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10 POOL AND POKER INQUIRY. Grand jury and Four Supervis ors Talked of Suppressing Vice. ONE WITNESS WAS OBSTINATE. Supervisor Hughes Declined to Say How He Would Vote on the Pool Ordinance. Supervisors King, Benjamin, Dunker and Hurhes went before the Grand Jury yes terday afternoon. Supervisors Scully and Hirsch became weary of waiting and went downtown. Supervisor Wagner was not in the City yesterday. Through some inadvertence in the Dis trict Attorney's office Supervisor Dimwnd, who was heard some time ago and whose presence was not the second time re quested, was served with a subpena yes terday and he obeyed the summons. He broke away from the companionship of agreeable company at Ingleside, and so lost the pleasure of an engagement- which promised to lead to a superb dinner in order to present himself as a witness. The first of the four Supervisors called was Joseph King. He announced himself in the anteroom and in the room where the members of the jury assemble as op posed to gambling in all its phases, whether in town or out on the racetrack. Supervisor Benjamin, speaking for him* self after his testimony had been given, said the numbers of the jury asked him several questions as to his views on the suppression of vice generally and the clos ing of the poolrooms in particular. He said they did not ask him about boodle or anything of that kind. Supervisor Dunker was the third wit ness called in. When lie came out he said in reply to inquiries that no questions were asked him concerning the Langdon permit and the payment of $125 in the pro ceedings. He was* asked the general ques tion if he knew of any money having been raised to influence or corrupt the Board of Supervisors, and to all inquiries of this character he replied in the negative. The Grand Jury recognized in Mr. Dun ker's manner and appearance that he was' distressed by the gravity of the accusa tions against him and therefore did- not propound direct and pointed questions concerning the reports and testimony which connected him with the Langdon- Gallagher transaction. Supervisor Hugaes was the fourth and last witness called. He told the Grand Jury that he .lid not know of any niouey having been used to corruptly influence the Board of Supervisors. According to Mr. Hughes' statement the members of the Grand Jury did not ask him any ques tions concerning the sum of $500 a month contributed by poul-sellers to retain the services of J. H. Dickinson. .Mr. Hughes said: '"They asked me how I intended to vote when the ordinance rec ommended by the Grand Jury came up for passage in the Bo:ml of Supervisors, and I declined to tell them. Don't you think I was right in refusing to answer that ques tion '.'" Supervisor Hughes' testimony was the topic of considerable comment in the Grand Jury-room, and members discussed it with some animation as they left the hall. "We may call him again," said one of the jurors. It is ascertained that Hughes, on being asked how he intended to vote on the ordi nance to prevent pool-selling downtown, replica: "I decline to answer that ques tion under oath, as 1 may change my mind before the subject comes up for final ac tion in the board. 1 ' Of the four Supervisors called yesterday. Hughes was surely regarded by the jury as the obdurate witness. He paid suf ficient regard to the summons, however, to remain until after 5 o'clock to give his testimony, which was more consideration than Supervisors Scully and Hirsch paid to the Grand Jury. The members of the Grand Jury were not at all surprised that the Supervisors who were cailed as witnesses yesterday de nied knowledge of boodle having been used to defeat the ordinance against down town pool-selling. Supervisors who are standing in with the poolroom managers and have so far held the prohibitive order in cherk are not likely to tell the Grand Jury their methods or secrets. If they can hoodwink the jury by general state ments that they are opposed to open poker games and favor the suppression of all kinds of vice they cannot mislead the people who read the proceedings in the Board oi Supervisors and reflect that the poolrooms and open poker games are still running in full blast. If agents of the Solid Eight are col lecting toll from the gambling-houses the Supervisors in the combine are not going t o make the Grand Jury acquainted with the facts. The charges against the management of the Fire Department, which were pre sented a few days ago, are in the hands of O. F. Willey, chairman of the Fire De partment committee. It is asserted in the communication that more men than the law authorizes find employment in the department, and that money appropriated to maintain the service is not properly expended. The re port of the committee s expert, Joseph Gordon, has also been prepared. The Grand Jury adjourned to meet next Monday afternoon. At that time Thomas R. Ashworth, Superintendent of Streets, will be heard. He has expressed a desire to explain some of the transactions in his department to the members of the Grand Jury, and they have decided to give him a fair opportunity. ON THE WATER FRONT. Arrival of the Mall Company's Steamer City of Peking From Honolulu Ahead of Time. The heavy fog that hung over the bay yesterday morning was responsible for a serious collision. The schooner Mary Etta was passing up from Fisks Mill, and when off section B of the seawail ran into the pilot-boat Bonita. The latter broke away from her moorings and the two boats drifted up with the tide. The tug Vigilant came along and separated them. Both vessels were slightly damaged. The missionary schooner Pitcairn ar rived from the South Sea Islands last night, after an extended cruise. She left here last May. A number of natives were brought up to be educated. They will he taught the faith of the Seventh-day Ad ventists and returned to their homes to spread the gospel. David Edgar came down from Stockton on the steamer Mary Garrett last Wednes day night and during the passage was robbed by two men and a woman of his gold watch. On his arrival he complained to Sergeant Mahoney, who placed one of the men, Fred Marlow, under arrest on a charge of grand larceny. The others es caped. One of the men snatched the watch and passed it to the woman. The Pacific Mail steamer City of Peking arrived unexpectedly from Hong kong via Yokohama and Honolulu last night. She made the run in a little over six days. The following is the passenger list: Captain F. Allen, C. Bossee, Rev. E. N. Fletcher and wife, C. S. Harrison and wife. A. E. McGlen, P. L. Xeyts. Karl Stelzl, Mrs. P. H. Wheeler. Captain W. G. Bentwick, Rev. F. H. Chalfant, Bishop E. R. Hendrix, Rev. Charles Mills, F. B. Morgan, M. PrastursKiewicz, Lieutenant J. H. Shipley, D. S. N. ; George M. Booker, Eugene Eniaigb, Key. W. Lane and wife, F. Malutin, C. A. Monkowsky, S. Kosen feldand Henry P. Ura been. The Peking will dock at an. early hour this morning. Everything was quiet in Hawaii when she sailed. WOMEN'S MASS-MEETING. Formation of the American Women's Union for Home Missionary Work. Three much - discussed societies, the Women's American Liberal League, the Silent Workers and the Women's Ameri can Union, have been amalgamated in the last-named organization. The purpose of the infant scciety is stated to be the fur therance of the work of purifying San Francisco's moral atmosphere. Mrs. A. B. Shepherd stated that the real purpose of last evening's poorly attended mass-meeting at Metropolitan Temple was to secure more members for the union, al though incidentally there was much dis cussion of the need of a more moral en- vironment than is found in many homes. Mrs. A. C. Weils spoke of the need of harmony in all reform work. Mrs. H. M. Chandler followed in the same line. Mrs. Chandler also sang -'Last Night. '' Mrs. Anna Smith contended that there could be no morality without Jiberty. Mrs. L. P. Moore, Mrs. Gilley and others gave short addresses, in which they were united as to purpose but differed as to means. The union, whose full title ia the Woman's American Union for Home Missionary Work, is officered by Mrs. A. B. Shepherd, president; Mrs. Alma Bates, vice-president; Mrs. Emma Rice, record ing secretary; Miss Lillie Hughes, cor responding secretary, and Miss Alice Hicks, treasurer. SPELLING'S NEW CHARGES Attacks Vigorously the Califor nia Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Vice-President Williams Says That His Company Does a Bank ing Business. At the regular monthly meeting of the directors of the defunct People's Home Savings Bank yesterday there was read a letter from T. 0. Spelling, attorney for the depositors and stockholders, declaring that the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company had no existence as a banking corporation and cannot as s-uch 1 egally ac cept or hold the funds of the People's Home Savings Bank. It is merely a trust company. The second point made in the letter per tains to the relation of the People's Home Savings Bank and the California Safe De posit and Trust Company crowing out of the possession by the latter of a great number of passbooks evidencing deposits in the People's Home Savings Bank made prior to its insolvency, the former corpora tion claiming to be outright assignees of those claitrs from the depositors. It ap pears that the creditors on the books of the People's Home Savings Bank have been changed and entered in the name of the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company. "I consider it my duty and privilege to state." writes Mr. Spelling, "that the California Safe Deposit aua Trust Company has no power to acquire any title to or interest iv these pass books and the indebtedness evidenced by them under the circumstances, and that it. having no title to them, the new or changed entries in the books of the People's Home Savings Bank does not authorize the People's Home Savings Bank to pay nor the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company to receive dividends on these accounts. Both these propositions are rnr rect, whether we assume that the California Safe Deposit and Trust Company is merely a trust company or concede that it is both a trust company and a banking corporation." Henry Williams, vice-president of the California Safe Deposit and Trust Com pany, says that his company does a regu lar banking business and enjoys that right. He declares that Attorney Spelling's posi tion is ridiculous. MRS. JAMIESON-TURNER. She H»8 Returned From the Sound on the Umatilla. Mrs. Jamieson -Taylor- Turner arrived from Port Townsend on the steamer L'matilla last night. She only remained at her home in Port Angeles for five days. While in San Francisco she was known as Mrs. Jamieson. For her trip north she assumed the name of Mrs. J. A. Taylor, and when she took passage at Port Town send she gave the name of Mrs. J. A. Turner. From this fact the passengers on the Umatilla surmised that Mrs. Jamieson and you|g J. Arthur Turner have entered into a ron tract marriage. According to their way of thinking Turner swore to the contract before a notary public here and Mrs. Jamieson swore to" it in Port Angeles and had her father for a witness. The old eentleman met her at Port Townsend and was also there to bid her good-by. When the Umatilla docked Mrs. Jamie son-Turner could not be fonnd. "Look in the captain' 3 room," said a man who wa3 packing his valise. "Mrs. Turner has made that her headquarters during the voyage. You'l! have to be very careful, however, as Captain Hunter has arranged to get the lady ashore very quietly and she will remain in seclusion until everybody else is ashore." "Is there not a Mrs. Turner on the pas senger list?" the captain was asked. The captain shook his head and said, "You must ask the purser. I don't know the names of any oi the passengers. " Mrs. Turner answered very readily to her name when spoken to. She denied the story that wag telegraphed, to the effect that she was going to England to re join Turner. "I am going to Los An geles," said she, "and there I expect to work for my Jiving. Before going there I took a trip to the Sound to see my father. I did not go ashore at Victoria, B. C, and I did not see Mr. Jamieson." WANTS MORE PATRONAGE. Collector Welburn Asking for an In crease of His Force. Internal Revenue Collector Welburn ie recommending in his report to the Com missioner of Internal Revenue an increase of allowance for this district so that he can have his force of subordinates aug mented by at least ten mere appointments. The receipts of the office for this year, he said yesterday, have been $1,755,227 53, which is $181,073 B<j greater than the re ceipts for last year, and he expects that with the coming year there will be an in crease of anywhere between $300,000 and $500,000. The present allowance is $45,860, which amount covers about thirty regular sal aried positions, the gaugers being com pensated on a percentage basis. Speaking of this, Mr. Welburn said: t "My district is greater in area than any other in the United States, and though it may rank about fourth or fifth in the mat ter of receipts, yet the large area of terri tory to be covered: entails an enormous amount of work, for which mv present force is quite ; inadequate. This district, extending from Sacramento to the south ern boundary of the State, is 700 miles long." ;-j .-„: The Collector says he never has men enough to attend to withdrawals from warehouses as promptly as the trade de mands. Shooting fur the Blind. The entire receipts of Saturday afternoon at the "Shooting the Chutes" will be given to the fund for blind and deaf children. On Sunday Professor Markeberg at 12 o'clock will hang on to n parachute by his teeth, and at half-past 3 Robert Earlston will riae a bicyc'.u attached to a parachute. Sensations are becoming at tractive in San Francisco. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1895. EXQUISITE KERAMIC ART Artists of the Brush and of the Burnisher Reign Bril liantly. CHINA SHOW IN THE PALACE* Ladies of the Keramic Art Club De lighted With the Success of Their Exhibit. A reign of enchantment ended last even ing in the maple room of the Palace Hotel, for the fifth annual exhibition of the Keramic Art Club was really an artistic triumpli and a success. Miss Bacon, the treasurer of the club, sat thoughtfully behind a tray piled high with $5 and $10 gold pieces — the golden realization of appreciated artistic effort. "It is quite delightful," .mused she, "that the sunshine out of doors matches so well in color and aDundance the pledges that artistically inclined rich folk have left behind." "It has always stormed during our ex hibitions, yon Know," added the president, Mrs. L. L. Baker, "but we have had pleas ant weather this time, and never such a recognition and never such crowds before." The dozen or so tables laden with the delicately tinted and fragile Dresden and Delft of "a thousand pleasingly fantastic shapes were tiiemselves set effectively around the hall. Last year the punch-bowls and lamps were most conspicuous, but this year ale tankards treated in "old blue" and drink ing cups seemed most in evidenci. Immediately to the right of the entrance was the exhibit of Miss H. D. Philip. Most noticeable in her display was a set of Napoleon beer glasses, vith a tray on which was a cluster of Hops tinted most naturally. She had a dainty cup and sau cer of royal purple, with pink roses on the sides, ana a series of small tiles with cu pids on them painted in gray, with faint pink tints. Miss Nettie King had some choice ex hibits. Most conspicuous was a portrait of Fannie Kemble, a copy of Thusraan's "Fates" and a Delft imitation in old blue of a fisherman standing on the beach and calling across the water. S^ie also had a fern v^se of blue Sevres on which was an original design of cupids. Mrs. J. S. Adams had a large jardiniere decorated with a dream of pink roses, sur rounded with graceful tracery in trold, and a lamp treated in rich purple with gold etching. At the same table Mrs. C. A. Hyde had a set of fishplates decorated with fish in natural colors and a plaque — a Diana study — in flesh tints and old Dlue. Miss Minnie Taylor had a beer set in old blue decorated in the German fashion with sketches of friars. The figures were AN AUTOMATIC DOUBLE - HOOK CAR • COUPLING RECENTLY INVENTED B A RAILROAD MAN FROM NEVADA. [Sketched by a " Call" artist.] lifelike and delicate. She makes a specialty of cups and saucers and has about forty of different shapes and styles of ornamentation. Mrs. Mary Herrick Cross and her sister, Miss Alice Herrick, had two tables in a corner that were laden with roarvelously delicate and beautiful creations. Mrs. Cross' specialty Is broad washed color work from nature and Miss Herrick has an elegant assortment of miniatures. A tall aie tankard, the work of Mrs. Cross, is especially commendable. It is treated in a rich brown, and on the side is the figure of an old monk drawing from a cask a flagon of ale. Miss de Valin had a dainty French clock decorated with cupids and a French tea pot of Sevres green, besides a novelty in the way of a china writing set painted beautifully with Marie Louise violets. Mrs. Adolph Ungerhad some tiles in old blue, on which were Flemish household scenes which were much admired ; also a large plaque decorated with a cluster of grapes. Mrs. C. A. Schurteff had some charming Dresden imitations. Mrs. S. E. Dutton had two Delft lamps in old blue and two delicate lamps after the Dresden style. Mrs. Maude Norse.who makes a specialty of verbenas, gilly flowers and roses in decoration, had a table-top with crimson roses painted beautifully upon it. A skill ful treatment of the middle distance hi the cluster of flowers made the woru natural and summery. Mrs. Root had some very pretty effects in Dresden imitations and Airs. Effie Brown some beautifully decorated vases and plates. In the center of the room Mrs. D. W. Peileyhada large pitcher and drinking mug in soft-green tones and a difficult brown tinting, and an oddly shaped fern dish treated to give the royal Beriin effect. At the same table Mrs. S. B. Culp had a loving-cup decorated with scenes from Miles Standish, "The Wooing," "The Cot tage" and "The Stile." Miss Antoinette Sinnet and Miss Rich ardson had somn beautiful trays and plates decorated with floral dccigns. Miss Sinnet's artistic skill is attested in the excellence of her work. The speci mens which this San Jose artist exhibited were highly praised by those competent to judge of this style of decorative art. ' Mrs. Theodore Gray had some hishly artistic specimens of "Old Blue," among which was a scene off the coast of Maine that was done admirably. Mrs. Thomas Church had a chocolat pot an-i loving-cup treated in royal Berlin design that were beautiful and "delicately done. STREET COMMITTEE REPORTS. Widening of the Ocean Home Road Considered by Mayor Sutro. Mayor Sutro requested the Street Com mittee of the Board of Supervisors to ascer tain the exact width of the Ocean House r oad, and to what portion of it the City had a title. He signified his intention to contribute land for widening the road, but he wished to be informed first whether the City had any title thereto, also whether other property-owners would contribute. The question was referred to the City At torney, with instructions to examine the City's title. The committee decided to grant a per mit to the Pacific Paving Company to pave Van Ness avenue from Union to Green street. A favorable report will be msde upon the plan of instructing the City Engineer to make profiles and recommend the grades that should be established on Onondaa;o avenue, from Mission to Ocean avenue, and on Ocean avenue westerly to Corbett avenue, at Ingleside, at a fiost not exceed ing ?KSO. The petition of property-owners for per mission to pave Green streen from Front to Battery was denied. The work ol paving Sacramento Btreet from First to Cherry was ordered stopped for six months because of protests from property-owners. Daniel Kelieher was released from the contract for sidewalks at the crossing of McAllister street. It was decided to report favorably the petitition of T. Worth for a temporary track for grading purposes across Six teenth street, at San Bruno avenue, and across Seventeenth to Utah. The committee decided to give contract ors who have begun private contracts on the streets a etiance, before putting the regulations regarding private contracts into effect. The report of George W. El der, the expert on streets, showed that a hardship would be worked on contractors if the regulations went into effect at once. He advised that the contractors be allowed until January 1 to finish the work now on hand. Chairman Spreckels spoke in favor of the measure, which was carried without a dissenting vote. A SAFETY CAR-COUPLER Double Claws Jam Into Op posite Boxes and Catch Over Blocks. An Automatic Device Perfected to Avoid Danger in Connecting Cars by Hand. At last an old railroad employe and engineer is confident that he has designed a coupling that will join all sorts of rail road cars instantly on impact and without subjecting men to the danger of the pres ent method of link and pin coupling per formed by hand. A model of the device shows a very simple construction by which, when two cars bump together, the opening in the coupler on one car receives the hook from the coupier of the other car and there is an instantaneous double locking, the hook on the side of each box being thrust into the opposite box and catching over a iatch- like block. By this means, instead of a single ccfupling, there are two connections forming a double guard against any possi bility of disconnection by breakage, as has sometimes resulted from too great strain on the links in the generally used link and pin coupler. The links do occasionally give way, and that is why cars can often be seen joined also by chains as a pre caution against their being separated. The recent invention has provided for such a contingency by this double grip ar rangement. David J. Stevenson of Virginia City, Isev.. is the inventor of the new coupler, whtch he calls the Stevenson double-hook automatic car-coupler. He is a railroad employe and locomotive engineer, and for eleven years has studied on the problem which he believes his present device has solved. In 1894 he got out a patent on an auto matic link and pin coupler, but the master mechanics, having condemned the use of a link and pin connection, he set about de visinea coupling that would be free from that objection and embrace all the advan tages of an efficient automatic contrivance. tt Tie seen yesterda y at the Grand Hotel Stevenson explained his invention. tie completed it two months ago, and has just applied for a patent. The tumblers or latches on which the hooks cafcch are held up by the weight of extensions to the axles to which they are fastened. These axles extend beyond the box at the side and are bent down like small cranks. As lone as they are down, the tumbler is up, and nothing but the complete overturning of the cars will reverse the position of the little levers and al low tnc cars to become disconnected without the interference of man. But a. simple upward movement of both levers grasped with one hand throws down the blocks and the hooiis have nothing to grip on. Both handles have to he elevated at once or else the disconnection is not accomplished any more than it would be by he breaking of one of the hooks. The latches or blocks, when ud in position, hold against side projections in tho box, making them doubly strong to withstand the strain from the pull of the flat surface hooks. i here are no springs about the apparatus. So much leeway is allowed for the entrance of the hooks mat a connection may be effected on a h U vf n u rat Rn upward or downward angle with the cars forced in contact easily or with speed ou, for, with no danger of crippling a is"obv™ an fi thC neccsslt y of a cautious bumping Play in the coupling is provided for by space oeyoud the block*, into which the hooitscan extend when the cars are as close together as possible. Such allowance has to be made in allccunlinfcs to allow the engine to start a long train by a communication of jerks. lecture by Professor I*e Conte. Dr. Joseph Le Conte will lecture on "Philos ophy and Its Relation to Psychology and Physiology" this evening at Golden Gate Hall, b-9 Sutter street, at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the California Psychical Society. A Big Mining Company. The Pioneer Gold Mining Company has filed articles of incorporation. It has a capital stock of $2,000,000, all of which has been sub* scribed. PRIZE POULTRY PARADE Awards Made in Several of the Departments Yesterday Afternoon. GEAND DISPLAY OF LEGHORNS. The Entries Greatly Outnumber Those of Previous Years—ln terest Growing. The Poultry Show is on in full form. All the exhibits are in place and every coop is full. Already the judges have begun their tours of inspection and awards are being made in ihe various departments. The attendance yesterday was larger than that of the day before, though not up to the expectation of the management. As a general feathered turnout the show is ahead of that of last January. In number and quality of the fowl it triumphs over the efforts of the poultrymen last year, and the general verdict is that the public should taSe a more active interest in the display of feathered beauties. Some of the prettiest birds in the land are to be found in the long tiers of coops which line the spacious building on four sides, and there is much to interest those who are not familiar with the scientific breeding of high-class poultry. A new feature was introduced yesterday in the exhibit of dressed poultry. On a stand arranged specially for their display were placed several dressed turkeys, ca pons, ducks and chickens. The lower part of the standard contained an assortment of high-class eggs, including those of the Brahmas, Minorcas, Plymouth Rocks, Wy andottes, etc. Among the exhibits which attract the most attention is that of the Belgian hares. To the casual observer they resemble the jack rabbit. Their structural development is similar, and the ears are fully as long as the wild hare of the mountains and plains. In the east and abroad the Belgian hares are raised for the market on a large scale. They are considered a great delicacy among epicures and take rank with the capon. They are a beautiful animal. Their fur is lons and even, and the win ning, docile look in their large eyes in vites many a gentle hand stroke of their timid heads. They are a very timid ani mal and Decorne such pets that it seems a shame to raise them for the market. Some of the bucks and does weigh eighteen pounds. A family is raised every month in the year, and in the Eastern markets the full-grown hares sell all the way from $1 to $3. Including the pigeon and hare entries the number of fowl on exhibition is far ahead of last year. The fowl are 1500 in number, and the value of the prizes is $2500. The attendance during the evening showed that an increased interest is being taken in the exhibition of feathered varie ties. During the afternoon and evening the judges were busy among the hundreds of coops, and up to closing time the fol lowing awards had been made: Light Brahmas— Cockerels: First, James Quick; second, Thomas Robinson; third, James Quick; fourth, James Quick; fifth. Reliance Poultry Yard. Cocks: First, James Quick; second, James Quick; third, Sonoma Valley Poultry Yard; fourth, E. A. Murry; fifth. A. J. Albee. Hens: First, James Quick; second, James Quick; third, Sonoma Poultry Yard: fourth, J. A. Scholetield; fifth, A. J. Albee. Pullets: James Quick, all prizes, from one to four. Dark Brahmas— Cocks— First E. H. Freeman; second, A. J. Albee. Hens — First, A. J. Albee; second and third, E. H. Freeman ; fourth and rifth, A. J. Alber. Pullets — First, second, third and fourth, A. J. Albee; fifth, E. H. Freeman. Cock erels—First and second, A. J. Alber. White Langshans — Cocks — First, second and third, A. J. Albee. Cockerels— First, second and third, A. J. Albee. Hens — First, second, third, fourth and fifth, A. J. Albee. Pullets— First, F. P. Lowell ; sec ond, third, fourth and fifth, A. J. Albee. Black Langshans — Cocks — First, A. J. Albee; second, J. A. Scholefield : third, fourth and rifth, A. J. Albee. Cockerels — First, second, third, fourth and fifth, A. J. Albee. Hens— First, second, third and fourth, A. J. Aibee; rifth, J. A. Schole field. Pullets— First, J. A. Scholefield; second, F. P. Lowell; third, A. J. Albee; fourth, J. A. Scholefield; fifth, A. J. Albee. White-faced Black Spanish— Cocks- First, second, third, fourth and fifth, Charies J. Wright. Cockerels— Third, R. O. Shiverly. Hens — First, second, third and fourth, J. Noonan ; fifth, Charles A. Wright. Pullets— First, R. O. Shiverly. White-crested black Polish — Cockerel, 1 R. 0. Shively. Hen, 1, 2, 3, 4, R. O. Shively. Golden Polish— Cockerel, 1, R. O. Shiv ely. Pullet, 1, 2, 3 and 4, R. O. Shively. Silver-bearded Polish— Cock, 1, R. O. Shively. Hen— l, 2, 3 and 4, R. O. Shiv ely. Buff Leghorns— Cock, 1, L. E. Brainard ; 2, C. W. Hansen, San Mateo; 3. C. D. Pierce, ex-Mayor of Oakland; 4, A. E. Hunter; 5, C. W. Hansen. Cockerels, 1, A. E. Armstrong; 2, C. D. Pierce; 3, A. E. Armstrong; 4 and 5, C. W. Hansen. Pullets— l, C. D. Pierce. Hens— l and 2, C. D. Pierce; 3, A. E. Armstrong; 4 and 5, W. Winslow. These are the prize birds of the exhibit, and the competition has given rise to much speculation. President Scholefield and the other officers of the association concede the Buff Leghorn display the finest ever seen before in one collection. The special prize of $25 for the best single display, scoring 88, was won by A. E. Armstrong. SEALERS WILL PROTEST Attorney Riordan to Communi cate With Secretary Carlisle. Piling Up $io a Day Against Seized Schooners— Another in the Col lector's Custody. Another sealing schooner has been seized by Collector ol Customs Wise for hunting seals in that area of the Pacific Ocean known as the "Paris award." This one is the Kate and Annie, owned by Captain Charles Luchens, and she is now in the custody of a special guard at Butchertown. American sealers are having a hard time of it, they think, to get on any portion of the North Pacific Ocean without running up against one or more "regulations," ac cording to the interpretations of the Treas ury Department. The Paris award ex tends from this copst to the 180 th meri dian, and its southern limit is the 35th parallel of north latitude. With a special license sealers may be permitted to hunt in the "award," save during the close sea son, but they must keep very remote from the Pribylof Islands, and according to the very latest regulations from Washington, which quote section 1956 of the Revised Statutes, white persons are not allowed to kill any fur-bearing animals in the Alas kan waters at all. The Canadian sealers they regard as far more fortunate in many respects. There | are sixty-two schooners in the British Columbian fleet, as against a baker's dozen in the San Francisco fleet, and their ag gregate catch for 1895 exceeded that of the Americans by several times. It is because of this marked success which has attended the Victorians that a concerted effort is now to be made by the sealers of this port to ascertain why Col lector Wise persists in straining every lit tle technicality, as they say. against them. Attorney Thomas D. liiordan who has in hand the cases of the two schooners, Bow head and Winchester, is now prepar ing a vigorous protest to Secretary Carlisle against the manner in which his clients have been treated. Like what happened to the Kate and Annie yesterday, they were seized upon arrival here from their season's cruise, ex cept that the customs officers did not at once board the Kate and Annie for the reason that her cargo of skins had been left at Astoria. Captain Luchens' craft will be tied up at an expense to her of $10 a day pending the final w\ iing up of the "red tape" that usually accompanies such proceed ings. The owners of the Bowhead and Win chester mean to fight. When their cap tains. W. P. Noyes and Frank Johnson, re spectively were taken before United States Commissioner Heacock, it was shown that they had not been guilty of any criminal intent, and the cases against them, were promptly dismissed. Their "broker, William H. Thornley, tes tified that he had gone with them to the Custom-house on December 7, 1894, to ob tain special licenses and received the in formation that no regulations had been received and the only blank contracts in existence at the Custom-house were for sealing in the Bering Sea. It was the understanding then that as the special licenses were unobtainable no prosecution would be attempted. The sealing regulations for 1895 did not reach the port until January 18 and no effort had been made by the Collector to anticipate the season. On their way over to the Japan and Saghalien island coasts the two schooners caught about 170 skins seventy miles off the bay of San Francisco and a little north of the southern boundary of the award area. Captains Noyes and Johnson had not received any instructions to the con trary. No sooner had they returned to port after their cruises, however, than their vessels and entire cargoes were seized and they were placed under arrest. The Bowhead, with 684 skins, was seized August 13, and the Winchester, with 753 skins, was tied up September 5. Since those dates a cost of $10 a day has been accumulating against each vessel, until, Jike a nightmare of figures, the sum of $ll'2O has begun to obscure the value of the Bowhead and a painful vision of $1000 makes the Winchester look small. The skins were appraised at between $9 and $10 each, though the net market price, exclusive of cost of transportation, in .he English market was only $6 84, the gross price being $8. and the owners of the Bow head were made to sive a penal bond of $6156, that for the Winchester being $6777, before the cargoes could be withdrawn for the market. This litigation, it is said, practically forced William Bendt, the principal owner in both schooners, to the wall. The cus toms authorities Jay the blame for this, and also for Captain A. C. Sutherland's death, on to the United States District At torney's office, while from the latter it is learned that it is governed by the wishes of the Collector as complaining witness in the prosecution of the libels tiled by Mr. Foote soon after the seizure of the vessels. All Captain Sutherland's money was tied up in his schooner, the Sophie Sutherland, which was the first one to be seized by the Collector, and a mortgage was hanging over him. He worried so much over thß matter that it brought on hi 3 death. In the case of the tug Hercules, charged with receiving a transfer of 170 sealskins from the Winchester just outside the heads, Judge Morrow soon dismissed the Government's libel. All of these facts that are pertinent to his purpose Mr. Riordan will communi cate to the Treasury Department. He is acting under instructions from the owners of the Bowhead and Winchester. The per sons interested in the two vessels are: William Betuit, Philip Barth, Joseph May, ' Georee J. McCormick, J. F. Cunningham, W. P. Noyes, Lewis E. Spear, George Fogel, Isidore Burns, G. Overton, Miss C. j Kerrigan, L. Fjord, Frederick Wilde, I James J. Doyle, Mrs. L, E. Mullen, L. Abrahams, J. J. Stayer, S. S. Stambrough and C. D. Cook. MECCA FOR WIDOWS. New York Attracts Nearly 30,000 Women Who Ilave Lost Husbands. Have you ever been impressed by the large proportion of women, past middle life, who appear at the public places of New York in mourning? Yon will be so impressed if you look about in the shop ping streets and popular promenades, and in the theaters, lecture halls, libraries and The new city directory gives the names of 19,560 widows, and inquiry, as far as practicable, shows that a majority of these came to the city to live after their bereay ments. Attention was attracted to this matter by the conversation of two women in mourning, who were passengers in a Fifth-avenue stage. "Read!" said one of them who had three books in her hands. "I read nearly all of the time, and I just revel in books. When I had to lire in that poky county town where I couldn't get all of the new books I hardly read at all. I had but little time for it, either; but now I read all I please and don't have any one to say, 'Come, it's getting late. Go to bed.' " "Well, it" is a relief to be allowed to do as you please," said the other, "and New York is the place to do it. That's just the reason I came here when my husband died. Now I needn't know any one, and have nobody to tell mo what to do. I can go walking or riding of to the theater and where I please, and always rind something to divert me." In one apartment-house of twenty flats 5n Madison avenue there live eleven wid ows who are seeking to soften their sor rows by the attractions of a great city. — New York Herald. • » • Timely Precaution. "Have you thought about doing any Christmas shopping yet?" asked M. Hun nimune. "No, dear," was the reply, "it is a little early for such preparations, isn't it?" "M'yes. But it's as well to take time by the" forelock, you Jjnow. Have you a memorandum-book handy?" "Yes." "Well, you might jot down these little points. Here's the brand of cigars that I prefer. They cannot by any possibility be purchased at a bargain. ' Here is the number of slipper that I wear, and you might make a note of the fact that'my preference in neckties is dark red, with a small black figure, also that I do not need any suspenders." And she thanked him and wrote it all down, thereby saving no small share of future regrets and embarrassments.— Washington Star. Glass Dresses and Curtains. Articles of dress are new being exten sively made of glass. A Venetian manu facturer is turning out bonnets by the ~p^^^^^^^^OTl\\\\^^fe^ thousand, the glass cloth of which they are composed having the same shimmer and brilliancy of color as silk, and. what is a great advantage, being impervious to water. In Russia there has for a long time ex isted a tissue manufactured from the liber of a peculiar filamentous stone from the Siberian mines, which by some secret pro cess is shredded and spun into a fabric which, although soft to the touch and pliable in the extreme, is of so durable a nature that it never wears out. MOKE POWER F0& BISHOPS. Protestant Episcopal Convention Con siders a Kadical Change in Policy. A revolutionary measure, affecting the policy of the Protestant Episcopal church, has been introduced before the Diocesan Convention of Central Pennsylvania. The proposed change is in the form of a motion which advocates the transference of the choice of rectors from the vestry of the parish to the Bishop of the diocese. The custom in the church is for the vestry to call a pastor, while the Bishop has the nomination in exceptional cases only. As it now stands canon 7 of the diocese of Central Pennsylvania provides, in accord ance with the general law, that the vestry of every parish shall have the right of election of the rector for that narish. The proposed radical change would substitute for ihis the following: Whenever the rectorate of any parish be comes vacant it shall be the duty of the vestry forthwith to give notice to the bishop of the di ocese, together with a statement of the support which the parish pledges itself to pay to the new rector. Whereupon it shall become tho duty of the bishop to provide for tne celebra tion of divine services in said parish by tem porary supply v two-thirds of the regular sal ary to be paid for such service), and to till the vacancy by appointment within ninety days from the date of the receipt of tne aforesaid no tice. Should the bishop fail to make the ap pointment within the prescribed time, the ves try niHy elect a priest to fill the vacancy, and give due notice thereof to the ecclesiastical au thority of the diocese. In the event of a disagreement between any parish and its rector, the same shall be referred to the bishop for adjustment, and his decision in the matter shall be final. The question as to whether the vestry or the Bishop shall have the right of election of rectors has already bsen ttie cause of much argument throughout the Protestant Episcopal church, and recently there has been evident a strong desire on the part of many for a change from the present sys tem. 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