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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
WORKS BOARD SEGREGATES
FISCAL APPROPRIATION
Agrees Upon the Expenditures to Be
Made This Year for Specific
PurnOGeG

The Board of Public Works met yes
terday and agreed on. the segregations
of it's appropriation for the fiscal year
1S04-05. The items follow:
Permanent improvements Cbudget to be fol-
lowed as segregated) repairing and cleaning
sewers, $S5, 600; repairs to streets, basalt and
cobble, $50, coo; repairs to btuninous rock and
asphalt pavemenrs, $40 600; repairs Of streets
on the water front, $4,000; cleaning and sprink-
ling OF streets, $215, 900; repairs to buildings.
City Hall and Hall OF Justice, S12, 61I; repairs
Fire Department buildings, SIS, 600 repairs
Police Department buildings. $1,000; repairs to
1ails. $4,000; City and County Hospital, gen.
eral repairs and painting, $40 600; City and
County Hospital, reconstruction of plumbing.
$4,000; Almshouse repairs including wiring,
$4,000; AlInshouse, reconstruction of plumbing,
$2OOO; repairs to emergency hospitals, $T20;
general office-salaries commissioners and Sec
rotary $13 500 salaries. employees S11, 700; bu-
Teau OF buildings salary stenographer and
clerk, $500; cleaning and maintaining City
Hall and Hall of Justice SAL 105; bureau OF
streets, salaries $50 300; bureau of Streets SAIL
aries Of road guards. S2340; corporation yards
taD salaries keepers and stonecutters $3.50 (b)
salaries carpenters $2400; maintenance Of
bridgeS-la) salaries engineers $500, OBJ sala-
ries watchmen $500; bureau of light and wa
ter salaries, materials, horse hire), $500;
division of architecture Salaries material,
horse Eire) $4,000; bureau Of engineering (sal-
aries material. horse hire), $50, 0O0 maps OF
the city for assessment purposes, $4,000; main
$1,000; Janitors' and engineers supplies $4,000;
scavengering, S444; buggies general office
$40; repairs to bunkers $1,000; fuel, $6500;
reserve, S1036.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
TELLS OF BAND
OF SWINDLERS
Bakersfield Widow Declares
She Is Victim Of Fraud
in Lodging House Deal

: It has been called to the attention Of
the Superior Court that a band" exists
in San Francisco for the purpose of
swindling prospective purchasers of
lodging houses. The charge was set
forth yesterday in the answer of Mrs.
S. M. Packard to a suit brought by
Lizzie P. Murray as assignee on note
for s525 secured by a chattel mortgage
on household furniture at GIL Ellis
street.
Mrs. Packard is the widow of a
former City Marshal of Bakersfield.
Her answer to the suit is sensational.
The meat of it is in a paragraph in
which she says: - A. McMillen and
his daughter, Lizzie B. McMillen, have
for years made it a practice to deceive
and swindle prospective purchasers of
lodging houses, and with the said
organized band of lodging-house
sWindlers."
Mrs. Packard relates that she came
to San Francisco in June from Bakers
field with $1,000, which was all she had
to depend upon for the support of her
self and her mother. She was intro
duced to one j. A. McMillen, who. she
says, represented that he knew her late
husband, who had done him a favor
WHICH MCMllleu WOu1u DC Bldu " re-
pay through the widow. Furthermore,
he was member of the same fraternal
order as the deceased Packard. The
widow says she believed McMillen. He
had a clearinghouse for sale and is
charged with having represented to her
that the place was netting SIS month.
She bought it and paid him $3.50: cash
and gave her note for $525 and a mort
gage on the furniture. After she took
possession Of the house she found, she
says, that it paid no profit at ALL The
note was assigned to the McMurray
woman and the suit begun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
CHIEF WHITMAN WILL
DECREASE DISTRICT AREA
Space Covered by Central Station Men
Will Hereafter Come Under
CaDtain Mooney.

Chief Whitman has decided to lessen
the territory now included in the Cen
trail Police Station district. The num-
Der of streets now patrolled is too
great for the men at the disposal OF
Captain Duke. The new change will
be made in a few days.
1t is the intention of the Chief to cut
Hyde and Leavenworth streets out
and include them in the City Hall Sta
ton district. BY the recent creation
of new police district in the Western
Addition, made by subdividing the
City Hall district, the latter district
has greatly decreased, so that Hyde
and Leavenworth streets can be in
cluded in it without imposing much
extra work on the district.
The number of men used on special
detail in the Central district is large,
leaving hardly enough patrolmen to
cover the regular beats. The central
district is the most important in the
city and Chief Whitman thinks that it
should, on account Of the population,
be the smallest in area.
The contemplated change has been
considered for some time. The new
central station district will be bound
ed on the west by Jones street. north
by Market, east by Sansome and north
by the bay.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
TEA CHEERS. ELECTED TO
THE PREFERRED LIST
Board OF Education Listens TO a Pro.
test FrOm the Association of
Architects

OAKLAND, Aug. 1.-The list Of
twenty-five substitute teachers elected
to the preferred list was made public
at a meeting Of the Board of Educa-
Elton tonight and is as follows:
Genevieve NJ. Keever, Agnes F.
Petit, Edna A. Branch, Frances b.
Caldwell, E. c. Gallagher, NJ. j. Shaw,
z. L. Smith, May Jenkins, Grace Pack,
Cynthia P. Leet, Eleanor Sampson,
Nellie Surtevant, Edith Chisholm,
Eta L. Ogden, Caroline Dinsmore,
Helen Harrington, Clara B. Burrows,
Elizabeth Whitney, Laura A. Wescott,
Ina E. Baker, Irene E. Hankinson,
Emma Stockton.
The board was addressed by Henry
A. Schulze, who represented commit
tee from the San Francisco Chapter
of the American Institute of Architects,
to protest against the manner in which
the board purposed to ask for COM
petitive plans for the new school
buildings. He claimed that the pro-
gramme as published was manifestly
unfair to- the architects and that such
a plan would result in keeping reput-
able architects. out of the competition.
The matter was put over until next
Monday night and in the meantime
there is to be a conference between
! the committee Of the board having the
matter in charge and the committee
/ Of architects.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
Civil Service Positions.

The United States Civil Service Commission
announces that examinations for the follow
ing positions will be held here, beginning
September IA: Aid. Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey; assistant topographer; computer naval
observatory; deck officer, Coast and Geodetic
Survey; draughtsman photographic, draughts-
man. engineer, supervising architects office;
engineering and photographic aid; farmer In
dian service; farmer with knowledge OF irri-
CATION Indian service; industrial teacher In
dian service tmale female); irrigation en-
gineer matron, Indian service; meat inspector,
Bureau of Animal Industry; observer, weather
Bureau; physician, Indian service; seamstress,
Indian service; superintendent of construction,
supervising architects office; teacher, Philip
pine service. Apply to the secretary of the
Board OF Civil Service Examiners, San Fran
cisco, to the United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington, d. c., for applca-
ton blanks.
Applications for civil service examination
will be received at the office of United States
Lighthouse Inspector. Twelfth District. during
the next thirty days for establishing registers
of eligibles from which appointments of as
sistant keepers of lighthouses will be made in
the Twelfth. Lighthouse District California;
Applicants must be citizens of the United
States. over IS and under so years Of age.
Blank forms Of application may be had by
applying to the office
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
Hurt on Rotten Sidewalk.

volumlnous complaint was filed yesterday
by John L. Hays and his wife, Annie. who
demand $780, 900 damages from the Board of
Public Works. The Hays family lives at S11
Bryant street. Mrs Hays. in going to her
home on the night before Christmas last. stum-
bled over iron strip projecting a foot above
the Bryant street sidewalk and is said to
have shattered the bones of her right arm at
the shoulder joint The complaint recites the
appointment OF each member of the Board of
Public Works, gives the provisions of their Of
ficial bonds in full cites the resolution for the
grading of Bryant street and the Supervisors
ordinance for the repairing of sidewalks The
plaintiffs allege that the wooden footway on
Bryant street had been rotten for a year be-
fore the accident to Mrs. Hays and that the
only repairs made were the placing of the iron
strips one of which tripped the woman
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
NON-UNION HICKMAN HAS
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Leon Mignolet Told to Drive to Golden
Gate Park and Is Then Beaten
by Two Strikers.

Leon Mignolet, hackdriyer for M.
Nicholson & Son of the Saratoga
Stables, swore to a complaint before
Police Judge Cabaniss yesterday for
the arrest of Edwin Armstrong and
John Doe" two striking hackmen, on
a charge of battery. According to the
story told to the police Mignolet had
thrilling experience.
He said he was standing with his
hack on Sunday night in front of the
st. Francis Hotel, when two young
men came out of the hotel They en-
tered his hack and told him to drive
them to different saloons. He did so
and finally they ordered him to drive
to Golden Gate Park. When the hack
reached Stow Lake, Mignolet was
asked to stop and the two men, one of
whom he recognized as Armstrong,
stepped out. They dragged him from
his seat and commenced to beat him.
He broke away from them and ran
to the residence of Mr.. Seville, the en-
gineer at the pumping station. Seville
telephoned to Golden Gate Park police
station and Policemen Foley and Man
gan were sent in the patrol wagon to
the scene. They found no one around.
but later Policeman O'Shea came
across the hack on the main drive op-
posite the conservatory.
Mignolet thinks that while the two
young men were in a saloon on Golden
Gate avenue Armstrong and his COM
panion had jumped into the hack and
told him to drive to the park
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
LONDON MAKES
NO APPEARANCE
Thirty Days Have Elapsed
Since Service Upon Him
of Wife's Divorce Action
ENTITLED TO DEFAULT
Property Rights Have All
Been Settled Outside of
the Jurisdiction of Court
Oakland Office San Francisco Call

1016 Broadway, Aug. /. :.
Thirty days have elapsed since Jack
London, novelist and newspaper man,
was served with complaint in his
wife's divorce action. He has made no
appearance, and Mrs. Bessie London
is now entitled to, a. default Judgment
against him. He was served with a
copy of the complaint on board the
steamship Korea on June 20, and yes
terday the time had elapsed in which
he is allowed by law to file an answer
1t is not believed that there will be
any compromise. The nature of the
charges are such that it is thought that
London can i'll afford to contest them
in open court and that he will allow
his wife TO get the divorce by default
In the meantime, the property inter-
ests of the pair have been settled out
of court. The restraining order served
upon London to keep him from drawing
any of his pay while in the Orient as
war correspondent or from any of the
publishing firms who have his books
for sale has been set aside, the reason
stated for this action being that an
amicable settlement as regards prop
erty rights had been arrived at be
tween himself and wife.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
MAYOR TREES
ARE PROTECTED
Edward Barnett, Capitalist,
Convicted of Unlawful Re
nloyal of the Foliage
ORDINANCE is UPHELD
Judge Samuels Says City
Council Can Maintain a
Control Over the. Growth
oakIand omee San lEraneiseo can.

Oakland ONCE San Francisco Call,
- 1916 Broadway, Aug. I.
Mayor Olney's trees are safe. Police
Judge George Samuels has decided that
Edward Barnett. the capitalist. vio-
lated the law when he chopped down
American elns that had been planted
in front of his property on Telegraph
avenue by the city. Barnett was con-
victed to-day of the specific offense of
cutting down and removing a tree
from the street without having obtain:
ed the consent of the Board of Public
Works and in violation of municipal
ordinance.
The court held the ordinance constt-
tutional and declared that. unless it
should be upheld every tree in tbs
streets of Oakland might be removed
if any person thought they were
nuisances.
Judge Samuels pointed out the differ:
ence between the present case and the
one tried by Police Judge. Mortimer
Smith, when Barnett was discharged.
the offense then charged. being ma
licious mischief Judge Samuels said
that no malice had been shown by
Barnett The capitalist had said to
himself: These trees are a nuisance
therefore I will remove them But
that was not the legal way to go about
it, observed his Honor. IF Barnett
does not want the elnas in front of
his premises he must prove they are
nuisances and proceed along the: regu-
lar legal lines to have them barred. =
The case was CONTINUED until
Wednesday for sentence. Barnett has
not decided whether. he will appeal. =.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
CITY COUNCIL
is DEADLOCKED
Splits on Vote to Revoke
License of Saloon That
Sold Intoxicants to Girls
ABANDONs FRANCHISES
New Webster Street Line
Surrenders Right to Tracks
in the Business. District
Oakland once san Francisco Gail.

Oakland ONCE San Francisco Gail,
1915 Broadway, Aug. l..
The City Council was deadloeked to-
night on a vote Il. revoke the liquor IL
cense Of Zunoni & Ghiglionet Third and
Market streets, whose bartender was
convicted in the Police Court Of selling
liquor 10 girls. The vote. was five TO
five, Councilman Dornin being absent.
The roll call follows: To reveke---Coun-
cilrnen Elliott, Howard, Meese,: Penqle-
ton and Wallace. Against revol1ng---
Aitkin: Baccus; .CuKeIlieE,. Fitzgerald
and McAdRn. "
BY, unanimous vote the Council finally
passed an ordinance sanctienipg the
abandonment of the. t:corkserew street
railroad franchise through Broadway
ana washington street from Fourteenth
10 First street. and. also. OF the. fran
chise for line through Pleasant AL
ley This action enables the new Web
eter Street and Park: Railroad TO begin
work al once on the. line through the
Adams Point property. +. E. Chaplin. 5
2 demand. for. the return of $500 paid for
8 street railroad franchise on College
avenue was rejected. on COMMITTEES: rec.
dmmendation., :. : ....=.- - @@...-:: -:
The Oakland. Transit ConsOli dated Pc
titioned@ for the abandonment of 1ts.eEd
Eleventh street franchise cars on that
line having ceased operation. :: -.
The Council ADOPTED resotutions Of in
tention covering the proposed bond. is
sue. This is the: last step Def ore: the
introduction on, August 10. Of the or.
oinance calling the bpnd election: = Il:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
Alameda County Deaths.

OAKLAND. Aug. John NJ. ziegenbein,
aged 25 years. died last night at the home Of
his nctlser. 9es Peralts street after an eS-
ard was a well-known LOCAL contractor
-. Mrs; Margaret Nelson, aged ~ years died
to-day at her home in this city. The deceased
was a widow and leaves three children Ed
ward NJ: and James w. Nelson and Mrs. II. c.
Olsen :.
= Michael J. Gleason died to-day. after a short
Illness The deceased was 67 years old and
leaves a wife and six children. James and
John F. Gleason, Mrs. J. r. Floud Mrs. H A
Brandes.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
Accuses Fellow Prisoner.

- OAKLAND. Aug THAT'S my shfrtwaf st
You re wearing" was the greeting Annie
Savlls received from Annie Larsen this morn
ing in the women's ward at the City Prison
Mss Seville had been escorted to Jail because
she had -overstepped the bounds Of propriety
in Eer dealings with strong waters Miss
Larsen is. sorting y six months sentence for
-vsgrancy-
- Miss larsen also declared she recognized
other. garmeTits belonging to herself that the
newcomer was WEARING: Miss saville will
answer to. a charge of petty larceny. for Miss
Larsen was permitted to swear to a complaint
against her fellow. prisoner. The sayille cir
IS only is years old. She confessed she stole
the: Isarsen apparel while the. owner has beer
in iaft
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
Professor Stephens Defends
Valiant Elizabeth as the
Savior of Her Country
MAJOR HUME
University Man Says Char
acter of Ruler Was Mold
ed by Her Surroundings
Berkeley Office. San Francisco Call,


Professor H.. Morse Stephens de-
Tended Queen Elizabeth to-day in his
classroom at the University Of Cali
fornia in a way that astonished his
students. AS the champion Of Good
Queen Bess,' Professor Stephens de-
clared her to have been the savior of
England, u woman of noble character
and patriotic aims-a .fiirt, no doubt,
and not always scrupIlous. but still
only a victim OF the quality of her
time.
Professor Stephens defense was a re-
ply to an attack on Elizabeth by Major
Martin Hume, official collator of the
.EliZabethan state papers for England,
who, in the August Harper's, impugns
her character in an article entitled
Good Queen Bess." Here is what the
professor said:
Major Hume. in dealing with Queen Eliza
beth. forgets the fact that she was the savior
OF England and Is little enough to attempt to
pass judgment on. her from our modern ethical
code. Major Hume makes great capital of a
letter Elizabeth wrote in 1856 to Sir Anthony
queen OF scots intimating that he should do
away with that queen to save Elizabeth from
the. responsibility OF signing the death war
rant. Now historians don deal with ethical
questions: That is left for the theologians and
philosophers. The fact is, that for eighteen
years Elizabeth had suffered Mary Stuart TO
live, although in constant danger OF Mary 3
plots against Elizabe s life. And the further
fact is that 1Elizabeth's contemporaries all
hoped end prayed for the death of Mary Stuart
and made their criticism that she was allowed
to live too long.
We must recognize in dealing with Queen
Elizabeth. that. the quality OF the woman was
in accord with the quality OF her times, and
that during her reign England rose TO great
power. / might say that the portrait of Eliza
beths signing the death warrant which ac-
companies this article is one of the most Of
fensively ridiculous portraits ever published
and bears 40 likeness 70 the Queen.
Professor Stephens is giving a course
of lectures at the summer session on
'::The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
FELLOWS HAS BECOME -. :.
- A PROFESSIONAL ACT0R
CIe4er. college Amateur Breaks into
the Business. at Ne Liberty.
Thea1er.- 49,. s. ~; -. -.

OAKLAND. Aug. Il Kendall. Eel
lows anna eCr entertainer azld a hit In
college fraterIiftLes. has become "a real
actor. - r. -. -
He made has: debut at Ye' Liberty
Theater to-nIgh f in: :. The Man From
Mexico. as. Louis the. :d9go' : %yatter
who helps the. man from Mexico in
and out Of lIis trophies. =. r. =.
1t was oniy.a minor part but. Fell
lows did that little So well that he
thousand and ONE friends 41'lfe went 10
see him perfOrna were as. n4Uch. inn
pressed with lit as 3ileX.: were. with
Frank Bacon, the ma n. of. MANY
scrapes. AS: an. initial performance 1t
WAS all Fellows expected and tn e .triz
umph will live -: =. - - -. q -.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
CLUB TO HONOR
NEW SECRETARY
Union League of Alameda
County Plans Reception
to Victor II. Metcalf
TO WELCOME HIM HOME
Enthusiastic Republican Or
ganization Makes a Start
With Large Membership
Oakland Office San Francisco can,


1915 Broadway, Aug. /.
The first public function of the newly
organized Union League Club of Ala
media County will be a hearty demon
stratfon in honor of Victor II. Metcalf;
the new Secretary of Commerce and
Labor, when he returns to his Cali
fornia' home later in the present month.
The new club was formed tonight
at Maple Hall with 125 charter mem
bers, of whom 100 were present. United
States Senator George G. Perkins was
chosen temporary chairman; f. r.
Porter, secretary, and Frank K. Mott,
treasurer. A committee upon perma-
nent. organization was appointed, COM
posed of George E. de Cola, Philip l.
Teller, Guy c. Earl, r. H. Chamberlain
and George w. Reed. This committee
viii report two weeks from to- night.
Senator Perkins made a little adj
dress, in which he referred to the adj
vancement of Congressman Metcaf. TO
the Cabinet, and he called upon Sem
ator j. r. Knowland, as Metcalfs sue
cessor for few remarks. Mr.. Know
land replied briefly and then Mr.. de
Cola of the organization committee
suggested that it would be a good'idea
for the Union League Club to under
take a reception to Mr.. Metcalf upon
his return from Washington about two
weeks hence. The suggestion was at
once taken up and the committee upon
organization and the temporary Of
ficers were constituted a committee TO
arrange for the reception.
Addresses were made during the
evening by Superior Judge Melvin,
United States Court Commissioner
Heacock. Charles r. Shook, Assembly
man j. A Bliss, r. H. Chamberlain,
J. F. w. SohSt Guy G. Earl II. F.
Gordon. A. C. Henry, William Moller,
j. Cal Ewing, Clarence Crowell and
others.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
To Settle Voigt Estate.

c. August Weihe and Emil Rohte yesterday
petitioned the Superior Court for the distribu-
ton of the estate of Christian Henry Voigt
of which they were the administrators. voigt
died at Hanover, Germany. April 49, 1902. and
left everything to his widow, Clara with the
provision that 80 600 marks was to be paid
to each OF his five sons and one daughter
upon their attaining the age of twenty five
years The administrators have only $3266 in
cash on hand, but among the valuable realty
left by Voigt is the property on Market street
near Second, extending through to Stevenson
street. In the report of the administrators II
is shown that Voigt held various worthless
notes and due tags ranging from IS to 5000
and dated from 1854 to 1000
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02
Golf club IncoInorated

The San Francisco Golf and Country Club.
which has been in process of organization since
last spring, yesterday filed it's articles of in
corporation with the County Clerk and an
nounced its purpose to be to acquire inn
prove and maintain grounds and buildings for
athletic purposes and to acquire and main
tain clubhouse for the social intercourse OF
its members" The incorporators are J. S
Oyster. H. M. Hoyt, J. r. Clark r. D. Cir
vim and r. ]. Woods. Oyster is a retired
army officer, Hoyt attorney and Girvin' has
a home at Menlo Park, besides a commission
business in the firm OF Girvln & Eyre. so the
social standing of the new club is presumably
well grounded.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-02

OPERATES IN BOGUS CHECKS.-wiIliam
King was arrested last night and placed on
the detinue book at the City Prison. He was
pointed out to Policeman Thomas Kelly by
Mrs. Henry Smith of 103 Van Ness avenue.
King Is accused of having passed number OF
fictitious checks on women William Burg
was arrested few days ago by Detective Cody
for Kings crime but was subsequently re-
leased IL being found that he was not the
man wanted. Mrs. Smith positively Identifies
King, who has the aliases of Bell and Wallace
as the man who gave her a check drawn on the
Wells-Fargp Bank King advertised for house
keepers aud then on some pretext got them to
cash small checks. Mrs. Smith cashed check
for SIT and later found it was bogus.