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LATEST OAKLAND NEWS
A Supervisor and Councilman
Have a Personal En
counter.
FRIENDS STOPPED THE MILL.
Chinese Vegetable Peddlers Ar
. rested—Another Relay Race
Projected.
Councilman Watkinson and . Supervisor
Church had a personal encounter yester
day afternoon which for a time threatened
to become a serious matter, but which was
finally settled by friends who stepped in
and separated the combatants.
Mr. Watkinson now wears a very red
spot under his right eye, and Mr. Church
is busy explaining to his friend that the
affray was more of a joke than anything
else. During the last campaign Watkin
son was out for the nomination for
Councilman, and had some trouble in se
curing the plum.
When he was finally nominated, Church
was one of the first to offer his influence
and support, favors which Watkinson ac
cepted with thanks.
-."It was not long, however," said Wat
kinson last evening while telling the story
of the light, "before I found that particu
lar friends of Church were knifing me in
every direction. I said nothing at the
time, and was elected. Then my op
ponent in the Sixth Ward, Mr. Gilligan.
began a contest for my seat. His attorney
was Assistant District Attorney Church,
who is a brother of the man who assaulted
me.
Naturally, in the face of my suspicions
. that he had worked against me during the
election, I felt that he was back of the con
test, and I felt pretty sure about it in view
of the fact that he had voluntarily offered
to assist me. To-day I told him that I
did not like the way he was acting, and
asked him what he meant by it. We had
some words and then walked down Wash
ington street.
"When we reached the corner of Fifth
and Washington streets he said, 'Look
here, Watkinson, this thing has gone far
enough,' at the same time squaring off,
and before I knew it he had struck me in
the right eye. I was stunned for a mo
• .ment, but was getting ready to return the
. blow when a friend who was with me
stepped in and kept us apart."
Supervisor Church is a big, wiry man,
about 6 feet tall and weighing 170 to 180
pounds, while the Councilman is very
short in stature and from his rotundity
would have made a poor fight had the
affray continued to a finish. He has the
reputation of being a game man. however,
and more trouble is looked for should the
men come together before they have had
time to cool off.
Dalton's New Idea.
Assessor Dalton thinks he has found a
way to get even with the Contra Costa Water
Company for its refusal to place any sworn
valuation upon its property. According to
his reading of the law such refusal deprives
individual or corporation making it of all
standing before the Board of Equalization,
and in that case all right of appeal from
the Assessor's valuation is lost. If this be
so any arbitrary valuation that official
might see fit to make would be final, and
. taxes would have to be paid upon it.
The water company has, however, filed
a sworn list of its property, and it is
thought barely possible that this list
might be ruled "as within the requirements
-.•f the law. In any event the corporation's
- assessment is to be greatly increased, if
not doubled.
"I think," said Assessor Dalton yester
day afternoon, "that I shall just about
: double the company's assessment. If Ido
the city of Oakland will receive from the
corporation taxes upon $170,000 ad
ditional, and I think that is about right.
1 have not, however, fixed upon any
definite figures, for I am trying to get the
individual taxpayers out of the way be
fore I tackle the corporations.
"The water company has refused to set
: any sworn valuation upon its property, I
think chiefly because the City Council is
now engaged in fixing the water rates.
For that reason the water corporation is as
it were between Scvlla and Charybdis, for
if its officers should swear to a low valua
tion it would give the Council a reason for
lowering the water rates very materially,
and if the company placed a heavy valua
.. tion on its property it would have greater
' taxes to pay."
Arrested Chinese Peddlers.
Seven Chinese vegetable-peddlers who
had not paid the municipal license of $15
per quartet were arrested by the police
yesterday morning. The officers have
been cognizant for some time that the
Celestials were not contributing to the
city's funds as required by law and an or
ganized raid on them was ordered.
For some unexplained reason an arrange
- ment had been made that if the peddlers
agreed to pay their license alter arrest
. they were to be released, so that out of the
seven only one who did not possess the
■ necessary coin was booked at the police
station on a charge of peddling without
a license. The arrest of a large number of
. Chinese is looked for unless they speedily
make the acquaintance of the License Col
lector.
-':-;•; Another Relay Rare.
Oakland wheelmen are trying to arrange !
another relay race, this time between two
clubs, the Acme and Bay City Wheelmen.
The Oakland riders believe that but for
accidents during the recent contest they
would have won, and are willing to con
tribute toward the purchase of a substan
tial prize to be given the winning club. A
challenge will De sent to the Bay -City
Wheelmen in the near future.
BE3KELEY.
• The People's party held a convention
on Wednesday evening to nominate a
• ticket to be voted for at the municipal
election to be held on May 13. M. Doyle
was elected temporary chairman, R. W.
Good secretary and N. Detrick treasurer.
The ward delegates reported the number
of members present from their respective
wards and were then authorized to name
• one member each for the committees on
" credentials, permanent organization, plat
form and resolutions.
The temporary officers were made per
. manent ones and then the convention pro
ceeded to the work of nomination. The
following were the nominations made :
First Trustee, J. W.Gage; School Di
rector, Charles GessineSr. . '
: Second Ward— Trustee, Ben Morgan; School
Director, E. .'. Wickson.
Third Ward— Trustee, N.J. Whiting; School
. Director, 8. H. Dikcman.
Fourth Ward— Trustee, J. J. Rose School Di
rector, George Swain.
Fifth Ward— Trustee, John Gelder; School
Director, George A. Norton.
Sixth Trustee, George Durrell; School
Director, E. F. Neihaus. .
. Seventh Trustee, John Higgins ; School
Director, Charles Engelbretsen.
Marshal, Richard Lloyd; Clerk, Walter
• Young; Assessor, Frank _, Lowell; Treasurer,
R.W. Good.
Intercollegiate Field Day.
The University of California-Stanford
. field day will take place at the Olympic
Club grounds to-morrow afternoon at 1
o'clock. By agreement between the cap
tains of the two teams it has been decided
that the first place shall count ; for five
points, second place two points and third
place one point? At the field day held last
year second place counted for three points.
It is expected that the field day this year
will be much closer than the one held last
year, when Berkeley won nearly twice | -.s
many points as the wearers of the cardinal.
Stanford has beaten Berkeley in football
and baseball several times and they are
now striving hard to win the track athletic
honors. About forty-five entries have been
made, showing a large increase over the
number of contestants at tlie last field day.
Carnot Debate.
The debate for the Carnot gold medal
takes place this evening at Palo Alto upon
the question, "Was Casimir-Perier Justi
fied In Resigning the Presidency?" A
fund, in memory of President Carnot, has
been provided," the interest of which shall
go each year toward the providing of a
gold medal to be awarded the debater who
makes the best speech on some question
involving French affairs, .the successful
man being one of six speakers, three from
each of the universities of the State, all of
whom shall be chosen by competitive pre
liminary speeches.
The men who will represent the Univer
sity of California are W. N. Friend '96,
James W. Clark '97 and Albert W. Lyser
'95 of the Hastings Law College. A large
party of students will leave this afternoon
on a special train for Palo Alto and return
to-nigut after the close of the debate.
Notes.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Naylor have returned
from Whittier. where they went two weeks
ago to assist in the permanent organiza
tion of the Society of Friends in California.
Rev. Robert Bentlcy, pastor of the First
Methodist Church, returned on Wednesday
evening from Pacific Grove, where he has
been visiting his family for the week.
The first game of the Lorin Tennis Club
will be played at their new court on Satur
day afternoon. The officers of the club are :
Mrs. E. C. Oakley, president; Mrs. S. A.
Coxhead, vice-president, and T. Hampton,
secretary-treasurer.
An entertainment will be given this
evening by the Jubilee Concert Singers, for
the benefit of the Holmes Free Library, at
the free reading room.
Two bicycles were stolen in Berkeley on
Wednesday, one from the cyclery of Fred
Wilson and the other from the March
cyclery. No information has been gained
thus far as to the whereabouts of the miss
ing wheels.
Next year the debate for the medal will
beheld in Berkeley, alternating between
the two universities each year.
ALAMEDA.
The funeral of the late ex-Judge George
W. Tyler will take place to-morrow after
noon at 2 o'clock from his late residence at
the corner of Lincoln avenue and Everett
street. His eldest daughter, Mrs. C. L.
M— stick, arrived yesterday afternoon from
Portland, Or., and W. B. Tyler is expected
to arrive to-morrow morning from Seattle.
The late Judge will be buried in Mountain
View Cemetery.
The Adventists.
The Seventh Day Adventists' meetings
are now in progress at 2405 Santa Clara
avenue and an interesting line of prophecy
will be taken up in the sanctuary and on its
clearings. In the course of this study the
mistake of William Miller in predicting the
end of the world and the coming of Christ
to take place in 1844 will be discussed.
■
, School Census.
School Census Marshal J. L. Ballentine
and his deputy, Edward Bleyman, will
commence the work of taking the school
census on Monday. Mr. Ballentine will
cover the West End district himself. That
is the portion of the city covered by E.
McFadden, who was indicted by the Grand
Jury for fraudulent entries.
The Bicycle Track.
The Reliance Club's bicycle track at
Encinal Park station is being placed in
racing condition and will be ready by
Monday. Several riders will practice on it
for the opening meet at San Jose on the
19th and 20th inst.
Students' Art League.
The Students' Art League has admitted
as members the Misses Emily Pitchford,
Fannie Reynolds, Laura Foster, Amanda
Zeh, Josie Chapman, Clara Robinson and
Edna Groves. Draped living figures will
be studied when the mixed class is present,
i: iptl-t Church Building: Fund.
A dramatic recital was given by Miss
Mac Wilson, assisted by local talent, last
evening at Linderman Opera-house. The
proceeds will go to the building fund of
the Baptist Church.
BUDD STILL BESIEGED.
He Conies to San Francisco and Is
Beset by Politicians— Many of
Them Eluded.
Governor Budd arrived yesterday morn
ing. At once an army of politicians were
on his trail. Most of these he was able to
avoid. Others he sought.
Among those whom he went to see was
Ex -Senator Pat Reddy. A long interview
ensued in that gentleman's office, in which
his partner, Mr. Metson, was included.
Later Ed Reddy was called in and joined
the council.
Edßeddv.it is said, is to be appointed
warden at San Quentin.
It was rumored that the Governor would
appoint the Board of Health last night.
There can be no doubt that the expected
event will occur in the next day or two. It
is generally conceded that Dr. Albert
Happersberg will be the physician.
Joseph Dwyerclaimstohave the promise
of two positions in the Board of Health.
One is for his brother as secretary; the
other is for ex-Deputy Sheriff Finton as
I steward of the City and County Hospital.
The latter appointment if made will,
it is said, cause a bitter fight. The stew
ard occupies a place of great responsibility.
He can overlook the furnishing of low
j graae or short-measure supplies and assist
I in other measures for stealing from the
i treasury. He can also add materially to
' the comfort and well-being of the inmates
of the hospital and save the county much
money.
If the Board of Health appointments
are made for political reasons the city will
suffer. If Governor Budd chooses the men
only for their fitness, without regard to
politics, he will have a board that by co
operation with Mayor Sutro and the better
element will be a valuable instrument for
good.
Considerable interest is felt in the pos
sible refusal of Robert Y. Hayne of a
place on the Code Commission. The story
is now being generally circulated that he
will decline the proffered position.
The story that has gained circulation is
that Mr. Hayne feels that to give, up his
practice in order to go to Sacramento for
two years would require too great a sacri
fice. It would have to be made if he took
the place, though, as the bill creating the
commission specifies that the commission
ers shall hold their meetings in a room at
the State Capitol building.
Who Mr. Hayne's successor will be or
who are booked for the other two places no
one seems prepared to state. H. Baldwin
of the firm of Baldwin & Thompson of
Stockton, O. P. Bovce of the firm of Boyce
& Taggart of Santa Barbara and S. S.
Wright of Fresno, are all named. The last
is not considered as a very probable subject
for the gubernatorial favor.
MME. DE STAEL'S SARCASM.
How She Rebuked a Viscount Whom
She Disliked.
Mme. de Stael had fallen out with the
Viscount de Choiseul owing to certain
malicious reports circulated by the later.
One day the lady and the Viscount met in
company, on which occasion good man
ners required that they should speak to
each other. Mme. de ata— commenced :
"We have not seen you for a long time,
M. de Choiseul."
"Ah, Madame I'Ambassadrice, I have
been ill."
' '•Seriously, monsieur?"
"I ; had a narrow escape from being
poisoned."
: "Alas! Possibly you took a bite of your
own tongue."
. This Utile joke fell like a thunderbolt on
the Viscount, who was a notorious back
biter and mischief-maker. The lesson was
a severe one, but he richly deserved it, and
had not a word to say.— Le Savoir-Faire et
Savoir-Vivre.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FEIDAY, APRIL 12, 1895.
HER LIFE FOR HER LOVE
Mystery Surrounding the Case
of the Oakland Boat
Suicide.
DEATH CAUSED BY DESPAIR.
Her Lover Was C. W. Dunn, a Mar
ried Man, but He Cannot be
Found.
The mystery surrounding the suicide of
a slender, closely veiled woman, who leaped
from the 10 o'clock broad-gauge ferry
steamer last Wednesday night, has been
partly solved. The following letter was
received by Coroner Hawkins on the 11
a. m. delivery yesterday:
To the Coroner, San Francisco— Sin : I in
tend to leap from some boat into the quiet
waters of the bay to end my suffering. I am
young and foolish and have been deceived by a
man who led me to believe he was single and
won mv love, while at the same time he was
married. I left my home to come to him, and.
God have pity on me, for this is the result. If
my body is recovered from the bay I am sure
Mr. Dunn will not identify me, and I hope he
Will not, as I wish to be buried as an unknown
in the potter's field. I know his place of abode,
but the last letter from him was addressed from
Oakland. If he should identify me please give
him this Inclosed letter. God have pity on all
simple girls like myself, who are easily led
astray. A broken-hearted woman.
Nettie Chase.
The inclosed letter was evidently to the
girl's betrayer, and read as follows:
April 10, 1895.
My Dear Beloved : You may be surprised to
think I have at last concluded to end my
worldly suffering and cover up my shame, but
God knows I am nearly crazy— by my
love for you and the thought that I cannot call
you husband. Oh, darling, you will never
know the extent of my love for you. I could
think of nothing wise but you and "lived in the
fond expectation of calling you husband ; but
when you imparted the fact to me that you
were already married, O God, such a pain
pierced my heart, and life appeared not worth
living. On, dearest, why didn't you tell me
sooner that you were married, and keep me
from loving you to? I gave up my home, repu
tation and everything for you. Why aid
I ever leave my dear old friends and home?
Thank God I am not known by my present
name, and my dying request is that you
do not notify them of my death, but if my
body is recovered from the dark waters oi the
bay, and you see my _ iserable form in the
Morgue, do not identify me, but allow them to
bury me in the potter's field as an unknown.
1 know, darling, that you have bten kind to me
in offering to givw me money, but I could not
accept it. I rather die by my own hand than
die by having an operation penormed. Oh,
dearest, I can still feel ywur -night kiss on
my lips, and your encouraging words to cheer
up are still ringing in my ears, but I cannot
heed tbem. Life is a miserable lot to me, and I
am now going to my last long sleep, from which
there is no waking. Forgive me, dear, if I ever
caused you angry feelings, and I die not accus
ing you for placing me in my present condi
tion, but for the love I have for you. It is now
midnight, so, darling, good-by. Hoping to
meet you in heaven, 1 am your true, broken
hearted Nettie.
The letters to the Coroner and the mys
terious "Mr. Dunn" were written in lead
pencil in a small feminine hand. The
"Nettie" written twice. was probably the
girl's right name, but the surname was
erased and "Chase" substituted. With a
magnifying glass some of the name writ
ten first could be made to be "lard." The
supposition is that "Mr. Dunn" and his
wife were* on the steamer with the un
fortunate girl and witnessed her leap to
death. The Coroner is very much mysti
fied over the matter.
The dead woman was known in Vallejo,
where she bore the name Nettie Chase.
On January 30 last she made a desperate
attempt to "kill C. W. Dunn, who was then
employed as a waiter in a restaurant. She
met him on Santa Clara street, in front of
the Dawson building, and fired two shots
at him.
One of the shots took effect in Dunn's
arm, inflicting a painful wound, but he es
caped with his life. An attempt was made
to hush the matter up, but without suc
cess.
After the shooting Nettie Chase sent the
following letter to the editor of the Vallejo
Chronicle for publication:
Dear Editor : As gossip and scandal-mongers
of Vallejo are bothering so in the endeavor to
discover who shot Mr. Dunn recently, and as
several innocent married women have been
unjustly accused of doing the shooting, there
fore I write you to inform the public in gen
eral that I, a woman who had a good and love
ly home, endeavored to kill Mr. Dunn, my in
tentions being to kill him and then Myself.
I became acquainted with Dunn two years
ago, at which time he was a Government de
tective, but he lost hi* position on account of
his fondness for women. My parents are highly
respected, and I married a man who I thought
I loved, but when I met Mr. Dunn I found that
I did not love my husband.
Mr. Dunn is and always was a great ladies'
man and seems to have power over women
which is irresistible. I fell madly In love with
him and endeavored to win his affections, but
he fell in love with me as much as he ever did
with any woman, which was just enough to
an»^_fi himself ana not to disturb himself.
Seeing that his love could not be won I con
cluded to end my misery, ana if I could not
have him no one else would, although his
wife is in town yet.
I will finish the work which I started, and
upon turning the gun on myself the people of
the city of Vallejo will then know who the
mysterious woman is who erred on account
of her undying love for a man who belongs to
another. *
Dunn has had many hairbreadth escapes, for
he was shot in the foot by an angry husband
in Oakland when he was in the employ of the
Government, and In 1893 a young woman who
had been married two weeks took a shot at
him in Sacramento, the bullet grazing his
head, she being promised a chance to run away
with him.
In Petaluma a married man caught him
with his wife and knocked in his four front
teeth. While in some town two girls of the
four hundred had a fight over him and another
gave him a horse-whipping, when he left town
and got married, trusting that married life
would change his ways.
He seems to be crazy after married women,
but despite all this I love him madly. I en
close a Petaluma item regarding him as proof,
and trust that I may scon be able to lay him
beneath the sod before he breaks any more
hearts, as two young girls in the past two years
have committed suicide over him. I am a
"wronged woman." Nettie Chase.
No notice was taken of the letter by the
Chronicle, and a second epistle was sent,
as follows : JKJSP--_BflP~lO-ffij
Vallejo, Cal., March 26, 1895.
Vallejo Chronicle Mr. Editor: I see you failed
to publish the note I wrote you regarding the
heart-breaker, Mr. Dunn. You probably thought
I did not mean what I said, but you will see
within three days that my intentions are to
kill that man and then myself. I have in
formed him of this fact, but he still ignores my
request. "A Wronged Woman."
Dunn was interviewed at the time con
cerning the subject-matter of the letters
and admitted that they told the truth. He
did not attempt to leave town at once, but
tried to satisfy the enraged woman with
money.
He suffered greatly from his wound, but
endeavored to withhold all information.
He declined to give the woman's true
name, and, though ■ every effort was made
to learn it, it never transpired.
The woman followed Dunn closely for
some time, but he pacified her in some
unknown way and later quietly disap
peared. The woman for financial reasons
was unaßle to follow him, and some*think
that being balked of her revenge she ended
her own life.
W. G. Long, who preceded Barry Bald
win as United States Marshal, dimly re
members a C. W. Dunn, who was arrested
at Vallejo or Benicia some time ago for
obtaining money under false pretenses.. :
He claimed to be a detective in the postal
service, and used his pretended official
position to extort : money, from the un
wary. Dunn was arrested by Pat Ma
loney, who was then a deputy in the Mar
shal's office, but who is now one of the
Oakland railroad police. He was given,
according to Mr. Long's recollection, a
short term in the penitentiary.
; There appear in the city directory two
names of C. W. Dunn. One of these is a
member of the manufacturing tobacconists,
C. W. Dunn & Co. of 1719 Market street.
He resides with his father and partner, M.
C. Dunn, at 102 Octa via street.
The father was seen at his home last
night. He said: "My son is 27 years old
and unmarried. He never lived in Vallejo.
There was a detective sort of a fellow
named C. W. Dunn who use_ to get our
letters sometimes and sometimes we got
his. Bfljj |-_9B_SBsKB
. "He got very impudent because we
opened his mail once or twice by mistake,
and I told him to go to . He got into
some trouble with the United States
authorities over a violation of the postal
laws, and I . have not heard of him for
nearly a year. I understood, however, that
he had gone out of town,"
The residence of the other "0. W.
Dunn," whose name appears in the City
Directory, is given as 537 Sacramento
street. That address belongs to the Colum
bia House, but no person of that name re
sides there now, nor does the clerk know
him. : .
A CHANGE AT BERKELEY.
The University of California
Adopts a New Sys
tem.
It Gives Two Years of College and
Two to Five of University
Work.
The old type of college is fast going out
of existence. It lay down the few rigid
courses which all were compelled to fol
low regardless of capacity or individuality.
The change came about when science took
hold of the mind of thinkers and it was
found necessary to give the student a
choice of science or classics. Then came
another great change. The college ceased
to regard its students as schoolboys and be
gan to look upon them as men capable of
judging for themselves the kind of work
which they should pursue. This led, by
the extreme reaction, to a complete election
of subjects. Harvard led the way and prac
tically gave the student a free field to graze
in. As colleges were gathered together
into universities and graduate students
came in as a medium between the young
collegian and the advanced learner— the
professor investigating in the laboratory —
it came to be seen that there was a differ
ence in degree between the freshmen, who
were but high-school boys after a three
months' vacation, and the older students,
which neither the old-time conservatism
nor the present radical, free elective policy
took cognizance of.
The University of California recently
solved the question for itself in an inter
esting way that seems a satisfactory recon
ciliation of the two extreme views. The
change is momentous, and, while silent, is
epoch making in the history of the uni
versity. It satisfactorily answers the
charge of undue conservatism often made
against the university, and avoids the
evil too often seen in the free elective sys
tem of students pursuing "snap" courses,
omitting proper foundation work and
coming out of the university with a con
ceit of much learning that is a patchwork
of unrelated subjects.
The plan adopted by the University of
California is already used in graduate
work in Johns Hopkins University, where
it is known as the group-elective system.
The faculty at Berkeley adapted the group
elective system to undergraduate work,
dividing the university work into two
collegiate and university work
proper, the collegiate work prescribed, the
other part elective by groups. The entire
course, consisting of 120 hours, is divided
into sixty prescribed hours — work of
the freshman and sophomore years ; that
is, each student must take say ten hours
of mathematics, fourteen of history,
twelve of science, twelve of English and
twelve of languages, 1 ancient or modern.
But after the student has reached his junior
year he is considered mature enough to se
lect know what he needs and he is allowed
to his sixty hours of work. Thirty hours
he elects as group elective. Thus if he is
to be a lawyer he elects a group in juris
prudence and political science, or in pre
paring for medicine, biology, botany,
zoology, etc. His other thirty hours he
can take as single electives, and he has
free choice to elect his purely culture sub
jects, or to begin his complete specializa
tion at once by adding all this to his group
elective. The groups are selected by the
faculty according to the cognate relations
of the subjects. The student is not ob
liged to lumber his mind with what he will
never use, while his university course is
really shortened as he begins a technical
preparation during the last two years, and
yet need not neglect the culture of colle
giate work.
The group-elective system changes the
old division of graduate and undergraduate
students into collegiate and university
students, the collegians completing their
work in two years. If he will take his
degree of doctor of philosophy, which re
quires three years longer, the student now
has a great gain over the old system by
being well started in his specialty both in
method and ground work.
AMONG THE LOST.
The Man Who Tried to Cross the Ocean !
in a Canvas Boat.
The family of Captain Josiah W. Lawler, !
the marine adventurer, still resides at 82
Grove street, Chelsea, but the Captain,
where is he ?
The daring seaman left Lincoln wharf
Juue 5, 1892, in a 12-foot canvas boat for a
trip across the Atlantic. -
News was received from him from points
along the northern coast, but that was all,
and what his fate has been no one knows.
The last information from him was a let
ter received by his wife,' dated north Syd
ney, Breton, July 20, 1892. He said then
that he had been obliged to put up for re
pairs, but was to sail again immediately.
It is known that he did sail, but that is as
far as he was ever traced.
Mrs. Lawlor is not in good health, and
the uncertainty of her husband's destiny
has had a severe effect upon her.- It is
Said, however, that she has not eiven up
yet, and still looks for his return.
She has two daughters and two sons, all
of whom live with her. j The youngest is a
boy, now 14 years old. I
The captain .had quite a remarkable rec
ord as a small-boat sailor. In 1889 he sailed
from New York to Havre in the Neversink
in twenty-eight days. Then in 1891 he
went over again in the 14-foot boat
Sea Serpent. This was the smallest boat
ever sailed across the ocean. He started
at Crescent Beach and went to England in
forty-two days. He was then at the Paris
Exposition four weeks. ;
His last embarkation was not very suc
cessful at the start. Before he had gone
forty rods from Lincoln Wharf his craft
was in collision with a rowboat and the
bowsprit was broken, but having material
aboard for making any small repairs that
might be needed he did not put back. He
had quite a quantity of food in a condensed
form and carried' about fifteen gallons of
water. I .
Many old sailors were present when he
made his start and they shook their heads
very doubtfully when they saw.the actions
of the little boat. Many, were ready to
wager that she would never cross the
ocean. The captain had not even made a
trial trip in her, as she arrived from Miam
isburg, Ohio, where she was built, only the
day before the start.— Boston Globe.
One of the most common forms of ocean
infusoria is shaped like a goblet with a lid.
When the insect feeds the lid is raised and
the tentacles appear; when it has had
enough it closes its lid and goes to sleep.
Polar bears have been known to live in
captivity for a great number of years. Two
are said* to have been ;in ; the Zoological
Society, London, for 23; and 34 years, re
spectively."
STEVENSON'S LAST WORK
His Friend Charles Baxter
Brings the Manuscript
From Samoa.
AN UNFINISHED MASTERPIECE.
Journal of His Life In Samoa— Other
Works Are to Be Pub
' lished,
Charles Baxter, whom Robert Louis
Stevenson named executor of his will, ar
rived in this city yesterday from the Sa
moan Islands on the steamer Alameda.
The two were chums as boys together in
Edinburgh at school and remained lifelong
friends. Two of the dead novelist's stories,
"Kidnaped" and "Katrina," were dedi
cated to Baxter, who has always managed
his literary business for him. He has with
him the manuscripts of Stevenson's last
works, which he is taking to England for
publication.
He said last evening at the Occidental:
"I was not in Samoa when Stevenson died.
There had been a long-stanaing promise to
go out and visit him, finally last De
cember I started from London. At Brin
disi I got a most enthusiastic letter from
him, expressing the pleasure in store at
Charles Baxter.
[Sketched from an engraving.)
our prospective meeting. But when I ar
rived at Fort Said I got a cable announcing
his death. That made me hurry on at
once, although I had intended to spend
some time in the colonies on my way."
Of the unpublished work left by. Steven
son Mr. Baxter has already sent on home
for publication the manuscript of "St.
Ives," a novel which was almost com
pleted, wanting only about two chapters.
It will be published as it is, of course. The
story is of the capture and escape of a
French officer during the Napoleonic wars
from a prison in Scotland and his adven
tures in that country and in France.
Then Mr. Baxter has with him the
proofs of what will be entitled the "Vai
finia Letters." This is a series of monthly
letters written by the novelist to his friend
Sidney Colvin, Iveeper of the Prints at the
British Museum. They are, in fact, a
journal of bis life in Samoa sent off once a
month.
Mr. Baxter has also with him the manu
script of what Stevenson had written of
"Weir of Hermiston," the work he was on
at the time of his death. In fact he had
worked on it on the very day of his death.
This, he thought, would be his master
piece. However, only -about a third of it
had been written, but that is complete as a
part and will be published.
Besides these there is a small book of
fables which had been promised to the
Longmans, the publishers, and "Letters to
Children," which are to be published in
the Youth's Companion. These are mostly
letters written to his young heir, Austen
Strong, by Stevenson.
Mr. Baxter has never been in this coun
try before, and will remain in San Fran
cisco about a week. He is a writer to the
Signet in Edinburgh, a solicitor with cer
tain special privileges.
Mr. Baxter is one of the most eminent of
Free Masons in Scotland, where he has
been supreme grand master. He has taken
the thirty -first degree, and two years ago
was received by King Oscar of Sweden,
who is an enthusiastic Mason, to return
thanks for the Grand Lodge of Scotland
for Swedish contributions to the great Ma
sonic bazaar in Edinburgh.
CONVERGENCE OP ANCESTRY.
An Interesting Theory Which Professor
Brooks Expounds.
It goes without saying that a man has
two parents, four grandparents, eight
great-grandparents and so on, so that if
we go back, say, ten generations, doubling
at each step, we have 2048 ancestors. This
sort of argument has been used by super
ficial genealogists to show that at the time
of William the Conqueror each of us had
more ancestors than the total population
of England, hence we must each be de
scended from every Englishman of that
day, including the immortal William him
self, says the New York World.
The absurdity of this sort of reasoning
has just been pointed out by Professor
Brooks of Johns Hopkins. His immediate
object is to establish a point in the theory
of evolution, but he confutes all silly gene
alogists at the same time. While it is true
that we do have four grandparents they
need not be four separate and distinct per
sons. First cousins have not more than
three separate grandparents; if they are
doubly cousins they have but two. So
in the tenth generation one's 2048 an
cestors are never 2048 separate persons;
they abound in "duplicates," so to speak,
as every one knows who has tried to trace
his descent, not in one line, but in all pos
sible lines. These duplicates abound espe
cially in small communities, whose inhab
itants have intermarried for years.
Besides this the lines from a given pair
of ancestors tend to become extinct sooner
or later, so, as ancestry is traced back, the
probability is that all the persons living in
a given community will be found to be de
scended, not from all, but from a very
perhaps only one or two — of the in
habitants of the community, as they were
centuries ago. So instead of having all
Englishmen of the year 1000 for our ances
tors, .the probability is that- we are de
scended from comparatively few of them—
the number may be technically many
thousands, but one individual does duty
for several scotes, or even several hundreds
of these, the lines of ancestry converging
upon him from many different directions.
This is what Professor Brooks calls the
."convergence of ancestry."
The Session Clerk's Complaint.
"I wish I had never gone into politics.
Here I am in Washington with a family to
support, Congress adjourned, my Congress
man gone home, and no job." The remark
fell from the lips of a young man who has
been acting as a committee clerks and pri
vate secretary to one of the Western mem
bers, and his case illustrates the condition
of a ; large class of young men who, like
him, see in a Congressional; clerkship -the
consummation of their ambition. (
"I started out as a j stenographer," said
the young man; "then I got a berth on a
newspaper, and from that I; drifted into
local politics. I am nearly 40 now, and
what have Ito show for my work? I had
several appointive places at home.but they
were permanent only so long as my friends
were at the helm, 5' one of them paid any
better than a steady job in some mercantile
business, considering the assessments and
expenses connected with a political berth.
"I came to Washington with the Fifty
third Congress. Even after I was located
here I had to make several trips home to
look after the interests of my Congress
man, and in the last election I spent every
dollar I had to help him at the polls. He
was elected, but now comes a rece% of nine
month* w*th no work for me to do, and he
goes home, leaving me to look out for my
self as best I can. While Congress was in
session I received my $100 a month, but no
pay during the recesses. The committee
of which my member was chairman
had no allowances for a committee clerk.
But it happened to have a great
deal of work to do, and I per
formed the clerical work of the committee
in addition to looking after the chairman's
private correspondence, under the illusion
that the House would make a special al
lowance for the committee. A bill to that
effect was introduced, but it was defeated
by the various watchdogs of the treasury,
and my extra work was all gratis. My
only recourse is to take my wife and child
home and begin again where I left off
when I came. At all events, my chances
at home are better than they are here.
Yet if I had gone into some reliable busi
ness years ago I can't help but think how
muchbetter off I should have been than
by going into Washington Post.
A„ INNOVATION IN THE HOUSE.
The Electric Bell to Dispense With the
Pages on the Floor.
During the recess of Congress some
changes are to be made in the hall ol the
House of Representatives. One decided
improvement is to be effected at the
instance of Joe Cannon of Illinois. During
the closing hours of the late session Mr.
Cannon secured the adoption of a resolu
tion appropriating $1000, or as much as
may be necessary, for the purpose of intro
ducing the electric-bell system in the
House. In the new order of things each
member will find at his desk a push
button, with which he may call a page
from the lobby near by, thus doing
away with the presence of twenty or thirty
paces on the floor and the old fashion of
calling them when needed. These pages
are all the time bustling about the floor,
vastly adding to the general confusion,
and careless members attract their atten
tion by clapping loudly, often to the
serious interruption of the men who are
addressing the House. It has frequently
been noticed that new members have mis
taken these signals for applause in honor
of their remarks. These members will be
likely to miss the old system, but every
one else agrees that it is high time modern
methods were introduced for the purpose
of mitigating to some extent the nuisance
of disorder and confusion on the floor of
the House. Chicago Times-Herald.
The Chicago Millionaire's Eagle Eye.
Another story illustrative of the daily
life of a Chicago millionaire may help to
explain why some people have more money
than others.
F_u_ millionaire invited avititor from
another city to meet him at a certain hour
and accompany him to the stockyards,
where he had large interests.
The millionaire rode up in a sidebar
buggy, somewhat the worse for mud and
wear, drawn by a shaggy but active horse.
He explained that before starting for the
yards he would have to go to one of the
large banks downtown, as he was on the
board which regulated loans, and he had
to pass on an application for a loan of
$500,000.
They stopped in front of the bank, and
the rich man hurried in and remained
several minutes. He came out on a run
and they started rattledy-bang for the
stockyards and Packingtown.
When they arrived and were entering
the packing-house they saw an old man
sorting out into barrels a heap of bones and
fatty remnants. The bones were trimmed
and put into one barrel and the flesh and
fat into another barrel. The millionaire
owner of the place walked over to the
workman and began asking questions.
Then he drew off his coat, rolled back his
shirt sleeve to the shoulder and began
rummaging among the bones. He found
several which had not been properly
stripped, and the workman received a
scolding which he will remember all his
life.
The stripping of those bones was just as
important as the loaning of $500,000.—Chi
cago Record.
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AUCTION SAXES.
if At Auction!
TUESDAY.
TUESDAY APKIX 16, 1895
At 12 O'CLOCK, Noon,
At 638 Market Street, Opp. Palace Hotel.
HAIGHT-ST. HANDSOME RESIDENCE.
North line (No. 26) of —aight. 100 feet E. ot
Octavia St.; handsome residence of 9 rooms and
j bath, with stable In rear fronting Rose aye.;
choice location and neighborhood; half block to
I Market St.: must soon become a business propo-
I sition; concrete walk; street in basalt rock;
Haight-st. cable; lot double frontage, '2~y, feet on
Haight; depth 120 feet to Rose aye., where lt
fronts 27„ feet. •
WESTERN ADDITION-FRENCH FLATS.
North line (Nos. 2110 and 2112) of Sutter, 110
feet W of Steiner; building contains 2 modern-
built French flats of 7 and 8 rooms and bath;
handsomely finished; brick foundation; concrete
walk; basalt rock on Sutter st.; everything in
splendid order; rents $72 50; lot 27:2x137:8.
McALLISTER-ST. HANDSOME RESIDENCE.
South line (No. 7291 of McAllister st., 125 feet
E. of Octavia st. ; handsome bay-window residence
of 8 rooms and bath; centrally located; but a few
minutes' walk downtown; choice neighborhood;
street in basalt rock; llister-st. cable passes
the dqor; lot 25x137:6.
CITY HALL BUSINESS LOT.
Southerly line of Park aye., 250 feet E. of City
Hall aye.; this is a choice piece of business prop-
erty, immediately in front of the City Hall ; im-
provements on this property would rent nt a good
paying price on the investment: Investor, and
■ builders should examine this choice offering; lot
26x100.
VAN NESS-AYE. LARGE RESIDENCE LOT.
E. line Van Ness aye., 105 feet B. of Lombard
St.; elegant double lot to be graded, street to be
; graded, sewered and bituminized and sidewalk "
\ to be stone-curbed at expense of the seller: this
elegant . residence lot commands that lovely
marine view which visitors so much admire and
which Is not equaled in any city in the world: Van
Ness aye. and —ombard st. are a portion of tha
grand boulevard to the Presidio; examine this for
a home; large double lot, 50x110 :8V_.
LARKIN-ST. IMPROVED PROPERTY.
E. line (No. 1310) of I— rkin, 1121/ a feet N. of
Pine St.; front residence, bay-windowed, contains
10 rooms and bath; modern improvements; rear
house, a tenement of 4 rooms; centrally located;
short walk downtown; this location always finds
ready tenants at full prices; street In basalt rock;
Sutter and California-?:, cables; lot 25x87:6.
MISSION RESIDENCE LOTS.
Northeast corner of Noe and Day sts., four hand-
somely located residence lots, all ready for build-
ing; examine them: sewered and macadamized
street; electric road one-quarter of a block distant;
lots 36x80 and 26x80.
SEVEN FIFTY-VARAS.
FRONTING
Devisadero, Broderick, Lombard and
Greenwich Streets.
This valuable property is in front of the property
of the late Senator James O. Fair, who invested
millions of dollars in the district, and is but a short
| distance from the Fulton Iron Works. It is valua-
ble for manufacturing or residence purposes and
I should be viewed to be fully appreciated. ! Devisa-
| dero street is one of the widest streets in the city,
j and will become business property: Lombard street
is the boulevard extending from Van Ness avenue
1 i to the Presidio Government ark, which is but two
j blocks west, bestowing upon this section of the city
> the advantage of use of this handsome public park
' and view of the Government for it! cations and one
of the finest marine views in the world. The fifty-
l ! vara on the NW. corner of Devisadero and Green-
l I wich streets will be subdivided Into six residence
| lots. Union-street cable passes wit— _ o?;e ■"'< of
' ! this property. This offering presents a splendid
opportunity for the speculator, investor or con*
! tractor. Examine this property. Six fifty-varas
(five corner and two inside); one subdivided flftv-
, vara corner lot. 37:6x110; four inside lots, 25x110;
one inside lot, 27 :6x137 :6 feet.
EASTON, ELDRIDGE „ CO.,
638 Market street. Auctioneer*.
! JOSEPH T. TERRY & CO.,
General Auctioneers,
I Wareroon is, 747 Market St.. opp. Grant
. aye. Established 1868. Telephone 296. Sales of
every description attended to. Prompt returns
made. Your business solicited. ..,...-■
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A LADIES' GRILL ROOM
Has been established In t_e Palace Hotel
ON ACCOUNT OF BEPEATED DEMANDS
made on the management. It takes the place
of the city restaurant, with direct entrance from
Market st. Ladles shopping will find this a most
desirable place to lunch. Prompt service and mod-
erate charges, such as have tiv,. the gentlemen's
Grillroom an international reputation, will prevai
In this new department.
A POSITIVE BARGAIN
1100 ACRES, WITH IJIPROYE-EOTS,
$186,500, M SMMATEO COUXTY,
IN THE PLAIN OF OAKS; S. P. R. B. BUNS
J- through ; S. F. and 8. J. V. R. R. may also. ■- The
j best and a growing locality. To inspect, address
Owner, box 117, Call Branch Office. No agents.
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