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Evening journal., 1897-12-21
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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

This is a true story which will explain
why the Cuban League of this city is in
dignant.
Yellow journalism will be obliged TO
change its tactics. Once more, in its
frantic struggles to cover its sins and its
color under the cloak of charity, it has
ripped the frail robe from the collar to
hem. The revelation is not pleasing, but
it can hardly be ignored.
II the Hearst and Hearstlings would be
content to blow their own horns and
sound to themselves the Gathering Gym.
balls of praise, respectable people could
get out of the way of the discurd, but yell
low journalism's scheme is to furnish
every body borns and wind ana inveigle
all into blowing. 1t has been trying this
trick upon reputable local society-the
Cuban League-noping to induce it to do
some advertising for yellow journalism;
but it has failed, and there is no way this
time that it can pretend to have sue
ceeded, which makes the case much
sadder,
The Cuban League of this city was in
the days of its youth Endorsed and aided
by The CALL during the period when
the yellow sheet gave no space
to its affairs and reported none of its
meetings. Now that tail of the Journal
and its understrappers in the legal pro-
fession having been bending all their ener-
gies trying 10 induce the officers OF the
society to call meeting to grow enthusi-
astic over its conduct in freeing NJ ss Cis-
neros, as described by itself.
Various persons have been induced to
add the si6ant in EARNEST farpno
recomm mending is speedy action in the
cause of Cuban freedom. Men never be-
fore heard of, and men heard of too often,
have been summoned by the yellow news
paper and urged to do all in their power
to awaken 10 action a body of men who
were active for the cause of Cuba before
the writers of the letters really knew that
Cuba was in trouble. The following is
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

rageous. Said he: 1--WE pay taxes as we'll
as the citizens of other portions of the
city, and it doesn't seem right that we
should be obliged to have this nuisance al
our door-yards."
J. Waters of 327s Harrison street con-
flrmed the story told in yesterdays CALL
OF the practice of Italian fruit and vege-
table peddlers of gathering watercress
from these disease-laden swamps, and
said that he had often seen them gather
ing the stuff at an early hour.
r. Stewart of Twenty fifth and Florida.
also mem Der of the club, and Mrs. Ann
Desmond OF 1914 Alabam street. were all
bitter in their denunciation of the exist.
Ing condition of affairs, as was also J. W.
Powers, doing business at the corner of
Precita avenue and Folsom street.
J. b. Wizard, vice-president of the club
said that many cattle had been pastured
in the swamp on the north side of Army
street, between Alabama and the San
Bruno road. Said he: Life is almost un-
bearabl here in the summer time. These
swamps are full of putrid filth and water.
The Bryant-street sewer, between Twenty.
sixth and Army, which is a wooden affair.
is in a terrible condition.
ut is leakv and full of holes and the
slime and filth escape and fall to tina
marsh below, while the Army-street sewer
at the intersection of San Bruno avenue
empties right on to the fat of Islais Creek.
by the side OF highway traversed eyery
day by thousands of people. Wehave pe.
tltloned Tor Its removal and are hopeful
our petition will be recognized. THE CALL
Is doing great work for us-better than
any OF the other papers-and we are duly
thankful"
committee has been appointed to att
tend the next meeting of the Board -
Supervisors and urge action on the natter
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

pany and he and his family have large
circle of friends. There were 15O of these
who acce pied the invitations and attended
the reception last evening
The hall was beautifully decorated with
howers, and the friends came laden with
presents and the best OF wishes for long
life and prosperity for the couple VINO
have lived all of these years in peace and
harmony. Emil E. Leise the speaker of
the German Free Thought Society, Off
ciated as master OF ceremonies ana his adj
dress was witty and pleasing. Vocal
music was furnished by the singing Sec
ton of the San Francisco Turn Verein.
After the prelim inaries were over the
guests were seated at a banquet liable,
where every thing that would tempt the
palate was spread. The feast was accom-
panied by toasts, songs and addresses, and
al the conclusion the company epjoved a
social dance until late hour in the morn
ing.
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 Precita Valley Bitterly
Denounce the Disease-Laden
Swamps

The Precite Valley improvement Club
is not going to be content with holding
Indignation meetings and the indulgence
in small talk by its 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 midst have been filled in and the
defective sewerage paired.
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 CITY and
County Hospital. which runs down Po-
trero avenue.
'It does not come within a block of the
Army-street sewer. and all the filth from
the sewer, we'll as from the MagdaIen
Asylum, is dumped into one OF these
swamps, where it putrifies, and in sum-
mer gives forth the vlest imaginable
cd or. All the drainage from tho 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 ri
the time with Shiny ooze, and is enouoh
to give man the ague to look at il.
'ln the winter time this hole is flIad
with water, and 1t is only a latter of GOOD
fortune that several OF our children have
not already been drowned in it. We have
petitioned the Supervisors at different
| times, and before the late trouble and
appointment of the new board ,hev
| seemed disposed to do something for us
We are hopeful, now that it has bean de.
cided they are to remain in office that
something will be done for us We Ali
mend the action OF THE CALL. and ire
very grateful for the assistance IT basr rem.
| dered u.s."
john E. O'Brien OF 32I9 Harrison street
secretary of the club, also Commended
| the stand THE CALL had taken and char.
acterized the cond ton Of affairs at nres.
ent existing in Precita Valley as out
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 com nit suicide.
If Police Commissioner Alvord were
running big poker game in a 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 Tobin were run
ming high ball percentage game of Riley
pool under the Ribernia 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 nightly 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, Tor 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 he would raid the game OF
Riley pool IN Gunsts 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 unspe peakable ex-
hibltlons of human depravity in place
| that makes some pretenses of respect
| ability.
The public impression is tha. these
ultra-respectable and high.minded bank
ers on the Police Commission do not
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
A MASS-MEETI THAT FAILED.
Aware of the Ex Pecuiah

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 journ al
and its friends, and in spite of the almost
fearful pleas of it's 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 tew 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 propositions set forth in the
letter OF the yellow journalism's new legal
adjunct, but they have in al instances
refused to lend the nameof the society to
the purposes OF faker.
In fact, there is a distressing tendency
to laugh at the plight of the newspaper
which srrove madly TO get up a mass
meeting in this city simultaneously with
a 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 it as veritable fetish, is re-
Qdr0Pd : nil To ha mn fa
dime museum methods and circus bill
claims OF boundless virtue may OCCASION
ally catch the unsophistlcated even yet,
but the members 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 a 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 "yold
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-
casion and realizing their value purchased
two of them, one by l.. J. David entitled
THE Last Interview With the Con-
demned," F" 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 it neces airy 10 sell and mortgage
many OF the works of art her husband had
been accumuIating for years. Knowing of
Mayor Phelan's love OF the beautiful she
invited him to see the pictures, with a
view of selling some of them to him. Mr.
Phelan, doubling his ability as connois-
seur, asked several of his friends who are
proficient in that line 10 pass judgment
upon them. They did so, but all 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 cablegram 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 saythat they are
North $50,000. The picture by David is
\cr 100 years old, while that of LIE Brun
painted about $50 years ago.
former represents woman con-
a man, it being her last visit to the
aued. The features are perfect the
being particularly lifelike, and the
icture true 10 nature.
cond picture is founded on the
tory of Marius. When the Lie
xtillius came to order him from
ne being banished from Rome.
o tn mans master the followin
"Tell Sextillius that you have
Is Marius sitting on the ruins of
are nine figures in this painting
The Lictor and Marius being in the
Ind. In the background of the
is a headless statue, which has
|avorably compared to The Winged
by" in the Louvre.
9th of the pictures are cracked with
Z. the back OF "Marius at Carthage"
Ieing mended with damask table cloth.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

timely and be disposed, as president of the
San Francisco branch OF the Cuban League, TO
issue call for the same.
The universal applause which is being be-
slowed on those who were instrumental in
rescuing Evangelina Cisneros, one of the
victims of Spains oppression and cruelty,
attests tnat the cause of freedom is dear to the
heart of the liberty-loving world, as 1 rev.
ereutly believe 1t 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

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 FfanciscO-DEAR SIR: have
heard it suggested that e 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 foretathers,
are suffering. struggling. fighting and dying
for self-government for political freedom. l
trust you will deem such meeting proper and
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
THEIR SILVER WEDD

Martin and Theresa Bauer CeiM
Their Twenty-fifth Anniversary
The upper apartments of the San Fra,S
cisco Turn Verein Hall were filled last
evening, the occasion being the celebra-
tion of the silver wedding of Martin and
Theresa Bauer of s02 Hayes street Twen-
ty-tive 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

HEREAS, In the past we
have always found stanch
supporter and bold champion
of the rights of the oppressed
Cuban in the atterances OF The
San Francisco Call; therefore
be it
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
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. DIR. Russell
Bellamy, J. D. w. Cutting of New York and
Henry Lehr OF Baltimore. The larty left New
port a week ago, stopping night in Chicago
and one in Salt Lake City. The trip is one for
pleasure only, end the presence of the Santa
Fe officials in the city has nothing 10 do wit
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
NEW To-DAT-DRY GOODS.
Napkins! Napkins!
Extra Values!

We announce the arrival this week
of SEVEN CASES TABLE DAMASK
NAPKINS from the best Irish and German
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
RILEY POOL AND
DRAW POKER ON THE
CUNSI PREMISES
The Late Isaac Norton, Weburn's Cashier Lost Big
Money in the Te1-Doar Limit Game of the
Baldwin Annex Dollar Limit
Racket for Youngsters
know what is going on in San Francisco.

know what is going on in San Francisco
1t begins to be a question of doub
whether the Chief of Police know
Some people think that he has lost
old-time cunning and sagacity,
others fancy that he has lost hiz
and fears to incur the displeas
superior officer.
According to the judgment "a
ing fraternity the town is
beautifully. Any sort of "A
the nickel-in- the-slot 10 SlCx
can readily be obtained.
offered is only an index of
ised when the racing seasoi
Lees and Gunst are Jawsmi
IS opening wider and wldef
The police impart the sta
great flourish that there is
faro running in the city.
ment is true the only de-
drawn therefrom is that tn,
cannot compete with the rob
in common use.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
threatened With a Suit

At the meeting of the City Hall Commission.
ers yesterday communication from John I.
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
terred to the contractors and the Library truss
tees. 4
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17
ACCUSED OF TILL-TAPPING
james Sademan, a Witness In the Dur
rant Trial, Arrested on Two
Charges.
James Sademan. a bow

James Sademan, boy is years OF age,
was arrested yesterday on two charges of
petty larceny. He is accused of tapping
the till in a IestanEapt on Mission street.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-17

As fasters the sect OF Jains, in India, are
lar ahead of all rivals. Fasts of from thirty
to forty days are very mon, and once
year they are said to abstain from food
for seventy-five days.
The sun., 1897-12-24
MOIIsE COSTUME,

everywhere, from ball gowns to dressing
jackets. from street wraps to morning
gowns. Every effort is being made to vary
it, and the different styles Of sleeve caps,
belts, vests, revers and collars really afford
wide range of choice
Tailor made costumes are very simple
and but slightly trimmed They are well
represented, as usual, for the style Is SO
practical, neat and becoming that it has a
permanent place in general favor from
which 1t cannot be dislodged by any art Of
the restless minded modiste Tailor made
costumee of red, blue or green cloth are
trimmed with military braid in exact imi.
tation of an officers uniform as a new and
striking effect and 1t Is certainly striking
although not SO new that 1t has not ap.
penred from time to time in seasons long
gone by. Exceedingly narrow bands of
satin, stitched on both edges. arc likewise
employed to cover seams and to design
motifs on the back and sleeves of the
bodice.
Mother Hubbard gowns, so much used
for little girls Of all ages, are to be seen
less frequently in Paris for children over
years old, although for younger ones they
are still the favorite style. Sailor costumes,
which introduce the inevitable blouse, are
superseding tho Mother Hubbard for girls
from 8 to 1s years old
The sketch shows costume at rnsa