The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-21

moved, is the pure love of malicious mis-
chief, as neither the relatives of those
whose graves have been damaged nor the
congregation to whom the cemetery be-
longs are aware of having enemies who
would resort to such dastardly means of
revenge.
Two plots in particular showed signs OF
the miscreant's attention when the ceme-
terry was visited yesterday. They were
those owned by the LeVison. and Wolf fam
lilies respectively.
In the former the two small shafts mark
ing the last resting place OF the two chill
dren of Hyman Levison, deceased, and
Emma Levison were overturned and
broken from their sockets. Fortunately
both fell forward on the mounds left when
the graves were filled in and were thus
saved from serious damage. Had one of
them fallen half an inch more to one side
the handsome carved ornament which
sets off the top of it would have been shat
tered by coming in contact with the short
piece of marble set at the foot of the grave.
AS soon as Mr.. Goldwater became aware
of what had taken place Sunday night he
sent word to Mrs. Levison, and the widow
yesterday paid visit to the desecrated
tomb of her husband and children. The
sight of the demolition that had been
wrought on the sacred ground under
which her cherished dead lay was too
much for her fortltude, and she broke into
passion of tears that continued for some
time before she could be comforted. In
fact, it was only after she was assured that
no serious damage had been done to either
graves or tombstones that she took conso-
lation. AS the remains are to be shortly
removed to San Mateo, no attempt will be
made to restore the tombstones to their
former position.
More serious, however, was the result of
the vandal's visit to the tomb of Caspar
Wolf, the husband of Hannah Wolf. Here
the richly carved marble slab, about four
feet in height and two in width, had been
thrown down and the top for the entire
width of the stone broken off. The vase
like ornament which crowned it had also
been shattered while the socket or base
was so badly dam aged that it will have to
be replaced with new one.
This is the third time that such an I'M
holy invasion of the cemetery has been
made. On the two former occasions it
was deemed advisable to keep the matter
private, but the congregation has now de-
termined to lose no effort to bring about
the detection and punishment of the Gull
prits. With this purpose in view they
caused the following advertisement to be
inserted in Yesterdays CALL:
$500 HEWAFe TTbk III RAR RE 4HE
northeast corner Post and Taylor sts.. for informa
ton hat viii lead to the arrest and conviction OF
the persons who threw down and destroyed num-
her of tombstones in tie Nineteenth street Gene
terry on the evening of August 18 last. NJ. GOLD
WATER, Chairman ofCemetery.
The people living in the neighborhood
have expressed their deep indignation over
the matter and have volunteered their aid
in the detection of the miscreants.
It is expected that the work of trans
ferring the bodies to the San Mateo ceme-
terry, which was begun last November,
will be completed in about two months.
About dozen men are kept continuously at
work in each cemetery.
All the damage that has been done will
be made good by the congregation.