The morning call., 1893-03-02
OVER IN OAKLAND.
The Theater Question Is
Discussed.
TWO VIEWS FROM THE PULPIT
An Eastern Tourist Taken In by q
Railroad Ticket Agent-News From
Alameda and Berkeley.

The theater question in Oakland Is Fat
traetlng unusual interest Ministers and
laymen are dev0tiDg attention to it.
Rev. Dr. Hummer took uD the thread last
Sunday night, branding the theater and all
plays, without discrimination, as corrupt
trees that bring forth evil" T..
The only departure from this order of
things was the sermon OF Rev. e. W..
Wendte OF the First Unitarian Church on
the same night. He spoke in. favor Of the
theater. He made vigorous defense of the
stage, and called 1t an integral part of mod
ern civilization. a sign of culture, an intel
lectual force and moral teacher not to be
desplsed. He admitted that the present
condition Of the stage is deplorable in many
respects, but said that 1t is the fault Of
society. due chiefly to want of culture and
good taste, undue devotion to money-gettng
and Inherited Puritanieal distrust of pleasure
and art
Meantime the Macdonough Is keeping
onen on Sundays. when the manager sees
ut, and other preachers are preparing other
sermons. I
An Eastern tourist. named G. Ii. Brown,
was very angry man at the Southern Pa
| :enc mole yesterday. He had started to re-
turn home with his wife and two children
and one OF the numerous ketsharpsrs in
San francisco had sold him tickets at IRE
| duced fare, the inducements being that he
would be entitled 10 sleeping berth with
each ticket. When he put his family on the
train and asked to see the berths he was
| told that the agent had fabricated. Brown
rayed ahont the depot and ended by taking
| his family back to San francisco with the
announcement that he intended to horse
whip the agent. This is an old story and
| something Of the kind takes place very
| Often at the mole. .-
| The agents impose upon guileless travel
| ers and promise all sort Of things for the
| sake of selling tickets. They reason th at it
| Is comparatively safe after the traveller
| gets across the bay and that he may get
lar Oh his journey before he discovers the
| lmpositloiE II the passenger finds it out
at The mole the Southern Pacific officers
usually suffer for it, as they did yesterday,
| in TRADE Of abuse. -:
AT a meeting of past commanders and
delegates OF the Grand Army of the Re-
public last night T.. w. Woodward was
| elected chairman and G. K. King secretary
OF the Alameda County delegation, TO go to
The annual encampmeat at Los Angeles on
the Goth inst.
The three-year-old boy of Mrs. Svores of
4l2 First street fell into tub OF boiling
water. which his mother had placed upon
| the floor Yesterday. The child was taken to
the Receiving Hospital badly scalded from
the hips down., but will probably recover.
The mother is a widow, lately from Homo
lulu. =.
County Clerk James Z. Crane Is absent
Tor The first time since taking Office three
years ago. He Is confined to his house with
rheumatism. :..:=
The Non-Parlisans held a meeting at
Golden West Hall last evening, at which an
address was delivered by DR.. Psrdee. The
next mass-meeting will be held at the
Tabernacle on Friday evening.
The Republicans will hold one more gen.
eral maSs-meeting before the election. which
takes place week from next Monday. A
meeting will be held in East Oakland this
week and one In West Oakland next week.
The Democrats are organizing for their
hrst mass-meeting, TO be held at the Oak
land Iheater next Saturday night
Rabbi Frledlander of New York will ar
rive here to-day and will hold services in
the synagogue on Friday aud Saturday A
committee, including President Joseph
Harris OF the Hebrew congregation, started
last evening to meet him. he Will prob
ably become the permanent rabbi of the
congregation. . -,