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TUESDAY.. ....AUGUST 27, 1895 AMUSEMENTS. Bamtwix TnrATER.r-"That Imprudent Young Couple." * Columbia Theater— "Mask and Faces; or, Before and Behind the Curtain." Morosco's Opera-house— " The Coast Guard." Tivoli Opera-hotre— "The Black Hmssar." Orphetjm— High-aass Vaudeville. Macdokotjgh Theater (Oakland) "Too Much Johnson." Mechanics' Larkln-street, near Market. Bay District Track.— Races. State Board of Trade Kxkibit.— s7s Market street, below Second. Open dally. mission free. California State Fair— Sacramento, Septem- ber 2 to 14. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. The Methodist preachers discussed evolu tion. The Olympic Club opposition ticket has made its appearance. The State Board of Trade has taken rooms In the Crocker building. Brief City items are to be found on this page of the Call every day. Anthony McLean has made Key. George Watt corespondent in a divorce suit. The Congregational Monday Club discussed the manner of spiritual rebirth. William S. MeMurty bequeathed most of his estate to his sister, Mrs. F.uiirnoy. Local items, bright and brief, can be round on this page of the Call ci erj morning. Nathan C. Carnall died of inflammation of the bowels yesterday at the Lenox Hotel. Frank Piel, an upholsterer, has been sent to the Stockton asylum lythe Insane Commis sioners. • The American Protective Association in this City lias been reorganized by Assembly dis tricts. The -week of polo pony-racing and pigeon shootinp opens at the Hotel del Monte, Monte rey, to-day. Dr. J. M. Condit talked on "The Greatest Need of the Hour" at the Presbyterian Minis terial Union. Little John O'Ronrke Fays he was bitten by Mrs. Catherine Proton's dog. and he has sued her for ;?iiS>9 damages. Time-tables of the railroad companies are published free of charge in the Call for the ac tommodation of readers. The William Nrelling estate is being sued for $4000 worth of property. which, it is claimed, it had no right to transfer. There seems to be no decrease in the attend ance at the fair. Last night the place was crowded beyond expectations. There was a pleasant reception at the Crocker Old People's Home last evening to Rev. W. L. Githens, the former superintendent Judge Slack yesterday rendered a decision upholding the legality of commitments of female minors to the Magdalen Asylum. The people of Sacramento are driving out the hobos and tramps and are ordering working men from the State's Free Labor Bureau. Cattle King White's deposition was tafcen yesterday in the suit of the Sun Insurance Company to foreclose a $75,000 mortgage. Forecast official W. H. Hammon predicts f'fair; nearly stationary temperature ; fresh to brisk westerly winds" for to-day's weather. The police are trying to find a sneak-thief who has been stealing ornaments and robbing the poor-boxes in Roman Catholic churches. Mrs. Ann Johnson, who Btarted for Chicago in 1893, has never been heard from since. Judge Coffey yesterday declared her legally dead. Bernard Cappell, northeast corner of Eighth and Mission streets, was yesterday fined $100 by Judge Coniau for selling liquor without a license. Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger of the Congregation Einanu-El, who has been away to Europe on a three months' vacation, is expected home on sunday. Commissioner Searls of the Supreme Court yesterday refused to give A. A. Friedlander a hearing "in his petition to be admitted to the Supreme Court. Fire Marshal Towe is investigating a sus picious fire that occurred early yesterday morning: in Mrs. S. M. Oliver's lodgiiig-houae, 844 Sixth street. , .. Thomas Rolfe, a former switchman of the Southern Pacific, has brought suit against that company for $25,000 for injuries received while in its employ. The San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway Company has filed another petition with the Board of Supervisors for aright of way to the new race track. Mrs. Elizabeth Ina Joy, formerly Mrs. Ryer, has petitioned the court for a distribution to her of rents amounting to $22,556 76, from the Washington Ryer property. The talent again picked four out of the five winners at the track vtsterday. The fortunate horses were: Conde, Belle Boyd, Schnitz, Royal Flush and Little Bob. Professor 11. H. Powers, now in Europe, has been tendered an independent professorship in the economics department at Stanford University and has accepted it. The big mining suit of Theodore Fox va. John W. llaekay and others was resumed In Judge Seawell's "court yesterday, and goes on again this morning at 10 o'clock. England has modified her claims in the Alaskan boundary question and will now be satisfied if all the seaports on thewaters of the Archipelago Alexander are yielded to her. The Grand Jury proposes to inrestlgate the rumor that certain Supervisors refused to lend aid in increasing the police force till they should get a certain number of appointments. Mrs. M. A. Arnold of the Grand Southern Ho tel yesterday followed and captured James Brennan. an old man, whom she accuses of be ing implicated in the stealing of her purse last Tuesday. The police are satisfied that Thomas O'Neil, the burglar arrested by Detective Cody oh Sunday night, committed the numerous burg laries recently in the Mission and Western Addition. Andrew J. Collins, who threatened to kill Superintendent Flllmore of the Southern Paci fic, appeared in Judge Joachimsen's court yes terday and the hearing of the case was fixed for Friday. Edward Campbell, the confederate of Sidney Bell In the murder of Samuel Jacobson five years ago, was yesterday convicted of vagrancy by Judge Joachimsen and sent to the County Jail for six months. George Moseby, a colored man, was arrested yesterday for cutting William Murphy, the horse-trainer, with a knife at the racetrack on Sunday night. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The residence of Mrs. Richard Tobin on Nob Hill was partly destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The loss was between $10,000 and $15,000. Careless painters with gasoline lamps started the blaze. The captains of the local militia are going to submit demands for the full legal quarterly allowance of $300. regardless of the agree ment made by the colonels to submit to a re duction to $75" a month. The Union for Practical Progress will meet this evening at 16 Post street to formulate a plan for bringing into practical politics the question of municipal ownership of gas, water and electric-light plants. John Murphy, 1132 York street, was taken to the Receiving Hospital last night with a lacerated wound in his scalp. He said the conductor of a Valencia-street car threw him off at the ferry without any provocation. Harry Gordon, an employe of the City Carpet-beating Works on Eighth street, was vcsterday struck by a roli of carpet which fell from a shelf and had several ribs broken on the right ride. He was taken to the Receiving Hospital. In the opinion of Executive Officer Clarence J. Wetmore of the Viticultural Commission, alkali is the cause of the so-called "California vine disease," which has proved to be such a mystery to Professor Newton B. Pierce, the Government expert, and others. Two additional jurors were secured in the Durrant case yesterday in the persons of David Brooks. 1311 California street, and J. H. Bab bitt, 1015 Market street, making eleven in all. But one more is needed, and it is confidently predicted that he will be secured to-day. John Faulhammer, butcher, Mason and Union streets, who was charged with grand larceny In removing a barrel of whisky from Mrs. Martha Gottscnang's saloon, 809 Third street, was yesterday held to answer before the Superior Court in $1000 bonds by Judge loachimsen. The residents of Shasta County want the prosecution of George Short dropped. He was i Populist orator ana was arrested for passing :ounterfeit money. A petition setting forth Short's many virtues was aent to the United States District Attorney, but the latter says :he case must go to trial. Mr. Vining has informed the committee rep resenting the South Side residents that begin ning Wednesday be will give them a half- Tourly service from 6 to 10 a. m. and from 5 to 11 p. m. The committee is not satisfied, and Aill bo report to the general meeting which is sailed for "Wednesday night. • ALONG THE WATER FRONT The Big Ship May Flint, Form erly the Persian Monarch, Arrives. STIFF PRICE FOE A TOW. Arbitrary Ruling of the Quarantine Officer Regarding Ship Ar rivals. The American iron ship May Flint, the largest sailing vessel that has ever entered this harbor, arrived yesterday morning, 147 days from Baltimore. She is 361 feet THE AMERICAN SHIP MAY FLINT, fOBMEBLT THE PERSIAN MONARCH. [Sketched by a " Call " artist.] long, 43 feet beam and 25 feet in depth, and her registered tonnage is 3287 tons. Her cargo of 4320 tons of coal puts her down in the water 23 feet. She is commanded by Captain E. D. P. Nickels. The May Flint was formerly the Persian Monarch, one of Wilson's Atlantic liners, and was built at Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1881. In consequence of the low steam generating power of her engines she was found to be too slow for a passenger or fast freight racer, consequently she was pnt in the cattle trade. Her great size of deck room made her especially useful for this business, as hundreds of head of stock could be taken on board. Last year she got ashore on the Long Island coast and the stranded steamer was purchased by Flint & Co. of New York. She was stripped of her engines, her upper deck and its houses taken off and her rig changed to a four-master, square on the three forward masts. She carries three double topsail yards, but having lost a yard from the main and mizzen mast in a Cape Horn gale she appears as a single topsail yarder, except at the fore. The captain's handsome quarters are in the spardeck, which is stationed amidships. The walls and bulkheads are iron, but artistically painted and decorated in imi tation of wood. The place.is fitted more like a hotel suite of rooms, the stationary washstands and srJorelike fittings of the apartments not bearing out the idea of a ship. The skip per's large stateroom is provided with the ordinary wide bed instead of the usual boarded-in bunk, and Captain Nickels states that so steady is the big ship that in all her hard weather off the Horn he was not pitched once from his old homestead couch. On the roof of the deckhouse is a small iron structure which is the captain's •ffice as well as his iookout station. It is pro vided with deadlights on all sides". When the vessel went under the Ameri can flag she was named after the wife of W, B. Flint, the junior member of the firm. The ship encountered head winds, and the usual rough weather near Cape Horn, and lost her mizzen topmast and three top gallant masts. Three of the topsail yards rattled down on deck, and a number of sails blew away. Her passaee from the equator up was un eventful until she arrived off this port. The wind failing she drifted north, and day before yesterday she was close into Bodega Heads. Captain Nickels tried to work his ship around the point into Bo dega Bay, but was unable to manage the big becalmed vessel, and the starboard an chor was let go about one-half mile from the beach. It was bad holding ground, as they could feel in the sixty fathoms of chain drag ging over the bowlders on the bottom. However, the wind being so light the anchor held her, though there was only nine fathoms of water under the stern. The steamer Alice Blanchard came along and, seeing the great ship in a dangerous position, generously offered to tow her out for the modest sum of $12,000, finally fall ing to $5000. Captain Nickels offered $160, and the steamer saluted by blowing her whistle and passed on. The first mate with two men in a boat went ashore to telegraph for a tug, and during their absence the' Flint was enabled to slip and buoy her cable and get into safe water, when she was found by the Alert and towed into this harbor. The wreckage of the ship James Town send, which recently went ashore near Point Arena, has been sold to John Shep pard, a farmer living close to the place where the vessel was lost. He paid $200 for the lumber. $50 for one of the boats and $25 for the hull of the ship. The cargo of the bark W. H. Meyer, wrecked near Port Clarence, was sold to Captain Townsend of the bark J. D. Peters for $600. The latest news state that all hands got ashore in safety and that the crew are on board of a revenue cutter. The strict ruling of Quarantine Officer Chalmers regarding the stoppage of all foreign port vessels on the quarantine grounds until after his visit is working a great and unnecessary inconvenience to vessels entering this port. A heavily laden ship being towed in with the tide cannot stop below Alcatraz except by turning completely around, incurring an expenditure of time, extra labor and extra towing expense. The officer being notified by the Mer chants' Exchange reporter from Point Lobos of the arrival of a vessel has ample time to board her in the bay; but the duties or pleasures of Dr. Chalmers detain ing him elsewhere, vessels are constantly being put to the delay of awaiting Mb ap pearance. When the ship Sierra Nevada was re cently towing up the bay the captain of the tug ran under a Blow bell, waiting for the quarantine boat. That vessel did not appear and the ship prepared to anchor, the tug casting off and steaming away. Then the doctor appeared and ordered tlie ship back to the quarantine station. She was without a tug, but making sail tried to work bacic and came near going THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1895. aground on the Berkeley flats. A tug from another company came to her assist ance and towed her down to the mouth of the harbor, the medical martinet keeping alongside in his boat, but refusing to board until the ultimate fathom had been tra versed. Last Sunday afternoon the brig Lurline was being towed in and some distance be hind her was the steamer Kahului. Dr. Chalmers, who had been out on the bay with a party of guests, steamed past the towing tug and ordered her captain to stop until the steamer Kahului was inspected. As the tug and her tow were in the midst of a fleet of racing yachts and at the mercy of an incoming tide running five or six miles an hour the ordet was unreasonable. A slacking-up of the tug's speed would have dropped the towline down un der the propeller or caused a swerving to one side, which among the fast sailing ves sels of the regatta would have been a stupid movement. The doctor refused to board the brig and went on to the steamer. The Lurline was anchored in the stream off Valle jo-street wharf, and the doctor went to the regatta with his tugload of guests, leaving tne passengers and people on the Lurline to awai-t his pleasure for several hours as a vicarious punishment to the captain of the tuc. A team of horses left standing in front of the Oakland ferry landing yesterday be came frightened, and running away col- Jided with an express wagon driven by Jake Abrams and belonging to Jacobs & Co. Abrams was knocked down, and the team continuing on in its mad speed ran over Miss Grace Mclvor of 715 Twelftn street, Oakland, who was on her way home with her father. Abrams and Miss Mclvor were taken to the Receiving Hospital, where it was found that she had her right hip fractured, a finger broken, and was bruised about the head and face. Abrams was bruised about the body and injured internally. He is the man who recently picked up the fruit that was going to waste on the wharves and dis tributed it around to poor people. It is not known who was the driver of the run away team. Last Sunday a party of the employes of Newman & Levison chartered the'yacht Ethel S for a regatta of their own. They passed through Raccoon Straits and headed lor VaJlejo. They did not return Sunday night, and grave fears were entertained for their safety. On Monday morning the party returned, having been becalmed iv pan Pablo bay, and put in the night fight ing mosquitoes. A small yawl belonging to the Corinthian Yacht Club, with several persons on board, was capsized in Raccoon Straits Sunday. They were rescued by George Flesher of Tiburon, who hurried to the scene in a launch. Henry Smith, a negro, was arrested on the water front yesterday morning, charged with having pernicious literature in his THE BEAR OF THE TOBIN RESIDENCE WEEKE THE FIRE STARTED. [Sketched by a "Call" artist.] possession. When searched at the police station a gold watch and chain were found on him, which turned out to have been stolen from Frank Anderson, a sailor. THE PAIR WEATHEB SIGNAL. It la Smutted and Torn and Ought to Come Down. It is about time that the Signal Service Bureau call in the flag that is displayed daily from the top of the Mills building to inform the public of the nature of the weather. According to the rules of the bureau there should, for fair weather, be displayed a white square flag, but what the color of the signal displayed for several days past is it is difficult to determine. The person who looks at it is uncertain whether it is a white signal that haa turned gray with dust and smoke or a blue one that is sun-faded, and during the past two days it has split in two. Some people want to know If this is a new signal the definition of which has not yet Deen made public. An 85-year-old widow of Livermore, Me., last week finished weaving a carpet twenty three yards long, and has a contract to weave two more of like size. A BIG FIRE ON NOB HILL The Residence of Mrs. Richard Tobin Was Almost Destroyed. THE LOSS WILL BE GREAT. Careless House - Painters With Gasoline Lamps Started the Blaze, The residence of Mrs. Richard Tobin, on the southeast corner of California and Taylor streets, was gutted by tire yester day afternoon, causing between $10,000 and $15,000 damages. The fire was started by house-painters, who were using gasoline lamps for burning off the old paint. The men were at work on the bow-windows on the second Btory at the southwest corner. A high wind was blowing from the south, and the small flame started by the burning lamp was soon leaping up the dry wooden walls until it reached a email cupola, where it flared up like a torch. An alarm wa-3 sounded from box 132 on the corner of Pine and Mason streets at 3:15 o'clock. For a time the tire held full sway in the building, which ia on the top of Nob Hill, because it was very difficult to reach with the heavy steam engines. The first on the ground was the engine on California street, near Leavenworth. The Stockton-street engine was the next, while engine 2 took up its position on Pine street, and ran a line of hose up the steep Taylor-street hill. The Broadway hook and ladder company took a stand on Cali fornia street. While this was going on the flames were being swept by the high wind through the bedrooms of the second story and along beneath the high mansard roof. The building was erected fully thirty years ago and was built in the style of those times, with a total disregard for protection against fire. The spaces between the outer and inner walls served the fire as so many chimneys and the falling spares dropped down to the first story, where in a short time they set fire to the building in fresh places. For a short time it looked as though the fine old structure was doomed, but the fire men worked hard to save it. Ladders were run to the roof and several lines of hose were directed against the flames from the top. In fact they fairly flooded the house. While saving the house the beautiful furniture, books, pictures, etc., were threat ened with destruction by water. Captain Comstock of the Underwriters' Fire Patrol was among the first on the ground and the work of saving the con tents of the house was taken in hand by his crews. The walls were stripped of their ornaments and pictures, which were taken to a place of safety. All of the heavy furniture was quickly covered with rubber blankets so that it was saved from damage by the water that soon began to pour in torrents from the floor above. In the upper part of the house the larger part of the contents was removed to the north side of the house and covered with the rubber blankets. The valuable car pets, however, were ruined eithei by fire or water. The house presented a sorry appearance when the flames were conquered. The south wall was riddled with large holes from the first story to the roof. At least ten rooms in the second story were gutted. The west side of the building was but little better than the south, but on the north and east sides the structure is not badly injured. The total loss will be between $10,000 and $15,000. There was only $5000 insurance on the house and none on the contents so far as can be learned. The house had been very recently in the hands of the carpent ers who had repaired it from the bottom to the top. The painters had not been at work very long and only about a quarter of the work was done. They were removing all the old paint by the application of a gaso line flame and as stated are responsible for the blaze. The did not remain long after the firemen arrived. Mrs. Tobin had removed for the summer to Burlingame and the house was in charge of the gardener. As soon as the blaze was extinguished friends telephoned to Mrs. Tobin who replied that she would leave at once for San Francisco. She places a high valuation upon the paintings, books and bric-a-brac, which are the result of many years of collection by the late owner and Mrs. Tobin. THE OLD PEOPLE'S HOME. Ex-Superintendent Rev. Githens Meets His Old Friends. .Rev. W. L. Githens, formerly the super intendent and chaplain of the Crocker Old People's Home on Pine and Pierce streets, called upon his friends in the home last evening. Many others were there and a pleasant time was enjoyed by all. Of the 128 aged ladies who compose the family nearly 100 were present at the reception, and those who were not present were con fined to their rooms by ill health. Rev. Githens entertained the friends by a lec ture on Florida and a humorous account of the "Ghost Cat." The Misses Wier sang a duet, which was followed by "Auld Lanp Syne" by the gathering, which was led by the former superintendent. The present superintendent, Rev. Charles McKelvey, made a few appropriate remarks and more songs followed. For half an hour Mr. Githens enjoyed a social chat with his friends. He will return to his home in New Mexico next week. THE CATTLE KING'S FIGHT Mrs. White's Alimony Bill for $100,000 and a $75,000 Mortgage. White Contesting the Payment of One, an Effort to Foreclose the Other Made. The decision which was expected from the Supreme Court in the celebrated di vorce suit of Cattle King White last Tues day did not arrive, but the autocrat of the Mendocino cattle ranges has been on the rack since then. Mrs. White, who secured her divorce in 1888 and was awarded $100,000 by Judge Hebbard in lieu of the monthly alimony, which the cattle king refused to pay some time prior to the award of the lump cum, claims that White has resorted to all man ner of subterfuges in order to get out of complying with the Superior Court order. The" case was carried to the Supreme Court by the defendant on an application for a writ of prohibition and a writ of re view in the matter of the order of sale of property to satisfy Judge Hebbard's award of $100,000. Mrs. White also claims in her depfoition9 that the mortgage executed in favor of the Sun Insurance Company for $75,000 was a part of the defendant's scheme to defraud his wife out of the money al lowed her by the court. The cattle king's deposition on the sub ject of the $7 r ),000 mortgage was taken in the office of Linforth & McPiKe yesterday afternoon. In answer to the many and leading questions relating to Mrs. White's charge that the $75,000 had not been paid to satisfy numerous small mortgages on his immense land-holdings in the north the king pleaded lapse of memory. For two hours or thereabouts he was submitted to the closest interrogatory concerning his numerous alleged land and money trans fers. To nearly all questions his answers were that he could not recall— his memory was defective. Prior to the order of Judge Hebbard awarding Mrs. White $100,000 a receiver was appointed, who attested that the recreant cattle king spouse owned no property, that it was all mortgaged and out of his hands. On further investigation it was learned that a nephew of White's named Rough held the former's promis sory notes, aggregating several thousand dollars, and that the convenient nephew was also a principal creditor. The investi gation so far satisiied the court that an order of sale of property to satisfy the $100,000 award was subsequently made. The Supreme Court has not drawn its salary since the 20th of the present month, the last day of the three months allowed for the filing of the decision passed. And in the meantime the Sun Insurance Com pany is seeking to foreclose the $75,000 mortgage. CEOWDS AT THE FAIE. They Throng Aisles and Hallways frn ITndiminished Numbers — Some Coming Events. There seems to be no doubt but that night is the time to view the fair. The crowds which wander through the aisles during the afternoon are replaced in the evening at least two fold. The thousands of glittering lights which flash among the exhibits, the consciousness that no hour is stolen from business and the large and varied throng which streams through the entrance gates, all lend their aid to attract more and more, until the great building is well nigh filled. Last night was no excep tion to the rule. There was no special oc casion — the people just came because they wanted to, and none left before the big bell up among the rafters clanged a fare well which bore with it an invitation to return. Several events are scheduled to come off during the remaining days of the fair. Solly Walter is going to lecture on art. He will speak three times, first on August 30, on pictures and the various schools of painting; then again on September 2 on local art and the position San Francisco holds in art circles the world over, and last, on September 6, on art as applied to the literature of the people, and how pic tures are reproduced for newspapers, magazines and books. The lectures will commence at 1:45 o'clock each day. August 30 will be-Wagnerday, at Profes sor Scbeel's suggestion, and on that occa sion the Exposition band, augmented by forty-five more pieces, will interpret some of the masterpieces of the great composer. The musicians are already rehearsing the programme. On August 31 the universi ties will be in possession, for it will be Uni versity day. September 5 the Catholic colleges will claim the fair, and September 9 the Native Sons of the Golden West will own everything in sight. During the com ing week there will be a French and an Italian day. The programmes for this afternhon and evening are as follows: AFTXBNOON. March, "Golden Gate Park" F. Sctaeel Overture. "Undine" „ JLortzlng Wai t z, "Emperor" Strauss "Return of the Troops" Ellenberg Finale, " Ariele" Bach Overture, " A tlialia" Mendelssohn Waltz. '-Grass Wien" Strauss Paraphrase, "Loreley" JTeswadba Selection, "Huguenots" Meyerbeer "Trot de Cavallerle" Bublnstein EVK3TIXG. March, "Folkunger" Kretschmer Overture, "Ruy Bias" Mendelssohn Waltz, "Laura," from Begenr Strident.. .MUloeclcer Paraphrase, "1 Am Forlorn" Schwalm Fantasie, "Huguenots" Meyerbeer Overture, "If I Were aKlng" Adam Waltz, "Roses From the South" Strauss Aria from "Robert le Piable" Meyerbeer Trombone solo by F. K. Tobin. Selection, "Black Hussar" MUloecker "Turner Feat Reveille" F. Scheel » — « — • New Car Depot. The Market-street railway system baa taken formal possession of the new carhouse at Turk and Fillmore streets, and it will in future be th« depot for the cars of the Turk, Eddy and Page street line and those of the Fillmore and Sixteenth street line. AT THE CITY PLAYHOUSES Delightful Comedy at the Bald win and at the Co lumbia. H. G. CARLETOFS NEW PLAY. "The Coast Guard" at Morosco's, "The Black Hussar" Greeted At the Tlvoll. "The Imprudent Young Couple" is a play from the pen of Henry Guy Carleton. It is an American comedy, clever and de cent without dullness. It is not a master piece, but it is attractive, nevertheless, and abounds in bright, crisp dialogue. John Drew as John Annesley, the central figure in the piece, was the delightful comedian again and afforded a large and brilliant audience much delight. Mr. Drew was not all of the performance by any means, for the piece displayed the uniform excellence of his company, wherein the chief strength of the organi zation resides. Miss Maud Adams, as Marion, the young bride, was quite capti vating in her demonstrations of affection, and the author put. enough humor in her part to make it refreshing. The audience manifested its delight by calling the leading players before the cur tain and bestowing applause amply. The comedy is new in San Francisco. It has sufficient merit to warrant play-goers in seeing it at the Baldwin, where it will be presented every evening this week. Columbia Theater. "Masks and Faces" at the Columbia Theater last night was a pronounced success. Tender of money for reserved places had to be de clined before the performance began, for every seat had been sold. There was quality as well as quantity In the large assemblage. Members of Congress, local statesmen, professional men and society folk paid their re spects to the genius of Tom Taylor and Charles Reade as interpreted by Rose Coghlan and Maurice Barrymore. Appreciation of the acting was manifested by frequent applause, floral offerings and curtain calls repeated three times for one act. Rose Coghlan in her favorite part of Peg Woffiiig ton, won much praise from the audience. The play will be given every night this week. Next week Henry E. Dixey, who is not in "Masks and Faces," will be seen again. Moroseo's Opera-House. There seems to be no end to tlie resources at the Grand Opera-house in the staging of plays, and each succeeding one seems to be in. the matter of scenic effect a decided improvement on the preceding one. ! The scenery presented last evening on the first production in this City, of "The Coast Guard" was most carefully arranged and ,so realistic that one could scarcely realize that it was simply canvas and paint. In the first act the Point Breeze light house, with a view in the distance of a sound and hotel lighted up by night, and in the second act a swamp with a river of running water and a massive dredger in actual opera tion, are perfect realisms of scenic art. Tne play is one of love and villiany with a sprinkling of good comedy. The hero, Jack Summit (H. Coulter BriDker), is in love with Rose Van Sicklen (Maud Edna Hall), becomes engaged to her, and at the height of his hap piness a rival appears and seeks to win the love of Rose. Failing in this he endeavors to poison her mind against her true lover. Not succeeding in this, either, he tries to have tin? one who refuses his love and Clarissa Travers (Mina Gleason), whom he had married and de serted, put out of the way. Then there is plot and counter-plot, devotion, heroism and res cues, all presented in exciting and effective tableaux, and a denouement in which the good triumphs over the bad. Brinker as the hero, in the many trying situations he finds himself placed gave further proof of his ability as a melodramatic actor, while ; Charles VV. Swain, Edmond Hayes and Fred J. Butler give very natural renditions of the * characters they as sume. Julie Blanc as Roxeyhad a good comedy part and she sustained it well. - Miss Hall and Miss Gleason played their parts with a great deal of spirit, and their eilorts were frequently i applauded. There was a large audience, and j as each one who witnessed the play will surely speak well of it, it will surely prove a drawing card. . Tivoli Opera-House. , "The Black Hussar," though not a stranger to San Francisco audiences, was greeted by a full house at the Tivoli Opera-house last night. The story has often been told and is well known to all theater-goers. This opera, like good wine, does not lose by age; at least, so thought those who heard it last night. The character of Helbert. the Black Hussar", was taken by Martin Pache; to-night John J. Raffael will appear as the Hussar, and during the week they will alternate. The singers were in good ■ voice, the choruses were perfect, the costumes beautiful and the scenery effective. Alice Carle was charming as Minnie, while Mebella Baker was all that could be desired as Barbara, the Magistrate's housekeeper. The. Orpheum. , There was no end of fun and laughter at the Orpheum last night, for the new numbers pre sented by the favorites were mirth-provoking. There was also some new mystery by Guibal and Mile. Ortiz, and the more the audiences seek to discover how these clever artists pre pare their acts the more mystified they be come, in fact what they do, and do so neatly, seems incomprehensible. TheMartinetti Broth ers have returned to this house and gave an exhibition of their wonderful performance on the Roman rings. By Amateurs. This evening the Western Addition Club will present "Snnset," a one-act play Dy Jerome K. Jerome, at a donation entertainment to be given by the Catholic Ladles' Aid Society No. 9 in Mission Opera-house. GRAND JURY INQUIRIES Promoters of a Laundry In vestment Scheme Called to Account. Neglect of Ex-County Clerk Haley to Record Inheritance Tax. The Grand Jury held a long session yes terday and devoted considerable time to an inquiry respecting the methods of the German-American Laundry Company. The peculiar transactions of the company were exposed in The Call some weeks ago when the case was before Judge Campbell's court. Somehow the case was not pressed because the attorney representing investors who claimed that they had been swindled made some sort of agreement or stipulation with the lawyer on the other side. Mr. Persey, a member of the G. A. It., was one of the purchasers of laundry stock. He invested to the extent of $100. Ten others, equally unsuspecting, paid their money into the business, and when they got possession of the premises at the south west corner of Gounh and Lombard streets, found that the business of the company was not as represented. Dummy packages on the shelves and fictitious entries on the books had misled them. When they called for laundry orders at places listed for regu lar business, they found no customers. Fearing that the promoters of what they consider a swindle would scatter and cover up their tracks it was decided to put the Grand Jury on the trail of Mr. Jessup, the president, and Frederick BucJcman, the secretary of the company. Jessup was called before the jury yesterday. Persey and many other witnesses were in waiting. The jury is making an investigation of the reported neglect of Haley in the matter of attending to the return of inheritance tax while he heid the office of County Clerk. The records in tiie office of the Treasurer and County Clerk have been examined. Alfred P. Black of the District Attorney's office attended the session of the jury yesterday. If any steps were taken in regard toovew tures in practical politics recently made t<l Harbor Commissioner Colnon the jury kept the proceedings well guarded. Mr. Colnon was not one of the witnesses in waiting yesterday afternoon. A Lively Blaze in the Mission. There wag quite a lively blaze on the Mission road, near Mondaga avenue, at 6:30 a. m. yes* terday. The one-story frame*t>uilding occu* pied by L. Raenuer and Assembly Hall and saloon adjoining, owned by Mrs. Carson, but occupied by K. J. Lodge, were destroyed. Raenner's loss is about $1500 and the loss on the other building will probably amount to $1200. The cause is unknown. The alarm from box 137 at 8:15 a. m. was caused by the burning of a chimney at 917 Geary street. NEW TO-DAY-AMUSEMENTS. .rRICDLATiDtR,OOTTLOD<» ©• Uiic3A.ion»nA4tß»--- AGAIN AND again again THE CUSTOMARY LARGE AND BRILLIANT AUDIENCE LAST NIGHT. -A.3JO-23 SUCH .A. HITI NOTHING BUT ENTHUSIASM AND CURTAIN CALLS. THE STOCKWELL SEASON. Tom Taylor and Charles Reade's Famous Comedy . in Two Acts, | "MASKS AND FACES" | HK.NEV E.DIXEV. MArBICK BABKYMORK, ; L. R. STOCKWELL, WILLIAM G. BEACH , MISS ROSE COGHLAN. » EATRE PRoss. 2" d k joiner And First Times Here of Henry Guy Carleton's New Comedy, "THAT IMPMDMT YOI'XG COUPLE," ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY NEXT /"THE MASKED BAIL," WEEK! "THt! BUTTERFLIES.'* TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE Mrs. KMnMKUra Kiikhno I'roprletor <& Managas THIS WEEK ONLY! •* MHlocker's Martial Opera, "THEBLACRHUSSARr Cast Includes: LAURA MILLARD, ALICE CABLE, MABELLA BAKER, FERRIS HARTMAN, GEO. H. BKODERICIC, WILLIAM H. WEST, MARCiS L PERRON. New Scenery ! Correct Costumes! TO-NIOH T . JOHN J. RAFFAEL as the Black Hussaß NEXT WEEK —"FAUST." Popular Prices— 2sc and sOc. _ _ — ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powell. TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK! A GREAT STELLAR COMPANY ! — -A New, Entertaining Programme!— Return Engagement of the Popular Favorites, For One Week Only, LES FRERES MARTINETTI JOHNNY CARROLL, - In Conjunction With X PEERLESS VAUDEVILLE COMBINATION ■■ Reserved seats, 25c; Balcony, 10c; Opera chain and Box seats, 50c. MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE, ■ The Handsomest Family Theater! America. WALTER MOROSCO. ...Bole Leases and Managas - EVERY EVENING AT EIGHT, MITCHELL AND VINCENT'S Great American Drama, "THE COAST GUARD!" Evkstso Pktces— 2so and BOa Family Circle and Gallerv. 10c Usual Matinee* Saturday and, Sunday.^ MACDONOUGH THEATER (OAKLAND). Theater Crowded I— A Brilliant Success! To-night and Wed's Farewell Performances The Irresistible Comedy TOO MUCH JOHNSON. With William Gillette and the Original Co. MECHANICS' FAIR. GRAND WAGNER NIGHT FRIDAY, AUGUST 30. Enlarged Orchestra 52 Pieces. FRITZ SCHEEL - - Leader. RUNNING .JfijW^ RUNNING' RAGES !Sm&sGg*l RAGES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, SPRING MEETING! BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Race* Tuesdays Wednesday, Thurgday, Friday and Saturday— Kain or Shine. Five or more races each day. Races start at 2 :39 p. if. sharp. . McAllister and Geary street cars put the gate. - ■. RS^At T R.A CT 1 v^^ Pavilion Exhibits EMBRACING DISPLAY of ELECTRICAL POWER TRANSMITTED FROM FOLSOIVI.- : j^^Lc^/rst cr. t , Ttt£l GREAT AMERICAN CONCERT BAND . *UR> LXV\\Q\TS. EXCURSION RATES, _ FOR VISITORS. Edwin kith, chase SB?TY. - L FRES,_ 7