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FIXING THE BLAME FOR THE PARK RUINS
Southern Pacific Tracks
Are There Without
Authority.
WAS SUFFICIENT MONEY.
Executive Committee Respon
sible for the Shameful
State of Affairs.
McLaren makes a promise.
One Good Result of The Call's
Expose— The Tracks Are to
Be Removed.
Who is t& blame for the shameful condi
tion of things at Golden Gate Park, as ex
posed by The Call yesterday morning?
Primarily, the director-general of the
late Midwinter Fair. This is not The
Call's answer, but the only answer that
comes after a deal of inquiry and investi
gation. The responsibility for the shame
ful exhibition of debris now littering the
site occupied by the Midwinter Fair rests
upon the executive committee.
"And, of course, that means on Mr. de
Young," said Alexander Badlam, who was
secretary of the committee, "for De Young
ran things to suit himself, and never told
anybody what he was going to do or why
he dia thus or so."
Mr. de Young is in Europe, but he has
left a representative behind him — Colonel
T. T'rudence Robinson, he of baseball fame.
It is Colonel Robinson's duty to clear the
old fair grounds of their unsightly and in
conveniencing accumulations of debris.
Colonel Robinson is derelict in his work.
It begins to look as though the park
authorities would have to step in and clear
the grounds themselves if they want them
cleaned.
'And we most certainly do want them
cleaned," says Superintendent McLaren.
•'ln the end, I suppose, we will have to
clear up the grounds. According to our
contract with the executive committee of
the Midwinter Fair the grounds should
have been restored to us in perfect condi
tion months and months ago. Yes, we are
getting very tired of waiting. There was
no contract signed, but there was a verbal
understanding between gentlemen which
we supposed would hold as good as any
writing. It is a shame, of course, and we
keep prodding up the responsible persons
as much as possible, but all to no avail.
You see the piles of ruins and rubbish
strewed all about, you see parts of the
buildings standing yet, and you don't
really know how hard it is to find anybody
who is responsible for it all."
But if it is hard to fix the responsibility
for tne snameful condition of the old site
of the Midwinter Fair, it is not so difficult
a matter to place the responsibility for the
existence of the spur railroad tracks that
now disfigure the park and mar one of the
favorite drives.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
is responsible for that. Since the end of
December they have been operating these
spur tracks without a semblance of author
ity from the Supervisors. On the last day
of last year the temporary franchise under
which the park branch operated expired.
This temporary franchise was in the form
of a resolution of authorization passed by
the Board of Supervisors — or rather two of
them, the first passed July 31, 1893, and the
second passed November 10, 1894.
It was not without creating a good deal
of suspicion that the Southern Pacific Rail
road finally forced its way into the park in
spite of the opposition of a good many
people who feared that once a tentacle of
the octopus should be fastened on the park
nothing could remove it.
So it was not without a good deal of ap
prehension, and only after a very careful
consideration of all the limitations that
could possibly be engrafted on the fran
chise that Mayor Ellert finally signed the
doefftnent that opened the doors of Golden
Gate Park to the Southern Pacific Com
pany.
This document, with all its restrictive
clauses and the conditions it imposed
upon the railroad company, was known as
Resolution 9111 (third series). It reads as
follows:
Whereas, It has been decided by tne citi
zens' committee of fifty, called by his Honor,
the Mayor, to hold an exposition in this City
from and after January 1, 1894, to be known as
the California Midwinter International Exposi
tion; and whereas, the executive committee
created by the general plan/of said citizens'
committee has organized and has obtained
from the Board of Park Commissioners a site in
Golden Gate Park for the location of said expo
sition ; and whereas, it will be necessary to have
the railroad track of the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company extended from the spur of the
track ot said company as now located at a point
at or near Lakeville in the City and County of
San Francisco, to a point on the line of the Park
and Ocean Railroad track, as now operated be
tween Tenth and Thirteenth avenues, where
said proposed track can enter Golden Gate
Park for the purpose of carrying the lumber
and other materials to be used in the erection
of the proposed buildings on said site, as well
as the carrying of exhibits to be placed in said
buildings;
Now, therefore, the special privilege is here
by granted the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, a railroad corporation duly incorporated
under the laws of the State of California, its
successors and assigns, to at once construct a
railroad track, and to maintain the same for
the period of one year from and after the Ist
day of September; 1893, from a point ator near
Lakeville in this City and County, and connect
ing the same with tne spur track of said com
pany now at that point, to a point on the line
of the Park and Ocean Railroad Company's
track between Tenth and Thirteenth avenues,
to be designated by tne Board of Park Commis
sioners .of Golden Gate Park, and thence into
the park, subject to the rules, regulations and
requirements of said Board of Park Commis
sioners, and to that end said Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, ita successors and
assigns, is hereby permitted to use such parts
and parcels of the streets Intersecting the Out
side Land blocks of the City and County of San
Francisco as may afford to said company the
most convenient line for the location of such
proposed track, and are hereby accorded the
previiege of using for the period herein men
tioned tne great highway, if the same should
prove convenient and suitable for such pur
pose, for such distance as it may bo necessary
to traverse the same between said Lakeville
and the present track of the Park and Ocean
Railroad Company. This privilege is granted
upon the express condition that so far as said
railroad rout* may lie upon premises within
the jurisdiction of said Board of Park Commis
sioners it Khali not be used or occupied until
said company, its assessors or assigns, shall be
thereunto authorized and empowered by order
of the Board of Park Commissioners.
The cars to be run on said proposed track
Khali be propelled by locomotive steam engines,
and the cars shall be used only for the purpose
of carrying freight to the proposed site of said
California Midwinter International Exposi
tion. Neltiiex tbt, company, its grantees or
assignees shall be entitled to charge for the
carriage of passengers, and this privilege is
accorded to and accepted bysaid gran;ees upon
such express condition. At the end of the
term for which this privilege is granted said
company, its successors or assigns shall take
up and remove said railroad tracks."
On the Ist of September, 1894, the priv
ilege granted to the Southern Pacific Com
pany by the foregoing resolution, which
was duly signed by Mayor Ellert, came to
an end. It lacks now but two months of a
full year since the expiration of the
privilege, that expressly stipulated: "At
the end of the term for which this privilege
is granted, said company, its successors or
assigns, shall take up and remove said rail
road tracks."
And the tracks are still there.
They have had authority for being there
some of this time. In November of 1894,
two months after the tracks should have
been removed according to the provisions
of the resolution, the Supervisors forgave
them the trespass, and because the
tracks were still there permitted them to
remain forty days longer.
It is rather a curiously concocted resolu
tion. It reads:
Whereas, the Southern Pacific has not
heeded its terms of contract with us, there
lore do we reward the Southern Pacific by
enabling it to make a still further profit out of
its tracks in the park (which it promised to re
move two months ago).
At least this is the spirit of the resolu
tion. It was passed by a majority vote
November 10, 1594, and its literal wording
is as follows :
Whereas, This board, by resolution No. 9111
(third series), granted permission to the South
ern Pacific Company to lay a spur track along
and upon certain streets and public property
for one year from September 1, 1893; and
whereas, the said period has expired and the
tracks of said company so laid have not been
removed; therefore
Eexolved, That the time in which said tracks
6hall be maintained and operated is hereby
extended for a period of forty working days
from November 1, 1894, the said tracks being
used for the purpose of conveying loam to and
for the improvement of Golden Gate Park.
If the Southern Pacific had been honest
and straightforward and removed its tracks
when it agreed to do so, it would not have
been quite so rich as it is now, but the peo
ple would have had a pleasure ground free
from Southern Pacific Railroad tracks.
But ever since the tracks should have
been torn up and removed, even under the
terms of the last resolution of reward for
a dishonest policy, the Southern Pacific
tracks in the park have been earning
money for the Southern Pacific stock
holders.
And now it would appear that these
tracks have come to stay. If they can
stay a year or six months without au
thority, why cannot they remain perma
nently ? This is a problem that the South
ern Pacific is going to answer in the
affirmative if they can. If the people, or
the people's servants, continue to sit pas
sively and see the Southern Pacific tracks
grow into Golden Gate Park and become a
very part or the people's pleasure ground,
the Southern Pacific will be pleased. Its
tracks have been there illegally for half a
year now, and they have been making
money for their owners all that time. If
the people will only keep quiet a little
longer — say another year — why, the South
ern Pacific tracks may become an institu
tion of Golden Gate Park.
It is a case that calls for immediate ac
tion of the Board of Supervisors and Park
Commisioners. Without the passive con
sent of both of these bodies these tracks
could not remain the obstruction and dan
ger that they are now. Either one of
these bodies could, if it would, tear up the
tracks and remove them at the expense of
the Southern Pacific Company.
When questioned about the matter last
evening Superintendent McLaren admit
ted that The Call's attitude was correct.
Moreover, the superintendent promised
that the tracks should be removed.
"Within ten days," he said, "I will have
those tracks out of the park. You can be
sure of this."
The date of this promise is July 5. On
the 15th the time for its performance will
expire. On the 16th The Call will photo
graph that part of the grounds. Doubt
less it will displease the Southern Pacific
Company to be forced to remove its tracks
in Golden Gate Park within the next ten
days, but it will please the whole people
immensely. And if Mr. McLaren has the
frowns of the Southern Pacific to bear he
will have won golden opinions from the
public, which is better.
The Call's expose of the generally dil
apidated condition of things at the old
Midwinter Fair site awakened a good deal
of interest in the matter yesterday. Those
who do not go to the park often had al
most forgotten the rains and debris that
have disfigured it for nearly a year now.
"Surely, the executive committee could
not plead poverty in the matter," said
Mathias Johnson, one of the committee of
fifty to which the executive committee of
the fair was supposed to be responsible.
"They had money enough leftover to have
cleared up the grounds many times over.
And that was one of the stipulations en
tered into between the executive commit
tee and the Park Commissioners, that in a
couple of months or so after the fair
was closed, the site should be turned over
to the park in as good a condition as when
it was taken by the fair managers.
"I remember that in every contract en
tered into between the fair management
and the concessionaires there was a clause
providing for the removal of all structures
immediately upon the close of the exposi
tion. And each contractor on the main
buildings was to receive his last payment
in the building itself, which was to be re
moved at once.
"Now, of course, if these contractors and
concessionaires have proved irresponsible,
that is nothing to the public — or it ought
not to be. The responsibility, in the end,
must rest with the executive committee,
and when you admit that you might as
wellfmention De Youne in name. He was
the executive committee and ran things to
suit themselves.
"And, as I say, 1 can't understand why
be has not had the grounds cleared long
before this. He surely can't plead a lack
of funds for this purpose, because the funds
at his disposal were ample. lam speak
ing of the profits of the fair, of course.
"There must have been a surplus of from
$200,000 to a quarter of a million. There
ought to have been enough out of this sum
to enable the Director-General to have the
grounds put into good shape again, even
after deducting the $20,000 or more he gen
erously spent on medals and things. It
would only have cost a very little more to
have put the grounds in good condition.
"It isn't a wild estimate, that quarter of
a million I spoke of, as you can see by the
figures. I got the figures from the books,
being one of a committee of five appointed
to examine them. The fair was clearing a
net profit of $2800 a day then, and there
were yet 70 days of the regular term to
run. Anybody can figure that out. And
this profit was taken on a basis of $2000 a
day expenses. These expenses were about
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895.
cut in half toward the last, you know,
while the receipts kept coming in heavier
all the time, and even for several weeks
after the date of formal closing. Of course,
all this is public property now, and I am
not even stating something new, only I
instance it to show that there must have
been money enough left over when the
fair closed to have paid for clearing up
things and have bought the Napoleon
medals also."
But money or no money, that portion of
Golden Gate Park out of which an irre
sponsible executive committee was privi
leged to make something like a quarter of
a million profit in a year is now in a
shameful condition, and The Call means
to keep on calling attention to that fact
until something is done to better it.
Golden Gate Park is the people's pleasure
ground. It 19 the one great public institu
tion of the City. San Franciscans are
proud of it, for it ranks high with the
parks of the world.
And all the rubbish and ruins of the
Midwinter Fair must be cleaned up. And
the Southern Pacific must remove its
tracks from the fair grounds. The Call
means to watch the people's park with a
jealous eye, for that is one of the public
duties every newspaper owes to the public
by whose favor and patronage it thrives.
Let Golden Gate Park be the park that it
was intended to be. Let the tracks of a
private corporation be taken out of it, and
let the debris and rubbish left there by the
executive committee be cleared away
speedily — not at public expense, but at the
cost of those who have reaped the great
profit. _______________
SAMUEL EWING RETIRED.
The Southern Pacific's Assis
tant Claims Attorney
Out of Office.
Business of the Department Had
Fallen Off-Half the Staff
Was Dismissed.
Samuel M. Ewing, the assistant claims
attorney of the Southern Pacific Company,
is no longer connected with the office pre
sided over by Attorney Byron Waters in
the railroad building at Market and Mont
gomery streets. His connection was
severed on July 1, since when the depart
ment has been trying to get along without
his assistance, which for some years had
been regarded by the high officials as valu
able to the company.
The fact that Ewing had retired, or was
retired, was not mentioned in the railroad
offices until it leaked out yesterday to the
intense surprise of his numerous friends.
His removal was known to the heads of
various departments, but they elected not
to speak upon the subject, which for that
very reason was observed as a secret.
"When it did become known it gave rise to
many conflicting rumors about questions of
policy, economy and possible trouble in
the department that only quite recently
was highly productive of scandals when
M illspaugh was dismissed from the posi
tion of its manager and attorney. Again
the possibility of difficulties growing out
of the Millspaugh episode were seriously
mentioned, though it was well known that
Ewing passed through the severe examina
tion of the office then untouched even by
suspicion, and maintained the same good
regard of the railroad officials as before.
From a reliable source in the railroad
office it was learned that Ewing was dis
missed, ostensibly because his services were
not needed, arid Byron Waters, the
present head of the department, was cut
ting down his staff. Bat Ewing was very
popular with the railway management,
and it was argued that if he was not actu
ally wanted in one office they would read
ily'find a place for him in another depart
ment, where his special knowledge and
ability might be used to advantage. In
stead of such a change, however, he was
dropped without much ceremony.
Byron Waters said it was simply a mat
ter bi reducing expenses that caused Ewing
to lose his position.
"Mr. Ewing resigned on the Ist of July,
when he left this office," said he. "The
only reason was that business in the office
fell off to a considerable extent, and there
was really not enough for us all to do.
When I took charge there were ten men
here including myself. Now there are but
five, and we are well able to keep up with
the work, which had been allowed to accu
mulate and become a tangled mass. My
policy is to take up every case singly as it
comes in and get it off my hands and be
done with it.
"I desire to impress upon you that Mr.
Ewing went through the Millspaugn affair
without taint. That had nothing, abso
lutely nothing, to do with his leaving.
Nor had anything that occurred since in
the office the least bearing upon the case.
He left with all our best wishes."
Ewing himself stated last night that
while he left oa the Ist of this month he
had not tendered his resignation. "I have
been thinking of resigning for some time
past," he said.
"The cause of your leaving is said to be
the reduction of the office staff."
"Well, it is not that exactly," he an
swered with some hesitation, "but I cannot
yet speak about the matter."
Ewing was a prominent newspaper man
in this City for years before he took the
position of "assistant claims attorney of the
Southern Pacific Company.
A PRACTICE SHIP,
Governor Budd to Confer With the
Naval Officers for the Repair
of the Swatara.
Governor Budd will visit Mare Island
next Tuesday to confer with the com
mandant regarding the old sloop-of-war
Swatara, now lying condemned in the
stream off the navy-yard. It will take a
large sum of money to fit her out, as she
is practically a worthless old hulk, and
with the depleted condition of the navy
finances it is doubtful, unless the State
foots some of the bills, whether the Gov
ernment will spend money on her repairs.
With the Swatara moored in the harbor
or at a suitable place in a dock the young
amateur sailors will have excellent oppor
tunities for practice in sail and gun drill.
THE LABOR COUNCIL.
It Adopts a Resolution Denouncing the
Celebration of the Fourth.
At the meeting of the San Francisco
Labor Council last night the following
resolution was adopted:
Whereas, The Fourth of July as a cele
bration is commemorative of a growth in civil
ization, human equality and brotherly regard
from man to man ; and whereas, the celebra
tion of the day just held in San Francisco was
a combination of military display, repugnant
to all but the most brutal' instincts, and to be
interpreted only as an affront to the laboring
people and as an a<i*vertising display wholly
out of place in a demonstration in honor of
great principles; and whereaa, the celebration
was even further un-Americanized by the
presence in the procession of a Mongolian
band, hired because it would underbid white
American labor; therefore be it
Resolved, That the San Francisco Labor Coun
cil regards the celebration as an affront to real
manhood and real Americanism.
Secretary Lamont Returns Home.
The Secretary of War, Daniel Lamont, who
was to have come on here, has been compelled
to return East with his party from Ogden,
where he had come from the Yellowstone Park.
So much time was spent at the park that the
California trip had to be abandoned.
Crumbs From the Feast.
. Roos Brothers sent a wagon-load of provisions
left from their free dinner to the poor of the
City on Independence day to the Young
Woman's Christian Association yesterday,
FARMERS' ALLIANCE SCOPE
Its Work Now Being Extended
In the Direction of
Co-Operation.
POLITICS STRICTLY TABOOED.
Remarkable Progress Made on the
New Lines During: the
Past Year.
Since the last annual meeting of the
Farmers' AJliance and Industrial Union
of California, held on January 1 of this
year, there has been a most remarkable
revival in its work. At that meeting it
was determined to keep the alliance en
tirely out of politics and devote the power
of the organization directly to its an
nounced plan of operation, mutual protec
tion and co-operation.
The experiences of the last campaign
showed that its support of the People's
party, while it had failed to carry that
party to victory, had resulted in demoral
izing the membership of the alliance. It
was led to support that ticket, as the prin
ciples of the alliance were nearest in ac
cord with those of tne Populists, as ex
pressed in what is known as the Omaha
platform. The alliance favors Govern-
J. M. Moore, State Business Manager
of the California Farmers' Alliance.
ment ownership of railroad^ telegraphs,
telephones and other enterprises that per
form semi-public functions; abolition of
National banks, direct issue of all currency
by the Government, free coinage of silver,
the sub-treasury plan of loaning money on
lands and their products, and the reduc
tion of the rate of interest to 2 per cent.
It is claimed by alliance men that sta
tistics show that the average profit from
horticultural and agricultural pursuits in
the United States is not in excess of 2 per
cent, and that during off years it is much
less. Arguing from this, it is further
claimed that the maintenance of a rate of
interest above 2 per cent will unfailingly
result in periodical seasons of depression
similar to that which has just been experi
enced, as the farmer must inevitably be
come insolvent in cases where his property
is mortgaged, which is the prevailing rule.
When the last annual meeting of the
State alliance was held, many of the
branches thronehout the State were in a
moribund condition, and it looked as if the
State organization was in danger of going
to pieces. Prompt and energetic action,
however, on the lines previously men
tioned, resulted in reviving the interest of
old members and in largely increasing the
number of new ones, so that now there are
500 subordinate alliances in active oper
ation within the State, with an aggregate
membership of nearly 20,000.
"Co-operation' 1 was the magic watch
word all along the line; political matters
were entirely ignored. When the new
J. S. Barbee, Secretary and Treasurer
Of the California Farmers' Alliance.
policy was determined upon at the begin
ning of the present year, the only co-oper
ative institutions, under the auspices of
the alliance, were two flouring mills; one
at Gilroy and another at San Miguel. Now
the organization has no less than seven
co-operative stores in active operation in
various parts of the State, and also a co
operative tannery, and several more stores
are now in contemplation. The stores are
located at the following pjaces: Los An
geles, San Jose, Santa Paula, Santa Bar
bara County; Compton, Los Angeles Coun
ty; Orange, Riverside County; Bachelor
\ alley, Lake County; Poplar. Tulare Coun
ty. The tannery is at Adelaide, San Luis
Obispo County.
Their co-operative methods are based on
those of the Rochdaie system in vogue
with the great co-operative organization of
England and Scotland, which in 18M2 did
a business which reached the enormous
sum of $50,000,000, and operations of which
are extending annually. At present this
organization has seven lines of steamers,
which reach all parts of the world. It also
has resident agents in every market center
of the globe.
The present board of officers of the Cali
fornia alliance is as follows: President, J.
V. Webster of Paso Robles; vice-president,
J. F. Grigsby of St. Helena; secretary and
treasurer, J.S. Barbee of Los Angeles ; State
business agent, J. M. Moore of San Fran
cisco ; State lecturer, Burdette Cornell of
Oakland.
Mr. Moore's duties are to make pur
chases in this City for all the co-operative
establishments of the alliance and also for
the individual members.
The next annual meeting of the State
alliance will be held on the third Tuesday
in October.
SAFE-OBAOKERS IN TOWN.
They Made a Failure in Their First
Effort in the City.
The police authorities are busily en
gaged just now in endeavoring to discover
whether a party of Eastern safe-crackers
have arrived in town or not. On Wednes
day night the carriage factory of H. M.
Black & Co., 126 New Montgomery street,
was entered by burglars, and the safe was
operated upon in a most expert manner.
Fortunately the bookkeeper had taken
away all the money that was in the safe,
and the operators got nothing for thpir
pains. It was the manner in "which ths
work of opening the safe was performed
which convinced the police that some
new hands in the safe-cracking line had
arrived in town.
THE ALOAZAB'S NEW MANAGER.
W. R. Daily Will Run the Theater With
Alfred Dainpier.
W. R. Daily became lessee and manager
of the Alcazar Theater yesterday. The
business management of the Daily Stock
Company durine its present engagement
has hitherto been in the hands of Messrs.
Wallenrod & Rich.
It is Mr. Daly's intention to run the
theater with Alfred Dam pier in star roles
till the end of that actor's engagement.
The stock company will then present
comedy for some weeks, after which an
entirely new sensational play will be pro
duced, with a cast especially selected for
the occasion.
LAMONT NOT COMING.
He Has Changed Mind About Visiting
This City.
At the eleventh hour Secretary of War
Dan Lamont, who had telegraphed that
he would visit this City, changed his
mind, and went direct from Yellowstone
Park to Seattle, where he will receive sug
gestions as to the location of a military
post in the Puget Sound country, as ex
clusively stated in The Call yesterday.
From information received at army
headquarters, it appears that from Seattle
Lamont will return direct to Washington,
and will not visit this City.
FROM A CHINESE PISTOL
A Bullet Sent Through a Win
dow of the Methodist
Mission.
Supposed Relation of the Shooting
to the Rescue of a Slave
Girl.
On the evening of July 3, and while the
celebration of the Fourth of July was al
ready well under way, that is the noisy
firecracker feature of it, a bullet from a
pistol was sent crashing through a window
of the Methodist Episcopal Chinese Mis
sion, 916 Washington street.
Apparently connected with the circum
stance of the pistol shot is the fact that
only two previously a Chinese
slave girl, Ah Soo, had been rescued by
Miss Williams (acting matron of the mis
sion during Mrs. Ida Hull's absence),
President McComb of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and
Special Officers Frank Holbrook and H.
McMurray from a den on Church alley
just in time to prevent her from being
sold to a life of Mongolian immorality.
A rather big hole was made In ttie pane
of f.'lass, and a bullet of about a 38-calib<~r
size was found lying harmlessly on the
carpet of the room. Near the window
stood a sewing-machine. The bullet had
struck the machine-cover, but it did not
penetrate the wood— it left a slight inden
tation and partially shattered it. This in
dicates that the force of the missile was
well nigh spent when it entered the
window.
The location of the hole in the window
pane and the indentation on the machine
cover indicate that the direction of the
bullet was downward and to the leftward.
The window is one of the second story and
on the east side looking toward Trenton
street, and there is a new three-story
brick building, with flat and accessible
roof, over on Trenton street just in the
direction whence the bullet seemed to
have come and perhaps far enough away
to have allowed its force to be nearly spent.
The room where the bullet struck is oc
cupied by Mrs. Chan Hon Fan and her
two little girls, the wife and children re
spectively of the assistant pastor of the
mission, a well-known Chinese preacher.
The little girls were in bed at the time, but
Mrs. Chan happened fortunately to be
downstairs attending the prayer-meeting
then in progress. This was the only room
on that floor and on that side which had
any light in it. A heavy blind was pulled
down ever it, so that nobody could see into
the room from the outside.
The question which bothers Miss Wil
liams and the other occupants of the mis
sion is, Was this pistol-snot an attempt to
kill some one connected with the institu
tion out of revenge for the rescue of the
girl Ah Soo?
"I would like to think it was only a
Fourth of July accident," said Miss Wil
liams last night, "but I do not know what
to think. Ido wish some one could ex
plain it. The girl is not on that side of
the house, at all. As for the people living
in that three-story building on Trenton
street, they are all good respectable per
sons, and some of them are Christians.
The opinion of the police is that the
pistol-shot was an accident, which is an
easy solution of the mystery.
The girl. Ah Soo, is very much pleased
with her change of quarters. She is be
lieved to have no parents, and yet there
are no less than three Chinese women al
ready who are ready to swear to being the
child's mother.
AN ACTIVE OCTOGENARIAN.
Faintly Reunion in Celebration of Mrs.
Delia B. Shattuck's Birthday.
A family reunion in which four genera
tions were represented was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Case, 1723 Clay
street, last evening. The occasion was the
eighty-sixth birthday of Mrs t Delia P.
Shattuck, the mother of Mrs. Case.
The venerable lady i 9 the mother of nine
children, the eldest of whom, B. D. Shat
tuck, a retired commission merchant of
this City, is 65 years of age. She has eigh
teen grandchildren and seventeen great
grandchildren. About forty of her family
were present to wish her "many happy
returns of the day."
Mrs. Shattuck is a hale old lady, and her
black hair has but few silver threads in it
She is still active and insists upon taking a
share of the household duties. She Is a
native of New Hampshire, and lived there
until a year ago. Her husband died four
weeks after the celebration of their golden
wedding seventeen years ago.
The Wave.
In the Wave this week there are to be read
some pointed editorials on American labor,
the Board of Education and the Stanford deci
sion. They are written in atone of vigor and
earnestness and possess distinctive literary
merit, and are certainly in formed by a strongly
patriotic feeling. The other departments of
the paper are exceedingly newsy and readable
—Governor Budd and the Fair case, Mrs.
Charley Fair's wealth, Charlotte Stetson's
poetry, the parade, the arch. Count Fiddle
ticks by Dan O'Connell are a few of the topics
chatted about. Society is in the country and
the department is given over to narrating the
doings of "the swim" at Del Monte, the Crags
and San Rafael. The new beauty at Monterey
Is described, the pretty girls at Sausalito are
chatted over. The tournament at San Rafael
comes in for some pertinent paragraphs. John
Benner's "Causerte" is readable and amusing.
The literary department is up to date and
offers thei ntelligent reader an authoritative
resume of what to skip. There are also stories,
bicycle gOßsip. medical discoveries and many
more topics, all skillfully handled, that go to
making the Wave the most readable of the
weeklies.
Says She Lost Fifty Dollars.
A warrant was sworn out yesterday for the
arrest of William Fitzmaurice, a Police Court
attorney, for misdemeanor embezzlement. The
complainant is Theresa de Quinones, a wealthy
Guatemalan lady who is stopping at the
Marechal Kiel Hotel on Ellis street, and she
alleges that she gave Fitzmaurice $50 with
which to pay her board bill. Instead of doing
so he disappeared and appropriated the money
to bis own use.
NEW TO-PAY-DRY PPPP?'_ '■*■.- - -'-'-"-■--'—
Keep American Workmen Employed by Buying American
Goods whenever it is possible.
WE HAVE SCORED A BULLSEYH THIS WEEK. We have made at
least ninety-nine points out of a possible one hundred. We an-
nounced a novel idea in up-to-date store-keeping— the idea that
America could, if it were not for a prejudice in favor of foreign goods, pro-
vide every necessary thing its citizens require, and for a week we have en-
deavored, by a special exposition of American Manufactures in our line, to
show how much better, at the same prices, our own products are than
those of other countries. The Store has been thronged with shoppers
every business day, who evinced much interest in our special displays, and
who bought most liberally. It has been a banner week for this season of
the year, and proves to us conclusively that American women appreciate
the qualities, beauty and money-saving possibilities of American products.
LADIES' SILK VESTS.
The counters running; entire depth of store, on right center, are devoted to
underwear and hosiery departments. There is no berter stock in the city, and
iv -believe none upon which such low prices have been placed. Here are some
American made silk vests. ■/ •■, ■'/• ■'<
LADIES' SPUN SILK VESTS, low neck, no sleeves, lace effect, straps on shoulders, a f\i} c .
very good quality, in cream, pink or blue " l;
„ Each
LADIES' SPUN SILK VESTS, L. N. N. S., heavy quality, Richelieu ribbed, silk crcchet 7^°
edge on neck and armlets, pink, blue, cream and lilac c I •-'
Each
LADIES' SILK VESTS, very heavy quality, V-shaped ne.cks, no sleeves, deep fancy crochet fig "1 .50
edge, pink, bine,' cream and black X— —
;-.V Each
LADIES' SILK VESTS, extra heavy, high nrc'.;, long sleeves, Swiss- ribbed, colors pink, i^"J .85
. blue, cre:im an', black ' <©-»-
' Each
Ladies' Hosiery. Toilet Articles.
Cheaper than even the "cat-rate"
_„.-__.« . . , druggists sell them.
Black and Tan Shades, American made ***
and eimrnnt >»ninl«i> and of ouuerior BAY RUM, 4 sizes 16c, 25c, 45c and 900
and guaranteed stainless and or superior FIORIDA ATEK, 3 sizes Be. 25oand 45c
wearing qualities, at prices like these. , COLGATE'S VIOLEI WATER, 100 size 7<c
HOYT'S GERMAN COLOGNE. ..6c, Bcand 19c
LABLACIIE FACE POWDER 29c
LADIES'TAN COTTON HOSE, lleht or I MAL yj^i\.V, £ A^" B i?, e V a? C
dark shades, plain or Richelieu-ribbed, O?: C CAAiELLINE POWDER, 60c 5ize....... 35c
double heels, soles and toes, and a good LA VALLIERE TOOTH PASTE, collaps-
Quality. .. A Pair. ible tubes :.... 25c
H * •°-- r " 1 ' ARNICA TOOTH SOAP, 25c size 1 5o
r atitfr' ti m roTTOV ir«ai? n^f „- CASHMERE BOUQUET SOAP, genuine. 23c cake
dark shades, made of HOSE, llßht or QQIO rßl\'Sfn\lPlFVTn\' cnip I4cc^kl
dark shades, made of fine Macco yarn, QQIC TrT , ,R jl «uap lfccake
high-spliced heels, double soles and OO.t rATFN vYQrNiTfsoi 1 p«i«r«ftii ?ft«hni
toes, extra fine quality A Pair. COLGATE S. EXQUISITE bOAPS areall.3oobox
LADIES' TAN LISLE HOSE, Richelieu- QQIC • C 4-n4-lr>.** s\—-* r
ribbed, fine quality, high-spliced heels 003 0 IcltlOnery •
and double toes A Pair, , "
t iTiTP<!' nr irk- rnTTnv rossp o,tr» Each box mentioned below contains
LADIES BLACK COT.I HOSE, extra 04. ,i, w and 2*5 «nnnr« pnvclonp* tr»
fine quality, flermsdorf dye, nil black 0.-TC f*^ square envelopes to
or with white feet, spliced heels, £*) maicn.- • v
double soles and toes.. A Pnir. SATIN FINISHED, fair quality 5c box
SATIN FINISHED, regular 20c quality.. lOc box
MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S BLACK ANTIQUE LINEN, plain or ruled 12c box
COTTON HOSE, narrow ribbed, fine O"C IRISH LINEN, plain or ruled 15c box
Macco yarn, hiKh-spliced heels, double ■£*) SATIN FINISH, an extra fine quality. 15c box
toes, sizes tt to 9, superior quality A Pair, WEDDING PLATE, plain or ruled 20c box
MISS ANTHONY HAS GONE
And With Her Rev. Miss Anna
H. Shaw Went Home to
the East.
Will Spend the Summer In Recrea
tion—Plans for the Suffrage
Campaign.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and itev. Anna
H. Shaw left yesterday for the East. They
will go direct to their homes — Miss
Anthony to Rochester and Miss Shaw to
her summer residence at Cape Cod. Mrs.
Sarah B. Cooper, Miss Cooper, Mrs. Nellie
Holbrook Blinn. Miss Elizabeth Sargent
and other of their enthusiastic admirers as
sembled at the ferry to say farewell and
bid them godspeed.
Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw arrived
here May 20, and their active part in the
Woman's Congress, their lecture tour of
Southern California, their visit to Yo
eemite, and their share in the celebration
of Independence day in this City have all
been chronicled by the press. They have
made friends and enemies during their
stay, but there is no doubt that the friends
are greatly in the majority.
Not the least of the results of their visit
is the amicable adjustment of the differ
ences that have rent the ranks of the suf
fragists. On Wednesday morning, and
again yesterday, the officers of the State
Woman Suffrage Association and the Cali
fornia constitutional amendment cam
paign committee held a joint meeting at
the home of Mrs. A. A. Sargent for the
purpose of discussing plans for the suffrage
campaign. Mrs. Hester A. Harland was
elected organizer of county committees
and associations for one month, and dur
ing that time she will visit as many coun
ties as possible and organize the suffrage
forces she finds therein.
The ladies propose to vigorously prose
cute the campaign in every one of Califor
nia's fifty-seven counties and thorough or
ganization will be their most effective
means.
It was further decided that an advisory
board, consisting of gentlemen favorable
to the movement should be formed. The
number will not be limited, and it is prob
able that all gentlemen who have taken
sidas for woman suffrage will be invited to
become members of the board.
The counsels of Miss Anthony and Miss
Shaw were deeme* invaluable in these as
in all matters pertaining to the campaign,
and their new friends were loth to let
them depart.
Neither of the ladies has made any
definite plans for the autumn, both being
much in need of the summer rest.
A Salvadoran Asphyxiated.
Antonio Sol, a young Salvadoran stopping at
the Occidental Hotel, retiring at 1 o'clock
Thursday morning, left the gas turned on after
putting out the light and came very near
losing his life. The young man lay asphyx
iated for twelve hours before he was discovered.
Physicians who were called in could not re
store him to consciousness for nearly twelve
hours. Yesterday he was getting on very
well and will be out in a day or two. He is a
son of Pr. Manuel Sol, a prominent physician
of San Salvador.
Lee* and Drugstore Whisky. |
License Collector Lees threatens trouble to
the drugstores selling whisky at retail if he can
discover a way to bring it about. He complains
that many of them sell whisky as freely and at
the same retail rates as the regularly "licensed
saloon to those who know the proper wink, but
that they only take out a United States internal
revenue license. He says this indicates a fear
of the Federal Government that does not hold
with regard to the City.
Morrison's Tivoll Benefit.
Every seat at the Tivoli was occupied last
night for Howard Morrison's benefit. "Tar
and Tartar" was presented, and between the
acts Nellie Young, Henry Norman, Ida Valerga,
Kate Marchi, Marcel Perron, Alice Nielson,
Thomas C. Leary and Irene Cook appeared in
songs, duets and specialties.
■
Can't
We?
Can't we, if we choose, sell shoes at re-
tail much cheaper than the ordinary re-
tailer ? "We, the wholesale manufacturers
with an immense wholesale trade ?
Can't we, if we choose, sell at retail at
same prices as we do to dealers and still
come out more than even ?
Well, we choose— reasons often men-
tioned—choose to sell our shoes at one
retail here in the wholesale
elsewhere.
Now it's your turn to choose we have
shoes for YOU— EVEBYBODY.
ROSENTH AL,
FEDER
&CO., 1
Wholesale Shoo Manufacturers, H
581=583 MARKET, 1
\ NEAR SECOND. ||
Open Till 8. Saturdays Till 10. ||
WALL I 1 WINDOW
PAPER 1 1 SHADES
Largest Stock and Lowest Prices.
G.W. CLARK Tea
653 Market Street.
SAMPLES SENT.
PI I re ITCHING PILES
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allowea to continue tumor* form and protrude,
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and bleeding, aeala ratios, and In mMttltu
remove* tamers a** joux brnfgut Ik