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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
LATE NEWS OF ALAMEDA,
A Chinese Interpreter FieeCed
of His Coin by the Festive
Snowman.
Deed With Any Reservation.
The PhantaSma.

All Du, the welI-known Chinese inter
prefer, fell victim yesterday to the wiles
of that portion of the gambling fraternity
usually found IN the wake of the ever
fleeting circus. which yesterday showed at
Alameda.
All Du thereupon charged John Doe
with having stolen one United States gold
quarter eagle, but without satisfaction.
A Hitch in the Conditions.
The ordinance closing Railroad avenue,
from Park TO Foley streets, the location OF
the new passenger and freight depot, was
to have been passed by the Board of City
Trustees Monday evening, but delay has
The meeting of the railroad directors is
awaited with much interest, as, according
to the voluntary offer of the corporation,
the deed will be executed at that time
granting to the city rights on the avenue
west of Park street
Must Remove Their Hats.
The management of the phantasma en-.
tertainment to be held at Linderman
Opera-house Thursday and Friday even
ings of this week have made an earnest re-
quest to the ladies to remove their hats
during the performance. This is rather a
pertinent suggestion, as the time of view
dodge to and fro behind ballroom sleeves
and big hats for glimpse of the stage he
will see about as much of the performance
as a steamboat IN fog.
Night School Attendance.
The night school opened Monday even
ing with an attendance of twenty-five boys
and three girls in charge of 0. E, Swain.
The school is in the basement of the Porter
school. which has been recently fitted up
especially for the night school sessions.
Miller Property Attached.
The property on Railroad avenue, near
Walnut street, and at the corner of Pacific
avenue and Willow street, standing in the
name of Anna G. Miller has been attached
to satisfy claim of $16l, held by r. n.
Risdon.
Their Vacation Over.
The mothers and teachers will resume
their regular monthly meetings again.
The first will be held in the Unitarian
church, on Grand street, Friday afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock.
Christian Endeavor Union.
The annual meeting and social reunion
of the Alameda Christian Endeayor Union
will be held in the Congregational church
Friday evening.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
COUNCIL OF CATHOLICS,
Eighth Annual Session of the
Young Mems Catholic
Union.
DEATH BENEFITS DISCUSSED.
Reports From Grand Officers Show
That the Society Is Flour
iShing.

The second session of the eighth Grand
Council of the Young Mems Catholic
Union, at Loyola Hall, Tenth and Market
streets. last night, was devoted wholly to
consideration of amendments to the con-
stitution. Grand President Hanrahan oc-
cupied the chair
At the opening nights session commit
tees were appointed on various heads as
follows:
Appeals-M. Rodgers, Philip Bolger, ]. ].
Sheehan.
credentials--w. J. MahOney, Joseph Campo
Leglslation-J. D. Blizzard, james English,
Samuel Haskins.
Reports were submitted by the grand
president. grand secretary, grand treas
urer and board of trustees. The grand pre-
siding officer report was in the nature of
an address of welcome and congratula-
lions on the union S prosperity throughout
the year.
Grand Treasurer English announced that
during the year $4,000 rs had been expended
in death benefits among families of de-
ceased members, and it had all come from
an assessment of 80 cents upon the death
of a member.
The grand secretary in his annual re-
port said: There has been marked in
crease in the membership of our society
now some 1850 members throughout the
State. These constitute eleven branches
or assemblies with headquarters In this
City. During the year nearly hundred
new members have joined the order. This
is the largest number of recruits in the
history of the order for the same period"
The death-beneht feature was regarded
by some delegates as too burdensome and
they endeavored to have it abolished, but
the movement was defeated,
Propositions to reduce the initiation fee
in subordinate assemblies and making the
benefit optional with members were
also rejected.
The election of officers will take place
this evening. F. G. Kenney and 2. Molloy
are candidates for the office of grand presi-
dent. James English is almost certain of
reelection as grand treasurer, and Samuel
Haskins and ]. J. Sheehan are anxious to
be the grand secretary. The present Off
GERS are:
Grand President J. Hanrahan, Grand First
Vice-President A. n. Giannini, Second Grand
Vice-President Frank C. Kenney, Grand Secre-
tary Samuel Haskins, Grand Treasurer James
English Grand Marshal J. A. Bryan, Grand In
side Sentinel Il. W. Salter, Grand Outside Sem
mel J. V. BLIZZARD, Grand Trustees Rev. ]. F..
Byrne, John Coughlan, j. ]. Donigan, II. Nc
Laughlin and P. Molloy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
HISTORY OF YESTERDAY.
Alameda County Happenings Told in
Brief Chapters.


Brief Chapters.
There is q deficit in the Alameda Country
treasury and some sensations are expected.
Frank Faro, aged IA, has been brought up
from Haywards upon charge of burglary. He
has brother at Whittier.
Mary Gardiner objects to 5000 counsel fees
and Sl33 for funeral expenses in the account
OF w. B. King, executor of the will OF Mena
King.
William Gibbs, who claimed A. j. Farmer hit
him with loaded cane on Sunday night, had
lacerated wound sewed up at the Receiving
Hospital.
Joe Silva, the man who shot Daniel Jones,
the night watchman OF the Market-street
wharf will have his preliminary examination
August ID.
Carrie NJ. bearing has been granted di-
voTce from Arthur bearing on the ground OF
willful desertion. There is no order as to
counsel ices CT aIimony.
J. A Miller's resort on the San Pablo road,
known as the Shawsville saloon, has again
been attached this time by R. n. Risdon 4 Co..
for 1924 and Watson d O'Brien for 1851.
Lydia A. Dean, Sprstt Dean and James o.
Hutch1ngs have demurred to the complaint or
Dorothea HutchingS to set aside certain deeds
and for division OF property near Haywards
William S. Richards has been appointed sole
executor of the viii Of the late Seth Richards,
who left an estate worth upward OF 81 DOC, 900
The deceased resided on the corner OF Web
ster and Orchard streets.
The first annual report OF the administrator
of the estate of Morris Goldberg was approved
yesterday. There is about $3.50, 900 on hand,
which the heirs want distributed. There are,
however, two contests pending.
Secretary Schafer of the Oakland Board of
Health has finished his report for the month
of July, showing "a deaths as against 90
births. The death rate was 1913, a little higher
than for the same month last year. OF the
births 90 were boys and 35 girls.
The contest over the appointment of an al
ministrator OF the estate of Catherine Mann,
who died in Redwood Canyon lately and left
$4,000. has been settled by the naming OF
Public Administrator Knight, who was the
choice of the decedent's husband.
R. W. Hawkins, druggist at Fourteenth and
Peralta streets was arrested yesterday after
noon on complaint of John D. Dawson, secre-
tary OF the State Society of Pharmacists, on the
charge of practicing pharmacy without a
license. He vas released on bonds.
A man named Rogers, patient OF the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company at Fabioa Hos
pital, had narrow escape from death Monday
night about O'Clock. He took an overdose Of
aconite and suffered intensely for number of
hours. Dr.. Olmstead was telephoned Tor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
THUGS IN EAST OAKLAND,
Three Attempts Made to Wreck
Highland Park EleC-
trio Car.
An Armed Deputy Sheriff Accom-
panies the Car on Its Third Trip
and Fires at the Wreckers,

Three determined attempts to create a
wreck on the Highland Park electric road
were made late Monday night and were
reported to the Sheriff yesterday. The
suspicious movements of some tramps in
the neighborhood convinced the conductor
that robbery was the motive.
When the car in charge Of Conductor E.
G. Dodge as going toward Beulah Park
about 9 o'clock the wheels struck some
thing hard. and serious jar was the re-
suit. The car was thrown off the track
and some glass broken. An examination
of the switch showed that it had been
thrown and plugged with rock and that
several boards had been placed on the
track. There were four passengers in the
car, but beyond fright they were not in
jured. The track was cleared and the car
continued on its journey.
On making the following trip an hour
later, the same car was derailed by the
plugging of the switch and by placing
rocks across the track. Two suspicious
looking men were seen to make off into
the woods Oh both sides of the road, being
frightened doubtless by the presence OF
about half dozen male passengers who
were in the car. The car was put on the
main track and the line cleared the second
time.
On the IL o'clock trip it was considered
advisable to take a constable on the car.
On approaching the switch the car slowed
up while an inspection of the road bed was
made. The switch was again found choked
with big rocks, and some portions of trees
were thrown across the track. The same
two men the conductor had noticed on the
previous trip were seen making off among
the trees, doubtless having seen the con-
stable. As they disappeared, the officer
fired a couple of shots after them, but
neither had any effect
The part OF the road where the attempts
at wrecking the car were made is the most
lonely part of the ride to the Hermitage,
resort that has frequently figured in Ala
media County scandals. The cars fire.
quently contain passengers that would
prove very profitable to a couple of smart
bighwaymen, and the conductor thinks
that the wreckers were actuated by
Just such motive. a Deputy Sheriff will
watch the road for time to insure against
further outrages.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
POOLRO0M ORDINANCE.
A Test Case Will Be Heard by Judge
Low This Morning to Decide Its
COnstitutionaIity.

The proprietors of poo,rooms are to
make determined fight to keep in the
business and the police are equally de-
termined to put a stop to it.
A test case will be made of that of J. B.
Goldtree, Leidesdorff street, which will be
heard in Judge Lows court this morning.
The defense has engaged Attorneys Foote
and Coogan, and the police have retained
ex-Judge Levy to assist Prosecuting At
torney Madden.
The defense claims that the poolroom
ordinance is unconstitutional. The police
are prepared to refute all the arguments of
the defense, and Captain Whitman was in
consultation with ex-Judge Levy yester-
day on the subject.
The poolroom ordinance distinctly laws
down that all pools or betting on the races
outside the Enclosure of the racetrack is IL
legal. Arrests have been made and the
cases tried before jury with conflicting re-
suits. One jury would bring in verdict
of acquittal and another would bring in
verdict of conviction. The question will
now be settled on its legal merits and will
be taken before the Supreme Court, no
matter which side wins in the lower courts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
J. N. E. WILSON'S ARRIVAL.
To-Day He Will Ask the Court to Grant
Him Divorce.

To-Day He Will Ask the Court to Grant
Him Divorce.
J. N. E. Wilson, formerly State Sen
ator and Insurance Commissioner, re-
turned from Mexico day before yesterday,
as The CALL predicted. He sought at once
the advice of Attorneys Eugene Bert and
Meyer Jacobs, but up to last night had not
seen his father, wife or mother-in-law
since his return. In an interview last
night he said in substance:
1 shall apply for divorce from my wife at
once. The complaint was drawn last May by
Meyer Jacobs while l was here in the City and
viii be fled tomorrow. The charge is infdel-
ity. | obtained sufficient proof against her last
May and so apprised her, but was anxious for q
separation rather than absolute divorce, but
the conduct of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah
f. Gouldin, has rendered it imperative that ]
should demand a divorce. 1t will probably be
q contested suit.
Reports had been circulated that 1 had OBJ
had squandered his fortune and left him pen.
niless. The truth is ! borrowed of my father
$14 900 and of that sum have repaid $4,000.
l have given him 81, 500 shares of the FL Car.
men mine and 81 800 Shares of the Coronado
mine. owe Mrs. Gouldin $500.
After explaining his financial status fur
Their Mr.. Wilson said, in regard to his ac-
counts as Insurance Commissioner, that
there was $2100 of Insurance Department
money in the Pacific Bank when that con-
Germ failed. For the failure of that bank
1 am not responsible. l had $500 more,
which l had hard work to get any State
officer to accept. Finally / got permission
to deposit it in court"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
MECHANICS INSTITUTE.
Regular Monthly Meeting on Routin
and Fair Business.

Regular Monthly Meeting on Routine
and Fair Business.
The board of trustees of the Mechanics
Institute met last night at the Pavilion,
and transacted business concerning the
coming fair, and also considerable library
business.
At the close the board went into executive
session on decorations. Mr.. Tidball will
be paid for what he has done, but the future
decorator was not selected.
Al Marks appeared before the board on
behalfof Professor Fritz Scheel. He stated
that Mr.. Scheel had thirty-two musicians
for the opening exercises, and explained
that Professor Scheel did not care to give
their names to the opening exercise COM
mittee.
The report of the committee recon-
mending that the musical committee be
directed to obtain this information was
adopted
The finance committee reported deficit
of S2452 go.
The report of Grove P. Ayers recon-
mending the taking out OF an accident in
surance policy for the benefit OF employees
and patrons OF the fair was adopted. The
policy costs $50 and insures the institute
for $1,000 in the Employers Liability Cor
poration of London.
Bills were allowed and ordered paid to
the amount of $4097 SO.
Books were ordered purchased at a cost
of $13S.
The president inquired why the adver-
tisements of the fair in the daily papers
had ceased, and there being no satisfactory
explanation the secretary was instructed
to investigate the matter.
The following named persons were
elected doorkeepers for the fair: f. T..
Doolin, head doorkeeper; D. ]. Edgar NJ
J. Brennan. Robert Cash, day assistants !;
Fred ]. O'Byrne and Henry Mitchell,
night assistants.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07

vagrant. but was taken suddenly'ill while
in The County Jail. 1t was found that he
was suffering from heart disease and
would not live long. Bray will tell
nothing OF his antecedents, although it
was evident from his general air that he
had been well born.
Funeral of DIR. Pinkerton.
The funeral services over the remains of
DR.. T. H. Pinkerton were held at st.
PauIs Episcopal Church yesterday after
noon. A large number of pioneer settlers
were present who had been acquainted
with the late doctor for half century
The Alameda County Medical Society at
tended in a body. Rev. Robert Richie
officiated at the altar. The.pali-bearers
we're: Drs. L. r. Burchard +. L. Adams,
P. L. Wheeler, n. r. Foster, w J. Wilcox
and A. IL. Pratt. After the ceremonies the
body was taken to San Mateo to be Gre
mated. in accordance with DIR. Pinkerton's
wishes.
Melquoind's Feelings.
Cyr Melquoind, the French journalist,
who has been getting in trouble with the
police recently, threatens to sue the city
authorities for the sum of $4,000, or $1,000 for
each hour that he was incarcerated in the
dirty dungeons of the City Prison.
a Miners Claim.
William Hirst filed a miners claim
yesterday to belt of manganese ore 1500x
600 feet. The claim is located in the south
eastern portion of this county, near Liver
more. 1t is the first miners claim re-
corded for many years.
Wants to Find Him.
Mrs. Carrie A. Andross wants to hear
from her husband, Winfield s. Andross,
whom she is suing for divorce on the
ground of desertion. When last heard
from he was in San Diego.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS.
Next Annual Conference to Be Held in
the City of Mexico.

the City of Mexico.
The Americanists, an association organ
lied by citizens of Mexico for the purpose
of mutual aid in the study of ethnology,
languages and the history of both Ameri-
can continents, especially in the period
prior to the discovery of America BY CO.
lumbus, and to bring in contact those
people who are interested in similar re-
searches, will hold their eleventh annual
congress in the City of Mexico on the 18th
OF October next.
Membership in the association can be
obtained with the privilege of studying all
publications by soliciting membership
ticket from either the treasurer, secretary
of the organization or any of the Mexican
Consuls in their respective countries.
The tenth congress of the Americanists
was held in Stockholm, one of the rules of
the association being that the congress
cannot convene in any country but once,
this rule making it possible for many to
attend at least one convention where it
would be impossible for them to do so If
held in some city specially selected for the
purpose. Reception committees for the
purpose of making the congress a success
will be organized in Vera Cruz, Paso del
Norte and Nuevo Laredo.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
SUMMER IN GREENLAND.
Prof. HeiIprin Throws New Light on q
Country but Little Understood.

Country but Little Understood.
AS with many OF the foreign countries.
there is wrong impression existing in the
minds even of well-read persons with refer
ence to the nature of the peninsula OF
less waste of ice and snow, and, indeed, q
land of desolation. On first acquaintance
the country does not seem calculated to in
spire enthusiasm, but this feeling soon
wears away and the returned traveller from
Greenland is smitten with "the Arctic
vfeer," the principal symptom of which is
a longing to return to these northern
shores. Professor Angelo Heilprin, in his
interesting account of the Peary relief ex-
petition conducted by him, an account of
which is set forth in his book, "The Arctic
Problem" thus speaks of Greenland:
"Once the foot has been set upon the
mirrored rocks the charms of the garden
spot one by one unfold themselves. The
little patches of green are aglow with
bright flowers, rich in the colors which a
bounteous nature has provided. The bo-
tanical eye readily distinguished among
these the mountain pink, the dwarf rhodo-
dendron, several pieces of heath, the crow
foot, chickweed and poppy, with their
Gay butterflies fit through the warm sun
shine, casting their shadows over forests
OF diminutive birch and willow.
"Here and there stray bee huns in
search for sweets among the pollen grains,
while, from afar, woven through the music
of gurgling rills and brooks, come the
melodious strains of thousands of mosqui-
toes, who ever cheerfully lend their aid to
give voice to the landscape. Above this
peaceful scene tower the dark red cliffs of
basalt, which, from height of 1000 feet,
look down on a sea of Mediterranean love-
Illness, blue as the waters of ViIlafranca
and calm as the surface OF an interior lake.
Over its bosom float hundreds of icebergs
the output of the great Jacobshavn glacier,
fifty miles in the eastward, scattered like
focks of white sheep in pasture.
"Such was the summer picture of the
region about Disko, as it was found bv the
writer in two successive seasons. There
was little of that Greenland about it which
we habitually associate with the region.
nothing of those terrors which to the aver
age mind reflect the qualities of the Arctic
world"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
Poisoning Dops.

J. Enright of 300 Seventeenth street swore
out warrant in Judge Conlans court yester-
day morning for the arrest of Mrs Callihan,
his landlady, on the charge OF attempting TO
poison his dog by strychnine. The dog was a
bet he had bought for his children and was
kent on chain in the yard. The Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty TO Animals is pushing
the case, as they assert that Enright's is not
the only canine in the neighborhood that Mrs.
CalIihan has poisoned. Mrs. Callihan was ar
rested last night and locked up at the Seven
teenth-street police station.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07

provisions, and III spite OF the strictest econ
omy and the most rigid scrutiny exercised in
the distribution, it finds It's stores de-
appeal to members for cast-of clothes, espe-
ciaIly mems and boys, for shoes, underwear
and articles of food, such as canned and pre-
served fruit and vegetables. 1t is worthy
charity, and there should be a generous re-
IN no
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
pierre de Loriors Demurrer.

month ago or more Mrs. Grace A. Dilhan,
wife of the owner of fashionable riding
academy at Pacific and Van Ness avenues,
filed complaint in the Superior Court charg-
man. with alternating her husbands affections.
a demurrer was fled yesterday stating that
the com plant is uncertain, in that ii does not
specify how the mans affections were alien
oft al
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
PROPOSALS.


PROPOSALS FOR BLOUSES.
L Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals
will be received by the Board of Directors OF the
Veterans Home Association at the Office OF the
Veterans' Home, Napa County, Cal, up TO IL
o'clock NJ, Sunday. August Ii, 1895, for furnish
ing and delivering TO the Veterans Home, Napa
blue flannel blouses average Sizes bidders to fur
nish samples. The board reserves the right TO
iect any or all bids. Bids should be marked Pro
posals for Biouses' and addressed to
]. ]. SCOVILLE,
Secretary Veterans Home Association, Veterans
Home, Napa County, Cal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-07
LATEST BERKELEY NEWS,
Crowded Condition of the Pu b.
lie Schools and the
Remedy.
Professo Royce to Be Welcomed by
the Philosophical Union
This Month.

The public schools of Berkeley are very
much overcrowded. especially the High
School. AT the meeting OF the Board of
School Directors held on Monday evening,
Principal Waterman stated that the at
tendance had been SO greatly augmented
this term that it was absolutely necessary
to have more room for the accommodation
of the incoming pupils. Woodmen Hall,
directly opposite the High School. building
had already been rented as an overflow
classroom, but even that addition has
been found inadequate, and in consequence
it was decided to rent the room on Shattuck
avenue. which is occupied several evenings
OF the week by the Salvation Army.
Yesterday there were 253 pupils enrolled
in the High School alone, which is forty
one more than at the opening last year.
In the senior room there are SO pupils,
with seats for only 90; in the middle room,
"a, with accommodations for 81; and in
the junior literary room 78, with seats for
81. The remaining % were in the junior
scientific ROOM in which there are a few
seats not yet assigned.
There are only four rooms in the build
ing available, and the principal said yes
terday that they should have at least ten
in order that the entire 253 might be
properly accommodated.
Mr.. Waterman reported at the board
meet that the total enrolment thus far was
as follows: Kellogg 3o2, Whittier 326, LIE
Conte 255, Lorin $40, High School 253-
total 1865
Bills to the amount of S57S1 ~ were or
dered PAID, and it was decided that no bills
hereafter will be audited by. the Finance
Committee unless they are presented on
the Friday previous to the first Monday of
the month.
Director Norton urged that the board
take action with regard to securing the
Wilmerding School of Mechanical Arts
for Berkeley, and it was informally de-
cided to look into the matter.