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The morning call., 1893-06-17
Alameda,

TRANSFERRING FUNDs.-The City At
torney last evening read his pinion before
the City Trustees upon the matter of the
legality of the action of the board in trans
ferring $1,000 from the general fund to the
school fund. In his opinion the board had
no authority to act. On motion the board
rescinded its previous action. In refer
ence to the matter of increasing the sal
aries of police officers the City Attorney
opined that the law requiring the increase
is uncOnstitutona
To THE AsYLUM.-Peter Latterade. a
Frenchman, whose family resides on Ala
media avenue, and who was sent to the
Napa Insane Asylum some three years ago,
was released from that Institution upon his
wife's petition few days ago, she believ-
ing that trip to Europe would bring him
back to reason. Since his return he has
made life nbearable, and in his mania
tried to kill neighbor, consequently he
was remanded to the asylum yesterday.
FELL FROM A WINDMILL-Joe Cayo. a
six-year-old boy residing on Mcpherson
street, fell fifteen feet from a windmill
yesterday afternoon. His right leg struck
upon railroad spike which had been
nailed through an old plank, and the spike
entered his leg about two inches. making
an ugly and painful wound.
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about the point of the nasal organ on the
face of a nominal human being.
Where the razor leaves Off the No. O
clipper begins. 1t must be handled very
carefully at first, for the effect it must leave
when its work is done is like that of a
graduated moving machine, which should
begin high in the air and gradually de-
crease the length of the stubbe till the last
row would be elevated but an infinitesi sim al
speck above the level OF the earth.
Gradually the hairs of the beard must b e
heightened. Carefully this must be done,
so that each succeeding row of hirsute
adornments may be only a wee speck
longer than the preceding row. Under the
chin the process is the same.
And when the clippers have finished
their work then begins the work of the
shears. Their function is TO bring the
beard to point exactly on a line with the
bridge of the uose-providing, of course,
that the nasal organ of the subject ope-
rated upon be normally straight.
The duplicate of this process must be
undergone on the other side of the face,
and when it is all done the effect is strik-
lngIy phantasmagOrial.
Those who have submitted to the opera
tiOn thus far in this city have undergone
the treatment without the administration
OF anesthetics. but this is not fair critic
riOn for the average man who might have
leanings toward the Fantaisie cut after
seeing Jerry Lynch or Joe Redding to
bank upon. For the four Fan taisie boards
in San Francisco grow upon faces that sit
high over hearts of steel and wholesale
quantities of reserve force.
And the operation must be undergone
twice each week. Still, the esthetic re-
suits are something wonderful. Mr.. Red.
ding says they are worth the agony.
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THE WATER FRONT
Trouble Towing a Derelict
Schooner.
The RosaIie Not to Go on the Oppo.
Sition Line, but a Boat
to Be Built.

Three tugboats and lot of apparently
inexperienced men had a hard time with
the derelict schooner Bill the Butcher of
Point Reyes and in the bay yesterday aft.
ernoon.
a few days ago the vessel went ashore
at Bowens Landing and a hole nearly SIX
feet in circumference was stove in her
bottom on the Starboard side of her keel.
The tug Wizard was the first towboat te
catch the schooner, but in towing her to
port the derelict turned over on her side
Being filled with lumber she did not sink
The tug Sea Queen went to the Wizards
AID, and together they took the schooner
to the Lombard-street wharf, where an
attempt was made to right her.
After putting and blowing around for
about an hour and accomplishing nothing.
the Wizard and the Sea King were aided
by the Rescue, but still the schooner re.
fused to turn on an even keel.
The Sea Queen then towed the wreck to
the Vallejo wharf, where it was
secured until some one could be consulted
who knew how to handle her.
Superintendent McGovern of the Whit
ney Express Company stated that the
steamer Rosalie would not be put on the
opposition line.
'1n reference to our new steamer" said
Mr. McG0vern, you can say that we are
trying to secure steamer to answer our
purposes temporarily, and that when we
build serry-boat it will be boat which h
will be furnished with all modern improve
ments, including electric lights"
The Silva is carrying nearly 1000 pas.
sengers day. The Southern Pacific is
contemplating cut in ferry rates to Oak
land, as announced exclusively in THE
CALL some DAYS ago.
The steamer Sunset of Piper Alden e
Co.'s line will commence to-day to carrv
passengers at 25 cents in opposition to the
Rosalie.
The steamers are taking all the rail.
roads passenger traffic away from Val
lejo.
The Japanese crew which left here for
Eureka on the National City is for the
schooner LOttie Carom. They were
shipped by Japanese boardirg-master. r.
Able seamen are very scarce.
The schooner Emily Schroeder, the
property of the heirs of the late celebrated
Hungry Gus" of waterfront fame, as
been chartered as whaler.
The tug Fearless has been chartered to
pump the Elmbank clear and had nearly
accomplished her task at o'clock las,
evening. No effort has been made to re-
move the ships cargo, as there is dispute
between the cOnsgnors, owners and insur-
ance men relative to the amount of dam
age. The matter Will be settled to-day, it
is thought
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EUREKA VALLEY WANTS.
Street Improvements Talked Of bv
the Residents.

AT a meeting of the Park Lane Improve
ment Club last night at 1881 Seventeenth
street. committee was appointed to visit
the Supervisors Street Committee and
complain of the dilatory manner in which
Contractor Buckman is prosecuting the
work of sewering and grading Seventeenth
street, between Uranus and Ashbury.
Many months have elapsed since the con-
tract was let, but nothing has yet been
done.
Yesterday Contractor O'Brien again re-
sumed work on the crossing of Seventeenth
street and Clara avenue, after delay of six
months. The contract for this work was
let for thirty days on the 10th of Decem-
Der last Little was done. however and
after a few days the crossing was aban-
doned Tor many months until yesterdays
proceedings.
A petition is also to be sent to the CITY
fathers asking that the owners of prop
erty on the north side of Seventeenth
street. west of Clara avenue, be compelled
to bulkhead their land. and also to remove
the earth which has for nearly year
blocked the sidewalk for some 1900 feet on
the north siCe of Seventeenth street.
Itwas also thought advisable to ask for
the placing of eesspools and planked cor
ners on CorDett road, at the intersection
of Hattie. Danvers, Mars aud other
streets
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throughout. The theater will be closed
until two weeks from Monday, when it will
open with new and strong company and
new scenery and properties.
Is He 1NsANE?-C. E. Moser, who has
had more trouble of late over his letters
than the Murphy family, was up again in
the Police Court yesterday morning to
have his case set for trial,
His attorney spoke for him this time and
asked TO have the plea Of Not guilty"
Withdrawn and be granted a little more
time.
He was given until this morning
1t is thought that the plea of insanity
Will probably be entered in his case.
ANOTHER FERRY.-J. L. Davie states
that he. III company with J. NJ. Bassett,
Benjamin Morgan and Others, are going to
incorporate and operate ferry system be-
tween San Francisco and Oakland. New
boats will be built and the scheme carried
through on good scale. a general freight
and passenger traffic being inaugurated.
1t is expected plans will be completed in a
month.
RECEIVERS DAMAGES. = Some months
ago the fve-year-old son of L. Fox was
run over AID killed by car of the Oak
land Consolidated Railroad Company. The
father of the boy sued for $780, damages
The jury yesterday returned a verdict for
plaintiff for $1,000.
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Paris. This may have enabled him to
school local artist in the mystic trim.
But in that event may not others do
likewise? Perish the thought, for then
the fin de steele will become the common
place, and all the secrecy of Messrs. Red
ding, Lynch and Newhall will have been
for naught.
But the antasie, what is it?
You cannot tell from looking at it. You
must be initiated into the mystery OF mys-
teries of hirsute trimming before the com
prehensiOn can compass Il:
1t begins with a shave, passes through
the stage of clipping and winds up with a
haircut Where the Van Dyke and the
Boulanger beard branch off from the hair
of the head at the conjunction of the auri-
Gle organs with the temporal bone, there
the razor first gets in its fine work on the
structure that when completely builded is
known as the Fantaisie beard.
The razor continues its moving till a
point is reached near the angle of the Jaw
bone. Here the razor ceases in a diagonal
line, which, if chalked out. would strike
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upon what he thinks was exactly the same
day. and the Fantaise was upon the face
OF him-the him referring to Mr.. Lynch.
But Mr.. Newhall is not sure Of the day.
He has tried to reckon 1t out by the date
of the FantaiSie cut which now prescribes
the limits of his own beard. but he has not
reached result sufficiently exact TO bic
him to make the assertion with that degree
of positiveness which the eXigencieS of the
occasion seem to require.
Still, he thinks 1t was the same day.
Where Jerry Lynch got that Fantaisie
cut is still mystery. He has kept the
secret thereof locked within his own
breast-or whatever part of the anatomical
structure secrets are kept in-with one ex-
ception. He lisped the mystic name to
Mr.. Newhall on that historic morning, but
before he did so be made that gentleman
take solemn affirmation, by the beauty of
his beard, to reveal the tip to no living
soul.
But since that day new hero has ap-
peared, and now there are four Fantasies
in San Francisco. Francis A. Chapins is
the fourth.
Where did he obtain the secret?
For satisfactory answer to this mo-
mentOuS question the recorder OF current
history may we'll pause and cogitate.
Has Newhal been false to the sacred
trust reposed in him by Jerry Lynch?
Danish the thought!
But where, then, did Mr.. Chapuis get
the tip that led him to one or the other OF
the two known tonsorial artists in town
omplshed in the deep mysteries of the
Fantastic trim?
Has Joe Redding revealed the secret?
That is not to be thought of; it can
not be.
Here the mystery thickens.
But stay! MIR. Chapus is Frenchman.
All, therein may lie the solution. Per-
chance MIR. Chappis got recipe. with full
Instructions on the inside, straight from
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it was difficult to find local tonsorial ar
| ttst who could perform the operation with
| the required nicely of workmanship.
Despairing in his Efforts to secure a Fan
| taisie trim in San Francisco, Mr.. Redding
was on the point OF importing an artist
| from Paris. 1t was then that a certain
| Kearny-street hairdresser appeared on the
scene and proved his ability to block out
| the new mode.
1t was about this time that Jerry Lynch
came downtown one day with the Fantaisle
! on his face. In truth, from all obtalnable
records in the case. both gentlemen aD-
peared on the streets wearing the new
mode on precisely the same day.
| True. there has been some little dispute
about the point. the champions of both
! twenty-four hours. So weighty matter
as this should be settled to a nicety, and
the marked absence of any definite proof
on the subject is TO be deplored. Future
historians may perhaps discover some cir
| cumstance now concealed from public
gaze by which they will be enabled to state
with a positiveness which may not brook
! contradiction that either of these gentle
men was the first to introduced he Fantaisie
! beard in San Francisco.
But failing in such proof they will be
compelled to fall back upon ground which.
though of a purely hypothetical and cir
! cumStantial nature, is yet equitable and
| fair in view of the known facts of the case.
And the latter are as follows: At 10 80
! o'clock of the morning in question Joe
Redding appeared at his office at Kearny
and Market streets with the Fantaisie
! beard.
This is susceptible of proof, for both the
! off1ce-bOy, who was thunderstruck at the
sudden cnange from Vandyke to-what
| it was he did not know-and the pretty
| typewriter, who told him that Mr.. Red
ding had not come down yet, when he
opened the door; both of these personages
can attest the hour, the minute and the
! day.
The other known fact is that g. c. New
hall Jr. met Jerry Lynch at precisely the
same hour in the morning on Pine street,
The morning call., 1893-06-17
Shot hy Accident

Captain j. Mellen of Yuma, captain of the
steamer Gia on the Colorado River, reg
issered at the Lick last evening. Usually
the captain is full of stories of river life.
but all persuasion could not induce him to
tell one. He was mentally disturbed over
deplorable accident. AS he was coming
north at Riverside he accidentally shot
Edgar Hadden fSan Bernardino, who was
sitting in seat but one in advance of his
Captain Mellen was loading the revolver
at the time. He was Immediately put un-
der arrest. but was released on bonds.
Hadden was pronounced fatally injured,
the bullet having gone through his chest.
but he has since been report ted growing
better. Mullen and Hadden were entire
strangers.
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Berkeley.

IN THE PRIME OF LIFE.-George W.
Bolser, who for the past fifteen years or
more, has painted the trans parencies and
signs for all political campaigns, died sud-
denly at his home on Virginia street. at
$40 P. NJ, Wednesday. Deceased was an
active ana prominent Odd Fellow and
Knight of Pythlas, was an old soldier and
formerly an Intimate friend of eX-Presi-
dent Harrison. He was taken in the
prime of life. being only As years of age.
INVITED TO PARTIC1PATE.-The Uni
VersIty Boating Association has just re-
celyed an invitation from the Chicago
Navy-Dewtt c. Cregier Jr., commndore-
to participate in the international Regatta,
to be held during tile period of the World S
Columbian Exposition, August "A to I9, in
elusive, at Lake Geneva, Wis. That a
crew will be sent from Berkeley is very
Improbable, as the students selected for
the crews will not return before August /.
ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON
Bert Howard, the irrepressible Pound
keeper. came into Justice Longs court
yesterday with his face all bleed ing and
swore out COMPLAINT for assault with a
deadly weapon against William NJ. MOrri 2,
claiming that while attempting to i'm
pound Morris cow he was attacked by the
latter with pistol used as club. Morris
Will be examined to-day.
~ rOltM AN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
James W. Scoggins, Fred Lowell, Louis
B. Earle, Augusta l.. Nye and Bertha
ketchum. of the class of '93, have been
appointed committee to take the prelim-
mary steps toward the formation Of a
high school alumni association.
PIPE WORKS SOLD. - The old pipe
works OF West Berkeley, which have been
imperative for months past, have been
sold to the California Company of San
Francisco, and will be repaired and put
in operation at once.
STILL A CANDIDATE.-R. T.. Burtwell.
who was reported as having Withdrawn
from the contest for the Office of Town
Marshal. is still the candidate of the Non
PartiSans.
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THE MANLY CHIN.
Fin de Steele Boards Are
a la FantaiSie.
FOUR PROUD POSSESSORS
Was It Brought to San Francisco by
Joe Redding or by Jerry
Lynch
They call it the Fantaisie.

They call it the Fantaisie.
It's the very latest Paris mode Of train
ing the beard. By another name it would
lock the same on the same man provided
the same exquisite tonsorial artist had the
planning of it.
When you see a man with whiskers that
are cross between Vandyke beard aud
the kind of hirsute growth that luXuriates
on the lower jaw of Billy Wood you may
safely put him down as fin de steele from
the end of the longest hair in his pompa-
dour to the soles of his russet leather
shoes.
Tie nineteenth century does not know
his superior in the fashionable world. He
outrivals the fashion plates and is the de-
spair of the Kearny-street dudes who are
beardleSs.
1t is not month, scarcely a fortnight,
since the FantaiSie reached San Francisco,
and only the most accomplished tonsorial
artists know how to administer it in the
proper degree.
A mere barber wouldn't attempt it, for
it's ticklish piece of work. requiring rare
skill with the razor, the No. 0 clippers and
the shears. 1t takes light hand. delicate
manipulation and an artistic eye trained
10 the eccentricties of the Paris styles.
Joe Redding imported it direct from
Havre but he didn't use il right away for
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KNIGHTS OF THE PENCIL.
More German Journalists and Artists
From Chicago.


Five prominent German journalists and
two of the German Governments artists
arrived in the city last evening by the Santa
Fe route and registered at the Baldwin.
Every one speaks English huently. They
registered as German press representatives
from Berlin and Hamburg. Their names
and the papers they are connected with
are as follows: Dr. Frederick Dornburg
and Bernard Dornburg, of the Berlner
! Tagp blatt and Beriner Morgen Zeitung :;
DR.. E. L. Won HATTIE of the Boersen Halle,
Hamburg; DR.. A. Victor and G. Won Sic
mems, his assistant, of the German Rail-
way Gazette and Steel and Iron Journal,
Berlin. The artists are Max and Hans
Seliger, of Berlin.
The party comes directly from Chicago.
where they spent two months. and will
return there after a weeks stay in this
city. They are delighted with California
after the drearv ride across the alkal and
sand deserts of New Mexico and Arizona.
| Max and Hans Seiiger are employed in
| Chicago in their official capacity as Gov
ernment artists. They did the decorative
art on the German imperial buildings on
| the Worlds Fair grounds.
The morning call., 1893-06-17
FIRE PROTECTION SECURED
Asfbury Heights and Buena Vista
Valley Safe.

The Buena Vista Improvement Club
met last night at Franks Hall and dis
cussed the question of securing fire pro-
lection for Ashbury Heights and the
Buena Vista Valley district. C. E. Dun
shee presided.
A committee appointed at the previous
meeting to wait on the Fire Committee of
the Board of Supervisors and ask for a
fire engine and hook and ladder truck on
Oak street, between Deyisadero and Brod-
erick. reported that the Supervisors prom
ised TO locate an engine Immediately at the
place named in consideration of the prop
erty-o wners erecting a temporary wooden
building TO house the engine, hosecart and
hook and ladder truck. The committee
also reported that $500 had been collected
| toward fund to erect the necessary
structure. The sum of $500. il was said
will be required to build the house. TIE
club also decided to subscribe to the
amount, and the committee was Instructed
to continue its good work until the 5000 is
raised.
DR.. c. D. Salfeld and other taxpayers
again spoke of the frauds practiced upon
the property-owners In the construction of
the Fell-street sewer. 1t was thought nee
essary to secure evidence to be used in the
courts as 10 the violation of the specifca-
tions. Experts will be engaged to secure
the desired information.
1t was also reported that the Grand Jury
would investigate the Fell-street sewer to-
day and would visit Waller street, between
Steiner and Pierce, this morning at 9:3O
o'clock. The sewer will be dug up nd an
inspection of the workmanship made.
The committee which has charge Of rais-
ing the 5000 for the engine-house was in
structed TO turn over any surplus over tn at
amount to the Davis, Madison and Windrow
nremen's fund. An office for the receiving
eI SUBSCRIPTIONS to the engine-house and
nremen's fund will be opened at the south
ca eaSI 4 corner Of Fillmore and Herman streets,
Is expected the househ olders will cons
irloute Is from Golden Gate avenue south
10 Market, and from Buchanan street to
The morning call., 1893-06-17
There Was No Contract

In regard to the suit of Url & Co. against
the city for the enforcement of contract
for furnishing supplies to the City Prisons
and County Jails, Mayor Ebert stated yes.
terday that the answer of the city to the
court would be that there was no contract
made. The Mayor said il takes two par
ties TO make contract. The award of the
contract to Uri & Co. had only passed tf
print in the board. There was no contrac,
in any case until the award had been
finally passed and submitted to the Mayor
for his approval. which steps had not been
taken in the Uri award.
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THE WINTER FAIR CANoNs.
Several Offers of Financial Assist
ance Are Received.

l.. &. McAfee and Colonel A. Andrews
OF this city and c. Sharp of Fresno. who
constitute the State Board of Trade com.
mittee on the winter fair, held several
conferences yesterday. They intend to
submit a report recommending a plan of
action for the consideration of the general
committee, which is to meet in Mayor
Ellert's Office next Tuesday evening.
Their deliberations were carried on
privately. Mr.. McAfee afterward in
formed the reporter that there was moth
ing to be added TO the matter published In
yesterday mornings CALL except that
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To-Day's Races.

The entries and weights for to-day's
races are as follows:
Ill. Nellie Van 1o9. RedIIebt III GvcIone
113, Gypsy Girl III. ~
Second race, four and half furlongs-Claire
100, Raphael 80, Sands Forman 90 Don Nor
gano SO, Normandle 80, Fortuna So. Sue Al
bot 90, Jovita 105, Realization 1O8, Hapny
Band SO, Memoir 50, Sallie NJ 50.
Third race, six fnrlongs, for maideps-Fn-
tries close at track this morning
Fourth race, handicap, six furlongs-Inker.
man 120, Conde 1l6, Dinero 113 Quarterstatf
105, Garcia 103, Romulus 100, Louise 30, Nero
80. Imp Attossa 80.
Fifth race handicap. one mile and quarter
C2nny Scot 122, Sir Reel los, Dinero 81, Gar
cia 50, Lady Gwenn SO.
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Two Boats Capsized.

Two Whitehall boats were eansized neor
Blossom Rock yesterday afternoon and
.heir occupants had narrow escape from
9aFowhlng. Boats which put of from
Me!ggS wharf rescued them. One nj tho
Whtehalls contained party of yonne
men, among whom was James Sennet soS
OF Captain Sennet. The wind was blow
ing and the bay very rough at the time the
accident occurred. VIZ
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subscriptions were being freely offered by
public-spirited citizens toward the enter
prise. General Hammond had offered his
check for $500. Robert F. Bunker of the
California Market his for 500 and third
gentleman, who desired his name withheld
from publication. bad called a. the office
OF the State Board of Trade TO say that he
would subscribe $3.50 whenever called
upon. The committee, however. refuses
to accept any money until its plan has
been submitted to the general committee
and adopted
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Died in the BaY.

Yesterday afternoon badly decomposed
body was found at Bakers Beach. where
the tide had left it. Late last night the
deceased was identified at The Morgue as
Francois Boyer. a cook, who lived at 1926
Powell street. He was So years old and
was member of the Legion Francaise. No
explanation of the death was discovered,
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Society Notes.

Sherwood Court No. 1920 and Sherwood
Circle No. 129 will give an entertainment
and strawberry party this evening at
Social Hall. 102 O'Farrell street.
The Frisco Ten will give their fourth
anniversary ball this evening at Turn
Verein Hall, 1923 Turk street.
The morning call., 1893-06-17
SUMMER RESORTS.
RLITHElBL.E:!!

THE PRETTlEST PLACE IN CALIFORNIA. 5
= minutes drive from Mill Valley station, North
Pacific Coast Railroad. and As minutes IRON San
Francisco, Will be open for the reception OF guests
on May /. For terms apply to Mrs. A. A. FAR
RAR. who is now at Blithedale. This place. COM
prising 800 acres, shaded by thousands of natural
trees, but lying open to the SUM- and greatly shell
tered from the wind and Fog, offers the invlt-
ing summer resort to be found in the State.
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