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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
THREE MEN IN A BUGGY,
They Have Committed Several
Daring BurglarieS in
the Mission.
Men Specially Detailed In Plain
Clothes From the Diff
ferent Stations.

The police and detectives are securing
the Mission in search of three men in a
buggy who have given evidence of extra
ordinary skill in committing burglaries.
Their modus operandi is to drive up to a
house in the early morning. Two of them
leave the buggy and effect an entrance to
the house while the other remains outside
in the buggy on guard and ready to give
the alarm when danger of discovery APP
proaches.
Sunday morning the residence of James
D. Phelan, corner of Valencia and Seven
tenth streets. was entered and several
articles of iewelry and $50 in coin were
stolen. Before leaving the house the
burglars partook of hearty meal in the
kitchen.
Wednesday morning about O'Clock
they entered the hou Sc of William Metz
ner, 1921 Guerrero street. After leaving
the doors open they went through the diff
ferent rooms and secured a number OF
articles of jewelry. They then went to the
kitchen and partook of hearty breakfast
while the family were sleeping soundly
upst airs.
The approach of a miikman's cart made
them take a more hurried departure than
thew intended. But they did not go far,
as they bestowed their attentions upon the
residence of Eugene P. Murphy. on the
corner of Twenty-fifth and Guerrero
streets. They succeeded in making an
entrance in their usual way and left with a
number of valuable articles.
At the Metzner residence they were
foolish enough to leave Jimmy" behind
them. The police got possession of it. and
Yesterday it was taken to the Phelan resi-
dence and il fitted exactly the marks made
on the window there when used to force it
open to give them an entrance. This
satisfied the police that the burglaries were
done by the same three men who were
seen driving away from the Metzner resi-
dence in the buggy.
The police are making every possible
effort to arrest the three men and put an
end TO their depredations Several men
from the Southern and Seventeenth-street
nolice stations have for the past two or
three nights been patroling the streets in
the Mission in plain clothes, and as an in
centiye to them to capture the burglars
any officer who is fortunate enough to get
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gument for the contestants, occupying the
entire morning. Judge Coffey delivered
discharge to the jury in the afternoon, and
. at2:45o' clock the case was submitted to
the Jury.
- it was the general expectation that a
~ prompt verdict would be returned, but the
:: 1iry> had many specimens of handwriting
to study and some incidental issues in the
lease made the matter complicated.
+ ;lhe entire audience waited, momen-
. tarily expecting decision, throughout
..the afternoon.
=. At! s clock there was rap on the door
and the bailiff responded. rybody con-
'oluded that the case had been settled. bat
tire bailiff merely walked to the jury-box,
picked up an overcoat that had been lett
e.. there and returned to the iury-room with It:
- 'Thev are sending for their blankets, ="
remarked Judge Coffey, and some OF the
spectators moved for the door.
- At 6: o'clock an adjournment for two
hours was ordered, and the jury suspended
its work to dine.
: The unexpected delay in the jury's re-
turn of verdict was apparently surprise
to everybody about the court, for the gen.
eral opinion had been that there was no
showing at all on the charge of forgery.
On:that account the interests of the Fair
estate were brought up in the conversation
aof many of the groups that formed IN the
corridors, and prophecies were MADE THAT
ali agreement in favor of Mrs. Hasklns
would never be reached.
The long wait at evening added to the
suggestions of the conversation, but the
propn ostications were not well founded.
AT 9 o'clock the jury filed into the court
room, but no decision had been reached
Information was wanted. Some OF the
Jurors had got mixed M on the arguments
and instructions, and they wanted their
ideas Strengthened out.
Judge Coffey gave the information, and
the Jury retired once more.
Then Mrs. Haskins' friends settled down
for another long wait. Most of these were
ladies who are neighbors to Mrs. Hasklns,
and thew were so interested in the case
that thew intended to wait till midnight II
a verdict was not brought in.
Margaret Craven was there, and she oe-
clared that if the case did not end last
night she would have to give up her Stock
well engagement Tor MASKS and Faces"
next week, for she had not devoted two
minutes to either the lines or her cos
tunes.
At 1920 o'clock there was another an
nouncement of the jury's desire 10
be heard. The twelve men resumed
their seats and Foreman Charles 3. Eaton
announced a verdict that the Will is
genuine. The jurors who gave that YER
dict. are. Charles S. Eaton, Patrick Q.
Aherne, Leopold Diamant, James ii.
Nolan, Edmund Lauterbach, s. s. Frank
lin, Henry Euler, Louis Saroni, Pierre
Dreydemi and William Hencke.
T. f. House and E. A. Huber were
opposed.
The will of 1888 is declared not to be the
last that Mr.. Haskins wrote, but the later
one is merely republication and does not
affect the case.
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hing yet offered, or that we could hope to

UnlnS yet OlIereu, OF THAT we Coulu nope 10
get.
81 have had maps of the two properties
made and estimates of the cost of grading
carefully computed. 1t would cost the
State not less than 100000 to place the
Potrero site in condition for the buildings,
while on the other hand the Sutro proper
ty, or what is needed at present, can be
graded and filled in for $4,000 or less. In
fact | would take it for that and make
money out of it. There are other possible
expenses, which would make the center
site cost the State anywhere from 100000
to $150, 900 without a lick of work being
done toward putting up the buildings.
For instance, in order to make this prop
erty available, it would be necessary to
close up two streets, York and Hampshire,
and it is not by any means certain that
this can be done without considerable cost.
The Supervisors might order them closed,
but the people have some rights and it is
questionable If an objection would not be
sustained by the court"
do you know exactly how General J.
F. Houghton, George T. Marye and A. S.
Hallldie, representing the Board of Re-
gents, stand as regards the Potrero and
CALL representative.
81 am hardly prepared to state posi-
lively" was the cautious reply. II am
very much afraid that they favor the Po-
trero property. Mind, do not state this
as an absolute fact, but merely as an opin-
ion gathered from their talk, and the po-
sition assumed by them at various times,
and l would not pretend to say that they
are influenced by the Southern Pacific, for
/ accord to them the same disinterested
motives as inspire the majority of the COM
mittee in favoring the Sutro site. There
is a common belief, however, that the rail-
road is exerting every means in their
power to defeat the Sutro site, though just
where this influence is being expended
none of the committee would be willing to
say even if we knew
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
each event, all of which will be purchased
from the annex funds
A BURGLARS WORK.
The Residence of j. NJ. Chretien Robbed
of Case of Valuable Family


On Sunday evening, the 18th inst, the
residence of J. NJ. Chretien, s04 Bush
street, was entered by burglar during the
absence of the family, and the thief carried
away case of jewels and purse contain
ing $50 belonging to Mrs. Chretien. He
gained an entrance to the house by climb
ing up pillar of the balcony and stepping
through the open window into Mrs. Chre-
ITEMS room. The jewel-case, which he
found in a bureau drawer, contained a
large number of rings, pins, bracelets and
various trinkets, many of them old and
rare, and had been in Mrs. Chretien's
family for years. A number of them for
merly belonged to her mother, who died
several months ago. and were priceless
from the tender associations connected
with them. A peculiar trinket $50 years
old, an old-fashioned ieweled snuffbox,
and O gold watch and chain costing $500, a
graduating present to Mrs. Chretien, are
among the articles taken.
cat the very lowest estimate" said the
lady, yesterday, fthe iewelry was worth
over $500, but to me its value was much
greater. If l could only recover the arti-
cies which once belonged to NY mother 1
would be reconclled to my loss of the rest.
When we notified the detectives they we re
very anxious that nothing would be said
until they had found some clew of the jew
elry or burglar. We followed their advice
faithfully and / cannot imagine how the
news became public. have learned that
during our absence that evening three
suspicious characters were seen proving
around, looking at the houses in that
vicinity. Two of them must have watched
while the third man entered my resi-
dence."
The officers have found no clew of the
burglary nor of the stolen articles.
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THE WHITES SURVIVORS.
The Shipwrecked Sea1ers Receive the
Money Donated to Them.

The Shipwrecked Sea1ers Receive the
Money Donated to Them.
The money that was subscribed for the
benefit of the survivors of the ill-fated
sealing schooner G. G. White, that was
wrecked at Kodiak Island on April b. was
distributed yesterday at the office of the
Examiner. The story of the wreck and
the sufferings of those who escaped death
has been told repeatedly. The latter ar
rived from the north about ten days ago
and presented sorry appearance. E. w.
Balls lost both feet, E. J. Voisinat lost
five fingers, four others lost their toes and
Frank Sweeney was. rendered temporarily
blind.
Soon after the news of the wreck reached
this City AL White, who is well known on
the water front, started fund for the sur
vivors and subscribed So He requested
the Examiner to be the custodian of the
money and the paper generously added
$50. H. Liebes followed with 500,
]. D. Spreckels $50, the Merchants Elk
change $50, Louis Sloss $50. The fund ran
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
WATCHES CHEAP AND GOOD.
Women the Chief Victims of the Craze
to Possess a Good Timekeener.

Women the Chief Victims of the Craze
to Possess Good Timekeeper.
Good watches were probably never be-
fore nearly so cheap as they now are. You
may buy for less than $40 watch war
ranted to vary not more than few seconds
q month, says the New York Sun. The
silver in the case of watch never was an
important part of the cost of good time
keeper, and now that silver is so cheap
watch cases at wholesale are of trifing
cost The matchmaking business has been
greatly subdivided. Crystals are made at
one place, cases at another and works at
still another. There is a growing belief
among men of moderate means that a
gold watch is vanity and that the sole
important thing in watch is the works
These were never so good and so cheap as
now.
The number of men who carry cheap
watches is constantly on the increase The
watch clubs of some years ago could hardly
succeed now, because men are less under
the fetch of the gold watch than formerly.
Many men lay aside their gold watches,
heirlooms, gifts and the like and carry
good timekeepers that cost only one-tenth
as much. At the same time some men of
much less means are willing to save and
deny themselves in order to buv gold
watches. The well-to-do merchant is per-
haps more likely to carry a gold watch
than the professional man OF ten times his
income.
There are still in use few old key
winding silver watches of the sort that be-
gan to disappear with the advent of the
stem winders. Many of these are excel
lent timekeepers. They cost when new
from $25 to $50, and have stood the wear of
quarter of a century. They are better
than the SIS and Sc stem winders freely
offered now, though the key-winders
bring almost nothing in exchange. 1t
would take half dozen good timekeeping
silver-cased key-winders to buy one of the
cheap stem-winders. The dial of the
modern cheap watch is usually mum bered
in Arabic instead of Roman numerals, and
any watch bearing the latter is usually far
from new.
Women still cling to the gold watch,
and among the most expensive watches
are those made in Switzerland for women.
1t is not unusual for one of these small
and richly enameled affairs to cost $780,
and the prices run from that into the
thousands.
The gold-faced watch is such nuisance
that it is disappearing. The expensive
watches made for women are usually ex-
cellent timekeepers. There are, however,
many cheap and gaudy watches made in
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.sUTR0S GIFT FAVORED,
Majority of the Affiliated Col
ieges Committee In
dorse the Site.
HOW THE REGENTS STAND
DR.. Cole Gives a Few Pertinent
Facts Relative to the Work
Accomplished.

There is apparently no longer room to
doubt the presence and consequent infu-
ence of the Southern Pacific in the COM
mittee appointed to select site for the
affiliated colleges. The corporation did
not reveal its hand until Sutro came for
ward with his generous offer, when there
was an immediate scramble on the part OF
certain members of the committee to have
the Potrero site accepted.
First came objections to the way the
deed OF gift was drawn, the claim being set
up that there were too many strings at
tached to the proposition. When this was
done away with and the site rendered as
an absolute gift these same members en-
phatically stated that they would not con-
slider the gift unless the affiliated colleges
were given the site set apart for the Sutro
Library. The wording of the deed of gift
was accordingly altered and the committee
was consequently forced to a discussion
between that and the Potrero property.
1t was here that the Southern Pacific dealt
blow that for time promised to work
serious injury to the Sutro gift.
In the meantime the Southern Pacific,
or some one closely related to the COM
pany, was hard at work on the Potrero,
with view of placing it on an equal foot
ing as regards cost, with the Sutro site.
First, they asked the State to pay $4,000
for the property, the money to be used in
purchasing the lots owned by individuals
within the three blocks proposed. This
sum was reduced $50, 600, and an earnest
effort made at the time to gain the COM
mittee's acceptance of the same. The
plan did not work, however, and so the
subcommittee asked for an extension of
time, expressing the opinion that still
further reduction could be secured.
This committee made a report at the
meeting held Wednesday night, stating
that for $40 100 they could secure the prop
erty held by private citizens on York and
Hampshire streets. 1t was said that a
further reduction of $1,000 could be secured
If the committee were given little more
time, and for this reason it would ask that
no definite action be taken at that meet
ing. In spite of all this, however, there
was an evident desire on the part of the
committee to come to final vote, but out
of Difference to Judge Slack, the college of
law representative, who was absent, final
action was postponed for two weeks.
II am sick, tired and disguised with the
whole business" said DR.. Beverly Cole yes
terday, "and I shall make it point to
bring the matter to a head at the next
meeting. The majority of the committee
are in favor of Sutro's offer, though Tam
unwilling to give their names at present.
At first l was opposed to this property, be-
cause of the conditions surrounding the
deed of gift, but as these Objectionable
features have been removed one after the
other consider it vastly superior to any
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VICTORY FOR THE WIDOW
Mrs. Haskins Is INDICATED
and She Will Retain the
Property.
DELIBERATIoN OF THE JURY.
Hours of Waiting That Caused Spec
ulations Concerning the Fair
Interests.

The contest for the James s. Haskins
estate was ended in Judge Coffey's depart
ment Of the Superior Court last night, and
the jury declared that the disputed will is
genuine
O = This verdict carries with it the declara-
ton that the eleven wills, on paper and on
boards, are all genuine, and none of the
: charges made by the nephews have been
supported. Mrs. Haskins, against whom
the. charges were implied, is vindicated,
though the attorneys for the contestants
DECLARED in court that they made no accu-
sation of forgery.
: Attorney Ford delivered a powerful ar
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
Invented the Barometer.

The barometer was invented by Tori
cell, a pupil of Galilei, in 1913. In at
tempting to pump water from very deep
well near Florence he found that in spite
of all his efforts the liquid would rise in
the pump stock only 80 feet. This set the
young scientist to thinking, and as he
could not account for the phenomenon in
any other way he was not slow in attribut-
ing it to atmospheric pressure. He argued
that water would rise in vacuum only
to such height as would render the
downward pressure or weight of the col
umn of water just equal to the atmos-
pheric pressure, and further that should a
heavier fluid be used the height OF the col
umn could be much reduced. To prove
this he selected glass tube four feet long,
and after sealing one end filled it with
mercury and then inverted it in basin
containing quantity of the same peculiar
LIQUID. The column in the tube quickly fell
to height of nearly thirty inches above
the mercury in the basin, leaving in the
top of the tube a vacuum, which is the
most perfect that has ever been obtained,
and which is to this day called the Tor
ricelli vacuum in honor of the dlscoverer.
The name of the instrument means s'air
measure" and it, fundamental principles
cannot be better illustrated than by the
above-described experiment. - st. Louis
Republican.
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THE STREETS OF THE FUTURE
All Light Carts to Disappear From City
ThOroughfareA.

All Light Carts to Disappear From City
Thoroughfares.
In an interesting report on the hygienic
virtues and shortcomings of wood pave
ment, DR.. Blythe, the health officer for
Marylebone, refers to asphalt, which he is
inclined to prefer on the ground of it's be-
ing less capable of absorbing the i'm
purities of busy thoroughfare. It's
chief draw back, however, as he observes,
is it's noisiness. The sharp pit pat
of the horses hoofs is almost as an
noying as the rattle and roar of the
traffic over granite cubes. "In the near
future, however, when that unfortunate
locomotive act, 1865, is repealed and the
great industry in self-propelling carriages
by compressed air, by petroleum and cleo
tricity, is in full swing, the hanson cab,
the omnibus and all lights will disappear
from the streets, motors in the long run
being much cheaper and more convenient;
in that happy time this objection against
asphalt will not hold good. A London
from which the horse has eliminated for
draught purposes will have lost pictur-
esque feature of its opan-air life. On the
other hand, the winters snow and ice and
the greasy streets, which we have in the
last few months almost forgotten, cannot
distress road locomotive as they can our
four-footed servants. london Telegraph.
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answer to the craze for watches as orna-
ments, and these cannot so we'll be de-
pended upon. Watches that have more or
less gold in the case are very cheap now.
Women of all sorts have them, and it is
not unusual to see one in the hands of a
maid-servant. Snowy watches are made
to be given as prizes for those that play
the hundred and one gambling devices set
up in saloons. Some saloon-keepers get
watches of the same sort and offer them as
prizes for the man getting a certain num-
bered ticket-a ticket being given out with
every drink sold. These watches are al
ways advertised as gold. Their cheapness
is proclaimed in the character of the deco
ration, which is crudely elaborate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-23
IT'S MAIDEN TOURNAMENT
First Event to Be Given by the Swim
ming Annex to the Olympic
Club.

The swimming annex of the Olympic
Club is preparing to give its first tourna-
ment as soon as the excitement of the
election passes. The entries will be linn
tied to members of the annex and to mem
bers who are in good standing with their
annex dues. Some entries have been re-
ceived so far, but as the matter has not
been made public around the club, there
are not many.
So far as it is at present outlined the
programme will be as follows:
First event-6O-yard handicap race. C. Mel.
rose, O. Cradle and F. Nj. Wheaton, scratch
George S. McComb, two seconds; Archie Tay-
lor, three seconds; w. Taylor and ]. Boyle, five
seconds; j. Coffroth, six seconds; f. Smith,
seven seconds.
Second event-1O0yard handicap race.
Third event-Life-preserve race.
Fourth event-Tub-pushingr race.
Fifth event-50-yard swim on the back.
Sixth event-Neatest straight dive, handicap
ten points to govern. Cradle, minus three
points handicap; King and McComb, minus
two; Wheaton, minus two; all others scratch.
Seventh event-Slow race, last in to win.
Eighth event-Swim under water; best men
to be handicapped by being tied to life-pre'
servers.
Ninth event-Neatest dive, go as you please
ten points to govern. McComb, Wheaton and
J. P. jackson minus three points handicap
Healey and Taylor minus 2, C. B. Ring minus
one.
Tenth event-Diving for objects blindfolded
Eleventh event-50-yard race across narrow
diameter of the tank.
Twelfth event-Tug of war.
Thirteenth event-Submersion time contest
The programme for the evening will con-
clude with tug of war between teams Of
six and an exhibition of fancy diving. the
entries for which will include Dana
Thompson, Dan Green, Ed Mowry, E.
Stole. Matt Gay and Harry Clark, the
clubs swimming instructor.
There will be first ana second prizes in
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Corrupting Novels.

The abnormal, sensual, depraved art and
literature of Europe is not new in its brutal
essence. 1t has existed as long as art and
letters. There never was time when the
republic of letters did not possess its crimi-
nal class, men and women who offend
against all the laws of beauty and purity,
and therefore against the supreme law of
art. 1t seems that in England, at all events,
these criminals have at last got into good
society and they are pouring their filth into
ears that were made to listen to better
things. There was a long period in the his
tory of English letters when those who
presented the moral slums in their books
or pictures worked frankly for the de-
PRAYED. The evil thing of which Mr.. Quill
ter and those who agree with him COM
plain is that the veil is Withdrawn and
life is worthy OF presentation in work of
art, and that art must not only deal with
the truth, but with all truth.
Art has no such function. Art may Of
feDd less when it breaches or tells story,
or is literary, than when it tells in books
the truth that men and women do not talk
about with one another, or when it pre-
sents life and discusses subjects that are
hideous, revolving and feshly. There is
no more corrupting thing in the world
than story of depravity told
simply because it presents a phase
OF life that really exists. When q
book with such a story goes into a
pure household where there are young and
innocent girls its author commits crime
against that which is loveliest.and best in
all the world, and he earns the contempt
and anger of all good men and women.
The subjects of art should be beautiful and
elevating. We want nature and truth, but
we do not want nature in its meaner and
baser moods, nor truth which is a proper
object of police surveillance, unless, in
deed, the sodden truth is painted as the
black shadow of an otherwise beautiful
picture.-Harper's Weekly.