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The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23

few. and that's why we, are planting
the Belasco theater, which will be CONF
pleted within little more than year
and which will be an ornament to San
Francisco
Yes" I responded weakly, but how
about
tll KNOW what you were going to
ask" said Fred. "You were going
to inquire about that deviled crab
] ate at the .Astor house. where l was
stopping in New York. Upon my word,
[ nearly died. Indeed it took two doc
tors to pull me through. | did not
know that a man could suffer so, and
am persuaded that had there not been
a good physician in the house immedi-
ately at hand l would have passed be-
yond the range of ticket racks and roy
alties and actors salaries. / nearly
played my farewell engagement there
in the Astor house a few weeks ago
OF course L expressed a decent sense
of gratitude that his life had been
saved and that he had been spared to
us. How else could we find uut about
this settlement of thcs difficulties be-
tween the ancient enemies-David Be
side and Klaw & Erlanger on the other?
suggested this cause for gratitude
and Frederic resumed;
ftNu THEN told Blanche Bates that
Wshe was to be star under my
direction and was to tour the
Pacific coast. she refused at first to
believe it. 1 assured her it was true
and then she made me tell it to her all
over again That was last December
but the fact that she was to tour the
west was. not made public until now
for--well. for many reasons. She, was
as Joyful as a child and in her i'm.
petuous way grew enthusiastic over
the prospect of once more visiting the
hills of California. she repeated. un-
consciously, some of her lines from
orhe Girl of the Golden West in praise
OF her home state. Said she, 4 never
yet have read those lines in the play
that l did not mean them from my
heart. And now to think | am going
back to dear old California;"
..Beautiful," said I, "and so pertinent
to the matter of our conversation
Let me tell you of the season in
New York said Fred. 1T has been
remarkable in many ways Many of
the road companies have come in
busted, Too much nickelodeonl Why,
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
said he. I'm tell YOU


HN H.. said he, III tell YOU"
San Francisco is just as New
York was. 1 remember very well
when Harlem lots sold for 500. You
could not touch one now for hundred
times that sum. So in San Francisco.
You can not stop us. Wen be a mil
lion strong within five years Just
as sure as you're sitting there and
I'm sitting here. .therell be great
city here and no mistake. That's why
/ feel not the slightest concern about
the future of the Acazar theater
This playhouse will be here. a profit
able Investment as long as it stands
and that, please heaven, will be as
long as you or I live. There will be
an uptown San Francisco and down.
town San Francisco. This section Of
the city will support more theaters
than the Alcazar, of that you may be
sure, and as the town grows and the
apartment houses which now are in
embryo grow on the waste places
which are covered with bricks to
tie north of Geary street uncounted
theater patrons will pour from un-
counted rooms to support the down
town playhouses-
That's why We're getting ready to
build new theater We will call it
the BeIasco and it will be within four
blocks af the most of the site of the
old Alcazar.
Perhaps there are as many theaters
in the city as San Francisco can sup
port just now. but that condition viii
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
A PoCKETBooK AND A MEMORY.
Chauffeur Declined To Be Victim Twice
of Same Game.

Thomas Sanders, a chauffeur Of No. le9
East ll0th street. picked up a pocketbooH
at 6lst street and Broadway last night, and
then remembered that year ago he had
been the victim Of a swiudle ty doing a
similar act.
You beat me 10 il. old pal" said q
stranger. Il saw the pOcketbook. too
"TH beat you for IL. old pal" replied
Sanders, and in second they were pun
melting each other
In the west 6Sth street police station
Sanders said the stranger. who had given
his name as Frank German, OF No. 2Gs
East Ssth street. swindled him out of so
about a year ago. German approa ched
him, he said. as he did last night, after
he had picked up a pocketbook. and de
lnanded a division
That time the purse contained a ring
and a watch. and Sanders said he con-
s"ntec 10 divide. A confederate OF Cor
mans. Sanders said. appraised the value
of the watch at So. German told him he
could have the ring. Sanders said. and
that he would Ie satisfied with SO Ac-
oordins 10 Sanders. he gave German the
Sl0. which MAS much more than the watch
and ring were worth.
German was held on a charge OF rettv
larceny ana assault last night
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
ROMANCE DEALS IN DISTANCE.
Couple Met in New York and Were
Married in Yokohama.

A romance which had its elimination in
the Orient. after coUrtship Of a little
more than "A year, resulted IN the marriage
yesterday Of Miss Margaret STOW, daughter
of Mrs. Sherman Stow. OF La Patera
Rancho, Santa Barbara, Cal, and Edward
Bright Bruce. Of Manila. =. l., formerly OF
New York. al Yokohama. Japan.
Mr. Bruce Is the son OF the Rev J. n.
Bruce OF No an West 55th street. and
while student az the Columbia University
I.aW School Ae met young sherman STOW,
who Was taking course I'm tho School Of
Mines The two became fast friends. and
through the brother Mr.. Bruce was intro
duced 10 Miss STOW. then student al d
girls' school in Pelham Manor.
About a year ago young Bruce sent
10 the Philippines boy his Law firm TO act as
counsel for the Philippine Railv ay and tho
Manila Street Railroad, and while on his
way 10 the Far East he found time TO stop
on IL Santa barbara. 4 few months later
Miss Stow and a party of friends journeyod
70 Yokohama on d tour Of the Orient ans
Nere iOined by Mr. Bruce. Miss stow re-
turned 70 California 10 arrange about her
tr0usseau. and left there for Japan on the
rstuTn boat accompanied 10y her brother
ond sister. who We're witnesses al the we'd
ding. TIE young couple viii live in Manila
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
MUNICIPAL BUILDING
ReJised Plans for Structure
4pprOred by Board.

The Board Of Estimate and AppOrtiOn-
ment, at its special meeting yesterday,
approved the revised plans for the great
municipal building 10 stand at Park Row.
Tryon Row, Centre street Duane street
and City Hall Place, and TO cost more than
S,51O,O00. Mayor Mcclellan expects To ad-
vertise for bids before the end Of the
present year. The plans were prepared by
McKim. Mead & White. and call for a
superstructure Of twenty-five stories. be-
sides tower. and rising TO height Of $50
feet from the street grade.
There Will be tweaty-One Office floors
proper, and three floors below ground.
Chambers street cars and street traffic will
pass through the building in an arcade.
and the bridge subway loop, surface and
elevated lines will have terminals in the
structure The foundations are well under
way, and the Mayor expects the building
70 be completed within the next three
years. The building will house nearly all
the city departments not located in per-
manent city buildings.
The floor area will be 65l, 900 square feet
The building on all sides. from the side
walk up 10 the top of the tower, will be
faced with white granite. backed with
brickwork, and the heating will be by
steam at low pressure through radiators
a bond issue Of more than 100000 was
authorized TO reimburse property holders
for land and buildings taken for the ap-
proach TO the Manhattan Bridge on this
end
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
ITALIAN FUSILL1DE.
100 LOngShoremen IN General
ShOOtiRg-One WOunded.

Among a hundred Italian longshoremen
there was a general shooting on Pier S2
East River, at Market street. last night
Only one Italian was wounded. and he not
seriously. The police reserves Of the Madi-
son street station rounded Up eighteen pris-
oners.
Fully a hundred shots were fired. and the
only reason more were not hurt was that
the Italians didn't know just what started
the fght and contented themselves with
shooting in the air. Before they could get
down 10 real shooting the police had ar
rived. The one injured man is Leon Guar
dino. Of No. 22S Lynch street, Brooklyn. who
was shot in the groin and is in GOuverneur
Hospital Eugene Menile. Of No. III Null
berry street. is locked up charged by
GUARDING with doing the shooting.
Nincenzo Guardino. OF No. 226 Lynch
street is superintendent of the longshore-
men. and the injured man, his brother, IS
foreman. The GuarGinos have been accused
by the men OF bringing Brooklyn men TO do
the work at the piers and favoring Brook
lyn men as far as possible.
There was work 10 be done last night
in loading the Altamaha at the Texas
Steamship Company's pier. and there were
about a hundred Italians anxious to be
put 10 work. When Eugene Menile
stepped forward GUARDING told him he was
not wanted. Menie II is charged then
Grew revolver and shot at GuardinO.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
COLUMBIA SP00KS
Rappings in Building at Uni
versity Finally Traced.

The Hershensten brothers. who have
had lots Of fun fooling people at Columbia
University and elsewhere during the last
few weeks. missed a great chance yester-
day afternoon. when series of mysteTiols
rappings IN West Hall threw many Of the
occupants of that building into state Of
great excitement The Hershensteins, in
fact. didn't know a thing about the raps
until last night. and then they could al
most have kicked themselves for the
missed opportunity.
Many years ego when Bloomingdale
Asylum was situated on Morningside
Heights. West Han was occupied as the
main building Of the institution, and in il
most Of the patients were housed. Ever
since then West Hall has been regarded
with feelings of awe by the university en-
plOyes. so that IL was not strange when
along IN the middle Of the afternoon yes
terday there came q lot of Tappings that
started I'm the ground floor and seemingly
went right up 10 the roof. The scrub
woman and janitress. not 10 mention sew
eral timid students and the university bar
Der, became alarmed al the strange sounds
There was an investigation which re-
suited I'm the discovery Of two telephone
linenlen chiseling away in the cellar OF
the building, preparing "a way for some
new wires they We're about to string. The
line was 10 so up through a hot air hue.
and consequently the noises went up
through the various floors TO the roof
When the linemen came UP out Of the Gel
lar. not and dusty. and the cause of the
rappings were made known, the jaBitress
and scrubwOman and the barber and the
students went back 10 their tasks
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
GRIND OF THREE RS.
Too Little joy az Schools, Says
PerciUal ChHbb.

The utilitarian and 5he idealist met at
the woman's conference AT the Ethical
Culture School Building, sd street and
Central Park West. yesterday afternoon.
when Dr. James +. Uaucy and Percival
CEubb talked about education. The sub
ject was "VOca tional Training in the Pub
lie Schools" Or. Haney said the great
fault OF the present system was that the
elementary schools were devised for chill
dren who were going 20 keep right on at
tending school, whereas out OF FIVE thou
sand children who entered the elementary
school only seventy-threc we-e gra luated
from. the high school. and the vast majority
never got as far as the high school. but
left to go To work
Our scheme is beautiful IN IT'S ;de2lism. ."
he said. 1t IS democratic; IL cannot en-
dure that any child should be driven into a
channel where his energies will be cribbed
and cabined. Blu: the scheme falls down
in fact. The children leave school In
droves."
DR.. Haney advised preparatory technical
schools where boys and girls without being
taught any special trade. could be given a
broad general basis for afterward learning
a trad
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
BONDS FOR BROOKLYN LIBRARY

EN-Mayor David A Boody of BROOKLYN
called apon Mayor Mcclellan yesterday
with reference 90 an issue Of revenue bonds
sufficient 10 assure the early preparation oe
working plans for the proposed new central
branch Of the Brooklyn Public Library
Drawings Of this structure have been pre-
pared and are now on exhibition IN, the
library building, In Breyoort Place. Ex-
Mayor 1soody - chairman of the lfbrary's
board of directors. The Building win be H.
Prospect Park Plaza. and is expected TO
cost between s3.e99,O and $4,000 The
original drawings have already been ap-
proved by the Municipal Art Commission
and the board of directors Of the library.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
PROPERTY OWNERS ORGANIZE
Will Look After Interests of S4th
Street Neighborhood.

Preliminary TO a meeting next Monday
of all property owners between 3lst aud
31th streets and the two rivers. the Man
haitian Central Improvement Association
organized yesterday by the election Of the
following officers: Isidor Straus. president;
ROderick Mcleod Cameron, first vice
president; Edwin II. Pepper. second vice
president, William r. II. Martin, treasurer
and G. J. Allen. secretary. Isidor Saks.
Louis Stewart, Charles Stewart Dawson
and George G. Boldt We're also present
The object Of the association is TO i'm
prove that part Of the city included in the
boundaries mentioned. The first meeting Of
the organization as a whole will be held In
the WaldoTf-Astoria on Monday, Deem
Der 6. at p. N. Committees viii be ap-
pointed 10 consider the various problems Of
transportation taxation. property assess
ment. lighting widening the streets. con-
trolling traffic etc.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
DINNER FOR MAYoR-ELECT.
Justices of Appellate Division Give
Him Loving Gun.

The justices Of the Appellate Division. in
the % Department, gave a farewell din
ner to Mayor-elect William J. Gaynor at
the Brooklyn Club last night. Through
some mistake the announcement was made
that the dinner would be held al the Ham
ilton Club, and some Of the Justices went
there and had to be directed TO the proper
place
All the justices were present, with the
exception Of Justice Hirschberg. who was
too i'll 10 attend. Those present were Jus
tices Thomas. Carr. Miller, jerks, Wood
ward, Rich and Burr.
A massive silver loving cup about a foot
high, was presented to the guest of honor
II bore the inscription; TO William J.
Gaynor, from His Associates on the APP
pellate Division, October H. 1903
The dinner was an informal affair. JUS
tice jerks described IL as a family gath-
eTing. There were no set speeches.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30

MORE edging the tunic. Tunics are being
made from chiffon. jetted nets ard mate
rials Of the sort over skirts OF chiffon or OF
silk, however. and again such combinations
as crepe with satin. crepe with velvet and
silk with heavier materials are greatly in
vogue For the trimming any pretty band
lug is appropriate
The qu&ntity of material Iequired for the
medium size is seven and threc-qlnvters
yards 4 or q inches Wide. seven yards 81
Inches wide or five and one-quarter yards
Al inches wicv. one yard = inches wide for
the band; width of skirt at lower edge
three and thrce-quIrters yards
The pattern. No. SOB Is cut in sizes for a
%, a. 90. -, 30 ana & inch waist measure
aud will b. mailed 10 any address ON re-
oeipt Of 10 cents.
Please give number Of pattern and waist
measure distinctly. Address Pattern De-
Fartment New-York Tribune. In In a hurry
for pattern send an extra 2-cent stamp and
We will mail by letter postage in sealed en-
yelope.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
HAD WEAPON FOR BLACK HAND
New Rochelle Italian Gets Chance TO
Use New Revolver.

Twice beaten into insensibility after re-
ceiving a letter signed Black Hand de-
manding So Tony Limarto an Italian,
Of New Rochelle. bought big revolver
Yesterday morning and prepared Tor the
next move.
At o'clock two men sprang on him from
behind a building and demanded the
money. When he refused 10 hand it over
they began 10 beat him. Iimarto whipped
out his revolver and fired two shots, both
going over the heads Of number of per
sons who had Witnessed the attack
one Of the men got away, but a police
man arrested the other. who sad he was
Joseph Scipane. OF White Plains Limarto.
NhO also WAS placed under arrest. was 50
shaken with fright that he had TO he half
carried 10 the police station. razor was
found in his hip pocket lie is charged
with felonious assault and carrying con-
oealed weapons
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
NANCE o'NEIL FREE TO PLAY.

Justice SeabuTy. of .ht Supreme Court.
yesterday handed down q memorandum
Iermittins Miss Nance O'Ncil not only to
TeLcsrsc but play with David Beasco m
r.e latter's new al!-star stock company.
The shubeit TheatTicai Company had OBJ
ilinod a temporary Injunction preventing
Miss O'Ncl from Tehcarsing with BelascO
upon The ground that she was bound 20 the
Shuberts by previous contract. The JUS
rce decided that the contract signed by
Miss O'Neii was abrosated by the failure
OF the Shuberts ID give her employment.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
ITALIANS IN PANIC.
Bomb Explosion Sends goo
Tenants Into the Street.

What the police believe was Black
Hand bomb explosion, the fourth that has
terrorized the twenty Italian families IN
the six story double tenement Nos. SOC and
Dos East 18th street. occurred on the sec
ond noor last night, injured one occupant
and sent nearly two hundred panicstrickcn
10 the street. The explosive went of in
the section of the chimney that runs
through The kitchen of Abraham Elmich.
who was eating supper with his wife and
child. \ great quartty OF bricks. mortar
and SCOT was blown into the room and
Emich was cut about the head. His left
eye was injured and he VIII probably lose
the sight of that organ.
Giovanni Paris;. the owner Of the tene-
ment. has received letter after letter from
entity kept after him. as the numerous
explosions in his tenement house testify.
The police admit that Parisi has again
And again appealed to them for protection.
II is not believed that the explosive
dropped into the Elmich famlly's fue was
intended for them. Less than six weeks
ago there was an explosion in the vesti-
bule Of the house which tore the street
door from its hinges and hurled il 10 the
roof of one Of the houses on the opposite
side Of the street. Within the last two
wears there have been a dozen explosions,
all attributed 10 the Black Hand. in East
18Th street.
Tenants OF Nos. 500 and 5OS. East 18th
street said last night that Parisi had been
pursued 50 relentlessiy by the agents Of the
Italian criminal clique that he had been
forced 20 keep his home address a secret.
lie has never lived in the tenement house.
they say. The police said. however. they
We're not sure whether the explosion last
night was for the purpose OF WTecking
Parisi's building or planned 10 cause the
death Of some one OF the Italian tenants.
PatTolmsn Max Ermisch. OF the 5th street
station, was the first officer 10 reach the
building after the explosion. He ran in and
managed 10 keep some OF the frightened
tenants from trampling on the weaker ones.
FOR many were knocked down in the rush
for the stairways. DR. Carlucci. who was
called from Bellevue, dressed Elmich's
scalp wounds and then advised him 10 go 10
the Eye and Ear Hospital for special treat
ment for the injured eye.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
TO ENJOIN CIVIL SERVICE.
Street Cleaning Employe Wants Ordi-
nance Interpreted.

Patriri. McSor.ey. au assistant section
foreman ia the street Cleaning Depart
nent. las brought an action. both a. a
taxpayer and as au employe 0s the depart
ment. Tor au injunction restraining the
Municipal Ci.h Service Commissioners
from acting upon an ordinance adopted
vs. the Board OF Aldermen on June ~. 1875
providing for tie appointment of assistant
fofem"1 oi thr second -rIde. 81 salary
oi AsOO scar each fsT 80 uruinhentS
Counsel for McSorley appeared before
justice Seabury. Ia the Supreme Court
yesterday anu asked that lie Injunction
De nade permanent He said tie suit In
YOlved the construction OF the ,,rdlnanca
aud that II the construction sought 10 h.;
placed upon II by the civil Service COM
miskioners WAS the correct one Il would
PERMIT the creation OF Z2 new Offices al
sso9 year each. Decision was reserved.
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
{. +. Il. AIDS STRIKE.
disks Mayor to See That Carl
Pickets Are Protected.

committee of the Central Federated
Union took 4 hand in the strike OF the
Shirtwaist Makers yesterday. and called at
the Mayors Office To ask that the strike
pickets be protected from alleged attacks
ny special officers The committee con-
sisted Of Thomas Curtis. chairman: Frank
Joyce Matthew McConvile. James Dow
ling, Charles Lowney and William \. Coax
ley. and was accompanied by Miss Leonora
OReily. Of the Women's Trade Union
League.
The committee was met by William n
Willis. secretary to the Mayor. Secretary
Willis assured the committee that the mat
ter would receive prompt attention.
% l. was announced that l27 employers had
settled up To date and that fourteen thou
sand strikers had gained their demands
The strike committee also reported that
Ave thousand wastmakers would meet at
North 18th and Arch streets. Philadelphia.
sympathetic strike.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes called at Clinton
Hall yesterday and arranged for Italian
speakers 20 address the Italian waistmak-
ers i'm different halls to-day. Mrs. Stokes
may also address the strikers
President J. b. Hyman. on behalf of the
Associated Waist and Dress Manufacturers
of New York, issued a statement yester-
day in which he said that the waistmak-
ers had no grievance and left their work
because they were ordered 10 do so. Most
of them did not know what they were
striking for, he said. The statement says:
Regarding the charges disseminated
through some OF the daily papers that
shops not kept in sanitary condition,
the association asserts that this charge is
lnfOIlndRd sanitary conditions
prevail in it's shops the welfare OF en-
ployes is carefully guarded and the hours
of employment and wages are fair and sat
isfactOry- The association invites any
proper committee TO investigate the shops
of members and report TO the association.
Should they find improper conditions pre-
Yailing I'm any shop, the association VIII
see to IL that such conditions are imTne-
diately remedied.
The following notice will be posted IN
the shops OF members of the association,
viz:
This is an open shop. Employees will be
engaged without regard 10 whether or. not
they belong TO any labor organization"
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
CONSULT METZ ABOUT PARK.
Hudson Fulton Commissioners Urge In
wood Plan on Controller.

John Z. Parsons and Colonel Henry W
Sackett. representing The Hudson-Fulton
Commission, called on the Controller yes
teTday in the interest of The proposed In
wood Park. at the extreme northern end OF
Manhattan Island. The proposed park will
include the southern approach of the pro-
posed Hudson Memorial Bridge. to which
the city is committed.
The park will contain about one hundred
and fifty acres. and will cost in the neigh
borhOod OF S.0co,Ooa The largest building
on the site at present Is the Episcopal
House Of Mercy. the owners Of which are
willing TO sell the property for the price of
the land alone. The Controller said he was
much impressed with the practicability Of
the scheme. but. as it would cost a great
deal OF money, he wanted more time 10
think ii over. The plan Will come before
the Board of Estimate and Apportionment
next week
New-York tribune., 1909-11-30
Seen IN the Shops

White bead bags. with coIored patterns
in flowers. mounted on gilt and silver
frames. sell for g % and upward
Silver vanity boxes in Iorgnette shape.
with blue enamel backs and inlaid pink
roses. sell for sls % and upward and are
the latest in shape
A Roman striped afghan for couch use
sells for SIS.
Cut amber beads come in one-yard
strings at s14 50. Seed pearl rope twisted
chains with gold clasps sell for 81 80 and
upward.
Lorgnette chains. gold plated with cut
crystal stones set one inch apart. cost
sos
Pearl earrings formed Of a round drop
near the ear and long one pendant cost
81 90 and upward and are very fashionable
this season.
Mesh bags made of German silver heav-
lily plated and in the newest shapes sell
for 81 9S each.
Stockinet painted and indestructible dolls
are 81 80. dressed.