The morning call., 1893-09-18

comes to the Davie Company. The Alvira
and ROsalie were crowded TO their limit at
every trip yesterday and people were left
standing on the wharf.
With the surety of waiting depot to be
built for them in the near future and a
rushing business at present the Davie Com
pany is far from being discouraged.
The Police Waif.
To the vast majority of people the bolts
ana bars OF prison ana its surroundings
and its grim paraphe rnalia are unpleasant
reminders of the existence of crime, but to
one little boy in Oakland they mean home.
Jimmy Irving. scarcely turned IL years.
without father or mother or relative, has
found all these in the big, Dlue-coated Gus
t0dians OF the law. These burlv fellows,
with handouts In one hip pocket and a
loaded revolver in the other, are the par
ticular terror Of the young scapegraces
about town, but TO little Jimmy they are
all in all the best friends be has in the
world. He looks upon them all as members
of one big family of which he is the young
est brother.
And well he may, for ever since that
night nearly two weeks ago. when officers
Curtiss and Cooney found the little fellow
cuTled up asleep on the steps of the City
Hall as they were reporting 10 the office
and took him into the prison with them,
he has been the child of the Jail, the care
auu ~" tHo pllue VI ofeIS o1nCeI VI tnO
force.
1t was Jimmy's big blue-eyed and hope
less poverty that appealed to the Chief, to
Judge Allen, to the captains, the detec-
tives and every patrolmdn in Oakland.
The little fellow was closely cateehised,
and The conviction grew that here was an
honest and ambitious boy and the making
little fellow downtown and bought him a
suit of clothes, and Mr.. Nordhausen
equipped him with undeTclo;bng and the
officers gave him enough money 10 buy his
first stock of papers, and now he sells the
morning and afternoon papers ar Four
teenth and Broadway and Is looked upon
by the newspaper-boys as rising COM
petit0T.
He sleeps and eats at the Jail. He has
his own little cot beside trusty, and looks
out al life brightly enough.
A more comely little chap is not to be
found in Oakland, and industrious and
ambitious at that.
What his future plans are he is not
quite sure, but is happy when around
with his brass-buttoned friends. and has
no desire to forsake his happy home-the
City Prison.
The City Council.
Much satisfaction is being expressed by
members of the Council that Attorney
General Hart has taken the stand be has
with regard to bringing suit against the
Southern Pacific for the recovery of the
Oakland water front for the State,
They say that while the State and this
city are thus apparently at ODDS in the
fight they are virtually working together
against the common foe, the Southern Pa
cifc Company. The city's attorneys are
delighted at Mr.. Hart's move, because I
would render it certain that in case
Judge decided that the State could not
part with the water front in trust to the
city of Oakland it would follow that the
State would have il. Such a proceeding is
also saving of time, as the State would
have TO begin an action aud carry il
through three courts in case the city loses
its suit. Now they can work together.
At the meeting of the Council tom ghj
the ordinance requiring stops to be made
at draw bridges will be tabled.
An ordinance will be passed TO print re-
quring the railroad company TO keep flag
men posted at crossings from A. n. to y
O'Clock midnight
A 1-cent tax levy, with II cents for the
bond redemption fund, will be passed TO
Print.
Boycotters Carry the Day.
Contrary to expectation HOpp the Sew
enth-Street cloIhier did not open yesteT-
day. The lesson he had learned from the
retail clerks the Sunday before was not
adapted to encouraging another round
pressed determination his doors remained
locked yesterday morning.
But around the corner, at S45 Broadway,
Louis Jurgens was doing a rushing buSl-
ness selling shoes. He had opened up al s
O'Clock with the avowed intention of
! lighting 1T out along these lines until sun
set.
1t did not take long for the clerks to dis
cover that mischief was brewing, and they
gathered in large numbers before the
odious open doors. a strong chorus Of
jeers and cat-calls was started, and the
racket brought scores Of men to swell the
number of boycotters.
The president OF the Trades Federat on
appeared on the scene and had talk wi tn
Jurgens. The result was a victory for the
clerks, and at 10 O'Clock Jurgens' doors
were locked and his windows boarded for
th day.
Killed by a Train.
A young man, possibly IS years of age,
was instantly killed by Inc Alameda loca
train at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The accident occurred at point half way
between Oakland and Alameda. The boy
was riding between the cars and evidently
wanted to steal his way back to San Fran
cisco. A sudden JOLT of the train dis
lodged him from his position and threw
him beneath the wheels. The left arm was
torn from the body and the track was
strewn with blood. The young mans
name could not be ascertained.
= Petty Thief Arres ted.
Oliver Peter PaulsOn was arrested at
Third and Washington streets last night
and locked up on five charges of petty lar
ceny by Officers Downey and Storey.
Paulson had been making a specially of
doormat stealing. About twenty mats
were found in his possession.