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ROBBERY BY MASKED MEN
The Sutter-Street Messenger
Office the Scene of a Dar
ing Crime.
MURDER BARELY PREVENTED.
Twenty-Five Dollars Secured by
Two Men, Who Easily Make
Their Escape.
Two masked men robbed the American
Pistrict Teleeraph office at BSffetter street
early yesterday morning, and were barely
prevented from murdering the messenger
boy who was in charge.
One of the robbers had taken all the
money from the till and had raised a long
dirk to stab the boy, when a signal from a
confederate outside the office alarmed the
two men inside, and the would-be mur
derer ran away, dropping a sandbag in his
flight.
George Neice. the operator in charsre of
. merican District Telegraph office at
833 Sutter street at night, left the place at
1 Ay o'clock yesterday morning to get his
lunch at a restaurant. He was accom
panied by a friend named Mead. John
Monihan. a messeneer-boy about 20 or 21
years of ace, was left in charge. When
Neice and Mead passed from the door of
the office they saw three young men skulk
ing across the street in* an odd manner,
but came to the conclusion that they were
drunk, and passed on.
At 1:50 a. m. a masked man abont 5 feet
8 inche- tall entered the office and rushed
to where Monihan was sitting, about twenty
feet from the door. He placed a big re
volver in Monihan's face and said:
"Throw up your hands!"
Monihan says he thought the manxas
:n^" him, so he replied:
"••What will I throw up my hands for?"'
At this juncture a shorter masked rob
ber ru-hel into the office and ran behind
the counter. He pulled out a long bowie
knife and threatened Monihan. The mes
senger boy submitted quietly when con-
I by both revolver and"daeger and
rter robber, who was about the
averaee size of messenger boys, took $ J . 10
from Monihan's pockets. He then said:
"Where's the rest of the dough around
here?"
'•There isn't any more. The operator
last left and took it with him," replied
Monihan.
"None of that old talk. I know better,"
sail the robber.
He then began pulling out the different
drawers in the office, the larger robber
keepine his revolver pointed at Monihan
all the time. Finally the robber found the
right drawer. He pulled it out and
emptied the contents, $22, the day's
receipts, into his pocket.
■•Ain't there any more dough around
here?" he then asked.
'•Xaw." replied the messenger, who be
gan to pet quite independent. ~ His actions
did not not please the robbers and the
larger one said: "Turn around this way
toward me.' ?
Monihan realized what was in the rob
ber's mind and he refused to turn. He
believed the shorter man intended to stab
him in the back. His belief proved to be
well founded, as the lareer man said to the
one with the dagger, "Give it to him any
way."
The shorter man raised his knife and
was about to stab the messenger-boy when
some- taps on the sidewalk were heard. At
this signal from the confederate outside
the man dropped his uplifted knife and
raa out of the office, together with the lar
ger m
Monihan ran to the door and saw the
two men running along Sutter to Leaven
worth street. He followed them and
chased them as far as the corner of Leaven
worth and Post streets, where he lost sight
of them. Monihan was yelling for the
police all the time.
Several police appeared quickly, but the
robbers had escaped. A search of the
neighborhood resulted in finding one mask
on Leavenworth street, another in front of
the messenger-office, and inside the office
a stocking filled with sand.
The masks were lonp white linen ones,
and bad evidently been cut from old linen
dusters. Both had holes cut for the eyes.
They were about one and a half feet long
and about as wide, having been made to
cover the front of the body.
Suspicion has been directed against some
ex-messenger boys, who form part of a
gang known as "the Dirty Dozen," and
are hardened characters. They evidently
were desirous of emulating the 3tagg mur
derers and train-robbers, and were cer
tainly more successful, except in killing
their victim.
Detective Cody was detailed to work up
the case. Two men were arrested on How
ard street yesterday on suspicion, but
Cody can in no way connect them with
the crime. They are old crooks, and it is
believed that the robbery was committed
by persons who are quite familiar with the
telegraph office.
A MESSENGEB'S TBOUBLE.
He Narrowly Escapes Being Blasted With a
Bazor.
Phil Brown, the operator in charge of
the American District Telegraph office at
2 Golden Gate avenue, had a narrow escape
from being seriously and probably fatally
cut by a razor in the hands of a drunken
barber.
William Kerry, a barber who has been
on a protracted spree for nearly three
weeks, became virtually crazed yesterday
afternoon and went out hunting for a
man who had stolen his wife. A short
time ago Kerry's wife eloped with another
man, and Kerry took to drink.
When in a crazy spell he rushed into the
telegraph and messenger office and threat
ened to wreak out his vengeance on Phil
Brown. He accused Brown of being the
person who had stolen his wife. The
drunken barber had hardly rested his eyes
on Brown when he pulled a razor from his
pocket and made a lunge at his throat.
Kerry might have succeeded in his fiend
ish attempt had not a messenger boy
present grasped him by the hand. Brown
jumped to one side just in time to avoid
the blow. The razor was taken from
Kerry, who was let go as the boys were
well acquainted with him. He has worked
for some time in "Andy's Place," a barber
shop at 23 Taylor street.
SPEINGTIME AND WINTER.
Inmate* of the Lick Old Ladles' Home
Entertain Their Friends and
Roam the Hills.
The inmates of the Lick Old Ladies'
Home were tendered a "May Festival,"
and entertained their friends at the home
yesterday. The festival was timed to come
off at the same time as the blooming of
the great variety of wild spring flowers
which grow on the hills near the home.
The thirty-two old ladies, whose days are
drawing to a serene and contented close,
were entertained with an informal musical
programme in the parlors of the home in
the forenoon, and after a noon lunch dis
played for sale to the guests a considerable
quantity of fancy work which they had
made, consisting in part of drawhwork,
embroidery and crocheted shawls, hoods,
slippers and wearing apparel.
Each old lady presided over a table with
her own work on it and will have for her
own use whatever she has realized from
her sales. Mrs. J. Goddard Clark, Mrs.
Robert McElrov and Mrs. A. M. Sherman
were the reception committee.
In the afternoon, with the passing away
of the clouds which had rendered the
morning unpleasant, the aged inmates and
their friends roamed over the neighboring
hills and gathered beautiful bouquets of
eschscholtzias, daisies and lupins and dec
orated with them their rooms and the
parlors of the home. After the departure
of the guests the inmates retired to their
rooms and the sight of the gay spring
flowers obliterated on many brows the
wrinkles of care.
ITEMS ON INDUSTBIES.
What the Manufacturers Are Doing
In the Way of State De
velopment.
The San Francisco Bridge Company is
furnishing 1,500,000 feet of lumber for the
large flumes being constructed by the Stan
islaus and San Joaquin Water Company.
When completed the water system will
give facilities for irrigating a large extent
of country between Knight's Ferry and
btockton. The Francisco Bridge Com
pany has also on hand the work of dredg
ing Channel street up to Sixth to a depth
of twelve feet at low tide, and as at work
on the last half of the Government dredg
ing work along the narrow-^auge mole,
whicli, when completed, will be a soiid fill
similar to the broad gauge. The com {any
have also just completed the concrete gates
and head works and cannon riumes for the
Modesto irrigation district. As an ex
ample of faith in this irrigating propo
sition, the bridge company has accepted,
a? pay for tue work, about $60,000 iv bonds
of thfi water company.
1 rancia Smith t£ Co. are shipping several
carl, ads of iron pipe from their factory to
Redding, to be used there for mining pur-
Tiiey have also secured the contract
to furnish the water pipe for the extension
of the Oakland Water Works, the main line
of which they recently completed at a cost
0f5125,00U.
tttiger & Kerr, the fonndrymen, are
making an important addition to their
plant. This consists of a complete equip
ment for the manufacture of stoves, and
soon home-made stoves from their works
will be on the market. This firm is fully
equipped for the manufacture ot all the car
wheels for the competing road, and will
make a strong effort to secure the contract.
Tne Electrical Engineering Company has
Just completed and is putting in place for
lulse it Bradford on Mission street one of
their direct connecting electric elevators.
This will have a lifting capacity of 1500
pounds.
The Krogh Manufacturing Company has
purchased the stock, plant and all machin
ery equipment < .f the San Francisco Tool
Company, which have been removed to Nos.
'J to 17 Stevenson street, where, with in
creased facilities, the business will be ener
getically pushed to the front. Mr. G. W.
Price is general manager.
Read «fc Zahn, the brush and broom
manufacturers, report a largely increased
spring trade and look forward* to a pros
perous season.
W. W. Montague & Co. are now shipping
more iron and steel riveted pipe to the in
terior for mining and irrigation purposes
than for the past two years.
The Selby omeltine" Works report that
the closing of the mint at Carson, N'ev.,
has caused a large increase of gold and sil
ver bullion shipment to their works in this
City, and the revival of gold mining ail
along the coast has greatly increased the
general shipment of Dullion to this City.
The Vulcan Iron Works has a numoer of
orders for power-transmitting machinery,
of which the works makes a specialty.
One of these orders includes a number of
the Vulcan friction Cluson pulleys. Be
sides the large contracts now on hand, the
Vulcan is fairly busy with general foundry
and machine work, for which tneir large
pattern list, general facilities and con
venient location give them quite an ad
vantage.
Mrs. Hopkins projects erecting an apart
ment building, to cost upward "of $30,000,
on the northweit corner of Pierce and
tfayea streets.
The Kemillard Brick Company has
signed a contract with the Oakland Board
of Public Works to rebuild of brick the
wall at the Sixth Ward School, to cost
12900.
Hobbs, Wall & Co. are filling a large
number of orders for fruit boxes for the in
terior, preparatory to moving the season's
immense fruit crop.
The Pelton Water Wheel Company has
recently furnished the Magalia mine, in
Butte County, with a wheel for a corn
er that is showing a remarkable
efficiency in actual work. This wheel is
10 feet 6 inches in diameter and weighs
7000 pounds, and is attached direct to
crank shaft of compressor, doing away
with all intermediate gearing, making a
most simple and efficient combination.
The Pelton Company has also furnished
the same mine with a pair of 6-foot wheels
for the new hoist, which is reported as
working most satisfactorily. These wheels
are run under a head of 140 feet and hoist
a 5000-pound load at the rate of 400 feet per
minute.
The Pacific Saw Manufacturing Com
pany reports that its business has improved
in the last six weeks and has been bet
ter than during any similar length of time
for the past two years. The company feels
the revival of trade occasioned by the re
cent effort for the unity of interests in
California, ana looks forward to a prosper
ous season. It has recently executed a
large order for salmon-knives to be used
in the salmon canneries of Oregon. Wasn
ington, British Columbia and Alaska.
The Union Machine Works has just
shipped one MeGlue concentrator to Au
burn, Placer County, and two to Placer
ville, El Dorado County. The one to
Auburn was for State Printer Johnson,
who is interested in mines in that locality.
J. J. Flynn of this City and T. F. Cor
bett of Oregon are organizing a company
here for the purpose of thoroughly pros"
pecting and developing petroleum oil wells
in different sections or this State. Mr.
Corbett is now shipping here from Oregon
$10,000 worth of machinery, formerly used
in the Northwest for artesian well boring,
which will be used by the company here
for the above named purposes.
The Midas Gold-saving Macninery Com
pany shipped ten of the small-sized Gold
King amalgamators last week, the number
being equally divided between Alaska and
South America.
During the week the Perkins Pump and
Engine Company shipped one engine to
the headwaters of the Sacramento, one to
Benicia and one to Tres Pinos, San Benito
County. Their factory is now turning out
two gas engines per day.
The Woodbury Concentrator Company
has iust shipped two ©f their concentrators
to the Bullion Beck mine in Utah and
two of the large-sized improved machines
to the Kam's Horn mine in Idaho.
The Cyclops Iron Works received thi3
week the contract for a large refrigerating
plant from D. & A. M. McCormick for their
meat market in Stockton.
Opposed to Annexation.
J. G. Rourinot writing in the Forum
says that Canada does not favor annexa
tion. He says:
"At present, assuredly, the people of
Canada can see no reasons for a political
union in the weaknesses and evils of the
purely democratic svsteni of their neigh
bors. When Canadians are invited even
on the floor of Congress itself to cast in
their lot with their own continent, and are
assured that they shall have ail that the
continent can give, they refuse to consider
the offer seriously, not because they have
no interest in the progress of their Ameri
can cousins, who are also the inheritors of
English institutions, but because they
know that they are working out
those institutions on principles far
more conducive to the pure and
effective administration of public affairs—
that in this respect, at all events, they are
already in advance of a great and prosper
ous people who have been led in the course
of years by reckless politicians into meth
ods of government which have lowered
the standard of public morality and cre
ated scandals of far-reaching influence on
the nation. Canadians have higher as
pirations at this critical period of their
political development, when they are
laboring amid many difficulties to form a
new power on this continent, one-half of
which they now possess as their territorial
domain."
THE SAX FRAXCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1895.
CLAIMS IT IS NOT HERS
A Nurse Says Mrs. Cunning
ham Adopted the Little
Girl.
THAT LADY REFUSES TO TALK.
The Husband Alleges That the Wife
Did a Neat Bit of Acting
In Court.
The peculiar and as yet uncontradicted
story told by A. C. Cunningham in the
Call of Friday has attracted more than
ordinary attention. The strange and un
explained act of his wife, Laura Cunning
j ham, in bringing to him first a male infant
! and later a six-months-old girl, accom
| panied by an affidavit in which it is de-
I clared that the first child was a fraud, but
[ that the last is his true ami lawful issue, is
! a little bit ahead of the times.
Mrs. Cunningham is not particularly
anxious to appear in print just now,
though incidentally she said a few things
about the victim of her strange whim that
were not at all complimentary to that gen
tleman. When first seen at her apart
ments in the Fulton House Mrs. Cunning
ham emphatically denied her identity,
stating that any one desiring to see that
lady must call at her attorney's office,
where she would be in an hour's time.
When it was suggested that the lady
speaking might be Mrs. Cunningham the
little woman in black testily exclaimed:
'"Well, I am Mrs. Cunningham, but I do
not care to talk except in the presence of
The Infant Buried by Mr. Cunning
ham as His Son.
my attorney, Mr. Patton. I was just go
-1 intr down to see him about this outrageous
i statement made by Mr. Cunningham.
I What do you think "of a man who would
say such hard things about his wife?
"He never supported me and I can prove
that he pawned my jewelry time and
again. Here is a ticket now, and he did
■ not have the manhood to use his own
i name, but put them in as 'Mrs Gibbons,'
i which was my former husband's name."
It was suggested that she explain the
! baby problem, that being the most in
teresting feature of the case.
"I don't care to talk about that, except
in the presence of my attorney," she re
plied. "I did sism some sort of a docu
ment, but I hardly know what it was now.
I am the mother of the little girl, however,
and at the proper time will prove it. About
the little boy. that was buried, I have
nothing to say now or later. This will be
aired in the courts, and all that I have
done will be thoroughly vindicated."
Lawyer Patton was absolutely opposed
to his client talking. Several times Mrs.
Cunningham attempted to explain certain
points brought up by Patton g talk, but
each time the attorney told her to be
silent. So far as Mrs. Cunningham is con
cerned there .is nothing new in the case,
though other features have come to the
surface that add not a little interest to it.
A nurse now employed at the King's
Daushters' Home on Francisco street is
confident that the girl child claimed by
Mr*. Cunningham as her own is not that
i lady's, but is a child brought to the Golden
; Gate Foundling Asylum by a Swedish
woman in April or the latter part of March,
1862. The lady does not care to have her
i name known "at the present time, but is
! willing to swear to all that she knows
should the occasion demand it.
"I am confident that I can throw some
light on it so far as the little girl is con
cerned," said the nurse. "I was nurse at
the foundling asylum on Golden Gate
avenue in 1592, and one night a Bwedish
woman brought a little girl to the house
who was only a few hours old. This was
the last of March or the first of April.
The child was very delicate and sickly,
and 1 grow to love her as if she were my
own. We named her Laura, and I deter
mined to adopt her, because she was a
beautiful, loving little thing and needed
careful nursing. I was called East on ac
count of illness in my family and put off
adopting her until my return.
In December of the same year T returned
to San Francisco and was told that the
child had been adopted by a lady and would
be brought up in refinement and ease. I
asked the matron, Mrs. Iff. C. Taylor, to
tell me the name of the lady who had
taken the child, but she declined on the
ETound that such matters were kept secret.
In the course of our conversation, how
ever, Mrs. Taylor let slip the name of Mrs.
Cunningham as the one who had adopted
the little girl, and as soon as I read the
story in the Call I became convinced they
were one and the same.
"I am interested very much in that
child and would like very much to adopt
it yet if I could. I asked Patton, who was
here this afternoon with Smith, Cunning
ham's attorney, if I could see the child,
but he said he hardly thought I could.
'Mrs. Cunningham is very peculiar,' he
said, 'and does not wish the child's pres
ent abode known.' lam sure that I could
identify the child if I saw it."
Mrs. Cunningham has a suit for dam
ages pending in the courts against a street
railway company. Her husband with
drew from the suit because he thought
that she was shamming, at least that is
what he say?.
"I became a party to the suit," said
Cunningham yesterday, "because I thought
my wife was really injured, but later events
convinced me that she was simply endeav
oring to put up a job on the railroad, and
the day she testified I withdrew from the
suit. She told her story in a very tragic
manner and wound up by falling into some
sort of a fainting fit. I got her out of the
courtroom as soon as possible, and as soon
as she was out of sight of others she burst
into loud laughter, asking me if that was
not a fine piece of acting. I became dis
gusted and notified the attorney to with
draw the suit, which he refused to do.
Then I went to the railroad people, told
them my situation and voluntarily with
drew from the suit."
The case, as is well known, resulted in a
mistrial, and Mrs. Cunningham is now
fighting the suit on her own responsibility.
George Eliot's Literary Methods.
I remember a characteristic discussion
about their modes of writing between Trol
lope and George Eliot at a little dinner
party in her house, says Frederic Harrison
in the Forum. "Why!" said Anthony, "I
sit down every morning at 5:30 with my
watch on my desk, and for three hours I
regularly produce 250 words every quarter
of an hour." George Eliot positively quiv
ered with horror at the thought — she who
could write only when she felt in the vein,
who wrote, rewrote, and as often as not sat
at her table without writing at all. "There
are days and days together." she groaned
out, "when I cannot write a line." "Yes !"
said Trollope, "with imaginative work like
yours that is quite natural, but with my
mechanical stuff it's a sheer matter of in
dustry. It's not the head that does it— it's
the cobbler's wax on the seat and the stick
ing to my chair!"
In his "Autobiography" 'he has elabo
rately explained this process — how he
wrote day by day, including Sundays,
whatever his duties, his amusements or
the place; measuring out every page,
counting the words and exacting the given
quantity hour by hour. He wrote con
tinuously 2500 words in each day, and at
times more than 26.000 words in a week.
He wrote while engaged in severe pro
fessional drudgery, while hunting thrice a
week, and in the whirl of London society.
He wrote in railway trains, on a sea voy
age and in a town clubroom. Whether he
was on a journey or pressed with office re
ports, or visiting friends, he wrote just the
same.
GKAND AEMY MEETING.
Officers and Committees Elected to
Serve the Ensuing Term.
The general memorial committee of the
Grand Army of the Republic met last
evening at St. Ann's building, J. H. Ban
field presiding.
The oßicrs of the general committee are :
J. H. Banfield, chairman; E.B.Griffith,
secretary ; H. T. Hobbert, treasurer. The
last-named gentleman thus serves his thir
teenth term.
Finance committee — J. Kerminsky, F.
Hanson, C. J. Handley, W. 0. Howe. S. M.
Carr. J. H. Stevens, 0. S. Johnson.
Parade committee— J. A. Whitesides, J.
11. Riley, E. S. Salomon, J. S. French, J.
H. Lakin, F. H. Muas, J. J. Walsh, W. E.
Lawrence.
Decoration committee— H. T. Hobbert,
L. D. Clip.. W. C. Howe. J. S. French, C.
J. Handley, S. Cahen, 0. S. Johnson, L. E.
Schroeder.
Programme and printing committee— S.
Cahen, E. B. Griffith, J. J. Walsh, J. H.
Lakin, P. H. Maas, W. C. Howe, H. L.
Mortimer.
Transportation committee— S. M. Carr,
.1. H. Riley, G. H. Stevens, L. D. Olin, F.
Hanson, C. J. Handley, P. H. Maas.
GAS AND GAS METERS
Statement From the President
of the San Francisco Gas
Light Company.
Fifty Cents a Month for Meters
Where No Gas Is Consumed
Claimed to Be Fair.
With regard to the charge of 50 cents per
month for the use of meters where no gas
is consumed, J. B. Crockett, president of
the San Francisco Gas Light Company,
had the following to say yesterday:
'•The gas company does not charge a
rental for meters where gas is being
burned, but only where no gas is con
sumed at all. If the party having the
meter does not want to burn gas. but is
using electricity, and he desires to keep
the meter as a safeguard in case of the
electric light going out, then we think that
a charge of 50 cents per month to cover the
cost of inspection and maintenance is not
an excessive charge.
"The electric light company, in their con
tracts, make a provision to cover the cost
of maintenance and inspection of 50 cents
per week, paying that no bill will be ren
dered for less than 50 cents per week.
When we find by our reports from the
meter inspector that no gas has been
burned for some time we then send the
following notice:
'Office of the San Francisco Gas Light
Company, corner First and Xatoma streets,
San Francisco, , 1595. The meter at
your premises, ■ «treet, having shown
no consumption of paa for months,
notice is hereby given that, while not using
gas. a charge of 50 cents per month will be
made should you wish it to remain. It
will be understood that you accept the
above terms until you order the meter re
moved. Respectfully.
San FSAJKUOO Gas Lkjht Compant.
"It is not the intention of the company
to charge a iueter rental at any time for
meters where gas is being actually used,
but only when gas is not osed. If we have
out 10,000 meters through which no gas is
vas-ing we would have to send men to
make the inspection of the meter to see
that there were no leaks, to see whether
the meter was registering or not, and those
reports would have to go through our
bookkeeper's books, thus entailing upon
us an exira expense and giving us a fm'at
deal of extra work to perform. Fur this
service a charge of 50 cents a mouth is cer
tainly not excessive."
A BIG JOB,
The Moving of the Books in the Library
of Congress,
The new building for the library of Con
gress is now nearly finished. By the end
of next year it will be ready to receive the
treasures of literature which now are
stored in the Capitol under Mr. Spofford's
care. Yet the problem of transporting the
volumes to their future abode remains to
day unsolved.
It seems most likely — this being the
latest and apparently the best suggestion —
that a temporary elevated road will be
constructed to connect the Capitol with
the new library. Over this road cars will
be run swiftly by steam or electricity,
carrying loads of books. By such means
they could be transferred with great
rapidity and ease. The tramway on stilts
would pas.« directly from the floor of the
rotunda to the main floor of the library
building.
Mr. Green, superintendent of the new
library building, has been disposed hitherto
to favor the plan of transporting the books
through the brick-lined conduit, three feet
below ground, which is to connect the
library with the capitol. Through this
tunnel a cable will pass and cars will be
run, after a fashion similar to that of the
trolleys in dry-goods shops, though on a
much larger scale. The cars could be util
ized for transporting the volumes when the
time arrives for the move. But objection
is made to this suggestion on the ground
that the books would have to be lowered
into the conduit at the Capitol end and
lifted again at the other end of the line
from the basement of the library to the
main floor. Thus, much more time would
be consumed and greater labor involved.
On the other hand, the shift from the ro
tunda by elevated road would be easy and
expeditious, and the volumes delivered in
the great ciicular reading room may be
readily conveyed to the adjacent book
stacks.
Ever so many schemes for accomplish
ing the teansfer of the books have been
suggested, and very likely the one finally
adopted will be quite different from any
thing so far thought of. The method
chosen by the Boston Public Library in its
recent move from Boylston street to Cop
ley square was the most primitive imagin
able. The collection, which numbers about
400,000 volumes— a little more than haif
the size of the library of Congress— was
transported by means of carts and horses.
Of course the labor involved was enormous.
How great it was may be imagined when
it is considered that 400,000 volumes placed
side by side would extend a distance of
about seven miles.
Equally primitive, however, was the
plan adopted not long ago for moving the
Koyal Library of Prussia, which is the
third largest in the world, possessing
1,000,000 volumes. A regiment of soldiers
was called out for the purpose, each man
being provided with a basket. The men
formed a line from the old building to the
new one, and the baskets of books were
passed from hand to hand, line buckets at
a fire. Maybe tha National Guard will be
called on to do likewise here, but it does
not seem probable. The Library of Con
gress, by the way, has 685.000 bound vol
umes and 230,000 pamphlets, approxi
mately.—Washington Star.
COLLECTOR WISE'S TRIP
The Collapse of the Recent
Investigation of His Acts
the Cause.
HIS IMPEACHMENT POSSIBLE.
Lawyer Phillips, Attorney for Dis
charged Customs Officers,
Makes a Statement.
The cause of the sudden departure of
Collector of the Port John H. Wise for the
East is now generally admitted to be a
fear of impeachment by the Treasury De
partment at the instance of the Civil Ser
vice Commission. Wise is supposed to
have gone to Washington to save himself
from impeachment and also, if possible, to
prevent the reinstatement of three Repub
lican customs officers, who were recently
removed by him without cause. The farci
cal collapse of the recent investigation into
Collector Wise s acts has been the cause of
all the trouble.
In explanation of the matter L. E. Phil
lips, the attorney, said: "Wise's repeated
violations of the civil service laws have
been so frequently brought before the com
mission at Washington that a few months
ago it was decided to investigate his acts.
Postoffice Inspector Erwin was appointed
to conduct the investigation. In the first
case taken up I represented Patrick Lan
non. Lannon was an able dry-goods ex
aminer, and he was discharged on purely
political grounds. Only a small part of
the evidence in the case was taken, and
when it was going on Appraiser Tucker
stated that he would have to take an ad
journment as he was going to get married.
He asked that the investigation in the
Lannon case be continued until March 6.
Before March 6 Erwin had summarily
closed up the case and had sent the incom
plete papers to the Postmaster-General.
In explanation of his act he told me that
he had quit the investigation as he had too
much of his regular work to attend to.
"In the case of[Charles A. Mau and John
Shepston Jr., two night inspectors, re
moved on October 6on political grounds,
they being Republicans, the excuses given
for their discharge were very frivolous.
The examination of the cases was begun
before Erwin, but was broken off suddenly
when the evidence against Wise became
too black. Some of the witnesses were not
allowed to sign their testimony and some
had their testimony broken in half. In this
incomplete state the papers in the case
were forwarded to Washington and no at
tempt has been made to reopen the case.
"Willouehby B. Dobbs was sent out by
the Civil Service Commission about two
weeks ago. All that he did was to have
one deposition taken. Dobbs is a Demo
crat from Kentucky, and a friend of the
noted Blackburn of that State. Dobbs
merely made a friendly call on Wise, Rud
dell, English and Erwin. He made no at
tempt to complete the unfinished testi
mony. He stayed here only a few days.
The "whole so-called investigation was a
farce. Wise's actions in the past in re
gard to removing Republicans is a matter
of record at the Treasury Department, as
Wise was compelled to reinstate Sharp,
Evans, Beban, Halpin and other Republi
cans he removed without cause.
■The statements made to reporters by
Wise in the past show up his true nature,
ami lie feared the testimony in the present
j investigation would be so strong against
i him that he used a great pull to nave the
I proceedings stopped. The action of In
spector Erwin in failing to carry out hisin
• structions looks to me as if he had been
pulled down. In fact, the whole thing is
the most nonsensical farce ever perpe
trated in the history of Government white
wash investigations. I have just prepared
my statements in the cases mentioned, as
I da not believe the facts will otherwise
reach the Civil Service Commission. We
have several affidavits to prove that the re
movals were all made* because the men
were Republicans. We have virtual con
fessions from Collector Wise and Surveyor
English to this effect, so we are confident
of making out a strong case."
Music at the Park.
Following is the programme to be ren
dered at the park to-day :
March, "Columbus" (first time) Josef Relter
Overture, "Mlgnon" (first time) I" ho inns
Waltz, "Estudiantina" Waldteufel
Paraphrase, "Loreley" >"esvadba
Selection, "Bepjcar Student" Mlllocker
Overture, "RosamunAe" Schubert
Waltz, "Blue Danube" strauss
Trombone so!o, "Dreaming" AVelllogs
(Performed by P. K. Tobin).
Fantasia. "II Troubadour," .No. 11l Verdi
Galop, "Tally-ho" Bernstein
The largest sailing ship afloat is the re
modeled Persian Monarch, 3923 tons
measurement. Her iron masts are 184
feet high from the deck.
There is a spring on Peoos River, in San
Miguel County, N. M., which throws out a
stream 15 feet wide and 3 feet deep.
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HUNDREDS OF TESTIMONIALS.
They Come Unsolicited, and Show That the
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Home Remedy Is Now in the Houses
| of Some of the Best Homes
! of California.
No Reason Why You Should Not Obtain
Benefit From the Use of Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparilla.
IT IS A GREAT LAXATIVE.
Such an Array of Evidence Proves That Joy's Vege-
table Sarsaparilla is a Good Home Remedy.
Where There Are So Many Hundreds of People
Using It, Where There Are So Many Hundreds
of Testimonials, It Must Be True.
Citizen Gilbert A. Dodge of Alameda 3ays: _.
Like many others I have a strong aversion to pilH As a consequence T have for several
years past been a liberal patron of the various proprietary medicine* known as sarsaparillas,
syrups etc. Now I buy only Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparil'.a, believing it to be the best of its kind
on the market. The death fate in this country would be materially lessened if this preparation
was kept in every home and judiciously used. The old common-sense law of health. "Trust in
Providence and keep the bowels open," hits the nail square on the head, and I religiously
believe that there is no other laxative and regulator manufactured quite as pleßsant to the
i taste so broadly beneficent and so eminently satisfactory in its results as Joy's Vegetable
Sarsaparilla. GILBERT A. DODGE, 1114 Regent street, Alameda, Cal.
Edwin L. Dole of San Francisco says:
I send you the only picture I have at present, and must tell you that I would not allow my
picture to co Into the newspapers at all did I not feel that I was under obligations to the owners
of the remedy that has done me so much gooa. I had been taking remedies and had been
treating with doctors for nearly five years. I was sick.
Mv stomach was completely out of order. I had a peculiar desire to scratch and scratch
and scratch all the time. I could not eat anything: without suffering afterward. A friend of
mine advised me to use your Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I went to a drugstore in the city
and asked for it. The polite cierk talked me out of buying Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla, and
! gave me a sarsaparilla with iodide of potassium in it. I took a half bottle oi this beastly stuff
and mv body became one mass of big blotches. . .
I went back to the big drugstore and told the man at the counter that I wanted a bottle ot
Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. He gave it to me. I can now truly and honestly recommend
Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I give it to my children. I find it brings out no pimples. It is a
good blood medicine. If any one doubts this statement let them write or call upon me.
Mr. William Li vineston Dayton of this city says:
Through the kindly offices of my brother-in-law my attention was recently directed to your
remedy— Joy's Sarsapa'rilla— and I desire to voluntarily place myself on record before the world
as a devout believer in the efficacy of that medicine.
I have been for many years a sea-going man and have served in the navy and merchant ma-
rine as an officer. My experience necessarily has been varied and excitinsr. The requirements
of the business prevent regular hours, and. as a result, I soon got into that condition usually
called "all run down." After some persuasion I started to take the rest of a partly nsed bottle,
and my condition improved so rapidly that I procured half a dozen more, and with another
bottle or two I anticipate that I will be a well man again. And for all this I have to thank your
remarkable medicine.
With renewed thanks to yon, I have the honor to be, your obedient servant.
WM. L. DAYTON,
25 Laussett street, City.
Charles Lawrence Lindsay of this city says:
I have been for years a great sufferer from dyspepsia, a bad liver and constipation of tho
J bowels. I got so I could not sleep. Life was indeed miserable. I toos two bottles of Joy's Ve^e-
i taDle Sansaparilla. The change is marvelous. I feel like a new man. I wish th<> Joy's Vegetable
Sarsaparilia well, because it made me well. CHARLES LINDSAY,
1 119 Fifth street.
Hon. Frank Marston of San Francisco says:
Joy's Vegetable Sarpaparilla has been in my household time and time again. I can con-
scientiously recommend it to all my friends and to each and every one who is all run down.
Now, it was only three weeks since I began using the medicine when my head was at
clear as a bell, my eyes as bright as a dollar. The family having used Joy's Vegetable Sarsa-
parilla, declare it to" be far better than any other remedy they have ever nsed.
FRANK MARSTON, 845 Market street
Hon. T. J. Crowley. a lawyer of this city, says:
My opinion of Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla may best be gathered from the fact that lam
I never without it in my house. We have found it to be just what has been claimed for it,
' and that is, that it is an excellent home remedy.
We have so much faith in if that it is administered, as may seem advisable or necessary, to
' every member of the family, and I am sure that through its n«e we have been able to ward off a
; lot of sickness. I indorse it most highly. T. J. CROWLEY, 1, 2 and 3, Chronicle building.
Mr. J. Smith, an attorney of this city, says:
Nothing could be very much more palatable to take than is this great home remedy. I find
that as a general regulator of the stomacn and the bowels that it is most excellent, and for
keeping one's system in good order generally it perfectly accomplishes the object. I certainly
recommend it most highly to any one who has any variety of stomach trouble. J. SMITH.
Mr. Charles G. Nagle. a prominent attorney of this city, says:
There are thousands of people in the world who would be In much better health If they
would only keep their digestive organs and their blood in proper condition. For this purpose
the best thing I know of is Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla. It is easy to take and its effects are
always beneficial. When the stomach is out of order, the brain is. Joy's keeps tho stomach
right' and the brain follows suit. CHARLES NAGLE.
Mr. Thomas W. Page Breckon, a well-known attorney of this city, says:
In reply to your query I may tell you that I have nsed Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla often,
and it has never failed to have the desired result. Like many other men whose work is almost
exclusively mental. I suffer at times from depression. At" these times the invariable result
brought about by Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is one to be grateful for and one which I fully
appreciate.
I prefer no publicity in this matter, but you may use your own judgment.
T. W. PAfifl BRECKON.
Mr. P. O. Chilstrom of this city says:
As well as being a pleasant laxative, I can safely say that Joy's Sarsaparilla is excellent for
a sluggish liver. It will be found to do its work efficiently, and in my experience there has
never been an instance when I have taken it that it has not done me good. It is so very handy,
too, to keep in the house that I am not surprised at its great popularity, for it deserves it.
P. 0. CHILSTROM.
Gustave Gunzendorfer, a prominent attorney, says:
As a help to general health I have found nothing equal to the Sarsaparilla you mention,
and in addition to this it is excellent in all kidney troubles. I have every reason to believe
that it has warded off what promised to be serious attacks. lam not a physician, of course, bat
if you ask my candid opinion, I must most assuredly indorse Joy's Sarsaparilla most highly.
GUSTAVE GUNZENDORFER.
L. 8. Church, one of Oakland's most prominent attorneys, says:
I Suppose it is generally admitted that a clean stomach is good for a man who has brain
work to do, and to insure that I don't know of anything better than the Sarsaparilla you men-
tion. L. S. CHURCH.
Dr. J. R. Goodale of this city says:
Sarsaparilla has long had an honored place In the Pharmacopoeia, and when combined with
other pure vegetable medicinals, as I am assured is the case in Joy's, it forms an excellent tonic
and alterative, and one which may be prescribed with beneficial results by any practitioner.
J. R. GO'ODALE, M.D.
Dr. Wesley Rogers, the well-known specialist, says:
There can be no question in my mind bnt that samaparilla is one of the best alteratives
which is known to the medical world. It has a special value as a blood purifier, and when
properly administered removes all impurities. If the constituents of Joy's Vegetable Sarsa-
parilia nave been correctly represented to me it should have unquestionably the effects on the
blood and system generally which I have mentioned. R. WESLEY ROGERS, M.D.
Hon. David B. Mage* of Sacramento says:
I have need Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla and I cheerfully recommend it to all persons who
desire a laxative sarsaparilla. For many years I suffered from constipation, headaches and
liver disorder. I tried various different remedies at different times, and received some benefit
from some remedies, but Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla did me more good than any
other blood and liver regulator that I have ever tried. I am certain from the
analysis made of the sarsaparilla that it contains no mineral drugs, and as it is purely vege-
table' it can be taken with no evil effects by the young, the middle-aged and the ola. I think so
much of the medicine that I now have several bottles in the hotel.
If any one will write a letter to me I will cheeriully answer it. DAVID B. MAGEE,
Golden Eagle Hotel, Sacramento.
WHEN ITOTJ ASK FOR.
JOY'S
Vegetable Sarsaparilla
DON'T
TAKE A SDBSTITDTE INSTEAD
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