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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
It WAS |SAACS' DAY OFF.
The Water Front Uniforms
Get a Collector Into
Trouble.
Suspended for Talking Too Much.
An Investigation viii
Follow.

Collector Alfred Isaacs figured extern
sively in the deliberations of the Harbor
Commissioners yesterday at the regular
meeting of the board. Mr.. Isaacs had
given utterance to statements which were
wont to disturb the harmony of the work
ings of the waterfront, and it was deemed
necessary to bring the collector at Main
street to strict accounting for his words.
In an interview III yesterday mornings
CALL Isaacs said that it was funny that the
chief wharfinger insisted upon the men
going to one tailor. The particular lang
uage to which exception was taken was
the following expression by the collector:
II don't say that any one is making any
money on these uniforms, but L have seen
men hanged on less evidence"
The commissioners considered the fore
going a reflection on the integrity OF the
board, and Commissioner Cole said that if
there was a job In the uniform business he
wanted to know 1t. He proposed that Mr..
Isaacs be suspended during an investiga-
ton, and later in the day Chief Wharfnger
Boobar laid the collector off temporarily.
Isaacs took the matter of his suspension
philosophically, and will make an argu-
ment in favor of himself and free speech at
the meeting of the board tomorrow after
noon. The Commissioners do not know
exactly upon what grounds Isaacs can be
prosecuted, for the statutes say that an en-
ploye can only be discharged for incom
potency or neglect of duty. 1t may be
argued that it was incompetency which led
Mr. Isaacs to give vent TO his feeling.
The North Pacific Coast Railway Com
pany was granted permission to use the
ferry slip south of Clay street for an in
definite term at rental of $3.50 a month,
and the rate of switching to the belt rail
road was fixed at ~ cents car.
The California Drydock Company was
assigned the privilege of the berth at the
foot of Spear street, of which they are
already occupants, at the rate of $500
month. The company has two drydocks
in the berth mentioned but formerly paid
only $500 month. The Cousins Drydock
Company was assigned the berth at the
foot of Fremont street, the monthly rental
being fixed at $500.
w. A. Rattenberry, who was appointed
collector at a recent meeting, filed his
bonds, with II. F. Emerlc the newly ap-
pointed Fish Commissioner, and w. G.
Murdoch as surities.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

Department at Washington to decide
whether they shall be destroyed or pre-
served. If they be pronounced works of
art they are safe; if not, they go through
the purifying flames.
Deputy Collector Sam Rudden has
viewed with Ienient eye those creations
of the Japanese old masters, and has sum-
moned an art committee consisting of
John Stanton, Amedee Joullin and Henry
Raschen to weigh them in the scales of
morality and decide whether they may be
plucked like brand from the burning.
They are painted on an oddly woven
cloth, and some of the gold work is raised,
as in antique tapestry. The drawing is as
grotesque as the most exaggerated speci-
mems of Japanese art, but the color is rich
and mellowed by age. Should the artists
rule in their favor and their findings go on
to Washington they would make a valua-
bic addition to some museum; not for the
pubic eye, but for those interested in the
study of Oriental art.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
SCIENTIFIC COOKING.
Mrs. Emma p. Ewing's Demonstrations
in the Art of Preparing Food
for the Table.

On Monday morning al 10:30 o'clock
Mrs. Emma P. Ewing gave the first OF
series of demonstrations on scientific cook
ing to about $50 of the prominent ladies Of
this city. The subject was bread-making,
and in a most comprehensive manner she
explained the most interesting branch Of
the culinary art. She demonstrated the
manner in which light, wholesome and
nutritious bread should be made, showing
that such can be made with very little
labor.
The second of the course will be given
this morning in Golden Gate Hall on SUIT
ter street. and will be devoted to the broil-
ing of meats, science that many attempt,
but which all are not successful in. This
will be followed on Friday by demon
stration on the making of pastry; on Mon
day by one on the use of the chafing-dish,
and on the following Wednesday by
demonstration on the making OF delicate
desserts.
These demonstrations are given under
the auspices of the Society for the Intro
duction of Scientific Cooking in the
Kitchen, and from the interest taken In
them by the thinking, progressive women
of this city, it shows that they are In ear
nest in their desire to make themselves
familiar with the best and most approved.
methods OF preparing food for the table.
Mrs. w. B. Harrington, the president of
the new society, stated yesterday that after
this course closes, another five lessons will
be given commencing on the 26th inst,
and will be devoted to breakfast breads,
salads, puddings and sauces, roasting, and
eops and omelettes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
ORIENTAL PAINTINGS.
The Works of Japanese Old Masters
Seized by the CUSTOM
House.

In the iron tank at the Appraisers build
ing, known as the seiZure-room, repose,
surrounded by many hundreds of dollars
worth of confscated opium, some rare
works of Japanese art. They were the
property of G. Matsuo, Japanese mer-
chant, now resident of Washington, D. c.,
and were brought over by him on the Peru
on his return from a recent visit to his ma
tive land. They now belong to the United
States Government, and their fate is waveT-
ing in the balance.
For, although those thirty pictures were
painted over 200 years ago by the most
famous artists in Japan, they are by no
means fit for the portfolios of Caucasian
civilization. 1t is pity, too, for apart
from their Objectionable features there is
much in them of curiously ingenious treat
ment and much to be admired.
Matsuo recognized their suggestiveness
and conveyed them aboard the Peru in the
false bottom of his trunk. Those "foreign
devils" of Custom-house inspectors probed
the Jap's trunks, and the pictures, with
three japanese novels of the same nature,
were revealed.
Matsuo was arrested, but released after
ward, and 1t remains with the Treasury
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
ROSE WANTS TO MARRY HER
Secretary McComb, However,
Declines His Consent to
the Union.
A Barber's Effort to Wed an Inmate
of the Magdaien Asy-
Ium.

Samuel Rose, barber, is in distress. He
wishes to marry Miss Patricia Murphy, an
inmate of the Magdalen Asylum, and Sec
rotary McComb of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children says he will
not agree to the union. Hence the trouble
Miss Murphy is pretty girl about is
years, who, until her incarceration in the
asylum, lived with her stepfather, A. E.
Gould of 10631I Mission street. The girl
showed hayward disposition at an early
age and was with great difficulty re-
strained. One day she met Rose, with
whom she became intimate. The couple
announced their intention of marrying,
but at this juncture Secretary McComb
stepped in and caused her removal to the
Magdalen Asylum for safe keeping.
Since that time Rose has been exerting
every effort to communicate with the girl,
but without success. He called upon Mr.
Gould and finally secured his consent to
the marriage, provided he could get the
girl out. He called upon Mayor Sutro,
who declined to act until he had commu-
nicated with Secretary McComb.
That official informed the Mayor yester-
day that he would object to the release of
the girl for the purpose of marrying Rose
He gave as his reason for this that the
marriage would result in mutual unhappi-
ness to the ill-assorted couple, and that
Miss Murphy's life at the asylum was
quite satisfactory in moral sense.
Rose is not satisfied. He says he will
marry Miss Murphy despite Secretary Nc
Comb, but how he will accomplish it re-
m aims tn he seen
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
HIGH MASONS MEET.
The Grand Council of Royal and Select
Masters Elects Its Officers for
the Year.

At the meeting of the Grand Council of
Royal and Select Masters of California held
in Masonic Temple on Monday last the fol-
lowing officers were elected to serve for the
coming year:
Grand master, Charles E. Gillett of Oakland;
deputy grand master, William Hewson Davis
the works. Henry Ascroft OF San Francisco;
grand treasurer, Franklin H. Day of San Fran
cisco; grand recorder, Thomas H. Caswell of
San Francisco; grand chaplain, Thomas Kyle
OF San Francisco; grand captain of the guards,
Robert Ash of San Francisco; grand conductor
OF the council, August Wackerbarth of Los An
geles; grand lecturer, George Pennington OF San
Francisco; grand steward, Alexander John
Gardiner OF Sacramento; grand organist, Sam
uel David Mayer OF San Francisco; grand SEN
tinel, James Oglesby of San Francisco.
The session of the Grand Chapter began
yesterday in Masonic Temple and will con-
clude the election of officers and its bust
ness to-day.
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Alexander under the strictest surveillance.
Scanned had achieved considerable
unpleasant notoriety on the water front in
connection with ssailor boarding houses,
and the Collector of Port having his record
on hand kept an eye on him.
This act becoming known to the mer-
chants they refused to ship by the Alex
ander and Scanned had to throw up his
contract.
HID. Bunker & Co. took up the broken
charter, and put the Alexander in their
Central American line. Apparently the
firm has had no difficulty in filing up the
vessel for she was loaded to the deck when
she went away from the wharf yesterday,
and there was still considerable lumber
and -four to go on board
The sailing line of Bunker 81 Co. has
only been established since the first OF the
wear. and it was made possible by the raise
in rates of the Pacific Mail Company. The
increased tariff in the steamship line put
prohibitorv rate on lumber and several
other articles, and the Central American
shippers only too gladly availed them
selves of an opposition line, no matter how
small. The sailing line began with the
schooner John D. Tallant, which went
away loaded to the guards with freight IN
January. Within a month the Don Carlos
followed in the wake of the Tallant. The
schooner Sailor Boy left four days ago and
the Alexander sails to-day,
The brig Salvador has been chartered
and she will commence loading for Guate-
mala and Salvador in day or two. Be
sides the vessels named, the Bunker line
has the schooner Volante plying between
here and Mexican ports.
The Alexander takes away among her
cargo 90 tanks of lard oil, 80 tons OF table
salt, 80 tons of assorted furniture, go tons
of cement, so tons OF -four, 200 cases Of
coal oil, considerable mining machinery
and deckload of lumber
The success of the packet line between
here and the Central American coast
augurs well for the improvement OF trade
on the Pacific Slope. Formerly the bulk
of business between Central and South
America and this country was done with
begun to assert herself and the result of
ENTERPRISE is apparen t.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
THEY WANT TO MOVE.
Harbor Commissioners Are Tired OF
Their Quarters on Cali
fornia Street.

Harbor Commissioner Chadbourne made
a move yesterday afternoon at special
meeting of the board which he considers
the most important move he has made
since he has been member of the COM
mission.
Il move that we move" said Mr.. Chad
bourne, and he didn't smile either 1--WE
have occupied these rooms for many years,
and the proprietor of the building has re-
fused to make the slightest improvement.
Now then, gentlemen, am tired OF look
ing at the faded blue of these walls. |
want something more enlivenlng when L
come in here to consider important issues,
and 1 think that the best thing we can DO
is to get more congenial quarters"
Both Commissioners Cole and Calnon
were unit on the proposition: Since the
latter gentleman has assumed the duties
of Harbor Commissioner he has been urg-
ing the owner at 10 California street to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
BUGS WILL Be IN DEMAND.
How AdoIeScent Pupils VIII
Hereafter Study Natural
History.
ital Out of Corner in
Ants.

If the pupils of the sixth grade of the
John SWEET Grammar School, on McAllister
street, do not emulate Audubon and Buff
ion, Lubbock and Agassiz, it will not be
the fault of their teacher. Natural history
has taken possession of that section of the
institution and bugology reigns supreme.
The parents of these budding scientists
are at their wits end. Wide-mouthed
bottles are at premium in Hayes Valley
and pure alcohol has risen in price at the
corner groceries. Whole families of spiders
have moved out West, for the order has
gone forth that each pupil must bring one
of these insects in a wide-mouthed bottle
preserved in spirits. After the spiders,
blow flies were called into the educational
camp and their anatomy was elucidated
by the enthusiastic teacher from the hair
on their teeth to the corns on their toes.
Now spiders and flies, and even fieas,
may, by the exercise of little industry,
be captured and bottled up. But when the
pronunciamento that Thursdays scien-
tific bill of fare should be ants was read
the class shuddered. A bottle of spiders
was easier to procure than a single ant,
and bushel of blow flies would not out
weigh in the balance the forequarters of
this industrious insect.
Only one among the dazed and indignant
scientists smiled. He was fat boy with
freckles and straw-colored hair. He knew
of small ant hill in the rear of his
mothers house, on Page street. He had
often been tempted to scald them out with
water, but now he blessed his forbearance
Indeed, those types of thrift and activity
= - H. L.
termination to the fact that they often in
vaded the housewives sugar, and the dam
aged article was rejected and fell to
Tommy, who had a strong stomach and
did not mind few ants in his.
The owner of this now valuable possess
sion elbowed his way into the jangling,
warning crowd, and announced that all
who presented themselves at his gate be-
tween the hours of 80 and $3.50 A. NJ
cheerful news, and the children began to
look upon him as a philanthropist in is
guise.
But" added the monopolist, "all of
yous fellows, and yous girls too, has got
to bring along two marbles, else you don't
get no ants"
Even as the threats of the traitorous
tribune, Junius Placidus, fell upon the
ear of Caesar Vittelius, so this marble tax
scorched the ears of the erstwhile grateful
throng They demonstrated with him;
they showed how his popularity in the
class would grow they contended that the
marble season was now almost at a close,
and that flaws" and "commoners' were
scarce. But Tommy was as adamant. He
feared no opposition ant hill None knew
the fauna and flora of Hayes Valley better
than he, and he held to his point of van
tage.
Thursday morning will be bad day for
ants, but good day for marbles. The
study of natural history is a delightful
pursuit, but it comes high at times. and
the teacher who brought this woe will drop
few dozen pegs in popularity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
REVISING THE SYSTEM.
Changes in Freight and Passenger Trains
to Be Made the Sau-
salito Road.

The North Pacific Coast Railroad has de-
schedule for passenger and freight trains
and ferry boats. At the present time train
schedule is in the hands of the printers,
and may be out to-day or tomorrow. But
in any case the changes proposed will go
into effect next Sunday.
we are going to deliver freight at Lom-
bard street wharf instead OF at Clay street
as formerly" said William f. Russell, the
general freight agent, yesterday. tOur
large new boat, the Sausalito, will be put
into the freight service. She is built with
rails to transport cars, and in future she
will be used to carry cars loaded with
freight to this city.
''The Sausalito will be exclusively en-
gagged in carrying freight across the bay
during the middle of the day. In the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
INTBRPOSED A DEMURRER.
The Case Against Vining and Willcutt
Again Continued.


Again Continued.
The case OF Il. ?. Vining and ]. B. Will
cutt, respectively manager and secretary
of the Market-street Cable Company,
charged by Mayor Sutro with illegally
tearing up O'Farrell street, between Scott
and Devisadero, was again called in Judge
Lows court yesterday morning.
Attorney Kelly for the defendants inter
posed a demurrer to the complaint ON the
ground that it did not set forth the cause
of action, inasmuch as it commenced
against the defendants, Willcutt and Vim
ing, and then prosecuted the complaint
against the Market-street Cable Company.
Besides, the ordinance set forth certain
conditions, and a penalty was attached of
not less than 60 days and not more than
1870 DAYS, with no alternative of fine. 1t
was, therefore, impossible to enforce the
penalty against corporation, as in a cor
poration there was nobody to imprison.
BY consent the case was continued till
next Tuesday to give the prosecution an
opportunity to look up the points made by
the at torney for the defendants.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
TO SAIL FOR SALVADOR
Another Freight-Laden Vessel
for Central Am erican
Ports.
CARGO OF THE ALEXANDER.
Building Up a Sailing Line in Oppo-
sItlon to the Pacific
Mail.

The schooner Alexander was towed into
the stream yesterday from section of the
seawall, and to-day she will sail for Guate-
malan and Salvadoran ports. The vessel
had been at the seawall for several months,
a man named Scanned having chartered
her to go to Central America. Scanned
did not make much progress IN loading
the schooner for it was rumored around
the water front that he intended to ship
arms for revolutionary purposes to
Salvador.
If the charterer had any idea of doing
this his game was spoiled by the Custom
house officers, who kept him and the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
TO-DAY'S PROBATE SALE.
Good Auction of Realty by Easton
EIdridge & Co., Yesterday.

Good Auction of Realty by East0n,
EIdridge & Co., Yesterday.
The sale of the property of the estate of
Michael Bergin takes place to-day at the
salesrooms of Shainwald, Buckbee & Co.,
in the Mills building. All these properties
bring in good income. This sale is made
by order of the Superior Court and is with
out limit or reserve. In addition to the
Bergin estate there are three pieces of
property to be offered on account of a
building and loan association. The prop
erty has been foreclosed upon and must be
sold.
The auction sale of Easton, Eldridge &
Co. at their salesrooms yesterday was sat
isfactory.
The house and lot on the west line of
Bourbon, near Ellis, sold for $2975. The
lot and improvements at IS Haight street
sold for $10,500 Two French flats, 211O
and 2112 Suffer, near Steiner, brought
$40, 400 The house and lot at 729 McAllis-
ter street was knocked down for SIC, 700. A
lot % by 100 feet on Park avenue, near the
City Hall, brought $12, 800. A lot on Van
Ness avenue, near Lombard street, sold for
$4,000. The northeast corner of Noe and
Day streets, 36 by so feet, sold for $685. and
three inside lots, 26 by so feet, brought
from $3.50 TO $500 each. Fifty-two hundred
dollars was obtained for the 50-vara lot at
the northwest corner of Devisadero and
Lombard streets, and the inside 50-vara in
the same block brought $4,000. The south
west corner of the same streets brought
$4,000. A large crowd was in attendance
and bidding was brisk throughout the SALE
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
The insurance Suit.

In the case of Henry Koch against the Com
mercial Union Insurance Company in Judge
Daingerfeld's court the whole day was taken
up in the examination of Walter Metz. Metz
was the proprietor of the burned store. He
was the first witness called in the case, and
Yesterday was his second day on the stand.
The testimony developed nothing OF general in
terest The searching cross-examination to
which he was subjected was for the purpose OF
showing fraud on his part in making proofs of
a loss OF about 1913 900, when he suffered, ac-
cording to the insurance men, only TO the ex-
tent of about one-seventh of that amount.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION.
The Pacific Business College Is ABB
sorbed by HeaId's Business
College.

The Pacific Business College, one of the
oldest educational institutions of this city,
has been consolidated with Heald's Bust
ness College and has not failed, as was re-
ported few days ago. The consolidation
was effected for the purpose of doing the
same work at less expense. A few months
ago the Pacific Business College was bought
by Professor J. w. Griffith, an educator of
note, who has taught successfully at the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

make some necessary improvements, but
his efforts have thus far been unavailing.
There is no reason why we should stay
here" said Mr.. Cole. There are lots of
offices open to US in the vicinity of the
water front, or even furthur up town,
where we can get the necessary facilities,
and l am in favor of making a change"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

University of the Pacific and other promi-
nent institutions of learning on the Pacific
Coast. Professor Griffith succeeded In
building up the school considerably. Upon
receiving favorable proposition from rom
Heald's college, the consolidation OF the
two schools was effected, which will be
benefit to the pupils of both schools.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

mornings and evenings, however, she will
make regular runs alternately with the
other boat for passenger business.
ssThere will be the same number of trains
as now, with the exception of a special
train on Sunday to Cazadero and back for
summer excursion parties The change in
time of running trains will be confined to
midday on account of placing the Sausalito
in new freight service which will enable
us to get our cars ON the water front"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
He Had a Fit

Because he went to Roos Bros, who carry
the tailor-made suits of the two leading
houses of the world, Brokaw Bros. and
Rodgers, Peet & Co. of New York.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

BILL Nye was last seen smiling behind an
AImighty-dollar Cigar.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-11
LOCAL NE WS.
Brief Mention.

Buy a new house-R. D. Baldwin.
 Prof. Sanders of Yale and John T. Manson of this city wiM take part in the special Y. M. c. A. meetings which are to be held in Naugatuck tomorrow and Sunday.
 The K. o. J. society gave the third of their popular dances in Harmonic hall last night It was a very en- joyable affair.
 The Connecticut agents and other employees of the John Hancock Insur- ance company had their annual ban quet at the New Haven house yester- day.
 The annual banquet of the New Ha- ven Typothetae will be held at the New Haven house January 16 at 5:3O D. m' Judge s. A. York will preside. Mayor "A. c. HendriclS, Hon. Leverett Brain ard, E. R. Andrews, c. S. Morehouse, Hon. ". H. Marigold, George c. Waldo, Hon, John N. Near, Colonel N. G. Os- born, Major L. w. Burpee, Rev. D. S. Lines, Clarence Deming, Charles Hop klns Clark will respond to toasts.