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"WOULD GIVE THE DEVIL A FAIR TRIAL"
Major Sherman Accepts the
Appointment of Rev.
D. M. Ross.
SAYS HE IS UNBIASED.
Has Not Read the Controversy
Between Rev. Mr. Ross
and Father Yorke.
THE FINAL TEST AT HAND.
Probability That There Soon Will
Be a Show Down of the Con
tention at Issue.
There is a strong probability that the ;
contentions of the Rev. Father Yorke and j
the Rev. Donald M. Ross over certain ',
questions of Catholic doctrine will soon be
put to the crucible.
Major Sherman of Oakland has accepted
the appointment of Rev. D. M. Ross to act ;
as umpire in the place of Attorney Quit- ;
zow, -who withdrew, because \V. W. Foote !
said very plainly that ne would not sit on
the board with any person who belonged i
to the American Protective Association.
There wiil be a coulerence between the two
judges to-morrow, and if thej T can agree
upon a third party, the principals in the
case will be at once called en to submii
proofs in support of their respective posi
tions.
"Yes, I have consented to act for Mr.
Ross on the committee deciding Father
Yorke's challenge," said Major E. A. Sher
man yesterday. "I am not an A. P. A.
and I would give the dcvii a fair trial. So
I think I am qualified to act on this ques
tion.
"So far I have not been inter' sted in the
controversy between Father Yorke and
Mr. Ross, nor had I the least idea tnat the
latter gentleman would, until he com
municated with me this morning, select
me to act for him. I think it unfortunate
that so much publicity has been given to
the matter before the men who are to form
the committee were chosen, but of course
that cannot now be helped, and I am sure
the decision will be a just one. This ques
tion will not be settled by our judgment,
however.
"Since the Reformation these discus
sions of one kind or another have rased
between Catholic and Protestant, between
priest and minister and the followers of
each, and it will always be so; but there
is no doubt that one or other of the men
engaged in the discussion is wrong, and if
it is a question of deciding which it is that
holds this position certainly men un
biased toward either side should be' able
to do so justly.
"While a man cannot help forming
opinions for his own guidance, when it
comes to a case of documentary evidence
or proof he could not but be fair. The
truth in such a case could not but be plain
to him.
''I am very slightly acquainted with Mr.
Ross. So he could only have selected me
as a man whom he deemed capable of act
ing fairly in the matter. I have never met
Mr. Foote, and, of course, could not sug
gest a man to act as the third party on the
committee until a meeting for that pur
pose had been arranged between us. My
own idea, however, would be that a man of
60 years or more of age should be chosen,
a man of acknowledged integrity of char
acter and one who would not wish or hope
to gain anything politically or in his prac
tice by acting in this capacity. A man of
these years would probably have made his
mark in life, and would also be of sound
and mature judgment. For obvious
reasons I should also think it would be
well to choose a man who lives neither in
San Francisco nor Oakland.''
Major Sherman is a pioneer of California,
having come here in 1849. He is a veteran
of the Mexican war, and also served in the
War of the Rebellion. He is a prominent
thirty-tiiird-degree Mason, and has served
as secretary of the veteran lodge for several
rears. Although admitted to the bar, he
is not best known as a lawyer, having eiven
the greater part of his time to the work of
the Masons.
KING HUMBERT'S NEPHEW.
An Italian Royalty Who Will Visit
Thls City Next 31onth.
As announced some months ago in The
Call, this City will soon receive a visit
from the Duke degli Abruzzi, nephew of
the King of Italy and son of the late
Amedeo, ex-King of Spain.
The Italian Consul, Cavalieri F. Bruni-
Grimaldi, has officially announced that
the Italian warship Cristoforo Colombo,
on which the Duke degli Abruzzi is mak
ing a tour of the world, will arrive in this
port some time between the 20th and the
25th of next month. The Duke is one of
the richest and most popular of the
younger European royalties. He is a
grandson of Victor Eruanuel, and us his
mother was a great heiress, both he and
his elder brother, the Duke of Aosta,
who recently married the Princess Helen
Of Orleans, are wealthy on their ac
count. The Prince of Naples, only son of
King Humbert, is a delicate, somewhat
dissipated young man, and in the event of
his death, the next heir to the throne
would be the Duke of Aosta.
The Duke degh Abruzzi is stepson of
that frolicsome Princess Letitia, who is
constantly bringing down on her skittish
head the reproofs of her august relations
for her inconventionality. riot that any
members of the house of Savoy are par
ticularly austere. Kinqr Humbert is a jovial,
democratic sort of man, who is the first
to lend a helping and encouraging hand
if there is a fire, a panic, an epidemic of
cholera or any other public disaster. It is
said that his" nephews resemble him in
this respect more than does his son.
L'ltalia of last night states that the
Italian Chamber of Commerce has re
solved to tender a banquet to the Duke
and the other officers of the Cristoforo
Colombo, and active preparations are
already being made in the Italian colony
to give them a fitting welcome.
THEIR FIRST BALL.
Successful Social Event at B'nai B'rith
Hall of the San Francisco Mili
tary Band.
The San Francisco Military Band held
its first ball at B'nai B'rith Hall last even
ing. The auditorium was tastefully
decorated with pink and Nilo green bunt
ing and the National colors. The music
for dancing was furnished by the hosts of
the evening, and to its merry strains
dancing was continued until well" into the
morning.
The committees having the affair in
charge were composed as follows:
Arrangements— Hugo Lund, P. H. Scow,
August Lill and H. D. Anderson; floor — George
Batcher, Lenard Plantz and Bob Thompson;
EDWIN A. SHERMAN.
[From a photograph.]
reception — f'harles Hoffman, Emile Rev, Al
bert Batcher, Cn.-per Plantz and Emile
Gunther. A. Lawson acted as floor manager.
ED SULLIVAN IS MISSING.
A Boilerman of the Risdon Iron
Works Disappeared Thanks
giving.
Was a Sufferer From Consumption, and
It Is Thought He Went Back
East to Die.
Ed Sullivan, an employe of the Risdon
Iron Works, has neither been seen nor
heard of since last Thanksgiving day. On
that day he left an acquaintance at the
foot of Market street, saying he was going
to Rodeo.
After a week or ten days had passed in
quiries were made and word was received
from Rodeo that Sullivan had not been
there. It was then feared he had be.-n the
victim of foul play, but later on is was as
certained that instead of btonping at Rodeo
he had continued East on a ticket for Syra
cuse, N. Y.
He was suffering from consumption, and
his friends can see no motive for his de
parture for the cold climate unless he had
the idea that he would die anyway ana
wished to be at his old home.
Sullivan was a trentle, manly fellow,
but rather reserved and possessed but few
intimate friends.
John Crawford foreman boilerman of
the iron works, takes his friend's depar
ture very seriously to heart. He cannot
conceive how Sullivan could have left
without so much as saying good-by when
he was Sullivan's only real friend on the
coast, and one who loved him like a
brother.
"I have known the boy," said he, "and
have taken a brotherly interest in him for
longer than seven years.
"He worked un-ler me in the East for
five years, and was a skillful boilerman,
and was always liked and respected wher
ever he was. Two years ago we came to
this coast, and until now we have kept
together.
"Shortly after we came here he con
tracted a severe cold and never seemed to
recover from it. He went to a physician
and was told he had consumption. This
worried him a greJlt deal, and he began to
fail in health very rapidly. I had made
arrangements to send him to Arizona to
take charge of some work there. I thought
the climate would benefit him. Thanks
giving he was to have taken dinner at my
house, but he did not put in an appearance
that day, and so we ate our turkey with
out him.
"I was told by Tom Madden, a work
man in the chop, that Sullivan had slept
at his house Wednesday night and had
said that be would be obliged to go to
Rodeo to arrange about getting some tools
down „ere that belonged to him.
"Madden went with him to the ferries,
supposing him to be on the way to Kodeo.
"He might have told me that he was go
ing away. It seems to me he must be
wanting in some kind of manly spirit.
Why couldn't he have corue and said:
'John, I am going East.' Why, then I
would have said, -All right,' and would
have put him on the train.
"The landlady where we board told me
that the boy "had spoken several times
about going back East; that he believed
he was going to die very soon and wanted
to die there, and that he was afraid to tell
me because he might break down and
bring on a hemorrhage, which would
hasten his death/
It was learned at the ferries that a ticket
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1895.
was purchased last Thanksgiving over the
Sunset limited by a man named Sullivan.
The agent even noticed his sickly appear
ance. Sullivan had closed up his affairs
'here before he left. He is a single man
and has two sisters and a father living in
Syracuse.
A LABOR VICTORY.
Important Decision That Workingmen
Xeed Not Accept Time-Card Pay
ments for Cash.
A victory has been won in the San Fran
cisco courts for the workingmen.
Several years ago large corporations,
such as lumber companies, contractors,
etc., adopted the system of paying their
men with time-checks of thirty, sixty or
ninety days' duration, as it suited their
pleasure. In a few places these lime
checks or certificates of money due were
accepted by storekeepers and brokers at a
discount, but as a rule the paper was of no
use except to the possessor and his em
ployer.
In order to "accommodate" the laborer
the employers cashed their own time
checks, but always at a heavy discount.
The average laborer was obliged to get the
ready money, even if he lost ten to twenty
per cent on the check by discounting, and
in this way large corporations, by dis
counting their own paper, were able t«
cheat employes out of hundreds of dollars.
At last the State took up the matter and
passed a law making it compulsory for
corporations to pay their employes in cash
on stated days of the week or month.
Like many laws, this became a dead let
ter, and the time-check system was soon
in operation all over the State again. It
was not until recently that the matter was
taken into court, and the laborer won a
victory. A man named St. Germain ob
tained a situation working in Blochman <Sc
Cerf's I X L Lime Company at Fel
ton. When $45 75 was due him, he re
ceived instead a time check, which he was
unable to cash, so he went to an attorney
and sued for his wages. The case was be
fore Justice Barry, who promptly decided
tiiat the presentation and acceptance of
the time check was not a payment of the
debt owed St. Germain by Blochman &, >
Cerf. The latter appealed from the dt- I
cision of Justice Barry to the Superior
Court.
A few days ago Judge Troutt heard the
case, and sustained Justice Barry's de
cision. The defendants will now have to
pay St. Germain his full wages, the labor
er's attorney's fees and the cost of the ac
tion, as provided by the statutes of 1891.
A SAD TALE OF THE SEA
James Nixen Was Washed Over
board and Sank Just as
Help Arrived.
Daring Attempt at Daylight Robbery
From the Schooner
Kodiak.
One of the crew of the schooner Kodiak
was lost under very sad circumstances
during the last voyage. He was washed
off the bowsprit, but managed to keep
afloat until the boat was within a few feet
of him. Just as the captain was ready to
irrasp him he sank and never came up
again.
The Kodiak sailed from San Francisco
on October 27 last. Heavy weather was
experienced from the start, but about the
middle of November it had calmed down
to a steady breeze, although a high sea
was running. John Nixen, a young Eng
lishman, ajied about 28 years, went out on
the jio-boom to furl the flying-jib. It was
a cold day and he liad a heavy overcoat
and all bis oilskins on over his ordinary
clothing. Suddenly the schooner buried
her nose in a big sea and wnen she recov
ered Xixen was gone. Captain Petersen
at once launched a boat, and leaving the
mate in charge, went after the drowning
man himself. It could not have been
more than seven or eight minutes before
they were almost alongside of him. but
just as Petersen prepared to seize hold of
him he went down like a stone. The
chances are that his heavy clothes and his
rubber boots served as weights to carry
him down.
Captain Petersen says that the weather
during the trip was very peculiar. On the
way up it was a case of head seas and
heavy gales. On the way down it was a
succession of li.-ht winds and calms. At
Kodiak for the tirst time in years there
was no snow and the weather was delight
ful. Everything was quiet at the can
neries when the schooner sailed.
When the Kodiak docked at Howard
street wharf yesterday several casks of
codfish containing about 200 pounds each
were hoisted on to the wharf. No one was
left to watch them, and as a consequence
one of them was soon missing. It was one
of the most barefaced attempts at daylight
robbery ever seen on the water front.
When there was no one in sight on the
schooner's deck a man who afterward gave
his name as Jim Sullivan walked up to
one of the barrels and knocking it on its
side deliberately rolled it up the wharf.
He pushed it along in an unconcerned
manner and at the same time puffed away
at a short clay pipe. When the donkey
enuine standing alongside the ship York
was between him and the schooner he
turned the barrel on end and walked up
the wharf. He only went across East
street, however, and seeine J. White's ex
press on the corner he engaged him to take
the codlish to Tehama street.
The barrel was loaded on the wagon and
it was driving slowly off when one of the
Custom-house officers, suspecting that
something was wroner, stopped them.
Sullivan said the codfish had been given
him by one of the crew, who owed him
some money, and told the expressman to
drive on. The latter refused to do so and
officers Dillon and Dowd of the Harbor
Police were summoned. The mate of the
schooner was also sent for and whfln he
arrived said the codfish was Captain Peter
sen's private property and was going to
the Alaska Commercial Company^ ware
house. He refused positively to swear to
a complaint aeainst Sullivan, so tne offi
cers had nothing to do but turn him loose.
Had it not been for the vigilance of the
Custom-house officer the chances are that
the barrel of codfish would now be on sale
in a Tehama-street grooery.
Patent back, fiat opening ledgers, journals,
account books made by the Mysell-Rollins
Company, 22 Clay street, are all right. •
FIRE ON O'FARRELL STREET.
Three Building* Dumaged to the Ex
tent of $1500.
The alarm from box 178 at 6:15 last even
ing was for a fire which destroyed $1500
worth of property on O'Farrell street.
The fire started at 1613. in a wood and
coal yard in the rear of a two-story frame
building, owned and occupied by W. M.
Haynes. The rear portion of the building
was gutted, damaging it to the extent of
!fl(fOO. The flames communicated to the
buildings on either side, at 1611 and 1615,
dointr $300 worth of damage to the former
and $200 worth to the latter. The prop
erty at 1611 was owned and occupied by
George McHenry as a stable for the San
Carlos dairy. That at 1615 was owned and
occupied by Lang Bros, also as a stable.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but is
supposed to have been due to spontaneous
combustion of the coal where it originated.
Wave crest ware, onyx tables, piano and
banquet lamps, etchings, engravings, photo
graphs and medallion pictures in Florentine
frames make Christmas presents that any one
wiil be glaa to receive. Our holiday exhibit is
now complete. Open evenings. Sanborn, Vail
it Co. •
MR. WISE SR. EXPLAINS
The Collector Talks of
Harry's Warehouse
Venture.
AT CORNELL TOGETHER.
His Son and Mr. Sanborn Went
to the Same Seat of
Learning.
THE WAREHOUSEMEN MAY ACT
Robert Woods Determined to Have an
Inquiry Into His Successor's
Partnership.
Robert J. Woods, the warehouseman,
who says he was supplanted by William
B. Sanborn and young Harry Wise in the
proprietorship of the Vallejo-street United
States bonded warehouse and who threat
ens to ask Secretary Carlisle for an official
investigation, proposes to go about it in a
methodical way.
What he wants is an inquiry into the
particular modus operandi by which the
son of the Collector of Customs managed
to become a copartner of Mr. Santorn.
He has been too busy, he said last night,
since he lost his warehouse! to have a for
• mal statement prepared for the Treasury
Department, but in a few days he expects
to be able to get around to it.
Mr. Woods does not propose to act alone.
His plan will be, if it can be carried out,
to have the warehousemen of this port co
operate with him as far as possible and as
a result of concerted action communicate
with Grover Cleveland's right-hand man
at Washington.
"I read the statement in The Call," he
remarked, "and it was all right. What
was stated was true. I think I will be
able to go around to my friends and in
duce them to take part with me in this
matter soon. The fact is this proceeding
on the part of the customs authorities con
cerns, virtually, every one of us. We may
get together and have a proper statement
prepared for Washington.
"Personally I have nothing against John
H. Wise himself, but 1 think young Harry
is a little too fresh."
There is a story going the rounds of the
Custom-house that some time ago a certain
warehouseman went to Collector Wise
and advised him not to take any action
to prevent his son from going into the
business. The warehouseman argued to
the Collector, it is said, that it would be a
very good thing for all the other ware
houses for Harry to go in, as he had
learned that Harry proposed to organize
and systematize the en tire warehouse busi
ness of the City and present a plan by
which each warehouse would get its pro
portionate share of the goods imported.
Wise does not deny this, but he
disclaims any official compromise on his
part. He explained his position in the
maUer yesterday thusly:
The young man Sanborn and my son Harry
were educated together nt Cornell. I did uo't
know anything about their partnership until
the papers were drawn up by Judge Stanly.
Then 1 said that if I had known about it I
would hnve prevented it. Not that;l thought
there was anything wrong in the matter, but
I felt that It might excite adverse comment
among those who do not know all the circum
stances.
Even after the partnership had been fully
consummated I was inclined, and intended, to
dissuade Harry from continuing it, but some
of his friends who are interested in the ware
house business came to me and I was induced
by their representations and arguments to de
fer action in that direction.
As to my personally favoring any particular
warehouse, there is nothing at all in that.
I have not been in Chinatown Jor four
months in an official capacity, and I know
nothing about the warehousemen as individ
uals. All I do is to see that the reports are
regular.
In one sense I am rather glad that The Call
has taken the matter up, so that it may be
fully ventilated and eventually understood
clearly that there has not been any official com
promi-e on my part. I feel that I can satisfac
torily explain my connection with the matter.
Mr. Wise's chief clerk, Edward B. Je
rome, voluntarily prepared a statement
yesterday for publication of the Sanborn
& Wise incident. Following is the state
ment:
In justice to Collector Wise, and in reference
to the article this day printed in The Call,
relative to Harry Wise Detng in the bonded
warehouse business, I deem it incumbent on
me to make the following statement of facts,
especially in view of the statement in the ar
ticle published:
On September 20, 1895, Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Sanborn, proprietor of the premises known as
the Vallejo-street warehouse— and which were
then bonded as a warehouse, class 3, in the
name of R. J Woods as principal— notified tnis
office in writiug that, the leas<» of Mr. Woods
having expired, she would at a future day take
possession of her premises and re-lease them to
her son, William B. Sanborn. In view of this.
Will ium B. Sanborn was allowed to execute a
bond as prescribed by tne regulations of the
Treasury Department, which bond was, on th*
J6th of September, forwarded to the depart
ment at Washington for approval. On October
3, 1895, the department returned the bond
approved, but Mr. Sanborn notified this office
that he did not desire to assume control of the
warehouse until November 1. 1895.
Meanwhile Mr. Woods, accompanied by his
attorney, called on Collector Wise and" pro
tested against the proceedings, stating that his
lease had not expired, and he was then in
formed that no effort would be made to install
Mr. Sanborn a« proprietor until he and Mrs.
Sanborn came to mutual arrangemen ts. With
this Mr. Woods' attorney expressed himself as
being satisfied, stating that was all they
wanted and was fair. TJp to this time young
Mr. Sanborn had not seen Collector Wise, nor
was he acquainted with Harry Wise, and mat
ters stood thus for sometime, and in the in
terim .' introduced young Sanborn to Collector
Wise, and knowing that he and Harry Wise
were both graduates of Cornell, sent him
around to 212 Simsome street to get acquainted
with Harry, thinking they would be pleased
to meet. Subsequent to the above eventM mid
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1
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KOHLER & CHASE,
26-30 O'FARRELL ST.
about November 15, 1895, Mr. Sanborn came
into this office and showed me a written agree
ment entered into by Mrs. Sanborn and K. J.
V/oods, signed by the attorneys of both by
which it was stipulated that Mr. Sanborn
should have possession of the premises on De
cember 1, and instructions were therefore
issued to Deputy Collector Tobin to regard Mr.
Sanborn after that date as the proprietor of
the warehouse.
It will be seen from this that the transac
tion, so far as this office is concerned, was en
tirely regular, and that the p.emises had been
rebonded in the name of W. B. Sanborn before
Mr. Sanborn was acquainted with either col
lector Wise or his son Harry, and that, as a
matter of record, Sanborn is the sole proprietor
of the warehouse as the lessee of his mother,
and that Harry Wise is not, so far as this office
is officially aware, connected with the ware
house. What private arrangements young
Sanborn and Harry Wise may have had after
the above events were entered into I do not
know, and I only heara incidentally that they
had jnade one.
I was informed by Deputy Collector Tobin
that alter he had be"en notified that Sanboru
was to take possession on December 1 strenu
ous endeavors were made by Mr. Woods to get
the owners of the goods in the warehouse to
transfer them to other warehouses, that a
certain party even went so far as to pre
sent forged requests for transfer, and
that representations were made to the Chinese
having goods in the warehouse that it would
ciose on December 1, as an inducement for
them to transfer their goods.
E. B. Jerome, Special Deputy Collector.
The placing of the consignmentof Henry
DoyJe & Co. in the Vallejo-street bonded
warehouse was also explained by their bro
ker, Charles E. Heise, yesterday in the fol
lowing communication to the Collector:
San Francisco, Dec. 14, 1895.
Dear Sir: I deem it my duty to make the fol
lowing statement of facts in regard to a certain
statement made in an article which appeared
in this morning's Call, viz.: That certain
goods consigned to Henry Doyle & Co. of this
City, arriving here by steamer from Victoria,
were sent to the Vallejo-street unclaimed ware
house with undue haste.
The actual facts are as follows: Before the
arrival of the goods the invoice was submitted
to me, and found to be erroneously certified to
by the United States Consul at Victoria as be
ing lor goods of American manufacture,
whereas they were of foreign manufacture and
origin. There was also another error in the
invoice. For these reasons Mr. Doyle con
cluded to return the invoice to Victoria for
correction.
Pending the return of the invoice back to
this port the goods had to be sent to the Un
claimed Warehouse, as they were of great
value. In the interests and by request of
Mr. Doyle I made an application to you in
writing lor Messrs. Henry Doyle <fe Co., as their
customs attorney, to have these goods sent to
the Vallejo Unclaimed Warehouse in advance
of the general order taking effect, the Vallejo
street warehouse being the warehouse desig
nated for all unclaimed merchandise arriving
from Victoria by steamers.
The steamer Umatilla, in which these goods
were imported, arrived here November '27,
1895,. and the merchandise was sent to the
Unclaimed Warehouse November 30, 1895—
three days after arrival of the steamer. Very
respectfully, Chas. E. Heise,
Customs Attorney for Henry Doyle & Co.
To Hon. John H. Wise, Collector of Customs.
Mr. Jerome's statement explains the
details of the proceeding by which Mr.
Sanborn became the tenant of his mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Sanborn, but it does noi
satisfy Mr. Woods as to the fact of Harry
Wise's present actual copartnership with
Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Woods scesti;at, on the
one hand, Harry is a partner with his
father, the Collector, in the firm of Christy
& Wise, and, on the other, he is a partner
with Mr. Woods' successor, Mr. Sanborn,
in the Vallejo-street United States bonded
warehouse. Just how the two may work
together in the eves of Secretary Carlisle is
what Mr. Woods is anxious to learn.
Edwin Dunforth of the Broadway ware
house admitted yesterday that there is a
prospect of the warehousemen coming
together and acting in concert on a
demand for an official inquiry, but the
initiative step, he said, was incumbent upon
Mr. Woods, and if the warehousemen acted
at all they would do so in response to Mr.
Woods,' request.
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maintain its high musical quality in spite S
of any amount of use and almost unlim- \
ited abuse. The cases are of the latest \
design,— beautiful and unique. The price ',
is— well, according to choice of case, but V
moderate, very moderate, for such a piano, V
i 1 and terms to suit you. ( i
<' We want you to advertise the popular (
/ Hackley Piano by owning one and show- ( i i
? ing it to your friends, and will make you ( (
special Inducements during December. Do 1 ,
not fail to call and see them, whether you \
arrange for one or not. Upright Pianos V
from $100 up. Open evenings. \
THE J. DEWING COMPANY. <
Warerooms : '2d Floor, Flood Building, ' ,
Fourth and Market Streets. !| j
i|
. CUT THIS OUT !
ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES
IN JEWELRY AND STERLING SIL-
VERWARE
AT THE LOWEST RATES
TO BE HAD AT THE OLD PIONEER
JEWELRY FIRM
BARR ERWOOD
AT THEIR NEW STORE,
No. 9 GEARY ST.
SOUVENIRS GIVEN AWAY.
Christmas Presents
BIG REDUCTIONS
t JACKETS, CAPES,
FIRS AND
FEATHER BOAS!
50 per cent Discount
FUR CAPES!
OPES EMM.
. Special Care to Country Orders.
ARMAND CAILLEAU,
46-48 Geary Street.
Corner Grant Avenue.
COAL! COAL!
We11ingt0n...;.....;-.. 810 00
Southfleld 9SO ■■»• : ""
Genuine Coos B»y 7 00— Half toa B*so
5eatt1e......... NlK)— Hair ton 400
'liryant.:.-.:. ......... ........ 800— Half ton i 4 00
/Telephone— Black— 3s.
KNICKERBOCKER COAL CO.,
023 Howard Street, Hear VlrsU
NEW TO-DAT-DHY GOODS I ■ .--.--■»
A CHOICE DISPLAY
OF
SEASONABLE NOVELTIES!
We invite special attention to our ex-
tionally large and complete stock of NEW
GOODS, especially imported for the HOLI-
DAY TRADE.
NOVELTIES IN COLORED DRESS FABRICS,
NOVELTIES IN BLACK DRESS FABRICS,
NOVELTIES IN COLORED DRESS SILKS,
NOVELTIES IN BLACK DRESS SILKS,
NOVELTIES IN LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,
NOVELTIES IN SILK HANDKERCHIEFS,
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' NECKWEAR,
NOVELTIES IN FEATHER SCARFS,
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' HOSIERY, •
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' GLOVES,
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' UMBRELLAS,
NOVELTIES IN GENTS' NECKWEAR,
NOVELTIES IN GENTS' GLOVES,
. NOVELTIES IN GENTS' HOSIERY,
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' SORTS,
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' WAISTS,
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' APRONS.
The attention of our customers is re-
spectfully directed to above goods.
NOTE. — Our store will remain open
evenings until Christmas.
ill, 113. 115, 117, 119, 121 POST STREET.
\ PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO,
I STAMPED ON A SHOE
MEANS STANDARD OP MERIT.
V 1 1 U Ui WWIwM
FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
Are you thinking of buying a pair of shoes for
i yourself, or do you contemplate making some
i friend or relative a Christmas Present ? If you do
: be sure and call on us and examine our stock and
I prices. We are making special prices, and it will
I be money saved if you trade with us. We mean
what we say when we assert that we are selling
■ lower than our competitors. We realize that that
high Spreckels fence is more or less of an obstruc-
tion, and we are therefore offering special induce-
ments to our customers. We have a complete line
of Holiday Goods tor Men. Women or Children,
comprising Fancy Embroidered and Leather
Slippers, Ladies' Fine B act Cloth-quilted, Fleece-
lined .N unifiers, with fur trimming", which we sell
for (#l.. These Nullifiers are good filters, easy
on the feet, look neat and are warm and comfort-
able. They are sold elsewhere for 2.
HOLIDAY SLIPPERS.
Oar line 'Holiday Slippers for Gentlemen can-
not be excelled in this city. We have a Fine Em-
broidered Slipper, with patent-leather trimming,
which we will sell for 75c. We also carry them I
for $1 and upward to the finest quality. . Our Hues ''
of Men's Leather Slippers comprise Leather"
Goatskin, Dongola and Alligator Skin, and ranee
In price from »1.25 to 82.00. g
Pi 7 C IN liii
\ I #h ■ Ipi)} 'mm ■
Up 111 j|;> *& tr „||
OBSTRUCTION PRICES.
TH^ L^A^^O^^T^ffc^l: •*&*■
know It, our customers know. it, and we want you
■ to know it. This week we are offering a bargain in
! Ladies' Shoes. We have 500 pairs of Ladies' Extra
Fine jpongola Kid Button Shoes, with . either Cloth
or Kid lops, straight foxed vamps; medium, square
or pointed toes and V-shaped Patent-leather Tips,
which we will sell for ... „.,,. . f. "V
'{• \- ■' Sl/75.
This Is a genuine bargain, as these shoes are well
worth at least 92 60, but we recognize the fact that
ye must offer extra inducements, and so we hay«
placed this extra tine line on sole at such a low
price. Widths C, D, E and EiS. -
MEN'S GENUINE ALASKA SEAL, LACE ,
OU CONGRESS SHOES reduced t0. ... »3. 00
LADIES' BTOKM RUBBERS reduced to.. .400
WE HAVE NOT MOVED.
•^"Country orders solicited!
•WSond for New Illustrated Catalogue.
; Address ■: ■ ■•-■> . -r- ■ •■- ■ • .---■•
■-?'. -■;, B. KATCHiM^kI.
10 Third Street, • San Franoliieo.
PHILADELPHIA SHOE: CO.
LARGEST
ASSORTMENT,
LOWEST
PRICES !
OF
HOLIDAY
GOfS!
Dolls, Toys, Wagons and Velocipedes, :
Dinner Sets, Fine Carring Sets,
" Lipr Sets, Card Receiyers,
. - Ostrich Feather Fans. -
. Plate'Jware, Cntlery,
•Brass anil Onyx Tallies,
Piano and Banpet Lamps,
; Gold and : Sifter Beaded Canes,
Leather Goods,
Gold and Sifter Headed DniWlas, •
Fancy Triplicate , Mirrors, 4 _ : -: ; >
Pearl Opera Glasses and Holders,
; and Fancy Goods
Of Eyery Description,
Send for our ILLUSTRATED CAT-
ALOGUE; Mailed free to any coun-
try address. - ; ,x^-'..; l i.' :
BTT foods delivered free of charge to SausalHo,
-Blltnedale, .Mill Valley, Tiburon. San Rafael, Anti-
ocli. suu'^ton, Haywards,'.Vallejo,:N'apa,'San Lo-
renzo, Mul rose, San ' Leandro, Oakland, i Alameda
and Berkeley. . . „ ,. i - ; .., ,.,.-. _
818-820 Market Street
V • - Phelan Building. "
Factory— 3o 1 irst Street. •