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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

common wealths will be three times as
many as from the East, though the repre-
sentation from there will in his judgment
be good.
Zone of my objects in coming thus
early" said Mr.. Leubrie, sis TO try TO in
ouce as many of the Endeayorers as posi-.
bic to visit San Francisco, neigh boring
cities and the charming health resorts at
least sixty days earlier than now antici-
pated.
f'The cheap rate of S51 for the round
trip from Chicago and similar Eastern
points will induce thousands of Christian
addition to the army of Jealous citizens,
who have to large extent signified their
intention of making this notable and
pleasurable journey.
"The fund of $25, 900 subscribed by the
public-spirited citizens of San Francisco
and the further assurance that everything
will be done to prov de for the comfort
and pleasure of visiting members has
aroused spirit of commendable pride in
determining which State shall bring to
San Francisco the largest number of En-
deavorers.
at is not beyond the bounds of con-
servative estimate to figure up from 40, 600
to 55, 600 mem bers as the sum total of
visitors, including. of course, the friends
and ardent supporters of those who are
identified with this praiseworthy move
ment. The Christian Endeavorer, reach
ing as 1t does a half million readers
throughout the country, will not be remiss
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
SCHOOL BOARD
HAS MANY LANS
Radical Change in the
Control of Evening
Schools.
Some Teachers to Go and Some
New Positions to Be
Provided.
If the Plan Carries There Will Be
Four Teachers of Physical
Gu ture Very Soon.

The Board of Education will have a
lively time tonight. The programme is
much larger than usual. 1t EN- mbraces the
dropping OF several teachers, the plan of
turning over the control of the evening
schools from the Com mittee on Classifica-
tion to the Committee on Evening Schools,
the reception and consideration of Aud
Itor Broderick's 'kick" concerning the
architects fees, premiums and so on for
the Mission High School, the revision of
former action concerning the school iani-
tors, with, perhaps, a few other bits of
work thrown IN. The board will come to.
gether at 8 o'clock and will probably sit
late.
The teachers of cooking, if a secret
agreement among the members is carried
out, will be dropped from their present
positions. These are Miss Whitaker.
Miss Toomy and Miss Paxton. Their
places will be declared vacant. Miss Patton
Will resume her place on the unassigned
list. The other tea chers will be out. Mr..
Stockman and MIR. Eldridge, both of whom
are connected with the manual training
OF the children, are slated to go. There
Was some talk of removing Professor
Barth, teacher of physical culture, but
ooSOCldIiOnS OF the Clty raj
lied so to his support that he will stav.
The original proposition was to Law him
on until July, until more money comes
IN But this will not be carried out. In
July three more teachers of physical cul-
ture will be added to the department.
making four in all, if the programme is
not changed.
Miss Treadwell who was given permits
sion oy the old board to teach the yoic g
ana physical culture during school hours.
Is also on the list to GO. The Committed
on hules has resolved upon this. Miss
ooule, who asked for one month leave of
absence, will probably be denied. She is
on the unassigned list So also will DR.
bonneil, assistant police surgeon, be re-
FUSED leave of absence. He was night
school teacher. His move was to hold
open door by which he could step back
into the department.. At the meeting of
lhe BOARD as committee of the whole il
was resolved not to permit this
among the minor propositions which
the mem bers are talking over is a nro-
posed assessment upon the pupils of the
Dudley Stone school of 10 cents per canIta
10 BUY piano. This does not meet with
the sanction of the majority, the idea
being that no assessments should hs ner-
mltted for any purpose.
Ihe idea in transferring the controI 90
the evening schools from the Classifica,ioa y,
COMMITTEES to the Committee ON Evsn;nn -
schools Is to give the last named comn,;tss
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
CARRIED OUT HIS WISH
The Hinckley Funeral Services
Were Extremely
Simple.
Boiy of Florence Blylh, Hinckley's
Husband Laid at Rest at Noun.
tain View.

With simple ceremonies the funeral OF
Frederick W. Hinckley the late husband
of Florence Blythe Hinckley, was held
from the family residence, 1921 California
street, yesterday afternoon.
The services began at 10 o'clock and
were conducted by Rev. w. 81. Morela nd
in accordance with the Episcopal ritual.
Only the immediate relatives and friends
OF the deceased, some twenty in mum Der,
were present, and there was no ostenta-
tious display of floral emblems.
At the conclusion of the services the
majority of those present retired, it being
understood that the interment, which
took place in Mountain View Cemetery,
Oakland, was to be strictly private. Those
who followed the body to the grave were
the young widow, the immediate relatives
and the six pallbearers, II. T. Gibbs, A. r.
Grayson, A. NJ. Cummings, Charles Mich
OILS, Charles E. Cornell and Joseph Spear
Jr.
The cortege took the IL o'clock ferry
and the ceremonies at the grave were con-
Quoted in accordance with the arrange
ments that had previously been made.
1t had been the wish of genial Fritz
Hinckiey that the services over his BODY
should be as simple as possible, and his
wishes were carried out.
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in pointing out the noteworthy features
that have made California one of the great
States of the Union, and inducing those
who are sighing for balmler skies and
more inviting conditions to locate in this
peerless commonwealth.
"In the matter of hotel accommoda-
tions there will necessarily be an over
flow, and it will be advisable TO provide
for large portion of the Endeavorers
among the private homes Of the citizens.
aside from its vast moral and religious
influences the Christian Endeavorers will
exert q potent power in the uplifting of
depressed commercial conditions, for
while they are tenacious of their noble or
ganization and the elevation of their
mem bers to the attributes of personal
betterment, they are likewise tenacious of
their duties as citizens in prom oting the
public welfare and their own business in
terests by Iaboring in common for the
good of all.
THE Christian Endeavorer of Chicago
has, in view of the intense interest mani
tested in the coming annual convention,
delegated to me the important duty of de-
scribing in some of its forthcoming issues
California as it is from every standpoint
Of observation"
Speaking for himself and the paper of
which he is the staff correspondent, he
said:
The purpose will not alone be to bring
members and their friends here, but to
keep them here by picturing the many at
fractions of California"
Mr.. Leubrie will give special attention to
the hotel facilities and the rates, as well
as the hundreds OF other features Of inter-
est to visitors. He thinks the City ought
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
NORTH HALL WAS
NEARLY AFt tAME
A Streetcar Current Flashed
Over Telephone
Wires.
Spiro Sargentich, a Student,
Saved One of the College
Buildings.
He Was Badly Burned in the Face
by the Pent.Up Elec-
tricity.

BERKELEY, CAL, Feb. g. - What
might have proved to be a serious disaster
resulting in the electrocuting of a Berke-
ley student and the destruction of one of
the university buildings. took place at
about O'Clock to-day. But for the pres
ence of mind and timely action of Spiro
Sargentich, mem Der of the junior class,
old North Hall might have been in ashes
tonight. AS matters resulted, the hero
of the hour escaped, considerably fright
ened, with deep burn on the cheek;
quantity of books belonging to the stu
dents cooperative store were scorched
and nearly all the telephones in the neigh
borhood were burned out.
runaway team in the course of their
plunge through the streets ran against
telephone pole on Allster way with their
heavy rock wagon and broke off the cross
bar which holds the insulators letting
the telephone wire fall on the wires of
the electric street car line. Instantly
there occurred flash and Kissing in the
main office and in the house of every
telephone owner on the line. In most
cases the utility of the phones was COM
pletey destroyed, the current having
been so strong that the mechanical de-
vices in them for preventing just such
accidents were of little use. Both the
telephones at the office of the regents and
the one at the cooperative store were
ruined.
1t was during the wild excitement
which followed that Sargentich in periled
himself. He was the only one in the
store at the time of the accident, and
hearing the Kissing and cracking noise
made by the wires rushed to see what was
the trouble. Knowing that if something
was not done at once the building would
catch on fire, and that by Ioosing the
hook the circuit would be completed and
thus avert further dangerous trouble he
reached for it. In SO doing he was hit in
the face by stream of electricity, besi les
receiving heavy stroke of the bottled
Lightning. For time he was dazed, but.
regaining his senses, he saw what a mar
row escape he had had, and how he had
saved the building from ruin.
Ralph Marshall, manager of the COOP
erative store, stated tonight that if some
one had not been present when the accl-
dent to the telephone occurred, the build
ing would have surely caught on fire
North Hall is wooden structure, and is
as dry as tinder-box, so that if fire
once gained headway there is no knowing
how 1t would result. At the time of the
trouble there were about 300 students in
the building, who had just entered to at
teno their first recitation of the afternoon
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rlage. In this regard he is disputed by
many witnesses, but he falls back on the
statement that he never intended to sign
any such document, and leaves the infer
ence that If he did so he was deceived as
TO the character of the paper to which he
was appending his signature.
In the interesting testimony offered bv
the old man, who is worth $3.50, 900 and
objects to paying $500 a month alimony
to the lady who claims to be his wife by
contract, appears the following:
Mr.. Pringle = During your illness in the
Wash1ngton-street house did you ever over
& hear any conversation about yourself and
Mrs. Abbott ana one of her sons7
MI. Quackenbush-Yes, sir.
state what IL was and how you came to
hear it,
We'll, was lying on the lounge and they
thought was asleep"
But the latter part OF this statement
was ordered stricken out. because the wit
ness had no right TO say what the lady and
her son thought, because quite naturally
he could not tell exactly what they
thought, so the lawyer took another tack {:
Mr.. Pringle-Well, what did they say?
The witness Well, the said to the
mother, What do you expect to me Ike out of
this?' She replied, 81 expect to make enough
to keep me all my life'
"What son was that?"
"WiIie."
Then followed long discussion by the
attorneys as 10 admisslbility of a CONVEX
sation at which it was alleged that Mrs
t-Quackenbush confessed that she
was not married to the defendant. At
length 1t was allowed and Attorney Foote
asked:
VIII you please state what was said on or
about the 18th of May, 1898, by Mr.. Pringle
or yourself or Mrs. Abbott in reference TO a
marriage or marriage contract?
was sitting in the room and these parties
were there and Mr.; Pringle came in and
said to me: "Mr. Quackenbush are you a
married man? and l SAYS, ''No sir" He
turned around to Mrs. Abbott and he says:
mrs. Abbott, are you married to Mr.. Quack-
enbushT' She said. ''No, sir" He repeated
1t to her and she said: mo, SIR; that we were
not married.
George Jones and Eli Pullin testified
that they knew the plaintiff in this case as
Mrs. Abbott and never as Mrs. Quacken-
bush.
Further testimony will be taken at 10
o'clock this morning, and as usual there
Will be big attendance of old men and
women who seem to feel a personal in
terest in this marital litigation wherein
the lady admits that she is 30 years of age
and the alleged bridegroom is said to be
"rising 70
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

tee as much jurisdiction over the evening
schools as the Classification Committee
has over the day schools, which will be
controlled as heretofore.
Since the board changed the janitors
around there has been general rallying
to the support of the janitors who were to
be displaced. AS consequence janitors
who were to be m owed out still hold on.
The programme may be modified some
what. The segregation ofs funds sug-
gested by the Finance Committee is likely
10 carry with the exception of an addi-
tional $1,000 to the Buildings and Grounds
Committee.
Auditor Broderick went home early yes-
terday TO prepare his communication to the
board, with which he will return without
approval the bill of Architect Havens be-
cause the contracts for the Mission High
School exceed the estimates. The discus
SION on all these matters and others Incl
oentally arising will fill up the evening,
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
VALLEY ROAD CON TRACTS
Grading for Thirty Miles South
of Fresno Will Begin
Immediately.
Track Will Be at Hanford in June
and Bakersfi I'D Some Time
in the Fal.

The first jump in the long extension of
the Valley railroad from Fresno 10 Bakers
field was taken yesterday afternoon by
the directors of the progressive competi-
tor of the Southern Pacific, the San Fran
cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad
Company. large gang of men will be
put to work in three or four days making
grade to the well-esta blished and enter
prislng town of Hanford, and as rapidly
as the leveled earth will permit croesties
and rails will follow it up. This is what
the board of directors authoriz ID at a
meeting yesterday and as was outlined in
yesterdays CALL. The total expenditure
will be about $500, 900.
The contract for thirty miles of grade
was ordered let by the board to Grant
Bros. of Alan eda County, who have an
office in this City. The price was so much
per cubic yard, and will amount to between
$50, 600 and $40, 900. In letting the COR
tract to Grant Bros. the directors have a
precedent for the kind OF grading they
may expect. The firm did most of the
grading for the road from Stockton 10
Fresno. The distance from Fresno 10
Hanford is about thirty miles. For
number OF reasons the line will not be
completed as soon as has been expected
down the valley into either Haniord or
Bakersfield. Chief Engineer Storey will
make a trip down to Fresno soon. He
said yesterday that they hoped 10 have
trains running into Hanford early in June,
and into Bakersfield when, as James Whit
comb Riley saye, 1.-THE frost is on the pump
kin and the fodder IS in the snock"-Oc-
tober or November.
The rails will be the latest steel pattern.
62% pounds to the yard, which is consid-
cred heavy rail. Considerable mileage
OF the Southern Pacific is said to be laid
with 60 pound rail.
No time limit Will be put into the con-
tract. Chief Engineer Storey said they
have an understanding with the contrac-
tors that the work will be proceeded with
as rapidly as the railroad company desires
There will be no grade on the extension
heavier than fifteen feet to the mile. Be-
tween Hanford and Fresno are a number
of streams. The largest bridge will be
across Kings River.
This bridge will consist of two spans of
100 feet each, with several feet of ap-
proaches of trestle and EN- bankment. The
bridge will be of wood and iron and the
spans will be what is known as the Howe
truss. The bridge will cost about $l5 900.
The contract for it will be let soon.
The removal from Stockton to Fresno of
Division Superintendent A. d. Mcfarland
next Monday TO superintend the extern
sion work creates vacancy in the Stock
ton division. The directors yesterday
approved the appointment of Assistant
Engineer A. d. SCHNEIDER as division su-
perintendent and engineer. Mr.. SCHNEIDER
was promoted from the chief engineers
Office. He has gone to Stockton.
Presid ent Claus Spreckels is in the East.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
TO AID INDIA,

Committee Appointed to Raise Funds
for the Plague-Stricken e ast.
In view of the heartrending accounts
OF distress in India, owing to the preva-
lenoe of plague and consequent destitu-
ton, Mayor Phelan was requested bv
sympathizers here and in Berkeley to take
steps Tor alleviating the terrible needs of
the natives.
The Mayor was not slow to act, and YES.
terday appointed the following leading
cltlzens as finance committee to raise
iunas Tor the afflicted Indian population:
Claus SpreckeIs, Irving NJ. Scott. I. D.
Grant, Thomas Brown. c. n. LilienthaI.
u. w. McNear and H. D. Ferry, secretary
to the committee.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
''ENOUGH TO keep HER,
Quackenbush Tells OF What He
Heard on the
Lounge.

Judge Seawell and the attorneys in the
case OF Quacken bush against Quacken-
bush completed the taking of the testi-
mony OF the defendant, Thomas NJ. Quack-
enoush, at his residence yesterday morn
ing.
Inc venerable defendant was too feeble
10 appear In court. He denied in toto
tnat he had ever signed the marriage con-
tract or the acknowledgment of the mar
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
DIED ON THE STREET.
Sudden End of Frederick HelImuth, n
Merchant of Galatians.

Frederick Hellmuth, a merchant of CAL
lahans, Calaveras County, died suddenly
on Mission street yesterday morning. He
arrived in this City with his wife on Mon
day evening and put up at the Baldwin.
yesterday they started out TO visit a.
sister OF the deceased, who lives at 1913
Mission street, and when near the house
MIR. Hellmuth suddenly placed his hand
over his heart and fell to the sidewalk.
BY the time he was carried into his sis
ter's home he was dead. The Coroner
was notified and took charge of the re-
mains Death was found to have been
from heart disease
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
Judge Slack EnInpized.

Eulogistic resolutions of regret at the retire
ment of Judge Charles w. Slack were adopted
by the senior class of the Hastings College of
the Law, and after being finely engrossed
were presented TO the retiring professor. The
resolutions were signed by the committee and
the members OF the class, and are intended
as mark of esteem in which he Is held
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
Seeking His snn-in-Law

The intricacies of great city were exem.
pinned yesterday in the search of John Marten-
son, a gunsmith of 739 Market street, for his
son-in-law, w. S. HILL a printer. Both came
mere recently from the East and neither knows
the others address
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

We invite City Patrons to inspect the above
goods at their earliest opportunity
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10
PRINTED
DRESS
FABRICS!
1 1897

We take pleasure in announcing the
arrival of IS cases NEW WASH DRESS
GOODS. The assortment includes
French Printed Organdies, French
Printed Challies, Irish Printed Dinities,
French Printed Sateens, French Printed
JaConets, Printed Tailor-made Suitings,
Japanese Crepes, Printed Examines,
Printed MulIs, Printed Percales, Scotch
and English Cheviots and Madras
Cloths.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

THEY make speciality of Bank Stock paper;
It has the water-mark. Mysell-Rollins, % Clay%
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

We have also opened this week $50
dozen LADIES' SHIRT WAISTS. in all
the NEW STYLES for spring and
summer wear. These waists are i'm
Lawns, PerCales, MuIls, Organdies,
Grass Linen and Examines.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

TELEPHONE GRANT ia.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

JEwELRY store. and z Third street. removed to
sos Kearny street.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-10

ordinarily to be equal to entertaining 1oO,-
900 visitors.
The times., 1897-09-12
Ills Hearers Should Be All the
Afflicted Of Washington.
MUNYON CURED HIM
Of the Keen, Cutting Pains Which
Accompany Seiatic Rheumatism.

Rev Philip A. Christ, 4. B. A. M, 921
Sixth street northwest, Washington, ID. C.,
says; Il was taken with seiatic rheuma-
tlsm short time ago aad was paralyZed
with keen, cutting pains These / believe
were cured III answer to my pra yers, but
was left with terrible boring sensation
in my hip. / applied TO Munyon's special
lists, who prescribed Munyon's kheuma atisn
Cure aad also their Nerve Cure, and treated
me on Munyon's great Electrical Machine.
1t only required seven days to relieve
me, and this, the eighth day, am feeling
very comfortable. / can heartily recon-
mend any sufferer from rhAsmatism to the
Munyon treatment.
Munyon's Homeopathic Home Remedies
comprise a separate cure for each disease
and are sold by all druggists, mostly 20
cents a vial. Munyon's Static Electrical
Machine cures rheumatism, stiff joints,
paralysis and neuralgia, and gives new life
to tlienerve- racked ana brain weary Mum
yon's Life Chamber cures catarrh, asthma
and bronchitis, and heals and res torres the
membranes of the throat and lungs Mum
yon S skilled doctors are al your service free
all day and evening. Sundays, TO o.
623 18th st. NV. 1t
The times., 1897-09-12
The BACALESTER TIED UP
Not Likely That She Will Resume
Her Trips Soon.
Pentz Has the Contract for Carry
Ing the Mails Mount Vernon
Closed to the Manchester.

Although the steamer Charles Manchester
was yesterday released from the charge
of the United States inarshals deputy
at Alexandria, by order Or the courts. the
regular schedule has not been resumed
1t i s improbable that lt VIII be resumed
Immediately. The Manchester was brought
TO this city yesterday and tied up at her
wharf. 1llis morning her fires were out
and the wharf deserted except for the
watchman. The steamer River Queen
is stir at Alexandria, but may be broughrto
the city Monday.
An effort was made this morning 70
discover the plans OF the receivers, but
James S. Edwards Is out of town, and
Mr. E. l. White could not be found The
excursion business will close within few
day, in any event, but 1t is possible that
the Macalaster may commence running
again Monday.
One reason for believing that the Macal-
ester VIII soon discontinue her trips en-
tirely is that the contract for carrying the
mails to Marshall Han and Glymont, now
held by the Manchester, has been awarded
to the steamer Samuel j. PentZ, of the
River View line, to take effect on Septeur
Der 10. This viii be the first tihe the
Peptl has ever regularly stopped at Mar
shall Hall, as the two steamboat lines have
been fighting each other bitterly.
The Blake McKibben Steamboat Company
that until three years ago had the monopoly
ofthe passenger traffic 70 Mo unit Vernon for
which they got 81 a passenger, pa ying the
Ladies Association a percentage, is now
in trouble and indebted to a firm inter
ested in the trolley railway that runs
through from Washington, and, 1t is be
ueved the latter will get full charge.
For several days the boats have been
stopped and word comes from Mrs. Town.
send, the New York regent, that the Old
contract IS annulIed, and the wharf gates
viii be closed after today.
1t has been minated by someone that
there is likelihood OF the Ladies Mount
Vernon Association giving up their annual
| pilgrimage there. What this means is not
known. but it is declared by some people
that should know that when Col. John
Augustine Washin gtun transferred the
| estate to the ladies' Mount Vernon As
sociation the tomb was not included and
still belongs, with some lands adjoining
it, to the Washington heirs. This is what
gave some coloring to the talk about re-.
| York some time ago.