The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-20
BERKELEY.

There will be a civil-service examination
at the kellogg Schoolhouse on May at 8
A. NJ, for the purpose of securing persons
eligible fer clerkshlps in the Berkeley Post
office.
There are no vacancies at present, but
the commission desires to have eligibles on
hand in case of emergency. Albert Will
son. who TOOK the examination in last Au-
gust, will be placed on duty next Monday,
as the present force of employees is made
quate,
The system of delivering mails twice
daily, which was put into effect few
weeks ago, has proved ito be very salts
factory, and Postmaster Mccarthy is en-
deavoring to make the service even better
The placing OF another assistant IN the
Office viii permit him to give more atten-
ton to the matter OF free delivery.
L. C.-Stanford Annual Debate.
The annual intercollegiate debate will
take place this evening in Metropolitan
Hall. San Francisco, upon "The Initiative
and Referendum in California" The
complete statement of the question IS
thus:
Resoived: That in California, any Legisla-
tive enactment not decided urgent, shall
be submitted 70 q vote of the citizens,
upon petition of per cent of the qualified
voters, provided such petition is made
within sixty days, and furthermore that
any measure proposed by petition OF 10
per cent of the voters shall be submitted to
the people by the Legislature.
Stanford has the affirmative and its side
of the question will be defended by Benja-
min f. Bledsoe, Burton NJ. Palmer and T..
de Los Magee. The Berkeley men who
viii stand for the opposition are James
W. Clarke. George F. McNoble and Mar
tin c. Flaherty.
The debate will begin promptly at
o'clock and the time for each speaker will
be limited TO twenty minutes, with an
extra ten minutes for the closing speaker
on the affirmative.
The Judges will be Warren Olney,
Charles Page and Hon. w. W. Morrow.
The Berkeley men will make a hard fight
for the honors of the contest, since both
the regular debate held last year and the
Carnot debate of the 18th inst. were de-
cided in favor of their Stanford opponents.
intercollegiate Baseball.
The .. C. baseball nine will 60 to Palo
Alto this morning, where they will play
the Stanford team this afternoon. Should
the wearers of the cardinal win the game
the intercollegiate championship for the
season OF 1895 will 90 to them as they have
already defeated the Berkeley boys once
this year.
The terms of the agreement state that
the championship shah go to the college
winning the first two out of three games.
The men who will make up the U. c.
team are: Z. Elston, catcher; Bond,
pitcher; Harvey, first base; Johnson, Sec
ond base; Foster, shortstop; Blasingame
third base; Hoag, left field; Proctor, center
field; +. Elston, right field.
Senator Gesford Injured.
Senator Gesford OF Napa County was in
jured last evening at Emeryville, while on
his way from Sacramento to San Fran
cisco. He was sitting near the window of
the car, and as they approached the station
several small boys threw stones at the
cars, and one of them broke the window
next to Mr.. Gesford, and some of the fine
particles of the broken glass flew into one
of his eyes. How seriously the accident
viii terminate cannot yet be learned. Con-
stable Kellener of Berkeley arrested Otto
Dorsey, Frank Silva and Will Cochran and
lodged them in prison, charging them with
malicious mischief.