New-York tribune., 1900-12-23
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
PHILIPPINE CURIOs FOR SAN FRAN.
CISCO MUsEUAI-TO ORGANIZE STATE
BOARD OF CHARITIES.
Tar rELEoaArH TO THE raIBuxE.1

BOARD OF CHARITIES.
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE1
San Francisco. Dec. 22-Some sensational,
correspondent sent out last week from Ios
Angeles a dispatch TO the East which said thar
tidal wave and storm had swept over San
Francisco and done great damage The onlv
ground for such report was the violent storm
of wind and rain which cut San Francisco OF
from telegraphic communication with the out
side world for several hours. The storm was
noteworthy only in the fact that the Hehtnfno
here is harmless sheet lightning The ssOrTo
together with heavy rains this week, did an i'm
mense amount OF good throughout the State
especially in the southern counties. The rainfall
is still below normal but these two heavy rains
Will swell the streams and I'LL the irrigatine
bitches.
The valuable collection Of Philippine curios
gathered by the late Colonel Victor Duboce. OF
the 1st California Volunteers, will be added next
week TO the Golden Gate Park Museum II ia
complete collection Of weapons. baskets foods
domestic utensils, curfos OF manufacture and
historic relics. The collection is given by Colonel
DubOce's widow.
There is promise Of lively fight between the
Pacific Mail and the Panama Railroad Company
over freight on this coast The Pacific Mail will
put on four steamers at once. and carry coffee
from Central America to Guaymas. where il will
be put on the railroad which connects with the
Southern Pacific for the East This move is TO
bar out the Panama Railroad from the large
coffee trade which formerly went across by the
railroad and was handled the Atlantic side
by the railroad steamers. This action is due to
the Panama Railroad putting on a new line OF
steamers between this city and Panama, which
has cut heavily into the Pacific Mail business.
These new steamers make the run from here
TO the isthmus in thirteen days.
At the coming conference Of the Associated
Charities and Corrections. strong effort win
be made TO organize State Board OF Charities
on the New-York plan. A bill will be framed,
under the guidance of Hastings H. Hart secre-
tary Of the National Conference OF Charities
and it is expected that the Legislature will
adopt IL.
General Manager Kruttschnitt and Vice
President Stubbs will meet Charles NJ HAYS.
the new president of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, at New-OrIeans. and will escort him to
San Francisco. The business men OF Los An
geles viii give the new president big recsp-
Association of San Francisco will give dinner
in his honor early in January.
meeting is called for this evening at the
Palace Hotel. to consider the needs Of the Uni
versity Of California whose income is not sufi-
cient to meet the demands Of the increased at
tendance. There are three thousand students
at the university now, which makes it second in
the country in attendance while its income is
only half that of Leland Stanford Jr Cniver-
sity, which has only fifteen hundred students.
The trustees Of Berkeley, which is the college
town Of the University OF California voted this
week TO repeal the prohibition law which has
been in force there for several years. This ae-
t1on was taken against the protests of very
strong prohibition constituency, including many
officers OF the university. who wished 10 keep
the town free from saloons and the disreputable
crowd that they always attract
'"Tod" Sloan arrived here this week with his
not seem in happy mood, though he wished to
impress upon every one that he had not been
ruled of English tracks. He expressed great
surprise over the action OF the stewards OF the
California Jockey Club in issuing the notice that
he could not ride on their track. as he said no
other American club had taken such stand
There is not much doubt that except for this
order he would have ridden here in order 70
establish a precedent and prevent the Eastern
tracks from ruling him of
Edward Corrigan. the turfman. who first in
duced the large Eastern stables to come out to
California for winter racing. proposes to try a
novel experiments in racing in England His
horses heretofore have been much influenced by
the change of climate and of diet so he viii
ship from here TO England California hay such
as his horses are used to. This will cost $50 a
ton, but he believes it will pay in the superior
condition of his horses. whose track perfo-m-
anceS IN England nave never eC1uaLleQ Jnelr Work
in this country. Nine horses viii probably start
next week Among them are Corsine and Sar-
dine and seven promising two-year-olds
The death of Paul julius Antoine. the French
Vice-COnsul. who shot himself because OF the
persecution of woman whom he had married
was much depIored here, where he was popular.
Antoine came of good family in France, but
he induced by the persuasiOns of woman
with whom ne had sustained intimate relations
for several years to marry her. Then she made
his life wretcEad by demands that he recognize
her his wife, which he could not grant with
out loss of official and social position Finally,
goaded by her tormenting. he ended his life.
Frederick Warde played this week to fair
houses at the Columbia Theatre in The Dukes
Jester" The comment OF critics was that he
better in this than in anything else that he
has yet done.