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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-21

Hanging above a bootbiack's chair in
the vicinity OF Exchange Place is pla-
card bearing the announcement .'Ffrst-
class shoe shining, &c." Into this chair
there climbed this morning a man who
bad hurried from tho Union Passenger
Station. His shoes were of the brogan
style, literally encrusted with mother
earth and looked as though they had
never before received the attentions of a
professor of pedal polishing. Nose. the
bootblack, buckled down TO work and at
the end OF 20 minutes wrestling with
dauber and brush had succeeded in inn
parting a very respectable degree Of shine
TO the shoes. The customer descended
from his perch and flshed out "a quarter
OF a dollar which he handed over. Nose
handed back 10 cents. "Look here"
said the man with the brogans, "you've
charged 10 cents. Don't that there sign
say frst-class shoe shine o cents?u
"Course IL does. boss; but them shoes o.
yours amt irst-class, no how The
patron and pollsher had a lively tilt for
fully i've minutes, when as Nose. refused
TO give up the extra nickel, the patron
Departed vowing to report the matter TO
the police.
Have you noticed how frequently yell
low 10 used on signs, awnings and i'm
various other weys? II seems TO be omni-
present. IL staros at you from street cor
nets, flashes by you on wagons comes to
you through the post and presents itself
20 you In a hundred and~Sne ways. Vel
low mas become the fad in Providence al
least, u It's extensive u,e furnishes
proof that even progressive business men
are not above initiating an %enterprising
Fellow Who mgK D a success Ia any way
novel. To Messrs. Hall & Lyon Is due
the credit Of making yellow popular.
Iheir signs were yellow, their store was
decorated In yellow and their wagons
painted ~ yellow. Since their introduc-
ucn OF the color they have had followers
ali over the city and 10 such an extent
ss 70 Glnoat warrant one In employing
the prrGse, yellow craze.
Nor IL X In this matter alone that
horsrh. Hall a Lyon have set the fashions.
They we've Toe h-st to introduce the
rrize coupon IS a means u attracting at
tcution ard Increasing trsde. The use of
the coup q has siire become almost "a
gene o. a. yellow. Iailois. grocers.
hoT.fr.. in flct merchants u eli sorts
have i~ntfoorseg u "a ttlg build up thair
bU, iss,s. 1 imitation il. ~ u j. said
10 D.. the pc,rc.i lauerg, tsen Msssrp.
HI z lion n;sy hc All 10 have secured
e%faef-~se ban sny VI iteir fellow
1b-@,As
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-21
CanyaSSerS at Work On
Personal List.
Probably Five Hundred Names
Will BE Stricken Off.
Question That Wasn't Answered.
Rise of the Yellow Fad.

Since the last tax assessment the board
OF canvassers and registration have made
about fifteen hundred changes In the yot-
ing list and they are now engaged Ia
making others which will bring the total
up TO 1000. Those who vote on personal
property and failed to pay the tax on
or before Tuesday will he stricken rom
the property and transferred TO the regis
try list. The exact numbe who have
failed to qualify themselves TO vote Tor
City Councilmen is not yet dehnltely
known, hut the members OF the canvass
ing board estimate the total at 900.
The failure to pay a tax on real estate
does not, as in the case of personal prop
erty, operate as a bar TO voting. The
real estate owner votes on his title and
not upon his payment of q tax. From
its first appointment to its present time
the board has been called upon TO con-
slider and decide many intricate ques-
tions relating TO real estate titles as
affecting the rights OF voters. In all 600
changes have been made, more than 1000
of which involved the striking OF names
from both the property and registry lists.
For the coming municipal election
nearly one hundred thousand ballots Will
be provided and the work of printing
them IL now proceeding under the sup
ervfslon OF the city clerk. vi course ms
number 10 very largely In excess of those
that viii be required, even should every
qualified voter In the city exercise the
franchise, q thing which never has &C.
Cured In this city and pro badly never
will occur, however heated and exciting
the elections may be or however important
the Issues involved.
This providing of ballots to a nut Der
20 largely in excess of the number OF
voters is compelled by the provisions OF
the law. The intention was to have q
mum Der sufficient on hand TO take the
place Of those hat might be rendered
worthless by a mistake on the part of the
voter In marking. In such a case the
voter making the error can secure an
other ballot by calling the warden's at
tention TO the mistake, and surrendering
the wrongly marked one. The law pro-
vides,that double the numb Der Of ballots
as there are voters shall be furnished.
That is, 1t says that 100 ballots shall be
provided for every 90 qualified electors
or traction thereof. Thus, should the num-
Der happen to be 81, then 200 ballots
would be required, the odd one in this
instance calling for as many ballots as
the whole so. The exact number of bal
lots ordered 10: For property voters, AZ, :
600; for registry voters, "a, 200.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-21

The Home Newspaper o!1%%%syo.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-21

1.-THE smiles Of fortune, " continued Vet
eran &. g. Cole. ''arc distributed in a
name wondrous Co behold. Long years
ago Commander Mitchell OF the Sibyl met
. tragic death In san Francisco. Mr..
Reed, our boyish paymastcr, Is one OF tho
great mon 81 % great nation, has long
'crvod In congress. and | think he II going
~ be the next president. Tho command
FRS sccrctay-tbat H. mysoH-is la the
soldiers homo. Ycs fortunes smiles are
funny. Sometimes vCss funny. -Colonel
j. a. Wafryus ~ Chicago Ttmcs-IIerald.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-21

Eleven o'clockl Tho lights nrc out, save
for tho flioLcring gas JET on the stage.
which serves TO make moro CHASTITY the
surroundings. The audience has turned
it's back upon its %iavorito ,hcatcr, and In
the cafe or at homo Is discussing tho latest
play-or the latest scandal. Tho critic H.
supplying his journal with n review of the
play, anG perhaps with sharpcncd pcacil
recording his opinions thereon. The play
ers have returned 10 their everyday clothes
and their everyday rarte; sofBo have re-
tired 60 their placcs Of abode. whilo others,
NJ tho club or elsewhere. are seeking the
verdict.
The author, impatient 90 learn bis fate.
IL here, there and everywhere, alone and
Ina company at intervals, praying Tor tie
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

tickets of all the genuine companies are
counterfeited, and that most of the lottery
companies are clean fakes. without any of
the elements of chance in them, and not
the semblance of drawing.
Now, if the newspapers could be induced
to follow the example of the CALL and
cease to advertise these fake lottery COM
panies, and all lotteries. the pernieious
traffic would soon be killed entirely in San
Francisco, and only few of the very green
and unsophisticated would still patronize
the palpable frauds.
Here is another of the fake lottery COM
panies convicted of being swindIe out of
its own mouth, as it were, or from its own
literature. 1t styles itself the Louisiana
Lottery Company" Pay attention now
to its methods of doing business, and then
ask yourself whether you want to invest
your money in such a swindle. Perhaps
the best way to illustrate the methods of
the Louisiana Lottery Company" is to
present some of its literature and cite one
instance where a man in this City was
offered prize for accepting the agency of
the concern. Not the prize alone was this
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
TO BUILD A NEW TEMPLE.
Ohabai Shalome Foundation.
Stone Will Be Laid Next
Sunday.
The Synagogue VIII Be Ready for
Use in Time for the Hebrew
High Festivals.

The Hebrew congregation Ohabai
Shalome will, on Sunday next, witness the
elimination of their plans for the erection
of new place of worship. The foundation
stone OF their synagogue, which will be
on the south side of Bush street
near Laguna, will be laid next Sunday
afternoon at clock
Since its establishment the Ohabai
Shalome congregation has passed through
many vicissitudes. It's organization was
the result of split in the Congregation
Emanu-El many years ago. When the
latter body of Hebrews developed ultra
reform tendencies many of the members
including some of the French and Alsa.
tian element, left. They pure hased a LOT
on Mason street, near Post. After the
lapse Of years and the death of MANY
prominent members a decline in interest
in the venture was noticed. The plat OF
land was last year sold to the Native Sons
of the Golden West for $4,000 and with
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
THE OLD TRACK DOOMED.
Where Horses Race Now in
Richmond There Will Soon
Be Homes.
Racehorse Men Look With Longing
to the Opening OF the Tngle-
side Course.

Thomas II. Williams, the lessee and
manager of the Bay District racetrack,
does not like the prospect of the track
being converted into building lots, but he
recognized yesterday afternoon, when
talking to President Thomas g. Parker of
The Point Lobos improvement Club, that
that was only question OF time, and was
due to the force of circumstances.
He remarked to Mr.. Parker that the
track would probably be plated and cut
up into lots for sale before Septem Der.
Mr.. Parker has not been very friendly
for some time toward the racetrack, though
it was largely through him that Mr.. Will
liams had secured the privilege of running
the track so long. In Mr.. Parker's opinion
the racetrack has been really detriment
to the best interests of Richmond, attract
ing an element that did that portion OF the
City no good in true business sense.
The residents of Richmond are more or
less divided on the racetrack question
There are two rival improvement associa-
tions there, apparently representing oppo'
site shades of opinion. The other organ
ization is called the Richmond District
Improvement Association, with Charles
H. Hubbs as its head, and the Richmond
Banner as its organ.
l. Mr.. Hubbs' organization and the Banner
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
CONTINENTAL,

Be sure to sell this ticket to some promi-
nent person who would not object to hav-
ing his name published should he draw a
large prize.
Another of the Enclosures is a confden-
tial circular, fac-simile of which is pro-
duced herewith. OF course, the circular is
rather deity worded. 1t does not say, in
plain language, eve do not have a fair
and honest drawing, but doctor everything
to suit the needs of our swindling bust
ness"
1t does not say: Cali that about draw
ings and prizes is bosh. We have no
drawings, but place few dollars here and
there each month, just to stimulate the
swindle."
The circular of the company does not
say these things outright, but any inteli-
gent reader who cannot find as much and
more In the specious wording of this ''con-
hdentlai document is very. very much a
greenhorn, and ought to have a guardian
appointed to prevent him or her from vast
ing silver dollars by trying to hit the moon
with them.
What remains of a lottery scheme when
the elements of chance and fairness are
taken from it? Only a swindle. The lot
terry business in San Francisco is a swindle
from first to last. There is not one chance
in ten thousand of ticket-buyer winning
as much as the price of his ticket-and
this in spite of the paid advertisements in
the daily papers.
Q. 2. Reynolds, the "responsible'' man
in this City for the irresponsible Spanish
American Lottery fraud, who was recently
arrested at the instance of Detective
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
After Eating Onions.

"Uncle Jerry" Rusk, when Secretary of
Agriculture, met friend on Fifteenth
street. Washington, one day. The friend
looked puzzled and somewhat depressed.
whats the matter with your" asked
"Uncle Jerry"
''I'm in euandary about an important
matter" said the friend. Maybe you can
help me-
"Well," said the Secretary, "what is it
~ don't know" said the friend,
whether ever told you that am subject
at intervals to the widest craving
for beefsteak and onions. 1t has all
the characteristics of confirmed drunk
ards craving for the rum bottle. This
craving struck rue afew moments ago and /
at once determined to crafty it when din
ner-time came. Then 1 suddenly recalled
that / had promised to call this evening
on some ladies who are here from my home
and l must keep that promise. Yet my
stomach is shouting for beefsteak and
onions, and ! am wavering between duty
and appetite"
Cant you wait until after the call ?'
asked ''Uncle Jerry" solicitously.
Never" said the friend, earnestly.
Cant You postpone the call?''
Impossible said the friend.
"Well," said "Uncle jerry "Tn tel
you what to do. When dinner time comes
you go up to John C-'s and get YOU
beefsteak and onions and eat 'em. Whef
you get your check it will be so big that il
will take your breath away" New Yorl
World"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

the proceeds of the sale it was proposed to
build the new temple.
The venture did not meet with quite SO
liberal backing as was anticipated.
Mainly through the energy displayed by
the president of the congregation, A. Alt
mayer, sufficient money has been realized
to warrant the erection of the new place
of worship. The congregation has for
some time past been worshiping at Golden
Gate Hall, but it is thought that the build
ing OF the synagogue on Bush street will
be the forerunner of new era OF prosper
lty for the Congregation Ohabai Shalome.
The plans for the new building include
a special room or hall for the use of the
auxiliary, with stage accommodation. The
whole of the interior will be illuminated
with incandescent lights, and a handsome
pulpit will be a feature. The design of the
building will be Byzantine and the eIeva-
ton shows lofty minarets, string of
Moorish arches below the spring of the
roof and the tables set In sort of dormer
projection.
The programme for next Sunday will be
a specially attractive one. A large united
choir, composed of male and female singers
from the synagogues OF this City, will rem
der appropriate psalms and hymns. Rabbi
Israel, will read the service. and will de-
liver the principal address of the day, as
we'll as the dedicatory prayer. The Hon.
julius Kahn, who has been prominently
identified with the committee, has also
signified his intention to be present and to
deliver an address. The band of the Pa
cific Hebrew Orphan Asylum will be on
the ground and will perform selections of
classical music The arrangements for the
occasion have been placed in the hands of
special committee, under the presidency
OF a. Altmayer, president of the Congrega-
ton Ohabai Shalome.
The building will be ready for occupancy
in time for the Hebrew high festivals in
September next.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

have been friendly toward Mr.. Williams,
and they rather favor the racetrack. Still,
II 1t could be made to appear more in keep
ing with the true advancement of the dis
trict they would not enter any protest
against the giving place to pleasant tract
OF pretty villas with front yards full of
flowers.
The general sentiment of the entire dis
trict seems to be that every effort should
be put forth toward making it most de-
slrable residence portion. Now the fact is
that It has really been built up away from
afraid to get too close. This has not been
very agreeable to adjacent property own
ers, and 1t was probably their influence
that induced Colonel Crocker to abolish
the track and put the land on the market.
The opinion OF property-owners is that
the racetrack has had its day and served
its purpose. 1t is altogether too near
eted.
The park is really the attraction that has
drawn the street railways there, as every
body knows.
The racetrack is too near the park. To
say the least, it is on the wrong side of the
PARK, being Just where people want to
build nice residences.
A visit to the racetrack yesterday after
noon demonstrated that the horsemen
would not regret seeing the Bay District
track, go, provided better one could be
found at Ingleside, and they feel confident
that the Pacific Jockey Clubs new track
will be better one.
The story in yesterdays CALL was the
talk OF the track and of lovers of horse
flesh all over town. Horsemen are very
much dissatisfied with the Bay District
track, and declare they cannot make any
money. The only people, they say. who
seem to realize anything out of the track
are the bookmakers, and as a consequence
horse-racing has become demoralized into
vulgar gambling business.
Take the man who by legitimate racing
has probably made more winnings than
any other one man this season, and who
does not bet at all-Charles Boots. He is
said to have cleaned up over $13, 900 in
purses at this meeting, and yet has little
or nothing to show for it. 1t is all eaten
up in expenses-entrance money and dec
larations, and the stabling, feed and jockey
bills.
There is another man who has string
OF winners, and yet the meeting has proved
unprofitab Bile to him. This is common talk
at the track.
The consensus of opinion is that the
track is not as fast one as San Francisco
ought to have. IL is too narrow, and al
though good time has been made upon it
the soil is of such a nature as to make it
frequently little too heavy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
RAILROAD ALTERATIONS.
The Donahue Company Begins
Improvements at Santa
Rosa.
Changes In Passenger Offices ir
This City-The Santa Fee
Makes Move.

The San Francisco and North Pacific
Railway, which is Familiarity known as
the "Donahue road" has made arrange
ments for improved facilities in handling
its passenger business. In line with its
new policy of improvement in every de-
partment of its service changes for the
better have been planned, and for that
reason the public having any direct in
terest in the railway from riburon to
Ukiah may look for general betterment
in whatever pertains to their welfare.
The management has taken an office for
its passenger department on Market
street, below Kearny, where the Santa Fe
Company has had its ticket office for some
years. The Donahue Office on New Mont
gomery street, near Market, will move
next month to its new and snowy quarters
on Market street, which are regarded
among railroad men as the best in town
for railroad agency.
1t is the intention of General Passenger
Agent r. x. Ryan to furnish the new
Office elegantly, and decorate it with pho
tographs of celebrated springs, resorts,
fishing and shooting strongholds, vine-
yards, cities. hoplands. ranches and red
wood forests on or near the line of the road
in Sonoma, Marin and Mendocino coun-
ties, and to utilize the window space for
advertising the road.
Recently a committee of citizens from
Santa Rosa waited on President Foster and
the other officials of the line, and asked
for better freight and passenger depots at
tn cir city. Santa Rosans would like to see
handsome passenger depot erected that
would be in harmony with the many i'm
provements which have been under way
for months in Sonoma's capital city.
1t will be only matter of a little time
now until they have station that will
surpass their wishes. Already the railway
company has begun to move the freight
depot further back from the main line.
The increase of the freight business OF
Santa Rosa in wines, hops, flour and dairy
and farm produce absolutely demanded
this improvement. So the railway freight
sheds will be doubled in capacity, and with
new side tracks an open track for through
trains will be assured.
With regard to the passenger station, it
is intended to remove the present build
ings and erect suitable structures capable
| of accommodating the demand made upon
the station house.
The Santa Fe Companys passenger
offices, on the fourth floor of the Chronicle
building, will be vacated and moved to a
store further down Market street, where
the ticket office will also be located. AS.
sistant General Passenger Agent Speers
and General Ticket Agent Perkins will
have their offices in the new place, and fol-
the first time these departments will be
consolidated by the Santa Fee Company in
San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
HALE { NORCROSS SUIT.
The Delay Of the Supreme
Court Said to Be Causing
Great Loss.
THREATS OF STOCKHOLDERS.
Many Of the Poorer Ones VIII Be
Unable to Pay the ASSESS
ment.

Several thousand dollars worth of the
Hale & Norcross mining stock yesterday
became delinquent.
The daily increasing anxiety of the sew
eral hundred small stockholders, who have
been awaiting the decision of the Supreme
Court, was wrought up to climax yester.
day when it was learned that the long
waited-for decision had not been handed
down as expected, and many and loud
were the expressions of wrath heard in the
vicinity of the stockholders offices on Pine
street.
When M. w. Fox won his suit agains,
the directors of the Hale & Norcross Min
ing Company and the Nevada Mining and
Milling Company in May, 1892, and secured
a Judgment for 81 oil 900, several thousand
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
THE ENVELOPE THAT CONTAINED


the last two weeks the traffic in lottery
tickets has decreased fully so per cent.
Any agent or peddler will tell you the
game thing, but you will find it more diff
cult to talk to an agent or peddler now
than formerly. And the cause of this is
that there are fewer of these people in the
business now, and that those who still sell
lottery tickets do so more secretly than
heretofore. The business is not being car
ried on in the same brazen, open-handed
manner it used to be.
An agent will not sell you lottery tickets
now unless he knows you, or you go to
him well recommended by some pal of his.
And all this is due mainly to the recent ex-
posures made by the CALL. Hitherto but
few people knew that the lottery business
was a fraud from start to finish; that the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30

person offered, but the identical ticket that
should win the prize.
What kind of a lottery company is it
that says to this or that man "this or that
ticket will draw big prize; you had better
buy it"?
Do you want to patronize lottery "com-
pany" that does business in this way? II
the company" will do it once it can be
trusted to do it again. Well, here is the
literature:
April 10, 1894, package of fifty 81 tickets
was sent to S. S. Gordan of this City from
the Louisiana Lottery Company" Ac-
companying the tickets was small envel-
ope containing another ticket-No. 4975S.
On the back of this envelope was printed
in penmanship the following:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
ANOTHER LOTTERY FAKE,
Some of the Swindling Meth.
DDS of the Louisiana Com
pany Fraud.
PLACING A CAPITAL PRIZE.
Good Results of the "CalPS" Cru
sade-PubIicity Killing the In
famous Traffic.

That the CAIL's crusade against the lot
teries is bearing fruit is evidenced in many
ways, but in no way so strikingly as in the
large decline of business done by the agents
and peddlers. The police report that within