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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
TRADE Is BRISK.
A Large Increase Along
the Front.
BUSY ON THE CITY WHARVES.
Arrangements for Through Shipment
by Steamer of Oregon Hops.
Hard Times Disappearing.

A steady increase of shipping business
has driven hard times from the city 'front.'
and everywhere along the wharves is evil
dence of activity. The professional
croaker who persistently predicts dire
calamity to Western trade interests and
endeavorS to convey the impression that
San Francisco is losing prestige as a COM
mercial center has evacuated the shipping
district, acknowledging signal defeat by
his absence.
The present week opened with an aston
ishingly bright prospect for traders. and its
end bids fair TO close one of the brightest
business periods In the history OF the water
front in the past eight months. At no time
during this year has there been so much
freight moving over the docks ard so many
vessels loading and discharging as at the
the present day. Wharves that were de-
serted six weeks ago are now bustling with
busy workers and rumbling with heavy
teams, while the noisy putting of donkey
engines is heard on every hand.
HAS business really picked up along
the front?" was asked of Chief Wharfinger
ames Boobar yesterday.
Indeed 1t has," he answered emphat-
ieally. why. the States revenue for dock
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29

parents and unfeeling husbands have tried
to shlrk the responsibility which naturally
DelongS 10 them and make the State the
guardian of their children and wives.
Physicians should be extremely careful in
their examinations, as they are supposed
to be experts on insanity, and practice no
imposition on Judges confiding in their
Integrity. Persons charged with insanity
have certain rights as well rs persons
charged with crime, and liberty is as sweet
ana dear to them, if unjustly accused. as il
is to each and every one of US. The sug-
gesti0ns of the California Association fol
the Protection of Persons Charged With
Insanity aud their assistance have been in
valuable TO me during the short time
have held these examinations. The press
of the city and county of San Francisco
has fully and fairly stated the insanity
question and called the attention Of the
people to the abuses practiced by insan-
ity commissioners so called. am espe-
cially under obligations for the fair treat
ment have received.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29

seventy men In all were busy on this
wharf Yesterday, and il is safe TO say that
il was the busiest day the wharf has seen
for many, MANY months.
The Union Pacific steamers are picking
up rapidly, and Spear-street dock is full
of freight. The British ship Cantock
Rock, close by. has KEEP, a number of men
at work for several days past, ana goods
of all kinds. including shipments of plate
and window glass, which engage the at
tention of trucks galore.
Man-street dock is generally busy one,
but yesterday every berth was taken and
it seemed more lively than ever. A num-
Der of vessels wanted to get in there, but
could not be accommodated.
Further south the wharves all show signs
of renewed life until the mail dock is
reached. There. alas, good times cease.
Monopoly finds solace in an empty void,
and cargoless steamers float hopelessly be-
side the gloomy wharf. A strange sight
in comparison to the Dusiness-Iike aspect
OF LON bard-street pier, where rival CON-
papy, by low rates and fair dealings, has
silenced one OF the factors that has been
chiefly instrumental in killing our ship
ming trade
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
e. Ct. MATHEWS.
Death of a Well-Known Pioneer of
This State.

Death of a Wel!-Known Pioneer of
This State. -
Edwin Goodrich Mathews died at his
home in East Oakland yesterday at the age
of II years after a long and severe illness.
He was for many years in the early
fifties and sixties one of the old Cay-street
grain merchants. of whom SO few now re-
main. OF later years he had been engaged
principally in real estate business in East
Oakland. he also served several terms as
Justice Of the Peace there. His hame has
been in East Oakland during all Of the past
thirty-three years.
he was native of New York, descend
ant from the early settlers of New En-
gland, a sturdy race of ancestors whose
ages during eight generations averaged IA
years; he was possessed Of their character
istic traits. energy and enterprise. His
was an active career as pioneer in the far
West before the days of gold and
made an early voyage around Cape
Horn. with his wife, in search of the
golden fleece, with full measure of
hardship en- route. A lifetime church.
man he was one of the vestry of Grace
Chapel on Powell street and later on
of Grace Church at the time it was built
on California street in this city. He was
also senior warden of the Church of the
Advent. East Oakland, for many years.
Half century he has been a Mason and
an Odd Fellow nearly as long as that order
is old n America.
His funeral, which takes place tomorrow
from his late residence, will be under the
direction of the Masonic fraternity. He
leaves a widow and two sons.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
NO RAILROADING.
Insane Persons Must Have
Fair Play.
= Caustic Remarks of Judge Murphy of
~. i, p Del Norte on the Way the
Insane Are Tried.

:: Judge Murphy OF Del Norte, sitting in
Judge Levy's courtroom distinguished
himself : Yesterday by delivering some
interesting remarks on the way insane
peQple have been committed to asylums in
this city as they came under his observa-
tion:
" He heard two cases yesterday with Drs.
: Wihdele and Lilienthal present. One was
a Chinese whom Judge Murphy promptly
discharged, saying that be was sane but
had no friends, and was fit subject for
the Geary act.
=: The second case was that of George
:Altbrup. saloon keeper, who will be re-
membered as having bitten the nose off his
wife some years ago because she preferred
the attentio of his barkeeper
:. His divorced wife appeared against him,
but his case proved to be one of delirium
tremens, and the court ordered him to be
Committed TO the City and County Hospital.
3: Then Judge Murphy cleared his throat
and said in & very emphatic manner:
In this connection, as this will probably
be the last examination [ will hold, it
mightnot be inappropriate to say that the
majority of cases brought to my attention
as residing Judge of Department 10 of
persons charged with insanity have come
~--N
Political Code, which reads as follows:
M case Of idiocy or imbeciliJy, or sim
pie fee 1leness of mind must be maintained
at nor must any case Of deIirum tremens
be admitted into the asylum"
The State does not contract to care for
and take charge Of such persons; but on
the contrary the law expressly provides
that person must be so far disordered in
mind as Ito endanger health, person or
: properly" before he should be brought be-
fore any Judge OF court Of record. Peo-
: pie suffering from the effects of a drunken
:d'ebauch, after being in the Home of the IN
ebriates for day or TWO, or morphine fends
suffering from the want of the drug. old
:men and women. either feeble-minded or
threatened with softening of the brain.
: I'm beetles or harmless insane persons
should be ia ken care of otherwise than in
State institutes for the insane. 1t has come
Under my personal observation while hold
ing court in this department that cruel
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
$3.50
RE WARD!

I am authorized by Hon. II. II.
Markham. Governor of California, to
offer reward of $1,000 for the arrest
and conviction of the person or per.
sons who placed he dynamite in front
of No. 1874 Main street, this city,
morning of OATH inst. thereby causing
the death of George Holmes, James
Brick McGuiness, William Thomas
Mckenzie. Edward Murphy. and dam
gerously injuring Charles Owen
Bernard and John Curtin Jr.
Any information which may lead to
the arrest and conviction of the person
or persons engaged in the above out
rage, which if wished as confidential
will be so considered. In addition to
the $1,000. I will pay $3.50 on same
terms.
The above reward does not apply to
the persons now under arrest-nor to
the police.
P. CROWLEY,
Chief of Police.
San Francisco, Sept. 26. 1898. seq st
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
THEY WENT AWAY
Why the School Board
Did Not Meet.
A Successor Was to Have Been
Elected to Take the Place of
Director French.

The Auditor did not receive the teachers
warrants yesterday. and in consequence
the school marns will not receive their pay
as early as usual. Auditor Broderick has
always given preference to the teachers
warrants over all others, as he believes
they are the first in the community who
should be paid. The fault of their not
receiving them, however, does not rest
with the secretary of the Board of Educa-
tion and his assistants, but with TIE delin-
quent school board, which should have
met on Wednesday night to approve the
warrants.
There was quorum Oh hand. but when
a meeting was called to order by President
HYDE the requisite number was lacking.
The cause of this was due TO Directors
Decker and Damn, who were present, but
who departed before the meeting, thereby
preventing quorum.
Various speculation was set on foot as
as TO the cause of certain directors stealing
away to prevent the usual transaction of
business.
The chief cause without doubt is that
the minority learned that the majority
were about to elect successor to Director
French, who recently resigned. Director
French was about to reconsider his resi- e.
nation at the earnest request of the presi-
and er-to-be-fOrgOlten row took place,
where coats and vests were taken off.
After this disgraceful exhibition among
those who were supposed to pose as eXam-
PIES for the youth of the city Director
French reconsidered his decision and con-
cluded TO permanently retire from the
board and attend TO his private business.
a candidate has been selected to sue
coed French, but who he is the insiders
will not give out. His name was to have
been presented on last Wednesday night.
but the failure Of the quorum interfered
with the plan.
With Director French out of the board
and Directors Clinton and Culver in the
East, makes il hard to obtain quorum If
two or three members choose to stay away.
AS Dunn, Decker and Carey generally
stand together. they can easily prevent a
quorum whenever they desire.
But, in the meanwhile, what about
paying the poor teachers? The board
must meet to approve their warrants. An
other reason given for the Directors pre-
venting quorum on Wednesday night is
that there is some question about the
craftsmanship of the Committee on
Grounds and Buildings.
When Director Dunn took sick early in
the year Director Downing was added "a
the committee as acting chairman, the
understanding being that he was to be
permanent chairman. When Dunn got
well recently he started in to claim The
chairmaDs ship of his committee.
Il was not given 10 him.
Prevention of action on this question is
supposed to have had considerable to dc
with the withdrawal of certain members
from the committee-rooms on Wednesday
night, which broke the quorum when the
board met in chambers
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
$1,000
RE- " ARD.

I am authorized and empowered by
the Board of Supervisors of the City
and County of San Francisco to offer
a reward of one thousand dollars for
information from any person or per-
sons (other than members of the Police
Force that will secure the arrest and
conviction of each person who placed
or was accessory in placing the dyna-
mite in front of No. 334 Main street,
in this CITY and county. on the morn
ing of the Oath instant. which caused
loss of life and serious injury and
damage to persons and property.
L. R. ELLERT. Mayor.
San Francisco, September %, 1893. se29 st
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
THE MATHEWS MURDER.
Inquest Continued, but Nothing I'm
DCrtant Brought Out.

pCrtant Brought Out.
The inquest on the body of Clara
Mathews was resumed last night by
Coroner Hughes. but was not concluded.
There was nothing of much importance
brought out.
Robert Hector of the Ahlborn House
testified TO Gray coming to his place on
September L, but he saw nobody with
him. The entry. ''Gray and wife, Peta-
luna" in the register, was in the hand
writing of his clerk. lie identified Gray.
Anton Kolligf. clerk at the Ahlborn
House, testified TO writing in the register
the name of Gray and wife. He did not
remember who told him the name. No
objection was made by any one to the en-
try.
Thomas Eagar, Superintendent of the
City Cemetery. testified 10 having permit
from the Health office for the burial OF
Clara Mathews on Sunday. September IT.
Gray was with MeiZer's driver. He re-
ceived an order TO disinter the same body
from the Coroner last Saturday.
L. ID. Palmer, an employe of Under
taker MetZier, was recalled, and identified
Gray as the man known as Mathews. the
woman's husband. He also iden tilted De-
Won Werthern as being present when the
body was taken from the house. SIT Mis-
sion street.
Evelyn Charlesworth. granddaughter OF
Mrs. Long, ST Mission street, testified t.
GRAY and Clara Mathews coming to the
house, and that she was known as Gray
Witness answered the bell when Gray
called first to engage a room.
George Ii. Kiner. gravedigger at the
City Cemetery, and w. S. Eagar, son o.
Superintendent Esgar. spoke of The buria
and the disinterment.
The inquest was then adjourned unit
this afternoon at l O'clock, when the test
mony of Drs. O'Brien and O'Connell, whit
made the autopsy on the body, will b.
IA ken
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
MISSING EMILY NICHOLS
Her Sister Be Iieves She is Safe at a
Brothers. Home.

The missing girl, Emily Nichols, who
left Lochford. San Joaquin County. about
two weeks ago and has not since been
heard from, does not seem to cause her
relatives in this city much alarm. her
sister, Mrs. Mary Frick, who resides at
1433 Mission street, told a reporter last
night that she believed the girl was at her
brothers, who lives at some point north of
this city, which Mrs. Frick refused to
designate. She refused, Furthermore, 10
make any sta tement about the girl, claim
ing that TOO much had already appeared In
the papers, and seemingly was not at all
solicitous as to the missing ones safety.
The girl did not reside in this city, but
was expected here on a visit.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
TWELVE DOGS TO RUN.
Programme for the Coursing at
Ocean View on Sunday.

Next Sunday the Pacific Coursing Club
will hold a twelve-dog match at Ocean
View. John Grace Jr. will be the judge
and Edward Canavan the slipper. The
drawing, which took place last night, re-
suited as follows:
j. Dowling's Depend on Me VS.. D. Cur
tins Dolly Warden. p. RussePs Mountain
Deer vs. d. Curlin's Mountain Hare, j..
Dowling's Little Rose VS.. j. Kerwin's
Dowline's White Rustic. j. + zpatrick' 8
Spot VS.. j. Dowing's Jack Dempsey. j..
McDonald's Dashaway VS.. Brennan's Red
Prince
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
MARKET-STREET CUT.
The Welfare of That Vicinity Is Talked
Over.

Inc welfare OF j uat Vicinity is aikeo
Over.
The Market-street Improvement Club
met last night at $3.50 Market street. with
W. w. Rednall in the chair.
The executive committee reported sever
al hundred additional names secured to the
petition asking for the change of grade on
Market street. The committee expressed
itself as confident of securing the necessary
majority of frontage interested TO have the
changes of grade ordered by the Board of
Supervisors.
A committee was appointed to ascertain
whether Reservoir street for its full width
of eighty feet, from Market to Church,
was ever decided to the city. Forty feet OF
the Streets INSTRUCTED by a fence, leaving
only forty feet of the roadway open.
The economical ideas of the Supervisors
who are considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
shutting off all the gas and electric lights
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
Social Life i'm England.

Mrs. Laura OrmsitUn Chant Will speak
this evening at the Second Unitarian
Church. on the corner OF Twentieth and
Capp streets. on Social Life in England
as she has seen it," This will, no doubt,
be the last time that Mrs. Chant Will speak
in this city, as she may never visit San
Francisco again, and the public should
avail themselves To hear a rare address.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29

throughout the city for nine nights in each
month was condemned as inimical to the
best interests of the city. 1t was declared
the Supervisors should turn elsewhere
when endeavOTihg 10 retrench than upon
the streetlight fund. Instead of shutting
off light in the vicinity of Market street
west of Octavia, lights should be located
on Fourteenth. Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets, between Dolores and Market. on
which no streetlights have ever been
placed
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
DRY GOODS.
NINETEEN GREATSPECIALS
TO-DAY! TO-DAY!

RIBBONS SC N" yard AlsIK 0oIoRED MORE RIBBONS worth loo
RIBBONS re No yard aaSK oooRFD MORE RIBBONS
RIBBONS 10c No. ay ASIk 0oLoRED MORE RIBBONS worth 200
YELLING Zoe FANCY R9 o MAhSEs VIDE Black Navy
YELLING zoe sS aEEH Bd 29TTER
inches WIDE regular price soc and 6Oc
WAVtAo - ooUI Tan coOrs.
CORSE AP dPs a %HGE 5RENGH GoUT ooBsET well
HOSIERY Csc % HsST @ m @ RIBPED SOFTEN
a ~ ~ '|' ~
HONIERV AT Ole LADIES' HOSE extra
soV grade Hermsdo Black
WiISVN AT 5Ne WAISTS plated
'front.' rolling
GOWNS AT 7r LADIES' HEAVY MUSLIN
"V"h' - 'ooI tucks and Insertion extra value for ST.
NECKTEN AT Ole MEMS
-oU in-Ed shapes largely assorted
N0CEN{ AT @ MEMS SOCKS Browns
NVOhN(Ai 12O Tans and Slate 121sc
UhDhhhhah Al $iVV SANTTARRY Wool AND
LNELETE M a5 G @ saw 5 LET ss. Ds s
samples given and quantity to each imitedl
CyCEsMl At 7e fancy
purh i'm " ~
BLANKETS $3.50 f fASkF 4 sS 5 FAN W
value for 81 80
JACKETS $3.50 $50 1a @ 1d B 5 GH 5R Ha
JACKETS $3.50 1875 AdREs Bas d6sV silk n ao bdG
sft y!FR dO RFH F aR P' e cspe and slf H
ormerpr 8 $40
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
Sanitation.

A joint meeting OF the committee on
sanitation of the San francisco Council of
Women of the Public Health Association
and of the Woman's Council was held yes
terdav to perfect arrangements for peo-
pies mass-meeting on sanitation, TO be
held on Monday evening, the I'd OF Dc
tober, at Metropolitan Temple. The
speakers are Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stet-
son, DIR. WinsIow Anderson. Mrs. Leslie
Il. Sprague and Mrs. Anna Smith. Mars
den Manson will speak on the SANITARY
Condition of San Francisco Homes"
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Tn your aves tronble vou On Tn RerIalinp Apt
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
CHEESEMAN'S Specific Mixture

With this remedy persons can cure themselves
without the least exposure. change OF diet or
change in application to business. The medicine
contains nothing is of the least injury To the
constitution. ask your druggist for It. Price 81 8
bottle. Ao4 rtAu ~
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29

If your eyes trouble you go to BerIelng, APT
kearn1 street.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-02

1ud.s Severens ~ The Uniscd STATES
distrisi esaf. yesterday afternoon.
feadsred iee,-sso N ths case II simon
Bschs 4 Ia snd otasr non resident
rYed.t1r. - Nsleor. Matter 4 Go. axainst
ths Nchigan Trust cosa pany. asaixnee.
sad others. waieh siI have an import
at iadaeacs apoa he fnssre q Nei.uu,
Matter 4 CO The bil q cou1pl.siut
tat sas Sled prayed that he mortgages
gven befss he assignment - secure
cs&tsis er@hs,rs he declared ings'id and
b 80 as.ia. sasi that the sac Re an
iinssi AL q reeriver sppcin;ei Judge
ssesr-ns decidee isss the mortgages are
vasid sni Sc denies ths petition 'or an
inienrtica ae1 the sppoiainent q a re-
eeit.s The Opinion = "a ssc~ediaxiT
clear ssd shie ose. and iesses no d,subt
- - he stasdiag q ths Mich gan Trnst
coUrasv TIE 49, gnse. sod the uiost
eaEss n arFuss tas mortgage an the
gronir mat aroa che fsess 81 forth ~
fhe hai aaa a.1siavita ~ the eonplaan-
ante ibers 4 - r-a-cn - infer that
tie Restsszes wrrs made n expects-
tion ~ aabcipsfe ~ sseigrn1.nt.
snd therefore, NESS - sfate law gov
sfsisie as~sspoeu taey are uaquss
sions.bly vs,al Tie epiaioa = also ssry
positive upen ne saession - th@ power
~ ~ epurs = srre5pts r,rsivsr. TIE
tfii = ccneiasnt charg-i thar re Mich
usn Trust eenpaaY. the assignee All
ske sseffTscses Terr IN icaeoe - aSq
the preTeriy aessr ~ nort4se-@ sgsl
-freeee ostT she unsecured -resfisore
Thss chsrzs vss fs~elY made sul sare
pssrt,sl ~ sfhtsvies ehich hcwevsr
w--e net s~srs - ~ 49, cssrrlsirsrt-
TIE esurt ssmmar.iy aisps,s-s Il ma
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-02
CRrsP-s RuI.ING.

When Mr. Blzad attempted 10 dlibus-
ter against the repeal bill in the house
yesterday Speaker Crisp promptly cut
him short by recognizing one Of the ma
iority TO move the previous question.
Blaad was given fifteen minutes in
which 70 deliver himself Of his stere-
otsped appeal Tor free coinage. and then
the roll-call was ordered Speaker
Crisp's action win be commended by
every body having the least regard for
sensible and statesmanlike proceedings
Had Voorhees, insisted upon precisely
the same ruling by Vice President
Stevenson the repeal bin would have
passed the senate as early ~ September
Is The bugsboo Of senatorial cour-
tesy" was permitted to assert itself and
from August - to October 10 the senate
continued in session the most disgusting
spec..leis known in our political history.
IL will be impossible 10 repeat such q
humilisting farce beeause tae senate
viii nov provide itself with rnles. The
example Of Speaker Crisp. which is In
line with the uniform rulings Of ex-
Speaker lIeedwhen in the chair. simply
emphasizes the maudlin imbecility Of
the senate.