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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
ALAMEDA FITS
UP A HOSPITAL
Emergency Institution Is
Established i'm the Base
ment of Municipal Hall
TO HOLD THREE COTS
Appliances Arrive From the
East and Are Installed by
the Health Board Officials
TO HOLD THREE COTS

ALAMEDA, March 31.-The new
Emergency Hospital in the base
ment of the City Hall is com
pleted. This municipality is the first
in the county to establish such an in
stitution. Heretofore persons injured
in accidents or who we're in need OF
quick medical attention from other
causes have been sent to the Receiving
Hospital in Oakland, which is conduct
ed by the county and managed by the
Board of Supervisors.
ALL of the appliances, instruments
and furnishings for the local Emer-
gency Hospital arrived here to-day
from New York and are being installed
under the direction of Health Officer
Dr. l.. w. Stidham and Sanitary In
spector E. c. Mailott, The surgical and
Laboratory Instruments are of the latest
pattern. Three cots viii be placed in
the hospital.
! Alameda has long felt the need OF an
Emergency Hospital, for in more than
one instance the conveying of injured
patients in an ambulance to Oakland
and the loss of valuable time on the
Journey has resulted seriously. The
new hospital is on the Oak street side
of the City Hall and adjoins the court
room of the City Justice.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
MASONs ARE TO BUILD :
A THREE-STORY TEMPLE
Durant Lodge of Berkeley Adopts
Plans for a Substantial Structure
on Main Streets.

BERKELEY, March 31.-Durant
Lodge Of Masons is about to build a
home of its own. The lodge has. ac-
cepted plans for three-story struc-
ture. and the work upon the founda-
tions will begin just as soon as the
contract is let. The plans call for a
building to cost $50, 900. 1t will adorn
the site at the northeast corner of
Shattuck avenue and Bancroft way,
the lot being 75x1O5 feet.
The first floor will contain four spa
cious stores that will be rented for
Commercial purposes. Beneath them
will be a basement that win occupy
the full space within the walls of the
foundation. Upon the second and
third floors will be lodge and meeting
rooms that will be used not only by
the Masons, but by other lodges as
tenants. The main lodgeroom will be
42x62 feet, finished in oak. A kitchen
and banquet-room will be attached,
the latter sufficiently large to accom-
modate 500 people. Among the other
features will be ladies' parlor, smok-
ing-room and econcert-room. Brick
and terra-cotta will be the materials
used for the main structure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
UNIVERSITY.EVENTS

BERKELEY March 31.-Instructons that
have just come from England announce that
the qualifying examinations for the Rhodes
scholarship will be held on three days. begin
ming Wednesday. April IS. The examinations
will be given at 10 O'Clock and o'clock on
these three days. in seminary room r. in the
library. There will be FIVE. examinations in
all, as follows the order yet to be arranged:
Arithmetic algebra or geometry; Greek and
Latin grammar; translation from English into.
Latin prose: Greek and Latin authors. The
maximum time for each examination is two
hours.
The juniors have decided upon April 9 as
the day for their excursion on the bay. They
have engaged a steamer that will carry 200
passengers. and all the points upon the bay
will be visited
The committee in charge of the military ball
to be given in Harmon Gymnasium on Friday
evening April s has begun 70 plan for the
decorations of the gymnasium The scheme is
elaborate and calls for the use OF large
number of flags, yards and yards of bunting
and piles of green. The commissioned officers
The general staff of the National Guard Of
California will be invited to attend.
The executive committee of the Associated
Students decided last night to set Friday
morning. April S. the day for holding the
semi annual meeting OF the Associated Stu
then be heard and also the report of the COM
mittee appointed at the last meeting to inves-
tigate the honor system with the view Of
adopting II for the university. Nominations
for officers for the next term will be made
Arthur W. Gray. the present holder of the
Whiting fellowship of the university in phys
les at the University of Berlin. recently COM
peted a very credtable and scholarly paper on
the production of ozone by silent electrical dis
cbargee rrhe naner was presented last month
by Professor Warburg of Berlin before the
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, where IL
was enthusiastically commended.
The Crucifxion' in the German language
has been accepted by Baron Won Berger. The
author Of the play and translation ans Is Elmer b
School and member of the class of 80.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
HALF COINS MADE TO
BEAT SLOT MACHINES
Secret Service Agent Hazen Releases
Vallejo Men Who Had Been Gam
bling on Sure Basis.

Eugene Franklin and James G..
Cleghorn were released from custody
yesterday by United States Secret
Service Agent George w. Hazen, after
a severe reprimand. They were ar
rested in Vallejo on Wednesday with a
small quantity of counterfeit quarter
dollars and nickels which they had
been using to defraud nickel-in-the-
slot machines. The counterfeits were
very clumsily nodded, and the inn
preston was only on one side of the
coins, the other side being blank They
would not deceive any one, and, under
decision by United States District
Judge de Haven rendered about a
year ago. it would not be possible to
secure a conviction in such a case.
Before releasing the men, Agent
Hazen took their Bertillon measure
ments and their photographs for pos
sible use in the future. The prisoners
declared they did not think they were
doing anything wrong in beating
what they deemed gambling machines,
but they promised they would not
make any more half coins.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
MANY THOUSAND PEOPLE
-. VIEW SCHOOL EXHIBIT
Display Will Be Shipped to st. Louis
To-Day, Where 1t VIII Occupy
Prominent Place.

At the approaching International
Exposition in st. Louis it will be
demonstrated to the world at large that
the public schools of this municipality,
since their inception by Thomas Doug
las on April 8, 1S4S, have kept pace with
the development found in older COM
munities For three days the School
exhibit designed for exhibition pur-
poses at the St. Louis Fair has been
on display in the drawing of the
Lincoln School on Fifth street.
During the three days that the pub
lie has been permitted to view the ex-
hibit many thousand people have
availed themselves of the opportunity
The entire exhibit has been packed
and will be forwarded Immediately to
st. Louis for installation in the space
allotted to California. A. A. Macurda,
Deputy Superintendent of Schools. has
been in charge of the exhibit, but it
has not been definitely settled whether
he will go to the exposition city.
The work of the pupils of the Chinese
School is deserving of commentator,
and the colored Spontaneous Story
Drawings" in which are pictured the
impressions of the Juvenile followers
of Confucius,'' of events in daily life,
form one of the attractions.
The products of the manual train
ing course by boys of the seventh and
eighth grades occupy prominent place
and the drawings and music by the
girls of the Jean Parker School are
we'll displayed. 1t is the work of the
little tots, however, that arouses the
,noct ipteraet aS avery one of the
papers, from the crude colored crayon
sketch of the six-year- to the more
finished water color of the older chill
dren. represents much patient effort and
careful preparation. The oral school for
deaf children also has display, and
the twenty-four children have made a
creditable showing. The exhibit of the
high schools is also strong.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
WILL DISREGARD
THE ORDINANCE
Scavengers Declare That
They Will Continue the
Collection of Garbage
EXPECT A BITTER FIGHT
Pacific Incinerating Com
pany Expects to Begin OPP
erations on Next Monday.
Oakland Office San. Francisco Call

Oakland. Office San. Francisco Call,
Ills Broadway. March 81
The local 1Soavengers' Union has de
ternined 10: disregard. the: order of the
Board -of: Health that: the garbage
dumps at.west Oakland: be closed and
circular. pamphlets have been. distrib-
uted by the. union stating that the
scsiveriggiers would. continue to collect
and dispose of garbage: until the: con
tro5vieisy lis: settled. in. court The: union
has retained: .kttorney'~J: H Greedy TO
.coiiduct the case: -. '---':.
The Pacific :Encineratiug Company
has been busy for ten days distributing
garbage cans and. work viii be COM
menced at the crematory as. soon as the
first collections are made, which viii
probably be on Monday morning Some
difficulty. has been experienced by the
drivers OF the. Incinerating Company s
wagons in inducing people in different
parts or the city TO. accept the COM
pany's cans.
= +. J. Little, the manager of the In
. GENERATING Company. says this is partly
due TO the efforts of the scavengers 10
prejudice citizens against the company
and partly To the ignorance. Of the peo-
pie regarding the. provisions of the. or
dioancs. Mr.. Little said to-day;
We have been busy Scr some time distrlbut-
ing garbage cans. and we Wal begin 10 coli
lect the garbage as. soon as the cans are fun.
The public VIII begin the use OF the. cans
tomorrow and i expect. that We shall com
uence .onsrations on Monday. We have had
some trouble ri. getting peopl? 90 allow the
cans 70 be les< ct their homes. as the scaV-
-enEers have gone ahead OF our wagons giving
out circulars stating that they VIII continue
10 collect. garbage and that the dumps would
not Be clOsed. and number or people refused
10 accept our cans until the matter is settled.
in West. Oakland. One Of our wagons called
at eighty houses and did not leave single
can. The people saying that they did not want
the service and would not have it until the
matter had been settled in court. The trouble
is that many people have little idea OF the
provisions of. the ordinance, and they think
that everything in the line OF waste mat
ter must be placed in the ten-gallon cans,
and that We charge IS cents a month Tor each
can. The ordinance provides that only gar
bage shall be placed in the small cans, and
thar waste matter OF such nature that u
cannot purify and become unsanitary shall
we collect every two weeks thus collecting
four cans or forty gallons Of garbage, and
TWO barrels Of refuse matter month for a
monthly rate OF IS cent?
There are several districts in the city
that have not yet been supplied with
garbage cans. but the wagons are all
at work distributing the receptacles
and it is expected that the crematory
viii be in full operation by the last OF
next week.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
-sDAS OPFERLANISI" is
AT THE MACDONOUGH
German Play Produced by the Lut-
spiel Ensemble for Benefit of
Rest Home.


OAKLAND. March S1.-The Ger
man play, 'Das Opferlamm," by Oscar
Walter and Leo Stein was presented
at the Macdonough Theater this even
ing by the Alameda Lustspiel En-
semble, an amateur theatrical organi-
cation of clever artists selected from
among the German-speaking residents
of Alameda. "Das rOpferlamm' (The
.Sacrifice) is a comedy: in three acts
and prologue.
The proceeds of the performance
will be devoted to. the Rest Home of
the. Young Women's. Christian .Asso-
citation of Oakland. which is located
at Camp Meeker.
Those who took part in the produc-
ton this evening are Theodore Sailing,
Johanne Strauss, Emile Kohler, Rich
ard LEM, Carl Meier, Adolph Schu-
bert. Miss Josephine Schwerin, Miss
Martha Plumhoff, MISS Lolita
Schwerin, Edward Horwinski, Albert
Kohler, Max Horwinski Jr.. Miss
Freida Stanley. Miss Josephine Lafon-
tame Neckhaus and Franz Won Berke-
feldt.
"Das -Opferlamm" will be produced
in San Francisco on Easter Sunday
night at the Columbia Theater by the
same company.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
TO CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY
st. Patrick's Church Has
Reached a Twenty-Fifth
Milestone in It's Record
WILL COMBINE SERVICE
Double Observance by the
Parish to. Mark the Cele-
bratione on Easter Sunday
Oakland Office San Francisco Call


Ills Broadway, March 81.
st. Patrick's. Church, West Oakland.
will celebrate the twenty fifth anniver-
sary of its founding on Easter Sun
day. The parish was organized by. the
Rev. j.. B. McNally in 1873, the formal
dedication of the church taking place
April 6. 1879. The first pastor has re-
manned continuously in charge of the
church for quarter Of century.
During the services, which will also
be in observance of the great Chris
tian. festival, Father McNally will
preach, appropriate sermons morning
and evening. Music will be rendered
by augmented choirs,
Under Father McNally's pastorate
the parish has esta blished schools and
other buildings for church uses. ST.
Joseph's parochial school for boys and
a convent school conducted by the Sis
ters of ST. Joseph, a parochial resi-
dence and large auditorium for par
ish meetings with the large church sdi-
flee comprise the group of structures
erected during the service of Father
McNally. The parish has grown three
fold since its Inauguration. The ener-
getic priest was ordained in 1870. Be
fore he came to Oakland Father Nc
Nally rebuilt churches at Big Oak Flat
and other points in the southern mines
and also erected new edif1ces in Santa
Barbara County and in Moraga Valley.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
AVOID BATTLE
IN THE COURTS
Final Bar to the Peaceable
Settlement of the Canning
Estate Amicably Removed
COMPROMISE EFFECTED
Michael Rice, the Warning
Nephew, Is Satisfied and
Signs Desired Agreement
Oakland once San Francisco Cal

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111S Broadway, March 81.
Michael Rice, nephew of the late
Mrs. Mary Canning, who threatened to
contest the will of the deceased, has
transferred all his rights In the estate
to attorneys for Archbishop. Riordan,
indicating that he has compromised his
claim and that the last obstacle in the
way of the peaceable settlement of the
estate has been removed. The paper
disposes of all right, title or interest
Rice may have in the estate of his late
aunt for the sum of $40 to L. Foster
Young of San Francisco. Attorney John
). Drum, who witnesses the will of Mrs.
Canning and appeared with Carrot Nc
Enerney as attorney for Archbishop.
Riordan in the probate: proceedings,
witnessed the present document.
Rice was a nephew of Mrs. Canning,
who lived in Arizona. When he heard
that w. j. Yore and John M. Yore, his
cousins, were making a fight for a part
of the estate he retained Attorney j. j.
Lerman to look out for his interests
and put in his claim for a share: A
compromise was effected between Mrs.
Michael Davitt, her brothers, the Yores
and Archbishop Riordan, but Rice was
left out. Since then, however he has
effected a settlement of his claim. The
estate consisted of $4,000 in cash and
a home worth about $4,000, which was
to be divided equally between Mrs
Davitt and Archbishop Riordan.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
CUSTOMS OFFICIALS ARE
MADE HAPPY AGAIN
Assistant Secretary Armstrong Modi-
(. fies Recent Rule Which Extended
the Hours, of Business.

Assistant Secretary Armstrong Modi-
3. fies Recent Rule Which Extended
the Hours of Business.
There was joy in the custom house
yesterday afternoon upon the receipt
of a telegram from r. B. Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
announcing a modification of the rule
put into force few weeks ago to the
effect that the custom-ho should
be kept open until 4:30 p. m, every
day, excepting Sundays and holidays.
Customs employees contended that no
good could be accomplished by keep
ing open after the banks closed and
that in New York and other Eastern
ports, by virtue of a State law making
Saturday a half holiday, the Gus TOM
house was closed at noon. Mr.. Arm
stroffgis telegram announced that
hereafter no entries would be received
after D. m. on any day except for
corpses, animals or other emergency
cases.
Promptly at p. M. yesterday the
official bouncer closed the doors to- the
general public and stood guard until
all the clerks had completed their
work and retired from the building,
which was a little after o'clock. The
tunity of finishing up their work at
the close of the days business without
interruption. -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
PURSER CHARGED WITH
FELONY ENTERTAINMENT
doza of the Steamer State of
California.

]. d. Amos of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company. 10 Market street,
secured a warrant from Police Judge
Cabaniss yesterday for the arrest of
]. T. Cardoza on a charge of felony
embezzlement. The amount alleged in
the complaint is $12S 95.-s but it is
said that the total amount embezzled
will reach $4,000.
Cardoza was purser of the steamer
State of California and it is alleged
that he has been in the habit of CIV
ing passengers from way ports old
tickets and pocketing the money. 1t
is said that he had used about 200 Of
these tickets.
The fraud was discovered when a
passenger whose baggage had been
lost called at the company's Office and
it was found that a regular ticket had
not been issued to him and his name
was not on the passenger list. Car
doza has left the city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
E VENTS IN SOCIETY

OAKLAND March 31.-Elaborate prepara-
tions are in progress for the Easter assembly
OF the Catholic Ladies' Aid Society No l, and
the evening Of April 4 when the assembly
takes place, promises TO be an eventful one in
the history of that benevolent order. Maple
Hall has been secured for the occasion and
in addition 10 the usual floor and reception
committees a large number of society girls
VIII assist the matrons in receiving and in
otherwise making the evening a pleasant one.
T. p. Hogan Will act floor director. He
Will be assisted by George p. r. Clark, John
Slavich. DIR. Callinan W. H. wallard j. J.
Burke W. b. Waggoner, J. J. McElroy, T.. e.
stanton. George McMenomy, Louis p. Seiby.
{. H. Mulgrew, J. H. Long, George Taylor
rinSton
The reception committee includes Miss Mary
Carr, Mrs. o. c. Kirk, Mrs. Hugh Hogan Mrs
+ r. Hogan, Mrs j. F. Kelly, Miss Catherine
Maher. Mrs. Jennie Jordan. Mrs. Hamilton
Avcy, Miss Sara Madden, Miss Eugene Nc
Laren.. Miss Mary Lambert. Mrs. J. j. Fen
eran, Miss X. /. Kelly, Mrs. p Sweeny Mrs.
IS IS Maed9nsld Mrs. g. D. Rallahan. Mrs.
flames ia n Keller Or. J l. Milton DE- q; D. Ham Ham
Hogan walter Harrington. D. sI Lynch nue j.
]. White. J. c. McAvoy, James Keller. George
D. Hallahan. James A. Joyce. ]. F. Kennedy,
Fadden. j. D. Tsnonfaghe, Richard Montgom
cry. Charles Leonard Smith. James McAllis-
The Young ladies' e'U who viii assist are Miss
Kathleen Lynch, Miss Mary Hogan. Miss Ida
Klink. Miss Grace Selby. Miss Virginia Tyr
rel, Miss Nav Feneran, Miss Kathryn Kirk
Miss Eva Slayich. Miss Evelyn Kelly Miss
May Hogan. Miss Stella Siavich, Miss Ethel
McManus. Miss Hazel Hogan. Miss Agnes
Lyons Miss May Fogarty. Miss Tina Mac
donald Miss Molle Harrington, Miss Mary
Short. Miss Elena scherzer and Miss Rose
Hallahan.
The members of Oakland Alliance No. ),
St Patricks Alliance of America are pre-
pairing for their annual ball. the arrangements
being III charge of James CoakIey, Thomas
Hynes;' T. ]. Desmond, James Corley and Nell
Carey.
a minstrel and vaudeville show for the hene-
fit. of St. Anthony's parish will be given en-
Saturday evening. April Is, in st. Anthony S
Hall in East Oakland. The programme is an
elaborate one. land is under the direction of
Alex J. Rosborough and Joseph Rosborough.
1t includes several selections by the Elks
Quartet, "a chorus of twenty-five boys voices
and farce entitled THE Silent System. -
Among those who win take part in the per;
Torrance Milton Schwartz, Alex Rosbor-
ough. Teddy Rust, Fred OsConnell and j. Ros-
borough.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
ALAMEDA PLANS. TO TAX
SEERS AND PROPHETS
Will Require Those Who Unravel the
Future to Pay a License of
SO a Quarter.

ALAMEDA, March 31.-Fortune
tellers, clairvoyants, astrologers and
mediums who charge for telling what
to pay license tax Into the city treas
ury for the privilege of doing business
with Alamedans at home.
The City Trustees in revising the 10:
cal license ordinance have inserted a
section in it that will require all seers
to hereafter pay a license tax of $40
per quarter. The ordinance as re-
vised will come up for passage at the
meeting of the municipal legislators
next Monday night.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
NEW HOSPITAL
TO BE OPENED
Archbishop Will Conduct
the Exercises at Sisters
OF Providence Institution
BUILDING is COMPLETE
Sick and Injured Will Be
Received After the Dedi-
cation OH Next Tuesday
Oakland Office San Francisco Cal

Oakland Office San Francisco Call
Ills Broadway, March 81.
The formal opening of the new Provi-
dence Hospital at. Broadway and Bay
place will take place Tuesday after
noonr April 5. at 8 o'clock with appro-
pirate exercises. which will be con-
Quoted by either Archbishop Riordan
or Coadjutor Archbishop Montgomery.
After these exercises the new hos
pital will be ready for general work
and patients will be received from that
time. The institution is under the con-
troll of the Sisters of Providence. From
twenty to twenty-five members of the
sisterhood will be permanently at
tached to the hospital as nurses and
attendants.
: Providence Hospital is. a six-story
structure, completely equipped to meet
all of the. requirements of a modern
institution for the care of the sick and
the injured. Besides the several large
general wards many private apart
ments have been fitted. The appliances
are elaborate in the shape of surgical
and medical accessories. A chapel with
seating capacity for $50 persons occu-
pies a part of the fourth floor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-01
USES REVOLVER
In HER WOOINC
Blingum Housemaid Brings
About Contract Marriage
in Her Own FOrceful Way
NOW ASKS HER FREEDOM
TObin Suit for Divorce Re-
veals Interesting Story
of a Strenuous COurtship
oakland once San Francisco Call,

1917
Ills Broadway. March 81.
The hearing of the Tobin divorce trial
to-day developed a recital. of strenu-
Gus courtship below stairs" at exclu-
sive Bnngum Tobin, the defendant in
the. case, was coachman for Mr..
Moody. and there met Mary Stanley,
the: housenlaid. After a short courtship,
Tobin. stated. ION the stand to-day. he
was forced into a contract marriage,
Mary. the maid, threatening to shoot
him if he refused. He stated that he
hated. TO leave his master without a
coachman, but under the. persuasion of
the pistol other considerations were lost
sight of, and they left their employ
ment.. Mary added weight to her
threats 10 do bodily harm by telling
him that she had buried husband in
Kentucky and fixed" a man in Ari-
zona- 49,.
About a year ago Tobin plucked up
sufficient courage to desert his contract
wife, TO whom, he states, he did not
consider himself legally bound, and
married a second. When Mrs. Tobin
No L heard of it she started in to make
trouble. Tobin alleges he paid her $1,000
TO get rio of her. Mrs. Tobin No. tes-
titled that wife No. proposed to her to
go in together and divide what money
they could force Tobin to give up.
Tears and exciting passages between
witnesses and attorneys made a day of
unusual interest to courtroom habitues.