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SS5 fcc i Ki r5gt3 ta sl tl 8 CEIXiUfKOCS iSifered Juabla Ira and irgar Tomer is the jujr riel Unr I arlv lm rpHEE AEF jIANr PEOPLE ET A3JQ aooui pan rTanctsco wno owe ineir UTOi to mcblcai sVUL Hapdredittav been cored at tha Cosmopoli aa Irtsiensary Convince yourself wrltmic to some oT them i log wfl RiSr CATARRH ipeafc 9 Ifc LJ ST la one of be many diseases that canse tabery Amonc those we have cored rf Catarrh are BW Ra3ln lawyer 127 Turk a proprietor Ray Hotel Sumner CaL Walter Py lett 310 uemeouna bl i narrey alW NERVOUS DEBILITY Causes much saffertns ant frequently result troubles tht end In death Among tbosa we hay drd are Hltcbeoc of vanta Clara Cal Jerome Celle Redwood Cb Cbaries Be 109 Jensie st John alqu Button CaJ Alex aoder Wcod 603 Seventh IL it RHEUMATISM es tou know what that Is The aeonr It tjne entaLs is beyond description Among those wnom we aaye curea oi it are uuo JSamtz 437 eventh il a Miss Mildred Goodtpeed wles Placer iviantr CaX Lin loG lor gl 1428 Da pent au 8 i Fred ToarVeJotte 633 Jessie gt 8 Mrs Rose Brcn Hataoan Bay Baa Haieo and BROIiCHITIS Among those whom we hare cured of Bronchitis are Miss No a 1 1 yo daughter of Jodjre Richard 11 of Perttitey Mrs Downey 211 Llllle aya Sf Henry ood3 03 Twenty eighth at David 1 liams 3 9 8 jotwell si Mias Ellea Lundqu st ISOj liuonst 8 RUPTURE CURED ha a new mthod of treating rupture and araotee a positive ana permanent mre Ko uarie unt he patient is thoroughly cured un LMr the in THERE APE HLNDREDS of others who hava bee nrer of various troub es at the Cosmopolitan Ditpensarv nanv of whom had been abandoned tier physicians ao proclaimed their cases Incur au THE OsMOPOLJTA DWPENABT to an Inst tutio founded tb 1 staff of EXPEBt fs EIJ ande mnert hPKl lALIsTS for the core oi 1 scopes and rieformit es like the great ipita ot lierl and London It maintains Its jw 1 pr alp labornorv aod furnishes therefrom medicines ard drugs tspatlents There Is irgf to patients tor consultation and advice a id 1 a low coit for treatment trwn imi tretwl With rTVP a TT 1 rojl resDonaence one visit detr ab but not eusan Medtcinetf sent safely 1 aud free rombervat ou to any part of the coon trv for a mom bla fcs to fill out and a i let er fu ei a youi dl eas giving advice 1 be return free Be are of ira 4 who taVe a name similar to ars and bj taUn our style of advertising ndeav to hi al the pub tc This la the only Ctata rpoi tan I Ue sary un the PacLflc coast upen uai from a uat 1 9 30 Sundays from 9 1 to 1 a 5PEN5AII I RB TTvneRlsinn 71 Entrance 5 Stoahton Street Croekery and Glassware SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS land mi Square shared Decorated Tea ged Hand pa i 11 en et ii pieces i 1 nl an ecorateu Dtn a Tea Pft 1 eoe le orat i are i aptnl seml porce Dlnner and Tea He 126 pieces imped Dectrateii Chamber Set 10 at Rlc 9Q 11 60 UTS 3 15 Tc r1 4w ruTfc1 tm nfirr plain 5iMO ritllppfi 400 Pa 1 In upld 10a He rat Lavat Won 2Sc I nlfd hinaupdor SOc i a at Tea 3 eces 50c eln 1 20c ui ot 4 ecf 35c ill 1 aler Meri 25aaset tv tal Water 2S3aset i 1 TvRtal fr I I on ot 15c each 1 Or stal at rill her 25c each ec rated ps and saucers 50caset lr al Engri ed as clobes 26c each FECIAL BRGAIn IN FERY DEPARTSrT order prmptlv attended to i ltlered Iree of charge to Saualito Ml aley iRu Rafai llburon tocRion Hftvwards a lejo Benicla Mel ox San Lorenzo Ban Leandro Oalt Alameda anl Berkeley WILL I FIXCK The Leading toilers and Bazar 818 and 820 Market St Phelan Block TheOrfglnal and Genuine WORCESTERSH 1RW CJ 0 IWUKwOIS LEA PE Imparts the most daliciauS tasta and tat EXTRACT cf a LETTEK from a MEDICAL GE TLEMAX at i raato4tis brother WORCE3TEB May lL Tell IXA PEBRLNS1 that their sauce Is highly esteemed la India and is is my epinioa the most palatable as well as the most wholesome sauoa tha Is Dade 1 GBJaTIGSs nsu HOT COlJ MEATS GAXE WEUS1T UAHEBITSe Beware of T3nitatioii3j Efie that you get Lea Peorrinar casJtZ vnx a mn itA tctirjr VaTUa JUUJM ltAtairjovq iTOWEMiHHHi tvwsrss sSteST5ssf ffrri3rrt LTinotEK frESdid medical srorK iXggr AM una who to iserrows svad dcbmtfga 7nn VOVLUH JOodnt BN rEAKCISCO CHBONICLE THUESDAT MAEOH 24 1893 THE OLD Haryards President at Berkeley Charter Day at the State Uniyersity Exercises In Commemoration Its Twenty fourth Birthday of aetUUj atJtt looked mor beautiful thin JMterty n1 neTerdid the charter fcyixercises of tha UoiTereity of Call fyTjii sjsumo a mora interesting char idtr The scene during tha entire day fa and aronnd the unireraity grounds wag iecidedly mspinng Early train from the otrcarntd hundreds of the friends of the iaititntion Berkeleyward and these found the campus and the arenuos of approach thereto already dotted with expectant itndentt pretty co eds and their proud nJatires or chaperons while the roadways with their complement of carriages also acted as tributaries Charter day has always been redle ttered on the university calendar but this occasion was rested with augmented interest by the Tisit of President Eliot of Harvard and others who had beau specially invited As a matter of fact participation In the pleasures of the day depended upon tne holding of an lnritstion from the faculty for it was necessary to limit tha attendance to the capacity of the Harmon gymnasium where the excercues were to be held The auditorium had been tastefully decorated for ho occasion the students of both sexes working at it with great enthusiasm and all was in readiness long before the appointed time The decorations consisted of a profusion ot flowers a picturesque arrangement of evergreens snd artistic drapings of the college colors blue and gold Visitors were escorted to the gymnasium through the university ground no opportunity being lost to call their attention to the natural adrantages of the situation At 10 30 clock fully a thousand people had foand their way into the gymnasium and promptly at that hour the exercises were begun Seated on the platform above and behind a perfect bank of lilies extending clear across the auditorium were President Eliot President Jordan Professor Schurman of Cornell Professor Branner of Stanford Hon John A Kas son Ex Presidents Holden Reed and Davis Adolph Sutro Acting President Ke loeg Professors Paget Bacon Moses Sonle Edson Howison and Stnngham Rev Dr Stebbhis and others of the regents and faculty of the university An orchestral overture occupied the interval while everybody was being comfortably placed and then the talEing began Professor Kellogg explained how char ter day commemorated the approval by the Governor of the act creating the Unt versity of California now twenty four years ago though the actual work cf the inst tution did not begin until a year later The commemoration lie said had always been a loving one and to day it was particularly so from the felicitous va natioT afforded by having in the place of honor a representative ot the oldest American university a circumstance that seems to lift the commemoration to a hmher plana to allow tha vision to tako iu the entire continent and all it embodies oi sweetness and light The acting president was followed by Joseph Baldwin Garber of the senior class who on bebalt of the stnden dehv red a very pleas ng address He paid a traceful compliment to esident Eliot srd welcomed his preence here as bt ev idence of the nat onal phase of university work emphasizing the fact that each col lege is Dut one of a vast SKterbooa each work ng in its own wa for tbe general wel are of the nboe Mr GirbTS ad ires was rece ved wi great faTor and he was heartily congratulated br the dis neuished gent emen who sat upon the atlorm Alter a musical interlude Professor Ber Dari Moses spoke for the faculty He re lerreJ to the mversltv of California as a colony receiving a report from the distant fstherlai of its intellectual 1 fe and in the name of the faculty he gave a hearty welcome to him who Drought the message In comparing the eiper ences of univer si organ rat ons in the hast and West Profesor Moses relerred to the custom preva ling in the Last of making bequests to institut ons of lea ning tie under stool that in the state of Massachusetts it was considered equ valent to dying in disgrace for a man to die without leaving port on of his ortuue to Harvard whil he in San Francisco men worth fron two to thirty millions each hart ei thin the past few years leaving aboot 150 millions a 1 tola and not a rent of to the cause of education Proiessvr Moses incidentally paid tribute to inihcence that had founde 1 the nv nniverUy at Palo Alto and also to oe substantial interest manifested in tbe educat on ot the sexes by a well kuovn lady of sn irancisco His referenceito the co educational features of the unrer ty were rece ved with a marked dejree oi entnusiasm i en the President of Harvard aose to address the assemblage he receiud a greet ae hat was almojt an ovation He expressed great delight in bearing the salutation of the oldest riches nost lerg attended and freest universiy ot the Lnited States He said he wa well aware that Harvard was tbe offsprrigof poerty hardship and religious enhusi sem It was a slow growth and Ten tured to say that there was in store or the University oi California a luture amach leyond the eipectatious of its lonners as Harv ird had been bevond the lintest cot cept on of the Puritan fathes He wished lor this university man good things among tbera more moBV for there was no sweeter memorialthan a college building and no names dearer to a college more than thoe that helped her on her way He wished iso that the University Call iornia might some day bve its governing power vested in its oto gradu ates It took Harvard more ant two hundred years to come to that bt he considered it one of the grejtest loves she ever made This newer univeaity bad done so much in so short a time that her accomplishments demand careal nsid ration and for that reason le speaker aid he had taken pains to prf are something on an educa lonal themf which he offered to his hearers in her ehalf He selected for tin subject tP principle efelecuve studies and he read itom Biaauscnpt a carelully prepfed address irora which the following xtracts are taken In all the considerable college and univer slues ol our country the princijp of the elec Uon of studies has now been adpted but they differ as to the proportion 7 the college course to which it is applied be greater part of the colleges apply it freely arine the last nail of the college course bat My slightly or ot at all in the first two yea Just as fail as the AmeHcan secondary scols are enabled to fulfill tnelr proper function and the col lepes acquire resources adeeate for proper college work these years wllfisappear There no longer any question ofprinciple to be Qlscasaed the remaining qauloa Is one of reivarces and of stage oi desopment The eetlve system enabll the student to concentrate bis aitention oapeubject or on one group of allied ubiects3e can be trained 10 Ljeotiracy and thoroughnt It enables the student to ptsue those studies in which hia capacity theFreatesU Expert ence has dtmont rated thafnoch more work hitb ollraed from he student than lnoispenssole A eaatteris of sslence la as I MStty rfr f5fe 52 Sn5 aim after ifatESSETZ iZi5i2EZ2 JS o52tiJhM J1 imU MquaintanceT wttrt h7kJbS0B tu1I ol om ro1 eubject onH Hr wates la tudentUa SCfrSS1 curacy and thoroughnesm and the habit of sustained labor the three beat results ot sound education Sdueauon should cultivate the power of ex E2SJSI Sw toht clearly concisely and cogently This power la to be procured only DTmucn practice In the mother tongue and this practice should from the beginning make part ot every childs education The progress of cfrillied man depends the eon unuons making ot permanent accurate and eumulatlTe record of sifted sorted and grouped acts of observation and experience Hence the supreme Importance of every child being ted and drilled at every stage of it education in the art of making an accurate and complete record ol things seen felt done or sunvred Again a sound education should certainly give some practice in perfect demonstration that very special form of loglo which mathematics can alone supply The faculty of following a train of necessary argument from Premises step by step to a new but posi tively demonstrated conclusion needs to be cultivated in some moderate degree It should oe ooserved however that the merest elements oi arithmetic algebra and geometry will amply suffice for this purpose Without forgetting that elaborate study of phystoa or engineering presupposes thorough acquaintance with math ematics let us clearly perceive that common folks have no use whatever for any mathematics which a child of twelve cannot easily Near the conclusion of his address President Eliot said that he had often been asked the question whether one could be called well educated who lacked knowledge of the languages and sciences His answer was in tbe affirmative One may certainly have a discrimlnatingjudg ment in intellectuality and a happiness of expression in his native tongue yet he may oe proioundiy ignorant of tbe dead languages know nothing of modern tan guages save hia own and be utterly at sea in the natural sciences This sentiment called forth prolonged applause After tbe conclusion of the regular exercises the invited guests were entertained at luncheon in assembly halt About 200 sat down to the well ladered tables Rev Dr Stebbins presided and succeeded in eliciting some very happy post prandial remarks from President Eliot Professors Stnngham and Branner and from Hon John A Kasson Meanwhile the different college fraternities entertained their friends at club luncheons and showed them about the grounds and spent the rest of the afternoon dancing in tne gymnasium Between the hours of 3 and 5 a tea was given to President Eliot and Mrs Eliot at the residence of Mrs Palmer where among others present were Mrs Phcebe Hearst Mrs Stiles Mrs Ash bun er Adolph Sutro Mr Kasson President Jordan and ex Presidents Davis Holden and Reid President Eliot was entertained last evening by the Berkeley club In Oakland and afterward addressed the Starr King fra ternity in the Oakland Unnarian Church LOS ANGELES ROADS ACABE WALKBAmE 4 Society Folks Oppose the Exhibition They Call It a Shame oe the Colored Kace CABLE AND ELECTKIC LI2Eb CONSOLIDATED Plan Upon Which the Merlins Was Finally Brought About A rumor that reached this city from Los An geles yesterday to the effect that the Bank of California had ratified the agreement between the bondholders of the Los Angeles electrlo and cable railways for the exchange of bonds is fcund to be correct but the report that the inurejt of the electrlo company had lapsed on tct 16th inst is not correct 2hier Brown ot the Bank ol California when questioned on the subject said We have not ratified the amended agreement Yon did ratify the first agreement Yes bat not the amended here does that leave the matter I don know where it leaves It there is a gxd deal of doubt in my mind about it ion hsve nothing for publication tbenf No nothing At the office of the Pacific Rolling Mills Com tarjy Mr Keecey said they had not beard a tord about it and referred the reporter of the hrovicli to their attorney Goodfellow ho could not be found At the office of James 0 Fair the reporter ras referred to the attorneys of the Electric ompsny Dorn A Dorn Mr Dorn aid The merest of the electric company has not apaed Indeed no one interest has lapsed The status of the case is this Some time ago an agreement was made to nsolidate the two roads to which the first mortgage bondholders of the Paciflo cable and the electric compatiies assented Tbe Bank of California and all par ties in interest signed this agreement Later a proposition was made to amend this agree ment in an immaterial way but as consider able hostility was aroused the proposition was withdrawn The case now stands on the orig lna arrangement What the scope of that agreement ell I could hardly go into details It is practica ly however a consolidation of the in terests of both companies New bonds are issued and the old ones are retired In addition the holders agreed to buy enough bonds to pay the interest on the entire indebtedness for two and a half years in advance thus leaving the entire income for purposesof Improvement In the meantime a large area of territory covered by these lines will be developed and built ud and tbe lines will be good property then as thev are now A telegram received from Los Angeles last night states that private dispa ches had been received there giving the information that the interest on the bonds of the Los Angeles rail way was defaulted on March 15th The tele gram also stated that the interest was payable at ex Senator Fair bank in this city A Chromcee reporter called on Mr Fair last night in regard to tbe matter Mr Fair said that the Interest was not pavable at his bank He did not know what bonds the telegram referred to except a few that were issued when the company was first organized as a cable road 5 Murphy president of the First National Bank also said that the interest on tbe bonds was not payable at bis bank COURT NOTES The estate of Leon Mejasson has been appraised at 8160593 40 The principal piece of property Is a nity vara lot and improvements at the southwest corner of Turk and Taylor streets appraised at 150000 The following suits for divorce were filed yesterday Carrie Becker against Emil Becker Kate Young against Robert loung Rachel Weinberg against Isadore Weinberg 0 Jennings against Mary Jennlng Frank Nelson a seaman has sued his wife Christina for a divorce hecauie of her alleged cruelly He charges his wife with oeing a thief and complains that once upon his retnru from a long voyage she palmed off a foundling babe on him as the issue of tbeir marriage District Attorney Barnes filed the following criminal informations yesterday Gillespie embezzlement John Neiil and Leonard Potter grand larceny William Hogan and Thomas Coulin burglary and attempted burg lary A Nunes attempted murder Napthaly assisting prisoners to escape Renchlerand Frank Renehler assault with a deadly weapon Sirs Stark Loses a Point The question whether the Old Peoples Home shall have rs Elmira Stark removed for viola ing its rules and for insubordination will short ly be brought to trial Judge Gray having yestr day denied a motion interposed by her at torney Mrs Foltz to quash the summons Judge Gray held that the summons was entirely legal and proper under the well established law of this State and that the position taken by Mr Raymond who appeared for the home wat correct The board ol lady managers feel gratified at the decision and have resolved to conduct the case vigorously as Mrs Stark is en deavorlng incite the other inmates to follow her example Lusk Co Resume A Lusk 4 Co whose difficulties caused a sensation some months ago have succeeded in making a settlement snd will now resume business Several local business men have been added to the board ot directors of the company and the factory will be reopened in a few days The shipments of the company have averaged over 1000 carloads every year rODITBy FOOD The best in the world to fatten or make them lay is cocoanut meal made of pure cocoannt by Sriaovitch co 693 Sansoms street Compliments Exchanged Between the Church People and the Unjrodly Set was rejected A suit against the estate was defeated vn a technicalltyand the witness lost his right of appeal by falling to file aa undertaking within the time allowed by law Haw IdDS next applied to Mm Donahue for 6000 because he considered her liable to that extent as heir to one talrd of her husbands property which was appraised at nearly 57000000 She refooed payment and hence his recourse to letter writing ax a means of further pressing his claim Hawkins waalhen ernmuTamned at length without however causing him to alter nia story in any material respect una ran ae veloped was that the first draft ot the threatening letter tent to Jin Donahue was drawn for the defendant by his attorney Elliot Moore This closed the testimony and the attorneys proceeded with their arguments Assistant District Attorney Hlnkle opened for the prosecution and was followed by Attorneys Mo Namara and Spllvalo for the defense Attorney Philip Galpin will elose tor the prosecution this morning and the case will then be siren to the jury SHEPPAKD8 APPEAL Not Colored society elrelei look aghast at the cake walk that commences at the Mechanics Pavilion to morrow night There are dark days ahead for the folks who are going to participate in it Social ostracism will most likely be their punishment At the meetings of the Sons and Daughters of Zion Bally and kindred ex clusive societies the people who are about to cast a black stigma upon the colored race are the subjects of heated discussion All the upper crust church folks are bitterly opposed to the exhibition and especially to the man and woman who propose to be married at the Pavilion on Saturday night The pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church the Ber Obadiah Summers has declined a fee of I00 in gold coin in advance to perform the marriage ceremony for the couple He will not he says permit himself to participate in a ceremony that will tend to degrade his race The man who manages the cake walk wo did not dare says the Bev Obadiah to make such an insulting offer to a white clergyman But in spite of the opposition to the affair the manager has found a couple who are willing to be married before all the white folks They are Tansy Red the groom 24 years old and Frances Patrick the bride 23 years old They both reside at 246 Third street A license was issued yesterday autnorlzing them to wed All the strenuous efforts of the colored 150 to Induce the couple to forego their Intention have been thwarted by the jingling arguments of tbe cake walk manager It Is just cracking the hearts of the sedate church people to think of those low riff raff as they call tbe cake walk ers dancing the buzzards tope whatever that may be lor the edification of a crowd of benighted white people The colored race is to be further disgraced by the introduction of a pie eating match Colored folks eating pie before a lot of white people i un tne shame of ill cry the objectors The Rev Obadiah Summers says the choir of his church will not sing at the Pavilion To night when the choir should be rehearsing at tbe Pavilion they will be participating in a cake walk for the benefit of tbe church In Lotus Club circles the cake walk is viewed from a different standpoint At the nightlv sessions of that select organ ization tee coming event is tbe theme of conversation between jack pots It Is there considered that no disgrace attaches to the people who will earn a few dollars by engaging in a time honored source of amusement among colored folks and showing white people how it is done iliny of the clubs members who have held too many full hands against the fours of other members hail the advent ot the cake walk with delight because it will be tbe means of filling their depleted exchequers Ihey see no barm in colored people biting pie before a crowd and as for the marriage why they say should not Tansy and France wed before a crowd in the Pavilion as well aa before a crowd in a church The gentlemen who favor tbe cake walk refer to the church people flippantly Old gospel sharps say they Call us riffraff do they Huh its a wonder their shoulders don sprout wings Theyre too good for this world Just the sa ne they 11 all go to the cake walk or tbey re not true colored folks Long after the cake walk has become a memory the echoing reverberations of the battle will be heard thundering down the irate of time The cake walk at the Mechanics Pavilion is to take place to morrow evening and will be brought to an end on at urday night The programme is a very elaborate one for Doth evenings On Fri day evening a realistic picture of an old time cotton plantation in the Southern States will be presented with plantation melodies the race of the Mississippi steamers Natchez and Robert Lee and many songs bv leading lady singers of color The buzzards lope buck and wing dancing and a pie eating contest for twenty boys will pare the way for the cake walk On Saturday at 10 30 oclock tbe wedding ceremony will take place after a very similar programme to that of Friday night has been gone through Handsome prizes have been offered and the attendance will be rery large An Kngllsh Merchant Who was Paid for Hia Goods VT Sheppard of Sheppard Car Frome England has filed an appeal Is the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in which he asks that tbe judgment of the lower court In his suit against 3 Newhall of Newball Sons A Co be set aside Sheppard sold a lot of tweeds and worsted to Gordon Brothers who transferred them to the Iiewhalls in the meantime forgetting to pay for the same Sheppard sued to get possession of tbe goods or to recover their value 6983 12 and 700 costs but instead of get ting anything he not only lost tne suit dui naa to pay 10 of the defendants costs He now wants that judgment set aside Supervisors Have Pound a New Site It Is Located Neap Shag Bock A Proposition to Bny It and Pat the County Hospital Also There HAWKINS DEFENSE FRIENDS TESTIFY THAT HE IS INSAMi The Prisoner Insists That He Was Wronged by Peter Donahue Testimony was introduced for the defense yesterday la the case of Michael Hawkins charged with attempting to extort money from Mrs Annie Donahue by means of threatening lettera A number of witnesses testified to the honesty and integrity of the defendant and further expressed the belief that he is insane Sullivan declared that Hawkins always paid his debts But what about fill actions asked Attor ney Spllvalo I always thought he was a crank was the witness prompt reply General Barnes testified that Haw kins is a monomaniac on the subject of his alleged claim against the estate of Peter Dona hue The witness added that Donahue was al ways more than generous to the defendant bet that Hawkins would rather swallow a dose of strychnine than appear grateful Attorney John Stanley was also ot the opin ion that Hawkins Is Insane At this point Assistant District Attorney Hinkle interrupted the proceedings with a request that the question of Hawkins sanity or insanity be passed upon by a jury He did not desire to see an Insane man sent to the State prison hot II the theory ol the aetense oe true he thought that the defendant should be seat to an asylum Counsel for Hawkins opposed the suggestion and Judge Troutt passed the matter without a decision Hawkins was then sworn and gave a ram blmg account of his checkered life since 1862 Asked what relation bebore to Peter Donahue the witness replied I wat his first cousin Hia mother and my mother were sisr Were yonr relations with him friendly at the time oi nis marriage wita Annie uowney now his widowT added Attorney SDllvalo They were very friendly He always treated me witn tne greatest coruiauiy Hawkins from this point went on to Eire an extended account of certain business and real estate transactions in which he claimed to have been overreashed hy the Donahues The burden of his complaint was that he once rove a certain house In trust to Peter Donanne who afterward told the Tj ODertV for S20000and then refused to render tbe witness an account ing of the money leas 5000 devoted to the Tnrmnt tot a raortffav How much did Peter Donahue owe you whin ha to4i alrAf About SIS OOO returned Hawkins I never sued for the money because Donahue was as old man ana ata sot want to mate trouble In the family The witness added that he presented his claim to the executors ot Donahues estate and TEACK AND TEAIN THE BEFOKTED CUT 15 BATES DENIED The Canadian Paciflo Strike TerminatedThe Yosemlte Line Judged by the opinions of the officials at Fourth and Townsend streets the reported rate cutting In Los Angeles is without foundation The dispatch printed In yesterdays Chboniclb was a surprise to the railroad men and agents of this city and their offices were crowded during the day with people anxious to take advantage of the reported reduction Goodman told a Chrosiclx reporter that nothing in the rate outtlng line could be done by agents unless they had the authority of their superiors Hitchcock who has two agents in Los Angeles says he has author ized neither of them to cut rates The Santa Fe system through its president Mr Manvell has sent a notice to the presi dent of the Western Traffic Association stating that it had cut the rates between Missouri river and Paciflo coast points Tbe Santa Fe people state that no such notice has aa yet been received and the agents of the Western Traffic Association profess utter ignorance of the matter The new rates as reported are as follows From Chicago and common points S3 4 30 from Mississippi river points 20 31 from Missouri river points 14 30 The rates will ko into fleet on June 15th A prominent railroad man in speaking of the matter ventured the opinion that it was nothing more than a scare For some time the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe road has been threatening to cut second class pasenger rates between Chicago and Pacific Coast points if tbe commlssione of the Western Traffic Association continued to allow the payment of commissions on all tickets sold to passengers Stern local agent for the Canadian Pa cine Railway received a telegram from tha company a headquarters In Winnipeg yester day afternoon stating that the strike had terminated and all the men had returned to work The trains were not interrupted by tbe strikers and are running with the usual regu larity The branch road from Raymond Into the Tosemite valley has been opened and the first party of tourists over the new line who left on the 21st inst have returned The second train will leave Raymond to morrow It connects with the Southern Pacific overland which leaves thia city at 9 A Secretary Sam Miller says that a change of time will be made and the train leaving this city for the Yoaemite valley will leave at 5 instead of In the morning A Pullman sleeper will be provided for the accommodation of tourists A committee from the various Knights Tern plar parlors in this city called on Good man yesterday to ascertain whether or not he would reduce the passenger rates from San Francisco to Denver for the coming conclave which will be held in the latter citytn pita ber Although Mr Goodman is a sterling Knight he positively refused to make any re rtuction whatever Tbe committee will await Colonel Fred Crocker arrival from the at and appeal to him to make the reduction Mr Crocker will be here in a few days TBE TEACHERS 1MSTITUTE An Important Session to Be Held Tomorrow Superintendent of Schools Swett has an nonnced that the first session of the City and County Teachers Institute be he to mor row afternoon in Odd Fellows Hall at 3 cloco when a lecture will be delivered by A in ship editor of the cloncU Journal of Educa tiou Principals are authorized by the Board of Education to close their schools on Friday at 2 clock Tbe Ocean Housei South End and Sheridan schools mav be closed at 12 clock All teachers are required by law to attend the sessions of the institute and In consequence the monthly meeting of principals which was to take place to morrow will be po poned lor one month Refcsed to Thrill Charles Meyer proprietor of the Wigwam Theater has a grievance which he thinks tbe Justices Conrt is competent to satisfy On March 8th last he made a contract with John Pame who for a consideration agreed to per form a rertain marvelous and thrilling act en titled Tbe flute and balancing act fhe fact was dulv announced through the agencv of the dally prej and by glaring postera For some reason not explained Payne refused to thrill and Mr Meyer thinks his feelings and prOfes atonal dlrnitr have been injured to the amount Of 100 which he wonld like Payne to pay IXXSCXtAAKXOUS MI II I The Board of Supervisors has a new lite for the Pesthooae In view and has al ready bonded the property Tha Shag rock muddle is still as complicated as it ever was and Supervisor Barling said yesterday that he has the opinion of a number of good lawyers who say that tha city will have to pay 15 000 for the barren rock originally selected as the sit for the Festhouse The matter is pending now before the Supreme Court Notwithstanding that fact the Supervisors think they hare found another site much superior to Shag rock and free from the many objections made to such an institution by property owners The place selected consists of about three acres and comprises all of block 612 in tha Bay View Homestead Association and part of block 513 It Is on the shore of the bay about three quarters of a mile from the an Bruno road A few yards from it is a small wharf which adds to tha natural facilities of the place permitting water communication It Is admirably protected by immense bluffs and is absolutely cut off from the surrounding lands which are at present unoccupied and which it is said are very likely to remain in that condition for some time to come The easterly bluff which protects the prospective site Is directly in a line with Shag rock which is about a mile away The property is owned by Part ridje He has erected several small but substantial buildings on the place and estimates their value at about 7000 The owner has cultivated the ground to a considerable extent and fruit and flowers are now growing there He thinks the place is worth 20 000 and would like to sell it to tbe city lor that sum Mayor Sanderson Supervisors Burling Wilkinson Artigues Hunt Carnes Taber and Ayer have visited the spot and appear to be unanimous in their approval of its fitness Supervisor Taber has already bonded it for ninety days and some definite action regarding it will probably be taken in the near luture Supervisor Burling considers that the site settles tbe long 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