The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-04
A LETTER TO c. F. CROKER.
The Way Mrs. Schwebs Lost Her
False Teeth.
PUSHING THE WATER WORKS.
The Whitney Company and Its
Creditors-TheS Superintendent
of Cemetery Resigns.

Board of Supervisors yesterday morning,
which body had resolved itself into COM
mittee of the whole for the purpose of
taking some action looking 10 the finding
of Work for the idle.
Rev. Father McNally read the following
petition, which his committee had drawn
up, and which was readily signed by all
the Sup ervisOrs. The petition reads:
c. F. Croker Esq, San Francisco CAL
DEAR SIR: We, the Supervisors OF Alameda
County, and the committee for the relief of the
unemployed laborers and mechanics OF Oak
land. respectfully ask you TO so arrange IL with
those in charge OF the Southern Pacific Rail.
road as TO begin work without further delay on
the street railI Dads for Which the said Super
yisors granted franchises to your company some
considerable time ago. these franchises will
expire before very long, and therefore The
necessity OF beginning aud completing he work
very soon. We ask You 10 begin on these
streets at once, II 1t be at all possible. as we
have over thousand men sadly. very sadly, in
need OF The labor which The complying with the
conditions Of your franchises at This time would
open up for them.
We request an answer without sny unneces-
sary delay, as the poor people are clamoring
for WoIk. we ask you also TO give this work
solely and absolutely 10 The people of Oakland
and Alameda County.
All our citizens are equally interested with
Us In the effect OF this petition, and, feeling that
you, too. are In sympathy. we hope for prompt
ana favorable reply. Respectfully,
Bart Nor gan, Hiram Bailey. ID. w Martin, j.
c. Plunkett, w. S. PelouZe, Supervisors.
+. ). Chapman. NJ. Frledl ander, Rev. J. r.
McNally, j. b. McChesney, j. l.. Lyon, q. w.
Hennlng, committee.
Professor McChesney made a motion
that the following gentlemen be appointed
n committee TO present the petition TO Mr.
Crocker: Supervisors Pelouze. Plunkett
and Martin, and Revs. Chapman, McNally
and RABBI Friedlauder. The motion was
adopted.
The opinion of the District Attorney
having been given to the effect that de-
pleted road funds could be replenished by
transfer of money from the general fund,
the board decided to transfer $1,000 from
the general fund to the Temescal road
fund. to be USED in cutting the hill on
Broadway, between Booth and Moss
streets.
In the case of the Claremont road fund
$500 was transferred 10 it and like
amount was put IN the Piedmont road
fund.
This makes $1,000 in all for immediate
use.
Rev. Father McNally said his committee
has expected $4,000. Rev. DR.. Chapman
also thought that a great deal of this
amount would 60 to feed horses and not
men. and just now they were looking for
food for men.
The Supervisors promised to do better
later on, but at present they could take no
more out of the fund
The old Contra Costa road matter again
came mp at this point but no action was
taken regarding il.
The City Council at its last meeting
transferred 5000 from the general to the
street fund, and this. with the other
amounts already subscribed, will 90 far
toward helping the men clamorlng for
work.
Yesterday morning the sidewalk in front
of the City Hall was crowded with men
who were anxious 10 see if their names
were on the list Of 100 which had been
drawn for three days work, beginning
this morning. and who are to take the
place OF the 100 put to work three days
since.
Knocked Out Her False Teeth.
The divorce case Of Schwebs VS.. Schwebs
is decidedly sensational one and is a.
tracing great crowd in Judge Ogden's
courtroom.
The Schwebs were married in 1887, but
IL was not long after that, according ~
pretty Mrs. Schweb's story, that her hus-
band began TO drink and they began 10
quarrel. and then came her husbands
abuse of her. which. Mrs. Schwebs says,
was something awful"
On one occasion he choked her and
struck her in the mouth and knocked two
of her teeth out. On cross-examnation she
admitted, hesitatngly, that they were
a
when he was holding her down on a
lounge, where he had thrown her "I'd
kill You if l wasn't afraid I'd hang for it,"
Mrs. Schwebs denied on cross-examina-
ton that she had ever Teen arrested for
adultery OF for drunkenness at a house in
West Oakland and kept by a man named
Smith.
Her testimony was c0rrOboroted by Mrs.
Carson, Rudolph Miners and a brakeman
named Cation as 10 acts of cruelty. II.
Smith asserted that the house he kept and
in which Mrs. Schwebs had room was a
respectable one.
In the afternoon Officer Keefe was put
on the stand ana stated that he arrested
Mrs. Schwebs for drunkenness, and that
she lived n tie house under the name of
May Wilson. He also stated that the
reputation of the house was bad.
The trial will go on to-day.
There are accusations on both sides of
this case. The wife brought suit for
divorce on the ground of cruelty, and the
husband answered in q cross-complaint in
which he charges misconduct.
Mrs. Shrubs Conduct.
Isadore Strub. a baker of Santa Clara.
better known as the husband of the fam
Gus "Struble" OF the Webb divorce case,
proposes bringing action for divorce,
Strub says the conduct of his wife in
testifying against her best friend, Mrs.
Ne0o, ana insisting upon mixing herself
up in the public scandal, is such that his
Affection has survived number of
hard knocks already, has turned to gall
and wormwOod. So much has Mr.. Strub
been : ut out by the recent conduct of mis-
wife that he felt called upon to give up
his position in Santa Clara, and is now in
consultation with attorneys in San Fran
cisco with regard to the best proceedings
TO adopt.
Strub claims that his wife has cost him
much trouble in the past and has been the
cause of his sacrificing several good posi-
tions.
The couple have been married thirty
years, and Mrs. StTub has made consider
able money practcing her vocation of
palmistry. She did business in San Fran
cisco under the name of Mime. Bushnell.
Creditors at Work.
Creditors Of the Whitney Standard and
Oakland Transfer Company. forty in all
met Yesterday afternoon at the Office of K.
NJ. Fitzgerald to consider some plan of
action
I. l.. Prather of the Union National
Bank was elected chairman. Thomas
Moran, Z. G. Boswell, George Morrow, Il.
j. Beeby and George p. McNear were ap-
pointed a committee to examine into the