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The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
STREET AND SEWER
WORK is PLANNED
Boards Budget Estimates Con-
strnction to Cost Nearly
100000
Improvements Contemplated on
Money Assigned From the
Geary Street Fund

President Casey and Commissioners
Eagan of the works board presented
to the streets committee of the super
visors yesterday a tentative budget of
street and sewer work to be carried
out with the 100000 assigned their
department out OF the Geary street
fund. Other estimates call for an ex-
penditure of s1ss, $50. The budget is
as follows:
Sewers TO be consructed-Cbannel street, s5o,-
street, Davis TO East, 5000; California street
Davis 20 Drumm. IS 900; total $93, 500.
Replanking Third street bridge, $1,000; TO
continue Broderick's present street repairing
force TO end Of year. $4,000; total, 500. .Oto:
Repair and cleaning Of sewers-Dredging,
s.. 400; Brannan street, $40, 900; Eighteenth
street, Folsom TO Division. So O0Oi Tenth street
Bryant to Brsnnan. $1,000; Mission street Ere
10 Third, $500; Townsend street, Second TO
Third, $500; Washington street Montgomery 10
East, So, 900; Clay street, Montgomery TO Drumm,
5000; Jackson street. Montgomery to East
Sansome street. Market to Pacific, $1,000; Bat
terry street, Market 10 Pacific. $1,000; total,
$34. 400 cleaning streets, $4,000 grand total,
Sl9e, eco.
The street committee will consider
these estimates and report on them at
the meeting next Monday.
Contracts for repairing Golden Gate,
Potrero and Grant avenue, Geary, Post,
Sutter, Sixteenth, Mission. Valencia,
Folsom and other streets were awarded
by the board of public WORKS yesterday
to the City Street Improvement COM
pany which was the lowest Of four
bidders. 1t IS estimated that the re-
pairs will cost $1,000.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
FORCE HATCH BROS.
TO FUMIGATE BOAT

For failure TO comply with the quar-
antine regulations in the matter of
fumigation Hatch Bros steamer Arrow
was refused landing at Mare island
Wednesday evening and ordered away
from Vallejo. The latter order was
modified later, when Captain Hatch
promised to have the fumigation done
upon the steamers return to San Fran
cisco The Arrow came down yester-
day morning and last night was
smoked.
Captain Hatch. head of the company
that operates the line between here and
Vallejo, has been something of thorn
in the flesh of the quarantine authori-
ties ever since the fumigating began.
Where other ship owners did all in
their power to make the work effective,
Hatch only obeyed the regulations
grudgingly and wrote to Senator Per-
kins. demanding that the fumigating
be stopped. In spite of his opposition,
the federal officers showed Hatch every
consideration. His steamers were fumi-
gated after II o'clock al night. so that
there would be no interruption of the
San Francisco-Vallejo service, and in
other ways the burden was made light
as possible.
When the Arrow was last fumigated-
the fumigation is administered every
two weeks-Hatch told DIR. Hobdys as
sistant not to come back for at least so
days The two weeks expired Wednes-
day and the federal officer notified
Hatch to have his vessel ready that
night Hatch replied that he was too
busy to bother and that the doctor had
better come around some time next
week.
Other ship owners had complained to
Dr. Hobby about having their boats
fumigated when those belonging to
Hatch Bros. they said, were left alone
They gave Captain Hatch as authority
for the statement that his steamers
were no longer subject to quarantine
supervision.
When DIR. Hobby received his as
sistant's report he dispatched little
sheaf of kilograms. One to the COM
mandant of Mare island. requesting
that the Arrow be refused langing at
the navy yard. Another to the health
officer at Vallejo told of Hatch's failure
to submit his boat to fumigation. There
were other kilograms, and when DR.
Hobby reached his Office yesterday
morning he found Captain Hatch, hat
in hand, uncomfortably polite and sub
dued, waiting to know when 1t would
be convenient for the doctor to fumi-
gate his steamer.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
CHARGES CRUELTY:
GRANTED DIVORCE
Wife OF Justice of the Peace
Lawson Given AIimony OF
Sl00 a Month
Superior Judge Graham Fails
in Attempt to Effect a
Reconciliation

Sadie Lawson, wife of Justice of the
Judge Graham's court yesterday on the
ground of cruelty She was allowed
500 month alimony, it being shown
that Lawson's income, including his
official salary and rents from real es-
tate, was about $500 month Judge
Graham tried TO effect reconciliation,
but Mrs. Lawson assured him that there
was no possibility that she and her hus-
band would get along together Her
testimony was corroborated by her
mother, Mrs. Younglove.
Mary E. Trouin, having abandoned
Her second husband and gone back to
her first from whom she had obtained
divorce some years ago, Edward j.
Trouin, the second husband, secured a
divorce in Judge Seawell's court yester-
day. naming McGrath as correspondent.
One OF the forms of cruelty practiced
by A. l.. Gascoigne on his wife, Grace
G. Gascoigne, consisted in blaming her
called her a links" and ''hoodoo.'
she testified in Judge Graham's court
yesterday in her suit for divorce. She
said that her husband was very .jeal-
Gus, and on a trip from China when
ever she was out of his sight for a
few minutes he would search the off,
GERS quarters for her. An interlocu-
tory decree was granted with $50 a
month alimony.
Nora Merkle was granted a divorce
from Harry Merkle on the ground of
habituai intemperance by Judge Hunt
yesterday.
William Geddes before he married
took his intended out buggy riding and
pointed out many pieces of property
which he said belonged to him. After
the marriage Mrs. Geddes learned that
he owned no property, according to her
divorce complaint filed yesterday. He
told her he earned a large salary, but
as matter OF fact, Mrs. Geddes
charges, he was not earning enough to
keep them. He is accused of having
taken her out walking and left her
crying on a doorstep long distance
from home without a nickel to pay her
carfare.
Other suits for divorce filed yester-
day were: Annie Solomon against
Max Solomon, desertion; Alice C. Hucks
against George A. Hucks cruelty.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
HINES TO REOPEN
UNSAVORY STORE

Kragens. the "Workingman store, "
is being patched up on the ways pre-
paratory to another cruise under crafty
Gabriel Hines, the pilot who steered
the queer commercial bark on the
rocks of bankruptcy and then bought
in the stock through a dummy. With
the same shoddy stock, under the man
agement of the same hired proprietor .
S. Kragen Jr.. and with the same gaudy
signs advertising fake bargains, the
store will open within a few days and
resume its business of working" the
workingman.
Ostensibly the store was purchased at
the creditors sale by w. H. Wright,
but he is declared to be merely a fig
urehead, the real owner being Hines.
Investigation of Wright's record shows
that he was a travelling salesman for
a Chicago hardware house before he
blossomed out as the owner of Krag-
ems. And even the cunning Hines over
plays his hand by staying around the
store and supervising the preparations
for reopening.
s. Kragen Jr., after whom the store
was named to enable Hines to hide his
identity from those who knew his un-
savory past, admitted yesterday that
he had no interest in the store and that
he had never been identified with 1t
except as an employe of Hines. Kragen
stoutly maintained that he was now in
the employment of Wright, but when
pressed for information as to whom
Wright really represented could not
tell.
That the bargain sale" advertised on
the stores windows is to be a typical
Hines fake was inadvertently admitted
by Kragen in a conversation.
These advertisements you are put
ting UPS the whole stock to be sold,
as they say?" he was asked.
Well. no; not exactly. under
stand that Mr.. Wright intends to con-
tinue the business permanently-these
signs are just our regular style of ad-
vertising, you know" Kragen said
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
HONORS A LABOR CHIEF

INDIANAPOLIS. April. John
Mitchell. ex-president of the miners of
the country. is one of the five Ameri-
cans selected by President Roosevelt to
be special guests of the big confer
ence of state and territorial governors
to be held in Washington May 13. This
conference. which will last three days
and the sessions of which will be held
in the east room of the White House.
will be presided over by President
Roosevelt. 1t will be the first meeting in
the history of the country of federal
and state and territorial executives.
The five special guests will be Grover
Cleveland. w. J. Bryan. James ]. Hill.
Andrew Carnegie and John Mitchell.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
FIGURE ON SAVING DOME
Supervisors May Patch Up City
Hall Before Fleet Comes

The first steps were taken yesterday
10 determine whether the city hall and
the dome facing Market street can be
restored and occupied by the municipal
departments. Supervisors Broderick,
Pollok and Murphy have been named
by Mayor Taylor TO act with the build
ing committee of the board and make
an investigation into the soundness of
the two structures. 1t is the opinion
of some architects and builders that
the lower floor OF the city hall is safe
and that 1t can be rehabilitated and
occupied until q new hall is erected.
The commission held a conference
yesterday afternoon and decided to
first take up the question of restoring
the dome City Architect Tharp was
instructed TO examine the standing
steel frame and foundation walls and
report at a meeting to be held next
Tuesday. If he decides that the dome
cannot be restored an. effort viii he
made to have it razed before the ar
rival of the fleet
Architects and builders who have ex-
amined the first floor Of the city hall
say that for 100000 it can be tempo
rarilys repaired and occupied by the
municipal departments.
The city is at present paying $4,000
year for rent of offices. and the
building committee estimates that
100000 will be required next year, in
addition to 100000 for the repair of
municipal buildings.
If it is found that the hall can be
temporarily repaired at a reasonable
cost the work will be ordered at an
early date.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
VANDERBILT WOULD
END DIVORCE SUIT
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALI.

NEW YORK, April 2-AIfred G..
Vanderbilt, the wealthiest young man
in America, has offered his wife $780,
900 in settlement of all claims arising
out of her suit for divorce, in which
the legal papers have been filed As
an alternative to the acceptance of this
offer he has threatened to make an ac-
tive instead of passive defense.
That he will defend himself is GER
tain. according to the legal papers al
ready on record. Such defense might
be merely formal and absolute secrecy
maintained as to the actual testimony
The defense which he threatens how
ever, to prevent large claim being
made against his fortune would be to
make all the facts public, and, accord
ing to his friends, would stir Ameri-
can society to its depths.
Another feature of the proffered set
tlement which is giving Mrs. Wander
bits friends much concern is that it
is offered in stocks and bonds, which
one year ago might have been sold
for S1.50O,0O0, but which now would
bring scarcely two-thirds of that sum.
Despite all the efforts TO preserve
secrecy regarding the divorce suit, So
ciety believes that sensational dis
closures are certain to result
Mrs Flores, the very beautiful
young woman who is understood to be
named as correspondent, refused to be
interviewed when a reporter asked her
about the $1,000 automobile that Van
derbi1t gave her.
The taking of testimony in the
divorce suit of Mrs. Elsie French Van
derbilt against her husband Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, was begun>~ yes
terday afternoon. The one witness
called was Howard Kempster, the per-
sonal valet of Vanderbilt That
Kempster who was Cornelius Wander
bilt's valet prior to his death and since
then the confidential man of the son.
did not depart with his employer on
the Mauretania Tuesday occasioned
some comment, but his appearance
before the referee shows that the rea-
son he did not do so was the desire
of the parties to the action to rush
matters through. Whether he was un-
der subpoena to appear or whether he
appeared by arrangement was not
shown.
Kempster was called as a witness
for Mrs. Vanderbilt and was asked to
tell what he knew of certain of the
actions of his employer, of whom he
probably knows more than any one in
New York being much more the COM
panion and confidant of Vanderbilt
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
The New San Frnncirco

The best way to tell your friends in
the east of the progress that San Fran
since the disaster of 1906. is to send
them a copy Of the April Sunset Mag
azine. 1t contains not only thirty two
of the city, taken especially for this
purpose, but a panorama picture four
feet long, showing the big buildings in
the center of the city today. Facts and
figures. stories and verses, go to make
up a notable number. The busy phoe-
nix-San Franciscos phoenix seal of
1S56-gives an official stamp of reality
TO the April Sunset Magazine. The bird
renaissance and two hundred or more
pages of pictures and text back up its
demonstration. 1t is just the magazine
to send away to tell convincingly of the
progress of the city since the disaster
OF 1906.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
BACK FROM VISIT
TO ADMIRAL EVANS
Frank j. Symmes Learns Fleet
Commanders Desires as
to Celebration
Suggestions Will Be Acted Upon
by Committee at Meeting
This Afternoon

Frank ]. Symmes of the fleet COM
mittee will arrive in San Francisco
this morning from Magdalena bay and
Paso Robles, whittier he accom-
panied Admiral Evans, and at o'clock
in the afternoon an important meeting
Of the committee will be held to hear
his report and confer with him con-
corning such of the plans for the cele-
bration as were approved or disap-
proved by the commander of the bat
tleships.
Only members of the subcommit-
tees on entertainment reception and
parade and sightseeing win be called
10 attend this meeting, but it is be-
lieved that several important changes
nnd revisions in the original program
viii be made
Whatever revisions in the program
were asked for by the admiral, it is
believed, were on the side of greater
simplicity. for no one knows better
than he the keen dislike for ceremony
and formality that is held by Sailor
Jack.
The celebration for the feet took ON
more of an international character
yesterday when 16 foreign consuls met
with James d. Phelan, Captain Robert
Fletcher and Frederick w Hall at
IL 80 o'clock in the chamber of com
merce building and organized a con-
sular reception committee TO greet the
naval officers and extend the cour-
tesies and congratula of their re-
speetive countries. The consuls who
attended the meeting were:
Henri Merou of France, ". Risley Hearn Of
Great Britain. Franz Bopp of Germany Chozo
Koike OF Japan, *. Ruiz de Roxas OF Austria
Hungary, DR.. ]. de y. Bettencourt Of Portugal.
r. Wodon of Belgium, H. H. Birkholm of Den
mark, p. Ornelas of Mexico Juan seare of
Chile, d. p. Arcentales of Eucador, Enrique
GTRu OF Peru. Felipe Galicis aud Salvador NJ. Ga
licia of Guatemala. Antonio J. Sucona of Saliva
dor and Ray j. Safrold of Monaco and Liberia.
An invitation has been issued to the
consular corps to take part in the
parade, and many of them have &C
cpted. They will form part of a con-
sular division. ALI will be in full uni
form.
The fleet fund continues to grow
steadily. The subscriptions yesterday
amounted to S2,I27 as follows
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
EDWIN GOULD JOINS
ATTACK ON PRINCE
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALI.


NEW YORK, April Edwin Gould
has taken hand in the affairs of his
sister, Mime. Anna Gould, and it may
be that he will be able to dissuade her
from marrying Prince Helie de Sagan.
although the indications today were
that the Frenchman was as firmly in
trenched in her regard as ever. There
always has been a great bond of af-
fection between Edwin and Anna Gould.
This afternoon the prince was shown
dispatch from Cincinnati that some
socialists of that city had petitioned
the president to deport him as an un-
desirable allen and one without visible
means of support.
.Where is this Cincinnati?" he asked
with a hearty laugh. Your socialists
do not like my title. perhaps Tell
them they don't have to wear it. Any
way, 1 am going back to France very
soon. Next Tuesday is sailing day. l.
shall change from La Provence. on
which l had engaged d room, and sail on
the Kaiser Wilhelm
The prince was amused at the latest
dispatches from Paris which recite the
fury of Count Boni de Castellane at the
confirmation of his suspicious
Il care not for Boni, poor fellow"
said the prince. You asked me why /
did not try to reform him. He is be-
yond it,
The reporters. they make me put my
foot in it every time I open my mouth.
In Paris I could call them out on the
field If l should issue challenge
here they would make funny pictures"
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
FINANCIAL BENEFITS
Warship Crews and Visitors
Will Bring $4,OOO,OOO to City

Interesting figures relative to the
financial benefit that will accrue to
San Francisco through the visit of the
fleet have been complied by the fleet
committee, with the assistance Of Dr.
Clarence Edwords, secretary of the
California promotion bureau.
According to the estimates of the
committee. $4,000 officers and men will
be in the combined fleets, and the aver
age expenditure of each man during
his stay here will be $50 This makes
a total of 81 1,250,000 Then it will cost
about s125,00o for food supplies during
the 10 days the warships are in the
harbor
Allowing for $1,000 visitors a day
from outside points, the committee
estimates that each will spend at least
$40 day, or $500. 900 for the 10 days
With the government purchases for
supplies other than foodstuffs, mem
bers of the committee believe the total
will not fall far short of s4,000O00
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
MRS. DE ARMAN CANNOT
BE MOVED FROM HOME
Slayer of Mrs. Griffin, in Nerv-
Gus Condition, Will Plead
JustifiabIe Homicide

LOS ANGELES, April Mrs. U. T.
de Arman. who shot and killed Mrs.
Helen Griffin in the Monrovia postof
fee Tuesday, is pronounced by physi-
clans TO be in such nervous condition
that an attempt to remove her from
her Monrovia home to the county Jail
might be fatal. She will probably be
allowed to remain st her home under
guard until the preliminary examina-
tion set for April 8. The attorneys
engaged to defend Mrs de Arman have
announced that they will offer a plea
of justifiable homicide. The body of
Mrs. Griffin lies unclaimed at the
branch morgue at Monrovia
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
EVELYN THAW NO
LONGER HIS GUEST
Manager OF HOtel Says She viii
Not Occupy Suites in His
House Again
Chorus Girl Double Calls Her
"Catty' for Transfer OF
OblOquy
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

NEW YORK. April Evelyn Thaw
has been sent from the Prince Gcorgs
hotel. where she had lived during the
trial of her husband. Colonel Dick,
manager of the hotel. made this state
ment tonight:
Mrs. Thaw's suite was engaged
through her lawyer. Daniel O'ReillY.
have known Mr.. OReilly for some time.
He engaged her a suite of rooms and
Mrs. Thaw with her maid came here
she viii not live in the Prince
George again. She may have been here
here now AS FAR as I know. she is out
of the city.
Il have lost some good patrons by
this unfortunate affair / am. OF
course, sorry for IL. Mrs. Thaw's suite
is vacant She will not occupy it
again
CHORUS GIRL Is DOUBLE
Evelyn Thaw's double whom Mrs
Thaw says was elected from the grill
room of the Knickerbocker hotel Mon
day night with E. r. Thomas. IS Lii
liam Lorraine. a chorus girl Miss Lor
raine says it certainly was Evelyn
Thaw and not she who was put out
of the Knickerbocker with Thomas
Her mother. with whom she lives at f3S
West Forty-ninth street, says Lillian
was at home all Monday night.
II think it is real mean of EvelyT
Thaw to speak Of me the way she has
said Miss Lorraine today. Now Eve
lyn Thaw knows me we'll. and she used
TO call me Lillian. She says I wear
linen collars like she wears and try
to look like her. 7 don't have TO make
myself up like a kindergarten kid. The
trouble is that Evelyn Thaw is Jealous
of me.
THINKS EVELYN '.CATTN''
"A short time after Harry Thaw W. :
sent to the insane asylum Mr.. Thomas
told me he wanted to meet EVELYN
Thaw. I met her at little dinner in a
quiet little hotel in Washington
heights-I think they call il the La
Thomas automobile. so the reporters
wouldn't see us.
Il took dinner with Mr.. Thomas an
Evelyn Thaw after that Since then
Mr.. Thomas has been running around
with her a great deal. 1 think it il
catty of Evelyn to try TO shoulder
things on me-"
Miss Lorraine added that she knows
Evelyn Thaw was seen with Z. T.
Thomas at dinner at the Hotel BOu'e-
ward few weeks ago.
No, / don't care. said Mrs. Thaw
Il don't care what the newspapers say
/ am just tired of all this talk. SO you
can go as far as you like. don't care"
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
LABOR BUREAU ACTIVE
v1oLArE sANIrARY LAWS

Peter Mannix was fined $40 by Police
Judge Conlan yesterday for keeping
his premises at 13 Masonic avenue in a
filthy and insanitary condition The
case of John A. Lennon, proprietor of
tenement house at 94S Eddy street,
was dismissed. Warrants were issued
for the arrest of John Doe" Haskell
for keeping an insanitary stable at
Madison avenue and Harrison street;
John Doe" Duffee for keeping an in
sanitary stable at Oak Grove avenue
and Harrison street, and Charles Demi-
tarko for keeping his premises at
Front and Green streets in a filthy and
insanitary condition.
The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03

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The San Francisco call., 1908-04-03
GOV. SPARKS OF NEVADA
SEEKS RENEWED HEALTH
Leaves Reno on Way to Texas,
With Little Hope of His
Ultimate Recovery

RENO, New. April I'm the hope of
at least proionging his life. John
Sparks. governor Of Nevada, left Reno
tonight on his way to Texas. He is
accompanied by his wife and attend
ants and viii spend a short time at
San Francisco. visiting with his daugh-
ter. He is believed to be suffering
from Brights disease and is but a
shadow Of his former self.
The governor has been i'll for the last
year, hut. not until the Goldfeld
trouble DID he collapse. after he was
stricken with pneumonia. Since then
he has gradually grown worse. until
now iteis feared there is little chance
OF his recovery.
Lieutenant Governor Dieckerson is
expected here this week from Ely to
take charge OF the affairs of the state.