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ALLARD`S FACTS AND THEORY AT FAULT.
State Engineer H. C. Holmes
Slakes Reply.
PRAISES THE PILING PLAN.
The Slicks Are Eighty Feet Long and
Are lot Spliced.
A. PAGE BROWS IS A BAD HUMOR.
As an Architect He Designed the Foun
dation Which Is an Engineer's
Problem.
Howard C. Holmes, engineer for the
State Harbor Commissioners, was disposed
in be charitable toward the sweeping criti
cisms made upon the foundations of the
new ferry depot by G. E. Allardt, Civil
Engineer, as published in The Call of
yesterday.
"I don't know whether Mr. Allardt is a
fool or a knave," he said, "but his criti
cism proves him to be either one or the
other. The proof of a pudding is in the
eating and we have the absolute proof of
experience that piles driven in the mud of
the water front is a better foundation than
the stone wall he recommends. He is ab-
Boluteiy wrong in almost every proposition
lie puts forward. He is wrong in his state
ment of what purports to be facts and
wrong in his deductions and theory, and so
] alpabiy so that if it was not a matter in
which the public is interested and which is
not supposed to be up in technical engi
neering. I would not bother about answer
ing it. But I'll run over the main points
which Mr. Aliardt tries to make.
•'He Bays the danger lies not so much in
the liability of the vertical weight causing
the foundation to sink as in its sliding out
into the sea because of the movement of
the made land in that direction caused by
the weight of buildings on it, and because
the piles do not reach solid ground and
consequently offer no resistance in that
direction. A rock tilling in the mud would
be absolutely safe, he thinks. In support
of his theory he states as fact that the sea
wall, which he claim? was built upon his
]ilan of rock tilling, has stood immovable
for thirty years and that piling at Mare
Island and Oakland have goue out, as he
fears ours will.
"His facts and theory were both wrong,
as I said. The seawall has not moved out
an inch in twenty years, as I recently
proved by recent surveys over the tracks
t<f the original surveys. But it has sunk
repeatedly at different points. Why, I
have seen a large section of the wall wholly
disappear in a single night. That fact
alone, for it is a fact of which we have the
records here, is a complete answer to all he
dd. But there are very many other
equally eloquent facts, chief of which is
t hat the ferry slips, wholly built of piles
which are driven into the surface of this
mud, mind you, have stood for eighteen
years and have not advanced one inch to
ward the bay. They have been eaten and
worn, to be sure, and replaced, but that
fact only strengthens it as a witness, for it
has become a solid mass of piles in the
mud, so that were there any pressure be
hind them they would receive the whole
force of it.
"I know nothing of the work at Mare
Inland, but do know why Edson Adams
failed to bind up his Oakland marshes. In
fact, I told him his plan would fail before
he tried it, and therefore it is not likely
that our work at the ferry is on the same
lines. He drove piles in the mud and
then dug the mud from the bay side and
threw it on the inside. The balance was
quickly upset and the piles went out be
fore the weight behind them. It was not
because there was a general movement
into the bay.
•There is no general movement into the
bay and will be none. And if there was,
how would a lot of broken stones sus
pended in the mud make a better resist
ance than a great number of piles sus
pended there, as Mr. Allardt is pleased to
put it? I cannot see. The plan Allardt
suggests is that of the seawall, which, as I
fay, has sunk repeatedly. It contemplates
digging a trench and piling broken stone
into it until it ceases to sink. He cannot
mean to dig the trench down to solid
ground, for no dredger can work lower
than forty feet, and he admits the mud is
100 feet deep. The fact is it is 250 feet deep
in front of Market street. Would not his
Ftone filling be suspended in it? If there
was to be a rushing down of a steep place
Snto the sea, what would prevent this
lot of stone going with it?
"Baton the other hand if this rock was
to be piled into the mud until it quit sink
ing when would we get to work on the
building? The mud, remember, is 250 feet
deep, and if the rock sinks into it as has
the seawall by its own weight there would
l)e nothing to do but fill in until it rose as
much above the snrface as might be
deemed practicable, allow it to settle and
then nil in again, repeating this until it
remained stationary. What then? Bnild
a big and costly and very heavy building
upon it? What guarantee have we that
the added weight of the building will not
cause the broken rock to do some more set
tling, and would not that be just what
might be expected ?
"Now, sir," continued Mr. Holmes, get
ting more interested in his subject as he
progressed, "it is a principle so familiar in
engineering that I should not have to call
it to the attention of so old an engineer as
M r. Allardt that the ?kin friction, as it, is
called, of the individual pile has a value
of its own above that of broken s tone as a
support.
"For instance, by way of illustration,
suppose a square pier be built in the mud.
It would have only the friction of its four
sides fo check its progress down
ward and there is no telling how far it
would sink. A great number of piles being
driven within the area that the square pier
occupies each of them !?as the clutch of the
earth about it, the 'skiu friction,' to hold
it v and the longer it stays there the firmer
the clutch. A pile you were driving to-day,
for instance, drops several inches at each
blow of the hammer, leave it and rettirn
tomorrow and you will find that it takes
several blows of the hammer to start it go
ing. These piers are built upon a strong
foundation of piliiig driven ninety feet into
the mud and cat off 21 feet 6 inches be
low base. Mr. Allardt must know that all
the big buildings in the area of the made
ground that, he speaks of as likely to slide
aut are built upon piles and they are all
perfectly firm. The exception is the big
building of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson,
o.hich is not built on piles and which is
cracked.
"Mr. Allardt talks of a current which
carries the mud away and is liable to un
cover the piles at this great depth and
leave them free to the teredo. The fact is
that there is an eddy in all the slip* along
the water front, where mud and sand are
deposited at the rate of one foot a month.
The dredger is constantly at work provid
ing deep water for the ships there — another
of Mr. Allardt's facts which is entirely off
color.
"Now, I have covered the main argu
ment," continued Mr. Holmes. "I'll -just
run over the minor points of Mr. Allardt's
criticism. lie says our spliced GO-foot piles
are liable to have bagged at the knee, with
possible calamity as a result. The fact is
the piles are all 80 feet long and none of
them are spliced. So much for that. He
save that it is not known as yet what the
effect of salt water is upon Portland cement, i
Any encyclopedia or the Century Diction- |
ary would have void him. It is well cstab- I
lished.
"As for his granite wall which he sug
gests as a stay for the whole foundation, I
would like to ask Mr. Allardt why that
plan which was adopted for the seawal
was abandoned, and if the city did not getl
judgment in a suit growing out of its fail
ure to meet expectations and a rebate of so
much per foot on the price?"
Harbor Commissioner Cole was present
during almost all this, and was asked if he
had anything to savin answer to criticisms
passed upon the Harbor Commission in
having accepted the plan.
"I have only to say that we have confi
dence in our engineer, and that as we are
not experts ourselves, we have to rely upon
him and his judgment in these matters."
"That is hardly a fair way of putting it,"
said Holmes. "I am handicapped. These
are Mr. Brown's plans; not mine. lam
simply seeing that they are carried out."
"To be sure," said Cole.
Mr. Cole was asked with regard to the
statement telegraphed from Sacamento
yesterday that the commission had gone
contrary to law in advertising for bids for
the entire work, instead of segregating it,
and that the whole proceedings were liable
to be overthrown on that account.
"There is an agreed case in Sanderson's
court to determine that point," he said,
"and the bids will not be opened until it
is decided."
A. Page Brown, the architect who de
signed the foundation for and the super
structure of the ferry depot, was asked
what he had to say with regard to the
liability of his plans going ''agley" and he
said he was not worried about it. The
plans had been accepted and the founda
tion is nearly completed. He had received
a part of the $15,000 for the best plan; but
not all of it. He refused to say how much
he had received.
He said it would be practically impos
sible to segregate the different parts of the
work on the building and let it out to sev
eral different contractors. It required one
man at the head to look after and be
responsible for the whole work. He was
convinced that Governor Budd had satis
fied himself during his recent visit that the
work was all right. The rumors of crooked
work, he said, had originated with a one
time partner of State Engineer Holmes, who
was disgruntled in some way and wanted
to cause that official trouble. Mr. Brown
was in something of a temper with regard
to some recent criticism of the big tower in
his building. He explained that he was a
Fellow of the Society of Architects, and
that he had been engaged as architect be
cause of the fear the Commissioners had
that the work would fall into inferior or
incompetent hands. The work of an en
gineer, he said, was entirely different from
that of an architect. Their lines met here
and there but diverged again. They often
had to consult with each other, but their
training was entirely different.
"But you designed the foundation for
the ferry, didn't you?"
"Yes."
"That is essentially an engineering feat,
isn't it?"
"Perhaps it is. The commission, not
knowing what was to go on top of it, got
me to make the plan."
"Couldn't Mr. Holmes, the engineer
paid by the State for just such work, have
done it?"
"He didn't know the weight that it was
expected to sustain."
"But couldn't he have consulted with
you as you say engineers sometimes do
with architects?"
"Well, I have engineers in my office,"
was Mr. Brown's reply. "Besides," he
added, "it is not such a big affair. We
are only going to spend $500,000 on it. But
just because it is a public building every
man thinks he ought to file a complaint.
With a private concern this whole thing
would have been dismissed long ago."
SCIENTIFIC HANDBALL,
Champion Jones Defeats Nealon and
Bonnet.
The Occidental Handball Court was
crowded last night, the occasion being the
return match between Champion Jones
and J. C. Nealon and T. F. Bonnet. A
large number of ladies were present.
Nealon and Bonnet won the first two
games, and it looked as if they would
again defeat the champion, but he pulled
himself together and took the next three
straight.
Following was the score:
Jones 13 721 21 21
Nealon and Bonnet 21 21 15 15 9
Great interest is being taken in the
match between the two crack teams of the
Occidental and San Francisco courts,
Champion Donnelly and T. F. Bonnet and
J. Harlow and R. Linehan. The first four
games of the nine will be played at the
Occidental on Sunday afternoon.
First Unitarian Church.
The reports read at the annual meeting
of the First Unitarian Church show that
the receipts for the year were $11,954 16 and
the expenses $11,883 79.
The salaries of Dr. Stebbins and Rev.
Mr. Eliot have been paid and the society is
free from debt.
The receipts of the Sunday-school for the
year were $333 60 and the expenditures
$288 37. Written monthly examinations
give the school a dignity and thoroughness
equal to a day school.
The Charming Auxiliary increased its
membership from 94 to 173. Its expendi
tures for the year had been $621 77 and it
carried forward a balance of $562 42.
The Society for Christian Work, in
charge of the charitable work of the
church, disbursed $1553 36 and had a bal
ance of $604 52.
The William and Alice Hinckley fund
had disbursed in addition $1380.
The terms of office of three trustees hav
ing expired an election was held, resulting
in the choice of Charles M. Gorham, J. B.
Cornwall and John McMullen.
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Subscribers of The Call who have failed
to obtain a complete set of the Encyclo
pedia Britannica as offered by The Call
several months ago can obtain the entire
work by gj via y order now for the number of
volumes required to complete the set. The
publishers of the work have arranged that
no orders will be filled after March 1. It
is therefore necessary that orders be taken
before that date.
THE MORXIXG CALL, SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1895.
LOOKS BAD FOR DEAN
An Outfit of Counterfeiters
Unearthed.
DEPUTY HARRIS' DISCOVERY.
Mrs. Dean's Fnrse Plethoric of $5
Pieces.
FARROW MAY BE THE RIGHT SAME.
Letters That May Load to the Conviction
of the Oakland Twain Sow
Under Arrest.
From present indications it looks as if
W. J. Dean and his handsome wife are in
a tight box upon the charges of counter
feiting, placed against them by the United
States authorities.
The story of the arrest of the woman in
Oakland on Monday night last and th
subsequent capture of the husband at the
Alameda County Jail has been told in The
Call.
Dean was brought over to the city yes
terday by Deputy United States Marshal
M. C. Harris and taken before Corumis-
W. J. Dean, Counterfeiter.
[Sketched 6y a "Call" artist.]
j sioner Heacock, who held him to answer
I with bonds fixed at $5000. In default of
! the security he went to the Broadway jail.
A search of the residence of the Deans
by Deputy Harris brought to light a cart-
I load of evidence.
They lived in a luxuriantly furnished
cottage at 1101 Twenty-third street, East
! Oakland. The house was rented from J.
| H. Jenks and was occupied by two men
i and a woman— the third party being still
at large. The prisoner, Dean, was known
to the landlord as James, and receipts
I show that the rent was paid up to the 17th
of the present month.
On entering the parlor a search was
begun, and under the head of a bed in that
department was found a silk pouch con
taining $105. all in $o gold pieces, which the
woman is believed to have received in part
change for counterfeit $10 bills. There was
also $19 70 in silver, which belonged to the
woman.
Several letters which will be valuable as
evidence were found in the clothing which
Dean had left behind him, together with a
leather traveling-bag. In the back room
was a block of babbitt metal and copper
i tilings were on a work table. On a shelf in
I a closet was found a piece of thick glass
upon which had been photographed a $10
! bill, only the corner of which was left
bearing the figures $10.
A printing press and photographing ap
paratus was located in the basement,
together with about $300 worth of silver
plate, which was said to be the wedding
presents of Mrs. Dean.
The valise taken from the house was
opened in the United States Marshal's
otiice, and among other things was $142 70,
the most of which was in $5 gold pieces,
and $10 notes; also a certificate of member
ship in Dufferin Lodge No. 364, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Hamilton, Canada. It
is dated June 17, 1870, and signed by Wil
liam Henry Weller Esq. The certificate
is made out to William J. Farrow, which
is supposed to be the proper name of the
accused.
Among the letters found was one ad
dressed to a friend in Los Ansreles, and
which had not yet been mailed. It was
signed "Will," and conveyed the affections
of "Mrs. F.," which would indicate that
his proper name might be William Farrow.
The authorities have in their possession
a letter which was placed in their hands by
the American Bank-Note Company of New
York. The handwriting is identical with
the one referred to. It reads as follows:
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 19, 1895.
American Bank-yote Company. Xcw York— Demi
Bus: Please express me C. O. D. early as pos
sible half pound green printing ink, the same
exactly as yon use for printing backs of na
tional bank notes; also half pound of black
ink, same exactly as you use for printing faces
of bank notes.
If you do not sell it, will you kindly give the
order to the inkhouse which supplies you, and
oblige yours respectfully, R. G. Parsons
P. O. box 561, Oakland, Cal.
From the number of $5 pieces among the
cash on hand it is presumed that the opera
tions of the couple were more extensive
than at first believed.
The Camera Club.
The Camera Club had a test demonstra
tion by exponents of different schools and
methods at its rooms in the Academy of
Science building last evening. Dr. Passa
vant represented the metal developer, Dr.
Goodman pyro, and Professor Lange Eiko
hydro. Plates which had been exposed
l-"lOO part of a second, 1-5 of a second and
3 seconds were placed in a box before the
contestants. Ihere were three of each.
Dr. Goodman won in 17, 11 and 15 min
utes to the plates in the order named.
Professor Lange came next. There was a
j large attendance.
Walked Out Unobserved.
Mrs. Mary Quinn, 404 Franklin street,
was taken to the Receiving Hospital yes
terday morning, and later appeared before
the Insanit}' Commissioners for examina
tion. "When taken back to the hospital
she was placed in the female ward, and
while the matron was absent for a few
minutes she walked out of the hospital un
observed. Mrs. Quinn is a victim of
alcoholism and four months ago was sent
to Agnews Asylum and was recently re
leased.
The Blame Mine Sold.
The well-known Blame mine, located at
Angels Camp, Calaveras County, was dis
posed of yesterday through George Gates
of San Benito County to a number of
Eastern capitalists. The mine is four lo
cations from the rich-ore producing mine
known aa the Utica. The price paid for the
purchase is $450,000.
Change In Warde-James' Repertoire.
The great success of "Henry IV" as pre
sented by Warde and James has caused
the two stars to change their repertoire so
as to present the play at their farewell per
formance on Saturday week instead of
"Richard III." The hitter piece will, how
ever, be given on next Saturday evening in
stead of "Othello," as was first announced.
Moving to New Quarters.
The Board of Trade moved from its
temporary quarters in the Merchants'
Exchange building to its own apartments
I in the Union block, Market and Pine
; streets, yesterday. The rooms have been
! enlarged and renovated during the ter
n: poraxy absence of the board, and the
i annual meeting of the body, which was
I postponed so that the session could be
I held "at home," has been set for the
i 4th prox.
TRIED TO ESCAPE.
Two Lunatics Bound for the Asylum
Cause Trouble.
There was a lively time for a few min
utes yesterday morning at the depot of the
San Francisco and Nortb Pacific Railroad
Company. Deputy Sheriff Eckhardt of
Ukiah and an assistant had two lunatics
in charge bound for the Ukiah asylum.
When it came to going on the boat the two
crazy persons made a vigorous objection.
One of them hit the deputy on the head
and the other tried to escape.
Finally the two deputies managed to got
their prisoners on board the boat and all
was apparently peaceable. But a lively
commotion was caused at Ignacio station.
The two guards were in the baggage-car
with the lunatics. One was released from
his confining straps by the other crazy
man. Both of them jumped from the
train and were pursued by the officers.
There was a chase of a quarter of a mile
before the men were caught, during which
time the train was left waiting at the
station. The lunatics were finally landed
in the asylum. .'
MADE HAPPY BY MARRIAGE.
Union of James W. Duffy and Miss
Jennie MeOovcrn.
The Ceremony Took Place at St. Mary's
Cathedra!, Which Was Fillefl With '
Friends of the Conple.
James W. Duffy and Hiss Jennie Mc-
Govern were united in marriage last even
ing at St. Mary's Cathedral. The large
church was crowded with the friends of
the young couple, and the solemnity of the
occasion did not restrain the happiness of
those present, so pleaded were they to wit
ness the linking of the lives of two young
people they admired so much.
About 7 p. m. the members of the bridal
party gathered at the residence of Mrs.
Annie Martin, sister of the bride, at 1581
Folsorn street. Shortly before 8 p. m. the
party left the hotise and proceeded to St.
Mary's Cathedral in hacks. On arrival at
the church the bridal procession was ar
ranged. Dr. Philip J. Perkins, Robert N.
Whitney, Thomas N. Harloe and William
D. Fhea, the ushers, led the way.
The bridesmaids. Miss Abbie Jennings and
Miss Annie Duffy, sister of the groom,
attired 'n dresses of brocaded blue silk,
and carrying La France roses, followed
closely upon the ushers. Then came the
maid "of honor, Miss Susie Marti.i, who
I wore a dress of dotted white Swiss, with
I white ribbons and lace, She also carried
La France roses. The bride, escorted by
Deputy Surveyor of the Port Samuel J.
Ruddeli, walked firmly and modestly to
the altar. She was dressed in a handsome
costume of heavy brocaded white silk of
excellent pattern) with a long train, and
wore lilies of the valley in her'hair. The
party was met at the altar by the groom,
who, accompanied by his brother, William
Duffy, had advanced from the sacristy.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
Father Martin in an impressive manner.
After congratulations from their many
friends Mr. and Mrs. Duffy, accompanied
by immediate relatives anct invited guests,
were driven back to the residence of Mrs.
Martin, on Folsom street. The parlors of
the house were prepared for the occasion,
smilax, ferns, woodwardias and potted
plants haying been used with great taste
in decorating. The bridal supper, prepared
by a prominent caterer, soon jfollowea. At
12:30 a. m. Mr. and Mrs. Duffy left for their
hotel. They will leave this morning on a
two weeks' bridal tour of the southern
part of the State.
James W. Duffy is one of the successful
young business men of this city. He be
longs to the firm of Duffy & Co., carpet
dealers, having sneceeded his father, one of
California's departed pioneers, in the busi
ness. Mr. Duffy is a captain in the Third
Regiment, N. G. C, and is secretary of the
California Camera Club.
The bride is a daughter of the late Philip
McGovern, who, up to the time of his
death, was one of the best known San
Franciscans.
Rev. Father Martin, who performed the
marriage ceremony, was reared from child
hood by Mrs. McGovern, mother of the
bride. Jqst four years ago, shortly after
his ordination. Rev. Father Martin 'joined
in marriage Miss Maggie McGovern, sister
of the bride of last evening, and Deputy Sur
veyor of the Port Samuel J. Ruddeli. This
ceremony was the first one ever performed
by the priest, and it was the first marriage
to occur in the evening in the new St.
Mary's Cathedral.
THEY WERE GIANTS.
Some Kemarkable Skeletons Found in
Michigan.
The remains of a forgotten race were re
cently dug up from the mounds on the
south side of Crystal Lake, Mountcalm
County. One contained rive skeletons and
the other three. In the first mound was
an earthen tablet, 4 inches long, 4 wide and
a half inch thick. It was divided into four
quarters. Onqneof them were inscribed
curious characters. The skeletons were
arranged in the same relative positions, so
far as the mound was concerned. In the
other mound there was a casket of earthen
ware 10)/; inches long and zy, inches wide.
The cover bore various inscriptions. The
characters found upon the tablet were also
prominent upon the casket.
Upon opening the casket a copper coin
about the size of a 2-cent piece was revealed,
together with several stone types, with
which the inscription or marks upon both
tablet and casket had evidently been made.
There was also two pipes, one of stone and
the other of pottery, and apparently of the
same material as the casket. Other pieces
of pottery were found, but so badly broken
as to furnish no clew as to what they might
have been used for. Some of the bones of
the skeletons were well preserved, showing
that the dead men must h&ve been of huge
proportions. The lower jaw is immense.
An ordinary jawbone tits inside with ease.
By measurement the distance from the
top of the skull to the upper end of the
thigh bone of the largest skeleton was five
feet five inches. A doctor who was pres
ent stated that the man must have been at
least eleven feet high. One of these
mounds was partially covered by a pine
stump three feet six inches in diameter,
and the ground showed no signs of ever
having been disturbed. The digging had
to be done among the roots, which had a
large spread. Much speculation is rife as
to who these giants of a prehistoric race
may have been.— Carson City (Mich.) letter
to Detroit News.
Wheat Was Firm.
May wheat jumped from 91J£ to 92 at the
opening of the Exchange yesterday, but
dropped back to the original price in con
sequence of reports from Chicago that the
market was falling. Later in the day the
price fell still further, May selling in fair
lots at 91%. The situation in spot is calcu
lated to strengthen to-day's market.
BRUISES THAT SMART.
Why Martin Daiton Boxed
With W. Miller.
THE TROPHY, WO OR LOSE.
Says He Was Menaced With Expulsion
if He Faltered.
OLYMPIC CtUB MEMBERS DISPLEASED.
Superintendent Kennedy Severely Criti
cized for His Management of
the Tournament,
Many members of the Olympic Club
who attended the boxing tournament at
the clubhouse on Tuesday evening are
making caustic comments on Superinten
dant Kennedy's management of the affair
and particularly in regard to the last
match in which William Miller of the San
Francisco Athletic Club, a strapping fel
low of 190 pounds weight, pounded Martin
Dalton of the Olympic Club, a light
middle-weight, 154 pounds, until the in
dignation of the audience, attested by
hisses and calls of "stop it," "take him
off" and the like, compelled the referee
to put an end to the painful exhibition.
Nearly all the members, who spoke of
the affair yesterday, were outspoken in
expressions of condemnation of the man
ner in which the contest was arranged.
Martin Dalton, the boxer who was so
severely pummeled by the San Francisco
Club athlete, makes sweeping accusations
against Superintendent Kennedy.
"i was simply forced into that contest
against my desire and judgment," he said,
"and when I went into the ring I knew
that 1 was doom ed to a beating if not a
knockout. Walter Watson, the club in
structor in boxing, induced me to join the
club because he thought he saw a future
champion in me, and though I hay c been
a member for nine months, I have very
few friends and acquaintances in the club.
I work hard every day and do not go to
the club at night, so I do not make many
friends there. Some time ago when the
tournament was first spoken of I entered
and was matched to meet Kelly of the San
Franciscos. He injured his band in train
ing and was compelled to drop out. A
few days before the tournament I asked
Kennedy for a couple of passes, and he
told me in a joking way that if I
would consent to meet Miller or Kenealey,
in case either should fail to show up at the
appointed time I could have them. I an
swered in the same manner that I was
willing. On the night of the tournament
Kennedy came to me and said:
" 'Dalton, you have got to fight Miller.
Kenealey can't goon.' I told nim that I
was not in condition, as I had been out of
training since Kelly had gone wrong; had
been working very hard at my business all
day, and that besides Miller was a big man,
in the pink of condition and would simply
butcher me.
"He said that was all right; that he
would see that I got the $75 trophy, win or
lose, and that I must goon. 1 still re
fused, and he then said that if I did not
get up and fight Miller when called upon
that 1 would be debarred from the club in
future.
"I thought the matter over, and con
cluded that I would rather take a beating
than lose my membership in the club, and
lor that reason I went up and took my
thumping like a man. The members were
so indignant that they rushed into the ring
and stopped it before he had time to knock
me out.
'•Miller did not want to knock me out
and went at it easy, but Kennedy went to
his corner at the end of the first round and
told him that if he did not eet in and mix
things he would get no prize out of the
Olympic Club even if he did win. After
that, of course, he went in to slaughter me
and was succeeding when the bout was
stopped."
In reference to Dalton's statement Mr.
Kennedy, the superintendent of the
Olympic Club, said: "So far as Dalton is
concerned the report that he boxed Miller
because I had threatened to have him
tired from the club unless he went on is a
falsehood.
"On last Monday night I asked Dalton,
in the presence of Fred Butz and others,
if he would take Miller or Kenealey's place
in case either of the heavy-weights should
meet with some accident and could not go
on.
"Dalton at first hesitated about taking
the job, but when I offered him two tickets
for his friends and a prize incase he should
lose he readily accepted and seemed over
joyed because he would be afforded an op
portunity of showing the members what
he could do in the way of boxing. We had
no difficulty in getting Dalton to con
sent to a" meetuig against Miller on
Tuesday evening. He said, though,
that there was little hope for
him against such a big fellow as he would
be outclassed. No threats were made to
remove him from the club. We need all
the good athletes we can get here. Dalton
joined the Olympic Club and paid his in
itiation fee on February 3, 1894, and any
person who thinks that he is not a bona
fide member can come up here and we will
show him the books and credits to Dalton.
Now you have everything and I have noth
ing further to say in the matter."
Leader John Hammersmith said that he
had promised Dalton a nice prize should
he (Dalton) consent to box against Miller
and that the Olympic boxer accepted.
••I will state, however," said Mr. Ham
mersmith, "that Dalton did not like the
idea of going up against such a big man as
Miller, and unless he had been offered good
inducements I dare say he would have re
fused. The club was without a man near
Miller's equal in size, weight and strength,
and we had, reluctantly, to call upon Dal
ton to take Kenealey's place. I, person
ally, did not like to see such a match, but
as the members were anxious to have a
peep at the bigboxer of the San Francisco
Club we got Dalton to appear, and had
matters so arranged that in case Miller got
augry and rough with the middle-weight
the contest would be stopped."
Professor Walter Watson, the club's box
ing instructor, who taught Dalton what
ever the latter knows about fisticuffs, said,
when asked about the matter: "Why,
Dalton has been restless for some weeks
past thinking when an opportunity would
come so that he could appear before the
club. The man he had oeen matched
against received an injury a few weeks be
fore the club's contests, and was unable,
consequently, to meet Dalton. The latter
has ever since then been after me to get
him a match, and the opportunity came
when Kenealev informed the club that his
match with Miller had to be declared off.
"Dalton is a game fellow and a good
stiff puncher, but I knew that he would
stand a very poor chance of whipping
such a big fellow as Miller, who weighs
over 190 pounds. Dalton did not like to
face Miller, but after I had a little chat
with him he quickly consented to go on
and do the best ne could, just to oblige the
club. Mr. Kennedy did not threaten him
with expulsion from the club in my pres
"Why, how absurd an idea! What au
thority has Mr. Kennedy to remove any
club member who pays his dues and con
ducts himself like a gentleman? No,
Dalton was perfectly right in having some
anxiety about meeting Miller, but the in
diuenients that were offered him by Mr.
Hammersmith, the leader, and the little
talk that I gave him caused Dalton to
change his mind, and he did not, by any
means, object to take a punching for a
handsome prize."
BRONZE MIKEORS.
The Fate of Some of Them Owned by
the Japanese.
I am in Hakata, the town of the girdle
weavers, which is a vory tall town, with
fantastic narrow ways full of amazing
colors; and I halt in the Street-of-Prayer
to-the-Gods because there is an enormous
head of bronze, the head of a Buddha,
smiling at me through a gateway. The
gateway is of a temple of the Jodo sect ;
and the head is beautiful.
But there is only the head. What sup
ports it above the pavement of the court is
hidden by thousands ot metal mirrors
heaped up to the chin of the great dreamy
face. A placard beside the gateway ex
plains the problem. The mirrors are con
tributions by women to a colossal seated
figure of Buddha, to be thirty-five feet
high, including the huge lotus on which
it is to be enthroned. And the whole is to
be made of bronze mirrors. Hundreds
have been already used to cast the head :
myriads will be needed to finish the work.
Who can venture to assert, in the pres
ence of such an exhibition, that Buddhism
is passing away?
Yet I cannot feel delighted at this dis
play, which, although gratifying the ar
tistic sense with the promise of a noble
statue, shocks it still more by ocular evi
dence of the immense destruction that the
project involves. For Japanese metal mir
rors (now being superseded by atrocious
cheap looking-glasses of Western manu
tacture) well deserve to be called things of
beauty. Nobody unfamiliar with their
gracious shapes can know the charm of
the Oriental comparison of the moon to a
mirror. One side only is polished.
The other is adorned with designs In re
lief; tress or flowers, birds or animals or
insects, landscapes, legends, symbols of
good fortune, figures of gods. Such are
even the commonest mirrors. But there
are many kinds; and some among them
are very wonderful, which we call ''magic
mirrors," because, when the reflection of
one is thrown upon a screen or wall, you
can see, in the disk of light, luminous im
ages of the designs upon the back.
Whether there be any magic mirrors in
that heap of bronze ex-votos I cannot tell,
but there certainly are many beautiful
things. And there "is no little pathos in
the spectacle of all that wonderful quaint
work thus cast away, and destined coon to
vanish utterly. Probably within another
decade the making of mirrors of silver and
mirrors of bronze will have ceased forever.
Seekers for them will then hear, with
something more than regret, the story of
the fate of these. — L. Hearn in Atlantic. JJJ
TOE WOMEK
An Interesting Experiment l»y Mem
bers of a Club in Chicago.
The beginnings have been made of what
is to be "The Model Workshop and Lodg
ing-house of the Women's Clubs of
Chicago." The relief and emergency work
of last year, in which the women's clubs
took such an active part, impressed on
some of the members of the committees on
this work the necessity of a permanent
place where shelterless women can receive
temporary aid, not as a charity, but in re
turn for work or a very moderate price.
Acting on this recognition of necessity
the Chicago Woman's Club took the matter
up this year, and through the efforts jf a
committee, of wnich Mrs. Abbott and Mrs
Keen are members, a start has already
been made. A building at 186 and 188
West" Polk street, not far from the Hull
House, nas been rented and operations
begun. The rented building contains
twenty- four rooms, and these have been or
are being furnished and fitted up by differ
ent women's clubs, which have entered
into a league for that purpose. So far six
teen clubs have given their support to the
project.
The plan proposed is to have a sewing
shop and laundry in connection with or
rather as a part of the lodging-house, and
to make it self-supporting, or as nearly so
as possible. It is intended to demonstrate
that the work which is now carried on in
sweatshops can be conducted under per
fectly sanitary conditions. Homeless and
shelterless women will receive a night's
lodging and a breakfast for 15 cents or two
hours' work. No one will be allowed to
remain more than two weeks, the idea
simply being to provide a temporary
shelter for women while they are looking
for employment. For the present an
arrangement has been made with the Rull
House kitchen to provide the breakfasts
for the inmates, the lodging-house paying
a stipulated amount for the service.
A corporation will be formed to conduct
the enterprise. A building will be erected
especially for the work. It will be modeled
after the London lodging-houses for
women. Perfect sanitary features will be
one of the prime elements to be considered
in building. Contracts will be taken for
making clothing, just as the proprietors of
sweatshops now take them, only the work
will be done in sanitary quarters and un
der sanitary conditions.
The present temporary quarters were
opened a few days ago, and quite a number
of women have already been received,
some of whom have already found regular
employment. — Chicago Tribune.
SHE HAD A LOVELY TIME.
The Recreation of a Stont Lady "With a
Flow of Language.
"When the stout lady entered the ele
vated at Fourteenth street she sat down on
the left-hand seat facing the engine. There
were little touches of finery about her
dress, whose presence was explained when
she caught sight of an acquaintance on the
other side of the car and immediately
plunged across the aisle and sat down be
side her.
"I've just been up calling on Lucy Pow
ers," she began at once. "She used to live
over near us, you know, and I promised
that as soon us she got back from her
tower I'd run across and see her, and this
morning Mrs. Ebler told me she'd seen her
on Broadway over here, and so I just
rigged out and came over right away."
She had a large, limp mouth, and when
she spoke her lips moved flutteringly like
the leaves of a poplar tree in a breeze.
Punctuation was a useless arrangement of
the grammarian fo far as she was con
cerned, while her idea of conversation evi
dently was that it was a form of social en
tertainment in which one person did the
talking.
"I was surprised to find," she ran on,
"how cozily Lucy is fixed she has a real
sweet little flat with real nice furniture and
lots of dainty things scattered about you
know and though it wasn't her calling day
there were quite a number of people very
nice looking people too looking at the
things she had picked np in their tower
curiosities and such things you know and
I got a real nice cup of chocolate though I
can't say I like chocolate in the afternoon
I prefer tea don't you I do."
When she did stop it was for absolute
want of breath, her method of reinflation
being to draw in a long, deep draught of
breath through the open mouth. Being
once more charged she dashed in again.
"I told William I'd call in for him when
I left Lucy's as he wants me to look at
some underclothing with him and he
never so much as buys a pair of socks now
without first consulting me which is very
complimentary you know though some
what trying when you have so many other
things to look after I declare these cars do
make such a row you can scarcely hear
what any one is saying this is Franklin
street isn't it well good-by dear I'm so glad
to have seen you come over right soon now
won't you I've had such a lovely time
good-by."
And with this she drove her way into
the string of incoming passengers, leaving
her friend with a feeble, imploring look in
her eyes, her mouth partly open, as though
gasping for breath, and Her hands feebly
clutching at the air like one faintly light
ing against suffocation.— 2sew York Sun.
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