The morning call., 1895-02-11
PostponeIlent Of the Grand
Jubilee.
MANY WERE DISAPPOINTED.
Rain and Dismal Silence Ruled at
the Baths.
MIR. SuTRO At HIS COUNTRY HOME.
The RainstOrm Also Prevented the Scheel
Concert in Golden Gate Park
Yesterday.

Several thousand people went out to the
Sutro baths to attend jubilee mass-meet-
ing, hear speeches by Mayor Sutro and
others on the defunet funding bill, and to
listen TO a grand concert by fifty musicians,
under the direction of Alfred Roncovieri,
yesterday.
But they heard none of these things
which had been freely advertised by pla-
cards in streetcars and in the newspapers
The only sounds were the deep moaning of
the storm-swept sea, the barking of the
seals and the plaintive notes of the auto
matte concert organ in the bathing pavil-
ion. The atmosphere was cold and raw,
and the misty rain that was blown in from
the sea beat dismally over the heights and
against the cliffs.
Everybody was disappointed, but there
was no help for it. The cause was due to
the sudden illness OF Mayor Sutro at his
ranch near Calistoga, and his utter in
ability to be present, according to an
nouncement.
Mr.. Sutro left for his ranch Saturday, in
tending to return to this city yesterday,
and carry out the programme that had
been arranged for the grand jubilee. At
an early hour yesterday morning Mr.. Har-
risOn, manager of the Sutro baths, re-
ceived telegram which stated that the
Mayor had been taken suddenly i'll and
was unable to come to the CITY, The tele-
gram, according to Mr.. Harrison's state
ment, when questioned by anxious visitors
and reporters, did not give any particulars,
nor did it state how serious the Mayor S
condition was at the time it was sent The
manager assured all questioners, however,
that the jubilee music and speeches would
take place next Sunday, just as had been
arranged for yesterday, unless some un-
foreseen circumstance should arise and pre-
vent, as was the case yesterday.
Having received this information the
disappointed thousands left the baths and
returned to the city in not the best of
moods-nor the best of railway cars.
Henry E. Highton, who had been billed
to address the mass-meeting with Mayor
Sutro, was ON hand early. He remained
only short time after learning that the
jubilee could not take place. The musicians
did not make their appearance on the plat
form.
Yesterday was day of disappointments
in many ways. Many of those who had
hoped to hear oratory and music at Sutro
Baths, but failing in this had returned as
far as Golden Gate Park, hoping to catch
strains of melody from ScheePs orchestra
were left out in the cold with the
Culll VI ali duQcu ulSdp DOiHtIHeHG. InlS
was wholly due to the bad weather, which
precluded the possibility of any concert
out of doors. A few fingered along the
walks and drives in the park until they
became too wet to be comfortable and then
returned to the city. A large number of
persons-among them being many ladies
and children-had come only as far as the
park, hence they had only one disappoint-
ment to annoy them.
1t was an unusually quiet Sunday at the
park a fact which was wholly due to the
rain. During the forenoon a number of
cyclers spent an hour chasing each other
over the drives, but as the clouds refused
to roll away and the rain continued stead
lily even the hardy cyclers gave up their
sport in disgust and adjourned to more
comfortable surroundings.
But the streetcars had done thriving
business just the same.
The storm of yesterday was purely of a
local character, the rainfall extending only
over the Sacramento Valley, this city and
the country for about thirty miles south.
The rainfall in this city during the day
was .06 OF an inch, and the Weather Bureau
officials stated last night that the rain for
the present was nearly over