The morning call., 1893-09-22
OVER IN OAKLAND.
About rebuilding the
Nail Works.
MRS. IDA JAMES OF NAPA.
Ten Cent Fares-Witnesses Sum-
noned in Behalf of Matheny.
Alameda and Berkeley.
MRS. IDA JAMES OF NAPA.

front Committee of the Council and the
managers of the Pacific Iron and Nail
Works
Attorney Kruger appeared for the Nail
Works Company and showed the commit
tee a map indicating the location of their
buildings. The company intends to re-
build in November and the conference of
last night was for the purpose of trying to
induce the company to rebuild on either
side OF the lines of Myrtle street, so that
when that thoroughfare is opened to the
water front the city would be saved the
expense of paying for the structure.
The Nail Works people stated that
their rolliDg-mill. constructed at an eX-
pense of 100000, projected on Myrtle
street, and that it would cost the city
SIS, 600 to remove those Instructions. This
statement surprised the committee and it
was promptly concluded that the taxpayers
on Myrtle street would not pay that much
money and the matter was dropped
Where Is Efie Meredith
Miss Efie Meredith of Berkeley, who
was reported on Wednesday to have eloped
| with MotOrman Holland, and been sub se-
quentiy married to him at Sacramento,
has disappeared completely. No one can
/ be found who knows anything about her
| whereabouts, and her friends and relatives
land denies ever having had anything to
do with the girl.
J. II. Holland was formerly an employee
of the Oakland Consolidated Electric line.
| He was interviewed yesterday, and Osi-
tivelv denies he truth of the newspaper
/ reports that have connected him with the
case.
He says he was conductor on the elrc-
tric line, and Miss Meredith frequently
rode on his car aud be was in the habit Of
talking with her.
Not long ago seventeen men were laid
! IF and among them was Holland.
He says he has not seen the Meredith
girl for some while and has not been out of
the LOWE for months, and so could not
have been in Sacramento as was reported
Holland lives at 367 Tenth street with
his sister and works for his brother, who
is a chimney sweep. He was very indig-
nant about the stories that had OPen circu-
lated and in which his name was men
toned.
Mrs. Fowler, the aunr of the missing
girl was seen yesterday, and freely
charged Holland with a6ducting her
niece, and said the matter had been placed
III theshands of the . kland police.
She said she believed that Holland was
concealIng the Girl somew here.
a detective is locking for him. she said.
with warrant for his arrest. She alsn
says it was Holland who gave the story of
the eloprmnnl 10 he police.
The Gas land police have declined to in
terfere with the work of the Berkeley
authorities.
A motorman on the Telegraph-ayenue
line says be saw Holland and Miss Mere
dith at the Windsor Hotel on Monday
night.
Blonde and Her Money.
eyes, that's the belt l found on the boy
with the gold in it," SAID Constable Page
Yesterday in Justice Gifts court when he
heinz az Oined for tne N
the case of the people against Charles
Kerschner. accused of embeZZling $3.50
from Mrs. Ida james Of Napa. who alleges
that she gave the money TO Kerschner TO
invest for her.
Mrs. James was in court. She is a tall,
styljshly dressed blonde, and not unpre-
possessing in form and feature. On the
witness stand she testified that she had
known keTschner for about four years
aud gave him the money TO invest for her.
although she knew he had been in Oak
land only three months, and was not pa r
ticulaTly well posted on real estate in Oak
land.
Mrs. James used on occasions to come
down from Napa for a quiet little visit
with keUschner, and the TWO would have
etc. 1t was on one of these occasions that
J Mrs. JaueS said she had little money 10
invest, and her partner said he could
place 1t for her. He placed it in his pocket
anu started lOE n LTlp East. Al Nteui6S
he was Overtaken by a telegram, and il
was there he purchased a nj oney-belt and
put it around his boys waist, When the
couple was brought back the boy was
taken to Constable Pages house. His
mother is living in San Francisco, Kersch-
ner'S wife, who also has one of the chill
dren, the couple having separated, but the
boy was taken charge of by Constable
Page. The constable found the money
belt on The bow with S2S5 IN gold in it and
a diamond ring, which Mrs. James has
stated also belonged TO her.
Mrs. James while on the stand admitted
she had received sums of money from
Kerschner, but she stoutly maintained
that they were not loans.
Kerschner was not put on the stand
He is a mld-appeariDg man, not particu-
larly hand some and boasts a very DalC
Uranium. He was held in $1,000.
Mrs. james was Mrs. Burgess before
she became Mrs. James. She married
wealthy Nap& farmer, widower, by whom
she had two children. After his death she
became Mrs. James. although Mr.. james
who was in Oak land Yesterday. said She
: had no right 10 the title. She stnuily in
j sisted when questioned on the subject tina
she was James contract wife and has .
right TO be called Mrs. James. and said
n little testify, Il can prove my assertion"
James told her fatty that she would hav
i. to prove it before he would acknowledg
= her as such. and the couple parted any
a thing but friends.
, Kerschner Will tell his story in the Su
n peri0r Court. when it is expected a YER,
L racy narrative will be the result
q WIZ Have Savage Farm.
County Surveyor Nusbaumrr has pre-
pared plans looking TO the establishment
9 of a sewage farm for the disposal of tn
: drainage from the county infrmary build
ings.
e The intermittent irrigation plan is to b
used. a present the drainage from tn
infirmary is into creek bed which traverse
: the land of private parties and has proves
! extremely offensive to the neighborhood.
Mr.. Nusbaumer's plans are similar t
y those now successfully employed for tn
city Of San Luis Obispo.
By his method the sewage matter will b
s carried by two sub-surface drains of 6-incl
:; sewer-pipe across the neck TO the slope o
q the opposite hill and into concrete reser
y yoir of 1000 gallons capacity on the big h
est point in the area over which the sew
? age matter is distributed, and still below
! the grade of the sewer. An outlet pip
> conducts the waste into trench which
u | fo ha