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SUNDAY JVXE 16, 1895
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensed City news on seventh page of the
Caia
Brief City items are to be found on thii page
ef the Call every day.
No Chinese are to be allowed in the parade
on the Fourth of July.
A local concern has been manufacturing bi
cycles for the past week.
Francis 1). Eisen died suddenly of heart
failure yesterday morning.
The Second Artillery Regiment went to Uklah
yesterday for a week's camp.
The batehen will make an extraordinary
display in me Fourth of July parade.
Local Items, bright and brief, can be lound on
this page of the Call every morning.
The Oceanic steamship Belgic sailed for China
iind the Australia for Sydney yesterday.
The Country Club elves its annual bullshead
breakfast at us clubhouse at Point Keyes to
day.
A plan for the new park lodge has been sub
ii:i:u'd to the Commissioners and accepted by
Half the lottery tictets gold are counterfeits
and many of the so-called lottery companies are
bogus affairs.
Surveyor-General Green is maturing a plan
to provide large public farms to be worked by
the unemployed.
The uhaleback steamer City of Everett will
make her first start on the Panama route from
this port June 29.
Only when lottery tickets are taken to a bank
lo be cashed vrill the duped holders find that
they were counterfeit.
lime-tables of the railroad companies are
published free of charge in the Call lor the ac
commodation of readers.
Chief Crowley condemns the fake lotteries
which deceive the innocent and rob them of
their hard-earned dollars.
The Grand Urove of California. U. A. O. D.,
will hold its thirty-first tuinunl convention at
sit. Helena, beginning June IS.
The members of the Veteran Volunteer Fire
men's A>s.Kift!n>u held their seventh annual
outing Ht Shell Mound yesterday.
The weather bureau forecasts for to-day are
fair weather, nearly stationary temperature
and In '.he aiternoon brisk winds.
E. 8. Donnelly, a street contractor, assaulted
Street Inspector George W. Elder yesterday and
was badly worsted in the encounter.
Thomas Buck, 3iO Fiith street, attempted to
commit suicide last night by swallowing a
t creosote, lie will probably die.
\v. H. Carter, a longshoreman, was knocked
down by an electric-car on Mies-iou street and
sustained injuries that may prove fatal.
Tne following horses were winners at the Bay
Patriot yesterday: Seaside, imp. Santa Bella,
Lady June, McLig'ht, Mestor and TilUe 8.
The Servian-Montenegrin Literary and
Benevolent Society will give a picnic at
behuetzen Club Park, San Rafael, to-day.
The first practice for the new Grace Episcopal
choir wa« held laM nifiht. Key. Joseph Cook Is
being feted by Congregationaiists and Metho
dists.
The Institute for Practical Christianity held
its firht meeting last Tuesday, and programmes
for several weeKs' meetings were arranged yes
terday.
-it Japanese passengers on the steamer Mex
ico, from Victoria* which arrived yesterday,
wktc refused landing by the Immigration Coiii
ruisiioner.
| The wholesale merchants of the City took
thoir eighth annual outing yesterday. They
picnicked at Glenwood, in the ganta Cruz
Mountains.
N. ft. Harrold of the Stockton rights-of-way
rommittee for the Valley road discussed im
portant matters yesterday with the railway's
chief engineer.
The Co-operative Commonwealth, being fos
tered by Laura de Force Gordon ana others, has
adopted a constitution winch is similar to that
of the Altrurian^.
The Market-street Railway Company is pre
paring to begin work on an addition to the
electric power-house on the corner of Bryant
and Channel streets.
G. J. Burger has asked the Superior. Court to
set aside a'![uil{rm*-iit against him, issued by
Justice of the I'eace Cook after he -had filed a
petition in insolvency.
Robert Muirhead, a r.oatman employed by
Henry Petersen, was fatally stabbed last night
on Ka'st street by Ned Muguer, a former member
of the Fire Department.
Conductor Scheel is reorganizing his orches
tra. He is to give Sunday concerts of popular
and classical music at the Columbia Theater,
beginning next Sunday.
Inspector Geffeney yesterday found on a
Japanese immigrant on the 6teamer Mexico
another certificate issued by the cooly immi
gration bureau in Japan.
Henry Wischmeier of Redwood City, who is
in the Receiving Hospital suffering from gas
asphyxiation, had two charges of forgery
booked against him yesterday.
Behrend Joost was sued yesterday by Jacob
Heyman, who peeks to recover $1220 93, a j.
leged balance duo on a contract for the sale of
■ome real estate on the Corbctt road.
Stockholders of the Valley road who have not
yet signed the pooling agreement have been
"notified that they cannot get stock certificates
until they call and append their names.
An enthusiastic meeting of the Alamo-square
Improvement Club was held last night at
which the, Supervisors were scored for their
neglect in effecting the improvement of Alamo
Park.
A committee of nine to be drawn from cer
tain civic associations will be appointed
shortly to investigate municipal abuses, es
pecially in regara to securing creditable city
strfcts.
A. s. Xeubcrg threatened the life of Justice
of the I'eace Groezinger for deciding a 6uit
aeainet him yesterday, and the Judge only es
caped by climbing out of a window in his
chamber.-.
Nora McManus, wife of Frank McManus, bet
ter known as the "King," will hereafter trans
act business in ber own name as sole trader.
A decree to this effect was issued by Judge
Hebbard yesterd ay.
Manager Alfred Bouvier returned from Paso
Knbles in the early part of the week and is
already hard at work arranging for the coming
season at the California and the Baldwin.—
Music and Drama.
J.r. Davis of Rochester, N. V., was booked
at the City Prison yesterday, on the felony
charge of passing a fictitious check, and he
will have to answer to about a dozen similar
charges altogether.
Property-owners are complaining about an
abandoned electric road on Fell and Baker
streets, near thefiark panhandle, and Super
intendent of Construction Lynch bays it will
likely be removed.
Thomas M. Scott, driver of the Receiving
Hoa] nal ambulance, died yesterday morning
from the effects of the injuries sustained by
him by the capsizing of the ambulance at the
Sutro baths la«t Monday.
Mr=. William D. Northrop has sued theSouth
orn Pacific, Company to recover $50,000 tor the
d>-ath of her husband, a switchman, who was
killed at Fourth and King streets through
alleged negligence of the company.
Lady Hesketh and her London solicitor, H.
L. Wright, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sharon ar
rived from New York yesterday. They will
make arrangements for the dissolution of the
Sharon trust that is to take place soon.
Mrs. Isabella J. Martin, the mother of "Baby
John," who lost her suit against Mrs. Henry
Martin, has filed a sensational suit charging
K. B. Pond and Arthur Rodgers with bribing
i'jrors in her latecase. Bhe demands judgment
for $'.£50,000.
Dr. R. Beverly Cole gives Ivew York College
of Physicians and Surgeons first rank in the
colleges he has been visiting in the East. He
will urge the erection of a- magnificent struc
ture for the affiliated colleges of the University
of California.
The San Francisco Wasp which has entered
upon a new volume has a new heading that is
artistic and attractive. It has more intrinsic
merit as a work of art and as an emblematic
(.-.reation than many productions in other illus
trated papers.
The committee of arrangements of the Native
Sous for Admission day celebration has re
ceived reports from Sacramento that the pro
gramme of the day will be unusually elabor
ate. Hacramento citizens will entertain their
vi«itir.g guests royally.
The executive committee of the California
Press Association met last evening at the Occi
dental Hotel and discussed some important
questions. Tht> members present were: J. A
Filcher, H. A. McCraney, W. H. Mills, E. B.
Willis, T. W. Shcehan, C. F. Montgomery and
A. B. Lemmon.
W. P. Snllivan Jr., a dry-goods dealer, yester
day filed a petition in insolvency. His liabili
ties amount to $19,793 and there are no assets.
His creditors are all New York firms, with one
exception, J. C. Cullen of this City, in whose
debt he stands for the sum of $1575. The
failure is attributed to liabilities contracted
while petltiener was a member of the firm of
Sullivan, Burtis <fc Dewey.
AROUND THE WATER FRONT
The Whaleback City of Everett
Will Go on the Panama
Route.
JAPANESE FROM VICTORIA.
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Dismasting of the Ship Big Bonanza,
Bound From Baltimore to
This Port.
The Oceanic steamship Australia sailed
yesterday for Sydney, via Honolulu, with
a large passenger list and well loaded with
cargo. Among those who went down to
the Hawaiian Islands were C. A. Spreckels,
Rev. Joseph Cook, the eminent divine, and
Irving M. Scott Jr.
The Paciric Mail steamship Belgic sailed
for China and Japan with a large cargo
and a full passenger list, among -whom
wa= Hon. Stephen Bousal of the American
legation at Tokio.
The United States cruiser Philadelphia
arrived from Honolulu yesterday and pro
ceeded to Mare Island, where she will go
on the drydock and receive repairs, of
which she is in great need."
The Pacific Coast steamship Mexico came
in yesterday from Sound ports, and among
her steerage passengers were six Japanese,
who were refused "landing by the Immigra
tion Commissioner. Their case will be
considered to-morrow.
The whaleback steamer City of Everett,
now at Xanaimo after a car°ro of coal, ■will
leave this port for Panama June 29. She
is chartered by the Johnson-Locke Mer
cantile Company to run on that route as a
freight and passenger boat. Over 1000 tons
of merchandise are awaiting her on the
wharves of the Panama Kail way Company.
There is some speculation as to~ how the
bit; boat will handle herself when she gets
off the Mexican coast and perchance find a
gale like the storm that overwhelmed the
Colirua.
The ship Big Bonanza, which sailed for |
San Francisco from Baltimore, returned !
May 7 to that place, dismasted and badly I
disabled by a hurricane.
The following description of the storm j
and its effect is taken from a letter from j
Captain Bergman, her commander, re- 1
ceived here:
We struck a hurricane in latitude 37 deg. 18
mm. north, longitude <jO deg. west, which
robbed us of our principal spars and broke our
new iron foremast below The deck and strained
the ship very considerably ; so much so that
we pumped by steam with both pumps frem 8
p. m. of the 28th till 11 a. m. ol the 29th of
March before it showed the first sign that we
gained on the water in the hold. The hurri
cane occurred four days after the tug let go of
us off Cape Henry, and It took me thirty-nine
days to get back to Cape Henry, but we had to
make a large detour in order to meet favorable I
winds to return with.
The gale lasted a little orer two days, while
the cyclonic disturbance of the center which
dismasted us only lasted about three or four
hours, and, adding to the unpleasantness of the
whole affair, it was so pitch dark that I could
not recognize a person standing alongside of
me except by the voice. Looking up at the
masts that were left, though not being able to
make out the spars on account of darkness, we
could see the St. K!mo lires on the extremities.
When our bowsprit and foremast were carried
away I was standing on top of my afterhouse,
alongbide the forward skylight, and though I j
heard the terrible crash and knew something
uncommon had happened 1 could not 6ee what I
it was that caused the noise until a big flash of |
lightning revealed to my gaze a sickening 1
spectacle. There was the iron mast lying I
across the lea rail, the rigging still holding it,
and having smashed both lifeboats on top 01
the forward house as it fell across them, the
water pouring into the hole left by the mast,
for it broke underneath the deck, and heavy
seas sweeping over the whole ship without in
terruption.
The broken end of the foremast working up
and down just above the hole it had left made
it ilaiigemus for any one to attempt to work
underneath it, therefore before we could think |
of nailing up the hole we had to get rid of the !
mast, which was no easy matter under the cir
cumstances before described, but when the gale I
moderated the ship leaked but very little. We
pumped only about twenty minutes in twenty
four hours. We lost bowsprit and jibboom, en
tire foremast from truck to keelson, main top
gallant-mast and'mizzen topgallant-mast, with
yards and sails attached to ail the spars, and
the monkey gaff.
It is announced from England that the
Admiralty has decided to recommission
all the vessels belonging to the China
squadron whose period of service expires
during the year, without requiring them
to return to England. The list, according
to a service journal, consists of the hrst
class gunboats Pigmy, Plover and Ledpole,
all comparatively new vessels; the sloop
Daphne, first commissioned in 1889; the
dispatch vessel Alacrity and the third-class
gunboat Esk. Relief crews will be sent
out from England, probably in one of the
new first-class cruisers which will bring
back the time-expired men. The Lords ot
the Admiralty propose to set apart a sum
of £10,000 for making good the defects and
refitting these six vessels and the work will
be intrusted to the yard at Hongkong.
THE MOEGLING ESTATE.
exception Taken to a Keport From the
I.ate Kxecutor.
A. T. Barnett, attorney for William
Moegling, sole heir to the estate of Charles
Ivloegling, who died in this City about a
year ago, yesterday filed in the Superior
Court exceptions to the accounts as sub
mitted by the executor of the estate,
Adolph Prinz, who disappeared some time
ago and who is supposed to have committed
suicide.
Prinz's account of the estate was filed
on a citation from the Superior Court
through his attorney, George Hoeffer. The
affairs of the estate seem to be in a bad
muddle and the accounts, as kept by Prinz,
full of errors. There appears to be a con
siderable shortage in the cash account, and
there are many other errors and objections,
which are cited in Mr. Barnett's brief as
follows:
William Moegliug, brother, only heir and
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE Ifc, 1895.
residuary legatee and devisee of said Charles
Mocgling deceased, hereby contests and objects
to the allowance of the first account rendered
in the matter of the estate of haid deceased and
filed herein June 8, 1895, and contests and
objects to the allowance of each and every item
of said account, for the following reasons:
First— That safyl account is not signed by
Adolph I'rinz, the executor of said estate.
Hecond— That said account is not made under
oath.
Third— That there is no statement of the
daily receipts and disbursements of the saloon
from the time said executor took charge until
the saloon wag sold to F. A. Lorenz by order of
the court.
Fourth— That said account is not a full nor a
correct statement of the administration in this :
(o) That it gives no statement of judgments
against the eatate unpaid: (6) that it gives no
statement of debts due the estate and unpaid;
(d that It gives no statement of the real estate
belonging to the estate; (d) that it does not
give a full statement of all money paid out, nor
of all the money collected; (<■) that it does not
state the true condition of the estate.
Fifth— That said account places to the credit
of said executor as having been paid out
$407 34, whereas said $407 34 has not been
disbursed, but is now in the bank.
Sixth— That there appears in the said account
a shortage oi me executor in the cash stated as
THE CITY OF EVERETT.
[Sketched by a " Call " artist.]
received by said executor and the amount paid
out, the sum of $715 54.
The contestant objects more particularly
on the score of certain credits, which are
specified at length. ,
END OF FRANCIS EISEN
Declining Health Culminated
in Heart Failure Yes
terday.
Once an Owner in the Comstock
Mines, and Founder of the Pio
neer Mill Company.
Francis D. Eiaen, a prosperous wine mer
chant of this City, and brother of Dr. Gus
tave Eisen, the well-known scientist, died
of heart failure yesterday morning. He
had been failing in health from some cause
unknown for several years, but he had at-
tended daily to the demands of his larjce
business interests. At la. m. yesterday he
became alarmingly ill and at 9 o'clock
succumbed to the fatal attack.
Mr. Eisen was born in 1826 in Stockholm,
Sweden, and was educated in Bremen, Ger
many, and graduated from one of the lead
ing universities of that land of learning.
He came to California in 1850, an almost
penniless youth, and by his own efforts
amassed several fortunes. Some of these
he lost by unfortunate speculations, but he
left a competence to each of his four chil
dren. He was one of the early owners in
the Comstock mines and was the originator
of the Pioneer Mill Company.
He speculated in real estate in the early
hi&torv of the State, and twenty years ago
started the first vineyard in the San
Joaquin Valley. He brought to bear his
practical knowledge of chemistry and his
familiarity with the wine industry gained
in Germany upon the problem of wine
growing in "the golden State, and he was
signally successful.
At the time of his death he was at the
head of the Eisen Vineyard Company,
with headquarters at 11 Stevenson street.
Mrs. Eisen, who was one of the old Anise
family of Sonora, Mexico, died a year ago.
Mr. Eisen leaves four children, Mrs. Ralph
Lopez of Salvador, Miss Mary and Miss
Adelaide Eisen, and August Eisen, who
has had charge of his father's interests in
Fresno for several years. The announce
ment of the funeral will be made later.
THE ANNUAL BREAKFAST.
Members of the Country Club Prepar
ing to I t:ist Off Bullghead at
Point Reyes.
There will be a great crowd at the bulls
head breakfast of Country Club to-day.
The Pacific UniorHjlub are to be the guests
of the occasion and have been invited to
attend with their friends. A large number
have signified their intention of accepting
the hospitality of the younger organiza
tion.
Nothing has been spared to insure the
success of this the annual outing of the
Country Club. Frederick R. Webster, W.
S. Kittle and Fred W. Tallant have had
the preparations in charge and feel satis
fied that the breakfast will mark a red
letter day.
Those attending will leave San Fran
cisco on the 8 o'clock boat for Sausalito.
There a special train will be in waiting.
The breakfast party will reach the club
house at about 10 o'clock. Tney will find
a steaming hot breakfast waiting them.
Cassasa's band will be in attendance to fur
nish music for the occasion.
Return will be made on the 5 o'clock
boat. _
STRUCK BY AN ELECTRIC-CAR
W. II ■ Carter, a Longshoreman, l'rob
ably Fatally Injured.
W. H. Carter, a longshoreman, living at
250>£ Clara street, met with an accident
last evening, which will probably prove
fatal.
He was riding on a truck along Mission
street, and when between First and Second,
he jumped off. He did not observe an
electric-car approaching at a rapid speed,
and before he could get off the track the
car struck him on the neck and knocked
him off the track.
He wa3 picked up in an unconscious con
dition and taken to the Receiving Hospital
in the patrol wagon. It was found that
his neck was fractured, his scalp cut and
contused, and that his skull was possibly
fractured. The doctors say there are a
hundred chances to one against hia re
covery. _
Death of a Musician.
Charles Goflrie, a well-known musician and
solo violinist, who has been a familiar figure in
San Fraucisco musical circles during the past
twenty years, died at Fruitvale, in Alameda
County, last Sunday morning. Mr. Goffrie was
<4 years of age and was a native of Anaheim,
Germany.
Catarrh cured and no pay until cuerd
Treatment at office free. 925 Howard street. •
McGLAUFLIN & CO. SPLIT.
The Dissolution Follows on the
Heels of the Big Wheat
Deal.
SENSATIONAL THEORIES RIFE.
Dr. Marc Levingston Thinks Senator
Fair Knew Nothing About the
Transaction in Cereals.
L. W. McGlauflin & Co., the brokers
who handled the Fair syndicate wheat,
have dissolved partnership, Eugene A, i
Bresse retiring from the firm.
As soon as the dissolution was made
public all kinds of rumors as to the cause
of the disunion began to circulate. The
firm's connection with the Fair wlieat
deal and the sensational my^teriousness of
the disappearance of their bookkeeper,
Smith, invited all kinds of specu
lation. Brokers and commission met*
chants discussed the subject in the
privacy of their offices and exchanged
views with' their competitors in business
THE NEW PARK LODGE DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT EDWARD K. SWAIN.
over their noon lunches. Smith's name
was repeatedly mentioned, and theory was
rife as to secret causes involved in the dis
ruption of the well-known firm.
Every speculation on the subject wound
up with a query as to whether the missing
bookkeeper, Smith, could not return now
that the syndicate wheat had been disposed
of and the firm conducting the deal has
been dissolved. But with all these rumors
and speculations there may be more to the
story than has yet been told, as will ap
pear in the statements of Dr. Marc Lev
ingston quoted further on.
When Louis C. Bresse, one of the Fair
trustees, was approached on the subject
his manner was unnecessarily brusque.
"I do not know anything about the
transactions of McGlauflin <fe C 0.," he said.
"1 did not even know the firm had dis
solved or that there was any thought of a
dissolution. In faot, 1 have not seen my
brother for two days."
'•Do yon know how Senator Fair first be
came interested in wheat?" was asked.
"I do not know anything about it. and
have no time to talk."
Eugene A. Bresse was asked a direct
question about the reported dissolution of
the firm and his answer was as follows:
"Yes, we have dissolved and are now
bringing our business to a close. I have
been worked pretty hard for the last three
years and think I deserve a rest."
"What is there in the story that Mc-
Glaullin <fe Co. got the late Senator Fair in
terested in wheat through the influence of
your brother, who was his private secre
tary ?' '
"Well, I suppose people have a right to
their opinions and must express them. I
do not care to say anything on the subject,
however, and all I can tell you is that 1 am
glad to be able to take a rest. I have
passed a good many sleepless nights dur
ing the last two or three years and I feel
like getting away where I will not hear of
wheat or uny of the newspaper stones
thereon. There has been so much, said in
the press about this matter that I am tired
out. It is time a stop was called, I think."
It was obviously a sore Biibject to Mr.
Bresse, and he so expressed himself in as
many words in concluding the interview.
He would- have nothing to say about the
missing bookkeeper further than that they
were as ignorant of his whereabouts now
as they ever were.
The several brokers and commission
men talked to on the subject spoke without
reserve. George W. McNear recalled the
fact that Louis 0. Bresse acted as clerk lor
L. W. McGlauflin before he secured the
position as Fair's private secretary. He
afterward obtained his former position
with McGlauflin for his brother who was
subsequently taken into the business as a
partner.
"There is something very peculiar in the
whole thing," said Dr. Marc Levingston,
one of the Fair executors under the holo
graphic will, when asked for information
concerning the connection of the other
trustees with McGlauflin & Co.
"I have no desire to antagonize the trus
tees any more than I had to during the
legal proceedings incident to the probating
of the will in which I am made an executor,
but I must say there is something very
strange in the whole transaction. I have
been called into consultation with the trus
tees on other matters connected with af
fairs of the estate, butl not on this wheat
deal. I have always held the opinion, and
nothing can shake it, that Senator Fair
never knew a thing about this immense
deal in wheat."
"But how about Fair's money?" was in
terposed.
"That's just it, and you can draw your
own inference."
"Do you mean that the Fair millions
were being manipulated by the confiden
tial agents of Fair without his full cog
nizance?"
"That's the question. I enjoyed Fair's
confidence and I know some things that
have never been made public. Fair was in
Mexico, in pursuance of my advice as his
physician, from January to June, in 18&4,
and no one, to my knowledge, has ever
seen any papers, letters, documents or
telegrams which passed between the late
Senator and his agents here during that
interim. It would certainly have been
natural for some kind of a correspondence
during the course of such an extensive
transaction, and if any one, outside of the
private secretary and two or three others,
has seen any of that correspondence, I
would liketo'know when and where.
"Another thing: I know of my own
personal knowledge that the Senator was
becoming dissatisfied with two men -who
acted in an important representative ca
pacity for him, and had he lived long
enough to carry out his intentions in the
premises those two men would not be in
their present positions. Then again, we
might well ask where is the bookkeeper,
Smith, and why is the Senator's late valet,
Herbert Clark, kept so close? All these
questions must be answered before much
of this mysterlousness is cleared up. lam
not at all loth to say I think there is much
that is strange, singular and baffling in the
whole affair?'
A COMMITTEE OF NINE
Citizens Will Inquire Into Ex
penditures of City
Moneys.
Directors of the Merchants' Asso
ciation Will Make the
First Move.
Out of the Merchants' Association the
Good Government Club and the Civic Fed
eration a new body is to grow, a Committee
of Nine to inquire into the expenditure of
the City's moneys; to call upon the Super
visors for things that should be done, and
to show up the evils that now exist, and,
when exposed, to call upon the Supervis
ors to pass ordinances to do away with
them.
It is a bi? work, but directly in line with
the objects of the organizations out of
which the new working committee is to
grow. No names have as yet been offered
by the parent bodies, but the matter has
been thoroughly, if informally, discussed
in all of them, and the outcome will be the
new committee within a very few weeks.
There is an evident feeling in the mem
bership of all the societies devoted to mu
nicipal reform that the task ahead of the
new committee is of herculean propor
tions. They base their views upon the re
ports of poor work that has been done in
the past and is still being done for the City-
in the way of street paving, cesspool and
sewer building and general contracting.
The reports made to Mayor Sutro by his
expert, George T. Gaden, who is an ardent
member of the Civic Federation, have set
the members of all the municipal reform
organizations to thinking. More than
that, it has set them to investigating on
their own volition. Many of them have
gone over the streets reported by Mr.
Gaden to have been badly paved, and they
have come to the same conclusion as that
reached in his report, that the City has
paid some very fancy prices for a iarge
quantity of very poor work.
The exact date or the manner of the
organization of the new committee has
not yet been determined upon, but it is an
assured fact that it will be pushed, and
will go ahead with the work. July 1 next,
when the Levingston charges against the
quartet of members of the Civic Federa
tion have been disposed of, one way or the
other, will probably be the date of the
organization. Already several semi-official
communications have passed between
different members of the three clubs, each
dwelling upon the necessity of such a com
mittee as the one proposed, and each giv
ing assurance of hearty co-operation in its
formation.
The Merchants' Association, which is
particularly interested in good pavings
and good streets, will probably take the
initiative in the matter at the next meet
ing of the newly elected board of directors.
CORONER'S VERDICTS.
The Facts in Regard to Two Suicides
and One Murder Were Brought
Oat.
Inquests into the cause of the deaths of
Howard Smith and James Howard were
held yesterday at the Morgue. The Cor
oner's jury found that Smith had commit
ted suicide while insane, and that Howard
came to his death "at the hands of persons
unknown."
Howard Smith was the witness in the
Matthews-Winthrop case who cut his
throat the day after the inquest on Mrs.
Matthews was held. He brooded over the
woman's death in Laurel Hill Cemetery
and told his relatives he was afraid of im
plicating Winthrop.
James Howard was clubbed to death on
the 3d inst. on Howard street. So far no
trace of his murderer has been found.
In the case of Charles Koelling, who
was killed by Frank Cratscar in front of
941 Folsom street, the jury charged Crats
car with murder. Detective Coffey said he
had traced the murderer to Vacaviile and
there lost track of him.
The woman who committed suicide by
gas in the Baldwin annex on Ellis street
was proven not to have been Minnie
Meyers. She was therefore placed on the
records as "unknown."
To Safe Deposit Renters.
The Union Trust Company of San Francisco
corner of Market, Montgomery and Post streets,
offers to the public safes for rent in the
strongest, best guarded, best lighted and most
modern vaults west of Chicago at from $4 to
$150 per annum. Valuables of all kinds stored
at reasonable rates. *
These is an Article on the market seldom
equaled and never excelled— Jesse Moore Whis
ky. Moore, Hunt & Co. guarantee its puriiy. •
THE PARK'S NEW LODGE
A Handsome Design Is Ac
cepted by the Board of
Commissioners.
INTENDED TO BE ORNAMENTAL.
The Architect Tells All About the
Plans and Interior Ar
rangements.
Work on the new Park Lodge will prob
ably begin in a few days. Plans for the
lodge have been submitted to and accepted
by the Commissioners, and the only thing
that remains to be done is to see just how
much money can be spared at the present
time.
P;irk Commissioner Austin says that if
there is not enough money on hand to
complete the structure this year, then only
the office part will be undertaken, and the
residence of the superintendent will be
finished next year.
Commissioner Rosenfeld, however, is
more sanguine than his associate, and says
that work on the loige will commence in a
few days and be pushed rapidly forward
until completed. He says that the plans
submitted may be slightly altered to meet
the financial end of the problem, but that
in a general way the architect's plans will
be adhered to.
"The building is to be in two parts,"
said Edward R. Swain, the architect,
yesterday, "one for the use of the superin
tendent as a residence and the other for the
Park Commissioners. The former will be
two stories in height and the latter one
story, though both will have attics."
"The residence oortion will contain a re
ception-room, hall, bedroom, dining-room
and kitchen on the lirst floor, with five bed
rooms and accessories on the second story.
The Commissioners' part contains the su
perintendent's office and entrance lobby,
secretary's office, Commissioners' meeting
room and drafting-room, together with the
necessary lavatories. This portion of the
building will also contain a large steel
vault 6 feet wide, 11 feet long and 10 feet
high. The interior will be fitted up with
document files and pigeon-holes for the
storage of papers.
The lodge will be built of stone, laid
after the fashion known as broken ashlar.
The rafters and all exterior wood finish
will be in stained Oregon pine.
The roof proper will be tiled. The in
terior finish of the Commissioners' room
will be in East-coast Mexican, mahogany,
divided into large panels of leather ana
brass nail work. The remainder will be
finished in highly polished Eastern white
oak. The interior finish in the residence
portion will be in redwood and polished
oak.
The floor of the porches will be laid in
fire tile, in keeping with the rustic appear
ance ol the exterior of the building. All
the plumbing will be open and after the
most approved custom. The cost of the
lodge is not definitely known, because it is
probable that a few alterations will be
made in the plans submitted.
The new building is to stand beneath the
knoll facing the present house at the park
entrance, and grading has begun at that
place.
ON THE CRICKET FIELD.
Matches for To-Day— A Representative
Team May Go East.
Among the cricket events billed for to
day at Klinknerville the cup match be
tween the Bohemians and the Californias
should be most interesting and worth the
journey to see, as the former are much
weakened by sick members and the latter
much strengthened by new blood. The
Bohemians are becoming noted for putting
up a good game at a critical time, and may
win, although should their colors be low
ered there would not be much surprise.
At the club grounds at Alameda the
champions will have the Pacifies as their
opponents in the cup tie. A good game
from every point of view is expected, and
should end in another victory for the
champions by a small margin.
Rumors are flying around that it might
be within the realms of possibility that a
representative team of California cricketers
may be sent East to try conclusions with
the different city and State teams. Of
course, from a monetary point of view, this
would be a dismal failure, for the expenses
of a team — say of twelve — are very great,
and in no one city, except Philadelphia,
would the receipts meet the expenses, as
the game outside of that city is not yet
sufficiently popular. The idea has only
just been mooted, and everything is in the
nutshell state; but still, should it be suc
cessfully managed, the representatives of
the Golden West would be equal to and
better than the majority of the Eastern
teams.
California Volunteers.
The Society ot California Volunteers met at
the Occidental Hotel last night, Captain Wash
bum presiding. The invitation to parade on
the 4th of July was declined, but the veterans
will participate in the celebration by joining
the procession in carriages. The members ol
the organization are so scattered throughout
the country that a sufficient force cannot be
concentrated in San Francisco to make an
effective display.
Greer Harrison to Speak.
William Greer Harrison will deliver a lecture
on "Shakespeare's Geography and Shake-
speare's New Woman," under the auspices of
the Geographical Society of California, next
Tuesday evening, at Golden Gate Hall.
A New Department.
Furniture moved, stored, packed and
shipped at low rates by Morton Special
Delivery. Only experienced men em
ployed ; equipment tarst class. Offices, 31
Geary street and 408 Taylor street. *
A rattling remedy for rheumatism was
tried on an old fanner in Springfield, N. J.
For several months he had been bedridden
with the disease. Six tightly corked bot
tles of water were placed on the stove. In
half an hour they exploded, causing the
terrified patient to bound from the bed and
run downstairs. The rheumatic pains
have left him.
NEW TO-DAY.
pMELPliiTila
I STAMPED ON A SHOE
MEANS STANDARD OF MERIT.
Sl— iilMl I^l—
DO YOU RIDE A BIKE?
The popular pastime of the present is to ride ft
Bicvycle, and no more health-giving exercise can be
found. It Is adapted for old or young, and of late
the ladles have taken kindly to it, and whether
I hey wear skirts or bloomers it is necessary for
them to wear legging. And recognising that fact
we have put in a fine stock of Long and Knee Lett*
gins, and, as usual, we will sell them lower than
our competitors. The long leergln that comes un
over the knee we will sell for $1 60. and the lPßgin
that reaches to the knee for $1.00, which is 50
cents per pair cheaper than they can be bought fn*
elsewhere. Remember, it will pay you to trada
with us, as we can nave you money on every article
of footwear yon require.
Ladies riding bicycles require Bicycle Shoes
specially made for that purpose, as the regular
shoe or Oxford is not adapted for riding, and es-
pecially on bicycles with rat-trap pedals. We have
a very tine Ladies' Low Cut Bicycle Shoe, made of
a fine kangaroo kid, that fits the foot well, and can
be guaranteed for wear, and which we will sell tor
These shoes are nnltned, are easy on the feet, and.
are just the thing for ladles who wish to wear com-
fortable shoes. 1 hey retail elsewhere for $3.
Men's Low-cut Bicycle Shoes. .$2.00
Men's High-cut Bicycle Shoes. .$2.50
This is the season when Russet Oxfords are in
demand, as they are easy and cool on the feet andl
present a very natty appearance. We have a com-
plete stock of Tan Oxfords and Southern Ties on
hand, and we will sell them at the lowest market
rates. We are making a special drive of Ladies'
Tan-colored Russet Goat Oxfords, with pointed toes
and V-shaped tips, which we will sell for
$1.25.
These Oxfords are hand-turned and require no
breaking in, and we carry them In C, I) and hi
widths.
J9B-Country orders solicited.
$&• Send for New Illustrated Catalogue.
Address
B. KATCHIN&KI,
10 Third Street, San Francisco.
PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO.
REDUCED TO
$2 PER BOTTLE!
Mm iffyi Francisco using this
Restorer for Gray
fSiji^mm I Hair or Dandruff will
('SnHl'Wji/ rccc^ ve their money
WMilwim^ no Satisfied with
•ll llk X- 1 ■irW'A I ?' Pi ! I'JW J
Iffillif results -
Mme. Marehand— Dear Madam: At your re-
quest I have carefully analyzed your Gray Hair
Restorer. In my Judgment it is an effective prep-
aration and will not injure the hair or the general
health. I can cheerfully recommend it to your
patrons. Respectfully submitted,
W. T. WENZKLIi, Analytical Chemist.
This is to certify that I am well acquainted with
W. T. Wenzell. and that I consider him one of the
ablest chemists in San Francisco and a gentleman
of the strictest Integrity.
C. A. CLINTON, M.D.,
Ex-member of Board of Health.
I indorse Dr. Clinton's opinion of Professor Wen-
zell. WILLIAM SEARBY, Chemist.
This Is to certify that I know Professor Wenzell
and know him to be correct in every detail.
W. H. LOGAN, Ph.G., M.D.
The Antoinette Preparations are indorsed by
many of our most eminent chemists and pbysi«
cians. This Restorer is not a Dye, and does nob
stain the scalp.
SAMPLES OF (MM] DE LA CRFJE GIVEN AWAY.
MME. MARGHAND,
Hair and Complexion Specialist,
121 POST STREET, ROOMS 32-36,
Taber's Entrance. Telephone 1349.
MONTGOMERY & Gfl.
GROCERS.
v For the ensuing week we quote:
chocolate:
Ghirardelli's Eaa;le, per lb 200
Baker's Eagle, per lb 20c
Ghirardelli's Eagle, ground, 1-lb. tin 5...250
Ghirardelli's Vanilla, per lb 350
COCOA.
Ghirardelli's Breakfast, per tin 200
Baker's Breakfast, per tin 20c
Fry's Homeopathic, per tin 20c
Epps' Homeopathic, per tin 200
We are the only house in the city that
sells Schweitzer's Cocoatina, "the queen
of cocoas."
(81 Sixth Street.
STORES i US Third Street.
1 1645 Polk Street.
SAN FKANCISCO.
X. B.— Store closes every evening at 7
o'clock,' except Saturday.
km A A mm (SEALED) MAILED FREE, in
BMcßHSllflf P*^*- cloth-bound.on Errors of
eIHRS n Youth and Diseases of Men and
BUr m? Women. Address Dr. LOBB.Sa
North Fifteenth Street. ffcllAdelphia, Pa.
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