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The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

The Hospital for Children and Training
School for Nurses is one OF the most de-
serving charities in the city, commencing
itself 10 all who are in sympathy with
helpless little humanity. 1t was organ
lzed March 23 1873, and reorganized Do
Gem ber 7, 1885. There are cared for
monthly about 135 little children, IS per
cent of whom are free recipients of all the
attention and care that can be bestowed
al such an institution.
With the addition of new buildings and
consequent increased mum Der of patients
under treatment and care, 1t takes all the
time of the board and the united efforts of
all its members TO make the institution a
success, and even then the hospital man.
ayers are compelled 10 call upon the pub
lie often, not receiving State aid and
they trust tne generous people of San
Francisco will assist in making this a
grand success and thereby replenish the
depleted treasury. 1t is necessary for the
managers to meet monthly expense of
about $2400 in caring for these helpless
little ones and as their appeals in the
past have met with ready response from
the friends of humanity it is expected
that on this occasion even greater interest
vii! be taken by all the people of the city,
who will thus have the opportunity of de-
voting e little Of their means to a charity
that Is, above all others, a claim on those
who are fortunate enough to retain their
health and strength.
The entertainment will be given on the
evenings OF January 3, 4 and 5, and Mrs
Wendell Easton, Mrs. Pope and Mrs. J.
ho
charge, are working night and day to
make it such complete success that all
feeling of stringency in the institution
will be done away with.
The old City Guard was approached by
Mrs. u ckenson with q request that that
orga nization participate in the war scenes
of the pageant, and this request vas gladly
granted by Captain Filmer, who said that
every me EN- Der had expressed his willing
ness TO participate.
The City Guard Quartet, composed CT
Sergeant H. B. Sullivan, Pryates Charles
Creighton, William J. Hayes and E. S.
FiImer, will sing the old camp songs that
cheerei the soldiers while they were in
the field.
The hospital corps in the third act will
be composed of Sergeants Leege. w. NJ.
Kelly, A H. McCullocb, and Privates
William Overstreet and a. H. Frech. DIR.
George b. Somers will act as surgeon of
the corps and Sergeant Leege will DO bis
assistant
An effort will be made to have Governor
Budd take part and represent the Governor
of Massachusetts, in the presentation OF
the flag in the second act.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
RAILROAD TRAVEL.
CALIFORNIA
LIMIT Ed.
SAN FRANCISCO
To
CHICAGO.

Trains leave from ana arrive at Market-st. Ferry.
san Francisco Ticket Ofiice-644 Market street
Cnronicle Building. Telephone Main 1920. Oak
land Oflice-l1lS Broadway. Sac ramenlo Office
POI street.
The Best Railway-San Fran ncisco to Chicago
Look at the Time or the California
Limited.
Leave San Francisco $50 p M, Mondays and
Thursdays; arrive Kansas City 6 p NJ Thursdays q
and sundays; arrive st Lols z A. NJ FRIDAYS and
Mondays; arrive Chicago 8 :43 \, , Fridays and
Mondays.
DINING CARS under Harvey MANAGEMENT
Buffet Smoking Cars and Pullman Palace SIeep.
ing Cars.
This train carries First-class Passengers on,y
but no ex ra charge is mate.
The ATLANTIC EXPRESS, leaving daily at
4:30 p. NJ. carries Pullman Pa'Ace and Pull m IN
Tourist stepping Cars on last time. Direct cen
nection in Chicago and Kansas City for a l points
East.
New rails new ties, new ballast, new BRIDGES
The shortest crossing of the desert AMI a country
that nte eSts by lis varied and beautiful scenery
The highest grade of passenger equipment al d
meals aJ Harvey's famous dinlng-rooms
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the Revolutionary times, showing the
bir tn OF the nation and the Declaration
OF Inde pendence and the famous peace
ball, where the stately minuet W i'll be
danced by the actor. During this act
the music will be American national
hymns.
The third act will be subdivided INTO
two sections, the first having three scenes.
showing the volunteers starting off 10 the
war in 1861; the second giving hospital
scenes, showing the wounded soldiers at
tended by the doctors and heroic nurses,
and the third scene shows the days of
emancipation in 1865. During these
scenes the music will be Southern airs,
and this will be followed by the dawn OF
peace under the new era OF two mans
realm" in 1897. closing with a beautiful
representation of a sculptor studio.
This play has been produced in Boston,
Chicago and Los Angeles, and has been
greeted with crowded houses wherever it
has appeared. 1t is expected by those
who are instrumental in getting ii started
here that the presentation IN this city
will so far eclipse anything ever before at
tenn mpted that its success Will be up to all
expectations, from q financial standpoint
as well as from an artistic point of view.
a large number of prominent ladies of
the city will act g honorary patronesses
and will interest their friends in their ef-
forts TO secure the success of the enter
tainment- Prominent ladies and gentle
men of the ci,y will participate in the
pageant, and they will delineate the
greatest scenes in American history, com.
biuing grandeur of display and variety O
action with oral rendition, songs and
dances.
The ladies of the board of the Hospit tai
for Children and Training school for
Nurses who have the matter in charge,
and who Will act as patronesses to secure
the performance, are:
Mrs. w. B. Harrington, Mrs. William Hardy,
Mrs. L. l. Dunbar. Mrs. J. II. Dickinson, Mrs.
(. c. Logan, Mrs. Charles Z. Green Mrs.
George f. Grant, Mrs. Henry Bothin, Mrs
Ignaiz Steinhart, Mrs. +. y. Frank, Mrs. James
W. Kerr, Mrs w. T Fonda, Mrs Wendell Eas-
ton, Mrs. Il. Dutard, Mrs. c. B. Alexander
Mrs w. 2. Shay. Mrs. Claus Spreckels Mrs
II. NJ. Fske, Mrs. F. II. Green, Mrs. l. n Wal
ter, Mrs. n. D. Rideout, Mrs. Rolla Y. Watt,
Mrs. J. F. Merrill. Miss Mary 7. Hoffman, Mrs.
c. L. holmes, Mrs. F. II. Beaver, Mrs. II. 7.
Miller. Mrs. Robert Oxnard, Miss Laura Nc.
kinsrry.
Among the gentlemen who will fill i'm
portant roles in the performance are
Mayor Phelan, Mess;s J. F. Merrill. Sid
ney NJ. Smith and Robert Lloyd. Mrs.
Martin Schultz, Miss Mary F. Hoffman,
Miss Ella Morgan and many other of the
young people of this city have signified
their Willingness TO take part.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
wben Cornttes Can Sua

The Supreme Court yesterday passed udg-
ment in the case OF the county of Ventura
against Henry Clay, the Treasurer. The ac-
ton based upon the assertion that the
Treasurer had illegally paid out money, and
it was desired 10 have him and his bondsmen
make good the amounts. The action was
brought under the county government act,
section 8. demurrer was entered on the
ground that the action should have been
brought by the up.rvisors. and not by the
county. The Supreme Court sustains the low r
court, and ho.ds that section 8 OF the county
government act relajes to The recovery Ot
money from those to whom it has been
illegally paid, but thatfn the case in question
the SUPERVISOR should have begun the suit.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

A MELANGE OF humor pathos and
u patriotism, consisting of the grand
historical pageant entitled "Colun-
biz" will be given at the California Thea
ter during the first week of the coming
year under the auspices of the lady pa
tronesses of the Hospital for Children and
Training school for Nurses, for the benefi I
Q that worthy institution.
A most elaborate programme has been
prepared, and the pageant and tableaux
will be given with all the spectacular
Suggesting and costuming that M arked
its successful presentation on Eastern
stages. The ladies who have entered into
this stupendous undertaking are deter
mined to make 1t equal, If not surpass,
any presentation heretofore attempted,
and 10 this end they will spare neither
time nor money TO bring it 10 perfect con-
summation.
The entire dramatis persona of the
performance will be mem bers of San
Francisco's society circles, who will de.
vote their time and energy to giving such
an interpre tation of the various tableaux
as will bring before the audiences living
pictures of the scenes enacted during
Colonial, Revolutionary ana Civil War
periods that Will be perfect in detail and
costuming. The programme will be di-
vided into three acts, each EN- bodying the
manners and customs OF the particular
epoch to which 1t relates.
The first act Will repres ent Colonial
days at the time of 1920 ana Will present
four scenes-showing our forefathers at
the landing of the Pilgrims on Ply mouth
Rock, Mayday on Boston Common, a
typical coUrtshIp and washday liz Old
Plymouth in a colonial home During
the presentation of these scenes and
tableaux the orchestra will play British
airs.
The second act will be in two scenes OF
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
A Coroner's Jury Decided
That Carbon Monoxide
Is Present.
OFFICIALS GIVE THEIR TESTIMONY
Autopsy Surgeon Gallagher
Testified Three Victims
Were Poisoned.
TAYLOR and GALLAGHER DIFFER
Pure Coal Gas Supplanted by the
Product of Petroleum, Goal
and Water.
TAYLOR And GALLAGHER DIFFER

The discovery has been made by the
Coroner's office that the numerous cases
Of death during the past year caused by
asphy xiation from Inhaling illuminating
gas were cases of poisoning by carbon
monoxide, with which the illuminating
gas furnished this city at the present time
is said to be impregnated. Pure Goa! gas
is said to con tain but a small percentage
of carbon moncxide, while the gas fur
nished to consumers in San Francisco is
alleged 10 be made of petroleum, coal and
water and to contain an undue percentage
Of carbon monoxide, which, when taken
into the blood by inhalation, is always
fatal, while persons who have lain uncon-
scious for hours in pure coal gas have, in
the large majority of cases, been resusci-
tated.
Official action was taken in the premises
Yesterday morning, when Coroner Haw-
kins swore the jury 10 inquire into the
cause of the death of the following named
persons: Mrs. Mary Husemarn of 1916
Ellis street, CeIestine Gimonet of 526 Pine
street, and j. w. Fl ed of the New Western
Hotel.
DR.. John Gallagher, autopsy surgeon for
the Coroner, took the witness stand and
told the jury that the three persons named
had come to their deaths not so much by
asphyx iation as by the poison mentioned.
He said:
The poison that caused death in this illu-
minating gas Is carbon monox,de. The exact
composition of the gas used in San Francisco
should be known TO the Gas Inspector.
Q.-From the evidence that You gathered in
your autopsy you are satisfied that this poi
sonous gas was present in the gas inh aled by
TINS woman CelestIne Gimonet?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-And she died, then, from the effects of
ths carbon monoxide poisoning in the gas?
A-Yes.
Ex-Supervisor Charles l.. Taylor in
spector of gas, was placed on the witness
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
ANOTHER MURDERER DOOMED.
Supreme Court Denies Rehe airing in
the Case of Jos eph Hubert.

Supreme Court Denies a Rehearing in
the Case of Jos eph Hubert.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
judgment of the lower court in the case of
Joseph Hubert, who was convicted of
murder in the first degree for killing his
wife in 1895. The defense in the lower
court OF Caiaveras County was insanity,
and the evidence showed that Huberts
brain was permanently diseased from the
excessive use of alcoholic drink, causing
delusions. One of these was that his wife
was trying TO poison him, and while la
boring under this deIusion he shot her in
the head.
the appeal was taken upon the ground
that The court erred in its instructions TO
the jury and particularly in its deini-
tons OF insanity, partial insanity ana
personal responsibility; also that tie ver-
dict of the jury was not warranted
by the evidence. All of these and
other points were ably disposed of by the
Supreme Court, which, IN conclusion.
affirmed the judgment and order OF the
lower court.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
Gas of Cheap Lodging
Houses Juggled to Save
Expense.
DEATH TO THE SLEEPING LODGER.
Reasons Given to the Coroner
for Many Strange As
phyxiations.
MURDER INSTEAD OF SUICIDE.
Unconsciously the Grim Reaper Is
Sent to the Rooms of Tired
Victims.

The Coroner and his deputies were in
reminiscent mood yesterday. The records
OF the Office for the last Two years we're
pulled from their shelves, and from the
hrst day of December, 1895. up 10 the
present date it was shown that the bodies
OF III persons had been brought to the
MorEue who had died of asphyxiation by
Illuminating gas. OF these fully one-half
had been brought from the cheap LODGING
houses of the city, and half those the
Coroner or his deputies could find no rea-
son why death had been welcomed. They
hao all been sent to their graves as sui
cides, but nothing could be found WHY
the dead persons had taken their lives.
The juries in such cases have contented
themselves by returning verdicts OF sui
eide, and filed out of the Morgue glad to
ESCAPE from the grewsome place, and
make themselves believe they have done
their duty as citizens by acting as jurors.
Usually IN such cases the verdict has been
based on the worn-out excuse of detective
gas fixtures, or that the victim was from
the country and unaccustome ed 10 the use
of gas, blew out The light, and so went 10
his death unconscious of the fate in store
for him for his act.
IN great many OF the places 1t Is the
custom TO turn off the gas al the meter at
certain hour, generally bout midnight,
and turn it OH again early in the morning
shortly before the breakfast hour. so that
light can be given the guests 10 prepare
for the days work. That course is taken
to save in the gas bill.
Recently, however. the Coroner has
had his attention called TO the parsimony
OF the lodgng-house keepers in the way Of
GAS hills and il is now beiieved tbxt m oDy
of the deaths from Illuminating gas have
been due not to suicide but to manslauyh-
ter. 1t is frequent occurrence for per
son to fall asleep IN room in which the
gas is burning and probably not awake
until daylight
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stand, and was subjected to a rigid ex-
animation by Coroner Hawkins. The
witness said that all the law required OF
him was to ascertain the illuminating
qualities Of the gas-"whether it con-
tanned sulphurate of hydrogen, and its
specific gravity" He did not make any
analysis as 10 the chemical components
OF the illumlnant, because the gas inspec-
tor was not required by law to do so. His
duty was simply 10 determine the candle
power.
In the three cases named the jury re-
turned a verdict that death was caused "by
poisonous gases contained in the city
lighting gas self inflicted. We further
find that the poisonous gas is carbon
monoxide"
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

the passing of sentence will be taken. ard
it is almost certain that the attorneys will
file petition for writ of probable cause.
Although certain OF defeat the lawyers
are keeping up strong fight and will do
so until death claims him who has earned
il hV his deeds.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
Paving of Market Street.

Deputy Superintendent of Streets Donovan
has prepared plans ana specifications for the
two blocks of Market street that it is proposed
to pave with fitumen, The advertisement for
the work, which the Supervisors will prepare
at once, Will call for concrete foundation,
912 inches in thickness. instead of the q
inches generally allowed. and the bitumen
must be laid 20 inches in thickness. The
blocks TO be paved are between Third and
Fourth and Fourth and Fifth streets.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
NEW TO-DAY.
HEART DISEASE.
SOME FACTS REGARDING THE RAPID
INCREASE OF HEART TROUBLES.
DO Not Be Alarmed, But Look for the
Cause.

DO Not Be Alarmed, But Look for the
Cause.
Heart troubles, at least among Ameri-
cans, ara certainly increasing, and white
this may be largely due to the xci,ement
and worry of American business life, it is
more often the result of weak stomachs-
OF poor digestion.
Real organic heart disease is incurable
but not one case in hundred of heart
troub is organic.
The close relation between heart trouble
and poor digestion i because both organs
are controlled by branches of the same
great nerves-the Sympathetic and the
Pneumogasuic
In another way also the heart is affected
by that foIm of poor diges i'm whicn
causes gls and ferme eatation f.om half
diges ed food. There is a feeling of op-
preston and heaviness in the chest, caused
by lr ssure OF the distended stomach on
the heart and lungs, interfering with their
action; hence a: ises palpitatlon and short
breath.
Poor digestion also poisons the blood
ma t thin and watery-wbich irrit ties
and weske1 s the he Irt.
TIE m st sensible treatment for heart
trouble is to improve the igPstion and to
insure tle prompt assimilation OF food.
This can test be done bv The regular use
afte~ meals OF some safe, p easa1t and ef-
fective diyt stiVe prepar tio1, like Stuarl's S
Dysrepsi, labe S which may be founl at
most drugstores and which con sin valu-
able. harm es> dig' stive elements, in a
p. .easant, eonvt nieut .orm.
1t is s fe 10 say that the regular, persis-
tent us; of Stuart's Dyspepsia Ia lets at
meal time wi ! cure any form of st mach
trouble, except cane of stomach.
full sized packages of the t BILE sold
by druggists al % cents.
l. tile book on stomach troub es mailed
free. Addres Stuart Co, Marshal, Mich.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
Grand Jurors Investigatiny

A committee from the Grand Jury, consist
ing of Henry Martin, John n. Much and c. 0.
Burton, spent several hours yesterday in ex-
amining the records at police headquarters
Chief Lees personally attended upon the
jurors and also showed them through the City
Prison. Captain GilleD was detailed to escort
them through the different police stations.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
NORTH PACIFIC COAST RAILROAD
ttis Sausaiito Ferry).

From San Francisco, Commencing Sept. ls, 1891
WEEKDAYS
For Mil Valley and san Raiae-s7 :25, 1880
ll:3O \. Ii: *l:45, 3:i5, %5:l5 8 ;OO q 80 n
Extra trips FOR San Rafael on Mondays Wedges
days and Saturdays At IL 80 P. ~
SUNDAYS
For Mill Valley and San Rafaei-%s 100. so 100
81 80 A. NJ: Las, 800. *4:30, GAS r. II.
Trains marked run to san Quentin.
THROUGH TRAINS.
5:25 A N. weekdays for Cazadero and way Sta
tions; :45 T. n. Saturdays (mixed train) for
Duncan Mills and way stations; 500 A. n Sun-
days for Po,Rt Reyes and vsy s.atieaA
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

"CUPID's COUNSELLOR" "st Cecilia" "Eu-
raptured," and all the other nice, coiored
photographs and panels, put up in the most
beautiful frames you have ever seen, at San
born & Wallis, 14I Market st.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
A septuagenarian Steals Eggs.

Rufus Brown, aged 20 years, was arrested
yesterday afternoon by Policeman 2. Cole
man and charged with petty larceny. He was
caught stealing two eggs from store at
Washington and Polk streets.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

One Dose viii Stop Cough.
DR.. Parker's Cough Cure never fails try it.
Price % cents. For sale by all druggis IS.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12


(biain line, Foot OF Market Serect.)
LEAVE FROM OCTOBER "a, 1897. ARRIVE
#0.JOA Niles San Jose and Way stations. S:45A
7:00A Henicia, Suisun ana Sacramento. 1O:&JA
7;O0A MaIysvilie Oroyillc anu Itedding via
woodland ,..,.....'-.-......... o;t2P
z:OOA Nacavile and Rumsey. .............. S:loP
7:5OA MARTINEZ San Ramon. Vallejo, Napa,
Caistoga and Santa Rosa. O:I0P
S:OOA Atlantic Express, Ogden and East. s;AoP
s;;bOA Niles, San lose, Stockton, lone,
Sacramento, Marysyiie, Chico
Tehama ard Red Bluff. ........,.. I;I5P
ss:3OA Peters, Milton and Oakdale. '7:1SP
9;OOA New Orleans ExprcGG, Merced, Ray
mond, Fresno, Bakersfield, Santa
Barbara Los Angeles Dcnling
E Iaso New Orleans and East. 6;40P
0:GOA Vallejo. Martinez, MERGED and
sI:OOP Sacramento River StenucTs ........ r9:OGP
I:3OP Martinez and Way Stations ......... 7:45P
Visalia ...'................... 4:I5P
4:OOP Murtinez. San Ramon, Vallejo,
Santa Rosa. ,...s. .,.. y 0:I0A
4'0OP Benica, Eacayile. w 90 and,
knights Landing, Marysville, Oro-
Vile and SacIaucu IO:40A
4:3OP Niles Tracy and Stocktop........... s:l5P
4:3OP Lathrop Modesto, MeTced, Berenda,
Fresno, Moiave (for Rapdsburgl,
Santa barbara and Los Angelica. .7;z0A
for Mojage and East. ............. 6:45p
g5:30P " Sunset Limited" Les Angeles, 81
Paso, Fort Worth, Little Rock, st.
Louis, Chicago and East .......... SEO:I5A
6:0OP European Mail, Ogden aud East.... 9;43A
6:UOP HayWaIts Niles and San Jose...... 9;45A
ts:OOp Vallejo t7:A5P
SCOOP Oregon Express, Sacramento, M3rys
vile. Relding, Portland, Puget
Sound and East .................. S:s0A
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MOUNT TAMiLPiTS SCENIC RAILWAY

(Via sausalito Ferryl.
Leave San Francisco Commencing Nov,
13, 1897:
WEEK DAYS-9 80 A. NJ: :45PM
SUNDAYS-S:0p 10 zoo, IL 80 A. N; l:l5 PM
special trips arranged for by applying ta
THO>. COOK d SON, 621 Market ST.. San Fran
cisco, or lelephonins Tavern OF amalpa4a
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RAILROAD TRAVEL.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC C0HEPANR.
(FACIFlC SYSTEaI.)
Grains leave NsEd =lTe' tsUe TO arrive "a
SAN FRANCISCO.
(biain Line, Foot OF Market Ssrect.)
The oasis., 1897-01-23
PROPOSED RAILROAD.
4 party 10 Reconnoitre the proposed corra-
 iitos Topolobamro RoHte.

This week Nogales has been visited hy party Of gentlemen en route to Topolobampo to conduct reconnois- sance of the route of the proposed rail way between that port aud Corralitos, where it is to connect with the road now building from Ciudad Juarez, op- posite Go El Paso.
 The party consists of j. Gurdon c. Stephenson c. F., of London, Eng laud, Kinsley D. Doyle, Edwin Moon, and $. c. Jackson of the same city, and A. Krauss of Bristol Mir Steph- enson is an eminent engineer who is in charge Of the work. and Messrs Doyle and Moon are his professional assistants. MT. Krauss is of the firm Of A. Krauss S Go. of Bristol heavy firm contractors: and MT Jackson rep resents 3 London syndicate which is pledged to invest the capital necessary to carry out the project should the re- connoissance demonstrate Its feasibil- 1 ity
 The party will proceed to Topolo-
 banlpu and take soundings Of She har- bir. and cbeck the charts supplied by 1.-the United States coast survey. That
 work completed they will proceed ' ia ltie Fuente river Go the town or the same uaine, thence to the junction of itNc river through tue Ghinapas. From lthat point they will examine a route proposed for a branch line to Batopi- ! rllas and lIrieue Refafning thence 1 f8 the river they will follow the Chin iaIas aua Septentrion ca5Ons te bocoy- mfha aQint au eXamipati0n | uHl De made Of the proposed route ! lor d branch line Go the City of Chi' i lnahua When at that city the party
 sgill enjog a short resting spell while Mir. stephens goes to the City of Mex iit0 to confer with President Didl. Re. turning they will retrace their jour.
 ney to Bocoyna. taking up the main
 route and following it through te Corralitos via Guerrero and Galliane.