The morning call., 1893-05-16
The Pool=SeIling Ordi-
nance Stands.
THE MACDONOUGH THEATER.
Peculiar Petition to Pension a
Preacher = Divorce in High
Life-Alameda, Berkeley.


trieked, as he did not understand that the
vote taken at former meeting finally
passed the ordinance. He stated that ne
understood that it was simply passed to
| print and that at the end of fifteen days
publication Ii would come before the
board for fiual action.
When the board convened yesterday Mr..
plunkett asked for reconsideration of
the vote by which the pool-selling ordi-
nance had been passed. When he made
the motion he tlrned surprised to Super
visor Pel0uze and asked, mir. Pelouze,
Will you not second my moti0n?"
The gentleman addressed replied: 81
Will not second the motion. | was sur
prised when Mr. Piunkett voted for the
| ordinance. / supposed he was against it.
was against it and voted against it, l
went over with you 10 help the reform
! movement and you jumped over with the
other side. Now have gone over to the
majority and l mean to stay with them"
This answer was very emphatic from
Mr. Pelonze. and Mr.. Plunkett said:
"All right. you may do so; but l do not
wish to stand in wrong light before the
people"
Mr. Plunkett looked in Va in for second
to his motion, and finally gave up, letting
the matter stand.
a the afternoon session he again made
dU tUutdfOI III Hel tue tudll6T DelOTc the
| board and finally offered an amendment,
which Supervisor Martin seconded, he
said, to show that he had no feeling in the
matter, ana as a second 10 the move for
an amendment voted with Mr. PlunkeIt.
but their two votes met the two antagonis-
tic votes of PelouZe and Bailey, and again
Mr.. Plunkett was laid on the shelf.
Again lie came to tho front and intro
duccd a new ordinance covering po0l-sell-
ing and repeating the order obnoxious 10
him. No second.
That ended the matter. and Mr.. Plunkett
threw up his hands, remarking:
I've done the best could in the mat
ter. I've cleaned my skirts"
Meantime at the race-track, out in North
Oakland, preparations were being made
on big scale for poolselling.
TIE MAcDoNoUGH MUDDLE.-Affairs
at the handsome new Macdonough theater
have not been working very smoothly Of
late. In fact Mr.. Mothersole seems to
have been unfortunate in his venture,
and then his sickness coming on top of it.
all brought the thing TO a climax suddenly
FRIDAY, when Dam, the tailor. got cut an
attachment on the place and put con
stable In the boX-0ffice.
When Mr.. Mothersole took sick he re-
signed his lease temporarily to w. II. Nc
kiDnon, and at about the same time Mr..
Dam put IN his claim against Mothersoe
for Sl65 for a suit Of clothes and money
loaned.
With McKinnon in charge, however. con-
fdence was in measure restored. and
things were moving fairly we'll until Mr..
Sesnon, who is Macdonough's agent, last
Friday asked for a financial statement.
This was refused by Mothersole. to whom
1t had been submitted. and this action
fastened the trouble. Then it was that
Dam put in receiver, who has been
taking in the money for the performances
going ON the past few days.
Yesterday afternoon the Mayor, men,
bers OF the City Council and number of
prominent citizens visited AlvaTado, the
source OF the artesian wafer supply. by in
yitatiOn of W. J. Dingee, the promoter of
the scheme to supply Oakland with pure
water. The capaclty of one well was
stated by ". +. Boardman, the we'll
known engineer. 10 be upward OF $500. coo
gallons per day, which is just about that
supplied TO The city OF Oakland by the
Contra Costa Company. Another well
few yards away is stated TO be able to sup
ply 100000 gallons per day. and this
without diminishing the flow of the other
one. Mr.. Dingee's proposition is TO be
shortly discussed in council.
Then. 700. yesterday was rent day, and
Mr. McKinnon could find no one to whom
to pay the rent money.
company was booked for last night.
and later 10 the evening the matter was
patched up in some way and the perform
ance went on.
1t is stated that Mr.. Macdonough wants
new manager and that negotiations have
been going On for some time with San
francisco managers looking to a change.
1t is expected that the present manage
ment will fight hard before giving up the
place.
PENsIoNIEe a PREAcHER-The people
OF Niles evidently do not like the Rev. Mr..
Maar. This is the way G. NJ. Hinckley
and others expressed themselves In a petit
ti0n TO the SUPERVISORS: I'VE respectfully
suggest that you grant Rev. Mr.. Maar a
monthly allowance of $50 to be applied by
own business, and incidentally 10 his own
flock; $50 for letting the business Of other
people alone, and $50 for allowing the Su-
Dervlsors to attend to and transact the busi-
ness Of the county" The petition was
fled.
BENNETT THE LosER.-C. r. Bennett
appeared before Judge Allen yesterday
and listened to severe reprlmand for his
contempt OF the court tile day previous Ia
having called Police Captain Wilson liar
during the trial of Shaw. the bookseller
charged with selling obscene literature.
and in which Bennett was the prosecuting
witness. SIaw was acquitted by the jury,
and Judge Allen fined Bennett $50 for
contempt.
n AslI hOM hO1ALTY.-OaKIand had
the distinguished honor OF entertaining
royalty Yesterday. A native princess Of
Samoa and a re,inue of ladies' in waiting
were shown the sights of the city. The
Princess is The wife of Fl. S. Moore, a Sa-
moan merchant, and the party was in
charge of j. ID. Strong. a brother of Dwight
Strong, curator OF the Central reading
room.
The PAST FoRGoTTEN.-Th latest re-
ports from the bedside of Mrs. Recfeld.
the unfortunate lady who was so badly
hurt in the electric car accident, Is that
she Is improving physically, but that her
mind Is blank so far as concerns her life
previous TO the accident.
ANDERsoN's ALMoNY.-The plea of
poverty has been entered by Anderson.
the druggist. who does not relish the idea
oil paying alim0ny to his wife. The court
has ordered that his drug business on San
Pablo avenue be disposed of aud the pro-
ceeds divided with his wife.
A DIVORCE IN HIGH LIFE Florence
Webb has been sued by Edw ard Webb for
divorce. The parties move in the high
est Haywards society. where the divorce
is the sensation of the hour.