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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-09
Council Proceedings.

The Common Council of the city OF Al
pena met in regular session, In the
Council Room, on August Z, 1898, and
was called to order at 1880 o'clock, T.. NJ.
by the Mayor.
Present, Andrew Harshaw, Mayor /;
VIM. A. Mcdonald, Recorder, and Alder
men Blakley, Holmes, White, Ellis,
ID. A. Campbell, Wilson, Crawford, Man.
ion, A. Campbell, Daoust and Beck.
Journal OF session held July II read
and approved.
COMMUNICATIONS.
From M. 4. Casey offering to repair and
paint the roof of Engine House No. 1 and
guarantee the work for $65.
Moved by Alderman A. Campbell that
the contract for painting and repairing
the roof Of Engine House No. 1, be
let to M. E. Casey at his offer Of 500, him
to guarantee the work. Carried by unan-
imous vote.
PETITIONS.
The following petitions were presented
and by the chair referred to Committee
on Streets and Sewers.
From Alfred j. Portwood and % others,
asking for sidewalk on Ninth street, four
blocks.
From Lewis T. Kline and 80 others,
asking for q sidewalk on side of River
street, in front OF lot A, block 4.
And from Frank Bijoul, asking that a
sidewalk be laid In front OF his lot on
Lincoln street.
From VIM. Sterling and 10 members OF
the Fire Department Of the city, petition
ing the Council to name the new hook
and ladder truck THE Harshaw."
Moved by Alderman A. Campbell that
the prayer Of the petitioners be granted.
Carried by vote as follows: Ayes, Blak-
ley, Wilson, Crawford, Manion, A. Camp
bell, Daoust and Beck. Nays, Holmes,
White, Ellis and ID. A. Campbell.
REPORT OF OFFICERS.
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-09
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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-09

WIN. A. MCDONALD,
Recorder.
The morning call., 1893-03-27
SEIZED THE SILK.
How the San Bias Was
Searched.
MERCHANDISE CoNFIscATED.
A Very Angry Steamship Captain
Various Marine Notes of
Interest.

H. n. Deffenbach Of Panama arrived In
this city last week. having stopped over en-
route to San Francisco at ManZanill0.
Mr.. Deffenbach says that few days be-
fore his arrival at the latter place the
Pacific Mail steamer San Bias had left on
its down trip to Panama.
While the San Bias lay at anchor in the
roadstead. she WAS boarded by Mexican
custom-house officers. who searched the
linen lockers and sleeping quarters of the
crew and seized nearly $4,000 worth of new
silks, linen, cigars and other merchandise.
The excuse offered for their action was
that the customs laws of Mexico require all
merchandise TO be entered on the manifest
of vessel clearing for Mexican port.
The linen seZ@d had never been in use and
was packed in bundles in the linen lockers.
The balance OF the stuff confscated was
merchandise brought down by the ships
crew to trade off with the natives of Central
American ports.
a great c0mmution was caused on board
the San Bias when the officials insisted on
being allowed TO search for supposed con-
traband goods, and Captain Mclean was at
first inclined TO show fight and pitch the
cOmmapdant of the port and his followers
overheard, arm his crew and clear for action.
After maturer consideration lie allowed
.ho "oAiSahS " pioCeeu HltHout lHoleStd-
ton.
The following day Captain Mclean went
ashore and demanded the seized property be
given TO him, and after great deal of par
leying the goods were returned. In the
meanwhile the authorities at the City of
Mexico got wind of the trouble. and telr-
graphed to the custom house at Manzanilln TO
regain possession the returned property,
and If necessary to take it by force. Cap
tain Mclean did not wait for the enemy to
board him again. but hoisted his anchor and
sailed away. leaving the ManzaDillo auth0Ii-
ties 10 fight IL out with their Government
and answer to charges of neglect Of duty.
The morning call., 1893-03-27
POLAR EXPEDITIONS.
Three Being Organized to Suit Diff
ferent Route Theories.

Springfield Republican.
Three expeditions, based upon different
theories as TO the best way to reach the
North Pole, and pursuing different routes,
are to set out for that destination
this summer. DR.. Nansen is to sail
along the coast of Siberia until he
reaches point off the mouth Of the Lena
delta, near where the Jeannatte was lost
and then go north till 10 cked in the icetield,
which he expects will float with him across
the pole. Nansen's ship is yearly ready,
his stores and provisions are being prepared
and his crew selected. His intended as
sociates in the expedition-among whom
may be Mrs. Nansen-are already testing
their endurance by sleeping Ia Norwegian
sGow-drltts, and depot of supplies is being
prepared far ID on the Siberian coast.
1t Is here that some time next June Nam
sen will take on board his dogs and sledges S,
for his expedition is to bel well equipped for
journeying over the land or over the ice,
should 1t become necessary to leave his
ship. NanseD has incidentally contributed
to the equipment of the other expeditions.
His researches and those OF the specialists
who have been employed in his interests
have resulted in several new metifods of
preparing food so as to obtain the NEST
nutrimeut in The least bulk and all future
explorers viii profit by this work. Nansen
goes prepared to be gone six years, but
hopes 10 De UOaDeQ across the pole and into
open water off Greenland within three
years The other expeditions are both to
be attempts TO reach the pole or near unto
IL over land.
Lieutenant Peary's plans are familiar, but
not so those of Henry jackson, who is or
ganizing an expedition which is to SAIL from
Liverpool in June. jackson sails at once
for Franz Josef Land, which lies to the
north of Nova Zembia and to the east
of SpiiZbeTgen. Its southernmOst point
touches the elghtieth parallel of north lati-
tude, and the sixtoth parallel of east longi-
tude bisects it. How far it extends north.
ward no one knows. Weyprecht and Payer
discovered it in August, 1873 and went
some distance Into the interior. Peter
mans Land and Oscar Land lie 10 the north,
In latitude So and beyond, and measure the
limit OF exploration in this part of the
Arctic regions.
Jackson thinks that Peary has gone north
as far as possible on Greenland, and that
he will only cover the old ground In his
coming attempt to go farther. As to Nan
sen, jackson is confident that his ship will
meet the fate of the Jeanette and the Teg-
ethof by being crushed in the thick ice His
own theory Is that Peterman's Land extends
as far north as latitude 50, at least. This
would be within 300 miles of the pole, dis
lance which he proposes to cover In boats If
he find an open sea, or on sledges II he find
land or Ice. Jackson's party viii consist of
ten or twelve, and be pFovlsloned for three
years.
The morning call., 1893-03-27
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
A Mountain Wife Who Insisted Upon
Going to Fairy Land Alone.
nstroft Fra urass

Detroit Free Press
One day in the mountains that lift their
green-walled battements above the tum-
bling waters Of the Upper Cumberland l
stopped at a log house to get my dinner.
1t was double affair. with lean-to porch
in front OF it, AID was occupied by man
and woman. who were eager to hear me
talk Of the great world beyond the fast
uesses OF the everlasting hills that hedged
them in.
We sat at the table for some minutes after
we had finished eating, and the woman be-
gan talking in her own crude, imaginative
them.
"S'posin'. JIM" she said. addressing her
sell principally to her husband, "s'pOsin'
wuz fine lady in silks and satins, an
s'posln' / had bosses and kerridges, an
s'posin' we lived in a marble palace with
glass winders. an s'posin' you was a prom
inent citizen an put on a clean shirt every
week, an s'poSin' we could go to Europe
an see all the grand sights. an s'posin' we
had washtub full OF money, an s'posin'
we come back yer to these parts, an
s'posln' we'd build town right out there in
the bottom, an s'posln' it 'ud grow an
grow, an s'posin' boulevard was run right
along down thar whar the GOwshed is now,
an s'posin' they'd name it after US, Jim,
wouldn't that be somethin' worth s'posin ?'i
and the woman looked out of the door and
gszed off across the valley with almost q
dreamy look in her dull gray eyes
Yes, Susan, responded jim, in the same
fanciful strain. IAN s'posin' 1 run for Con-
gress. an"
She recovered her everyday, practical
spirit at the sound of his voice, and stopped
him.
mo, you DON'T" she said, jumping up
and beginning to clear off the table, "i'l
do all the s'posin' for this family myself.
You go long out thar an chop enough fire.
wood to last over Sunday"
Fifteen minutes later, rs turned at the
bend in the road that carried me out of
sight, / saw Jim chopping at the wood and
Susan carrying an armful to the house.
The morning call., 1893-03-27
OUR OLD POET.
Habits and Opinions of Oliver Wendell
Holmes.

l suppose 1t is a question with almost
every one whether to save or destroy the
letters which each mail brings. II one
saves them then at last comes the inevitable
time when the accumulation of letters must
be destroyed. DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
has come to that crisis. A mountain
of Internationally thousands of them
have been lately devoured by the yora-
cious fire. Aided by his secretary he
has been going through his cores
pondence and burning the various effu-
sions OF sentimental young ladies and
unhedged poets asking for autographs or adj
vice. Seated before glowing fire of Goals
while the sunset light came In across the
Arclic-looking Charles, DR.. Holmes, few
afternoons ago, received q few callers.
The Autocrat declared that rs he did not
exercise 1t all In the winter, he was like q
family horse that was put out for the
season end being kept In the stable grew
soft all over. As is well known to the
Bostonlans. his favorite amusement is to
ride in the streetcars down to Pemberton
Square; then he changes his seat 10 make
believe that he Is a new passenger and rides
back again. Speaking of books he delared
that he did not Ike new ones, that he
was salts fed with the old ones and
was In Paris omnibus, complet and not
ready to admit any more passengers; yet 1t
was delightful to see his enthusiasm over
Miss Wilkins stories, and he was scarcely
less enthusiastic over the stories OF J. M.
Barrie. One person present read a semi
metrlcal passage or two from Lorna
Doone," but DIR. Holmes did not approve
OF metrlcal prose and was evidently not
tempted by 1t to make acquaintance with
Blackmore. Neither did he approve of the
semi-metrical passages In Dickens, where
the novelist. desiring to give lyrical touch
to the sentiment, wrote prose that may be
scanned.
The morning call., 1893-03-27
FIRST RULE FOR DETECTIVES.
Not How to Detect, but How to Avoid
Being Detected.

new OK herald
had occasion q short time ago to do some
work under the direction of Superintendent
Byrnes. and received from him some in
structions in the business OF becoming a de-
tective.
ITO accomplish the ends which we seek
In the case in which you are engaged" said
the world-iamed rogue-catcher. "it is very
important that no one should suspect what
you are after, and 1t is of paramount i'm
portance that no one should suspect that
you are in communication with me. Now,
let me give you one Of tho first lessons that
q detective learns.
1T is not how to detect, but how to avoid
being detected himself 1t very often hap
rens that people who are playing a game
for big pot of money, and who fear the
police will spoil their game, employ detect
ives to shadow every one with whom they
are dealing for fear that they may be deal
ing with some one who will expose their
schemes.
1.-THE first thing detective learns to do,
therefore, Is 10 find out whether he is being
Swallowed by any one else. To do this is
simple and easy, and yet most people not
familiar with how to do 1t would say
why, how can l find out II l am being
watchedT
"All that is necessary Is caution and a
little nerve. Keep your eyes open for any
one whom you suspect Of following you,
and never 70 anywhere where your hand
would be exposed unless You are sure you
are not followed. II you have an idea you
are followed pay no attention to the person
you suspect of following you.
"DO not try to escape him. for that will
Mt once arouse his suspicious. Let him fol.
low you, and to make sure that he is really
shadOwing you after walking block or two
turn quickly and retrace your steps. AS
you pass the man you suspect look him
squarely In the eye. Repeat this operation
several times, and you will be bound tc
make sure whether or not he Is really fol.
lowing you.
Swallowed you will do nothing to revea
what you are really doing until your fol
lower has abandoned the chase"
The morning call., 1893-03-27

feels, individually and collectively, that the
reign of Doodle is over. and that he will
have to take a back seat.
Whereat tile property-owner rejoices with
exceeding great joy.
The greatest credit is given by the tax
payers to A. P. Van ID uZer. j. r. Roche,
George L. Center, b. McKinne, John ii.
Grady, w. A. Smith and John Center for the
persistency with which they fought thrse
jobs and the manner in which they watched
the interests of the property-owners when
in Sacramento az the session Of the Legis-
lature.
A Publication meeting has been called for
next Wednesday evening at Twentieth aud
Guerrero streets to celebrate the victory
whereby these unjust commissions and
assessments are thing of the past.
The POtrero avenue, Howard street.
Nineteenth to Twenty-third. Market, Six
teenth, Post and Twenty-fifth avenue,
New street and Twenty-seventh avenue
extensions ale directly affected by the repeal,
and those having paid these assessments
will have them returned by petitioning the
Board OF Supervisors in the same manner
as when taxes twice paid are recovered.
The morning call., 1893-03-27
A DAY IN SPRING.
Merrymakers in Golden
Gate Park.
ALL KINDS OF WEATHER.
Sun, Calm and Green Were the Feat
ures-The Eastern Ladies and
the Fawns.

Eighteen different kinds of weather played
about in Golden Gate Park yesterday. but
the largest kind and the longest kind was
the MINDLESS sunny.
When you get sun and calm and green,
such were TO be seen and felt out there
yesterday, you get about as close to the
ideal in the park line as it is possible on the
deity's great footstool.
Aud the feeling in different places there
was as varied as the scene.
1t was drowsy, listleSs, soporifc in the
retired walks, and it was dashy, nerving and
tonic along the great drives.
Spring had done wonders with the park.
1t had made the great gardens carpet as
green as Erin and fresher and cleaner than
glossy, the expresses glistening and the blue
gums redolent with their peculiar scents.
Playful as the children generally are in
their own acre of the park. they we're more
than usually festive yesterday. The burrOs
looked sadly at each other before the day
was over, but they were glad of one fact and
that was that every day was not Sprin 2
Sunday. If il were they would soon be on
the way to the donkey cemetery.
Let me so round on Cracky ies' once
more, ma" was the appeal that made many
a feminine parse shed its nickels yes
lerday.
Standing near the Sharon house and look
ing 10 the low friDged horizon to the west
and the iag-toothed skyline to the south,
while the corner OF the eve took in the
bloom dotted flower beds and the red maca-
dam OF the drives, one saw that the Park
The morning call., 1893-03-27

had grown wonderfully since last spring.
The trees are of that Quick-springing kind,
and so many that were mere shrubs or
scrubs year ago are now such good, tall,
self-res pecting frs. gums and expresses tn at
they take from the park what used to be
its chief drawback in the eyes OF new
concerts appearance of yOungness.
People were scattered about every where
in the conservatory, by the lake and band
stand, about the avlary and the buffalo
grounds; bur while many missed all these
nearly eve body hung about the deer lodge
Two lad es from the Palace Hotel, who
were just in from the East, went out in a
Halght-street car to gaze. They did the
playground, the Conservatives and the
other features and then they put in the
rest of the day watching the deer.
AREN'T they just too cunning for any
use?" asked Mrs. Boston of Mrs. Manhat-
tan, as they touched the tips of their kidded
fingers to the soft noses of the fawns.
Yes, | have been TO Central Park good
many times, but uevah saw anything half
so interesting, deah little things"
And they stayed and stayed until the west
wind came up and began to play with their
spring hats and bell-shaped gowns and the
interesting little things lost interest for
them.
They did not remain long enough to see
that sunset 10 which the late park visitors
were treated. Such a sunset as it wasi 1t
was simply-whRt is the word for Golden
Gate Park sunsRt9
The morning call., 1893-03-27
SALVATION ARMY FAREWELLs
A General Shutting of the Local Forces
This Week.

This Week.
ANGELS are watching"
Come forward and be saved"
Who'll be the next?"
Thus rang out the words of entreaty from
the Salvation Army captain last night in the
Hallelujah Dive, corner of Kearny and
Sacramento streets.
Captain PAUL. had finished her impas-
stoned exhortation TO the motley throng of
sinners and was saying good-by to the place
where she has labored in Gods name during
the last eight months. Men and women
were sobbng on the penitent bench rs
they were assured by ten der. sympathetic
women's voices that the Almighty is forgiv-
ing to repentant souls.
1t was the special farewell service ut the
leave-tak king of Captain PAUL. and Lieu
tenant Bingham, who have worked side by
side to reclaim the wicked in this remark
able dive" and have certainly accom-
plished an enormous amount of good among
the toughest and most degraded creatures
in this city. The hall was packed to over
flowing. Captain Ellis of headquarters,
Mrs. Harrigan and other sister soldiers as
sisted in conducting the meeting.
general readjustment of forces will
take place this week among the various
Salvation Army corps throughout the city.
Captain PAUL. goes TO Headquarters for two
weeks, and then takes a rest. Captain
Dries of corps 9 on Grant avenue will be
placed in charge of the dive"
Captain Nelson and Lieutenant Riley of
corps 1 on Commercial street also conducted
their reWell service last evening. They
will be transferred TO Los Gatos on
Wednesday.
Captain Wilson and Lieutenant thinner
Of the White Wings Corps on Mission
street also held their farewell Sunday ser
vice. There will be a coffee party at the
mission tonight. and Captain May jackson
from Crockett will take charge of tho corps
for the next few months. farewell ser
vice was also held by Captain Lucas at
headquarters, 1889 Market street.
A bit of news that the members Of the
army are excited over just now is the an
nouncement that the very popular little
woman. Captain Hull. who had charge of
the dive" before Captain PAUL. came here,
IS going to be married TO a feliow-sOdier in
Sacramento on Tuesday of this week. She
was formerly teacher In the public schools
of this civ
The morning call., 1893-03-27

of singing in Paris is more guilty than an
other. Not one 0fthem Is capable of frankly
telling the luckless girl who has in a
preliminary addition revealed her lack
of voice, of ear and of temperament,
go home, my poor child, for you can never
become singer" All, mel the sad cases
of this nature that have seen since l first
came to reside in Paris; the hard work of
the eager scholar, the piteous struggles
with poverty. the mirage of brilliant
operate engagement, ever close at hand,
yet ever fleeing, and finally discourage
ment and despair and departure for the
home that never should have been quilted,
in view of the lack of necessary
qualifications in the young student for her
chosen career. During the nineteen
years of my residence in Europe |
have seen. not dozens. but scores of such
cases. | have heard of a young West
ern business man who gave literally the
last $1,000 that he possessed in the world for
the completion of his sisters musical edu-
cation in Paris. He might as we'll have
thrown it into the sea. When 1t was spent
she returned home, not fitted even to give
lessons or to sing at concerts. In another
instance a wealthy and benevolent Ameri-
can gentleman expended $4,000 on the les
sons and the preliminary negotiations for
the debut on the stage of an American stu
dent OF vocalization. 1t is true that the
entire family of the Young lady lived
sumptuousy off his bounty as long as
she continued her studies. But she was
failure as singer.
The morning call., 1893-03-27
STUDY OF MUSIC.
The Trials of American Students in
pariS
Paris Letter TO PbiIadelnbIa Tel,


Paris Letter to Philadelphia Telegraph.
The young girls who have come to study
singing in Paris are almost invariably very
poor. The necessary funds for their lessons
and for board and lodging and other indls.
pensable details of existence are In some
cases furnished by wealthy friends, but are
usually the small earnings OF some male
relatlve-a father or a brother. working on
a salary, or else the little capital owned by
a widowed mother.
Under any circumstances the money so
expended is looked upon as an investment
TO secure future prosperity, not only for
the young singer. but for her family. And
to take that money. wrung dollar by dollar,
or rather cent by cent, from the small be-
longngs OF people of limited means, Iep-
resenting, every coin of it, some phase of
cruel self-deniai, and then TO give for 1t
neither conscientious endeayor nor adequate
instruction, is at once an unjust and an in-
defensible action.
say nothing concerning the fact that
multltudes Of these poor giles, self-deluded
and misled by the fattery OF admiring
friends as to the quality and availability Of
their vocal gifts, come abroad annually, are
petted and praised by their professors so
long as their money lasts Ia period gener-
ally extending from two TO three years.,
and then are suffered to return home,
failures In every sense Of the word. In
this matter NO one Of the great professors
The morning call., 1893-03-27
PLAYED DRAW POKER.
A Briton's Bad Luck With Oakland
.Sharpers.

George Alexander, who resides at the
corner of Fourth and Howard streets, is an
unsuspecting Briton who has only recently
been Initiated into the science of playing
the great American game of draw poker.
Alexander went TO Oakland with two
generous parties who promised to tell him
where he might "buck" against a soft thing.
The Englishman had $3.50 with him, Du
returned to San Francisco last evening with
10 cents and whole lot of experience.
During the progress of the game, which
took place in saloon near the west end OF
town, gambler named Chicago Joe" was
introduced, and shortly after that gentle
mans advent Alexander held four queens.
but lost all his money and was rendered 80
cents with which 30 purchase a meal.
Alexander knew that he had been robbed.
and followed the quartet to the corner of
Battery and Clay streets in this city. Here
he made a demand for his cash, and was
promptly knocked down by the gamblers,
who escaped during the melee, leaving the
sporting Engllshman to nurse a black eye
and explain his woes TO the crowd which
quickly gathered to the scene.
Alexander says he can identify the men
that robbed him, and will cause their arrest
II he can get sufficient evidence against
them.