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The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
TTLLMANN WILL NOT BE
PLACED ON HEALTH BOARD
Mayor Makes Definite Announcement
That Some Other Physician
Will Be Selected

Will Be Selected.
DIR. Frank J. Tillmann, who has
been prominently mentioned as the
successor of DR.. Joseph Poheim on
the Board of Health. will not be ap-
pointed to the post. This fact was
definitely announced yesterday by
Mayor Schmitz. who said that several
other physicians, whose names he did
not desire to make public at this time,
were being considered for the place.
The selection Of the man has been left
practically to DR.. Ward, president of
the board.
The Mayor said he would announce
this appointment and that to the va
cancy on the Park Commission prob
ably by next Monday. No intimation
was given as to the probable appointee
on the Park Commission, but an act
i've canvass is now being made by the
friends of William IL. Metson. who
was once a member of the board and
was the only one not reappointed by
Phelan when the charter first went
into effect AS 1t looks now Metson
seems to be reasonably sure Of being
appointed.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
What Did Ellis Say?

Town Talk answers the question in
this weeks issue. That newsy weekly
tells what the testimony of the police
sergeant was and sheds a great deal of
light on Chinatown graft. That is only
one of the many interesting stories In
the columns of that sprightly journal of
the cultured. The Saunterer's version of
the Senatorial caucus is interesting He
tells of the doings of society matron
that were overlooked by the bavardes.
He explains why Paderewski did not re-
turn, points out the absurdity of sad
ding the clearinghouse with RESPONSE
bility for the divorce evil. tells of SEN
sational incident of an aniseed chase at
Blingum and comments on the pursuit
of the Oakland man by the female of his
species. The dramatic and book reviews
of Town Talk are in a breezy, vivacious
vein that appeals to the general reader
and the contributions of it's essayists
impart to the journal a literary flavor
unsurpassed by any American magazine
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
Mechanics, Bank Prospers.

The report of President James OBJ
Gum of the Mechanics Savings Banl
for the corporations first year shows al
exceedingly healthy growth. Over hall
a million has been loaned on San Fran
cisco real estate. The increase in de-
over so per cent
The following are the officers and di
rectors for the new year: James OBJ
Gum, president; George ID. Gray ant
George f. Lyon. vice presidents; w. F
Williamson, attorney; Frederick H
Clark cashier; dfrectors-F. w. Dohr
mann Jr., George d. Gray, James OBJ
Gum. F. M. Greenwood. Marshall Hale
G. w Kline George f. Lyon, Charles C
Moore, George NJ. Mitchell, Henry T
Scott, w. F. Williamson.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
ADVERTISEMENTS.
ADVERTISEMENT
BABYS TERRIBLE SORE
BODY Raw With Humor. Caused Untold
Agony. Doctor Did No 6ood.
Mother Discouraged.
CUTICURA CURED AT ONCE

"My child was very delicate baby.
A terrible sore and humor broke out
on his body, looking like raw flesh,
and causing the child untold agony.
My physician prescribed various REM
edies, none of which helped at all.
became discouraged and took the
matter into my own hands, and tried
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment
with almost Immediate euccess. Be-
fore the second week had passed the
soreness was gone, not leaving trace
of anything. Mrs. Jeanette III. Block,
28I Rosedale St., Rochester, n. Y"
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
KNIGHTS of Columbus.

The following have been installed
officers of California Council No. $50,
knights of Columbus, by State Dep
uty George Connolly: Grand knight,
Phil j. Fay; deputy grand knight,
James NJ. Henley; financial secretary.
Ed Mahoney; recording secretary, Da-
vid F. Supple: treasurer, Reginald
Norris; chancellor, j. T. Savage; ad-
vocate, w. P. Humphreys; lecturer, j.
B. Dockweiler; warden, Sid p. Rob-
ertson: trustees. Frank p. Quinn,
Thomas F. Boyle, James Gilmartin;
organist. A. L. Antiques; chaplain,
Rev. Father McQuaide; inside guard,
George w. Duffield Jr.; outside guard,
Charles H. Murphy.
The institution of council at Wat
sonville Sunday, January Is, will be
under the auspices of California
Council. A large attendance is ex-
pected from local councils.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
RusseIl,s RaiI Fixed.

John and Kate Russell were taken
yesterday before United States Com
missioner Heacock by Secret Service
Agent Thomas B. Foster and formally
notified of the charge against them
that they were found in possession OF
a plaster mold for the coinage of five-
dollar gold pieces. John Russells bail
was fixed at s2500 and that of Mrs.
Russell at $1,000. The preliminary
hearing was set for p. m to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13

WANTS TAXES BACK-George E. Bates
petitoned the Supervisors yesterday to return
the sum of si01 81 paid by him under protest
as taxes on an arbitrary assessment of SIS 600
made by Assessor Dodge. Bates AYERS that
he did own personal property consisting in
large part OF Indebtedness against Lincoln
County, Nevada, but the property was held by
the estate of Samuel Davis as security for the
payment Of promissory notes for $35. 400
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13

MRS. GRAEB GETS HER CHILDREN
The five children Of DR.. and Mrs Carl Graeb.
who We're brought here last October by their
Boda. are now in the custody of their mother
On Wednesday night Policeman Young went
with Mrs. Graeb to the house. 1879 Ellis
street, which was occupied by her husband
and Mrs Boda, to recover possession Of her
personal property on the search warrant issued
by Police Judge. Cabaniss Mrs Boda was
there with the children. The mother at once
took charge of them. She will take them back
10 New York The case against Dr. Graeb
was called in Judge Cabaniss court YESTERDAY
and continued untii Tuesday
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
INVOLVEMENT OFFICES.

In the present plans the cashiers Of
flee, where the duties are paid, is situ-
ated on a corridor (probably poorly
lighted) with a big window in the rear.
In order to pay duty importers and
brokers must walk from a deputy COL
lector to the cashier about eighty feet,
thence to the naval Office cashier, about
fifty feet farther, then to deputy
naval officer, about thirty feet farther,
and then retrace their steps to a dep
uty collector total distance of 300 or
more feet. The brokers say these Of
fees could be so arranged as to permit
the same transaction to be completed
by walking sixty or eighty feet. AS
there are hundreds of such transactions
every day the reduction Of the distance
to be covered by each transaction is a
material item with both brokers and
importers, but the present arrangement
will compel brokers to employ addi-
tional clerks and messengers, and they
say the Government will be obliged to
employ several additional messengers
also.
The Surveyors business Office being
placed on another floor from the main
customs office will necessitate a dis
tance being covered by brokers of ap-
proximately 200 feet to the deputy sur
veyor and back again, and this distance
is exclusive of the stairs or elevator.
SUB-TREASURY LOCATION.
The Treasury is placed on the
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
BROWN M RRSS: SS. s!zya MiEs
555a2EE' !ssz SIG 5l8 MARKET ST. T.noNisSoanEpv ss1Sa

$12 a day as excessive and have cut
down Gray Bros bills on that ac
count. The inspector reports that the
machines are absolutely necessary, es-
pecially south of Market street
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
REFUSES TO ISSUE
A MARRIAGE LICENSE
Cupid Danforth Declines to Comply
With Application of Japanese
and Swedish Woman.

and Swedish Woman.
Komaro Umeji, Japanese, and Ell
len From, a Swedish woman, ap-
peared at the marriage license Office
yesterday and requested Cupid" Dam
forth to make out a license for them
to wed. Danforth informed them that
he could not under the law issue a
marriage license for Mongolian and
a white person to marry. The wom-
an became quite indignant, saying
There are lots of Japanese and Chi
nese married to white women
Il cannot help that said Danforth.
They must have gone somewhere
else to get married.
At this point the couple withdrew
and began subdued but earnest con-
versation as they left the room.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13

TO HONOR JACKsoNs BIRTHDAY.-Ths
Iroquois Club will celebrate Jackson's birth
day tonight at their wigwam, 121 Eddy street
Rev. j. c. Simmons DID,, will deliver an
address, "'T1le Negro Before the War and
the Iroquois Quartet will render plantation
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13

second fioor-same floor as the main
customs office-on the Washington
street end.
The points made by the Federal Of
ficers complaining are thus summarized
by one of the officers:
To reach the Sub Treasury one must walk
from Washington street to the center OF the
building. about 135 feet. thence retraee ms ms
steps TO near the Washington street end, and
turn into another corridor a further distance
of 40 or 100 feet, making It approx, prca,
mately 275 feet from the Washington-street
entrance to the paying window OF the SUD-
Treasury. From the Battery street entrance
the distance is less, but probably 200 feet
On days on which pensions paid and on
general pay days of the numerous Federal EN-
ployes land especially when these payments
happens) It is a usual thing to see the wait
ing line extending from the present, Suo, nS
around into Montgomery, line probably loo
or 200 feet long Place this same line IN the
will be so overcrowded and jammed that, the
brokers say. people who wish to transact
better to postpone it until some other day.
Patrons say that they cannot understand wnat
business the sub-Treasgry has In tne new new
as the Custon-house. They say tnat X
the Sub Treasury is to be ouartered IN tle the
new building it ought to be placed on tne
ground hoor with a separate entrance dlrecl
from the street
OTHER DEFECTS.
The Internal revenue department Is assigheu
to the third fourth floor on the Jackscn-
street end. This does not concern the brokers
SO much although most of them have daily
business with that office. They think, now
ever. that 1t could better be located on the
ground floor, within easier access, both Tor
themselves and the thousand and one liquor
and cigar dealers who go there to pay their
licenses. -,
The most desirable portion of the new build
ing (that is the ground floor on the WASH
ington-street end is taken up for the immense
age-rooms for janitors' supplies.
The brokers cannot understand why these
vaults and storerooms cannot be put IN pase-
nent and the Sub Treasury located here, with
a direct entrance from Washington street.
In the new building are also assigned the
offices of harbor fortihcations, coast and
geodetic survey. engineer Of rivers and har-
bors Chinese bureau, hydrographic ofnce,
iirhfhouse establishment, life-saving offices
and other offices not even remotely connected
with the customs service, which indicates that
the new building is misnamed-that 1t is not
custom house. but simply common Govern
mtft office building
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13

Is ARRESTED FOR CRUELTY-offce
Unger of the Humane Society arrested Alex
Mailard yesterday for driving two crippled
horses. The animals were taken to a stable
and the driver to the Hall of Justice, where
he was released on SO bail
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
BROKERS MAKE
| LOUD PROTEST.
New Custom House Will Be
insufficient for the Big
Business of This Seaport
OFFICES ARE CRAMPED
Patrons Say There Will Be
Less Room in New Build
ing Than There Is in Old

Customs Broker John H. Boden has
fathered a protest that has been sent
to United States Senator Perkins con-
cerning plans for the proposed new
Custom-house building. Other prom
inent brokers, such as P. w. Bellingall
and c. d. Bunker, have expressed
themselves as concurring in the COM
plants.
The brokers feel that they are not
only speaking for themselves. but for
the business public.
Deputy Collector N. S. Farley has
been engaged for weeks in changing
floor plans. He has made a report to
Collector Stratton.
CRAMPED FOR ROOM.
The main business room of the new
Custom house is elliptical, about 80
feet wide and los feet long. The pres
ent business room is rectangular, about
55 feet wide and lbs feet long, and the
offices are cramped now. The new
room has far less space except in the
public lobby. The counter in the old
building is about 10 feet from the
"oiAo' IL OOCS ilOt dllOlQ opdCS Iol
desks and file cases. In the new build
ing this counter is only feet from
the wall, necessitating such extreme
ly cramped places to work in that busi-
ness cannot be transacted with any
kind of order or dispatch.
The corridors in the new building are
about 8 feet wide, yet the stairs seem
to be 10 feet wide. and there are three
elevators and only five floors.
The Merchants Exchange, just COM
pleted and now being occupied, has
fourteen floors and six elevators, with
stairs 3k feet wide, the corridors being
about feet wide.
Evidently architects do not agree as
to the proper relation between the
widths of corridors and stairs.
The protest is against the proposed
arrangement of offices, and particularly
against placing the Surveyor of Gus
toms and his business Office on floor
separate from the main business part:
also against placing the b-Treasury
on the same floor with the main Gus
toms office. and against lessening the
width of the alley between the present
Custom house. and Appraisers build
ing.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
ALLEY TOO NARROW.

The present distance between the
Custom house and the Appraiser 5
building is about forty-one feet. Eight
feet of this space is taken. up by an
absolutely necessary platform alongside
the Appraisers building for the unload
ing and delivery of merchandise or
dered to the Appraisers store for ex-
animation. This leaves clean space
of less than thirty live feet for the hand
ling Of trucks and wagons. Several
times the Appraisers store has become
so overcrowded that temporary APP
praiser's stores were required and es-
tablished by renting warehouses. The
commerce of this port has been increas-
ing for five or six years and now over
taxes the present accommodations of
the Appraisers store and the Custom
house. yet it is proposed to lessen the
width of the alley. This will be dis
advantage to the importing business.
Brokers and the United States dray-
man ask that this alley be made forty
five feet wide, and say that fifty feet
would be none too wide. The brokers
say the building is large enough to
have all the business offices on one
floor, conveniently arranged, so that
business can be transacted with the
minimum amount of running around
from one office to another.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13

TEAMsTER DIES Martinello.
teamster, residing at 1006 Union street, died
at the Pacific Hospital yesterday OF injuries
received by being struck by a car at the cross
ing of Seventh and Mission streets
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
Handy Andy.

The Man of Good Intentions. He
proves warm salesman in the Frozen
North. In next Sundays Comic Sec
tiOn.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13

MANsLAUGHTER vERDICT.-A Coroner 5
jury yesterday brought in verdict Of tnvol-
untary manslaughter in the inquest on the
body Of David Percival. cook who was
killed by a fall while scufiing with John P.
Root.
Commercial Calendars-Closing out cheap.
Gabriel Printing Co.. 419 Sacramento st. ST.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13

Burnett's Vanilla Extract used
and highly indorsed by all leading hotels.
The San Francisco call., 1905-01-13
>D0lNNl sl4oo $3.50
"""' $500 sl7ee
XII MEMS
xlU SUITS
LARGAINs s11ee

If you know anything about the value of
clothing you won't have to look twice at
the suits to realize what a phenomenal
price-savlng chance this is. Every garment
represents the Brown standard--hrm fabric
faultless ht-fne finish--in the latest
styles. Come at once; get first choice.
These are real dollar-saving days at Browns.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
VENETIAN LAcEs.

Great Advance on the Methods Of
Primitive Needle Workers.
The stamp Of perfected elegance
which all Venice lace bears is the re-
suit Of its having been evolved in a
period and environment of luxury and
constantly widening art development.
Primitive needlewomen display no art
ingenuity in getting beyond the sim
pier twisted effects in thread work.
The product of native Indians. of Sy-
rians, Of South Americans, and even
Of the M~exicans, is all fiat. Twisted
threads forming meshes similar to
those seen in veilings and with a star"
ground, are the sole resource of these
workers, to whom even the open but
tonhole stitch as an establishment is
unknown.
Though often most complex in de-
sign, the early laces of Italy and Spain
were equally fiat until the workers be-
gan to initiate with the needle the
raised and knotted effects of the hard
reticella or bone laces of Greece. Once
the method of applying the b|uttonhole
stitch became known among them,
however, the e%xperimenters among the
more enlightened workers of those
countries, and later of France and
England, were untiring in testing the
possibilities. Soon this stitch became
the basis of all Venetian laoes. It was
used for the making of every portion
Of the pattern, including the plain and
ornamental brides that connected the
closely placed, but irregular, motifs;
for the %cordonets or raised borders and
edges, and even for the flling-in
stitches.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
But Hs Has Not.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadems, .
celebrated his seth birthday recently,
is the third artist from Holland who
has been honored by an English
knighthood. The others were Rubens
and Vandyke. Sir Lawrence, who has
a keen sense of humor, is fond of tell
ing a story bearing on his own knight
hood. Shortly after he received the
honor he and Lady Alma-Tadema gave
an "at home" Everybody present was
congratulating them and n lady was
very profuse. "Oh, DEAF Sir Lawrence. I"
she said, Il am awfully glad to hear of
the honor you have received. l sup
pose you will give up painting and live
like a gentleman"
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

Still / wondered, What has changed
him SO? What can have changed him
sol" but | dared not ask MIN. Never
was there a man more impersonal. He
told you zone Of his experiences. inn
posed none of his conclusions upon
YOU. He was always suggestive, slim
ulating, never dogmatie.
However, the play over, I was graft
fed at parting by an invitation to call.
lie was at home on Sunday afternoons.
| departed much elated at re right
and privilege to which I had attained
OF becoming more intimately acQuaint-
ed with this man whom | 80 intensely
acmjred.
The next Sunday afternoon saw me
tUyfully vending my way to the adj
dress he had given, anticipating a
sight Of some fine old editions, meet
irg brainy people, and looking at rare
works of art. Yes, with his exquisite
taste, his pictures will be worta see
Ing, l am sure" To all these joys
there was a dim background OF thick
carpets, book-lined walls, busts of all
the old Greeks, and so on. ] was get
ting near the place now, and as a
vision of a courteous footran with
silver salver in hand, arose before my
mental vision, l began to look whether
l had a card about me. It was per-
iectly natural, l think, that these ap-
%propriate surroundings to such a mar
should thus arise in my mind.
l met some brainy people, and
spent one of the pleasantest afternoons
Of my life, but l didn't see any rare
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

Cal Barnes, living seven miles east
of Arcola, H., wears an artificial leg
and foot which he Whitfield out of wool
with his pocket knife, using no other
tool in its manufacture. The LIMB IS
a model of neatness and fits so nicely
that few who do not know him we'll
would suspect that he was not walking
on his natural legs, so easily does ia
move about.
Barnes lost his foot while In the
Klondike gold fields two years ago. He
and his brother. DR.. omer Barnes If
Areola, were far out from their CAM
when Cal met with an accident whiGa
mashed his right foot so badly thut
his brother decided it should be an
putated at once. Being miles away
from camp and friends they amputatcI
the foot without even administering
an opiate.
Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04

editions, for he hadn't any-the eX-
quisite pictures were there, but they
were cheap copies of Breton and Mil
let. Such a plain little house! Now l
understood, in part at least, why the
professor had shrivelled and faded.
There was the same shadow over
nearly every one of the company. All
seemed to have exceptional gifts Of one
sort or another which would probably
never be brought to perfection, because
culture of that sort costs. They were
all the broader, perhaps, on that very
account, and all were bright, with a
brightness mat l could not understand
till l caught the explanation IN a dis
QUESTION of the professors upon the
work of Breton and Millet.
with the originals in the Walters
gallery close at hand, n can do very
well with these copies. Indeed, l grow
more in love with my industrious lit
tie 'Shepherdess' every day. See, John,
is she not far more beautiful than the
little Dresden nothings in pink and
blue? Goodness and industry and con-
tent are such beautiful things. These
girls Of Breton's, coming home from
the feids-is it not worth while to be
poor, to be so strong, so happy? To
have health and unbroken slumbers?
These Christian peasants, so homely,
yet so elevated, have nothing, yet pos
sess all things, See in the Angelus'
they rise to the highest height. The
work Of these artists is the apotheosis
Of madden gray" and there is no end
to the depths Of beauty to be found in
It. 1t is timely work, too, for the
world was fast losing the old-fashioned
idea of the blessedness Of poverty"
Thus he spoke, and much more. /
remember, too. a young vocalist who
sang Forever With the Lord" the
perfect lyric of Montgomery set to the
noble music of Gounod.
"Will you sing that at my funeral? ?"
said the professor.
His funeral came sooner than we
thought. Ill health was part of what
had changed the professor. Returning
from my summer outing l found that
he had been in bed for several weeks.
Coming into his room one day in the
earliest fall, he calmly announced. in
reply to my inquiries. that he was
dying.
"Is 1t not a perfect day, John" he
said. " Balmy' exactly describes It.
One could not suffer on this day
though he had lost his all. What does
Nature say to you today?"
/ replied that | did not know. hat /
had been trying to express it to myself.
but could not.
Natures god says to-day to every
suffering soul: You have not lost all;
you are not utterly desolate. Behold.
TO you. as to the year, there remains a
happy death, and that is the greatest
happiness And more, 1t says more
He stopped. The professor always
knew what 1t is mot lawful to speak. "
This world would be an utter failure
II what / knew OF this man here were
all that | should ever know.
When a bee loses its temper look
out for a singing retort.