davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
AN AFTERNOON WEDDING,
Miss Sadie Hecht and William
L. Gerstle to Be Mar.
ried To-Day.
A Romance, the Opening Chapter OF
Which Was Begun Under
Italian Skies.

This afternoon at half past o'clock at
the residence of Colonel and Mrs. M. II.
Hecht on Washington street will be cele-
brated the wedding of their daughter Miss
Sadie Hecht aid William L. GerstIe.
The high social standing of the young
couple, together with the important COM
mercial positions of their respective FAM
lilies, makes their wedding of more than
passing interest. Mr.. Gerstle is the son of
Lewis Gerstle and nephew of Louis Sloss
OF the Alaska Commercial Company. The
GerstIe and Hecht families have been pre-.
viously connected by marriage, Marcus
Gerstle, the elder brother of the groom,
and Hilda Hecht, the older sister of the
bride, having been joined in the holy
bonds of matrimony about three years ae O.
The wedding of Miss Sadie Hecht and
Mr.. Gerstle is a love match pure and
simple. The young couple two seasons
ago spent a year together in European
travel and that friendship, the seeds of
which were sown under the sunny skies of
Italy, ripened into mutual affection on
the return to their native city.
Acting according to the often expressed
wish and earnest desire of the fair young
bride, the wedding is to be an extremely
simple one. When DR.. Voorsanger pro-
nounces the young couple man and wife
only the immediate relatives of the high
contracting parties will be present. There
is to be no maid of honor, no bridesmaids S
and no best man.
After the ceremony there is to be re-
ceptlon for the mem bers of both the fami-
lies and limited number of most init
mate friends.
The bride, who is most beautiful girl,
is to wear gown remarkable alike for its
rich simplicity and beauty. Over white
satin foundation fall three skirts of white
fluffy tuIle. The bottoms of these skirts
are not hemmed, but are left cut like the
skirts of the fairy of the ballet. The cor
sage is covered with innumerabla tiny
puffs of tulle. The square-cut neck IS
filled in with yoke of exquisite point
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05

have been authorized by the campaign
com mittee of the Silver party to organize
the women of San francisco into auxiliary
clubs to assist in the work of distributing
literature and securing votes for silver.
Headquarters have been established at
room All in the Parrot building.
The regular meeting of the Ocean View
Republican Club was held on Saturday
evening. in Taylor's Hall, President NJ.
+. Taylor in the chair. ]. f. McGrath in
troduced a resolution indorsing the
nom nees selected by the convention held
in the Auditorium and presided over by
L. Riordan. The resolution was unani-
mously adopted. M. F. Taylor was
nominated and elected delegate to the
convention on parade.
@. ?. Robbins made some very able re-
marks on the paramount issues of the
day. ]. F. McGrath made some very
pertinent remarks in reference tc silver
and protection, in which he depicted in a
very clear and precise manner the in
ability OF free silver to better the condi-
ton of the working classes. Several new
mem bers signed the roll. Mr.. Taylor, the
chairman, made some remarks in which
he announced that there would be grand
ratification meeting of the club in the
near future. The meeting then adjourned
with cheers for M McKinley and Hobart.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Rev. DIR. Birch of the Peoples Church
speaks Against 1t at the Temple.
1.-THE Peopl-'s Church, established by
Rev. W. L. Birch quite recently. held it's
second weekly meeting last evening at
Metro politan Temple.
There was preliminary musical pro-
gramme. James Hamilton Howe, the or
ganist accompanied the Misses Pearl and
Maud Noble in their cornet and trombone
duet, and Mrs. Anita f. Grand and Miss
Ella Ellis in their respective solos.
During his sermon Rev. DR.. Birch had
occasion to mention Professor Huxley.
whom he knew In Egypt. He said:
In the memorable words he uttered in his
last days in the theater at Oxford, England.
he showed that what we need is not the sur
yiyal of those who happen to be fittest but of
those who are morally the best. We should
repudiate the gladiatorial theory of existenee.
and in place OF ruthless SELF sertion cuIfi.
vate self-restraint, which inspires the ipdiyid-
uaI not merely to respect but also helm his
fellows. Our influence should be directed not
so much to he'survival of the nltest as 10 the
fitting of as many as possible to survive
On this gocly principle, therefore strongly
protest against the modern notion that in GER
tain cases of insanity, suffering or crime. it is
righteous to cut on human life by artificial
means. Human life should be sacred. Private
assassination or national war is of the devil an
inspiration of prute-nature. Does safety or
success obtained by pistol, cannon or dynam-
ite prove that in the sight of God YOU have
more right TO live than the man you have
slain? In order to live, are we justified in be-
coming thieves? And in order to live are we
justified In Staying man?
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
THEY WANT G I'D STREETS.

An Improvement Club Busy on Guer-
zero and Fourteenth Streets
The Fourteenth and Guerrero streets
Improvement Club met Saturday night at
1852 Mission street and determined to
meet Tuesday night at 1874 Guerrero street
to take active measures for the improve
ment of that neigh borhood.
Among the active mem bers of the club
are w. Hoist. N. Bullirbeck and Mr.. Hoff-
man. The Woodward and Hobart estates
are also interested in the betterment of
the neglected streets in and about Four
teenth and Guerrero streets. The prop
erty-owners want patent artificial stone
sidewalks and bituminous rock roadways,
pervisors, but for some reason never went
through.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
A CABLE-CAR ACCIDENT.
Carelessness of the Railroad
Brings Serious Injury to
Three Persons.
Mrs. Chisholm, Eighty Years Old. Said
to Have Received Injuries Which
May End Fatally.

An accident which appears to be
wholly due to carelessness, occurred on
the Larkin-street cable line yesterday
morning. resulting in the serious injury
of three persons, one of whom may die
The railroad people are extremely reticent
about the affair, first denying that any,
thing unusual had happened on their line.
They finally admitted. however, that
John Mccarthy, A. Ahern and a Mrs
Chrisholm, living on Folsom street. had
been injured and that the first two. had
been fully compensated for the unex-
pected shake-up.
Shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing the cable on the Larkin-street line
slipped the pulley near the Howard-street
power-house. There is an automatic ar
rangement by which the superintendent
OF the power-house is notified by the clang-
ing OF bell of such mishap. As business
was pretty brisk at that hour it was
thought advisable not to shut down, but
to have the cars run from Market street
beyond Howard of their own motion.
This saving Of time and money worked
very well until dummy with car 81 at
tached came along. The gripman failed
to let 60 the rope as ordered, with the re-
suit that when the dummy neared the
Howard-street line the grip ran against
the iron bar or bumper which is used to
protect the cross cable line. bringing the
car to dead halt.
The passengers were hurled violently
forward. Mrs Chisholm, who is so years
old, being the greatest sufferer. Several
ribs were broken and she was otherwise
sseriousiy injured. The railroad imme-
diateiy effected compromise with Nc
icarthy and Ahern, paying the frs, $l25
and the latter $50. 1t is said that an effort
was also made to compromise with Mrs.
have nothing to do with such PROPOSE
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05

substance that the ten great religions are one.
the same truth underlying them ali The dit-
ferences lie mostly with the teachers and with
the degrees of civilization of the races. This
study of comparative religion is one of the
chief objects of the Theosopnical Society. The
Worlds Congress of Religions was one ol It's
greatest achievements.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
Thrown From a Car.

While Mrs. Mary Donneily, who resides
at LAG Howard street, was aiightiag from
a cable car at the corner of Howard and
Ninth streets last evening the cars started
and she was thrown violently to the
ground. She was badly shaken up and
bruised, but fortunately sustained no seri-
Gus in juries.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
The National Club.

The National Republican Club viii hold
ratihcation meeting of the municipal nomi-
nees on next Thursday evening at California
Hall, $40 Bush street, at which good speakers
provided for the members of the club and
their invited guests.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
ace. The sleeves are of tulle and reach to

lace. Ihe sleeves are OF tuIIe and reach to
the elbow.
In the drawing-room where the cere-
mony will be performed pink roses and
chrysanthemums are to be used for
decorative purposes. No set decoration
is to be adhered to, but in the corridor,
the reception-room and the other apart
ments that are to be placed at the disposal
of the guests choice cut flowers and grow
ing ferns and palms are to be relied upon
for adornment.
Miss Hecht has received many elaborate
prevailing. Mr.. Gerstle and his young
bride have arranged to leave by to-m NOR
row evenings overland for an extended
Eastern honeymoon.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
Colville on Theosophx.

w. ]. Colville delivered his second lecture
for the Golden Gate Lodge of Theosophy last
night in Native Sons building. his subject be-
ing 'fThe Ten Great Religions" He said in
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05

The largest bronze statue in existence is
in st. Petersburg. 1t represe nts Peter the
Great and weiehs HOO tons.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
CosMoPOIrrAN-

Opposite u. s. Mint, 100 and 102 Fifth ~ sar
Francisco, CaL-The most select family hotel in
the city. Board and room 81, 81 25 and 81 so per
oay, according to room. Meals 25c- Rooms 500
and 75c a day. Free coach to and from the hotaI
LOOK for the coach bearing The name OF the Cos.
mopolitan Hotel Nm FAHEY, ProprieLor
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05

In calling attention to its superior ad-
vaniages as place of residence paper in
Manhattan, Kans.. very properly dwells
with special stress upon the fact that the
Assessor was able to discover only forty
two pianos in that city.
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
NOTARY PUBLIC.

CHARLES Ii. PHILLIPS. ATroeNp,
~ Law and Notary Public, 63S Markat =, a.Is .AIs
ste Palace Hote. Telephone $40. Residence IpsHon
The San Francisco call., 1896-10-05
THE WORK OF
PAID ASSASS|NS
Chin Lun Chez, a Chinese
Druggist, Fatally
Wounded.
Pointed Out and Shot in the
Back by a Highbinder While
Entering a Store.
TWO CHINESE ARE ARRESTED.
A Debtor of the Druggist Took That
Way to Free Himself of His
Obligation.
In one of the busiest part of Chinatown
and in broad daylight prominent Chi
TWO CHINESE ARE ARRESTED.

In one of the busiest part OF Chinatown
and in broad daylighta a prominent Chi
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

Mr.. Salmon Mathews, the proprietor %
the well-known Fair Furniture Co., So
Mission street, San Francisco, says
''While residing in Australia several year.
ago ! contracted muscular rheumatism in
its most painful form, and although L con-
sumed enough medicine to have destroyed
the stomach of an ordinary mortal, / re-
ceived little or no relief until Tuesday last.
1t was then that decided to use the con-
tents of one of your sample bottles, which
my son had obtained at the "Chronicle"
office. / am free to admit that the result
astonished me. For several days prior to
this | had been unable to use my arms,
and the right one in particular; but in less
than forty-eight hours I experienced relief
to such an extent that l actually made
myself useful around my place of business.
In addition to the disappearance of all pain
in my arms, found that the pellets had
acted benefciaily on my kidneys, which
had been causing me considerable annoy
ance.n
Munyon's Rheumatism Cure seldom fails
to relieve in from one to three hours, and
cures in a few days. Price 25c.
Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure positively
cures all forms of Indigestion and stom-
ach trouble. Price 25c.
Munyon's Cold Cure prevents pneumo-
MIA and breaks up cold in few hours.
Price 25c.
Munyon's Cough Cure stops coughs.
night sweats, allays soreness and speedily
heals the lungs. Price 25c.
Munyon's Kidney. Cure speedily cures
pains in the back, loins or groins and all
forms of kidney disease. Price 25c.
Munyon's Nerve Cure cures all the
symptoms of nervous exhaustion, such as
depressed spirits, failure of memory, rest
less and sleepless nights, pains in the
head and dizziness. 1t stimulates and
strengthens the nerves, and is wonderful
tonic. Price 25c.
Munyon's Headache Cure stops headache
in three minutes. Price 25c.
Munyon's Pile Ointment positively
cures all forms of piles. Price 25c.
Munyon's Blood Cure eradicates all i'm
purities of the blood. Price 25c.
Munyon's Liver Cure corrects head
ache, biliousness, jaundice, constipation
and all liver diseases. Price 25c.
Munyon's Female Remedies are q
boon to all women.
Munyon's Asthma Cure and Herbs are
guaranteed to relieve asthma in three min
utes and cure in five days. Price, 5Oc each.
Munyon's Catarrh Remedies never fail.
The Catarrh Cure (price 25c) eradicates the
disease from the system, and the Catarrh
Tablets (price 25c) cleanse and heal the
parts.
Munyon's Vitalizer imparts new life, re-
stores lost powers to weak and deollltated
| men. Price 81.
Munyon's Remedies at all druggists,
mostly 25c a vial.
/ Your druggist will present you free with
q copy of the "Guide to Health" valu-
able little medical publication that should
be in every home.
Personal letters to Prof. Munyon, 1905
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa, answered
with free medical advice for any disease.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

the great Madison-square Garden was COW
cred. Among the exhibits which attracted
most attention were the bicycles equipped
for army use. The new army tandem,
mounted with 40-pound automatic rapid
firing machine gun, was on exhibition for
the first time. These machines have been
equipped in the most thoroughly COM
plete and convenient manner, and yet
without carrying an extra ounce or inter-
fering in any possible with the rider or
riders.
The tandem is finished in the regulation
manner, with enameled frame, nickel
plated handle bars, hubs and sprockets
although 1t presents quite a different and
perhaps even more attractive appearance
on account of the accouterments of war
which are attached to it, and seem to add
a more stanch and perfect appearance to
the machine. On either side of the steer
ing head. and clamped or attached with
perfect security, are steel enameled gum
rests, which are lined with leather and
made exactly to fit the barrel of the guns,
and attached to the main upright in the
same way are rests of the same kind, with
the exception of being made a trifie larger,
in order to hold the gun grip. Fitting
most securely in these rests, and yet in
such a manner that they may be easily
and quickly detached at a moments s
notice, are two 12-shot repeating magazine
carbines.
Strapped on the right side of the ma
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

clese of the present century. Good
smoothly paved roads being certainty of
realization at no very remote date, the
prospects of the horseless carriage seem to
be quite f1attering, if the Judgment of the
friends of the new invention can be relied
upon. They contend that the horse may
be dispensed with and the highest measure
of speed and comfort attained over
smoothly paved boulevards in vehicle pro-
PEELED by mechanical power. 1t is worth
while to take a look at some of these up
to-date vehicles.
The ''Electrobst" is the original name
given by Morris & Salon of Philadelphia
to the first electric wagon constructed in
that city. It was the joint work Of a me-
chanical engineer ana an electrician. The
wagon was run hundreds of miles over
the streets of Philadelphia without seri-
Gus mishap. It's total weight, including
the battery, is 1850 pounds, and the maxi
mum mileage on one charge of electricity
is from fifty to one hundred, according to
speed and grades. the maximum speed at
tainabie being fifteen miles an hour.
Charles A. Duryea of Peoria, H., has
successfully applied the gasoline motor to
horseless vehicles. The Duryea motor re-
sembles an ordinary, heavily built buggy.
weighs 700 pounds and has ball-bearings
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

more or less shallow and the breaking and
grinding of the oceans bed laid the nucleus
for future land.
A triangular island slowly appeared
above the waste of waters in what is now
the Hudson Bay region; there appeared,
too, narrow strip, which, in centuries to
come, was to be the Highlands OF the
Hudson; there was also coast line in the
broad area covering the Rockies; small ISL
ands dotted the great northern seas where
NowaY and Sweden now stand.
As time passed the waters slowly be-
came cooler and at last life, lowly life. APP
peared in some structureless plants and
animals.
q warm and equable climate covered the
land, and clouded sky tempered the rays
of the sun; but the rocks were yet bare,
and no sounds filed the air save those of a
lifeless and voiceless nature-the snrging
OF the waters and the raging of the tem-
pest. But q gradual change was taking
place. the seas adjoining these primordial
islands became shaliower. corals and sea-
lilies filed the bays; rlollusks and crusta-
ceans had begun, and for ages mollusk life
reisned supreme in this embryo world
Harvey. b. Bashore, in February Lip
plncott's.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02
Curious Epitaphs.

Every man to his hobby. That of w.
T. Vincent the president of the Woolwich
District Antiquarian Society, seems to be
ram bling in old graveyards and gathering
from the stones there whatever is quaint
and curious, says the Westminster Ga
zette. That this is an interesting purs t
is evident from the attractive volume
which Mr.. Vincent has complied, and
which Messrs. Mitchell & Hughes of War
dour street have just issued as a result OF
his wanderings. Among queer epitaphs
quoted is the following found on a grave
stone at Crawford:
The age OF this clerk Just three score and ten
Nearly half of which time he had sung out Amen
Ia his youth he married like other young men,
But his wife died one day and he chanted AmenI
a second he took. she departed. What then?
lie married and buried a third with Anenl
nus his Joys and his sorrows were treble but then
His voice was deep bass rs he sung out Amen!
On the horn ne could blow well moSt men,
so his horn was exalted In blowing Amen.
But he lost all his wind after three score and ten
And here With three wives he waits Till again
The trumpet shall rouse him TO sing out Amen
Another adorns the stone raised above
the grave OF d village blacksmith:
My sledge and hammer lie reclned;
My bellows too. have lost their wind;
My fire extinct, my forge decay'd,
And in the dust my wise Is laid.
My coal Is spent, my irons gone;
My nails are drove, my work is done.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

and rubber-tired wheels. 1t has an inge-
nious mechanism for steering and changing
the speed without a moments loss of time.
The cost of running this carriage is one
fourth of a cent mile, and a supply Of
gasoline can be carried sufficient 10 iun
the machine 150 miles Upon good roads
a speed of twenty miles is claimed.
There are numerous rivals for popularity
in the motorcycle world. The Mueller
patent, for instance, recently won prize
in contest for economy of operation,
coming in close second to the Duryea
machine. In order to stimulate invention
and do what they can to hasten the COM
ing of the age of the marvellous carriage
the publishers of the Cosmopolitan, from
which publication the. illustrations of
motorcycles on this page are taken. offer
premiums amounting to $4,000. These
premiums are to be awarded to motor
carriages presenting the greatest number
of points of excellence as exhibited in a
trial trip to be made from the New York
office of the Cosmopolitan on the 3Oth of
May to the Cosmopolitan building at
Irvington, and thence back to the starting
point.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02
/ extremely useful con-
n of the next one.
Some Royal Crowns.

The crowns of Spain, Portugal and
Poland are all three of the same form and
are described by Colonel Parsons in his
Genealogical Tables of Europe" as ''dncal
coronets heightened up with eight arched
diadems supporting mound, ensigned
with plain gold cross.'
The crowns of Denmark and Sweden are
of almost similar shape, consisting of the
eight arched diamonds arising from a
marquis coronet 90 circle of gold bordered
berry leaves and four pearls on Pyramid
cal points of equal height, alternately,
which conioin at the top under q mound
unsigned with cross bottone.
The Kings of most other Continental
countries are crowned with circlets of gold,
adorned with precious stones aud height
ened up with trefoiis and closed by four,
six or eight diamonds supporting mound
surmounted by cross. The trefoil upon
the crown is thought to be of Gothic
introduc ton.
We find it upon the coins of Clovis and
his sons, which has induced antiquarians
to call it the fleur de lis-the lily of France
represented in gold on blue ground,
but the fact is these trefoiis were used on
Constantinopolitan crowns before the time
of the Franks and afterward on those oil
German princes in no way allied to Char
lemagne, Aubrey, a celebrated authority
upon heraldry, was of opinion that the
fieur de lis is really nothing more than q
spear head adorned, no flower of the lily
kind having the middle part solid.
The Sultan OF Turkey wears over his
arms tui ban, enriched with pearls and
diamonds. under two coronets, the first oi
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02
which is made of pyramidical points,
heightened up with large pearls and the
SURVEYING A PARALLEL.
The Longest Line Ever Surveyed IL. til
World,


The Longest Line Ever Surveyed IL. the
World.
No exaggeration can be attributed to the
scientific press in declaring the survey Of
the thirty ninth parallel of north latitude,
just completed, to be the greatest contri-
button to science ever given by a Govern
ment. The prime object was accurately
and precisely to determine the figure of
the earth, for, though north and south
lines had largely con ntributed to this final
result. yet for absolute exactness in astro-
nomlcal calculations an east and west line
OF the furthest possible extent had to be
run. The thirty ninth parallel from
Point Arenas to Cape May, n. j.,
was chosen as the stretch of ter
rItory best adapted for the work, and the
United States is now credited with having
hnlshed the longest line ever surveyed in
this. world. Uncompahgre, where this
thlrty-ninth parallel of latitude crosses the
continent, is noted mountain among
the National surveys and Government
expeditions, and has repeatedly been the
station for those intrusted with exploring
and geological pursuits. Haydep's party,
VINO occupied it during the field Of investi-
CATION from 1873 to 1876, placed its alti-
tude at Ia, ,235, while other estimates put it
some 300 feet in excess of that. Uncom-
pahgre is in high favor with the geode-
SLAMS because of its easy access and the
roomy summit, the latter being nearly
five acres in extent, with gentle Incline
New York Sun