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MRS. VOGEL KEPT HER EYES ON DURRANT.
Still Another Witness
Found for the Prose
cution.
SHE SAT IN THE WINDOW.
The Lady Watched the You ng
Man in Front of the Nor
mal School.
WAITED FOR BLANCHE LAMONT.
He Kept Paclnar Up and Down on
the Sidewalk Until the Girls
Came Out.
THE CURRANT CAPE IN A MINTTE-STILL
ANOTHER WITNESS IS FOUND.
Mrs. Mary Vogel, residing at 919 Powell
street, directly opposite the Normal School, is
the latest discovery in the way of a witness for
the prosecution. She states positively that she
caw Durrant pacing up and down in front of
the Normal School from 2 o'clock till 3 on the
afternoon of April 3 and, taking him to bo a
suspicious character, took particular note of
his appearance. At 3 o'clock, when the girls
came out, she saw him go up and speak to one
of the girls, bow to her and afterward board
the east side of the dummy of a southbound
Powell-street car. She fixes the date positively
by several occurrences, and is certain that she
is not mistaken in the man.
New witnesses are also said to have been dis
covered in the Williams case, but the prosecu
tion will not disclose their identity.
Durrant took things quietly in the County
Jail yesterday, his principal visitors being his
father and mother, who called after lunch.
Another woman who saw, or claims she
saw Theodore Durrant in company with
Blanche Lamont on the afternoon of April
3 has been discovered by the prosecution.
Like Mrs. Caroline S. Leak this lady was
looking from a window in her residence
when the young couple flashed across her
vision, but, unlike Mrs. Leak, it was at the
beginning not at the end of Blanche La
niont's last journey on earth.
This new witness is Mrs. Mary Vogel,
who resides at 919 Powell street, directly
opposite the Normal School, where Blanche
Lamont made her first and last appear
ance that fateful day in April. Mrs. Vo-
gel's testimony would be interesting if it
were only for the fact that it is corrobora
tive of that of the Misses Minnie Belle Ed
wards, Alice Pleasant and May Lannigan,
schoolmates of the doomed girl, who testi
fied so positively to the meeting of Blanche
Lamont and Theodore Durrant. It goes
further, however, for the reason that Mrs.
Vogel, who is no relative to Dentist Vogel,
had an opportunity, of which she took full
advantage, to take minute notes of the
personal appearance of the young man.
She had reasons for this, entirely uncon
nected with the first tragedy in Emmanuel
Baptist Church, but potent enough to her
mind to make absolute correctness in de
tails of some moment.
Mrs. Vogel was at her window on April 3
on the lookout for suspicious characters.
For several days previously thieves and
hold-ups had been making their presence
felt in the neighborhood and the residents
were all in a flutter of fear lest any one of
them might be the next visited. Mrs.
Vogel was as greatly excited as any of them
and bad resolved to herself that she would
keep a good eye for strangers in the local
ity. P^or this purpose sbe took up her
position at one of the windows in the front
room of her house overlooking Powell
street, determined to watch for strangers
while she sewed.
This was about 1:30 o'clock in the after
noon, and but very few people were passing
on the street, except in the cars. For half
an hour or more she sat and sewed, look
ing out of the window now and then to
note the passers-by, but nothing occured to
arouse her suspicions until shortly after
.2 o'clock. At that time Dnrrant, or the
young man she is positive is the accused
medical student, appeared on the scene.
Mrs. Vogel noticed him the first time
leaning against the post at the foot of the
.stairway leading into the school nearest
Clay street. She paid but little attention
to him at first, resuming her sewing, not
taking him to be a suspicious person. A few
moments later when she looked out of the
window he was still there. Immediately
Mrs. Vogel made up her mind that it would
be a good thing to keep her eyes upon his
movements. She dropped her sewing,
drew her chair back a little further in the
shade and watched.
For nearly an hour she kept her eyes
steadily on the young man. Apparently
oecoroing tired ot standing at the foot of
the stairs the young man, who she is posi
;ive was Durrant, began pacing up and
iown in front of the school. Later he ex-
lended his walk from the lamppost, which
js located in front of the school, to that
part of the sidewalk in front of what is
known as Judge Treadwell's old house,
134 Powell street, a distance of about
wentv feet from the corner.
Slowly, back and forth on this self-
Mected beat the young man walked, Mrs.
yogcl, whose suspicions had been aroused
k> a hiph pitch by this time, making the
nost minute mental notes of his appear
mce and his wearing apparel. He had on
t slouch hat, she states, a dark cutaway
:oat and trousers of material of a lighter
:olor. Several times during his walks up
md down the young man, apparently per
•piring from the heat, took off his hat and
nopped his face and forehead with his
ia^idkerchief. During these times Mrs.
iTogel noticed that his hair was rather
ong and that he had only the slightest
tind of a mustache.
The young man continued walking to
.nd fro in front of the school and Mrs.
fogel, all vigilance, watched him through
ler front window. At last 3 o'clock came
.nd with it the young ladies trooped out
if the school and Mrs. Vogel then noticed
hat the young man suddenly extended
»is walk up the street in the direction of
■acramento street, stopping when he had
cached the lamppost. Taking her eyes
rom him for a moment, Mrs. Vogel no
iced the young ladies coming down the
teps. and then she saw the young man
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start from his post and hurry in the direc
tion of Clay street. Two of the young
ladies whom Mrs. Vogel had noticed come
out of the school had nearly reached the
corner in front of the Fulton Market and
she at once surmised the young man de
sired to overtake them. She was not mis
taken.
The moment the young man reached
the young women they half turned, and
he took off his hat, as if making the usual
salutation. A car came up at this time,
and Mrs. Vogel saw the young man and
one of the young women get on the east
side of the dummy, while the other young
lady went inside the car. The car moved
off and with it the idea faded from Mrs.
Vogel's mind that the young man she had
watched so long and narrowly was a sus
picious character.
That is the general story of what Mrs.
Vogel will testify to when placed on the
stand by the prosecution, and it will be
seen that while it will wholly corroborate
the testimony of the three Normal School
girls, who have already told their storieß,
it goes further — very much further. It
tallies exactly with every word uttered on
the witness stand by Miss Minnie Belle
Edwards, who was the only student at the
school who had made any advances to
Miss Lamont at all.
TTTJpon her two separate examinations
Miss Edwards said that she had come
down the steps of the school in company
with Blanche Lamont just after school had
been dismissed on the afternoon of April
VIEW FROM MBS. VOGEL'S WINDOW ON POWELL STREET, OPPO
SITE THE IJORMAL SCHOOL.
[ The croat marks the place where the new witness saw the man she believes to have been
Durrant.]
[From a sketch made by a "Call" artist.]
3. Together the two walked to the corner
of Clay and Powell streets, witti the in
tention of taking a car. Almost at the in
stant they got to the corner a young man,
whom she positively identifies as Theo
dore Durrant, came up and greeted Miss
Lamont. Miss Edwards then went inside
the car, and Miss Lamont and her escort
took seats on the east side of the dummy.
From this and the statement of Mrs.
Vogel, it can be readily surmised that
Miss Edwards was the young lady she had
seen with Blanche Lamont when they met
the young man, whom they both identify
as Theodore Durrant.
The statement of Mrs. Vogel that she
had watched the young man for nearly an
hour as he walked up and down in front of
the school is of value for the reason that it
gave her that full length of time to take
the most critical notes of his general ap
pearance; and for the further reason that,
if it establishes anything, it establishes the
fact that Durrant certainly could not have
been at the Cooper Medical College in time
for any part of the lecture of Dr. Cheney
before 3:30 o'clock at the very earliest,
even supposing that he had only ridden a
block or so past California street, where
the Misses Lannigan and Pleasant last saw
him on that day, and then alighted. This
is allowing that what Mrs. Vogel and the
Normal School girls say is true and that
Durrant made the quickest possible con
nections.
Mrs. Vogel and her testimony were
totally unknown to the police until a few
days ago, when Captain Lees received an
intimation of the existence of the lady.
He had some difficulty in locating her
whereabouts, and it was only on Monday
that one of his men made a call at her
residence. "What he discovered there is
probably in line with the statement made
last night by Mrs. Vogel to a reporter for
The Call. She was very nervous at the
imminence of the publicity about to be
thrust upon her, but finally admitted that
she had seen a young man she was positive
was Durrant in company with a Normal
School girl on the afternoon of April 3.
"I saw him," she said, "from 2 o'clock
till 3 o'clock on that afternoon, my atten
tion first being attracted to him as I was
on the lookout for suspicious characters.
Several robberies had occured in the
neighborhood about the first of the month,
The house of Samuel Newman, secretary of
the Board of Railway Commissioners, at
907 Powell street, had been entered, and
Kelly's house on the corner of Sacramento
and Powell streets had also been visited
by the thieves. One lady, I remember,
was knocked down and robbed by a
hold-up on Sacramento street, and
I had made up my mind to keep
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1895.
a watchout for suspicious characters.
Well, on the afternoon of the 3d of April,
while I was sitting at my window here I
saw a young man at the bottom of the
steps of the school across the street— the
stairs nearest Clay street. I stopped my
sewing and resolved to watch him. I did
so for a few moments, and then, as if he
had become tired, he began pacing up and
down the sidewalk in front of the school.
He was walking slowly, and he gradually
increased his beat as far north as the door
of Judge Treadwell's house.
"I watched him intently, my mind be
ing immediately made up that he was a
suspicious character, and I noticed partic
ularly his dress and his face so that I
might be able to identify him if he was
ever connected with any robbery. He had
on a black cutaway coat, a slouch hat and
a grayish pair of trousers. Once or twice
when the sun became too hot for him he
took off his hat and wiped his face with his
handkerchief. Then I noticed that his
hair was long and that he had a little bit
of a mustache.
"He walked np and down, up and down,
until school was out, and as the girls
came down the stairs he took up his stand
at the lamppost. I noticed two girls who
were ahead of the others walk in the di
rection of Clay street. He caught sight of
them and started hurriedly after them.
He overtook the girls at the butcher's
corner and took off his hat. Just then a
north - bound car came along and ob
structed my view for a minute. When it
had passed I saw the young man and one
of the young ladies make for the dummy
of the south-bound car, which had just run
up, while the other girl had separated
from them. She went inside the car and
the youne man and the young woman
boarded the dummy on the side nearest the
butcher-shop.
"My heart was so light when the young
man got on the car with the young girl.
Then I knew he was not a suspicious char
acter.
' : How do I fix the date?" she exclaimed
in reply to a question. "Why, by several
things. First of all, on the same evening
my husband brought home a postal card
addressed to me, upon which was stamped
April 2. I called his attention to this, and
asked him why it had taken till the next
day to t»et it home. I wa9 blaming him for
its delay and got somewhat angry, so I
didn't say any more to him about it.
"The next day one of my friends called
on me and I told her of my suspicions
about the young man I had seen waiting
for the girls at the Normal School and I
also told her about my husband having
brought the delayed postal-card in the
night before."
"How did you come to know, Mrs. Vogel,
that the young man was Dnrrant," she
was asked.
"By the pictures in the papers," she re
plied. "The minute I heard about the
murders and saw his pictures it all flashed
over me and 1 said, 'That's the young man
I saw waiting for those girls on that day.'
Then I hunted up that postal-card and
saw that the date on it was as I had stated,
April 2, and knew I had received it on the
evening of April 3.
This knowledge, Mrs. Vogel stated, she
had not divulged to the authorities for the
reason that she was afraid of the notoriety
she would achieve and of the fearful ques
tioning she was Certain would follow at the
hands of the attorneys. She might never
have made it hnown had it not been for her
husband, M. Voeel, a carrier on the Guide,
who convinced her that it was her duty to
make it known and to testify if need be.
Mrs. Vogel, therefore, will take her stand
in the long list of witnesses for the prose
cution, despite whose formidable front the
defense still expresses its ability to prove
an alibi. Her testimony will corroborate
that of the Normal School girls as stated
before, and will cut a big figure in the cal
culation of Durrant's story at the college
on that afternoon.
For the first time this morning the de
fendant and his counsel will learn of this
new witness against them, but it is safe to
say that even with this their confidence in
tneir ability to prove an alibi will remain
unshaken. They were of that opinion yes
terday, and despite rumors of mysterious
women and equally mysterious men pro
ceed with unruffled front and confident
air, awaiting the day of the trial, when
they say all they ask is a fair jury and
themselves, and their evidence will do the
rest.
Incidentally yesterday the murder of
Minnie "Williams, which has been kept out
of sight in the face of the present trial,
took on a little interest from the fact that
it had been stated around police head
quarters that a new witness had been dis
covered against Durrant in a man
who positively identified Durrant and Min
nie Williams as having been together on
the evening of April 12 in front of the
church. This, of course, in the face of
Durrant's statement that he had not seen
the murdered girl on that evening would
be important. Still, with all this, Detec
tive Morse makes the clear statement that
he has the clearest kind of a defense for
his client in that case.
And so it goes. Detectives, attorneys,
court clerks and reporters are all busy,
while the defendant and the vemremen
wait for Thursday morning and" the reap
pearance of Judge Murphy on the bench.
The defendant had rather a quiet time of
it yesterday, his visitors being few and far
between, the most welcome ones being his
father and mother, who called to see him
at 1 o'clock and remained about half an
hour.
PAINTED THE WORLD RED
Hilarious Trip East Taken by
Two Well-Known Club
men.
SUED FOR PAET OF THE BILL.
Story of Their Wildly Wicked Jaunt
as Told by a Lot of Letters and
Telegrams.
The plain, unvarnished tale of the sporty
doings of two gay clubmen held a lot of
happy Bohemians, reserved Pacific Union
members and blase University Club think
ers popeyed in Justice of the Peace Groe
zinger's courtroom yesterday. Some of
them sucked the heads of their walking
sticks, breathed heavily and blushed furi
ously as the wild and wicked doings went
unchallenged on the record.
All the evidence adduced told in a simple,
straightforward way of a trip East— a "gilt
edged cyclone on a vermilion-painted war
path," one of the lawyers called it— made
by W. R. Jndson and H. E. Hardin, two
young clubmen. They move in circles
where a poker-player never asks his neigh
bor how much he is shy in the kitty.
Somewhere on the same train that took
Hardin and Judson East were two young
women who disdained being called any
thing but Sadie and Ray by their friends.
They were not worldly wise, these young
women, and now and then Judson and
Hardin explained to them how to travel.
Such little attentions cost money, of
course, and the second day out the two
young fellows commenced to use the wire
on their friends to raise the necess ary
funds. In three days they had the wires
red hot with urgent calls for money. The
telegrams were dated all along the road
East, and plainly told in court yesterday
the distress and the joy that lit up that
eventful trip East.
W. E. Hill received a bate h of these tele
grams. At that time, September, 1891,
Hill was living in Candelaria, Nev. He
cheerfully sent on $200 to the hilarious
duo. Soon afterward Hill died, and his
brother, Charles Hill, in running over the
private papers, came across the spicy tele
grams, letters and I 0 U's that marked
the stages of the jaunt as conspicuously as
empty beer bottles and sardine cans tell
the trail of the overjoyed picnicker.
Charles Hill asked Hardin to payback
to the estate his share of the junketing
expense. Hardin demurred, so Hill sent
in the whole bill to Judson. Judson is
very well connected and it was thought he
would settle. He gave a $100 draft on A.
Judson, 32 0 Sansome street, but the draft
was protested. Then Hill brought suit in
the Justices' Court for the amount. It
was the hearing of the case that drew a
miscellaneous assortment of clubmen,
chappies, willie boys and boulevardiers to
the courtroom.
Judsqn did not put in an appearance, so
Administrator Charles Hill had every
thing his own way. The lively telegrams
for money that dotted the Eastern way of
the gay clubmen were read with a dra
matic spirit that drew tears of envy, won
der and delight from the well-groomed
audience.
The first telegram is loaded with deadly
meaning. It is dated Union Depot, Ogden,
September 25, 1891, and is addressed to W.
E. Hill, Candelaria. It reads as follows :
Done up. Telegraph if you can ; if not ex
cress immediately, Hotel Metropole, Denver,
that two hundred. Answer. X X
Hill knew a little of politics and was
wary of the double cross in the signature.
He suspected it was significant of the way
he would be treated when he demanded
payment. While hesitating what to do
the following pathetic appeal came hum
ming over the wires :
Echo City, Utah, Sept. 25, 1891.
To W. E. Hill, Candelaria: You can send by
W., F. & Co. telegraph transfer; if not, by West
ern Unions .Keep mum. Sure. Sadie.
Sadie's thus unexpected mixing up in
the matter was a severe jolt to the feelings
of Hill. However, the gay travelers found
enough money to help them along another
stage of the rollicking journey, and they
forgot all about Hill till they reached
Denver. Then the following telegram
came winging its joyful way westward:
Denver, Colo., Sept. 28.
To W. E. Hill, Candelaria : What is the mat
ter with yon ? No Sio.
The altitude and the company had a
cheerful effect on Hardin and Judson, and
they bethought themselves that they might
as well get $200 as $100 while they were at
it. So one telegram was hardly on its way
when the following went chasing after it:
Denver, Colo.
To W. E. Hill : Have you sent the two ? If
not do bo to-day by wire Hotel Metropole, Den
ver. X. X.
Under this rain of telegrams Hill began
to respond. Judson and Hardin accepted
the returns gratefully and joyfully, and
under the exhilaration of the moment fired
in another telegram for $100 on the benevo
lent Candelaria capitalist:
Denver, Colo., Sept. 30, 1 891 .
To W. E. Hill : Wire one more to Auditorium
Hotel, Chicago, ou Friday. Are in hole and
must get it to square. JtTD.
But Hill was growing shy. He figured
out that he would be bankrupt before the
party got to New York if he sent them $100
to every place they stopped on the be
spangled route. In this plight Ray jumped
into the breach and wired the following:
Chicago, Oct. 3, '91.
To W. E. Hill: Send that one alone to Palmer
House, Chicago. Will fix soon as return. Tel
egraph it to Ed. Ray.
But Hill never responded again.
Mixed up witn the telegrams were a score
or more of lively letters that described the
hilarious jaunt more in detail. The read
ing of them set the assembled clubmen
chuckling time and again. The letters
were written from all sorts of places along
the vermilion-hued route of the hilarious
travelers. Most of them are dated from
prominent clubs in Denver and Chicago.
They are explicit, direct, spirited and full
of the fire or a man who knows he is hav
ing a good time. Here is one dated from
the Denver Club:
Billy, ola boy, we own the town. What fnn
we have had. Been entertained by the nobil
ity, and have not drunk a drop. Have been
presented with free boxes to the theater and
everything else is free. Will write you longer
when I return from the dinner. Your Jud.
September 29, '91.
Here is one dated from the Chicago Club,
and shows that Hill's double-cross treat
ment of the telegram signed with a
double cross created a great deal of hard
feeling.
Dear Billy: Jud is very sore at you and to
day telegraphed home arid got $500. Don't tell
hi in I told you this. We are going to New
York on next Monday and goodness only
knows when we will get back. He was mad
because you did not send him the other $100
he asked you for, and I had hard work from
Keeping him from telegraphing the $100 you
sent him back from here when he got his
money. Please don't say I told you this. Yonrs
a» ever, Haedin.
There are a lot of lively, spicy letters in
the bunch and among them is one that
seems almost ominous. It was written by
one of the revelers from the University
Club, Chicago, October 5, 1891. It reads as
follows:
Dear Billy: This is your death warrant.
Draw on E. & 1., Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
May we all live long and be happy.
Hill died soon afterward.
In one of the notes Judson told Hill's
lawyers that he wouid pay the $100 if it
could be proved he owed it.
After the letters and telegrams we^e read
yesterday Judson's lawyer moved the
court to dismiss the suit on the ground
that the action was barred by the statute
of limitations.
Justice Groezinger has taken the matter
under advisement.
WAS MOSES A SOCIALIST ?
Rev. J. dimming Smith's Address to the
Institute of Applied Chris
tianity.
Rev. J. Cumming Smith was invited by
the Institute of Applied Christianity to
answer the question, "Was Moses a So
cialißt?" and last evening he read a paper
in answer to that query at the Third Con
gregational Church.
He said in part: "The seed germs of
modern socialism are found in the teach
ings of Mo3es. Long before the Greek
philosophers discoursed on ethics in the
ancient groves Moses drafted a code of
laws. Spencer and George are his fol
lowers. There is a striking resemblance
between their postulates and the original
postulate of Moses.
"All the idealism of that leader tended
to protect the weak as against the strong.
The far-sighted Hebrew policy of making
rural life as honorable, as profitable, as at
tractive as urban life might well be emu
lated in this age. It i 3 most desirable that
the tendency to congestion at the great
arterial centers of national life be checked.
"The essential characteristic of the
Mosaic laws was their humaneness. There
was a remarkable grasp of the social prob
lems of all times, a grasp also of the ideal
social system, and an adaptation of one to
the other.
"There are four broad principles govern
ing the code of Moses. First, the national
water-line of character determined the
scope of institutions and enterprises. Sec
ond, the brotherhood of man and father
hood of God were emphasized. Hence it
was that the ancient Israelites recognized
that the riches of nature are loaned for un
selfish use; that land was designed for the
people, not individuals or "syndicates.
Third, the Mosaic law encouraged indi
vidualism, as we understand it, to be the
development of every man's powers to
their utmost for the good of himself and
others. Moses encouraged healthful com
petition, or perhaps emulation is a more
correct term. The trouble with the pres
ent system is that it is individualism gone
mad. Fourth, a basic principle of the
system is conservatism. The laws of Moses
stand like the pyramids of Egypt and the
axioms of geometry, unchangeable."
He spoke of the laws of the Israelites
against usury and concerning lands, and
commended their Sabbatical observances.
In the discussion which followed the
paper he remarked that Moses was not,
according to the common acceptation of
the term, a socialist, because he encour
aged the development of individuality
rather than its sacrifice to a community of
interest.
Mrs. Haskcll of San Rafael will address
the institute next Tuesday evening.
FIGHTING THE COMBINE
Indignation Meeting of Resi-
dents South of the
Park To-Night.
It Will Protest Against the Taking
Off of the Cars From
Carl Street.
There is to be a meeting of residents of
Carl, Frederick, Waller and other streets
in that vicinity, at William Lange's to
night, 137 Carl street, which is to give the
Market-street Railway combine a not par
ticularly pleasant piece of its mind.
The people of that neigh borhood have a
good-sized greivance, and don't propose to
sit still and say nothing.
The grievance is the stopping of the Met
ropolitan electric system cars from running
out there ever since the Ist of the month.
Those cars now run only as far as Stanyan
street on Page street, and there they stop.
The people of the neighborhood say that
the Market - street Kailway Company
has taken the cars off the Clayton,
Waller, Cole and Carl streets branch just
to give Mayor Sutro's offer of a site for the
affiliated colleges a big black eye, and that,
too, as a piece of spitework against Mr.
Sutro. Hence the indignation meeting to
night at Mr. Lange's.
The Pope estate is one of the greatest
sufferers. Messrs. Pope and Talbot have
been spending $296,000 grading and laying
out into nice residence blocks the forty
five-acre tract running from Stanyan to
Clayton streets on the supposition that the
cars of the old Metropolitan system would
continue to run and bring home-builders
out there.
There is a little retaliation being en
gaged in, too, in the hope that the street
railway monopoly may be brought to
terms. On Monday ex-Senator George H.
Perry, as attorney for Mr. Lange, served
a demand upon Superintendent Vining to
have the poles removed by Thursday from
Mr. Lange's property just where the line
turns onto Carl from Cole street, giving
him the alternative of seeing them removed
by the angered property-owner at the com
pany's expense if the demand was not
complied with.
More yet: An effort will be made to
have the company's franchise forfeited if
the running of the cars is not resumed. It
was Mr. Perry who secured the franchise
for the Metropolitan Company, so he
knows its weak spots.
During the Midwinter Fair the Oarl
street branch ran cars out as far as Ninth
avenue, and it was then considered the
main line. After the fair was over the
company ran four cars out there and after
a while only two and finally, on August 1,
took the two off.
At to-night's meeting Senator Perry,
Taylor Rogers, Thomas M. Sweeney,
George T. Gaden and several others will
express their sentiments, and some sort of
organization will doubtless be effected so
as to be able to right the combine in the
most telling way. Mr. Lange said last
night:
I went to Mr. Vining and asked him if he
was going to put the cars on again. He said
he didn't know— that they didn't pay. I told
him it was no wonder they didn't pay since
the company took away the little waiting sta
tion at Page and Clayton streets, which the
people had for a shelter. How could the com
pany expect this branch to pay under such cir
cumstances? It was better for us to walk five
blocks to Haight street, which is the best we
can do now.
The San Mateo line manages to run all
right, apd yet its cars carried less passengers.
It comes as near to us as Clayton and Fred
erick streets.
See how the Market-street company treated
the Ashbury Heights people. For two days it
ran a couple of cars out on Page street and
Masonic avenue and out on Frederick street as
far as Stanyan and then it took them off
altogether and not a car has run there since.
The streets here are in a horrible condition
too, owing to the treatment we have received
at the hands of the Market-street Railway
people. I have only to mention Oak street,
this side of the park, Cole street, from Oak to
Haight streets, and Shrader street. If we want
anything sent out here, it has to be brought
all the way around by Stanyan and Waller
streets.
JOLLY HIBEKNIANS.
Tyrone, Fermanagh and Donegal Clnb
Will Celebrate on Sunday.
The preparations for the fifth annual pic
nic of the Tyrone, Fermanagh and Donegal
Social Club to be held at Shell Mound on
Sunday. Aogust 25, indicate that it will be
one of the greatest of Irish celebrations.
Two thousand tickets have been sold.
The famous Emmet Guard band has been
engaged. Tim McCarthy, the Irish piper
will accompany the jig and reel. There
will be several hundred dollars' worth of
prizes distributed. Excursions will be run
from Livermore, San Jose and way sta
tions.
Free This Week.
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POTRERO AND SOOTH SIDE
The Monster Guns of the
Battle-Ship Oregon to
Arrive Soon.
South Side Club's Intentions.
Southern Heights Matters.
Solano Street.
It will be about three months yet before
all the batteries are in place on the battle
ship Oregon. The four six-inch guns are
the only ones that have arrived here from
the East so far. In addition to these there
are to be eight eight-inch guns and four
thirteen-inch guns. The thirteen-inch
guns are expected to arrive next month
and the eight-inch guns in October.
General Manager Dickie of the Union
Iron Works says the thirteen-inch guns
will be the biggest ordnance ever shipped
across the continent— much bigger tnan
the far-famed "Big Betsy." At each dis
charge one of these monsters will be able
to send an 1100-pound ball a distance ot
ten miles through the air at a velocity of
200 feet a second. At very close range four
incheß of steel can be penetrated by a shot
from one of these mammoth naval de
stroyers.
Contractors Warren & Mallay have the
granite curbs strung alone both sides of
Solano street at the Potrero for seven
blocks northward from Kentucky street,
which they are now at work on paving
with basalt blocks.
The Southern Heights Improvement
Club is still tugging away at the Spring
Valley Water Company for better service.
Its agitation in favor of good lights has
succeeded, and the hope is therefore enter
tained by its members that in time they
may secure better treatment from the
hands of the Spring Valley monopoly than
they have been getting. The "heights"
are now pretty well illuminated with elec
tric arc lights.
The influence of this club will be used on
the Market-street Railway Company to
hasten if possible the running of the cars
on Solano street. It is generally feared
that the company might try to putoff run
ning the cars till the Bryant-street power
house is completed. Potrero property
owners argue that if there is power enoueh
obtainable to run the cars on the Sixteenth
and Fillmore streets portion of this
route there ought to be sufficient to run
them for the rest of the way.
A meeting was held last night at
Irish-American Hall, 818 Howard street,
by the South Side Improvement Club for
the purpose of hearing the reports of sev
eral committees respecting the Folsom
street matter. A. B. Maguire, of the com
mittee chosen to personally interview
the Supervisors, states that quite a num
ber have expressed themselves as being in
favor of the improvements, notwithstand
ing the adverse action of the Finance
Committee. The date and place of the
proposed mass-meeting will probably be
then settled upon.
"It is the intention of the South Side
people to keep up the agitation for the
bituminizing of Folsom street until it
succeeds, if it takes all this year and next,"
was the observation of R. E. Cole yester
day afternoon.
HOME INDUSTRIES.
California Marble for Building Pur
poses—Goods for the Atlanta
Exposition.
At a meeting of tbe directors of the
Manufacturers' and Producers' Associa
tion held in the Mills building last even
ing there were present: Louis Saroni,
vice-president, who occupied the chair; A.
McLaughiin, G. W. Snyder, W. F. Bowers,
M. M. McGlynn, A. Sbarboro, M. J. Keller
and F. H. Dingle, assistant secretary, who
acted in the absence of Secretary Mead.
A long communication from John 0.
Pelton, architect, a member of the associa
tion, was read. It called the attention of
the association to the desirability o! hav
ing the ferry depot constructed of marble
from California quarries. He set forth :
Marble deposits have been located in many
parts of the State, the State mlneralogical map
showing at least twelve such locations; and in
the mineral collection at the State Mining
Bureau are specimens of marble from most or
these locations. I, myself, have specimens
from ten of these locations, where competent
experts have pronounced the deposits of suffi
cient extent, and the quality of marble to bo
such, as to justify their development for build
ing purposes.
The peculiar beauty of several varieties of
California marble is well known, and the re
markably rich coloring of the same has at
tracted the attention of a New York architect,
who now has under consideration the question
of using it on a large contract in the East for
interior decoration.
There is a large amount of marble used in
this City for interior decoration, wainscoting,
paneling, stairway, plumbers' work, floor and
monumental work. I would estimate that in
late years the amount of Vermont, Tennessee,
Italian and foreign marble used in large build
ings in this City will amount to .$500,000. and
I would further estimate that the amount of
plumbing marble for bathroom work annually
used in this City is not less than $600,000.
This is almost entirely Italian marble— a small
portion being Tennessee marble— and, at the
same time, our California varieties are far
more beautiful and more durable material.
What action should be taken upon this
communication evoked considerable dis
cussion, after which, on the motion of Mr.
Sproule, it was decided to refer it to Secre
tary Meade, who shall decide if it is best to
send it to the Board of Harbor Commis
sioners.
A proposition of Profeesor J. H. Tigner
to give illustrated lectures for the purpose
of advertising California industries was re
ferred to the committee on promotion.
Julian Sonntag reported on behalf of
the committee on legislation that the mat
ter of the manufacture of jute goods in
San Quentin would be discussed at the
September meeting of the Board of Prison
Directors.
"The matter of incorporation," reported
H. T. Scott, "is well in hand, and will soon
be in shape."
A report presented by Messrs. Sproule
and Currie, relative to the exhibition
at Atlanta, Ga., calling attention to the
offer of the State Board of Trade to take
charge of the exhibits and asking manufac
turers to send California goods there, wa3
ordered printed and sent to each member
of the association.
The meeting adjourned to the call of the
chair. '
It is proposed to carry into effect a
project which aims at bringing from far
below the lowest depths of Sydney harbor,
New South Wales, the coal which geolo
gists had predicted would be found there,
and which has actually been tested by
diamond-drill borings.
Emile Zola,
the Eminent Writer/
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