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FRIDAY AUGUST 23, 1896
{-'./ ; AMUSEMENTS.
.' Eaj,s*ik Thfater.-" The Bauble Shop."
i .£ OT ■''.**"*. 1 ! hicatir -" A Tragedy Rehearsed,"
p ">ance Oldheld" and "A Man of the World."
,-. -Mokosco'B Opera-housk-" A Cracker- Jack."
. .Tjvoii OpF.BA-norsE-"The Royal Middy."
| ■• .Qephkum— High-Class Vaudeville.
Mkchanjcs' Fair.— Larkin street, near Market.
"«°,l i T OAKI> of Teahf. Exhibit.— S7B Market
tweet, below Second. Open daily. mission free.
•f OJ ? AY District TRACK.-Races.
■ t>erVto r< i.4 XIA STATI2 FAiR-Sacramento, Septem
oer^ to lj.
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, .*"•:• PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS.
vi il ' V 1 "* 0 — Sunday. August 26— Aquatic Exhl
bmon by South Sea Island Swimmers.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TV)gs are being poisoned at Pausalito at the
rate of thirty a week.
A comer in Chinese lanterns ha- been
secured by Chinese in view of the
carnival.
The surviror3 of the sealing schooner C. G.
White yesterday received i*o7l subscribed for
their benefit.
Mrs. Alfred Cop.d is suine her husband for
divorce because he objected to her going to
lodge meetings.
The police are hunting for three men in a
buggy who are committing numerous burg
laries in the Mission.
Pictures of the rooking classes at the public
Fohools will be a featun ■ i>f the San Francisco
display at the Atlanta Exposition.
The five cases against K. 11. McDonald Jr.,
■which were pending in Judge Murphy's court,
have beon drop;*: calendar.
nation, or inaugural, services of the Con
gregation Tifferes Israel will bo held at St.
Paul's Church, on Mission Street, Sunday.
; The agricultural experiment station of the
University of California sent a tine collection
of.grains and grasses to the Mechanics' Fair.
• The Southern Pacific lias adopted a plan to
purchase return parts of round-trip tickets at a
; rebate, thus throwing scalpers out in the cold.
; ■'& committee of the Traffic Association met
; ypsie'rday and canvassed sixteen applications
secretary, who will be chosen next Tuesday.
.The Gccthe-Schiller Monument Association
has begun the preliminary work for the big
'festiv&l'to be held in the Pavilion in Novem
■ ber. . . ".
Judge Low yesterday ordered W. C. Isaacs, a
■witness in a petty larceny case, placed under
arrest -for perjury and fixed his bond 3at
$14,000. ;
• Ftar .7. Jacqby has been relieved of the charge
■ of- the Prussian National Insurance Company,
and hi? agjelicy has been transferred to Cesar
Berthiun. •
I'ki'.iauton (Alameda County) hop
rs i.aye decided to dispense with Japa
■ dies and employ white people to bar
crop.
The! State Harbor tugs and City Fire Depart-
Surillvrork toeether hereafter at the call
of water-front n'.urms, all under the direction
of Chief Sulli Van.
The trial of Theodore Fox's suit against John
AW Mackay, - nes and other*, Involv
ing claims of *l,s~v),0O0, was begun yesterday
berore Judge SeawelL
X Chairman Rieketts has called a meeting of
the Miners' Association committee of five on
conference with the Southern Pacific for next
Wednesday afternoon.
Judge Joachimsen yesterday fined Deckhand
Euoc'k Sealaud $10 for beating a dog on the
steamer El Capitan. Samuel Wordenwas fined
$10 for abusing a horse.
Colonel Burns will arrive from the East on
Saturday next and find a big revolt among his
late followers, Senator Jerry Mahoney being
one of the indignant ones.
The sum of $5000 has been raised to be ex
pended in fighting in the United States courts
the Jtoss decision affecting irrigation bonds
issued under the Wright law.
So soon as the election excitement dies down
in the Olympic Club the swimming annex will
give its maiden tournament. The programme
Ib an exceptionally good one.
l>r. Freeman, a ?ausalito physician, has had
ate canceled by the Mate Board of
"^ Kxnmiuers for some criminal acts whib3 a prac
:ig physician in Kugiand.
Tf.e sale -of the stock from the Souther Farm
on Wednesday oi this week in this City shows
tnat the interest iv the troiting-horse line is
practically dead on this coast.
The merchants on Kearny street near the
old City Hall have been complaining bitterly
against the manner in which Jake ßauer is
having that building removed.
The attempt of Great Rritain to alter the
Alaskan boundary line will, if successful, take
a loug strip of country sixty miles wide fiom
the dominion of the United States.
All the local parlors of the N. S. G. W. are
busy getting ready for the- exodus to Sacra
mento, where Admission day is to be celebrated
on the Bth, iHh and 10th of "September.
'The general meeting of the Civic Federation
to 'incorporate is to be held in the aseembly
hail of the Mills building this evening. It is
the intention to fol.ow the Chicago plan.
The boy, Charles Kane, who was kicked by a
horse Sunday and had a portion of his skull
removed, is still alive at the hospital, and
there is a strong chance of his recovery.
The talent were in better luck at the track
iay, three fnvorites showing in front.
'l-M- winning horses were Gondola, May Mc-
Carthy, Mount Air, Bloomsbury and Mamie
Scott,
A reception was tendered to Rev. William
Hall Moreland, rector of St. Luke's, as a wel
come home after his vacation, on Wednesday
evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
C. n:aith.
Forecast Official W. H. nammon predicts fair
weather for to-day, growing cloudy and foggy
st night. Nearly stationary temperature, with
fresh" westerly winds growing brisk in the
af lernoon, may be looked for.
A company with half a million dollars eapi
tel was -recently organized in this City to
handle the surplus oil of Loa Angeles by run
ning it to ban Pedro in pipes and conveying it
to miii Francisco by tank steamers.
■Attorney-General Fitzgerald has rendered an
opinion in which he stales that a claim by a
private corporation for merchandise told to a
county is invalid when one of the members of
the corporation is a Supervisor of the county.
There has Deen an election in the Signal Corps
of the Second Brigade, to fill the vacancy
caused by' the resignation of Captain Hanks.
Hrst Lieutenant Boardman was made captain
and First Sergeant Perkins was made first lieu
tenant.
fuit was brought against the Pacific Bank,
yesterday, restraining it from paying further
sivkleiid"s until a deposit of bainuel Montague
& Co. of London, Eng., for the benefit of a
State of Washington payee is adjudged a pre
ferred claiiu and paid in full.
Dr. K. Beverly Cole expresses his opinion
m about the site for the AJiiliated Colleges. He
believes the Southern Pacific is exercising
gome Bort of influence, though in which direc
tion he is. unwilling to state. Dr. Cole also
gives an excellent reason why the Sutro site
should be accepted.
Labor Commissioner E. L. Fitzgerald while
in Los. Angeles investigated a co-operative
store; which he says is the most perfectly con
ducted establishment of the kind he ever
knew of. He will forward a description of the
establishment and its business principles to
the University of Chicago.
The lawsuit over the Surveyor's fees for work
done on the eewer system in the Richmond
district Iras developed a technicality that may
develop into a chance for the property-owners
to escape paying their assessments on the
ground that the work was not legally done.
Marguerite D. Harrigan is suing the
Home Life Insurance Company of New "iork for
$10,000 on a policy held by her former bus
fcand, John T. Hope. The company refused to
pay the insurance, alleging that one premium
remained uupaid at Mr. Hope's death, but the
plaintiff in the suit alleges that no notice had
been received that the premium was due.
Officer Dowd of the Harbor Police, who is
gifted wMh a pair of quicksilver heels, ran a
footrace witfi H. Robinson of the Southern Pa
uilroad Company in A lameda yesterday.
The race was for *250 a side, and although
Uowd was trained by Jack McGreevy, the
famous sprinter, and paced by a pet grey
hound, he was beaten badly in 220 yards.
h Steeie, a boy between 4 and 5 years of
at'<\was frightfully burned aoout the body,
arms legs and face yesterday afternoon. He
nviug in the yard in rear of his parents
r.-i(fence at 496 fcleveuth street, when his
dress caught lire. His sister saw him and
rushed to his aid. with a bed quilt, which she
wrapped round him and extinguished the
flames. He was taken to the Receiving Hospi
tal. He may recover.
The Manufacturers' and Producers' Associa
tion has sent" a letter to A. J. Holden, the
theatrical manager, who proposes to erect a
n*w theater" on Howard street. The associa
m alii attention to the fact that nearly
Everything wanted in the construction and
furnishing of the theater can be purchased
from -California manufacturers, and requests
that California products be given tbe prefer
ence. 1
ALONG THE WATER FRONT
State Harbo> Tugs and Fire
Department Will Work
Together.
THE FERRY BRIEGE LANDING.
Distribution of Money Collected for
the Survivors of the Schooner
White.
The representatives ot the Franks es
tate were in attendance upon the
Board of Harbor Commissioners yester
day, and discussed the proposal of the
State to secure the north corner of East
and Market streets for a terminus of the
ferry foot bridge. Some time ago the Com
missioners proposed to straighten East
street to a line drawn from the northern
corner of Clay to Market street. This re
claimed space would have a frontage on
Clay street of 150 feet, on East street of 125
feet, and on Commercial of 60 feet. South
of Commercial street it would have a fronts
age on East street of 50 feet, and on Com
mercial of 40 feet. The space required for
a bridge landing is a right-angle triangle
clipped at its southern point by Market
street, which gives a frontage on that
thoroughfare of 18 feet. Its frontage on
East street is 60 feet, and on Sacramento
almost B0 feet. It is also proposed to throw
the curve of the Sacramento-street cable
line, which is a constant menace and a
nuisance to foot passengers and vehicles,
north of the bridge landing and away
from Market street.
The Franks brothers do not take kindly
to anything like an even exchange, and it
is evident that their valuation of the cor
ner desired by the State will be no small
figure. They hold that it is the best
paying property in the whole City, and
while the trade would add a large increase
of street frontage and more area to their
property the addition is comparatively in
significant in value.
Mr. Cole held that the new frontage
north of the proposed street for the cable
line would be of no inconsiderable value to
the block, but the attorney of the estate in
sisted that the cars running close to
the sidewalk, as they would in the narrow
thoroughfare, would destroy what com
mercial value there might be in that
frontage.
"The cars and the bridge landing itself
will shut in that locality," s.iid he, "and
the people passing by will simply go up
and down the bridge stairway and never
see that frontage."
President Colnon pressed them to set
some valuation upon the space in ques
tion, bat without success. "If we are to
buy a norse we must have a price put on
him," said the Commissioner.
•'But I have the horse and I am not
anxious to sell him ," returned the lawyer.
Mr. Colnon suggested that as the bridge
would not be built until tne completion of
the great ferry building two years hence
the matter could go over for the present.
Commissioner Chsdbourne stated that
the board was determined to build the
bridge and the landing would be either on
the north or south side of Market street.
Any place may be condemned for that
purpose and a valuation fixed upon the
property.
Chief Sullivan of the Fire Department
was present at the meeting of the board
and lie was told that it was the desire of
the Harbor Commissioners that their tugs
should work in harmony with the City
Fire Department when possible. A tele
phone message from the Chief would call
the tugs to any part of the water front
where depth of water would permit to go,
.There the firemen would go aboard and
the vessels would be under the control of
the Chief and his assistants. Mr. Chad
bourne stated that the Harbor Commis
sioners refused to send the tugs north of
Powell street only because the water was
too shallow. Chief Sullivan expressed
himself perfectly satisfied with those ar
rangements and promised the hearty co
operation of the City Fire Department
with the Harbor Commissioners in case of
fires within reach of the tugs.
A communication was received from the
Chamber of Commerce complimenting the
board upon the building of a better and
stronger system of wharves along the
water front of San Francisco.
H. N. Campbell was appointed wharf
inger in place in place of C. E. Ellsworth,
term expired.
The money collected among merchants
and shippers by Al White for the benefit
of the schooner White survivors was dis
tributed to them yesterday. The amount
raised was $671, and was expended as fol
lows: E. W. Bail, who is in the hospital
with both feet and a portion of his hands
gone, was given $200; E. J. Voisinet, $125,
and four other sufferers $67 apiece. One
man who escaped injury was given $58. A
finely engrossed testimonial in parchment
was ordered prepared for Dr. A. Dickinson,
the heroic physician of Wood Island, who
attended the frozen men alone and without
sufficient medicines and appliances for his
work.
The crew of the schooner James Town
send, wrecked Sunday morning on the
Mendocino coast, arrived here yesterday
on the steam schooner Point Arena. Cap
tain Jensen states that they left Fort
Bragg Saturday evening in tow of the
steam schooner Noyo and soon encoun
tered rough weather. The night was dark
and foggy and the sea ran high. Early
next morning the tow lines parted and
the vessel began to drift in the heavy
swell on to the beach. When she struck
the crew took to the rigging, and all that
day and the following nig^ht they re
mained in their insecure positions. "Next
morning the sea had gone down and the
mate managed to launch a boat and reach
the shore. The schooner went on the
beach near Point Arena lighthouse, and
soon a number of people from the town
came down to the scene of the wreck.
A raft was sent off to the vessel and all
the men were with much difficulty res
cued. The schooner's cook was exhausted
and would have been lost if Professor
Frank A. Butts of the Point Arena schools
had not swum through the surf to the ves
sel with a line and assisted him to reach
the beach. The James Townsend was soon
crushed by the breakers, and is a total
los?.
The hydrographic office in this City
gives notice that a rock with three fathoms
of water on it has been discovered on the
north side of Bonita Channel, about 350
feet outside of black buoy 3 and in line
with red buoy 2.
,Ex-Congressman Thomas J. Geary was
out in the bay yesterday in his handsome
new 19-foot gasoline launch. Herengines are
of two horse-power and will steam about
seven miles an hour. She was built by
Twiggs at fhe foot of Third street, and is
the prettiest craft imaginable. Mr. Geary
will take her to Inverness, where he domi
ciles his family during the summer
months, and the little boat will be soon
cutting over the quiet waters of Tomales
Bay.
JAPANESE NOT WANTED.
An Order for Two Hundred White Hop-
Pickers for Pleasanton.
The investigation of the Japanese cooly
labor question held at Pleasanton, Ala
roeda County, several months ago by
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has begun
to show good results. At that time it was
shown that most of the work in the hop
yards was being performed by Japanese
cooly contract laborers.
This was particularly the case upon the
large Pleasanton Hop Company's ranch.
Mr. Lillienthal, the president of the com
pany yesterday asked the Labor Commis
sioner' to send him 200 white hop-pickers
from the Free Labor Bureau. This meant
that white laborers will take the place of
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1895.
the Jap 3in the eastern part of Alameda
County. Mr. Lillienthal preferred families
and men who will furnish their own board
and camp. He promised to p«y good
wages. As the hops are picked by the
hundred pounds the best workers will
make considerable money. Mr. Fitzgerald
was greatly pleased with this order.
Another order tor fifty grape-pickers was
received yesterday from a raisin-grower in
Fresno County. They will be sent down
in a special car within two or three days.
ACCIDENT OR SUICIDE.
The Body of an Unknown Man Fouud
at the Foot of Harrison
Street.
The body of an unknown man is lying at
the Morgue. It was found at the foot of
Harrison street, at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, by Jose Zemmet. The body
iiad been in the water probably eight
hours. All that would lead to identifica-
tion found on bis person was a leaf torn
from a notebook, on which was written:
JSan Francisco, June 27, 1895.
Mr. Keller— Deak Sik: Please give bearer, J.
O'Brien, what we agreed on swift rigs, and
oblige W. O'Briex.
The deceased undoubtedly was a labor
ing man, between 60 and 65 years of age,
and about 5 feet 7 inches tall. He is
dressed in a shabby black diagonal coat, a
striped flannel shirt, and trousers of dark
material. His beard is sandy, sprinkled
with gray, and he has a black, heavy head
of hair. "
AN INSURANCE COMBINE
Franz Jacoby's Agency Trans
ferred to Cesar Ber
theau.
Other Consolidations Are Expected
to Follow— The Rate War
Responsible.
The Prussian National Insurance Com
pany has gone into the Cesar Bertheau
Agency, and Franz Jacoby, its old man
ager, has been summarily dropped.
Jacoby had been Pacific Coast manager of
the concern for a pood many year 3, and
nis father held the same position before
him. so his removal has caused consider
able comment among insurance men.
For a cause to account for the change
insurance men are almost unanimous in
the belief that the recent rate war is re
sponsible. They also believe that the
same cause will be responsible for more
changes of the same kind. The ratio of
expenses and the premium incomes of the
local agencies have been too near the same
figure for months back and the companies
can retrench only by cutting down ex
penses. It costs but little more to run
two companies than to run one, and still
less in proportion to run three or four in
the same agency.
The rate war has been, in effect, like a
candle burning at both ends. In the re
duction of the rate the companies lost in
their premium incomes sometimes as high
as 50 per cent. Where before the pre
mium income reached $20,000 a month it
dropped suddenly to $10,000 and $12,000.
Daring all this time the losses ran from
$6000 to $8000 and there came no decrease
in the losses with the decrease in the
income.
This state of affairs made it imperative
that the loss ratio should be reduced by
taking only the safest risks, and this
policy further reduced the premium in
come until the profits of the insurance
business were extremely meager. As it is
now most of California and all of San
Francisco has been worked out, from the
standpoint of an insurance man, and most
of the new policies now being written are
from the Northwest.
The Prusbian National has not been in
particularly high favor in insurance circles
since the wrangle over the payment of the
losses at the Buyer & Reich fire. The
local insurance men determined to contest
the payment of the losses, and for some
time they held together in this determina
tion. Jacoby finally weakened, however,
and the Prussian National paid the claims
against it. This action met with a storm
of opposition at the time, and it was still
remembered in the various offices even
after all claims were ordered paid by the
court.
The Cesar Bertheau agency has now the
Hanover, Germania, United Fire of Phila
delphia, Firemnn's Insurance of Baltimore
and the Prussian National. There are
other agencies where the companies have
been grouped in just the same way, and it
is expected that within a few weeks more
companies will follow the example of the
Prussian National, and will crowd in
together in the larger agencies.
OCEANIC PASSENGERS,
The Steamship Mariposa Sails for
Honolulu, Auckland and
Sydney.
The Oceanic steamship Mariposa sailed
for Honolulu, Auckland and Sydney yes
terday with the following cabin passenger
list:
For Honolulu— Robert Cowes, Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Clementson, Mr. and Mrs. J.J.Ecan,
Mrs. A. Fuller and son, Miss C. M. Fuller, Rep.
William Ferbeck, Daniel Hanna, If. A. Irwin,
Miss E. P. Judd, Miss Florence Kelsey, Mr. and
Mrs. H. J. Lelande, Rev. Frincis Marx, Miss A.
E. I'aty, Mm. J. G. Rothwell, Theodore Rich
ards, George E. Rugg, Professor M. M. Scott,
Rev. William Shoemaker; Hon. C. T. Wilder,
C.-G. H.; W. Waterhouse, P. L. Wooster.
For Apia— T. B. Cusack-Smith.
For Auckland— Thomas Ellison, Thomas J.
Ellison, A. H.Postlethwaite, Miss F. Whitsted.
For Sydney— W. Percy Brown, J. A. Chap
man, Miss Alice Chapman, C. H. B. Corbetl, \v.
O Campbell and wife, L. Feldmann, Mrs. % H.
Garthwaite, three Children and nurse, James
T. Gibson, William J. Garland, Miss M. Hay
ward, Miss Hoban, A. Hoadley, John Huston,
W. N. Hires, J. L. Irwin, H. C.'Lacey and wife,
Stephen Layer, C. A. MaciJonald, E. Mills, 'Al
bert H. Owens and wife, .lames Orkney, Miss
Rosa O'Laughlin, Walter Stiliwell, Henry Var
ley, Miss Hilda Whiteside, Rev. Herman Young.
For Sydney, join at Honolulu— William Terry,
W. P. Whitley.
Detective Hanna goes to Honolulu with
papers for the arrest of Edwin A. Cattley,
accused of having robbed a companion in
this City several weeks ago.
Hawaiian Consul-General Wilder takes a
short vacation down to the islands and
will return on the Australia Octobers.
TIOKET-SOALPEES BEATEN.
The Southern Pacific .Evolves a Plan to
Fight Them.
General Passenger Agent Goodman of
the Southern Pacific Company has issued
an order to all the conductors on the rail
way to the effect that all first-class single
tickets sold at full tariff rates between
points in Oregon to Nevada, Utah, Arizona
and New Mexico, including El Paso, or
from California to points in Oregon or any
other of those States shall be limited to
thirty days, and all such tickets now un
used in whole or part may be redeemed at
a proper value upon application to the
general passenger department or local
agents.
This plan will .abolish almost entirely
the scalpers' business, and it is aimed
directly at them. Instead of selling the
return half of a ticket to a 6calper under
the new rule it may be sold at a rebate to
the company. •
Voluntary Drunkenness.
Barney Juchter, the teamster, who, while
drunk, accidentally shot Grace Jago, the niece
of Contractor Rooney, was yesterday held to
answer by Judge Low on the charge ot assault
with a deadly weapon in $500 bonds. The
Judge decided that voluntary drunkenness
was no bar to criminal negligence.
Wants to Change His Name.
James Taylor wants his name changed to
James R. Hardy. He lias carried on business
at 127 Montgomery street under the latter
name, and he cays that confusion arises from
the fact that it is not his true name.
PLANS OF LOCAL NATIVES
All the Parlors Busy for the
Admission Day Cele
bration.
COSTUMES FOR THE PARADE.
About Two Thousand Members of
the N. S. G.W. Will Go to
Sacramento.
Every meeting of the twenty-one local
parlors of the Native Sons of the Golden
West from now till the day of departure
for Sacramento will be almost entirely de
voted to completing preparations for the
Admission day celebration. Several of
the parlors have already finished their
iabors in thi3 direction, but most of them
have yet much to do and the local joint
committee is using every effort to see that
enthusiasm does not flag.
From present indications it is expected
that not less than 3000 members will be in
line in the parade of Saturday, September
ONE OF THE ARCHES, FIFTY-SIX FEET HIGH.
[Sketched by a "Call" artist]
7, when the local parlors will march in a
body to the ferry to take passage for the
capital city. The route of the procession
will be from Mason and Market streets to
Kearny, to Bush, to Market and then to
the ferry. Arrangements are now being
made to have all the business firms along
the route burn colored fires during the
passing of the pamders and most of the
G. H. S. Dryden, Chairman of the
Finance and Parade Committees.
merchants have already signified their
intention of carrying dut the suggestion of
the committee working on the matter.
It is expected that in addition to the
members of the order about 1500 of their
relatives and friends will depart on the
7th of September for the scene of the cele
bration.
Round-trip tickets are to he sold at $2 50,
and will be obtainable from the members
ONE OF THE ARCHES, FIFTY-EIGHT FEET HIGH.
[Sketched by a "Call artist.]
of the transportation committee of each
parlor, or from the committee who will De
in attendance at the ferry. As near as can
be learned at present, such tickets will be
honored on all trains from San Francisco,
botn regujar and special, on the 7th, Bth
and morning of the 9th of September. Re
turning, tickets will be received on all
trains of the 9th, 10th and 11th.
Golden Gate Parlor No. 29 will probably
have sixty men at Sacramento. Their
parade uniform will comprise striped
silk shirts, with white background, black
trousers, straw hats, white belts and white
sloves,5 loves, and each member will carry a
apanese sunshade. It will be led by a
drum corps of seven pieces — five drummers
and two fifers.
San Francisco Parlor No. 49 promises to
contribute seventy-five men and a drum
corps of six pieces to the parade.
El Dorado Parlor No. 52 will supply a
contingent of sixty natives, arrayed in blue
coats, white duck trousers, blue belts,
white caps, blue ties, and white and blue
striped Windsor shirts, with crowning
decorations of Japanese parasols. The
costly new banner of this parlor will be
mounted on a stand of fancy black iron,
embossed with dull brass, ornamented
with spiral and scroll work of the latest
design. The Foothill Owls of this parlor
will carry their emblem on a standard
fancifullvdecorated with the carnival and
N. S. G. W. colors— green, red and orange.
Their headquarters in Sacramento will be
lavishly decorated. The huge stuffed
grizzly which was part of California's
World's Fair exhibit will be given a prom
inent position in the decorations. The
First Regiment Drum and Fife Corps will
provide music for the parlor in the pa
rades, and a string band will furnish music
during receptions, entertainments and for
dancing at parlor headquarters. Lemon
ade, icecream, cold tea and punch will be
served members and friends at head
quarters.
Stanford Parlor No. 76 will be headed by
Roncoiveri's band. Its members' attire
will comprise blue coat and trousers,
white cap, blue silk tie, white linen shirt
and collar, white duck vest, Japanese para
sol. This parlor has decided not to take
part in the parade on the evening of de
parture from the City as a parlor, but in
dividual members who desire to parade
can do so. The parlor as a body will leave
on the 4 o'clock train on the 7th of Septem
ber. During its stay at Sacramento recep
tions will be held at Turner Hall, the head-
quarters of the parlor. A special concert
will be given at the parlor's headquarters
on the afternoon of September 9 and in
the evening of the same day the parlor
will hold its grand ball. •
Headquarters at Sacramento have been
secured by the various parlors up to date
as follows :
Mission Parlor No. 38, Senate chamber.
Sacramento County parlors, Assembly
Chamber.
Maryhville No. 6, Secretary of State's office.
Oakland No. 50, Supreme Court chambers.
Placer County parlors, State Printer's office.
Rincon No. 72, Grangers' Hall, Tenth and K.
Pacific No. 10, Pythian Castle, Ninth and I.
Alcalde No. 134, Red Men's Hall, Tenth, be
tween J and K.
Stanford No. 76, Turner Hall, X, between
Ninth and Tenth.
Golden Gate No. 28, Pythian Castle, Ninth
and I.
California No. 1, Liberty Hall, Foresters'
building, I, between Seventh and Eighth.
Woodland No. 30, Unity Hall, Foresters'
building.
Sequoia No. 160, Concord Hall, Foresters'
building.
Sun Francisco No. 49, basement of Pioneer
building, Seventh, between J and K.
El Dorado No. 52, Smith's Hall, Seventh, be
tween X and L.
Piedmont No. 120, Pioneer building.
Quartz No. 58 and Hydraulic No. 50, Jacobs
Hall, J street, between Tenth and Eleventh.
(Stockton No. 7, Hale building, Ninth and X
Btreets.
Amador County parlors, Pommers Hall,
Ninth street, between 1 and J.
Valleio Parlor No. 77, Chickering Hall, J
street, between Eighth and Ninth.
South San Francisco No. 157, Odd Fellows'
building.
Mystic Turks of National Parlor, Dennery
residence, Seventh and N streets.
Hesperian Parlor of San Francisco, Atkinson
College, Ninth and X streets.
Olympus Parlor of San Francisco has
asked for headquarters, and will probably
be placed in the Red Store building, J
street, between Seventh and Eighth.
National Parlor No. 118 will go to Sacra
mento seventy-five strong, and will parade
in a costume similar to that worn at other
celebrations, and by whi^h the parlor has
become distinguished, consisting of a black
silk shirt, black trousers, with gold seam;
black cap, with gold buttons and cord,
and an orange-colored sa3h*. The badge
worn will be an orange-color rosette, with
tassels, surmounted by a gold eagle. The
headquarters of the parlor in Sacramento
will be at 825 J street, and will be taste-
fully decorated. Refreshments will be
served. The parlor will parade with the
other San Francisco parlors on Saturday
night to the special train, and will be
headed by a corps of three fifes and two
drums.
Korper's Bad Luck.
S. Korper, the fur manufacturer, who has
achieved notoriety lately by being the sup
posed owner of the anti-bloomer dog and was
fined $50 by Judge Conlan on Monday, was tho
victim of an accident yesterday morning.
While crossing Bush street, on Kearny, he was
knocked down by a buggy and had his scalp
severely bruised. When taken to the Receiv
ing Hospital he appeared to be suffering more
irotn the shock to his system than the bruises
to his scalp.
HINGES ON A JUDGMENT
The Richmond District Sewer
Assessment in a Legal
Tangle.
SUBVEYOSS IS A DISPUTE.
If the Decision Goes One Way Prop
erty-Owners May Save a Big
Sum of Money.
The assessment levied to pay for the
construction of the sewer in the Richmond
District is getting into a bad tangle in the
courts, and the indications are that some
of the big property-owners may find a
chance to escape paying their assessments.
Something like $90,000 is at stake.
The trouble grows out of the dispute be
tween ex-City and County Surveyor Fitz
hugh and City- and County Surveyor
Charles Tilton over the fees for the survey
of the work. When the original survey
was made in the spring of 1892 Tilton was
in office. He submitted plans, specifica
tions and a map of the work that was to
drain the district to Bakers Beach.
Before the work was started a dispute
arose as to whether the City had a right
to run the drain through private property.
John Britkell and Sarah McKendry led
the fijjht in the courts on a test case. The
matter was finally taken to the Legisla
ture to be straightened out. A bill was
passed in favor of the City and once more
the Board of Supervisors tackled the job.
City and County Surveyor Fitzhugh was
in office then and he took a hand in touch
ing up the plans and annexing others that
he considered important. When the work
was finished he put in a bill for $5523.
Tilton had already presented a bill for
$8500. Both bills were allowed after a
fashion by the Board of Supervisors and
the dispute was turned over to Superin
tendent of Streets Ashworth to settle.
Ashworth had assessed the property
owners oa a basis that $8323 was a fair
value for the surveying.
While the controversy was going on he
paid Fitzhugh $2810. I?itzhugh promptly
brought suit for the balance.
When the assessment was ready to be
delivered the California Bridge Company,
which handled the work, refused to pay
the $8523 to Superintendent Ashworth.
After a long wrangle it was agreed that
the company should pay $5713 and give an
indemnity bond for the difference, the
$2810 turned over to Fitzhugh.
Fitzhugh at once applied to the courts
for a writ of mandate to compel Superin
tendent of Streets Ashworth to surrender
the $5713.
Til ton filed an intervenor for the money
and insists on the full amount of his bill,
$8500.
Ashworth's deputies were hard at work
yesterday on his answer to Fitzhugh's suit.
It is going to cut a big figure in the com
ing decision on the case. He claims that
the work of building the sewer was carried
out on Tilton's maps, plans and specifica
tions, and that if any other plans were
used the work is invalid and no money can
be collected from the property-owners. If
this position is held to b* correct by the
court the Brickell estate, the Crocker
estate and several other property-owners
will escape paying some very big assess
ments still due. The Bay f)istr;ct race
track and several other big holdings are in
the district. If the levy is knocked out
the property-owners that have already
paid will pool their interests in an effort to
recover tneir money. Something lite
$50,000 has already been collected.
Ashworth's position in th« controversy
is that in the origina.l ordinance, as drawn
up by the Board of Supervisors, Tilton, as
City and County Surveyor, was desisrnated
as the man who should draw up the plans
and specifications. He claims that Fitz
hugh's plans and maps were not ordered
by the board, and that if they were used in
the work the work was illegally done.
Furthermore, he insists that Fitzhugh
does not deserve any pay, because in a
great measure he copied the original plans
of Tilton. There was one glaring de
ficiency—he left out a large strip of land in
the assessed district.
The matter will come up before Judge
Sanderson next Wednesday. Whichever
way the court decides, there is likely to be
an appeal to the Supreme Court, because
big interests are at stake outside the Sur
veyors' light for their fees.
STOPPED THE DIVIDENDS.
Suit Against the Pacific Bank
Over a Consigned
Deposit.
Curious Breach of Banking: Practice
to Be Exposed in the
Courts.
The payment of dividends by the Pacific
Bank has been judicially stopped until a
little matter of a $5000 deposit made by
Samuel Montague & Co., bankers of Lon
don, Eng., to be paid to a resident of the
State of Washington, is satisfactorily set
tled.
Just a little while before the bank failed
Montague & Co. had deposited the $5000 in
New York to its credit, the money to be
paid through the Pacific Bank to a Tacoma
bank and by the latter handed to the
payee. It got as far as the Pacific Bank
and there it stopped.
Attorney E. S. Pillsbury yesterday
brought suit in the United States Circuit
Court on behalf of Montague & Co. to
have this deposit adjudged a Bpecial de
posit for a specific purpose and a preferred
claim to be paid in full regardless of any
dividend arrangements. It names J. M.
McDonald and the present board of di
rectors, besides the bank, as defendants.
Its particular prayer is for the payment of
dividends to be stopped until the question
is determined, or tue sum or $5000 is paid
into court pending the settlement. Judge
McKenna accordingly issued a restraining
order stopping, temporarily, all further
payment of dividends.
A DUPED WOMAN.
t _ —
Tina Nausbaum Complained That She
Was Deceived and Defrauded by
Julius Thaler.
Tina Nausbaum, a pretty young woman,
accompanied by her attorney, Fred Frey,
appeared in Judge Low's court yesterday
and swore to a complaint charging Julius
Thaler, a painter and contractor, with be
trayal under promise of marriage.
Thaler had kept company with the girl
for four years, and two months ago he
promised to marry her, telling her that
putting an engagement ring on her finder
was as good as a marriage. They assumed
relations of husband and wife, and she
claimed she gave him $1000, all her sav
ings, to furnish a home. About a week
ago Thaler deserted her for another.
To Arrest a Creditor.
A warrant for the arrest of George T.
Johnston of Catalina Island hae been sworn
out by Murphy, Grant & Co. on a charge of
fraud. The firm has also brought suit to re
cover $2074. It Is represented that a year ago
the firm received a letter from Johnston, in
which he stated that he intended to engage in
the general merchandise business in Phoenix,
and that be desired to bestow his patronage
upon the firm. The man claimed that he had
a capital of several thousand dollars, and was
free from debt. Goods were sent to Phoenix,
Ariz., and Johnston never paid for them. The
creditor was found at Catalina Island recently,
living in all the summer luxury of the place,
and the order for his arrest was issued.
HJNEKAL OP STEPHEN W. LEAOH.
It Will Take Place at Laurel Hill Cem
etery To-Day.
The funeral of Stephen W. Leach, the
veteran actor who died Wednesday morn
ing at Oakland, will take place at 2 o'clock
to-day. Among the papers belonging to
the venerable actor was found a deed to a
lot in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
W. S. Goodfellow, Dr. Benjamin R.
Swan, Mr. Jackson, Benjamin Clark,
Stewart Menzies and some others who
were steadfast friends of the actor in his
greatest needs have decided that simple
ceremonies at the grave will be most fit
ting. There will be some ceremonies at
the cemeiery. and the friends of the old
actor may take the Sutter-street cars to
reach the burial plat.
'_ NEW TO-DAT— AMUSEMENTS.
COLUMBIA THEATER.
Fbisdlandeb, GorrLon & Co., Lessees&Manageri
THE SILVER I CUTS NO
QUESTION FIGURK
. WITH OITR BUSINESS.
We Are Always Ready to Accept Gold
fur Reserved Seats at Popular Prices. I
THE STOCKWELIi SEASON
HENRY E. DIXEY.
MAURICE BARRYMORK,
L. R. STOCKWELIi,
WILLIAM G. BEACH and
ROSE COGHLAN. .
"A TRAGEDY REHEARSED,"
••NANCE OLDIIELD"
'A MAN OF THE* WORLD."
TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE
Sirs. Him— 1 1MB Krei.ino .Proprietor & Manager
last"n!ghts
Of the Artistic Rendition of
"T h"c
ROYAL MIDDY"
NEXT WEEK
"THE BLACK HUSSAR"
Popular Prices— 2sc and sOc.
1 ©Itm EtATRe 'I pro 9s.
Mil. JOHN
JLJsjkrtii-JH-a W !
Only 3 More Performances
"THE BAUBLE SHOP"
matinee TO-MORROW (saturday).
-NEXT WEEK
"THAT IMPRI TOUIQ COUPLE,"
By Henry Guy Carleton.
83" Seats Now Selling.
MOROSCO'S
GRAND OPERA-HOUSE.
The Handsomest Family Theater i n America.
WALTER MOROSCO....SoIo Lessee and Maoagae
EVERY KVENING AT EIOHT,
HERBERT HALL WINSLOW'S
Famous Comedy-Drama.
"A CRACKER-JACK!"
Evening Prices— 2sc and 50c.
Family Circle and Gallery. 10c.
Usual Matinees Saturday and Sunday.
ORPHEUM.
O'Farrell Street, Between Stockton and Powell.
TO-NIGHT AND DURING THE WEEK !
A PEERLESS VAUDEVILLE BILL!
ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROBRAK!
LAST THREE NIGHTS
—OF THK— -
FAMOUS JORDAN FAMILY !
IVOIILD-F1M!) STAR FEATURES!
Reserved seats, 25c;* Balcony, 10c; Opera cnalrs '
and Box scats, 50c. •
TWENTY-EIG HTH
INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION
OF THE
MECHANICS' INSTITUTE
NOWJOPEN.
GRAND CONCERT
Each Afternoon and Evening by an Orchestra of
Forty Musicians.
PROP. FRITZ SCHEEL, CONDUCTOR.
ADMISSION:
Don bio Season Ticket.... $5 00
Single Season Ticket 3 00
Children's Season Ticket 1 50
Adult, admission, daytime, 25c; evening, 60c
Children, admission, daytime, 15c; evening, 25c.
Season Tickets to Members of the Institute, half
rates. For sale at Library, 81 Post street.
RUNNING tJ&MSht** RUNNING
RACES! RAGES
CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB RACES,
SPRING MEETINGI
BAY DISTRICT TRACK.
Races Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday— Rain or Shine.
Five or more races each day. Races start at 2:30
F. m. sharp. McAllister and Geary street cars pan
the gate. ; . ___
EL CAMPO SPECIAL!
Sunday, August 25, at 1:30 P. M.
■\TOVEL AQUATIC EVENT 1 A TROUPE OP
i.\ genuine South Sea Island swimmers, divers
and canoe-men, just arrived on American bark
Galilee, from Tahiti. Natives of Fijian, Hamoan,
Hawaiian, Society and other South Pacific Islands,
in exhibitions of trick ' and fancy swimming,
Kanaka diving, under-water swimming, exciting
races, grotesque races, and a humorous tableau,
entitled The Disappearing Missionary. Fare, as
usual, 25 cents.
lloa: * leave Tlburon ferry, foot of Market street,
at 10:30 a. m., 12:10, 2 and 4p. m. Returning,
leave El Campo at 11; 15 a. m., 1, 3 and 5 p. m.
THE TUG ETHEL AND MARION M
Will take visitors to the man-of-war
" oxj-smvcrE^x-A.,"
TO-DAY, FRIDAY (last day), commencing at 1
o'clock; half-hour trips from Clay-st. Wharf.
S^h4t-TRiA CTI V E-»
[Pavilion Exhibits
EMBRACING DISPLAY or
ELECTRICAL POWER
TRANSMITTED FROM
FOLSOM*-
TW^£YM M&SfM
J-I I.G Jrf CZ*J±SJ2
jßz^cj/isi XT'.
THE GREAT AMERICAN
CONCERT BAND
*fcV*» tXHVBVTS.
EXCURSION RATES.
_ FOR VISITORS.
EdwihF^mitk, cm. chase
SEC'Tif. ORES.
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