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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
Two MEN HURT BY A BLAST
POWDER THAT AT FIRST FAILED
TO EXPLODE CAUSES AN
ACCIDENT.
JERRY SULLIVAN AND JOSEPH RYAN
ARE IN THE COUNTY
HOSPITAL.

Jerry Sullivan and Joseph Ryan, two
laborers in the employ of John Kelso, the
contractor, were badly injured through
their own carelessness or that of a blast
foreman at an early hour yesterday morn
ing.
The contractor was given permission by
the Board of Supervisors some time ago to
assist in the work of grading Hancock
street, between Church and Sanchez, by
the use of blasts, and for some time past
heavy charges of dynamite and blasting
powder have been exploded at that point
several times during the day.
1t has been the custom of the blasters to
lire charge each evening just as the men
were quitting work and leave the job of
cleaning up the debris resulting until the
next morning.
This course was followed on Wednes day
evening, and yesterday morning Sullivan
and Ryan were instructed to inspect the
work of the blast and loosen up any masses
of rock which might still be hanging to the
bank. They went to work with picks and
| had not been digging for more than few
moments when an explosion startled the
other workmen, and the two men were
seen lying on the ground near the scene
of the blast of the night before.
Investigation showed that a portion of
the blast had failed to explode on Wednes-
day evening, and the men in digging had
struck some of the buried explosives, with
the result mentioned. Both were found to
be badly injured and were taken to the
City and County Hospital to have their
wounds dressed.
Sullivan appears to have received the
full shock of the explosion, for his face was
badly cut and bruised by the flying rocks
and it is thought that his eyesight will be
destroyed. Ryan was not so badly injured
though he will be confined to his bed for
some time to come.
1t is believed that the blasters were to
blame for the accident in not placing the
powder SO that the electric spark, which is
used to ignite the explosion, would let it
all off at once, though the workmen should
ground that the entire charge had not ex-
ploded.
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CLEVER GIRLS TN
THE LIFE GLASS,
IT Is THE LACK OF. REASONABLE
ENCOURAGEMENT THAT
HAMPERS THEM.
NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS
PROOF OF WHAT THE YOUNG La
DIES ARE DONG UNDER
A. F. MATHEWS.

The girls life class at the Hopkins Art
School is working hard, and its teacher, A.
r. Mathews, is confident that as a class the
work is successful. There are more than
thirty members of this class, and repre-
sentative studies are here reproduced 1t
Is always hard for girl to study art with
any reasonable amount of encouragement
from either her friends or relatives. 1t is
this fact that hampers the girl worker all
the time, and it is also this fact which
makes the teacher of this class feel strongly
inclined TO swear at the position taken by
those who are closest to the students.
AS matter of fact, the woman studying
art has more subtle and quicker perception
of color than the man. She also suffers
despite the statement made by the "new
woman" from a certain lack of physical
strength; but the trouble with the girl art
student is that her parents will not admit
that art work is anything more than an
accomplishment. AS a result when she
ought to be working she is besieged by
visitors who think art fad, and really
make nuisances of themselves.
When the young man studies art it is
admitted generally that he does so with a
desire to make it the work of his life. He
IS to make his living by it, whether as an
illustrator or a painter. Nobody doubts
his strong intent, but when it comes to the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
KILLED BY A LIVE WIRE.
DEATH OF A HORSE AND INJURY
OF THE DRIVER OF A
MILK WAGON.
NARROW ESCAPE OF SEVERAL PED
ESTRIANs FROM SIMI-
LAR FATE.

a horse was instantly killed and his
driver rendered unconscious by contact
with live electric wire at the intersection
of Cough and Market streets at o'clock
Wednesday morning last.
John Peterson, lad about 16 years of
age, was driving milk wagon belonging
to the Baden Farm Dairy, around the cor
ner mentioned, when his horse suddenly
stumbled and fell. As the animal made no
effort to rise. Peterson jumped to the
ground and seized the equine by the bride,
intending to assist it to its feet.
His hand had no sooner come in contact
with the bit ring than he was thrown vio-
lently to the ground and writhed about in
apparent agony. Passers-by hurried to
his assistance. 1t was then found that the
horse was dead, killed by a shock received
by stepping on telephone wire, which,
having been torn from the roofs of the adj
jacent houses by the high wind of the
night before, had fallen across a live cleo
trio wire and thence to the street, near the
curb.
Peterson came to his senses in a few
moments and reported the accident to
Officer Clifford, who sent word to the Elec-
tric-light Company to remove the wire be-
fore further trouble resulted. The officer
has reason to thank his lucky star that he
was not himself killed by contact with the
wire.
81 was passing the corner during the
night" he said yesterday, ''when some
thing struck me on the breast. l grasped
it and found that it was an electric wire
which had fallen from the roof above.
threw it up over the corner of an awning
intending to have it attended to as soon as
l could report.
"The strange part of the matter is that I
was not killed but l presume that the
dangling strand had not as vet fallen on
the electric light wire and become in
sulated.
1T is strange that no human being was
killed by the wire, for large number of
men pass that corner going to work, and
they had already begun to struggle along
when the horse was killed"
Some of the storekeepers in the neigh
borhood were reticent about the matter
the proprietor of the Junction Pharmacy
from whose establishment runs the wire
which caused the accident, processing to
know nothing of the matter. Others say
that the wire certainly fell from the line
running into the pharmacy as they saw it
dangling before the employees of the COM
pany had again put it in place.
Patrick H. McVey, proprietor of the
Baden Farm Dairy, is trying to find out ON
whom the responsibility of the loose wire
rests, and will institute suit for damages
for the loss of his horse. Peterson, the
driver, was confined to his room yesterday,
but is not badly injured.
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dearment. So strong is this feeling and so
apparent is it to him that he adopts gen.
eral popularity of the species whose com
partnership he seeks and presumes upon
the familiarity with which he is
treated. A seagull standing on the yard
arm will look contemptuously down
on the laborious longshoreman bucking
truck of lumber over the uneven wharf
planking, and even the string of inter-
dicted languagecon upon the plunge
OF sharp silver into some portion of the
mans anatomy, coming up to his perch,
stirs no passing interest in his mind. The
pretty presiding spirit of that bit of marine
estheticism-the yacht-may hang over
him, until she throws him biscuit, and
that edible disk totally eclipses the beauty
of the giver. Then his startling peculiar
lty asserts itself and he is the true cormo-
rant of the feathered world
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girl student is ahead of the boy. In form
she is not so effective, but, everything con-
sidered and the inequality OF physical
strength admitted, the two life classes OF
the school are fairly equal.
In relative comparison of the individual
merits of his pupils in the girls life class,
Mr.. Mathews is consistently uncommuni-
cative. The studies reproduced are repre-
sentative. Miss Mccormick head from a
portrait is excellent. Miss Mcfarland S
typical life study is strong. Miss Lund-
borg's study of a head is good. Miss
Holdens study shows feeling, while Miss
Laura Adams independent study is well
handled. Misses Kalisher, Callahan, Moss
man and Rixford, with many others in the
class promise well.
There is one thing to be said about the
girls life class, and that is that they, while
a large class, show strong individual work.
There is little doubt that much is due to
the fact that their master gives them
plenty of latitude, aud as result their
individuality comes out. No student in
the class can claim that they have been
limited by any of the personal technique
of their master. So far as is possible each
one is taught to follow out her individual
tendencies entirely irrespective of any par
ticular line of action usually followed by
the teacher.
The sketches reproduced show this and
when it is remembered that they were
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craw, and its only characteristic is in
safety. The shark is ever hungry, but the
gull is starvation III ideal perfection.
But this feathered INDECENT who dies al
his life from absolute want, who perishes
walled, floored and rooted with plenty
the land and sea are constantly feeding
him-does it cheerfulIy. Not, let it be
understood, from a knowledge that each
day will bring him bread cast upon the
waters, but because he has inherited it
from the first gull that flew out OF Eden,
and the unappeased hunger of countless
bird-ages has stamped itself upon every
fiber of his being. Apropos of the random
thought that bread cast upon the waters
will be returned after many days, it may
be known that no bread ever came back to
the caster after the gull found it. And
those who contemplate following literally
that manner of dispensing charity should
prepare for an emergency in the shape OF
this tireless cleaner of the waves. In fact,
alms-giving by water, with this keen
petite in that quarter of the globe, is i'm
practicable, unsystematic and unsafe. Bet
ter let the shore-going bakery wagon sup
ply needy humanity with the loaves if not
the fishes.
And yet, while everlastingly intent upon
harvesting to the ultimate crumb the land
and sea, there are intervals of infinitesimal
brevity when the gull is not foraging
directly for meal tickets. One of these
periods is when he is satisfying his curl
osity. He is always trying to satisfy some
thing that is gnawing his vitals, and his
inauisitiveness, like his alimentiveness,
burdens him always. He will warp him.
self alongside of a floating cocoanut husk
with frenzied energy, Notwithstanding he
has investigated the castaway many times.
An empty bottle bobbing purposelessly up
and down on the surface of the bay will
excite the liyeliest interest in the seagull
soul. He has exported the buoyancy
OF bottles since the bounds of the sea
were established, but he must hold
a marine court of inquiry over every new
one that comes within his boundless scope
of vision. The spars of ships which were put
up expressly for his use when he stops Gf
he should) striking creation for some
thing to eat, new yard or boom slung
aloft will be examined critically and its
accommodations as roosting-places or look
out station thoroughly canvassed.
When he adjourns for dinner any bust
ness other than eating is figuratively laid
recommences the never-ending work of
satiating his Unsuitable appetite and getting
his living starving to death.
Linneus who is supposed to be some
thing of a bird-fancier, says the gull mi
CRATES to some extent, and, if he does,
nobody has ever seen him start, or kept a
log of his trip. His migrations are only
lifelessly seward on the ebb, or
is encased in tamale-husk and
escorted with a lantern around the dark
city streets. Yet, no one would desire the
departure of this graceful bird of the sea.
His sociability, his assumption of well
come from the bipeds ashore wins for him
a liberation that borders upon positive en-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
FOR ALL THE BAY CITIES.
AN EXCURSION FROM SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA IN MAY PRO-
POSED.
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION MET
BY SANTA Rosa MEN.

There is project on foot in this city
which will advance the interests of all the
bay cities, by presenting the advantages OF
these localities to a large number of people
from other States in very enjoyable and
profitable way.
The proposition, which was presented by
M. Carmen and Mark L. Mcdonald OF
Santa Rosa yesterday to the Half-million
Club and Merchants Association, is to
arrange for a grand excursion from Los
Angeles, at the conclusion of the flower
fiesta, to San Francisco and thence to all
the cities on the bay.
Mr.. Carmen and Mr.. Mcdonald came
here as a committee appointed by repre-
sentative citizens of Santa Rosa, to lay the
proposition primarily before these asso-
Citations and to act upon the conclusions of
these bodies. A joint committee was
formed, composed of G. D. Bunker, Fl. P.
Sonntag, l.. c. McAfee, Stewart Menzies, J.
W. Sperry for the Half-million Club, and
Hugo Kyle, William Doxey, A. S. Bald
Merchants Association.
The committee met at the Merchants
Club, and delegated Mr. Carmen to call
upon all the various commercial organiza-
tions in the city, and ask their co-opera-
ton. Mr.. Carmen will lay the project be-
lore them, ana report TO the Joint COM
mittee, which adjourned Yesterday,
subject to the call of Chairman Bunker
The representatives of the Half-million
Club said at the meeting of the joint com
mittee that it would be premature on their
part to act as with the full authority of the
club, as club, but they would assume the
responsibility of saying that the club, at
its meeting on the 9th inst, would I'M
doubtedly Cooperate in the movement So
Mr. Carmen will be able to state to the
Chamber of Commerce, State Board of
Trade and other similar bodies that the
Merchants Association and Half-million
Club will enter into such arrangements
for the carrying out of the excursion
project as may be agreed upon by Joint
committee composed of delegates from all
these organizations.
1t was stated at the committee meeting
the Southern Pacific would issue a round
trip rate, good for ten to fifteen DAYS. from
Los Angeles for $17 CO. The committee be-
lieves that large number of the Eastern
visitors at the Los Angeles fiesta can be in
duced to make this excursion.
The Half-million Club promotion COM
mittee also met yesterday to arrange for
the holding of their initial public meeting
on Wednesday, the Goth inst. Several
thousand invitations will be issued, but the
list of speakers has not yet been CON-
pleted,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
NAVAL RESERVES WORK.
An Ambulance Corps to Be Organized
and Equipped at Once.

An Ambulance Corps to Be Organized
and Equipped at Once.
Orders have just been issued from the
headquarters of the Naval Reserve direct
ing that hereafter the staff officers shall at
tend drills and target practice the same as
ordinary seamen. The ordnance officer is
instructed to take charge of the guns pur-
suant to the duties of his position as laid
down IN tactics. The signal officer must
geon must organize an ambulance corps on
service footing, and see that it has a COM
plete equipment.
Next Tuesday evening, at the armory of
Company D, on Pacific avenue, will be held
reserve. For it companies G and D will
each prepare a section of artillery with
timber, there being eighteen men to sec
ton including petty officers. Company B
will parade as infantry, and the battalion
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
IF will be inspected at the same time and

staff will be inspected at the same time and
place.
At muster the companies will appear in
heavy marching order, the infantry with
blue service uniforms and leggings, the ar
tillery with working suits. All will have
haversacks, canteens, ponchos and Ian
yards, the latter to be carried to the shirt
the right shoulder to the left hip.
Lieutenant D. B. Northrop will visit San
Diego and inspect Company A at its armo-
ry there next Thursday night.
The good report of the California Naval
Reserve has travelled across the continent.
A letter from Lieutenant Long, command
ing officer of the Naval Reserve of New Jer-
sey, asking for advice, tactics, etc., has
just been received at the local headquar-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
ATTACKING THE LOCAL BOARD.
An Insurance Company Will Make It's
Agents Witbdr.,

An Insurance Company Will Make It's
Agents Withdraw.
City agents of the compact insurance
companies were surprised to hear yester-
day that Franz Jacoby, manager of the
Prussian National Company, had threat
ened to ask his agents, Easton, Incen &
Messenger, to withdraw from the local
board.
About week ago the city agents and
counter men of board companies organized
a compact of their own for the purpose of
acting intelligently on maintaining rates
in San Francisco. They held executive
meetings daily, where ideas were inter
changed so that they would not cut one
another's rates when not attacked by non
board companies.
This went very well so far, but as it is an
open secret that managers in the compact
are cutting rates daily without caring
whether they do so in fighting the indie
pendent concerns, or solely to get business
anyhow, some grave doubts have arisen
over the utility of combine of city agents.
The Prussian National does not care to be
placed under obligations to sustain rates
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
THE SEAGULL'S
BOUNDLESS GREED.
A BIRD ALWAYS CLEANING THE
WAVE AND SHORE FOR
MEAL TICKETS.
HIS NEVER-ENDING LABORS.
He LIVES ONLY TO EAT ANG
STARvEs TO DEATH WHILE
He EXISTS.

Among expert ornithologists the belief
is general that eye has never seen nor ear
ever heard of seagull that was not eating
or theoretically inviting himself to parti-
cipate in bountiful repast, as the bucolic
correspondent always writes up meal for
the rural weekly.
1t is quite true that the gull has been
seen standing on the end of pile or the
ridgepole of warehouse wrapped in
thought. but that thought is along the line
which nature and choice have marked out
for him, and it leads to the performance
which the country scribe alluded to in the
preceding paragraph describes so rurally.
The dominant feature of this bird is his
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
RIVER ESTATE IN COURT.
The Third and Market Street Property
Under Consideration.

A motion to confirm the sale of the Rye1
property at Market and Third streets came
up before Judge Slack yesterday.
When this property was offered at auction
there were only three bidders. Claus
Spreckels bid $306, 600 and nobody would GO
higher so no transfer was made. Since
then the executors have waited for better
offer, which was not made, AMI finally the
executors offered the property to Mr.
Spreckels for 1906, 600.
Hermann Shainwald of Shainwald Buck.
bees& Co. testified that the property was
worth $50 square foot, or $2sS, $50 in all.
He said that the Improvements are out OF
date and. consequently worth little com.
paratively. G.. HI. Umbsen gave similar
testimony.
AS there was some opposition from the
Ryer heirs, Judge Slack postponed the
case until this afternoon
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selected from large number it must be
admitted that they are representative.
The work of the class is earnest and strong
and the only objection or complaint that
could be made is that the girls are not
given fair chance to show what they
really mean to do in art. If casual visitors,
who think it pleasant to drop in at the art
school, would think for moment that the
work they are interrupting is not fanci-
full fad but deliberate representation of
earnest artistic purpose, they might con-
clude not to interrupt the girls with their
work.
If parents would believe that when their
daughters are working hard it is because
they are convinced of their own artistic
ambition and ability, it is also likely that
the young ladies would not be subjected TO
that faint praise which damns any ambi-
ton that they may possess.
Both teachers and pupils are agreed as to
the earnest desire for work, and with a
class SO strong as the girls life class is
there is no doubt that in the future it will
be by all lovers of art in California
seriously regretted that the young ladies
were not honestly encouraged to show what
they can do instead of being casually dis
couraged from earnest artistic purpose.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
Is THE MARRIAGE LEGAL2
Mrs. Macondray Sues to Make Her Con
tract Valid.

Following fast upon the announcement
that the Governor has signed the bill max
ing it obligatory that all marriage contracts
be recorded comes the suit of Florence
BucklIn Byers Macondray against Fred
erick l.. Macondray to have declared legal
the scant form which they went through
and considered marriage.
The marriage was not solemnized nor
was 1T ever recorded, the plaintiff states in
her complaint. Subsequent to their agree
ment to live together as man and wife the
plaintiff requested Macondray to make a
declaration OF the marriage, but this he
refused to do, and he still so refuses. 1t is
therefore prayed that the form which they
went through be declared by the court to
have been legal marriage and that they
be adJudged to to have been husband and
wife ever since.
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two orders in Oettl's name for seven pack
ages of coffee on Hills Bros. and paint
brushes from the Bass-Heuter Paint Com
pany. He pawned the articles and spent
the money to satisfy his morbid craving
for drink.
A few days later he wrote Oettl, confess
ing the forgeries and telling him to prose-
cute him if he felt so inclined, because if
he was not arrested he was liable to do
more dangerous work.
Henderson is a college graduate and a
man of superior intelligence, but drink has
ruined him mentally and physically.
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prevented from doing serious work by the
position taken by their parents.
at is discouraging, as well to the teacher
as to the pupil" says Mr.. Mathews, ''to
find that with strong ability, clever techni-
cal knowledge and earnest purpose a
student is spoiled because home or social
influences decline to recognize the fact
that the girl is in earnest. The question
of mixed life classes has been practically
settled so far as San Francisco is concerned
for some time at least. From my stand
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22

point see no necessity for mixed life
class, and there are conventionalities which,
to some extent interfere.
1.-THE present class of girls is doing strong
work, and what / most desire to have IN
aerstood is that they, the girls, should be
recorded equal chances with the boys.
Let the girl work out her own artistic
'uture just so far as she may be able. In
color, and to a great degree in what might
be called intuitiye art sense, the average
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girls, no matter how much ability they
may possess, the case is changed and no
one, not even their mothers or fathers or
sisters or brothers or cousins, will admit to
the extent of offering any encouragement
to the student that their work is serious.
There is no doubt that California has
lost strong feminine artistic representation
through this fact. Many girls whose work
would have been noticeable in any of the
galleries of this or any other country have
themselves been held down and actually
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A special committee appointed by the
Russian Ministry Of Finance has drawn ur
a scheme embodying the measures which
it will be necessary to take in order to ex-
tend the commerce between Russia, Cen.
trail Asia and China.