The San Francisco call., 1896-06-23
FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY
Woman Suffrage Has Not Dis.
turbed the Marital Rela.
tion in Colorado.
Lincoln Avenue Has Not Yet Been
Gained for the City-A Domes.
tic Goes Wading.

| ALAMEDA, CAL, June 22-The regular
meeting of the Political Equality Society
was held this afternoon in Foresters' Hall,
the president, Mrs. E. L. w ood, in the chair.
After few remarks by the Rev. S. a. Taft
| Mrs. Hazlite, q resident of Colorado, ad-
dressed the meeting.
| She told her hearers that so far she had
not been able to perceive any change in
the condition of things generally since
women had been granted the franchise.
They experienced no difficulty in casting
their ballots and she had heard of no dis
sentions in married life caused by the
| woman voting one way and the husband
another. Indeed, the women see as we'll
as the men that their interests are identi-
cal and the woman knows her interests
are bound up in his.
| In speaking of the way women worked
to gain their freedom to vote Mrs. Hazlite
said the work was carried on on much the
same lines as are in use in this State. She
paid high tribute to the personal excel
| lence Of the miners of Colorado and cited
amusing instances of the way the would
be suffragists waylaid them as they came
off their shifts.
1t was decided to hold the meetings
without any break or vacation time.
City Trustees.
| ALAMEDA, CAL, June %. - At the
| meeting OF the Board of City Trustees
| accounts to the amount of $4627 were
| passed for payment.
An invitation from the Board of Health,
| Oakland was received fixing meeting of
the com bined public bodies to consider
| the present unsanitary condition of the
tidal canal at Oakland on Friday evening,
| June 26.
The City Attorney stated that in his
| opinion no change of grade at the inter
section of Seventh street and Atlantic ave.
nue. could be made until majority of the
| frontage owners had prese nred a petition
asking such change to be made.
| J. B. Pitchford mechanical engineer,
! San Francisco, who drew the plans and
! specifications for the electric-light works,
addressed the board on the lackness dis
| played by him in their construction. He
! admitted tn at the work was not good, but
| he thought that was not his fault as he
had deputy to look after the work. He
| claimed the boilers were better set than
nj ne-tenths of the boilers in the State.
The Street Commissioners of Buena
| Vista avenue were allowed $25 each for
extra services.
The ordinance prohibiting expeetorating
| in public places or in public conveyances
was carried.
No bicycles are to be ridden on the
streets at a greater speed than twelve
miles an hour.
A Home Wedding.
| ALAMEDA, CAL, June 22-Rev H.
| Haserodt of the German Lutheran Church
united William Wahmuth and Miss Bertha
! Ruf in the bonds of matrimonv yesterday
afternoon. The ceremony was performed
at the residence of the brides parents,
1855 Briggs avenue.
The bride was most attractiyely dressed
| in lavender silk, with SPRAYS of orange
! blossoms in her hair and veil. Her sister
| acted as bridesmaid and her brother Otto
as best man.
Quite large party of relatives and
friends assembled to witness the cere-
mony, the bridegroom being the son of
Henry Wahmuth. who was formerly a
prominent brewer in San Francisco.
Anticipating.
! ALAMEDA, CAL, June 22.-The nine
| year-old son of Alexander lnnes, named
| Warren, thought he would, with COM
| panion's assistance, ascertain if the regu-
lation allowance of powder was in the
| bombs he had purchased IN anticipation
of the glorious Fourth.
The bomb went off too quickly for the
lad and he nearly lost his left eye as
consequence. DR.. Tisdale's assistance had
to be obtained to save the organ aud
get the powder out of his eye and cheek.
Linderman Opera
ALAMEDA, CAL, June pa new exit,
| five feet in width, is being constructed in
! Linderman Opera-house. 1t will be
separate stairway, and relieve the crowd
from the gallery from meeting with those
| who use the ground floor.
| Mr.. Linderman's work is in accordance
with the recommendation of the fire com
| mittee who inspected the buildings in
May their attention having been called to
| the matter in THE CALL in April.
| Not Suicide.
| ALAMEDA, CAL, June %. - Jasper
! Winant reported to the police this morn
| ing that woman was trying to commit
| suicide in the bay at the foot Of Oak street
| Constable Day fastened to the scene and
| found the woman wading in the bay. She
| told him she was not going to take her
| life just yet. She had been having "a
| time" and was cooling off.
Revival Services.
ALAMEDA, CAL, June 22.-The revi-
valist, Rev. I. G. Patterson, is now ex-
| horting in the streets and is drawing quite
| a large crowd of onlookers. He is being
assis ed by the Rev. F. D. Bovard of the
NJ E. Church and other evangelical min
| listers. Services are held after the street
exhortations in the Park-street NJ. E.
| Church.
Lincoln Avenue.
ALAM MEDIA, CAL, June 22.-Mrs. Emily
! G. Cohen has been granted ten days
| further time wherein to file a notice of
her intention to move for new trial in
the case recently decided in favor of the city
| in the matter of opening Lincoln avenue
through the Cohen property.
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