The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-17


Smell Seminary Graduates.
Twelve bright young ladies graduated
from the Smell Seminary last evening.
Commencement exercises were held in the
First Congregational Church, which had
been very lastly decorated for the &C.
casion: The programme was as follows:
Organ voluntary, Mr.: II. L. Mansfield;
prayer. j. K. Mclean, D;D.; song e? "Suvre s
T ss depx Beus e. asy sG Mss
Sophie Newland, accompanies Miss Bessie d.
Wall; piano solo, selections from ~, the "CaTna.
-@c c S aChiarina," ''Reconnaissance,"
.sMarche des Davidsbundler contre les Philis-
tins" Nellie Mae cIessler Ppptl Of F zech;
ard5. ib) aDie Bakehrte' (Goethe-Max
strayne), Eugenia 10y, pupil OF Francis Stuart;
eddres Literary JGagmentsi
Ho6d De f Ksve sS5 snnss1 aSs5
Leah Harris, s4, Fidelia Katz, Helen Tuohy,
of Miss Theresa Sherwoodl; song, (al my Lad
die" (Neidlinger, o. Woodland serenade,"'
{Mascheroni) Harriet Harriet . Roberts. pupils Of
Mascagni, Jean Mary Hush, '93 pupil of Sig
mund Beel), accompanies Florence w. Hush,
"a; presentation of diplomas, &. B. Smell.
The subjects of the essays written by the
members of the graduating class are:
"From School Life to Lies school," Horton
bdII6I, EdSb OdklduQ, ''NOTkS Oh flCtlOQ,'
Melita Bennett, Alameda; ais Music the High
est Art?'' Nellie Mae Cressy, Cedarville, Cal. !;
illusions" Beatrice Cecilia Curtiss, Oakland
Adeline Elizabeth Henry, ChilIcothe, No. ;
Footprints in the Sand of Time" Maud Ernes-
tine Root, Oakland; Bells" Margaret sophro-
Irene corrinne UP, San Francisco; "whisper-
ings OF Nature" Anne Marie Won Ahnen, Cas-
par, Cal; Twilight" Milicent Frances Wheat
on, East Oakland; "All the Worlds a Stage"
Dtlettanism," Florence White, Tacoma.
For Good Roads.
At the meeting of the Good Roads Asso-
citation of Alameda County last evening J.
Britton was elected president and E. B.
Jerome vice-president by reclamation, to
serve for the ensuing year. No more Off
GERS were elected for the reason that it was
deemed advisable to gain a membership
representative of the various townships of
the county and the various wards of the
CITY before proc eeding further.
Vice-President Jerome, who presided,
appointed the following members to serve
as an executive committee for the ensuing
two months, or until the full committee of
twenty-one members is appointed: P. W.
Bellingal, George II. Strong, E. @. Ses-
sions, A. P. Swain, A. L. Black, Seth
Mann and L. G. Burpee.
The chair appointed George A. Faulkner,
F. l. Vassault and ]. D. Gallowe a COM
mittee to attend the good-roads meeting of
the Merchants Association of San Fran
cisco. which takes place May 20.
Messrs. Lyon, Sessions and Hardy were
appointed committee to call on the Board
of Supervisors in conjunction with the
Merchants Exchange committee at their
next meeting and urge the building of a
good road to connect Alameda and Contra
Costa counties.
No Bond Premiums.
Oakland will suffer by the same law
that has served to deplete Los Angeles
revenue from the sale Of her new issue of
school bonds. Oakland s school bond issue
OF 1882 will expire October 1 of this year.
and were it not for the new State law that
has caused all the trouble in Los Angeles,
Oakland might dispose of the rounding
bonds at public auction, which would
mean an added revenue TO the city of sew
eral thousand dollars. Los Angeles lost
a premium of $40, 600 by the operation of
the new law, but Oakland's loss on bonds
for $l40, 900 will be considerably less. The
pernicious clause in the new law is that
posed of to the brokers before the old
bondholders have had the refusal of them.
1t reads:
Said bonds shall not be disposed of in any
manner except in exchange for outstanding
bonds for the reminding of which they are au-
holder of such outstanding bonds refuses to
exchange any bonds held by him for such re-
funding bonds a sufficient number OF
refunding bonds may be sold in the manner
provided - for not less than the face
value thereof.
The new law is an amendment to section
l of ian act relating to the sales and re-
funding of bonds" that was approved
March 1, 1893. The amendment gives the
City Council power to issue refunding
l. de rrif b., - Ill L
1t is thought that the phase of the law will
nearly, if not quite, save enough in the
way of election expenses to recompense
Oakland for what she expected to realize
as premium on the new bonds.
win Be Test Case.
A test case is to be made of the refusal OF
City Clerk Tompkins to recognize the Gre
dentials of III. B. Wayne, who was ap-
pointed City Wharfneer of Grove-street
wharf by the Board of Public Works.
Mayor Davie believes that section II of
the city charter defines the position of the
board in relation to the harbor and water
front. It reads as follows:
The board shall have special charge, superin-
tendence and control, subject to such ordi-
nances as the Council may from time to time
adopt, OF the harbor and water front.
"Tn my opinion" said the Mayor, "this
places the Board of Public Works of Oak
-uho oh INC SAINT lOOLiuS dS buc DOdTu Oh
Harbor Commissioners of San Francisco
The board made this appointment for the
specific purpose of bringing to focus the
question of the powers OF the board. The
wharf needed some one to look out for it
and prevent its use without the city getting
revenue therefrom, and Mr.. Wayne was
appointed"
Collins on Trial.
The trial. of Michael Collins, the aged
slayer OF Philip Boogar. was begun before
Judge Frick yesterday, the entire day be-
ing consumed in efforts to get a jury.
Collins Is the father of Boogar's youthful
widow, and shot his son-in-law in conse-
quence OF trouble over divorce proceed
lngs which Boogar began against his wife
after short period Of connubial bliss.
From the questions propounded to the
taiesmen. by Attorney George A. knight,
who represents the defendant, it is evident
that the contention viii be that Collins
was mentally incompetent. and that he
| acted In seif-defense when he shot Boogar.
The case was put over until next Tues
Gay IN order to obtain a new venire of
lurymen from outside the CITY, whore the
case is not SO well known.