The San Francisco call., 1898-01-10
J. H. Glassman, While De- spOndent, Turned on
 the Gas.
He Was Soon Discovered and Locked Up at the City
 Prison.
Friends Asked for His Release. but Bail Was Not Ac-
 cepted.

J. A. Glassman. son of Jacob Glass man, well-known wholesale and re- tail cigar merchant, is booked at the City Prison on a charge of drunken ness, and opposite his name is marked mo bail" Twice last evening he at tempted to take his own life, being Respondent from excessive use of alco- holic stimulants.
 According to the story told by the ar resting officers, Snowfall and Wilson, as we'll as the proprietors of the places in which Glassman attempted to end his life, the unfortunate man has been on spree" for five or six weeks past He had formerly been employed as a solicitor by the Emporium renovatory, 109 Eddy street, but is at the present time unable to procure employment Becoming Respondent he started drinking heavily, and was soon on the verge of delirium tremens. Last even ing he walked into a lodging house, under the management of John M. Evans, 116 Eddy street, and, opening a door of a room on the top floor, he turned on the gas jet and laid down on the bed to die.
 The odor of the escaping poison was soon detected, and when the door of the room was again opened Glassman was on the bed. apparently in a deep slumber. He was quickly carried out of the room and in a few minutes or dered from the house. He left and walked up Eddy street and entered room 10 of 120A Eddy street in a lodg- ing-house run by Miss Crawford.
 Evans notified the officers in the neighborhood of the attempted sui eide, and they followed the man into the building. where it was discovered that he had again turned on the gas as before. He was carried into the street and the patrol-wagon was called Hay ing recovered sufficiently from the ef- fects of the gas he had breathed he was not taken to the hospital, but charged at the City Prison.
 On Friday last he applied for a room in the Crawford lodging house, and has ! since been stopping there. It was mo- ticed that he was drinking heavily, but his friends were not of the impression that he was so Respondent as to at tempt to kill himself. Accordingly nc watch was kept on him, and the smell of the escaping gas alone saved him from certain death.
 His case is a pitiful example of des- pondency and loss of hope induced by | liquor upon a young man who was | gifted with early opportunities not of | ten met with He, in partnership with ! J. Browsweiger, opened the business oi | dyeing and cleaning. which is now known as the Emporium renovatory | For a while the business prospered but Glassman's partner tired of the un- | dertaking and. after getting married | left the State. The business was solt tc the present owners, and Glassmar started as solicitor for the firm. Con siderable trust was placed in him by | his employers, but soon drink had the | letter of him.
 After losing his position he went iron bad to worse. and nearly ended in z disgraceful death last evening. H;. father is respected as a business man and the son had opportunities which h, failed to take advantage of. He ha. many friends in this city, but of late h. has rather drifted away from them in stead of asking for assistance where i was the most liable to be procured II, will be detained in prison un,n he ha: recovered from the effects of fast liy. 1 ing, and then it is probable that he vii be released at the request Of friend! and relatives