The morning call., 1894-03-26


and the banquet will take lace the night
following at the same place.
n fol owing will be the programme for
the opening reception:
Prayer. DIR. j.. X. Mclean; singing. Orpheus
Club; address OF welcome. Mayor Pardre; re.
spouse, Department Commanders; instrumental
music, church orchestra; address, w. ii. l..
Barnesi music, Orpheus Club.
The Relay Race.
The Acme Club of Oak land tried ont its
wheelmen to-day and selected tile ten
men who VIII join in the big relay race of
lO0 miles around the Bay of San Fran
cisco. which occurs on April next. The
lollowlng men entered The test race of ten
miles, which was held on the San Leandro
trisngle, aud The first ten are those chosen
u enter for the championship: Grant
Bell, .. Pirkaid, j. Howard, j. Kitchen
jr., X. Aylward, Theo Schlueter. A. Bed
bury, A. p. Swain, NJ. f. Rose. George
Faulkner. T. r. Hamilton. G. Brouilett, j.
.. WttmOre, l.. Cot u. William McDopald
ana y. Navet. As substitutes In case nf
sickness or for any other cause. +. K
Hamilton. &c rye Neece and Bert Lund
were chosen. The race was very pretty
one and proved recOrd-breaker, NJ. +.
hose doing the turn in 20 min. As sec. The
pest previous record for The distance is
81 min. 10 sec. BY coming in frs Rose
also wins the S25 gold medal offered
by the Abme CLUB. After Rose the other
nine men came In so nearly In a bunch
that II was hard to tell who was ahead.
Ihe timers for the test we're: M. A.
Whidden, +. w. Sharpe, n. A. Robinson,
9. Hannah and W. ). Hardie: scorers-J.
M. Polk. III. j. Snow aud s. T. Gemmel; !;
unplres-A. ). Black and Judge James
Delmas; starter, ID. c. Van Court The
Acme boys think they have a splendid
team anu they are going 10 make hard
Dgnt Tor the championship. Their CON-
petltors will be teams from the Bay
City Club, Olympic Club, California
Cyclers. Garden City Club, San Jose Road
Club and the Reliance of Oakland. The
latter club Will hold its test race Oh Sunday
next.
VIII Remember Evans.
There has been hobbliDg about Oakland
lor several days past a bTOad-shouldered
young fellow VINO will have rause all his
lie TO remember Evans and Sontag. His
name is Frederick Jackson, and he was of
the Gard party, which had the death fight
with the bandits at Stone corral.
In that fight jackson received Win
chester ball IN his lower left leg which
shattered the bone and caused him to lose
the leg. de resides in Shasta County, and
came To Oakland for the purpose Of getting
an artificial leg fitted on. He has his false
lie has been stopping at the residence of
detective Thacker, in East Oakland.
Biggest Run VT.
Sixty-fiye men applied for and were
granted lodgings at the City Prison Las
night. This is the biggest record of the
season. The number of applicants was
gradually growing less until this BODY of
men pit IN an a, pearance. They were
all dusty, grimy aud travel-stained. and
said tley had just arrived In a body from
down in The San Joaquin Valley. They
came mostly by the brake beam route.
Sheriff Mckillican was on hand as the
men were marched into their hunks 10 see
III he could recognize any of the men, but
they were all strangers to him. Each one
SAID be was looking for work. Generally
they are not of The class that the relief
committee for the unemployed is putting
on It's list.
Fredericks Victim.
Cashier Herrick, the victim OF the
desperate. William Fredericks, Nas buried
yesterday afternoon from the family resi-
dence at 1902 Twelfth street. Rev. DR..
Mclean of the First Congregational
Church. of which deceased was a membrr,
conducted the funeral services, whluh were
private, only family friends and relatives
attending. There were also services held
at the grave at Mountain View Cemetery.
The ToImie Concert.
The concert tonight at Fl 4milton Hall is
under the auspices of the S.. Cecilian Cmb,
OF which T"lmle is the instructor. The
club consists of twelve young ladiee, who
are TO attend in body dressed in white.