall secure the lots. The auction sale will
be held promptly at 12 o'clock at the sales
rooms of Baldwin it Hammond, 10 Mont
gomery street. The terms of the sale are
announced as one-fifth rash and the balance in
one, two, three and four years.
Several changes were made by the auctioneers
yesterday in the diagram, which gives three
corner lots of thirty-five feet each, instead of
twenty-five feet. These corners are suitable
for business purposes.
The following parcels from the catalogue of
I Phainwald, Buckbee &. Co. were sold yesterday
at their auction-rooms in the Mills building:
! Lot 37:6x107:6 on Green street, near Bu
j chanan, brought $6400; for the lotsoxSo on
• Stanford street, near Brannan, $2450 was real-
I ized; the lot 22x72:6 on Powell street, near
: Lombard, brought $4000; for the property at
633 Green street £5375 was realized ; the lot at
1524 Powell street, near Green, was knocked
down at $2700; a lot at 137 Tremont avenue
j brought $2500; one at 9 Seymour avenue sold
for $3000; the lot 25x100 at the southeast cor
j ncr of Nineteenth and Folsom streets brought
$3250; a Mission residence lot. 25x125, on
Folsom street, near Nineteenth, Bold for
$2075; the lot 102:8' 4 x;>7:») at the southeast
! corner of Jackson and Locust streets was
knocked down at $4000, and the lot 127 :3><x
137:6 on Page street, corner of Baker, brought
I $3000, while the two alongside brought $2425
each; four flats on Fell Street, near Octavia,
I renting for $59 per month, sold for $7150.
THE CIVIC FEDERATION.
That Organization Decides on
a Plan of Immediate
Action.
There Will Be Several Committees
Who Will Watch Public
Affairs.
A meeting of delegates from organiza
tions that compose the Civic Federation of
this city met yesterday afternoon at 4
o'clock in Assembly Hall, Mills building,
with Rev. E. R. Dille in the chair.
There were present besides the chairman
E. N. Dexter, Rev. H. L. Deitz, Rev.
Thomas Filben, Rev. E. McClish, Rev. J.
H. Irwin, C. C. Terriil, J. M. Reynolds,
Mrs. Rose M. French, Mrs. Cummin esMc-
Williams, Mr. Samuels and Mr. Hillyer,
secretary.
The Rev. Mr. Filben, chairman of a sub
committee appointed at a previous meet
ing, presented the following report:
Your committee on plan of action respect
fully represents that in its opinion the federa
tion should be divided into sections for work
and recommends the immediate organization
of the following sections to cover the branches
of work indicated by the titi-
First— Civic education, district organization
and propaganda.
Second— Enforcement o laws— municipal
and State— where they apply to this city, and
the suppression of gambling and other evils.
Third— Municipal affairs — all public officials
except polife.
Four — Police Department, including Police
Courts.
Filth— Moral reform.
Sixth— Elections.
Seventh— Sanitation and public safety.
The several sections were taken up seri
atim and discussed. When the first sec
tion was taken up the Rev. Mr. Filben said
that the federation should inaugurate a
campaign of education so as to instruct the
people in public affairs.
Chairman Dille said that there ought to
be meetings in all parts of the city and that
it would be a good idea to divide the city
into districts.
A proposition that the federation should
distribute literature was met with the op
position of Mr. Terriil, that he did not be
lieve in incurring any expense until there
is money on hand to meet any indebted
ness the federation may contract. lie
thought that meetings could be held in
different parts of the city; that he had no
doubt most of the churches would allow
the use of the Sunday-school rooms for the
purpose, and believed that there would be
plenty of volunteer workers, and if such
could not be found the work of the federa
tion had better be contracted.
The section was adopted.
The one on municipal affairs and that on
the Police Department and police courts
were also adopted.
Motions to consolidate sections and to
strike out words from others were dis
cussed at some length, and during the dis
cussion on gambling Rev. Mr. DilJe gave
it as his opinion that the police were not
prosecuting this crime with the force that
they should. He said that he had attended
a trial, and, while it was a good one, it was
made weak by the Judge and the prosecu
tion.
Mr. Reynolds asked permission to add a
section to the report on taxation and reve
nue reform, but nis motion was ruled out
of order, but on motion of Mrs. French it
was referred to a committee.
The sub-committee's report was then
adopted as a whole.
Messrs. Dille, Truman and Dexter were
named the committees that are to have
charge of the different sections of work.
Messrs. Hillyer, Filben and Terriil were
named as a committee to collect money
from delinquent organizations.
The chairman, when on the subject of
finance, said that as soon as the federa
tion gets its committees to work there will
be no trouble to obtain all money needed
to carry on the work.
There is an article on this market seldom
equaled and never excelled— Jesse Moore Whis
key. Moore, Hunt & Co. guarantees its purity.*
Fritz Schekl at the park keeps the Park
Kews presses rushing to supply programmes.*
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1895.
DR. HERRON AND ANARCHY.
The Lecturer's Critic, Rev. Dr.
C. O. Brown, Explains
His Position.
FULL TEXT OF HIS ADDRESS
Members of the Bay Association
Hostile to Dr. Herron's
Visit.
It was objected before Dr. Herron's
coming by his friends that it was unfair
to discuss him until he was on the ground.
It was agreed that when he came there
should be a full discussion. "Let us hear
him, then discuss him," were the words of
his friends. Yet when Dr. Brown at
tempted to discuss his views Dr. McLean
of Oakland immediately moved to shut
him off. To attempt to confine the debate
to the text of what Dr. Herron said in his
single address would be entirely unfair,
Dr. Brown claims, as denying him the
privilege of quoting Dr. Herron's most
objectionable and, as Dr. Brown thinks,
most anarchistic views.
"There may be good reasons why Dr.
McLean desired to keep these views out of
sight," said Dr. Brown yesterday, "for he
is largely responsible for Professor Her
ron's presence on this coast. The rule of
the club for years has been to allow large
liberty in debate, the debaters often going
not only outside of the paper read^ but
often beyond trie theme itself." Herewith
is presented Dr. Brown's full address, as
he would have spoken to the club. He
says that he has no fear but that the lovers
of social order and of American institu
tions will agree with him in the end.
The address prepared by Dr. Brown and
supplied by him to the Call is as follows:
I mean no discourtesy to tne brother who has
addressed us, but to avoid any misapprehen
sion it must go on record with this meeting
that the Bay Association refused his presence
by nn overwhelming vote last August, and
that the vote which invited him to this club
showed a large proportion of its members hos
tile to his coming. The discussion three weeks
ago revealed that more than half of this dull
were opposed to Dr. Herron's sociological
views. [At this point Dr. Brown was inter
rupted.] The discussion which preceded his |
coming traversed his published works, and, as ]
was foreseen, helped to advertise him. No
public error can be corrected without adver
tising it. Abraham Lincoln advertised Stephen
A.Douglass and the iniquity of compromise.
But the broken manacles of slavery had to
pay for the advertisement. We cannot be con
fined to Dr. Herron's address of this hour.
The discussion has already taken a wider
range. In his printed addresses we find many
of the statements which are chiefly objection
able. He makes war persistently on institu
tions. He pays: "The apprehension of The
fatherhood ol God can have no other consum
mation than the end of institutional .lo
minion." (Christian Socialism, p. (50.) "The
institution that would dominate the world
with its opinions and customs is a wicked
despotism." He affirms that we are living
under the most grinding despotism the world
has ever seen; "that the wage system is
slavery." (P. 04, New Redemption.)" He de
claims against property and interest, while
living on a salary derived from the interest of
a 535,000 endowment. In the svmoj.ms of one
of his lectures he affirms that ' - tne people
could immediately assume control of the
sources of production."
We are inclined to the opinion that Dr. Her
ron has not measured the meaning or the
sweep of such words. The New York Inde- '
pendent said of his wild statement a few days j
ago: "He seems to think that absolute ie- i
norance of the subject gives him license to ssy
what he will about it." At all events, his
words belong to that style of utterance which
has always been used to stir the passions and
frenzy men for mob violence. We would not
impugn the motives of any man, but we be
lieve that (iovernor Crounse of Nebraska was
rinht in the scorching rebuke which he admin
istered to Dr. Herron for such utterances la»r
summer before the Nebraska University. We
re, with the editor of the Boston Conßre
gationalist, that "such wild talk coming from
educated men is almost unpardonable." Suoh
talk is untrue and incendiary. He who char
acterizes the institutions cf America, or even
its economic system, as "the most grinding
despotism the world has ever seen" is sot
the man to be exalted by the church
of Jesus Christ to any position of leader
ship. He who characterizes the instif
which were bought with the blood oi the
Revolution and sealed by the blood of the Civil
War as "despotism" is either "ignorant of the
facts," as the Independent fays he is, or utterly
"wild" in the use of words." as the Congrega
tionalist nays he is. "The end of institutions"
which he preaches would be tho utter extinc
tion of liberty, the prevalence of anarchy and
the permanence of despotism. Through ages
of struggle mankind l;a^ reached in America a
government emancipated from the grasp of
despots. We have left the Pharaohs und the
Csesaxa behind. Here the people govern
through institutions of their own choice.
There is no other conceivable way in which the
people can govern. Here the overthrow of in
stitutions would be the inaugural of anarchy.
"Anarchy," says Webster, "is the absence of
government: the state of society where there
is no law or supreme power." Here, therefore,
to put an end to institutions would put an end
to both law and supreme power. The man
who seeks their overthrow therefore is, at least
in theory, an anarchist. He may be unconscious
of the fact or even deny it. It is still true.
Such utterances as I have quoted will not
cure the distress of poverty. They rafhei
create and foster that industrial unrest which
broods the uncertainties of commerce They
are the nightmare of capital, arousing its fears
and driving it away from the healthy activities
to the hiding and safety of vaults. Capital
builds few factories when wage-earners are
being prominently taught that the time Is at
hand when" they may "assume control of the
means of production." As a Chief Justice said
in my hearing not long ago, "these are the
utterances which are responsible for the pres
ent paralysis of trade. "The man who wants
to help the unemployed will stop such talk that
capital may come forth and set the wheels oner
more in motion. To tell the wage-earner ihat
"the wage system is slavery" is not a wise or
true word. Does this teacher know the mean-
Ing of the word "slavery"? Let him interrogate
the pyramids. Let him ask the ricctields of
l.ouisianaor the old whipping-posts of Georgia.
Then let him never again apply that cursed
word to the wage system. Tne wage systi in
slavery? That is the doctrine of the saloons to
day as it was the doctrine of the sand lots
twenty years ago. That doctrine may make
Professor Herron a temporary hero in San
Francisco to-day, but it made Dennis Kearney
a hero two decades ago. The end of such hero
ism may be seen in the present insignificance
of the former hero. The sand lots never advo
cated a wilder thing than the overthrow of
institutions. The sober and truly industrious
lovers of order in this city long ago made up
their minds that they had had enough of the
sand lots. We do not need a revival of their
doctrine in the sacred name and phrases of
Christianity.
Last July when the whole country was on
the verge of riot Senator Davis telegraphed the
men who asked him to support the wild Kyle
resolution: "You are rapidly approaching an
overt act of levying war on the united States,
and you will find a definition of that act in the
constitution. I trust that wiser thoughts will
control. You might as well ask me to vote to
dissolve this Government."
So now I say to those who are inflaming pas
sion by declaring that our Government is "a
grinding despotism"; who advocate "the end
of institutional dominion"; who encourag
wage-earners to "assume control of the source
of production"— you are dangerously near th
line of open enmity to this Government. Yo
are allying yourselves with those who spillec
the innocent blood of Haymarket. "I trn^
that wiser thoughts will control." Let m
brothers and their coadjutors shift their fu
crums. Instead of decrying capital and th
churches let them expend their thunde
against the poverty-making saloons. Let them
advise thousands 6i laboring men to save th
money that they squander in saloons and s
become capitalists themselves. Over $50,00
a day goes into the saloons. of this city. Th
large proportion of this money, spent by wage
earners, would help thousands of them in
few years to become owners of homes.
As reported in one of the city papers Dr. Her
ron denounces competition as "war." In h
printed works he calls it anarchy. It is th
keynote of much of his bitterest denunciation
But in that same interview he commends tb
valley road as a new incarnation of Chris
tianity, and the valley road, as every on
knows, is being built as a competitor. Its
blessings if at all can come only by competi
tion! This is a fair sample of the reasoning
powers and consistency which pervade; the
teachings which are under discussion. He de
nounces competition when it suits his turn,
and when it will be more popular he commends
it! He denounces capital which he cannot
control, but gets along comfortably with the
$35,000 which endows his chair and furnishes
the interest money for his salary.
Xiiiß nation of ours has yet many leagues to
travel before we reach the ideal state. There
are great wrongs on the part of sotne corpora
tions. God forbid that I should lift mv voice
for these wrongs. They must be righted, but
anarchy will not right them. Yes, and there
are other wrongs which the wage-workers of
this land are suffering, none more grievous
tnan those false hopes which are kindled by j
misguided or designing agitators. To preach \
in this land the overthrow of institutions is to j
deny that Americans are capable of self-gov
ernment, for our institutions are what we have ]
voted they should be. Such a doctrine would j
hand over to despair the last hope of the toil
ing millions.
I shall ask no man's pardon for defending
the institutions of my country. Those institu
tions will stand. This nation is not going to
begin its "funeral march" at the bidding of a
mystic and theoretical anarchist. Our institu
tions will continue to guarantee the rights un
der which the majority of the American people
own their homes. These millions of toilers
who own their homes are not heard from in
noi>y denunciations of rights. They are heard
from in the sober judgments which must be
reckoned with after the agitator has gone and I
the froth has subsided. They know the worth I
of that freedom which helped them to acquire I
and which protects them 111 the possession of 1
their own firesides. Our institutions will con
tinue to protect the colleges 01 this land in
their property rights and will secure to their
professors the enjoyment of their salaries,
which are derived from interest on their en
dowments. All this is as it should be.
But destroy our institutions, and after the
bloody reign of anarchy you would have such
despotism as we had a taste of last summer, for |
the first time under the flag, when one self- 1
constituted ruler in Chicago ordered the stop
page of a nation's traflic; when a California
lady was compelled to ask of this Debs the
privilege of traveling in her own State.
I believe as thoroughly as any man in the
Cross of Jesus Christ— in the majesty of its sac
rifice: in the tenderness and power of its love.
1 believe that Jesus Christ through his gospel
will yet rule this world. But his cross will
never head the wild procession of those who
would tear down our institutions, nor any pro
cession which includes the majority of those
who come forth from the saloons.
Institutions will be reformed by the gospel,
but the triumph of the gospel will not be the
overthrow of institutions. The gospel of Jesus
Christ will continue to triumph as hitherto by
the. progressive realization of righteousness in
the institutions which made men free and I
which stand as the security of social order.
Thus shall be made possible that sublime
conception of Elisha Mulford in hia "Nation."
He snw for this nation no vision of ruined lib
erties and crumbling institutions. He saw
rather in the nation the great and growing
substance of a divine thought. He saw the
whole pervaded by a vast personality, moved
on through all its changes py one controlling |
spirit— the soul of the nation. This sublime j
personality he saw to be capable of a growing
realization of rigtheoasness so that the nation,
purified at length and rising to the fulfillment
of a divine destiny, may be glorified. In this
living soul of the nation the principles of the
gospel will yet be realized. Then shall the
kingdom have come. Then shall God's will be
done on earth as it is in heaven.
Dr. Brown promises to review Professor
Herron more fully in his own church next
Sunday evening.
WANT THE BILL AMERDED.
San Francisco School Teach
ers Object to the Annuity
Measure.
A Fund to Be Created to Change
the Existing Law at the
Next Session.
Both principals and teachers in the pub
lic schools in the city and county of San
Francisco feel aggrieved over the bill ll to
create and administer a public school
teachers' annuity and retirement fund in
the several counties and cities and coun- ;
ties of the State," as that bill was passed i
by the last Legislature, and as a definite
proof of their dissatisfaction have begun
the organization of what is to be called
"The Teachers' Annuity and Retirement ;
Fund Society," the primal object of which
is to create a fund for the amendment of i
the bill as passed.
In just what particulars the principals
and teachers of this city are dissatisfied
hardly appears in their action. They make
no definite charges, hut plainly declared, at
a meeting held on Tuesday, their intention
to subscribe one per cent of their salaries
lor the establishment of a fund to be util
ized in amending the objectionable bill.
The feelings of the principals and teach
ers are embodied in the following resolu
tions, which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That wo, the undersigned teachers
In the public schools of the city and county of
San Francisco, finding that the teaehers'an
nuity retirement bill as passed by the Legis
lators of 1895 does uot meet with our entire
approval, and wishing to show our realization
of the necessity for some such measure, do
hereby organize ourselves into a society to be
known as "The Teachers' Annuity and Retire
ment Fund Society," and pledge ourselves to
contribute 1 per cent of our salaries, payable
monthly, toward the establishment of a'fund
to be known as the teachers' annuity aud re
tirement fond; providing that at the
next meeting of the State Legis
lature a concerted effort be made
to have the present bill amended so as to meet
with our approval.
Resolved, That the establishment of this fund
be as an evidence to the State Legislature of
our pood faith in wishing to carry out the pro
visions of the bill as fur as practicable, and
also as a proof of the necessity of some further
provision for the creation of a fund than the
setting aside of one per cent of our salaries.
Resolved, That if the bill be amended so as to
become satisfactory, the funds to the credit of
the teachers' annuity and retirement fund,
which shall be placed on deposit in a sav
ings bank, shall be transferred to the proper
authorities, to be used to curry out the provis
ions of the umended bill; but, in the case of
failure to amend the bill, the money to be held
subject to the will of the society.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the principal of every public school in
this city and county, with the request that it
lie submitted to each teacher for approval and
Signature, and that, when tlie copies
are returned to M. BabCOCk, K*<j., president of
the Teaener's Pension Association, a meeting
of all who have signed be called for organiza
tion.
ANOTHEB BABY VICTIM.
Little James Madigan Crushed to
Death Under an Electric Car,
Another young life was sacriticed on the
Mission-street electric-car line yesterday.
The victim was James Madigan, aged
three years and four months.
The children were playing on the side
walk, and one of them ran across the
street. The little fellow started to follow
him, but was caught by car 1013 and
crushed to death. W. R. Thompson, the
motorman, was arrested, but released on
his own recognizance.
The child's parents formerly lived at
Newark, where the father is employed as
an ironmolder. They were about to move
to 939 Pine street, Oakland, but before do
ing so paid a visit to some friends at 1120
Mission street, Little James went out, to
play, and the first his father and mother
knew of the accident was when the man
gled corpse was carried into the house.
The accident took place about a hundred
yards froru the crossing of Mission street,
between Seventh and Eighth.
According to Motornian Thompson the
little boy ran from behind a wagon on the
north side of Mission street. He crossed
the track and then attempted to run back
again, but before he could get clear the
guardless car struck and crushed his life
out. In the excitement the police neg
lected to get the names of anyjwitnesses,
but as the conductor of the car has a list
of the passengers the Coroner will be able
to get some witnesses. It is said that the
Mission-street electric-cars run at a high
rate of speed, and that is one of the points
that will be brought out at the inquest.
Some of the passengers say that the
motorman was not to blame. 1* he lad was
almost under the wheels before he was
seen, and, although every effort to stop the
car was made, it was too late. This makes
the fourth child in three weeks that has
been killed under the wheels of electric
cars, and the end is not yet.
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there's an entire change of programme and extreme lowness in the prices, but '' []Zr pri t ee ? \"* n an similar goods on
this week-to-day every day. Last come and see for yourself, if you have "" ■)** st -b ut •>>' comparison with the '
week's bargains are gone; this week not already been "here. We have never Kennedy Bankrupt prices they seem
bargains are here waiting to greet you. sold so cheaply before-regular patrons "'«•'• m l pare . our prices for regular
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thing we can save you nearly 50 per even are surprisea. . stores-not with the Kennedy prices,
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LJOmeSLICS. MEN'S BROWN MIXED COTTON QIC CALICO WRAPPERS, fancy stripes,
BLEACHED SnEETlNG.a splendid "I AC SOX, heavy and seamless, Ken- O3 full sleeves and back, light colors fIAC
quality. Sold by Kennedy at 20c, J-tt nedy's price 12 y 2 c, ours Pair only; Kennedy's price 75c; we O\J
our price .* Yard «ay Each
4-4 BLEACHED MUSLIN.soft finish. CC mEV"3 FAST BLACK COTTON PERCALE AND FLANNELETTE
Kennedy's regular BV3C goods - O SOX, fine quality, double heels 1 W WRAPPERS, fancy stripes, light
* ara and toes, Kennedy's price 25c, U and dark colors, tiles over shoul- 0 1 .00
' CHEVIOTS, in ch^^Tplaids and oursonlv Pair der, Jull sleeve.l ; Kennedy's price <35 J_
CHEVIOTS, in checks, plaids and ours omj xon Rl 50- ours .. .. . Each
stripes, all nice dark colors. Ken- filC — . * *
nedy's price 10c a yard, ours will vM _ T .nraiinmvnriiimimi « n
be....... Yard \ MEN'S MERINO SHIRTS AND BLACK SATEEN \\ RAPPERS, full
DRAWERS, natural color, Ken- OAC front aud sleeves, raffled and brad »1 .50
FLANNELETTES, a nice line of nedy's price 40c a garment, ours £V tnmni, d. made: Kennedy's <jpJ.
light and dark colors, in stripes AC only Each price ?•- 50; but weßay Each
only. Lowest price ever quoted tr
in Frisco Yard SUPERIOR BLACK SATEEN.
. iirvio 1,-nTTP MTTT?TVO IV- Jacket shaped waist, fancy braid (I^o.oo
COTTON CHALLIES, In dark and AC nFRWFU' NoriVk and Xe-v trimminjr, full sieves, etc.; Ken- «S)^
K:nn^v., C^'«f/ 0 ? d on P « UernS - Y 2d Brunswick make, full finished, AC nedy's price *3 50 ; our price only Each
Kennedy s price By A c, ours ■ xaru heavy quality, Kennedy's price y\J
GRAY WOOLEN BLANKET, the »1, ours only." Each . n< Jj__» Woictc
large 11-4 size, well finished, JUaUIC2> VYctISLS.
heavy; Kennedy's price at least "I .55 . CAIICO WAISTS with ifinmiproii
$3 a pair; we have 50 pairs only, $1 MEN'S UNLAUNDRIED SHIRTS, collars and cuffs lull front and tnc
they are yours at Pair pood heavy muslin, re-enforced O^C ™'.ye, nlzt effect ■voi?uttP?M 50
fronts, linen bosoms, enffs and Q'C ?„ , ' ' effPCt '^ e Pwwna, *J\T
KENNEDY'S LACE CURTAINS at a big band, Kennedy's price, 50c, ours OO vmy ILU:R
reduction from their former prices. only *:»<* pEK(;ALT , WAISTS, fancy check,
■ . and stripes, pink, blue or laven- '7P\C
Linens. T , " Ladies' JaCketS. » dwr. laundered collars and cuffs; Each
LadieS JaCketS. Kennedy's price $1 ; our price.... Each
TEA SETS, pure Irish or German
linen, colored border, fringed one LADIES' PRINCE ALBERT JACK- PERCALE WATSTS, a very fine
■ dozen doylies each set, two sizes,© 0.00 J-.'l Sln blue, black or tan Kersey Q"I A quality, laundered collars and©!. oo
8-4 and 10-4. Kennedy's prlcetfi)^ cloths, the new styles. Kennedy's »{J>IU cuffs, full front and large sleeves; «pX
$2 50 to $4, ours.. Each price $17 50, ours only Each Kennedy's price $1 50; our price Each
TEA SETS, pure Irish or German ~ ' LADIES' WHITE WAISTS, laun-
linen. plain white or colored bor- LADIES' JACKETS, an assorted lot dered collars and cuffs, tucked and C?"|.25
der, knotted or plain fringes, 10-4 C» X. OO of all-wool Kerseys and beavers, Insertion, embroidery trimmed up 1
and Bxl3 sizes. Kennedy's price i®iJ last year's patterns, warm aml(J>Q.5O fronts; Kennedy's price ?2: we say Each
$7 60 set, ours only ' Set serviceable. Kennedy's price flOqpO
. to $15 each; ours, your pick, at... Each
HUCK TOWELS, an assorted lot, I T»%/4 /->«.,- rn .n —
some all linen, some all cotton, rjC UnUcrVVcar.
cheapest ones worth about $125 a I LADIES' JACKETS-Another lot In r at>tt-S' worn nmrn VFST<*
dozen. We say your choice at.... Each cheviot, beaver and Scotch mix- (JjO 5O vvD PANTS JerVev ribbed OC\C
turer,. Kennedy's prices $6 to $B;^^— £™ y qu^^^ihUe natura and 69°
HOSierY ours, your choice, at Each blue. Kennedy's price $1, ours.... Each
CHTTDRFX'S COTTON TTOSF tnn IOIP Shawls. ' ; CHILDREN'S IXDEHWEAR. all
CHILDREN SCOTTOX noSE, tan 1 r>lC wool, natural camel's hair. «niv
or brown, fast color, heavy qual- Pair SINGLE B^ACK .2 50 l_ nr i, Jt „»,;-.„ -...h ™,« r.V mC
lty; Kennedy's price, 25c; oi rs... Pair SIX-iLfc. ISLACK CASHMERE 52...0 *mmm k-...in..fiv'« nrv» 7i/- ti-. r r\o
— to $7 60 o^rs ennpdys prices * 3 84 OO « il 23 garment; ours, no matter 50 c
LADIES' LISLE-THREAD HOSE. to $7 60, ours 84.00 what size Each
fast black. Richelieu ribbed, fine QKC
quality; Kennedy's price, 50c; 00. DOUBLE BLACK CASHMERE 84. 00 LADIES' FLANNELETTE WRAP-
ours..". Pair SHAW L S — Kennedy's prices to PEItS, best quality, made with '
. $ 6 50 to $20, ours ." 512. 00 full beeves and capes over "I .00 \
shoulder, Kennedy's prices $1 75, £pJ ■
LADIES' CASHMERE HOSE, fast ours Each {
black, fine heavy quality, hi=;h PAISLEY BROCnE SHAWLS, real , . i
spliced heels and double toes: KflC Cashmere colors: we found one LADIES' CALICO WRAPPERS, CAC ;
Kennedy's prices, 75c, 85c and *J\J big double one marked $75: we'll ©OH full sleeves and front; Kennedy's O\) '
»1; ours Pair sell it for ' <£)£\J price 85c, our* "... ' Each
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REVOLT AGAINST OLCOTT
Theosophists to Make the
American Section In
dependent.
Dr. Anderson Thinks the Fight on
Judge Will Divide the
Society.
There is one delegate who, next Sunday,
will leave this city to attend the National
Theosophical Convention in Boston on the
28th inst. who entertains a rather gloomy
view of the future of the Theosophical So
ciety as an institution of ethical propagan
da. That delegate is Dr. Jerome A. An- I
derson, the acknowledged head of the theo
sophists of this city. Drs. Allen Griffiths
and Edward B. Rambo have already started
for Boston.
The Theosophical Society consists of the
Hindu section, of which Bertram Keight
ley is the secretary; the European section,
whose secretary is George Meade, and the
American section, of which William Q.
Judge of New York, the innocent cause of
all the contention, is secretary. These
three officers constitute what is called the
"Executive Council," Colonel H. 8. Olcott,
with headquarters at Adyar, Hindostan,
being the president of the entire organi
zation.
Some years ago, and during Madame
Blavatsky's earthly .sojourn in the flesh,
Colonel Olcott issued a proclamation at
Ad yar, at one of the so-called anniversary
meetings, in which he radically changed
some vital points of the constitution of the
society. At that time all was enthusiasm
and fraternal unanimity, due to the fasci
nating radiance of the illuminated Bla
vatsky. and none foreseeing what the future
nii^'ht bring forth or suspecting that any
thing done by Colonel Olcott would oper
ate disadvantageously, there was an un
questioning acquiescence in whatever he
did.
Now the tremendous effect of a few
scratches of his pen are very keenly appre
ciated and they almost obscure the charges
of Mrs. Annie Besant and Professor Chak
ravarti, the Allahabad Brahmin, as to the
genuineness of the mahatmic messages
which Mr. Judge avers he has from time to
time received.
Colonel Olcott's proclamation strikes the
American section in its most vulnerable
part at present, in that he made it possible
lor the executive council to expel Mr.
Judge. Hence there is a general revolt
against Colonel Olcott, and the result pre
dicted is that the American section will
declare its independence and give the
other two sections the option of yielding to
its position in regard to self-government or
remaining entirely separate.
"It is hardly wise to attempt to make
any forecast of the future," said Dr. An
derson yesterday afternoon, "but it looks
as if the Theosophical Society may possi
bly prove a failure. When its high officers
cannot agree, what hopes can we entertain
of any success along the line of establish
ing auniversal human brotherhood, which
the society started out to do? I do not
mean to say that the principles of theoso
phy will fail. No, no! They will last for
ever. It is philosophy ana cannot fail.
But the society as an institution has not a
very bright prospect before it just at pres
ent.
"Whatever Mr. Judge haa done he did
entirely in self-defense. He was assailed
by Mrs. Besant and Professor Chakrayarti,
and was forced to reply. This he did by
means of a circular— a private circular
which he issued to the 'school.' Now they
are using this very circular as a basis for
bringing charges of slander against him.
They propose to expel him for slander,
when all he did was to simply defend
himself.
"What the Boston convention will do
with regard to Mr. Judge may be pre
dicted. I don't think there is any doubt
that he will be re-elected as the secretary
of the American section. Twenty years of
his life he has given faithfully to the
cause, and he is the recognized head of
theosophists in this country. There is
hardly any opposition to him. Probably
about a dozen persons in San Francisco
may be opposed to him, and there are two
small lodges on this coast and one in
Minneapolis that are somewhat antago
nistic, but that is all.
"The American section has about 102
branches scattered over the country with a
membership — a regular membership — of
at least 5000, to say nothing of the very
numerous sympathizers with the move
ment. I think Mr. Judge will be re
elected without a dissenting voice.
"I believe the American section will
simply declare itself the theosopnical so
ciety and adopt proper constitution and
by-laws accordingly. These constitution
and by-laws will be submitted to the other
two sections for their ratification, but if
they fail to ratify we will proceed as a
thoroughly independent organization."
The lodges on this coast which have
manifested opposition to Mr. Judge are
the Harmony branch at Los Angeles —
which is one of three in that city — and a
branch at Port Townsei.d. There are
thirty-six branches on the Pacific Coast.
The Willamette branch at Portland, Or.,
is somewhat divided.
Gifts tn an Orphanage.
Tha new Presbyterian Orphanage and Farm, |
lately established in San Rafael, has many in
terested friends who have rendered material
aid. Among them are: Newman & Levinson,
goods; Hale Bros., check $5; City of Paris,
goods; Kohlberg, Strauss & Frohman, goods;
Will <fc Finck Co., goods; The Maze, goods;
Doane it Henshchvood, poods; J. J. O'Brien &
Co., goods; Arms & Dallam, goods; Harter,
liny? A Co., floods; F. A. Taylor, goods; G«tz :
Bros., goods; Russ & Snundors, goods; Hills j
Bros., goods; Martin Kelly <fc Co., goods: H. j
Dutard, goods; Whittier & Fuller, goods; Fred
B. Haient, fjoods; Pakin & Silsby, goods;
American Biscuit Comgany, goods; Smith i&
Co., cash store, goods; J. Martenstein & Co.,
National Flour Mills, goods; y. H. Tyler & Son;
J. A. Brown & Co., 306 Front street, drayage.
The taking of the census in Japan is sim
ple, but the figures are utterly unreliable.
The houses are counted and an average of
five persons is allowed for each house.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal . , Apr. 11, 1895.
Messrs. Sherman, Clay & Co.,
Cor. Kearny and Sutter Sts. ,San Francisco.
Gentlemen: We are delighted with the tone,
touch and beautiful workmanship of the HENRY L.
MASON Guitars and Mandolins in use by our Club.
Never before have we had their equal and we are
pleased to recommend them.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY MANDOLIN CLUB,
Willi;aiA. Graham, Manager.
W. Bittle Wells, Director.
P. S. — Please hasten the delivery of the two
large MASON Guitars ordered. Graham.
THAT STOLEN TELEGRAM
Secret Service Agent Harris
Says the Thief Will Be
Discovered.
A Complaint Has Been Filed and
an Investigation Has Been
Ordered.
Secret Service Agent of the Treasury N.
R. Harris returned from Carson, Nev., yes
terday, where he has been investigating
the mint frauds. His first visit was to
Superintendent Frank Jaynes of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company to lodge a
complaint. He'made a most vigorous pro
test against the giving out of private dis
patches by the company's employes and
the chances are that some one 'will be
prosecuted for the felony.
On Saturday last Mr] Harris sent a dis
patch to the Secretary of the Treasury in
Washington announcing the arrest of John
T. Jones lor complicity in the mint frauds.
This was at 4:30 in the afternoon and the
next morning the San Francisco papers
had a verbatim copy of the dispatch. The
next day the papers arrived in Carson and
Harris' surprise was great to see his tele
gram published word for word.
"Some one is guilty of a felony," said
Mr. Harris yesterday, "and I intend to find
out who it is. I have already filed my
complaint with the company and an inves
tigation has been ordered. There are two
telegraph stations in Carson. There i« the
main office and a branch at the railway de
pot. The main-office- wires run through
the branch office, and, of course, the oper
ators in the latter can read off any dis
patch they want to. That telegram was
taken off close to Virginia City, or perhaps
the branch office at Carson had something
to do with it. We will discover the guilty
party and put him in a place where he
won t be able to steal telegrams for some
time to come."
