The San Francisco call., 1896-04-13
George Jones Has a Narrow Es.
cape From Mob
bing.
MAYOR sUTR0'S PET MONKEY
An Animal With a Remarkable AT.
lection for a Sick and For.
lorn Kitt-n

There was large crowd at the park yes
terday. The ladies grasped desperately at
their draperies, the men held to their hats
with grim determination and all defed
the rather turbulent zephyrs and looked
happy. 1t was a remarkably uneventful
day within the inclosure. Captain Thomp-
son and his men had nothing to do all
afternoon but add another element to the
landscape and keep pedestrians, cyclists
and horse-vehicles from becoming disas-
trously mixed up.
AT the station of the Ocean and Park
railroad, just outside the park entrance,
there was an extremely lively time for
lew minutes, and George J. Jones of Los
Gatos came very near being the victim of
mob. The incident which excited the ire
of the crowd occurred aboard the train
coming from the Cliff. George J. Jones
and his brother Ralph, according to the
story OF William Colson, NJ. Babcock, l..
Anger and other passengers, were in a
oolsterous state OF inebriety. George was
hanging from the side of the car and reck-
Iessly swinging one foot to ana fro.
As the train passed Ninth avenue his
foot came within range OF young lady
who was waiting for the train to pass and
Jones deliberately kicked her in the back.
Inc tram crew, with the lack of interest in
such tritie as a human life peculiar to
the minions of Coils P, made no effort to
stop the train. At the station the indig-
nant passengers surrounded Jones and it
would probably have gone i'll with him
but for the timely arrival of a policeman.
The othcer sent men back to the scene of
the incident, in the meantime taking Jones
into custody. His brother Ralph was al
lowed in the room where Jones was being
detained, but be became so noisy that the
officer Summarily eJected him. The men
A0Sn Id r. -
were unable to get any trace OF her and as
no one seemed desirous of making a
complaint, the mans address was taken
and he was allowed to go.
The new bridge, which constitutes a
new beauty at the park, was yesterday
oren to the public, and its utility was
evidenced by the number who took occa-
sion to pass over.
During the week palms were planted in
the new music concourse, thus dividing
the driveway from the bicycle paths.
At the conservatory there was the larg-
est crowd seen there for months. The
superintendent was very much elated ct
the hundreds VINO passed IN admiring pro-
cession before his pets. He lalI the in
creased attendance to the article recently
pubhs ned in THE CALL describing the
dumb cane, the caricature plants and other
Of tiora's curios. Since the publication of
that article he declared yesterday, ''the
number of veltors to the conservatory has
been fully doubled"
The museum came in for considerable
share of attention. The contributions of
the past week were specimens of red and
Of white obsidion from the Upper Yukon
Alaska, by Miss j. Hunt of Oakland and
TWO Japanese grotesque masks and two
Japanese carved wooden panels by j. l..
Bardwell OF san Francisco.
The Cliff House and Sutro's pleasure
grounds We're also largely prtronized yes
tar- n1 rNal PnHT II -.
visitors at the latter place at more than
10000, and the crowded tanks and galleries
seemed TO bear out his figures. Besides
the band concert there was a slackwire
performance, swimming races, exhibitions
OF fancy diving and other aquatic sports
The sideshows were also literally patron
lied.
Mayor Sutro has a monkey. Mayor
Sutro has numb Der OF monkeys, in fact,
but this particular monkey the Mayor be-
1leves TO be the most remarka bic of this
remarkable class of human caricatures.
About three weeks ago one of the Sutro
Heights cats became mother. The spot
where the feline first beheld her offspring
was near the monkeys cage, and Jack, in
playful mood, managed to get hold of
one of the little ones. The kitten which
came into his clutches was one which vas
sick and weak. Whether its pitiful con-
dition appealed TO something tender in his
monkey nature, or whether, as seems more
probable but less interesting, he consid-
cred it good plaything, Jack Immediately
adopted the kitten.
Since then he has constantly kept it in
his arms, the attendants being compelled
to force it away to feed both. "It is the
most wonderful thing you ever saw" the
Mayor declared. ''Go up to the house and
see it." The Mayor spent the afternoon
at the baths, where he played host to a
party of friends.