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10 MERRY WIDOW'S ILL FOR HUBBY MADE WIFE MAD Mrs. H. W. Ballard Notifies Hus band's Attorney of Reason for Her Disappearance Agent Denies the Impeachment and Suggests Scheme to Wreck Business The myftfriouf disappearance of Mrs. H. W. Ballard. wife of an agent for an eastern manufacturing concern, who offered $100 reward for clews as to her whereabouts, was explained by a letter *he .wrote to him yesterday in which she declared she never would return to him. and was followed by the de velopment of a string of matrimonial woes and charges in which the Bohe mian atmosphere, "merry widows" in "he guise of stenographers and other such obj^rts of hilarity, were the prom inent feature?. / BalJard, broken down and a nervous wrfrk' as a result of the loss of his wife, denied the charges emphatically and came forward with charges of his own in which he accused his attorney, Donald Wj]*-on, of trying to cheat him out of his business. MERRY WIDOW CAUSES STORM Ballard. his wife and two children, rp.me to San Francisco from Kansas City about five months ago and took up their residence in Alameda; Bal lar<3 hnvingr his offices in the Metropolis building. Prior to their arrival here, nccordina: to their friends, there had not betn the least trouble between Them, but the bright lights of the city, they pay. proved his undoing. Qusrrels became frequent. His wife objected to his stenographers and they i.TPted about a month each. The last was a beauty, dubbed around the office the "merry widow." Mrs. Ballard saw her and she, too, went. After that she aot*>d as her hupband's stenographer. In the midst of the turmoil it" was decided that Ballard should go on a hunting trip to Washington, and he c!id so. taking his son with him. In his absence Mrs. Rallard managed his affairs at the office. The final storm broke when, on answering the tele phone, she recognized the voice of the merry widow. RALLARD ROASTS ATTORNKY JuPt what remark the merry one made is not known, but the next day Mrs. Ballard withdrew from the office, arranged to have her girl stay at a hoarding school in Alameda and came to a friend's house in San Francisco. Ballard. returning, found a farewell note and hi? wife conspicuously absent. Then he b<-gran the hunt. He is at the Crescent hotel in Alameda. Learning «t her husband's search for her, Mrs. Ballard wrote to his at torney, Ponald Wilson, saying that she \u25a0was ready to confer with him in the presence of others, but that she never would return to him. Ballard's con tention is that the letter from his wife was sent by the orders of Attorney Donald Wilson, who is a stock holder in the Ballard safety appliance com pany, of which he Is manager, and that the lawyer's purpose is to wreck the business. Y. M. C. A. DEBT PAID BY GUESTS AT BANQUET Secretary McCoy Entertains Ministers and Capitalists The first affair in the new building of the Y<"iung Men's Christian associa tion, at the corner of Golden Gate ave nue and Leavenworth street, was a banquet giv^n by Secretary McCoy to 150 ministers of all denominations from this city, Oakland. Berkeley and Alameda. Rev. Hutsinpiller said grace, and after the repast there were addresses by the host, Rolla V. Watt, Rev. W. Frederick Champett. Rev. E. Dille, Kdward Coleman, W. H. Crocker and Captain A. M. Simpson. "At the olose of the repast," paid Secretary McCoy, "there was a call to raise the balance of $75,000 needed to pay the obligations incurred in fur nishing this magnificent building, and In two minutes the amount was sub scribed. I do not, at this time, care to name the donors, but will say that when the building is dedicated on Thanksgiving day it will be absolutely free from debt." WORKS BOARD ORDERED TO REINSTATE ROCHE Bridge Tender Is Granted Writ of Mandate Marshall Roche, a civil service em ploye of the city who was discharged from the position of bridge tender on the Fourth street drawbridge by the board of works April 20. was ordered reinstated yesterday by Judge Seawell. Roche sued the board of works, and the court issued an absolute writ of man date commanding the board to give him back the job. The order carries with it .judgment for costs against the board, and, fur thermore, Roche will receive his salary at $90 a month for the seven months he has been under suspension. When the board of works discharged Roche it gave his position to a non civil service' employe named Hayes. The appointment was declared t by Judge Seawell to be invalid. TRUSTEE OF HASTINGS ESTATE PASSES AWAY William A. Giselman Dies at His Home Here William A. Giselman. for many years a -trustee in the famous Hastings es tate, died Wednesday morning at his home. 1720 Golden Gate avenue. He Is survived by a widow, Mrs. Anna M. Giselman, and two children. His daughter. Grace, married William A. I^ange. the famous baseball star, and his son. Marshall W. Giselman, was organist at Calvary church for a num ber of years. Giselman was born in Westphalia, Germany, and was 66 years old. He was a member of the George IL Thomas post of the Grand Army of the Re public The funeral will be held this morning at 8.30 o'clock from the home, aiter which a requiem high mass will be sung at Holy Cross church. The body will be interred at. Santa Clara. JERSEY CITY CHANGES "SALOON" FOR "CAFE" • NEW YORK. Nov. 17. — "Saloon" has .gone out of existence In Jersey City. By edict of the Hudson county liquor dealers* association it became known today the word "cafe" is hereafter to be substituted. Further yet, the bar tender has been done away with, now freinff known officially, as a. "server." Writer Scores Divorce Laws Inequality Called a Crime Wife of Bank President Shows Necessity of Speedy Reform Branding as "a nation'-s crime" the lack of uniformity in the divorce laws of the several states of the union, Mrs. L Lowenberg, wife of the president of the City and County bank of San Fran cisco, and one of the leaders in club dom and society here, has taken occa sion in her latest novel, bearing that title and published yesterday, to point out through the medium of a forceful story the imperative necessity for a remedying of the existing laxity in this regard. This is her second work of importance. h*he first. "The Irresist-. ible Current," dealt with the chasm be tween .lew and Gentile. - The theme of "A Nation's Crime" is : merely the probable working out of. the • laws as they are. Much of it has the appearance of being based on actual court records. The tale in brief is that a Maryland woman, who is unhappy with her husband, secures a Reno di vorce. Immediately after the divorce she is married to the man of her love. Many years later, after the birth of two children to the second husband, a will contest arises and bj* the laws of Maryland it is held that her second marriage was illegal and her children in the eyes of the Maryland law illegit imate. . ..... MISERY CAUSED BY LAW Around this situation arc woven the miseries of the mother, the blighted ro mances of the children. The startling feature, of it all is that with the hap hazard divorce laws and haphazard di vorce decisions, is the probability -of the conclusion drawn, by the author. The safeguard which the law has been popularly supposed .to hedge the offi cial acts of a sister state are broken down by present day decisions and Mrs. Lowenberg makes it clear, that until the states adopt some uniform rule, misery, sorrow and suffering of the innocent are bound to follow. Quoting the judge who gave the de cision which declared illegal the mar riage of the main characters in her book. Mrs. Lowenbers says: The results of our divorce laws are sad as well as disgraceful. What a reflection on the legislation of a people^ where a man or woman . is married in one state and not in another: is lawfully married in one latitude and longitude, and a big amist or a bachelor in another. Of all the states in the union only in two states are the laws of mar riage and divorce alike. And that the same laws of a uniform mar riage law do wot exist in every . state of the union is a nation's crime. p LAW DECLARED UNREASONABLE " Speaking on this topic she again says: They knew and felt that though the marriage might be declared illegal it was through no fault of the Allersons, but executed through ignorance and through a wrong conception of the law. And though it was a violation of the law, the law is unreasonable, unknown to most lawyers as well as to most laymen of the state of Maryland: and that the law of these United States in not haying a uniform divorce and marriage law, to be recognized in one state as well as in another, is a mound of iniquity, a world of wrong, the cause of the most disgraceful complications, plunging innocent families, par ents and children in the most reck less way into the gulf of despair, and crying aloud for reform. This cry can not be heard too soon, for in these days of lax and rapid divorces these entanglements may be expected to occur more and more frequently. EXCUSE FOR SUICIDE A girl, declared illegitimate by a court decision, commits suicide and at her gTave this ensues: The minister continued: "She . who Is sleeping the eternal sleep is innocent; she had not committed any crime; the nation is responsi ble for its unwise, unjust laws, therefore it is a nation's crime." The people did not condemn her, but in the sincerity of their hearts bowed their heads in adoration. The tendency among a certain type of judicial officers to tear down the 1 popularly accepted principles of law is again brought forward by Mrs. Low enberg in a vivid manner when she gives what is evidently an accurate re print of a Chicago dispatch in a news paper: Let me read you this — the article taken from a Sunday paper: "Weeping wives and frightened husbands besieged the office of Marriage License Clerk Salmonson. in, the county building yesterday in a vain effort to learn whether they were legally married or whether, according to a recent decision of Municipal Judge Beitler. they had been united by justices of the peace who had no authority. Many women carried babies, while others led small children. All had read of-Judge Beitler's ruling that mar- OVERCOATS-RAINCOATS WINTER SUITS There are three chief reasons which decide- what clothes you will buy— rappearance, quality and price. The order of their importance varies as men vary, but these are QTFIW RI nPH oMAR 1 CLU I nbo Score perfect on every count and, as sold by us, give the utmost of style and quality to be had at any given price. ROBERT S. ATKINS **':' "-.v r - :-;-v> -.%^ '\u25a0•\u25a0>••' : v " : -*-:/"i-i^ ":.-. \u25a0- ' \u25a0 - \u25a0 '" - - \u25a0 ' \u25a0' \u25a0• r' ; '\u25a0" \u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0 . . jluo fc«j u l I.CI **r tree l THE SAN FRANCISCO. CALL. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER: 18, 1910, MRS. I. LOWENBER.G riage ceremonies performed by jus tices of the peace who had no au thority were null and void. Judge Foster, acting chicf • justice of, the municipal court, declared the law was ' plain and that undoubtedly every marrirtge performed by jus tices of- the peace since the munici pal law went into effect was.ille gal. If the decision Is affirmed a special act of the Illinois legisla ture may be sought that will legal ize all such marriages." - CHARACTERS EXPRESS VIEWS These are the conditions which -Mrs. Lowenberg points .to ''as \u25a0'constituting a nation's crime. In Illinois she finds in stances of children being declared' ille gitimate by the decision of a court,, and In Maryland by the unearthing "of a forgotten statute. And in her book she puts forward the question:' "Where is it to end? Is the social: status to be undermined by tho technical knowl edge of a judge?" . . Of the divorce question itself she says little in her own right as author, alowing her characters to express their views on the subject' according to their various ideas. By these means . the two sides - of. the argument are presented, the following being an instance: . , "Divorce is one of the evils of the times, j Nowhere in the world are the laws so lax as in the Unit ed States in regard . to tljo legal separation of man, and wife. Now, if you knew there was no. release for you on this earth your dislike would never have grown to this deadly hate." .. - '\u0084.- , "I am low "church; you' -are high church. If you keep on you will be calling divorce and marriage, with your rigid ideas, adultery." "We must/ call things 'by their proper names." ..... "•But be careful', not -to make mis takes." :,' - \u25a0.-'.'-; '- ; i : \u25a0 . "Any divorced man.'or, woman re marrying is a bigamist. , My opin ion-Is decided on that point." "Well, 1 father, do not- be too de cided — you know there was a time when .Servetus was burned .at the stake for denying the. trl-personal ity of the divinity, i and now we wonder at such narrowness. Times change." "I repeat that the legal dissoluu tion of those ties does not vindi cate that-remarriage Is equitable — It Is iniquitous." "A Nation's Crime" Is published by the Neal • publishing company. It Is well printed and, bound. . BUSINESS RIVALRY TAKES MEN TO COURT One Jeweler Says Rival Sat on Him , Business rivalry . brought two jewel ers from -the Mission district before Judge Shortall yesterday.. Ike Hassen, who has a jewelry store . at 2951 1 Six teenth street, appeared as the "complain ing witness against Fred Steffan, whose place of business Is 2518* Mission street/ Hassen. claims Steffan stands in front of his \u25a0 store i and obscures the show windows with his bulk. When he remonstrated threw him down and sat on him, Hassen alleges. Steffan says he does such a big business that Hassen is jealous of him, and when he was walking past his- rival's store Wednesday Hassen ran out and struck him. The case, was, continued. FINANCIAL 'GENIUS' WANTS MONEY BACK University Instructor Alleges That He Was Led to Give Up $5,500 by Fraud H. L. Bruce Borrowed $25,000 to Float Realty Venture; Told He Was Second Harrimari Painting him as, a Croesus and com paring him to the late EH. Harriman were among the ruses employed in inducing, H. L. Bruce, a reader in the department of English at the Univer sity of California, to assume a debt of $25,000, from which he is endeavoring to freehimself through an action filed in. the superior- court of .Contra Costa county" yesterday. "Accerding to the complaint; Jennie P. Bousfield, her hus band,-Robert E. Bousfleld; :L. M. ver Mehr, W, G. Dodge, P. C. Mills and the Do'dge-Ver Mehr realty company,: all of Berkeley and Claremont, defendants in the action, so *enchanted the young plaintiff,^ who .Is only 22 years of age, that he all the- money his mother, relatives and he could raise, purchased- a group of precipitous cliffs in Contra Costa county just out of Dan ville and. then waited In the offices of the Dodge-Ver Mehr company for the part of. Croesus assigned to him. Be fore Bruce could be declared a financier he had to pay $25,000 for the land which was to make him a money baron. Now he asks- the courts, through his attor ney,l William Crittenden of the firm of Putman, • Van - Wyck & Crittenden, to free him from' the iniquitous contract and give him judgment against the defendants. LISTENS TO FAIRY TALE In the recital of details it -\ appears that Bruce, who Is an assistant to Prof. "Charles Mills Gayley at the university, came in contact with a financial third rail in the persons of Robert .E. Bous field and his wife, Jennie, residents of Claremont and original, owners of "one of the most magnificent' pieces of real property in the hills of . Contra Costa county." He gave ear •to a tale of spreading, population and rapid migra tion through the foothill tunnel to the Bousfleld- property. Possibilities be came probabilities and were reduced on maps to actualities, and Bruce; was to be the great beneficiary — for $5,5.00. - As soon as yie young man found him self burdened with the contract and the property he became an. active realty dealer instead of a college instructor, and worked with . great, industry and zeal to sell all his rights, title and in terests. He finally concluded that he had been the last of the crop, and. with Interest and principal piling up, he fled to the arms of his, counsel. In floating the deal he was informed that he had embraced a great opportunity and that his pictures would be at a premium as soon as the world realized hla financial acumen. Highly lithographed folders were published, exploiting the new property, and elaborate steps taken to market the acreage. BOUGHT PART OF ROAD On the only occasion when he had an opportunity to sell, the. prospective pur chaser discovered that the lines of the acres as represented on the map actual ly extended Into the middle of the road. This was a revelation to Bruce, who has figured that he invested more than $700 of- his payment- of $5,500 In the public highway of Contra Costa county. Alleging misrepresentation and fraud,, he will make his fight for the return of the borrowed money. UNCLE SAM WANTS MEN IN NEW CUSTOM HOUSE The United States civil service com mission announces that examinations will be held in | San. Francisco at. an early date for ' the purpose of filling vacancies in the positions of elevator conductor and marble polisher in the new ' custom house building in this city. Applicants must be citizens-of the United States and must have had previous experience in that kind of work to be eligible for either examin ation. Application blanks may be ob tained from the secretary of the twelfth civil service district, room 241, postoffice building, San Francisco. Ap plicants are requested to indicate the name of the examination that they de sire to take. - BOY IS SERIOUSLY HURT BY AN AUTO Harold Dammersteln, 12 1 years old, 36 Belcher street, 'a student at the Parental school at Seventh and Bryant streets, was run down by an automo bile while on his way home for lunch yesterday. Charles Klelnt, 753 How ard streat, the driver of the car, picked the boy up and hurried him to the cen tral emergency hospital, where it was found the lad's skull had .been frac tured. Sensational Sale of House Dresses at $ \£!L One piece dresses of heavy linene in checks or stripes. Many pretty colorings ; high neck and lopg sleeves ; pearl buttons ; a particularly attractive $2.00 style. Sizes 34 to 44. Today, and Saturday if quantity lasts, but $1.45 each* Girls' $5.00 Dresses Girls' $6.50 Dresses igreatbigFridaTandSat- Jfcr* SO ' ' The latest st -, e -. sailor $>1 «75 urday Special. Handsome *A'^= dresses of exto quality navr £}*== new winter styles in serges, - extra f f m and very becomm^ sa ii or plaids and mixtures, trimmed silk blouse, neat plaited skirts. All sizes, 6 piping, braid and gilt buttons. Sizes to 14 years. Cost you $6.50 anywhere 6to 14 years. .. •% else. 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