The morning call., 1893-05-19
IN AND ABOUT TOWN.

FREE "HEALTH" FOR THIS EVENING
Local sanitary authorities may doubtless
be productive of good when IN action. but
it Is conceded that their benent is almost
nominal unless backed and stimulated by
q live public sentiment in favor of health
full sanitation. 1t is with this belief that
the Technical Society OF the Pacific Coast
and the San Francisco County Medical
Society have arranged for paper to be read
and discussed this evening at the nall OF The
Academy of Sciences on Are California
Homes as Heathiul as They Should Be p
Marsden Manson. civil engineer and mem-
Der of the Technical Society, will present
the paper and is very competent to speak
practically of house sanitation. both In
San Francisco and California at large. 4
large attendance is expected.
DENMAN SCHOOL EXERCISES. = The
pupils of MIS-. Baumgardner's class held
their commeucemenC day exercises al the
Denman School yesterday afternoon. A
large number of people were present, COM
posed mostly OF friends and relatives of
the pupils, who came TO hear their children
bid adieu 10 the mental strain OF school life.
The programme consisted of recitations,
readings and Instrumental and vocal
music. Each number WAS rendered iii a
manner which showed the gond training
the pupils have received. besides making
very interesting entertainment. for
which they deserve great credit. The
vacation Will begin next week.
THEY ARE Nor ENGAGED. Samuel
Shortr dge. the attorney, was mentioned in
one of the morning papers yesterday as
the successful suit0r for the hand of Miss
Emma Spreckels. He denies that he ever
there is any truth in it. MIR. ShoTtridge's
well-known business and social relations
with the Spreckes lent color to the un-
founded story, and he regrets that the
papers eagerness for the sensational
should have placed both the young lady
and himself in their present embarrassing
position. Miss 'Spreckels is in Honolulu
at present with her father.
DENIED THE CHARGEs.-H. Rogers has
entered very emphatic denial of Daley's
confession made on the 10th inst, in which
he Is alleged 10 be a member of a gang of
thieves operating in and about the yards
of the Union Iron Works. Rogers figured
in the Daley case and was charged with
being n confederate of LawtOn and Daley.
He courts a full Investigation.
Mrs. John LawtOn diSclainIS all knowl-
edge of any such operations, and says that
no stolen goods were ever stored in her
house.
SLIPPED ON AN ORANGE-PEEL.-Fred
Mancum, an old man. while walking past
the crossing of Pacific and Kparny streets
yesterday, slipped on an orange-peel and
bro ke his right leg. When taken to the
Receiving Hospital it was discovered that
Mancum had fractured his right tibia. He
was only recently disch harged from the City
and County Hospital, where he had been
treated for broken leg. The second frac-
ture occurred just three Inches above the
first break.
HASTINGS COLLEGE GRADUATEs.-Th
Supreme Court YESTERDAY, on motion of
Judge McKinstry of the Hastings College
OF the Law, admitted the following grad
yates 10 practice as attorneys at law:
Orrin K. Nc Murray. Hugo K. Asher, Will
liam NJ, Abbott. Alfred l.. Worley, John
I. Pidwell, Charles w. Lynch, Richard
II. Dean, Max Blum, Clifton II. Connck,
Eobart X. Eells, Robert Duncan, Emerson
NJ. Warner. Leon Samuels. Curtis Hillyer,
Edgar a. Kelly, Paul Mcdonald.
THE CoRINTHIAN REGATTA. = The
eighth annual regatta of the Cornthian
Yacht Club will be sailed on Memorial
day. Seawanhaka rules Will govern the
race. The first prizes will be yacht can
non and field glasses, and the second and
third classes will be well remem bered All
yachts to participate in the race will be re-
CURED to be at the lighthouses on the Goth
or 21st.
The RAILROAD WINS. = The Supreme
Court yesterday affirmed the decision Of
the lower court in granting the Southern
Pacific Company a noDsuit in the case of
Lewis n. Hager against the company.
Hager had been run into by train of the
defendant and suffered the loss of wagon
and horses. but he could not make a case
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