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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21
ON NEW SPBEDW AY.
THE CARMEL STREET COURSE
 STEADILY IMPROVING.

Prominent Horsemen out--severaI Fast
 Brushes-Races Broke Up by Con-
 gestion of sleighs-F. c. Potter
 Goes Over Course With Flow.
 The new Carmel street speedway pre- scented it's usual animated scene yester- cay afternoon. A blow owned by F. e. Potter and gone over the course early in the afternoon and smoothed away the ''snowballs" which had caused con siderable trouble to the drivers the day before, so that brushing yesterday was indulged in without trouble.
 Charles Warehouse, president of the driving club; F. c. Potter, Dr. Willis H. Grove, Henry c. Smith and many other prominent horsemen were on the course during the afternoon, and there were several sharp brushes. The many sleighs returning from the finish line continually caused congestion near the center of the course, however, and broke up many of the races, or else caused the drivers to slow down.
 R. G. Davis wishes it understood that he was not driving on the speedway on Sunday MT. Davis says he is op- posed to Sunday racing, and the re port that he was out was entirely CT roneous.
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VISITING IN SPRINGFIELD.

Prominent Chinaman, a Graduate of
 Yale, in New England.
 Wong Kai Kah, who was at the head of the imperial Chinese commission at the St. Louis exposition, arrived in Springfield yesterday afternoon for a short visit with boyhood friends. He will be the guest, during his stay in Springfield, of Colonel A. H. Goetting, with whom he is well acquainted. He visited there in the late seventies, be- fore he attended Yale being one of Young Wings boys in that city and Hartford, where he lived for a short period of time. He was graduated from Yale in 'S3.
 Colonel and Mrs. Goetting were the guests of Mir. Wong at the St. Louis fair last summer, and at that time he gladly accepted the colonels invitation to spend few days in Springfield after the close of the exposition. In re- cent message MT. Wong declared that he was looking forward with keen pleasure to the first sleighride which he had enjoyed since he left this country in his early manhood.
 Mir Wong established his reputation, both as thorough scholar and as a finished speaker, while at St. Louis. He is one of the up-to-date men of his country and is an able thinker and a powerful statesman. He is looked upon as one of the leading men of the Chi- nese empire.
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and a comfortable habit has grown up last tenyears, and who during that of sending gifts subjects to exchange at the store where they were brought. One department store in New York was visited, soon after Christmas. by a young man with a chafing dish under each arm. He laconically explained that he already had two and Christmas had brought him two more-he wished these exchanged. He glanced at the ex- change slip received and then inquired for the baby carriage department. On inquiry, he said that his friends would be rather pleased at his proposed divis- ion of their gifts. A sane practicality then, marks the modern Christmas gift giving, and, if it displaces a sentiment, 1t was a false sentiment. For, as for ists, farmers, manufacturers, and Ger man toymakers, in some measure, live by Christmas, the community now lives a bit better throughout the year be- cause of Christmas.
 The same substantial idea marks Christmas in tho business world. The habit that employers once had of giving turkeys. for instance, to their enploy- ees, has generally yielded, either to no gift at all, or to less ready made kinds of gifts, things that imply more person. al thoughtfulness. But the observance of Christmas has steadily become more widespread. One firm gives it's employ ees gold pieces, another gives each em- ployee a present at lunch of good cheer, where co-Workers in a large es- tablishment- who for this occasion. might never form one anothers ac- Know what that means. Men always quaintance to know one another and help to make an esprit de corps throughout the house. For years a large manufacturing company at Pitts burg has made a distribution of gifts on the day before Christmas in large auditorium attached to the establish- ment. A big tree is set up, with pres ents for all the employees. The firm pays all the expenses of the celebration. But last year the employees who num- bered 1,500. had an additional oelebra- tion. At 5:30 o'clock in the morning of the day before Christmas, even before
 
 ing, several hundred men appeared at the factory. Every one carried mys- terious bundle. and they brought sev- eral large Christmas trees. These 200 men scattered to their various depart ments-there were 10 departments in whole establishment, and went briskly to work. When the women reached the factory at z o'clock that day they found a Christmas tree in every department. Every tree was decked with finery, and around about very tree were scores of prsents-one for every woman. The men had taken the celebration into their own hands and paid for it out of their own pockets. The example of the em- ployers of establishing celebration had been followed by the men, who took a genuine pride in their part in making Christmas happy occasion. This eel ebration by the men did not prevent the firms usual distribution of gifts.
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RECOVER VALUABLE GOODS
EDWARD DoDY HAD THEM AT
 HIS HOME.

Window Dresser at GambIe-Desmond
 Company Charged With Twenty-nine
 Counts of Theft-Capture Made by
 Detective DonneIly on slender Clue
 Large and Varied quantity of Goods
 Found.
 In the arrest of Edward Dody, by Detective Donnelly yesterday after noon, the police believe that they have in custody pretty severe offender. Last night there were in all twenty nine counts of theft against Dody with a possibility of others.
 Dody came to this city last october from Seigel & Cooper's New York store where he was for a long while employ ed as window dresser. He had good endorsements and secured a similar po- sition with the Gamble-D Desmond Go. in this city.
 Three days ago Detective Donnelly found a gentleman's silver toilet set which had been sold for a dollar. The set was worth wholesale about $6,50 and the detective became suspicious Yes terday he came across another one which had been disposed Of to another party. The difficulty which confronted the officer was to find out where the silver had been stolen. After a search which extended over all the principal stores in this city the detective discov- cred that the goods were from the Gamble Desmond Co. The detective then took ore Of the men who had boughtta a stolen set to that store, and as they arrived in front of it Dody, who was at work dressing one of the show windows at the time was identified as the man.
 The members of the firm were greatly surprised when told of the facts by the detective. Dody was summoned and Detective Donnelly placed him under ar rest Immediately. On his arrival at DO lice headquarters he acknowledged to Captain Cowles that he had stolen two brass clocks and two sets of toilet ar ticles. .
 Detective Donnelly and Mir. German from the dry goods store went to where Dody was living with his wife and two children on Grove street and there they found a great quantity of what they clai mis stolen goods from Gamble-De mond' S. There is also a lot more goods which they believe Dody brought here from New York with him.
 The goods which came from Gamble Desmonds and which were recovered last night are all ill great variety They include among other things twenty three pairs of ladies gloves, nineteen valuable fine lace handkerchiefs, six teen Irish lace handkerchiefs, a black silk skirt, a roll of brown dress goods and another of green (fine quality, two large lace collars, a lady's muff
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and to leave bad taste in the mouth 'of those who read it. Even to those who steered clear of the De Goncourts, the Maupassants and the Zolas, there was trouble awaiting in the Daudets, the Bourgeois, and even in Francois Coppee, Madame Correao, and many of the most modern. The realism and in terest even of Balzac have not been suf- ficient to atone for the coarseness which they have helped to keep in vogue. Of course there have always been sweet. clean stories, but they have been hard to find; and the impression of French novels and French plays that has long maintained continues.
 Certainly there is a France outside of Paris; and there is a Paris outside of that represented in the ordinary novel, but most people have no knowledge of it; while those who have sought knowi- edge through somewhat promiscuous novel-reading have frequently, even when books have been suggested by friends, found themselves moved to throw the books into the fire. To what end is the cleverness or the power. if the medium is vice and the outcome $ nastiness or filth? What is the use of knowing that world
 It is inconceivable that nation whose life is so virile as is that of France, and which shows no signs of dropping from the first place it has so long occupied in the world of letters and of art, could be truly depicted sin the novels which have so commonly found their way across the sea. As M. Rod said, there is another literature and q far truer picture of France. Those who have fallen upon the stories of Ferdinand Fabre, and have discov- cred the power and the tragedy, will rejoice In Rene Bazin and his revela- tion of the purity and the beauty. There are doubtless other names as worthy to be mentioned, but these are sufficient to encourage the search. And they offer a rare reward Henry A. Stinson in the Booklovers' Magazine.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21
THE MEMS CLUB

To-Night at the City Mission House.
 The weekly session of the Berkeley Mems club will be held this evening at their rooms in the City Mission house, POI Orange street. The business meet ing of the club is at 7:30, followed by the social hour from to, g o'clock, dur ing which there will be- readings by Roscoe w. Reeves, with piano selec- tions by Mrs. A. J. MacInnis. Ladies welcome. Workingmen with their fani- lies especially invited. No admission cards are necessary. Everything free.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21
sHoPLIFTING CAMPAIGN.

Woman Visits Three Stores and Helps
 Herself to Souvenirs.
 A woman, somewhat under the influ- ences of liquor, giving her name as Mary Dolan and claiming residence on First avenue, West Haven, was arrest ed last evening in Gamble Desmond s store by Detective Donnelly on the charge of shoplifting. Three charges are preferred against her. She is al- legged to have stolen a pair of gloves from Howe & Stetson's, two pairs from Gamble -Desmond's and some minor articles from Woolworth & Co. 'st 5 and 10 cent store. She stated that she is a widow and her age. is given at thirty eight. st.I.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21
FRENCH NOVELS.

For a couple of generations, at least. to English speaking people a French novel, has suggested book to be apol- ogized for clever doubtless, and inter esting, but wicked, book to be viewed afar by most people, to excite, to tempt,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21

BRIDGEPORT ARCHITECT DEAD.
 Abram skaats, who died in Bridge port yesterday, was we'll known in this city. MT. Skaats was seventy years old and an architect and pattern maker by trade. Death came at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. John |. Vol colt, oi 60i Union street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21

The first week in January the local divisions of Hibernians will have the annual installations. Heretofore the county president was the installing off, eer, but under the new national consti- tuition the division deputies will perform this work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21

If the Baby is Cutting Teeth, be sure and use that old and well tried remedy. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21
DEATH IN STAMFORD.

The death of Samuel Baldwin occur red yesterday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Peck of strat- ford. He was one of a family of ten children and was born in Newtown.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21
-------TW 77-- -NT77-
 THE HEALTH OF DOLLS

Is best kept up by plenty of air and ex- ercise. Riding in doll go-carts is ad- mirabie for them. We notice that the better ones go first. but we have them as low as $1.35. Brown & Durham.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-21
NEW HAVEN FIRM.

Leases Store in Meriden and Will
 Shortly Occupy it.
 M. Steinert & Sons, the piano nanu- facturers and dealers, with large houses in New Haven and in Boston, have leased the store in Warnock's block, 56 West Main street, Meriden, and will shortly occupy it for a term of five years.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-20
GOODALL TRACT LOTS

GOODALL, TRACT LOTS
Are Selling Fast.
Get Mat at my office showing what lots re-
main: lots fronting on Devisadero and
Waller SITS are offered in nice sizes for resi-
dences and fats; no better renting location IN IN
$40 per front foot; lots fronting on Waller st.
at $50 per front foot; all street work done.
Don't miss this opportunity for securing an
elegant lot at a very low figure
s7ooo-webster St. close to Hayes; fine 2.
story house Of rooms and bath; lot 2o69O
ss5ooEBefvedere st, close to Haight; 8
handsome modern fats; rents s75 per month;
s555o-close to Sacramento St; new mod
crn fats; rents $5s per month; lot 21:o&I2:S
S15OO-Duboce ave, close to Market St. !:
substantial 2 story residence rooms and
s75oo"ciose lose to 4th st. tenements; actual
rent sse per month.
sl25Q-corner on Laguna St good sub
stantial bay window fats Of 4 and p rooms
and bath>eaeh; rents S35 per month
critics for sale in all parts Of the city.
F. B. sURRYHYE, ia Sutter st.
HAWKS & SHELTON
Rents Collected and Entire Charge Taken OF
Property.
bury; modern every way; rooms each;
mortgage $4,000 at per cent re-
main; rents $1,000.
$40 oo0-North side Jackson. near Buchanan;
good house of rooms and baths; lot
35x117. to rear street.
IS, b00-North side of Vallejo St, near Polk;
good house Of 10 roomst cost SO 900 to
build; may be altered to fats profitabiy;
very fine view of bay; lot 45x170
S13 500-Flne house; Leavenworth near Clay;
rooms and bath; laundry in basement
building in first class condition. view of
Golden Gate from rear.
$e,5oo-ootavia. near Broadway; good house
of rooms; nice view Of bay from front
bare lot is worth the price; 25x137
IS. .ooo-NE. corner of Larkin and Lombard
20 :6x110: has superb view Of bay; street
work all done; neighborhood growing
fast.
So, ,400-Inside lots adjoining above; 27x11o;
Hyde-st cars close by.
81 oO0-Lot SW. corner Larkin and Lombard.
25x1o5: fine view of Golden Gate from
HAWKS & sKELToN, s2a Montgomery st.
BALDWIN & sTETsoN.
317 Montgomery St. Pine.
Telephone Grant 1877.
City Agents, German, American and Phoenix of
Hartford Fire Insurance Companies
Our circular contains lists Of all kinds Of
properties for sale in all parts Of the City;
also residences, fats. etc. to let. Get one.
A FEW SPECIAL BARGAINS.
An Excellent Investment
S4T5O-Mssion warm belt corner: . verv
good flats; and 5 rooms. bath. etc each:
rent S456;. nice location
24th-st Business Location
S51O0-Fully per cent net; 9 good dsts IN
Al condition; 25x104; McAllister-st fats
St65NG-Rents $1eS0; 3 elegant new modern
of s, and rooms. bath etc, each.
BALDWIN & STETSON. 317 Montgomery 81
FOR sale or to lease-Large new house ana
lot with improvements; suitable for hog on
chicken ranch; near Colma. Inquire 3505
Mission ST.
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HOAG & LANSDALE,
los Montgomery Street.

HoAG & LANsDALE.
los Montgomery Street.
TWO ARTISTIC HOMES.
TWO ARTISTIC HOMES
TWO ARTISTIC HOMES.
Something in style just finished; on
the corner OF Parnassus and Willard SITS; 90
foot corners: rooms and bath To look at
then. is all ask Take Ellis-st. cars and
transfer TO Masonic ave. at Oak st. Agent
win be on hand from 10 till o'clock. Price
$500 and 5000. Don't forget 70 look at them,
even If you don't want to buy
WILL TRADE
WILL. TRADE
For vacant property as part payment; fne
new fats. u block from Golden Gate Park:
built by day labor; lower nat leased years ears
upper fiat will bring $50 easily; lot 3Ox1OO;
price $1,000.
MISSION FLATS.
new modern fats near 9s i1th st.. st. eo rooms I
is a good property; price $9I5O
MISSION INVESTMENT.
feet; store and flats; rents $50 per r. month; oStS;
price $4,000.
MARINE VIEW RESIDENCE.
Modern residence 45-foot lot, command
ing magnificent view of the entire bay; thi.
is without question, the best marine view
residence for the price; particulars at office.
Price SIS. .000
See Fifth and Sixth aves., against the
Preside wall; grading is done and bitumen
street work being done; get first choice in
this beautiful property.
Send for our list OF fine building lots in all
parts of the city.
HOAG & LANsDALE,
los Montgomery Street, S. F.
HEADQUARTERS FOR PARK LOTS.
Do you realize that the growing city OF. San
Francisco has only small area OF
Ocean Beach?
Astounding prices will be obtained for lots
fronting the ocean in near future.
We offer the only graded lots fronting right
on boulevard ocean and park.
$3.50 to s1O0o-Unobstructed ocean and park
them in in this iH city' Hss' Selling rapidly at @
our miss SO" b,s pTeeS oanrtSnifS aDd ts5s pes 9ee
them to-day.
500 to ss5o-Near park and ocean; S5 monthly.
Get on at our oeeansde branch office on
corner H ST. and 47th ave-. open daily
and Sunday.
$500 to $11oo-choicest sunset and Richmond
lots On installments
500 to s4oO-Level Excelsior Homestead lots
Near cars. $5 monthly.
$3.50 to s3ooo-Modern cottages in Sunset.
Richmond, Oceanside and Mission;
easy teIms
SOL, GETZ & SON, Owners and Dealers.
Room 81. fourth floor. Chronicle bldg.
POST St. bet Octavia and Laguna, lot 25 i0x
l20 feet, running through to rear street; i'm
provements consist of 2 cottages; excellent
location for modern fats; $780, terms; ad
vertised first time
Oceanside cottage bargain; neat 4-room cot
tage on 4Sth ave; lot 25x114; S17OO; price
reduced for quick sale; 500 cash. balance
like rent.
W.. N, RUSSELL, so1 California St. San
Francisco, Cal.
FOUR NICE CORNERS FOR SALE
N. f., 51x100, and improvements 81. 800
s. w, 34x90, with dwelling g............S9.2 .250
S. T. 20x60 brick building. ........ $50. 500
5. w. 30xS0. lot, offer. $4,000
JULIEN SMITH, Real Estate Agent. 420
Montgomery ST.
$1S5o-COTTAGE, rooms and bath; extra
lot and barn. 325 Rutledge ave, off Ala
bama st.
$i400-TCRMs II desired: 36-ft front; block
OF 18th and Valencia; street work complete
The Dolan Co.. 1907 Market. opp. Franklin
TWO nav aat cbaar or will exchange MRS
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-20
HEAL EsrArE-c1Tx-FoR SALE.


g. IL UMBsEN * Co. 20 Montgomery ST.
Real Estate Agents and Auctioneers
SlT.5Co-Larse building suitable ior school or
canitaruu in the warm belt Of the
Mission. and accessible to car lines;
lot TOxlT5.
s1c.o0o-Rents s210o per annun'; 6 nicely con-
stTucted fats near Duboce Park Of
rooms ana bath each; new and modern
IN every respect; bay-windows, brick
foundation; street work done: one OF
The best renting districts in ths Mis-
Sl5.ooo-Rents s1I22 per annuna: a splendid
riecc or down town property. close 70
railroad depot; double cottage OF rooms
each; store and fats. corner with
thres frontages. brick foundation. etc
siI.5oc|Rents $500 per annur: near Geary
and LaEuna sts: modern fiats Of O.
rooms and bath each; lot 2I:G feet
frcnt
So. .5cC-Rcats 1892 per annum; Guerrero St.
shcrt distance from Market; fats
or "a rooms and bath each; in good or
der and never vacant; lot 65 feet front;
1;eats $3.50 per annurn: make offer: Page St.
near Central ave: , handsomely ap-
lot 25HI0O.
81. o.750-Rents Si020 per annun; Dolores st;
, good buildings containing flats OF
5lA rooms ana bath each; rented low
Tot JCNl.J 4 snap.
Ss.ooo-Rents S59s per apnun3; una Larkin es-: st.:
close I'd CalitOrn.a; = bay -winoow n3ts
OF c-5 rooms and bath each; lot 25Nloo'
s4.75o-Bsuts $40 per annum: Treat ave:
= desirable fats OF 60 rooms ami bath
each. and stable IN rear; lot 25x112:6;
fTOEt2Scs
s. 4CGc-Rents s576 per annum; nzar Fifth and
Folsom sts.. ! desirable fats OF rooms
ePch in perfect order and steadily rent
el. lot 2JXSO: bank mortgage % $3.50;
viii pay 1fl2 per cent on equity OF $500
S2.2JC--Naar Army ana Guerrero sis; wei
built cottage OF rooms and bath; lot
- feet front.
s2,250-GueTvero sJ.E choice building lot for
residence or hats; desirable location; %
El25
Sl,7J0-Fair Oaks St; > desirable building
lots lcr residence or fats; surrounded
by choice residences, :3El25 each
For further particulars &C the above and
f-r the Real Estate Record. containing list Of
IN .;,erries Tor sale in all parts Of the city,
inquire at or office.
G. II UeIBSEN & Co.
20 Montgomery ST.
uT
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ZEAL EsrArE-c1rx-roH sALB


LYON & HOAG. 11e Montgomery st.
send for our printed list of property for
sale IN all sections of the city.
$0oO0-See this to-day; brand new colonial cot
lsh; large lot: 30 feet frontage; terms easy;
not far from Waller and Devisadero.
CORNER INVESTMENT NEAR PARK.
$Io;uoV-Kents- $1I2S; fine corner; built in
sac TWO years; flats. OF rooms and
path; pretty views of the surrounding coun-
Try; see this at once.
~ GOOD BUY IN MISSION
$2OOo-Rents $780, good fats; r. and b.
each; near the corner of 22d and Church.
MISSION INVESTMENT.
%A7,ooV-A grand investment Howard St,
east or 9Th; pays per cent now; could be
increased; good improvements; this at
once; will soon be sold.
S2i5O-2-story building of rooms and bath;
arranged for two fats; sinks. ETC.; rent
800; handy to Castro and Path ST. cars; see
thls at once. as it is good.
BARGAIN SOUTH OF MARKET.
S420U-Near 9TH and Mission; fats rooms
each and rear house of rooms; recently
modelled and put in frst-class shape porce-
laln sinks: rents $46S.
- BEST BARGAIN IN MISSION.
$6ouO-Rents S120; 3 brand flats; very
prettily finished; rooms and bath each;
near Mission and S0th sts: u block from
Mission car.
$550G-Splendd home in the Mission; 2-story,
basement and attic residence; rooms and
bath; hot air furnace large sunny rooms;
views overlooking Mission Park; owner
about to leave city and determined TO sell.
LYON & HOAG,
lie MONTGOMERY ST.
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S5,JOo-Two fire dats at bargain; 4 and >
rooms each; renting very low for S504
per annum. see this at your earliest
convenience. as II VIII positively be sold
the lorz part Of the week; Buchanan st.
sl5.oooEIVorth nearer $4,000: 27:6x12O TO
Olive ave; Ellis st property. east OF
Nan Ness; good substantial building un-
der lease
s.. .5GD-Corner property on Clara ST.; fats;
always renting for S1O6S per annum; lot
4JxsO; first-class investment
SI.4C0--An Al building lot Mission st.
near Highland ave; 25Xl11:G; visit this
neighborhood and see the building go
ing
1s.5oO-Grand business corner: one OF the
principal transfer corners in the city:
three frontages; good site FOR stores and
an observation-disclosures. close down town;
north Of Market ST. 40-fOot front
s.. .J00-Extrsordinary bargain; the biggest
snap ever offered: on Eddy st. near
Fillmore; > elegant bay -windowed flats
6-4H rooms and baths; rents S7eS; we
recommend this property as a big bar
gain on which a sure turn can b. made
S4.0CC-1i5 blocks from Market and Fourth
Sts. surrounded by and story build
iass. good fats. rents low $3.50: the
land alone is worth $1,000: this is one OF
the big snaps that is very rarely Offered
sLOOo-2 fine double lots on Golden Gate ave.
near Lyon st; an opportunity for build
Sa.5co-Rents S456: well built fats near
Ninth ard Harrison sts-; lot 25Ns5: joins
the Ninth-st frontage: a great buy.
So 00G-A southeast corner near Pierce and
Union SITS. unimproved; streets btu
mi1ized. sidewalks cement: 123x12O
S7Jo-Calforuia ST. near Nineteenth ave;
cheap lot.
SIS. .O5O-Fine corner near Seventh and Mis-
sion; renting for s21oo per annum; good
sA550-s good fats. renting at 5000 per an
mum; always rented: fine large lot. 50x75
feet; on Harriet 81.