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THIRD STREET IN
BAD CONDITION.
The Pavement Is Broken— Full
of Ruts and Holes, It Is
Dangerous.
AN APPEARANCE OF NEGLECT.
Buildings That Are Out of Date.
That Thoroughfare Should
Be Modernized.
One of the great thoroughfare? that lead
from the railroad depot in this city to the
center of it is Third street, and those who
pass through it from Townsend to Market
cannot fail to observe that it has been
A BEER PALACE ON THIRD STREET, NEAR MARKET.
[From a photograph taken yesterday.]
nnder the bane of si
lurianism and that the
street, which ought tt»
be one of the hand
somest and most at
tractive, is, instead,
one that is a disgrace
to a great commercial
city like San Fran
cisco.
The pavements — for
there are a variety of
them — are in a wretch
ed state. Some of the
sidewalks are broken,
uneven and almost
unfit for pedestrians
to pass ovor.aiul many
of the buildings, which
have been standing
since James Estells
built the first brick
house on that Btreet,
in lv">4, are so much
in contrast with the
architecture of the
A VETERAN RELIC OF THE OLDEN DATS.
[From a photograph taken yesterday.]
AN IMPOSING MARKET AT NO. 339 THIRD ST.
'From a photograph taken for the "Call" yesterday.']
present time that they
are offensive to the
eye, and ought to be
moved to some out-of
the-way place to be
preserved for show
only for those who
delight in the memo
ries of M'.t.
In their time these
houses served their
purpose, but that was
■when the community
was unstable and con
tinually shifting. In
those days almost any
thing that had four
walls, a roof to keep
out the rain, windows
for light and a door
to close against in
truders answered the
purpose of a habita
tion, but now that the
community has be
come settled, that
properties have iixed
values, the owners
PICTURESQUE VIEW OF A CHINESE LAUNDRY,
AS SEEN FROM THE ELECTRIC - CARS.
[From a photograph takmfor the "Calf yesterday.]
ought to have enough
self pride to join in
the movement that is
THIS ELEGANT EDIFICE IS THE FIRST BUILD
ING IN SIGHT FROM THE RAILROAD DEPOT.
[From a photograph taken yesterday.]
now occupying public attention, that of
placing the metropolis of the Pacific Coast
in the rank in which it belongs and mak
ing it the great commercial city that the
new life instilled in many will soon make it.
There must be a beginning in the im
provement of many of our thoroughfares,
and there is none on which such a begin
ning could be made better than on Third
street.
Not only is it the great avenue used by
those who travel by rail, but it is the one
street that «is used for heavy teaming to
and from the freight depot.
The passenger leaving the depot intend
ing to reach the central portion of the city
by way of Third street sees right opposite
to him low two-story, peaked-roof build
ings; then a row of flai frame structures
that have no architectural lines about
them; and if he casts his eye to the side
walk he would discover that it is fearfully
and wonderfully made. The walk in a
couple of inches below the curbstone, and
for the distance of a block is composed of a
variety of material. Part is wood, much
of it broken and dangerous to walk upon ;
some in fjont of property owned by an ex-
Bupervisor v ox basalt rocks unevenly
laid; some arp cement and some asphal
tum. This condition of mixed material,
except the basalt blocks, runs the entire
length of the street, and it is a disgrace
that it should be permitted by the author
ities. Should the passenger gaze at the
street pavement he could not help express
ing disgust for a Street Department that
would allow it to be in the condition in
which it now is.
The distance from Townsend to Howard
Btreel is laid with basalt blocks; some are
at right angles with the curbs, some laid
diagonally; and in many places ruts have
been worn to such a deptn that it is diffi
cult for teams to turn out to make way for
the curs. Beyond, northward, from
Howard street, "the bitumen — so called —
pavement] laid down about four months
ago, is so badly cut up and full df ruts and
boles that it looks like a country clay road
in winter after a hard frost. Every time a
team passes over this block the pavement
is pulverized and it keeps the sweepers
busy brushing the dust into piles to be
carted away. The same condition is notice
able in the block between Mission and
Market streets, but in a less degree. Still,
the work of crumbling into dust is going
on slowly, but surely.
On the west side of the street below Mar
ket the sidewalk is depressed between
three and live inches below the level of the
curbstones, yet the people do not grumble,
but walk on taking chances about striking
the projecting curb
stone.
The same style of
buildings which the
passenger noted at
the lower end is ob
servable all along the
street, and many of
them appear to be
affected with "that
tired feeling," for
the underpinning has
given away beneath
a number of them
and sinking ones rest
against those that
have still a founda
tion. These buildings,
many of them low
structures that have
not been touched
with a painter's brush
for many years, are no
credit to their owners
-ancl surely do not
favorably impress
strangers, nor even
citizens, from other
sections. They give
the street an air of
neglect which ought
•not to be noticeable
in San Francisco.
Then some of them
which are occupied
by laundries display
from the roofs quanti
ties of linen hung out
to dry, not a very
attractive feature in a
great city.
"When "the railroad
company changed the
horsecar line into an
electric one, the pave
ment between the
tracks and rails and
two feet on either side
was taken up and
relaid. In doing this,
the company tried to
conform with the or
dinance that requires
that the pavement be
tween the tracks shall
conform to the other
portions of the street,
but they did not make
a success of it, for they
could not keep up with
the number of rises
and depressions. Still
the pavers did succeed
in doing a very un
even piece of work.
The people of Third
street should rouse
themselves to the oc
casion and make one
grand effort to have
that thoroughfare in
the condition that it
should be. They
should draw the at
tention of the authori
ties to the shameful
condition of the street
and if' the reply is
given that there is no
money for repairs let
them ask as property
owners and taxpayers
that bonds be Issued to
make the improve
ments, and when the
authorities do their
part then the owners
of property will be
stimulated to do their
Uncle Sam's Palatial Branch Postoffi.ee.
[From a pkotogiaph taken expressly for the
" Call."]
share toward beautifying the street,
and removing those structures that
are now an eyesore, and on the sites erect
buildings that the people of to-day require.
Then there will be a business boom.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1895.
HER NAME SAVED
FROM DISHONOR.
Grace Benjamin, Asphyxiated
in Meyers' Bathroom, Was
His Wife.
RECORDS OF HER MARRIAGE.
The Extraordinary Secrecy of
Her Husband and
Relatives.
Grace Benjamin, the unfortunate girl
who was asphyxiated in a bathroom at
4<X3 Sutter street a few days ago, was in
fact the wife of Samuel Meyers, whose
mistress she was supposed to be, and her
own blood relatives and her husband have
been doing their best to send the poor girl
in ;i ishonored grave. The marriage,
which took place last August, was known
to her aunt, Mrs. Rebecca Bennett, who,
in bet, obtained the license over in Oak
land, and to her sister, Mrs. Nolan. But
all these, when a word might have saved
the poor girl's name, refused to utter it.
The motive of the cowardly husband
was presumably greed for his mother's
gold. What can have influenced Mrs. Ben
nett and Mrs. Nolan to help blacken a
dead niece and sister's name can only be
surmised.
The day after the tragedy it seems that
the sister wanted to make the facts public,
but was silenced by Meyers, who has been
a constant visitor at the house of his wife's
relatives since her death.
When the Coroner's deputy arrived at
the Sutter-street lodging-house he noticed
the marks of a ring on the finger where a
wedding-ring is usually worn and asked
Meyers about it. He said that she had
had no ring on. But a friend of the dead
girl says that the wedding-ring had been
removed by the husband and was after
ward delivered to Mrs. Bennett.
Mattie Holland, a friend and chum of
the unfortunate girl, who knew of her
marriage, had told her father, Joseph Hol
land, of it. Mr. Holland, indignant at the
great injustice being done, yesterday went
over to Oakland and unearthed from the
records proof that will clear the name of
the dead and put to shame the unnatural
husband and relatives, for it is shown now
beyond doubt that she was the lawful wife
of Samuel Meyers, The records of Alameda
County are silent witnesses to the fact.
In the marriage-license book in the office
of the County Clerk is the following entry:
Simon Meyers, aged 25 years, a native of San
Francisco, ana Gracie Benjamin, aged 17 years,
also of San Francisco.
Attached to the marriage license is the
following significant entry:
I hereby certify that the written consent of
Rebecca Bennett, guardian of the minor Gracie
Benjamin, is on tile in my office.
James Crane, County Clerk.
Dated the 13th day of August, 1894.
The marriage ceremony was performed
by the Rev. A. Jatho, pastor of the St.
Markus Lutheran Church, who recorded
the event in the office of the County Re
corder of Alameda County on September
17 last. The minister made this entry:
I hereby certify that the parties were joined
in wedlock by me on the '22d day of August,
1894, in Oakland, and that Mrs. Charles Wil
liams of Oakland and Miss Lilly Gemmel of
Oakland were present as witnesses.
» The record shows that a marriage license
was taken out on the 13th of August; that
the couple were married on the 22d of
August, and that the papers were recorded
on September 17 last. Rev. J. Jatho is a
German and pastor of the little Lutheran
church on Filbert street.
At the time of the marriage he resided
just across the street from his church, at
No. 873, in the family of a Mrs. Charles
Williams, a widow, who lived there with
her daughter, Lilly Gemmel, a girl of Jt>
years; her son, Stuart Gemmel, and his
wife.
At noon on August 22 last a gentleman
with a girlish-looking young woman
appeared at the house of Mrs. Williams
and after walking up and down in
front of the house for some minutes
as though undecided, they finally entered,
and the man asked for the minister. He
told Mr. Jatho that he wished to be
married to the girJ, and that there was
money in the affair and he wanted it kept
a profound secret.
He did not want the matter published,
and also insisted that the ceremony be per
formed without witnesses. Rev. Mr. Jatho
told him that witnesses were necessary,
and that he would not hear of such a thing
as performing a marriage ceremony with
out witnesses. Finally the man, who
proved to be Meyers, said, "All right, go
ahead."
He wanted the matter kept as secret as
possible, and accordingly took such wit
nesses as were to be found in the house.
Mrs. Williams and her little daughter were
asked to act as such, and the couple were
made man and wife.
Last night a Call reporter called at the
residence, 873 Filbert street, and was met
by a daughter of Mrs. Williams. She said
that the minister was out just then.
When asked about Mrs. Williams she
said her mother died suddenly from
apoplexy four months ago and as for the
other witness, her younger sister, she said
she would answer that Miss Lilly was
really too young to understand at the time
just what she was doing and was simply
called upon because she was in the house.
The lady who met the reporter, however,
vouchsafed all the information she had.
"Yes," she said, "Miss Benjamin was mar
ried to Mr. Meyers in this house at noon
on August 22 last, but I did not know, nor
did my sister, nor did Mr. Jatho, that the
poor child who died in that man's room
was the same party. We did not know it
until to-day when a reporter called.
"Then Jatho, who talks English indiffer
ently, told us that the man had enjoined
secrecy on him and told him that there
was money behind it. No, none of us had
any idea that the couple were the same
who were married in the house. Mrs. Ben
jamin or Mrs.Meyers has been to the house
Qnce since the wedding, just after mother's
death. She came to get the marriage certi
ficate from the minister and when she
secured it she appeared as happy as a child
as she carried it away with her.
Meyers kept in hiding yesterday to
avoid a snbpena to summon him to the
Coroner's inquest on his dead wife. He
was not to be found at his room at 406 Sut
ter street, where she died, and so missed an
opportunity to explain the cause of his
craven action.
A reporter on calling at 1911 Devisadero
street was met at the door by Mrs. Nolan,
who said on being asked for Mrs. Bennett,
"I am Mrs. Bennett/' When asked about
the marriage of her sister to Meyers she
positively denied it, and then the real
aunt came up and made as strong denial.
When told of the Alameda records she
did not seem at all worried, but still- as
positively denied that there had been any
marriage between her niece and Meyers.
She was told that her name appeared as
applicant for the license.
'•There are other Meyers and Bennetts,"
she said. "I never applied for a license.
My niece was not married to Mr. Meyers.
If you put that in the papers it will be
untrue."
And the dead girl's sister, who is said
to have threatened the day after the
tragedy to publish the fact of the marriage
until silenced by Meyers, interposed occa
sionally with positive denials of the mar
riage, in a tone that would indicate that
the marriage would be a disgrace instead
of the saving ol her sister's name.
But there was one loyal friend of poor
Grade Benjamin who was willing to do all
she could for her memory, ana that was
Miss Moilie Holland, who was found at
her home in the Mission. She seemed to
appreciate that it was her duty to do all
she could to clear the reputation of her
dead friend.
"No one but I seemed to know that they
were married," she said. "Grace told me
a few days after the marriage that she was
married to Sam. I did not believe her af
first, because she did not have her mar
riage certiricate. But one day, shortly
after, she came rushinc out to see me
and said that she had good news for
me and showed me the certificate in which
his name was given as Simon Meyers and
his age as 35 instead of 25. I asked her
for the reason of this and she said that it
was done in case a notice of it^n any Oak
land paper should reach his mother whom
he did not wish informed of the marriage.
"Mr. Meyers acknowledged the mar
riage to me voluntarily one day when I
went to his room and' found him there.
He said that some day when his mother's
estate was settled he would acknowledge it
openly and take her away to some foreign
country on account of the way she was be
ing talked about. Every time he saw me
he spoke of his wife, and I have a letter
from her signed Grace Meyers. I told my
father about it because he knew of Grace's
going to meet the man.
"Three weeks before Grace died, I said
to Mrs. Bennett, her aunt, that I was the
only one Sam ever told he was married to
Grace, and she told me that she had got
the marriage license for them. Mrs. Ben
nett always spoke of how kind Sam was to
Grace. He used to take all his Sunday
dinners at their house. After the death I
sai<l to Mrs. Bennett, 'Don't you know that
the reporters will find out that there is a
record of the marriage in Oakland?' She
kept saying that nobody would find it out.
'•I don't know what means he has taken
to keep them quiet. The day after the
death of Grace, his sister, Mrs. Nolan, was
going to publish the fact that they were
married and expose him. but Sam came
up to the house and talked her out of it.
Then they told me that there had come a
lawyer to the house one day, who told
Mrs. Bennett that she had belter keep the
marriage a secret, because it would give
her niece a terrible name if it came out.
"Sam is up at their house every day and
they tell me that he has promised to send
them to Haywards for awhile and then to
the springs.
"\\ hat makes me feel so bad about the
way they are acting is that Gracie would
sacrifice anything for Sam. When she died
she had her wedding ring on, but he took
that off before the Coroner arrived and
gave it to Mrs. Bennett."
ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
Verdiot of the Coroner's Jury— Meyers Was
Absent.
A verdict of accidental death from car
bonic acid gas poisoning was returned by
the Coroner's jury yesterday in the case of
Grace A. Benjamin, whose dead body was
found in S. Meyers' bathroom at 406
Sutt«r street last Friday night. Meyers
could not be found.
A. J. Nixdorf, one of the jurors, de
clined to sign the verdict agreed upon by
the rest of the jury.' Coroner Haw
kins accepted the majority verdict,
which included a statement that the owner
of the building should put danger-signs in
the bathroom.
Dr. E. J. Fraser, the physician who was
called when Miss Benjamin was found,
testified that he had tried everything to
bring the dead woman to, but was certain
she was dead when he first saw her. lie
pronounced the cause of death carbonic
acid gas poisoning.
F. W. Foley, the janitor of the building,
testified that' he had seen Miss Benjamin
several times, and upon the evening of her
death he had encountered her at about 8
o'clock while she was running to catch the
elevator, which she entered. She after
ward went upstairs. Shortly after
after 10 o'clock he was in the hallway and
heard some one call him. He went up
stairs and found a man standing on a
stepladder trying to break the transom.
He told him not to do that, as he could
get in the room from a rear window. This
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body on the door. In answer to Coroner
Hawkins' question, he said he did not be
lieve Miss Benjamin had been d Finking.
F. G. T. Margetson, agent in charge of
the building, said lie had never seen the
deceased, and did not know she had ever
been in the building. The handling of the
heating apparatus was understood by all
the families living in the building, and
they were aware of the danger attached
thereto. He admitted that a Mrs. Ives, a
roomer, had been nearly killed about two
years ago in the same manner in which
Miss Benjamin met her death.
One of the jurors asked Margetson
whether danger signs were hung in the
room to warn people about using the ap
paratus. A negative reply was given.
J. F. Butler, the elevator-boy, testified
that Miss Benjamin had a pass key to
the room. She came to him Friday
night and asked for the key to the bath
room, which he gave her. He had let her
have the key twice before.
The jury returned their verdict after a
stormy deliberation, in which Mr. Nixdorf
was the principal actor. He contended
that the inquest should have been con
tinued until Meyers had been found.
WITH HATCHET AND KNIFE
Furious Eow in Hinckley Alley Over a
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Corsi's going to the old City Prison on a
charge of assault to murder and an East
Indian named Sylva's going to the Re
ceiving Hospital with a deep gash in one
of his hands.
About G p. m. yesterday Corsi and his
wife missed their little daughter, and both
went in search of her. Before going Mrs.
Corsie left her infant boy in the care of
Mrs. Sylva, who lives with her husband at
515 Vallejo street. Mr. Corsi was the first
to return after a fruitless search for the
missing girl. He went over to Sylva's and
asked to be admitted, saying that he
wanted to taKe his child home. Sylva was
in a surly mood, and refused to open the
outer door, at the same time informing
Corsi that he could not have his child until
his wife called for it.
This angered Corsi, who forthwith forced
open the door, entered and took his child
in his arms. He started for the door and
was followed by Sylva, who had a knife in
his hand, held in a threatening manner.
Corsi managed to slip out to the hall, and
there picked up a large dipper for defense.
Then he went home.
A few minutes later Sylva and a Mexican
who works for him went over to Corsi's
house and asked to be admitted. Corsi let
them in, and immediately saw that Sylva
was armed with a knife. With a quick
movement Corsi secured the weapon, at
the same time striking Sylva a blow in the
face. Just then the Mexican threw his
arms around Corsi and held him as in a
vise.
On a table near by lay a hatchet belong
ing to Corsi. This'weapon Sylva secured
and hurled at Corsi's head. The latter
dodged in the nick of time and the hatchet
stuck in the wall beyond. There was a
free-for-all scuffle, and finally Silva and
his henchman found themselves out of
doors while Corsi was lord of his castle but
very much upset.
Sylva found that he had received a
wound in the hand and he at once caused
Corsi's arrest on a charge of assault to
murder. When Corsi was taken to the
Old City Prison he found his little girl
asleep in a chair. She had been picked up
by an officer on Washington street.
Last of the Stamboul.
The old whaling bark Stamboul, which has
done much service in the Arctic Ocean, is to be
broken up. She was built in 1843 in Massa
chusetts and is one of the best known whalers
now afloat.
A party of Canadian boundary commis
sioners ami ved at J uneau, Alaskaj a week or
so ago to begin a survey of a trail 2300
miles long, from Taku Inlet to the head
waters of the Yukon River.
Sponge Fiber Gov. Blotting is best absorbent
known. M ysell & Rollins, 521 Clay, sole agents.*
PROPERTY-OWNERS INDICTED
Presentments Against the Less
ors of Dupont- Street
Houses.
The Grand Jury Intends to
Make a Thorough Inves
■ tigation.
The Grand Jury took unto itself the
functions of a Le.xow committee at yester
day's session and made presentments
against fourteen persons on charges of
renting or leasing property owned by them
or under their control for immoral pur
poses. The names of those who were placed
under the ban of the law are as follows:
Patricio Marsicano, president of the Amer
ican Salt Company; Capitalist ex-Super
visor Christian Reis, H. B. Bruton, H.
Jaques, 0. Walthnm, Victor Albouze,
Mary E. Steam, Charles Hughes, J. C. Mc-
Kowen, A. Erosbois, Meyer Roth, Frank
La Costie, M. Luchese and J. H. Snyder.
Believing, as a majority of the jurymen
do, that the investigation and punishment
of the corruption and immorality of the
municipality should be in the hands of the
local authorities, the Grand Jury has for
some time been carrying on a quiet inquiry
as to the ownership of the disreputable
dens on Dupont and Morton streets, and
the evidence adduced being deemed
sufficient for the purpose of making pre
sentments, a large number of witnesses
■were summoned to appear before the
trihunal yesterday and give testimony on
which to base the charges mentioned.
The evidence was in no measure sensa
tional, the main object being to show the
character of the people inhabiting the
houses which had been shadowed and the
owners or persons controlling the same.
No difficulty was found in bringing out the
facts in the first matter, several police offi
cers as well as a number of private citizens
testifying as to the practices carried on in
and general reputation of a number of
houses on Dupont street between Pine and
Caliiornia. The records of the city supplied
the rest, giving the necessary information
as to ownership.
The presentments were immediately
taken before Superior Judge Sanderson,
who signed them, and they were trans
mitted to the Police courts, where the
orders for arrests will be issued as soon as
the necessary legal formalities are dis
posed of.
The foreman of the Grand Jury inti
mated after the body had adjourned that
yesterday's proceedings were but the be
ginning of a crusade against vice in all
forms, and that presentments on misde
meanors and indictments on felonies will
follow In rapid succession.
At the next meeting of the tribunal wit
nesses will be summoned to show that
persons owning property on Morton St.
Marys and other streets in the tenderloin
district, where disorderly houses exist
are within the reach o*f the law, and
wholesale presentments are expected to
follow,
"Beauty, for women, is a greater power
than knowledge," says Mrs. Nettie Harri
son, the famed beauty doctor, whose
youthful beauty, despite her :*7 years
strikingly illustrates the glorious possibili
ties of the science she has created.
Asphyxiated by Gas.
J. C. Lundborg, a laborer, was asphyxiated
by gas in his room at the corner of Geary street
and Central avenue last Tuesday night. He
had been out of employment for .some time
but having secured a position he was to have
gone to work yesterday. The deceased for
merly kept a cigar-store at 422 East street.
Great Plate Ssi'le.
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It is one of those Home in-
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Mb. Fdeth, 209 Front street, was operated upon
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Upon its return, Dr. Cook cured it, now gome eight
years ago. .
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