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The morning call., 1895-02-10
BASEMENT WORKERS.
Edward LawIer Arrested and Charged
With Burglary.

Edward Lawler, a teamster, II years of
age, was booked at the City Prison last
night on the charge of burglary. He was
arrested and taken to the prison by John
G. Gray a young man VINO lives at AL
Franklin street. Gray said that his mother
had gone to Stockton on a visit. He went
to the Cliff House yesterday afternoon,
ana when he returned the lady next door
told him that two young men had broken
into the house through the basement door.
She had asked one of them what he was
doing IN the house, and he replied that he
wanted to see the lady.
Gray started off in search Of the two
young men. From the description he felt
sure they belonged to a gang Of basement
workers who infested Hayes Valley. When
detected they make pretext of selling
potatoes. Gray took young man to the
lady next door, but she could not identify
him. Then he found Lawler, and the lady
at once identified him.
Gray missed dollar which he had left
under pincushion on the bureau In his
bedroom and package of cigarettes. He
will not know whether any of his mothers
things are missing until she returns from
Stockton.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
MAY LET BIG CONTRACTS.
Victor Hoffman's Suit Against the Har-
Dor Board Dismissed.

Dor Board dismissed.
Judge Sanderson has rendered his decis-
ion in the suit of Victor Hoffman against
the Board of Harbor Commissioners, and
by the terms of his decree the Harbor Com
mission will be allowed to let contracts for
the whole of the big ferry depot, or Tor any
part it wishes. Hoffman wanted to be
allowed to bid on the contract for iron
work, but was prevented from doing so be-
cause the board advertised for bids on the
contract as whole. Backed by a number
of contractors who, like himself, could bid
upon piecemeal contracts but could not
undertake the work as a whole, Hoffman
sued to compel the board to advertise for
piece as well as for entire contracts.
The matter dwindled down to question
as to what law primarily governs the acts
of the Harbor Commission, whether the
general terms of the act of the Legislature
bearing on the case shall obtain at all
times or if the provisions of the Political
Code were to be followed in cases where
they do not conflict with the organic law.
The act of the Legislature in question re-
quires that all public work shall be done,
when possible, by piecemeal contracts, and
upon this provision Hoffman's suit was
based. The Political Code, however, allows
the Harbor Commissioners to let contracts
for the entire proposed work, and the court
held, with the defense, that this special
privilege was in no way conflicting to the
general law and that the act of the Legis-
lature which requires piecemeal contracts,
not having included the Harbor Commits
sion, could not be held to apply to it, and
the provisions of the Political Code must
therefore govern.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
Delay Denies the Story.

Daniel j. Delay, principal of the Ocean
View school, called at the CALL office Sat
urday evening and denied the truth OF
the article recently published in the papers
relative to his implied treatment of the old
pioneer, J. Edward Delay, his father. He
stated that be is providing for the elderly
gentleman and doing his best to make him
comfortable. but that the S0-year-old man,
being in his dotage, is feeble-minded, hence
he wandered away from home, told his
story of want and privation, and was sent
to the Almshouse by the strangers who
found him.
Mr.. Delay also stated that he has taken
the old man home, where he will be cared
for. He, however, mentioned that two
other sons, who were employed in the city,
were without families and perfectly able
to contribute to their fathers support. but
had never done so, statement which
renders part of the old mans complaint of
some weight, however mentally feeble he
NAV be-
The morning call., 1895-02-10

The corporation was regularly organized
under the name of the Union Forge and
Gun Company and had for its incorpora-
tors Irving NJ. Scott, II. L. Scott, c. a.
Spreckels, p \. LiIlienthal, II. S. Dodge,
George g. Perkins, j. NJ. Knowles, NJ.
Griffith, J. B. Stetson, Charles Holbrook,
John Merrill, J. n. Howard II. J. Crocker
and J. OBJ. Gum.
when this corporation was formed, T"
said Henry T. Scott, "we fully expected to
get permission from the Government TO
build guns here. The idea was to make
Benicia a finishing arsenal, the same as at
Watervliet, n. V, where the mortars are
now made, and a bill was introduced in
Congress looking to that end. But the
Senators and Congressman from the North
got in and made fight to have the arsenal
located on Puget Sound. So the matter
ended.
There is no reason why we can't get out
rough castings for mortars here, and if the
foundTies are not in a position to do the
work, which L believe they are, the Union
Forge and Gun Company will put in a
gun plant for the purpose, and that just as
soon as the Government indicates its will
ingness to have the guns built here. Such
a plant would cost about 81, 800 900. F."
The amendment to the fortifcation bill,
now under consideration, will enable the
iron and steel contractors of San Francisco
to compete on their own plans, and under
certain conditions, for fifty mortars, to cost
$500 each. Any process they may see fit
to employ, says the dispatch, may be
adopted by the contractors for making
guns equal in pressure per square inch
and range to those produced at present.
The amendment to the bill in question
reads that: Whenever any party shall
present for test completed breech-loading
mortar of twelve inches caliber of not more
than 10000 pounds weight. built of mortar
steel, with a proper supply OF ammunition
therefor, not exceeding 200 rounds, each
mortar shall be tested by the chief of
ordnance; and should il be shown
TO the satisfaction of said chief of
ordnance by such test to be at least equal in
accuracy, range, power and endurance,
material and general efficiency to Pinch
castiron, steel-hooped breech-loading ser
vice mortar, mortar and ammunition shall
be paid for, including cost of Transports
ton, and a contract be made for a further
supply OF fifty, at such reasonable cost as
the chief of ordnance shall determine, not
to exceed $500 each, the entire number to
he delivered In one year from date OF con-
tract"
According to the new process the whole
gun IS cast at once in a vacuum. There
are absolutely no blowholes and the gun is
solid, compact and durable, and costs 20
cents per pound. These are the guns that
are now being mounted at Fort Point and
which are built in the East.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
TO BE SACRIFICED.
The Famous Gump Art Gallery Will Go
at Auction.

The famous Gump collection Of paintings, en-
bracing gems from every noted salon in Europe
and many of them purchased at an enormous out
lay of money, has been for many years an object of
interest to those who admire the beautiful in art
especially the gallery containing them has been
open to free inspection by all visitors. This collec
ton has become too valuable lit represents too
much money! to be longer maintained intact by its
owners, who yet are 10th to part with it. The
Messrs. Gump have, however, determined upon an
auction sale of the entire magnificent collection.
the sale to be held at the old Y. NJ c. A. Hall 232
Suffer ST., commencing next Thursday evening at
TAB. A last free exhibition of the paintings will
be given at the hall Tuesday and Wednesday
afternoons and evenings and on Thursday after
noon Easton, Eldridge & Co. viii conduct the
oa1o
The morning call., 1895-02-10
DEATH OF GILBERT CLEMENTS.
His Sterling Character Merchant and
Man Endeared Him to All.

His Sterling Character as Merchant and
Man Endeared Him to All.
Again we are called upon to chronicle
the death of leading citizen.
Gilbert Clements, for twenty-five years a
prominent merchant of this city, has
passed from our midst.
Born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1929, at the
age of years his parents removed to
Liverpool, England, where he received his
education and business training.
At the age of % years he came to America
and entered into successful mercantile pur-
suits in Utah and Nevada, following the
westward march Of progress until it landed
him in San Francisco With the exception
of q prolonged visit to his ancestral home
in 1866 for well-earned rest and recreation,
Gilbert Clements has been closely identified
with the commercial growth and progress
of the coast, and his loss will be keenly
felt by every one with whom he has had
business and social relations. In him
were happily combined the genial wit and
bonhomie of the Irish, the sturdy man
hood and conservative character of the
English, and the enterprise and business
shrewdness of the American.
Scrupulously honest and honorable in all
his methods, vet kind and considerate to a
fault. he made all those who came into
contact with him his personal friends, and
the loving memories OF those to whom he
has indeed been true and steadfast friend
will prove an enduring monument to his
character and worth, and will greatly aid
in sustaining his family in their sad aftiie-
ton.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
FATHER OF His COUNTRY.
WaShington's Birthday Is to Be
Celebrated.
The Junior Order of American Mechanics
Will Lead in the Patriotic
Ceremonies.

Preparations are being made by the
Junior Order of American Mechanics and
kindred American associations to celebrate
Washington's birthday on the Odd inst. in
a manner BETTING the memory of the
father of his country.
The Junior Order of American Me-
chanics, claiming membership of 2500
in the United States, 5000 of whom are in
this State, with large number in this city,
are determined to observe Washington s
day this year in manner heretofore I'M
equaled. With this object the councils in
this city have issued an address to patriotic
citizens, asking for assistance and partici-
patton in the.celebration.
In this circular letter they say:
Others might have arisen capable of per-
forming the deeds OF valor and wisdom which
the exigencies of the times demanded, but our
immortal Washington did arise eminently
qualified and apparently destined for the i'm
portant work before him. His heroic courage
and notable perseverance in leading the
patriotic tatterdemalions to victory was grand
~ supplemented by the mildness, paternal care
and almost supernal wisdom so requisite in
guiding the nation during the critical period
of its birth and infancy.
Shall we, the recipients OF the matured
blessings secured by the noble efforts of the
hero statesman born February %, 1882, allow
pdJTlOtlC UloOu W StstS Ddte III our veins ana
pass by, unheeded this natal day? Has our
love of country degenerated to ignoble desires
for personal greed, gain and ACKNOWLEDGMENT?
We think not.
We believe that the spirit of re is still alive
i'll the hearts OF every true American, and that
q call to celebrate the anniversary of Washing
toms birthday will meet with cordial re-
spouse from every patriot in this city, Freely
conceding that the enthusiasm displayed by
our adopted citizens in celebrating notable
days i'll the history OF their native land is
worthy of commentator, we nevertheless be-
lieye that even these, if true to the home of
in our devotion to the memory of the man
s'First in war, first in peace and first in the
hearts of his countrymen?
Entertaining these views a committee COM
posed OF delegates appointed by the various
councils of San Francisco and Oakland decided
to celebrate the 22d day of February 1895, in
an appropriate manner. 1t is deemed proper
that the celebration shall be distinctly Ameri-
can, under the @gis of Old Glory.
To this circular encouraging replies have
been received from the councils in Oakland
and other towns adjacent to this city.
The San Francisco members will assem-
BILE at their headquarters and march to the
Oakland ferry at the foot of Market street
and receive the Oakland delegation, thence
the procession will march through the
principal streets to Woodward's Gardens,
where speakers will deliver patriotic adj
dresses appropriate to the occasion.
There will be large floats drawn repre-
senting some of the celebrated battles in
which Washington and his gallant army
were engaged
The morning call., 1895-02-10
OHOKED WITH A STOCKING.
Elsie Merchant Tried to Kill Herself in
Jail.

Elsie Merchant, a young woman of cratic
habits who was recently released from
prison after serving one year for grand lar
ceny, attempted suicide by strangling in
the Southern police station yesterday
morning. She had been arrested on a
charge of stealing SIS from country mer-
chant, who had come to the city to see the
sights.
At an early hour yesterday morning
Elsie was discovered in the act of choking
her life out by tying stocking around her
neck. She succeeded 80 far as to appear
unconscious, but was soon restored to life.
She was conveyed to the Receiving Hos
and her ways say that she has regularly
fixed habit of attempting suicide and
having fits when in prison.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
TO BUILD BIG GUNS.
4 Corporation Ready to Put
In a Plant.
BILL NOW In CONGRESS-.
Local Contractors May Soon Construct
Coast MOrtarS.
GENERAL COMPETITION is FAVORED.
The Construction Of Fifty Guns to Cost
Six Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars Each.
GENERAL COMPETITION is FAVORED.

The news comes from Washington that
the iron and steel contractors of San Fran
cisco Will probably be given an opportunity
to enter the competition for the building
of mortars for coast defense purposes. A
dispatch to that end was published in THE
CALL yesterday morning and was read
with deep interest by foundrymen.
The question of constructing coast-de-
Tense guns was considered here some three
years ago and a company was organized to
put in a gun plant and carry on the work.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
Lepislatine for Police Courts.

Assemblyman Frank Powers, chairman
of the San Francisco delegation, will take
charge of ex-Prosecuting Attorney G. W.
Reeds Police Court bill and present it to
the delegation for their consideration next
Tuesdap The bill is a literal copy of
chapter VII, article V, OF the proposed new
and adopted by the Freeholders without
amendment.
AS the proposed charter will not be
The morning call., 1895-02-10

Valley, has filed articles of Incorporation.
The corporation will erect lighthouses, de-
and operate an electric plant and will
operate telephone franchises. 1t has a
capital stock of $1,000,0 600, $500 of which
has been subscribed. $100 each by the fol-
lowing directors: Daniel E. Hayes, e.
Steele, John P. Fraser, F. w. Marvin and
William w Marvin.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
Encvclopedia britannica.

Subscribers OF THE CALL who have failed
to obtain complete set of the Encyclo-
pedia Britannica as offered by The CALL
several months ago can obtain the entire
work by giving order now for the number of
volumes required to complete the set. The
publishers of the work have arranged that
no orders will be filled after March l. 1t
is therefore necessary that orders be taken
before that date.
The morning call., 1895-02-10

At Hennock, in Devonshire, says the
Guardian, the vicar refused to allow a
grave in the churchyard to be covered or
stone set up on it because the undertaken
employed at the funeral was a dissenter.
The family of the buried person had tried
every means to make him yield in vain,
when one man knocked him down. For
this the vicar summoned him to court,
where he received one shilling damages.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
Another Bunko Sharp Caught.

Charles Johnson, alias Charles Thomas,
was arrested on Ninth street by Officers
charged with obtaining money under false
pretences and vagrancy. He promised to
locate Frank A. George upon a piece of
land, and succeeded in getting $27 80 out of
him. When the latter found that he could
get neither land nor money he had John
son arrested
The morning call., 1895-02-10
Manager Adams Resigns.

Owing to friction among the members OF
the California Fruit Exchange Manager
Edward F. Adams has resigned In his
letter to the exchange, which met at the
rooms of the Horticultural Commission,
he states that he has sacrificed his own in
terests and inclinations as long as he is
willing to do so and wishes to be relieved
of the burden of his duties which have
been made irksome by ANNOYING criticisms.
The morning call., 1895-02-10

Business methods prevail in South
Africa. Instead of each mans raiding for
himself, the plumber taken from Lo Ben
gula's Matabeles was turned over to COM
mittee, which now announces in the Balu-
wayo papers that it has finished its work
and has distributed $4,000 among the
victors. Some 500, 900 from savages is not
bad showing.
The morning call., 1895-02-10

voted upon till April 16, it is almost GER
tain that the Legislature will have decided
whether the abuses of our Police courts
shall continue before they have an oppor-
tunity to accept or reject the charter as
whole. If the bill is passed by the Legis-
iature and the proposed charter is after,
ward accepted, the Police Court blu Will
merge into the charter.
The morning call., 1895-02-10

the defendants had never owned the lot.
She was then promised a return of the in
stallments she had paid, but as the money
has not been forthcoming she has brought
suit for it.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
RUPTURE.
DIR. C. z. Ellis Cures 1T.

DIR. C. q. Ellis treatment of Rupture is appl-
cable to either sex and cures without any de-
tention from business. He is not engaged in
selling trusses, but personally treats and cures
all cases undertaken The following are two of
the many testimonials on file in DR.. Ellis
office:
To WHOM IT MAY CoNcERN-After twenty-five
who can cure rupture For twenty-five
years l nave suffered as only badly
ruptured person can suffer, and many
times my rupture strangulated, making
it necessary to call physicians for relief tried
many kinds of trusses, but could not find one
that would hold my rupture. Seeing DR.. C. q.
The morning call., 1895-02-10
Football at Central Park.

The Lincoln Grammar School football
team will meet the champions OF Sausalito
to-day in a game at Central Park The
makeup of the team is as follows:
The morning call., 1895-02-10
A New Sanitarium.

The Mill Valley Mineral Springs Com
pany, formed for the establishment of a
sanitarium and health resort at Mill
The morning call., 1895-02-10

TWENTY-SECOND STREET,
TERMS-Half cash, balance in or wears in
terest per cent per annum.
TITLE-Guaranteed perfect by the California
Title Insurance and Trust Company for the nom
inal sum OF $40 per lot. Cali for diagrams and
catalogues.
The morning call., 1895-02-10

The Know Nothing party had its origin
in 1854.
The morning call., 1895-02-10

Ellis advertisement l consulted him and de-
cided to be treated. was under his treatment
about five weeks, and am as far as l can Judge,
perfectly cured. Being 90 years of age, and so
many wears ruptured, l consider his treatment
wonderful. This statement is made with the
hope that it will be the means of directing
others who suffer as / did to q physician who
can curearuptuTe. HARVEY SMITH, Lodi, Cal.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1895-11-28
THE MILKY WAY.

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: The
Iroquois creamery comm e n d
business April 4, 1893, with ff-
teen patrons who furnished 700
pounds of milk daily. Itnow has
us patrons who furnish as high
as $4,000 pounds per day. The
creamery pays out about $100 per
day to the farmers for milk. The
income to the farmer per COW is
from $1.50 to 81 per month, de-
pending on the feed, care and
breeding of the COW. The farm
er who has poor stock and feeds
carelessly gets just about enough
returns to pay for the work; while
the farmer who has good animals,
who knows how to seed and care
for them is the one who makes
the profit. This difference OF
So. so per cows marks the line be.
tween success and failure.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1895-11-28
NEBRASKA GOLD srK1R Es.

Great Excitement Over Discoveries Made
In York County.
York, Neb., Nov. 22---The gold
excitement in Ne braska ha S
spread from Lincoln county to
York county. The discovery
that gold deposits exist in the
latter locality resulted from the
exhibition in the court house at
York of specimens of pay dirt in
the fields in Seward county. A
number of residents Of the place
declared, as soon as they saw the
exhibit, that large deposits of the
same character existed bou
York, and an examination of the
soil on the farms of Judge Ben
nett and c. A. McCloud, in West
Blue township, Youx county, has
confirmed this opinion. Samples
of the dirt are to be sent to an as
sayer, from whom the interested
parties look confidently for a fav.
orable repart.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1895-11-28

INCOME OF THE RAILROADS
Interstate Commerce Commission Has
sued les Annal Report.

Interstate Commerce Commission Has Is.
sued les Annal Report.
Washington, Nov. 25.---Thein-
ter state commerce commission
has just issued a report on the in
come of railroads in the United
States for the year ending June
80, 1895, prepared by the statis-
tician. The report includes the
returns from $50 roads whose re-
ports were filed on or before Nov.
., 1895, and cover the operation
of 164,52 miles of line or 90 per
cent of the total mileage in the
United States. The gross earn
ings were 81, ,oo3, 025,853 of which
1928, 465,792 was from passenger
service, S683, ,O22, 9s8 from freight
and $26, ,217, sos were other earn
ings from operation, covering
earnings from telegraph, car mile
age balances, switching charges,
etc. The operating expenses
were s677, ,677,635, leaving net
earnings ss25,755,216 as compar-
ed with net earnings of $500, 49,
go for the same roads in 1894.
Reduced to a mileage basis,
gross earnings were $4,000, oper-
ating expenses were S4,119 and
net earnings we're S1,977, or de-
crease in gross earnings of $13
per mile as compared with 1894
and of $1.94 per mile as compared
with 1898, a decrease in operat-
ing expenses of S44 mile as com
pared with 1894 and of $757 per
mile as compared with 1898. Net
earnings show gain over 1894 OF
$316 per mile of line, but de.
crease Of 1877 per mile as COM
pared with 1898. Passenger re-
ceipts fell off $177 per mile as com.
pared with 1864, while freight re.
ceipts show a gain of s149 pei
mile. Passenger receipts were
1886 per mile less than i'll 1893,
and freight receipts show de.
crease as compared with that year
of s755 per mile.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1895-11-28
DEMoCRACY's roPE.
Salvation of the Party in 1896 as Viewed
by Senator Harris.


Senator Harris, the chairman
of the executive committee of six,
appointed at the Washington con-
ference of last August to organize
for the campaign of 1896 the free
silver democrats of the country,
has sent a letter to his colleagues,
the chief feature of which is the
following: ''In the light of re-
cent election results, there is, in
my opinion, no hope of Demo
cratic success in 1896, unless we
can succeed in so organizing the
bimetallic democrats as to secure
in the national convention a
plain, distinct and unmistakable
declaration in favor of the free
and Unlimited coinage of both sill
yer and gold without rega--d to
the financial policies of any coun-
try, and, therefore, it appears to
me that we should redoubie our
efforts to secure such organiza-
ton"
Senator Harris colleagues are
Senator Jones, of Arkansas; Sen
ator Turpie, of Indiana; Gov.
Stone, of Missouri; Hon. VIM. H.
Hinrichsen, of Illinois, and Casey
Young, of Tennessee.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1895-11-28
Mr.. OlneY thinks Waller

prison. Mr.. Olney thinks Waller
should be willing to waive all claims
for indemnity if the French will release
him as an act of courtesy, as has been
intimated they were willing to do,
while the Kansas delegation thinks it
the duty of this government to demand
his unconditional release, not as fav-
or but as an act of justice. If the mat
ter isn't settled before then it will fig
ure in congress.