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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
REFUGEES ARE REMOVED.
objection of Supervisor Fails to Pre-
vent Transfer TO DubOce Park.

Chief Sanitary Inspector Hassler
supervised the removal of the refugees
at Mission Park to Duboce Park yes
terday. The Board of Health at its
last meeting declared the Mission Park
camp unsanitary, with no possibility
Of improving the conditions therein.
When Supervisor BoXton heard that
the refugees to the number of 200
were about to be transferred to Duboce
Park he appealed to Relief Commits
sioner Moran with a view to stopping
the transfer. Boxton informed Moran
that Superintendent McLaren of Golden
Gate Park had consented to having the
Mission Park refugees taken to the
Golden Gate Park camp.
Moran lost no time in hunting up
Hassler, to whom, in the presence of
Health officer Ragan, he told the OBJ
lection made by Boxton to the locating
Of any more refugees at Duboce Park.
Hassler was obdurate and insisted
that the refugees must be removed to
Duboce Park, as originally decided
upon. Hassler said it would be an in
justice to the children of the refugees
who had been enrolled in the schools
contiguous to Market street to send
them out to Golden Gate Park. He
insisted that Duboce Park was the
most advantageous so far as the
transfer of the refugees was concerned.
and the original plan will be carried
out, despite Bottoms objection.
The Health Board has in mind the
removal of more refugees from the
foot of Jones street, Calvary Cemetery
and Garfield Park on account of the
unsanitary conditions prevailing at the
camps located there.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
MAY FORCE NATION
To Do OWN WORK.
Enforcement of Eight
Hour Day Likely to
Eliminate Contractor
CIRCULARS ISSUED

WASHINGTON. July 24-The appl-
cation Of the Presidents order relative
20 the enforcement Of the eight-hour
law in the case Of Government contract
work has proved more difficult in the
case Of the War Department, owing
to its more complex machinery, than
with the Navy Department It has been
found necessary 10 prepare separate
circulars Of instruction to the agents
Of the department engaged in different
lines Of work.
The opinion among the executive ofl-
GERS who have to 90 with public works
is that the rigid application Of the Pres
ident's eight-hOur order will sound the
death knell OF the whole system OF Gov
eminent contract work and that here
after the Government viii be obliged
10 hire its own labor and carry on the
public works under its own superin-
tendence and inspectors. The contract
ors are now working in keen competi-
tion with the Government in many
places and. 1t is said, are barely holding
their own.
The application of the eight-hOur law.
according to the executive officers here
viii oblige the contractors TO do one Of
two thjngs-increase the price of their
bids for Government work to a point
beyond the Government estimates, in
which case the Government would do
the work itself. or reduce the wages Of
labOrers and mechanics TO make their
productive capacity correspond dollar
for dollar to the employees engaged in
priaVte work at ten hours per day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE
OF THE PACIFIC COAST
San Francisco Company Puts In Lowest
Bid for Wharf at Angel
Island.

WASHINGTON, July 24.-Bids for the
construction of a wharf at the Angel
Island immigrant station at San Fran
cisco were opened today at the office of
the Commissioner of Immigration. The
lowest bidder was the San Francisco
Bridge Company at $4,000, and 1t will
probably secure the contract The work
is to be completed in five months.
California patents were issued today
as follows:
Hiram w. Blaisdell, Los Angeles, sys-
tenn of handling material; Robert NJ.
Clapp, Alhambra, line stretcher and
tongue support; James w. Dawson, San
Francisco, automatic safety device for
fluid compressors; Frank j. FEELING, San
Francisco, butter cutter; Stephen P.
Flynn, Los Angeles, tobacco pipe and
tube cleaner; Myron G.. Lee, Los An
geles, trimming and display hat stand !;
Morris l.. Gordon, Seiad Valley BALL
bearing hydraulic apparatus; Annie
Mcllwaine, Dorlecka, attachment for
bedsteads; John A. Noble, San Fran
cisco, medical irrigator; Arthur Prid-
die, San Francisco, hatch door and cut
ter; William B. Sawyer, Riverside, tire
James G. Smith, San Francisco, rack for
cups and saucers; Walter A. Stattmann,
Los Angeles, non-ref1llable bottle; Jo-
seph H Therien, San Francisco. CEN
Thomas, San Francisco, anchor for air
ships; Herbert E. Trumbo, San Fran
cisco, electric cut out: George e. Wood
bury, San Francisco, pen point guard
Oswald T. Zahn. Los Angeles. window
sash weight
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
WEEDS THOUGH REFUSED
SPECIAL DISPENSATION
Rich Chicagoan Of Catholic Faith
Takes Protestant Bride in
Colorado.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

COLORADO SPRINGS, July 24.-De-
spite the blunt and emphatic refusal of
Bishop Matz of Denver to grant a dis
pensation, Charles J. Traynor, a Catho-
lie, yesterday afternoon married Miss
Elizabeth d. Sanders, a Protestant. The
ceremony was performed in the AntIers
Hotel by Justice of the Peace O. r.
Huntington after local Catholic priests
had refused to tie the knot.
Traynor is a wealthy Chicago real
estate dealer, while the pretty and tai
ented bride is the daughter of Alvin H.
Sanders, owner and editor of the Breed
ers' Gazette, published in Chicago 1t
is understood that Traynor's relatives
objected to Miss Sanders because she
was not member of the Catholic
church and refused to join that creed.
When the young woman came to Col
orado for an outing Traynor also came.
He applied to Bishop Matz for a dis
pensation, but this was refused, and
the marriage took place anyway When
the young couple return to Chicago
they will attempt to have a religious
marriage ceremony performed
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THE Board of Health declares
that the soup kitchens in the
various refugee camps through
out the city and the lunch
stands and tent kitchens along the
water front are public nuisances and
a menace TO the health of the city. If
the sanitary condition of these places
is not at once improved they will be
abolished.
A resolution embodying the above
was adopted at the meeting of the
board yesterday, at which Relief Com
missioner Moran and Major CASTOR
were present.
A copy of the resolution was ordered
sent TO the Relief Committee and to
the Police Department.
Major CASTOR said that he believed
some other means should be provided
TO feed the refugees before the
kitchens were abolished. He said that
if the suggestion of Allan Pollok that
each person be allowed thirty cents
per day for food is followed the re-
fugees would be clamoring for a return
of the kitchens they now complain Of
The Health Board, however, ex-
pressed its determination to stamp
out the fever, of which 169 cases
had developed. The board stated
that it would be the duty of
the Relief Commission to see that
the kitchens are put in sanitary con-
dition, otherwise they would have to
60 Dr.. Ward contended that a good
meal at thirty cents a day is better
than a bad one under the present con-
ditions.
Health officer Ragan said he would
submit his report Of sanitary condi-
lions in the burned district soon and
would investigate the railroad camp at
South San Francisco for the presence
of disease.
AS a further move to improve sani-
tary conditions the Health Board
called the attention or the Mayor and
the Board of Works to the unsanitafy
conditions that are menace to public
health and deserving of prompt atten-
tion." prevailing at the following loca-
tons:
The open sewer on Manchester street,
between Folsom and Howard and Pre-
cita avenue west, also Van Ness avenue
and Vallejo street, also Sixth-street
sewer and Folsom-street sewer.
Instructions were sent to the nurses
and sanitary inspectors in camps or
on premises where fever has developed.
A house-to-house inspection of the ad-
jacent premises is ordered.
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Interest In the
Pollok Letter
Increases.
EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS

A LLAN POLLOK'S clash with re-
~ lief methods, which, though ap-
~ proved by the highest authori-
ties" do not relieve, was given
much quiet Endorsement about head
quarters yesterday. Soup kitchens
system, red tape and scientific giving
had a bad day of it.
But speculation ran mostly as to
what the suppressed portion of Mr..
Pollok's report to the executive COM
mittee of the San Francisco relief and
Red Cross fund contained. To be sure,
the report was received in what was
intended to be an executive meeting,
but the general opinion was that the
quasi-public nature of the matter
treated made the report public prop
erty.
Mr. Pollok says the document is in
the possession of Mr. Phelan, chair
man of the committee, and Mr. Phelan
announces that as much of the report
as would be made public at present, at
least, had been given out.
The general impression is that the
unpublished page is a roast" of the
relief system it has been conducted
that would make unpleasant reading
for several persons who have been
prominent in relief work. But this
could not be gained from any of the
principals.
Mr.. Pollok, author of the now famous
document-famous principally because
of the mystery attached to it-refuses
to throw any light upon the missing
section, but of his recommendations he
gives hearty expression of his opinions.
He said yesterday:
The soup kitchens are a disgrace. II
/ had my way they would be closed i'm
mediately Give every person in the
camps $40 each and let them try to get
on self-supporting basis.
l am in hearty accord with the
Board of Health's decision that the
kitchens are dirty and unsanitary.
object to them, too on principle 1t is
not proper that all kinds of people
should be forced to stand in line to-
gether to get into a soup kitchen.
believe in the family uniti in the indie
pendence of a man in the privilege to
go and get what he wants for himself
l am satisfied that a factory should
be started where women can be given
work. The sale of the products of such
a factory would not be difficult and ii
could soon be put on a business basis
This is a matter that the finance COM
mittee might well take up. Something
should be done to relieve conditions
When l visit the camps 1 turn my head
away, for l cannot endure what l see
there
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
SEVEN HURT IN WRECK
NEAR SALT LAKE CITY
Trains Heavily Laden With "PiOneer
Day" Crowds Crash Together
on Clark Line.

SALT LAKE CITY. July 24-Two
passenger trains on the Salt Lake and
Los Angeles Railway. running between
this city and the Saltair resort, were
ia collision this afternoon. Seven or
eight passen gers received painful in
5uries. The most serious was a dis
located shoulder suffered by a man
whose name is unknown.
This being Pioneer day" the ami
versary Of the coming of the Mormons
10 Utah and a legal holiday, the COM
pany was operating heavy trains. car
rying thousands of people to Saltair.
While an outbound train was taking a
siding TO permit the passing of a train
going I'm the opposite direction the air
brakes on the incoming train failed TO
work. and the two trains came together
with a terrific crash.
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ANOTHER MOVE ORDERED.
Refugees Must Get Out of Fort Mason
by Saturday.

Some days ago General Greedy wrote
the relief commission that Fort Mason
is to be cleaned up, and asked that the
refugees camped there be moved as
soon as convenient. The commission
received a letter yesterday from Cap
tain Ham, General Greely's chief of
staff, ordering that the move be made
by Saturday. Between 800 and 400 ref
ugees are at the fort.
Commissioner Moran states that the
move cannot be made within week,
and has sent word to that effect to the
army representatives.
The campers will probably be accom-
modated in Golden Gate. Park, as the
commission has adopted a resolution
that no additional refugees shall be adj
mitted to the public squares and parks
of the city.
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CANDY FOR YOUNGSTERS.
Distribution Made Among Children at
Golden Gate Park.

Commissioner Puppy distributed can
dy yesterday among the children at
Golden Gate Park, and tobacco and
pipes among the old men at the speed
way. Word that the distribution was
TO be made spread rapidly, and when
the Commissioner arrived at the park
baseball grounds, where the candy was
to be given out, between 500 anu 400
children had gathered there. The au-
tomobile from which the distribution
was made was almost mobbed, but
eventually every child on the grounds
had more or less candy and the dis
tributors were allowed to escape.
At the speedway pipes and tobacco
were given out in large quantities. They
seemed to fill a long-felt want. Both
incidents introduced variety into the
me notonous life of the camps, and there
were smiles on faces in which of late
the lines OF care and worry threatened
to become permanent.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES OPEN
10TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
Divines From All Sections of state
Attend Session at Gar
field Park

SANTA CRUZ, July 24.-The forty
ninth annual convention of the Chris
tian churches was opened tonight in the
tabernacle at Garfield Park. Rev. Peter
G. Colvin of Santa Rosa presided. After
a prayer and praise service the opening
sermon was delivered by Rev. E. r.
Clarkson of Red Bluff. The officers Of
the State board are as follows:
President, Rev. Peter Colvin. Santa
Rosa; vice president, Rev. w. F. Rea-
gor, Sacramento; secretary, Rev. l. o.
Ferguson, Modesto; treasurer, Rev. P.
G. Macfarlane, Alameda; corresponding
and financial secretary, Rev. ID. A Rus
sell of Palo Alto; directors-C. W. Jop-
son, Stockton, and Rev. W. B. Berry,
San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
HEARN'S PUTATIvE WIDOW
APPEALS TO THE COURT
Negress Claiming Authors Estate Asks
to Have Her Marriage License
Restored.

CINCINNATI, July 24.--Althea Foley.
the negress who claims to be the widow
of Lafcadio Hearn, the author, applied
to the Probate Court today to have her
marriage license restored She claims
1T was destroyed in the courthouse fire
during the riots about twentyf1 five years
ago.
The court received a letter purport-
Ing to be from John Langley of Los
Angeles inclosing another letter to the
Foley woman, and stating that it con-
tanned proof Of her claim to have been
welded to Hearn. The letter was de-
livered to A. Lee Beatty, counsel for
the woman. The court has the case I'M
der advisement.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
SAY MEAL TICKETS
ARE BATTERED.
Refugees Assert Des-
mond Corporation Is
Buying Unused Cards
MAKES BIG PROFIT

Attention of the Grand Jury will be
called to charges openly made through
out the relief camps of this city that
the corporation conducting the Des-
mond soup kitchens" is enriching
itself out of the relief fund by charg-
ing for meals that were never served
and, in fact, never cooked. The charge
is made throughout the camps that
agents of the Desmond firm are barter
ing in the meal tickets issued under
the supervision of the Red Cross and
that every month sees the contractors
hundreds of dollars ahead of the game
they play.
TICKETS ARE SAVED.
The charge is made that it is hunger
that compels the holders of these tick
cts to part with them, strange as this
may seem to him who has never tasted
Of the joys concentrated in a Desmond
meal. Under the supervision of the Red
Cross these meal tickets are issued
three day to each unfortunate driven
to the extremity of accepting them
Sometimes for days these people eat
steadily in the kitchens and then,
stomachs rebelling, they remain away
from a meal, enjoy perhaps an egg and
at all, in this event the apparatus of
digestion offering full praise. The re-
suit Is an unused meal ticket No one
wants this ticket but the Desmond cor
poration. For each one of these tickets
presented at relief headquarters it is
paid 10 cents and If 1t can procure one
for cents its makes nearly as much
as If 1t had been received in exchange
for a meal. 1t is asserted that the
kitchen firm would rather receive all
of the tickets in exchange for meals,
but failing in this. readily purchases
them for s cents each. contenting itself
in this regard with the humble profit of
200 per cent.
FIVE CENTS THE PRICE.
1t is understood among the refugees
in the relief camps that if they have
any unused tickets on their hands they
can sell them to the Desmond firm for
cents each and, If they are insistent,
get. when eggs are cheap, an egg
thrown in with the five cents. Then, at
the end of the week. or month, as the
case may be, these tickets are presented
to the finance committee in control of
the relief fund by the Desmond firm,
which gets Is cents each for them.
IT have frequently sold my meal tick
cts to the Desmond kitchen men," said
an aged refugee in Golden Gate Park
yesterday what is my name and the
number of my tent?" If told you that
and it became known that it was who
talked about the sale of the tickets, it
would mean trouble for me. even if it
went no further than a refusal to buy
my tickets in the future" He contin-
ued:
The committee has been issuing me
three meal tickets a day. 1 used but
two of these each day, so at the end of
the week had seven tickets left,
counting from Sunday through to Sat
urday. Then some one told me that the
Desmond people would pay me cents
each for the tickets. You bet sold
them quick, and with my 35 cents
went down town on Sunday and had a
bully meal. 1 have been doing this
every week since, and 1 am not the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
HONOR for stickney.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. July PA spe-
cial to the Journal from Washington,
d c., says: A. B. Stickney, president of
the Chicago Great Western Railroad
Company, has been offered a place on
the Interstate Commerce Commission
by President Roosevelt. The offer OF
the position was made to Mr.. Stickney
five days ago.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25

not pay us more than cents for the
tickets.
We asked for 10 cents. but we didn't
get it.
This is the story of one infirm and
helpless refugee. The Grand Jury can
find others.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
Governor Ide Calls for Troops.

MANILA, July Ex-Governor Ide has
requested military aid to punish the
Pulajanes in the province of Leyte. A
battalion of the Eighth Infantry from
Iloilo and a battalion Of the Twenty
fourth Infantry from Camp Bonus have
been sent to the assistance of the con-
stabulary
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
Miss Mitchell Must race Trial.

SEATTLE, July 24-PrOsecuting At
torney Macintosh today gave out the
statement that he would insist on
Esther Mitchell and Mrs. Maud Crefield
being brought to trial for the killing
Of George Mitchell Macintosh will
oppose any attempt TO call a commits
sion to examine into the mental condi-
ton of the women.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
Railroad Assessment Increased.

HELENA, July 24.-The State Board
of Equalization, which under the laws
of Montana fixes the assessment of the
railroads of the State, today decided
upon an increase of about 12A per cent
over last years assessment of the main
lines. Last year the main lines were
assessed at s14,432 a mile. The board
today increased this to s16,236 per mile,
with some slight increases in the sid
ings and spurs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
Give, In Hone Of penitentiary.

JOLIET, ILL.,, July 24.--Louis A. Gour-
dain, who claims to be seeking to have
penitentiary sentence against him
enforced. has suddenly left Joliet. to-
gether with his wife and son and all
baggage. He went away today on
Rock Island westbound train. It is re-
ported that he has gone to New Orleans
to board his yacht.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
BULLET PIERCEs HOUSE WALL
AND WOUNDS WOMAN IN LEG
Santa Maria MafrOn Injured by Charge
From Rifle I'm Hand of

SAN LUIS OBISPO, July 24.-A child
playing with a rife today at Santa
Maria accidentally discharged the wea-
pom, and the bullet penetrated wall
of the Antoine Redona residence and
buried itself in the leg Of Mrs. Redona.
Fortunately the bullet was we'll spent
and inflicted only a flesh wound.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
! SCHOOLS
A ~ ID
COLLEGES
BELMONT SCHOOL,

For Boys. Belmont, California.
near San Francisco. has never since II opener
been without Representative at Harvard ana tho
University Of California. and at stanford Shce
that University opened. It sends boys 70 iaIe,
the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, and
to other Colleges and Schools OF Science be
ginning with August. 1906. the teaching IOIce
viii be sufficiently strengthened 20 MAKE possSIl
according to ability and attainments- W 4
Reid Jr. will resume his duties IN January
Keeping horses. begun as experiment tniS
year. will be continued under the direction OF
teacher. il sufficient number of parents WISH
1t. There Is nowhere a beauttful place
than Belmont nor a more healthful and stimn-
latng climate. The next term begins August 10.
1906. For catalogue and book of views address
ELH AN (Aansrr) Head Mister.
W. RED h, A. ~ (aarard), ASST Head has@
ION leave OF absence.)
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Heald'S Associated Colleges

1851 FRANKLIN ST. SAN FRANCISCO.
Bacon Block. 1860 Washington ST.. Oakland
Educate practically in all commercial
pursuits and in all branches Of egineer-
ing. Open for work throughout the
entire year. Pupils can attend other
dress E. p. HEALD, President
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POLYTECHNIC Business College

And School OF Engineering now In session.
Oakland Cal. zinc. capital stock 500, 00O).
Caltfornia's Great Business University
1000 Students. Ideal climate; home influences.
Has finest building and equipment In America
100 typewriters: 30 teachers; individual instr.
Enrolls Grammar. High Sch. and Univ students.
Pittman and Gregg Shorthand. Positions secured.
Also Civil, Electrical or Mining Engineering.
New Building Not Damaged by Earthquake.
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THE LYCEUM
Formerly PheIan Building.

Formerly Phelan Building. =
Will open its fourteenth year on July
20 at 1880 Pine ST.. cor Scott Inc
same teachers. the same thoroughnesS
and individual attention which made
the reputation and the success OF the
Lyceum heretofore References: Pres
ident Jordan or any Stanford professor
L. H. GRAU, Ph.D-,
Principal
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MILLSCOLLEGE and SEMINARY

Confers degrees and grants diplomas. Seminary
course as credited to the university and leading
Eastern colleges. opportunity offered In
Music, Art and Elocution- Forty nrst year. Fall
term opens August Is 1906.
Write for catalogue to MRS. C. T. MILLS.
Mills College Postoface, Cal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25

Paul V. Garin has opened with an immense
stock of diamonds and Jewelry at 1862 Fillmore
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-25
Captains Plenty But They Cant Agree
Conflicting Relief Ideas Strain Situation and Bring

CTGNS point to lack of harmony among those
- administering relief affairs. An 0VersuppU of
captains is breeding trouble. The Pollok letter is
looked upon as indication of a strained situation
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MOUNT IAMALPAIS MILITARY ACADEMY

SAN RAFAEL. CAL
Junior school separate. Fall term ba-
gins Aug. Is. ARTHUR CROSBY. ID. ID.
Head Master.