The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-14
ACROSS THE BAY.
The New Bath. House at the Head
of Lake Merritt.
Work on the New Ferry-Anothar 2ss..road
Franchise-Fighting the Beer syndi-
cate-TemescalCresk Bridge.


feet inches to Q feet inches. with capacity
of 400 cubic feet. There will be 81 tubs,
% lr.vate rooms. 40 dressing rooms and a
10-fOot promenade gallery about the tank
and sunny observatory veranda overlook
ing the lake. The water will be taken from
the estuary about one mile from the bath
house. The cost will be between $50, 900 and
$1,000, and it is expected that it will be
completed by January 1st.
The Board of Supervisors gave Supervisor
Palouse power yesterday to have the por-
lions Of the Walnut Creek road which were
impossible last winter repaired before the
rains of the coming winter. A petition OF
residents along the road was presented to
the board asking it 10 do this.
DENIED THEIR CUSTODY.
Judge Ellsworth yesterday refused to
give johanna Schmidt the custody of her
little girls, Johanna and Nellie Casey. They
were given into the custody of Nathaniel
Hunter about three months ago. wh.n their
mother and her husband, Schmidt were
serving terms of fifty days in the City
Prison. Mr.. Hunter placed them in chill
dren's home in San Francisco, where they
now are. Johanna and Schmidt were mar
ried after they we're released from the City
Prison, having lived together for years pre-
viously, though. They were married for the
purpose of securing possession of the chill
dren.
Gus Dahl, a butcher, fell through the sky
light at the southeast corner of Eleventh
and Washington streets at about 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and struck on his face,
cutting his nose almost Oft and causing con-
cusslOn of the brain. He was unconscious
last night.
The brick work for the new annex to the
Alameda County Jail was let yesterday by
mr. irOn and
steel work for $3.50. Both contracts were
let to Oakland firms.
REGARDING THE NEW FERRY.
The work Of pushing the new ferry of
the Pacific Construction and Improvement
Company will be commenced at once 1t is
said, and the certificates Of stock of the
new company are now being issued. Charles
Ii. Smith OF Denver, son OF j. w. Smith OF
the California and Nevada, has resigned his
presidency Of the electric roads at that
place and is now on his way to Oakland,
presumably 10 take hold of the new ferry
company, and to push the work on the Cali
fornla and Nevada.
The hauling of 800 loads of macadam on
the Redwood Canyon road was commenced
this morning. Supervisor Martin stated yes
terday that it is his intention To have the
road in good condition before the winter.
The narrow cut near the summer residence
of Rev. DIR. Gibson will be widened and the
rock placed on the road.
The will of Jose NJ. del Castillo was filed
yesterday. The estate at Pleasanton is
valued ut 500, and is devised two-thirds to
his daughter, Mrs. Aurora Sanchez, aud the
remainder 10 his granddaughter, Miss }. 7.
Olverla.
Ruth A. Wellman has contracted for q
new dwelling on the road between San
Leandro and San Antonio, to cost So. $50.
ANOTHER RAILROAD FRANCHISE.
An application was filed Yesterday with
the Alameda c, unity Board of Supervisors
by Nj. }. Keller for another street railroad
franchise 10 be operated by electricity or by
cable. He applied for one week ago from
B-street station, North Oakland, to the
cemeteries, but his application yesterday
was for one from Telegraph and Evoy ave
uues through the Met ourtney and Weston
tracts to Broadway, and to Mountain View
Cemetery via Booth, Gilbert and John streets
and Piedmont avenue.
Another meeting of the local sa,oon-keep-
ers opposed TO buying and selling beer made
in America with British gold will be held
this evening, when, II is said, the articles Of
Incorporation of the new brewery will be
presented and the amount of capital stock
agreed upon. Those interested say they
will have no trouble in placing 100000 Of
stock.
The Oakland Consolidated Street Railway
Company yesterday petitioned the Super
visors Tor a franchise for the line mentioned
III its articles of incorporation, from Shat
tuck avenue and F0rty-seveuth street to the
Catholic Cemetery.
mass-meeting of Republicans will be
held at the Oakland Theater this evening.
and will be addressed by Congressman Jo-
ssph McKenna.
Michael Fitzgerald has sold 100 acres of
the Rancho Ell Vale de San Jose TO James
Nj. Williamson for $4,000
TEMEsCAL CREEK BRIDGE.
Tho Oatl,pti and EaIav ponid "a
Company filed an agreement with the County
Supervisors yesterday, to put in perfect
condition the bridge over Tenfescal Creek
for the use of the railroad and travelling pub
lie, and to provide other means of crossing
the creek, should it afterward be found that
therOad interleres with the public travel.
The body of William Martin was found in
the barn of John Do, lie, at Cos Thirty fifth
street, yesterday and taken TO the MOrgue.
The deceased was between 80 and 60 years
Of age, and had only been in tile employ of
MIR. Doyle about one week. An autopsy
showed as the cause of death heart disease
and verdict " as rendered to that effect by
the Coroner's jury. He is said to have
brother in Lake County.
James WalShe married his wife Ida V. at
San Jose two years mgo and went to reside
at lrviDgtCn. He filed a complaint yesterday,
alleging that about year ago she won't
back 10 San Jose, and now asks the court
TO grant him decree of divorce on the
ground of desertion.
The well-known fruit-grOwer, William c.
Blackw0od, of E len. has brel nominated
by the Dtm0ci att Gem nlttee as the oppo-
nent of DIR. NiiLem a. Simpson for State
Senator in the Eighteenth District.
The Piedn.Oni cable cable b oke dawn be.
tween the cable-h house and Blair Park, On
Sunday afternoon about l o'clock, but was
repaired later on.
CHARGES NOT SUSTAINED.
At the investigation OF the charges against
Principal Dunbar of the Durant Grammar
SchoJl before the Committee of the Whole
of the Oakland Board of Education last even
ing. members of the American party filed in
in the lobby, and three buys testified that Mr..
Dunbar told them on Tuesday last that they
would have to have recommendations from
Father McSweeney before they could be adj
mtted. An older sister of one of the boys
testified that her brother on coming home
told her substantially the facts as testified
to. j. l.. DAVE, member of the American
party, testified that Dunbar told him that it
was customary to give and receive recon-
mendatious from Father McSweeney The ac-
cused testified Ill contradiction of Mr.. Dayie,
that he did not say that he gave or received
recommendations, but that Davie must have
misunderstood him. He had now in his
school twenty or thirty pupils who had been
members of Father Mcoweeney's or Father
Serda's parochial school, and would take
any OF them who came under the
rules as 10 cleanliness, etc. He
never spoke to Father McSweeney
bnt twice, and on subjects foreign to
transfers or admission to and from the
schools. He did not know that he had ever
seen Father Serda. The committee by a
vote of to reported the charges not sus-
tanned; that the whole matter grew out of
a misunderstanding between Mr.. Dunbar
and the boys, Patrick and William Omelia,
and between Messrs. Dunbar and Davie.
The buard received the report and continued
action until the next meeting.
OVER THE MAYORS VETO.
The City Council passed last evening the
ordinance fixing the tax levy for the wear
1S90-91 at 81 05 on the 500 valuation, not
withstanding the message of the Mayor that
it should be kept within the dollar limit.
Merssrs. BroSnahan, Earl. Evans, Kirk,