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2 effort to cover the escape of his com panions with their booty. The belief that the engine might have run wild is shattered, and it is equally certain that the' two robbers escaped Jn their row boat to the Martinez side of the bay from some point very close to the scene of the crime itself. Reports of men said to answer the descriptions of the two known bandits have been coming in all day from various parts of- the county and from as far away as Oakland, but few of them have seemed of sufficient impor tance to warrant more than a cursory examination. The one clew that has turned out to be of t"he most impor tance, however, has gone far toward confirming the growing belief that the fugitives are now in hiding somewhere among the rocky hillsides bordering Redwood canyon to the west of here. Mysterious Strangers Seen Two men, whose personal appearance tallies remarkably with the descrip tions given of the bandits, visited Wal nut Creek, a hamlet south of Pinole, and on the Redwood canyon road, at an early hour this morning. A short time after they had left the general store at Walnut Creek, W. C. Joy, a rancher living at that place, reported that a horse had been stolen. The search for these two mysterious strangers has gone on all day, but Without 6UCC6SS. The Walnut Creek incident is taken with a good deal of seriousness by the county officers conducting the man hunt. It fits in with the facts" of the escape up to the time the trail was lost 24 hours or more before this appearance occurred. The trail Sunday morning led in the direction of Walnut Creek and toward the mouth of the Redwood canyon. The scent was followed into tbe rolling country south of Port Costa, in which direction the men drove the horse and buggy stolen early Sunday morning from the J. D. Hoagley ranch near here, The last heard of«the fugitives Sun day morning was from the vicinity of the McNear ranch. The owner of the farm, as -well as his wife, had been awakened during the late part of the night by the barking of dc>gs. which had been aroused by the furious driv ing of two men in a light buggy. Hav ing turned into a blind lane the men turned the buggy about and retraced their way. stopping to water their horse at a roadside trough, and then whip ping up and driving in the direction of the main road. The uncertain descrip tion of the men and the rig gained by the ranch owner fr*om his view by moonlight has led to the general be lief that theee were the bandits. Scent Becomes Warm Deputy Sheriff John Birmingham Jr. and Constable Charles H. Palmer left here at 4 o'clock this morning in an automobile and drove to the McNear ranch. After scouring that vicinity they departed for the San Pablo hills and then turned through the Pinole valley to the Franklin tunnel on the Santa Fe, where work is now going on. At the tunnel they made special In quiries as to whether any dynamite had been stolen from there recently, but found there had not been. RETURNS FROM GRAVE TO FIND ANOTHER DEAD Mrs. Mary Watson Doubly Vis ited by Grim Reaper Mrs. Mary Watson of 235 Gates street visited the cemetery yesterday after noon to spend an hour at the grave of her son. who died six weeks ago. When she returned home it was to find an other son, Thomas S. Watson, - lying dead at the foot of the stairs. Watson had apparently slipped and fallen the full length of the flight, breaking" his neck. Death was instan taneous. The deceased was. a paper hanger, 38 years old. His motherland sister survive him. UP GOES THE PRICE OF BOSTON BAKED BEANS Are Higher Than Jack's Bean stalk, but Are Still Bought Every small American boy, except Boston boys, who read -Herbert Spen cer, Sophocles and "Paradise Lost," has read the story of Jack -and the Bean stalk. The beanstalk rose and rose and rose, got higher and higher and higher, until Jack scaled the walls of the wicked giant's castle,, and, after stealing his most valuable possessions, played David to his Goliath. That Is a fairy story, of course, but this, told by the New York World, isn't. The sad truth of this story shrouds Boston common In gloom and brings salt tears to the eyes of the sacred codfish. Grief is merged with anger. A rev olution against the increased cost of the only real food threatens In Boston, in all New England, the cvadle and nursery of liberty, the hot house of the I>oan. . See Page 9 for Particulars, I THIS COUPON IANDIOCENTS g. . . . ... .... . . . ... ..i, , .g ; when presented at the office of TUP CA I I 1 11C w/Yl^L-r Fine Art Photogravured "THE DOCTOR" LU kb^u>hs ' ' " - . - • \u25a0'\u0084;.\u25a0\u25a0.•:-.\u25a0\u25a0..-\u25a0\u25a0 --: -.-\u25a0 : Present coupon and 1O cents at either office of THE, CALIi. Main office, Mzrkti and"* Third streets, San Franciscol Branch oSce, 1651. Fillmore street, San Francisco. Oakland office, 468 Eleventh street (Bacon block), Oakland. * If .picture is to be mailed, price will be 16 Cents (6 cents additional to cover cost of mailing). : FALL INTO LINE FOR EXPOSITION The Monitor and Big Railway Material Manufacturing Con cern Promise Support The hold which the Panama-Pacific exposition is taking in the community was made evident yesterday by proffers of help by the Monitor, a religious weekly, and'from the Orensteiri-Arthur Koppel company, manufacturers of railroad material, which has agencies all over the world. The management of. the Monitor of fered its columns to advertising the fair in every way possible, and. Inas much as it is \one of the standard church papers of the coast, the proffer was joyfully welcomed by the commit tee on publicity. The Orenstein-Arthur Koppel comn pany declared that it had learned that the various business organizations of the city were doing what they could to aid the fair, and that, wishing to fall in line with the rest,, lt would be pleased to have its agencies, situated in all parts of the globe, co-operate with the directorate in making a suc cess of the forthcoming exposition. Another to join was the retail cigar dealers' association, which sent out circulars yesterday calling upon its members to "boost" the exposition. A meeting of the association will be held at Golden Gate Commandery hall to morrow evening, when the exposition will be discussed and plans made for helping it along. Melville E. Stone, manager of the Associated Press, while in the city said though he could not promise to favor one city against another, he would be willing to see that the Associated Press carried the news. He declared he did not care for the term "world's fair," suggesting that this had become hack neyed. • "California and San Francisco," he said, "could surely develop something unique and characteristic." The financial committee met with the representatives of the automobile, tanning, hides, shoe and oil Industries and also with the representatives of the Italian residents of San Francisco. Congress Cheers City WASHINGTON, April 18.—Represent ative Kahn got a lively round of ap plause in the house today, when, after reminding: his colleagues that this was the fourth anniversary of the San Fran cisco fire, he told how the cfty had arisen from its ashes more glorious than ever and was going to have a magnificent exposition in 1915. to which everybody was invited. [Special Dispatch to The Call] "The smoking embers had ' not cooled," said Kahn, "ere tfte work of rehabilitation was fairly begun*. It was stated that it would take fully two years to remove the debris from the burned area. With aggressiveness and the grit and enterprise so charac teristic of the American people, the citizens of San Francisco boldly tackled the task of reconstruction and, as if touched by a magician's wand, block after block of new buildings arose again to house those who had been prominent In the city's marts of trade. San Francisco has today the finest retail shopping district of any city in the whole world." Kahn then proceeded to boost the Panama-Pacific International exposition at San Francisco. . BOARD BALKS AT PAYING BILL FOR SLEUTH HIRE [Special Dispatch to The Call] REDWOOD CITY. April 18.— Echoes of the sensational grand jury upheavals of 1909 sounded in the meeting room of the San Mateo county 'supervisors today, when District Attorney Joseph J. Bullock presented a claim the Hartling-Thavonat secret service com pany of San Francisco for $279.25, which the detective agency alleges is for "gum shoe work" rendered the district attor ney's office between December 15 and December 30. The bill was not itemized, ,but only told that it was for "services rendered In investigating criminal matters and expenses accrued; services of two op erators." "What is it for?" asked the super visors in unison, when the claim was presented. :'•.<; Bullock dedaVed that it was none of the board's business and intimated that If he should make public the work done by the secret service men it would be undone Supervisors Jo.seph M. Francis, D. E. Blackburn and John H. Coleman, com prising the finance committee, passed the claim, but a stumbling block' was discovered in the person of P. H. Mc- Evoyj who flatly refused' to affix his signature. County Clerk Joseph H. Nash was asked to sign the claim and deliver it to Auditor Henry Underbill, but this he refused to do. After reconsidering, his action upon the claim, Supervisor Francis declared that he would ask to have a new vote taken. POTATO GEOWEE BANKBTTPT— ApostaI Kyri atl. a potato grower of Benlda, Solano county, filed a petition In bankruptcy yesterday In tbe United States district court. His liabilities are $309.55, with no assets. CALAVERAS WHIST PARTY— Ca Ia Terag parlor No. 103. Xative Daughters of the Golden West, will (fire a social erening to Its mem ber* and friends in Us meeting place In Swed lph-American hall nrit Monday night. Whist will be a feature. THEVSAJST vFBMOISCO^ CALL;;iTIJESDAY.gABRIL I^'J9^ LIBERTY UNLOCKS PRISON POET'S UPS Jchn Carter Tells Dramatic Story of His Battle for Existence Verses Win Release of Man Who Stole to Secure MonejMo Eat Continued From Page 1 In scope and intention and' directed with a vie to obtaining a scholarship _'at Ox ford. - After three years, three' invalu able 'years, at Weymouth my grand father died and it became necessary for me to Immediately think of a career at the early age- of 15. ' •' Worked for Civil Service \u25a0]//, "In 1902 I began to work at my moth er's house for the, English civil service. I took the inevitable correspondence course, but' my work consisted chiefly of wide and varied reading on lines en tirely foreign to the business in hand. "Much poetry I read in those days, some history, but few text books. "Naturally this method ; of study brought about complete and ignomin ious failure, while at the. same time It filled my mind with a host of facts and fancies which were " to. J mature later. Then followed my'.'employment'at'Wil liams-Deacons bank In London, where my fellow clerks knew me as the phil osopher, which by, a strange coincidence •hadbeen my nickname at school. • -* "I did not take' kindly to the tradi tional family occupation. Casting, up innumerable columns of figures seemed to a country boy far less desirable than poking into odd corners of the town, digging into strange and recondite books at the British museum, : and— who shall say— following ' other and more • questionable occupations. I was never dissipated, drugged ndr other wise damned, but the town" had' on me its invariable influence. The break down of my health In 1905, which fol lowed, brought into prominence my somewhat bohemian- lapses from the rigid etiquette of a London bank. How ever, I resigned my clerkship, remain ing in good standing, at least nom inally. Shipped to Canada "A conference of my family was held by my sisters and my, cousins and my aunts. In its infinite wisdom the con ference decided to pack me off to Can ada, where I "might build up my health and carve out a new career with a plow. The insanity which has so fre quently been mentioned as existing on my father's side of the family induced the family doctor to concur in this ai> rangement. "Hence early in March, IDOS, I found myself adrift in more senses than one. Behind me were friends and failures. I had merely an uncertain hope. I came over In the steerage, as all good immi grants should. , But I did not' mingle with the strange birds who congregate in steamship holds; democratic ideas were to come 'later.' "I held myself aloof, I observed noth ing, I was interested in nothing. New York with its hugeness bored me, and I can trace the state of mind which led up to the commission of my 'bur glary in the first degree' as far back as the trip across; Listless I was then, listless I am yet. "So I came to Winnipeg, which seemed one of the earth's waste places, a town all barn arid elevator arid fron tier. I applied, in my elegant imported tweeds, for a place on a farm and took the first that was offered me. . Thomas W,pod of Elm' Creek, Manitoba, had a vacancy for a man to learn the busi ness, a man to whom he would pay the magnificent salary of a hundred dollars per annum and board.' \u25a0" ": -k - \u25a0 !'Winnipeg had seemed the.abomina tion of >. desolation; Elm Creek; was worse. A. treeless, scrubby, -swampy district, it compared unfavorably with my native Dorset 1 , to say nothing of the Thames at Richmond. My employer was a Scot, rather. the sawny kind than the canny." My first introduction to the science of farming consisted of clear ing a field of stones, an employment at which I acquitted myself with remark able credit. I was, it 'appeared, much stronger than Charlie, my predecessor. As he had been a boy of 12 this would not of itself place me in the weight lifting championship class, but I \u25a0 was relieved to find, myself feo , promising a hand. . :'.'\~~ ; Charlie's Great Records . "At my next: venture,, cutting. down scrub, 1 1 fell far 'below Charlie's stand ard. I have always had an unbounded admiration for that lad. Nor do I dare to ponder what records he must have broken in. the years which have passed since I knew his early, reputation. ',l'~ The shadow of Charlie fellathwart-all'my efforts -at ifaxming; - hei could K- plow: straight, it: appeared," with ; his eyes shut; he could milk. a dozen -cows in the time it took me to pail one;" he could even churn land run a separator better, than I could. ; This I latter excel lence I could; scarcely" believe;?* there seems so little; room 'in ;which to set up a standard of comparison.' : V : ' V r?-H 1 "What interested me about running a separator ' was" the; music of; it," the . only music left to me, just as"- my., only ap proximation to literature, 'was ;. the weekly paper. )* How keenly I f elt -these deprivations may be- Imagined.'^ but^ can not be-'told.': '* A "bookworm fon*- a J farm is; more out: of place; than farmhand in a library, the bookworm's trouble is : mental.".-- '— > -; r " v i, : "That was farming; \u25a0> it: did; notv de crease my listlessnesa.^ W'th" charac teristic carelessness I-llt ; out from [ Elm Creek, asking no wages, giving no no- tice. --\u25a0 — -" " '":"., '-'\u25a0'-\u25a0 ;;\-Y -'...' .'.\u25a0\u25a0 V ; "It ' was -60 niiles to \u25a0•Winnipeg .along the Canadian Northern, and I tramped it;-;; One inlghtv Ij spent- at :^a\ French Canadian „ log v house;*' where ~ I ; spoke nothing^ but; English : and ithe family, : to my ' infinite ' amazement,"?] discussed "/\u25a0 me In French;?Jl; could ) not; resistUhanking my ; monsieur l for.: entertainment in.the. the speech 'il- of J; Stoatf ord-Atte^Bowe/? arid one :\u25a0 of ; the strongest"'*: impressions £of this iClouded 1 period, is that. of his ;open mouth- and generally hang dog Lexpres-'L expres-' sion. '.'. ':.\u25a0! '-'.-':''.. -'. '\u25a0•'. .•., \u25a0.''\u25a0'' : \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0;." : ''/.'- Becomes a Dish Washer ; v-"Back againiat : Winnipeg, in; ragged overalls, liS became ;• '» by turns : r dish .washer,- furniture';' mover,' and s; saloon pianist. : - In theV : latter^ occupation; my f uccess was, to \u25a0'; say ,the'; least . of; it; im periled:' by the- limitations* 1 of ? musical kno wl edge. ; : '. 1 1- knew^ the s Berceus } and the" flrstV ballade /I'Fruehlingsrauschen^ and ; most" of the ; 'Ring,V?but/-l^as|;not on .ragtime.:} It ; was atjthis "point - 1 j first ; ; encountered . popular CARTER'S LAST POEM IN HIS PRISON CELL ; This. sonnet was written .''To' Ye That- Pass By," by, John" Carter. (Copyright applied for by* Johii Carter," pc rmission to -'j'publisii granted* to The Call.) What mockery of \u25a0 life is this r,a ; pit . Whither unceasingly their feUotos tfaust^ Fear tortured souls' whose knowledge is of $ lust, • ' . Whose dreary pilgrimage never I hath \u25a0 lit, ' In unaspiring wretchedness they sit, As gods of evil craving, whence the 'just / Turned angered eyes in limitless disgust,*^ ; Heedless of one, who scourged, the hyprocite. .Oh, to that lowly: Christ htgh" altars build. \u25a0:[ And louder swell th eglorious" triumph song; So shall thine ear with no strange note be filled, From this dar\ chant of misery and wrong ; \u25a0\u25a0•: So at the last shall thou be gathered in ' To paradise as one who knew not sin./ music, a bugbear .which was to, domi nate my prison "life. '.-, I had supposed that popular music meant 'the \u25a0'Mikado*, and 'The. Belle of New York.' I was to hear ' later these trivialities compli mented; as 'Mr. elegant clas sical selections. 1 : -\u0084:\u25a0-'. :\u25a0-' - : . ; "Natural aversion which; the. average man feels toward the man found out is almost impossible to persuade' away. That a starving boy, down • and ;out, friendless and homeless fl don't want to talk melodramatically, but I do .not overestimate j should burglarlstically break and «£nter a dwelling, house is reprehensible. I go further; I do not consider my blame lies here; but cen sure myself rather »for the attitude toward life which made the thing pos sible. What's done is done, so I- can say no more for or- against fnyself." Then Carter, being' urged; told the heretofore unknown details of that af fair in, Carlstad. It .was a remarkable story, '-At was told so simply. There was a hungry boy of 19. who had failed in hla effort to get permanent employ r ment or any work he was'fltted to do, walking at night in therailroad yards in Winnipeg. In his several days in that city he had formed no friendships, he had moved among men so different ln r every way; from himself and he was hiding ,: alone there between the fj cars awaiting an opportunity to "bum" his way into the states, waiting with the hope that a larger city like St.. Paul would provide what he could not find in Winnipeg. ~ • * . Then the ride in the empty boxcar down through the wheat fields "past other farms like .Thomas Wood's, in the swampy- section, then across the line. A little after daybreak one of the train crew discovered the hidden traveler and threw him out of the car. Then the train -went on. Has Only 5 Cents There was a small local station at Carlstad, and five or six houses, nothing more. Nobody wanted to hire any body. So Carter paced the platform, strolled about the village, growing more hungry hourly. A little after noon he decided he would have to eat. In a little restaurant in a dwelling house he spent five. cents for his meal, or rather he bought five cents' worth of food. It wasn't a big nickel's worth, but he held "on to the '\u25a0* money he had left. It was three English pennies and a Canadian cent. \u25a0;. •-.. •;".:;;/:."*; ,"I' don't know what induced me to economize that way when I was;hun gry," he said-tonight. "By the way, I had those 4 cents when . I entered the prison and I got them back today." The station agent evidently, did not like • Carter's looks. "He told him sev eral times to go away, and there being no place else to go out of the offended man's sight, he .hid behind some box cars on the siding.-; [' Jj\ ~v • • \u25a0'•, -That .'night he broke, in the win'Jow and forced open the; money/ drawer. The. bell in the drawer rang. loudly and the , burglar was scared,, but he' heard no sound of movement :, in thd room overhead where the station agent and his wife were sleeping, so he took what was in th_e till, $24, and fled down the track in the darkness. Whether he ran or walked he can not remember. His recollection as to that night is vague, "Tiut there stands out distinctly in his mind the first event of | the morning.' \u25a0At daybreak he. entered the next town. An hour after, a restaurant was opened^ . ; ; i -\u25a0 _ "I then had the most'sumptuous meal a man ever had," said Carter. "How much did it cost?" '"Twenty-five cents." ' Walks Down Track After breakfast he walked 'down, the track, not knowing and lltCle caring where he would- fetch up. • He thought he ought to hide, but it was a swampy country and he had* to stay on or near the tracks. . V ' '\u25a0; .•.'_\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'...'\u25a0 i; No" trains bothered or frightened him Or ; offered him escape. .That . was a new branch of the Soo road, and.it so happened that the train „ from which your haberdasher is displaying I iBl the Mid-Season Showing of ml | ; - v^ Look in the windows as you pass ' ' <4i ?1 .SOandmore f^ 4 \/^M beara a CLUETT label pS^^ he .'had been' thrown was the only one that passed either 'way in two'days:. ; \u25a0' When he -was about . four miles 'from X.md four men approached: on .a hand. car. .' Here ;was the desperado. . ' i . : . "You are my prisoner," said the leader, of the posse. : And they put the young-man on their hand car and 'took him, back .to Carlstad. "Did they make you pump?" Carter was asked. :' ' X^v* - "No," he said; "I was a passenger." •\u25a0 At Carlstad ~th.ey arraigned' him be fore a justice of the peace, who , bound him over to- the grand jury. V . After spending a week in jail at Hal lock he was called to court for trial. The judge appointed a lawyer to defend him, but John Carter, attempted no de fense. .He had committed" the crime, he was 19' years oM, he had had a good education. That was all: he said, all he could be- induced to say: ...The lawyer named in his behalf addressed the court. ' ;'•'!' remember well j what he \u25a0 said," said Carter. . "I , have -thought of it often; since. "It was:'. 'Your honor, the accused, John -Carter,- was -educated at Weymouth college, is but 19 years old, and I therefore plead for a reforma tory sentence.'" But the judge <dld not believe the bedraggled, worn defendant was only 19, he had aged so in the life he- had been leading. The; statutes say that for burglariously entering and robbing an occupied dwelling a minimum sen tence, of 10 years' imprisonment shell be imposed. That is what John Carter got. -' > • COLONEL CHUBB WILL BE GUEST OF REGIMENT •Thirtieth Infantry to Tender Reception to Commander Colonel Charles St. J. Chubb, the new commander of the Thirtieth infantry," and Mrs. Chubb will be the guests of that regiment ;at a. reception at the Presidio on Thursday evening. " Colonel Chubb was formerly in the Second infantry, but his recent promo tion placed him in command of the Thirtieth. Mrs. Chubb is' the daugh ter \of the late General Thomas Eaton, a veteran of the civil war. The Twenty-third infantry" Is due to arrive from - the Philippines on the transport- Sheridan . tomorrow morning, according to a wireless message re ceived yesterday at army headquarters. The troops come in command of Colonel Alfred -C.'Sharpe. On arrival here trains will be await ing at Oakland mole to take them to the different points in Texas to which they are designated. • Colonel William A. Shunk, First cav alry, at the Presidio, has been granted leave of absence for 60 days, beginning May 10. ' \u25a0 The foHowing officers registered at department headquarters, yesterday: Lieutenant William. F. .Herringshaw, Thirteenth cavalry; Colonel R. L. Bul lard, Eighth infantry, from Monterey. CHAUFFEUR HAS DISPUTE' WITH FEDERAL OFFICIAL George S. Grigsby Arrested for Not Paying Fare George. B. Grigsby, United States dis trict attorney for Alaska, was charged in Police Judge Shortall's court yes terday with defrauding a chauffeur. He was represented by -Benjamin L. Mc- Kinlay, assistant United States district attorney here. Grigsby hiredan auto mobile at Eddy and Powell streets early Sunday morning from William Dugan to take him i to Page and Shrader streets, thence to the Presidio- gates. It took, Grigsby' said, about 50 minutes, and Dugan charged ?5. Grigsby offered him $1.50 .and Dugan called upon Police man'O'Neill to arrest Grlgsbyl Police Judge Shortall, after hearing. both sides yesterday, dismissed; the case. H Pedestal Dining Tables At Great Reductions Unusual Values in Extension Tables in all the Popular Woods, Sizes and Finishes. For Example: Regular Price Nov> FUMED OAK TABLE . . . . . . . . $17:50 $13.00 MAHOGANY TABLE, dull finish, in Sheraton design v. . . .... 25.00 $18.50 GOLDEN OAK TABLE, in wax . finish::. W. ..u ... . . . \-\ ......... 30.00 $22.00 FUMED OAK TABLE, in Mission * design .. .......,::.'. 34.00 $25.00 OAK TABLE, oval top, in fumed or • Early English finish ...:....... 38.50 $28.50 EARLY ENGLISH OAK TABLE, with carved ? claw feet 42.00 $30.00 MAHOGANY TABLE, dull finish. '- : 54 inch top, massive Colonial base -and claw feet 95.00 $70.00 GOLDEN OAK TABLE, wax fin- ish; 60 inch top ...... ... . . 1 15.00 $85.00 AH' our Oak Dining Tables are made of Finest Selected reductions on a selection of 85 styles of . Pedestal Extension Dining Tables, including a number of designs in the natural wood, to be. finished in any color desired without ' additional cost. •? See Oar Window Display W.&J.SLOANE 216-228 SUTTER STREET TODAY AND DURING THIS WEEK YOU CAN SETTLE THE PIANO QUESTION EASILY, SAT- ISFACTORILY AND ECONOMICALLY BY TAKING S ADVANTAGE OF THE CLARK WISE & CO/S GREAT ANNIVERSARY SALE ' Of Fine Pianos at a Fourth, Some a Third to a Half Off Regular and Established Prices, and on Terms That Make Buying a Duty. New Pianos at $265, $297 and $322, Reduced From $350, $400 and $425. "Good Second Hand Upright $90, $125 and $140 DON'T MISS THIS SALE , The Clark Wise & Co. store Is a Beautiful $450 pianos at 5345 sold store for all the people. We want to lively all day yesterday and today will impress this upon the mind of \u25a0 every, send a lot more to homes In this city one in and around San Francisco; we and across the bay. The $600, , finest want'the laboring, man, the" clerk, mer- models, old well-known makes, sale fchant, professional man and the mil- price $490, are selling rapidly to those lionaire to feel equally- welcome here, who . really intended to pay at least; We will endeavor to gain and main- $600 for the piano. tain the patronage of every honest per- We have new pianoa here that when son who in turn wants honest values, you see the names on the fall boards and we have here musical instruments you will at once say they were never to fit any pocketbook from the* best offered before at such remarkable re- that's made to the cheapest that's good, ductions — -a third off — more on some. And we "will accommodate, those who Slightly used pianos from rent stock do not care to pay all cash, or find it and good second-hand uprights, selling is not quite convenient to do so, "by «t $90, some at $125— fine ones a little accepting payments in any reasonable used priced at $140 and upward. 'All amounts you choose to make — a little above stock at less than half actual at a time. value. Our idea of service as Piano and And Player Pianos that are second to Playe» Piano sellers consists simply In ' none at any price, that have all the putting your interest and wishes be- latest improvements, made by one of fore ours; taking care of yours, not the best-known manufacturers of entirely ours. It's so unusual that it strictly High Grade Pianos of fifty may seem almost impossible, but it's years' honorable prestige, are being good business. It's really the best way sold at greatly reduced prices. Ex- to take care of ours. . artiine every make of Player Pianos in jj There are hundreds of piano buyers the city, If you like, then come here and who are really needing an instrument make comparison, ad comparison makes in the home and who want nothing but easy selling when you come to this & reliable instrument and can ill afford store. to "\u25a0 pay more than $350 to $400 for a If you have a boy, a girl or a wife piano, and this store is better prepared who Is longing and waiting for a Piano to .take care of this class of buyers or Player Piano, come here, tomorrow than any other store in San Francisco, and perform two kind acts In one — especially now, during this great anni- make yourself happy by causing the versary sale, the $350 and $400 pianos greatest happiness for others, are selling at $265, $276 and $297. Remember the place, 233 Grant aye- A call at this store will soon con- nue, opposite Grant avenue entrance to vincethe most skeptical that here is th*. White House.'.Clark Wise & Co., the place to buy the piano and \u25a0 the the Piano and Music House of San time is* now. ' Francisco. L^PiT^^^^^^S&Ji 1 •••'ill r " L&!i rtf rf' rr fl* ' PALACE HOTEL COMPANY PRESENTS THE PALACE HOTEL 'Entirely rebuilt since the fire, where tte immense crowd at noon is a feature of tbe city, and the ; . ~ ' : :.; - FAIRMONT HOTEL In ' its' superb Kitaatlon, with ;it» atmos- phere of quiet elegance and leal rrflnement. BAY STATE Hotel and Restaurant -\u25a0 ;•->;•; In' New" and \u25a0 Commodious Quartßrs, O'Farrell St. r. Snpexlor : * Lonch. . COc. ''Elaborate Freadi Dlaner. DAILY ani SUNDAY, 750. ; ; ~ Caterißß ! particularly to After Theater Pa- trons. ' : IlungarUa \u25a0 Orchestra from 8 to 8 'p. - m. - and ' from ; 12 soon to 2 p. m. • Phoaa ' reserratlona prompUytsken ear* of. Phones' ' Sntter 1234.^ H0m0 tasze. HOTEL STANFORJ) : . Headquarters : for • former patrons of ths \u0084 .-*. '\u25a0 ,~- - Lick. Grand ' and ; Russ Hotels. 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