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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
STANFORD MEN
RAID BERKELEY
THE CAPTURED AK SOUGHT, BUT
NOT FOUND.
Intellectual Attempt Made to Recover
the Mascot Of the Palo
Altans.

BERKELEY, April 1S.-At 2 o'clock
last night after carefully preventing all
means of detection, sixty Stanford stu
dents made their first raid by creeping
stealthily into the university town In a
deliberate attempt to recapture their
stolen ak by force. The attempt failed.
The Stanford men left Palo Alto secret
~ yesterday afternoon and came up to
San Francisco They neld a hurried meet
ing at the Ramona Hotel on Ellis street
TO lay their plans.
Coming over to Oakland they remained
in hiding until midnight and then proceed
ed TO Berkeley by twos and threes to a
point Of rendezvous near the university
campus. Having heard that the ak was
placed for safety in the hands of Charlie
Pringle, one of Berkeley'S last year foot
ball stars, they completed their plans for
Taiding his house. Pringle is member
Of the Chi Phi fraternity, which has its
chapter hall at 2222 Bancroft way;
Only six men stayed In the Chi Phi house
last night and these were sleeping sound
ly when the raid began. Mark Cheese
brough occupied room on the second
floor, Pringle one on the third. A sharp
rap at the door awakened Chesebrough.
To the question as TO whether Pringle were
in or not Chesebrough replied in the neg
squad of Stanford men burst open the
front door. They made their way TO
Pringle's room, awakened him and de-
manded the stolen trophy 1t was re
Il
of resistance but realizing the uselessness
of facing such overwhelming numbers
submitted to seeing their house ran
sacked.
Chesebrough attempted to jump from
a window into the back yard. He faced
a strong guard of Stanford men and
crawled back. Failing in this attempt TO
raise an alarm he tried TO get help from
the outside by means of telephone But
the wires had all been cut by the raiders,
so this means failed.
Half of the attacking party entered the
house and began a thorough search.
Wardrobes, cupboards, trunks, bureaus
every imaginable place in which the ak
might have been hid was torn open and
its contents spread about in all sorts of
confusion. A few private boxes, contain
paraphernalia, were left undisturbed, the
fraternity men giving their word of honor
that the monster blade was not concealed
in them.
Once during the search two or three
Stanford men came very near the ak; in
fact passed right by the place where It
remained concealed.
The search proved fTutless. After over
an hour Of probing and delving into all
possible hiding places the Stanford men
gave up the hunt.
A telegram was received from Stan
ford to-day by Track Manager P J.
Franklin stating that unless some guar
antee could be given that the ak would be
kept out Of sight during the field day next
Saturday the event would be declared off.
Franklin telegraphed back that every pre-
caution would be taken to keep the t4hng
off the campus and that a Gordon of DO
lice would be stationed at the cinder track
to prevent its being carried within the
Enclosure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19

indelibly impressed upon, her nina tnat
on Was last if saturday night deceased attend
ed the performance of THE Denver EX-
press at Dewey Opera house In the
second act a brutal stage murder is en-
arted and the scene reacted on Mrs
Welch and she was stricken with apo
plexy or partial paralysis, which ended
- Al times during yesterday deceased be
came partially conscious and recognized,
by a pressing of the left hand. her hus-
band and children, who were at her ped
Deceased was a native of Ireland, aged
45 wears. She came to America when but
a mere child and four years ago buried
her father, Michael Lordon. She leaves
SIX chfldren-Dave, Fred, Kitty May, VIII
lie and baby, Marguerite, aged years;
The eldest boy is q years. The funeral
will take place from the family residence,
2236 San Jose avenue, Alameda.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
AN ELOQUENT PLEA
FOR INDIVIDUAL UNIT
FATHER MACCoRRY LECTURES
AT A BENEFIT.
A Large Audience Listens to the
Brilliant Paulist Missionary and
Applauds His Sentiments.

If the armory of Company o, in st.
Mary's College on the Mission road, had
been twice its size the great crowd that
attended the lecture given by the Rev.
Father MacCorry, c. S. p, last evening
might have been comfortably accommo-
dated. The popularity of the eloquent
young Paulist missionary, and the fact
that he appeared for the benefit of St.
Johns Church, of which Father Brady is
pastor, resulted in filling the hall to over
flowing.
Preceding the lecture Miss Eta Welsh.
]. c. Mcdonnell, Miss Annie Rooney and
J. Gildea were heard in songs and their
efforts were appreciated by the audience.
gramme, Chairman p. ]. Curtis intro
duced Father MacCorry to his audience
and he was warmly greeted. The speaker
chose as his subject. THE Unit in Crea-
lions Plan; a Plea for Light. for Liberty
and Independence" He handled his
theme in an able manner and for nearly
an hour entertained his listeners with his
views. In part he said:
AS individuals in this world we are frag-
ments: God makes the human race in atoms
and then with a master hand gradually fits
were a single unit, wonderfully harmonious
and amazingly made Our deficits and sur
pluses Of character given wheels in the
great established mechanism. What 1 lack
you make up. what you lack 1 supply. One
the third the tranquility and the fourth the
zeal. That which is lacking in one is made
up by another or else made up by all. Each
too, has his work to do-his duty to perform
and each in his own peculiar way.
have no more right to blame q man for
being different from me or from doing things
in another way from mine. than a driving
wheel has the right to blame the axle that
holds II to the center, just because the axle
is differently made. Moreover | can not ac-
complish your work or you mine. The axle
can never be the driving wheel nor the driv-
ing wheel an axle. You do other work
similar work or better work, but you can
not do my work. The difficulty is we are
never satisfied with the work which God has
given us to do. In pathetic little way we
strive to defeat his plans.
The speaker illustrated his meaning
with few apt SMILES, and then went on
TO show what magnificent thing it is to
be a unit, to feel that you are one. a per
sonality; an individual; to be something
of an investigator something of a rea-
soner for yourself. To feel that the census
of this big world would not be complete
unless you were counted in. He then
showed that the right of each individual
man to play a personal part in the drama
of the nations is the birthright of Ameri-
can people. He proved that Washington
desired all men to rejoice in a personal
independence, to be glad in the pleasure
OF feeling themselves men; that he wished
every individual to be surrounded with
respect and consideration; that he ush-
cred in an era in which every man
crowned with tremendous possibilities
should be recognized as a unit in crea-
tons plan.
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servians Congratulate Nikola.

The following dispatch was received
from Cettinje, Montenegro, on Monday
afternoon by the editor of Reduction
Sloboda, the official newspaper for the
Servian Literary Club of this city, from
the official Gazette of Montenegro:
The Crown Prince Danilo. is engaged to
Jutta daughter of the Grand Duke Mecklen-
burg in St Petersburg. The engagement has
been made through the Russian Car. Nikola
The Joy of the people is great.
GLAS CRENOGORCA
The following congratulation was cabled
by the Montenegrins of this city. who
are highly delighted over the engagement:
To His Hghness. Prince NilSola: From our
hearts we congratulate the engagement OF the
Crown Prince Danilo.
Yesterday the following was received
from the Crown Prince Nikola:
sssI 81 IIIdy 'afNILLaO
Sloboda and Servian Literary Society: Though
far away l am near to you in heart | most
heartily thank my brethren. NIKOLA.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
Lincoln Lodge.

Tomorrow night Lincoln Lodge No. 2
of the Friends of the Forest will have a
bonbon party in the social hall of the
Foresters' building, and the committee on
social hour promises a most enjoyable
evening to the friends of the lodge who
accept the invitations.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
SIGHT OF TRAGEDY
CAUSED HER DEATH
MRS. MARGARET WEIGH PASSED
AWAY LAST NIGHT.
Eyewitness to the Won Schmidt
Murder and Suicide Sustained
Fatal Shock.

OAKLAND. April 1s-Mrs. Margaret
WEIGH, wife Of Police officer WEIGH Of
Alameda, died at the Receiving Hospital
shortly after o'clock this evening.
Her death is approximately due to a
shock she experienced as a result of be-
ing an eyewitness to the Won Schmidt
double tragedy a week ago last Sunday.
The awful details of that scene were so
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
BOY KIDNAPPED BY THE
TWENTY-FIRST INFANTRY

police is the
White bright blue
his parents IN Council
- he kidnapped by the twenty
sailed Tor the
picked him at council BUNS
of speeding desert
he said but
him rike outfo r
a
aid His
his mme-
thanking him and
forthwith
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
SITUATIONS wANTED-Continued.

LADIES-We have some of the best servants
in the city applying to US for work; we take
pains to suit you with suitable help when
j. F. CROSETT & CO.. 316 Suffer st.
FIRST CLASS colored cook desires situation;
best reference; city or country. MISS Gull
LEN, 325 Suffer st.
NEAT second girl or nurse desires situation;
best OF reference; city or country; $40. MISS
CULLEN. 325 Suffer st.
NEAT young girl desires situation as sewing
and assist with children; best references.
MISS CULLEN, 325 Suffer st.
RELIABLE mddle-aged woman wishes situa-
ton; is good cook; do light homework; city
M anerad Wtbot csrfsre ass
Twenty-third ST., near Sanchez
INTELLIGENT lady desires most any kind of
light employment; good reader; reasonable
terms. 997 Market st. room los.
YOUNG woman wishes a position to do up
stairs work or to take care of children. Please
address 3O312 Turk st.
FIRST CLASS dressmaker wishes engagement
by the day with family; work guaranteed.
209 Eddy St
WOMAN who works by the day would like
few more engagements; 81 per day; best of
references. Call ST Mission ST.
GIRL wishes situation to do homework and
plain cooking. Call 2sh Sycamore ave, be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth SITS.
work; sleep home preferred. A. A. 194i Mis-
sion ST.
FRENCH girl wishes position to do second
work or chamberwork and sewing; also wait
at table. 66S Mission St
COMPETENT woman wishes situation; gen
eral homework; is fond Of children; wages
s2 to $15. Please call at 270 Jessie St. nr. 4th.
and plain cooking Please call at 3647 Sacra-
mento St, corner of Spruce.
COLORED woman wishes situation as lady 8
maid in doctors office. Address M. box
352 Call.
WANTED-Position as working housekeeper or
companion by respectable American lady.
Box l. Call
WANTED-Positlon as cashier Apply at 800
Post st.
WOMAN wants situation; good cook; country
preferred. 225 Minna St
upstairs work; understands waiting at table
and sewing. Address box Az, Call office.
SWEDISH girl wishes situation to do general
housework. Call or address 266 Tenth St
COMPETENT German woman wishes general
homework; good plain cook. Apply AIS
Nineteenth St, near Eureka
SITUATION wanted by competent girl to do
second work or care of children and sew
ing; references. 14lS Devisadero st
MIDDLE-AGED woman would like to do Of
fee cleaning or homework; by day month.
Apply at 242 Natoma St, basement
YOUNG lady of culture and refinement desires
position as companion or private secretary to
elderly person; references Address M. 519
Eddy st.
EXPERIENCED nurse desires engagements;
terms moderate Box 6, Call office.
WINCHESTER Hotel, A Third ST.. near Mar
ket; 700 rooms; 25c to 81 so night; 81 80 to So
week: convenient and respectable; free bus
and baggage to and from ferry; elevator.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
SAILED

SAILED.
Tuesday. April Is.
stmr Sequois. Thwing. Fort Bragg.
DOMESTIC PORTS.
SEATTLE-Arrived April 1s-Stmr Humboldt
from Dyea.
BOWENS LANDING-Saied April 1s-Schr
Reliance, for San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
HELP wANTED-FEMALE.


c.. r. HANSEN & Co..: Phone Grant 1855
25 mattresses for springs and resorts for May
LIST: call and engage your places now. c.
X. HANSEN & CO., 104 Geary st.
10 MATTRESSES for city and country places,
800; 3 chambermaids to wait, $40; fancy
ironers, short ways in country, $40 week; 2
lunch and dinner Mattresses, $50; woman cook
young lady of some experience clerk in
candy store, 81 week, steady place see party
.......... FAMILY DEPARTMENT. ..........
cook, American family of 2. $50; working
houselSeeper for family of grown persons
S2O cook and laundress for small family s25
COOK, small Jewish family, SIS; young house
girl for small family, children, SIS; girl
for homework and assist care children SIS
to $40, no wash; and others too numerous to
mention C. X. HANSEN & CO., 104 Geary.
WANTED cooks. $50, with and without
washing. city and country: cook, resort sac:
Protestant nurse $50: Protestant second girl
$40 and SIS; mattresses for springs and coun-
try hotels. s2o AZ girls for homework,
Suffer st. Wv
W Van II mattresses for the springs to go
May LIST; register your names at once IL you
want nice place. j. f. CROSETT & CO.
316 Suffer st.
neutrality-suspicious. woman as matron for
hospital. $40; best of references required +
f. CROSETT & CO., 31s Suffer St
COOK. $685. waitress same house, s25. cool,
Alameda, S26 must go to-day; cook Amer,
navian woman for chamberwork SIS. waif
ress boarding house SIS; nursegirl 'cbtid !,
years old, $40. MRS. NORTON, 3iS Suffer
50 YOUNG girls for housework; also a num-
Der of young girls to assist: some first-cIa Ga
ranch cooks; mother and daughter wish
girl to assist. MISS DILLON, 315 Suffer at
phone Main s04.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
SITUATIONS wANTED-FEMALE.

AN English middle-aged woman, good cook and
houseworker. $l2 to SIS. MRS. NORTON, 3I3
Suffer st.
GERMAN housegirl, good cook years last
place, SIS to $50 MRS. NORTON. 313 Suffer.
GERMAN second girl, good waitress and seam
stress; city or country. MRS. NORTON. 313
Suffer st.
NEAT young girl wants position in small fam
lily to assist in housework. Address 349 Dore.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19

DIVIDEND NOTICES.
DIVIDEND NOTICE-Dividend No. 90 (ffty
cents per share) of the Oceanic Steamship
Company Will be payable at the office of the
company, 327 Market St, and after Mon
day. May l, 1899. Transfer books will close on
Tuesday, April %, 1899. at o'clock p.
+. II. SHELDON, Secretary.
OFFICE of the Flreman's Fund Insurance
Company, San Francisco April 18th. 1899
At regular meeting of the board of directors
of this company, held this day, a dividend
was declared payable on and after April 18th.
1899
BERNARD FAYMONvILLE, Secretary.
DIVIDEND Notice-Dividend No. sc twenty
FIVE cents per share) of the Hutchinson Sugar
Plantation Company will be payable at the
after Thursday. April 2Oth 1899.
Transfer books will close Friday, April
14th. 1899, at o'clock D. m.
e. II. SHELDON. Secretary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
SPECIAL NOTICES.

ROOMS papered from So; whitened, 81 up;
painting done Hartman Paint Co.. 319 Sd st.
BAD tenants elected for 81; collections made
city country. PACIFIC COLLECTION
CO.. AIS Montgomery St rooms $40: tel 5000.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19

ARCHITECTURAL draughtsman; entirely
competent for best work Apply ION Ho0i'
Claus SpreckelS building.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19

WANTED-Scraper drivers and laporers at
Broadway and Devisadero St
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
HELP wANTED-oontinued.

REFINED young girl OF middleaged woman
light homework. 2 in family. Kern county
one preferred who understands something
about music $40 to SIS; good home. MISS
CULLEN 325 Suffer St
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19
HELP wANTED-Continued.

BARBER wanted to buy shop at AZ san Fdoio
ave Oakland: must be sold.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19

ADVICE free; divorce law a specially; privte;
fee without success; collections. G. w.
HOWE. atty at law, $50 Market, cor. Stocktn
l. S. CLARK-Emma Sprecl5els building. 927
Market consultation free; no fees in advance.
ADVICE free; no charge unless successful. W.
W. DAVIDSON, 927 Market st.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-19

BARRIERS, attention-A good paying l9c shop
2 chairs and cigar stand, on corner; OWNER
going East Box A p Call office.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-13
Drinking More Coffee. Less Tea.

The Treasury bureau of statistics
has issued report which shows that
the American people are becoming a
nation of coffee drinkers.
During the last fiscal year, the Uni
ted States bought more than S00,000,-
GOO pounds of coffee from foreign
countries, or about eleven pounds per
capita. This was more than 500 ,000,-
600 pounds in excess of the imports of
any previous year.
Although we have been for years the
largest coffee consuming nation in the
world, the United States now uses
more than double the quantity OF the
berry used by all Of continental Eur
ope, and buys more than half the cof.
fee grown.
An interesting feature of the trade
is that all of the islands we have
gained in the war with Spain are coffee
producing countries.
The tea importation for the calen-
dar year will be about 6S,000,0O
pounds, while last year upward of co.
0OO, 600 pounds were imported.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-13
USEFUL HINTS,

If Il curtain pole is rubbed until
smooth, with woolen rag dipped in
kerosene, the rings will run on il
much easier.
Often the window glass requires to
be cleaned, but it is so cold that it
does not seem advisable to wash the
glass with water. Try i flannel cloth
molsten it with paratline oil. and rub
the glass. Hsve at hand fresh fan
mel cloth, and rub over the glass with
it.
Soap should never be rubbed di-
rectly upon the silk underware. Strong
soapsuds made OF warm water and a
white soap will be found best. Squeeze
the garment in this water, and then, if
the garment is very much soiled, pass
it through another warm suds, and
then rinse in lukcwarm water. Press
between the hands to get out the
water, shake well, pre- SIS on the wrong
side with a moderately hot iron.
When putting away silverware that
is not in use all the time, do not ne
glect to sprinkle few tiny bits of
camphor gum in each case before roll
ing it up; then if the silver is put
away in a close hoy IL will not he
come discolored.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-13
The Motive Power of the Futur e,

The capitalization of million dol
lar company in New York to build
auto-trucks operated by compressed
air draws public notice to motive
power which may in time supplant
both steam and electricity. Indeed, in
certain ways, it has supplanted them
now. Not long ago, Harper's Weekly
noted that fact that ON One Hundred
and Twenty-tifth street in New York
two compressed air surface cars had
been i'll operation for three months.
They ran without visible means OF
propulsion; there was neither over
head trolley, cable nor conduit; they
were nearly noiseless, ran smoothly
and stopped and started without jerk
or jar. Up to that time they had car
ried $1,000 passengers without acci-
dent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-13
The Ace of an Oyster.

IT is just rs easy to tell the age OF
an oyster by looking at its shell as it
is to ascertain the age OF horse by
examination of its teeth, or a tree by
inspecting the circles revealed by the
ak or saw when it is laid low. When
the oyster is months old, it is as big
as dime; when one year old, it will
cover a silver half dollar, and when 2
years old, will be about the circum'
ference of q silver dollar.
The oyster, unlike the crab, is not
obliged to seek new quarters or build a
new house every time he grows ap'
preciably. The extensions that he
puts on his house are clearly marked
by we'll defined ridge.
Oysters are esteemed to be at their
best when between 4 and 5 years oil
age, and the planters endeaver to pro.
tect the beds for that length of time.
Conscientious oyster men-that is
men who are not inclined to kill the
goose that lays the golden egg-al
ways return to the bed oysters that
are too young.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-13
A Novel Dinner.

Victor Smith, appointed Collector
OF Customs at Port Townsend, WASH,
by Secretary Chase, succeeded in in
ducing the government to move the
custom house from that point to Port
Angeles, where he maintained himself
for time in q semi-barbaric proprie-
torship. He once invited the officers
of the revenue cutter Shubrick to dine
at his house, and the officers arrayed
themselves in full dress and went
ashore in state to wait upon Collector
Smith at his mansion, which was then
in an unfinished condition.
In due course of time the Collector,
assisted by his wife, brought out two
carpenters saw horses, on which was
placed a board covered with wrapping
paper. The repast was then set forth
Smith, taking from his pockets three
big apples. gave ono to each of the
three officers, with a small forked
stick, remarking You'll have to roast
your own apples"