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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
The High Ball Pool Under Com
missioner Gunst's Cigar
Store Is a Quick Per-
centage Game,
is CHIEF LEES AFRAID OF HIS JOB ?
Nightly Exhibitions of Unspeakable
Vice in a Cafe on Ellis Street
Commissioners Alvord and
Tobin Should Investigate.

The ten-dollar limit poker game in the
Baldwin annex, in which Police Commits
sioner Gunst is commonly supposed to be
interested along with Asher, is where
Isaac Norton, the late cashier in the Inter
nal Revenue office under Collector We'll
burn, lost his money. The high losses in
the game caused him to commit suicide.
If Police Com missioner Alvord were
running big poker game in building
| connected with the Bank of California
there would be great public scandal, and
citizens would demand his resignation
from the Board of Police Commissioners
If Police Commissioner Tob,n were run
| ming high ball percentage game of Riley
pool under the Hibernia Bank, represent
| ative men and women OF the city would
petition him to resign at once from all
share in the management of the police.
These things are not expected of Com
| missioners Tobin and Alvord. Apart
| from the moral question involved, of
! which they have ready appreciation, they
| have regard for what is commonly termed
the eternal fitness of things.
1t does not seem to shock the..community
at all that Police Commissioner Gunst per-
mits percentage game of Riley pool to
be conducted day and night in the base
ment under his cigar-store at the corner of
Powell and Ellis streets. No one is stunned
to hear that dollar-limit game of poker
for youngsters is in full blast in the same
basement The big $10-limit game in the
Bald win annex is for high rollers. The law
as interpre ted by the courts permits the
playing of poker. as it has been judicially
classed as game of skill.
Poker and pool are not good for the poor
and the rich cannot stand too much lndul-
gence OF the pleasure, but these gambling
games are mild forms of vice compared
with some of the scenes nigh Ily enacted
in the side-entrance places on Ellis street
In one place there are phases of vice that
would put TO shame anybody but police
man. The place ought TO have been raided
and closed months ago, but the truth is,
old man Lees is afraid of his job.
He may talk, for the pleasures of con-
versation, about his fearless Discharge of
public duty, but if he was not afraid of
provoking the hostility of one Police
Commissioner be would raid the game of
Riley pool In Gunst's basement and regu-
late affairs in the cafe which can be
| reached from a side entrance on Ellis
street.
Ii Commissioners Alvord and Tobin do
not believe that the town is being run
wide open, let them investigate. Let
them inquire about the unspeakable ex-
hibitions of human depravity in place
| that makes some pretenses of respect
ability.
The public impression is that these
ultra-respectable and high-minded bank
| srs on the Police Commission do not
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
POLLUTED BY
FOUL ODORS
Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever
and Malaria Are
Prevalent.
Something Ought to Be Done
Toward Abolishing the
Nuisance.
Residents of Preoita Valley Bitterly
Denounce the Disease-Laden
Swamps

The Precits Valley provement Club
| is not going to be content with holding
ind dignation meetings and the indulgence
in small talk by it's mem bers. They are
going to give utterance to their grievances
so they will be heard by those in whose
power it is to abolish the nuisances COM
planned OF, and the residents of Precita
Valley say they are not going to quit un-
til the fever and disease breeding swamps
in their m midst have been filled in and the
defective sewerage repaired.
John T. Graham, doing business at the
corner of Precita avenue and Alabama
street, said last night: "Our sewerage
out here is something terrible. Diph-
liberia and scarlet fever have been preya-
lent in this locality all summer, and we
are liable to have an epidemic at any time.
On each side of Army street, from Mission
to the San Bruno road, there are great
swamps and low lands half covered with
water and filth from which come the
foulest OF stenches. The Army-street
sewer is large enough to carry off all the
drainage of the surrounding country, but
the trouble is that the side sewers do not
all connect with the main one. Take, for
instance, the sewer from the Citv and
County Hospital. which runs down Po
trero avenue.
sit does not come within a block of the
ArmY-street sewer, and all the filth from
the sewer, as well as from the Magdalen
Asylum, is dumped into one OF these
swampS, where it putrifies, and in sum-
mer gives forth the vIlest Imaginable
odor All the drainage from the Colum bia
School also comes into the marsh. which
is a menace to he health of eyery resi-
dent OF this part of San Francisco. Then
Bernal Park is one OF the worst cessnools
/ ever saw. 1t Is from seventeen to twenIv
feet below the street, and is filled most of
the time with shiny ooze, and is enonob
to give a man the ague to look at il
"ln the winter time this hole is fil1ed
with water, and 1t Is only m after of GOOD
fortune that several OF our children have
not already been drowned in it. We have
petitioned the Supervisors at differa,t
| times, and before the late trouble aod
appointment of the new boar5 theU
| seemed disposed to do something for ne
We are hopeful, now that it has been do.
cided they are TO remain in office that
something will be done for us We ali
| mend the action of THE CALI. and are
very grateful Tor the assistance 1t has rem
dered u.s."
John E. O'Brien OF 3219 Harrison street
secretary OF the club, also Commended
| the stand THE CALL had taken and char.
| acterized the cond tion OF affairs at nres.
ent existing in Precita Valley as out
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
A MASS-MEETING THAT FAILED.
Yellow Journal Went
Aware Of the Examiner

stands. I have the honor to remain, very
truly yours, SAMUEL NJ. SHoRTRIDGE.
The Cuban Leagues officers at once saw
through the purpose of the yellow lourn al
and it's friends. and in spite OF the almost
fearful pleas of its reporters and other
representatives. they declined to call
meeting for the purpose of booming the
Examiner. Although the sheet and its
friends offered to pay all the expenses OF
the hall and the advertisements OF the
meeting the officers of the league main
tanned their dignity and declined to play
the part of fiddlers for yellow journalism.
The accompanying resolutions, adopted
a few days ago. show that the Cuban
Leagues officers and members are fully
aware OF the residence and occupation of
their friends-not friends for revenue, but
friends in the hour of need.
Still, officers Of the league continue to
be approached from many directions in
behalf of the pro positions set forth in the
letter of the yellow journaIism's new legal
adjunct, but they have in all instances
refused to lend the nameof the society to
the purposes OF faker.
In fact, there is a distressing tendency
W i"o5A az ZIG PilSuG OI tne newspaper
which srrove madly TO get up mass
meeting in this city simultaneously with
New York demonstration. The spectacle
OF a newspaper whose energies are now
devoted almost solely to passing a hat
among the people for crumbs of comfort.
begging for certificates of Its greatness.
and eager for any evidence that the masses
look upon 1t as veritable fetish, is re-
garded as too pitiful to be amusing. Its
dime museum methods and circus bill
claims of boundless virtue may occasion
ally catch the unsophistIca even yet,
but the mem bers of the Cuban League,
who are known all over the United States
and in Cuba as true friends of the cause of
the little island. did not propose to rush to
the aid of pretender or relieve it of a
burden of woe it has deservedly acquired.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
Mr.. PHELAu
WOULD NOT
PURCHASE
How. the Mayor Lost the
Opportunity of a
Lifetime.
ART TREASURES FOR A SONG.
Critics Who Declared Paintings
by Great Masters to Be
Spurious.
WORTH FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
An Art Firm Bought the Pictures
for Only Five Hundred
Dollars.
WORTH FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
An Art Firm Bought the Pictures
for Only Five Hundred
Dollars.

In his anxiety to avoid buying "gold
brick" Mayor Phelan lost the opportunity
OF lifetime few weeks ago of purchas-
ing two magnificent pictures that would
have made him the envy of local patrons
of art.
During J. w. Winans' lifetime he was a
collector of rare books and choice paint
ings. In the year 1854, when Jerome
Bonaparte was about to return to France
after a period of exile, he sold his numer-
Gus pictures, the result OF years OF collect
ing, at public auction in New York. Mr..
Winans happened to be present on the oc-
cason and realizing their value purchased
two of them, one by L. J. David entitled
THE Last Interview With the Con-
demned," and "Marius at Carthage" by
LIE Brun, aud brou ght them to his Cali
fornia home during the next year.
Mrs. Winans, after her husbands death,
found 1t neCes airy 10 sell and mortgage
many of the works of art her husband had
been accumulating for years. Knowing of
Mayor Phelan's love or the beautiful she
invited him to see the pictures, with a
view of selling some of them to him. Mr..
Phelan, doubling his ability a connois-
seur, asked several of his friends who are
proficient in that line TO pass Judgment
upon them. Thev did so, but ali were
like Thomas, for they doubted their
genuineness.
The Mayor was offered them for $500
but he steadfasty refused to consider the
proposition because his artistic friends
had frightened him.
Messrs. Gump hearing about the trans
action went 10 see them and recognized at
once their value, but to be sure they sent
a cabegram to Paris and found that their
Judgment was correct. Thev lost no time
In procuring them. Mrs. Winan in the
meantime had found among some old
belongings the papers which proved their
authenticity.
The European critics savthat they are
worth $4,000. The picture by David is
over 100 years old, while that of LIE Brun
was painted about $50 years ago.
The former represents woman con-
soling a man. it being her last visit to the
condemned. The features are perfect, the
hands being particularly lifelike, and the
whole picture true TO nature.
The second picture is founded on the
ancient story of Marius. When the Lie
tor of Sextllius came to order him from
Carthage. ne being banished from Rome
he sent to tn mans master the followin
message: "Tell Sextillius that you have
seen Caius Marius sitting on the ruins OF
Carthage"
There are nine figures in this painting,
that of the Lictor and Marius being in the
70 eground. In the background of the
picture is a headless statue, which has
been favorab bly, compared to The Winged
Vic ory" in the Louvre
Both of the pictures are cracked with
age, the back OF "Marius at Carthage"
being mended with damask table cloth.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
ACCUSED OF TILL-TAPPING
James Sademan, Witness in the Dur
rant Trial, Arrested on Two
Charges.

James Sademan, boy Is years OF age,
was arrested yesterday on two charges of
petty larceny. He is accused of tapping
the till in restaurant on Mission street,
near Twenty first, about a week ago and
stealing SIS, and doing the same thing
Friday and stealing $12. lie confessed to
the thefts.
Sademan's father was sexton of the
manuel Baptist Church at the time of
the murders of Blanche Lamont and
Minnie Williams. Young Sademan was
In the church at the time the body of
Minnie Williams was discove red, and was
a witness at Durrants trial He was wear
ing Salvation Army bad ge when arrested.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

timely and be disposed, as president of the
San Francisco branch of the Cuban League, to
issue a call for the same.
The universal applause which is being be-
slowed those who were instrumental in
rescuing EVangelina Cisneros, one of the
victims of Spain's oppression and cruelty,
attests that the cause of freedom is dear to the
heart of the iberty-loving world. as I rev.
ereutly believe it is blessed and sustained by
the approval of heaven. In the hour of the
Cuban patriots heroic struggle let San Fran
cisco's voice speak loud and clear in behalf of
those principles for which this republic
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
THEIR SILVER WEDDING.

Martin and Theresa Bauer Celebrate
Their Twenty fifth Anniversary.
The upper apartments of the San Fran
cisco Turn Verein Hall were filled last
evening, the occasion being the celebra-
ton of the silver wedding of Martin and
Theresa Bauer of s02 Hayes street. Twen-
ty-fve years ago this couple were married
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and the fruits OF
the union are three sons-Otto "a years.
George % and William 20. Mr.. Bauer is
The manager of the Boesch Lamp Com
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
OESARIAN SECTION.
A Delicate Operation Performed at the
City and County Hospital

Caesariau section, an operation that
is very rarely attended with successful re-
suits, was performed at the City and
County Hospital yesterday by DR.. +. w.
Dudley, the resident physician.
1t was performed upon Nellie Kelly of
2l4 Fourth street. a congenital cripple
She called at the hospital about noon and
said she had been sick for three days.
DR.. Dudley warned her of the critical
nature OF the operation, but she consented
to undergo it.
The operation was successful, and it
was hoped that the woman would live, but
she expired in about three hours. The
child is alive, healthy and strong.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

WHEREAS, In the past we
have always found stanch
supporter and bold champion
of the rights of the, oppressed
Cuban in the lttersnces OF The
San Francisco Call; therefore
be il
RESOLVED, That we, the
Cuban League of California,
hereby tender said newspaper
it's warm est tin anks for it's many
able efforts on the side OF
rights and freedom and be it
further
RES OLVEO, That the Cuban
League of California will ever
bear in kindest memory the
many good words for our Op-
pressed patriots.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
Faith er NOrke's Ghosts.

The first lecture in the series on Ghosts
by the Rev. Peter c. Yorke will be given TO-
morrow evening at Metropolitan Temple.
"Ghosts in General" will be the subject of the
evening. The following musical selections
will be rendered: Vocal solo, lave Maria
(Pentatonic). Roeckel. by Madame Ellen Cour-
sen Rocket; chorus, "Hallelujah" new,
Roeckel; aides choral, under the direction of
Madame Roeckel.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
A New York Society Party Arrives

Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois
Central Railroad, arrived in the city last night
on the belated overland. Accompanying him
are Mrs. Fish, Miss Pomeroy, DR.. Russell
Bellamy, J. D. w. Cutting of New York and
Henry Lehr OF Baltimore. The ;arty left New
port week ago, stopping a night in Chicago
and one in Salt La Ike City. The trip is one for
pleasure only, and the presence of the Santa
Fe officials in the city has nothing TO do wi th
the visit of Mr.. Fish. After remaining three
or four days The party will return East by way
of the Yosemite.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
threatened with a Sn;t-

At the meeting of the City Hall Commission.
ers yesterday a communication from John 7.
Boone, an attorney, was read, threatening a
suit against the commission unless a ROYALTY
is paid on the Free Library elevator. Boone
claims that the elevator is an infringement on
the Hinkle patent and that his clients, the
owners OF the invention, are entitled to 5000
Tor the use OF the patent. The letter was re-
terred to the contractors and the Library trus-
tees.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
NEW To-DAY-DRY GOODS.
Napkins! Napkins!
Extra Values!

We announce the arrival this week
of SEVEN CASES TABLE DAMASK
manufacturers, thereby enabling us to
offer the largest and most complete stock
of Napkins of every description ever shown
in this city.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

AS tasters the sect of Jains, in India, are
lar ahead of all rivals. Fasts of from thirty
to forty days are very com mon, and once
a year they are said to abstain from food
for seventy-five days.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

sample missive of such as are received
daily by the local friends of Cuba:
SAN FRANCISCO, October IL, 1897.
Mr.. John II. Jones. President of the Cuban
League of San FfGncisco-DEAR SIR: 1 have
heard it suggested that public meeting OF
citizens is 10 be called for the patriotic and
laudable purpose of sending word of hope
and cheer TO the Cuban patriots, who, follow
ing the sublime example OF our forefathers,
are suffering. struggling. fighting and dying
for selfgovernment, for political freedom.
trust you will deem such meeting proper and
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ming Of his career. Not to have
these advantages from the start
Is to be handicapped all the way.
Mind, rather than muscle farm
ing is the idea. Both, OF course =,
are needed but if the latter is
all there is to it, or if it is the
ruling element, the end is sure to
be farming in the old-time rut
way. This is the rule, and it is
not invalidated by the exceptions.
These facts figure in all the walks.
In present day farming all the
conditions should be taken into
account. For what crop or crops
is the soil naturally best adapted 2
How about the market for the
crop for the growth of which the
soil is best suited e? What is the
best way of maintaining the fer
tillty of a given soil and steadily
improving it?
AS the countries that provide
the markets for farm products get
more and more densely populated
these are questions that more and
more will be up for solution, and
so more and more there will be
place for the capable and cult
waited in farming.
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Ohi0 River and Charleston RAILWAY.

TEN1ME TABLE of the Ohio River and
Z Charleston Railway company, to
take effect Monday, Octber 18th, at
$50 n. m.
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AUDITORS NOTICE |
Lancaster H.. =. g.

Lancaster ~. H., =. T..
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
4 this office will be open from the
First day of January to the TWen-
tleth day of February 1893. for the
purpose of receiving the returns of the
taxpayers OF Lancaster county.
All persons having property in their
possession or control as Manager, Hold
er, or as Husband, Parent, Guardian,
trustee, Executor, Administrator, Re-
ceiver, Accounting Officer, \ gent. At
torney orFactor on the first day of Jan
uary, 1898, are required to list the same
Tor taxation within the time required
by law or incnr the penalty of fifty per
cent. which attaches in failure to do
so.
a re-asscssment of all real estate
and all improvements thereon, togeth-
er with all personal property of every
description must he given to the
Auditor for the assessment Of lS9S.
The Poll Tax of one Dollar is laid
upon all male persons between the ages
ol Il ana go years, except persons who
are manned and unable to earn Il sup
port and Confederate soldiers.
The Auditor will attend the follow
ing places named below for the con-
vcnience Of the public:
Pleasant Valley, Tuesday, Jan. llth,
lS9S.
Belair (J. G.. IIowie's), Wednesday,
Jan. 18th.
Van Wyck, Thursday, Jan. 18th.
Thornwell Place, Friday, Jan. l4th.
Dixie, a. IN, Dwight, p. m, Monday.
Jan. 18th
Tradesville, Tuesday, Jan. 18th.
TaNahaw, Wednesday, Jan 18th.
Flat Creek Church, Thursday, Jan.
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Double daily passenger service botwoan Flos.
tda and Now York
Nos, 81 and 3S-Washington and Southwestern
Limited; S"hd Nestibu.od train with dining
cSrs aud FIRST class coaohes north OF Chnriotta
Pu!lInan drawing room s.ccpiu cars between
Iainpa. JncksonvIlls> savannah, Wsshin Rtos
and Now York.
New York
Nos. 30 and 33-U & Fast Mail ThCuub
pullman drawing room buffet sleeping cars Ls
tween jacksonville and New York and 40
eusta and Charlotte. Pullman sleeping carl
between jacksonville aud Columbia en- route
daily hetweem Jacksonville and Cincinnati. via
Ashevile. - 49,
W. IL. GREEN, I'M CUIp
G sTnt; Washington T. NJ, Walh.ngton-
". y. TURK. y IL HARDWI1K
q. r. a. Washington. A. @. p A. Atlant,
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was the home of DR.. and Mrs.
Mittag.
On the opposite side of the
street, we pass Mr.. Cllnton's law
Office and the cottage that was af
terwards occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Mayer.
On the corner is the home of
Mr.. John Cousart.
We turn the corner. The first
house we pass on the right is the
little home of old Mr.. and Mrs.
Billings,where they lived in quiet
content for nearly fifty years.
The old blacksmith shop stands
much as it did then. Here old Mr..
Billings and Billy Garside beat
an "anvil chorus" day in and day
out for many years. Billy would
sing from morning till night.
Sometimes the old man would
tire of his music and he would
begin beating on the anvil with
all his might. Billy would sing on
and after while loud laugh
would be heard, which proclaim,
ed him conqueror.
On the opposite corner lived
old Mr.. Joe Martin and his twin
grand daughters. He was ma
tive of England, but had lived
here many years. He was a num-
ber one boot and sn"c :laker
The old man had some odd fancies,
one of which was, to have his
coffin made several years before
he died. He had it placed under
his bed and every now and again
he would lie down in it to see. he
said, if it was a comfortable fit, as
he was growing a little stout.
Where Mr. Paul Moore's resi-
dence stands and also DR.. NJ. =.
Crawford's, there was an unbroken
pine forest.
On the opposite side of the
street is the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. II. Crawford-but here we
will rest.
| hope my "reminiscences have
not tired you. Some day we
may take another stroll.
Mrs.