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FOOLED THE ENGLISH
Criticism of American
Methods of Horse-
Racing.
BANQUET A GOOD THING.
Tricks of the Turf That Are
Too Deep for the Steady
Britons.
LATE GOSSIP FROM LONDON.
Some Noted Paintings Viewed at
the Public and Private Ex
hibitions.
LONDON, Esq., May 4.— The way the
Americans are running their horses here
lias begun to arouse criticism which prom
ises to increase. It is impossible to ascer
tain in advance what horses they intend to
run in any event. The Sporting Times to
day says :
"The Americans played a bold game in
entering a horse like Banquet to be sold
for £200. Four thousand pounds went on
him and the 'good thing' came off in fine
style. He was bought in for £760, and, it
is said, would not have beea sold for
twice that amount. Simms was again seen
to great advantage. There is no doubt he
is really a fine horsen:nn.
"The plunge on Banquet wa? the talk of
the day, as we have become unaccustomed
to such heavy betting. We can't say we wel
come this return to a sort of racing which
has always been held to be vicious. The
object of selling races is defeated when for
a gambling purpose a horse is entered for
sale at a tenth of his value with the inten
tion to re-buy him at whatever cost. From
all we can hear the Americans have not yet
played their great cards. Some day we
shall see their favorite in the still unfit
BtonenelL We hear the Americans are
overdoing the trial ground at Newmarket,
occupying it morning, noon and night to
the exclusion of other trainers."
Mr. Poultney Bigelow has been elected a
memberof the Council of the Royal Society
of Literature. He is the first American to
be so honored.
The date of the Oxford University Ath
letic meeting has been fixed for June 5.
The sport will conclude on June 7. Oxford
has submitted to Cambridge f(||considera
tion the correspondence rela%ng to the
proposed Oxford-Cambridge vs. ;the Ameri
can universities team meeting.
Ideal spring weather has prevailed dur
ing the pas! week, and London is looking
t. The parks are crowded morning
and afternoon, and everybody seems to be
enjoying the change from the cold and
fug;- of winter to the sunshine of the com
ing summer. The season begins auspi
sly, though there is the usual stock of
complaints from tradesmen who grumbled
because the members of the royal family
intend to spend but little time in town.
Then again the shopkeepers are grumbling
because the Queen is going to crowd in
two drawing-rooms into a fortnight, for, in
their opinion, there cannot be too many
public* displays, and they have particular
sympathy with such events as Queen's
drawing-rooms because, naturally, they
are the occasion for a grand display of fin
ery and a consequent expenditure of much
money.
On Monday the Royal Academy will
open its doors and the world of art will
once more be in full swing. The "Royal
view" on Thursday last was well attended,
among those present being the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Queen Regent of
Holland and her daughter, the little Queen
■Wilhelmina, whose future, according to
report, is to be linked with that of the
eldest son of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha. Then there was the Grand Duch
ess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a host of
other notabilities.
Friday's "private views" was the occa
sion for the customary crush of fashionable
people and for the usual elaborate display
of spring toilet novelties. Lady Grandy
and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Asquith, Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Herkomer and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry M. Stanley were among the first to
arrive. The absence of Sir Frederick
Leighton, president of the Royal Academy,
was much regretted, and fears are ex
pressed that his health will compel him to
resign. Sir John Millais; R. A., who proves
to be a good host and a good speaker, will
doubtless make a successful chairman in
place of Sir Frederick Leighton at the
banquet to-night.
The exhibition of pictures at the Royal
Academy fully sustains the level reached
by its predecessors. Sir Frederick Leigh
ton, with a- flaming "June" and a llLach
rymse"; Sir John Millais, with a "St.
Stephen" and a fine vision subject entitled
"Speak to Me"; Alma Tadema, with a
feast of flowers entitled "Spring," and all
the leading artists are well represented.
Sargent's examples are confined to por
traits, of which there is the usual multi
tude on the walls. The sculptors are good
and include busts of Chauncey M. Depew
by Albert Bruce-Joy, and the Princess of
"Wales by Countess yon Gleichen. Water
house will probably be the successor of
William Charles Thomas Dobson, the re
tiring academician.
The new gallery "private view" almost
rivaled the Royal Academy display in aris
tocratic fashion. There is no sensational
picture, but there are a number of fine ex
ampJes by Sir John M. Millais, Hunt,
Burnee-Jones, Collier, Shannon, etc. Sar
gent's striking portrait of Ada Rehan is
the center of attraction.
The exhibition of portraits of Fachel
deon at the Grafton galleries is similar to
the exhibition of pictures of fair women
held last year. The Queen, the Princess
of Wales and other members of the royal
family have contributed many pictures by
old and modern masters — pictures by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, the great English
painter, being the most prominent. The
Princess of Wales is sending two sketches
to the coming amateur art exhibition.
The Queen of Holland, accompanied by
the Queen Regent, her mother, visited
Qneen Victoria at Windsor Castle to-day.
They were met at the railroad station by
the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and were
entertained with much ceremony at the
castle. There has been much comment,
however, on the fact that the little Queen
and her mother have been in London for a
week past and hare had to stay at Brown's
Hotel, no palaces being offered them,
although no members of the royal family
are at present stopping in London.
Buckingham Palace having been pre
viously engaged, the son of the Ameer of
Afghanistan, who is on hi 8 way here with
his suite of seventy persons, is to be housed
at Dorchester House, Captain Holfords'
magnificent Park-lane palace, which, by
the way, he is anxious to be rid of to any
millionaire desiring a palace. It is an im
mense limestone mansion, most beauti
fully situated.
The sale of the jewels and racing cups
of the late Duchess of Montrose, known in
sporting circles as the "Red Duchess, '
who raced horses under the name of "Mr.
Manton," realized over $125,000. A pearl
necklace was sold, according to the terms
of her will, for the benefit of the poor of
East London. It brought $57,000.
The sixteenth royal military tournament
will open at Islington on May 23. The
leading feature will"be an historical pageant
of the Third (King's Own) Hussars and
Buffs East Kent Regiment, the latter
claiming to be the lineal descendants of
the "Trained Bands" of London. Begin
ning with the year 1557, the various epochs
will be illustrated by the different dresses
and equipments of both cavalry and in
fantry. A detachment of the "gymnastic
staff of the Egyptian army" will take part
in the combined display of all arms, which
will thus be made more theatrical this year.
Copyright. _
CAXADIAy FEDERATION.
Great Uncertainty Regarding the Action
of Scvpfoundland.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, May 4.—
The greatest uncertainty prevails regard
ing confederation with Canada. The Gov
ernment received letters from the Domin
ion Cabinet last night and considered
them. Those qualified say that the dis
agreement continues. Official members of
the Government party say that confedera
tion is dead, and that the only alternative
is to accept the position of a crown colony.
The Ministry held two conferences with
Governor O'Brien, it is supposed on the
French shor e question. The Governor in
sists upon the holding of a general election
before the question of confederation is sub
mitted to the Assembly. The Whiteway
ites — the Government party — refused to
atrree to this, fearing that they would be
defeated.
Victory for the French.
PARIS, France, May 4.— A dispatch
from Madagascar announces that the
French forces brilliantly carried an im
portant position on the Betsibska River,
capturing a number of prisoners, several
guns and a quantity of provisions. The
Hova loss was serious.
Lady Kitnberley Is "Dead.
LONDON, England, May 4.— Lady Kim
berley, wife of the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, is dead. She was the
daughter of Richard Hobart, third Earl of
Clare, a title how extinct.
CORNHUSKS ARE SCARCE
Many Tamale Men Are Forced
to Close Their Estab
lishments.
Several Tons Secretly Gathered Up
In Mexico to Relieve the
Local Famine.
Local tamale manufacturers are being
forced out of the business. The trouble
has arisen through a scarcity of husks.
Usually these indispensable adjuncts of
the toothsome Spanish dainty sell from
2 cents to 4 cents a pound.
This year they began to get scarce about
January 1. Prices be^an to go up.
It was then discovered that there were
no busks to be had in the United States.
Early rains had spoiled most of those
picked for the tamale trade, and the rest
were not available.
Charles S. Kapp at the firm of Kapp &
Street secretly sent a man to Mexico to
buy up all the hvisks in the market there.
Yesterday Mr. Kapp was the happiest man
in the city.
He had received ten tons of husks, and
though some of them cost him 40 cents a
pound he was clad to get them at that.
Had they not arrived he would have been
forced to give up what he has made a very
lucrative business.
The fluctuations of the cornhusks have
been peculiar. When Ned Foster received
the tamaJe concession of the Midwinter
Fair he had fifty tons of husks picked for
him, most of which came from Merced
County. They cost him 3 and 4 cents a
pound.
After the fair he had about twenty-four
tons left. In November, 1894, he sold ten
tons of these to Mr. Kapp and the rest to a
Mr. Palmer at 5 cents a pound. On Janu
ary 8 Mr. Kapp paid Mr. PaJmerßcents
for a portion of his husks. In February,
he paid him 16 cents, and in March he
bought all that Mr. Palmer would sell him
for 25 cents a pound.
Most of the husks used here come from
Southern California. That source of sup
ply was exhausted early this year. From
Kansas and Celerado a few were obtained.
Then the whisky men were appealed to.
The answer was that in Kentucky they
burnt the husks or fad them to the cows,
butthat there would be plenty next year.
The small local tamaleimakers, who buy
their tamales as they use them, have been
forctd to go out of the business, as the
men with large stocks will not sell. Even
N. Garcia, tne pioneer of the tamale in
dustry, who has stewed up chicken and
peppefs in Hinckley alley for that pur
pose for twenty years, has had to discon
tinue.
J. T. Swoffort, who has had a large busi
ness for eight years, dazzled by the oppor
tunity of selling huAs, for which he had
paid i cents a pound, for 25 cents, sold his
entire stock, thinking the top notch was
reached, and he could taiy more soon at
low figures. He has had to shut up hia
shop.
Foster, after selling his husks, decided
to open a tamale-garden on the roof of the
buildings in the Blyth* block. Thia plan
fell through. Later he contracted for the
lot on Eddy street, recently bought by Mr.
Spreckels from the old hermit who had
lived there for years.
Mr. Foster bought vast quantities of red
pepper, made his contracts for chickens,
and then found he could not get husks for
love nor money and had to give up his
scheme.
Com husks are not very heavy, but in
San Francisco an average of 600 pounds
are used every night for tamales. On Sat
urdays this figure will reach 800 pounds.
From fhis an estimate can be gained of
what privation would ensue should the
husks now on hand be destroyed.
Electricity Superseding Steam.
All railroads will eventually be operated
electrically. The lirst changes from steam
will probably be made, and have in fact
already begun, on short suburban roads
where the traffic is heavy and the trains
are run at frequent intervals, and thus ap
proximate more closely to the Ideal con
ditions of the economical electric railway.
These electric spurs will then be gradually
extended until in the course of time the
entire lirte will be adapted to the new order
of affairs, and a new generation of railroad
officers, less wedded to the old methods,
will have come into existence. So far as
new, light railways are concerned, such as
those contemplated in England at the
present time, and which are rapidly in
creasing in the United States, electricity
presents advantages which cannot be dis
puted. • It has even been suggested that
such agricultural roads might largely in
crease their income by supplying electric
power for farming operations in the dis
tricts through which they pass.—Scrib
ner's.
Immense stock Trimmed HaU. Very low
prices. "Seavey's," 1382 Market st •
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1895.
IN WILLIAM'S DOMAIN
Increased Opposition to
the Anti-Revolu
tionary Bill.
THE AMERICAN ARTISTS.
Their Clever Paintings Attract
Much Admiration at
Berlin.
OIL IS STILL ON THE RISE.
Cermans Who Oppose the Tactics
of the Big: Standard Oil
Monopoly.
BERLIN, Germany, May 4.— The Reich
stag proceedings have attracted little in
terest during the past week, but they are
expected to be greatly enlivened when the
anti-revolutionary bill comes before the
House. The demonstration to-morrow
against the bill by delegates from the
various city councils will be a great affair,
having gained importance by reason of
the Government's opposition.
The Government yesterday received
another rebuff in this question in the
adoption by the lower House of the Wur
temberg Diet of a socialist motion con
demning: the anti-revolutionary bill. Pre
mier Mittnacht declared the vote on the
bill ia the Bundesrath was not binding
and admitted he had grave doubts respect
ing the advisability of the measure in the
ferm given it in committee. This state
ment is only a sign of the times, as it is
very evideat that throughout Europe,
apart from Russia, the feeling is distinctly
against the drastic character of the anti
revolutionary bill. The Government, too,
does not help its cause in combating so
cialism by ridiculous mistakes, such as in
cluding in the list of oo»ks regarded as
subversive to the state and attached to the
anti-revolutionary bill in order to show its
necessity the political works of the patriot
poet Freiligrath, written in 1848, and which
are now used in ordinary schoolbooks.
The sentences in the Fuechsmuehl riot
ing case have caused a great deal of indig
nation and are being made capital of by the
socialist press as showing the contrasts be
tween the law and natural justice; 143
men were condemned to terms of impris
onment varying from fourteen days to four
hs. The chief sufferer was Burgo
master Joseph Stock, who received the
heaviest sentence and a fine. The severity
of the punishmenfis generally condemned
fey the upper class of newspapers, many of
whom urge the Prince Regent of Bavaria
to pardon the offenders. The commune of
FuechsmuehUs on the verge of destruc
tion, as the prisoners form the bulk of the
adult population.
The leading event, socially, has been the
opening of the art exhibition by Dr. Bosse.
the Minister of Public Instruction, repre
senting the Emperor. There was a very
smart attendance. The American exhibit
is placed separately in two large halls, and
is universally conceded to outshine the
rest, even the French section being eclipsed.
Harrison, Gay, Pearce, Brudgeman. Sar
gent, Stewart, Weeks, Metchers, Dannett,
Macewen and Rolshoven being especially
strong among the Americans. Harrison's
plenary painting, "En Arcadie," is said to
be the greatest attraction of the show.
The American section has received gen
erous praise from the entire Berlin press.
The Vossisehe Zeitung, for instance, says:
"Those times are past when American
art was sneered at; who can deny it? In
the arts and crafts there is the same re
sistless advancement as in the technical
science. One feels the presence of the
youthful vigor which courses through
veins across the ocean and which is ever
achieving fresh things."
Among the sculptures Professor Helner's
Heine monument has been purchased by
the Germans of New York.
A portion of the German press com
mented on the warfare on the Standard
Oil Company because of its successful
manipulations in raising the price of pe
troleum, which has risen 50 per cent with
in three months, and which is now 15 cents
a quart at retail. Tfce Kreuz Zeitung and
other papers call npon the Government to
take steps to prevent such usurious pro
ceedings.
Yesterday's question in the Reichstag
was the outcome of this agitation, and the
result showed that the Government is evi
dently preparing counter measures.
The Government through the Navy De
partment, following the example of other
powers, has secured by contract the event
ual services of four fast Hamburg-Ameri
can line steamers and six of the fastest
steamers of the North German Lloyd line.
They will each be armed with sixteen guns
of heavy caliber and fourteen quick-iiring
guns. The steamers will be used in case
of necessity as dispatch-boats and for re
connoitering work. The first practical test
of their availability will be made during
the great naval maneuvers next autumn,
one of the steamers being hired for 130,000
marks.
Emperor William and the imperial fam
ily have taken up their residence at the
New Palace until the end of June, when
the Emperor is going on a yachting trip to
Norway. The Empress will spend the
summer with her children at Wilhelms
hohe. His Majesty's new racing yacht
Vinita is being fitted out and will be taken
to Kiel on Monday. She will be raced
during the Kiel regatta, in June.
The Reichstag yesterday by a large ma
jority agreed to a credit of 1,700,000 marks
to cover the expense ql the canal. Yon
Boetticher, the Imperial Secretary of the
Interior, made the unexpected announce
ment that the actual cost of the canal was
probably 700,000 marks less' than the esti
mate.
A medal has been modeled by Professor
Herter at the instance of the Emperor to
celebrate the dedication ef the canal. His
Majesty will present one of these medals
to each guest.
According to reports published here Miss
Grace Chisholm, the lady wh© has just
taken the degree of philosophy at the Uni
versity of Gottingen with the express
permission of the .Prussian Minister of
Education, this being the first degree ever
taken by a woman at Gottingen since it
became a university, is not an English
woman, as at first announced, but an
American.
Carl Bailey Hurst, formerly United
States Consul at Crefeld, has gone to his
new post, that of Consul at Prague.
The Innocent Boy.
There was a bridal couple from Ganada
coming over on a ferry-boat yesterday
afternoon. They were young and tender,
and as they sat together ia the cabin they
had hold of hands. This is perfectly proper
and right, and we've all been there.
Among those who looked on, however,
was a lad of tender years, accompanied by
his mother. The ooy gazed and gazed,
and finally turned to his mother and ex
claimed in a voice loud enough for all to
hear:
"Say, maw, that girls wants to wipe her
nose ami that fellow won't let her. — De
troit Free Press.
THE LIFE OF A DAY.
Translated from the Italian by Mel.
"II Romanzo di Maria," a book of weird
psychological tales, described by the au
thor as "Mundane," is attracting a good
deal of attention in Italy.
The author, A. Olivieri San Giacomo,
uses a peculiar impressionist style, almost
impossible to reproduce in English, but
the following storyette gives some idea of
his mannerisms. A rose is supposed to be
the speaker:
Yesterday morning in the pearly light
of dawn I opened my chalice to life, and a
drop of dew, glittering with a thousand
tints, fell like a kiss on my petals.
I looked around. It was a March dawn,
all tender pink and delicate violet, and,
though the breeze was wintry and a light
sheet of ice covered the water in the
fountain, there was a strange purity
and luminousness in the air, and all
the effluvia of the garden and of the
hothouses in full bloom reached me and
mingled with the sounds of the music,
wh ich seemed to speak cheerfully from the
distance.
Life is beautiful— l thonght.
While the sun was caressing me with its
fir*t beams, lole entered the garden and
perceived me. A great delight seized her,
and she began to clasp her little hands,
which were as tender and pink as my
petals.
I was the first rose of the garden on
which she had spent so much loving care
through the rieors of the cruel winter, and
from the moment she perceived me I was
instiled with new life by the feeling that
some one was interested in me.
She was a slender, fraii girl, her cheeks
just tinged with a touch of curnation. Her
soft, blonde hair was like gold, and she
had ene of those delicate spiritual faces
that seem to shine with the light of im
mortality.
lole gave me ir.y salutation on entering
life, and I gave her my lirst fragrance.
But she did not pluck me, another thought
seemed to occupy her, for I noticed that
her blue eyes looked anxiously through
the gate along the white road.
Nodon'it she was expecting some one,
and a veil of melancholy now and then
covered tier features. "She is in love," I
thought. Suddenly a horse's trot was
heard. lole ran to the gate, and "he"
appeared.
As I Looked at those two young people,
mutely holding one another's hands, look
ing into one another's eyes, caressed by
the spring sunshine, they seemed to me
like the youth of nature, the spring of ex
istence, and when they spoke I listened to
their voices as if they had been music.
"Iole," he said, "your dear image is
always before my eyes. When will my
dream become a reality?" and h<j kissed
her hands, lovingly and respectfully.
lole ran to the rose tree, plucked me,
and fastening me to hi* coat, said: "There
is the first rose of my garden. I give it to
you, as I have given you the first love of
my heart. Keep it, and the rose will bring
you the reality of yaur dream."
And though my tender tibers were suf
fering from the wound of being severed
•from the rosebush I could not help think
ing, "Love is a very sweet thing."
The water in this Moorish cup where I
am immersed keeps me alive, but how un
familiar everything i«. Near me two gilt
cupids kiss one another over the clock, the
room is tilled with a vague perfume of
sandal-wood and the air is soft and tepid.
"He" is seated in an armchair, with a
book in his hand, but he is not reading;
his eyes are rixed on a damask portiere,
and he is listening tc the slightest sound.
Evidently he is expecting solne one, lole,
uo doubt.
The curtain moves »sid« and a woman
dressed in a fur coat appears in the void.
He jumps up delighted to meet ner. Oh!
Deo! it is not lole, it if a taJler, more beau
tiful woman, witn full red lips and eyes
like lamps of passion.
He takes her hands and rains a shower
of kisses on them, calling her "love." and
caressing her hair. Why? My intelligence
reels in trying to understand it. Can a
man love two women at the same time?
To which does he lie, to the girl of this
morning or the woman of this moment?
As I strive to catch these words he takes
me from the cup and fastens me on hia
breast. Well ! 1 would rather have died
near iole, but —
What is happening! A man has ap
peared on the threshold, he is very pale,
and ha? a revolver in his hand.
There is a cry of agony, and the beauti
ful dark woman falls struck to the heart.
The fatal ball has hit me also- I have lost
many petals, and am sprinkled with the
blood of the girl who lies supine and still
on the carpet.
I died when they threw me aside in a
corner of the room as a useless object. To
day he picked me up. kissed my stained
petals and shut me in a little ebony casket.
In my sepulcher I still think of lole's
sweet face and say to myself, "A man's
love is a terribly sad thing."
NO REDUCTION PLEDGED
Four Supervisors Not Bound
by Any Non-Partisan
Agreement.
What Dunker, Taylor and Hobbs Say
About the Water-Rate Con
tention.
Now that the time is drawing near at
hand when the Water Committee of the
Board of Supervisors must fix the rates for
the fiscal year, which opens on July 1, the
members, not only of the committee but
of the entire board, are taking an active
interest in the matter and all that apper
tains thereto.
After the several meetings which were
held, and in the course of which consur
ers were exa mined, as well as represent*,
tires of the water company, with a view Qi
arriving at an equitable adjustment of
rates, the committee considered the
various propositions laid before them.
Property-owners, who had to pay the
rates demanded by the water company
whether they useij meters or not, com
plained that the rates were too high. On
the other hand, the water company claimed
that no discrimination had been made be
tween patrons who used or did not use
meters.
The corporation demanded sufficient re
turn en invested capital, a percentage on
their bonded indebtedness, their operating
expenses and a margin of profit besides.
When questioned as to their pledges to
the Non-Partisan party Messrs. Taylor,
Hobbs, Hughes and Duri^er repudiated the
idea that they had ever made any pledges
which might require any definite percent
age of reduction in the water rates.
Mr. Taylor said when asked about the
pledge: "There was no pledge. There
was a letter, but aside from that there was
an oral agreement which declared only in
favor of reduction, no percentage being
mentioned.
"The reduction is to come but the per
centage of the reduction has not yet been
fixed. Just what that percentage will be
has not yet been determined."
Mr. Dunker and Mr. Hobbs practically
supported Mr. Taylor in his statements.
Mr. Dunker said: "I made no pledge
for any definite percentage of reduction of
the water rate. It would have disqualified
any member of the board to have been
previously pledged."
As the matter stands the percentage of
reduction in the vater rates will not be de
termined until the recommendations of the
Water Committee come up before the full
Board of Supervisors.
IN CELL TWENTY-EIGHT
William Henry Theodore Dur
rant Remanded to the
County Jail.
PRISON OFFICIALS ARE GLAD.
His Photograph Taken to Be Placed
In the Police Rogues'
Gallery.
There was a fooling of relief among the
officials of the City Prison yesterday after
noon when William Henry Theodore Dur
rant was removed from the cell he had
occupied since his arrest three weeks ago
and taken to the County Jail.
Yesterday morning Judge Conlan signed
the commitments, and shortly afterward,
at the request of General Dickinson, a
barber was sent for and Durrant was
sbaved and had his long hair trimmed.
About noon Detectives Bainbridge and
Seymour took him to the department pho
tographer, who took his photograph, which
will be placed in the "rogues' gallery" at
police headquarters. He sat placidly and
unconcernedly and obeyed the instructions
of the photographer implicitly.
About half-past 1 o'clock a hack drove
up to the City Prison and in a few min
utes Durrant, carrying a satchel in his
hand which contained his comb and brush
and a few other articles, appeared, pre
ceded by Detective Seymour and followed
by Detective Bainhrftlge. Seymour stepped
into the hack, Durrant followed, and Bain
bridge jumped in and closed the door.
There was no one around, as it was not
known when Durrant's removal would
take place. On the way to the County
Jail Durrant chatted pleasantly to the
two detectives on general topics, but
nothing was said about the charges on
which he had been held.
On arriving at the jail Durrant was con
fined in cell zB, on the west side of the cor
ridor, which has been the abiding place of
several notorious murderers.
It was at one time suggested that Dur
cant should be kept in the City Prison
until the conclusion of the trials in the
Superior Court, as was done in the case of
Murderer Fredericks, but Chief Crowley
was opposed to the scheme. He did not
desire to have Durrant longer on his hands
than he could help, as the responsibility
for his safety would rest upon him instead
of the Sheriff.
DURRANT'S DEFENSE.
Analysis of the Theories Outlined
by the Young Man's
Lawyers.
The questions asked by Durrant's attor
neys during the recent examinations in
Judge Conlan's court and before Coroner
ilawkins have been shrewdly analyzed.
From the points thus obtained a fair view
of the line of defense has been obtained.
A casual survey of the Emmanuel Bap
tist Church leads to the conclusion that
either the "microscopical examination" of
the building and of the circumstances
attending the crime has been made in an
amateurish way or that a very inferior
microscope was used. There are several
things visible to the naked eye which ap
peaV to have Deen completely overlooked
by the detectives, yet which may have and
probably do have an important bearing on
the case.
Much has been written of the side door
to the church, but no one appears to be
aware that there are two side doors to that
edifice and two gates to the surrounding
grounds.
Many columns have been printed to the
effect that the murderer must have had
a key to "fhe" side door because Pastor
Gibson found it unlocked when he reached
the church on that fateful Saturday morn
ing; but who has heard that the other
side door was left habitually unlocked for
those to enter who chose?
It has been assumed that the assault
upon Misp Williams was begun and com
pleted in the library or in the little book
closet adjoining it. According to the
theory of the defense, there are no grounds
for such a supposition. The murderer's
victim would scarcely have accompanied
him to any apartment into which he had
to force his way by breaking open a door.
Then, there were no signs of a struggle in
the library, as would necessarily have been
the case had it alone been the scene of
crime. The dead girl's flowers, too, were
not discovered in that room.
It has been a generally accepted theory
that the hand which sent Blanche Lamont's
rings to Mrs. Noble wrote upon the wrap
ping paper the name of George King with
the purpose of directing suspicion toward
nim. Careful students of the case who are
friendly to the defense of Durrant hold
the opinion that the murderer of Minnie
Williams conveyed her almost lifeless form
to the library closet with similar intent
and then cut and mutilated her body that
suspicion might fall upon more than one.
"\\ hile the police are confident that the
evidence accumulated will suffice for the
conviction of Durrant the latter's friends
assert that the prospects for the acquittal
of the accused become daily brighter.
They base their hopes upon their belief in
Durrant's innocence and their confidence
in the discovery of the murderer.
They assert that Durrant did not meet
Minnie Williams at the ferry depot on the
afternoon of April 12, but that he did meet
a girl named Beatrice Partridge; also thai
he did not go anywhere with any young
woman, but took a car with a male com
panion and rode home upon the front end
via Valencia street; also that a fellow
member of the Young People's Society of
Christian Endeavor noted him passing her
house with this companion a few minutes
before 6 o'clock, and remarked upon it to
her family, saying, "The© just rode by on
hia way home."
They claim that the accused remained
at his "house till 8 o'clock, when he started
for the residence of Dr. Perkins at the
corner of Guerrero and Twenty-fourth
streets. He remained in conversation
with the family for a few minutes, played
with Miss Perkins' pet dog and left the
house with the doctor, from whom he
parted not earlier than 8 :20 or 8 :30 o'clock.
He reached Dr. Vogel's at 9:30 o'clock,
left Elmer Wolf and Miss Lord at 11:45
o'clock and reached home at midnight or
within ten minutes after that hour.
The hiatus in the known movements of
the accused during the period from 8:30 to
9:30 o'clock the attorneys for Durrant
claim to have completely accounted for by
the testimony of witnesses who knew the
young man well and cannot be mistaken
in his identity. For obvious reasons, how
ever, their names are for the present with
held.
The auestion of the hour at which Min
nie Williams died has not yet been satis
factorily determined. The prosecution has
assumed that she died about 9 o'clock Fri
day night, but there has been no testi
mony given to establish the time within
Biiteen hours. This of course will not be
overlooked by the attorneys for the de
fense. Witnesses have been found who
heard screams issuing from the church at
hours during which Durrani's whereabouts
is accurately known. Milkman Harvey of
the Scotia Dairy, which faces on Mission
street, almost directly in the rear of Em
manuel Church, states that when he arose
at 1 :30 o'clock on the morning of April 13
he heard those screams. A woman who
lives close by the church has made similar
statements.
The defense also claims as iollows:
Thai Durrant was not the only young man
that had meant of access to the church at will;
that Daisy Wolf, who superintended a weekly
sewing class for the juvenile scholars of the
Sunday-school Saturday afternoons, had a key
to the church; that this key was at her home,
and that her brother Elmer had knowledge of
ana access to it.
That Elmer Wolf denies having an acquaint
anceship with Minnie Williams, who was a
visitor to his family, and who had stayed at his
borne on several occasions as his sister's guest.
That the writing of the address upon the
package containing the rings of Blanche
Lamont, received Dy Mrs. Noble, had none of
the characteristics of Theodore Durrant's pen
manship. That in any event the penmanship
was probably disguised or simulated.
That a key was not essential to gain admis
sion to the church, »9 the door on the Twenty
second street side was, as a rule, left unlocked.
That this fact was well known to milkmen,
grocers, confectioners and others who supplied
the viands used at the frequent church socials.
That all these persons delivered goods by this
entrance frequently.
That this condition of things was well known
among others than attendants at the church.
That the side entrances are invisible from
the street, and that no person could be seen to
enter the church by them.
That the yard of the church has been a tryst
ing-place for people living in that neighbor
hood: that Durrant had not a reputation as a
lady-killer; that another member (now an ex
member) had; that the latter frequently visits
the church, though now a non-resident; that
this person was one whom all the young ladies
of the church distrusted; that he frequently
attempted to take liberties with them.
That upon one occasion he was alone with a
young lady in the vestry aud that his actions
were such as to cause her to have a serious
hysterical attack; that only a desire to avoid a
public scandal prevented his arrest and prose
cution at that time ; that said ex-member was,
during April, present at the services in the
cb^urcn, to which he at one time possessed a
key— one that fitted the side door; that this
person knew and was intimately acquainted
with both Blanche Lamont and Minnie Wil
liams.
That Sexton Sademan and Durrant were not
friendly to each other. Durrant suspected the
former s son of being guilty of pilfering from
the church, and that the sexton resented this;
that recently a man, formerly of Oakland, has
been an attendant at the church; that this
person gave as his name one since found to be
fictitious; that he at socials and upon other
occasions persecuted the young ladies of the
church with his attentions; that some of the
elder lcdies objected to him, and that since the
disappearance of Blanche Lamont he has been
at the church to but one service. This person
has been married and divorced, and has also
been an inmate of an insane asylum.
That evidence in support of all of these asser
tions has been secured, and that additions to
this accumulation are being obtained daily,
and the friends of Durrant are confident that
before many days the burden of guilt will be
openly borne by the responsible criminal.
The blood-stained clothing found at Napa
and at. Berkeley are not being overlooked
by Durrant's friends, nor are the faintest
clews, from however great a distance, being
neglected.
It is not forgotten by those . interested
that a fragment of carpeting surrounding
the mutilated body of a murdered woman,
discovered floating in a New England river,
was found to be from the cabin of a
schooner moored at Philadelphia, six days'
Bail distant, a clew that led to the murder
er's arrest.
A SLEUTH IN VERSE.
Jail Detective Plunkett Misses His
Vocation and Turns
Poet.
Out of the thousands of unprintable let
ters and communications received at the
Call office touching the Durrant case, the
following remarkable verses have been res
cued. They are given for what they are
worth, as manifesting the opinion of the
writer. It is not known to whom he re
fers in his effusion :
FIRST VEBSE.
Good people, one and all, this story I'll relate,
About the double tragedy and the two young girls'
sad fate,
That look place In a Baptist church, here in our
charming city.
Where two innocent girls were murdered, O what
a sad, sad pity.
SECOJfD VERSE.
Into the church they were decoyed by some fiend,
but I won't speak his name.
;
NEW TO-DAY.
iw¥TiirnMrFolTOllL
" ' — : ■ — /
One Month's Treatment Now Is Worth Two Months
During the Winter.
The $5 a Month Rate Remains the Only Charge for Medicines
and Treatment— New Treatment Is a Pronounced
Success.
It has been the custom of Drs. Copeland and
Neal each spring and summer that they have
been engaged in the practice of medicine in
this city to announce the advent of the season
as the most favorable for treating catarrh and
all chronic diseases of a kindred nature, the
results of repeated and efttimes neglected
colds.
They feel very grateful to the public for the
confidence with which it accepts and responds
to their printed utterances. Their many years'
experience in treating all forms of catarrhal
and kindred chronic diseases entitles them to
speak authoritatively on the subject, and it is
particularly pleasing to feel that the publicap-
preciates and acknowledges this fact.
Therefore, followine the usual custom, Drs.
Copeland and Neal desire to announce the ad-
vent of the present favorable season. Now is
undoubtedly the time to treat catarrh. Now
we have nature to assist us in the treatment
instead of retarding it. A month's treatment
now is worth more than two months during
the winter. In fact, in some aggravated cases
it is simply impossible to effect a cure during
the winter months, and in these instances pa-
tients have been advised to delay treatment
until summer.
THE NEW TREATMENT.
A cordial invitation is extended by Drs.
Copeland and Neal to all their friends and
patients, old as well as new, to call and test the
new treatment. It has passed the stage of ex-
periment and has been demonstrated a com-
plete success, particularly in those caseß which
have withstood the other and older methods of
treatment. During the past week they have
added to their already complete offices the new
appliances, and are now ready to treat all those
more stubborn cases which in the past have
been thoueht incurable. It is to their financial
interest, as well as their medical fame, to cure,
for one cured patient is worth many dollars of
advertising. They have the best treatment
and the new and direct means of using it.
WHAT IS CATARRH?
Drs. Copeland and Neal arc frequently asked.
"What is catarrh?" and "How can a person tell
when he has the disease?" Briefly, catarrh in
this climate is chiefly the result "of neglected
colds or a succession of colds. Beginning with
naso-pharyngeal irritation (that is. the cold
first settles at the junction of the back part of
the nose and upper portion of the throat) the
catarrhal inflammation rapidly extends up-
ward through the Eustacian tubes into the
ears, causing:
Buzzing, roaring, hissing or ringing sounds.
The hearing is gradually impaired.
The noises and impaired hearing are always
worse in damp weather and when the patient
has a cold.
The ears often discharge.
At other times the ears are dry, Itchy and
filled with wax.
Earache is a frequent accompaniment, es-
pecially in children.
Continuing its course upward, the catarrhal
inflammation extends through the lachrymal
ducts into the conjunctival mucus membrane.
The eyelids become inflamed and red.
They are also often glued together in the
morning with a sticky, tenacious mucus.
The eyesight becomes blurred and often im-
paired.
A bright light causes intense pain.
The eyes become weak and watery.
There is a deep-seated aching pain in the eye-
balls.
A dull pain often exists over region of eyes
and in temples.
The nostrils are frequently stopped up, first
one side and then the other.
There are little swellings noticed In the nos-
trils, making breathing often difficult.
These swellings are aggravated by damp
weather.
These swellings are also aggravated when
the patient has a cold.
The nostrils often discharge mucus, which
varies in character.
Sometimes this mucus Is slimy and drops
back into the throat.
At other times it is tough and tenacious and
requires considerable blowing and snuffing
back into the throat to dislodge.
A feeling of tightness is often noticed over
the bridge of the nose.
Extending downward from its naso-pharyn-
geal origin, the throat becomes affected?
The mouth and throat in morning are filled
with mucus.
Sometimes this mucus is jelly-like in appear-
There to commit the bloody deed, b» understood
the game.
His first victim's name wag Blanche Lamont,
twentr-one years old.
He carried ht-r op to the belfry and left her la
death both grim and cold.
THIRD VERBI?.
The deed he committed all alone In the stilly
nipht.
In that unlucky Baptist church where he was a
shining light.
Then he robtwd her of her garments and he kid
them out of sisrht.
High up in the spire on that eventful night.
FOURTH VKBSE.
His next victim's name was Marion Williams, her
age was twenty -one.
Into the church he led her, where he nad her all
alone.
There he did assault her in a fiendish way,
Then took her life by strangling, that's what tfc*
Coroner's jury say.
FIFTH VKRSK.
The perpetrator of the deed did it in cold Wood,
More than human nerves he had, his business h«
understood :
Younst jcirls all take warning by the two Innocent
Kirls' sad fate,
And be aware of all false young men, with them
don't stay out late.
SIXTH VERSE.
Mothers all take warning by this sad affair.
Guard your girls day and night, or them take good
care,
For if you don't some day you may rue it when It
is too late,
So remember well and bear in mind the two inno
cent girls' sad fute.
SEVENTH VERSE.
Neither one of these two young girls had lor ing
mothers near,
No one to protect them, no father or brother dear.
They were easily led astray by a brutal tiend at
night.
To accomplish his cruel deed where he had them
out of sight.
George Pi.unkett, Branch Jail 2.
San Francisco, May 3, 1895.
TO TEST THE TEE LAW.
The Sheriff Sued for Refusing to Accept
a Fee.
The workings of the fee law have not
yet apparently commended themselves to
all the parties who have occasion to come
within its scope. The necessity of secur
ing many different blanks and receipts at
the City Hall from different departments
while the money must be paid in another
is vet a novelty to many.
Yesterday William F\ Dockery obtained
from the Superior Court an alternative
writ of mandate compelling Sheriff Whelan
to receive and execute a writ of attach*
ment obtained by petitioner in the
Justices' Court against John Lyon in a
suit to recover $43 75 for work done.
Whelan has been cited to appear in De
partment 5 on May 10 to show cause why
he should not issue the writ of attachment.
This action will work somewhat in the
nature of a test case of the fee law. At
the Sheriff's office it was said that Dock
ery's attorney came and tendered the
money for fees in the attachment matter
and was told to take it and pay it to the
Treasurer. He declined to do this and the
suit followed.
OFP POB THE EAST.
The ««Forty-Nin« Mining Camp" Leavei
for Chicago This Morning.
The "Forty-nine Mining Camp," or at
least the principal contingent thereof,
leaves for Chicago tnis morning at 7
o'clock, for its long tour of the East and
South and principal cities of Europe.
The party will occupy a special car, which
is decorated with " streamers in the
national colors, and is to bear the legend
"The Forty-nine Mining Camp."
Artist*' Keception.
It is proposed by the directors of the Art
Association to close the spring exhibition thia
year by having an artists' reception to the
members of the association exclusively, with
a view of establishing cordial relations be
tween them. For this purpose a conference
will be held at the institute to-morrow at 1
o'clock p. ai.
ance, causing considerable hawking and tnifr
ting to dislodge.
At times the mucus is sotouerhand tenadona
that gauging and even nausea and vomiting
result from efforts to dislodge it.
At other times the mucus is slimy in nature
and is dislodged without difficulty.
The above symptoms are those of molat or
discharging catarrh.
In the dry condition there is a tickling or
scratchy feeling in the throat.
This causes a tickling, spasmodic or hacking
cough.
There is a bad taste in the mouth 1b the
morning.
The tongue is usually badly coated.
The breath is often foul.
There is pain and stiffness in back of neck.
Extending down the esophaeeal mucus mem-
brane, the stomach, and later the bowels, be-
come affacted.
The appetite is abnormal) it may be lost, in-
creased or perverted.
There is a weight, dull pain and a sense of
burning in the pit of stomach after taking food.
This is accompanied by flatulence and heart-
burn.
Alternate constipation or diarrhea.
A dull headache, languor, depression «t
spirits and irritability of temper.
A bitter taste in the mouth.
The tongue is coated and breath foul.
Pain at the heart, accompanied by palpita-
tion and shortness of breath, making the pa-
tient think he has heart disease.
Again, there is a short, dry cough and occa-
sion paroxysms of an asthmatic character.
The skin becomes sallow, dry and rough and
various eruptions appear.
So it is seen that catarrh causes a long train
of symptoms but little understood and appre-
ciated by the average physician, because he
comes in contact with so few patients. From
an experience of many years in treating an
average of 100 patients daily, Drs. Copland
and Neal feel that they are justified in claim-
ing that catarrh affects the whole system, the
eyes, ears, uose, throat, bronchial tubes, lungs,
stomach, bowels, kidneys, liver, bladder, etc.,
etc.
They also feel justified in claiming that their
new system of treatment consisting of local med-
ication, combined with administration of medi-
cine internally, is the only rational method of
cure. In this they are certainly sustained fey
the hundreds of testimonials from reputable
citizens which have been published during the
past six years.
Test the New Treatment
HOME TREATMENT.
Every mail brings additional proof of the
success of the home or mail treatment.
M. S. Weeks, Santa Margarita, Cal., writes:
"I visited you last November and had you pre-
scribe for me, and now I am happy* to say I
am entirely well and have been for several
months."
If yon cannot come to this office write
for a symptom blank.
$5 A MONTH.
No fee larger than $5 a month asked for any
disease. Our motto is: "A Low Fee. Quick
Cure. Mild and Painless Treatment."
Tls CopcW Medical Mime,
PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE
COLUMBIAN BUILDING,
SECOND FLOOR,
91 6 Market St. Next to Baldwin Hotel,
Over Beamish's.
W. H. COPELAND, M.D.
J. G. NEAL, M.D.
SPECIALTIES— Catarrh and all diseases oi
the Eye, Ear, Throat and Lungs. Nervous Dis-
eases, Skin Diseaees, Chronic Diseases.
Office hours— 9 a. M. to 1 p. m., 2 to sp. M.,
7to 8 :30 r. v. Sunday— lo a. m. to 2p. x.
Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated
successfully by mail. Send 4 cents in stamp*
for question circulars.
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