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<$fe fell MONDAY ..JULY 15, 1895 AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin- Theatee.— '-The Case of Rebellious Susan." Cwmbia Theater— "One of Our Girls." Tivoi.i Opera-house— -Satariella." Ca] EFORNIA Theater— "A Black Sheep." Mokosco'bOpera-hotse— "A Flag of Truce." < "im-hepm— High-Class Vuudevilie. A i azar Theater.— ".Mulcahy.s Visit.." state Hoard of Trade Exttteit.— fi7s Market street, below Second. Open daily. Admission free. CITY NEWS IN BEIEF. The theaters this week have all attractions of unusual interest to offer patrons. Charles Warren Stoddard has written a novel which will be published this year. THE Call's weekly resume ot news from the various fraternal orders is published to-day. A ball was given at the Garibaldi Hall Satur day night for the benelit of the Italian school. The Prison Directors have reduced the price oiSan Quentin made jutebags to $4 20anuu dred. John C. Benz, an old miner, shot himself at his home, 1623 Powell street, yesterday fore noon. It blew at the rate of 40 miles an hour on the bay yesterday, but was almost a calm at Point Lobos. The Barbers' Association picnic ftt Harbor View Park yesterday whs well attended and most successful. The St. Joseph Benevolent Society held its ftemi-aunual meeting yesterday and elected three councilmen. Time-tables of the railroad companies are published free of charge in the Call for the ac commodation of readers. The attitude of the Solid Eight of the Board of Supervisors in betraying a public trust is Stated and the result indicated. ' Champion Jones of Australia was defeated by J. Lawless and Austin Hendry at the San Fran cisco handball court yesterday. The Weather Bureau forecasts'tor to-day in Sun Francisco: 'Fair weather, slightly warmer, with westerly winds." i. The doings of society in town and country are recorded in to-day's issue. The resorts still claim a considerable contingent. Marksmen were out in force at Shell Mound yesterday blazing away at the targets. The buS wind prevented any high scores. The outlook for the realty market is reported brightening steadily. The weekly review appears in to-day's Call. A deaf and dumb institute, erected through the efforts of the Sisters of Mercy of the Order of St. Joseph, will be opened at Oakland. The Stc-iprer Bros, gave a big barbecue to their ■ yesterday, as a preliminary to the opening of their pottery works at Baden. Rev. A. (.. Wilson of the Second Unitarian Church preached last evening upon "The Evils Of the Stage and How to Remedy Them." Rev. Dr. Goodwin, pastor of the California- Btreet Methodist Church, discussed the work accomplished by the W. C. T. U. last night. M. J. Kilgallon, the Denver champion, and Al Pennoyor defeated R. Lenihan and J. Fee ney at the Union handball court yesterday. The Sacred Heart College will commence Its routine work, among the lower grades to-day. The higher grades will assemble a week later. The funeral of Chong Wai, a Chinese mer chant made the victim of a highbinder's re venge, occurred yesterday with Taoest ceremo nies. At the service of the First Congregational Church last evening three addresses were de livered on "The Greatest Convention on Earth." Convict Milton H. Lee of San Quentin has written a novel with a moral, bnt the Prison liirectors will not grant him permission to have it published. Thousands of people visited Golden Gate Park and the Cliff House yesterday. It was an ideal day for an outing arid the people took au vantage'of it. J. A. Clayton, the San Jose banker, had his arm amputated at the shoulder by Dr. W.& jThorne yesterday. The operation was a very ■^successful one. } Rev. J. M. Taulbee delivered the first of his {series of lectures on the objects of the Ameri /ean Protective Association yesterday at Metro f politan Temple. Rev. J. W. Tsulbee preached at the Central Methodist Kpiseopal Church last night on the subject: "Analogy Between Material Phil osophy and Psychology. ' In Placer County the mining industry is booming and the gold output will exceed that of Nevada County by a large figure this year, according to Hon. Jacob Neff. An alarm was turned in from box 514, early last night, forasmall blaze at Napa and Georgia streets, caused by an overturned lamp. The damage was merely nominal. Managers of Oregon steamers want to dock their vessels at Pacific-street wharf as Ppear street is out of the way and the roadway leed ing thereto is in a wretched condition. Comte and Comtesse Felis d'Hunolstein and Marquis Bnd Marquise de Nicolay of Paris, Franco, who are trying to see all America in two months, arrived in town yesterday. George 0. Burton, the »w York electrician who started the controversj over the effect of electricity in capital punishment, arrived here yesterday and gave his views on the subject. Convict Joseph Cook, who was formerly a Police Court clerk of this City, has made ap plication to be released on parole. His health has broken down and he wants to die outside the walls. Socialist meetings were held at Pythian Castle ar.'l the Turk-street temple last night. John nolds discussed municipal reform at the former, and P. O. Chilstrom talked of patriot ism at the latter. The French colony celebrated the anniver- Bttry of the "Fall of the Bastile"^yesterday with great success. The celebration included a pro cesslon in this City and festivities on an elabo rate scale at Shell Mound. Jr>hn Catchman of Vallejo, whose wife de- Eerted him a few days ago and came to this tiled at police headquarters yesterday and asked for assistance in compelling her to return to him and her children. Tho best rat* of ocean steamers in 1874 was 14 knots an hour, made by the sidewheeler Scotia. The Lucania and othor ocean grey hounds now average 2-"» statute miles an hour between New York and Queenstown. A corporation has been formed in Stockton for the manufacture of chemicals. It will make a specialty of the manufacture of tartaric acid and cream of tartar from the dregs of wine, which formerly were allowed to go to waste. The officers of Marin County and farmers are hunting on the hills for a young Swiss named tavid Builotti. who assaulted the fixteen-year -1 daughter of a farmer. It is feared he may ■: lynched if caught by the friends of the in jured family. Emmanuel Baptist Church, the scene of the double murder with wliieh Theodore Durrani is charged, was reopened yesterday with solemn services attended by large congrega tions. Nothing occurred to mar the impressive ness .of the occasion. At the last regular meeting of the Congrega tion* hebra B'rith Shalom the following offi cers were installed: President, E. Stembersr; vice-president, Theo Blodes; treasurer, M. Lewis; secretary, B. Mover; trustees— Gustaf Michael, Baruch Conn, L Spiro and 8. Fisher. John Cool, 227 Minna street, while on his way nome about 2:30 A. M. yesterday was ac costed on Fifth street by three men, who asked him for a match. They knocked him down, beat him and robbed him of (p3. He was so badly injured that he had to be taken to the Receiving Hospital. The yacht Queen won the San Francisco Club rr-eatta yesterday and the undisputed owner ship of the silver cup. The day was one of ac cidents, calm streaks and heavy gales. The iEotai, recently built by Frank Stone, was out for the first time and gave a splendid account of herself in the race. Hon. J. H. Neff. president of the California Miners' Association, declares that the organi zation will not abandon the fight against the issuance of patents to mineral lands to the railroad. A meeting of the executive commit tee ol the association has been called for the 29th inst. to formulate a plan of campaign. Steve Reagan, 521 Howard street, was walk ing along Mission street yesterday morning about 3 o'clock with his brother Peter, when they were met by Tim Myham and two friends. A fight ensued and Steve and Myham were badly injured. They and Pete Reagan will haye to answer to-day to a charge of disturbing the peace. An open meeting of tne Young Woman's Suf frage Club will be held this evening at 909 Market street. The following programme has J>een prepared: Violin solo, Professor D. Mans ■Wj>eld; recitation, "The Inventor's Wife," Mrs. Vleta Duran; song. Little Baby Mearns; Shakespearean gems, Miss Marguerite Saxton; Bong, banjo accompaniment, Miss M. Young; paper, "Invertebral Women;" banjo solo, Miss Aimey Richey (pupil of Professor D. Mans field); address, "The ; Advantages of ; Woman Suffrage," W. C. Kyle. . ■ LIGHTS OF LITERATURE. Bret Harte's Editorship of the Original Overland Monthly. "GOLDEN ERA" SPACE WORK. Charles Warren Stoddard Has Writ ten a Novel to Be Published This Year. Sitting at one of the little tables in the court of the Palace Hotel yesterday A. Roman, the founder of the Overland Monthly, spoke of the contributors whose literary work did so much to win world wide recognition for the magazine. "Yes, I consulted Bret Harte about start iner the magazine." said Mr. Roman. "I did not know Harte at that time, but Charles Warren Stoddard spoke so highly of him that I made his acquaintance and unfolded to him my plans for establishing a literary monthly on the Pacific Coast. Harte did not seem to be much taken with the idea and was inclined to discour age the enterprise on the ground that the field was too narrow. "After a lapse of some time I resolved to publish the magazine and engaged Noah Brooks, Dr. \V. C. Bartlett and Bret Harte to get out the first number. I paid each of them $50 a month. Harte, who was then employed in the United States Mint of this City, had more leisure time than either Bartlett or Brooks and so gave more personal attention to the work of reading manuscripts than the others did. "Before the second number was pub lished Harte came to me and said, 'I will do all the work if you will pay me what you have been paying the three— slso a month.' "I assented to this arrangement and Harte became editor of the Overland Monthly." Replying to a general line of inquiries Mr. Roman said he understood that Harte was now a lion in English society. "Harte made money here in San Francisco, in Boston and New York," said lie. "Many of his friends and admirers advanced him money. Osgood of Boston paid him $10, --000 for a year's work, and Bliss, of the American Publishing Company, paid him large sums of money. The question, what does Harte do with all the money he makes? has been asked of me hundreds of times. Ido not know, and do not care to know. It has been suggested that he gam bled and lavished his wealth on women, but the subject never interested me. His letter to Hay, acknowledging the efforts of friends to keep him in the consular service, is the only acknowledgment of kindness that I ever knew Harte to make." Charles "Warren Stoddard, the poet of the South Seas and professor of English literature in the Catholic University of America, has fond memories of Bret Harte and the kindest of admiration for A. Ro man. Of the latter he said yesterday: "He is a Roman in the broadest sense. It was his wort, his money and his faith that established the Overland Monthly. "I knew Bret Harte very well," resumed the genial professor in his kindly remin iscences of the early seventies. "Harte was Very good to me, indeed, and I shall not forget him. Neither shall I forget dear old Joe Lawrence who paid me the first money I ever earned. When he called me into the editorial office of the Golden Era and asked, 'Did you write this,' indicating something that had been published in his paper, I replied in the affirmative, and he then said. 'Young man, continue your work for the Golden Era. I will allow you a dollar a column.' It was the happiest day of my life. I was to be rich ; wealth and literary honors were to be mine. Dear old Joe, he was good to Charley." The reverie of the poet was interrupted by the abrupt question : "Is Mark Twain broke?" Meanwhile some of the "dear old has beens" who had been gazing into empty space came back to earth and awaited the reply. "He is not 'dead broke,' but he has lost a great deal of money, and has had some trouble. You wouldn't fancy it, but Mark, with all of his reputed shrewdness, is a dreamer. Howells told me that the humorist had spent a whole lot of money on a type-setting invention. When the machine was supposed to be complete and needed only an ingenious contrivance of delicate mechanism to perfect it, Mark paid an inventive expert or genius a fabu loub monthly sum to complete it. Think of hiring a man at $1000 a month to finish a job. An idiot only would complete the task and cut off the salary. I would have too much business sense myself to com plete a job that was paying me $1000 a month so long as it was unfinished." "I understand," resumed the professor, "that Mark will soon visit San Francisco on his trip around the world, and I pre sume he will lecture here. He cannot be very poor, for when he was married his father-in-law gave him an establishment of house, horses, carriages and tome equipments costing $50,000." Mr. Stoddard was asked: "What are you doing yourself in literary work— do you write as well as lecture?" With the glow of a California summer on his cheek and the light of an evening in Bohemia in his eye, the poet exclaimed : "I have written a novel, 'My Sweetheart,' but that is not the title of it. The title is a secret, and my name is not to appear as the author of the book." "Does 'My Sweetheart' live on paper, or in the imagination, like the 'Annals of Bo hemia'?" "Bless your heart, it is type-written — ninety thousand words. Now, I cannot tell you ali about it to-day,' 1 continued the author, "because it is a long story. Three years ago I spent my summer vacation at Mrs. Dennison's beautiful home in Cam bridge—you know, the mother of Selim and Fred Woodworth. Willie Wood worth is a tutor at Harvard, and the little girl — now a charming and beautiful young lady— is there. Life was made so pleasant for me ! Well, I finished my novel there, rolled up the manuscript and resolved not to look at it again for one year. At the expiration of a year I unrolled it, read it over and rolled it up again. Another year elapsed. I read it again and had it type written. "When I told this to one of my friends in New York, who is a prominent writer, he exclaimed: 'How fortunate you are. 1 am compelled to put everything I write on the market at once. Engagements are made for prompt delivery, and the copy must be ready to the day.' " The interview was here interrupted by some people wHo dragged the poet to din ner. "What are poets good for?" is a ques tion that Paul Neumann used to answer by telling the story of a great King ana the splendid court of the kingdom. One of the courtiers made bold to express his ideas of meu in general and poets in particular, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1895. taking the view that poets did nothing and were no good. The King asked the cour tier of what use flowers were, and the latter said 'Flowers were beautiful and good to smell.' The wise monarch replied, 'And poets are good to smell them.' " In the light of Charles Warren Stod dard's experience in San Francisco it may be added that poets are good to dine, and people are good to dine them. JOHN BENZ' SUICIDE. An Old Miner in Distress Deliberately l'uts a Fi3tol Bullet Into His Head. John C. Benz, an old miner, residing at 1623 Powell street, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a re volver yesterday. He left no note of ex planation behind, but owing to his finan cial distress at the time, the cause of the deed is supposed to have been despond- ency. Old age, too, might have had something to do with it, as he was 75 years of age, and the good times when miners were flush with gold had to him become simply pleasant memories. Accordingly he had been ailing and despondent for quite a while. To make matters still more un bearable his wife was sick abed. Benz had evidently been making the methods of suicide a study for some time, ond aimed at his head just a little behind his right ear. Mar}' Borral, a girl living there, saw Benz shoot himself. He went into a sort of dining-room and deliberately put the muzzle of the pistol to his head. Before she could give any alarm the act of self destruction was accomplished. It was just a little after 11 a. m. The suicide was at once reported to the California-street police station, and the police ambulance was sent to Benz' home, but when it arrived there it was found that THE YACHT Q.UEEN, WINNER OF THE OUP, CROSSING THE FINISHING LINE. [Sketched by a v Call" artist.] it was a case for the Morgue, whither the bod}- was at once taken. Benz was a na tive of Germany. SPUR TRACKS WILL GO Park Commissioners Say They Will Have the Rails Removed. The Obliging Southern Pacific Wants More Money for Hauling the Sweepings. The spur track of the Southern Pacific that has obstructed and spoiled the great ocean boulevard for nearly two years now will be removed. The statement is made upon the authority of Park Commission ers Austin and Rosenfeld, and since they have exclusive jurisdiction over that part of San Francisco their word must carry weight. They have said that the Bpur tracks, and all of them that now exist ille- gaily, will be removed. Just when, how ever, has not been determined, and Com missioner Rosenfeld says a few days will be needed to settle this point. In answer to the direct question, Will the Park Commissioners remove the spur track from the ocean boulevard, Mr. Aus tin said, yesterday: ' ; The Park Commissioners are in no way interested in the spur track or its reten tion, except so far as it benefits the park. In reducing the expenses there the people are benefited in a corresponding reduction in taxes. Now I will explain how this benefits the people. "This spur track was built for the sole purpose of aiding the Midwinter Fairs Prior to that period and a few month, afterward we were able to get all the loam needed in the park from Baden. When that was exhausted we looked around for some cheap way of supplying the defi ciency. The Merchants' Association of fered to give us the street sweepings at the nominal cost of 25 cents a yard, and we gladly accepted the proposition. Then it was that the spur track became of benefit to the people, tor the Merchants' Associa tion could only afford to supply the sweepings at the figure named on condi tion that the Southern Pacific would haul the refuse at a reasonable rate. "When this track is torn up it means that we must send seven, possibly ten, miles for the loam necessary to the life of the park. Instead of costing us 26 cents a yard we will consider ourselves lucky if we can get it done for 75 cents. If the railroad people can be believed they are not making a cent out of the contract with ihe Mer chants' Association." And to prove his latter assertion Mr. Austin exhibited the following letter from the Southern Pacific. The letter speaks loudest for itself and is as follows: San Francisco, July 10, 1895. Mr. Joseph Austin, Chairman Golden Gate Park Commission, City— Dear Sir: Referring to the arrangement which expired June 30 last whereby this company has for some time been transporting from this City to Golden Gate Park street sweepings at rate of $5 per car, I learn that since July 1 we have, as prior to that date, been tendered shipments of street sweepings for transportation to the park. Review of the business done for the first six months of this year indicates, I regret to say, that this company has rendered the service at an actual loss, and it Is therefore impossible to continue the arrangement, under which cir cumstances we beg respectfully to ask that your honorable board will cause such instruc tions to be issued as will either cause the dis continuance of this traffic, or, if it be your de sire to continue it, that opportunity be given for readjustment of transportation charges as necessary to reimburse this company for the expense of performing the service. Yours truly, C. F. Smurr. The public will wait anxiously for the removal of the tracks from the Ocean bou levard, and when they are removed the improvement of the great highway, as it is known, should be the first new work un dertaken by the Commissioners, since by long odds it is the most important. The manufacture of typewriting ma chines has in late years grown to very large proportions. This is one of the newest of our manufactures. Furniture moved, Stored, packed and shipped at low rates by Morton Special De livery, 31 Geary street and 408 Taylor street* ALL HAIL TO THE QUEEN. Ed Howard Once More Pilots the Speedy Yacht to Victory. WON SAN FRANCISCO'S CUP. A Day of Calms, Heavy Gales and Accidents— Splendid Work of the vEolus. "It will be a great day for the race," commented Commodore Gutte of the San Francisco Yacht Club, as his head ap peared above the cockpit rail of the Chispa yesterda£ morning and his practiced eye swept the horizon. Down through Hurri cane Gulch the wind was piping free, and away off to the southward the whitecaps were dancing like coryphees in the Tivoli ballet. Close over toward the shore lay Charley Morrell's Queen, with both hands on the silver cup and her weather eye open to the main chance. From the long list of crack boats which had been entered the Queen's chances did not appear to be of the best, but the confidence of those on board never abated a whit. Ed Howard was on hand to guide the fleet craft through calms and puffs to the winning stakeboat, and the lady mascots were also in evidence. The race was not as eventful as regattas of yore, but as usual there was work left for the ship-carpenters and sail-makers. The boats were besefc with calm streaks and baffling winds, but when it did blow it came in great guns. Down near Shag Rock old ooreas was holding high carni val, and there was a time when the sea worthiness of every craft was tested to its limit of endurance. The Queen won the regatta and the undisputed ownership of the Hammersmith <fr Field trophy, and the latter will hereafter grace the table in the cabin of the saucy sloop. The Sappho made her usual good show ing, but sue experienced hard luck in the calm streaks, her topmast snappled and ripped the mainsail and her boom was split at the jaws. For all this she traveled around the course like a racehorse and fin ished the triangle first in her class. The Queen pressed her hard and was lucky enough to catch her just as she was crawl ing out of the calm streaks. The Sappho was also handicapped by the fact that Engel berg had not decided to enter until the fast minute and ex-Commodore McOarthy was asked to sail her only the night before. No preparations were made, bnt a good crew took hold of her and made a good showing with her anyhow. ■ Not a few who witnessed the race were ready to back the Elia, and Ames did all he could with the sloop, but he was vir tually thrown out of the race rounding the Chispa for the first time. The Mischief, which has recently changed her name and owner, followed the race, although not in it, and served Ames a mean trick. Both the Lois, as the boat is now called, and the Elia were legging it to the Chispa, with the Lois to the windward. The Lois, not being in the race, should naturally have given way, but she Kept on and blanketed the Elia. The latter had to come about again, and was sent so far to the leeward that she almost fouled the McArthur before she could tack. The Queen parted with her topmast after rounding the Chispa, but she quickly picked up her lost time and seemed to go better for it. The Harpoon also smashed her top stick, but she showed up •well, despite her accident, and gave the winners a good brush for first place. The jEolus, Morrow & Westerfeld's new craft, was tried out for the first time, and her performance must have satisfied her owners and builder. She stood up like a rock in the heaviest weather and ran like a deer before the wind. She was sailed by Frank Stone, and all she required was more ballast to give the Queen the race of her life. At one time it was thought that she had a mortgage on the cup, butfhe mis take was due to an oversight of the win ner's time allowance. But she won in her class, and the will be heard from yet. The Pride of the Bay was in the first class, but her captain evidently had for gotten the fact, for he failed to come to time and sacrificed 1 minute and 23 seconds. Grsat things were expected of the Molly "Woggin, as the old veteran, Captain Mat thew Turner, her owner and builder, wag at the wheel. But she, too, got too much wind, and— snap ! went her gaff and left the rigging hanging down. The Whirlwind, with her piratical and picturesque looking captain, Admiral yon Schmidt, made the prettiest maneuvers of the day. The Catherine and Flash were on the tack about the Frolic at the Angel Island stakeboat, and were just rounding the stern, when the Whirlwind, with her slab-sided mainsail, sneaked in Between the Flash and the Frolic, just grazing the boom of the jigger, and squared away for home. For all her clever work, though, the JSolus beat her. The Rover dropped out of the race the second time down to Sha« Rock. Bruce had reckoned without the flood tide, and after vainly trying to round the rock for nearly half an hour he gave it up and went home. Shag Rock always was a hoodoo to the Rover. In the class for small boats the Flash took first honors, with the Cath erine in second place, the Mignon giving the latter a very close run. The regatta committee consisted of Mat thew Turner, H. H. Jenness and I. Gutte ; the judges were Charles G. Yale and J. M. Shot-well, and the timekeepers Charles Hill and R. l'Hommedieu. There was to have been a race for launches in the morning in which were en tered the Athlete, Satellite and Daring. The race between the two former craft was looked forward to with great interest. The Athlete is owned by Colonel George A. Knight, and the Satellite by Dr. y. P. Buckley. The boats have been rivßls since the plans were drawn for them, and both owners have apparently been only too willing to have a go. Yesterday was to decide the merits of the two launches, but Knight failed to put in an appearance. Dr. Buckley had bad a new propeller put in the Satellite and the launch was in rac ing trim, but at the last moment Colonel Knight backed out and went fishing. "Humph!" ejaculated the doctor, sav agely, "there are other times to go fish ing," and then he embarked in the Satellite and made the spray fly as the launch skimmed over the waves like a bullet from a gun. The Daring broke one of her after propeller blades, so there was no race. Colonel Knight wants to race in rough and smooth, and yesterday would have been just the day over the clubhouse course. In the regatta the Sappho was the first to get away. She shaped her course almost directly for Shag Rock, while the Elia, which "followed her, hugged the shore to catch the flood tide and make an easy sail around the rock. McCarthy, in setting the course, kept anvay from the shore to avoid the calm streak, but both yachts got it rust the same. The Sappho's commander had made the shrewdest reckoning, though, for when he drifted out of the calm he was almost on top of Shag Reck. He sped away for the Frolic, far in advance of the rest, and had the road clear for the home stakeboat. The boast that there is always wind to be found on the San Francisco's course was fulfilled, but it was found where it was least expected. Up near Richardsons Bay, where the breeze is always light and baffling, there was a good wind all day, and there was little difficulty in rounding the last stakeboat. The Sappho met with her accident near Shag Rock the second time around, and it was nere also that the Queen nearly came to grief. On the first half the Sappho ap proached the rock with |caution and with her topsail down. She found the wind so favorable that the second time she jibed, everything was set and crack went her topmast. The stick went through the mainsail and the boom cracked at the same time. Quick as a flash the young sailors cleared away the wreckage and the main boom was spliced, while the Sappho scudded alorg to the Frolic. The queen met with her mishap opposite Hurricane Gulch. A puff of wind snapped the top mast and the broken stick was still dan gling when Shag Rock was reached. Howard "wing-and-winged" the mainsail and had to go twice into the wind before it was cleared. At the end of the race Kelly of the Har poon took a sensational header after the yacht's small boat. He attempted to grab the painter as the Harpoon rushed by the float in front of the clubhouse and, losing his balance, over he went into the bay. A ducking does not bother a yachtsman half as much as losing a race.and the next moment Kelly bobbed up serenely and se cured the boat. The result of the regatta was as follows: Fastest time over the course, Queen ; winner in first class, Sappho: winner in second class, Queen; winner in third class, iEolus; winner in fourth class, Flash. The classified result of the race is as fol lows: Name. 7. 3 > a c p i \\ ■ a. Class 1. >pho ver de of the Bay a........' Class 2. 11:30:60 3:19:06 ] f36:08! 1:40:00 3:39:37 1:31:48:3:31:03 1:43:16 3:32:44 ! 1:44:34 3:38;31| 1:52:24 i1:52:38i3:56:1l i1:50:'29i4:03:53i 1:51:52,3:51:12 2 -.00:46 3:23:20 2:03:48 3:23:361 2:04:523:15:391 ;1:48:16: : iV59:37 1:59:15! i 1 1:48:16 1:56:22 11:57:46 een 11:49:28; 11:53:57 ! 1:44:02 1:48:26 rpoon Class 3. ipnpr ilrlwine lly Woggin.. >lus Class 4. 2:03:53 2:13:24 1:59:20 1:47:43 11:67:16 1:46:27 I ;herine 1:22:34' 1:19:48| |l:10:47i 1:18:50 |1:19:48 11:07:12 -iimi ah ........... THE THEATEBS TO-NIGHT. What the Managers of the Playhouses Have to Offer. The attraction at the Baldwin Theater to-night will be the presentation of "The Case of Rebellious Susan" by the Daniel Frohman Lyceum Company. This play, illustrative of English society life, will treat of the "new woman." "One of Our Girls," by Bronson Howard, in which Helen Dauvray will appear as the principal character, will be presented to the audience at the Columbia Theater to-night. Every lady attending the per formance will be presented with a hand some souvenir. This evening Hoyt's farce-comedy "A Black Sheep" will be offered at the New California Theater. This is said to be one of the playwright's best efforts and is sure to provoke laughter from first to last. Otis Harlan will take the leading part. The melodrama that will be presented at Morosco's Grand Opera-house to-night, "A Flag of Truce," is one that will contain some wonderful Realistic effets, such as never have been introduced on a stage in this City before. The variety bill for this week at the Or pheum contains some new and interesting features. Among the number will be a wonderful test or the powers of Miss Ken nedy, who, blindfolded, will totalize a number of figures written on a slate by different people in the audience. The opera of "Satanella," by Balfe, will be presented at the Tivoli Opera-house this evening for the first time in twelve years. Martin Pache, a new tenor, will make his appearance in the role of Count Rupert, supported by the other members of the company. Thomas C. Leary and James F. Post, two well-known comedians, will make their appearance in Irish comedy at the Alcazar to-night. The piece chosen is "Mulcahy's Visit." It is said to be a farce that will keep the audience in good humor the en tire evening. At the Macdonough Theater in Oakland there will be presented that interesting play, "The Old Homestead," which, dur ing a three weeks' run in this City, proved such an attraction. The amount of wealth invested in our manufactures is increasing in a larger pro portion than that put into any other form of production. New York is the wealthiest of the States. The value of its real and personal property reaches the enormous aggregate of $2,651, --940,006. ALONG THE WATER FRONT. The Oregon Navigation Com pany Wants Pacific-Street Wharf. RAILS FOR THE VALLEY ROAD. There Was a Gale on the Bay Yes terday, but Almost a Calm at the Heads. There was quite a change in the weath er's traditional condition at the heads and on the bay yesterday. At Point Lobos it was not blowing strong enough to drive the fog away at 2 p. If., while off Meisgs wharf the wind kept piping at a 40-mile gait. The small yachts had, therefore, all they could do to stagger along under double-reefed canvas. At sp. m. the wind had fallen at the beads from six to four miles an hour, while in the bay it had in creased, if anything, and the fishermen and crabbers on the Powell and Lombard streets wharves had a hard time of it. "I wonder what the speed of ocean steamers will be twenty years hence?" said Captain'Hawley of the Spreckels Tow boat Company yesterday. "The Atlantic liners are now making twenty-live statute miles an hour between New York and Queenstown, and it is safe to say that that record will be broken in the near future, perhaps by the St. Louis. It is interesting to note how rapidly the swiftest average running of the best steamers has advanced within recent years. Twenty-one years ago there was still one paddle steamer in the mail service of the Atlantic, and she was one of the fastest — the old Scotia. Her best average between New York and Queenstown was just fourteen knots an hour. "In 1875 the City of Berlin made fifteen knots and the Germanic and Britannic of the White Star line brought it up to fif teen and a half in 1876 and 1877. The Ari zona left them behind in 1879, and in 1882 the Alaska touched seventeen knots. This was the record for two years, and in August, 1884, the Oregon of the Guion line made nineteen and a quarter knots, and that was exceeded a little by the Uinbria and Etruria. The City of Paris, now the American steamer Paris, touched twenty knots in September, 1889, the Campania exceeded twenty-one knots in 1893, and the Lucania almost reached twenty-one and three-quarter knots in 1894. It will thus be seen that the rate of speed is just one half more than it was twenty years ago." The sugar steamer Kaiiului arrived from the Hawaiian Islands yesterday. She was ten days and twelve hours making the trip, so "all the news was anticipated by the arrival of the Miowera at Vancouver, B. C, yesterday. The Kahului went direct to the sugar refinery. The cruiser Olympia was thrown open to the public yesterday and a large number of people availed themselves of the oppor tunity. The tug Ethel and Marion carried many visitors to the ship until the boat men began to cut the rates. The steamer charged 50 cents the round trip and the boatmen offered to make the journey for half that price, and so secured the most passengers, but the public did not make much by the cheap rate. They all paid their money going, but in returning many of them could not find their boatmen and had to pay a return fare on the tug. There is a movement afoot to have the Harbor Commissioners arrange Pacific- Btreet wharf for the Portland steamers. At present the vessels dock at Spear street, which is in an out-of-the-way hole and the approaches to which are in a state of ruin. An antiquated one-horse car line runs within a block of the wharf and then the passengers for Oregon have to pick their way along a wooden pavement full of holes to tiie wharf. If the change is made the steamers will be in the middle of the traf fic on the front and the* passengers would be convenient to all the car lines. The steamer Portland, better known as the Haytian Republic, came down from Port Costa yesterday, where she has been laid up for a long time. She has been char tered by the Alaska Packers' Association and will take supplies to the canneries and bring down salmon. The fact that it was Sunday did not stop work on the steamer VVashtenaw. The San Joaquin Valley Road Company wants her cargo as quickly as it can get it, so the work of unloading the rails into barges went on all day. The Ajax was loaded by noon and the steamer A. C. Freese at once took her in tow and started for Stockton. The Society of Old Friends will have an excursion to Valleio next Sunday. The proceeds are to be devoted to the cemetery fund. WITH RITES OF TAOISM Funeral of Chong Wai, the Victim of a Highbinder's Revenge. What a Departed Soul Goes Through According to This Oriental Belief. The funeral of Chong Wai, the Chinese merchant who was shot by the highbinder, Mook Tai, at the corner of Washington and Stockton streets, Thursday evening, as the outcome of an old feud, took place with great ceremony yesterday afternoon. It was one of the biggest funerals ever witnessed in Chinatown. The rites were celebrated by a Taoist priest, called a "naimoo," and there was the customary spread of edibles — pork and rice, already cooked— that was to accompany the dead man on his journey through "tai yuk," as the^ether regions are called in the myth ology of Taoi.«m. These appetizers are supposed, as offer ings, to appease the wrath' of the "shap wong den," or ten judges, of that woful place and incidentally to bribe the "hun wun jem," or gatekeeper. According to Taoism, which is some what akin to a crude kind of Buddhism, and was introduced into China long after Con fucius flourished, a dead Chinese has a rather hard time of it, even in getting to the gate of hades, and woe betide him if he should happen to be a poor man, or have no friends on earth willing to pave his way with offerings of money. For this reason bits of paper are burned as money offerings to the host of troublesome spirits, the gantlet of which the deceased must run, and if the offerings are sufficiently munificent, the departed soul is admitted by the gatekeeper without much trouble. This explains why the Chinese, in their superstition, will do more for a dead man than for one who is still alive and in sad need of assistance. They fear that if they do not help the dead, they will become devils and come back and injure them in some way, whereas a living man is not, according to them, capable of any such power. While in hades the deceased must pass through the ordeals of the ten judges. If he proves to have been a very good man while on earth he is permitted to become reincarnated as the son of some mandarin or some other great or rich man, but if the tests prove him to have been faulty he is thrown into an immense windmill and thus turned loose to come into existence some time again as a bird or beast or fish. Believing as they do the Taoists will not eat anything that has blood in it, for fear they might be devouring an old acquaint- ance. In the great Taoist temple in China the most picturesque and horrible punish nients are exemplified by the paintings, carvings and sculpture and many a bold robber has been horrified into conversion by simply being forced to look at them. One illustration snows a departed soul being thrown into a pot of boiling oil. The "ten judges of hell" are naturally among the greatest terrors of the Chinese mind. After the ceremonies the remains of Chong Wai were taken to the "fon mow dai," Chinese cemetery, and placed be neath the soil with a good supply of choice delicacies. NEWSPAPER MEN MF.ET. The Change of City Kilitors Accom- ]>anied by a Pleasant Supper. A pleasant reception was tendered at Norman's on Bush street during the small hours of yesterday morning to John Lathrop of the Examiner and incidentally a warm welcome was given to Thomas Garrett, the new city editor of that news paper. Most of the bright writers of the Exam iner staff were there. About fifty covers were spread and there was no adjournment until every one had been given an oppor tunity to pay his respects to the two cuests of the evening. Mr. Garrett takes charge of the city desk of the Examiner to-day. For about two and a half years he had been city editor of the Chronicle, but resiened from that posi tion to succeed Andrew Lawrence. Before he joined the Chronicle staff Mr. Garrett was city editor of the Evening Post. He is an Oxford graduate and has made a fine record as a handler of news. John Lathrop has occupied various edi torial chairs on the Examiner. Altogether he has put about twenty years of his life into the newspaper business on this coast, five of which have been on the Examiner as a member of its special staff, and for rive years previous thereto he was city editor of the Oakland Tribune. For a while he had charge of the Oakland and suburban edition of the Examiner. His first news paper experience was on the Evening Bul- An authority on jewelry estimates that there are at least $200,000,000 invested in this country in various kinds of gold and silver ornaments. NEW TO-DAY-AMUSEMENTS. %* THEATRE rSSR? THE BEST IS NONE TOO GOOD and NOW WE HAVE THE BEST! The Merriest of All Merry Events, THIS VERY NIGHT FIRST TIME HERE HOYTS Roaring, Rollicking, Frolicking "A BLACK SHEEP!" You WON'T SMILE, BUT YOU'LL HA, HA and LAUGH GOOD and HEARTY, WAY DOWN DEEP, At That Funny OTIS KARLAN as "HOT STUFF" And THE BEVY OF PRETTY GIRLS, THE NEWEST OF NEW SONGS,I;H: STARTLING SPECIALTIES AND THE FUNNIEST FARCE This Popular Playwright Ever Offered. . rmCOLAnOtR.6Orn.OD « o>- itaca a.id rwtww* • • • SPECIAL ["IMPORTANT AND I ENGAGEMENT Of the Weil-Known Actress, MISS HELEN DAUVRAY 1— — . Who Will Appear With the FRAWLEY COMPANY TO-NIGHT In Eronson Howard's Greatest of All Successes, "ONE OF OUR GIRLS The Record Play of the Lyceum Theater, New York; 314 PERFORMANCES Under the Personal Direction of Miss Dauvray. EACH LADY Attending the Performance This Evening Will Be Presented With an Ele- gant and Costly SOUVENIR. MOROSCO'S GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. The Handsomest Family Theater In America. ALT JOt MOIiOSCO. ...soIa Lessee and Maoagas EVERT EVENING AT EIGHT, SEVENTH WEEK OF THE EMINENT— Author— Actor— ; : WALTER SANFORD In the Superb Scenic Success, "A FLAG OF TRUCE!" EvEJfijro Pbices— 2sc and BDo. Family Circle and Gallery. 10c. Usual Matinees Saturday and Sunday. ' |jfiyffi*T'j-i BATRE **l props. TO-NIGHT!— MATINEE SATURDAY! Dffllßi F^ ol^Sk|f lff FIRST TIME HERE OF "THE CASE OF REBELLIOUS SUSAN." Next Week— Second Week Lyceum Co. "THE AMAZONS." Seats now on sale. TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE SIRS. hKMiSTisL K kkl; Mi Proprietor <£ Manasac TO-NIGHT— ARTISTIC RENDITION .v Of Balfe's Melodious Opera, in Five Acts, Entitled "SATANELLA" - — —OR— — THE PO WE RQF LOV El MARTIN PA CHE as ...........Rupert ALICE NIELSEN...... as ....Satanella W.H. KINROSS. ...:..as Animanes LAURA MILLARD....as. Leila Beautiful Scenery: Correct Costumes! Brilliant Light Effects ! Popular Prices— 26c and 500. v ORPHEUM. O'Farrell Street. Between Stockton and Powell. AN UNPARALLELED PROGRAMME Novelty and Comedy Par Excellence ! THE WHITNEY BROS., KENNEDY and LOKKNZ, THE 3IUHLEMANN trio, ';; .BLOCKSOM and BURNS. THE DE FORRESTS, BARTLETT and MAY, MILLAR BROS., GILBERT and GOLDIE, LES FRERES MARTINETTI. Reserved seats. 25c; Balcony, 10c; Opera chairs and Boa: seats, 50c. ,; . • MACDONOUGH THEATER (OAKLAND). 4 Nights and Wed'day Matinee, beginning To-night Denman Thompson's Celebrated Play, "THE OLD . HOMESTEAD." Prices— 25c, 60c, 75c, «1 ; Mat., 25c, 50c, 75c RUNNING ' A&lgSLf*. RUNNING RACES I JS^^^^ RACES CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES, PR NOME E T I G I * BAY DISTRICT TRACK. Races Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and : Saturday— or Shine. , ■ Five or more races each day. ■ Races start at 2:30 f. m. sharp. McAllister and Ueary street ears ytju \ 7