The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-02
the subject. It cost him lust ss5 and came

were shipped with him and since then
many valuable additions have been made.
A straight whist tournament will be
neld on the evenings of June 3, 10, IL and
tracing more than ordinary interest, is to
be played on Wednesday afternoons, June
8, II, 10 and 26.
One OF the club members has just re-
celyed, directly from "Cavend1sh," the
proof sheets of the twenty-seeond edition
OF ''Oavendish on Whist" The work will
not be on sale for several months and con-
sequently the proof sheets are highly
priced.
Gardeners Job Vacant.
Old John Cunningham, the City Hall
Park gardener, has laid aside the rusty
hoeblade and will take a rest. Since the
new administration. old John duties have
been so arduous that he had decided to
give somebody else chance at his job.
The cause of Cunningham's increase of
duty is all due, he says, to the new Mayor
Immediately upon taking his office, Mayor
Davie ordered all outdoor meetings that
had previously been held on the public
thoroughfares TO take place In the public
park If at all.
There were the Salvation Army, the
Holiness Band, the politicians and the
street fakirs, who nightly held forth.
They all adjourned to the park, tramped
cigarette boxes, cigar stumps, peanut bags,
etc., strewn about. 1t was too much for
the aged gardener to pick up all these and
straighten out his rose bushes every morn
ing and so he concluded that the best way
to get out of it was to resign. The old
gardener is one of the most familiar char
acters about the City Hall, having been
there for many years.
Lamson Divorce Case.
Mr. and Mrs George Lamson, whose d.
vorce suit has been on trial for some time
past, were on the stand in Judge Greene S
court yesterday.
The plaintiff took the stand and told of
his wife's moving mania," and also of
her tendency to contract bills without
knowing how they were to be paid. He
detailed at length the various little griev-
ances that caused unpleasant disputes.
James Largan said that he was Lamson' s
bookkeeper and that he once heard his
employer call his wife hound. The wife
replied. "Tl show you that am blood
hound"
After examining numerous witnesses,
the case was adjourned until Monday
Lamson is a well-knewn auctioneer.
To Encourage Home Industry.
An address has been issued by w. A.
Kenny, J. ?. Taylor, G. G. Nordhausen, c.
l.. Smith and G. r. Root, committee of
the Board of Trade, to the merchants and
manufacturers of this city, for a meeting
to be held at the Council chambers next
Tuesday evening. The object of the meet
ing is to devise ways and means for en-
couraging home industry, and the issuing
of the circular was prompted by COM
munication from the Manufacturers and
Producers Association of California, who
desire the cooperation OF the citizens OF
Oakland in this respect. The circular con-
cludes:
There will be a committee from the Mann.
facturers' and Producers Association present
for the purpose of explaining the advantages
OF their organization. The necessity for all
interested parties to make an earnest and
determined effort looking to the purchase and
use OF those articles made or produced in Cali
fornia is evident.
Bunker Hill.
The anniversary of the battle of Bunker
Hill will be celebrated in Sunol on the 18th
inst. A. Moore, president of the Bunker
Hill Society of Alameda, will preside at
the celebration, and Major E. A Sherman,
with others from this city, will take part.
A liberty tree planting, connected with
the deposition of earth from noted histori-
cal places of this country, will take place
under the direction of Major Sherman.
Police Officer Rand of Oakland will fire
off the old cannon which has done duty in
the early celebrations of the anniversary
u IL.
Captured the Right Man.
Jailer Al White, who left on Friday for
Reno, New, arrived there yesterday and
positively identified Hickey, the Oakland
jailLreaker, who had been arrested and
held for Identification. He telegraphed
upon his arrival, Hickey will come with
me. Leave at 80" This will bring them
here to-day.
Jailer White was expected to inspect the
remains of the tramp killed in the wreck
at Reno and see if he could identify him.
clews and hope within a few days to have
all of Hickey's accomplices behind the
bars.
University Ordination.
Asa NJ. Bradley of Oakland will be Or
dained in the Universalist ministry to-day
at IL A. NJ. at the First Universalist Church,
on West street, between Eleventh and
Twelfth. Rev. S. Goodenough will preach
the ordination sermon upon "The Church
Ada C. Bowles, Rev. J. n. Parker and
Rev. George B. Allen will assist in the SER
vices.
The Carpenters Union.
The Oakland carpenters are beginning to
attract attention. A meeting is called for
June Is, when it is thought the old union,
which was disbanded some time ago, will
be reOrganlZed. Ii. IL. MalSDury, who IS
the district organizer of the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, is at the head of the affair.
Cycling Bankers.
Messrs. Sam Breck Jr., Fred Allardt,
Charles Townsend, w. FL. Limert, j. Y.
Eccleston, ]. Ainsworth and several other
young bank employees of Oakland started
on bicycle run to San Jose and Mount
Hamilton yesterday and will return this
afternoon.
Delinquent Taxes.
The delinquent tax list for 1895 amounts
to $24, S62 %, of which SIT 1893 20 is the
railroad taxes under dispute, leaving ST.
649 03 for the regular delinquency. In all
there will be advertised 645 pieces of prop
erty, the cost being so cents for each de-
scription.
Chinaman Arrested for Murder.
All Ching was arrested in Berkeley yes
terday by Constable Koch ON the informa-
ton of a brother Celestial, who said that
Ching was wanted for murder committed
in Solano County in 1891. The prisoner
was brought to the County Jail.