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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-25
Grand Opera-House,

1.-THE Pace That Kills." which was produced
at Morosco's Opera-house last night, is g
thoroughly sporting play, the action of which
is laid principally at Aintree, one of the grea,
English racecourses. One of the chief scenes
represents the sale at auction of some thorough.
bred stock, when the competition is had for 9
thoroughbred mare, Venus, Miss Hall as Kate
scene represents the racetrack, where after an
exciting race Venus wins.
Frank Hatch made quite hit last night as
the Hebrew money-lender OVERLOOKING with
the milk of human kindness. The comic parts
were in the hands of Charles Swain and Julia
the rehearsal for the performance of "Mazeppa''
convulsed the spectators with laughter. George
Montserrat played the gentlemanly villain
with good deal of tact, and all the other parts
were well sustained.
1.-THE Aloasar.
large audience was present at the Alcazar
when the star appeared he was greeted with
such prolonged applause that the action of the
play was interrupted for some minutes.
"Hearts and Homes was the drama in
which he had elected to give his initial
performance with the Daily Company. II
affords him an opportunity of displaying
great versatility, as his role presents diverse
schoolmaster of the first act, pleading for "hali
pint" and spouting his neutrality-suspicious.,
was an admirable piece of acting. In the Sec
ond act Dampier was supposed to have tried
the stage and failed, and his performance OF
the crushed tragedian was equally as finished.
His succeeding approximations also marked
the finished artist.
The Daily Company afforded Dampier good
support and the whole performance was com.
plete success.
The herald., 1895-03-01
THE HUNTINGTON OCTOPUS
Market Street in San Francisco to Fall
Next
The Railroad viii Make Il an Electra
Highway and Death viii Hold Sway
In the Bay City

San Francisco, Feb. 2s.-According to
the Examiner there is a probability that
Market street will soon be converted into
a thoroughfare for electric railways. The
Market Street Railroad company is at
present engaged in laying,a new track
along the line Of the cable road and the
new rails are being wired for an electric
current. The company denies that there
is any intention t. run electric cars and
states that the rails are being wired sim
ply to complete the circuit Of the Turk
street road.
The street committee of the board of
supervisors has agreed to report favorablv
the application Of the Market Street rail-
road for franchise to operate an electric
line on part of Church street. This is
the same street that was seized during the
night by the railroad company which tore
up the thoroughfare and laid rails. The
work was only stopped by the arrest Of
the workmen and the threatened arrest of
the heads OF the company. A number of
property owners appeared and protested
against the granting of the franchise UNI
less the road was operated on the whole
length of the street.
The herald., 1895-03-01
PLEADING THE BABY ACT

Section 4S9 of the Civil Code provide S
for the fixing and publication by railroad
corporations OF their rates for fares and
freightage from one station to another
within the state, and fixes the penalty for
overcharges. This consists in paying tn e
injured party treble the fare wrongfully
charged. Section 1870, among several pro-
visions, reads:
EVERY (railroad) ticket entities the hold
er thereof to ride on their passenger cars to
the station or depot OF destination, or any
intermediate station, and from any inter-
mediate station, to the depot of desti-
nation designated in the ticket, at any
time within six months thereafter" The
penalty for refusing to comply with this
section renders the Tending corporation
liable to penalty of 500, to go to the
person wronged.
The Southern Pacific did not like those
sections furthermore it ignored them
whenever SO inclined. DR.. Robinson of
Alameda insisted that he had rights
which even the great octopus of the Pr
cifc was bound to respect and one OF
these rights was that OF stopping over be-
tween Alameda and San Francisco when
he felt inclined to do so. Neither the
Southern Pacific nor DR.. Robinson would
give in, an the latter bro Ight number
OF suits against the railroad for violating
he statutes. The weaker vessel for a
wonder won them AMI the Supreme Court
affirmed the judgments.
But when it is matter of upholdng
the tyrannical prerogatives of monopoly,
and wronging the people of the state the
Southern Pacific has always one last ar
row in its CULVER 1t has its politicians,
a horde that never camps beyond the
sound of bugle call from Market and
Montgomery streets When justice cannot
be corrupted by bribery, there still re-
mains a chance to pack the Legislature
and procure special enactments to defeat
the will of the people.
Who will say that the act introduced to
render nugatory the Supreme Courts de-
cison III the case OF DR.. Robinson and
others against the Southern Pacific Com
pany, is not of that character? 1t is an
act to amend section 4S9 and to repeal en-
tirely section 400 of the Civil Code in re-
laton to railroad rates and railroad tick
cts, to go into effect imm ediatelv after it's
passage. The Southern Pacific wants no
fair contest 1t wants the right to do as
it chooses and when it chooses regardless
of others
The herald., 1895-03-01
The Long Looked for Engage
ment Occurs at Cacuta
CAPTAIN CROMWELL ON DECK
The Authorities at Costa RIGA Frustrate
an Invasion
Rebels Rendexvoused There and Secured
Arms-The Rebels Arc to Be Expelled
From the Country.

Washington, Feb. 2s.-The instruction
in Colombia after period of quietness,
seems to be about to come to q crisis.
The navy department tonight received
the following dispatch from Captain Crom-
well, commanding the cruiser Atlanta:
Colon, Feb. 2S.-An engagement is ex-
pected near Cacuta, Colombia.
(Signed) Cromwell.
Another dispatch says: 1.-THE authori-
ties of Costa Rica have just frustrated an
invasion of Colombia. 1t appears num-
Der of rebels having secured lot of arms
and vessels to transport them to that
country, assembled at Port Limon when
the matter was brought to the attention
of the Costa Rican authorities. The lat
ter then notified the rebels that force
would be employed, if necessary to pre-
vent the sailing and the attempted inva-
sion was abandoned.
The officials OF Port Limon are now I'M
derstood to be in communication with
the Government Of Costa Rica, and the
expulsion Of Colombian rebels from the
territory of that Republic is threatened.
The herald., 1895-03-01
COPYRIGHTED BROWNIES
OAKLAND ENQUIREB

A children S entertainment, to be called
Brownie party, had been announced to
be given on Saturday by ladies of the
Unitarian Church, in Military Hall.
There were to be Brownie costumes,
Brownie songs and Brownie rotations
dancing and refreshments. Everything
was going along in the most promising
way until Friday afternoon, when dis
agreeable man from San Francisco showed
up and demanded $50.
He was the agent for Palmer Cox, the
inventor of the Brownies, and his claim
was that the Brownie idea, in all its
branches and ramificatons, had been
copyrighted so that nobody could even use
the name Brownie without infringing
and being subject to prosecution. In
substance he said to the ladies' Give me
$3.50 and you can hold your party; but no
pay, no rarity"
Inc ladies went first TO consult their
them to drop the Brownie features of the
affair, post notice on the door to that
effect and let the play proceed.
They also sought the legal advice of
Judge Yule, who advised them to 20
ahead with their party and let Palmer Cox
enjoin them through the courts if he saw
fit. He advised them, however, not to
charge admission to the party, but to have
a collection box in the hall, into which
those who chose to give might drop dimes
or quarters or halves.
The ladies decided to lump together the
advice of the clergyman and the lawyer
and GO ahead on the lines of least danger
They saw the demand was a preposter-
Gus one, as there as to be no play or game
taken entirely from the Brownie books,
but only few cuuplcts taken here and
there, and that most OF the concets and
exercises were original. They had been
called Brownie to bear out the general
idea of the entertainment.
Palmer Cox was il car painter in Chicago
when he hit upon the Brownie idea, and
he has worked it for all it is worth. He
has hired literary people to write Brownie
books; he has Brownie hats, bonnets and
collars on the market; he has introduced
Brownie patent medicines. and it is said
that any person who breathes the word
Brownie without paying royalty is liable
to arrest.
All of which some doctors of the law
say is stuff and nonsense. They say
Palmer Cox's man is simply running a
big bluff
The herald., 1895-03-01
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR is DUE
A VOICE FROM AzusA

To the Editor OF The Herald :--One of
your industrious scribes short time since
in seeking whom he might devour, took
up for his subject one of Azusa's citizens,
and in doing so did injustice both to the
subject of the sketch and to some of the
noblest specimens of Gods creatures, (un-
Intentionally of course y the dear ladies'.
In the matter of the kindergarten, Mr..
Griffith is entitled to no credit at all,
further than as any citizen ought to be
proud to promote the good works of noble
women OF our land. So far as the writer
is informed, the credit for the Kindergar-
ten is due to Miss Dodsworth and the
noble young ladies of the Y. W. c. T. U.
OF the Azusa Valley. Anyone can see
need for missionary work, but it re-
manned for these ladies to work out this
grand work of caring for and educating
the little tots who are too young to enter
the regular schools maintained by the
state. At their solicitation Mr.. Griffith
gave them the free use of a room known
as the Azusa Mission Hall, and there
they maintained a kindergarten until
the citizens showed, by their failure to
est in their work. Now for one year the
same work is maintained by the volun-
tary contributions of the citizens, under
the management of the kindergarten
Association.
Honor to whom honor is due.
1t is true that Mr.. Griffith was at
tracted to Southern California by Mr..
Virgins and the Chamber of Commerce,
and doubtless the great work of this grand
institution is silently attracting lots of
other good men. The Chamber of Com
merce is one of the last institutions
of our locality which should need for sup
port, and our citizens have right to be
proud of its excellent exhibit and work.
But what of the Azusa Valley? What
is there in that rockpile to attract man
of any business sense? And what is there
to justify such man, as you would have
your readers think Mr.. Griffith is, to
erect such building as he has built in
Azusa? Well. come and see. Do you
think you could describe to anyone the
what is back of that rockpile in order to
appreciate facts. Azusa is not sustained
by gathering up rocks, and painting them
yellow, then offering them for sale as
pumpkins, as J. G. HUMPHREYS would
have you think. No, sir. Get your plow
into our soil, your teeth into our oranges,
pc .ches, apricots, your lungs filled with
on the grand mountain view, and if you
don't appreciate the fact that the Azusa
Valley is the center of the Garden of
Eden | will find a man that WILL
Azusa is not now what it was five years
ago. She will complete this season her
irrigating system of about thirty five
miles of pipe and ditch, all paid for out
issue the last of which she is now offering
for sale, and which are amply secured
and pay per cent interest in gold, run
ming ten, fifteen and twenty years.
Azusa does not wish to hide her light
under a bushel. She reads The Herald
and you may expect to hear from her
again. We are The People.
,,,eo Eob tQOS
The herald., 1895-03-01
POLICE GUARD THE GATES
Ex-Priest Slattery Lectures Again II
Savannah
All Who Attended the Entertainment We're
Armed, but No Outbreak
Occurred

| Savannah Ca, Feb. 2S.-This has been
| another day and night of intense excite
ment in Savannah. Feeling seems to run
high, though there has been no hostili-
ties of any kind today.
This afternoon Mrs. Slattery lectured to
600 women in Odd Fellows Hall. Many
of the ladies we've escorted to the hall by
their husbands. Police were stationed in
the square on which the hall fronts. No
one was allowed to loiter about the build
| ing. Towards the close of the lecture
crowds collected in the vicinity and Slat-
| terry and his wife were followed to their
hotel by thousands.
Tonight Odd Fellows Hall was crowded
to its limit and many were turned away.
Fully 1000 men were in the hall. 1t is
understood a large portion of them were
armed. 1t was heard on all sides that the
men were ready for mob On the out
side the entire police force with exception
of few men scattered through the
audience were distributed so as to COM
mand the entrance to the hall. No crowds
were allowed to congregate near the build
ing.
Inside the hall Slattery received an ova-
ton and throughout his lecture he was
applaud,d and cheered, and when he
declared the riot on Tuesday night had
shown the necessity of Protestants organi-
cation, the wild cheering lasted several
minutes and vigorously resumed when he
said:
''Get the A. P. A.. or Junior Order OF
| United Mechanice here and you will have
no more such demonstrations against free
| speech We must meet the Ancient
Order of Hibernians with the American
Protective Association and show them
it is not necessary to get their permission
to have lecture in Savannah"
Slattery then declared he was not here
in the interest of the A. P. A., but after
the riot he had wired the national presi-
dent and an organizer would be here in
twenty-four hours. This statement was
received with cheers. At the close of the
lecture three cheers we're given for Slattery,
and many went forward and signed a paper
promising to unite with the orders he had
mentioned. Slattery was escorted back
to the hotel by large body of police.
Several hundreds of those who had heard
him followed to assist in protecting him.
There was no demonstration made
against the ex-priest except Kisses. Stat
terry announced tonight he intended to
remain in Savannah until he could walk
the streets without police protection. His
presence here will keep up excitement
which has been intensified by the an
nouncement that the A.P.A. would be
organized here at once.
Conservative men on both sides deeply
Jo,,lora tho ayisfiO0 situafIOn
Fifteen of the men said to have been
prominent in the troubles Tuesday night
were arrested today. Four of them were
tried, of whom three were sent to Jail for
thirty days. Other arrests are to follow.
The herald., 1895-03-01
LEAGUE OF WHEELMEN
Handicappers Must Be Endorsed by the Chief
of the Council

Philadelphia, Feb. %. = Chairman
Gideon of the L. A. W. racing board an
nounces that he will appoint no handicap
pers in any of the districts who are not
Endorsed by the chief oft he council of that
div ision.
He al so states that he will not appoint
W. H. Murphy, who has been urged for
the position of New York Handicapped.
There will be an official referee, SO the
chairman says.
Philadelphia, Feb. 2S.-George D. Gid
con, the new chairman of the L. A. W.
racing board, issued his first bulletin to-
day He states that the racing rules OF
the League shall De enforced to the letter,
and asks the cooperation and confidence
of officials and race promoters to this end.
Applications for places upon the national
circuit will be accepted as late as April 2.
The following is a list of riders who
were reinstated by the National Assembly
February Is, 1885,
l.. b. Baker, Mechanicsville, N. Y;
David Newland, William Dennison, Still
water, y. B; Arthur Lindsay, Morley
Hazard, Salt Lake; James Havner, Fort
Collins, Colo. Roy Plumb, Charles
Golden, Henry Alberts, Ralph Dennis,
Charles Kistler, George Knapp, Frank
Secor, Longmont, Colo, and Robert Nor
cross, Greeley, Colo.
Suspended pending investigation into
their amateur status: H. Z. Frederick
son, Fremont Neb. A. e. Willis, c. T.
Earl, Brooklyn. The last named is also
under suspension for participating in the
''strike" in Madison Square Garden.
The following named clubs and indi-
vid ais have forfeited all rights to sane
ton or other consideration in the LA w.
Homestead A. c., Homestead, Pa. W. II.
Beasell, Homestead, Pa; Keystone Bicycle
Club, d. S. Grover, H. B. Norton, Ian
caster. Pa.
The herald., 1895-03-01
ATCHISON REORGANIZATION
How the Capital Stock of the Road Will
Fixed

How the Capital Stock of the Road viii be
Fixed
St. Louis, Feb. 2S.---A special to the
Republic from Boston says: According
to the Atchison reorganization plan as
determined upon by the committee, the
total capital stock under the reorganiza-
ton will be 1881, 1893, 9O2, plus $40, 900, OOO
proposed to be set aside for the Atlantic
and Pacific and st. Louis and San Fran
cisco roads and the $50, 000 900 improve
ment bonds. The Atlantic and Pa
cifc, the St. Louis and San Fran
cisco and the Colorado Midland are
left out of consideration for the present.
Their adjustment is left to the future,
provision being made in the shape OF
500, 900, 900 of preferred and $40 100000 OF
general mortgage per cent bonds which
it is proposed to issue. Holders of the
old general mortgage AS are to have Is
per cent in new general mortgage As and
40 per cent in new adjustment per cent
bonds and $40 in cash for each bond to
represent interest
On the new general mortgage bonds
81, 500, 600 will be reserved to take zip Chi
cage an. st. Louis first mortgage skies;
ST. 800, 900 to take up certain other out
standing bonds, and SIS, 500, 900 to redeem
the $1,000, 600 guaranty fund notes; ST.,
500, 900 car trust obligations, and 81, $50,
900 equipment bonds, the new bonds to be
issued at not exceeding $1250 for each
$1,000 par value of those securities.
Thirty million dollars of he new fours
The herald., 1895-03-01
A BOOM IN VEGETABLES

Carrying Goals to Newcastle is an old
story. Attention has already been called
to the fact that Southern California is
shipping oranges to Florida. Another
case in point is the shipment of garden
truck from Los Angeles to the Gulf States,
which have been III the habit of not only
supplying their own wants in this line.
but almost monopolizing the Northern
and Eastern market for winter vegetables.
But the climatic cataclysms that have
wrought such havoc with the Florida or
ange crop have also made a clean sweep
of the Southern truck farms, and for the
first time in many years the South is
compelled to look elsewhere for her supply
of cabbages and other vegetables that are
Indispensable articles of diet in all civil
lied countries. Such cities as New Orleans
and Atlanta are sending to Los Angeles
for supplies of vegetables. The result of
this extraordinary demand for our pro-
ducts is a gratifying increase in prices.
The herald., 1895-03-01
Slated in Her Bare Feet

A pretty 1s-year old girl created quite .
sensation in the East End yesterday, and
for an hour score of men watched her as
she glided about on the ice. She was .
graceful skater and every movement was
Delsartean in its PERFECTION. 1t was not
her grace and beauty that attracted the
men. 1t was her bare feet, which cleaned
in and out beneath her skirt as each foot
was thrust gracefully forward. The foot
was such one as described by De Maurier
in Trilby. The coloring was perfect, and
now and then, as the wind switched her
skirts, the glimpse OF perfect ankle and,
sometimes, even the swell of shapely
calf was seen. 1t was this that attracted
the men. They wondered that the cold
did not make her suffer, but it seemed
unnoticed. Her mother finally appeared,
and, after much cheerful persuasion and
a little force, the girl was induced to re-
move her skates, don her shoes and stock
ings and leave. With her departure the
crowd rapidly dwindled away.-Louis-
vile Post.
The herald., 1895-03-01
"HERE'S "A :, HOW.DE-DO"
A Libel Suit in Washington Productive Of
Scandal

Washington, Feb. pa case now being
tried in the criminal court in which c. H.
J. Taylor, the colored recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia, charges
william Calvin Chase, the editor of the
Bee, weekly publication read chiefly by
the colored population of this city, with
criminal libel, has brought out consider
able sensational testimony.
There was published in the Bee on Jan
uary 9Th an article charging Taylor with
gross misuse with the appointing power
attached to his Office, with collecting
political assessments from the colored
men.of the district, employed by the Gov
eminent, and with personal immortality
and improper relations with some Of the
female employees of his office. The
charges were made in the course of a
bitter fight which has been made against
Taylor since his appointment. Taylor had
Chase arrested for criminal libel, and the
case now being tried is the result Several
women formerly employed in the Re-
corder's office, have testified that Taylor
made improper propositions to them,
and that their refusal of his demands was
followed by dismissal
The cross examination brought out testi
mony tending to impeach the character
of several of the witnesses produced by
the defense.
The herald., 1895-03-01
The Uprising in Cuba a Very
Weak Affair
TWO SPANISH MEN-OF-WAR
The Mountain Stronghold Of Garcia, the
Alleged Rebel Leader
II Is Thought With the Death Of the Outlaw
That the Revolt Will Soon
Die Down

Washington Feb. 2S.--No further off,
cial dispatches have been received by the
Spanish Legation here in regard to the
affairs in Cuba, but from unofficial infor-
nation Minister Muruaga thinks the
trouble is about over. None of the fill
clustering parties that were announced
as ready to start from Key West, Costa
Rica and San Domingo have reached Cuba
and the bands of revolutionists of'the inte-
rior seem to have dispersed.
The In anita Isabella, warship, was or
dered by the Minister to Key West and
the Nueva Espana has been sent to watch
Costa Rica. The Venedido, recently ar
rived from Spain, is also in the vicinity
of the island and is expected to put into
Jacksonville or near by that port very
soon for further orders.
Garcia, the rebel leader who has been
announced as having been killed, has for
years occupied stronghold in the noun
tains and has also occupied himself and
band by carrying off rich planters and
holding them for ransoms.
New York, Feb. 2S.-The Ward Line
steamer Orizaba arrived this morning
from Havana, and brings the news that
the whole island has been under martial
law since February "a. Great excitement
prevailed in Havana Sunday morning,
owing to the arrest of the old Cuban Cen
eral Julio Sangili, and about thirty men,
bers of the first families of Havana, who
were Imprisoned in the military fort of
Cabanis. 1t was reported that about three
hundred persons who sympathized with
the revolutonists were also imprisoned.
There was no news from the interior of
the island. The people of the northern
portion of the island were in favor of Gen
eral Manuel Garcia taking charge of op-
erations against the government, while
the people of the southern part wanted an
other leader. 1t was rumored the threat
ened uprising of the Cuban revolution SITS
has been betrayed by one of their party.
Madrid, Feb 2S.-According to official
dispatches from Havana the rebels in
Santiago de Cuba number about 120 men.
The town of Ragic declared in favor of the
rebels but the insurrection there has
been queled. tits also officially announced
that Spanish troops defeated the rebels in
Matanzas and killed Manuel Garcia, the
notorious leader. Spanish troops are act
lively pursuing the rebels.
1t is stated the government is prepared
should it be found necessary to send sever
raj thousand troops to reinforce those al
ready in Cuba. All the available troops
in Porto Rico, are all ready to go to
Cuba if they should be needed. The min
listers express their approval of the con-
duct of the Cuban authorities.