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The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
FIRST STEAMER LAUNCHED
IN SAN RAFAEL CANAL
San Rafael City Christened in
Presence of Throng
| lSpeciaI Dispaich 10 M CaIL

lOPcCtot DtSPdtCH 10 ne Odtt
SAN RAFAEL. Feb fS-More than
1000 persons lined the banks of the
canal this afternoon when the first
steamer to be launched in the new
waterway was christened by pretty
Miss Rachel Stangland the San Ra-
fael City and slid gracefully down
the ways amid cheering strains of
music.
w. W. Marshall. president of the local
business trades council, delivered an
address in which he told of the de-
velopment of trade between San Ra-
faeI and San Francisco and compH-
mented the builders of the boat on the
success of their labors.
Among those present at the launch
ing We're the members of the chamber
of commerce, many town and county
officials and representatives from the
different local labor organizations.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
BISCUIT WAGON DRIVER
SAYS HE WAS HELD UP
Robbed by Four Young Foot
pads. Is Story

ALAMEDA, Feb. 13,-Bert Lyons of
2525 San Jose avenue, driver for a
biscuit company, has reported that
While driving from Point Richmond
into Oakland last evening he was held
up by four youths near the oil town
and robbed of 81 in cash and his order
book.
Lyons said that two Of the robbers
stood in the roadway and commanded
him TO stop. When he did so the others
went through his pockets. Lyons says
that all of the feotpads We're under is
years of age.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
AUTOS COLLIDE AND
PASSENGER INJURED
L. j. Wilson of Berkeley Cuts
Scalp

OAKLAND, Feb. 13.-L j. Wilson of
2446 Stuart street, Berkeley, suffered
cut of the scalp in the collision of two
automobiles last night at the corner
of First avenue and East Twelfth
street. He was passenger in an auto
mobile which was going east in Twelfth
street when a car whirled around the
corner and hit the other machine. VIII
sons head struck the door of sthe car
he rode in. No one else was injured.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
ta LMEN COMPLAIN OF
THEFTS OF WATCHES
Think Pickpockets Took Time
pieces in Business Streets

OAKLAND. Feb. I3.-Miss Eva Gun
ter. S43 Forty-third street reported
this morning that her gold watch.
worth $40, was stolen last night in the
streets. She missed the timepiece on
reaching her home, and remembers to
have been iosfled in a crowd by 4
Young man. Mrs. J. J.. Sweeney, 2l20
Sacramento street, Berkeley. also be-
lieves that she was robbed of her $50
watch, which she lost in Broadway.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
BREAKS ANKLE AND
BONE PENETRATES SHOE
Physicians Stenographer Is In-
iured i'm Oakland Theater

OAKLAND. Feb 13.--Miss Agnes
WALSH, physician's stenographer, liv
ing at 1909 Fifth street, fell down the
gallery stairs. of a San Pablo avenue
vaudeville theater late last night and
broke her left ankle. The small tarsal
bone was snapped in two and one
broken end cut through the flesh and
protruded from the side of the
woman's shoe.a The police were called
and took Miss Walsh to Fabiola hos
pital.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
POISONED BY
PIMPLE

With a Pin-Inhammation Set In
and itching, Pain and Swelling
Followed Unable to Rest Day or
Night Suffered Six Months
Relieved in a Day and Wholly
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
MOTHERS FRIEND
A LINIMENT FOR EXTERNAL USE.

Ceerfuness and bright disposition during before
baby among the blessings besto
the little life about begin Her happiness
fort will largely the development of and
of the child Mothers to the moth
happiness and health by the relief
1t is iniment composed of penetrating oils
ubrica the muscles body swollen
naay glands, gradual expansion of the skin
and aid in the relief of The regular Friend
greatly lessons the danger when baby assures
quick and natural for the mother sold
at drug stores Write information for
mothers THE BRADFzELD CO., ATLANTA, CA,
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14
SOFT WHITE HANDS
In Night by the Use of Cuticura
Soap and Ointment.

These pure. sweet and gentle emoI-
Gents preserve the hands. prevent red
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14

llcoSs lOuSDueSS anu
chapping, and inn
part in a sin gle
night that velvety
SOftness and white
n ess so much d e.
sired by m en-.
+ or those " hose
occupations tend to
injUre the hands or
who suffer from dry,
fsSured, itching
feverish palms and
painful finger-endg
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-14

sHdpcItSS halls, Wltn palnfuI unger-en0S,
Cutieura Soap and Cuticura Ointment
are simply wonderful
Cuticura Soap C25c) Ointment (5Oc }. Resolvens
(5Oe) and Chocolate Coated Pills Csc }. are sold
throughout the world Potter Drug & Chem Corp
eOle Props l35 Columbus Ave. Boston
RE-Mailed Free Cuticura Book on the Treatments
and Cure Of Skin and Scalp Diseases.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
ANNETTE KELLERMANN TO
LECTURE TO "WOMEN ONLY"
Address Will Be Given in orpheum
Beginning at II O'Clock

So much interest attaches to the lee
ture by Annette Kellermann at the Or
pheum, to women only" that 1t Is al
ready assured that a packed house VIII
greet her and many will be turned
away. The lecture will be given next
Tuesday morning, beginning at IL
o'clock, and no tickets of admission are
required, the sole requisite being the
presence of those who wish to near
The doors will open at 1880 O'CLOCK
and ushers will seat those VINO arrive
and later pass cards to them, whereon
they may write such questions as they
desire Miss Kellermann to answer per-
sonally, which she will do at the con-
clusion of her talk
No men will be admitted under any
circumstances, and this assures that all
questions will be handled in privacy.
Miss Kellermann is known as tine
nerfect woman" so called by Prof.
Dudley Sergeant of Harvard, who took
her measurements, as she Is seen in her
diving clothes, ready for the plunge.
She will devote her talk to telling now
She a puny and half-crippled child
was enabled to become a modern venus
bv means of exercise, and especially
through swimming, at when she Is
the worlds woman champion.
A scientific discourse on the efrects on
various persons of different exercises
will be part Of her entertainment.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
SANTA FE TEST TRAIN
CREW GOES TO AVALON
Results of Trip from Chicago Not
Yet Reported

The Santa Fe test train, which left
Chicago Saturday for Los Angeles 10
test out everything needed III runhlh 5
q frst-class overland train en- route
between these two points, arrived IN
this city Wednesday night. Inc crew
of experts, by whom the tests are pelng
made, passed yesterday at Catalina,
resting after their long watch over test
Instruments half way across the con-
tinent. Just what the test made Will
result in is not known among the local
Santa Fe officials, as the experts Will
make no report until they return to
Chicago, and were unwilling to dis
cuss their observations unofflclally.
The observations and tests were
made by means of Westinghouse
dvnamometer car, which, as railroad
official expressed it yesterday, tests
everything along the line from ties to
telegraph wire. This car was directly
behind the two large engines which
hauled the fourteen cars of which the
test train consisted, and in it the ex-
perts took the most minute obserVa-
tions of, not only the right of way and
telegraph lines, but also the rolling
stock of the road, the power needed to
propel a fourteen-car train along level
track. up certain per cent grades
around curves and of the wear and
tear on the equipment under each of
these conditions. During the trip
thirty pairs of engines were used, the
train being double-headed nearly the
entire distance.
The tests are being made for the
benefit Of the mechanical department
of the road, and they may result in
overland trains being more heavily
loaded in the future. Practically the
same tests will be made on the return
trip, which will probably begin to-
morrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
TWO AND A HALF MILLIONS
INVESTED IN AER0PLANES
More Than 800 Machines Have
Been Built During Year

PARIS, France, Aug. 1S-The
aeroplane industry has developed in
France with as much rapidity as did
the manufacture of automobiles in the
infancy of the land machine, and now
there are in France a number of well
equipped aeroplane factories turning
out machines to their full capacity.
A little over year ago there We're
fewer than 100 aeroplanes in all Eu-
rope, principally in France, but statis-
tics of constructors show that since
the first cross channel fight Bleriot has
built 200 duplicates of his monoplane,
with which he crossed from Calais to
Dover and Farman has manufactured
at his works more than 100 biplanes.
Other types bring the French produc-
tion up TO about 800. which have sold
for something over $2,500000.
The small Bleriot sold at first for
$4,000, but after its success in crossing
the channel the price was raised, and
the latest types now cost from $500
to $500, The catalogue prices of other
important makes are:
For the Farman. $500; for the Vol
sin, $4,000; for the Antoinette, $1,000:
for the Wright, which Is manufactured
here under an arrangement with the
inventors, $4,000, and for the Sommer
machine, $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
AUTO FAILS To HALT
WEDDING OF ACTRESS
Bessie Dunlap, Leading Woman
at Princess Theater, WedS
Walter Spencer

An automobile, new and radiantly
red, its seats upholstered in leather
and looking luxurious and inviting,
failed to swerve pretty Bessie Dunlap,
leading woman at the Princess theater,
from her determination to marry the
man of her choice, Walter Spencer, who
has been appearing behind the foot
lights at the Olympic theater.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Dunlap
wanted their daughter to remain sin
gle. They thought an automobile
might help her to resist the wiles Of
Dan Cupid, and gave her one with the
understanding she would not marry
But she did, and thirty members Of the
theatrical profession saw the cere-
mony. Mr., and Mrs. Spencer will go to
Fresno, having signed contracts for an
extended appearance there.
The marriage was solemnized at the
new home of the bride and bridegroom,
618 East Twelfth street. after yester-
days matinee performance, the Rev.
ReynOld Blight officiating. Charles II.
Alphin played the wedding music, and
an elaborate supper was served after
the ceremony. After the marriage
vows were spoken Mrs. Spencer an
nounced the automobile would still be
hers, although she would not take it
JlOI III Win Iltl.
Father did want me TO remain
single and devote all my time to my
art" she said, and he gave me the
automobile with that understanding,
but Mr.. Spencer and I have been en-
gagged for more than year, and when
we had this chance to work together I
thought probably father wouldn't mind,
and he surely will not take the auto
mobile away from me now and she
threw a coaxinE glance toward her
parents, who were officiating as hosts
for the occasion.
Mildred Duarte, a chorus girl at
the Princess theater, suffered a severe
injury to her back shortly after mid
night last night while on her way to
her dressing room Miss Duarte, who
also goes under the name of Mary
Smith, participated in a banquet held
on the Princess stage in honor Of
Bessie Hill of the Princess, who was
married last snight to Walter Spencer
of the Olympic theater. Mildred
Duarte claims that some person
pushed her down a short fight Of
steps, while her companions of the
chorus claim she fell down. She was
removed to the receiving hospital.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
TEMPERATURE DROPS 49
DEGREES IN FEW HOURS
Freakish Weather Conditions
Prevail in Denver

DENVER, Aug. 25.--A drop in tenn
perature of 40 degrees, Is of which
occurred in ten minutes, was the record
established here yesterday between l
and $40 p. m. At p. m. the ther
mometer stood at SO degrees At
p. m. it was rs. At p. m. a 42-mile
gale swept the city, and a few minutes
later the town was enveloped in a
pail of smoke from the Idaho Montana
forest fires, 500 miles distant. From
then on the temperature fell steadily,
until it reached A degrees at $40 p. m.
According to United States Weather
Forecaster Brandenberg. the sudden
change in temperature was caused by
atmospheric disturbances resulting
from the contact between the hot air
from the fire-swept districts and the
snow-coVered mountains of the Conti-
mental Divide.
Reports of remarkable changes in
temperature come from all parts of
the state and neighbOring territory. At
p. IN. at Cheyenne, Wyo., it was 38
degrees, the lowest reported on the
weather map.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
AVIATORS TO EXPERIMENT
WITH WIRELESS MESSAGES

NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-Experiments
in sending wireless messages from an
aeroplane are to be made on an ex-
tended scale at the Sheepshead Bay
race track by officers of the signal
corps. The biplane of ]. c. Mars has
been equipped with wireless apparatus,
and the experiments will begin as soon
as weather conditions are favorable.
Both receiving and sending apparatus
to be used are specially designed to
overcome the difficulties of work while
in flight For the earlier experiments
messages will be exchanged between
Mars passenger and a receiving sta
ton on the roof of the grand stand
near by.
Mai. Samuel C. Reber, chief signal
officer of the department of the east,
in charge of the work at Sheepshead
Bay, hopes to meet with sufficient sue
cess to persuade congress to grant
large appropriation for the development
of an aeroplane especially adapted for
army purposes.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
CURTISS AND TWO OTHERS
TO DEFEND SPEED TROPHY

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-The board of
governors of the Aero club decided
Yesterday to invite Glenn H. Curtiss
and two other American aviators to
defend the Gordon Bennett information
al speed trophy which Curtiss won last
year at Rheims.
His two associates will be selected in
elimination trials to be held during the
early days of the coming international
meet here. Charles K. Hamilton has
announced his intention to compete. He
has built a new biplane, modelled after
the Curtiss design, but equipped with
a horsepower motor, which is more
than twice the power of the motor used
by Curitss when he won the trophy.
What the Wright brothers will do will
be known only when their machines
take to air. They have promised five
entries
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
CHARGES |MPERIL
APPLICANTS JOBS
Fire Commissioner Causes Con-
Sternation by Complaint of
Irregularities
LIST MAY BE SET ASIDE
Board Member Declares Papers
Were Corrected After Ex-
animation Closed

'Perhaps the board was too lenient,
but it certainly had no idea of doing
anything crooked" was the answer
made by A. w Spalding, secretary of
the civil service commission. to serious
charges intimated by the fire commits
sion at its session yesterday.
The commission has asked the coun-
Gil to investigate the method of hold
ing examinations pursued by the civil
service commission and to throw out
the eligible list for battalion chief that
the civil service commission has GER
titled to the fire board.
Charges of Irregularities that amount
almost to the appearance Of faVorlt-
ism were made by Fire Commissioner
c. o. Hawley against the civil service
commission yesterday and were ad-
mitted by Secretary Spalding.
Mr. Hawley told the fire commission
that he had positive knowledge that
two candidates for the position of bat
talon chief had been permitted to
amend their examination papers q
week after the examination had been
held. These candidates were Fire Cap
tains Alton Moore and Solomon Sepul-
vada.
These two men were allowed to an
swer a question asked at the exam
ination for battalion chief a week after
the examination bad been held and
after they had mad plenty of time to
study up the required answer.
"This question was not one of math-
ematics or any other subject that the
men could have studied from books,
said Secretary Spalding in answer to
Mr. HaWley's charges. 1T was one
that appealed to the intelligence of the
men. The question was: Write let
ter addressed to the fire commission
suggesting any improvements that
would bring the department up to
higher grade of efficiency
"The men came before the commits
sion and pleaded to be allowed to an
swer the question, claiming they had
overlooked it during the examination.
As the two men had passed high in
other subjects the board concluded to
permit them to amend and the amend
ed papers were filed with the board
May 10. Commissioners D. H. LAUDER
sinner w. o. Morton, G. l. Cochrane
and Gen. G.. H. Burton were present
at that meeting and all voted in the
affirmative. DR.. ]. r. Hughes was in
Europe. They merely wanted to give
these men a chance"
This chance placed Moore second
on the eligible list and Sepulvada
fourth. AS there is one vacancy for
battalion chief, Moore would be certi-
fled to the fire commission with one
other for the position.
1T is probable that the entire eligible
list will be set aside and a new exam
ination called if the fire commission
insists. The commission has asked the
council To order the list set aside, but
the council has no power to do so.
This must be done by the civil service
commission itself.
Eligible lists have been set aside in
mand for such action, notably in the
case of candidates for promotion in
the library. The first list secured from
the examination of such candidates
was set aside because of a big protest
made by the candidates themselves.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
PACIFIC COAST FUNERAL
DIRECTORS NAME OFFICERS

SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 25.-The follow
ing named officers of the Pacific Coast
Funeral Directors association were
elected today at the convention of the
organization here: Benjamin Wallace,
Stockton, president T. r. Richardson,
Chico, second vice president; Henry w.
Mas, San Francisco, secretary; S. A.
White, San Francisco, treasurer; j.
Barker. Modesto, sergeant at arms.
The next convention will be held in
San Francisco.
The annual session was brought to a
close tonight with a banquet in local
hotel.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
DRUG CLERKS MISTAKES
CAUSE DEATH OF TWO
Gives Baby CarboIic Acid Instead
of Laxative

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Two persons
lost their lives during the past twenty
four hours as a result of mistakes
made by drug clerks in filling prescrip-
tions, according to the reports handed
to the police by the coroners office.
In one case, a teaspoonful of car
bolic acbid was administered to two
year-old baby because the drug clerk
had put the acid into a laxative pre-
scription by mistake. The baby was
seized with convulsions and died in a
few moments
Manuello Carnelo, a cigarmaker,
procured some medicine on a prescrip-
tion at the drug store near his home,
took a small dose for the purpose of
curing his indigestion and died in fif-
teen minutes. The clerk who filled the
prescription could not be found, so the
coroner ordered an autopsy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
JURY HOLDS RAILWAY
FOR ELEVEN DEATHS
Declares Northwestern Pacific
Negligent Through Employees

SAN RAFAEL, Aug. 25.-That the
eleven persons who were killed in the
wreck of a passenger train on the
Northwestern Pacific at Ignacio sew
eral weeks ago met death because Of
"the negligence Of the said company
through its employees, the crew of train
No. 49, was the verdict returned by
the coIoner's jury tonight after delib-
Grating twenty-five minutes on the
evidence placed before them.
Conductor Flaherty OF train No IS
was the main witness and assumed all
the blame for the disaster, repeating
his previous statements that he had
forgotten that he was to meet No. 6,
the wrecked train, and proceeded to-
ward Sausalito, although he knew tho
train was coming
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
MYSTERY SHROUDS
NUMBER OF DEAD
Fire Destroys Bodies of Victims
of Terrible Train Wreck at
Durand, Mich.
SEEKING TO PLACE BLAME
Farmers See Persons Cremated,
but Are Unable to Lend
Any Aid
SEEKING TO PLACE BLAMI
CONTINUED from Page one,

years old. fractured right leg and left
hip. at Flint hospital; Albert b. Watts,
Edmonton, Alberta, not serious, at
Flint; Mrs. f. II. Mclean, Chicago,
mother of James Mclean, fractured
right leg; Mrs. s. A. Sheltes Chicago,
fractured right arm and internal In
jurIes; Clinton A. Davis, Montreal, seri-
ously injured.
Passengers who escaped injury:
Jefrys, Racine; Dodd, Minneapolis;
Farley, Minneapolis; man in lower 6,
name unknown; unidentified man
boarded train at South Bend and left
at Flint; unidentified woman in lower
7; two unidentified men in upper I.
George Nelson, fireman second train,
probably was fatally scalded, and Bert
Mitchell, engineer of the forward train,
had his head so terribly crushed that
he may die.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
OFFICIALS WILL PROTEST
INCREASE IN ASSESSMENT

When the question of raising the
assessment valuations of Los Angeles
county comes before the state board OF
equalization next Thursday county
Assessor Hopkins and supervisors
Pridbam Manning and McCabe will
protest against any raise.
These officials have been subpoenaed
+o annear before the board to show
cause ca why the valuations should not
he raised. though this does not neces-
sariIv mean that a raise will be made.
The county officials are collecting data
to show that property valuations IN
Los Angeles county are fair
Plans are now being made by sew
o,.ai nrominent business men repre-
santinn. commercial bodies to accom-
many the county officials to Sacra-
mento.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
WOMAN, AGED 70 WALKS
UP PIXIES PEAK AND BACK

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Aug.
25.-Mrs. Mary Powell, of Philadelphia,
aged 70, yesterday walked to the sum
NIT of Pixies Peak and back, trip
consisting of eighteen miles and
climb Of more than 5000 feet, reaching
a total altitude of 14,147 feet above
sea level
Mrs Powell. who is visiting friends
in Manitou, at the front OF the peak,
is a pedestrian of note in her native
city.
At the finish Of her trip, which many
men have failed to complete, she re-
marked she was. "little tired"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
WEATHER IN
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

DENVER. Aug. 25.-Weather records
were broken today throughout the Rocky
mountain region. In Denver a tempeTa-
ture of S01s degrees was recorded at sun
rise, the lowest in the thirty mine years
existence of the weather bureau, not
only in August, but at any time between
June 13 and Sept. IL.
At Cheyenne the mercury reached 26
degrees. The same mark was recorded
at Sheridan, WyO.; and "a degrees was
recorded at Lander. At Laramie street
thermometers recorded go. Killing frosts
occurred in many parts of Wyoming,
and vegetation was affected.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
AMERICAN COMPANY WILL
GET NEW EXPRESS TIME
Car Direct from New York to Ar
rive Here September z

The first train hauling a car of ex-
press direct from New York city to
Los Angeles for the American Express
company will arrive in Los Angeles
September ., according to advices re-
ceived yesterday by c. II. Mann, gem
eral agent. It viii arrive over the Salt
Lake route from Salt Lake City and,
according to officials of both the eX-
press company and the Salt Lake
route, viii establish a new record for
transporting commodities across the
continent
The local office of the new company
is practically completed and ready for
business Next Monday the entire
working force of the company here will
participate in a parade through the
principal streets OF Los Angeles. The
thirty wagons which the company
will commence business with, gayly
decorated, will form the principal part
of the parade.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
REMOVE PART OF BRAIN
AND LIFE MAY BE SAVED

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 25.-Bereft
of speech and paralyzed in both legs
and one arm by bullet fired with sui
cdal intent which embodied itself in
his brain, Patrick Walsh recovered to-
day his ability to converse and is on
the way to complete health, as the re-
suit of a surgical operation performed
on Sunday.
tion of the brain cut away, it having
been pierced by the ball to a depth of
five inches.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26
INDEPENDENTLY COLD

CHEYENNE. Wyo., Aug. 25-The
weather which this morning was un-
prccedentedly cold for August, became
much warmer at noon. An enormous
crowd is on hand to see the beginning
of the frontier celebration, and the
number is being sWelled with the ar
rival of every train.