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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
WATCHING THE NEW ROAD
Eastern Manufacturers Inter-
ested in the Valley
Railway.
A CHANCE FOR LOCAL MEN
California Materials VIII Be Used in
the Work as Much as
Possible.

The prominent Eastern manufacturers
of railway materials, including rails, tie
plates, switches, locomotives, cars and sig
mails, have begun to show a lively interest
in every move made by the directors of the
San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railway. They are kept constantly adj
vised up to date by local representatives.
and have already entered into competition
for almost everything needed IN building
and constructing the road.
An extensive engineering concern OF Chi
cago has sent Benjamin Reece, an engineer,
out here to confer with the Valley road
directors regarding tie plates. He brought
with him sections of ties into which I'M
protected rails have eaten in few years I;
specimens of ties that had been guarded
with metal plates, and also other materials,
all of which make up quite an interesting
exhibit of items in railroad construction.
These will be studied by committees when
the question of buying or rejecting tie
plates will be considered.
Other large manufacturers have offered
to send out representatives., but to all of
them the reply was that it is yet little
too soon, as the chief engineer and direc-
tors are not yet ready to talk business.
III COHbIdSI Will l1ISlCSb IsthSA ny
Eastern men in the Valley Railway is the
fact that only two local machine.shop men
have called at the companys offices at 231
Market street for information upon sup
plies Still the local manufacturers will be
given the preference, provided of course,
that their bids are moderate in comparison
with prices furnished from the East.
Chief Engineer Storey and committee
from the board of directors are consider
ing switches, frogs, crossings, etc., for side
tracks, depots and stations. He believes
that a very large number of these articles
will be needed, though the exact amount
cannot be determined until he first knows
how many stations and sidetracks will be
laid out.
1--WE are thinking very seriously of hav-
ing them made here, F." said he. ut will be
necessary that we have them to quick or
der and for that reason we will find it
more satisfactory to have them turned out
by local shops just as fast as we call for
them. We have the drawings and specifi-
tons ready, excepting for some special
ones, and all the machine men will have
to do is to work from them.
II would like to see more of the ma
chine-shop men up here. 1t cannot do
them any harm if they call and it may help
out matters considerably"
Quite large number of automatic coup
lings have been submitted by local inven-
tors with a hope that the chief engineer
may adopt some of them in his specifica-
tons for cars.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

should have been any public utterances of this
klnd made, and that they should have APP
6 6eaTeo IN. IN the puD4c press. | very seriously
whether he used the terms pubHshed-that the
orthodox Jew is dishonest and inconsistent In
the practice of his Judaism.
There is little doubt in my mind that good
men are to be found in the ranks of both the
reform and the orthodox Jews, and, while l do
not desire to become engaged in any contro-
Versy regarding orthodox and reform Judaism,
yet l am willing to be considered anxious to
do my work as a conservative and consistent
orthodox Jew.
Rabbi J. Nieto of the CONGREGATION
Sheriff. Israel had this to say with refer
ence to DR.. Voorsanger's stand:
l believe with him in most of the things he
said in reference to the alleged orthodox Jews
There are no orthodox Jews to be found in Sa n
Francisco. There are three small places of
worship south of Market street where they OBJ
serve what is called the orthodox ritual where
they preserve archaic customs which have be-
come meaningless to them and where the con-
duct can scarcely be considered reverential
TO be consistently an orthodox Jew-that is,
follower OF rabbinism-one must observe to the
very minutest degree the sanitary and dietary
laws, biblical and extra-biblical; must neither
work nor cause work to be done on the Sab
bath, and must faithfully adhere to all the
moral and ethical principles in the Bible and
in the Talmud.
The orthodox Jew too often forgets that his
mere observance of custom and ceremonial
and the carrying out of few dietary regula-
lions do not constitute him Jew.
very small proportion of the population
here is orthodox. No place OF worship is ortho-
dox that has, first, any instrumental music on
the Sabbath; second, that has men and women
seated together 1 may add that there are
properly speaking, three distinct classes of
Jews and Jewish congregations in San Fran
cisco. They may be divided into orthodox
conservative and reform. To which of the two
former DR.. Voorsanger referred, or whether to
both OF them, is not clear from the published
report OF the lecture, so | am not prepared at
this time to take issue with him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
THE CITY FINANCES.
Decision of the Supreme Court Affect
ing a Similar Case.

Decision of the Supreme Court Affect
ing Similar Case.
Nothing more timely could have oc-
cured than the handing down of a certain
decision by the Supreme Court yesterday.
1t was decision of case from Mendocino
County, but bearing directly upon the
present condition of the city's creditors
who claim over 100000 as due on supplies
furnished in previous fiscal years. Ac-
cording to this decision, which but re-
iterates former decisions on the same SUBJ
ject, the creditors have little chance to re-
cover upon direct issue of right
According to the facts of the case i'm
mediately under consideration, Matthew
McGowan had sued William Ford, Treas
urer of Mendocino County, which was
represented as indebted to him in the sum
of $4543 q for work done under contract
with the county in repairing the Court
house, County Jail and grounds in Ukiah
City. On July IL, 1898, the Supervisors
accepted the work, but the warrants for
the same were not cashed, being returned
by the Treasurer Endorsed, mot paid for
want OF funds" In December, 1893, the
Treasurer refused payment of the war
rants although there were funds in the
treasury.
There were two warrants concerned, one
NUMBERED LAO 10r $Z97U II, and the other,
numbered 1747, for $1575, the first being for
a balance on contract and the second for a
balance on extra work. The lower court
hled an opinion, holding that the respond
ents were entitled to the relief demanded
as to warrant No. 1746 for $3.50 81, but not
as to warrant No. 1747 Afterward judg-
ment was entered, making the writ per-
emptory as to the last-named warrant.
From these judgments the appeals were
prosecuted.
The appellant contended that the indebt-
edness to respondents was incurred during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and
could only be provided out of the revenue
provided for that year. According to the
answer OF appellant the work was COM
pleted before April 6, 1898, but in the May
following, by agreement between the SUI
pervlsors and to evade the provisions OF the
constitution, the warrant for the liability
was cancelled and another substituted.
whereby the warrant should be paid out OF
the funds of the succeeding fiscal year.
This the Supreme Court held to be with
out authority, and that therefore the lower
court erred in granting a judgment on the
pleadings.
In the case of the other warrant no cause
for refusing payment was shown. For
these reasons the Supreme Court ordered
the Judgment involving warrant No. 1746
reversed and the Judgment involving war
rant No. 1747 affirmed.
According to City and County Attorney
Creswell the Supreme Court only uphoids
its established opinion that no indebted
ness can be legally incurred by any county
for any succeeding fiscal year.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
A CURIO FOR SHOPPERS
A Statue of Ada Rehan in Solid Silver
to Be Exhibited in This
City.

Something in the way of curiosity in
the way of exhibitions will be presented to
residents of this City tomorrow. In 1.-THE
Maze" at the corner of Market and Tay-
Tor streets, will be shown solid silver
statue of Ada Rehan. as Justice" This
emblematic figure was shown at the
Worlds Fair, Chicago, in the Montana
State exhibit.
Some curious figures, the result of care
full estimates, are furnished in regard to
the statue. Its total weight is four and a
half tons. 1t contains $1,000 ounces of
silver, valued at 1854, 800. The pedestal
weighs 800 pounds, the gold therein being
valued at 1924 900. The cost of sculpture
was S7400 and of casting $4,000. The height
of the statue is 9 feet inches. 1t will be
in the United States only three months
longer, after which it goes to Europe, it's
first exhibition taking place at the Bon
Marche, in Paris, where it will remain for
two months, after which it will visit all
the principal cities of Europe. At the end
of year and a half it will be returned to
Helena and placed in the Montana State
Capitol. 1t will be on free exhibition at
The Maze for two weeks, beginning April
% and closing Saturday. May IL.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

been kept busy for the past two weeks
completing and shipping TO interior points
a large number of self-feeding threshing
machines.
The Schmidt Label Company has turned
out between 1900, 600 and 100000 labels
this year for the Alaska Packers Associ-
alton
The Midas Gold-saving Machinery Com
pany has inst received an order for twelve
Gold King amalgamators to be shipped to
the Minas del Tapo Company, Rosalio,
Mexico.
The past week Wooden & Little have
shipped an unusually large number of Gem
windmills to the agricultural districts.
The Union Machine Company is build
ing three 20-horsepower engines.for the
California Gas-engine Company, and one
of the same make was recently shipped to
MERGED for the Croker Huffman Land and
Water Company.
The Fulton Engineering and Ship
building Works have recently shipped a
complete plant, consisting of a hoist, pan
and settlers, for a mining company IN
Mexico, and has under construction a
large geared hoist for a California COM
pany, and two of large-siZe Tustin mills
for shipment to Australia. They also have in
hand an order for a pumping plant with
Corliss engine, to force water through a
pipe twelve miles long to an elevation OF
$50 feet for the Gold Cross Mining Com
pany, for which they are building 60
stamp MILL
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
CR|T|CIzES MR. MORTON,
Some Opposition to the Call
for the Afro-Am eriCan
Congress.
Editor Dennis InsinuateS That L
Is a Scheme for a Political
"PuIl."

From quarter whence it was hardly ex-
pected antagonism has already met the
call of the AfrO-American League for an
Afro-American congress to be held in this
city next July. a. L. Dennis, who, in ad-
dition to his labors as a messenger for the
Standard Oil Company, edits a little week
ly paper devoted to the social and other
interests of his race, is the opponent, and
he insinuates that 7. b. Morton, the presi-
dent of the league, has initiated the auto
cratic prerogatives of the Gar of Russia
in presuming to call the convention. In
an editorial in the Budget of yesterday Mr..
Dennis, after penning some illusions to
political jobs and many unpleasant refer
ences to Mr.. Morton, expresses him self
thus:
1.-THE thinking portion of the race is
agreed, perhaps, to man, that the time is
most suspicious for holding a State con-
gress of Afro-Americans for their general
good, commercially and otherwise, and to
consider and discuss plans for united ac-
ton. The State is to-day new one and,
unlike the past, it is now the desire and
intention of every progressive man and
woman, black or white, In California to
place their State in the position in which
sources entities it. But the convention to
be prolific of good results must be regu-
larIv called by the people or their repre-
sentatives. 1t should be called for the
betterment of the masses, not the selfish
desires of few. Above all, it must be
non-partisan, and only political to the ex-
tent necessary to the moral advancement
of the race"
Mr.. Morton expressed some surprise at
q
four times elected president of the Afro
American League, was chiefly instrumental
in getting Miss Ida B. Wells to come here,
and has been popularity regarded by his
race as being very conscientiously devoted
to its advancement. He said:
"Mr. Dennis is mistaken in thinking the
call was my own personal dictum. 1t was
signed by all the vice-presidents of the
league, [ am pretty sure. 1t was neces-
sary for some organization to take the
initiative step, and as the league, which
was organized August 10, four years ago,
pretty well represents the prevailing senti-
ment of the colored race, it was issued
from that source.
"The cali for a congress is more in the
nature OF an invitation than anything else.
l feel that these gatherings are beneficial,
because many important questions relat-
ing to Afro-American welfare may be dis
cussed at such a congress.
"Other races in this country come to-
gether and organize, and l see no reason
why we should not do the same thing 1
believe that when we are organized our
race will be able to secure recognition from
both the political and commercial worlds,
and l certainly think we are entitled to
that recognition just as well as other peo-
pie. believe 1 may say that what recog-
milton we have received has been due to
the Afro-American League, and hence our
call for the congress-"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

man of the CALL composing-room, and at
that time appeared to be in rational state
of mind. When she left she slipped a
letter under the door, addressed to Mrs.
Smith, which Mr.. Smith found on his re-
turn home. 1t was written in German and
stated that the writer was tired of life and
intended to throw herself in the bay.
The note also thanked Mrs Smith for
her kindness and instructed Mr.. Smith to
take charge of her effects including $3.50,
and in case the body should be recovered
to have the same buried and, after paying
the expenses, send the balance to her sister
in Stewartsville, DeKalb County, Mo.
Mr.. Smith went to 1910 Geary street and
the following letter was found among the
young woman's effects:
SAN Francisco, April IL, 1898.
Dear Sister: am tired of this life. You Will
yet remember when was with you that have
taken several times the pistol and said would
shoot myself. Now l am serious about it.,
Firstly, have no friends secondly, the people
are never satisfied and, thirdly, have been so
spoiled at home that am unhappy If anybody
scolds me- This is the last time that you will
get letter from me-
If had only remained in st. Joseph or would
have gone there, then it would have been all
right. would have gone there if you had
written that l should return. 1t cannot be
altered now, and so / say good night, with
many greetings for your sister.
AGNES SCHMIDT.
The body has been turned over to an
undertaken, and will be buried to-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
AGNES SCHM|DT'S SUICIDE,
The Body of the Young Woman
Found in the Bay lden-
titled.
She Was a Servant Girl Who
Became Despondent and Pur-
poseIy Took Her Life.

The body of Agnes NJ. Schmidt, aged q,
was found off section of the seawall yes
terday, and was taken to the Morgue,
where it was identified by A. F. Smith,
who once employed the girl
Miss Schmidt disappeared from 1910
Geary street April IL. She was employed
there as servant and was considered a
valuable addition to the household. She
was young woman of prepossessing ap-
pearance and made friends wherever en-
ployed, but had few acquaintance.
The evening of her disappearance she
visited the residence of A. f. Smith, fore
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
LOCAL TALENT IN DEMAND.
No Trouble to Secure an Engagement
With Eastern Companies.

No Trouble to Secure an Engagement
With Eastern Companies.
That San Francisco talent is appreciated
abroad is well known to all theatrical
managers, an actor or actress finding little
or, no difficulty in securing an engagement
with the best Eastern companies.
Touching on this point is the following
letter, received by Belasco's Lyceum
School of Acting from David Belasco of
New York:
find that shall be associated with many
new and important productions in the near
future, and if at any time you have young
man or young woman of pronounced ability,
conscientious and studious, let me know and /
can place them. l am much interested in
Frisco talent, and prefer to give it a show
always. l shall produce my new play in Octo-
Der, and viii be able to place one or two young
men and young women ii that.
The play Mr.. Belasco is now writing is
called Heart of Maryland" and is said to
be full of dramatic situations, pathetic
scenes and well dialogued with it ALL
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
War-WearY Joe Rarnea.

Joe Barnes. a well-known and much-drinkine
person of the water front and victim of the
old mot the new woman, tried to commit sui
eide by jumping into the bay from Folsom
street wharf yesterday morning.
Barnes, who had INDUCED in a continuous
spree for several weeks, walked out on the
edge OF the dock and said TO the by-standers,
''Im tired of fightin' wild the old woman, so
here goes" and he flung himself overheard.
He was fshed out with considerable difficulty.
but the thought of continuing the war with
the old woman was TOO much for him and he
sprang into the water again. He was hauled
out and sent to the Receiving Hospital.
A. L. Poole recently shot large bald
eagle in the vicinity of Niagara Falls.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
AKRON VEREIN ANNIVERSARY.
The Members Celebrate the Day With
Grand Concert and Ball.

The Member Ce1e brate the Day With
Grand Concert and Ball.
The members of the Arion Verein cele-
brated the seventh anniversary of that or
ganization last evening with grand con-
cert and bali given in the verein hall on
Pine street. An excellent musical pro-
gramme of seven mum bers was rendered
by members of the Arion Maennerchor and
the mixed chorus, assisted by Frau Ida de
Seminario and l.. Won der Mehden Jr., a
student of the celebrated julius Klengel,
who recently arrived from Germany. The
concert was no less enjoyable than the
ball which followed, and the double enter
tainment brought out goodly number of
the sturdy sons and pretty daughters of
the fatherland.
The committees who had charge of the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
The Rose show.

In Flora's domain the acknowledged queen
is the Rose" She will hold her court and re-
celve homage from 10 A. NJ. to 10P. NJ. in the
Marble and Maple rooms of the Palace Hotel
May 2, 3 and a, at the spring exhibition of the
California State Floral Society. All the BIOS
SONS OF the season will be in attendance. Rare
specimens will be seen, as San Francisco, OAK
land Alameda, Berkeley. Haywards, Niles. san
LORENZO, Fruitvale, San Rafael, Menlo, Palo
Alto, Belmont, Colma and Del Norte have each
applied Tor space and will vie with each other
as to which locality can produce the finest roses
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
PIouf's Will.

Mrs. Gertrude E. Burgess has petitioned for
letters OF administration on the will of DR..
John E. Plouf, who died on April 8, 1895, at
the hand OF one J. D. l.. McGaughey, leaving
an estate valued as to its cash at $1,000. the re-
mainder being unestimated
L; b. Burdock is nominated by the testator
and executor and Mrs. II. T. Edwards, sister
OF the deceased, as sole devisee and legatee
Inc subscribing witnesses of the instrument
are william {. McGregor and George D..
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

arrangements were: On reception-E. A.
Otto, j. H. Berghausen and DR.. H. Syl-
yester Jr. On supper-M. WindmilleT and
Oscar Dittmer. On the hoor-L. II. VALID
mann and George G.. Sneider
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
The Examiner Libel Suit.

The memorandum of costs in the suit of
Richard 5. Heath against the Examiner repre-
sented by W. r Hearst, was filed yesterday and
amounted to 1888.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

PILEsl PILES! Macs Infallible Pile Cure
Cures all cases of blind bleeding, itching and
protruding piles. Price 80 cents, A. McBoyle
d Co., druggists, 504 Washington street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28

The body has been turned over to an
undertaken, and will be buried to-day
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
NEW LACES===

Cases NEW EMBRODERES In Swiss Nainsook, Cam.
brio and Lawn lin both Irish Point and Guipure effects
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-28
NEW ro-DAY-DRY GOODS.

Public attention is respectfully called
to our ENORMOUS and most complete
STOCK of above goods.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-09-12
The French Exps dition 70 Egypt.

The most novel spectacle Of all was q
carefully organized and equipped expe-
dition of 100 or more scholars, who, &C.
cordiDg ~ what was then the fashion,
were destined n gather the treasures Of
the pharaohs and IT the Ptolenies for
the collection VI Paris. Their apparatus
TOR discovery was the best obtainable,
their learning was at least respectable
and their library was mixture Of the
ancient classics with those IT the mod
ern romanticism, If medieval lore with
modern atheism. Homer and Virgil jos
tied Ossian and Tasso, while Rousseau
"Heloise" stood neighbor to Goethe's
"Werther. Among other "political"
works were Montesquieu, the Vedas, the
Koran and the Bible. Caroline Bona
parte gave her brother as farewell gift
a little pocket library, among the vol
umes Of which were Bacou's Essays"
Nine de Stael's Influence Of the Pas
sions" and Mercier's "Philosophic vi
gions.'' The curious have examined
these volumes and found in their well
worn pages a few passages specially
marked In his hours Of solitude the
great solitary read in Bacon how he
who dominates others loses his own lib
erty; in Nine. de Stael how hard it is
to keep the acquisitions Of ambition; in
MERCER Of an oriental visionary who.
after the glories Of temporary success.
ended his days in exile and forgetful-
ness.-Professor Sloane's" Life Of Napo-
leon" in Century.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1895-09-12
How VIII They Get Ite

Silverites reply to the proof that there
Is far more money now in this country
than at any previous period in our his
tory by saying: 1.-The money is all
locked up in the banks. We want free
silver 30 the people will have the mon
ey." But they never explain how free
coinage, under which the silver mine
owners would take their bullion to the
mint and get back coined dollars, would
put those dollars in the pockets Of the
people, OF how 1t would keep them out
Of the banks II their owners chose to de-
posit them. The fact that we have near.
" Eve times a. much money per capita
Is Mexico, free silver country, should
lead the believers In free coinage to
think little about the probable results
Of their scheme,